Violent Friend with Ali Siddiq

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Violent Friend" with Ali Siddiq

The Bonfire with Big Jay Oakerson & Robert Kelly (SiriusXM)
Guest: Ali Siddiq
Air Date: February 26, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this lively episode, comedians Big Jay Oakerson and Robert Kelly are joined by the acclaimed stand-up comic Ali Siddiq. Through raw, witty, and unfiltered banter, the trio dives into the realities of comedy careers—from industry recognition and the hierarchy of comedy clubs to wild stories from the road and the unique personalities that populate their world. The conversation is punctuated by sharp humor, relatable observations, and the kind of honest storytelling that The Bonfire is known for. Special attention is given to Ali's longtime, "violent" friend—the inspiration for the episode's title—and the unique dynamics of green rooms and security in the comedy scene.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

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1. Ali Siddiq's Career Milestones and NAACP Image Award (01:16–03:10)

• Ali Siddiq is celebrated for his latest special "Mondays" and the four-part series "The Domino Effect," as well as being the only independent comedian nominated for a major NAACP Image Award for "My Two Sons."
• Jay and Bobby note the evolution of comedy distribution, with YouTube releases now eligible for major industry recognition.
• Ali on the Awards Process:
  "If I win it, I'm be happy, but if not, you know, didn't nobody see me that way." [02:00]
• Sidelines of awards ceremonies: both Jay and Ali share stories of attending award banquets that feel impersonal or anticlimactic, e.g., Jay's tales from the porn awards.
  • "You just turn the lights on. They were like, that's the end of the awards." [04:11]

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2. "Violent Friends," Security, and the 'Shadow' (06:02–12:22)

• Ali Siddiq's 'shadow': A close, "violent" friend, Dre, serves as both security and longtime companion.
  • “Is that your handler? No, that's my friend. That's violent, can also be corporate at the same time.” [06:37]
• Stereotype of comic entourages and security: Laughter about visible and invisible security at comedy events—from Kevin Hart to Allen Iverson to high-profile festivals.
• Security’s True Role:
  "Most security for individual people is just...to retaliate for you when you get hit. Something's probably gonna...at least those guys will get them." – Big Jay [12:11]
• On the (in)effectiveness of bodyguards:
  "If I'm trying to get at you, yeah, your people not gonna stop me." – Ali Siddiq [11:46]
• Wild contrasts between "big linemen that didn't make it to the league" and actual Secret Service protection.

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3. Comedy Club Hierarchies, 'Passed' Comics, and Green Room Culture (15:39–32:04)

• Getting 'passed' at clubs: Candid, sometimes absurd stories about auditioning for New York’s Comedy Cellar and LA’s Comedy Store.
  • Ali: "Why would I come to the Cellar? To get past. Well, you got to get passed..." [16:15]
  • Jay: Calls out clubs for bureaucracy and lack of awareness:
    "The people, the powers that be there don't have their fingers on the pulse of comedy..." [17:31]
• Green Room Etiquette:
  • Texas vs. NYC/LA: "Texas has a different respect for the green room. Green room space is earned. It's not a community space..." – Ali Siddiq [27:58]
  • Comedians share horror stories: staff commandeering green rooms to play video games, open-door policies, food theft, and disrespect for the headliner’s space.
  • Bobby: "It's the worst when you come in and they're sitting in the most comfortable chair with their feet up." [28:48]
• Funny/awkward moments from touring: Green room and club logistics can range from "Philly girl with tattoos and an accent" working security, to elaborate code systems to access backstage, to hosts never appearing in the green room.
  • "You keep looking over like, this stupid thing told me..." – Big Jay (on entering the green room in Texas) [29:55]

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4. Wild Condo Stories and Road-Life Realities (32:04–41:48)

• The Worst Comedy Condos in America/Canada:
  • Ali and Jay trade gruesome tales: discovering pizza being eaten off a woman’s back, sleeping in beds with hidden socks left as "revenge," sharing apartments with comics’ girlfriends, and more.
  • Ali: "This was the worst porn I've ever seen. This is terrible, man...a slice of pizza's on this lady's back." [35:13]
  • Jay: Reminisces about hearing himself get subtly insulted on the radio while sleeping on ripped sheets in a run-down "haunted house" condo.
    "It was just springs, basically, and rips all in the sheets...everything just sucked." [38:20]
  • Bobby's twisted revenge: Leaves dirty socks outside of the pillowcase to ‘test’ club cleaning standards. [38:57]
• Green rooms doubling as staff locker rooms: "You can't get fries because you see them holding their shoes in their hand with no gloves on." – Ali [31:55]
• Jay: "They also leave you right by the staff, so you hear them melting down about the audience...I saw a guy lose it one time—a manager in the things, like, knocking shit over. He was freaking out." [31:18]
• Memorable quote on comedian hierarchy:
  "It always makes for an uncomfortable situation when you're younger and like an older person is featuring for you. And he brought his big fake titted girlfriend for the entire weekend..." [39:39]

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5. "The Medal" and Bobby's Hero Moment (41:05–43:44)

• Bobby’s bragging rights: Bobby wears a medal, setting up a story about saving a Black girl from drowning in Costa Rica.
  • Jay (teasing): "You did want to say something. That's why you wore the medal." [41:09]
  • Ali's skeptical deadpan: "I want—I wanted to really be into this. Like, you can't save her..." [44:03]
• Bobby details the story of rescuing a drowning girl and being thanked by her relieved father.
  • "He couldn't swim...So Bobby saved a little black girl." – Jay [43:57]
• The group riffs on heroics, gratitude, and stage photo ops, ending with good-natured jokes about Bobby being "the white savior."

