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Bill Bellamy Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: this show role. My next guest was born in Newton,
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Speaker 1: New Jersey. I've known it for a very long time.
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Speaker 1: His cousin is Hall of Fame basketball players shop killing them.
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Speaker 1: While attending college, he majored in an economic at Ructors University.
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Speaker 1: He's built one of the most diverse acting resumes in Hollywood,
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Speaker 1: stand up comedy specials, Access Hollywood, Rachel Ray Hbos, Insecure,
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Speaker 1: game show host films like Any Given Sunday, and Love Jones,
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Speaker 1: which is still my favorite movie that he has started in.
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Speaker 1: He is on the show to promote the new Netflix
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Speaker 1: limited series Self Made The Madame C. J. Walker Story,
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Speaker 1: which premieres in March twenty on Netflix. It starts Academy
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Speaker 1: Award winner Octavia Spencer, Blair Underwood, Tiffany Hattris. Please, welcome
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Speaker 1: to Money Making Conversation. The other star of Self Made
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Speaker 1: The Madame C. J. Walker Story, Bill Bellamy, thank you
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Speaker 1: for having me, res Man. You know it's funny, you know,
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Speaker 1: when you're working hard, you forget I'll even getting how
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Speaker 1: much stuff I've done. I just keep grinded, Bill, and
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Speaker 1: Bill is shorten it. I had to shorten it, okay,
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Speaker 1: because we all know I'm being honest. Man. It's just like,
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Speaker 1: you know, it's just let's hearing you say that that
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Speaker 1: you know the things that I've done. It just makes
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Speaker 1: me realize that, you know, all the hard work is
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Speaker 1: not in vain, and that the passion for the for
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Speaker 1: the craft of acting and comedy has been my you know,
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Speaker 1: sort of my engine to my longevity because I just
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Speaker 1: love doing it. Like you know, it's not like work
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Speaker 1: to me to to to be in projects and be
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Speaker 1: funny and stuff like that. And I guess you know,
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Speaker 1: it's been a secret recipe to you know, me being
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Speaker 1: a success, you know, in a part of my blueprint
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Speaker 1: in the entertainment business. You know, really special because we
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Speaker 1: see now so many comics and so many comedic actors
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Speaker 1: are not crossing over to the game show host or
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Speaker 1: led by Steve Harvey after Daswer, Michael straight heere. But
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Speaker 1: let's go back here. Let's go back Death Comedy Jam
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Speaker 1: when it popped off and then you crossed over the MTV.
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about every comic in America was looking at you,
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Speaker 1: going how you doing that? Yeah? How did he do that? Like?
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Speaker 1: How did he just jump lane? You know something? Just
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Speaker 1: you went from you went from Booty Call to mtvn't Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was articulate. It was natural. Talk about that journey
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Speaker 1: right there, because we take for granted because when we
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Speaker 1: see OTV nowadays and we're going back to you know,
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Speaker 1: Nanty Too and Death Jail popped off and the tours
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Speaker 1: and everything and the CEO brand Man cross Over. It
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Speaker 1: looks so comfortable because MTV was definitely, you know, a
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Speaker 1: white music channel, you know what I'm saying. And I
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Speaker 1: was one of very few African Americans that had a
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Speaker 1: place in that platform, you know, and and it was
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Speaker 1: you know, and they took a chance. You know. Honestly,
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Speaker 1: Tracy Jordan, who was at that time, she was head
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Speaker 1: of talent relations, she thought I was really funny guy,
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Speaker 1: and she was just like, you know, we need some hearing,
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Speaker 1: We need some you know, some cool to come to MTV.
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Speaker 1: And I was like, right, I was in the right
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Speaker 1: place at the right time. And and what what what
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Speaker 1: made it, what made it work for me, was because
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Speaker 1: I was a part of the culture. So just imagine, right,
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Speaker 1: Deaf Comedy Jam was the hippest, newest, coolest urban thing
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Speaker 1: where you could watch TV for a half hour and
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Speaker 1: You was going to be on the floor lasting right,
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Speaker 1: absolutely running around, run around, running around. You're trying to
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Speaker 1: record it on via test you know, so I was
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Speaker 1: a part of that explosion. And what people don't realize.
