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Listen, man, hey, man, we got a guy here today, he don't need no introduction, man. This guy right here, man, he's dope, man. This guy's a comedian. I seen this guy last night, man, him and Eddie Griffin, man, and it's just a dope thing to be hung out with this guy here, man. The comedian is in the building. Yo, what's up, man? Appreciate y'all for having me, man. Man, hold on, man. But, man, just a pleasure to have you on the show, man. Appreciate it, appreciate it. We ask a lot of serious questions, we want a lot of serious answers, man. Most definitely. It's gonna be a live show, man. Let's get to it. Let's get it. For me personally, anybody who sits in that seat, I like to know your background, your art and your craft is awesome, but I like to know where you came from to get to where you are and the struggles you went through. So, you say you're from South Carolina? Poemery, South Carolina. Okay, raised with your mom, dad, siblings? I was raised by my grandmother. Grandmother? Yeah, my mother had me at a very young age. How old was she? She was about 13, 14. Wow. 13, 14, she had me at a young age and my grandmother gave her a choice. You can keep them or you can get rid of them in finished school or you can just give them to me and I'll help raise them and that's what my mother chose to do. And my mother finished school and my grandmother raised me and here I am. Was your grandfather there, too? Yeah, my grandfather was there, but he worked a lot. He was a very hard working man, but he made the time. He made the time to show me the skills, to be a young man, to work hard and do everything I need to do and make it happen for my family. And you're the only child? No, I know, I got a brother and a sister. I got a 24-year-old brother and a 10-year-old sister. Wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You sound like me because my brothers are 10 and 12 years older than I am but you're like way different. Yeah, yeah, it's crazy. I think, the beyond switch, I think my mother was like, I'm gonna give it another shot, you know what I'm saying? I was, you know, I was a little bad growing up and my brother was, you know, he was just him and then my mother was like, okay, I guess I'll just start over again and now I got a 10-year-old sister. Oh wow. So where's your dad? Do you know your father? Never knew my father. Never knew your father. Never knew my father. Did your mom tell you his name actually? No, I never asked. I never was curious. I never was curious because I had, you know, I had my grandfather. So my grandfather, you know, he stepped in and played that role. I think it's a guy thing because us females, we'd be like, I need to know who my dad, even if I can't find him, I need to know the name, I need to make sure I'm not dating my siblings over here or my cousin, so. Right, well, you know where I'm from, it's a small town so pretty much everybody's related to everybody. So I never really dated nobody in my town because I was like, I didn't know who all I was related to but I had, you know, my family's real big. So, you know, my family stayed all on one road. So all my uncles and aunts, everybody stayed on one road. So I had the support system to back me up behind everything I was doing. That's though. So with your mom having you at 13, was she still instrumental in your life? I know she didn't probably know a lot at 13 coming up but as she got older and was learning, did she, you know, try to be your mom anywhere in there? Yeah, yeah, yeah, most definitely. You know, of course, you know, she went to school. So that kind of took away a lot of the time but when she did have time, she did make the time to, you know, take me to go do stuff, you know what I'm saying? To make sure that I was, you know, doing right in school and make sure I had her, you know, a level head. So I mean, she still was being a mother but handling her business at the same time. And I had my grandmother, so everything was cool. That's good to know because normally when a mom and a child is so close in age, they usually end up growing up like brothers and sisters rather than mom and child. It is kind of like that even now to this day. Even though I know that's my mother, we don't really have a mother and son relationship but it's more like a brother and sister relationship but I still respect that as my mom. That's what I was gonna say. And, you know, everything's cool, everything's cool. So when I say mom, you know, in the house, my grandmother answered first and then my mother be like, which one you talking to? You know what I'm saying? So everything's cool. Did your friends try to hit on your mom? Oh my God. My mom, especially in high school. My mom looked like she about 35 years old. I look older than my mother. So like, my mother would come to the school and everybody like, yo, that's your mama. Take out the trash when you get home now. I'm like, chill out, chill out. So I hate it for my mother to come to school. I hate it for my mother to come around my friends cause they would just be like, looking at it and talking. I'm just like, yo, y'all gotta chill. I fought a lot in school because of my mother. So she never like got on me about anything that I was doing when it pertain to her. Cause I'm like, well, you caused this. You the one came up and you should have sent my grandmother up here. You know what I'm saying? Ain't nobody gonna say that to my grandmother. So everything was cool. Were you scrawny? I was boning. Oh my God. I didn't play no sports in school. I was about a buck 30, buck 30 all through school, skinny. So I got by through stuff, not through playing sports, but just joking around, being a class clown, acting a fool. So that's how I made my way in high school. You know what I'm saying? Didn't really pay attention to the books, but you know. I just want to ask you about, I jumped up, you know, she does the family thing. Yeah, I'm cool with it. You from South Carolina, that's cool. You know what I'm saying? I'm from the country too, you know. Couple my cousins, my age, couple my aunties my age, you know, stuff like that. So we counting from the same, all my people from the same little down the road street. So we on the same old thing, you know what I'm saying? So I know you was raised right. Yeah, you know how to respect people when you're raised by your grandma. Oh yeah. You know what I'm saying? Ain't played none of that. Ain't played none of that. Grandmothers make you get away with a lot. No, but you know, respect, you got to understand and you got a different