"Kevin Hart: LIVE in Los Angeles"

26:06No he doesn't have that So I want to tell you that you're wrong With that assessment Right. So, like, what's... Not to be creepy, but if you took all your clothes off right now, we're looking at... Are we looking at... Again... Yeah. Again, not to be creepy. Not to be creepy. Are we talking... You're basically in bodybuilder shape. Have done for a long time. That's admirable. That takes a lot of discipline. You've got a great routine, I'm assuming. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Here's the thing, man. It's all about the walk away to the bathroom. Right? Like, if you're married, every morning you get up and you go to the bathroom, sometimes naked, sometimes with a shirt on, sometimes with a knot.

26:48But that bathroom walkaway is always viewed by your partner. And in my mind... You're working out a lot on the back of yourself. I'm working on just in general. It's all calves, buttocks, and lats. Calves, buttocks, back, lats. It's a fucking time. Hey, let him finish, man. All right. You want to know where to fuck your life up? If you walk to the bathroom and you hear subtly, ugh, it will destroy you. So in the back of my mind, I don't ever want to hear that. So when I walk away, I tiptoe, and I make sure that I don't hear my wife go, ugh. Yeah, right. That means that she's no longer happy with that.

27:30So it's all about keeping it in shape. When I walk away, I need you to know that's what you just fucked. Like, that's... That's my... Okay. Yeah, that's my takeaway. They understand it. So now, I'm just doing the math here. So you're walking away from... She's looking at your rear and she's saying, I just fucked that. Take that in. I'm just doing the math. Wait a minute. Hold on. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Let's go back. Still rolling. Let me switch it up. My husband understands that. Good luck. Good luck. Oh, shit! Oh! I love... I love the cancel checkmate. All right. By the way, he's off the... He's back on.

28:18He's no longer on the cancel meter. As black people, we've given him a pass. All right. What a checkmate. We've stumbled into a little bit of a segue to... I want to... I want to ask about this nickname Chocolate Dropper. Yes. Right? That's a little bit of a segue to that, right? Well, I don't understand how Sean's sex life is really... No, no, no, no. You walking away. Okay. 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... If you ever look back, that's a sign of insecurity.

28:56That's right. Yeah, you don't wanna look back. How do you feel, Jason? How do you feel about Amanda's view when you walk away? He looks back all the time. you're checking do you walk backwards out I'm I my move's a little bit more of a moonwalk to the bathroom so but do you do you walk backwards 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 kicking ass out yeah it's just like that's how I picture it too yeah this body showers with a t-shirt on Winnie Winnie the Pooh yeah yeah Winnie the Pooh is what I picture you as. Yeah. Just like in his hand and the honey.

29:35Yeah. But that's called shirt cocking when it's just a T-shirt and then, yeah. And the shirt cocking. Wait, do you all, does anybody sleep naked? Do you sleep naked? I'm a naked sleeper. Do you? Yeah. Fuck yeah. Really? Would you keep all this in clothes? Hell no. Are we looking at your sleep outfit right now? Absolutely. 100%. Absolutely. I'm going night-night in between shows in this. By the way, do us a favor, don't say night-night What do you What do you Sean, what do you wear? Always the same thing I wear shorts and a long-sleeved Loose shirt because Scotty Leaves the air conditioning on at 20 below Okay, and what kind of shorts?

30:17What? Shorts I know Because if you wear sweat When the air conditioning's on and you wear sweats And then the comforter, it's too hot So I wear shorts with one leg in, one leg out 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 the spinning? Absolutely. What kind of shorts? Are we talking like a thick short? Yeah, like a flannel short just because to really maximize... Don't look at me like that. What do you mean? What? What do you mean? In the one area where your ass needs to be clean, you sweating it out. You got a flannel short.

30:51It's too cold to sweat anywhere. Bullshit! That's a flannel short under a fucking duvet with a cover? You stink. You fucking stink. You know what? No. You stain your sheets sleeping naked. By the way, by the way, good point, which is why we go black. Black sheets. I thought about that, Sean. I thought about that, Sean. You just got recanceled, Sean. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's recanceled. I'm back on top, bitch. Anybody who sleeps naked, you're staining your sheets from getting up in the middle of the night and going pee. Do you know what I'm saying? Only if you don't shower before. There's a couple drops there, so you're going to have to change your sheets more often.

