[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, what's up?

[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the power and the punchline.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is where the power gets honest and the punchline actually means something.

[SPEAKER_00]: We talk leadership, culture, influence, and real life.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Rudy Rush.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's get powerful.

[SPEAKER_02]: Ladies and gentlemen, we are here live, and in person together.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, punch why eat the little bit of same person.

[SPEAKER_02]: No, somebody good say that, though.

[SPEAKER_02]: Somebody's in the Instagram, I thought it was you.

[SPEAKER_02]: I thought it was you, I thought it was you.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I would love to be mistaken for you when because you did that star treatment.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, right through that.

[SPEAKER_02]: Talk here like that.

[SPEAKER_02]: All day, every day, every day.

[SPEAKER_02]: So today's episode is going to be different.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's gonna be special.

[SPEAKER_02]: Today's episode, we're gonna talk about a prodigy.

[SPEAKER_02]: We're talking about before social media, even right before the internet.

[SPEAKER_02]: Someone rose to start him.

[SPEAKER_02]: Someone had a story to tell.

[SPEAKER_02]: We're talking about from deaf jams to the red carpers show time and get poverty.

[SPEAKER_02]: We're gonna talk about the journey of my dad, my co-host, Mr.

Rudy Rush.

[SPEAKER_02]: When he said prodigy, I thought he was tells him I'll let Kobe, Kevin, gone into something like that.

[SPEAKER_02]: The Bronx team, he was here during our social media, [SPEAKER_02]: No, definitely, man, it's been an interesting 30 years plus in entertainment and, you know, excited about talking about it a little bit.

[SPEAKER_02]: This is the first time I've actually kind of, you know, open up here and add lots of things, but, you know, being on this show with you and, you know, I feel like my home, so I can kind of stretch out a little bit, talk about some things that may be bothered, media or, I don't know, because I don't know what you're going to ask me.

[SPEAKER_02]: So this was like therapy.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yo, you know what?

[SPEAKER_02]: And I've been so yeah, I like that.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, without the, without the, without the deal afterwards.

[SPEAKER_02]: So the first thing I'm going to congratulate you on, buddy, you talked about 30.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, let's let the people know.

[SPEAKER_02]: You're 75, 41 and a half, you know what I mean?

[SPEAKER_02]: But no, like a lot of people think I'm a lot older then.

[SPEAKER_02]: So let's start with their perception, man.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: You came up when comedy was a different game.

[SPEAKER_02]: It was, you know, I'm not talking about the internet comedians who I'm not bashing.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just saying it was a different game, right?

[SPEAKER_02]: You came up when death down was a proving ground, bro.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, right.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like, we all know some of the stories behind the scenes or some people that didn't make it on the HBO version.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we know some people that had to go before Bernie Matt, we know some people that had to go before Bernie Matt, we know some people that had to go after Rudy Rush.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know that story too.

[SPEAKER_02]: Talk to us, man.

[SPEAKER_02]: The product.

[SPEAKER_02]: Talk to us about doing it first in New York City before you can even get the depth down.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like, talk to us about first stage, Rudy Rush and [SPEAKER_02]: So it was crazy because I worked at a law firm right out of high school.

[SPEAKER_02]: I got a job in mid-town Manhattan at this place called a buff.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's a long-darned name in that, but it was cool.

[SPEAKER_02]: I started out in the mailroom, you know what I mean?

[SPEAKER_02]: And quickly, like within three months, I got a promotion to the reproduction department.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I was kind of like on a fast track kind of like making my name in the building just you know enough to where people were like, hey, they're hiring upstairs.

[SPEAKER_02]: Let's do this.

[SPEAKER_02]: But it's how my left.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just, you know, backtrack from that.

[SPEAKER_02]: I was in the purchasing department, you know, and they were trying to get me into a tire legal program.

[SPEAKER_02]: Things like that.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I thought maybe low would be because I had all of the connections that.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I needed to kind of go that I didn't want to be a lawyer, but I felt like, hey, this is a little comfortable and safe because I had some connections.

[SPEAKER_02]: But what happened in a young lady named Diana Lise, and she's a big entertainment fan, Jewish lady that lived in New York, and she was just to give you an idea.

[SPEAKER_02]: Staying too cheap, just became an act that I just became, just got on a scene.

[SPEAKER_02]: And she was like, [SPEAKER_02]: Stanley two, she's going to be in this big actor and I feel like you have the same type of, you know, make up in, so she sent me an on on an audition and the audition, you know, surprisingly was for the limit of Jim Carrey, JB Fox, those guys were leaving going off and doing major television and film projects and what happened was.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, they wanted to keep it going.

[SPEAKER_02]: Fox wanted to keep it going.

[SPEAKER_02]: And you have to hear more and tell the story about how you're kind of taking a show away from the lanes and kind of, you know, still trying to do it in everybody kind of quit.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I was part of that group of people that were auditioned for those slots.

[SPEAKER_02]: I got about three or four callbacks, you know, and which very well they had you bring by three career to do like three or four different characters original.

[SPEAKER_02]: And they kept calling back then they were saying, I'm not going to do this show anymore.

[SPEAKER_02]: a guy from the job was a thing to comedy my buddy Reggie Simmons all the guy by maybe eight years old didn't me so you like I said I was always the youngest in the circles that I've been in and so he saw me up in your comedy club May 12th [SPEAKER_02]: 1993 and date.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I know that date.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's my anniversary.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's so funny.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like, you know, you had to bring three paying customers to the New York comedy club and You know, my family's fairly small, but about 10 people showed up and for every person you bring you get $2 back as an incentives And I was like, I can break 10 people and it's up to you know, I could find out if I'm fling at 20 bucks and take myself back on this You know, the train that broke when I from all know, but I was living in Brooklyn when I got out of high school and [SPEAKER_02]: not only did 10 people show up from my family about 80 plus like 90 certain people told him the first nice and people from the job birthday friends and it is guys funny.

[SPEAKER_02]: So it was so amazing that that many people you know really wanted to see me on stage for the first time and the funny thing was this is an amateur show.

[SPEAKER_02]: So you already know everybody's in a bad of okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: So my confidence after every person is growing this dude named Billy who still remains nameless in the in the animals of Standard comedy he comes by the club, you know how accomplished it's like 9-1-8-1-1 I was going on.

[SPEAKER_02]: They're like this kid is a name's got this great audience.

[SPEAKER_02]: They're loving but he's not gonna get on that stage Just like I would if I came somewhere was like, yo, and I can find a minute this is this is nice [SPEAKER_02]: And they were like, you gotta ask the kid that they would say to me for last.

[SPEAKER_02]: And let me tell you something.

[SPEAKER_02]: This guy comes to me.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's like, hey, my, if I get, he looked like a bomb off the street.

[SPEAKER_02]: He had the big, the bus to ask the air comes up.

[SPEAKER_02]: What the fuck?

[SPEAKER_02]: Come on, come on, come on, come on.

[SPEAKER_02]: He had that.

[SPEAKER_02]: And he knows that his team wasn't degraded.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, my ability was a great dude.

