#57 - Mr. Smith - (Compton J. Smith) - #NotAboutUpod

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome toanother edition of Not About You
podcast. Yay.
Yay. That's right.
Yes, we are very, very happy. Happy holidays to those of you
who are listening. However you're doing it.
Thank you for making us part of your day and or night.

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We we, we love that you guys areactually paying attention to us.
Hi, my name is Jamal Harrington.For those of you who are
listening to us of as usual and of course with my host as usual
as well, Marianne Riley, Romeo Nash also.

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Yeah. And welcome our our guest.
Very, very funny comedian. I, I I also consider him a good
friend. I'll I'll say that.
I'll throw him in that department.
Mr. Compton J Smith hailing out of the Panhandle of Florida.
That's right. We like the South too, and well,
I, I say we like, we love the South.

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The South the South is, is amazing.
Some of you guys are really goodpeople.
I. It's yeah.
See guys, guys like Compton, he's like, wow, you know what?
It's great that he gives me a good reason to visit.
So, you know, Speaking of the holidays, this is the holiday

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season and isn't it the, the holiday season is about, let's
see, goodwill, right? Can we say that goodwill, it's
about goodwill, warmth and all that other good stuff.
And, and, but mainly family. I think we can say that family
is the important part of the, the holidays.

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We'd like to think that family, dare I say, matters, right?
Can I get an agreeance there is that?
Is there some truth to that? Not just the name of ATV show.
Compton. Show me your fingernails.
That is so freaking cool. He's got the Grinch.

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Oh, I I love it. Love.
It you know what? Yeah.
That that's another thing. Also, Compton does do this.
Compton has great taste in stylewhen it comes to fingernails.
I haven't. I'm going to show mine.
These are these are my fall colors for those who are paying
attention. But yeah, show me yours,
Compton. I didn't even get to I didn't

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get to see it. I know you're you're what?
What is it? What is it looking like Mr.
Compton? He's.
Got the Grinch. All right.
OK. Oh, wow.
OK, You know what? Very.

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Very sorry about that. OK, that's very.
I got the Grinch. I got the Grinch.
This Plaid is actually my grandmother's family tartan,
which is only one of one of the two family tartans.
I wear the Lindsey clan. And then they're just some
decorative on the on the ends. Wow.

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OK, you really. You're really taking me to
school on this fingernail thing.OK, OK.
I love it. I love.
That that you used your your family's Plaid, your tartan.
That is amazing. So Haley.
Florida. My nail.
My nail tech does whichever Plaid I happen to be wearing
that day. And yes, the Lindsay side of my

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family is from Scotland, the Killian side of my family is
from Ireland and the Confident side of my family is from Wales.
OK, so you got all three of the the UK's you get all yeah.
Well, very white mud. And, and not for nothing, he, I

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mean he's a very, he's a kilt wearing stand up comedian.
So that is something that I've grown to know.
I've I've had the pleasure of having Compton on a few of my
shows. Actually, the last time me and
Compton hung out he came out with but no.
Where were we we? Were in Grand Rapids, MI.

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Oh, that's right, that's right. Love, Miss.
You, you drove out with our the headliner for that show, Mr. MO
Alexander and Oh yeah, man, you guys, you guys came out to, we
did this show out in Grand Rapids last last year in
January, actually almost a year ago.
Yeah, that was a great little theater we were in too.

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Man, that was a really nice set up.
Yeah, thank you for. Hooking that up, man, that was
well done. Dude, thank you for coming.
Like so here's a funny story before I get into the first
story of our of our so we we book we I ended up getting being

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that MO Alexander. Is he from Nashville or is he
from Memphis? Memphis.
Memphis. OK, so which is I guess not a
bad drive from there to Grand Rapids, but I ended up booking
him to headline the show in Grand Rapids.
And I remember after we had booked and everything, the show

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was kind of coming along and he messages me.
He's like, hey, I got this comicdriving me around.
Would it be OK if we get him on the show?
And I'm like, OK, what's what's his name?
Where is he from this that whatever.
And he and your name pops up. And I was like.

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Really. What this?
Guy and I know you know everybody Compton you you're
you're the guy who knows every comic under the sun but but he's
like, yeah, his name is Compton Smith and I messaged him back
I'm like as in Compton J Smith and he was like, yeah, you know
him and I'm like yeah, he can definitely get on the show

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because we had a guy pull out that was going to come from
actually, you know Jonathan he was going to be on the show
many. Different.
So it ended up it ended up beingAaron Bacter, who you met from
Silver Spring, MD and you and you guys kind of filled in.
But I was like, oh, I didn't even know, you know him and I

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didn't, you know, And it kind ofworked out.
I'm like, yeah, I'd rather have somebody I know, you know, So
and it and it worked out and it was a great night.
That was very fun, you know, so it wasn't fun for me because I
got sick, but we, we made it work and it was a fun night.
It was almost like a reunion because I know MO MO has worked

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with me before. I've worked with you before.
So it was kind of like a reunionof all these comics that I've
worked with. So it was, it was a very fun
night. It was, I had a blast.
I had a blast that night and youguys were amazing.
Thank you for that. I remember it started snowing
that night. Yes, it snowed 5 minutes before
the show started and we had people lined up and we're like,

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yo, it's snowing. We got to get people in indoors,
you know, But there was already a lot of snow anyway.
But it snowed more. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It was the first time I'd seen the snow in person in a hot
minute. But yeah, that was a really fun
night, man. Sorry, I'm just reminiscing.
That was a good time. Yeah.
And you caught me. That show was pretty early when

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I started traveling with MO. So there was like 7 or 8 months
there where I well, I just went everywhere he went and I he got
me on as many other shows as he could.
But I was, I was basically making sure that he was getting
to his shows because his his partner Chandra had been in the
hotel and had been in the hospital and he'd been in the

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hospital. And so I kind of you were.
Like you were their chauffeur all over the place.
You guys were all over the placebecause even after my show, you
guys were taking pictures of other places you guys were
going. So you guys had a nice tour
going on and I was like, good for you for good for you guys,

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you know what I'm saying? But I was like, even if we, even
if Jonathan was able to come, wewould have found a way to get
you one. Because if you know, we know
you, you've taken care of us when we did the shows down in
the Panhandle and Alabama. So yeah, we would have
definitely returned a favor one way or another, or even, I don't

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even know if even putting you onthat show would have, you know,
equaled. Just that you've done.
For us, but. Just the drive to Michigan and
because I like hanging out in Michigan, I got some friends up
that way. It was worth it just just to
make the trip, so no worries at all, yeah.
Question for you Compton. Compton, I have a question.

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So my my mind's kind of. You wear.
You wear your kilt on stage, OK?It's all I wear, yeah.
So do you have like a it's that's an unusual for a lot of
people, that's an unusual attirechoice.

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And I say that because I come from a lot of kilt wearing
people. Do you have like a joke that how
do you address that with your audience or do you even talk
about it? Yeah, I have found that if I
don't address it, people just look at me sideways until I do.
They're like so between between the nub and the kilt.

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The if I don't, if I don't address it, people get upset and
it'll be the only thing people ask me after shows is hold on.
You said Oh, didn't even notice.OK.
Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah, you.
Can't just leave that. I am now, yeah.

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We are. Here.
I said I am now awake. I don't know why I did this.
I didn't see the. Job either till just now I'm
like whoa, OK, all right. Did I just see what I think I
saw? What was that?
What you It's like that scene ina Fight Club where he just
flashes it across the scene. But you don't understand when

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she said that she was wearing a kilt and you said I either got a
just enough or the dress. I was thinking is he talking
about going commando and talkingabout his Dick?
What is? He talking about.
I said that no, but is he talking about his Dick?
And they go commando where you know what.
I know right? Like do he get on?
Throw what is. It that, I mean, in Romeo's, in

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Romeo's defense, he's never met Compton when he was on the hair
last time. This is the first time they're
meeting. So you're kind of catching up
now, Romeo on Compton and not for nothing.
I didn't want to be the one like, hey, remember the one arm
kilt wearing comic that we had on last time?
He's going to do other shows today.

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I've. Never.
I've never. I don't Compton.
I don't know if I was on with you before.
That's OK. That's OK, that's OK.
I've got loads of questions thatI can ask though, So first.
So, OK, by the way, that even that even more so with your bold

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fingernail choices, man, you've got a whole lot that you address
when from when you get on stage,like boom, you got their
attention. OK, so where do you take it?
I mean you because immediately all those things, right, one of
those by themselves, you're going to get some attention.
All three of them. You've got everybody leaning in
going. What does this guy have to say?

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You know? So how do you how do you like
break that ice and and jump right in?
Well. Of course, the the jokes make it
make it real easy, but it's mostly playing in this
particular moment where people because you, it's not that I am

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something that no one has ever seen before.
It's that I am a bunch of thingsthat people aren't used to
seeing together. And it's a fun conversation for
me to have at this particular moment because I'm working on my
personal memoir. It's and the, but the title is
apropos. It's, it's called the pursuit of
originality, which is kind of how I have approached life for a

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very long time because there's nothing new under the sun.
Everybody's thought of everything.
So how do you go about not beingnormal and being unoriginal?
Because those are the coolest people that you know, They're
not cookie cutters. They're all originals.
And so that being the life pursuit, the kilt came about

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because I got tired of working in corporations and I didn't
want people to offer me those jobs anymore.
And I had the opportunity to do a little social experiment and
kind of see how people would react.
And I, I did it for so long thatit just became became normal for

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me to always be in a kilt. And it's fun to see the people
around me that go from the firsttime they meet me to having been
around for a while and they're like, yeah, he looks like that
all the time. Like what's new about it?
And so watching these people getdesensitized or normalized to my
weird behavior is it's still a fun part of the experiment.

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But there's, there's a story behind all of it.
And I I can go as deep as you want to go.
We can talk hardcore philosophies on simplicity and
existentialism, or we can go which whichever route you want.
Whatever you whatever Rd. you want to take is on, this is your
opportunity to to entertain and be the star on on.

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You know, I always love it when a guest comes on and they hijack
the show and they take it to thedirection they want to go.
This is your opportunity to Share your story and deeper
about you thinks it like behind the curtain, the things that
maybe they, maybe your crowd, your audience doesn't see or
maybe a lot of people they don'tsee when you're on stage because

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there's, there's always that persona that we put on stage.
OK, And we all know that there'salways like Marianne Riley is my
stage name. It's also my maiden name.
And when I, you know, when I perform, that's Marianne Riley
and I, I have that switch that flips when I go to get on stage.

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So, and I'm sure that you do tooto an extent.
We all have that different energy when we get on stage.
So what's what's that? You know, like tell me you, you
got tired of corporate gigs, which is why you went to
dressing in kilts all the time. But what, what specifically
about like what kind of corporate did you do?
What kind of world were you rolling in in the corporate that

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you got tired of? So I was a casino executive for
about 6 years. I I started out as a lowly front
desk agent before I was old enough to get a gambling license
and by the time I turned 21, I was a casino host.

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I was a casino host coordinator,a casino host, and then
eventually I was the first player development executive to
be hired in my branch of the casino.
The casino I worked for was the number three revenue generating
casino in the country for years running.
And I helped rewrite the mathematical theories behind how

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much money people win, lost and put into play and what that
equals in free hotel rooms and shit like that.
So that was that was young me, young philosopher, 21 year old.
And then I got out of that. I got out of that and went back
to school. While I was in, I was training

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MMA at the time. I don't know if you follow the
UFC at all, but I used to train with some some UFC legends.
Guy named Rich Franklin was middle weight champion and he
used to wake me up pretty good. And when I got back to school, I
had two choices. One, I was either going to go
back into Business School and just get the credentials for the
shit that I've been doing for years in the casino, or I was

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going to do something really fun.
And of course there's always a girl involved in my story.
And the girl drifted away and I decided fuck all this business
corporate nonsense. So I went full tilt and got into
rhetoric hardcore, which for me basically the philosophy of

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communication. So I took the thing that I was
really good at, which is talkingshit and, you know, persuading
people, and learned all the terminology for it.
Took that all the way to the point that I was, I used to get
in arguments with rhetorical theory professors just to see if
they could hang, if they were smart off paper, if they could

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actually apply the skills. So that was one of my favorite
academic pastimes. Stayed in academia for about I
guess it was about five years. Got my undergrad at the
University of Cincinnati and then I went to Tuscaloosa for
grad school and that's that's where the kilt came about.

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I started started wearing a kiltafter I hippied out hardcore 1
summer and I spent more time wearing a towel than I did
wearing shorts and I swore then I was like why?
Why bother? Why fuck pants?
This is stupid. So I found the most socially
acceptable towel that I could, which happened to be a kill and

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found out after the fact that I have more than enough family
history to back up the the heritage.
But pretty much found a way to be comfortable all the time wore
a towel in public. And if you listen to a lot of
the, I don't know, the great thinkers of our time, everybody

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has uniforms and they talk aboutnot allotting mental capacity to
just have something that you wear all the time and make it
simple. And so when I found when I got 2
kilts, it was like, Oh well, here we go.
This is this done and done. I don't have to worry about
pants or any of that shit ever again.
And it became a staple. And we were at a music festival

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and one of my friends asked me it was supposed to snow that
weekend. He's like, so are you going to
take the kilt off in the snow? And of course, that sounded like
a challenge to me. And no, I've never taken it off
at that point. So yeah, there there are
pictures of me in the snow doingthe whole thing.
But then after things got real fun after that, because I left

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school and I became an audio engineer.
I've always been a a brass player.
So I became an audio engineer and started working for a very
large music venue down on the Gulf Coast and basically live
the Rockstar lifestyle for years.
And when that ran its course, I got into comedy because, you

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know, the last great bastion of the spoken word and.
Have been doing that ever since.And then just this past couple
of days I added actor to my resume.
There's a series coming out, it's called Panhandle Princess.
It's going to be a really good time and acting is the best,
easiest job I've ever had. So I'm planning on doing a lot

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more of that. But there are podcasts in my
history. We did a pirate radio show for a
while, racked up some felonies you know have had.
Back up some felonies, OK life, yeah.
But I think yeah, man. Pirate Radio.
If you broadcast an illegal AM or FM transmission over a

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certain wattage, which we were running 15 megawatts, which
covers about 8 miles. Yeah, you, you, you.
The FCC don't like that. OK, good to know.
Yeah, that's what makes it pirate, because you're not
falling under their regulations,you're not following their

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rules, paying their. Yeah, we were.
We were actually at the beach onan island.
So it was, it was hilarious. It was a good time in the middle
of the night, so we weren't really messing up anybody's
emergency broadcasts or anythinglike that.
But it was, yeah, if we'd gottencaught, we'd have been in
trouble. Yeah.

