May 8, 2025 • 50 mins
In this episode of "Eating While Broke", host Coline Witt sits down with comedian "Torrei Hart", who shares her inspiring journey while cooking her famous fried chicken recipe.
From her early days in Philadelphia to her life with ex-husband Kevin Hart, Torrei opens up about her personal and professional experiences, including her transition into comedy and navigating challenges along the way.
Torrei discusses her career struggles, triumphs, and the lessons she’s learned while opening for comedy legends like "Kat Williams" and "Martin Lawrence". She also gives an exclusive preview of her upcoming podcast, 'Brutally Honest with Torrei Hart', where she’ll dive into raw and unfiltered topics.
This episode is packed with heartfelt moments, industry insights, and, of course, delicious fried chicken! Don’t miss Torrei’s candid conversation and her recipe for success in comedy and life.
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.
I'm your host, Coley Witt, and today we have very
special guest, comedian Tory Heart is in the building.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
How are you good?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
How you doing good?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I'm excited for you to feed me. I gotta check
out your sat You were really funny. And guys, if
we did have shoe cam, her shoes are like a
game changer.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I can lift it.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Look, that's hilarious it is.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Hey, can you see that? Look? I don't know if
you can get the angle air cute?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
What are you I'm talking of?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Because we were just so you guys know, I did
try to preheat the grease today has smoked up the
whole room if you can see a little bit of smoke.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
But what are you gonna have me eating today?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Okay? So today I am just making my fried chicken wings,
fried chicken wings. And we got some salad, which as
you can see, is very basic. Yeah, into salad.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
And then you could go ahead and list off your
ingredients for your dish for all the listeners.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
All right, y'all. So for the fried chicken we got,
of course, can I go? Okay? So we got the
chicken wings right here, all right. Then we got some buttermilk,
some flour, of course, got the flour right here, bam.
And then we got season ends. We got some lawery
season salt. We got some onion powdered garlic powder, and
(01:29):
I think this is pepper pepper, ye, yeah, and that's
some pepper. It's pretty basic. Sometimes I use more ingredients,
sometimes I don't, but fried chicken is pretty basic.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
And then you have a salad, which, by the way,
I was like nibbling on your cucumbers and tomatoes. I
was like, damn, I haven't had it, like usually have
my salads pre made now right? Oh, Like damn, why
don't I ever have.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Whose like cutting stuff up? We're in a microwave age
right now, so it's like everything's prepped for you, so
I can understan.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
And these bag salads are really good nowadays.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
They really are.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
They really are, and they're like three dollars versus like
piece mess. But you're a blue cheese girl, and I
was confused by that. Why I'm gonna try it with
you today. I don't remember the last time I had
blue cheese, but I was like, I don't think I
messed with blue cheese.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Like that.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I'm a ranch girl, but I was like blue cheese.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yes, I put blue cheese on my wings, my salads
because so at one point I was doing Keto. So
blue cheese is good for Keto when you're doing the
Keto diet.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Oh, difference between blue cheese and.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Ranch, it's just it just goes more with like Keto
type meals, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
So I guess I won't be Keto. I gotta lose
a lot of weight, but I won't be Keto. So
go ahead, step into the kitchen. Show us how you
make your fried chicken. What you do first?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
All right? Us through it? What's the first thing? You
got your chicken role?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
So what I'm gonna do is I'm season the chicken.
I also season the flour, but I'm gonna start seasoning
the chicken. And I don't measure nothing. When I feel
like it's seasoned enough, I stop. That's how I usually work.
So that's how my mother taught me. And I'm trying
to remember.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
That's so funny. The last time you cook this was when.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
It's been a minute. So it's been a little minute.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
How often would you be doing fried chicken?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I love fried chicken. So yeah, so now I just
buy it usually, but probably three times a week.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Wow, yeah, wow, three times a week back in a
day or now back in the day.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Yeah, No, I'm not. I'm not eating fried chicken three
times a week now maybe twice, but that's hilarious. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
If you ask my daughter what does she want to eat,
it'll be real chicken, not chicken nuggets, real.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Chicken, real chicken. Does she like fried chicken?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
She does, Okay, she does, But it's just funny to
hear because most people, if you're fast food on the road,
you're gonna offer your kids chicken nuggets. She is very
adamant about it being real chicken. Okay, it's three years old,
real chicken from the car seat.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
But all right, So you're seasoning up the meat with
scarlet powder, onion powder, lais, yes, and pepper and pepper awesome.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
And then you haven't put the buttermilk in yet.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Not yet. So I'm gonna put the butter milk, the
buttermilk on here after I season it up a little bit.
And then what I do is, after that, I'm gonna
dip it in the flour. Well, I'm seasing the flour.
So I'm gonna just it's okay gloves. Yeah, I'm what
I do though, I can wipe it on here, right,
(04:39):
you can, Okay?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
So I used the I was the we usually get
send those home with you too.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Oh, okay, give you an extra one and that one
I can put it in wash Ma, you're gonna get too, okay.
So take me back to what was going on in
the air of fried chicken and salads.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Basically, I I was living in this part of North
Philadelphia called Northern Liberties, and I was off at the
community college which is CCP Meunie College, Philadelphia. I was
also working, but I was doing telemarketing. It's not really
much going on there. Yeah, And that's what was going on.
And I was actually with my dude at the time.
(05:19):
I was nineteen, about to be twenty, and I was young.
We were together and so I was like, basically it
was easy meals that I knew how to meet. So
and we didn't have a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Oh, you guys were like, are you talking about you
and Kevin?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yeah, we were living together.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
You guys were living together. This is right after college
or right now, this is during college. This is during
college yeah, during community college in Philadelphia. Yeah, so yeah,
you guys were grinding together. There were you guys married yet?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
No? Okay, no, we were just like babies, just meeting
and going to school before we dropped out.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, yeah, going to school before you dropped out.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yeah, before we both dropped out.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yes, So you were working telemarketing. He was doing.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
He was working at a city a place called City Sports,
and then he started getting into comedy because of community college.
Of course we met at community college and then he
got into comedy, and then from there I started working
for the phone company. He started doing comedy. I just
started going to sporting all the shows and began making
(06:28):
more fried chicken.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
And then when does he's doing comedy? You're not yet
doing comedy at that time or no.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
But here's the thing, a lot of people don't know.
I got class clown in high school. So I've always
been doing comedy my whole life, like always making my
family laugh, always watching it and studying it, probably since
I was like nine years old, honestly, because my parents
all they used to do is play Richard pryor Fred Stanford, Moms,
maybe Dick Gregory, like they always were playing albums in
(07:01):
the house. They would send me upstairs sometimes, or they
would think that they sending me upstairs, and I would
be at the top of the stairs listening to all
of raunchy comedy, listening to all of that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
So, now when he's pursuing comedy and this is you
have a passion for, I'm guessing at the time, So
what is going on at the time when he's doing
comedy and you're are you like playing? Are you just
supportive girlfriend? Do you know what you want to do
at that time?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
So, honestly, I was in school for acting and for
theater and drama at the time. I did not realize
that I was going to be doing comedy at all.
I always was like into comedic movies, but didn't know
that I would eventually be doing stand up. Actually, I
didn't start stand up until I moved to La.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Okay, yeah, so you're going to school for acting. How's
your acting doing while you're like struggling actress and he's
struggling comedy. You guys have this commonality, I'm guessing funny.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Yeah right, Yeah, that's what drew us to each other
to begin with in the first place, because we were
always laughing and cracking on each other. Jawning, as they
say in Philly, is when you constantly bagging somebody. So
that's what I always did, practical joker, always doing stuff
like that. So yeah, that's what pretty much probably why
we ended up together in the first place.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Yeah, so watching that grind close up, you still wanted
to pursue it. Watching it close up, you get the
front row seat of like, how hard it is?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Right, I never thought it was hard. Okay, Yeah, of course,
when you love something, the grind of it, it's just okay,
this is what makes you better anyway. But if you
love something, it's okay, this is just the journey. This
is what it's going to be. And of course there
was some days where you know, financially, but when you're
having fun, I don't think it really matters.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah, I mean to some degree.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Now you guys, and you guys had a family too,
Oh yeah, I mean, I mean you guys have a family.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Sorry I'm trying.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I mean we have ki who this little pivotal process
of your story. So you guys are having a family.
You guys have a family. Are you guys are still struggling?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
No, sir, So when we moved to California. He had
got a deal, so by then it was a little
less of a struggle.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
You guys didn't have kids yet.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
No, we didn't have kids yet.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Okay, So you moved from Wow.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yeah, from Philly to Callie together. We weren't married. And
my family, of course, did not like that.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
But I was like, listen, and you guys dropped out
of college to do that.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Yeah, we dropped out of We knew we wasn't supposed
to be in school.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Okay, so you guys packed up and moved. Oh, I
know your family wasn't happy.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Oh yeah, they weren't. And especially I come from my
family's very religious and my grandmother was a minister. Two
uncles or ministers, three aunts ministers. So I was raised
you don't move in together before marriage, and YadA ya, YadA.
Of course I got all of that back last too.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
How long were you together before you guys decided to
pack up?
Speaker 3 (10:01):
And it was about three and a half years. Three
and a half years, so you four years? Actually, he
gets it.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
What so he got holding.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
So back in the day, there was these things called
holding deals, and so you would get holding deals. And
this is when there was like big money like NBC ABC.
So he got a holding deal and so we took
some of that money to move out here. And then
I also was working for Ladelphia, which is this company,
and for me at that age back then, making that
(10:29):
kind of money, it was a big deal. I had
a four oh one K and so I dipped into
my four oh one K and was like, Okay, I'm
taking some of this money out and I'm using this
to move. I actually packed up. I had a grand
Cherokee at the time, cause I had a little bit
of money back then. When I got turned twenty one,
I got some case money. I was able to stack
some of that and get a truck and that was
(10:51):
actually the vehicle that drove him back and forth to
a lot of comedy shows too, cause he didn't have
a car. Wow. Yeah, So I had the car and
it was fun though. It was just like it's my nature,
Like my mom and dad has been married almost fifty
five years.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Wow, and so I.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Watch how my mom holds the family down, and that's
what she did, so I just get it naturally from her. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
So at this time, your parents are in your ears?
Are you starting again?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
His ears?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Like yo, I moved across country where you know Bonnie
and Clyde. Are you gonna put a ring on it?
Does that start to hit in your head? Or is
he feeling the pressure because now you guys are thugging
it in LA? And do you have any friends also?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Oh? Yeah? So we have been coming back and forth
to LA for different things, visiting because he would get
booked for jobs and so we were coming back and forth.
So I had made friends. So when we got here,
of course, and the comedy world is pretty small, you
met people and stuff like that. But my family, no,
because they know that I'm pretty independent too, and I
(11:54):
don't believe you should pressure a man to do anything.
You let a man do what a man wants to do.
As soon as you try to pressure a man. No,
you're not pressuring me in the you know what I'm saying?
Like he was the one I honestly was low key.
I don't know I want to get married, you know
what I mean. I don't know if necessarily I want
to be married, But one days we're going to get married.
