Joe Rogan Experience #1480 - Kevin Hart

you come in here moving and shaking man you come in here making deals you're on the phone already gotta do it you're always moving I mean is there anything else to do is there anything else to do to get ahead no no especially not now man hunters hunt yes those that don't get ate the last time you were here man that was one of the most inspirational podcasts I've ever done I left that I literally had a shift and the way I was looking at things like you put an extra gear in my step that day I was like oh I love being around people like you my guy people around you you you people like you you're you're going for [ __ ] all the time and it's infectious it's like you're you you give off energy and with people around you they want to they want to get [ __ ] done to theirs contagious its contagious that's not it's not just me putting it out I think that uh the last time I was here our conversation was such a great conversation because there was there was we both had point of views right and when we shared the point of views you elevated the other person's POV like when we were talking and I was telling you why I live the way I live why I am the way I am you springboarded then you said yeah because kept for me I've been doing this and and we had this big and yang thing going and it and it drove the conversation I told you you know before we jumped on one of the the best interviews that I've ever done and from a feedback perspective with people that just loved what the discussion was loved the tone of the interview two things that was said felt inspired motivated after it was just great all around for me checked all the boxes it was from me too and I got a bunch of great responses from my friends from fro that's when I know it's good when I get friends and my friends were all like pretty unanimous that is a motivational [ __ ] Wow like that dude get [ __ ] done when people hear stuff like you if someone who's excited about life excited about doing things you know there's something about that that it's fuel it's fuel for you we need that everyone needs that you know I don't even this is this is not a cheesy segue all right this just makes sense from what you just said what you just said is the reason why I did the decision you said people need that it's fuel yeah right I feel that in today's time what people are most selfish with this information nobody wants to give information you got to ask for it if you ask for it then I maybe maybe I'll tell you some stuff but it's a search and find I mean real good real information information about how to get to success that's the that's the one from everybody across the board on some level right okay everybody's success is different this doesn't mean Fame and in stars I'm not talking about that level of success for everything I'm saying whatever your version of success is to get to it information from someone that's done it or that's part taken in it and some degree will only add to the value of your journey it's only gonna make it easier it's not to say that you got to do what they said but be with that information you're able to process it maybe use it maybe not right but you got it right that's what I wanted to do I say yo I got it I got a [ __ ] I got a life I got a hell of a life that I've lived full of ups downs potholes cobblestone speed bumps flat road u-turns some smack brick walls that I ran into you know some revolving doors of back and forth and through it all my mental has only gotten better because I feel like I've been in I've been in a mental gym the mental fitness that that coincides with life you know it should get better it [ __ ] you should get wiser you should get smarter you should be able to make better decisions and all of my decisions came from the massive amount of fuck-ups and I can now share those fuck-ups I can now share the rights and the wrongs and the way that I handle all of the things that I've done and people can just take that information and go wow I never looked at it like that will give some better view of the landscape yeah especially when someone like you you you almost seem like an unattainable person like how how does he do that how is he doing that how does this guy go from Philadelphia to beat one of the biggest movie stars in the world how does he become one of the biggest stand-up comedy stars ever how the [ __ ] do you do that you almost seem like an alien you know to people on the outside but then when they hear you talk about your real life and talk about these fuck-ups talk about these successes and talk about the lessons that you've learned man that's fuel for folks in a way that nothing else is because it's there's a lot of people that are bullshitting online there's a lot of these motivational speakers that haven't done [ __ ] and it's a it's a weird thing it's like they're they're trying to give you motivation by like sort of reciting things that they think are gonna work they think that they think we want to hear someone has done something when you say it people are gonna listen they're gonna go oh and you're so honest about everything which is every that's everything to people because when you're pure when you're your words are pure people take them right in they come right in there's no there's no like house guys kind of [ __ ] selling me something I was gonna sell [ __ ] yeah I got nothing to sell I had a I had a talk with chase like chase JP Morgan Chase and partners of mine and we were doing this we're not we were we are we don't think all advanced and black pathways right we're trying to cure financial literacy in the black community we've been we're on like year number two right now right and there was a conversation where you know they wanted to have said bankers go and talk to the kids in the inner city and I was like you can't you can't send a white man that works for JPMorgan Chase to the inner city of sad community hood whatever to talk to these young black kids that has no idea about the life that the black kids living I said what you need is people that have actually come from these environments they have made it out of the environments and now understand how money works because now when I talk to you I'm not talking to you with hypotheticals and I'm not preaching to you about what you should do and what you gotta do I said I'm telling you what I did that didn't work I'm telling you I've [ __ ] off money and I'm telling you what I didn't know hey guys here's a fact there is no education that comes with money in the black communities it doesn't you can go search for it there isn't one it does not exist there is no one that is outright teaching the kids in a black community how to operate financially how to set up for your future there is nobody talking to you about ownership homes mortgages investments stocks but that doesn't exist it doesn't exist it's not until you get out of that environment that you meet some people that are planning their life accordingly that you start to ask questions it's not so maybe college and on the later side of it that you're with people that are getting jobs in the future that you start to do it there is no prep or education at a young age I said so you need you need a [ __ ] man that can go there and go amen let me tell you why y'all gotta stop taking these free credit cards let me tell you why you got to stop putting the cable in somebody else's name and continuing to [ __ ] it up let me tell you why you got to stop being okay we're not having a bank account let me tell you why you gotta stop using the check cashing places there's nobody giving that information mmm I said that's what I am so if we're gonna have a relationship let's build it all for something I'll thinning let's build it all for something that people can go I get that since then to go back to your point my relationship has been based on me telling the truth I told JPMorgan Chase I want to go to the inner city and I want to have these discussions but let me have them my way I don't want to have it in a JP Morgan Chase way and I gotta credit them for backing me because they align me with other people that shared the same stories that have achieved certain levels of success that speak to the same thing so everything that I've done everything that I'm trying to do when I do talk about it I come proving I'm only talking about this because I really got knowledge about it I don't got knowledge about it because I'm smartest [ __ ] word that's not what a knowledge is coming from Joe my knowledge is coming from a man yo don't walk the door number one hasn't one stirring yet there's a bunch of [ __ ] in that door it wasn't till I came out that door that I saw those monsters that I knew the other monsters weren't as bad in door number two but door number three is finally where you should go I messed up man I went to the first two doors wrong why can't I give that to somebody that that hasn't experienced those doors yet why can I just get that information and possibly prevent them from walking into those doors and that's what's really valuable for people listening is what's really valuable someone has actually done it and done it wrong and done it right and like hey listen I [ __ ] up this is how I [ __ ] up that that means so much to people really that you're you're advancing people's possibilities it's I think that's what life should be about yeah as as adults as adults we have a job to do whether you want to admit the night your job is to set up the next generation that's our job whether you want to [ __ ] admit it or not it's your kids it's your friends it's whomever you're supposed to live a certain way do certain things to set up for the next generation to come and to be able to do better if you don't then you're not doing your part and if the world never [ __ ] grows you got to raise your hand and be responsible hmm cuz you're part of the leg yeah you're part of the delay if we look up in 15 20 years and we're in the same spot what that means that our [ __ ] ground breakers that was doing all the [ __ ] during that 15 20 years never shared the information so that these new people come through a break new ground yeah somebody got to do more than what the [ __ ] I did I don't care what is right but you got to do more right somebody gotta [ __ ] do more somebody got to break these records in you already believes the trail yeah this dude all I did was show you amen hey they stopped here but I kept going to left and I start haul ass and look what I found now that I'm over here that means it's more did you have a time in your life where you realize that you were doing the right thing like a time of your life where you realized like in your comedy career in particular well you realize like I'm getting some [ __ ] traction I'm like this is really rolling like in the beginning you probably like all of us were not sure what was gonna happen you're trying you know you doing open mics trying to make it who but was there a time were you like this approach is this is happening I got traction it was when I think I think the the noticing of oh [ __ ] of something's happening right now and it's it's this is I think this is a success I think I think I'm I think I'm in it was it around the time your first special look wasn't it was when I did the Shaq all-star coming just I just told somebody this story I was talking to Gary Owens actually good friend of mine comedian and we were talking about the pass and you know Gary was like keV there was a moment where you just [ __ ] just just ran past everyone and he was like I don't remember exactly what it was that did it he said I just remember looking up and you were gone and I remember it was the Shaq all-star Comedy Jam the lineup was Saturday entertainer he was hosting it was DeRay Davis Tommy Davidson and myself it's a hell of a lineup it was DeRay Davis and Tommy Davidson myself Saturday entertainer was the host and I closed out the show and I remember going to do two shows in Phoenix it was in around and I had to do this is when I was about to tape seriously funny my next special at the girl little man so seriously funny I was taping like four months it was already on the books so this is this is supposed to be it this is my big coming-out party this has to be it man you know I feel like I'm ready I've been working hard my jokes are hidden I'm wrong I'm edgy this is it this is the one I'm [ __ ] funny seriously that's why I titled it seriously funny I was I was I was ready I get the call from Jeff Hannigan Shaq's all-star Comedy Jam we're taping at keV do it's like 15 20 minutes you know can you do it for me and Jeff and I had a relationship and I was a gentleman table especially I want to burn that material he's like keV look you can use some other stuff 15-20 minutes we tape it but you know these things get some good traction good views is some good eye candy you should just have it out there all right whatever I wasn't even taking a serious this is not something that was saying serious and this is an example of sometimes you don't know what it's going to be you don't know what the fuel and the rocket is going to be mmm you just got a [ __ ] buckle up and be prepared for the takeoff now if it takeoff and you don't know where the seat belts are and you don't know where the lights and [ __ ] at well now you got a [ __ ] up rocket ride you going you on crash it's over it's over if you're not ready yeah I do it this thing airs and I remember watching it and at the end of the show something so small seems so [ __ ] big I say good night I put up two fingers and as I'm walking off the stage they put it in slow motion they put me in slow motion walking off the stage and it was a separation from everything else that was on there it was almost like this guy's the the guy it was it was a it was a small tweaking editing I had nothing to do with it I just saw it and the slow-motion walk off the crowd getting up clapping you see people's faces slow-motion point in screaming and I'm walking off with like a bob and it was almost like a coined this is it this is going to be the guy I didn't do it I didn't mean for it to happen I didn't know what was gonna happen god bless the editors god bless the Shaq all-star Comedy Jam after that aired I remember doing a show at Caroline Jones is a true [ __ ] story shout out to Lewis from Caroline's comedy club I was just doing a weekend weekend you supposed to be doing you know three shows we set off 15 shows so how 15 listen we was there for like eight days we're never like 8 days you can Louis can confirm this Caroline's comedy club that's crazy Michael Berkowitz can't confirm this that's my public of parents agent we just kept getting calls it were gone we just put the tickets up for another show they're gone what Oh what do you want to do we can add another you want to try to do a a Wednesday night yeah go ahead it's gone Kevin we added the Wednesday it's gone what do you want to do you want to see if we can add a a Late Show Wednesday yeah [ __ ] it I guess it's gone Tuesday went Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday we've been that [ __ ] till God there Wednesday holy Sh 15 shows Caroline's comedy club would that feel like when it was I'm gonna say I'm gonna say 12 to 15 shows I remember because some of the things we could do one some we could do two but you don't know I'm like I can't I can't even understand this Caroline's comedy club is a big comedy club this is New York City this is the this is the melting pot where you got some of everybody after that is when me and Burt said is this a New York thing is that the word get out in New York and we found out the Shaq's all-star Comedy Jam was playing on like Showtime around the clock it was just being pumped all day all night and we put up some shows outside and the comedy club start firing who's adding shows we said let's do small theaters and then I did small theaters in right after that moment I taped seriously funny so Shaq's all-star Comedy Jam hit so hard that by the time I was ready to do seriously funny which was in three to four months people were so hype and ready to see me do something else that that became a massive attraction Wow seriously funny took off and blew as well that's crazy that it was something that you weren't even really thinking not even thinking about it maybe that's why I was so free you know for sure yeah the [ __ ] there's nothing up by the way seriously funny I damn this [ __ ] myself in Photoshop I damn defecated on myself before the show because I'm like man these people are here the theaters sold out so fast I had LeBron Shaq the the whole Cleveland Cavalier team was there at the time it was unreal I was like this is this is it this is my moment I gotta I gotta make this I gotta make this a thing Wow I got it man I can't [ __ ] this up I cannot [ __ ] this up the show ended up going great and then from there the the the [ __ ] star just continued to rise and and that's when the engine within myself started the click of go get right so there's something you always had the go get I got always had that I always had that I talked before that's my mom all right P Nancy Hart don't tell me I can't do something good now I'm pissed now I'm gonna do it don't tell me that and that's a gift and a curse yes that's a gift and a curse like you saw in the dark I love you saw bird in my documentary I put it all out there that's a curse cast don't put that video up don't do that don't tell me what the [ __ ] not to do I'm gonna do it and sometimes they don't do what you think it was gonna do you don't know everything you don't know everything and you're not that great to think that you do know everything and you can get bit in the ass by thinking that but you got to get bit to go oh let me get better at that yes so my go get comes from me just saying what's my reason not to go after everything that I possibly can I will stand on a [ __ ] building and say this man it's a game this this thing is serious but it's got a game-like quality to it this thing called life mmm it's got a game-like quality to it and if you don't [ __ ] see that you gotta open your eyes you want to open your [ __ ] eyes because in this life the moves that we're making allow you to do more to to get more to see more travel more explore experience or some people or dealt a different hand and it's tougher it's a darker road and it's dammit it's [ __ ] I'm I want to get out of this I can't I'm doing uh how do I get out but I made it oh it looked like I wasn't supposed to get out but I'm out everybody said you can't get out of this [ __ ] I did about I'm out I'm one of the people that got out and it's a [ __ ] it's got a real game like quality to it and that doesn't mean that you play with it understand what I'm saying here it means that you can do what you put your mind to and if you continue to put your mind to it the game opens up new levels tell me I'm [ __ ] saying something wrong you're saying something right you get a new level in each new level that gets opened up you're able to adapt a different mindset and a different approach you can stop at that level or you can go I want more levels I want more [ __ ] levels I don't like seeing [ __ ] that I have no idea how to obtain or gain access to that frustrates me that frustrates me when people do things and I don't know how they do it or did it what I'm gonna do it and I want to know when when you're around people that work in different atmospheres what do you do man oh man I'm the guy that takes these labels right here several labels right here I have a manufacturing company company where I do these but I do them in bulk so we do a thousand labels every 30 seconds and I built a manufacturing lab and this company here pays me X on a dollar and I got 35 companies doing the same thing I've built a multi-million dollar business based off labels people don't understand how important labels are I did at the young age so I started manufacturing labels you can manufacture [ __ ] labels now I'm now I'm intrigued even if I didn't want to do that I'm intrigued that that's a thing I'm intrigued I'm tree that you found a way to do that this table is a handmade there's a company do these is it [ __ ] custom where's the wood from if you really dig into everything it comes from a fault it comes from a broken down thought so you can be a person that's just around a bunch of brilliant thoughts never ask questions or you can soak some of that [ __ ] up you know this pandemic showed me Joe how our economy really [ __ ] works once again I'm coming from the perspective of a young black man from the hood I'm from the bottom I don't know [ __ ] about stocks I don't know nothing about investments never have right but I know through this pandemic now that I'm at a point where I'm actually into stocks and I'm investing and putting a portfolio together well I really looked at the way that the world moves I really looked at how we move his people how are we [ __ ] still going what are we using what are we [ __ ] using this is what I said to my kids I said what are you still using what do you mean on a day to day what do we have to use tell me things we have to use toothpaste who makes the toothpaste they told me who made the toothpaste is that a company that you can invest in do you feel like everybody uses this toothpaste if you do that means that this is a company that's been successful it may be successful for a long time because there's a necessary need of everyone that's an investment kids what else do we use what else do we use every day what do you go what do you like in the morning Starbucks is that an investment do you feel like everybody drink Starbucks we drank it all the time you feel like everybody else does too I think so that's an investment that's what you put money in because you feel like it's going to last is going to grow what stores do we go to where are we always at Target how many people would target when we go a lot is that an investment I guess why do you guess at this point you should know we talked about a long time why do you think it's an investment there why do you think it's not I'm talking to you about putting my in places where you feel like it's going to grow do you feel like targets are going to shut down tomorrow or do you feel like they're gonna open more stores how do you feel this is a thing that I watch and this is a thing that I also watch people ignore this is what it's wrong with our world because we don't talk to people enough like this we don't give them a simplicity behind the way we [ __ ] move and the way the world goes around if we did get the simplicity then we could have people taking $20 out their check and creating a portfolio we can have people taking forty to fifty dollars out their check and putting in a same thing said stock said whatever it is you can be doing it at a younger age you don't have to have the most crazy amount of money it can start off with the smallest amounts of money but you can learn it that can grow I watch it I pay attention that's what gets me [ __ ] coin Joe I pay attention to everything my question is why don't most of us why are we comfortable with letting the world just go by I think a lot of people don't have the framework they don't know how to operate in that realm they don't know how to get going they don't know how to get started yeah but I love what you said about it being there's a game-like quality to life that's such a perfect way to look at it really is you played a game yeah you played the game for how many years Joe how many years the any podcast 11 11 years right I'm gonna give you a very true story and to my brothers the plastic cup boys we got our radio show straight from the heart I'm constantly preaching to us about it's not about now it's about tomorrow our radio shows a good radio show and we have a following but it's not about now it's about tomorrow we gotta put the work in today so that when tomorrow comes we are well equipped for the conversation that may be I said Joe had a [ __ ] long ride of preparing for tomorrow and when tomorrow hit it had to hit correctly because Joe never not did the work on a day-to-day basis to prepare for tomorrow I got everybody fired up just off of the fact that you continue to do your thing the way that you were regardless of conversations regardless of other offers and possibilities you felt something else was on the horizon for tomorrow but you knew it would come based off of your energy and effort that you put into the thing that you have realistically I don't look at it that way how do you look at it I don't I never look at a destination or a thing or something happening I just keep doing it I'm one of those weird grinders it's not weird but that's a way for you to go but I trust the process but I don't never look at it like there's a destination like a success moment like a big thing a big thing hits I just keep doing it and those things sort of find their own way through management and agents and I've put very little thinking into that but almost all my thinking in there just doing the thing the best way that I can do it metaphor you did you're an amazing [ __ ] fighter you are I mean I don't know how many black belts you [ __ ] guys I just know I wouldn't [ __ ] with you you but you got some [ __ ] with you right and if you are practicing a kick or a move if you do it let's say 200 thousand times to make sure you get it perfect are you doing that and figuring it out for the unknown or is it for if I ever have to use it I wanted to be so [ __ ] right yeah that's always there that's always there but the thing is always the technique the thing is always the process I think that's where I got this from podcasting and even from stand-up it's just the grind the process comes from martial arts the grind is like you got to be there every day if you're there three days a week it's not as good as five you got to be there five days and five might be better than seven because sometimes seven you burn out you want to keep enthusiasm because that's a fuel enthusiasm there's something about enthusiasm that like you got a balance discipline and enthusiasm discipline is critical you have to be able to show up but you also have to enjoy the [ __ ] out of it and so enjoying the [ __ ] out of it with discipline is the key but you got to ride those babies out you know you don't want to [ __ ] every day take a couple days want it you know like people [ __ ] every day you don't need to know what [ __ ] feels like take three or four days off and smoke a joint make out with your woman do you feel like and this is something that you know I never have a good I've have an okay answer but I don't feel like it's ever the best answer when people say well what do you do when you're not doing what you love right and what I've said in in the past and you know and the present as well is I think in order to do what you love you got to get through the obstacles of the things that you don't love in life right trying to come up yeah do you do you agree with that like getting over those hurdles and then eventually they lead you to the thing where you're like okay yeah now I'm ready to first pursue said thing that I want to do or if you're in a job or you know a career you're like I [ __ ] hate my job what I feels like you know even if you hate your job you you're supposed to be using that job for something to get to something right and if you're if you're not then that should be the thing that you're figuring out like I don't like being here but now that I'm here I'm going to do all that I can to get said thing so that I can then be comfortable enough to move here yeah if you just go into those things with hate cuz you were talking about enthusiasms made me think we thought maybe think about it if you just got hate and you're just angry about what you're doing every day then you're not even allowing yourself to figure out the plan of how to escape the thing that you hate to get to the thing that you love yeah I think it's important to have those jobs it's sock man they're there of their they like cement your foundation live you don't want to go back to those [ __ ] places you don't want to go back to those terrible jobs we got to get up and be uninspired all day long but if you can get through that like that that's the this rigid structure of discipline that allows you to apply that discipline the things you love if you can apply discipline and learn how to apply it to something that sucks and get free have a game plan to get free once you get free you have that ability to get up and do things that suck guess what you're gonna get up and do things you love even more are you gonna remember construction sites and delivering newspapers and all the stupid jobs and I worked I think about those [ __ ] things and I get up in the morning I they when I'm brushing my teeth I think about them that's the [ __ ] game that's the game you gotta get through it you have to like that it's it's I I say this man and it's like that it's the story you're just putting that story together and I don't I don't think you know with without without the stories what do you talk about will you talk about right you know what is what is the interesting side of conference conversation about your growth or your journey if it's if it's if it's just the easiest I just took the highway and got over the exit and right there the exit I found the gold everybody else did it snow right my dad was rich and I have a trust fund and I never have to work every what what is that what is the interesting side to that like I don't there's no there is no bonus in that like yeah I just [ __ ] broke my goddamn back right the the dopest thing for me about doing that was not being able to walk but then being told that if I'm patient I can recover fully I can get back to myself in me instantly thinking in my head I can actually be better than what I was if he's telling me I can get back 200 be better so the game instantly clicked on all right tomorrow we start we play new level I can't [ __ ] walk goddamn here we go can't wipe my ass I'm not [ __ ] getting they say I can't