[SPEAKER_02]: But listen, I looked him up and down.

[SPEAKER_02]: I said, yeah, I'm Dr.

Yusuf out.

[SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, at that time, I didn't know who he was.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm the fine-out.

[SPEAKER_02]: Billy was the headliner.

[SPEAKER_02]: for Friday, nice, killed it.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, time to play his upside down.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm on this take and a blast is off.

[SPEAKER_02]: Wipe in a face, everybody him.

[SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, let me end this story by saying, the night was the biggest success of my career.

[SPEAKER_02]: Up until the point where things started happening, of course, on the national and high level, but at that time, my career could have been old because who's gonna follow that?

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: No, I mean, in this day and age, they're coming through 20, 40 years of the day belt couldn't fall in that.

[SPEAKER_02]: It was that good.

[SPEAKER_02]: But what I did was I got my first lesson in comedy.

[SPEAKER_02]: I read the room.

[SPEAKER_02]: I felt what I was filling in my heart honestly.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I came up there to use the language that, you know, this is a clean show.

[SPEAKER_02]: But at the same time, I said, this is my first time last day.

[SPEAKER_02]: You all put me on up there.

[SPEAKER_02]: That am I full?

[SPEAKER_02]: And the room exploded.

[SPEAKER_02]: You got this young kid saying that?

[SPEAKER_02]: And then laughed, I swear for at least it felt like 10 minutes because of the fact that that that's what they were feeling too.

[SPEAKER_02]: So, yes, and that was the beginning of Rudy Rush, actually Rudy McCallum is my real name.

[SPEAKER_02]: So, Rudy Rush, I'm off late at the game, the name.

[SPEAKER_02]: So, let's go there, man, let's talk about the minute, because you know, Jamie Foxx shout out to Foxx, yes, is Eric Bishop, and he said in order to get both.

[SPEAKER_02]: And seriously, he needed a neutral mate because Jamie Fox was guaranteed to, you know, the roster list and air bishop, sometimes wouldn't make it, sometimes would it, so was that.

[SPEAKER_02]: Rudy Rush or was it the height like no you're not starting to make it I was feeling it like you don't like the first month I was good, you know, I was really good with the club about 40 people each week will come and check me out Because the world is buzzing around the office and and then my you know social circles and so people will come see me But it was like give it up for Rudy, man a column that [SPEAKER_02]: It just wasn't even as I was coming to the state and he wasn't feeling it.

[SPEAKER_02]: But I was younger.

[SPEAKER_02]: I played basketball in the city in New York and I was very popular for young guy.

[SPEAKER_02]: I was one of the top 14 and under players when I played and went to high school and Charleston, South Carolina, after that I had the year.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I had to leave for that before then.

[SPEAKER_02]: I was one of the top players in the city.

[SPEAKER_02]: When I was younger, the older guys used to call me.

[SPEAKER_02]: They was like, hey, little guy.

[SPEAKER_02]: I used to play with them and they were like, [SPEAKER_02]: I was a little tired in my hair when I was scribbling my notebooks at school and when I started, you know, doing comedy after Why when I was like, you know, I'm not really Macallon name which I'm love, but I just, it wasn't dancing for me.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, I want you to be, this is really gross.

[SPEAKER_02]: But it was almost like a superhero story.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like I always had the cape and I didn't know what it was for.

[SPEAKER_02]: And then I put that on and then we would just, you know, any time you go somewhere, you could say, [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, man, my mom's just dead.

[SPEAKER_01]: He even finds it really worth something.

[SPEAKER_01]: He'd be like, oh, man, sound familiar.

[SPEAKER_01]: He just rolled off the target.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I became really West and dead.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's amazing, man.

[SPEAKER_02]: So they're mom and dad changing, but they run.

[SPEAKER_02]: No, so no, my mother actually likes the name, because some of one of my friends that, in fact, call her mama Rush, she likes that.

[SPEAKER_02]: the sound of the kind of cool.

[SPEAKER_02]: But father had issue with it actually because you know as a man who has children of course that's your living in that you know that's your legacy he was like well and he you know he he gave me a couple of examples of what else I can do.

[SPEAKER_02]: The name I would have had if they didn't have the name already [SPEAKER_02]: would have been Rudy Madden of course you know who would have had it.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I was like caught in that burn and so I can't do Rudy Max so this guy would be Rudy Rush and he was like and you know my initials on ram so I tried to do something with that but Rudy Rush is the was the stick and that's who you were.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah that's who I was.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: Everybody thought it was [SPEAKER_02]: You know, one of the things I've always wanted to ask you, and I have some comedian friends who were doing that error, right?

[SPEAKER_02]: Everybody Spears asked him just like, you know, you get, we all know Barbara, you cook down old rumple this just fun.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's not the same as walking on the stage though.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like when people, and I, you know, I love comedy shows, right?

[SPEAKER_02]: And I feel like I'm a comedy kind of sewer.

[SPEAKER_02]: And it never fails to go to comedy shows, comedy clubs, and you see, [SPEAKER_02]: a group of people that's just their arms folded, but you got to work for a laugh.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's like, you're learning to be here to be up to say, so when you walk on stage, it's not cookout funny, right?

[SPEAKER_02]: Like cookout funny, you can make everybody laugh.

[SPEAKER_02]: You can hit some one line as you can hold court for a couple of minutes in a silly it's funny, but all stage now, and when you got, [SPEAKER_02]: 10, 15, 30, 45.

[SPEAKER_02]: And you got to keep it rolling.

[SPEAKER_02]: Talk to us about that difference of.

[SPEAKER_02]: Cooked out funny.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: But even in the work.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I tell young comics because like, you know, I teach some young comics.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, the ropes about stand up and, you know, people who are interested, even if you're older and you want to get into it, I'm like, you know, everything that you [SPEAKER_02]: have done it right with friends, all the inside jokes and all those other good things.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's funny, but it's not for the stage.

[SPEAKER_02]: Unless, I mean, isn't once in a while you can kind of make something translate, but like you said, there's a million different people from a many different places with a million different personality and you want to make them all kind of beyond them.

[SPEAKER_02]: So it's very tough.

[SPEAKER_02]: So a lot of this stuff, like, okay, I'll tell you.

[SPEAKER_02]: Ron Hillie, this one's for you, my high school buddy, we used to be in French class and a few other classes.

[SPEAKER_02]: And we had this little thing, this character I created called Pumpernico Bread.

[SPEAKER_02]: And it was like, you know, we could have made a cartoon and made some money off and now I did it.

[SPEAKER_02]: But it was like, hey, Pumpernico, it was the funniest thing to us that really let it be crying.

[SPEAKER_02]: But if I came on stage and said, Pumpernico bread, people would be like, did you?

[SPEAKER_02]: Pumpernico, what's wrong?

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, it's like things like that.

[SPEAKER_02]: You cannot bring those things on a station.

[SPEAKER_02]: There's a lot of things that I have fought with my cousin who was the best friend.

[SPEAKER_02]: We had a lot of inside jokes on jokes that we created that just couldn't translate to the state.

