"Kevin Hart: LIVE in Los Angeles"

I'm going in the far side. Yeah, you're in the middle. No.

We're, we're in the middle. No, we go. how we're in the middle, cuz it's your guest. Oh, In that there's talking couches. Yes.

We accept don't sit on the couch. Yeah, I doesn't matter. I've sat on the on the far side way too many times.

No, I'm sitting on the far side now and you're gonna be sitting on the near side.

I, by the way, I had a Thai iced tea and it is not.

Settling, but as the tea is a caffeine giving you energy, because I feel like I need a little bit of energy. Yeah, you know worked out well for me and slapping the slapping. I'm gonna show you how hard I want you to slap me.

Okay, but don't okay.

Okay,

A.

Half a standing ovation. It's the greatest I know.

Giles beat us with each other.

Well, but Will's best friends get the best seat in the house, that's probably didn't pay a dollar.

This is a very LA crowd because we have the four best seats right here. Just empty, just.

Yeah, we've taken this stupid ass. Yeah, credibly underwhelming night. Yeah, you guys are about to see yeah on the road for a week and we had a really really good time.

We want to keep setting the bar as low as possible for you all.

All right, so I'm on this side. you're there, you're on that side.

We did not applause the sitting. applause the sitting.

You, we really, we legit slapped each other backstage and that was not rehearsed and it actually hurt.

Yeah, I put a little color in my face, though, and it's your face completely, but, Sean, you, you got a hard-out tonight, right?

Cuz, you got to get back to camp. I mean, yeah, cuz, you're dressed like it.

He's got it. he's got his whistle in his pocket. Yeah, and the other one is giving a high-five, Oh.

Yeah, no, you look. it looks like this looks like Sunday afternoon at your house. Well, it's what we all do kind of.

By the way, I'm chewing gum. I'm sorry. By the way, you ever put gum in water and it flavors the water.

Wow,

But how you guys feel? are you guys tired from the tour? Are you, are you pumped? I'm not well.

They, you guys give us energy. Yeah, Right.

We. yeah, we, we legit can't believe that you guys listen to the podcast.

That's really been a mind blower. So, first of all, thank you for doing that, because all we're doing as you can tell, if we just talk to each other, The fact that people are are somewhat interested in listening to that is a mind blower. We do feel like, since you can fast-forward all the crap parts or just go to a different episode when you're listening the podcast, Here you're trapped. So I feel like we feel like we do have to juice it a little bit.

So do you feel like people maybe? Double time like double speed your questions. They have to, because That's a great. Yeah, That's a really. that's a really good smartless hacks.

They did laugh and applaud like they know exactly what you're talking about. Yeah.

I was trying. I was trying to think of it like an L, like a good LA story, like when I first moved here, Oh.

Oh.

Somebody's prepped a little bit.

Involved the 101.

Boy traffic.

No, let's just single up a spot on Sean and take front, say no.

I may have said the story before, but when I first moved here and I got Will and Grace, I went to a.

Now, ironically, you did end up getting a Porsche when the show performed. gave everybody a Porsche on the show.

Right, which is also embarrassing, but I also didn't have money when they gave me a Porsche. I'm like give me the fucking money. I wouldn't need another car for. yeah, but it was very, it was very, very kind of them. But but when you're a struggling actor and you sold it, right?

Yeah, wait, did I? did you drive it? or did you see? I just I read the details on that story years ago. I'm not always stuck with me.

About your first time out here. Do you remember? Yeah, I was talking about today. I.

Drove out here as well. I drove, I had an old. did they not have planes back then?

And from Toronto. you couldn't have a longer drive. no, no, I drove from New York's. I was living in. New York is much closer.

Yeah, so it's much.

Yeah, I right. Oh.

It was. it was a real piece of shit, and it had it. had it a rusted through on the bottom and you could see The road underneath, like like I, like Fred, It was. it was that bad, but but it was a. it was a ton of fun and then I drove back.

You'd like to stop is like no, you bleary-eyed. You got to keep going.

No, and then I had somebody else with me and I would sleep in the back and he would drive.

Yeah, and my car was packed to the end and I would get into the passenger seat And I would go down in the bucket and I would sleep on the thing because there is no room.

There is no room. Show us how you sleep again. real quick. Sure.

Why?