get in the gym Petey is some weird [ __ ] I'm just taking two steps on the [ __ ] boots a ball and I'm alright this is a little discouraging but I know they said I'm supposed to do it three days I'm gonna listen to him but I don't knows other all those other four days is there anything else that I can do to be working on Kevin your strengthen your lungs up working with your breathing here's a breathing machine okay what about my my hands is there any way my sense is tennis ball can I be squeezing the shot doing anything no we don't have anything like that we don't recommend it so if I found something in our research if it's just motor skills and working on is that fine yeah that's fine but you know we it's it's it's okay if that's what you want to do okay I saw that yeah I'm not getting the same the doctors are just telling me the stuff that I need to know stay within those lines I'm gonna find out things that I can do because I'm playing a game now I'm never gonna overexert myself but the game is to be better how do I be better than what I was because if I do that oh [ __ ] for me mmm I'll just beat me yeah they're saying about nobody else I don't get [ __ ] about nobody else I just beat me if I can keep beating myself pulse if I can keep doing that then that means that I'm in a battle with the only person that [ __ ] makes sense I'm in a battle with the only person that I really wanna [ __ ] beat and that's me I know I don't care about anybody else I have no worry or gripe about the next man a woman's journey or or or or their level of success that's not what I'm when I'm up against yeah if I can continue to outdo me from the day before then I'm then I'm ahead and I'm ahead and that's that's what I that's the newfound the newfound energy that I got out of life now you know I'm on this amazing rocky story what my self is in my head nobody else is watching his movie but me it's in my head this is rocky this is the comeback this is exactly what I saw moving I'm gonna come back better than ever I'm gonna be 41 my body's gonna be ripped up on my being about 8% body fat and then and then I'm ready ready for what Kevin mmm [ __ ] enough I don't know but that's that's what I want I want that day to be like yeah yeah now what and then I figure out what I figure out what that what is then yeah tell me when you got injured what what you you were explaining to me before the podcast but I want to talk too much about it because I wanted to hear it now so everybody could hear it what what exactly was the injury iife' raptured so I fractured my my spine right and it's from my it's either from my t10 to my l1 for my l1 to my teat in whatever order that goes in so I how many fractures I mean that's [ __ ] that sure that's just fine that's about so you fractured basically everything everything I mean you got like this much space in my back so you got to think first of all I'm already small all right so this is practically my whole back if you look at this right here this is practically normal back so all of this fractured and what what happens is they had to fuse my spine so they have to remove the discs in between they basically had to fix so so the bones where it's fractured basically your spine is now out of whack the the the things that keep your spine connected and that allows you the flexibility are out of whack I got pieces of those bone fragments that are out of place out so so they got a they got a fuse that [ __ ] back together so I got the disc material out and compress it and then screw them also is the bone or one piece now I I think I'm I think I'm one I don't I don't know about the disc I don't know I don't have that answer that's uh that's a little too technical for me and I should know that because it was my body but what I do know is that this thing that's my spine has eight screws and these eight screws now hold it together so through this time of healing because I now have metal in my back it was about getting your back to be comfortable with the metal but also back to a normal level of flexibility so where people [ __ ] up when you get this type of energy and you stay still you allow that metal to get stiff you don't you don't you're not moving it so so now your movements become robotic with it so because as soon as I got out the hospital I started I didn't have days off as soon as I got out I started physical therapy I did not wait I didn't I got off medication I said I'm not taking on meds you know my dad was on drugs I was like I'm not [ __ ] around with that so I dealt with the pain but I got to start now because every day that I wait makes it harder to go so because I was you know back and forth side to side doing all of those things I got I got my body to get accustomed to it and I got flexibility so now we used to be working out it looks as if I'm back and you know I'm probably 98% back to myself right now but the work that I put into my core and my upper body over the years are what saved me outside of God of course in that situation because you know I want to tell us people just for just for you to know this health and wellness [ __ ] is so much bigger than what you may think it is taking care of your body you don't know when all that stuff comes into play and adds up correctly you know the the human body is amazing recovery the ability to snap back and go back to what it once was the body muscle memory all that stuff plays a major factor so my healing was a lot faster because of the years of work that I put into him before now if I had enough and I didn't have that court well I'll be paralyzed I'll be [ __ ] paralyzed I mean they set up you're literally talking about this much doctor looked me in the eyes you're lucky to be walking here this much if your core wasn't in the shape that it was and if you didn't have the the strength to take what ever that impact wasn't stay you would have been snapped and you would never be walking again so that instantly thank God I go you know what thank God for my trainer who jumped into my life at a certain time and changed my way of thinking boss Ronald balls ever lying and you know we've been rocking for seven years and and the consistency of four years before of every day every day so now I'm like you you're not wasting your time ever so when those people say what are you working out for what are you getting the shape for why going everyday you don't know when you're gonna need to [ __ ] tap into all it'll work that you've done you don't know you don't know if you ever need it but to just know that you've taken care of yourself to know that you've given yourself a chance to [ __ ] not only survive but perform you've given yourself a chance to perform at a high level in a day to day by taking care of your engine this is this is my machine so I'm taking care of the engine just like any car oil changes just like you know your [ __ ] your brakes your tires the rotors all that [ __ ] you taking care of that so it's a great ride every time you got to do the same with your body don't ignore that [ __ ] people you know we dropping like flies right now mmm heart attack strokes yeah you know you get kidney failure you got people with diabetes you got people getting legs arms cut off from bad eating from from bad eating over the course of years take that [ __ ] serious don't wait to the end that's serious that's not that's not a joke so when I look at people dying around me we have no control over when a day is gonna come but I'm going to try to help amplify my time here as much as I can that's the big one right amplify your time you have energy get different kind of energy than someone was unhealthy you have the ability to push forward you have the ability to get you then you have more enthusiasm because your body feels good why are you not why I want to be careful what I say this because I don't want to seem like I'm coming down on anybody that's not but why don't you want to take care of yourself I think they do I think it's just habits are very hard to break there's a lot of comfort in just the same thing every day open up the cabinet Twinkies [ __ ] it I'll start tomorrow [ __ ] it I feel like eating those chips just settle into it and then there's this disappointment that comes from settling in and it's comfort in its disappointment at the same time like you really well I guess that's me and you accept it and I think sometimes people are scared of improvement because they're scared of failure so if they can just kind of slide into the same [ __ ] every day it makes them feel less less uneasy you know what I what I say and and what I will say goes back to the decision goes back to information it's not bad if you want those things I don't I don't think that people are supposed to live a robotic life in and you know I don't eat this ever and I don't do this well there's more to the rock and his [ __ ] cheat days I mean it's she's he eats for a village that son of a [ __ ] it's unreal what he puts down when he puts down that's what I'm saying like you should enjoy your your yourself and enjoy your life but I think that there should be a give-and-take like all right I'm gonna eat the way I want to eat I'm not compromising that because I love food but let me put a half hour in a day of walking let me yeah let me do something so where I'm active so there's at least a give-and-take that's what I would say to people out there I'm not saying in no way shape or form don't do this ever and that's wrong and you live in you're gonna destroy yourself that's no that's unrealistic that's unrealistic yeah I think you should definitely be happy you should definitely do the things that you enjoy because like I said in my mind this is a game you playing the game you'd be happy while you're playing the more miserable one way to play the game is to challenge yourself like give yourself a month write down for a month for one month I'm not drinking a single soda for one month I'm gonna do something some exercise every day and I'm gonna write down what it is for one month the [ __ ] game yeah here's how I think I don't know if that's a book title or not or if it hasn't has been a hasn't but goddamn it that could be my next one the game yeah humans I think it may be but maybe you know the game the game of life that's something but it's something there I just know there's there's it's such a synergy within that maybe just call it game something yeah it's there's your statement of there's a game like quality to life resonates it's just as soon as you said that I was like ooh that's it that's the way to look at it don't just look at it like life look at it like you're trying to succeed you're trying to get ahead and win the game like quality of life that's it it's it's it's it's a it's adult thing I'm gonna want to really harp on it so you know you're recovering from your your back injury look how long ago was the injury how long ago was the crash now September so what is that September October November December January February March April was his May yeah so me only eight months almost as bad we June's about to be nine I'm gonna get in tonight and you said 98% I'm down to probably 10% body fat right now and as far as like movement you could basically do everything I'm doing everything Wow doing everything I'm up to running again I'm probably at I'm probably a three I can go three and a half miles straight before I'm like oh the back starts to bother ya before I get tight and what are you doing for the back you doing yoga are you doing what kind of I got a physical therapy you know that's that's random shout-out to dr. Pat you know I make sure that getting two massages getting a work done because I'm doing so much within working out I don't want to not take care of that as well so from heating it from you know treatment just just literally doing things to to make sure that I'm I'm constantly working on those muscles and not forgetting them I'm getting older I don't want to act like that's not the case or that's not a reality I'm 40 now so how do I take care of this machine so at 50 I'm not moving as if I'm 70 right now I would say that's been that's been a great adjustment but one that's really made me feel better like stretching you know I didn't I didn't understand the importance of stretching of actually resting you know I was gotta get it let's go let's go Tom Waits hit it clanging and banging baby clanking and banging but now you know make sure you get your rest time so that you can come back and give the energy your cardio changes role machines come on I'm on a bike you know I'm I'm peloton and I'm hydro and I'm running so the workouts change and you become more consistent with your system with my new system so I think by July July my goal is for my 41st birthday that July 6 to be around eight eight and a half percent body fat at the age 41 so it's all about it's all about looking good with the body fat for me for me the body fat means that I've just been super focused mmm like no I eat I don't people to think that I don't eat I'm I'm not a foodie though so it doesn't really count but you know I'm not owing some strict crazy diet I don't you know the food alert you don't enjoy like I'm not a foodie man I don't know I don't eat red meat I really know red meat no no fish no seafood I'm a plant base eater everything everything's plant I'll go chicken every once in a while I'll dab alit to my chicken that's what other people don't understand I don't think people really get that or understand that it's like just because you make the decision to go and try plant-based doesn't mean that you have to engulf in that world learn it understand it and see if there's benefits that work for you I stopped eating red meat so much because I learned that I didn't have to have it I thought that I needed it to survive that's what I was under the mindset like if I don't eat this I'm things are gonna change for me that's what I thought but once I found out there was protein and things in other foods and other resources and then I started to learn more about the plant-based food space I was like i'ma give it a try and I started trying to be I meet and I [ __ ] fell in love with behind me know that I don't feel the difference let me tell you something right now those beyond meat things are not good for you I love them I'm sure you do I'm sure you enjoy that's fine I like if you're gonna be plant-based that's not the way to go in terms of like the overall health it's not bad if you want just taste if you enjoy you know just mouth pleasure but they're not good for you I saw oils it's all this plant-based oils and it's all processed and weird just eat vegetables what you are is a very smart man so I would never challenge the information that you may have that I don't have so now after being told such a thing I would look and see for myself but I can say to date I love the beyond option because it's not only taking the place of the meat I like the different versions of it that's available as long as you're enjoying it and wrong like something you enjoy and you're obviously very healthy yeah I could