the Haiku hour

Althea johnsdon aka Divine Diva

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Queens.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
Just live up your dream. You just know that you're amazing.
You deserve everything Black queens and no matter your color, and.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Know that God made you with them.

Speaker 4 (00:09):
It's been unique like.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
No weather, my queens, and just know y'all the best.
Just have Confidence's beautiful. Don't settle for less. My queen's
life is truly your test. But you got it because
you're strong, So you don't have to stress. Yeah, you're
beautiful and you're strong s. Your light to the darkness
is gone. Know some knights yet a vibe in the wrong,

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but just know this is where you belong. A lot
of people tell you that you can't.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
But you can't.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Girl, Just want it for yourself. Don't need distressful a man.
No relationship goes up part of your plan, but don't
watch because you see it. It's gonna come around again. No,
it's hard to be patient, but it's gonna pay off.
Wait and don't lose yourself from chasing or save your
heart from breaking.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
But if you're ready can Unfication is key.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
You just need the truth to love and honesty, loyalty
and trust what you want. But honestly, just be ready whenever.
You'll never know when will be welcome.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Welcome, Welcome everybody.

Speaker 5 (01:13):
I go by the Queen and I want to welcome
everyone to the April edition of The High coup Hour.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Where's my hand clap? Today's guest.

Speaker 5 (01:30):
I would like to welcome the one and only out there,
divine Diva Johnson to the to the stage.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
How you doing want something? Be queen? I am doing
spectacular on this beautiful day.

Speaker 5 (01:42):
Okay, okay, okay, you like you got a guess to
your my right, your left.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
You'll know him, you don't know him? Okay? This a
good friend of mine's, comedian Nate Brown. How you doing,
mister Brown? Ground? Yeah, we gotta prayer for us before.

Speaker 4 (02:02):
We We need to pray for.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
We have a comedian pastor. I will look. Can you
please pray?

Speaker 5 (02:16):
I'm ready to laugh and give God the glory.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
He don't cuss. That's what you better get put out
the church. You heard about the cussing pastor. Yes, oh man.

Speaker 6 (02:28):
Want one life.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
You gotta prayer for us for real.

Speaker 4 (02:31):
Yeah, let us pray all right, Heaven, the Father, we
come before you, humble as we know how thanking you
for this opportunity for us to come together and share
and we're gonna share what we know about what we're doing.
Thank you for this opportunity, and we thank you in
the name of Jesus. Amen.

Speaker 6 (02:50):
Amen.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Wow, he's gonna take all the radio.

Speaker 6 (02:57):
Jesus.

Speaker 5 (03:00):
I'm not gonna be with you long. And you did
get so Divine Diva. Tell me about that name.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Divine Eva actually started off Delicious still. My original name
is Delicious, and I've had that name about almost twenty
years now, and I came up with it myself and
started doing comedy. Actually on the there, Oh, I used
to make people laugh my friends, and uh, one of
my girlfriend's son was like, I bet you won't get

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on stage a funny lady and make people laugh. I said,
I bet you I will. So I took that there,
and I went out to the Westport to the comedy
club and started doing open mics and kind of just
took off from there.

Speaker 5 (03:38):
Okay, okay, so take take me back to your childhood,
not giving too much, he said, no, no, okay, that's.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
At I got. I'm trying to get up to the
comedy piece because I.

Speaker 5 (03:48):
Know you said you did it on the there, but
did you always.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Know something was there? In regards to the funny question. Yeah,
I think I did. And I always got in trouble
at school for talking too much, and I just like
to make people laugh. It's just I don't know. I
guess it's just been a gift. I really didn't ever
think that I be on stas because sometimes I'm very
quiet and reserved. Person.

Speaker 5 (04:10):
Shut up, but you killed my transition?

Speaker 3 (04:17):
How you met this guy? How did you meet the
reverend one in church? I tell you that lost with me, Claire. Yeah, yeah, friend, Yeah,
shout out to don.

Speaker 5 (04:38):
We're gonna get him on her one day, most definitely.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
But yeah, I believe that's how we up, Claire know,
that was how we met.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
We met when I was I went down to the
stroll and I was trying to save some.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
Lord okay women, And that's how he met his wife.

Speaker 5 (05:04):
And how long have we've been married, reverend reverend with
the tea reverent?

Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yeah, but she's a good person. It's just some mother's life.

Speaker 5 (05:20):
Yeah, lord, the mama, I don't know you told you?

Speaker 4 (05:24):
Yeah, mama got twelve kids.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
No, my mama she got eight.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
Just no, no, let's breaks.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
So yeah, my childhood. Yeah, I think I kind of
knew I was different. Okay, shut up again.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
Different, different, It's good though it is saying to.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
People.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
But anyway, were you nervous when you first performed? You
said you did it on there? Still really, I don't
think that ever goes away. You remember your first joke? Uh,
don't do that to that man? Laugh.

Speaker 6 (06:14):
I'm sorry, that's all he blessed us with her.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
I don't actually remember my first joke, but yeah, it
was nervous. It's still nervous because you never know how
people gonna receive you, perceive you, and if they're gonna laugh,
I'm telling you this, when you can make them laugh,
it's like this kind of half for real, do you
read the audience when you're in the crowd, Like, how
how do you engage what you're gonna do and what
you're gonna say, because sometimes things change. You probably have

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it all in your head and then you go out there.
You dann ready for this?

Speaker 4 (06:49):
She can't read the book.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
That's a good one together, dynamic.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
Let me give you that one.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
I'm gonna give I'm gonna give them that one. But anyway, Yeah,
so I kind of do. And sometimes what i'll do,
I'll like, if I'm doing the show, I just kind
of mingle with people and not let them let them
know who.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
I am and stuff.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
You be surprised talking to me and with me. Yeah,
or sometimes I just yeah, I kind of scan the
audience and uh, I kind of stir everybody down, like
these motherfuckers.

Speaker 7 (07:30):
You know.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
That seriously though, But yeah, a lot of times I
do like to just mingle with people, and you know,
then see their reaction when you get up on the states,
like I said, just talking to her.

Speaker 7 (07:43):
Okay, so over over your years, how many how many
heckless you have to deal with?

Speaker 3 (07:48):
Just I gotta ask you it?

Speaker 5 (07:56):
Uh, you know, do they talk down or have some
side eye? Because you are a.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
Reverend by trade and a comedy like how does that look?
Does that go together? As the oil and water? Like?

Speaker 4 (08:08):
Well, I'm a gospel comedian, you know. Before I became
a gospel committee, I was a wild commedian. I was
called nasty neck and so but then that changed and
so now I'm a gospel commedity and it you know,

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it's it works out. Nobody looks down, you know, right
Because most of the work I do is in the church,
you know, I do pastor anniversaries, church anniversaries, all kinds
of things in the church, and so it's a it's
a clean set. So so no, you know, unless I'm

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out of town, right, So is it is it?

Speaker 7 (08:55):
Is it difficult to do clean sets? And uh no
regular no regular.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
Se Well not for me because I've never slipped in cuss,
I've never Well, it wasn't no slip for you.

Speaker 7 (09:09):
See in your case, I was talking about vice versa
when you were like, if you get invited to come
out and just do your set, your clean set, you know,
at a regular club.

Speaker 4 (09:19):
You know I've done. I don't do clubs anymore because
it's it's kind of hard.

