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You're listening to Mick Unplugged. Hosted by the one and only Mick Hunt. This is where purpose meets power and stories spark transformation. Mick takes you beyond the motivation and into meaning, helping you discover your because and becoming unstoppable. I'm Rudy Rush, and trust me, you're in the right place. Let's get unplugged. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another exciting episode of Mick Unplugged. And today, I've got a goat. I've got a guy who helped get me through some of the toughest times of my life just by making me laugh so I could forget about it. He is none other than the incomparable, the unstoppable, the iconic, the goat. Mr. Bruce.
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Bruce, man, I'm good, man. How you doing?
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I'm doing great now that I'm with you, man.
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My man. I like that, brother.
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Hey, so I'm just gonna go straight into this Netflix special, bro.
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Okay.
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I had a watch party at my house, so I have like 27 first cousins. We were all at the crib. Like we were at a comedy club with popcorn, maybe some adult beverages.
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Yes, sir.
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We were laughing our butts off.
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That's good. I like that. I like to hear that.
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Yes, Sir. So tell us about how that show came to be, man.
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Well, it's like this, man. I hadn't did a special like that in 15 years, or actually 16. And, man, let me tell you, man, everybody say, why you wait so long? Well, see, the first time, the first one I did it, my mother passed.
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And on that Monday, right?
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Yeah, I buried her that Monday. And I had to do this show that Friday, the same week. And I dedicated everything to her, which I dedicated this one to her. But I thought about it, I said, what would my mother want me to do? You know what I'm saying? And she want me to keep going, keep moving, doing my thing. So that's what I did. But I will not wait this long again. I promise you. I won't leave you 15 years, no more. And I'm gonna do another. I'm gonna try to do one next year. But what I'm. What I want to. I perfected this show, you know, when I was working on, I was working on, I was adding stuff, moving stuff, adding stuff, moving stuff. And I picked the best out of the best because I wanted to be funny from the beginning to the end. And see, most comedians, they'll give you a roller coaster ride. You know, they'd be up and down, up. You know, it's funny. Then they go down. You go, oh, that's fine. You go, I didn't want that. I want to be like, look, I'm about to throw up. This dude is about to make me throw up. So that's what I wanted. And I think that's what I got. You know what I mean?
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Not, I think, brother, you delivered. Because genuinely, that's what everybody said, because Bruce. Bruce said it, so I don't have to say it. A lot of comics in their specials, the first seven minutes are.
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They get you. I mean, you, you, you laying in the floor. You're laying in the floor, then you go, like, what happened?
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Then you got 15 to 20 minutes. How much longer is that? And see what ended.
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All right? And one thing about me, like, when I look at stuff on social media, and if it don't grab me, right, then I go to something else. You got to grab them. I heard James Brown, you know, I'm a James Brown fanatic. You probably don't know that, but I love James Brown.
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I got the memoir.
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Yeah. And I love James Brown. And I heard him say one time, he was. They was doing an interview, he said, once you grab them, he said, you got them. So I come out and grab you. I'M going to grab you. I'm going to tell you that right now. I'm going to grab you. And I wanted, I just wanted to be the best man. And I have had bad shows, but then nobody knew it but me. You know, I'd be on my team. And some of these, it could have been better because they like what I said, could have been better. I say the next show, I got to turn it up a notch. And that's what I do. I try to perfect it, man. And, and people got to say, you got to love what you do. You got to love what you do. If you like stripping, strip. If you like stealing calls, steal them. But you got to love what you do. And like, I tell all these new comedians that on social media, they work that social media because it's, it's great. Give the people more than the five minutes that they see on social media. You know, if you, you gonna, you got five minutes, it's great. But when people come to see you something for them to go home and talk about, you know what I mean? Just don't have that little five minute, hey, thank you. And then you get all the money. No, because me, I've been doing it for 36 years, so I've been getting repeated, repeated. I can go every club every year and do a show and sell out every year and I bring them something new every time.
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And that's what I'm going to give you your flowers on now. Because, one, I believe in giving people their flowers and when they can actually see them and smell them. I've seen Bruce Bruce at five shows in the past two years. And you are relevant in every show and a single show because here's the thing, society's changing and evolving. And again, I'm gonna say this so Bruce, Bruce doesn't have to say it. There are comedians that the jokes they were telling 10 years ago are the same jokes they're telling now.