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Ali Siddiq: "That's my friend. That's violent, can also be corporate at the same time." [06:37]
• Big Jay: "Most security for individual people is just...to retaliate for you when you get hit." [12:11]
• Bobby (on club politics): "Would you ask Chris Rock to ask the manager? I'm like, you're not even close. Are you out of your mind?" [26:36]
• Ali (on green rooms): "Green room space is earned. It's not a community space because just think, say, you're hosting. So, like a Damon Waynes—Damon sleeps between each show." [27:58]
• Ali (condo horror): "He has pizza on her back...a slice of pizza on this lady's back." [35:13]
• Jay (comedy aspirations): "If he was gonna pop, it probably already would have happened." – as overheard on a radio show [38:20]
• Ali: "You can't get fries because you see them holding their shoes in their hand with no gloves on." [31:55]
• Jay: "You did want to say something. That's why you wore the medal." [41:09]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

| Timestamp | Segment | |-----------|---------------------------------------------------------| | 01:16 | Ali Siddiq's NAACP nomination | | 06:02 | Introduction to "the shadow" and security talk | | 12:22 | On bodyguards and real-life security | | 15:39 | The politics and process of getting "passed" at clubs | | 27:58 | Green room etiquette and culture differences | | 32:04 | Worst comedy condos, wildest road stories | | 41:05 | The mystery of Bobby's medal and the rescue story | | 43:57 | Bobby recounts saving a girl, comedic reactions |

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Summary

This episode is a classic "Bonfire" ride: a whirlwind of real talk, belly laughs, and behind-the-scenes glimpses of comedy life. Ali Siddiq shines as a guest, seamlessly matching Jay and Bobby’s mix of authenticity and sharp humor. Listeners are treated to stories of showbiz recognition that feels more tedious than glamorous; lessons on who you trust to protect you in the comedy world; and a parade of vivid, sometimes cringe-inducing, anecdotes from club backrooms and condos. The improvised, quick-witted exchanges, especially around Bobby's "white savior" medal, offer listeners both comedy-insider knowledge and a parade of expressive, unfiltered humor.

Transcript

[Bobby Kelly]

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[Big Jay Oakerson]

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[Bobby Kelly]

ABC Wednesdays in comedian Nate Brigetzi's new game show, to win, you don't need

[Big Jay Oakerson]

to know the right answer, just what most Americans think is right. It's not about being the smartest.

[Bobby Kelly]

You just have to be the most average. We asked 100 average Americans, did they

[Ali Siddiq]

keep an empty gas can in their car?

[Big Jay Oakerson]

No.

[Ali Siddiq]

Have they ever broken a bone? No.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I said a lot of no.

[Ali Siddiq]

That's all right. My wife says a lot of no as well.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

The greatest average American.

[Bobby Kelly]

Wednesdays 9, 8 Central on ABC and

[Big Jay Oakerson]

stream next day on Hulu. And now the bonfire with Big J. Okerson and Robert Kelly. He's got a new special Mondays available right now on YouTube as well as his other specials, My Two Sons Rugged. In the four part series the Domino Effect, it is the great Ali Siddiq

[Ali Siddiq]

joining us in the house. Thank you, thank you, thank you. That was a wonderful introduction. Must I say also to go along with that credit, the only ever independent comedian to ever be nominated for a major award with NAACP Image awards for my two sons.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Oh, really? So for, as a YouTube independent release.

[Ali Siddiq]

Yeah, I'm nominated.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

That's great. When is it?

[Ali Siddiq]

I don't know.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Man, you going to go?

[Bobby Kelly]

What the, man, what the.

[Ali Siddiq]

No, I'm, I'm on the road, man.

[Bobby Kelly]

You're not going to go? What if you win?

[Ali Siddiq]

Hey, they not, it's not televised. So they, they just read it. It's just a banquet basically for us.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Well, that's actually a good thing that happened because it was funny. Bill Burr, you know, went to the, was it the Grammys just happened?

[Ali Siddiq]

Grammys, yeah.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Bill Burr went to the Grammys, got there, ended up getting like asked about politics on the red carpet and then didn't win. Bargazi won and he just, he did a thing from Bedge. Everybody goes, hey y', all, thanks for voting for me. He wasn't there. He just won while he was on his couch. He's like, oh, look at that. Look at one of Graham Bill bur to go out there, have his wife look at him different as they drove home.

[Bobby Kelly]

Oh, they had a fun time, though. They little photo shoots.

[Ali Siddiq]

Yeah, it's a good. It's a good time. You know, I. I just haven't made any of the stuff. They had a golf tournament. They had a luncheon for the nominees.

[Bobby Kelly]

You know, can we send Rich Voss in your stead, like, to represent you?

[Ali Siddiq]

No, no. If he had to buy a ticket for, like, you have to buy a ticket probably for the televised joint, because we not. We not televised. They just. They don't even. They don't even. From what I understand, they don't put your pitch up on the. On the virtual thing. They just read and the winner is. And then as they go to the next one. So. But, you know, if I win it, I'm be happy, but if not, you know, didn't nobody see me that way.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

That's how I felt when I did the porn awards and one of my podcasts was nominated because we would interview porn stars, but we're going against actual porn podcast where they, like, they. On the. Like on the actual podcast. So I had a feeling we weren't gonna win, but I don't know, as it got close to the day, I was like, maybe we're gonna win this thing. And we weren't one of the. Again, like, televised or filmed things. So it's a very. The crew we were with, it was. Sitting to my left was my date, quote, unquote, Romy Chase, or no, Romy Rain.

[Ali Siddiq]

Romy Chase.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Romy Chase, who was a BBW porn star, big Polish girl squeezed into her outfit. Sitting next to me, to my right is the guy I do the podcast with, Ralph. And just at the very end of the show, the last two things, they just go. And best BBW porn star, not that girl. And she was like, oh, and best podcast, not you guys. And, you know, the Adam 22 or whatever. And then you just turn the lights on. They were like, that's the end of the awards.

[Ali Siddiq]

The.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Did I get a suit for. This sucks.

[Ali Siddiq]

Did you have at least fun at the event?

[Big Jay Oakerson]

No, I thought. I think again, times have changed with the. The porn awards was always lined up with the. With the tech thing out there. The Consumer Electronics Show.

[Ali Siddiq]

Oh, wow.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Because the porn stars would always go out there to prostitute themselves to the rich executives. Wow. And then they were like, well, we're already out here, so let's just do the awards while we're out here. And then I think it became parties. When Norton did it, he was like, oh, every hotel room in the place had, like, Open door. You just walk by and they're sucking and. And doing all kinds of. And then the year I went, everyone's just doing their own, like, video, you know, everyone's got an only fans now, so everyone's just doing, like, private videos everywhere. There was no parties, no nothing. We went to an all black swingers party and were awkward, for sure.

