#1278 - Kevin Hart

[0] Here we go in five, four, three, two, one.

[1] Yes.

[2] And all the fucking people that make me feel lazy in this world, there's two that made me feel you and the rock.

[3] You fuckers don't look like you ever sleep, man. No days off.

[4] That's what I love is unattractive ass.

[5] He's a person that motivates me, inspires me, and the fact that we're coworkers, we're friends.

[6] I think it's a, I think it's like a, it's a blessing.

[7] It's a blessing to be around that.

[8] Yeah.

[9] Because it truly, it's uplifting.

[10] You know, it makes you, it just makes you weed out the circle.

[11] When you're around people that truly give you, like, give you some good, serve a good value to you in your life, you then look at those that don't and you can, you can then push away.

[12] So I'm big on, I'm big on personality.

[13] I'm big on energy.

[14] I'm big on will and wants I believe that it's contagious So if you have a bunch of laziness And a bunch of bullshit around you Naturally is going to feed off You're going to find yourself Becoming what's in your environment So I feel the exact same way And when I see a guy like Kim I see that in you I see that in you I feel like I've seen an avatar I see you I see you Yeah but a guy like that I always wonder like how much of that is Like I've had sleep experts on the podcast To tell you like like there's real problems if you don't get enough sleep like you could you have a much higher risk of Alzheimer's all these other serious issues but I see a guy like the rock I'm like how the fuck does he sleep well where's the room for sleep you know that that's true I can't say that I'm that I've witnessed the sleep patterns but he's a he's a late ass so he does I know he's sleeping at some point because like what are we waiting on DJ got damn it he's probably getting his his rest, which is well deserved.

[15] But, you know, when you say you've had these sleep experts and stuff on, it's always a thing that I go back and forth about because what is enough sleep?

[16] Like, I'm a person, I function high off of six to seven hours.

[17] Yeah.

[18] Six, seven hours, I'm functioning.

[19] Yeah.

[20] Five hours, I'm great.

[21] Do I do the five -hour thing all the time?

[22] No. But if I have to, I'm fine.

[23] I don't need the eight and the nine.

[24] I feel like that's too much for me. Like, I'm an early riser, and now that I'm getting older, you know, if I can get in that bed by 9 .30 or 10 on an off workday, I'm very happy with that.

[25] But then I'm up at 5 .30.

[26] Right.

[27] I'm up at 5.

[28] So what is enough sleep?

[29] What do they tell you is enough sleep?

[30] It really depends on the person.

[31] There are people that have a gene where they can just sleep four hours a night and they're fine.

[32] I got that.

[33] I got that.

[34] What is that?

[35] Does that mean my blood is gold?

[36] What is that?

[37] What is it?

[38] Just means you got special.

[39] jeans.

[40] God damn right.

[41] I'm alien.

[42] I got some shit.

[43] There are people that just don't need as much.

[44] They can go a long time without sleep.

[45] Diagnose me. I'm one of those people.

[46] You might be.

[47] I bet a lot of high functioning people are because your body tends to, you get more efficient.

[48] You know, like you're always going.

[49] You're always burning at hard.

[50] So your body's like when it's time to shut down, it's like shut down, get that five, six hours in.

[51] All right.

[52] Then you're good.

[53] Let's go.

[54] I will confess this.

[55] I am an amazing catnapper.

[56] Yeah, I'm one of those guys If you stop talking to me Long enough I'm gonna fall to sleep right here It's something about silence And just not doing anything And I just Well, you're probably going on momentum all the time You're probably going on motivation and momentum Okay And then when your body has this break Your body's like, we can use a little sleep right here That's just It's 100 % right I'm day serious I know for sure That that's accurate Because I'll catnap and heartbeat Do you feel like you've hit a good balance?

[57] So this is why I always wonder about with guys like you or guys like The Rock.

[58] When I look at your Instagram, your social media, and you're just constantly going like, God damn.

[59] Do you ever feel like you do too much?

[60] Like, maybe I just need to take a little break here.

[61] Do you ever feel like that?

[62] I think the perception definitely perceives reality.

[63] You know, what looks like so much isn't always so much because you have a schedule.

[64] And, you know, within that schedule, there's the things that.

[65] mean the most that come and act as downtime, you know, me and my house is downtime, even though it's still active and I got to be dad and I'm with the kids and the wife and this conversation and I'm running around and I'm back and forth, that still acts as downtime for me. Like, I'm shutting the work off.

[66] So the phone is in the office.

[67] I'm not going back to get it until the morning.

[68] And it's all conversation.

[69] It's all TV.

[70] It's all Taco Tuesday.

[71] it's couch and cuddling you know baby time whatever that's my down time because I'm I've taken a step outside of the other shit that's wise that's what I think I do very well I can step outside the other shit I can separate it so I think when you're able to do that then you're managing your mental you know what I mean like if it's if it's always one thing all the time that's how you fucking drive yourself crazy because you never you're never shutting it off yeah and I think I do a good job of shutting shutting this off and focusing on this like when I'm with my family I'm with my family nothing is nothing interjects or comes in between that's fantastic that's so important that's 100 % that's beautiful I figured that out that's gigantic I think I figured it out that's it I think I figured it out you mean you've got so much success it's not you have to be with that fucking phone all the time that's that that's the phone is the big one right the phone the phone is is the gift and the curse you know i think that we we shot out the gate and saw the gift oh my god it's it's it's it's community it's connecting us we're able to share we're able to meet new people where we're able to stay in communication with with old people find new people as entertainer i can engage with my fans and this is so dope and then after that you get hit with the the curse and the curse and the curse there's a there's a high level of negativity that's out there that's on that shit you know there's there's a lot of people that are you know not happy or or going through things and they interject a certain amount of negativity and hatred through these devices yeah these devices are the easiest way to touch everybody so when you're just consumed on that shit all day you start to see yourself being a part of the negative shit.

[72] Yeah.

[73] So what I've learned to do is go, I don't need to see that.

[74] I don't need to see that shit.

[75] I don't pay that any mind.

[76] I don't read that shit.

[77] For what?

[78] It's not helping me. It's not making me better.

[79] It's not, it's not pushing me to new limits.

[80] If anything, it's taken up just creative space by me literally spending time going and navigating through what I think is a bunch of bullshit.

[81] So I don't let the device beat me And at one point, I definitely did At one point it was everything It was everything It was, you know Now I separated How'd you break clear of it?

[82] When you realize what it is When you see the bad You know, when you see the bad side of it I thought the other day This is some real shit And it really made me think My phone died My phone died and I'm driving And I was using the fucking maps and I was like oh shit what the fuck how I'm gonna get to where I don't know where I'm going and I was like yo how did we how did we get from point A to point B before the map shit what were we doing that I used to print out directions from Google Maps I remember that but then before that how did you get to the places where you were going that you didn't know how to get to I don't even remember do you remember Thomas guides did you ever have a Thomas guide I did have a Thomas guide When I first moved to L .A. I did have a time it got.

[83] Giant ass.

[84] A hundred percent.

[85] Bill Burr had one until like three years ago.

[86] Bill probably still uses it.

[87] Shout out to Bill Burr.

[88] But it really fucked me up because I was like, how do, we don't even know how to do the common, the norm anymore because the device has made everything available.

[89] And I literally had to drive to a store where I could buy a chart.

[90] charger charge up my phone to get back and use the map to get to where the fuck I was going because I had no idea how to get there I had no I didn't know no numbers by heart I didn't know who I was going to call what what phone like yo this was the moment where I was like what I was like what level of success have I reached I just pulled over and I sat there and I was like how the fuck am I going to get to where I'm going to have a spare phone man I don't know what it was in a backup phone it felt like it felt like it felt like it was over I was like shit Isn't that crazy how dependent you are?

[91] But that's when the light bulb started to click.

[92] Yeah.

[93] It started the click.

[94] Like how did we function without?

[95] I want to go backwards a little bit.

[96] Yeah.

[97] It's still there.

[98] I still need it.

[99] I still think it's dope with all of the things that we can do on it, but I still want to be able to put it down and step away from it.

[100] I want my kids to be able to step away from it.

[101] That's why when I come in the house, my phone is up.

[102] Because I can't bitchy complain at y 'all about being like, on your phone if you see me doing the same thing right right so that time those conversations me wanting to know about your day you talking to me about your day your friends who you like who don't you like my daughter you what boy who what what huh no all right god my son yeah i like somebody who oh jesus here it comes it's it's it's a great thing and i want to be able to have those moments and you know i think it's it's it's big to make sure that you prioritize that.

[103] Are you worried about what comes next?

[104] 100%.

[105] I'm worried that something's going to be way more intrusive than that.

[106] It's, what do you mean?

[107] It's already happening.

[108] Yeah.

[109] The biggest scare happened already with the FaceTime shit that happened where...

[110] What happened?

[111] Well, Apple on the iPhones, it was like people could listen into your...

[112] Oh, yeah, if you didn't even pick up, they could FaceTime you?

[113] They could just listen into it.

[114] Yeah.

[115] And, you know, that was the scariest shit ever.

[116] Because if it's that easy to have a bug like that, what's the thing that's not a bug that's there that you just don't know about?

[117] Oh, there's definitely government listening to us right now.

[118] 100%.

[119] Yeah, recording everything, everybody says and then in case one day you do something wrong, they'll put you aside.

[120] Mr. Hart, we're like you to sit down for a minute.

[121] We're going to play you something.

[122] 100%.

[123] Yeah.

[124] So the fair is the next level of intrusive.

[125] I think everything has become intrusive now.

[126] The toughest thing for me is that there is no, there is no privacy outside my home.

[127] Right.

[128] You know, the, the amount of money that you have to now spend just on security, on, you know, people to, to be with me, security to be on my home, you know, it's like there, there literally is no privacy.

[129] And it's not that I bitch you complain about it.

[130] Because without the fans, without the people that support me, I wouldn't be where I am.

[131] But there's no middle ground.

[132] Right.

[133] You know, there is no handshakes anymore.

[134] it's it's how you doing right right right handshake is so much better to get a moment like we can talk if that's what you want no no no yo say it now it's kind of weird because you're doing this to me it's kind of weird to have a conversation so you're just starting to see yourself become a little older and wiser and just really see the times for what they are and see the direction that we're going in as people and just hope and pray that We find a middle ground because I think right now there is it one.

[135] Yeah.

[136] That's what I'm feeling now.

[137] No, I feel it too.

[138] Especially, I mean, what you're talking about is you being super famous and losing all your privacy, but everyone's losing their privacy.

[139] Slowly but surely.

[140] It's happening to you because you're very famous and because you do something that's in the public eye and people want to see you and they want to stick that camera in front of you.

[141] But there's going to come a point in time where what we're dealing with now, which is like you have to turn your phone up.

[142] on you have to you know you have to reach out to somebody you have to put something up that's that steps going to be out of the way and it's just going to be people being able to access your life yeah pretty you know you know the bad here's what i'll say this bad that really fucks with me i don't like that negativity is the the want yeah like like the the thing that's popular is the failure the The fuck up, you know, the fight that I can catch.

[143] Yeah.

[144] The hateful moment that I can catch in post.

[145] Like, the bad is being highlighted and celebrated.

[146] That's what fucks with me, with the social media shit now.

[147] What really bothers me is, you know, when you see these things online, like, you know, a fight and there's a man hitting a woman and it's captured.

[148] Right.

[149] That's bad.

[150] the bad thing is that you watched that the video was more important than the actual help or the moment to step in and you know when you see these things where you're catching people do these things to kids and it's caught the moment of what you got and what you want to post and get likes or whatever on is the focus instead of the help yeah and that's that's the part that it's just, I just have a hard time processing.

[151] I have a hard time processing what the likes mean to certain people.

[152] Well, you get an extraordinary amount of attention, so it doesn't mean anything to you the way it means something to a regular person, but to a regular person, if they can catch some World Star video and put it up there, like, dude, that's my video, that's my video.

[153] Look, my video got five million hits.

[154] My video is gone viral.

[155] My video's everywhere.

[156] For them, it's like, it's a point of excitement.

[157] That's why when they see you, they're like, oh, shit, how often are they going to run into Kevin Hart at, you know, Costco, wherever the fuck you were?

[158] I definitely run into me on a, you know, I'm in a bathroom, restaurant, and I go to the bathroom, you know, by the way that I went to the bathroom, you could definitely tell I had the shit.

[159] I was, I was moving fast.

[160] I was, you know, it was one of those abrupt, you know, while you're eating.

[161] Like, uh -oh.

[162] Yeah, I'm eating bad, so I didn't eat bad in a while.

[163] my stomach immediately said, this is not going to happen today.

[164] So I get up and I go.

[165] And literally, like three seconds, I hear it as I'm walking.

[166] Oh, they go, Kev Hart.

[167] And as I'm walking by, a guy gets up, follows me in the bathroom.

[168] And he's like, yo, I got to get a picture, man. And I said, let me go to the bathroom.

[169] When I'm done, I'll take a picture with you.

[170] I go to the bathroom.

[171] This is a true story.

[172] Hand on the Bible.

[173] Hand on the Bible.

[174] I assume the guy is outside the bathroom Because as I'm going I see him and I say what I say I get done I go to the sink, wash my hands He was just sitting behind the wall And he's like got his phone out And I'm like he probably Did he just take me While I was shitting?

[175] Did he put the phone over the thing?

