Kevin Hart | Ep 107 | ALL THE SMOKE Full Episode | SHOWTIME Basketball

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absolutely not that dude is an animal i ain't got time for that hey man it's an honor a pleasure to kick off season three with uh the one and only man kevin hart how are you sir good to see you man appreciate it appreciate you coming man man i appreciate you having me that mike is kind of big you're all right that might be like the size of your head there's a lot of stuff in here that i'm gonna talk to you guys about when you go ahead it's it's friendly in here microphones the size of my goddamn scalp i don't i don't like that uh the couch actually is not bad i didn't know how big the couch situation was gonna be but i i feel comfortable my feet are i have a strong base you know you can still the balance hear the tone in my voice i'm ready i'm ready to talk but before i get into that flowers man season three that's a big deal guys thanks bro man you guys doing an amazing job that's why i'm here yeah i'm here because the platform because of what the platform provides you guys got a hell of an audience and it's because of the job that you're doing so i'll get that out the way appreciate that thank mission.com for you snoop took a nap on that couch doing the show though i smell it he said i smell it i smell it i wasn't gonna say nothing that was your business it there but i smelled something that ain't right somebody wasn't right and i was going to let it flop i don't know the living situation if you guys are here overnight or not but something ain't right like you know when you sit down on couches with this material that smells come up yeah yeah it's in here it's in there a little bit of febreze and knock it out you got to figure it out just keep keep going swinging for the fences and swinging for the fences go ahead why are we talking about that do you remember when you first met where the first meeting yes where uh we were coming out of some restaurant out here in l.a and uh terem just wanted to wrestle with you that night while you get into your truck yeah yeah there's a turner in the same weight class though turn might be a little bit term for some reason i don't know what it is man there's this unannounced code between like smaller men that when you see a other smaller man put hands on him you go i'm knocking the [ __ ] out it's a it's a real thing it's a real thing like and it says it's it's in your head and the other the other little guy i know you thinking it too term is that guy term is the wrestle term is the tussle guy and you know the younger days of me and l.a we used to play ball all the time and that's that's literally that was terms that was his thing were you guys time i don't want to play man come on let me see this is two in the morning it's two it's in the morning i got liquor in my system he's trying to put me in a full nelson so now i gotta show that i got some upper body strength see people don't actually respect my size so once i you know once you get the yeah they'll push right there they can feel it really work out yeah our first time really hanging out for the day was on the set of uh think like a man i think that was what 2011. that was 10 11. yeah 10 11. and i tell you we just shot a basketball scene but we were in there three four hours but this dude's energy from the jump like he just made it just a non-stop we had to like kev stop being funny so we could film like our face hurt our stomach hurt he was run our tests test lisa leslie rest in peace russell butler that's right russell shannon brown yes yes sir and we shot that thing like a man yeah very funny scene though hello scripted basically yeah it was a loose a loose idea but uh you know the words and stuff wasn't there so they just let me freestyle but you were funny and [ __ ] but then you also it surprised me because you had some game and then we started talking about that you could play and then i saw yeah but then i saw one of your high school edits where you were in there for not too long and just had a lot of turnovers you punched the wall looked like you might have broke your hands it's just one of the days it was one of those situations where you feel like you're a lot better than what you were at the time you know if i didn't see that tape until this day you couldn't tell me [ __ ] you crazy i hooped in high school nine through 12. let me tell you something this tape surfaced i may have had i think i had eight turnovers in 20 seconds and i i only ran at one speed it was everything was so fast it was the fastest that you've ever seen fastest no pace i got good i actually i got good after high school where's the good film though nobody wants to show that's the thing i'm telling you after high school when there's no film around like i played i played varsity 9 through 12. my senior year i had r a year i could play but it was nothing to really brag about i think i was honorable mention in the public league it wasn't like our league was that great grants was the team they got all the attention strawberry mansion uh has started to to get some ronald flip murray nice he got nasty the late stages of his basketball career so you know if he wasn't if you was in that conversation lynn grier that was about it so we didn't get in the attention shout out flip murray he was cold cleveland's back at the same time he was a bad boy let's get to your upbringing born philadelphia single-parent home your story has some similarities to mine from a standpoint of my father too dealt with addiction uh cocaine addiction and and my dad was a drug dealer as well but then oh he also double dip on both he's burning it on both sides jesus christ but then also lost my mom to cancer as well no seven so tell me about your upbringing how instrumental your mom was in your upbringing but then also you being able to mend your relationship with your father once he well this is a question for you how did y'all did y'all ask your dad where's the common sense did y'all have that talk like we have those we have those talks now but i don't know back back then yeah that's tough uh you know i think the toughest thing for me probably the biggest the biggest smack in the face is when you find out your your parent or parents are on drugs and my dad's thing was a discovery everybody else knew but me you know i was the only [ __ ] that didn't know my brother and them they always get dad on drugs she no not yeah he is he on drugs you know i saw my dad buying drugs from my friends and that's when it was like oh [ __ ] was real yeah that's when it was real that's when it got real uh and then after that when my dad had the awareness that we knew my dad disappeared you know he he left because i don't i don't think well now i don't think i know now he couldn't stomach the fact that we saw and knew what his reality was so disappeared then i saw my dad years later on a train true story on the train i'm going to school i went to george washington and public transportation was the only way to get to school so i'm literally on the train coming from school and i'm getting off at broad area and i saw my dad on the train and i'm like oh [ __ ] dad and my dad couldn't stomach that he was still in the same place so that's when it was like oh this is bad and you know my brother i think my brother took it upon himself after a certain period of time to kind of lead the charge and my dad getting help my brother's older so from my dad's role to recovery it was enforced i can say by my brother by the their bout because i'm even though i knew i'm still oblivious that's still dead right you know i'm saying it's not hitting me it's not hitting me crazy hard dad is dead so i don't see the things falling apart i don't see the true damage that my mom and my brother are witnessing that's still dead you know okay i know he's on drugs but he ain't here he's doing something else where he's probably getting better i'm i'm all in the world of denial and crazy assumption so my dad's return was one of sobriety so you know i've never been the grudge holder right um my mom was more of the grudge holder then my mom got you know she got heavily in the guide religion found ways to uh release that aggression allow me and my dad to build a relationship late stages of my teens going into 20s you know he was up and down with it but i never judged i never i never really held a a grudge so when my dad finally was good we were good when he wasn't good we were still good yeah uh my brothers was different my brother my dad you know they're still a little different they're good but they're you know there's still some [ __ ] there but i don't have it in me to to hold that it's heavy i don't i don't that's a lot it's heavy that's a lot to carry them burdens with you you know for the duration of your young adulthood uh going into your 30s you know 30s 35 and i know some people deal with it i i'm blessed enough to say that i don't have that right i don't i don't have that ability so uh me moving forward was all about hey man when you good we're good and he got good here's a house here's a truck yeah you know here go these grand babies here you go man oh yeah we out for a couple days too by the way hold him yeah oh he's in it i'm literally like you know i don't i don't i don't have that uh that problem so i think for for my dad i think that happiness from him comes from the ability to stand in his mistakes live in them but know that there is no judgment yeah and i'm great because of the [ __ ] that you did especially in this monster in l.a you know you don't do drugs you don't you don't go down that road right i'm a completely different animal problem you know who knows what i'm trying yeah who knows what i'm dabbling in so uh i credit i credit a lot of my you know reasons to stay away and no that's not for me to my dad so i find i find the positives yep and those negatives so when you talk about the upbringing rough it may have been um but both managed you know i'm a mama's boy at heart she did a great job while my dad was going through his [ __ ] of holding down the fort and me and my brother were raises two amazing men because of her and her devotion and my dad came in and cleaned up what he could when he could you found a safe spot through humor i think in your comedy act you're someone who can laugh at yourself poke fun at yourself and kind of really be transparent how early did that come because i know my coping mechanism at a young age was staying with friends i started smoking weed that was kind of my get away what was your kind of let me get away from just although i learned from it the clouds at a young age well i mean we one thing we share we all you know we all thugs so you know you know as a young young killer that had to you know get it together because when i was younger all i had was these yeah right yeah so i had to put these up yeah you know i don't even get the details