[SPEAKER_02]: So to your point, you cannot be funny.

[SPEAKER_02]: Well, let me take that back.

[SPEAKER_02]: There's their awesome artists that come and they bring that.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I'm saying, I think Tracy more than someone who comes to closest to being as raw and.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, and animator in all stages, you know, because you give that vibe, like he's just talking up the top is known, you know, it was another one, a gentleman who passed away when he was in the accident, betrays the Uncle Jimmy Matt, me and my first roguer, he after the name really fit him, because he was Uncle Jimmy Matt, he's inviting Uncle So you had some comments, but you know, the closest I've seen is maybe Robin Harris and Bernie Matt, as they had that, I don't give it, you know, I'm an authority figure in the family.

[SPEAKER_02]: made you out, you know what I mean, they had those, those, those essences, but for the most part, you're right.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's a different ball game from the Bob and Q to big stage.

[SPEAKER_02]: You guys, sir.

[SPEAKER_02]: So let's talk about Dev County.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think for everybody that is watching it, if you're listening to this, we don't commit if you watched F.J., right, if you didn't sneak, it watched F.J., if you should all find 1314, the hearing that in the south, if you try to go to church tomorrow talk about what it was like, one to audition, if it was an audition, you would [SPEAKER_02]: Hey, Rudy, come on through.

[SPEAKER_02]: You probably, you probably just got to go down now.

[SPEAKER_02]: There.

[SPEAKER_02]: Talk to us about what that's like behind the scenes where people are going out.

[SPEAKER_02]: So first of all, people need to know this.

[SPEAKER_02]: Dev Jam before this happened before a friend, before any show of Silentville, any show that you think is important.

[SPEAKER_02]: Dev Jam, I don't believe since Dev Jam has been an appointment set show where people would wait to have the Dev Jam to go have the night life from the front end and wait for, [SPEAKER_02]: They're coming down to come on and they would go out after that.

[SPEAKER_02]: And me up in the club talk about did you see, and did you see?

[SPEAKER_02]: So that's the big impact that the Dev Jam machine made.

[SPEAKER_02]: So getting there though for me was quite different.

[SPEAKER_02]: My mentor got at a barbecue and she ran, you know, Brad in all those times who's done this little stint at this comedy club into your, and he's like, well, let me see how good he is.

[SPEAKER_02]: I live down in Jersey.

[SPEAKER_02]: I want to take him to the peppermint lounge, which when you say peppermint, [SPEAKER_02]: candy and people like, you know, and I'm killing the new economy club.

[SPEAKER_02]: So take me to the Peffinman land.

[SPEAKER_02]: We go to the Peffinman land.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's about maybe 400 people in New York, New Jersey.

[SPEAKER_02]: What I think was East Orange, New Jersey, which is Worcester Brick City.

[SPEAKER_02]: Tell it.

[SPEAKER_02]: It was packed, and I'm talking about every drug angsted girl in that city of town.

[SPEAKER_02]: Queen Latifah was in there, but now she was famous too at the time that she wasn't the Queen at Latifah that she is sent into.

[SPEAKER_02]: She was wrapped Queen Latifah famous out.

[SPEAKER_02]: And let me tell you something that it wasn't a good night.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's got brought me out to, you know, but pick me up from the Trace station and Jersey.

[SPEAKER_02]: I was supposed to stay at his place.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I'm saying?

[SPEAKER_02]: And let me tell you something.

[SPEAKER_02]: I bombed.

[SPEAKER_02]: terribly, but I got saved because Queen Latina came over and she saw something in me to make her come over and say, you know, and I mean, I actually worked for her a little on her talk show in the first one, but she was like, you know what, you know what, you know what, you got attacked me different, you were so good and you just a baby like she just sent such me out my face, yeah, I could sue you for that.

[SPEAKER_02]: No, since I got, he said he could soon kill.

[SPEAKER_02]: No, no, she was really sweet.

[SPEAKER_02]: She touched me up on things like she didn't want me to sit.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's not like that.

[SPEAKER_02]: And honestly, at the time, I was hurt.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I do love me there.

[SPEAKER_02]: The dude who brought me there, like he like, he just was like, oh, he ain't no, maybe.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?

[SPEAKER_02]: But anyway, all story short, I suffered through that night, but just to show you, I started comedy when I was 19, and I made death jam when I was, I was on death jam.

[SPEAKER_02]: I was 21 and in between that, I had an opportunity to do when I was 20, but shout out to Bob and some of our crew is one of the producers in the show, very pivotal in picking who is.

[SPEAKER_02]: the next to a sin to the throne.

[SPEAKER_02]: So everybody who had a chance to be on dead jam, pretty much have bothered to thank for it.

[SPEAKER_02]: And also, they have the peppermint lounge because that was the audition spot.

[SPEAKER_02]: He attended Graham, who kind of like, get together, say, hey, these comics are good and they're going to be on the next season.

[SPEAKER_02]: So the first time that I did it the year before, I was able to do it, I felt that was ready.

[SPEAKER_02]: But he said, nah, you know what?

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think you're ready.

[SPEAKER_02]: I was disappointed.

[SPEAKER_02]: he gave me a land in it.

[SPEAKER_02]: The more access land like that, everyone did what you're seeing.

[SPEAKER_02]: You were the golden child, right?

[SPEAKER_02]: He gave it to me and said, walk around, get in there, like go, and I'd do a few comments like, well, Nick, and a few of us does have a little comedy for a little while.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I took it in, and I'm telling you, it was unreal experience, much like, you know, you go on from high school to college and [SPEAKER_02]: the shift between high school football and college football, it really was kind of like that.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like I was playing in the mages, but not on the level where Bernie's dad said yesterday, Steve just walked out on everybody else's house.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Everybody else's house [SPEAKER_02]: wasn't ready, but I'm in here.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm in the midst of it.

[SPEAKER_02]: It made me prepare for the following year and yes, the following year, God was a lemon.

[SPEAKER_02]: I was there myself and a few other younger comments in their first time.

[SPEAKER_02]: We just took the world out of Stahlman was a great time.

[SPEAKER_02]: And you're undone.

[SPEAKER_02]: And you're undone.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm doing this cool.

[SPEAKER_02]: What was your favorite moment?

[SPEAKER_02]: of death, Jenna, right?

[SPEAKER_02]: I got to, got to imagine just the hype you guys can't pre up there.

[SPEAKER_02]: You get a huge induced.

[SPEAKER_02]: You come now.

[SPEAKER_02]: You can't, you can't rehearse.

[SPEAKER_02]: You can't rehearse that adrenaline.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: No crap.

[SPEAKER_02]: Can I remember my, like, you probably were living the first one.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: What's the second show?

[SPEAKER_02]: What is that like?

[SPEAKER_02]: So I had a conversation once again with Bob Sunder not too long ago.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm gonna tell everybody this, like what people don't understand, energy is energy.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's almost like the JV in the far city game.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I knew there's a lot of sports in ours, we said you gotta skip.

[SPEAKER_02]: But the JV gave me, you know, it's a little like an instant, you know?

