Club Shay Shay - Mojo Brookzz Part 2

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But I'm going to tell you, somebody who is two comedians that I think of this generation that I think going to end up being really good comedic actors. And that's Drew Ski and Jack Funney from Detroit. It's a comedian name. I'm going to send them to you. Do dope. You know what I'm saying? And he kind of remind me a little bit of Mike Epps, but he got his own flavor to it. But those two, I think they got the potential to really be really great comedic actors. You're close to Monique. I've had Monique on it. And Monique is brother there, sister there. She's very motherly. She's very nurturing. But she knows she's not everybody's flavor. She's not everybody cup of tea. But I think she has some great advice. I think people have done it wrong. When she called people out, they have a problem with that. What is it about Monique that called you to gravitate towards Monique? You know what? It was Monique showed me things about this business before I even got the opportunity to see them. Right? And we would get on the phone. We would talk. She would give me advice. She would come to shows at little small comedy clubs that we would be doing and support. And she would always have some feedback on what she thought. I think some of the stuff that she went through was unfortunate, you know what I'm saying? But speaking up for yourself ain't never been nothing wrong. And she always kept it real though. She always like, she would say this, no matter how she felt about whoever she felt about, she would say, listen, if Oprah called, you better go. Regardless of how I feel about her, you better go because my fight ain't your fight. I like that. And you know what I'm saying? You know, I did the Ms. Governor show that was directed and produced by Tyler Perry. And when I did that, regardless of how she felt about TV, she called me, she was like, hey, you know how I feel? But congratulations, I'm about to watch the show right now. So, you know, she just one of those people that's like, hey, my beef is my beef, whether you love me or not. You know what I'm saying? If people get on the internet and they get to talking about her and she y'all tell it, don't y'all get in the comments or get in that, y'all stay out of that. This is my fight, but I'm just trying to show y'all how to speak up, you know, have your own voice. And she like, if it's something that you don't like, speak up, say something. So, no, Monique is definitely like, I mean, we just was texting the other day. And the first thing she texts, baby, how does fame feel? And I'm like, Auntie, you know, I'm adjusting, I'm getting used to it, but she like, well, you already know if you need, you want to talk, you guys, you need to ask some questions, call me, I'm here for you. So she always been like, she always been like that for me. I can't talk about everybody else's experience, but I know to me, she's always been welcome in. I've been on movie sets and watching her film movies. I've been to shows, I went to a Netflix special when she shot it. So, you know what I'm saying? She's always been, you know, a sweet person to me. And she just, you know, she just one of them ones that don't, she don't play. When did you realize that you wanted to do comedy? It felt great. It felt great. When I saw that burning night. When you saw Burning Man. You said, this is what I want to do. No, you know what? I ain't going to say that that was the exact moment, but, you know, my brother and his wife, they used to always be, you know, had me come over to the house and I was promoting parties at first. So I used to throw these parties. Party promoter. Man, then with the days, I was getting ripped off by them club owners, but man, we used to throw parties, man. And, you know, after the parties, there always be something and I would go to my brother house and I'd be talking to him and his wife. And I'm telling them, you know, what happened at the party and they'd be cracking up laughing. They'd be like, man, you need to do comedy. And I'm like, stand up. They like, I'm like, I don't know if I could do that. Right. So my sister passed away in 2013. Sorry to hear that. Yeah. And before she passed, she just, I remember, it was she, they gave her like, she was on hospice. They gave her like two days to live. And my sister smoked weed. And she smoked weed to the last day she was here. I remember I went to go see her, man. She was in a bathtub, taking a bath. That was the only thing used to make her feel better was her weed in her bathtub. And she had cancer like all throughout her body. And I remember she was in the bathtub and she had a blunt and she was in and out and the blunt had fell in the tub. And I walked in the bathroom and I reached in the tub and I grabbed her blunt and she woke up and she looked at me. And she was like, she's like, you think she was like, brother, I said, what? She was like, you think I'm gonna die? And it was in that moment, like I'm looking at her and I'm like, I'm like, no, like you gonna be all right. But she was like, no. She was like, but promise me this, promise me that you gonna do something. And I remember that, I remember trying to hand her a blunt. She wasn't strong enough to lift her hand up. She said, just put it in my mouth. I put the blunt in her mouth and I walked out and I remember I went and sat on the front porch at the building that she was living in. My parents were on the building in Chicago that she was having her hospice care there. And I sat on the porch and I had to, I kept replaying the conversation. Like, you just gotta do something. And she passed away the next day. And four months later, I had started doing comedy and I never. That was your youngest sister? No, no, that was my oldest sister. She was 32 years old at the time. And I mean, Shannon, she was a warrior. My sister had been shot. You know what I'm saying? She had been shot several times, a few times she had been shot. And she had cancer. She had cancer for so long. Like we didn't even, we didn't even, like she was. She come on and tell you, she go, you had to go and got cancer. You like, oh, you been dealing with her. You been dealing with her, you good. You good. And the brother used to take her to appointments and you know, what had, what ended up happening was the cancer had, they had got control of it. And she was in this abusive relationship with this guy. And the dude shot her. And when she went to the hospital to, they had to do like an emergency surgery on her. And when they cut her open to do it, you know, when that air hit the cancer, to spray it. So trying to save her life from that. So she wouldn't have to use the bathroom through a bag for the rest of her life. She ended up having a surgery. And yeah, that was it. Like after that, you know, it went down hill pretty, you know, pretty fast, but it was just, that was like the moment there where I was like, I gotta do something. Right. So like, and that was, that was it. She was, she was like the last thing to push me over. Like, let me go try this. Do you remember what it was like the first time you got on stage? Yeah. Yeah. It was four people there. Huh? It was four people there. Did you know that it was like, was it open mic or something? No, it was like, we had put our own showcase on. It was four people there. And it was my mom, my cousins, and it was two other people there that I didn't know. And I remember going on stage and I'm trying to tell these stories, but it wasn't like a real good, it wasn't like a real good, you know, body of work for me to go out, you know, for me to go off of, you know, to say like, okay, this is going to be it. But the night that I bombed, cause I ended up bombing maybe a few, a few years later, like once I was really getting into it and my social media followers started going up, I ended up bombing real bad. And they didn't boo me, but it was quiet. And I remember I'm on stage and I got this suit on. And before I went on stage, it was a host and do nothing from Chicago, nothing comedian stick. And he brought me up and he was talking about my suit. So I was just like, Tevin Campbell. And I mean, he went in on me and then he goes up. He goes up, he does this time and brings me up. So I go out there and the suit was tight, like how you be wearing yours. And somebody yelled out, somebody yelled out like, man, ain't nobody trying to listen to you with that tight ass suit on. And I started clapping back at the crowd. I mean, it was like 300 people there. I mean, they dying laughing. And then I went to them jokes that I thought I had and it was like, it was just, started getting quiet. And you know, they got this thing when you're on stage and you're doing comedy, when your time is up, they'll flash a light at you. And at this time I didn't know they're adequate. So I'm like, why are they flashing this light at me? And somebody yelled out, that mean? Cause it's time for you to get your ass off the stage. And I was so hurt. And I was like, man, take the microphone. So I went and I sat down and I had to listen to every single comedian go up after me talk about how I had just bombed. And I sat there and I watched it. And I remember sitting there saying, I don't never want to feel like this again. So when I left, I got in the car, the girl I was talking to at the time, this one I knew I really bombed cause as we was driving and I was quiet. And I remember a girl looking over at me and I look over at her and she was like, you okay? You okay? If you get off stage and somebody asks if you okay, you know what just