1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,720 Speaker 1: It's a jezy thing. 2 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:00,960 Speaker 2: Bro. 3 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:03,880 Speaker 1: I was mad for you, Like, I was like, we 4 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:05,000 Speaker 1: you motherfuckers? 5 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:08,080 Speaker 2: Donald fuck yeah, Like I was ready to crash out 6 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:10,840 Speaker 2: on your behalf dog and I'm just like, are you stupid? Like? 7 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 3: Have you have a. 8 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:18,840 Speaker 1: Baby rapper? 9 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 2: What up? 10 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:37,319 Speaker 1: Y'all? 11 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 3: At your boy? 12 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:38,919 Speaker 1: keV on stage? 13 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 4: Welcome to Not My Best Moment Podcast, the podcast where 14 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:45,519 Speaker 4: I talk to artists, athletes, entertainers, and my friends about 15 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 4: their successful failures. Yes, I am a New York Times 16 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 4: bestseller author of Successful Failure. Please get this wherever books 17 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:57,880 Speaker 4: are sold, preferably black on bookstores or indie bookstores. But 18 00:00:57,920 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 4: if you gotta go, visit Amazon to get it. Man, 19 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 4: I got kids in college. I got two kids in college. 20 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 4: Do what you gotta do so I can do what 21 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 4: I gotta do today. I have a very special guest. 22 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 4: Now I ain't giving him his flowers publicly, but I 23 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 4: love to do that right now. 24 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:11,479 Speaker 1: Now. 25 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 4: You may know him as the host of Hot ninety 26 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:16,679 Speaker 4: seven is Morning with Merrill. You may know him as 27 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 4: a co host of Victory Like podcast and a YouTube 28 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:23,640 Speaker 4: based basketball culture show, seven Team in Brooklyn with Carmelo Anthony. 29 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 4: You've also heard his voice on Project like Primos, Hamster 30 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 4: and Gretel all the way back to the Lucas Brothers 31 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:30,240 Speaker 4: Moving Company. 32 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:32,759 Speaker 3: But what you may not know is. 33 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:37,119 Speaker 4: He is a huge inspiration to me, Kevin, because when 34 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 4: he was coming up with his own podcast on MTV 35 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:45,880 Speaker 4: on WECE on Showtime, I was like, if he can 36 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 4: do it, I can do it. I followed in your footsteps. 37 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:49,760 Speaker 1: Mary. 38 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:51,560 Speaker 4: I know I didn't tell you this when I saw 39 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 4: you in New York because I wanted to tell you 40 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 4: here publicly. 41 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 3: You're an inspiration. You're a trailblazer. 42 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 4: He's as funny and cool as he comes across in 43 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 4: person as he is on TV. He really is like that. 44 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 4: Like if you ever wonder if he's like that. Everybody's 45 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:11,000 Speaker 4: not like that. Some people go into a shell, some 46 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:14,960 Speaker 4: people are mean. He is what you think he is. 47 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:17,359 Speaker 4: He's as cool as he comes across. Lady Jones and 48 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:18,960 Speaker 4: please welcome the kid Marrow. 49 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 1: Thank you man. Wow, damn Doug listen, Yo, come on, wow. 50 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I wish you would have 51 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 1: told me that impression. 52 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 4: It's like, I be prepared, I can get you on 53 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 4: the podcast. I was like, Nah'm gonna hold you hostage, right, 54 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 4: I was like. 55 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 1: Get your flowery. You want to make me openly weep 56 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 1: on the internet. 57 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 4: Because man, like we gotta know, bro, Like listen, man, 58 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 4: you It's one thing to see Denzel Washington and Will 59 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:49,080 Speaker 4: Smith do stuff, but that never feels like that makes 60 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 4: me ain Anything they do never feels like it's attainable 61 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:55,639 Speaker 4: for me. But people like you, was like, no, no, no, 62 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 4: this this man my age. He he didn't come up. 63 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:00,360 Speaker 4: He ain't got no fresh prince, he ain't got no movie. 64 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 4: He's he's doing stuff off the strength of his jokes 65 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 4: and the people rocking with him. That's that, that to 66 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:10,959 Speaker 4: me is attainable, Like that's the inspiration, Like, oh, he 67 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,160 Speaker 4: got a show on Showtime. Maybe I can do like 68 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 4: these doing live shows. Maybe I can. You know what 69 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 4: I'm saying. So I gotta tell people, man, we are 70 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 4: each other's inspirations in this world. Uh So I can't 71 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:24,680 Speaker 4: tell Sterne Kate Brown how he inspired me, and I 72 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:25,960 Speaker 4: tell Meryl I can't do it. 73 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 1: Man, dog yo Kevi, you don't know how much I 74 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:28,840 Speaker 1: appreciate that, bro. 75 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 2: And that's not even like like because now the turntables, 76 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. Now I'm watching you and 77 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 2: I'm like, damn, bro, like he like fam and you 78 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 2: know what it is too, like with your with your stuff, Bro, 79 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 2: it's like you never get like sucked into the internet, 80 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 2: you know what I mean? 81 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 1: And like, like what I mean by that is like. 82 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 2: You you know you live your stuff is digital lives online. 