Beyond the Punchline: Mastering Business & Life from Bruce Bruce

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He is none other than the incomparable, the unstoppable, the iconic, the goat, Mr. Bruce Bruce. Man, I'm good, man. How you doing? I'm doing great now that I'm with you, man. My man, I like that, brother. Hey, so I'm just going to go straight into this Netflix special, bro. Okay. I had a watch party at my house, so I have like 27 first cousins. We were all at the crib. Like we were at a comedy club with popcorn, maybe some adult beverages. Yes, sir. We were laughing our butts off. That's good. I like that. I like that. Yes, sir. So tell us about how that show came to be, man. Well, it's like this, man. I had did a special like that in 15 years, actually 60. And man, let me tell you, man, everybody said, why you wait so long? Well, see the first time, the first time I did it, my mother passed. Right. On that Monday, right? Yeah, I buried her that Monday and I had to do this show that Friday, the same week. And I dedicated everything to her, which I dedicated this one to her. But I thought about it. I said, what would my mother want me to do? You know what I'm saying? She want me to keep going, keep moving, doing my thing. So that's what I did. But I will not wait this long again. I promise you, I won't leave you 15 years no more. And I'm going to do another one next year. But what I want to, I perfected this show, you know, when I was working on, I was working on, I was adding stuff, moving stuff, adding stuff, moving stuff. And I picked the best out of the best because I wanted to be funny from the beginning to the end. And see most comedians, they'll give you a roller coaster ride. You know, they'd be up and down. You know, it's funny. They didn't go down. You go, oh, I didn't want that. I want to be like, look, I'm about to throw up. This dude is about to make me throw up. So that's what I wanted. And I think that's what I got. You know what I mean? Not I think, brother. You deliver because genuinely, that's what everybody said. Because Bruce Bruce said it. So I don't have to say it. A lot of comics in their specials, the first seven minutes or they get you. You're laying in the floor. You're laying in the floor. Then you go like, what? Then you got 15 to 20 minutes. How much longer is that? As he went into the right. And one thing about me, like when I look at stuff on social media, and if it don't grab me right then, I go to something else. You got to grab them. I heard James Brown. You know, I'm a James Brown fanatic. You probably don't know that, but I love James Brown. I got the memoir. Yeah. And I love James Brown. And I heard him say one time, he was doing an interview. He said, once you grab him, he said, you got him. So I come out and grab you. I'm going to grab you. I'm going to tell you that right now. I'm going to grab you. And I just wanted to be the best man. And I have had bad shows, but then nobody knew it, but me. You know, I'd be on my team and suddenly I said, it could have been better. They like, what? I said, it could have been better. I'll say the next show, I got to turn it up a notch. And that's what I do. I try to perfect it, man. And people got to say, you got to love what you do. You got to love what you do. If you like stripping, strip. If you like stealing calls, still them. But you got to love what you do. And like I tell all these new comedians that are on social media, they work at social media because it's great. Give the people more than the five minutes that they see on social media. You know, if you, you got five minutes, it's great. But when people come to see you, there's something for them to go home and talk about. You know what I mean? Just go ahead and look five minutes. Hey, thank you. And then you get all the money. I've been doing it for 36 years. So I've been getting repeated, repeated. I can go every club every year and do a show and sell out every year. And I bring them something new every time. And that's what I'm going to give you your flowers on now, because when I believe in giving people their flowers and when they can actually see them and smell them. I've seen Bruce Bruce at five shows in the past two years. And you are relevant in every show. And I'm trying to single show because here's the thing. Society's changing and evolving. And again, I'm going to say this. So Bruce Bruce doesn't have to say it. There are comedians that the jokes they were telling 10 years ago are the same jokes. They're telling that. Hey, you know what? And don't get me wrong. It's nothing wrong with that. Because sometimes I have a good joke is a good joke. Yeah. Hey, do that joke about the bus driver. Do that joke about I have to do it, you know, but you got to stay on top. You get like people always ask me why I don't talk about Donald Trump. It's just one thing I don't like about Donald Trump. And that's his hair. I don't care about nothing. But nobody should be 80 years old with a shag and a bang. Did