Club Shay Shay - Mojo Brookzz Part 2

Summary

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Club Shay Shay – Mojo Brookzz Part 2

Host: Shannon Sharpe
Guest: Mo Brooks (Mojo Brookzz)
Air Date: April 1, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this rich, candid follow-up conversation, Shannon Sharpe welcomes comedian Mo Brooks (aka Mojo Brookzz) back to “Club Shay Shay.” The episode delves into Mo’s comedic influences, his career journey from social media to comedy clubs, resilience through adversity, generational changes in stand-up, and his experiences with fame, family, and investing. Listeners get a window into both the hustle and the humanity behind Mojo’s comedic persona, with plenty of laughs and heartfelt moments along the way.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Comedic Influences & Mentorship

• Favorite Comedic Actors:

  • Mo Brooks names Martin Lawrence and Eddie Murphy as his all-time favorites.
  • Also praises up-and-coming comedians like Drewski and “Jack Funny” from Detroit as the next generation of comedic actors.
  • [06:31–07:20]

• Impact of Monique:

  • Monique played a pivotal mentoring role for Mo early in his career, showing him the realities of the business and always offering honest guidance.
  • Notably, Monique separates personal beef from professional advice, encouraging Mo to follow his own path, even if it crosses with people she’s had issues with.
  • Quote: “My fight ain’t your fight.” – Monique, recounted by Mo Brooks [08:06]
  • [07:43–10:17]

The Road to Comedy & Overcoming Adversity

• Origin Story:

  • Mo was inspired by Bernie Mac in fifth grade, but it was the passing of his older sister that truly propelled him onto the stand-up stage. Her final wish was for him to “do something.”
  • Quote: “Promise me that you gonna do something.” – Mo’s sister [12:38]
  • [10:17–12:53]

• Early Stand-Up Experiences:

  • His first show had just four people.
  • Shares a painful bombing story that motivated him to never coast in his craft and to constantly hone his skills (“If you get off stage and somebody asks if you okay, you know what just happened.” – Mo Brooks [16:43]).
  • [14:18–16:56]

Navigating Crowd Work & The Risks

• Interaction & Improvisation:

  • Mo leans heavily on crowd work, sometimes involving audience members’ relationships and making live phone calls for comedic effect.
  • Discusses knowing when to back off if someone’s taking offense: “I always ask God to allow me to be funny and not offensive.” – Mo Brooks [17:41]
  • [16:56–21:10]

• Handling Disruptions & Crazy Experiences:

  • Recalls a woman kissing him on stage without his consent, flipping gender expectations around personal boundaries ([19:12]) and handling situations with humor and self-respect.

Social Media, Comedy OGs & Changing the Game

• Generational Tension:

  • Shannon and Mo discuss why old-school comics sometimes resent younger comics who build an audience quickly on social media.
  • Quote: “Just because you do skits… that don’t not make you valid.” – Mo Brooks [23:06]
  • Mo emphasizes the grind behind viral fame, highlighting eight years of smaller shows before breaking through.

• The Skit-to-Stage Transition:

  • Mo notes that doing online skits and live stand-up are entirely different skills, and only a few (like Desi Banks, DC Young Fly, Country Wayne) have truly mastered both.

• Advice for Young Comics:

  • “Run your race, do the work, take it serious.” – Mo Brooks [36:09–36:22]

• Algorithm & Monetization Reality Checks:

  • Mo describes how quickly social media payouts can drop when algorithms change:
    • “In 2020, I was bringing in about $60 to $80k a month on Facebook… Now they cut that down… you gotta invest that money.” – Mo Brooks [38:30–39:36]
  • Discusses the importance of diversifying income beyond platforms you don’t own.

Camaraderie, Community & Resilience

• Helping Other Comics:

  • Mo recounts encouraging fellow comedian Jack Funny after a bad set, understanding the importance of picking each other up after failures.
  • *“You did the hardest part… go get it again.” – Mo Brooks [42:29]

• Industry Hurdles:

  • Shares how early skepticism about “social media comedians” in clubs made it harder for newer comics to get booked, urging intentionality and hard work.

Acting Aspirations & Film Work

• Transitioning to Acting:

  • Mo talks about acting in Tyler Perry’s Ms. Governor and how Perry rewrote parts for him after seeing his talent, even increasing Mo’s pay.
  • Credits Perry for creating opportunities for Black talent.
  • [43:48–45:43]

• Boundaries and On-Screen Intimacy:

  • Candidly discusses his comfort zone as an actor—sex scenes with women are fine, but draws the line at some roles.
  • Lighthearted debate with Shannon about the “technical difficulties” of intimate scenes and acting professionalism.
  • [49:25–51:29]

• Wild ’n Out Experience:

  • Mo describes being nervous on the show, the shift from competition to just being funny, and Nick Cannon’s encouragement.
  • Praises Nick Cannon’s major role in putting people on.
  • Quote: “Nick should get flowers every day.” – Mo Brooks [53:37]

Family, Fatherhood & Financial Freedom

• Fatherhood:

  • Conversation about putting his daughter in skits, honest co-parenting, and the differences between his own upbringing and how he’s raising his child now. Mo admits he’s a “cream puff” for his daughter but tries to instill values.
  • Touching discussion about the challenges and joys of being a present father.
  • [55:13–63:24]

• Family Relationships & Childhood:

  • Mo describes his parents’ balance—strict father, more lenient mother—and how that shaped his approach to life.
  • Highlights the importance of both discipline and support, and how the lessons of “no” taught him resilience.

• Generational Differences in Parenting:

  • Shannon and Mo debate the merits of letting adult children stay at home longer and reflect on expectations—in many Black families, 18 often means moving out.
  • Mo challenges that norm: “If I love you, why am I gonna send you out there today and I know you’re not ready?” – Mo Brooks [71:46]

Fame, Friendship & Community

• Public Recognition & Viral Moments:

  • Shannon shares how people now know him more for TV/podcasting than football.
  • Humorous recounting of being caught on camera at the airport with a small dog, highlighting how fame brings new forms of scrutiny and exposure.

• Chicago, Sports, and Local Pride

  • Discussion about the Chicago Bears possibly relocating and whether a cold-weather advantage still matters. Mo voices support for keeping the team local and authentic—even if he admits a dome would make cold games easier for fans.
  • Admiration for new Bears QB Caleb Williams, dismissing concerns about his painted nails and rooting for his continued success.
  • Talks about outgoing Justin Fields, his resilience, and why he didn’t get a fair shot in Chicago.
  • [78:17–82:08]

• Collaborations, Influencers & Community

  • Mo comments on collaborating with Desi Banks and potentially others, emphasizing the need for young comics to move beyond “influencer” status to build sustainable careers.
  • Warns that social media virality is fleeting if you don’t build real-world skills and assets.

• Navigating Success, Money, and Hometown Pressure

  • Talks openly about the wave of “support requests” that come with returning home for big shows—how everyone wants a favor or a free ticket when you make it.
  • “When I’m at home, you gotta buy a ticket.” – Mo Brooks (adopted from Chico Bean, [91:45–92:14])

Life Beyond Comedy

• Giving Flowers & Supporting Others

  • Expresses joy at seeing friends (like Mr. Tyndenism) succeed and readiness to support them, even offering to invest in their ventures.

• What’s Next for Mojo?

  • Mo reveals he’s writing movies, stepping into his “Eddie Murphy bag” by playing multiple roles, and is actively shopping a new film project to top streaming platforms.
  • Credits both Eddie Murphy and Ice Cube as career role models.
  • [93:14–93:56]

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Notable Quotes & Moments

| Timestamp | Quote | Speaker | |-----------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------| | 08:06 | “My fight ain’t your fight.” (on Monique’s advice about navigating industry beefs) | Mo Brooks | | 12:38 | “Promise me that you gonna do something.” (his sister’s last wish motivating his comedic career) | Mo Brooks | | 16:43 | “If you get off stage and somebody asks if you okay, you know what just happened.” | Mo Brooks | | 17:41 | “I always ask God to allow me to be funny and not offensive.” | Mo Brooks | | 23:06 | “Just because you do skits… that don’t not make you valid.” | Mo Brooks | | 36:09 | “Don’t put that pressure on yourself… Run your race, do the work, take it serious.” | Mo Brooks | | 38:30 | “In 2020, I was bringing in about $60 to $80k a month on Facebook…Now they cut that down…” | Mo Brooks | | 42:29 | “You did the hardest part… go get it again.” (encouraging Jack Funny after bombing) | Mo Brooks | | 43:48 | “Tp [Tyler Perry], just a quick story about him… he’s always looking at, you know, to give people that look like us the opportunity.” | Mo Brooks | | 49:25 | “Yeah, there’s a lot of stuff I won’t do on camera. I ain’t kissing no man.” | Mo Brooks | | 53:37 | “Nick should get flowers every day. Nick put a lot of people on.” | Mo Brooks | | 71:46 | “If I love you, why am I gonna send you out there today and I know you’re not ready?” | Mo Brooks | | 91:45 | “You can come see me for free anywhere in the world… but when I’m at home, you gotta buy a ticket.” | Mo Brooks |

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• [06:31] – Mo’s Favorite Comedic Actors, Then & Now
• [07:43] – What Monique Taught Mo About the Business
• [10:17] – The Personal Story That Kicked Off His Comedy Career
• [16:56] – Handling Crowd Work and Onstage Disruptions
• [21:10] – Making Phone Calls to Audience Members’ Partners (Crowd Work)
• [22:25] – Social Media vs Club Comedy: Tension with OGs
• [38:30] – Making (and Losing) Money as a Social Media Comic
• [42:29] – Picking Up Other Comics After They Bomb
• [43:48] – Acting in Tyler Perry Projects
• [49:25] – On-Screen Boundaries as an Actor
• [53:37] – Giving Flowers to Nick Cannon
• [55:15] – Raising His Daughter & Co-Parenting
• [61:42] – Parenting Differences Across Generations
• [71:46] – When Should Kids Leave Home?
• [75:24] – Shannon on Being Recognized Now as a TV Personality
• [78:17] – Chicago Bears Stadium & Caleb Williams
• [87:07] – Mo’s All-Time Top Five Chicago Rappers
• [88:46] – Dealing With Gang Culture as a Youth
• [91:45] – Free Tickets for Home Shows? Not Anymore!
• [93:14] – Movies, Special, and What’s Next for Mojo

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Episode Tone

The tone is open, irreverent, and often hilarious—Shannon and Mo rib each other like old friends, but dig deep on topics like grief, resilience, ego, community, and generational wisdom. Mo brings candid honesty and humility, while Shannon strikes a balance between hosting, mentoring, and sharing his own experiences in ways that ground the conversation.

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For New Listeners

Whether you know Mojo Brookzz from his viral sketches or this is your first time hearing his story, this episode is a rollercoaster through the modern stand-up landscape—from the grind behind the glamour to family roots, evolving the art, and plotting new creative ambitions. Both fans and aspiring comics will find hard-won insights, behind-the-scenes wisdom, and a lot of heart.