So we went and we got married in Vegas. It
(12:14):
was we got married in Vegas. I should have known. Shit,
wasn't gonna work? Because no, I'm just thinking that, and
I think back, I'm laughing because why my bouquet was
like this? The probably had three flowers in the bouquet?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Was it like Elvis? Who did it? And all that?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
It wasn't Elvis, but it might as well have been Elvis. Okay.
My wedding dress was from Express. Okay, first of all,
I wasn't even gonna wear a wedding dress and my
mom and was like, you need to go get a dress,
and I was like do I have to?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Like so what about it? At that?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Looking back, you saw that set said it wasn't gona work.
It wasn't the three flower bouquet.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Looking in hindsight, I'm thinking like, damn, Okay, Tori, you
should have been a little bit more. Wasn't a bigger
wedding or But I just always maybe that's the clown
in me. Maybe why I was thinking, we're just profession
our love for each other, so that's really you know
what I mean? Yeah, but no, it should have been
done a little better.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
A lot of people spend a lot of money on
on weddings. That usually doesn't dictate where it's out. It
dictates some of the death you started.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
That is true.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
But okay, so you guys get married a couple of
years into LA or.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Oh yeah, we get married and about a year later.
And this is what pissed me off too, because I
didn't want kids until I was about thirty five, and
then I ended up getting pregnant and I had just
got a sports car. Okay, he had bought me a
sports car for my birthday at BMW. Yeah. I dis
was like my dream car and he got me my
dream car is twenty six. And so I'm whipping around
(13:44):
LA with my convertible Z four and the next thing
I know, I'm pregnant and I'm like, can't fucking have
no kids? In no Z four?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah, and I was.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
I lived at Sunset in Point Setias, so I was
like a party girl. I'm still why I used to
live over there right in your Bosston Nova.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Yes, literally, I will walk to Boston over because you
know they got them burgers TOI laur in the morning.
But you walk to Running, Yeah, and you can walk
to that was literally my cross streets.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
But I was more in Hollywood in Point Seddio, but
the next street was Sunset.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Yeah, yes, Okay, sunset in Points SETI okay, shout.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Outs to that area. I loved living over there.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
But listen, I loved it.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I am trying to tell me nothing.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Like I belong in Hollywood. It is what it is.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Yeah, so y'all was living over there and you start
making a family, Now is there pressure? So now I'm
guessing that you guys are in your early twenties, money
is starting to roll. He's gifting cars. I mean, yeah,
in my twenties, ain't no dude ever give me a car.
I'd be lucky if they don't give me the bill
at Burger King.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
I was a brat. I was a little bit of it.
I also did spoiling too, you know what I'm saying.
So it was reciprocal and he knew that was my
dream car. I actually was getting my hair done and
he pulled up to the hair salon with a red
bow on it.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
It was like Jersey so cute.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Yeah, okay, So at the time, what are you doing
while he's he's doing comedy? Right, this is obviously before
soul Plane.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
I think this is yeah, this is around soul Plane era.
I was actually training, so I was doing it and
I had booked some jobs. I booked national commercials at
and t Ford. Me and him had did a commercial together. No,
we didn't do a commercial before that, just yet. But
I had did Supermarket Sweep. Do you remember that show?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I remember that?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Okay, I had booked that. I booked this show on
E called Screenplay. So I was working too, but really
mainly training, like with how it's studying with Howard Fine
and Leslie Kahns, Mike Pointer, doing everything that you should
to be up on your craft so you can go
and do auditions and stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Yeah, and then but then the family comes along and
then slow you down a little bit.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
It did. Yeah, when I got pregnant, it slowed me
down a lot because I was used to always going
out and hanging and that's what we did. We would
go party a lot. When I got pregnant, it was
just like damn, man, I can't drink either. I had
to so up real quick.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Yeah, so change things.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
And then you had the kids are how far apart?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
So my daughter was born in two thousand and five,
my son was born in two thousand and seven, so
there's two and a half.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
So you were like really mominent.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Oh, yeah, okay, okay, yeah, So all this is going on,
you're still pursuing acting. At what point do you start
to lean this. We're gonna risk Okay, y'all, we're gonna
risk it. I already smoked up the kitchen. If you
see me stuttering, it's because, okay, it's about to go down.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Cucumbers, should we do this?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Go ahead? Did you season all of them already?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
I seasoned? Yep, And this flower is seasoned. I probably
put a little bit more seasoned in the flower.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
So do you have to heat up first?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
You have to heat it up?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
All right, here we go. Okay, I want to hear this.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
What I'm trying to capture just so your notry is
when the I don't want to put myself in your shoes,
but I definitely am. You know your ex husband, but
you're now ex husband. He's pursuing this comedy. Yeah, becomes
this massive success. You're taking care of home, you're holding
down the family. You also have dreams. What I'm trying
(17:25):
to capture is now with you pursuing comedy and you
knowing that, hey, deep down I had this pursuit of comedy.
Was there a part of you that was holding back
that pursuit because one of you guys was already doing it.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Oh for sure, Yeah, for sure?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Or did you ever talk to him about it at all?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Definitely did not talk to him about doing stand up
as One day his friend Jay Okerson, his girlfriend tried it,
and I overheard him saying, I wish she would ever
try comedy. She better not, So I was like, oh, okay,
but I've been. I was studying it with him. I
was going to every comedy club. I would be in
(18:06):
the back like, hey, you know writing stuff down, Oh,
you should try it like this, and like not even
realizing that's what I was doing.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
But that's a and that's a what you're talking about,
and that's a real emotion and real life. Anybody in
your shoes would have overheard that and been like, oh,
because if I was, if I wanted to be an
actress in my husband wanted to be an It's almost
like the first one who says it own sword owns
it in a way depending on your relationship, but most relationships,
(18:34):
it does get a little weird if you're both pursuing
the same exact goal.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
So I guess, like you ever see the show as
miss marvelous. The life is marvelous, Mabel.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
I think that I didn't. I didn't see it, but
I've heard.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
It, Okay. So it's funny because it's like that in
a sense. And like I said, I didn't see stand
up per se in my future. Always acting. Acting has
been my passion since I was six years old. I
told my mother I was going to be out in
Hollywood acting, and I did school plays, I did church plays.
That's what I always did. That's why we met in
(19:06):
theater arts class in college. But stand Up I did
watch it and was around it since I was a
little kid too.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
So it was almost then you get heavily ingrained and
it just being right. So from that point, at what
point do you say, Okay, I'm gonna say I want
to do this and say it openly because I'm sure
it wasn't eating.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
At you a little bit like curiosity.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Yeah, you're helping, You're helping in the behind the scenes, right, yeah,
of course.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
And I would be watching and studying and I would
see people doing certain I was like, I can do it,
like I'm I'm ready, I want to do it, like
I was itching for years to do it, and I
already had stuff written down. I had a journal of
jokes already.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Yeah, yeah, no one knows about this.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
No, yeah, that's a that's a reality. So then what
happens when and you decide, okay, I'm coming. I had
to use this, but for lack of a better word,
they're coming out of the closet saying, hey, surprised, this
is something I really want to.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Do, because it takes a lot of balls to do too.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
In your situation, your situation, it has to be taken
a lot of balls to be like, ah, I'm sorry,
I'm gonna I'm gonna go after what I want.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Balls and liquor.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
So take me back to that moment when you just
you say, fuck it, I'm gonna I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
So my cousin Darnell at the time, he was living
with us, and he knew he actually he learned about
me wanting to do it, and so he was just like, Cuz,
so when you're gonna do it, what are you waiting on?
When there was the hold up? And I was like,
clearly you know what the hold up is. But he's okay,
so how much long are you gonna wait? And so
(20:46):
we go down we found out about an open mic
at the High Comedy Club in North Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
And you guys are together? Are not together? When you
decide we were together?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
He was off shooting a movie though in I think
it was Prague or somewhere I can't remember. Yeah, And
so I was just like, you know what.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
He's gone, I'm gonna do. Nobody's gonna know thing.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
But everybody knew. See, I didn't even realize how big
we were, you know what I'm saying. I'm just still thinking, okay,
girl from Philadelphia. Boy, I never really realized, like, no,
your husband's in movies, he's done comedy specials, and you
know what I'm saying. So I'm just thinking, Okay. To me,
it's he's always just low keva bastard.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
That's yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
First stage name was yeah, and I'm like, you gotta
change that. So that's in my mind. It's just always that,
you know. So I'm so when I get on stage,
as soon as I get off stage, my phone's blowing up,
and it was.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
It's in the comedy circle small So you're going up
to I'm sure you some comedians that already knew him.
I would imagine knew us because I remember I was
always knew both of you.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Yeah, I was always with him. We were together everywhere,
so everybody in Latare so it's Kevin Tori.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Yeah, so what are you thinking when you're blows up?
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I'm not thinking that. Somebody told him already, you know
what I mean. So because I'm like all right, So
he was like, did you just get on stage?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
And I was like, yeah, I did.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Okay, yeah, and believe it or not, he said, why
why are you doing stand up? I was like, because
I've always wanted to do. I love it. This is
what I'm going to do. And I said, it's going
to also help me with my acting. It's going to
help me with my confidence. That's another thing. If you
can get on stage and perform, but it's going to
boost your confidence.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Right.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
And after about a month he became very supportive. Yeah,
he became supportive. I opened up for him. A few times.
He tested me. I'll say that we were in Tennessee
because I had been asking like, when you're gonna let me?
You don't want to get up and shows you let
me get up? You're not ready, You're not I'm like,
I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
And now is he critiquing your jokes and like your
mannerisms like a coach in the beginning.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
No, because I don't think he wanted to. I think
he wanted me to just do it his journey. But
a lot of his friends did a lot of his
friends were like, tour, you're funny, you got some great premises,
you got some great ideas. Let's let let me punched
this up. I had a lot of people who was
ready to like and willing to help.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Yeah, I'm distracting. You ain't cooking, I know, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Is it hot?
Speaker 3 (23:19):
It's probably I'll give it like three more minutes or so.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
All right, you can turn the heat a little bit.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Yeah, I'm trying not to put it too high.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I know, because I put it all the way to
a old boil. That's why I smoke and I can't
even see. Just turn it up.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
I want to help you right there.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Okay, all right, I think that's the right direction.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Okay, I hope it is.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Hold up here.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Oh yeah, that's the right direction. Yeah over here, cold driving.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Okay, you're so he's supportive of this journey, and y'all
still married, and now he's letting you open for him.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Yeah, so I opened for him a few times, and
you know what, I'm not even gonna use the bag.
I'm gonna just do it this way.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
That's how I do it at home.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Just so yeah, I'm gonna just do it this way.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Okay, cool, Yeah, we.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Could take the Tachi bag off our table now. Oh
it's good, it's good, it's good. I'm gonna judge the
hell out of your chicken, Tory. No, No, I met
Tory a couple of times, just while she's frying this chicken.
A couple times off aline and nothing but sweetness. From
day one. You are doing community service at the I
(24:29):
think a Christmas event, okay, and then the second time
I saw you at Chris Spencer show, it's really sweet. Yeah,
so I'm really happy to have you. So you're pursuing
this comedy. You guys are still married and the relationship
is fine. No pumping of the heads during this whole process.