say I I haven't seen I put it this way since since going plant-based and jumping into that space and choosing that because there was a moment where you have the impossible you had the beyond and you had all the stuff that was out there and you're trying everything I like that one the most so after liking the beyond one the most then I said let me see if I can be more consistent since doing that I've I've seen a significant change and just being more vibrant more up and at it like you know my days were always long so there used to be a wall that I would hit you know when I was eating and I was red meat whether it be the burger patty without the bun whether it was steak and eggs for protein whatever was I would always hit a wall a day where you know I'm dozing I'm dozing and I'm crashing I don't have those crashes if you weren't getting enough carbohydrates could be once again Joe you have very smart minutes I'm not gonna your knowledge because I've noted this is a space where you're well-equipped you do your research you read you know I've heard you talk about things various times in this space I'll just say it's is one of those things where I was like okay this is a pattern that I fell into it's been comfortable but I've seen the results that's all that matters in this bio available bio variability that everybody has to take any consideration like your body's gonna be different than Jamie's is gonna be different than mine everybody's body's gonna respond different to different kind of foods it really it's really different you know some people or work great off of just fish I know people that are on a carnivore diet and then the healthiest shape they've ever been in their life all they eat is red meat these rib eyes all day long and you go what the [ __ ] anyone that looks great and they'll swear to you they've never felt better psoriasis is gone joint pain gone healthier than ever and then I know other people that are all 100% plant-based know like I got off my meds I feel great I think focus on eating properly whether it's eating properly plant-based or eating properly with a carnivore died just cutting out all the [ __ ] yeah that's the in it and focusing on the fact that you're eating for health and for vitality like that's a big part of it you just said the key thing no the the key things you just said is people are doing different things that work for them yeah there there is no right or wrong way and I think that's the biggest misconception right the misconception is that you're doing it wrong one way there's only what nah don't do that don't eat that there's so many different ways that can work for you don't be afraid to try or just experience what those options are and find your comfort space like that's that's why I say within that plant-based space you know people that go get man on plant-based but I feel bad cuz I ate seven thing it's like you don't have like it's not there is no rule you know to what you want to do for you and you gotta be open to making adjustments to do you know Ct Fletcher I do know of him I don't know him but I know of him loved I got it done punk yes his motivational as anybody ever lived he had a heart attack um had his heart replaced a new heart and he I don't think he's confirmed it but he believes it's an Asian woman I don't know if that's this how he feels or like he's had some weird feelings about having this other person's heart inside of his body and he went 100% plant-based just changed everything changed his entire diet and puts all these videos he thinks his heart came from the Asian leaves his heart came from an Asian woman I don't think he's confirmed that because I don't think they tell you but I think he's he would you want to know do you want to know yeah I kind of want to know yeah maybe he knows now he didn't I don't believe he knew last time I saw him in here but you know the first time I met him I mean he's a powerful guy you know it's still your mother-fucking set like it is that guy yeah and he's just always this like booming voice and just gigantic muscles and he's all drive and go and then when his heart failed and then he had to have his heart replaced I saw him about a year later and he had this remarkable calm that had come over him he was just like this different person very loving and embracing and had all this happiness and all this joy and all this appreciation and now all you ain't his plants I mean he's a and he swears by it and light for him that's that's the way to go no I'm not that light just saw that right yes when you come close to that light yeah and it's in that light that I'm talking about his death yes if you come close to that light when you do and if you are fortunate enough to come back from that light you value life differently you can't they're there there are no bad days for me there are no bad days for me my biggest cry in life came from the first day that I came home from the hospital because I never I never had to see that house again like there's there was an option right I've never seen that home again there was an option of me never walking on that driveway again there was an option of me never seeing my wife and my kids again like the biggest and I mean it wasn't it was like like a build up cry it was pull up get out feet touch the ground what the [ __ ] just came over me boohoo yes like what the [ __ ] what just happened and by the way a painful cry because my back my back was [ __ ] right so I'm crying hard and I'm in pain but the realization of none of this has to be you're not in control right hey Kevin you're not in control buddy you thought you were you move for a minute like now I got this I'm gonna do that don't worry about it I got it we'll be good I'm gonna make sure it happens as if you were in control that's what it is it's literally that yeah at any decision at any given time it can be over yeah it's not until you get close to that light that you truly respect that I respect that there are no bad days amen miss me with any [ __ ] yeah I'm smiling yeah because I have no reason to be angry because I don't have to be here you appreciate that sunshine cuz you've been in the pouring rain yes man hey hey that's a [ __ ] yes so when you talk about Ct Fletcher and you talked about his calm you know what man I've I've been on the other side he's he's been yeah let's go and that's great yeah that doesn't mean it is that he doesn't still have that but now there's a different energy and a different level of relaxation that can come because I know how fortunate I am to be taking these steps yeah it's not just theory like every day really truly is a gift chase yeah and you take it for granted real you take it for [ __ ] granite man I'm gonna tell you not being able to wipe my ass changed everything you got one of the days in your house you press the button I can't even do that really I couldn't do that I'm talking you you take it for granted you take it for granted man all of this all of this conversation is clapping as easy Oh hey come here all this [ __ ] here you just you just think it's okay you go go through go through a situation where it's compromised how long did it take before you can start walking again normal or semi normal I lied in a hospital because I didn't want them to know that that I was having pain because I thought today we're gonna stop me from letting me continue to try my walks it was like day seven in the hospital and I had the walker and it was slow walks but I was dragging it was upper body hmm and and I was masking it as if I was feet right because I didn't want to stop trying like that was my that was my that was my [ __ ] my my go get my drive for anything was those that half hour forty where I could get up and go walk because I was just laying in the bed all day and you know god bless me and my wife and my kids there was there's times like if this is the remote control and I'm in the bed and I just want to get to the control well I can't get to it if if you didn't position the control down here by my hands so I could get it this hair throws my whole [ __ ] eye so now I can't press the button two corners and every second is babe can you can you grab the control for me have do when I was a time with my son my son was like [ __ ] it my son just slept in the bed with me my son he was like I'm here dad I'm up my son didn't want to go to school my daughter them on school they didn't leave my side they stayed there and middle of the night if they heard it they heard me yeah alright dad what you want they were up my son doubled is nurse my daughter doubled his nurse Nikko doubled as it you know they they were there my brother came and that's when the that's when the care about what was important really changed the [ __ ] that I thought was important the things that you think are important you get to looking around at a hospital almost four walls none of that [ __ ] that you think is important is in there it's one of these people none of the other [ __ ] was in there none of it none of it was [ __ ] in there it's also God make you feel great that there's that much love you know that they care about you that's what God that's what gets you that's what gets you through it now so those little steps that I was taking you know the the discomfort of not being able to do the love and energy made me go it's gonna be alright I'm gonna get there cuz you definitely feel defeated a little bit and so how long before you were walking without a walker how stubborn man so probably two and a half weeks to two twenties I should have had the walker Wow I should have had the walker but it was I'm giving the perception that it's that it's better than what it is and I had the back brace on you faked it till you make that it was definitely I definitely I definitely was was hey smiling what's up y'all right good morning everybody giving this perception you never told me you were to visit you yeah and it's kinda see me any certainty goes through the [ __ ] guys already walking around yeah it's crazy yeah I had given a perception cuz you don't I don't want you to just to worry yeah I got it's me yeah let me I'm going through it I'm gonna figure it out I don't want that worry placed on anybody else I told you I stopped [ __ ] taking minutes yeah so every night was it was a horrible night that's so much better for you though just accept that pain and every night I did that with my knee surgery and it's obviously a much less painful thing but I was like I took that [ __ ] once from one of my knee surgeries one day and I was like this I feel so [ __ ] stupid ass Labrador myself that's what I said no no I was talking to he's a slot yeah I was by myself alone in my apartment and I was thinking this is you know back when I lived in New York I was like I'm not doing this again this is one day I would rather I'd rather be in searing pain and have my senses than to be stupid I felt so don't felt dumb dommages like yeah I'm not in escape I don't want to escape I want to dig deep not that bad yeah I'd rather just feel the pain I'm not looking for that bad it's a sensation it's a terrible sensation but I know what it is this is letting me know that there's a problem and we'll fix that problem I don't like the look that comes with being yeah like when I see what people look like that or I don't like that look that's summer this year oh yeah that when you don't know which yeah they say yeah you you don't know what's going on with your hands I don't like that I don't want to look I don't want to look like that yeah I think that's people that are in so much pain all day just emotionally that they just need some sort of escape from it one thing I was embracing it I will not knock anybody that is dealing with any type of mental struggle because that is something that's so serious because nobody understands right what that is except that person right so I never I never talked as if that's an easy thing I talk that that's a thing that I don't fully know about so you can only you can only have some type of remorse in feeling of understanding for people that are battling any type of mental illness yeah or mental health because that's just a different it's a different monster and different machines so whatever the reasons to escape that are for you and from you you know that's that's something that's TBD to be determined between you and whoever's trying to help you people on the outside we got no right we got no right if you're not [ __ ] dealing with the same thing you got no right to judge that ever there's no way we can understand what's going I'm no I can understand what's going on in your head other than you telling me about and me trying to decipher it and trying to put it into words but that's one of the more interesting things about talking to people it's like when you when you talk to people and you find out how they feel and think about things it shifts your own ideas of what life is and and and I'm trying to look at life through other people's eyes and the only way you get that is through them talking I mean I'm dealing with it now with my kids I got two teenagers so my daughter you know my daughter got mad this is a while ago she got so mad she just forget it was like it was like a little rage I didn't attack her for it I said there's something that made you do that it's bigger than just this it's not about what we're dealing with now I said that was double something else that I've never seen and I said I'm gonna give you a second take some time to yourself I said later if you want to talk about anything your dad is here so let's let's talk if you want to and we got this thing called free speaking zone and our house free spin zone means as a parent I can't get mad at you about what you said I got to give you a conversation based off of what you said and I gotta act as if you're not my child for that moment you cannot abuse free speaking zone though you can't abuse it that don't mean every time you're in trouble free speaking zone your abuser and now you risk free speaking zone going away I like that idea so you gotta use it correctly so you know my daughter came to me and and in like the nicest voice she was like free speaking zone and I was like yeah I said what's up and she just started talking to me about some things that were bothering her and when when we talk what I found is I can relate to my daughter because I know for sure that where I come from it's allowed me to see exactly what she's seeing plus so much more put so much more and this was a this was a time where the hair was an issue my daughter went through a big hair thing you know she wanted her hair to be a certain way and the hair wouldn't there was no way to her hair was going to look like what she wanted it to so the discussion was honey is a young black girl your hair is not gonna do what your friends hair does you know my daughter goes to a private school it is white girls here you got some Mix girls here and you know these girls are out and they can jump in the pool get out and their hair is a certain way I'm like honey yours isn't gonna do that but if