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End of Summary

Transcript

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[Mo Brooks]

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[Shannon Sharpe]

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[Mo Brooks]

So I can think. If I can breathe if I can breathe, I can think. I can think if I can think if I can think, then I can

[Shannon Sharpe]

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[Mo Brooks]

Trying so hard so I can breathe.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Why do you need to breathe?

[Mo Brooks]

So I can think. If I can breathe.

[Shannon Sharpe]

If I can breathe, I can think.

[Mo Brooks]

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[Shannon Sharpe]

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[Bethany Frankel]

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[Shannon Sharpe]

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[Shannon Sharpe]

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[Mo Brooks]

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[Shannon Sharpe]

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[Mo Brooks]

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[Shannon Sharpe]

thank you for coming back. Part two is underway. Who's your favorite comedic actor?

[Mo Brooks]

Comedic actor?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yes. I forgot we forgot to put Mike in here because he has the upshaws. Even though it's going on. But it had a great set. What I think about six seasons.

[Mo Brooks]

Six seasons? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Comedic actor. I like Martin Lawrence.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

Then Eddie Murphy too though. Them two right there.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, Eddie took it to a whole

[Mo Brooks]

new level, but I'm gonna tell you.

[Shannon Sharpe]

But Pryor started it cause he did Star Crazy and Silver Streak and all that other stuff. Brewster's Million.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I'm gonna tell you somebody who I It's two comedians that I think of this generation that I think gonna end up being really good comedic actors. And that's Drewski and Jack Funny from Detroit.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Okay.

[Mo Brooks]

There's a comedian name. I'm gonna send them to you. Okay, dude. Dope. You know what I'm saying? And he kind of remind me a little bit of Mike Epps, but he got his own flavor to it. But those two, I think they got the potential to really be, like, really great comedic actors.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You close to Monique? Yes, I've had Monique on it. And Monique is brother there, sister there.

[Mo Brooks]

Yes.

[Shannon Sharpe]

She's very motherly, she's very nurturing, and she knows she's not everybody flavor. She's not everybody cup of tea. But I think she has some great advice. I think people have done her wrong. And when she called people out, they have a problem with that.

[Mo Brooks]

Yes.

[Shannon Sharpe]

What is it about Monique that caused you to gravitate towards Monique?

[Mo Brooks]

You know what it was? Monique showed me things about this business before I even got the opportunity to see them, Right? And, you know, we would get on the phone, we would talk, she would give me advice. She would come to shows, you know, at little small comedy clubs that, you know, we would be doing and support, and she would always have some feedback on what she thought. Um, I think, you know, some of the stuff that she went through was unfortunate. You know what I'm saying? But, you know, speaking up for yourself, for yourself ain't never been nothing wrong. And, you know, she always kept it real, though. She always, like, she'll say this no matter how she felt about whoever she felt about. She would say, listen, if Oprah called, you better go. Regardless of how I feel about her, you better go. Because my fight ain't your fight.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Mm. I like that.

[Mo Brooks]

And you know what I'm saying? You know, I did the Ms. Governor show that was directed and produced by Tyler Perry. And when I did that, regardless of how she felt about tp, she called me. She was like, hey, you know how I feel. But congratulations. I'm about to watch the show right now. So, you know, she just one of those people that's like, hey, my beef is my beef whether you love me or not. You know what I'm saying? If people get on the Internet and they get to talking about her, and she always tell her, don't y' all get in the comments, getting in that. Y' all stay out of that, right? This is my fight. But I'm just trying to show y' all how to speak up, you know, have your own voice. And she like, if it's something that you don't, like, speak up, say something, right? So, no, Monique is definitely like. I mean, we just was texting the other day, and the first thing, she texts, baby, how does fame feel? And I'm like, auntie, you know, I'm adjusting. I'm getting used to it. But she's like, well, you already know. If you need. You wanna talk, you need to ask Some questions. Call me. I'm here for you. So she always been like. She always been like that for me. I can't talk about everybody else's experience, but I know, to me, she's always been welcoming. I've been on movie sets and watching her film movies. I've been to shows. I went to a Netflix special when she shot it. So, you know what I'm saying? She's always been, you know, a sweet person to me. And she just, you know, she just one of them ones that don't. She don't play.

[Shannon Sharpe]

When did you realize that you wanted to do comedy?

[Mo Brooks]

In fifth grade. Fifth grade, when I saw that Bernie Mac.

[Shannon Sharpe]

When you saw Bernie Mac, you said, this is what I wanna do.

[Mo Brooks]

No, you know what? I ain't gonna say that. That was the exact moment. But, you know, my brother and his wife, they used to always be, you know, have me come over to the house. And I was promoting parties at first, okay. So I used to throw these party promoters, man. Done with the days. I was getting ripped off by them club owners. But, man, we used to throw parties, man. And, you know, after the parties, there'd always be something. And I would go to my brother house, and I'd be talking to him and his wife, and I'm telling them, you know, what happened at the party. And they'd be cracking up, laughing. They'd be like, man, you need to do comedy. And I'm like, stand up. They like, yeah. I'm like, I don't know if I could do that. Right. So my sister passed away in 2013. Sorry to hear that. Yeah. And before she passed, she just. I remember they had gave her, like, she was on hospice. They had gave her, like, two days to live. And my sister smoked weed, and she smoked weed to the last day she was here. I remember I went to go see her, man. She was in a bathtub, taking a bath. That was the only thing used to make her feel better was her weed in her bathtub. And she had cancer, like, all throughout her body. And I remember she was in the bathtub and she had a blunt, and she was in and out, and the blunt had fell in the tub. And I walked in the bathroom and I reached in the tub and I grabbed her blunt. And she woke up and she looked at me and she was like. She like, you think? She was like, brother, I said, what? She's like, you think I'm gonna die? And it was in that moment, like, when I'm looking at her and I'm like, I'm like, no. I'm like, you gonna be all right? And she was like, no. She was like, but promise me this. Promise me that you gonna do something. And I remember that. I remember trying to handle her blunt. She wasn't strong enough to lift her hand up. She said, just put it in my mouth. I put the blood in her mouth, and I walked out. And I remember I went and sat on the front porch of the building that she was living in. My parents owned a building in Chicago that she was having her hospice care there. And I sat on the porch, and I had to. I kept replaying the conversation like, you just gotta do something. And she passed away the next day. And four months later, I had started doing comedy, and I never.

[Shannon Sharpe]

And that was your younger sister?

[Mo Brooks]

No, no, that was my oldest sister. So she was 32 years old at the time. And, I mean, Shannon, she was a warrior. My sister had been shot. You know what I'm saying? She had been shot several times. A few times she had been shot. And she had cancer. She had cancer for so long, like, we didn't even.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Right.

[Mo Brooks]

We didn't. Like, she was.

[Shannon Sharpe]

She. Come on. Tell you. She go, well, yeah, somebody got canceled. You like, oh, you been dealing with.

[Mo Brooks]

You've been dealing with.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You good.

[Mo Brooks]

You good. My brother used to take her to her appointments, and, you know, what ended up happening was the cancer had. They had got control of it. Mm. And she was in this abusive relationship with this guy, and the dude shot her. And when she went to the hospital to. They had to do, like, an emergency surgery on her. And when they cut her open to do it, you know, when that air hit the cancer, it spread.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Wow.

[Mo Brooks]

So trying to save her life from that so she wouldn't have to use the bathroom through a bag for the rest of her life. She ended up having the surgery. And, yeah, that was it. Like, after that, you know, it went downhill pretty fast. But it was just. That was like the moment there where I was like, I gotta do something, right? And it was. That was it. She was like, the last thing to push me over. Like, hey, let me go try this.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Do you remember what it was like the first time you got on stage? Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah. It was four people there. Huh? It was four people there.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Did you know that? It was like. Was it open mic or something?

[Mo Brooks]

No, it was like we had put our own showcase on. It was four people there, and it was my mom, my cousins, and it was two other people there that I didn't know. And I remember going on stage and I'm trying to tell these stories, but it wasn't like a real good. It wasn't like a real good, you know, body of work for me to go out, you know, for me to go off of, you know, to say, like, okay, this is gonna be it. But the night that I bombed. Cause I end up bombing maybe a few years later. Like, once I was really getting into it and my social media followers started going up, I ended up bombing real bad. And. And they didn't boo me, but it was quiet. And I remember I'm on stage and I got this suit on. And before I went on stage, it was a host dude from Chicago named Comedian Stick. And he brought me up and he was talking about my suit. See, I was just like, tevin Campbell. I mean, he went in on me and then he goes up, he goes up, he does his time and brings me up. So I go out there and the suit was tight, like, how you be wearing yours? And somebody yelled out, somebody yelled like, man, ain't nobody trying to listen to you with that tight ass suit on. And I started clapping back at the crowd, right? And I mean they. I mean it was like 300 people there. And I mean, they dying, laughing. And then I went to them jokes that I thought I had and it was like, it was just started getting quiet. And you know, they got this thing, when you're on stage, you're doing comedy, when your time is up, they'll flash a light at you, right? And at this time, I didn't know that etiquette. So I'm like, why are they flashing this light at me? And somebody yelled out that mean, cause it's time for you to get your ass off the stage. And I was so hurt. And I was like, man, take, take. So I went and I sat down and I had to listen to every single comedian go up after me talk about how I had just bombed. And I sat there and I watched it. And I remember sitting there and saying, I don't never want to feel like this again. So when I left, I got in the car. The girl I was talking to at the time, this one I knew I really bombed because as we was driving and I was quiet, and I remember the girl looking over at me and I look over there and she was like, you okay? You okay? If you get off stage and somebody asks if you okay, you know what just happened?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

And she asked me if I was okay. And I was like, I will be.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You should have said, baby, how you think I did?

[Mo Brooks]

I wasn't gonna ask that. I know I'm a good shuffle with.

[Shannon Sharpe]

But you know how you had done.

[Mo Brooks]

I knew it. I knew it.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You do a lot of crowd work. Are you ever worried about somebody because you get on people? Hey, you told the one joke like, I know that ain't your lady you here with.

[Mo Brooks]

You here with somebody?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

Mm.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Do you ever get worried about somebody rushing the stage? Cause they gonna. Hey, I hope you could squabble. I understand you from Chi, but, hey,

[Mo Brooks]

let me tell you something. Come on that stage if you want to.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I know you got your brother with you, but he might not be able to get there in time.

[Mo Brooks]

Come up there if you want to.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You can put the mic, you can put the stand on him.

[Mo Brooks]

I don't need none of that, Shannon. I don't need nothing.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Oh, you gonna squabble?

[Mo Brooks]

I'm a squabble. If we gotta fight about it. You wanna fight about some words? We can fight about it.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Damn.

[Mo Brooks]

But my thing is this. Before I go on stage, the number one thing that's important in my prayer is that I always ask God to allow me to be funny and not offensive.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Okay?

[Mo Brooks]

So, you know, when I'm in those interactions, I'm able to read when it's like, okay, I. He ain't feeling this. And this may go left. And I know how to go.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I know how to leave it alone.

