July 16, 2025 • 29 mins
The 85 South Show Share The Perks of Fame, Secret to Longevity & Upcoming Tour
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Eighty five thousand the bounty. Yes, yes, yes, yes, So
we do a little game called check it or let
it slide.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Okay, I just have to give you credit. Your edges
are boy woo lady. Yes, what I mean you look
like you used the broom to.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Put them on your hand. You did your thing on
them early to do that.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
That's they definitely had to get up.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
He requires a little little time. I've been doing this
all my life.
Speaker 5 (00:28):
Okay, So basically, I don't give you a circumstance.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Give them a circumstance that happens in life given tell us,
if you check this person, you check that ship.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Okay, let it slide. Okay.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
A girl you're talking to brings a sneaky link bag
to your house on the second.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Link up, I'm checking that off the bait after Yeah,
I'm checking that without questions.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
You lucky.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
You know where I live at. I'm not letting that.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Not No, but you got in there. She got her
little stuff to do her.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
You know That's why. No, I can't do it.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
You gotta you can't just show up with it, because
then I'm gonna think you ain't got nowhere to go
back to, Like where was you at before you came.
Why you just go bring the bag and don't tell
me you leave the bag.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I'm checking it.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Mm hmmm, heard you.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Another girl you're talking to still lives with her baby daddy.
Be says it's just for the kids.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Next question.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
I don't even want to be in that situation hypothetically,
And I know mister Bean doing he that.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
No, no, no, I'm checking that as well.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Once you tell me you still live with your baby daddy,
and that's the end of the conversation.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
God bless you and your family.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
God bless you and your family.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
You gotta be bed ridden.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Feel you know saying that hypothetically.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
No, your barber men are very serious about that, Barbara.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Aren't they. You are bald, I am bald.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
But boll men also are serious about I am.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I feel like you did this on purpose because of this.
I feel like that's the red you hold your chest like.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
That, because I did, Like, no, because I didn't want it.
Wasn't that wasn't the thing. It was a barber question
that was already here.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Oh yeah, I bet, But go ahead. What's the barber question?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Your barber said he is on vacation and then you
see him in the background of a Sexy Red video. Shoot,
do you check your barber or do you let it slide?
But this this question, I.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Feel no, I'm letting that slide. I am.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
I want to hit the story video is just like like,
did she give him a roll? Does she walk up
and rubbish chest? Then I'll be proud of him because
he's like a love interest.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
He understand.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
But if he's just like, I'm not even going over
there no more.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I want to hear why you like this in the
back of a Sexy Red Like if she throwing money
on them all?
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Yeah, I gotta hear that show back up? Why did
you let sexy Red make it rain? Or why are
you hanging out the jeep?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Go ahead?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
You let your friends stay with you for a week,
but it's three months later.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
They don't add that's not my friend laughing.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Do you check it or do you let it slide?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I'm checking me because why did I let somebody that
I go to jail?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Like?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Is that done? That's the only way that can happen.
If you say you staying with me for a week,
then it's going to be a week.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
First of all, what type of friends y'all be having
that they need shelter?
Speaker 5 (03:51):
What if they was visiting and it was a one
way you don't visit versus.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Let me put this out. You don't visit nobody for
no week. Take your ass home.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Take your ass home, because if you stay.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Longer in three days, I'm gonna be like, you ain't
got nowhere to go? What's up? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
And that's why you gotta check that bag comfortable? What's good?
Speaker 5 (04:11):
You're at a person of interest house, person of interest.
You open up their fridge and all they have is
hookah tips, oat milk and ice.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Who the hell keeps the hookah tips in refrigerator?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
That's where they keep them?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yeah, and oat milk and ice. What the hell is?
She just come home from urgent cab like say stuff
like that.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
You gotta get more bag. What's she looking like? Yeah,
because she's gone fat ass.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
We'll let pretty much anything.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Now. I drink old milk.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yeah, man, you love you know that's true.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
If she got a flat ass, you will leave up
for anything. Man. She ain't got no bandades in the crib.
It ain't safe over here while you wash cloth hard.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
No, I'm gone.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I can't do that. I'm better than this. Yeah, I
know that the body.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Wash ain't empty, telling me they ain't washing, So.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
You're gonna let that slide.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
It's the oat milk experience.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
She only got oat milk. Who could tips? Let me
tell you something. I don't even know why I'm in the.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Refrigerator like that.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
She may have to send me to get the oat
milk for something like yeah, yeah, it's empty.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
So I mean, I'm not even like, what am I
even doing?
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Smell?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yeah, when I look back at it, that's going to
determine how I feel like. You know what, I don't.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Even question how many who could tips? Are they used?
Somebody been chewing on so many questions.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Nobody ever asked this many questions.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
That's too specific. That makes me feel like that's somebody
she knows. That's specific. Next question, last question.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Okay, come on.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Your barber, all right, you know what?
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Now I know you're trolling. Now I know you trolling?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Now No, you troller?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Trolling? Why you troll?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
See, we just gave you on the credit for not
doing this.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
We're the first people you your whole career ask the
question is a random comes up?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Random? A trigger word? For it is now because Barber
is trying out a new technique without warning you.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Listen. At this point, I can't tell you.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I can't.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
I'm checking that because why would you do me like that?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
You see what God did, So now you're just gonna
look at me and just think just because God did this,
that you can try stuff too.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Yeah, exactly what you put this oat milk on your mouth,
and that is checking a.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Lot of slide south two of the three.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Y'all got that bad weather up here. It was about
to be one of the three.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I just made it.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
First of all. When somebody tells me, oh, we missed
this person, it's the flight. He's gonna miss the interview,
I'd be like, but yesterday they.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Said it was like three tropical storms street tropical storms.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
They said DC's flight got canceled because of the rain.
I was like, how could it not? How did you
get here?
Speaker 4 (07:12):
I left early. He was supposed to catch the night flight.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
You know, he got the kids, of course, so he
had to do all this day. He's the responsible life
out like eight or nine. And then by the time
eight or nine it was do.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
You guys get to do a lot of stuff without him?
I mean, I mean as eighty five South.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Oh no, we you know.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Unit.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
We all do individual stuff, but usually when we come
and we come to see energy, we coming to see
you together. But yeah, flights just I barely made it.
My flight got canceled at the gate yesterday and I
had to walk around the airport for an hour and
forty five.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Minutes waiting on them to find my bag. I'm like,
didn't go with.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Wait what happens at the airport? Were you? Are you?
