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Rickey Smiley (2nd Appearance) Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: this Rashan McDonald of laughing because he's on the phone
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  Speaker 1: and he's been driving me nuts because he knows I
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  Speaker 1: know him. He's my fraternity brother. You're listening to money
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  Speaker 1: making conversations. He's a nationally syndicated radio host, a reality
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  Speaker 1: TV star, a TV personality, an incredible stand up comedian
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  Speaker 1: and author book drop last October from Simon and Schuster,
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  Speaker 1: actor and businessman. Please work with the money making conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Ricky Smiley, heyn also do landscape like real pope. No
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  Speaker 1: no no, no, no, no no no. I know you
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  Speaker 1: can bobecue. I know you can bobecue. Now, I know
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  Speaker 1: you can bobecute. What's the landscaping? Me and my granddad
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  Speaker 1: used to have a landscaping business. I still do it
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  Speaker 1: on the plane because I slipped housing. So I go
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  Speaker 1: in and get the property main. I keep properties, maintain
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  Speaker 1: that I own. Uh So you're flipping houses and you
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  Speaker 1: don't landscaping. Yeah, Rashana, I just put out some scots
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  Speaker 1: I just put out some Scotch. Weed and feed feed
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  Speaker 1: at this morning. Yeah, he knows. He tell us the truth.
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  Speaker 1: He tells the truth. So so so if I'm if
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  Speaker 1: I'm named, if I'm in the movement, come from keep
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  Speaker 1: me keep run there with the friends. I'm doing. I'm doing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing landscaping right now while I'm doing its shade.
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  Speaker 1: I I would go to a house. I would, I
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  Speaker 1: would sit up there and I get it. I get
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  Speaker 1: that work in man. I believe in landscaping. The thing
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  Speaker 1: about it is, I don't care how big a celebrity
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  Speaker 1: you are. You're still a man. I still fixed cars,
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  Speaker 1: I still cut grands. I still fell you know cars
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  Speaker 1: you're fixing? No, Rickie smile. Ain't that anything American maid Raschana.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how to fix uh yet. Uh? I
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  Speaker 1: can fix anything, American? May. I know how to pull
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  Speaker 1: uh pull the alternator off. That's what I can do.
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  Speaker 1: That my starter? What about started? I started regulator, you know,
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  Speaker 1: all in that little town stuff. But what I can't do.
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  Speaker 1: I can't cool the transmission color. I don't have to
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  Speaker 1: that transmission. That's a real job there. See. I can
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  Speaker 1: do the starter, you can do the radiator, you can
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  Speaker 1: do the battery, the battery. I'm I'm I'm all battery
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  Speaker 1: for sun. I can do it like I can do
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  Speaker 1: it like it ain't nothing. Yeah, so so so so
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  Speaker 1: that's so, that's what I should add that to your
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  Speaker 1: intro or anybody should add that to intro landscaping, to
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  Speaker 1: the intro now land escaping. And I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: you call people that slip houses, slip housing, that's what
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  Speaker 1: you call them. House slippers, house flippers. Absolutely house Okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about it. And I don't flip them and
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  Speaker 1: set and set them up for session. They I get
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  Speaker 1: people that's gonna pay some real rent, real rent, real money,
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  Speaker 1: real money, real money. You don't have to go find them.
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  Speaker 1: They don't have that sad story because you know, they
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  Speaker 1: know you're on TV, they know you're on the radio,
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  Speaker 1: so they do they have a sad story for you.
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  Speaker 1: Look at how I'm doing so you you have to
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  Speaker 1: worry about that. Look at the people with the money,
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  Speaker 1: so they won't have to worry about that. Saster. I'm
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  Speaker 1: want you, not Ricky. I'm not running from you. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not running from So is that a little teeth of money? Right?