No uncomfortable because now you guys are pursuing almost the
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same goals.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
I think you know, there was a time where it
started getting uncomfortable because he's used to me, like I
was all about him. So sometimes when your mate, when
you're used to your mate, being all about you, and
then one day they're not. Because that's when I was
like stepping into my own. I was like, okay, I
gave you. I told him I was going to give
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him a son. I gave him his son, gave him
his daughter.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
What had happened, you would have had another girl, You
would have still given him a son.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
No, I knew because he thought our daughter was going
to be a boy. I said, no, it's going to
be a girl first, and then I'm going to give
you your son. That's how it just got. I'm very
close to the career.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
He was like, Jesus, bless me with this son.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
God speaking to me since I was a kid. So
I have that like one on one connection with the
man upstairs, especially beings at all my family, the prayers
that my grandmother has prayed over me for years, my
family like super in tune.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
So he so, you give him a son, and you've
been a good loyal wife, and now it's you know what,
I'm going to take some time to do what I
want to do, which yeah, every normal feeling, any human
being with a pulse would want to do.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
And I just feel like I'm like I'm at an
age now where Okay, I've done some small things. It's
time for me to really step into it and do
some bigger things.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
And I'm sure watching his path was it inspiring to say, yes,
I can do it inspiring.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Let me tell you something, even though we are divorced,
when we went through it pretty it was rough when
it first happened. I wouldn't trade anything in because one
thing that I did learn was work ethic. Why he's
so successful the people that come for him and at
the end of the day are still my family. That's
my kid's father. When people come for him or say that,
(26:33):
I'm like, that's bullshit. This man worked his ass off.
I've seen how hard he works and why he is
where he is at today.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Yeah, it's like a militant work ethic.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Right, Oh my god, you have you have to And
then his mother rests in peace. Nancy, that was my heart.
She was just so by the book and just had
him on track and just had him like she was.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
She instilled some crazy level of discipline early. Yeah, definitely,
and she was like, I'm not letting this one right
here is They're gonna slip through the cracks by all
means necessary.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
So you got to watch that.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
So you're pursuing this and keV starts to notice, Hey,
you know what, goals and focus has changed.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
And so I think it became a little issue. That's
what I believe, outside of other things that were going on.
But at the time, I was just so dedicated to
also me and then my kids, and I was just like,
I've been mom in it. I'm out here doing this.
I just want something for me. And once I got
locked in and realized like, we're really good at this,
(27:34):
I'm getting booked, people are paying me for this, I'm like, oh, okay,
that's a great feeling. So I'm like, WHOA, Like, this
is what I want to do. I really want to
do this on top of my acting.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Yeah, So that's what happened. I'm not going to fry
these two.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
So during the I hate to talk about the divorce
and all that, it's still there was. It was a
little bit of a painful divorce as all breaking. Sorry,
they're never likery well formally agree.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
On this split. At this point when all of this
is going on, are you.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Business wise now you're both booking, you're both doing cop comedy.
Does that cause a little bit of a hindrance in
your career, or are you afraid it's going to cause
a hindrance in your career.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
I actually I had took time off because I was
going through a lot, like emotionally and stuff. So more
so I took time off so I was more so
just focused on me and the children at the time.
I would get like little auditions and little gigs here
and there, but I was just like I couldn't be funny.
I didn't feel like being funny.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
That's a very difficult time. Yeah, so comic, your art
reflects life. You're going up on stage. That's a tough time.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
And I did try, and it was bitter. I was bitter.
It was just like like, Okay, maybe that joke ain't
ready yet, because it ain't funny, Tori. It's a little
fuck you, it ain't ready.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
So yeah, so I just decided. I was like, you
know what, I took a seat and was just like, okay,
let me just get me together spiritually and mentally. And
that's what I did.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
How long did it take you to take that break?
Speaker 3 (29:14):
It took a couple of years, just soul searching and
not saying. It took a couple of years to get
fully together. But you know, when you're with someone since
you're twenty years old and then you break up at
thirty three, especially all through my twenties and my thirties
and movie, that's a chunk of time.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Yeah, it's a huge investment, especially if you're married. You
come from a family. You said your parents are still together.
You like, man, I did everything in the book. I
would imagine it sounds like you did everything in the
book to make it work.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
And you know what, I won't. I wasn't perfect either,
So I will say there's things I probably could have
done differently when you're young, when you're that Like my
daughter is nineteen right now. I look at her like
I can't believe I was in a relationship at nineteen
moving married, Like what how did that even happen? You
know what I'm saying. I'm just yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
So now you're out on your own and keV is
extremely successful running laps around the sun.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Right now? How does it? How does the inner you.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Feel about like you're pursuing your dreams, you have your
ex husband orperating around the sun a hundred times? What
are the motions like you where you're at right now
watching all of this.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
I was annoyed everywhere, just like I can't escape them. God,
are you playing a trick on me? Yeah, it's just
but it worked because it's in one of my comedy bits.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
I heard of it. Yeah, it was. It was very funny.
It was very funny.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
I don't want to spoil it.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
But one of the jokes you said that night really
about your kids being richer than you are.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Ye, I'm the one that slept with a midget for
y'all to like.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Yeah, I thought that was really funny.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
It's the truth, you know what I'm saying. Of course
they are richer than me. But I love I'm very blessed,
So I don't want anybody to think I'm not blessed.
But I am blessed, super blessed, and continue to work
hard so I can be more blessed. And I like
to give back a lot more. A lot of things
that I work super hard for is to give back. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Now, do you guys collaborate? Do you see future collaborations?
How does that work with your guys? Whole relationship?
Speaker 3 (31:26):
We did it. I did do House Husbands the final season.
I did do that, but as far as collabing. As
of right now, I don't see that, and I don't
see it right now, it's not in hindsight. But who
knows a couple of years later it might change.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Yeah, yeah, you guys, in this industry, it's like a
very relationship industry. People ask me all the time, get
my friends with everybody. I'm like, I actually don't know
everyone that's on the show personally, but a lot of
the relationships are what put different people in the room
when you're going after auditions or anything. Do you ever
want to pick up the phone call and be like, hey, keV,
(32:02):
can you assist with this? Or are you just no?
I gotta do it the old school. I hate when
people do that, Like you you have to connect, just
call it in.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
It's weird. It's very bird for you.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
It's very weird because some people are scared to work
with me because they think if they work with me,
then they can't they can't or what is Kevin gonna say?
And I tell them all the time, he was never
going to work with you anyway. I'm the closest day
you got, so your might as well go with me. Okay.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Yeah, I'm like what you bro You're not even at
a level where he would even look your way. Come on.
But then there's some people who are just they see
my talent, they see what I do, and they're just like, yo,
I want to work with you. You're super talent or
who knew a lot of people still don't even know
I do stand up and so some people are like, yo,
I didn't know you was that funny, And I'm like, yeah,
(32:53):
I've been doing this a long time.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
So let's talk about you going on tour with Kat Williams. Okay,
let's talk about that. Yeah, that's a big that's a
big deal. Let's talk about let's please, yes, guys, just
so you know, I'm removing these glasses because someone's calling me.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
I can't concentrate if the phones ringing in my ear.
Let's talk about that. How did that come about?
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Because Cat Williams is also, need I say, like, literally
the best of the best comics on the earth, living comics. Yeah,
I don't trying to think in my head, who could
be no One? Okay, good, good, yeah, different, He's a
different type of comic, but cat by fault. I think
Dave Chappelle is a great storyteller comic. I think Cat
(33:39):
Williams just.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
He could probably seize.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Yeah, there's a lot of things I can tell you.
It's his voice, his stature, presence. He's fearless.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
He's fearless.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
You have to be I think his I think what
makes a lot of comics unique is their perspective, like
how they taking information and how they spin it back
out because you're taking Comics can take really serious, serious
topics and then they turn it into something.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Like whoa, I never even thought of that.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
And then Cat Williams has a very good The way
his information is coming in and the way it's going
out is very right.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
It's very deep.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Tell me about how that whole Cat Williams going on
tour with Cat Wwlliams came.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
About no d on napkins. Yeah, go ahead, thank you.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Sorry.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
I usually have a certain thing to drain the chicken.
That's another thing I forgot to tell you, but it's okay.
So I've known Cat for twenty something years. Another thing
people don't know. Cat used to come through Philly to
a place called the laugh House, and so I met
Kat when I lived in Philly. I've hung out with Cat,
(34:46):
paray with Cat, Me and Cat has done two movies together.
It wasn't just oh, toy's just going on tour with Cat.
Me and Cat have a relationship.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
To be on tour with gun, you said, you have
to be really funny.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Yeah, so I was getting at more so, was that
like a defining moment to say, Kat Williams is like
putting me on tour with him? Is I don't know
the right terminology, more like an accolade of I've arrived.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
He did. That wasn't the first time I went performed
with cats. See that's another thing. I performed for Cat
at the Microsoft Theater in front of twenty five thousand people,
and that was the first time he gave me an
opportunity and blessed me literally like with ten K for
seven minutes of material. He's always been a person that
(35:32):
looks out for females and puts females on the stage,
and so for him to do that, it was just
like thank you. And then we had already talked about
me going and doing a couple of dates on the tour,
and then when everything dropped, it was it looked a
certain type of way, but it's yo. It looks this way,
but no, that was already planned.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Yeah, but how did it feel to be able to
open for a cat?
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Amazing, amazing, yeah, amazing.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Are there other point in your career where you could
say like they were definitive moments where you were just like,
I'm in I'm doing this.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
I opened up for Martin Lawrence at Royal Farms Arena
and that was New Year's And if you get a
booking New Year's Eve as a comedian, to be booked
on New Year's Eve, that's like all comedians want to
be booked.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
So I didn't even know that.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, the pressure is real comedians. I
need a gig for In Martin's people. Some one of
his people saw me performing somewhere and Martin approved to
have me come to Royal Farms and opened up for him.
I've opened up for Martin. Dion Cole did shows with
Dion Crispencer trying to think, who else.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Do you think your road is as hard as the
average comic.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Coming in? It's harder, it's harder.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
It's a lot harder. I get scrutinized a lot. You
know a lot of people. I can walk on a
stage and I see some men doing this, Like even
when the Cat Williams thing happened and I got my
own tour out of that too. Some men would just
come for whatever reason just to like low.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Key just hate wow.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Oh yeah they arms cross and yeah, make me funny?
Are you better be funny? Make me laugh?
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Yep. I could see that people coming and being like, okay,
let's see what she.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
Could judge it.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Yeah, just straight judging, which is definitely a lot harder.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
It's hard so when people say stuff like, oh, she
only got this because her last name. Okay, but I
still have to be funny. Yeah, I still have to
go on stage and make people laugh and telling jokes
is not easy.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Does that ever make does it? Now?