you hear me prayer? That mean he got a shebang. Did you hear what I said? And you know, we all see people know you're playing crazy. Donald Trump told you from the beginning what he was going to do. No surprises. I mean, no surprise. So one thing I can say, he didn't lie. He didn't lie about that. And he knew this thing. So what you get is what you got. So he told you from the beginning. Yeah, I love it. Yeah, I love it. So let's talk about this longevity you have, man, because in your world, you get comics that are here today, going tomorrow, you got the social media comics that it's cute to be funny and silly, but then you got to be real. Like you got to be able to take that and then go live or go corporate or have real conversations. You're one of a very few people. And I'm just going to say it that also look like us. That's just been here for a long time, brother. Like what has been your secret? I shouldn't even say secret because I don't like that. Okay. Because you put in the work and I know that that's part of it. You put in the work to stay relevant. But also, bro, the other part of that is you still look like Bruce Bruce is 27, 28 years old. Hey, man, let me tell you that like I tell you, like I say this again. What I used to be a shelf. I know how to cook. I used to work for freedom of the tainted chip. And one thing about freedom of the tainted chip driving that truck going from store to store that taught me how to run a business. It taught me how to run a business, run my own business. And I let these communities know even the guys that work for me. Hey, man, we go out here. We have fun. You know, we eat at the best places we have fun, but it's still a business. And you got to treat it like a business. You know, even though we are here, you know, these guys talking to every woman they can see and all that. It's not about that with me. It's not about me coming in, doing my jokes, doing it for the love, staying consistent and come back and do it again next year. I got a wife. I don't need no other woman. I cannot handle this. I got it now. You're the same. I'm saying I'm trying to get rid of her, but she won't leave because I'm too good to her. You know what I'm saying? But you know, handle it as a business. This is a business. Like if you go and work at, you can work at McDonald's. You know, nobody, you might have fun, but it's a business. And you got to respect people. You got to have good customer service. And that's one thing I like. I got a customer service. I'm nice there, brother. My granddaddy taught me to sell when I was young. He said the only thing freeing life is being nice and don't cost nothing. So you ain't got to be mean to people of rule. See, when you arrogant and conceited and stuck up, that's too much energy for me, man. I can be doing something. I can be eating some Popeye chicken. You know what I'm saying? I ain't got to be out here and I can get some Popeyes and give me an apple pie, you know, like a 36 piece, you know, something like that with a diet coat. I'm talking about. I got the diet coat. You know what I'm saying? Got to have a diet coat. Don't want to get in no way. But the thing is, just treat it like a business, but have fun while you do it. I got my nephew working for me. I got my grand, one of my grandkids working for me, my baby boys, my road manager. And man, they do a good job. They're really good on the computer. So they keep me on top of the game. My son told me, I remember when social media came out, he said, hey, pops, if you don't change, man, you're going to be behind. And I thought about it. I said, you know what? And if I had social media 36, 37 years ago, man, I will be big in a rigid fry. Red Fox, Bill Cosby, Milton Berle, George, put together. The social media is a good, good avenue to take, but use it right. Don't do nothing crazy. Don't be on that slapping your girl and shooting people. No, use it for your platform. Just like they gave me a TV show yet. I'm not going to worry about it. I'm going to put a TV show on social media. I'm a do bone TV show. You know what I'm saying? I'm going to use that platform. And I'm going to be the first subscriber you have. So when you're ready, man, it's going to be good, man. It's going to be good. I am there for it. I am there for it. I want to go because I want people to hear this and understand this because I've heard you talk about it quite a bit, but I'm going to ask it in a different way. Your comedic career, that journey, going back to when you got into the game, you has been authentically Bruce Bruce. What I want people to understand is this. When Bruce Bruce got into the game, the game was call people out of their name, use any kind of language, right? Allow, be different, attack the crowd. Like you go do that. Bruce Bruce was different. He was always him every day. Let's talk through that journey, brother. I see the thing is people, they add something as well. How is he at home? She said just like he was on stage, he's the same person. It's not a