[176] Oh Jesus Like I'm about to be on Oh my God, it's over This is it This is my nightmare Here we go They're about to put something up Of me shitting It's the bottom of my feet it's whatever yeah but he just waited and in that moment was so it was so important that he was in the bathroom and and soon as i got to come on let's take it i said let's go outside the bathroom yeah let's take a picture that's a bathroom i said i'm not i'm going away i'm a nice guy man i'm gonna take the picture he's like i just ain't want to lose you and i'm like there's not even a thought there's not even a thought about it's a bathroom right how weird is that it's a after, man. This is a, this is a pretty fucking weird moment, man. This is weird.

[177] Following you waiting for you to shit.

[178] Yeah, you just waited for me to finish shit and I don't know what you got on your phone.

[179] Right.

[180] You're too big for me to ask to go through your phone so I can't.

[181] Whatever you got, you got.

[182] But I had to go out and take the picture and I remember going back to the table just like, what's happening?

[183] What's happening?

[184] At this point, what is happening?

[185] Yeah, that didn't exist before.

[186] Think if you were famous before, people just wanted to get an autograph or shake your hand.

[187] We're past the autograph stage.

[188] What was the last time you get an autograph?

[189] It's been a while.

[190] It's been a while.

[191] I don't think I would know how to write it.

[192] I don't think I would know what to put down.

[193] It's been a minute, man. And I don't, and I want to make this very clear.

[194] You know, it's not.

[195] I don't, I don't knock it.

[196] You know, I understand.

[197] Like, once again, I want people to, more importantly, understand the fact that I welcome it.

[198] Yeah.

[199] I welcome the moment that I can talk in and converse with the fan.

[200] But it should be that.

[201] Like, it's normal.

[202] Yeah, the moments are better when they're real, you know.

[203] And after a real moment, you get a picture because you're like, yo, he was actually a nice guy.

[204] Or I had no idea that you would be this calm and cool.

[205] You don't even get to see how genuine of a person I am because the first thing you do, you stick the camera in the face.

[206] And that's when people think that you're an asshole because they have the intrusive moment.

[207] that then gets met with the can you can you please i'm sorry you don't have to stick it to my face damn you ain't got to be like that wait wait a minute they'd look for that too they look to turn on you because now you get your moment yeah you you look for the negative moment when does shit start getting weird for you like how many years in um i don't know it's been it's been pretty crazy it's been pretty crazy for like the last four to five the last four to five years and the last three you know it's gotten insane because now you know you're you're you're on an the national level so it's global and the following is is bigger um and it's all ages which is which is really really good but i think you know for comedians it's a different thing because you feel like you know comedians you know you're laughing we're in your homes everything is met with warmth so when you see a comedian especially if you're a fan of a comedian you're associating everything with funny and you're just looking for the funny moment right you're you're looking past the normal moment you know it's like you you almost are frowned upon if you're normal if you just chill right right right right because everybody wants the funny moment right they thought you were going to be funny all the time it's like i'm i'm supposed to i'm supposed to pop lock right on site you know if it's two in the morning and you run into me and i say hey how you doing man that's not enough when you work out your shit now I've seen you at the comedy store but only once where do you work out your shit I like to go to random comedy clubs you know I think I'll go to New York first New York has always been a home when it comes to building putting some structure within a set that you're trying to figure out once I got a skeleton of what I want to do I'll just go to West Palm I love that comedy club the improv down there and I'll stay for great.

[208] I'll stay for two weeks.

[209] Oh, really?

[210] And just go and run through some jokes.

[211] I'll go to Utah.

[212] I'll go to Denver.

[213] You do to, like, wise guys?

[214] Yeah.

[215] Yeah.

[216] Yeah.

[217] I'll go to comedy clubs, just random comedy clubs that you wouldn't expect to see me yet.

[218] But I'll do a hell of a run.

[219] And the goal is to get out of there with just a foundation.

[220] It's not to have a complete set.

[221] I just want to get a foundation.

[222] So when I'm done getting the foundation, then I'll do a little comedy club run.

[223] I'll do a full comedy club run.

[224] where I just put two or three months in and it's comedy club, comedy club, comedy club and I'm doing seven shows a weekend and people are shocked that I'm there and that I'm doing it but that's my gym that's how I work and I end up leaving that period of time with a complete set after the first three or four months that I spent now after that comedy club three or four months doing that run then I take it to like a small theater I see what my laughter feels like in the small theater and I do a little run in small theaters And then when I finally feel like it's at a point where I'm getting the laugh consistently And the punchlines are working and I flipped it back frontwards forward every direction And my story is a real roller coaster and it has an ending where I feel like we get off the roller coaster and we're happy And you don't feel like you were there for an hour And then when I go test it out in the arena and if the arena, if it lasts or sounds the way it's supposed to Then I say okay, I'm ready if it doesn't then I'll go back to small theaters and then I'll go to an arena again.

[225] So not to that arena sounds the way it's supposed to.

[226] Do I say I'm going on tour?

[227] So sometimes it takes me about a year, a year and three months, a year and four months.

[228] You know, people don't understand how hard it is to develop an hour of stand -up material.

[229] You know, people act like you just turn on a new hour.

[230] It's an hour.

[231] To get to an hour, you're going through four to five hours of bullshit that you thought was funny.

[232] Yeah.

[233] To come up to that hour that you finally say this is going to be the representation of me this year.

[234] Yeah.

[235] It's a lot for me to do that, especially at this level, you know?

[236] Well, especially while you're always doing movies and you're always busy with a bunch of other stuff, too.

[237] You don't, yeah.

[238] I mean, you don't take any breaks.

[239] Well, I tour.

[240] I actually, you know, when I'm touring, if there's a movie, I make the movie schedule around a tour.

[241] So my shooting days will go Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Rapp Thursday, maybe have a show Thursday night, and then I'm going Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Saturday.

[242] day, sometimes no show Sunday, sometimes show Sunday, depending on what the work schedule and the workload for the following week would look like.

[243] So I'm implementing that in.

[244] So when I say I'm out, I'm out, I'm gone.

[245] Yeah.

[246] So I knocked that movie out in two months.

[247] And then when I'm not, that tour schedule shifts.

[248] So the Monday, Tuesday, one day, Thursday, dedicated to the family, dedicated to the office, everything, and then those weekends are touring.

[249] But that tour last for a year and a half I mean this year we did 157 shows on my Air Responsible tour Wow 157 shows Before you decided to put it on the Netflix special Yeah we did the Netflix The taping I think I did it Three weeks before we were done so we were probably At 143 shows Oh wow Then I taped it and finished the tour Did you always have this kind of structure Like when did you how did you design this?

[250] I'm a thought out individual Yeah you seem like I'm a I'm a well Thought out individual Yeah, this is not random.

[251] No, everything is planned.

[252] If you look at all my stand -up specials, there's a two -year gap in between them.

[253] So the two -year gap is because at the end of that second year, my new special should be coming out.

[254] When that new special should be coming out, I'm now focusing on what the next special is going to be.

[255] So that first year is all development.

[256] Like right now, I'm off.

[257] I'm not touring, but now I'm mentally in the gym and throwing all the old stuff that I've done.

[258] talked about away that's now thrown out can't repeat it can't say it now it's talking about what the new version of myself is going to be what do i want the conversation to be what's my thinking and just taking notes so eventually now i'm going to start just popping up in random comedy clubs and trying to figure out what the next thing is so by mid mid 20 i'll probably be doing comedy clubs by the end of 20 i should have a full -fledged concept of that new hour and by the beginning of 21 i should be ready to go out with my new hour end of 21 film my new hour mid -22 that hour would come out that seems like a schedule a lot of people are doing now the two -year schedule it's a perfect get yeah that's how i do i i know louis k did a year every year and george carlin did every year but i think even he said it really wasn't the right way that's tough a year It's tough.

[259] I mean, that's a, shout out to those that can do it.

[260] I think that's amazing.

[261] I think just for everything that I have going on and all of the different things that my hands are in within the brand, the business, I need to make sure that I'm giving 100 % to those things so they have the highest opportunity to be successful.

[262] Right.

[263] If I'm trying to cheat it, then it's going to show.

[264] Yeah.

[265] It's not going to come out to the best of my ability.

[266] And within stand -up, you've got a fucking magnifying glass on you.

[267] You're always being judged off of what you did at one point, just like a musician.

[268] You're always judged off of the album that everybody thought was whatever.

[269] So the biggest thing for an entertainer, artists, whatever your craft is, is creation.

[270] How are you recreating yourself?

[271] How are you constantly showing that you're growing?

[272] For me, the only way to do that is to talk about my life.

[273] and the things that grow along with me. The only thing that grows along with me, my experiences, my family, my marriage, my mistakes, my ups, my downs.

[274] Those are the things that I can talk about forever.

[275] Because as you get older, things change, shit gets different.

[276] But it's all coming from my personal opinion of me. My view on me and how I see life.

[277] You can't lose material in that.

[278] state.

[279] That's why I stay away from certain things because those things can become boring after while for me because I don't have the knowledge of everything that I should.

[280] Like what?

[281] What kind of things?

[282] Well, politics.

[283] I don't joke in the politics.

[284] I don't joke in anything that has to do with the slander of others or other communities.

[285] I don't do anything divisive.

[286] Good for you.

[287] That's my, that's my biggest thing.

[288] And, you know, this past year was, was one that got a little weird because I was like, you know, I've really dedicated myself to bringing people together.

[289] Like, I thought that was my goal.

[290] That's my priority.

[291] I damn sure thought that's what I was doing on a global scale.

[292] Everybody, all races, shapes, sizes, whoever you are, whatever you are, you can come to a Kevin Hart's show and have a good time.

[293] So when it came off as if I was a person that was divisive, that was tough.

[294] You're talking about the Oscar show?

[295] The Oscar shit.

[296] Yeah.

[297] This is a time where people are just looking to be upset about things.

[298] 100%.

[299] And they're not looking to looking at you, Kevin Hart, as just a human being.

[300] Like, who is he overall?

[301] Super positive.

[302] They're not even concentrating on that.

[303] I mean, think about how positive you are.

[304] And yet they tried to concentrate on some jokes that you did, what, nine years ago.

[305] Well, it was a, it's a wake up call of understanding the times.

[306] But then more importantly, you know, for me, it was, okay, I went through it.

[307] I made sure that the people of the LGBTQ community really understand it.

[308] Hey, guys, I apologize before, but I'm apologizing again.

[309] I'm sorry.

[310] I'm not that guy.

[311] I don't want you to think I'm that guy.

[312] Then it just became the constant conversation.

[313] They never happen.

[314] It just became the constant conversation.

[315] And now it is, guys, I'm not only sorry, I don't condone anything that has to do with hate to anybody.

[316] This is no longer a conversation.

[317] So, guys, I'm going to stop talking about it.

[318] Because now I feel like I'm feeding into what I'm not.

[319] I know I'm not.

[320] The world in public should understand and know that I'm not.

[321] Because over this time period, I've shown that I'm not.

[322] So the apology, once again, I'm sorry.

[323] Genuinely, I'm sorry.

[324] But then it just kept, it just, it never stopped.

[325] And at that point, I just made a decision.

[326] And I'm like, guys, at this point, I'm making a decision to not talk about it anymore.

[327] That doesn't mean that I'm being disrespectful to anybody.

[328] That doesn't mean that I'm shutting down anything.

[329] It means that for me, I'm going to stop talking about it because at this point, I don't know what to do.

[330] At this point, I thought the apology is what you wanted me to do.

[331] I did it.

[332] I made sure did you understand that I'm not a hateful person.

[333] I don't hate.

[334] I did that.

[335] I step down so I don't take attention off of that night and those people that are there to be celebrated.

[336] I don't want to draw attention to myself and what's around me. I stepped down.

[337] Everything I did was for the better of good.

[338] I'm stepping away, guys, because I don't want this to be a negative night or a negative thing.

[339] And then it still became a conversation.

[340] So I waited for it to die down.

[341] I went on my radio show.

[342] I gave another public apology.

[343] Made sure that he understand it.

[344] I'm sorry.

[345] I hope these words didn't hurt anybody.

[346] I once again apologize.

[347] I don't condone hate to anyone.

[348] I hope that you guys can forgive me for those jokes of old.

[349] So now, I say, if you don't understand that you don't believe it, I don't know what else to give.

[350] I don't know what else to do.

[351] There's nothing else you can do.

[352] Nothing.

[353] It's very wise of you.

[354] Nothing.

[355] It's very wise you to step away like that because if you didn't, they would probably pursue it forever.

[356] Right.

[357] I mean, it's, it becomes a point of attention.

[358] That's all it is.

[359] They just decide that this is something they're going to focus on.

[360] I had a good talk, and I'm going to talk about this for a minute.

[361] A friend of mine, Lee Daniels, you know, me and Lee Daniels.

[362] Lee called me, told me he wanted to talk to me. You know, Lou Daniels is director, producer, the show Empires, one of his biggest shows.

[363] You know, so he calls me, he's like, Kevin won't talk to you.

[364] And us talking, he's like, look, this is a time where you can.

[365] could speak up and talk about, you know, the community that's been affected by hatred and, you know, hateful crimes, you can step up and be a voice and say that you don't condone or don't stand with any type of hate or whatever.

[366] You can take that stage and do that.

[367] And I said, Lee, I said, that's, I understand what you're saying.

[368] I said, well, why did you expect me to know what's been happening within this community in regards to hate and crimes?

[369] I said, I'm not aware.

[370] I said, some people can just not be aware.

[371] I'm not in the know.

[372] I have no idea what's going on.

[373] I have no idea.

[374] In the gay community.

