INTERVIEW: Funny Marco Talks Comedy Career, G Herbo, Bobbi Althoff, Drake, Fatherhood; Baby Momma's + More

Summary

The Breakfast Club – Interview: Funny Marco Talks Comedy Career, G Herbo, Bobbi Althoff, Drake, Fatherhood; Baby Momma's + More

Podcast: The Breakfast Club (iHeartPodcasts)
Hosts: DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God
Guest: Funny Marco
Release Date: October 31, 2025

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Main Theme / Purpose

This episode features comedian and internet personality Funny Marco in a candid, comical, and at times poignant conversation with the Breakfast Club crew. The discussion explores Marco's unique comedic approach, his career rise, viral moments (notably with G Herbo and Bobbi Althoff), navigating industry pitfalls, thoughts on collaborations, the realities of fatherhood, and honest perspectives on relationships and personal growth, all wrapped in Marco’s signature blend of awkwardness and humor.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Funny Marco’s Brand & Comedy Style

• Awkward Humor as a Skill:

  • Marco built his career making people uncomfortable in interviews. He explains he’s not just a troll—his style is about “creating something out of nothing” and using awkwardness as an artform (03:09–04:09).
  • Quote: “You have mastered awkward energy, and I do think that’s a skill. Do you think it’s a skill, or just childhood trauma with a camera?” – DJ Envy (07:08)
  • Marco credits his comedic style to managing social discomfort from a young age, especially as someone with dyslexia.

• Dealing with Trolls:

  • Marco reflects on his viral G Herbo interview, admitting he learned to "speak up" when people flip his methods on him (03:33–04:01, 42:10–43:03).
  • Quote: “They were doing their job. That’s how they trolled... From that interview, I learned just to speak up, even if it’s your show.” – Funny Marco (03:33)

2. Career Journey & Dyslexia

• Early Struggles, Embracing Difference:

  • Marco discusses being dyslexic, struggling with reading and spelling, and the importance of self-acceptance (13:00–13:50).
  • Quote: “You just have to accept who you are, and you’re gonna get picked on. But find the funny in that.” – Funny Marco (13:46)

• Entering Podcasts & Contracts:

  • Being offered a podcast with Breakbeat, Marco faced contractual hurdles, especially as someone with difficulty reading. He emphasizes learning the business, the importance of legal counsel, and boundaries between friendship and business (15:12–16:59).
  • Quote: “Your feelings don’t matter when it comes to contracts... I’m glad I learned it at the age I did.” – Funny Marco (16:34)

3. Viral Moments, Collaborations & Bobbi Althoff

• Influence on Bobbi Althoff’s Success:
  • Marco’s interview with Bobbi went viral, even catching Drake’s attention. When asked if he feels responsible for "putting her on," Marco remains humble: “I never… it’s hard for me to hate because I grew up with, you know, if you had it, I got it” (21:21).
• Debate on Empowering Others:
  • Conversation on whether collaborating with white content creators (Bobbi) over Black female creators was a missed opportunity/misstep (23:07–25:44).
  • Marco acknowledges learning about “knowing your power,” but maintains his intent was never to exclude.
  • Quote: “It was something I needed to do. I learned from that… I shouldn’t have opened up the ‘let’s go on tour.’” – Funny Marco (25:24)

4. Reflections on Relationships & Fatherhood

• Fatherhood & Co-Parenting:
  • Open about his desire for more time with his children, the challenges of co-parenting, wishing for a more present father figure in his own life (36:23–39:45).
• Baby Mothers & Honesty:
  • Marco jokes about his three baby mamas (Black, mixed, Mexican), but also expresses regret about how things ended in his first relationship: “When we did not work out, I left too soon... led me to... not getting to see my daughter” (51:33).
• Adoption:
  • Marco talks about wanting to adopt an African and an Asian child so he can “have a Rush Hour” (39:36–40:24).

5. Cheating, Relationships, and “Pre-Cheating”

• Honest Discourse on Cheating:
  • Marco discusses “pre-cheating” (setting up fallback options) but claims he’s matured out of that. DJ Envy opens up about his own infidelity, emphasizing growth and responsibility.
  • Notable Exchange:
    • “What did you learn from that [cheating]?” – Funny Marco
    • “I learned that if you truly love someone, you’d never put them in a position... to make a decision.” – DJ Envy (48:05)
• Cheating as Immaturity:
  • DJ Envy and Marco debate whether cheating is a product of youth or mindset (53:00–53:24).

6. Viral Interviews & Standout Conversations

• Interview Highlights:
  • Marco reflects on his favorites: Nicki Minaj (“She asked, ‘What’s your intentions?’... I just want to talk”), Orlando Brown, Ray J, and his desire to interview Tyrese (28:58–29:46).
• Promoting Clip Culture:
  • Marco admits he curates awkward clips to drive views but the real conversations are richer than the viral snippets (27:53–28:53).

7. Community, Growth, and Giving Back

• Goals & Manifestation:

  • Marco wants to direct and provide platforms for Black comedians with less visibility, modeling his aspirations after Nick Cannon and 50 Cent (57:42–58:35).
  • Quote: “I want to be a director and be able to give people platforms... some people... been doing it for years... it’s just hard for them to be seen.” – Funny Marco (57:42)

• Self-Acceptance:

  • The episode ends on embracing one’s journey and using one’s experiences to grow and support others (56:01–56:29).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On comedic style and discomfort:
  • “You’ve built a career off making people uncomfortable.” – DJ Envy (03:01)
• On collab with Bobbi Althoff/Drake:
  • “I DM’ed Drake. He seen it and left me on red. And then Bobbi called me... she got a spot from Drake... I was happy for her.” – Funny Marco (21:08)
• On stage vs internet presence:
  • “Once you hit that stage, you gotta really care about who in front of you... I was hard on her.” – Funny Marco (22:28)
• On fatherhood:
  • “It’s a big thing. It hurt you... just to tell somebody [they get their kid for a] week, it’s like visitation, like jail time.” – Funny Marco (38:45)
• On industry lessons:
  • “Your feelings don’t matter when it comes to contracts, and I had to learn that.” – Funny Marco (16:34)
• On giving back:
  • “I want to do for others what I did for Bobbi, but this time it’s going to be Black people and a Black woman.” – Funny Marco (58:30)
• On owning your path:
  • “What you do is very intelligent... the awkward, that’s a skill set. There’s not too many people who can do that.” – DJ Envy (61:28)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 03:33 – G Herbo interview, learning to “speak up”
• 13:00 – Discussing dyslexia and being picked on
• 15:12 – Getting into podcasting and contract challenges
• 21:08 – The Bobbi Althoff interview & the Drake connection
• 25:24 – Reflecting on empowering others, learning about “knowing your power”
• 36:23 – Fatherhood, co-parenting struggles
• 42:10 – More on G Herbo, speaking up and setting boundaries
• 48:05 – Discussion on cheating and personal growth
• 57:42 – Manifesting being a director and lifting up lesser-known comedians

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Tone & Language

• The conversation is raw, witty, and unfiltered, matching both The Breakfast Club’s signature style and Funny Marco’s irreverent, awkward comedic persona.
• Exchanges are playful but occasionally dig deep into authentic vulnerability, particularly about dyslexia, childhood, relationships, and the entertainment industry’s challenges.
• The hosts lean into Marco’s awkward humor, sometimes “trolling the troll,” all while affirming his influence and unique talent.

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Final Thoughts

This episode paints a vivid portrait of Funny Marco as more than just a comedian—he’s a thoughtful disruptor, self-aware, striving to uplift others while embracing his own imperfections. Listeners get a behind-the-scenes look at viral culture, the comic’s journey, and the power of authenticity in the entertainment industry.

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For listeners seeking a blend of laughs, real talk, messy debates, and career/life lessons—this is an essential episode.

Transcript

[Host/Interviewer]

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[Funny Marco]

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[Funny Marco]

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[DJ Envy]

Hold up. Every day I wake up.

[Funny Marco]

Wake your ass up.

[DJ Envy]

The Breakfast Club.

[Funny Marco]

Morning everybody. It's DJ Envy Jess. Hilarious Charlemagne. The guy we are the Breakfast Club. Lola Rose is here as well. We got a special guest in the building. I'm sure he nervous. Why? This man canceled on us twice. Three times. He gets nervous. I'm sure he's not you nervous. That's a lie. You did cancel on us. It was only one time. Twice. No, it was not twice. One time you got on my ass it one time. I don't know about the other time. That was probably a team reaching out for to me that I didn't have funny Mar say that. What's up? What's up?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You can tell you that you got Bluey tucked on the side.

[Funny Marco]

I'm so used to.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, yeah. Marco, you. You've built a career off making people uncomfortable.

[Funny Marco]

I know how you start off.

[DJ Envy]

When's the last time you were uncomfortable on camera, Marco?

[Funny Marco]

I know what you going to say. No, man, but no. Oh, it never. Oh, okay. One time.

[DJ Envy]

When was the time?

[Funny Marco]

That was what time? I don't know. I remember it was so long ago.

[DJ Envy]

I don't. I remember, but I don't want to say it if you don't want to say, but you can say. I don't remember. It just came back to me when you said it to me just now.

[Funny Marco]

I mean, you can say it. I'm a little.

[DJ Envy]

It was when you was with G herbo, right?

[Funny Marco]

It wasn't nervous. It was just. They trolling. I didn't. I should have matched they trolling. And I learned a lot in that. In that spot. Like, I could have said something. I could have spoke up, but I was just so, like, in character. They were doing their job. That's how they trolled. So it was just two of them. I ain't used to. All right, one is cool. So I was like, damn, it's two of them. So I didn't match that energy. So from that interview, I learned just to speak up, even if it's your show. You know, just topic like, yo, let's get on script. You know what I'm saying? So that's what I learned.

[DJ Envy]

So they thought you was gonna come a certain way.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

So that's why they came with that type of energy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Host/Interviewer]

Cause let's get back on script because you troll. So.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah, I'm not necessarily troll because I don't speak on facts. Sometimes troll is like, you know how to talk and you like trolling. But I can make up some shit that you be like, what is he talking about? So I. I can create some shit you gotta be in. You like the. You know the Eminem stuff where I troll.

[Host/Interviewer]

Right, right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I wouldn't really call you. That's truly.

[Funny Marco]

And like, you, I don't know. Cause you. I told you, I never seen you dj. Still to this day, you don't. Damn. But I don't know why they call him dj.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, he used to dj Speak Up, Envy.

