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W.G.U.E.U. Just

26:01

be I told them though, I

26:03

mean, I didn't say don't don't

26:05

bullshit me just tell me what's

26:08

really going on and my doctor

26:10

was phenomenal. He was more of

26:12

a What is that called? Not

26:14

a What are those doctors

26:17

called? Not a not a doctor,

26:19

but there's a different kind of doctor.

26:21

It's more of like a specialist. No,

26:23

I can't think of the name, but

26:25

it's more of Not herb side, but

26:28

it's more of the medical healing. I

26:30

forgot the name. Little bit of East-West

26:32

combo. Yeah, no, no. Yeah, he was

26:34

more one of those and that's why

26:37

I didn't believe in the mask. No,

26:39

what is the thing you put down your thought?

26:41

I'm forgetting all the... Intubating and stuff. Yeah, he

26:43

didn't believe in all that. No, so he

26:45

was the one that really like, because of

26:47

him, I made it. And he was the

26:49

one that was so honest with me that

26:51

was so honest with me that was so

26:53

honest with me that was like, hey man.

26:55

We got three to four days. If you can make

26:57

it three to four days, you're gonna be all right.

27:00

I can get you through this, but you gotta make

27:02

it three to four days. And the third day

27:04

was my worst day. And what are you thinking? Like,

27:06

holy shit, this is it. This is it. This

27:08

is it. This is it. Look at, you know, the memory

27:10

I have is texting my mom and dad

27:12

and then looking at pictures of my

27:14

family and then blacking out. And when they

27:16

said I woke up like, like, like, like,

27:18

four or five or five or five hours,

27:20

four or five hours, four or five hours

27:22

later. You know, and then the next day

27:24

it got a little better, but the fifth

27:27

day, they're like, you're gonna

27:29

make it. Day five, you,

27:31

they're like, you're gonna live.

27:33

They're gonna live, but are

27:35

you still in excruciating pain?

27:37

Oh, I'm a terrible pain.

27:39

I'm a terrible pain, but

27:41

they're like, you're gonna make

27:43

it. And because you're stabilizing a

27:46

little bit, and then I was

27:48

supposed to be getting ready to

27:50

leave. And then they all came

27:52

in the room and they said,

27:54

lay back down. And then they go,

27:56

why? And they go, we just let a

27:58

person go home and they died. They

28:00

told you. I was like, you. I

28:02

was like, you can keep me in

28:05

here forever. Yeah. All right, you can

28:07

keep me in here forever. We just

28:09

let a person go home and they

28:11

die. Holy. That was, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

28:13

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

28:15

That's wild. They told me to get

28:17

back in the back. And the problem

28:19

was they couldn't get back in the

28:22

hospital. Because now it's crazy. Literally when

28:24

I left the ICU was packed. It

28:26

was like a different, it's almost like

28:28

a different world when I walked out

28:30

of that ICU rub. The whole place,

28:32

people waiting to get in the ICU,

28:34

it was rolling people out because they

28:36

died. Like it was all, it was

28:39

night and day, literally walking in and

28:41

walking out. Like that's how fast it

28:43

moved, right? And that's a big, look,

28:45

I had the moment as well where

28:47

they came to me and they came

28:49

to me and they said. and they're

28:51

like you've massive pulmonary embolisms covering your

28:53

lungs your heart is pushing on your

28:56

heart it's swollen twice its size your

28:58

your left side or one of the

29:00

sides is clogged and it's gonna be

29:02

and they told me you better make

29:04

some calls I had to call my

29:06

daughter's mom and she's like what the

29:08

fuck's going on I'm like I don't

29:10

know what they just told me that

29:13

I've if I don't make it in

29:15

the next two days it's It's a

29:17

rap. I call my business manager. I

29:19

was like, hey, remember how we'd like

29:21

playfully joked about my living will and

29:23

trust? I was like, please make sure

29:25

that I shook up the date. He's

29:27

like, what? I'm like, I'm not even

29:30

kidding you. His name's Roy, the best.

29:32

Roy Marks came in, helped me out

29:34

big time. And they were like, you

29:36

just need to wait. And because I

29:38

have a blood disease, they couldn't, there's

29:40

a process where they can go in

29:42

through your groin and like suck the

29:44

cloths out, but because I have a

29:47

blood disease, they said that could make

29:49

you a vegetable. And I was like,

29:51

well, we ain't doing that. So like

29:53

we're gonna treat you the old school

29:55

way, like we always. have, we're just

29:57

going to give you blood thinner through

29:59

an IV, and hopefully in a few

30:01

days it worked for you. And I

30:04

was like, what? And he just lay

30:06

there. And he's there pain or no?

