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Cedric The Entertainer On Teaching, Working At State Farm, and Selling Fax Machines · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: just next cast I gotta bring up is a long
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  Speaker 1: time relationship, go all with twenty five years at least.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you something about this fellow. I booked
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  Speaker 1: him as one of my headlines at the hip hop
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  Speaker 1: com just stopped back in the day. Now he's a
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  Speaker 1: stand up comedy god man, oh man, oh man. You know.
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  Speaker 1: I like him because he's an entertainer, a businessman, and
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  Speaker 1: he cares about the health and the welfare of his fans.
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  Speaker 1: Please work with the money making conversations. Cedric the entertainer
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  Speaker 1: was uh, hey, Cedric, I love you, man. I I
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  Speaker 1: gotta say that. I love you, dude, I love you too, right, Rich,
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  Speaker 1: I love you too, man. You know that that's true.
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  Speaker 1: I was just thinking about that. You know, you've been
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  Speaker 1: doing business for a long time. Man. Just bring me
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  Speaker 1: down to Houston back in the day, and then you know,
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  Speaker 1: steady progress and from all he shows you produce and everything. Man,
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  Speaker 1: So uh, this is good. It's good to have a
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  Speaker 1: money making conversation with somebody that makes money. Well, you know.
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  Speaker 1: You know the great thing about et Centric is that
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  Speaker 1: that's why that's that's when we all evolved to you know,
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  Speaker 1: we started this business just being funny and then then
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  Speaker 1: we realized we want longevity and that's what that's the
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  Speaker 1: evolution of money making conversations. So when I invite you
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  Speaker 1: guys on the show, it's just talk about what you're
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  Speaker 1: doing now, but also what your careers like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: what's outside of that umbrella, because people always know that
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  Speaker 1: you're entertaining, but you're doing things. And the thing I
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  Speaker 1: loved about you most man, is that you have a voice. Man,
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  Speaker 1: if something in the community is not right, you react
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  Speaker 1: to it. Why is that? You know, It's just Uh,
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  Speaker 1: I grew up a single parent household man. My mother
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  Speaker 1: was a school teacher, and you know, being that uh
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  Speaker 1: you know that kind of personality that you know, cared
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  Speaker 1: about others. Uh, it just was something that for me,
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  Speaker 1: I guess being the mail of the house, I always
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  Speaker 1: had to feel like I had to kind of stand
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  Speaker 1: up for you, you know, my mom and my sister
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  Speaker 1: and us when there's something that's kind of thing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like I say, uh, when things go a little a
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  Speaker 1: little ride, you just have to use your voice to
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  Speaker 1: calvinize people and say, look, man, let's put a light
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  Speaker 1: on this. And so those are the kind of things
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  Speaker 1: that you know, usually inspire me. And when I'm inspired,
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  Speaker 1: I'll just I'll just react, man, I just get involved.
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  Speaker 1: But you know something a lot of people don't, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: because they worried about their career. They worry about ticket sales,
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  Speaker 1: they worry about all these days. I know we all
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  Speaker 1: worry about it. Don't get me wrong. Don't get wrong,
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  Speaker 1: we all worry about that. But yeah, I think it's
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  Speaker 1: important to have a voice and that that's why I
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  Speaker 1: commend you. Man. I really respect you for doing what
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  Speaker 1: you do. You definitely got to look at the greater good.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, of course, you know, everybody can be concerned
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  Speaker 1: in one little false move out in this business, can
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  Speaker 1: you know, put you in the inspiral especially you know, uh,
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  Speaker 1: if you're African American. You know what I'm saying. It's
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  Speaker 1: hard for people that actually understand your your visceral attitude aggressive,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So you know, you know
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  Speaker 1: you can come off too aggressive. You I've always, you know,
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  Speaker 1: been one of those people that everybody you know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: has A. You know that that kind of ideal ideology
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  Speaker 1: that I'm a good guy. So usually you know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not coming from a bad place. And even if I am,
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  Speaker 1: you know, serious and serious about something, it's not that
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  Speaker 1: it's all all one sided or I hadn't been thought
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  Speaker 1: about it in some kind of subjective manner. You know.