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Wow, so. What do you Oh, go ahead, go.
Ahead. No, go ahead.
That's gonna. Ask No, I was gonna say, I mean,
'cause you start out you, you said you was in the casino
business and I mean that I that's what I did for until I
retired. I was.
I did that for like 30-30 years.Oh yeah.
Yeah, I was a casino dealer. I was a casino dealer.

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Yeah, I was. I was the casino dealer.
Like the cooler were you the cooler they call you in?
Fuck. I was a cooler, I was a cooler.
I, I was, I was the I was the man, but I was the guy who I
would take your money and laugh about it, laugh at you and talk,
talk shit about you and everything.

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Like I told him when we we worked, I worked at a casino out
in Bremerton area and and Clearwater, Clearwater
Clearwater Casino out there was the only was at the time was the
only casino in Washington state that catered to 18 year olds.
So, so I was like, fuck yeah. So when I got hired on, I found

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this out like my my first seconddate, I was there like what?
We the only ones that catered 18year olds and I was like, oh
hell yeah. So I went out there and I just
started being fucking mean. I was mean and talking shit
every day. And my boss was like kept
calling me up in her office every day.
She was like, Romeo, you being too mean.
They did the customers. I complain, I said I told my

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boss of Rose. I'm letting you know I there's a
method to my madness right, so these kids was coming in all the
time and I will see them walkingin dude check this out man.
We're going to fucking break this place.
They got their friends with them.
We going to break this place andthey'll come and sit down at my
table like let me guess, you guys just y'all just watched 21

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right, All right, I'm like you do realize that they went to MIT
and y'all went to Bremerton highSchool, you know, so I will
start dealing cars to them and y'all make their money.
I'll start talking shit to them,you know, and then you know,
four or five hands and they getting up, walking around.
Hey, where you going? I thought you was going to break
the space. Come back here.

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Fuck this. And they get up and they walk
out. Now the method to my madness was
I would do this to these kids all the time in front of their
friends right. So my boss like I said she had
me up in her office all the time.
I said, Rose, I'm telling you some methods to my madness.
So I'll come in one day and day shift I can't.

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I didn't start till 7:00 at night.
Day shift is like dude, what thefuck is what the fuck did you
do? I'm like what?
As I come in, they're like, dude, you get like 300 fucking
teenagers outside waiting on you.
You're. Out.
There. And I'm like, I'm like, what?
They're like, yeah, they've beenwaiting here since fucking 4:30.
And I'm like, I'm like, no, where They're like, yeah, I'm

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like, I I say I get it. And it wasn't that they want to
beat anybody else. They want to beat me.
They would wait around for threefreaking hours.
My boss never said another word to me because I walked out
there. Everybody started cheering as I
walked out and my table stayed full all night long, all the
time. It was always.

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Great. So she never said another word.
She goes, I don't know what it is.
She goes, he's mean, he talks. He I would tell stories.
I was telling stories like I'm dealing cars and I got a full
table. I'm like, Once Upon a time there
was a village full of idiots. And then the.
Storm came and took everything away as I'm screwing up all

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their money, right And they're like hey, I'm like what?
Y'all didn't like that one? I got another one, you know, and
I care that would keep going on.You know, I would tell stories
and they used to call me the auctioneer because I used to
count their cards as their, I used to count their cards for
them as I was dealing. You know, I'll be like
555-556-1111 takes the hit making the seven over to make
the 18 / 1818 is waved off. And I moved like that and that's

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the way I would do all my tape. But it made it easier.
But in the count it was more entertaining for everybody.
So even if they won or if they lost, they would always tip me
and make a difference. What if they won or lost?
I was always making good money. I was like I said, I was the man
that had counted. I had been trying to recover.
They was trying to recruit me inCalifornia and in Vegas and I

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was like, Nope, one do it. And the only reason I didn't go,
the only reason I wouldn't go toCalifornia or to Vegas.
I have a an autistic son who's terminally ill and he lives in
Canada and it's an it's only an hour away for me to get.
It's only three hours away for me to get to him right now.
And had that had me, had I moved, it was being done so much

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more. So, so.
Yeah. So, Compton, when did so you?
How long have you been doing comedy?
Started in 2017, so eight years.OK, so you're, you're still,
you're still right in that that spot where you're not old

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school, but you're still, you'renot one of the newbies either,
so. No, I, I have that.
I have that Kush spot right now where I get to travel with a
professional headliner has been doing it for decades and he's
going to crush every night. So I get to go out there, do my
little piddly 2030 minutes, whatever and have him coming out

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behind me. So I have had the sweet spot.
I got, I've got life super easy and knock on wood, I, I get to
travel with, with a pro pro and it makes life great and it's
fun. Like living the dream there.
There's some people that want tobe I I'm, I'm around a lot of
people that want to be famous and they want that kill Tony

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fame. You know that I would just want
to be able to tour the clubs andhave killer weekends.
You know, I'd much rather go theDave Attell route then I'd much
rather go to the Dave Attell route than I don't know,

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somebody like these. These kill Tony one shot
wonders. You know that just that seems
rough. So do you have like a a quote UN
quote day job now or are you just doing comedy?
Nope, just comedy. Comedy and movies.

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Is everything OK? Yeah, there's somebody parked
behind me and I can't tell what they're doing.
That's. Weird.
That's weird. We're gonna go forever.
Yeah, but it's not safe. Definitely like get out of there
and. Oh.

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There are more people. Oh, I saw the police.
Oh, I guess they're just stopping to talk to each other
anyway. Hey, Sarah.

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Yeah, that always makes me a little unnerved if somebody
pulls up behind me like that. I don't.
That's not my idea of a good time.
They're like, oh, this must be afun place to pee.
Yeah, exactly, exactly. So well, he's relocating.
Jamal, what do you got for us? Well.

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Speaking of family matters, remember Eddie Winslow from that
show? Yes.
Yeah, Darius Mccrary. He has been released from jail
as he is awaiting a sentencing in a child support case, believe
it or not. Yeah, family matters in this

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point. Initially arrested by the United
States Border Patrol agents in October on a felony, felony,
felony fugitive arrest warrant. Yeah, he was extradited.
Yeah, He was extradited from SanDiego to Michigan following a

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hearing where he represented himself as a as the prosecutor
said he owed more than $75,000 in child support to his
daughter. Oh wow.
Yeah. Holy cry.
Yeah, and he is to be sentenced being that now he's out and

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whatnot. He is expected to be sentenced
February 9th, 2026. This guy was trying to go to
Mexico, I would imagine, in order to dodge a child support,
child support man, you know, to his daughter.

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It's the ironic part that there's a lot of irony here, if
I do say so myself. Too much irony.
And I I have a thing with deadbeat Dad, so it's fucking
great timing. Well, what, what is your

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thoughts on especially celebrity?
Oh, I don't even know. Can we consider him a celebrity?
I mean, he was Eddie Winslow on a very popular show back in the
90s, mid 90s. And you know, like, thank God
it's not Urkel. That's kind of like my, I guess
that my take away from this. I'm like, man, if this was

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Urkel, this would be like, but it's like, you know, what have
you done? What have you done?
What have you done for your daughter lately, except for run
away from a $75,000 child bill? Wow.
But. What have you done for your
daughter lately? Pretty much, pretty much to be

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$75,000. And I'm like, Daddy, you didn't
save none of that. Family matters money.
And I, I wish deadbeat parents had signs or hats or something
because it would save me so muchtime in my personal life if I
knew that I could just write people off and not even have to

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be like oh you are a horrible person.
I don't need to listen to a fucking word you say, you know?
I want that I want. That in my life, I don't want
pedophiles to have to register. I want them to have to wear a
goddamn hat. Oh yeah, yeah, a sign or
something? Yeah, exactly.

(32:38):
Yeah, because. I have something to tell you.
Oh, I see you have a little one.Well, I have two things to tell
you. Oh my God.
We're so we're so close to thoselittle, little MAGA hats being
that, but we're not quite there yet.
We're almost there. Almost, you know, but it you

(33:00):
know what though? I love it when mega people wear
mega hats, mega sweat suits, because it lets me know that
they're horrible human beings and I don't want anything to do
with them. You know it's.
And you know what, It's funny that they come in like nice
cotton fabric because that makessense as well.

(33:21):
And the sizes it comes in like medium, large, extra large and
racism. Yeah, extra douchey.
Extra douchey because usually they are and it to me it's I
just I don't, I don't understandthat even today they still have

(33:43):
people who are are. So Speaking of extradition
people, I got to talk about this.
Have you guys seen or heard of the Netflix special Sean Combs
The Reckoning? Yes, we have.

(34:04):
I mean I have. If if on net.
Hold on. Hold on.
Note Jamal, have you seen it? I have not seen it and there's a
good chance that I will not see.It let me ask you this, Hold on,
let me ask you this. OK.
You know who the executive producer is.
Isn't it a $0.50? Yes, Now the reason we watched

(34:27):
this, we watched this the other night the other day.
I don't even know what day it is.
We watched it on Tuesday. We started watching it on
Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday, and this is I'm going
to tell you. This is why we weren't able to
do yesterday because we were exhausted.

(34:47):
We, we got up early because we were supposed to go babysit my
nephew and then my, my sister-in-law says, oh, my bad,
my blonde, it's actually tomorrow.
And so then we were up. We had running around.
We did some things and then we came home and we tried to watch

(35:08):
it. Well, we had tickets.
We went to go see Dave Chappelle.
Dave Chappelle on Tuesday. Oh shit.
So we went to the Chappelle and by the time we got home it was
like midnight. And then we stayed up an extra
hour to to watch the 4th installment of that and then got
up at like 5:30 to go watch my nephew again.

(35:30):
So we were exhausted. We didn't get a chance to get
any rest or sleep. So here's what I'm going to tell
you first of all. First, this is what you need to
know. We went to see Bill Bellamy.
Love Bill Bellamy. We went to see.
Hands down the best. Funniest fucking comic there is,
yeah. Hands down, hands down worth.
Every penny you paid. Hands fucking down of all the

(35:53):
comedy, and we're comedians. We all know this of all the
comedians that we've watched in person, Bill Bellamy is fucking
hilarious. Love what the fucking plan.
Oh my God. Anyway, so we get there.
We and Bill Bellamy was talking about, he was talking, he was
talking about, he goes, he was talking to, he goes, he goes,

(36:13):
you know, $0.50 is petty as fuck.
He goes, he says. He goes, he goes, pity is he
goes, pity as fuck. He goes, he goes, yo Bill, I
heard you going out there to Cali.
Be careful out there, man. Diddy out there, you know,
right. And so whatever you do, whatever

(36:35):
you don't. Let him take you shopping.
Whatever you do, don't let him take you shopping, right?
And so we laughed about it. We thought.
It was hilarious. I thought it was freaking
hilarious. But now, what's the funniest
part of us about this? This jumps the reckoning.
It's it's, it's produced, I mean, or it's recorded, recorded

(36:58):
by $0.50 it. Was produced by but.
And it's only played on a on ABCor CBS, which is the only shadow
that they can get in prison. That's the only shadow that that
that Sean Combs can fucking watch it.
And I was glad for my ass. I'm like damn, not only.
So first of. All the reason why he was able

(37:23):
to get all this footage was because Sean Combs paid a
videographer to follow him around.
And videotape for months. For months and then refused to
pay him. Give him a fucking dime.
Refused to pay ourselves. So went in and took all that.
He bought it and. He bought all of it.
Yeah. He's like, why take all?

(37:45):
That, yeah. And when you watch the, when you
watch the reckoning, one of the things that you'll see one of
the repeated, I guess one of thethings that scenario that kept
coming up was. He wasn't paying.
He didn't pay anybody. He's stiff.
He would dangle the carrier in front of the law.
You're going to get paid. You're going to get paid.

(38:06):
And then it was a shell game. Yeah.
And everybody's like, yo, man, where's my money, yadda, yadda,
yadda. Craig Mack didn't get fucking
nothing. Craig Mack was trying to fucking
pay his rent and they was askinghim for handouts and trying to
get the rent paid and they had to go to a fucking opening for a
new album and when he got there he goes, yo man, can I get some

(38:27):
money? Fucking Fiddy pulled out a lot
of money like this and pulled off $100, Bill said.
There they gave 100 bucks and that was it.
Who's the artist that worked with him for two years on an
album? Oh, that was the dude he been
fucking with, Yeah. Oh yeah, and then he he promised

(38:50):
to pay him. After.
Two years of Yeah. 290,029 thousand. 29,008 thousand.
What he was supposed to give me,he gave him anything.
He wasn't paying nobody shit. Yeah, they say he would dangle
that carrot. In front of you to.
Get you to fucking start working, get you producing and
everything and making fucking records and everything and your

(39:11):
records going fucking platinum and this and then this and then
the other, and nobody's getting paid.
Yeah, You know where he learned that, right?
Yeah, they were saying. That that it was from.
His mentor? What was his name?
Donald Trump. Oh yeah.
Well. Trump wasn't his mentor, but he
he is definitely like John Very.Very Trump like.