[375] Yes, within that community.

[376] I have no idea.

[377] When you tell me this, I'm now educated and I understand.

[378] So it's easy to simply inform.

[379] Right.

[380] Information is key.

[381] When people get information, they process the information.

[382] When you can process the information, you go, oh, wait a minute.

[383] That makes sense.

[384] Hey, if you guys think that I can don't hate, wait a minute.

[385] I don't.

[386] And anybody that does, fuck you, man, that's bad.

[387] You shouldn't.

[388] I can say that.

[389] But instead, when this happened, it was become an ally.

[390] become a voice yeah and that's that's where there was just a miscommunication that's where a back and forth kind of was established that I think people just started to take things and run with it and I'm just not I'm just not one to feed into what I feel isn't going to eventually evolve into a positive thing in a real conversation yes yeah when I'm when I'm when I'm trying my best to it was becoming tabloid bullshit pretty much to like a real discussion clickbait yeah clickbait click bait that's the problem there's so much click bait out there because it's such an effective way to get people to pay attention to things because as you said people focus on failure and negative and anger that's what we want to see controversy that's what we want to see people want to see the anger yeah and and you know why do you think that is because it's just the times it's it's that's cool now.

[391] Is that what it is?

[392] What's cool is being negative.

[393] You know how you always have some people?

[394] This is a great example.

[395] How you have people me and you can talk about a movie, right?

[396] We can talk about Titanic.

[397] Wow.

[398] And Titanic, one of the biggest movies of all time.

[399] Fucking great movie.

[400] You go, yes, it was a great movie.

[401] And one guy, for no reason to go, I fucking hated it.

[402] Why?

[403] You ain't like Titanic?

[404] Fucking bullshit.

[405] Why?

[406] Man, I ain't got, I know why.

[407] Now tell me Why'd you hate it I ain't got time To talk to y 'all about that The cool thing Is just being different I want to I want to be Completely opposite Than all these Contrari Positive people You know what Nah Nah nah That shit was ass What Why Why?

[408] Why was it ass You have people That just Like to do that Oh yeah For sure And what happens When one person Does it Another person For no reason I'll go Yeah me too Yeah, that shit was ass, man I ain't like it either Did you see it?

[409] What y 'all talking about?

[410] You don't even know what they're talking about But you just want to hop on the negative train Right Because that's what's cool It's not cool to be Positive It's not cool to be happy I don't know if it's a cool thing I think it's usually people that are really frustrated with their lives 100%.

[411] That's the factual side to it I did a joke before it was like Do you think Michael Jordan leaves YouTube comments I bet he doesn't No No That's not for winners No Not at all The type of people that want to get mad And complain constantly About shit like that Do you know what it takes To do this right here Not much Do you know Right here I'm gonna tell you how I feel Right in your comments section Joe Rogan You can kiss my You know what that takes What do you have going on That you have the time To just simply be that negative and do it in this world and universe.

[412] It's just a mismanagement of your time.

[413] Time.

[414] Yeah.

[415] Time is so valuable.

[416] And I don't think people understand how valuable they can be if they use their time correctly.

[417] Yes.

[418] Now, have you always been like this?

[419] Have you always been this ambitious?

[420] Always.

[421] I'm a positive fucking guy, man. But always?

[422] Always.

[423] Really?

[424] I find a light in every dark tunnel.

[425] I will find a god.

[426] damn light man i hear it all you listen when i tell you to wait on my back is so heavy of all the stuff that i deal with and i'm fine the reason why i'm fine is because i'm genuinely happy i'm happy and i'm not happy just because of the success the success acts as a bonus i'm happy because i truly know the definition and the feeling that comes with happiness i truly know it i felt it I felt it when I said, yo, what really makes me happy?

[427] And I look at Heaven and Hendricks and I look at Zoe.

[428] I look at my wife.

[429] I go, yo, I didn't have the family shit when I was coming up.

[430] Yeah, I got one.

[431] I got one.

[432] Look what I didn't did.

[433] Look what I built.

[434] These people depend on me. I provide for these people.

[435] That makes me happy.

[436] That makes me happy when my daughter comes up.

[437] Dad, you're not only my dad.

[438] You're my best friend.

[439] Yo, I'm happy.

[440] that's my world so everything else from the outside that comes in you're you're throwing shit at a at a at a bubble that can't be popped it's a force field around me yeah it's a force field around me because what matters what really matters loves me wholeheartedly and when you have that and you understand that you're unbreakable so if you don't add to that force field if you don't make my force feel stronger, you don't, you don't get time for me. My team, heartbeat productions, the people underneath my umbrella, you're a part of my force field.

[441] You believe what I believe.

[442] We all see the same things.

[443] We want the same things.

[444] So we march with the same beat.

[445] You can't, you can't shake that when you're an individual that's seen that and understands that if you've never felt that if you have no idea what that feels like then it's easy to shake you that's why some people are easily broken being broken is not a hard thing it's not a hard thing so those that do get broken those that do get down those that do get depressed i understand i understand i don't i don't knock people for it i don't knock anybody for What I also understand is that the encouragement that can come from so many can add value for those that may need a little push.

[446] That may need a little, hey, man, pick your chin up.

[447] It's so easy to be that positive reinforcement for somebody and add value.

[448] It's so easy.

[449] But some people choose to throw that aside and kick while you're down.

[450] I try to put out the light of positivity because whoever's out there, I don't know what it could do for somebody else.

[451] But somebody else may just simply look at me and say, yo, the way that he embraces his kids makes me want to be a better father.

[452] Yo, the way that this man doesn't stop and the way that every day he wakes up and he's just positive regardless of what's going on makes me realize that this shit ain't so bad.

[453] The way that he gets up and says, hey, today's another day.

[454] It's a morning.

[455] Let's all be better than we were yesterday.

[456] Somebody probably needed to hear that.

[457] The more that I can give that out and I can take my platform to throw good energy out, I'm doing my part because there's so many that throw out the complete opposite I don't want to be a part of that That's beautiful man And that's true I believe you It's not forced Right It's not phony Yeah It's not fake I get shit every day I hear shit every day It's very contagious too I had a lady I had a lady right Later on him The lady The lady rolled down the window.

[458] She goes, when are you going to make a good movie again?

[459] I said, did you see the upside?

[460] I thought the upside was good.

[461] What's that?

[462] Oh, shit.

[463] It's a movie.

[464] It's one of my movies that's out.

[465] I think it's a good movie.

[466] I didn't see that.

[467] All right, ma 'am, you have a beautiful day.

[468] that's hilarious all right that's it that's it that's it yeah all right damn what she said that she asked the question with such conviction like literally yeah by the way I could have said a lot of shit like she rolled a window down you could tell she still had the crank so I'm like I could have said a lot of shit I didn't I didn't I didn't there's a lot of things that I can say to you ma 'am when are you gonna make a good movie head snapping I got one out, the upside.

[469] You see the upside?

[470] What's that?

[471] It's a movie.

[472] It's out now.

[473] Amazing that's how she chose to come out you.

[474] I see it.

[475] I get it.

[476] She chooses to come at you with a negative.

[477] I get it every day.

[478] When you're going to be funny again?

[479] I'm trying my best.

[480] Trying my best.

[481] If it's not working for you, hopefully I do better soon.

[482] What do you, what am I going to feed into that?

[483] And it, why?

[484] Right, right.

[485] Why?

[486] For what?

[487] Yeah.

[488] For what?

[489] It seems to have been working thus far.

[490] Are you getting this positive attitude towards life, from life experience?

[491] Are you getting it from books?

[492] Did someone teach you how to think like this?

[493] I'm getting it from the experiences and from the real understanding of perfection doesn't exist.

[494] It don't exist, Joe.

[495] We're in a time right now where people expect perfection.

[496] You expect perfection.

[497] I don't know where this came from.

[498] I don't know what happened that this is the criteria for living.

[499] My true understanding is, all right, you got one life.

[500] And at one life, the goal for us is to live it to the best of our ability from the beginning to what's said the end.

[501] In the middle, in the beginning, middle, you're going to do things, you're going to make mistakes, you're going to fuck up, you're supposed to learn, and then move forward with the understanding of what not to do.

[502] And when you move forward, life may get better, it may not, but somewhere along the lines is going to click.

[503] And everything that I went through back here was supposed to happen so that now that I'm here, I'm able to go ahead with such a high level.

[504] of knowledge and I can make other people better, I can make myself better, I can do more for my family, something happens.

[505] My dad is the prime example.

[506] Crazy drug addict.

[507] In and out of jail.

[508] Life was very bad.

[509] Very fucking bad for my dad.

[510] Son got successful.

[511] Son then took money, gave it to his dad.

[512] Here's your house.

[513] Here's your truck.

[514] Here's your monthly.

[515] At this age, want you to live your life you're the made mistakes you can't rebuild and correct the things you've done i'm your son i love you you can't go back and and redo you can't try to keep going backwards ain't about me you got grandkids um go be the best grandpa you can be for these grandkids that's your focus now where's his energy devoted to being a grandpa for the grandkids don't worry about me but something happened in your life something happened that took that took you're took you in the direction to reap the benefits of your son's happiness and success.

[516] My energy is now contagious enough and I hand it to you.

[517] So now you're able to give that off to all these other people that you're around.

[518] Something happens and that's in every single life.

[519] In every life.

[520] I understand that.

[521] There's a payoff for bad eventually.

[522] There's a payoff.

[523] It can't be bad but for so long.

[524] If you got the strength and the understanding to realize that, shit will change it will change it's impossible it's just like poker I don't know if you play poker or not I don't if you play poker you can run bad forever but it will eventually turn around once you grasp the understanding of the game eventually it's going to turn around blackjack you're never going to beat the casino but eventually you're going to have a good run if you catch a run you'll do good get the fuck out of there you waited long enough for it to happen here it come catch it leave anything in life will eventually turn good now but this is coming just from your own personal experiences you didn't have any role models that spoke to you this way Nancy Hart did she speak to you like this about positivity and about my mom reinforced knowledge my mom reinforced you don't start things and not finish them you don't quit there's nothing that comes out of quitting besides knowing that you didn't finish.

[525] We finish everything.

[526] You start it, finish it.

[527] If you're going to do it, do it to try and be the best.

[528] Not be better than other people, be the best for you.

[529] If you're in school and you're going to class, I'm not asking you to get straight A's.

[530] I'm asking you to get the best grade that you can possibly get.

[531] Give me 100 % all the time and I'm a happy mother.

[532] When you half -assed me, I'm on your ass.

[533] Mom, I want to do this.

[534] I want to play baseball.

[535] Well, then you're going to play.

[536] Mom, I don't like that no more.

[537] Then why did you start the season?

[538] Because I thought I wanted to do it.

[539] Then you're going to finish the season.

[540] You don't quit.

[541] There's other people that invest in time and energy into you.

[542] You don't just quit on people.

[543] But I don't want to do it.

[544] Finish the season.

[545] Mom, I want to swim.

[546] Then you're going to finish swimming.

[547] It didn't matter what I did.

[548] I was never allowed to quit.

[549] So now in anything I do, when I pick it up and say I'm going to start it, I've got to finish it.

[550] It all don't work.

[551] It all ain't the best.

[552] It all ain't knocked out the park.

[553] But I walk away saying I finished it.

[554] I did it.

[555] I did it.

[556] Right now I've been boxing.

[557] I saw you working out with Rico Verhoeven.

[558] I'm fucking, first of all, very strong kicker.

[559] He's a giant.

[560] He's a giant man. Huge man. huge man okay he's a fucking beast he's a good guy too man good guy but i started i started it and i said why am i doing this i'm not gonna be a professional fighter i'm not trying to be an amateur fighter i'm doing it to get in shape all right then i started getting shape and said so much that i don't know about the sport i at least want to make sure that i'm paying homage to the people that do this for a living by really understanding and learning it you know what i'm I'm going to get a real trainer.

[561] I'm going to get some real people to show me everything.

[562] So when it's all set and done and I look back after my training, I can go, I gave it 100 % and look at how good I got.

[563] Look at what I'm a product of.

[564] I spar.

[565] I go getting away.

[566] Do you really?

[567] Yeah, just to feel it.

[568] So I can say I did it.

[569] You know who else spars?

[570] Brian Callan.

[571] Is this you?

[572] Are you serious?

[573] No. That's me. Yeah, that's me. Come on.

[574] That's me. That's me. It's getting there, too.

[575] Look at it.

[576] Who is teaching you?

[577] His name is Biggs.

[578] He's in Atlanta.

[579] That's me learning how to turtle shell within punches.

[580] But, you know, he's a former golden glove guy, really good.

[581] Dude, you were in a cup and everything.

[582] What I was at the sparring session when I'm like real tired.

[583] Damn, dude.

[584] Yeah, I got touched.

[585] I got my ass whipped in every couple times.

[586] Are you worried about that at all?

[587] No, because I'm not, I don't go crazy.

[588] We head gear and I'm not in there.

[589] But I'm not in there with guys that are trying to hurt.

[590] Yes.

[591] I'm not in there with.

[592] just touching you.

[593] Guys that have no concept of reality or control.

[594] Like they're, they're just helping me understand.

[595] Right.

[596] Here's why you have to keep your hand up.

[597] That is a problem with celebrities trying to spar.

[598] Like if you try to, like, you know, that's why Mickey Rourke started getting all that facial surgery.

[599] Are you serious?

[600] Yeah, he's sparring James Tony.

[601] Jesus Christ.