Speaker 7 (09:29):
To do a club. I only saw you. I saw
you do it once and you are You're hilarious.

Speaker 6 (09:34):
Man, you know.

Speaker 4 (09:37):
But they invite me to do clubs here and there, right,
and I go and and and uh stay with with
my clean set.

Speaker 7 (09:46):
Yeah, it was a clean set. I believe it was
a terrific thing. Came through and did something.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
How long have you been doing comedy?

Speaker 4 (09:54):
Uh? I started doing comedy right after Moses died.

Speaker 7 (10:01):
Yeah, I wonder I was wondering what a big Sandals
joke came from?

Speaker 4 (10:06):
That was you?

Speaker 3 (10:07):
But Bush.

Speaker 4 (10:14):
I've been doing it a while.

Speaker 6 (10:17):
Wow, that's that's all right, that's.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
What's your motivation. What's your motivation?

Speaker 6 (10:21):
Try to get that.

Speaker 4 (10:22):
Making people laugh, it's it's it's a it's fun to
have fun and make people laugh. And then the key
to all that you make people laugh and then you
get paid.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yeah, that that's a good part. I work, got a
lot of issues. Seriously, you think it's a coping therapeutic thing.
It is. Yeah, for me. A lot of times my
jokes based on real life experiences, you know.

Speaker 4 (10:48):
Based on my family to know, some of the best jokes. Yeah,
because her family is dysfunction.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
And you know, like you said, people, really I'm trying
to have looked down on him because he's short.

Speaker 7 (11:02):
But other than that, I'm loving y'all already because y'all just.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
Have you guys done to.

Speaker 5 (11:12):
Set together back to back or on the stage together
or how that look?

Speaker 3 (11:17):
You don't want to, But.

Speaker 4 (11:19):
I'm always away from the away from the place. When
she's doing.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
He brings me up a lot of times, or brings
me down. But yeah, we've done the shows. Remember when
you introduced me. He told me walking around the church
and get my hand because I kept walking to the music.

Speaker 5 (11:45):
Talking about where you just fell down, and you know
your fellow friends just kind of helped you out with
the comedian like hey, don't give up, you know, or
just like just a funk because sometimes people amos gave.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
Not saying the word properly. She's funky, straight up. You
better find a lot missing showering.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
You better find a ride home clean comedian. Yeah, it
was one time I did a show girl and oh,
you know, you know when you have a band set
you know what I'm And I felt so horrible. Even
though he was like, girl, yours good, I was like,
I'm done. This ship is too much. I can't with myself.

(12:34):
I feel like this. Then somebody say, if you want
to do a show, pay your So Okay, I'm back,
I'm back, come back, I'm back. So are you guys
too hard on yourself when you do yourself? Because you
think about it.

Speaker 5 (12:46):
We on the outside looking at we probably think that's
it was the bomb, but you probably like.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
No, I couldn't said this. I could have been better.
How does that look? I am? Especially if I forget things,
because you do have tendency get up there, you're nervous
and all the focus on you, and you can forget
some stuff because you know, I've seen comedians you know,
use their phone or whatever papers, But I try not
to do that. Try to remember all that you've seen
the comedian use a phone. Yeah, I've seen her.

Speaker 7 (13:12):
To hear it may be like next joke as a
as a promoter, if you do, if you had an
open mic and you use your phone, that's fine. But
now I did have a young man i'd hire to
do a show, and I was sitting out there and
he pulled his phone out and start doing jokes off
his phone.

Speaker 6 (13:27):
I told him, come come, he man. I pulled them
off the stage.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
I said, how am I.

Speaker 6 (13:31):
Paying you to read off your phone?

Speaker 3 (13:33):
Right? You know what?

Speaker 7 (13:34):
I was having some problems this weekend. I said, well,
you need to go home take care of them problems.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
Now I gotta ask, what is a comedian? Is it best?

Speaker 5 (13:41):
I memorization like like, well.

Speaker 3 (13:44):
You know, I think each comedian has their own way
of doing a different way of delivering jokes. And some
comedians even come right off the top of the I'm
over fifty and sixty, I need some him. So sometime
we don't write jokes now, or I write a short sentence.

Speaker 4 (14:06):
Nothing but Dandriff's gonna come off the top of the
head and show.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
You took a nap for a minute, just a short.

Speaker 4 (14:21):
Gathering those thoughts all the time I come, you know,
off the top. I very seldom write stuff down. I
see things because there's something funny and everything, and so
so I write I see something that happened, and I'll

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work it up.

Speaker 3 (14:43):
H h.

Speaker 4 (14:44):
And it's good to go to a place early and
sit and watch because I get most of my material
for watching the people that are there, and I find
out names and when I when I hit that stage,
I start stand up. Barbara Johnson, you know. And you

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go to one of those church of Fast. These people
are really dressed in Wow. There's a couple of.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
Clubs that one we got all love back. Look, you
know you can you get jokes and try to you know,
I try to say a little current on what's happening.
Like you know, I just heard we got a new holiday.
You know, they gave you some new holiday. White people
they made got it. We got it, y'all said.

Speaker 5 (15:42):
I hate to say the case, but y'all, you know,
observe the parameter before you get there. But you're not
the type of communities that talk about people while they're
in the audience, right, Why not?

Speaker 3 (15:52):
I mean it's no, because it's like they're looking, they're
they're gauging.

Speaker 5 (15:58):
Their environment, and he's getting his material versus he's getting
up there saying something, baby, forget something.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
But look at you.

Speaker 7 (16:06):
You know, I'm you know, that's that's that's what they
mean by reading the crowd. Now, if you have somebody
that's sitting up front and they engaging with you, and
they might say something there and then I don't mean,
I don't mean like they started heckling. They just say
something more you or they'll have a strange laugh or something.
You know, you'll say, I'm scared to say something funny.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
Yeah, but yeah, but you know, you do have those
people that will try, you know, interrupt show and that
so far, I think I had one lady tried to
do that with me and was so crazy. He's got
drunk and said, you need to go home and get hooked.
Don't find this because don't nobody understand what the hell
you talking about. I don't like to.

Speaker 4 (16:56):
Want to be a part of the show. Of course,
like I said, I very seldom write stuff down and
come off the top of my head. And a lot
of time, I may do twenty minutes on this person
sitting here trying to be funny, but you better know
what you're doing.

Speaker 3 (17:14):
Yeah, okay, because you got some people out here that's funny.
They just don't have a nerve to get up on
that study.

Speaker 4 (17:19):
The key is. The key is is you got the
mic and the audience can't really hear them. They can
hear you because I had a guy once. I was
years ago at Club fifty four, the Blue Sell and
this guy was drunk and man, like I said, I did,
he kept interrupting. I did twenty minutes on him. Yeah

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and uh and like I told him, I said, man,
you funny, I said, but they can't hear you. I
got the bike, you idiot.

Speaker 8 (17:55):
It was.

Speaker 4 (17:56):
It was a lot of.

Speaker 6 (17:56):
Fun I had.

Speaker 7 (17:57):
I had a comedian that it was a young lady.

Speaker 6 (18:00):
She got on the stage.

Speaker 7 (18:01):
We was at the that Elks Club on Gymer Station Road,
and this white girl got up there and they just
bulled her and she started crying. And this one comedian,
I never get this one commedy came on stage and
told her.

Speaker 6 (18:16):
You got the mic. He said, you the loudest person
in the room.