(39:33):
That was way funnier. That that did not get what it
deserved. I know what.
You know what, though? But it's true though, because
Compton, we were saying that exactly.
He was just like Trump, like. He was like, he was like
narcissistic and. He was like he had to.
He he considered himself God's son because he couldn't.

(39:56):
He couldn't fuck it, he would. He would talk to Jesus because.
Jesus was the only one that he could be compared to like he's
I'm Jesus. Look, I.
Don't slip on the baby oil. Yeah, yeah, he would tell.
Him off like like I know. When y'all see me like walking
on water, how y'all feel about me and shit I'm like this
motherfucking I got a God complex real bad.

(40:16):
He thinks he walks on real bad, like he was a trip.
Yeah. Oh my God.
He's a fucking trip. I'm like, good God.
Yeah, man, I, I. I tell a joke.
Instead of jumping people in, Diddy used to just cum in
people. You know what though, I just saw
something. Today that Fat Joe said he

(40:39):
stopped. Fucking with Diddy.
Because Diddy tried to pull some, tried to like slip into
him and essentially and Fat Joe was like took a shit and left.
Wouldn't have nothing to do withhim.
Yeah, that's what happened with a lot of a lot of the people.
That was around him did, yeah, but it did talk about.
Go. Ahead, human beings.
Just so predictable. Like you, you give, you give a

(41:01):
mouse some cheese and it's goingto eat and you see are you?
Familiar with the the cocaine? Test the what?
Where they? Gave rats.
The option to the cocaine test in rats anyway, they did an
experiment where they gave theserats just them in a cage and

(41:24):
some water with some drugs in itand routinely the rats would
just fucking off themselves. They would do so many drugs that
they would off themselves. Well, they found out that it
wasn't because the drugs were sogreat, it was that the rats were
bored. They didn't have anything to do.
So if you put them in with otherrats and they could do things
like fuck and frolic and just berats, then they wouldn't kill

(41:46):
themselves. They'd do a little bit of drugs
and then they go back and have fun.
So you got all these people thatI totally forgot where I was
going with this. What were we talking about?
Diddy. Just being how people just go
overboard where you give them a little bit of a chance at power
and they just go off the deep end.

(42:08):
They're like, all right, how farcan I take this?
And I ends up fucking little kids.
It always ends up fucking littlekids because we take the thing
that every culture reveres, which is children.
And then these evil people do evil things to kids and we react
surprised and we're like, no, that's all fucking people.
When you enable them, that's allthey do is horrible shit.

(42:32):
I've got another another projectI'm working on right now is the
answer to the question, why doesn't someone do something
about it? Because you've got people.
That have. We're coming up on the 1st
trillionaire. We've got people that have
billions of dollars in private wealth, trillions of dollars in
private wealth. If you look at the Middle East
and all these organizations thatpurport to want to do shit.

(42:56):
And I'm not the first person to talk about this.
Carlin had a big bet on it. But the churches that, you know,
if, if any of them did what theysaid they were set out to do,
we'd have World Peace. There would be no hunger.
Like, we have the means to do all of that, but it never gets
done. And so why not?
Because humans are evil. Yeah, and that's true.

(43:18):
That's true. And I think that what happens is
that if you took anybody and youput them, even Mother Teresa,
OK, let's take Mother Teresa andlet's give her a billion
dollars. Let's drag that bitch.
Let's go. Right, a billion.
Dollars and a corporation to runshe's going to she's going to go

(43:42):
evil too. It is it's, it's something like
they say that power corrupts absolute power corrupts
absolutely. And that's, and that's.
What happens? Is it's that when you you know
what it's never enough. There is no such thing as
enough. They want more and more and more
and more and the only thing thatthey have as their end goal is

(44:03):
how to get more right. And so people, I always have a
philosophy that people, the problem with the world is that.
People think that. Other people think just like
them, and that's the problem. They can't imagine doing the
heinous acts that diddy's done that Trump's done that Epstein's

(44:24):
done that. They can't imagine doing that.
So because they can't imagine doing that, they can't imagine
anybody else doing it either. They can't believe that somebody
would actually do that kind of heinous thing.
And that's the problem. This is that people don't think
just like you, they think criminals.
That's they depend on people like us thinking that the world

(44:46):
is a good, happy place. And that because I could never
imagine doing that kind of evil,it can't be done.
And criminals, Absolutely. Rely on.
That that's how they're able to get away with the things that
they do. They're able to get away with so
much because people don't look at it like even pickpockets, you
go into A and I don't know that really in, in America that we

(45:08):
have a lot of pickpockets where,you know, it's a, in areas where
they're pickpockets are really known.
Whereas like if you go into someplace like Greece or Italy, it's
rampant. And they know.
When you go out to any kind of of event, when there's people on
the street, there's pickpockets everywhere and they are laying
in wait for tourists and so and they'll do things like selfie

(45:32):
sticks €2.00 and try and sell you €2.00 selfie sticks and
they're coming up and what they're doing is really what
they're doing. Yeah, you'll get a $2.00 selfie
stick, A2 euro selfie stick, only when you go to get your
money and you go to put your money back where you have it,
the person they're across the street that they're working with
sees where you put your money sothat they go bump into you and

(45:54):
and pickpocket you take all yourmoney, you know, but that's just
it though. It's just people.
I think that the majority of people.
Are good, but they're stupid. Majority of people are good, but
they're naive. I think.
Al Pacino. I think Al.
Pacino said it best in the movieWall Street.
Why is it every time we do something good, nice people come

(46:22):
and they mess it up? You know, that's just.
That and and that's what it is, you know it's you know it's.
Like like you guys were. Saying it's never enough, you
know, I, I Remember Me. I know there were times where,

(46:43):
you know, I would get like a bonus check or I would get like
a raise and I would think, what do I want to do?
That is outside my norm, you know, and I have these wild
ideas like let's go buy a pound of marijuana and just drive
somewhere, you know what I'm saying?
Like I always have these like, what would I do?

(47:04):
And, and, and even like, you know, I'm friends with people
who are, who came from nothing and, you know, either are comics
who are on, you know, who are ontour or people who do well for
themselves. And it's like, they're like,
yeah, don't give a 20 year old money.
Don't give a 25 year old money because they're not going to put

(47:28):
it in a, a fund where they can purchase a, a home.
Or I mean, they may do that, butit's like with that extra money,
they end up doing things that are just like so out there.
And it's like, Oh yeah, no wonder you're on no other TMZ is
chasing you down. No wonder you're you know what
I'm saying? People expect you to do fucked
up shit because now you have money, you don't know what to do

(47:50):
with it. You know what I'm saying?
So it's just, it's it is crazy. And it's just like to involve
kids into the forget kid minors into the mix.
It does kind of it's it's just disgusting.
And and I'm not saying this to be it's no matter what side of

(48:10):
the aisle you're on, it's pedophiles are gross, no matter
where the fuck they come from. And they you know what?
I got news. For you, they're on all sides of
every single different politicalaisle.
They really are, You know it. It doesn't matter, you know,
just sleeping with their students.
Yeah. And these female teachers?
Sleeping with the male students even like that was crazy.

(48:35):
Crazy. Yeah, I.
Kind of wish that had happened to me.
Look, we were actually when we. Were in Vegas.
I think the last time we were inVegas we went to the Sex Museum.
Yeah. It was a sex museum.
Yeah. And they had a wall wall.

(48:57):
Dedicated to teachers that. Had slept with their students
and there was a hell of shit and.
Some of them and some of these were.
Fucking banging. They were fucking banging.
Dude. I'm like what the fuck?
This woman was like 45 years old, 38 years old, fucking
banging. Real nice looking, Real nice

(49:19):
looking in their 30s. A lot of them was in their like
3532 mid 30s, yeah. And they were so.
Do you think? That's because.
Those. Are the ladies that didn't get
the football player in high school and so now they're going
after the high the football player?
Or are they nymphomaniacs? Or are they?

(49:43):
Well, the thing was. Well, what the thing was, a lot
of these kids that they were sleeping around with was like
nerds. Yeah, it wasn't they wasn't,
they wasn't, they wasn't a football player.
They were these fucking kids whowas like, OK, he looks pretty
fucking average. This kids a fucking science
major and fucking you know, it was like they want to know made

(50:07):
they they weren't no football stars, you know, and that's
these ladies are out here. Preventing.
School shootings. Oh, you know what if I thought
that? Was the.
Thank you, Compton. Thank you.
That's, that's exactly what I got out of that.
I'm like, you know what? If you're, you know what?
These fucking teachers. Deserve medals.

(50:28):
OK, Hey. Dude, if that's.
What it? Takes if that's what it takes to
get rid. Of the me too culture and like
to to teach young men some accountability, responsibility,
fucking what's the consent? I think that older women in

(50:51):
younger men's lives can be a very positive thing now.
What? There's the butt.
Now. Let's not.
Let's not encourage kids to havescoreboards for their body
counts. Like maybe that's a little too
far, but at the same time I don't.

(51:15):
I don't want. Children my age that were
children running around in that.World like.
We we existed in a time that wasnot as good at communicating as
current generations and the difference in our sex lives from

(51:36):
like 20 years ago to now. I don't really understand the
sexual. Culture.
Of modernity, because there's some people that say it's all
about the body count and then there are other people that say
it's all about abstinence. So I'm not really sure what's
going on with kids these days, but I can tell you in my day, it

(51:57):
would have been good to have a little more education in regards
to, you know, sex. And women and relationships.
Because like. We we had.
Fucking Clint Eastwood smacking women around in movies.
It was not healthy. It was not healthy.

(52:17):
Sean Connery too, Sean. Connery was smacking bitches in
Bond movies. I'm like, oh.
So the. 60s was better. That's a better generation.
Fucking men in. Suits is not wrong you.
Know he was like yo this lady inhis.
Defense, this chick tried to sethim up.

(52:41):
You know, he, he smacked her. I'm like.
I, I I see you. I see you, Sean.
I see you, Mr. Bond. I got nothing.
So I can I can tie, I can tie back.
To one for you. We were talking about kind of
the social social influences forstuff and how people are not not

(53:06):
accountable. And I've, I've been boiling this
down philosophically for a while.
And I think what we have come in, what we're running up
against as a culture is we're running into this peak
individualism meets peak capitalism.
And both of those things are devoid of value for other.

(53:28):
And so now we have this just. Conti society where?
Everybody's in it for themselves.
Nobody cares about the person next to him.
And the alone together phenomenon has gotten so deep,
like the they're they're now chasms of space between you and

(53:50):
the person standing next to you at Walmart.
And our culture is falling apartbecause of that.
So it's it's something that thatI think is very revealing and
will probably be the undoing of our time.
This this inability for us to have a truly affectionate

(54:14):
society like we we live in this ineffectuate, you know,
ineffectuated world. And it's fucking crazy.
We need more teachers fucking children responsibly I think.
OK, that is an interesting take.I must say, yeah, I don't know

(54:34):
that I need teachers. Fucking children, OK?
I have children, not young. Adults.
We need teachers fucking young adults, at least on the college.
At least on the college. Level, Yeah, we got to get the
word children. Out of that sense, yeah, that's
not. That's not what I'm trying to
say. Greg's pumped urge.

(54:54):
What? Yeah, it's.
It should. Be a college course going to.
College, I think. I think.
Sex Ed should be a. College course because there
should be labs associated with it, and we just call them Misses
Robinson. Oh, there you go.
God, you know. What?
Yeah, Misses Robinson one O. One from having my share.
Of lousy partners in my lifetimenot you that I would have

(55:19):
thought that that would have been a great like there's
definitely some people that I'm like you need to go to school
you knew need to learn how to dobetter because you suck and not
in a good sucking way yeah dude clits are for.
Sucking, not chewing. Calm down.
It's not a ring Pop. Yes.
How? Many licks does.
It take to get to the. Center Don't get don't get like

(55:41):
tired out and bored and just bite it like you would have took
three crunch Yep. Yeah.
No. No.
No, that is not how that works. Press to me.
Well, she she came unblued. She was screaming, she was arms
and legs were flat. Yeah, you fucking bitter, you
dumb ass. How it works, yes.

(56:04):
It's not a Tic Tac, Yeah. Exactly.
I had. I had.
Another note, something I wantedto double back to.
We were talking about the fine line between being evil versus
being an idiot and I I am not sure if if it's.

(56:30):
People are. Idiots, or if they're evil, I
like, I'm not sure that people are idiots.
I think that they're evil because I think every human
being knows the golden rule, right?
Do unto others, so everybody knows how they'd want to be
treated. But we also have this bias where

(56:51):
rules don't apply to us, but they apply to everybody else.
And so I think the default is that humans, we know that we
have the capacity for evil. Yeah, I think, I think this is
it. I think this is the position
that I've landed on, is that if we are not entrenched in our
capacity to be harmful, then we are at least aware of our

(57:16):
potential to be harmful. And it's our inability to squash
that that has brought us to 2025.
I'd stand by that thesis. Yeah, well, you.
Said you said human. Or people can be are evil or
idiots. I'm like, can it be?

(57:37):
I mean, I kind of feel based on what I've seen on the interwebs
and social media, I kind of feellike, I mean, you're not wrong,
but I kind of feel like there isa, there is some like I guess
the, and I'm always trying, I'm sitting here trying to figure
out what's the best way to like describe it, kind of break it

(57:59):
down. And I kind of feel like there's
some ignorance to indifference, you know what I mean?
I just. I mean.
There's a lot of ignorance involved and and again, like I
said, I I'm not trying to make this sound political or anything
like that, but I'm just saying based on what I see, what I see

(58:20):
on like something like Facebook,which I think now is just a
dumpster fire of a, of a social media networking, a platform
because of all the disinformation that Facebook
allows people to post from othercountries, mind you, to cause

(58:43):
the vision in America. You know, you'll see like the
oh, this group or page was made in Indonesia or China or Japan
or Vietnam. And then they'll say something
to gear one side to argue with another.
And it's like all we have to do is just.