you want a different look then that means that we can work on ways to obtain it but honey it's not gonna happen overnight and I had to make sure that my daughter understood how beautiful she was I had to make sure that my daughter understood why it's okay for her hair to be different and be unique and not the same I had to go into a full father programming of making you understand your value and my daughter needed that but it wasn't it wasn't something that just came out of nowhere like dad I want to talk to you about my hair it was an anger that she later then came and wanted to discuss but if I didn't have the free speaking zone that's some [ __ ] that just would have been in and never talked they never talked about yeah but I gave her something that she used as a as a reason to say what I don't like and don't judge me dad but this is really making me mad well it seems like you've developed this philosophy that applies not just to work and not just to success but also to family and relationships there's a lot of carryover in all of this it's like accepting things for what they are but looking at a positive way to improve them even in terms of just communication with your family I mean that's priority yeah priority number one I mean that's this it's it's so it's so dope to be able to build what we're building because it's not a tradition this is not we don't have a family tradition where the rushed right this is the first right I don't come from mom and dad same house kids dogs and dinner at night at 6:00 p.m. I don't come from right I don't know how to do that so we are now learning that you know divorced ex-wife new wife step kids new kid brothers and sisters coincide with ex-wife new wife make sure that we all understand this is our world how do we co-parent bumps of course figuring it out of course kids household in our household us build something dinners let's make this a thing conversations no phones let's make it a thing movie night Taco Tuesdays game night all this silly [ __ ] that you may look past our memories family trips family walks walking the dogs together all of this [ __ ] we're building so I'm fascinated at giving my kids stories to hold on to when they get older remember that time when we did said things said things said thing where are we at that summer remember when such and such happened and you fell in the thing and dad had to come get you oh my god you know what dad you know I want to go back to you know what we want to do we're building it so my hope is that as I grow older I'm able to look at a new a new era within the heart within his heart family name this heart legacy I'm looking at I'm looking at generations you know I got two sons I got two sons man that's a that's an unbelievable thing because this name goes I got a daughter that's my oldest I'm about to have another daughter like now it's like [ __ ] have you really it's bigger than you it's it's about this and it's about what they have but it's about what they remember I'm doing my part in life to go back to what we talked about earlier by making this generation better than what I was I'm giving you the [ __ ] tools guys you don't got to do what I do you don't got to be what I am but I'm giving you the tools to at least want to aspire to be is there a struggle to find time like to manage the time between work and family relationships now after that accident no not that [ __ ] accident accident was the the the best i opening experience ever you know I mean it's I was married to my career dating my family mmm right like I'm right I'm all about this work and all about this hustle granted there's nothing wrong with that it's a good thing but after a certain point you got to prioritize accordingly when you know when you get to a certain point where the decisions that can be made are a little more controlled and you have the ability to maneuver differently because of the success that you've obtained make those adjustments I didn't make those adjustments I was still hustle hustle hustle cranek great dad I'm we're doing stuff I'm home I'm getting back home but my in and outs three days I'm out two days three days I'm out I gotta go from the movie y'all come down for the weekends all right I see you guys will eat dinner we'll do stuff and it's great crammed it all in all right y'all got to go I'm working and it's not bad but now all right I'm from a movie after I'm done filming a movie well I got I need to take 30 days off I need to take 40 days off that's just with me in the fam now a you go tour it was just bough year and a half we out four days out the [ __ ] week I'm out year and a half I got to get it well now let's go a month and a half a stop for three weeks I'm with the fam so I still have my three days a week that I was here but then I'm gonna stop for three weeks this is dedicated to phantom don't nobody do anything with me or talk to me I'm I'm home now my office I was in that office when we [ __ ] open office opening nine I'm there eight you know there's a chance that I may be in that office till [ __ ] six now yo no matter what guys that day in the office has to end it like three I gotta be home for dinner I got dinner with the fam my priorities have changed but it brings me back to the decisions that you are now able to make based off of life's circumstances life's lessons so because of all the [ __ ] that I went through because of the things that I now got to see because of that hospital room in those four walls and me seeing my family and what that love did for me and to me well I'll be damned if I [ __ ] look past that I'll be damned if I not do what I'm supposed to do and give that the same amount of attention in return cuz my eyes got open [ __ ] is that why that happened what are you saying to me was I supposed to what okay I'm gonna assume I'm gonna assume and I'm gonna look at the signs that are clearly being given I'm gonna try my best to do my part I'm gonna try my best to grow so my time now is it's so valuable but the priority within my time I'm making sure that the people that I love and that love me have some time when it's all said and done I want to know that I made those adjustments I want to know that I did my part you achieved that balance absolutely yeah but it was learned yeah it was learned now this is information yes it's [ __ ] information and and there's one side of information that I had which was go get it I'm out I'm out I got to go get it I got time to [ __ ] stay in here man it's [ __ ] to do which I still do do I don't want to make seem like that isn't in me but there's a balance there's now a balance that's the trickiest [ __ ] in life it's it yeah it's to find that balance find a bounds not just be a [ __ ] savage out there grinding and attacking all day but to have that balance and appreciate especially appreciate family right it's it's it's something that I that I've had to learn and that I'm still learning it's not something that I'm knocked out the park completely yet because it's a growing [ __ ] living yeah you just you gotta just keep being a sponge and being willing to [ __ ] grow tell me about this audible doing audible is an amazing partner of mine now my first book I can't make this up life lessons was a New York Times number-one bestseller and I got bit I got bit by the bug Wow as an author I wanted to write a book I did it look at the success that it had the opportunity came up for me to voice that book on audible and the audible success was just as good if not greater than my hardcover and people loved the fact that the stories were real but hearing my voice and hearing me be personable while being real was a bonus from other things and they've ever had the privilege of listening to so I said I want to do another one man but I'm big on this motivation self-help inspiration thing I'm I'm really big on trying to do my part so as I was telling you earlier I said in my life man I got so so many stories of all of my twists and turns and right moves and wrong moves and decision making that enhanced those moves or that devalue them and made them incorrect ultimately if I were to give information it's just to open up people eyes is to open up your eyes to to the reality of you competing with you I want people to understand that we lose because we are ok with ignoring our faults right it's not until you can accept your faults your [ __ ] that you can grow and do better we point the finger a lot by we myself included I'm an example of it yo I didn't do that because nobody told me I didn't get up I didn't hear the alarm why don't you call me and get me up yeah I didn't know he was gonna go eat didn't want to tell me he's gonna go eat I woulda came to eat but if y'all you tell me I know he had a test today why don't you tell me how to test day I didn't study because anybody reach out and tell me there's so many things that we place the blame on others for that are truly our responsibility and it becomes a habit it's a force of habit so it's not at you break that habit that you can do bigger and better [ __ ] so this audible original of mine called the decision is about making you look at [ __ ] differently making you realize the tone of today and making you understand how much you're a part of it I got a big thing on social media near where I'm like social media is mind [ __ ] people and to people now thinking that it's what the world thinks social media has mine [ __ ] people into thinking that the comments below a post are what the world must be feeling and thinking about you the insecurity levels have raised to an all-time high because my belief is now I posted something people are saying these things underneath I don't want to go outside because this is how they feel mmm so I've now put this [ __ ] in my head that as soon as I walk outside if you look at me you talk about my posts ain't you what folks [ __ ] your tongue mouth right you stop my post didn't you that's why you looking at me like that I don't what do you what we now think that this is the way of the world right and we're so engulfed into it that the negative is so loud that you don't even see the putz - even if it's overwhelmingly positive need a few negative you don't see it you concentrate on those negative you you don't see it yeah there was a black billionaire that paid off student loans it was a story for about a day and a half another story popped up of reality thar suck somebody dick in the bathroom it went on for three weeks it was [ __ ] crazy news it's breaking [ __ ] news what that's all over the place the reason why is because we spread the negative as people we've fallen in love with bad information and bad conversation no we're intrigued by it what's a natural human instinct because those are the things that can kill you like know the days when we were you know living in small villages worried about animals attacking us you had to be always worried about negative negative is the thing you had to concentrate on cuz that could take your life positive was something that's great that's good and all but really got to concentrate on negative and unfortunately that human instinct is carried over into this time where we don't really have the same fear of danger that we had before for the most part but we still concentrate on these negative things we still concentrate on negative comments negative stories these negative things carry more weight because we have a natural inclination to keep an eye out for danger it's a it's like our human reward system's been hijacked it's been hijacked by social media this new thing that we're not prepared for reading anonymous written things that are negative and it [ __ ] and you know there's a book called the coddling of the American mind by Jonathan hate and he wrote about this with children about how many especially girls so many girls are experiencing super high levels of self-harm suicide and depression all because of social media because they're writing things and their friends are commenting on them and people are anonymously saying you stupid fat [ __ ] who [ __ ] with their head in a way that other generations before didn't have to deal with before social media there was nothing that could affect them in this way and and you know stuff because there's gifts and there's curses to it of course like there's a there's an amazing benefit behind it and of course now we're seeing the you know the bad within it so what I encourage any a everybody to do is just understand who you are truly understand who you are learn yourself yeah learn yourself learn your pros and cons get your flaws get them out the way but with you not nobody else nobody this is a you and you thing of the [ __ ] that you know you need to work on I'm telling you people when you really look yourself in a mirror and you start to pick yourself apart by yourself yeah there's only room for improvement it's easy to ignore your [ __ ] also other people can't tell you things you don't already know [ __ ] yeah you're a thousand percent right yeah you're a thousand percent right and it's that's what this is my my audio book is not a live like me tutorial it's not a do what I did tutorial it's I would never do that because I don't have all the answers all I have is stories and information that you can now be privy to that can allow you to make different [ __ ] turns on his road of life what what was the motivation to do this it was a one thing or was there it was it was it a build up me being me being one of the only black guys in our entertainment space because there's a handful of us that get to look behind a curtain there's a curtain there's another room and there's a curtain and in that room is some [ __ ] you like goddamn I didn't know y'all was [ __ ] doing this back here I don't know I was getting this type of money back y'all been doing this how long this is how it happens there's a there's a room that you get in and the information and understanding that comes in it the end it's it's unreal the stuff that you start to discover but it's a discovery it's a discovery you got to stumble upon this treasure of information and discovery and if you don't maybe you're in the right environment you hear some stuff you can ask some question but nine times out of ten it's not offered it's a search and fine and when I was constantly in those situations and I find myself saying so how but why well then what did you do right damn after that didn't what what the [ __ ] did you what how did that even work I was in a room with Jeff Bezos and Robert Kraft this was the the Patriots have won a Super Bowl and we're we're in like the this little private room after and Tom Brady is like giving a speech thinking Robert for all Robert thinks time and I whip my wife and a friend and Jeff Bezos walks in my friend go to go Jeff Bezos oh [ __ ] Oh save a sudden assessment [ __ ] I would love to pick his brain that's an interesting individual no I'm do that what you mean don't do that don't do the friend why are we talking about why you don't do that cuz the roomful of people don't look like the dude is thirsty thirsty for what