about that but y'all uh no man humor humor was my way to avoid the [ __ ] so i knew everybody that was about that life i knew everybody that was real you know we're talking 15th and eerie you're talking yeah irritability yeah yeah you you i'm in the heart of it not not down the street from it not three blocks away not 15 no i'm in the heart of it i'm in the [ __ ] uh and at this time this is when ariev probably had the most attention that it's ever had this is when major figures in the the the world of rap uh you know shouts out to gilly at this time you know we we were being put on because of the individual so the attention that came with that in the the the want to prove who and what people were was was high at that time so um the only way to be accepted was through that's the funny bull that's that's a little that's a little heart my brother used to sell drugs my brother was into the [ __ ] so that's a little rob hart brother that's 40 brother and people just let me be around but i never overstayed my welcome in and out be funny but i was home before the lights came on my mom was very strict very very strict very strict so because i had all these extracurricular activities i didn't have the same outlets you know i didn't have the luxury of staying out all night just being on the corner talking [ __ ] joking i could do it during the daytime but then tonight i'm i'm either at practice swim practice the only black thing that was down there is swimming but you can swim though i can swim my ass off cause not everyone just has a microphone in front of can swim no they listen the crazy thing is oh you say what are you saying what are you trying to say though what are you trying to say can you swim i'm just saying you obviously you knew i couldn't for you to say that you say you you do yeah no i can swim that's not swimming i can swim until i get tired i can't what's this what i can't master okay i can't master the dog pedal floating in one place the what the floating in one place is a little dark what'd you call it what's it called the dog pedal what's it called the dog doggy paddle what is it called the dog but you said the dog pedal yeah what is it not that it's not the dog pedal it's crazy you ain't setting us back right now only one place god damn it well it's a group of white people going told you [Laughter] activities man swimming was definitely one of them but i've never not been the funny guy i've never not been uh entertainment i've never not been the reason for a laugh so the world of comedy was it was always in me but um as far as a job and the title for you know that i that i saw success in that was a discovery that came later on when the options were brought up to me but naturally that was always the reason to be left alone nobody really [ __ ] with me because kevin's the cool guy leave kevin long you got this little rob hart buddy funny and [ __ ] let kev coming around right he's always live funny dudes are always welcome always always no problems plus i was a thug it was a funny combo with the combo i've nicked the underside of my 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to make sure your pumpkins stay fresh your balls will thank you get 20 off plus free shipping by going to manscape.com all the smoke say trick or treat to your new beautiful halloweeny with manscape also if you're looking like wolverine and haven't cut your nails recently be sure to look out for the sheer 2.0 nail kit who were some of the people that inspired you growing up like shows or comedians i mean i know that i know the answer is always you know you want to go to the biggest comedians but the biggest inspiration is my mom before you can even get to comedy cause you got to understand drive when you're talking about entertainment right any any level of entertainment any level of accomplishment in life there's a high level of drive that you need to have in you to attach to set goal to try to accomplish whatever right are you willing to stay true to it work on it and go through the ups and downs to get to whatever the end is so my mom the reason why i said she was the inspiration because without the constant repetitive conversation of start what you finish or finish what you start um or you know we don't quit you know what we don't do is leave stories untold i got a bunch of these things in my head for my mom you know you don't leave room for people to complete the sentences that you left incomplete finish your sentences finish the things that you put your mind to that's always stuck with me so i'm now able to look at the people that acted as like oh my god i wish you know eddie murphy's the obvious answer but at that point i don't have access to eddie murphy right you see what he's doing but that's not in my reality i don't think that's that don't exist man that's crazy but these comedians that i do see on a day to day that are living life comfortably man these guys are working every weekend these guys are getting on stage that's what i want that's how do i get that right so my my individuals it progressed over time to ray gordon keith robinson you know these are names that some or most may or may not know but this was my reality of consistency to ray gordon he was at the laugh house every weekend he was a host he was on stage this guy was funny as hell man i wish i wish i could tell a joke like that keith robinson going back and forth from phillip to new york on stage every weekend in new york every comedy club loved him every owner knew him every comedian showed him love damn i wish how do i get that then when you get in that it's like oh [ __ ] i'm here i got that man guess who came to the comedy club today damon williams was in here today oh my god man george wallace colin quinn holy [ __ ] ray romano seinfeld oh my god i'm starting to see bigger and bigger community i wish then you get there well now the the conversations are changing now the rocks the chapels of the world you know it starts to change so now when things are closer in arms reach your your inspiration changes but i you know just giving information i don't start with the biggest or i didn't start with the biggest jb smoove who does real husbands hollywood with me i joke with jb all the time coming up jb's laughs that he would get were different i wish i could get those laughs god damn how do i get that you know cat williams i remember there was a point where i was touring with cat damn i wish i wish i could get that go down the list mike abs all these people there was i was a guy that saw the opportunities from watching simply what was going on in front of me but i babystepped it i didn't i didn't it wasn't the thing that wasn't believable at first it was the it was the chopping of it and and as i got closer the different people served as inspiration at different times you know you got to i think you got to keep doing that like right now dave chappelle acts as an inspiration i mean this [ __ ] just keeps churning them out i don't know where the [ __ ] he's getting from he just keeps doing it nothing special another this another that it's not like i don't work hard what the [ __ ] is dave doing god damn dave what are you doing i'm in my jell-o man i'm gonna focus jello i love it inspiration rock inspiration so i love to find drive um and and reason for self input from watching you know other people grind other people get after it mm-hmm there's no there's no no no hate that exists from uh from okay heart it's only envy and love that's dope and i find fire within that obviously today being one of the biggest comedians in the world one of the biggest movie stars in the world your grind your struggle obviously what's tough talk to us about your first gig because i know that didn't start off too well [ __ ] first stand up gate mm-hmm first standing the first bad one first bad one is a famous story sweet cheeks it was a uh a male strip club i didn't even know at the time it was just called sweet cheetos i take what you can get i don't know hold on hold on hold on hold on no no it was called sweet cheeks it's called sweet cheeks okay very well could have been a place that serves apples i mean [ __ ] no sour patch kid i don't know it could be anything it could have been a candy house well i know they said they wanted to have a comedy show i was one of the comedians i'm out i'm going there that's sweet cheeks listen man i performed at a bowling alley and they was throwing strikes while i was doing punchlines i can kill you i can give you bad stories i did a crab shack i performed at a crab shack and i could hear [ __ ] cracking crabs yes man so the thing with me is oh you yeah that's a big one man that's a big one man yo you're in the back can y'all hear me all right just checking you see people picking up crabs slapping out a bit of some [ __ ] uh sweet cheeks was definitely the worst though sweet cheeks it was this raunchy it was just it might have been some of the worst just vulgar people man uh and they didn't want comedy these people didn't want comedy like it was just a mixture of people that came to drink and the the comedy in the comedy show was the [ __ ] that they would give the comedians that was the comedy it wasn't the comedian the comedy was was them [ __ ] with the comedians and it was with what comedians are bold enough to go so you know i i was never a [ __ ] about it i'ma go okay with your [ __ ] yeah i'm like i'm gonna go it's gonna be what it's gonna be and i the first the first time was rough dude threw a chicken wing at me that's a true story through a buffalo wing connected i'll never forget sauce and everything in your face connected flush flush little sauce got in my eye a little bit that [ __ ] i tried a man now who the [ __ ] threw it you know at the end of the day i'm a man shut up [ __ ] you can head in the back [ __ ] off the stage all right all right y'all can yeah all right politely put the mic back in the stand walk off and i remember that was that was the moment though that was the that was the moment where i sat my car i sat in my car it was me and his guy named big j and you know we were the ones right after he left sweet cheese she was in the car with a big jack in the car with big jack it was his name i know i know it sounds [ __ ] up i'm just trying to make sure we stay on track i'm not gonna run from it tell the truth you're not gonna you're not gonna have me [ __ ] go to the ultimate round based off of this nonsense i'm gonna stay with it uh we we're in the car and and you know that was like one of the moments where i was like [ __ ] this [ __ ] man people throwing chicken and [ __ ] how old are you at this point i think i'm i'm maybe 19 oh yeah 19 years old yeah you know this is this this ain't it it ain't supposed to be this this is where this is what it's going to be you know 20 dollars driving up here for 20 30 some food and i was like you know what i'm going back i'm gonna go back and i ended up going