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My lips feel like they're bleeding.
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I don't know what's going on, man.
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Hey, what's going on, everybody?
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For First We Feast, I'm Sean Evans, and you're watching Hot Ones.
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It's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings.
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Today, I'm joined by Kevin Hart. Damn right you are.
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He needs no introduction.
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The new film, What Now, comes out October 14th. Yes.
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And this ain't no Netflix special. You guys had a budget.
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Yeah, this is uh this is the real deal, Sean.
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You know we uh we went all the way.
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I filmed it at a football stadium, which has never been done. It's a dope thing to do.
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I made history, 53,000 people, and I actually put a a mini action movie in front of the comedy special that gets me to the special. So, it's different.
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And before we begin, you tell this great story about how early on in your career, you were bombing on stage and someone pelted you with a half-eaten chicken. true.
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I think you called it the worst memory ever.
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Little sauce was on it, too.
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Some of that sauce got in my eye.
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He hit me with a buffalo wing.
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My joke frustrated him to the point where he felt the need to stand up and throw food at me, which is never good, you No. It's never good. I said, "Who threw it?"
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And you know, you expect it to be quiet so you can say some stuff to just look like you're about to defend yourself.
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And he was like, "I did."
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And I said, "Well, well, [ __ ] Uh good throw."
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And I was just good night. I just got off stage.
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So, chicken wings one, Kevin Hart zero.
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Are you ready to even the score? I'm ready.
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So, this first one is sriracha.
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The first one should be easy though, right?
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So, What Now is unlike any comedy feature I've ever seen in my life with the sold-out Philadelphia Eagles stadium looking like a damn Beyoncé concert. Damn right it does.
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You've said that you train like an athlete, but you seem to be motivated like one, too.
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You want to hang a banner.
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You want to put on the ring.
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For me, it's it's about history.
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It's about making sure that last name Hart means something when it's all said and done, you know?
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My kids, I want them to understand not only who their father is, but why he's in the position that he's in.
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Doing this particular movie, this is putting me in position to to become closer to the ultimate goal.
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And and that ultimate goal is just history, man.
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It's history, history, history. So, this one's Tapatio. Tapatio? Take a bite of that. That ain't nothing. Oh, that's so bad. Mhm.
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Nah, this Tapatio ain't nothing, baby.
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Bring on the hot [ __ ] Thinking back on your jobs that you had before you were famous, do you have fonder memories as a shoe salesman or that summer that you were a lifeguard?
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Summer I was a lifeguard for two reasons.
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First of all, being a shoe salesman was amazing.
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But being a lifeguard, that's where some of the funniest stuff has ever happened, you know?
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A little boy almost drowned on my watch cuz I thought he was playing.
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And um, you know, the other lifeguards from across jumped in to save him and he was like, "Hart, what happened?"
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I was like, "I thought he was playing."
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That's not a good excuse when you're a lifeguard.
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is that kids play too much. That's fair.
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could have been playing like you were drowning just to get me in the water to go, "Ha! Right. drowning."
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It just so happened that time he was drowning. Lesson learned.
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This is El Yucateco Caribbean Habanero.
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Who taught you the enunciation of this stuff? Goodness, man. you call this?
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Uh, I would call it the E-bio.
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The The The start with the E. What did you say? It's Yucawhat?
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El Yucateco Caribbean Habanero. All right.
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We're going to drink the Techo. See that?
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See, I just nicknamed it.
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We're going to drink some of this Techo, baby. So, everyone knows Mhm. This is Techo.
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We're getting hot, ain't we? Ooh. Going up. Going up. Going up. We out here now.
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So, everyone knows the Kevin Hart in 2016 starring in blockbusters, dominating social media, but I don't think a lot of people know how long and hard that road is, you know?
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getting paid in french fries, sleeping in your car.
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And one of the strangest tidbits that stands out to me, she used to do gigs at a place called Sweet Cheeks. Sweet Cheeks.
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Where you warmed up the crowd for exotic male dancers.
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First of all, I don't want nobody judging me, okay?
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You know, my friends are looking at me different cuz they don't know the whole story.
