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There's no certain time like some of them heal faster than others depending on the severity depending on where it could be. Some of them heal faster than others. Some of them take longer, so it's no certainty. But then you get to the point where you need your core strength, you need your rotational strength unique, you need all of those things. As you progress, as the pain starts to subside, you start to push the boundaries more and more. But no one knows how long that'll take. I think after a few days, you start to get a better picture of what it is that you're kind of looking at. But I'd say right now, you're just dealing with the initial sortness and you're kind of taking it from there, so we'll have to see how this goes, hopefully, it's more moderate. One, if you will, then it's extremely severe. But like I said over the next few days, those things kind of start to declare themselves. And so we'll have to wait down on how to see. Ultimately though, we end up losing the game. I think we had the lead down to six, with like six, seven minutes to go in the game, and I think we had a few great looks, three possessions in a row. We just didn't make them. And it's a maker, Miss Lee, I think if you make those shots, one thing you got to understand about the Houston Rock and Sidious, we got a little mind-controlled in that arena. And so all of a sudden, you hit one or two of those shots, they feel different. They start to feel that pressure. We start to feel that, oh man, is this happening again, type-filler? And so, needless to say, get them credit, they do what they need to do to win the game. Like I said, I thought we kept ourselves in the game for pretty long. They pulled the way they're at the end, but we did a great job of standing the game and giving ourselves an opportunity to have a couple of looks to pull within three to possibly tie the game. And we just weren't able to knock them down. And that happens. A lot of people are saying, oh man, the Houston Rock is our dirty team. I don't get off into the dirty thing every now and then you see some people that just do things that are downright dirty. And it happens. And when it does, I'll speak on it. Do they do some bullshit when we play them? Absolutely. I think the thing that may irritate me the most is like they play super physical, but then they start flopping sometimes. And so I would say like that irritates me more, but I'm not going to see her calling them a dirty team there, physical team. And by the way, when we were watching Phil pregame, you can see on the film, they physical is hell. And so get them credit, you know, I'm not going to say her calling them a dirty team. Definitely not going to do that. But in saying that, they are a very, very physical team. As we move forward now with at least, at least without staff for call it the next three weeks, at least, and then you're probably reevaluating from there, we're going to need guys to step up, you know, I'll probably, I'm going to have to shoot more. No offense about about it, going to need you to ask to step up. It's a lot to ask for a rookie. I think what we've seen as this rookie is cut out for BP going have to step up. And by the way, both of those guys have been playing incredible. Both of those guys have been stepping up. But the one thing that we've spoke about with this team is our depth, and we're going to need guys stepping up, you know, milk, going to need milk stepping up. As I said before, it's such that B. Will is out, you know, you look at it and B. Will average in almost 11 points in 14 minutes, 15 minutes per game. Just that, that speed burst that ability to break a defense down and get into the teeth for the defense and finish or kick out, create shots for others. We're going to miss that. And like I said, especially with, with, with, with stuff out, it would have been ideal to have B. Will healthy right now, but instead we don't and that, that is what it is. And you got to, you got to roll with the punches and figure it out. And I think this team, as I said last night, I think this team is better equipped to figure it out and be a much better team than without stuff this year. No, not saying we could just go on without stuff, that's not what I'm saying. But to try to hold the fort down a while, he's on, I think this team is a little better equipped than we were a year ago. It was dope to see Katie and Yaks how their moment last night, they went out in a little bit in the game, but then after the game, you know, Katie mentioned the Yaks, he wanted this Jersey, Yaks was happy as hell, like he wanted Katie, Jersey, Yaks was trying to wear Katie, Katie son to Jersey for Yaks was trying to wear the Jersey out of the ring. That's when you get to see like Yaks is still really a big ass kid, you know, and that's it's moments like that where you get to see like, yo, this rookie is killing everybody. Still really a big ass kid and mature and they're coming to his own, you know, and he was happy as hell to had that moment, Katie, we're sitting on the bench and he's at the end of the bench at the end of the game and he's talking about doing the Jersey exchange. And I'm like, yo, doing the Jersey exchange with who? I'm like, you don't want to just like get his son to sit in the back. He like, no, I mean, I want a picture with that one. And I'm like, yo, but we lose about to him like, do a Jersey change with who he like Katie. I'm like, oh, I get it. Like it's Kevin Durant, your first time as a rookie planning against Katie and Katie acts up. It is. I'm like, you definitely got to do the exchange. Like it's Kevin Durant bro. Like, by the way, if he was talking to anybody else, we like, I'll be like, yo, come on now. It's Kevin Durant. I shut up, I zipped the three key away. I zipped my mouth. So that was a super dull moment to see it. Happy Yaxx got to hide that moment and for him to gain one thing about Katie, Katie, and just giving you no respect on the basketball court to go gain that respect is big time. And it says a lot about Yaxx. Little moments in the game that went viral, my exchange with the fan, the fan was throwing out. He called me a bitch. And yeah, we just not going for that. You called me that and you stand up and start cheering. You know, it's