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Speaker 1: Another lucky thing that happened for me was I was
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Speaker 1: the first comedian on the very first show, a deaf
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Speaker 1: comedy Dead, So I literally got all that exposure, like
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Speaker 1: oh my god, and they re aired at night, so
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Speaker 1: I got buzzed in, you know, on the black hip
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Speaker 1: hop stuff, and then turn around and got the most
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Speaker 1: pop mainstream job knowing the man. So so my name exploded.
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Speaker 1: It was like I came out of a cannon. It
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Speaker 1: was like, Yo, this is dude named Bill Bellamy. Because
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Speaker 1: when I did uh def comedy Jam, people didn't really
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Speaker 1: know my name. We knew my jokes. It was like, Yo,
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Speaker 1: you do the booty cool, you do the car. They
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Speaker 1: used to they used to call me, uh you you
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Speaker 1: Ralph fella me right. So so um that MTV was
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Speaker 1: a blessing because I got a chance to get exposed
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Speaker 1: to everyone in America. And it wasn't just black folks,
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Speaker 1: it was everybody. So I ended up getting the benefit
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Speaker 1: of that exposure and I knew I had a purpose day.
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Speaker 1: I wanted to represent us in the right way. I
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Speaker 1: didn't want to be no I didn't want to be
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Speaker 1: no cornball dude on their looking like you know, I
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Speaker 1: wasn't a representative of our culture. It was very it
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Speaker 1: was very purposeful for me to go on there and
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Speaker 1: take advantage of that situation and end up being the
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Speaker 1: best choice because you know, I started getting all the
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Speaker 1: good interviews, you know, I was you know Janey Jackson,
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Speaker 1: you know, Mariah and Snoop and Dre and Tuprock and Biggie.
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Speaker 1: I was getting all the everybody that was hot in
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Speaker 1: the culture came to me. You know, it really was
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Speaker 1: that was that was unique time for you as a
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Speaker 1: talent man, you know. But you know the thing I
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Speaker 1: love about it is that you know, that's why I
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Speaker 1: mentioned your your your college education, because you came from
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Speaker 1: the corporate world. Yeah, I was. I went to Rutgers
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Speaker 1: right and and this was the thing. I didn't know
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Speaker 1: I was going to get into acting and entertainment like that.
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Speaker 1: You know, I always had a love for it. I
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Speaker 1: went to school UM for economics and marketing. My market
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Speaker 1: My minor was marketing. My major was economic, so I
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Speaker 1: was more or less thinking about financing entrepreneurship in that
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Speaker 1: way and get to get this. I did comedy, like
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Speaker 1: as a joke, you know, you in college is like, man,
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Speaker 1: we need a host I was like, I most that thing.
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Speaker 1: I could be funny. And then and then the dude
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Speaker 1: say yeah, we'll come on, and I was like, huh oh,
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Speaker 1: you you're serious. You want me to do it for real?
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Speaker 1: So I brought a hosting and you know, you know
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Speaker 1: how in college they got the little tip, the little
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Speaker 1: fun all the talent shows and stuff like that, and
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Speaker 1: you know, we all we all been there, and uh,
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Speaker 1: I was still going to school doing my thing, getting ready,
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Speaker 1: you know, for my what I thought would be my
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Speaker 1: corporate lifestyle. And once I started doing that comedy thing,
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Speaker 1: it's like it's contagious. Like I was like, oh my god,
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Speaker 1: this is way more fun than anything I imagine it
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Speaker 1: just I just remember it made me happy. But always
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Speaker 1: you was doing comedy in New York and one of
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Speaker 1: the toughest comedy clubs, yes, sir, in the country now
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Speaker 1: people because everybody look at looking good, smooth hairstyle, articulate,
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Speaker 1: but you was doing stand up comedy and one of
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Speaker 1: the understand it right, It was so funny. You've been
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Speaker 1: knowing me alone because everybody my biggest thing was I
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Speaker 1: didn't look like a comedian. That's what everybody kept saying,
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Speaker 1: you know, calling me a pretty boy is to any
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Speaker 1: other And I'm like, man, I'm trying to be funny
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Speaker 1: to get all the looks. I don't care, but you
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Speaker 1: can't control what you look like. I know I'm funny,
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Speaker 1: right right right. But the thing about it was the
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Speaker 1: best thing was it made me become a real comedian
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Speaker 1: because people underestimated me. So I had to prove something.