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You know what? And don't get me wrong, it's nothing wrong with that, because sometimes I have a good joke is a good joke. Yeah, that's, hey, do that joke about the bus driver. Do that joke about I have to do it, you know, but you get, you got to stay on top of your game. Like, people always ask me why I don't talk about Donald Trump. It's just one thing I don't like about Donald Trump and that's his hair. I don't care about nothing else, but Nobody should be 80 years old with a shag and a bang. Did you hear me, player? That mean he got a shebang. Did you hear what I said? And, you know, we all see people, don't you playing crazy. Donald Trump told you from the beginning what he was going to do.
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No surprises.
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I mean, no surprise. So one thing I can say, he didn't lie. He didn't lie about that. And he. And he doing his thing. So what you get is what you got. So he told you from the beginning. There it is. Yeah, I love it. Yeah, I love it.
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So let's talk about this longevity you have, man. Because in your world, you get comics that are here today, gone tomorrow. You got the social media comics that it's cute to be funny and silly, but then you gotta be real. Like, you gotta be able to take that and then go live or go corporate or have real conversations. You're one of a very few people. And I'm just going to say it. That also look like us. That's just been here for a long time, brother. Like, what has been your secret? I shouldn't even say secret, because I
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don't like that, okay?
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Because you put in the work. And I know that that's part of it. You put in the work to stay relevant. But also, bro, the other part of that is you still look like Bruce. Bruce is 27, 28 years old, too.
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Hey, man, let me tell you that, like I said, like I say this again. What? I used to be a chef. I know how to cook. I used to work for Frito Lay Potato Chip. And one thing about Frito Lay Potato Chip, driving that truck, going from store to store, that taught me how to run a business. It taught me how to run a business, run my own business. And I let these communities know, even the guys that work for me. Hey, man, we go out here, we have fun. You know, we eat at the best places. We have fun. But it's still a business. And you got to treat it like a business. You know, Even though we are here, you know, these guys talking every woman they can see and all that. It's not about that with me. It's about me coming in, doing my jokes, doing it for the love, staying consistent, and come back and do it again next year. I got a wife. I don't need no other woman. You. I cannot handle this nut. I got it now. You understand what I'm saying? I'm trying to get rid of her, but she won't leave because I'm too good to her. You know what I'm saying? But you don't have it As a business. This is a business. It's like if you go work at. You could work at McDonald's, you know, no matter. You might have fun, but it's a business. And you got to respect people and you got to have good customer service. And that's one thing I like. I got. I got customer service. I'm nice to everybody. My granddaddy taught me something when I was young. He said, the only thing free in life is being nice. It don't cost nothing. So you ain't got to be mean to people. See, when you arrogant and conceited and stuck up, that's too much energy for me, man. I could be doing something. I could be eating some Popeye chicken, you know what I'm saying? Saying I ain't got to be out here. I can eat some Popeyes and give me an apple pie, you know, like a 36 piece, you know, something like that, with a Diet Coke. You know what I'm talking about? You know what I'm saying? Gotta have a diet code. Don't want to gain no weight. But the thing is, just. Just treat it like a business, but have fun while you're doing. I got my nephew working for me. I got my grand. One of my grandkids working for me. My baby boys, my road manager. And. And man, they do a good job. They're really good on the computer, computer. So they keep me on top of the game. My son told me, I remember when social media came out. He said, hey, pops, if you don't change, man, you're gonna be behind. And I thought about it and I said, you know what? He's right. And if I had social media 36, 37 years ago, man, I will be bigger than Richard Pryor, Red Fox, Bill Cosby Hilton, Burrow George. Put together the social media is a good, good avenue to take, but use it right. Don't do nothing crazy. Don't be on there slapping your girl and shooting people. No, use it for your platform. Just like they gave me a TV show yet, I'm not gonna worry about it. I'm gonna put a TV show on. On social media. I'm gonna do my own TV show, you know what I'm saying? I'm gonna use that platform, and I'm
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gonna be the first subscriber you have.
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So when you. Man, it's gonna be good, man. It's gonna be good.
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I am there for it. I am there for it. I want to go because I want people to hear this and understand this, because I've Heard you talk about it quite a bit, but I'm gonna ask it in a different way. Your comedic career, that journey going back to when you got into the game, you been authentically Bruce Bruce. What I want people to understand is this. When Bruce Bruce got into the game, the game was call people out of their name, use any kind of language, right? Be loud, be different, attack the crowd. Like, go do that. Bruce Bruce was different. He was always him every day. Let talk through that journey, brother.