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Brother, this was at a different time in my life.
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Sweet Cheeks was a male strip club, and I wasn't dancing. Right.
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Yeah, you know, I would basically, okay, let me explain it.
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So, the strippers, they would be stripping, right?
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And they would stop the strippers.
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They would be like, "All right, fellas, go in the back."
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You know, they got to go in the back and change. Right.
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So, then they would go, while they changing, You got to get the show going. We got some comedy.
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And uh it wasn't really a good segway.
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It doesn't seem like it would be.
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It would It would go from the the male strippers, and they would go, "Introducing Lil Kev the Bastard."
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That was my name at the time.
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And I was on stage one time, and this lady was like, "Pull your dick out."
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And I was like, "Wait a minute, now. I ain't even about that.
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I'm up here slanging these jokes.
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I'm here for the joke life, you know?"
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Uh but they didn't want to hear that.
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The name of it is Pain Is Good. I don't understand. It's not Pain Is Bad.
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Well, what's the marketing behind that? I don't understand that.
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Okay, let's go ahead and Mhm. Oh, we out here now. Oh, yeah.
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Oh, [ __ ] So, speaking of early on in your career, one of the first IMDb credits you have is this film called Paper Soldiers, which is a very unique project because it was this Dame Dash Jay-Z Roc-A-Fella production.
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You star alongside Beanie Sigel and Memphis Bleek.
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When you look back on that project and that time in your career, what do you take away?
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That was a good time, man.
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You know, that's the beginning. Shout out to Dame Dash.
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Um Dame Dash saw me perform at Carolines Comedy Club.
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He wanted to talk to me after, told me he had a funny idea. We meet, we discuss it.
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Uh he said, "I want you to star in it."
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He said, "I got some other comedians."
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The other comedians and I got together.
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Charlie Murphy helped write and navigate the story to where it could become a real funny comedy.
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And Beans came in and we developed something that was dope.
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Like it wasn't supposed to be what it was and it ended up surpassing what we thought it was going to do.
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And it acted as a vehicle for me, you know?
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Paper Soldiers is one of the reasons why I was able to get a tape and get management, you know, go out and get an agent, you know, just get people to see that there was a talent behind the comedian.
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So it acted as a real for me at one point, which was good.
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This next hot sauce is the Hot Ones hot sauce. The what?
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You're on the Hot Ones show.
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So you're not the only one enterprising here.
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No, this is y'all you this is the Okay, this is y'all concoction.
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Yep, this is our concoction. Okay.
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Now, how would you Is in the middle, so it's not crazy like the stuff coming up, but it's like uh It's funny that you say that because it's a transition sauce.
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So it's a little bit sweeter.
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It's not going to you know It ain't going to set my ass on fire.
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It's not going to set your ass on fire. right. Mhm.
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I think I still taste the couple of the other ones still cuz it every time I take another bite It comes back.
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Yeah, the fire come back.
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Like I'll put it out for a second and then that [ __ ] come back. Like right now.
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I want to drink the milk, but I might have to soon.
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So this next thing is called Explain That Gram and what we've done is we've done a deep dive on your Instagram and pulled a couple interesting pictures that we just need more context.
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We need more than the caption.
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We need the bigger picture.
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I just want to show them to you and then you let me know what's going on. Okay? Okay.
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Kevin Hart and his best man. Oh man. That's me and my guy.
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That's me and my handsome son, man. My best man.
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The reason why my son was my best man is because he's my best friend and I felt that my son should be there for his dad on his big day.
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And before the wedding he actually gave a toast in the back.
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He gave a little quick toast.
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We gave him some juice in his cup and we all had a shot. He held it up, man. It was cool. All right.
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So, this one, squad goals AF in South Africa. Yeah. Yeah. What is going on here?
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Well, those are the two lions that I brought when I was in South Africa.
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I paid $16 million for two lions. You had all scared?
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I don't think I could do this.
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inside like really being serious for a second. Let me know.
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So, we're in South Africa.
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We go to the lion What's it called? The lion lion park.
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We go to the lion park and they're like, "Oh, man.