Speaker 7 (18:20):
He said, I don't care what they say, as long
as you got that mic.

Speaker 6 (18:22):
You the loudest and strongest person.

Speaker 4 (18:24):
In this room.

Speaker 7 (18:25):
Da what I'm saying? He told her, He told he said,
you better take over the crowd. Don't let the crowd
take over you. You know. So, yeah, that was I
told her. I even told her, I said, see you
let the crowd get to you. When that lady that
was sitting there, boy, they rolled her so bad. I
felt sorry for her because.

Speaker 4 (18:40):
They every comedian came up there told.

Speaker 7 (18:47):
Not not the other female comedian. I'm talking about the
lady that was he girl.

Speaker 6 (18:52):
Yeah, boy, they rolled her.

Speaker 5 (18:58):
So how do y'all do when y'all y'all said it's
transition big? Are you guys big on transition? Or is
it all out of whack? Or you know what you're
gonna do?

Speaker 3 (19:06):
A B. C. D Well me personally, Yeah, I got
a poetry, do a lot of writing. I may not read,
but but I do a lot of writing the reader.
So yeah, all my jokes, I write them. I have
a sequence of how to tell them. And she still jokes.

(19:29):
They still they still joking.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
Come home with a pocket book full of she's still still.

Speaker 6 (19:44):
Thinking on that.

Speaker 4 (19:45):
Have you ever had anyone taking your material?

Speaker 8 (19:48):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (19:49):
I have. Do you feel about At first I was
pissed off and I let him know. But then I
thought I was like, I should be fired because that
means my jokes are good. Yeah, I wish because freestyle,
I wish.

Speaker 7 (20:05):
I wish other comedians would take that, that kind of
road that you took.

Speaker 6 (20:08):
You know, it's like, wow, I guess it must be
a funny joke.

Speaker 7 (20:11):
If they use boys, Let somebody use these comics jokes.

Speaker 6 (20:15):
Boy, they be on face.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
Entertainers. Yeah, it's like, should they be offended?

Speaker 5 (20:23):
It's almost like if you have a creation, you just
drive off that joke and make it your own.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
Probably, is that what you're thinking?

Speaker 1 (20:30):
They verbatim take the joke.

Speaker 3 (20:32):
No, I had a joke and I'm not even saying
the joke, but they took it and switched it around.
But it was your joke, you know, because people say,
do you that your joke? I said, yeah, but it's good.
It's cool they could use it.

Speaker 7 (20:45):
You know.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
I'm just gonna write some more.

Speaker 6 (20:47):
That's good.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
Actually, I'm writing a play right now. It was written.
I've got to just add some more stuff, so I've
got to copyright it. So I'm gonna get this play
out real soon, hope this summer. But yeah, first I
was this sounds every day.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
I just stole my joke.

Speaker 3 (21:03):
Then I was like, you know what, that's okay because
it must have been a good joke.

Speaker 6 (21:06):
Must have been a good joke.

Speaker 3 (21:07):
So you know, they're saying, I write some good materials.

Speaker 4 (21:10):
She had already stolen the stolen from.

Speaker 7 (21:17):
Nothing but the recycled recycling everybody that joke run around, Joe, yeah, around.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
And your wife.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
So anyway, don't that.

Speaker 6 (21:35):
So?

Speaker 4 (21:35):
How many?

Speaker 6 (21:36):
How many comedians here?

Speaker 7 (21:37):
That I mean, because I know you've probably worked with
some of the younger comedians your name a few of
them that I'm gonna see if I know any of them?

Speaker 3 (21:44):
Work with Jai know him? Uh? Of course the younger comedians.

Speaker 8 (21:51):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (21:53):
What's the girl name? Questions?

Speaker 6 (21:54):
Precious Jay?

Speaker 3 (21:56):
I've seen her? But who was that? And who else?
Of course, Davy, Dave and some you know Caasar comedians Rivers, Yeah,
Don Claire and Longhorn and all crackad.

Speaker 7 (22:18):
But don't y'all come up, you're messing with us because
this man called y'all crack.

Speaker 6 (22:22):
I know all, I'll go out.

Speaker 3 (22:27):
I was, but who else? Shoot, what's that dude's name?

Speaker 4 (22:36):
Crap?

Speaker 3 (22:36):
I can't think of it, but divine Biggs.

Speaker 7 (22:40):
If you worked with Marvin Davis and Marvin Davis and
really see will.

Speaker 3 (22:46):
See but you know I've seen him, but it's another can.

Speaker 4 (22:51):
I can't think of his name music.

Speaker 5 (22:52):
But yeah, I'm like time you say, you guys got
to have confidence when you get on that stage, because
they're not.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
They'll see it.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
And they'll break you.

Speaker 7 (23:01):
You have to have always said that. They say that
singing and poetry and stuff like that. Being a comedian
is probably one of the hardest entertainment businesses to get into.

Speaker 6 (23:11):
Because you gotta be have a strong.

Speaker 7 (23:16):
Shield over you to get up there and do that,
because you go have days when you go up and
it don't and it's not your best, you know, and
you go have days when people.

Speaker 4 (23:25):
Might boo you, you know, but.

Speaker 6 (23:27):
You gotta you gotta be if that's.

Speaker 7 (23:29):
What you really want to do, you gotta look actually
look forward to those days because you're supposed to grow
from them.

Speaker 4 (23:47):
It was it was, it was I know for some company,
it was like a mixture show. More white people than
than blacks. But out they didn't boom me. But I
was funny in the beginning. But then I died, and

(24:09):
that's a hell of a death.

Speaker 6 (24:13):
I was gonna ask, how y'all hand.

Speaker 4 (24:17):
So the guy who hired me, he said, he pulled
me out, he said, and got me off that stage.
That's the only time I was been so happy to
get out of it, just to get off the stage.
Most of the time, the people said, get that tomatoes

(24:40):
burning some booty.

Speaker 3 (24:42):
So how do y'all hone your craft?

Speaker 5 (24:44):
If you were fifteen years old and now you're fifty
that gap right there, how did you guys get to
that perfection letter A level? Well, I would say perfection,
but you know you guys have to grow but a
dash period, I hope you.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
One thing I had to learn is to be myself. Okay.
You know other people will try to tell you how
to be. Well, you shouldn't cash, you shouldn't say this,
and this, you can.

Speaker 9 (25:10):
That's my stupid days delicious, But but yeah, you gotta
you got If you don't learn nothing else, you gotta
learn to be for you or who God made you
to be, Because you try to.

Speaker 3 (25:24):
Be somebody else doing comedy, it's not gonna work out,
you know.

Speaker 5 (25:28):
So can you prepare to be a comedian like public
speaking or what do you need to do the poll?

Speaker 3 (25:36):
You know, I don't know. You know, they have classes,
but I've heard comedians say either you have it or
you don't. Yeah, and you might be able to prepare,
but yeah, I don't know. It's I think it's something
that you gotta have a love to do for real
yourself out.

Speaker 4 (25:55):
Yeah, you know, starting in great school, you know, your
little clown class class clown through high school, you always
added up, you know when and when I was coming up,
they used to whoop you. It's cool. I used to
whoop every day. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (26:15):
I knew the gym cheats real well too.

Speaker 4 (26:17):
Yeah. I started wearing two pants so smart man. Yeah,
but it's it's really natural. You've got it though.

Speaker 6 (26:33):
You don't, okay.