[Bobby Kelly]

You and Ralph.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Me and Ralph. Me and tall Ralph. And they were like, you could have some snacks if you want. I was like, all. There was a girl sleeping on the couch. We did not start the party. Let's say

[Ali Siddiq]

it was the AVNs. Yeah, I wanted to host that at one point.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

They say it's a hell gig, which I can see why. But David tell who's done it a few times, told me that. He's like, you can't make fun of it at all. Like they want you to. Which I'm like, I can't do that. If I was going to host it, I would make fun of porn for sure. He said, they have no sense of humor about themselves, so it'll just die in the room.

[Bobby Kelly]

It's like the UFC used to have events once a year and they would hire a comic to host it. You cannot make fun of the fighters. They get just angry. They don't get humor. They're like the Dutch. They don't get sarcasm.

[Ali Siddiq]

Steroids do that to you.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

You're trying to make a room full of people laugh while they're all drinking out of a gallon of water non stop. They're always trying to do their water.

[Ali Siddiq]

It was weird.

[Bobby Kelly]

Can I ask a question? I don't. I didn't even. What's up, man? How are you? What's your name? Andre, man, I just. I didn't even see him come in. I just looked over and then he was there and I was like, what the happened?

[Ali Siddiq]

He's the shadow.

[Bobby Kelly]

Ye

[Ali Siddiq]

shadow. Like, I don't even. I don't even argue with people. You be talking to me, and all of a sudden you end up getting choked and you think, I did, didn't. Didn't do it.

[Bobby Kelly]

We have Paco. Don't bow. Yeah.

[Ali Siddiq]

Dre is a problem.

[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah. Is he. Is he your security?

[Ali Siddiq]

You know what they say, he's your handler. Is that your handler? No, that's my friend. That's violent. It can also. And also be corporate at the same time.

[Bobby Kelly]

You can tell he's violent because he don't even like laughing. Like, he's trying not to smile right now. He's like, man, you made me Laugh again, motherfucker.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

He's showing Bobby weakness right now.

[Ali Siddiq]

Well, you know Kevin, he had a. Like a. A real, like, corporate job, right? Like. And I went up to his job one time, and it was weird as outdoors, some little white lady came. Mr. Dre. I put my. With some briefing on his desk. And he was. And he was being real corporate in front of me. I couldn't wait until that lady walked. I was like, oh, she put her briefing on your desk. Then he got. Then I guess, whatever happened, they downsized the company. He had been there for, like, 10 years. They downsized. And I don't have a lot of sympathy for corporate people. He got. I told him he got fired. He came and told me, man. Well, they fired me. And I was like, good, now you can make some real money on the road with me being. What, you want to be violent?

[Bobby Kelly]

He finally gets to be violent.

[Ali Siddiq]

Yeah. Trying to get some violence in your life instead of briefing.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

It's like. It's like the water boy. Every time he has to go with somebody for you, he just sees that old white lady's face. Wonderful.

[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah. He has the word briefing. He has to cover his ears, which is gonna kill somebody.

[Ali Siddiq]

Crazy.

[Bobby Kelly]

That's a. Kevin Hart has a few guys around him, but I. I know Kevin from the cellar. And then he would come back with a gaggle of dudes around him, a couple of them. And they came over to the Pussycat when Kevin was there, but I know Kevin. So I was like, ah, look at you fucking walking around with these fuck. And they were not having it. I walked up and I go, hey, man, you're at a comedy club. You need to be, you know, loosen up a little bit. And he just stared me down. He goes, no. And I was like, I'm gonna walk out the front right now.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

When I was younger, very young in comedy, I encountered Allen Iverson's Drays.

[Ali Siddiq]

One of my partner was Allen Iverson's Dr. Really?

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Yeah. Khalil, they didn't let you get anywhere near. I saw him in a club. I was like, I'm going to go say congrats on the mvp. He wants to get. He wants to hear it from me. I walked over, man. They crossed. They stepped right in front. I was like, oh, sorry, guys. You must be in the wrong place. I'm just trying to get to the champ over there. Let him know. We'll let him know, Dude, I. I

[Bobby Kelly]

do have certain code words or certain things that he knows on the road when someone is walking up, or do you have, like, things that you say to him.

[Ali Siddiq]

No, he's always watching. Always.

[Bobby Kelly]

Always when you go to the bathroom, he's there. Like, he's out in front.

[Ali Siddiq]

We don't. We don't do anything like that. We just.

[Bobby Kelly]

No, I don't mean. Listen, let me rephrase that. I remember Jim Norton had his. Kenny. Remember? I don't know if you met Kenny. He had Kenny Club Sona Kenny, who was Dice's guy. And then he went with. He went with Norton. And then when Open Anthony ended, now he's with Billy. And when you would do a show with Norton, Kenny would just be in front of the bathroom like, what are you doing out here? He goes, Mr. Norton's going tinkle. And he was standing in front of the bathroom. And I was like, you can't go to the bathroom yourself. That's fucking crazy.

[Ali Siddiq]

Yeah, it's. No, he just watches when people be moving weird. You know, I never knew Kevin even had people because I just always. I always just walk up on him. I don't Never.

[Bobby Kelly]

Who?

[Ali Siddiq]

Kevin Owen? I never knew. I've been knowing Kevin forever. I'm like, I don't never even see his people. I just be. I see him and then I'm like, yeah. And then I just go over. I don't know if I don't even see them people.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I don't know everywhere where he goes. But for sure, we were in Montreal at that festival, and he was like, let's go have drinks. And me, him and Two Ray met up for drinks at a place. And we walked through a restaurant to a part of the restaurant wasn't being used. And his dudes, two at a time, sitting, standing in each doorway, facing outward.

[Bobby Kelly]

He's got new people. He had, like, phases of people.