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Speaker 1: I had something to prove. I had a chip on
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Speaker 1: my shoulder, and I had the best workout club in
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Speaker 1: the country, which is the couple of men. Everybody everybody
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Speaker 1: did my club from name anybody from Steve Harveater said
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Speaker 1: to Chris Rock, Dave's Pell, Tracy Morgan, everybody jab smooth.
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Speaker 1: They all had to do my club. And uh but
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Speaker 1: that But that audience though, Bill, those that audience wasn't
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Speaker 1: the regular audience. Though, oh yeah, they was damn there.
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Speaker 1: They was damn there from the from the Apollo. They
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Speaker 1: was like recruited at the Apollo. A came to my club,
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Speaker 1: the Boo people. They was ridiculous. That's why I love
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Speaker 1: That's why, that's why I love about my show, I
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Speaker 1: get to you know, because everybody see you now. But
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Speaker 1: the journey is what I love to tell people about.
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Speaker 1: You know, that history and and your history making talent
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Speaker 1: because that suit look that you carried, you know, brought on,
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Speaker 1: that was your brand, and that brand has has allowed
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Speaker 1: you to be a host on Access, be a host
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Speaker 1: with Rachel Ray, to be a host you you know,
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Speaker 1: you ability to look professional, look like a corporate and
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Speaker 1: then you could swing and be just a regular street guy.
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Speaker 1: That was a nice balance for your brand correct, And
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Speaker 1: that was yes, and that was actually on purpose because
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Speaker 1: that corporate world taught me that when you are successful,
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Speaker 1: you have to look like the success you're presenting and
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Speaker 1: you have to feel authentic. And most brands, this is
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Speaker 1: where my college came in to help me create my
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Speaker 1: own brand and my in my career is that most
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Speaker 1: brands that are successful are relatable. They are reliable, and
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Speaker 1: they are consistent and you have to have that. So
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Speaker 1: it was important that I look a certain way. It
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Speaker 1: was important that every time you saw me, I was
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Speaker 1: really really funny and I had to have the same
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Speaker 1: I had to show up and show out every time
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Speaker 1: the same way, Like I had to always keep bringing it,
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Speaker 1: bringing it, bringing it. But what ended up happening people
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Speaker 1: started relating to it and started expecting that. So they
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Speaker 1: was like, oh, yeah, that's to do that way to
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Speaker 1: suit or that's to do that. You know, they had
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Speaker 1: something they thought about me, you know what I mean, Yes, yes, yes, yes,
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Speaker 1: and that and that ended up being a really great thing,
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Speaker 1: you know, and people don't realize and we didn't talk
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Speaker 1: about it in the early names, but we were brands.
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Speaker 1: You know. Def Comedy Jam was a brand that helped
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Speaker 1: us be branded the best comedies comics in the country.
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Speaker 1: Because literally def Comedy Jam stamped you as one of
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Speaker 1: the best comics in the country. You know. It was
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Speaker 1: really beautiful, man, just you know, because I was a
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Speaker 1: part of that journey and watching you just break out,
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Speaker 1: you know, watching Ernie break out, but just watching you
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Speaker 1: because you were uniquely different from us, because you know,
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Speaker 1: What did that confidence come from? Was it the days
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Speaker 1: Walker story. Before we get into the actual good of
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Speaker 1: tell to actors and we got the stars and the power.
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Speaker 1: So we everyone put there, put their Superman suit on,
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Speaker 1: made that Madam C. J. Walker story. Um Bill is
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Speaker 1: one of the stars of that project that comes out
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Speaker 1: to say television limited television series on Netflix March twenty Bill,
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Speaker 1: um you know, when you get engaged, you start talking
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Speaker 1: about the the power or particular project like this, you know,
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Speaker 1: hair care business. What you know is so still so
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Speaker 1: dominant today. She was the first self made I'm not
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Speaker 1: even inherited, self made female millionaire, you know, in that time,
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Speaker 1: which is crazy when you think about early nineteen hundreds.
