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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
For that to happen in Madison Square Garden and for
him to do that gesture, even though it was called
back as a two point shot. I know that I'm
not alone and saying, my inner child came out of
my body when Tyrese Haliburton did that.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
My inner child came out of my body, stood in
front of me and wept.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
And my inner child was wearing a Bernard King jersey,
and my inner child had a wristband on this arm.
My inner child had socks pulled up all the way
to the bottom of my knee.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
My inner child cried in front of me last night watching.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
The Indiana Pacers come back from I believe fourteen points
down and win that game in overtime.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
It was terrible. Boom have no fear. The Iron Rapports
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Speaker 2 (01:05):
The im rap Reports stereo podcast is in the place
to beat today's brand new banging. I am Rapports Stereo podcast. Historic, historic, demoralizing,
haunting loss for the New York Knicks to the Indiana
Pacers in the world's most famous arena again brought back
(01:26):
horrible memories horrible, horrible memories of the Ghosts of Indiana,
pacer At Snaggletooth, Reggie Miller, pasted. Plus a terrible, terrible
incident in Washington, d C. Very very heartbreaking, very very sad,
very very discouraging incident in Washington, d C. Where two
(01:50):
Israeli embassy staff members were gunned down in cold blood
by a man screaming Free Palestine, Free Palestine. Plus I
got Ricky Smiley, stand up comedian and the host of
the number one morning show in the country. Ricky Smiley
is joining me talking about his stand up comedy special
(02:10):
dropping May thirtieth, and so much more on this fully
fully disruptive, very very emotional, also very funny. I am
Rapaport stereo podcast coming up right now, Miles Jordan AK,
the Bleach Brothers, AK.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
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Speaker 2 (02:24):
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Speaker 2 (02:43):
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Welcome to the Iron Dome Destruction. Welcome to the Ziggity
Zone of Destruction. My name is Michael Rappaport aka the
Inflamed Asknazi Sultan of Sniff, aka the Gringo man Dingo.
(03:04):
You're now rock went the very very very best Iron
Rapport Stereo pock is coming live, live and direct from
New York City, where it's it's feeling like fall. It's
not feeling like spring. It's not feeling like a pre
summer day right now. It feels gloomy. It is a
gloomy day in New York City. And how apropos because.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
The Knicks last night.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Had one of the gloomiest, gloomiest days in their history.
I feel like that was one of the gloomiest days
to be a Knicks fan. Game one Eastern Conference Finals,
much discussed, much debated, much anticipated, Eastern Conference Finals versus
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the miserable Indiana Pacers New York Knicks, led by, of
course Big Body Brunson. Where'd that name come from? Right here,
Jalen big Body Brunson. I gave him that nickname. No
disrespect to my man Kendrick Perkins. That nickname was spawned
from the Iron Rapports stereo podcast of course Karl Anthony Towns,
(04:17):
og Angenobi McHale Bridges and so forth and so on,
versus the the unlikable, unlikable Indiana Pacers, led by their
mumbling coach, Rick Carlisle. I watched Rick Carlisle in a
press conference before the game. I'm just like, what's up, man,
You've been doing this for years? Cut the crap. You're like,
(04:39):
you're Bill Belichick. Now all of a sudden, you're like,
go to you. Now that worked out. Look how it's
working out for Bill Belichick. Rick Carlo get a personality.
I know it's the playoffs. I know you're like a
serious guy, you shave your head and all that stuff.
But lighting up, Okay, you're in the Eastern Conference finals
having a little bone broth. What is bone broth? I'm
(05:01):
not exactly sure. Ask my wife. Of course, my wife
is the co host of Rapaport's Reality Rap Reports reality podcast,
where me and my wife Kibi discuss all things reality TV,
all things popular culture, and some curated much much interested
(05:21):
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Speaker 1 (05:41):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Game one has come and gone the Knicks Eastern Conference
Finals verse the Indiana Pacers, and.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
It was going well.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Things were going really well for the Knicks despite some
foul trouble for Big Body Brunts and Jalen big Body
brunting the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
We're playing well.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
We dealt with the foul trouble of Big Body. We came,
we saw, we conquered, We were in control going into
the last few minutes of the fourth quarter, and then, hauntingly, hauntingly, somehow,
some way, we let the miserable, unlikable Indiana Pacers back
(06:24):
into the game.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I don't know how or why.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I'm still processing how and why we let them back
into the game.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
But he went nuts.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
The guy went totally crazy on the Indiana Pacers. Nie Smith,
who was guarding Big Body Brunson and making it challenging.
But Brunson was doing his thing despite the foul trouble.
But in the fourth quarter, I think it was with
four minutes left, this guy hit one three pointer after
(06:56):
another three pointer, after another three pointer, after another three pointer.
And I was watching it with headphones because my wife
had fallen, so I was watching it with my headphones
on the.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
TV and she was out cold, and.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
All I could think of is the movie Apocalypse Now,
starring the great Marlon Brando, the great Martin Sheen, of course,
the late great Dennis Hopper, directed by the great Francis
Ford Coppola. And while it was happening in slow motion,
all I could think about is the Marlon Brando line
(07:32):
from Apocalypse Now.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
The horror, the horror, the horror.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
And I was like, this can't be happening again, Not
with the Indiana Pacers, not with the Indiana Pacers and
Madison Square Garden. This can't be happening again. How could
this be happening again with the Pacers, with Reggie Miller
doing the play by play with TNT, How could this
be happening again.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
We've talked about it, We've.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Exercised these demons, and it happened. It happened again, And
the whole thing culminated with Tyrese Haliburton, tie Reese Haliburton,
ty Tie Ty Tie with the good hair, curly haired Tyres,
(08:25):
goofy face, big burger face.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Tyrese Haliburton.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Came down, I believe, with seven point nine seconds, and
he dribbled and he saw Mitch Robinson and then he
backed out and then he launched a three point shot
and it went all the way up in the air
and it hit the rim and then it bounced all
the way back in the air and then.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Fell through the hoop. And all I could think was
the horror, the horror, the horror. Why is this happening again?
How is this happening again?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
And then the most shocking moment of it all is
when ty Ty Halliburton, Tyree's with the good hair, goofy faced,
burger faced, Tyre's Halliburton had the nerve and audacity to
do the choke sign in New York, the nerve and
the audacity to do the choke sign in front of
Reggie Miller, and I literally, I literally thought Reggie Miller
(09:26):
was gonna ejaculate.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I know that it must have been orgasmic.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
For Reggie Miller to see Tyrese Halliburton reenact and Indiana
Pacers reenact another historic comeback in the world's most famous arena.
And then we went to overtime and we lost the game.
But when Tyre's Halliburton, although he shot a three and
(09:52):
it was called a two and he did the choke sign.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
We were done. We didn't even need to go to overtime.
Just the fact that.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
They got the close and they got into the game
and tied up the game. We should have just said,
fuck it, keep it, you got it, we're done, We're
not going into overtime. And we went into overtime, and
I believe the score was one thirty eight to one
thirty five, and the Knicks lost Game one at home
(10:19):
in the world's most famous arena. And I couldn't scream,
I couldn't yell because my wife was asleep.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I had to eat it and stuff it.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
And the memories, the bad memories flooded back into my brain,
the bad memories of the Knicks versus the Pacers, with
Antonio Davis Dale Davis Rick Smith's Vern Fleming, being coached
by Larry Brown and then being coached by Larry Bird,
(10:53):
and then of course being coached by Isaiah Thomas and
Mark Jackson and Chris Mullen and the rest of them,
and all the heartbreak and the loss and disappointment and
disappointing situations that I I can only speak for myself
(11:13):
that I have been through as a New York Nick
fan my entire life.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I can only take so much. Knicks fans could only
take so much.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
And yes, it was only one game, and if we
had won, it would only be one game. But for
that to happen that way in Madison Square Garden, in
front of Reggie Miller and Tyrese Halliburn, with the audacity
to do that in New York City, the horror, the
horror and the memories came back of John Stark's head
(11:45):
budding and Reggie Miller grabbing his crotch in the middle
of Madison Square Garden, the world's most famous arena, The
same arena where Ali fought Frasier, the same arena where
Hulk Holgen fought the late Great Andre the Giant WrestleMania,
(12:11):
the same arena where Frank Sinatra saying, The same arena
where Billy Joel did sold out show after sold out show,
the same arena after where the Boston Bruins beat up
a New York Ranger fan.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
With his own shoe the same arena where.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Marv Albert iconically said, here comes Willis, Here, comes Willis, Here,
comes Willis.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
For that to happen in Madison Square Garden and for
him to do that gesture, even though it was called
back as a two point shot, I know that I'm
not alone and saying, my inner child came out of
my body when Tyres Halliburton did that. My inner child
came out of my body, stood in front of me
and wept. And my inner child was wearing a Bernardo
(13:03):
King jersey, and my inner child had a wristband on
this arm. My inner child had socks pulled up all
the way to the bottom of my knee. My inner
child cried in front of me last night watching the
Indiana Pacers come back from I believe fourteen points down
(13:24):
and win that game in overtime.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
It was terrible. And I thought about.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Patrick Ewing's finger roll in nineteen ninety five and Game
seven in the world's most famous arena, Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I thought about Reggie Miller.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
What was it nine points in eight seconds or eight
points and nine seconds who knows. I thought about Marioellie
going when the San Antonio Spurs decimated.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Us in the finals. I thought about.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
The Knicks being in use said we got somehow, some way,
we got to Game seven in Houston versus Kee Malaje one.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Somehow, some way, I don't even know how we got.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
There and missing every single shot John Stark's missing every
single shot.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
I thought about.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Charles Smith pump faking and pump faking and pump fing
getting it swatted and pump faking and pump faking and
pump All those images and those bad memories came back
to me, and like I said, my inner child stood.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Before me and cried, cried, cried. That was a tough,
tough pill to swallow.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
And again, it was only one game, but the way
it happened and who did it, and the fact that
Reggie Miller was in the building, and all the excitement
and anticipation, and the fact that New York City, for
some reason, they didn't do Jalen brunts and big body
brunts and okay, you want to give a street for
big body bruns or just the starters. Okay, the entire
(14:55):
Knicks team all had streets named after them before the game,
the entire Knicks team, it was just Midwestern Indiana egg
in the face. That's what it felt like. Game One
in the Garden was Midwestern Indiana eggs in your face
being thrown at you by Rick Smith's being thrown at
(15:17):
you by a shimmering shimmy, shimmy shimmy, Mark Jackson throwing
eggs in your face. Like I said, the Celtics, Boston,
the Knicks and the Celtics, this is not a rivalry.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Boston, New York is a rivalry.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
We stomped, We stomped and stepped over the Boston Celtics.