People coming up to you and fans of the show.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
I used to that.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Yeah, yeah, it's used to be used to that, that
little fame I got.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
You like it?
Speaker 1 (08:04):
What level of like can you go to the supermarket?
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
No, but people noticed, I mean, can you blend in
or you?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Or is those It's hard, It's no, there's no more
blending then. But I think that from the way we started,
like we kind of came up with the people, so
they they kind of see us now.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
But hey, what's up? You go?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah, we're out of day.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
That's all it is with me, especially if New York
people always ask me the people, I'm like, yeah, but
they don't. Nobody's fanning out in the street they just
be like, yo, what's up and.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Been famous since nineteen nineteen.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Well, well, it's just that they feel because we know
each other. It's not like, uh, it's not like Rihanna
is walking around.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Right there. It's like free upgrades at the rental car.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
It's like a good level. I would imagine. That's what
I was wondering. You get all the benefits, but you
don't have to like you still could probably.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
Walk around and you and go get the line. Yeah,
get a they'll push you up to the gate at
the airport.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
It they do. Yeah, that's nice.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah, if they see you, they'll make sure you're good.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
That's where we're at. Good for you. I'm living you know.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I saw this little tippit in your fun facts and
this is an amazing accomplishment. Eighty five South turns ten
years old in December. Ten years is crazy. Yeah, black
independent media entity ten years old. Yes, congratulations, thank you
because I feel like this because I feel like you
just started.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
It flew by, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
It flew by because what we got on Wilden Out
in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, so damn yeah, twelve years's crazy.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
That's it goes by real fast.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Especially, and that's a good thing because when you're doing
what you love to do, that makes the time not
seem like it's timing, if you will, because if you're
doing something you don't want to do, you be like
number three minutes.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
But you know, for.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Us is they flew by because we've been having so
much fun doing it.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
What a good career you guys?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Shows absolutely like one.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
You could have fun while you're you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
That's the amazing part about it. Every day I get up,
I can't believe we got another day to.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Live these dreams.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
So every day I get up and I try to
take full advantage.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Could you just give me the quick the quick origin story,
because I'm sure you've told it a hundred times and
I'm sure your fans know.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
It all, but just never get tired of telling this story.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Tell me the quick origin story. Set the scene, Yes,
take me to the time.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
What's happening?
Speaker 1 (10:31):
What the people wearing at the time?
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Man, we are, me and Chico.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
We had we had did our first round of auditions,
so we had to come to New York for our
second round of like auditions. This the audition that's gonna
determine if you're on the show or not.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah, walk in.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
They got all these like social media personalities, people who've
been blowing up on YouTube, and you know early, well
they don't matter no more, Okay, So I walked straight
up to them. He recognized me, I recognized him. I
was like, bro, I don't know what they're about to
do for me and you we about to get on TV.
(11:08):
And it's been a rap since That's what they said
at the moment right there.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Literally walked straight up to me. I'm over in the
corner because you know, you know what we had met before,
you know, we had met. We had met at my
alma mater. I went to want to sell them State
University in North Carolina. He came into the show. That's
what we originally met. But this was like a year
stands up and yeah, doing stand up. We just out
on the grind. He came as the somebody brought him
to the show, the dude who was actually paid to
(11:35):
be on the show. They brought him to the show.
So it wasn't even history. We just too young and
is just trying to figure it out. And I'm in
the corner because I don't know nobody and he walk in.
I see it's like we locked and he came straight
up to me. He was like, man, I don't know
what they about to do, but we about to be
on TV. And from that moment on us it's been
We've been going since then. Manifestationship Fly came in probably
(11:56):
what two seasons later, and then, you know what I mean,
he knew Fly. And the first time me and Fly
met was in the lobby at a hotel. I come downstairs, Well,
Loos come downstairs. We up there chopping it up, and
then Fly comes straight up. It was like, oh yeah,
because they flew in together. He was like, yeah, I
see you left me for your real friends. And that
was our first interaction and we've been locked in every since.
(12:16):
And Loose, you know, gets the credit all the credit
for having a vision, you know what I mean, the
vision to be able to see what was necessary because
Wild and I was an amazing opportunity. Is a great
spring board for everybody who got the opportunity to be
on the show.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
But so many people, by the way, aside from you guys.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, he had the vision to understand that, hey man,
this is exactly that this is a spring board. We
got to have our own thing, and he knew that
early in the game.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
So is like a comedy college. You literally have to
bring all your talents to weld.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
And now it's probably like what SNL was for a
lot of comedians. Yea, in terms of like La Living Color.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Yeah, it's faster though, what do you mean, Like the
time and the pacing of it is a whole lot faster.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
And also I think there's an interesting thing because times
when you're a part of a show or something, you
get hired to do something, people try to own you
in a way like, oh you part of like you're
part of SML or you're part of one of these shows.
You can't go and not give credit everything else.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
The damn sure could have put us in the most
vicious three sixty deal in the world. When we first came,
it was we were without question for the opportunity. But he
didn't do that, Like he just wanted us to come
and you know, utilize the platform to do whatever you
wanted to do with it.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
And if that was hard because you got to find
a way to like stand out amongst thirty forty people.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Was it that many?
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (13:34):
Shit, Yeah, and you're gonna keep in mind it's a
core cast, and then it's a rotating cast that they
might bring in like halfway through, and then they get people.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Then they got guests who bring guests, so out of
all it's only one mic. There's a lot going.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
On, and then the show shot shoots for two hours,
but the one that come on TV is seventeen minutes
with commercials. So you gotta find you fighting for that, yeah,
for the to get into that seventeen So.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
What's the trick to that? To find to find to
get your moment on? How do you make sure you
get your spot?
Speaker 6 (14:06):
We figured it out. It took a little while to
figure it out. It's not one thing that you can do.