for [ __ ] information dick face we aren't alike look who got into like little [ __ ] back for what [ __ ] information I want to [ __ ] and say hey I want to see my face I want to ask him some questions henkle see this man no more I don't know him we're not on a phone number the phone number basis i'ma say what's up to him I got do you I'm just saying and this farmers just chill it's relaxed and that [ __ ] start to click to me that's the problem everybody's too cool everybody's too [ __ ] cool right everybody wants you to think that they know you don't know you don't know [ __ ] we don't know [ __ ] there's one Jeff Bezos this [ __ ] one he's right almost Chilean ear hey Jeff come here man first of all explain two trillion to me what is that how many zero what is that first of all do you know excited he must be to talk to you two who knows imma [ __ ] find out [ __ ] flatten it out you know I did joke what hey man happy right back babe come on took my wife with me age I'm Kevin Hart how you doing man hey Kevin how are you justice my wifey Nico hey hey man I admire you I don't [ __ ] know anything about that world and death but I admire you I admire you for being a guy that [ __ ] created and accomplished some [ __ ] that is a phenomenon I want to shake your hand I would love to talk one day Kenneth amen good meeting you quite sure we'll bump past one day hey if we do it don't you gonna remember this I just want to tell you I admire you I don't need [ __ ] I'm not asking for anything but what I did I set myself up for another conversation for when I got the opportunity you're talking here but I'm gonna come over man I admire you I wanna [ __ ] ask you a bunch of questions about this Amazon [ __ ] and that's why you came up with it I don't think this is the time or place but I want you to see my face have you ever seen the photo of him sitting at his desk and there's a banner behind them a plastic nylon like hanging banner it says amazon.com it's in like the 1990s when people like what the [ __ ] you doing selling books on the internet and this is a shitty looking Ikea desk look at this look at him this is him here in marker yeah we sprayed some great paint look at shitty look at that shitty [ __ ] desk that dorky looking dude look at the cords yeah now he's off buff and jacked and [ __ ] Jesus now he's a savage that's basically conquering the business world richest man Wow richest man publicly I think there's a bunch of them oh yeah just got some [ __ ] - don't think just shut up they don't want to say anything yeah either way I was in a room with that man yeah I didn't there wasn't a level of cool that I had that that would keep me from just going in saying hello or asking a question for that matter right and and it's being in those spaces that intrigue the thought I was like dude this is what I'm gonna do I'm gonna do my part I'm gonna do my part and say it I'm gonna say hey when it comes to producing and production here's what I've done here's the walls that I've hit and here where's really hurt me but here's what I learned and here's why I do it this way my ambition is fueled from possibility I'm giving you all this [ __ ] I'm giving you all the [ __ ] when I'm doing my dying take you with me yeah I'm gonna keep it in the coffin with me I'm do let me do it yeah I'm a [ __ ] give it well also the possibility that some young kid could listen to this audio thing listen do you talk about these things and then one day succeed and run into you the same way you ran into Jeff Bezos yeah running you're Kevin Hart oh my god I gotta tell you I got where I am because I listened I listened to you talk about your life I listen you talk about your fuck-ups and that you made me feel like you're human like I thought you were just Kevin Hart like when people see you you're Kevin Hart you're walking the red carpet you know you're you're in Jumanji you're all over the place [ __ ] comedy specials for 50,000 people in arenas and [ __ ] people don't know that you're a human you don't seem like a human because you're not like a human that they know but when you talk and you talk about your life and some kid might just get a spark off of them blow that spark make that Ember flame up and take over and next thing you know you're running into that person it's a mother Superbowl party I can't even do I can't even tell you that's the I mean that's that's what it's about it's about your offering fuel that's that that's as strong as anything else yeah that's gonna it's gonna impact some people you know there's gonna be people that don't have room for it right they're all closed up it said that it you know this like a cup there's no room in their cup they're full of their own [ __ ] he's not gonna get in there who there's other people they're gonna have a spot for you they're gonna spot and you're gonna you're gonna make that engine better you're gonna make the whole engine of their life better there's there's things that I think about all the time when I'm working out or when I'm tired or I think about inspirational things that people have said and they they get me through this shift shifts my mind steals me up makes me makes me think about things in a different way and I can accomplish more because of those thoughts I can accomplish more because of that energy that some and you did that to me man you did that to me the last time we had a conversation I remember leaving our conversation going that motherfucker's motivational and I got a lot of text messages from a lot of friends a lot of people that was a great one but it was the the there was a shift like when when when someone is really getting a stirred in their life and you around them there's a shift in your own life and this this it's a tangible thing it's like if you could see it on a meter you know it's almost like your meter goes up and you feel it but you don't you don't quantify you know it's not something you put on a scale it's not something you'd see on a meter but it's real and you got to believe it's real and know it's real and when you're doing this when you're putting out this audio book and even these conversations that you put out when you people know what you've accomplished and you put these conversations out it resonates man it's so valuable did you did you see did you watch - Jordan duck no I didn't you know my satellites - I know everybody's that you have I know I have - you have to watch the time listen you because he's he's an alien he's one of us he's one of he's one of those aliens the other aliens identify with and for people listening me when I say aliens you know it's a metaphor people that doesn't mean a bit [ __ ] embracing aliens here oh I get so much [ __ ] for everything it's a metaphor okay but he he's different he's [ __ ] different and what this shows you is how different MJ was that man was a [ __ ] winner he was a winner and and that's that's it like that's it MJ one there was no there is no other conversation when you watch this doc and you watch how he approached his days and why he approached it and the things that he did and his reason for doing them and ultimately what he wanted and what his priority and with his goal were you go [ __ ] he did it we know why he did it it's not a coincidence that he's a champion it's destiny he there was no other option it was champion or bus there was no 600 vp's all-star and the defense played here and you know most likable player in the league and most remarkable no no if it's not a champion attached to my name with several [ __ ] trophies attacked there is no other conversations and you [ __ ] around me if you do not understand why I am the way I am then this is not the place for you do your job I've never heard Michael Jordan talk the way the documentary showed him talk do your [ __ ] job when I pass you the ball hit the [ __ ] shot that person now has to get better hmm because I'm so nervous that it might pass me the ball and I miss this [ __ ] shot I'm never going to get a shot again yeah do your [ __ ] job when Mike is talking to you like that I thought we was just playing basketball I thought I was out here having a good time oh wait this is my job this is my profession I'm supposed to do this this and this if I don't do this I'm failing at my job you see these players today and you see the way that they are I promise you man rest in peace Kobe Bryant every bit of the same they give my guy LJ flak and [ __ ] I promise you LeBron James is nothing short of that I promise you these people that are winning [ __ ] win because there is no other option you have to watch this doc and Joe you got to text me after okay text me after and just go holy [ __ ] [ __ ] holy [ __ ] man I get it keV and the fuel that you're talking about and that meter I promise you your meter [ __ ] yeah I got it after the day I got up [ __ ] over here was in the dock let me think of what the next thing is it instantly yeah instantly fuel fuel instant fuel last time I felt that was the Tison documentary I'm strong it was strong dude there's a the time when he's talking about walking into the ring that as he steps in the ring all the nervousness all the things that going through says and that is his confidence bills as it gets towards the ring any steps through the ropes I'm a god what he says holy [ __ ] that's that's that's until second man to me yeah that's the dough sekiz man to me it's crazy he's hurting again that's that is the dough sekiz man to me though most interesting man in America that Mike Tyson yeah is that there are so many different levels and and pieces of death yeah to Mike Tyson in his story one of the I mean it's one of the strongest docs I've ever seen well he's he's one of those guys one of those super winners that just I mean when he was young I mean everyone knows the story but if you don't he was basically had no love in his life until he met custom auto and custom auto became a father figure but also custom auto was a hypnotist and a psychologist in a lot of ways and a fantastic boxing coach as well and took this young kid and showed him that you're gonna get love from accomplishment and you're gonna conquer and you're gonna become the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time and through his tutelage up until the moment that he died Mike Tyson was just a just a phenom a thing that we had never seen before he was the pit bull with no leash that that respected one person yes and anybody else at any given time feared to [ __ ] out of his pit bull because nobody else knew hey man yeah who's what is hey yeah somebody gotta get this hey whoa what yeah what is this with today if I see Mike this stood out there's a little nervousness for no reason for sure it's not like he's coming in with this thing like I'm killing it right now but this is gentle he's a most loving man in the world you talk to him he's all spoken but there's still a little thing like this Michael hit me my friend Kevin Lee said it best Kevin Lee fights for the UFC he said what he said next time he goes he goes that's a lion oh my god you know this fight man I just you know wish him the best I know he's back there's writing and stuff you know I just want him to be safe and in and healthy and his time but you know that's the man I don't ever count out but goddamn seeing him just put up those little displays of terrifying fighters it's what it's verified heat-seeking missiles coming from his shoulders well not only that he wasn't doing anything like a year ago when I had him in here for the podcast he said he didn't want to stoke his ego he didn't want to work out he goes because if I work out my ego fires up there is look at this look at this look at this [ __ ] here but you know that that's that's interesting but that's just shadowboxing who was crazy is he's training with Rafael Cordeiro who's one of the best MMA trainers one of the best striking trainers in the world he came from a legendary camp out of Brazil Curitiba Brazil called shoot the box it's like the legendary team of marauders from Brazil they were like the the golden glory days of pride pride was you know a competitor to the UFC was defined in a lot of ways the glory days are defined by this one team from Brazil that ha Falco Dara was a part of and then that guy training Mike Tyson now and he's been super successful training mixed martial arts fighters too but I found it very interesting that Mike chose to train with that guy and to see the way they're going at it mean he's not boxing he's trying to destroy mothers listen you you I respect the trainer I respect the trainer for standing in that in the way of that [ __ ] like that's yes one must one one accidental oops missiles no listen you gotta just you gotta just bow down yeah and and you know what man that's we're still in the presence of greatness and as people I don't I don't think we should ever forget that well what's crazy is he's 53 years old he's doing this and he's only been doing this again for like less than a year so it's only been like four or five months that he's really been training hard and everything's just coming back it's I mean I wonder I wonder what it is I wonder if it just was bored I mean I really wanted this is this is the crazy [ __ ] Jesus Christ Jesus Christ if you saw that guy if you saw that guy training he was a 22 year old kid you like man this [ __ ] is gonna be something because he's just got an intensity that you rarely see from any fighter there's a fury that burns inside of him that you you can't manufacture that you either have that or you don't and he found a way to reach reignite it I was a school you beat me to it yeah you beat me to it but this isn't that what isn't that what we we hope for or you know yes we hope that we get you know I think at that age 50 that's it that's a very pivotal pivotal pivotal how do you say that that's pivotal yeah all right that's a very pivotal word pivot word pivotal point in your life because you know from when you're born to 50 you're that's okay um all my years fun are out the way my my craziness my growth my maturity and now I'm supposed to start to be a little complacent and you know I'm now at that at that hill where I'm looking on the other side of life like now it's time to go on another side and we want other side you know even if you're still on a high about living in about career and everything you're on the other side it's it's it's a different thing we on the other side I made it here now how many more years it's a blessing to get more time after this because I've made it to the top and now you know on this other side is it relaxing is it not am i comfortable am I am i a little depressed that I'm getting old am I not what whatever those emotions and feelings are they're real and and a lot of people experience it have them so to find something else to make you go I'm ready again Will Smith did it Will Smith kicked in yeah Will Smith something clicked something clicked on Will Smith for years Will Smith was it around and will to talk to you we'll talk to you will to tell you but something clicked and he said at this