difference. I'm not putting out a front. You know, you know, I'm the same person on and off stage. Even when I was a kid, I was funny. I was a neighborhood clown, church clown, school clown. I just had fun. I never did anything to hurt anybody. You know, I didn't want to hurt their feelings except one girl with that ponytail. If you saw it in there through that little bit of ponytail, you know, I picked her. Then she made me be her boyfriend. You're going to be my boyfriend. So the thing is, hey man, you know, you don't take all that to make people laugh. I can sit now and talk to somebody and let's just say I'm in the bank and it's taking a long time. I said, well, why? They working on turtle today. I said, they pretty slow today and they're bus out laughing. You know what I'm saying? Like I met the airport one time, TSA going through everything I got. I said, my man, are you trying to make lieutenant? I said, because what you looking for? It's on the X-ray what I got in my bag. You see what's in my bag, but you want to check everything. You're trying to make lieutenant. I believe he bus out laughing. He realized he said, man, man, go man, go, go, man. Just going to do, you know what I'm saying? So sometimes we go too far. You know, we go too far over things and we just need to just keep it at a minimum. Man, do any jobs, keep it moving. I go to the airport every week. I fly every week. Everybody in Atlanta airport know me. Everybody except ISIS. They got ISIS down there and I don't know what they doing. Man, they just standing there looking crazy. They got like, I had a police one time, pulled me over and I got a big doula. You got the drugs in the car. I said, I don't have the drugs. I said, now I do have some sandwiches in the back. I said, now I got about 74 subways. I said, now if that's a crime, you might want to put the handcuffs on me now. I said, but right now I don't care. He brought the dogs out, man. He, dog run around the truck. I look up the dog, went back to the police car, just set out. You know what I'm saying? So he didn't smell that. I said, he smelled them that roast beef and that bestrom and sandwiches I had in the back. I probably wanted that. But you know, man, you're going to run into all kinds of stuff. And it's a way to handle everything. You know, even with women, even your relationship, you got to communicate, man. Communicate. My wife will shut down sometime. I said, well, I wait until she get through having her silent moment. And then you can come talk to me. You know what I'm saying? And one day she got mad at me. I don't know what she got mad about. And I told her, I said, whenever you want to talk, I say, you come sit by me in the bedroom in this chair, put your big girl panties on and sit down and tell big daddy what's the problem. And we saw the problem in three seconds. You see what I'm saying? I said, you know, I'm that type. I'm calm. I'm not a violent man. You know, my uncle told my uncle raised me and he said, don't ever hit no woman. Don't ever leave, walk out the door, run. He said, you can't run out the door. He said, but you're going to be all right. I live by that. You know, I live by that. And I teach my kids, you know, don't hit no woman. No, no, no, no, no, no. Because when you get a divorce, my brother, I don't know what it is. I don't know who made this rule up. But the man always got to start from the bottom. I just don't understand that. Why do we have to start from the bottom? We done built all this up and then they just take it away. You know, I don't get that. I need to talk to some judges. I need to tell you, y'all need to work it out. But man, we can split something. Come on. We was in this thing together, player. You know what I'm saying? But you know, you know, it just, it just life, you know, it's life. And that's how the law is. That's how I set up. And I encourage every young man to have children, take care of kids, no matter what. You know, when I got a divorce with my first wife, man, I was hoping she had a new dude. I was praying to God, saying, Father God, in the name of Jesus, please let her have a new dude. Please God, please answer my prayer. If you real, answer me, you know, and she did, you know, and, but you know, some, some things you got to let go because I was told you never make it. You'll never make it. You, you fat people going to laugh at you because you're fat. And I said, well, I'll tell you what, I see you on TV. And here I am right here. 36 years later, man. Still doing it. Still loving it. And people always say you have 15 minutes of fame. 