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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Hi, we are back for another episode of the new Rory and Maul show. I am Maul. I'm Rory. Well, I know who you are. Oh, yeah.
For the listeners.
Yeah, for the listeners, for the viewership. But today, Rory, we are joined by somebody who has been crowned the most prolific story. You know, you're a storyteller. Probably not the level this gentleman is. Well, not this. Yes, this gentleman is a prolific storyteller. He's the best of the best when it comes to the stand-up comedy. He's currently on an international tour as well.
One of the funniest guys. Been watching him since probably before your time. I was watching TVT, I think, Comic View. I think it was the first time I might have saw this gentleman years ago. So it's a pleasure to have him here in the studio today with us. Texas legend Ali Sadiq is in the building. Ali, how you feeling, brother? Good. Houston. Oh, see, they do that in Texas.
You got to make sure it's specific.
Yeah, two different places.
Houston legend.
It's two different places. Yeah, Dallas and San Antonio, Austin. They're different cities. Yeah, totally different climate. Different climate, different weather, different smell, the city smell different. Different everything. Yeah, how you feeling though, man? It's a pleasure to meet you, man. I'm doing great, man. Pleasure's all mine, brother.
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Chapter 2: How does Ali Siddiq reflect on his comedy career?
Trey
Trey, in the environment with Trey, man, I probably always had a gun. Like, always. Like, getting in and out of my car with the neighborhood. You know what I'm saying? I always had a gun. Hassan is like, man, what? For what? What is Steve going to do? Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you come in my neighborhood now, several people have called the police on you. Right, right. Several.
There's been so many calls on you. And they have planned on blocking off the neighborhood. And then you are not getting out of this neighborhood. No matter what street you go down, there's going to be a constable. Yeah, it's different. They threw the chain out on the ground. Yeah. Spike strip at the Gator community. The HOA have a spike strip. You are not getting out of it. Like, why?
I'm one of them people now in my neighborhood, if something happens, I'm outside my own soda. I can't believe it's happening. We should have a spike strip. What is going on with you, Ryan? Life is different, yeah. Life is totally different. Like, man, it's... Bruh, when... If I think about how Trey and Jayden, my oldest daughter, Jayden learned how to drive in a long expedition at nine.
You know how they start in the neighborhood, so they got all the streets down and the street signs. They don't have any houses built yet. They haven't sold any of the plots. So I taught her how to drive in this, they were basically just the streets. Right. And then I got out on the regular road. And then she nine in an expedition. Yeah. Hassan started driving in a Bottega. It's too different.
It's too different thing. Like, you know, you scoot over here. And just the, and then I'm thinking about the mindset of this. If, Years ago, I would have cared. And then I remembered how long I've been rich. Mm-hmm. Like, and not just in bread, in spirit. Right.
You know, the richness of my, being able to walk through my neighborhoods without nothing, being able to go through any city without nothing. You know what I'm saying? Like, I don't, I tell people all the time, I don't check in, I get checked on.
Right.
You know what I'm saying? Somebody gonna call, like, yo, you in the city, bro, what we doing? Mm-hmm. You know what I'm saying? But, I would have cared when I was younger if he would have wrecked his car. The insurance was different. It was different. Things were different. I would have had to take this car to somebody and put this muffler back on. I would have thrown that muffler there.
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Chapter 3: What insights does Ali share about parenting and family dynamics?
Because it's easy to believe if you don't know how heavy money is. If you put... Put $30,000 in fives, tens, and twenties in a pillowcase and just tell me that you just finished running down the street. You know what I'm saying? Like, go ahead and do it. Put $100,000 in two pillowcases and tie it around your neck and just tell me that you just straight, you ain't got no wobble in your run.
You just easily jogging, not out of breath or nothing. Okay. All right. I know the difference. Yeah. somebody lied you I did cause and cause how that money dirty money used to come it's ones five tens it's not no crisp hundreds and fifties that yo yo right oh so all yo you had high class yeah oh crackheads that was coming to you with new money yeah It's like, no, this money was balled up.
When you was selling, when we was selling dope back then, I seen a, I literally took money from somebody who pulled money out of his drawer. Like, you know, how much more you say?
Like,
yo, man, keep it, bro. Keep it. Keep it. And then my man was like, yo, that's how he be getting away with that. You gotta... Yeah, yeah, yeah. He know you ain't gonna want it. He know you ain't gonna want it. I'm balling to him. So now, now you look at it and You look at your kids now and if something happens, but it's not just my kids.
I think people don't realize how they have elevated, you know, because we have a lot of ungrateful children that complain about you on the internet. But the point is, it's on $1,000 phones that you bought them. I can't think of nothing combined between me and my oldest sister that my mama spent $1,000 on us combined. Combined. Like over the years. Yeah.
