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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh yeah, hell yeah, coming up comedy, Richard Pryor, George Carlin,
Robin William, Eddie Murphy, Bill Cosby. At that time, you know,
all those guys were dropping albums on a regular and
I mean real albums that you could hold in your hands. Yeah,
(00:22):
you know what I'm saying, Like you had to sneak
in the basement and listen to it when your parents
was drinking upstairs. You know.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Oh no, I was listening to Cheach and Chong.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I was listening to all my older brothers and sisters
stuff man, so comedy albums.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
When you open up the Cheach and Chung album and
the weed smell would come out. I remember that album.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Man.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
For me, I'm younger than both of you, and for me,
like all of us dudes in the Midwest wanted to
be Bill Bellamy. Like we watched MTV like it was
going out of style, and it was.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Every day all the time. I swear to you.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
You know, we've got Mychael Jordan's, but I don't think
we could have all dunked like him. We've got some
football players, but we knew where our limits were. But
Bill Bellmy may have been something that we could all do,
like doing the music videos was a dream job. What
was that time like and what do you think about
it now? Because DIBs and I were talking about, man,
we miss a good music video channel.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Dude, you got to understand if you grew up in
the nineties, if you were like in high school, middle school,
or even in college, you were in the best era
since the sixties as far as the music right, because
so many people came out and blew up. Like just
think of the different types of music you was listening to.
(01:41):
We had we had Blind Mellon, we had Slew, we
had Coulio, we had Atlantis, mars Set, we had Hoodie
and the Blowfish. Like look at all the different like
we had Ace of Base.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
So like for me getting that job, it was such
a dream because it was not only was I excited
to do the job, I was learning different types of
music at the same time as well. So now I'm
going to rocks shows, I'm going to hip hop shows,
I'm going to acoustic shows, and I'm meeting artists like
(02:20):
you know, Kurt Cobain and you know Steven Tyler and
Janet Jackson, and I'm like, yo, this is crazy. Like
it was like getting a super duple all access fast
to the music industry.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Basically talking to Bill Bellamy.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
He's going to be appearing at the Funny Bone Comedy
Club and Restaurant in Manchester, Connecticut, on the seventh and
the eighth of November. He's got two shows on Friday,
two shows on Saturday. So let me paint this picture
for him. In the minor leagues and in the mid eighties,
early eighties, and after every game, we didn't have a
lot of money, we'd go home watch MTV and you
(02:55):
we sit around literally and wait for like a deaf leopard,
you know, video.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Or whatever video we're looking for.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I mean, and like you said, you had rap you
had everything, and a lot of these guys were trying
to work their way up. So wherever I'm playing see
the Rapids, Iowa, Eugene, Oregon, or Burlington, Vermont, I'm running
across a lot of the same people that were on
their way up. I remember playing in Oregon and I
saw Pearl Jam, Nirvana, all these all these bands in
(03:24):
small clubs and you're playing their videos which actually made
them huge. What was that like when you guys were
in times, scoring and stuff like that. Meeting people like
that and they were on their way up and you
were on your way up. What was it like back
in the eighties and the nineties.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Let me give you an idea of this, right, So,
imagine the record industry is on fire. The record labels
are like teams, like the Giants and the Jets, and
they're bringing their best artists. Every week there's a new
artist that's going to be the next thing, or is
she a solar artist? Is a band? So you're getting
(04:01):
to meet these guys right before the blow up. Because
at that time in the nineties, to get on MTV
and have them play your music video on heavy rotation
was going to make you go from selling gold to
platinum and going from being in small rooms to like
selling out arenas. Like it was gonna change your life.
(04:21):
So it was a big deal. That's why they knew
how important it was for you to go in there
have a great interview talk about the music video, because
the music video was basically your commercial. Yeah, do you remember,
like that's a little how it was back.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Well, I mean, like Aerosmith, I grew up in the
seventies and graduated eighty two from high school and Aerosmith
was huge in the seventies and then kind of faded.
Then MTV comes out. They're on MTV. You're playing your
heavy rotation of a bunch of their videos, and all
of a sudden, Aerosmith in the nineties is one of
the biggest bands. Like you too. I remember when I
(04:58):
was in the major leagues. I saw YouTube at Yankee
Stadium the Zeropa Tour. I brought half my team from
the Reds to that show, and so think about that,
major league guys were watching this concert, fifty five thousand
people that but it was awesome. There was a great
time to be alive back in the eighties and nineties.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
This is what I'm telling you this. It's like we
know what we're talking about. And anybody that's listening just
think back how you were excited and like you were
literally buying the music. There were record stores and you
can't find a record store now you got to google
a record store. You know, we were buying, We were
buying albums, we were wearing the T shirt. I remember,
(05:40):
like I remember going to a show and the merchandise
was flying, like people was buying a def Leopard meat loafs.