pretty wagging because quite honestly, you ain't going to stand on that type of tongue. You ain't going to come down here and stand on that type of tongue. You know, so that was a, you know, I hate when fans try to do that. And if you come to cheer, come to cheer, if you want to heckle, heckle the name calling like that, like you ain't really willing to do with what comes with that. So just be a fan, heckle, talk all you want, but the name calling like that, that don't go over too well. I just leave that at that. And then obviously Marcus Mark throwing a punch at Charles Bassie was ejecting in third quarter, Marcus Marta since received a three game suspension. And yeah, I don't think that's going away, right? Like, you know, he may get in the press conference out there and say, he said, do some markets did it? Like they standing on that. So I don't really think that this ain't our last time playing each other. I don't really. think that's going away. The most anticipated game what it lasts few days was the Celtics versus the 76ers. And the Celtics beat the 76ers in Philly 123 to 101 is the first matchup. It's the first matchup of Jalen Brown versus Jason Taylor since the trade. Jason finished with 21 6 and 4. Jalen Brown finished with 13 5 and 2. Paul George was the star to show the whole finish with 36 and things. Y'all traded me. Y'all thought I was washed because I wasn't healthy. Take 36 and big ones. That's what PG said. And to be honest, I think a lot of people thought like, yo Boston might fun off. Like PG ain't got it no more than and Boston has picked right up where they left off that. PG is looking really good. JT is starting to look like JT again. They're shooting the ball world. They're playing their brand of basketball. And they look good. They look really good. JT tried to dap Jalen Brown up prior to the tip off Jalen Brown ignored him. I didn't really love that. And I didn't love it because I feel how you want to feel the man cope. I always say with these like that happen. I got and as you all know, I got a ton of respect for Jalen Brown. But I always say with things like that happen and you're not willing to speak. That says more about you than it says about the other person. Right. So like Jalen, Jalen Brown not said not making eye contact with JT JT. I'm hit you on your chest try to say what's up. You know, make eye contact. I think that's part of the reason Jalen Brown played back. Because you're orange, right? Your judgment, right? You got your head down and stuffed into carrying over into the game. And so I don't really love that man. Number one, like, you know, I know he's upset that he got traded. You know, and for like JT could have stopped the relationship. Regardless, man, like, I've never really got off into that when guys do that when they get traded and take it out of the player. You speak to every player, but now he'll I don't really love that. You know, and man, the bar is so high on a respect level for Jalen Brown from everybody. And he's earned that respect just to see it to see him do that. I don't love. I don't love it at all. And I just think, you know, when you do that, the thing that you're upset at is haunting you. Like it owns you until you like break out of it. And so, you know, my word to Jalen Brown would be like, no, man, talk to that man. Say what's up? Well, because until then that thing going to hold you. It's going to it's going to hold you. No matter what, you may feel like I move don't also until you are willing to face that address that that thing is going to hold on to you. And so that's what I would say, just about that. Like, you know, and then post game, you know, JB said to be honest, I was a paying attention, but credit to Jason, he played well tonight. It's like, bro, you know, he, you know, he coming on the court, you know, he walking by, you sleep in it. You wasn't paying attention. Look up, then you like, you saw somebody just hit you and trust you. And so also then to not stand on it after the game. Like that ain't that just ain't JB to me. Like that, that ain't that ain't the Jalen Brown that I've grown to respect and know how how he cut and how he carry himself and listen, we all have out of character moments. I've never been training. So I'm not going to sit here criticized him like, oh, man, it's like, no, I'm just stayed what I saw. And, but, you know, the Jalen Brown that I've grown to watch, that ain't it. Now, I don't need that. We all have big goals we want to achieve. But when you're balancing a career family and everything else life throws your way, find the time to go back to school can feel almost impossible. That's where Walden University comes in. For over five decades, Walden's been helping working adults turn ambition into action by providing access to flexible distance learning. It's where students get the W those most meaningful wins that push your career and community forward with over a hundred degree in certificate programs from nursing and social work to counseling and psychology. 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You know, the talk about the bad boys franchise and what that meant to the entertainment industry. He's done it all. A comedian actor, producer, one of the funniest dudes that ever walked the planet earth, OG, the living legend, Martin Morris, welcome to Dremont. Thank you. Thank you. Hey, I wanted to find the walk the planet. Hey, that's a hard title to get. That's like y'all winning four championships. We know it's doing. We know it's doing. Hey, you get a guy walking up on you like do they come a hard a come a hard last week and we'll see who funnier. I definitely appreciate this. This this is like, you know, sometimes I say, man, this is like like the 10 year old kid in me is just ecstatic. And the reality is the 10 year old kid in me is ecstatic. But the 36 year old man in me is ecstatic as well. Like this. This is. I don't I don't geek out too much. I don't fan out too much, but man, this is amazing for me. So thank you. But it's amazing for me as well, man, because I get to meet my favorite ball players, man. You know, and so, you know, you guys, man, you know, I'm watching ball all the time when the season starts, you know, let go to state is as my team, you know, I because I got to ride with Curry, you know, you