Speaker 3 (26:35):
Yeah, And like I said, I just kind of stumbled
over on it, like ship. I didn't know it was
gonna be funny. I mean I thought of you know,
I like make people laugh, like I never thought about
actually getting on stage and doing it until I got
that there. You know. Well, Yeah, like I said, you
gotta you gotta have that confidence and because yeah, people

(26:56):
pick up on that. You got people, and you gotta
learn everybody ain't gonna like it. That's even in life period.

Speaker 6 (27:07):
I like.

Speaker 3 (27:09):
Number my God loves me, hallo.

Speaker 4 (27:17):
God, Yeah you gotta God loan guys on your sides.
You already, you're.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
All right because everybody ain't gonna like you. And some
people in that audience looking for you to pay, you know,
just because they ain't got nothing else better do you know.
It's a few of them, But the majority of people
want to laugh, especially nowadays there's so much going on.
We need more laughter. We need to try to make
people feel better, if only for that moment and give

(27:45):
them something to go.

Speaker 4 (27:46):
I hosted. I hosted a lot of shows because I
was able to come off the top with some stuff
kind of like being a comedian. People say, yeah, you
all to started doing comedy h H and and and

(28:07):
I was. I was in the military. I was hosted show.
Even the the Rednecks got me the host It's the
Country Western show. Come on, Nate host this showful because
I would come off the top with some off the
walls stuff and so they said wow. And so that's

(28:30):
like I said you got it or you don't.

Speaker 6 (28:32):
Right, question for both of you.

Speaker 7 (28:35):
Besides Saint Louis, what's some other cities that y'all went
and did some working well?

Speaker 3 (28:40):
See we didn't show a Springfield, New york.

Speaker 4 (28:45):
Field, Missouri. Yeah, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
And I did uh. I did something in California, clus
I did really good in New York. I did really good.
And you know, but sometimes I don't know. With female comedians,
I think it's a little different. Sometimes it can be
a little harder, especially if you curse say certain things.
But you know it's coming out more and more. Shout

(29:13):
out to Lady ricause she's the hottest comedian. Like her,
I've got to show with her. But for me personally,
I know I need to push myself more, you know,
because I don't because, like I said, if I have plus,
I work. I'm a nurse, work and I'm a nurse,

(29:34):
take care of special handicapped kids, love the kids, love
the kids. I know a nurse and.

Speaker 4 (29:45):
I have special special needs, show special needs.

Speaker 7 (29:58):
So if you had to pick a well known comment
to that, you would probably really that you really want
to work with or would have the opportunity to work.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
Hmm. You know what, Sherry Shepherd, good choice.

Speaker 7 (30:19):
I want to know you either, I know the Shepherds
that got the she I don't know Sherri Shepherd.

Speaker 4 (30:29):
Since since I've been doing gospel clowity, I've been somewhat limited.
And you know, because because I don't cuss no more,
no more. I don't cuss no more. You ain't never
had a little slip, No, never, not one, because when
I was cussing, I was cussing. You did all your cussing.

(30:52):
I used to. I used to hit the stage. I
used to hit the stage and talk for a half
hour and never use this or that or deal was uh.
And then at one time they did used to call
me the cussing preacher, that little preacher be cussing, don't you.

Speaker 3 (31:12):
Know?

Speaker 4 (31:12):
I don't. I don't know, so I don't see everything.
Was she be out there, She in the streets.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
She in the streets.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
You know, I'm a good Christian woman.

Speaker 4 (31:22):
You know she's a street walker and God still love him.
She was, she was in the vibe. The was stormer.

Speaker 8 (31:37):
But Jesus, he who is without Yeah, yeah, this is
Mary Magdalene.

Speaker 5 (31:49):
Have you ever had an audience member or fan that stuff,
what you threw and through. Like he said, he used
to be the cussing pass and now he's turned over
a different leaf. He's more gospel oriented. Have you asked
someone that follow you straight through your career?

Speaker 6 (32:04):
Hm?

Speaker 4 (32:04):
Hm hm them two men, them two men and too
mean to mean that you had that relationships they followed.

Speaker 3 (32:20):
I gotta give out shout out to Die Claik doc.
I love don Claire Claire class man.

Speaker 6 (32:32):
I'm a button in the something.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
Yeah, stop stop, stop, stop what we here with?

Speaker 4 (32:41):
These people don't even know what kind of equipment they have.

Speaker 7 (32:44):
That's the first time on that side of the table.
That's the first time on that side of the table.

Speaker 4 (32:51):
Break pushing, keep pushing, pushing the mom cloud, keep pushing them.

Speaker 3 (33:00):
So how far you how far you guys want to go?
And being a comedian and a comedian.

Speaker 4 (33:05):
Hm hm.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
That's an interesting question.

Speaker 4 (33:11):
I'd like to become naturally.

Speaker 3 (33:15):
I want to be on Sheriff Shepherd's show. Sherry Shepherd.

Speaker 4 (33:22):
You know Wendy Williams.

Speaker 6 (33:23):
Yeah, yeah, she took over her show. Okay, there you go.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
Sheriff Shepherd is funny though.

Speaker 4 (33:34):
She sings.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
What is it about Sheriff that you I don't know.
She sings like real down home and somebody can really
hang out la. And you know, she doesn't seem like
she's got that uh like you said, like that status
of being better than everybody. She just sings like down
to earth person. And I think I can probably hang
out with, you know.

Speaker 4 (33:58):
What, like her. In fact, you can give a rest.

Speaker 3 (34:08):
Oh lord, I could, But I haven't. You think it slick,
don't you?

Speaker 4 (34:15):
Oil? So?

Speaker 7 (34:17):
I know you you you've been doing a lot of problems,
do a lot of shows in in St.

Speaker 4 (34:21):
Louis.

Speaker 7 (34:21):
So if you ever had a problem with you know,
how you work with certain producers or or any you know,
when they when they put you on the show, they
don't really produce the show and the way that you
think it should go.

Speaker 6 (34:34):
Or I didn't want to pay you what you.

Speaker 7 (34:38):
Well, that's what I wanted to what you think you
should be paid?

Speaker 2 (34:43):
Right?

Speaker 3 (34:45):
One time I did the show when the person thought
I didn't do long enough and it's like I didn't
yet you didn't want to pay me. I'm like, we're
gonna have problems, you know, But no, I haven't ran
into a lot and a lot of issues a lot
of times, you know, people will try to pay you
a little nothing or girl, come to an open micright,

(35:06):
I don't work for free, no more about fifteen years.
But that stuff should be discussed before you bless the mic.

Speaker 7 (35:13):
Correct.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
Yeah, but most sometimes people can't and I under saying that,
you know, because people don't have the money. But sometimes
I don't mind doing it for free, just getting to work,
you know, so you know, stay, get a little work
in and keep yourself current and going.

Speaker 7 (35:27):
But yeah, I feel that it's just all right. It's
all right to to do something pro bono, but don't
pro bone on me every time you see it.

Speaker 3 (35:39):
Every time every time I know who to get.

Speaker 4 (35:43):
No, no, I'm not the Hey, I know who to get.

Speaker 6 (35:46):
God, you canceled out.

Speaker 4 (35:48):
Don't run into that anymore. Well, actually, when I was
doing the clubs, yeah, they want you to come in
and give you a little nothing and.

Speaker 6 (36:02):
For drink and some chicken. Yeah you.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
Have to get home.

