Creating Your Own Path w/ Marco Summers

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Keep it Positive, Sweetie

Episode: "Creating Your Own Path w/ Marco Summers"

Host: Krystal Renee Hazlett
Guest: Marco Summers (Funny Marco)
Date: November 16, 2025

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Overview

In this episode, Krystal Renee Hazlett welcomes rising comedy star Marco Summers, known to many as Funny Marco. The conversation gets personal and honest, exploring Marco’s journey from Kansas City to social media stardom, his struggles with adversity, overcoming childhood trauma, living with dyslexia, navigating the business side of comedy, and building a legacy fueled by authenticity and resilience. As always, Krystal and her guest keep it uplifting and real, with moments both heartfelt and hilarious.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Manifesting the Right Moment, Patience, and Growth

• Marco discusses how reaching out to Krystal about being a guest took patience, reflecting how timing and growth are keys in life and showbiz.
  • “I learned, too. Patience is key… sometimes you gotta understand right now, let that moment. And I learned it from Kevin Hart… have patience and ownership.” — Marco (04:19)

2. Childhood, Family, and Breaking Cycles

• Marco’s father died in violent circumstances related to street life, deeply shaping Marco’s worldview.
  • “The father is becoming something you never had. My daddy was a street guy… So just being able to create a path for my kids, to let them know that you don’t have to be where you came from.” — Marco (05:48)
• Marco shares about the trauma and numbness he experienced as a child, recounting both harrowing and comedic moments, such as a dramatic funeral scene.
  • “He got killed in the car. The person who did it was somebody he was comfortable with… Even for women, you got to watch who you date, because just if she wasn’t with him, she would… probably be alive to this day.” — Marco (07:43)
  • “I got good grades all of a sudden. So I’m calling my daddy… he not picking up. And I’m like, nigga, pick up. I was trying to tell you… I’m doing good.” — Marco (10:26)

3. Humor as Survival & Authenticity

• Marco notes that comedy was a mechanism to gain acceptance despite material lack.
  • “When I wanted to fit in with popular kids, my personality got me in… My personality saved my life.” — Marco (14:48)
• He’s open about his challenges in school and being held back a grade; his humor became both a shield and a way to connect.

4. Living with Dyslexia & Overcoming Shame

• Marco reveals living with dyslexia, struggling with reading, writing, and numbers throughout school and adulthood.
  • “I get anxiety with words and letters. Honestly, right now, I don’t know how much money I got.” — Marco (19:13)
• He talks about the importance of owning vulnerabilities, making humor and openness his protection against ridicule.
  • “If I got picked on, I knew how to get under your skin… You can’t mess with nobody that accept who they are.” — Marco (21:06)
• Plans to provide educational support for his daughter so she won’t face the same struggles.

5. Breaking Out: Moving to Atlanta & Chasing Dreams

• Originally intended to move to San Francisco, Marco instead took a chance on Atlanta after a stranger DMed him.
  • “I took one bag and I came out here and the rest is history. The thing is, in life, when you gotta go, you gotta make sure you complete it.” — Marco (28:18)
• Early mentors (Ray Daniels) exposed him to success and the importance of working for more than money.

6. Building a Career and Brand

• Talks about building his recognition with viral Walmart prank videos and leveraging artists’ lyrics to get noticed.
  • “When I came up with a strategy of using artist lyrics and they started reposting it… it was making like $20,000.” — Marco (35:09)
• Business lessons—learning about teams, contracts, finances, and promotions the hard way.
  • “Ask for help… don’t go looking for it, but ask God and he gonna send it to you… If you set yourself up right, people will work for you.” (36:29)

7. The Power of Silence and Comic Timing

• Marco’s signature comedic style is rooted in stillness and “pauses,” lessons learned from moments of discomfort (like being put on the spot in school).
  • “When the teacher used to call me to read, I just had to sit there and look at her… It started when she… [didn’t] get I wasn’t going to read.” — Marco (37:50)
• This intentful use of silence has become his comedic trademark.

8. Adapting to Growth: Teamwork & Letting Go

• Talks candidly about the challenge of creative control and learning to trust a team.
  • “I’m learning to listen now… you got to sit back, and let them create and understand this is what you’ve been asking for.” — Marco (42:19, 42:34)
• Shares lessons from working with celebrities like Nicki Minaj and the risks of rushing content.

9. Fame, Feedback, and Protecting Peace

• Marco emphasizes not chasing external approval or reading negative comments.
  • “Don’t read… it can get to you… Just read like five good ones then get out of there. Cuz you’ll be stuck… you just got to know who you are.” — Marco (51:15, 52:49)
• On setting boundaries and reserving emotional energy:
  • “Don’t give everybody your energy that make you upset… Reserve your anger.” (61:29)

10. Parenting, Legacy, and Cycles

• Marco’s candid about the complexities and challenges of co-parenting, wanting his kids to have options he lacked.
  • “I don’t want my daughter growing up in Kansas City because it ain’t nothing there… you can be whatever you want… you got to see it, cause I didn’t.” — Marco (64:09)
• Discusses hopes to positively influence his children even from afar and break the cycles of his upbringing.

11. Creating Your Own Path: Comedy, Brand, and Legacy

• The importance of “creating your own room” in life and comedy—stepping out from supporting others into headlining his own tour.
  • “It’s okay to come in people room, but go create one too.” — Marco (46:02)
• The courage to change his professional name—shifting from “Funny Marco” to “Marco Summers” to be seen as a multidimensional individual.
  • “Let me mold and get the respect that this is Marco Summers… ’cause I’m a real life person.” — Marco (60:07)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Patience & Timing:
  “Sometimes people don’t give you what you want, then you can develop a nasty taste… But sometimes you got to understand right now, not that moment.”
  — Marco Summers (04:17)

• On Becoming the Father He Never Had:
  “Just being able to create a path for my kids… you don’t have to be where you came from. You could develop a new you.”
  — Marco Summers (07:06)

• On Using Humor as a Shield:
  “If I got picked on, I knew how to get under your skin… you can’t mess with nobody that accept who they are.”
  — Marco Summers (21:06)

• On Overcoming Dyslexia:
  “Honestly, right now, I don’t know how much money I got… I don’t want to know.”
  — Marco (19:13)

• On Teamwork & Learning:
  “I’m learning to listen now… Sometimes people ask for a car, ask for new things. While a broke down car’s in the driveway. Pull that out, accept the new car.”
  — Marco (42:19, 42:54)

• On Protecting Your Peace:
  “Don’t give everybody your energy that make you upset… Reserve your anger. Save your energy.”
  — Marco (62:47)

• On Comments & Approval:
  “Don’t read no comments... If you make it just read five good ones and get out of there.”
  — Marco (51:15, 51:54)

• On Creating Your Own Path:
  “It’s okay to come in people room, but go create one too.”
  — Marco (46:02)

• On Rebranding:
  “Let me mold and get the respect that this is Marco Summers... I’m a real life person.”
  — Marco (60:07)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Patience, Mentorship & Career Milestones: 04:14 – 05:26
• Fatherhood & Family Trauma: 05:48 – 12:39
• Growing Up With Dyslexia: 16:28 – 23:47
• Moving to Atlanta, Taking a Leap: 27:13 – 30:58
• Breakout via Viral Videos & Business Lessons: 34:59 – 36:29
• On Building a Brand and Team: 36:29 – 37:38, 42:19 – 43:32
• Developing Comedy Style (Silence): 37:38 – 39:13
• Lessons from Mistakes (Nicki Minaj Incident): 40:57 – 41:26
• Fame & Managing Criticism: 51:04 – 53:14
• On Never Chasing Approval: 51:15 – 51:50
• Parenting, Legacy & Cycle Breaking: 63:00 – 65:41
• National Comedy Tour & Promotions: 65:56 – 67:18
• Shifting from “Funny Marco” to “Marco Summers”: 60:00 – 61:13

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Final Takeaways

• Own your story. Marco’s path is unique, filled with struggle, heartbreak, resilience, and joy—a message for anyone feeling “othered” or discouraged.
• Be patient and trust in timing. Good things happen in the right moment.
• Don’t let where you come from define where you’re going. Marco’s childhood and trauma didn’t limit his imagination or purpose.
• Embrace your weaknesses as strengths. Whether dyslexia or comedy style, what makes you different can be your greatest asset.
• Surround yourself with the right team—and listen. Growth means learning to accept help and other voices.
• Protect your peace and stay genuine. Let your work and consistency speak louder than the crowd.
• Create your own space. Don’t just fit into someone else’s mold—build your own.

