Rudy Rush's Journey- Part 2
Episode Transcript
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, what's up?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Rudy Rush.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, so this is part two of the journey to story of the promise that that less Queens.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, you're all I'm sorry, it's fine, it's fine, that's right is what he call himself.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, so you can just listen to or just watch part one of these.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and we're releasing these same day.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's not like you had to wait.
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't have two on one day.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, nice.
[SPEAKER_01]: Here's your story tonight.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's nice.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ask two people with story.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to tell you the truth.
[SPEAKER_01]: Steve Steve called and cursed me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you're might have been a phone call.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, but I think that's a great, a great segue in the part to.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we're doing this often to, you know, we do a ton of research on everything we do, but at the so or part one of that episode was so strong that I was like, hey, we need to finish this story.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so, you know, that journey, really, man, we just left off with so much time ago.
[SPEAKER_01]: And for a lot of people, bro, like that would have been the peak.
[SPEAKER_01]: That would have been the peak.
[SPEAKER_01]: That would have been yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a career because of people.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, you know, even if they didn't nothing else after that, and I think, [SPEAKER_01]: Some people would say, now it was a great, you had a great run, you know, but it's more to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's more to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that what happened?
[SPEAKER_01]: Why happened next?
[SPEAKER_01]: I know, you know, you said you kind of a seeking mentorship and you were looking for that in some people and yeah, did you think you were going to find it a video?
[SPEAKER_01]: No, I had no idea that I would, and it just came out of nowhere, actually, you know, after the Apollo run, which was, you know, like filled with all types of films and comfortableness, and, you know, it was just, it was the best and the worst of times, honestly, because you know, I'm on TV every week, so I'm being noticed, and I'm getting access to things that I wouldn't before, and one of the things that I did get access to travel on [SPEAKER_01]: It's affiliated with the Apollo, it's being on radio and interviewing and doing things like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tell them it's just, you know, I got a chance to do a small couple of stints in radio and Dallas.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then I got a big opportunity because if you familiar with Doug Bands, you know, a great, great, great, Doug Bands out of Chicago.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's not from Chicago from Detroit area, but he, you know, made his bowl of Chicago really close.
[SPEAKER_01]: And good friends with Tom Joy to kind of came up in that group.
[SPEAKER_01]: and he had a morning show and it was him, Ricky Smiley, D.
McGuire, who's doing really great radio, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: So it was the three of them and a few other cast members and stuff like that, and then Ricky Smiley actually loved.
[SPEAKER_01]: the team to go off and do his own thing, which he's still doing right now, shout out to him.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he knew he was his Thomas, you know, to leave the show, how it started before I got on the show.
[SPEAKER_01]: As the host of the Apollo, every year, Deity and Doug will come to New York to do a taping at the Apollo.
[SPEAKER_01]: They would do like, you know, a day or two, and everybody will come out.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm always missing because I'll be on until the top of the day.
[SPEAKER_01]: me and that's my favorite show, but you know, I can't believe I'm saying that right now, but I actually had a favorite radio.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it was nice to always wanted to meet them.
[SPEAKER_01]: They wanted on the radio in New York City as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: They would nationally know.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, man, and then.
[SPEAKER_01]: happened to me, Doug at a real man's cook.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I guess it was an event for real man cook.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he was the end owner's dad.
[SPEAKER_01]: We kind of hit it off.
[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, no major fireworks, no come work for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was just like, hey, man, I'm glad, you know, you do what you don't listen to.
[SPEAKER_01]: You got some sorry, Michelle, I think it was that kind of an exchange.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we move on.
[SPEAKER_01]: But then I ran into DD and Las Vegas hosted a McDonald's kids tour and sure enough, you know, just [SPEAKER_01]: the conversations from that and just then watching me, you know, like from afar and up close because I did some radio when they lost Ricky, they were like, well, you know, this guy's pretty good.
[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, he was with Joe Soto Bridge out to Joe Soto does my first radio gig and then I also have a stand on the table show under what that was.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hell on wheels, basically.
[SPEAKER_01]: and I'm glad I showed her not a super cool friend's man because it was just like it got real ugly but then we got older and you know what she has many blessings with the CBS gang and seeing each other in New York when we kind of kiss and made up so I was happy about that but it dug was really my first big opportunity and radio and they gave me a call and people don't know this at the same time that [SPEAKER_01]: Doug offered a gig with ABC Radio.
[SPEAKER_01]: Doug was let go, or at least they were taken off in New York.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, house in the case and go, so they didn't have a different direction.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they didn't browse, so I don't have to be rocked.
[SPEAKER_01]: They didn't browse.
[SPEAKER_01]: Who was the director of the program director at the time?
[SPEAKER_01]: Who had people like Doug, when he whims, he had a really big roster over at.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, I approached my agency and they wanted me to take over for Doug in New York because I sat there and I'd done so well that they were very, you know, and it offered a lot, I said at the same time, Doug and those guys were all for it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, a little less.
[SPEAKER_01]: But for me, it was like, I'm going to learn.
[SPEAKER_01]: from the best, sitting with them, the nationally known of a comedian, I can benefit from that, do my shows on the, you know, instead of being in New York, you can't promote in Kansas City, can't promote and, you know, in Chicago, what would do that can.