[Ali Siddiq]

The craziest I've ever seen was Lil Jay from Rap A Lot and Floyd Mayweather. They had a Slim Thug event, the Boss Hog Ball. And they. They both sitting next to each other. And I'm hosting, and their guys are standing in front so the people behind can't see. And I had to say something. I was like, yo, Jay, somebody. Bodyguards have to take off for a second. Cause they can't see behind us. I'm like, but Floyd, you right next to Jay. Just let his detail take care of it. Just go sit your. Like. And you in Houston. Nobody's gonna do anything. Ain't gonna sit down somewhere. Like. It's not like with bodyguards. I think some. Some of them be overzealous, because if somebody wanted to do something to Somebody depending on how bad it is, you really can't stop it. You think that you can, but Dre's never really next to me in front of me, so you don't even know that he's with me. That's why Shadow.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

You don't.

[Ali Siddiq]

You don't know he with me until you moving weird. And then boom, boom. Then something happens.

[Bobby Kelly]

Violence. He gets off his phone and there's violence.

[Ali Siddiq]

But if I was trying to get to. Yeah, your bodyguards couldn't stop me from getting to you. There's no possible way me, right? Anybody. Anybody's bodyguards. Like, yo, if I'm trying to get at you, yeah, your people not gonna stop me.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

It's not fucking. That's not the CIA or like, it's not like Obama.

[Ali Siddiq]

It's not the Secret Service. Like, it's like a bunch of big linemen that didn't make it to the league.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Most. Most security for individual people is just. It's retaliation. It's the people to retaliate for you when you get hit. Something's probably gonna. People extend at least if those guys will get them.

[Ali Siddiq]

Yeah, like, no, Like, I was on the plane coming. I was in LA doing some stuff, and then it was All Star Games, and then Tracy McGrady got on the plane. Like, it's like my seat stand. His seat is right there. But he has a huge. He has a huge guy that's with. With him. And I think it's just for his family, but. Cause Tracy is.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Yeah.

[Ali Siddiq]

A thousand feet tall. Like, who's going to just jump on Tracy? But his guy is very big with very small legs, which lets me know that he's quick, he's agile, know how to move his upper body around. But he's a big. He's a big guy, and he's like, definitely gonna tackle you. He's like. It's like most of these defensive ends, you know, it's not like it's worn SAP out there. It's like, man, what, man, your knee bad? Your footbag something bad on you. You know what I'm saying? And that's why you're not in the league. Cause this is not. This wasn't your job. You wasn't 6, 8, 3:50. Thinking, like, you know what I want to do? I want to protect Bobby.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Now I have. I'm dealing with a torn acl, three concussions.

[Ali Siddiq]

Keep looking at the Redskins game on your phone, like, why you keep looking at the Redskins? That's what I wanted to be.

[Bobby Kelly]

Well, it's like when you Play when I get Rogan. I showed up an hour early because I'm an asshole. Supposed to be there at 1. I showed up at 12. And it's in this nondescript little thing, right?

[Ali Siddiq]

I've been there, and it.

[Bobby Kelly]

I'm just sitting like, ah, shit. I'm trying to look in the window. Cause I don't know where it is. And all of a sudden, the guy just, like, came out of a bush and went, Mr. Kelly, he's in a van. Yeah, it's like he came out of nowhere.

[Ali Siddiq]

He's in a white van. That you are. That you really don't know that he's in the van. I've met him four times.

[Bobby Kelly]

He's like, Mr. Kelly. And I'm like, huh? He scared the shit out of me. He's like, M. Mr. Rogan is not here. You are not supposed to be here for an hour. Would you like to get a cup of coffee? And then we got in the car, and he's like, I have Mr. Kelly. We're taking him to get a cafe. And then he had some code word for, like, raven for Rogan or something. Raven's taking the Camaro.

[Ali Siddiq]

And then when they come in, it's like four other Jack dudes that's with him.

[Bobby Kelly]

It got crazier.

[Ali Siddiq]

You know, it's weird when you go to Rogan's, you know, it's like, but they. Friendly, dude friendly.

[Bobby Kelly]

I mean, scary friendly.

[Ali Siddiq]

But you know that they know some foreign art

[Big Jay Oakerson]

experts for sure.

[Bobby Kelly]

He's got a knife on him that doesn't hold DNA.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Well, I said, there's got to be different, because also those. A lot of those guys are the ones who work the club, too. And that club's great. But I said there is a weird middle. That's why I said the Austin thing between the Creek and the Cave and that the Creek and the Cave just hires, like, fat goth, like, guys that would be working at the mall for their security. And I go, and Rogan's got guys that are like, you know, if you start shit, they're going to come down from the ceiling and cut your throat. It's like, there's got to be a gray area between Navy SEALs that never smile or people who can't be stopped.

[Ali Siddiq]

Yeah, you got to go. You got to go to. What's that, helium?

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Yes.

[Ali Siddiq]

You got to go to helium.

[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah, it's just some Philly girl with tattoos and an accent. Get the out of here now.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Philly does it right? Philly heliums are pretty good. They send A person. It's like, they're willing to do something. They have to, but they don't. They don't. They don't bully your. They don't. Oh, I'm sorry. Helium doesn't, like, bully your, like, fans at all or not.

[Bobby Kelly]

Like, seller. Seller. Does it right. Used to do it better. You. They used to have all. It's a Jewish.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Bobby. I disagree.

[Bobby Kelly]

They used to do it better. They used to have all Muslim dudes out front.

[Ali Siddiq]

And they are regular.

[Bobby Kelly]

Just regular Muslims. They would just grab a girl by the neck and be like, you have to leave, like, now. And they just grab her and drag her out. Like, yeah, Remember Hatem and all those guys?

[Ali Siddiq]

The seller is a. Is a weird thing for me.

[Bobby Kelly]

Let's not bring this up.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

We can do it. You want to do it?

[Bobby Kelly]

No, let's not do it.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Let's fucking do it, dude. Let's tee off on it. I went scorched earth on it last week.

[Ali Siddiq]

I'm not teeing off on. It's just the fact I remember that a comic from here, she said, you ought to come to the cellar to get passed. So you can get passed. I was like, what? Like, why would I get. Why would I come to the Cellar? To get past. Well, you got to get past. And seller and. Okay, okay. And I just asked. I said, what happens after you get passed when they start booking you there? I'm like, wow. Oh. So I'm gonna do that between being on my tour. And she's like, well, you don't want to get past the seller.

