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00:00Hey, what up, big bro?
00:01How you been?
00:02I've been so blessed, man.
00:03God is so good, baby boy.
00:05You know what I'm saying?
00:06Our social media expert is going to take your picture.
00:12We always say this.
00:14If you take the comedian Boogie
00:16and surround him with three guys dressed all alike
00:19that look like bodyguards,
00:21they would think Steph Curry is walking through the airport.
00:24That's very true.
00:25If you do the same with Mike Bonner,
00:28you would think B.B. White.
00:30I know, that's right.
00:33I forgot about that one.
00:35The question is...
00:37Say it, baby.
00:39Use it when you can.
00:40Serious.
00:41Do you know what happened, though, recently?
00:43What?
00:44At the Gospel Fest in Detroit,
00:45I was the MC, right?
00:47And Horace Sanders brought me out and said,
00:49a renowned gospel artist, Grammy Award winning artist.
00:52And it was like, you know, Shane Park, Pat, Amitra Franklin.
00:55And I come on stage and I'm doing like this,
00:57like we're praying hands, praying hands.
00:59And they thought it was B.B. White is for real.
01:01I know it.
01:02People stood up and started shouting.
01:05I know it.
01:07Lady got mad at me.
01:08Don't you do that about me.
01:09I love B.B.
01:10That's my favoritess.
01:12Your favoritess?
01:13Favoritess.
01:14And then when they say,
01:15that ain't no doubt, that's my vibe.
01:16I'm going to save the lady for last.
01:19The gentleman next is,
01:20looks like an actor could probably pass
01:22as a little Kirk Franklin
01:23and all the rest of that as well.
01:25Go ahead and introduce yourself.
01:27My name is Rodney Humphrey.
01:30Rodney, welcome, man.
01:31Good to see you.
01:32Good to be seen.
01:33Yeah, good to see you.
01:35The lady in the middle.
01:37My name is Jeannie Lyles.
01:39Jeannie Lyles.
01:40Oh, God.
01:41Mike Bonner.
01:42Yes, sir.
01:43Here's the story, man.
01:45I've been in Detroit all of four or five months.
01:49I'm on the radio.
01:50I get a check, so I'm at the bank.
01:53Fourth person in line is this young lady.
01:55She turns around.
01:56She starts singing.
01:58She starts singing.
01:59I love her voice.
02:00Pretty lady, though.
02:01She starts singing.
02:02It says, I know you.
02:03Fan as frog here.
02:04Here's a guy on the radio.
02:05And she's singing.
02:06And everybody in the bench stops doing business.
02:11Right.
02:11This is all true.
02:13Ladies and gentlemen, introduce yourself.
02:15Yeah.
02:17Oh, and by the way, before she does introduce herself, according to our other comrade, says
02:24that her niece is one of the biggest to-be movie stars in the business.
02:29Well, well, well, well, well.
02:31Tell them your name.
02:32My name is Jeannie Lyles, but my niece, Mina Moreau.
02:37Mina Moreau.
02:38Oh, yeah, okay.
02:39Yeah.
02:40She's in Return of the Mech.
02:42Return.
02:43Return of the Mech.
02:44We just got put on by stars.
02:46We don't be on stars.
02:47Oh, yeah.
02:48Stars.
02:49That's huge.
02:50That's huge.
02:51You trade on stars?
02:52Come on now.
02:52So when I met Jeannie, I had heard about her.
02:56I never met her face to face.
02:58And I was at, I think it's called Bloom, the club that Kenny Valentino.
03:02But it was back in the day, it might have been called something else.
03:05But it was like that same club that's Bloom.
03:07Paradise.
03:08Paradise.
03:08Yeah.
03:09So I'm in Club Paradise, client thing or something.
03:12And I'm sitting there in a band, live band is playing.
03:15And this little energetic chick come out and she got on an outfit.
03:18And I'm like, ooh, I wish I had that outfit.
03:21Right.
03:21And I was like, who could she be?
03:22And I kept hearing in my head Mason go, it's this one girl that's energetic and she can
03:27really, really, really sing.
03:29She knows how to captivate an audience.
03:31And I was like, watching her in action.
03:33I was like, they're not talking about this girl singing right here.
03:37And sure enough, you came up to me and you introduced and I said, you are who Mason was
03:43bragging about.
03:43He always brags about you.
03:46Real talk.
03:47I love Mason.
03:48Mason used to call me in the morning and go like, Jeannie, clear your voice.
03:52Okay.
03:53We can already do this.
03:54Instead of never breathe again, I'll never eat again.