83 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 2: Like you're you're killing it, bro, every like you just 84 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 2: I see the book. It's the bestseller, you know what 85 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 2: I mean. 86 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 3: Come on, it's on there, bro. 87 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 1: Hold it up on time and then and then do 88 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 1: like this on the cover. 89 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 2: That's a hardcover book, Bro, that's the best selling hardcover dog. 90 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:18,360 Speaker 2: That's a thirty five dollar purchase right there minimum. Okay, 91 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 2: so you really gotta be down with keV too, you 92 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:24,359 Speaker 2: know what I mean. So like what I'm trying to 93 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 2: say basically is that you do what you do, but 94 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 2: you you remain you, you know what I'm saying, Like 95 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:32,479 Speaker 2: you don't. 96 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 1: Like you know the jezy thing. 97 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 2: Bro? 98 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:37,680 Speaker 1: I was mad for you, Like I was like, Bro. 99 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 2: You motherfuckers Donald fuck yeah, Like I was ready to 100 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:43,280 Speaker 2: crash out on your behalf dog And I'm just like 101 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 2: are you stupid? 102 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 1: Like have you ever die? Baby? 103 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:56,480 Speaker 3: Wrapper? Not just happen to have his shirt? On today. 104 00:04:56,839 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 4: I'm not gonna bully me. I'm always take it further 105 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:02,480 Speaker 4: than you're ever. I'm gonna drag it, bring me pissed off, 106 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 4: I'm gonna drag it. 107 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 1: And and it's brother. You know what's crazy. 108 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 2: What I admire the most is that you drag it, 109 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 2: like with an extreme. 110 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 1: Amount of class, be like you know what I'm saying, 111 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:17,159 Speaker 1: Like you will. 112 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:19,840 Speaker 2: Drag a motherfucker into the depths of hell, back up 113 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 2: and down, sideways, across the freeway, throw them off a cliff, 114 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:27,279 Speaker 2: make it feel like a total dummy, but like be 115 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 2: smilling the whole time, like and just like deliver it 116 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:33,720 Speaker 2: with like yo, like like with an honesty you know 117 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 2: what I'm saying. Like I always said, like the honest art, 118 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:39,680 Speaker 2: and your ship is the most honest art out there man. 119 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:42,919 Speaker 4: And that's honestly where I want to start because I 120 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 4: feel like that is what got you where You've gotten 121 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:51,160 Speaker 4: where you are, and it's gonna take you where you're going. 122 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:53,520 Speaker 4: Like obviously I didn't grow up in New York, but 123 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:55,599 Speaker 4: when when I watch you or listen to you, I'm like, 124 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:58,160 Speaker 4: man that I feel like if I if my grandma 125 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 4: was like, yo, you got a Dominican cousin in New York. 126 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:04,600 Speaker 4: It would be used like this is great, Like that's 127 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 4: what I'm and I think that's what is your allure 128 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 4: to people. It's like, you know, it's kind of similar 129 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:11,719 Speaker 4: to what I think people like about me. It's like, Yo, 130 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 4: this person just feels like. 131 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 3: They're fun to be around. They bring up the energy. 132 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:21,479 Speaker 3: How didd like did you do you feel like that? 133 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:21,880 Speaker 2: Like? 134 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:23,920 Speaker 3: How did you make your way in? 135 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:24,240 Speaker 1: Like? 136 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 4: I know you, you've written you obviously your very personality, 137 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:30,599 Speaker 4: You've been on TV. But in your mind, what do 138 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:32,520 Speaker 4: you think it was about you that that like open 139 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:35,919 Speaker 4: these doors for you in in then traditional media spaces 140 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 4: and traditional media spaces. 141 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:40,719 Speaker 2: Yo, I like to say, like I'm classically trained in 142 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:42,800 Speaker 2: the New York City public school system, you know what 143 00:06:42,839 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 2: I'm saying. Where it's just like you gotta you gotta 144 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:47,920 Speaker 2: be quick on the draw, you know what I mean. 145 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:50,279 Speaker 2: You gotta be quick with a joke or whatever to 146 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:52,640 Speaker 2: spin out of getting beat up or you know what 147 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:55,599 Speaker 2: I mean, whatever type of thing. But really it was 148 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 2: like when I was when I was younger. You know, 149 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:00,800 Speaker 2: I'm the oldest of three little staying Grid and my 150 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:02,960 Speaker 2: little brother Tito, not Jackson. 