But sometimes your failures or like when the joke doesn't
hit or when you do get the buzzer that, yeah,
that can be bigger than anything you could have came up.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
With it, Like, you're not afraid of that, right, cool
to be the butter.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
That That's what I was saying till the long short
answer to that would be to let the jokes come
to you.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
You know what I'm saying, Like, you.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
Gotta be you gotta be flexible enough to sometimes you
got you're gonna tell the joke, and sometimes you're gonna
be the joke.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Somebody gets one off on you just gotta let them cook.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Corey Hulkom gave me the best advice when it came
to that. Our first workshop once we made the show,
we did a workshop, and mind you, at this time
he was one of the veteran guys that were coming back,
and our first season we were the rookies, and you
know the veterans was d Ray and Corey, you know,
guys like that, and Corey after the workshop, it was like,
hey man, find you something to do on here. Find
(15:07):
you something to do on here, because if you don't,
you're gonna be wondering. People they see clapping on the
intro and that's gonna be the last time done and
that's it. So great advice, Yeah, great advice. What's your
advice to folks now? Because even the pla it's not
that many. I mean, there is this social media you
could create your own, but this I feel like there's.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
An Instagram comedian on every there's on every corner. I
feel like, at this point, how do.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
You makes it more just as different?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
That's what I mean. How do you cut through.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
The I think that it's just individuality in a world
where everybody's.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Doing the same thing.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
You have to find it because it's easy to go viral,
you know what I mean, all you got to do
is just go do something ridiculous. You'll go viral, but
it won't last past the fifteen seconds that it takes
people to laugh at your video. And you know, every
three days it's something new. So you have to find
a niche that works for you and find something that
people gravitate towards that's yours. And once you do that,
(15:59):
then you can, you know, find your way through the frame.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
What in the ten years of eighty five South, it
has been your greatest viral moment? Wow, your biggest one.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Probably probably Rick Ross walking off the Yeah, Rick Ross
walking off the show.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
As far as just viral.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
What's happening in the room in that moment? What was
what was the virus?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
We was chilling? I don't We still don't know what happened.
You still don't know why, the reason, We don't know what.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
But like I've been trying to break it down, I've
been going back. I'm I'm like pausing frames and I'm
looking it's just one time when he looked back and like, okay,
that's probably the moment where he decided to leave.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
But I don't know, nothing happened, happened.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
We don't ask, We don't do all the controversy.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
Yeah you are, you like the trend in whatever controversy
you got going on or whatever was on the block.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
We don't even so you're thinking this is going.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Well, yeah, but no, it wasn't even a leave Like.
It wasn't like a situation where you know, I'm gray leave.
It was a I'm gonna use the bathroom, take this
jacket off. I'll be right back.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
And you know that was part as big as that
man is.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
We didn't even see him leave. We were sitting there,
sitting there.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
In the bathroom. I never really understand this, But somebody
had to book him on the show, right, people that they.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Reached out to us, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
And said, what what happened?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
You want to do the show?
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Yeah? That was how it happened.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
And then but the good part about it was we
ended up going for another two hours after that after
he left, and just kept going.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
So that was the good part about it.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
But nobody reached out after and said, yo, this is
what happened. Maybe he ate something bad.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
And he that is we can make a game show
guess why Ross left because we don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Have you thought about this in your head like different,
This could be a whole episode.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
By the way, the reason he left the episode of
the reasons, right, that was it. We just looked like
you know what I mean, because I was like a.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Word that I leave.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
After that.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
That's the only time anybody's ever walked out on you guys.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
But this is the funny thing about it to us,
is like he didn't leave because he was upset or uncomfortable.
And then I think it was so rigged Ross. I
wouldn't change it. Yeah, you know, because it's so in
his character.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
And how long ago? Is this a few years?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
This is? This is a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yeah, so, and you haven't seen him since running down
the time.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
He just he got some new cookies out.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
He just sent me a John cookie.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
He has never offered up a reason.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
We don't We don't care. This boy don't even care.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I mean it, like you said, it created a moment
for us. And it wasn't nothing that we was taking,
you know, to heart. We didn't take offense to it
and just what it was.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I think at some point today of our interview, not yet,
because I want to talk to you guys more.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
But you should just leave and see if we could
recreate and like, no, we're not gonna do that.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
No, you to community. You don't walk out on none.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Thank you for stopping at the bullaga before you came.
Very nice.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
You got me a Gingerral, absolutely one of your favorites.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Sometimes my energy is lower like a little Gingerral. All right,
so what so you already got ten years in on
this one? What is what is the next ten years?
You clearly have earned this for the long game.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah, with our questions, Yeah, we won't be here for
a long time forever.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Yeah, because it's something that we actually enjoyed doing. We
get we get to hang out with people that we
actually admire and like and get game from them.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Then we get to use.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
This platform to push our live show and our tours.
And it's just like a snowball effect and we own
it and we're still building it.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
And nobody has showed up and said, here's a whole
lot of money we want to leave.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah, that's gotta happen. What happened, But do you want
to take it? Is that what you want?
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (19:53):
The money is ridiculous now, yeah, one hundred two hundred
million dollar podcasts deal.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Yes, absolutely, you're in.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
You want anybody question, We definitely want to. So I
would call him all the time, probably like once a month.
I'm like, Chico, they gave your Rogan two hundred and twenty.
Who got denied? Somebody out there got a one seventy
five and eighty and a fifty. Yeah, well all those
deals nobody yet.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah, it's so interesting to me. Who gets those big deals?
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Yeah, they definitely won't want but you know, for us,
it's like to be able to see what comes with
the longevity is one of the best parts. You know,
people coming up to you and saying, hey, man, I
used to watch you when I was in middle school.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Now I own a you know, trucking company, and you know.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
That's great. It is great.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
You realize how much impact you've had on people's lives
from doing what you love, and it's like, why would
you ever want to stop doing that?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Especially with comedy, because you know that the world is
so serious and dark and scary and all the shit
that goes on in people's lives, people struggling, sometimes just
laughing comedy. That's what I'm saying, having a moment to escape.
It's such a gift to people that you probably don't
even know how you probably you know, put joy into people.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
We get told all the time. People come up to
us at meeting greets or in the mall when we were
walking around and be like, man, I was in a
dark place. I was depressed, and before I got put
on the y'all, y'all took me out of this. I
you know, my family was going through something and we
you know, we weren't able to get together, but we
all found unity and watching y'all and that fixed a
family issue.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
This is for you.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
People come out and say, man, me and my girl.