(59:06):
Like I fact. Check everything like, you know,
I I'm like, OK, 11 piece of media is saying that.
Let me go find another piece of media that backs this.
And if I find two or three, I'm like, OK, this must be true or
what have you. But if it's something where it's
like, you know, here's the lineup for the Turning Point

(59:29):
halftime show, and it's Aerosmith and it's Willie
Nelson, who by the way, Willie Nelson is a Democrat.
There's no way he would perform at Turning Point.
I don't even think there's enough money you can pay him to
perform at the Turning Point Super Bowl halftime show.
But it's just like all of that and and then people are like,

(59:50):
well, way to go Willie Nelson. We, I would definitely, I'm
like, you guys don't even know that he doesn't give a shit
about your side. So it's just like it creates
this huge and, and, and not for nothing, I don't even argue with
people on Facebook now because everybody, as far as I'm
concerned, if you're willing to argue over something like that,
you're automatically stupid and I have nothing for you.

(01:00:12):
It's like Google is free. I use it all the.
Time I use. It every day, as a matter of
fact, before I even logged on here, I googled all the
information that I did about this Darius Mccurry Mccurry
thing, just to make sure that I wasn't going crazy and all.
And it's it's everywhere. You know what I'm saying?

(01:00:32):
So it's just people are people. Oh, well, fact checking is
stupid. No you are if you believe this
shit than ever in our. Lives because there's so much
misinformation out there, but the problem is people.
Aren't realizing that they're arguing over stuff that is

(01:00:52):
that's disinformed and it's like, why are you just going to
say well, yeah, good for you Willie Nelson.
Fuck Bad Bunny. It's like no, like you haven't
even you're just going to peopleare being spoon fed bad
information and they they're like kept.
It must be true if it's on Facebook, if it's on Twitter,

(01:01:13):
you know what I'm saying. And it's just like, and I shrug
my shows because I'm like peoplewill fall for anything.
So I agree with you what you're saying, Compton, as far as
people can be evil or or what have you.
But I also kind of feel like people are just they they will
believe what they want to believe if it fits their
narrative. Yeah.

(01:01:35):
You know, because why it must. Be true if I found it on
Facebook, it must be true without even figuring out if the
source that it's coming from is a reliable source.
Now I'm not saying all media is,but at the same time when people
are saying, well, why are you making fun of this person?
Well, this person is on every single platform on media and

(01:01:59):
it's recorded. We're not making fun.
We're just saying, hey, this is what this person.
Is presenting. Themselves to be.
We can't even argue that dude, but.
People do want to argue that like.
So in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination I came out
real quick in my online community as anti Kirk because I

(01:02:25):
see people that use rhetoric andcommunication to be Dicks and I
don't like it. So I have an immediate aversion
to just people that are full of shit and liars.
So Kirk never made me happy, butpeople were so quick to come out
and really go to the mat and defend some of his takes on

(01:02:49):
stuff that were, they were controversial to one group of
people, but then the other groupof people just couldn't see how
it was, whatever it was racist. We'll go with the the racist to
the dog whistle one minute. That that's the, that's the
rhetoric. Yeah.
Yeah. And so.
It. So this gets back to ignorant

(01:03:11):
or. Evil.
And is it a bad faith argument that these people willingly
refuse to see? How someone's methodology and
their argument is layered in racism versus they just do they
not want to see it or can they not see it.

(01:03:32):
And I learn more now towards these bad faith actors that know
they know that it's bullshit andthat saying something like if I
see a black pilot, that whole example like to buy into that at
all and want to argue that position, like what in the fuck

(01:03:55):
is happening here? And so I think to me these days
that falls on the side of evil because we're reaching this
inflection point, this singularity that Kurzweil used
to talk about. I think he still does, but it
changed the dates. But the, the inflection point of
the information singularity, where it's harder now to be

(01:04:17):
ignorant than it is to be well informed because like you said,
we've all got Google and we've got one step beyond that.
You go with something like perplexity.
That's like an AI search engine that's legit answering your
questions and not just bringing you resources.
So like you could you could throw something in perplexity
and have an educated answer, notjust a variety of responses and

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people. I think people are holding on to
these ideologies and this self-centered bullshit that is
making it impossible for us to get over the hump of answering
the question. Why isn't anyone doing anything
about these major world issues when it would be so easy to

(01:05:02):
solve them? It's and.
You're. Right.
Because The thing is he did say stuff.
I mean, he, he said a lot of stuff and the people that I
would see that's defending it well that have defended it will
say something like, well, you didn't see the whole video.
You know what I'm saying? And I'm like, OK, I'll watch the
entire video and I'll, and I'll make my own, my own decision.

(01:05:25):
So I, I, I dug and dug and triedto find the video in its
entirety and I sat down and I watched it and this is what I
told some of my friend, well, quote UN quote, friends who were
defending him. I said if I came out and said,
you know what if I said this? To my white friends.

(01:05:46):
You know what? Fuck white people.
There is nothing that I could say.
You will not give a shit about what I say after that statement
because I had that is my that ismy firm statement.
Anything that I say after that are going to be cut are going to
be content that backs up the statement that I just made.

(01:06:09):
Here's the following. You know, now I could say, you
know what, I don't mean all white people are bad.
You know, I just mean the slave owners or whatever.
No, that's still, that does not solve the problem per SE,
because I just said fuck white people.
That's enough to tribute to be like, well, why do I need to
hear anything you have to say after that?

(01:06:31):
Because anything that I do have to say after that would be to
support my statement. I could say, well, I'm not, I'm
not that guy. I don't want to think like that,
but wow. In the the way that people are
treating black people nowadays. My whole no and, and not for
nothing, I don't, I don't think that at all.

(01:06:51):
You know, that's not my, that isnot my, my case.
I don't have issues. I'm not a racist.
I don't get, I don't have issueswith white people at all.
If anything, the majority of my friends, if anything, are white
and they get me. So, but nonetheless, so I when
somebody says something like that, you know, or make a racial
statement like that, it's like you're not, how are you going to

(01:07:14):
try to sell me on, on hate? You know what I'm saying?
Why? Would you try to sell me on
hate? Why would I try to?
You know, the statement that I made is hateful enough to a
large proportion of the people in this country.
So if I was to say that, why would you listen to anything

(01:07:34):
that I would say after that? It doesn't make sense, you know
what I'm saying? So, but again, I just feel that
people, again, we and we say this on the show all the time,
hate is taught. You know what I'm saying?
Indifference is taught, you know, we are taught to.
I was never I, my parents, both of my parents have never taught

(01:07:57):
me to rule out one race or rule out a group of people and say,
you know what? These are the people you need to
not like or, or what have you. I've never, you know, my
parents, both of them aren't even from this country, but they
see things. They'll tell me, hey, be
careful. Like whenever I go down to
Alabama, believe it or not, my mom, hey, be careful when you go

(01:08:20):
down there. Those people have guns, you
know, like, and, and I don't think that's a racial comment.
I'm like, we used to live in theSouth.
Our neighbors on both sides had guns even across the street.
Everybody has guns, you know, down there.
But I think what she's really trying to tell me is like, look,
be careful, you know, don't get yourself in a situation where

(01:08:41):
somebody has to pull out a gun and defend themselves against
you or, or what have you. You know what I'm saying?
Like she's just telling me to becareful.
Yeah. Well, you know, that's you know
when you talk. About Alabama or the South like
that. That's like when Romeo last.
This last summer. We were looking at a cruise to
go on and one of the cruises I was like, Hey, we could go to

(01:09:02):
the Panama Canal and it takes this amount of time and I go and
and the cruise ends in Mobile, AL and we can or like we can
like get a hotel and stay at night or two and and go check
out Alabama. Fuck no.
And that's exactly. What he said to me.
Nope. And he goes, I am not going to
go to Alabama with a white womanand spend the night.

(01:09:26):
I'm done. Yeah, I'm.
I'm. I'm right there with you.
I would, I would make the same decision as you and I grew up in
mobile. I just I've I have so many.
Problems with the. South and its persistence in
racism and antiquated just everything it.

(01:09:47):
Pisses. Me off on levels that I can't
even explain because for me growing up my family is from a
very small town called named Demopoulos Alabama and we dirt
roads and stop signs we barely have any red lights and growing
up and this this is a touchy subject but I'll throw it out

(01:10:08):
there so growing up my grandfather and my.
Great, great. Grandfather had a large amount
of property, hunting property and they employed a lot of
different people to help them out.
One of the guys that worked for my grandfather, his name was
Rube and he he did everything that my grandfather asked.

(01:10:32):
Like he would roast pigs for us and then he was awesome.
He's a great guy, but the reasonthat Rube worked for my
grandfather is because he murdered a guy, stabbed a guy 87
times with a screwdriver. And when they asked him why,
they said, well, I couldn't stabevery one of the guys that she
slept with, so I just stabbed her 87 times.

(01:10:56):
Rue was no. Joke and rue.
Was bigger than I am. He's 6 foot five, £250 easy and
they wouldn't let him out of jail because nobody would vouch
for him. He didn't have a job so my
grandfather vouched for him and he worked for my grandfather for
the rest of his life. But I grew up being able to see

(01:11:17):
very clearly that I had opportunities and privilege that
people of color around me did not have.
And it was very obvious the stratifications in society for
me growing up in the South. And it has been a struggle my
entire life to reconcile the privilege that I've had versus

(01:11:41):
people that I know. Like, there have been instances
where, say I got in trouble for something that if it had been
one of my black friends, they'd have been in jail, whereas I got
off with a ticket. Like, and I've seen all of this
shit first hand. And to live in the South and see
it perpetuated, still, I got a I'm I'm still mad about a lot of

(01:12:02):
it because one, I got to deal with it when it's not my fault.
I didn't do anything wrong, but I still look like the people
that did and am not far removed from it.
So it's something that dude, theracism in the South, it pisses
me off and bothers me in all kinds of ways because it's you

(01:12:22):
mean, you're right. I if I were black, I wouldn't
vacation down here to save anybody's life.
Like I'm not stepping foot on the South side of the Mason
Dixon line. Nope, I get it.
I get it and it sucks. I get up and that that's so,
they told. Us where it was into that our
cruise was in us in Nuke, yeah, we we ended up taking a 20.

(01:12:42):
Three day cruise to Tahiti in Australia instead.
So you know it worked out for us.
Good. That's awesome.
But you know, I mean it is. One of those things that it's
sad it it's. Really sad I'm I'm.
From a background that you know,I've always said my whole life
that that to. Judge a person based on the

(01:13:04):
color of their. Skin is the height of stupidity.
It's absolutely and and that's white or black or anything other
color in between. You know, it is absolutely Aslan
to judge somebody based on the color of their skin.
And so I don't think about racism the same and.

(01:13:28):
He has to check me on. Some things because you know, my
dumb ass is like, oh, why wouldn't we?
Like I've never been to Alabama.Let's go ahead and go to
Alabama. Like I, I had it.
My job sent me to Tennessee lastyear and usually.
Because he's. Retired.
We'd have him come with me and you know I'll because he gets to
stay in the hotel with the hotelroom.

(01:13:49):
I don't have to pay for a HH6. Yeah, we.
Well, no, because the. Company pays for it so we get a
nice hotel and the company wouldpay for it and we get a nice
hotel and I got a rental car andwe go cruise around after after
work and go. Kind of see a little bit.

(01:14:11):
Maybe a little sightseeing, but then also we would do things
like, you know, stay an extra day, an extra day or two, and
I'd just pay the differences. And so he would go with me.
Like he went to meet with me when we went to New Jersey and
we stayed over in New York and then don't remember where else
we went, but we went to a coupleplaces.
And then when it came time for me to go to Tennessee, he's

(01:14:35):
like, no, not going. We'll not go with him.
Don't blame you want. Yeah, he's like you're on your
own, babe. I mean now.
In, in, in your defense. Marianne, because you, you're
not a dumb ass. Because The thing is, you're.
Not I mean. With with RR.

(01:14:58):
Was very. Aware of right?
Hey, this could be a sticky situation now.
I mean, not for nothing, you, you know, fun and fancy free.
You have the, dare I say the privilege of not having, and I'm
not going to say white privilege, but you have the
privilege of not having to deal with the things that minorities
have to go through. So it's like it's so in your

(01:15:21):
mind, it's like, oh, we can do this.
But in his mind, he's like, you can do this.
Exactly. No the.
Fuck we cannot. Like there's we in this.
Situation like if you did this without me, it would go better
if I like I've been Speaking of mobile.
You know I've been I've had a milkshake with the white woman

(01:15:44):
and mobile downtown mobile AL not too far from the Candlestick
hotel and in Dolphin St. May I mad throughout their shout
out to Dolphin St. Those guys are awesome, but
nonetheless, I would have peoplelook at us, you know, mind.
You there's black. Couples there, there's white

(01:16:07):
couples there, but it's me and the southern Lily, this blind
headed bombshell of a southern gal.
It's almost like stop, like the you can hear the record skip.
You know what I'm saying? Like and it's it's like what,
you know, I'll be out of bar. I'll be out of bar with a woman

(01:16:27):
who's not even my girlfriend. You know, whether it's after a
show, whatever, we're just talking.
Just have two friends talking and you can see, you can feel
the stairs. You can see the stairs.
Like even if it's like one second longer than it should
have been, like, oh, like what'sgoing on here?
And it's. Like first of.