happened. And she asked me if I was okay. And I was like, I will be. You should ask them, baby, how you think I did? I wouldn't ask that. I know, I'm a very self-aware person. But you know, but you know how you had done it. I know it. I know it. You do a lot of crowd work. Are you ever worried about somebody? Because you get on people, hey, you told the one joke like, I know that ain't your lady. You hear with somebody. Yeah. Do you ever get worried about somebody rushing the stage cause they gonna, hey, I hope you can squabble. I understand you from shy, but hey. Let me tell you something. Come on that stage if you want to. I know you got your brother with you, but he might not be able to get there in time. Come up there if you want to. You gonna put the, you gonna put the, the, the stand on it? I don't need none of that. Shannon, I don't need nothing. I'm chatting. Oh, you gonna squabble? I'm a squabble. If I, if we got to fight about it, you want to fight about some words. We can fight about it. Damn. But my thing is this, before I go on stage, the number one thing that's important in my prayers that I always ask God to allow me to be funny and not offensive. Okay. So, you know, when I'm in those interactions, I'm able to read when it's like, okay, he ain't feeling this and this may go left. And I know how to go. You leave it alone. I know how to leave it alone. Cause you know what dude looking at sitting there looking like, all right, all right. Bro, I didn't, I didn't have to do stand up before him. It was like, I come up there. That happened recently. He like, I come up there. I said, but come on. You gonna, what Eddie Murphy say? You gonna live back. But no man, I ain't lying to you, bro. You know, it's just always about being aware, knowing people and you know, being able, you watching, you know, I'm the whole show. I'm, I'm seeing these people. Right. So it's like, you know, but the moment you see, you can see when somebody's uncomfortable or they not really with it. And you know, you just gotta, you gotta move on. You know what I'm saying? So I think a lot of times you see a lot of dudes, they stay on it. Like they stay on it. And that's when it escalates. Man, let that go now. Yeah, let it go. Just move on. What's the craziest thing to happen to you at a show? Crazed thing happened to me at a show. A lady, a lady kissed me on my mouth. You put a little tongue in her? No. Not allowed to leave a little bit? I was mad. What you mad? How she look? You know what? Actually, she wasn't bad looking. She was not bad looking, but I didn't want it. What? That's okay. It's okay for us not to want shit sometimes. You know what I'm saying? Think about it. If it's a lady, a nice pretty lady outside that I see, I can't just walk out there and kiss her in the mouth. No, you, no, you're going to jail. So how does that respect for me? I'm a king. Love yourself. You got a number, didn't you? Huh? You got a number. That's what I thought. I did not get a number. You got a number to age, and you got a number. Have somebody made a phone call live during your show? Who'd you get? Tell us about the story about the guy you was on, and you was like, I know you here with somebody. I know that's not your people. Wait, wait, wait. Okay, you begin, your crowd work, you do a lot of crowd. I've had, I have, so I think what the phone call thing is, is like I might ask somebody like, hey, who you here with? Right. And they might be like, oh, this my friend. Oh, you in a relationship? Yeah, well, with who? Where they at? Oh, with my man at home, we'll call him. Let's call him, let's talk to him, let's see if he really, No, he'll say no, no, no, no. No, they be, I be calling. They give me the phones, I be calling people. So you know your girl here with the, I don't be, I don't be dressin' and shit like that, but I'd be like, you know your girl there? She had to come here, okay, you know she in with, right? And they'll know, but you know, it's always, it was one dude that was at the show one time and he was bad self. And I called his lady to say, hey, all these girls in here been trying to talk to him all night long, he been turning them down. You know what I'm saying? He been turning them down. So I feel like when he get home, you should go ahead. Do what you supposed to do. Do what you supposed to do, you know what I'm saying? So it just depends on how it go. I mean, you get on the phone, you know, at that point, that's when the improv and that's when you, your community time, they gotta tap in. You gotta make it funny because you could call sometimes and they might not answer. Or you might call sometimes and they might really be mad. And you gotta know how to, you know, control. Why are you in a country with a comedy show with it? Yeah. You don't like comedy? You don't like me? Yeah, I had one dude at the show one time with his lady. He came by himself, his lady wasn't there. I was like, where she at? He like, she back at home at her father's funeral. I'm like, well, why you ain't there? He like, I wanted to come see you. Damn. You might not be in a relationship when you get back home. That's what I told him. I said, her father died, you supposed to be there. He said, nah, I don't know where you coming back. I said, well, I guess you know he ain't coming back. Yeah. He's like, nah, Mo is like, because you guys have social media, you get an opportunity to attract the audience a lot sooner. Because, and maybe this is kind of why some of the OGs are kind of like a resentful of you guys. Oh my God. Because they had to go, the Chitlin circuit, they had to go little club, little club, little club for years and years and years in order to build up a following. Absolutely. You guys can do a skit or you can do something funny, kind of like what you do, what Desi Banks does, what Druski does and build up, get a million followers in little of no time. And you got a following where they had to work to build that following. And maybe some, that's what brings some of the resentment towards you guys. You know what, man? I feel like this whole thing is so dumb. Yeah. Right? Because it's like, yeah, they had to go from this comedy club to that comedy club, this comedy club, that comedy club. And nobody knocking it, that's real work. You had to be seen, you had to be chosen. Yes. Well, we living in the era now where we, you don't gotta be chosen. You can make your own way. You know what I'm saying? And to me, you know, just like anything else in this world, comedy has evolved. Yes. Until then. And how people choose it. Just because you do skits, you know what I'm saying? They don't not make you valid. Right. You know what I'm saying? And I think the comedians that's able to transition from online to the stage like me, like the Desi Banks, like the DCF Live. Country Wayne. Like the country, definitely shout out the country Wayne. Yeah, yep. Like the country Wayne. When you got them type of guys, you know what I'm saying? That's been able to make that transition. You know, doing them skits ain't easy. No. Because if it was, the OG comedians that's complaining about it, they would do it. You see what I'm saying? I do. Like if we've been able, y'all, they said, we couldn't do this and come play their game. And I just named you the comedians that do that and we go play their game. So if what we do is so easy to set up a camera and do this and do that, and it's guiding us where we're guiding, if it's so easy, why haven't y'all transitioned today? If this is the way to go? I think the thing is, Mo, is that they look at you guys and it's almost like a microwave that you have success so instantly. Like two, three minutes. And they like, man, it took us years, it took us 10, 15 years to build this, but we're a different age now. Man, listen to him. I mean, you had to pay your bills, you had to send a check in, now you can pay it online. Yeah, but I've been doing this for, I've been doing this for, this'll be my 12th year. You know what I'm saying? People really just now, like maybe over the last four years are just now starting to find out about it. So we take the 12 minus the four, that put us in eight. That was eight years of me making skits and going to do shows that maybe only 50 to 80 people was at, is that not? Is that not worth it? Nothing considered at a grind? You know what I'm saying? So it's just like, you know, I think people just look at it like we just setting up a camera and we just doing this, but it's stuff that go into that. You know, you do, you do realize and Andrew Scholes told me that. He said, what making money, the easier it is that people think it is to make money, the more envious they become of you. So people think that just because you can sit up a camera and have a microphone, it's like doing podcasts. It's like, it's not that easy. It's not. And the fact of the matter is that a lot of people like I want to do a podcast. They'll have any day I say, you know, for the most part during football season, I do five shows of night camp. I do two shows, probably two shows a week of club, Shay Shay, so man, that's too much work. But listen to me. I said this earlier, why get mad at me for doing what you're not willing to do? Thank you. That's all it is. You're not willing to do it. But see that you not will. Because I'm doing something that you're not willing to do. Now I sold my soul. Now I'm a part of the Illuminati. Yeah. Yeah. That's what it is because I, because you weren't willing to do that. You know what I'm saying? You got to think about it. This part of it hands down the hottest podcast in the game. Appreciate you man. You understand