[Bobby Kelly]

That's that. Yeah, but that's. That's another way. You wouldn't get passed. You would just get a spot. Like, there is a level of, like, you know, like, when you come in, it's like, hey, this is. Okay. Yeah. You want to go on? You would just go on and do the spot.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

You might not just put it on.

[Bobby Kelly]

She's talking about.

[Ali Siddiq]

You get discounts. The fries.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

50% off on food.

[Bobby Kelly]

No, sorry, hang on one second. I get. I get 4% off. I'm grandfathered in.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Grandfathered in. You are a co owner. I know you are.

[Bobby Kelly]

No, you would just get on as you. That's for a person who's in the city. Bobby, hang on one second. Jay.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

No, no, Bobby, let me stop you for a second.

[Bobby Kelly]

Can you have the shadow grab him by the shoulder right now? Stop him from talking?

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I know you know Dion Cole's story that happened there, when he went there, and that's what's gonna happen. That's what could happen to you. Because they don't have the club, the people, the powers that be there don't have their fingers on the pulse of comedy, on what's going on at all. So there's a good chance that you walk in there, somebody relays that where they go, we should see if he wants to go on as much as you'll get three levels in and they'll still be going like, can I help you? Yeah, you know, I mean, and then when you say something, be like, because Dion, I guess someone said they were going to get him on Godfrey or something. They said they came back up and the club people were like, it's any club, though.

[Bobby Kelly]

I went to Zany's in Chicago and I knocked on the back door and they were like, yeah. And I was like, I was there to see Joe List. He told me to come by and do a spot. He goes, just come by the back door. And I knocked on the door and the guy opened the door. Yeah. And I was like, I'm here to see Joe List. Yeah. The ticket thing is out the front. I went, all right, I'm fucking gone.

[Ali Siddiq]

Okay, so what? Well, last week we was in la. I went to. I said, well, you know something, I haven't been by the Comedy Store since I got inducted to the wall. So I say, well, let me go.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Which is being passed in a weird way. That's their thing.

[Ali Siddiq]

I'm gonna just go and just, you know, take my little picture again and say, you know, hey, it's still on the wall. Because I wanted to make sure it was still on there.

[Bobby Kelly]

And I took Rich Voss off, by the way.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Nuh, shut up.

[Ali Siddiq]

I think so.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I think they. Shut up, dude.

[Bobby Kelly]

Well, they had to repaint new things I got on, which is good. So that's all I care about.

[Ali Siddiq]

Yeah. So when I went by, the dude was like, can I help you? I was like, no, I just came to take picture with my name. Is that you? No, I just taking random pictures, you know, I wanted a picture of Jackie Fabulous. That's what I wanted to see.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Right? Yes, sir, I'm Jackie Fabulous.

[Ali Siddiq]

It was. You know, sometimes it happens every passed

[Bobby Kelly]

in no club because they filter through these people too. They don't know. They don't. Like he said, they don't have their pulse.

[Ali Siddiq]

I would know, though. I would. I would. If I owned a club, I would know who people are. It's just. That's going to be my thing. Cuz I would love for somebody to just drop into my club.

[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah.

[Ali Siddiq]

I'm like, yo, man, don't turn nobody. Where you run the name past the powers that be. And they look it up like, oh, Jay's at the door. Bring it back.

[Bobby Kelly]

I think the new type of clubs, like that Attic Club that comics are really involved in, have their. They know who's who.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

The seller said the past. The past thing, which. Same as the store when they go through that whole thing. I went out to the Comedy Store. They put me through a process of, like, the past thing, like that. They started to. And then the guy who was doing it at the time got fired. Tommy got fired. And then the next person who just took the reins was, like, a comedy fan enough, like, understood that he just kind of was like, you're one of, like, 15 phone calls. I'm making the call. A few comics to be like, when you come to la, please just let me know you're coming.

[Bobby Kelly]

They did the same thing to me.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Just let us know you're coming, and we'll get you spots like, you're past. This is ridiculous.

[Bobby Kelly]

I auditioned for Tommy and I. I murdered. And I just walked up to him expecting, all right, man, me too. He went, hey, man, thank you for being on the journey with us here. And, you know, right now, you did great, but right now, we're gonna. Let me get back to you in a few weeks, maybe. I went, hey, dude, I'm good. I'll see you later. I'm fucking. I'm out. I don't need to be in here.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Yeah.

[Bobby Kelly]

But then the lady called up years later, was like, you should be in.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Oh, yeah, there's. Yeah. Then the guy on the right would just, like, knew me. And that's. That's who books Mothership now stuff. Yeah, Adam.

[Ali Siddiq]

That's who books the mothership.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Yeah, Adam.

[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah, he's awesome.

[Ali Siddiq]

Oh, wow. I've been there a couple times. Never met him.

[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah, you gotta get the shadow passed by Joe Security. They have to meet first just so that you don't want them clashing at the door.

[Ali Siddiq]

Ye. We came by. We stopped by one night, and it was great. But I headlined there one time. I think they hated me. The comics hated when I came.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Why?

[Ali Siddiq]

Cause I didn't do the community green room.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Oh, you shut the green room down.

[Ali Siddiq]

Yes. I think I was, like, the first one to do it, and they was like, roseanne, want to come in? I'm like, not in here. It's my people in here today.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

It's fucked up. I think it's actually a weird thing to ask it. I Get why they ask it and stuff. Yeah, but again it's almost the issue where I said the seller as well as the Comedy Store and the Mothership. Most comedy clubs aren't really functioning in places where like people are gonna come every night and you have a showcase room. So I get it when you're showcasing that. Me and Bobby came up at the Cellar separate times, but at a time where it was like you passed and then it was like once you were in there. That was my job with the Comedy Cellar. I went there seven nights a week and then on weekends maybe one or two shows per night and then bouncing around other places. The pass fail notion when they would do it's like so and so is in from la. Do they pass here? You know, it's like somebody like that's been working for a long time whose name you already know, it's like just work them. Like they make them go through. There's no prize. But people they want to. The clubs want to feel important. But like you can pass all of that. You could skip all those things.

[Bobby Kelly]

Well, I think too like when I used to host there, like guys would come in.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

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[Bobby Kelly]

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[Big Jay Oakerson]

That's what I say. Can I come in for free? And they go, no. I go, would you say that for Robert De Niro? Would you say that to Bobby De Niro? I don't think you would. I don't think you would.