[Mo Brooks]

I know how to leave it alone.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Cause you know what the dude sitting there looking like, all right, all right.

[Mo Brooks]

Nah, I mean, bro, I didn't hear the dude stand up before him was like, I come up there. That happened recently. He like, I come up there, I said, well, come on, you gonna. What, Eddie Murphy say you gonna limp back. But, no, man, I ain't lying to you, bro. You know, it's just always about being aware, knowing people and, you know, being able. You watching, you know, the whole show, I'm seeing these people, right? So it's like, you know, but the moment you see, you can see when somebody's uncomfortable or they not really with it, and, you know, you just gotta. You gotta move on. You know what I'm saying? So I think a lot of times you see a lot of dudes, they stay on it. Like, they stay on it, and that's when it escalates, man.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Let that go now.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah, let it go. Just move on.

[Shannon Sharpe]

What's the craziest thing that happened to you at a show?

[Mo Brooks]

Um. Crazy thing happened to me at a show. A lady. A lady kissed me on my mouth.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You put a little tongue in her?

[Mo Brooks]

No, not a lot.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Little bit.

[Mo Brooks]

I was mad.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Why you mad? How she look?

[Mo Brooks]

You know what? Actually she wasn't bad looking.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Uh huh.

[Mo Brooks]

She was not bad looking, but I didn't want it. What? That's okay. See, that's okay. It's okay for us not to want certain shit sometimes. You know what I'm saying?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

Think about it. If it's a lady, a nice pretty lady outside that I see, I can't just walk out there and kiss her in the mouth.

[Shannon Sharpe]

No, you. Nah, you're going to jail.

[Mo Brooks]

So have the same respect for me. I'm a king. Love yourself.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You got a number, didn't you?

[Mo Brooks]

Huh?

[Shannon Sharpe]

You got a.

[Mo Brooks]

That what I thought I did not get a number.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You got a number, he got a number. Have somebody made a phone call live doing your show?

[Mo Brooks]

Who'd you get?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Tell us about the story about the guy you was on and you was like, I know you here with something, I know that's not your people.

[Mo Brooks]

Wait, wait, wait.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Cause you begin your crowd work, you do a lot of crowd work.

[Mo Brooks]

I have. So I think with the phone call thing is it's like I might ask somebody like, hey, who you here with?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Right?

[Mo Brooks]

And they might be like, oh, this my friend. Oh, you in a relationship? Yeah. With who? Where they at? Oh, well, my man at home, we'll call him, let's call him, let's talk to him, let's see if he really.

[Shannon Sharpe]

No, he gonna say, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.

[Mo Brooks]

I be calling. They give me the phones, I be calling.

[Shannon Sharpe]

People say, you know your girl here with.

[Mo Brooks]

I don't be dry snitching like that. But I be like, hey, you know your girl at. She had a congress, okay, you know who she interviewed, right? And they'll know. But you know, it's always. It was one dude that was at the show one time and he was by himself and I called this lady to say, hey, all these girls in here been trying to talk to him all night long. He been turning them down, you know what I'm saying? He been turning them down. So I feel like when he get home, you should go ahead, do what you supposed to do, what you supposed to do. You know what I'm saying? So it just depends on how it go. I mean, you get on the phone, you know, at that point, that's when the improv and that's when your comedic timing gotta tap in and you gotta make it funny because you can for call sometimes and they might not answer. Or you might call sometimes and they Might really be mad. And you gotta know how to, you know, control.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Why you in come to the comedy show with it?

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You don't like comedy? You don't like me.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah. I had one dude at the show one time with his lady. He came by himself. His lady wasn't there. I was like, where she at? He like, she back at home at her father's funeral. I'm like, why you ain't there? He's like, I wanted to come see you.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Damn. You might not be in no relationship when you get back home.

[Mo Brooks]

That's what I told him. I said, her father died. You supposed to be there. He said, nah. He like, I don't know when you coming back? I said, well, I guess, you know, he ain't coming back. Now.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Mo is like, because you guys have social media, you get an opportunity to attract the audience a lot sooner because. And maybe this is kind of why some of the OGs are kind of, like, resentful of you guys.

[Mo Brooks]

Oh, my God.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Because they had to go the chitlin circuit. Had to go Little club, Lil club. Little club for years and years and years in order to build up a following.

[Mo Brooks]

Absolutely.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You guys can do a skit or you can do something funny, kind of like what. You do what Desi Banks does, what Drew Ski does, and get a million followers in little or no time. And you got a following where they had to work to build that following. And maybe some. That's what brings some of the resentment towards you guys.

[Mo Brooks]

You know what, man? It's so. I feel like this. I feel like this whole thing is so dumb.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

Right. Because it's like. Yeah. They had to go from this comedy club to that comedy club. This comedy club, that comedy club, and nobody knocking it. That's real work. You had to be seen, you had to be chosen.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yes.

[Mo Brooks]

But we living in an era now where we. You don't gotta be chosen.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

You can make your own way.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yep.

[Mo Brooks]

You know what I'm saying? And to me, you know, just like anything else in this world, comedy has evolved.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yes.

[Mo Brooks]

Into that. And how you do. Yeah. Just because you do skits, you know what I'm saying? That don't not make you valid.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Right.

[Mo Brooks]

You know what I'm saying? And I think the comedians that's able to transition from online to the stage, like me, like the Desi banks, like the D.C. young flies.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You know, Country Wayne.

[Mo Brooks]

Like the country. Definitely shout out to Country Wayne.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

Like the Country Waynes, when you got them type of guys. You know what I'M saying that's been able to make that transition. You know, doing them skits ain't easy.

[Shannon Sharpe]

No.

[Mo Brooks]

Because if it was more people, the OG comedians that's complaining about it would do it. They would do it. You see what I'm saying?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, I do.

[Mo Brooks]

Like, if we've been able to, y', all, they said we couldn't do this and come play their game. And I just named you the comedians that do that and we go play they game. So if what we do is so easy, to set up a camera and do this and do that and it's gotten us where we gottin. If it's so easy, why haven't y' all transition to that if this is the way that it go?

[Shannon Sharpe]

I think the thing is. I think the thing is, Mo, is that they look at you guys and it's almost like a microwave that you have success so instantly, two, three minutes and they like, man, it took us years. It took us 10, 15 years to build up this. But this, we're a different age now, man.

[Mo Brooks]

Listen to me.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I mean, you remember you had to pay your bill. You had to pay your bill, you had to send the check in. Now you can pay it online.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah, but I've been doing this for. I've been doing this for. This would be my 12th year.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Okay.

[Mo Brooks]

You know what I'm saying? People really just now, like, maybe over the last four years or just now starting to find out about me. So we minus, we take the 12, minus the four, that put us at eight. That was eight years of me making skits and going to do shows that maybe only 50 to 80 people was at. Is that not worthy enough to consider that a grind?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

You know what I'm saying? So it's just like, hey, Donald, really

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[Mo Brooks]

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[Shannon Sharpe]

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[Shannon Sharpe]

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[Mo Brooks]

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[Mo Brooks]

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[Mo Brooks]

just look at it like we just setting up a camera and we just doing this, but it's stuff that go into that, you know, you do.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You do realize. And Andrew Schultz told me this, he said, what? Making money. The easier it is that people think it is to make money, the more envious they become of you. So people think that just because you can set up a camera and have a microphone, it's like doing podcasts, that it's like, it's not that easy.

[Mo Brooks]

It's not.

[Shannon Sharpe]

And the fact of the matter is, is that a lot of people like, I want to do a podcast. They're like, well, how many days? I say, you know, for the most part, during football season, I do five shows of nightcap. I do two shows, probably two shows a week of Club Shay Shay. So, man, that's too much work.

[Mo Brooks]

But listen to me, I said this earlier. Why get mad at me for doing what you're not willing to do?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Thank you.

[Mo Brooks]

That's all it is, right? You not willing to do it.

[Shannon Sharpe]

But see that you're not willing to because I'm doing something that you're not willing to do. Now I sold my soul. Now I'm a part of the Illuminati.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah, yeah, that's what it is. Because I. Because you weren't willing to do that. You know what I'm saying? You gotta think about it. This probably hands down the hottest podcast in the game.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Appreciate you, man.

[Mo Brooks]

You understand what I'm saying? And we saw. I done seen Cat Williams on a few podcasts. None of them did. Right. You know what I'm saying? So it's the ingredient in what you cooking with, right? You got the ingredient.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, we work at it. And People. And I think the thing is, Mo, a lot of time I tell people is that within the first couple of minutes, the people that come on my pod, they realize I'm not judgmental. I'm not here to judge them. No matter. Because I feel you have a story to tell. You can tell your story without putting its most salacious detail on full display.

[Mo Brooks]

Absolutely.

[Shannon Sharpe]

People tell me things that they haven't said on any other podcast. And people, well, you messy. How am I messy? You do realize if somebody tells you a story and you only hear that person's side of the story, you being messy. Cause the other person didn't say anything.

[Mo Brooks]

Here's the thing. I've never heard you. I've never heard. All I've ever seen you do is listen.

[Shannon Sharpe]

That's it.

[Mo Brooks]

That's it. And my thing is, if somebody sit here and y' all doing an interview and they talking, like, what I'm supposed to say. Hold on. You can't say that. Because I don't know if that's true.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Right.

[Mo Brooks]

Thank you. So I get. I understand 1000% deceit that you sit in. And I think a lot of times people, you know, like you said, man, they just want to find something, you know, with everything.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You know what it was, though, Mo? And when people ask. I said, let me ask you this. When people that had podcasts, I said, if Kat was on your podcast and was saying exactly what he said on my podcast, would you have stopped him? Hell, no. So why you mad at me that I didn't stop him?

[Mo Brooks]

But it's just like, who are you to stop him, though? Like, who are you to, like, why would you say. Now you can't say Rickey Smiley wasn't supposed to be money.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Just like when Ricky. Just like when Ricky said what he said, I didn't stop him. When Ced said what he said, I didn't stop him.

[Mo Brooks]

It's two sides. My thing is three sides. It's the truth. Is they saying, I don't know.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Cause I don't live in that world.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

And I think the thing is, what a lot of people got upset about is that Cat peeled a layer back that unless you walk in and live in that world, you didn't know you didn't know. So people didn't know that they had. Like, I didn't know it was like that.

[Mo Brooks]

Oh, you'd be surprised. Comedy Beef is like the rap game. Comedy Beef is like, bro, listen, when I saw the interview with the cat interview, I wasn't, like, surprised, you know, What I'm saying, because even early on, even early on, in my experience of coming up in this game, bro, I was doing a show in 2018, and I'm not gonna say none of the comedian's name, but I've seen a bunch of comedians just standing around talking about one comedian, talking about this one comedian, and right after that, every single one of those comedians that I seen having that conversation about that one comedian, I've all seen them at some point with that one comedian. You know what I'm saying? So it's just like, bro, at the end of the day, bro, people be hating.