what I'm saying? And we saw, I just seen Kat Williams on a few podcasts. None of them did. Right. You know what I'm saying? So it's the ingredient in what you're cooking with. You got the ingredient. Yeah. You cook it. We work at it. And people, and I think the thing is more, a lot of the time when I tell people is that within the first couple of minutes, the people that come on my pod, they realize I'm not judgmental. I'm not here to judge them. No matter. Because I feel you have a story to tell. You can tell your story without putting its most salacious detail on full display. Absolutely. People tell me things that they haven't said on any other podcasts and people, well you messy. How am I messy? You do realize if somebody tells you a story and you only hear that person's side of the story, you be a messy. Because the other person didn't say anything. Here's the thing. I've never heard you, I've never heard, all I've ever seen you do is listen. That's it. That's it. And my thing is, if somebody sit here and y'all doing the interview and they talking like, when I'm supposed to say, hold on, you can't say that because I don't know if that's true. Right. Thank you. So I get, I understand a thousand percent the seat that you sit in. And I think a lot of times people, you know, like you said, man they just wanna find something, you know, with everything. You know what it was though? Moe. And when people ask, I said, let me ask you this. Some people that have podcasts, I said, if Kat was on your podcast and was saying exactly what he said on my podcast, would you have stopped him? Hell no. So why you mad at me that I didn't stop him? But it's just like, who are you to stop him though? Like who are you to, like, why would you say, now you can't say Ricky Smiley, right when it was supposed to be money? Just like when Ricky said what he said, I didn't stop him. When said said what he said, I didn't stop him. It's too sad. My thing is, Three sides, it's the truth. It's they side, it's the ocean. I don't know, because I don't live in that world. Yeah. And I think the thing is, what a lot of people got upset about is that Kat peeled a layer back that unless you walk in though and live in that world, you didn't know. You didn't know. So people didn't know that they had, I didn't know it was like that. Oh, you'd be surprised. Comedy beef is like the rap game. Comedy beef is like, bro, listen, when I saw the interview, I wasn't like surprised, you know what I'm saying? Because even early on, even early on in my experience of coming up in this game, I was doing a show in 2018, and I'm not gonna say nothing to comedians, but I've seen a bunch of comedians just standing around talking about one comedian. Right. Talking about just one comedian. And right after that, every single one of those comedians that I've seen having that conversation about that one comedian, I've all seen them at some point with that one comedian. You know what I'm saying? So it's just like, bro, at the end of the day, bro, people be hating. They do. But you know what? They only hate when you're successful. If you're doing bad, ain't nobody hating. Ain't nobody got nothing to say. If it's not until you're doing better than now, until now it's like, oh, he ain't that funny, or he ain't this, or he had to do that, or he only got that because of this. And it's just like, bro, run your race. Yes. Forget what he doing. I agree. Forget what he doing. Like, where am I? What are we? Why am I focused on what he's doing? Right. You know what I'm saying? When I need to be putting more into what I'm doing, I think it's just too much carrying on about what other people doing. Man, run your race. When I'm with them, when they running them races, you don't never see one of them look over to see what this one at. Yeah. When you run the race, if I'm in lane three, I can't be in lane five. I can't be over there. I gotta be in my lane. I can't be over there. But, you know, that thing, that's what people just need to focus on themselves, focus on your career, on your journey. And wherever the chips late, let them late. Social media comedians, we mentioned it yourself, Druski, Dezzy, Country Wayne. Country Wayne. I mean, you see you guys, and all of a sudden it starts out as social media. And I think the thing is that the OGs want to say, okay, yeah, y'all funny on social media, but go in that club. Yeah. Because doing skits, you can't do no skit, can't do no skit on stage. No stage, no. You gotta just tell them jokes. Yeah, bring it. Hey, gotta be funny. Whether you telling a story or you just rapping five. Yeah, you gotta have something. You gotta have something. You know what? You know, I've seen all those dudes, you just mentioned Country Wayne, I've seen DC, I've seen Dezzy. And, you know, the one thing that I could say about all of us is that we really did put the work in. You know what I'm saying? And I think for a little while, we was putting it in to be accepted by these OG comedians, you know what I'm saying? And you will be trying to go and trying to go and trying to prove and trying to prove and trying to prove. And I'm gonna tell you something right now. And this is to whoever coming up behind me or whoever coming up behind, whoever, whether you coming or not. Listen, don't worry about what they talking about. Don't worry about it. Don't put that pressure on yourself. To feel like you gotta do this because of what this comedian gonna say or what this comedian think about with your journey. Run your race. Do the work. Take it serious. That's the biggest thing I think with the OGs though. They feel like, I feel like they think a lot of the guys not taking it serious. They just out here getting the money. You know what I'm saying? And when you do got guys out there that just going on stage and getting the money and they not producing a show, it hurts the industry and its whole. You know what I'm saying? Because I'm gonna tell you something. This social media comics that didn't come before me that couldn't do nothing on the stage. And when it's my turn to walk through the door, now they a little hesitant to give me what I want because of what he did. Yeah, he failed. So that's my thing. Just be intentional about it. If you wanna do it, do the work. Study, do the work. Just because you threw him the ball and he dropped it, that don't mean you don't throw it to me. Throw it to me, I will catch it. He dropped. I'm gonna catch it. I'm gonna catch it. L.A. kept throwing you the ball. He kept throwing it to you. Are there any guys that you wanna, who have you collab with? I don't know if you collab with Danzie or you collab with Country Wayne or Drusky or any of these guys. Is there anybody you wanna collab with? You know, me and Danzie been talking about doing something together for sure. Definitely would love to work with Drusky. Me and Country Wayne, we didn't talk about doing, I mean, we do a lot of talking about it. A lot of us, we busy, but I think, the conversation that we've had, especially me and Danzie, has been very intentional about getting something done. But I think for our generation of comedians, we gotta, we need that. Yeah. Like we need that. And me and Danzie was talking a couple of weeks ago and I was like, bro, we gotta put out a movie. We gotta do something. We gotta do something. Cause I like to see the OGs. I like to see when I'm looking, I see Bruce Bruce and LaVell Crawford, or I see some more. And I see a lot of the people that I saw on Comic View and Death Comedy Jam. And I see these people touring together. That makes me feel good. Yeah, I mean, like I said, me and Danzie, as far as like doing shows, it's definitely me and Danzie, it's definitely talked about coming together and potentially doing a tour together. And I think for the culture, I think that'll be dope. Have you seen the TikTok influencers that are not doing any good anymore? The TikTok, they showing a trend, a past influencer that we're doing really well, but now they're working regular job. I ain't saying that. Yeah. Damn, who they happen to? But you know, man, that's what I tell people at the time. Everybody wanna be an influencer. And you know, you hear about all this money you can make on that. But what people need to understand is, those are not our platforms. At any given moment, they can change the algorithm. They can change the, and you have to be able to have something. You have to be able to adapt. So my thing of it has always been, bro, like I told you in 2020, man, I was bringing in about $60,000 to $80,000 a month on Facebook. Damn. Yeah. Now they're gonna cut it down, you can only make, ask them out, they make, but it used to give you like, what, $5,000, $6,000. Now they're gonna cut that thing down like $1,500, $200. Man, I ain't that low, but. But they can cut it, because Matt Wright said the same thing. Listen, you know what, my guy Treymo, a comedian that's from Birmingham, Alabama, he told me this a long time ago, as far as the YouTube and all that, it's peaks and valleys to it. So he's always here with me, when you hot, make sure you take a little bit of that money and you put it up. Because you don't know when the algorithm might change. When they gonna change the algorithm, they gonna change, they change. And they don't call you and say, hey, we'll let you know next month you ain't making $80, you gonna make $2,500. You know what I'm saying? So you gotta, with that, I feel like, you know, it's real. If you're a social media influencer and you're doing all of that, you making the money, take that money and invest that into something, a business, or if you're