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Jamie Foxx

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“Pretty soon Lattimore is going to come up. You guys ready for Lattimore? And I start doing that. So I'm going to take a break. So I get off stage. And the dude that was washing the dishes takes his apron off and goes, man, I got it. Grabs the mic. How y'all feel? And he started doing these old stock jokes. Kills And so I said, okay, now I know what it is. You got to have jokes that are appropriate for your audience. So I learned on how to tell jokes for everybody. Because at first, my jokes was geared towards women. It was singing. So what I started doing from that day on, I would go to like Des Moines, Iowa, Davenport, Iowa, Boise, Idaho, where it's all white, Gunnison, Colorado, all white. And I would go do like 40 minutes of all black material.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I hadn't been doing stand up comedy that long. So I had, if I'm funny, I got an hour. If I'm not funny, it's about 10 minutes worth of shit because I would just take a joke and just keep spinning it and spinning it. So my first joke, they didn't get second joke they didn't get. I said, shit, I'm damn to all the jokes. So I said, well, let me do this before I do anything. Let me just talk about people in the audience. So I looked and I saw this guy with this sort of suit on with a butterfly collar. Like, oh shit, I'm going to talk about him with the butterfly collar. But before I could say that, I looked around. Everybody has a butterfly collar. This is what they really want to look like. And so I just said, hey, man, I don't know what else y'all want.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So this guy saw me at this other club and said, Hey man, you know, Lattimore is performing around the corner. Man, what you come to open, whatever? I said, how much you paid? He said, pay $50. I said, I'm there. 50 bucks. I need it. So this is like 89.90. So I get there and I don't know who Lattimore is. I just know there's a lot of older people. Like, I mean, like, oh, oh, I'm like, oh, where are the people at these other people? So I'll go up and the setting was different. It was like the chairs and stuff were weighed. It was like a banquet setting. And it's in the middle of the hood, you know, Crenshaw. And like the tables were like from here to where like 20 feet away from me. So I don't have that.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Response. And then second trying to dialogue is boy, you stink You bomb I bomb, and it wasn't a lot. I only bombed like twice.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“How do you get it off? Like, how do you, like, even now when you talk about the Bill Cosby joke, back in the day, we just tell the joke. Now you got to be like, okay, I got to tell the joke in a way that it's still funny. It still keeps the bite on it. But, you know, so those are the different for me as an entertainer where there's not fear. It's just like, you know, questions. Does that make sense?”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“ridicule and criticism like I always say like this like a person like Prince or a person like Michael Jackson could have never survived in today's world because in the day of the internet and where everybody has a voice most of the voices are hateful voices or not understanding like like if you saw Prince with a guitar and a bandana and the way he dressed you know people would meme the shit out of it you know so now it's it's not a fear but it's just a question that I have to always ask them like yo is this is this the cool shit to do or not the cool to do and so what I learned is when it's just executing something when it's either executing a song or executing a joke or executing things within entertainment it's cool but then you have to wonder like”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Now I just execute. I have to ask people like Ricardo, Justin, Justin, what should I execute? So the fear of a celebrity or an artist now is how do I get my art off in a world where it's the social media driven sort of...”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When I went on stage, it was just like it was just natural. I belong here. So I think that's the thing too when it comes to entertainment, there's a certain like, oh, I belong here. This is what I'm supposed to do. How successful I will be or won't be. That's something out of my hands. But I do know that this is where I belong. And that's with anything in anybody. Like when you can sort of listen to that voice in your head or what's in your heart and you get a chance to do something that you really feel like you're supposed to do, that alleviates a lot of the fear. Now, if it was a surgeon or a lawyer or something, you know, if something that I'm not, you know, versed in or something like that, then maybe there will be more fear. But with this, you don't have, well, I don't have those types of fears. And as I've gotten older in the business, I sort of simplify things.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because first I looked at it first. I went to an open mic night and saw the guys. I was like, man, these dudes is terrible. And so when you go on stage Your whole life is not. I want to be a comedian. I went on stage like, yo, I'm just fuck around. So if I hit, cool, if I miss, I wasn't trying to be there anyway. I wanted to do more music.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So now they think I'm arrogant. This motherfucker thinks he's not even listening to us. So I took that name and it stuck. And then I started building everything off of it. Back in the day, people used to wear jackets and put names on the jacket. So I had slyazay dot, dot, dot com to the foxhole, foxhole, you know, things like that. I'm going to grab a little something to eat.