151 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:08,080 Speaker 1: One of what Tito y'all. Uh, But. 152 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 2: With them, like I was always like getting in trouble, 153 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 2: trying you know what I mean, just trying ship, like 154 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 2: pushing boundaries, and like my mom did not like it 155 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 2: because she wanted me to be like you know, like 156 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 2: my mom was very churchy, you know what I mean, 157 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:27,560 Speaker 2: Like and was just like, yo, listen, you know, uh, 158 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:29,920 Speaker 2: I did not come to this country for you to 159 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:34,240 Speaker 2: be fucking around like this. So tighten up, get your 160 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 2: get your slacks on, and yeah, and the tassele Loafers, 161 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:39,360 Speaker 2: We're going to go listen to a dude playing acoustic 162 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 2: guitar for nine hours in church, Okay. 163 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:44,120 Speaker 1: So you know what I mean. 164 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 2: So like like growing up, like I would get pulled 165 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:49,200 Speaker 2: into a room and like just kind of made to perform, 166 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:50,760 Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. Where it was just like 167 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but like when I was 168 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 2: growing up, like I was doing the pressures of my 169 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 2: uncles and shit like that. And then like you know, 170 00:07:56,920 --> 00:07:58,840 Speaker 2: when the unks get together, they all drinking and fun 171 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 2: CANVASI whatever, you know, whatever it is, and they're just 172 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:04,520 Speaker 2: like chopping it up, talking ship out in the living 173 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 2: room and they be like hey. They will call me 174 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 2: in the room and be like, hey, yo, your uncle, 175 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 2: your uncle diego when he's fucked up, when he's drunk. 176 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 2: What does he sound like? Remember that when we was 177 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:19,080 Speaker 2: at the Eastern Party and you digg got super fucked up? 178 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 2: What was he looking like? 179 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:21,320 Speaker 1: What he sound like? 180 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 2: And then I just go to an impression if yeah, 181 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:29,960 Speaker 2: there's the CARDI you're mad, or but your name is Joy? 182 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 2: Come over here. Let me see you hand, look at 183 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:35,839 Speaker 2: you hang? Look at you how big eas you hang? 184 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 2: You can be beacher F for the Yankee pop. You 185 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:43,559 Speaker 2: have to be bosser like Mike thaisl You can be 186 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:47,600 Speaker 2: bosser and beacher F. And I'm just like, bro, what 187 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:50,240 Speaker 2: they would just they would be dying laughing, and I'm like, 188 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:53,439 Speaker 2: I'm like seven, eight years old. I'm like, bro, what 189 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 2: I was like, I got this room full of grown 190 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 2: ass man who normally would be like yo, go get 191 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:00,319 Speaker 2: me something or you know what I mean, get the 192 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:00,960 Speaker 2: fuck up out of here. 193 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 1: This is like grown men's talking. Now I'm commanding the room. 194 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 1: So I was just like okay, and I was like 195 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 1: that shit felt good, kad. So I was like damn. 196 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:10,320 Speaker 1: I was like I'm making all of y'all. 197 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:13,440 Speaker 2: Laugh, y'all, and this is this that generation of men, 198 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 2: you know, like our dads like that, our generation, like 199 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:19,839 Speaker 2: you know what I mean, likey we came up height, 200 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:21,960 Speaker 2: we have shit, you know what I mean, And they 201 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:25,960 Speaker 2: always just like stone cold ice face, like having a 202 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 2: room full of those dudes that they don't got hands, 203 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:29,679 Speaker 2: they got paws, you know what I mean, because they 204 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 2: got like wrench marks and shit burn marks all over 205 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:34,959 Speaker 2: their hands. And these are the dudes that I got rolling. 206 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:38,000 Speaker 2: So I'm like, oh, I was like okay. I was like, yo, 207 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:41,200 Speaker 2: this is dope. And then like you know, as you 208 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 2: grow whatever, and it took me to get to doing 209 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:47,080 Speaker 2: live stuff, you know, with podagas and all that, and 210 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:50,320 Speaker 2: having people tell me like yo, damn, Like I was 211 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:52,480 Speaker 2: going through chemo and I was listening to your ship 212 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:56,160 Speaker 2: and I laughed in the middle of a chemotherapro session, 213 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:59,719 Speaker 2: which is not fun, you know what I mean. R 214 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:03,520 Speaker 2: medical procedures like breakups, you know what I mean, Like 215 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 2: foul like traumatic life events. You know, people are like yo, 216 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:09,880 Speaker 2: you know, my father passed away last week and I 217 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:12,520 Speaker 2: just been listening to you know, you talk about your pops, 218 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:15,200 Speaker 2: and it reminded me of my pops and it's like 219 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:17,640 Speaker 2: in a weird way like it helps. And I'm like, 220 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:20,960 Speaker 2: damn dog, I don't know what I could what to say, 221 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:22,000 Speaker 2: but thank you. 222 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 1: Fuck me, thank you. You know what I'm saying because 223 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:27,360 Speaker 1: like you know that gives you. 224 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:31,440 Speaker 4: You know, that's so interesting because that's literally how I 225 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:34,360 Speaker 4: came up by. It was just church after church, my 226 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:37,839 Speaker 4: grandma's stoneface, my uncles and them like dude, sister Daniel shout. 