I first I first looked, you know, I look for
a little date. You know what I'm saying, for real,
for real, we came't y'all show. Well now we got
through y'all.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Yeah, I mean people that came to the show pregnant
and then brought the baby back to the show and.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
The community just like people buying tickets, like they really
hit us and they really keep us updated. They really
look at when we hit the city and they really
be excited to see us in the city, really living.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
You know what I'm saying, Why are you not in
our city? Why is your tour not in New York?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
We've been to New York a couple.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Of times, you know, but this one, what the hell?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Yeah, we're coming back. We're not coming back. Yeah, this
is just the one we're doing. Now the next one,
we definitely. We all come through individually, and I just
did to come for.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
Since we're in New York, maybe maybe they could do
something about it. Was that we got bann.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
From the Pollo. Oh my god, what.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Happened?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
We was here a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Oh my god.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
And you know we couldn't but we wanted to do
the historic, the legendary.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Six shows for six Yeah we did.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
We did. Know.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
We did two sold out shows. We did to sold
out shows at the Apollow and and okay, so we
did to sold out shows at the Apollow. We were
having the meet and greet, and the meet and greet
is over at this point, now, you know what I mean.
You know, the best way I can explain it is
it went the best that the worst can go, because
(23:05):
we got lucky because there were no cameras or anything around.
It was only family in the building when this happened.
But let's you just say, uh, a kerfuffle happened, and
then the scuffle happened.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
It was one of those bugs you know where it's
just like a crowd of arms and.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Legs and and the dust, and it's just one of those.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
But they didn't have nothing to do with us. It
was there was two dudes with big egos. One dude
was a security guard here and one dude was a
security guard there.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Nobody should have yeah, and they both.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
Were terrible people and they had a clash and they
had nothing to do with us, and we had to
protect everybody and let them.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Just be brutes.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Yeah and literally, and the people from the Apollo was like, no, everybody,
not that boy. Nature don't know Aboudy Like one of
Bumpet Johnson's goons came down. I know this man ain't
came out his office since nineteen sixty eight. He came
down there with a tank top and some suspenders on and.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Was like, I want everybody out of here. You'll never
come here again. We had the.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Iley Brothers, the shotlights.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
He started naming people from when I'm talking about read
when the first people was rubbing the piece of wheels
and they said, they be like, I want to sound
and I was trying to talk to him.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
He was like, I don't want to hear it. I
don't want to hear young man. I want you here.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Because he said, yeah, that's what he told us. And
then you know, he he calmed down. He was like, man,
y'all got to get whoever them dudes is. We were like, man,
them dudes don't have nothing to do with us. And
he was like, all right, well you never come back
here again, but God bless you.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
So yeah, we definitely we want that.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Yeah, when did this happen?
Speaker 3 (24:49):
This was this when this happened two thousand nineteen, I mean.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
We're talking about six years ago.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Yeah, but we've never we've literally never said anything about it.
And then, you know what's crazy, the next day we
had to go to the breakfast club the next morning
and nobody knew what happened.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
You never told this story. Where is where are those
security guards? Now?
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Who gives a.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
I don't want it, but could the Apollo have hired
one of those security guards, they'd be at fault though
it was your got got it?
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Got it?
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Did you guys get were you guys swept up in
the No?
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Literally watched the whole thing. You just watched it. Yeah,
we watched.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Are you really you do that? Like when there's a
fight you stay and watch or not.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
No, we didn't have a choice.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
It was our event, like we you know, I mean,
if it was somebody else, we'd been like, man, you're
not here, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
We couldn't leave our stuff? Was there?
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Oh god god it Yeah, so it was you were
just waiting for it.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
So you know, now we're on Angie Martina and like.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
The Apollo to know that they came today with their
whole crew in the green room. It was lovely. Yes,
you brought me something from the body guys. There was
no scuffle, there was no It was respectful and so
the Apollo should rethink, Yes, have us back.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Police, just lift the band, you know, at at least
lift the band like people that's been banned ever. And
that's what we had to hang our hats on, like
literally you need to go outside, lift up literally nowhere.
Then since that happened, that you could throw me out
of that, I would feel like bad about getting thrown
(26:24):
out like I've been thrown out of way more.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Come on, established.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Thrown out of the most pretty illustrious, the most illustrious
black venue in Negro history. Forget you, sir, I will
gladly leave. You can't make me feel like I've been
thrown out of nowhere. I've been thrown out of the
Apollo Theater. You wear that like a bad Yeah, I
mean that's all we can wear.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
New York is the first place we can get you
back in there.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Come on, this the first place place I love.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
We didn't know it until time.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
It's going to be such a moment when you when
you come back to the Apollo.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
We were walking from Madison's Madison Square, Goud, me and
him having a regular conversation, and it was like somebody
made this like out of a movie. We looked behind
us and it was probably about three blocks of people
behind like they were just following us. I don't know
where they thought we were going, but it was the
best feeling in the cities.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Where they don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
And then like the crazy part is when we went
to the game. We had snuck on the court and
walked up on Dave Chappelle and he knew who we
were at the time that it's early in the game.
But then we was literally having a conversation about how
crazy it was. We were able to sneak our way
onto the floor of Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
The long way, like we cut all the way across
the court from corner to the corner.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
That's love, That's why you got to perform in our city.
We got to get you back.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
And we're talking about that, and look up and then
look behind us, and it's like he said, three blocks
of people, and we were like, where all them people going?
Speaker 4 (27:53):
When we stopped, it was just like they surrounded.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Everybody first, like the first taste fish states do you
drop a little tears someday. We were just glad that
they were fans. Could they could have been could have
been the first and last taste is overwere He's stupid?
Speaker 4 (28:14):
All right?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Well, if people do want to see you on this
run you are in You're doing New Orleans, Chicago, Ohio,
Troy first and how do they find them and get
you and get tickets and all that.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
The website and go to eighty five South Show dot com.
You can go to Channel eighty five. You can hit
us on social media. You can go to bm me
and shows and get tickets. We we got a lot
of outlets that's that's covering this.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
And you guys do it all live on the spot.
It's really amazing what you do.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Rappers, entertainers, movie stars.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
What's the site so they could get tickets?
Speaker 6 (28:48):
You show dot com. You go to the app store
and download o app. We got our own app called
Channel eighty five. Well, we upload all exclusive content. We
got a lot of behind the scenes stuff that we up.
We produce a few in house shows like.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
You got a movie too, working poor.
Speaker 6 (29:04):
Minds, English Majors. We're working on the movie. Shout out
to Kevin har Heart.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Production, That's Only Right and Charlamagne, everybody, Black Effect Podcast Network,
everybody you know. keV has been great to us. You know,
we got to deal with him before the movie. He
just produced. He produced the stand up specially for Low.
He produced one for me that's on Hulu right now.
So yeah, man, we we're doing the work.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
It's such a pleasure having you guys.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Thank you see us.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
And absolutely want to come see you and I am.