age at 50 I'm gonna go get it again i'ma go after it again because I can like it's something in there that Will Smith realizes that he has and at any given moment I can and that's what will Smith shoulders well Smith wasn't on social media Will Smith it wasn't in this you know and the in the Generation X you know he wasn't in our face he wasn't up in up in the [ __ ] vlogs and [ __ ] in YouTube on a day-to-day he didn't have more movies coming out it was very far fueling in between and then he said I'll do it when the [ __ ] I want and he turned it on 37 million followers 40 something million followers whatever vlogs on YouTube I'm on snapchat I'm on at all Twitter tick-tock I'm gonna show you how to do it I got my own team we showed you guys a new way to do this [ __ ] I'm producing it different than it was I'm back to doing movies here's my new movies we're using a new technology Gemini man young me old me he's [ __ ] doing what he wants because he said he can everybody doesn't have that everybody can't do this y'all not people to try yeah but they don't do that you don't go from being number one and saying I'm not gonna do it and I had some failures or whatever in here and it fall up [ __ ] I'm ready to be number one again that's some of our favorite stories door someone who comes back like Dave Chappelle is a perfect example of that I can do what the [ __ ] I want not only that Dave did it in the legendary way they are from all this money to do this Comedy Central show in a different way they want him to change it and tone it down they want to make it more suitable for advertisers too many voices and he's like you know what I'm just gonna go to Africa I'm out he just went to Africa I'm out just took off and then came back and said I quit and then stopped doing stand-up he was doing song if you know he was doing stand-up in a park yeah in Seattle you'd show up with a [ __ ] box and just do it plug a microphone into it and just start doing standing but people would gather round like what the [ __ ] is happening here no he didn't want any money he would just show up it shows if you wanted to do a show he would show up at a comedy club no money just show up do a show after the show is over I ready laughs it's a great Dave Chappelle story I'm in Seattle I think I was in Seattle sold out like some Arena [ __ ] thing I'm doing a Seattle and we had two shows same night we do about 30,000 people right [ __ ] great day Seattle I get word that Dave Chappelle is in Seattle and Dave Chappelle randomly put up a theater show he's performing tonight yeah he's performing tonight called Dave David you [ __ ] in Seattle yeah wouldn't you book a show here I would have [ __ ] came dude I'm here I'm at the theater I didn't even know me what you meet Dave I'm at the [ __ ] Arena what I I'm gonna see if I can get down there to you all right man yeah I just put them up what time you think you won't get here I don't know after my show I'll push the time back me Dave what push the time back what did you put on set I don't know Matt tell him I'll do it and I show up man I just call him tell him I'm gonna push you back man I get to the [ __ ] theater I rush after our show dave has a a trailer and there's like a little motor thing on the back of the trailer it's like a little bus [ __ ] motor trend like bus and then there's like little the things that you pull [ __ ] in attached to it I said hey what are you doing here he's I don't know my we've been doing cross-country taking out bikes my ride cross-country so I'll just when I need money I just booked a show so different and he sold him but the freedom yeah dave has a level of freedom and Chris Rock talked about it man you know no one's like him his level of freedom I put myself in his place you know I got the the the corporate relationships and the CEO head and the companies so you know I can't do certain things because the consequences aren't just for me it's for the people that are underneath this umbrella if something were to happen it's I have to be I have to be responsible I have to I have to understand that it's not just about me right and I'm envious and jealous of Dave's ability to go and be free as a comic in the times where we desperately need to be yes with desperately need to be and Dave can be and I bow down to him I called it I don't give a [ __ ] about these numbers anything I got Dave in my opinion you're the goat in my opinion your last special has allowed you to surpass the Richard Pryor in my opinion Dave Chappelle I got to witness do groundbreaking controversal movement as a comedian and the times where comedy was being frowned upon comedians were being held accountable for doing what we thought we would never be ridiculed for right the one person that stood on a pedestal that got the attention that no others can get outside of myself a rock a Seinfeld he said in the time where the [ __ ] fire is the hottest I'm going to do what nobody else will you got a [ __ ] applaud and he stood up for coming he stood up for comedy whether you want to see that or not right he did that yes he did it when there's the most pressure when it was the most [ __ ] pressure and when the times of we could cancer you by the way which is the stupidest [ __ ] that I've ever [ __ ] witnessed in my 40 years of life the whole idea of I can kill you today with it with the goddamn cooking oh by not getting your life by the way this is a real feeling that people have yes I'm in control of your life if I want your life to stop and be over I'll counsel you yeah and that means you can't live no more this is how ridiculous it is think about the meaning of counsel culture so you're saying that my life is over I can no longer survivor or provide for myself canceled I don't know figured out your cancel Dave Chappelle said [ __ ] all that do what you wanna do I'm gonna do me that is epic that is groundbreaking that is goat-like behavior so I bow down to mr. Chappelle he's very important he's one of the most important figures in the history of comedy because the fact that he's willing to do this when the scrutiny is the highest you know and and also just his his just his story the back the way he did it the way he walked away for 10 years and then came back and immediately went right to the top you know my that is my I as my brother from another mother I love love him Chris Rock Miyagi one more man Chris Rock white a Comedy Cellar I call Chris hey Chris come down to the cellar man I'm working some jokes tonight I'll see what you think iCup how come now Chris comes down say yeah I'm get up to I got some [ __ ] I'm working on so told you think bet I go on stage Chris Rock sits in the back of the cellar get off stage Chris not funny [ __ ] keV though like right got some stuff got some notes he's like I'm about to go aren't done I'm sitting watching Chris goes up Chris got some funny [ __ ] [ __ ] Chris funny I like it man Chris have a nice conversation go upstairs we about to eat Dave comes in what update what you doing I was gonna go up oh [ __ ] man Chris went up we will come down watching alright Dave goes on stage Dave does about an hour there's a moment where Dave is probably at about 40 45 minutes in I mean Chris both look at each other and at the same time when I was saying the word balled up the material that we just worked we we [ __ ] without saying it what I was saying it I ripped the page that I had in my little book and Chris just balled up his little [ __ ] thing and we were like he's unbelievable we came in crafted we got some [ __ ] that we wanted the [ __ ] work on Dave just one of there and talked it's like he's living like a legend you know man like if you if you wanted to have a legend of a comedian you talk about a guy who created the greatest sketch show of all time I mean it only went for two seasons but when you talk about like sketches like Clayton Bigsby when you talk about the Rick James [ __ ] these are so classic they're unstoppable and then he goes away he goes away like a [ __ ] Mountain Man he vanishes he's in a farm in Ohio you hear where is he he's on a farm he got a [ __ ] farm just on a farm in Ohio what is he doing comedy sometimes randomly just shows up Santa's barn does this for 10 years I was in Denver right and this is before his comeback I was in Denver and I'm doing stand-up and I get offstage and I open the green room and beeps there I go Dave what are you doing and he goes oh hey Joe I just decided to fly into Denver I go you don't have a show scheduled nothing goes nah man I heard you were here outside a fly and I go do you want to go up it goes oh should I go [ __ ] yeah hold on a second I've run back people are leaving people get another go come back come back tell everybody to come back I go Dave Chappelle's here like what they all come back sit down and he does 40 minutes it destroys I love the the best part of that story is you want to go up shut up Dave Dave you just took a flight to Denver yeah baby why not I guess so then he takes me out we go out on the town to all these [ __ ] spots I didn't even know existed in Denver he knows where all these after-hours place yeah you go behind an alley you knock on a door they open it up yeah everything's velvet-lined yeah small private bar he's he's he is one he's one of one one of one of one one of one this is what the [ __ ] is should be like you see this is this is us embracing this is us embracing we're embracing someone yes embracing that there's nothing wrong with that world is important there's nothing wrong there's nothing wrong with embracing someone is doing [ __ ] what you can deem is great [ __ ] you're supposed to you suppose to you have to it's part of the thing you have to also sing praise shower preys on people that are doing it the right way yeah no one's ever done it better than Dave he's doing it the right way no and even like I said even the legendary Stuart's like oh he's like a character in a book a mountain man he's like a mountain man it goes off to a farm outside of Dayton Ohio who the [ __ ] does that away it tells me keV you got to come down to the farm Dave I don't what I don't know what hey I don't want it what do you want me to do down there Dave what do you want me to do you gotta come down man it's a good time we're gonna have a good time man it's a barn fires music Dave it's a farm you got to promise me all right I'm coming Dave I [ __ ] I like literally I I can only hope to be remotely close to his creative as he is at that point in my career and finest jello-like he's in an amazing jello right now he knows who he is right and in that compromise and no one can tell him any different he is who he is I mean he just he's unapologetically himself and he gets it as part of his brilliance is not just being in a brilliant observer and a brilliant orator and a describer of life but also and being who he is perfectly like he doesn't have any conflict in being who he is mm-hmm he knows who knows how do you do it he knows how to do it right and he's okay with not having and when he walks onstage man he strolls on that stage like he belongs there he's okay yeah I'm having let me go [ __ ] you I you know any more feet I've met Eddie Murphy man I don't know him very well but I knew his brother Charlie very well that's Eddie we had a dinner one night and it was Eddie Murphy Dave Chappelle me Chris Rock Chris Tucker holy [ __ ] and Dwayne Wade Gabrielle Union and usher head came Wow right so where we're at this dinner and me and Chris was like yo we should get let's just put a dinner together where we all just come out because me and Chris loved to [ __ ] just hear Eddie go like Eddie is pound for pound the funniest person you can ever be around like effortlessly not trying just in story this dinner goes down to history is the funny is the funniest night of my life and conversation and you got to see comics be in all of one another you got to see us appreciate each other like like everybody talked to Nick this wasn't a 1-up story each other this was a conversation but you saw the you saw why the goats were the goats yes you saw why the goats where the goats you clearly saw that I was young in class and I'm the the guy that's coming up in the rear and I'm Mike I'm happy to be there might be a static man there I'm [ __ ] smiling yeah sure there's a picture of it I'm smiling ear-to-ear damn Jamie skills I'm smiling ear to [ __ ] ear and I remember there was a moment where we were talking and Eddie would say something and then Christic like come on man you know damn well at the end am i doing that and then you'll [ __ ] hear Dave shut up damn it Chris which it rocked and then I'm just dealing quiet I'm just [ __ ] quiet Wow and then I would have more table tuning but literally you saw why the goats word it goes wow I'm telling you one of the most epic dinners I had this picture framed in my house that's amazing amazing framed in my [ __ ] house god I hope that he comes back I know he's been talking about he's been talking about it did you see that one thing they did there was some sort of an awards show where he came up and talked on the podium and he was doing material and he was talking about them taken away Bill Cosby's degrees no you never seen it no Jaime find it find it recent his recent it's like within the last couple of years bro his timing isn't he he would just get up there right now and murder well you saw it you saw it also in his SNL sketch he did the one SNL sketch where he did the it was like the the holiday the holiday family and it was like the black family yeah and his daughter brought the white guy home and it was the black family's reaction to it cuz he was staying there over the weekend so Eddie was dead but she saw his time and it was time I was there man he's still [ __ ] Eddie Murphy yeah we'll play this and we'll wrap this up we'll just ended on this your [ __ ] is available on audible yes sir now yes right now right now you're a brilliant person I really appreciate you I'm angry [ __ ] you being here I [ __ ] with you Joe I'm serious man I I want to say this I couldn't be happier for you and for all of your listeners all of your supporters I want to thank y'all for staying with this man and Ryan with this man through the years because you know to build something and have that something means something that's valuable dude you serve a very strong purpose in today's time I'm a fan and I'm happy to call myself a friend [ __ ] what you'd appreciate I mean that research I mean Eddie Murphy ladies and gentlemen did you make bill give his back no cuz I know it was a big outcry from people it was trying to get bill to give his trophies back you know you anyone should give you trophies Choki back - he should do one show we just come out and just talk crazy now I would like to talk to some of the people who feel that I should give back my strawberries oh it's only a piece of it huh Mark Twain speech Wow well if we play more they probably pull it down anyway that's good enough oh my god it was brilliant strong thank you so much thank you brother bye everybody [Music]

