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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is the deal.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
You can show you a twenty twenty five edition. Remember
that if you're going to be in Chicago tonight. I'm
here tonight at the City Winery seven o'clock and the
ten thirty show to seven o'clock sold out. We have
a few more tickets for the ten thirty show.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
D L and d L.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Don Lemon and Dal Huge me together.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
And then this weekend the twelfth through the fourteenth, we
will be at the.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Charlotte, The Charlotte and Charlotte and Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina,
two Friday, two Saturday, and one Sunday, So come check
me out if you're taking notion.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I'm writing with this young cat man. He's a cat
named Austin Hall. You know, I'm Jasmin. He is a
bright young dude. But it's so funny how they we
did that thing coming to the stage. I've worked with
the same people for a very long time, so it's
different to be working with people will have a different
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they have a different.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Generation, different mindset. Very funny, dude.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
But it's just you could see how the art already
evolved because it's all based on the artists inclinations and experiences,
And he's probably the first dude I work with that
wasn't in the death jam era.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
You know what I mean? Yeah, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (01:14):
What like?
Speaker 6 (01:15):
Yeah, Well, I think it's a good thing to be
open to, you know, new perspectives, younger perspectives, and you know,
because they're going to have a different framework in terms
of their mentality because of what they've gone through or
you know, the way they view the world, all of
those things. So if the audience is changing, so should
the comedian.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, because it's so funny because my audience is they
got the minds is.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Older than that boy.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
They go to the early show that lay showed you
see oxygen tanks.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I don't see no oxygen show. I'm not kidding.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Wheelchair Friday Night, the early show is the oldest because
they got Friday Night. They they lay show every all
of them country. The late show just I think, I
don't know if this is just economics or whatever. The
Friday shows always past the first show, second show, little lighter.
Both shows Saturday and Sunday is as crowded as.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
A Saturday show.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Nice people come right after the benediction, but you know,
if you do a four o'clock Madney show, you will
do better than a late Friday show.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Really on a Sunday, on a Sunday.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
If you do a say, early mad Nay show on
a Saturday, you'll do better than you would on a
late show.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
On the right. I believe that. And people people because
they want to get the show in and go home.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Yeah, yeah, because you know, as you get older, they
tease about it all the time on social media. The
older you get, the more you want to be at
home when the sun goes down.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Man, man, and I wish I could do this show
from my womb. Yes you can. You can eat at
the show. They don't have to cook when they get home.
So yep that man and you.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
I have never seen so many styrophoone coming home.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
To go. That's a too for right there. Yeah, chicken
wings cost me. I'm taking them home.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Many and and you know when they get them cups
that you know, because sometimes they will buy a drink
that comes with a glass. Man, they be they be
wrapping up like they leaving the family re union.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I won't do is wait.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
Right?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Our guest today can be seen on Marvel's Agents of
Shield it's Henry Simmons. You could be there. He said
that they're finished there.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Right you are you're vegan, right, yeah, you have one.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
You couldn't be a superhero if you didn't agents of
no shields. But but what you know, but our vegans
there pretty much it's right anything.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Look I would tell you like this look that means yes,
you know. Look for two years, for two years, I
was eating red meat straight because I was trying to
you know, boke up and I ain't doing no steroids.
And so after what's done, I was like, I need
to just clean out and get myself straight. So that's
why I did it.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
So you're you're you're you're a pescatarian and you eat
vegetables and shrimping.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Like yeah, yeah, I'll eat fish, you know, eat vegan
plant based foods.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
But you wear leather belts. Right, I'm working.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
But you know, it's interesting because you're an example of
what Hollywood traditionally, they wouldn't have a black man in
some of the roles you played.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
They just wouldn't have them. So there is a level.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Do you see it getting better or do you see
it getting more expansive or are they just kind of
ran out of white dudes.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
You know what, I think it's getting better for sure.
I mean, here's my thing. I think representation is extremely important.