type of heart. You love differently when grandma raised you. Grandma going to cook for you. Grandma show you so much love that you basically going to do right just because you want to be impressive to grandma. You don't want to let grandma down. Big facts. Elvah. At all. At all. My grandmother, my grandmother wake us up at five, three in the morning. Breakfast, cook, you know. That's right. Or you come home late and she'll cook. She'll get up and get you a plate. Yeah, yeah. That's a different type of live. I know you used to tell me about stories about your grandma and grandpa in the middle of the night talking. Yeah, they talking three in the morning. Three in the morning. You can hear them through the wall thinking there's ghosts in the house. They don't talk it. You know what I'm saying? Man, so how did you get into, you first said you was in security, right? Yeah, I was bodyguard. So, you was a bodyguard, like what, how did you get into being a bodyguard? And how old were you? I was about 22. Okay. 31 now. So, I was about 22. I was in the military. When I got the military, I was walking in the mall and walking in Atlanta. And I met a couple people and they was like, yo, you wanna do security? And I was like, I ain't never thought about it. So then when I got back home. Cause you were big at that time. Oh yeah, oh yeah. So military is what blew you up? Oh yeah, oh yeah. I was tired of being skinny. You know what I'm saying? I was like, yo, I gotta, you know, I talk a lot of shit. So I was like, yo, I gotta, you know, put some meat on my bone. So once I got out, this guy asked me about doing security. So when I got back home, I hit up my local clubs and I was like, yo, can I do security or whatever? So I started off in the clubs and probably about four, five months after that, you know, I started hanging around all the rappers and stuff when they would come through. So then I got my shot. So the first one was Money Bag Yo. Money Bag Yo. So Money Bag Yo. You rock with him. How did that happen? And that was when he was hot at that time? This was when, you know, at like the beginning. Early, right. He wasn't as big. In the very beginning. Right. So, you know. But he still needs security. Yeah. He's crazy at the rap world. He's crazy out there. So, you know, I linked up with his team and they, you know, they flew me to Chicago. I went to Chicago with him. And I was like, yo, you know what I'm saying? This is pretty cool. Let me, you know, try some other people. So then I just started doing everybody. So anytime everybody came to the city, I was with him. You know, any rapper, any actor, whatever the case was, I was with him. And I got tired of fighting, you know what I'm saying? I was like, you know what? This is not what it is. Because it's getting real dangerous. You know what I'm saying? People shooting all the time, you know what I'm saying? The rappers, I'm here to protect them, but they got a whole entourage with them and entourage to be setting stuff off a lot. So I'll be like, yo, I'm just one person. So as security, you would be fighting all the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? For real, I'm like, yo, I'm one person. So what I used to do, I used to get the security at the clubs. I'll be like, yo, let me get five people. And I have them surrounding the stage. That way, if something pop off, they're gonna get to it first. And then I get to it if it make it, you know what I'm saying? Make it to you. And my wife is like, you know, hey, this not where it's at. You're gonna get hurt. So you married a young age. I got married at 19. So that's before you went to the, or while you were in the military? Before I went to the military. Before you went to the military. Yeah, I got married at 19. I've been with my wife since I was about 16. You know what I'm saying? High school. Yeah, high school. And I almost got, you know what I'm saying? Let me hear the story of how you, how you swept off the stage. Let me tell you, my boy was walking down the hall, skinning or not with plenty of swag. That's one thing y'all better know. He was a class clown. But he was still, he was lean, mean and he was a sex machine. It didn't go like that. It didn't go like that at all. So look, I had previously met my wife two years before that. You know what I'm saying? So I had went to a football game and one of her cousins who I knew, me and him was tight. And he was like, yo, my cousin, you know, asking about you. And I was like, you know, me being cocky. I was like, yo, what's she at? You know what I'm saying? So I go up to her and give her my number. I was like, you gonna call? She was like, I don't know. I might, you know what I'm saying? That's still. You know, so she called me that night. And I mean the rest was history, man. You know, my wife is, you know, she's, you know, she's a little bit older than me. And, you know, she's real strong minded. You know, she was, you know, a woman woman at a very early age, you know what I'm saying? So she already had the mentally, you know, strength to be able to guide me on and be able to handle me like, hey, look, this is what you're doing. You need to chill out. You know, she was like that person, you know, in my life. So my singing in high school, I almost got killed in a car accident. Wow. How? Coming from her house. Three o'clock in the morning. What? Yeah, man. Three o'clock in the morning. I left her house and. And how old was you at this time? I was 17. Okay. Yeah, yeah. He had just got a license. Oh yeah, I had got a license. He might have just got some. We don't know. We don't know. They were sleeping. Listen, the boy was weak. The boy was driving. They said, you know, everything getting clouded. But baby, on my mind, yeah. Hey, look, three o'clock in the morning, you're going to do something, you know what I'm saying? And you know, I had got all work at McDonald's, man. And you know, I told my grandmother, I was like, yo, I'm about to go to my girl's house. And my grandmother told me. She said, stay at the house. I said, nah, I'll be all right. Now, you know, I had been at work all day. Went over her house, man, you know, I left her house and I was gone for probably about an hour and a half. And she was blowing my phone up, but I had them already wrecked by then. So what happened? You wrecked up by yourself. Wait. I was in the country rowing. You know, the country rowing was dark. Yeah. Did you fall asleep? Yeah, I fell asleep. I fell asleep at the wheel. I hit a ditch and the ditch. I hit the ditch so hard, the airbag came out and split my head wide open. Wow. So it split