Speaker 4 (36:08):
Yeah we got ten wings for you, give you ten dollars.

Speaker 6 (36:14):
A shot of henders.

Speaker 4 (36:15):
But you know, doing anniversary church church, sometimes you're on
Baptist preachers. They real cheap mm hmmm. They don't want
to pay what you ask.

Speaker 3 (36:28):
You know.

Speaker 4 (36:29):
But when you go and do you know, uh, I
get next to him, though what you charge is to
I said, I'll tell you what, give me what you
think of word? And I messed up with that because

(36:51):
because then, because that's what he told me, I'm gonna
get you. I'm gonna give you what you work all.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
Hell, no, you're.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
Gonna give me some money?

Speaker 4 (37:00):
You coking me?

Speaker 5 (37:03):
So how do I tally? I guess what you're gonna
ask for money wise? But is it the time you've
been doing it for thirty years, twenty years? Or how
do you say this is what I want for other
night or for a hour, or how does that look? Well,
the more I've been doing it, I'm starting now to

(37:23):
increase you know what I you know, I asked for
price wise or whatever and set a price for.

Speaker 3 (37:29):
This many minutes and this many minutes. Okay, But since
I'm getting more confident with my comedy and you know,
so now, yes, it's getting there a little better. And
now he was fortunately to be in the days when
Safford was around. See I was even doing comedy. That
was a great place, you know, yeah, but it was Yeah,

(37:49):
So that's kind of how I do it now now
I'll ask.

Speaker 4 (37:57):
I have a price, and that's what I tell you.
And I hate to walk away. I hate to leave
money on tail. But see a lot of times people say,
well just what we're gonna get it? No, and ain't
what you're gonna give me. You ain't gonna give me nothing,
because I ain't gonna be there. I gotta you know,

(38:19):
I gotta price. You know, I was up undercutting myself
for a lot, said well, we're gonna give you X
amount dot come do. No, you're gonna give me. You're
gonna give me what.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
I asked for.

Speaker 4 (38:31):
You know, uh, diva here, you know, cause I put
several shows together, promoted them, and she wanted to charge
ten dollars for the ticket. I think we charge and
tickets gonna call twenty. You know, are you worth it?

(38:52):
You know? You gotta show people you worth that and more? Yeah,
you know, taking no, you know, but then her.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
Sometimes you got to realized Saint Louis is not gonna
if they don't know you, right, You don't want to
go to fifty dollars, you go too high. But you
want to sell tickets?

Speaker 6 (39:11):
Did you say fort wow?

Speaker 4 (39:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (39:16):
I was at one time promoting shows and.

Speaker 3 (39:21):
You know.

Speaker 7 (39:22):
I mean, I started promoting shows when Precious Jay and
perty B and Tommy Danger Feeling, all of them was
first getting started. And I started promoting shows. And it
was a couple of guys. I ain't gonna mention their
name because they probably still mad at me because I
told him this, but they they was pretty good comedians.
But they came at me and asked me for a

(39:47):
certain amount of money. And I ain't gonna say it
slipped out. I meant, what the hell I said? I
told him, you you coming at me asking for Richard
Prior money, and you're telling Pee we hear and Joe
you know, and and and they they they man, I
ain't never seen two in them, and so pissed off.

Speaker 6 (40:01):
You know, they tried to black ball me, but I
don't I don't know.

Speaker 7 (40:06):
That she went through one end and out the other now,
because you wasn't gonna stop me from doing what I'm doing.
Because you came up and told me you wanted three
hundred dollars to do a half an hour set?

Speaker 6 (40:15):
No one is one? Is you not that funny? I
don't think you got thirty minutes?

Speaker 3 (40:19):
You know, I was.

Speaker 6 (40:20):
I asked you to do fifteen. You want to be there,
You want to be the headline, and you ain't.

Speaker 4 (40:26):
You ain't even got that.

Speaker 7 (40:27):
But you know, because when you be around them and
you see they acts, you know, and they come to
the open mics and you see the acts, and a
lot of them they just come in and just practice
something just so they can get their stage presence up,
you know, get that that their confidence that they need.
They don't come in there and do the stuff. They
they real sets, you know what I'm saying. But they'll
come in there and practice their approach, you know how

(40:48):
they go do the audience. And then you got those
that come to open mics. I had one guy tell
me you want to get paid for doing open mic?
I said, well, I'm not hiring people to do open mic.
It's an open mics key word openly. You know, it's
a it's it's a hard feel being a producer, but
it's even harder feel being.

Speaker 6 (41:07):
An artist, you know. And if you can't and then
if you can't.

Speaker 7 (41:10):
Meet the right the right producer to produce your show,
it's gonna be some conflict somewhere or another, you know.
But you one one thing that I that I tell
a lot of people is one. You gotta pay these artists, okay,
and especially if they've been doing it long enough and
then earned that that that you know.

Speaker 6 (41:28):
That Monica that they need to get paid for their talent.
You need to pay them.

Speaker 7 (41:31):
But you knew guys coming up. Y'all need to stay
off face. But talking about who go book me?

Speaker 6 (41:37):
Who go book me?

Speaker 7 (41:39):
You got on the stage and did one open mic.
If somebody told you you was funny. Now you're trying to.

Speaker 3 (41:44):
Get paid, it's kind of your dues. We pay our dues.

Speaker 4 (41:50):
We go.

Speaker 3 (42:00):
I feel like I paid some dudes. You know, you
gotta take some dude. And it's not an open night
thing that happens. You know, it's a work in progress.

Speaker 6 (42:09):
It always is.

Speaker 7 (42:09):
And you can't get you can't get angry, and you
can't get upset, especially if you're just starting to work.

Speaker 6 (42:16):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 7 (42:17):
If somebody, if you, if somebody see you on stage
and you're just starting to work your craft and say,
you know what, I like to give you a shot
to open up for somebody, don't tell them you want three.

Speaker 6 (42:26):
Hundred dollars.

Speaker 7 (42:29):
Started call this man just gave you an olive branch
to get on the stage to show people what you're doing.

Speaker 6 (42:35):
And the first thing came out your off is I
want three hundred dollars. Well you're gonna be. You will
be in the lonely oh at society.

Speaker 3 (42:42):
Yeah, you gotta dudes, call you guys. Balance being on
the stage and keeping up with the time.

Speaker 5 (42:47):
So if they say you got ten minutes, is it
like a clock somewhere, y'all gotta watch like, how do
you you're set in.

Speaker 1 (42:53):
A timely manner?

Speaker 3 (42:54):
Well, sometimes people have a light in my head.

Speaker 4 (43:00):
I'll kill you.

Speaker 3 (43:01):
Yeah, yeah, and I never I never look at you.

Speaker 6 (43:05):
I think that to me.

Speaker 4 (43:06):
I look at your watch if you got one, Yeah,
you know, just like you old Baptist preacher. You know
he come and lay his watch, lay his watch on
the poldic, and he started preaching. You know, he gonna
you know, Methodist preachers they preach for fifteen to twenty minutes,
Presbyterians half hour. Baptist preacher, he gonna preach for an

(43:28):
hour and look at his watch and keep on preaching
for another Yeah, for another twenty. I'm gonna tell you this,
and I'm gonna go to my seat. Twenty hours later,
I thought you were going to your seat play and
then they say, well what they say say, I'm gonna

(43:49):
cut across the field. Yeah, half hour?