back to sweet cheeks a couple times because they had hard times booking comedians nobody wanted to go so they only took the people that would come because the list was small and i remember the numbers started to grow a little bit like 50 they start offering more money 50 75 and i went i started just handling the crowd differently and it got to the point where they started [ __ ] with me showed me love the host that was once there he didn't want to do it no more i said i'll do it i'll host i'll bring the comedians and i ended up flipping the room so the room that didn't like comedy started to love comedy and the comedians that didn't want to go i started to get to come but i would set the room up better so comedians were having successful sets and i was known as the guy that was running sweet cheeks for a minute but that was the that was my moment of i'm i'm i'm gonna be okay there's no there's no environment that i'm not going to be comfortable in if i found comfort in this right and you know for a while it was going back and forth and just doing that but that was like my workout room for a minute and you couldn't tell me nothing i was happy i was happy but then when i started to go to new york and then i flipped it and i went mainstream but now you're getting the opposite right i'm used to being vulgar i'm used to really being in your face yelling doing xyz well i saw that i didn't have to i could be more reserved so i had to learn how to flip those rooms and then i found the balance and i would just do both so when most were staying true to one side i was versatile i was doing it all and that's how i ended up just saying okay no more sweet cheese i'm just going to new york and in new york i found the rooms that were on the same line as sweet cheeks and i would do those and i would still do the mainstream rooms and then i kind of figured out the balance in between so i didn't have to change from this person to this person that's you then i could just be myself that's how i figured it out but sweet cheeks was definitely the worst [ __ ] environment i've ever been to hit me with a buffalo wing [ __ ] my face up i'm sorry how did you come up with your own style like was it just natural no you you you go through that phase where you try to imitate what you think is good i was being a character of what i thought was funny and jb smooth once again shout out to jb smooth was a big part of that chris tucker early on in chris tucker's career chris tucker you know these people had such an impact that when you watched them you were like that's what i got to do right i got to do some of that jb was so physical i was like that's what i got to do i got to be physical you're trying to do this stuff but you're not being yourself and self is a discovery right like when you when you finally get comfortable enough to go i'm i'm i'm funny me all i got to do is be me let them know who i am talk about me it's going to work it didn't hit until i was doing longer shows i started doing these colleges and i was doing like 30 minutes 45 minute shows and i was running out of material i had no more material all the jokes that i wrote they were you know they were falsified you ever you ever see somebody man i can't stand when black people but white people it was a bunch of that [ __ ] and i had nothing and it was like a 15-minute stretch where i just started talking about my day of getting to the school all the [ __ ] that i had to go through i was in like bismarck north dakota we had to do a rental car drive i was in a dodge neon driving through a storm and we barely made it to the show he was in the motel i was just talking about the day people were rolling at my natural conversation but i was being myself it wasn't a an added voice on it was nothing and i was like this is what i need to tap into this is the this is the sweet spot and once i figured that out i kind of hit the ground rolling and that was around the time with growing little man i started putting that hour together for growing little man and that was that was when i figured out i don't have to be a character of this version of funny that i think exists it should come from just being being myself once i hit that the ball was at the park got it i look back coming up in an age that didn't have or wasn't able to use social media and the internet the way we did how was promoting yourself back then when you're first coming up comic named dane cook dane cook remember dan cook dane cook when my space was big right my space it just hit and it was all about the page it was all about your myspace page it was all about you know comments and going back and forth i don't think it was comics i think it was your inbox you had like an inbox and people could message you you can message people and he was just crushing you know he was the biggest guy going at the time and i found out what he was doing was you know he had email lists he had he had like email lists and every time he went back to this place he would send blast out i'm coming back and he built this relationship with these people with time of the time and as i was coming up you know i believe that people give you a blueprint for you to understand and and grow from it information is free right you know you choose to use it right that's that's up to you that's your personal cost if you don't see the value and free information well that's that's you i see the value and information so i i started going to comedy clubs and i had little cards information cards i would leave them on the tables at the end of my show i was like fill out the information cards fill them out people do it we would come around i would pick them all up and i would put a little paper clip on them and i would put cincinnati and then we would go to my computer and we would put cincinnati put all the emails in and did that for every city on the comedy club now granted these are half four rooms they're not they're not big rooms but then i'm right back after i just left so this comedy club tour went like six to eight months i did them all all right it's time to go back out let's go the same route that we went last time cincinnati i'm coming back right holy [ __ ] the room grew damn we like three quarters four we almost sold out they selling i was like three quarters full damn it's like this everywhere we go and the people the people are coming back all right well first things first we got to get new material you can't recycle you can't come back and recycle they're coming back okay that's learning lesson number one let's write some jokes let's get some [ __ ] all right time to go back hit him up again now i'm selling out selling on multiple shows more people are coming out but these people telling other people um i got a relationship i have a relationship with oh this is a fan base this is the definition of a fan base i got one it's growing i need to be consistent with this i i didn't stop that until social media got big that was my way of connecting that's how i got to theaters that's how i got out of comedy clubs it was from the constant connection and interaction with my comedy fan base and once social media started to get bigger well you no longer needed the email addresses because you had an ad name so those people followed you so now i'm just saying cincinnati i'm coming back and everybody that follows me is looking and the people from cincinnati that follow me well they all know i'm on social media because i i blasted all my stuff out to them so when i first joined i got my whole email list i'm sending all them here's my twitter name follow me on twitter well those numbers started to shoot up so now i'm just following the same agenda so social media just gave me access to what i was already working hard to have access to i just never i never like i never went away from it until this day i don't i don't go away from it so whether it's comedy movie whether it's something i'm producing whether it's an event wherever i have a direct relationship with my fan base and i and i think that's a major key to success in today's time you know your ability to market promote uh and not necessarily be available but just be present to those that want to see your presence it's extremely important starting at cheeks to going sweet cheeks sweet cheeks too you just call it a comedy comedy room right sweet cheeks a male strip club yeah well it was i'm just you know but that's just me being honest with you guys yeah we appreciate that i feel like always everyone but starting there and eventually like you said working your way out of comedy clubs to theaters to now you're doing stadiums tell us about that process what you've learned about yourself and just do you ever have a aw moment because both being retired athletes we did a lot of great things in our career but you never got to appreciate them until you got a chance to sit back obviously you're still in the mix daily routine grind do you ever just sit back and like [ __ ] i just sold out so-and-so [ __ ] i'm chocolate dropped no you know what hey he had to check some people like on social media like three weeks ago and lay out all this stats i was like yeah i'll tell you the part that you have to like the part that you gotta really you gotta take two steps back and just refrain from right i think the accomplishments are surreal i can't believe that telling jokes has taken me to this place that i now am in in life in my career right there's no real blueprint you can see what other people have done but it's not guaranteed that that's gonna work for you right right right like i said it's just information so what people put on display you can take in and go that's dope they did it this way or it was done this way damn okay i want to follow this i'm gonna try this but then i want to manipulate it to make it my own you can you can kind of create your own lane after following a lane and then you break off into whatever space and and maneuver however you very much feel and and want to it happened so fast i told you i was in the comedy clubs and i was working these these email addresses that was it was work me and my team going to malls passing out flyers i was really my man on the street i did the work right so when you look up and they go oh [ __ ] you sold out four shows at the comedy club we're gonna add two oh okay dope yo we we're adding you're at 10 shows for the weekend huh what do you want to do you want to do three three three and three i'm at 12 shows on a thursday friday saturday sunday wait what does this happen no yo you this is crazy you coming back again next year uh i think so kev i wanna talk to you about theaters okay should we do it let's try it oh [ __ ] we just sold out two shows this theater sold out three shows oh [ __ ] man we doing the theaters let's go to arenas no not yet i gotta understand this theater [ __ ] i do a run in the theaters well we're doing three and four shows kevin you gotta do arenas like