But when you think about great rivalries in the NBA
in recent years, the Knicks and the Pacers is a real,
real rivalry. There's documentaries, books written about it. There's an
entire documentary on ESPN called Winning Time, great documentary that
(15:59):
breaks it down to the white meat. And sure the
series went three and three. But the thing about the
Pacers is that when they got us, they got us bad.
When they got us, they got us, they put our thumb.
They put their thumb right in our face, and they
smudged it in there. And that was another thumb right
(16:21):
in the face it was. They did it, so now
we just have to bounce back again. It was one game.
It was one game, but we have to now bounce back.
But it felt bad.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
The horror, the horror, the horror.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
After the Knicks lost, I shut my phone off and
for some reason I didn't see or.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Maybe it wasn't in the news, or maybe it was
in the news and I just didn't see.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
But I woke up to the crazy news that in Washington,
d C. Two Israeli embassy staff workers were shot and
killed in cold blood. And I was already down about
(17:29):
a meaningless in.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
The real world scheme of.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Things, a meaningless devastating loss for the New York Knicks.
But to wake up and the first thing that I
see was actually a text from dust brother Jordan Winter
saying something about this cold blooded.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Assassination in Washington, DC.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
It's needless to say, the day didn't start off very well.
And I was already in my fake feelings, you know,
my unimportant feelings about the Knicks losing. But to find
out about the killing of this beautiful young couple in Washington,
d C. By a psychopath, or maybe he wasn't psychopath,
(18:22):
Maybe maybe this guy isn't.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Maybe he can't call these people. I think this guy wasn't.
I say, he was so calm, so cool, so.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Collective, the killer of these two Israeli embassy staff workers
in Washington, d C. And he went back in there
and he confessed that he had done it, and he
took out a cafas carf And then when they were
arresting him, of course, he said, I'm doing this for Gaza,
(18:49):
Free Palestine, Free Palestine, Free Palestine. And I just couldn't
believe that this happened. And everybody has been saying for
nineteen plus months. And right now we are at the
five hundred and ninety fifth day, five hundred and ninety
(19:10):
five days, there are still fifty eight hostages in Gaza.
Five hundred and ninety five days, there are still fifty
eight hostages in Gaza, four of whom are American. And
I'm sure it's already been celebrated at one of these rallies,
just like October seventh was celebrated on October eighth openly.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
When people came.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Out on October eighth and talked about how exciting it
was that the massacre had taken place in Israel. They
talked about how exhilarating it was. I know, I already
saw people celebrating it online, the murder in cold blood
(19:59):
and murder of these two young people.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
In Washington, DC.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
And I'm sure by the time I put up this
I Am rap or Stereo podcast, it'll be documented, somebody
will be publicly saying that it was supposed to happen.
How could you not think something like this was going
to happen and saying this is what happens with occupations,
and this is what happens with genocides and all of
(20:28):
the other fake, convoluted bullshit that has been coming out.
But do not forget that October eighth, while the fighting
was still happening in Gaza, do not forget less than
twenty four hours in New York City people were screaming
(20:51):
and yelling and celebrating and talking about how excited they
were that Israel was under it attack and Israel was
being slaughtered, and talking about globalized the Intafada. They talked
about globalizing the Intafada. It's been on signs, it's been
(21:12):
graffited all over college campuses. It's been said, screamed, shouted,
promoted day after day after day after day for five
hundred and ninety five days, and congratulations in Washington, d C.
They globalized the intafada. That's exactly what happened in Washington,
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d C. That is the globalization of the violence against Jews.
That's what globalized the intafada. That's what an intafada means.
It's not some kumbaya, it's not some celebration, doesn't mean protests.
It means exactly what happened in Washington, DC. You wanted it,
you got it. I hope you're happy. I hope you
(21:56):
people feel good. I hope you people feel vigorated and excited.
For all of the anticipation, all of the celebration of
Yaya Sinowar, all of the cheering for Yemen, Yemen, make
us proud, turn another ship around? For all of the
Zionists aren't allowed on this part of the campus.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
No Zionists allowed.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
For all of the graffiti, For all the screaming, the yelling,
the intimidation, all of the harassing, all of the canceling
of conversations, of shows of speaking engagements, of the screaming
and yelling outside of the Nova Festival, all of the
(22:45):
misinformation online, the fake news that gets retracted the fake
news of Israel blowing up hospitals, and then it's perpetrated
all over the world and promoted all over the world,
and a few days later they go, oh, oh, this
wasn't actually what happened. This is what actually what happened.
For creating an atmosphere we're wearing a Jewish star is
(23:08):
something that Jews need to think twice about.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
This is where we are.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Where you can't walk around and feel safe and comfortable
wearing a Jewish star. You can't walk around feeling safe
and being comfortable wearing yellow pins. To acknowledge that fifty
eight hostages are still in captivity.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
For the context contexts, contexts.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
From UPenn, Harvard, Columbia. We're heads of these higher education
the heads of these schools of higher learning are up
there bullshitting on congressional hearings talking about context and what's
the context.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
And explaining all that, all of that, all of that, every.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Single thing that happened in the last five hundred and
ninety five days all over the world, in the United States,
in New York City, globalized, the INTAFAA, that's what happened
last night, and the excuses and the double talking, and
the NOA accountability and the Harvard being defunded because they
let the shit happen, and the Barack Obamas and the
(24:14):
Ileana Omars and the Rashida Talibs and the coach Steve
Kerz instead of calling exactly what it is, turning it
into this Trump political thing when we know that if
the same behavior was taking place on these campuses and
it was towards anybody else except for Jews, it would
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be immediately snuffed out. And you got these lunatics running
around these Khalil Mohammad's and that Moween mowow whatever the
fuck his name is, and they want this. They screamed
for this, they celebrated this, they called for this. It happened.
Khalil Mohammad. I know these people are happy. They wanted
(24:59):
this Nerdine person, that fat Nerdeine.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
They wanted this. They wanted this.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
They have been calling for it, they have been asking
for it, they've been chanting it. From the river to
the sea, Palestine will be free. From the river to
the sea, Israel won't exist. That's what that means. From
the river to the sea, Israel won't exist, because Palestine
will be free.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
All these chants. These people are they're happy about it.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
They're happy about it, and it's sick and it's crazy
that it's happening in twenty twenty five in the United States,
and motherfuckers have sat by and Kathy Hokeel, Still you still,
Kathy Okol, You still couldn't shut down. You still couldn't
cut through the red tape. Mayor Adams, none of you
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guys could cut through the red tape. That these people
should not be able to run around with their kafia scarfs,
the same kind of Kaffia scarf that that sick animal
whipped down out in Washington, DC. This is not a
movement of peace, This is not a resistance. It's a
movement of violence. So of course this is gonna happen.
(26:12):
Of course this is gonna happen. But when it does happen,
it's just shocking to realize that it did.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
A couple of people asked me.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
What should we do? What do you think we should do?
And I'll just say what other strong, smart, proud Jewish
people have told me is that when something like this happens,
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you have to soak it up, soak up the reality,
soak up the reality, the situation, just like you have
to soak up the reality the situation every single time
an IDF soldier goes down, every single time a.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Rocket is launched into Israel.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
The other day, during the rockets at three am and
Israel being launched, the only thing that you can do
is to pray. The only thing that you can do
is to dust yourself off. And the only thing that
you can do is continue to stay loud and stay
proud and be actively Jewish. A rabbi told me that
(27:24):
being Jewish is a participation sport.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
You have to be actively Jewish.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
That's the only little sliver of advice that I have
is to pray, rap to fill in, read Torah, check
on your friends, check on your family, and stay loud
and stay proud because despite the craziness that Jews are
going through right now, despite the craziness that Israel is
(27:54):
going through right now, and it's every fucking day, it's
every fucking day, exhaust every single day. There was this
news report that was posted put up by the BBC
and NBC and so many mainstream news media outlets the
other day that within forty eight hours, fourteen thousand babies
(28:17):
in Gaza are gonna die, and then forty eight hours
later it doesn't happen, and nobody acknowledges that this fake
news is propaganda has already been put out there, and
people run with it. And then you are confused as
to why somebody would feel emboldened to shoot to people
(28:40):
in Washington, DC and cold blood. It's all of that.