[602] James Tony would beat the fucking shit out of you, man. Well, that's just, just not a smart move right there.

[603] That's just, it's James Tony's a mean man. Yeah, that's just, you can't, like, I don't, I don't go.

[604] in that space.

[605] Have you ever seen James Tony talk shit while he spars?

[606] This is some of the most entertaining thing you'll ever find on YouTube.

[607] He's just...

[608] He just won't shut the fuck up while he's beating your ass.

[609] He's talking shit.

[610] Come on, bitch.

[611] That's hurtful.

[612] What you got, bitch?

[613] Oh, this ain't shit.

[614] That's hurtful.

[615] That's hurtful.

[616] And he's one of the best defensive fighters ever, so he's really difficult to hit.

[617] He's got that shell going and I stand right in front of you and you can't hit him.

[618] It's most frustrating thing in the world.

[619] I had a guy that's got any Mikey I've been sparring with.

[620] Mikey, Mikey hit me with three punches I thought I thought Mikey literally had like six arms this is a true story I said I don't know what just happened but I thought I had my hands up and no matter where I put him he just tapped me he lets me feel it but not to where I'm like getting knocked out but I understand now movement I understand pivots I understand shoulder protection and that's my goal my goal is just to understand because I can't do anything halfway Kay, have you trying to fight somebody?

[621] Nope.

[622] Nope.

[623] I just want to say that I did it and I learned and I can move and I looked apart because I put time into it.

[624] Well, as you learn it too and as you watch it and you start to get trained, then you start to look at a guy like a Terrence Crawford or a Lomachenko and you go, oh, now I appreciate what you're doing.

[625] Because before you'd see like, oh, yeah, he beat that guy up.

[626] Oh, yeah, he knocked that guy out.

[627] But then you see like how he ducks under the left and fires back with the right.

[628] You're like, oh, Jesus, this is precision.

[629] It's insane.

[630] The respect that I have for people that do that or the day -to -day is through the roof.

[631] People that fight are in the most amazing shape in the universe.

[632] You're in the most amazing shape ever.

[633] To move, get hit for three to five minutes around.

[634] Come back.

[635] Do it.

[636] Come back.

[637] Do it.

[638] And these fights go on and on.

[639] knowing, I take my hat off to you.

[640] You get three rounds out of me, I'm breathing out my butt.

[641] I don't know where the air is coming from.

[642] I'm searching for it.

[643] It's a crazy way to make a living too much.

[644] To rely on your body and your brain like that.

[645] Thank God that I don't, I didn't have to go down that route.

[646] And to those that do, just make sure you just put your body first.

[647] Like you said, it's hurtful when you see the damage that it can cause.

[648] Yeah, we were talking about that earlier, like seeing guys as they start to deteriorate.

[649] And it's hard because nobody wants to tell them that either.

[650] Everybody wants to tell them they got one more good fight in them.

[651] Let's maybe at the end of the year, then we'll decide.

[652] But right now we're going to train hard.

[653] That's tough.

[654] It's hard, too, because there's no options.

[655] Once you've established yourself as a professional fighter and you don't have an exit strategy, you don't know what to do.

[656] Now, at least thankfully, because of the internet, guys are getting podcasts and they're starting doing commentary shows and they're talking about fighting.

[657] It's the positive.

[658] See what you just did?

[659] You just found the positive.

[660] That's the positive.

[661] within the internet there is positive oh for sure you just don't you just don't hear it celebrated as much well the internet is very positive for me i mean this is this show we do on the internet i mean all not just podcast but youtube videos and also information i know more because of the internet than i ever would have without it there's not a not a doubt in my mind that i'm a more educated more aware person i want to the internet yeah you get the things that you're able to find and search and I mean like you said you're you're able to self -educate yeah at a at a very high level these are the goods yeah we're talking about the good so when you talk about positive kevin how have you been yeah are you always like that it's this it's the things that i look at that are so easy you're not just positive though you're like crazy ambitious that's the thing that gets me about you and the rock for sure it's like the ambitions off the charts like i know you're rich as fuck like when when do you think you got enough you don't have enough there's no there's no enough i don't have enough because it's not over it's not over so you know when when you put a cap on it you're putting a punctuation to it and the the the ambition comes from seeing what's out there that can be obtained you know when you see what's out there like what can you mean physical things like when you see what's out there when you see where people are really gaining wealth and knowledge from okay the business relationships that you're able to acquire the people that you're able to partner with and create certain things different revenue streams what i found is as a young black guy from north philadelphia the biggest problem with the biggest problem within our community is knowledge we don't know debt Debt is welcomed because it's celebrated.

[662] That's all we know.

[663] Yeah, nah, I'm going to get that credit card.

[664] I'm going to fuck that credit card up and it is what it is.

[665] They got to figure that out.

[666] I ain't got it after that.

[667] Yeah, well, you know what?

[668] I'm getting to student loans.

[669] They gave it to me. Then after that, shit, there's what it is.

[670] I'm figured out.

[671] And I put the cable bill in your name.

[672] You put it in my name.

[673] We can switch it up.

[674] Whatever.

[675] They do it.

[676] Let's just put it in somebody else's name.

[677] It's welcome.

[678] The hustle is welcome.

[679] The knowledge of banks and what you can do or can't do is fucking you don't even get it because you go to check cash in places reason why you go to check cash places because I don't want to go do that shit with the banks I don't trust that go right there to check cash place let me get mine now take $30 whatever let me get it the knowledge isn't given so it's not till you obtain that knowledge and understanding that you go oh shit oh this is why you put money up oh this is how you increase versus decrease oh this is how you earn on your money.

[680] Oh, wow.

[681] I can gain wealth by investing in what?

[682] The stock world is what?

[683] How many people part that isn't necessarily gambling?

[684] Is there a low risk part?

[685] The information isn't there.

[686] Right.

[687] So it's not why I got to a certain level and a certain group of people where I got it.

[688] And now that I got it, I want to give it.

[689] So now I'm going to give it, I'm going to give it to the people that I know need it most and for me that younger generation of black people that don't understand the cool thing is in financial longevity not in the now it's not in the moment for jewelry not in the moment for the car it's in the longevity it's in building so at the end of the day you can say look at what I have look at what I worked for look at what I have that's mine monopoly is real but you have to have the financial understanding and I teach teamed up, I got Chase right now, we're doing something called financial fitness, where it's just about me educating people on money.

[690] Really?

[691] How to manage money, how to be smart with your money.

[692] But it's coming from a person that fucked up money.

[693] I didn't always understand it.

[694] I owed in taxes before because I didn't understand it in the beginning.

[695] I've had bad credit.

[696] Credit cards wouldn't take me because I maxed out, whatever.

[697] I've been there.

[698] I've done it.

[699] Thank God I was able to fix it and get on the right path.

[700] And now that I have the knowledge, I want to give it.

[701] who simply don't know.

[702] So when you say the end game, the end game is getting to a point where I've taken all the knowledge that I've been able to get over these years and really applying it and providing family wealth.

[703] When it's all said and done, the last name, Hart is going to mean just more, a lot more, than just Kevin Hart and comedy.

[704] Heartbeat production.

[705] You've got heartbeat digital.

[706] You got heartbeat ventures.

[707] You got heartbeat real estate.

[708] There's so many things that the last name, Hart will be.

[709] be attached to.

[710] You sell real estate?

[711] Kevin Hart doesn't sell real estate.

[712] I buy real estate.

[713] I like that you talk about yourself in the third person too.

[714] I'm sorry about that.

[715] I don't sell it.

[716] I buy it.

[717] But the reason why is because investment.

[718] Investment.

[719] But as you get older, you learn this.

[720] You learn it.

[721] And, you know, it's such a thing when you talk about black versus white.

[722] You know, a lot of people do that.

[723] And I hopefully so.

[724] Like, there is racism.

[725] Racism exists.

[726] I'm not unaware of that.

[727] But there is a high volume of it that's that's non -existent to people that are good people.

[728] And when you can merge yourself with good people and follow the paths that you see that these good, successful people have taken, you then become a part of a world and group that nobody expected you to be in.

[729] So for me, I now have the position to do that and take all of these relationships and all this knowledge and take it back to the people that I need the most.

[730] I like to share.

[731] I don't want it all by myself.

[732] Now, are you doing this in the financial stuff?

[733] Are you doing this in videos?

[734] Are you like releasing videos?

[735] Not in videos, no. We're starting.

[736] We're going to start financial fitness.

[737] Like I said, with Chase, J .B. Morgan Chase.

[738] Jamie Diamond, very good guy.

[739] Tashonda as well.

[740] They're help leading in charge and just saying, how can we get to the people that we feel need the financial information the most?

[741] So I said, put me out there.

[742] Like, let's go directly to the consumer.

[743] So from colleges, from high schools senior classes junior classes going out and talking to people before they go into the next stages of their life about the things that you should know before you're going to speak to them and just share personal information are you going to put this stuff online as well though?

[744] Yeah yeah you'll be able to track and find content from it but I'm authentic so I said the best way to really do it is to put me in a position to be heard right I want to be heard like it's a different story what I explained to the people of J .P. Morgan Chase just when we were talking about this and there's an amazing board of people that are just figuring this out and the best way to go and do it.

[745] And I said, you can't have the white guy that's never been to the hood or who's not from the hood or has no idea how the economy works here and what the real troubles are.

[746] You can't throw that man in the situation to talk to people because I'm not listening to you from the gate because you don't relate I don't relate to you but throwing somebody in a situation that's lived it that's been in it that's been fucked up in it made it out of it and it's now coming back to help right it's a different ballgame and that's what I want to be and you know we have other voices outside of myself very powerful voices that are going to do it as well but the the purpose is to align ourselves to really make a change so you can either be The conversation about making change?

[747] You can be actual a part of the action to do it.

[748] I want to be a part of the action.

[749] And doing it, you'll also be able to understand my drive.

[750] You'll get why I do so much.

[751] You'll get why my hand is in so much because I have access to it.

[752] And the question should be, why not?

[753] Yeah.

[754] The question shouldn't be, yeah, why is he doing everything?

[755] It should be, why aren't you?

[756] Why aren't you trying to do everything?

[757] Why not?

[758] Well, that's the thing about a guy like you.

[759] That becomes contagious.

[760] It's like what you were saying about surrounding yourself with positive people and people that are constantly ambitious and that there's fuel to that.

[761] You feel good about that.

[762] That's what you're doing.

[763] I can say seeing you here, right, we walked around, you showed me your facility, loved it, beautiful facility.

[764] You talked to me about how your podcast is grown to where you are now, the success behind it.

[765] I don't leave here and go, yo, that's dope as shit.

[766] I go, hey, I need to do more work on my radio station.

[767] Lafala radio, I own it.

[768] It's mine.

[769] I got a show on there.

[770] But you know what Joe fucking motivated me to do more.

[771] I want to make sure that we understand really what's out here within this radio world because I just saw my guy in his space and I saw happy he is what the success that he has.

[772] I don't want to be you or beat you.

[773] I want to take this energy and apply it to myself.

[774] that's the purpose of seeing that's the purpose of being smart with your eyeballs you should be a sponge so I'm a sponge so I come here and I look at how you maneuver I look at your setup I not only bowed down and congratulate you I leave and I say yo man I'm inspired dude that's dope as hell Joe I can't wait in two years you're gonna come you're gonna see my shit and you remember I said I was inspired but you're gonna see what I let it grow into that's the proper way to get encouraged and motivated right as opposed to being a hate A hater, and competitive, and I'm going to beat you.

[775] It's not a competition.

[776] Yeah, I'm not interested in that either.

[777] I share the exact same feelings.

[778] It's not a competition at all.

[779] If you don't have people like that that are inspiring around you, you might not know how positive it is and how powerful it is.

[780] If you see someone that's on television or on social media and you see them, it's hard to be inspired.

[781] You don't know them.

[782] I can say, look at your circle.

[783] right and in your circle if the conversation is all about what we hate i can't stand that song you see that new fucking car came out okay that shit is ass i can't stand that fucking car yo man i can't stand this city why the fuck we even in the city what we're eating i hate that place it's so easy if you people don't even listen to it it's so easy it can be the smallest shit in the world the smallest shit but if it's always hate can't stand these fucking headphones why we got these headphones I hate these fucking hardware tape why is this here I can't stand this horrible table I hate hardware why can you get a regular tape I fucking hate this shit fucking chairs you ain't got better chairs I hate these shit it's so easy right so easy it's so easy to talk about hate yeah yeah and so many people don't realize that in a group you do it you ping pong hate off of one another yeah unless it's funny it can be funny funny hate sometimes sometimes you're good hate funny hate funny hate It's just between yourselves.

[784] Like Patrice?

[785] Patrice was one of the best.

[786] That funny hate.

[787] One of the best funny haters.

[788] Okay.

[789] Okay, you bring up a good point.

[790] Comedic hate.

[791] It's a different kind of hate.

[792] Yeah.

[793] Comedic hate.

[794] Right.

[795] Rest and peace.

[796] Rest and peace.

[797] One of the, not one of the, probably the best.

[798] Patrice used to do.

[799] I remember when I would talk and if I was saying something, you would just hear.

[800] Ugh.

[801] What?

[802] What are you talking about?

[803] He's like, ugh.

[804] What?

[805] What are you talking about?

[806] You're like, just the way you talk bucks me. I was like, what?

[807] Your voice, everything about your voice just makes me want to punch you in the face.

[808] And I was like, we, what are you talking about?

[809] He's like, ugh.