know, you know, you know, can, can, can go, can't go against my man Curry. So, you know, you know, so I'm always rooting for y'all, you know, absolutely, you know, we definitely appreciate that. Speaking speaking of a step and go to state, Jimmy Butler posted a video a few days ago. And obviously, it was through AI, but it was from Blue Street. Now, I wanted to know number one, did you get an opportunity to see the video? No, I didn't get an opportunity to see video. But me and Jimmy are really good friends. We are really good friends. Jimmy come over to the house all the time and he had lunch with me and everything, you know? You know, and he tells me how much he loves go to the state and just, you know, just how y'all get at him. - Now, Jimmy's been one of the best additions to our team. Just from, obviously from the basketball standpoint and, you know, definitely crossing our fingers and wishing him and hoping that he gets healthy soon. But just, even from just a culture standpoint and how he fit into our group and what he brings to the group. Jimmy's been amazing. But he put a video up from Blue Street and it was clay and stuff and it was when you were, when you and Dave Chappelle was in the alley. - Oh, okay, I didn't see you in the middle of it. (laughing) - I didn't see that. - No, you get handed to me. - I'm gonna take it from you. (laughing) - You didn't use to be so violent. (laughing) - Well, y'all were shooting that movie. Did you know that it still be as relevant as it is 27 years later, like when you're making a film like that, you know, I look at it in terms for us, it's like a basketball game. Like for instance, we lost game seven in 2016 to the Cleveland Cavaliers, right? And so, wrong side of history for us. But when you're in that game, you don't know, like, yo, this is gonna be one of the greatest great game sevens of all time. Like when y'all are making, we're making Blue Street. Did you know that that film will become what it ultimately became? - No, but I know one thing I knew is I was having the most fun on a set that I could have because the director was so cool. He would let me do what I, anything I wanted to do. That's how come we had a ghetto bucket in there and all that and he'd let me make up stuff and just let me take my character anywhere. I want to go. And that's why Blue Street was so funny. 'Cause then we had Dave Chappelle in there. Dave was funny, you know. It just, you know, me and Tim and I, that was funny. Luke Wilson, you know, he was a good partner. You know, he just had a good cast, you know. So we just had all the elements working for us. - Absolutely. And just speaking of different opportunities, career opportunities in general, was there ever a movie or, you know, a show that was offered to you and you didn't feel like it aligned with you and you turned it down and then ultimately something happened with that and you looked up and was like, "Yo, I was right." Or wrong. - Yeah, I was supposed to do rush hour. Yeah, I was supposed to do rush hour, but they haven't done money. - Wow. - Yeah, wow. - They weren't getting me for three million dollars. And I had just, and I had just come off of bad boys. You know, I had just come off of bad boys. So, you know, my stock was up. - Yeah. - And so they wanted me to do rush hours with Jackie Chan and me and Jackie Chan, Jackie Chan came on my show and everything and we was talking about doing it. We went to Mr. Chow's, had a mail and everything and it was all set for me to do the movie. And then when they came back with what the offer was, I was like, "You all want me to do another action movie?" Like I just did bad boys for the money you offering? - No. And that's why I still think it turned out perfect 'cause it was for Chris Tucker. - Yes. - They got the right person to do it, which was Chris Tucker, that rush hour most definitely is Chris Tucker's movie. And they got the right person to do it. - No, they definitely did. And a film like that, when that happens, right? So the first film would have been three million dollars. And obviously rush hour went on to be extremely successful. Would you have made up that money on the back end with the success of the franchise as the actor or is that more so? - You could, you could, yeah. You can if the structure, the deal that way, you know, you can, but I didn't need to do that 'cause I just came off a big hit like bad boys, you know? So if you ask them for my services, you know, I'm not, you know, you're not paying me rookie money for a big action film you wanna do in, like rush hour. - Yes, no, that's, and speaking of bad boys, I remember obviously watching the original bad boys, but bad boys too, I can still tell you where I saw the film, when I saw the first day that came out, I was in Florida at the 80's tournament. I'll never forget it. Working with Will Smith, how did you guys realize that the chemistry was gonna be so incredible amongst you too? And today, where has the relationship grown to just outside of even doing bad boys? 'Cause we didn't know where we'll go, you know, we just, you know, decided to work together. And first and foremost, we gave each other respect, you know, we gave each other respect and then started from there. You know, he respected me, I respected him, you know? And, you know, if we had any differences or whatever, or whatever we would speak on it or whatever, but it was never no yelling or nothing like that. We just always kept it in a respectful tone and everything. And as far as our chemistry, it's just, we both was coming from sitcoms and we had this comedic timing that we both just had and we knew and we knew how to intertwine it, you know, but between each other and, you know, make that shit work, you know? And going through the bad boys franchise, you know, it's been an incredible franchise. But the most recent bad boys that you guys released came after Will had his incident at the Oscars. And for myself, who's had incidents, you know, like that on live television. - You had 90 days. - A million of (laughs) You're a Mount Rushmore, you're the first one on Mount Rushmore. Like this was incidents. (laughs) When you have these things that play out in front of the world, right, everybody has an opinion. Ultimately, you see a lot of people turn their back on you. You