getting all these followers, find you something to sell. You know what I'm saying? In my case, it's tickets. Yeah, because that's the way Matt Wright, we had him on, he said the same thing. He said, I got 20 million TikTok and because you changed the algorithm, now they can't see the stuff that I'm doing. They only show your stuff to 10% of the people that follow you in the next. Yeah, because they don't want you to get too big now. Then you won't need them. Then you won't need them. So you gotta remember, this is not yours. It's your page, but it ain't your platform. Jack funny, you mentioned him that he's a guy. Remember you used to the video encouraging Jack funny after he had a bad set. So when you had your bad set, you said you really didn't have no OGs, but your girl, you was driving home and you were like, you all right. Yeah, I am. You was encouraging, it happened to everybody. We gotta fight, you gotta fight back. And Jack really, that particular night was a homecoming show for me. And Jack, I have been talking to Jack like, man, you should try and stand up. Just for the very reason that we're talking about. I know he's killing it online, but bro, you need another, I don't think people really understand how much money is in stand up. If you got a following, you got people that's willing to come see you, man, there's some paper out there. And I'm telling him like, bro, people wanna see you. So I'm like, man, you gotta figure out a way to try to expand on it. And he was like, well, I wanna try to stand up. Now to his defense, it's on me because the night that he bombed, it was a thousand people in the audience. And he wasn't ready for that. You know what I'm saying? And me knowing what I know, I knew. I knew like, and he might not be ready for this. And we talked and he's like, no, I'm ready. I'm ready. And he went up there and I didn't, I was watching it from the side. And one thing about me, I don't like to see people bombed. No. It's just some about it. So I went back. It hurts you. Yeah. And so I went back downstairs and I remember he came back down and everybody was coming to my dressing room. Like, hey, bomb, they booing them. So when he got downstairs, that's when I went to the dressing room. I didn't even know that they were filming. I didn't know it was cameras out. But it was just like, I know the feeling though. You know, I know what it's like to go up and you don't deliver and you sitting there like, damn, like, you know, am I funny or not? And it's like, hey bro, you stepping into some new territory. A lot of dudes wouldn't even went out there. You did the hardest part. You know what I'm saying? I said, let's figure something out. I said, come to the room. We're going to figure something out. He came to my room. He told me a little bit of stuff he said. We punched it up. He went back out there. He had a better set. But it's to me, bro, I'm one of them dudes where I want to see everybody win. You winning is not going to stop my motion. No. It's not going to stop my motion. Because once for you, it's going to happen to you. It's not going to stop my motion. So when he was, so me picking them up and telling them, hey man, go right back out there. Go get it again. You know what I'm saying? That's because I want to see you win. Right. I really want to have, I really, at one point, we all going on vacation and we all talking about that time compared to right now where we all doing well. So with Jack, it was just like, hey, let me pick them up. Because I didn't want that to put a sour taste in his mouth from what stand up comedy really is. So there money in comedy? You know, I'm sitting on about a thousand yos, Mo. Come on now. Come on now. Let me tell you something. We're going to a together. They are lutter here, what you got to say. We can get it set up. My manager here right now. Let's get it set up. Let's get it set up. Mojo and Shay Shay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Coming to a city near you. I know you fucking like that. That's it everybody too. You've been on a lot of Tyler Perry production. I've been on one. One? Yes. You want to go no more? Would you do you want to, you know, try, you know, go over like, OK, I'm standing up. Because you see that seems like that's a lot of natural progression. You see pride. You see Murphy. You see Martin. Definitely want to. Jamie, you see all these guys and that seems to be the natural progression. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Seinfeld. Yeah, I definitely want to act. And I would definitely work with Tyler Perry again. I would. Absolutely. You know what, man? TP, just a quick story about him. That show we did, Miss Governor, I remember we showed up. We showed up to that. And I hadn't met him. I hadn't talked to him yet. I had just got the role. And he had sat in on like a table read we had did. And you couldn't see him. You can just hear him. And I remember the first week that we was there, I shot a couple of scenes. And they had to end up rewriting a lot of the script because we had Joe Marie Payton on there that, you know, the mom from Family Matters. So the way Tyler shoots, he shoots. It's fast. He ain't got time for. Caught too much money. Yeah, he ain't got time for that. So they ended up rewriting a lot of the script and giving me her parts. So I remember the first I had left for the weekend to go do some shows because as I'm filming this, I'm still doing my show. So I left when they did some shows, I came back and it was a scene in the show where I sat on this statue and I improv the whole scene. And it was a new scene for me. It was actually supposed to be Joe Marie's scene. And I remember after we finished the scene, Tyler grabbed me and said, let me talk to you for a second. And he was like, hey, how much you getting paid? And I told him. And he was like, I'm going to bump that up. He kept his word. Wow. I made some good money. So what they say about it? Right. You know what I'm saying? But he honestly wrote very professional. He's always looking to give people that look like us the opportunity. You could appreciate that. The kids scene. Is there anything that you? Virgin Media gives you show stopping TV and broadband. You get the channels you love, including Netflix and now Sky Atlantic at no extra cost. That's epic entertainment. You can't stop watching a bit like an elephant cruising on a truck through the bright lights of Bangkok. Plus you get lightning fast broadband too. Yeah. That's entertainment. The Virgin Media way. Visit virginmedia.com. New customers only. Virgin Fiber areas, restrictions in credit checks apply, time to apply. You wouldn't do on camera? Yeah. There's a lot of stuff I want to do. I ain't kissing no man. I'm not. What about sex scene? With a woman? Yeah. I do that. You know you got to be able to control yourself, Domo. Who? You. What you mean control myself? You can't be all you like. The camera's around. You got to be chill. What does that mean, though? You can't be like, you know. You trying to say I can't get hard? Because if it's a sex scene. Yeah, you can't. Who? Who said you can't? You can't. You better put some ice. You can, though. They'll put like a sock on it or something. I'm pretty sure they got something for that. How you going to do a sex scene, y'all kissing, and you don't, and nothing happens? You got to be able to control it. Shay Shay. So you telling me you could do a sex scene. Can you do a sex scene? No, I ain't saying no, no, no, no, no. I could do a sex scene, but what? So who in the scene? I mean, obviously going to be somebody hot. Like who? I'm going to see if I control it or not. Zoe Saldado. Yeah, she going to really get it on me. Bro, I mean, I don't think that's a thing, though. But you do know that they have like, I forget what they call them, but it's people that, you know, when they do sex scenes, you know, it's people that come on a set to make sure that everybody's comfortable. You know, with everything that's going on. But I don't think that you cannot not be aroused. I mean, it is. But you can't do no open mouth. You got to be like, got to be like, why you think that? Somebody, you ain't, you have, you must say never seen Monster Bar with Halle Berry. Yeah. She wasn't, there wasn't just no one like that. Yeah, they did, they did, they did. I don't know what he was doing. Well, Billy Bob Thornton was going crazy. For sure. Was going crazy. I felt some type of wave. Give me a second saying, call me Billy Bob. You crazy. You crazy. How was it being on the Wild'n Out? Oh man, I was scared of shit. I was so scared. So what is it because it's like, with Wild'n Out, I mean, it's just like you joining. It's like you at the, like if you go to an HBCU or you with the boys. It's not really that though. It's not? You know what? I did one, I did one season. OK. And you know, they got all these different games that you play. Yeah. I mean, yeah, you, John and the. Do you know about any of the games beforehand? I don't know if I could answer that. OK. Fair enough. I feel like that's cheating. Yeah, OK. Yeah, I feel like if I say that. But no, I think, I definitely, I think we can't say that. You know, when we get there, you know, we don't know who we playing against. OK. You know what I'm saying? We don't know that. But you get there, you figure out who your team is. And then y'all go out there and do your thing. But it is improv. Yeah. You ain't like it is improv. But I, you know, that was my first time like my friend was my first TV job. Right. So my thing, my thought process of it was. I got to make sure that I get a bail and not a buzzer. Right. I