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  Speaker 1: Is that another teeth? You get them right out of
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  Speaker 1: medical school. You know how's already got furniture in it,
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  Speaker 1: already decorating, and you get the stuff and you you
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  Speaker 1: let they walk in the house and only thing they
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  Speaker 1: have to do is body clothes. Their parents got money,
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  Speaker 1: they write your big check and they move in and
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  Speaker 1: you're happy, and you're very happy. I am happy. Today
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  Speaker 1: has been a good two days. Man. I used the
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  Speaker 1: weed either. I used to line more. I put on
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  Speaker 1: some scott weed to feed, got my spreader, I got
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  Speaker 1: the sprinklers out and stuff to make sure. You know,
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  Speaker 1: uh that that furtive lines to get into that grass
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  Speaker 1: to kill that craft grass. But uh, I got bermuda grams.
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  Speaker 1: I got fscrew grass. I got four grass in some
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  Speaker 1: of the yards. So seeing the hid and the all
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  Speaker 1: of that stuff, well, you know the thing about it
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  Speaker 1: is that I cannot argue with you because I do
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  Speaker 1: the same thing you said everything. You know, I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: for I'm looking for you to slip up. You know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. But he didn't slip up at all,
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  Speaker 1: because you know you do do you do your weeding
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  Speaker 1: feed between February and May. That's when you do your
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  Speaker 1: weeding feet because you're gonna come back and later all
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  Speaker 1: with the fool with the fool. So you can you
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  Speaker 1: can build that that that that good green look. But
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  Speaker 1: you gotta get rid of the weeds or get red.
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  Speaker 1: Now do you drop down in the ant killer? Do
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  Speaker 1: you put in the ant killer? Out that for those
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  Speaker 1: fire ants? I mix it in with the weed and
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  Speaker 1: feed country. He's straight country man's straight count and your
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  Speaker 1: boy your point a man, I'm a Houston, Texas board
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  Speaker 1: talk to a burmanham boy to Southern boys. I can
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  Speaker 1: I can argue no more about you don't know what
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  Speaker 1: you're doing. Remember earlier I said really landscape and really
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  Speaker 1: but when you talk about you mixing fine at killer
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  Speaker 1: and we eat and feed together and rolling out there,
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  Speaker 1: whoa brother? You don't point with your game? So how
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  Speaker 1: you how you are trying to do all this extra stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about that morning show before we get the
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  Speaker 1: dish nation, before we get to the tour. This morning show, man,
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  Speaker 1: I just want to I want to back back a
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  Speaker 1: little bit about You're a funny guy. You're known for
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  Speaker 1: for incredible characters. You're humanitarian, but you're really a social
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  Speaker 1: activist and that's a major, a major desire for people
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  Speaker 1: to understand that you care, and you will put the
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  Speaker 1: side a step aside and step pass a joke to
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  Speaker 1: make people understand that we have to take this serious.
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  Speaker 1: Why is that so important? You Ricky smiling? Well, you
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  Speaker 1: don't want people walking up to you? Uh do you
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  Speaker 1: live down? Make me land? People ain't gonna have no
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  Speaker 1: respect for you as a president if you don't stand
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  Speaker 1: for something, and people don't celebrate Mohammed and I leave
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  Speaker 1: because he's not got beat Joe Frasier. People celebrate Mohammad.
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  Speaker 1: I leave become the way he stood for Mohammed. I
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  Speaker 1: leave put it all on the land. When you make
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  Speaker 1: I don't care how much money you make. I don't
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  Speaker 1: care how successful you are. If you don't stand for something,
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  Speaker 1: what what what what if if if you if if
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  Speaker 1: you ain't women to not for something, you're not fit
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  Speaker 1: to live right right right? And that's what But would
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  Speaker 1: you say that with passion? Though you know that I
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  Speaker 1: say that, it's not a it's not something you're saying
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  Speaker 1: that just in the Cavalier. And I've always known that
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  Speaker 1: about you because because you know, because you you are
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  Speaker 1: really you know, like I said, God has blessed us
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  Speaker 1: all because we're talking right here on the phone, on
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  Speaker 1: the phone, on the radio podcast, all series, ExM, all
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  Speaker 1: these formats. But the thing about it is that it's
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  Speaker 1: more important that you understand that you have a strong
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  Speaker 1: community involvement, and there is the joke is not bigger
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  Speaker 1: than than the community and and and delivering the right message.
