Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1480 - Kevin Hart
Uploaded: 2020-05-25T19:00:28.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1480 - Kevin Hart' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-05-25. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1480 - Kevin Hart

You come in here moving and shaking, man. You come in here making deals. You're
on the phone already.
Gotta do it, Joe.
You're always moving.
I mean, is there anything else to do?
Is there anything else to do besides moving?
Now that you want to get ahead.
No, no, especially not now, man. Hunters hunt.
Yes.
Those that don't get ate.
The last time you were here, man, that was one of the most inspirational
podcasts I've ever done.
I left that. I literally had a shift in the way I was looking at things.
Like, you put an extra gear in my step that day.
I was like, oh, I love being around people like you.
My guy.
People around you, people like you, you're going for shit all the time.
And it's infectious. It's like you give off energy.
And when people are around you, they want to get shit done, too.
It's contagious.
Yes.
It's contagious. It's not just me putting it out.
I think that the last time I was here, our conversation was such a great
conversation.
There was, there was, we both had point of views, right?
And when we shared the point of views, you elevated the other person's POV.
Like when we were talking and I was telling you why I live the way I live, why
I am the way I am, you springboarded.
And you said, yeah, because Kev, for me, I've been doing this.
And we had this yin and yang thing going.
And it drove the conversation.
I told you, you know, before we jumped on, one of the best interviews that I've
ever done.
And from a feedback perspective, with people that just loved what the
discussion was, loved the tone of the interview, the things that were said,
felt inspired, motivated after.
It was just great all around for me.
Checked all the boxes.
It was for me, too.
And I got a bunch of great responses from my friends.
That's when I know it's good, when I get friends.
And my friends are all like pretty unanimous.
They're like, that is a motivational motherfucker.
Wow.
Like that dude gets shit done.
When people hear stuff like you, like someone who's excited about life, excited
about doing things, you know, there's something about that.
It's fuel.
It's fuel for people.
We need that.
Everyone needs that.
You know, I don't even, this is not a cheesy segue.
All right.
This just makes sense from what you just said.
What you just said is the reason why I did the decision.
You said people need that.
It's fuel.
Yeah.
Right.
I feel that in today's time, what people are most selfish with is information.
Nobody wants to give information.
You got to ask for it.
If you ask for it, then all right, maybe.
Maybe I'll tell you some stuff.
But it's a search and find.
You mean real good information.
Real information.
Information about how to get to success.
That's the want from everybody across the board.
On some level.
Right.
Okay.
Everybody's success is different.
This doesn't mean fame and stars.
I'm not talking about that level of success for everything.
I'm saying whatever your version of success is to get to it, information from
someone that's done it or that's partaken in it in some degree will only add to
the value of your journey.
It's only going to make it easier.
It's not to say that you got to do what they said, but with that information,
you're able to process it.
Maybe use it, maybe use it, maybe not.
Right.
But you got it.
Right.
That's what I wanted to do.
I said, yo, I got a fucking, I got a life.
I got a hell of a life that I've lived full of ups, downs, potholes, cobblestone
speed bumps, flat roll, U-turns, some smack brick walls that I ran into.
You know, some revolving doors of back and forth and through it all, my mental
has only gotten better because I feel like I've been in, I've been in a mental
gym.
The mental fitness that coincides with life, you know, it should get better.
It should, you should get wiser.
You should get smarter.
You should be able to make better decisions.
And all of my decisions came from the massive amount of fuck-ups and I can now
share those fuck-ups.
I can now share the rights and the wrongs and the way that I handle all of the
things that I've done.
And people can just take that information and go, wow, I never looked at it
like that.
Well, it gives them a better view of the landscape.
Yeah.
Especially when someone like you, you almost seem like an unattainable person.
Like how, how, how does he do that?
How is he doing that?
How does this guy go from Philadelphia to be one of the biggest movie stars in
the world?
How does he become one of the biggest stand-up comedy stars ever?
How the fuck do you do that?
You almost seem like an alien, you know, to people on the outside.
But then when they hear you talk about your real life and talk about these fuck-ups
and talk about these successes and talk about the lessons that you've learned,
man, that's fuel for folks in a way that nothing else is because
it's, there's a lot of people that are bullshitting online.
There's a lot of these motivational speakers that haven't done shit and it's a,
it's a weird thing.
It's like they're, they're trying to give you motivation by like sort of reciting
things that they think are going to work.
That they think, that they think you want to hear.
They haven't done anything.
But someone who's done something, when you say it, people are going to listen.
They're going to go, oh, and you're so honest about everything, which is every,
that's everything to people because when you're pure, when you're, your, your
words are pure, people take them right in.
They come right in.
There's no, there's no like, oh, this guy's kind of fucking selling me
something.
Oh, this guy's kind of full of shit.
I got, I got nothing to sell.
I had a, I had a talk with Chase, like Chase, JP Morgan, Chase are partners of
mine.
And we were doing this, well, not we were, we are, we're doing this thing
called Advancing Black Pathways, right?