Like it was so many bands that were selling. They
were selling more merch than they was getting on the show.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Like, I love all your movies. I'm a big fan
of How to Be a Player. All the girls I
know have seen Love Jones about ten times. But I
want to know about your experience on any given Sunday
as wide receiver, Jimmy Sanderson, What was that experience like
with just like alver Stone, al Pacino, all those heavy
(06:19):
hitters in the movie industry. But then you got Lt.
Jim Brown, Like, how are you? How are you Bill
Bellamy stacking up in that mix with those dynamite actors,
those dynamite football players and making it look like you
are one of the best receivers known to man on
the Sharks.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Well, it was a couple of things. I was already.
I mean, I played baseball. I played football a little
bit till I got hurt a little bit. In high school,
I ran track and I played mostly basketball, so I
was kind of like dibbling dabbling in sports. I was
always athletic, but I never really got a chance to
(06:59):
ex in football because I hurt my hamstring and then
I couldn't gain enough weight. I was really really skinny,
but I was actually kind of fast, right, and so
I was like, na, let me pluay, you know, run
track and then play basketball. And then I was like okay.
But then to be able to live out that dream
in a movie to me was just like everything because
(07:22):
now I'm a man. Now I got a little size
to me, I've been lifted weights. I'm working out with
these real NFL guys every day. We had eight weeks
of training before we even started the movie, Like we
were like Lily, Bro, I was a high protein diet.
I was eating healthy. I was I was literally doing windsprits.
(07:43):
I was doing forties, I was doing hundreds. I was
I mean every day, Like dude, you could see every
muscle fiber in my body. That was the best shape
of my life. Right. And so then to go and
betrayed by real athletes that you know, went to University
of Miami, went to Ohio State or all these guys
(08:05):
who went to these SCC schools and now you know
are either in the league or you know about to be. Like,
so these guys were working me out, bro, it was
the best, Like, honestly, the closest thing to being in
the NFL for me was being at any given Sunday
because we lived it. You know, we were locked down
on the set, like we were literally around each other
(08:27):
for six months, like we turned into a real two.
We thought we were real. We we thought we were
we hey, bro, we thought we was real until one
of us got hit and we was like, you know
what we're at.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
After?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I don't think I'm an actor. I don't know if
I'm a real actor. I'm an actor.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Talking to Bill Belabie.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
He'll be at the Funny Bone Comedy Club and Restaurant
in Manchester this Friday and Saturday. What are the show times?
What was it seven and nine thirty and six thirty
and eight thirty or what's what's the what's the Saturday show?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I think you're correct on they go a little early
on Saturday because people, I guess, you know, want to
go out to dinner earlier. But Sunday, Friday, Friday is
definitely seven and nine thirty.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
How is comedy right now? Are you allowed to be
the way you were ten, fifteen, twenty years ago?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Or is everything? Uh No?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I mean I think I think it's a ship, like
I think it goes in waves, because I'll give you
an example. I remember everything was buck wow. Everything was
buck wow when I first came in the game. And
I'll never forget when Jennet Jackson Nipple flew out, it
got tight y y'all. You remember when just certificated walking
(09:50):
away from Jenne like, yeah, nah, I didn't have nothing
to do with that one, you know what I'm saying.
And so when that happened, it got tight, and then
it loosened back up again. I think it goes in waves.
To be honest with you, right now, it feels like
it's really conservative. You gotta be really, you know, diligent
(10:11):
with your writing, with your comedy, how you say it,
or what subject matter that you hit, because now you know,
we got social media. Somebody's still a clip. They don't
get the whole joke. And now you're bashing you know,
the cows or something and they're only cow people made
(10:32):
outside to show you got forty two cows. They all
outside moving you.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
All right? Not only are you great actor?
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Not only not only do I want MTV back, I
want def Comedy James back and more and more and
what it used to be. But one piece of advice, sir,
you are in Yukon territory. And we know you rock
with Saint John's and Saint John's is like feeling themselves
in the last couple of years.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
It's a big rivalry right now.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
So I just want you to know before you start
wearing some kind of scarlet red up in there and
start talking.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
You basically saying, do not do it.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Don't do that.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Patino is not a friend around here, Like I wouldn't
even go to Duke Rowd just like say you.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Love Manchester about it. Manchester is not the place to
do it right right.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Listen to me, Bro, I know exactly what you're talking about.
It's about one million huskies up here, so I'm would
have walked light. I'm gonna walk light.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Oh man, you are funny man. We'd love to get
you back on Bill. Have a lot of fun in Manchester.
I know you're in West Nyack, New York after that.
But thank you so much for giving us a few
minutes today.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Hey, thank you guys.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Man.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
They have a great weekend.