Speaker 1 (37:42):
I know you don't regret your family and all of that,
but does it ever make you send? I feel like, damn,
I wish it wasn't like this. I wish I could
have had an organic clean slate.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Sometimes I do. I do wish that sometimes like dag
I would be I feel like I would get more
opportunities because there's a lot of things that I see
where I'm like, I could have had that role, I
could have did that. But then I'm like, but it
wasn't for me, So I know my road is going
to be longer, my journey is different. But I'm also
(38:15):
I'm more of an independent. I finally got a conglomerate
behind me. I just got to deal with Urban one
TV Radio one for my podcast called Brutally Honest with
Tory Hart.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Oh yeah, a big deal.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
It's super big. I actually just filmed four episodes. I
gotta go back to Atlanta. I'm filming. It's in Atlanta
the whole cause I just got to show up. They
have the production, everything is laid out for me, built
my set, everything. I just show up.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
That's nice.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
But I'm asking some tough, hard questions and I ain't
letting up on nobody when they come.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Through tell us about the show.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
So it's Brutally Honest with Tory Hart. If you don't
want to get questioned, then don't want you know to
because I'm coming with those questions like the personal and everything,
personal business, spirituality.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
What type of guests are on the show, all kinds. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
I just was just there and I did Neo's actually
ex fiance Manetta oh okay, okay, and I asked her
questions about how she feels with him having three and
four cocky bonds now.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
And they're girlfriends, right, they're like.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
Girlfriends, conckybines. Whatever.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
My husband always asks me this, what do you think
about Neil? I'm like, I don't really care this, I
don't care. We're limited in a society where men forget
what women are actually bringing to the table.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Oh you know what I'm saying, Yeah, we're not just
bringing sex. Guys.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Unfortunately, they forget that a woman is your rib for
a reason.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Right.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
You know what I'm saying us down to that you're
walking away with a lot less than you could be
walking away with.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
And that's just my personal opinion.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
And here's the thing to each its own. If that's
what makes you happy, do that, and if you got
people willing participate, that are willing to go with.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
It, then yeah, yeah yeah, by all means I say
to people like, he's paying for his peace. Yeah, because
I'm pretty sure you be with a guy, you messing
with a guy. You like him, he has a cute smile, successful,
it's very easy to like and love that. But you know,
when it comes time to be like, I want you
to only want me, that's where the paper comes into
to this is the deal that you you know, I
(40:23):
told you.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Upfront what it is.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Yeah, and I really believe he's That's where the money
comes in. Whereas you know what, I'm gonna choose not
to say anything though I feel this type of way
because the money is here to sue that part of me,
because I just I don't I personally don't believe women
are built like that. Oh to have several I'm gonna
share me and three of my homegirls are gonna share.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
Now there's always exception. The royal shout out to Michael B. Jordan,
because I really think that I could debate it for
Michael B.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
Michael B.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
I said all the time with this show, it's terrible,
that is hilarious.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
I'm gonna be I think I would get in line
with the amount of right amount of paper. I could
be quiet, okay, you know what I'm saying. I could
be like, you know what, it's Michael B.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
I get it. The whole universe probably wants this dude.
A lot of people say it up.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
I don't. He's not Michael B. Ain't. That ain't what
I would.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
Be like anyday? You smile my way?
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Yeah, No, I know there's always some guy that you'd
be like, you know what, for a lot of money,
maybe maybe I have to turn the other cheat.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
I'm trying to think who that guy would be for me.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
More. Michael B would be it. Michael Be.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
I tell you everybody husband included Michael B Is. That's yeah,
he comes on this show, don't it's not even gonna
be a question.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Well it's not a whole past. I'm open. But if
he comes on this show forgetting my whole team, forget it.
I would come.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
I'm gonna have your glam square, getting the gym, hopefully
I know a week in advance. Okay, I'm gonna have
the shoes that you're wearing on Okay.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
No, I'm joking. But Michael B Is definitely my ultimate.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
But all my friends they tell me that he's like
a super hole and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
Oh he's not married.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
You know what, though, I always say, it takes nothing
for All the guy has to do is open his
mouth and it could completely change your mind. If he
came down talking like a valley girl or something, I
wouldn't be interested at all.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
Okay, I'd be like, oh that's it.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
See, I'm learning to turn a new least because I
like thugs.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
I saw a girl.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
Wait, what do you mean you saw?
Speaker 2 (42:40):
I watched your stand up?
Speaker 3 (42:41):
Oh shoot, oh yeah I watched.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
What are you talking about? I saw that?
Speaker 3 (42:45):
Yeah, but I but you know what I am like.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
I was interested in those peb looks like the opposite
of a thug.
Speaker 3 (42:53):
I also was twenty when we met, No, nineteen twenty.
I can't remember this.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
You were like but before keV.
Speaker 3 (43:02):
Okay, And that's another thing. You know, people think that
I date short men, So all short men please stop
approaching me, because that was just one time.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Dory, you are short. I don't know what you're talking about.
Kevin looks like he's a inch taller than you.
Speaker 3 (43:16):
Yeah, but he's a man, Torri, you are short. I
know that's what I'm saying. Stop coming please.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
Okay, you are slowly running out of time. Okay, And
I gotta judge your fried chicken.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
Okay, let's get it. I mean, does it look good?
Speaker 2 (43:32):
It looks really good?
Speaker 3 (43:33):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
I'm still this recipe. When I go home and cook
for Z.
Speaker 3 (43:38):
I have to give you like because this is not
even the real recipe.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
I'm telling you now. If it doesn't taste flavorful. At
least you didn't smoke up the room. Now I learned
that it doesn't. I was boiling it.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
Yeah, I put the oil down to what looks real official.
Is that the buttermilk that makes it all crispy?
Speaker 3 (43:59):
I can't tell you that. No, I'm just ky. Yes, But.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
I was like, why, I want to know, because I'm
gonna try it at home. I never do buttermilk, but
I don't know. Mine doesn't come out as crispy.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
Oh yeah, so it's also the flower. I probably could
have seasoned the flower a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
Oh, we're gonna judge a girl with.
Speaker 3 (44:19):
Me cooking like this talking, I don't usually be all
mikes and spotlights.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
And started talk to me like that's with your girl.
I'm mixing the chicken, and you ask.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
Me these questions, So toart, Where do you want to
see yourself maybe in the next one to five years.
What are some goals that you're trying to hit?
Speaker 3 (44:35):
Okay, I got one, I got my deal, sot TV show,
I'd like to see.
Speaker 2 (44:41):
My chicken, go ahead, sherve me up talk show.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
I just booked two movies, so I'll be doing two
films in Atlanta next month.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
And are you kid kid free? Officially all of them
are out the house.
Speaker 3 (44:53):
So my daughter's in college. My son is still at
the house, but he's split between me and Kevin. Okay,
he's seventeen, but eighteen this year.
Speaker 2 (45:02):
Okay, yeah, okay, all right, let's serve this up. Come
sit with me. Okay, look crazy, hold on, let me
wipe it.
Speaker 3 (45:10):
Do you let me? Do you want some salad? Yes, okay,
serve me up.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
I want to experience what you were eating when you
were broke. Oh, that's that's it.
Speaker 3 (45:20):
Okay, we're gonna have to improvise. That's it. It's just
gonna improvise.
Speaker 2 (45:25):
It's a plastic one, guys, Okay, okay. And then I've
been snacking on the cucumbers.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
Okay, so this is what you ate in Philly in La.
Speaker 3 (45:36):
Yeah, I eat to listen, and I will still eat
some fried chicken like it's nothing.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
We got cucumbers, We got tomatoes.
Speaker 3 (45:43):
Here's some tomatoes to help myself.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
Here we go. This looks so good. I'm starving. Guys.
Couldn't wait for her to cook this chicken.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
Now. I would say, get one closer to the bottom
because it's a little the oil. I soaked it, oil
up a little bit more in the meat.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
Yeah, I love how you're conscious over it. You want
me to have the good piece of che I'm.
Speaker 3 (46:11):
A little nervous.
Speaker 2 (46:13):
Okay, I got a bottom. Let's try that blue cheese.
Speaker 3 (46:17):
Okay, Oh, here's the blue Let's.
Speaker 2 (46:18):
See how it goes.
Speaker 3 (46:21):
I don't eat blue cheese. Here we go, guys. Now, look,
I ain't got nothing to do with the blue cheese.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
Okay, No, but you know what, I haven't had it
in a long time. Let's see if you could change
my mind on it. Okay, I'm gonna put a little
bit on the corner. Stab this chicken.
Speaker 2 (46:35):
For time's sake, I'm gonna. I'm not waiting for you, Tori.
I'm sorry to I'm not waiting me.
Speaker 3 (46:41):
Okay. But no, the blue cheese, I don't have it.
I did not make no homemade blue cheese. I had pass.
But no, you don't like it.
Speaker 2 (46:57):
I don't even talking about the in hell while you eat.
Maybe if I didn't breathe it in.
Speaker 3 (47:01):
Okay, And you know what, I usually have hot sauce
with my chicken, but oh you have hot sauce up,
Open up the fridge.
Speaker 2 (47:10):
Hold up, someone put this on our show.
Speaker 3 (47:13):
Okay, not that kind, but it gotta be some Louisian or.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
All right, let's try here. We are crispy Chicken. It
looks real. Official taste test. We are not going easy
on toy today.
Speaker 1 (47:31):
Everybody, you're gonna see how she was even when she
was broken.
Speaker 2 (47:50):
Mone never comes out like this. It's true. It's really good.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
My whole crew is gonna come up in here, gonna
snatch the ball the chicken. I'll guarantee you we should
have had you made more? Why you didn't make those
last two pieces?
Speaker 2 (48:06):
Huhm otho great?
Speaker 3 (48:18):
She likes the chicken.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
I don't understand because when I do it at home,
it never comes out I got great, Probably because the
buttermilk is the buttermilk?
Speaker 2 (48:28):
Or do you use less flour?
Speaker 3 (48:31):
I mean I just used the flour you saw. I
just rolled it around.
Speaker 1 (48:34):
I'm gonna go home after this, after I pick up
my daughter. I'm gonna make this and if it comes
out as good as yours, cool, But if it doesn't,
I'm hitting Chrissy to hit you to find out what
it is I'm doing wrong.
Speaker 2 (48:47):
Okay, because it tastes.
Speaker 3 (48:48):
Really great, tell me yeah, you tell me and I'll
let you know. Okay, great, y'all, she likes my chicken.
Speaker 2 (49:01):
Thank you for opening up. How can I.
Speaker 3 (49:04):
Move this out the way? Okay?
Speaker 1 (49:06):
Oh shoot, how pam? Yeah, come on and we'll throw
this up here. Okay, one days is gonna come down
because I've been doing that lately. Where can everybody don't
take another bike into that camera?
Speaker 2 (49:21):
How can everybody keep up with you? And what can
they look forward to?
Speaker 3 (49:24):
Okay, So you guys can follow me on social media.
It's Tory t O r E. I h A R
T Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, It's not really a TikToker, but
website Torridashheart dot com. And then please be on the lookout.
Brutally honest with Tory Heart is coming and I have,
(49:45):
Like I said, I'm backed by Radio one, TV one,
Urban one, So you're gonna start seeing promos probably everywhere,
and it's gonna be hard hitting, funny, but also it
is I'm getting to the bottom line of a lot
of questions that a lot of people be scared to ask.