we're missing out on an opportunity no imma wait i do the theaters i i write then i go to arenas holy [ __ ] we doing two and three shows in arenas so now you you you look up and you averaging you know 30 40 000 people this is going through laughing my pain let me explain what now irresponsible those tours that's over eight year period put a two year gap in between i my numbers never dropped yeah you crushed it so you're looking at an eight-year run by the way it's still not over i just don't have time to go out right now the pandemic and also i didn't have time to go out then don't [ __ ] this up that's special i did in four weeks i put together in four weeks i just put an hour together i was like pandemic people need some content if i get like a little place to work out i'll put an hour together fast i did it put it out i still very much can go out on the road but it's like now [ __ ] i now get to look back and go oh [ __ ] look at the numbers kevin look at the look at the [ __ ] numbers look at the stadium i was i had a microphone i didn't have the ball uh like there was no it was i had a microphone for an hour and a half i did a football stadium crazy god damn god that's that's that's a little insane so i'll be honest the pandemic really had me sit down and that's when i got to look back reflect a little bit cause i've been running so fast i've been hall ass and i've yet to really sit and look so this this run that was supposed to be uh uh a moment of fame well i mean you you're you're 15 16 years of it now so from movies to stand-up and everything it's a little crazy to go wow how did we get here and now that you're here well now the game changes because now it's not about how you got here it's about staying there or are you trying to stay there and it's about the the constant conversation attached to you and what you were and what you used to be and what you did and not what you are now you know what i mean like it's like now you're in a conversation of growth and maturity and life differences and well i'm at a different place creatively but people want to you know you're well we want when where is this [ __ ] well he and he was 24. he grew up a little bit he's he was 28 he was 30 i'm 42. 42 like you know my environment's changed so we we had a conversation before and you know they were like what are you gonna call the next special and i was like i'm gonna call it confused like what what at this point what do you right what else do you do so i now look at it from a different lens and i'm so envious of chappelle and where he is because he's found his second gear and creative he's found that second he was already a star went away and then he he rebuilt his star will smith was already a star went away came back rebranded and built his star that's what stars [ __ ] do stars not to be stars right that's why i'm a [ __ ] star watch this so now it's like i'm going to do stand up but i gotta i got to find the thing i got to get the the next bump of the thing so i can be excited about the thing right the movies are getting bigger but i'm also excited the fact that i'm i'm producing them i'm creating them i'm excited that i got a company that i'm a partner to these [ __ ] monsters now that's my excitement radio talking understanding people well you that's my excitement the business side of the business the business out of the business so you know the beauty of [ __ ] getting older is the growth so you talk about looking back i look back at it but i can't duplicate none of that [ __ ] no more right because you're not the same person i'm not the same i can't do that [ __ ] no more i don't i may not ever see that that level of heat again but i can find a level of fun in the craft and and then find the level of balance that i want to have with where i am in life now but that [ __ ] is unheard of if you go look at those [ __ ] numbers people have no idea it's number one's across the [ __ ] board tours comedies biggest go look at it it's unheard of when you go look at the list for stand-up specials in the top three top 10 i'm in there three times that's stupid i ain't getting back there they're gonna sit my stupid ass down in the stool and figure it out because i can't chase that so the pandemic made me realize that it made me just sit in the moment of being blessed enough to have seen that and now find new success and with this what this stage presents you know what i mean that's that for me is the is the most mind-blowing thing about looking back and you know for you guys i'm quite sure it's the same you said y'all both retired i watched the goddamn malice in the palace [ __ ] you forget i watched it on tv my appreciation for the moment now is different looking back at it you go that was history that's a moment in history god damn i remember that i was alive and witness history that's excitement for me being able to look back and reflect on things like that and in life in my career that's where i'm at mentally and finding the new gear the new reason that's the priority but it's not until i get that then i'm going to do that mm-hmm your time oh oh i i just think about all that coming from paper soldiers paper soldiers collapsed paper scissors i'm gonna tell you who's gonna let us shout out the damn dash shout out to dame dash for paper soldiers and a [ __ ] brilliant accident right place right time i'm at a comedy club dame just happens to be sitting in the comedy club sees me perform yo that dude funny as [ __ ] yo you wanna do a movie they didn't have the movie [ __ ] together at the time right you just dude telling me something i don't know what to believe cool yeah let me get your number follow through the movie ends up happening paper soldier is the reason why i got tapes audition tapes pilots you know that's a classic it's a [ __ ] hood classic that's a little classy classic shout out to smokey shouts out the beans yeah okay i mean charlie murphy r.i.p that's what early to us 2001 2002 [ __ ] yes that's very early 2000's yeah 2000 maybe 2000 2003 2004. i think i just got in the league when that [ __ ] dropped 2003 2004. all of my all of my classes in the beginning were successful uh bootlegs and flops soul plane was supposed to be the biggest movie ever and ended up being the biggest boulet of all time but it's still classic though it's a classic that's what got me the comedy club yeah so you take that movie away and if it doesn't get bootlegged the way to the dead it's not gonna have the box office success that it had the movie traveled because of the bootleg market so my fame my fame grew from the bootlegs i was lucky i got [ __ ] lucky right projects right now what was the transition for you like coming into acting early on from being a comedian another accident you don't you don't see it happening i i wish that i could [ __ ] have the the best stories that this was my plan and this is why i knew it would happen mm-hmm all right plays right time were you acting before dame saw you with page paper you weren't acting before then no yeah it's the first thing i've ever done first camera that was ever put in my face crazy first cam i ever put in my face first lines that somebody ever told me to read back no no [ __ ] like real practice was ever put into the craft nothing i was thrown in there and i just so happened to do the job after doing that it was oh [ __ ] this is what happens after because you hear about it you see it remember def jam comedians at def jam and the ones that really popped they went on to be movie stars right you go and you really look at the the trajectory that's attached to comedy well comedians were supposed to pop on these on these big comedy shows be it def jam comic view at the time and from that you were supposed to get a tv show or a movie if you were good enough one of those opportunities would come so if you really go down the list look at bernie mac the bernie mac show look at cedric the entertainer look at steve harvey look at d.l hughley you look at martin lawrence um you know chris tucker mike geps cat you look at these things they all all of the big pop came from that first that first bang and if your first bang was correct and if it was loud enough this is what was supposed to come with it mines didn't happen like that i didn't i didn't i didn't get that i saw other people get that but i it wasn't didn't seem like it was gonna be my reality i was doing those right i did the def jam later on but by time i did it it wasn't def jam right the the the the the big bang behind the name wasn't there it was still def jam but you said it like that def jam back in the day it was def jam you got to see def jam it wasn't that right bt comic view i did it it wasn't comic view mm-hmm ricky smiley when they had it whenever those big names were going through it it was different but by time i came along it was you know watered down it was just watered down a little bit the opportunities weren't the same so i didn't know where that opportunity was going to come from mines came from caroline's comedy club dame dash seeing me i do paper soldiers i get a tape i end up getting other auditions i somehow auditioned my way into several pilots that failed that's another story of just failed [ __ ] pilots i go do montreal just for last comedy festival when i do the festival i get a lot of heat from the industry this is hollywood uh mainstream hollywood get a deal this is supposed to be it get a tv show tv show gets picked up i'm about to be a star i got my show here it comes show [ __ ] gets uh dropped while i'm at the upfronts up front to where they announce your new tv show they about to announce me i'm about to go up somebody put their hand on my chest mr hart wait a minute i'm sorry you're not going up somebody be back to talk to you my manager comes running back they're not picking up the show what the [ __ ] they just said this wait but wow but i'm here which mean you're not picking it up i'm in new york i flew the whole cast down use my money that's the biggest moment of my life what do you mean i'm abc tgif thank god it's friday the big house kevin you got to move what oh that's crazy right here one hand on this you got to move you kennedy's you're up um like that the business that moment's over all right then soul plane comes soul plane's it here it comes so playing get bootleg god damn what's going on he's done we're not giving no more chances that was my starring movie that was my star on tv show both flopped i went back to stand up grinded stayed true to the road my numbers got big will packer saw me at the airport once again [ __ ] accidental success i just so happen to be coming while will packers going at the time will packer did stomp the yard uh i believe that he did takers i believe that takers was was the movie with idris alba t.i i think that was the other one um and he had another one he had he had um he had one more that he had did with uh clint culpepper and screen gems