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And see, the thing is, people, they ask sometimes, how is he at home? She said, just like he is on stage. He's the same person. It's not a difference. I'm not putting out a front, you know. You know, I'm the same person on and off stage. Even when I was a kid, I was funny. I was. You know, I was a neighborhood clown, church clown, school clown. I just had fun. I never did anything to hurt anybody. You know, I didn't want to hurt their feelings. Except one girl with that ponytail, if you saw it in that, true. With that little bit of ponytail that, you know, I picked on her today. Then she made me be her boyfriend. She said, you gonna be my boyfriend? So the thing is, hey, man, you know, you don't take all that to. To. To make people laugh. I can sit now and talk to somebody and let's just say I'm in the bank and it's taking a long time. I say, well, I said, what, they working on Turtle today? I said, they pretty slow today, and they'll bust out laughing, you know what I'm saying? Like, I'm at the airport one time, TSA going through everything I got. I said, my man, are you trying to make lieutenant? I said, because what you looking for? It's on the X ray, what I got in my bag. You see what's in my bag, but you want to check everything. You try to make lieutenant. I. I believe that he bust out laughing. He realized. He said, man, man, go on, man. Go, go, go, man. Just going through. You know what I'm saying? So sometime we go too far. You know, we go too far with things, and. And we just need to just keep it at a minimum, man. Do your job. Keep it moving. I go to the airport every week. I fly every week. Everybody in Atlanta airport know me. Everybody except isis. They got ISIS that now. And I don't know what they doing, man. They just standing there looking crazy. They got. Like. I had a police one time pull me over and you. I got a big doula. You got the Drugs in the car. I said, I don't have the drugs. I said, now, I do have some sandwiches in the back. I said, now, I got about 74 subways. I said, now, if that's a crime, you might want to put the handcuffs on me now. I said, but right now, I don't care. He brought the dogs out, man. He dog run around the truck. I look up, the dog went back to the police car, just sat down. You know what I'm saying? I say, so he didn't smell that, did. I say, he smelled them. That roast beef and that pastrami sandwich I had in the back. He probably wanted that. But, you know, man, you're gonna run into all kind of stuff, and it's a way to handle everything, you know, even with women, even your relationship, you got to communicate, man. Communicate. My wife will shut down sometime. I said, well, I wait till she get through having her silent moment, and then you can come talk to me. You know what I'm saying? And one day, she got mad at me. I don't know what she got mad about. And I told her, I said, whenever you want to talk, I say, you come sit by me in the bedroom in this chair. Put your big girl panties on and sit down and tell big daddy what's the problem. And we saw the problem in three seconds. You see what I'm saying? You know, I'm that type. I'm calm. I'm not a violent man. You know, My uncle told. My uncle raised me, he said, don't ever hit no woman. Don't ever leave. Walk out the door, run. He said, if you can't run out and joke, he said, but you're gonna be all right. I. I live by that. You know? I live by that. And. And I teach my kids, you know, don't hit no woman. No, no, no, no, no. Because when you get a divorce, my brother, I don't know what it is. I don't know who made this rule up, but the man always got to start from the bottom. I just don't understand that. Why do we have to start from the bottom? We done built all this up, and then they just take it away. You know, I. I don't get that. I need to talk to some judges. I. I need to tell you, y' all need to work it out. But, man, we can split this thing together, player. You know what I'm saying? But, you know, you know, it just. It's just life, you know, it's life. And that's how the law is. That's how it's set up. And, and I, I, I encourage every young man to have children, take care of kids, no matter what. You know, when I got a divorce with my first wife, man, I was hoping she had a new dude. I was praying to God, said, father, God, in the name of Jesus, please let her have a new dude. Please, God, please answer my prayer if you real answer me, you know, and she did, you know, and, but you know, some, some things you got to let go. Cause I was told you'd never make it. You'll never make it. You, you fat. People gonna laugh at you cause you're fat. And I said, well, I tell you what, I see you on TV, and here I am, right here, 36 years later, man, still doing it, still loving it. And people always say, you have 15 minutes of fame. I always tell people I hadn't even started on my 15 minutes yet. I'm still having fun doing stand up, real talk.
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Yes, sir.