30:08

Oh, yeah. Okay. The guy said, you

30:10

feel like there's an elephant on your

30:12

chest? I was like, I feel like

30:14

there's three of them on my fucking

30:16

chest. You can't breathe. The same, everything

30:18

you're saying, and you're doped up. You're

30:21

also doped up, you don't know. I'm

30:23

telling you, I'm just randomly paying people

30:25

on PayPal, shit, like, I'm out of

30:27

my mind. I'm scared to death. I'm

30:29

thinking about my daughter. My dad died

30:31

when I was 16. That's all I

30:33

keep thinking is like, I can't let

30:35

this kid grow up without a fucking

30:38

dad. How did that affect you, like,

30:40

when you look back on it? How

30:42

would your life would have been different

30:44

if he was around longer? I

30:46

think about it a lot actually because

30:48

I wonder if I still would have

30:50

come here and be who I am

30:52

today or if I would have stayed

30:54

home in Maryland and just stayed working

30:56

for UPS. Shout out to UPS, Baltimore

30:59

Hub Primary, one, Joe Avenue. If I'd

31:01

have stayed there and just been like

31:03

a supervisor and just like a family

31:05

dude around there, because I had a

31:07

good job. I had a good job

31:09

before I left and everything, but I

31:11

was like, no, I just got to

31:13

do it. Yeah, I don't I don't

31:15

know I mean I do know I

31:17

don't think I'd be the person I

31:19

am today Yeah, I definitely wouldn't be

31:21

the you know from 16 on I

31:23

have no parents and that's begins the

31:25

hustle Yeah, and I like to think

31:27

that I have a doctorate and street

31:29

smarts Yeah, I got a fucking GED

31:31

and regular life shit. You know what

31:33

I mean? I I don't know about

31:35

I've recently had to learn about money,

31:37

you know, no one's ever educated me

31:39

I just save it or spend it.

31:41

Yeah. You know what I mean? Like

31:43

I don't know, I didn't know what

31:45

to do. I never did stocks or

31:47

that stuff. I never had any money

31:49

to do that. It's so amazing when

31:51

I look, because I have a next

31:53

door neighbor who's huge on YouTube, financial

31:55

advisor, was a millionaire at like 23,

31:58

and now he's like 33, and his

32:00

kid is 17 years younger than me,

32:02

and I go to him. I see

32:04

him walking his dog every day. It's

32:06

just the knowledge he learned when he

32:08

was young from his, the people around

32:10

him. And it just, it just, it

32:12

doesn't make you mad. Like my parents

32:14

weren't financial experts or anything, but it

32:16

just makes you mad like you wish

32:18

you could go back and be like,

32:20

oh man, I wish I knew this

32:22

growing up, but you don't, you don't.

32:24

Even in like, looking back about I

32:26

went to college, I got my degree,

32:28

I wouldn't do that again. Yeah. I

32:30

would go to still go to still

32:32

go to school. But I wouldn't set

32:34

my site on this piece of paper.

32:36

I would diversify my classes instead of

32:38

streamlining them for this one goal. I

32:40

would take some business classes. I didn't

32:42

have to take any of them for

32:44

mass calm. You know what I mean?

32:46

I would try to at least get

32:48

a little knowledge and some things that

32:50

I think would help me down the

32:52

road a little bit. Yeah, I think

32:54

and honestly, I think everything's changing now.

32:56

I think school is it. I always

32:59

say this, I used to speak at

33:01

schools because I was a radio DJ

33:03

in Miami, big radio station, and they

33:05

used to ask me to go to

33:07

schools. And they stopped asking me because

33:09

the question always gets asked, do you

33:11

need to finish school to do what

33:13

you do? I go, no. Because you

33:15

need to finish school to do what

33:17

you do? I go, no. Because you

33:19

need to finish school to do what

33:21

you do? I go, no. Because do

33:23

you need to finish school, to do

33:25

you need to finish school, to do

33:27

what you do, to finish school, to

33:29

do, to do, to do, or do,

33:31

or do, to finish school, or do,

33:33

or do, or do, or do, or

33:35

do, to be saving, to be saving

33:37

for her, or do, to be saving

33:39

for her, to be saving for her,

33:41

or do, or do, or do, to

33:43

be saving for her, to be saving

33:45

for her, or do, to be saving

33:47

for her, or do, or do, do,

33:49

or do, I don't listen unless my

33:51

daughter wants to do something and she's

33:53

firm about it that requires college medical

33:55

yeah law whatever I'm gonna let her

33:58

decide whether she wants to go to

34:00

college I don't think anymore it's like

34:02

you got to go to college to

34:04

be successful you don't You can go

34:06

in there and spend $80,000 dollars and

34:08

be in debt forever. Dude, I see

34:10

these people graduate college with communication degrees.

34:12

What the hell is a communication degree?

34:14

Do you need a, do you need

34:16

a degree to communicate? It's so no,

34:18

it's a money. That is the biggest

34:20

money suck. And also I come from

34:22

a time when you do as well

34:24

where when you go to film school

34:26

or anything You're learning about lighting and

34:28

angles and and this person's Positioned higher

34:30

in the scene because they're in power

34:32

or things like that today This there's

34:34

a video that looks like this is

34:36

got 20 million views like all of

34:38

it's out the window. Yes. Everything is

34:40

changed. But to go back and answer

34:42

your question. I wish I had my

34:44

father here to ask father questions. Yeah.

34:46

My dad's the father of two twin

34:48

boys, I'm a twin, and a younger

34:50

son, divorce, all that shit, and I

34:52

would love to have his hindsight on

34:54

any of it. Like, what a kind

34:57

of dick was I, you know what

34:59

I mean? Like, I want to hear

35:01

about that, like, how'd you do this?

35:03

Why did you do it that way?

35:05

He came from a good family, his

35:07

mom was good to him, like my

35:09

grandma was the best. But our mom

35:11

was it, you know, you know, and...