and he said dude i got a movie for you i heard about all the stuff that you're doing on the road and comedy i got a movie called think like a man keep in mind i've been doing all these little guest spots in these movies but nothing's sticking along came polly scary movie three four i mean i'm just i'm just in [ __ ] like you know it was funny as [ __ ] it's funny but i'm just in it it's not like i'm i'm an actor i'm just in it like these are all blurbs and moments i'm like well this is what it's going to be i'm going back to comedy because this ain't this don't look like it's going to be it will packer i thought he was just another producer talking calls me back think like a man and you want to do it i'm in think like a man becomes the biggest success ever and i popped in the movie i had a great cast and that cast set me up they just kept giving me lives all day how high was the hoop he was dunking on i mean well this time you know this is probably when i was in my height prom you're probably yeah i was about to say it was my prime i was about five four and a half i was filming that movie throwing lives like eight foot hips just like shaq uh but you know we had a great cast taraji gab megan michael ealey romney malcolm jerry our suite mate gary gary owens uh i mean i hope i'm not leaving anybody out but tim's story directed and this movie it blew movie was 12 million to make we ended up doing like 90 plus men in the box office all of a sudden people think kevin hart's the guy well i've been around for a long time right i didn't just come out of nowhere but now will packers say i got another movie for you all right what is it ride along all right me and cute well the script been around for years they could never crack the code cube figures out that i'm into it q puts his hand on it he's a great producer shape molded managed it correctly next thing i know right along happens movie calls 20 million dollars a make we do 150 in the box office oh [ __ ] people [ __ ] with ok heart they come back you want to do another ride along i sure [ __ ] do win when will paca go well before we do that we're gonna do a movie called about last night me and regina hall we just keep on knocking out these movies and i just keep on hitting that's his celebrity crush don't say her name too much regina hall yeah that's the celebrity get out of here you know i'm working with her right now we're doing a movie called me time yeah that's all i said if you don't mind come on man his whole demeanor just changed everything just changed it just got real weird over there yeah very weird don't say her name too much around i'm gonna tell you that hi but regina hall pound for pound funniest female man on camera nobody and i say that confidently nobody can hold a match to regina so now i'm getting i'm getting these i'm getting these partners and everything's going correctly well domestic we're crushing how do i get international me and will ferrell we go do get hard after that me and dj we go do central intelligence so it just kept it just kept on growing and getting bigger but i will give a shout out to my my partner my brother will packer because when we knocked the first knot apart nobody taught me to produce or what to do next he saw that we did an amazing job in this he went and created and found these opportunities and he kept on bringing them he kept on bringing them i did about six movies with will packer back to back to back to back broke don't fix it will's dope i didn't i didn't change it at all until this day man will we pride ourselves on still working together still developing projects uh still producing together but my all the knowledge and understanding that i have for that world that came from will packer took me to game insider now you name three big names that i kind of want to touch on real quick first will pharaoh what was it like working with him the funniest guy please tell me how how hard was it to get through your lines with him bro will ferrell will ferrell is the funniest he he may be the funniest person on two feet i'm talking naturally i'm talking no i'm talking ever i'm talking showing up from from showing up to work to going home nicest guy in the world but i'm i'm talking i'm talking a different gear a different gear with funny there's nobody nobody close no nobody close he will show up like everything was a bit so you you got to figure out that he's in a bit like when you show up at work he's like morning you eat breakfast i'm like i'm like no i ain't breakfast oh why not i don't i don't want breakfast you gotta eat breakfast i don't know i don't i don't want to not if i want to you gotta oh my god like you know i'm talking regular he's in a bit though he's just gonna see how long i go back and forth he went on with this breakfast conversation he's like i'm not gonna start until you get something i'm like what you gotta put something on your stomach put some on your stomach i'm not gonna start working with you to put something in your stomach because you're not gonna be your best without breakfast he starts [ __ ] going greg mike have some breakfast load him up he's like load him up look they like bring this [ __ ] plate and it's got like everything everything on it pancakes oat milk yeah get in there i dig in he's [ __ ] funny man there's nobody nobody close nobody close the room i love it nobody close the rock i love you guys as dynamic because there's just such a big physical difference but you guys play off that so well in everything you do dj dj is a a talented guy and we we get along so well because we find similarities in how we approach the the craft right like we have a mutual respect and understanding for where we've come from to where we are now and when we when we met dj was having crazy international success i was having crazy domestic success right so his his his road to becoming that international movie star it was it was clear like he was on his way um on the domestic side i was crushing so we we met i think we met at like uh it was an mtv movie awards we met backstage and we talked and was like dude we got to figure it out we got to do something together and we were we we were true to that we try to figure it out and the reason why because we wanted those two things to combine and that's what central intelligence was about central intelligence was about us coming together and trying to find a comedy that could take us over the water internationally while fulfilling the need for comedy domestically because at the time you know comedy was low-key it was low-key dying like you know if you if you go look back at that time frame and comedy there weren't a lot of successful comedies uh you had um wahlberg's movies with pharaoh um that were crushing um you know you had me and packers movies that we were doing um and you know the the hangovers that came uh a couple times far a few and in between were crushing but the attempt for comedy from so many others it was it wasn't doing well so international they didn't think that it could translate especially if you had like you know people of color in it so our reason for doing that was to show that we're on the opposite side of that conversation that we could very much do it central intelligence ended up being our reason for continuing a relationship we had a great time filming it crazy success and then we went on and kept it going jumanjis and your weight room sessions where you're getting fake blood and putting chains around your neck in the house right i've been carrying them every single it's his secret weapon my back hurts from carrying duane dj you're anybody obviously you're coming up and you're starting your own world but then you're crossing into this other world anybody you were in awe working with for second until regina uh i'll say i'll go behind the uh i'll go behind the lens and i'll say donna langley from from universal um who just a monster when it comes to business and and the way that she worked her relationships with talent to execs to other studios i i was i was very um i was blown away by her approach to the the business craft right and what i learned from her without her probably even knowing it was the true world of marketing pa uh promotion development her and peter kramer i'm a shout out peter kramer too um that universal identity at that point served as amazing partners for me um and and really helped elevate my success so for me it was it wasn't about the talent it was about the understanding of the business because my thing is i don't want to be a work for hire how do i become a partner so i was really trying to attach myself to the brains that could that could really help this partnership and i would say uh universal donna langley peter kramer ron meyer jeff shell that whole group at the time they allowed me to really generate that partner-like relationship to the point where now moving forward fast-forward to where i am now company and everything built well i'm a partner so now i'm with netflix but the knowledge and stuff that i have and the company and foundation that we've built um at heartbeat is is one that's put us in position to execute so you know the movies and stuff that we're doing with netflix are amazing but all that knowledge and stuff came from the information and and and i can say like love that i got from universal so that's what i was envious of that's who that's who showed me the business world packer too because he was in that bubble you touched on what i was heading to next outside of just being the talent now you're in the business of the business so talk to me real quick about uh the three companies you found in heartbeat productions laugh out loud network and heartbeat ventures hove inspires me jay brown inspires me and it's because outside of the thing that they did they they found new success in being in the rooms that we weren't supposed to be in right which is huge it's [ __ ] massive so you don't know about these rooms that exist right you don't by by you don't i'm talking about our culture we're not we're not privy to certain environments because they don't exist for us they're far feeling in between um but when it comes to that other side of revenue when it comes to the other side of business relationships well the success that's over there is over there for a reason because it's all connected and i was like how do how do i get there how do i get over there what are the moves that that people are truly making and what is it that i'm not seeing or that i'm not getting what do other people not see or get and not on purpose what wasn't given to them for for them to understand that that existed and i learned it was all about ownership you know what what can you own versus not own how much can you actually control what what ip can you develop what what are your resources to control your world your brand and i started to figure out ownership within myself and i used ownership within myself to find