my head wide open. And I went into this cow field where the cows and stuff would be at. So apparently, so what they told me was, they said I crawled from the cow field into the middle of the road. How I got there, I don't know. But they said, you had so much adrenaline. You probably ain't gonna remember it. They said, when you get that adrenaline, you will do anything. And somebody come in and. So I laid out in the middle of the road for probably about two hours. And it was about. Bleeding out. No, so it was 30, about 35, 36 degrees. So the doctor. That helps. So the doctor said, since it was so cold out there, it collagalated the blood and stopped me from bleeding. Because my brain was like, you can see my brain and everything. No. Like it was crazy. So I get to. I didn't know everybody can split your head like that. Oh, the airbag come out with some force. Oh yeah, the airbag can break your face, break your arm, do anything. Cause it came out, it came out so hard. And I had my seatbelt on. The seatbelt popped and as the truck was flipping. That's how hard it was. So I got a book that has all the pictures in it. And you can see where my forehead hit the passenger door and knocked the door open. That's how hard. Hold on. Oh, because it popped it through you out of the seat. And as I was flipping, I'm going around. I'm, you know, I'm going out of the car. But I'm knocked out at this point. I don't even know what's going on. Couldn't you just sue the car, deal the car owner or something? Because the seatbelt shouldn't have popped. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what happened after that. I don't know what my mom and them did. If they got some money out of it. Either way, I didn't see that now. You know what I'm saying? But you know, so I laid in the middle of the road and this guy named Rashaan Trapp. He almost hit me. He plays professional baseball now. He almost hit me with his Hummer because he thought I was a dead deer in the road. Wow. And from what he say, he say that, you know, I got up and I walked to his car. He said he was freaking out and he sat me up against his rim of his Hummer and he called the ambulance and I got to the hospital. Now when I got to the hospital, I didn't know nothing. The only person number I could remember was my wife. I didn't know her name. I didn't know nothing. I just remember that number. They called my wife. She hang up, call my grandmother. She must have been frantic. I could not. You know what? I never asked my wife about that day. I never asked her because it was just crazy. And they gave me about 12 days to live. They gave me about 12 days to live because they said I had swelling in my brain, blood in my brain. Like they wasn't expecting for me to make it at all. I was an ICU for a long time. Grandma prayers. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Most definitely. Matter of fact, what's crazy was I had so many people come to the hospital to see me that my wife, so you know in the ICU, they only let two people come in there. And my wife, she wouldn't let nobody else come in there. You know what I'm saying? She was like, I'm not leaving. You know what I'm saying? They don't have to come in here one at a time. And it's probably about 60 to 100 people trying to come in there and see me. So they had to come in there one by one and see me. And I was on so much morphine, I would press the button and people would come in. I'd be like, hey, and just go back to sleep. I don't even remember who all came at all. But it's definitely a blessing, man, to be here. You still here, God? Have a plan? So how long were you in the hospital for? How long did it take to recover from that? I was in the hospital about, we can have two weeks. That's it from all of that? Yeah, about a week and have two weeks. Once I started to get back right. And the doctor say it was a miracle. So they sent me home and they said, hey, look, don't be around any loud noises. They had my head wrapped up. First thing I did, go to a football game. It was the first thing I did. Did it affect you? I mean, I put earplugs in my ear to like not have the sounds and stuff come to me. And I mean, I made it through that, but I had to learn how to read and stuff, reading little books and stuff all over again. I had to try to look at pictures and get memories and stuff back. But I'm not fully there, even till this day. That's what I was gonna ask you. Sometimes, even doing comedy, sometimes when I'm on stage, I have to really think about what's going on and what's saying because sometimes I'll be talking and I'll just forget and I have to bring myself back, even though I might make it a little easier. That's part of the old age too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, man, it's definitely a blessing, man, to be able to do what I'm doing. That's a miracle. So, you, all of a sudden, after that, go to the army and get your strength back, cause you didn't touch. Why did you go to the army? I went to the army. To get his strength back. No, was he getting trouble or something like that? I was definitely going down the wrong path. Man, look, I was, man, it was crazy. I would call my wife and I'd be like, hold on, I'm about to go on a mission. That's what I would say, we're going on the mission. And she'll just hear gunshots in the background and I hang up the phone. She don't know what's going on. You know what I'm saying? Hold on real quick, I'm about to go on the mission. You crazy, after you went through a life-threatening situation. I booked out for a while. I booked out for, I mean, like, it was, I was, I have no idea. I just, I just kind of felt like... Like you were invincible? Yeah, I was just like, I'm invincible. When I say I booked out, like I was, that was when the Mohawks was popping with everybody. I had a red Mohawk. I had the nose ring, my nose. And you still like, are you a black dude? Oh yeah, black dude, I was bugging, man. That's crazy, man. Wow, that's hard. Even my wife to the day, she'll be like, what was wrong with you? Like, what's going on? Yeah, I think I, well, I don't know, my wife might have some, but I ain't got nothing in my phone, man. I try to leave that, you know, leave that behind. Well, let me ask you this. When you, I know you said money bag, yo, but after you got into security, I'm gonna jump back in today. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You basically stayed in security for a while. Yeah, yeah. Who else did you, what time stuck out being in security, security that kind of, you remember the most, the craziest time when a fight broke out? What's the craziest one? NBA Young Boy, I'll never forget. What happened? NBA Young Boy, come up on this show all the time. What the hell did NBA Young Boy have going on? We weren't him. Not, man. Yeah, it was. NBA Young Boy came to Florence, right? So he came down. So of course we had him already assembled our security team or whatever the case was, right? So he come to Florence and he put on a dope performance. Everybody not going crazy. He stands up on this counter and he just jumps into the crowd. And when I tell you he goes into the crowd, now look, it was probably at least about 3,000 people in there. They carried him from the front of the stage to the middle in probably like five seconds, right? So me and a couple of people, I'm like, yo, we gotta go get him. You know what I'm saying? So we go out there, we go get him and I'm talking about, I'm a big dude, but I ain't a big dude against 3,000 people. Trying to push through all of them. The place where we was at, it used to be an old Walmart that they had gutted out and they had made into like, one part of it was a strip club, another part of it was a big club. It was a real big venue, right? So we go out there. So I tell security, I say, look, y'all hold hands and look, we just about to hit any and everybody. So we just start hitting everybody. Just women, dudes, everybody getting hit because like we trying to get to the front. And I mean, they going stupid. Like when they see this dude, man, when they be seen, nobody wants to move. That nobody want to move. They grabbing him. You know, he got these chains and stuff on and, you know, he's still going at it. I'm like, oh man, come on, bro, you got to chill. But that's crazy. People gonna pop it off and steal that stuff. Man, they throw him on somebody's shoulders and we just go through the crowd and just boom, boom. Boom, we hitting everybody, man. And I'm looking at him like, man, look, if you ever do that again, I ain't going back out there to get you. I was tired. I feel like I had just did P90X. I ain't like, I was so tired. But that was probably one of the most crazy experiences, another experience that I thought was going to go crazy was when Black Youngster came. What happened? He was cool, Ashley. You know what I'm saying? You know, you would think that by how he is and how he talking stuff like that, he going to call some ruckus. But to be honest with you, he was like the most common one I've ever been with. Smart, he ain't really one trying to get in no trouble. That's a smart dude. I don't care what nobody say. That's a smart dude. His music, his music is wild, but that's what the people be wanting to hear. But as a person, man, that's a smart young man, man. That's a smart, dope young man, yeah. What happened? What happened? The situation, yeah. Oh, man, the women was trying to get to the stage. The women just, you know what I'm saying? The women was just trying to get to the stage, man. And then, you know, some of them be what they do, you know? And the dudes getting crazy. The dudes getting like, yo, I mean, I know you like youngster, but I'm your man, you know what I'm saying? I'm right here. So, and you know, with them, they don't care. You know what I'm saying? They like, nah, come on, baby, come on on stage. And dudes, they sitting there getting mad. So we having to go to the front of the stage and this thing, no dudes trying to get up on the stage. So the security team, I was with, we ain't play that. We ain't play that at all. So we just hopped down in. You can't be mad at him, you can't be mad at your girl. Yeah, yeah, that's what you would think. But when people do some crazy stuff over their girl, you know what I'm saying? People, a lot of men go do dumb stuff over their girl. You know what I'm saying? And I'm like, bro, if she doing this at the club, she probably doing this outside of the club. So don't really be too mad, you know what I'm saying? But they don't be candy at that time. They got the alcohol in them, they got the weed in them, whatever else they own in them. And you know what I'm saying? Some of them dudes be on perks and all the other stuff. And they got that superhuman strength. So you know what I'm saying? We back there stretching about to go in, man. So that was a crazy situation. We throwing dudes through doors, through glass. Like, I mean, it was crazy. So at this time, was this the path that you said, okay, I want to definitely go full force into security because you were dealing with these people? Comedy was nowhere in the picture at this time. Comedy was nowhere in the picture this time. The money I was making, doing security and stuff like that, it was good money. And plus, you know, I'm traveling, I'm doing this all stuff. And I just got the military. So I'm like, okay, you know. And meeting a lot of networking. Meet a lot of people who I really listen to and know, and you know, I'm riding around with them. I'm cool. And I've never seen this part of, you know. That person, right. So it was, you know, that was definitely dope, man. You know, of course I'm getting the constant stuff. How many years, how many years did you do it for? About four. And why did you get out? It was just getting too dangerous. It was just getting entirely too dangerous. What was the last call? Money bag, you know, in Chicago? That was it. Yup. We went to Chicago and he didn't do nothing wrong. But it was, you know, the Chicago dude, they just came up and they don't play. They don't play age, man. Let me tell you something. We got out of there so fast. I ain't never went through a crowd that fast, man. But what did he do? Why it cost that? He didn't do nothing. He didn't do nothing. He was just doing his music, doing his thing. His entourage wasn't going crazy. They wasn't talking crazy or nothing like that. Was they trying to rob him or what was they trying to do? Well, I don't know. We got out of there quick. We got out of there quick. I have no idea what they was trying to do, but, and like I said, I don't know if he had anything going on before that or what the case is because I don't be looking. Because you don't be knowing that's what's going on. I'm just focused on making sure that you straight. I mean, them dudes start coming towards that stage. Hey, we gotta get up out of here. We got out of there quick. And as we was getting in the car, it was me and another guy and you could just see like all the dudes coming out in the club and stuff like that. They didn't start shooting them. I was about to say. But I'm just like, bro, this is, you know what I'm saying? This is crazy. Like I