[Funny Marco]

I have never. He never got booked. I DJ all the time. But I'm saying how I make money on the side. But you know, when I Went on the show. He was flirting with me. Heavy. And I told him I have a man, Charlamagne. He was like, I don't care.

[DJ Envy]

I'm not his man. You gay? You're not gay.

[Funny Marco]

Why would you just say it like that if I was?

[DJ Envy]

No, no, no, no. I never. But you got to. Yeah. So you would buy it?

[Funny Marco]

I'm just saying, if I was how you asked, I wouldn't tell you.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, got you, got you, got you, got you. I wouldn't care. I'm just asking. He said he was flirting with you.

[Funny Marco]

He was. You tried to take me out and everything.

[Host/Interviewer]

You wouldn't tell me.

[DJ Envy]

So you was flirting with. I don't know.

[Funny Marco]

He wasn't trying to take me out. If I was gay, he would not be my type.

[DJ Envy]

What? You like Melody?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, okay.

[Funny Marco]

Jalen hurts. He cool.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, okay, okay, okay. I see what you're doing. What does he have over me?

[Funny Marco]

I'm just curious. What does he have over me? Nah, you just. You like a Frenchie a little bit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, my God. That's my favorite type of dude.

[Funny Marco]

I didn't say he was ugly. I'm just saying Frenchie. So was he a pit bull? No. Was he? I don't know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's his type.

[DJ Envy]

So the funny in your name is not hilarious.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You are gay. That would be your type. I'm sorry.

[DJ Envy]

Sor. Funny is. Is not. Cuz you're hilarious. It's because you like.

[Funny Marco]

No, because funny funny. It just came from Kansas City. Somebody just called me, like, funny. Marco. That was my name. Marco.

[DJ Envy]

Got you got. Yeah, you know, funny used to be a gay slur back in the day.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah, like you funny acting.

[DJ Envy]

I guess you funny. Remember on what was that movie? You mean I'm funny? Like funny funny. You remember Think I'm a clown.

[Funny Marco]

So that was just. It was a situation in the movie. Don't say it was a slur. Like everybody knew about that.

[DJ Envy]

No, it was Baltimore.

[Funny Marco]

You didn't know nothing about?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I didn't know nothing about.

[Funny Marco]

No. Yeah, yeah, we not.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, you.

[Funny Marco]

Are you 30? What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

33.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, damn. God damn.

[Funny Marco]

No, I know, I know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How old are you?

[Funny Marco]

No, I'm 32, but, yeah, I look 39.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You 32.

[Funny Marco]

Don't do.

[DJ Envy]

Damn.

[Funny Marco]

Damn.

[DJ Envy]

Yo, what's up with y' all today?

[Host/Interviewer]

Definitely thought.

[Funny Marco]

What? You thought I was older?

[Host/Interviewer]

Yes.

[Funny Marco]

How much older? I really like you.

[DJ Envy]

Please.

[Funny Marco]

I like you too. All right. I got some fake pages. Don't do that.

[DJ Envy]

How old you thought he was?

[Host/Interviewer]

I thought you were. Because I'm 33. I thought you're at least, like, 37.

[Funny Marco]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Host/Interviewer]

You're very well esteemed.

[Funny Marco]

Don't do that shit. I will.

[Host/Interviewer]

You've been around for so long.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

In your defense, a lot of people do say that I. A lot of people say I do look older.

[Funny Marco]

So it's like, it ain't about you. You don't look a certain age. It's just how you act. But you got to carry yourself.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I give.

[Host/Interviewer]

I literally just said that to you, and you got mad.

[Funny Marco]

It's different from whether.

[DJ Envy]

But I. I do.

[Funny Marco]

You.

[DJ Envy]

You have mastered awkward energy, and I do think that's a skill. Do you think it's a skill, or you just like childhood trauma with a camera?

[Funny Marco]

Just to know how to do it, when to turn it off? And that was one thing. In the interview, g herbod up like that. What is going to stop? And it was going. I was like.

[DJ Envy]

But you got to be able to take it.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah, I know.

[DJ Envy]

That's why I said.

[Funny Marco]

I. It was. It was.

[Host/Interviewer]

He don't do that because he might be fluid overall.

[Funny Marco]

Like I said in the situation, I was just overthinking. They didn't do nothing wrong. You know what I'm saying? So it was me overthinking, and I didn't. I'm not used to, like, checking. Sometimes if I ever get. I just shut up and just leave. Yeah, I ain't that.

[DJ Envy]

I don't think it needed to be checked. It's just.

[Funny Marco]

No, I'm just saying, being able to say how you feel, not in the wrong way, like, oh, like, it's okay to just say, all right, y', all. Let's talk. Like, got you. All right, let's get on screen. Like, you know what I'm saying? It's okay. That not checking.

[DJ Envy]

Like, tell me how you feel right now.

[Funny Marco]

I feel blessed. I feel alive, not nervous.

[DJ Envy]

How do you feel in this moment? Like, what do you want? Is there anything you want to tell us? I want to know how you feel. Not.

[Funny Marco]

It'll come out. I'm not used to, like, pre thinking, so when I think, I say what I want to say right then and there.

[DJ Envy]

Got you.

[Funny Marco]

I'm not pre thinking. Like, I'm gonna say. If I do have something to say, I forget about it. So I don't like. You know, I'm not like a pre.

[DJ Envy]

You don't like. You don't like pre comp.

[Funny Marco]

No, I pre cheat sometimes. I have. Let's preach. You set up some shit just in case you and your Girl don't work out. What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So you already. You go into a relationship banking on it?

[Funny Marco]

No, I said no. I said if pre cheating is weird, like it's just you ain't doing. But it's just like you have it set up like Save me some on the side ball me up song.

[DJ Envy]

That's some young.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That is certainly some young.

[Funny Marco]

What I'm saying. I said I have not no more.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[Funny Marco]

Are you.

[Host/Interviewer]

You in a relationship now?

[Funny Marco]

Nah.

[Host/Interviewer]

Okay. Because I saw Sierra trying to help you. Yeah, that was pretty.

[Funny Marco]

You lala up. You could have had Lala. She was asking me could you have had. Oh, no.

[Hunter (Hunting for Answers)]

That's right.

[Funny Marco]

He like, yeah. Oh, sorry.

[DJ Envy]

I'm no taste. You like Star wars, huh?

[Funny Marco]

You call it Chewbacca.

[Host/Interviewer]

He tried to call me Jaja.

[Funny Marco]

You're an amazing person. You my sister. You always fly.

[DJ Envy]

What you like about Laura?

[Funny Marco]

How she carry herself? She know how to talk dress.

[DJ Envy]

What bars in hell for y' all generation.

[Funny Marco]

What happened with you, Lala?

[DJ Envy]

I thought you were trying something.

[Funny Marco]

A Lala is really, really good. What happened? She was. She was trying to throw you something and say holla. And you just. No, she wasn't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, you was trying to shoot your shot.

[Funny Marco]

She was allowing you to shoot your shot. What's going on with you? Nice. It's just Lala is one of them people that really. I could say an industry friend. That helps you out, right?

[DJ Envy]

What tension between him and Envy? The sexual tension is crazy. Envy is staring through that man. What the hell? The way he blushing. Why you blushing?

[Host/Interviewer]

Jealous.

[DJ Envy]

Envy was staring at him. All I kept hearing was, take me through that. Take me through that. I'm like going on like, what's wrong with you?

[Funny Marco]

You jealous? This the first time I ever seen you jealous.

[DJ Envy]

I wasn't. That was just crazy.

[Funny Marco]

He was jealous.

[Host/Interviewer]

Marco, you know how you be doing those things where like you fake talk to the women. Like how you would date them. What you did with Sierra. Do it with Envy real quick. Just. If you. If you ever were interested, how would you approach?

[Funny Marco]

No, I wouldn't be interested. No.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. I like that. Honesty.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah. I wouldn't be. And I don't think he would be either. So it's even.

[Host/Interviewer]

Right?

[Funny Marco]

Right? No.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You like chocolate.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah. Not.

[DJ Envy]

You like chocolate?

[Funny Marco]

I'm not gay. Chocolate men. How about that? I'm not gay. I'm not gay. How long you been in a relationship?

[DJ Envy]

She got two.

[Funny Marco]

Good question.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't have two.

[DJ Envy]

She's in one relationship.

[Host/Interviewer]

I don't have two. I have one and It's.

[Funny Marco]

It's been.

[Host/Interviewer]

It's fresh. It's been some months.

[Funny Marco]

So you still got a shot?

[Host/Interviewer]

No, he doesn't still have a shot.

[Funny Marco]

Oh, damn. Don't say it like that.

[Host/Interviewer]

Not like that, but just like, I'm good where I'm at.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah, I know that.

[DJ Envy]

Your language changing around that guy, too. I just want you to know about a couple months ago, I'm getting married. That's my husband. Now it's like, oh, it's been a couple of months.

[Host/Interviewer]

How long have I been in a relationship?

[Funny Marco]

Do for a living.

[Host/Interviewer]

If we were getting married, what do.

[Funny Marco]

We do for a living?

[Host/Interviewer]

That's too much questions.

[Funny Marco]

The same way he goes to a.

[Host/Interviewer]

Job for a living.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, he's a barber.

[Funny Marco]

That's.

[DJ Envy]

That's fine.

[Funny Marco]

That's dope. Barbers are getting money.

[Host/Interviewer]

He stay friends.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah, barbers are getting money. Yeah, they charging like 200 a cut.

[Host/Interviewer]

He helped me, you know, all the stuff comes in the barber shop. He know what's going on. So he sends me, like, topics and stuff. You know how that go.

[Funny Marco]

He. How y' all meet? He cut your hair. Damn. He unprofessional. Now, hold on. He unprofessional.

[DJ Envy]

Hold on, cuz. It be cutting hair. He nicked her right here.

[Funny Marco]

I'm at the Dirty Mat. I got a dirty mat.

[Host/Interviewer]

He didn't cut my hair.

[DJ Envy]

But you know, Lala be playing with you, though.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah, I know.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Host/Interviewer]

You thought that he.

[Funny Marco]

He knew she was. You think I'm an 8 year old. I don't know.

[DJ Envy]

I just asked.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You knew it was.

[Host/Interviewer]

No way.

[DJ Envy]

No, ask. Marco, Your favorite.

[Funny Marco]

Congratulations on your relationship.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you. My marriage.