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Love it, man. Yeah, I love it. So, Bruce, one of the questions I usually ask all my guests at the very beginning and I want right here to ask you is what is your because? Right? Like we hear start with why and what's your why? And I think your why is superficial, right? Like your why is probably your kids, your wife or whatever. There's a reason that they're your why. And I call that your because. So if I were to say, Bruce, Bruce, man, it is 20, 26. You could have stopped a long time ago, right? But you still got it. You still keep going. What's because, what's your purpose? Why do you keep doing what you Do.
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Well, I can remember when I first started to answer your question in so many ways. I remember when I first started. It was a comedian didn't like me, and he would never put me up. Never put me up. I could have easily walked away, you know, I could have easily said, you know what, man? Forget this, man. I ain't gonna put up with this dude. But I didn't. Cause I. I just. It was something there. Something kept telling me, keep pushing, keep pushing. And we. I've always been tall. I've always been taught to press your way. So, you know, I do it because I love it. I love what I do. When I went on stage the first time, I knew. I didn't know, but I knew. That's why I should have been my whole entire life. I knew it. Like, I have comedians. I go to them. I say, hey, man, got a show for you, man. I want you to do it with me. First thing. They say, how much they paying? I said, hold it, player. Hold up, hold up. You even been seen walking by tv, much less on tv, and you asking me how much they pay. I say, when I ask you or tell you about a show, I'm gonna make sure that you get paid. I said, but the key thing is, don't do it for the money. Do it for the love. Let me tell you something. Don't ever run at money. Let the money run at you. And it's just that simple. Yes, sir. But that's why, man, I got three. I'm an older guy, man. I got older. My kids are old. My baby girl is 40. My baby boy's 42. My oldest son, 45. When I tell people that, they don't believe it. But I was laying it down. Back in the day, I would lay, you'd have been proud of me, player. You know what I'm saying? You'd been proud of me. I was laying it down, man, like a player. But my kids now are, like, the best thing in the world to me. And my grandkids are even better, you know? I love kids. So I got 10 grandkids, man. And my grandkids are like my heart, you know? And they're so pure and so innocent. And are they cool. They come talk to me about everything. I'm talking about everything. I got grown grandkids, and they talk to me about everything. And I just lay it on them, right? Like Marco did me. Marcus used to tell me, look, I'm gonna give you the good and the bad and the ugly. He said, you got sense enough to pick the good and bad nugget, right? I said, yes, sir. He said, all right, I'm gonna let you make that decision. That's how he was, you know, so, you know, he give you a chance to make the right decision. Now you go left, you're like, oh, wait a minute, wait. Come here, come here. Let me talk to you. You ain't thinking now. Thinking about what? Think about what you doing before you make this crazy decision. So that's why I did my kids. And, man, they, you know, like I said, My baby boy, 42, he went to Fayetteville State University in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He was Mr. Fayetteville State. You know, he got three degrees. Hey, man, I mean, I went to college, you know, dropped my cousin off. But look, but, you know, that just how it. But you just got to communicate. And in every aspect of life, man, like my manager and I, we go back and forth on stuff. Sometimes I get hot. He like, bruce, I understand. I understand what you're saying. Bruce, I understand. But listen, I get hot and I get the Holland and hooping. And did he try to give me a different point of view? And I go. I said, well, let me think about that for a minute. So sometime you need that. You don't need a brother cheering you on all the time. You need somebody to pull your rope and say, hey, man, hold up. Wait a minute, wait a minute. Before you do that, think about what you're doing, because it'll cost you in the long run. So that's what it's all about. Yeah, I love it. I love it.
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And hearing you talk about your kids, man, takes me back to the joke on the special about your daughter and
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tell her, oh, yeah, and you know what? You know what? Let me tell you something now. This. This one lady said, I didn't like that joke you told about your daughter. I said, well, my daughter's 40. She's been married 18 years, going on 19 years. She got married when she was 21. I say, and I counsel her and her husband, I counsel her from the beginning. When he asked me for her hand in marriage, I told her, he can get her, but he can't bring her back. I said, you cannot bring her back. And when they say, who give this woman? I pushed her, you know, the United States. I pushed up there. I said, look, but if a lot of fathers and mothers stop talking at their kids and talk to your kids, you can get your point across. And a lot of divorces wouldn't happen. See, you're lady Said, I don't like that joke you did about your daughter. So if your dad would have taught me, you probably wouldn't have had three husbands right now, right? And then she looked at me. Well, it was funny, though. But I just don't think you should have said that to your daughter. Well, I'm gonna tell her and I'm gonna communicate with her. Cause they cannot move back in my house. Did you hear what I said? They cannot move back in my. I'm sorry. I called the police. I said, I know, Em, but they need to leave the premises right now.
