Ali Siddiq

Um, all right, Ali, here's my feelings about you.

I've always thought like, "Oh, this guy's interesting.

This guy's genuinely interesting." Like funny, et cetera, but more than that, interesting and layered.

So what's the short explanation of what your life has been, for people who don't, who are completely unfamiliar with you?

I think it's just been a, a life's rollercoaster, you know, of, of being ungrateful, then being, having some sort of gratitude, and then being ungrateful again, and then learning to be more grateful, you know, with...

You know, I just, I just spoke about this, that, um, every time I buy a pair of Chuck Taylors I should hug my mom or call her and apologize, you know, for putting her through that type of trauma of unbalanced, you know, thoughts of her son being incarcerated when I could've just accepted the Chucks.

I didn't, I didn't need the Bo Jacksons.

All right.

If you-

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if you're picking up, he did six years in prison.

Not j- like, prison.

Yeah.

Uh, and what you're impli- what you're saying is it wasn't enough to just wear Chucks.

You had to get some fly shit, and then you needed money, et cetera, et cetera.

Which I could've found another way to get money, but that, that was what was presented at the time, that you get a bunch of fast money, you know, and slow money, as I have found out in comedy, slow money is a little better.

Lasts longer.

You know, you have more fun, you know, and you, you have a little more gratitude.

You know, I think that's what the base of me learning is gratitude.

You know, having, being grateful for the experience.

When were you not grateful? 'Cause that's, i- it's funny that you brought that up so quickly.

With comedy, in the beginning of the stand-up, and in life in the beginning, you know, those years of, you know, from like when I could, understood things from like, let's say from 8 to like 14, 15, very ungrateful, you know.

'Cause it's not like I wasn't eating.

Yeah.

Um, all right, Ali, here's my feelings about you.

I've always thought like, "Oh, this guy's interesting.

This guy's genuinely interesting." Like funny, et cetera, but more than that, interesting and layered.

So what's the short explanation of what your life has been, for people who don't, who are completely unfamiliar with you?

I think it's just been a, a life's rollercoaster, you know, of, of being ungrateful, then being, having some sort of gratitude, and then being ungrateful again, and then learning to be more grateful, you know, with...

You know, I just, I just spoke about this, that, um, every time I buy a pair of Chuck Taylors I should hug my mom or call her and apologize, you know, for putting her through that type of trauma of unbalanced, you know, thoughts of her son being incarcerated when I could've just accepted the Chucks.

I didn't, I didn't need the Bo Jacksons.

All right.

If you-

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...

if you're picking up, he did six years in prison.

Not j- like, prison.

Yeah.

Uh, and what you're impli- what you're saying is it wasn't enough to just wear Chucks.

You had to get some fly shit, and then you needed money, et cetera, et cetera.

Which I could've found another way to get money, but that, that was what was presented at the time, that you get a bunch of fast money, you know, and slow money, as I have found out in comedy, slow money is a little better.

Lasts longer.

You know, you have more fun, you know, and you, you have a little more gratitude.

You know, I think that's what the base of me learning is gratitude.

You know, having, being grateful for the experience.

When were you not grateful? 'Cause that's, i- it's funny that you brought that up so quickly.

With comedy, in the beginning of the stand-up, and in life in the beginning, you know, those years of, you know, from like when I could, understood things from like, let's say from 8 to like 14, 15, very ungrateful, you know.

'Cause it's not like I wasn't eating.

Yeah.