227 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 3: They would never laugh in church, but they would be like, 228 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 3: do do that? 229 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 1: Do that? 230 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 4: And I'm like, oh, this is currency for me, Like 231 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:46,200 Speaker 4: y'all are you go to bed, Get out of here, 232 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:48,320 Speaker 4: stay out of grown folks business. But when I'm making 233 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:51,319 Speaker 4: you laugh, I get some stuff that my siblings don't get. 234 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:54,560 Speaker 4: So I locked onto that immediately. So I'm like, I'm 235 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:58,400 Speaker 4: gonna do more of that. See that's why right now 236 00:10:58,480 --> 00:10:58,880 Speaker 4: you got. 237 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:04,200 Speaker 2: He gave us the wit and the funny and like 238 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 2: the idea, Oh. 239 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:14,200 Speaker 4: I just got you now you said, God curses Amadeus bald. 240 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 4: It just came in. He took the hair. 241 00:11:21,559 --> 00:11:25,200 Speaker 3: So okay, So I want to ask you this quickly. 242 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:29,600 Speaker 4: You had a very public breakup with a very public 243 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 4: figure like yourself, and you've talked extensively about that. So 244 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 4: I'm not going to ask you what happened because it's 245 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 4: it's literally on YouTube and stuff. What I'm curious about 246 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:42,480 Speaker 4: is it's been some years now, but that topic never 247 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 4: seems to leave the conversation fully. 248 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:48,640 Speaker 3: How do you deal with that. 249 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:51,920 Speaker 4: When you know you you you've been separated for a 250 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:54,560 Speaker 4: while and you've been doing your own thing for for 251 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:56,960 Speaker 4: some years now, literally some years now? 252 00:11:57,320 --> 00:11:59,559 Speaker 3: Does it ever mess with you? Or do you struggle 253 00:11:59,600 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 3: with it? 254 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:01,679 Speaker 4: Or you just like, man, this is just never gonna 255 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:05,160 Speaker 4: be like people are never gonna let it go. 256 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:07,839 Speaker 3: Or do you feel like maybe that's the impact I had? 257 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:09,360 Speaker 3: Like how does that? How do you respond to that? 258 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:11,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't I don't get mad at it, you 259 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like, I don't you know, I mean. 260 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 1: You know, like you said, it's all it's on the internet. 261 00:12:17,040 --> 00:12:19,840 Speaker 2: It's readily available, so like talking about it gets like, 262 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:23,800 Speaker 2: you know, I hit where's the script at? Like open 263 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:27,560 Speaker 2: up the file like rack them talk file like and 264 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:30,840 Speaker 2: then split it out. But to me, all that says 265 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:34,200 Speaker 2: is that it was impactful. Man, Like you know, Kobe, 266 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:38,400 Speaker 2: rest in peace is no longer with us. Shack is 267 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 2: with us, you know, but in a different physical form, 268 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:42,760 Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying than he was back in 269 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:44,600 Speaker 2: the day. But people still talking about Kobe and Shaq. 270 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:47,439 Speaker 2: Like anytime two people go crazy on anything, what do 271 00:12:47,559 --> 00:12:50,160 Speaker 2: they do? They throw up that that gift of like 272 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 2: that that super cut of Kobe and Shack going crazy 273 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:53,959 Speaker 2: throwing each other lives and dunk it on people and 274 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:57,320 Speaker 2: shit like, So to me, that's. 275 00:12:57,200 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 1: What that was. Like. It was a it was a really. 276 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:03,319 Speaker 2: Impactful like like like almost ten year run, you know 277 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:05,440 Speaker 2: what I'm saying. So to me, I'm like, I'm not 278 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:07,240 Speaker 2: I'm proud of all my work, you know what I mean, 279 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 2: from Victory Light the blog, to Victory Light the production 280 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:14,480 Speaker 2: company like those like that's like, you know, to me, 281 00:13:14,559 --> 00:13:16,040 Speaker 2: that's like full circle, you know what I mean, Because 282 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:19,360 Speaker 2: it started just writing, yeah, and then writing for other people, 283 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:22,480 Speaker 2: and then it turned into all the whole but Dagger Boys, 284 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:26,760 Speaker 2: DNN Ride and then boom, I pop out of that 285 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:29,640 Speaker 2: and I'm like, ya fall right into seven PM of 286 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:33,760 Speaker 2: Brooklyn Momello. You know a lot of other situations start 287 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:37,320 Speaker 2: Victory Light, you know, independently, which was like, you know, 288 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:41,560 Speaker 2: my first kind of forll aight, not not fur into 289 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:44,439 Speaker 2: like doing stuff independently per se, but like doing stuff 290 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:47,319 Speaker 2: independently from like soup to nuts, like a to Z 291 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 2: like everything from like getting the cameras, setting up shots, 292 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:55,080 Speaker 2: getting you know, like somebody that got an eye to 293 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:57,439 Speaker 2: direct and this that you know, and it was like 294 00:13:57,480 --> 00:13:58,079 Speaker 2: a group effort. 