[SPEAKER_02]: Energy's a little low.

[SPEAKER_02]: Then you got the girls basketball game, the varsity girls, and then you got varsity boys.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, it's like JV girls, JV boys.

[SPEAKER_02]: But it's a buildup.

[SPEAKER_02]: And so for us, we definitely lose the same thing because you had after noon shows.

[SPEAKER_02]: So the first taping was like two and three o'clock in the afternoon, then you have the seven o'clock thing you had to tank.

[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, so just think about this on a Thursday after noon or Wednesday after noon, three o'clock, sun still shining.

[SPEAKER_02]: People still walking in, and men have, and like just the busiest day, time of the day, and people are walking in there to see their coffee jam, and it's not nighttime.

[SPEAKER_02]: you know I'm saying there's no drinks being served so you know so I give that back story to say I did deaf comedy jam at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and it wasn't until later in my career that I got a few other spots just like that because you have to be elite to get that hour [SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean, people that need it, you know, that will do the comments, but they need it that 10 o'clock, we're all this crap, they need it that energy from seven o'clock, but people like yeah, but you know, three o'clock, oh yeah, I'm on to take it.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'll go see the Jeff college.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you know what I'm saying?

[SPEAKER_02]: It was people who weren't working or people who just didn't have, you know, [SPEAKER_02]: just really work night people night people get the tea you know what I mean yeah and so it was just different but I always excel and so that night this my night as I stepped up and unfortunately that was the night that comedian Shucky Duffy and Chris Rock there there was a thing that happened in the kind of didn't fall favorable for Shucky Duffy propelled me [SPEAKER_02]: to be in the headline of that show when it came out.

[SPEAKER_02]: So that was an excellent mic for me.

[SPEAKER_02]: So that was the best part of it.

[SPEAKER_02]: It didn't.

[SPEAKER_02]: L L was at the after party and the I'm hanging out next to L L.

He was like, you're all going to read you.

[SPEAKER_01]: He was funny.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, you're very dirty.

[SPEAKER_01]: I thought it was the hot fight again.

[SPEAKER_01]: Take my shirt off.

[SPEAKER_01]: Don't.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'll tell you that LSU is there was an excellent problem I was in height, it was like, I'm a rive and that was, that was in my first tellin' as you could.

[SPEAKER_02]: I did a plot of comedy, I was wasn't a popular show of it.

[SPEAKER_02]: But, deaf Jim, man, it just took me, it was out of the strat, it was stratosphere and I had a handle on it too, so that was the best part too, and like that was the last time you'd probably think, what was the problem?

[SPEAKER_03]: That was a long time, right?

[SPEAKER_02]: It was a very, no, it was excellent, that was excellent.

[SPEAKER_02]: We're gonna go inside information, story time with Triple OG, Rudy Russ.

[SPEAKER_02]: You just kind of glass over this chunky, ducky, quiet quiet.

[SPEAKER_02]: By the way, and Chris Rock store.

[SPEAKER_02]: So this is our show.

[SPEAKER_02]: We could talk about it.

[SPEAKER_02]: Anybody come for us?

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: They might go come out and smack me and say, keep on name.

[SPEAKER_02]: My wife and my name might jam out.

[SPEAKER_02]: No, we go tell the truth.

[SPEAKER_02]: No, no, no.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, for those that don't know this story, and there are a lot of people that remember sucky duck quite quiet.

[SPEAKER_02]: Let's talk about it.

[SPEAKER_02]: So basically what happens with death jam and a lot of people don't know this show, you always see the show and you see the host and you see three kinds.

[SPEAKER_02]: But in actuality, when we take the show, it's a host and it's for comics and everybody's told ahead of time that someone is not going to make the cut.

[SPEAKER_02]: So that precious put on your plate before you even get our stage, not after they touch.

[SPEAKER_02]: before that, so you don't get that comfort of like, oh, I made that in the August.

[SPEAKER_02]: What not, you got to step up and show around.

[SPEAKER_02]: So there was dominate if you don't hear from Tom Joyner and Carol showed, and it was also another guy for Philly named Ronnie Loll, who I'm not sure if he's still doing it, but I hadn't seen him on the long time.

[SPEAKER_02]: But Ronnie Loll was on it, but he was his first time taping and we and every show [SPEAKER_02]: the year that I did every show had a guest host.

[SPEAKER_02]: Martin was no longer there.

[SPEAKER_02]: They had Ricky Harris, Joe Torrey and Adele, the year before.

[SPEAKER_02]: And then after Martin, Joe Torrey, but this year they had special guests.

[SPEAKER_02]: And our special guest is Chris Rock, which was a big deal for us.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, absolutely, because Chris was the goal of comedy at that time.

[SPEAKER_02]: There was no Kevin Hart.

[SPEAKER_02]: There was no days to pal.

[SPEAKER_02]: you know, it was really crisp by himself, no one there.

[SPEAKER_02]: And so him as the whole is really, really gave our show some energy that needed at three o'clock.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I said, but what happened was, you know, we all killed it.

[SPEAKER_02]: And then I think that in my artist opinion, she'll definitely definitely want to be where I was happy, Chris Cosmache, because I'm a [SPEAKER_02]: It's a lot of words of Rudy Rush.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, no, no, I say that Chris is a friend of mine.

[SPEAKER_02]: And so it's Chuck E.

W.

And and and the reason why I said that not to the hard one, the incident to have a will, but I'm going to say this as a comic.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I think Chris would agree, you always try as the host to set your fellow comic up to win.

[SPEAKER_02]: Well, before Chuck E.

W.

He hit the stage, Chris rock was, you know, [SPEAKER_02]: I'm drift away from that support, and he was like, well, come to the stage.

[SPEAKER_02]: You guys should be done.

[SPEAKER_02]: I hope he got some joke.

[SPEAKER_02]: He won't use that comment from an iconic figure like Chris to an audience day.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's really like, you know, second to the Apollo of like, we're kind of wrong.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I felt like Shucky came out there and he didn't have the support that he needed from Chris.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I'm saying?

[SPEAKER_02]: It was a joke.

[SPEAKER_02]: When you had locked in that gate and you come up and you stumble on the gate, it's like me in an Olympic athlete.

[SPEAKER_02]: When you stumble on the gate, your chances of winning is almost close to none.

[SPEAKER_02]: And so he got out the gate and he stumbled and he made it through and like I said, second to the occult because, you know, death jab audiences didn't really bully you.

[SPEAKER_02]: And today we'll just look at Shuffy do his thing and he was kind of, you know, stammering do his, it wasn't a set at all that was worthy of making the cut.

[SPEAKER_02]: And to make Matt his worst once he was done, Chris Rock went up Dan said an iconic line, which was a mockery of, [SPEAKER_02]: What's shocking?

[SPEAKER_02]: Duffy quiet quiet because everybody knows she'll be done.

[SPEAKER_02]: She'll be done.

[SPEAKER_02]: She'll be ducky quiet quiet.

[SPEAKER_02]: That was his monitor.

[SPEAKER_02]: He had little dolls and everything.

[SPEAKER_02]: And then Chris Robb did say something.