03:56And I will never eat again.
03:59I love you.
04:01I like that.
04:02So, Rodney, my friend in the OJs, he came to see me one day and I had already had a
04:12date
04:12at Jeannie's mother's house.
04:16Now, you're talking about a scene from a movie.
04:20What would happen would be, I go like, Jeannie, could you ask your mom if I could come for
04:26dinner?
04:28Right.
04:29It's a very innocent kind of thing.
04:32But this was deep because what she would do, she said, okay, call back.
04:38So, when I called back, she put her mother on the phone.
04:42Mother said, I told her brother.
04:47I told her sister.
04:48They're all cooking.
04:49And she would have like a team of people cooking soulful for dinner at the house, man.
04:55And then she found out that I like red wine.
04:58So, she bought me Morgan David wine.
05:00And listen, a big one.
05:02And she kept it.
05:03Because it wasn't, I didn't go no one time.
05:05That's good one.
05:06So, whenever I really, really missed home and trusting someone to cook it, that you trust
05:15like that, I go to Jeannie's house.
05:17We were just saying that in the lobby.
05:18Weren't we saying that?
05:19Family always biological.
05:21Oh, man.
05:22You need to connect it.
05:23It's just family.
05:23Because it's love.
05:24That's beautiful.
05:25He goes to the other part of the story.
05:28So, my friend in the OJ's, he wants to visit me on one of the days that I made my
05:33appointment.
05:34I said, Binky.
05:35I said, Binky, listen.
05:36I'm going to tell you right now.
05:39I'm going to this girl's house, right?
05:43This is not about me and the girl.
05:45This is about me and her mother.
05:48And what they family will do.
05:50They cook for me.
05:51So, don't go in there.
05:53Don't be saying nothing.
05:56Just, you know, if you don't want the food, don't eat it.
06:00But this ain't got nothing to do with you.
06:03This has everything to do with me.
06:06He was so pissed.
06:08So, he's mad and everything.
06:09So, we got to go over there.
06:11I said, oh, and by the way, the girl can sing, Binky.
06:15I'm just telling you, she can sing.
06:16Beautiful voice.
06:17Amazing voice.
06:19So, we get over there like, he all twisted-faced.
06:23So, Jeannie's mom, I introduce her, sits him down, talks to her, makes him feel good.
06:29Sister Jerry.
06:30Yes.
06:32Your brother who-
06:34Who was the chef.
06:35The master chef.
06:37Wilbur.
06:37Wilbur.
06:38Master chef.
06:39Yes.
06:39Yes.
06:40Yes, that boy.
06:41Big started eating.
06:43I tell you, Rodney, he wouldn't wait two weeks before he called me from Cleveland and said,
06:51any way you can ask that lady to cook again?
06:55So, this went on for about a half a year, Rodney.
06:59Guess what happened the rest of the way?
07:02He wouldn't tell me.
07:04He called for his self.
07:06You joking.
07:06He'd be in Detroit.
07:08I never knew it.
07:10It's just a joke.
07:10That's a biggy goddamn-
07:11Yes.
07:12Are you kidding?
07:13He'd just go visit his self.
07:15Just go visit his self.
07:16He wouldn't even invite me.
07:19Right, right, right.
07:20He'd drive all the way from Cleveland.
07:22And that's-
07:24Your mom and your family have always been extremely beautiful.
07:29They love you.
07:29Yeah, I'll never forget that, too.
07:31That's beautiful.
07:32And mom is 100.
07:33Wow.
07:34She's 100 years old.
07:35I love that.
07:35She said, don't be telling my age.
07:37Tell yours.
07:38Wow.
07:39You talk too much.
07:40She's 100 years old.
07:41She said, can I keep something to myself?
07:43She said, don't put me-
07:44Don't be putting me in no chronicle.
07:46I say, mama, I'm not going-
07:47Putting you in no what now?
07:48She said, don't put me in no chronicle.
07:50In no chronicle.
07:51I say, mama, I say, I'm not going to put you in a chronicle, mama.
07:56I'm going to put you on Facebook.
07:59Right, right, right.
07:59She don't know what that is.
08:02My mom was on Facebook.
08:03You know, I had to have my mom because I took care of both of them.
08:07And my dad would always claim I didn't give him his medicine.
08:10So he'd be like, you ain't giving me my medicine.
08:14Where my medicine is?
08:15I said, you know what?
08:16You ain't giving me my medicine.
08:19I said, dad, I did.
08:21So what I did, I gave them a song so they can remember.
08:24So I said, taking my medicine.
08:26Yeah, I saw that one.