[Shannon Sharpe]

They do. But you know what? They only hate when you're successful. If you're doing bad, ain't nobody hating.

[Mo Brooks]

Ain't nobody got nothing to say. It's not until you doing better than them. Until now, it's like, oh, he ain't that funny, or he ain't this, or he had to do that, or he only got that because of this. And it's just like, bro, run your race.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yes.

[Mo Brooks]

Forget what he doing.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I agree.

[Mo Brooks]

Forget what he doing. Like, where am I? What are we? Why am I focused on what he's doing? Right? You know what I'm saying? When I need to be putting more into what I'm doing, I think it's just too much carrying on about what other people doing. Man, run your race. When I'm Olympians, when they running them races, that's why they got lanes. You don't never see one of them. Look over to see where this one at.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, when you running a race, if I'm in lane three, I can't be

[Mo Brooks]

in lane five, I can't be over there.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I gotta be in my lane.

[Mo Brooks]

I can't be over there. But, you know, I think that's what. People just need to focus on themselves, Focus on your career, on your journey, and wherever the chips lay, let em lay.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Social media comedians. We mentioned it yourself. Drew, Ski, Desi.

[Mo Brooks]

Country Wayne.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Country Wayne. I mean, you see you guys, and all of a sudden it starts out as social media. And I think the thing is that the OGs won't say, okay, yeah, y' all funny on social media. But go in that club.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Because doing skits, you can't do no skit. Can't do no skit on stage. Nah, you gotta just tell them jokes.

[Mo Brooks]

You gotta bring it.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Hey, gotta be funny.

[Mo Brooks]

You gotta be funny.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Whether you telling story or you just

[Mo Brooks]

rapping fireball, you gotta have something. You gotta have something. You know what? You know, I've seen all those dudes you just mentioned, Country Wayne. I've seen dc, I've seen Desi. And you know, the one thing that I can say about all of us is that we really did put the work in, you know what I'm saying? And I think for a little while, we was putting it in to be accepted by these, these OG comedians, you know what I'm saying? And. And you will be trying to go and trying to go and trying to prove and trying to prove and trying to prove. And I'm gonna tell you something right now. And this is to whoever coming up behind me or whoever coming up behind whoever, whether you coming or not, listen, don't worry about what they talking about. Don't worry about it. Don't put that pressure on yourself, right? To feel like you gotta do this because of what this comedian gonna say or what this comedian think about what your journey is. Run your race, do the work, take it serious. That's the biggest thing I think, with the OGs, though, I feel like they think a lot of the guys not taking it serious, they just out here getting the money, you know what I'm saying? And when you do got guys out there that just going on stage and getting the money and they not producing a show, it hurts the industry in its whole, you know what I'm saying? Because I'mma tell you something, it's social media comics that done come before me that couldn't do nothing on the stage. And when it's my turn to walk through the door now, they a little hesitant to give me what I want because of what he did.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, he failed.

[Mo Brooks]

So be. That's my thing. Just be intentional about it if you want to do it. Do the work study, do the work.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Just because you threw him the ball and he dropped it, that don't mean you don't throw it to me. Throw it at me. I will catch it.

[Mo Brooks]

I'm gonna catch it. I'm gonna catch it. Elway kept throwing you the ball. He kept throwing it to you.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Are there any guys that you want who have you collabed with? I don't know if you collab with Daisy or you collab with Country Wayne or Drew Ski or any of these guys. Is there anybody you wanna collab with?

[Mo Brooks]

You know, me and Desi been talking about doing something together for sure. Definitely would love to work with Drewski. Uh, me and Country Wayne, we done talked about doing. I mean, it'd be. We do a lot of talking about it and I, you know, a lot of Us, you know, we busy. But I think, you know, the conversation that we've had, especially me and Desi, has been very intentional about, you know, getting something done. But I think for our generation of comedians, we gotta. We need that.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

Like, we need that. And I was. Me and Desi was talking a couple weeks ago, and I was like, bro, we gotta put out a movie.

[Shannon Sharpe]

We gotta put something.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah, we gotta do something.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Cause I like to see the OGs. I like to see. When I'm looking, I see Bruce. Bruce and Lavelle Crawford, or I see some more. And I see a lot of the people that I saw on Comic View and Def Comedy Jam, and I see these people touring together. Yeah, that makes me feel good.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah. I mean, like I said, me and Desi, as far as, like, doing shows, is definitely. Me and Desi is definitely talked about coming together and potentially doing a tour together. That I think for the culture, I think that'll be dope. Right?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Have you seen the TikTok influencers that are not doing any good anymore? The TikTok, they're showing the trend. A past influencer that were doing really well, but now they're working regular jobs.

[Mo Brooks]

I ain't seen that.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

Damn. Who that happened to? But, you know, man, that's what I tell people all the time. Everybody want to be an influencer. And, you know, they. You know, you hear about all this money you can make on that, but what people need to understand is those are not our platforms.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

At any given moment, they can change the algorithm. They can change. And you have to be able to have something.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You gotta be able to adapt.

[Mo Brooks]

So my thing of it has always been, bro, like I told you, in 2020, man, I was bringing in about 60 to $80,000 a month on Facebook.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Damn.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Now they done cut it down. You can only make X amount they make, man. But it used to give you, like, what, five, $6,000. Now they done cut that thing down to like, 1,500, $200, man.

[Mo Brooks]

I ain't that low. But.

[Shannon Sharpe]

But they cut. Matt Wright said the same thing.

[Mo Brooks]

Listen, you know what? My guy Tremo, a comedian that's from Birmingham, Alabama, he taught me this a long time ago. As far as the YouTube and all that, it's peaks and valleys to it, right? So he's always telling me, hey, when you hot, make sure you take a little bit of that money and you put it up.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

Because you don't know when the algorithm might change.

[Shannon Sharpe]

When they gonna change the algorithm? They ain't gonna Change, they change.

[Mo Brooks]

And they don't call you and say, hey, we'll let you know next month. You ain't making 80. No, you gonna make 2,500.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

You know what I'm saying? So you gotta with that. I feel like, you know, it's real. If you a social media influencer and you doing all of that, you making the money, take that money and invest that into something, a business, or if you getting all these followers, find you something to sell, you know what I'm saying? In my case, it's tickets.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah. Cause that's the way Matt rife we had him on. He said the same thing. He said, I got 20 million TikTok. And because you changed the algorithm, now they can't see the stuff that I'm doing.

[Mo Brooks]

They only show your stuff to 10% of the people that follow you.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah. Cause they don't want you to get too big now. Then you won't need them.

[Mo Brooks]

Then you won't need them. So you gotta remember, this is not yours. It's your page, but it ain't your platform.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Jack funny you mentioned him, that he's a guy. I remember. You see the video encouraging Jack funny after he had a bad set. So when you had your bad set, you said you really didn't have no OGs, but your girl, you was driving home and you know, she like, you all right?

[Mo Brooks]

You all right? Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You was encouraging, like, bro, it happens to everybody.

[Mo Brooks]

We gotta fight. You gotta fight back. Yeah. And Jack really, you know, that particular night was a homecoming show for me and Jack. You know, I had been talking to Jack, like, man, you know, you should try standup just for the very reason that we're talking about. Like, you know, I know he killing it online, but bro, you need another. Like, it's so. I don't think people really understand how much money is in standup. If you got a following, you got people that's willing to come see you, man, there's some paper out there. And I'm telling him, like, bro, people want to see you. So I'm like, man, you gotta, you know, you gotta figure out a way, you know, to try to expand on that. And he was like, well, I wanna try to stand up now to his defense. It's on me because. Because the night that he bombed, it was 1,000 people in the audience and he wasn't ready for that. You know what I'm saying? And me knowing what I know, I knew, I knew like, eh, he might not be ready for this. And we talked and he's like, no, I'm ready, I'm ready. And he went up there and I didn't. I was watching it from the side. And one thing about me, I don't like to see people bomb. No, it's just something about it. So I wouldn't.

[Shannon Sharpe]

It's a bad thing. It hurts you.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah. And so I went back downstairs and I remember he came back down and everybody was coming to my dressing room. Like, man, he bombed. They booing him. So when he got downstairs, that's when I went in the dressing room. I didn't even know that they were filming. I didn't know it was cameras out, but it was just like. I know the feeling, though, you know, I know what it's like to go up and you don't deliver. And you sitting there like, damn. Like, you know, am I funny or not? And it's like, hey, bro, you stepping into some new territory. A lot of dudes wouldn't even went out there. Yeah, you did the hardest part, you know what I'm saying? So I said, let's figure something out. I said, come to the room. We gonna figure something out. He came to my room, he told me a little bit of stuff. He said we punched it up. He went back out there, he had a better set. But it's to me, bro. I'm one of them dudes where I wanna see everybody win, right? You winning is not gonna stop my motion. No, it's not gonna stop my motion.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Cause what's for you gonna happen to you.

[Mo Brooks]

It's not gonna stop my motion. So when he was so me picking them up and telling them, hey, man, go right back out there, go get it again. You know what I'm saying? That's because I wanna see you win, right? I really wanna have. I really. At one point, we all go on vacation and we all talking about that time compared to right now, where we all doing well. So, you know, with Jack, it was just like, hey, let me pick him up. Because I didn't want that to put a sour taste in his mouth from what stand up comedy really is.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You said that. Money in comedy. You know, I'm sitting on about a thousand jokes, Mo, come on now.

[Mo Brooks]

You know, come on now. Let me tell you something. We can go on tour together. They love to hear what you gotta say. We can get it set up. My manager here right now. Let's get it set up. Let's get it set up. Mojo and Shay. Shay.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

Coming to a city near you.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I know you fucking Lie. That's. How about you? That's what ain't my tour. You've been on a lot of Tyler production? Tyler Perry production?

[Mo Brooks]

I've been on one.

[Shannon Sharpe]

One, yes. You want to go no more. Do you want to go over, like, okay, I'm stand up. Cause you see that seems like that's a lot of natural progression. You see Pryor, you see Murphy, you see Martin.

[Mo Brooks]

Definitely wanna act.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Jamie, you see all these guys, and that seems to be the natural progression.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Seinfeld.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah, I definitely wanna act. And I would definitely work with Tyler Perry again. Absolutely. You know what, man? Tp, just a quick story about him. That Show we did, Ms. Governor, I remember we showed up. We showed up to that. And I hadn't met him, I hadn't talked to him yet. I had just got the role and he had sat in on like a table read. We had did. And you couldn't see him. You can just hear him. And I remember the first week that we was there, I shot a couple scenes and they had to end up rewriting a lot of the script because we had Joe Marie Payton on there that, you know, the mom from Family Matters.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Okay. Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

So the way Tyler shoots, he shoot. It's fast. Yeah, he ain't got time for.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Cost too much money.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah, he ain't got time for that. So they end up rewriting a lot of the script and giving me her parts.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Wow.

[Mo Brooks]

So I remember the first. I had left for the weekend to go do some shows. Cause as I'm filming this, I'm still doing my shows.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, Yeah, I gotta go.