35:13

And on the yo show, when I

35:15

talked to my parents a lot. I've

35:17

learned more about my parents in the

35:19

last two years, broadcasting with them, yeah,

35:21

then all my life. I've heard stories,

35:23

I was like, what? I got 16

35:25

years of my dad, and you know,

35:27

the first three years, four years, you're

35:29

just a little, you know, so I

35:31

got about 10, 11 years of real

35:33

memories, and that's nothing. I've got good

35:35

ones, but man, I wish I could

35:37

be like, hey, you know, you know,

35:39

tell me, tell me, tell me your

35:41

wild stories, I'd love to, that's great

35:43

for you. No, and I love it.

35:45

It's, it's, we were never like far

35:47

apart, but it definitely brings you closer

35:49

because you just learn things that, that,

35:51

it just educate you more about how

35:53

your parents came up, like hearing about

35:56

my dad, you know, having a PhD

35:58

in nuclear physics and, does he? Oh

36:00

yeah. And being black and didn't even

36:02

know he was poor because he lived

36:04

in a black neighborhood and you didn't

36:06

leave the neighborhood. Where is he from?

36:08

Houston third ward okay so but wasn't

36:10

that a fifth ward is where the

36:12

ghetto boys ghetto boys yeah so that

36:14

boy area so what's interesting he goes

36:16

I didn't even know there was racism

36:18

because we'd never left our neighborhood you

36:20

know it that blows me away like

36:22

just always seeing your people your people

36:24

everybody's doing the same thing and you

36:26

had no desire to leave yeah you

36:28

know that was your bubble it's kind

36:30

of like living in these neighborhoods in

36:32

LA like you never leave your bubble

36:34

really like studio city you stay in

36:36

studio city unless you have to yeah

36:38

this Santa Monica bubble over here is

36:40

yeah you don't want to go to

36:42

Hollywood not from here I you know

36:44

my daughter's mom they live there and

36:46

I go to all the sporting events

36:48

over there and I'm just like this

36:50

is not real life no it's not

36:52

real life over here I live in

36:54

Vegas and literally everything is five miles

36:57

and we got our five mile bubble

36:59

And it has to be me going

37:01

to the airport to leave that bubble.

37:03

That's pretty much the only time we

37:05

leave it. So that's what you get

37:07

caught in. And my dad got caught

37:09

in that. And it's just amazing to

37:11

hear those stories about him, my mom,

37:13

she dropped out of high school, but

37:15

she dropped out of high school, but

37:17

she was like the business person of

37:19

the family. Like she's the one that

37:21

got the business loans, she's the one

37:23

that put together the business plans. Like

37:25

she was street hustler. Yeah. So back

37:27

to the hospital here, as you make

37:29

the turn around, you're starting to get

37:31

better. Yeah. Do they ever let your

37:33

wife come in or is it? No.

37:35

Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no,

37:37

no, no. I didn't see my wife.

37:39

They didn't even let her pick me

37:41

up. Yeah, how do you go? They

37:43

dropped you off back in the ambulance.

37:45

Oh, yeah, because they don't want... Any

37:47

they didn't want you in a car.

37:49

They don't oh, you know what it

37:51

was because they wanted you to go

37:53

to a straight home and how they

37:56

confirm that Oh, they didn't want you

37:58

going to the grocery store and spread

38:00

and possibly spread because they think you're

38:02

done But I see here's what's interesting

38:04

is they sent me home to make

38:06

me stay in a room that they

38:08

isolated me in my in my room

38:10

and I couldn't even be around my

38:12

family. Is this because they thought you

38:14

were still contagious at that point? You

38:16

really were after 18 days? No, eight

38:18

days. But here's what's crazy is I

38:20

went home and they go when you

38:22

test negative and remember there was no

38:24

test. So I had to go back

38:26

to that hospital once a week. and

38:28

they pulled the test but they only

38:30

could do it for three weeks in

38:32

a row because they were out of

38:34

test. So they did it for three

38:36

weeks and I still had it. So

38:38

I had to stay isolated. I think

38:40

I stayed isolated for like close to

38:42

two months. Did you? And I couldn't

38:44

even see my family or my kids.

38:46

Where were you? At the house. But

38:48

in a like, in a guest room.

38:50

Did you have a, how'd you, you,

38:52

you couldn't see him? How'd you, how'd

38:55

you, how'd you, how'd, you, you, you,

38:57

you, you, you, you, you, you, you,

38:59

you, you, you couldn't, you, you couldn't,

39:01

you couldn't, you couldn't, you couldn't, how

39:03

you, you, you, you, you, you, you,

39:05

you, you, you, you couldn't, And then

39:07

the only time I would leave the

39:09

room is when they all went to

39:11

bed. You know, but I would just

39:13

run and get a drink if I

39:15

needed. I didn't want to get them

39:17

sick. So because I couldn't get tests

39:19

at that time, nobody could get tests.

39:21

I had to wait because I wasn't

39:23

going to put my sixth month old

39:25

or like you can keep me in

39:27

that room a year. Like I'm not

39:29

going to jeopardize my wife for those

39:31

kids. So we had to make sure

39:33

in like for like for two weeks.

39:35

to take the test. You know, they

39:37

didn't give it to you. You couldn't

39:39

just order it. Like you had to

39:41

go to the hospital and they were

39:43

like, hey, and this is, and you

39:45

gotta remember, this is the spike of

39:47

everything. Like, if they had a test,

39:49

and they wouldn't even test people at

39:51

that time, they didn't even have enough

39:54

tested tests. It's just like, oh, they

39:56

kind of took your temperature and see

39:58

your symptoms and be like, okay, you

40:00

got it, or you don't. Go in

40:02

your room for 14 days for 14

40:04

days for 14 days, and be fine.