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Speaker 1: How the hell did she do it? That's what I'm
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Speaker 1: can't believe it. I know, you know there's no Martin
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Speaker 1: Luther King Jr. No Malcolm X. We're talking early nineteen hundreds. Bro.
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Speaker 1: She was driving around and the cars had the coats
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Speaker 1: everything she was. She was looking like she was rich too.
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Speaker 1: That was the cool thing. She was the first opera Yes, yes, yes, yes,
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Speaker 1: yes and so so when you when you when you
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Speaker 1: when you look at the talent involved, you know, you know,
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Speaker 1: like you mentioned like Tavis Spencer, you got your boy.
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Speaker 1: See it's an African American man who looked like they
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Speaker 1: could have lived in that era. You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: And Bill bella mean black underworld. They looked like they
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Speaker 1: could have been rolling back there. I look at normal,
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Speaker 1: look at normal. Let me tell you what's so crazy
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Speaker 1: that you just said that? Right? So, so just imagine
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Speaker 1: it's the early nineteen hundred black black people dressed so fly.
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Speaker 1: We were very meticulous, very We were suited and booted.
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Speaker 1: I mean the suits, the fabrics. I don't know what
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Speaker 1: we had the money, but we would just clean. Right
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Speaker 1: when I went to wardrobe and put on this these
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Speaker 1: amazing suits, I felt like I always said this must
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Speaker 1: be my great grandfather. I felt like I was like,
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Speaker 1: this is what my great grandfather looked like, right right,
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Speaker 1: Because when you see me when I the way I
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Speaker 1: look like, you're gonna be like, yeah, he could have
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Speaker 1: He could have been in the ninth nineteen o nineteen twelve,
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Speaker 1: just walk out the house. When when it was announced,
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Speaker 1: used part of it also say you know, great cast
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Speaker 1: and makes a great series. You know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 1: And you know, you know, look, I'm a cat. I've
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Speaker 1: cast enough talented people to go. He's perfect for that role,
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Speaker 1: Blair and the Wood, He's perfect. We don't have to
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Speaker 1: mess with the hair, start to do no power to
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Speaker 1: make up nothing. They got the wall. You know what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying, Just walk out there this walk out there,
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Speaker 1: be yourself. Brother, you look like because back then, like
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Speaker 1: you said, man, you know black barbers you know, you
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Speaker 1: used to all have white used to walk to go
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Speaker 1: to barbers, barbershops and suits. We used to look really good, man.
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Speaker 1: And how we approach out said, We walked in public
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Speaker 1: and we were well groomed. It was it was an error.
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Speaker 1: It was a style that was really imminent at that time.
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Speaker 1: You know, where you had top hats. We had the
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Speaker 1: ladies stressed in these beautiful flowing dresses, even the ladies
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Speaker 1: War Knights hat sometimes you know, with a little flower
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Speaker 1: on it and stuff like. So when you go back
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Speaker 1: and you look how elegant we were, you know, we
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Speaker 1: were very elegant and stylish people. So I was just like, dang, man,
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Speaker 1: it felt like we went back in time. Be honest.
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Speaker 1: I felt like I got a chance to go in
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Speaker 1: the times gen and just go back and see all
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Speaker 1: my cousins and there. Well, you know, it's beautiful because
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Speaker 1: of the fact that you know, you're naturally funny, Bill,
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Speaker 1: and this is a drum. This is a druma okay,
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Speaker 1: but you're always gonna put that bill bell and be spin.
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Speaker 1: That's what I love about you. You know you're gonna
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Speaker 1: you're gonna find a way to bring some natural humor.
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Speaker 1: And that's one of the reasons why you were cast
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Speaker 1: because you know, you don't want something to be just
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Speaker 1: you know, like that was a bad time, a sad
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Speaker 1: time for black people. We're just telling the story about it.