got to win the game. Mm hmm. And it's not about winning the game. It's just about being funny within the structure of the game. So when I'm watching guys, wild and out legends like DC I'm flying, Carlos Miller and Chico Ben. I'm watching them do their thing. I'm like, they ain't even playing the game. No. They don't. Once I started learning that, then I started having fun. But I ain't going to lie. It was a point up there, man. I shit felt like boot camp, man. I called my mama. I was like, man, I think I'm going to come home. I ain't lying. And you know, shout out to my mom because she was like, baby, you made. You messed up your ass up there. She was like, you made for this. This is what she said. This is what you wanted. And I went back in there. And I end up, you know what I'm saying? Having a good season at the end of the season. Nick Texan was like, hey, man, I could tell you was a little nervous at first, but once you liked it, you tapped into some superstar shit. Wow. Do you think we Nick get the flowers that he deserves? No. He should get. He Nick should get flowers every day. Nick put a lot of people on. Yes. A lot of people on. Like a lot of people, a lot of people that you didn't have come sit in these shares that had to cross pass with Nick. He can. Since coming into money, what's some of the what are some of the perks of having money, probably more money that you ever envisioned having, that you get to go places, you get to do things. What's the best part of now being Mo Brooks? I could do whatever I want to do whenever. I can go wherever I want to go when I want to go. I can eat wherever I want to eat. You know, the best thing about it is if I needed four new tires on my car. You go get four new tires. I can go get four. I don't got to rotate the ones in the front. Yeah. Put your foot. Yeah. I can get if I got to get the brakes and the road is done, I can get all that done. I'm not worried about it. Right. You know what I'm saying? I think it's the little things that when you get some money that you be like, man, I ain't got to worry about that no more. That you took for granted. Yeah. Investments. That's we getting into that now. Like I because you talked about like, OK, with things are good. Hey, make sure you stay some of that back. So here's the thing. Saving money is I could say some money. Right. You know what I'm saying? Now, you know, I'm at a point now where it's like I want to make my money. Make some money. Yes. So I don't think any investment is the right investment. I know I'm investing something that it may not work. You know what I'm saying? But it's about really making the right decisions with the money. And you know where I want to put it at. But it's it's it's it's I got some stuff I'm working on. You're darting in your skin. Yeah. How would I mean, obviously, you know, you run that by you run that by your co-parent is like, look, I'm thinking about putting I run what? Oh, come on, Mo. See, man, see, Mo, she gonna call me up, man. It's not a call you. No. Let's just for the camera. Can we say you talked about with your co-parent says, look, I'm thinking about putting my daughter putting her in. I'm not going to lie to the people. That's my daughter. But don't you but y'all run things by each other. Mo. I might I might pick up and say, I might be like, I'm coming to pick a layup today. We finished with a skit. That ain't running by you. Like, what you think about me or putting the lead on this kid right here? What you think about that? I mean, why? Shannon. Let me tell you something about me and my baby, Mo. My daughter, right. Is is is that both our daughter. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? I'm gonna say, go parent. Yeah. My my baby mama trusts me enough to know that if I say, hey, we finna do something, she not. I'm not I'm not running it by her though. And it like that ain't one of the things I'm a run by. Okay. If we're going to run some stuff by it ain't going to be her being it because here's the thing. My baby mama post stuff with my daughter all the time and I don't say nothing. I don't like you don't got to run that by me that you for to do a video with her like, you know, you know, saying long as it ain't nothing, you know, crazy, right? You know what I'm saying? But other than that, now running a skit. That's my daughter. No, you know how much stuff I pay for round here. Yeah, she just happened. She having you by some most get some more stuff. Man, I'm paying this to me. I'm paying for a lot of I'm paying for a lot of stuff around. Right. I ain't trying to hit. I'm trying to hit when you when you put it in a skit, what did you are running by your daughter? Did she what did she think about being? She loves it. Does she? She loves it. If I call her right now, baby, we're going to do a skit. What we're going to do? We want to do. She'll come to the house daddy. Can we do a skit today? You know, my daughter is, I mean, she just me all over again. Honestly, like she's funny. She got she got a comedic time. I don't want her to be a comedian. Yeah. Oh, you don't know. I don't want to be a comedian. But if that's what she chooses to do or she chooses to be an actress, like I'm a supporter of 1000 percent, but she definitely she she got she got she got the pedigree to do all of this stuff. Like she's going to have her own channel one day and and you know, it'll be doing all the things that her mom supports that. That's why that's really why I say I don't got to run. She support with, you know, whatever I do with her. What type of dad are you? Man, cream puff. Yeah, I'm so. Well, my daughter, you know, sometimes man, I look at her and cry. You know, I don't think, you know, it is it's not a love in the world that can compare to the love that you get from your daughter. Yeah, yeah. You know, and now she's nine years old. So now I feel like a little relationship. Yeah. You know, saying like, you know, we in a car, she want to ride in front of the seat, she want to hold hands. She want to go here. She want to go do that. Daddy, can we do a date? You know, and it's like all that stuff. I don't know. I'm soft, man. Like she asked for what she gets. And now I'm getting to a point where I kind of got to get a little bit most, you know, a little bit more stern because she about to pop into that. The teenage. Yeah. They different, Mo. And I'm worried about her that man. No, no, no, no. I am. Yeah. I ain't telling what I heard. So all that. So all that you you're going to be my number one forever. That don't mean nothing. Oh, yeah. Mm-mm. So they're going to come in time. They're going to be starting one Pearson's and tattoos and boys coming to the equation. Boys coming well. Into the equation. Okay. Not to the house, though. Yeah. To the house. They'll. The thing is, look, my daughter did a very good job. I only only met one of my oldest, my daughter's boyfriend. You know what? That's how it should be because of who you are. I'm not about to just bring anybody to meet my dad. They didn't play that. Yeah. Like that. That is, I feel like should be something sacred. Yeah. I mean, my kid, my son, I met two of his girlfriend and the second one I met, he married. See, my mama met a lot of girls I was dealing with on accident. Trying to sneak them out the house. Hello. You bring a. What? To my mama? Yeah. Man, you crazy. Oh yeah. That's that. That's a new generation. Ain't no way. I ain't never happened. What? Back in the day. Damn, no. Let me tell you something. It wasn't okay at first. Well, I had a gradually like, yeah, no, man, let's turn. Ain't nobody ain't no, no, no, no. Your mama wasn't going. My grandma wasn't playing that. And for it ain't nobody. Hey, you know what my parents thing was though? They always preferred that if we were at home, they always knew. I would prefer you not do it. That's what I prefer. That's what you prefer? Yeah. Ain't nobody ain't nobody ain't no sexing going on here. But me. Wait, who said we were having sex? Don't do that. Because you sneaking about the house. What you sneaking about the house for? Because I ain't want my mama to see some of them. I had a girl leave out your size one day. So you do like a 250. No, that was that was when I was just doing anything. I got money now. I got money now, man. So how close is your parenting to what you endured growing up? I was way different. And it's not I ain't gonna say it's way different. You know, some of the some of the, you know, the values and stuff like that, that my parents are still in us. Like I teach her those things. The only difference is the position that I'm in to give her the things that I didn't get to have when I was a kid. You know what I'm saying? And there was things that I would ask my parents for that they would tell me no. Yeah, for sure. No, I ain't gonna be able to do that. And I don't do my daughter like that. If she's earned it, she can get it. Damn, you don't say no? No. Yeah, you're gonna definitely have to tighten up. I know. But what am I saying no to? Daddy, can I get some toka boka? Can I play Roblox? You know, daddy, she don't ask for nothing. Daddy can I get some new clothes? What's wrong with that? You're gonna have to say no at some time. I do say no sometimes. To what? She might be like, like, if I come home off the road that first day when I come home off the road, I really prefer that date to myself. Right. She be like, daddy, can we go get some hibachi? Not today. I say no. She ain't, it ain't. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, but for the most part, for the things, if she shows me, hey, I really want this and she's earned it. Yeah. You know, with whatever she's doing at school or, you know, in sports, whatever she's doing, if I feel like she's earned it, then I'ma get it. Your, your, your. My dad, hold on. My dad used to say no to everything. In my line, no. He was the king of no. Ain't get no yeses, huh? Bro, listen to me. We'll be like pops, can I get $20? No. What'd you do with the last $20 I gave you? That was three weeks. Yes. No. My dad was the king of no. I don't want to, I don't want to, man, that no used to hurt. Well, he, you know what, you know what he used to hurt the most? We go ask our mom and she say, go ask your dad. I ain't going to ask your dad. That's why I came to you. Cause I already know you. Cause I know you for the same. No. But she would get in trouble if she was, yes, knowing he was going to say no. So she just started. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. She just started. I go talk to your dad. You got to go ask your dad. Her childhood is going to be a lot different than yours because it's co-parenting and you lived in the home with both of your parents. And you know, and like you said, with like, like, like my grandfather and grandmother, like whatever he, it was never, if he said no, it was, she said no. If she said no, it was he said no. Ain't no, well, I'm going to give it to you. Your dad will say you couldn't have it, but I'm going to give it to you anyway. No, sir. No, my mama wouldn't like that. No. My mama and I, you know what? I want to tell you a crazy story. So my brother, that's my brother right there, bro. He stayed getting bad grades in school. And when they had their first PlayStation, they came out. There was a PlayStation 2 or whatever it was, but it was the first place. There was the next one right when the Xbox came out. And he wasn't supposed to get nothing. My mom still went to the best, we go in the best bag every day to find this PlayStation for him. And she get him a PlayStation. Then he decided, I don't want the PlayStation. I want the Xbox. She go take it back, get the Xbox. Now he ain't, he ain't supposed to get this. Yeah. But she got it anyway. Don't tell, and she, what's she tell it? Don't tell y'all dad, I got this for y'all. Do you know my dad used to sit down and play the Nintendo 64 with us. He used to play the baseball games and NFL 2K. He used to play all that with us, right? So we got this Xbox and the graphics at this time was through the roof. He come up past the TV like, damn, this the Nintendo 64? We like, yeah, we got new controllers and everything. Come sit down, come play. He and that player in the Xbox with us don't even know. Don't even know. He not going to find out till he see this. I'm not lying. But my mom, bro, my dad was strict. My mom was the balance that we needed. She was the balance that we needed. Yeah, sometimes she might have went against the grain against what he said and she got us there. But I'm glad that she did because if she would have went with every note that he said, it's a lot of stuff we wouldn't have got. And that's not a knock against my father because he's an amazing father, but he, it was just he. Father's been hard on boys. Man, bro. You know what? My dad today and who he was back then is two totally different men. Because he definitely, he definitely different with your daughter than he was with you. Oh my God. If I, if I, if I raise my boy, you can't yell at her like that. You used to yell at me all the time. Now, yeah, whoop, I ass. Some of the greatest whoopers I've ever had came from Terry Brooks. I'm telling you that right now. Some of the greatest whoopers I ever had came from him. And like I said, it, it's, it made me a better man. You said something very interesting. It's like, how did your parents prepare you for the real world? And your dad, you said, preparing you to be a man, knowing that at one, at some day you're going to have, you're going to leave this home. You're going to have your own family. You're going to be out there in the real world. And I've got to teach you enough that when you're away from here, you'll know right from wrong. You'll do right from wrong, even though I'm not standing over your shoulder. You know what? Where, where my dad was the little things, like I just said, we asked him for $20. I ain't got it. And I feel like that taught me like, hey, ain't nobody going to give you nothing. If I can't get it from the man that created me to give it to me, nobody's going to give me nothing. But right there still to me, like, I don't want to ask nobody. As much as we heard no, it made me never, it made, anytime I hear no, even in my career, I'd be like, don't worry about it. I'm going to go do it myself. All because of, of, of that, you know, with my dad and with my mom, you know, when I was younger and I used to always make excuses for everything. That's why I'm so big on accountability now. Is your, my mom used to be like, you know what I'm going to call you? Excuses, excuses, excuses. The real world don't care about your excuses. When you get out there, nobody's going to care the reason why you late to work. Nobody's going to care about the reason. Nobody cares about your why. And to this day, like if I get ready to make an excuse, I hit on my head, excuses, excuses, excuses. So, you know, my parents definitely did a great job of letting me know like, hey, the world ain't going to be nice to you. They don't care about your excuses. They don't care about your why's. You see, they're going to make it happen or you not. Making it happen. You stay with your parents until you 30. 30 years old. Damn. Make it, you be rusty old ass out in the people house. See, that's the problem right there. That's the problem. Black people so be ready. So you be so ready to kick that kids out the house. Yeah. 18. Why? Why? Why? At Dreams until Tuesday, the more you spend, the more you save with up to 500 pounds off. Dreams, love your bed. Why? Why? 1830. Your 18th birthday, you got 30 days. But you know, but you just said, you know that the world, you know how the world is. If I love you, why am I going to send you out there today? And I know you're not ready. Look, my kid, my daughter, I think my daughter stayed until she was probably right 20. And then she got her own, well, she wanted to get her own place. She wanted that. For whatever reason. I wanted that for her. I know you did. Because at 20, she can't do what she wanted to do in your house. Hell no. No. She can't do what she wanted to do at my house at 25, 35, 45. No, nobody's sex at that house but me. But you. That's it. But you. Ain't nobody, ain't nobody doing it but you. But me. Yep. But everybody on live can help. Did your daughter, did they hear that? Unfortunately. Oh my God. Tell me about it. Oh my God. That was the most embarrassing part. The kid, it gotta be. It gotta be. Damn. She was the first one. My oldest is the first one. What'd you say? What'd you say? Hell, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You weren't sorry though. I was. What part are you sorry about? Because your most private and intimate moments. Yeah. Is being heard. Heard. Man. I'm a very private. And that's why you don't see me out and nowhere. I don't be out and about. We saw you walking through the airport with that dog. Oh yeah, I got to talk to him too. Bro, when you looked at that dude like what? Bro, I still don't know how much. I still don't know. Mo, I still don't know because you gotta realize that was an international. That wasn't a regular LA. What are you at? I was in LA. But it was international in terms of because the dog was coming from overseas. Oh my God. You had them too. You were holding like a little football. I thought I saw the guy. I thought I saw the guy feeling like, but who would know I'm here? So when I'm like. That man, people know you. You if listen, you think you think you could just walk down the street and ain't nobody going to look at you and be like, damn, he do something. Yeah. But I'm saying though, who would know on a random Tuesday Wednesday that I would show up at international? Nobody knew. How did you not know it was just somebody in the airport like, damn, that go Shanishard. They done got somebody that told them that Shanishard was going to be. You a big deal, bro. You know what I learned, bro? I got a lot of friends in the NFL. And for the first time, sometimes I meet them. I don't know what they look like because they always got a helmet on. Yeah. You didn't know. You didn't took your helmet off, bro. And you, bro. I didn't know, man. And then I get the dog. And so I got to go over there because I got to get this lady the money. And so I pull it to the corner. And for that, I had to lost track because I saw him. I'm looking straight ahead, but I can see out of my peripheral that I can see him. I was like, damn, just do it. He filming. I'm saying to myself, he's filming. But I got to go over to the corner because this lady, I got to make sure this lady gets back through. Because all she did was she dropped the dog off. Yes. Yeah, but you know what? It was the face you made with the dog. Yeah, because I'm like, bro. You was holding it. Yes. You was holding it like this. And it was like, what? Like, it was like, you can't. Bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro, bro. Seriously? For real? Like, yeah. But it was how you can't hold a dog like that. You too big. He was two pounds. How am I supposed to hold it? Yeah, like this. Now you want Peter. Now you want Peter to come knocking on my door. Now I'm really going to get careful. But I think the thing is now is that I think that's when I kind of