31:30Next question. Wait a second. Wait a second. Wait a second. Wait a second. Wait a second. Wait a second. Who's staining their sheets? Who's dropping what? Do you pee blood? No, no. No, no, no, no. He's talking urine. Whose dick is still dripping when they get back in the bed? What are you doing? I'm saying if you don't shake it off enough. Oh, my God. But I don't have to worry about that because I wear shorts. So, wait, Kevin, I don't know if you know this. JIC. 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...

32:05I 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 where I went commando for some weird reason. So... It happened... It's not that great. He's right. And it happened to be while I was working on a show where I wore nothing but khaki pants. Right. So? So he would go to the bathroom, and then what he would do is he's worried about drippage. Oh, God. So, so... Because you're going to go to the bathroom, we're ready to shoot, but I'm peeing, and so the cameras are going to be rolling. So guess what? I asked before I came here.

32:50I said, this is going to be some white boy shit. They said, no. I asked. But wait. I fucking ass. I ass. So he goes, so one day, one day we're on set, and Jason goes up by one of those huge garbage cans, and he's standing there, and he takes paper, like toilet paper, out of his pants. I go, what are you doing? He goes, I got to put it in there to blot it for like 20 minutes. I got to wrap it. He wraps it. And then he takes it out in the middle of the set. I'm like, what the fuck are you talking? That's what serial killers do. I want to ask an honest question. I want to ask an honest question because I understand the world of producing.

33:30I'm going to get back to your original question, so you got an edit point. But before I get there... Before I get there, is there ever a good reaction from the guy that doesn't wear draws? Like, what? Like, the man that doesn't wear underwear, he pulls out an underwear. Has a woman ever said, Oh, no. I don't... No underwear. Like, what do you think that did? I don't remember what prompted the... How lazy are you? Like, to not go there? By the way, it's horrible. It's horrible wearing no underwear. It's horrible wearing boxers. I think boxers, like, they don't bend. They don't stretch. So I found boxer briefs.

34:12Have you guys heard about these boxers? I don't know. Fantastic. They're incredible. Now, what do you say you sleep naked? Yeah. And you got the onesie. Yeah. Right? You're naked. Butt bald. Butt bald naked. Butt bald. Are you? How do you, we're going to wrap up all this crap talk. Go ahead. I gave you a cut point. Do you pee sitting down? I almost punched you in the fucking face just then. I do. Do you pee sitting down, right? Yeah, I do. You're not, see, you're not old enough yet. How old are you? I'm 42. Okay, you're not old enough yet. You pee sitting down, right? Will, you better not. No, I don't.

34:57You stuttered. You fucking stuttered. No. You stuttered. You pee sitting down. I've been through this with him. I've been sitting down for years because I think it's rude when, like, somebody comes over here, like, guys come over your house 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.

35:18There he is. Uh-oh. and it stretches out your back. Yeah. Your back's gonna start getting tight on you at about 50. Sean, did you just say... No. I just wanna make sure I heard it. You misheard me. No, I fucking heard you. I fucking heard you. You just said so it doesn't splash all around. Yeah, because a lot of guys are like, I don't fucking care. And then it's just like... And then they walk away. So, you know, whoever comes over to my house, I always say, hey, please be neat and wipe the seat. Wait, is there a sign? Do you have a sign? No, but that's a good idea. um all right come on all right so all right we're out of the bathroom we're out of the bedroom hang on all right let's get out of the bathroom out of the bedroom let's get to the shoe store shoe salesman take me take me to the shoe salesman days oh back on now i'm really i'm really gonna get my ass kicked now he's traumatized traumatized because he said wait what about what about yeah 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 seat he's got good i'm not saying i'm not saying That's what he said.

36:22He suggested to black people... Whatever. All right, let's go. So, Will had some interesting jobs. Sean's had some interesting jobs. I hear shoe salesman is in your quiver. Shoe salesman is definitely what I was, who I used to be. How long? I was a shoe salesman for probably two years. Yeah. I'm very good. What were we doing? Were we selling sneakers? Were we selling dress shoes? I sold everything, Jason. Did that experience make you in your, all your tentacles in your business want to do something with shoes? What I want you to understand, Sean, what was that question? Did you say tentacles what?

36:58No, like with all your businesses going on, you may already have this. You're on thin fucking ice, Sean. It's going to be tonight, and it's going to be Dear Diary, Kevin Hart scares the shit out of me.

37:17No, do you want to know if he's got a desire to make shoes? You want to know if I got tentacles? What are you saying, Sean? No, I meant like all your business tentacles, all the businesses that you have going. Yeah. Did your experience being a shoe salesman want to start your own line of shoes? Oh, so you... He's yes-handed. 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's shoes. Yeah, got it. That you can pee on. Got it. Got it. Maybe the rubber boots. By the way, by the way, Sean is growing on me more and more.