Channel: PowerfulJRE

Views: 9,277,345

Rating: 4.8071518 out of 5

Keywords: Joe Rogan Experience, JRE, Joe, Rogan, podcast, MMA, comedy, stand, up, funny, Freak, Party, Joe Rogan, Kevin Hart, JRE #1480, 1480, comedian, Audible, The Decision

Id: vzx6h2sAGTU

Length: 121min 9sec (7269 seconds)

Published: Mon May 25 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/SpaghettiLover12]

The level at which I don't find Kevin Hart even remotely funny made me question if I was racist. I ruminated on it for many nights. I finally realized that Hart isn't funny AND I'm a racist. It clicked and suddenly all made sense.

[u/moria0]

Kevin Hart is one of my least favorite comedians. Also, how many bad car accidents has Tracy Morgan had??

[u/Colin1904]

Luckily, he’s not poor and therefore not dangerous

[u/[deleted]]

Are Norm fans becoming comedy elitists lol?

[u/IamLionelRitchie]

Yeah but is he funnier than Nick Swardson?

[u/madadamegret]

I try not to laugh at little people. Mission accomplished!

[u/LamarandDolores]

Hamburger 💥🍔🍔 Shucky ducky 🦆 quack quack

[u/[deleted]]

Kevin is a naturally funny dude. He plays to a demographic. Just like McDonalds is delicious despite being cheap and tailored to a large audience. It's targeted. I think largely he's quick, vivacious and entertaining. Just because Norm is a master humourist and storyteller dont mean you gotta rag on the little guy (lol)

[u/egretsucks]

It's a real meeting of a couple of fellas.