Hey, hang on. Yeah, What, wait, you sleep more comfortably in a car if you get down into the footwell.

Yes, because you what you can't sleep like, you know, sure you can. yeah, you I'm not, I'm not a cow.

How do you do it on a plane? guy? I'd go back. dude. You don't get on the floor on the plane.

That would be so great if you got on the floor on a plane I.

Mean, it's, it's, it's not Justin Theroux, eccentric on a plane. Did you guys, you guys, hear this story, the podcast?

We gotta do it for a sec. Did we already tell you have it? Oh, there, you know, they already know it.

Yeah, but we let's embarrass him further. I mean, no, no, no, it's what. no, he deserves to be embarrassed. Justin Theroux can't sleep with shirt on right? I mean, I'm sure a lot of people, I'm sure a lot of people, sleep without their shirt on right and he can't sleep with it without a shirt on and he also.

Can't sleep without doing crunches before he goes to sleep. I don't know this story. Okay, so we're flying to.

England, I think, or so it's. it's gonna be topless for quite a stretch And he's all tatted off and he's up front and everything. people are wearing ties and stuff and he just pops his shirt off. He, he does a perfunctory cover with with a little tiny blanket or whatever, but five minutes into that that's gone And it's just some tatted up freak who looks like Iggy pop just passed out in the front.

It's like really I'm afraid I need to like wipe everything down. I could never sleep with my shirt.

But you will get enough. he's got a. he's got a layer to protect him from the germ. He's got a layer of spray tan that actually keeps. That keeps the germs.

But you will get down on the floor. Well of a car and sleep. those germs are okay. Absolutely, at 24 years old. Yeah, Oh my god.

It's, it's Jason's guest, so we don't know who is. And, by the way, just in case people don't know and we say it all the time, We legitimately don't know who the other person's guest are. So we've had to jump through a lot of hoops on this tour, did like not cross paths with the guests.

Yeah, we had a great one. Never mind. Okay, go ahead. What what there?

No, Jason, it's okay, but I have not learned my lesson, because when's the last time you guys met a real bullfighter? No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding.

I would love that. I would love that. I would love it. I would have a thousand questions.

I would love it too if we were in a conference, but they don't want that. So we're backstage. You'd love it. Here we come. our guest tonight is a force, a comedic fire hose.

Well.

Yeah, I can't wait. he owes me a movie.

Yeah, right. Hello. Hello. Hello, Kevin Hart.

By the way, you know what that is. That's redemption. That is redemption. That is an over-deliver.

Deliver, check, check. Can you hear me? Yeah, we got, we got you. All right, wait. Well before you.

What I I.

Just want you, I want you guys, to lower your expectations because I've been drinking.

Lower, lower them down. That's fair, fair warning. It's a killer. Whoa. Wow.

Spells real good and then behind there is just a chest full of weed, right?

What's your fucking problem?

Fuckin fourth gig today. He's in the bag. shots in charge of blocking. Yeah.

You really just wait. You really just push me back. get the fuck back.

By the way, by the way, I'm such a huge fan. You've been on my list to come on as well. I bet I can't believe. Jason abjab. I'm a massive.

I'm a big fan. I'm a big fan of Bateman. You know what?

I.

Bomb-rushed, Kevin, when we were doing we did a different stroke. Oh, no, not, not that you were doing. Back to life. Oh, that's wrong, for our buddy. Jimmy Kimmel did does this.

I know you didn't corner me. Look, you're. you're in a group of guys. They don't ask for shit. I feel like there's a certain amount of people in our business that don't ask that.

You know what? I found out, you know, we can do. is we can make the light blue? if you know, no, it's okay.

I just found out just now. This is an Ozark.

It would be a very special dream. sequel, let's call him Marty. for the rest, all right, let's just keep calling him Marty Um.

Payback is gonna be tough. Isn't? what are you gonna ask me to do? Uh, I don't know, Jason. Here's the weird thing, man.

You don't want me to do it. You're one of those guys is talented, but then you're like Like, you know, what are you? It's like? it's like what do you, that's what do you really want from them? All right.

All right.

Hollywood. royalty to me is people that work consistently, consistently without An agenda, people that do what they want and have a good time and doing royalty.

Hey, oh, hey, he got you got nominated for a interviewer of the year. that should be good enough.

Oh, You guys.

You guys are the royalty and I'm the jester.