37:59I know. I know. Here's what shoe salesman did for 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 getting people to come back. Oh, God, I can do this. And by the way, I did it because I really learned about it. So I didn't have acid. I didn't bullshit it. But I can tell you anything you want to know about a sneaker. Sean, you got a flat foot. That's a flat sneaker. By the way, no polythene. Or, no, actually, you do. There's a Louis. Yeah, actually, you do.

38:37Here. You have a flat foot, but inside you may pronate or subinate, so I can't tell. Those are like$2 ,000 sneakers, though, aren't they? Yes, I know they are, and that's why I had to fucking look differently because I saw what they were. Pronate or subinate. I didn't know where your foot rolls, Jason. I'm just qualified. But, yeah, I got it. Granddad's got orthotics in here. Don't worry about that. Your foot's dead. I do, too. That's a dead foot. That's a dead foot. My left toe's been numb for years. But you're saying something there, which you, there was a challenge to figure out the customer to see who you needed to be to get the commission that you wanted.

39:14It's kind of like acting, kind of changing into the part. That job, that job made me realize, 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 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 the shoe for them, I had to take that same cadence, that same quality, give it to my mom. Once I got my mom to believe that thing, oh my God, I'm winning.

39:48Half the battle is done. My mom believes in me, she supports me, but now how do I make money? Now I had to convince the comedy clubs I can do the thing that I said I would do. Was she, was she, was she, when you said you wanted to be a comic, was she, am I understanding you correctly, she was like, wait, come on, Kevin, really? I mean, no parent out the gate is supportive. Yeah, right. Oh, goody, 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 were selling shoes, were you like already thinking about you wanted to get into comedy, you wanted to be a stand-up?

40:21Were 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 you could shape. I had stuff. I'm a person that shapes and molds stuff. Who made you laugh the hardest growing up? That you were like, oh, that's so funny. In your family. Was it your mom? I was going to say, it's not a comic. My dad. Yeah? My dad. 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.

41:00But it made you laugh like hell. It was the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life. Look at this stupid motherfucker. No, you didn't think he was stupid. He was just like, I can't believe he said that. Like, my dad, there was a relative that died. My mom's sister, and this is dark, but I'm going to tell you anyway. My mom's sister died, and we go to the funeral. My dad comes to the funeral, and it's myself and my mom's other sisters in a circle. when my dad comes up in his first words, he was like, we dropping like flies, ain't we? And everybody looked around. He was like, shit, I just hope I ain't next.

41:37God damn. And nobody could say anything, but it was so bad because they didn't even like him. Like, they didn't like my dad. He suggested the information as if he was a fan favorite. And he had all, like, and it was a funeral. My dad showed up in, like, white linen at a funeral. He's one of a kind, but I can say for me, that guy, he made me understand humor. Humor sometimes is subjective. My dad has always been subjective. Nobody's ever really liked his approach, but that's the side that I gravitated towards, and that's what's in me. We'll be right back. And back to the show. What was that first time you went on stage and did stand-up?

42:22What was the venue? Do you remember that? Laugh House Comedy Club. Six people. Six people. Six. Wait, what? Laugh House Comedy Club. Sean, you fucking heard me. Laugh House Comedy Club. Fucking love it. Laugh House Comedy Club. Six people. Six people at the goddamn comedy club. I go up. I do jokes. They're not laughing, but they're listening. But what I fell in love with was not the people and not the response, but the light. The light didn't deter me. And that's where people buckle. People buckle at the light. You're talking about the spot? Literally. No, Jason, I'm talking about the fucking light bulb on the top.

42:58Yeah, the spotlight. Yes. The spotlight. God damn it, it's my business. 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. No, that's... This is a spotlight, Jason. That's an egg crate. It's a 15 by 15 frame. No, it's a modern-day spotlight. What are you talking about? This is a spotlight. You guys got up and you said something right now. Everybody's going to get quiet. They're going to listen. Some people freeze, some people don't. Those that don't win. I did not freeze. And granted, I did not get a laugh that night.

43:33I kept going. And that was the thing for me. That was the bug that bit me. And I was like, this is what I want to do. 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. New to us. Well, it's new to you. That's why I said I'll tell it again. Thank you, my friend. I'm in Atlantic City. I'm doing a joke. And I remember doing a joke and the guy stood up. He was like, that's enough. Shut the fuck up. Throw a buffalo wing at me. By the way, I've never seen accuracy like this in my life.