[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah, the green room at the Mothership. I. I've had that too. When I had that, it's like, do you want to close one? And you feel like. Because, you know all those. But then I don't smoke weed. And then I let. I was like, nah, let it open. Let everybody in. And then it just became a weed. Like an opium den.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Yeah.

[Bobby Kelly]

And I'm just kind of hiding in the corner, trying not to lose my 40 years of sobriety. You know what I mean?

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I just let it go. I kind of let it get. I also have no thing. I had like a weird. When I was in Fort Worth this last weekend. The host just never came in the green. Like, I was making jokes on stage. By the end of. I go, hey, man, you should come hang in the green room.

[Bobby Kelly]

Because they comics.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I know the club make you not. Maybe.

[Bobby Kelly]

No, it's headliners.

[Ali Siddiq]

Headliners, headliners. Texas has a different.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Different.

[Ali Siddiq]

We have a different respect for the green room. Green room space is earned. It's not a community space because just think, save you hosting. So. So like a. Like a Damon Waynes. Damon sleeps between each show. But you're gonna be running in out of green while this man sleep.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Yeah.

[Ali Siddiq]

You know, so sure, until you invite him in, he's not coming in there. I'm saying because it's your space. He don't know what you want to do in there. That's what you got going on.

[Bobby Kelly]

And feature X never shut the door. They always leave and leave it open. And when they come in, they leave it open.

[Ali Siddiq]

It's something about walking in there and somebody else has already tried to make their home in a space where, you know. And I have food. I have food.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Sitting in a good corner chair, breathing

[Ali Siddiq]

all over my food. You got your girlfriend in here. Like, what is going on, man? Get out of here.

[Bobby Kelly]

It's the worst when you come in and they're sitting in the most comfortable chair with their feet up.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Maybe it was Syracuse or something a couple years back that I don't think there's people even there anymore who work there. But one of them, Syracuse, I think funny about the. The manager and other comics were playing video games in the green room, like.

[Ali Siddiq]

And that's not a big green room.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

And not offering. Not offering for me to play. Like, they. They were just doing it. They're like, dude, right now, me versus you in this thing. And they just started playing a game. And I'm like, oh, I guess I'll be on my phone over here.

[Ali Siddiq]

And that's. And that's a nice. That's a nice. I like that club in the mall. But. And it's. Right. The green room was nice, but. But you gotta go in there. You gotta get in and go in there. Unless you go. If you get caught in that hallway. Oh, you just in there now. Now it's fans just talking to you, buying you drink. Come on, buddy. Now you. You meeting people you like. Oh, man, I should have gotten this green room, so. But it's a code. And I forgot the code one time. And I was just sitting there.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Yeah, man.

[Ali Siddiq]

And I saw this lady coming. I'm like, ah. And then she's like.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

She caught me the door code. Oh, that's fourth worth of that. You get through. You have to walk through the whole people. And you go, okay.

[Bobby Kelly]

And you go.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

It's five.

[Bobby Kelly]

Two. Two or five.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I'm like, come on, man.

[Ali Siddiq]

You're trying.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

It keeps going red. You're like. You keep looking over them stupid thing told me.

[Ali Siddiq]

And you hope some waiter comes around the corner. Oh, you can't get in. You're like. You see, I can't get in. And then you end.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

You're like, man, just watching you.

[Ali Siddiq]

Where would you at in Fort Worth?

[Big Jay Oakerson]

So funny.

[Ali Siddiq]

What? Clubbing?

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Fort Worth Hyenas.

[Ali Siddiq]

Okay.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

All right. Yeah, Good club. I said I had to say something on stage because it's built weird. Like where the green room is and the stuff and the doors. I said those swinging doors. It was just. If you help the girls, the waiters or the servers by opening the door for me, you're blocking them at the same time. So you just sit there waiting to go on and staring at girls holding three trays, opening doors by themselves. Because you're like, I do want to help, but I'm going to slow you down if I do it. These doors are bad.

[Ali Siddiq]

Drake Bronson's House of Common in Minnesota. That green room is. I don't even know where you at. You don't know what's happening because the green room is so far away from everything you like. Hey, did the show start? No, the show is almost over.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Oh. Because it's a closet for a Burlington Coat Factory next door. It's not the fucking real green room.

[Bobby Kelly]

I was there when it was just in the hallway in front of the walk in freezer. And every once in a while you just see some Mexican dude walk by with buckets of shit.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

That's right.

[Bobby Kelly]

And just walk into a freezer.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I saw. That's the club where I saw the guy like. They also leave you right by the staff. So you hear them melting down about the audience in there too. I saw a guy lose it one time like a manager in the things like knocking shit over. He was freaking out.

[Ali Siddiq]

The one in Canada. The Rick Bronson that's in Canada.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Comic Strip comics.

[Ali Siddiq]

Oh, man. They are. They. You're in the. Your green room is the same where the wait staff is changing.

[Bobby Kelly]

They have lockers.

[Ali Siddiq]

It's crazy. They have.

[Bobby Kelly]

I went in there.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

There.

[Bobby Kelly]

The staff were coming in and getting the. Out of lockers.

[Ali Siddiq]

You can't get fries because you see them holding their shoes in their hand

[Big Jay Oakerson]

with no gloves on.

[Ali Siddiq]

Like, n. I don't want no fries. I'm cool. And then the one that's in. In Phoenix.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

The one in Arizona to stay on Edmonton, though Edmonton also has the. The condo. That is hilarious. I don't know if you've ever done. But if you don't do the condo, they put you in a. The hotel where it's like you're Eskimo in an igloo or a jungle theme or something.

[Ali Siddiq]

Do the condo.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I've done it.

[Ali Siddiq]

I've done it a bunch because the condo is way better. They got a nice little fireplace in there. That condo is nice. I cleaned it when I got this.

[Bobby Kelly]

What the fuck, man?

[Ali Siddiq]

Yeah, I'm black, man. I'm a clean.

[Bobby Kelly]

Yo, I don't like showing up when there's other people's condiments in the fridge. I don't want to see Joe Derosa's mustard from his hot dogs.

