September 2, 2025 • 43 mins
On this episode of Clint Coley’s Rent’s Due Podcast, Clint sits down with two of his closest collaborators—graphic designer Will Pharoah, the creative mind behind the visuals that bring Clint’s vision to life, and comedian Louis Gee, Clint’s trusted opening act on tour. Together, they dive into the meaning of “rent’s due,” how it shows up in their work and lives, and the importance of execution, discipline, and showing up when it counts. This conversation blends creativity, comedy, and real talk about what it takes to deliver every time.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How y'all doing this? Clint coly here new episode rents
due podcast me. Uh before I was gonna get ready
to talk for a minute before I introduced my guests.
But I'm gonna be completely transparent. We have been recording
for about eight minutes. We was actually having a really
good conversation, and I realized that their MIC's were not
recording and you could not hear them, so or you know, yeah,
(00:23):
so we had to do it again, ladies and gentlemen
too of my really really really closest friends. Man, And
I'm not just talking about in the business. I'm talking
about in the life Will Farreah lou G. And I
think now I do deserve to give y'all a round
of applause. Yeah, I do deserve, like because we early
we were so before that when we weren't when we
weren't recording, when we were recording, or they weren't recording,
I was like, you know what, I'm not even going
(00:45):
to you know, I see you waving at the camera.
I'm just gonna even.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
At the audience. Y'all don't see him. I see him.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Oh yeah, he was receiving a round of applause.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Okay, okay, yeah, nah, uh yeah. First of all, the
joke was was I don't put the round of applause
in the in the podcast, but I'm gonna have to
now because we had been recording for about none ten
minutes and only to realize that their mics weren't on,
and uh yeah, put that way.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I apologize.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
But anyway, okay, but let's let's real quick, y'all know
what The Rents Do podcast is chronolizing the journey of
my my next comedy special, which is called Rents Do.
Just talk to my agent. We are we have confirmed
that we are doing a twelve city tour in between
February and April. So it is happening, it is, and
(01:40):
we are filming the special on the last day. I've
not announced the city yet, but we have the three
finalists for said city is Washington, DC, Chicago, Illinois, or Philadelphia.
You know, so we'll we'll figure it out when we
get there. But I'm gonna start off this well. First
of all, today is right now. It is currently ten
to oh five ten o seven pm Pacific time here
(02:03):
in Los Angeles. Just got done during the show at
the Hollywood Improv about an hour and a half ago,
Lou you were actually there. But we'll get into that
in the next you know, ten to fifteen minutes. But
before we get there. When I have special guests on
the podcast and we're talking about the rents due, I
always got to start off with the same question, the
same thing that Sidney Shaw asked in Brown Sugar, which
(02:25):
was when did you fall in love with hip hop?
I'm gonna start off with will Will When I say
to you the rent is due, what does that mean
to you?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Man? The clock done started? The clock has started, like
you know, you know the rent do on the first
you're calculating when you know, like say you got ten days.
It's like, okay, man, look there's ten days. That's twenty
four hours in the day. I gotta make every hour
count and make this rented specially for us because we
don't have nine to fives. No, we do not. Well,
I mean, you know Lou do he worked for the mob.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, I know. It's funny real quick about Lou and job,
Like you really can't tell niggas what he do, Like
he's a comedian to me, like, and.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
He told me what he actually does. And I was like, this,
this man is a hit man.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yo. Actually, when you really think about it, like now
that I actually think about it, like yeah, I do
blah blah blah blah blah. I mean you are a
hit man.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
He literally ain't lou the hit man.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
G Yeah. You literally gonna tell people, oh you ain't
got it?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah man, but no.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
So but you say rinch do means that you know
the clock is ticking?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
The clock? Yeah, that's that's that's I think that's what.
I can't speak for everybody, but that's where I said
that man, that clock starts and you got till it
hits zero. Have you ever seen the bear?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yes, that's what that's a great Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
That's what it feels like when they when they say, like, yo,
that clocked and started and you see it ticking down,
It's like, Yo, there ain't nothing that can stop it.
There ain't nothing that's in the finish. You got to
that thing hit zero. And then the rents do?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Rents fucking do? Will? I mean I will, Loo. What's
your when I say that the rents do? What does
that mean to you?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Man?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Put up a shut up man. There's no time for excuses.
You gotta get out there and get it done. You
know what I'm saying asap, because ain't nobody gonna be
lenient on you. It is what it is, So go
out there and make it happen by any means necessary,
not illegally, any means necessary, legally or illegally. Just don't
tell you shit.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I'm gonna be real like legally. Ain't ain't the worst
I did if I'm being honest right like shit sometimes,
you know, being a content creative slash comedian sla you know,
baking money off this ship, bro like, I wish I
sold drugs sometimes allegedly wish allegedly. I'm not allegend nothing.
I wish I sold drugs. I wish I was ghost
(04:52):
well I had.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
No hells the drug of comedy.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
No man, I wish I pushed cocaine he pushed is
the cocaine of last. I wish I pushed white girl
booger sugar smack.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I wouldn't. He makes a lot of white girls laugh.
They smacked the tape.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
No powdered Pablo Escabar nigga. I wish I b m
F nigga.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
How long have you had these thoughts wishing the drugs?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Man?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I've been wanting to sell drugs since I was like seventeen,
all right, since we just gonna go down this, let's
do a street with what what particular drug you would
you have been like, Okay, here's all the drugs on
the table.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Which one you gonna dabble in?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
The sell cocaine. Here's why, because cocaine is a rich
man's drug. Coke. Crack is not. Crack is different.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
You'd be surprising men and rich people smoke crack.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I'm not saying they don't. What I'm saying, though, is
is just cocaine. I'm damaging the white community with coke.
I wouldn't sell cocaine to black people. I would only
sell to to to white boys at frat hoouses and
white boys, the executive white boys at the at the
top of the food chain, at whatever fucking fortune five
(06:11):
hundred company.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You go on Wall Street, you're going down, You're going
down Broadway.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
As a matter of fact, the Wolf of Wall Street.
I would wish that was my client.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
You'd be rich.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I'm selling everybody, That's what I'm saying. I wouldn't sell
I'm not selling heroin. Weed is just this not that
much money and weed anymore? Anymore.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yes, at a level of where you're at.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah, like you know what I mean, Like you know,
like I would actually know what I wish. I you know,
I'm not. I'm gonna say it. Fuck that I thought
about selling shrooms for real, for real, right, like I
get my Like I look, I've been very open with
doing I do shrooms, while I don't do them anymore
right now because the rents do. And I need to
be focused and I need to be at my best mentally, physically,
(06:53):
emotionally all that, right, But the god that I get
my shrooms from, I pay a very cheap price. And
if I was selling them, because like you can't really
get strooms on the West coast on the East coast
like that, you know, I sneak the motherfuckers in my
bag or whatever like that, and I would double it.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
What what stopped you from selling?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Yeah, it's just I just because I don't know who
wants shrooms, you know, No, I don't. I don't know who.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Wanted So how would you know who want cocaine? Right?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Everybody? Well everybody, but like okay, I guess I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I don't know all the supply.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Why does Brick still on this table like you.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I don't know who wanted man bust it, Dawn nothing
because ain't nobody gonna wrest you for selling shrooms?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Nah, I don't even First of all, if I was
a cop, I would be embarrassed to go fill out
the paperwork.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Of usage for shrooms right, exactly right, So I would
hate that.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yeah, So Lou, if you had to, if I just
now like a drug, to pick.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
A drug, man, pray cocaine. If I had, if I
if somebody had a gun in my hand, was like, man,
you got to sell drugs, And I'd be like, man,
give me that cocaine. That's what That's what I would do.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Cocaine is at a premium, Yeah, premium, But I was.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I'm selling everybody whoever wants some of his nose candy.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
You got not nose candy, Well, we got it.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I'm trying to go I'm trying to go above and beyond.
I want to do like fat free myth or like
gluten free cocaine, you know, be above everybody else. Gluten
free cocaine, gluten free cocaine.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I'm not mad at that. You know, it's crazy. We
we all played. We actually sell drugs on the video game. Yeah,
we played Grand theft Al though, and we sell it.
We sell coke. We said, what do we sell coke?
Sell meth? We sell acid, counterfeit counterfeit money. Uh document
documents is that the can on the video game on
(09:01):
the video game on grab that photo five.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
But please believe, don't none of us ever get off
of that game be thinking like.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I need I could do this. Yeah, no, I could
do I can be the king the fleet on on
video game only.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Actually, I wouldn't even want to be a king pin of.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Drug No, because that's that That's that's how you get killed.
They want they want your spot.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
That is too much responsibility, Like I don't I don't
want to have to beat you up because you messed up.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, will kill you. Yeah yeah, yeah, right right right right.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I ain't got no HR, which I don't understand why
they don't have that.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yet HR and selling the drug.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yeah all right, man, we we man. We didn't got
way off to oh man, No, we needed some lasts.
I needed some laughs. I didn't bomb tonight, but it
wasn't my best.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Showing on the scale of one to ten, where you
put it.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
About a six it's not bad.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I don't but that's a fair assessment.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
It's about a six. But I I'm not a Here's
the thing. I'm very hard on myself, right, So let
me start here, right, I'm gonna be honest. Right, So,
I'm working on new material, and my new material I
have great premises. I have no punchlines. Yet I have
nothing that like separates my experience with my jokes from anything.
(10:23):
There's nothing that you couldn't have thought of. You see
what I'm saying. YEA, Like when I'm telling the joke
and I'm telling the story, so promising. I got a
new joke about It's not that new, but it's been
something I've.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Been working on.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
But it's about how it's new to the Yeah, I
got caught cheating on my wife, right, but not in
the sense that everybody think it's a mister wreck.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
So it's like I get caught cheating.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
On my wife.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Women in the crowd boo boo boo. I'm like, can
I tell you how I cheat? Okay, here's how I cheat? Boom.