know, they don't want to walk next to you, you know? It's like, oh man, it's almost like, oh, you damaged your name. They don't want to deal with you anymore. And I admire how you stayed true to the partnership that y'all had. And even after Will had that incident and everybody started moving from and all those things that you still went through and did another bad boys. What was that like, what was that decision like going into it? I'm sure there was people telling you, like, I don't know, you know, how did that happen? - Yeah, but that's my partner. You know, that's been my partner. He wrote with me for the first three. Why would I roll with him for four? Just because he got in an incident that was broadcast to the world. You know, everybody makes mistakes, you know? You know, and he made a mistake. He just happened to make his own live television and everything else, you know? But the thing is both of my friends, you know? Chris Rock and Will Smith, you know? And I'm not saying what Will did was right. You know, I even let Will know that that wasn't the right thing to do. You know, whatever, you know, who was going on. And then he got it, you know, he got it, but I, but to move on, you know, I get a big hug and say, hey, are we going to get through this? We going whatever, let's make the best move we can make. And you see what happened with Will. - Mm-hmm. - 1,000%. No, I think that's incredible. So often times people want to just hold you to the mistake that you made, you know? - Yeah. - And allow people to move on, you know? - Oh, yeah, yeah. And I'm wanting to once, if you ever look at the history history of Martin. I've made many mistakes. I've made many mistakes in public and things like that or whatever, whatever I just do due to the blessing of God. I happen to survive through all of it, you know. You came up in the stand-up world, eventually becoming the host of Deaf Comedy Jam. What was comedy like during that era? I feel like comedy is a completely different thing today. At least people try to make it out to be a completely different thing today than what it used to be. I look at it. What the NBA was when I first came into it as a what the NBA is today is a completely different thing. Still enjoyable in the songways, but enjoyable in different ways. What was doing comedy like during that era? It was freedom. It was freedom at his best. You know why? Because we had really prior that led the way, you know, that Godfather comedy, you know, that said, "Hey, you could do it this way. You could do it this way." And then Eddie came along. You know, and Rockstar took it to the Rockstar status. You know, like, you know, you could do it this way. You could do it this way. So for all of us young comics, you know, we was like, it gave us hope. It gave us like, "Oh, man, if they could do it, I could do it. I could do it." So, you know, when I first did my first stand-up concert film, I had on level green, green leather with boots, Army boots, and you know, I was hip-hop. I was to hip-hop, you know, comedian. You know, but I had on the level, you know, I was the problem after Eddie with the level, you know. So, you know, it's just, you know, it's a good thing, man. But comedy is a little different today because everybody has an opinion and they want to judge you on everything. They want to judge what you say and what you do and everything. They don't want to, they don't want to relax about freedom of speech and everything. They want to, they want to take your freedom of speech and make it some kind of narrative. Because something negative, you know, and all that, you know. And it's, and it's book. And that, to me, it's just, it's just a lot of book. And that's, and that's what comedy is today. And people, people scared to say this, to say that and don't want to do this and don't want to do that and everything. But they ain't giving their real selves to the audience. They ain't, they ain't not giving the audience authentic, you know, material. No, 1000%. I was fortunate enough to do Kevin Hart's roast. I've never obviously been on the comedy stage before. That was one of the most fun experiences I've had in my life. But when you look at that roast, there was a lot of backlash, you know, from white comedians and what they said there was a little backlash for black comedians and what they said. What did you, did you get an opportunity to see the roast and what did you make of all the backlash from the roast? Honestly, I didn't see the roast. And I, and I really, I really didn't give a damn about backlash because I don't, I don't follow all that. I don't, you know, I, you know, it, to me, you know, it's just part of the game that I guess all of my plan or whatever, whatever. That's why you don't see me at parties and all that too, too many parties hanging out and all that stuff because I ain't with that Hollywood stuff. So to me, I mean, the backlash and all that, that's all Hollywood stuff. No, it is 1,000%. That's a fact. That's 1,000% of fact. Look at the comedy world today. You got, you got guys like Mojo Brooks, Drew Ski, you know, guys coming off of DC on fly. You got guys coming, like coming off the internet and, you know, using social media to build platforms and then ultimately becoming stand up, like actual stand up comedians. Big shows. What are you, what, what's the difference in kind of the route they're taking is social media and the different things that they've done. They're just reaching more people to meet their reach and more people. If we would have had this, if Jordan would have had social media back in the day, you know, because you imagine how much bigger they would have been, it would have been crazy. So when you had a social media and you build on your own fan base and everything, you know, that's how you get all these numbers and Mojo Brooks and Drew Ski, very funny. You know, it's not like they, they, they, they're coming off the internet and they're giving you bull bullshit material and things like that. No, they're actually funny dudes, you know, that you say, say to yourself, man, I like them, I like them, man, I like them. I want to see more of these guys. I want to see more. So that's the, that's the real with them, you know, that's amazing. And just speaking of, you know, the next generation of comedy, you're