A clean, organized area gives you a different thought pattern than when you're in chaos.

When you go into these cities, you want to talk about different parts of your life that make you different from other comics.

It opens you up and you're freer to be yourself.

And by being yourself, right, the work comes through and it's relatable to other people.

Yes.

Can you just tell us at that moment when you said you were handed a gun by your father

just 10 years old?

I think sometimes it gets swept on the road that I'm a 19-year-old kid

that's navigating through literally the most dangerous place.

You were doing stand-up in prison?

Like, how did that come out of it?

Like, how did you go from prison to stand-up?

That's the thing.

I was just a jolly, sarcastic dude.

You know, you know, you know, Hi, everyone. Welcome to the Don Lemon Show. Thank you so much for joining us. I am joined today by really one of the brightest and most unique comedians in the industry today is Ali Sadiq, a comedian. He's an author. He's a radio

personality who's really frank and honest retelling of his experience. You know, behind bars,

let's be honest. It has really made him different and unique in the way that he tells

stories. He is critically acclaimed. He has embarked on his own stories called I Got a Story to

Tell. Ali, thank you so much for being here. How you doing? Oh, thank you for having me.

So I wonder it's, you know, I'm going to go there right in the beginning.

I don't know if it's like, you know, it's like the inward with the hard are, the soft hour,

because I have a friend named Ali, but then when he wants to sort of more Americanize it,

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