My wife be and my wife have our shows that
we watch together. I'll watch our shows without you and
then act like I ain't never seen that motherfucker a
day of my life. Right, But then the next part
to the joke is like, first of all, women get
upset when they hear that, right, and they I say, like,
(11:06):
y'all better, I'll look at me like I'm better off
fucking another woman. And then you know what I mean,
cause it's like, you know what I mean? And then
men don't ever get caught in the act of cheating.
We always get caught slipping up. So how we get
caught slipping up?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Man? Were watching the show? You know, Ao, watch this,
you know what I'm saying. And usually that joke does
pretty well. It did nothing tonight, right, Like when I
say nothing, it did, it's like it got it got
a mildly amusing year. It wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
It wasn't dead.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
It just was. So that let me ask, though, was
would you say it was the delivery of it or
was it the audience?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
So you know me, man, I don't blame the audience
for nothing, well not.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Even blaming them just like again because like you know.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
But but they I'm gonna be honest with you. I
was the only black man on the show. Okay, they
treated me differently than they treated everybody else before me,
they treated me different, Like the energy immediately shifted when
I got on stage, got you immediately shifted?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
And where were you? Okay?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
No, I mean I was improv then you know what
I'm saying, the energy and look, I like the improv.
I'm a regular there right, like I'm past at the improv.
They always you know, they call me booked me for spots,
blah blah blah blah blah. But it just like it
just two things happen to night at the improv that
let me know why as black comedians we don't have
the same advantages as the white comedians. So the guy
(12:29):
hit me up. The guy the host was like, yo,
the guy before you isn't here yet. So if he's
not here, you going on next right? Well I don't
mind that, right, that doesn't bother me. But here's my issue.
We don't get the opportunity to not be there for
our spot on time or be there early. This motherfucker
could show up two seconds before his spot and it's
(12:51):
like there's nothing. Whereas if I did that, I'll never
get booked again. I never get or it would be
a while before I get booked and I follow all
the rules and all the directions that that's supposed to
be there ain't on top of that, like, yo, I'm
gonna be real. And I was telling Lou, I'm like
these niggas get get get get get get, get get
away with being mildly of music, whereas I gotta work
and jump or fight through hoops like literally like all
(13:14):
of the comics they brought up. They brought him up
the rock music or something like that. Immediately when I
came up, he brought me up to dipset. Yo, that
ass bo he changed it like like dude, and I'm
just like like it was just like who And I
didn't ask for it either, right, Like I can understand
it's like, Yo, play this. I didn't say that.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Did you ask him to change it when you when
you were No.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I haven't had no conversation. The only conversation I had
with the sound was was when he paid me my
twenty dollars for myself.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I'm saying when you went up though, like like i'd
have told him, like, hey man, I'm gonna walk back out.
I need to know that.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
See that's hackshit though, Yeah, that walk back off, walk
back on shit that's hackshit, like you know what I mean.
But the audience immediate, like they gave me no round
of applause. They were not like it was like it
was literally, who is this nigga?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I don't like to see. I know you're saying, don't
blame the audience, but I don't like that.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Yeah. But and then there was I had a heckler
right like they ain't heckled nobody else but doing fine.
I didn't hear him, but I heard you. He said
two things, and I'm like, like he boomed me he said,
but he was like boom, And I was like, yo,
for real, I ain't hear that and he didn't. And
I wasn't getting booed like the crowd was laughing. He
was just the only one. It was just so it
was weird energy in there for me, and I don't again,
(14:29):
I don't blame the audience. Right for me, it's like
my ship not good enough yet, my ship needs to be.
Here's the thing, bro, here's the thing. As a black
comedian in this business, man, you gotta be undeniable. White
people get to be mildly amusing. I'm not gonna say
any names in this business as a white comedian who
gets to be mildly amusing. But these guys get to
(14:50):
be mildly amusing. I have to be on one hundred
percent of the time. Why though, it's just the way
it is, bro. This is a America. That's why it's America.
That's why.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
That's why it is just automatic.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
It's America, bro, whether you whether we like it or not,
it's America.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Bro.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
And it's like they don't give us the same grace
that you know, like even today, right, I posted on
threads today, so I'm like, man, y'all over here arguing
about coffee dates and blah blah blah blah blah. So
I sent the so I was like, yo, any black
owned coffee spot. I minded my black owned business, my
black ass business. This white woman came in my comments
and said this is racist. She's like, what if I
(15:32):
ask for white only fucking coffee shops? Like y'all got them? Starbucks,
nigga very much so, Starbucks, the coffee bean, the what
else fills coffee?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Yeah? Got about nineteen a Dutch bros.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yeah, Like come on, bro, like everybody is white on coffee, bro,
Like we don't what seventy eleven yep, dunking dunkin Donuts.
All that is white on coffee I asked for specificly,
like I found a black own coffee spot and we hold,
by the way, another one in Brooklyn. I'm actually my
plan is to do of making playing videos like again,
trending topic, capitalize off that you know, white y'all, y'all,
(16:06):
you know, like, oh, y'all talk about so you know,
make a video apparently we talk about coffee dates. Well,
here's what I'm doing. I'm hooking two people up coffee
date on me, this spot, this time, this place. I
want to see it.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
They got a few black on coffee spots.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yeah, I know, I'm just saying, but like, but the
point was it is just like I bro, I'm very like,
let's be like and we're gonna talk about this too.
When it comes to content, I am very fucking strategic
because here's where we are. What the rents do. I
cannot afford not to sell tickets. I cannot afford that
it can't happen this hit, right, So anything that's going
(16:43):
to bring me followers, I'm fucking doing it. And I'm
being honest. The hooking people up in the relationship. Shit. Listen,
y'all may get y'all made. I'm letting y'all peek behind
the curtain real quick. But you think you know I'm
not stupid, right. I don't like the fact that some
of y'all think I'm a matchmaker, but I'm not fucking stupid.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I mean, it works, it works, but in a way
you are, and I gotta lean into it instead of
me being mad about it, lean into it.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
I think that is something that says your show apart
from from other shows, you know what I'm saying. Like
some castle do the thing where they go around the audience.
They got the auto tune and they asking questions with
the auto tune on with the audience. But I think
that's your thing that kind of set yourself apart. It's
more than just going up there and just telling jokes
it's up there and actually making a memorable.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I want you to have an experience exactly. And I mean,
and this is coming from you. Who's who's who's my
open to act, who is going to be on the
road with me opening for the show, and and yeah,
it's an experience, right, Like we want when when you
come to our show, like bro I'm gonna be honest
when you come see me, man like, look, I'm gonna
be real. I'm gonna be real. I watched I want
to go. I've seen Beyonce's last two shows. And you
(17:53):
know what I did for Beyonce's both the last two shows.
I fucking I felt I got information. I information the
Renaissance tour. She want everybody to wear silver. Guess what
the fuck I had on? I was wearing silver, then
Cowboy Carter. She wanted cowboy niggas to have on cowboy shit.
Now I didn't wear cowboy shit. I had on a
(18:14):
hat that said cowboy hat, and I had on the
Beyonce I had on her tour T shirt. You know
what I'm saying, but that I mean that still getting
information when you come see us, Lou, when you come
see Clint Kley, like I want. I wanted to be
an experience. You know what I'm saying. I want you
You know, I don't know, you know, I don't know.
My favorite color green. If y'all want to wear green,
(18:35):
go ahead, But I want you all to come through
with the tor T shirts. Wear the tour shirts. Man,
wear the bear wear the merch you know, what I'm saying,
you got, you got, you got edible merch wear that motherfucker.
You got Savage fenty drawers on bro wear them ships. Yeah,
I don't need to know that, you know.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I want to know.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I want to know, Clint we on tour, If we
on tour and I'm my ass fellas you're wearing the
Savage fifty draws. I want to know. Let the dogs out.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Well, don't do it on my set.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Let the dogs out, Let the dogs out. You you
got on the Savage, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Real start act love, shout the Savage.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Dog. I want you. I want you to show me
the draws. Dog. Pause, dog, I'm not pause. Show me
the draw don't don't pull down your pants. Just show
me the elastic waistband, the stretch of the breathable elastic
waistband that Savage x fenty has on all of their underwear.
As a matter of fact, the ones I'm wearing now
has a nice breathable elastic waistband that lets me feel
(19:41):
good and lets my boys brief. You dig what I'm saying, right,
But yeah, man, and and you know, speaking of that,
real quick, we're gonna get that. Get to get to that.
The second, Will, you did the graphics, but you do
the graphics behind every tour. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
(20:04):
When I told you I wanted to do the wanted
you to do the graphics behind rent do right. So
you know, y'all see the the you know when you
look at the podcast, you see the the artwork is
you know, the bear sitting down with the rints do
sign and he looked down and out. That's all Will,
That's all Will's I did.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
You know what I'm saying. But Will tell me your
creative process or tell the audience what your creative process is.
When I tell you I want something, and nine times
out of ten, right, like when I ask you to
do something, you knock it out in the first in
the first Like it's very rare that I have extra notes.
It's like small shit, like yo, can you just tweak this?
Tweak that? But for the most part, Will gets it right.
(20:40):
One take, Jake, let's discuss this.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
I would also, I would have to first say it's
based off of communication. You're very good at communicating, thank
you what you're having. And then like when I especially
if I have a question, like when I ask you
like he like any particular colors you want to use,
Like what is it that you're going for as far
as this tours can like where is it sitting there?
So you help me create the visual in my head.
(21:05):
And then one two. Something that you have that a
lot of people don't never really provide, especially in comedians,
is a great high quality.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Photo that part man, get you a fucking headshot. Man,
there's something get you, Get you a fucking high reds
as they.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Say, please look white back drop something fly to outfits
like yo, you you be surprised all your comedians out there,
how far you go with us being able to take
the background out and put you into a flyer. It
can make you look very dope. But it was again
it was communication with you explaining like what you're doing
(21:42):
with the rent, like telling me what rent do is about.