Where we're trying to cure financial literacy in the black community.
We've been, we're on like year number two right now.
And there was a conversation where, you know, they wanted to have said bankers
go and talk to the kids in the inner city.
And I was like, you can't, you can't send a white man that works for JP Morgan
Chase to the inner city of said community, hood, whatever, to talk to these
young black kids that has no idea about the life that the black kids are living.
I said, what you need is people that have actually come from these environments.
They have made it out of the environments and now understand how money works.
Because now when I talk to you, I'm not talking to you with hypotheticals and I'm
not preaching to you about what you should do and what you got to do.
I said, I'm telling you what I did that didn't work.
I'm telling you how I fucked off money and I'm telling you what I didn't know.
Hey guys, here's a fact.
There is no education that comes with money in the black communities.
It doesn't.
You can go search for it.
There isn't one.
It does not exist.
There is no one that is outright teaching the kids in a black community how to
operate financially, how to set up for your future.
There is nobody talking to you about ownership, homes, mortgages, investments,
stocks, that doesn't exist.
It doesn't exist.
It's not until you get out of that environment that you meet some people that
are planning their life accordingly that you start to ask questions.
It's not until maybe college and on the later side of it that you're with
people that are getting jobs in the future that you start to do it.
There is no prep or education at a young age.
I said, so you need a fucking man that can go there and go, hey man, let me
tell you why y'all got to stop taking these free credit cards.
Let me tell you why you got to stop putting the cable in somebody else's name
and continuing to fuck it up.
Let me tell you why you got to stop being okay with not having a bank account.
Let me tell you why you got to stop using the check cash in places.
There's nobody giving that information.
I said, that's what I am.
So if we're going to have a relationship, let's build it off of something
authentic.
Let's build it off of something that people can go, I get that.
Since then, to go back to your point, my relationship has been based on me
telling the truth.
I told JP Morgan Chase, I want to go to the inner city and I want to have these
discussions, but let me have them my way.
I don't want to have it in a JP Morgan Chase way.
And I got to credit them for backing me because they align me with other people
that share the same stories that have achieved certain levels of success that
speak to the same thing.
So everything that I've done, everything that I'm trying to do, when I do talk
about it, I come proven.
I'm only talking about this because I really got knowledge about it.
I don't got knowledge about it because I'm the smartest motherfucker in the
world.
That's not what the knowledge is coming from, Joe.
My knowledge is coming from, hey man, yo, don't walk through door number one.
I walked through that door.
There's a monster in there.
Yeah, there's a bunch of shit in that door.
It wasn't until I came out that door that I saw those monsters that I knew the
other monsters weren't as bad in door number two.
But door number three is finally where you should go.
I messed up, man.
I went to the first two doors wrong.
Why can't I give that to somebody that hasn't experienced those doors yet?
Why can't I just get that information and possibly prevent them from walking
into those doors?
And that's what's really valuable for people listening.
Yeah, man.
That's what's really valuable.
Someone who's actually done it and done it wrong and done it right.
And like, hey, listen, I fucked up.
This is how I fucked up.
That means so much to people.
You're advancing people's possibilities.
I think that's what life should be about.
As adults, as adults, we have a job to do.
Whether you want to admit it or not, your job is to set up the next generation.
That's our job.
Whether you want to fucking admit it or not.
It's your kids.
It's your friends.
It's whomever.
You're supposed to live a certain way, do certain things, to set up for the
next generation to come and to be able to do better.
If you don't, then you're not doing your part.
And if the world never fucking grows, you got to raise your hand and be
responsible.
Because you're a part of the lag.
You're part of the delay.
If we look up in 15, 20 years and we're in the same spot, well, that means that
our fucking groundbreakers that was doing all the shit during that 15, 20 years
never shared the information so that these new people could come through and
break new ground.
Yeah.
Somebody got to do more than what the fuck I did.
I don't care who it is.
Right.
But you got to do more.
Right.
Somebody got to fucking do more.
Somebody got to break these records.
You already belayed the trail.
Yeah.
All I did was show you, hey, man, hey, they stopped here.
But I kept going to the left and I started hauling ass and look what I found.
Now that I'm over here, that means there's more.
Did you have a time in your life where you realized that you were doing the
right thing?
Like a time in your life where you realized, like, in your comedy career in
particular, where you realized, like, I'm getting some fucking traction.
I'm like, this is really rolling.
Like, in the beginning, you probably, like all of us, were not sure what was
going to happen.
You're trying.
You know, you're doing open mics.
You're trying to make it.
But was there a time where you're like, this approach is, this is happening.
I've got traction.
It was when, I think, I think the, the noticing of, oh shit, of something's
happening right now.
And it's, it's, this is, I think this is success.
I think, I think I'm, I think I'm in it.
Was it around the time of your first special?
It wasn't.
It was when I did the Shaq All-Star Comedy Jam.
I was just, I just told somebody this story.
I was talking to Gary Owens, actually.
Uh, good friend of mine, comedian.
And we were talking abo