Speaker 6 (43:53):
Lady said, how long is that feel?

Speaker 10 (43:55):
You're coming?

Speaker 4 (44:00):
You LOI.

Speaker 3 (44:04):
A lot of times when I do, I practice my
routine at home and time myself.

Speaker 6 (44:08):
Yeah. Yeah, that's that's that's the best.

Speaker 3 (44:10):
One thing. Well me personally, I don't want to be
anna stay so long where people you lose their interest,
right right, I know when to get off. You're talking like,
you can do that.

Speaker 4 (44:25):
You can take people.

Speaker 3 (44:28):
Always interested.

Speaker 6 (44:30):
You can do that.

Speaker 3 (44:32):
Is very important. Yeah, it really is. You know, it's
very important. You gotta like you say, you know your
audience and white audience different for black audience, because.

Speaker 4 (44:44):
Do it within your time. When I pull the show
together and promote it is we're gonna be that for
two almost two hours, one forty five get I normally
close it out so I know how much time we
got left.

Speaker 6 (45:01):
That is that is that is so hard to do.
That is so hard to do because people will be
on CP time. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (45:07):
People, you know, people get bored.

Speaker 6 (45:09):
Yeah. And the one thing, the one people that they to.

Speaker 7 (45:12):
Come get boy, the one thing, the one thing that
I've always hated. And I want to want to ask
y'all was how y'all felt about it? Is if I
if I hire you to do a show, I don't
I expect you to to at least promote the show,
to put some booties in the seats, you know what
I'm saying. But I wouldn't put all that pressure on
my artists. But I feel some kind of way if

(45:34):
you come in and you have to perform to an
empty room, you know what I'm saying, I feel some
kind of win. And I think the artists you feel
the same way that I do, Like, what the hell.

Speaker 4 (45:43):
Do we do wrong? That? Ain't nobody here?

Speaker 7 (45:45):
Right?

Speaker 4 (45:46):
You have to the the artist has to promote themselves
by bringing our family and friend at least bring your family.

Speaker 3 (45:57):
We've sold tickets, you know. You know, yeah, yeah, trying
to help.

Speaker 7 (46:03):
Is working Working with what I'm working with, some of
these artists up in Saint Louis, I found that so
hard to do.

Speaker 4 (46:09):
And it seems as though that when I was working,
when they had no.

Speaker 7 (46:12):
Problem with, you know, performing in front of the empty seats.
You know, I asked one guy, I said, don't they
bother you?

Speaker 8 (46:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (46:20):
No, long as I'm getting paid, right, you know what
I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (46:23):
I'm like, I said, that's I guess you guess what you.

Speaker 4 (46:25):
Just did for me. I do not to hire you
no more.

Speaker 6 (46:29):
You know, God you told me I don't care as
long as I'm getting paid.

Speaker 7 (46:32):
I had to sit back and say, well, damn, scratch
him off the list, right, use come back to you.

Speaker 3 (46:38):
Is there a message in your when you perform?

Speaker 5 (46:42):
Like are you trying to enlighten or you know, like
with Dave Chappelle and I'm not conferring when he when
he does his comedy, he kind of put a little
subliminal message in there to educate and enlightened. Because Rich
Brodd done the same thing. Because when you're straight and
you give them the straight business and try to educate them,
they want to try to censor you and stuff like right,
like because you say you're real.

Speaker 1 (47:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:04):
A lot oftimes, like I said, you know, I try
to come up with jokes that relate to people in
general and life, especially women.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
So you know, I do a lot of menopause.

Speaker 4 (47:18):
Educate women too. They be a little too high with
what they sell it, yeah, yeah, what they sell.

Speaker 3 (47:32):
Yeah, don't don't please please don't. Don't that's your wife please.

Speaker 6 (47:42):
Also wife, hold on pastor what they're selling.

Speaker 3 (47:51):
Collection.

Speaker 4 (47:55):
But you know, I do a lot of what's current
to what's on the news. You know, we we we
uh deal with what's on the news a lot. You know,
something popping on all fold channels and m mess NBC.

Speaker 3 (48:15):
You know, wow.

Speaker 4 (48:16):
So so you try to do something around it, you know,
because it's something funny and everything you met at the funeral,
you know it's something funny.

Speaker 5 (48:29):
Yeah, people don't understand assignment in the funeral to be
like I want everyone to wear pink because you don't
work the love pink.

Speaker 3 (48:38):
You go to the funeral, right, you barely see pink.
But that that you know, that's that's so funny because
I wrote a joke kind of about funerals like that
because I was like, my cousins they got really pissed
to me because I didn't make you know, their mother's
funeral and stuff. And I was like, well, why y'all mad?
Did she ask about me? Yeah? Did she ask about me?

Speaker 4 (49:04):
Because I think I want film? And he loved his glasses,
his shades and they had put a pair on it.
Who did that? You think you can see everybody again, right, yeah,

(49:26):
why help put them expecially glasses.

Speaker 3 (49:29):
You know, somebody gonna take them glasses off. M Yeah,
but that's for sure.

Speaker 4 (49:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (49:34):
You try to, you know, like I said, find you
know a little funny situations that people are gonna relate
to and stuff. And for me, like I said, I
try to do jokes for women that they can relate to,
especially about the menopause, and that's what make you love them.

Speaker 4 (49:50):
Yeah, yeah, thank you because I worked with one with
one we I told her, I said, we can cool
it room. He wanted us to cut the arrow. We
cool this room up, but we can't cool your mental pauls.

Speaker 3 (50:08):
Now that poll it can be thirty degrees, you'll still
break out sweat like R Kelly in court. You know.
Oh yeah, there you go, yes sweat. So did I

(50:29):
understand you are Parker talk to me right? Yeah?

Speaker 7 (50:34):
You know?

Speaker 6 (50:34):
She goa ask you to give us a reading.

Speaker 1 (50:37):
I hope.

Speaker 3 (50:40):
Okay, I wrote this, but probably about it's probably been
fifteen years ago. It's called to dining on self, be true,
and it's expresses a lot of who I am. Like comedy,
you know, and for a while I just wrote a
lot of poems and that nobody read them because you
know it's you know, poetry is so intimate a lot
of times that's letting people into your world. But my

(51:01):
sister kind of convinced me. And my sister is a publisher,
Alice Johnsonmili Words Publishing, shout out. So I just you know,
I thought of some put it together, and she put together.
But yeah, I read the one. This is a title
to the title the book read. I did ask her
to read just because you can't read it and got

(51:23):
a book. Don't hate, but where's your book at? Say
I don't give a shout out to my kids and
my grandkids. Shout out to the family, and I come

(51:45):
and my mom, my, sisters and brothers and my one grandson.
Y'all everybody know l A Foes that's my grandson. Give
a shout out to l A. Right. So this poem
is called to Dine on selfie truth title the book.
We have but one life to live, so think before
you do and remember along the way to dine on
self be true. We can hide the truth from others

(52:08):
in seecret closets and dark places, never letting the truth
show through the mask. One on our faces, but inside
your soul the window you look through. You can fool others,
but you can't fool you. And remember along the way
to dine on self be true.

Speaker 5 (52:26):
Okay, okay, can we give her a cloud? I do
want to, you know the second that poem was very serious,
It was very self reflecting. So as a comedian, how

(52:49):
can we balance the two? Like, how do we know
when it takes you serious?