[810] When he would go after you, too, it kind of made you feel good, too.

[811] Like, if you're a comic, especially if you're a comic, Like, I called Opie and Anthony once I was talking to him.

[812] And Anthony, Anthony always has a gun on him.

[813] He carries a gun everywhere.

[814] Like, he has a concealed carry permit and shit.

[815] And I said to him, I said, do you ever worry that maybe you're putting out this energy and you're manifesting something, like some sort of an attack on you?

[816] Because you're constantly dwelling on it.

[817] And you always have this gun.

[818] And Patrice goes, Joe believe in magic.

[819] Joe believing conjuring up the world.

[820] Hey, man, a positive energy just starts laughing.

[821] See, he's magic.

[822] Joe's magic.

[823] And I'm like, when he would go after you, man, it was like you just want to step back and watch.

[824] I remember he got Bill Burr so mad one time.

[825] Oh, Bill used to get so fucking mad.

[826] Beautiful thing about Bill Burr, but we'd be snapping.

[827] Bill was the guy to get mad.

[828] Like, it's not funny.

[829] If you went after him.

[830] None of it's funny.

[831] You're laughing.

[832] But he would be like, where's the punchline in it?

[833] There's no punchline.

[834] He'll get so fucking mad.

[835] The comedy seller, the days that we had there, man, Bill Burr, Patrice O 'Neill, Keith Robinson, Jim Norton, Colin Quinn, myself, when I say we would sit at this table, we would sit at this table for four to five hours and it would be nothing but beautiful trashins to one another.

[836] When I say they used to give me so much shit, that's probably why it's so hard to bother me now.

[837] The trashions that I took from the age 20 to 24 in my young comedic career about how awful I was.

[838] I had a joke, I had a joke way in the beginning of my career because of the times of me prefaced this.

[839] This was way in the beginning of my career.

[840] This was a joke that I had about little people midgets at the time and it was so bad because I got robbed by a cross side midget and the joke was I didn't know he was robbing me because I was with somebody else so he was looking at my friend but he was robbing me it was like a play on being cried it was very very awful joke I remember telling this joke and a phone book comes flying on the stage Patrice threw a fucking phone book at me I'm talking This is the way at the Boston Comedy Club It's people in a crowd Tiny little place All you heard was And you sit back It hits the floor And I say yo what the fuck was that And Patrice said read it It's better material in it Than what you're saying now Crowd starts laughing He's ugh They all When I say They used to trashed me so bad so bad man uh get your legendary patrice a nil story i caught patrice jerking off in my house before this is this is i moved to la i'm staying in the two -bedroom apartment i just got there patrice coming out i said yo you need place that i got two bedrooms you can come there this is my ex -wife at the time uh you know i come home it's like afternoon i was like patrice i'm like yo you home patrice Patrice I go on the back open up the door I said his big ass computer all I see is his back hunched over it's like it's like baby oil right here and I come in I'm like yo what you doing he's like yo get out get out get out get out are you jerking off my house man he's like he's so sick he's so fucking sick that he didn't stop Get out!

[841] Get out!

[842] Get out!

[843] He was so concerned with finishing that he didn't even break stride.

[844] He didn't turn around, acknowledge me nothing.

[845] Get out, get out!

[846] You just saw his back hunched.

[847] He came out like seven minutes later.

[848] It was like, my bad, I didn't know he was coming home.

[849] Didn't even acknowledge.

[850] Fucking Patrice, man. I love him to Dev.

[851] Love him to Dev.

[852] Yeah, he had the most don't give a fuck.

[853] of any comic i ever met like the most 100 % good and bad though you know there was there was a good to it and there was also some bad to you know a lot of things that didn't have been for patrice probably could have happened but i think the the level of not give a fuck yeah uh prevented some of those things well he was almost too authentic yes like his like did you ever see that was it charlie sheen's roast whose roast was it that he did where he just torching everybody else that was on the roast with him and then he he he got up there and afterwards he was like you're motherfuckers on on my level yeah he's talking shit about me why am I here I should even be here with you guys who who the fuck is this bitch who's this bitch she pointed to it oh my god Patrice has so many of those things so many of things one of the best to do it if you if you are listening you're not educated on Patrice O 'Neill just I asked you just watch elephant in the room one of his specials some of the funnier shit ever man and so insightful He was so wise The way people thought and behaved He would say shit Like one of the things that he said That I tell people all the time It's a brilliant thing that he said It was I forget what controversy it was But he was on television With some woman It was saying that you should never tell jokes About certain things You know And they were getting mad at someone I think it was Opie and Anthony About a joke And he said You gotta understand That all jokes come from the same place The ones you like And the ones you don't like The ones that make you laugh and the ones that make you mad.

[854] They all come from the same place.

[855] Someone's just trying to be funny.

[856] Like sometimes they just don't work.

[857] I had a talk with the, I forgot her name.

[858] I forgot her name, but it was when I was doing all the promo for upside and they kept trying to break down, you know, where the jokes come from.

[859] You know, Kevin, these insensitive jokes that you told back then why?

[860] What makes you, why would you even say those things?

[861] And the hardest thing for me to explain, I was like, do you think people think of jokes and while thinking of them think that they're not going to be funny?

[862] Everything that you think of in a joke form, you're thinking of it because you think you're going to get a laugh behind it.

[863] The gamble is, if I get the laugh versus not get the laugh, if I don't get the laugh, the a laugh, then I guess I'm on to something.

[864] There isn't a bunch of thought that goes into the funny moments that we think may be great bits.

[865] Yeah.

[866] I wish that I had a more logical answer to put behind it.

[867] I said, but I don't, especially at that time of my career, I just thought it would be funny.

[868] The same way that some people think certain jokes are funny that aren't funny, it's a thought.

[869] Comedians are constantly throwing shit out there.

[870] You're constantly rolling the dice and throwing shit out there.

[871] Had the shit you roll ain't good.

[872] Right.

[873] It's not going to be good.

[874] The other half may be all right.

[875] Maybe kind of good.

[876] But it's all with the intent of entertaining.

[877] It's not with the intent of being malicious.

[878] It's not with the intent of sparking hatred.

[879] It's all trying to make you laugh.

[880] Yeah.

[881] That's it.

[882] Like it's literally that simple from a thought within a comedian's mind.

[883] Yeah.

[884] Nothing, nothing else.

[885] And they kept trying to look for this like hard, definition of why and I's like I don't have it I don't have the reason why I thought it would be funny and it wasn't that's the downfall that's it that's it's it's it's and the thing is about this art form is that up until 10 15 years ago there was never any discussion like this it wasn't so when we developed and when we were coming up there was never it was just like and there was always guys that would push the envelope way too far He'd be like, Jesus Christ, you see his new bit?

[886] What the fuck?

[887] Yeah.

[888] And you'd be laughing.

[889] You'd tell it to each other and be like, blah.

[890] Yeah.

[891] And it didn't matter what it was a joke about murder or rape or what.

[892] Some people just, they choose those dark subjects.

[893] It's like they're trying to make us laugh.

[894] Yeah.

[895] The comedians, the comedian's comedian.

[896] There's always going to be those.

[897] Well, you just in the back, you go, ooh.

[898] Do you know Brian Holtzman?

[899] A hundred percent.

[900] Yeah.

[901] Brian Holtzman's that guy.

[902] 100%.

[903] One of my funniest dudes.

[904] And, and, and there's no way that I could say.

[905] Some of the stuff that I heard me say.

[906] Do you remember Susan Smith, that lady who drowned her kids?

[907] I know who you're talking about.

[908] And I know the moment.

[909] But I'm not familiar with all that involves.

[910] Holtzman was on stage that week.

[911] And he's like, I heard those kids were bad.

[912] I heard they sat that close to the TV.

[913] They never put away their blocks.

[914] They always spilled their milk.

[915] Those kids will not be missed.

[916] Yeah.

[917] And you were just like, what in the fuck?

[918] It was like 9 -11.

[919] when 9 -11 happened they wouldn't let him on stage well mitsy shore would not let him on stage for months after 9 -11 she's like no way keep him off the stage i can't i mean do you have do you have the people that they go for that they go for it because they want to hear you howling in the back of the room they know that like if it's you know comics are there in the back of the room they're going to laugh their fucking ass off at that shit and and you know it's weird because right now within the times I'm the comedian that chooses to be sensitive to the times you know I've made the choice to say I understand I get why you shouldn't say certain things why you should avoid this, that or this I understand and I am but then there's other comedians that go you know what I'm on stage and I'm going to be me and I'm not going to do that because people are telling me that this is what I I'm going to go harder yeah and do that that's yeah that just exists it just exists but I think it's easier to just say I'm not a fan that comedy isn't for me right you know what I don't I don't like the taste of this particular comedian so I'm not going to support or watch that comedian I'm going to find another comedian that's more to my liking I'm going to go and just turn my head like I want us to get back to just understanding that you just don't have to support it yeah that's it well there's a lot of fucking options it's very i mean there's so many today yeah there's never been more never been more comics like high level comments i think about how many people would do a netflix specials today it's so many it's never been more it's so many so so i don't understand why there's a push to destroy which you just don't have to support or like i think it's just a bunch of people that have an ability to influence things now that didn't have an ability before and it's like they see a window and they want to throw a rock.

[920] It's right there.

[921] Makes sense.

[922] I think there's something that.

[923] But I also think for us, like me in particular, I really like fucked up comedy.

[924] It's one of my it's like I like Quentin Tarantino movies where people get shot and killed.

[925] I don't want anybody to get shot and kill in real life but I like fucked up comedy.

[926] Do you know what Tim Dillon is?

[927] Yes, I do.

[928] Pull up that fucking video.

[929] Pull up that that him being Megan McCain Have you seen this?

[930] No I'm laughing He is a savage dude He goes so hard But I saw this video I was tears are rolling down my eyes I was crying And I was like okay This guy's needed We need this right now Because during this political Correct push He got this big giant gay dude He doesn't give a fuck He's an animal Watch this shit My father died I had a baby with him And we're going to It will be raised in captivity, it'll be raised privately to be the greatest politician that is ever later.

[931] My name is Megan McCain and I'm on a news show.

[932] You have to see this too, folks.

[933] And Donald Trump, that fucking riverboat casino captain is talking about my father again.

[934] My father was tortured for 100 years for this fucking country and he came back and he started seven wars because he's a gentleman.

[935] Fuck you, Trump.

[936] I'm going to wear my father's skin mask and I'm going to primary Trump from the right.

[937] Come on the view, bitch.

[938] If you're that tough Come on the view You want it Alessanda You want this shit You want this shit You want to fuck these tits Trump You want to fuck these tits No you don't You want to suck coss But I won't fuck you Because the only person I'll fuck his dirty I'll fuck his corpse I'll fuck daddy's corpse Before my father died I had a baby man Wait a minute He's an animal He's an animal He's an animal Wait a minute Folks you don't know he's wearing lipstick and a wig and he's smoking a cigarette in a dress and he's all of 300 pounds he's such a fucking animal he's such a fucking animal you want to fuck teeth I don't know you just want to suck a fuck you he's only fuck daddy oh my goodness oh that's pretty damn that's right that's what I'm saying it's up there they need that guy we need him him it's out there we need guys like that i mean the the the beautiful thing of what we're just talking about what we said it's like it's just it's very easy to just to just say you know what that's not for me and find what it is like everybody's humor yes everybody's humor is different i i laughed i laugh there's a there's a there's a viral video of this uh this old guy trying to hoverboard he's like fuck he's got to be like 69 70 and you know his grandkids are there and he's like let me let me try it let me try it and this man gets on this hoverboard and takes if you saw Mike Tyson fall on the hoverboard his fall was worse than Mike Tyson's I've never seen somebody hit their head harder in my life and I didn't laugh out of wanting to see this old man hurt herself I laughed because it was stupid to try to get on this hoverboard in the first place and when he got up he tells the kids why is it moving like that I played this video for everybody because that shit made me laugh some people were watching and go oh no no some people were watching and go oh oh oh and others would just die fucking laughing because everybody's humor is different yeah everybody's fucking humor's different my humor's different falling makes me laugh i don't care who you are falling makes me laugh i don't give a shit who you are if you fall in front of me no shot i'm holding that laughing there's no shot there's no shot you don't stand a chance if you fall in front of me there's no shot that i'm not ha ha bust your ass Something's got to come out Falling is funny I still think It's hacky I still think farts are funny When my kids fart I laugh Until this day It's the funniest shit ever to me Nah go on stop it man You stink Get out of it Stick ass My little son 17 months When he fart I laugh Something within Just the ability To just be Fucking silly and stupid Oh yeah It doesn't always Have to have a meaning Behind it Some shit is just stupid My 8 year old farts on Q She thinks it's hilarious She'll tell you Listen I gotta talk to you about something That's it And she starts laughing She thinks it's hilarious She'll fall down the couch The best thing in the world She can't stop laughing It's the best thing in the world What you're talking about As a kid That's all you got That's your only bit as a kid You got nothing else But farts That's all you got That's all you got to make people laugh You should enjoy it You should I still think it's funny Falling is number one for me Falling is number one My wife fell down the steps She got so mad Because I didn't rush to help her I laughed She had a wine glass Wine was all over the walls Oh my God One of the worst falls I've ever seen in my damn life Got up her shoe was on one step The other shoe was all Fallin's funny I like it I don't laugh at falling that much I just deal with too many injuries I've seen too many people get hurt It's not for you Yeah it's not for me Especially old dudes Fall down hitting their head I'm like I start thinking about brain trauma on CTE, long -term repercussions of the impact.

