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Respect Your Kids’ Choices with Damon and Marlon Wayans
Wed, 30 Apr 2025
Legendary entertainers Damon and Marlon Wayans join the pod as IMO’s first sibling guests! They share hilarious stories from their childhood, open up about working together as an entertainment family, and share wisdom about raising children through challenges.Have a question you want answered? Write to us at imopod.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Chapter 1: Who are Damon and Marlon Wayans and what are their careers known for?
But it starts at the top. I mean, the way you talk about your father. I mean, there was, you know, there was sometimes a level of fear because you didn't know what he was going to do. But what was always there was a level of respect.
Yes. Right.
And so whether you felt like that was happening just as your code, it started because that's how you thought of your father. And I'm sure that had a little bit to do with how your parents interacted. But I also know that as siblings, sometimes we read the parental relationship differently or the situation. I'm wondering if you guys have different takes on that.
Yeah, I was scared to death of my father. Yeah. Scared. Like, he would pants my father. Like, my father would be talking, he'd just snatch his pants off. Oh, dad. And for me, that was like a suicide. That's why you're so crazy.
Yes. You would pants your father. Hey, Jack, come on.
Hey, hey. Those were my friends. My mother and my father were my friends.
They were their parents. I was scared. I came along.
My dad, they had money. My brothers had got them houses. They were tired by the time you came around.
My daddy had breasts. Who you going to...
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Chapter 7: What advice do Damon and Marlon Wayans have about working with siblings?
Mm-hmm.
And it's all about realizing that we got to love people how they come to us, period. Not just our kids, but all kids. And the notion that we would put people in unfair advantages, put their lives at risk over some nonsense.
Because those are bad people. End of the day, when you are being divisive like that, you are a bad person. Your core is bad. No matter what you do, you're not going to make your way in heaven. My job is to be here to give laughter and to give love and everything. That got to be my intention and will always be. And like I said, I'm a father. That's my baby.
And, you know, I fight with them to the end, period. I love that.
You guys should, I mean, that's just absolutely wonderful. And your parents did such a great job with you. I sound like an old man now. I know, right?
This is how people talk to us.
It's like, you know. It's just, and you love to hear when people tell you unsolicited things about your kids, you know, I know I do. When people come up and say, you know, your son was doing such and such, and he's just such a wonderful kid. And I think for Gina, she's just got to have the confidence to say, Raise them now. Don't be friends with them now.
Raise them now and they'll be great human beings that you can be friends with when they're in their 30s.
You know, our parents were not our friends. They were people who loved us and taught us respect and boundaries and hard work. And I'm not saying this for us, but I'm saying this for people listening. Because I think we get this wrong about what our kids need and want. And our kids need and want guidance, respect, love, discipline. You know, none of that.
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