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Yes, sir. Hey, you got it rolling, man. And I know how busy you are, so I don't wanna keep you long, man. But I just, again, I wanted to tell you.
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Thank you.
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You talk about fatherhood a lot. You talk about your family a lot. And that inspired me. I mean, I would say even with my kids now, we're at a point where I'm no longer dad. I mean, I'm still gonna be dad, right? But we are friends, right? And we can have conversation as friends. And just like you, when they come to me for dad, it's more like the counseling, the advice. And outside of that, like, we are friends. And I got that from you, man. Like hearing all the things that you do, following you for as long as I have to be a present father, I think is the most important skill that all fathers can have.
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And one thing we gotta understand, kids grow up and they become adults. So you got to talk to them like adults now. I can tell you, man, I used to every day, every single day, when my ex wife and I got divorced, I call my kids every single day. I mean, every single day, not a day miss. I call them, hey, dad. And when they answer the phone, you thought, I. I've been gone for 30 years. How you doing? He's so happy to hear from me. But my uncle told me, said, look here, he say you're getting a divorce. He said, I understand that. He said, but somebody in this relationship got to have some sense. And he said, it don't seem like she got none. He said, so it's going to have to be you to make sense and make things right. He said, I don't care who you see her with, what she say or what she do. He says, your job as a man to take care of them kids. He said, now if you do what I tell you, you're going to come out on top. I never get. He said this. He said, might not be here to see it. He said, I Might be dead. And he said, but when it happened, you gonna think about me. And he was exactly right. I kept my kids every weekend. Not every other week, every weekend. Because I. I was in love with my kids. I was in love with a man. And we had so much fun. And I was almost like their brother because I played with them constantly, over and over, constantly. And they. They knew me. They would tell me anything. Even as a child, they would tell me everything. Anything. And that's the kind of relationships you got to have with your children, man. Cause a lot of guys, they think, well, I'm sending child support. That ain't got nothing to do with it, man. Do you know your child? Like my dad, my mom and dad, when I was four or five years old, right? I found my dad when I was 40. We talking 35, 36 years later. And when I met him, when I got up with him, he was on the defense, but he thought I was finna come at him, you know, man, where you been? First of all, I don't know you. Only thing I know that you was my dad. I just want to talk to you. I say, hey, man, how you doing? I say, I got three kids, you got three grandkids. And I said, I got a son look just like you. And, man, you can see the relief from his whole spirit of his body. Just like, man. Is that right, man? He said, showing up, he got to talking. And then he realized that. Then I started telling him stuff I remember as a child. He said, you remember that? I said, yeah, man. I said, I remember everything about you. I said, I did. I don't know you, but I know I got a lot of your ways. Because my dad was a workaholic. He took care of the family. My mama ran him. All she did. You know, women ain't gonna tell you the truth. And before my mother passed, she said, yeah, I did run him off. I ran that joke off, man. You know? And she knows she did, you know what I'm saying? But most of these guys be mad at their dad. Joker did my mama wrong, first of all. Hold it. You don't know the whole story. See, it's three sides to every story. Her side, his side, and the truth. You know what I'm saying? So find out the truth before you start blaming that you. He wasn't around, he wasn't doing it. It's a reason why he not around. She done told him he better not come around. Then she got some old stupid joke she going with, you know what I'm saying? Smoking Viceroy. Now look, I don't need him over here, you understand? I don't need him over here to have. I'm telling you, you know. So we got to understand what's going on and and learn to talk. Not not learn to argue. Screaming Holl I ain't ain't with all that I tell the young boy now I got too old to fight. I'm trigger happy. I'm telling I'm trigger. I I will pop them. They will see Jesus and they will touch the hem of his garment. Did you hear Tell you nothing man. We have gone to church. Yes sir. Yes sir.