[Funny Marco]

I don't know what's going on with you, but, you know, thanks, everybody, but I saw something on the Internet. Really? Say, what do your wife look like? Nobody never knows. That's good, right?

[DJ Envy]

That's how you should keep it.

[Funny Marco]

No, I feel like if you're happy with something, it's okay to just say, hey, here we go.

[DJ Envy]

No, I think. I think that if you're actually happy with something, that's for you.

[Funny Marco]

Like, no, because if something ever happened to you, we could check on her. We could be like, how you doing?

[DJ Envy]

I don't want y' all to check on her.

[Host/Interviewer]

Y', all.

[DJ Envy]

Y' all in our emergency contact. That's your problem. Y' all be treating the Internet like it's your emergency contact.

[Funny Marco]

No, it's okay to check on her to be like, oh, you are. And not cash or pictures. Like, why I took over him What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You can show her pictures.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Funny Marco]

Like you. This I remember. I can just say I remember I met her. He was a cool dude. You could just. She could go, you know, something happened to somebody in the family, they always REM show pictures and stuff. He want to kill you off so fast.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He definitely trying to kill you.

[DJ Envy]

Envy. Ask Marco your famous question.

[Host/Interviewer]

How'd you get here?

[Funny Marco]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

How'd you get started?

[Funny Marco]

Let's. How'd you get started for you, Marco? He didn't even remember it.

[DJ Envy]

For people who.

[Funny Marco]

We want to know your beginning, so let's do a real interview. So let's tell it from the beginning, how you got into comedy. That's the question. Just being inspired by other people that do comedy. That makes sense.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, nice. Who are some people?

[Funny Marco]

That was in school. I struggled in school, so it started with that. So I'm dyslexic.

[DJ Envy]

And you did what?

[Funny Marco]

You dis. What? This is not a safe place.

[Dutch Vet Service Advertiser]

If you thought it was.

[Funny Marco]

This is not a safe place.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

It's whack, yo.

[DJ Envy]

You dissed, too. Who you dis, man?

[Funny Marco]

Dyslexic.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Dyslexic.

[Funny Marco]

Dang.

[Host/Interviewer]

So you.

[DJ Envy]

Why'd you diss them?

[Funny Marco]

What they do to you? I know you really care. I can look at y', all, too, right?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Funny Marco]

Not here. It's like a distraction right here.

[Host/Interviewer]

Okay, so you struggle with.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah, like reading. I'm getting it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

Give him time. He just told you he. That doesn't mean he's slow.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah. So struggling with reading and spelling. So being going through school with that. You just have to accept who you are, and you're gonna get picked on. But find a funny in that.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Funny Marco]

That's where I feel like it opened up.

[DJ Envy]

You from Kansas City. The crazy thing, I didn't know anybody from Kansas City. I knew it at a football team. Eddie Griffin from Kansas City.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

I did not know that. Damn. I never thought about it.

[Funny Marco]

So you take nine.

[DJ Envy]

Tech nine is from Kansas City.

[Host/Interviewer]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I did not know that. I didn't know Eddie Griffin was from there. But that's actually one of my favorite cities to come see to do comedy. Y' all love comedy in Kansas City.

[Funny Marco]

Because a lot of states that be depressing, that's where they show up. Like, you know, they show up at Baltimore, too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What? Baltimore was fine.

[Funny Marco]

It is.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We good.

[Funny Marco]

It's a city that's like, you know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

We'Re not a down, depressed city. We up. We turned up.

[Funny Marco]

No, it's turned. No, we turned up in Kansas City, too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But no, y' all are.

[Funny Marco]

It's streets. There's some real street shit going on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, all right, so look, let's stay on this real quick. So what is. All right, so you're from Kansas City, Missouri, or Kansas City, Kansas?

[Funny Marco]

Kansas City, Missouri.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay. Because every time I used to.

[Funny Marco]

I know they get upset with that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They are very upset with that. But you can literally throw a rock from one place to the next. Like, y' all so close, but y' all can't stand each other. I don't understand.

[Funny Marco]

It's the same thing, like with New York and Jersey. Don't get it confused. Like, people don't like.

[Dutch Vet Service Advertiser]

But you can't.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

New York, you can't get that confused, though.

[Funny Marco]

No, we cool.

[DJ Envy]

People in North Carolina. Yeah, everybody like to be like the Carolinas.

[Funny Marco]

Like New York all together. Think it's one thing, but it's so much different. Like. Like, I just thought New York was one thing, but it was like, I'm from the Bronx. No, I'm from here. It's so.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damn. I just don't understand. Y' all so close. They're 20 minutes apart.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah, but it's still like, you just can't get it messed up. Okay, so who heard you and then decided that you should do a podcast? Cause you started a podcast really early. How did that come about? With Break Breat, they reached out and they was like, start a podcast. And it was hard for me because I'm like, I don't know how to spell, read, or write. And I know you gotta do that, so I just wanted to go in and do something. No, it was the breakfast. Breakfast? Wait, why you laug there?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I tried.

[DJ Envy]

No, man, that ain't got nothing to do with.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So you can't. You can't spell, spell nothing. Like, even right now at your age. I mean, cuz, I know you've been dealing with this all your.

[Funny Marco]

I know. Three letter words I'm not really good at. I'm not the only one that's a community of us out there.

[DJ Envy]

No, for sure.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know it is community. And that's why I'm not.

[DJ Envy]

I promise. I wasn't laughing at you being.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah, yeah. It's a community out there. You got to be careful.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So you've never tried.

[Funny Marco]

It's just hard.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So. But when you do your interviews on open thoughts, you know, you have cue cards.

[Funny Marco]

Like, don't nothing be on it. For real.

[Host/Interviewer]

Oh, yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Man, you are crazy, man. You a crazy guy. Marco, man.

[Funny Marco]

So what happened with you and the White girl. Bobby. What's the last name?

[Host/Interviewer]

Bobby.

[DJ Envy]

No, stay on Open thoughts for a second.

[Funny Marco]

Oh.

[DJ Envy]

Cause what happened with Breakbeat?

[Funny Marco]

It was a good company. They sued you, right? Oh, God. Yeah. It was me learning a business, too. It was something that I needed. I needed to get in there and learn a business for sure. Understand how people work. And your feelings don't matter when it comes to contracts, and I had to learn that. I'm glad I learned it at the age I did. Y' all figured it out. Y' all worked it out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, but how did they expect you to read a contract?

[Funny Marco]

Oh, boy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, I'm.

[Funny Marco]

They didn't know that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Then why didn't you go in with that? Like, hey, guys, I struggle with the lexiconia.

[Funny Marco]

You can't tell people that when they trying to. Yeah, then they really gonna probably throw some big words in there.

[DJ Envy]

You can't even tell a lawyer that. Cause a lawyer might take advantage of you.

[Funny Marco]

Exact. So y' all might not have to air this interview.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, wow.

[Host/Interviewer]

Posting stuff on the wrong YouTube channel you probably didn't read. You didn't know what your channel was.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah, it was. And then it was also. No, it was also some words I was saying, oh, you can. So it was that. And then also words don't matter when it comes to what's on paper.

[DJ Envy]

But you shouldn't have signed that paperwork without a lawyer to begin with.

[Funny Marco]

I did not know you had to learn. It's some stuff that you didn't get, you know, you didn't up in your career.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, I'll be.

[Funny Marco]

Honestly, I mean, with the reading and stuff. But.

[DJ Envy]

No, no, I mean, it's respectfully business wise. No, but that's only because I had a lot of people around me early and I watched, you know, just other people make mistakes. Small people learn from the other people that do that. Yeah, but other people, you know, so. And being that I. I thank God that I got on when I got on, because I got on a little later. So I was able to watch a lot of other people make those mistakes and have the right people around me to keep me from, you know, signing those bad contracts and stuff like that.

[Host/Interviewer]

Okay, what was helping you, like, when you were figuring out the content journey and like, you were making those mistakes, was there anybody you was calling, like, hey, YouTube is doing this. What does this mean?

[Funny Marco]

That's a good question. Not Ryan. Ryan Davis. I talked to him about Ryan Davis, and that's what the standup and stand up. I feel like when you first get on Instagram, you start getting followers, people think you should just go straight to stand up. And they talk about money. And that was one thing. Like, shout out to Issa avo. He was like, go, go get the paper. And one thing about your career, you got. You can't chase money. You know what I'm saying? You got to work for it. So I'm just glad I did. You know, how I'd done everything how I was supposed to, because if I started standing up at an age, you got one time to do something really good. And once people know that you're doing it for money, they look at you different. You won't. It won't be the same.

[DJ Envy]

Well, so why'd you announce that you had signed a deal for $8 million for your podcast?

[Funny Marco]

I was bored. Sometimes it's okay. No, sometimes I like to manifest stuff. I love that.

[DJ Envy]

I knew you was lying when you said it, but. Yeah, damn. But no.

[Funny Marco]

See, worth that. That was what you trying to say.

[DJ Envy]

No, I'm not. It's not about what.

[Funny Marco]

He just know. He read through lies. Cause he lie.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, he does.

[DJ Envy]

No, I troll.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah, okay, well, I was trolling, so.

[DJ Envy]

I knew that when I said it. But see, here's the thing that messes up the game, you know, because people believe you. And then me being in the podcast business now, people come to me like, well, funny, Marco got $8 million. And I'm like, I can't. I don't want to see. Like, no, he didn't.

[Funny Marco]

I'm just saying. But stuff better change, you know, NBA contracts didn't change from a long time, so we should start getting paid. That.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, but you know why the NBA contracts changed? Because the NBA started making a lot.

[Funny Marco]

More money, and podcasts are making a lot of money.

[DJ Envy]

There is really not. Some companies are, some companies aren't.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah, but I'm just saying it's, you know, it should be there.

[Host/Interviewer]

How close to eight. Where did. What's the number you actually sold it for?

[DJ Envy]

Podcasts are performing.

[Funny Marco]

I told you, I don't read. So I don't know.

[DJ Envy]

Podcast of performance based. So you can look at somebody's audio downloads and know what they supposed to be getting.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah, yeah, that makes sense.

[DJ Envy]

Sebastian, another reason I know you didn't make it, man.

[Funny Marco]

Damn. Like, this is called the Breakfast Club, and I never see nobody eating breakfast.

[DJ Envy]

That is not true.

[Funny Marco]

No, Yeah, I don't serve breakfast to nobody. I'm hungry. You hungry?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This nigga said, go to Corral Bee.