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  Speaker 1: The amazing thing about your career, Cedric and we you
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  Speaker 1: know you let me just kick it out the way
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  Speaker 1: from Mala kills me. You know, Superior Donuts will be
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  Speaker 1: airing tonight, Superior Donuts sitcom. You'll be starting it in
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  Speaker 1: CBS because you know, if I don't say that, Maula
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  Speaker 1: is gonna kill me. So tell us about your role
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  Speaker 1: of Superior Dontors, which airs tonight, which is made first tonight. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Superior Donuts is a hot little sit comments on CBS
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  Speaker 1: right now. Jermaine Filer. Follower is a young comedian who's
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  Speaker 1: the lead on the show. And uh, he's a strange
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  Speaker 1: from his father and I played it. I played his
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  Speaker 1: dad who he's a young guy that is there, wants
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  Speaker 1: to be an artist and one that is more of
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  Speaker 1: the old school, you know, go to go to go
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  Speaker 1: to college, get your work, and so I come on it,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, and you know, I'm trying to you know, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm trying to discourage him from going into
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  Speaker 1: this art world. You know, but he's he's pretty decent,
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  Speaker 1: and so you know, I come to you know, I
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  Speaker 1: understand them a little more. So it was a great episode,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I'll probably be reoccurring on there.
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  Speaker 1: It's fun. It was fun to do so many great
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  Speaker 1: people on this show. Jud Hirsch. Uh yes, but let
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  Speaker 1: me tell you, this isn't that your life though? Education
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  Speaker 1: and then you went into the entertainment business. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, he's, like I said, my mother was
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  Speaker 1: a school teacher. I went and I substituted for a while.
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  Speaker 1: I television, but I satituted for a while, and then uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and then I got into the corporate world.
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  Speaker 1: I did uh, you know, State Farm insurance and did
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  Speaker 1: Reco corporation, so Factor machines, you know, all the all
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  Speaker 1: the things you gotta do and get your hustle on,
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  Speaker 1: and then you know, and then started doing stand up
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  Speaker 1: around the same time I started doing State Farm. So
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  Speaker 1: I would just do my shows late at night and
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  Speaker 1: I worked the next day. And then you. Then I
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  Speaker 1: fly you out to Houston, you know, on Software's airline ticket,
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  Speaker 1: and you're blowing up and go, wow, this is crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Now you got another another project that you're doing with
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  Speaker 1: Tracy Morgan. It's gonna He's a TBS comedy series. Tell
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  Speaker 1: us about that, because what I want to know is that,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, this is money making conversations, and Centric
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  Speaker 1: gets money making conversations. Tell us about that. Yeah, yeah, man.
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  Speaker 1: Tracy Morgan is uh, you know, he was developing the
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  Speaker 1: show and then uh so I came a part of that,
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  Speaker 1: and uh uh it's gonna be great. It's called The
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  Speaker 1: o G It's gonna be on TVs. Uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: Tracy is is a guy who's you know, wayward in
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  Speaker 1: his earlier life. And he goes and get he does
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  Speaker 1: fifteen years and he gets out. He's trying to sign
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  Speaker 1: his his girl that he loves, Ride and Dot Chick,
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  Speaker 1: and she's changed her life. She's more corporate now married
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  Speaker 1: to a white guy. She's had time that twins that
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  Speaker 1: was that were Tracy's that he never seen. And then
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  Speaker 1: I played the guy that owns the halfway house that
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  Speaker 1: he lives in and we become fast friends. I gotta
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  Speaker 1: them to the Internet and all these other stuff and
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  Speaker 1: so it's, uh, it's a fun world man. Of you
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  Speaker 1: know that Tracy Morgan kind of humoring me as as
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  Speaker 1: as his partner. Right, I was showing your Netflix special
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  Speaker 1: that you air that, Uh that did so well on Netflix.
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  Speaker 1: Where are we're talking on social media? That's a So
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  Speaker 1: it's all kind of things. Technology allows you to do
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  Speaker 1: everything nowadays. Now that Netflick special did fantastic. Man. I remember,
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  Speaker 1: I feel good because you know, I feel I helped
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  Speaker 1: promote it, you know, get some eyeballs on that. So
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  Speaker 1: tell us about that Netflix special. Yeah, man, you know
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  Speaker 1: it was my first special. Uh. I did one for
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  Speaker 1: HBO and two thou ten and so this was the
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  Speaker 1: one that I hadn't done a special in a while. Man,
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  Speaker 1: So it was great to have that experience. Netflix is
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  Speaker 1: that new place where you kind of go, you think
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  Speaker 1: it's crazy, let's get click. Wow, it's it's crazy, isn't
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  Speaker 1: now they're doing it? Man? Yeah, it was. It totally
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  Speaker 1: came you know, you know, it totally came out of nowhere,
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  Speaker 1: you know where uh, you know, their business of people
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  Speaker 1: just clicking on and watching it when they want to
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  Speaker 1: it So what's great about that is that you get
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  Speaker 1: new audience all the time, so you know people have
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  Speaker 1: seen it. It was, it was super popular, and then
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  Speaker 1: you still have an upward click, like I mean it
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  Speaker 1: got hot again right like a month ago. It's like
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  Speaker 1: fired back up. But let's get it hot now. If
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  Speaker 1: you have not seen Cedric's commed especial on Netflix, tune in.