[Ali Siddiq]

Need every. Okay. I bought chemicals first. Like. Like why he went to the. The room. I was like, can we stop by this store? Yeah, I need parcel bleach. I need it all, because I'm not. But the. No, the one who had the worst condo and we talking about worst condos. It's in Tampa, I think. Was it Tampa?

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Which club? Side. Splitters.

[Ali Siddiq]

No, Tampa.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Improv. Did they have a con? Oh, oh, they did have a condo. I stayed at the little, like, shitty hotel there, but there was a condo behind when I brought Shane with me down there. Shane stayed in the condo. Wow.

[Ali Siddiq]

Oh, man.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

It's bad.

[Ali Siddiq]

It's bad. It's a two roomer. It's a two bedroom, but it's bad. And then they give you a Lincoln Town Car.

[Bobby Kelly]

What do you have to. You have to do detective work that way?

[Ali Siddiq]

What's the one? We met. We was in Indianapolis.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Crackers.

[Ali Siddiq]

No. Yeah, crackers. They had a. Was we in a condo or just a terrible hotel?

[Big Jay Oakerson]

It was a bad hotel.

[Ali Siddiq]

Yeah, I think that's what it was.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

It was a bad hotel. Yeah. Where I think you're. I think your door goes to the outside. That's not a good thing in Indianapolis, in Florida. That's kind of how hotels are.

[Bobby Kelly]

Appleton, Wisconsin. You know that club?

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Sure. Skyline. That.

[Bobby Kelly]

That condo was so bad, they put the. I was middling at the time for Kevin. Kevin Meaney. He was at the beautiful hotel down the street. I'm in this with the MC. I brought my Sony PlayStation at the time, and I got there first. I hooked up my opponent, Sony's PlayStation, and I went out for lunch and I was walking around this shit town. I came back, the middle guy was there, and he had my Sony PlayStation in his room. He took. He took. I go, what the fuck? It was so, so crazy to me that my anger turned into, like, paralyzed me. Like, I just went, what the fuck are you doing? He went, oh, man. You weren't around, so I thought I'd just play some games. Is that cool? And I just went, no, no. This is the.

[Ali Siddiq]

That's bad, Bobby. What, you think that's bad?

[Bobby Kelly]

Yeah.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Borrow your PlayStation.

[Ali Siddiq]

Okay. Borrowing your PlayStation. Okay, Bobby, I'm gonna go with that one. Do you know who Gary Mickey is?

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I've heard the name.

[Ali Siddiq]

Gary Mickey is a way past middle age white guy that was booking comedy and he would book you, and then he would middle for you. Jenny Brand or is it in the same condo? And literally, I leave. And he had been raving about this. This. This pizza. This brick house pizza is one of the greatest pizzas of all time. So he leaves the club before me because I'm at the club selling merchandise. Whatever. I get to the club, he has some. I don't know, some white lady who is very, very much past her prime. It's like a wrecked bus. And he is going in. In the living room, the common area. And he has pizza on her back. And he's like, yeah. I walk in, I'm like, this is the worst porn I've ever seen. This is terrible, man. It's terrible. And I didn't even go in my room. This wasn't one of these things. You just go in your room and just close your door? No, no, this was a. This was a wild animal attacking each other. And they was both drunk. And it's like. Then they was eating. Pizz was on she. No. A slice of pieces on this lady's back. And I was like, yo, this is gross.

[Bobby Kelly]

I'm gonna say, yeah, that's worse than. That's worse than him taking my. I'm call that kid to apologize.

[Ali Siddiq]

He took my virginity.

[Bobby Kelly]

Highs.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I stayed so funny. I stayed. My worst condo I did was Christina got me booked when we first started dating at the Comedy Cabana in Louisville, Kentucky. Comedy Caravan. Comedy Caravan. Right. In Newport News, Virginia. Oh, two different places. Newport News was cozies. No, this was. What did I just say? Comedy Caravan. Louisville. Yeah, Louisville. So the condo wasn't a condo. It was like the first floor of a old. I mean, haunted house, essentially. And I was staying there with the feature and the host. And it's like three bedrooms. A very old, shitty, shitty house. I took the room, hooked up my Xbox or whatever. I just remember the feelings I used to listen to. Ron and Fez was a radio show. Now that's Bennington. But it used to be Ron and Fez when Fez was alive. And I listened that all the time while I played video games on the road, you know, killing time. And I remember looking. I'm on this bed. The bed was like. So it was just springs, basically and rips all in the sheets and just. It was not clean. It was not taking care. This place was such a dump. And I'm listening to the. You know, I'm listening to Ronofest playing video games. And they were doing a bit about comics. Like, who's The. Who do you think is the staff? They're asking who's the comics to watch? And their intern was a young kid at the time, goes, oh, this person, this one, this one, that one. And Ron Bennington goes, oh, what's right? You don't say our old friend Big J at all. You don't think Big J is gonna pop soon? And he goes. I mean, he's just been around for a long time, so I feel like if he was gonna pop, it probably already would have happened. And it's just like, when you look around, you hear that. I'm just trying to entertain myself. Listen to the radio. It's like, he just shits on me. I'm looking at ripped sheets. Yeah, everything just sucked. All the other guys talking, absolutely nobody was impressed with me.

[Bobby Kelly]

2.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I think one of them is wondering why I got the biggest room. Like, why has he got the biggest

[Bobby Kelly]

room, the one in Edmonton? I was so disgusted that I was. That I found egg on the spatula. I just didn't like that. So Joe Derosa was standing there the week after me. So for the four nights I was there, one or three nights I was there, I slept naked in the bed. I did whatever I do.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Gross.

[Bobby Kelly]

Gross. I slept naked in the bed, did whatever I did. And then before I left, I took my socks. I didn't change my socks all weekend. I wore the same socks. I took those socks and I put them inside of the pillowcase on the backside, and I made the bed perfectly. I cleaned everything up so it was perfect. And he went there the next week, and I go ask him if they clean the condo. And he asked. He goes, yeah, they fucking have it made. They clean it. I go, cool, go in the bedroom. And he goes. I go, take the pillowcase off the pillow. And he goes, all you hear is, what the fuck? I go, those are my socks, stupid. I've been naked in that bed all week doing terrible things to my penis. Enjoy your weekend.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I think the first time I did Edmonton, the first time I did Edmonton, I shared the condo with a guy. I can't remember his name. It was a Canadian comic. And I think he was featuring for me substantially older than me, which always makes for an uncomfortable situation when you're younger and, like, an older person is featuring for you. And he brought his big fake titted girlfriend for the entire weekend. And just, like, she would walk around the apartment like, you know, in, like, little short. It was just so weird. They went out to lunch at one point, and I went through his computer. Computer Found the nudes.