295 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:02,400 Speaker 1: But to me, like that was you know, hard work, 296 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 1: you know what I mean that I'm real proud of. 297 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:06,000 Speaker 2: But I'm I'm like, yeah, I'm tired of talking about 298 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 2: it at length, but yeah. 299 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:10,240 Speaker 4: For sure, for sure, That's why I didn't want to 300 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:11,920 Speaker 4: redig that up. But I am curious. I'm glad you 301 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:13,360 Speaker 4: brought out Victory, Like that's the next thing I want 302 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:16,520 Speaker 4: to talk about, right, So to me and I did 303 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:19,360 Speaker 4: Victory Live one of the funnest times I've ever had 304 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:23,320 Speaker 4: on a podcast. I mean, the group is just Rainy 305 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:27,120 Speaker 4: Liz Belle and even your team behind the cameras, you know, 306 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:31,240 Speaker 4: all great. So I'm curious about what it's like right 307 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 4: to be. You know, we'll talk about Hot ninety seven. 308 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:36,600 Speaker 4: You got seven peop in Brooklyn, but you also have 309 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 4: your own thing, right and your own thing that you're 310 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 4: if not financing, Holy You're the engine behind that. Some 311 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:48,040 Speaker 4: people don't do that. They just go from like gig 312 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 4: to gig, you know, thing to thing. They work the jobs. 313 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:54,360 Speaker 4: But because building your own thing is tough. So what 314 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 4: made you feel like even though your career really has 315 00:14:57,080 --> 00:14:59,240 Speaker 4: seemed to just continue to rise, be like, nah, I 316 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:03,080 Speaker 4: got to get my own podcasts going and or build 317 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:05,320 Speaker 4: my own brand out my own name. You'd be wearing 318 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:09,520 Speaker 4: the victory light fitteds all the time. What made you 319 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 4: be like, nah, I gotta keep this thing going, I 320 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 4: gotta build this up like it was something in your 321 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:15,000 Speaker 4: career was just like a dream. 322 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:16,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I feel like it was. 323 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:18,920 Speaker 2: It's like a natural progression, you know what I mean, 324 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,080 Speaker 2: Like like I'm seeing you like this is what I 325 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 2: was talking about before, Like not too glazy, because I'm 326 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 2: gonna keep going back to like using you as like 327 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:29,640 Speaker 2: the as the comparison, Like you got the book right, 328 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:30,880 Speaker 2: like you just wrote. 329 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:32,240 Speaker 1: The bestseller, you know what I mean. 330 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:35,400 Speaker 2: Like you're doing a lot of different mediums right, and 331 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:37,400 Speaker 2: it's just like at a certain point it's like, all right, bro, 332 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:39,360 Speaker 2: I wrote a book, I did a TV show, I 333 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:42,240 Speaker 2: did a movie, I did a podcast, I did stand 334 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:45,160 Speaker 2: up I tour. I did a group show, like you know, 335 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:48,080 Speaker 2: you just checking things off your list of like you 336 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 2: know kind of like like personal challenges, you know what 337 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:53,280 Speaker 2: I mean, Like, Yo, can I do this? Like like 338 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 2: like I'm confident in myself? Like I know, I'm funny, 339 00:15:55,720 --> 00:15:58,560 Speaker 2: you know what I mean? Like some most of the time, 340 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 2: like I'm confident in myself. But that's another you know, 341 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:02,840 Speaker 2: tangent of the conversation. 342 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 1: But you know, like the the. 343 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:08,640 Speaker 2: Desire to be like yo, I want to help other 344 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 2: people get to where I got and like avoid all 345 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:16,720 Speaker 2: the potholes and shit that I hit on the way up, 346 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 2: you know, and like just kind of it sounds kind 347 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:22,200 Speaker 2: of lame, but like just protecting like you know, upcoming 348 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:24,680 Speaker 2: talent like like Liz and Rainey is a great example, 349 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:25,240 Speaker 2: you know what I mean. 350 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:28,120 Speaker 1: Like like you, it's not lame, bro. 351 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 2: Like you know, I'm from New York, so I gotta 352 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,000 Speaker 2: like preface everything with that because that's crazy. 353 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:34,400 Speaker 1: Yo. 354 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:37,040 Speaker 2: You a wild dick rider son, That's crazy, Yo, This 355 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 2: motherfucker want to help people. 