don't, I don't want to do this. So, you know, after my wife, you know, I told my wife about a lot of stuff and you know, she was like, she was like, hey, man, look, you got to find something else to do. Do you have any kids? No kids. Three dogs. Three dogs. Three dogs. Yeah, not yet. But, um, yeah. So I was just like, you know what? I'm going to just call this quits because I don't want to be out here trying to protect nobody else doing what I'm supposed to do. And they going to come to me first because they got to get me out of the way. You know what I'm saying? Were you the big old one? Were you the biggest security guard? Oh, yeah. It was me, me and another guy. I mean, we both, you know, big dudes. So and these dudes are small. They like, oh, no, I already know I can't beat him. So we got to put him down. Yeah, yeah, we got to put him down first. And I don't care how big you is. I don't want no bullet, you know what I'm saying? So I was just like, no, I mean, I got to get out this type of lifestyle, man. Plus, you know, and I was goofy at the same time. So even though I was around them, I would still be cracking jokes. You know what I'm saying? I'm laughing and got them laughing and stuff like that. So the comedy was already there. I just didn't tap into it yet because, you know, I've been doing it for a long time, even in school. So I just ain't really tap into it and really think about, like, you know, I can pursue this career and do what I want to do and have fun and make a little money on, you know, on it, you know, at the same time. Let me ask you, you are. So you go from helping all the rappers to on the stage last night with Andy Griffith. Yeah, it's crazy, man. Yeah, like, like, and you up there really holding your own. Oh, yeah, I have jokes. You got jokes about going to the joint, getting out of football, going to the choir, getting into the band, all this stuff, all this stuff, all real stuff, enjoyed the hell out of it, man. Just when was your first time getting on stage? My first time getting on stage was in Atlanta. Was your Atlanta comedy club? Yeah, Atlanta comedy club. Let's go. And how long ago was that? This was probably about two and a half years ago, maybe. And how long after you getting out of security was this? Oh, about five months. OK. Oh, yeah, I was doing comedy five months before I started traveling. So what made you OK? After getting out of security, you said, OK, I'm going to go into comedy. Was that your first choice? Yeah, yeah, it was, um, um, it was, you know, a couple of comics in my city and they was doing these these contests and shows and stuff like that. So I went to one, I said, OK, I'm going to try that. I went to my first one. Went to my first one and I won my first time doing comedy. So I went back again. I kept winning. So I was like, man, you know what I'm saying? This is dope. So I so I reached out to a comedian on stage. The first dude I started on traveling with Capone. OK. And, you know, he asked me to come to Atlanta. I went to Atlanta. I did five minutes. And after the show, he was like, yo, you know what I'm saying? You want to go on the road with me or whatever? So I'm like, yeah, you know what I'm saying? So I started going around, started learning. Now, at that time, I was a good comic, but I wasn't structured. I was all over the place. I was talking about this, talking about that, talking about that. But I had to learn how to get structured. And once I started getting structured, I started becoming a beast. You know what I'm saying? So I started getting recognition from. And what was your name the first time you started comic? Was it always the Hulk? Yeah, yeah, it's always right now. I got to stop this while I got this thought. It just popped in my head. And once it popped in, I got to go with it. Yeah, I know how that is. It's real good stuff. So I'm going to call out Country Wayne and I'm going to call out Eddie Griffith because what they trying to do is they trying to keep Mike Bliss and Hulk comedian for security while they save money and they got these niggas with them. I ain't no fool. I know what's going on. That's an old move I would do. So Country Wayne and Eddie Griffin is basically trying to figure out ways to cut costs. So they bring and it's a very, it's a very smooth idea. You got a guy like you that comes and you have a very experienced. I ain't got to worry about nobody coming up on me while I'm talking to nothing cause my boy right there. You know what I'm saying? No, whatever. And then Mike he come through the same way you did. Hey, what's up, man? I ain't really in the comedy, but I can do this. Next thing you know, y'all funny as hell, God give you the blessing and God will give you the gift. But these niggas standing in the back of Eddie Griffin and Country Wayne. And they saying back chilling like, yeah. Let me tell you something man, let me tell you something. With with Eddie, bro, it ain't nothing. Like when I tell you he is one of the most and I ain't just saying this because I'm with him. I ain't just saying this when I tell you he is one of the most genuine people I've probably met in this game. You would think that somebody or, you know, at his level in his career, being a, you know, a living legend, it would be something, you know, what you would probably think. Like, oh, he booze or he just dead in third. When I tell you, like he made me part of the family. He made me feel so comfortable. He makes my wife feel so comfortable. He makes sure that I'm straight. He don't let me slack. You know what I'm saying? Like it's it's nothing but love there. I would I would not, you know, take a show or do a show with anybody else who's not even rocking with Eddie. Like that's how I feel. I don't care what, you know, who it is or whether, you know where I'm trying to go. When I tell you that man, take care of me and he makes sure that I'm straight and he has taken my career to the next level. I don't care who it is. If you don't rock with Eddie, you don't rock with hook. How long you been working with him? I've been with Eddie for about a year now. And how did you meet him? I met him. We I hit up his manager. I will actually I did a show in my city. His opener that I that I guess he had at the time couldn't come. I hit up his manager. His manager was like, OK, cool, you know, we'll throw you on the show or whatever. This is in March. I did the show. Everything went real good. Couple months went by. I hit up his manager randomly out the blue. I was like, hey, you know, if you guys ever need anybody, you know, let me know. He got back to me within