[SPEAKER_01]: So what I was going to do is I was like, take that out to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: So anyway, I started working with them and it was like, instant chemistry.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it was the best time, especially initially, and like me said before in the last episode, Doug represented that one older brother, like Uncle, like father, like figured that was like, you know, he would do interviews and I mean, it was still, you know, since we mean now that he would be like Rudy knows to have, he knows how to get in it, get out, he knows the timing of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I really felt like I did, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: you gave all the confidence just to be exactly what I wanted to be and I thought I took full of magic on it and it was a great amazing everything and radio it always fine no no and let me say that differently the business already [SPEAKER_01]: And sometimes the human resources, the HR.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, of radio aren't always what is cracked up to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So let's talk about that for people.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think it's too full.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think we start with the business of radio for we actually end up into the HR videos.
[SPEAKER_01]: So for people that are watching.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I know a lot of times out we're streaming more, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, and some people will say that radio is a dying media breed, but then there's others that will tell you it is still the key of media, especially when you talk about advertisers and sponsors.
[SPEAKER_01]: So talk about the business of.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the business for radio for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was very interesting.
[SPEAKER_01]: And people, you know, if you haven't got a chance to be a radio, which a lot of people don't get, but it's really like, [SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's a lot of things that go along with it, you know, proper management sales this, you know, relationships are very being radio and, you know, I had a great time working with Doug, but you know, I didn't go without it's fair share of controversy or headaches and stuff, especially as close as we were, you know, just imagine, you know, I was with them one and I was with my friends.
[SPEAKER_01]: family.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I mean, I'm there every morning with them.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, I mean, I don't know how many people are some of us were.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I was wondering, you know, I mean, so you had to deal with that aspect, travel with each other, you know, somebody has an attitude, somebody's being well, money, like there's all types of things that can bring, you know, I'm going to boom this, but we had some of the best times too.
[SPEAKER_01]: But some of the things that I kind of, you know, got from radio.
[SPEAKER_01]: early on, even working with Doug and ABC, it was just like some characters there that if people are not, you know, responsible for your successful, you know, or they just have something that they want to control, they can't.
[SPEAKER_01]: I remember getting paid very well to start with Doug, but I [SPEAKER_01]: told you I took a huge pay cut to come work with them because I wanted to learn under the best.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was working for me, but man, you know, I was still living off for someone like Apollo, fame, and money, and stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I was fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, the checks I was getting out, I appreciated it, but we just added you to just being able to do whatever I wanted to.
[SPEAKER_01]: And like I said at the time, it still had no kids, but you know, I was, [SPEAKER_01]: expecting a child and my first and I'm building this house and let me tell you people from the hood always tell you I got to go.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got to go and I got to go and I got to work and then I got my car.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to see me at work with this.
[SPEAKER_01]: It didn't even start after money.
[SPEAKER_01]: You didn't think that's, you know, it goes in one day and I've the other, but you know, honestly, in a live case, I don't care if you black white, it's like, you know what, the hate is going ahead.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I, you know, I was such a nice guy at work.
[SPEAKER_01]: I wanted everybody to have a good time and love each other and stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I was like, you know what I'm going to do?
[SPEAKER_01]: It's my first year in this big old house.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to have a fall through July barbecue.
[SPEAKER_01]: My mom is here.
[SPEAKER_01]: She don't cook.
[SPEAKER_01]: And let me tell you one of those.
[SPEAKER_01]: you know directors or executives came by the house with his family and the first 80's said when he stepped on the cause like we paid you too much and you know I was quick to let him know like this ain't ABC money this is now I'm gonna I'm really rushed I'm a pilot I'm deaf comedy jam I'm here right right you guys just you don't pay for the paper plates [SPEAKER_01]: whether whether it was the house or just my performance, which I doubt that very seriously we were like number one, you know, I didn't get, you know, my contract was just, I was just at a stalemate with it for a long time until, you know, things kind of fizzled and dug like the lead it and we went along with it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I was with Doug for eight and a half years.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I said, it was full of fun and things like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And unfortunately, you know, the reason why Doug [SPEAKER_01]: you know, a nice part of ways because Michael Bayes, and if you remember, he left and he was the opportunity for Doug to get more markets, meaning it's taking some of the markets that were left over by Michael Bayes, and somebody convinced him, yeah, no, who they are at Doug should let me go and take one George World Walk, which was a big mistake, but they thought it would work because George is from Chicago.
[SPEAKER_01]: Worst of the state, they've made, you know, I'm talking freely now like that because, you know what?
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's one thing to do things, and I thought Doug did the right thing for him to make the money and move in the direction where, you know, what even some teams and sports, you don't let her show walk or go, so you can get Michael Irving and the boys in the Amherst of Championships, you know.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so that's how that's how I took as much as I didn't like it eight and a half years That's my family.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's all I know that there was a trepidation of some, you know, some fear But at the same time, I wasn't mad and done.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would just kind of I was kind of funky on how he did you know Really well anyway [SPEAKER_01]: move it forward, you know, I got an opportunity right right away, not right away.
[SPEAKER_01]: Honestly, I left in the April and during the year I was working with ESPN and they were trying to develop a show on a sports network.
[SPEAKER_01]: That didn't go through.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I fly to California and I'm in Cali on my buddies couch going to different sitting on the set with Kevin Hart in those guys, apparently when they shooting the husband's the Hollywood and all of the stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this is early, this is late mid to late 2013, then I get the phone call.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, Doc went across me and he's like, yo, we started up a new station in Houston.