So brutally honest Tory Heart look forward today.
Speaker 2 (50:03):
I love it. Yeah, And so follow her guys and
check out her stand up comedy. It's great. I checked
it out.
Speaker 1 (50:09):
I was in the crowd Sprint and Center watching you. Okay,
come on, come out and support your girl and the
piece Peace.
Speaker 2 (50:24):
For More eating while broke from iHeartRadio and The Black Effect.
Speaker 1 (50:27):
Visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you listen
to your favorite shows.
Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.
I'm your host, Coley Witt, and today we have very
special guest, comedian Tory Heart is in the building.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
How are you good?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
How you doing good?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I'm excited for you to feed me. I gotta check
out your sat You were really funny. And guys, if
we did have shoe cam, her shoes are like a
game changer.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I can lift it.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Look, that's hilarious it is.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Hey, can you see that? Look? I don't know if
you can get the angle air cute?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
What are you I'm talking of?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Because we were just so you guys know, I did
try to preheat the grease today has smoked up the
whole room if you can see a little bit of smoke.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
But what are you gonna have me eating today?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Okay? So today I am just making my fried chicken wings,
fried chicken wings. And we got some salad, which as
you can see, is very basic. Yeah, into salad.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
And then you could go ahead and list off your
ingredients for your dish for all the listeners.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
All right, y'all. So for the fried chicken we got,
of course, can I go? Okay? So we got the
chicken wings right here, all right. Then we got some buttermilk,
some flour, of course, got the flour right here, bam.
And then we got season ends. We got some lawery
season salt. We got some onion powdered garlic powder, and
(01:29):
I think this is pepper pepper, ye, yeah, and that's
some pepper. It's pretty basic. Sometimes I use more ingredients,
sometimes I don't, but fried chicken is pretty basic.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
And then you have a salad, which, by the way,
I was like nibbling on your cucumbers and tomatoes. I
was like, damn, I haven't had it, like usually have
my salads pre made now right? Oh, Like damn, why
don't I ever have.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Whose like cutting stuff up? We're in a microwave age
right now, so it's like everything's prepped for you, so
I can understan.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
And these bag salads are really good nowadays.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
They really are.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
They really are, and they're like three dollars versus like
piece mess. But you're a blue cheese girl, and I
was confused by that. Why I'm gonna try it with
you today. I don't remember the last time I had
blue cheese, but I was like, I don't think I
messed with blue cheese.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Like that.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I'm a ranch girl, but I was like blue cheese.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yes, I put blue cheese on my wings, my salads
because so at one point I was doing Keto. So
blue cheese is good for Keto when you're doing the
Keto diet.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Oh, difference between blue cheese and.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Ranch, it's just it just goes more with like Keto
type meals, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
So I guess I won't be Keto. I gotta lose
a lot of weight, but I won't be Keto. So
go ahead, step into the kitchen. Show us how you
make your fried chicken. What you do first?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
All right? Us through it? What's the first thing? You
got your chicken role?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
So what I'm gonna do is I'm season the chicken.
I also season the flour, but I'm gonna start seasoning
the chicken. And I don't measure nothing. When I feel
like it's seasoned enough, I stop. That's how I usually work.
So that's how my mother taught me. And I'm trying
to remember.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
That's so funny. The last time you cook this was when.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
It's been a minute. So it's been a little minute.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
How often would you be doing fried chicken?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I love fried chicken. So yeah, so now I just
buy it usually, but probably three times a week.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Wow, yeah, wow, three times a week back in a
day or now back in the day.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Yeah, No, I'm not. I'm not eating fried chicken three
times a week now maybe twice, but that's hilarious. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
If you ask my daughter what does she want to eat,
it'll be real chicken, not chicken nuggets, real.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Chicken, real chicken. Does she like fried chicken?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
She does, Okay, she does, But it's just funny to
hear because most people, if you're fast food on the road,
you're gonna offer your kids chicken nuggets. She is very
adamant about it being real chicken. Okay, it's three years old,
real chicken from the car seat.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
But all right, So you're seasoning up the meat with
scarlet powder, onion powder, lais, yes, and pepper and pepper awesome.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
And then you haven't put the buttermilk in yet.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Not yet. So I'm gonna put the butter milk, the
buttermilk on here after I season it up a little bit.
And then what I do is, after that, I'm gonna
dip it in the flour. Well, I'm seasing the flour.
So I'm gonna just it's okay gloves. Yeah, I'm what
I do though, I can wipe it on here, right,
(04:39):
you can, Okay?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
So I used the I was the we usually get
send those home with you too.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Oh, okay, give you an extra one and that one
I can put it in wash Ma, you're gonna get too, okay.
So take me back to what was going on in
the air of fried chicken and salads.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Basically, I I was living in this part of North
Philadelphia called Northern Liberties, and I was off at the
community college which is CCP Meunie College, Philadelphia. I was
also working, but I was doing telemarketing. It's not really
much going on there. Yeah, And that's what was going on.
And I was actually with my dude at the time.
(05:19):
I was nineteen, about to be twenty, and I was young.
We were together and so I was like, basically it
was easy meals that I knew how to meet. So
and we didn't have a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Oh, you guys were like, are you talking about you
and Kevin?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yeah, we were living together.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
You guys were living together. This is right after college
or right now, this is during college. This is during
college yeah, during community college in Philadelphia. Yeah, so yeah,
you guys were grinding together. There were you guys married yet?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
No? Okay, no, we were just like babies, just meeting
and going to school before we dropped out.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, yeah, going to school before you dropped out.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yeah, before we both dropped out.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yes, So you were working telemarketing. He was doing.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
He was working at a city a place called City Sports,
and then he started getting into comedy because of community college.
Of course we met at community college and then he
got into comedy, and then from there I started working
for the phone company. He started doing comedy. I just
started going to sporting all the shows and began making
(06:28):
more fried chicken.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
And then when does he's doing comedy? You're not yet
doing comedy at that time or no.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
But here's the thing, a lot of people don't know.
I got class clown in high school. So I've always
been doing comedy my whole life, like always making my
family laugh, always watching it and studying it, probably since
I was like nine years old, honestly, because my parents
all they used to do is play Richard pryor Fred Stanford, Moms,
maybe Dick Gregory, like they always were playing albums in
(07:01):
the house. They would send me upstairs sometimes, or they
would think that they sending me upstairs, and I would
be at the top of the stairs listening to all
of raunchy comedy, listening to all of that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
So, now when he's pursuing comedy and this is you
have a passion for, I'm guessing at the time, So
what is going on at the time when he's doing
comedy and you're are you like playing? Are you just
supportive girlfriend? Do you know what you want to do
at that time?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
So, honestly, I was in school for acting and for
theater and drama at the time. I did not realize
that I was going to be doing comedy at all.
I always was like into comedic movies, but didn't know
that I would eventually be doing stand up. Actually, I
didn't start stand up until I moved to La.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Okay, yeah, so you're going to school for acting. How's
your acting doing while you're like struggling actress and he's
struggling comedy. You guys have this commonality, I'm guessing funny.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Yeah right, Yeah, that's what drew us to each other
to begin with in the first place, because we were
always laughing and cracking on each other. Jawning, as they
say in Philly, is when you constantly bagging somebody. So
that's what I always did, practical joker, always doing stuff
like that. So yeah, that's what pretty much probably why
we ended up together in the first place.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Yeah, so watching that grind close up, you still wanted
to pursue it. Watching it close up, you get the
front row seat of like, how hard it is?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Right, I never thought it was hard. Okay, Yeah, of course,
when you love something, the grind of it, it's just okay,
this is what makes you better anyway. But if you
love something, it's okay, this is just the journey. This
is what it's going to be. And of course there
was some days where you know, financially, but when you're
having fun, I don't think it really matters.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah, I mean to some degree.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Now you guys, and you guys had a family too,
Oh yeah, I mean, I mean you guys have a family.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Sorry I'm trying.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I mean we have ki who this little pivotal process
of your story. So you guys are having a family.
You guys have a family. Are you guys are still struggling?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
No, sir, So when we moved to California. He had
got a deal, so by then it was a little
less of a struggle.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
You guys didn't have kids yet.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
No, we didn't have kids yet.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Okay, So you moved from Wow.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yeah, from Philly to Callie together. We weren't married. And
my family, of course, did not like that.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
But I was like, listen, and you guys dropped out
of college to do that.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Yeah, we dropped out of We knew we wasn't supposed
to be in school.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Okay, so you guys packed up and moved. Oh, I
know your family wasn't happy.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Oh yeah, they weren't. And especially I come from my
family's very religious and my grandmother was a minister. Two
uncles or ministers, three aunts ministers. So I was raised
you don't move in together before marriage, and YadA ya, YadA.
Of course I got all of that back last too.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
How long were you together before you guys decided to
pack up?
Speaker 3 (10:01):
And it was about three and a half years. Three
and a half years, so you four years? Actually, he
gets it.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
What so he got holding.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
So back in the day, there was these things called
holding deals, and so you would get holding deals. And
this is when there was like big money like NBC ABC.
So he got a holding deal and so we took
some of that money to move out here. And then
I also was working for Ladelphia, which is this company,
and for me at that age back then, making that
(10:29):
kind of money, it was a big deal. I had
a four oh one K and so I dipped into
my four oh one K and was like, Okay, I'm
taking some of this money out and I'm using this
to move. I actually packed up. I had a grand
Cherokee at the time, cause I had a little bit
of money back then. When I got turned twenty one,
I got some case money. I was able to stack
some of that and get a truck and that was
(10:51):
actually the vehicle that drove him back and forth to
a lot of comedy shows too, cause he didn't have
a car. Wow. Yeah, So I had the car and
it was fun though. It was just like it's my nature,
Like my mom and dad has been married almost fifty
five years.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Wow, and so I.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Watch how my mom holds the family down, and that's
what she did, so I just get it naturally from her. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
So at this time, your parents are in your ears?
Are you starting again?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
His ears?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Like yo, I moved across country where you know Bonnie
and Clyde. Are you gonna put a ring on it?
Does that start to hit in your head? Or is
he feeling the pressure because now you guys are thugging
it in LA? And do you have any friends also?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Oh? Yeah? So we have been coming back and forth
to LA for different things, visiting because he would get
booked for jobs and so we were coming back and forth.
So I had made friends. So when we got here,
of course, and the comedy world is pretty small, you
met people and stuff like that. But my family, no,
because they know that I'm pretty independent too, and I
(11:54):
don't believe you should pressure a man to do anything.
You let a man do what a man wants to do.
As soon as you try to pressure a man. No,
you're not pressuring me in the you know what I'm saying?
Like he was the one I honestly was low key.
I don't know I want to get married, you know
what I mean. I don't know if necessarily I want
to be married, But one days we're going to get married.
So we went and we got married in Vegas. It
(12:14):
was we got married in Vegas. I should have known. Shit,
wasn't gonna work? Because no, I'm just thinking that, and
I think back, I'm laughing because why my bouquet was
like this? The probably had three flowers in the bouquet?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Was it like Elvis? Who did it? And all that?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
It wasn't Elvis, but it might as well have been Elvis. Okay.