[Mo Brooks]

So I left, went and did some shows. I came back and we. It was a scene in the show where I sat on a statue and I improv'd the whole scene. And it was a new scene for me. It was actually supposed to be Joe, you know, Marie's scene. And I remember after we finished the scene, Tyler grabbed me. He's like, let me talk to you for a second. And he was like, hey, how much you getting paid? And I told him and he was like, I'm gonna bump that up. He kept his word. Wow, I made some good money. So I don't care what they say about him.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Right.

[Mo Brooks]

You know what I'm saying? But he. Honestly, bro, you know, very professional. And, you know, he's always looking at, you know, to give people that look like us the opportunity.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You could appreciate that. The kiss scene. Is there anything that you.

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[Mo Brooks]

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[Shannon Sharpe]

How's this?

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[Shannon Sharpe]

No.

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[Mo Brooks]

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[Mo Brooks]

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[Shannon Sharpe]

you won't do. You wouldn't do on camera.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah, there's a lot of stuff I want to do on camera. I ain't kissing no man. I'm not. I'm not.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You ain't. What about the sex scene with a woman?

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah, I do that.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You know, you gotta be able to control yourself, though, Mo. Who you.

[Mo Brooks]

What you mean, control myself?

[Shannon Sharpe]

You can't be all you like. The camera's around. You gotta be chill.

[Mo Brooks]

What that mean, though?

[Shannon Sharpe]

You can't be like, you know.

[Mo Brooks]

You trying to say I can't get hard cause I. Cause if it's a sex scene.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, you can't.

[Mo Brooks]

Who say you can't?

[Shannon Sharpe]

You can't. You better put some ice.

[Mo Brooks]

You can, though. They'll put like a sock on it or something. I'm pretty sure they got something for that. How you gonna do a sex scene? Y' all kissing and you don't and nothing happens.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You gotta be able to control it.

[Mo Brooks]

Okay, Shay. Shay. So you telling me you could do a sex scene? Can you do a sex scene?

[Shannon Sharpe]

No, I ain't saying no, no, no, no, no.

[Mo Brooks]

I could do a sex scene, but what? So who in the scene.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I mean, obviously gonna be somebody hot.

[Mo Brooks]

Like who? I'm gonna see if I control it or not.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Zoe Saldano.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah. She gonna really get it on me, Bro. I mean, I don't think that's a thing, though. But you do know that they have, like. They have, like. I forgot what they call them, but it's people that, you know, when they do sex scenes, you know, it's people that come on the set to make sure that everybody's comfortable, you know, with. You know, with everything that's going on. But I don't think that you cannot not be aroused.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I mean, but you can't do no open mouth. You gotta be like.

[Mo Brooks]

Gotta be like, why you think that somebody. You ain't you have you busted. I just ain't never seen Monster Ball with Halle Berry. Yeah, she wasn't. That wasn't just no mum like that.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, they did.

[Mo Brooks]

I don't know why Billy Bob Thornton was going crazy. For sure was going crazy.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I felt some type of way.

[Mo Brooks]

Give me a sex scene, call me Billy Bob. You crazy. You crazy.

[Shannon Sharpe]

How was it being on Wild n Out?

[Mo Brooks]

Oh, man, I was scared of shit. I was so scared.

[Shannon Sharpe]

So what is it? Because it's like, with Wild and I. I mean, it's just like, you Joaning. It's like you at the. Like, if you go to an HBCU or you with Du Bois.

[Mo Brooks]

It's not really that, though. It's not, you know what I did one season.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Okay.

[Mo Brooks]

And you know, they got all these different games that you play.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

I mean, yeah, you Joan.

[Shannon Sharpe]

And do you know about any of the games beforehand?

[Mo Brooks]

I don't know if I could answer that.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Okay, fair enough.

[Mo Brooks]

I feel like that's cheating.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah. Okay.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah. I feel like if I say that, but no, I definitely. I think we can say that, you know, when we get there, you know, we don't know who we playing against.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Okay.

[Mo Brooks]

You know what I'm saying? We don't know that. But you get there, you figure out who your team is, and then y' all go out there and do your thing. But it is improv.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

You ain't like. It is improv. But, you know, that was my first time. Like, it was my first TV job, right? So my thing, my thought process of it was I gotta make sure that I get a bell and not a buzzer, right? I gotta win the game. And it's not about winning the game. It's just about being funny within the structure of the game. So when I'm watching guys wilding out legends like D.C. young, fly and Carlos Miller and Chico Bean, I'm watching them do their thing. I'm like, they Ain't even playing the game.

[Shannon Sharpe]

No, they not.

[Mo Brooks]

So once I started to learn that, then I started having fun. But I ain't gonna lie, it was a point up there, man. Shit, felt like boot camp, man. I called my mama. I was like, man, I think I'm gonna come home. I ain't lying. And, you know, shout out to my mom, because she was like, baby, you made.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I stood your ass up.

[Mo Brooks]

She was like, you made for this. She said, this is what you want. And I went back in there, and I end up, you know what I'm saying, having a good season. At the end of the season, Nick texted me, was like, hey, man, I could tell you was a little nervous at first, but once you liked in, you tapped into some superstar shit. Wow.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Do you think Nick get the flowers that he deserves?

[Mo Brooks]

No, he should get. Nick should get flowers every day. Nick put a lot of people on.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yes.

[Mo Brooks]

A lot of people on. Yes. Like, a lot of people. A lot of people that you done had come sit in these chairs that had to cross paths with Nick Cannon.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Since coming into money, what are some of the perks of having money? Probably more money than you ever envisioned having, that you get to go places, you get to do things. What's the best part of now being Mo.

[Mo Brooks]

Brook, I could do whatever I want to do whenever I can go wherever I want to go, when I want to go. I can eat wherever I want to eat. You know the best thing about it?

[Shannon Sharpe]

What's that?

[Mo Brooks]

Is if I needed four new tires on my car.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You go get four new tires.

[Mo Brooks]

I can go get four. I don't gotta rotate the ones in the front.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

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[Mo Brooks]

Yeah, I can get. If I gotta get the brakes and the rotors done, I can get all that done. I'm not worried about it. Right. You know what I'm saying? I think it's the little things that when you get some money, that you be like, man, I ain't gotta worry about that no more.

[Shannon Sharpe]

That you took for granted.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Investments.

[Mo Brooks]

We getting into that now. Like, I.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Cause you talked about, like, okay, when things are good. Hey, make sure you stash some of that back.

[Mo Brooks]

So here's the thing. Saving money is I can save some money. Right. You know what I'm saying now? You know, I'm at a point now where it's like, I want to make my money. Make some money.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yes.

[Mo Brooks]

So I don't think any investment is the right investment. I know I'm investing something that it may not work. You know what I'm saying? It's about really making the right decisions with the money and where I want to put it at. But I got some stuff I'm working on.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Your daughter's in your skit?

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

How was. I mean, obviously, you know, you run that by your co parent, it's like, look, I'm thinking about putting.

[Mo Brooks]

I run what?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Oh, come on, Mo. See, man? See, Mo, she gonna call me up, man.

[Mo Brooks]

Let her call you.

[Shannon Sharpe]

No, let's. Just for the camera, can we say you talked it out with your co parents, says, look, I'm thinking about putting my daughter. Putting her in.

[Mo Brooks]

I'm not gonna lie to the people. That's my daughter.

[Shannon Sharpe]

But don't you. But y' all run things by each other.

[Mo Brooks]

Mo, I might pick her up and say, I might be like, I'm coming to pick a layup today. We finna shoot a skit that ain't running by you.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Like, hey, what you think about me putting Aaliyah in this skit right here? What you think about that, babe?

[Mo Brooks]

I mean, why Shannon, let me tell you something about me and my baby mama. My daughter, right? Is that both our daughter?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

You know what I'm saying?

[Shannon Sharpe]

I'm gonna say co parent.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah. My baby mama trusts me enough to know that if I say, hey, we finna do something, she not.

[Shannon Sharpe]

She ain't harmful.

[Mo Brooks]

I'm not running it by her, though. That ain't one of the things I'm gonna run by her.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Okay.

[Mo Brooks]

If we gonna run some stuff by her, it ain't gonna be her being. Because here's the thing. My baby mama posts stuff with my daughter all the time, and I don't say nothing I don't like. You don't gotta run that by me. That you finna do a video with her, like, you know what I'm saying? Long as it ain't nothing, you know? Crazy, right? You know what I'm saying? But other than that. Now, running a skit. That's my daughter, man. You know how much stuff I pay for around here?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, she's just helping. She helping you buy some more. Get some more stuff, man, I'm paying.

[Mo Brooks]

Listen to me. I'm paying for a lot of. I'm paying for a lot of stuff around, right? I ain't trying to hear it. I ain't trying to hear it.

[Shannon Sharpe]

When you put her in a skit, did you run it by your daughter? What did she think about being.

[Mo Brooks]

She loves it.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Does she?

[Mo Brooks]

She loves it. If I call, I call her right now, baby, we gonna do a skit. What we gonna do what we gonna do. She'll come to the house. Daddy, can we do a skit today? You know, my daughter is. I mean, she just. Me all over again, honestly. Like, she's funny. She got a comedic time. I don't want her to be a comedian.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, or you don't?

[Mo Brooks]

No, I don't wanna be a comedian. But if that's what she chooses to do or she chooses to be an actress, like, I'm gonna support it a thousand percent. But she definitely. She got the pedigree to do all of this stuff. Like, she gonna have her own channel one day and, you know, and be doing her own thing. And her mom supports that. That's really why I say I don't gotta run. She support with, you know, whatever I do with her.

[Shannon Sharpe]

What type of dad are you,

[Mo Brooks]

man?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Cream puff?

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah, I'm soft, bro. My daughter, you know, sometimes, man, I look at her and cry, you know, I don't think, you know, it's not a love in the world that can compare to the love that you get from your daughter.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

You know, and now she's 9 years old, so now I feel like a little relationship.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

You know what I'm saying? Like, you know, we in a car, she want to ride in the front seat, she want to hold hands, she wanna go here, she wanna go do that. Daddy, can we do a date? You know, and it's like all that stuff. I don't know. I'm soft, man. Like, she asks for it, she gets it. And now I'm getting to a point where I kinda gotta get a little bit more, you know, a little bit more stern. Cause she about to pop into that.

[Shannon Sharpe]

That teenage. Yeah, they different Mo.

[Mo Brooks]

And I'm worried about. I heard that, man.

[Shannon Sharpe]

No, no, no, no. I am. Yeah. I ain't tell her what I heard.

[Mo Brooks]

So all that. So all that, you gonna be my number one forever. That don't mean nothing.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Cause they're gonna come with time. They gonna be starting wanting piercings and tattoos and. Boys coming to the equation.

[Mo Brooks]

Boys coming well into the equation. Okay, not to the how, though. Yeah, to the how.

[Shannon Sharpe]

The thing is, look, my daughter did a very good job. I only met one of my older. My daughter's boyfriend.

