Kevin Hart On Touring, Stand Up Comedy, Black Creatives, New Movies & More | Drink Champs

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-up, the good, the bad, the bad.Ugly, you've seen me in some way presented through

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and you know that's valuable that's very important you know that's my therapy that's my thing that's my drug I uh need it and um the fact that I have a relationship with this fan base that has grown over the years that is now global um it's something that I have the right to I can do it whenever I want I can stop whenever I want I can do intimate shows I can do big shows Do the intimate shows because that's an amazing thing, I think, I see, I see sounds on the left and I remember I saw you go to the cipher sounds show.

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salesman in New York. Scythe now has a comedy vendor. to Caroline, greetings to scy. I didn't see him now um scy scy is a great guy, a good guy, but I remember when scy started embracing comedy while he was in the radio world and I started doing what I believe in. It was the Carolin thing, we had one night and they were doing something and then it progressed and then as he got

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serious that relationship grew and then he was in the comedy Celler around the corner. I say it recently.

I saw you. No. I don't know how recent it was, but I know that in the last year you jumped on stage and I'm sitting there like a platinum artist. Sometimes I wouldn't do that like I wasn't going to do it. show and just jump, but I realized that about you chapels and that's how comedians work the material, that's my point trying to under

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it because wouldn't you do like uh uh uh because I'm all over the place but during the pandemic? you also practiced your MH special even though you didn't eat pizza mhm but you practiced your special you gave us all the covid tests it was real MH it was real it was real this is right in the middle you remember you remember you had this and you walked around and asked questions after this you said, Nori Did you like this part?

My man was there, he was laughing so crazy. You remember that time he was laughing like crazy. let me get to my point before I say that, so why as a comedian, why would you put yourself out there in public like that when you could do things like you did in that private session where you could have your friends and they could criticize him for why choose to go out and do that well so my process is uh my process is extremely different Mom and I'm committed I'm committed to this thing that I feel like it works well and the What works is the work and the comedy.

You can't cheat at work. When you do it, it will come out in your final product somehow. T couldn't just come and sell the tickets. Arena, you have to go to St Circ. You just have to understand it, you have to really embrace the idea of ​​what makes a set a set, what makes a joke a joke, jokes come in threes, there's a beginning, a middle and an end, the same with the whole, a beginning, a middle and an end. what is my m and how do I end this is all you have to think about what story am I telling all of these things are questions that you have to ask yourself before you really get into it um that process well it starts in the comedy club that comedy The club sometimes is 15 people, 20 people, 30 people, by the way, the Comedy Club is where you started, that comedy club is what you were in and what helped you get the break, so if you get the break and the breaks after, dont do it.

Go back to the roots of how it started well, that means you're forgetting the real process, so after every stand-up special, that material gets thrown out, it's deleted and I'm back to square one, so those comedy clubs I go to What do you see me? Those intimate environments are for me figuring out what I want to do and those crowds and those reactions or non-reactions that help me gain balance until I know how I want to stand, so during the pandemic I thought we were all bored. It was all in the house and I was like damn man, I can't go on stage, there's no world to work out with, can I do it?

How do I find out? and when they said this is when they started allowing companies to have small businesses. um Meetings have little things like outside, but no one can do anything inside, so I had a relationship with a hotel and the hotel was doing rooftop lunches for 12 people and I said, look, don't say anything to the 12 people because I don't want to go and act outside the guidelines, but if those 12 people are eating and I go out and do a set for those 12 people who never knew I was coming, we're not doing anything wrong, right?

How often? I can do that? and they told me you only want to hang out with people promoting a show. I said absolutely, literally, people were eating and these are not the private sessions you're talking about, no, this, this. First I started trying to figure it out. during the pandemic when I was, the name of the set was uh, no, what was zero zero given, so I thought, I told my team yeah, let's go down here, let's just figure out the crab legs in their mouths just came out. , what's up, this is crazy and I started making material, some of it was working, some of it wasn't, but that was the point, but the point was to figure it out, so during that time I think it was like a 6-year period. months, maybe.

In fact, I'm going to go a lot less. It was probably like a two and a half month period where I liked putting together that hour during the pandemic. I thought I just want to give. people to see and do, but I had to go back to the process, but I couldn't go to the small theater, then the 5,000 theater, and then the big one, like before special objectives. I have 180 shows. in I'm I'm my tours are as long as there is a comedy club part, then there is a small theater part, then there is a small level to a lower level Arena and then there are the actual Arenas.

That's how many tears I have. before I put that is crazy on camera, so I'm never going to no, I'm never going to stop being true to that process, uh, and my mentors, the guys that I admire the most and who have stayed consistently relevant in their careers you talk about Dave Chappelle Chris Rock my brothers my friends like my real guys you Chris Rock a goat name I didn't quite understand Dave said it was I never said that was Dave on stage but I gave him a goat because he's a goat and how the goat smells the goat no that goat is on the stage that goat was not there it was not okay wait wait about what happened when I gave it on the stage right here like I gave it to pet not training at all not training at all but it's cool I said Don't look down don't lift the moment leave at the moment let's take the photo it's going to be great believe me Chris it's going to be great um but those guys are loyal to the In the process they also go back to the comedy clubs.

It is no coincidence that the same names and comedy have been relevant over the course of those years. When you look at women's boys, you consider them to be the big ones. They're there for a reason, just when you think of Wanda Sykes, when you think of rock, Chappelle, you think of uh, I mean, fucking Seinfeld rip Paul Mooney, I mean, I can go through a list of names that respect the process, that respect the process. don't cheat in the process and there are a lot of comedians who are true to that, if you stay true to that, you're not going to lose, right?

You're not going to lose because it's something we control once. Again, that's the best thing about comedy

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or second. Damn, I'll give you another chance, damn, here we go, I'm P, another one, you're doing it, you're doing so well here, look, look, look, but guess what I think I'm going to do? I mean, I think you guys give every chance because you want to see the breaking point. And you want to see, be honest, be honest with everyone I see, there's a breaking point, wow, I'm going to say it like that. a point that everyone goes to you know what you know everything I'm going to say who is I'll be honest this is not that this is not that interview not to pause for a pause and do that's why he doesn't we really want to give you your flowers because I'm going to be honest with you, there's only two people that I really watched their career from almost the beginning to where they bloom and that's you and fabulous, you know, I got to see you develop, I got to see you grow, I got to see you almost like if he were a shy comedian like when we walked to the set of Paper Soldiers.

I remember it was like me, seagull hat, um Dame Dash Smokey Suarez and I remember it was Smokey, who kind of broke attention, said, "Damn, everyone here is so serious" and then I remember the process of yours and I remember I pitched you the gun, yes, in the store, in the bar, in the bar and then and for you to go from that to me watching your new movie the other day I can't lie to you I was as I am like that's my I say I'm in front of you but I'm like that's my friend right here, my friend, like I said you let me give it to Nory, like he's just giving you the breakdown into pieces, right, you gotta remember at that moment mhm, we're about to make Paper.

Soldiers for those people who look at us and don't know what Paper Soldiers is, please find out, it's a neighborhood classic. Shout out to Dame, Dad, a rocker at the time, for having the idea to do this story and bringing me in taking a photo. Dame saw me perform. M Dame saw me perform and uh I'm going to say it, let me tell you something about then D saw me perform at Carolines right after he saw me for Caroline's Dame, go man you're funny as I'm putting you in the movie. wow, I've never heard that I don't know what that means I'm whatever give me a number come on you come to the office okay cool give him a number there's someone to hit me later They want you to come to the office.

Wow, alright, where's the office? Here is the address. Come to the office. He wants to meet you. Remember that was when they were in a big deal. You remember I'm the Philly guy. I'm in New York every day, they don't know I'll get to New York that way. I'm going to get there by train or Keith Robinson and I or by car, but this day he told me I had to be there. I have a meeting with him at 3: I have to get there, I go in there, he says, let's make the movie, I just wanted to meet, uh, I think it's going to be fun, since this is what I'm thinking, it's just talking unscripted yet not just talking he actually went and put Charlie Murphy uh rest in peace Charlie Murphy Charlie Murphy I tell you it's the funny Charlie Murphy attached to this too Charlie Murphy um Smokey and comedian Capone did they know each other?

Before that, Capone Smokey did it myself, uh, but Dame it's like Charlie helped write it. She had uh, a

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guy who was with Rockefeller was part of this and she had other people who knew the story and he said, "Y'all go." Figure it out, but we have to get the script where we're supposed to. Shaka was part of helping us get there. Shaka Pilgrim Shaka Pilgrim Charlie Murphy when Charlie Murphy gets into it it's like everyone has to come to my house. The only way we can write this is if you all have to come to my house, so Charlie, this is the best Charlie Murphy moment of my life.

Charlie Murphy inv changed. Charlie Murphy invites us to his house where we are supposed to write. Paper soldiers, right, we're going over the script. Charlie has all these, like mannequins down, with marshal arts, like practice, like you know the rubber, like the rubber men, but they stand over you. like a bunch of them in the basement, so we got depressed, like what Charlie we spent with these guys, so Charlie says, yeah, I do martial arts, right? We were like, oh, like we never knew you did martial arts, so Smokey Smokey challenged Charlie and he liked it.

Get out of here you don't do martial arts he said what I know I do so Charlie said do you want to watch a tape do you want to watch a tape Smokey says yeah keep in mind I'm still like VHS I'm like we're at Charlie Murphy's house , we're in New Jersey, he plays the tape, I'm going to show you something right now, he pressed play and when he pressed play, this guy kicked Charlie really hard in the stomach. and Char Hold Up Wait, remember when VHS fast forwards? You still see it, you can still see what's going on.

This guy was sitting there, so SM was like, "He kicked your ass, so no, that's not what I want." You, to see, try to fast forward to this place where he likes, where he likes, you know, make a move on this guy and hit him, he likes to see, I do my, so we like the silence and Charlie marked the tone from there. "We're all going to come here, we're going to do the work, we're going to write this, we're going to turn it in and this is going to make this movie, but you have to do the work and I remember Charlie saying don't come here and you're wasting my time if you do." You're not going to work, so we said okay, what does that mean?

What do you want us to do better for your job? He said, "You have to come here. Charlie made us go to his house for like 4 days." week over the course of a month and we wrote like we were all working on the script, writing just helping the voes with whatever they gave him and then Dame said we were going to make the movie here The craziest thing was when we made the movie. the first day. I remember being there, but you still don't process that you're making a movie and Dame had all the rappers come and these are people that I look at like, oh, I'm so Star is impressed at the moment, so. when he doesn't come in or talk about me like the shell guy.

I'm 22 years old and I can't process. I'm close to what I'm close to, so I remember that Dame wasone day and it's like me. man you gotta be funny, like do what he was doing on stage, you want me to do my set, like what you want me to do, just do that, do that, that's what he does, what you do on the scene, okay, and I remember in the scenes they just started to let me go, remember that I started to feel

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comfortable and then the movie ended up becoming a big impression, everyone came bringing their own thing to the table, so Nory and my scenes became cool because it was like Nory was like who.

He liked taking this guy, it was like, but we were all going crazy, they ended up making a movie and the movie becomes a neighborhood classic. That film got me my first, it gave me my first film, which could be my real one. I only got my manager. wow wow because of Paper Soldiers, so after Paper Soldiers, Soul Plane came after Paper Soldiers, after Paper Soldiers came the big house, the big house, the big house was my show on ABC, okay, um, and that wasn't the one where really Pharaoh that's a no no no that's also the big house right no that's uh GI the big house the big house is this was my big break this was supposed to be what launched me um this is when TGF thank God thank God it's Friday I had a show with uh Keith David fa about love um ARA I'm dropping names Aaron Grady Evette Brown um you know this was my show I was starring in the show it's comedy sitcom watching the show writing the show this is what I made it right oh my god I'm about to be rich mom I made it this is what they picked me up.

Who wouldn't think that? I'm here, this is the biggest thing ever seen in the building. We filmed the program. I think life is about to change and the show is canceled before it airs. Oh, it doesn't even air. What chain is this? This is ABC. This is where I. I think we're saying ABC no, no, no, we're not saying brand man, just because you said that, I just want to say that ABC is a valued partner and we do amazing business together, as a media outlet is that they are fabrics very valuable connected etc. okay the show was canceled before going on and it was crushing it was like wow it was the greatest of all time because this is what was supposed to launch me and then they canceled them.

I thought: I don't know what I'm going to do, what's next and they decided to pick it up like a year later, they aired six episodes and canceled it again. I'm like, okay, I guess that's how it is. what is it's going to be what's going to be so Soul Plane has arrived it's in I have a movie it's about to be my big break it's in this movie it's going to be the biggest movie of all time and then they take out the soul plank uh , but it worked big, everything was supposed to be big back then, getting the contraband was like that was big, like everything Kelly took was contraband for the business two for the brand that are two different Tes, yes, we are talking about two different tapes, so up.

Kelly Soul as much as you, I don't even want to put those two together, that's just how you buy contraband. The crazy thing about Soul Plane is that Soul Plane getting Bole ended up being the best thing for me in my stand. started his comedy career because between that and Paper Soldiers people were like oh I know that guy well, oh that's the guy from when I started doing comedy clubs, that's how I got a fan base, that's how the People started coming to me, yeah, they said, oh my God, that's The Kind of So I only got the comedy clubs in the headlines and the gigs because I played Paper Soldiers, but to be honest, everything I know I assumed it was going to work at the beginning of my career, my comedy, my big first movie, Paper Soldiers, none of those things. really took off to where the level of success of the business was identified as successful, the hood the streets clung to it and under the subway it said, "Okay, this is great and I was able to go get a job based just on that and that, but my real big break didn't come to what was your real big break do you think in your opinion that soldered paper is my biggest chance in my opinion that's the base that's the base the brick that's the base what what what was the brick for the ceiling then PL shows that I can be the protagonist of a movie even though the movie didn't work he was a star yes, even though it didn't work he showed that I can be the protagonist it worked big time the big opportunity my world worked on, well , yeah, I'm saying it, but the movie studios, right, the business side of the stew wasn't right, uh, I'm going to say, 40-year-old Virgin, 40-year-old Virgin, she hugged you, you spoke, you spoke The big words. 40 Year Old Virgin were huge, yeah, because that wasn't written and Jud Appo is, uh, he was the producer director that got Jud and me into a really good space, but after that, the conversation attached to my name changed and little

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started. to happen, you had a Jamaican t-shirt, yeah, why that?

That's what I had that day. I didn't have, you didn't have that shirt, yeah, they didn't have. I showed up that day wearing the JAMA t-shirt and J was there. Like yeah, go, just go, Ahad, let's do something to solve it because it hurts me that you were going to be like what I grind, thank you, thank you, like a man was the greatest, okay, because what a man was after all This happened, Packer came. Packer found me, this was when he was doing Stand Up, this was when he was torn and Think Like a Man was the one where he said, "We want you to do this movie." There's a great cast around you, but it's focused on their character and they set me up to win and our cast, I mean, damn man, to this day, is probably the most incredible cast I've ever been a part of, just since a friend's point of view, a funny point of view, this is Gabriel and Regina Hall, um Think Like. a Man La Anthony Steve Harvey's book um Terren J Michael elely uh J farar Gary Owens fil Vegas we filmed the first one in I mean the first one was The first one was Los Angeles um but they set me up to win like that cast That cast was so great and Megan was so good that I don't want to leave Megan out um and just allow myself to play those jokes to hit those balls in the park and when that movie came out, that's when that was when Hollywood and the others.

The producers really start to come into their own, that's going to be the guy, so if you think about it as a guy, that's when they really started to develop and the process that you're describing almost sounds like the stand-up process. but in the way of the movie, like starting from a certain level and moving up, to the right, you're never going to jump to work. I would say it's um. I want to address a rumor real quick. I apologize, did you get your answer? they always say. There is only one

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man who could dominate Hollywood at a time.

Do you believe in that? It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Well, I think that narrative has grown because we double the beats as V from a vocal standpoint. Just like when we say it, we say it again, as Spears would say, Kevin Hart is Domina and it means that means your eyes are closed because just because the things you see on camera are vivid to you. It doesn't mean that's the only thing that's going on, you know, I mean, I was working with Will Packer, Tim Story, myself and Ice Cube, who were four black men, and we were operating and managing a $70 million budget, I think. , for Ride Along.

Throughout 2 Ride Along throughout one there were probably 25 to 30, but you're looking at four black men who sat at the top of said project, right, my brother Will Packer, who was producing and making tons at that time, right? You can ignore it if you want, but he was doing phenomenal things in the business. You can go for Chadwick Boseman's career from the beginning. You can go to Idris from the beginning. You can go to um. You know, I'm talking about F. Gary Gray. You can go, there were so many people at the same time he was doing amazing things, Don Cheeto, eh, Chris Rock, now granted, does that mean it's enough?

No, it doesn't mean it's enough, it doesn't mean it's equal, but there were several people of color breaking up. ground in different ways and you know, if we're all trying to get to the place where we do amazing work, we do quality work, uh, not only should we be treated the same, but we should be accepted the same. way, that's the conversation, well, you can do it. Can't close your eyes at obvious key moments when you need to prepare properly? I mean, that's something I've seen happen many times being a guy who's been breaking ground for quite some time.

Speaking of my international comedies, there was a conversation related to how there is no way for comedy to travel internationally, especially with a Negro League, well, I didn't do it, I didn't duplicate it, I just forced the studios to give me the opportunity and my films They are international. they're global, from a box office standpoint, they were from a streaming standpoint, they are. I came into the world, I came into the world by giving the opportunity and by doing that, you attract other people with you, it's my director and live Packer appears in a product said as if you do it in a way where you are constantly embracing, uplifting and navigating from a way that you're changing a conversation that you're just getting tired of hearing, so the idea of ​​you can only be one at a time that's like saying that's like saying you can only be a headliner or a big

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comedian. at the same time right now Chris Dave and I are on tour at the same time all my shows are sold out right, they're all sold out, it doesn't have to be one, it can be several, there's enough for everyone, but there are, and I talked about it in another podcast that I heard about, did you know that there is this thing within our culture of just always us?

I want to act like I can only be one even in the NBA, if you think about it, it's who's the best, granted, that conversation should happen, you should, it's great, it's a very competitive thing to talk and talk about, but if you really you want to double down, well, the people who are in that conversation are great, right? Get to work and start breaking down these resumes of everyone below, so from a black man's point of view, mhm, the business has changed significantly, um, the opportunities that you see being provided, um , to the multicultural world, like there's significant diversity like um visual now in Hollywood like it's a priority, people are working on it and they know they have to check that box, given that we're still working to get into a space where it's egalitarian, but there has been some growth there.

There's been some change, so as a guy who sees it as a guy whose company represents him, I'm part of the positive conversation from a standpoint and that's because I know I'm doing my part and creating. opportunities and be an example. I know who Talip Perry is. I know the operation. I know there are so many people who have been, but we choose to ignore it at our convenience. Talip Perry has been putting color on people and leading roles and positions on how. It's been a long time and I'm also killing it because it took me a long time to realize that a man, the media is a man, what you're talking about, it took a long time to realize.

I thought the media was a media man. I thought they were two different people. I was wondering why I didn't see the media accepting the award, to be honest, that's how well he did, although TP doesn't get enough credit. TP TP has been driving the economy uh with the studios and the entertainment world in the perspective of the Hollywood studios in Atlanta for so long that he's the only one. responsible for black jobs when you talk about transportation, catering when you talk about crew, when you talk about Gaffers, I mean the entire economy revolves around content creation and has made it a priority to accept and elevate, but it's better to name the TP although ty Perry no no but I'm thinking of toilet paper when you use toilet paper because he's with you because he hits people but Tyler Tyler Tyler is the real deal yeah he's the real deal but let's give him his flowers, man, because you know we don't know if.

You know, but our show is about giving people their flowers now, now everyone wants to give people their flow, but we started this, we invented this because you know what it doesn't take away from me to give someone else their accessories and guess what? that. I actually like it when it comes to you when it comes to you Kev likes me because you're those flers don't die without a doubt one of the funniest men in the world I have arguments about you or I don't I don't care I don't care I don't care I didn't like it when you went to the clubhouse and you went on and said it was a clubhouse um yeah I didn't like this um it was a clubhouse I'm not in the clubhouse anymore but it was a clubhouse with a heavy clubhouse , although I was there for a week, this at the beginning, at the beginning, at the time of entry.

We all just wanted to be ourselves, we didn't want to be old, so we all put on our Beijing, we all put on our Beijing and we got it, we went because I don't have it on my mind, so listen. I got my hair cut and everything, so listen, we went to a club and it was a clubhouse, huh, whatthat I was mad at you and I said there was no way you could be mad at me, Kev, yeah, and you. said how are you going to let Kanye get away with this talking about walking with the same draws in the same draws in the man Kanye said yes I love you and you're the pr of I don't change my dope and when he said it Everything was like If we thought I was gold, we like, yeah, with that, as a guy, now we host talk shows, we have a job, you know, you have to go like this.

No, no, you have a job like you can't if you hear something that makes you wait, like a bitch, she was like, wait, and when Kanye said that about the RS, he was like, we don't react with the tie. Weren't you like that? Yes, now you are C repeat the clip. I have problems with you, play the clip right now, play the clip from when Kanye was saying something about not changing the drawings and using the drawers that he said he used. The same drawings, he said that he carried the same drawings. I want to try to play the clip of all of you right now in this episode.

They're going to play it, so I went to the Blaga store with the Blaga CEO and I didn't do it. I don't have a change of underwear, but as far as you know, I've done it with Balenciaga, especially for the last 4 months, guess what my underwear and socks ended up being for the next 4 days in Paris. Free Balenciaga underwear and that's when I was sitting there. I was like, this is my view of life, it's not acceptable, it's not acceptable, you just have to say, what are you talking about, what does it mean, yeah, and then by the way, later in that episode, he explained what I wanted to say and that made more sense, but in that moment, before I stopped its flow, it doesn't matter, let it go, brother, no, no, no, and the only other time I thought we'd let it go, no, you call me about to turn, oh yes, the T, the tur.

One, no, I have no intention of watching this one because Turk Turk baffled me, uh, but I had to watch it again. You have to see Turk, the clip. Turk sh no Turk, Turk tur may be the best episode of all time. Yes, I said that. I tell Turk that I congratulate Turk New Orleans Turk may be our best episode, our best, no, you're right, the Turks said a lot of things, but the Turks, the Turks episode, oh that, but what did Turk, what, what, what part of that Turk? Up Turk said a lot of things, but Turk is like, uh, Turk's episode is full of Easter eggs, you know what I mean by Easter eggs, yeah, Easter eggs are where the Easter eggs are hidden, you don't know where all the Easter EGS are. on you didn't know that bling bling was bling BL be man we all know look at it mang after you look after you look like the fifth oh look is it mang or is it man you go oh oh the turkish episode was full From this he took a real, you can't deny that, real, if you know anything about New Orleans, anything about that, or you listen, right?

He's that guy who commits, but when he has to talk, he waits for what says. wow, I called Nori and said: is he a man? or I said, stop

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ing and he didn't look again, I thought, look again, it's like I called him again, I like it, oh yeah, no, I see. It was so good that my best episodes by far have been Turk and Kanye, I mean, Kanye, is his name Turk?, called Turk. I'm going to give it to you. Turk is great. He said Turk was amazing. I knew Turk was going to be amazing, I'm not going to lie to you, it's a great interview, although no, no, there are so many people who actually went to the championship, but you never actually saw the photo of them showing up. the bottles, yeah he's a championship guy, I get it, yeah I get it, that's cool, that's cool, by the way, you never saw Bill quote Papa bot exactly, you never see Steve cerr Mark PR Steve cerr I like to listen No, by the way by the way by the way let me tell you something I'm meeting with Jay-Z Steve cerr walks next to Jay-Z does one like that he he his fingers long like aen Hall so he says Steve cerr is coming back, You'd think Jay was going to tell him that last night's game was crazy.

Jay tells him that you were ready when Michael Jordan passed that ball. I'm looking at Jay like he doesn't remember this. I know Steve G is going exactly the way, the way he's going, he had to be, he said something you don't expect him to say, but by the way, okay, so we'll stay at the hotel, I don't want to say where he is . the whole div nuggets is I'm not the div nuggets um Golden State Warriors stays there the staff charges everyone that passes by and I'm like that but I have ho right here so some of them are like what's up I'm not even looking . like the whole team turned around, say what's up, no, it's up, you know, and it was this, that's when I knew I'm not that famous, right, I want to, I want to explain to you, Jay-Z said, I'm going to see you at 6:00 I said great but for some reason he was down at 5:30 because I know these billionaires come early because they think they're too good and just like I expected he was there 545, he was there at 5:00:45 so I walk with Jay, he goes, he goes, I say Jay, but the restaurant doesn't open until 6:00.

I'm very nervous. I got JayZ, he came to see me, it's just me and him, me and him in front just me and JayZ, what am I supposed to do and then I say Jay, the restaurant will open at six and you know what Jay-Z He looks at me and says, the restaurant opens, when it arrives exactly, when we say it exactly and guess what's coming next, honey, yes, do you have any? five more minutes yes, it's coming, honey, yes, my wife I'm sorry, she wishes she could have been great. Okay coming out by the way so he said five more minutes and guess what happened people came and walked open the door and they were about to because I've been here all this week they're open so they thought they said Mr.

Santiago, you have to go, so they looked at me and I looked and then these dreadlocks, you know, he got dreadlocks, now he bought Molly and this and he said they gave us fantastic menus if you have 15 minutes, let's take another chance, let's do it, You're 15 minutes early, so you're on time, yeah, here, that's hoes, what you want, this or you want the dark ones. keep I've done my job I have you no don't do that I'm with you I'm with you that don't do that I've done my job I don't think that's accept by the way I do I don't even think it's anything.

I think it's like maple syrup and you could try that too. I could also try this. You make a real one. OK. I'm sorry. Try it. I'm sorry. Keep going. Alright. There you go, okay, that's okay, okay, give me my drop so I can see real quick, yeah, that's it, let's take this shit, we gotta take a picture, well, I should do this before I do the drops, yes, let me. make this clean, you're about to give us, you're about to give us Champs a drink, a little, yeah, just tell me what it is. Cash Drink Champs on rev TV, that's it, no, your only drop, give me all the drops.

I'm not here for the drops. I'm going to have a drink and I'm going to leave and you're going to take the drops no then then you shouldn't be here then you should leave no brother what are you doing? No, I'm I'm going to finish this and then I'll go right, thank you so much for being a man of your word, wait, wait, thank you for taking the photo too. Yes, we are also taking a photo, but thank you very much for being. a man of his word but you know what oh damn ah okay no no no no no no no no no seriously seriously seriously because I'm very proud of your progress Gration I know it's not a word Prog Gration I'm very proud Of everything you did from where we met to where you are now.

I am proud of your family. I'm proud of your team. I'm proud. I was so glad you came in and saw you had your team. set up absolutely and that's what I am, that's what I am, all these people here, most of them are my team, no, I see, I know the beautiful people and that's beautiful, I can see the people, guess what and guess what they get in a check. I'm not here just to relax, they get a check, most of them relax or Rob, it's to be no Rob no Rob no Rob no Rob, let's take a photo, let's talk about it, first take a photo and then make your release yeah yes yes what's the difference I'm here difference there's a big difference I have to do this let go of the camera but no no no now take the photo we'll go to you we'll go to you wait how about this hey guys, I'm coming towards you, get up, let's go towards Y'all, we're here, we have a photo right here, photo, yeah, yeah, you're taking this B.