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Speaker 1: A person who who had limited education skills, you know,
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Speaker 1: how to teach yourself how to read and write what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying, and uh, was motivated through the hair care business,
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Speaker 1: which I which really is amazing that way back then,
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Speaker 1: you know, she figured it out and today we're still,
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Speaker 1: you know, in the billion dollar industry. And you look
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Speaker 1: at things like Essence and the owner of Essence, you know,
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Speaker 1: is in the billion dollar hair care business and things
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Speaker 1: like that. So so that really is a it's kind
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Speaker 1: of like a time machine. And when you look at
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Speaker 1: what's happening today and what happened back then when you
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Speaker 1: were telling that story, the black care about how they look.
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Speaker 1: There's the women absolutely, especially women into this day. It's
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Speaker 1: a part of our culture. It's a need. Madam c
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Speaker 1: Ji Walker saw that there was a need and her
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Speaker 1: her her purpose or her mission statement was to make
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Speaker 1: black women feel beautiful and black women that look like her.
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Speaker 1: And everyone said, no, no, you can't do that. You
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Speaker 1: gotta do it this way, you gotta do it that way.
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Speaker 1: She had a vision in her mind that she wanted
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Speaker 1: to be this way and she kept chipping at it
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Speaker 1: because she got it the way she wanted and that
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Speaker 1: to me was like the pioneering part about it. And
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Speaker 1: my character, I play a guy named Sweetness. Sweetness is
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Speaker 1: that hustler name right, name right there? Come sweet come on, now,
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Speaker 1: come on now, I know they right, they wanted they
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Speaker 1: wanted it. I had to go put it on him.
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Speaker 1: They said, uh, they needed that person that was gonna
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Speaker 1: bring that that kind of swab sort of you know,
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Speaker 1: sort of dangerous part of what the Street side St.
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Speaker 1: Louis was, you know. And uh so basically my character
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Speaker 1: was a numbers runner, you know. He did do that.
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Speaker 1: Came up in the barbershop with a piece of paper
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Speaker 1: and wrote the numbers down to plate the horses and stuff.
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Speaker 1: And he was always selling something right but he But
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Speaker 1: see the thing about it, there's a lot of people
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Speaker 1: don't get get it that the hustler is a salesman.
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Speaker 1: The hustler, the hustler, it's got maybe four or five pridits.
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Speaker 1: You know, he might be you know, he might help
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Speaker 1: you get some ladies. He might help you, you know,
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Speaker 1: get you a car. He he maybe get you a
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Speaker 1: real bad loan. You know that's amazing. Now you you
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Speaker 1: executive producer a stand up comedy show called on Who
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Speaker 1: Got Jokes on TV one And a very talented lady
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Speaker 1: appeared on your show back then, tiff Any hat Ith,
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Speaker 1: who's now started. Isn't that That's why I love about life?
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Speaker 1: You know when you get to see the journeys. You know,
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Speaker 1: somebody you introduced on your show to the world, Tiffany Hattes,
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Speaker 1: and we all know what girl's trip did for her career.
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Speaker 1: And she's exploded on the face. You know when you
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Speaker 1: when you see things like that, because she's not the
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Speaker 1: only one you've introduced on that show to have that
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Speaker 1: are turning pages and you've done you know, the shock comedy,
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Speaker 1: all spalls and all these things. Talk about just just
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Speaker 1: talk about your your your influence, Bill Bellman, because when
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Speaker 1: I do the show, money making conversation. A lot of people.
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Speaker 1: I have a key word, I say industry decision makers,
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Speaker 1: people who influenced the game. And you have been like
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Speaker 1: you said, let's go all the way back to Peppermint.
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Speaker 1: When you mentioned all those names Steve Harvey said, Chris Rock,
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Speaker 1: Dave Chappelle, all those people who went through. And I
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Speaker 1: told you, I knew I stayed away from that club.