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We going to take you, Kevin.
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We're going to show you the real deal.
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You got the VIP treatment.
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We going to take you out there with the lions." And I was like, "Okay."
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I don't know what happened.
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I blacked out and these guys made us feel so comfortable, but it was by far the stupidest thing I've ever done.
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It has It would have to be. The stupidest thing.
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At any point in time, you got to understand them lions can have a bad day and we all just lost sight of reality.
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We were in the lions' den walking with the lions.
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Like, that's me really standing in between two lions. Good lord. Yeah.
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It was the stupidest thing I've ever done.
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Some All-Star game high jinks.
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LeBron James, what is he doing? He's taking your drink? He's thirsty?
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Uh you know, me and Brian have a great relationship.
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I was at the All-Star game.
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I'm sitting courtside and I talk a lot of trash and uh I said something to LeBron and he was like, "You had too much to drink."
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And he uh he took my drink. He took my drink. you off.
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During the game, he cut me off and he he took the drink down and gave it to Drake.
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And then I just looked down and Drake is sipping my drink.
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And he's like, "You had enough."
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So, this one is High River Rogue. Okay.
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It's kind of now we're going up a little bit. Spicy one. Catching you? Catching you?
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So, I could ask you about hanging out with celebrities all day, but we don't have all day.
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So, I just want to ask you about one and that's Diddy.
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And when I think about guys who are like no sleep and just operating on this brilliant manic energy, I think about Diddy and I think about Kevin Hart.
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Do you feel like you connect on the same wavelength when you guys are together?
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Does this ring true to you?
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Do you have a story that can kind of put that in a box for me?
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Uh me and Puff are cool, man.
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You know, Puff is a dope guy.
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Reason why I say this is because he's a That That This [ __ ] is getting hot. Mhm.
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I don't know what realm of safety we are in. I'm getting past it.
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But But There's some [ __ ] going on, man.
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You know, I don't know how this going to come out. I'm different.
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I'm I'm about to [ __ ] [ __ ] fire.
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That's what's about to happen, man. This [ __ ] is hot. Puff is cool.
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He's He's a He's a most He's a motivational guy. He's a motivating guy. So are you.
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Um he's he's a guy that always wants more.
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He always wants to go above and beyond.
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The same thing with Hov, you know, I go down the list, Oprah.
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I can go on and on, Tyler Perry, about some of the people that I personally look at, Steve Harvey, that have been mentors, that have taken me to the side, have had amazing conversations with me.
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You You look at them in awe, but in the same sentence, in the same voice, you let them know I want to get to where you are. I'm following your lead.
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Of course, I'm redirecting and doing things my way, but just know that your moves are being watched by a student.
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I'm a student of the game.
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Those are people that have played the game very well. Respect. You ready to move on?
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Nope, but I'm going to do it.
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So this one is 100% pain. Why? Like Here's my thing.
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Where I What [ __ ] I I know my fault.
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We're going to make it, babe.
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If you don't mind, I have a question for Chocolate Droppa. Yay got cheek implants. Look at his cheeks. They ain't real.
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THAT MAN GOT CHEEK IMPLANTS. GOD DAMN.
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In hip-hop there's all these regional representations, right?
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New York's a little bit cockier.
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LA, you have the gangster rap.
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Houston, chopped and screwed. to melt.
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But, your hometown of Philly is ground zero for battle rappers.
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Chocolate Droppa, in your opinion, why is your hometown so great at ethering people?
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I couldn't hear you, man. What? The Why is my what?
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Why is Philly, in your opinion, ground zero for battle rappers?
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I'm asking Chocolate Droppa.
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Oh, [ __ ] Uh, Philadelphia. We out here, boy. Get there. Hey, my lips sting. Hey, my [ __ ] lips.
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My lips feel like they're bleeding.
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I don't know what's going ON, MAN.
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UH, PHILADELPHIA is just a UH HEY, MAN.
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I'M PROUD OF THE JUST THE the stance that battle rap has in Philadelphia, you know?
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People know that we get busy.