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Where To Find Marco

• Instagram: @marcosummers
• YouTube: Open Thoughts
• Podcast: “Open Thoughts” (new episodes every Tuesday)
• National Comedy Tour: Dates and tickets via social media and official channels

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“You’re not bigger than the program. ... If you the mopper, be the best mopper you can be.”
— Marco Summers (71:30)

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Transcript

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[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

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[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

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[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Calling all my sweeties to the forefront. I'm your host, Krystal Renee Hazlett, and this is the Keep it positive Sweetie Show. Marco Summers, you know him as Funny Marco. He's built one of the most distinct voices in comedy. His timing, stillness, and humor have made him a standout in a world that is usually loud. With his series Open Thoughts entering season two, Marco keeps proving that being yourself is the brand. Sweetie family, please give a very warm welcome to Marco Summers, also known as as Funny Marco. Marco, how you feeling?

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Fine. I've been waiting on this moment.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

You have? So you remember you DM me, like.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Probably over a year ago. Yeah. And you were watching the Tyler Perry episode and you were like, I want to come on.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

And I was like, is this really funny Marco? I was really shocked that you could DM me, but I was also honored because I'm a big fan of your work. And then you hit me recently and you were like, I want to come on for real.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

And talk, like, show the people who I really am.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

So I'm excited to have you on.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And you know what? I learned, too. I'm learning, too. Patience is key. Because, like, even at the time when I did ask you to come on, like, I'm in a different world now from then. So I feel like we gotta learn that. And sometimes in the industry, when some people don't give you what you want, then you can develop a nasty taste.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

But sometimes you gotta understand right now, let that moment. And I learned it from Kevin Hart, because when we were talking and, like, Kevin Hart is talking to me, he's like. One thing he told me is, like, have patience and ownership. And he was just like, I'm talking to Kevin Hart every day.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Wow.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And I'm like. And he telling me, like, all this information, and I'm like, come help me. Like, come on. You got, like, come, like, what's happening? And I'm urging, like, I'm sitting here, I'm recording, like, you know, like, I'm in that moment, living happy. Like, is my life about to change? And at the time it just. It start developing. And then when our interview happened, it happened at the right time.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yes.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And like, when the G herbo situation happened, when that went crazy, Kevin Hart reached out and said, let's do it now to get the spotlight off of that. You know what I'm saying? But if I would have got it then.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Exactly.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

So patient is everything. Patience is everything. I love that. Who is Marco Summers? The father, the son, the friend, and the lover.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Sound like Oprah referees. I love it. I receive it. Look, we'll start with the father.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Who are you?

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

The father is becoming something that you never had. My daddy was a street guy. He was known in the streets, and he was real respected. And what I learned and what I got from that is growing up having, like, a daddy that's known for what he did. All you got. When he not there for you no more, it's people telling you he was that nigga. But again, I didn't get to see him as a father. So it's just, like, can help you and hurt you. Because I feel like some people try to make their daddy legacy live on.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And you want to be like, damn, I want to see how he felt. I wanted that same type of fame. And you only know two things that come with that, and it's like jail or dead when it comes with that street fame. And I feel like, what. Our legacy is no different from Big Meech. And it's like, even playing his daddy in a role it probably had in his mind, Right. It could traumatize him. Like, dude, I gotta move now. Like, how he was. And again, what if we got a different. What if you was supposed to be the star, like, the actor? What if you was supposed to be our Michael B. Jordan?

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And you weren't supposed to be who your daddy was, but when you from that, people push that narrative on you, right? To be who your daddy was. So me not being, like, a street dude, and then people knew I was funny. It was like, you ain't like your daddy, and it can hurt you like that, right?

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

You're like, wait a minute.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You goofy as hell. And, you know, so just being able to create a path for my kids, to let them know that you don't have to be where you came from. You could develop a new you. So I want to show them something that I never got. And being a father, I know my daddy really cared because he. He made money for us. But again, sometimes money in the wrong way can lead you into, you know, Bad stuff. So him passing away really, like, made me want to be a better father because I knew he wanted to be there for us. And it's like, let me be there for them.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Right. Was he. Did he pass away?

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Oh, he got set up. Yeah. So it was like. Yeah, so it was him. And that's another thing. I learned a lot from that. Like, my daddy, he got. He was. He was. He was smart. So the person that, like, my daddy situation was, he got killed in the car. And the person who did it was somebody that he was comfortable with because my daddy never let nobody sit behind him. So the person who did it was. It was him and his girlfriend in the car. And the thing is, they said they feel like my daddy knew it was coming because he tried to get my girl, his girlfriend, out of the car. And he was trying to drop her out, but she was like, no, I want to ride with you. Like, I want to ride with you while you're making plays. And that person killed both of them. And that's why I tell certain people, even for women, you got to watch who you date, because just if she wasn't with him, she would probably. Probably still be alive to this day. So on the side, I feel sorry for her family, too, because she got what was coming from my daddy. So you got to watch who you date in the world because you never know what could come your way.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Oh, my goodness. How old were you?

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

I think I was, like, 11 or 12.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

How did that impact you in that moment as a child? Cause you're still growing, and those are formative years.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Him dying, it didn't. It didn't impact me a lot. I don't know. It's something me, I'm just numb. Like, I got a different type. I'm just numb to a lot of stuff. So it just felt unreal. But I understood he was somebody that did. What happened to him? He, like, was in the streets.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

And so you understood the concept.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah. Honestly? Yeah. Cause, like, you know, what goes around comes around, and it was just more of that. And, like, even at the funeral, like, it was funny because my daddy was like. A lot of people liked him. He was like a sex symbol. Like, a lot of people, like, he was. Buffy had braids. And when he came, it was so funny because he came to my. He came to one of my. He finally got to come to one of my parents teacher conference. He came and all the teachers was like, you know, like, damn, like, your baby's hot. Yeah. Yeah, he hot. Yeah. And it was white Ladies. So it was different. Yeah. So they like, yeah, he hot. Like, he hot. Like, he's really. You know. And they was trying to dumb it down, like, oh, well, he could do better and all this. So when my daddy, after. I remember me leaving with him, and he was upset about my grades, and I got my ears pierced, too. I had both my ears pierced. You know, back then, you can't get both your ears pierced because they used to say it was feminine, like, y. And my daddy was upset, like, you need one ear. Like, he got mad, like, roughed me up, took the earring out. He's like, get your grades together. And that was the first time I ever got, you know what I'm saying, Told from a man, like, get your shit together. So then what happened was I started working, and I don't even think. Honestly, I still didn't have my shit together. But the teachers liked him so much, they passed me, like, I swear to.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

God, that type of influence. Wow.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

So I got good grades all of a sudden. So I'm calling my daddy, and I'm calling to tell him, like, I got good grades. Like, when my report card came, and then he's like, he not picking up. And I'm like, nigga, pick up. Like, I was trying to tell you, like, you know, I'm doing good. So just. My mama was watching the news. She always watched the news, and she seen the crime happen, like, right then and there, like, the crime scene, and somebody got killed, like, in the afternoon. So. And then my mama got the call from her daddy, was like, yeah, like, you seen what happened on the news on such street in Grandview? So, yes, like, yeah, that was. That was your baby daddy. So then my mom was like, call your grandma. So when I called my grandma, she crying on my eye. It happened. So it was just more of, like, we just started getting more relationship. And then, boom, it happened because he was in and out of prison.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

So you know what I'm saying? So that was, like, a thing. And then the funeral was crazy. Oh, my God. It's like a movie. Because at the funeral, we there, and then somebody running there, like, all the people here that killed them, they about to shoot it up.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

What?

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And what's funny is the teachers came because they came to the white ladies. They, like. They. In the same hour. The teachers are like, oh, my God. I've never been nothing like this. And they, like, scared, and they, like, they better shoot this bitch up. They're like, everybody get down. And the white teachers and the teachers in There like, oh, my God, this is crazy. And it was just like, remembering that and my auntie, like, we gotta get you out of here. And then that's when I left. I didn't even get to see the, like the.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

You do this every time when you told your girl. You make everything funny.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah, it was. It was like, imagine two white ladies, they come, that's their first black funeral. Yeah. And it's about to get shot up. This is real? Yes. Will you be. Yes, it's real.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

This. You need to be writing this down.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

What? I can't write. I'm not a writer.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

You tell the story, I'll write it. Yeah, I'll write it for you. This is a movie.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

That was that. You know what's so funny? I wonder if, like, I'm calling as we talking, but my auntie, she like. She like, yeah, we gotta get you up out of here, like. Because she's like, you can't die next because, like, you. You like, you know, and then just going through all that, it's like, damn, life is real. Like, this is real life. So.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

I just feel like you can't be sad about everything because it. It'll just put a toll on you.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Like it was just to move on and you'd be able to talk about what happened. I just feel like, you know, just those things have, like, seeing how well my daddy live, it's like, I notice the street route. I know what come with it. So, like, how can I really chase my dreams and see that route and let them hear my story and let my kids talk about me once I'm no longer here?