It's all of that. But as far as what we
can do, the only thing we can do is to
stay loud, stay proud, stay actively Jewish, and as overwhelming,
as frustrating, as demoralizing, as heartbreaking this time has been,
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and whatever I'm going through is minuscule compared to so
many other people. The only thing that we can do
is to remind ourselves that Jews are going nowhere and
Israel is going nowhere.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
We've seen it all, we have heard it all.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Just stay loud, stay proud, and never ever ever doubt
that the Jews are going nowhere, Israel's going nowhere, and
the unbreakable spirit, the unbreakable light in Jewish people is real.
It's more real than ever before.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Podcast.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
All right, Ricky Smiley joining me on the Iron Rapport
stereo podcast. It's funny having somebody who I know is
so versed in radio, podcasting, and media for twenty twenty five.
I'm excited to talk to you. I appreciate you coming
on the show. I'm excited about.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Your new Hulu.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Stand up comedy special, which is going to be premiering
May thirtieth.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
You're prolific. You do all sorts of stuff. You're an author,
you're a comic, you're.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
A radio host of a ginormous, ginormous syndicated radio show,
the number one morning show in the country, which is
crazy Ricky Smiley on the Iron Wrap or stereo pockets.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
How you doing, man?
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Man, it is a pleasure to meet you. I've been
a fan of yours for years. Man and h and Man,
you'd be sending people straight.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
Man.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
I absolutely love you, and thank you for being a
stand up guy when it comes to very very important issues.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
And thank you for having me on your show.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
I'm trying. I'm trying, man, I appreciate it. I just
want to jump into it.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
First of all, I'm sorry for your loss.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
You've been very public, you've been very open, wrote a
great book about the loss of your son, Living with
loss and moving forward with faith. How were you able
to transition from such a tragic, unprecedented situation and pivot
and pull off a special which again is premiering on
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Hulu May thirtieth. How were you able to transition from that?
Speaker 5 (31:23):
Well, first of all, thank you for your condolences.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Man.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
My son was a comic. My son was a headliner.
We did shows together. We do it together. Yeah, I
had my son on stage since he was almost eight
years old, first time he walked on stage, so we
had been doing so I have to do it for him.
Brandon absolutely loved comedy. He loved stand up. He loved
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my comedy. But he liked Faison Love and Roy Wood Jr.
And Eddie Ribbon. He liked them more than he liked me.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Hey, it happens. It happens.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
But he did have certain jokes that I would do
that he'd liked.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
And I just have to do it for him because
it always feels like we're on stage together because we
always work together.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
We have so much fun doing what we did.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
So and then you have to do it for people
that have suffered also, you know, you have to think
about the mothers and the people that have lost kids,
do the violence with absolutely no resources, and people that
have lost more than one kid. Much as given, much
is required. You know, my son died on a Sunday. Wednesday,
I was back on the air. The funeral was on Saturday.
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But I don't have nothing to do between five a m.
And ten am. Get up, get on the show. You know,
we have a duty to serve, to help the community.
There's important issues out here, and I can deal with
my son's death after I get off the air, So
it just have to be done. And remember, at the
end of the day, all of this stuff is only
a test.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
You know.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
Sometimes God allows you to go through stuff to see
how you're gonna handle the situation. Is it gonna are
you gonna make it about you or are you gonna
continue to serve or whatever?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
You know?
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Wild we grieve but still serve.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
No, I understand, I understand.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Like I said, your book, Living with Loss and Moving
Forward was heavy. Obviously, stand up comedy is supposed to
be funny, but so much of great humor comes from pain.
In your special that you have coming out, do you
talk about the loss of your son? Are you able
to sort of use the really really real tragic situation
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and somehow pull off anything funny out of it.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
Yeah, I wasn't able to. But here's the good news.
At the end of my.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Special, you can see a clip of my son's performance,
so as the credits rot is a split screen, so
as the credits rolling on my side, there's my son
and I on stage together performing and he comes out, Yeah,
and do about seven minutes, and it's good to see
him move around, to hear his voice and express himself
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and do his jokes or whatever.
Speaker 5 (34:04):
In the whole special was dedicated to him.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
But yeah, I kind of stay away from it on
stage because I don't have the material.
Speaker 5 (34:14):
I can't think of anything.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
I can think of funny things and people, how weird
people was you know around the funeral and stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (34:21):
I just haven't. I haven't put that together yet. But
I was.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
I was able to dedicate it to him, and you
can actually see him on stage with.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
Me, so can we. Yeah, hey, man, listen, I don't
bragg on my stuff. I don't.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
I've been doing comedy special Comedy Central.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
You don't remember, I was hosting comic view on B E. T. Man.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
This is my best work right here, and it was
funny from beginning to end to the end. I never
saw it until last night. I did a premiere in
Atlanta here in Atlanta last night, and I saw it
for the first time, and I was actually shot. Dave
and Land Talbot really put this stuff together and made
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it happen and it will be a classic forever and
shot on film in a while.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
Yeah, man, it looked really good.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
The pages of Hulu has put a page up so
you can go and watch clips now. So I'm just
grateful for the opportunity to perform, you know.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
You've been doing stand up for so long, you know,
and the business of stand up has changed.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
You know.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
I feel like we're in a stand up comedy boom,
which is great. You know, there's so many platforms to
put out you know material.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Obviously everybody puts up clips, and you.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Know there's Hulu and there's Netflix, and there's YouTube. And
how has it changed for you in terms of you know,
having those outlets of you know, putting up clips you
I mean, and you know, getting a special on Hulu, Like,
how has it changed for you since you first started
in the business as a stand.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Up Well man, it was like the older comedes from
the nineties, we had to learn how to catch up
to the Internet, and the younger convicts had to learn
how to catch up to being a live performer, you
see what I'm saying, Like like the guys the new
Internet comedian, they had to learn how to perform, but
we had to learn how to perform.
Speaker 5 (36:17):
First and then learn how to work the phone in
the apps, right, you know what I'm saying, So you
know it.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
It is definitely different from the nineties and nineties was
a hot era where comedy club owners with coach comedians.
Nobody's coaching comedians anymore and give to them techniques and
coaching them when they make mistakes on stage, like we
got coached in the nineties. You know, Bernie macdeal you be,
said Steve, George Wallace, Carl Strong. Somebody will pull you
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to the side and make a critique that will help you.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
You don't see a whole.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
Lot of that now, lads. But the camaraderie with comics
back in the nineties was the best. You remember Death
Comedy Jam and Yeah and showtime at the Apollo and
all that stuff.
Speaker 5 (37:02):
You know.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
In our era when we were just getting our feet
wet or whatever it was, it was the best.
Speaker 5 (37:07):
It was like a fraternity.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
It was like a brotherhood, especially the New York comics I.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
Have I don't know.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
Being from Alabama, I had a special bond with the
New York comics, the ag White and I just remember
them taking me out, Tracy Morgan and taking me out
for pizza, and we writing jokes and working on stuff,
trying to get on Uptown Comedy Club, trying to you know, audition,
heiting there, whoever had a room, And it was like
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a freaking fraternity back then, and our comics stuck together,
and if there were beefs, they were private and they.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
Were dealt with behind closed doors.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
And I just really missed the nineties, and I just
hope that we can all get back to what comedy
was in the nineties, because it was the best.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Do you find that you're not like a vulgar?
Speaker 2 (37:58):
You keep it like PG. Third, You're not like dark
dark dark. But in general, with cancel culture, you know,
so many things could get taken out of context. You
could say the wrong thing on the wrong night, it
could get posted, you could say the wrong thing on
the radio, and you know.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
All hell could break loose.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Do you find cancel culture message with your flow and
things you want to say, not say, I mean, you
keep things above the belt. But in general, what is
your take as a comedian on cancel culture?
Speaker 4 (38:29):
They sub they too sincident all I need to play
little league football. It tupping up a little bit. I
don't care what they say. They're not gonna change my
game because I have a fan base. I have to
stop worrying about can I'm glad you asked that question.
I had to stop worrying about cancel culture and play
to my bass. There are people that like my comedy
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and like the stories that I tell, and if it
hurts your feelings, I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
It's comedy. I talk about myself.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
I talk about black people, white people, fat people, scanning people,
tall people, short people or whatever. Everybody gets on, you know,
and people can't have selective outraged. You know, some things
you get outraged about, other things you okay with it,
and all that stuff is crazy. If something is funny,
I'm gonna say it. I don't give a damn what
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they think. And that's just I'm sorry. You know what
I'm saying. So I just really ip man. You go
back and look at Editie Murphy's delirious and Edie Murphy's
wrong and Richer Pride and Chevy Chase on Saturday Night Live.
You'll really be damn upset or whatever. And I really
missed that. I missed that in the game and I
(39:39):
want it back.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
You know, you mentioned something about beefs, and you know,
like if people have beefs and comics have beefs. You know,
like since you came into it and now being on
the radio and the internet and you you know, you
have a huge following on social media, how do you
personally balance dealing with with so many people that you know,
(40:02):
like your radio show, you know, in the morning, people
want to key key there's so much fucking gossip going on.