(01:16:48):
All there's black people here and there's white people here.
There is a good chance that a white girl is, is going to be
curious on Hey, what does the dark meat taste like?
You know what I'm saying? Like there's going to be the
curiosity of, Hey, I wonder whatthe white meat taste like, you

(01:17:08):
know, on my end. Like, I mean, I already know,
but I'm like, you know what, this is a the Southern fried
version of the you know what I'msaying?
What, what does that taste like?So it's, you know, there's
always going to be that. Curiosity.
And forget college, you know, it's like it it it happens so
but it amazes me that even when I go visit, you know, Mobile

(01:17:31):
that that or Alabama for that. You know, I've been to Alabama
three times and in some cases, Imean you Compton we know
interracial couples there. I think Carson Taylor's dating a
a Puerto Rican girl. You know what I'm saying in in
that area, Josephine? So.

(01:17:54):
And and she's not even. White, but you know.
I see them walking down the street in downtown Mobile and
I'm like, that is beautiful. You know, that is 2 comics, two
different races just to join each other's company in the
South of all places that I'm like every time they probably go
somewhere, they make white people mad.
Black people are probably like hey, go get yours white boy.

(01:18:15):
But you know, it's like, why is that even a thing?
Like if you guys were to walk down the street and bum fuck,
you know, again, past the Maze and Dixon line, you guys would
be stared at in 2025 of all erasin this country.
It's weird how that still happens.
I want to I want to say this. So we, I I got him tickets to go

(01:18:41):
see Ali Sadiq last weekend. And I'm.
Not. Particularly a.
I'm not really a fan of his and here's why.
He is funny. He is funny.
But I did a show. I was doing a show at the The

(01:19:06):
Parlor and Justin Hayes was was featuring and Ali Sadiq was
headlining and myself. And.
Justin and Justin's then wife Christine were all sitting in
the green room and Ollie came inand he kind of like, and then he
got up and left. I mean, we didn't even, we just

(01:19:27):
kind of said hi and we kept talking, right.
Well, then one of the the staff came in, they said, yeah, Mr.
Siddique doesn't want anybody inhere while he's in here, so you
guys are going to have to leave.And I was like, oh, oh, wow.

(01:19:48):
That's wow. OK.
In all the years I've been doingcomedy, I've never had any of
the headliners tell us to leave,ever.
So I was kind of like, OK, and I've seen him and I was like,
he's OK, but I'm just. So Anyways I.
Because I'm not really a fan. I wasn't.

(01:20:09):
Going to buy tickets but Romeo really wanted to go see him and
as everybody knows, what baby wants, baby gets.
This is why I say, Oh yeah, what?
Baby wants baby. Cats.
Very spoiled. And so.
I got tickets to to see Ali, andit was weird because the only
tickets that were available werein the upper balcony.

(01:20:31):
And I knew there, you know, and I was like, fuck.
So I tell him, I said, you know,I didn't kind of want to go to
Chappelle either. So I was trying to pawn him off
on one of his friends. And So what he ended up doing
was he called one of his his, his brothers, his, his best
friend. And at first he said no.

(01:20:53):
And. Then he called back, said no.
No, no, I can go. I can go.
So Marcus came over and neither one of them can drive at night
because we're at that age, Compton, we're at that age that
night blindness is a thing. And if it's raining, it's really
a thing. So that has not afflicted me
yet. And so I tell the guys, I said,

(01:21:14):
you know what, fuck it, I'll just, I'll drive you.
I don't want you to want to YouTube blind bastards driving
into Seattle. Then I'll have to go.
I'll just fucking. Drive you.
And so I mean, and it's not thatbig of a deal.
It's like an hour there. So it's not like that big of a
deal. So I took him, I dropped him off
and then I went and picked him up.
But The thing is just that I really, I told Romeo, I said,

(01:21:35):
you know, one of the reasons, I'm not going to lie, one of the
reasons why I didn't want to go was.
Because of. When we went and saw Dionne
Cole, what had happened about how he he made some real racist,
I mean, we had front row seats and he made some real racist
comments to me. And like, like for instance, he

(01:21:57):
asked me if I had a master's degree.
When he saw that I was dating. Or I was with.
This guy. And so I just, I didn't want to
deal with that kind of shit. I'm like, you know, I kind of
hesitate. Some of these comics I just
don't want to go see because I don't want to deal with that.
That's not why I go to see comedy.

(01:22:17):
I'm not hearing white people, white people, white people be
like, white people be like. And I'm like, you know what?
So we went to and I was, you know, I was concerned.
Well, we go to see Chappelle andsure shit, what's his face?
Fucking Ashy Larry Ashy. Larry.

(01:22:38):
Oh no. Darnell Rollins.
Yeah. Darnell Rollins was White people
be like white people. Be like white people, be like
and I really wanted I was like Ilike to Ruby.
I said, this is the shit that I was talking about.
This is why I didn't want to fucking come to see this shit
because if you fucking look around, I want to know.
Here's a question and I want youguys to to think about this.

(01:23:00):
In the United States of. America, OK.
What large venue that holds? 30,000 people, because I think
that's about what Climate PledgeArena would hold is like 30,000,
probably a good 35 thousand, 30,025 to 30,000.
OK, So what kind of arena that holds that kind of people?

(01:23:23):
What name is going to pull goingto pull up that many black
people? Well, of course.
Chappelle No. No.
Not. Really.
Bruce? Bruce.
I'm going to ask you how many black?
People are there that's going tofill up an entire arena, like,

(01:23:44):
oh, oh, how many? How many?
Well, Seattle 30,000 I was going.
To think like 5. Seattle is only two.
Percent African American population, right so.
There's not that I mean. They're they're there, but it's
like, gosh, how many of that small population is going to
come see, you know, it's in Seattle.

(01:24:10):
Yeah, I mean, how many of? Them are employed.
First of all, you got to look atthat.
Who has the money to go pay $50.00 to go see a comic that
no, no, no $50, nothing. Our tickets in the Nosebleed
were over like $115.00. Yeah, I know.
Yeah, so very. Very small on the front, on the,
on the. Floor those tickets were almost

(01:24:31):
$400.00 a ticket. Damn, so.
OK, maybe. Maybe 10 black.
People show up. Maybe and they're.
Sitting on the fucking. Nose bleeds.
With us, yeah. OK, so God damn.
Yeah, I would say. I mean like you say 30,000, not

(01:24:53):
for nothing I would and and no joke aside, I would probably
say, and I'm not even trying to be funny, I would maybe say
maybe 100, a 150 at best. At best based on the black.
Friends that I have in Seattle and they're not that many that
would afford to go see that likenot for nothing.

(01:25:15):
I wouldn't pay $400 to see Chappelle.
Sorry. Even if I had the money, I
wouldn't do it. I wouldn't even, I wouldn't even
pay 2. I wouldn't even pay.
I mean, and I wouldn't even go by myself.
I'd want to bring somebody. So I would say, you know, I
would not pay $400.00 for two tickets to go see Chappelle.
That's just not as a comic. That's for us.
It was like 250 bucks. For the two of us to go, and

(01:25:39):
that literally. There was probably.
Only maybe 10 rows of seats behind us.
That's how high up we were, OK? We were in the fucking
Nosebleed. And so when this guy comes out
and he's like, white people leave white people be.
White people are just shitting on white people.
And I'm like, are you so fuckingunaware of your audience or do

(01:26:03):
you just not? Fucking care.
Because none of us paid to see you, Darnell.
We all paid to see Chappelle. Not you, you know.
And seriously? Well, I mean in Darnell's.
Defense white people be white people in so you know there was.

(01:26:23):
Like. You.
Know it you know but but I see your point, I do.
I do see your point though. I, I, I do hear your gripe.
I, I, I I understand, yeah. I I just, you know, I.
Guess if that's just something, if you're going to alienate your
audience, like what the fuck areyou doing?
Like why are you alienating? All of us came here to laugh,

(01:26:46):
right? We all came here to laugh, not
be like and and that's just it. Cuz you know.
If I if I went in front of a predominantly black audience and
I said black people be I would not even get B out before I got
my ass. No the the black chicks in front
the. Black chicks in front be like
what you talking about? I know you'd be cancelled before

(01:27:08):
you got off. Stage.
Oh no, I wouldn't be able to even.
Make it off stage. I would not be able to make it
off stage. And that's just all I'm saying
is, is that, you know, it's it'sjust that like awareness, like
can you be aware that your audience?
And that goes back to the the shit that I had with Dionne Cole
and I've had it with other with other artists when we were at

(01:27:28):
Nate Jackson's room too, where I'm like, are you you are so
unaware that you're in create the room, right?
Do you? See all the.
White people in here or all the interracial couples that are in
here, There's a reason why we'rein Seattle, man.
Seattle is very, very fucking interracial and they are very
liberal. It's a very, very liberal crowd.

(01:27:50):
Be aware of that. Like you're alienating a lot of
people, you know? So I mean if anything he should
be there thanking. White people, if anything, thank
you for my Christmas bonus. Because I'm going to get a big
fatty fucking paycheck before yo-yo.
Let me tell you something. When I do a.
Show and and and Compton you youwere at the first show we did in

(01:28:14):
when I headlined that mobile it was it was packed nothing but
there was only two white people 2 black people in the audience
that drove 2 1/2 hours and. Yeah.
There was not one single black person that lived in Mobile.
That was like, yeah, I live a mile away from here.
I came to see, no, there was none of that.

(01:28:35):
So it was just nothing but whitepeople.
And not for nothing, first of all, I know where I'm at.
I'm a New Yorker. I'm here with the Jew, I'm here
with the one arm kilt wearing comedian.
I know where I'm at. So I have to make sure that
there's a lot of respect to be handed.
Now don't get me wrong, I did make a few racist jokes.

(01:28:56):
I even made a Trump joke and they loved it with the chanting
of DeSantis right afterwards. But at the same time, I let it
be known that, hey, it's not lost on me where I'm at.
I appreciate you being here and at the when it was all said and
done, they love the show. They had a great time with
everybody that was on the show. So I'm not trying to go to some

(01:29:18):
other place and just be like, yo, fuck all you white people
this and that. Again, if I was to say that, why
wouldn't you want to get up and exit?
Why wouldn't you leave? And really, we, we, you know,
we're. Not it's because we're waiting
for Chappelle. And I was like, I was like this
motherfucker. I can't, you know, it just there
was a few things. Well, I, I do want to say also

(01:29:42):
that I'm very blessed and thankful that my husband didn't
hear anything. You know there were so.
Many people that were. Coming into this show late and
like. Late late like the 200 black
people that bought tickets. Oh well, this one group.
Came in, there was like 3 or 4 of them and they were in the

(01:30:04):
row. They were sitting in the row in
front of us right now. Mind you, the show was supposed
to start at 7:30. We got there at 7:00.
It took forever because they they take every single person's
phone and put it in this cloth pouch and lock it.
Oh, they did that, Yeah. And so.
That took forever. Yonder pouch.
Yes, Yonder. Yes.

(01:30:25):
So then it didn't start until 8.It was supposed to start at.
7:30 we got into our seats. I think at 7:30 we got there
outside the Climate Fledge Arena.
At 7:00 we didn't get into. Our seats until. 7:30 it did not
start until 8:00 They have, theyhad. 4 openers.

(01:30:49):
And. This group of people came in
just as Chappelle got on stage. No, it wasn't even in.
It was a. Half an hour.
No, no, not not those the. Other ones and I thought and
they're talking and talking and talking and so distracting.
I finally looked at them and said what seats are yours?
And they go well. Our seats are in this room right
here. But there's people in there, I

(01:31:10):
think they go over there and tell them to move and please get
down, settle down so we can watch the show.
And they're like, oh, we're justgoing to go get.
And so they left and they went and got an usher.
The usher came and walked them through with a flashlight.
Very fucking distracting, right?So at this point I'm really
irritated. So then they finally get settled

(01:31:31):
and then like 1520 minutes goes by and this couple comes in and
this kid with dreads and I'm like, God damn it.
Like Chappelle had already been on stage for 25 minutes and they
are just now showing up to theirfucking seat in the mind you 4 O
bars 25 minutes on fucking stageand they're fucking getting I'm

(01:31:53):
irritated as fuck. So I stand up and I'm like
Jesus. And the kids look at me and he's
giving me a shit, right? And I'm just like whatever.
And he goes and sits down, sits down for all of about maybe 10
minutes, gets up, starts and we have to stand up again.
And he looks at me and goes ladywith a crazy eyes.
You bitch. Get out of the way.

(01:32:14):
And I was like, and this woman sitting next to me, her jaw
fucking dropped as she looked atme.
I didn't fucking hear and. He didn't.
Hear it? So I'm going to say I ought to
beat the fucking nosebleeds thiskid would have been leaving in
an ambulance because he'd have bounced down all them flights of
fucking stairs like shit. He'd.
Have flown. Down them because I got I'm I'm

(01:32:36):
on the. End and he had so I got up and I
got. Out the way.
Over here, I didn't hear him saynothing to her because he got
down and went that way and I wasover here when I yeah, when he
said he was coming. He just said it loud enough.
For me and the lady next to. Me to hear this lady next to me
draw, fucking draw. And I was like.

(01:32:57):
So when he comes back up. I wasn't going to move.
I was like, I was going to sit there till the little fucker
apologize to me and he he stood.Up because he hadn't and.
I was like, he must not have heard.
I didn't hear shit. I knew he didn't.
Hear because I know he. It would have gotten like
Chappelle would have stopped theshow because he would have heard
shit. He would have hurt us even in

(01:33:17):
the Nosebleed. He'd have hurt him in the
noseblade. He'd have said something.
What the? Fuck.
Did you say to my wife like motherfucker?
And he would have knocked him out, but.
Anyways, yeah, because hubby has, you know, everybody, the
one thing everybody knows is that he is very, very protective
of me and you don't, you don't disrespect me in front of him

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and get away. See, that's what that's what
concerns. Me is is that kid is he acting
malicious on purpose or is he truly ignorant?
Like it could have been the defining moment of that kids
life if you had heard him and hehad suffered the consequences of

(01:34:01):
the check. His mouth just wrote but, but is
but is it really? Is that ignorance?
Or is that somebody? Pushing the boundaries and we've
gotten too LAX with the boundaries because it's hard for
me to absolve people and just not like I like holding people

(01:34:22):
accountable because I hold myself accountable.
So that's how I like, I see likeI had to smack the fuck out of
that kid too. I've been like, I would have.
I didn't. You know the thing.
Is though is that we would have.Gotten kicked out, we would have
gotten in trouble and that wouldhave been an issue.
And the other thing is just thatlike I thought about going down
and talking to the usher and he,you know, but you think they

(01:34:45):
would get kicked out, but probably not.
And that would have happened. There would nothing.
Would have fucking. Happened to them because we had
that happen to us when we were at a movie.
We went to go see a movie and these obnoxious fucking
teenagers behind us, we're talking through the whole
fucking thing. We went and talked to Usher and
then when they came down, they wouldn't say anything, but they
would start, they would whisper so nobody could hear.
Only we could hear because they were right behind us.