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Right. In a positive way.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

I wanted to ask you because you said that your dad never let anyone sit behind him, and it was somebody that was really close to him that killed him. How did that affect you and your friends and even trusting people?

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

That's a good question. I never. I feel like that has opened eyes. Like, if anything, my daddy became one of my angels and now he protect me through energy. And I was just talking to my friend about this. I can feel, I say, my friend, my brother, I'm sitting here. I can feel when something's not right for me. Like, in it just. I don't. I don't think about it. It's just if it hit me, like, this ain't right. And I pay attention to, like, how somebody is with themselves before they are. How they are with me.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah, that's real.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah. And how they treat their friends.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

You know, so I just feel Like, I'm more awareness and just paying attention to my surroundings. But I want to go in loving everybody.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah, right. Giving everybody a fair shot.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

And to prove who they are.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah. That's good, man. I did not know all that.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah. It's a lot. And this is like, when you see me, you don't be like, oh, yeah, he came from some. So I feel like some people. It's not good to just judge people because you never know what they've been through.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

It's not. Yes. And you can't judge a book by its cover, that's for sure. You're from Kansas City. Born and raised. I actually lived in Topeka, Kansas. Were you in Kansas City, Kansas, or Missouri?

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Oh, yeah. Missouri.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Missouri. Okay. I lived in Topeka.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah. Topeka.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

We don't claim y'. All.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah. Oh, wow. That's crazy. Who was young? Marco Summers. You said you were funny when you were young. When did you know you were like, oh, I'm actually funny?

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

That's a good question. I think it. Damn. That's really. I feel like when I wanted to fit in with the popular kids, my personality got me in. That's where I knew I was funny because I didn't have the clothes, I didn't have, like, the image. I was funny looking like a little bit. So I was a snag or too. I used to chew on my. My shirt a lot. So it was like once my personality got me. My personality saved my life. Like, who I am, like, from jobs and everything. Like, I'm not good at nothing for real. But like, nah, I'm saying I'm being real, like, because I know, like when I say not good at it because I didn't see people be good at it. So I could say, damn, I can't do that.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

So, like, do you feel like sometimes that's self sabotage? You kind of talking yourself out of something that you could actually be great at?

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

I mean. Yeah, but sometimes you gotta understand that it's just such thing as good and bad. And it's okay to stand on the bad side sometimes. Like, it's okay to recognize, like, this ain't my thing.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

That's true.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah. Cause you can Never hoop like LeBron James ever. You can't. Or Asia Wilson.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Exactly.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Right. So you bad at it. So what I'm trying to say is I feel like people try to hide that. And it's okay to admit, like, who you are, what you stand for, and the I'm good at, I' ma speak on it. Like oh, I'm good at that for sure. Yeah. So that's it. There's no one to use the good, so that's smart. Now I struggle like into this day. Like people. Some people are naturally born with how they brain is set. And you can make it get better. And I feel like my mom, she didn't force me to be better in school. She didn't force me to graduate. She didn't force me to do homework. So me already coming in this life with a disability or like not really being able to read or write.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And my mama not trying to help me get better with that.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Right.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

It's like my mama not making me doing it. So why the did I listen to you? Sorry for cussing, but. Yeah, but like to a teacher, like, a teacher, like, trying to help me, but I'm like, at home. My mama don't care. Like, so you trying to like, she don't. She ain't making me do this work. She making me come to school because she want me out the house.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Wow.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

You know, so it was. School was a like daycare for me.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Wow.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Like, it was just a way, a place to get away.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

How did that make you feel as a child knowing?

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

I mean, that's all I knew.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Were you aware that my mom was just sending me to school to get.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah. I mean, I understand it. Once I start growing up and thinking about my kids now, I'm not thinking about that.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Like, so it was just go to school. Like, I don't care where you go. Like, go just get out of here. Like, see you at three o'. Clock.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Wow.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

So. And then, so. But I just feel like I knew I was different and demanding because I said I'm gonna graduate because I, I was. I did the same grade. When I tell you I got held back in first grade, why are you laughing? I see it.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

It's the face you made.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Because I was like, let me see how she gonna take this.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

I'm not laughing at you. Are you laughing with me? Right.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

You're just so funny, is what you look to me like.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Cause I knew it was coming, but I got held back in first grade. And they were like, what he do wrong?

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Right.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

In first grade and mama like, what do you do? Right? So like getting held back and stuff like that, it just. It just make you not like school. It's just when you going through school and people passing on and like teachers, it just. You develop a. Not like for it. So. But I also just told myself I'm gonna graduate. I Don't know why I wanted to graduate, but it was a challenge, right? One thing I do like challenges. I said, I don't know how I'm gonna graduate, but I'm gonna do it.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Even when I graduated, I'm still like, man, they gonna call my name. I was still nervous, but I had to go to another school. So it was. It was. I graduated because of me. Because I could have dropped that because my mama didn't care. It was like, you older now. Like, whatever you do is do. So one thing I do like is challenges. So that was a challenge that I wanted to do to get a diploma because I feel like people think I wasn't gonna get it. So.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

I love that.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

You proved them wrong.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah. I want to ask you. You talked about the disorder you have, and it's dyslexia. How old were you when you realized something was off even if you didn't have the language to figure out what it was?

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

That's a hard question because, like, when you. When it happen that it's hard because you don't know. You don't remember numbers. Like, I was telling my brother that I get anxiety with words and letters. Honestly, right now, I don't know how much money I got.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Really?

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah. Marco, I don't want to know.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Are you serious?

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

No, but I'm with some people. Like, I don't know how much money I got. Like, I know I'm good, but I don't want to know. I'm not. I have not looked at a bank account since last time. I overdrive at bank of America, where I was trying to get extra money. That was the last time I look at a, like, bank account.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

So finances.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

My brother okay.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

This brother.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

No, my brother okay. But I'm like, damn. I'm like, damn, he gonna die one day. What I'm gonna do? So I need to start getting into. But I'm like, by the end, I hopefully have a wife. I don't like numbers.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Well, you need to, because you're.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

No, I'm fine. I mean, because again, I mean, overall, I might be that person that go through life to be like, you know, I've been okay, or I might be the one. Like, damn, I should have known. So it's gonna be one side.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

So I wouldn't say that. It's me.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

I don't want to know.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

I don't know. I gotta disagree with you. I'm really big. Like, I don't.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

I pay all. I write all the checks. I approve Everything, like, nothing goes wrong. Right.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And then that's why people like you every sing. That's why we need people like you in our life. Because like, imagine just to say, like, oh, yeah, we had some kind. We met somewhere and like, whatever, we became sisters, brother, wife. It's like, okay, I do that now. So you got people that love to do that?

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

No, we have our strengths, for sure.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

I just want to make sure that I. I know people like Oprah and Tyler have talked about accountants, like, stealing, not saying your brother.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah, no, it happens. No, it happens.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah, they steal from you right on your nose. And people that you trust. And that's why for me, it happens.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

It's important to know. It is. I wouldn't promote like, yeah, don't know.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Right.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

But I'm just being real with me. Yeah. I'm just saying it's. You should know.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah, yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

But I don't want to know right now.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Okay. But you're good.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

When you were dealing with dyslexia as a, As a child, how did you ever. I know children can be cruel and mean and be bullies. Was there ever a moment in your life where you were bullied or were you kind of like, did you. Were you the kid that, like, I don't ever want to read. Like, don't follow me in class.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

That's what made me become like, open and not be like, I know how to match the funny. When people try to pick on me, that's when I know they get like. Cause I came from a funny family. So you can't. Yeah, you can't. That's where it kicked in. Because if I got picked on, I knew how to get under your skin. And then you can't really. You can't mess with nobody that accept who they are. I just feel like it's hard when some people didn't in denial or they don't want to face it. And then when people pick on you about it, it makes you feel bad so you want to run away from it. So somebody that can't read, they want to run away from me. But if I come to classroom, I'll be the one to come to, like, I can't read. Don't pick me. I said in front of everybody.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Oh, wow.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Get ahead of it.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah. So then it's just like, oh, but if I don't tell them that and they pick me to read and it's like, yeah, everybody looking like, well, it taking so long, like, you know, and it was a time where I'm like, I don't know where we at. And the teacher comes show me right here. I'm like, oh. Like, why are you showing me? I just said, I don't know where we came. Right. I didn't say it. I blanked it out. I blanked it. But yeah. So yeah, it was just times where I tried to get away from things that I was weak at.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And I tried to avoid it, but I still had to face it.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Absolutely.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah. You still gotta face your problems.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