08:28Good Lord, taking my medicine.
08:34So my dad started singing.
08:36Did he?
08:36And so they remember.
08:38And so my dad was singing and my mama said, you off key, William.
08:44What's he saying?
08:45She'd be like, you off key, William.
08:47That ain't right.
08:48Did your mom sing too?
08:49My mom.
08:50And so I said, mom, you sing it.
08:52She said, holy lord.
08:55I love it.
08:56Taking my medicine.
08:59And so my dad say, you can sing, child.
09:02She said, you know, I was in the choir.
09:05Jeannie, your family has been beautiful through the years.
09:09Mike Bonner, what are you doing with Rodney and Jeannie?
09:12Let me tell you something.
09:12What are you doing, Mike?
09:13I've been doing comedy over three decades.
09:15And I love stand-up comedy.
09:17But I can't keep doing it the same way I've been doing it all them years.
09:21I want to do like a more of a music-involved show.
09:24I ain't no great singer, but I hold a note.
09:26I do all right.
09:27And then I surround myself with some of the most beautiful and talented people in Detroit.
09:31You won't find a better person on vocals than Jeannie Lyle, period.
09:36And just beautiful and actually funny as any stand-up comedian.
09:41He knows.
09:41And also, my man, Rodney Humphrey, can blow.
09:46And he's a funny guy.
09:47He's like the straight man a little bit.
09:49He ain't bringing the funny out.
09:50So it's going to be a phenomenal show.
09:52It's called Mike Bonner's Rat Pack Detroit Style.
09:55It's grown folk.
09:56It's comedy, music, a great band.
10:00My man, Benson Wheeler, is a phenomenal keyboard player.
10:04Musical director is amazing.
10:06We've got comedy, it's music.
10:07It's a great, it's a grown folk show.
10:09It's indicative of what our parents saw back in the day.
10:12So Rodney.
10:13Yes, sir.
10:14Because you see the other two.
10:16Rodney, Rodney, you almost hear from two.
10:18What are you doing in the show?
10:20I'm doing a little baby face.
10:22I'm doing a little Marvin Gaye.
10:24Wow.
10:25Let me see.
10:26Anthony Hamilton.
10:27Yeah, yeah.
10:28There you go.
10:29Me and Jeannie doing a duet together.
10:30Love called my name.
10:33Love saw me change.
10:36Love rescued me from the danger of pain.
10:41Love called my name.
10:42Don't give it all to them, y'all.
10:44Slow up.
10:44Don't do it all to them.
10:45That's lovely.
10:46Come see the show.
10:48Oh, yeah.
10:49This is all of it.
10:51Mason, can you feel what I'm saying, though?
10:54Comedy is dope.
10:56Just doing it a different kind of way is fun.
11:00Yeah.
11:00It's a fun look.
11:01Detroit, come on and see us, man.
11:02When is it and where?
11:03At the Aretha Franklin Jazz Cafe located inside the music hall.
11:08Tomorrow night, 730.
11:10Yes.
11:10It's open at 6 o'clock.
11:12Come out.
11:13I'm telling you something.
11:14I've been doing this a long time.
11:15These shows I'm producing now are some of the best shows I've been a part of.
11:18Wow.
11:19And we only get the very best.
11:20They're the best.
11:21Yeah, yeah.
11:22I know these two.
11:23I got a story for you, Mason.
11:24It was a Super Bowl party.
11:26At Greektown Casino years ago.
11:28My daughter, she had to be about four years old, so she's 33 now.
11:32Anyway, you was hosting it, and you had a karaoke contest singing old school.
11:36Yeah.
11:37And I was with my daughter's mother, and, you know, I could talk crap to her.
11:39And I was just sitting around.
11:41Everybody getting in line.
11:41I said, let me get up and win this money.
11:44So I got up, and I sung Dramatics.
11:47Hey, you're shopping.
11:50And I won.
11:51You won, right?
11:52I won, yeah.
11:52Four piston tickets, dinner, all this kind of stuff.
11:54Wow.
11:55Yeah, yeah.
11:56But the funny part is-
11:57I think we had that long Submarines.
11:59That long Sub sandwich.
11:59There we go.
12:00See, I remember.
12:02I remember.
12:02I remember.
12:02I remember.
12:03I remember that.
12:03Yeah.
12:04And that was, man, that had to be about 25.
12:07Yes.
12:0820-something years ago.
12:09Yeah, yeah.
12:10Well, Mason was only 16 when I had to go.
12:13I'll never forget.
12:14I said, I could sing.
12:17He said, yeah, sure you can.