[939] After the laugh, I'm near.

[940] I'm right there with you.

[941] I think your approach is probably better.

[942] I'm right there with you.

[943] There's the one that's going on today of this dude trying to come up the stairs on this other dude.

[944] Did you see that one?

[945] And the guy stomped them and sent him flying.

[946] I'm like, all I could think of is we don't see it in the video, but that guy's head has got to be smithereens.

[947] Oh, my God.

[948] Like he had to hit his head the way he fell back?

[949] You ever see one of the guy who slipped and fell down a bunch of steps at the museum and falls in the water?

[950] He just keeps going to the goals in the water That's brilliant Brilliant You can't beat that too Yeah here's this dude This dude's walking up the stairs And this dude's like Get the fuck off my porch Stop Leave me alone And he keeps coming He's like Don't do it Don't do it And he got boom Smack The way he fell back There was no hands behind him That's all head That's all head First of all to not see that kick coming From a guy that size It's sad You're also have to realize a guy that size is carrying all that weight all day long.

[951] No, no, no, that's the equivalent of a donkey kicking you right there.

[952] Yes, 100%.

[953] Your chest is caved in right there.

[954] You got stomped.

[955] But to not see it once again.

[956] I've always thought that about fat people.

[957] That if you're really, really fat, imagine how strong your fucking legs must be.

[958] It's as strong as shit ever.

[959] Yeah.

[960] If you really get some power behind that kick.

[961] And also, if you lost the weight, you'd have these incredible legs.

[962] That's always a theory, just of what's under there.

[963] But I always wonder if the knees are going to shrink.

[964] Wait, what?

[965] Because you see someone from behind, they're like 500 pounds, like, their knees are that wide.

[966] I'm like, okay, is that the bone?

[967] Like, is that fat around the bone?

[968] Like, has the bone grown really wide?

[969] Because your body does, your bones do get denser if you do, like, heavy weight.

[970] Like, if you look at, like, power lifter dudes, they're, they're dense.

[971] And part of it is not just their frame.

[972] It's that they're constantly lifting heavy things.

[973] So your body thickens up to start.

[974] As you go.

[975] But, you know, when, when.

[976] And, you know, people that are larger make the dedication to actually losing the weight and they stay away from, like, the weights and stuff and just through cardio, it sheds off so fast.

[977] Yeah, they can.

[978] Like, I know a couple of friends of mine have lost, like, 130, 140 pounds, and, like, have now just fallen in love with fitness to the point where it's unbelievable, like, how their body is transformed and taking a liking to the new, the new process that they're now in.

[979] Yeah, they get addicted instead of food.

[980] They get addicted to being healthy.

[981] Exactly.

[982] It's totally possible.

[983] Totally possible.

[984] I've had, I don't know how many people come up to me and said they've lost 100 pounds plus because of listening to my show and having fitness experts on and diet experts.

[985] And just talking about staying the fuck away from sugar, say don't eat late at night.

[986] Stop eating.

[987] Stop eating at a certain time and give yourself more than enough time to digest.

[988] Cal your calories.

[989] Start exercising.

[990] Well, with me, I think the thing with me that helps me so much is I'm not a foodie.

[991] You're not?

[992] I'm not a foodie, man. I'm just not, I'm the most boring guy to go eat with.

[993] I'm just making a turd.

[994] That's it.

[995] I'm literally just, what is that?

[996] Yeah, that's fine.

[997] Let me get that.

[998] This baked chicken, some brown rice, that's fine.

[999] I'm good.

[1000] You don't worry about eating healthy?

[1001] I'm not clean.

[1002] I'm a healthy eater because I'm not a foodie.

[1003] Oh, okay.

[1004] So it's not like it doesn't matter.

[1005] Like, I don't have the will or want to eat the bad shit.

[1006] So if you're passing by an out burger, nothing?

[1007] No. Nothing?

[1008] No, man, I'm black.

[1009] Fried chicken.

[1010] Oh, okay.

[1011] Now, you show me a Pappas.

[1012] Pappas.

[1013] Pappas is good, too, but Pappas.

[1014] Really?

[1015] Pappas over Rosco's?

[1016] Yes, man. I don't understand.

[1017] Popaz is fucking, I don't know what, I don't know what's in that chicken better, man. It's pretty damn good.

[1018] The spicy?

[1019] Damn it.

[1020] Do you like the spicy?

[1021] Spicey set my ass on fire, but I'm still going to do it.

[1022] Yeah.

[1023] I'm still going to do it, but I'm just not, I can consistently eat the same thing and be fine.

[1024] How is Popeye's the only one who figured out that red beans and rice is a great thing to have on the side.

[1025] No one else has it.

[1026] It's the best thing ever.

[1027] You know what I mean?

[1028] Why doesn't Burger King or McDonald's have red beans and rice?

[1029] Papas is so good, so good that when I was younger, I was about 22.

[1030] I was on a bike.

[1031] I got hit by a car, right?

[1032] Not too hard to where I was damaged, but I had Popeyes in my hand, like the bag.

[1033] I was riding on my bike and holding it, one hand.

[1034] Bop got hit.

[1035] Never let go of the bag.

[1036] Wow.

[1037] That's how good Papas is.

[1038] The bike?

[1039] The bike?

[1040] Everything else.

[1041] Boom.

[1042] I'm there.

[1043] Pop -Pas.

[1044] Held on to it.

[1045] Nothing was damaged.

[1046] Still took home and finished that meal.

[1047] That's incredible.

[1048] That's how good papaz is, 100%.

[1049] So that's my cheat.

[1050] My cheat is papas all day.

[1051] Other than that, I'm a consistent either.

[1052] I'm a healthy guy.

[1053] so do you take vitamins or supplements or anything i i used to take uh multivitamins which inspired me to start doing my own like right now we got vice course yes we got i'm uh i'm starting my own supplement line vital hustle is uh the multivitamin that we that we put it out but let me tell you why though i'm gonna tell you why i'm even getting into this space so when i look at physical fitness and i look at this world i notice that you know you have a you have a great want and need to look like everything around you that you see.

[1054] Like everybody, like everybody that's a part of this world, they look so fucking great and fit when they're talking about these products and the things that they can do.

[1055] And I said, you know, what I'm able to do and what I've done in my past, I'm always bringing people together of all, like in whole.

[1056] Like there is, nobody's alienated.

[1057] You know, when I did my runs with Nike and before I got signed by Nike it was about bringing a bunch of people that never ran before and getting you guys to get up and just come run with me. Just try it.

[1058] And you notice I got people out there never thought they would fucking do it and we're doing five miles.

[1059] We're doing 10 miles.

[1060] Whatever.

[1061] It's just a group run.

[1062] Something to say we did.

[1063] I said, how can I create a product where I'm putting people in a position to understand there's a hustle in all of us?

[1064] That's what my multivitamin.

[1065] it's about.

[1066] It's the energy, it's the recharge, it's the ability to focus.

[1067] It's to approach your day with all of the tools that you basically need.

[1068] It's not just about the physical fitness aspect.

[1069] It's about the health.

[1070] So if I can actually motivate people to take the step in the right direction of health with a line of supplements that are driven for the everyday individual that may not know or be aware, but wants to engage.

[1071] But you're not in it to tell you.

[1072] look like all these different people you ended to be the best version of yourself how can i do that teamed up with a great group of people to create the best possible products that i want to do and i said i want to be patient so it took me four years four years to create vital hustle and how many different products you have right now right now so it's just a vitamin just a vitamin just a multivit but it's an amazing multivit is it a single pill or is it a packet no it's a it's a jar i should have fucking bought one good job a jar jesus christ so you like mix it and stuff no No, it's a jar full of like a...

[1073] Oh, pills.

[1074] Yes, pills.

[1075] Okay.

[1076] I'm going to tell you the dope stuff that's in it.

[1077] Because I don't want to not say anything and have it to where it's wrong.

[1078] So I always have shit in my phone.

[1079] He's got it up on the screen.

[1080] Man, look, how good is he, man?

[1081] Jesus Christ.

[1082] I get it, man. Hey, you, I see it.

[1083] Yep.

[1084] That's why you hear.

[1085] Broccoli extract.

[1086] I was doing the same thing on my phone.

[1087] Blueberry fruit extract.

[1088] Scroll back up there.

[1089] Boron, biotin, beta, carotin, vitamin A. Mm -hmm.

[1090] That's all good shit.

[1091] It's all good shit.

[1092] It's more than a multivitamin.

[1093] Okay.

[1094] Vitamin A. It's good.

[1095] D .E. What is that stuff?

[1096] Tocotrenails.

[1097] Tocotronols.

[1098] Tocotronols.

[1099] Vitamin E family.

[1100] Mm -hmm.

[1101] Hmm.

[1102] You ever heard of that, Jim?

[1103] Vitamin K. Look it up.

[1104] All right.

[1105] Look it up.

[1106] And the good thing, too, is that everything that's in it, you know, it's not only is it researchable, but you'll see why.

[1107] Like, my biggest thing, like, as a guy that is not as familiar with the space, I said, who are the people that are that do it at a high level that I can incorporate into helping me build this product?

[1108] So I feel like you're never going to do it by yourself.

[1109] You shouldn't try to do it by yourself.

[1110] And you don't cut corners.

[1111] You don't go to cheap route.

[1112] You don't do it wrong, so then you have to go back and do it again.

[1113] Right.

[1114] So I went and I looked at the people that were involved with creating the quote unquote best market, the best things on the market.

[1115] And I put that team together.

[1116] I put up a team like four to five and when I tell you four years spent a lot of money developing this shit because it wasn't right in the beginning had to go back had to do it again wasn't right had to go back find out the other things that made other things better of things great had to go right go get it again go try it go do it again not right what else is out there.

[1117] What do we compare it to until I felt that now when I launch there's going to be a place for my product in the market where people will understand that is exactly what I said it was.

[1118] There's a There's no lying.

[1119] There is no, you know, false presentation behind a product.

[1120] Kevin Hart's multivitam is much more than multivitamin, but more importantly, it's something for everybody.

[1121] And more importantly, is to spark the hustle within all of us.

[1122] And this is the first.

[1123] There will be more, but it'll be after I've mastered and I've done this at the highest level, then I moved to product number two, then I move to product number three.

[1124] Before you know it, you want to see a fucking whole line that Kevin Hart is slowly developed and that people can actually believe in because I'm going to be a product.

[1125] product of my own product.

[1126] That's the best thing in the world.

[1127] When you're a product of your product, it has to work for me before I say it's going to work for everybody else.

[1128] So you take this stuff?

[1129] You got damn right, I take it.

[1130] How long have you been taking it?

[1131] I spent all this fucking money on it.

[1132] I better take it.

[1133] I've been taking the one that's launching now for about five to six months.

[1134] Nice.

[1135] I've been taking this one.

[1136] I'm very happy because I actually feel the difference.

[1137] And the difference is just in the energy that you have within the day.

[1138] It's not an energy fucking pill.

[1139] but I do feel a difference in my in my ability to last throughout my day like I'm right I do a lot man I do a fucking lot so I told you I'm starting at that 5 530 and I'm not shutting down till at 9 10 I saw a video once where you were taking a video of your your trainer passed out yeah and you're like this lifestyle's not for everybody everybody around me shuts down very unattractive sleeper by the way Shouts out to boss, Ronald Everline, one of the worst sleepers you'll ever see.

[1140] So you take him with you everywhere?

[1141] Yeah, my train is with me everywhere.

[1142] Wow.

[1143] So you train every day.

[1144] Every day.

[1145] Every day.

[1146] Sundays are light days, light cardio, maintenance is what we call it.

[1147] Not doing the same thing all the time.

[1148] We switch it up.

[1149] Love switching it up.

[1150] Love finding new things within fitness to make it fun.

[1151] You never want to get bored within it.

[1152] So your whole purpose is just to keep your vitality up, keep your energy up, To keep it, it's, if I don't do it, then there's a lag.

[1153] I need to train.

[1154] I need to do it because I'm mentally so investing in it now that when I don't do it, I feel like I've cheated myself in a day or a week that I've taken off.

[1155] I feel like, yo, man, I'm not myself.

[1156] Because when I am doing it, I feel like I'm always, I'm committed.

[1157] I'm committed to constantly building and reshaping and molding.

[1158] I'm working on me. So when I'm not working on me, I don't feel like my day that's supposed to be about me is starting off with the biggest bang.

[1159] Right.

[1160] This is my advantage to starting off like nobody else.

[1161] My day starts off before fucking worms and birds get up.

[1162] What time do you get up?

[1163] Five.

[1164] Five, and that's when you start working out?

[1165] In that gym, 515, 520.

[1166] Really?

[1167] 515, 520.

[1168] No food?

[1169] I don't eat.

[1170] I don't eat before a workout.

[1171] Yeah.

[1172] I'm not an eater before I work out.

[1173] Never have been, no. What I am now, because I'm getting older, I'm more conscious of my body.

[1174] So I'm big with sports massages.

[1175] I'm big with, you know, making sure that I'm not putting myself in a position to get injured and overworked.

[1176] Right.

[1177] So getting stretched, you know, trying to do as much.

[1178] movement that as I possibly can like when I say I'm a little walking muscle I really am so my flexibility is limited so right now that's my biggest focus so I'm about to start yoga trying to do that things that can just kind of keep me in a position to to not tighten up so I don't pull anything because I do so much you're going to do hot yoga yeah high yoga I do that shit all the time do it love it amazing do it every week yeah only thing that's kept me from doing it is the smell that's possibly in there one that's the only thing that's kept me out of it you know I was like, you got to move past that.