There's so much content, there's so much you know, fake news,
real news. How do you balance? You know, I read
something you said about clicks over cloud. How do you
balance you know, doing that because in the morning on
your radio show, you got to talk.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
About the shit that's going on.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Like I was listening to you guys this morning, you know,
to get my head in your flow. How do you,
guys balance where you don't want to take things too far,
but you want to talk shit essentially because everybody.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Every I don't care who you.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Are, what your religion is, what your faith is, especially comedians.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Everybody likes to talk shit. How do you find that balance?
Speaker 4 (40:45):
You know, we'll read the story and we'll just kind
of but we never attack anybody on our shows as
life totally attack and tear down people or whatever, and
you know, allegedly, here's what happened, here's the news, and
we try to go more funny than just attacking somebody
or attacking somebody's character. Unless they did something to women,
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or unless they did something to kids, or unless they
did something to senior citizens, that's when we'll go in.
Anything outside of that, we don't go in. We report
the story. We talked about saying, well, if that was me,
I would have done something different in that situation, and
then we started making jokes about what we would have done.
Nobody ever feels uncomfortable coming on our money show or
(41:32):
coming on our morning show to confront us about something
that we have said, so we don't do the controversial.
So I would never ask any question to any guests
that would make them feel uncomfortable, because I would like
for my guests to come back.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
Yeah, I hear you I think it's rude to do
that to people, because, like you said, you want them
to come back. It's like inviting somebody over to your
house and then asking them to take out the trash,
or you know, sort of bamboozling them, you know, Ricky.
In the last seven days, I have heard the word
freakof and baby oil more times than I need to
hear ever again in my life.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
I don't want to hear freakoffs, baby oil, baby oil, freakoffs, lotion,
astro glads.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
How are you guys breaking down and dealing with every
single day of the Puffy trial.
Speaker 5 (42:20):
Yeah, well, we don't.
Speaker 4 (42:21):
Really talk about it that much, Alfreda's just read it
in the news and read whatever's the trending report is,
and we just kind of keep it moving because there's
so much other stuff to talk about because I think
everybody's having freak off fatigue, you know, freak off fatigue
right now, you know what I'm saying. The funniest thing
(42:43):
Plaide said was I thought.
Speaker 5 (42:45):
I was freaky. He said, I thought I was handling business.
Speaker 4 (42:48):
He was like, dang, but I feel bad not only
for Cassid, for any women or women in this country
and all around the world that has been abuse's been treated,
taking advantage of sexually assaulted, all of that stuff, man,
And I just hope that something good comes out of
(43:08):
all of this stuff and make people more aware of,
you know, things that's going on with sexual assault and abuse.
And I just hope that we all learned something from it.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
Yeah, because this is this is crazy, and I agree
the freak all fatigue is real. I mean, but just
the amount of coverage and the amount of TikTokers and
social media. Now everybody's a courtroom report. I mean, like
in the last week, everybody's a courtroom report. I've never
seen anything like that obviously, you know, with social media,
(43:41):
anybody could get involved. What are some of the other
things that you guys have been sort of following on
the show that you're having fun with?
Speaker 4 (43:50):
Oh yeah, we talked about policies and the Trump administration.
Speaker 5 (43:54):
Gary with the tea that's on my monitor always.
Speaker 4 (43:56):
Talking about one of the Atlanta house Wives or house
Wives of Platomic or below deck. We have the brand
that does the hotspot WHI you talk about things that's
trending and hip hop and pop culture, which is a
great segment, by the way, great segment, you know anything
(44:17):
with Kanye West or Teathang Jamie Fox.
Speaker 5 (44:21):
What do we have?
Speaker 4 (44:22):
Comedian Special K on the Morning show that's a hell
of a writer, Special K and comedian Riada Brint. We
just have a well balanced show. We've been really trained.
We have Morning Show boot Camp to make sure that
our sep is tight, you know what I mean, Sure
that we are tight and not hanging out on the
mic too long. And that's why we're successful because we're disciplined,
(44:45):
trained and we try our best to do.
Speaker 5 (44:47):
The right thing.
Speaker 1 (44:49):
I think that's important and I respect that.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
Speaking of the Real Housewives of Atlanta, I don't know
if you know this about me, Ricky, but I am
a hard body, karate, big time Real house Wives fan.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
I believe Porsche used to be. Didn't she do the
show for a while with you?
Speaker 5 (45:06):
Yes, he did. She would come and fill in on
the morning show. But we started that show Dish Nation,
right yep.
Speaker 4 (45:13):
And and sometime, like if Brat was out or whatever,
Porsche would come and do the morning show and fill in.
Speaker 5 (45:18):
But it's been a pleasure to work with her. She's
really sweet.
Speaker 4 (45:23):
I'm good friends with Porsche, good friends with Candy, good
friends with Shamilla.
Speaker 5 (45:27):
We were just texting each other earlier this morning, so you.
Speaker 4 (45:31):
Know, we all worked together in Atlanta and have a
good time in front of the camera and off the
camera or whatever. But I just wish you could be
in a car with Porsche, Samieah and myself. When I
tell you would be in that car that I would
dare you to drive with all three of us in
the car. We have a great time together. Those are
my real friends, colleagues and sisters. You know Tiny, you
(45:55):
know Tamika from Escape or whatever. It's just a big
circle of brands that just come over to the house
and eat a big pot of Pento beans and corn,
brand of smoke, Turkey Nicks like we'd be on some
simple stuff, having a good size.
Speaker 5 (46:12):
So if you're in Atlanta, man, you hit me up.
Speaker 1 (46:14):
I would love that.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
And when you said be in a car with you
and Shamia, I mean with you Porscha Shami. I don't
think you really understand Ricky how much I love the
housewives and I've met so many. The reason why I
was bringing up Porsche because you know, I've done a
watch What Happens Live and I've actually never met Porsche
and in my opinion, she's one of the top ten
housewives ever. So but when all this drama is happening
(46:38):
with the housewives and for me, you know them, like
I even the ones that I know, I like to
keep it Like I love the show so much and
I appreciate the show as a show so much. I
never want to know sort of what's going on behind
the scenes when you're like Shami and Porsche. Based on
what I'm seeing now, they're having problems in their long
(46:59):
term relationship.
Speaker 1 (46:59):
I didn't know they were friends for such a long time.
How do you deal with that?
Speaker 2 (47:03):
But like it's playing out for fans like myself and
I mean rabbit fans like myself when they're having this
public feud.
Speaker 4 (47:10):
Well, I didn't even know they was having a public
kid because I'm friends with them. So I can't watch
it because it make my freaking nerves bad.
Speaker 5 (47:17):
Like the minute, the minute.
Speaker 4 (47:19):
I see Candy Birds cry or something or somebody does
something personal to her, I have to turn the TV
off because, like it really mentally affects me because I'm
a I'm a good guy that want to help and
see I'll get on the phone and start calling people like,
what's wrong? What can I do to help? And it
was like, hey man, we take that eight months ago.
We're fine, you know like that, And so it's hard
(47:43):
to watch. I can't watch because I'm I'm one of
those type of people that avoid controversy.
Speaker 5 (47:48):
I got you, Yeah, it gets it gets real. So
I had to stop watching it because they have me
in my feeling.
Speaker 2 (47:54):
I got you, I'm sure because you know them, and
like I mean, it has me and my feelings and
I don't even know them personally.
Speaker 1 (47:59):
I just know them literally as a fan.
Speaker 2 (48:02):
So shout out to Shamiyah and Porsche and you know,
like I said, I always want to see them get along.
How did you wind up getting the special on Hulu?
I'm pivoting back to your special, you know, getting a show,
a stand up comedy special. What was the process of
doing that? Did you sell it beforehand? Did you make
it and then sell it? How did you get your
show on Hulu?
Speaker 5 (48:23):
Made it and sold it?
Speaker 1 (48:24):
Nice good feel, pay for.
Speaker 5 (48:27):
It, pay for the rights to use certain music that
I had to use, walked it in there.
Speaker 4 (48:32):
They say, we like it, we want it. We got
to put it on almost immediately. My team, their team
did the contract and here we are where.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
You know, comedy is so like we were saying earlier, comedy,
there's so many comedy clubs. How did you build this
set and keep it sort of private and not get
you know, footage leaked? And what do you like to
do to sort of work out your bits, you know,
before you you know, take it to stage to be shot.
Speaker 5 (49:02):
You know. I would do a lot of.
Speaker 4 (49:03):
The stuff during karaoke, And a lot of the stuff
that I did at karaoke came off the top of
my head. I was like, whoa, I could do that.
I could perform that on the weekend. That was funny.
Speaker 5 (49:13):
See, I was.
Speaker 4 (49:14):
Hosting karaoke in Birmingham at the Stardom. You know the
comedy clubs. Stardome. It's a big ass comedy club, probably
the largest comedy club in the country. It would be packed.
They loved karaoke. So I was in between as trout
stuff here and there and start putting it together on weekend.
I did a lot of comedy clubs, you know, the
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funny bone, the improvs and working that stuff out. And
I worked on that stuff for years and you can
look at it when you see the special that's not
two or three months or six months.
Speaker 5 (49:47):
That's years of perfected material. And I did an hour,
thirty minutes, thirty minutes. It didn't even make the cut.