My wedding dress was from Express. Okay, first of all,
I wasn't even gonna wear a wedding dress and my
mom and was like, you need to go get a dress,
and I was like do I have to?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Like so what about it? At that?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Looking back, you saw that set said it wasn't gona work.
It wasn't the three flower bouquet.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Looking in hindsight, I'm thinking like, damn, Okay, Tori, you
should have been a little bit more. Wasn't a bigger
wedding or But I just always maybe that's the clown
in me. Maybe why I was thinking, we're just profession
our love for each other, so that's really you know
what I mean? Yeah, but no, it should have been
done a little better.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
A lot of people spend a lot of money on
on weddings. That usually doesn't dictate where it's out. It
dictates some of the death you started.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
That is true.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
But okay, so you guys get married a couple of
years into LA or.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Oh yeah, we get married and about a year later.
And this is what pissed me off too, because I
didn't want kids until I was about thirty five, and
then I ended up getting pregnant and I had just
got a sports car. Okay, he had bought me a
sports car for my birthday at BMW. Yeah. I dis
was like my dream car and he got me my
dream car is twenty six. And so I'm whipping around
(13:44):
LA with my convertible Z four and the next thing
I know, I'm pregnant and I'm like, can't fucking have
no kids? In no Z four?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah, and I was.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
I lived at Sunset in Point Setias, so I was
like a party girl. I'm still why I used to
live over there right in your Bosston Nova.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Yes, literally, I will walk to Boston over because you
know they got them burgers TOI laur in the morning.
But you walk to Running, Yeah, and you can walk
to that was literally my cross streets.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
But I was more in Hollywood in Point Seddio, but
the next street was Sunset.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Yeah, yes, Okay, sunset in Points SETI okay, shout.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Outs to that area. I loved living over there.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
But listen, I loved it.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I am trying to tell me nothing.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Like I belong in Hollywood. It is what it is.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Yeah, so y'all was living over there and you start
making a family, Now is there pressure? So now I'm
guessing that you guys are in your early twenties, money
is starting to roll. He's gifting cars. I mean, yeah,
in my twenties, ain't no dude ever give me a car.
I'd be lucky if they don't give me the bill
at Burger King.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
I was a brat. I was a little bit of it.
I also did spoiling too, you know what I'm saying.
So it was reciprocal and he knew that was my
dream car. I actually was getting my hair done and
he pulled up to the hair salon with a red
bow on it.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
It was like Jersey so cute.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Yeah, okay, So at the time, what are you doing
while he's he's doing comedy? Right, this is obviously before
soul Plane.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
I think this is yeah, this is around soul Plane era.
I was actually training, so I was doing it and
I had booked some jobs. I booked national commercials at
and t Ford. Me and him had did a commercial together. No,
we didn't do a commercial before that, just yet. But
I had did Supermarket Sweep. Do you remember that show?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I remember that?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Okay, I had booked that. I booked this show on
E called Screenplay. So I was working too, but really
mainly training, like with how it's studying with Howard Fine
and Leslie Kahns, Mike Pointer, doing everything that you should
to be up on your craft so you can go
and do auditions and stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Yeah, and then but then the family comes along and
then slow you down a little bit.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
It did. Yeah, when I got pregnant, it slowed me
down a lot because I was used to always going
out and hanging and that's what we did. We would
go party a lot. When I got pregnant, it was
just like damn, man, I can't drink either. I had
to so up real quick.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Yeah, so change things.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
And then you had the kids are how far apart?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
So my daughter was born in two thousand and five,
my son was born in two thousand and seven, so
there's two and a half.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
So you were like really mominent.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Oh, yeah, okay, okay, yeah, So all this is going on,
you're still pursuing acting. At what point do you start
to lean this. We're gonna risk Okay, y'all, we're gonna
risk it. I already smoked up the kitchen. If you
see me stuttering, it's because, okay, it's about to go down.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Cucumbers, should we do this?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Go ahead? Did you season all of them already?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
I seasoned? Yep, And this flower is seasoned. I probably
put a little bit more seasoned in the flower.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
So do you have to heat up first?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
You have to heat it up?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
All right, here we go. Okay, I want to hear this.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
What I'm trying to capture just so your notry is
when the I don't want to put myself in your shoes,
but I definitely am. You know your ex husband, but
you're now ex husband. He's pursuing this comedy. Yeah, becomes
this massive success. You're taking care of home, you're holding
down the family. You also have dreams. What I'm trying
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to capture is now with you pursuing comedy and you
knowing that, hey, deep down I had this pursuit of comedy.
Was there a part of you that was holding back
that pursuit because one of you guys was already doing it.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Oh for sure, Yeah, for sure?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Or did you ever talk to him about it at all?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Definitely did not talk to him about doing stand up
as One day his friend Jay Okerson, his girlfriend tried it,
and I overheard him saying, I wish she would ever
try comedy. She better not, So I was like, oh, okay,
but I've been. I was studying it with him. I
was going to every comedy club. I would be in
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the back like, hey, you know writing stuff down, Oh,
you should try it like this, and like not even
realizing that's what I was doing.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
But that's a and that's a what you're talking about,
and that's a real emotion and real life. Anybody in
your shoes would have overheard that and been like, oh,
because if I was, if I wanted to be an
actress in my husband wanted to be an It's almost
like the first one who says it own sword owns
it in a way depending on your relationship, but most relationships,
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it does get a little weird if you're both pursuing
the same exact goal.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
So I guess, like you ever see the show as
miss marvelous. The life is marvelous, Mabel.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
I think that I didn't. I didn't see it, but
I've heard.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
It, Okay. So it's funny because it's like that in
a sense. And like I said, I didn't see stand
up per se in my future. Always acting. Acting has
been my passion since I was six years old. I
told my mother I was going to be out in
Hollywood acting, and I did school plays, I did church plays.
That's what I always did. That's why we met in
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theater arts class in college. But stand Up I did
watch it and was around it since I was a
little kid too.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
So it was almost then you get heavily ingrained and
it just being right. So from that point, at what
point do you say, Okay, I'm gonna say I want
to do this and say it openly because I'm sure
it wasn't eating.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
At you a little bit like curiosity.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Yeah, you're helping, You're helping in the behind the scenes, right, yeah,
of course.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
And I would be watching and studying and I would
see people doing certain I was like, I can do it,
like I'm I'm ready, I want to do it, like
I was itching for years to do it, and I
already had stuff written down. I had a journal of
jokes already.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Yeah, yeah, no one knows about this.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
No, yeah, that's a that's a reality. So then what
happens when and you decide, okay, I'm coming. I had
to use this, but for lack of a better word,
they're coming out of the closet saying, hey, surprised, this
is something I really want to.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Do, because it takes a lot of balls to do too.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
In your situation, your situation, it has to be taken
a lot of balls to be like, ah, I'm sorry,
I'm gonna I'm gonna go after what I want.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Balls and liquor.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
So take me back to that moment when you just
you say, fuck it, I'm gonna I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
So my cousin Darnell at the time, he was living
with us, and he knew he actually he learned about
me wanting to do it, and so he was just like, Cuz,
so when you're gonna do it, what are you waiting on?
When there was the hold up? And I was like,
clearly you know what the hold up is. But he's okay,
so how much long are you gonna wait? And so
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we go down we found out about an open mic
at the High Comedy Club in North Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
And you guys are together? Are not together? When you
decide we were together?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
He was off shooting a movie though in I think
it was Prague or somewhere I can't remember. Yeah, And
so I was just like, you know what.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
He's gone, I'm gonna do. Nobody's gonna know thing.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
But everybody knew. See, I didn't even realize how big
we were, you know what I'm saying. I'm just still thinking, okay,
girl from Philadelphia. Boy, I never really realized, like, no,
your husband's in movies, he's done comedy specials, and you
know what I'm saying. So I'm just thinking, Okay. To me,
it's he's always just low keva bastard.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
That's yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
First stage name was yeah, and I'm like, you gotta
change that. So that's in my mind. It's just always that,
you know. So I'm so when I get on stage,
as soon as I get off stage, my phone's blowing up,
and it was.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
It's in the comedy circle small So you're going up
to I'm sure you some comedians that already knew him.
I would imagine knew us because I remember I was
always knew both of you.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Yeah, I was always with him. We were together everywhere,
so everybody in Latare so it's Kevin Tori.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Yeah, so what are you thinking when you're blows up?
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I'm not thinking that. Somebody told him already, you know
what I mean. So because I'm like all right, So
he was like, did you just get on stage?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
And I was like, yeah, I did.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Okay, yeah, and believe it or not, he said, why
why are you doing stand up? I was like, because
I've always wanted to do. I love it. This is
what I'm going to do. And I said, it's going
to also help me with my acting. It's going to
help me with my confidence. That's another thing. If you
can get on stage and perform, but it's going to
boost your confidence.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Right.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
And after about a month he became very supportive. Yeah,
he became supportive. I opened up for him. A few times.
He tested me. I'll say that we were in Tennessee
because I had been asking like, when you're gonna let me?
You don't want to get up and shows you let
me get up? You're not ready, You're not I'm like,
I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
And now is he critiquing your jokes and like your
mannerisms like a coach in the beginning.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
No, because I don't think he wanted to. I think
he wanted me to just do it his journey. But
a lot of his friends did a lot of his
friends were like, tour, you're funny, you got some great premises,
you got some great ideas. Let's let let me punched
this up. I had a lot of people who was
ready to like and willing to help.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Yeah, I'm distracting. You ain't cooking, I know, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Is it hot?
Speaker 3 (23:19):
It's probably I'll give it like three more minutes or so.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
All right, you can turn the heat a little bit.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Yeah, I'm trying not to put it too high.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I know, because I put it all the way to
a old boil. That's why I smoke and I can't
even see. Just turn it up.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
I want to help you right there.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Okay, all right, I think that's the right direction.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Okay, I hope it is.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Hold up here.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Oh yeah, that's the right direction. Yeah over here, cold driving.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Okay, you're so he's supportive of this journey, and y'all
still married, and now he's letting you open for him.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Yeah, so I opened for him a few times, and
you know what, I'm not even gonna use the bag.
I'm gonna just do it this way.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
That's how I do it at home.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Just so yeah, I'm gonna just do it this way.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Okay, cool, Yeah, we.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Could take the Tachi bag off our table now. Oh
it's good, it's good, it's good. I'm gonna judge the
hell out of your chicken, Tory. No, No, I met
Tory a couple of times, just while she's frying this chicken.
A couple times off aline and nothing but sweetness. From
day one. You are doing community service at the I
(24:29):
think a Christmas event, okay, and then the second time
I saw you at Chris Spencer show, it's really sweet. Yeah,
so I'm really happy to have you. So you're pursuing
this comedy. You guys are still married and the relationship
is fine. No pumping of the heads during this whole process.
