Rudy Rush

You know, Ricky, we go to college.

We graduate and everybody think life is good, right?

Like you did the thing, you went to college, you graduated.

Now the world is about to open up to you.

But the reality is, man, that wasn't happening for me.

I saw all my friends struggling to get jobs and I'm 22.

Like, man, if I go back home, it's going to be over.

Like I can't go back home, right?

Like I can't go to college and then come back home and do what everybody else back home is doing.

Yeah.

And there were nights, man, where, like I said in the intro, I just wanted to give up.

And I would go back and watch Comic View.

I would listen to the prank call tapes.

You just never know when you need that thing.

And then I started studying Ricky Smiley, the man, not the comedian, but the man and the father.

And that changed my whole outlook on who I was supposed to be.

I realized...

I always knew I was supposed to be something, but I never knew that I could see it.

Yeah.

You allowed me to see it by studying your path, your journey that we have a lot of similarities in, and then watching you just mature into Ricky Smiley, man.