producing past the mic. How important is it to you to create opportunities for the next wave of comedians coming after? It's important to me. It's important to me because I want them to feel what I felt. You know, when I got the opportunity, you know, and, and, you know, I want people to work, you know, you know, you know, and provide for their families, you know, and things like that, you know, because ultimately that's what we want to do. You know, it's provide for our families, you know, have a comfortable living, you know, and things travel the world, you know, do all the things you want to do, you know, that, you know, hopefully through stand up or whatever you're doing, whatever is sports, whatever. You know, the money you make can provide that kind of living for yourself. You took a long break from stand up comedy. I actually got an opportunity to see you live in Oakland, a little over a year ago, you know, and you're currently, you know, on tour right now. Why, why did you ultimately go back to stand up comedy after, you know, doing films for so long, and obviously you still do films periodically here and there. But you've kind of been back up back in the stand up comedy ground for the last couple of years. Because when I'm when I'm not doing nothing else, I got stand up to do. You know, that's the, that's the blessing of me having stand up. That's the blessing of me being a triple threat threat, you know, I don't only do movies. I'm not only at the top of my game in movies. I'm not only at the top of my game in television, but I'm also at the top of my game in TV. I mean, and stand up comedy. And when I'm not doing any of movies or or TV or anything else, I always have stand up that I can do. I can go out and touch my people, and spread the love, and spread some laughter, which is my gift. - Now, where my fend of my fanhood, my martin fanatic, if you will, started was martin, the sickle, mart. Like I said, growing up in the state of Michigan, that that show taking place in Detroit, it felt more like personal to us, you know, it's like, man, he, in our minds, like, you know, he'd write up the street, you know, like, we know Detroit, like, and so I've seen every episode. When you look at yourself, who I think greatest sitcom ever, Jamie Foxx, also named, say, show, do you think, and what the television landscape today that a martin could be produced today and be successful, that a Jamie Foxx show could be produced today, and in the landscape of television that we're in currently. - It can be if you give the artist room to create. And give them, give them the green light to help shape the show and monitor the show and things like that. But if you don't give the artist a voice, you know, then you, you know, you're just going off to studio and the studio notes and everything. Then the studio is giving you the show that they want. You're not giving them the show that you want to give them. Absolutely. So how much of, how much of Martin would you say was scripted and how much other was you improvising? Or you see it for yourself. You see it for yourself. A lot of it was me. I had a great writing staff, you know, whatever. They would come up with some good stuff, whatever. But some of that stuff wasn't on the paper. And I would always make them go back in in the writers room and they would write all night long until they got it right, until they got it right. And I was on them. I was on them. But some of that stuff you knew was me because they couldn't write some of that stuff. You can't write dragonfly, Joe. You can't write me beating that little animal up in the tank. How you going to write that? That's hilarious. You should be practicing your art. You can't write that. That's the fact. How much of how much of Cheneyney was you bringing that character to life in them right now? A lot of Cheneyney was me bringing it to life. It was Martin taking shape in Cheneyney into my sisters and my nieces and everything else and the attitude and the whole night, such a strong black young woman and with attitude and very smart. Very smart. That's amazing. When you look at, I imagine, like I said, speaking of Drusky, speaking of Mojo, when you look at the next crop of guys, like yourself, that you could see in that light, of all the young guys. Who would you say that's the guy to make a Martin? That's the guy to make a Jamie Fox show. That's the guy to make a fresh prince. Who's that guy in the scene right now? Drusky. Drusky. Drusky. He's the guy. Drusky is hilarious, man. Drusky has a gift going for him, man, that's that's blessed, that's blessed beyond more than I think what he knows. But he's on the pulse of something that I think we're going to see some stuff with him that we're just going to laugh our ass off and say, wow, wow, thank God for Drusky. Do you have a relationship with any of these young guys? Yeah, yeah, Mojo, you know, you name it, most of them, you name it, you know, some of them performed on shows with me and everything and you know, so I always keep in touch with the young cats. Have you ever had a brilliant idea for a business, but the sheer thought of trying to figure out web design, payment systems and inventory management, hell, you back. It's a super common hurdle, especially as we had straight into the busiest, most lucrative shopper season of the year. That's where Shopify comes in. Shopify's pre-built website themes and intuitive AI site builder, make it exceptionally easy to build a sleek, professional looking store without ever touching a single line of code. 