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I said, hmm, I got something. So I wrote down on the list all of these unisex names. Stacy Green, Tracy Brown, Jamie Fox, and now the guy chooses from the list. He says, is Jamie Fox, is she here? She'll be first. I was like, no, money, that's me. Okay. All right. Well, you're the fresh meat. I said, what's that? They were shooting evening at the improv, this old comedy show back in the day. Said, you'll be the guy that will just throw up to see if you get a laugh or two. You know, it's going to be a tough crowd. Fresh me. I said, cool. So I go up in between two of the guys, get a standing ovation. People like, who's the kid? Is he on the show? I said, no, he's freshman amateurs. So then they started yelling my name, yo, Jamie. Jamie. Hey, Jamie, but I'm not used to name.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What you do is you put your name on the list put your name on the list and they pick from the list and they say, okay, these are people that are going up. So I went up and had a great set then for the next three or four weeks. They never called my name. I said, Yo, Monday, did you see my name? Yeah, yeah, you weren't on the list. You were on the list, but we got other people. But I found out that the comedians were actually running the list. So the comedians that have been here for a while was like, we don't want him on here because he's showing us up. So I was like, fuck. I ended up going to this, even into improv, the improv like in Santa Monica. And so I had never been there. So I would notice that 100 guys would show up, five girls would show up. The five girls would always get on the show because they needed to break up the monotony.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Eric Marlon Graduated high school 86 I get out to California and I start doing, you know, I'm in college and doing the music. But I would go up on these open mic nights for comedy. So I go, I do really well. I get like standing ovation. And then I came to LA, got a stand in ovation. And then when I came back every week, I wouldn't get called up. I was like, man, why can't what's going on? But what I noticed.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And he's got the kid announcing him. So, you know, it's a lot of things you can tell your kids, man. And then you just have to hope for the best and be there.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So she's a little different in that sense. And I remember telling her, I said, well, Anna Lise, we can't ride around in LA in the limo, in the Rolls-Royce with the top down. We're on our way to the Soho house, and it's sort of finicky up there. So I got to at least put the top up. She's like, why? I said, I said, listen, let me ride until I get to Soho House and then I'll put the top up as we get there. Okay. So we ride up in the Soho house. We're in the valet and all of these, you know, celebs and people are coming out. She yells out, Jamie Fox in the house. And I'm like, hell no. So I'm trying to pull the top down. All the other celebrities. Like, look at this motherfucker being arrogant and shit. He's so gaudy.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“a baby what are you doing look at the top it comes up she says that i'm not getting a car calls her mine so could you come pick me up i said what you doing she said i'm not you you goofy you might mean you made me look stupid in front of my friends i was like oh you know she's really and that's something she has on his side my youngest daughter is a little different she wants to ride in the rain in the rolls royce all the time let's take this car we riding down sunset boulevard she playing rihanna you know what i'm saying with her shades on”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Live in a privileged situation. Luckily, my daughters are very, very, especially my oldest daughter. My oldest daughter never even asked me for money. Never asked for the new car. Never asked for a plane to ride coach. I mean, you know, so I think she really, really has. A great head on her shoulders. I remember I got this Rolls Royce and I went to go pick my daughter up in the Rolls-Royce thinking that's going to be, you know, pick her up in the Rolls Royce, drop the top. Drop it. What up, Doc? So I'm riding. Go to pick her up at school. She won't get in the car.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I would say this, it's a couple of things when you have kids who grow up around Hollywood. If you can stay motivated. And if you can not do some things, not be jaded. Be entitled, not be spoiled, not do drugs. Not get into all the bad stuff because our kids live in an elevated space. So what I try to do in Ricardo sees this Ricardo sees this all the time. So does Justine. We don't play around when it comes to discipline as well. Like when the kids are here and all of our friends. The size of the house means nothing to if you don't do the right thing. Going to get in major trouble, and you're going to get in Texas trouble. You know what I'm saying? Like how my grandmother disciplined. So it's a different thing when it comes to kids that are...”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Mannerisms are important because I do a LeBron James impersonation, which is really not a voice. It's more of his mannerism. It's the jaw. It's the look. Go, roll. You know, just go roll. You know, the game of basketball, you know, we just try to play when it comes off the court. They catch him, he's still tied. The game of basketball, we just try to do the best. So it's the mannerism so people will appreciate the mannerisms first.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So now Kermit the Frog is one way, but if you just twist your voice or twist your mouth to the right and grab some swag now, you're Sammy Davis Jr.”