We should make t shirts that say to lift the
band at the at the Apollo Theater.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
I'm gonna make some calls, thank you
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Fives out everybody,
Eighty five thousand the bounty. Yes, yes, yes, yes, So
we do a little game called check it or let
it slide.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Okay, I just have to give you credit. Your edges
are boy woo lady. Yes, what I mean you look
like you used the broom to.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Put them on your hand. You did your thing on
them early to do that.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
That's they definitely had to get up.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
He requires a little little time. I've been doing this
all my life.
Speaker 5 (00:28):
Okay, So basically, I don't give you a circumstance.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Give them a circumstance that happens in life given tell us,
if you check this person, you check that ship.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Okay, let it slide. Okay.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
A girl you're talking to brings a sneaky link bag
to your house on the second.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Link up, I'm checking that off the bait after Yeah,
I'm checking that without questions.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
You lucky.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
You know where I live at. I'm not letting that.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Not No, but you got in there. She got her
little stuff to do her.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
You know That's why. No, I can't do it.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
You gotta you can't just show up with it, because
then I'm gonna think you ain't got nowhere to go
back to, Like where was you at before you came.
Why you just go bring the bag and don't tell
me you leave the bag.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I'm checking it.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Mm hmmm, heard you.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Another girl you're talking to still lives with her baby daddy.
Be says it's just for the kids.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Next question.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
I don't even want to be in that situation hypothetically,
And I know mister Bean doing he that.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
No, no, no, I'm checking that as well.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Once you tell me you still live with your baby daddy,
and that's the end of the conversation.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
God bless you and your family.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
God bless you and your family.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
You gotta be bed ridden.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Feel you know saying that hypothetically.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
No, your barber men are very serious about that, Barbara.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Aren't they. You are bald, I am bald.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
But boll men also are serious about I am.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I feel like you did this on purpose because of this.
I feel like that's the red you hold your chest like.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
That, because I did, Like, no, because I didn't want it.
Wasn't that wasn't the thing. It was a barber question
that was already here.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Oh yeah, I bet, But go ahead. What's the barber question?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Your barber said he is on vacation and then you
see him in the background of a Sexy Red video. Shoot,
do you check your barber or do you let it slide?
But this this question, I.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Feel no, I'm letting that slide. I am.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
I want to hit the story video is just like like,
did she give him a roll? Does she walk up
and rubbish chest? Then I'll be proud of him because
he's like a love interest.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
He understand.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
But if he's just like, I'm not even going over
there no more.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I want to hear why you like this in the
back of a Sexy Red Like if she throwing money
on them all?
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Yeah, I gotta hear that show back up? Why did
you let sexy Red make it rain? Or why are
you hanging out the jeep?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Go ahead?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
You let your friends stay with you for a week,
but it's three months later.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
They don't add that's not my friend laughing.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Do you check it or do you let it slide?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I'm checking me because why did I let somebody that
I go to jail?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Like?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Is that done? That's the only way that can happen.
If you say you staying with me for a week,
then it's going to be a week.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
First of all, what type of friends y'all be having
that they need shelter?
Speaker 5 (03:51):
What if they was visiting and it was a one
way you don't visit versus.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Let me put this out. You don't visit nobody for
no week. Take your ass home.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Take your ass home, because if you stay.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Longer in three days, I'm gonna be like, you ain't
got nowhere to go? What's up? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
And that's why you gotta check that bag comfortable? What's good?
Speaker 5 (04:11):
You're at a person of interest house, person of interest.
You open up their fridge and all they have is
hookah tips, oat milk and ice.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Who the hell keeps the hookah tips in refrigerator?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
That's where they keep them?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yeah, and oat milk and ice. What the hell is?
She just come home from urgent cab like say stuff
like that.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
You gotta get more bag. What's she looking like? Yeah,
because she's gone fat ass.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
We'll let pretty much anything.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Now. I drink old milk.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yeah, man, you love you know that's true.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
If she got a flat ass, you will leave up
for anything. Man. She ain't got no bandades in the crib.
It ain't safe over here while you wash cloth hard.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
No, I'm gone.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I can't do that. I'm better than this. Yeah, I
know that the body.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Wash ain't empty, telling me they ain't washing, So.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
You're gonna let that slide.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
It's the oat milk experience.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
She only got oat milk. Who could tips? Let me
tell you something. I don't even know why I'm in the.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Refrigerator like that.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
She may have to send me to get the oat
milk for something like yeah, yeah, it's empty.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
So I mean, I'm not even like, what am I
even doing?
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Smell?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yeah, when I look back at it, that's going to
determine how I feel like. You know what, I don't.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Even question how many who could tips? Are they used?
Somebody been chewing on so many questions.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Nobody ever asked this many questions.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
That's too specific. That makes me feel like that's somebody
she knows. That's specific. Next question, last question.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Okay, come on.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Your barber, all right, you know what?
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Now I know you're trolling. Now I know you trolling?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Now No, you troller?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Trolling? Why you troll?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
See, we just gave you on the credit for not
doing this.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
We're the first people you your whole career ask the
question is a random comes up?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Random? A trigger word? For it is now because Barber
is trying out a new technique without warning you.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Listen. At this point, I can't tell you.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I can't.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
I'm checking that because why would you do me like that?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
You see what God did, So now you're just gonna
look at me and just think just because God did this,
that you can try stuff too.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Yeah, exactly what you put this oat milk on your mouth,
and that is checking a.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Lot of slide south two of the three.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Y'all got that bad weather up here. It was about
to be one of the three.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I just made it.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
First of all. When somebody tells me, oh, we missed
this person, it's the flight. He's gonna miss the interview,
I'd be like, but yesterday they.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Said it was like three tropical storms street tropical storms.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
They said DC's flight got canceled because of the rain.
I was like, how could it not? How did you
get here?
Speaker 4 (07:12):
I left early. He was supposed to catch the night flight.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
You know, he got the kids, of course, so he
had to do all this day. He's the responsible life
out like eight or nine. And then by the time
eight or nine it was do.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
You guys get to do a lot of stuff without him?
I mean, I mean as eighty five South.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Oh no, we you know.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Unit.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
We all do individual stuff, but usually when we come
and we come to see energy, we coming to see
you together. But yeah, flights just I barely made it.
My flight got canceled at the gate yesterday and I
had to walk around the airport for an hour and
forty five.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Minutes waiting on them to find my bag. I'm like,
didn't go with.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Wait what happens at the airport? Were you? Are you?