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And I I say we because I'm speaking on behalf of my brother, Droppa.
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He's one of the realest, man.
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I'm I'm happy for that dude, to see him come and get to where he's now gotten.
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He's finally getting the respect that he deserves.
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He's one of the realest artists out there.
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Oh, I thought y'all was I was like, "What? I'm bleeding?" What?
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Here's my thing, when people create this, is it just to like is it just to is like just to be [ __ ] Like that actually is.
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When you get to here, you'd never put this on a sandwich. It's for psychos.
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It's for people who burned out.
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I see why they call it the bomb, cuz that [ __ ] just blew up.
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One of the things that I admire about you most is your ability to always look at the glass is half full.
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To take all these negative experiences and turn them into a positive.
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So, I want to give you a few between a rock and a hard place scenarios and you tell me how you would spin it into a positive. Does that sound good? Getting booed off stage.
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Give me a GIVE ME A WATER, MAN.
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SEE ME OVER HERE STRUGGLING? [ __ ] HUH? WHAT DO YOU SAY? OH, [ __ ] You say what?
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want to give you a few between a rock and a hard place scenarios and you tell me how you'd look at it as glass half full. Sound good? Yeah. Getting booed off stage. Okay. It ain't that bad. Not that bad? All right. Here's how.
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Bro, my tongue My tongue ain't working. Mhm. I don't lost taste.
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This this I'm going numb, brother. Okay, here's the thing. It's not that bad.
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Reason why it's not that bad is because you learn from it.
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You can't get smacked in the face and just hold your face.
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You got to go, "Oh, [ __ ] Well, just in case they go to swing again, how do I move and how can I smack back?"
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Everything is about countering and figuring out.
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uh ripping a loud fart in class in front of your crush? All right, bro. [ __ ] happens.
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You got You got to take that, baby.
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You know, that's That's what I did. I I say that now.
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You know, that's how I got my wife. I'm gassy.
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I'm going to be gassy today. I'll tell you that, bro.
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What about when you do that thing where someone waves at you, but they're actually waving at the person behind them, but you think they were waving at you, so you wave back and then you guys are kind of caught in that weird thing where they're like, "Dude, I wasn't waving at you."
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And then it's uncomfortable for everybody.
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Put your hand in your pocket.
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Just keep them in your pockets and don't wave back at anyone. Yeah.
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So, you just turn around and just put your hand in your pocket.
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Bro, how many times have you done this?
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So, I've done this 40 times. You're number 40. [ __ ] What's that one? This is Mad Dog 357. God damn. I can't even cheat. They got it all on it.
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So they ain't like you can take a bite and not taste it. Full coverage.
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Oh, [ __ ] We out here, ain't we? Ooh, boy. Hold on, man.
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I said we should say man.
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This [ __ ] making me delirious, brother. That's what it does.
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I feel like I done did a drug, man. That's what it does. It gets kind of trippy. YEAH, I'M HIGH. [ __ ] All right.
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Oh, [ __ ] All right, hold on. Here we go. [ __ ] Mad Dog 357, huh?
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That's how I can black dude made this [ __ ] So, there always seems to be two approaches to fashion and comedy, right?
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You can either dress like you and Eddie Murphy, guys who dress like superstars, but the rest of the comedians they all dress like schlubbs.
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Probably to seem more relatable.
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Can you tell me the process that you go through when you pick out your outfit for a sold out show?
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Cuz you seem to think it through more so than say Louis C. K. Well, Oh, [ __ ] Uh-huh.
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That was the one right there, boy. Mhm.
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That took you over the top, isn't it?
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I feel like my teeth coming out.
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Hold on, I'm about to answer it. How does that sound? Yeah.
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All right, just got to find it.
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I got to get the answer for you, brother. Hold on. Huh.
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Oh, [ __ ] Clothes are very important to me.
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I feel like your clothes are a clear representation of who you are.
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But on the stage, I love to feel good. I love to look good.
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I love to look confident.
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My clothes play a major part in that. I'm a stylish cat. So, hey man.
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Wing number 10, Kevin Hart.
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Not an easy road to wing number 10, but here we are.