It wasn't just like you said, it's not just about money.
It's not just about being able to pay the rent.
So in hearing that, it was like, okay, cool, now
let me think about where we're doing this, what we're
putting on here. It's like, okay, rents, do pink slip
post it first when you go up there. Eviction notice yep,
(22:02):
not saying you getting evicted at the letter. That was
my first thing. It just like yo, that clock yep.
So then just thinking of that, then also going okay,
how do we visually get people to go, okay, let
me look at this, let me let me stop, take
a look at this. So now we go to coloring.
Now we're going to how this is gonna look where
the focal points are, what we're slapping on it. And
(22:23):
even to like what you were telling me was like, hey,
can we have the rent doing like the eviction read letters?
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
And it's like cool, great, and then you know, now
we got those elements, we piece them together. We make
two or three or four marcups like you said normally
with you though, I can just hit one, make a
mind of detail, and we're good to go.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Lou let me ask you a question. When you first
saw the the graphics, what did you how did you
how did you feel? What did you say.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
For the rents?
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Dude? Yeah, you ain't showing me the graphics for the rents.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Due I did not post it in the chat.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
No, no, no, you only doing the close friends on
fail my.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Close friends on all your close friends. But I don't
see your close friends every day.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Damn, that's nasty work.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Ain't nasty work. It ain't nasty.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
But I didn't see it, though, but I'm sure it
looked amazing because I think the I think the first
thing I thought of with where you're talking about the
connection between the two of y'all was like, Yo, it's
all about a good brief. So I'm like, Yo, if
you get somebody a good brief, if they're able to listen,
they're able to execute what you're looking for. So you
know what I'm saying, Like, yeah, so I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
No, it's great, it's great. One of the things that
my favorite thing about, my favorite thing about the rents
through is.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I like the bear.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
The bear. The bear has evolved, right, like one thing
that I you know, you try to take inspiration from
different things, you know what I'm saying, So like something
as simple as Kanye's bear, we see multiple variations of
the same bear over and over and over and over again.
(24:05):
And you know, like with the college dropout, you know,
it's like, actually, is him literally sitting on the bench
dropped out of college? Right, Like when you really look
at it, right, like, it's him sitting on the bench
and he dropped out of He's like, damn, I dropped out.
Then the second bear in Late Registration is the Bears.
Odds are wide a lot wider. The bear is now
(24:26):
walking into school. It's dark, you know what I'm saying.
Like that means he's coming to school late, Like you
know what I'm saying. And then if you notice with
the Graduation Bear, the Bears totally different. The bear is
flying the Bears out of here. The bear which you know,
arguably you know, graduation. People don't realize that was the
album that put Kanye over the top route. Kanye was
a household name before that. He was a great guy,
(24:48):
great commedia, I mean, great rapper, blah blah blah blah blah.
But that album really solidified Kanye as being like I'm
that nigga, right, don't forget if you go back and
if we go back at history, you know what I'm saying, like,
don't forget, that's the same day him and fifty cent
with head to hat. Y'all forgot about that, now I
didn't get you know.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Yeah, him and fifty two Big go ahead and switch
the style up. And if they hain't to let him
hate and watch the money, yeah man.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
And he and also fifty fifty cent said, fifty cent said,
if Kanye outsells me, I'll stop rapping. Yeah, fifty cent
ain't been the same sense music wise.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Yay killed that man.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
And that's the that is the that is the epitome
of the rents due, you know what I'm saying. So,
you know, I wanted to continue to evolve the bear,
right like we tried. If you remember with my Edible
War off tour, you know, we tried another bear. It
didn't work. I'm gonna be honest. Did nobody really liked
the new bear? You know, as matter fad, we tried
two different bears. We tried the bear, just the bear
(25:47):
having the face, and then we tried the bear like
kind of like you know, it just didn't work. We
tried to reinvent the wheel, and it's like no, you know,
you asked me, said, I said, will let's just go
back to the old bear. Let's go back to the base.
Let's go back to what we know, go back to
the old bear. But this time this bear, you know,
he's he's struggling. You know what I'm saying, And I'm
not necessary No, I am struggling. I am struggling because
(26:11):
the rent is definitely due for that little nigga. You
know what I'm saying. The rent is definitely due for
that little nigga. Yeah, the rent is definitely doe for
that little nigga. And you know, I think you know
seeing that, man, it's just urgency, man, And I you know,
I'm like, you know, you know I'm talking about this
like you know, we can't. We can't not sell tickets,
man like Lowton took multiple l's with be Like, you
(26:35):
know how that should affect me? Bro, I'll give you.
I'll give you one show with particular that really pissed
me off. Bro Vancouver, Vancouver, Doug bro We talking about
this comedy club, hold three hundred people, seven people in
the audience if that, you know? And and then you
(26:56):
know me, I'm self conscious, loose, so I'm in the back.
I'm always asking, Yo, I'm people out there? How many
people out there? How many people out there? You learn
that from Yeah, and it's a it's a rainy day
and it's I mean, I'm talking pouring down fucking raining man. Bro.
I had added there. And what's worse is Bro that
ship is a long ride back. So we're driving from
(27:16):
Vancouver to Seattle. It's a beautiful drive, but it's a
long ride back to the fucking crip, back to the
Airbnb where we were staying at. I was hot, Bro,
I was hot, Bro. I didn't want to talk to nobody.
I ain't had nothing to say. And it's a car
ride as me, Janey, Lou, Steph and Mo. Yeah, and
(27:42):
and I just remember, and I mean, look, at least,
at least we was in a nice car. It was
an expedition and we was we was riding back in styling. Yeah,
but you know, but I just sh it can't happen, man,
it can't happen to get so this time, Like we
talk about being strategic, right, Like my goal before we
(28:04):
go on tours, I need to be at three hundred
thousand followers. And I think that's very attainable. You know
what I'm saying. I want to be you know, I'm
doing everything that I possibly can do with my power
to make sure that we achieve that. Not only do
I make sure that we achieve that, but also you know,
like just you know, just again strategy, right, Like, how
(28:26):
are we going to roll out this tour. You know
what I mean, Like, if you notice, I've just been
you know, I said, I said on my story a
couple of days ago, I said, the rents do is?
You know, is me being Hansole and Gretel. And if
anybody knows what the story with Hanson Gretel is, you
know the whole you know, it's an old folklore. But
the way that they found their way back home was
(28:48):
bread crumbs. I'm bread crumbing you and to letting you
know something big is coming. And I constantly every day
on threads nineteen eighty five, Anita Baker, the rent was due,
twenty twenty three. Victoria Monette, the rent was due nineteen
eighty seven. Michael Jackson, the rent was already due. But
(29:09):
that nigga he put belt the ass at that point.
You know what I'm saying, Like these are things that
like I'm just I'm just I'm just talking. Also, every
first of the month, starting on September first, I'm putting
out the little bear with the rents do, no context,
And I'm gonna ask all my friends to post the
same thing on their story, no context, just post rents due.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Yea, Hey, you know what you should do. You should
get like a big like poster, not poster, but like
a print. I remember like how they used to have
like the shape of like the football players standing right there.
You should get on the bear and just put it
in random places and take a picture of it. So like,
take the bear, get it printed out like like big,
like big size. Yeah, just sit that shit in random
(29:52):
places around the city and just take a picture.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Of it, like like a poster. Uh what did.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
They used to call them? Things? You rememer when you
walk in they had like the life size athlete.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Like a fat head. No, that was the gee on
the wall. But that was on the wall. I know,
like a cutout cut out? Yeah, yeah, how do you
get it?
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
You know what, that's a great fucking idea.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah, get a cut out of the bear, sit them
around like random places and just take a picture of
it and then post it.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
That's a great fucking idea. The thing is, though, like
the cutout. The problem is though, ain't the bear the
bears laying down though, or sitting down.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
They can do the cut out like that because it'll
it'll have a stand on the back of it, so
you could just stand it and they like.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I got to figure out how
to get a cut out.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Yeah, it's just it's just like yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Wrench duke, but it will be like again, it's still
a flat image.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Rent Is, Dude, the bear shouldn't be laying down.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
He laid out.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
He's down and out. He's down and out.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Yeah, standing up.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
That's why you don't do the graphics.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
He ain't seen it.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
He ain't seen it exactly. He got sEH.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
He gonna get it.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
That's like, yeah, man, but but back back to the
show Man's stupid. Uh but back to the show. No man,
I I I yeah, I'm a little I'm a little
I'm a little annoyed right now. You know what I'm saying, Like,
I'm not mad, but like you know what, I said
(31:28):
this on the podcast before you Know What Kojsa in
nineteen eighty seven. He said, you know, not bitter or mad,
just proving I'm bad. You want to hit give me
an hour plus a pen in a pad And I'm
not mad, but I just didn't like the way it went.
And it makes me get better though that ship like
you need that, you need that. I'm gonna be honest
(31:48):
with you, man, it's it's you know we're coming up
on on September. You know, the tour starts in February
and the specials not dropping until or the specials not
being recorded until April. This is training camp. This is
time to get this is This is training camp. And
the tour is the playoffs or the tour is the
regular season, and then the last couple of shows leading
(32:10):
up to the special is the playoffs. And then we
get to the fucking super Bowl. And I need and
I'm talking now, that's where I need to be. Twenty
twenty four Philadelphia Eagles, Belt to ass, belt to ass.
That's what I That's how I feel with the ald
belt the ass and tonight I didn't put belt the ass.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
I mean, it's how you see it?
Speaker 1 (32:35):
No, what I mean? No, I mean, Louke, do you
see it the same way I'll see it? Absolutely? You know, like,
how would you how would you say tonight win? And
you're a comedian too, Yeah, yes, I am. Here.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Here's the thing I would say about tonight, like it's
hard for me to being on the outside looking in,
meaning like I wasn't the one on stage.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
It's hard.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
I see it a little bit differently since I was
on the outside looking in. The audience definitely showed you love.