12:18And she started singing.
12:20She don't care.
12:21Do you know that?
12:22She's scared.
12:23I love it.
12:24Every time when I go to work, it's so funny.
12:26They can say, I bumped my toe.
12:28I bumped my toe.
12:31Give me a band-aid, yeah.
12:35But Mason said, okay, not here.
12:39We were in the bank.
12:41That's all good.
12:41I like that.
12:42No, Mike Bonner.
12:44No.
12:44She said, you're the guy on the radio.
12:46I said, yeah, yeah.
12:46She said, you know I can sing.
12:48You know I can sing.
12:49She can sing.
12:50So I said, well, I said, that's good.
12:52You know, I said, give me some information.
12:54I can find you.
12:55She said, no, I can do it now.
12:59And Mason, you know, he's not wanting to be embarrassed,
13:02but he was like, shh.
13:03Everybody look at him, and I'm all in this place.
13:05I didn't drop my coat.
13:06I dropped my coat, my purse.
13:09The group, Kiera, they were fascinated with Jeannie's sound.
13:15Okay.
13:16And they produced music for you and Eric.
13:21So I had to come up with a name for Jeannie and Eric.
13:27So I'm like, I don't know.
13:31I got to think.
13:32So meanwhile, we're in a store, and we're at the counter.
13:38I forgot what I was buying, and I looked up at the liquor,
13:42and there was the name of the group.
13:45Yes.
13:45Mohawk.
13:46Uh-uh.
13:47Mohawk.
13:48That's great.
13:49Mohawk.
13:50No, it was E and J.
13:53E and J.
13:54E and J.
13:55That was it.
13:55I like that.
13:56And I remember when y'all, you know, you bought me the outfit.
13:59Y'all had bought me, because they was like, they, you know,
14:01they see me in this picture, and they bought me my outfit.
14:03I was like, I can't wear that.
14:04They say, yes, you will.
14:06So you spent all our money by you, Nicole.
14:09She looks great on stage, by the way.
14:11Oh, man.
14:12But it was perfect.
14:12You put all the things together that makes a great female entertainer.
14:18Beautiful, talented, funny.
14:20If you want to see a show that your parents saw back in the day,
14:23you want to come out Friday.
14:24Go to Eventbrite right now and buy a ticket for Mike Bonner's Rat Pack Detroit Style.
14:29How do you get it?
14:30Eventbrite?
14:31Eventbrite.
14:31Go on there and get it.
14:32I'm telling you, this show was going to be, I'm telling you, it's going to be hot.
14:35Now, can they come to the door?
14:37They can come to the door, too.
14:38And you can Cash App or either Zelle, whatever.
14:42Just come out to the show, man.
14:44Starts at what time again tomorrow?
14:46At 7.30 tomorrow night.
14:48And again, we're going to the?
14:49Aretha Franklin Jazz Cafe located inside of the musical.
14:53The musical, excuse me.
14:54That's it.
14:54The musical.
14:55That's going to be a big show.
14:56And you've got all these performances inside the package, I'm like.
15:01Right, absolutely.
15:02We're bringing that old school.
15:03Everybody come out on stage, fly.
15:05You know, Jenny can dress.
15:06My man, Rodney, can see smooth.
15:07Rodney can go.
15:08Rodney's funny, too.
15:09Rodney's funny, too.
15:10Oh, yeah, I track a Joker, too.
15:11Yeah.
15:11But they can sing.
15:13And they can sing.
15:14But you know what, Mason?
15:15I put on my outfit so my sister and they'll be like, you going to wear that?
15:18I say, until I can't no more.
15:20I know that's right.
15:21Bring that thing.
15:22I'm Beyonce old school.
15:23Bring that thing.
15:24I'm Beyonce old school.
15:25Yeah, I be thinking about your closet.
15:28Hey, baby, I ain't playing.
15:29They say, and then they don't make me think that I got to go.
15:33And I'll be like, I got a gig.
15:34My mom 100.
15:34I got a gig on this day.
15:35They say, who you think you are?
15:36Get your ass in.
15:39Get yourself in there.
15:41What time is going to be back?
15:44So here's a, I knew Jeannie and Angie were like creative, right?
15:49Right, right.
15:50So Jeannie kept saying, I'm tired of asking people for a ride.
15:54I'm going to buy me a car.
15:57I'm like, good, Jeannie, get you a car.
15:58Get it, get it.
16:00She said, I'm going to get me a car.
16:01So she got a car.
16:02She said, I got the car.
16:04So I said, oh, you can?
16:05She said, come out.