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“So that's, and then once you get the voice tone, it's how you manipulate your mouth to get the sound. Because you know, So it's sort of constricting”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I know that that will. That will come up. I'll find a joke for Cosby that, of course, is going to be a little people going to be like, but it's going to be funny and shit. And now Doc Rivers from The Clippers. Hey, you know, we're going to try. You know, it's not Blake's fault. You know, next year, we got to do better. So I'm working on the new impersonations now. So that's, and the way you do an impersonation is usually about it's musical, like, say Kermit the Frog, right? So Kermit the Frog is... So it's sort of like the way you do your way.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“His speaking voice was different because I remember I got in trouble with Mr. Cosby because he felt that the movie Booty Call was not cool. And he said some things in the press about us. And I was like a young comedian like, damn, man, I'm just trying to work, you know. But his speaking voice was on the phone. Well, the thing is when you do something like Booty Call, what is a booty call? Why are you calling the booty? You know, whatever. But it was so... It wasn't the it was because you find out that that was your stick.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It is literally the same shit. I'd be like, wow, millions of people are watching this shit, and it's the same thing. And then, you know, as people came up, you know, the impersonation that Cosby is back in to do the Cosby impersonation is back in. Don't know how I'm going to do it, but there's definitely a Cosby joke somewhere. I don't know. But I used to do cause of the people and the Jello Pudding and the filth and the flying and the farm, which Eddie Murphy did, but people didn't know Cosby's real speaking voice is not like that.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But here's it. Reagan came later, but Reagan came like in the 80s when I was actually like 21. I was the first black guy doing the Reagan impersonation. Probably the only one. So I would be on stage doing my impersonations and going to Ronald Reagan. People are like, no, it ain't no way. Will, as a matter of fact, I, oh, no, there you go again. And so being young and that teacher, Miss Rees and Miss Dalth and all those teachers allowing Miss Cole allowing me to be myself, you know, helped me hone in on what I was going to be doing for the rest of my life. Like literally my friends from Tarot go like, how the fuck did you do that? This is the shit you used to do.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“rich little and Google rich little because rich little was the first person that I saw do impersonations so there was a there was this was this had to be this had to be like 76 1976 so it was like fifth grade for me the joke was uh Jimmy Carter, which was the president at the time, singing You Light Up My Life. And at that time his brother was getting caught drunk all the time, like Billy. So it was a Jimmy Carter going, so many nights. Oh, me and my brother Billy would sit by the window waiting for somebody to bring some peanuts and beer. And so that was my first attempt at an impersonation. And then it went on from there to do a reproduction. I am not a crook. So, you know, who else would I do?”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I guess it was on prime time. So, what's your priority? Prime time, you couldn't really say anything on prime time. He was clean. But like...”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I would just take the jokes that were being told by David Brenner and Steve Allen and a young David Letterman. Who else would be on there? Franklin Ajai. You guys, when you're hearing this, go Google these guys, a young Jay Leno. These were like sort of like Richard Pryor. So I would take those jokes and tell them at school because those kids wouldn't want to tell them.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, they would let me tell jokes because I would get in trouble. Miss Reed's, I think it was my third grade teacher, Miss Reeves. Because I would like to talk, but I was very smart. My grandmother had a school. I lived in a school. So I'd already knew from first to eighth grade, I already knew all of the lesson plans. So, you know, a kid like me sitting there with nothing to do, I'm going to get in trouble. So she would let me do stand-up comedy on Fridays for the kids. And all I would do is my grandmother would watch Johnny Carson in the only room that had the television was my room. So I had to watch Johnny Carson too as a kid. So nine years old, seven, eight, nine years old.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, exactly. Because all of it is in our head. When we talk about fear or lack of being aggressive or it's in your head. So not everybody's going to be super aggressive, but the one thing that you can deal with is a person's fears. So if you start early, if they are a shy person, they just won't be as shy if you keep instilling those things.”