[DJ Envy]

Go to Corral Bee every now and.

[Funny Marco]

Then grow the corral and we can't. No, I'm fine. You just said you hungry. Nah. This is. Cause you asked. Damn.

[DJ Envy]

I don't want to eat nothing.

[Funny Marco]

You offering.

[Host/Interviewer]

Now?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You got a sausage.

[Funny Marco]

We was in prison in my crazy. I just seen the moment. It was like.

[DJ Envy]

It was kind of very smart. Marco. You got good instincts.

[Funny Marco]

He was like, I'm all right.

[DJ Envy]

That's good instinct.

[Funny Marco]

So what happened with you and Bobby, Al? How y' all get close? After we did the interview, It. It went. It went up. And the thing about the interview, I never talked about this. What went up? The interview went up. And then I remember Drake, he commented on it. And when Drake comment on it, I said, I'm a DM Drake, and ask him to come on my show. And I DM Drake. He seen it and left me on red. And then Bobby called me. He was like, oh, my God, I got a spot from Drake.

[DJ Envy]

No, damn.

[Funny Marco]

I was like, oh. I was like. She's like, should I do it? I'm like, yeah. No, I wouldn't say supposed to, but you know what I'm saying? Because everybody, you know, he can go anywhere he wants.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Funny Marco]

But overall, just with that, when she did it and her success turned up, it was like, oh, like, damn. Like, that was really a great thing. And overall, just me learning not to. I always been a person that look up to my brothers and everybody look up to people that had more than me. So I never. It's hard for me to hate because I grew up with, you know, if you had it, I got it. You know what I'm saying? I used to borrow people clothes, borrow money. So I never really had. For real. So just seeing her success go up, I was happy for her.

[DJ Envy]

And don't look up to people just because they got more than you, though. Look up to people because they got good characters. Character.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah, that too. I'm just saying it's a lot. It's a lot of reasons to look at the people, you know? So it's not just one reason. We're just speaking on that one. Yeah, but go ahead. No, go. I was gonna say you guys decided to do something together. Going. Yeah, we did. Yeah. On tour. So us going on tour, we was gonna do like a live, you know, a live thing where people can see us. But I feel like I was hard on her because I was already in the midst of doing stand up, and I'm like, stage present is something you gotta just grow. You just don't have it. So me already doing It. I wasn't mindful of how she felt. So I'm like, when we get out there, we really gotta, you know, show. Show them, like, again. Once you hit that stage, you gotta really care about who in front of you.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Funny Marco]

And I was hard on her. Now I had to. Now that I stop and think, I'm like, damn, I was really a jerk, because.

[DJ Envy]

No, you weren't. You should have been hard on her.

[Funny Marco]

Treat her the way her great grandfather treated you. Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, my God.

[Funny Marco]

Damn.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Funny Marco]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

The way her great, great grandfather would have treated you.

[Funny Marco]

So what I'm trying to say is. So what I'm trying to say is, you know, once you hit the stage, all of us, it's different. So from the Internet and being on stage, you gotta keep doing that to earn that. And I'm still learning that too. So every time I hit the stage, it feels new and you get the bubble gut. But you can tell her personality wasn't that. Exactly. That's her sting.

[DJ Envy]

She was trying to do you. She was trying to do what you do.

[Funny Marco]

No, she's her. She's her.

[Host/Interviewer]

But there are fans that feel like you kind of. She took what it is that you do and took the ball and ran with it and has been able to, like, do things so much faster.

[Funny Marco]

Oh, wow.

[Host/Interviewer]

No, that's a conversation. People feel like it's unfair.

[DJ Envy]

I don't think so.

[Host/Interviewer]

I'm just telling you the conversation that it's being had. People feel like it's happening and it's unfair because it's only happening because she's white.

[DJ Envy]

But she not popping. I mean, not on your level.

[Funny Marco]

No, I'm. Everybody got their own definition of popping. Let's start there. Bobby does not know. What I'm trying to say is. It's not in my conversation. Back to what you're saying. That's how you got the point where we talk, too. You know, black people go on her show, though, I'm saying. And that don't go on anybody else's show again.

[Host/Interviewer]

Wait, let him finish. And then we do.

[DJ Envy]

Black women content creators get mad at you because you decided to empower a white girl.

[Funny Marco]

Damn. It wasn't my fault. You don't black.

[DJ Envy]

You don't like black women.

[Funny Marco]

I mean, people, when they put it out, people choose to watch it. You know what I'm saying? So there wasn't nothing that I pushed in there. That was her.

[DJ Envy]

Black women content creators.

[Funny Marco]

That's true. You don't like black women.

[DJ Envy]

You don't see black Women.

[Funny Marco]

What? Are you serious? Me and her sit down and talk? What does that mean? What are you calling her? You ain't do a collaboration with her.

[DJ Envy]

Exactly.

[Funny Marco]

Yes, we did. What do you mean? But she put me on. She helped me.

[DJ Envy]

And what about other black women content creators that you could have empowered?

[Funny Marco]

I can work with anybody. Who would you like me to work with?

[DJ Envy]

I feel like I'm just asking a question.

[Funny Marco]

Crazy.

[DJ Envy]

No, it's not. We're just asking a simple question.

[Funny Marco]

Do you feel that way? You asked me a quick question.

[Host/Interviewer]

You can't read, I can't hear. I don't even know what just happened.

[Funny Marco]

All right, okay. So they're asking me questions about when Bobby asked me to come on her podcast, Right. And I did the podcast, not expecting nothing, and it did what it did. It had nothing to do with me.

[Host/Interviewer]

You don't know your power.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Are you crazy? No, I do disagree.

[Host/Interviewer]

Yeah, you don't know your power because that was my only gripe with. It is like, how you come out and say, she stiff, she dry. I don't want her on tour because she's. She's telling me.

[Funny Marco]

I didn't say it like that.

[Host/Interviewer]

Well, that's.

[Funny Marco]

I say it was kind of. It was dry, and I wanted her to talk more. And it was.

[DJ Envy]

But, you know, called her a milk drink.

[Host/Interviewer]

You knew what. You endorsed when you. You knew what it was.

[DJ Envy]

Exactly.

[Funny Marco]

That's what I was doing.

[Host/Interviewer]

You knew what it was when you signed up. It worked for her. And now you're like, no, I want to control this. But it's like you. You gave her the. Like, you invited her to the cookout.

[DJ Envy]

Exactly.

[Host/Interviewer]

And then you stepped away from her. So I just felt like you should have known your power in that moment. And if you didn't want to empower her and put her on these stages, why do that? Cause there are other people you could have done.

[Funny Marco]

No, so. And what I'm saying. And if you heard me when I first started talking, it was something that I needed to do. I learned from that. You know what I'm saying? So being on stage and doing a podcast is two different things. I shouldn't have opened the let's go on tour. You know what I'm saying? So that's where that was my fault. But again, it was something that could have went left or right.

[Host/Interviewer]

But even sitting down with her on her show, like, I know it's just, like, collaboration or whatever. But you said you didn't know it would happen.

[Funny Marco]

No, I just sit down. It was just I don't know, gave her credibility and she took Drake and you got her a Drake interview.

[DJ Envy]

That's crazy.

[Funny Marco]

That's fine. But what I'm saying is I just sit down and I just sit down. I just did me. I didn't expect nothing. I didn't ask for no money. It was just doing it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't think it was a bad idea for you to suggest a tour between you and her. I don't think that. Because like you said, it's two ways it can go. Bad or good. You know, I don't think you giving her the criticism of, you know, just suggesting that she open up a little bit more was bad either. I don't believe that. I think it was something that you canceled the tour and she didn't know.

[Funny Marco]

Or something like that. Yeah, it was me. I did not communicate.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay?

[Funny Marco]

I did not.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So that's what I had to a problem with. I don't have a problem with anything. Cuz I think if it was done right, you and Bobby's tour would have went crazy. Right? I believe in that for sure.

[DJ Envy]

I doubt it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But it was just the fact that. That she didn't know. You didn't even talk to her before you cancel.

[Funny Marco]

Which I didn't. I was wrong on that. Yeah, I think we giving her too much pub right now anyway.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, where those shows. Where those shows. Those shows weren't doing well though. But your shows by itself do well.

[Funny Marco]

No, it didn't even get too far cuz I. Cause right when you hit the stage, you care. Me being, you know, doing standup. Every time I get off the stage, I always think about what can I done better? I just don't think like, oh, it's over. Cause I know I'm ready to get back on there and I gotta get back there next weekend. So I'm always in my head thinking, what can I do better?

[DJ Envy]

So you did a show with her and you was like, damn, what can I do better? Leave her home.

[Funny Marco]

Wow, this dude is so good.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Have you two spoken?

[Funny Marco]

Yeah, we spoke.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, See all are good now.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah.

[Host/Interviewer]

So her last interview with Drake.

[Funny Marco]

I don't. I'm adhd, so I really don't even watch my own.

[DJ Envy]

Write down everything you got, man.

[Funny Marco]

I wish I could write it down.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh my God.

[Funny Marco]

Damn. My baby.

[DJ Envy]

Marco.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because.

[Funny Marco]

What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damon, I just dropped the book. You can't even get it.

[Funny Marco]

What? Wow. What the. Why you say that?

[Host/Interviewer]

You said you can't read.

[Funny Marco]

You got an audiobook though? Yeah, you can listen to 52nd audiobook.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I love it.

[Funny Marco]

It's your voice, too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. It's gonna be my voice.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah. That'll be good to hear you read.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you.

[Funny Marco]

Wow.

[DJ Envy]

Damn.

[Funny Marco]

Damn.

[DJ Envy]

What's the biggest misconception, people?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I've been helping you since he been up here, and he gonna say that.

[Funny Marco]

I feel like when you get seen as. I don't know, when they see you as your content, they just think of you as that sometimes. And being a dad and being somebody that I care about people is just, like, it come off as I don't. And some people. I thought she was an. And I was like, even when I sit down with Nicki Minaj was like, what's your intentions? And I'm like, with this interview, where are you going with it? I was like, I just want to talk. And, like, just let it lead into wherever it lead into. And yeah, it was. And then I got told, too. It was like. Like, I'm trying to embarrass somebody. And I think because my clips that I put out, I know how to make good clips to go look at the real interview. Like, oh, damn, that didn't happen. So some of my clips, I make it look like it was awkward, like, what the fuck just happened? But when you see it, they really respond. So I just know how to promote my clips. Was that your favorite interview? Yeah, that was like, when we sit down, when I asked her about Eminem, like, and they sit down, it was like, that didn't happen. But it just. Overall, just knowing how to see that was your favorite one, though. Nikki, what's your favorite interview that you've done? Yeah. In Orlando Brown.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes. I was about to ask you, was he in your top. Do you have a top five?

