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You can't be afraid to verbalize your
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ignorance. That's holding you back.
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Give me an example.
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I can give you several. Like investing
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like you're telling me that if I put
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this money in here right now, I get 30x
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20x. What the [ __ ] It's a [ __ ] scam.
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I know a scam. When I see one, go find
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you another idiot cuz it ain't happening
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over here, buddy. But when you go and
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you say, "I don't know what that means."
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How does investing really work? I don't
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know where to get it. Now you're a part
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of the right conversations. You're part
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of the right opportunities, but you get
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there by being the dummy in them. And
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now look at what I'm able to do.
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I love it. I love it.
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Kevin, it took 13 years from where you
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did your first stand up to you having
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your moment. But why didn't you quit?
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Because of the lessons that my mom gave
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from being very scarred from my brother.
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So, let's go back. I grew up in North
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Philadelphia. My brother sold the drugs.
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My dad was always in jail, out of jail.
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My mom wasn't going to let that happen
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with me. So, we had an agreement. I had
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a certain amount of time to make comedy
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work. And in my mind, it wasn't going to
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be hard because there was no other
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option. I would figure it out. So, I was
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driving from Philadelphia to New York
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every day. I wasn't coming home until
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4:00 a.m. where I was doing 25 to 28
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sets a weekend.
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I worked at for a very, very long time.
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And the struggle left you with days of
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what am I doing? Can I pay my rent? [ __ ]
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this, man. But my mom's biggest lesson
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was you're not quitting. And not many
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people are going to do the 13 years of
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hardship. Most people opt out at year
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two. I'm going to go find a quick
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return. Well, you keep quitting to start
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something else that you think is the
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idea. It's just a cycle. You're never
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completing anything. You got to make a
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choice of the thing you're going to do
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and finish. I made the choice that
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standup comedy was what I was going to
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finish because if I focused and did it
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well, that would open up the doors for
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me to do everything else that I want to
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do.
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But they say that you can't have
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everything in life.
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So, what is the cost? Have you struggled
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with your mental health? What advice
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have you got for young men in terms of
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like what it takes to be a good man?
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It's a weird thing that's happening
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where the definition of a good man is so
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foggy. It seems that in this time today
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more men are being forward wanting to
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express and talk but the fear of being
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judged after.
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Do you have that fear?