[1179] Yeah, bless that I hear it get pretty bad.

[1180] Sometimes it can.

[1181] Yeah, I hear it.

[1182] The place I go to is nice.

[1183] You just got to make sure that the people take care of themselves.

[1184] Where you go to?

[1185] You know, I'll be around smelly people.

[1186] I'll be honest with you.

[1187] I'm worried about myself.

[1188] I don't know what I'm going to give up.

[1189] Especially if you get there early in the morning, you know, eat, you won't worry about farting.

[1190] Yeah.

[1191] But the people that eat breakfast.

[1192] And they go on there.

[1193] They let no off and everything.

[1194] I'd explain that the killer Mike.

[1195] He was talking to me about farting in yoga class.

[1196] Oh, my God.

[1197] You can't be eating.

[1198] No. I can't be eating before that.

[1199] How early are you going?

[1200] I like to go either 6 a .m., which is rare.

[1201] Most of the time, 8, 8 .30.

[1202] Depends on which place I go to, too.

[1203] But you love it, though.

[1204] You love it.

[1205] It's great for your head, too.

[1206] It's 90 minutes of suffering.

[1207] You know, it's hot as fuck.

[1208] 105 degrees, 104 degrees.

[1209] When you get out of there, you feel like you did something.

[1210] Really?

[1211] Yeah.

[1212] And it just changes the way your body feels, too, in terms of your range of motion, your flexibility.

[1213] All those weird connected.

[1214] knots and everything just get opened up and my question is when you when you're just starting though yeah like like i will be is it extremely tough in the beginning because you just just got to bring a lot of ice water just bring a big old fucking 64 ounce one of those you know thermal flasks of ice water make sure you have enough water and drink enough water before it i'm talking put me in the back yeah i don't need to be where people can see me just where they got like a section in the back yeah but you turn left After you turn right, everyone's going to see you.

[1215] Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

[1216] Can I be in a place where they don't see me in the beginning?

[1217] Like, I don't want anybody to see.

[1218] You're athletic, man. You're going to be fine.

[1219] You're going to be tight.

[1220] It's going to be difficult for you to pull off certain poses, but you'll be fine.

[1221] I'm definitely going to try.

[1222] And then you realize it's a challenge.

[1223] I'm definitely 100 % going to try.

[1224] You ever fuck with Jiu -Zitsu?

[1225] No. That's next.

[1226] Yes, I want to hear that.

[1227] That's next.

[1228] Listen, this is where Rico was laughing because I say, yo, man, don't laugh on the tait is.

[1229] I've never thrown a kick I said so whatever you show me right now this will be my first time doing it I don't kick I don't know how to kick right so whatever you show me this will be me processing it for the first time and that day we did it we worked on and I think I threw a couple good kicks a couple good front kicks and I said I said look after I'm done with boxing I said this would be my next task to learn how to properly throw some kicks and to move with my bottom half now that I've worked on my top that's my next hobby that's your next hobby but you gotta keep you gotta keep picking them up you know Jiu Jizu is like That's the that's the tuffling and chokes and thorns and stuff That's what we're talking about You want to do that too I'm just There's stuff As you get older You have to find shit to do Right If you don't find shit to do You're gonna lose your mind You would get addicted to that I just want to learn shit You would like it Because there's so much to learn That's the thing about it It's a long long Never ending Never ending Never ending journey of shit There's also There's so many different variations of each different individual move and entries into new moves and defense and then the structure of it is it's it gets so crazy it's so it's super complicated my son my son does uh my son is heavy into boxing and karate i got him into those so he he does them both so the reason why i want to do i just like to keep up with him so we can you know do things together i have trainers come to the house and we'll work out together he loves it so i just don't want to get left behind to I can't do.

[1230] You want your son to kick your ass.

[1231] I don't want that.

[1232] You know, when you get 17, 18, what you say, dad?

[1233] Hold on.

[1234] Oh, yeah, you don't want that.

[1235] Boy, you better back up.

[1236] Yeah.

[1237] When they start getting that much confidence, I just want to be able to keep up and maintain.

[1238] So that's why I like to do it with them.

[1239] Well, it's good for a kid to have them in your head where you're not to defend yourself.

[1240] Confidence.

[1241] You need that for confidence.

[1242] It'll help you avoid things, too.

[1243] Well, I tell my kids, you know, your last name, puts a target on your back that you didn't ask for and we don't go and create problems but you should always be prepared for problems if they were to occur and if they do I just want you guys to know how to defend yourself so the things that I have my kids doing is just have the knowledge and understanding the worst thing is just not knowing you know they're growing up completely different than I grew up where I grew up you had no choice but to know you ain't know how to fight that's your ass because you're going to get tested.

[1244] There's no way around it.

[1245] You're going to get tried.

[1246] You're going to get robbed.

[1247] You're going to get your book bag taken.

[1248] Somebody going to try to take your sneaks.

[1249] Like, it's the reality.

[1250] It's not a false reality.

[1251] That's real.

[1252] So if you're not prepared for it, if you don't have any type of heart, you won't last from where I grew up.

[1253] Heart was everything.

[1254] And heart was sometimes saying, I don't care if I get my ass looked.

[1255] I'm not going be a bitch.

[1256] I'm not going to allow y 'all to think that this can happen.

[1257] So I'm going to lose today.

[1258] But tomorrow, I'm going to come back and I'm going to find you.

[1259] I'm going to talk.

[1260] Whatever that moment was, it was about establishing any level of respect that you could.

[1261] And that respect eventually turned into friendship from all.

[1262] So my kids don't know what that world is like.

[1263] They're never going to have it.

[1264] So as a parent, I just have to make sure that you have all the tools that I can possibly equip you with because my parents didn't have the ability to provide me with that they weren't a financial space to to take me here and had this extra correct activity or this actually correct activity or learn this or learn that didn't exist that is the big conundrum of successful people connect when successful people have kids the what made them successful is dry I grew up poor too we were on welfare and food stamps a whole deal when I was a little kid and that always in my head this thought like we might not have enough food like I remember thinking that when I was little like what if we don't have any food what if we run out of food my kids will never feel that they don't understand what that is and everybody that I've ever met that's interesting came from some crazy struggle yeah when they were young yeah and that's the thing of your you and I and most people that are doing well in life you're raising your kids in a completely different way than literally what brought you to the dance in the first with the hunger of not being one of those people that's left behind is what makes you successful in the first place.

[1265] And it's scary.

[1266] It's scary because, you know, my wife, my wife told me she was like, you know, I love that you're not hard on your kids, but you always make sure there's a lesson within your conversation.

[1267] Like, I don't yell.

[1268] I don't yell at my kids.

[1269] Nothing's going to register when I'm yelling.

[1270] So I try my best to talk to you.

[1271] Even when I'm at my angriest, I'm going to talk to you so you can process this because you need to understand what's the problem.

[1272] You need to understand was wrong and what I had to really realize is they didn't ask to be born into this yeah you know what I mean like it's not their fault right that they're coming up completely different than how we were raised right and we can't have anger or frustration that's dedicated and thrown towards them because they got it so much better than what we had how do we make sure to we pass down the proper lessons so that they appreciate and understand and not take for granted what they have for me it's tough because I got good kids, good students, they applaud themselves in school, they listen, they don't do dumb shit, yeah, they want to play video games and stay up like any other kid, but there's no signs of bad or crazy.

[1273] And the fear and panic is that you got to know that bad and crazy, exists.

[1274] This fairy tale that we're in isn't real and at some point when I'm not around when your mother's not around when you have friends or other family are around you may get tested with the other side that's out here that you've never seen so I got to prepare you for the shit that you don't know exists I got to take you to Philadelphia so you can see I try to show my kids where I grew up thinking it's going to be like a Oh, my goodness.

[1275] Backfired.

[1276] It's so cool.

[1277] Can we live here?

[1278] Shut up.

[1279] Oh, Jesus Christ.

[1280] Fuck you're talking about.

[1281] Get a car.

[1282] Everybody.

[1283] Get a car right now.

[1284] Everybody, we talk about this when we get back.

[1285] This is not going the way I was supposed to.

[1286] Oh, my God.

[1287] It's so cool, Dad.

[1288] It's so different.

[1289] Oh, my goodness.

[1290] Walked them around a neighborhood.

[1291] And it's like, it's not a reality.

[1292] You didn't have grass.

[1293] Goodness, Dad.

[1294] Oh, that's crazy.

[1295] Would you play?

[1296] Wow.

[1297] When you.

[1298] hear when you hear these things it's so different man these were your steps the steps are broken how did you even play oh my god dad so wait where where it was yours we lived on the top floor not the whole thing no this is three separate units so the top floor was me and grandmoms the middle that was somebody else that was a neighbor and downstairs was somebody else three different people lived in this one thing together y 'all were strangers like they don't what hey shut up everybody my own answers everybody in the car get a car i don't know what to do i don't know what to say at this part get right in the car but but when you see that that's the reality that you get hit with of i got to make sure that i'm talking i got to make sure that i'm constantly teaching yeah if i'm not then i'm not doing my part i'm failing you know took them to the neighborhood and showed them how stores are in the neighborhood.

[1299] This is what we got candy from.

[1300] Here's what we would get little sandwiches from.

[1301] Y 'all walk.

[1302] We don't have no stores like this.

[1303] We can't walk to stuff.

[1304] It's a completely different world.

[1305] Wow.

[1306] It's a completely different world.

[1307] See, people standing on the street corners.

[1308] What they're doing there?

[1309] They're selling drugs.

[1310] That's tough right there.

[1311] Those are people that your dad still knows.

[1312] They've been there forever.

[1313] That's what you don't want to do.

[1314] But they're forced with these decisions.

[1315] because of what they have to do.

[1316] You just need to see this.

[1317] Dad is taking you here to see this.

[1318] Drove them all around.

[1319] All around North Philadelphia.

[1320] All around South Philadelphia.

[1321] Made sure that they can see it.

[1322] You have to physically see.

[1323] We go out the country.

[1324] We go to these resorts and islands.

[1325] Before we go there, we're going to drive around so you can see what exists.

[1326] Before you get to this, this is why we have to be good people.

[1327] This is why we treat everybody with respect.

[1328] This is why your dad likes to give.

[1329] Everybody doesn't have.

[1330] I'm constantly beating my kids with that information.

[1331] Because if you assume that everybody does, you come off like such an asshole when you're around people that don't.

[1332] Yeah.

[1333] What?

[1334] How did you?

[1335] You don't have.

[1336] Also, the advantage that they had growing up the way they are now, it's such a rare thing.

[1337] And they don't understand it.

[1338] There's no way they could.

[1339] A very small percentage.

[1340] Yeah.

[1341] A very small percentage.

[1342] And that's something that I never want to let go of either So I was in the back of my head So how you're talking about how You know are we going to have enough food When you were coming up Chris Rock's joke is so great That he used to tell about how he keeps a bag packed At the front door Because he don't believe that this shit is his He said I truly believe that at any point Somebody going to go Gotcha You thought you lived here didn't you This ain't joy And I was like It's so real because even though you have it, you can't lose the sight of reality of what once was.

[1343] Yeah.

[1344] Do you, are you comfortable where you are now, or do you still have those thoughts?

[1345] Like, this, is this real?

[1346] Because you're at this stratosphere of fame and success that's, it's rare amongst the rare.

[1347] You know, it's like David Goggin said, you are uncommon amongst uncommon men.

[1348] I will be 100 % honest and say, I'm comfortable with the understanding of hard work brings great rewards.

[1349] This is a reminder of the hard work and dedication that I've put into everything that I've done.

[1350] I'm not content because I know where I came from and I don't ever want to go back.

[1351] That doesn't mean I don't want to go back.

[1352] to the city.

[1353] That doesn't mean I'm going to go back to the people.

[1354] That means I don't want to go back to living like I once was.

[1355] I'm going to go back and I want to help.

[1356] I want to inspire.

[1357] I want to motivate.

[1358] I want to show people that there is a way out, that there is a way to do more, to get more, to obtain more.

[1359] But I personally don't want to lose all that I've been able to get.

[1360] So I need to make sure that I do everything to keep it.

[1361] So I can't be content.

[1362] So there is a an understanding but I refuse to click on the switch of how so even if you like even if you have more money than you'll ever spend for the rest of your life that's not what it's about no it's about the inspiring people and the influence and constantly giving back and moving forward in a positive way and the only way you can do that is to stay active it's the story man yeah you know we're we're we're all writing a book what's your book look like what does your fucking book look like like your life is a book you got a bunch of chapters in your book but when they close that book how good was the book how good was your book what was the ending to your book if the ending to my book can be so amazing because of all that was done, not the money, all that was accomplished.

[1363] The first to do, the man that did this, he caused a merger between this.

[1364] Because of his commitment and growth to this, the communities were then given this, made education, this, changed the way the schooling was blah, blah, blah, gave books, gave computers, gave the, all of the things that can be associated with you and your existence, become a part of the chapters in your book.

[1365] So my drive is about my book I was in New York Times number one bestseller people would be done they did it I'm writing another book you're writing a book right now yeah what's it happened what happens if you are two times New York Times number one bestseller if you get the two what happens if you get the three hey man how do books become successful who publishes them I want to start a publishing company heartbeat publishing why not that's the thing all I'm doing is sparking the awareness in others to go, why not?

[1366] Why can't I create?