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Speaker 1: I knew about Peppermin Brother. I wasn't going up and
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Speaker 1: getting my feelings hurt. I wouldn't going up to get
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Speaker 1: my field. And I knew about you and said, and
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Speaker 1: when I only knew your name, Bill Bellaman, but when
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Speaker 1: I saw Yo in that gun, that girl was the
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Speaker 1: host of paperback this And so I was expecting because
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Speaker 1: as the club's reputation was so powerful, because because he knows,
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Speaker 1: everybody was coming to club. Thugs were coming in that auder,
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Speaker 1: drug dealers were coming in on it was it was
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Speaker 1: criminals who was sitting in that audience. So the criminals
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Speaker 1: was laughing on Thursday night. That was crazy that that
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Speaker 1: dudes that do harm every week, but on the Thursday
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Speaker 1: they put their gun down and barbaroto and be up.
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Speaker 1: They're laughing. They butt off it's a trip man comedy,
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Speaker 1: comedy and music. It's like a part of us that
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Speaker 1: we gotta have. It's really crazy. It's really crazy because
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Speaker 1: he tells us the truth. When I hosted hip hop
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Speaker 1: Comments to Stop in Houston and I'll tell you man,
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Speaker 1: I used to look at people. People were laugh at
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Speaker 1: me and shake my hands, I swear to you. On
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Speaker 1: the other side of the dough, I'll be nervous. But
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Speaker 1: they were so infatuated with my talents as a stand
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Speaker 1: up and when they would look at you, Billy will
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Speaker 1: look at you like, Man, I wish I could be you. Man,
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Speaker 1: you know you're the man, but you know going because
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Speaker 1: they like that you make them last. Yes, yes, because
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Speaker 1: in the sad part about if you do stand up
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Speaker 1: long enough I host the Color though, you stop seeing
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Speaker 1: them either something happened to or they got picked up,
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Speaker 1: or something happened to. So so when you see a
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Speaker 1: talent like a Tiffany Hattis who you brought on the show,
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Speaker 1: and a number of other talents, and you look at
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Speaker 1: the state of stand up comment and you've done so
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Speaker 1: many specials as a stand up comedy introduced as one
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Speaker 1: of the rising stars of stand up, You're acting and radio.
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Speaker 1: As a host, you you your host specials, be a
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Speaker 1: bellarmn you look at your resume. What do you tell
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Speaker 1: a young talent because you don't seem to say I
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Speaker 1: can't do something, I'm willing to do it. But you
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Speaker 1: said something that was really key. Rishan, I do my homeworld.
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Speaker 1: If somebody interviews me, I get to know who they are,
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Speaker 1: so as a relationship talk, I think what we what what?
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Speaker 1: People have to understand that success is not always uh
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Speaker 1: a happenstance or a coincidence. A lot of success comes
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Speaker 1: from years of preparation, years of work, after years of
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Speaker 1: concentration and focus on the thing that you want. Right.
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Speaker 1: I knew I wanted to be a star before I
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Speaker 1: became a star, you know. I knew that I was
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Speaker 1: gonna wear suits because I wanted to look different and
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Speaker 1: look polished. I wanted to look successful. That was on purpose,
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Speaker 1: right that those that was before it happened, though, So
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Speaker 1: just me, I had it in my head that I'm
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Speaker 1: looking at the landscape of comedy. I'm like, how can
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Speaker 1: I make a splash in the business that don't know me.
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Speaker 1: I want people to see me and be excited. I
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Speaker 1: want people to see me and be interested. So I
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Speaker 1: presented myself as something that was good and something that
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Speaker 1: was funny and something that is like kind of like,
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Speaker 1: what the heck is that? Right? Because you know, I
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Speaker 1: didn't look like I look like everybody said, you look
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Speaker 1: like you're about to drop R and B album, you know,
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Speaker 1: right right, right, right right right. So I was like,
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Speaker 1: I got I was like, I can't think, but I
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Speaker 1: can slang these jokes. So what ended up happening is
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Speaker 1: and what I can say to the younger or any
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Speaker 1: business person or any entrepreneur, is you gotta have the
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Speaker 1: vision for what you want to do, and you have
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Speaker 1: to supply a need. That that's how you that's how
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Speaker 1: brands become huge. You supply something that doesn't exist. You
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Speaker 1: create something and create a demand for it. Right now,
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Speaker 1: now you're looking at you. You you look at when
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Speaker 1: I came out, nobody was wearing suits. Then everybody starts
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Speaker 1: trying to dress up then, and then then then there
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Speaker 1: was no like really leading man looking comedians. It's just
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Speaker 1: not you know, except for any few of me, you
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So when I came out, you know,
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Speaker 1: everybody was like, well, who's that guy? And then I
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Speaker 1: started doing movies. Then I did how to be a player. Uh,
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Speaker 1: now you know what I'm saying. It's real. It's like, oh, oh,
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Speaker 1: you can't be funny and you can't be charming, and
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Speaker 1: it's still be successful and you don't have to be considered,
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Speaker 1: you know, a straight goofball because you are funding, right.