Every time I take a photo of my daughter on a plane, it's not for the memories. So she could never say she got it out of the mud.
I don't want to hear it once. Get it out of the mud. Like, it is impossible. You're in first class right now.
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Chapter 4: How does Ali Siddiq discuss the importance of independence in comedy?
Like, yo, I was, my mom was flying us places when you could still smoke. Yeah, Jesus Christ. Like, literally. And they served real food.
Yeah.
Like, I remember having a leg quarter.
Yeah.
and peas and carrots and mashed potatoes and coach. They used to come down and they had all these meals and saying, but you next to some dude named Bernard. But you a whole kid. This man right here.
You gonna eat them? And they had ashtrays in the armrest. I was just selling them that a few months ago. I said, I remember being on a plane and people smoking. I remember that. Yeah.
I'm talking about smoking. I was talking about cool for the Kings or camels with no, no filter. Like he ain't got no filter on the joint. But now it's a joint. And the pilot coming down smoking. You know that he's sleeping with all the flight attendants. Ain't no way you and Sarah supposed to be coming out of this restaurant together.
The idea of someone lighting a lighter in a plane is the craziest shit in the world to me.
Hey, what's crazy is I'm more amazed by them having lighters because I didn't grow up like that. And I grew up with people smoking in the late 70s. It's like people who smoke cigarettes never had lighters or matches. You had to light the cigarettes on the stove. And they would send you as a child to light a cigarette.
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Chapter 5: What does Ali Siddiq think about the Kevin Hart roast?
I'm like, Yeah. I said, I said, but between me and Ben Stella, do you think Ben watched it? It's like, well, you're not being, I was there. You don't know who I am. Right. Obviously I don't, I had no expectations on watching it. I know Kev, but I, I'm not going to watch a Hollywood roast either. Okay. This is a Hollywood thing. This is a TV show. This is not a roast. It's named that.
What you mean by that?
Yeah, what's the... I think I kind of... Because I watched all the Comedy Central roasts as a kid, and I saw the Tom Brady one and the Kev Hart one.
I was at the Tom Brady one. But this is a show. This is not classic roasts from when I was watching them at the Fry's Club. Oh, yeah. When I was watching friends talk to each other. Gotcha, yeah. I'm watching friends. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm getting an inside privy to friends talking.
Yep.
And so watching that versus what it has become is two different things. If I'm getting roasted and I look on the panel, there's a bunch of people that I don't have no real relationships with. I ain't spent no time with these people. These people don't know me intimately. You can know me industry, but you don't know me intimately. So It's comics that I run into. Say I ran into you 15 times.
We talk... We know each other. We on the same show. But we don't know each other. So I can't say what you would or you would not do. I don't even have anything intimate to say about you. Because I just ran into you. Man, I ran into Babyface's brother too. I don't know him. I just know after seven. I don't know him. But I also have ran into Montel Jordan.
Mm-hmm.
And me and Montel, I know Montel Jordan a little more than I know Babyface's brother. Mm-hmm. You know what I'm saying? Why? Because I still call him Babyface's brother. Right. You know what I'm saying? But I interviewed Montel Jordan when I was doing radio. Mm-hmm. You know, I interviewed Cisco. You know what I'm saying?
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Chapter 6: How does Ali Siddiq define personal relationships in comedy?
I don't know. Does he have a... I don't know.
I don't know who he has a relationship with, but I don't think that... I've never heard you talk about Tony Hinchcliffe. True. Yeah. And then the other thing is...
the roast is not just about kevin it's other people saying something cheryl don't have a relationship with him really i was under the impression i thought they knew each other and uh chelsea hanlon didn't care you start with her yeah you used to work with chelsea what what is the relationship between um cheryl and uh tony hinchcliffe and any of them people this is what i'm talking about the whole scheme i'm talking specifically okay yeah i'm talking about the whole
on the panel what is the relationship between the people that's on the panel with each other because this is what the roast was like when you was coming up right right everybody on here knew each other these are friends yeah got you okay no personal things about each other right now you can't say nothing about me and i don't know you yeah right if i'm not even i'm not the person that's that's the host that that's the main person i'm i'm sitting there and then you say something about me i'm like what yeah i don't even know this dude like
We don't have to talk about this afterwards. Yeah. And I'm not even going to laugh while we're there. Right. The camera will pan me. I'll be like this. Yeah. What? Yeah.
Aight. It'll be a lot of aight. I'll be like, aight. Word. This will be the first roast. They'll be like, we ain't concerned about the host. We talking about this person. Ali is insane.