[1367] Why can't I start?

[1368] Why can't I be a business?

[1369] Why can't I be a CEO?

[1370] Why can I be a tech guru?

[1371] Why can I fucking create cooking products, lotion, scents, there's so much that some people just don't understand they can do.

[1372] Let me be a spark to show how much, how many different, you don't have to do just one thing.

[1373] When it's all said and done, my book is going to be full of all the shit that Kevin Hart did because I never was content with doing just one, two, or three.

[1374] Why not?

[1375] Kevin, why are you creating fucking health and wellness products?

[1376] Why not?

[1377] I'm big on health and wellness.

[1378] Why can I try to create something that I feel is fucking great and jump into a space that I'm already in?

[1379] I already give 100 % of me in this space.

[1380] Why not?

[1381] Why can't I talk about financial wealth?

[1382] Why can I go back and educate those that don't know?

[1383] Why not?

[1384] You don't got the time.

[1385] I make time.

[1386] Well, you certainly can, but it's just so unusual that someone dedicates that much energy and time to giving back and getting involved with the kind of projects that you're talking about as well as be super ambitious with your own career.

[1387] It makes me happy.

[1388] Yeah, I can tell.

[1389] I'm genuinely happy.

[1390] Discovery makes me happy.

[1391] Like when you find different things to be excited about, it makes me happy.

[1392] And it's weird when it clicks.

[1393] In school, they used to tell you all the time.

[1394] Information is key.

[1395] Read these books.

[1396] There's so much knowledge.

[1397] You're like, man, fuck that book.

[1398] Got time to read that book.

[1399] I want to go home.

[1400] God damn Sonic the Hedgehog.

[1401] I want to play.

[1402] I'm at level three.

[1403] I ain't got time to read this book.

[1404] The information is to start.

[1405] stuff that was forced down your throat, at a certain age, you just may not be receiving it correctly, but then it clicks, and you may gain information differently.

[1406] And what you do with that information is up to you, but people have different roles that they can go down.

[1407] The education wasn't my pick of choice.

[1408] It didn't do it for me. But the knowledge and the common sense that I have naturally allowed me to gain information, apply it differently.

[1409] It allowed me to grow smarts in so many different avenues to where I said, oh my God, I found my niche, I found my talent, and now there's other things that my talent can take me to.

[1410] I don't have all the knowledge and awareness, but I can allow myself with people to do that.

[1411] I can teach me because now, guess what?

[1412] Learning is cool.

[1413] Yeah, that's what happens when you don't have to do it anymore, right?

[1414] It's, when you're a kid, they force you into this school, you don't want to learn.

[1415] But then when you get out and you realize, like, oh, this actually benefits me. This is making me a better person.

[1416] This makes me wiser.

[1417] It's 100 % through reality.

[1418] And it's weird how it happens.

[1419] But when you go, oh, my God, learning and knowledge is power.

[1420] Fuck, they used to tell me this when I was 10.

[1421] And you're like, what?

[1422] Yes.

[1423] 10, 11 years old.

[1424] I heard that shit all the time.

[1425] Now I finally get it.

[1426] it.

[1427] Damn, I'm about to be 40.

[1428] Took me all this time to get the goddamn code.

[1429] But I got it.

[1430] Yeah.

[1431] It hits you at a different time.

[1432] And when it does, be excited about it, man. Be excited.

[1433] I'm excited about what 50 is.

[1434] I'm just now getting to 40.

[1435] Do you read books?

[1436] I don't read a lot of books.

[1437] Do you listen to books on tape?

[1438] I have listened to books.

[1439] You know who I listen to?

[1440] What?

[1441] Tony Robbins.

[1442] He's great.

[1443] Tony's a, I like, I like his approach to giving information.

[1444] I like his attitude in general.

[1445] I like podcasts.

[1446] I like things that are real and that are presented in front of me. I like information that I can go to the source and touch and talk.

[1447] So if I'm reading a book, it's a book that was recommended by such and such and personally gave it to me. me. And after reading that book, I learned more about the individual that I thought I already knew, and now I gained more.

[1448] Michelle Obama's book, great book, great fucking book.

[1449] I met her.

[1450] I talked to her.

[1451] I've been in the same rooms.

[1452] I've seen her success.

[1453] What is her book going to be about?

[1454] Mm, go read her book.

[1455] Wow.

[1456] I get it.

[1457] I get why it's moving all the units that it's moving.

[1458] I get why women are reading this book and walking away feeling better, feeling like they can't.

[1459] I get it.

[1460] Oh wow.

[1461] Hmm.

[1462] Certain friends.

[1463] Duane Wade wrote a book.

[1464] It's focused on being a father, his road to becoming a better father, what he went through with his kid's mother, how he developed a relationship and the bond with his sons like nobody else.

[1465] Wow.

[1466] Didn't know that, Dee.

[1467] That's dope.

[1468] I love how you put it on page.

[1469] There's certain things that you just want to know.

[1470] Certain books help.

[1471] I understand why people read books.

[1472] I get what the information does.

[1473] You know, the book that I'm working on now is all about the mental approach that you have with life and people not understanding that your biggest enemy is you.

[1474] My whole book is about you battling yourself.

[1475] People don't understand is you against you.

[1476] The only person that gets in your way is you.

[1477] Nobody else is you.

[1478] Now when you write a book like this, and especially about something like this, this is like the way you've managed to navigate through life.

[1479] Do you write it out in essays?

[1480] Do you have like bullet points that you think about?

[1481] And then once you have those bullet points you head, then you write on those.

[1482] Like, how do you do it?

[1483] I'll show you now.

[1484] Keep it on your phone it's all all voice notes and transcripts okay so because of your time you don't have you don't have the the time to sit and actually write so you need somebody that you can talk to for hours hours hours on it hey hey i need an hour but i got an hour for me i got some stuff i want to talk to you about kev what what's that all right book title ideas subtitle ideas, my dedications, my introductions.

[1485] Within my introductions, these are all powerful paragraphs of things that I've just said that are now transcript.

[1486] I get to go back and read it.

[1487] Let me see here.

[1488] There's no conversation at all.

[1489] I'm going to read one of them.

[1490] No conversation at all.

[1491] And that's what the internet has allowed people to do.

[1492] The internet has allowed people to skip steps, one through 30.

[1493] It's allowed people to jump straight to 100.

[1494] Fuck you.

[1495] Cut a job off.

[1496] Take them down.

[1497] You should be dead.

[1498] Oh, God, fucking can't stand this.

[1499] Whatever the hate of the anger is.

[1500] When listen, okay, when I listen and I can change, I'm not that guy.

[1501] We're doing these weird things now that people aren't taking the time to sit and think through.

[1502] What I've understood is that what people are doing has nothing to do with me. I should always be a step ahead because I'm thinking differently, because I'm thinking about myself, making myself.

[1503] making myself better puts me in a position to make others better be the example not the problem the best way to take away the problem is to alienate yourself from it these are this is just thoughts oh it's fucking thoughts I can go through and just read it this is a so you just have these philosophies this is the way you live your life and you just just speak it that's it just speak it damn so now this is all transcript look how long is this that's incredible it's all fucking transcript This is all, so I just go back throughout the day and I read it and I say, this is great, this makes sense, this didn't, let me reword this, let me make sure that it's all flowing together.

[1504] And at the end of the day, what's my reason for the book?

[1505] My reason for the book is to make people better.

[1506] My reason for the book is to make people understand, yeah, we all are great.

[1507] We all should think that we're great.

[1508] There's no reason for you to not think that you're great.

[1509] If you don't think you're great, ask yourself why.

[1510] why don't you think the highest of yourself when you do people have no choice but to follow suit you got no choice but to follow suit a lot of people that base it on their past they base it on the life that they've experienced up until this moment makes you better yeah it does make you better makes you smarter yeah a life but no rocks like you say it yeah man that's what's interesting about it that's what's interesting about life you can hear a guy like you say that and then it changes your perspective and then you'll go out and take action that you might not have taken before.

[1511] I got a 585 on my SAT.

[1512] Confessions.

[1513] I didn't even take mine.

[1514] Confessions.

[1515] It gave you 400 for putting your name on a paper.

[1516] It's a true story.

[1517] Wow.

[1518] I guessed A, B, A -A -C -A -D -A.

[1519] All the way down.

[1520] It's a true story.

[1521] I swear to God.

[1522] Hand on my mother's grave.

[1523] A -B -A -C -A -D -A.

[1524] All the way down.

[1525] I didn't care because it was a clash trip that same day.

[1526] I wanted to go great adventure.

[1527] I was told that not taking my SAT seriously were prohibit me from furthering myself in life.

[1528] I said, I was told.

[1529] At the moment, I said, damn, maybe I should have applied myself.

[1530] Maybe I should have did different.

[1531] When I saw all my friends get their test scores back and they were static, 800s, 900s, 960s, everybody's going to college.

[1532] I felt like the biggest idiot in the fucking world.

[1533] The biggest idiot in the fucking world because the same people that I went in rush to go to Great Adventure with, they had taken their SAT the week before.

[1534] They already got their work done.

[1535] They did everything they were supposed to do.

[1536] So that moment of fun was real fun for them.

[1537] I was the only dumb ass that didn't prioritize and take care of my shit.

[1538] So I'm the only one going to community college.

[1539] Everybody else off the Villanova, Temple University, Drexel University.

[1540] God damn.

[1541] I just got left behind.

[1542] Why didn't y 'all tell me that y 'all did it the week before?

[1543] How come y 'all ain't Tell me that we was serious about the college shit?

[1544] Y 'all ain't tell me y 'all was trying to go to Temple or Drexel?

[1545] Oh, wait.

[1546] It's because my life isn't their life.

[1547] They're focused on themselves.

[1548] Wow, they're doing what they're supposed to do.

[1549] Hey, jackass.

[1550] Go sit by yourself and figure it out because this is where you should be.

[1551] Lesson learn.

[1552] Any opportunity given should be taken serious from this point on.

[1553] because if not you can find yourself feeling just like this so I didn't get down to myself for the fucking moment I learn from it I learn from it now if I got to take a goddamn test you best believe I'm studying for that fucking test because I don't want the feeling like I'm the guy that didn't prepare now I got a story to tell my kids about what it feels like to be the kid in class that didn't prepare that's got the worst grade when they give all those grades back but it's because of my experience I don't look down on those moments You take those moments you make the best of them Because they're life lessons It's that simple You're saying it's positive But it's really just simplicity That's real It's real It's real and it's your life experience And it's your life's lessons But the fact that a guy like you Comes out and talks about it like that That's where it makes it really powerful Because it's not just something that you learn from But now other people can learn from your past too That's what I'm hoping And they look at themselves And they realize We all start from a different spot you're not saying yeah this is why I'm so candid I'm so candid I'm so open there there there is no like guys I'm fine with being an open book I'm fine with the good the bad the ugly I'm fine being flawed I'm fine with all the things that have happened to me that have been exposed I'm fine with it all I don't hide from it I don't from it I don't I don't avoid any of it I'm fine it's all right it's a bed that I made for myself I happily lay in it and I'll be fine figuring it out moving forward sun don't stop for nobody man son don't fucking stop son gonna be up in the morning regardless that sun is gonna be up in the morning regardless of how I fucking feel and how depressed I am the sun is gonna fucking shine in the morning and the night time the moon going to be there and you're going to look up these days going to keep going by so do you let the days go by and look up and you don't waste of the year doing what or do you just pick it up all right well got to figure it out made some mistakes life goes on let me figure out life from this point I'm a life goes on type of guy you're a bad motherfucker Kevin Hart you're very very very inspirational and I'm really glad you came down here and talked about it and i'm i'm more than glad i think that it took too long actually and this is the first of uh of what will be many man i'm for sure i'm a fan too and i just think what you're doing is not just inspirational in terms of like what you've been able to achieve and who you are but also inspirational and how you're so dedicated to help in other people that means a lot to me it's very it's very motivating it's very powerful i want uh i want all your listeners to know that it's not But it's not for talk.

[1554] There's no way it could be.

[1555] If you were doing that just for talk, I'd be like, listen, just fake it and then become that guy because you're on to something.

[1556] If you could do that and just say it and talk, fucking forget about whatever it's fake or not.

[1557] Just do it.

[1558] Keep doing it.

[1559] You're on.

[1560] No, I want you guys, trust me, you will be seeing more.

[1561] The financial fitness is real.

[1562] This relationship with Chase and now she's just making sure you put me in a position to give the information that I have and to the people that really need it.

[1563] That's the priority.

[1564] I will be sending more kids to college this year.

[1565] Shouts out to Tony Robbins, who's matching my donations.

[1566] So, you know, I think I'm going to end up probably, probably having about a good million to 1 .5 where we take and we just dedicate that money and we just provide free education.

[1567] That's amazing.

[1568] UNCF helps me as well.

[1569] That's a priority.

[1570] Like I said, this health and wellness side.

[1571] You'll see more from me. ViteHustle .com.

[1572] You know, get a part of this hustle.

[1573] Go get yours.

[1574] Irresponsible.

[1575] On Netflix.

[1576] Right now.

[1577] Filming.

[1578] We're about to come out with that in Christmas.

[1579] There's so much.

[1580] So much shit going on, man. Well, listen, if there's ever anything you want promoted, you want people to know about it, I'm your man. I like this.

[1581] I like the conversation.

[1582] Thank you, brother.

[1583] I really appreciate you.

[1584] Appreciate you.

[1585] Thank you.

[1586] Bye, everybody.