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“You be a lawyer or school teacher or tech guy or whatever or girl, whatever it is, there's nothing on the other side of it.”
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“What you do with your kids is when my daughter is there's the phrase that when you see Anna Lise, my daughter and my oldest daughter, Korin, I would always ask them, what's on the other side of fear? And they'd be like, huh? I said, what's on the other side of it? Meaning, like, if I stood in the middle of this floor right there and just yelled, what's on the other side of that? Or if I stood on the middle of the floor and went, what's on the other side of? Meaning like either you do or you don't, but there's no penalty There's no reward. It's just you just be yourself. So I taught them what's on the other side of fear nothing. People are nervous for no reason because there's nothing no one's going to come out and slap you or beat you up and then you're just nervous. So why even have that? And so that's a building block that they can use not just about the entertainment business because that's the other thing. You don't have to be an entertainer, but whatever you go into, whether you're”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The bearing of the fruits of her labor for her young kid coming from that racially misunderstood town, which I love and wouldn't change anything in the world when it comes to tarot, Texas, her saying, get across the tracks. We've now gone across the tracks. We've gone all over the world. And now here we are. And think about what's the odds of a kid who lives in a town population twelve thousand two hundred and forty people. From Terrell to go all the way to Los Angeles, California. Meat puff, meet all these different people, and they actually have an opportunity to win an Oscar and your grandmother gets a chance to see that. Now, October 23rd, 2004, she passed away, which if you know the actual awards was 2005 in February, but she got a chance to hang in there and feel it. So my grandmother was just like, you know, the blueprint.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because when I was talking to the older Ray, I didn't want to grab those bad old habits I want to play in young. So I hear Ray talking young on the tape. And then all of a sudden he's in charge of the interview. And he was just doing his thing. And then all of a sudden, she says, talk about the drugs, Ray. And then he started to stutter. Well, you know what? So I use that as DNA to play the iconic character Ray Charles that when he's talking about his music, he's fully in control. When he's confronted with real life things, why are you doing drugs? Why don't you take care of your family? Why are you cheating on your wife? He would stutter. And I say this long story to say this. After the success of Ray Charles, after being nominated for an Oscar, my grandmother got a chance to witness all of that. She got a chance to see.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I said, Well, Mr. Jones, I'm trying to figure out how to do Ray Charles, but I need the young Ray Charles, right? And he says, Well, man, shit, let me look. And he gives me a cassette tape to you young ones out there, a cassette tape back in the day was a way for us to. I'm just messing with it, to share music. And I said, okay, I got the cassette tape. I had to go rent a truck from a Hertz rent a car because there was no cassette players in the cars. So I popped a cassette tape in. And on the tape was... Hi, this is Donna Shore from the Dona Shore Show. We have two very wonderful musicians here today and mister Kenny Rogers and Mr Ray Charles, and you hear the young ray You know what Donna, I'm just so happy to be here.”
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“Shit, talking and shit. I'm like, man, I'm nervous as hell. And then Frank got up. He said he sung. The band was In Frank Sinatra knighted him, like gave him a ring that was pretty significant, if you know what I mean. And if you guys Google Frank Sinatra, you understand what I mean about the Lucoso Nostra. Here I am now talking to Quincy Jones, and he's telling me about Ray Charles. He says, Yeah, man, Ray taught me everything, man. Shit, man, he taught me how to dress. We were wearing suits, suits, zoot suits, and shit, man. He had nice suits, tailor made, and I said, why did he have nice suits? Shit, man, he was always around women, man, and women would tell him, man, no suit suits are ugly because he couldn't see. So the women was telling him how to dress.”