ownership within my entity and that entity became another entity because i figured out well here's film here's production but this can be distribution this can be streaming holy [ __ ] this can be audio oh my god this is another world you know uh me and charlemagne we just started a a company with audible where we created the company audible acts as our partners but we own this company and we were like well in the world of audio especially within books uh there's a there's a uh a gap between our culture and the rest of the world that's listening to books and why is that i don't think anybody's telling the right stories or giving the right material or the right opportunity for us to truly engage in the world of audio reading right which is listening while you're working you're doing whatever so charlemagne and i came up with a great concept we executed it but these all act as entities heartbeat ventures well investing is real you know once again our culture this information isn't given to us about money about financial gain right financial literacy is real but it's also because of void so i got great partnerships chase chase bank is my real partners all right well we can do our job in trying to figure out this financial literacy gap let's let's go to communities give the information at the same time or within heartbeat ventures i now have access into these other rooms well we invest in the right things we back the right companies our growth becomes high level growth with awareness and understanding that allows other people to see what i've done to see that it's not something that's impossible it's about getting the information so now that i have it i give it so all of these things act as my ecosystem my brand literature audio movies tv distribution right then that branches off into ambassador roles uh and uh other companies that you can own so what else do i want to do all right well i'm getting in the world of alcohol if you have to do that i'm going to [ __ ] release a goddamn amazing brand um that's tbd that's coming out what else can i do well what do i [ __ ] like uh like watches okay well i need to [ __ ] figure out my watch relationship me and ap are going to launch something amazing okay within fragrance and the world of fragrance lotions well i'm a guided i like to be [ __ ] clean i like to smell good i like products well if these things exist and this is what i use why can't i embed them in my ecosystem so many people are afraid to not do things because of the response right what you don't realize is that without no effort there's no reward i'm heavy on effort so all of those entities that exist are all based off of effort and you know i've been blessed enough to create a crazy ecosystem with a great team and you know until this day we seem to be riding but that's my priority now growing and having something that stands crazy crazy crazy high at the end of the day then my family when it's all said and done they take and they then do that's yours yes that's ours like this that's what doesn't doesn't happen right right we we we don't know the world to grow and sell we know the world of higher and get hired but we should be a part of the grow and sell conversations as well and i'm starting to see them happen more and more but when i look at tyler when i look at oprah when i look at hove when i look at you know beyonce who's doing amazing [ __ ] as well well you know these conversations are only attached to like five or six puff think about it you gotta you gotta struggle to get to like eight names for us it's a struggle and that's a problem so the more that people kind of adapt this understanding and level of attempt within gaining information i think the more we'll see doors just fly open that's where i'm at with it now we've learned how precious life is i think since this pandemic and and friends and family we've lost and celebrities lost september 1st 2019 you were in a bad car accident uh talk to us about that day and the experience and what you learned from it uh i mean it's the day i almost died but the day i woke up right like that's when the priorities changed that's when life was different you know uh are you valuing the right things do you really value the correct things and the correct things of course are your loved ones your your family and there's moments where you overlook that because you're so caught up into the job the money the success and you sometimes make your family secondary to all the moves that you got to make out here the accident slash pandemic is the longest i've ever sat down in my life but it's the best time that i've ever had because i got to see what matters the most and the value that came from that was prioritizing them and their needs in a way that i never have and i think this is the beauty of getting old right the beauty of getting older is yo i'ma step in a lot of [ __ ] i'm gonna mess up a lot of shoes and that's okay i'm i'm okay with that i don't i don't live in this world of false reality of perfection and i think somewhere in the lines i talked about this before the lines have gotten blurred in today's time like you know people are searching for that thing that don't exist i'm fine with my fuck-ups i'm fine with with every last one of them and i love what comes from it because the person that you are and the conversations and stories that i'm able to share with this group of four these [ __ ] four people that look at me like yo dad that's dad like i'm able to share some [ __ ] good bad ugly that can hopefully put them in position to do the right thing in life and even if they don't they'll be fine because i know that i'm doing my job and owning [ __ ] when i do it learning from [ __ ] when i can educating myself when it's free being okay with being flawed showing that it's okay to get better all of the things that we struggle with in life if i can be a product of that and be a better display to them i take that every day of the week the accident that was the light bulb of making sure that i'm doing that correctly because if you want to go you want to go you come back in this movie night you mistake that as parenting sometimes hey it's tuesday we eating dinner everybody at the table you got two hours and everybody ate you mistake that as parenting the pandemic was you know you're you're in it got real the kid was [ __ ] home every day every goddamn day was a conversation so you know i took a i took a lot of good out of it and you know it's unfortunate that it had to come that way but i take those messages from that big man upstairs however they come that was the message that i needed to hear talk to us about your your your your health and fitness your workout routine and uh boss everly someone who trains both of us that goes your coffee um the relationship you have with him too because i think that's such a special he's a great dude i've been training with him for a few years now but you took it to another level and talk to us about that i can say with boss i've been trying to get jack in there he won't come [ __ ] with us but well you know what bosses boss is a friend a brother who took an opportunity of training and and brought value to me in a space that i never saw value coming all of my health and wellness success all of the business that's come from that the money that's been made ronald boss everline has led the charge and has been a major part of that the the idea of working out and getting in shape boss the consistency of why and the conversations that come with it in the morning and it being bigger than just the workout it being something for the mind too boss the idea of financial health and financial fitness combining the two if we can get you in shape over here we can get you in shape over here boss chase nike boss boss me fabletics the success from fabletics the creative that comes with me now is fabletics uh the face of men's and our growth is insane what we're doing me and boss the idea of comfort mixed with athleisure the ability to make the decision of just being better for yourself me and boss boss's idea man hey we don't want to reach all these people that want to be great kev you can reach these people right here that just don't know like that they can or that they should that's who i messaging go to boss boss is a valuable asset of creativity and he's turned into an amazing businessman and that's my brother we don't we don't been through it we done we done through blows we done argued to the to the to the to the top to the top level of of arguing but i would not have it any other way that's your brother when you talk about heartbeat ventures boss i mean boss now sits on boards at some of the biggest companies i won't put his business out there too much ball sits on some of the biggest boards that you would not even imagine i am a i am a haley what's my position at hydro i'm a creative director uh for hydro right who amazing part is mine we have a role machine and we're doing great business these opportunities come and have cain because of boss because the boss advisory boards health and wellness like it's insane but because of the knowledge that i've gained from that man and the partnership that we've created he's become more than just a trainer he's now a business partner he is a he is a real asset to this ecosystem that i have and he's done a great job you know i can only i can only credit him for creating the opportunity that he now has because it wasn't given i didn't know it existed he found lane showed me what we could do and we started to do it and the rewards came from it so that's the board shout out to uh aka uh wreck-it ralph you ever seen record ralph yeah look at wreck-it ralph then look at ball's face he still didn't look at his face i'm gonna call him i'm gonna call him that [ __ ] tomorrow this court side start as a fan watching the game and interacting with the player i got a lot best one i said want to backfire hardens is good you're a known sideline you should talk yeah yeah by the way none of them will none of winning my faith hardened in philly harding gave me 50. he didn't get the six of them he gave me 50 and and and said to me said to me directly i'm going to give him a [ __ ] 50 because you won't shut up he gave us 50. uh d wade in the playoffs second half gave us 27. i did that i'm responsible for that um for that no i definitely am the biggest one is uh we we're in the playoffs against the celtics it's a road game i fly to boston you know it's the year we supposed to get it done like this this is the year where you know i'm i'm i'm very hyped that we're going to get it done uh this is when kawhi and the raptors they his last second shot so you got jimmy on the team yeah man go to boston [ __ ] celts be blowing them out killing i'm talking [ __ ] to celtics fans shut up everybody shout out on course that's right boston sucks i'm i'm going at it don't thank you booing me boo [ __ ] y'all going at it second