44:09Buffalo wing. Hits me. Hits me. Right in the face. Little bit of sauce gets in my eye. Not a lot. Enough to give me a problem where I can't see. I'm like, all right, that's enough. I'm a man first. Don't disrespect me. He's like, that's enough. if we had enough of you, get off the stage. Get the fuck off the stage. I'm like, no, I'm going to finish my jokes. And I go to finish my jokes, and the whole crowd's like, oh, no, we don't want you to finish. They were like, boo, boo, boo. I got booed. Some other comics were back there. They shook my hand. They're like, yo, you going to be all right? I was like, yeah, I'll be back next week.

44:43They thought I was playing. I came back next week, same crowd. I tried to revamp my set the best that I could. I go up. I perform. I didn't get booed. I didn't necessarily get big laughs, but I survived the set. And that was the biggest win for me in my life because I came back to the place that destroyed me. So all of my wins, all of my wins in the beginning, I don't have hero stories. I don't have, oh my God, and they stood up and carried me out. I don't have those stories. All of my wins were mental wins. And the mental wins came from where I come from. Where I come from, we beat each other up.

45:16We tear each other down. And, you know, we destroy the confidence that some don't have. So to survive that will put you in a place of fucking good. Being that I got out of that, I was able to truly grow and really fall into a place where my talent got to blossom. And comedy became realistic because I made my city give me a chance. They didn't give it to me. I made them give it to me. Is there something that legitimately gives you fear? Is it like, you know, the health of your family or mortality or for me, it's bees. I mean, like, is there something that you're just like, that's always going to be a pet fear of mine that's actually beneficial to you, that keeps you doing what you're doing and doing it well?

46:09Yeah, I think the real fear right now is fucking up 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 could say like want and realistic approach to what a dream can really become. I'm a part of that. So not accomplishing said goals or not finishing the story. It's not about me. It's about the people that now are looking at me and oh my God, that's how you do it.

47:00So if I don't finish the thing that people are watching that I know I can do, I leave the story incomplete. And success to some is not success to me. It's really giving a true, clear visual into what wealth can be for where I come from and it doesn't exist. So the fear is that. The fear is not completing that task. Well, and I will say, and I don't mean to embarrass you, but you seem to be doing it in such a graceful, classy, kind way. You have a quality that is so infectious with your, it's not vulnerability or humanity, but like you're not afraid to make a jackass out of yourself. You're never posturing.

47:48You're never playing cool. You're not afraid to be the butt of a joke. and it's so winning and it's so fun to follow and get behind. And it's like, I mean, I'd watch you read the phone book. Thank you, man. I appreciate you. I appreciate you. I think the dope thing about where we are, and I do say we. Well. Well, kind of, right? Oh, thank you. Come on, man. Thank you. Right? Yeah. Me and you, you already know where we sit. That's right. I didn't cancel you, you didn't cancel me. All right, we're back on track. I think the dope thing about where we sit is, you know, in this business, we've been put in the position for a long time to believe that we will work for hire.

48:36And those that have hired us, as amazing and dope as those opportunities are and will continue to be, that's all we knew that exists. And now, you know, you're looking at the new era where we can control, we can create, we can do. It's different. and it's a different agenda. And we're supposed to progress. We're supposed to grow. And the relationships between us and our partners are supposed to become exactly that, partnerships. And when you see that happening, it's, well, how do you become a part of the thing that's the biggest picture? How do you do that? And creating opportunities for the people too.

49:08It's like a springboard. So that's the priority for me. It's no longer about me. I'm not going to be a biggest star. And I know it sounds like... You're not going to what? Be a biggest star. I'm not. No, you're at the top of the mountain. Yes, it is. It's what it is. Yeah. So for me, 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, then you sit in the old thing. You get tired in the old thing. You get lazy in the old thing.

49:41I don't want the old thing. Do you see, like, is there a moment for you in the future where you see 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? I know we touched on that before, but is there something, is there a goal in mind where you're like, if I can reach that, I can maybe settle down and calm down a little bit? I think that 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 going to ride out and be good when I have the opportunity to create other opportunities, then I think I'm doing a disservice to those that need a service.

50:24So I would much rather provide the olive branch where I can. And look, if it happens and that olive branch is great and people come and they go through, then good. I did some dope shit. If they don't, at least I tried and I can say that I gave an opportunity for a bigger conversation to be attached to the success outside of me. And that's what you start to struggle with, right? Like you make money, you get big, you get grown, then you get to going, oh, wait, well, what else? What else is important? Because it can't just be fame. Is there somebody that inspired you to think this way? My mom. Your mom.