[SPEAKER_02]: I was funny, but you know, it was just a career.

[SPEAKER_02]: Kelly was like shocking.

[SPEAKER_02]: Duffy, whack, whack and the crowd exploded.

[SPEAKER_02]: It was like he almost made the cup just so they could show that.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, because if you go back and look, none of that's on tape.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's all, if he was there, it could tell.

[SPEAKER_02]: So could it also be even I'm not speaking for Chris at all if you got to bring in you got to bring it No, you got to bring it.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, no absolutely I think he could have done all that afterwards and would have been justified I just feel like if I'm coming to this stage and I work hard to get there We went through you know everything from wardrobe to rehearsal You know, there's a pressure that goes along with being great.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry.

[SPEAKER_02]: You like you don't even if you [SPEAKER_02]: game seven and you and Michael Jordan did something that goes in you that says I got to be only you know to be so you prepare and so you know just imagine Michael Jordan coming out and somebody saying Michael more yet like even though he's still gonna keep your butt he's gonna probably do a worse person said his name on but it does something to you.

[SPEAKER_02]: So basically, I'm saying that Chris shouldn't have said, I say it, and I'll say it, he should not have said, Chuck E.

Duffy, I hope you guys have joky walkies because I thought that I was a pre-meditated.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to make fun of your little comedy styles of what you say, because he could have big dim up, and if he failed, then he [SPEAKER_02]: You absolutely right.

[SPEAKER_02]: You're at the mercy of the host because the host has to identify the elephant in the room.

[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, but when you set me up to fail, and I do just that, and then you come behind it, compound it.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?

[SPEAKER_02]: It would have been much better served if it came with a good introduction.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry.

[SPEAKER_02]: I understand.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you do want to create the energy.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, what is?

[SPEAKER_02]: As the host.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: to to bring the energy where you can because we all mean.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, no absolutely.

[SPEAKER_02]: Michael Jordan is a tar heal like my son.

[SPEAKER_02]: We say three person.

[SPEAKER_02]: So you didn't do whatever you want to give me.

[SPEAKER_02]: Shut the shit, it took the person I am coming with the fight.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm here.

[SPEAKER_02]: What are you saying?

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm coming out doing my thing.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: But I'm not certain.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not Chris.

[SPEAKER_02]: I wasn't there.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but I understand your interview this.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so I think honestly, like the more I think about it then you just think about the perfect ending of that was the shucky Wackwack.

[SPEAKER_02]: Well, how can we get there if if I bring them out right and he does well, I can't say it's at me.

[SPEAKER_02]: It goes that deep like it would be on me if he killed it anyway, then maybe that intro gets redone something you don't have some jokes you told me no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, [SPEAKER_02]: And like I said, shoffey Wackwack was probably like the biggest response that night.

[SPEAKER_02]: And in order to get there, he had to fail.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm, I'm not saying that Chris thought about that and was pre-meditated, but man, but nobody in the history of death comic gems ever to brought up to disrespect.

[SPEAKER_02]: Never.

[SPEAKER_02]: Now that I'm thinking about it, like, I'm, you know, like, yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's I hope he's like, no, that says that's a better thing.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's, you know, one of our best, you know, deaf jam alone.

[SPEAKER_02]: And so yeah, it was tough because after that, you know, Shelby, thank you still.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure it deals with it.

[SPEAKER_02]: I heard him on Vlad TV or someone talking about, oh, yeah, I'm not surprised, so for sure.

[SPEAKER_02]: So from death, Jan, the golden tower in the New York, and I'm just finesse.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: So what they used to call me, that's what I was talking about.

[SPEAKER_02]: Did you all have to be aggressive?

[SPEAKER_02]: That's what I love it, that's it.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's it, that's it.

[SPEAKER_02]: At the same time, that.

[SPEAKER_02]: To me, for what was on the ground, so.

[SPEAKER_02]: You also, if you're from New York, if you're from Harlem, if you're from the culture, you know what showtime in the economy, and you talked about it, right?

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, the host, you know, you guys said man, that they're doing his thing.

[SPEAKER_02]: Somebody this over here, right now, was also the host.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, showtime in the public.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, right after Mr.

Steve Harvey, talk about getting the call to do showtime.

[SPEAKER_02]: at the Apollo myth.

[SPEAKER_02]: It was crazy because, you know, honesty and, you know, I think a lot of people know this now.

[SPEAKER_02]: You see my wife.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm the youngest host at the age of 26.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, you got to think that into the series.

[SPEAKER_02]: There's a big steam at the time that he was doing it.

[SPEAKER_02]: Was in his late 30s and to his 40s.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?

[SPEAKER_02]: This is a bromine.

[SPEAKER_02]: Hosted the show and, you know, just so everybody is clear.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think Steve was probably the best [SPEAKER_02]: Let's be able to say that I'm their favorite, but in my personal opinion, man, there was Symbad, there was Mark Curry, there was Kim Cole's did it, I was a little full of taste, that Rick and Villas were the first fellows he did a stand and Tony Rock came back and did like the reboot in myself, but I really feel like it's not about the success for Steve Harvey, really, because I worked hand in hand, and that's how I got the gig.

[SPEAKER_02]: I was supposed to come and watch a couple of veteran comics through the warmups for [SPEAKER_02]: You know, the Paula, and anybody who doesn't know what warm it is, when Steve is in the back, getting his wardrobe together, getting ready to come out to the stage, there's a comic which is the crowd lathered up.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, they may keep everybody busy.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I was supposed to come watch a couple of guys from Cancel for whatever reason, whether it was shows or something on a family situation.

[SPEAKER_02]: So instead of me watching them, the Friday Saturday night, and I do Sunday, they were like, hey, kid, we got to use you for Friday, they'll tell you exactly what to do.

[SPEAKER_02]: you'll be all right.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I was better than all right.

[SPEAKER_02]: I was so good that they were like, can you come back to mind?

[SPEAKER_02]: The job is just yours.

[SPEAKER_02]: And you know, I'm sure Steve had to say in it, the producers had a larger say, you know what I mean?

[SPEAKER_02]: But you know, it became just a soul and a soul, a soul, a warm of God, and Steve, you know, will tell me what to do.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like, you know, hey, don't rise the crowd.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't want you getting into it.

[SPEAKER_02]: People like so I couldn't make fun of people, which I never did anyway.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I [SPEAKER_02]: You want to think brain people on stage to sing or up to the front of the stage.

[SPEAKER_02]: I would just so into the job.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, just imagine 23 years old.

[SPEAKER_02]: I got all the energy in the world.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I mean, so I can go like an image out of money.

[SPEAKER_02]: So it just kind of worked me into that, which shortly became a situation where they had to McDonald's Apollo kids tour when we discovered the likes of Jasmine Sullivan and others.

[SPEAKER_02]: And Steve didn't want to do the tour.

[SPEAKER_02]: And that's a young person.

[SPEAKER_02]: I couldn't understand it.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think.