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So Bruce, one of the questions I usually ask all my guests at the very beginning and I want to wait right here to ask you is what is your because, right? Like we hear start with why and what's your why. And I think your why is superficial, right? Like your why is probably your kids, your wife or whatever. There's a reason that they're your why. And I call that your because. So if I were to say, Bruce, Bruce, man, it is 2026. You could have stopped a long time ago, right? But you still got it. You still keep going. What's your because? What's your purpose? Why do you keep doing what you do? Well, I can remember when I first started to ask your question and so many ways. I remember my first thought it was a comedian didn't like me and he would never put me up. Never put me up. I could have easily walked away. You know, I could have easily said, you know what, man, forget this man. I ain't gonna put up with this dude, but I didn't because I just it was something there. Some kept telling me keep pushing, keep pushing. And we have always been tall. I've always been taught to press your weight. So, you know, I do it because I love it. I love what I do when I went on stage the first time I knew I didn't know, but I knew that's why I should have been my whole entire life. I knew it like I have comedies. I go to him and I say, Hey, man, got a show for you, man. I want you to do it with me. First thing they say, I was just paying. I said, hold it, player. Hold up. You even been seeing walking by TV. Much less on TV. And you asked me how much they pay. I say, when I ask you or tell you about a show, I'm gonna make sure that you get paid. I said, but the key thing is don't do it for the money. Do it for the love. Let me tell you something. Don't ever run it money. Let the money run it. And it's just that something. But that's why I got three. I'm an older guy, man. I got older. My kids are old. My baby girl is 40. My baby boy was 42. My oldest son 45. When I tell people that they don't believe it, but I was laying it down back in the day. I would have been proud of the player. You know what I'm saying? You've been proud of. I was laying it down, man, like a player. But my kids now, I like the best thing in the world to me. And my grandkids are even better. You know, I love kids. So I got 10 grandkids, man. And my grandkids are like my heart. You know, and they're so pure and so innocent. And they come talk to me about everything. I'm talking about everything. I got grown grandkids and they talk to me about everything. And I just let it on them right. Like, Mark did me. Mark used to tell me, look, I'm going to give you the good and the bad and the ugly. He said, you got sense enough to pick the good and bad and ugly, right? I said, yes sir. He said, all right, I'm going to let you make that decision. That's how he was, you know? So, you know, he give you a chance to make the right decision. Now you go left. He like, oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, come down. You ain't thinking now. Thinking about what you, think about what you're doing before you make this crazy decision. So that's why I did my kids and man, they, you know, like I said, my baby boy 42, he went to Fayetteville State University in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He was Mr. Fayetteville State. You know, he got three degrees. Amen. I mean, I went to college, you know, dropped my cousin off. But look. But you know, that just hide it, but you just got to communicate in every aspect of life, man. Like my manager and I, we go back and forth on stuff sometime. I get hot here. Bruce, I understand what you're saying, Bruce. I understand. But listen, I get hot. I get the hollering and hooping and did here. Try to give me a different point of view. And I go, I said, well, let me think about that for a minute. So sometime you need that, you don't need a brother cheering you on all the time. You need somebody to pull your rotin. Say, amen. Hold up. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Before you do that, think about what you're doing because it'll cause you in the long run. So that's what it's all about. Yeah, I love it. I love it. And here you talk about your kids, man. It takes me back to the joke on the special about your daughter. Oh, yeah. And you know what? You know what? Let me tell you something. This one lady said, I didn't like that junkie told about your daughter. I said, well, my daughter's 40. She's been married 18 years, going on 19 years. She got married. She was 21. I say, and I counsel her and I counsel her from the beginning, but he asked me for her hand in marriage. I told her he can get her, but he can't bring her back. I said, you cannot bring her back. And when they say, who give this woman, I pushed her. You know, you like to say, I pushed her up. I said, look, but if a lot of fathers and mothers stop talking at their kids and talk to your kids, you can get your point across and a lot of divorces wouldn't happen. See, you're like, I don't like that. You did about your daughter. So if your dad would talk to you, you probably wouldn't have had three husbands right now. Right. And then she looked at me. Well, it was funny, no, but I just don't think you should have said that to your daughter. Well, I'm going to tell her and I'm going to communicate with her because they cannot move back in my house. Did you hear what