356 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:41,120 Speaker 1: That's crazy, Yo. This nigga is a dick rider. 357 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:45,000 Speaker 2: Oh d I ain't helping nobody, bro, It's doggy dog 358 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:47,640 Speaker 2: out here. You bugging, Bro. We from the brotop it. Bro, 359 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:50,080 Speaker 2: We eat cigarette butts out here when we're hungry. It's 360 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:52,440 Speaker 2: not a game out here, man, cut it out. Like 361 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:53,480 Speaker 2: still talking about. 362 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 1: Helping people, Bro, you crazy nigga, who you jesus forgot here? 363 00:16:58,000 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 1: That's how it be, Bro. So you gotta like kind 364 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:00,760 Speaker 1: of preface. 365 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 4: I remember you were telling me that I'm like Bro, 366 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 4: New York creates some hard individuals. 367 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 3: I got you're talking about basic. I want to help 368 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:10,480 Speaker 3: up in cover of people. But like you know what I'm. 369 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:15,000 Speaker 2: Saying, not like that like yo, you know, but yeah, 370 00:17:15,080 --> 00:17:17,439 Speaker 2: nah man, it was that desire of like, you know, 371 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:20,560 Speaker 2: like I want to see you know, the next wave 372 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:24,240 Speaker 2: of people, Like I love watching other people do their thing, 373 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:26,919 Speaker 2: you know what I mean? Like, you know, it'd be 374 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:28,800 Speaker 2: crazy if I just sitting up here watching my own ship, 375 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:31,399 Speaker 2: like I hate, Like I don't get me wrong, Like 376 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:33,000 Speaker 2: I'll sit here and smoke a whole blunt of the 377 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:34,960 Speaker 2: dome and be like I forgot I said that whole 378 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:38,480 Speaker 2: riff about being barefoot on airplanes. That shit was funny 379 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:40,320 Speaker 2: as hell. Let me watch it again, and last you 380 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:44,680 Speaker 2: know what I mean. So but the magic of marijuana. 381 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:48,239 Speaker 2: But you know the but really it was like I 382 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:50,679 Speaker 2: want to I want to produce. I want to do 383 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:55,120 Speaker 2: you know, things where I'm kind of like guiding other 384 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:57,280 Speaker 2: talent as opposed to like being the guy in front 385 00:17:57,280 --> 00:17:58,280 Speaker 2: of the camera all the time. 386 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:00,160 Speaker 1: Got it. 387 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:02,840 Speaker 4: So let's go back to that thing about confidence. You 388 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:04,440 Speaker 4: said you didn't want to go off in the tangent, 389 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:08,120 Speaker 4: but I do. Are you not always confident in your 390 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:10,520 Speaker 4: in yourself and you're in your in your comedy? 391 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:11,600 Speaker 3: What's that? 392 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:15,520 Speaker 1: Well? I am, you know, but it's just like, you know, 393 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:17,560 Speaker 1: like I'm a human being, keV. You know what I'm saying. 394 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:19,679 Speaker 2: Like sometimes you know, you read the comments and I 395 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:20,960 Speaker 2: was just like, yo, let me just stay here. 396 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:23,359 Speaker 1: It's like it looks better than lighting is nicer, So 397 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 1: let me turn on his dumb shit right here, this 398 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:26,760 Speaker 1: content creator. 399 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:28,160 Speaker 2: Credit rather, you know what I'm saying, Like, I'll do 400 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:29,720 Speaker 2: some shit and I'll be like, now you got to 401 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:31,879 Speaker 2: rewrite that, bro, you gotta rewrite that. That's gonna hit 402 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:34,360 Speaker 2: way harder if you do this. This is a funnier 403 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:36,919 Speaker 2: verb than that. Put that in there. Switch it up. 404 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:40,960 Speaker 2: You said this and it got a ha if you 405 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:43,640 Speaker 2: replace it with this and this, and you tinker it'll 406 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:47,840 Speaker 2: get it, ah, you know laugh, So you know like that, 407 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:51,560 Speaker 2: So if I already have that like that kernel in 408 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:55,000 Speaker 2: my head and somebody's like, yo, that shit was corny 409 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:58,720 Speaker 2: as foot at six eighteen timestamp, and I'm like, I'm 410 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:02,240 Speaker 2: in a time stap like now I'm studying it like 411 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:05,239 Speaker 2: game film, you know what i mean. Like, so you know, 412 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:08,000 Speaker 2: that's where I feel like the little confidence takes a 413 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 2: hit because I'm looking at it like, yo, you could 414 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:13,760 Speaker 2: always be better, you know what I'm saying, Like nobody's perfect, 415 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:15,480 Speaker 2: but you're always being better, you know. 416 00:19:16,359 --> 00:19:19,080 Speaker 1: And that's what it is. I'm not trying to be perfect, 417 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:21,240 Speaker 1: but trying to just always be. 418 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:23,720 Speaker 4: And the thing is, in your business you're not even 419 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:27,480 Speaker 4: like yeah, you're not performing stand up like most of 420 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:31,919 Speaker 4: the stuff you are the radio podcast you are riffing 421 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:34,679 Speaker 4: in real time. So this is just the stuff that's 422 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:37,199 Speaker 4: like almost stream of consciousness stuff like obviously, if you 423 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:40,160 Speaker 4: prepared a bit, you have time. But