40:06

And be fine. And be fine. You

40:08

know they didn't have the rule back

40:10

then if you don't have a fever

40:12

for seven days you're good they just

40:14

like if you test positive you stay

40:16

in your room and I think it

40:18

was like 45 days or 60 days

40:20

I was isolated so my wife's a

40:22

trooper man and I did all that

40:24

by herself six month old a kid

40:26

and I heard them crying all the

40:28

time asking for daddy at the door.

40:30

Oh man. But I tell you for

40:32

45 days I had to deal with

40:34

him. So that was nice. I was

40:36

at home just chilling. I was living

40:38

the life. Was there a point where

40:40

you got so good and there you're

40:42

like I was going to chill here

40:44

for a couple of days? Yeah man

40:46

you know what I was like you

40:48

gonna drop food off at my door.

40:50

Where are my nuggets? Right? I was

40:53

using that COVID-ins because like, my wife

40:55

is like, take out to church. Oh

40:57

man, COVID got me, man. COVID got

40:59

me. Yeah, I don't know what's going

41:01

on over here. Now do you have

41:03

any like lasting scars or anything? Have

41:05

you gone back to a pulmonologist or

41:07

anything like that? I did. It took

41:09

about a year. I had long COVID.

41:11

So it took about a year before

41:13

I felt feeling great. And now, a

41:15

year, it fucked you up. Yeah, well

41:17

not impacted you impacted me. Yeah, you

41:19

could feel like just tired all the

41:21

time. And it wasn't because of age,

41:23

it was something bringing me down. You

41:25

know, so I kept going back, but

41:27

like levels, what is it? There was

41:29

levels in me that were still high,

41:31

like I had fluid in me. So

41:33

it took about eight months to get

41:35

all the fluid out, because what happened

41:37

was I had COVID in pneumonia at

41:39

the same time. When did they find

41:41

that out? Oh, right when I went

41:43

in. That's why they were like, we'll

41:45

know in three or four days if

41:47

you lived. So you had fluid in

41:49

your lungs too? Yeah. Dude, it was,

41:51

it was, they said, you are lucky.

41:54

No, they, because they said I was

41:56

in such good health. That's the only

41:58

reason I made it. Only reason. Is

42:00

that right? That's what they said. And

42:02

they didn't put me, because the rumor,

42:04

and this is alleged, and I don't

42:06

want to be a conspiracy, and I

42:08

don't want to be a conspiracy, But

42:10

I heard from doctors after I get

42:12

out, because they'll meet me at shows,

42:14

they'll come out to shows and talk

42:16

to me about the experience still. And

42:18

they go, and this is allegedly from

42:20

a doctor, but he goes, we were

42:22

putting people on ventilators, because it's almost

42:24

like putting a person on ice, because

42:26

we thought we would know how to

42:28

fix it and cure it in two

42:30

weeks. So literally, we're putting these people

42:32

on ice. Because we're like. on pause.

42:34

So we're like we'll figure it out

42:36

when they found out too late that

42:38

it actually was making everybody worse because

42:40

it was a chest thing like about

42:42

like I forgot what it's called but

42:44

it's about your breathing and when you

42:46

when you cut off you know put

42:48

that ventilator in it messes all the

42:50

chest up and that where it all

42:53

came from. I don't know the technical

42:55

You don't have to, you're a comedian,

42:57

bro, you're not a doctor. Yeah, because

42:59

I want to sound educated, but then

43:01

I remember, I'm not. So there you

43:03

go. Also, I talk about all the

43:05

time too, they're coming in and telling

43:07

you about these new medications and all

43:09

these diagnosis, what, you're fucked up. And

43:11

you don't know what's going on, nothing.

43:13

Bro. I just put my phone next

43:15

to me and started recording everything. So

43:17

I go back and listen later and

43:19

listen later and stuff, you know what

43:21

I mean. You know what I mean.

43:23

you're old sometimes when a young person

43:25

does something. I remember a person. That's

43:27

who made me think of recording. Right.

43:29

Well, let me tell you. My stepson,

43:31

I was like, bro, we record everything

43:33

for a living. I didn't even think

43:35

to hit record on my phone. So

43:37

a person hands me their card and

43:39

I was at a comedy show and

43:41

a person hands me their card and

43:43

a young comic, I take the card

43:45

and a young comic just goes chk

43:47

and text to me and gives a

43:49

card back to me and gives a

43:52

card back to me and gives a

43:54

card back to me and gives a

43:56

card back to me and gives a

43:58

card back to the card back to

44:00

the card. I felt so old. Yeah.

44:02

But when you grab a fit in

44:04

the right, I was like grabbing and

44:06

feeling, what's your number? And then they're

44:08

like, all right, you got it. Like,

44:10

oh my God, so old now, so

44:12

old. You know, but fifth day, got

44:14

better. Seven, like the fifth, fifth or

44:16

sixth or seventh day, they told me

44:18

to stay in the hospital because somebody

44:20

went home and died home and died.

44:22

And they can now you're just keeping,

44:24

they're keeping you there to there to

44:26

see. So they kept me like another

44:28

day and a half and then they

44:30

let me go and went home and

44:32

then isolated for 45 days to 60

44:34

days. I can't remember. Do you know

44:36

why it got used? so hard. Did

44:38

they talk to you about that? Yes,

44:40

the doctor said it's almost like, because

44:42

COVID is a virus, but imagine doing

44:44

four shows at Gotham meeting pretty much

44:46

everybody and you're getting more and more.