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It's tradition around here that we kind of like dab the last wing.
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You don't have to if you don't want to.
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I don't like to pressure people into it.
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I ain't going to pressure me.
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Kevin, that's fine by me.
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I will because otherwise the people they would be let down.
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But Kevin, don't worry about it. Go through it. Yep. You don't have to.
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This point Oh, [ __ ] Let me read it. Yeah, go ahead. That's people's problem. They don't read.
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Warning, this sauce contains ingredients 500 times hotter than jalapeno. Use sparingly. Not recommended.
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Yeah, like just a little dab.
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That's what you That's sparingly. Just a little drop. It's called death, man. Hold on. My [ __ ] head sweating.
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Where is my Is there running here? I'm out here, brother.
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I'm I'm breaking down, man. I'm [ __ ] head.
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Hey, I feel like a god damn coke head out this [ __ ] My nose is [ __ ] running.
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I'm sniffing the [ __ ] Hold on, man. Hold on, bro.
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Yo, I'm hot as [ __ ] My he sitting here like ain't [ __ ] going on, you know.
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I'm over here breaking down, brother.
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I'm I ain't snot probably coming out my nose. Anybody say anything? [ __ ] All right. Which one you use that? Is this the one? one. That's the one.
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Kevin, you don't have to if you don't want to.
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I know it's It's on there, right? It's already on there. It's already on there.
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Listen, what do you have to prove? I know I said prove. Exactly. You bit it all? Pause. You took yours already? No. You go first. Me go first? You go first, bro. I'm a guest. Okay.
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[ __ ] Why you got to make eye contact? [ __ ] All right.
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So, as we've talked about already, you train like an athlete.
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NO [ __ ] Lots of miles on those hustle hearts.
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I see you on Snapchat, your trainer screaming at you every day.
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What vanity muscles would you say you're most proud of? Is it the pecs? Is it the biceps?
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In my physical prime, they were my traps.
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I had better traps than Brock Lesnar.
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What are you most proud of on you? Oh, [ __ ] Hey, man. This This is genius.
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What y'all What y'all got going here is genius. Thank you.
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Kevin, you out here, bro. Come on. You out here, right? I'm drunk. I'm like I'm drunk. I'm drunk. Something ain't right.
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Something is off, brother.
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Something is off right now.
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My teeth and [ __ ] all hot. Oh, [ __ ] Wow.
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What I'm most happy about is my mental. Oh, come on.
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I don't even believe I don't believe it. That's the truth, man.
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I'm in great shape, but my mental is so strong.
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You can say you want to do things and don't do them. That's what people do.
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They talk about things that they're going to do.
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takes a strong mental to actually put the actions behind it.
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So, to wake up every day at 5:00, 5:30 and go to the gym faithfully and change your lifestyle and put yourself in a position to just be a healthier person.
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Live a healthier lifestyle, set an example for other people to see and to inspire and motivate others.
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I think that's that's dope.
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You know, the physical transformation, I'm I'm happy about it.
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I'm happy that I'm a fit person, but I'm more proud of The muscle up here. Yeah, man, my mind.
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I got a strong I got a strong mental.
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Kevin, you made it through.
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It was an incredible performance. The floor is yours. 30 seconds.
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This camera, that camera, that camera.
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Let the people know what you have going on in your life.
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Okay, first and foremost, I want to give a shout-out to you guys.
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Thank you for having me on.
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Thank you for coming, Kevin.
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Uh it's a it's a dope it's a dope idea.
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I heard about it for a long time, but I get it.
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You're doing an amazing job.
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Um now I take the time to address the people.
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Look, you guys I put a lot of hard work, blood, sweat, and tears into my craft.
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Okay, I'm determined to make this last name Hart mean something.
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The best way for me to put myself in a position to make history is to do what I do best, and that's tell jokes. I love comedy.
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I'm a stand-up comedian until I die.
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What Now is the finest comedic work that I have.
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Go out, go see the movie, man. It's worth it.
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January 14th, help me make history.
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Help this last name mean something. Hart. Kevin Hart. Now, let's go.