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Speaker 1: So I found a way to make funny a business.
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Speaker 1: Well you are you are business, you are a brand.
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Speaker 1: That's the I'm talking to Bill Bellamy. You know his
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Speaker 1: work In my early interest, I said he has one
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Speaker 1: of the most diverse acting resumes. Uh. In Hollywood stand
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Speaker 1: up comedy specials, Access Hollywood, co hosting with Rachel Ray
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Speaker 1: hbo Is, in Secure, game show host way before you
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Speaker 1: know Steve Harvey was doing game show host wait before
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Speaker 1: Michael Strahan, Anthony Anderson, you know, play the Wide Receiver
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Speaker 1: in any given Sunday with Jamie Fox and like again, Uh,
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Speaker 1: you know Love Joe what you you know? I Love
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Speaker 1: Jones is still one of my favorite movies that you
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Speaker 1: performed in. And uh, you know those are those rich movies.
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Speaker 1: And that's what you mentioned you you feel this type
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Speaker 1: of project will be similar, will impact people because I
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Speaker 1: saw Harry or twice, so I know the quality and
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Speaker 1: she deserves to be nominated for an Oscar in that
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Speaker 1: particular movie, in her role. And these are movies that
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Speaker 1: they're not they're not trying to uh, they're not doctormentaries.
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Speaker 1: These are this entertainment, but it's tolding the story that
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Speaker 1: in a way. And I'm glad it's not a one
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Speaker 1: off Bill Bellervy. I'm like a limited series. So you
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Speaker 1: know you can you can tell a beginning middling in right, yeah,
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Speaker 1: and you get the chance to um really get engulfed
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Speaker 1: in the characters. And what I think people are gonna
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Speaker 1: love is the acting. They're gonna love the story. They're
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Speaker 1: going to love the motivation of this woman in the
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Speaker 1: at a certain time, and it's going to inspire guys
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Speaker 1: and girls to be like, yo, man, look at what
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Speaker 1: Madam C. J. Walker did in the early nineteen hundreds.
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Speaker 1: All this racism and this and that and the other,
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Speaker 1: and she made it happen. So what's your excuse? You got,
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Speaker 1: you got, you got smart phones, you got the Internet,
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Speaker 1: you got all kinds of stuff going on. You're talking
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Speaker 1: about you can't make somebody yourself and you better get
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Speaker 1: out of you right. You know you left home. You
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Speaker 1: you just left home back then you just left home? Right? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Walker out here with no no WiFi, ain't got nothing,
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Speaker 1: no backup. Oh my goodness, self made story started. My man,
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Speaker 1: Bill Bellamy starts to March on Netflix is a limited series.
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Speaker 1: I got Netflix, so I definitely will be watching Bill.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for coming on my show. Man. Man. You
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Speaker 1: know you know from my heart you're special. Man. I
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Speaker 1: love you. When I needed you to fill in for
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Speaker 1: Steve on certain dates, I need you for difference. You
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Speaker 1: never never said no, root to where I need to be. Brother.
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Speaker 1: Whatever you need me, I got you, man, and I'm
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Speaker 1: so happy to be a part of your success. Our
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Speaker 1: stories are overlapping, obviously, but you're heart working dude, super
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Speaker 1: smart man. I'm glad that you were doing things that
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Speaker 1: are inspiring the culture and giving people hope and inspiration.
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Speaker 1: So I love you for that, bro, and keep grinding.
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