44:48

You're not just getting one dose of

44:51

it. You're getting like one dose of

44:53

it. You're getting one dose of it.

44:55

I was like a, you know, a

44:57

marshmallow man and ghost buses? That was

44:59

me, but a giant, but a virus.

45:01

I was just a giant virus walking

45:03

around. And that's why he said it

45:05

is, I was, I got pneumonia, COVID,

45:07

and I was working and flying. pneumonia

45:09

is enough to take you down, dude.

45:11

Dude. I had, it's amazing that I'm

45:13

alive. Yeah, and then I get to

45:15

look back, it's all. Glad you are.

45:17

Every time my kids have a birthday,

45:19

I can walk, I might have not

45:21

have been here, I might have been

45:23

here. Doesn't it mess with you like

45:25

that? Did it change you? Did it

45:27

change you? A hundred percent. Let me

45:29

tell you. Still, still. It's been two

45:31

years and I still think like, man,

45:33

that's a whole week. I would have

45:35

missed with my kid right there. But

45:37

you have to remind yourself sometimes, because

45:39

you always lose focus of that moment.

45:41

So you've got to keep reminding yourself

45:43

where, oh, I almost wasn't here. Because

45:45

like anybody, you'll forget, a lot of

45:47

things. So. a birthday there's a lot

45:49

of the key times in my life

45:52

my birthday my wife's birthday any holiday

45:54

it's like I really make it a

45:56

point to say hey I might have

45:58

been here am I being the best

46:00

I can be for them for my

46:02

wife just or for career you know

46:04

and that's what really pushes me so

46:06

yeah I was in the hospital for

46:08

three weeks and then just fucked up

46:10

after that for a while and my

46:12

daughter's mom were split so she had

46:14

her the whole time and then her

46:16

mom just passed away recently and she

46:18

had to go deal with some her

46:20

affairs up in Seattle or whatever so

46:22

I had my daughter for three weeks.

46:24

every day. And I, it's like I

46:26

got to catch up on that time.

46:28

I fucking loved it. I told her

46:30

every day, like, we're gonna do this,

46:32

we'll do this. And I was like,

46:34

just staying on point with school and,

46:36

you know, extracurriculars, all that stuff. And

46:38

I was like, man, this is, it

46:40

isn't a problem at all. This isn't

46:42

a problem at all. It's the greatest

46:44

gift, man. I was so stoked to

46:46

be like, you're not a what, you're

46:48

not a burden. You're not a burden.

46:51

You're not a burden. Like this is

46:53

great, I don't normally get you three

46:55

weeks in a row. I'm going to

46:57

enjoy this. You know, so that was

46:59

really interesting and fun. It hits me

47:01

a lot. Each birthday, like I'm about

47:03

to have another one, it hits me.

47:05

Because I went, for me, the day,

47:07

I can't remember the actual day, not

47:09

to look at my phone, but it

47:11

was MLK day, which switches every year,

47:13

but that year, two years ago. And

47:15

then every day that this lady would

47:17

come in. And she would wipe the

47:19

date off the dry erase board and

47:21

she would just write the new one

47:23

up. I was fucking stoked. It's a

47:25

beautiful moment. I told her every day

47:27

this a new person would come and

47:29

I was like favorite part of the

47:31

day. Yeah. She's like why I was

47:33

like because I'm seeing you write a

47:35

new day on the board. That's why.

47:37

Yep. Just a little thing. These ceiling

47:39

tiles are the nicest ceiling. Just when.

47:41

just the simple things when you're in

47:43

that state, all of it. And you

47:45

gotta keep remembering that. You gotta remind

47:47

yourself about that all the time or

47:50

you lose sight of that, you know,

47:52

and you just get, you're just ungrateful

47:54

about life. And now, you know, it's

47:56

almost like that opposite thing where I

47:58

just turned 50 and now it's like,

48:00

oh, okay, mortality, you got about. 30

48:02

more good years. So hopefully, right? Yeah,

48:04

hopefully. So I'm a push even harder

48:06

now, you know, and try to that's

48:08

that's the thing you see, like me,

48:10

my parents are still alive. So I

48:12

see them get older and it's like,

48:14

oh my gosh, like, are they healthy?

48:16

Yes, very healthy, very healthy, but you

48:18

never know, you know, what I mean?

48:20

Like my stepson's mixed. Yeah, just like

48:22

you, yeah, and you Usually, they say,

48:24

just genetically, mixed kids tend to get

48:26

the best of both parents. Yes. And

48:28

they're healthier and tend to be, you

48:30

know, do you have allergies and all

48:32

that shit or anything like that? Are

48:34

you a pretty healthy dude? No, I'm

48:36

a great, like, here's your worst. I

48:38

mean, obviously almost die from this, but

48:40

are you normally healthy? Like, this knocked

48:42

you the full town. Like, like, like,

48:44

people get colds and everything, it's very

48:46

hard to take. Close to 2,000 people,

48:49

you were in New York. And you

48:51

had pneumonia. And you had pneumonia. And

48:53

you still made it. And you were

48:55

touring for like, that was your sixth

48:57

week or tour. You were exhausted, not

48:59

enough hydrate. Like yeah, everything was supposed

49:01

to like, hey, you're not supposed to

49:03

make this. So yeah, they said, because

49:05

I was in shape, I try to

49:07

eat well, but. I also know, like,

49:09

my dad's never had a health problem.