about five minutes. He was like, can you be in Alabama this Friday? I'm in South Carolina. So I'm like, you know, that's right down the road. And we was going to the Stardome, which is a big comedy club. So we go down there. We did the Friday show after the first show. You know, I killed it. When I didn't did my thing, I go on the back. Eddie was like, you want to come to Vegas with me? What was that come to Vegas? I'm about to go buy my ticket right now. Before the second show, I had them already bought my ticket and everything. And the rest was history, you know what I'm saying? The rest was history. And you know, a lot of people try to get to Vegas and get out there and do shows. And I'm like, you throwing me, you know what I'm saying? You throwing me the alley hoop. I'm about to dunk it. So I go out there, I do my thing. And I mean, you know, I've just been with him ever since, man. Because what stood out to me last night was the fact that when I've been, we've been to Arlington Improv many times and the headliner sometimes would have three, four comics before. And I'm like, why does he only have you? Right. Well, that's just how he liked to do his shows. But one thing I will say about Eddie is a lot of people want to get on these shows and they want to be with these, you know, these legends, these OGs and stuff like that. But you got to remember, Eddie is a beast on stage and to go before him and try to, you know, do what you got to do because he going to come out and go, hey, you know what I'm saying? That's a known fact. So I go out there and he say, he liked the way I do things. You know what I'm saying? He liked the way I control the crowd the way how I'm out there having fun. I'm not necessarily thinking about trying to make everybody laugh. I'm out there and I'm genuinely having fun. And on top of that, I make sure that I go out there and do my job. That way I get the crowd up. I get everybody laughing. OK, this is just a little taste. Now you about to get hit in the head with the, you know what I'm saying, with the OG. I bring him out and, you know, our show is just dope. Funny from beginning to the end. You know what I'm saying? So how many comics have you worked with prior to Eddie? To get you prepared for Eddie? I've done shows with Capone. I've done shows with Gary Oren. I've done shows with Bill Bellamy, Gattori, Giant With a Spoon. It's a lot of names. Pierre, it's a nice list. You did a lot of people before you actually got to Eddie. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. In that short span of time. What's crazy is like I'm, I just feel so blessed to be able to be doing what I'm doing because I know comics who've been doing comedy 10 plus years and haven't been able to get out there where they need to be. And there's some funny people out there in the world, you know what I'm saying? You know, and all of them deserve their shot. Let me put that out there. But, you know what I'm saying? A lot of people, they want stuff handed to them. They want to just be like, hey, I do comedy. I'm funny. Put me on the show. I'm like, nah, hey, look at it. You ain't even got to pay me. Just give me the experience and let me go out there and do my thing. And if you like it, bring me back again. And every time that's what happened because with me, nobody expects for me to do and say the things that I say. Like I'm not just up there talking. I'm dancing. I'm jumping around. I'm, you know what I'm saying? You think I'm gonna talk about like how big I am or something like that. I'm not talking about none of that. I'm giving you the real, the straight, like me coming up, what happened with me and my grandmother, you know what I'm saying? Like the band stuff, like, you know, I'm out there just being crazy and having fun, man. That's the big thing about it. And that's why I think that Eddie is so, that me and him are so tight. How, what was it like working with Gary Owens? Gary Owens was cool. He was cool. I mean, he cool in my book. You know, we went out there, we did the show. At least the white boy, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't really know him. I don't watch him like that. I seen him on a few movies. Think like a man. I seen him doing some stuff where he was at the store on ride alone. I think that was it. We're kidding hard, Nia. You funny, man. The boy ready now. I ain't gonna lie to you. He ready, ready. You know what I mean? He ready, ready. And the going, the going to some of those rooms and you know, everything that he be doing, man, the theaters and you know, all the shows that he got going on, man, he's hilarious, man. I love Gary, man. Shout out to Gary. Yeah, to be a white guy and to be able to cross over because he crossed over. And, and, and. You see what I'm saying? Oh yeah, oh yeah. He crossed over because he's able to, he got, our people love it. Oh yeah. And you know, there's a lot. I mean, I'm not a sign feel type of guy, but he has a way of coming across to where I like to hear him do his thing for, you know, and I think that's hard. And the thing about him, you can tell, like he's not, that's not a persona that he's trying to put on. That's him, like he, he keep it, you know, he keep it Gary on, but he keep it black. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? So it's just, it's just cool, man. He's very humble. He wasn't stuck up. He wasn't like, okay, okay. Yeah, you want to show a good job. Like he taught, we took pictures. You know, he gave me, you know, some advice. Real, real cool dude, man. Everybody who I have met, they ain't, they ain't really, you know, rubbed me off the wrong way. So you haven't got, cause I've heard stories from other comedians that, especially when you're opening for other comedians that some comedians can turn around and try to give you rules. Oh yeah. As in, okay, you can't tell these type of jokes. You can't do this, you can't do that because that's what they're gonna probably do. Or you can't try to upstage them. So to say, you can't be funnier than them. Have you ran into that? Yeah, most definitely. I've definitely ran into that. And you know, anybody who take that the wrong way, all I gotta say, man, stay creative. Because at the end of the day, you know, you got to respect the headliner. If he's talking about something and he don't want you to talk about it, you got to respect that. I've had that happen a couple of times where I've probably talked about two or three topics or like some jokes or whatever. And the headliner come out there and say it and then the next show he'll be like, hey, look, you know, I'm kind of