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  Speaker 1: And that's that's consistent. What you want is that I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, God has been good that you
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  Speaker 1: God give your responsibility, sir. You know, uh, reach one,
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  Speaker 1: teach one man. You gotta get out of here. You
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  Speaker 1: know how to help people. You got your nice house,
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  Speaker 1: you got your a couple of cars. So it ain't
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  Speaker 1: about you. See in my book I talked about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when my grandmama died. Then I left the cemetery and
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  Speaker 1: got on the plane and went and did the show
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  Speaker 1: that night. I did a show with the same suit
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  Speaker 1: with tears and spite in it that that I wore
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  Speaker 1: to my grandmama's funeral. Because guests, what sean, their grandmama
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  Speaker 1: died too, and their mama died, and their daddy died,
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  Speaker 1: and their kids died, and they got cancer and they
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  Speaker 1: got Luke Kenyan, who are you the counselor show as
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  Speaker 1: much as give as much as required. You gotta go
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  Speaker 1: out here and do God's word. You know what I
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  Speaker 1: do on my birthday. I don't walk around all months
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  Speaker 1: with money tent to me thanking everybody's to stop and
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  Speaker 1: turned back with somersaults for my little stinking birthday. You
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  Speaker 1: know when I do on my birthday was Sun the
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  Speaker 1: lady that gave birth to me. I go pick her
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  Speaker 1: up and we go to the Salvation Army and we
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  Speaker 1: put on aprons, and I buy a birthday cake and
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  Speaker 1: cut it up and feed it to the harmers and
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  Speaker 1: have my birthday every year with the homeless because Jesus
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  Speaker 1: Christ said, what about the least of these? You understand
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. That's that's that's what it's all about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because in this year now, that's important. I
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  Speaker 1: just don't want to say that that I've never heard
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  Speaker 1: that story and I'm saying it's not true because of
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  Speaker 1: the fact that you're not trying to publicize that story. Correct.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's about it's a personal thing that you
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  Speaker 1: realize that it's kind of like humanizes you. You You know,
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  Speaker 1: it brings you back to reality that where you could
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  Speaker 1: be if things didn't go right in your life, right
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  Speaker 1: right right, I'm telling you, man, you know you look
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  Speaker 1: and you see people suffer. Man, God give you a
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  Speaker 1: spirit of discernment as a comedian, because when you walk
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  Speaker 1: up on stage and you're looking at them, people in
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  Speaker 1: the eyes and people in the work they asked on
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  Speaker 1: to put together citty dollars to come see you perform.
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  Speaker 1: You look at their shoes, they jury they close. You
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  Speaker 1: can look in their eyes and tell that they were
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  Speaker 1: the run away, that they're sick. You know, the hair
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  Speaker 1: coming because they got cancer. And you point them out
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  Speaker 1: and you tell them to come to the fund of
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  Speaker 1: the stage and you tell them to come backstage. I
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  Speaker 1: can't even tell you how many obituaries all over the
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  Speaker 1: country where my pictures inside there bituary. Wind took a
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  Speaker 1: picture with the loved one because God let me see it.
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  Speaker 1: You let me love on them people. And the people
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  Speaker 1: be like wow, and here you are. And I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: do this, man, I'm not gonna cry. I'm not gonna cry.
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  Speaker 1: I got on playing. I think about miss Mary Anne
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  Speaker 1: and and MMR James, you know, and miss Andrews, all
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  Speaker 1: these people that inter wrote me who got cancer. I
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  Speaker 1: went on the plane and walked in their living room,
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  Speaker 1: and how happy. And they're excited that they was now here,
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  Speaker 1: gonna here. I am wake up and do a morning show.
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  Speaker 1: I get the perform in front of millions every morning,
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  Speaker 1: and then here go these other folks wake up every
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  Speaker 1: day facing death and and and and I have a
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  Speaker 1: responsibility to go see about them, even if I go
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  Speaker 1: and take pictures. I went and hugo hood that man.