People coming up to you and fans of the show.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
I used to that.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Yeah, yeah, it's used to be used to that, that
little fame I got.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
You like it?
Speaker 1 (08:04):
What level of like can you go to the supermarket?
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
No, but people noticed, I mean, can you blend in
or you?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Or is those It's hard, It's no, there's no more
blending then. But I think that from the way we started,
like we kind of came up with the people, so
they they kind of see us now.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
But hey, what's up? You go?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah, we're out of day.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
That's all it is with me, especially if New York
people always ask me the people, I'm like, yeah, but
they don't. Nobody's fanning out in the street they just
be like, yo, what's up and.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Been famous since nineteen nineteen.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Well, well, it's just that they feel because we know
each other. It's not like, uh, it's not like Rihanna
is walking around.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Right there. It's like free upgrades at the rental car.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
It's like a good level. I would imagine. That's what
I was wondering. You get all the benefits, but you
don't have to like you still could probably.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
Walk around and you and go get the line. Yeah,
get a they'll push you up to the gate at
the airport.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
It they do. Yeah, that's nice.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah, if they see you, they'll make sure you're good.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
That's where we're at. Good for you. I'm living you know.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I saw this little tippit in your fun facts and
this is an amazing accomplishment. Eighty five South turns ten
years old in December. Ten years is crazy. Yeah, black
independent media entity ten years old. Yes, congratulations, thank you
because I feel like this because I feel like you
just started.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
It flew by, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
It flew by because what we got on Wilden Out
in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, so damn yeah, twelve years's crazy.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
That's it goes by real fast.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Especially, and that's a good thing because when you're doing
what you love to do, that makes the time not
seem like it's timing, if you will, because if you're
doing something you don't want to do, you be like
number three minutes.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
But you know, for.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Us is they flew by because we've been having so
much fun doing it.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
What a good career you guys?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Shows absolutely like one.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
You could have fun while you're you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
That's the amazing part about it. Every day I get up,
I can't believe we got another day to.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Live these dreams.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
So every day I get up and I try to
take full advantage.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Could you just give me the quick the quick origin story,
because I'm sure you've told it a hundred times and
I'm sure your fans know.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
It all, but just never get tired of telling this story.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Tell me the quick origin story. Set the scene, Yes,
take me to the time.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
What's happening?
Speaker 1 (10:31):
What the people wearing at the time?
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Man, we are, me and Chico.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
We had we had did our first round of auditions,
so we had to come to New York for our
second round of like auditions. This the audition that's gonna
determine if you're on the show or not.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah, walk in.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
They got all these like social media personalities, people who've
been blowing up on YouTube, and you know early, well
they don't matter no more, Okay, So I walked straight
up to them. He recognized me, I recognized him. I
was like, bro, I don't know what they're about to
do for me and you we about to get on TV.
(11:08):
And it's been a rap since That's what they said
at the moment right there.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Literally walked straight up to me. I'm over in the
corner because you know, you know what we had met before,
you know, we had met. We had met at my
alma mater. I went to want to sell them State
University in North Carolina. He came into the show. That's
what we originally met. But this was like a year
stands up and yeah, doing stand up. We just out
on the grind. He came as the somebody brought him
to the show, the dude who was actually paid to
(11:35):
be on the show. They brought him to the show.
So it wasn't even history. We just too young and
is just trying to figure it out. And I'm in
the corner because I don't know nobody and he walk in.
I see it's like we locked and he came straight
up to me. He was like, man, I don't know
what they about to do, but we about to be
on TV. And from that moment on us it's been
We've been going since then. Manifestationship Fly came in probably
(11:56):
what two seasons later, and then, you know what I mean,
he knew Fly. And the first time me and Fly
met was in the lobby at a hotel. I come downstairs, Well,
Loos come downstairs. We up there chopping it up, and
then Fly comes straight up. It was like, oh yeah,
because they flew in together. He was like, yeah, I
see you left me for your real friends. And that
was our first interaction and we've been locked in every since.
(12:16):
And Loose, you know, gets the credit all the credit
for having a vision, you know what I mean, the
vision to be able to see what was necessary because
Wild and I was an amazing opportunity. Is a great
spring board for everybody who got the opportunity to be
on the show.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
But so many people, by the way, aside from you guys.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, he had the vision to understand that, hey man,
this is exactly that this is a spring board. We
got to have our own thing, and he knew that
early in the game.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
So is like a comedy college. You literally have to
bring all your talents to weld.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
And now it's probably like what SNL was for a
lot of comedians. Yea, in terms of like La Living Color.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Yeah, it's faster though, what do you mean, Like the
time and the pacing of it is a whole lot faster.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
And also I think there's an interesting thing because times
when you're a part of a show or something, you
get hired to do something, people try to own you
in a way like, oh you part of like you're
part of SML or you're part of one of these shows.
You can't go and not give credit everything else.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
The damn sure could have put us in the most
vicious three sixty deal in the world. When we first came,
it was we were without question for the opportunity. But he
didn't do that, Like he just wanted us to come
and you know, utilize the platform to do whatever you
wanted to do with it.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
And if that was hard because you got to find
a way to like stand out amongst thirty forty people.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Was it that many?
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (13:34):
Shit, Yeah, and you're gonna keep in mind it's a
core cast, and then it's a rotating cast that they
might bring in like halfway through, and then they get people.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Then they got guests who bring guests, so out of
all it's only one mic. There's a lot going.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
On, and then the show shot shoots for two hours,
but the one that come on TV is seventeen minutes
with commercials. So you gotta find you fighting for that, yeah,
for the to get into that seventeen So.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
What's the trick to that? To find to find to
get your moment on? How do you make sure you
get your spot?
Speaker 6 (14:06):
We figured it out. It took a little while to
figure it out. It's not one thing that you can do.