I love that you even in what somebody may. Well, it is a disability, but you made it a positive. Like you found a way to get ahead of it and combat it in a different way versus allowing people to make you feel bad about your circumstance.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

My sister told me it's another word and it's a such thing. I don't know how to say it, but I looked it up on YouTube and some people are to hear other people. And I wonder. I want to get help from her real quick. But when you hear other people to have stuff that you go through and think how you think, you'd be like, I'm not the only one.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

You're not. Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And it makes, it makes. It makes a better feeling.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

I have a castmate that's dyslexia and he's thriving, but he does conferences where he speaks to children that are dyslexic and adults. I have a problem, like sometimes my numbers get jumbled up. Like I'll read like when I see it. Like I had to like really focus because like I'll start reading it backwards on numbers. But the more like I've gotten better, like as an adult, but like as a child, that was something that I did too. So you're not alone in that.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah, yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

It was one of the things where I had to like really look at it. Cuz my brain would be like, start back here versus at the top.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And that's why I said I want to give my daughter a tutor right now before she like ever need it.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

It's in getting somebody that specialize in that. And you got money. The fact that I can afford it to do it right now so it can help her on top of what she already already born with.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yes. Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

I love that. I love that.

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[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

You moved to Atlanta, however, when you moved to Atlanta, because Kansas City and Atlanta are two different places.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah, I don't remember.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

You don't remember?

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

It's another number thing.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Okay.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

It's like. But I know, I. I know it was like probably 20, 19.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Okay. So recently.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Okay. What made you want to come to Atlanta?

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Because I knew I had to grow and I want to go somewhere. I was supposed to go to San Francisco and my cousin, it was so funny. My cousin like, oh, I was doing videos and he was like, yo, you can come stay with me. And he gave me a date. So now I'm like talking stuff on Facebook. Yeah. I'm about to move, y'. All. Like, I'm going to chase my dreams. I might go to San Francisco. Like, yeah. Quit my job. And then when that day came, they not picking up the phone. Like, they like, no, they not picking up the phone. And now I'm like, okay, give me a job now.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah. And I quit this one.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Oh, my goodness.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

But God is always working. Cuz I got a random DM and it was just a stranger in Atlanta. And he was just like, would you like to move to Atlanta? And I'm like, yeah. And I didn't know him. He flew me out here and I started working with him and just that it's an energy.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And I didn't know him and my family didn't care. I was like, I'm going to Atlanta. I took one bag and I came out here and the rest is history. I just kept working.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And the thing is, you, in life, when you gotta go, you gotta make sure you complete it. You can get distracted because I met shout out to Ray Daniels. I met somebody that was so successful. Ray picked me up, right? Daniels. Ray picked me up. And when I seen how Ray was living, I remember the dopest thing I seen him. We was out to dinner. He paid for everybody dinner. And I said, I can't wait till I could do that.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Like I was looking like, what? He's paying for everybody. I ain't used to seeing it. I, like, I would have got something better. Like.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Like, dang, I should have got the stick.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

I feel like a baddie. I was like. And when he did that, and just overall, just seeing how he moving, like sprinters and all this. And when he sat me down and he was like, what do you want? And I said, I want to work and I want to get better. And he said, what stood out for you, Mark? What I wanted to work with you is. You never mentioned money. He's like, people sitting in this chair, but I need money to get me to this level. And he was just like, the fact that you seeing money before your vision. Yes, it's hard to work with people like that. So. But when I was with Ray, I'm seeing his lifestyle, his cars, his sprinters. And now I'm like, now you got him. Now I'm like, I'm on. I'm like, I'm letting my town all year. Like, I'm old. So now I'm taking pictures, like, with his cars and his house. He like, mansion, got my own room. And he like, this is the life. I'm like, this is the life. But I woke up and I was like, this ain't it. Like this. This his stuff. Like, you need to get your own. And I, you know, left and I randomly. I don't know how to distance myself in a good way. I didn't leave the best way with me and Ray. I just wanted more for me.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And I started doing that and it's like I just kept. And I went through all the phases, like being homeless again, being in hotels and leaving, like, where I could have been at and having this. But I was just like, I got the seed and touch it so I know I can do it.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Exactly.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

So overall, just with me working in the now have my own house built from the ground, it's like.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

It's beautiful.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yes. But I never seen myself doing that at all. Because when you're growing up in your mama just getting apartments and then you say, I want a house. Like, well, you better get slapped in your mouth like, you ain't. You ain't getting no house.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Right.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Like, so just overall seeing the vision that I never got to see growing up. Some things don't make sense. Life don't make sense sometimes. But you just gotta live through it and create. So that's the best thing I like to create. And even with me graduating, I never seen it happening when I did it. So you gotta understand life. You got a blank piece of paper. Just write on it every day. Write.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yes.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And don't stay on that same paper. Turn it, come out again.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yes, that's good. Now that You've built your own house from the ground up. How's your relationship with your mom? Is she proud of you?

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

That's. It's still hard to connect with her, because my mama was always, like, a person. It's about me. I grew up off of survival, and I love. So my mama's in survival mode, and I be trying to help her now. Like. Like, I told her, like, pack your stuff up. I got you your own apartment, like, out here. And I, like, had it furnished. And she's like, well, I just can't leave. I gotta do this. And I gotta get this mail, Javon. I'm like, so it just. It kind of like she's still in that phase of my mama. Got to move. How she see stuff.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Sometimes it don't make sense. I'm like, I didn't matter. Like, I just. Sometimes you got to leave some things to get new things.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Absolutely.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

So it's hard for me to, like, have a relationship with somebody that's trying to keep up with a life that they see in. Sometimes life ain't what you see is what you make it.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Mm.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

So it's hard and it sucks.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

But I love my mama to death. But it's just like, she's in this place where it's like, I just gotta. Like, honestly, I just gotta make sure. It's just like, when you got a mom like that, you just gotta make sure, like, her last day here, you gotta make it the best day and make sure. You make sure that it's set. Because while she here, it's hard for me to bring her to this real. Cause she's stuck in.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

She's stuck. Yeah. Literally. Yeah. I'm from a really small town, and I see it often where people just get stuck in that mentality, that life, and they don't. They. They're really blinded to. Or they're not exposed. How when you moved in with Ray, you were exposed to something different. We were like, oh, wait, I can. I can do this. I can have this. And sometimes that's all people need. But if they've never been exposed, they can't see past where they are.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah. And it's hard, and it's a system because she only doing what her mama did.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yep.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

It's the food stamps, government assistance. And then it's just like, food stamps get, like, section eight.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And then when you see that, it's like, you don't see more.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

A vicious cycle.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And it's like, why would I move and rent $32? And that's one reason, like, me and my first child. Mother didn't work out because my mama was like, yo, you can move out here, like, get food stamps. And like, my. She gave her the plan, and then she like, okay. And then I'm like, all right. You know, I moved in with her. Me and my baby mama stand together, but I'm like, all right, let's get jobs now and then, but you can't make a certain amount of money and stay. So she like, yeah. So she like, I ain't. I ain't ready to get no job. So I. I was. So I had to move on from that. So me and my first baby mama didn't work out because.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Because of that.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah, yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

She was seeing your mom.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

You were like, yeah, I already seen this before. Yeah, I seen this. It's okay to, like, had it as an open door, but let somebody else enjoy the food. Substance, section eight. Like, just don't. Yeah. Just don't sit on it. Like, let that be a stepping stone to move on. But I feel like some people get comfortable. Like me. I was working at a warehouse, and then I'm in there working with. He like, yeah. He like. He said, what you in here for? Like, what you do? I'm like, nothing. I'm just working. Like, you ain't got no feeling? I'm like, nah. He's like, you better get up out of here. Like, these are all felons because we can't get jobs. So when you grow up, you're taking a job. Yeah. So he like, yeah, he like, yeah, get on up out of here. I was scared. I got up on up out of here, too. Well, yeah. So I'm just. Overall, it's like, when you grow up, you just think those jobs are it. Like, they put you. And I ain't gonna lie. It depends where you're from, too. Because I'm from Kansas City. A lot of. You know, I seen a lot of whites with the successful jobs, the airports, and then all the black people in warehouses, like, we put up underground working. But when I came to Atlanta, I'm like, y' all got black people at the airport working? Oh, I never seen that before. So I never seen, like, so many, like, black people have successful jobs. Because where I come from. But I seen out here, Atlanta, so beautiful because it gives opportunity to a lot of people. And it's like, we don't discriminate. This is the same way. Yeah, so. But some people do. But it's still. It'll give you more dreams and Open it up that you can do your own thing.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

That's so true. You started with doing pranks in the store. What was that video that changed everything for you? Were you like, wait a minute, we've got something?