half game just keep getting closer and closer what's going on man come on man come on man y'all gotta do something the crowd the crowd starts saying [ __ ] kevin hart you know they came back got the lead i'm like that's enough come on man seriously at some point it got to the point where i like i don't feel safe walking out of here i need to leave early i go to get up it's like six minutes left in the fourth quarter i go to get up walk out boom [ __ ] camera whole whole arena was sharing [ __ ] heart i was like well i'm gonna stop i'm gonna stop going to the games for a minute just let this cool off i don't want this to stick to me yeah uh so you know then i i didn't go to the playoff game for a minute because i'm superstitious so i was like i'm a i'm gonna stick out of it for a minute and then i i ended up going back man and i just can't help i gotta talk [ __ ] i have to talk [ __ ] especially because i know all the players i gotta talk [ __ ] i kill him too i kill him carmelo i've definitely hit carmel i told carmelo he had prosthetic legs uh who who else have i hit hard a.d when he took your drink out of your hand and gave it to you david the drake yeah that was that's all all-star game is fun though it's not malicious yeah i'm not malicious at the all-star game it's a good time it's it's a real good time at australia regular season if i'm here it's real yeah i'm i'm i'm coming at you you're in game mode i'm saying i'm saying everything i can i i feel like i'm out there on the court these count yeah these count i'm i'm hitting you with real you don't laugh cause you don't see him coming uh i told a.d his eyebrows was a headband um hardin i said heart i i said heart is on hormone pills look at his chest you know this is when he's a little bigger he's a little bigger he's on hormone pills check him now uh i just i just throw out the [ __ ] draymond draymond i'll go back and forth with draymond i could talk some [ __ ] back then yeah draymond's jeremiah's fun how much [ __ ] you're going to talk this year though with your team real quick thoughts on ben simmons and then in that situation cause you're a big philly fan fan i have great thoughts on ben simmons i'll say this on record ben simmons is a [ __ ] star philadelphia man we're a different we're a different city y'all boo yeah man we there's i saw philadelphia a friend of mine the guy i'm talking about big j that you're trying to talk [ __ ] out his real name is jay ogerson uh big james i have a joke about a dog that's why i said his full name uh james had his joke where he was at a football game and halftime the guy got a frisbee he just throwing it the dog just supposed to be catching a frisbee dog dropped it a couple of times they start booing the [ __ ] dog it's a dog they don't play philadelphia is just a different city man and you know look you you gotta let players play like they played like he got there by playing how he plays now granted this is a a three-shooting time in the nba that ain't been he's not that guy right he's not that guy now because of the media and how they you know position things well somehow we forgot about all the good that he did wasn't he all-star um 100 plus millions what are we talking about here so you know you get to this stage in the playoffs where the lights are on i understand it people don't want nothing but results and that results should come in a win but i'm telling you guys as a point guard that man stands at 6 10 as a 6 10 point guard if you're telling me that that's not a valuable asset then i don't i don't know basketball i mean i know him i think he's young he's a great dude he's got a great [ __ ] future and a great career ahead of him and for him this is nothing but a time to bear down and and each year show progressing but you can't not i don't like that in this time today we forget we forget so fast man come on man we forget so fast like that's what this generation prides himself on oh what hmm when what do you mean when he's do you know what all defensive team is do you know what that means do we know what an all-star or what it takes to become an all-star do we do we understand that or do we just throw it out the window i don't think with him you you do that and i think you know granted they're saying that he wants out i don't know i've talked to him so i'm not going to put business out there but wherever he goes wherever he ends up ben simmons is a [ __ ] star and and whoever gets that goddamn that [ __ ] potential and that beast of a man oh well you're gonna you're gonna see the bang for your buck uh you know for us i think we still got we still got strength we still got prime time [ __ ] heat you know uh joelle is joel embiid he's the best [ __ ] big man in the league i love tobias uh i love the role these came in and presented the play i'm curious to see if ben goes who we will bring in and try to pick up but you know doc rivers as a coach he's going to get you to the places where you got an opportunity right we're going to have an opportunity uh i think the question are what are the other pieces that we're going to add to this particular puzzle but i'm a sixers fan regardless i'm a ben simmons fan regardless and i know the city of philadelphia is very tough uh we're hard on on all not some but all right uh and it's not like anybody can say they're a stranger to it you know you can go to the greatest that have come from our city they've all heard the conversation the miles of philadelphia fans iverson has heard the conversation of philadelphia fans i mean it's what we are built and known for um i just wish him the best and i hope that wherever his his next opportunity is is the right one for him mm-hmm so i think he's talented definitely shut up quick hitters last few questions first thing to come to mind let us know uh top five comedians of all time in your opinion top five comedians of all time um eddie murphy in no particular order yep eddie murphy uh dave chappelle chris rock um jerry seinfeld uh i'm going to say my last one damn i think i'm gonna have to give my last one to i'm gonna say bernie mac and the reason why i'm gonna say bernie mac is because bernie mac it was it was a toss-up between bernie mac and martin lawrence bernie mac made vulgar innocent as vulgar as angry as it came off that's well said there was a level of innocence to it right and in his prime what i would hope that people will remember most is the true subject of what he was talking about he was talking about his love for these kids his kids that he took in step sister on drugs and all of this [ __ ] it all had a dark tone to it but it all centered around his love for these things so i think it's a it's an unbelievable talent when you can mirror the two and pull a wall over crowd's eyes to not see the true genius in what you're doing and you know subjects that he talked about he he was just he's the only one that i think could have pulled that off and the reason why it's like martin is right there martin i talked to martin on my podcast and i made martin aware of martin is the reason for the comedic stars of yesterday and the day before and some that are still able to be stars now and what martin and russell simmons did was create an environment where a simple arm around the shoulder or a simple come back out here it does so much meant that you were the [ __ ] guy a simple nah nah nah come here man y'all give it up again for my boy martin's saying that you are his boy stamped you it it gave you all the credentials that you ever needed so martin lawrence's alignment with comedy and these people that we all are so invested in you know is surreal that it's one of the biggest things for me in my career is like damn i love where i am but the the comedy moments that i was around for in the beginning of my career but i was never able to do because of where i was it's like damn if i got to if i got to see any of that it would be it would be ridiculous and i'm just gonna i'll say one more because i got to put the attachments to it the way i [ __ ] think chappelle's operating at a different level right now chappelle is now operating at a different frequency that we've never seen in comedic talent he is becoming a freedom of speech advocate while still being funny while being as controversial as you can be while not doing tv or movies and only doing what he wants to do he only does what he wants to do stand up on his terms his [ __ ] time his place his backyard his backyard dave is now bringing the comedians of comedians to ohio the middle of nowhere into what he feels is the best and safest place for comedy it's groundbreaking what he's doing it'll never be duplicated you'll never [ __ ] see it again because there's only one person that has the ability to be loved by every person in this [ __ ] craft to say i gotta go [ __ ] with dave he's on a different frequency chris rock is up there because it's consistency once again people [ __ ] forget you overlook can't be a stand-up comic without constantly recreating yourself i'm talking about chappelle because he recreates himself right look at this list well when you talk about material well how much are people giving you new versions of it how many specials are you really seeing from these comics how many how many are they putting out good not good whatever what's the attempt in recreation that's what i envy not doing what you know works what's the [ __ ] attempt and doing the thing that you think could work again chris rock [ __ ] chappelle comes to new hours new content whatever well we gonna get in there may work may not but we're not afraid to box that's why i go that's why my list goes there it's a great answer by the way [ __ ] well-explained [ __ ] well-explained that's a great only anyone to ever explain their answer as well you just did if you could sit core side of any game in history what would it be which one would it be any game in history um i would say when kobe had 81 against the raptors so i could just talk to jalen right he said just to talk about i just want to talk to jalen during that process like like how did you get when you when you're going into these timeouts like at what point like when i would have wanted you to have the seat right next to the vision yeah i just want to know when like when did y'all stop addressing it in one of the team at any point like it like was it was it a 10 point check in like at 50 like come on y'all seriously like yo we got to get bodies on them and at 60 what the [ __ ] are we doing are we gonna fight him tonight what are you doing at this point i would love to have been just there because i just to hear i would just want to want to hear the players because at that point the confidence of everybody around you it just keeps going down it just keeps going it just keeps going down i would say that the game where he gave 81 to the raptors rrp rest in peace 60. what are you doing what are you doing what are you doing when you