Anthony Anderson
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200 appearances
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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I was like, Dr. Kotler, let's go on an x-ray. They humored me. I was like, okay, Mr. Anderson. Took me an x-ray, they should. Came back 30 minutes later and said, okay, we got good news and bad news. Which one do you want first? I was like, the good news. All right, you didn't break your toe. I was like, what's the bad news? You got the gout. Oh, I was like, you motherfucker.
If you look at it, it looks red hot. And so if you put your hand above it, you can feel the heat coming off of it. Now I think about it. I was like, well, it is uric acid. You associate acid with being hot. That's just my little way of thinking about things. But if you hover your hand above wherever you may have the gout, it's radiating heat up off of it and it's bright red and it hurts like hell.
Okay.
And are you loving D.C.? Loving D.C. is Chocolate City. It was at the beginning of gentrification. And at 17, 18 years old, I didn't really understand or know what gentrification was, even though I was at the beginning of it in Washington, D.C. The Washington Wizards, their basketball team, used to be called the Washington Bullets.
but because it was the murder capital of the world at one particular time in the 80s. And they had been the Washington Bullets forever.
So they were like, maybe we need to change the name of the team.
Washington Murderers. Yeah, right. So they changed the name from the Washington Bullets to the Washington Wizards. Just a little something for you.
So I left Howard... At 20. Those five years is long, right? Yeah, I came home, especially with nothing. My parents ended up getting separated a few years after I came home. I moved in with my mom, went to a couple of community colleges just because I wanted to keep my mind active. I was like, I'm going back to Howard. I just want to sit here and fuck off. So let me go to some JC's.
I went to El Camino Community College and I went to Compton College for a semester each. And I was like, yeah, I just want to keep my mind active. And I want to pick up some classes that's going to transfer. when I go back for my senior year. That shit never happened. Well, until 2020. When did you go back? 2022 is when I went back.
Yeah, my son got accepted to Howard University in 2018. When I went to college, I would have been the first person to graduate in my family from college. So that's why I was like, no, I got to go back and fucking finish. Then I started having kids. And then my younger cousins, 10, 15 years younger than me, they started going to college and graduating. I was like, fuck, I wanted to be the first.
Yeah.
My daughter went to the University of San Diego, graduated magna cum laude. I was like, oh, fuck, now she's slapping me in the face with this shit. Then my son gets accepted to Howard. His mother and I met at Howard. In 1989. Yeah. So you're a double legacy kid. You got to go to Howard. And I was like, you know what, son? You're inspiring me to go back to school.
I'm going to walk with you in 2022. That gives me four years to make up 15 credits. So I was like, I can do that shit. And so he goes, real life gets in his way. He's a young artist, actor, musician, rapper, and he wants to pursue his dream. And my son would always tell me, he was like, you dropped out of college and look at you. I was like, first off, motherfucker, I didn't drop out of college.
There's a difference. I had financial hardships.
I didn't just wake up one morning like you did and be like, fuck it, I'm dropping out. My dad got me.
There are consequences that comes with these choices that you were about to make. And I'm telling you right now, you about to fuck it up. Yeah. But he left after his freshman year. But I kept my promise to him. I kept my promise to myself. And I walked in 2022. That's so cool.
Taraji Henson was our commencement speaker the year I received my degree. Taraji and I were classmates in the College of Fine Arts back when I was in school. Denise Saunders, who was the associate dean of the College of Fine Arts, was instrumental in helping me get back into school. She and I were classmates when I was at Howard University.
Felicia Rashad is now the dean of the College of Fine Arts. And this is her last year as dean of the College of Fine Arts. She and I are friends and have done things together. I received my degree from her. And the College of Fine Arts is no longer called the College of Fine Arts. That year, for the first time, it's now called the Chadwick A. Bozeman College of Fine Arts.
And Chadwick and I are contemporaries and friends in this industry. All of that happened the year that I went back to get my degree. And it was just a full circle moment. And I took my best friend, who's my kid's godfather, Skinny Boy, who I went to high school with. We ended up at Howard together at the same time as freshmen. So it was a full circle moment.
I went back to get my degree with the guy I started college with, with all of these people that I started college with.
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