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

When I came up with a strategy of using artist lyrics and they started reposting it. So it was promotion for their songs.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yes.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

So I started doing that, and artists were posting it. And then Ray, he seen that, and he got me a deal with record labels. So it's like, all right, Lil baby about to drop a. So go do the Walmart video and run up on people and then drop at the same time to promote it. And it was making like, you know, a Walmart video is making like, 20,000.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Wow.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Like, each video, I'm just going in there and I'm just like, you know, And I'm just in there working. You learn. You learn the business, too. Because, like, Ray was setting up deals in it. I'm thinking, like, okay, I got 20,000, and he had to take his percentage. Yeah. I don't know math. I'm like, what is that?

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Right?

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And I'm like, where's the 20,000? Like, my percent? Because, you know, I'm saying he worked and he's busting deals and taking his time. So I start to learn that too. So, yeah, I'm like, I didn't know nothing about percentages.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Right. That's another good question. Because I have a team, and that is a part of the business. They take their percentage, but they're bringing so much to the table.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

What are some of the lessons that you learn, even in business and financial, that as you continue to rise, I.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Mean, now that the government shutting down, I'm about to figure out how much money I got.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

I'm seeing, like, billionaires sell assets. Something is happening. I don't know what it is, but I'm seeing people sell stuff. Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

I learned for business, like, ask for help, and it's okay to get help and don't go looking for it, but ask God and he gonna send it to you. I was asking for help, and I was looking for it, and I found some people that I shouldn't have ran into. But I started finding my team once I started doing me and I tell, like, my friends, I feel like a lot of people are in a phase that I need help. But you just gotta ask yourself, you got. If you set yourself up right, people will want to work for you.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

So I feel like you got to ask yourself, like, if I seen my company, would I Quit my job to go work for you. So, yeah, like, nah, because that was me. I was asking for help while I was doing Walmart videos. I'm like, well, why would somebody quit their life and come work for me? But now that I started adding more to my life.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yes.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

It's like, oh, I love to work for you. You know, and same thing like with Drew Ski. Like, he has a great program. When you see how he moving. And if you say, I need an assistant, it's like, I'm ready to work for you. Because what he got set up.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah, they seen it.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

So I feel like sometimes people are trying to stop what they got right now. Just keep going and let it grow, right? And everybody you need gonna come and work for you. It's like you got to build your. Your image or your. Or your brand.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

That's so true. You built a whole style around pauses, intention. Like, you'll just sit there and stare like you did earlier when you said you had to repeat the first grade. You just.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Oh, thanks.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

It was on the pauses.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah, thanks for saying that again.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

When did you realize that silence could hit harder than a punchline?

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Oh, when the teacher used to call me to read and I just had to sit there and I look at her. How was then Started when she like.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Isn'T it crazy how, like, yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And then look at her like, you know, I can't. So it. It start from that. And stealing, too. I was stealing a lot. When you get caught, you just gotta look at them. So a lot of it came from that, like. Cause I ain't good at lying. So it really start from like, you know, that, like. All right. And when I used to do Walmart videos and I say some crazy stuff, I knew I was saying some crazy. I knew. I like. Yeah, because I used to talk to customers normal. And I'm like, what is this? Toothpaste and. Oh, it's really good for your teeth. It's, you know, it has no, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then I just say a young Miami lyric, and then they're just like I said. You said what? Right, so people think I was on drugs when I was doing them videos. And then I. I was dressing like a Goodwill, clothes on and everything. So overall, just sitting in that moment.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

That's how.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

That's right. Yeah. Just sitting in that moment. So like, good or bad? So that's where it came from. Like, yeah, all right.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

No, I'm telling you, I watch your videos. And those pauses, I would just die laughing. Like, it's just it's so much that's not said we call it an inner monologue in acting, but it's so much through the silence that like literally makes everybody laugh. Yeah, it's genius. I love it. Your. Your videos almost feel like experiments. Like, how have you seen the evolution of starting in the stores, doing pranks to where you are now with full productions?

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

I honestly just got a full production, like, what, two months ago with Wave.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

This is the.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah, with Wave. But I had people helping me. But the thing is, when people was helping me and they come with ideas, I wasn't listening and I wasn't taking advice and I was so ready to put out content, it was hurting me. And even with my podcast, I'm shooting it, I'm dropping. When we done editing, like, I'm dropping clips when I feel like it. Or I was so urgent, I didn't let the build up and let it be. Like, let's come up with the proper plan. Like, we post at 8 o', clock, you post at 3. Even when I did the Nicki Minaj interview, she was like, all right, you did an interview. I want to see every clip. I want to see everything. I was so urgent, I put that reel out before she went off on. Yeah, she did. On the page, on the reel. You couldn't. She commented on that. She was like, I didn't approve this. And she was like, and the interview might not come out now. Like, she said it on there. Everybody was like. And I'm like, yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

So did you take it down?

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Because our team respond said, thank God it was a good clip that she did, but if it was something she didn't like and I was just so urgent to get it out, it was because I'm like, overall, I'm seeing castanet clips. Because she did castanet. Right to that. So his clips are going everywhere.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

So you like, I need to.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah, I need to get in. Like, yeah, yeah. I'm like, yeah, I need to get in there and get something too. So. So overall, even that when you look at certain people, like, don't worry about they success, like, let it be theirs because you can hurt yours trying to watch theirs.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

So that was a word, Marco.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

That's so good.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah. Some people get, you know, it's okay to get motivated, but when you're trying to keep up with somebody, it can hurt you.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Oh, absolutely.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Just get motivated. Understand?

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yes.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

It's stay time and your time will come. Even if it don't come, it don't come. It didn't Come.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Exactly what did you learn in that moment with hurrying up and putting the video out and then Nikki going off like, what did that teach you?

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

I can run relationships. Yeah. Even her saying that comment, people like, oh, well, I ain't going if you don't listen. So I'm not used to people. When I do interviews, I'm not used to people saying, I need to watch it because nothing happens or I make sure I. I know what I talk about. But again, when you are talking, you know, women are different. Like, I like this angle. I like this. Like, I don't want to. Like, I don't like that under. You know what I'm saying? I didn't like that shot. So I got to understand that. Yeah, everything ain't about me or what I want.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Wow. That's maturity and growth. I love that. And it's important, especially in our industry. We, like, we have other people's images we have to worry about. It's not just. It isn't just about us. And then the professionalism. What? You also said you had a team that was giving you ideas, but you weren't listening. Have you been able to, like, get a team that you actually listen to now?

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

I'm learning to listen now.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

That's good. Yeah, because you are the creative, you know, but it's also good to, like, have a strong team that can pour into you as well, so you're not carrying the load on yourself. Yeah, yeah, that's good. He said, I'm learning now.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah. I'm learning day by day.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

He ain't looking too convincing.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah, no, I'm learning. I'm learning a lot now. And you got to sit back, and you got to let them create and understand this is what you've been asking for. And I learned that from Steve Harvey. He said, sometimes people ask for a car, ask for new things. While I broke down cars in the driveway. Pull that out, get that garbage out, accept the new car.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Right.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

So I was asking for a lot, but I wasn't ready to receive it.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

That's the real thing. I recently. I'm not gonna say what I prayed for, but I prayed for something, and then I said, God, this is what I'm ready for if you feel I'm ready for it. Because a lot of times, like you said, we think we're ready for something, and then it comes and we blow it. It's like, okay, I wasn't ready for that.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

So now I'm like, if you think. And when you think I'm ready, then bring It. But this is what my heart wants right now.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

So that. That is so true. What is one of the biggest lessons you've learned so far that you can think of besides. Because I feel like that was a big lesson with Nikki, but is there anything else that stands out that you're like, that was a big lesson.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

I mean, a big lesson is it's. It's hard to. When you passionate about something and you feel like it ain't going how you want it to go. But overall, it's like every day matters when you putting something towards your dreams. And that's another thing I talked to my brother about. He a designer, and he got dope ideas, and I see the vision, like, you can be the biggest, but the world got to see it. A lot of people work hard, but they don't show the world that they work hard. And now people are coming more successful when people seeing the work because they're invested and they, like, they become the fan. And people love to be like, I remember when I was there when you was. You know, you got them people packing.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Up the merch itself.