[SPEAKER_01]: I loved you on Doug's show.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think you're great.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think you could do this by yourself.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm off to Houston.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm in Houston after noon.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm on for five years.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was a great time, but it was a lonely time because I was out there.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I started dating again and then starting another family, you know, to track the number one I have, but she's my daughter, but I'm more than I would no longer be together.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, having another baby coming in my second after 10 years, my oldest is turning 10.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm out here by myself, because even the young lady I was dating was in Dallas.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm driving back and forth.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just going to all these things and just kind of keep everybody happy.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a tough time, even though I was doing really well in radio.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that was cool, but then again, he comes back and wants to again program directors, many managers, and I don't know they have a job to do, but it was sometimes the worst thing, and like I said, I got my list of quotes from me brothers and sisters that unlike, like, much like the comment, you know, we pay me too much.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I got a program director that comes in, [SPEAKER_01]: After two years, we'd be at number one from this.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm making this story of members.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, you can go back and check that if you think I'm playing.
[SPEAKER_01]: But instead of him coming in and saying, and you don't have to come in and say, oh man, you really rush a ball of love, but you know, recognize what I'm doing.
[SPEAKER_01]: And obviously I'm doing it well.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if you feel me and you know me now well enough to know, like if there's something I need to learn, there's something I need to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't want to go it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So come in with that attitude like, [SPEAKER_01]: I feel we could get better with this and this and that to really take you and maybe we can, you know, sell me a drink, we can go national league and we can bring a TV show or something that makes it, you know, good for you and I to kind of get in our first English brothers says, hey.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I was downstairs in sales.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm ladies likely, man, down there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to keep you from down there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, what does that have to do with me?
[SPEAKER_01]: There's nobody saying, oh, he flirts with this one.
[SPEAKER_01]: They all seeing my lady when they come into town and my kids.
[SPEAKER_01]: And all, so I felt like, you know, that got us off on a raw foot.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not a bad situation.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I heard, actually.
[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, it's all people's perspective.
[SPEAKER_01]: Done passed away.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to Dallas, not only for the funeral, but to also bring my youngest into the world, you know, some band born in Dallas, so I asked the guy who said that because everything was no, everything was you don't understand.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, this is Mr.
No, I was going home.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was just needed to help.
[SPEAKER_01]: Doug's crew stay afloat then lost your cargo and then I jumped on just for a couple of weeks they were trying on George World Boss Simbad.
[SPEAKER_01]: It just wasn't a correct fit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Those guys are super talented.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it just made me money wise.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what it was.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I came in in a 7 and what they realized is that during my time in Houston, I gained not only the communities skills that are already having, but I [SPEAKER_01]: got some broadcasts and skills now.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know how to do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it might all the things that Doug taught me and directly missed the reality.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, and it was crazy.
[SPEAKER_01]: But then, you know, after some time, after Doug passed it, they were like, help.
[SPEAKER_01]: What do you need to beat a guy?
[SPEAKER_01]: So they offered me the gig.
[SPEAKER_01]: They offered me Doug's show and Rick Doug's show, the craziest thing about it was that I told him.
[SPEAKER_01]: I said, I'm I'm I'm loyal to [SPEAKER_01]: Houston and James Horan told us about us.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, on it's though let me tell you some of my on it's what were you going to do?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, man that 1200 I was doing so on a toast 1200 a week, but no, that's what we're going to be talking about.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was getting from on it's the broadcast live and then I'm about free wings, drinks, and I've been telling me I'm ladies.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm Lincoln one and two.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't do y'all.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you can see him.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can talk to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he was a blast, but I really didn't dive in like a could of, you know, if I was a little more single and I'm just not saying just for the lady just for me to be able to be out because when I was there, I was just, you know, in my place and just whatever anyway, I tell these guys, listen, I can't do Doug show because, I don't know, I can't do Doug show because, I don't know, I can't do Doug show because I don't know, I can't do Doug show because I don't know, I can't do Doug show because I don't know, I can't do Doug show because I don't know, I can't do Doug show because I don't know, I can't do Doug show because I don't know, I can't do Doug show because I don't know, I can't do Doug show because I don't know, I can't do Doug show because I don't know, I can't do Doug show because I don't know, I can [SPEAKER_01]: you know I'm I'm going to you don't have to leave there you could stay there I said well done show clocking on with two to six let's show so two to six oh you could you could record at twelve twelve to two so what I did was I gave her which I was my contract was up I could have walked [SPEAKER_01]: I said, like, you know what, give me the same base you gave me before, which I know you and your, you know, your regime wouldn't allow that then, you know, we would go get some more money.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I said, let me use the studios to, I heard, you know, studios to to the other show, you let me use the ISD online and you do the other show.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I said, you know, because and this is another thing that goes back to the Apollo days.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm wrapping myself because I [SPEAKER_01]: deal for me like like I'm hallowed on my own.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm saying yes and no when that's not the way to go.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't even thought they tell you they don't want you to have an age in a lawyer and not you have to.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because somebody means it'd be the bad guy.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can't.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it was a big to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: Two guys started talking across the table and they brought this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry, but they did that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they said, how much I'll pay it to him and then they ran it up to cold to the high erupts and they found out how much it was just it was a substantial amount over half of me between the two shows and life changing from my family back where I'm the customer being even more so, you know.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was trying to keep me from doing both of them that I had a lawyer.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was living that I got a lawyer.
[SPEAKER_01]: I said, nobody's speaking on my behalf and I'm trying to tell you what I'm trying to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: You guys are telling me I can't have how to young lady in the internet from me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, you can't have somebody in the studio to start an employee.
[SPEAKER_01]: Meanwhile, the show's down the hallway.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, God's God is wife working on the on the on the board.