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“All of those guys, he was the band leader. And when I met Quincy Jones, he talks about that. Yeah, man, shit, man, music, man, these young cats don't know music anymore, man. Shit, they play in the key or queue if they would, man. Shit, man, when I played baby Frankie, baby, I said, Mr. Jones, who's Frankie? Man, shit, Frank's Sinatra, man. Shit, I was young, man. The bandley, we were playing in Monaco, man. We didn't even have time to rehearse, baby. We're just there playing waiting on fucking Frank to come in. I said, what do you mean? He says, we had to play this show in Monaco. Frank had never met me. Knew that I was this young kid who was great with the music. I become the band leader. We don't get a chance to rehearse. Monaco, we're his billionaires and millionaires in the audience waiting on this incredible show. And he says, we're just vamping, man. Shit, and Frank doesn't even come out on the stage. He comes through the audience, man.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“During the process of the movie was interesting, of my background being from Terrell knowing how to mimic. But I needed to know how to do Ray Charles, like the young Ray Charles. So I got in touch with Quincy Jones. And for all of you young ones out there listening, make sure you Google Quincy Jones and Ray Charles. And the reason why you should do that is because they were the building blocks of our music today, which started in Seattle, Washington, which was interesting. Seattle at that time was a big hub for jazz music, jazz musicians, and that's where Ray Charles migrated to running into a young Quincy Jones. Ray Charles actually taught Quincy Jones everything he knows about music. Who is Quincy Jones for the You You Young Ones listening? Quincy Jones was the one who did, I mean, he played, he was a band director for Frank Sinatra. All of those guys, the rat pack.”
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“someone like Estelle teaches you, then you got Ray Charles explaining now that you're across the tracks, what notes are you going to play? And so now we go on and we do that movie. Which we didn't know what we were doing. We didn't know that it was going to be like that. It wasn't a studio film. It was independent.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“days my grandfather drove me to piano lessons here i am sitting with a legend and we were like And I was like playing the blues with Ray Charles. And as we're playing, I'm on cloud nine. Then he moved into some intricate stuff, like the Lonious Monk. And I was like, oh shit, I got to catch up. And I hit a wrong note. And he stopped because his ears are very sensitive. Now, why the hell would you do that? I said, What was that? Why do you hit the note like that? That's a wrong note, man. Shit. I said, well, I'm sorry, Mr. Charles. I just said, he said, let me tell you something, buddy. The notes are right underneath your fingers, baby. You just got to take the time out to play the right notes. That's life. So that was a That the notes are right underneath your fingers so metaphorically. So now you got to cross the tracks.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Being around older people. You know, I understood that muscle too because I was always the young kid with the old parents. So meeting Ray Charles was like seeing my grandfather or seeing one of my uncles. And when I met Ray and we were trying to do Ray Charles the movie and Taylor Hackford, who was the director, and he said, you know, I've been wanting to do this movie for 25 years. I'm glad you came along because it's the right time. And I remember meeting Ray Charles walking down his studio, you know, clean, you know. Looked like almost like he could see, you know. And I said, Mr. Charles, you know, I'm just trying to do the best I can to do your movie, your biopsies. You know what? Look, if you could play the blues, man, shit, you could do anything, man. I said, what do you mean? He said, can you play the blues? Shit, that's what I'm asking. I said, I guess so. Come on. And we go and we sit down and all of the hard work that my grandmother put in.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Granny was right. This is taking me on the other side of the tracks. And when we got in, even when I got a chance to meet Ray Charles, which, you know, that's my grandmother's era, you know, and she didn't get a chance to meet him because at the time she was, you know, she couldn't move bedridden a little bit.”