Speaker 1 (52:53):
Well, you're us most schizophrenics. Number I took my medication.

Speaker 3 (52:59):
I'm trying it up. But yeah, I see, I don't know.

Speaker 6 (53:07):
For me.

Speaker 3 (53:07):
I think sometimes comedians and we're on the verge of
a bit crazy, a little bit in sane, and you know,
the two meets.

Speaker 4 (53:17):
You comedian, it's all it's all serious, but it's all funny. Now,
people know when the pool the seriousness, you know, because

(53:37):
you you you dealing, like I said, a lot of time,
you're dealing with what's going on today in the news,
dealing with this kind of stuff and a lot of
stuff just happened and this serious just like we talk
about we talk about these food speed running lights running stop.

(53:58):
Everybody see that and that's a serious thing, but we
put it in a funny story. Right, you know about
going down, and so people have to know and they do.
I believe when you pull the seriousness out of what

(54:18):
you just see and still laugh and still laugh. Called
we say things that are funny, but it's serious as cancer,
you know, in the third stage.

Speaker 3 (54:29):
But I think our job as comedians is to kind of,
like you said, take the serious and help people find
something humorous, you know, to make themselves feel a little
better about things. And yeah, yeah, of course, because you know, yeah,
that's a lot of serious stuff, but we all need
that laughter. Even nobody says, laughters, you ought to know

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this one. It's good.

Speaker 4 (55:00):
What you know, but you know, you don't, you know,
y'all just like the world always come there talking about
the vibele, say show me that in the vibe.

Speaker 3 (55:16):
Yeah, genus, but not just good for the soul.

Speaker 6 (55:20):
And that's that's true, it really is.

Speaker 7 (55:22):
But you just mentioned something. Now, I swear I want
to ask a pastor this somebody as well, ask you
where where in the in the Bible doing say that
tides have.

Speaker 6 (55:31):
To be money?

Speaker 4 (55:35):
Don't you don't want to know money?

Speaker 6 (55:37):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (55:38):
It never said it's say ten percent of what alf
you got?

Speaker 6 (55:43):
Okay, ten percent.

Speaker 4 (55:45):
Of your income.

Speaker 3 (55:47):
It might be you might have got.

Speaker 4 (55:48):
Ten chickens, but it never said income. That's what they're
talking about.

Speaker 6 (55:54):
That's the income, right right.

Speaker 4 (55:58):
You don't say income, but ten percent of your blessing,
of your fruits. Ten percent. And like I said, don't
have to be money because you may not work for money,
right right, get paid in chicken feathers.

Speaker 7 (56:14):
Hey, I believe well, I did get have one passion
to get mad at me because he was. He told
me I wasn't giving any tithes. I said, I tired
every time I walked through the door because I'm giving.

Speaker 4 (56:22):
You my time.

Speaker 7 (56:23):
Yeah, you need to give I'm always here, right, I'm
always here, and it ain't always money.

Speaker 6 (56:32):
It ain't always.

Speaker 4 (56:33):
You need to give ten percent of that money too.
You you got a job, you're making this money.

Speaker 3 (56:39):
And.

Speaker 4 (56:41):
You need to give ten percent. You need to keep
the church running. That's what everybody think. Tithes go to
the preacher lest me stealing, which most of you, no, no, no,
preachers ain't steal because most preachers, a lot of preacher
can't even get to the money. The decons and the

(57:02):
trustees was all right, we got a deacon and trustee
of my church, and I told him, I told him,
went on on my sick bed, about to get up
out of here, called both of them in. Put one

(57:22):
on my left and one on my right, because I'm
going to die just like Jesus in the middle of
two thieves. Yeah, but you know, I disagree that that
because a lot of get to the money, and that's

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that's the way it should be.

Speaker 3 (57:45):
You know.

Speaker 4 (57:46):
The pastor job is to preach and teach, preach and teach.

Speaker 7 (57:51):
So what do you think about what do you think
about the ones that think they need a plane to
to to and all that to hell?

Speaker 6 (57:57):
I think, okay, that's all that's that's all.

Speaker 4 (58:00):
That's they're gonna They're gonna.

Speaker 10 (58:09):
They're gonna gas that playing up and have it sitting
on the runway when they get down, they're gonna have.

Speaker 11 (58:17):
You know, I'm not judging.

Speaker 4 (58:19):
I'm predicted.

Speaker 7 (58:21):
That's what my man said. That's not a prediction. That's
a spoiler. That's a spoiler because it's it's you know.
But but I agree because trust me. But I do
believe there's a high power and I don't I don't
like people that throw him on you. You know what
I'm saying because it's a choice. If you want to
do it, I can. I can introduce you, I can

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introduce something to you, but I'm not going I'm not
gonna force religion on nobody.

Speaker 6 (58:48):
And I don't like you know.

Speaker 7 (58:49):
I don't like those those people that grew up in
the streets and then when they get a certain age,
they get hold of and down and start looking down
on people that's doing the same thing that you were doing.

Speaker 6 (58:58):
You out in the street, You're a hippocrite.

Speaker 3 (59:01):
That's me.

Speaker 4 (59:04):
I ain't looking down. I grew up in the street.
I was raised by the pimp.

Speaker 10 (59:13):
Come on now, slamming Cadillac, dose and pipping hole, and
everybody always talking about where I found the Lord.

Speaker 4 (59:24):
I didn't find the Lord.

Speaker 6 (59:25):
The Lord found me. You better tell them again.

Speaker 4 (59:28):
Yeah, I was lost.

Speaker 6 (59:30):
You better ask somebody.

Speaker 4 (59:32):
You better ask somebody. I was lost and broke me
and I answered the call. I answered, hey, I'm coming,
because it was like Jonah in the book. Jonah was
in the belly of the Way for three days and
he said that was just like hell. I don't want
to be in hell three minutes.

Speaker 6 (59:54):
I want to be in the three seconds.

Speaker 1 (59:55):
Yeah, So I answered the call.

Speaker 6 (59:57):
I don't even want to be at the door.

Speaker 3 (59:59):
But you know you got is this really touches subject
like politics, But I feel like you gotta know yourself.

Speaker 4 (01:00:05):
Yes, you gotta.

Speaker 3 (01:00:08):
Five senses something. You don't let anybody bully you.

Speaker 7 (01:00:12):
Into into religion. Yeah, don't they come up to me.
You ain't got to tell me you need to be
in church. You need to know what the church is
a building.

Speaker 4 (01:00:22):
Church, We we the church.

Speaker 7 (01:00:24):
You know everything that you're doing in that church. I
can sit right in on this couch and do That's
the conversation between me and you.

Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
Now you know, well, I mean church church respect because
you know you get more, get more teaching.

Speaker 4 (01:00:41):
Yes, yes, the basis.

Speaker 3 (01:00:43):
But if you go to church and you see some craziness.

Speaker 6 (01:00:46):
Going on, get get out of there.

Speaker 4 (01:00:49):
But you don't have to go get out because you
get out crazy crap.

Speaker 6 (01:00:55):
And every every church it is yesterday you, yes, it is.

Speaker 4 (01:00:58):
Go to churchy John. Yeah, I'm going over here to
this church across the street. In the radius of three blocks.

Speaker 7 (01:01:09):
It's sixteen six sixteen fifteen churches and three liquor store
and three liquor store. And you come right out the
liquor store and go right into the church to the church,
and vice versa.