[Mo Brooks]

You know what? But that's how it should be because of who you are. I'm not about to just bring anybody to meet my dad.

[Shannon Sharpe]

They didn't play that.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah, like that. That is, I feel like, should be something sacred.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah. I mean, my kid, my son, I met two of his girlfriends. And the second one I met, he married.

[Mo Brooks]

See, my mama met a lot of girls I was dealing with on accident, trying to sneak them out the house.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Hold on. You bring her what, to my momma house?

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah. Man, you crazy.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Oh, yeah, that's the new generation.

[Mo Brooks]

Ain't no way that'll never happen back in the day. Hell no. Let me tell you something. It wasn't okay at first. Well, I had to gradually, like. Yeah, no, man, listen to me.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Ain't nobody, ain't. No, no, no, no.

[Mo Brooks]

Your mama wasn't going.

[Shannon Sharpe]

My grandma wasn't playing that and ain't nobody.

[Mo Brooks]

Hey, you know what my parents thing was, though? They always preferred that if we were at home, they always knew where we were.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I would prefer you not do it. That's what I prefer.

[Mo Brooks]

That's what you prefer?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah. Ain't nobody, Ain't nobody, Ain't no sexing going on here but me.

[Mo Brooks]

Wait, who said we were having sex?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Don't do that. Cause you sneaking about the house. What you sneaking about the house for?

[Mo Brooks]

Cause I ain't want my mama to see some of it. I had a girl leave out your size one day.

[Shannon Sharpe]

So you do like him. 250.

[Mo Brooks]

No, that was when I was just doing anything. I got money now. I got money now, man.

[Shannon Sharpe]

So how close is your parenting to what you endured growing up?

[Mo Brooks]

Oh, it's way different. And I ain't gonna say it's way different. You know, some of the, you know, the values and stuff like that that my parents instilled in us, like, I teach her those things. The only difference is, is the position that I'm in to give her the things that I didn't get to have when I was a kid, you know what I'm saying? There was things that I would ask my parents for that they would tell me no.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, for sure.

[Mo Brooks]

No, I ain't gonna be able to do that. And I don't do my daughter like that. If she's earned it, she can get it.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Damn. You don't say no.

[Mo Brooks]

No.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah. You gonna definitely have to tighten up.

[Mo Brooks]

I know, but what am I saying no to? Daddy, can I get some toca Boca? Can I play Roblox? You know Daddy, she don't ask for nothing. Daddy, can I get some new clothes? What's wrong with that?

[Shannon Sharpe]

You're gonna have to say no at some time.

[Mo Brooks]

I do say no sometimes to what she might be like if I come home off the road that first day. When I come home off the road, I really prefer that date to myself, right? She be like, daddy, can we go get some hibachi? Not today. I say no, it ain't. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. But for the most part, for the things. If she shows me, hey, I really want this. And she's earned it.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

You know, whatever she's doing in school or, you know, in sports, whatever she's doing, if I feel like she's earned it, then I'm gonna get it. My dad. Hold on. My dad used to say no to everything. Am I lying? No, no. He was the king of no ain't

[Shannon Sharpe]

get no yeses, huh?

[Mo Brooks]

Bro, listen to me. We'd be like, pops, can I get $20? No. What'd you do with the last $20 I gave you? That was three weeks ago. That 20 gone. Yes. No. My dad was the king of no. I don't wanna. I don't wanna. Man, that no used to hurt. You know when it used to hurt the most? We go ask our mom, and she say, go ask your dad. I ain't gonna ask.

[Shannon Sharpe]

That's why I came to you. Cause I already know.

[Mo Brooks]

Cause I know he finna say no. But she would get in trouble if she would say yes, knowing he was gonna say no. So she just started, I'll go talk to your dad. Gotta go ask your dad.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Her childhood is gonna be a lot different than yours.

[Mo Brooks]

Absolutely.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Because it's co parenting. And you lived in the home with both my parents.

[Mo Brooks]

Yes.

[Shannon Sharpe]

And, you know, and like you said, like my grandfather and grandmother, like, whatever, he. It was never. If he said no, it was, she said no. If she said no, it was, he said, no, ain't no. Well, I'm gonna give it to you. Your daddy said you couldn't have it, but I'm gonna give it to you anyway.

[Mo Brooks]

No, sir, my mama wasn't like that.

[Shannon Sharpe]

No.

[Mo Brooks]

My mom and I. You know what? I'm gonna tell you a crazy story. So my brother. That's my brother right there, bro. He stayed, getting bad grades in school. And when they had that first PlayStation that came out, I think it was a PlayStation 2 or whatever it was, but it was the first play, the next one, right when the Xbox came out and he wasn't supposed to get nothing, right? My mom still went to the Best Buy. We went to Best Buy every day to find this PlayStation for him, and she get on the PlayStation. Then he decided, I don't want the PlayStation, I want the Xbox. She go take it back, get the Xbox. Now he ain't supposed to get this. Yeah, but she got it anyway, uh. Oh, don't tell. That's what she. Tell her. Don't tell y'. All. Dad, I got this for y'. All. Do you know my dad used to sit down and play the Nintendo 64 with us? He used to play the baseball games and NFL 2K. He used to play all that with us, right? So we got this Xbox, and the graphics at this time was through the roof.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

He coming past the TV like, damn, this the Nintendo 64? We like. Yeah, we got new controllers and everything. Come sit down, come play. He end up playing the Xbox with us. Don't even know. Don't even know. He not gonna find out till he see this. I'm not lying. But my mom, bro, my dad, bro, my dad was strict. And my mom was the balance that we needed.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Okay?

[Mo Brooks]

She was the balance that we needed. Yeah. Sometimes she might have went against the grain against what he said, and she got us that. But I'm glad that she did, because if she would have went with every note that he said, it's a lot of stuff we wouldn't have got, right? And that's not a knock against my father because he's an amazing father, but it was just.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Father's been hard on boys, man.

[Mo Brooks]

Bro, you know what? My dad today and who he was back then is two totally different men.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Cause he definitely different with your daughter than he was with you.

[Mo Brooks]

Oh, my God. If I raise my voice. You can't yell at her like that.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You used to yell at me all the time, man.

[Mo Brooks]

Yell, whoop I ass. Some of the greatest whoopings I've ever had came from Terry Brooks. I'm telling you that right now. Some of the greatest whoopings I ever had came from him. And like I said, it's. It made me a better man.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You said something very interesting. It's like, how did your parents prepare you for the real world? And your dad, you said, preparing you to be a man, Knowing that at one time, at some day, you're gonna have. You're gonna leave this home, you're gonna have your own family. You're gonna be out there in the real world. And I've gotta teach you enough that when you're away from here, you'll know right from wrong. You'll do right from wrong, even though I'm not standing over your shoulder.

[Mo Brooks]

You know what with my dad was the little things, like I just said, we asked him for $20. I ain't got it. And I feel like that taught me, like, hey, ain't nobody gonna give you nothing. If I can't get it from the man that created me, right. To give it to me, nobody's gonna give me nothing. So that right there instilled in me, like, I don't wanna ask nobody as much as we heard no. It made me never anytime I hear no, even in my career, I be like, don't worry about it. I'm gonna go do it myself.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Right?

[Mo Brooks]

All because of that, you know, with my dad and with my mom. You know, when I was younger, I used to always make excuses for everything. That's why I'm so big on accountability now. My mom used to be like, you know what I'm gonna call you? Excuses, excuses, excuses. The real world don't care about your excuses. When you get out there, nobody gonna care the reason why you late to work. Nobody's gonna care about the reason. Nobody cares about your why. And to this day, like, if I get ready to make an excuse, I hear it in my head. Excuses, excuses, excuses. So, you know, my parents definitely did a great job of letting me know, like, hey, the world ain't gonna be nice to you. They don't care about your excuses. They don't care about your whys. It's either you gonna make it happen or you not making it happen.

[Shannon Sharpe]

But you stayed with your parents until you was 30.

[Mo Brooks]

30 years old.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Damn. Mm. Man, get your big rusty old ass out the people's house.

[Mo Brooks]

See, that's the problem right there. That's the problem. Black people. So be ready. So be so ready to kick their kids out the house.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah. 18.

[Mo Brooks]

Why? Why?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Why?

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[Shannon Sharpe]

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[Shannon Sharpe]

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[Mo Brooks]

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[Shannon Sharpe]

Whoa, whoa.

[Mo Brooks]

That's too f.

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[Shannon Sharpe]

why?

[Mo Brooks]

Why? Why?

[Shannon Sharpe]

18, 30, your 18th birthday. You got 30 days.

[Mo Brooks]

But you know. But you just said, you know that the world. You know how the world is. If I love you, why am I gonna send you out there today? And I know you're not ready.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Look, my daughter. I think my daughter stayed until she was probably right. 20, and then she got her own.

[Mo Brooks]

Well, she wanted to get her own place. Yeah, she wanted that. For whatever reason, I wanted that for her. I know you did. Because at 20, she can't do what she wanna do at your house. Hell, no.

[Shannon Sharpe]

No, she can't do what she wanna do at my house at 25, 35, 45. Don't nobody sex at that house but me.

[Mo Brooks]

But you.

[Shannon Sharpe]

That's it.

[Mo Brooks]

But you.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Ain't no. Ain't no.

[Mo Brooks]

Nobody. Ain't nobody doing it but you but me. Yep. But everybody on Live can hear. Did your daughter. Did they hear that?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Unfortunately, yes.

[Mo Brooks]

Oh, my God.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Tell me about it.

[Mo Brooks]

Oh, my God.

[Shannon Sharpe]

That was the most embarrassing part.

[Mo Brooks]

The kid. It gotta be. Mm. It gotta be.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Dad.

[Mo Brooks]

Dad.

[Shannon Sharpe]

She was the first one. My oldest is the first one.

[Mo Brooks]

What'd you say? What'd you say?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Well, I'm sorry.

[Mo Brooks]

I'm sorry. You weren't sorry, though.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I was.

[Mo Brooks]

What part are you sorry for?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Because your most private and intimate moments.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Is being heard.

[Mo Brooks]

Heard, man.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You know, I'm a very private. And that's why you don't see me out nowhere. I don't be out and about.

[Mo Brooks]

Oh, we saw you walking through that airport with that dog.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Oh, yeah. I got another one too, bro.

[Mo Brooks]

When you looked at that dude, like, what, bro?

[Shannon Sharpe]

I still don't know how. I still don't know, Mo. I still don't know. Because you gotta realize that was an international. That wasn't a regular la.

[Mo Brooks]

Where you at?

[Shannon Sharpe]

I was in la, but it was international turmoil because the dog was coming from overseas.

[Mo Brooks]

Oh, my God. You had him Too.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah. So you were holding like a little foam. I thought I saw the guy. I thought I saw the guy filming. I was like, but who would know I'm here.

[Mo Brooks]

So when I'm like that, man, people know you. If. Listen, you think. You think you could just walk down the street and ain't nobody gonna look at you and be like, damn, he do something.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, but I'm saying, though, who would know on a random Tuesday or Wednesday that I would show up at International?