it's like when 424 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:42,040 Speaker 4: people are watching, they can always think of the funnier 425 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 4: thing because they can watch it, you know, they can 426 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:47,199 Speaker 4: think of what you miss or you're actually just doing it. 427 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:50,760 Speaker 4: You don't have that ability to think of every funny 428 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:52,840 Speaker 4: thing you could have said also and do it in 429 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:54,680 Speaker 4: real time and not have no dead air. 430 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:57,720 Speaker 2: Right, And that's the thing dead air is like, is 431 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:06,120 Speaker 2: death like radio on podcasts that prolonged. Uh yeah, So 432 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:11,360 Speaker 2: I'm like, boops, I'm switching stations now like this. 433 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:14,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, hey guys, taking a quick commercial break. 434 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:15,520 Speaker 3: We'll be right back. 435 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:38,720 Speaker 4: So I have a one question that I'm going to 436 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:41,280 Speaker 4: go back to or go to your radio thing. I 437 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:44,520 Speaker 4: asked a lot of my friends this, in five years 438 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 4: or ten years, if everything went well in your career 439 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:50,199 Speaker 4: and it or even surpassure widest dreams, what does it 440 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:52,920 Speaker 4: look like in five years for you with victory life. 441 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:55,400 Speaker 3: Or your career overall? 442 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:57,800 Speaker 2: Like I always used to say, Like I used to 443 00:20:57,840 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 2: say this all the time. I haven't said it in years, 444 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:03,119 Speaker 2: but like just kind of like being like you know, 445 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 2: the dick wolf of the hood, you know what I'm saying. 446 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:10,840 Speaker 2: Like where like if you if you are a talented 447 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:15,719 Speaker 2: person that doesn't have that access to like Hollywood, like 448 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 2: the machine, you know what I'm saying, And like cause 449 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:20,720 Speaker 2: those it's it really been like that, like those rooms 450 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:23,359 Speaker 2: are those doors are closed in those rooms, Like somebody 451 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:25,480 Speaker 2: gotta let you in, you know, and if you're not 452 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:28,320 Speaker 2: with one of them big three letter agencies, you know, 453 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:29,359 Speaker 2: it's hard to do that. 454 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 1: So I'm like, yo, if I. 455 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:36,000 Speaker 2: Can build my you know, like star big enough that 456 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:38,960 Speaker 2: you know people listen to me, They're gonna listen to 457 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:41,240 Speaker 2: me when I say, Yo, you know this dude Kevi 458 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:43,439 Speaker 2: on stage? Yeah, I know we both balled and you 459 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:45,440 Speaker 2: think we owe this shit, but like he's funny as fuck, 460 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:49,639 Speaker 2: Like listen, trust me, Like did you did you like 461 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:52,520 Speaker 2: what I did? Well, wait till you got a load 462 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:55,280 Speaker 2: of this motherfucker because he's twenty times funnier, bro, trust me, 463 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:58,240 Speaker 2: and I'm willing to put my name on it as 464 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:01,239 Speaker 2: an executive producer. That's how No, that's how good I 465 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:04,560 Speaker 2: know this shit is. So you know, being crazy because 466 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:07,359 Speaker 2: Rainie is like that for me, Rainy was like that. 467 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:09,080 Speaker 2: I just saw you talking to him on Twitter and 468 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:10,600 Speaker 2: I was like, oh, I follow him. You know if 469 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:14,119 Speaker 2: he's cool with marriage, probably funny. And then I saw 470 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:18,360 Speaker 2: before the way too many Jamens in the NBA. 471 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:20,199 Speaker 4: After I did your podcast, I said, oh, let me 472 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:22,439 Speaker 4: do a deep dive on Liz Baal and Rainie I 473 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:24,320 Speaker 4: go to watch his on the radar and I'm like, 474 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:30,479 Speaker 4: hold on, hold on, he's a full on musician, rapping 475 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:35,080 Speaker 4: and singing in Spanish like I'm tripping. And then a 476 00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:37,399 Speaker 4: week or two after that, maybe a few weeks, the 477 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:40,399 Speaker 4: way too many James in the NBA drops and I'm like, Okay, 478 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:44,000 Speaker 4: this person is like killing are you? Do you feel 479 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,080 Speaker 4: a sense of pride if you weren't from New York? 480 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:48,159 Speaker 4: Would you feel a sense of priety from Saint Louis? 481 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:50,200 Speaker 1: Yo? 482 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:54,160 Speaker 2: Even being from New York, I'm super proud of those two. 483 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:54,520 Speaker 1: Man. 484 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 2: It's because Yo and I tell like you know, And 485 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:01,200 Speaker 2: again it goes back to the to the big bro 486 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:06,639 Speaker 2: kind of like guidance thing, where with Rainy, Rainy is 487 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 2: like an artist, like you know, like. 488 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:13,240 Speaker 1: Artists. 489 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:16,480 Speaker 4: Yes, for sure, head tattooed you. You are an artist. 