Speaker 4 (49:56):
So I could take that thirty minutes plus some new
stuff doing Wow.
Speaker 1 (50:01):
I can't wait. I can't wait. May thirtieth on Hulu.
I appreciate you, Ricky.
Speaker 2 (50:06):
I appreciate you taking the time, and like I said,
May thirtieth on Hulu, Foolish, your next comedy special. You
could listen to Ricky every single morning all across the country.
The number one syndicated radio show in the morning. I
don't need to say Urban, I don't care. It's the
number one radio show in the morning. And if you
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want to read a book that will absolutely touch your heart,
you could read Living with Loss Moving Forward with Faith. Anyway, Ricky,
I appreciate you joining me again May thirtieth, Foolish on
Hulu and you can listen to Ricky every single morning,
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Speaker 1 (50:50):
I appreciate you, Ricky.
Speaker 5 (50:52):
Thank you man, and thank you for being an rg mator.
We came up in the nineties. Baby, We're still.
Speaker 1 (50:56):
Here, exactly exactly going nowhere.
Speaker 5 (51:00):
Yes, fun, Thank you man, Thank you Ricky.
Speaker 1 (51:02):
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my body when Tyrese Haliburton did that.
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
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course Big Body Brunson. Where'd that name come from? Right here,
Jalen big Body Brunson. I gave him that nickname. No
disrespect to my man Kendrick Perkins. That nickname was spawned
from the Iron Rapports stereo podcast of course Karl Anthony Towns,
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og Angenobi McHale Bridges and so forth and so on,
versus the the unlikable, unlikable Indiana Pacers, led by their
mumbling coach, Rick Carlisle. I watched Rick Carlisle in a
press conference before the game. I'm just like, what's up, man,
You've been doing this for years? Cut the crap. You're like,
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you're Bill Belichick. Now all of a sudden, you're like,
go to you. Now that worked out. Look how it's
working out for Bill Belichick. Rick Carlo get a personality.
I know it's the playoffs. I know you're like a
serious guy, you shave your head and all that stuff.
But lighting up, Okay, you're in the Eastern Conference finals
having a little bone broth. What is bone broth? I'm
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Speaker 1 (05:41):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Game one has come and gone the Knicks Eastern Conference
Finals verse the Indiana Pacers, and.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
It was going well.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Things were going really well for the Knicks despite some
foul trouble for Big Body Brunts and Jalen big Body
brunting the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
We're playing well.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
We dealt with the foul trouble of Big Body. We came,
we saw, we conquered, We were in control going into
the last few minutes of the fourth quarter, and then, hauntingly, hauntingly, somehow,
some way, we let the miserable, unlikable Indiana Pacers back
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into the game.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I don't know how or why.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I'm still processing how and why we let them back
into the game.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
But he went nuts.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
The guy went totally crazy on the Indiana Pacers. Nie Smith,
who was guarding Big Body Brunson and making it challenging.
But Brunson was doing his thing despite the foul trouble.
But in the fourth quarter, I think it was with
four minutes left, this guy hit one three pointer after
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another three pointer, after another three pointer, after another three pointer.
And I was watching it with headphones because my wife
had fallen, so I was watching it with my headphones
on the.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
TV and she was out cold, and.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
All I could think of is the movie Apocalypse Now,
starring the great Marlon Brando, the great Martin Sheen, of course,
the late great Dennis Hopper, directed by the great Francis
Ford Coppola. And while it was happening in slow motion,
all I could think about is the Marlon Brando line
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from Apocalypse Now.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
The horror, the horror, the horror.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
And I was like, this can't be happening again, Not
with the Indiana Pacers, not with the Indiana Pacers and
Madison Square Garden. This can't be happening again. How could
this be happening again with the Pacers, with Reggie Miller
doing the play by play with TNT, How could this
be happening again.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
We've talked about it, We've.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Exercised these demons, and it happened. It happened again, And
the whole thing culminated with Tyrese Haliburton, tie Reese Haliburton,
ty Tie Ty Tie with the good hair, curly haired Tyres,
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goofy face, big burger face.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Tyrese Haliburton.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Came down, I believe, with seven point nine seconds, and
he dribbled and he saw Mitch Robinson and then he
backed out and then he launched a three point shot
and it went all the way up in the air
and it hit the rim and then it bounced all
the way back in the air and then.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Fell through the hoop. And all I could think was
the horror, the horror, the horror. Why is this happening again?
How is this happening again?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
And then the most shocking moment of it all is
when ty Ty Halliburton, Tyree's with the good hair, goofy faced,
burger faced, Tyre's Halliburton had the nerve and audacity to
do the choke sign in New York, the nerve and
the audacity to do the choke sign in front of
Reggie Miller, and I literally, I literally thought Reggie Miller
(09:26):
was gonna ejaculate.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I know that it must have been orgasmic.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
For Reggie Miller to see Tyrese Halliburton reenact and Indiana
Pacers reenact another historic comeback in the world's most famous arena.
And then we went to overtime and we lost the game.
But when Tyre's Halliburton, although he shot a three and
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it was called a two and he did the choke sign.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
We were done. We didn't even need to go to overtime.
Just the fact that.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
They got the close and they got into the game
and tied up the game. We should have just said,
fuck it, keep it, you got it, we're done, We're
not going into overtime. And we went into overtime, and
I believe the score was one thirty eight to one
thirty five, and the Knicks lost Game one at home
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in the world's most famous arena. And I couldn't scream,
I couldn't yell because my wife was asleep.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I had to eat it and stuff it.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
And the memories, the bad memories flooded back into my brain,
the bad memories of the Knicks versus the Pacers, with
Antonio Davis Dale Davis Rick Smith's Vern Fleming, being coached
by Larry Brown and then being coached by Larry Bird,
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and then of course being coached by Isaiah Thomas and
Mark Jackson and Chris Mullen and the rest of them,
and all the heartbreak and the loss and disappointment and
disappointing situations that I I can only speak for myself
(11:13):
that I have been through as a New York Nick
fan my entire life.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I can only take so much. Knicks fans could only
take so much.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
And yes, it was only one game, and if we
had won, it would only be one game. But for
that to happen that way in Madison Square Garden, in
front of Reggie Miller and Tyrese Halliburn, with the audacity
to do that in New York City, the horror, the
horror and the memories came back of John Stark's head
(11:45):
budding and Reggie Miller grabbing his crotch in the middle
of Madison Square Garden, the world's most famous arena, The
same arena where Ali fought Frasier, the same arena where
Hulk Holgen fought the late Great Andre the Giant WrestleMania,
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the same arena where Frank Sinatra saying, The same arena
where Billy Joel did sold out show after sold out show,
the same arena after where the Boston Bruins beat up
a New York Ranger fan.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
With his own shoe the same arena where.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Marv Albert iconically said, here comes Willis, Here, comes Willis, Here,
comes Willis.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
For that to happen in Madison Square Garden and for
him to do that gesture, even though it was called
back as a two point shot, I know that I'm
not alone and saying, my inner child came out of
my body when Tyres Halliburton did that. My inner child
came out of my body, stood in front of me
and wept. And my inner child was wearing a Bernardo
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King jersey, and my inner child had a wristband on
this arm. My inner child had socks pulled up all
the way to the bottom of my knee. My inner
child cried in front of me last night watching the
Indiana Pacers come back from I believe fourteen points down
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and win that game in overtime.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
It was terrible. And I thought about.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Patrick Ewing's finger roll in nineteen ninety five and Game
seven in the world's most famous arena, Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I thought about Reggie Miller.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
What was it nine points in eight seconds or eight
points and nine seconds who knows. I thought about Marioellie
going when the San Antonio Spurs decimated.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Us in the finals. I thought about.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
The Knicks being in use said we got somehow, some way,
we got to Game seven in Houston versus Kee Malaje one.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Somehow, some way, I don't even know how we got.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
There and missing every single shot John Stark's missing every
single shot.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
I thought about.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Charles Smith pump faking and pump faking and pump fing
getting it swatted and pump faking and pump faking and
pump All those images and those bad memories came back
to me, and like I said, my inner child stood.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Before me and cried, cried, cried. That was a tough,
tough pill to swallow.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
And again, it was only one game, but the way
it happened and who did it, and the fact that
Reggie Miller was in the building, and all the excitement
and anticipation, and the fact that New York City, for
some reason, they didn't do Jalen brunts and big body
brunts and okay, you want to give a street for
big body bruns or just the starters. Okay, the entire
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Knicks team all had streets named after them before the game,
the entire Knicks team, it was just Midwestern Indiana egg
in the face. That's what it felt like. Game One
in the Garden was Midwestern Indiana eggs in your face
being thrown at you by Rick Smith's being thrown at
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you by a shimmering shimmy, shimmy shimmy, Mark Jackson throwing
eggs in your face. Like I said, the Celtics, Boston,
the Knicks and the Celtics, this is not a rivalry.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Boston, New York is a rivalry.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
We stomped, We stomped and stepped over the Boston Celtics.
But when you think about great rivalries in the NBA
in recent years, the Knicks and the Pacers is a real,
real rivalry. There's documentaries, books written about it. There's an
entire documentary on ESPN called Winning Time, great documentary that
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breaks it down to the white meat. And sure the
series went three and three. But the thing about the
Pacers is that when they got us, they got us bad.