I said? They cannot move back in my, I'm sorry. I called the police. I said, I know them, but they need to need the premises right now. Hey, you got it rolling. And I know how busy you are. So I don't want to keep you long, man, but I just, again, I wanted to tell you thank you. You talk about fatherhood a lot. You talk about your family a lot and that inspired me. I mean, I would say even with my kids now, we're at a point where. I'm no longer dad. I mean, I'm still going to be dad. Right. But we are friends, right? And we can have conversation as friends. And just like you, when they come to me for dad, it's more like the counseling, the advice and outside of that, like we are friends and I got that from you, man, like hearing all the things that you do following you for as long as I have to be a present father, I think is the most important skill that all fathers can have. And one thing we got to understand kids grow up and they become adults. So you got to talk to them like adults. Now, I could tell you, man, I use every day, every single day when my ex-wife and I got divorced, I call my kids every single day. I mean, every single day, not a day miss. I call him, Hey, dad, when they answer the phone, you thought I've been gone for 30 years. How you doing? They're so happy to hear from me. But my uncle told me, look here, he say, you get into the boys. He said, I understand that. He say, but somebody in this relationship got to have some sense. And he said, don't seem like she got none. He said, so it's going to have to be you to make sense and make things right. He said, I don't care who you see or what, what she say or what she do. He says, your job as a man to take care of them kids. He said, now you, if you do what I tell you, you're going to come out on top. I never get, he said this. He say, oh, might not be here to see it. He said, I might be dead and gone. He said, but when it happened, you're going to think about me. And he was exactly right. I kept my kids every weekend, not every other week, every weekend, because I was in love with my kids. I was in love with a man. We had so much fun. I was almost like their brother because I played with them constantly over and over, constantly. And they knew me. They would tell me anything. Even as a child, they would tell me everything, anything. And that's the kind of relationship you've got to have with your children, man. Because a lot of guys, they think, well, I'm sitting child support. That ain't got nothing to do with it, man. Do you know your child? Like my dad, my mom and dad, when I was four or five years old, right? I found my dad when I was 40. We talking 35, 36 years later. And when I met him, when I got up with him, he was on the defense, but he thought I was fit to come at him. You know, man, where you been? First of all, I don't know you. Only thing I know is that you're my dad. I just want to talk to you. I say, man, how you doing? I say, I got three kids. You got three grandkids. And I say, I got a son just like you. And man, you can see the relief from his whole spirit of his body. Just like, man, is that right, man? He said, show now, he got to talking. And then he realized that did I saw telling him stuff I remember as a child. He said, you remember that? I said, yeah, man, I remember everything about you. I said, I did. I don't know you, but I know I got a lot of your ways because my dad was a worker, Harley. He took care of family. My mama ran them off. She did, you know, whatever they gon' tell you to. And before my mother passed, she said, yeah, I did run them off. I ran that joke off, man. I read, you know, and she knows she did. You know what I'm saying? But most of these guys be mad at their dad. Man, the joke did my mama wrong. First of all, hold it. You don't know the whole story. See, it's three sides of every story. Her side, his side, and truth. You know what I'm saying? So find out the truth before you start blaming that you, he won around. He won doing it. It's the reason why he not around. She doesn't tell him he been out coming. And then she got some old stupid joke she go with, you know what I'm saying? Smoking by the floor. Right, Roy? No, look, I don't need him over here. You understand? I don't need him over here at the house. I'm telling you, you know, so we got to understand what's going on and learn to talk, not learn to argue, scream, and holler. Ain't got to hang with all that. I tell the young boy, now I got too old to fight. I'm trigger happy. I'm telling you, I'm trigger happy. I will pop him. They will see Jesus and they will touch the hymn of his garment. Did you hear what I said? I'm telling you that, man. We have gone to church. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. With the man himself. Bruce Bruce, man. Again, love you. The floor is yours. Where do you want people to know what you got coming up? We talk a lot about trends on this show and AI is the one that just won't quit. But here's the thing. Talking about AI doesn't make you more productive. Actually putting it to work does. And that's what Zapier did for me. Zapier is an AI orchestration platform that connects top AI models like chat GPT and Claude to the apps your team already uses. 