But I know it was a different level of love
than what some of the other comedians were getting and
what you would normally expect to get from from audiences.
I agree, in that particular room, in that particular setting,
I feel like it's just a different setting than if
(33:18):
you would have been in the main room, if you
would have been in another venue, in one of their
main rooms. I don't know, something, just something just like
welcome to downtown.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Y'all see me drunk. They just I jumped on Welcome
to Gotham. I'm glad I wasn't hear by myself because
I'll be here bitching dog. I would have called. I
would have called my wife and baby, could you stay
on the phone.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Stay on the phone. I get the call that part now,
like he like why the lights changed?
Speaker 3 (33:55):
They was in the parking lot yesterday letting off cannons
like fireworks. You say, some.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Yeah, oh that's what that was.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Okay, Okay, You're still live in the same building, right, yeah, yeah, But.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Yeah, I just think it's it's a different vibe, different environment,
you know what I'm saying. And so I think like
that necessarily wasn't a reflection of you. I just think
that there were other factors that kind of led up
to the result that you saw tonight.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
That's fair, and you know it just did I didn't.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
You know.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
I like pot potting after a show, right, because it
really gives you an honest answer of how I felt.
The week before last week, I was doing the show
with the upstairs down the street from here, right and Nigga.
I had to go after Leslie Jones and a lot
of people in the audience came to see her. But
I handled it right. As a matter of fact. Let
me give you a true story right real quick. Leslie,
(34:51):
if she ever sees this, right, she can confirm this,
so she comes in the joint. I never met Leslie, right,
So I'm you know, I've heard good stories about cool
peop blah blah blah blah blah, Like yo, what up?
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Less?
Speaker 1 (35:02):
You know what I mean? And mind you, I've seen
les on comed View when I was growing up, you
know what I mean? Like she to me, she you know,
like you know, like when I see somebody that I
used to watch on TV and we on the same show,
Like yeah, bro, it's good to see you. You know,
it's good to see you, know what I'm saying. So
we on the show. So she gets she walks in,
you know, you know, blah blah blah blah blah, y know,
it's good to meet you, blah blah blah. She's like,
(35:23):
what's the line up? I was like, yeah, man, person's
on stage now. But they got me going after you,
and she was like, like, gave me that like a
nigga please, right, And I just laughed it off. But
we both laughed because she knew and I knew exactly
what the fuck she meant, right, right, And in my mind,
I'm like, I'm offended, low key, right, And the reason
(35:43):
why I'm offended cause it's like, but she don't know
who the fuck you dealing with, you know what I'm saying,
And in a good, in a respectful way, you know,
like I'm not calling her a bitch, nothing like that.
I have nothing but the utmost respect for me. But
she disrespected me, and she knew she did, but she
wasn't trying to be disrespectful. She just knows the pecking
order of how this works, right, And yes, you know
what I mean, Like she started comedy and stand up.
(36:04):
She said in like eighty seven eighty eight. Well guess what, Yeah,
I was born in eighty seven eighty eight. I've only
been doing it nineteen or eighteen, nineteen years. She's been
doing it clearly almost forty years. You know what I'm saying.
And it's like, I get it right, But guess what,
I went after you. And not only did I go
after you, I got the reaction that I wanted. Yeah,
(36:25):
because I'm a professional at the end of the day,
and I'm good and I know what the fuck I'm
doing and I know what I could bring to the table.
So that's why it shows like these you know, I
tell you know, when you're listening, it's like, you know,
you like the thriller victory, but sometimes you hate, you know,
Comedians also feel the agony of defeat. I don't feel defeated,
but I'm like, I.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
Mean, but think about the cat in front of you
started doing crowdword.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
He definitely started doing.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Saying, So like, that's the type of setting I feel
like you do. You're trying to work through your new stuff.
I am working through new stuff, you know what I'm saying.
So you gotta you gotta give yourself grace and credit
for that too. It's not like you was up there
doing and like your normal say.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
I did well, I opened up with an old joke.
I want them to get on my side.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
But you are still trying to work. Like literally at
the top of the show, you was like, yo, I
have mad premises, but I don't have tags for him yet.
So you are literally doing. You're in the lab work.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
And that's where the comp the show was. If you
could do me a favorite lou real quick, because I
want to read something to the audience. If you go
on my book bag right, there's a small green notebook,
not the big one, but the small green notebook. Yeah,
I'm gonna show y'all, gonna tell you'all. So this is
this is the Rents Dude Joke Book. So this is
every year at the top of the year, I get
a brand new joke book and I work through. I
(37:39):
work through my stuff. I got a whole bunch of
notes written down, and I also write down the day
in the time in which that or the day in
the date to chronolize like exactly like where I'm, where I'm,
where my head is at, blah blah blah blah, blah right, So,
and I also write notes to myself. So Saturday, August
twenty third, you know, Hollywood improv Los Angeles, California, Clinton,
(38:00):
you know for a fact you're going on tour. Training
camp begins now formulating and making your set order and
now adding hard punches to your premises.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
And then it says open old joke about sending naked pictures.
And then I said, actually, no, fuck that you too comfortable.
You know what I'm saying. Last week, note Clint, you
have to follow Leslie Jones to Knight. You've asked for
the respect of your peers. This is how you get it.
You follow one of the greats to prove how you belong.
Tonight is now personal. Yeah you know what I'm saying
(38:30):
like that, That's where I'm at. Yeah, you know, and
and tonight Yeah, it's just you know, uh, you know, uh,
you know that's how you s went. That's exactly how
my set went. Right. But it wasn't. Again, it wasn't
like you know, what's crazy is.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Said when as bad as you That's that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
It's like, I know, like he being haled on this self.
But it's like I'm hearing all the stuff, and it's like, Okay,
you're trying out something new. You're in an audience like
how he just said it's not a typical audience, but
you still received laughter. Do you still have the crowd
with you? To crowd?
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Not like okay? To me too. Here's the thing, right,
there's two levels of bombing to me as a comedian, right,
bombing when I was like if I was if I
was four years in right, So we go back to
twenty eleven. I get that that reaction or that that
I killed okay, four years like you know fifteen years
(39:24):
ago I killed right today?
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Yeah, Like I'm gonna go home. My wife's gonna ask me,
how was the show? I'm like, cool, you know what
I mean? It was cool? Right, It's cool, right, But
I'm gonna get him next time.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
I mean, but we all go through that, like the
same thing with me with graphics, Like how you just
describe your show? Is me? Rents?
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Do?
Speaker 2 (39:45):
I don't? I don't want to make this CD cover
for this dude.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
CD cover is hilarious. Yeah, first of all, I heard.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
A CD cover CD cover, Well you know in my
mind that made it six years old.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
No, I get it.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
But again I know I can't. I can't pass this up.
I can't go oh man, I can't not take this
eighty dollars and that's all he got when normally I
charged way mold than that. Right, But it's like yo,
rints do so I gotta take it and I gotta
make it. I gotta do it right. But it's like, okay, cool,
I got him. That ain't what I wanted. It's cool,
(40:19):
but I know on this next one, when I get
this next client, hey, now I got a bigger payout,
I can't. Look.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Man, look man, you worth every penny. Will I'm gonna
be real with you, man, I'm not talking. I'm not
gonna tell everybody what you charged me the last one.
I ain't gonna lie.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
I was.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Prince, yeah, man, I was I was expected. Yeah, I
ain't gonna lie. I was expected like I was expected
like half that, right, I look, I'm like wait what
But then what I realized also what I get right,
it is worth the money, right you are essentially you know,
like you gotta look at it like this, I'm gonna
(40:55):
make way more money off of what you've done. So
why sit here and can play to nickeling down and
you're my friend, right, So at the end of the day,
it's like you know what I mean, and look, man,
you know you gotta pay it right.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
But it's also to wrap your mind around there too
with like you said, going super Bowl wise, because that's
what you'll also need with marketing, not just not just
boosting the post. But it's like yo, like even what
we just said with the cutout Bear, it's like, Yo,
this is the the all out.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
This is what I got Blitzen, I'm I'm I'm giving this,
I'm giving it. I'm I'm going to walk away from
the Rents dude and say I gave it my best shot,
you know. And Jeff Van Gundy says something very interesting
when it comes to basketball. He said, you want to
get your best players the best spots, the best shots
in their best spots. I know that I'm a great
(41:44):
I'm a great comedian, but I'm great at fucking marketing.
I'm great at fucking getting a good concept. And the
Rents do. I'm consistently saying it over and over and
over and over and over again, and tell it's blue
in the face. And when I'm ready to hit you
I'm going to smack the funk out you.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
Bottom line, Yeah, bottom line, but kill it from that
killer from pre production and then kill it in actual
production and then post production. Like because for you, especially
with this tour and especially like what you've told me
about it, it's like, this is a great blueprint for
when it's done. You can sell this to any that
I say.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Sale, you can license tell to anybody like, yo, hey,
this is what we did.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
This was the numbers. Yeah, hey, now give me half
a million dollars to do my next.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
One right exactly exactly, So yeah, man, and then is
due for me. It's just I'm hungry, So I'm hungry, man.
So you guys, I know we're about to wrap it up.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
Man.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
You know, thank you guys, because it's late so niggas
gotta get home, you know, and ship like that. But
you know, uh, you know, plug your stuff real quick,
you guys, and thank you guys for coming on.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
Man.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
You know, it's good to have your friends on who understand,
who actually work with you. Though these are my friends
who I actually work with. Louis on the road with me.
Will does the graphics. Will is the behind seventy five
percent of what you see.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
So you know this is good to actually get your
guy's perspective on the rents due because you're both a
part of it.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
Yeah, bro, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
So just plug your stuff, man, where they can find
you all that.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
Yeah, just find me on my only fans because the
rent is due. Yes right, I don't be showing a
dick nothing like that. I just eat chicken wings. Uh.