When they got us, they got us, they put our thumb.
They put their thumb right in our face, and they
smudged it in there. And that was another thumb right
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in the face it was. They did it, so now
we just have to bounce back again. It was one game.
It was one game, but we have to now bounce back.
But it felt bad.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
The horror, the horror, the horror.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
After the Knicks lost, I shut my phone off and
for some reason I didn't see or.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Maybe it wasn't in the news, or maybe it was
in the news and I just didn't see.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
But I woke up to the crazy news that in Washington,
d C. Two Israeli embassy staff workers were shot and
killed in cold blood. And I was already down about
(17:29):
a meaningless in.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
The real world scheme of.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Things, a meaningless devastating loss for the New York Knicks.
But to wake up and the first thing that I
see was actually a text from dust brother Jordan Winter
saying something about this cold blooded.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Assassination in Washington, DC.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
It's needless to say, the day didn't start off very well.
And I was already in my fake feelings, you know,
my unimportant feelings about the Knicks losing. But to find
out about the killing of this beautiful young couple in Washington,
d C. By a psychopath, or maybe he wasn't psychopath,
(18:22):
Maybe maybe this guy isn't.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Maybe he can't call these people. I think this guy wasn't.
I say, he was so calm, so cool, so.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Collective, the killer of these two Israeli embassy staff workers
in Washington, d C. And he went back in there
and he confessed that he had done it, and he
took out a cafas carf And then when they were
arresting him, of course, he said, I'm doing this for Gaza,
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Free Palestine, Free Palestine, Free Palestine. And I just couldn't
believe that this happened. And everybody has been saying for
nineteen plus months. And right now we are at the
five hundred and ninety fifth day, five hundred and ninety
(19:10):
five days, there are still fifty eight hostages in Gaza.
Five hundred and ninety five days, there are still fifty
eight hostages in Gaza, four of whom are American. And
I'm sure it's already been celebrated at one of these rallies,
just like October seventh was celebrated on October eighth openly.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
When people came.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Out on October eighth and talked about how exciting it
was that the massacre had taken place in Israel. They
talked about how exhilarating it was. I know, I already
saw people celebrating it online, the murder in cold blood
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and murder of these two young people.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
In Washington, DC.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
And I'm sure by the time I put up this
I Am rap or Stereo podcast, it'll be documented, somebody
will be publicly saying that it was supposed to happen.
How could you not think something like this was going
to happen and saying this is what happens with occupations,
and this is what happens with genocides and all of
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the other fake, convoluted bullshit that has been coming out.
But do not forget that October eighth, while the fighting
was still happening in Gaza, do not forget less than
twenty four hours in New York City people were screaming
(20:51):
and yelling and celebrating and talking about how excited they
were that Israel was under it attack and Israel was
being slaughtered, and talking about globalized the Intafada. They talked
about globalizing the Intafada. It's been on signs, it's been
(21:12):
graffited all over college campuses. It's been said, screamed, shouted,
promoted day after day after day after day for five
hundred and ninety five days, and congratulations in Washington, d C.
They globalized the intafada. That's exactly what happened in Washington,
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d C. That is the globalization of the violence against Jews.
That's what globalized the intafada. That's what an intafada means.
It's not some kumbaya, it's not some celebration, doesn't mean protests.
It means exactly what happened in Washington, DC. You wanted it,
you got it. I hope you're happy. I hope you
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people feel good. I hope you people feel vigorated and excited.
For all of the anticipation, all of the celebration of
Yaya Sinowar, all of the cheering for Yemen, Yemen, make
us proud, turn another ship around? For all of the
Zionists aren't allowed on this part of the campus.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
No Zionists allowed.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
For all of the graffiti, For all the screaming, the yelling,
the intimidation, all of the harassing, all of the canceling
of conversations, of shows of speaking engagements, of the screaming
and yelling outside of the Nova Festival, all of the
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misinformation online, the fake news that gets retracted the fake
news of Israel blowing up hospitals, and then it's perpetrated
all over the world and promoted all over the world,
and a few days later they go, oh, oh, this
wasn't actually what happened. This is what actually what happened.
For creating an atmosphere we're wearing a Jewish star is
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something that Jews need to think twice about.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
This is where we are.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Where you can't walk around and feel safe and comfortable
wearing a Jewish star. You can't walk around feeling safe
and being comfortable wearing yellow pins. To acknowledge that fifty
eight hostages are still in captivity.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
For the context contexts, contexts.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
From UPenn, Harvard, Columbia. We're heads of these higher education
the heads of these schools of higher learning are up
there bullshitting on congressional hearings talking about context and what's
the context.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
And explaining all that, all of that, all of that, every.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Single thing that happened in the last five hundred and
ninety five days all over the world, in the United States,
in New York City, globalized, the INTAFAA, that's what happened
last night, and the excuses and the double talking, and
the NOA accountability and the Harvard being defunded because they
let the shit happen, and the Barack Obamas and the
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Ileana Omars and the Rashida Talibs and the coach Steve
Kerz instead of calling exactly what it is, turning it
into this Trump political thing when we know that if
the same behavior was taking place on these campuses and
it was towards anybody else except for Jews, it would
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be immediately snuffed out. And you got these lunatics running
around these Khalil Mohammad's and that Moween mowow whatever the
fuck his name is, and they want this. They screamed
for this, they celebrated this, they called for this. It happened.
Khalil Mohammad. I know these people are happy. They wanted
(24:59):
this Nerdine person, that fat Nerdeine.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
They wanted this. They wanted this.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
They have been calling for it, they have been asking
for it, they've been chanting it. From the river to
the sea, Palestine will be free. From the river to
the sea, Israel won't exist. That's what that means. From
the river to the sea, Israel won't exist, because Palestine
will be free.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
All these chants. These people are they're happy about it.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
They're happy about it, and it's sick and it's crazy
that it's happening in twenty twenty five in the United States,
and motherfuckers have sat by and Kathy Hokeel, Still you still,
Kathy Okol, You still couldn't shut down. You still couldn't
cut through the red tape. Mayor Adams, none of you
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guys could cut through the red tape. That these people
should not be able to run around with their kafia scarfs,
the same kind of Kaffia scarf that that sick animal
whipped down out in Washington, DC. This is not a
movement of peace, This is not a resistance. It's a
movement of violence. So of course this is gonna happen.
(26:12):
Of course this is gonna happen. But when it does happen,
it's just shocking to realize that it did.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
A couple of people asked me.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
What should we do? What do you think we should do?
And I'll just say what other strong, smart, proud Jewish
people have told me is that when something like this happens,
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you have to soak it up, soak up the reality,
soak up the reality, the situation, just like you have
to soak up the reality the situation every single time
an IDF soldier goes down, every single time a.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Rocket is launched into Israel.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
The other day, during the rockets at three am and
Israel being launched, the only thing that you can do
is to pray. The only thing that you can do
is to dust yourself off. And the only thing that
you can do is continue to stay loud and stay
proud and be actively Jewish. A rabbi told me that
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being Jewish is a participation sport.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
You have to be actively Jewish.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
That's the only little sliver of advice that I have
is to pray, rap to fill in, read Torah, check
on your friends, check on your family, and stay loud
and stay proud because despite the craziness that Jews are
going through right now, despite the craziness that Israel is
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going through right now, and it's every fucking day, it's
every fucking day, exhaust every single day. There was this
news report that was posted put up by the BBC
and NBC and so many mainstream news media outlets the
other day that within forty eight hours, fourteen thousand babies
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in Gaza are gonna die, and then forty eight hours
later it doesn't happen, and nobody acknowledges that this fake
news is propaganda has already been put out there, and
people run with it. And then you are confused as
to why somebody would feel emboldened to shoot to people
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in Washington, DC and cold blood. It's all of that.
It's all of that. But as far as what we
can do, the only thing we can do is to
stay loud, stay proud, stay actively Jewish, and as overwhelming,
as frustrating, as demoralizing, as heartbreaking this time has been,
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and whatever I'm going through is minuscule compared to so
many other people. The only thing that we can do
is to remind ourselves that Jews are going nowhere and
Israel is going nowhere.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
We've seen it all, we have heard it all.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Just stay loud, stay proud, and never ever ever doubt
that the Jews are going nowhere, Israel's going nowhere, and
the unbreakable spirit, the unbreakable light in Jewish people is real.
It's more real than ever before.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Podcast.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
All right, Ricky Smiley joining me on the Iron Rapport
stereo podcast. It's funny having somebody who I know is
so versed in radio, podcasting, and media for twenty twenty five.
I'm excited to talk to you. I appreciate you coming
on the show. I'm excited about.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Your new Hulu.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Stand up comedy special, which is going to be premiering
May thirtieth.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
You're prolific. You do all sorts of stuff. You're an author,
you're a comic, you're.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
A radio host of a ginormous, ginormous syndicated radio show,
the number one morning show in the country, which is
crazy Ricky Smiley on the Iron Wrap or stereo pockets.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
How you doing, man?