[Mo Brooks]

Nobody knew. How did you not know? It was just somebody at the airport. Like, damn, there goes Shannon Sharp.

[Shannon Sharpe]

They done got. Somebody done told them that Shannon Sharp was gonna be you.

[Mo Brooks]

A big deal, bro. It ain't. You know what I learned, bro? I got a lot of friends in the NFL, and for the first time, sometimes I meet em. I don't know what they look like. Cause they always got a helmet on. Yeah, you didn't know. You done took your helmet off, bro. And you.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I didn't know, man. And then I get the dog. And so I gotta go over there. Cause I gotta get this lady the money. And so I pull her to the corner. And for that I had to lost track because I saw him. You know, I'm looking straight ahead, but I can see out of my peripheral that I can see him. I was like, damn, this dude, he filming. I'm saying to myself, he filming. But I gotta go over to the corner because this lady. I gotta make sure this lady gets back through. Cause all she did was she dropped the dog off. Yes.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah. But you know what? It was the face you made with the dog. Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Cause I'm like.

[Mo Brooks]

It was like you was holding it. Yeah, you was holding it like this. And it was like, what? Like. It was like, you can't.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Like, seriously, for real? Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah, but it was. How you can't hold a dog like that. You too big.

[Shannon Sharpe]

He was £2. How am I supposed to hold it?

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah, like this.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Now you want Peter. Now you want Peter to come knocking on my door. Now I'm really gonna get careful. But you. But you. I think the thing is now is that I think that's when I kind of started realizing, like, my life is really, really different.

[Mo Brooks]

It's different. Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Because more people started to know. More people know me from TV than when I ever played football. People don't even realize that I played because people see me in the airport and walking. Like, I see you on them shows how you know so much about sports. You know, I study.

[Mo Brooks]

I don't even know you Done won three Super Bowls.

[Shannon Sharpe]

They don't. They don't because I've been. You know, I retired in 2004.

[Mo Brooks]

I remember when you did. You was over there with the Ravens.

[Shannon Sharpe]

No, I was Broncos. I went back to Denver.

[Mo Brooks]

You went back to Denver?

[Shannon Sharpe]

I went back to Denver.

[Mo Brooks]

Who was the quarterback when you went back?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Brian Greasy one year. And then Jake Plummer.

[Mo Brooks]

Oh, Jake Plummer was a bad boy. Brian Greasy was nice, too.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, he played okay.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah, he must not have been that good then.

[Shannon Sharpe]

No, no, no, no, no.

[Mo Brooks]

Cause the way you just said it, he played okay.

[Shannon Sharpe]

He played okay. He went down, but no, they do the hell. There are only a handful of people that were.

[Mo Brooks]

E.L. williams. Trent Dilfer was your quarterback in Baltimore.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, we won the Super Bowl.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah. You weren't getting that many balls at you, though. You know, I let Jamal Lewis took y' all all the way there.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Well, we had. Hey, we had a nice defense.

[Mo Brooks]

Y' all hit it. Oh, yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Oh, yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

Ray Ray was over there, too. Okay.

[Shannon Sharpe]

We had a very nice defense. Speaking of teams, Bears.

[Mo Brooks]

Yes.

[Shannon Sharpe]

They about to go to Gary.

[Mo Brooks]

No, they not.

[Shannon Sharpe]

How you feel about it? How you feel about that?

[Mo Brooks]

They not going to Gary.

[Shannon Sharpe]

They go to Gary. No, they ain't going to the Gary Bears.

[Mo Brooks]

No, they don't.

[Shannon Sharpe]

No more Chicago Bears.

[Mo Brooks]

They don't call the New York Giants. The New Jersey. Not Giants, but they play in New Jersey.

[Shannon Sharpe]

How far. But Jersey ain't that far. How far is Gary, Indiana from Chicago,

[Mo Brooks]

bro, like, from Soldier field is like 20 minutes.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Hey, y' all ain't no more Monsters of the Midway.

[Mo Brooks]

Yes, we are.

[Shannon Sharpe]

No, you're not.

[Mo Brooks]

Who said. We ain't even confirmed that we going Indiana.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Y' all going. Y' all trying. What y' all tried to do is hold them people hostage.

[Mo Brooks]

Who?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Y' all tried to hold the citizens of Chicago hostage to build y'. All.

[Mo Brooks]

This thing you saying y' all like I'm the president of the Bears. If it was up to me.

[Shannon Sharpe]

They're holding you hostage. Cause you gotta pay your taxes.

[Mo Brooks]

Listen, listen. I hope that they get it done. For it to be in Illinois.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

I honestly want them to stay in Chicago. I want them to stay out the Lakers front. I don't even want them to put a dome on the place.

[Shannon Sharpe]

No. You can take away your advantage, but

[Mo Brooks]

I'mma tell you, when I knew we needed a dome. I was at the last playoff game when we played the Rams. And I was in the suite that night, but we had to walk, you know. You had to walk outside to get in. Man, I swear to God, it was so cold. I said, I don't care where they put the damn dome at, just put it up. Cause I can't sit out.

[Shannon Sharpe]

But that's your advantage.

[Mo Brooks]

But is it really an advantage? Hell, yeah. How? How? The Rams came right in and beat us in the snow.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, but that doesn't happen very often.

[Mo Brooks]

No, we should have beat them. Yeah, but listen, I like the cold, and I think it was. I think the bear weather was a real thing back in the 80s. And maybe when we had Erlacher. Now, like, we used to play the cold tie advantage, but I seen Tom Brady come there and put up four, five touchdowns and a half on us. Snowstorm.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You do realize, like, Tom played in New England, so it get cold there, too.

[Mo Brooks]

It do.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You think they gonna put a dome. You think they put a dome in Green Bay? No, that's the thing. The frozen tundra.

[Mo Brooks]

They should never do that in Green Bay.

[Shannon Sharpe]

They should never do that in Chicago.

[Mo Brooks]

I agree. If y' all listening to me, leave the top open.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I saw you painted. You know, your quarterback, Caleb, he catches a lot of flag. He's a hell of a player.

[Mo Brooks]

Yes.

[Shannon Sharpe]

But he paints his nail. Nobody mentioned it. When they were losing, it was because of the painted nail. Now that they're winning, don't nobody mention the painted nails.

[Mo Brooks]

No.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You notice that?

[Mo Brooks]

No, they don't. And my thing is, I love Caleb.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

You know what I'm saying?

[Shannon Sharpe]

He a hell of a player. He only gonna get better.

[Mo Brooks]

He only gonna get better. And he's a real deal. He's a real deal quarterback. You know what I'm saying? Just some of the stuff that our

[Shannon Sharpe]

script plays that he can make, it's unreal.

[Mo Brooks]

It's just unreal. Just being in Soldier Field. That pass he threw up to send us to overtime.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Oh, yeah. I still don't know how he did that.

[Mo Brooks]

When he started running backwards, I put my head down.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

And I looked up and the ball was in the air. And from the suite, you see Comet catch the ball and the stadium go up. I was in so. Disbelief. The TVs in the suite was about three seconds delayed.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

People were celebrating. I had to look up at the screen to make sure that I had just seen, you know, what I saw. But, you know, his nails. You know, his mom does nails. And that's kind of what I think inspired him to do that. And, you know, talking with his mom and talking with his dad, you know, he come from a solid family, man. I just, you know, I hate that. It's so much attention focused on that and not. And not what?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Not his play.

[Mo Brooks]

Not his play. You know what I'm saying? But I think now the reason why, when I was doing my Bears videos, that the first thing I kept on saying, hey, Caleb, French tip on me is to show people we don't care.

[Shannon Sharpe]

No, no.

[Mo Brooks]

As long as we winning. I take him, get his toes done after every game.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Jail, set.

[Mo Brooks]

Whatever you need. No chip. Whatever you need.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Justin Fields. Yeah. He was there for a couple of years, and I remember Bryce Young came out and they passed on Bryce Young and they kept Justin Fields. Now they get an opportunity for the number one pick again. I say they're not gonna pass again. They've come to the realization that Justin Fields can't get it done.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

For whatever reasons. Why, you know, it's not all his fault. But they're not passing on Caleb Williams because they believe he's a once a generational talent.

[Mo Brooks]

Absolutely.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You was there with Justin, and you see some of the licks that he took and some of the boos, the criticism that came along. How difficult was that for you to see a brother going through that?

[Mo Brooks]

You know what, man? I really don't. I don't think people really understand how. How great of a human being Justin Fields is. I've been a Bears fan, you know, for so many years, and Justin was the first Bears quarterback that I had ever met. Wow. And, you know, I think that he had potential to be a good quarterback in his league, but I think the way that it was handled, as far as putting help around him and getting the offensive line, I just. I don't think he ever got a chance with no teams that he's been on, whether it's Chicago, whether it's Pittsburgh or whether it's the Jets. And I think until he. If you know what I'm saying, because you know how the league is, is that, hey, if you ain't getting it done here, they'll try to get you out the league, you know, as quick as they can.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Absolutely.

[Mo Brooks]

But I think if he ever gets the opportunity to go to an organization that's really going to support him, support him, I think we might see a different. I think we might see a different player. I still believe in him. I was hurt to see him go.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

You know, when they traded him to Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, that was. I remember, I saw the headline. My heart dropped, you know what I'm saying? Because you gotta think all those years he was there, we was losing, but it didn't feel like it because of some of the plays that he was making.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Right.

[Mo Brooks]

I mean, dude, breaking runs. I mean, it was throws. He was making some throws, too. So now I.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You and Gary Owen made a bet during the season that your team would have a better record than his.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

And right on cue.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

What'd y' all bet?

[Mo Brooks]

So. No, so the bet, we played the Bengals, and the bet was whoever.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Oh, they came. Y' all came back and beat them.

[Mo Brooks]

Beat them in the last play of the game. Yeah. So the bet was whoever lost, the other person had to do a video pretty much crowning the other one. Because what a lot of people don't know is that last year, me and Gary Owen, when we were on tour, we were going back and forth on records breaking at the comedy club. So he might go to one club and he might set the record at eight. I might go and do nine. Right. It was one club. I went and did nine. He came and did 11. So we was already having this back and forth, this back and forth thing, and then we played the Bengals, and that's kind of. You know, how that happened.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Are you surprised he recently got married? Are you surprised at the kind of hate that he was receiving on his special day?

[Mo Brooks]

I didn't see that he was getting no hate.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I don't know what it is. People just don't want people to be happy, be happy.

[Mo Brooks]

No.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You know, I don't care. You can. Look, you can marry this bottle. You can marry a bottle.

[Mo Brooks]

I bet you would want somebody to marry you.

[Shannon Sharpe]

No, but I'm just saying. But, Mo, why do. When did we become so obsessed with someone that we don't have to be with, we don't have to live with, we don't have to do anything for? When do we become so invested in someone's life?

[Mo Brooks]

When we start letting people in our business? That's when it happened. You know what I'm saying? And I'm gonna say this. I'm happy for Gary Owens.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I am, too.