You are the best camp counselor out of all four of us. So he's not the guy responsible for blocking.

All right. Now. so this is, this is very foreign to us, but you have spent a lot of time in front of audiences, Doing stand-up, doing specials. Yeah, you had you played in front of 55,000 people. Yeah.

This is intimate. Yeah, nice, It's a very nice, intimate crowd, man. This is what it's about. How about connecting with the people?

Yeah, here's what blows my. here's what blows my mind, by the way, I'm a huge Shark Tank fan and I saw you on Shark Tank and I was blown away. Thank you, man. Like I did, I had no idea. I mean, I knew you had a black.

What are you saying? Yeah, what were you on Shark Tank for? Were you pitching something or judging? No, no,

No.

There was a shark. I'm a shark, the guest. you weren't pitching like I got an idea I.

Don't know. No, no, no. No, Jay. He was. he was like Mark Cuban, but a guest.

I.

Might pitch an idea, but hang on. if I've got some great idea for the new Swifter or something, I don't want to fund that. I want more Cuban to fund that. so I'm gonna go on the show. I'm gonna pitch him Yeah, regardless of what I got in the bank.

If you go on national television, if you want national television, that's true, I built.

But I I always knew you were. you have all these things going on, but I just didn't know. at that extent I mean you have this huge, successful company that makes all of these Projects and these things come to life. I had, I just had no idea. and on top of that, you invest in tons of things.

It's a secret to the the the success, but I think building up a Building up a platform and infrastructure with people that are so talented, so amazing to help me execute things that I have a vision for Have become my priority in the business, you know.

And also identifying people. maybe that might need a little help for access and you, kind of grandfather, that maybe a little bit you bring.

People into your company. I do, you know, I really do. I think, um, it's no longer about me. It's not about my stars, Not about where I am is now about helping others and the the real, the real benefit. It's true.

It's true. It's why I do this podcast to help these guys Good.

Good for you. Well, now, with all of that work, though, Do you are you good about taking breaks, whether it be at home or like fun vacations?

This this is a break. I'm taking a break now. That's it. I don't want to do something good. Right?

And like.

Just get it. No, I'm joking on on some real shit like I have a. I have a tough time doing that. I have a tough time taking breaks. I have a tough time really taking time to myself, and that's what I'm working on.

Yeah, but yeah, so Kevin, we first met over 20 years ago. Here we go. You were a stand-up. what it's the truth?

it was true and

Stand-up And you were, but you were just breaking through like. obviously you didn't have the success that you have now. Walk us through a little bit those first, because I remember those first couple years. You did that pilot with with a bunch of our friends and and then that pilot didn't get picked up. And then you seemed like you did a pilot every year.

But anyway, by the way, it didn't look half as dumb as Sean makes no sound like what are you doing?

She was kind of more with it than you, dude. Yeah, and.

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Kevin, like you. what was that? What was that? like those first, I don't know, ten years cuz you were. just you would never stop working and trying and doing shit and like going after it.

I'll summarize it. I'll summarize it so that doesn't take too long, Because we have got to go. well, I know, I know, Sean, I'm gonna get you. I don't want to hold you up too long. You know, Everybody asked about the ambition of a guy that comes from nothing, and what you gotta understand is, if you come from nothing, Then nothing is exactly that.

I think about that all the time. You already know what the result is from growing up. So why not try something and fail and learn from it? because the fallback is already familiar to you. It's your.

1,000% correct. Kind of just repeated what you said. Well, you did you. actually, you actually did you. they do it.

They do it to me all the time. They cut what I say from five minutes down to about 30 seconds.

Take it as a compliment before. will you know me? you saw the real younger me, and when you talk about that environment that we Were in, I mean, I was a kid. I was a kid and I knew nothing at all. So you guys honestly acted as examples of what to do, what not to do, where to go.

We're not to go within that world of early entertainment. I got this great. we talked about it when I saw you back in December. I've got this great photo. that's now at my house and, like Kevin Seth Rogen, me, Amy, my January Jones, Jason Siegel, Nick Stoller, Judd Apatow and, like January 2001, we were just hanging out because we had nowhere else to be.

And it was so crazy. You know, I guess who I was.

Yes, no, yes, I'm not gonna do it. Take a guess. You're not gonna get me canceled tonight. Say it.