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Man, it is a pleasure to meet you. I've been
a fan of yours for years. Man and h and Man,
you'd be sending people straight.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
Man.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
I absolutely love you, and thank you for being a
stand up guy when it comes to very very important issues.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
And thank you for having me on your show.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
I'm trying. I'm trying, man, I appreciate it. I just
want to jump into it.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
First of all, I'm sorry for your loss.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
You've been very public, you've been very open, wrote a
great book about the loss of your son, Living with
loss and moving forward with faith. How were you able
to transition from such a tragic, unprecedented situation and pivot
and pull off a special which again is premiering on
(31:19):
Hulu May thirtieth. How were you able to transition from that?
Speaker 5 (31:23):
Well, first of all, thank you for your condolences.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Man.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
My son was a comic. My son was a headliner.
We did shows together. We do it together. Yeah, I
had my son on stage since he was almost eight
years old, first time he walked on stage, so we
had been doing so I have to do it for him.
Brandon absolutely loved comedy. He loved stand up. He loved
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my comedy. But he liked Faison Love and Roy Wood Jr.
And Eddie Ribbon. He liked them more than he liked me.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Hey, it happens. It happens.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
But he did have certain jokes that I would do
that he'd liked.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
And I just have to do it for him because
it always feels like we're on stage together because we
always work together.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
We have so much fun doing what we did.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
So and then you have to do it for people
that have suffered also, you know, you have to think
about the mothers and the people that have lost kids,
do the violence with absolutely no resources, and people that
have lost more than one kid. Much as given, much
is required. You know, my son died on a Sunday. Wednesday,
I was back on the air. The funeral was on Saturday.
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But I don't have nothing to do between five a m.
And ten am. Get up, get on the show. You know,
we have a duty to serve, to help the community.
There's important issues out here, and I can deal with
my son's death after I get off the air, So
it just have to be done. And remember, at the
end of the day, all of this stuff is only
a test.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
You know.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
Sometimes God allows you to go through stuff to see
how you're gonna handle the situation. Is it gonna are
you gonna make it about you or are you gonna
continue to serve or whatever?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
You know?
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Wild we grieve but still serve.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
No, I understand, I understand.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Like I said, your book, Living with Loss and Moving
Forward was heavy. Obviously, stand up comedy is supposed to
be funny, but so much of great humor comes from pain.
In your special that you have coming out, do you
talk about the loss of your son? Are you able
to sort of use the really really real tragic situation
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and somehow pull off anything funny out of it.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
Yeah, I wasn't able to. But here's the good news.
At the end of my.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Special, you can see a clip of my son's performance,
so as the credits rot is a split screen, so
as the credits rolling on my side, there's my son
and I on stage together performing and he comes out, Yeah,
and do about seven minutes, and it's good to see
him move around, to hear his voice and express himself
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and do his jokes or whatever.
Speaker 5 (34:04):
In the whole special was dedicated to him.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
But yeah, I kind of stay away from it on
stage because I don't have the material.
Speaker 5 (34:14):
I can't think of anything.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
I can think of funny things and people, how weird
people was you know around the funeral and stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (34:21):
I just haven't. I haven't put that together yet. But
I was.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
I was able to dedicate it to him, and you
can actually see him on stage with.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
Me, so can we. Yeah, hey, man, listen, I don't
bragg on my stuff. I don't.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
I've been doing comedy special Comedy Central.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
You don't remember, I was hosting comic view on B E. T. Man.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
This is my best work right here, and it was
funny from beginning to end to the end. I never
saw it until last night. I did a premiere in
Atlanta here in Atlanta last night, and I saw it
for the first time, and I was actually shot. Dave
and Land Talbot really put this stuff together and made
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it happen and it will be a classic forever and
shot on film in a while.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
Yeah, man, it looked really good.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
The pages of Hulu has put a page up so
you can go and watch clips now. So I'm just
grateful for the opportunity to perform, you know.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
You've been doing stand up for so long, you know,
and the business of stand up has changed.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
You know.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
I feel like we're in a stand up comedy boom,
which is great. You know, there's so many platforms to
put out you know material.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Obviously everybody puts up clips, and you.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Know there's Hulu and there's Netflix, and there's YouTube. And
how has it changed for you in terms of you know,
having those outlets of you know, putting up clips you
I mean, and you know, getting a special on Hulu, Like,
how has it changed for you since you first started
in the business as a stand.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Up Well man, it was like the older comedes from
the nineties, we had to learn how to catch up
to the Internet, and the younger convicts had to learn
how to catch up to being a live performer, you
see what I'm saying, Like like the guys the new
Internet comedian, they had to learn how to perform, but
we had to learn how to perform.
Speaker 5 (36:17):
First and then learn how to work the phone in
the apps, right, you know what I'm saying, So you
know it.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
It is definitely different from the nineties and nineties was
a hot era where comedy club owners with coach comedians.
Nobody's coaching comedians anymore and give to them techniques and
coaching them when they make mistakes on stage, like we
got coached in the nineties. You know, Bernie macdeal you be,
said Steve, George Wallace, Carl Strong. Somebody will pull you
(36:48):
to the side and make a critique that will help you.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
You don't see a whole.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
Lot of that now, lads. But the camaraderie with comics
back in the nineties was the best. You remember Death
Comedy Jam and Yeah and showtime at the Apollo and
all that stuff.
Speaker 5 (37:02):
You know.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
In our era when we were just getting our feet
wet or whatever it was, it was the best.
Speaker 5 (37:07):
It was like a fraternity.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
It was like a brotherhood, especially the New York comics I.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
Have I don't know.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
Being from Alabama, I had a special bond with the
New York comics, the ag White and I just remember
them taking me out, Tracy Morgan and taking me out
for pizza, and we writing jokes and working on stuff,
trying to get on Uptown Comedy Club, trying to you know, audition,
heiting there, whoever had a room, And it was like
(37:35):
a freaking fraternity back then, and our comics stuck together,
and if there were beefs, they were private and they.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
Were dealt with behind closed doors.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
And I just really missed the nineties, and I just
hope that we can all get back to what comedy
was in the nineties, because it was the best.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Do you find that you're not like a vulgar?
Speaker 2 (37:58):
You keep it like PG. Third, You're not like dark
dark dark. But in general, with cancel culture, you know,
so many things could get taken out of context. You
could say the wrong thing on the wrong night, it
could get posted, you could say the wrong thing on
the radio, and you know.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
All hell could break loose.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Do you find cancel culture message with your flow and
things you want to say, not say, I mean, you
keep things above the belt. But in general, what is
your take as a comedian on cancel culture?
Speaker 4 (38:29):
They sub they too sincident all I need to play
little league football. It tupping up a little bit. I
don't care what they say. They're not gonna change my
game because I have a fan base. I have to
stop worrying about can I'm glad you asked that question.
I had to stop worrying about cancel culture and play
to my bass. There are people that like my comedy
(38:51):
and like the stories that I tell, and if it
hurts your feelings, I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
It's comedy. I talk about myself.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
I talk about black people, white people, fat people, scanning people,
tall people, short people or whatever. Everybody gets on, you know,
and people can't have selective outraged. You know, some things
you get outraged about, other things you okay with it,
and all that stuff is crazy. If something is funny,
I'm gonna say it. I don't give a damn what
(39:19):
they think. And that's just I'm sorry. You know what
I'm saying. So I just really ip man. You go
back and look at Editie Murphy's delirious and Edie Murphy's
wrong and Richer Pride and Chevy Chase on Saturday Night Live.
You'll really be damn upset or whatever. And I really
missed that. I missed that in the game and I
(39:39):
want it back.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
You know, you mentioned something about beefs, and you know,
like if people have beefs and comics have beefs. You know,
like since you came into it and now being on
the radio and the internet and you you know, you
have a huge following on social media, how do you
personally balance dealing with with so many people that you know,
(40:02):
like your radio show, you know, in the morning, people
want to key key there's so much fucking gossip going on.
There's so much content, there's so much you know, fake news,
real news. How do you balance? You know, I read
something you said about clicks over cloud. How do you
balance you know, doing that because in the morning on
your radio show, you got to talk.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
About the shit that's going on.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Like I was listening to you guys this morning, you know,
to get my head in your flow. How do you,
guys balance where you don't want to take things too far,
but you want to talk shit essentially because everybody.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Every I don't care who you.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Are, what your religion is, what your faith is, especially comedians.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Everybody likes to talk shit. How do you find that balance?
Speaker 4 (40:45):
You know, we'll read the story and we'll just kind
of but we never attack anybody on our shows as
life totally attack and tear down people or whatever, and
you know, allegedly, here's what happened, here's the news, and
we try to go more funny than just attacking somebody
or attacking somebody's character. Unless they did something to women,
(41:08):
or unless they did something to kids, or unless they
did something to senior citizens, that's when we'll go in.
Anything outside of that, we don't go in. We report
the story. We talked about saying, well, if that was me,
I would have done something different in that situation, and
then we started making jokes about what we would have done.
Nobody ever feels uncomfortable coming on our money show or
(41:32):
coming on our morning show to confront us about something
that we have said, so we don't do the controversial.
So I would never ask any question to any guests
that would make them feel uncomfortable, because I would like
for my guests to come back.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
Yeah, I hear you I think it's rude to do
that to people, because, like you said, you want them
to come back. It's like inviting somebody over to your
house and then asking them to take out the trash,
or you know, sort of bamboozling them, you know, Ricky.
In the last seven days, I have heard the word
freakof and baby oil more times than I need to
hear ever again in my life.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
I don't want to hear freakoffs, baby oil, baby oil, freakoffs, lotion,
astro glads.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
How are you guys breaking down and dealing with every
single day of the Puffy trial.
Speaker 5 (42:20):
Yeah, well, we don't.
Speaker 4 (42:21):
Really talk about it that much, Alfreda's just read it
in the news and read whatever's the trending report is,
and we just kind of keep it moving because there's
so much other stuff to talk about because I think
everybody's having freak off fatigue, you know, freak off fatigue
right now, you know what I'm saying. The funniest thing
(42:43):
Plaide said was I thought.
Speaker 5 (42:45):
I was freaky. He said, I thought I was handling business.
Speaker 4 (42:48):
He was like, dang, but I feel bad not only
for Cassid, for any women or women in this country
and all around the world that has been abuse's been treated,
taking advantage of sexually assaulted, all of that stuff, man,
And I just hope that something good comes out of
(43:08):
all of this stuff and make people more aware of,
you know, things that's going on with sexual assault and abuse.
And I just hope that we all learned something from it.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
Yeah, because this is this is crazy, and I agree
the freak all fatigue is real. I mean, but just
the amount of coverage and the amount of TikTokers and
social media. Now everybody's a courtroom report. I mean, like
in the last week, everybody's a courtroom report. I've never
seen anything like that obviously, you know, with social media,
(43:41):
anybody could get involved. What are some of the other
things that you guys have been sort of following on
the show that you're having fun with?
Speaker 4 (43:50):
Oh yeah, we talked about policies and the Trump administration.
Speaker 5 (43:54):
Gary with the tea that's on my monitor always.
Speaker 4 (43:56):
Talking about one of the Atlanta house Wives or house
Wives of Platomic or below deck. We have the brand
that does the hotspot WHI you talk about things that's
trending and hip hop and pop culture, which is a
great segment, by the way, great segment, you know anything
(44:17):
with Kanye West or Teathang Jamie Fox.
Speaker 5 (44:21):
What do we have?
Speaker 4 (44:22):
Comedian Special K on the Morning show that's a hell
of a writer, Special K and comedian Riada Brint. We
just have a well balanced show. We've been really trained.
We have Morning Show boot Camp to make sure that
our sep is tight, you know what I mean, Sure
that we are tight and not hanging out on the
mic too long. And that's why we're successful because we're disciplined,
(44:45):
trained and we try our best to do.
Speaker 5 (44:47):
The right thing.
Speaker 1 (44:49):
I think that's important and I respect that.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
Speaking of the Real Housewives of Atlanta, I don't know
if you know this about me, Ricky, but I am
a hard body, karate, big time Real house Wives fan.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
I believe Porsche used to be. Didn't she do the
show for a while with you?
Speaker 5 (45:06):
Yes, he did. She would come and fill in on
the morning show. But we started that show Dish Nation,
right yep.
Speaker 4 (45:13):
And and sometime, like if Brat was out or whatever,
Porsche would come and do the morning show and fill in.
Speaker 5 (45:18):
But it's been a pleasure to work with her. She's
really sweet.
Speaker 4 (45:23):
I'm good friends with Porsche, good friends with Candy, good
friends with Shamilla.
Speaker 5 (45:27):
We were just texting each other earlier this morning, so you.
Speaker 4 (45:31):
Know, we all worked together in Atlanta and have a
good time in front of the camera and off the
camera or whatever. But I just wish you could be
in a car with Porsche, Samieah and myself. When I
tell you would be in that car that I would
dare you to drive with all three of us in
the car. We have a great time together. Those are
my real friends, colleagues and sisters. You know Tiny, you
(45:55):
know Tamika from Escape or whatever. It's just a big
circle of brands that just come over to the house
and eat a big pot of Pento beans and corn,
brand of smoke, Turkey Nicks like we'd be on some
simple stuff, having a good size.
Speaker 5 (46:12):
So if you're in Atlanta, man, you hit me up.
Speaker 1 (46:14):
I would love that.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
And when you said be in a car with you
and Shamia, I mean with you Porscha Shami. I don't
think you really understand Ricky how much I love the
housewives and I've met so many. The reason why I
was bringing up Porsche because you know, I've done a
watch What Happens Live and I've actually never met Porsche
and in my opinion, she's one of the top ten
housewives ever. So but when all this drama is happening
(46:38):
with the housewives and for me, you know them, like
I even the ones that I know, I like to
keep it Like I love the show so much and
I appreciate the show as a show so much. I
never want to know sort of what's going on behind
the scenes when you're like Shami and Porsche. Based on
what I'm seeing now, they're having problems in their long
(46:59):
term relationship.
Speaker 1 (46:59):
I didn't know they were friends for such a long time.
How do you deal with that?
Speaker 2 (47:03):
But like it's playing out for fans like myself and
I mean rabbit fans like myself when they're having this
public feud.
Speaker 4 (47:10):
Well, I didn't even know they was having a public
kid because I'm friends with them. So I can't watch
it because it make my freaking nerves bad.
Speaker 5 (47:17):
Like the minute, the minute.
Speaker 4 (47:19):
I see Candy Birds cry or something or somebody does
something personal to her, I have to turn the TV
off because, like it really mentally affects me because I'm
a I'm a good guy that want to help and
see I'll get on the phone and start calling people like,
what's wrong? What can I do to help? And it
was like, hey man, we take that eight months ago.
We're fine, you know like that, And so it's hard
(47:43):
to watch. I can't watch because I'm I'm one of
those type of people that avoid controversy.
Speaker 5 (47:48):
I got you, Yeah, it gets it gets real. So
I had to stop watching it because they have me
in my feeling.
Speaker 2 (47:54):
I got you, I'm sure because you know them, and
like I mean, it has me and my feelings and
I don't even know them personally.
Speaker 1 (47:59):
I just know them literally as a fan.
Speaker 2 (48:02):
So shout out to Shamiyah and Porsche and you know,
like I said, I always want to see them get along.
How did you wind up getting the special on Hulu?
I'm pivoting back to your special, you know, getting a show,
a stand up comedy special. What was the process of
doing that? Did you sell it beforehand? Did you make
it and then sell it? How did you get your
show on Hulu?
Speaker 5 (48:23):
Made it and sold it?
Speaker 1 (48:24):
Nice good feel, pay for.
Speaker 5 (48:27):
It, pay for the rights to use certain music that
I had to use, walked it in there.
Speaker 4 (48:32):
They say, we like it, we want it. We got
to put it on almost immediately. My team, their team
did the contract and here we are where.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
You know, comedy is so like we were saying earlier, comedy,
there's so many comedy clubs. How did you build this
set and keep it sort of private and not get
you know, footage leaked? And what do you like to
do to sort of work out your bits, you know,
before you you know, take it to stage to be shot.
Speaker 5 (49:02):
You know. I would do a lot of.
Speaker 4 (49:03):
The stuff during karaoke, And a lot of the stuff
that I did at karaoke came off the top of
my head. I was like, whoa, I could do that.
I could perform that on the weekend. That was funny.
Speaker 5 (49:13):
See, I was.
Speaker 4 (49:14):
Hosting karaoke in Birmingham at the Stardom. You know the
comedy clubs. Stardome. It's a big ass comedy club, probably
the largest comedy club in the country. It would be packed.
They loved karaoke. So I was in between as trout
stuff here and there and start putting it together on weekend.
I did a lot of comedy clubs, you know, the
(49:35):
funny bone, the improvs and working that stuff out. And
I worked on that stuff for years and you can
look at it when you see the special that's not
two or three months or six months.
Speaker 5 (49:47):
That's years of perfected material. And I did an hour,
thirty minutes, thirty minutes. It didn't even make the cut.
Speaker 4 (49:56):
So I could take that thirty minutes plus some new
stuff doing Wow.
Speaker 1 (50:01):
I can't wait. I can't wait. May thirtieth on Hulu.
I appreciate you, Ricky.
Speaker 2 (50:06):
I appreciate you taking the time, and like I said,
May thirtieth on Hulu, Foolish, your next comedy special. You
could listen to Ricky every single morning all across the country.
The number one syndicated radio show in the morning. I
don't need to say Urban, I don't care. It's the
number one radio show in the morning. And if you
(50:29):
want to read a book that will absolutely touch your heart,
you could read Living with Loss Moving Forward with Faith. Anyway, Ricky,
I appreciate you joining me again May thirtieth, Foolish on
Hulu and you can listen to Ricky every single morning,
the great, prolific, long time icon of Ricky Smiley joining
me on the Iron Wrap Port stereo podcast.
Speaker 1 (50:50):
I appreciate you, Ricky.
Speaker 5 (50:52):
Thank you man, and thank you for being an rg mator.
We came up in the nineties. Baby, We're still.
Speaker 1 (50:56):
Here, exactly exactly going nowhere.
Speaker 5 (51:00):
Yes, fun, Thank you man, Thank you Ricky.
Speaker 1 (51:02):
Anyway, I'm done.
Speaker 2 (51:04):
Tell a friend to tell a friend about the Iron
Wrapperport Stereo Podcast. Subscribe, rate review, I want to thank
Ricky Smiley. Make sure you check out his upcoming special
Foolish Dropping May thirtieth on Hulu. And just stay safe,
stay sane and stick together. Stay safe, stay sane, and
stick together. Iron Wrap Port Stereo Podcast.
Speaker 1 (51:26):
I'm out.
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