I mean we see it in uh, Black Panther and
all that. I mean, you know you you're you're the loader,
but but you know when but you don't know nothing
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about it? But why when you were kids, we didn't
have no presentation. So I think it's important.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
We had blue cage and all you have was the chain. Yeah,
that was super.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
The Black Panther, the comic book was so old that
black people couldn't never find it.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
That's the truth. That's the truth. Here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
No, here's the thing.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
Though.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I think it's important. But what I think is equally,
if not more important, is inclusion. What's the difference, Because
because you can have you can have representation, you can
have diversity, right, but that doesn't equal inclusion. What I
mean is is that you can have the whole cast
could be just you know, diverse women, black people, you know,
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brown people, whatever it may be. But then when you
have executives going to the executive's office, it still is
the same. You see thirty people and one woman and
she's the assistant.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I've been in this business for a long time.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I can't remember the times I went to a room
into met a black man or a woman they could
say yes, yes, the truth. Now I ain't talking about
in the meeting and talk that's a good idea, but
they said, yeah, I'll take it right. I've never seen
it before now at ABC now that I think, you know,
that is changing to some degree. But all of these
rooms you get to where the people hear these pictures
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and then they go and they fight for that pitch
they get. I've never been in a room where a
black person or a woman could say yes.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
But you know who's changing the game? Aver Vernon, Yeah,
Lena Waite, Yeah, Ava, I think had I forget what
show was, but she had like thirteen fifteen shows, all
of them directed by women, different colors, everything.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
So don't tell me it can't be done right, you know,
And it's profitable.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
They make money and they make money, ye, and they
make money right.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Like Tyler Perry, but I think he's doing right now.
I've never Now, there have been some very successful black people.
They've done all kinds of things. I've never had seen
a dude take a vision and I'm my own, my
own studio, like I'm and it.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Was amazing to see.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
But this dude's got I'm buying air Force. Yeah, that's that.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I think that that has the potential to change the paradigm.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I hope.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
So here's my hope.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
My hope is that, Well, let me tell you, Like this, man,
I think I think the problem with us is that
when we get ours, then we're straight. It's like I'm
gonna get mine, I'm straight. But I think if we
work together collectively, we could do something like that.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Let me tell you something.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
What people don't understand is almost every time black people
looking crew and anything, I don't care if it's Rosewood,
I don't care if it's black Roll Street, and I
don't care if they're building, uh, the Highway project through
all our you know, through all our community and taking
a wealth from them. I don't care if after the
Civil War was over and we went to banks and
they took all the money. They have always found a
way to every time there has started to be this
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percolation of black wealth or black fader, and they found
a way to disrupt it. And so I think it's
even more important now, particularly from a from a from
an industry standpoint. You you all tell stories and your
stories like like we live in a country right now,
or we celebrate lives, know their lives, but they're so inconvenient.
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We just don't want to change the station. Imagine somebody's
starting to tell the truth and make money. Come on,
we can add it and you'll sup here and you even.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
It is now time to give deservice. Someone on the
shoe wood the other week of war.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Now it's time for the shoes who live the week
Core theyon too is a construction worker in Hineguai, Turkey.
He came to Kayaka to work in construction. So why
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is Behan this least recipient of the shoe Booty of
the Week award?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I'm ballsy.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Behan gets the shoe lee because he starred in his
own version of Where's Waldo? And He's wild though what
do you mean by it? Seems the man from Turkey
had too much wild Turkey. One day after work, he
wandered off into the woods to relieve himself and never
came back. Worried about him, his friends alerted the authorities,
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who set up a search and rescue mission. To find him.
When the tank Turkey heard about the mission. Like a
good citizen, he joined the search party. For hours, they
walked through the forest calling his name. After many hours,
a voice from in the middle of the.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Pack said, who are you looking for? You serious?
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Now? How white girl wasted do you have to be
that you don't even notice that the people all around
and yourself is calling out your name.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Find me something with your hands.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
But he had to be so drunk. He introduced himself
to his own reflection now and asked for its ID.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
You are really dumb for real.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
He probably would try to pull up on Siri after
getting directions to a spot. This situation is like a
comedy thriller movie. It's like Dude, Where's Me? Or like
The Hangover, but Doug is looking for Doug open bar.
Dude Behan went out to party and maybe find himself.
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He ended up in a search party and found himself.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Congratulations, you won, and that's.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
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Speaker 1 (13:15):
Thank you so much, baby girl.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
More of the dlu A jazzin is it ain't no
fighting today