[Bobby Kelly]

What you did?

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Yeah, I was sitting out. It's my condo, dude. I'm letting you her here.

[Ali Siddiq]

I went through his computer, found the nudes, looking, watching the door.

[Bobby Kelly]

And just like, that's worse than using my Sony.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I was gonna save watching the door, and I was gonna be like, no, I don't think I was to about. I guarantee. It was so long ago. I guarantee I was like, fuck, Come on, dude. Action movie.

[Ali Siddiq]

You trying to download the files.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

But I had long enough time to start thinking that he's using codes. You know, it's like TV show ideas. Like, that's pussy for sure. You click, it goes, nah, just a bunch of shitty Canadian TV show ideas. Chopping wood. Do something with that.

[Bobby Kelly]

The show idea. We were rich, and then we lost all our money and we bought a motel in a small town. It was Schitt's Creek.

[Ali Siddiq]

What's up with the metal?

[Bobby Kelly]

I'm a hero, dude. I didn't want to say. I don't want to say anything.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

You did want to say something. That's why you wore the metal.

[Ali Siddiq]

You definitely wanted to say something. You've been, you've been waiting for me to ask metal the whole time.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Do you want me to tell your legend or do you want to tell yourself?

[Ali Siddiq]

He didn't even have it on at first. When I came in, he put it on. Once I sat down, he was like. I looked over, he said, the metal. I'm like, he's just in the box. Sometimes I'm gonna let you.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Sometimes I'm humble and I, I, I

[Bobby Kelly]

would like to let you in day.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I think Bobby, I'm humble, but I

[Ali Siddiq]

have on a medal.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I think that Bobby feels when you come in here that you see through his facade and can tell that you, you have an outside belief. He doesn't like black people. I could see you feel that way when you see Bobby. You look at Bobby and you go, sky doesn't even care about black people.

[Bobby Kelly]

That's not true, is it?

[Ali Siddiq]

You have a black hat on for sure.

[Bobby Kelly]

Goddamn right.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Yeah, but he thinks. But he, but he thinks black people took that from the Irish gangs of Boston. So it's like that kind of thing.

[Bobby Kelly]

Well, I mean, historically, they did take it from the Irish gangs of Boston.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

In Boston, absolutely.

[Bobby Kelly]

It's called the Peaky blinder hat.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

But Bobby went to Costa Rica with his family recently, and when they went to. It was. It wasn't a sporting event. What side Bobby.

[Bobby Kelly]

We went to the Tamarinda side. The gay side. The was it the west side. West side, the west side, Yeah.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I don't know.

[Bobby Kelly]

The Pacific side. Not the gulfs of the Caribbean side.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Well, why Bobby loves black people. The Pacific Ocean doesn't because it was swallowing this little girl and. And Bobby. And she was yelling out for and her sister.

[Ali Siddiq]

He's so serious right now. He definitely wants me to know this story. Girl, I'm the.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Oh, he wants you.

[Ali Siddiq]

I'm locked in right now. I'm locked in. Bobby. Bobby, you think I'mma hug you after this. Go ahead, let me hear this story.

[Bobby Kelly]

Either you or Shadow might give me a hug.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

I mean, somebody.

[Ali Siddiq]

He just sitting there like, yeah, you're going to be impressed.

[Bobby Kelly]

J.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Continue. Then Bobby, she was yelling. And then Bobby came across her sister on the beach who said, please, please help. My sister is stuck and she's drowning. Bobby sprung into action. Despite all what you see as probably not a strong swimmer, this guy propelled through the water fighting current to go pull the. And you said as you got to the girl, the current was strong. He grabbed her. He pulled her across the sea to safety to be then fully thanked by her gigantic black father. Yes.

[Ali Siddiq]

Yeah.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

If you're wondering, he didn't know how to swim and he wasn't jumping in for his own daughter.

[Bobby Kelly]

Actually, he did come in, in grabbed her hand and then went under. It was over above his head. He let go of his daughter. And I was like, what the are you doing? And he couldn't swim, but.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

So Bobby saved a little black girl.

[Ali Siddiq]

I want. I wanted to really be into this. Like, you can't save her.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

You will. You'll be into it. You'll be into it. When she's in American Idol singing one day and Bobby. And Bobby, her angel is side stage going like, every day was a gift.

[Bobby Kelly]

Every day.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Every day was a gift. Ali Siddiq is playing the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Hang on.

[Bobby Kelly]

He wants to shake my hand, I think.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

Photo op.

[Ali Siddiq]

Thank you for saving my people.

[Bobby Kelly]

February.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

The New Jersey Performing Arts center in Newark, New Jersey, this Friday, February 20th. And then the Marian Anderson hall in Philly on Saturday, February 20th, 21st. That is this weekend, everybody. Do not miss him. Live, you can get all tickets and tour dates at Ali Sadiq A L-I-S I---I Q.com.

[Ali Siddiq]

They put hot honey sauce on the snack wrap. McDonald's outdid themselves again. The classic snack wrap we all know

[Bobby Kelly]

and love paired with the sweet heat

[Ali Siddiq]

of hot honey sauce.

[Bobby Kelly]

Just what we needed to make it even more perfect.

[Ali Siddiq]

You know the drill. So go to McDonald's and try it today.

[Big Jay Oakerson]

A KFC tale in the pursuit of flavor. The greatest insult the Colonel ever suffered was being served a wrap that was just a snack by a friend. So he took two crispy tenders, lettuce, tomatoes and pepper mayo and wrapped them in a soft tortilla. It wasn't a snack, it was a meal. He called it a twister and never called that friend again. The Colonel lived so we could chicken the Twister. Now back at KFC Classic or with baby bacon. Also try it spicy. It's finger licking good.

[Bobby Kelly]

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