[SPEAKER_01]: You don't want to go and stay at the hall of the year for free.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want 300 hours for 300 hours for a weekend for a program, you know, you don't sense.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I was like, you know, thank you God for Steve, don't want to do everything because honestly, that was the game that showed people that I had to keep a building to really come in and step in after Steve left the show.

[SPEAKER_02]: So that's how it all came to be, but it was a very rough and tumultuous three years with Steve.

[SPEAKER_02]: It was pretty bad to say, it was bad.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah, it was bad because we never, and I hate to say that we never out long.

[SPEAKER_02]: And you know, Steve probably sees stuff like this or whatever, but like I know that there's still tension.

[SPEAKER_02]: We didn't let it's 25.

[SPEAKER_02]: Big but you've been all along us.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm talking about, say, we'll call me from across the room.

[SPEAKER_02]: You're really, D at a same thing.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, fun to call me young boy, look it out.

[SPEAKER_02]: I see Steve, I got to go up to him like, hey, Steve, he looks at me like, and you still here with me still alive.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like, you know, it was that kind of situation.

[SPEAKER_02]: Even I didn't have the greatest situation.

[SPEAKER_02]: Never, you know, like, that's it.

[SPEAKER_02]: I do everything he asked me to do.

[SPEAKER_02]: I bought two suits that couldn't afford.

[SPEAKER_02]: But I bought some shirts to go Mitch magic, whatever, to be stopping in our security.

[SPEAKER_02]: We could blast it, do it.

[SPEAKER_02]: Sir, I don't know what to do, but no, I don't feel like that.

[SPEAKER_02]: Let me just say, be on stage.

[SPEAKER_02]: Steve Harvey talked to 21.8, whatever, but I did it.

[SPEAKER_02]: And Steve never wants to, you know, that was some times.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm going to talk about that.

[SPEAKER_02]: But Steve was mostly like, [SPEAKER_02]: to himself and this crew never ate afterwards, never said, hey, I'm doing this and want you or let me help you with this and that and I mean, I was kicking, but like we don't here is as the, you know, plus like I said, I'm bringing the kids there from the tool.

[SPEAKER_02]: So there's a rave of news, but that was it's like, I'm number one in their boy.

[SPEAKER_02]: But there was something that he and I just we just didn't click, but I found that later why I realized later what it was.

[SPEAKER_02]: And you know, honestly, like even even up until recently, like I was on some Steve Harvey like when people really and I would probably bash anybody.

[SPEAKER_02]: But you know, Steve is somebody when people were bring stuff on, I would be like, [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he a bit of a a-hole, and I'm a bummer about what I'm going in depth.

[SPEAKER_02]: I felt, but honestly, I would agree.

[SPEAKER_02]: But now I've changed.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm older, and I realized this.

[SPEAKER_02]: Steve really loved that.

[SPEAKER_02]: Apologize.

[SPEAKER_02]: It was he really made that show.

[SPEAKER_02]: What it really, the popularity I can do.

[SPEAKER_02]: I said, back and say, [SPEAKER_02]: It was Steve or, you know, I'm barely able to show a little leader of skyrocketing and board a lot of revenue with a lot of eyes to the show.

[SPEAKER_02]: And he'd be very proud of that.

[SPEAKER_02]: And he took a lot of pride in it.

[SPEAKER_02]: And people don't know this.

[SPEAKER_02]: Steve didn't leave the show.

[SPEAKER_02]: Steve was like, go from the show.

[SPEAKER_02]: He was actually exited from the show.

[SPEAKER_02]: And not because of this talent, of course.

[SPEAKER_02]: He was taken out for a different reason.

[SPEAKER_02]: And the reason I had to find out later, the hard way, [SPEAKER_02]: A lot of things wanted, you know, there's a trail and the trail is money and so they were trying to move him out because they couldn't get to the revenue.

[SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, he's taking up a lot of that budget.

[SPEAKER_02]: You've already known.

[SPEAKER_02]: No, and he's not having a bit of it, but what the producers was like, they were like, hey, let's get him out of there.

[SPEAKER_02]: Let's move this kid and give him something he's never seen before, which is $10 coming from, you know, in Paris, all the better on your own saying, so I had yet to see that kind of money, you know, I say this, Steve saw me as a part of them.

[SPEAKER_02]: And so he treated me like them.

[SPEAKER_02]: You don't know me, and all of you will.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: So here's the therapy.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like I'm a huge fan of Steve Harvey, because his foundation, the C Farber Foundation, what he knows for you is, you know, my leadership deal.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like I had applaud all of that.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm a huge fan of that.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm even done some donations to that.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: People don't see that side of Steve because he's not the person that's going to talk about everything he's doing.

[SPEAKER_02]: No, right like he's private.

[SPEAKER_02]: He cares about his circle.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not saying that at all, but like you see it there, right when we want to see it is there to be seen.

[SPEAKER_02]: So here's the fear Steve is watching that tells Steve what you really want to say.

[SPEAKER_02]: Now that you've matured to yeah, Steve is my God.

[SPEAKER_02]: No, no, no, let me tell you something.

[SPEAKER_02]: I used to have it because I felt a lot of different things honesty.

[SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, like me going through my own journey, you know, I never had anybody like really like, you know, other than the other comments.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's some great comics to kind of like, you know, be mentors to me or stuff like that, but just like, [SPEAKER_02]: You know, my dad wasn't into comedy.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, but my father was a basketball player.

[SPEAKER_02]: It was in and today too.

[SPEAKER_02]: He never came to my names like that and stuff like that.

[SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, I'm looking for this, you know, I was always looking for that figure to kind of, you know, and work with Steve was a great opportunity, but not only that, I was trying to be in that space where I could be like, hey, Mr.

Harvey, I'm Broody, I'm good.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I wanted, you know, but I did realize when I was old, I said these producers who are managing me.

[SPEAKER_02]: So it wasn't in there on my own personal ticket or somebody else got me in there and we both have the same struggles even.

[SPEAKER_02]: So it was different.

[SPEAKER_02]: It was like, hey, [SPEAKER_02]: Steve felt the move and I'm sitting there like, you know, a dumb blonde, I have no idea what's going on.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just going because the people are like, yeah, you're doing this, you're doing that, you understand?

[SPEAKER_02]: And so, you know, Steve and I had a lot of times when we, if you want to call it bump heads, it was one time in particular, and I know he's upset with that, too.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like, you know, I was upset.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't even quit because he was being mean.

[SPEAKER_02]: And [SPEAKER_02]: They made them apologizing to make a grown man of apologizing just for, you know, just, you know, I think that was another thing, another nail in the coffin and I relationship, but I will say this to Steve, to Steve, you know, you bro, I get it, you know what I think, you know, you hide somebody on your team and they're very talented, but I think your crew's already tired already in the opportunity you gave him.

[SPEAKER_02]: that was God speaking to Steve like you got to make what happened with that young man right when he couldn't come and get me.

[SPEAKER_02]: But he did something really good.

[SPEAKER_02]: He changed someone's life like he could have changed my and it wasn't his responsibility.

[SPEAKER_02]: Let me get that straight out.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, it wasn't for him to be like, oh, this kid's good.