51:02Rest in peace. My mom. Yeah. My mom was always, my mom is a, you second those first. My mom was always a, 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 so low. Right. How does your happiness, how do you spread it out? Like, what are you doing to give that thing out? Where's your energy go? How are you truly implementing it into the lives of others? And this is a conversation that we don't have enough, right? As people, we're very selfish. We're very selfish at times within what we have and what we want to give.

51:45I don't think that that's right. I think that if I have a high level of happy, if I have a high level of good or information, it's my fucking job to try to give to those that can benefit off of it. That's my job. Right? I think that people don't key in on that enough that they don't know that actually that is the key to happiness is giving it away. And I don't mean monetarily sure, but your energy and whatever that is that you have, whatever you put out is what you're going to get back. 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.

52:24You'll end up feeling, and that's something that I think that people really sleep on. They don't sleep on it, but if you really go and look at some of the, if you go and look at some of the most celebrated, the most celebrated, happiest people, right, of our time or before our time, you'll look at their life, and they struggled a lot. The things you think they had, they didn't have, but what they found joy in was providing. Providing it for others. People find joy in seeing other people fucking glow. And what we've lost, we've lost that. So if you look at where we are now, this is a weird battle amongst people because we're trying to control one another.

53:04We're not allowing each other to fucking flourish and benefit to be who you are. We're trying to make you what we want you to be, who we want you to be. I'm a fan of joy. I'm a fan of smile. I'm a fan of happy. I'm a fan of love. I always have been. that's what I'm a fan of so if it's not that for me it doesn't work I tried stand up once thank you for asking and my opening line was I think I said this on the podcast my opening joke was you know they say ballet is one of the most difficult things you can do so I say don't do it well what did we just learn what did we just learn we just learned sometimes careers can last one joke well I was going to say that I was going to say that If we're being real, I'm still waiting for the joke.

53:48Well, Sean just showed us why he didn't make it. Now, there's a lot of different things. Yeah, this is why I'm at royalty. So you say you're not going to pack up and retire anytime soon. I'm not retiring. Not before I'm 50. Not before you're 50? No. Okay, are you going to squeeze in any more of these great movies with Dwayne Johnson before then? Yes. Because it's been really awesome. Now, are you guys as close as it seems? because the chemistry is just awesome. You guys think this relationship is so great. My back hurts. Carrying that guy is tough. Carrying that big motherfucker to the finish line is tough.

54:32I can be honest with you. DJ and I are very close. That's a really good friend of mine. And our chemistry on screen is the same as off screen. And that's why we've won. We don't go into our trailers in between shots. When we're on set, we're on set. And when we work together, we truly do work together. And I love the fact that it's been far a few in between because we got something. And we saw each other. We just did a, we got an animation movie coming out with the DC. It's the Super Pets. Wait, is Snowball in that? No, it's not Snowball. By the way. Can I have some more Snowball, please? By the way, Snowball's coming, but this is a different pet.

55:16I don't want to talk about Snowball now because I got to talk about the other pet. By the way, maybe the same voice. I'm not confident.

55:26What I love, though, is that we got together and we talked, man, and we were like, we just got to figure out the next one. But we both know it's never going to be duplicated. You don't get that thing a lot. And we're very fortunate to have had the opportunity to make the movies that we have. And, you know, it's dope. 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, how you're adjusting mentally, spiritually, all of that stuff.

56:02I can tell you what, though. He's a lot more... DJ's much more grounded. Yeah. And he's more concrete than I am. How so? Well, because I'm in the shit. I'm in the shit. What are we? I'm in the shit, man. What does that mean? Well, I'm touring. I'm out all the time. I'm on the road, off the road. I got the people. I'm dealing with. You're saying he's soft. You're saying he's a diva. No, I'm saying, I'm saying, no, I never say he's a diva. I'm saying I'm more hands-on into the world and more interactive with people in the everyday. day. He is from his company side and all of his ventures, but the live entertainment aspect he's removed from.

56:51So remember the world when he was in wrestling and live performing, that's a different energy. You're giving a different energy to people every day. You gotta be on. You gotta be fucking on. He would get off of a wrestling match and then, rock, do the thing. He's gotta do the eyebrow. He's gotta take a picture. Right? For me, that's me. And then he's gotta Doesn't he eat like 40 chickens a day or some shit? Who knows? It's like... And I was like, and the Rock's new menu. And I'm like, okay, let's hear it. And he's like, 30 steaks. I think he's done a great job. He's done a great job at cutting that side off, venturing into his new side.