[SPEAKER_01]: And she's not an employee.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's his show.
[SPEAKER_01]: So there was all kinds of things that I did.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it was a lot of bad blood.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some conversations that should have had been had with my manager in the high erupts.
[SPEAKER_01]: I had to have it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So there was some feelings going, you're not being honest.
[SPEAKER_01]: So people don't want to be called a liar.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what it was.
[SPEAKER_01]: was, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: So, and I felt bad about it because the one person that I did kind of go at it with, I really liked it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it wasn't about that.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was just handling the business in the way, you know, I'm like, looking at everybody, like, I'm being attacked.
[SPEAKER_01]: So anyway, that's what happened with that situation.
[SPEAKER_01]: But then shortly after that, I get called to come and replace.
[SPEAKER_01]: who else they're taking Steve Harvey off and Dallas, not this again, not the Steve Harvey thinking again.
[SPEAKER_01]: He already made up.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, we already made up.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, this is something that was in the air with Steve and the station wanted to go on a different direction at the time, so they got me to come.
[SPEAKER_01]: from Houston, and I broke my contract and Houston, like I said, the blood was so bad that they were like, okay, yeah, go ahead.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it wasn't like the show was failing on that ambit.
[SPEAKER_01]: There was just, it was just so much residual from that talk.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was like, I needed to give me five years I was dead.
[SPEAKER_01]: no going away.
[SPEAKER_01]: It feels bad.
[SPEAKER_01]: I still got some feelings about that because I did a lot there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Kids events in seniorers, volleyball games, don't need you for people who have eye surgery because they tend to fall.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let that be all famous.
[SPEAKER_01]: A nice place.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, to all of that happen, I'm going to tell you how I'm about out of Houston, really.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was the town hall meeting.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to put this out there.
[SPEAKER_01]: The president had one of the ladies with friends like kids around and watch some kids grow up.
[SPEAKER_01]: He always got up in the studio.
[SPEAKER_01]: He pulls a little girl up on stage and asked her.
[SPEAKER_01]: He was like, hey, you like to hear something up here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not very good.
[SPEAKER_01]: He said, who's the coolest guy here?
[SPEAKER_01]: and she thought she was gonna say him and she said in front of everybody, pretty much.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, I'm out.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, I'm gone.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, he can say, oh, I don't even remember that he's killing him.
[SPEAKER_01]: It does kind of what happened.
[SPEAKER_01]: So anyway, I come to Dallas or the situation of a lifetime.
[SPEAKER_01]: He promised him the stable in urban acing morning show.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he's being taken off in a domino effect.
[SPEAKER_01]: May start with the show that I am a part of, which is called the Morning Rush.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, my colleague, my written person, my co-host who I am all about women empowerment, because I work with these.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know how well it could be to die and have a between a man and the woman on the air going back and forth, or you know, just being in front of the perspective.
[SPEAKER_01]: But they hire Claudia Jordan.
[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, I didn't have a problem with Claudia.
[SPEAKER_01]: Claudia, I really didn't know I knew what she was, but I didn't, I'm not a, you know, it's histories and the messiness because she's a reality-based person.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you don't have that reality-based, it's just started to simmer down.
[SPEAKER_01]: Before back then, it was like the Wild Wild West, people are throwing, you know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Drinks in each other's face and fight in all of the stuff, but and she, you know, I should have moved up that was born on because one of her requirements was like, well, don't call me now, how old are you?
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, well, why would I do that?
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I mean, but she had some baggage, and she was being told things which she didn't realize.
[SPEAKER_01]: She'd been told things, upon this thing, about this show that it would be more heard.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I was there for the meetings, I'm the one that said this should be the morning rush.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, you're time to speak and operate in the center.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, as soon as we got there, we were in trouble out of the gate.
[SPEAKER_01]: She was upset because, you know, she found out some financial things, she thought we should be paid this day and like, I worked really hard.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not about a male or female.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you weren't the radio for for 20, you know, all these years and we're number one, then I can only, you know, step to the side and say, yeah, you know, either we get equal bill because I think the same thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: or I got to come in and be your co-host, you know, and so was a problem which turned into an HR situation and we talked about that briefly.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, there was some pitches being shown which is, you know, people say the word sexual harassment used the term as excuse me, and they think that is somebody trying to like sexually gick with you physically or whatever, but sometimes [SPEAKER_01]: it boils down to, you know, crossing barriers that you shouldn't cross and, you know, women sometimes in the ladies you know, if you're a social media public figure, women get some of the most dirty pitches, you know, some of them say they have a choice to open it, but anyway, she was showing male body parts in this studio and I didn't like it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And finally, after the third time she didn't have to go to HR, which I found out about HR, the hard way, HR is not [SPEAKER_01]: They're there to help, but they're there to help the best edges of the company.
[SPEAKER_01]: They'll make you feel like they're taking care of you.
[SPEAKER_01]: They moved me from that show, took me off a show with my name, and I moved this from 33 where Steve was before he left and plused the 18th and we were calm and went to DD's where she was three-four.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was all about, they were done good.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I put them in number one, and I got all of the chips to prove, well, again, I bought them.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that was a show, go to number one, when you say those numbers, what does that mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, in the ratings, so, you know, when they do all the urban shows, what is urban AC, or this pop shows, but basically all of those shows in that demographic and the of the morning shows, the Spanish show, the pop shows, [SPEAKER_01]: You know, like, what's the kill me, what's the number for the show?
[SPEAKER_01]: And we went to number one, we were number one, number two, the time I was there.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so it was measuring listener track.