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Walking into some arenas, your 15 on the soft Tuesday in Bad City is cold. It's the seven day of a 11 day trip. Walking to some arenas and I'm just like, "Man, why am I here actually?" But when you're going on stage, say you do 30 days. It's you on that stage, right? Like, I can go into the game. I can fill my way through. I can kind of get by if I need to get by tonight. Body may not be feeling great. But it's you on the stage. Do you ever have those nights where you walk into an arena now and while you're doing y'all still know what it is and you say, "Man, I just ain't really filling it tonight." Or are you able to produce that energy each and every night? Like, is that just the professionalism and the job? Being nights, I might say to myself, "Woo, I ain't feeling it tonight." Or whatever, I might say to myself. But then, I correct myself immediately and say, "Wow, you know what? I'm gonna tear it up tonight. Tonight's gonna be a great show." You know what? And I give myself that energy because I humble myself because I know the blessing that God has given me to go out and perform in front of thousands of people is not an easy gift to give to anyone. So God, the blessing with that gift, I say thank you and I just get ready for the show. I lay down, he had me a meal and then I lay down for the show. You know, my lady gives me ready, you know, and I get ready and put my leather on everything, head to the show, walk down. You know, back in the back down, you know, when y'all going to the ring all the way, get it back all the way. And my mind is just, "Now, I'm in killer mode now. I'm in, you know, I just want to bring my best show that I can bring to them." You know, every night is a different crowd. You know, every night you, you might get a different audience that gives you a different laughter or whatever, whatever. But you have to be the same. You gotta stay consistent. You have to give them what they came to say. So, you know, I love that part of it. You know, it's like a fight, box to fight for me. You know, okay, it's time that you or me, you know. And I ain't trying to be brutal off stage. So, you know, I'm coming with it. That's hilarious. What would, I wouldn't say early day. Like, obviously, you're going to take your love. But have you ever, like, asked Martin Lawrence, yes, you've always been Martin Lawrence, but you know what I mean? Like, asked me, "Man, Martin Lawrence, have you ever got up there and bumped?" Yes, when I first ever went on stage, the first time I ever went on stage and I went on stage and there was this drunk black lady in the front. And then she said, "Oh, God. Not another JJ." And I didn't know how to use the mic. I was like, "What you doing, lady? No, this ain't another JK." I'm just yelling in the mic. I just fucked it all up. And my best friend was on the floor in the comedy club, crying laughing on the floor like, "Oh." And I was like, "I got on stage." And I was like, "Oh, I can't believe I just bombed. I can't believe I just bombed." And he, I was like, "Don't tell nobody. Don't tell nobody." And he was like, "No, I'm telling my brother. I'm telling my brother about this." I said, "But then, but what I did after that, I knew I said it in my heart because I said I know I'm funny because I make people laugh in the neighborhood and all that. I know I'm funny." So what I did was I went back the next week. I paid my money and I went back to see the headliner, the middle act, and the opener, the show for next week. And so I just sat in the audience and got me a drink or whatever, a coke or whatever, and had some food and watched the show. And I studied them, you know, how they were taking their time and how they had material. and how they would do what they was doing and everything. And then from that night on, I got better. Each time I got on stage, I got better and better and better and due to the grace of God, I never had a booze show or bomb show from that night. - That's bad. - Martin Lawrence and his problem, Martin Lawrence today. Who went that battle in comedy? - Martin Lawrence and his primal and his old Martin of O, when that's day. - Yeah. - Yeah, Martin Depp jam Martin and you so crazy and run 'til that morning. Oh, yeah, I'm at the Martin part where I'm sitting. I'm searching for material. (laughing) I'm calling the young comment. Hey, yeah, what the hell, y'all got over there? (laughing) But of all it, but you know more today. Of all the things that you know today, what would you give, young Martin? - What would I give, young Martin? - Patience. - Explain that to me. - Patience, patience. Patience to know that things don't happen in your time always. You know, patience to grow and learn the game, to learn the system. Patience to understand your audience and when they're giving you love and when they're not born you or or not being negative with you because they're quiet or something, knowing that's learning the game, like having patience to learn the game. Like such is what you have to do. You know, you have to have patience for the production staff and how you treat them and going through run-throughs and things like that. You know, so it's a lot of things I would say patience. - That's, that's crazy because that's one of the, I started golfing a year and a half up last summer. And stuff was great at golf, incredible golfing. Since the time I got to go to the state, big golfer. And went out, you know, once before with them, tried to swing the club, couldn't do it and a table to start back 13 years later. And like I've actually picked it up. And the one thing that I realized why I couldn't do it before and why I'm able to love it now, right? And by the way, I'm dog shit. But why I'm able to love it now is because I have so much more patience at this point in my life than I didn't. And it's funny because I told stuff, I said, man, you know, one of the things that golf has given me more than anything, he's like, what? I've always needed to work on my patience. And it's forced me to work on my patience because that's why you're going to have less than a year. - Yeah, I haven't been following much at all. And definitely not text either. I've been trying to stay away from those. I didn't get kicked out once already, but that was necessary. That was not going, that one was needed. But besides that, I'm going to tell you, you know, you show me all of love. You show me, thank you. I appreciate it. But you're a bad boy, man. You're a bad boy. And at your height and position you play and having a match up with them centers and all that, you're a bad boy, man. You're a bad boy. - I appreciate that. That means a lot to me. - Seriously, man, you wanted to bless one's brother. You wanted to bless one's. - Thank you. I appreciate that. That means a lot. You know, it's, I always tell people, you know, close to me. Like, I don't get a lot of love. I catch a lot of shit from people. I don't, I didn't become who I became in the traditional. Oh, man, you go out there and get 25 points. You go out there and get 30 points. You know, and so to, to hear that, especially from someone like yourself, it means a lot. You know, because I have a very thankless role. You know, it's not, it's not the glorious role. I have a very thankless role. And sometimes you need to hear that. You know, I try not to, I try not to allow myself to get too high or too low based on how people feel or what they may say. But sometimes you need to hear that. You know, because you question it sometimes. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, and sometimes you just simply need to hear that. I was, I literally was on here the other day. When I saw you, when my wife and I saw you, I think at the Vanity Fair Oscars party, which was the first time I ever met you in. I don't know if you remember. I went crazy right there like, oh my God. This is terrible. Not! But when I mentioned the story with Tyrese, he came up and we were telling him, "Congratulations on something he just did." And he said to us like, "Man, that means so much." Because people just don't tell us, "Congratulations no more." And so to hear you say that to me, it means so much because I don't get that much. You know, like, I don't care. 'Cause you need to know, 'cause you need to know, bro, you matter, man. You don't matter, you know? Only the only reason y'all lost one of them, the championship 'cause they put you out for that bullshit foul stepping over to the brunt. You know, you matter, bro. You matter, you know? And that's the real over it. And they know that and that's why you that. And that's why you been there for so long, you been drafted so high and look what you're doing and look what you're doing, you know? If that's God's work, bro. 1,000%. (laughing) You can't do it without it. You can't. You can't do it without it. Um, and speaking of, the thankless role, you're also a producer. And which I actually think is a thankless role. Like, you know, I would imagine in your journey, you probably felt some of that. Like the producer don't get the same love that the lead actor gets, you know? I would like the producer. But the producer don't need the love that the actor gets because the producer's role is just to make sure that the film comes together and that the actor gets everything that they need. Uh, you, 'cause you have different producers. You have a live producer. The live producer controls the money. You know, and you have executive producers. You have, you have producers that, uh, that, uh, run, run the story and make sure the story comes together and all that. So they, they really don't, unless you're a big name producer or something, they really don't get the accolades. But what they do get is the money. Yes. They definitely get the money. But it's just speaking from a produce production side of things. Uh, was there someone in Martin that you audition for a role and they ultimately didn't get the role and then they went on to become a star and you feel like you missed out on having them in the show? No, nobody. You broke everybody. No, every, every, every, I, I, only audition for a couple of things. And when I audition for what's happening now, I got it, you know? So I, I, I think I audition for a different world. I didn't get that audition for a living color. And I didn't get that. And you see all the stars that came from, from in living color. But it was a good thing that I didn't get that in living color because I wouldn't have the Martin show. No. And so I was able to do all the characters on the Martin show that I would have tried to do on an in living color if I had been on in living color. But because I was able to do it on the Martin show, that's what made our show so unique. Because I was able to give you not only a sitcom, but a variety show within a sitcom as well with the characters. So you was getting two for one, you know, from our show, you know? Wow. That's genius. That's genius. That's incredible. Thank you, rock, thank you. The Martin show is on television just about every night. And I watch it just about every night. When I go click on that, I don't watch that. just about every night. Do you still get paid for that? - To our what? - Yeah, yeah, I get rid of those jewels. - Okay, so we're watching that. (laughing) - I'm gonna keep watching that. (laughing) - Absolutely. - I appreciate that, I'll keep watching the games. - I appreciate that. I'll definitely be watching that. - Your cast in Martin, who would you say you have the closest personal relationship with over the course of these 30 years? - Me and Tommy had, Tommy Ford had a real good friendship and everything because we did a play before we did the Martin show. But the main person that I went after for the show, that I felt would make it a hit, is Tisha Campbell. I went after her because I knew she would be the one and Tashina happened to be over the house when I went to ask Tisha and told me that Tashina ask too. And I was like, well, she could come for our audition and ask for your friend and she wants to audition as she did and Tashina got the role. - Wow, Pam, wow. - Wow, the fact that that came together that way because Pam was incredible in the show. Y'all are dynamic back and forth. - Yeah. - It made every episode that she was in, like that was the way y'all went at each other. It was a good roast session every time y'all seeing each other. - Yeah, yeah. - And producing that and roasting each other the way y'all did, is there ever any emotion that the camera go off and you still fill away or she still fill away? - No. - No, none of that. That's all professional. And we love that, we will be still, we got bloopers and stuff, but us laughing at each other is still cracking up and all that stuff. - Man, we, our bloopers are funny. - How do I see those? - I don't know. (laughing) - I was zoomed Fox HBO has them. - I need to see those. - That's probably gold, man. - You could probably make an entire some type of production after bloopers. - We can't, we can't work. - We can, we can't be insane. (laughing) - Oh, that's incredible. - Yeah, we spoke about a lot. What we have not spoke about is your hoop game. I saw recently you work with lethal shooters on your jumper. - What was that experience like? I know lethal being people face yelling at shit. What was that experience like? - And ultimately, you