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my goodness. You know, check out the Netflix special. It's called Ain't Playing. It's called Ain't Playing and I ain't Playing. And please check it out because if you don't know me or you never see me, trust me, when you see this Netflix special, you're going to fall in love with me. And the thing is, I want everybody to know about. Go to my social media. It's Y. Bruce Bruce. That's Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, all that at my Bruce Bruce. And tell me your likes and dislikes. Because if it's something you don't like, tell me. Give me a chance to fix it, you know, I'm not gonna take it personal. Just tell me I can fix it. You know what I'm saying? I don't walk around with security. That ain't my style. I'm from the hood of Atlanta. I don't see it all. You cannot scare me. You know what I'm saying? I don't see, I don't see jungle. Just walk out the bushes. Just from nowhere, you know, you walk down the sidewalk. Brothers. Hey man, what's happening, man? Where you that? I'm in the bushes over there. What are you doing in the bushes? You know, so I don't seen it all. And, and, and, and it's just all about life, man. And sometimes like you told me earlier, I helped you through a lot of things, you know, and, and I helped myself through a lot of things. Man, I grew up in a church, you know, I grew up in a holiness church. I went to Baptist church holding this church. And I don't did it all, man. You know, key thing is just keep it real, Keep it real with yourself and keep it real with everybody else. And it, and it make it a lot better for you.
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The doors of the church are open.
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The doors of church. And I'm gonna be in Greenville. I'm gonna be the company's only. I'm telling you, if you miss this, you're gonna miss a tree because the tickets are going fast. I'm letting everybody know now. Every time I come to Greenville, South Carolina, sell out. I used to come there years ago, years ago, man. And they used to do comedy in a hotel. This is for the club even got there. And, but Greenville, show love, man. And I'm gonna come in and go to SNS cafeteria, you know, because they took the one away down here in Atlanta. I don't know why. But then I go to SNS Captain South Carolina and I see the same workers that was in Atlanta working up there. So I go, show love, man. I go, I, I tip good. I, I treat the people good. People take pictures, man. Hey, man, it's all about just living your life. Life is too short, man. And, and, and you know, I rest in peace. Jesse Jackson, you know, I know he passed and everything and rest in peace. Suggest Jackson. There it is.
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Bruce, Bruce is coming to my hometown, Greenville, North Carolina. I'll be there. Family, friends going to be there. We're going to celebrate.
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Bruce, Bruce.
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We going to laugh. We probably going to cry. Our stomach's going to be on the floor. It's going to be Bruce, Bruce's fault. I'm going to blame him for it, but I want every single moment of it, brother.
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But I'm going to tell you, it's three snacks that I like. I ain't going to tell. No, they're between me and you. It's three snacks that I like. I like Krispy Kreme donuts and I like Cinnabon and I like that Little Debbie zebra cake. Let me tell you something. If you bring a Little Debbie zebra cake, I fight everybody in that club. You hear me? And I'm not a fighter. Watch what's gonna happen. Watch what you tell, boy. Let me tell you something. That Little Debbie zebra cake. Oh my goodness. Look here. I know there's a God in heaven. I know there's a God in heaven.
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Amen to that. So I'm gonna have links to everything in the show, notes in the descriptions. I'm gonna run a little teaser and trailer because Bruce. Bruce will be in Greenville, South Carolina, this week at the Comedy Zone. You are there. If you're too late, you're too late. That's all I got.
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Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I will be there. I will be there.
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Yes, sir. Bruce, again, brother, thank you so much for all that you do. Thank you for who you are and thank you for the mentorship. We didn't even talk about that, but thank you for the mentorship because you know how I can tell when a man is good? When they like seeing other people win above themselves.
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Absolutely. Absolutely. My granddad always said when he leave the room, he said, look here. We didn't know what it mean, but we knew it was some, like, a pimp move. He said, if you fall off the mattress, I will see you through the spring. You know what I'm saying? Now, we didn't know what it meant, but we just knew it was something different and we thought it was a pimp move. My granddaddy was a dude, man. So, hey, man, it's love to you, man. Forever for life. And check out the next special. Tell everybody they got a TV to see. Bruce. Bruce. On Netflix. I ain't playing.
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He ain't playing. Bruce. Bruce. I ain't playing it. Is it Netflix? Go get it, Bruce. Love you, brother.
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Love you, too.
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Viewers and listeners, remember your because is your superpower. That's another powerful conversation on Mick Unplugged. If this episode moved you, and I'm sure it did, follow the show wherever you listen. Share it with someone who needs that spark and leave a review so more people can find there. Because I'm Rudy Rush, and until next time, stay driven, stay focused, and stay unplugged.
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