No uncomfortable because now you guys are pursuing almost the
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same goals.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
I think you know, there was a time where it
started getting uncomfortable because he's used to me, like I
was all about him. So sometimes when your mate, when
you're used to your mate, being all about you, and
then one day they're not. Because that's when I was
like stepping into my own. I was like, okay, I
gave you. I told him I was going to give
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him a son. I gave him his son, gave him
his daughter.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
What had happened, you would have had another girl, You
would have still given him a son.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
No, I knew because he thought our daughter was going
to be a boy. I said, no, it's going to
be a girl first, and then I'm going to give
you your son. That's how it just got. I'm very
close to the career.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
He was like, Jesus, bless me with this son.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
God speaking to me since I was a kid. So
I have that like one on one connection with the
man upstairs, especially beings at all my family, the prayers
that my grandmother has prayed over me for years, my
family like super in tune.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
So he so, you give him a son, and you've
been a good loyal wife, and now it's you know what,
I'm going to take some time to do what I
want to do, which yeah, every normal feeling, any human
being with a pulse would want to do.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
And I just feel like I'm like I'm at an
age now where Okay, I've done some small things. It's
time for me to really step into it and do
some bigger things.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
And I'm sure watching his path was it inspiring to say, yes,
I can do it inspiring.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Let me tell you something, even though we are divorced,
when we went through it pretty it was rough when
it first happened. I wouldn't trade anything in because one
thing that I did learn was work ethic. Why he's
so successful the people that come for him and at
the end of the day are still my family. That's
my kid's father. When people come for him or say that,
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I'm like, that's bullshit. This man worked his ass off.
I've seen how hard he works and why he is
where he is at today.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Yeah, it's like a militant work ethic.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Right, Oh my god, you have you have to And
then his mother rests in peace. Nancy, that was my heart.
She was just so by the book and just had
him on track and just had him like she was.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
She instilled some crazy level of discipline early. Yeah, definitely,
and she was like, I'm not letting this one right
here is They're gonna slip through the cracks by all
means necessary.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
So you got to watch that.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
So you're pursuing this and keV starts to notice, Hey,
you know what, goals and focus has changed.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
And so I think it became a little issue. That's
what I believe, outside of other things that were going on.
But at the time, I was just so dedicated to
also me and then my kids, and I was just like,
I've been mom in it. I'm out here doing this.
I just want something for me. And once I got
locked in and realized like, we're really good at this,
(27:34):
I'm getting booked, people are paying me for this, I'm like, oh, okay,
that's a great feeling. So I'm like, WHOA, Like, this
is what I want to do. I really want to
do this on top of my acting.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Yeah, So that's what happened. I'm not going to fry
these two.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
So during the I hate to talk about the divorce
and all that, it's still there was. It was a
little bit of a painful divorce as all breaking. Sorry,
they're never likery well formally agree.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
On this split. At this point when all of this
is going on, are you.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Business wise now you're both booking, you're both doing cop comedy.
Does that cause a little bit of a hindrance in
your career, or are you afraid it's going to cause
a hindrance in your career.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
I actually I had took time off because I was
going through a lot, like emotionally and stuff. So more
so I took time off so I was more so
just focused on me and the children at the time.
I would get like little auditions and little gigs here
and there, but I was just like I couldn't be funny.
I didn't feel like being funny.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
That's a very difficult time. Yeah, so comic, your art
reflects life. You're going up on stage. That's a tough time.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
And I did try, and it was bitter. I was bitter.
It was just like like, Okay, maybe that joke ain't
ready yet, because it ain't funny, Tori. It's a little
fuck you, it ain't ready.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
So yeah, so I just decided. I was like, you
know what, I took a seat and was just like, okay,
let me just get me together spiritually and mentally. And
that's what I did.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
How long did it take you to take that break?
Speaker 3 (29:14):
It took a couple of years, just soul searching and
not saying. It took a couple of years to get
fully together. But you know, when you're with someone since
you're twenty years old and then you break up at
thirty three, especially all through my twenties and my thirties
and movie, that's a chunk of time.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Yeah, it's a huge investment, especially if you're married. You
come from a family. You said your parents are still together.
You like, man, I did everything in the book. I
would imagine it sounds like you did everything in the
book to make it work.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
And you know what, I won't. I wasn't perfect either,
So I will say there's things I probably could have
done differently when you're young, when you're that Like my
daughter is nineteen right now. I look at her like
I can't believe I was in a relationship at nineteen
moving married, Like what how did that even happen? You
know what I'm saying. I'm just yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
So now you're out on your own and keV is
extremely successful running laps around the sun.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Right now? How does it? How does the inner you.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Feel about like you're pursuing your dreams, you have your
ex husband orperating around the sun a hundred times? What
are the motions like you where you're at right now
watching all of this.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
I was annoyed everywhere, just like I can't escape them. God,
are you playing a trick on me? Yeah, it's just
but it worked because it's in one of my comedy bits.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
I heard of it. Yeah, it was. It was very funny.
It was very funny.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
I don't want to spoil it.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
But one of the jokes you said that night really
about your kids being richer than you are.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Ye, I'm the one that slept with a midget for
y'all to like.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Yeah, I thought that was really funny.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
It's the truth, you know what I'm saying. Of course
they are richer than me. But I love I'm very blessed,
So I don't want anybody to think I'm not blessed.
But I am blessed, super blessed, and continue to work
hard so I can be more blessed. And I like
to give back a lot more. A lot of things
that I work super hard for is to give back. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Now, do you guys collaborate? Do you see future collaborations?
How does that work with your guys? Whole relationship?
Speaker 3 (31:26):
We did it. I did do House Husbands the final season.
I did do that, but as far as collabing. As
of right now, I don't see that, and I don't
see it right now, it's not in hindsight. But who
knows a couple of years later it might change.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Yeah, yeah, you guys, in this industry, it's like a
very relationship industry. People ask me all the time, get
my friends with everybody. I'm like, I actually don't know
everyone that's on the show personally, but a lot of
the relationships are what put different people in the room
when you're going after auditions or anything. Do you ever
want to pick up the phone call and be like, hey, keV,
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can you assist with this? Or are you just no?
I gotta do it the old school. I hate when
people do that, Like you you have to connect, just
call it in.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
It's weird. It's very bird for you.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
It's very weird because some people are scared to work
with me because they think if they work with me,
then they can't they can't or what is Kevin gonna say?
And I tell them all the time, he was never
going to work with you anyway. I'm the closest day
you got, so your might as well go with me. Okay.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Yeah, I'm like what you bro You're not even at
a level where he would even look your way. Come on.
But then there's some people who are just they see
my talent, they see what I do, and they're just like, yo,
I want to work with you. You're super talent or
who knew a lot of people still don't even know
I do stand up and so some people are like, yo,
I didn't know you was that funny, And I'm like, yeah,
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I've been doing this a long time.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
So let's talk about you going on tour with Kat Williams. Okay,
let's talk about that. Yeah, that's a big that's a
big deal. Let's talk about let's please, yes, guys, just
so you know, I'm removing these glasses because someone's calling me.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
I can't concentrate if the phones ringing in my ear.
Let's talk about that. How did that come about?
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Because Cat Williams is also, need I say, like, literally
the best of the best comics on the earth, living comics. Yeah,
I don't trying to think in my head, who could
be no One? Okay, good, good, yeah, different, He's a
different type of comic, but cat by fault. I think
Dave Chappelle is a great storyteller comic. I think Cat
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Williams just.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
He could probably seize.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Yeah, there's a lot of things I can tell you.
It's his voice, his stature, presence. He's fearless.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
He's fearless.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
You have to be I think his I think what
makes a lot of comics unique is their perspective, like
how they taking information and how they spin it back
out because you're taking Comics can take really serious, serious
topics and then they turn it into something.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Like whoa, I never even thought of that.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
And then Cat Williams has a very good The way
his information is coming in and the way it's going
out is very right.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
It's very deep.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Tell me about how that whole Cat Williams going on
tour with Cat Wwlliams came.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
About no d on napkins. Yeah, go ahead, thank you.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Sorry.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
I usually have a certain thing to drain the chicken.
That's another thing I forgot to tell you, but it's okay.
So I've known Cat for twenty something years. Another thing
people don't know. Cat used to come through Philly to
a place called the laugh House, and so I met
Kat when I lived in Philly. I've hung out with Cat,
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paray with Cat, Me and Cat has done two movies together.
It wasn't just oh, toy's just going on tour with Cat.
Me and Cat have a relationship.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
To be on tour with gun, you said, you have
to be really funny.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Yeah, so I was getting at more so, was that
like a defining moment to say, Kat Williams is like
putting me on tour with him? Is I don't know
the right terminology, more like an accolade of I've arrived.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
He did. That wasn't the first time I went performed
with cats. See that's another thing. I performed for Cat
at the Microsoft Theater in front of twenty five thousand people,
and that was the first time he gave me an
opportunity and blessed me literally like with ten K for
seven minutes of material. He's always been a person that
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looks out for females and puts females on the stage,
and so for him to do that, it was just
like thank you. And then we had already talked about
me going and doing a couple of dates on the tour,
and then when everything dropped, it was it looked a
certain type of way, but it's yo. It looks this way,
but no, that was already planned.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Yeah, but how did it feel to be able to
open for a cat?
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Amazing, amazing, yeah, amazing.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Are there other point in your career where you could
say like they were definitive moments where you were just like,
I'm in I'm doing this.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
I opened up for Martin Lawrence at Royal Farms Arena
and that was New Year's And if you get a
booking New Year's Eve as a comedian, to be booked
on New Year's Eve, that's like all comedians want to
be booked.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
So I didn't even know that.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, the pressure is real comedians. I
need a gig for In Martin's people. Some one of
his people saw me performing somewhere and Martin approved to
have me come to Royal Farms and opened up for him.
I've opened up for Martin. Dion Cole did shows with
Dion Crispencer trying to think, who else.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Do you think your road is as hard as the
average comic.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Coming in? It's harder, it's harder.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
It's a lot harder. I get scrutinized a lot. You
know a lot of people. I can walk on a
stage and I see some men doing this, Like even
when the Cat Williams thing happened and I got my
own tour out of that too. Some men would just
come for whatever reason just to like low.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Key just hate wow.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Oh yeah they arms cross and yeah, make me funny?
Are you better be funny? Make me laugh?
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Yep. I could see that people coming and being like, okay,
let's see what she.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
Could judge it.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Yeah, just straight judging, which is definitely a lot harder.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
It's hard so when people say stuff like, oh, she
only got this because her last name. Okay, but I
still have to be funny. Yeah, I still have to
go on stage and make people laugh and telling jokes
is not easy.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Does that ever make does it? Now?