I've got. I've got questions. I've gone over here. that cancel proof. All right, you pass that test.

now you're, you're, do your, Do your kids recognize and appreciate how hard you work? Are they, do they give it up, or are they just like dad like?

Do they have notes on your thing? No, my kids, don't give a fuck about me, man. My kids are the best kids with no knowledge of my kids. truly and this is said humbly My kids have no idea like how successful I am. They don't.

Well, what happens like you're driving down the street and and you're driving by a big billboard with your, with you know.

They don't care.

They say dad, you could take a better picture than that.

No, they my kids are. I make sure my kids are grounded and understanding. if that's my job, Yeah, so when I'm working, my kids come to my job. I make my kids work on my job. My kids act as PAs.

I'll make it work. Are they? are they with the exposure to the business and all that stuff? Are they? are they finding stuff on set that they're really interested in?

Do they want? my daughter has the bug? She definitely wants to, but I'm a. I'm an advocate of be a kid. finish being a kid and then let's pursue the adult dream.

Wow,

Okay, now I hear that and I immediately think that he's got like he's strapped like you, that he's like got snakes under his shirt, Just like you. are you guys working out together? Yeah. No, he doesn't have that.

So I want to tell you that you're wrong with that assessment.

so like what what's what's? Not to be creepy, but if you took all your clothes off? right now, we're looking at. oh, are we looking at again?

Yeah, again, not not to be creepy, right?

Are we talking? you're like you're basically a bodybuilder shape have done for lunch. that's admirable.

That's a lot of discipline. You got a great routine. I'm assuming. Yeah. Yeah.

Working out a lot on the, on the, on the back of yourself. I'm working on just in general.

It's all calves, buttocks and lads, but it's back.

It.

Will destroy you. so in the back of my mind, and I don't ever want to hear that. So when I walk away, I tiptoe and I make sure that I will hear my wife go. All right, that means that she's no longer happy with that. So it's all about keeping it in shape.

that.

That's my? Okay, yeah, that's my thing.

So now I just doing the math here. You're walking away from, she's looking at your rear and yeah saying I just fucked that, take that in.

I'm just doing the math. Wait a minute. Hold on exactly. Yeah, let's go back. I'm rolling.

Let me switch it out. Yeah, my, my husband understands that. good luck. Yeah, Good luck. Oh.

Shit.

I love. I love a canceled checkmate. All right, by the way.

He's off the guy. He's no longer on the cancel meter. We, as black people, we've given him a pass.

All right.

We've stopped. we've stumbled into a little bit of a segue to I want, I want, I Want to ask about this nickname chocolate dropper? Yes, But there's a little bit of a segue to that.

I don't understand how Sean sex life is. No, no, you walking away. Okay.

Yeah, by the way, the walking away thing. I love, because you don't ever look behind you, You just walk away. You just gotta walk away. Yeah, you don't have to look, you don't have to be like.

But you ever look back. That's not an insecurity. That's right. Yeah, you don't want to look right, feel Jason.

How do you feel about Amanda's view when you walk away, looks back all the time?

My little bit more of a moonwalk to the bathroom, so do you.

Walk backwards. just just t-shirt and then your shirt cocking. I don't. I don't think Jason wears drawers.

I think it's just a t-shirt.

Yeah, just like in his hand and the honey, yeah.

But it's good. That's called shirt cocking, when you just a t-shirt and then yeah, okay.

Wait, do you all? does anybody sleep naked? Do you? do you sleep naked sleep? Yeah, you yeah.

Yeah, fuck. Yeah, really? Yeah, would you keep all this in clothes? I don't know.

Are we? are we looking at your sleep outfit right now? Absolutely.

Absolutely, I'm going night-night in between shows in this.

What do you?

What do you show? what do you wear? always the same thing. I wear shorts and a long-sleeve like loose shirt, because the Scotty leaves the air-conditioning on it, like, you know, 20 below.

Okay, and okay, and what kind of shorts?

Because if you wear sweat when it, when the air-conditioning is on, and you wear sweats and then the comforter, it's too hot. So over shorts with one leg in, one leg out, Yeah, and then and then a long sleeve so you don't have to have the cover on you.

It acts as the cover is the one leg out to balance of spinning. Absolutely. Yeah, what kind of shorts?

Are we talking like a thick short?

We'd like a flannel short, just because to really maximum. don't look at me like that. Yeah. Yeah. What do you mean?