16:08So I think I was at the Penobscot building.
16:10And she was parked in front of Cobo Hall.
16:14So I go over there.
16:15I said, Jeannie, she said, it's a stick shift.
16:18I can't drive it.
16:20I'm like, Jeannie, you just bought this car.
16:22You can't drive it.
16:24What kind of car was it?
16:25A Scirocco.
16:26What kind of car was it?
16:27It was a brand new something.
16:29And she said, how long?
16:31Volkswagen.
16:31Volkswagen Scirocco.
16:32You know, I got that.
16:33I was going like this by the time I got it.
16:35It took me three hours to get from the dog until it's done.
16:38Because I was too embarrassed.
16:39They did show me how to drive it.
16:40But when I went to pick it up, somehow I was like, hey, I don't know anymore.
16:44Right.
16:45But can you still drive a stick?
16:46Can you drive a stick now?
16:47I can drive it now.
16:48Oh, I love it.
16:48She learned.
16:50While we're alike.
16:52You were saying that you knew we were alike.
16:54Well, no, I did the same thing.
16:59I did.
16:59My first car was a Mazda RX-7.
17:02I saved my money for my news route.
17:04I was a bus girl at Esquire Deli, and I had my money, and I went to the dealership.
17:09Esquire and Dexter.
17:09And a yellow.
17:10Yeah, I was a bus girl.
17:11I grew up over there.
17:12Oh.
17:12Yeah, and I watched dishes.
17:14I used to buy my.
17:15Big chocolate cake.
17:15Oh, that was you?
17:16Remember the big chocolate cake?
17:17Uh-oh.
17:18Oh, yeah.
17:18I was.
17:19Yeah, I love the women in the kitchen.
17:20Big chocolate cake.
17:21But let me finish telling you.
17:22So I saved all of my money up, and my daddy had an RX-7, so I wanted to be
17:26like my dad.
17:27My favorite color was yellow.
17:29That's a sweet car.
17:29I remember going to the car dealership, a yellow Mazda RX-7.
17:33It was a stick.
17:34I called my girl, Glynnis.
17:36I said, Glynnis, I can get a car like my dad, man.
17:38I got enough money.
17:39We're going to be riding good.
17:41She said, what?
17:42I said, but it's yellow, girl.
17:43She said, that's your favorite color.
17:45I said, yeah.
17:45So I gave the guy the money, he showed me like he showed you, and it took us an hour
17:52to get from the car dealership to Palmer Park, because I did not know how to drive a stick.
17:59Then, my girl Jill was riding with me, and because I was not used to having my own car,
18:04I forgot to look at the gas thing.
18:06Oh, Lord.
18:07And we was cruising from Palmer Park.
18:09Everybody look at you.
18:11We stalling it out.
18:13Then, we looked at the gas thing.
18:15Jill was like, Angie, we ain't just stalling it out.
18:18We running out of gas.
18:19So we had to break.
18:20I ain't lying.
18:21You joking.
18:22That's it.
18:23That's it.
18:23Okay, okay.
18:23My partner will be your thing.
18:26Listen, tomorrow night.
18:28Tomorrow night, man, it's going down.
18:30Tomorrow night.
18:30Good comedy.
18:31Yeah.
18:31Good music.
18:32Great band.
18:33Great instrumental.
18:34This is going to be amazing.
18:35Great ambiance.
18:36Starts at?
18:37730.
18:37The music hall inside the beautiful Aretha Franklin Jazz Cafe.
18:41To get a ticket, you go to?
18:43Eventbrite.
18:44Eventbrite.
18:45Come to the door.
18:45We got cash out.
18:46We got a sale.
18:47We got everything to get your money.
18:49We got everything.
18:49You can get it.
18:50You know what?
18:50Call me, or you can pay out your pocket.
18:52There you go.
18:53This show right here is up for the grown folk.
18:55It's going to be grown humor.
18:56That's right.
18:57It's going to be good.
18:57Great music.
18:59Great comedy.
19:01Great food.
19:02Liquor drinks.
19:03It's right there.
19:03It's going to be great, man.
19:04This is my girl right here.
19:07Thanks for jumping in with Genie and singing for us this morning.
19:10Yes, we love you.
19:12Yeah, we love you.
19:13We'll always love you, Mason.
19:17Let me tell you about a girl.
19:19Thank you all.
19:19Thank you, Mason.
19:20That was great.
19:21We love you.
19:21All right.
19:22Let me tell you about a girl.
19:22Let me tell you about a girl.
19:22Let me tell you about a girl.
19:22Let me tell you about a girl.