[Mo Brooks]

You know what I'm saying? And just not even. Not even just with the marriage, with all of the success that he's having, you know, in the comedy game, selling out the shows, he bouncing to the theaters, Gary doing his thing. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? And I feel like this is one of the probably the happiest times of his life right now.

[Shannon Sharpe]

He looks like it.

[Mo Brooks]

You know what I'm saying? He looks happy. So I listen. He deserve everything that's coming to him right now. Gary is somebody that I feel like, hey, he waited his time. His time is here. And, you know, he found somebody that he can do it with, and, man, let him do his thing. I think a lot of people still kind of salty. Cause, you know, he was married once before to a black woman, and he got caught. He got caught cheating. Yeah, but at the cheating thing, right? You know, they don't.

[Shannon Sharpe]

But he said that she was cheating, too.

[Mo Brooks]

Oh, I ain't hear that part. Yeah, well, they was cheating. What we talking about? We Cheetos.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Allegedly.

[Mo Brooks]

Allegedly.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

Okay.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Allegedly. You got a local hometown hero, grew up in Chicago. And D. Rolls in Chicago.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

What's it like to have somebody that grew up in your area go off and then come back for the Bulls?

[Mo Brooks]

He alleged what D. Rose did. We watched him at the McDonald's All American Game at the United Center. Simeon, he was doing his thing. And when he was with the Bulls, bro, that was the closest we been to getting ready to win us another championship when Derrick Rose was on there, when he won an MVP. So, you know, you realize LeBron was

[Shannon Sharpe]

on the east too, though, right?

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah, LeBron. When they. When you remember that series, though, it had to take for LeBron to start guarding Derrick Rose. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'mma say that. And I know you and LeBron, I know that. You know what I'm saying? And, hey, LeBron, you do your thing. But, you know, I just. I feel like the Bulls should have did a little bit more. Derrick needed one more piece.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Right.

[Mo Brooks]

To help him get over that LeBron train.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You have a relationship? Another Chicago. Lil Durk. You have a relationship with Lil Durk?

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Have you spoken to him recently?

[Mo Brooks]

No, I haven't heard. The last time I seen Lil Durk, we were at the Bears game in London.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Really?

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah, we were both at the Bears game in London.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Well, then you going. Well, you going way over there to support your team like that?

[Mo Brooks]

Yes, absolutely. Absolutely.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You white?

[Mo Brooks]

A little bit. A little bit. No, man. We was both. We were both in London for the game. And this was after we had worked together. I was in one of his music videos. And the next. I wanna say, like, maybe a week later, like, I talked to him at that. At the game. He was having a big concert in Chicago, and he was like, I'm gonna leave some tickets for your sister. He left the tickets, and I wanna say maybe, like a week later they came and got him. But I haven't. You know, I haven't heard from him, but, you know, praying for him. I'm hoping that you Know, whatever this situation is that you know, that his innocence is proven and he. Get out of that.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Give me your five top five Chicago rappers, all time. And you include YNs in there so they don't have to. So you know. Cause it's different now.

[Mo Brooks]

Top five all time Chicago rappers. Let me do my YNS first.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Okay.

[Mo Brooks]

Lil Durk.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

G herbo.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

Okay. Kanye.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

Common.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

Twister.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Okay. Nice little. You got a nice little Twister. You got a nice little hit list.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. People sleep on Twister.

[Shannon Sharpe]

They do, yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

He liked that. Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

The gang culture in Chicago, how did you not get caught up into that? Was it a two parent household? Were they very strict on you? You had an older brother. So how did you navigate not getting caught up into that culture?

[Mo Brooks]

Who said I want gang banging?

[Shannon Sharpe]

You tell a joke.

[Mo Brooks]

Who said I want gang banging? My brother right there, he was the gang banger. He was gang banging. You know what, though? It was just. I played ball. You know what I'm saying? We both played football. And I was at one high school at first. And I end up getting into some stuff over there. My mom like, you gotta go to school with your brother. So I end up transferring to the high school he was at. And I'm not knowing that he's affiliated with the gangs over there. So when I get over there, the gang member's running up on me my first day of school and I gotta go find him. Like, man, the gang, the Latin. There was some Latin. They weren't kings. They were. Some of. They was LPs or whatever that was. I kind of mocked them.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

And they told me after school it's up. So I had to go find my brother. I found my brother and I'm like,

[Shannon Sharpe]

hey, he didn't handle this.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah. They said I'm in trouble. And he handled it. But he was a gang banger. And I was. Because I was guilty by affiliation.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Right.

[Mo Brooks]

So I was gang banger.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Well, first of all, you know, light skinned, you know, y' all gonna catch it anyway.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Cause they don't think y' all can squabble. Y' all can't do nothing. Y' all too pretty. Y', all, you know, y' all in the mirror all the time, you know.

[Mo Brooks]

Shannon, bro, man, I really, you know, and I know that this is the perception of us, but I'm telling you, when I tell you that I really can get like that.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

And I'm not just saying that just to say it. Like, I'm let. Like, I really. I really can get like that.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Go ahead on Mo. You ain't bumping like that. All you want to do is tell joke, make somebody laugh.

[Mo Brooks]

Then my brother go right there. Now I got security and we'll fight together before I let him fight by itself.

[Shannon Sharpe]

What the hell you got security for?

[Mo Brooks]

What you mean? What you mean? Well, I got security for just.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Usher, you go. Just go and get in the car. No, that's what security say.

[Mo Brooks]

Go on to get in the car. Oh, you got. Man, Shannon, you gotta understand, comedians are new rappers. You see all this shit.

[Shannon Sharpe]

They can have that, Mo. They can get that.

[Mo Brooks]

I give it to em.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, exactly.

[Mo Brooks]

They asked for it.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I ain't about to find out about it.

[Mo Brooks]

But that don't mean come trying to get it. Cause I said I get to you. But, man, man, you walking around, bro. Here's the thing, man. It's different now. It's different.

[Shannon Sharpe]

It is.

[Mo Brooks]

And it's like you just don't want to end up in a situation where you be like, damn, I should have had somebody with me.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, you're right. Why you a sister in Globe beefing?

[Mo Brooks]

Huh? Is my sister in Globe beefing? Yeah. You know that ain't my real sister.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Oh, I thought that was your real sister.

[Mo Brooks]

No, I don't. No, no, man, no, no. I thought that was crazy though. Just with her sister coming out, seeing the Glow obligated. And I met Glow. Glow is such a beautiful.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I had on. She's unbelievable. Oh, my God, she is great. I love Glow.

[Mo Brooks]

And I think it's tough when you get success and you got family.

[Shannon Sharpe]

They do feel obligated, though.

[Mo Brooks]

They feel obligated. They do, they feel.

[Shannon Sharpe]

And not just family, man, you know, I been knowing you since you were 6 years old. And I know you too. Ain't nothing. I still know you.

[Mo Brooks]

It's real. That's real.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You ain't finna get no house or no car.

[Mo Brooks]

That's real. It's real. How many people. Man, listen, people. I ain't heard from him forever. Called like, man, you, I need a little help. I ain't heard from you. Yeah, ain't never gave me nothing.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You know, I remember like we went to the first super bowl and people were calling for super bowl tickets. Now you haven't seen me play in a preseason game, a regular season game,

[Mo Brooks]

and now you gonna come to super

[Shannon Sharpe]

bowl or a post season game. So the first game you gonna see me play is the Super Bowl.

[Mo Brooks]

You crazy. But you know what? That's the same way if I do shows in Chicago, bro. I get so many phone calls from people like, hey, I need tickets. Like, I did a Chicago theater.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

And that was the biggest show I ever did in Chicago. And I had. Bro, I had a guest list of almost 100 people.

[Shannon Sharpe]

No, that's money out your pocket.

[Mo Brooks]

You understand what I'm saying?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Nah. You get 20. No, you get 20. You do 20.

[Mo Brooks]

And I'm gonna say this. Chico Bean taught me this. He said, bro, I'm gonna tell you the same thing I tell my people. You can come see me for free anywhere in the world. Anywhere in the world. But when I'm at home, you gotta buy a ticket like that. And that's the new motto. So I'm letting y' all know. September 11th, I'm doing a Wintrust arena in Chicago. Do not. I ain't got no tickets. Bam. When they go on sale, you better bam.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I like that model.

[Mo Brooks]

I like that it's real. You travel. And if you come to another city and come see me, man, the ticket's on me.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

Because you done put the effort in to come and support.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yes. Yes.

[Mo Brooks]

But we right here at the crib.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You being lazy.

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah. Come on back.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I saw Mr. Tyndenism.

[Mo Brooks]

My boy.

[Shannon Sharpe]

He came to see you.

[Mo Brooks]

Yes, yes. Uncool, man.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yes. We had him on the show the other night.

[Mo Brooks]

Did y'?

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[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, we did.

[Mo Brooks]

Oh, y' all sure did. Cause I saw, man. And you know what? I was like. And I saw him on the Sherri shepherd show, and I was like, you know, I'm so happy for him, bro.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I am, too.

[Mo Brooks]

Cause he was just such a. You know.

[Shannon Sharpe]

And I'm so happy. The other thing going the other way.

[Mo Brooks]

Me, too.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Cause he did it wrong.

[Mo Brooks]

Me, too. And you know what? And when I brought him on stage that night at my show and I said, we not playing about you, I was letting them know right then and there, like, hey, if that situation ain't servicing you, what it needs to. Hey, say that.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Mo Brooks]

And we get you out of there, we'll figure out something. Yeah, I got people want to invest in restaurants for them. I offered to invest in opening a restaurant for them.

[Shannon Sharpe]

What's next, Mo? What's next up for you, man?

[Mo Brooks]

I'm writing movies. I just wrote a movie right now, and it's bad.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Really?

[Mo Brooks]

Yeah, it's bad.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Are you in it?

[Mo Brooks]

Yes. I'm in my Eddie Murphy bag on this. I'm playing a couple different characters, but it's bad.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Special.

[Mo Brooks]

Already done.

[Shannon Sharpe]

It's in the can.

[Mo Brooks]

It's in the can. We getting ready to send it off. They getting the sound and stuff done on it right now and we gonna send it to a few streamers. Netflix being one of them. Yeah. And it's that you say you're in

[Shannon Sharpe]

your Eddie Murphy bag, but another guy that writes is Cube. Yeah, you talk to Cube, Ask Cube for any advice.

[Mo Brooks]

I met Cube once at Mike Epps 55th birthday party.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Okay.

[Mo Brooks]

And we briefly talked. He just said, hey, I heard about you. He said, I'm gonna be checking you out. So hopefully that mean they gonna call me for that next Friday ride along or something. Call me.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Make sure you go check out Mojo Brooks we them Ones comedy tour coming to a city near you. Mo, my boy. Thank you for coming to oc.

[Mo Brooks]

Appreciate you for having all my life

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[Mo Brooks]

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[Shannon Sharpe]

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[Mo Brooks]

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[Shannon Sharpe]

look all my life been grinding all my life sacrifice.

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