What do you mean in a one area where your ass needs to be clean? you sweating it out. You gotta Sure, it's too cold to sweat anywhere. Oh shit. That's a flannel short under a fucking duvet with a cover.

stink. Well, you know what.

No, you stain your sheets sleeping naked, by the way.

Good point, which is why we go black black sheets. I thought about that.

Anybody who sleeps naked. you're staining your sheets from getting up in the middle of the night and going pee that things that only Don't shower before drops there. So you're gonna have to change your sheets more often next question.

What are you blood? no, no,

Whose dick is still dripping.

Oh my god, to worry about that, because I wear shorts.

So wait, Kevin, I don't know if you know this. Jason JIC. just in case Jason, back in the day He would do this thing for a while, where he wasn't wearing underwear when we were years ago shooting Arrested Development. This is, I Think we've told this. I went, I went, I went, I went through a.

Three, I went through a three. I had a three-year window. Yeah, where I went commando for some weird reason. So it happened. it happened, it's not that great, And I right, and I and I and.

So so he would go to the bathroom and then what he would do is he's worried about drippage. Oh, so so.

Cuz, I'm gonna go to the bathroom whether we're ready to shoot, but I I'm peeing and so the cameras are gonna be rolling.

I asked before I came here. I said, this is gonna be some white boy shit. They said no.

Wait, I'll fucking ask I.

Asked. so he goes. so one day, one day. We're on set and Jason goes up by one of those one huge garbage cans and he's standing there and he takes Paper like toilet paper out of his pants ago. What are you doing?

I'm gonna ask the honest question. I want to ask the honest question because I understand the world of producing. I'm gonna get back to your original question. So you got an edit point?

Like you think that did. I don't remember what prompted. how lazy are you? So not, by the way, it's horrible. It's horrible wearing no underwear.

Almost punched you in the fucking face.

You pee sitting down right. you're not see, you're not old enough yet. How old, how old are you? I'm 42. Okay, you're not old enough yet.

Well, I know you better, not I don't. I mean stutter, you fucking stutter. No, you stutter.

You piece. I've been through this with him sitting down for years, because I think it's rude when, like somebody comes over here, like guys Come over guys or whatever, and they pee and it splashes and they don't clean it up. So, you know what guys just sit down. It takes care of all the splashing.

There is, uh-oh.

No, I'm gonna make sure I heard you. mr. You misheard me. I know I fucking heard you. Did you say so?

I don't fucking care, and then it's just like, and then they walk away. So, you know, whoever comes over my house, I always say hey, please be neat and wipe the seat.

Wait, is there a sign? Did you have a sign? Oh, but I'm that's a good idea.

I'll let it go. I'll let it fucking go, but I don't like you saying that we're all nasty and pee on the seat. I've never peed on the fucking. I'm not saying all of these got better. I was very racist what he said.

So will will will had some interesting job. Shawn's had some interesting jobs. that I hear surely.

Sales, ain't salesman? what is in your quiver, shoe salesman, is definitely what I was, who I used to be. how long I'm? I was a shoe salesman for probably two years. Yeah, I'm very good.

Are we selling dress shoes? I sold everything. Yeah, how did that experience make you, in your All your tentacles in your business, want to do something with shoes?

What was that question? did you say tentacles what? no?

Like with all. your business is going on. I'm not you. probably you may already have this. you're on thin, fucking nice, John, It's gonna be tonight, it's gonna be dear diary.

I.

Met, like all your business tentacles, all the businesses that you have going. Yeah, it did. you did your experience being a shoe salesman? Yeah, want to start your own line of shoes. Oh, so you.

He's yes, Andy.

You want to know if all my success within business and endeavors, at some point if I was like this, should be shoes.

He's gonna beat your ass. Yeah, yeah, like Kevin Hart shoes. Yeah. Got it that you can pee on, got it?

Maybe the maybe the rubber boots.

Sean is growing on me more and more. Here's a shoe salesman. different me shoe salesman showed me the importance of, like Charisma, charm right and in the world of selling shoes, You got a commission off of what you sold. I made money off of being personable and get people to come back. Oh god, I can do this.

Granddads go to orthotics in here. Don't worry, So what? That's a dead foot. My left toes been numb for years. but did you?