Speaker 6 (01:01:22):
You can leave out the church and walk right to
the liquor stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:01:25):
But what I mean by crazy going on personal speaking
for a person personal person, When you're getting too much
into my business in my life and trying to run
my life. You know what I'm making. How come I
ain't giving up to you and come out?

Speaker 4 (01:01:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:01:42):
Yeah, when you think when you think you got it, like.

Speaker 3 (01:01:44):
I'm not my love and teaching and love.

Speaker 7 (01:01:48):
Yeah, you feel like when you feel like they're watching
your life twenty four hours a day, that's that's that's
that's more like a cult.

Speaker 3 (01:01:54):
Say can we say Jim Jones, could y'all excuse me?

Speaker 1 (01:01:59):
Yeah, bathroom one. We understand that.

Speaker 4 (01:02:07):
I just won't say we don't give a ship about you.

Speaker 7 (01:02:18):
I told him about the work you want slip by
saying no, I don't never that wasn't no slip.

Speaker 6 (01:02:25):
You meant that ship.

Speaker 3 (01:02:30):
Hallelujah.

Speaker 4 (01:02:31):
I bet we look about inoducing you to Christ.

Speaker 7 (01:02:40):
What you do with that?

Speaker 3 (01:02:42):
You We can't make you beause that's what I'm saying.
You gotta have comments can make you.

Speaker 4 (01:02:50):
It's about Hey, God is here for you. He's coming
absolutely about you.

Speaker 6 (01:02:59):
Absolutely.

Speaker 4 (01:03:00):
I told you what's happening. If you want to do
something else.

Speaker 6 (01:03:04):
On you absolutely, we don't give a crap. We have ship.
I got you.

Speaker 12 (01:03:11):
Yeah, brother, but if you too, and that because God
give each of us a mind of and we can make.

Speaker 4 (01:03:22):
You don't mess with decisions.

Speaker 3 (01:03:25):
You know, he won't mess And like I said, it's
a real church something because you got a lot of
people that are so lost write church.

Speaker 1 (01:03:35):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (01:03:36):
True? That true, that true.

Speaker 3 (01:03:38):
And I'm big on.

Speaker 5 (01:03:39):
Relationship with God and the relations individual relationships.

Speaker 6 (01:03:42):
Individual job of the pastors.

Speaker 3 (01:03:44):
The guy and put it out there.

Speaker 6 (01:03:46):
But you need to do that preaching, preach and teach.
That's a job to preach and teach and teach.

Speaker 2 (01:03:53):
What you learn.

Speaker 4 (01:03:54):
The sad understand all this.

Speaker 6 (01:04:05):
And the rays of these is live all day, all day,
all day. So so this let's start with you, Hannah.

Speaker 1 (01:04:21):
Did you do?

Speaker 6 (01:04:21):
Do you have anything coming up?

Speaker 7 (01:04:23):
And give a give or give everybody your email a
little dress or your Are you on Facebook?

Speaker 3 (01:04:28):
I am on face?

Speaker 6 (01:04:29):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (01:04:29):
Anthea Johnson, you canna you know? Hit me up on Facebook? Yeah,
she's my friend and I have an event, well not event,
I'm doing a anniversary port in June.

Speaker 6 (01:04:41):
Okay, okay, looking.

Speaker 1 (01:04:42):
Forward to that.

Speaker 3 (01:04:43):
So right now, like I said, I have been kind
of quiet, you know, so I'm coming trying to come
back around and come out there. So even go hit
the helium.

Speaker 7 (01:04:52):
Up and do an open yes, please do, because you know,
every we they still need to see the veterans come
out there do their thing because right now Saint Louis
got a whole bunch of comedians. You know, they just
like came out of the woodwork and they need to
see that growth in some of the the older comedians
that's been doing this for a minute and and read

(01:05:14):
some coattails.

Speaker 3 (01:05:15):
You know.

Speaker 6 (01:05:15):
And what about you, sir, you got anything coming up?
Or just going back with Moses and.

Speaker 1 (01:05:26):
With socks on too?

Speaker 6 (01:05:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:05:34):
Yeah, and he ain't going to the heaving uh anyway? Yeah.
I in July, July seventh, which is a Sunday, we're
gonna have We're gonna have a gospel comedy show. It's
gonna we're gonna have Diva on it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:54):
You know, she's yeah, not the stripper, yeah, the divine and.

Speaker 4 (01:06:02):
She won't and you know you won't be able to
strip there?

Speaker 3 (01:06:07):
Can I walk around the church again comedy.

Speaker 11 (01:06:10):
You know, yeah, uh yeah, we're gonna it's a fundraiser
because we're in the process.

Speaker 4 (01:06:20):
Of of getting a daycare center. We want to do
a daycare. We want to get the kids we want
here's here's the idea. We want to partner with parents
and get these kids into this daycare center. Not because
the parents are but we want to get them in
and teach them and and kind of preach to them

(01:06:43):
a little bit, but teach them. They don't have to
get out here and pick up guns. It's more to
life than guns. We want to uh, you know, spend.
We want to be in the young people's lives, the school,
the parents, we want to be a part of all that.

(01:07:05):
And so we're gonna have a fundraiser to build this
up daycare center. You know, we're gonna uh that day
July seventh. We're gonna get the radio station to come
do a remote. We're gonna, yeah, we're gonna do some stuff.
We're gonna sell some barbecue. A giver. You won't be
able to sell what you say, Well, we're gonna do

(01:07:30):
what we do.

Speaker 3 (01:07:31):
Make sure we get a flyer.

Speaker 4 (01:07:33):
Oh yeah, we're gonna yeah, as soon as I get
him made up, I'm gonna get him in your hand
the second I get him made up.

Speaker 6 (01:07:42):
Please do because we can definitely advertise. But I'm gonna
go in here and you can get ready to take
us out.

Speaker 3 (01:07:49):
Well, any final words, hey ho?

Speaker 4 (01:07:52):
No, well yeah, but I'm saying you talking about final words.
That means you say the words and you're gone. Yeah.
Well from the show, right, learn how to operate your equipment.

Speaker 3 (01:08:12):
My final word, My final words is like, we gotta
keep the love and the left going. Yeah, and uh,
we as black people, we gotta start being a little
more kind to each other because it's still rough out here.
And if we can get kids in church, you know
that does help. Church is a good basis, it does.

Speaker 5 (01:08:34):
I love how you guys feed off each other. And
I just pray that your friendship continue.

Speaker 3 (01:08:37):
You better pray.

Speaker 6 (01:08:38):
Because friends.

Speaker 4 (01:08:44):
Friend and we're gonna get back to.

Speaker 3 (01:08:49):
You know, he needs that rise, so don't do him
like a Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:08:52):
So, ladies and gentlemy, once again, thank you, thank you,
thank you, And I'm the queen until we see you
next time.

Speaker 3 (01:09:01):
We're gonna play this music peace to me.

Speaker 2 (01:09:06):
So independent, go keep chasing your dreams. Be a lawyer
or notice. You just gotta believe. Don't be complacent on
making things fair. Push your standards to the heights. You
deserve all the care. Don't be okay with is being okay.

Speaker 6 (01:09:20):
You're a star.

Speaker 2 (01:09:21):
You should shine every day. Hey, black queens, just live
up your dream. Please, just know that you're amazing. You
deserve everything.