49:11

My dad's out of family. They live

49:13

to 90 all the time. My mom's

49:15

side, they die at 60. So my

49:17

mom's 74, and she beat breast cancer

49:19

three times. Wow. Yeah, so, but she's

49:21

super healthy. Like, she's active, and my

49:23

dad walks a thousand calories a day.

49:25

Like, it takes him a while. He

49:27

only walks on two, but he does

49:29

that. What's funny. What's funny. And then

49:31

I just see him fly off the

49:33

train. I had two miles an hour.

49:35

No, no. The 12 was under the

49:37

two and he was up and he

49:39

hit 12. And my mom runs in

49:41

because he's like, oh, my mom runs

49:43

in and goes, why you hurt my

49:45

wall? Like all she worried about is

49:48

her wall. That's it. That's it. That's

49:50

it. Yeah, man. So yeah. My thing

49:52

with with recovering is just. enjoying life

49:54

and providing the best for my family.

49:56

Remembering and remembering that part. Yeah. How

49:58

do you do you intentionally make time

50:00

now? You're really busy man. So do

50:02

you intentionally make time for I do

50:04

kids for family time for your wife?

50:06

You have to. And how do you

50:08

do that? Where you are you? better

50:10

at it now since COVID happened? Are

50:12

you more cognizant at least? Yes I

50:14

am cognizant. I do believe though you

50:16

know what our schedules like I know

50:18

when I land Sunday it's showtime. It's

50:20

game like that's the real show it

50:22

wasn't the shows I just did. It's

50:24

Sunday I land I always the promise

50:26

I made to my wife no matter

50:28

how much it kills me I take

50:30

the first flight out. I get home

50:32

by 10 11 o'clock in Las Vegas

50:34

and then literally I'm there six a.m.

50:36

or whatever out I've done five thirty

50:38

six a.m. Wake up at four a.m.

50:40

Sleep on the plane. As soon as

50:42

you land you're going all the way

50:44

to eight or nine o'clock because your

50:46

family hasn't seen you and mama needs

50:49

a rest. So I'm taking the kids

50:51

out and Monday they go to school

50:53

so I get to recover like we

50:55

have a whole system where Monday okay

50:57

I take the kids of school and

50:59

then I do what I want. and

51:01

Tuesday kind of like me and my

51:03

wife do stuff Wednesday and then Thursday

51:05

back on the road so literally that's

51:07

the whole cycle that we do in

51:09

those three or four days it's all

51:11

theirs because when I'm on the road

51:13

like it's hard to convince you know

51:15

like you would know this it's hard

51:17

to convince people that when you're on

51:19

the road it's work like they're thinking

51:21

you're just living it's exhausting like we're

51:23

just out there having a good time

51:25

like you know it's exhausting it's Do

51:27

you know how long it took me

51:29

to put this hour together that get

51:31

out here and I'm fortunate? Thank you

51:33

that the people still want to come

51:35

see me Yep, and I'm responsible for

51:37

their weekend They're paying money to see

51:39

you. Yes. And if they go to

51:41

work on Monday and somebody says, would

51:43

you do this weekend? They're going to

51:45

say, I went to this great show

51:48

and saw this comic. I like named

51:50

Ryan Sickler. I'm like, I saw this

51:52

shitty ass comedy show. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

51:54

And like, that's a big thing for

51:56

them for the weekend. It's their weekend.

51:58

They've been looking forward to it. They

52:00

bought tickets in advance. And I tell.

52:02

Look, also, it's fun. But I still

52:04

got to work. I have to be

52:06

on. But I think when you can

52:08

hang around comics like when we're husbands

52:10

or we're married or dating someone, they

52:12

just, they're like, oh, you don't really

52:14

work. You know, it's because, oh, you

52:16

just go up there and can do

52:18

that. So you can, it's not like

52:20

a football where you got to go

52:22

to practice every day. Even though we

52:24

go to the clubs, but we're going

52:26

to a club. have come to me

52:28

and said, how do you do that?

52:30

Big actors. Like it's the most respected

52:32

thing I tell people in Hollywood from

52:34

people in the industry. It's the hardest

52:36

that you by yourself, it's like Gladiator,

52:38

you against them. And a lot of

52:40

people come to shows going to make

52:42

me laugh. And I got about 60

52:44

seconds to make these people. first of

52:47

all, comfortable, believed that this guy knows

52:49

what he's doing. I can tell he's

52:51

been there before and then you got

52:53

to get him to like him. You

52:55

only got about a quick minute or

52:57

so. It's funny because a friend of

52:59

mine is, he's a salesman. He tells

53:01

me he comes to shows and he's

53:03

like, man, it's very similar to what

53:05

I do in the sense of having

53:07

to go in and because he sells

53:09

medical equipment for hospitals. He's like, I

53:11

got to go in. They don't know

53:13

who I am at first. I got

53:15

to break the ice. I got to

53:17

show him. I know what I'm doing.

53:19

He's like, same thing. He's like, I

53:21

get about 90 seconds before they go

53:23

get the fuck out of here. I

53:25

want your shit. No, it's true. It's

53:27

true. Because we've all seen younger people

53:29

coming up and just the stage presence

53:31

makes even the audience feel icky. And

53:33

they won't turn on you, but they'll

53:35

feel bad for you really quick. You

53:37

know what I mean? When they start

53:39

doing that, you know, it's not a

53:41

good thing. So luckily from radio, I

53:43

came from radio, so we already kind

53:46

of had stage presence and that's why

53:48

I think I kind of, because I'm

53:50

going on 13 years of comedy right

53:52

now. I'm fairly new in the game.