Oh god, there's something about me that gets people to do the thing that I want, right? And when I decided to leave that job and pursue the thing that I wanted to do, The person that I had to get to do the things that my customers, my customers, were doing was my mom. How do I get my mom to believe in the thing that I want to do? So, the same way, I got the customers to believe that this is a shoe for them, That same cadence, that same quality. give it to my mom.

I would do was she was. she was. she said. when you said you wanted to be a comic, She was she. am I understanding correctly?

Goodie, you want to be a stand-up, you know, like not when you have a different lane. that's laid out for you. So it was one of convincing.

Were you writing jokes like when you start, when you were selling shoes? We're like already thinking about. you wanted to get into comedy. You wanted to be a stand-up. Were you writing jokes?

Were you thinking in that way already? I have never written a joke in my life. I've never Written a joke word-for-word. Wow, at that point I had funny stuff that I wanted to talk about stories.

That I could shape, and yeah, it's stuff. I'm a person that.

shapes and molds stuff.

And who made you laugh the hardest growing up? They were like, oh, that's so funny in your family.

What was he was. your mom says not a comic, the my dad Yeah, and that not because he was funny, but because he was so ignorant to what he was doing. My dad had no idea the damage that he caused by being himself.

But it made you laugh like hell. Look at this stupid motherfucker. No, you didn't think it was stupid.

He was just like. I can't believe you said that, like my dad, my, there was a relative that died, My mom's sister and this is dark, but I'm gonna tell you anyway, my mom's sister died and we go to the funeral, and my dad comes to the funeral and it's myself and my Mom's other sisters in a circle. My dad comes up and his first words. He was like we dropping like flies, ain't we?

We'll be right back.

And back to the show.

What was that first time? what was that first time you went on stage and did stand-up? what was the venue?

What was you? remember that like laughs house comedy club, six people, six people, six. Wait, what laugh house comedy club showing you fucking heard me.

That is my kryptonite. This is nerve-wracking. being on a stage with a spotlight. Thank God. There isn't one on us Makes me I just freeze.

Modern-day spotlight. What are you talking about? This is the spotlight. you guys got up. You said something.

Did you ever have just a wipeout like a terrible Stand-up night that almost got you to say maybe not. Absolutely.

Famous story. I've told it several times, but I'll tell it again. Well, it's new to you. That's what I said. I'll tell it again.

Is there? is there? is there something that that that legitimately gives you fear is is it like, you know? the health of your family or Mortality? or for me, it's bees I Mean like.

fucking up what's What's what's close to being real? You know, I got an opportunity to create Generational wealth. I got an opportunity to create and break ground that has yet to be broken for me and mine, for where I come from. you're part of a story that can amplify and propel different types of I guess you can say like what and in Realistic approach to what a dream can really become. I'm a part of that.

Completing that task. Well, and I and I will say, I don't mean to embarrass you, but you you seem to be doing it in such a graceful, classy kind way. there you have, but you have a quality that is so infectious with your, not vulnerability or Humanity, but like you're not afraid to make a jackass out of yourself. You're never, you're never posturing. You're never playing cool, You are not afraid to be the butt of a joke.

It's. it's, I think, the dope thing about where we are. and and I do say we, Well, well, kind of right, oh, thank you. Come on, man. Thank you, right?

I'm not know what you. you're at the top. It's what it is.

Yeah, so so for me, it's it's. how do I and I say that humbly, by the way, I'm not I say how do I fucking create the opportunity for the next versions to be bigger, to be better? That's the new priority. and if you don't find energy in a new thing, Yeah, you sit in the old thing. you get, you get tired in the old thing.

Do you see like like? is there a moment for you in the future where you see that sick, that you've reached? Enough success, or a certain goal, where you're like, you know what? I'm good now I can kind of slow down and we talked, we touched on that before, but is there something? is there a goal in mind?

I think that they're. they're definitely there, definitely is, But I think that for me that would be very selfish, knowing my background. If I go, I'm done, I tap out and I'm just gonna ride out and be good When I have the opportunity to create other opportunities, I think I'm doing a disservice to those that need a service. So I would much rather, I would much rather Provide the the olive branch where I can and look if it. if it happens, and that Olive branch is great and people come and they go through, think, good, I did some dope shit.

Is there somebody that that that made, that inspired you to think this way to my mom? your mom, rest in peace, my mom.