Speaker 1 (37:42):
I know you don't regret your family and all of that,
but does it ever make you send? I feel like, damn,
I wish it wasn't like this. I wish I could
have had an organic clean slate.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Sometimes I do. I do wish that sometimes like dag
I would be I feel like I would get more
opportunities because there's a lot of things that I see
where I'm like, I could have had that role, I
could have did that. But then I'm like, but it
wasn't for me, So I know my road is going
to be longer, my journey is different. But I'm also
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I'm more of an independent. I finally got a conglomerate
behind me. I just got to deal with Urban one
TV Radio one for my podcast called Brutally Honest with
Tory Hart.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Oh yeah, a big deal.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
It's super big. I actually just filmed four episodes. I
gotta go back to Atlanta. I'm filming. It's in Atlanta
the whole cause I just got to show up. They
have the production, everything is laid out for me, built
my set, everything. I just show up.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
That's nice.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
But I'm asking some tough, hard questions and I ain't
letting up on nobody when they come.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Through tell us about the show.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
So it's Brutally Honest with Tory Hart. If you don't
want to get questioned, then don't want you know to
because I'm coming with those questions like the personal and everything,
personal business, spirituality.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
What type of guests are on the show, all kinds. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
I just was just there and I did Neo's actually
ex fiance Manetta oh okay, okay, and I asked her
questions about how she feels with him having three and
four cocky bonds now.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
And they're girlfriends, right, they're like.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
Girlfriends, conckybines. Whatever.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
My husband always asks me this, what do you think
about Neil? I'm like, I don't really care this, I
don't care. We're limited in a society where men forget
what women are actually bringing to the table.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Oh you know what I'm saying, Yeah, we're not just
bringing sex. Guys.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Unfortunately, they forget that a woman is your rib for
a reason.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Right.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
You know what I'm saying us down to that you're
walking away with a lot less than you could be
walking away with.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
And that's just my personal opinion.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
And here's the thing to each its own. If that's
what makes you happy, do that, and if you got
people willing participate, that are willing to go with.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
It, then yeah, yeah yeah, by all means I say
to people like, he's paying for his peace. Yeah, because
I'm pretty sure you be with a guy, you messing
with a guy. You like him, he has a cute smile, successful,
it's very easy to like and love that. But you know,
when it comes time to be like, I want you
to only want me, that's where the paper comes into
to this is the deal that you you know, I
(40:23):
told you.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Upfront what it is.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Yeah, and I really believe he's That's where the money
comes in. Whereas you know what, I'm gonna choose not
to say anything though I feel this type of way
because the money is here to sue that part of me,
because I just I don't I personally don't believe women
are built like that. Oh to have several I'm gonna
share me and three of my homegirls are gonna share.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
Now there's always exception. The royal shout out to Michael B. Jordan,
because I really think that I could debate it for
Michael B.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
Michael B.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
I said all the time with this show, it's terrible,
that is hilarious.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
I'm gonna be I think I would get in line
with the amount of right amount of paper. I could
be quiet, okay, you know what I'm saying. I could
be like, you know what, it's Michael B.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
I get it. The whole universe probably wants this dude.
A lot of people say it up.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
I don't. He's not Michael B. Ain't. That ain't what
I would.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
Be like anyday? You smile my way?
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Yeah, No, I know there's always some guy that you'd
be like, you know what, for a lot of money,
maybe maybe I have to turn the other cheat.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
I'm trying to think who that guy would be for me.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
More. Michael B would be it. Michael Be.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
I tell you everybody husband included Michael B Is. That's yeah,
he comes on this show, don't it's not even gonna
be a question.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Well it's not a whole past. I'm open. But if
he comes on this show forgetting my whole team, forget it.
I would come.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
I'm gonna have your glam square, getting the gym, hopefully
I know a week in advance. Okay, I'm gonna have
the shoes that you're wearing on Okay.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
No, I'm joking. But Michael B Is definitely my ultimate.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
But all my friends they tell me that he's like
a super hole and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
Oh he's not married.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
You know what, though, I always say, it takes nothing
for All the guy has to do is open his
mouth and it could completely change your mind. If he
came down talking like a valley girl or something, I
wouldn't be interested at all.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
Okay, I'd be like, oh that's it.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
See, I'm learning to turn a new least because I
like thugs.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
I saw a girl.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
Wait, what do you mean you saw?
Speaker 2 (42:40):
I watched your stand up?
Speaker 3 (42:41):
Oh shoot, oh yeah I watched.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
What are you talking about? I saw that?
Speaker 3 (42:45):
Yeah, but I but you know what I am like.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
I was interested in those peb looks like the opposite
of a thug.
Speaker 3 (42:53):
I also was twenty when we met, No, nineteen twenty.
I can't remember this.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
You were like but before keV.
Speaker 3 (43:02):
Okay, And that's another thing. You know, people think that
I date short men, So all short men please stop
approaching me, because that was just one time.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Dory, you are short. I don't know what you're talking about.
Kevin looks like he's a inch taller than you.
Speaker 3 (43:16):
Yeah, but he's a man, Torri, you are short. I
know that's what I'm saying. Stop coming please.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
Okay, you are slowly running out of time. Okay, And
I gotta judge your fried chicken.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
Okay, let's get it. I mean, does it look good?
Speaker 2 (43:32):
It looks really good?
Speaker 3 (43:33):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
I'm still this recipe. When I go home and cook
for Z.
Speaker 3 (43:38):
I have to give you like because this is not
even the real recipe.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
I'm telling you now. If it doesn't taste flavorful. At
least you didn't smoke up the room. Now I learned
that it doesn't. I was boiling it.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
Yeah, I put the oil down to what looks real official.
Is that the buttermilk that makes it all crispy?
Speaker 3 (43:59):
I can't tell you that. No, I'm just ky. Yes, But.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
I was like, why, I want to know, because I'm
gonna try it at home. I never do buttermilk, but
I don't know. Mine doesn't come out as crispy.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
Oh yeah, so it's also the flower. I probably could
have seasoned the flower a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
Oh, we're gonna judge a girl with.
Speaker 3 (44:19):
Me cooking like this talking, I don't usually be all
mikes and spotlights.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
And started talk to me like that's with your girl.
I'm mixing the chicken, and you ask.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
Me these questions, So toart, Where do you want to
see yourself maybe in the next one to five years.
What are some goals that you're trying to hit?
Speaker 3 (44:35):
Okay, I got one, I got my deal, sot TV show,
I'd like to see.
Speaker 2 (44:41):
My chicken, go ahead, sherve me up talk show.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
I just booked two movies, so I'll be doing two
films in Atlanta next month.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
And are you kid kid free? Officially all of them
are out the house.
Speaker 3 (44:53):
So my daughter's in college. My son is still at
the house, but he's split between me and Kevin. Okay,
he's seventeen, but eighteen this year.
Speaker 2 (45:02):
Okay, yeah, okay, all right, let's serve this up. Come
sit with me. Okay, look crazy, hold on, let me
wipe it.
Speaker 3 (45:10):
Do you let me? Do you want some salad? Yes, okay,
serve me up.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
I want to experience what you were eating when you
were broke. Oh, that's that's it.
Speaker 3 (45:20):
Okay, we're gonna have to improvise. That's it. It's just
gonna improvise.
Speaker 2 (45:25):
It's a plastic one, guys, Okay, okay. And then I've
been snacking on the cucumbers.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
Okay, so this is what you ate in Philly in La.
Speaker 3 (45:36):
Yeah, I eat to listen, and I will still eat
some fried chicken like it's nothing.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
We got cucumbers, We got tomatoes.
Speaker 3 (45:43):
Here's some tomatoes to help myself.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
Here we go. This looks so good. I'm starving. Guys.
Couldn't wait for her to cook this chicken.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
Now. I would say, get one closer to the bottom
because it's a little the oil. I soaked it, oil
up a little bit more in the meat.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
Yeah, I love how you're conscious over it. You want
me to have the good piece of che I'm.
Speaker 3 (46:11):
A little nervous.
Speaker 2 (46:13):
Okay, I got a bottom. Let's try that blue cheese.
Speaker 3 (46:17):
Okay, Oh, here's the blue Let's.
Speaker 2 (46:18):
See how it goes.
Speaker 3 (46:21):
I don't eat blue cheese. Here we go, guys. Now, look,
I ain't got nothing to do with the blue cheese.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
Okay, No, but you know what, I haven't had it
in a long time. Let's see if you could change
my mind on it. Okay, I'm gonna put a little
bit on the corner. Stab this chicken.
Speaker 2 (46:35):
For time's sake, I'm gonna. I'm not waiting for you, Tori.
I'm sorry to I'm not waiting me.
Speaker 3 (46:41):
Okay. But no, the blue cheese, I don't have it.
I did not make no homemade blue cheese. I had pass.
But no, you don't like it.
Speaker 2 (46:57):
I don't even talking about the in hell while you eat.
Maybe if I didn't breathe it in.
Speaker 3 (47:01):
Okay, And you know what, I usually have hot sauce
with my chicken, but oh you have hot sauce up,
Open up the fridge.
Speaker 2 (47:10):
Hold up, someone put this on our show.
Speaker 3 (47:13):
Okay, not that kind, but it gotta be some Louisian or.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
All right, let's try here. We are crispy Chicken. It
looks real. Official taste test. We are not going easy
on toy today.
Speaker 1 (47:31):
Everybody, you're gonna see how she was even when she
was broken.
Speaker 2 (47:50):
Mone never comes out like this. It's true. It's really good.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
My whole crew is gonna come up in here, gonna
snatch the ball the chicken. I'll guarantee you we should
have had you made more? Why you didn't make those
last two pieces?
Speaker 2 (48:06):
Huhm otho great?
Speaker 3 (48:18):
She likes the chicken.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
I don't understand because when I do it at home,
it never comes out I got great, Probably because the
buttermilk is the buttermilk?
Speaker 2 (48:28):
Or do you use less flour?
Speaker 3 (48:31):
I mean I just used the flour you saw. I
just rolled it around.
Speaker 1 (48:34):
I'm gonna go home after this, after I pick up
my daughter. I'm gonna make this and if it comes
out as good as yours, cool, But if it doesn't,
I'm hitting Chrissy to hit you to find out what
it is I'm doing wrong.
Speaker 2 (48:47):
Okay, because it tastes.
Speaker 3 (48:48):
Really great, tell me yeah, you tell me and I'll
let you know. Okay, great, y'all, she likes my chicken.
Speaker 2 (49:01):
Thank you for opening up. How can I.
Speaker 3 (49:04):
Move this out the way? Okay?
Speaker 1 (49:06):
Oh shoot, how pam? Yeah, come on and we'll throw
this up here. Okay, one days is gonna come down
because I've been doing that lately. Where can everybody don't
take another bike into that camera?
Speaker 2 (49:21):
How can everybody keep up with you? And what can
they look forward to?
Speaker 3 (49:24):
Okay, So you guys can follow me on social media.
It's Tory t O r E. I h A R
T Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, It's not really a TikToker, but
website Torridashheart dot com. And then please be on the lookout.
Brutally honest with Tory Heart is coming and I have,
(49:45):
Like I said, I'm backed by Radio one, TV one,
Urban one, So you're gonna start seeing promos probably everywhere,
and it's gonna be hard hitting, funny, but also it
is I'm getting to the bottom line of a lot
of questions that a lot of people be scared to ask.
So brutally honest Tory Heart look forward today.
Speaker 2 (50:03):
I love it. Yeah, And so follow her guys and
check out her stand up comedy. It's great. I checked
it out.
Speaker 1 (50:09):
I was in the crowd Sprint and Center watching you. Okay,
come on, come out and support your girl and the
piece Peace.
Speaker 2 (50:24):
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