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  Speaker 1: That man gripped me up and stood up with one
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  Speaker 1: leg to take a picture with me. I said, I said,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna stand up? He said, man, he said something
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  Speaker 1: to take stand up and take this picture. Because I
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  Speaker 1: can't believe that you in my different room. So it's like,
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  Speaker 1: that's what's making wishes come true. Man, man, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And in two weeks he was gone, you know, Reverend
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  Speaker 1: Reverend pars he's gonna man and and and and he
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  Speaker 1: taught school and and then help people and and did
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  Speaker 1: all these wonderful things and stuff for people. And then
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  Speaker 1: he got cancer. You know, we buried him last week,
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  Speaker 1: but just able to make people smile. And we bought
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  Speaker 1: him a church man. We fixed up his fellowship, halling
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  Speaker 1: in his church and stuff, you know, man. That's why
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  Speaker 1: I used the brand in order to do good. You
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  Speaker 1: understand I could have been been by the bigger the
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  Speaker 1: start if I wouldn't went to l A and pursued it.
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  Speaker 1: You big star, please stop all that mad Just stop
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  Speaker 1: all that doing. Okay, we're gonna be right back because
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  Speaker 1: because you ain't gonna do be like that, you are
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  Speaker 1: a star. I just want people to hear the humanitarian
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  Speaker 1: side of you, because that's because the jokes kind of
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  Speaker 1: get in front of the real Ricky Smiley that I
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  Speaker 1: know that. You know, we call each other, Go ro Sean,
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  Speaker 1: let's get together, and then we don't get together and
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  Speaker 1: that's not right. Then we're gonna change that. We're gonna
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: be right back with more Ricky Smiley because he has
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: a tour coming up with Martin Lawrence. He's doing one,
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: He's doing one, Mike Epster's coming up. He has a
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  Speaker 1: morning show this Nation. This man talking about he's not
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  Speaker 1: a star. Come on now, we really need to stop
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  Speaker 1: this madness right now, and we're gonna get to the
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  Speaker 1: madness when we get back with more Ricky Smiling. Just
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  Speaker 1: for Sean McDonald, I'm interviewing the one and only, the
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  Speaker 1: famous humanitarian social activists. A comedian Ricky Smiley. Ricky Smiley
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  Speaker 1: man with man men. You all get men. You get
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  Speaker 1: in the knockdown draged fights like two brothers like for
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  Speaker 1: twenty years. And they shouldn't know that they I think
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  Speaker 1: that do that they're getting knocked drag out faith with
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  Speaker 1: Steve Harvard. I get knocked out, drag out fights with
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  Speaker 1: Joy Anthony Brown. I didn't knocked out drag if I
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  Speaker 1: would not have my own morning show. And thank you,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. But you know something, Ricky, is that uh
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's that that's my you know, because you
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  Speaker 1: know that I believe in individuals and I believe in
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  Speaker 1: forcing them to understand their value. And and that's why
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  Speaker 1: I love about you, is that you know I saw
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  Speaker 1: something in you and you've taken beyond my vision man
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  Speaker 1: in the in the community side, because you still one
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  Speaker 1: of the funniest guys when used to write when I
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: was writing for you and producing your own BT comic
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  Speaker 1: view and this relationship has been long term and every
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  Speaker 1: time you never disappointed me, Ricky smile like you never
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  Speaker 1: disappointed me. I listened to your show and you will
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  Speaker 1: stop the show and say, hey, jokes off we gotta
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: we gotta straighten out this situation where there's uh police crisis,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's election issues. You watch, they really made me something.
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  Speaker 1: Now when you get on that stage, the Ricky smiling,
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  Speaker 1: that comedy stage. Now they're coming out there to see you.
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  Speaker 1: You have so many characters, you have so many what
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  Speaker 1: what when you walk on that stage, people looking at you,
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  Speaker 1: They're looking at so many versions of you? What? What? What?
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  Speaker 1: What's your ultimate goal? When you start talking to people
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  Speaker 1: on stage, when they come see Rickey smiles telling what
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna see Ricky smiling, rich When I walk on stage,
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  Speaker 1: I'd be so fired up, Like I go into a
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  Speaker 1: whole another mode, like the incredible hook, Like I get
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  Speaker 1: like like it's like it's like somebody put on the Gremlins.
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, it's like I've become a whole another person.
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  Speaker 1: You ain't gonna believe this. Man. I sit up and
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  Speaker 1: watch Nick Saban videos before Alabama football team right now,
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  Speaker 1: and I do you know what I do? Do you
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  Speaker 1: know how really be backstage warming up throwing a football
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: because you know, you know I played football in high school.