[SPEAKER_02]: I gotta take them.

[SPEAKER_02]: No, but he did something for somebody who I know is a good kid.

[SPEAKER_02]: And like I said, like he has a break program, Steve can have anybody on his show, but he chose his show and I just saw a lot of me and somebody who's on his show and I was like he did that for me not what did he thought he was doing it for me or not.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think the way the universe moved you still not talking to the studio.

[SPEAKER_02]: You say it's hard because you know, I still have those feelings sometimes because and I tried to reach out to Steve through people and it did work or whatever and I always felt like I said I got came up to him the last time I came up to you in a speech to me and I thought that we had a problem bro and you know I need to let you know I'm growing that was a boy 23 years old and I know [SPEAKER_02]: like your brain dumped the daughter to you 25, but I wasn't a cut-up, but at the same time couldn't understand, couldn't see what you saw.

[SPEAKER_02]: They stole a lot of money from me, what you'd probably meet milk, because they was trying to take it from you, and they got it from me, and it [SPEAKER_02]: It didn't end good for me in that respect as far as, you know, why being able to build my legacy and do things like that.

[SPEAKER_02]: So, you know what, I apologize, but I've never said anything negative.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know that, you would have came back to you, but I definitely would sign off if somebody says something bad about you in the room, I wouldn't defend it.

[SPEAKER_02]: So, maybe that's the guilt, but I'm telling you now, like I get a lot of the stuff that [SPEAKER_02]: And when I had to encounter, but, you know, I'm happy for you and your family, I'm proud of you, bro.

[SPEAKER_02]: And that's what I'm looking for.

[SPEAKER_02]: How am I?

[SPEAKER_02]: You didn't know what's there to be fair.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you didn't do that, bro.

[SPEAKER_02]: I feel good about that, man, because I also think sometimes we carry things.

[SPEAKER_02]: that we don't have to.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I think like I know Steve was going to see this and I think I'm not predicted anything, but I think maybe you want to bigger that too.

[SPEAKER_02]: So Steve just said, you know, like I said, I always win a huge fan.

[SPEAKER_02]: Rudy's always looked up to you that's been that mentor from afar.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I want to give a shout out to where you're dealing with the Steve Walker Foundation because I know personally the great work we do.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I want to say this last time, this last piece, Steve, definitely, because there were times that, you know, everything, you know, people talking about how bad did it are.

[SPEAKER_02]: It was some good times, you know?

[SPEAKER_02]: I think we laughed at Georgia side of makeup and all that other stuff.

[SPEAKER_02]: He gave me something that made me a bad comedian.

[SPEAKER_02]: I came off stage and he was like, you know what you want to do?

[SPEAKER_02]: Take that age out.

[SPEAKER_02]: You got the money that you end with most comics and we did best Joe.

[SPEAKER_02]: He said, take that Joe and made that your first to come up to date with that one.

[SPEAKER_02]: That'll make you have to take the B and C and D jokes and turn them into angels because now what he's going to end with, the rest can end and start with any joke at any time.

[SPEAKER_02]: And any arena and I credit Steve caught you made me a bad boy now.

[SPEAKER_02]: I thought he was setting you up there for No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, [SPEAKER_02]: So I think this is a perfect transition.

[SPEAKER_02]: it to go to the top five.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, hoodies.

[SPEAKER_02]: Top.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm most popular segment.

[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, that's Rudy Soppa.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This segment is sponsored by nobody right now, but this is top five things I wish I did during my 30 year economy when I was young.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like top five things I wish I did when I was all right.

[SPEAKER_02]: The first thing I wish I did when I was real I was being wrong with one of them.

[SPEAKER_02]: I was about you know I knew but you know what had I know you know there was some benefits to being right you know I got a lot of exposure so a lot of the things I got to do was because I was a good talent and then people saw and then I wanted to get paid but still it did a lot I wish I knew that before the second thing was number two I wish I would [SPEAKER_02]: When she was at the Apollo, you know, to support Kelly Romans, Kelly Harris, so a project that she wasn't with Jay Z yet.

[SPEAKER_02]: And she was looking at me, and I didn't realize it at the time.

[SPEAKER_02]: She was just like, you were so nice.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I should have been like, you know what?

[SPEAKER_02]: We're willing to do whatever it takes.

[SPEAKER_02]: Because I could have been like that couple.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not Jay Z.

[SPEAKER_02]: But so, how far away was she from you when she was in college?

[SPEAKER_02]: Bro, she was the little, not as close as we are, but closer.

[SPEAKER_02]: You were classic, right?

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, Jay Z was behind you.

[SPEAKER_02]: Super right, super right, super right for you.

[SPEAKER_02]: Bro, she was all in.

[SPEAKER_02]: I was handsome that day too.

[SPEAKER_02]: She was 40 feet away.

[SPEAKER_02]: Beyond you, you know, in your 20, 80.

[SPEAKER_02]: Now I'm in that case, okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm going to have a little goat tea going.

[SPEAKER_02]: My God.

[SPEAKER_02]: So listen, number three, man, you know what?

[SPEAKER_02]: Number three is I shouldn't start having kids in my 20s.

[SPEAKER_02]: Even though my 20s was great, my kids would be like, and, you know, in 18 and 20s now, I got a nine year old and 19 year old.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm telling you it hurts to pick up the value.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so I also have my kids, but I thought two and three were tied together in my pocket.

[SPEAKER_02]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no [SPEAKER_02]: the spirit of my hand over character.

[SPEAKER_02]: The spirit of my hand from the candy that fell out to me as mouth while we were out of rehearsal with the talking or bed end memories and all we were all laughing and joking as you have one of the blue gram on the pepper minutes and it popped out of mouth and before hit the floor it hit me in the hand and I don't know what made me do it in front of everybody.

[SPEAKER_02]: I just lick my hand and I was like that's all a great hill [SPEAKER_02]: He just kissed his wife and I probably just clicked that and my throat was hurt for three weeks.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna fix it on my wife's battery.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm gonna fix it on my wife's battery.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna fix it on my wife's battery.

[SPEAKER_02]: Last thing I wish I would've done in my 30s.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's tell day you should pay.

[SPEAKER_02]: to give me a cast decision when I offered the help him out with the Superlisher.

[SPEAKER_02]: A lot of people don't know.

[SPEAKER_02]: I hope the Superlisher wasn't doing too well at the time.

[SPEAKER_02]: I know, the great Superlisher historic, but you know what Dave called me.

[SPEAKER_02]: And he actually came once a deep bottle and came out and shot at me out in front of everybody.

[SPEAKER_02]: It was a great thing.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's an awesome friend, Charity Murphy's a good friend down there in the mountains.

[SPEAKER_02]: It was excellent experience to be a part of history.

[SPEAKER_02]: Me and Quest love out there for out and detained in the crowd.

[SPEAKER_02]: while I had the seat as the king of comedy at the time on us because Steve was the king and I took his seat for the moment.

[SPEAKER_02]: And so yeah, that was great.

[SPEAKER_02]: I should have asked for a cast position for everybody for my show.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's killing it now.