57:29And DJ the business guy is a good dude. And that dude is flourishing. I'm still all over it. He's a sweet guy, too. He's such a sweet guy. No, he's a dickhead. He's a dickhead. He's a dickhead. I just want to be on the right I want him to know that I said he was a sweet guy because he's a big dude as we know I love it now you're doing something like we're doing here you got a podcast, Comedy Goldmines as well yes now is it like a like a chat show about with comics and talking about comedy and stand up I do all organic, authentic conversation, right? No preservatives whatsoever. But I challenge Jason, and I challenge you to do the same thing, too.

58:22You know, when you have these people on, right? You don't need these, do you? Well, no, you shouldn't have those, right? Because there's a beauty in the unknown. It's mostly just a bounce for my bags. Right, well, I get it. I get it, whether you need them, whether you need them or not, whether you need them or not. What I love to do, I love to actually discover. I like the fact that I don't know. And when I don't know, I'm going to ask. And the person has to answer the questions. So as comedians, comedians are dark. Some aren't. Some really have other issues. But you've never heard it. And the people that you think you love, you really don't know.

58:58So on Comedy Goldmines, you got an opportunity to dive into the minds of some of your favorite humorous fucking individuals. And they say shit that you never thought they would say. Why? Because we have talks and conversations that take them in the directions that you never thought that we would go. And conversations in general, that's what we're missing. So organic, real, driven transparency, I think that's what people need to see. You need to get back to seeing people be humans and not be programmed. So on Comedy Goldmines, comedians are actually fucking humans. How often are you doing it? I'm going to be honest with you, Jason.

59:32Whenever I have time, I'm pretty fucking busy, man. Yep. you know the schedule keeps changing we got nothing we're doing this all the time we even traveled with it Kevin you know what I love though you know what I love about you you talk about you doing all these things but at the root of it you're still the same guy that you were 20 years ago you have not changed you're busier you got more stuff you had a lot more free time back then but you're the same dude and you have that same perspective that's so refreshing that's gotta be the biggest win for you I think so and I hope that people that know me, well, I want to say I hope.

1:00:07I know people that know me know that. I think from the outside, the perception is always going to be different. Like, for example, I got fucking glasses on now. And I'm going to be honest with you, I know I look like a dick, but if I take these off, it's been a couple long days. Yes. It's been some long days, and I know these eyes are dripping as I'm talking. That's why I'm blocking them. But I think the most important thing for me is I'm so fucking genuine. like I'm so good to the people that know me I really am who I say I am and when I tell you like Jason when he said Kev you want to do it I said absolutely it was very fast I didn't even vet it out by the way this could have been some freaky shit I didn't know what to tell you but I didn't vet it out because I'm like I like the dude I know where he comes from I remember when we did X, Y, and Z together on Simpson Intelligence we talked Jason you've never asked me for nothing I'm there.

1:01:01That's truly who I am. But it's one. It's just one favor. That's it. No, no, no, because this wasn't a bad one. 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 to support you guys. Well, you made it real, real good tonight, and we cannot thank you enough, buddy. It was really cool. This is dope. This is so good. Thank you, pal. Buddy, thank you, my friend. Thank you, boss. Sean. Oh, my God! Oh!

1:01:40That guy. Wow. He did not look back as he was walking away. No, I know. He did not look back. He's confident. Yeah, he's really confident. That was a confident walk away. By the way, great get. Great get. I'm a huge fan. How great was Kevin? You guys got Kevin Hart! Yeah. He, you know, I meant that when I said, you know, a lot of people get into, like, a lot of actors are like, oh, how do I...

1:02:08They love you. We love him, too. What about these guys? No, it's okay. They're rude. It's okay. I love, you know, a lot of... We don't need love. A lot of actors... It's my mother and my sister. Say, stand up. A lot of actors, you know, try... There it is.

1:02:27It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Yeah. I love you, too. All right, so Kevin Hart. 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. How he did it is just so inspiring. It's amazing to me. Yeah, it's incredible. And I meant it that he is quite literally just the same dude. He's got his feet on the ground, and he's, of course, he's just flying at such a different altitude now.

1:03:05But maintaining that same sense of himself is pretty rad. And he does all that work. He's still got time to work out. I mean, he's huge. He's almost like he's bionic! Woo! Bye, bud, thank you! Smart. Nice.

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