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Go to my social medias at mybrusbrus. That's Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, all that. At mybrusbrus. Tell me your likes and dislikes because if it's something you don't like, tell me. Give me a chance to fix it. I'm not going to take it personally. Just tell me I can fix it. I don't walk around with security. That ain't my style. I'm from the hood of Atlanta. I don't see it at all. You cannot scare me. I don't see junk will just walk out in the bushes. Just for no way. You walk down the sidewalk. Hey, man, what's that? What are you doing in the bushes over there? What are you doing in the bushes? I don't see it at all. It's all about life, man. Sometimes, just like you told me earlier, I help you do a lot of things. I help myself do a lot of things. I grew up in a church. I grew up in a holiness church. I went to Baptist Church, holiness church. I don't do it at all, man. The key thing is just keep it real. Keep it real with yourself and keep it real with everybody else. It'll make it a lot better for you. The doors of the church are open. The doors are open. I'm going to be in Greenville. I'm going to be the company's owner. I'm telling you, if you miss this, you're going to miss a treat because the tickets are going fast. I'm letting everybody know now. Every time I go to Greenville, I start to let it sell out. Ice coming out years ago. Years ago, man. They used to do comedy in the hotel. This is the photo club we got there. Greenville show love, man. I'm going to come and they go to SNS cafeteria because they took the one away down here in Atlanta. I don't know why. But then I go to SNS cafeteria in South Carolina. I see the same workers that was in Atlanta working up there. I go show love. I tip good. I treat the people good. People take pictures. They talk for themselves. They talk for themselves. They talk for themselves. They talk for themselves. They talk for themselves. They talk for themselves. They talk for themselves. They talk for themselves. They talk for themselves. They talk for themselves. They talk for themselves. They talk for themselves. They talk for themselves. They talk for themselves. They talk for themselves. They talk for themselves. They talk for themselves. They talk for themselves. They talk for themselves. They talk for themselves. They talk for themselves. They talk for themselves. They talk for themselves. but I want every single moment of it, brother. Well, I'm gonna tell you, it's three snacks that I like. I ain't gonna tell them, they between me and you. It's three snacks that I like. I like who's the queen on this. And I like the Cinnabon. And I like that Lil Debra Zebra cake. Let me tell you something, if you bring a Lil Debra Zebra cake, I'll fight it out in that club. You hear me? And I'm not afraid of it. Watch what's gonna happen. Watch what you do. Boy, let me tell you something. That Lil Debra Zebra cake? Oh, my goodness. Look here. I know there's a God in heaven. I know there's a God in heaven. Amen to that. So I'm gonna have links to everything and the show notes in the descriptions. I'm gonna run a little teaser and trailer because Bruce Bruce will be in Greenville, South Carolina this week at the Comedy Zone. Make sure you are there. If you're too late, you're too late. That's all I got. It's Friday, Saturday, Sunday. I will be there. I will be there. Yes, sir. Bruce, again, brother, thank you so much for all that you do. Thank you for who you are. And thank you for the mentorship. We didn't even talk about that, but thank you for the mentorship because you know how I can tell when a man is good, when they like seeing other people win above themselves. Absolutely. Absolutely. My granddad always said he'd leave the room. He said, look here, we didn't know what it means, but we knew it was something like a Pip move. He said, if you fall off the mattress, I will see you through the spray. You know what I'm saying? Now, we didn't know what it meant, but we just knew it was something different. And we thought it was a Pip move. My granddad was a dude, man. So, hey, man, it's love to you, man, forever for life. And check out the next thing that's special. Tell everybody they got a TV. The C Bruce Bruce on Netflix. I ain't playing. He ain't playing. Bruce Bruce, I ain't playing. It is it. Netflix, go get it. Bruce, love you, brother. Love you too. Viewers and listeners, remember, you're because is your superpower. That's another powerful conversation on Mick Unplugged. If this episode moved you, and I'm sure it did, follow the show wherever you listen. Share it with someone who needs that spark and leave a review so more people can find there because I'm Rudy Rush. And until next time, stay driven, stay focused, and stay Unplugged.