[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely listener track, the EIS.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so we did that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so, not to say I'm a king in that, but I never been out of the top five, forget top 10.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so, you know, with that, I just assume, honestly, that when my contract was up for renegotiation or just not even a renegotiation, [SPEAKER_01]: to pick up the extension.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is during COVID and we came back 20% of our pay whatever on story sure they didn't take the option and the funny thing about it is okay I'm really rush yeah I'm gonna be honest which I was like oh I could jump on the tool I'll call somebody get on the stage whatever that's one.
[SPEAKER_01]: September 10, 2020 the world is shut down there's nothing open there's nobody flying nothing so now I'm in trouble [SPEAKER_01]: Most of you show a year later, not even a year later, and June, I oldest ordered mother passes away.
[SPEAKER_01]: So a father passed in 2019.
[SPEAKER_01]: These things happen at work.
[SPEAKER_01]: My relationship is going down to, since now, my oldest ordered mother passes, and like now, I'm in trouble.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so, [SPEAKER_01]: It took me a year.
[SPEAKER_01]: I used my savings, all the things that I could do to keep everything fought for my oldest daughter to come.
[SPEAKER_01]: She didn't want to come.
[SPEAKER_01]: She wanted to come in like two years later.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I started working with Bill Bellamy and you know, the funny part is, you know, he called me and said, you need to borrow some money.
[SPEAKER_01]: How's that?
[SPEAKER_01]: I bet if you could take me on a row, they're back in this room.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm all about earning, you know what I'm saying?
[UNKNOWN]: And so [SPEAKER_01]: Now we're here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, funny, like, you know, those years.
[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, working with Bill was cool, but it's just like, you know, being a headline in myself, it was very hard because the page is not well for features and stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that money was doing nothing more than buying two pages for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Honestly, you know, compared to, you know, when you make it half a million dollars a year, you make it 200 feet, whatever.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then I say, it builds cheap.
[SPEAKER_01]: No at all.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, 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_01]: You're saying that you cut it.
[SPEAKER_01]: The pay is cheap.
[SPEAKER_01]: Very young.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know if he had something to do with it I'm sure he would give me ample the cheap.
[SPEAKER_01]: He has a fan to I guess.
[SPEAKER_01]: He got a fetus fan to sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_01]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_01]: So [SPEAKER_01]: This is a story of really rush.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, and pretty, you know, the funny thing about it is like it gives a lot of excitement in it, but it's a lot of, you know, one thing I did through all this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I had to learn, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: And it goes to boundaries and things like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, you know, I have to shout out my therapist was actually my couple's therapist.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, well you too.
[SPEAKER_01]: My couple's therapist, they're my job.
[SPEAKER_01]: she called me after a couple years as she was like my husband and now we were wondering about you and wanted to call and see if he was all right in my mind I'm like I'm thinking like oh she knew I was right you know whatever because you think you always want to be the right person but [SPEAKER_01]: Let me tell you this, this woman in her husband became my support team.
[SPEAKER_01]: I totally like, hey, I can pay you, but can't eat this week.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's where I met with it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And she was like, no, we're going to do this as, you know, it's free.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you just give us a lot of love, all for it.
[SPEAKER_01]: When you get back on your feet.
[SPEAKER_01]: And one thing that they did, which kind of really choked me out, I was performing with Bill.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it was the second show.
[SPEAKER_01]: I did Baltimore and I did really well.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he was like, oh, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: We had a really good wanting part to meet super, right, and it moves a step.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so, we got a Houston, and in Houston, they took a bus from Dallas to Houston.
[SPEAKER_01]: And anyway, we're at the bus.
[SPEAKER_01]: For our bus ride is a bus ride.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the new, you know, Dr.
King and Rose Apology do that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you know, you're doing that just in case you don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it was time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so so long, bus ride just to come to the improv and they, you know, the couple of studio and beyond internet like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: So they knew I was a comedian, but not to what extent.
[SPEAKER_01]: and I performed my butt off the night like I said, I'm on a mission.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, and it was just a beautiful thing to see the people online for the second show.
[SPEAKER_01]: See me see them and like I said before, I'm looking for this thing my whole life or support and family like it felt like my aunt and my uncle came.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was a child that it was they was children.
[SPEAKER_01]: People were my almost crying.
[SPEAKER_01]: They waited for the after the second show to be like, we was outside of me so like, you are good.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, oh my gosh, man, may make me cry again.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, so, you know, even with working with Bill, like, you know, I wrote a book.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I met a gentleman who helped me write it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's all about just the person of experience because there's a lot of men taking themselves out.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I was in that place not suicidal, but I have to be honest for the first time I felt so uncomfortable with the fact that I understood suicide more than I ever could before.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I always used to be somewhat of a hypocrite.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why would you check out on your kids?
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, but I never knew the dynamics of to be lied on or taken and misused or your kids kind of, you know, go to one side and leave someone else's story and that, you know, they saw you every day happening.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come up.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so it helped me in a lot of ways, which even helped me to meet you to say, hey, man, you know, this young dude is like, I don't mean it was an energy thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, man, he could show me something that the space that I'm in around the people that I'm around right now to come back.
[SPEAKER_01]: and have my home.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not come back and meet back in the circles, but come back and have my own circle.
[SPEAKER_01]: He'll show me how to find it and I appreciate it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's why we're here now.
[SPEAKER_01]: No man, I appreciate you.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we go back to that story.
[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about it in episode one a little bit just.