[Funny Marco]

Yeah. I mean, yeah, but I'm just saying Orlando Brown was different and sitting down.

[DJ Envy]

And just Orlando and Ray J was hilarious.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah. Yeah. It was funny because I was trying to get Ray J and Tyrese, and Ray J was like, yeah, let's do Tyrese. He was like. He was like, tyrese called me one time and he left a voicemail talking about, by the way, One Wish was trash. And he was like, I don't know what the that was about.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, wow.

[Funny Marco]

And he was like. He wanted to talk to him. So did you reach out to Ty, what he said? Yeah, I just never heard from Tyrese. It was right when he was doing y'. All. It was that around that same time he was up here with y'.

[DJ Envy]

All. I love Tyrese is my guy. I love Tyrese and Ray J. I'm telling you right now, Tyrese takes himself too serious to ever sit with you to do that type of interview. That's even funny. No, no, that's gonna do it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But he wouldn't do it with somebody else.

[DJ Envy]

No, that would be funnier. He takes himself too serious. Like, when he comes up here.

[Funny Marco]

Where's he from?

[DJ Envy]

He's from. He knows us, and, you know, we got a rapport.

[Funny Marco]

It's comfortable.

[DJ Envy]

Yes, but with the way you do your style of interviewing, I don't think Tyrese could handle that.

[Funny Marco]

I can respect that.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You don't think so?

[DJ Envy]

I would love to see. I think Ty would be good.

[Funny Marco]

I think Ty.

[DJ Envy]

I mean, Ty is good. Anybody that goes on the show and takes it too serious is always the funniest.

[Funny Marco]

Right? But I think. I think he's loosened up a lot. Pause. Yeah, I think he has.

[DJ Envy]

Okay.

[Host/Interviewer]

Do y' all do, like, pre interviews with the guy?

[Funny Marco]

No. Just sit down. Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Literally.

[Funny Marco]

Why wasn't I in your top five, though? Interviews? You said. Nikki, you said you didn't like my interview with you. It's not that. I still don't know what you do, like, outside of this.

[DJ Envy]

Damn.

[Funny Marco]

I mean, you're a good person. I know you know how to, like, you know, a dj.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He is a good person.

[Funny Marco]

I never seen you DJ in my life.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He a father, too.

[DJ Envy]

Father.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah, I know that.

[DJ Envy]

Nobody. Daddy. You know, I like seeing you scream, though. I like seeing you on the twitch and everything, because I feel like that's not the character. Like, when you with your daughter, you know, when I saw you at Screaming University, I'm like, see, that's Marco. You know what I mean? And I think that. That Marco was enough.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah. You know, you got some sides to it. That's like, you. You not the same person sometimes, you know, I think a lot of people got different Personas. You're not the same person in a lot of different predicaments that you are in, you know?

[DJ Envy]

I don't know.

[Funny Marco]

I mean, at the end of the day, like, if somebody, you know, you.

[DJ Envy]

I feel you, though, at one point.

[Funny Marco]

If you at your grandma funeral, you're not gonna be this if to you and talk to you.

[DJ Envy]

I didn't go to my grandma funeral. I didn't. I didn't go to my grandma funeral.

[Funny Marco]

Or in a sad moment. Right.

[DJ Envy]

Not going to mine if I can help it.

[Funny Marco]

I, I. I believe you. And I'm the same.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You wouldn't have a choice, Leonard.

[Funny Marco]

You got to go to yours. He could get cremated.

[DJ Envy]

Nope.

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[Funny Marco]

All I know is what I've been told and that to half truth is a whole lie.

[Maggie Freeling]

For almost a decade, the murder of an 18 year old girl from a small town in Graves County, Kentucky went unsolved until a local homemaker, a journalist and a handful of girls came forward with a story I'm telling you.

[Funny Marco]

We know Quincy killed her.

[Maggie Freeling]

We know a story that law enforcement used to convict six people and that got the citizen investigator on national tv.

[Host/Interviewer]

Through sheer persistence and nerve, this Kentucky housewife helped give justice to Jessica Curran.

[Maggie Freeling]

My name is Maggie Freeling. I'm a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist producer and I wouldn't be here if the truth were that easy to find.

[Funny Marco]

I did not know her and I.

[DJ Envy]

Did not kill her or rape or.

[Funny Marco]

Burn or any of that other stuff that y' all said.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They literally made me say that I took a match and struck and threw it on her. They made me say that I poured gas on her.

[Maggie Freeling]

From Lava for good. This is Graves County, a show about just how far our legal system will go in order to find someone to blame.

[Funny Marco]

America, y' all better wake the hell up.

[DJ Envy]

Bad things happens to good people and small towns.

[Maggie Freeling]

Listen to Graves county in the Bone Valley feed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts and to binge the entire season ad free. Subscribe to Lava for Good plus on Apple Podcasts.

[Hunter (Hunting for Answers)]

I'm Hunter, host of Hunting for Answers on the Black Effect Podcast Network. Join me every weekday as I share bite sized stories of missing and murdered black women and girls. And in America, there are several ways we can all do better at protecting black women. My contribution is shining a light on our missing sisters and amplifying their disregarded stories. Stories like Tameka Anderson. As she drove toward Galvez, she was in contact with several people talking on the phone as she made her way to what should have been a routine transaction. But Tameka never bought the car and she never returned home that day. One Podcast, one Mission. Save our Girls. Join the search as we explore the Chilling cases of missing and murdered black women and girls. Listen to Hunting for Answers every weekday on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Damie Gente.

[Funny Marco]

It's Ana Ortiz and I'm Mark and Delicato. You might know us as Hilda and just from Ugly Betty. We played mother and son on the.

[Host/Interviewer]

Show, but in real life we're best friends.

[Funny Marco]

And I'm all grown up now.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Welcome to our new podcast, Viva Bethy. Can you believe it has been almost 20 years?

[Funny Marco]

That's not even possible.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You're the only one that looks that much different. I look exactly the same. We're re watching the series from start to finish and getting into all the fashions, the drama and the behind the scenes moments that you've never heard before.

[Funny Marco]

You're going to hear from guests like.

[Host/Interviewer]

America Ferreira, Vanessa Williams, Michael Urie, Becky.

[Funny Marco]

Newton, Tony Plana, and so many more icons.

[Host/Interviewer]

Each and every one, all of a.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Sudden, like someone like comes running up to me and it's Salma Hayek and she's like, you are my Ugly Betty.

[Host/Interviewer]

And I was like, what is she even talking about?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Listen to Viva Betty as part of the My Cultura podcast podcast network, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or.

[Funny Marco]

Wherever you get your podcast.

[DJ Envy]

When I die, my wings gonna come on. I'm gonna shoot off in the air.

[Funny Marco]

You better not do that. Y' all remember the repast when the.

[Host/Interviewer]

Guy was in D.C. hanging in the club?

[DJ Envy]

No, please don't do that to me. I already got it in my trust and will and everything. I'm creed. I ain't gonna be at my funeral. Y' all can be the.

[Funny Marco]

That's sad.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

What are you like with your baby girl? Because I know she brings you a lot of excitement and joy and I know you.

[DJ Envy]

You got three girl. Yeah. What's the oldest?

[Funny Marco]

12.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, you've been wrong.

[Funny Marco]

Wow, nice. It's just, I know that it's. And you know, shout out to the, you know, women don't play about their kids and I wish my daughters could stay with me, but I just gotta, you know, I'mma visit dad and I ain't. Sometimes it's like, damn, can they come stay here and I'll fly you out here and let y' all spend time. But that's not how I go when mothers are just so used to carrying them and they don't wanna, you know, pass it on. So cuz Milian is in Kansas City and then pr. That's my son, he in la, so it's like a lot to be. And then island is in Atlanta, so I be with her a lot because she there. And it's like, you know, it's no excuse for me not to be with her 24 7.

[DJ Envy]

The mothers don't want the kids, like on social media and stuff like that.

[Funny Marco]

The other two, no, I posted them. They on there and you know, they try to like, oh, she's your favorite. But I'm like, she's here with me. Yeah, I try to get him. And that was just like. I tried to get my son. And she was just like, oh, how long you gonna keep him for a week? And I was just like, no, I want to get. Let me get him for a couple months. Like, you had them. Let me get them for a couple months. But I gotta respect it's just a mama in her. Like, you just gotta just take it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But then also it's school and things like that.

[Funny Marco]

But like, he only won.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh. Oh, this is a fresh one.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah, okay. Okay.

[Host/Interviewer]

Yeah. I mean, but like you said, because it's a new baby, but I'm still.

[Funny Marco]

I need. We need to have time too. Y' all need a break. Why can't I get him for a couple months?

[Host/Interviewer]

And you said you wanted to bring her too, so she would still be there close as well.

[Funny Marco]

She can come when she want to come, but I just don't. Just to tell me to get them for a week. That's like I'm a babysitter. What's your relationship with, like, I'm cool. I would love all my baby mamas. Do you love them all?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, they all black.

[Funny Marco]

No, I got one black one. I got. I got one black one. I got one that's black and white and I got a Mexican one. One.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, I know that's right.

[Funny Marco]

That's why you just connect.

[DJ Envy]

Are you concerned about the Mexican one?

[Funny Marco]

And no, don't be concerned about. Cuz it's just like, whatever you do, you find out. I told you, it's a lot of.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Is she a citizen? You would even know I was coming.

[DJ Envy]

Cuz I me tell you something, if she keep playing with you and your child, all you got to make one phone call.

[Funny Marco]

No, she's cool. All of them cool.

[DJ Envy]

All right. Okay. Got you.

[Funny Marco]

They ain't playing none of all.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But look, so why not take the week over nothing, you know? Especially if she's not the months, you know what I mean?

[Funny Marco]

I got to. But it's just. I don't know you know, it's baby steps. I get it. But when you grow up without a father, it's like, it's a big thing. It hurt you. Like you really want to be that. So just to tell somebody weak, it's like visitation, like, you know, like jail time. Yeah, I did, but he was in and out of the streets.