But sometimes your failures or like when the joke doesn't
hit or when you do get the buzzer that, yeah,
that can be bigger than anything you could have came up.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
With it, Like, you're not afraid of that, right, cool
to be the butter.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
That That's what I was saying till the long short
answer to that would be to let the jokes come
to you.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
You know what I'm saying, Like, you.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
Gotta be you gotta be flexible enough to sometimes you
got you're gonna tell the joke, and sometimes you're gonna
be the joke.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Somebody gets one off on you just gotta let them cook.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Corey Hulkom gave me the best advice when it came
to that. Our first workshop once we made the show,
we did a workshop, and mind you, at this time
he was one of the veteran guys that were coming back,
and our first season we were the rookies, and you
know the veterans was d Ray and Corey, you know,
guys like that, and Corey after the workshop, it was like,
hey man, find you something to do on here. Find
(15:07):
you something to do on here, because if you don't,
you're gonna be wondering. People they see clapping on the
intro and that's gonna be the last time done and
that's it. So great advice, Yeah, great advice. What's your
advice to folks now? Because even the pla it's not
that many. I mean, there is this social media you
could create your own, but this I feel like there's.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
An Instagram comedian on every there's on every corner. I
feel like, at this point, how do.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
You makes it more just as different?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
That's what I mean. How do you cut through.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
The I think that it's just individuality in a world
where everybody's.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Doing the same thing.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
You have to find it because it's easy to go viral,
you know what I mean, all you got to do
is just go do something ridiculous. You'll go viral, but
it won't last past the fifteen seconds that it takes
people to laugh at your video. And you know, every
three days it's something new. So you have to find
a niche that works for you and find something that
people gravitate towards that's yours. And once you do that,
(15:59):
then you can, you know, find your way through the frame.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
What in the ten years of eighty five South, it
has been your greatest viral moment? Wow, your biggest one.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Probably probably Rick Ross walking off the Yeah, Rick Ross
walking off the show.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
As far as just viral.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
What's happening in the room in that moment? What was
what was the virus?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
We was chilling? I don't We still don't know what happened.
You still don't know why, the reason, We don't know what.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
But like I've been trying to break it down, I've
been going back. I'm I'm like pausing frames and I'm
looking it's just one time when he looked back and like, okay,
that's probably the moment where he decided to leave.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
But I don't know, nothing happened, happened.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
We don't ask, We don't do all the controversy.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
Yeah you are, you like the trend in whatever controversy
you got going on or whatever was on the block.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
We don't even so you're thinking this is going.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Well, yeah, but no, it wasn't even a leave Like.
It wasn't like a situation where you know, I'm gray leave.
It was a I'm gonna use the bathroom, take this
jacket off. I'll be right back.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
And you know that was part as big as that
man is.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
We didn't even see him leave. We were sitting there,
sitting there.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
In the bathroom. I never really understand this, But somebody
had to book him on the show, right, people that they.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Reached out to us, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
And said, what what happened?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
You want to do the show?
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Yeah? That was how it happened.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
And then but the good part about it was we
ended up going for another two hours after that after
he left, and just kept going.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
So that was the good part about it.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
But nobody reached out after and said, yo, this is
what happened. Maybe he ate something bad.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
And he that is we can make a game show
guess why Ross left because we don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Have you thought about this in your head like different,
This could be a whole episode.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
By the way, the reason he left the episode of
the reasons, right, that was it. We just looked like
you know what I mean, because I was like a.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Word that I leave.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
After that.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
That's the only time anybody's ever walked out on you guys.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
But this is the funny thing about it to us,
is like he didn't leave because he was upset or uncomfortable.
And then I think it was so rigged Ross. I
wouldn't change it. Yeah, you know, because it's so in
his character.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
And how long ago? Is this a few years?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
This is? This is a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yeah, so, and you haven't seen him since running down
the time.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
He just he got some new cookies out.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
He just sent me a John cookie.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
He has never offered up a reason.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
We don't We don't care. This boy don't even care.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I mean it, like you said, it created a moment
for us. And it wasn't nothing that we was taking,
you know, to heart. We didn't take offense to it
and just what it was.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I think at some point today of our interview, not yet,
because I want to talk to you guys more.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
But you should just leave and see if we could
recreate and like, no, we're not gonna do that.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
No, you to community. You don't walk out on none.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Thank you for stopping at the bullaga before you came.
Very nice.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
You got me a Gingerral, absolutely one of your favorites.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Sometimes my energy is lower like a little Gingerral. All right,
so what so you already got ten years in on
this one? What is what is the next ten years?
You clearly have earned this for the long game.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah, with our questions, Yeah, we won't be here for
a long time forever.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Yeah, because it's something that we actually enjoyed doing. We
get we get to hang out with people that we
actually admire and like and get game from them.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Then we get to use.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
This platform to push our live show and our tours.
And it's just like a snowball effect and we own
it and we're still building it.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
And nobody has showed up and said, here's a whole
lot of money we want to leave.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah, that's gotta happen. What happened, But do you want
to take it? Is that what you want?
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (19:53):
The money is ridiculous now, yeah, one hundred two hundred
million dollar podcasts deal.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Yes, absolutely, you're in.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
You want anybody question, We definitely want to. So I
would call him all the time, probably like once a month.
I'm like, Chico, they gave your Rogan two hundred and twenty.
Who got denied? Somebody out there got a one seventy
five and eighty and a fifty. Yeah, well all those
deals nobody yet.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah, it's so interesting to me. Who gets those big deals?
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Yeah, they definitely won't want but you know, for us,
it's like to be able to see what comes with
the longevity is one of the best parts. You know,
people coming up to you and saying, hey, man, I
used to watch you when I was in middle school.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Now I own a you know, trucking company, and you know.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
That's great. It is great.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
You realize how much impact you've had on people's lives
from doing what you love, and it's like, why would
you ever want to stop doing that?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Especially with comedy, because you know that the world is
so serious and dark and scary and all the shit
that goes on in people's lives, people struggling, sometimes just
laughing comedy. That's what I'm saying, having a moment to escape.
It's such a gift to people that you probably don't
even know how you probably you know, put joy into people.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
We get told all the time. People come up to
us at meeting greets or in the mall when we were
walking around and be like, man, I was in a
dark place. I was depressed, and before I got put
on the y'all, y'all took me out of this. I
you know, my family was going through something and we
you know, we weren't able to get together, but we
all found unity and watching y'all and that fixed a
family issue.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
This is for you.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
People come out and say, man, me and my girl.
I first I first looked, you know, I look for
a little date. You know what I'm saying, for real,
for real, we came't y'all show. Well now we got
through y'all.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Yeah, I mean people that came to the show pregnant
and then brought the baby back to the show and.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
The community just like people buying tickets, like they really
hit us and they really keep us updated. They really
look at when we hit the city and they really
be excited to see us in the city, really living.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
You know what I'm saying, Why are you not in
our city? Why is your tour not in New York?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
We've been to New York a couple.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Of times, you know, but this one, what the hell?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Yeah, we're coming back. We're not coming back. Yeah, this
is just the one we're doing. Now the next one,
we definitely. We all come through individually, and I just
did to come for.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
Since we're in New York, maybe maybe they could do
something about it. Was that we got bann.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
From the Pollo. Oh my god, what.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Happened?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
We was here a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Oh my god.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
And you know we couldn't but we wanted to do
the historic, the legendary.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Six shows for six Yeah we did.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
We did. Know.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
We did two sold out shows. We did to sold
out shows at the Apollow and and okay, so we
did to sold out shows at the Apollow. We were
having the meet and greet, and the meet and greet
is over at this point, now, you know what I mean.