(01:35:05):
And we're like, you know what? Fuck this.
We don't need this kind of bullshit.
You know, you just ruined a whole movie for us and I'm over.
That's right. I don't even want to be here
anymore, you know? And so there's some.
People, sorry to cut. You off.
Marianne there are some people out, well, not even some.
There are people out there that do not have social awareness or
tact. And this is one of my biggest

(01:35:27):
pet peeves. I cannot hang out with people or
even want to be around people that don't know how to carry
themselves in a social setting. There's a saying you are who you
hang out with. And I again, you know, we're
comedians. We have images.
I have an image that I would like to protect.
Most of my friends, you know, whether they're here in New York

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or, you know, in Alabama or Seattle, most of you guys know
how to carry yourself in a social setting.
But when somebody is doing stufflike that, like if we were all
together and let's say Romeo would be, was rude to somebody,
I would have an issue with that.As a matter of fact, I, I would
like to think that I could go over to Romeo and say, hey,

(01:36:12):
Romeo, maybe that's maybe that wasn't such a good idea.
Maybe, you know, apologize, kindof smooth it over a little bit,
you know what I'm saying? And then that way, you know,
this person can feel like, oh, Romeo made a mistake.
He apologized. That's the end of it.
You know what I'm saying? Because sometimes, you know, if

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I bump into somebody on a train or whatever, I say sorry, You'll
be surprised. The reaction that I would get
when I would have, oh, my bad. I'm sorry.
Are you OK? They're like, oh, you know,
like, I don't. I didn't mean to bump into you
or I didn't mean, you know, the train just slammed me into you.
And I just want to make sure you're OK.
People actually respect the factthat oh, this person caused an

(01:36:55):
accident. Or was part of it?
He's checking on my well-being, He's making sure everything is
OK. You know, I'm not saying, you
know, be Facebook friends, but at least you know if you can
make somebody's day. You know, or.
Brighten somebody, turn a shittysituation into a better
situation that right there, it would make the world such a

(01:37:19):
better place if we would just beable to say, you know what?
Like if I was that guy that saidwhat I, what he said to you, if
that was me, I would like to think, you know what?
She didn't deserve that. Let me go back over there and
say, hey, you know what? I apologize.
I shouldn't have done that. My fault.
I will do better. That's it.

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And then walk away. And then you would probably be
like, hey, you know what, It's OK.
We're all trying to have a good time here or whatever, but, and
I think that's what's kind of missing.
That guy probably felt, you knowwhat, whether he had a bad day
or not. I always tell people, especially
my, you know, my coworkers, if you're having a bad day and I'm
just meeting you for the first time that day, please know that

(01:38:03):
your bad day has nothing to do with me.
I didn't 'cause it. I just came in while you, you
know, you need to decompartmentalize, if I'm
saying the word right, how your feelings are according to who
you run into. Now, I'm a pretty easygoing guy.
I don't like to bring drama to people, especially if you're
already going through some shit.I would probably tell a joke and

(01:38:25):
lighten the mood, whatever. But we need to start being
socially aware of what we're doing and how we handle that
situation. Because that guy probably thinks
you know what, fuck that girl. She made me feel wrong and I'm
in my fields. Yep, but but the.
Question becomes and then. You double down on.

(01:38:46):
Stupid. You don't.
Instead of looking at what did, what did I do that created the
situation? They're so used to everybody,
you know, appeasing them and kowtowing to them, especially
this younger generation. Oh, it's OK.
My baby didn't you know? You apologize to my baby.
My baby didn't do anything wrong.
No, your little fucker came in here and disrupted the whole

(01:39:08):
fucking show. Not just for me, but we all paid
a shit ton of fucking money to be here.
We got here at way fucking early.
You know, we made that point to get here way fucking early.
And like, I don't know at this point, why are you even fucking
at the show? It's it's a half point through
fucking. Fell.
Set. Yeah, he showed up at like 9:30.

(01:39:30):
Yeah, it's that it's all about. Me movement, it's about me.
I don't care about anybody else,Compton was saying about the
problems in our. World, you know this is it this
is that they're so everybody is so consumed with me, me, me, me,
me, my, my, my, my, my, I I I I I not taking a step back and and
looking at the consequences if your actions not.

(01:39:56):
Only are you late? Here, but you coming in late
disrupted this whole, you know, like we decided after the show,
like first of all, in Chappelle,I'd rather watch you on TV.
I'm going to say it out loud. I would rather watch you on TV.
It just wasn't worth it The the driving an hour into Seattle and
it's an hour and a half home because of all the fucking

(01:40:17):
traffic paying $56 for parking for, you know, like.
Yeah, $56 for fucking parking and then 125 bucks each for
these these tickets. Like so I paid 250 to sit in the
fucking nose blade and it it wasn't fucking worth it.

(01:40:38):
Like, I will go to Nate Jackson's room.
I will go to the smaller clubs all day long because those ones
are worth it because of the factthat we have like again, we said
Bill Bellamy every time he comesinto.
Town. We will.
See him? Because when we walked away, our

(01:40:58):
faces hurt. We were laughing so hard, our
sides hurt from laughing so hard.
I was crying. Oh my God.
We were. I think we paid 50.
Bucks for the two of us. Because we hardly fucking
breathe and 10 bucks for parking.
So for if I'm spending 100. 200 and. 50 bucks for two tickets.
I should walk away with my face hurting and my sides hurting

(01:41:20):
from laughing so hard. And I just don't get it.
I just watched Kevin Hart's special.
I don't get it. I don't get how he fills the
stadium either. Neither one of them.
They're funny, but they're not like Bill Bellamy funny.
They're not make me laugh continuous funny, you know?
Yeah, there's something. About.

(01:41:40):
There's something about the sizeof the audience that dilutes
comedy, and it's happened to allof the greats.
Guys like Pryor and Steve Martineven commented on it on how the
there comes a level of fame thatdetaches.

(01:42:03):
You from reality. Like, I don't know if you
remember Ellen DeGeneres did thespecial about relatability.
She had a big bit about being relatable, which is a it's, it's
a good comment. Not that I like Ellen, but it's
a good comment. On what?

(01:42:25):
What levels? People are on.
Like the the idea that spending all that money and showing up
halfway through a show would be fun.
It would be a good use of that money.
It is just, it's a foreign concept to a lot of people
because you know what? We're here to enjoy this show.

(01:42:47):
Why the fuck is it about you? And the that goes back to
individualism and capitalism Andwell, I can afford to.
So I'm going to that kind of mentality that, you know, that's
how you get to the purge, you know, Well, I, I went on a, a
kid shooting spree because Slovakia offered that as a
tourist package. Did you hear about that

(01:43:08):
nonsense? Like there's some real crazy
shit going on in the world and the the idea that there is just
no sense of community that. Maybe that's why.
People will struggle and they'llmake that super divisive, easy

(01:43:28):
potshot of oh, the the race cardto get into into a set.
I think that's just limping out,you know, or limping in on a
small blind. It's not.
There's no real meat to it, because you had guys that had
huge audiences. Like even when Pryor had his

(01:43:51):
huge audiences and when Eddie Murphy had his huge audiences,
Carlin for. Me is the guy that I go.
To just because I know so much of his material, but he was able
to within a large audience, transcend the comedy and get to
the philosophy, which guys like Pryor were able to do just to

(01:44:15):
keep the races balanced. You know, it's the the mastery.
Of the. Skill allows you to transcend
the art and do some really cool shit, and that's something that
Kevin Hart does not. Do you know where Eddie Murphy
would make really salient pointsabout family and extended family

(01:44:39):
and personal space? Kevin Hart did that.
It's just not. It's not there like you're not.
Nobody's leaving a Kevin Hart show going, well, you know, the
whole philosophy of the Americaneconomy.
Nobody's having that conversation.
I've seen, I've seen Chappelle do some stuff.
Like that on TV? Yeah, the show.

(01:45:01):
That he did. Nah, it wasn't.
There that that wasn't, you know, there wasn't we, we drove
home, mind you, hour and a half drive home.
We were like there. There wasn't a single.
Joke that he told. That we even really.
Oh, that's sad. Yeah, there wasn't anything that
we remembered that. We were like, we wanted to even
talk with none of them, really. No, none of them.

(01:45:26):
You know, that's unfortunate and.
That's exactly you know. Again, if you're at that level,
there should be something that you're talking about that has
us. Thinking and it should stay.
With us, like I should like, I don't even think that we really
laughed that much because I, I really kind of got the feeling

(01:45:48):
that it was more of like. He's really detached from his.
Audience I really think that he is completely a totally detached
from the people that that come to to get him where he's at
because he I, I. Just get this sense of that.
He is so much better than everybody, you know?
He feels that he's so much better than everybody.

(01:46:10):
You know, He did talk, talk. About buying a town that's he
bought the town that he lives in, in.
Ohio that he bought the whole town and stuff and he owns it
and shit. And, you know, I mean, I just
think that there's that there's a lot of like.
And. There was like the one of the
comics. That we're talking about How?

(01:46:30):
It was that climate pledge Arenaand like a big pledge to the
climate to, you know, and Chappelle flew in a 2 hour
flight on a private jet from Vancouver.
And, you know, and then Chappelle makes a comment about
fuck you, you were on that jet with me, you know?

(01:46:53):
And it's like, you know. I mean.
I I. Just, you know, if anything.
I walked away more or less feeling like I don't ever want
to get to that level. I would never want to get to
that level that. I just feel like I'm so.
Totally above and and better than everybody else and and I

(01:47:16):
just I think I know myself that I know that if I was really
super rich like that and really famous like that, oh, I'm a
bitch. I would totally I would totally
be like fuck you peasants. You know, I think that that
would be me. I think so.
No, that's I think I've kind of.I feel like I've already like,
let me prepare myself for that, so let me be a Dick now.

(01:47:38):
Yeah. Yeah, I think then.
When when I get that? Money.
You're good at it. I don't have to, like, train
myself to give a shit about my my core audience.
I could just be like, yeah, well, thanks.
Bye. Next town over.
Let's go, you know? Yeah, Yeah.
I can see that being you. What about you, I?
Want to be I? Want to be the the?

(01:48:01):
Gave a tell of comedy. I want to be the Bruce Bruce of
comedy. I want very few people outside
of my world to know who I am, but I want my world to be large
enough to pack out the comedy club wherever I am that weekend.
Like that's that's the level. That I want I.
Just want to be able to sustain myself and I think that would be

(01:48:23):
cool, but it's very frustrating having to deal with the
popularity contest that is our culture because there's, there's
just no getting away from it. You know, on on some level,
every conversation becomes ticket sales.

(01:48:44):
Yeah. And it's hard to get.
It's hard to get around that right now and.
I think it'll come back around though, I think.
The The days of the comedy club will be sold out every weekend,
regardless of who's there. I think that'll come back
around. I think a lot of the A.

(01:49:09):
Lot of the cultural divides thatwe have.
Right now are really these odd inflection points of the, the
square trying to circle itself or the circle trying to square
itself, because the extremes, the left and the right extremes
have gone so far that they're pretty much doubled back on

(01:49:32):
themselves. And, or at least if they keep
going in the way that they're going, that's what's going to
happen. And we've seen that pretty
pretty regularly historically. Every 4060 years we have these
big cultural inversions. This pendulum shifts in the
other direction or switches directions.

(01:49:53):
Yeah. But we've never been able to
watch it in real time. Like the people don't realize
that what happened in Egypt withthe Arab Spring is going to
happen here in America. It it'll take on a different
some different forms because of our different political system.
But there, there will come a point where our government will

(01:50:17):
have to come to terms with the fact that it cannot keep up with
the pace of culture. And sooner or later those two
things will come to a head. And the the the pace and the
rate of our civilization increasing and getting better
and our government just being more and more complacent,

(01:50:40):
accomplishing less and less and just handing out money to all
these inside trading fucking corporate.
Like what is it? What's the word I'm looking for
career politicians. The concept shouldn't exist, so.
So. We're.
We're headed towards a really. Interesting time.

(01:51:02):
Or we're in the middle of a really interesting time.
Oh yes, we are. Because.
We can't keep going the way that.
We're going like, this shit is untenable on so many levels.
Oh yeah. I agree with that.
I agree that. With the it's.
Really interesting and I think. That it's more.

(01:51:24):
Concerning the amount of. People that don't step outside
of the circle and look in to seewhat's happening in.
Our. Politics and in our country, it
just it blows my mind that more people can't see what's
happening and. I.
Just kind of like how, how do you have blinders on?

(01:51:46):
How are you so ignorant that youhave these blinders on and
you're going through like everything's hunky Dory that
nothing to see here. Keep going.
Everything's great. Our our president that had
Cheeto in charge is doing a fantastic job.
He's wonderful. He's one of the best presidents
we've ever had. Just ask him.
He'll tell you he just got. He just got the.