[SPEAKER_02]: You're about to be well, but I'm killing it now.

[SPEAKER_02]: Long man.

[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, so I'm good.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to be sure about it.

[SPEAKER_02]: My god now that Anna will mention was I wish I never wanted to sweat pants on a stadium in 1997.

[SPEAKER_02]: My bags.

[SPEAKER_02]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha [SPEAKER_02]: That's fine.

[SPEAKER_01]: She was fine.

[SPEAKER_01]: She was fine.

[SPEAKER_01]: She didn't have to make up on it.

[SPEAKER_01]: She still looked good.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, come on.

[SPEAKER_02]: You should have dressed something like that.

[SPEAKER_02]: I should have.

[SPEAKER_02]: She was.

[SPEAKER_02]: I see what she was doing.

[SPEAKER_02]: She was no way.

[SPEAKER_02]: All right.

[SPEAKER_02]: Doked up five.

[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_02]: The Mount Rushmore today.

[SPEAKER_02]: Told you.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not Rushmore of comics.

[SPEAKER_02]: Let me get my show ready for my war.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: Let me go inside.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's not, it's not, you know what, you don't have to put me on it.

[SPEAKER_02]: This is my top five, not my top five, not my top five, not my top five, not my top four, and I'm also gonna have a heal because I think there's actually eight Rick comics, okay?

[SPEAKER_02]: But the Mount Rushmore, no order, just my Mount Rushmore, okay?

[SPEAKER_02]: Richard, oh yeah, most definitely.

[SPEAKER_02]: No explanation.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, nobody on my list is the explain, but that's what I'm saying.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, for sure.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's everybody's.

[SPEAKER_02]: George Carter George calling the game is the game.

[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.

[SPEAKER_02]: They're super.

[SPEAKER_02]: They're super old man because you got to look at the you got to look at the tonal.

[SPEAKER_02]: story, the comedic story.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, I'm based a problem.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't disagreeing, but that's that's a big deal.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's my wish because there's a lot like, you know, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no [SPEAKER_02]: Well, DL, here's one man, like I have seen, I have seen DL in person seven eight times.

[SPEAKER_02]: I had the honor, DL Canyon Greenville, I had the honor of going back stage, you know, DL calls everybody to baby boy at the time, I was on, we were on the same network.

[SPEAKER_02]: for the podcast.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: Backstage, you get, you know this, right?

[SPEAKER_02]: When you go into improv and the is the comedy clubs, you go on, set one to quite show.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: And then you got the 9 o'clock show.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.

[SPEAKER_02]: I was backstage with DL after the 7 o'clock show till the moment.

[SPEAKER_02]: They had now said the amount of coaxial and give it up for you.

[SPEAKER_02]: I had it on a deal with you.

[SPEAKER_02]: He just walked out like we gave me so much wisdom backstage.

[SPEAKER_02]: We talked about life backstage like we were, I mean, he was, he was a mentor a mentor's backstage.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not a comedian.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like, yeah, deal is one of the brightest sharpest minds.

[SPEAKER_02]: I know.

[SPEAKER_02]: And we were just talking about life and business strategy.

[SPEAKER_02]: He gave me so much advice and then he goes on stage.

[SPEAKER_02]: And kills the set like, you know, that says people need their down.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you need your moments to kind of get up, but he was in home.

[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.

[SPEAKER_02]: He was the role of know what I do.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, bro, all down.

[SPEAKER_02]: Not rush.

[SPEAKER_02]: Well, and I'll say this real quick.

[SPEAKER_02]: Before I went to death, Jan, people were coming home.

[SPEAKER_02]: They went to death, Jan.

[SPEAKER_02]: This is when Martin was in those.

[SPEAKER_02]: And it was like, [SPEAKER_02]: Man, there's a guy who's flooded because the other used to do the warm-ups, and he was killing it.

[SPEAKER_02]: So, Ben's shout out to where he's come, how far he's coming, where he's going.

[SPEAKER_02]: Not only in film, television, but radio.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's done everything.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I will say he is, in my mind, the most relevant, the most relevant comic.

[SPEAKER_02]: Because something can happen.

[SPEAKER_02]: 10 minutes ago.

[SPEAKER_02]: And he is talking through and breaking it down.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, making you laugh and making you think all at the same time.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I've never seen any right to do it like my idea.

[SPEAKER_02]: All right.

[SPEAKER_02]: So now my mini for my next.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, on the hill on the hill burning Matt.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: Bernie Mac.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we'll give you one.

[SPEAKER_02]: I need everybody to go look this this lady up.

[SPEAKER_02]: She is one of my favorite comedians of all time.

[SPEAKER_02]: Panic that's telling.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: I know who she is back.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm saying the legend one of I think one of the greatest wait a minute.

[SPEAKER_02]: Did you have a meeting with person?

[SPEAKER_02]: Not yet.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, because I was going to say you like to be a people who was that you just met name was nice to you.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's not the earth.

[SPEAKER_02]: Well, that's one that we are here because of that's my non-horror.

[SPEAKER_02]: See you later.

[SPEAKER_02]: Let me give you a minute.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yes.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, Eddie, where have you gone?

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to go.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to have a minute.

[SPEAKER_03]: Eddie.

[SPEAKER_03]: I know him.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: He'll see what he's doing.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we know him.

[SPEAKER_01]: Kill him a horse.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm saying.

[SPEAKER_01]: Kill him a horse.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: But there's so many people though.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know who he rush.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know who he rush.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know who he rush.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know who he rush.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know who he rush.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know who he rush.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know who he rush.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know who he rush.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know who he rush.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know who he rush.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know who he rush.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know who he rush.

[SPEAKER_02]: That was good and it was it was thought out so yeah, I'd be credit for that and like you said is yours But there was some people on that hill that I would move up on there and some people I would put down on the hill And this would be well put on a in a car on the way to the peace of shop when we get a sponsor for Rudy Smart Rushmore five years And you keep hearing your soup.

[SPEAKER_02]: Are you leaving me make you know at all?

[SPEAKER_02]: You have Beyonce on a show with you And no, we got a sponsor for your talk five.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't get my top five.

[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know or moments.

[SPEAKER_02]: I wish I could do it [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, right?

[SPEAKER_02]: He's journey part two because we stopped it because I really wanted that Steve moment to the to my Nick is on for the day.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yes, Nick is a while you have time.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, have the conversations while you have time.

[SPEAKER_02]: Have the conversations because you never want those.

[SPEAKER_02]: What if you never want those?

[SPEAKER_02]: Man, if I could have just had one while you have time, [SPEAKER_02]: but we will do Rudy started part two.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, we've got to go to radio and start and then the mentorship from Doug Baines.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you know, COVID to some other stories to joke still in my week going, I'm going, I'm breaking everything up like I am.

[SPEAKER_02]: There's no words.

[SPEAKER_02]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, [SPEAKER_02]: Rudy's part two.

[SPEAKER_02]: Get ready.

[SPEAKER_00]: Stop it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I know you want to hear.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sorry.

[SPEAKER_00]: Appreciate you, man.