Two girls tell me they just like how I eat
chicken wings.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
And I just please plug your strand with hey, man,
find me on Instagram at lou G eighty three. That's
l o u g e e eight three.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
Man.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
I ain't got no chicken wings, none of that, but
come come fuck with me.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
All right.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
Thank y'all for listening, Thank y'all for laughing. This podcast
is over.
How y'all doing this? Clint coly here new episode rents
due podcast me. Uh before I was gonna get ready
to talk for a minute before I introduced my guests.
But I'm gonna be completely transparent. We have been recording
for about eight minutes. We was actually having a really
good conversation, and I realized that their MIC's were not
recording and you could not hear them, so or you know, yeah,
(00:23):
so we had to do it again, ladies and gentlemen
too of my really really really closest friends. Man, And
I'm not just talking about in the business. I'm talking
about in the life Will Farreah lou G. And I
think now I do deserve to give y'all a round
of applause. Yeah, I do deserve, like because we early
we were so before that when we weren't when we
weren't recording, when we were recording, or they weren't recording,
I was like, you know what, I'm not even going
(00:45):
to you know, I see you waving at the camera.
I'm just gonna even.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
At the audience. Y'all don't see him. I see him.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Oh yeah, he was receiving a round of applause.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Okay, okay, yeah, nah, uh yeah. First of all, the
joke was was I don't put the round of applause
in the in the podcast, but I'm gonna have to
now because we had been recording for about none ten
minutes and only to realize that their mics weren't on,
and uh yeah, put that way.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I apologize.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
But anyway, okay, but let's let's real quick, y'all know
what The Rents Do podcast is chronolizing the journey of
my my next comedy special, which is called Rents Do.
Just talk to my agent. We are we have confirmed
that we are doing a twelve city tour in between
February and April. So it is happening, it is, and
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we are filming the special on the last day. I've
not announced the city yet, but we have the three
finalists for said city is Washington, DC, Chicago, Illinois, or Philadelphia.
You know, so we'll we'll figure it out when we
get there. But I'm gonna start off this well. First
of all, today is right now. It is currently ten
to oh five ten o seven pm Pacific time here
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in Los Angeles. Just got done during the show at
the Hollywood Improv about an hour and a half ago,
Lou you were actually there. But we'll get into that
in the next you know, ten to fifteen minutes. But
before we get there. When I have special guests on
the podcast and we're talking about the rents due, I
always got to start off with the same question, the
same thing that Sidney Shaw asked in Brown Sugar, which
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was when did you fall in love with hip hop?
I'm gonna start off with will Will When I say
to you the rent is due, what does that mean
to you?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Man? The clock done started? The clock has started, like
you know, you know the rent do on the first
you're calculating when you know, like say you got ten days.
It's like, okay, man, look there's ten days. That's twenty
four hours in the day. I gotta make every hour
count and make this rented specially for us because we
don't have nine to fives. No, we do not. Well,
I mean, you know Lou do he worked for the mob.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, I know. It's funny real quick about Lou and job,
Like you really can't tell niggas what he do, Like
he's a comedian to me, like, and.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
He told me what he actually does. And I was like, this,
this man is a hit man.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yo. Actually, when you really think about it, like now
that I actually think about it, like yeah, I do
blah blah blah blah blah. I mean you are a
hit man.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
He literally ain't lou the hit man.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
G Yeah. You literally gonna tell people, oh you ain't
got it?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah man, but no.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
So but you say rinch do means that you know
the clock is ticking?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
The clock? Yeah, that's that's that's I think that's what.
I can't speak for everybody, but that's where I said
that man, that clock starts and you got till it
hits zero. Have you ever seen the bear?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yes, that's what that's a great Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
That's what it feels like when they when they say, like, yo,
that clocked and started and you see it ticking down,
It's like, Yo, there ain't nothing that can stop it.
There ain't nothing that's in the finish. You got to
that thing hit zero. And then the rents do?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Rents fucking do? Will? I mean I will, Loo. What's
your when I say that the rents do? What does
that mean to you?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Man?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Put up a shut up man. There's no time for excuses.
You gotta get out there and get it done. You
know what I'm saying asap, because ain't nobody gonna be
lenient on you. It is what it is, So go
out there and make it happen by any means necessary,
not illegally, any means necessary, legally or illegally. Just don't
tell you shit.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I'm gonna be real like legally. Ain't ain't the worst
I did if I'm being honest right like shit sometimes,
you know, being a content creative slash comedian sla you know,
baking money off this ship, bro like, I wish I
sold drugs sometimes allegedly wish allegedly. I'm not allegend nothing.
I wish I sold drugs. I wish I was ghost
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well I had.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
No hells the drug of comedy.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
No man, I wish I pushed cocaine he pushed is
the cocaine of last. I wish I pushed white girl
booger sugar smack.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I wouldn't. He makes a lot of white girls laugh.
They smacked the tape.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
No powdered Pablo Escabar nigga. I wish I b m
F nigga.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
How long have you had these thoughts wishing the drugs?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Man?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I've been wanting to sell drugs since I was like seventeen,
all right, since we just gonna go down this, let's
do a street with what what particular drug you would
you have been like, Okay, here's all the drugs on
the table.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Which one you gonna dabble in?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
The sell cocaine. Here's why, because cocaine is a rich
man's drug. Coke. Crack is not. Crack is different.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
You'd be surprising men and rich people smoke crack.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I'm not saying they don't. What I'm saying, though, is
is just cocaine. I'm damaging the white community with coke.
I wouldn't sell cocaine to black people. I would only
sell to to to white boys at frat hoouses and
white boys, the executive white boys at the at the
top of the food chain, at whatever fucking fortune five
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hundred company.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You go on Wall Street, you're going down, You're going
down Broadway.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
As a matter of fact, the Wolf of Wall Street.
I would wish that was my client.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
You'd be rich.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I'm selling everybody, That's what I'm saying. I wouldn't sell
I'm not selling heroin. Weed is just this not that
much money and weed anymore? Anymore.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yes, at a level of where you're at.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah, like you know what I mean, Like you know,
like I would actually know what I wish. I you know,
I'm not. I'm gonna say it. Fuck that I thought
about selling shrooms for real, for real, right, like I
get my Like I look, I've been very open with
doing I do shrooms, while I don't do them anymore
right now because the rents do. And I need to
be focused and I need to be at my best mentally, physically,
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emotionally all that, right, But the god that I get
my shrooms from, I pay a very cheap price. And
if I was selling them, because like you can't really
get strooms on the West coast on the East coast
like that, you know, I sneak the motherfuckers in my
bag or whatever like that, and I would double it.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
What what stopped you from selling?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Yeah, it's just I just because I don't know who
wants shrooms, you know, No, I don't. I don't know who.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Wanted So how would you know who want cocaine? Right?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Everybody? Well everybody, but like okay, I guess I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
I don't know all the supply.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Why does Brick still on this table like you.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I don't know who wanted man bust it, Dawn nothing
because ain't nobody gonna wrest you for selling shrooms?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Nah, I don't even First of all, if I was
a cop, I would be embarrassed to go fill out
the paperwork.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Of usage for shrooms right, exactly right, So I would
hate that.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yeah, So Lou, if you had to, if I just
now like a drug, to pick.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
A drug, man, pray cocaine. If I had, if I
if somebody had a gun in my hand, was like, man,
you got to sell drugs, And I'd be like, man,
give me that cocaine. That's what That's what I would do.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Cocaine is at a premium, Yeah, premium, But I was.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I'm selling everybody whoever wants some of his nose candy.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
You got not nose candy, Well, we got it.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I'm trying to go I'm trying to go above and beyond.
I want to do like fat free myth or like
gluten free cocaine, you know, be above everybody else. Gluten
free cocaine, gluten free cocaine.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I'm not mad at that. You know, it's crazy. We
we all played. We actually sell drugs on the video game. Yeah,
we played Grand theft Al though, and we sell it.
We sell coke. We said, what do we sell coke?
Sell meth? We sell acid, counterfeit counterfeit money. Uh document
documents is that the can on the video game on
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the video game on grab that photo five.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
But please believe, don't none of us ever get off
of that game be thinking like.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I need I could do this. Yeah, no, I could
do I can be the king the fleet on on
video game only.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Actually, I wouldn't even want to be a king pin of.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Drug No, because that's that That's that's how you get killed.
They want they want your spot.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
That is too much responsibility, Like I don't I don't
want to have to beat you up because you messed up.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, will kill you. Yeah yeah, yeah, right right right right.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I ain't got no HR, which I don't understand why
they don't have that.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yet HR and selling the drug.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yeah all right, man, we we man. We didn't got
way off to oh man, No, we needed some lasts.
I needed some laughs. I didn't bomb tonight, but it
wasn't my best.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Showing on the scale of one to ten, where you
put it.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
About a six it's not bad.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I don't but that's a fair assessment.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
It's about a six. But I I'm not a Here's
the thing. I'm very hard on myself, right, So let
me start here, right, I'm gonna be honest. Right, So,
I'm working on new material, and my new material I
have great premises. I have no punchlines. Yet I have
nothing that like separates my experience with my jokes from anything.
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There's nothing that you couldn't have thought of. You see
what I'm saying. YEA, Like when I'm telling the joke
and I'm telling the story, so promising. I got a
new joke about It's not that new, but it's been
something I've.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Been working on.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
But it's about how it's new to the Yeah, I
got caught cheating on my wife, right, but not in
the sense that everybody think it's a mister wreck.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
So it's like I get caught cheating.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
On my wife.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Women in the crowd boo boo boo. I'm like, can
I tell you how I cheat? Okay, here's how I cheat? Boom.