[DJ Envy]

Okay, got you.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah. So you ready to settle down? Why? Yeah, what are you looking for? Besides Lauren? Because you said Lauren. Is that like your type? Yeah, Lauren is very beautiful.

[DJ Envy]

But Lauren didn't have a father either.

[Funny Marco]

Oh, my gosh.

[Host/Interviewer]

My dad.

[Funny Marco]

I gotta respect her. I respect your relationship. Shout out to that.

[Host/Interviewer]

Thank you. I appreciate that.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah, shout out to him.

[DJ Envy]

My father was in and out of her life, too. I'm trying to make y' all bond right now.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah, it ain't gonna happen.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, okay.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah, it's just friends.

[DJ Envy]

No, it's good. He needs to feel some awkward silence. He does it to everybody else. Let me feel some awkward silence. Everybody just be quiet for a second.

[Funny Marco]

Okay, that's fine with me. Well, let's talk. You want more kids than Nick Cannon? Nah. I want to adopt, though. I want to adopt.

[DJ Envy]

How many?

[Funny Marco]

Nice. What kind of baby? Two. What color? I want a African baby and Asian baby. Black baby? Yeah, like Rush Hour.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Did you say what color?

[Funny Marco]

What y', all, you know, talking my song.

[DJ Envy]

He said like Rush Hour.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

This is so gambling.

[DJ Envy]

That's funny as shit.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yo.

[Funny Marco]

It's like, you know, your grandma got like the. Your mama is the hood side and your grandma's side, it feel like family. Like I'm getting. Like I'm professional.

[DJ Envy]

I'm afraid that you get to get them babies, bro. I would love to see you on Instagram with the black one in one hand, Asian one another, and the caption just says Rush Hour. That would be funny. You hear me?

[Funny Marco]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, my God. Please do that.

[Funny Marco]

Proper steps you got to go through too.

[Host/Interviewer]

So he got adoption agency that, like, I'm trying to go for a rush hour.

[Funny Marco]

I mean, if they ask you, be honest. But overall, you're building a bond and you building like, you know, and it's also some good kids out there that could just use help. You ain't got to create all the time. I already seen what it's like, so. Yeah, it's okay. Then. I would have like to be, you know, picked up.

[DJ Envy]

Why you think Shannon Sharp got so mad when you said he looked like Ms. Netta?

[Funny Marco]

That was kind of wild, like, cuz it was just out of the blue. Blue. It was out of the blue, I feel like we was having a good conversation, and I threw a jab, and, you know, it didn't know it was coming, so I don't think it was a jab.

[DJ Envy]

I think it was a valid question.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah. I mean, but they say we both look like Ms. Netta from Thomas.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, you definitely don't. I'll go with the seal of it all, but not.

[Funny Marco]

Why did you say. Why'd you drag the name out? He made sure. I heard that you said certain number.

[Host/Interviewer]

Of letter words are hard for you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

She just.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah, but she just dragged it out.

[Hunter (Hunting for Answers)]

Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, see you.

[Funny Marco]

That would be a better but no.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I don't think you look like Mr. All right.

[Funny Marco]

We don't need to tell you what we look like. Okay, let's get away from that one.

[DJ Envy]

You do sound like Big Sean, though.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah, boy.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah. Like, you sound like.

[Funny Marco]

He's very educated, though. So are you. Yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, you are.

[DJ Envy]

I.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You are smart.

[Funny Marco]

Yes, he is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You are very smart.

[DJ Envy]

The one thing I do really like about you, Marco, you made viral. Moments without shouting are really being extra. Like, you got like a. It's a quiet confidence to what you do, because to be in that character, you can break at any moment. Like, you let G herbo didn't break you, but for the most part, you got that quiet confidence, and you stay.

[Funny Marco]

In and shout out to them, g herbo doing his thing.

[DJ Envy]

What did you learn from that moment?

[Funny Marco]

I thought, what. What's your mama? Did you help on it?

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Funny Marco]

Just to speak up, and it's okay. Just. Just to speak up. That was it. Because they was doing their thing, and they never did nothing wrong, and it was just me. I didn't know. I'm like. I'm just thinking, was this personal? Like, didn't I do something wrong? Because I was just like, you know, so again, me thinking too deep. That's why it's not good to think. Sometimes it's okay to speak up.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Funny Marco]

So overall, just being a man and I'm grown in my 30s, I should have been able to speak up and say something because I'm grown, you know, I'm not a little kid. What do you feel like when you talk to people? I would like to sit down and talk to Jerry, and we just go over and overall just have that conversation. I didn't like that he. I didn't like how. What he was dealing with. Afterwards, after the interview happened, I said I wasn't gonna drop it, and somebody on my team said they want to drop it, but now that I look back on it, I think they were lying. They wanted it out. I didn't want it to come out because I knew right when that happened, I was like, it's not going to come out. Because I didn't want that impression of them. That's not what my goal.

[Host/Interviewer]

You don't like the way people came.

[Funny Marco]

I did not like that. I didn't, you know. So again, that's my fault. I got to take account, like, it's my platform. And it was like, damn, you know? But again, I was like, how I can move on from it? I just post the next interview. And then I did Kevin Hart. And then, you know, in that situation, I got a dm. And I never talked about this. I just thought I'd share with y', all, like, NBA youngboy DM me. And he was just like, are you okay? And I'm like, yeah, I'm cool. We built a relationship, and he's a cool dude. And it was just like, you know, I learned a lot from that. And I was like, bro, he really is a NBA young boy is really a cool dude. And, like, on his birthday, he, like, bought me a watch. I'm like, damn, this really, like, right. Really different. You know what I'm saying? It was a. What's that? It was a black people. What kind of watch was it? It was a. Richie, I'm not good.

[DJ Envy]

If envy DM you. Are you okay? And bought you a watch. You think he's trying to fucking.

[Funny Marco]

No, no, because you got to be. You got to want that to happen. Sometimes I don't want to manifest that. Like, for me to think he trying to do that. That's what I probably want.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But that's my thing, though. Do you still, like, not. You know, do you feel like you now owe him the cheeks or something? Because.

[Funny Marco]

Okay, because if you thinking like that, that's. No, that's like you. If somebody do something nice for you, you don't think that they automatically trying to fuck, but they probably depending on who it is.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Absolutely. They most likely can't be trying to.

[Funny Marco]

Sometimes some people just want to give you a gift.

[Hunter (Hunting for Answers)]

If.

[Funny Marco]

No, not all the time.

[DJ Envy]

No. Both of y' all are right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

You know, but as you said, just depends on who it is.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah. You just got to know who you are and know who the people are. Sometimes you don't. Like I said, we in jail. You my bump. And I don't know you. You talking about. I want something to eat. I'm not taking it because I don't know what your intentions are.

[DJ Envy]

Let's pretend you're on the bottom bunk. I'm on the top bunk. Are you okay?

[Funny Marco]

I'm not. I'mma tell you. No. Go crazy. Why you want to top?

[DJ Envy]

Why you want.

[Funny Marco]

Because I think people get. I think you gotta get. When you go to jail, I think it's who can get on top. Ain't it, like, leadership who usually get, like, the leader.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The leader is on top.

[Funny Marco]

I think you get bottom. I think it's bottom because.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, no, no, no.

[DJ Envy]

You want to be offended if you. No, no.

[Funny Marco]

I'm trying to figure out that when you go to jail, it's like, it's. You prefer to top.

[DJ Envy]

What would you want to do?

[Funny Marco]

No, I think you don't go on top because they said you can get pulled down when you sleep. Oh, so you bought it. That's what I think I heard.

[DJ Envy]

So you want to be a bottom.

[Funny Marco]

I don't want to go to jail.

[DJ Envy]

No, no. Yeah, we don't want to go to jail. We're not speaking that into existence.

[Funny Marco]

No, they know, hypothetically, like, I'm not doing to go to jail.

[DJ Envy]

Got you. Gotcha.

[Funny Marco]

Gotcha. Sound like a bottom, though.

[DJ Envy]

No, no, I like that. Don't.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah, yeah. Bottom of my bed at home. Yes, you.

[DJ Envy]

Bottom of your own bed.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah. What? Oh, Jesus Christ. Oh, my God.

[DJ Envy]

That could get clipped, Margo.

[Funny Marco]

That could get clipped. What?

[Host/Interviewer]

Whatever you do in your house is.

[Funny Marco]

I ain't judging you, man. Okay with you, Marco. Whoa.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Uh.

[DJ Envy]

Come on.

[Funny Marco]

This is crazy. Stop.

[DJ Envy]

Whoa.

[Funny Marco]

This is crazy.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So, have you and Jeremiah spoke? Cause I know the last thing I saw, you jumped in that man DM and told him that you don't really like his sister.

[Funny Marco]

No, I didn't say that. I said no. I said, what did the couch mean? Cause he said, it's your birthday. You know, it's time to ride out, even if we sit on our couch. And I'm like, if it's her birthday, why are you inviting her to a.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Couch at your house?

[Funny Marco]

Yeah, like, come on. Like, take her out to eat or something, then the couch. He didn't say nothing about eating.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, he just said it should be.

[Funny Marco]

So I want to know what was so special about the couch. Like, he didn't say bed. He said couch.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, he's basically saying, like, you know, think about it right now. Like, with the troubling economic times, people may not have money to do things, so.

[Funny Marco]

No, back then, he said this a long time ago.

[DJ Envy]

I don't know what his financial Situation was when he wrote that he got money.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, yeah. Cuz he said, sit, Moy as you sit on my couch.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Bottom at $30 in the store. Go get it. Bring it back to the house. Yeah, sit on the couch, drink.

[Funny Marco]

I mean, I just want to know what kind of couch it was.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

If anything, he needed Nancy. You haven't spoken to him?

[Funny Marco]

No.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Does it bother you when they get serious like you, you know, you really want to know an answer to a question and they get. They get upset with you?

[Funny Marco]

Nah, because it's like overall that's not my intentions to make you mad. So I just feel like, you know, when I see you, you'll understand it. And I'm not a street person. You ain't gonna really take it that serious. I think they go on about their life.

[DJ Envy]

They DM you back on purpose because they know you're gonna repost it. They know it's gonna be. They doing that on purpose sometimes. Yeah, I think so.

[Host/Interviewer]

Go ahead.

[Funny Marco]

No, you do it. No, go. No, you do it.

[Host/Interviewer]

Did Neo ever DM you back?

[Funny Marco]

No.