[SPEAKER_01]: you were someone I looked up to right like you spent some time in the carolinas right like you you were proud to talk about not getting in the carolinas some time low-cut you play the week I of course 60 points of two games they still yes still on the books like what are you selling you so you know team play 12 to 13 but you're in the back moves though I have been there it's not [SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, I was so just touched by your humility because again, you are the prodigy, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like this episode, part one or two is all about the Rudy Rush story that's been written so far.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because the story's not complete, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: But we're always writing our story.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just how humble you were because, again, at that night, man, I was like, wait, is that the Rudy Rush?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you know when you put the in front of somebody's name?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you know, like, is that the Rudy Rush [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's the host.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: This show was about to be fired live and I made sure that's the one thing I did right.
[SPEAKER_01]: I went out with a bank because I said, they don't get to that line as on this show.
[SPEAKER_01]: They don't even know it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it happened to one of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we have, you know, they'll have a great situation going on and we down a little super well and things started happening and I was like, you know, I got to go and [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, different direction.
[SPEAKER_01]: It had to end at some point.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm glad to be able to just rock with him.
[SPEAKER_01]: And now, you know, you know, some other stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're cool, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: We good.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got to have therapy like court one now.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna let him step on the couch.
[SPEAKER_01]: We good.
[SPEAKER_01]: We good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, you know, I still ain't no friend.
[SPEAKER_01]: It should be in.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, we good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm speaking of being good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is there anyone else?
[SPEAKER_01]: that we need to say rude.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, not.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, there's a few people who say my name and don't say it to my face.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I would never confront them because unless you say it to me, I don't know that you really do have a problem with me.
[SPEAKER_01]: But, you know, there's a gentleman who works with Bill and, you know, they're going to get on me this again because I said something on, you know, Garfield has a car cast.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we know Garfield's car cast.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he was talking about joke these and all his other stuff in the gentleman was stealing my jokes.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm saying that's not stealing.
[SPEAKER_01]: real, isn't it, isn't it, isn't it?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because, you know, no, D.R.
[SPEAKER_01]: He'll be safe before you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, I just borrowed it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can't.
[SPEAKER_01]: So here's, so this is the thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, let me explain my position because I'm not the official, not like I'm not the police of the jokes dealer.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm never 30 years.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've confronted this in the second time.
[SPEAKER_01]: The first time I was.
[SPEAKER_01]: maybe 22 when I said something somebody, you know, and I heard my food.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's still your joke, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a family reunion.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I'm wanting to just say, you didn't come out there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, sort of stole my lives on the first episode of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you bring that up, I ain't saying that because you, you also watched the tape or like he said that.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, but no, this guy, a skit card event.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to say his name because it's just, you know, I have a lot of, or I had a lot of respect for him.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this is just the thing, because the of you, he said he says he doesn't know one comedian who hasn't installed.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have similar jokes to a few comics.
[SPEAKER_01]: And even when we're on the show again and there, we understand that there's a, there's a code you don't use it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Or you talk about it if you need to use it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I'm saying, that's that's really the counter amongst community.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, yo, Rudy's got a dog, I'm not a dog, Joe.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let me, let me ask him if you want to use it or I'm just not going to use my.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't have to ask him if he uses the use.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that was the thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: But my whole thing with this, we was on tour with Bill for like, maybe together, maybe we've done my 12 shows.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can't tell me after the sixth show that we have to become like you can't.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't see it one through five now show six to what you know saying now we do a similar on the same show like and I had posted the proper way But then you know those guys are all you should go on a social media or platform.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like I sold to him already you guys just want me to help up to any and then come [SPEAKER_01]: hard and now we fight them in the status that I'm not going to be able to come back to.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't even know, I really like it because that's only the only place to call them out or be on stage.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now you saw the negative with it.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was the guy that I've won on stage.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they didn't talk to me that that was just funny.
[SPEAKER_01]: I but I didn't expect them to be happy after that saying that, but this is a professional.
[SPEAKER_01]: aspect that you have to have and come into a bill that you speak whenever I said it was up they work past me so I actually go up on stage to be like hey come into the stage there's next to you might hear a few of my jobs and anybody else's you know what I'm like but I would do that right I was just here you did not you did not [SPEAKER_01]: Now I brought him up and you guys couldn't, you gave him his accomplishments, it gave or something up, told everybody what he was doing.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, like you gotta be able to shift gears, even if you feel somebody's done wrong being out.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like I did wrong.
[SPEAKER_01]: I felt like I spoke in defense of my integrity when I built for over 30 years.
[SPEAKER_01]: And like I said, the problem I had with Bill was Bill was co-signing on them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Each of me was starting to fish you on.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's for certain.
[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, I ain't got a lot of laws, but at the same time, that's what so I have to exit and take myself out of that situation and get out that stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: Can time heal it?
[SPEAKER_01]: No, that's over to heal.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I'm going to run you on ski, good.
[SPEAKER_01]: If I see speed and ski wants to have a conversation of, say, what's up, I can do that, but probably we probably never be friends.
[SPEAKER_01]: because of because of, you know, the fact that he feels and even after watching this, they don't feel so tight to the way that you can't stop people from feeling this in a type of way, especially if they're not in the right.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't care what my advice is, I feel that I'm in the right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't worry, I'm in Joe Fevery.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think you're right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, you can have respect and I have to be friends.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, I'm just kidding.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have, sir.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm gonna say this because you know that's [SPEAKER_01]: Now listen, I was mad too this week with Joan back and forth over the time and stuff make that into the picture issue, no one's putting online and saying something funny, but that had happened, so I was like, I can't do that, that didn't suffice.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I'm saying, I'm talking about me, but no, I wish and more of the best.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I just can't be a part of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't work with you anymore.