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“Everybody, you know, I said, and he may not be blood, but he's our family. It was just incredible, incredible thing. My grandmother was absolutely amazing. I think you need people like that. And when you talk about that Bo, that's my reference to raising kids. And I got my own kids now is that when you raise your kids, you are the bow and arrow. You're the bow. They're the arrow. And you just try to aim them in the best direction that you can. And hopefully your aim isn't too off. And that's what she did for me. And then, you know, she watched my whole career all the way up until getting nominated for an Oscar where all of the things that she taught me came into play. When we did Ray Charles, that was an opportunity to play the piano, to be funny, to do an impersonation, and all these things is what my grandmother championed. So when we...”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I'm grown and I hear how she stuck up for me. She says, let me explain something to you, boy. And I could hear her. I got the boy when he was seven months old. I said, and everybody wanted him. I wanted him.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So if you give me the cash, I could take it and get the, I said, well, why don't you, if it's a situation of medical, I know some doctors, maybe they can help you. Oh, I would prefer the $10,000. That's for you, okay? I'll hit you. I didn't call back. I was like, so that became a problem for her. And she called me one day and left on the answer machine young fella, the last time you seen an answer machine. So I'm checking my answer machine and she leaves a scathing message. Well, you know what? I didn't get the money from you. And that's fine because you're not part of this family anyway. You was adopted. Nobody wanted you anyway. This is what this lady is saying to me. Brutal. I said, what the hell? So I let my grandmother here, let me run that back. Played it. What's that number? And she called, and I remember listening. And I'm grown. You know, I'm 22.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So she hangs up, you know, it's like three or four families there. We're having like a little Christmas party, and we all go, granny, what when you said the young girls, what are you talking about, you know, 60, 65? I don't want to miss when I'm 65. She said, shit, I'm 83. No, I can't handle a 65-year-old woman all of my shit. So she was just saying. Great person, tough girl. I remember there were some situations where I did make it and some people in my family felt like I should give them all of my money. This lady walks in and we're in my apartment. She comes and says, my rich cousin, I didn't even recognize because I've only seen him maybe once or twice growing up. So anyway, he gets around to her. She says, I need $10,000 for a kidney. I was like, well, who's kidney? Well, I need kidney surgery or something like that.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“On our way to Hawaii, you know, and I remember, you know, just a fun time. I remember we're having a good time. We're going everywhere. And she had a boyfriend at the same time. It was 83, too. And he was on, you know, he was on the land side. And so So it's like December 23rd. We called her boyfriend just so they could talk. So she's on the phone. Yeah, having a good time. Oh yeah, weather's nice sunny for Uda's good. I got my own seasonings though. Real night. Well, I'll tell you what, look, I'm going to go, but let me tell you something. Don't let me come back there and catch you with no young girls. You understand? Because I don't play that. Let me catch you with no young girls. You hear me?”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Getting it or what, you know, so uh, she was amazing, man. So, you know, my grandmother, you know, we party, hang, have a good time. She was 83 years old. And then the big thing was, as I granny, you know, it's Christmas time. Why don't we do something we ain't never done? You know, your son making a little money. Why don't we go to Hawaii for Christmas? Because I got some friends from Hawaii. Well, yeah, well, let's get it going. Gas up the plane, right? So we fly to Hawaii one year. And it was just amazing to be able to show my grandmother another side of the world. It even made the papers in Tarot, Texas, S. D.L. Tally.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I had an apartment, split level condo. Remember when that was hype? The split-level condo. So I had a loft. Oh, yeah, Ricardo, he's only 19. He doesn't know what I'm talking about. But I had a loft. And we were living in that loft. And then we eventually rented a house. And me and my grand, and I didn't know I was a mama's boy. Like we go to the parties, come back. We have an after party at the crib. And then one of my homies came in and said, yo, Fox, some older lady out here in the front room. I said, yeah, that's my grandma. What's up? Yeah, I said, yeah. And then you use a bottle of champagne pop. What we doing?”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because during the year it was a school. You know what I'm saying? But then during the summer, you drop your kids off of my grandmother's house and just let them keep them. So she was very powerful in that sense. And then when I did finally make it, it was wonderful to tell my grandmother come live with me. So my grandma was living with me. So we go to clubs. You know, my grandma was like, She had to be 83 at the time. We go to clubs, we hang out, you know what I'm saying? This is in LA. This is in LA.”
2023-12-14 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #710: Super Combo: Jamie Foxx and Maria Popova · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT