Godfrey Part 2

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thank you for coming back. Part two is underway. Can
I tell your story?

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Okay, there was a guy I knew who was a
big time drug dealer pushing mad weight.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
He was one of the biggest in New York City.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
And he was telling us, me and my boy and
shit already fuqua. He was telling us, you know, I
ain't afraid of shit. I ain't afraid of nothing. He goes,
but I went to China to make this deal with
the the mafia over there, the triads and shit. And
he goes, I'm talking to these dudes, and he goes,
I ain't never been afraid of shit. But when I

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got into their then their headquarters, they were so organized
it was scaring the shit out of me. They were
so calm and so organized.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
It was sharp.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
And the guy he's talking to the head dude, and
he goes and they were just having like a small talk.
He goes, you know the one thing about black people,
he says, you guys are you're the trend set to us.
Everybody copy black people. You're so creative, your music, your style.
Everybody like black people. We're jealous of you. But the

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one thing you don't have is unity. Very easy to
break you up.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Wow, and this is in the drug game. He says,
we don't. He says, we can't even organize crime. Wow,
we can't even organize crime.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Everybody got mafia Italian right, there's a supposed to game out,
Russian mafia, we got Irish mafia, and black folks can't
even organize crime.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Shame what we it's And it's the same with comics.
I'm sorry. We do not help each other.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
And I know guys that talk shit about me. I
know guys that shit on me all the time, but
I keep it moving. And it's a shame because I'm
not going around talking about shit.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
And I like helping people. If I can help, I'm
the first motherfucker to try and help. I do. But
some cats will block you out, don't want you to
have shit.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
You know, there's some, there's some there's other gatekeepers right
within the gatekeepers.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, there's other gate gatekeepers. Yeah, because they can be like.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Well what do you think about this guy? Oh?

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Man?

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Nah man?

Speaker 2 (02:04):
If one guy told me and told some executive that
I'm a joke thief. And one thing I don't like
is someone called me a joke thief because I'm original
and I said, and I said, don't you ever fucking
call me a jokey, because you're a joke thief. You're
a fucking joe. Ever said, But you know it will
say shit like that. Yeah, I'm calling it out. Hope
this gets about sixty millions, because.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
I think the thing with us, we like, as long
as if you here and we're here, we're cool. Yes,
but don't get here, and you better not get here,
which is because then because then I got to try
to do something to widdow you down. So you come
back to my level, or I elevate the h.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
You get here and you pull the ladder up, don't
let anybody else climb.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yes, But my thing is I like when people like you.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
See a guy like Kevin Hard who brings up his
boys they're all eating.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, I love that shit. He goes, Oh no, you
eating plastic club.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
You got a million, you got a couple million, you
got a nice car. That's the way you do the shit.
You don't all of us anything. The people that are
working with them, they're eating. You know who else is great?
Nick Cannon Shout out to Nick, I did three seasons
of wilding out reluctantly I did it because he was like, man,
when you.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Gonna do wilding out?

Speaker 2 (03:12):
I said, I don't feel like rapping fucking ab season
shit and I'm not good at as He's a no,
but we're gonna make it to where you can do
your impersonal. Nick Cannon is another guy. No one's perfect,
but Nick is hiring people, you know, from what I saw,
hiring people likes to see you do well, you know
something like that. We need that like club Shayshade. Look
at how you bring us on here. You might make

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us kings Shannon, damn it.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
But I guess people say I shouldn't give you guys
the platform, because which I force you guys to you.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Know what's fucked up?

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Say same with the you know the other TV that
I used to be on, you know the other TV. Yeah,
but what as soon as you got big, that's when
all the bullshit start.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
You notice that too, hung Yeah, because.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
When they said, oh, I know, think Shannon's get First
of all, if someone says you're gay, that means you
made it. Understand, I'm waiting for somebody to say I'm gay.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
The moist booty is I made it?

Speaker 2 (04:05):
They said that was moys booty brother, I'm like, you
know what I'm saying, and and and that means you're
doing well.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
And it's fucked up.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Like why, I don't understand why we get like when
you get success, people are upset at you. But there's
some people that get up, that get to a level
and forget about everybody.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Like I was like, you didn't get this on your own?
Why would you like not?

Speaker 2 (04:27):
I mean, why wouldn't you turn your back? Why would
you want you turn around? And once you establish yourself,
bring the people in that you know will do well
on their own. They'll don't just bring people in. Some
people will bring it and you can bring them in.
It ain't shit, they ain't doing anything. You bring the
people in that you go, oh yeah that because that's
what I would do if I ever got to a level.

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I'd be like my man Ruben Paul, who was a
fantastic comedian. He opens up for George Lopez, Ruben Paul,
Dante Niro. I have them readA Franklin Yaminica Sander's I'm
letting you all know these names. I would bring the
people that are around me that I go they can
do the job.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
They can do the job. That's what I would do.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
And and it's like in our mentality, maybe because we
always like to trace it.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Maybe it's the slavery thing because then the slave masters,
remember they divided the thump and they only gave the
house flav some and the field slaves like, Lord, Lord,
have merthy? Why did he get here? But dag right?

Speaker 2 (05:24):
But that's bullshit right now, it's not bullshit, but it
is bullshit because you can stop that cycle.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
Correct. You know what I'm saying. You chose to chose
to I go. I. Maybe it's my parenting. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
You haven't asked me about that, but you will, yeah,
about my parenting, you know.

Speaker 4 (05:41):
But I'm saying, Okay, when you was telling the stories
about how you went to college and you became kind
of militant and you know you and your dad was like,
we send you to school, do your accent because I'm
you know, I did my I did my ancestry.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
I heard your ninety percent Nigeria. You fucking looking. You
look more Nigerian than me. You look like Michael.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
Blanks who told me I just I got off the
boat yesterday. Made you look you man? You you should
be driving uber. It's like where do you want to go? Okay,
my name is Shannon, So how obviously fuck your parents?
Mom and dad?

Speaker 2 (06:22):
My mom?

Speaker 1 (06:23):
How strict worthy would your upbringing?

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Okay, my parents aren't here anymore, but bless up to
my mother and my father.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
I'm godfree junior, by the way, godfree senior. They were.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
They were strict because you know, immigrants always have rules.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
They say, you know you're coming into the house. Were
your parents first generation? First generation?

Speaker 2 (06:45):
I was from first generation Nigeria and they came straight
from Lagos, Nigeria and.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
And small villages, you know.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
And my father who got his sort of a teaching
scholarship to a school in Nebraska, Omaha. It's called Dana College.
I think it's defunct now. And that's where I was born.
I was born in Nebraska.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Right, That's why me and Gabrielle Union relate well because
she's from Nebraska. Malcolm X's from Nebraska, Warren buffet A.
That's I'm just scouting. And so my father was in
school there in Nebraska. That's when I was born. My
sister was born in Nigeria. My sister, Juliana was born
in Nigeria for two years. Born in Nigeria were Ebo's
Ebo tribe. I don't know what tribe. You know what tribe? Yeah, okay,

(07:32):
yes he might be Ebo Doug. I gotta see it
in your fists. So my sister was born there. Then
I was born in Nebraska. My brother was born in Chicago.
Grew up in Chicago, and they were strict. They were
you know, like my father was an educator for forty
five years on the West side of Chicago, Malcolm X College,
and he created programs for prisoners.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
My father was.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
In the system, the teaching system. My mother was a nurse,
one of the best nurses in Chicago. She trained some
of my friends as nurses. He was an Obie guyning nurse,
delivering babies. So they were strict with my sister especially.
You know, you can't wear a makeup until this age.
Come home at nine when my father's.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
Say you see the light there? You see that lights
when it coas, you better be there, I will beat
you there. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
It was just that's what it was, right. I grew
up in the area of Chicago what's called Uptown. Chicago
is the most segregated city in the country till this day.
Martin Luther King got hit with a brick in Chicago,
right and Mials right, yes, and he got hitting with
a brick. It's the most segregated city in Chicago. That
in Milwaukee. Milwaukee's not that far from Chicago. Yeah, yeah,

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yeah right, the most segregated. And it was discovered by
a black man Chicago, a French black man named Jean
Baptist Juan D. DuSable Museum usable. Yes, and it's the
most segregated. And my father, as a teacher, would be like,
you make sure your homerk cause done you come in
the house at a certain time.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
You know all that.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
So they were strict, reasonably strict. I would say, you know,
my sister a little bit harder because she was a girl.
But they were reasonably strict. My parents were really I mean,
we got our.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
Asses woo like for real, like you know that kind
of ass. You know.

Speaker 4 (09:18):
But what what did what did they what did they
want you guys to become?

Speaker 2 (09:22):
This is what Nigerian parents do. They already tell you
what you're gonna be. My father if he's like, so
this is what you will do. You will go grad school,
then you go to high school, then you go to college,
then you will be a ducta. My father was like,
you're like, all right, cool, So they lived vicariously through you,
So you will be a ducta.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
That's what I said. So I have pre med psychology.
That's what I did. I actually I.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
Played, you know, I played football one one my senior
year in high school, I played it. I went to
Lane Tech High School. Shout out to Lane Tech High School.
I was in a first. I was in a Catholic
school because my father did not like public schools. You know,
as a teacher, like you have to go to Catholic school.
You have to go to Catholic school. And I went
to Saint Benedict, racist ass religious bullshit ass fucking white

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racist nuns and shit fucked them. And I got and
I wanted to get into this other school, Lane Tech,
which was a smart school, college prep school. It was
number one with Michelle Obama School Whitney Young got into there,
and then I played football for my senior year and
then I got like a scholarship to Memphis State Universe.
I got a couple of scholarships as a wide receiver.

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And then my father said, no, you have to go.
I don't trust He didn't trust that the scholarship shitty
and they probably will end up not being able to
do your homework. So I couldn't do any of that shit.
So he was very strict on that. Like, but they
were reasonably strict, man where I'm glad they were the
way they were.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Just immigrant shit.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
As I look at myself now, I'm like, I'm glad
that they were the way they were. You know, my
sister is great, My brother Daniel and he's still in Chicago.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
He's a trade. But we're all We were well raised.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
And I'm I'm surprised I'm even in this business because
my family was pretty normal.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
My family was pretty.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Normal, like normal problems, you know what I'm saying, right,
And I'm in this business because you would think, like
a lot of times people come in to entertainment because
the family dysfunctioned, you know, no narcissism, which I have, narcissism,
drug shit, all kinds. I was grew up pretty fucking normal,
and I'm in this fucking business because I love comedy
so much and I love expressing myself.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
But I'm not into the grimy shit, really, you know
what I mean?

Speaker 4 (11:29):
Then you got into the movies Zulanda Johnson Family Vacation,
Soul Playing, Cookout.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
Original Gangsters was my first film, really, Original Gangsters with
Pam Grier, Richard Rowntree at Rest in Peace, Richard Rowntree,
super Ron, Superfly O'Neil. I was my first movie and
we shot in Gary, Indiana with Jim Brown. I was
with Jim Brown and it was originally that was my
first movie I ever auditioned for.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
And uh, what's his name? Fred Williamson called me. I remember,
he called, I don't know how I got my go
Is this gottfree? I said yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
He said this is the Hammer the original. I said,
Hamry goes the rich. He was very seventy the original.
He says, you got the part of Marcus meet us Tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
At thought of that, I was like, wow, So that
was my first movie. Then I got.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Was it Chain Reaction with Keato Reeves and Morgan Freeman.
I played like an African student, you know. So that
was when stuff was starting to type.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
He talk.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
But soap play. Let me tell you all soap play.
First of all, people will talk shit about soul play, right,
And she was like that this shit's funniest how it is?

Speaker 1 (12:37):
So when you I watched it on my own. I
go let me see because I didn't watch it for
a while, and everyone's like, man, soul playing bullshit.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
I said, First of all, when we all auditioned, black
folks weren't working. There was no auditions going on. You know,
sometimes Hollywood just leaves us out of shit. White people go,
let's not give them anything this shit. So boom, I
was like, fuck, okay, everybody's reading for Soaplaying. My managers
are like, my agents are like.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Uh, there's a script. It's pretty ghetto.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
I said, really, he goes, we got the but the
star when of the stars a Snoop Dogg is signed
to it.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
I said, Snoop Dogg, shit, that would be dope as fuck.
If I get a.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
Snoop Dogg international shit, I was like, I want to
hang out with Snoop Dogg. That was what motivated means
an audition for it. So I walk in in the audition.
My boy Yuli ulyssees man. He was he's a dude
from New York City. His brother Jesse Terrero is the
one that directed it. So I walk in and they say,
so what she gonna do? Because soul playing was everybody.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
Was going motherfucker fuck that.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
I said, I got an idea, what if I play
an African guy? They said, what, I'm gonna play an
African dude because Snoop Dog's already there.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Let him do all the motherfucker let me be there.
What these problems? You know?

Speaker 2 (13:51):
And Africans and African Americans always butt heads anyway, Yeah,
that would be a perfect dynamic. So I went in there.
Yeah he does what, Well, you're not Nigeria. Now you
need to talk to them. Why y'all, why do you
hit shoutown on me once?

Speaker 1 (14:05):
No? Why do we we don't hate? That's some bulls.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
Wait, first of all, as me being raised here, me
being raised here, I protect both. First of all, some
Nigerians they do sometimes Africans in general, some of them
do think they're better than African Americans, which is bullshit
because it's not the truth, because Africans are treated like.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
Shit in Africa. Colonization, England, France.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
That's why you speak in French, not because you're special,
because they came and sat on your ship and say
you're gonna speak what the fuck we speak the Dutch?
All of that, all of them, all of those European
countries came and colonized you treated you like shit. I mean,
you go to South Africa, white people are calling themselves
Africans and they don't even look it. That's some gangster shit.

(14:53):
Don't you think I ain't from seth Ifindic? God, No,
you're not your Dutch. You just didn't know when the
fuck to leave you. See what I'm saying this is,
it's it's fucked up. So that should tell you. And
what African Americans have gone through, that fucking hell that
they've gone through and still go through. How are you
coming from that mentally and saying you're thinking you better
than them because you have an accent? Because for some reason,

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the white society in America tends to, oh, Africa has
an accent.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
It's a little different.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
It's like when you're British, like said, when you have
a British accent and you're black, Hello.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
I don't know that's what I'm doing. Ooh, that's why
they get to play us.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
Listen, British black dudes are playing drug dealers.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
I thought Adris Elbow was from Baltimore.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
I thought he was, you know, he was like, yo,
you motherfuckers don't stand and then I'm watching BBC. You
know when I did the Wire, I studied the ghetto
in oh yall Baltimore.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
He sounded like Lord Baltimore was that?

Speaker 2 (15:56):
And then this driss guy there's another drifts a snowfall.
I'm thinking his mother like yo cut and he's like,
you know, I took him.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
You know the is this?

Speaker 2 (16:06):
You know anothering because they I don't know what it is.
Something about this is just my theory, something about that
black American accent.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
Amen fu but hello, oh and we see we'll let
Idris play that. But then when he gets back to
his normal self, we get to hear James Bond, you
know what I mean, But we don't want to hear that.
It's something about that. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
I think it's it's it's just a little weird. It's
like African Americans go through hell, but everybody copies African Americans.
Everybody does all around've been to a lot of countries.
He've been a lot of countries. I've been to a
lot of You haven't been to a lot of countries.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
He's so southerns like I'll be you know, I've been
to a lot of states. I'm go fishing over there,
so Dad, and I'll hear my my r V, like
if my grandma said, Man, if you ain't got nothing
to do, stay where you at.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
But listen, I'm saying African when I've been to China.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
I actually performed the first American to perform in Russia
in twenty eighteen in Moscow. And black shit is everywhere
hip hop. There's Russian hip hop. I was in Lithuania,
went to a Lithuanian hip hop club. I was the
only black dude there and they were all up in
the Grammine Dixon. But I'm like this, Hi, guys.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
Hello, Hi, that's our coach was Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
China everywhere is hip hop. When I was in Japan,
When I was in Korea, black people are copied. All
that K pop is just nothing but fucking a new edition.
It's all black shit everywhere.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
African American.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
I think the African American culture is the strongest culture on.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
The planet period, because even Africans are going.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yo, Niga man, that shit nigga Really he sells to man.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
This nigga got it. I was just saying, no, man,
got shut up them fuck out of here. Michael Blason
does it. But he's fucking around. But these there's there's
people doing it.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
I see they got these reality shows, these African like
alien shows and she's like.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
Shit that bitch, I know that bits not talking to
me like that. Really what I'm not saying that real Africa.
They got ship like that now Nigeria, Nollywood and all.
Hey it's the third largest movie.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
But they're acting like there's they're taking from African American ship.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
You know a lot of them are taking and some people.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
May not agree, but it's facts, and it's like, why
are you shitting on afric And every African is not
shitting on African American that's bullshit. But they it's like
it doesn't make sense because African Americans are They're the
I mean, Africans are creative too, of course, but African
American that culture is the coolest shit on the planet.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
Keep it one hundred hip.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Hop, you know, just everything is damn jazz, blues, everything
you create.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
African Americans created all of it.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
American music, it's all black, even country music, even though
they complain it. John Schneider from the Dukes of Hazzard,
what do you fucking still joke? Bo Duke motherfucker's wrong
with He goes, oh what Beyonce boys just like a
dog pissing on everything.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
Shut up, it's black country music is ours. It's black.
I'm claiming it. And you're gonna say, oh, look, you
just come to old hand hut up.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
Still white white white people take from old black black
men and black women and making and then say you
they ot out there, look.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
At the look at the rock and roll Hall of Fame.
How the fuck are you gonna have a hall of fame?

Speaker 2 (19:37):
And we gotta wait to get inducted from the music
the black people created, and you got a.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
Whole white fucking well, we don't, we don't know.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
What have you been to the rock and roll Hall
of Fame? Elvis' ship goes from here to the bottom.
James Brown got.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
That's a measurement in James Brown talk. He got a
little fucking he got.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
He gotta exhibit this being. It's literally wow, that's it.
Exhibit is that big chuck berry. But Elvis goes holding
hold here all the way down the hall, all the
way down.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
The whole fuck out of here. So soul playing, you
get the soul playing?

Speaker 2 (20:15):
I get so so I did the thing I did
THEA and I got the part in the room, they
were like, you got that ship.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
They like, you got it, just walk out and pretend
like you didn't get it. I was like, and they say,
what you're doing there? I said, And everything I did in.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
Soul playing was all improv I didn't even follow the script.
I just they said, just go and me and snow.
I was there with.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
Snoop for nine days. It was the best shit ever.
I had me and Snoop just laughing. We're just in
there laughing. It was great. It was.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
And to see Snoop Dogg laugh is the funniest shit
ever because he doesn't make him sound when he laughs.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
He just goes, God, damn dog. That's that's Snoop.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
And just to be around one of the greatest hip
hop artists ever had to be be sharing my comedic
talents with him.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
Was I learned from him, He learned from me. It
was great. He gave me great compliments. It was and
that's what we've been friends ever.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Said so and soul Plaint is a is a cult
classic anyway, because I was getting hood respect, I would
be in like, you know, I'd be as fun like,
hey man, you that soul Plaine maying that African ne Yo.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
No, I was like, but I never got on the poster.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
Really, hell no, that's that story of my life that
always got kind of being left to the side. But
I'm sorry. I think my character was the best on
that bitch. I'm gonna say that, gay mind not.

Speaker 4 (21:36):
Like two men doing this. But you was also Johnson
Family Vacation. It was an opportunity for you work with
Steve work was saying, so what was that?

Speaker 2 (21:43):
Like?

Speaker 1 (21:43):
What was that? Said? Johnson Family Vacation? It was it
was Jason Mamona was on there? Was he Jason Momona
was on there? Yeah, he must have been another scene
because I had my scene. Sometimes you don't. You don't
come across yet, OK, so I was it was?

Speaker 2 (21:58):
It was Vanessa Williams said, little bow Wow And what's
Beyonce's sister's name, Salon Solon's no. So my I was
a cop and I'm supposed to stop them from their speeding,
and so you know what's his name? Little bow Wow
throws piss out the window because they had to pee
and a cup and it hits me in the face.
So I pulled them over. I'm like one of those
uh chips like most cops. So I stopped it. So

(22:22):
I hadn't want chocolate chip. But it was a longer
scene than that. I had some dope ass lines in
that ship, and they cut my shit out. Yeah I'm sorry, Cedric,
but they cut a lot of my shit out. So
I was just there for I was supposed to be
there for one day. So I came in there and
I did I said, he one day, Hey, it's cool
Fox Searchlight.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
And so I improved and he comes out, you know, Saidric,
go hey, brother, what's up?

Speaker 2 (22:44):
Man?

Speaker 1 (22:44):
You know what? He goes, and I do this.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
I go, hey, man, not your brother, Okay, I say
words like facetious stuff like that. So all this little brother,
I did this hole and they cut that shit out
man and I and then after I left, they were
like they were watching the dailies you watch. They said,
they brought me back and I had two more two
more sit They fired the other dude that was supposed

(23:08):
to be to share, and they gave me all.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
That shit, you know.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
And I've always had little moments like that, but I've
people and I think personally people say you're like one
of the most underrated comedians in the business.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
You know, people say that, man, when you gonna get
you should be you should be, but you should be it.
But there's certain things that I wantn't do though in
the biz. I'm not gonna do it. I just what
you ain't gonna do? What? What do you mean there?
You go? No? What I mean? You say there's certain
things that you're not gonna do. I can't do the dress.

(23:41):
They try to put you in a dress. Many I've been.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
I've like, I've had auditions where I'm like, let me
deceie with the character descripts.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
I'm like, nah, I'm good. I'm like, I'm good. No,
I'm not.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
I mean, you can save it for somebody else. But
I don't really feel comfortable doing that.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
That's just me. I mean to eat his own and
you know, if they want to do that thing.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
I ain't that good of an actor. The cookout, The
cookout was cool. That was called clean. The Tifa Queenland
Tifa was fantastic.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
Man that was cool.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Megan Good, Megan Good. It was a bunch of people
on that. It was fair of Fawcett was in it,
Daddy Glover, a lot of people was in it.

Speaker 4 (24:21):
Yeah, so and Jenni Jennifer Lewis, No, you had what
you call him with Wendy Williams.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
When oh, she must have been a different See, Jennifer
Lewis was in it too.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
Jennifer Lewis. That was fun. That was fun.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
That was fun. I had fun on that. Juelander was great.
Bence's at I've been all right.

Speaker 4 (24:37):
But yeah, but but you want but you want to
be and you have major You don't want to be
there for a day or two.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
You want to be there.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
I could see myself doing action films. I could see
myself doing dark comedies. I had great acting teachers in
New York City. I could see myself doing like even
when people see movies, they go, man, I can see
you in that ship.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
I was, Oh, I could see you in that ship.
I would love to do all that ship. I mean.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
Gabrielle Union put me in a film that came out
last year. Perfect fine, perfect fine. Gabriel just put me
in it, which was great.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
Thank you, Gabrielle uniont she put me in the movie.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
It's a romantic comedy and I played this dude that's
trying to hit on herduced But I have a couple
scenes in it. It was fantastic. But I'd like to
be working all the time on films. Man, It's just
the business has changed a lot, you know. But I
think doing just constantly doing the social media, constantly doing
you know, just build your ship.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
There's it's a it's a different landscape now, you know.
So did you think are you Are you promoting yourself enough?
I think I am. I'm not. I'm trying not to
leave any stone unturned.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
I got a podcast I do even though my social
media was blocked. They blocked my ship. I had eight
hundred and thirty four thousand. I know it ain't shipped
to you on ig ig. And they blocked me for
violations because you know, when I get trolled, I'll be like, man,
shut your dumb as they go community guidelines. He can't

(26:05):
say that, sorry, and they blocked me. They blocked my lives.
I think that social media is racially biased personally. I
think they block a lot of black creators, They shadow
ban a lot of black creators.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
They let the white motherfuckers they be getting millions and millions.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
They be's calling people names, all kinds of shit, all
this fucking racial hatred but they never get blocked.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
But I get blocked for shit. I this is what
I believe.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
If I'm wrong, fine, but they block me for bullshit.
I didn't say anything political. I just say, Yo, someone's
troubling me.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
Yo.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
I know you ain't talking shit. I'm a comedian, right,
But I've been blocked. So I have a new I
have a new one.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
You ain't pay to get it back. You'd have aboy.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
Oh you know somebody maybe? Yeah, So I'm talking about boy.
I gotta get my ship back. But I started a
new one. It's called It's Godfrey Comic at Godfrey Comic.
Follow me on that Godfrey coming in case I don't
get my ship back.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
But it's been deactivated. I don't. I eight hundred thousand.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
I was closing in on a million, damn and they
always slowing my TikTok.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
Same shit, slow my shit down, barely get numbers.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah, the god free Comedian is my TikTok.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
They got it in for you. Thank you.

Speaker 4 (27:16):
I'm going to ask you this. Yes, you said you've
had some roads, You've been in some good movie. Is
there any road that you turned down that you wish
you hadn't?

Speaker 1 (27:25):
Uh? No, no, everything that patrols.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
I'm glad I did and I didn't. It turned out no. No,
the stuff that I turned down, I'm like, nah, it
wasn't for you. Nah, it wasn't for me, right, you
know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (27:37):
There was one.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
I mean, I've auditioned for stuff, which I go, damn,
I wish i'd got that shit right because I pick
and choose what I want. You know, I go, yo,
I'll go out for that, and then you see the
person get like, damn, wish I had that shit right.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
Yeah. So that's about it.

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Speaker 1 (28:48):
Oh get it? Bet we get this CONNAC? Well?

Speaker 2 (28:56):
Serious, I got fired because here's the thing, this particular
person I used to do some little comedy stints on
this person's show I'm not gonna name them, and and
I would go on their show every Friday. We're going
on there show, do funny shit, do funny shit. And
then they say, hey, you know, you ever think about

(29:17):
doing radio? I was like, not really. I do my
friends shows and I don't really think about that because
you know, the corporate shit. I'm not into that. And
they were like, no, you should do a show. I'm
gonna get you on. I'm gonna get you on this channel.
I said, oh, okay, this urban channel. I said, okay, cool,
it's gonna be like one hour long story shirt. I
started the hour show. It was the Power Hour, and
I was doing really well. I was killing I was

(29:38):
killing that shit. And I said, well, I just want
to let you know I'm very honest. I go straight forward.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
I'm very honest, and I want I want to make
sure I it's okay.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
No, we're just trying to change this channel. It's a
little boring. We need some new life in it.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
I said, I'm letting you know I'm honest and I
talk about it's all good.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
I said, okay. Then I get too two hours. They
give me two hours.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
I go boom, because everybody's like, yo, Godfrey needs longer,
he needs longer two hours show. I get Prime Time
six pm to eight. You know what I'm saying. That's traffic.
Start doing really well. All of a sudden, I do
something to somebody. I have a little confrontation with a
particular person.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
This this security guard. And I was in DC. The
security guard, this truck driver.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
You know, most truck drivers listen to serious except truck
driver wanted a picture. I was in the lobby of
the headquarters and this truck driver comes in goes, brother, man,
I subscribe.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
You can I get a picture? I said sure.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
And so this brother security was of the other community
and goes literally talks like because I imitated everybody, everybody
knew that I imitated.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
He goes, ah, no pictures, no pictures. Now, you can't
have no pictures.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
And he was really rude, and I said, all right,
but you ain't got to like yell at me.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
Damn, he just wanted a picture, so he couldn't take
a picture.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
The truck drivers pissed off and I and so I
go up to this I go up to do another
show and the person that's interviewing me say, yo, you
look a little mad.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
I said, yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
There was this security dude down there talking about Now
I'm haadhat now I'm imitating. And I said, remember, I'm
not making fun of the community. I'm making fun of
the way this guy talked to me. And I said,
you know what they you know, he kicked that guy out.
They should have took they should have dragged him by
his braids and threw him out.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
That's what I said.

Speaker 2 (31:24):
And then I got fired the next day for that,
for that and I talked shit all the time, but
I got fired for that while done, so I was like,
but in a way, though, I wouldn't have done that
Steve Harvey thing. That wouldn't have went viral if I
didn't get fired, I wouldn't be on a podcast doing
the Steve Harvey thing. So it was a blessing in disguise. Wow,
So go suck my no, so let me get this right,

(31:46):
suck kill mone out. You tried to do Saturday Night Live.
Death comedy Jam, Oh, death comedy. Jam never chose me.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
God, I'm trying to figure out how you sitting on
my counch. You ain't got yours for nothing? What the
hell I mean?

Speaker 2 (32:01):
But this is about the most underrated comedian, isn't it.
You didn't get chose my shit. I'm surprised I'm here.
This ain't even gonna show me, Yo, depth Jam skipped me.
I auditioned many times and did well. They they never
chose me for Somebody told me, what's his name? Told
me should I bring out names?

Speaker 1 (32:21):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (32:22):
Bob something that told me he was the guy that
you got in. You got through him to get together.
He said, Yo, you're not ghetto enough. I go I'm
not from the ghetto, but I'm not from wealth either.
I'm not from the ghetto. I'm a normal dude, but
I'm funny. You've sent me to every other room. There
was a room called the Peppermint Lounge, which Bill Bellamy hosted.
Bill Bellamey hosted that shit, and I did well in

(32:43):
that bitch. I was going doing all the rooms in Brooklyn,
and they just never chose me. They chose everybody around me.
They had Dion Corey everybody around me. They he never
chose me. I don't know what the reason was. I
was like, I guess, but this.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
Is the story of my life. They didn't choose me SNL.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
The first time I got auditioned, didn't get it. Then
I another time didn't get it, and the third time
didn't get it. So I don't know because people said,
how are you coming here on SNL. And a guy
told me, this guy who was a member of SNL.
He told me, he said, he said, I was at
your audition the first time you did it, and I

(33:22):
know the reason why you didn't get it. I know
the reason why. He says, your performance was strong as shit.
It was strong, and they just they don't want to
see that. That's what I was told. He said, you
remember what Eddie Murphy did with SNL. They go, that's
what That's what he told me.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
And I'm like, you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (33:42):
I was like, oh, okay, I don't know that's what
he said. But it was like, you know, it's its
shit is painful and shit.

Speaker 4 (33:47):
You get mad because you're like SNL, that's that's a
whole that's a whole different lis.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
So you know, you sometimes feel like a failure at times.
I ain't gon front. Some days you go, man, I
must be a fucking failure. Damn failure just delayed success.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
Delayed success. Huh god, damn it. But yeah, that's how
I felt like that. And people when I you know,
you're on stage, you're doing your ship. You're like, but listen,
I'm not I'm successful in what I'm doing.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
I'm not sit there. It's not fried baby shit.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
But you know, it's just like when you when you're
going out for certain things that you grew up on
and you can't you really what WHOA?

Speaker 1 (34:18):
That ship?

Speaker 2 (34:19):
That's SNEL thing killed me because I the first time
doing it, I'm getna standing ovation. WHOA have you ever
been booed. Yes, Peppermint Lounge, hold On, hold On. That
was like my third That was like my about my
fifth or sixth time doing Peppermint Lounge. And I got

(34:42):
booed because this dude was talking ship and I started
getting on him and he was related to a lot
of people, and they started booing my ass.

Speaker 1 (34:49):
They was like, yo, that's my cousin. Man the fuck
out of boom. So they start booing me. Right. I
was doing okay at the beginning because I was used
to the place, right since this is newer New Jersey.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
This is New Jersey east Doors, New Jersey, not Newark
East Doors, New Jersey. Yeah, get everybody, even Anthony Mason
was in the audience, Anthony Mason.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
The Knicks talking shit. You know, everybody was there. And
so the dude, some dude was like, yeah, you corny,
as I.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
Said, oh shit, and I just because I was comfortable,
so I started talking shit. Then everybody start boring me.
But this is what I did when they booed me.
I did the end of Scarface. You know, with Scarface,
I was like, it's okay, and I was doing this
ah and they.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
Started laughing again. But then they were like no nigga.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
Boot laughing about and they're like, you always got it,
But I knock on wood. I've really never been booed before,
just on that that time. I've never been booed. I've
had sets that maybe aren't as good as some of it,
but I've been fortunate where you know, I don't really get.

Speaker 4 (35:46):
What's your crazest story stand up story?

Speaker 2 (35:50):
Oh yeah, I studied martial arts for ten years.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
Hop keto. Okay, hop keto.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
Shout out to Master David Herbert by sobbing him. He
I studied in New York ten years, so I was
really into martial arts and I was I remember I
was hosting this club comedy Seller. I was hosting and
this dude was talking shit right was talking shit, and
I told him and his girlfriend were both heckling me
and I and I was like, yo, y'all be quiet, Yo,

(36:18):
chill out.

Speaker 1 (36:18):
I'm getting your ass. Chill out.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
They go like whoa, And then I went laid into him,
bang bang bang bang right place went crazy and I said,
y'all ready for more show. I bring up Louis c
K bomb. Louise goes up, so I come outside because
you can come. It's downstairs. So you come right outside.
I'm standing outside just chilling, and the dude that I
just shit on comes outside and he's like, yo, man.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
I didn't appreciate what you fucking said to my girlfriend.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
I said, but you was talking and I kept warning
and you know it was fun No what the fuck?

Speaker 1 (36:48):
Man? He goes, Nah, you gotta apologize. I said, Man,
I ain't to him. Fuck that. Oh he wanted you
to apologize to his girl.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
He's like, man, I ain't saying he ain't doing shit.
He goes, well, you weren't that funny. I said, but
you both are average looking anyway, and you're lucky.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
That's what I said. So he said what I said,
you are What the fuck? I said. Now I'm into
martial arts, so I'm like, right, so, and I can't
make this up.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
The day before that, we was working on attacks when
people attack you in my in my dojo, people to
tackle you and stuff. So we was practicing that shit
like over and over. And my master's like, you never know,
you never know how they can I said, they really
come at you like this? He goes it can it
can happen always? We're gonna come from the side. We're
gonna do all kinds of shit. We're gonna do different

(37:33):
defense mechanisms. And when I tell you, this dude ran
at me. He ran at me exactly the way he
was practicing. His mother said what he was? I said,
that's that's what we learned.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
And it was like slow motion. And that motherfucker came
at me and I don't fight.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
I'm not in I don't get in a fight. Some
people got a lot of fight. Did you fight a lot? No?
I never fought a lot. And so this motherfucker attacked me,
came and tried to tackle me in the but he
grabbed me.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
And so I learned. You know, I learned you can
flip somebody on their back.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
He used their he used their moment So I used
the momentum and I flipped them on his back bomb
right in the middle street.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
And I'm like that, yo, that shit worked. That shit worked.

Speaker 2 (38:12):
So I'm on top of them like this, but I'm like,
this is a white dude. But if the police see me,
they're gonna get me first. So I was like, yo,
my man, yo, chill man. I'm still working, man, Yo,
leave me the fuck alone. And you know I'm nervous,
So I'm like, damn, he goes, you get the fuck
off me. I said, yo, leave me alone. So I
so I get off them.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
Right.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
So this motherfucker rips my shirt. I'm hosting, rips my shirt.
So my shirt is ripped. Okay, there's a there's a
T shirt store right next to us. Right, here's an
Indian man in the window washing the ship, right, and
so people are you know, people get around all shit.
So I square up with them, but he smuggers coming
at me. So I was like, dude's his hands are
down so I could kick really fast. So I was like, yo,

(38:53):
I could kick him in the face. Kick him in the face.
So they were like get him. Got Bomb caught him,
knocked him out, Pow caught them. It was it was
a roundhouse kick. Bomb caught him on the lefty Pop
caught him. He fell into the gate. Bomb and I
ran ran to the to the T shirt shop and
the guy's like, motherfucker, do you kick that motherfucker so quickly?

Speaker 1 (39:13):
Oh? Do you do that? That was great? Nothing was
a great kick man what no fucker was dug?

Speaker 2 (39:19):
And he and I bought a Bruce Lee's shirt that
had that had what on the back.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
I'm not even I can't mit this up, so what
So so I go back. So I go downstairs.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
Luis K's getting on stage and everyone goes, we're having
to your shirt.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
Hell hell, he worried about it. I love Bruce Lee.
So that.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
And then when I came back up after the show
was over, the police were there. Dude's space, he's holding
his face like right, I go, yo, he attacked me first,
and the police almost didn't believe me. I said, he
attacked me first, and he goes and I and the
cops were like, I go, oh, I'm sorry. This is
when the racism kicks in, right, the black dude had

(39:59):
to have done it.

Speaker 1 (39:59):
They said, no, it's nothing like that.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
I said no, But he attacked me first, and then
he tried to brush me again, and I fucking clocked
him with a jab.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
I had a quick jab right there. Yeah, he tried,
but he was Mike. He was like, pa, hit him,
run in his mouth. But I don't. I don't fight.
But it was just be I was.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
In Marshall, I was training a lot, so I was like, man, ha,
I was like shit.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
So has anybody tried to run up on stage? No?

Speaker 2 (40:25):
No, one's run up on stage. Ever, with the Will
Smith thing, a lot of people were getting real, you know.

Speaker 4 (40:30):
From the habit at the Hollywood Bowl with Dave Chappelle. Yeah,
with the Hollywood Bowl.

Speaker 2 (40:34):
But you know, sometimes it happens and I try to
warn people. I try to say this on stage. I go, yeah, man,
don't be starting to feel Will Smith man, because I'm
gonna tell you something. I got quick foot. You come
into the stage and I got this mic stand. It
has a metal end on it. I'm gonna put you
in the koba. Boy, come up. You know I'm talking shit, man,
You know what I mean? So that, do you write

(40:55):
jokes for other comedians?

Speaker 1 (40:56):
No?

Speaker 2 (40:58):
You only write jokes for you, boy. No, I don't
write jokes. I will help people with like a hey man,
you know what you should say with that. I don't
write jokes for them now. I just write stuff for myself,
all my shits myself. But no, I don't really write jokes.
You know what I'm saying For other people, I might
give you a tag or something like, yo, why don't
you add that to it?

Speaker 1 (41:17):
But yeah, I'm all about me. I ain't shit.

Speaker 4 (41:19):
If I were, if I were to say Godfrey, compare
you to an athlete, your your comedic style? Yes, are
you Lebron you Jordan you, Kobe, you, Mahomes you Brady
you show.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
Hail t Terry Rice. Oh, Jerry Rice. Precise routs boom bom.
You know what I mean, unstoppable Jerry Rice.

Speaker 1 (41:45):
Yeah, you like that I did? Yeah, good routes chop bom.
You know, clean touchdown barely gets dirty. That's me. So
if you, if you have stu with football, you think
you could have made it.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
I don't know, because there were guys you have, There
were guys that were better than me.

Speaker 1 (42:04):
They were better than me. But that that worked got
better than you can get the job.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
And that's what's beautiful about sports. I didn't make it
because I wasn't ship. That's what's fair. Channing, you made
it because you were dope as fuck.

Speaker 1 (42:21):
You were really good. You beat out cats.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
You that's sports is great. You're on the bench because
you ain't shit shit your ass down. You are third string.
But what if I if the coach don't like you, that
happens too. Sometimes it happens. But if you have to win,
you fuck that. Put them in. You have to put
them in. I'm sure there's plenty of athletes that not
getting along.

Speaker 1 (42:42):
But you gotta put them in. You gotta win. We'll
try to win.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
But in our business, you could just be liked and
they'll let you rock our business. Lets the mediocre thrive
and listen. I didn't say I ain't the greatest, but
I ain't the worst. And I don't like it when
I see mediocre people rise. I hate mediocrity. I don't
like it, and I want to be called out for
my mediocrity. If I'm mediocre, tell me too. But I

(43:06):
there's a lot of mediocre comics stinking up stages. That's
what I say. I said it. A lot of you
are mediocre as fuck. Stay the fuck off stage. Damn yeah,
I said it.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
Jack Design.

Speaker 4 (43:18):
We see Tim Tip, the king of trap music, one
of the biggest Oh you know, you know, okay, go ahere,
you had go ahead, you had to be with Tim
What what what you? I just want you to know
right now before you go any further. I'm gona side
with Tim. I just figured so whatever you say, just so,
just so we clear out of He's like that.

Speaker 1 (43:40):
He from South South. Give it, damn yep. Like my
grandmother said, there's two frogs on the pond. We're gonna
sit up there on each other. So what happened? Okay?
First of all, I'm me.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
And Tip are cool as hell, plain and simple. I'm
a Tip fan. Always happened? Okay, So I'm in Atlanta,
Atlanta comedy theater, you know, and Atlanta. I wanted to
go to Atlanta because I just wanted to be there
all the women. I just wanted to be there, just ah,
and so I go. I was I didn't really want
to go to that club because I always hear about

(44:13):
fights and all kinds of shit. But I had to
go to Atlanta. So one day I'm on stage. I
do hour forty of straight fire, right yeah, and I
get my boys hosting.

Speaker 1 (44:26):
He goes, hey, man, I'm gonna keep the show going.
I go for what. I'm like, I'm the headline. It's done.
It's done. He goes, uh T, I.

Speaker 2 (44:35):
Wants to go up, and I go for what the
fuck is it?

Speaker 1 (44:40):
I mean, I was like, is he doing? Is he
gonna say it's his city? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (44:45):
He goes though he's doing comedy. I said, oh. So
I get off stage and I see Tip in the
in the in the green room. There's two green rooms
that I don't know if you've ever been there. Yeah,
there's two green rooms. And I see him. I go,
he go, hey, man, what's that guy?

Speaker 1 (44:59):
Man?

Speaker 2 (45:00):
Man?

Speaker 1 (45:00):
I was like yo, I said, what's up? Tip on
my mind said yo, Mam. I said, you're doing comedy, man, comedy. Yeah.
I was like okay.

Speaker 2 (45:07):
I just was like, I don't fucking know, because a
lot of times people approach comedy like it's a fucking hobby.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
It's not a hobby. It's a real deal. It's your
life for real.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
And I just like okay, And I went back to
the green room to decompress because I'm just.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
Hour and a half.

Speaker 2 (45:25):
That's what I do. I go to the green room
and chill the fuck out and so and so I'm like.

Speaker 1 (45:30):
Well, I was doing comedy. That's crazy.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
And then the next the following week, I went on
my podcast in God Free We Trust on the Gas
Digital Network.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
I went on my podcast and we were talking about it.
I said, yeah, t I is doing comedy.

Speaker 2 (45:45):
It was like everybody seems to just me going to comedy,
like it's that easy. I mean, I don't have the
I'm not the gatekeeper of comedy. But I just just
like thought it was funny. And then I go, Then
I said, yo, did you go watch him? I go,
Now for what I'm the comedian. Are we gonna watch
him do what I do better than him before? That's
what I said. That's what I said. I said, it's

(46:06):
not a disrespect to him. I just don't believe he's
trying to do comedy. And so that excerpt got spread
around and there was Shuler King called me, there was
some other comedians say, man, you good. Man.

Speaker 1 (46:21):
I woke up to it. You good, I said, I'm good.
What's up? He said, Man, t I you know when
t I.

Speaker 2 (46:26):
Goes in the woods, when he goes in the woods,
he was like, man, I'm about to get something my
chiir apparently expeditiously psychologically and scientifically.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
H somebody you know.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
And I'm a big fan of comedy, but I feel
I was disrespected. And I saw that someone sent it
to me and I was like, shit, he took that
shit the wrong way, you know what I mean. So
he felt that I disrespected him, and he's like, I'm
a fan of these guys. I've always been a fan
of comedy, and it's now for an artist to want
to do other things in the arts.

Speaker 1 (47:02):
Correct totally get it, you know.

Speaker 2 (47:05):
And so this is the time when I was writing
on Nick Cannon's daytime talk show. I was writing on
See Nick Always be hiring for you. So I was
writing and I told that. I said, Nick, did you
hear what happened? Nick's like, what No, I said, I
showed him tips thing, and he goes, oh, Tip is
just in his feelings, man, because you know he you know,
he didn't know he was doing comedy. But I'll call him,
I said, call him right now, call him. I want

(47:26):
to FaceTime him so I can tell him face to face.
And so I say, hey, man, hey, tip man, I
didn't mean any harm with that. I just didn't know
he was doing comedy like that because so many people
fuck around in comedy, and shouldn't they fuck around like
it's easy, because that's like me coming after you and
start rapping after you said I'm out. It's like, yo,
Tip Godfrey got some rhymes he wants to drop and

(47:48):
he goes, Nah, you're right, you're right, that's true. But man,
you know I've been watching comedy comedy. You watch all y'all. Man,
I respected and all that. I said, that's cool. Hey man,
more power to you if you about that shit cool.
I just know that people take comedy for granted and
there's a lot of bums in here doing it. That's
what I was coming from that perspective. But you can
do whatever fuck you want. Let me ask you this.

(48:09):
I had Mo Monique on the show. Yes, Monique and
her and I think d L had a disagreement about headlining.
You felt that you was the headliner. Once you had
done yours, he should have been over. Yes, So had
Till performed before you, would you have had an I
would have been okay with that. Okay if you it's
it's the chron chronology of it. It's just in show business, headliner.

(48:32):
There's a reason why he's the headliner, right, just if
you would have said, hey, Tip months to go up
before you, cool, it's his city, right.

Speaker 1 (48:39):
Cool, that's cool.

Speaker 2 (48:40):
But after me, No, that's that's unless unless it was
George Wallace walked in and I'll go, hell yeah, right, George,
be like, man, you're just stupid.

Speaker 1 (48:50):
I'm I'm gonna come on here, I'm gonna do a
couple of.

Speaker 2 (48:51):
Jokes, you know, Fuck everybody, Fuck Tip, fuck t I
fuck you, fuck everybody.

Speaker 1 (48:56):
Yeah, I would be like, yeah, George Wallace is going up.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
I go.

Speaker 1 (48:59):
He's five star general. Rocket is here, five star general
side Seidefeld, five star general. That's different, right, But t, I,
you're a rapper. I don't know you're and you're hit
by I listened to your ship on my ship. So
that's what.

Speaker 2 (49:14):
So we we squashed it. We squashed it. He came
on my podcast. We squashed it. It was it's all
good man, And he calls me whenever. Sometimes he's in
New York. He wants to get stayed. I try to
get him on stages. Yeah, but we're all good. He's
taking it seriously, so I'm more power to him.

Speaker 4 (49:28):
Man, what what comedy you say has helped you the most?

Speaker 1 (49:32):
That's giving you the best advice? Oh?

Speaker 2 (49:36):
Bill comes me, Jerry Seinfeld and who else? Who else
is giving me good advice? Joan Rivers gave me something too.

Speaker 1 (49:46):
I ain't take all the calls to be advice, did you?
I did well not. You got to put the pill
in the drink and you got the start. While she's
not looking, you go he look over there.

Speaker 2 (49:58):
He told me writing is the key, and he remembered.
He says, son, I want you to see the words
see show business. What is the bigger word? Always remember business.
You got to have the business. So I took that.
I took the Seinfeld that was important. Yeah, but Janes
Rivers say she gets Joe Rivers, just just keep it.

Speaker 1 (50:20):
I love your honesty. Oh, just keep doing it. It's
so funny, it's so talented. It was in Montreal, man,
I got to meet her.

Speaker 2 (50:28):
Man.

Speaker 1 (50:28):
It was crazy because she wanted to meet me. Is
that the big show up in Montreal. Will the comedians go?

Speaker 2 (50:32):
Yeah, they just they just extat it's done. Oh he's done, bankruptcy,
all that shit done. No more Montreal And that was
the biggest one in the world.

Speaker 1 (50:40):
Yes, And because.

Speaker 4 (50:41):
The Real told us about that that the comedians go
there and then they.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
Have they have big big people come watch different comedians
and all this other shit shatter some dreams, you know,
ship like that.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
Damn it's done.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
They got maybe Melbourne Comedy Festival, but they got other
little festivals, but Montreal was like the main that shit's going.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
But that's the advice I took in you know, Tony
Woods gave me advice.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
Tony Woods like regular dudes have, but those are the
main ones that gave me advice on stuff.

Speaker 1 (51:09):
You know.

Speaker 4 (51:10):
You your career, do you feel you've been blackballed? Do
you feel that there have been opportunities that you should
have or could have been presented, but there were obstacles
placed in your way?

Speaker 1 (51:22):
Shit, I don't.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
Think I've asked my agents to ask around if I'm blackballed.
I asked Tom, please go ask around, because first of all,
one thing about Hollywood, they're not honest.

Speaker 1 (51:34):
People will be like, we loved you, and then they'll
say I get rid of you. You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (51:38):
And I like, I try to strong myself with people
who are honest with me. I want people to but
people say, no, there's nothing you ever said. Did I
say anything that was because if it's my act, I
think that's unfair. I should be able to express myself
the way I want to. But I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (51:52):
I ain't. I ain't letting nobody line. I ain't flirting
with no man. Oh man. I don't owe nobody no.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
Money, no that I know, I do know. I ain't
get no man rang it, no nothing. I've always in
my own lane.

Speaker 1 (52:04):
Man. But I don't think I've been blackballed.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
I would hope not shit, you know, but I think
that sometimes there's an intimidation to certain things.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
I think there's intimidation. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
I don't really want to dumb myself down for anybody
that just comes from that Nigerian pride.

Speaker 1 (52:21):
Man, what you want?

Speaker 2 (52:22):
You know?

Speaker 1 (52:23):
So could you have do you? As you look back? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (52:27):
You say you've been into the comedy game for twenty
seven years. Yeah, as you look back, is there anything
you could have done differently?

Speaker 1 (52:34):
Could you have market yourself differently? No?

Speaker 2 (52:37):
I don't think so, man, because now with the social media.
Before it was everybody did the same shit. Oh yeah,
you go to auditions, you try, you go to auditions,
you do, you do shows, you go on the road.

Speaker 1 (52:50):
It was the same kind of schematic man.

Speaker 2 (52:52):
You try to rub elbows, you try to get invited
to as much shit as you can. But now it's different.
Now you can make it so. You say you're not
putting up any content. You could be doing a podcast, right,
you could be now, But I'm doing all of that.
I went along with the wind. I said, okay, let
me start social media. I embraced that shit about six
seven years ago. I embraced it. I said, let me

(53:13):
get off my ass and do it, and it works
for me. It really did work for me. It like
revitalized the shit I was doing. But as far as
like the Hollywood Hollywood in in, I'm not really in in.
I'm in but not in in.

Speaker 1 (53:27):
It's like, how do you get there? Then? I hear
all this creepy shit in order to do that you got,
I don't want to be there. Ah. I don't know.
It might be I don't know if it's true or
not true, but it's always like, ah, how do I
get there? You gotta ah? You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (53:42):
Well, the you mentioned gatekeepers and you say they're they're
you know, yeah, but they there. You wish someone had
opened the gate or given you up. Yeah, help live
God would be great.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
I know people in positions that I've known for years
that are like in position and then they just fucking
go ah. They just act like they don't know you anymore.
I'm telling you, it's like the extraight transformation. So this
whole time, you was always that dude, just waiting, faking
it till you make it right. And so you go,
oh my boy, he's a he's a showrunner right here.

(54:17):
I've known him for years when we were coming up nothing.
I've seen actors get a commercial and act like they
don't know you. I said, motherfucker, that was Burger king.
Shut the fuck up down shit. I mean, I was
a seven up guy for two years after Orlando Jones,
but I was still the same guy because it's transient,
that shit comes and goals.

Speaker 1 (54:34):
I was a seven up dude. I'm gonna keep it
one hundreds.

Speaker 2 (54:37):
That was a big moment to advertise for a product
in America. Yes, I know all the jingles of all
the different right, doc b a pepper drink.

Speaker 1 (54:46):
I know all the shit.

Speaker 2 (54:47):
Now I'm like a seven up what So, even though
I was getting shipped, I still was that guy because
that shit comes and goals.

Speaker 4 (54:55):
Godfriend, I'm saying here listening to you, how were you
able to like you?

Speaker 1 (55:00):
Like in and out?

Speaker 4 (55:02):
You can have the accent Nigerian, but you speak very American.

Speaker 1 (55:07):
I was born here. I don't give a damn.

Speaker 4 (55:09):
I was to make your question because I know a
lot of people that came from other countries. When they're
in their own home, they speak the native language. When
they go outside they talk. Yeah, it's just it's sweet cold.
Did you did you did your parents? Have you speak Nigerian?

Speaker 2 (55:24):
And no, My I'm gonna be honest. My parents man,
they got they admitted. My mother say, yeah, we got
we were lazy.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
We didn't.

Speaker 2 (55:31):
We were supposed to teach you, but we were speaking
to you, you know.

Speaker 1 (55:34):
But we got lazy. They got a little lazy. Okay.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
I wish they would have spoken because my sister knows
the language when they're speaking, because my parents would use
broken English, pigeon English, and my sister knew when they
were speaking Straighty.

Speaker 1 (55:46):
But because she was born there, she cheats chiding England.

Speaker 4 (55:49):
I don't know, but I pigeon told.

Speaker 1 (55:56):
I know about pitte told. I mean pigeon is like,
you know, like it said what I used to what
thout you doing? Makeing mouth?

Speaker 2 (56:11):
It's like when you hear afrobeats. Here's a lot of
pigeon in that. I said, what are you doing?

Speaker 1 (56:17):
Make it?

Speaker 2 (56:17):
You know?

Speaker 1 (56:17):
That's it's like English. It's like platois with the Jamaicans.

Speaker 2 (56:22):
It's English, but it's like it's cut up and you know,
and it's like a way that they I was just
in Nigeria and December which was great, which was fantastic.
And you know a lot of Nigerian Americans get a
lot of hard time.

Speaker 1 (56:34):
From Nigerians that were born there. They say, you're not
you know, it's really I yell at medic canis I go?
My parents can't.

Speaker 2 (56:41):
That's not their fault because you know, there was a
thing called the Biafro Wars in the nineteen six There
was Biafro War. It was a tribal war. Ebos were
getting killed. My parents my father changed our name. My
last name is Don Chima, but our name was Chima,
but my father changed it so we can survive and
get the fuck out of Nigeria.

Speaker 1 (56:59):
It was yeah, for war. That's why I was born here.

Speaker 2 (57:01):
What's really fucked up is that Nigerians will say, not
all of them, but someone will say you're not really Nigerian.

Speaker 1 (57:08):
I say, yes, I am.

Speaker 2 (57:09):
If my parents a Nigerian, I come out Nigerian right period.
Right when you see an Asian man, no matter where
they are, you go look at that Asian guy over there,
you connect them to their continent.

Speaker 1 (57:19):
Yeah, they don't say just because he's born in the States.

Speaker 2 (57:21):
And I know, I know some Southern Asian, I'm Chinese.

Speaker 1 (57:25):
I'm like, I'm I'm from Texas.

Speaker 2 (57:27):
But they'll still say, oh, the Asian guys from Texas,
they already connect them. But for some reason, when it
comes to the African life or the career, it's like
all of a sudden, you're not.

Speaker 1 (57:38):
I'm not African, but you believe the white South African though.
You believe the white guy that's African.

Speaker 2 (57:43):
But I who have the gens just because I was
born here or British African. They'll give a British Nigerian
more respect than an American Nigeria. There's a lot of
Nigerian Americans eat the Opian Americans, Congolese American ze.

Speaker 1 (57:56):
They're here, we are still African. I don't care that
I don't know the language.

Speaker 2 (58:00):
Oh so I'm still African. Now you would have asked me,
are you Nigeria, I'd be like, hell, no, I am Nigeria.

Speaker 1 (58:05):
I'm American. Be like, how can you say that? How
can you you? And Barrastos all why you are nijib
you how got you all your money and built? See?

Speaker 2 (58:16):
So fuck that they wanted both ways. So I'm glad
I went back to Nigeria. I hadn't been there since
I was a teenager. And my parents are gone now,
you know, which is crazy. My mother passed away. First
mother passed leukemia, so the cancer thing. My parents married
forty something years. That shit was crazy. And to see

(58:37):
your mother, your your first superheroes were your parents, your.

Speaker 1 (58:41):
Mother, your father. They gave you everything. You know. If
it weren't for them.

Speaker 2 (58:45):
Leaving Nigeria, surviving and be after war, I wouldn't even
be sitting here in club shade shape. It weren't for
them and that hard work, busting the ass. And I
always thank God for that, like they wouldn't I wouldn't
be here. I wouldn't be doing comedy, none of that shit.
And my father died after that, you know. And to
see my mother, that was crazy. To see my mother

(59:06):
like tell me that she has she's like has camp.

Speaker 1 (59:09):
That shit was I don't ever want to live that
shit again. But that was crazy.

Speaker 2 (59:12):
Your mother who's strong and boom boo boom, and then
she's in and out of hospitals and then she had
six months to live, but she lived the eight extra
you know. And my parents renew their vows at the time,
and then my father has.

Speaker 1 (59:25):
A very strong voice. Godfree come.

Speaker 2 (59:27):
Yeah, that's my dad, because I always say he sounded
like the lion king, godfree go.

Speaker 1 (59:31):
Yeah. My father and my father.

Speaker 2 (59:33):
Always had a strong voice, strong boy, strong voice. But
then when my mother was passing, who was going to
pass away?

Speaker 1 (59:38):
My mother?

Speaker 2 (59:39):
My father when he knew it was about that time,
that was the weakest I heard it.

Speaker 1 (59:44):
Heard my father's voice, he was like he was just
it was just weak. And I said, damn. And then
she died while I was doing the seven up commercials.
That's what happened. She died right in the middle of it.

Speaker 2 (59:55):
And I got of kept it to myself because I
don't like that attention, right.

Speaker 1 (59:59):
I don't know if you've had people pass on you.

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
Yeah, So I was like shit because my cousin called crying, balling,
and my brother, my poor brother Daniel, he had to
see he saw both my parents go in front of him.
And so my father lived along another like ten ten
eleven years. But every time I would visit my father
in Chicago, you could see his it's just empty without
without my mother gone. It just he part of man.

(01:00:24):
And they say my father was always healthy. My father
would never call cold. He was always eating healthy and
he just went I think it was broken heart. So
and you and and what freaked me out was when
my father passed.

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
You know, you got to go see them, see them,
and you know, see him at the funeral home.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
I had a show at my sister's alma mater, Loyola University.

Speaker 1 (01:00:47):
I had to.

Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
I had to do a show at her university, a
college show, and then I had to see my father's body.

Speaker 1 (01:00:54):
A couple of months, a couple of blocks away.

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
Right after I had to get off and go good night,
and then go and see my father's body, just my
dad just there in his traditional guard that shit.

Speaker 1 (01:01:04):
Ah yeah. So but I thank god.

Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
If it weren't for them, you know, I wouldn't even
And they saw some of my success, which he was great.
It was great because my father was a CNN guy,
and I got to get on CNN because that's all
he watched.

Speaker 1 (01:01:17):
He thought I was the greatest thing in the world.

Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
Because that was when Michael Richard, remember Michael Richards from
Seinfeld Snap, he used the N word. I was around
Michael Richards about a week before that. I used to
do shows with that crazy motherfucker. And then they called
me CNN Anderson Cooper's show was like Godred, they want
you to come CNN and talk about the Michael Richard shit.
And I got on there and talked about the Michael
Richard ship. My father saw it and went crazy because

(01:01:40):
that's all he watches, right, he says, you.

Speaker 1 (01:01:43):
I called all the Nigerians and should call you out CNN.
You know, shit like that.

Speaker 2 (01:01:48):
So all my successes, even though I was a pre
met psych major and I wanted to get into psychiatry,
but once I decided to be a comedian, you know,
you know, you know, your friends like at least get
your degree and then you you know, just in case
you fail, you can boom.

Speaker 1 (01:02:04):
But yeah, I ended up doing Okay, you was born
in Nebraska, Yeah, did you have a bunch of black friends?
Because I did. I was born in Nebraska, I was
a baby. I grew up in Chicago. So you had
a bunch of black friends, A bunch of friends.

Speaker 2 (01:02:17):
I had all my friends, and you know my friends
were I had friends African American of course, Nigerians, Indians, Koreans, Cambodians,
Vietnamese layouts, Chinese, Polish, we were. It was very immigrant
oriented in that area. Uptown Uptown area, that's the most

(01:02:38):
integrated area in Chicago. So my friends were immigrant kids
and African Americans and Boers and white Americans and yeah,
so I had a The only time I got culture
chak was when I went to all white schools. That's
when it was not I don't know if it's culture shock,
but it was just like racism.

Speaker 5 (01:02:53):
And all this shit being called a word and ship.
I was called n word in class English class. My
honors English class in high school called me in where
it was like three you know, it's always three against one.
So they were like, they called me and it was
like they whispered it like.

Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
That fucking bigger.

Speaker 1 (01:03:11):
I was like, I was like, meg, yeah, you're fucking
I was like I'm looking and they're like, yeah, fucking you.
I was like, what the fuck? And my teacher was black.
You know, when I look back, I go she probably
was having problems with her the faculty herself. She didn't

(01:03:33):
say ship. I was just like, fuck, you're I thought,
And they did it just like that you're fucking bigger.
And so I thought they were mispronouncing Nigerian. I didn't know.
I said, there's only one G. But yeah, that's that's

(01:03:55):
what I was going through for what's your thoughts on
marriage ship? Same as yours? Oh you I want to
get married. You you do? You don't look like you do.

Speaker 4 (01:04:07):
Look at your marriage is a great institution.

Speaker 1 (01:04:13):
Yeah, yeah, I believe I need to be institutionalized.

Speaker 2 (01:04:21):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:04:22):
No, there's a new woman out here. Boy, I might
have to I might marry Ai. This ship is horrible.
God damn. Now listen. Not all women are bad. But
I've been singing for a long time. Man, get used
to it, my best friend. It's so fun. My freedom.

Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
You know how we fight for freedom's financial freedom, mental freedom,
and when you get it, people trying to.

Speaker 1 (01:04:45):
Make you feel bad.

Speaker 2 (01:04:48):
If I get to where you know, I want to
be with somebody special. Fuck Yeah, I mean yeah, but
I like because I travel so much to you, I
travel so much, travel a lot, and I'm this saying
and this is not knocking anybody. And I don't want
some girl that I made. No, I saw your interview.
Shut up, you know what I mean. It's just I

(01:05:09):
like my freedom. I like when I can go where
you're going, none of your damn business.