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[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And you don't know how it feels sometimes because I don't know how to take it. Because some people like, man, I used to watch you and like, what you mean, why you stop? So. But yeah, but again, it's still like they were part of a journey. And some people just grow, like, you know, there's some shows you used to watch that you don't watch no more.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

That's so true. Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

You know, I used to watch Pyre when they came out, but now I'm like, damn, Tariq, I remember I used to watch you, but he like, why you not watching the scenes? So, but it's like, it's okay because you got new fans there, too. So again, except that you're going to lose people. You don't gain people. So I got to accept that. Just understanding there's going to be some people that grow away from you.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

That's so true. You said the biggest part of comedy is reading the room. What is one of the lessons you learned just because you've been in many rooms? What is something that you learn from people just by just sitting and watching?

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

That's a good thing. Reading the room is important. And sometimes you can probably say, I don't belong in this room. And sometimes you can create a spot in that room. So it's up to you to, like, figure that out.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

In some rooms I've been like, I need to create a spot in here, even doing stand up. Desi allowed me. He gave me a spot to open up. And that was my. I had no experience. It was just the fact that I bought my ticket, I flew out there, got my own hotel. All right. If you did that, then come. And I kept telling myself, I was like, I want to come.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And when he allowed me to go on stage and I felt it on stage and people were excited to see me, it was just like, I need to be in this room. Like, I need to create my own room now. And instead of me asking Desi, can I go on tour with you? I was like, let me go.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Create your own.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Create a room. And thank you for allowing me to come in your room.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Absolutely.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

It's okay to come in people room, but go create one too.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Exactly.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And some people not meant to create their own room. It's okay to help your room build it too.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Right.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

It's okay.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

That is so true. Yeah, that's so true. I love that you're doing your own comedy show now. Did you, like, after you said you had no experience in this, so when you left opening for Desi, did you get back in there and like, okay, now I got to figure out how to really do this. What was that process like for you?

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

It's still going. It's still going with learning comedy. You got to learn comedy and you got to care. Every time I get off stage, they'd be like, oh, you did good. And it's like, I. I could have did something better.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Are you like your own worst critic?

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah. I don't like listening to my, like, listening to myself over on tape. I don't like watching myself.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Oh, my gosh.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

I only watched two interviews I didn't done, and that was Orlando Brown and Nikki.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Are you serious? I hate, like, hearing my voice.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Oh, my gosh. It annoys me.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

I don't. I don't do it at all. And he said, mojo Brooks, It's a comedian out there. He said, you got to listen to yourself.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Because you got to know what you mess up on.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Exactly. Yeah, you do.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And I talk. If you listen to me. Like, and. But. And like, and those are gap filling. Yep. Like, if you pause.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And you talk.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yes.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And let words come to you. Come on. Sounds so more professional. I'm like, nah. But Kevin Hart got it good. Kevin Hart can speak. When you listen to Kevin Hart.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yes.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

It's like, who raised you? Like, I love that. Like, he has a great brain. Like, God took his time. Yeah. Like, it's just in him. Kevin Hart can speak.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

He's brilliant.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

He say some words and you don't know what he talking about. Like, like he can speak. And just watching people to know their communication level is like high. It's like amazing.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

I love that. That is amazing.

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[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

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[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

You said that you never chase approval, only consistency. How do you keep focus when the algorithms and opinions of others are constantly shifting?

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Don't read. Oh my. Don't read because it can get to you. And I just did a, I did a podcast and it was a different type of setting, different type of fan base. And no matter how much I seen good, I seen the bad. And it's no way for you to be able to read that. Like sometimes if it's like okay, I can take this and change it, it makes you better. But they were saying some stuff like I disagree with. But I was only reading that and installing it to me. So I said let me get out of this. You know what I'm saying? It's already done and they gonna have an opinion. Whatever they type, they already said it. And they are a viewer.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And that's their job to show you how they feel.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

For sure.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

That's why comments are such thing.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

That's real. Unless we open ourselves up to. We open our mouths.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah. Don't read no comments. If you start making it and it get. You just don't read it. Read a little bit right when they post. I like to read the beginning comments cuz it'd be nice. Yeah. Right after 100 it's like oh like yeah, yeah. So I like yeah, long as you get five good comments. Okay, I did something good. Just read like five good ones that get out of there. Cuz you'll be stuck in there. Yeah. And then you start to think, you know, and then you know it was comments like on my skin journey it was like, you know, it wasn't the best but people made me feel bad and it's like, okay, I start wearing makeup. Then I start wearing makeup. I'm covering up. Who I am is like, now he wearing makeup. So, no. No matter what they say, you try to fix it now. Like, even with my skin now, it's like, they try to, like, you know, oh, what is he doing now? What is he getting surgery now? Giving. So no matter what, it's like, you got to understand you are somebody that. They're gonna have a pit. That's a public figure.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Exactly.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Where they gonna have good and bad things to say about you.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Right.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And you just got to know who you are.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Know who you are. And whatever you do, do it for yourself.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Because that. I mean, I think all of us can attest to that. We all have flaws and things that we want to fix. And we hear people, like, for me, even for me, like, my weight fluctuates. So people are always talking about my weight, and they can get to you. If you're reading the comments, I have to stay out of those comments.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Everybody in this room, do not read no comments.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah. Stay out of it. So I totally get that. And I'll tell you, like, I tell myself, do what makes you happy. You know what I'm saying? Whatever it is. And that's not something that you can help. You know, I'm saying, like, your skin is not something you can, like, just.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah. God gave it to me.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

You know, So I can fix it. I can do my best.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

That's all you can do.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah. That's so good. That's for somebody else who may be dealing with some type of insecurity or something that they may want to change or can't help. Just do what you can do for you and not the opinions of others. For sure. I love that.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

You've had so many opportunities and so many deals, I'm sure. Is there a deal that you can remember that you said no to and it was the best no that you could have? Because, you know, sometimes you're like, oh, yeah, I really want to say yes.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

But it was a movie role I had, and they said the character was. Yeah, but we don't. You have no gender. You don't like nothing. You don't know what you like. And I'm like, no, I'm okay.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Like. And overall, it's somebody out there that would love that, bro. So now I don't want to take something for money.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Right.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Because I'm uncomfortable with it, but it's somebody out there that will love the money in that position.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

But I didn't want to lead into nothing that didn't make me feel comfortable.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And they not wrong for offering it to me, but give it to somebody that'll love it.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah. And they can commit to that.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah, yeah. But just to say, like, I'm reading a script and I'm going in and it was like, tell me more about this character. It's like, but you don't have a gender you like. And I'm like, wait a minute. Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

So there's people out there that don't like anybody or is it fluid where you like.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah, but I'm just saying certain stuff can lead into something else. Because if this is serious, it's like, okay, now you like. So it's like, overall, it's like I didn't want to figure out. I didn't want to find out.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

You know what I'm saying? And let me do a role that even if it's not me, like, like, I can grow into that role, but that's not something I want to grow into.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Absolutely.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

But overall, let me not stop somebody else that would love that role. So I feel like sometimes in this spotlight and who you are, they're giving stuff away to people just because of the following.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Absolutely.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And that's like no difference for people that's doing stand up. It's people out there that's. That's great comedians. But they'll have a following.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah. They don't get.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And it's like, yeah, but again, it's like, just pray for them. And I hope they get that spotlight because they really deserve it. Because now they're going off of your face card. Life is changing. It is where talent used to be everything. Now it's just about how much we.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

See you and how much money can you bring us.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Right?

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah. Because they look at followers as dollars now.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah. That is so true. Maybe that's something that you can do on your stand up, like breaks. Figure out who those.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

No, I try to get people open, like in the city I gave, you know, like, come and get, do your time.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Kind of how Desi did for you.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

I love that. I love that. Open Thoughts started online as an online idea and now is in full production with wave. Your second season just dropped.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Last Tuesday, October 21st. And you have new episodes to drop Every Tuesday on YouTube and Spotify video. That's amazing. Approaching this new season, how did you approach it differently?