My wife be and my wife have our shows that
we watch together. I'll watch our shows without you and
then act like I ain't never seen that motherfucker a
day of my life. Right, But then the next part
to the joke is like, first of all, women get
upset when they hear that, right, and they I say, like,
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y'all better, I'll look at me like I'm better off
fucking another woman. And then you know what I mean,
cause it's like, you know what I mean? And then
men don't ever get caught in the act of cheating.
We always get caught slipping up. So how we get
caught slipping up?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Man? Were watching the show? You know, Ao, watch this,
you know what I'm saying. And usually that joke does
pretty well. It did nothing tonight, right, Like when I
say nothing, it did, it's like it got it got
a mildly amusing year. It wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
It wasn't dead.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
It just was. So that let me ask, though, was
would you say it was the delivery of it or
was it the audience?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
So you know me, man, I don't blame the audience
for nothing, well not.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Even blaming them just like again because like you know.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
But but they I'm gonna be honest with you. I
was the only black man on the show. Okay, they
treated me differently than they treated everybody else before me,
they treated me different, Like the energy immediately shifted when
I got on stage, got you immediately shifted?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
And where were you? Okay?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
No, I mean I was improv then you know what
I'm saying, the energy and look, I like the improv.
I'm a regular there right, like I'm past at the improv.
They always you know, they call me booked me for spots,
blah blah blah blah blah. But it just like it
just two things happen to night at the improv that
let me know why as black comedians we don't have
the same advantages as the white comedians. So the guy
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hit me up. The guy the host was like, yo,
the guy before you isn't here yet. So if he's
not here, you going on next right? Well I don't
mind that, right, that doesn't bother me. But here's my issue.
We don't get the opportunity to not be there for
our spot on time or be there early. This motherfucker
could show up two seconds before his spot and it's
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like there's nothing. Whereas if I did that, I'll never
get booked again. I never get or it would be
a while before I get booked and I follow all
the rules and all the directions that that's supposed to
be there ain't on top of that, like, yo, I'm
gonna be real. And I was telling Lou, I'm like
these niggas get get get get get get, get get
away with being mildly of music, whereas I gotta work
and jump or fight through hoops like literally like all
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of the comics they brought up. They brought him up
the rock music or something like that. Immediately when I
came up, he brought me up to dipset. Yo, that
ass bo he changed it like like dude, and I'm
just like like it was just like who And I
didn't ask for it either, right, Like I can understand
it's like, Yo, play this. I didn't say that.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Did you ask him to change it when you when
you were No.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I haven't had no conversation. The only conversation I had
with the sound was was when he paid me my
twenty dollars for myself.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I'm saying when you went up though, like like i'd
have told him, like, hey man, I'm gonna walk back out.
I need to know that.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
See that's hackshit though, Yeah, that walk back off, walk
back on shit that's hackshit, like you know what I mean.
But the audience immediate, like they gave me no round
of applause. They were not like it was like it
was literally, who is this nigga?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I don't like to see. I know you're saying, don't
blame the audience, but I don't like that.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Yeah. But and then there was I had a heckler
right like they ain't heckled nobody else but doing fine.
I didn't hear him, but I heard you. He said
two things, and I'm like, like he boomed me he said,
but he was like boom, And I was like, yo,
for real, I ain't hear that and he didn't. And
I wasn't getting booed like the crowd was laughing. He
was just the only one. It was just so it
was weird energy in there for me, and I don't again,
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I don't blame the audience. Right for me, it's like
my ship not good enough yet, my ship needs to be.
Here's the thing, bro, here's the thing. As a black
comedian in this business, man, you gotta be undeniable. White
people get to be mildly amusing. I'm not gonna say
any names in this business as a white comedian who
gets to be mildly amusing. But these guys get to
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be mildly amusing. I have to be on one hundred
percent of the time. Why though, it's just the way
it is, bro. This is a America. That's why it's America.
That's why.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
That's why it is just automatic.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
It's America, bro, whether you whether we like it or not,
it's America.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Bro.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
And it's like they don't give us the same grace
that you know, like even today, right, I posted on
threads today, so I'm like, man, y'all over here arguing
about coffee dates and blah blah blah blah blah. So
I sent the so I was like, yo, any black
owned coffee spot. I minded my black owned business, my
black ass business. This white woman came in my comments
and said this is racist. She's like, what if I
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ask for white only fucking coffee shops? Like y'all got them? Starbucks,
nigga very much so, Starbucks, the coffee bean, the what
else fills coffee?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Yeah? Got about nineteen a Dutch bros.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yeah, Like come on, bro, like everybody is white on coffee, bro,
Like we don't what seventy eleven yep, dunking dunkin Donuts.
All that is white on coffee I asked for specificly,
like I found a black own coffee spot and we hold,
by the way, another one in Brooklyn. I'm actually my
plan is to do of making playing videos like again,
trending topic, capitalize off that you know, white y'all, y'all,
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you know, like, oh, y'all talk about so you know,
make a video apparently we talk about coffee dates. Well,
here's what I'm doing. I'm hooking two people up coffee
date on me, this spot, this time, this place. I
want to see it.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
They got a few black on coffee spots.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yeah, I know, I'm just saying, but like, but the
point was it is just like I bro, I'm very like,
let's be like and we're gonna talk about this too.
When it comes to content, I am very fucking strategic
because here's where we are. What the rents do. I
cannot afford not to sell tickets. I cannot afford that
it can't happen this hit, right, So anything that's going
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to bring me followers, I'm fucking doing it. And I'm
being honest. The hooking people up in the relationship. Shit. Listen,
y'all may get y'all made. I'm letting y'all peek behind
the curtain real quick. But you think you know I'm
not stupid, right. I don't like the fact that some
of y'all think I'm a matchmaker, but I'm not fucking stupid.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I mean, it works, it works, but in a way
you are, and I gotta lean into it instead of
me being mad about it, lean into it.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
I think that is something that says your show apart
from from other shows, you know what I'm saying. Like
some castle do the thing where they go around the audience.
They got the auto tune and they asking questions with
the auto tune on with the audience. But I think
that's your thing that kind of set yourself apart. It's
more than just going up there and just telling jokes
it's up there and actually making a memorable.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I want you to have an experience exactly. And I mean,
and this is coming from you. Who's who's who's my
open to act, who is going to be on the
road with me opening for the show, and and yeah,
it's an experience, right, Like we want when when you
come to our show, like bro I'm gonna be honest
when you come see me, man like, look, I'm gonna
be real. I'm gonna be real. I watched I want
to go. I've seen Beyonce's last two shows. And you
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know what I did for Beyonce's both the last two shows.
I fucking I felt I got information. I information the
Renaissance tour. She want everybody to wear silver. Guess what
the fuck I had on? I was wearing silver, then
Cowboy Carter. She wanted cowboy niggas to have on cowboy shit.
Now I didn't wear cowboy shit. I had on a
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hat that said cowboy hat, and I had on the
Beyonce I had on her tour T shirt. You know
what I'm saying, but that I mean that still getting
information when you come see us, Lou, when you come
see Clint Kley, like I want. I wanted to be
an experience. You know what I'm saying. I want you
You know, I don't know, you know, I don't know.
My favorite color green. If y'all want to wear green,
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go ahead, But I want you all to come through
with the tor T shirts. Wear the tour shirts. Man,
wear the bear wear the merch you know, what I'm saying,
you got, you got, you got edible merch wear that motherfucker.
You got Savage fenty drawers on bro wear them ships. Yeah,
I don't need to know that, you know.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I want to know.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I want to know, Clint we on tour, If we
on tour and I'm my ass fellas you're wearing the
Savage fifty draws. I want to know. Let the dogs out.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Well, don't do it on my set.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Let the dogs out, Let the dogs out. You you
got on the Savage, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Real start act love, shout the Savage.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Dog. I want you. I want you to show me
the draws. Dog. Pause, dog, I'm not pause. Show me
the draw don't don't pull down your pants. Just show
me the elastic waistband, the stretch of the breathable elastic
waistband that Savage x fenty has on all of their underwear.
As a matter of fact, the ones I'm wearing now
has a nice breathable elastic waistband that lets me feel
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good and lets my boys brief. You dig what I'm saying, right,
But yeah, man, and and you know, speaking of that,
real quick, we're gonna get that. Get to get to that.
The second, Will, you did the graphics, but you do
the graphics behind every tour. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
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When I told you I wanted to do the wanted
you to do the graphics behind rent do right. So
you know, y'all see the the you know when you
look at the podcast, you see the the artwork is
you know, the bear sitting down with the rints do
sign and he looked down and out. That's all Will,
That's all Will's I did.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
You know what I'm saying. But Will tell me your
creative process or tell the audience what your creative process is.
When I tell you I want something, and nine times
out of ten, right, like when I ask you to
do something, you knock it out in the first in
the first Like it's very rare that I have extra notes.
It's like small shit, like yo, can you just tweak this?
Tweak that? But for the most part, Will gets it right.
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One take, Jake, let's discuss this.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
I would also, I would have to first say it's
based off of communication. You're very good at communicating, thank
you what you're having. And then like when I especially
if I have a question, like when I ask you
like he like any particular colors you want to use,
Like what is it that you're going for as far
as this tours can like where is it sitting there?
So you help me create the visual in my head.
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And then one two. Something that you have that a
lot of people don't never really provide, especially in comedians,
is a great high quality.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Photo that part man, get you a fucking headshot. Man,
there's something get you, Get you a fucking high reds
as they.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Say, please look white back drop something fly to outfits
like yo, you you be surprised all your comedians out there,
how far you go with us being able to take
the background out and put you into a flyer. It
can make you look very dope. But it was again
it was communication with you explaining like what you're doing
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with the rent, like telling me what rent do is about.
It wasn't just like you said, it's not just about money.
It's not just about being able to pay the rent.
So in hearing that, it was like, okay, cool, now
let me think about where we're doing this, what we're
putting on here. It's like, okay, rents, do pink slip
post it first when you go up there. Eviction notice yep,
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not saying you getting evicted at the letter. That was
my first thing. It just like yo, that clock yep.