[Host/Interviewer]

Okay. Can you.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah. Neo's. Yeah, Neo.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Don't be playing.

[Host/Interviewer]

He asked Neo why Neo was dancing in the house on Sexy Love when it was eviction notices on the door.

[Funny Marco]

Like, why you dancing? Videos.

[Host/Interviewer]

Yeah, it was a video.

[Funny Marco]

If you watch the videos, I don't get some people visuals.

[DJ Envy]

The way you trying to make sexy eyes at Lauren is so stupid. Open your goddamn eyes. It's so dumb.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I thought he was thinking.

[Funny Marco]

I was thinking, I was thinking.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But that's what Sale used to do on the stage. He used to do that square eyes when you sing.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah.

[Host/Interviewer]

That's what you was about.

[Funny Marco]

No, I wasn't. I told you I respect your relationship. Appreciate you big time.

[DJ Envy]

But do you respect your relationship?

[Host/Interviewer]

I respect it.

[Funny Marco]

She brought it up. You respect yours? Have you ever cheated? Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

You my wife for 27 years.

[Funny Marco]

You cheated while you was in the. While you was married?

[DJ Envy]

Yes, unfortunately.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah, I get it. It wasn't you.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah, that was a different. Definitely was a different.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah, but he just. But what did you learn from that?

[DJ Envy]

I learned that if you really truly love someone, sound like you're reading from his. Print them in a position. No. You would never put them in a position to want to have to make a decision.

[Funny Marco]

No. When you love somebody, you just don't want to hurt yourself. So you're not doing.

[DJ Envy]

Not yourself.

[Funny Marco]

No. Because when you really love somebody, you in a relationship and you do something, you feel it too.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Funny Marco]

So again it's about.

[DJ Envy]

It ain't about me. It's about my wife. And it's about.

[Funny Marco]

But it's about you, too, because, again, it's you like, you ownership of everything that you do. So anything that you do will affect you, too, because if she leave, you got to deal with it, too.

[DJ Envy]

Absolutely.

[Funny Marco]

So.

[DJ Envy]

So my mindset was, I don't ever want to be in a position to hurt my wife the way I saw my father hurt my mother.

[Funny Marco]

But it's not about. I don't want to be in position that. Because that's. It's. You should say, I don't want to do it because I don't want to get hurt. And that's it.

[DJ Envy]

I think that's very selfish.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah.

[Host/Interviewer]

Listen, if you about to be doing these dating things, you need to understand, maybe you don't mean it that way, but it sounds like you're thinking about yourself.

[Funny Marco]

So imagine this. I'm asking this ladies, Y' all answer it. If y' all go through y' all man phone, and he said, y' all see a text message, man, I was gonna, you know, the girl, but I don't want to make my girl mad. That won't bother y' all because he said, I'm not gonna do it because I don't want to upset y'. All. Or he gonna say, I love what I got. I'm not gonna do it because I don't want to hurt what I got going on.

[Host/Interviewer]

Okay, so that's what you mean.

[DJ Envy]

That means. That means that's a unit. You're describing a unit.

[Funny Marco]

I'm just saying.

[DJ Envy]

Or you stop cheating because of her.

[Funny Marco]

Or you gonna stop, like, understanding what you got?

[Host/Interviewer]

Yes. Okay. That's a great.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Way more of a unison thing for you.

[Funny Marco]

It's really understanding the real reason of life. What would y' all like when y' all go through y' all man phone? If y' all seen it, he didn't cheat, but he said, I ain't gonna do it because I got some at home. I want to piss her off. That's whack.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Host/Interviewer]

That's corny.

[Funny Marco]

But y' all still leave him, though?

[DJ Envy]

No, I don't.

[Funny Marco]

I. I'm asking him. That's right, because that's not the right reason not to cheat. You're not gonna cheat because you don't want to hurt your wife. You want to cheat because you don't want to Miami. And your boy said, did you old girl? And he responded to her and say, nah, I didn't her. Cause, man, I don't want my girl mad. She found out she gonna leave me.

[DJ Envy]

I would respond, I don't cheat on my wife.

[Funny Marco]

But I'm asking them if they seen that, would y' all lead the dude? Would y' all stay with him?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I would. I wouldn't leave him. It'll definitely be a conversation of, like.

[Funny Marco]

Why he said he didn't do it. Why you need. Why you need to talk about.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Because we together, motherfucker. And I want to ask a question about what I just saw on your phone. So that's what we doing.

[Host/Interviewer]

Why would you put yourself in a position where that was even happening?

[Funny Marco]

Sometimes it happens when you're out of town.

[Host/Interviewer]

No, no, no. If your homie texting you, like, did you. That means it was like you. There was an intention manifestation.

[DJ Envy]

Marco, that shit don't happen to us, okay? We don't manifest those type of things. We don't be out of town, worried about girls, DMs.

[Funny Marco]

No, I'm saying stuff happens. Like, we talking about the community that does happen in, not just us.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Okay, so point blank point. Is that why you have three baby mothers?

[Funny Marco]

No. Okay. I had three baby mamas because I had one that was like when I was just Popeye's baby, when I was working at Popeyes and then the rest of industry baby.

[DJ Envy]

You work with Popeyes?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yeah, ministry babies. Crazy. The labels are wild. Okay, so were you in a relationship with the mother of the one year old, the freshest baby that you got?

[Funny Marco]

Yeah, we was like, we was trying to figure it out.

[DJ Envy]

Yeah.

[Funny Marco]

Okay.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

And were you cheating on someone with her?

[Funny Marco]

We weren't in a relationship, but it was just trying to figure it out.

[DJ Envy]

Can you be faithful?

[Funny Marco]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

That's not what you said in the beginning. In the beginning, you said you preachy. I have manifesting.

[Funny Marco]

Yes. Yeah, I'm just saying, I have.

[Host/Interviewer]

Which child's mom did you pre cheat on? The. I mean, we just trying to figure.

[DJ Envy]

Out where is your child's mothers.

[Funny Marco]

No. Wow. I actually, like. Let me tell you this. No, no, no. I'm trying to tell you I'm not cheating. Let me tell you something. Can I tell y something again?

[DJ Envy]

You know when you lie.

[Funny Marco]

No, I'm trying to tell you.

[Host/Interviewer]

Say it, say it.

[Funny Marco]

My oldest with my oldest child. That's the normal baby. Like, pipe my Popeyes. Like I'm saying, when I was like, this is. She was there before everybody. Yeah, this is. I'm. I'm big og. You got big normal ones. I know. What the fuck going on?

[DJ Envy]

I'm a baby mama.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah. Yeah, that's that. So. So with that being said, when we did not work out, I left too soon. I came home and said, you know what? I want to see somebody else. And that led me into getting on child support and it led me to like not getting to see my daughter a lot. So I regret that sometimes it's okay to cheat sometimes because when you say you're ready to go, they like, okay, you regret what? What? I'm just saying I owned up to it. Child support.

[DJ Envy]

You said it's okay to cheat sometimes. It's never okay to cheat.

[Funny Marco]

I'm just telling you for whoever it is out there because they said it's cheaper to keep her sometimes if you do do some. Just make sure she don't find out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Well, listen, I'm talking to a community that is.

[DJ Envy]

Brothers don't cheat. Black men don't cheat.

[Funny Marco]

Cheat. They do.

[DJ Envy]

Unless it's on white women. What?

[Funny Marco]

Hey, yo, you cheated?

[DJ Envy]

Yes, I was a black boy. That's the difference. I was a young black boy and a man.

[Host/Interviewer]

He's this.

[Funny Marco]

How old was you were you cheated?

[DJ Envy]

You know, Marco, you have to.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah, exactly. What the is all this now?

[DJ Envy]

Is all that. No, but no, it's not about the age. It's about the mindset. You can be in your early 30s.

[Funny Marco]

Said I'm a little boy. I'm brain into somebody car.

[DJ Envy]

I'm a little boy right now, 30s and still be immature. I was an immature little boy.

[Funny Marco]

Let a 50 year old break in your car and stealing your. Like I'm a boy still. I'm still learning. He can identify is breaking into your car. He. He has a young mindset. That's the truth.

[DJ Envy]

Is breaking your car. Absolutely. Here's the mor story. Cheating is not good. And I can promise you that when I.

[Funny Marco]

But you got to do it to learn sometimes you got.

[DJ Envy]

Damn.

[Funny Marco]

You got to hurt people to understand sometimes. That's that you know how to know how that feel. And when you.

[DJ Envy]

I wasn't trying to hurt my wife.

[Funny Marco]

Now I ain't talking about your. Yeah, yeah. I ain't talking about your.

[DJ Envy]

Because we do hurt them. But we're not.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah, you got to know your time say that too.

[Host/Interviewer]

Because your intention is not to hurt somebody. You doing something that will.

[DJ Envy]

That's why they try not to get caught, right? They.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's right.

[Funny Marco]

Even if you do get caught and that's why women gotta leave, man. When they do do that, they gotta leave them because at the end of day you're gonna Learn. And when you learn, I'm helping the women community. Because now you know not to do this again. And if that hurts you, you. You gotta learn sometimes.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Let me tell you something. It sounds like the problem that you have.

[Funny Marco]

Not me. I'm saying we just talking about a conversation.

[DJ Envy]

Break it down.

[Funny Marco]

Jess. Huh?

[DJ Envy]

You have to text. You check your phone.

[Funny Marco]

Yo, I ain't got my phone on me. I'm done.

[DJ Envy]

Damn.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The problem.

[Funny Marco]

I'm sorry.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He can't read the damn message. Listen, the problem is, is you have to be careful who you procreate with.

[Funny Marco]

Exactly.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That is because that is. That's what my book is about too. I'll read it to you one day. But I'm telling you what they say.

[Funny Marco]

What's the name of it?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Till Death Do We Parent. Available for pre.

[Funny Marco]

Original. Do We Parent? Do We Parent?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Till Death do We Parent?

[DJ Envy]

You gonna need to read that. Cause you got three baby mamas.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

That book is about Jesse.

[Funny Marco]

I'm gonna tour with it.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I asked.

[Funny Marco]

Okay, well, just have it read it to motherfuckers while we are.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

I know. I got you, but that's what it sounds like. Your problem was like you had path. To be able to find out everything you can about somebody. You gotta get to know the person that you are trying to create people with.

[Funny Marco]

Exactly. That's important. Yes, it's very important.

[Host/Interviewer]

What happened the last time you asked? My reason.

[DJ Envy]

What's that say?