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Getting help. It's a team. We have team meetings now. I gotta show up. I gotta talk And I got to learn to put my pride to aside because sometimes I'm like, that's not funny. And I try to tell them, but I gotta learn, like, even take the challenge. Even if I don't think it's funny, it's my job to make it funny. And that's no difference from Kevin Hart. Didn't got a script before and he probably. But let me say it in Kevin Hart way.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And now it's funny.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yep, exactly.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

So that's something I got to do. And now as you know, talking to you and me saying it, I gotta stand on that. And. Because I'd be so picky, like, nah, nah, nah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

And also, too. I mean, credit yourself. You are the brand, you know, and God bless you with this gift and talent to know what is true to yourself. So, yes, take on ideas, but also staying true if it doesn't sit well. You have to stay true to who you are because that's what people love, you know? So I get that, though. Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

But and also, you gotta accept the challenge too, because again, that thing. And I thought one funny was probably gonna be the biggest moment.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah. Because people like God gives everybody different ideas.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

If we all thought the same, it'd be so boring.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah. Because there's something Wes and Asana come up with that I may have not even thought of. I'm like, oh, my gosh. Yes. I didn't. I never thought of that. You know, and it ends up being huge.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

So that's so important. I love the. You're becoming a mogul. Do you understand that?

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

No.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

You really are. Yes. Like, all the different brands, you got podcasts, you have a tour now. Like, these are things that you're building and brand partnerships, having those meetings and.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Stuff, being able to get people, like, jobs. Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

It feel good.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

I know it does. Yeah. There's a lot of responsibility that comes with it, but it is definitely rewarding.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah. I love that you said that. Every conversation teaches you something. What is something that you've learned from someone? I know you speak of Steve Harvey and Kevin Hart. What is something that you've taken away from them?

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Oh, it's a lot. Because I listen on podcast positive messages in the morning a lot. I have taken a lot. I also. Let me see what's the best one I can tell people, like, I have picked up because there's so much. Oh, that's a good question. I wasn't. And that's like, even I got to sit back and I watched. I think it was On Hula Hoo. And I watched the Tyler Perry story like that. And when I watched that, I learned so much. And it was just like, from the plays, when you feel like they didn't do that. Like, the grind. The grind is so beautiful.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yes.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Like, the grind is beautiful. And when you get to go back and look at it and you say, this is my documentary.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Mm.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

It's everything. But some people stopped that documentary because that one stop. But again, that was supposed to be a part. Like, that was the headache that people are like, oh, you made it through that.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yes. When nobody was showing up. Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

The Iverson thing that's on there, like, which is everybody talking about and what he been through. So I feel like sometimes we gotta understand that ugly. Appreciate the ugly to get to the good. Like, the ugly is the best part.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And just to say I had an ugly moment and I had to learn, like, when I first started my season, I had a. I had an ugly situation, but that woke me up and made me a better person through my. My first season of my show when I started doing interviews. And I needed that. I needed that. So now moving forward, we reading. Yeah. We reading contracts. We doing stuff. Right. And we're not rushing it. And we getting on the same page.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah. I love that. That is so good. You recently started using your real name.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Marco Summers.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

What was the shift? What happened? Were you like, no, I need people to know who I am. I don't want to just be funny.

[Annabe Sofa Advertiser]

Marco.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Oh. The challenge, because everybody is. When you think of comedians, you got Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Bernie Mac.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yes.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Jamie Foxx. Not his real name. Jamie Foxx. You're wrong for that. But he the only one that's probably making it through. Like Martin Lawrence. So when you think about that, people are known by their name.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Eddie Murphy. Yeah. Everybody.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And then just for me to have funny in front of it, it's like, let me. Let me mold and get the respect that this is Marco Summers. And it ain't gonna be easy.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Cause some people, like, they don't look at my page. My engagement had went down really. Like, it was a lot. Yeah, it was a lot. Just changing that because it's like, you so used to seeing this, it's no difference when Bow Wow sign it changed his name to Sean Ma. So you understand it where I'm bigger than that. Like, I'm a real life person.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yes.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

So, yeah, it was that I was just letting people know, like, I'm ready for that challenge because I gotta Earn that respect, too. I gotta earn it to be like, okay, we. Let's keep going. And I'm thankful to still have viral moments and still be funny with this name carrying on.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Right? Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

You know, and just believe in God, because he gonna work for you as you're working.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Come on, now. Yeah, he preaching, y'.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

All.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

I love it. Now, you talk about staying grounded and protecting your peace. What does that look like for you? Because I'm really big on protecting my peace.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Because it gets loud talking about protecting peace. My peace is unlimited. I. I feel like it can't. It goes through so much. I got one time. I feel like I got one time a month to get upset or get mad, and I started learning, like, don't give everybody your energy that make you upset. Just imagine there's somebody out there that's getting upset by everything. I went to McDonald's. They got my coffee wrong, right? I'm driving. They cut me off. Now I'm at work. Huh? I'm at work. Huh? I just got a call from the school. My son acting bad. I get home. Huh? I gotta go to the grocery store. Just listen to all that. All this through one day, and it's draining you. And sometimes you got to accept that we're living. So if you're living, you're gonna have to have these moments, and it's happening to you, because when you die, you ain't experiencing nothing.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Wow.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

So life is an experience, so you gotta enjoy everything that you go through, and you just can't get mad at everything. And I gotta, you know, I gotta save my anger for, like. You know, like, gotta save it. Like, don't mess with my kids. I gotta save it for them. Like, I gotta save it. Reserve your anger. Sometimes I just feel like everybody give it to you. Give it out too easy. It's like you, like, angry, you know, Like. And you just can't be that.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

You can't do that.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah. Yeah. It's like, save it. Like, save your energy. Because it's gonna be a time where you can have a bad day, but if you have any, you can't do it every day. So easy. Yeah. Like, everybody getting your feelings.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Mm.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Protect it.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

No, for sure. I love that you talk about your children. You are the dad of three beautiful children, and you've been pretty private about your private life. What has fatherhood done for you as you continue to evolve?

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

It's done a lot. I wish. I wish I could have my kids living with me. And they all in different. They got one and My son is in LA and my daughter's in Kansas City. And I want more for them because I have. I'm grateful to be where I'm at. And I'm like, telling their moms, but I understand how women, they. They want their kids like this, the nest. So I got accepted. And that's why us as men, we got to watch who we create with and be with the parent go through marriage. It's a. And, you know, it's. I gotta understand that I went to these places and I created a home knowing, like, we might not work out together. So I gotta understand too, like, next go around, you have another kid, make sure it's we. We together, locked in. Yeah. Cause I don't like that experience. But I can't get mad at them because they doing what's best for them and they don't wanna, you know, pass it through. So sometimes it like, you know, don't feel good. Cause I would love to give them, like, putting them in school, putting them in private school, because I can afford that.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Right.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

I can show them. I don't want my daughter growing up in Kansas City because it ain't nothing there. Like, let me bring her to Atlanta.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yes.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

But her mom don't see what I see. It's not nothing to get upset with her about, because it's like, she see what she see as she. As I see what I see. Yep. And it's like, no, seeing is wrong. But I just be like, you know, like, I can build a brand around my daughter right now.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Oh, my goodness. Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah. Like, let me, like, you know, so. But I don't want her growing up thinking, like, getting a job. Like, like, if you want to get it, fine. But I want to show you that you can be your own person. You can be whatever you want to be in the road. You got to see it. Because I didn't see it growing up.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Right.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

So sometimes when you next to it, that exposure. Because I don't think Kevin Hart son is saying, I gotta go to Walmart, I'm gonna work at Walmart. No, because you see how his daddy. And if he do it. Cool.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Exactly.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah. Do it. But I don't think, like, we mold our kids to, like, like, this is what you can be, but do what you want to do.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Right.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Same thing with LeBron James son. He playing ball.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yep.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

You know, but sometimes when you grow up, I just feel like when you so used to seeing people getting jobs. Yeah, but I gotta get a job. Like, that's all. Yeah. So I never Seen my mama or. And like my daddy selling drugs. Some people I gotta sell drugs. So when you grow up and you see this program, you think this is all I can do? Because this is what I'm seeing growing up.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

That's what it is.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

I'm in the apartment. All I can get is the apartment.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yes.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

That's all I see.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

So everything ain't about what you see sometimes.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah. I pray that you're able to influence your daughters from afar.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

You know, and your son. Yeah. Because I know that is important. And as a parent, you want the best for them.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

You want them to see all the opportunities that they have, especially that are afforded because you are who you are, you know? So I get that. Yeah, I get that. Next up, you have open thoughts. National comedy tour. I'm excited about this.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

I need an Atlanta date.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah, no, I'm gonna get Atlanta date. And that's what I had to learn too, because I had an Atlanta show and they gave me a theater. Theaters are different. So I gotta work on my promotion because how my shows are, they are selling out last minute. So like the box, the tickets are not selling sold out, but people are doing walk ups. Yep. So me, I'm like, I don't come into Atlanta. People show up. But when you got a business and people are opening, they hold theater for you and they paying their employees. You got to have a set amount sold.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