started to realize like my life is really, really different. It's different, yeah. Because more people started to know. More people know me from TV than when I ever played. Like you football. People don't even realize that I played because people would see me in the airport and walk in like, I see you on them shows. How do you know so much about sports? And I'm like, you know, I studied. I didn't even know. You didn't want three Super Bowl. They don't. Because I've been, you know, I retired in 2004. I remember when you did. You was over there with the Raven. No, I was Broncos. I went back to Denver. You went back to Denver? I went back to Denver. Who was a quarterback when you went back? Brian Greasy one year and then Jake Plummer. Jake Plummer was a bad boy. Brian Greasy was nice too. Yeah, he played OK. Yeah. OK, no, he must not have been that good then. No, no, no, no. Because the way you just said, he played OK. He played OK. He went the airway. But no, they do the hell. They're only a handful of people that were L-Wilford. Trent Dilford was your quarterback in Baltimore. OK. We won a Super Bowl. Yeah. You won't get that many balls there, you know. I, you know, I led the team. Jamal Lewis took y'all all the way there. Wait, we had a nice defense. Y'all hit it. We all hit it. Oh, yeah. Ray Ray was over there too. OK. We had a very nice defense. Speaking of teams, Bears, they about to go to Gary. No, they not. How you feel about that? They not going to Gary. They going to Gary. No, they not. The Gary Bears. No, they not. No more Chicago Bears. They don't call the New York Giants and New Jersey not Giants. But they playing New Jersey. How far, but Jersey ain't that far. How far is Gary Indiana from Chicago? Bro, like from Soldier Field is like 20 minutes. Hey, y'all ain't no more monsters of the midway. Yes, we are. No, you're not. Who said we ain't even confirmed that we going Y'all try what y'all try to do is hold them people hostage. Who? Y'all try to hold the citizens of Chicago hostage to build y'all this station. You saying y'all like I'm the president of the Bears if it was up to me. Then hold it you hostage too because you have to pay your taxes. Listen, listen. I hope that they get it done for it to be in Illinois. Yeah. I honestly want them to stay in Chicago. I want them to stay out the lake for it. I don't even want them to put a dome on the place. No, because you take away your advantage. But I'm going to tell you when I knew we needed a dome. I was at the last playoff game when we played the Rams. And I was in the suite that night, but we had to walk outside to get in. Man, I swear to God, it was so cold. I said, I don't care where they put the damn dome at. Just put it up because I can't sit out. But that's your advantage. But is it really an advantage? Hell, yeah. How? How the Rams came right in and beat us in the snow. Yeah, but that doesn't happen very often. No, we should have beat them. Yeah. But listen, I like the cold. And I think the bare weather was a real thing back in the 80s. And maybe when we had Erlach or them, like we used to play the cold type advantage. But I seen Tom Brady come there and put up four or five touchdowns and a half on us in the snowstorm. You do realize like Tom played in New England, so it gets cold there too. It do. You think they're going to put a dome? You think they put a dome in Green Bay? No. That's the thing, the frozen tundra. They should never do that in Green Bay. They should never do that in Chicago. I agree. I, if y'all listen to me, leave the top open. I saw you painted your quarterback, Caleb. He catches a lot of fly. He's a hell of a player, but he paints his nail. Nobody mentioned it. When they were losing, it was because of the painting nail. Not that they're winning, though. Nobody mentioned the painting nail. No. You notice that? No, they don't. And my thing is, I love Caleb. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? He's a hell of a player. He only going to get better. He only going to get better. And he's a real deal quarterback. You know what I'm saying? Just some of the stuff that day. The off-grip plays that he can make. It's unreal. It's just unreal. Just being a soldier feel that pass he threw up to send us the overtime. Oh yeah, I still don't know how he did that. When he started running backwards, I put my head down. And I looked up and the ball was in the air. And from the suite, you see Kamec catch the ball. And the stadium go up. I was in so disbelief. The TVs in the suite was about three seconds delayed. Yeah. People were celebrating. I had to look up at the screen to make sure that I had just seen what I saw. But his mom does nails. And that's kind of what I think inspired him to do that. And talking with his mom and talking with his dad, he come from a solid family. I hate that it's so much attention focused on that and not what. Not his play. Not his play. You know what I'm saying? But I think now the reason why when I was doing my Bears videos that the first thing I kept on saying, hey, Caleb, French chip on me. It's a show people, we don't care. As long as we winning, I take them get his toes done every after every game. Jail set. Whatever you need. No chip. Whatever you need. Justin Fields. He was there for a couple of years. And I remember Bryce Young came out. And they passed on Bryce Young and they kept Justin Fields. Now they get an opportunity for the number one pick again. I say they're not going to pass again. They come to the realization that Justin Fields can't get it done. For whatever reasons, it's not all his fault. But they're not passing on Caleb Williams because they believe he's a generational talent. Absolutely. You was there with Justin and you see some of the links that he took and some of the booze, the criticism that came along. How difficult was that for you to see a brother going through that? You know what, man? I don't think people really understand how great of a human being Justin Fields is. I've been a Bears fan for so many years. And Justin was the first Bears quarterback that I had ever met. Wow. And I think that he had potential to be a good quarterback in his league. But I think the way that it was handled as far as putting help around him and getting the offensive line, I don't think he ever got a chance with no team that he's been on, whether it's Chicago, whether it's Pittsburgh, or whether it's the Jets. And I think until he, if you know what I'm saying, because you know how to lead is that, hey, if you ain't getting it done, here they'll try to get you out the league as quick as they can. Absolutely. But I think if he ever gets the opportunity to go to an organization that's really going to support him, I think we might see a different player. I still believe in him. I was hurt to see him go. Yeah. You know, when they traded him to Pittsburgh, that was, I remember I saw the headline, my heart dropped. You know what I'm saying? Because you got to think, all those years he was there, we was losing. But it didn't feel like it because it's some of the plays that he was making. I mean, dude, breaking runs, it was throws, he was making some throws too. So no. You and Gary only made a bet during the season that your team would have a better record than he is. And right on cue. Yeah. With your bet. So no. So the bet, we played the bingles. And the bet was who? Oh, they came, y'all came back and beat them in the hole. In the last play of the game. Yeah. So the bet was whoever lost, the other person had to do a video pretty much crowning the other one. Because what a lot of people don't know is that last year, me and Gary Owen, when we were on tour, we were going back and forth on records, breaking at the comedy club. So he might go to one club, and he might set the record at eight. I might go and do nine. Right. It was one club. I went and did nine. He came and did 11. So we was already having this back and forth thing. And then we played the bingles. And that's kind of had that happen. Are you surprised that he recently got married? Are you surprised that the kind of hate that he was receiving on his special day? I didn't see that he was getting no hate. I don't know what it is. People just don't want people to be happy. No. I don't care. You could look at, you could marry this bottle. You could marry a donkey. I bet you would want somebody to marry him. No, but I'm just saying, but Moe, when did we become so obsessed with someone that we don't have to be with, we don't have to live with, we don't have to do anything for? When do we become so invested in someone's life? When we started letting people in our business. That's when it happened. You know what I'm saying? And I'm going to say this, I'm happy for Gary O'Rourke. I am too. You know what I'm saying? And just not even, not even just with the marriage with all the success that he's having, you know, in the comedy game, selling out the shows, he bouncing to the theaters. Gary doing his thing. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? And I feel like this is one of the probably the happiest times of his life right now. You know what I'm saying? He looks happy. So I listen, he deserves everything that's coming to him right now. Gary or somebody that I feel like, hey, he waited his time. His time is here. Yeah. And you know, he found somebody that he can do it with. Yeah. Man, let him do his thing. I think a lot of people still kind of salty because, you know, he was married once before to a black woman. He got another one. You got to call cheating. Yeah. But at the cheating thing. Right. You know, they don't. But he said that she was cheating too. Oh, I hear that part. Yeah. Well, they was cheating. So what we talking about? We cheat-os. Allegedly. Allegedly. Yeah. Allegedly. You got a local hometown hero grew up in Chicago and D-Rose in Chicago. Yeah. What's it like to have somebody that grew up in your area go out and then come back for the Bulls? He a legend. What D-Rose did, we watched him at the McDonald's, all American game at the United Center. Simeon, he was doing his thing. And you know, when he was with the Bulls, bro, that was the closest we've been to getting ready to win us another championship when Derek Rose on there when he won MVP. So you know. But you realize like Brian was on the East too, right? Yeah, LeBron, when they, but you remember that series though, they had to take for LeBron to start guarding their. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So I'm going to say that. And I know you're LeBron. I know you know that. You know what I'm saying? And I, LeBron, you do, you do your thing. But you know, I just, I feel like the Bulls should have did a little bit more. Derek needed one more piece to help him get over that LeBron train. You have a relation, another Chicago, a little dirt. You have a relationship with a little dirt. Yeah. Have you spoken to it recently? No. I haven't heard. The last time I seen LeDirt, we were at the Bears Game in London. Really? Yeah, we were both at the Bears Game in London. Well, you're going to wear over there to support your team like that? Yes. Absolutely. Absolutely. You white. A little bit. No, man, we was both, we were both in London for the game. OK. This was after we had worked together. We, I had, was in one of his music videos. And the next, I want to say like maybe a week later, like I talked to him at that at the game, he was having a big concert in Chicago. And he was like, I'm going to leave some tickets for your sister. Yeah. He left the tickets and I want to say maybe like a week later, they came and got him. But I haven't, you know, I haven't heard from him, but, you know, praying for him. I'm hoping that, you know, whatever this situation is that, you know, that his innocence is just proven and he get out of that. Give me your five, top five Chicago rappers all the time. And you include the YNs in this. So they don't have to be all. Yes. So, you know, because it's different now. The top top five all time Chicago rappers. Let me do my way in first. OK. Little dirt. Yeah. G-herbo. Yeah. OK. Kanye. Yeah. Common. Yeah. Twister. OK. Nice little, you got nice little twist. You got nice little headless. Yeah. Yeah. People sleep on Twister. They do. He liked that. Yeah. The gang culture. How did you not get caught up into that? Whether the two-parent household, were they very strict on you? You had an older brother. So how did you navigate not getting caught up into that culture? Who say I won Game Bank? Telling jokes. Who say I won Game Bank? My brother right there, he was the Game Bank. He was Game Bank. You know what though? It was just, I played ball. You know what I'm saying? We both played football. And I was at one high school at first. And I end up getting into some stuff over there. And my mom was like, you got to go to school with your brother. So I ended up transferring to the high school he was at. And I'm not knowing that he's affiliated with the gangs over there. So when I get over there, the gang member was running up on me my first day in school. And I got to go find him. Like man, the laden, there was some laden. They weren't kings. They were some of them. They were LPs or whatever that was. And I kind of marked them. And they told me after school, it's up. So I had to go find my brother. I found my brother. And I'm like, hey. He didn't handle this. Yeah, they say I'm in trouble. And he handled it. But he was the Game Bank. And I was, because I was guilty about affiliation. So I was Game Bank. Well, first of all, you know, light skin, you know y'all going to catch it anyway. Because they don't think y'all can squabble. Y'all can't do nothing. Y'all too pretty. Y'all in the mirror all the time. You know Shannon, bro. Man. I really, you know, and I know that this is the perception of us. But I'm telling you, when I tell you that I really can get like that. Yeah. And I'm not just saying that, just to say it. Like, I'm like, I really, I really can get like that. All right, man. Get your head on, bro. You ain't bumping like that. All you want to do is tell Joe to make somebody laugh. Then my brother go right there. I got security. And we'll fight together for I let them fight by itself. But you got security for. What you mean? What you mean? Well, I got security for. Just us, you just going to get in the car. No. That would security say go. You got a man, Shannon. You got to understand. Commuters, the new rappers, you see all this shit. They have they can have that. They can get that. I give it to him. Yeah, exactly. They asked for it. I am about to find out about it. But that don't mean come trying to get it. Because I said I get to you. But man, you walking around, bro, here's the thing, man. It's different now. It's different. And it's like you just don't want to end up in a situation where you be like, damn, I should have had somebody with. Yeah. You're right. Why are you your sister in globally beefing? Huh? Is my sister in globally beefing? Yeah. You know that ain't my real sister. Oh, I thought that was your real sister. No. I do it. No. No, man. No. No. I thought that was crazy, though. Just with her sister coming out. Well, why was she? She's being a global obligator. And I met Glo Glo was such a beautiful girl. I had on. She's unbelievable. Oh, my God. She is great. She's so sweet. I love Glo. And I think it's tough when you get success and you got family. They do feel obligated, though. They feel obligated. They do. They feel obligated. And not just family. Man, you know I've been knowing you since you was six years old, and I know you, too. Ain't nothing I still know you. It's real. That's real. You ain't feelin' to get no house or no car? That's real. It's real. How many people, man, listen, people I ain't heard from and forever called, like, man, I need a little help. I ain't heard from you. Yeah. Ain't never gave me nothing. You know, I remember when we went to the first Super Bowl and people were calling for Super Bowl tickets. Now, you haven't seen me play in a pre-season game, a regular season game. And now you're going to come to Super Bowl. Or a post-season game. So the first game you're going to see me play gives a Super Bowl. You crazy. But you know what? That's the same way. If I do shows in Chicago, bro, I get so many phone calls from people like, hey, I need tickets. Like, I did a Chicago theater. And that was the biggest show I ever did in Chicago. And I had a gas list of almost 100 people. No, that's money at your pocket. You understand what I'm saying? No, you get 20, though. You get 20. And I'm going to say this. Chico Bean taught me this. He said, bro, I'm going to tell you the same thing I'll tell my people. You can come see me for free anywhere in the world. Anywhere in the world. But when I'm at home, you got a bad ticket. Like that. And that's the new motto. So I'm going to let you all know, September 11, I'm doing a Win Trust Arena in Chicago. Do not. I ain't got no tickets. Bound. When you go on sale, you better bound. I like that motto. I like that. It's real. You travel. And if you come to another city and come see me, man, the ticket's on me. Yeah. Because you didn't put the effort in to come and support me. Yes. Yes. But we right here at the crib. You being lazy. Yeah. Come on, bad ticket. I saw Mr. Tendonism. My boy. He came to see you. Yes. Yes. I'm cool, man. He was. We had him on the show the other night. Did y'all? Yeah, we did. Y'all sure did, because I saw him, man. And you know what? I was like, and I saw him on the Sherry Shepherd show. And I was like, you know what? I'm so happy for him, bro. I am, too. Because he was just such a, you know. I'm so happy to other thing going the other way. Me, too. Because he did it wrong. Me, too. And you know what? And when I brought him on stage that night at my show and I said, we not playing about you. I was letting him know right then and there, like, hey, if that situation ain't servicing you what it needs to. Hey, say that. Yeah. And we get you out of there. We'll figure out something. Yeah. I got people want to invest in the restaurant's form. I'll offer it. Right. To invest in opening the restaurant form. What's next, Mo? What's next up for you? Man, I'm writing movies. I just wrote a movie right now and it's bad. Really? Yeah, it's bad. Are you in it? Yes. I'm in my Eddie Murphy bag on this. I'm playing a couple different characters, but it's bad. Special? Already done. Send the can. It's in the can. We getting ready to send it out. They getting the sound and stuff done on it right now. And we going to send it to a few streamers, Netflix, being one of them. Yeah. Yeah. And it's that. You say you're in your Eddie Murphy bag, but another guy that writes is Cube. Yeah. You talk to Cube for any advice? I met Cube once at Mike F's 55th birthday party. OK. And we briefly talked. He just said, hey, I heard about you. He said, I'm going to be checking you out. So hopefully that means they going to call me for that next Friday. Right along with something. Call me. Make sure you go check out Mo Joe Brooks. We've been ones comedy tour coming to a city near you. Mo. My boy. Thank you for coming on. I appreciate you. You're welcome. Thank you, man. Have a good day.