Oh yeah, hell yeah, coming up comedy, Richard Pryor, George Carlin,
Robin William, Eddie Murphy, Bill Cosby. At that time, you know,
all those guys were dropping albums on a regular and
I mean real albums that you could hold in your hands. Yeah,
(00:22):
you know what I'm saying, Like you had to sneak
in the basement and listen to it when your parents
was drinking upstairs. You know.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Oh no, I was listening to Cheach and Chong.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I was listening to all my older brothers and sisters
stuff man, so comedy albums.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
When you open up the Cheach and Chung album and
the weed smell would come out. I remember that album.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Man.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
For me, I'm younger than both of you, and for me,
like all of us dudes in the Midwest wanted to
be Bill Bellamy. Like we watched MTV like it was
going out of style, and it was.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Every day all the time. I swear to you.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
You know, we've got Mychael Jordan's, but I don't think
we could have all dunked like him. We've got some
football players, but we knew where our limits were. But
Bill Bellmy may have been something that we could all do,
like doing the music videos was a dream job. What
was that time like and what do you think about
it now? Because DIBs and I were talking about, man,
we miss a good music video channel.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Dude, you got to understand if you grew up in
the nineties, if you were like in high school, middle school,
or even in college, you were in the best era
since the sixties as far as the music right, because
so many people came out and blew up. Like just
think of the different types of music you was listening to.
(01:41):
We had we had Blind Mellon, we had Slew, we
had Coulio, we had Atlantis, mars Set, we had Hoodie
and the Blowfish. Like look at all the different like
we had Ace of Base.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
So like for me getting that job, it was such
a dream because it was not only was I excited
to do the job, I was learning different types of
music at the same time as well. So now I'm
going to rocks shows, I'm going to hip hop shows,
I'm going to acoustic shows, and I'm meeting artists like
(02:20):
you know, Kurt Cobain and you know Steven Tyler and
Janet Jackson, and I'm like, yo, this is crazy. Like
it was like getting a super duple all access fast
to the music industry.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Basically talking to Bill Bellamy.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
He's going to be appearing at the Funny Bone Comedy
Club and Restaurant in Manchester, Connecticut, on the seventh and
the eighth of November. He's got two shows on Friday,
two shows on Saturday. So let me paint this picture
for him. In the minor leagues and in the mid eighties,
early eighties, and after every game, we didn't have a
lot of money, we'd go home watch MTV and you
(02:55):
we sit around literally and wait for like a deaf leopard,
you know, video.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Or whatever video we're looking for.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I mean, and like you said, you had rap you
had everything, and a lot of these guys were trying
to work their way up. So wherever I'm playing see
the Rapids, Iowa, Eugene, Oregon, or Burlington, Vermont, I'm running
across a lot of the same people that were on
their way up. I remember playing in Oregon and I
saw Pearl Jam, Nirvana, all these all these bands in
(03:24):
small clubs and you're playing their videos which actually made
them huge. What was that like when you guys were
in times, scoring and stuff like that. Meeting people like
that and they were on their way up and you
were on your way up. What was it like back
in the eighties and the nineties.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Let me give you an idea of this, right, So,
imagine the record industry is on fire. The record labels
are like teams, like the Giants and the Jets, and
they're bringing their best artists. Every week there's a new
artist that's going to be the next thing, or is
she a solar artist? Is a band? So you're getting
(04:01):
to meet these guys right before the blow up. Because
at that time in the nineties, to get on MTV
and have them play your music video on heavy rotation
was going to make you go from selling gold to
platinum and going from being in small rooms to like
selling out arenas. Like it was gonna change your life.
(04:21):
So it was a big deal. That's why they knew
how important it was for you to go in there
have a great interview talk about the music video, because
the music video was basically your commercial. Yeah, do you remember,
like that's a little how it was back.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Well, I mean, like Aerosmith, I grew up in the
seventies and graduated eighty two from high school and Aerosmith
was huge in the seventies and then kind of faded.
Then MTV comes out. They're on MTV. You're playing your
heavy rotation of a bunch of their videos, and all
of a sudden, Aerosmith in the nineties is one of
the biggest bands. Like you too. I remember when I
(04:58):
was in the major leagues. I saw YouTube at Yankee
Stadium the Zeropa Tour. I brought half my team from
the Reds to that show, and so think about that,
major league guys were watching this concert, fifty five thousand
people that but it was awesome. There was a great
time to be alive back in the eighties and nineties.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
This is what I'm telling you this. It's like we
know what we're talking about. And anybody that's listening just
think back how you were excited and like you were
literally buying the music. There were record stores and you
can't find a record store now you got to google
a record store. You know, we were buying, We were
buying albums, we were wearing the T shirt. I remember,
(05:40):
like I remember going to a show and the merchandise
was flying, like people was buying a def Leopard meat loafs.