53:54

compared to the people that have been

53:56

in 20, 30 years, but I feel

53:58

like radio really helped me a lot.

54:00

Because radio you paint pictures with words,

54:02

you know, and once they can see

54:04

you, it's like, just take that skill

54:06

and kick it up and learn how

54:08

to write and do that. So yeah,

54:10

and. Joe Coye helped me out a

54:12

lot with that. He's my mentor. So

54:14

he started me in comedy. I was

54:16

on Chelsea lately. So I got the

54:18

fast track to be able to get

54:20

on stage. But Chelsea, the biggest thing

54:22

Chelsea said, do not be that guy

54:24

on TV that shows up and doesn't

54:26

know how to do comedy. Because they

54:28

will laugh you off and you will

54:30

get booted out these clubs. Respect what

54:32

comics do and put in the work.

54:34

You got it. And that's what so,

54:36

this is what I love about comedy.

54:38

This is what I love about comedy,

54:40

unlike any other, unlike any other industry.

54:43

You have to have stage time. I

54:45

remember Russell Peters saying Just because I

54:47

was getting a lot of opportunity on

54:49

stage very early He goes you'll it's

54:51

not about it's not about years It's

54:53

about stage time. He goes you'll meet

54:55

comics. I've been doing it 15 years,

54:57

but they have five years of stage

54:59

time. It's about that stage time. I

55:01

remember early on this one guy being

55:03

like man I got up twice this

55:05

month and I was and he but

55:07

he thought that was a lot and

55:10

I was like I was like, what?

55:12

This month? He's like, yeah, how many

55:14

shows you doing? I was like, I'm

55:16

doing two tonight. Yeah, no. And like,

55:18

I'm going anywhere I can. I want

55:20

to say this real quick, because I

55:22

want to give Jo-Koi props. So when

55:24

I'm in the hospital, I'm literally fucking

55:26

clotting. They're rushing me into the thing.

55:28

I get a fucking Philippine and nurse.

55:30

And they had already seen who I

55:32

was, like the people, like, the people,

55:34

oh, we saw you have a podcast,

55:36

and I was like, yeah. And then

55:38

this Filipino nurse is like, you're a

55:40

comedian? I go, yeah, I swear if

55:42

I'm God, Michael, you know, do you

55:44

know Joe Cole? I, everybody knows Joe.

55:46

She's like, can you face time? I

55:48

go, I go, are you fucking serious

55:50

right now to die over here? So

55:52

she leaves. I text Jokoy, I'm like,

55:54

bro, I'm dying in this fucking Filipino

55:56

nurse, wants to know if I know

55:58

you, wants me to face time you

56:00

and shit. And he's like, are you

56:02

okay? And I'm like, I don't know.

56:04

I really don't know. And he, Jokoy,

56:06

to his credit, offered to pay for

56:08

all my medical bills. And I was

56:10

like, I can't let you do it,

56:12

but thank you, I love you, I

56:14

love you for that. And I love

56:16

you for that. And I love you

56:18

for that. And I love you for

56:20

that. And I love you for that.

56:22

And I love you for that. And

56:24

I love you for that. And I

56:26

love you for that. And I. And

56:28

I. And I. And I love you

56:30

for that. And I. I. I. I.

56:32

I love you. I. I love you.

56:34

I. I love you. I. I love

56:36

you. I. I love you. I love

56:39

you. I. I. Trust me when I

56:41

tell you, she's not coming back and

56:43

another Philippine is coming back. And it

56:45

was, it was. I tell you, like

56:47

my people were everywhere. I tell you

56:49

another good story about Joe, like when

56:51

I was in the hospital, Joe checked

56:53

up on my wife, like literally anything

56:55

we needed, you know, he would be

56:57

there for, and you know what, I

56:59

don't want to say you find out

57:01

who your friends are, but you find

57:03

out how special you are. to certain

57:05

people. That's well said. Because you can

57:07

be, you can still be friends. Yeah,

57:09

some people are just scared and uncomfortable

57:11

with it. Sure. But some people are

57:13

like, this is my guy and I'm

57:15

going for it. Like, a guy I

57:17

know, his name is Chris, and he's

57:19

not a comic, you know, he works

57:21

in medical supplies or something like that.

57:23

And I saw him and it almost,

57:25

I get teary to, he was dropping

57:27

off groceries to my wife. And I'm

57:29

seeing this on a ring camp. That

57:31

guy that's nice. That's how you can

57:33

see that from the hospital on the

57:35

yeah, when I was on the record

57:37

Oh man, I'm tearing in I and

57:39

I was like that moment really shook

57:41

me so much because because a lot

57:43

of times we feel like There's not

57:45

good people in this world and then

57:47

you see that you're like oh my

57:49

god And it's doing were gone that

57:51

dude still rolling by with groceries That's

57:53

what I'm saying for my family and

57:55

that's what it all comes down. Yeah.