Speaker 1 (01:05:14):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:15):
I like not someone not checking my phone and all
that ship. You have kids none as far as I know, Man,
my pullout game is ridiculous. Like an inside fastball ball.

Speaker 1 (01:05:28):
One got together you who you are? If you had here,
you know about it now, if it was like high fastball,
and then I'll be like I left it in.

Speaker 2 (01:05:44):
But I'm like, you don't want I mean you don't
want somebody. I didn't say I didn't want it. I
didn't say I didn't want it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:48):
What you wait? No, how many you got three? Damn
you're lucky man, But I don't got I don't have anything.
I just didn't never here's what's fucked up. Fabably, be like,
don't get anybody pregnant. Just this that right, be careful condoms.
Then all of a sudden, like I have nobody pras.

Speaker 2 (01:06:05):
He's like, when are you going to get children? I'm like, wow, shit, right,
I just it just didn't. I had a girl for
like ten years. She didn't want it, kids, she didn't
want kids or anything. So I was just used to
not you know what I'm saying, I don't have it.
I don't mind. But let me tell you something. Once
I get more movies and shit and I get my

(01:06:27):
money up more, I'm decent.

Speaker 1 (01:06:29):
I'm cool.

Speaker 2 (01:06:30):
Well I want money for children, man, children are expensive, man, Godfrey, Shit,
you've been in the comedy game for twenty seven years.

Speaker 4 (01:06:38):
Yeah, you're not married and you don't have kids. You
should have a nice little bank roll.

Speaker 2 (01:06:42):
I'm not bad, but I can have more. I need
series money, you know what I'm saying. I need to
get on series, not parts here and there. People think
because you get on TV, you just getting money. Sometimes
you're getting up scale.

Speaker 1 (01:06:54):
Shit, you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (01:06:55):
What about a series that half these motherfuckers be on.
It'd be the same ass muff buckers on stuff. Why
don't you pick new people? Pick new people?

Speaker 4 (01:07:03):
Man, damn Godfrey, I mean right now, So I let
you do a little lightweight hat. No, I'm not hating it,
lightweight head, No, heaven, I mean light weight. But there's
room for everybody. Look at all these streaming services, but
it'd be the.

Speaker 2 (01:07:16):
Same people showing up on all the different services.

Speaker 1 (01:07:19):
Spread it out.

Speaker 4 (01:07:21):
You got YouTube, right, I got yeah, Yeah, everybody put
your own stuff out.

Speaker 1 (01:07:26):
You cursed, you even said bullshit. You said bull Joe
You're like bullshit, Yeah, but he said bosh. I got
to hit it. But bullshit job. Yeah, maybe you just
create your own I love how people say creature.

Speaker 2 (01:07:44):
Okay, club Shay Shay, you created your own, right, Yeah,
but you already dope though you came off of FS one,
you came you know, you already like had your like huh,
but you Godfrey got a name.

Speaker 1 (01:07:58):
In a series every day.

Speaker 2 (01:08:00):
You were on a series every day, Shannon every day
for how many years? Seven six and a half, six
and a half, every single day in people's houses. Shit
it then you move, It's easy to transition.

Speaker 1 (01:08:12):
You've been can you been in commony?

Speaker 2 (01:08:14):
People know you for years, and but they sometimes these
fucking networks be like, uh.

Speaker 1 (01:08:20):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:08:21):
I'm just saying, you know what you get. Okay, Okay,
let's just say both of us are going for a show.

Speaker 1 (01:08:26):
Who they gonna pick you because you have more?

Speaker 2 (01:08:29):
Eh, It's just what it is, which I understand. I
gotta get more of that, though I think I don't
know shit. I can't figure this shit out.

Speaker 4 (01:08:37):
Man, so IG suspended your account. Did they tell you why?

Speaker 1 (01:08:41):
They said?

Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
I went against community guides and I would look up
the reason. They'd be like, because I told someone to
fuck off or regular shit? No, nothing political and they.

Speaker 1 (01:08:50):
Just blocked me and now and then they suspended me
because I called him on a.

Speaker 2 (01:08:54):
Fat head, the fat They called me names and I
said it and that it was all just name calling
and talking shit.

Speaker 1 (01:09:02):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
That's what I do for a living. So I'm I'm yeah,
my shit is suspended. So I got that. I had
to start a new one over, I says Godfrey. Comic
is the new one. Everybody followed me, so I can
get my shit back.

Speaker 1 (01:09:14):
But I don't know. I don't know. That's that's what's happening.
No kids, no, yeah, I hope. Maybe I don't get kids.
I don't know. But why are you? Why aren't you married?
Like again, because I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:09:27):
I don't multitask well when I'm addicted to success because
I can't do two things. My career Club Sha Sha,
Nightcap first first Shape, that's a lot, takes up so
much of my time. So I'm doing seven to ten shows.
I'm taking seven to ten shows a week, damn.

Speaker 1 (01:09:43):
So lot.

Speaker 4 (01:09:44):
And and if somebody is not as mo, I'm obsessed
yeah with this. Yeah, it's hard to be obsessed with
two things.

Speaker 2 (01:09:54):
So how are you gonna you gotta it has to
be a person that understands that.

Speaker 4 (01:09:58):
Yes, yeah, And people say they understand it and living it.

Speaker 1 (01:10:02):
Yep, yep, it's true.

Speaker 4 (01:10:05):
Everybody says, oh, I understand structure, and I understand discipline,
and I understand dedication and determination until you actually get
with someone that's devout about.

Speaker 1 (01:10:16):
That right, and it's yeah, it's hard.

Speaker 2 (01:10:18):
And I get complaints, they get desponded, they get mad,
they don't speak to you.

Speaker 1 (01:10:23):
So I get that ship all the.

Speaker 2 (01:10:24):
Time, man, And it's in a way it's fucked up.
But in a way, I like that.

Speaker 1 (01:10:28):
I'm not thinking about anybody. I like. It's like I
have I have, Like I'm really good friends with my girlfriend,
really good friends. We're good friends, better as friends friend.

Speaker 2 (01:10:37):
But other than that, they say you're gonna be You're
gonna be all alone one day.

Speaker 1 (01:10:42):
I don't know. I'm not gonna be alone. I just
want to be left the funck alone. It's differ. It's
a big difference.

Speaker 4 (01:10:47):
Like even if I live with you over there, the
two TVs two things could be true.

Speaker 1 (01:10:52):
But being alone is not bad. Is being lonely?

Speaker 2 (01:10:56):
That's different. And I like my time. I like my
my time by myself. Do you I love that ship.
I can spend hours by my damn saying. If you're
a reader, if you're an information type of guy. That's
why I say I like to read a lot information.
Comedy's information, by the way, too reading. I tell comedy,
they will read a lot of shit. Don't nothing's too
stupid for you. Go to the museum. Go. I can

(01:11:17):
do all that by myself. You go to gym on
you work out on your own. Dude, you're like me.
I can to drag people to go to gym. Sometimes
I gotta go. Yeah I do. I've done a lot
of stuff on my own. Travel by myself. I don't
travel with a crew of people. Travel by myself, right,
you travel with a crew. I don't travel unless I'm
going from point A to point B. I'm doing first take,
I'm doing something for a club shape.

Speaker 1 (01:11:38):
Everything is here. I'm based out of La Everything, everything
you do is here. Oh yeah it's great.

Speaker 2 (01:11:44):
Yeah see, but yeah, I don't if someone comes by
and understand it's good, it's good, I don't. I hope
I get something off before I uh, I don't know
if I get tool I.

Speaker 4 (01:11:54):
Mean that, dang, I mean you know them swimmers don't
have the same pizzas as we start dating with all.

Speaker 2 (01:12:00):
This technology, I got an Ai spurm boy, man, you
mean Ai spurn like.

Speaker 1 (01:12:08):
Have an Ai baby and said, you do you do
a President Obama too?

Speaker 2 (01:12:17):
Though, right, I'm just gonna tell you right now, I
think Club shay Shake that's one of my favorites. Yeah, yeah,
that was nasty one't it.

Speaker 1 (01:12:27):
How many did I do? I did a couple of
them did Yeah? You and Jay so Jay Farrow's man
J said he's the best. Let him be.

Speaker 2 (01:12:36):
I'm not trying to claim it. It's it's other people's
voices who gives you ship. I know, Airy spears goes yo.

Speaker 1 (01:12:41):
God yo.

Speaker 2 (01:12:43):
When I saw you do Paul Mooney, yo, I think
I got mine over yours. I can do him and
I was like, I was like, nigga, you crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:12:52):
My Paul Mooney is the best. No one ever does
palmoney better than me. You know about the club. Appreciate Godfrey, yo,
thank you. This is this is a privilege, man, privilege.
Watch it.

Speaker 2 (01:13:08):
All my life, grinding all my life, sacrifice, hustle, paid
the price, Wanta slice got to brow the dice sap
all my life.

Speaker 1 (01:13:17):
I've been grinding all my life, Yeah, all my life, grinning,
all my life, sacrifice, hustle, pay the price. Wanta slice,
got to.

Speaker 2 (01:13:26):
Brow the dice, wap all my life. I've been grinding
all my life

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