come back what are you saying to your teammates the yelling is over with the you got to help that's done that's done that only lasts until 28 30. y'all not helping he coming off the screens he pop y'all got it you got to beat her all right at 28.30 you that's very valid it's valid at 60 70 somebody not doing their job at 60 is anybody guarding them like are y'all even trying somebody not doing their job yes it's bad at that point if you could be remembered for one of your own jokes which one would it be and why one of my own jokes i'll say the best in my in my opinion the best joke that i that i think i've told things about my uncle my uncle richard jr uh the whole run of say it with your chest oh yeah ass [ __ ] [ __ ] yeah that whole run of him getting out of jail peel your muffin cap blue all of that all of those that just run of jail jargon yeah uh that he came home with this is a very true it's a very like what show was that because i watched that was in the stadium that was seriously funny say it with your chest [ __ ] mine was the my favorite was the battle rap that's when you know what's crazy man that's when like that's when you end that [ __ ] like yeah your material is different because you in it you're around that [ __ ] you're around that like this off i killed [ __ ] yeah first first off before i say anything i kill [ __ ] i slay [ __ ] that don't love it that was classy you're around that like do you understand the comedy that's why yo i have such an appreciation for you know the the the this generation of comics you know country wayne desi banks like these guys that are doing comedy but also the viral videos the sketches like you know they they're creating this new wave of of funny plus funny right it's like here here goes some jokes and stand up but i'm engaging my audience by giving them these sketches and bits but they're in it you know i'm saying like they they're they're in that energy and when you when you see it dude i love it i love it because i [ __ ] remember it like you you got endless material when you around when you're around that group you're around those guys you're around those girls you you after the place you at the waffle out you here you travel you you got all that you got all that that's that's the best place for comedians to be in the [ __ ] are you in the [ __ ] right in the middle of it oh my god you're funniest you're funny yeah dream actor or actress you've yet to work with that you hope to work with i've got to work with denzel y'all look alike a little bit i would i would love the the the denzel opportunity you know i got a i got something called true story coming out i got to work with wesley snipes that was oh that's what was saying it's a it's it's a thriller some serious [ __ ] but working just working with wesley was kind of crazy i would say denzel uh and you know the the biggest opportunity for me comedians are so like it's probably the most ego driven [ __ ] hub in entertainment because it's all about who's who i mean you're witnessing in music now like with this whole the drake and kanye [ __ ] right like for some reason people just can't co-exist and be good like everybody can be great yeah like the the the conversation is always about one of you but yeah it's nobody just sees the vision and understanding and how dope certain things would be if they did coexist right if they oh my god what would that join album oh my god what with that song oh [ __ ] what people don't think like that i'm i'm i'm that guy so harlem knights i've been talking about this for a long time you know harlem knights you're looking at a movie that is forever for for forever forever watchable based off of the legendary talent in it we've yet to to truly see a full a full machine that embraces it it was you had uh attempts that that were funny but not but not full within talent um roscoe jenkins family union i remember martin had monique he had mike epps uh i think it's like one more comedian and now i'm dropping the ball set said uh you've had like chris rock when he did that at the funeral had tracy morgan it was him i had a cameo but it you haven't seen the thing where like friday cube did a lot of the comedians and you saw what that movie was but that movie can't come together again because comedians can't get on the same page right right i should i need i did like this it's impossible if the world of could get done ever presented itself and you know people put the [ __ ] aside that's the dream job that's the dream opportunity you know not harlem knights but our version of that cause you can't redo harlem nights you can't you can't make that movie again um rest in peace to to chadwick bozeman you know before um he passed away we were talking about redoing uptown saturday night and we were talking about putting this like we were we were on it we were in it you know if you if you watch the the documentary don't [ __ ] this up he was in it but we were this was happening like we were engaged but i was expressing to him like dude this is this is what i want to do to do what i need i need a you to help me pull it off i need the credibility within the main character and we were we were in it but the goal was to put all these black [ __ ] legends in this thing and and do this thing so that this generation the generation before can have a thing right after the thing and it just doesn't seem like that code is going to get cracked and i've been trying to crack it i've been i've been trying to crack it and finding the material finding the right thing uh but it just you know it just doesn't seem to happen he goes egos are real and you know when when i think everybody realizes that we can all be [ __ ] dope in our own way it ain't about being doper than the next one or operating in the land of your spells uh yourself and being the king like you you can it's about success right that's what this is about for me at the end of the day it's about the numbers that's what i look at mm-hmm what do the numbers say at the end of the day if we can generate great numbers and we all can have together that's what are you talking about for everybody enough enough so that would be my dream job and uh for an actress working with angela bassett you have to work with angela that's it that would be dope yeah new version of autumn nice that'd be crazy no that's it that's mine if you could have one guest on all the smoke who would it be but you have to help us with your guests which answer will fail i gotta be here when y'all do it no just know you have the baby you gotta help her oh gotta help you guys to get somebody get them over here um or the rock jay-z uh i'm trying to think who who would do it like wouldn't [ __ ] y'all i'm like yeah yeah all right like because it ain't big time he's like who the people that really understand the true value yeah in the show like i'm not i'm not here as a favor like i'm a fan appreciate that the show was [ __ ] great you guys did an amazing job of of engaging with the guests and i love the [ __ ] that comes out of the guests especially when y'all get you know the the people that have played basketball and that are retired and that are sharing stories it's [ __ ] great if you guys if it was real help of who would actually come on i think you guys need a lover of basketball adam sandler that would be dope and the reason why i say that because adam really loves basketball mm-hmm he actually told us to play in the little movie he he's shooting out and i wanted to do it too adam adam i think adam would be a great guest loves the game of basketball i'm willing to bet he's more than aware of the of the podcast mm-hmm i'm willing to bet good because that's what i would say well that's a wrap all right kevin hart kick off season three man we appreciate your time best of luck on all your chocolates fatherhood business making us laugh yes man a lot of [ __ ] i appreciate you man oh [ __ ] guys true story i will be announcing that date soon uh doing a movie called me time now with uh mark wahlberg for netflix um also heart to heart make sure you check that out that's on peacock uh shouts out to snoop who we discover some gold with with an olympic highlight look for more things from me and snoop because we figured that out now as well i'll say my my co-host my my broadcasting buddy also celebrity game face another show that i host uh on e i'm finding joy and and doing the things where i can bring talent together so you know for oh i mean it's the choice congratulations congratulations we really just want to thank you because i know we live in a generation where we don't really show too much appreciation for stars and and legends to be and uh you know i saw you have to check some people the other day on instagram and it's just i don't think we we're so caught up in throwing negativity out we don't appreciate greatness when it's around us so we definitely want to show you your love and your flowers man because you've been great you keep keep making the world laugh and keep being you man because we need we need it hey listen i i appreciate you i think uh from the bottom to the top the the the times are just different now and and i'm really big on creating those opportunities for you know this this next wave the next generation when i say that's a priority it's a priority that's the whole reason behind the production company uh all the other entities it's about understanding what good ip is and finding the right talent to be a part of it you know i'm i'm very happy with what i've done where i am and you once again you got to find the new the new energy and i think that new energy is in the new so you know i still do things and i still figure it out for myself when and where from movies to tv but those projects will be different and stand up i'll do when i figure out what it is and what i want but i love the idea of new stars i love the idea of fresh new talent i love the idea of supporting and if anything if you take anything from me and and when i talk how i talk what i talk about dude it's about it's about the [ __ ] world of opportunity more importantly being there for so many but information is is all that sometimes needed so that that freedom of support that [ __ ] open level of yo i love this person love this person hopefully that [ __ ] get contagious and people see it as real that's that's what i'm about so you know uh as this business and all these things grow i hope that we're talking about the talent that launched from it the the the opportunities that came for so many from it that are opening up other doors and doing more things love it well that's a wrap the opening of season three with the one and only kevin hart you can catch us on showtime basketball youtube in the i heart platform black effects see y'all next week try out the plastic cup bars too shout out to that batch of unattractive you

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Published: Thu Oct 07 2021