Like it was so many bands that were selling. They
were selling more merch than they was getting on the show.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Like, I love all your movies. I'm a big fan
of How to Be a Player. All the girls I
know have seen Love Jones about ten times. But I
want to know about your experience on any given Sunday
as wide receiver, Jimmy Sanderson, What was that experience like
with just like alver Stone, al Pacino, all those heavy
(06:19):
hitters in the movie industry. But then you got Lt.
Jim Brown, Like, how are you? How are you Bill
Bellamy stacking up in that mix with those dynamite actors,
those dynamite football players and making it look like you
are one of the best receivers known to man on
the Sharks.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Well, it was a couple of things. I was already.
I mean, I played baseball. I played football a little
bit till I got hurt a little bit. In high school,
I ran track and I played mostly basketball, so I
was kind of like dibbling dabbling in sports. I was
always athletic, but I never really got a chance to
(06:59):
ex in football because I hurt my hamstring and then
I couldn't gain enough weight. I was really really skinny,
but I was actually kind of fast, right, and so
I was like, na, let me pluay, you know, run
track and then play basketball. And then I was like okay.
But then to be able to live out that dream
in a movie to me was just like everything because
(07:22):
now I'm a man. Now I got a little size
to me, I've been lifted weights. I'm working out with
these real NFL guys every day. We had eight weeks
of training before we even started the movie, Like we
were like Lily, Bro, I was a high protein diet.
I was eating healthy. I was I was literally doing windsprits.
(07:43):
I was doing forties, I was doing hundreds. I was
I mean every day, Like dude, you could see every
muscle fiber in my body. That was the best shape
of my life. Right. And so then to go and
betrayed by real athletes that you know, went to University
of Miami, went to Ohio State or all these guys
(08:05):
who went to these SCC schools and now you know
are either in the league or you know about to be. Like,
so these guys were working me out, bro, it was
the best, Like, honestly, the closest thing to being in
the NFL for me was being at any given Sunday
because we lived it. You know, we were locked down
on the set, like we were literally around each other
(08:27):
for six months, like we turned into a real two.
We thought we were real. We we thought we were
we hey, bro, we thought we was real until one
of us got hit and we was like, you know
what we're at.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
After?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I don't think I'm an actor. I don't know if
I'm a real actor. I'm an actor.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Talking to Bill Belabie.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
He'll be at the Funny Bone Comedy Club and Restaurant
in Manchester this Friday and Saturday. What are the show times?
What was it seven and nine thirty and six thirty
and eight thirty or what's what's the what's the Saturday show?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I think you're correct on they go a little early
on Saturday because people, I guess, you know, want to
go out to dinner earlier. But Sunday, Friday, Friday is
definitely seven and nine thirty.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
How is comedy right now? Are you allowed to be
the way you were ten, fifteen, twenty years ago?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Or is everything? Uh No?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I mean I think I think it's a ship, like
I think it goes in waves, because I'll give you
an example. I remember everything was buck wow. Everything was
buck wow when I first came in the game. And
I'll never forget when Jennet Jackson Nipple flew out, it
got tight y y'all. You remember when just certificated walking
(09:50):
away from Jenne like, yeah, nah, I didn't have nothing
to do with that one, you know what I'm saying.
And so when that happened, it got tight, and then
it loosened back up again. I think it goes in waves.
To be honest with you, right now, it feels like
it's really conservative. You gotta be really, you know, diligent
(10:11):
with your writing, with your comedy, how you say it,
or what subject matter that you hit, because now you know,
we got social media. Somebody's still a clip. They don't
get the whole joke. And now you're bashing you know,
the cows or something and they're only cow people made
(10:32):
outside to show you got forty two cows. They all
outside moving you.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
All right? Not only are you great actor?
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Not only not only do I want MTV back, I
want def Comedy James back and more and more and
what it used to be. But one piece of advice, sir,
you are in Yukon territory. And we know you rock
with Saint John's and Saint John's is like feeling themselves
in the last couple of years.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
It's a big rivalry right now.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
So I just want you to know before you start
wearing some kind of scarlet red up in there and
start talking.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
You basically saying, do not do it.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Don't do that.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Patino is not a friend around here, Like I wouldn't
even go to Duke Rowd just like say you.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Love Manchester about it. Manchester is not the place to
do it right right.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Listen to me, Bro, I know exactly what you're talking about.
It's about one million huskies up here, so I'm would
have walked light. I'm gonna walk light.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Oh man, you are funny man. We'd love to get
you back on Bill. Have a lot of fun in Manchester.
I know you're in West Nyack, New York after that.
But thank you so much for giving us a few
minutes today.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Hey, thank you guys.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Man.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
They have a great weekend.
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