sort of talking about that. You know, try to, you know, not talk about that. And I'll say bet, let me go to the pen and pad real quick. Let me move some stuff around. I ain't gonna talk about it because, you know, I got, you know, I got jokes and material for days, you know what I'm saying? And then to, you know, I improv a lot too. So I mean, it ain't nothing to me, you know, it is what it is. You know, you got to respect the headliner. You got to respect the headliner. Because a lot of people want to get in this game and they want to do comedy. And they'll say, hey, look, I got 15, 20 minutes. And that's the only 15, 20 minutes that they got. You know, I always prepare myself for 30, 45 because you never know. I've had times where I had to get on stage and the headliner was probably 15 minutes late. And I got to do an extra 15 minutes on top of the 20 that I just did. You got to share that content. So it's very important. So if you're trying to get in this game and you're trying to become a comedian, don't just run off with just the material that you got, keep constantly writing because it's stuff to talk about. It's so much going on in the world right now. You got material. You got, there's so much going on in life. You got stuff to talk about all day. And you say you do skits, but which one to you is harder, harder for you to just do stand-up comedy or to do your skits? Because I know some comedians who only do skits and don't do the stand-up and vice versa. So which one is harder to you? I would say the stand-up. I would say the stand-up because for one, you're right there in front of their faces. You know what I'm saying? And then plus two people so sensitive. Even though I got a nice following on social media, there's still a lot of people who haven't heard of me. So just like how when I came out last night, I know when I already know when I come out, like people not gonna be like, oh, I love the comedians. So when I do, I'll walk back off the stage and I get ed. You do that every time? I do that every time. When you did that last night, that was the, I wanna say that's the first time I've ever seen anybody who did that. Everybody, I would say that. And I look to him like, what's going on? Yeah, but do you see like the difference from when I first came out? Well, when you went out at that time, I was looking at y'all and said, hell, I might be for the go. I'm not gonna shut up real loud. And I said, you know, maybe he's right. And you know what I'm saying? But I didn't, I see, you know what I gonna say cause Eddie ain't came out yet and my wife, she ain't as I say. But see, though, you know, I never take offense to that because I already know it's coming. You see this big dude walking up there? You're like, man, look here, man, look. I'm gonna need at least about $20 back, you know what I'm saying? You don't see any shit right here. But I know that people are gonna think that. And I want you to think that because that's a blessing to me because now when I open my mouth, you're gonna be like, okay, all right. Cause I ain't starting off with, hey, how you doing? All that birthdays, all that stuff, man. I don't care about none of that. Let me go, you know what I'm saying? Jump straight into it. So you know what I'm saying? I like that, man. South Carolina, man. South Carolina, my boy, Dunkmaster down there, man. That's my guy right there, Sage Thomas, man. And man, you look, hey, man, I'm proud to have you on the boss talk 101 and just the fact of you, you know, being on that stage and being able to keep the audience entertained and keeping them where they need to be for, you know, Eddie to come out and just you too, like I said, I was glad it was just two. Now I was surprised, but happy as hell. Right, right, right. I don't want to see nothing else. Yeah, cause we were looking at each other like, okay, is another comment coming out? In the white suit, is he gonna get up there? No, he's just holding the light for Eddie. That's his brother. The signal. Okay, I'm happy because I knew that I get right to what I'm coming to see and deal with. You know how me and all. Right, right, right. So, you know, when it's five of them, I'll be like, damn, when I get to him, I might be asleep cause I'm old. You know, I like, you know, I'm not never against doing three or four man comedy shows, but I like doing, you know, two man shows because for one, like I know how our show is. I know what's expected of me to go out there, but I care more about, I don't care about the money. I don't care about all the other stuff. I want people to enjoy the show. I know that people aren't there to see me. I have people that come there that follow me on social media and they be like, oh, yeah, we follow you. But I know who y'all really here to see. You know what I'm saying? But before we get to him, you got me. And I'm gonna make sure that you get, you know, your money's worth, man. You did a great job. You did a great job. Damn good job, man. I ain't gonna lie. I had a good time. It was great. I've been up there. That's what, we've been up there a lot here lately. So, just being in there, interacting with you guys, and y'all gonna be back in Dallas in June. Yeah, so, yeah, we come to. For Addison, which is right on the street. Yeah, we come to Addison and we come into Houston. Y'all going to Houston? Yeah, we got Houston. So we come in. Man, I might be up there. So, you know, I've been up there doing the show. When are y'all going to Houston? I didn't look up Houston's. I have no idea. He just knows he's gone. I know June, you're gonna be in Addison. So, all y'all who want to check out Eddie Griffin and Hulk, the comedian is gonna be June. I don't remember the date, but look up Addison Improv and you can come check it out. It's definitely a dope show. You're definitely gonna get your money's worth. You're definitely gonna laugh from start to finish, and you're definitely gonna enjoy yourself. But if you sensitive, stay home. Yeah, cause y'all, y'all. He was apologizing last week, cause he didn't mean it. That nigga didn't mean that. I'll sit there and watch it. I say, he don't mean it. That nigga don't give a shit. He say what he's saying, you gonna have to deal with that. Cause you know, a lot of people, they come to comedy shows, man, and they really don't come to enjoy themselves. They don't come to enjoy themselves. They come and they just, they. So what they come to do then? I come to enjoy myself. To get offended. To get offended. I've seen a few of them do that. Because, matter of fact, if you look around the room sometimes and people say