[Funny Marco]

Today you are that.

[DJ Envy]

Nope. You missed the word.

[Funny Marco]

Which one? Damn it. It's this cat in the hat right here. I got this one, Dr. Seuss.

[DJ Envy]

Go.

[Funny Marco]

What? Can you point at it?

[DJ Envy]

Right here? No.

[Funny Marco]

Point at each word.

[DJ Envy]

Okay. Here you go.

[Funny Marco]

That's what this. Greetings.

[DJ Envy]

In here.

[Funny Marco]

You are you. That is sure. Oh, muyan. That's a. I don't know what that mean. Right there. That's a thaw.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, man.

[Funny Marco]

No, that's an N. That's an N. Then true. There is no we alive.

[DJ Envy]

No, it's not we. There's no.

[Funny Marco]

I can't see either. There. Right there.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

You might need glasses, baby.

[Funny Marco]

I got. I got contact zone.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They don't work. You got to take them out. How long you had them in?

[Funny Marco]

A month? Day. Day by day.

[DJ Envy]

It's taking too long. It should not take this long to read a goddamn.

[Funny Marco]

Doc, can you read it so we.

[DJ Envy]

Know what it is? Today you are you. That is truer than true. There is no one alive. Who is you. Than you.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Why the hell would you give him a.

[DJ Envy]

Give him a riddle why are you.

[Funny Marco]

Arguing that I can't read? Let me do this.

[DJ Envy]

I want. I want Marco to know that there's nobody alive that is. You are. Than you Marco.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah, that's fine.

[DJ Envy]

You are him.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah. And it's okay. Anything that you're dealing with makes you you.

[DJ Envy]

That's right.

[Funny Marco]

And it's okay to accept it. And if you don't accept it, just fix it.

[DJ Envy]

And that's why I don't even like us having this debate about cheating and everything. Because you're right. Everything that we've been through does make us who we are.

[Funny Marco]

Right.

[DJ Envy]

And I can tell people from experience that was a terrible experience that I should have never put anybody through. And I am glad that I stopped that type of behavior.

[Funny Marco]

Behavior. Right.

[DJ Envy]

And my life has been amazing ever since.

[Funny Marco]

That's dope. So what we're telling you is don't it up because we almost did. No, I understand. I ain't got to up, but I understand going forward, don't it up.

[DJ Envy]

Especially where you are, because how old are you?

[Funny Marco]

32.

[DJ Envy]

32. Your life is only gonna get better. You're gonna make more money. And I'm gonna tell you what an OG told me a long time ago. Salute to Kevin Lyles. Kevin Lyle said, I can't tell you to get married, but I can tell you to find somebody to share your life experience. And that's what you're gonna want when you get older. You're gonna want somebody that you can share this amazing life that you're living with.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah, exactly. You feel like you gonna be with the dude for the rest of your life?

[Host/Interviewer]

Yes, I do.

[Funny Marco]

That's dope. We appreciate you for. I love that relationship too.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Thank you so much, Marco.

[Funny Marco]

You wanna shout anything out, what you're doing, you wanna tell people what you're doing and all that. I'm just out here in New York and I'm talking to y', all and then when it's over, I'm getting in the car.

[DJ Envy]

What are you promoting?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

The new season of Open Thoughts. Right.

[Funny Marco]

I mean, it's there if it' some stuff is just there, Marco.

[DJ Envy]

Well, what's your end goal, Marco? Where do you see the funny Marco brand going? Where do you want it to go?

[Funny Marco]

Manifest right now, if I can. I want to be a director and be able to give people platforms and also help out a lot of stand up comedians that really are doing it for years, but they don't have a following. So I feel like now they're pushing that on, like, you know, people that get following. Do stand up. And it's some people that really been doing it for years, and it's just hard for them to break it because now it's about your face card. I feel like fame is about how much they see you now, not how. How well you good at what you do. And it's some people out there that's really great at acting and, you know, stand up podcasting, and it's just hard for them to be seen. So that's why I love what Nick Cannon do. He help out a lot of people. And it's like when you think of Nick Cannon, he's like, damn, what do he do? You know? But he does a lot like you just don't be. Oh, he a comedian, so 50 Cent too, as well. That get people like, it's. No, I'm not. It's just not one thing you could do in life.

[DJ Envy]

So you want to do for. For others what you did for Bobby. But this time it's going to be black people and a black woman.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah, I've done a lot for it. I got a lot of people that I was going to bring my work for a lot of people. I help a lot of people out.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[DJ Envy]

Another white woman to hit with you, Marco.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh, my God.

[DJ Envy]

I didn't want to say anything, but.

[Host/Interviewer]

You said you don't know her.

[DJ Envy]

I'm not. And by the way, I'm not discriminating. I'm not. I'm just saying.

[Funny Marco]

I didn't say that I love white. No, I do know her. I didn't say.

[DJ Envy]

But I'm just telling you that the point is. But you didn't see how she. He pointed back like, there's a whole bunch of black women back there. But it was. That's what you did. I mean, honestly, Marco, that's what you.

[Funny Marco]

No, you did.

[DJ Envy]

You like.

[Funny Marco]

Okay, look at me. Okay. The people out there. I'm sorry for how he act. He really is a good guy. He's just say some up from time to time, but he really has a heart. Shout out to Jess. You've been doing your thing.

[Hunter (Hunting for Answers)]

Thank you.

[Funny Marco]

You really do good with reading and delivering messages outside of courtrooms. I still don't know what you're doing, but again, and you good at what you do. And sometimes I see you, sometimes you don't. And it seemed like you start stuff and you don't finish it. It's like you start interviews and then you stop the black and white stuff. You had going on with different artists and you went to people I think so much. Your face is black. No, no. I'm just saying. It just seemed like he just starts and just stops. I know. What'd you touch? He's a beautiful person.

[Host/Interviewer]

He is.

[Funny Marco]

Shout out to us for being alive. It's important.

[DJ Envy]

That's right, man. All praises due to God. Funny, Marco. Funny, Marco. Okay.

[Funny Marco]

You coming back? Yeah. I love New York. I had to sit down here for.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Not me here instead of breakfast.

[Funny Marco]

New York is dope. Okay. Well, look.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Are you going to interview me?

[Funny Marco]

Yeah. When I said we going to sit down and read together.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes, we going to sit down.

[Funny Marco]

That's going to be a long show. What do you mean? That's going to be.

[DJ Envy]

We're going to do.

[Funny Marco]

Have me on open about the reading community. Because it's some of us out there.

[Host/Interviewer]

I know.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

That's what I'm saying. Like I was a part of. Well, I wasn't never a part of your.

[Funny Marco]

They sent fantasy. Tasia can't read.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Stop saying that.

[Funny Marco]

What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Don't say that.

[Funny Marco]

What?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

They used to say that back in the day. Don't say that. Because I'm pretty sure she can now.

[Funny Marco]

Well, if she can't, she with me. It's fine. We together.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

But that's. When are you gonna invest into that? Because you have money where you can just, like, read some stuff.

[Funny Marco]

You gotta understand, yo. It takes up your mind space. Like my. My brain, it already got a lot of shit going on. I gotta worry about what I'm gonna wear tomorrow, where I'm gonna wake up. I gotta brush my teeth. I got my kids. So I got so much other shit going on.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

So learning how to read and write and all that stuff is not even.

[Funny Marco]

On your list of my. That's why I said when it comes to words and reading and writing. Writing. And it gives you anxiety. Yeah, I got. Wherever. You know, I watch football on Sunday.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

No, for sure. I know. So I think the kid should stay with.

[Funny Marco]

Okay.

[DJ Envy]

Stupid. Okay.

[Funny Marco]

I'm telling you what's going on.

[DJ Envy]

Just because you have a learning disability doesn't mean that you can't. I don't even know. That's a learning disability. Is it? You can still learn. And you're very smart. Stop downplaying yourself.

[Funny Marco]

I didn't say that. I just. I own up to what I go through and it's okay. Yeah. I didn't get on here for what they call sympathy. Right. Sympathy. Y didn't get on here for that. I was just being real. That's it.

[DJ Envy]

Got you. Be real.

[Funny Marco]

Can nobody with you You.

[DJ Envy]

Well, what you do is very intelligent. The awkward. I'm telling you, that's a skill set. Like there's not too many people who can do that.

[Funny Marco]

Some of your beard gone too.

[DJ Envy]

Thank you. Oh, you said some of it's gone.

[Funny Marco]

Yeah.

[DJ Envy]

Oh, okay.

[Funny Marco]

Why you looking at his mouth?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Oh my God.

[Funny Marco]

Stop.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He was born like that. I'm sorry.

[DJ Envy]

All right, wait.

[Charlamagne Tha God]

He wasn't born like that.

[Funny Marco]

We was shooting. Okay.

[DJ Envy]

When you.

[Funny Marco]

Sometimes when you are. And this is why it's good to start adopting people. Cuz sometimes when you are growing up with some stuff, some parents don't look into it, sometimes it be okay. So my agony got worse and worse and it was some things that my mama could have been on top of. Gotcha. And it was just getting worse and worse.

[DJ Envy]

And Dr. Natasha Sandil fixed that?

[Charlamagne Tha God]

Yes.

[Funny Marco]

I don't think so.

[DJ Envy]

You never seen my disc. You didn't see my discoloration back in.

[Funny Marco]

I really didn't look into it.

[DJ Envy]

Yes.

[Funny Marco]

I got so much going on.

[DJ Envy]

That's a lie. Cuz you text me one time back in the time of man, what you do to your face?

[Funny Marco]

I did not say that. Said I need to do what you did to your face. And then that's why I asked.

[DJ Envy]

Yes. Something happened. I remember you asking me what you do.

[Funny Marco]

He said you need to ask him what the he did to his face. So I asked.

[Host/Interviewer]

I love it. The face community.

[DJ Envy]

That's right. Black men take care of each other. Take care of ourselves.

[Funny Marco]

Thank y'. All.

[DJ Envy]

Appreciate you. Funny, Mar.

[Funny Marco]

Say goodbye to the chat too, man. W's in the chat, y' all. Funny, Marco. It's a Breakfast Club. Good morning. Check. Chat. We see y' all tomorrow. Chat.

[DJ Envy]

Every day I wake up.

[Funny Marco]

Wake your ass up.

[DJ Envy]

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[Funny Marco]

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[Hunter (Hunting for Answers)]

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[Funny Marco]

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[Host/Interviewer]

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