Yeah, my mom was always my mom is a. you second those first and my mom was always a. It's it's so sad when you look at the people around a person That's happy and those people are unhappy. They're unhappy because a person's happiness is Solo. how does your happiness?

Yeah, I I think that people don't key in on that enough, that they don't know that, that actually, that is the key to Happiness, is giving it away, and I don't mean to monetarily, sure, but your energy and you, whatever that is that you have, if you, Whatever you put out is what you're gonna get back and then, and that may seem like, well, That's not altruistic, because you're just doing it to get a result. But you will get such joy if you constantly put that out to other people and make people feel good. You'll end up feeling and that's this, that's just something that I think that people really sleep on.

They're not asleep on it. But if you really go and look at some of the, if you go, look at some of the most.

Tried stand-up once. I don't know. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for asking, and my opening line was I think I said this on the podcast.

What did we just learn? we just learned. sometimes careers can last one joke.

If we're being real, I'm still waiting for the joke.

Sean just he just showed us why I didn't make it. now. There's a lot of. there's a lot of.

So you say you're not gonna. you're not gonna pack up and retire anytime soon, does some? I'm not retiring, not right before I'm 50? Duh, not before you're 50.. No, okay, Are you gonna squeeze in any more of these great movies with Dwayne Johnson before then?

You got. you guys think this relationship is so great. My back hurts.

Wait, are you a snowball on that? No, that's not snowball. Can I have some more snowball, please?

By the way, snowballs come, but this is a different pet. I don't want to talk about snowball now, cuz I got some of the other pet by the way, maybe the same voice. I'm not confident.

it must be nice that you've got somebody you're so close with that. your Escalation in your careers have been very, very, very similar, and you have someone to talk to about What's great about it? What's challenging about it? What's how, how you're adjusting mentally, spiritually, all of that stuff? I'm tell you what, though.

DJs much more grounded. Yeah, and

That's me.

Doesn't eat like 40 chickens a day or something Like I was like. we're like and the rocks new menu, okay, let's hear it.

30 steaks. I think he's done a great job. he's done a great job. it, like, you know, cutting that side off, venturing into his new side and and and DJ the business guys, is a good dude. And that dude is flourishing.

He's a sweet guy too, he's such a sweet guy.

You know, you're doing Something like we're doing here. You got a podcast comedy gold mines as well. Yes, now. Yeah. Yeah, now.

Well, preservatives whatsoever, but I challenge Jason, I challenge you to do the same thing, too. You know, Right, you don't need these to you. Well, no, you know, you shouldn't have those right, because there's a beauty and mostly just a bounce from my bags, right? Well, I get it. I get it.

Yeah, you know what. we haven't traveled with it. Yeah, but you know what? I love, though.

You know, I love about you. you talk about you doing all these things, But at the, you know, at the root of it, you're still the same guy that you absolutely 20 years ago. You have not changed. You're busier. You got more stuff.

I think so and I hope that people that know me. Well, I'm gonna say I hope I know. yeah, people that know me know that I think from the outside, The perception is always gonna be different, like, for example, I got fucking glasses on. now I'm be honest with you. I know I look like a dick, but if I take this off, It's been a.

That's truly who I am. So it's one. It's just one favor. That's it. Yeah.

No, no, no, cuz this wasn't a bad one. Like you, guys got a good thing going here. You got a great thing. Actually, you have a fantastic thing. You got a fucking crowd full of people.

Well,

Wow,

He's confident. Yeah.

By the way, great, get great.

Okay, I.

Let you know a lot of we don't need love a lot of actors. my mother and my sister say stand up a.

lot of actors, you know, try.

I don't matter, that matter. Yeah.

So, you know, a lot of actors, you know, try to get it. a lot of actors try to get into other facets of the business because you realize you have to diversify. and He's such a huge inspiration to so many people who are just like maybe stuck just doing one thing as an actor Like how can I follow Kevin Hart man? everything read up on him, though how he did. it is just so inspiring.

It's amazing to me. Yeah, it's incredible, and and I meant it that he is quite, quite literally just the same dude. He's. so he's got his feet on the ground and he's. of course He's just flying at such a different altitude now, but but maintaining that sort of that same sense of himself is pretty good.

He's got all he's still and he does all that work. He's still got time to work out and he's huge. He's like he's almost like he's.

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