So then just thinking of that, then also going okay,
how do we visually get people to go, okay, let
me look at this, let me let me stop, take
a look at this. So now we go to coloring.
Now we're going to how this is gonna look where
the focal points are, what we're slapping on it. And
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even to like what you were telling me was like, hey,
can we have the rent doing like the eviction read letters?
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
And it's like cool, great, and then you know, now
we got those elements, we piece them together. We make
two or three or four marcups like you said normally
with you though, I can just hit one, make a
mind of detail, and we're good to go.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Lou let me ask you a question. When you first
saw the the graphics, what did you how did you
how did you feel? What did you say.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
For the rents?
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Dude? Yeah, you ain't showing me the graphics for the rents.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Due I did not post it in the chat.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
No, no, no, you only doing the close friends on
fail my.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Close friends on all your close friends. But I don't
see your close friends every day.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Damn, that's nasty work.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Ain't nasty work. It ain't nasty.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
But I didn't see it, though, but I'm sure it
looked amazing because I think the I think the first
thing I thought of with where you're talking about the
connection between the two of y'all was like, Yo, it's
all about a good brief. So I'm like, Yo, if
you get somebody a good brief, if they're able to listen,
they're able to execute what you're looking for. So you
know what I'm saying, Like, yeah, so I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
No, it's great, it's great. One of the things that
my favorite thing about, my favorite thing about the rents
through is.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I like the bear.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
The bear. The bear has evolved, right, like one thing
that I you know, you try to take inspiration from
different things, you know what I'm saying, So like something
as simple as Kanye's bear, we see multiple variations of
the same bear over and over and over and over again.
(24:05):
And you know, like with the college dropout, you know,
it's like, actually, is him literally sitting on the bench
dropped out of college? Right, Like when you really look
at it, right, like, it's him sitting on the bench
and he dropped out of He's like, damn, I dropped out.
Then the second bear in Late Registration is the Bears.
Odds are wide a lot wider. The bear is now
(24:26):
walking into school. It's dark, you know what I'm saying.
Like that means he's coming to school late, Like you
know what I'm saying. And then if you notice with
the Graduation Bear, the Bears totally different. The bear is
flying the Bears out of here. The bear which you know,
arguably you know, graduation. People don't realize that was the
album that put Kanye over the top route. Kanye was
a household name before that. He was a great guy,
(24:48):
great commedia, I mean, great rapper, blah blah blah blah blah.
But that album really solidified Kanye as being like I'm
that nigga, right, don't forget if you go back and
if we go back at history, you know what I'm saying, like,
don't forget, that's the same day him and fifty cent
with head to hat. Y'all forgot about that, now I
didn't get you know.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Yeah, him and fifty two Big go ahead and switch
the style up. And if they hain't to let him
hate and watch the money, yeah man.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
And he and also fifty fifty cent said, fifty cent said,
if Kanye outsells me, I'll stop rapping. Yeah, fifty cent
ain't been the same sense music wise.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Yay killed that man.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
And that's the that is the that is the epitome
of the rents due, you know what I'm saying. So,
you know, I wanted to continue to evolve the bear,
right like we tried. If you remember with my Edible
War off tour, you know, we tried another bear. It
didn't work. I'm gonna be honest. Did nobody really liked
the new bear? You know, as matter fad, we tried
two different bears. We tried the bear, just the bear
(25:47):
having the face, and then we tried the bear like
kind of like you know, it just didn't work. We
tried to reinvent the wheel, and it's like no, you know,
you asked me, said, I said, will let's just go
back to the old bear. Let's go back to the base.
Let's go back to what we know, go back to
the old bear. But this time this bear, you know,
he's he's struggling. You know what I'm saying, And I'm
not necessary No, I am struggling. I am struggling because
(26:11):
the rent is definitely due for that little nigga. You
know what I'm saying. The rent is definitely due for
that little nigga. Yeah, the rent is definitely doe for
that little nigga. And you know, I think you know
seeing that, man, it's just urgency, man, And I you know,
I'm like, you know, you know I'm talking about this
like you know, we can't. We can't not sell tickets,
man like Lowton took multiple l's with be Like, you
(26:35):
know how that should affect me? Bro, I'll give you.
I'll give you one show with particular that really pissed
me off. Bro Vancouver, Vancouver, Doug bro We talking about
this comedy club, hold three hundred people, seven people in
the audience if that, you know? And and then you
(26:56):
know me, I'm self conscious, loose, so I'm in the back.
I'm always asking, Yo, I'm people out there? How many
people out there? How many people out there? You learn
that from Yeah, and it's a it's a rainy day
and it's I mean, I'm talking pouring down fucking raining man. Bro.
I had added there. And what's worse is Bro that
ship is a long ride back. So we're driving from
(27:16):
Vancouver to Seattle. It's a beautiful drive, but it's a
long ride back to the fucking crip, back to the
Airbnb where we were staying at. I was hot, Bro,
I was hot, Bro. I didn't want to talk to nobody.
I ain't had nothing to say. And it's a car
ride as me, Janey, Lou, Steph and Mo. Yeah, and
(27:42):
and I just remember, and I mean, look, at least,
at least we was in a nice car. It was
an expedition and we was we was riding back in styling. Yeah,
but you know, but I just sh it can't happen, man,
it can't happen to get so this time, Like we
talk about being strategic, right, Like my goal before we
(28:04):
go on tours, I need to be at three hundred
thousand followers. And I think that's very attainable. You know
what I'm saying. I want to be you know, I'm
doing everything that I possibly can do with my power
to make sure that we achieve that. Not only do
I make sure that we achieve that, but also you know,
like just you know, just again strategy, right, Like, how
(28:26):
are we going to roll out this tour. You know
what I mean, Like, if you notice, I've just been
you know, I said, I said on my story a
couple of days ago, I said, the rents do is?
You know, is me being Hansole and Gretel. And if
anybody knows what the story with Hanson Gretel is, you
know the whole you know, it's an old folklore. But
the way that they found their way back home was
(28:48):
bread crumbs. I'm bread crumbing you and to letting you
know something big is coming. And I constantly every day
on threads nineteen eighty five, Anita Baker, the rent was due,
twenty twenty three. Victoria Monette, the rent was due nineteen
eighty seven. Michael Jackson, the rent was already due. But
(29:09):
that nigga he put belt the ass at that point.
You know what I'm saying, Like these are things that
like I'm just I'm just I'm just talking. Also, every
first of the month, starting on September first, I'm putting
out the little bear with the rents do, no context,
And I'm gonna ask all my friends to post the
same thing on their story, no context, just post rents due.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Yea, Hey, you know what you should do. You should
get like a big like poster, not poster, but like
a print. I remember like how they used to have
like the shape of like the football players standing right there.
You should get on the bear and just put it
in random places and take a picture of it. So like,
take the bear, get it printed out like like big,
like big size. Yeah, just sit that shit in random
(29:52):
places around the city and just take a picture.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Of it, like like a poster. Uh what did.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
They used to call them? Things? You rememer when you
walk in they had like the life size athlete.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Like a fat head. No, that was the gee on
the wall. But that was on the wall. I know,
like a cutout cut out? Yeah, yeah, how do you
get it?
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
You know what, that's a great fucking idea.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah, get a cut out of the bear, sit them
around like random places and just take a picture of
it and then post it.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
That's a great fucking idea. The thing is, though, like
the cutout. The problem is though, ain't the bear the
bears laying down though, or sitting down.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
They can do the cut out like that because it'll
it'll have a stand on the back of it, so
you could just stand it and they like.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I got to figure out how
to get a cut out.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Yeah, it's just it's just like yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Wrench duke, but it will be like again, it's still
a flat image.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Rent Is, Dude, the bear shouldn't be laying down.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
He laid out.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
He's down and out. He's down and out.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Yeah, standing up.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
That's why you don't do the graphics.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
He ain't seen it.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
He ain't seen it exactly. He got sEH.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
He gonna get it.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
That's like, yeah, man, but but back back to the
show Man's stupid. Uh but back to the show. No man,
I I I yeah, I'm a little I'm a little
I'm a little annoyed right now. You know what I'm saying, Like,
I'm not mad, but like you know what, I said
(31:28):
this on the podcast before you Know What Kojsa in
nineteen eighty seven. He said, you know, not bitter or mad,
just proving I'm bad. You want to hit give me
an hour plus a pen in a pad And I'm
not mad, but I just didn't like the way it went.
And it makes me get better though that ship like
you need that, you need that. I'm gonna be honest
(31:48):
with you, man, it's it's you know we're coming up
on on September. You know, the tour starts in February
and the specials not dropping until or the specials not
being recorded until April. This is training camp. This is
time to get this is This is training camp. And
the tour is the playoffs or the tour is the
regular season, and then the last couple of shows leading
(32:10):
up to the special is the playoffs. And then we
get to the fucking super Bowl. And I need and
I'm talking now, that's where I need to be. Twenty
twenty four Philadelphia Eagles, Belt to ass, belt to ass.
That's what I That's how I feel with the ald
belt the ass and tonight I didn't put belt the ass.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
I mean, it's how you see it?
Speaker 1 (32:35):
No, what I mean? No, I mean, Louke, do you
see it the same way I'll see it? Absolutely? You know, like,
how would you how would you say tonight win? And
you're a comedian too, Yeah, yes, I am. Here.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Here's the thing I would say about tonight, like it's
hard for me to being on the outside looking in,
meaning like I wasn't the one on stage.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
It's hard.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
I see it a little bit differently since I was
on the outside looking in. The audience definitely showed you love.
But I know it was a different level of love
than what some of the other comedians were getting and
what you would normally expect to get from from audiences.