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  Speaker 1: I warm up with a football and then get my
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  Speaker 1: mind right and we'll go on stage and Rashun I
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  Speaker 1: had a lady laughing so hard. I was at a
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  Speaker 1: coming the club. I followed the lady, followed the lady
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  Speaker 1: to the band room. I tried, I got the rest
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  Speaker 1: of them with a lady she's trying to get away
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  Speaker 1: from here, trying to keep her in the room where
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  Speaker 1: she could hear the rest of his joke. But she
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  Speaker 1: was done because she was running knock because she had
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  Speaker 1: to teach. I'm stupid. I would do stuff, might run
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  Speaker 1: on stage and hold her and forced her to listen
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  Speaker 1: to the rest of the joke or whatever. And now
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  Speaker 1: the now, the whole club is going crazy, and this
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  Speaker 1: lady is literally trying to fight me, like, please let
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  Speaker 1: me go. I can go because you're about to make
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  Speaker 1: me feel He starts like, man, you got to hear
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  Speaker 1: the rest of it. And I said when I when
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  Speaker 1: I tell you the last part, I said, man, you
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  Speaker 1: can leave, you can leave the clubs. And when I
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  Speaker 1: tell her last ward to watch her just dropped to
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  Speaker 1: the floor and watch people out and help her out
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  Speaker 1: of that. I do I get that ignorant on stage.
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  Speaker 1: I don't just these stories be real and all I
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  Speaker 1: do now I don't even do coming in the morrishaw
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  Speaker 1: and I just talk. That's what you understand who you are.
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  Speaker 1: Just the funny part about it I wanted to talk
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  Speaker 1: about because the broadcast on serious XM HBCU. That's y'ad
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  Speaker 1: one forty two and you and HBCU graduate and it
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  Speaker 1: is like Alabama State correct, yeah, okay, and apparely apply
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  Speaker 1: he remember of Omega side fire. You graduated. Now, we
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  Speaker 1: can't have no barely graduating ques out there. Okay. Like
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  Speaker 1: you know, they didn't have for sun, they didn't have medicine,
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: they didn't have medicine for a d D back then.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: So it was. And so what is when you when
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: you were talking to HBCU students and being a graduate
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: that what what what what? What? What? What impression did
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: the HBU experience have onhen you did you carry out
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  Speaker 1: to day? I know it's a lot, man. You learn
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: your roots, your culture. Man, It's just something that's just unbelievable.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: I can't even describe what it's like to attend HBCU.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: When you're at the football game, go the basketball game.
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  Speaker 1: You had a fan, and the Greek life and the
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: uh and to see all the alumni come back and
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: all the people that went to the contege before you
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: come back and give speeches and how successful they are,
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: and you get passed on all of this wisdom and
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: love and knowledge and it's it's it's awesome resion. I mean,
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: with no better experience. My daughter is a student at
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: Tennessee State University right now. And I got a niece
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  Speaker 1: that's headed the Tendency State and a nephew that's headed
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: the Tendensee State. And I got a niece at Alabama
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  Speaker 1: State University. Man, and I worked my ass off to
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: make sure that they're educated and paying tuition and paying
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: rent and the car notes and stuffing. And I don't care,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: you know, And I just do what I have to do,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: uh because God is good and uh, you know, and
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: I want them to get that that that experience, and
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: they're getting it now you go. Now, there's two tours
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: are coming up, which I've never heard of my life,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: a talent as big as you being on two significant
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: uh tours, one with Martin Lawrence and one with Mike Epps. Um. Okay,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: now let's just break down the date so people can know.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: You can go to ticket match or March third. He
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: would be in St. Louis May, I mean May May third,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: he'd be in St. Louis May tenth. Here be in
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Tampa May twenty six. I gotta come see you because
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: you've been in Houston, Texas. Made June eighth, You're mad Chicago,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: June nine, a Capital One Center. That's in Washington, d C.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: That's the Martin Lawrence Tour. That's the Martin Lawrence Tour.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: In June fifteen at the Bridge Stone in Nashville, that's
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: the Martin Lawrence Tour. And you know, we're gonna tell
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: you who's all on the tour. The next tour is
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: the Mike Epps Platinum Comedy Tour. That's made four that's
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: in uh, Mississippi, that which is right outside of Memphis.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: And then that's that's May feel. He's in Dallas, Texas,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: you know, at the Verizons said. Everybody knows what that's at.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: And then May thirte, he's in Steve Harvey's hometown of Cleveland, Ohio.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: That means you're busy. That means you you're gonna be
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: able to put some kids through college. You can do
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: some landscaping, you can do some more flipping houses. You
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: do all that stuff. Who's on the show with you?