So I'm like, you know, Atlanta coming. They like, oh, we can't do Atlanta show because tickets looking tight. I'm like, nah, people gonna pull up. Trust me. My cousin said he pulling up at the door with 50 people. You know, his 50 people got like a girlfriend. Boy, so we good. Like, nah. So learning business. So I learned with the shows, do promotion and do well to understand that, like, you know what I'm saying? I needed that moment to realize, okay, this is serious to sell tickets.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Like, it is so serious.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

It's like push it. Like, keep it in their face. So me, I was so used to, like, I'm okay. I ain't got to promote because they gonna hear about it and they gonna come. So, you know, and shout out to Floyd Mayweather because he'd be big on his promotions.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Like, come on.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah. Like, you know, I'm fighting, but I'm still pushing it.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yes, yes.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah, that's the thing. Don't. Don't become your own enemy. And that's what I did in that part where I like, I'm okay or get too comfortable. Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Like, I'M Yeah. Because that's how we feel. Like, they're gonna.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And then Kelly Kels, that's a comedian. Shout out to her. You gotta tap in her. You'll love her. Kelly sure is somebody that's like, keep going. Like, you know, And I got her opening up in front of me. Kelly is a beast at stand up, and she's so good. And some people were like, how can you have, like, opener so good and you still learning comedy? You not scared? And I'm like, nah. I needed that, like, to put me on fire. And it was times where people like, yeah, Marco was good, but Kelly was a beast. So overall, to hear that, and it never made me feel jealous. It's like, get on that page. Like, get on it. To have, you know, people leave your show and say, the open air was better than you. Comedians can't take that.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

But me, I'm like, I give props to Kevin Hart for that. Because a lot of people, Nyeen Lim is the one that goes on right before him.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

I've heard so many people say they love Kevin. They come for Kevin. That's another ticket. But they love.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

He's so. And he is. I mean, I love Naim. He's so funny. But it takes a very confident person.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

To let people come that are just as good as you are. Better.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

To come up before you, that's.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah, that's. It ain't easy, but when it's in you, it's in you. Like, I don't have a jealousy bone. I want to see everybody win.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yep.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And I've been seeing people win since I was broke, so I was like, if you got it, I got it.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Come on.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

So, like, my brother had money. I had money.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

That's right.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

My brother had clothes. I had them, even though they didn't want me to. He had the. He got the new Jordans.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I got it.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

I got him.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

So me having that mentality, like, it helps me. Did I say it right? Mentality.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Mentality. Oh, it's okay. Do what you get.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

The silence.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

I gotta master that.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

You should have just told me, like, yeah, you was right.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

But then you, like, Chris lied to me.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

No, I didn't. I would have said it on another podcast. You can't be killing people dreams. That's like telling somebody, Santa Claus ain't real.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Marco, you are so funny.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Really? All right. This is amazing. I'm so happy we finally got to do this.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

I wish you the best with everything you have coming up. Definitely gonna catch you on the road for Open Thoughts tour. Make sure you guys check it up. Get your tickets now. Don't wait to the day. Get them in advance. All right. We're gonna sell them out.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah. And shout out to you because you've been doing your thing. Shout out to your team. This is amazing.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

My team is you.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Listen. I feel like I'm in LA right now, so it's something feel like we like, you know, to have that vibe.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Different, because Atlanta's Atlanta.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Atlanta's Atlanta, baby.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And LA is la. Yeah. But when you go to la, you feel like.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Like, even New York. I was just in New York, and it makes you feel in work mode.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Like, I say that all the time.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

New York is like work. Like, LA is filled. Like Miami, too. So, like, Atlanta just feels so comfortable. Like, it's. So. To come in here and feel the energy of your team and work, it's like, they ain't playing. It makes you be like, okay, like. And it's good. Like, it matters because, you know, it pass on. And when your name get brought up. And we created a moment because in life, you know, life is short. So now it's done. So it's. It's just moment to be able to go back and look at something.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Thank you so much. I appreciate that. Because we work really hard. I have all these big dreams and visions like you as well, and it's my team that helps it come to life. There's so many things I want to do, and I want to do it excellent because, like you said, the name and the. Here I am losing the word reputation precedes itself. So I want to make sure that everything I do is top tier. When you come in here, you got water, your gingerbread, whatever you need, we got you. I want you to feel at home because I started this in my house, and then it got too big because you can't hear about everybody in your space. But I still wanted people to feel safe when they come in here.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah. And everybody, you know, in a room. Your spot is a place for a reason. And understand that your role is important. And it's like, you know, the game don't go on without no referees. Like, the game don't go on without a basketball.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

You know what I'm saying? Like, as well, the game don't go on without LeBron James, so. And it might not be LeBron James, but that ball's important, too. So understand that your spot is important no matter what you're doing, and show up and do the best and I told my brother cameraman that I always know somebody would love to have your spot. And all you can do is perform well and.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Do your thing, you know, at what you got.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

For sure.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Whatever you're doing. If you the mopper, be the best mopper you can be, better be listen, you know.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Okay.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And then you'll be able to learn it. And you know, it's not. I don't look at people at positions that they in. I look at it how they carry their personality. I go to McDonald's. I try to make them feel, you know, like I'm with, like, you still you somebody in a uniform, like you were for a company. You're a real life person outside of that. So I'm not gonna treat you wrong because, you know, I know you got a job. Not gonna talk crazy. I don't agree with people that do that.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

No, me neither.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Because again, it's. Yeah. Before we go, I think who said it was somebody that said it. Like, if we took money away from everybody, then what?

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Then what? Yeah, exactly.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

That's all it is. So.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

That is so true.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Those things are powerful. When you realize that we are one and just appreciate good people because, you know, it's. It's some people out there that's bad. So we just gotta appreciate the good people and be part of that. Good people.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah. No, that's so good.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

You're not bigger than the program. That's it.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

That is it. Kids, family, please give it up for Marco Summers. Marco, please tell the people where we can find you. You change your name on Instagram, we need to let them know.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah. Overall, just. I'll be at home, so it's gonna be hard to find me. I'll be at home with my kids. So you do. I'll be at Target, too. It's okay to say that. Okay, well, I'll be at Walmart. Well, okay. T.J. maxx, is he a black man?

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

I have no idea who TJ is.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

TJ Maxx and Marshall sound like two. Two guys. Two black dudes.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Tj.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

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[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

I didn't even think about that.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah, because they cheap, too. You go in there. Yeah, it's like in like. T.J. maxx is not. It's somewhere you gotta work on. Like, you'll get a shirt today, probably get a pants next year. So it's like. See, I like, it's like black people. So, like, it's like, you ain't gonna get everything right now. You gotta work with me.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yeah.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah. It's like, might not be like a bill today, probably tomorrow. So. Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

You are so silly. Unless you do Instagram.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, Marco Summers in. Yes. And. Yeah, that's it. Really?

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

YouTube. What's is it under?

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Market YouTube. Yeah. Open thoughts. You go to Open Thoughts?

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Open Thoughts.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

So tap in, subscribe, and go get your tickets for the Open Thoughts national tour.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Oh, and if you watch the episode this long, she's giving away a thousand dollars. So thank you for watching. All you got to do is DM her and send her why you need the thousand dollars. And it gotta be good. I will read it. And it might take some time, so I'll take a little bit to read so we get back to you in a couple months.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

I love that.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah. So you could be lucky.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

You could be.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

So you gotta watch it all the way through.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Send your Social Security. Social Security number two.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

We need everything.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah. We did. In your bank card so we can send it over. Show money. Yeah, that's it. Well, thank you guys for tuning in.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Yes.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And we're here with the one and only Marco Summers. No, you. You say your name.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Crystal Renee Hazlets. That was so good.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

That was dry.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

I love it. Okay, let's do it again.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

All right, we're here with the one.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

And only Crystal Renee Hazlet.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

And shout out to the team. Team. Make some noise. See, there's real life people out there.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

We got a live studio out here.

[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

Yeah, it is. This is Rick. Back to you, dad.

[Krystal Renee Hazlett]

Oh, my goodness. That was such a dope conversation with funny Marco. Also, a reminder that being different isn't something you have to fix. It's something to master. Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the Keep It Positive Sweetie Show. Don't forget to subscribe, leave a review and share this episode with someone who could use a little light today. As always, stay blessed, encouraged, and remember to keep it positive, sweetie. I'll see you all next time.

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[Marco Summers (Funny Marco)]

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