You know, the best way I can explain it is
it went the best that the worst can go, because
(23:05):
we got lucky because there were no cameras or anything around.
It was only family in the building when this happened.
But let's you just say, uh, a kerfuffle happened, and
then the scuffle happened.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
It was one of those bugs you know where it's
just like a crowd of arms and.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Legs and and the dust, and it's just one of those.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
But they didn't have nothing to do with us. It
was there was two dudes with big egos. One dude
was a security guard here and one dude was a
security guard there.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Nobody should have yeah, and they both.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
Were terrible people and they had a clash and they
had nothing to do with us, and we had to
protect everybody and let them.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Just be brutes.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Yeah and literally, and the people from the Apollo was like, no, everybody,
not that boy. Nature don't know Aboudy Like one of
Bumpet Johnson's goons came down. I know this man ain't
came out his office since nineteen sixty eight. He came
down there with a tank top and some suspenders on and.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Was like, I want everybody out of here. You'll never
come here again. We had the.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Iley Brothers, the shotlights.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
He started naming people from when I'm talking about read
when the first people was rubbing the piece of wheels
and they said, they be like, I want to sound
and I was trying to talk to him.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
He was like, I don't want to hear it. I
don't want to hear young man. I want you here.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Because he said, yeah, that's what he told us. And
then you know, he he calmed down. He was like, man,
y'all got to get whoever them dudes is. We were like, man,
them dudes don't have nothing to do with us. And
he was like, all right, well you never come back
here again, but God bless you.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
So yeah, we definitely we want that.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Yeah, when did this happen?
Speaker 3 (24:49):
This was this when this happened two thousand nineteen, I mean.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
We're talking about six years ago.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Yeah, but we've never we've literally never said anything about it.
And then, you know what's crazy, the next day we
had to go to the breakfast club the next morning
and nobody knew what happened.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
You never told this story. Where is where are those
security guards? Now?
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Who gives a.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
I don't want it, but could the Apollo have hired
one of those security guards, they'd be at fault though
it was your got got it?
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Got it?
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Did you guys get were you guys swept up in
the No?
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Literally watched the whole thing. You just watched it. Yeah,
we watched.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Are you really you do that? Like when there's a
fight you stay and watch or not.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
No, we didn't have a choice.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
It was our event, like we you know, I mean,
if it was somebody else, we'd been like, man, you're
not here, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
We couldn't leave our stuff? Was there?
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Oh god god it Yeah, so it was you were
just waiting for it.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
So you know, now we're on Angie Martina and like.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
The Apollo to know that they came today with their
whole crew in the green room. It was lovely. Yes,
you brought me something from the body guys. There was
no scuffle, there was no It was respectful and so
the Apollo should rethink, Yes, have us back.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Police, just lift the band, you know, at at least
lift the band like people that's been banned ever. And
that's what we had to hang our hats on, like
literally you need to go outside, lift up literally nowhere.
Then since that happened, that you could throw me out
of that, I would feel like bad about getting thrown
(26:24):
out like I've been thrown out of way more.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Come on, established.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Thrown out of the most pretty illustrious, the most illustrious
black venue in Negro history. Forget you, sir, I will
gladly leave. You can't make me feel like I've been
thrown out of nowhere. I've been thrown out of the
Apollo Theater. You wear that like a bad Yeah, I
mean that's all we can wear.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
New York is the first place we can get you
back in there.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Come on, this the first place place I love.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
We didn't know it until time.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
It's going to be such a moment when you when
you come back to the Apollo.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
We were walking from Madison's Madison Square, Goud, me and
him having a regular conversation, and it was like somebody
made this like out of a movie. We looked behind
us and it was probably about three blocks of people
behind like they were just following us. I don't know
where they thought we were going, but it was the
best feeling in the cities.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Where they don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
And then like the crazy part is when we went
to the game. We had snuck on the court and
walked up on Dave Chappelle and he knew who we
were at the time that it's early in the game.
But then we was literally having a conversation about how
crazy it was. We were able to sneak our way
onto the floor of Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
The long way, like we cut all the way across
the court from corner to the corner.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
That's love, That's why you got to perform in our city.
We got to get you back.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
And we're talking about that, and look up and then
look behind us, and it's like he said, three blocks
of people, and we were like, where all them people going?
Speaker 4 (27:53):
When we stopped, it was just like they surrounded.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Everybody first, like the first taste fish states do you
drop a little tears someday. We were just glad that
they were fans. Could they could have been could have
been the first and last taste is overwere He's stupid?
Speaker 4 (28:14):
All right?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Well, if people do want to see you on this
run you are in You're doing New Orleans, Chicago, Ohio,
Troy first and how do they find them and get
you and get tickets and all that.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
The website and go to eighty five South Show dot com.
You can go to Channel eighty five. You can hit
us on social media. You can go to bm me
and shows and get tickets. We we got a lot
of outlets that's that's covering this.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
And you guys do it all live on the spot.
It's really amazing what you do.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Rappers, entertainers, movie stars.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
What's the site so they could get tickets?
Speaker 6 (28:48):
You show dot com. You go to the app store
and download o app. We got our own app called
Channel eighty five. Well, we upload all exclusive content. We
got a lot of behind the scenes stuff that we up.
We produce a few in house shows like.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
You got a movie too, working poor.
Speaker 6 (29:04):
Minds, English Majors. We're working on the movie. Shout out
to Kevin har Heart.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Production, That's Only Right and Charlamagne, everybody, Black Effect Podcast Network,
everybody you know. keV has been great to us. You know,
we got to deal with him before the movie. He
just produced. He produced the stand up specially for Low.
He produced one for me that's on Hulu right now.
So yeah, man, we we're doing the work.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
It's such a pleasure having you guys.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Thank you see us.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
And absolutely want to come see you and I am.
We should make t shirts that say to lift the
band at the at the Apollo Theater.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
I'm gonna make some calls, thank you
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Fives out everybody,
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