57:57

That's all it matters. We do all

57:59

that matter. We do all this we

58:01

do all this for family. When you're

58:03

young you do it for ego. When

58:06

you get married and have kids and

58:08

you do it for your family. And

58:10

man, that moment, that moment right there,

58:12

it's just humanity. You know what I

58:14

mean? It's just a beautiful moment where

58:16

that would be etched in my head

58:18

until I die is that that guy

58:20

showed up with his wife with groceries

58:22

and he did it a couple days.

58:24

You know, till I was like a

58:26

good friend of mine years ago is

58:28

a crazy story, but he and his

58:30

wife has son and a daughter and

58:32

the daughter was, she's married, all good

58:34

now, but she was just dating as

58:36

thug. And he kept telling her, like,

58:38

look, this guy is an ex-gang-banger, I'm

58:40

not going to tell you what to

58:42

do, but I'm just telling you, he's

58:44

not the good dude. And I guess

58:46

one night he and his wife are

58:48

laying upstairs and her brother comes home

58:50

and he and the boyfriend have an

58:52

altercation and the boyfriend takes a knife

58:54

from their kitchen and stabs their son

58:56

and then leaves. runs out of the

58:58

house. Their son's like fucking bleeding out

59:00

in their kitchen. So the whole thing

59:02

happens. They're a black family. The Palmdale

59:04

police are fucking scum to them. They

59:06

won't take the kid to the hospital.

59:08

She has to drive her son to

59:10

the hospital. They accuse my friend, the

59:12

father of all this. It's crazy. They

59:14

arrest him. They don't even let him

59:16

know if his son lives or dies.

59:18

They don't take... It's crazy. So... He's

59:20

telling me all this shit and they

59:22

live in Palmdale and I was like,

59:24

fuck that. So at the time I

59:26

was seeing a girl who worked at

59:28

a restaurant and I just went in

59:30

and I bought a gang of food.

59:32

Yeah. Just tons of it. Tacos, all

59:35

this shit. And I drove it out

59:37

to Palmdale and I was like, look,

59:39

you're about to go through hell for

59:41

the next few days. Here's just some

59:43

food so you don't have to cook.

59:45

Yeah. And to this day, that motherfuckerfucker.

59:47

I can't believe you drove all the

59:49

way out here and bought food. And

59:51

like it's like, it's not that I

59:53

brought food, it's that you fucking cared.

59:55

And then you thought about us and

59:57

you considered what we were about to

59:59

have to go through even though you

1:00:01

don't know what that, yeah. Good for

1:00:03

you. That means you're a good person.

1:00:05

Oh, and yeah, yeah, I try to

1:00:07

be. And that just makes you more

1:00:09

conscious to do stuff for other people,

1:00:11

you know, you know, and that's really.

1:00:13

You know the What I love about

1:00:15

comedy is You really do give a

1:00:17

lot of yourself to people and I

1:00:19

believe there's a big white comics feel

1:00:21

I remember Joe when he he would

1:00:23

come home From touring and be so

1:00:25

tired and we would do a podcast

1:00:27

back then here we go why are

1:00:29

you so tired you just perform because

1:00:31

I didn't get it right? But then

1:00:33

doing it I'm like oh because you're

1:00:35

transferring all this great energy to them.

1:00:37

And if they had, to me, if

1:00:39

they had any bad debt, you're taking

1:00:41

everybody's problems and they're transferring that to

1:00:43

you. You know, it's almost through their

1:00:45

laughter, you're getting, even though it makes

1:00:47

you feel good, there's still a transfer

1:00:49

of energy. I believe in energy. I

1:00:51

believe you could have a shitty room,

1:00:53

one person walks in that room can

1:00:55

change that whole room. Guess where all

1:00:57

that negative energy goes to that one

1:00:59

person, but he's giving everybody great energy.

1:01:02

it's very lonely on the road being

1:01:04

a comic because I believe you take

1:01:06

all this negative energy the whole weekend

1:01:08

and you're giving all the best energy

1:01:10

and it's just like if you're not

1:01:12

strong enough it could wear you down

1:01:14

it could make you drink heavily it

1:01:16

could make you get into things you

1:01:18

don't want to get into because how

1:01:20

do you deal with three four hundred

1:01:22

people eight hundred people a night negative

1:01:24

energy hitting you and you're giving everything

1:01:26

you got to them so then that's

1:01:28

what I and you're exhausted I go

1:01:30

oh that's why It's the energy transfer.

1:01:32

And that may sound kooky or something

1:01:34

like that, but to me, it's real.

1:01:36

Because to me, the evidence is, everyone's

1:01:38

been in a room where it's just

1:01:40

like, the vibe is terrible. One person

1:01:42

walks in and changes that whole world.

1:01:44

We're that one person. Yeah. You know,

1:01:46

so I love it, man. Well, thank

1:01:48

you for doing this. Thank you, man.

1:01:50

I mentioned before we recorded that at

1:01:52

the end, I was going to ask

1:01:54

you advice. I

1:01:56

would tell myself people will lie

1:01:59

to your face. For advancement Don't

1:02:01

ever not just professionally either everything

1:02:03

No, yeah, yeah, because you I'm

1:02:06

a person that wants to believe

1:02:08

in the good and people but

1:02:10

being in this industry being around

1:02:13

Maybe because we're in Hollywood. I

1:02:15

would just say hey People will

1:02:18

lie to your face. You'll believe

1:02:20

them and then they'll double cross

1:02:22

you in life in business in

1:02:25

everything. So leave with your heart,

1:02:27

but don't be dumb. That's great.

1:02:29

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1:02:32

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1:02:34

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