[SPEAKER_01]: If it's up to me, I'm all, and if somebody can't be enough, I'll get on the show with anybody.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: But at the same time, if someone asked me and then my opinion managed it, I'm gonna work with what they do.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I want to I want to go into before we get to to this top five.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to go into the art of joke telling story song because I do I mean anyone that has seen Rudy lie when he brings it [SPEAKER_01]: which is all the time, you hurt, you jealous hurt, still hurt, like neck hurt, you probably shouldn't saw somebody so that I didn't tell you, shoulders hurt.
[SPEAKER_01]: But there's a art, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, you know, I do a lot of speaking and I tell people that are speaking or what these speakers, man, speaking is nothing but stories of points.
[SPEAKER_01]: Less Brown taught me never tell the story without making a point and never make a point without telling the story.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's also some of the art to joke tell.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't tell me on that side because one of the things that I know is a speaker.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've seen you do this with different bits and you have.
[SPEAKER_01]: You've got to know how to tell.
[SPEAKER_01]: a bit of story and 60 seconds, maybe the three minute version of that story and if the energy is good, maybe the five minute or how to how to make that and keep coming back to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you do that, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like better than anyone that I know talk more about just the aren't.
[SPEAKER_01]: Man, the auto time, you have to learn, do the fire in New York City, you know, one of the high beds of comedy and any, and a time where it was the deaf jam error.
[SPEAKER_01]: So everything was on a high level.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, any night, you can be on stage and Chris Tucker.
[SPEAKER_01]: Dave Chappelle anybody could be walking do that one last day is tracing Morgan just the name of few.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so I learned by just watching, you know, always and still have to have it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I watch every show like I, you know, even when I'm the headliner, I watched at least if we're doing a weekend, I've got to watch the first couple of shows just to get the rhythm.
[SPEAKER_01]: See what the crowd haven't read and in and out.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I'm saying?
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a real important thing to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm so successful because I watch the crowd and I'm like, okay, they like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: or they don't like that, or I would have done this that way, but even though you've got a thousand personalities, there's some common thing that makes them move together, and I know I sound a little crazy saying that, but that's really what it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like a quarterback who could slow down the field while all of these 400 pound dollars running at 100 miles an hour, trying to knock your block off.
[SPEAKER_01]: you take a breath in me breathe, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: I never learned how to breathe in a matter.
[SPEAKER_01]: I always felt uncomfortable in that space, you know, but as a comedian on that stage, I am grand master.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know what I'm doing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So what's Rudy's top five today?
[SPEAKER_01]: So what where we don't?
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we talked about working with Claudia Jones.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm [SPEAKER_01]: to work with me and it said no.
[SPEAKER_01]: What's it?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, work.
[SPEAKER_01]: Work.
[SPEAKER_01]: Work to be my toll.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if you remember she's to work on Ricky Smiley show Ebony's deal.
[SPEAKER_01]: She was great on the air, so very funny.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we were friends, so it would have been a great time.
[SPEAKER_01]: What, you know, there were some people trying to hate on her.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it really wasn't much first and I know, but at the same time, I wish things didn't happen in her life that prevented her from working with me because people was hating big time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Number two, on the list, the toy and luck it now was really high on the toy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because the toy, I saw her on a couple of BET programs and she was just on fire.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I kind of knew her through traveling with the Apollo or doing stuff, you know, she wasn't with Destiny Shaolin.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was the host, but I seen them when they came to the Apollo.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I was always familiar with her.
[SPEAKER_01]: Always with Shaolin around, I think we even followed each other.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's very interesting.
[SPEAKER_01]: but guess what, she's in love, what to do and then write up the street Dallas that didn't work out unfortunately, but it would have been a great parent and I think they would have probably let me get that choice because little toy was that much better than, you know, the general manager would have had to choose her.
[SPEAKER_01]: Number three was DD McGuire herself.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got an opportunity to [SPEAKER_01]: And it just didn't work out.
[SPEAKER_01]: That wasn't that was my buddy before I wanted it in panic.
[SPEAKER_01]: We we made a big impact on Doug's career as far as, you know, having that team.
[SPEAKER_01]: We would have best team.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have to say that and I think that was actually super dope.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, the last two like, you know, swaying as a young lady out of Louisiana, but by way, it's Chicago.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we bumped heads as soon as we worked together on the Doug show, they had her come over.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, man, I'm sorry, Monica.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know some people in your ear.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's how radio is sometimes.
[SPEAKER_01]: You become the enemy of someone else's words and you kind of doing what somebody's telling you to do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It just didn't work for us.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I wish that best for her, but she was definitely, and she's my excavation right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: I always give my tail since I don't drink that long.
[SPEAKER_02]: Very good.
[SPEAKER_01]: She was always talking about my tail as a blue teason, but now I'm the one being a teason.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: But that last but not least, there's a young lady in Columbia, South Carolina, helped she go by the name of Dee Dee as well, Dee Dee Renee.
[SPEAKER_01]: And she actually replaced Dee Dee one time with Doug and she's awesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: She gave me some information and very helpful to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, she's a true friend.
[SPEAKER_01]: She cares about my oldest daughter.
[SPEAKER_01]: Watch the girl walk and actually help raise it with her twins.