certain things, that one little thing, I have them messed up the whole show, but it'd be the truth. People don't wanna hear the truth. Have you, did somebody run up on you out there before he came up on stage yet? Or have you seen him try to attack Eddie? Hey look, oh, let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. We here for the fun, and we here to make everybody laugh, but don't bring your ass up there on that stage. Cause this is not the, you know, this is not the crew you wanna mess with. You will, you going to the hospital. You going to the hospital. Don't try to run up on my dog, cause I'm out there watching at all times. When I look at, I'm a comedian, then I'm going into, you know, my security mode. You know what I'm saying? And you know. You were missing last night after he came on and I'm looking around. Oh no, you were there. Oh no, I was there. You ain't gonna see me. I thought you went into the back room chilling. Oh no, oh no, no, no, no. I'm definitely watching my dog because even though I'm still young in the game, I'm still a student. You know what I'm saying? So I'm still learning a lot of stuff. Even though people might say, you good. Yo, you holding your own. I'm still learning. Cause you gotta remember, I'm only three years in. Yeah. I'm only three years in. So like, I'm still, you know, I'm still wet behind the hears. But let me tell you something. Cause I already know how my dog about to get up there and tell the truth. He's gonna dog. And some people are gonna get, you know, I'm saying they gonna get a little rumbled up a little bit. And let me tell you something. You better not run up on that stage. And if you run up on that stage on me, let me tell you something. My comic career will boom so fast. They gonna be like, that buddy need to be in action movies. Oh yeah, movies and everything. Y'all be smoothing it over. Cause I seen, cause there was one that I saw that got real intense. The guy, he kept going back and forward with the guy cause he kept picking on this guy, not Eddie Griffin. I remember who it was. And the guy he got so sick. Yeah, he got so serious where he was like, all right, now quit, just quit. That's what the guy was telling the comedian, just quit. Okay, let's stop. I had it happen one time. I don't really try to mess with people cause I know for a fact like my image and how I look as a man, if I say something to you, you're gonna end, if you're later laughing, you gotta say something. You gotta say something. So I don't really try not to really mess with people like that. But I did have that happen one time. I only had it happen one time when this dude started talking on stage, you know, while I was on stage and I had to get him, you know, I went in on him and he got to the point where he was like, I was like, nah, you started this shit. You know what I'm saying? So I'm gonna keep it going. But you know, at the end, I was like, no man, I was just joking to try to like bring it down. You know what I'm saying? Cause I don't, people pay their money to come to shows man and you know, enjoy themselves. So if you come to comedy shows, man, and you trying to start stuff, man, just stay home man, just stay home. Cause you know, people come there to, you know, some people come there to really enjoy themselves. And you know, a lot of people like Eddie, he got a real strong fan base. I got a nice strong fan base. And he had a lot of black, white, all different races who came because some comedy shows I go to, only black folks in the crowd. So that's one thing I loved about it. And like I was saying, when you, when comedians calm down, the viewers, they'll be buying them drinks. Oh, because I know they'll be really picking on that person to be like, let's go ahead and give him a shot. Or go ahead and give him such a switch. Well, don't buy me no drink. Just get one of my T-shirts. Cause nobody try to slip me in there. You know what I'm saying? My drink, but nah man, you know, it's cool, man. Comedy is different. Comedy is different, man. That's why like, even when I started talking about, you know, certain topics like, you know, when I started talking about like my gay family and stuff like that. That's why I say, hey, look, I'm just talking about my family. I'm not talking about nobody else. I ain't trying to disrespect nobody. Cause you gotta be real careful about what you say, man. Cause you'll get canceled. Eddie wasn't. Eddie was. Eddie wasn't. Eddie, you know what I'm saying? He jumped in on that. Oh yeah, Eddie 40 years in, man. He's, you know, living legend. Is he really gonna retire? I have no idea. Cause when he said that, I was like, no, you're not. You playing. I mean, you gotta think though, 40 years though, I would probably retire too. You know what I'm saying? After 40 years, you know. It gets tiring. You know, and you know, he's up there. What, you know, how much higher he gonna go, you know? You're right, man. Thank you so much for coming on the show, man. How can people get a hold of that if they trying to reach out? You know what I'm saying? Reach out to me on TikTok and Instagram at Hope the comedian. Make sure y'all follow the page, H-U-L-K-T-H-E comedian. If you want to, you know, for bookings and stuff like that, it's Hope the comedian at yahoo.com. And man, you know what I'm saying? I'm not, I come everywhere, man. I don't care whether it's, I don't just want to go to black rooms. I go to, you know, all my materials for everybody, any and everybody, man. Except for churches. I've had a couple churches try to get me. And I'm like, hey, nah. You said you do clean content too. Last night you asked. Well, I asked that question because I try to set the mood. I can do clean. I can do clean. I can do up there without cussing or doing anything else, but don't nobody want to hit it. People want to hit a real dirty grid and stuff like that. But I just asked because once you give me, you know the option, which one you want me to do, that's where it's going to go. You know what I'm saying? But either way, I'm going to have fun regardless and you're going to, I do all of my material three, four different ways. So I can talk about the same thing and just move some words around. But I'm still saying the same thing. But definitely dope, man. Love it, man. Hey, man. Thank you for coming on the show, man. Oh yeah, man. Appreciate y'all for having me, man. Shout out to Boss Talk. Man, Boss Talk 101 from South Carolina to Dallas, Texas, back to Vegas. Holla at your boy. It's a unique hustle. It's been another great segment of Boss Talk 101 where the bosses talk. And we out.