He's the only one talking about it. Word. Aight. Bet that. You bet that. We'll see about it. Yeah. It's like, it's like, it's like, I'm being, I'm being wild. Yeah. Like, like, cause I don't know you. Yeah. If it's somebody that's saying something about me that I know, then I'm cool. But that's the thing. I didn't watch. So I really don't have, um,
in-depth take on it outside of this is a show versus the growing up in school and people sitting on the back of the bus and everybody talking about each other. Yeah, okay. Which was called roasting. Right. You know what I'm saying? So it's different now for sure. It's, it's a different, this is like red Fox's roast versus man. It's totally different. Everybody knows each other on this thing.
Yeah. So it's fair game. Everybody spent time with each other and that's the thing. That's the difference. So whatever happened, whatever was said, uh, And people clearing, it is, in my mind, I know people, what's the intimate relationship between, I don't even know the whole panel.
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Chapter 7: What personal experiences does Ali share about conflict resolution?
It was called Applied Advice. I wrote the book about The 13 pieces of advice that was given to me from 13 people that I know. So if those people roasted me, these are the people who gave me advice. I'm going to be personal when it comes to Cheryl. You say something about Cheryl. Right. Because Cheryl gave me some great advice and she's in the book.
I'm going to take it personal if you say something about Bruce Bruce. Mm-hmm. I'm going to take it personal. You say something about Bill Bellamy. You say something about DL. You say something about Dick Gregory. You know what I'm saying? You say something about these people. I'm going to take this personal because these are people who gave, who poured into me as a young comic.
I'm not going to take it personal if you say something about Darnell. Right. I like Darnell, but I don't know Darnell enough to defend himself. Darnell will take something personal.
Right.
Got you. You know what I'm saying? But I wouldn't let you just talk about him. And they're like, oh, do you know? I would ask, do you know him? Mm-hmm. You know, I don't know that to be true about him. Like, even with his comedy, when I heard, like, it was a whole thing about his comedy being me, I think Darnell is funny. That's me, though.
Yeah, for sure.
But how many times have I went and seen Darnell do stand-up? Mm-hmm. I'm judging Darnell from the Comic View appearances and his movie appearances and Chappelle's show. I'm not judging his live show. I've never seen Darnell live and due to the fact that we both working. I've never seen Martin live.
But the Martin show I'm connected to and his specials, you know, but I'm going to take it personal you say something about Martin. Because I take it personal when it comes to any of the icons. I'm going to take it just as personal you say something about Don Rickles or Carol Burnett. You know what I'm saying? Because I want to know where you're coming from with this. You know what I'm saying?
Especially if you don't know. Because comedy is a personal thing to me. Not your... I think that some people nowadays get it mixed up when we talk about giving people the title of greats.
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Chapter 8: How does Ali Siddiq view accountability in comedy and life?
And they give you their title now based upon movies and sitcoms, but not your actual standup. You know what I'm saying? There's certain people that are great comedic actors. I wouldn't put them in standup though. Of course, yeah.
It's a different part of the brain.
It's a different sport, in my opinion. Because you did a funny role in a movie doesn't make you a great stand-up. Not at all. But some people think, well, you did all this. So your movie appearances... has no bearing on your standup. Just like that has no bearing on if you're a good person. See, that's the thing.
Just because you play, you're a good basketball player, football player, or actor, doesn't mean that you're a good person, that you're a standup man. And I think that people get this misconstrued. And they think that, oh, I like him on this. That doesn't mean that you would like him in real life. You know what I'm saying? Man, I cussed out Chuck Willery. Chuck Willery? What did Chuck Willery do?
That sentence in itself.
What did Chuck do to you, man? Y'all got to wait for the special conflict. Because in conflict, man, I got... And I think because I made it right, I'm going to do... the special conflict because I got into it with all these people. But I apologized when I was wrong. And when I cussed out Patrick Ewing in a luggage store in Houston. because he didn't want to take a picture.
And I'm taking this personal. I'm like, yo, bro, I bought them big space boots. I had like four or five pair of them, bro, with the 33 on the back. I was tight. I was tight about it, bro. And it's been some instances, man, where I have been, I'm going to say something, I done probably been, like to this day, I don't mess with Fantasia. Like, I don't listen to music. People say something about it.
I ain't got nothing to do with Fantasia. What happened there? Why you don't get big on literacy? So I take my daughter. My daughter is like 12. Okay. I take her to a Fantasia concert. And man, we had the show. And not only is she at the Fantasia, I did 45 minutes to open up the show. Okay. The thing says Ali's dick and Fantasia. Yeah. Got you. You know what I'm saying?
I miss those days, by the way, when they would pair comedians and musicians.
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