[SPEAKER_01]: So she, I thought, even though she was a little older, [SPEAKER_01]: And let's not talk fuck.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ruiz talk fuck.
[SPEAKER_01]: Broke to you by the joke.
[SPEAKER_01]: I really am so big at that joke.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll sponsor you myself right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was a movie.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so now you've had a good career.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think part one, my Russian world was on comedy.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know you were on a bulletin on that list.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Mel and my my Russian more should be media personalities slash.
[SPEAKER_01]: show.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not Russian.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're full.
[SPEAKER_01]: Media personnel.
[SPEAKER_01]: Slash shows.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm going to go radio and podcast this podcast.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: That counts.
[SPEAKER_01]: No order.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I am going to start with my crib.
[SPEAKER_01]: Someone who has been an inspiration for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that is showing me the guy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: South Carolina stand up.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, [SPEAKER_01]: Just just what he has made, what he has done in the consistency the longevity is hard.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, no, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, I know that intimately, but I was very close to some of the people he were with, like, Wendy, and I'm just really in front of her, but then, you know, my oldest daughter's mother who passed away.
[SPEAKER_01]: they were so close.
[SPEAKER_01]: He paid for a funeral.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I mean, I didn't have to live a finger to try to help, but not that they were really close.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, so, you know, I even called him afterwards.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we've seen each other out and about with stuff like that, but yeah, he's worked really hard to get to what he's at.
[SPEAKER_01]: And these like I can talk right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Totally agree man.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll go with that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'll throw you man on top of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're more number two go my daughter.
[SPEAKER_01]: Rick is smart.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, Rick.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hi, so I won't be honest man.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't I don't listen to about a radio anymore.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I will definitely.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm a serious like some guy all the way to find time [SPEAKER_01]: So that he's smiling more.
[SPEAKER_01]: So Ricky, I can promise you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ricky got me through college sometimes.
[SPEAKER_01]: I needed Ricky college because with those painful colors and stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, she's showing me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, does the chicken belong to the church?
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the church is chicken.
[SPEAKER_01]: Man, they're just, again, just another person who is good.
[SPEAKER_01]: From a human being standpoint.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, good dude.
[SPEAKER_01]: Got to lock it out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Got to lock three and four tough now.
[SPEAKER_01]: And there's so many places I can go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Three because we are in this podcast era and the way that that game has changed and I think Joe Ruben kind of set the bark of what everybody is doing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Another comedian as well too, I don't think he gets well, you get so a lot of love.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think there's a generation of people they don't understand the comedy that Joe Ruben had and all the other things.
[SPEAKER_01]: No one's wrong.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was funny.
[SPEAKER_01]: to say was he is funny.
[SPEAKER_01]: I did a festival in the aspen and I was blown away.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like because I thought it was just an actor on the same kind of.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it was funny.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Joe Rogan.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: All them out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Rushmore and media.
[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about radio podcast series.
[SPEAKER_01]: And number four on this list.
[SPEAKER_01]: Man, I know somebody personally who [SPEAKER_01]: done a lot of radio, a lot of media.
[SPEAKER_01]: They told me when the numbers come out, they never any worse than three.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can give them anything.
[SPEAKER_01]: And nobody even had to be urban.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: He said, give me country Western.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to be one, two or three.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the only town law was the three.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was the first thing I had set us first.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's big.
[SPEAKER_01]: No.
[SPEAKER_01]: More than 10.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're really right.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: I dropped it out of the media.
[SPEAKER_01]: Radio, Mount Rushmore, because numbers don't work.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it was all person.
[SPEAKER_01]: It sent a man or what she would, because I've not to receive.
[SPEAKER_01]: I almost like the young Jews.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: But no, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was fantastic doing it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I look forward to doing it here with you, with this podcast.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we just getting started.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I'm saying?
[SPEAKER_01]: So we go have some great moments.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have a bump here in the end of the road.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I'm saying?
[SPEAKER_01]: But we try to keep everybody's.
[SPEAKER_01]: attention and teach yourself the because that leadership that you have that punch line that I can come with and you know y'all didn't know that make hard punch lines So now we got a whole another Yeah, no you great girl, and so we're going to have some fun there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we're on location right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, so the mechanism for part two.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah My mechanism is this your people are flowers.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, so right here [SPEAKER_01]: is to go and that's why I love them.
[SPEAKER_01]: So give people their flowers.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, I mean, he always talking about, again, the things we wish we could say, the moments we wish we could take back.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm celebrating you because not only do I know where you've been, where you're going, but I know the character that you have.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, I have this saying, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Your character is like a shadow of a scene before you walk.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Your character speaks for itself.
[SPEAKER_01]: I appreciate it, but yeah, and I love you too, but I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Me and that, and that's very, and I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm glad we got together to do this, and we had the time to do, you know, some other thing that people don't understand.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, sometimes you could be prepared to do something, and someone else is not, right.
[SPEAKER_01]: And our lives are seeing just got to the point where we both are able to do stuff like this, you know, this fine, you know, like I said, I can't wait to do more.
[SPEAKER_01]: Serve.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't get ready for the next episode.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, make sure to do something.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tell us what you like, which is don't like.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you have a topic, you want us to talk about and a segment of a show.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you want a sponsor, or a segment, I know.
[SPEAKER_01]: We work so hard, too.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just let me know.
[SPEAKER_01]: We out here.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if you want to help me create some beef for Mick, instead of me all the time, I'm not going to fight Steve.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't have a little, I don't have fight Steve.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't have a fucking thing.
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