(01:52:09):
FIFA. Peace Prize.
That's never been. Yeah, FIFA.
Yeah, dude. If you.
Have to put your medal on. Yourself.
It's valueless. Exactly.
Look, all I'm hoping. Here's what I'm hoping.
Since FIFA gave him that that Peace Prize, I hope he'll leave

(01:52:29):
Seattle alone and let the World Cup go on as scheduled here in
Seattle. He won't.
But. He has.
You were, doesn't FIFA? Still.
Have outstanding human rights violations for the fucking arena
they built in Qatar or something.
I think that one last places they had the World Cup was a

(01:52:53):
third world nation and the soccer stadiums were nicer than
anything they had in the country.
What I think it was Qatar, I can't remember but either way
like to get this from an organization.
That. Like uses slave labor.
I was just. Reading about Qatar being the
last. Place that they had the the FIFA

(01:53:14):
Cup and I'm thinking Qatar, huh,Qatar sounds familiar.
Aren't they the one who just gave Trump a a jet a million, a
billion dollar jet? I mean, wait a minute, it was a
$700 million. $400 million that took.
Another 600 million to get it prepared.

(01:53:41):
Yeah, they had to get all the bugs out of it.
Literally and figuratively, yes.And to make it safe, quote UN
quote safe. Yeah.
Anyways, now that I brought us down.
No. It's no, it's.

(01:54:01):
Just to kind of piggyback on what some of you guys were
saying, I mean, that's as you guys know, Trump took MLK and
Juneteenth away from the federalfee, the fee, fee free parks,
parks. Now, let me, let me ask you, let
me let me just ask you this and be honest.

(01:54:22):
I'm not. I'm you know, if you were to
take two of those holidays away from the parks fee free.
Parks. As free free free dates and then
add your birthday. Mind you, you didn't take like.

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Halloween or Easter or you took two predominantly.
Black. Dates with historical with
historical, they're the only. Black Holidays.
They're the only black holidays.OK, and and and but but but

(01:55:07):
replace. It with your.
Birthday there that isn't there something?
To be said about the narcissist,narcissism about that, and also
the racial part of that. Now I'm hearing, well, black

(01:55:27):
people don't go to these parks anyway, they're too busy
barbecuing. Yeah, we're doing that, but
that's not true. But.
That's hold on, hold on, hold on.
That's let me let me just say something right now.
Those federal holidays, MLK and Juneteenth as federal paid
federal holidays. You know what that means, that

(01:55:50):
any of your government workers, government employees have those
days off. So do like schools and teachers
and there's a lot of families. So you can't tell me that in the
entire country nobody has taken advantage of those dates,
especially in June. Hold on, Juneteenth is in June.
That's prime time for going to aNational Park.

(01:56:12):
MLK, Dave. Yeah, maybe.
Not as much because it's in February and it's probably like
in our area, it's even winter and it's.
Not as many. People going to the national
parks, OK, Juneteenth, they're going to the parks.
People are definitely taking advantage of going to the
National Park on Juneteenth and,and being able to go hiking, be

(01:56:35):
able to go picnic. But yeah, whatever and bike
ride, whatever they do, whateverpeople do in those national
parks, right? And those are.
Days that people are going to enjoy.
Them so it's not just only blackpeople are going to be going you
know, and and to say that while black people are sitting at home
barbecue and whoa whoa, pump them up I mean first of all.

(01:56:57):
Black people, we, we like, we like outside.
I mean, shit, white people put us out there to harvest the
crops. So you, I mean, we like outside
as long as we're not doing that,you know, sunburn.
So hell yeah, yeah, go joy that sunshine.
As long as we're not doing slavelabor.
Yeah, we like outside. As long as we're not singing,
you know, hymns, you know, picking.

(01:57:20):
Cotton. And shit like that.
OK, don't say because all of a. Sudden that that that racial
slur came into my brain. Do you know which one I'm
thinking of? Oh yeah, is the.
Mood Cricket 1 is. The mood cricket one, Yeah, I
love it. We need to, you know, that came
into my head when you said singing hymns in the.
In the in night that came as long as we're not moon.

(01:57:41):
Cricketing at your fucking parksWe we are fine by because that's
the way. I was waiting.
On it. Well, thank you for and and you
know, bless. Your heart, Maria, for bringing
that up because we again, we're going to make it a thing here.
I love it. I love that we.
We. We.

(01:58:01):
I go hiking usually because a white woman is dragging me to
that park, but I go hiking. I do, I do, I do all that shit,
you know what I'm saying? I like parks, you know what I'm
saying? So it's, and again, I'm a comic,
I travel the country. If there's a park and you're
like, hey, there's here's a school park with a waterfall,
take me to it. You know what I'm saying?

(01:58:22):
I want to see it. So the, the, the idea that some
people think that this is a big victory.
I'm like, who is this a victory for?
You know what I'm saying? It ain't a victory for for us.
You're taking, you're, you're doing everything you can to
strip minority history from the books.
So it's like. Victory for the racist.

(01:58:45):
But you can't. Tell me that he's not a racist.
When you do shit like. That oh, he's absolutely a
racist. Come on now and you know like
you can't tell me. Stop and think where his daddy
and his granddaddy came from. Yeah, yeah, I know the story.
Keep in mind Trump is old enoughto remember separate water

(01:59:11):
fountains. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Segregation and. He misses it.
I wish you'd. Bring it back.
But but also with that being said.
It goes right back to what Compton was saying and it goes
back to what I was saying. It's like some of these people
it doesn't affect. Them oh, I'm.

(01:59:33):
White I don't have to worry about the problems that
minorities have. I don't have to worry about all
of the oh, separate water fountains out.
What are you talking about? I always drank at this water
fountain. You know what I'm saying?
I only you know, I only stayed on this side of town.
I don't know, you know, So it's just like.

(01:59:54):
Like Compton? Seems you know, Compton is my
one of my many white friends whoseems that he understands and
and you as well Marianne that understands the struggle of what
black people. Going through and the thing.
Is at the end of the day, I think who Roy Wood said it best.
He was like, man, when white people protest for black people,

(02:00:17):
it's like, wow. It's like thank you.
But sometimes you guys do it a little too extra.
You know what I'm saying? You guys, you know you.
Guys. Really, you know, you know, he
has a bit about that and it's sofucking awesome.
He's so funny. But it's like when people are
willing to step up and say, hey,this isn't right.

(02:00:39):
And I'm like, yo, if it's white people, it's like, yo.
Let them sub in for us. We.
Need the break? You know what I'm saying?
Like, you see what's going on too, and it's time to say.
Something you know you can't keep allowing this atrocity to
continue going on and on and notdo.

(02:00:59):
Something. You are safe, I think.
Yeah, I think this is. The the sticking point in the
new generational divides where? And so I'm 44, so I'm the end of
Generation X, right? Born in 1980 and I grew up with

(02:01:22):
the common notion that all politicians are liars.
So I grew up, I learned everything I can about lying and
manipulation and persuasion and all that good stuff, and assume
that somewhere over the course of my life, well, we knew
politicians were all liars, so we're going to do something
about that. Well, 44 years later, we haven't

(02:01:43):
done shit about any of what we all knew were common problems
and just common truths. And so now we have this new
generation. Well, they're multiple
generations between me and the kids nowadays, but you get to
Gen. Z and Gen.
Alpha and those kids, those kidsin just more truth before

(02:02:07):
breakfast than a kid in the 90s had to deal with in a month, You
know, so it's. I got to imagine as a kid.
Looking at the world, you just have to look around and be like
all of these people claim to be adults are so fucking stupid,

(02:02:29):
like everybody so fucking stupidand it's just lies.
Like, I can't imagine being a young woman right now because it
was bad enough being a young woman any other time in history,
but now when you can just see all of the lies and no,
immediately just just lies and bullshit, it's fucking wild.

(02:02:54):
It's yeah. And the people who I'm not quite
sure how we. Got here and the people who.
Accept it. That's.
The strange part when people askme, well, how was like case, how
was Trump a racist? And when people ask me that,
it's like, if you I'm like, wow,if you have to ask, then you are
completely, you don't know who the fuck you voted for.

(02:03:17):
You didn't do any research on ifyou have to ask that.
And again, a white person, I don't.
First of all, I don't really like talking about race with
white people because for the most part they don't get it.
So it's like, why even bother? You don't get it.
You don't understand. You don't know what it's like
unless you're on the other end of it.
So me talking, it's almost like I'm never going to talk

(02:03:39):
seasoning food to white people. I'm sorry.
Unless you have ATV show where you're doing that, like you're
not going to learn anything fromme.
And I could even tell you, well,you know, the hoses that the,
you know, that they would spray on on the people back in, you
know, California, what have you,the, the, the you would never
understand the suffering of thatbecause you don't have to go

(02:04:03):
through that. So when people ask on social
media, how is he? A racist.
It's like, why are you even bothering answering this person?
Yeah, I don't, you know, does not make.
Sense to me so that's. Where you kind of go?
How is he not, you know, like he's a misogynistic too.
When he said quiet piggy, quiet,that's right there.

(02:04:29):
How many people was? Like, oh, he meant Peggy.
Or they were trying to find a way to I'm like, ever that
dense. He.
Said it. It was like purist.
You sent me. The video Maria and.
Let me tell you something. I watched it, I showed it to one
of my Co workers. I was like what do you think he
said there? And he was like, didn't he just

(02:04:49):
call somebody who we was talkingto Piggy?
And I was like, OK. It's clear as day, not only.
That, but clear as day, he's also.
Said things like. He's called them horrible
people. Stupid, stupid, ugly.
You're ugly. It's all female reporters that

(02:05:10):
he's talking to. He's talking to females this
way. You know, how is this OK?
How is this? This is what I I just like blows
my fucking mind. Compton, you said you got tired
of being in the corporate world.I've, I'm not necessarily a fan
of working in the corporate America, but I've, I've worked
in corporate I, I've worked in alot of different jobs my entire

(02:05:35):
life. I have.
Never. I've fired people.
I've hired people, I've been fired.
I've never ever been in any kindof job where if I called
somebody, told them that they were stupid and ugly, or if I
could say quite piggy quiet, that I would keep my job, let

(02:05:55):
alone office in the entire fucking land.
The highest office in our country speaks to people that
are doing their job. That's part of the fucking job
is to speak with these. That's part of the answer.
The tough. Questions you're like a you're.
Like a coach. Who lost the game?

(02:06:17):
You have to answer those tough questions at the end of the
game, Coach. You know what?
That's perfect. That's a perfect analogy.
Ask answer this What football coach?
Could tell a reporter. Shut up, you're ugly and you're
stupid. You mean without getting,
without getting fined and. Suspended.

(02:06:37):
Not one. Not one I would.
I wanted to be Nick Saban. Can you imagine Nick Saban,
Nick. Saban came out with his.
Accent God. Of Alabama football.
And just starts being misogynistic.
Oh man. You know what though?
Let's. Let's do that.
Could you imagine if Nick Saban said?

(02:06:59):
Shut up, Yakoon. Next question?
Oh dude, never be. Able to get away.
With that oh. My God, he would be fired.
One of the greatest college coaches of of all time would get
fired on the spot. Even in Alabama, he'd be like,
you know, you can't say that in public.
You say that in. Closed.

(02:07:19):
Doors like all the other Southern coaches do.
You don't say that out in the open.
You keep that shit with your family in the living room.
You don't say that shit in a fucking press conference.
Now we got to fire you. Now we got to fire the shit out
of you. And you can never coach in

(02:07:40):
college again. Oh my God.
No if if. No, there's and and on the
college level, in the professional level, shit, you
can't even do that in the pee wee league level.
You can't say those things. So if he so imagine you're
supposed and again, mind you, you're losing a football game.
You're supposed to. Hey, what happened?
You guys didn't seem prepared. What happened?

(02:08:01):
You know that coach has to answer that question.
He can't say, hey, fuck you, yousand monkey.
And next question. No, that shit gets that shit.
No. And and professionally speaking,
it never happens. And if it does, trust me, it
gets handled really quick. You can't call somebody a moon

(02:08:22):
cricket or a Coon on national television after a loss and be
like, yeah, I'm going to I'm going to be back coaching next
week. No, that doesn't happen.
OK, you would get. You would get.
Raped across the coals doing some shit like that, you know
what I'm saying? But.
Again. You know, and and again, some
coaches, they'll throw in a little humor into it, which is

(02:08:45):
fine. Like nobody likes losing.
But at the same time, if you, asMarianne was saying, are you're
the leader of the free world andyou're going to have questions
asked to ask to you, you know what I'm saying?
Like I would, you know, be truthful, don't you?
You don't have to insult the media, You know what I'm saying?

(02:09:06):
But then when when he does that and then people are like, oh, I
can't believe he said that. The defenders are just like,
well, in his defense, I'm like, no, I don't.
And again, I don't care if it's Obama.
I don't care if it's any. I don't care if it's Clinton.
I don't care who my leader is. You got to show some kind of
poise when answering those toughquestions.

(02:09:29):
You just got to show poise. At least do that.
Yeah, like. If you can't do it better than.
I could do it. You don't deserve to be
president. You know what I mean?
Like if Joe Schmo could get up there and can walk in and.
Tell that you're tossing. Bullshit across the podium, then
that's not what you're there to do.

(02:09:50):
You know, like that bar has beenand.
Literally. Now.
Any white trash? Trailer park kid.
Can honestly believe that they too could grow up and be
president. Well, they can't, you know,
after. Listening to this.
Shit, but I want. To change things for a second.

(02:10:12):
Jamal, did you get that message that I sent you about?
The flooding here. In Washington, No, I I did.
Actually, I did say that you sent me one, but I didn't really
take a look at it. Showed you a.
Location of flooding here I justwant to kind of address.

(02:10:35):
Flooding because I know I've had.
A lot of people from out of state and there's a lot of
flooding going on around us right now and it could get worse
because they're looking at a couple of the levees on our
dams, have Crocs in them and stuff and they're released
water. They release more water.