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  Speaker 1: Tune in right now, check it out. Yeah, live from
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  Speaker 1: the Vil, check that out. Though. Definitely it's one of
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  Speaker 1: the hot it really was. And that's what you know, Like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a Netflix fan and so and it's one of
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  Speaker 1: the reasons why I got into talking this radio show
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  Speaker 1: because I think it's the next evolution because you're streaming
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  Speaker 1: this show out. It's more important to streaming out of
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  Speaker 1: this show than where I'm where I'm producing this show,
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  Speaker 1: because that's the next set of eyeballs is out there
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  Speaker 1: because now the show was being seen worldwide. And I
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  Speaker 1: think that that's what Netflix that was, that's what they
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  Speaker 1: created with the whole streaming process. And so when I
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  Speaker 1: look at your career and I look at you know,
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  Speaker 1: the little barbershop, would you say, what what you think
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  Speaker 1: did you the biggest the super Bowl commercials on the Barbershop,
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  Speaker 1: which which was more instrumental in that direction, just rocketing
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  Speaker 1: you to superstar him, you know, I mean the combination.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, the Barbershop movie was a surprise, and the
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  Speaker 1: original Kids of Comedy was even more more surprised and
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  Speaker 1: showed up on the box office in a way that
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  Speaker 1: didn't uh, nobody thought like this movie was gonna do well.
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  Speaker 1: This this kind of like four black comedians and so
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  Speaker 1: uh but then Barbershop was big, and you can't really
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  Speaker 1: top the super Bowl commercial. I mean that fact got
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  Speaker 1: over post to a million people watching you on one day.
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  Speaker 1: And then you know, my first one that I did,
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  Speaker 1: it actually won, so it was the number one and brother,
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  Speaker 1: that was a cold one right there. Yeah yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and which you know, it led to a great relationship.
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  Speaker 1: You know, be coming from St. Louis and An has
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  Speaker 1: a bullsh At the time, it was a big St.
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  Speaker 1: Louis company, and so uh, you know, I did the tour.
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  Speaker 1: I was able to take young comedians out with the
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  Speaker 1: tour and there's several commercials with them. So man, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's just that's again a good business and taking advantage
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  Speaker 1: of the opportunities that's in front of you now this
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  Speaker 1: second way to a tour, to get down tour, tell
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  Speaker 1: us about that. Still man, we still out doing Arenas
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  Speaker 1: Man with the stories Arenas ma Arenas. That's crazy man,
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  Speaker 1: when our brothers Charlie Murphy Charlie Man. But it was
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  Speaker 1: a legendary, uh figure man. And but you know, to
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  Speaker 1: do Arenas Man at this stage in your career is
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  Speaker 1: always Man, it's uh, it's just wonderful. Mandl Hughley, George Lopez.
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  Speaker 1: We are there any man doing it, man doing it.
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  Speaker 1: So so when you look at that, and when you
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  Speaker 1: look at that, you're doing the Arenas you know, got
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  Speaker 1: the sitcom coming up with Tracy Morgan. You're appearing tonight
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  Speaker 1: on Superior Nuts and you know the specials Hot again
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  Speaker 1: on Netflix from the Standpard Donuts. Just say don't that's
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  Speaker 1: a totally different show, Superiod Donuts and that's say Superior
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  Speaker 1: Donuts and yeah you said Superior Nuts. I'm sorry. That's
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  Speaker 1: a definitely show Superior Donor tonight on CBS centric and centric,
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  Speaker 1: the entertaining start and in it so te et centric
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  Speaker 1: and just wrapping it up. Man, what's the next goal
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  Speaker 1: for Cedric the entertainer? Well, you know, I'm still producing.
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  Speaker 1: We got several shows that we got and I'm producing
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  Speaker 1: for other people. And then I'm developing shows for myself, movies, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, other big live deals and makes digital deals
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  Speaker 1: go about. You know, all of these things are you
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  Speaker 1: know where I'm going in the world of entertainment. But me,
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  Speaker 1: you know, also creating curating for other people young comedians. Man.
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  Speaker 1: So I've been busy with it and it's been going great. Well,
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  Speaker 1: y'all check out Cedric the Entertainer tonight on CBS Superior
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  Speaker 1: Don't Nut Cedric Donuts. He'd be starting with a man
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  Speaker 1: Tracy Morgan on TBS Comedy special Stand Stand on Up.
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  Speaker 1: Common to Man Still like performing the two people, the
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  Speaker 1: one and only straight out of the field. He's a
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  Speaker 1: man with a pass you with the calls. He's a businessman.
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  Speaker 1: Plus he's the entertainer. Ladies and gentlemen said, you're the entertainment.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you brother for calling money making conversations. Alright, man,
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  Speaker 1: big conggulations on your new show. Man, I appreciate you, brother.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still out there buducing, don't you know. I ain't
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