I agree, in that particular room, in that particular setting,
I feel like it's just a different setting than if
(33:18):
you would have been in the main room, if you
would have been in another venue, in one of their
main rooms. I don't know, something, just something just like
welcome to downtown.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Y'all see me drunk. They just I jumped on Welcome
to Gotham. I'm glad I wasn't hear by myself because
I'll be here bitching dog. I would have called. I
would have called my wife and baby, could you stay
on the phone.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Stay on the phone. I get the call that part now,
like he like why the lights changed?
Speaker 3 (33:55):
They was in the parking lot yesterday letting off cannons
like fireworks. You say, some.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Yeah, oh that's what that was.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Okay, Okay, You're still live in the same building, right, yeah, yeah, But.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Yeah, I just think it's it's a different vibe, different environment,
you know what I'm saying. And so I think like
that necessarily wasn't a reflection of you. I just think
that there were other factors that kind of led up
to the result that you saw tonight.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
That's fair, and you know it just did I didn't.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
You know.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
I like pot potting after a show, right, because it
really gives you an honest answer of how I felt.
The week before last week, I was doing the show
with the upstairs down the street from here, right and Nigga.
I had to go after Leslie Jones and a lot
of people in the audience came to see her. But
I handled it right. As a matter of fact. Let
me give you a true story right real quick. Leslie,
(34:51):
if she ever sees this, right, she can confirm this,
so she comes in the joint. I never met Leslie, right,
So I'm you know, I've heard good stories about cool
peop blah blah blah blah blah, Like yo, what up?
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Less?
Speaker 1 (35:02):
You know what I mean? And mind you, I've seen
les on comed View when I was growing up, you
know what I mean? Like she to me, she you know,
like you know, like when I see somebody that I
used to watch on TV and we on the same show,
Like yeah, bro, it's good to see you. You know,
it's good to see you, know what I'm saying. So
we on the show. So she gets she walks in,
you know, you know, blah blah blah blah blah, y know,
it's good to meet you, blah blah blah. She's like,
(35:23):
what's the line up? I was like, yeah, man, person's
on stage now. But they got me going after you,
and she was like, like, gave me that like a
nigga please, right, And I just laughed it off. But
we both laughed because she knew and I knew exactly
what the fuck she meant, right, right, And in my mind,
I'm like, I'm offended, low key, right, And the reason
(35:43):
why I'm offended cause it's like, but she don't know
who the fuck you dealing with, you know what I'm saying,
And in a good, in a respectful way, you know,
like I'm not calling her a bitch, nothing like that.
I have nothing but the utmost respect for me. But
she disrespected me, and she knew she did, but she
wasn't trying to be disrespectful. She just knows the pecking
order of how this works, right, And yes, you know
what I mean, Like she started comedy and stand up.
(36:04):
She said in like eighty seven eighty eight. Well guess what, Yeah,
I was born in eighty seven eighty eight. I've only
been doing it nineteen or eighteen, nineteen years. She's been
doing it clearly almost forty years. You know what I'm saying.
And it's like, I get it right, But guess what,
I went after you. And not only did I go
after you, I got the reaction that I wanted. Yeah,
(36:25):
because I'm a professional at the end of the day,
and I'm good and I know what the fuck I'm
doing and I know what I could bring to the table.
So that's why it shows like these you know, I
tell you know, when you're listening, it's like, you know,
you like the thriller victory, but sometimes you hate, you know,
Comedians also feel the agony of defeat. I don't feel defeated,
but I'm like, I.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
Mean, but think about the cat in front of you
started doing crowdword.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
He definitely started doing.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Saying, So like, that's the type of setting I feel
like you do. You're trying to work through your new stuff.
I am working through new stuff, you know what I'm saying.
So you gotta you gotta give yourself grace and credit
for that too. It's not like you was up there
doing and like your normal say.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
I did well, I opened up with an old joke.
I want them to get on my side.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
But you are still trying to work. Like literally at
the top of the show, you was like, yo, I
have mad premises, but I don't have tags for him yet.
So you are literally doing. You're in the lab work.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
And that's where the comp the show was. If you
could do me a favorite lou real quick, because I
want to read something to the audience. If you go
on my book bag right, there's a small green notebook,
not the big one, but the small green notebook. Yeah,
I'm gonna show y'all, gonna tell you'all. So this is
this is the Rents Dude Joke Book. So this is
every year at the top of the year, I get
a brand new joke book and I work through. I
(37:39):
work through my stuff. I got a whole bunch of
notes written down, and I also write down the day
in the time in which that or the day in
the date to chronolize like exactly like where I'm, where I'm,
where my head is at, blah blah blah blah, blah right, So,
and I also write notes to myself. So Saturday, August
twenty third, you know, Hollywood improv Los Angeles, California, Clinton,
(38:00):
you know for a fact you're going on tour. Training
camp begins now formulating and making your set order and
now adding hard punches to your premises.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
And then it says open old joke about sending naked pictures.
And then I said, actually, no, fuck that you too comfortable.
You know what I'm saying. Last week, note Clint, you
have to follow Leslie Jones to Knight. You've asked for
the respect of your peers. This is how you get it.
You follow one of the greats to prove how you belong.
Tonight is now personal. Yeah you know what I'm saying
(38:30):
like that, That's where I'm at. Yeah, you know, and
and tonight Yeah, it's just you know, uh, you know, uh,
you know that's how you s went. That's exactly how
my set went. Right. But it wasn't. Again, it wasn't
like you know, what's crazy is.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Said when as bad as you That's that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
It's like, I know, like he being haled on this self.
But it's like I'm hearing all the stuff, and it's like, Okay,
you're trying out something new. You're in an audience like
how he just said it's not a typical audience, but
you still received laughter. Do you still have the crowd
with you? To crowd?
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Not like okay? To me too. Here's the thing, right,
there's two levels of bombing to me as a comedian, right,
bombing when I was like if I was if I
was four years in right, So we go back to
twenty eleven. I get that that reaction or that that
I killed okay, four years like you know fifteen years
(39:24):
ago I killed right today?
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Yeah, Like I'm gonna go home. My wife's gonna ask me,
how was the show? I'm like, cool, you know what
I mean? It was cool? Right, It's cool, right, But
I'm gonna get him next time.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
I mean, but we all go through that, like the
same thing with me with graphics, Like how you just
describe your show? Is me? Rents?
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Do?
Speaker 2 (39:45):
I don't? I don't want to make this CD cover
for this dude.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
CD cover is hilarious. Yeah, first of all, I heard.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
A CD cover CD cover, Well you know in my
mind that made it six years old.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
No, I get it.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
But again I know I can't. I can't pass this up.
I can't go oh man, I can't not take this
eighty dollars and that's all he got when normally I
charged way mold than that. Right, But it's like yo,
rints do so I gotta take it and I gotta
make it. I gotta do it right. But it's like, okay, cool,
I got him. That ain't what I wanted. It's cool,
(40:19):
but I know on this next one, when I get
this next client, hey, now I got a bigger payout,
I can't. Look.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Man, look man, you worth every penny. Will I'm gonna
be real with you, man, I'm not talking. I'm not
gonna tell everybody what you charged me the last one.
I ain't gonna lie.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
I was.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Prince, yeah, man, I was I was expected. Yeah, I
ain't gonna lie. I was expected like I was expected
like half that, right, I look, I'm like wait what
But then what I realized also what I get right,
it is worth the money, right you are essentially you know,
like you gotta look at it like this, I'm gonna
(40:55):
make way more money off of what you've done. So
why sit here and can play to nickeling down and
you're my friend, right, So at the end of the day,
it's like you know what I mean, and look, man,
you know you gotta pay it right.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
But it's also to wrap your mind around there too
with like you said, going super Bowl wise, because that's
what you'll also need with marketing, not just not just
boosting the post. But it's like yo, like even what
we just said with the cutout Bear, it's like, Yo,
this is the the all out.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
This is what I got Blitzen, I'm I'm I'm giving this,
I'm giving it. I'm I'm going to walk away from
the Rents dude and say I gave it my best shot,
you know. And Jeff Van Gundy says something very interesting
when it comes to basketball. He said, you want to
get your best players the best spots, the best shots
in their best spots. I know that I'm a great
(41:44):
I'm a great comedian, but I'm great at fucking marketing.
I'm great at fucking getting a good concept. And the
Rents do. I'm consistently saying it over and over and
over and over and over again, and tell it's blue
in the face. And when I'm ready to hit you
I'm going to smack the funk out you.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
Bottom line, Yeah, bottom line, but kill it from that
killer from pre production and then kill it in actual
production and then post production. Like because for you, especially
with this tour and especially like what you've told me
about it, it's like, this is a great blueprint for
when it's done. You can sell this to any that
I say.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Sale, you can license tell to anybody like, yo, hey,
this is what we did.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
This was the numbers. Yeah, hey, now give me half
a million dollars to do my next.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
One right exactly exactly, So yeah, man, and then is
due for me. It's just I'm hungry, So I'm hungry, man.
So you guys, I know we're about to wrap it up.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
Man.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
You know, thank you guys, because it's late so niggas
gotta get home, you know, and ship like that. But
you know, uh, you know, plug your stuff real quick,
you guys, and thank you guys for coming on.
Speaker 2 (42:51):
Man.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
You know, it's good to have your friends on who understand,
who actually work with you. Though these are my friends
who I actually work with. Louis on the road with me.
Will does the graphics. Will is the behind seventy five
percent of what you see.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
So you know this is good to actually get your
guy's perspective on the rents due because you're both a
part of it.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
Yeah, bro, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
So just plug your stuff, man, where they can find
you all that.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
Yeah, just find me on my only fans because the
rent is due. Yes right, I don't be showing a
dick nothing like that. I just eat chicken wings. Uh.
Two girls tell me they just like how I eat
chicken wings.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
And I just please plug your strand with hey, man,
find me on Instagram at lou G eighty three. That's
l o u g e e eight three.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
Man.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
I ain't got no chicken wings, none of that, but
come come fuck with me.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
All right.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
Thank y'all for listening, Thank y'all for laughing. This podcast
is over.
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