(02:10:57):
We live not too far from the White River, which is right over
here, and they're releasing morewater from that dam, Mud
Mountain Dam through the White River because it's, it's
potentially, you know, again, they're concerned about it, the
cracks and stuff. So but the the attachment.
That I sent to you. Remember where you worked over

(02:11:19):
there by the in the industrial right there, yeah.
That area. Is flooding and they're
evacuating. Oh yeah, that's that's very low.
I think that's low sea level, actually.
Yeah, that's the valley. Yeah, they're all evacuating
right now. Oh wow.
OK. Yeah.
So. They're about.

(02:11:40):
What, 2 miles from my house? Yeah, you guys aren't that far
from there actually. So what are you guys doing?
We're fine. Right now we haven't.
But there's been a lot of Rd. closures around us.
Even the highway, the main Hwy. 410 through Sumner, is closed
because the river is flooded over the highway.

(02:12:03):
There's a lot of roads around usthat are.
Closed because of flooding and up in Snohomish County up there,
Skagit River is over flood. I mean, it's crazy how how much
water they've got up there. So yeah, we're hoping we haven't
heard. I mean, so far everything's been
really good for us. My house is fine so.

(02:12:28):
You guys don't expect? The I'm sorry, go ahead,
Compton. I was just going to say for
context. How do these numbers stack up to
the norms? This is not normal.
At all this is like how far above normal are you?
Probably about. 8 feet. Wow, my.

(02:12:53):
God. That's fucking 8 feet.
Jesus. Yeah.
So when they release the the water from the.
Dams too, like I said, because they found holes in the levees.
Those are happening. There's actually like right by
where I was. Working there was a rib.
There's a river right behind. Yeah.

(02:13:14):
The building though I was at is that flood, is that, is that
where the flood is starting from?
OK, Wow. Yeah, all of the Helms in there
are at a level. 3 evacuation, yes and and there's a there's
two. Amazon plants over there
actually, Yeah, yeah, those. Are flooded too the BBQ place.
Over there. Yeah, the the, the, the, the

(02:13:38):
subway. Restaurant like right across the
street from it and wow the hotelthat's the new hotel that they
got by the there's a gas stationand then there's a truck stop
Yep oh that's flooded it's. It's over.
It's not quite there, but it's back.
Behind there, but yeah, so all that area over there.
So we're, we're definitely like,like you said, we're what, how
high, how high is the water? Again, 8 feet. 8 feet.

(02:14:03):
Wow, that is, that is a lot. For that area.
That is a. Lot, yeah, Yeah.
That's wild. That's that's that's.
That's like a whole section justunderwater, yeah.
And and. I'm very familiar with that area
too, because I, you know, I worked, I used to work there and

(02:14:25):
so I guess. When you're driving on. 5 Was
it? Is that the 520?
That's a 14. 67670 I mean one. 67 yeah 160. 7 so you can drive
over 167 and that literally looks like a river.
Yeah, over there. Wow.
I could imagine. OK.
Yeah. Yeah, it's.

(02:14:47):
Pretty bad. And you guys?
Don't live and you guys. Yeah, You guys don't live.
You guys are like a 5 minute drive from that area.
You know, around a 5 minute drive from that area.
Not even 5 minutes. Yeah, so.
I was showing Romeo earlier. Every time I look at Facebook
all I've been seeing all around us is Rd. closures like Hwy. 410

(02:15:09):
from water on the highway 167 isgetting.
You know, there's areas all around us, you know, Level 3
evacuations. So I guess the question is now.
With all that water, I mean, again, a lot of businesses are
flooded out at this point. What?
How are they? How?
Are they going to get rid of that water?

(02:15:31):
Like what are they doing? They just hope.
Nope. They wait for it to recede.
Hats with oh wow and how? Long do they expect that to
happen? We've got Puyallup River.
Which is right over here on the other side of town.
The Puyallup gaps behind us. Lake taps Lake taps is.
Up on the mountain, up on the hill behind us, we've got a

(02:15:52):
White River, which is right herethat winds around in town by
Hwy. 410. I'll be right back.
Yeah, so. We've got all the different.
We got. All the different highways.
And Rivers. OK, so yeah, it's been wow, I
have not. Seen I have not seen this.

(02:16:14):
Anybody else talking about this actually from, you know, Seattle
or Tacoma for that matter? Well, Tacoma for that matter,
yeah. There's a lot of.
Like, I was just really surprised though, that that area
back behind where you worked, how they have a Level 3
evacuation going on. I've never seen anything in this

(02:16:36):
area in my life up here. Like, I mean, I know.
From the Puyallup River and. Stuff, but I haven't seen it
like Sumner. Yeah, I mean with all the.
Rain you guys get in that area, I've never would think that you
would see that much flooding. Yeah, well, we've had an
atmospheric river. For the last like 3 days and an

(02:17:01):
atmospheric river just dumps water.
It dumps water non-stop, Water non-stop for the.
Last three days, yeah, it has been bad.
Bad, bad. An atmospheric river.
So you know what that means. A lot of fishing.
Oh yeah, you guys. Got you guys got a big pond
over. There and you could fishing a

(02:17:22):
street. Yeah, just.
Take a boat out. Just take a boat out and just,
you know, I watch somebody. I'll have to go back and see if
I can. Tag you in him.
He was driving and he was going over a road up in the Snohomish
area and there was like 2 feet of water in the road. 2 feet of

(02:17:47):
water and they were driving through it and.
I was like, that's what they tell you not to do.
Do not drive through the fuckingwater because it only takes 3
feet of water to wash your car away dude.
No, fucking Nope. Nope, Nope.
I'm not doing any of that. No good, I mean.
Of course be. Of course, Needless to say, be
careful out there. Yeah, it's crazy.

(02:18:11):
It, it is. Oh boy.
That that is. Nuts.
I'm going to look at you said you sent me a video.
I'm going to take a look at that.
But yeah, I I'm imagining it in my head right now.
Just 8 feet of water in that whole area.
Like I said, that's the valley. And there's a lot of they, they
built a lot of businesses over there, new businesses even.
And it's almost like damn, talk about bad location.

(02:18:34):
Location is what they say, but shit talk about your property
value being sunk underwater. Yeah, no pun intended.
Dude, and good luck getting insurance man.
That's absolutely absurd. Let me see if I can.
Oh, wait. A minute hold on, I should.

(02:18:55):
Be able to afford this too. Yep, I can.
It's. Crazy how?
Like just the amount of water everywhere and and imagine.
Seattle is surrounded by a lot of.
Water, but this is this what I'mimagining in my head is like
ridiculous. It's almost like, you know, like

(02:19:15):
you guys got all the you know, the lakes and and what have you,
but just having a new lake form.Hey, Lake Sumner, how about
that? That's just I mean there's
there's no debts so far, right. I mean, I don't know if has
there been any. Debts reported.
No. No, right now we've got.

(02:19:35):
The most current thing that they're saying, I've been
checking it a lot, is that Sumner, our little town here,
they're saying if anyone evacuated needs overnight
shelter, there's a Red Cross shelter available at Meridian
Habitat Park in Puyallup. It will be open till tomorrow at
10 AM. So I mean, there's a lot of

(02:19:59):
evacuation going on. There's just a lot.
Of evacuation. There's a lot of craziness
happening right now and we will definitely kind of keep you
posted of what's going on 'causeit's been a.
Little bit stressful. And not knowing, you know.

(02:20:19):
I mean, we don't really have anyof those rivers or anything
close to us. And when I say close to us, I
mean we're not like we have a Creek.
That's kind of runs behind. Us.
There's a Creek that runs on theroad behind us, but if if that
water comes down too much from those levees and shut when they
open up the water from the dams,it could definitely impact us.

(02:20:42):
I've luckily my house is just a hair bit higher than I think
they built up the the road that the property a little bit before
they built our houses because there's a little bit of a hill
to our neighbors properties behind us.
And I got up on the tub and looked out the bathroom window
earlier today, you know, And I was.

(02:21:06):
I was. Yeah, I know.
You know what? I got up on the edge of the tub
and looked out the window. Was a hell of a lot fucking
easier. 30 years ago I would have just jumped right up there,
popped right up, looked out the window.
It had been no problem at all. Now I'm having to be all
geriatric and careful holding onto the edge of shit.
Had to climb up. Use.

(02:21:27):
You know, like braces and everything to get up there, had
to have the husband. Help me get down.
It's not something an. Endeavor that I do you.
Know like, like I don't take it lightly when I go jump up on the
edge of the tub to go look up, right you know?
Well, definitely. I mean, you know, be careful out

(02:21:48):
there. And those of our listeners who
are out there, you know, of course, be careful.
You know that's. That that could easily turn into
a natural disaster and being that there's no death, I mean,
at worst there's property damage, but that could be
replaced. Your life cannot be.
So that's something that you definitely want to does Sandy

(02:22:09):
Rice and her. Family, be safe.
I know that they're more up north, aren't they?
Yeah, they're in. Jesus, Maple Valley, I believe
so around that area, I think so,yeah.
But either way, I mean, that's still close to, I mean, we, I
don't know what's going on and Imean, on that side there.
But yeah, I mean, I'll definitely send her.

(02:22:32):
I know. I think she sent me a message, I
believe, like talking about the rain and whatnot.
But she hasn't sent me anything about this.
And she's listens. She listens to us.
So you and Randall, be very careful out there.
We don't want, you know, the last thing you want is to hear
about people, you know, drowningand accidents like these
happening. But the fact that you guys had

(02:22:53):
the wherewithal to let people know to evacuate and whatnot,
you know that that that is great.
You don't, you don't need a Katrina on your hand, you know
what I mean? Or, you know, that's, that's the
last thing you guys need at at this point, you know.
So with that being said, yeah, we're dealing with things like.
Potential for mud slides too, like they had up at the Oso Mud

(02:23:15):
slides. Whoa, that's.
Terrifying. Yeah.
So we definitely are, you know. That's something that's going to
be something that's going to be a concern for a while because
that's that much water comes down and it doesn't like one of
the reasons why we don't have a lot of flooding is because we do
have our soil is type C soil andit has that that enough

(02:23:38):
combination of that absorbs. Water easily.
OK, so we, you know, we don't have clay, we don't have rock,
we don't have sand. We have a type C.
There's kind of a combination ofeverything.
So it the soil, the water actually will absorb into our
soil a lot easier than a lot of places.
So what happens is, is that whenwe do have something like a very

(02:24:01):
significant flood event, that the danger doesn't go away.
Just when the water goes away. That danger is, is that if that
water goes underneath underground, and if it erodes,
if, if there is some place that has like those hillsides that
could turn into mud, that can turn into a mudslide.
That's what we're worried about.All right, my husband is having

(02:24:24):
some issues, so I need to wrap this up.
I got a bad sinus sinus. Headache headache.
He's having a bad sinus. Headache.
I've been. No, I've been.
He wasn't. He wasn't sleeping on you guys.
When you see him close his eyes and it wasn't that you guys got
so much pain instead of pain. Going on right now, OK.
What we could do? We could do a.

(02:24:45):
Quick wrap up. Yeah, this has been fun, man.
We've enjoyed it. It's I'm sorry.
Bring. It to our closer.
I've just been a little out of it.
Bring us to our closer. OK, right man, you.
Did a great job before we do theclosing.

(02:25:06):
Hey, Compton. Or is there any shows you want
to shout out? Is there anything that you're
doing? Where can we find you?
What kind of listeners find you on social media and what
upcoming shows you got going on so.
MO and I've got to run in Florida coming up in February.

(02:25:28):
And the best way, the best way to follow me is Compton
smith.com. You can find all my social
medias on that website. It's got all the upcoming travel
dates and links to YouTube, my old podcasts.

(02:25:49):
Hopefully I've got a podcast called Truth, Love and Peace
that's coming back very soon. And yeah, man, that's that's
pretty much it. Oh, something fun to check out.
I've got a new news Facebook site, Instagram site.
It's called high point of hypocrisy.
So if you want to want to see the news.

(02:26:11):
From my perspective. Then check that out.
Something fun might a lot of. Lot of cartoon like news
cartoons and stuff like that butyeah, just calling out this
bullshit that we see going on ona daily basis but yeah, Compton
smith.com that's that that'll get you to all the things and

(02:26:33):
yeah I. Just sent you a friend.
Request. Compton.
Awesome, so let's see. I've got it pulled up right.
Here gotcha confirmed Look at that.
Just that, our special. Thanks for Compton J Smith, our
Alabama Alabama comic and actor as well.

(02:26:56):
And again, Compton Compton smith.com check that out and
then of course, definitely checkhim out.
I do vouch for him. He's a very funny comedian.
He's worked on a couple of showsof mine and he's fun to watch
And I I mean, I, I, I he gets tojam Co seal of approval
definitely. So it's like any time he's in

(02:27:18):
the vicinity of a town that I'm doing a show and he's like, yo,
can I drive up and do it, bro? The answer is always going to be
yes. So we're always going to make
that room for you. So it's never even a question.
I'm really glad MO brought you out or you drove MO out his own
show. So that was so that was great.
So with that, thank you very much for being on the podcast.

(02:27:38):
Thank you for your insight. Marianne and Romeo, as usual,
thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you
for listening to us. Thank you for making us a part
of your day or night. And as Marianne always say, make
good choices. Make good choices.
That's right, he's getting. It right or you can put the cue
card down. Sweetheart, thank you.

(02:28:01):
And and hey, if you had an issuewith anything that we said about
the commander in chief in chargeand you have no idea on why he's
a racist, how he's a racist. We're not making this shit up.
We're we're really not. It's it's documented.

(02:28:23):
If you can't and, and Google is free.
And if you can't understand why these things that we're just
bringing up are happening, then I guess it's not about you.
You have nothing to worry about.So peace out ladies and Jerry.

(02:28:43):
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