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Who's what fools are sharing the stay with you? I
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: know Tony Rock I heard he's out there with you.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: D Ray Oh yeah, uh Michael Blackton black black a blackster. Yeah?
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Is he still is he still showing this butt? No?
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: He stay dressed. Okay, but he's funny. But they all
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: are on the tour, man are del givings and the
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: tour is absolutely hilarious. And when I tell you we
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: ain't have a good time, we have a good time
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: now to be on this too, because it's like, you know,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: because you know, you have a certain energy. We're talking
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: about the energy and Martin Lawrence energy and then you
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: have Mike's energy is more lined I think with your
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: energy now. The difference it's a Martin Lawrence to it,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: like personally as a comedian is really really laid back
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: in professional It's just it's professional and it's like, you know,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: you're on a tour with Martin Lawrence. With Mike is
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: a little bit more laid back because it's Mike, you know,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: and uh you know so that that's the difference, you know.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: But but with Martin Lawrence to it, you know, you
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: get butterflies in the stomic and you want to do
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: everything right because you're working with a comedic icon. Yes sir,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: yes sir, yes sir, it's real. Are you working with
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: a Richard Brown and Flip Wilson, Eddie Murphy. It's Martin
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Lawrence that you have that opportunity to do that tour
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: with him, so you try to do everything right. That's
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: that's that's the that's the only that That's the first
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: time in twenty years that I lost sleep over a
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: comedy show. You know, my ELPs. You know when Mike ELPs,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Mike ELPs goes last and I host the show, but
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Martin Lawrence, I have a slot and in that slot
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: you better bring it. You better bring he and I
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: and and but you followed money. You come out that
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Martin mars on this tour right, Oh yeah, yeah. He
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: goes out there and do it and then he introduced me.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: And I'm gonna tell you some man, when Mark Lawrence
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: introduced you, man, and when he walked out that stage
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: and he looked you in your eyes and smile man,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: that that that gets me more fighter than I ever
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: been in my life, because when you look at me,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: you know what that says to me, were son, he
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: that says I picked you. I believe in you, I
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: respect you. You're funny. I'm not worried about it. Go
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: out there and kill him and recerning I promise to God,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: I have not in in in felt that kind of energy,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: uh in you and I tried. I go out there
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: and I tried to lay that audience completely out. I
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: got some stuff that's just some material that's so funny
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: that that is just it's just sickening. Okay, I gotta
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: come see you, man. Okay, I think that May twenty six,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: you with the Martin Lawrence tour in Houston, Texas June eight.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Things you call go like, Okay, May, you're gonna be
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: in Cleveland. Might come up to Cleveland definitely, Dallas May fifth.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Can I say one more things? Yes, sir, every time
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: I always think of you because you're my friend from Houston.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Every time I watched my six hundred pound life, just
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: to note that they do they go all the way
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: down there to lose weight. I said, my friend was
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: sewn there and that makes me happy, my man, and
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: you make me happy because your butt is on the phone. Hey,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Ricks MILET. I love you. Man, I gotta say that
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: to the world, and I hope everybody understand that you're
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: beyond the jokes. And that's another time I want to
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: do a uncensored I want you're doing uncensored man on
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: TV one. I want the people to hear you. I'm
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: gonna call him and say, I'm hey, you need to
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: do an uncensored man on TV one. I'm gonna called
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: de'angelo's d and tell her make sure we get Rickie
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: smile an unceiseredeen. Okay, keep winning, brother, Hey man, thank
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: you for let me be on here show. Thank you
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: for the opportunity. You're the best man. We are each
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