know, I know his thing is like he understands it now. Did you really understand it when you finished? - Yeah, I did, I understand it, but the shooter was trying to show me how to shoot. That's cool, but I wouldn't shoot that way because it was natural. It would come natural. It was more of a form and everything else. And you see, I could hit the shot what he was showing me, but my own shot is wicked, it's just, hey, on his own. (laughing) - My shot is wicked on his own. I ain't no stuff curry. I can't go that deep, I can't go that deep. But put me made range, put me made range, and let him, let him go in and block you out or whatever. (laughing) Hit me, you know, and on the side, and box. - Put me in there, put me in there, and little goose neck on it. (laughing) (laughing) (laughing) - But keep the media live is what we say in NBA. You know, we got some point, man, where people only shoot in three pointers. Like, yo, keep the media live. - Yeah. - The media live, Kevin Durant, who we play last. Kevin Durant, keep the media live. - Oh. - I saw my man, Steph got hurt yesterday, yeah. So, and Kevin was just doing what the hell he wanted to do. - Yeah, man, that was frustrating. You know what, I was so frustrated, 'cause we don't lose in Houston. Like, we be kicking that ass in Houston, man. It was weird last night after that game, like, "Hey, we lost here." Hey, we've been dominating that building for years, man. - I'm gonna tell you, y'all, y'all got a good rookie, man. Number one. - Number one. - Number one. - Max, let the boy. - Y'all got a good rookie, man. - He can hold, he can hold the ball. - And I like, he's like you, in a sense, if somebody hurts his player, he comes to you, you know? - But I gotta stay on the court with him, Martin, because that kid about to be a star. - Yeah. - He's having him out there fighting that. I take on those battles, so I can't be letting my young fella. I love that you own that type of town, but that's why we here. You know, it's guys out there. Yeah, when they come touch you, we come in to do that, you know? - Right, right, right, right. - I'm gonna get him to understand that, too. Like, hey, man, always keep that out of two. But let us come handle that, man. You move over here, like, we ain't letting you step fight. So I gotta get over here, here we go. You know, so like, you know, move over here, young fella. Let us handle that. - That's right, right. - And while some of us here, young fella, yeah. (laughing) So, you know, got it, really dead a little bit now. - I like it, I like it too, though, I like it, I like it too. - Hey, by the way, I love it. You know, he went to Michigan, and I went to Michigan State, right? So we had banter over the internet all summer. You know, the young guys being all summer. I live in LA, right? Some in LA all summer. So we don't see them till we kind of get in after Labor Day. And so we banter, we banter, we banter, and all summer back and forth on social media. And I wouldn't take a personal ever, right? But I haven't met him yet, you know? So I don't really know if he's taking a personal scene, and I don't think he's taking a personal, right? And then I finally get there, and I meet the kid. And I meet him, and, you know, day one, it's like, oh, he barely spoke, and I'm like, oh, man. This is gonna be interesting, huh? Oh, no. Right? Day two, he wouldn't shut up. And he still ain't shut up since. Like, I absolutely love the young fellow, man. I love what he's about. I love how he carries himself. He is true to him. He the same way every day. He don't try to be nobody else. He's a sponge. You know, he wants to know everything you know. Wow. And so that kid, I love that kid, man. And I love the fact that he bought his mother house. I love that. I saw that he did that and everything. And he's on the right track. Yes, he is. Yes, he is, no, man. So he's gonna do great. But, man, can't thank you enough. Number, first off, for paying that type of attention, that you pay to us. It's always appreciated. We love to host you out of game and send for Cisco if we could. That'll be amazing. But also, I just want to thank you for coming on the show, but more importantly, for being who you are. For the things that you've done in the space, the way you've carried yourself as a black man. You know, you spoke about not being at all the things and not your name, not getting caught up in dirt. Like the example that you've set for us as black men, in the entertainment space is admirable. And can't thank you for being there. I want to say congratulations to you on all that you've done. And not that, that means, because you are Martin, like you are who you are, but I always say, the greats yourself, Steph Curry, LeBron James, will Smith. People stop telling y'all congratulations and I just never understand that. And so, I just want to say thank you for everything you've been, congratulations on everything you've done and will continue to do. And I will continue support. And I hope them raw to Jack's keep coming in 'cause I'ma keep watching. - Much love, Drake Martin. Much love, man. And any time you're in town, if you want to come over my office and I had a basketball court, I could put up some jumpers with you and everything, we eat some lunch and whatever. Whatever, I got your number. I called you one time, you ain't call me back. - Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't see that. - Yeah, but I was there. - But say I understood because I saw an interview where you was telling to my, you know, I'm not really a person, I'm really to myself, you know, when I go home, people think I'm out all alone. I don't do that, so I understood it. I didn't take it personally, but I did call you though. - Okay, I'm blowing your phone up now. (laughing) No, I appreciate it. I'm taking you up on that lunch. I'll come to the office, we shoot jump shots for some money. (laughing) I'll just throw that in there. Shoot a little jump shot for some money. And like I said, we love to host you at a game if we could. - I would love that. (upbeat music) - If you're rocking with the Dre mine green show, be sure to click follow on your favorite podcast app. And while you're there, go ahead and drop a five star rating and leave a review. 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