490 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:19,399 Speaker 4: You you don't care about nothing else. I'm doing my art. 491 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:20,000 Speaker 4: I will die. 492 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,359 Speaker 3: I'm not getting a regular job. No, I'm an artist. 493 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:22,960 Speaker 3: Too bad? 494 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:25,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, too bad, Mom, you wanted me to be an orthodontist. 495 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:28,720 Speaker 1: I don't care. I'm rappid. 496 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:35,160 Speaker 2: But with him, I'm like I always tell him, I'm like, yo, 497 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:39,399 Speaker 2: fam yo, I don't think you understand how funny you 498 00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:44,280 Speaker 2: are when you are just on and being funny, and 499 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:46,800 Speaker 2: I was just like, yo, you know cause like he's 500 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:49,520 Speaker 2: he's voiced, like frustrations about music and like how his 501 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:51,840 Speaker 2: music and don't take off and this that, And I 502 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:55,399 Speaker 2: was like, yo, fam, that's listen. That is just a 503 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:57,360 Speaker 2: matter of time, you know what I'm saying. But like 504 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:00,199 Speaker 2: when you lead with the funny, I was like, you know, 505 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:02,399 Speaker 2: you gotta you gotta, you gotta Donald Glover it bro, 506 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:06,479 Speaker 2: Like you know, Donald Glover was a comedian first, and 507 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:10,480 Speaker 2: then Childish Gambino emerged from you know, oh we all. 508 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:13,120 Speaker 1: Love Donald Glover, like he's so funny, so like you know, 509 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:15,120 Speaker 1: like his his like. 510 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:17,719 Speaker 2: Everything, we love him so like anything that he's putting out, 511 00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:20,080 Speaker 2: we're gonna we're gonna check for it. So I told him, 512 00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:22,640 Speaker 2: I was like, listen, man, if you lead with the funny, 513 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:24,920 Speaker 2: it's gonna kill. And I'm not saying like do no 514 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,160 Speaker 2: crazy like do a whole album like weird aut shit, 515 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 2: but like you know what I mean, But like. 516 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,480 Speaker 1: The Jalens thing is like a Belgian cat. 517 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:33,920 Speaker 3: Soca Cat did the same thing. 518 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:36,280 Speaker 4: Like that introduced a lot of us to her and 519 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:38,160 Speaker 4: then we were like oh dang, oh no, she really 520 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:41,560 Speaker 4: makes music for real, She's really a writer. She wasn't 521 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:44,200 Speaker 4: making seven move songs. She just was like that was 522 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:46,919 Speaker 4: enough to get your attention. And then she built the 523 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:47,720 Speaker 4: fan based off that. 524 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:51,359 Speaker 2: Right, That's exactly what I told him, and like, you know, 525 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:55,320 Speaker 2: and again, but like, I'm super proud of both of 526 00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:57,919 Speaker 2: them because Liz Bell too, Like she was like a 527 00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:01,640 Speaker 2: little hesitant right like with the kind of like improving 528 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:04,760 Speaker 2: and like riffing like on the Spot and stuff like that. 529 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:08,960 Speaker 2: And Yo, she's gotten, like you know, to a point 530 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,359 Speaker 2: where I'm on your show man, like. 531 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,760 Speaker 4: She's brilliant and what I like about her And I 532 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,160 Speaker 4: found this in the moment. I wasn't familiar with her 533 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:20,240 Speaker 4: prior I met her at the podcast and she put 534 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 4: up on my show, and I think this is what 535 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:25,439 Speaker 4: audience is like. There's an authenticity to her that is 536 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:29,760 Speaker 4: your homegirl who just is funny but also don't play 537 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:34,240 Speaker 4: too much, not too much. 538 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:35,640 Speaker 3: But we all got. 539 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:38,159 Speaker 4: Homegirls like that, like and immedia Like, that's what I 540 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:40,600 Speaker 4: think people like about podcasts. We don't need people to 541 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:44,160 Speaker 4: be polished and prepped and presented to us by the networks. 542 00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:46,679 Speaker 4: We need people we feel like. I want to feel 543 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:50,800 Speaker 4: like I'm listening to my homies chop it up, and 544 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:52,080 Speaker 4: that's what she brings. 545 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,119 Speaker 3: Like, Oh that's man, that's I got a homegirl. Just 546 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:54,399 Speaker 3: like that. 547 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:57,760 Speaker 4: It's so interesting that you feel like if I was 548 00:25:57,840 --> 00:25:59,480 Speaker 4: raised in New York, I could have kicked it with 549 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 4: y'all in the Bronx, and I probably would. 550 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:04,440 Speaker 3: I'll be smoking weed because it just probably would be 551 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 3: what I have to do to fit in it. 552 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:08,320 Speaker 1: It would just hey, you know what I mean. 553 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 4: I'm drinking EJ and I'm putting I'm putting cigarettes in 554 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:17,440 Speaker 4: refrigerator cold, which is crazy, Meryl. I gotta remind you 555 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:21,239 Speaker 4: just cold cigarette. They may already got men, though, how 556 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:22,879 Speaker 4: much colder do you need them to be? 557 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,440 Speaker 2: Like listen like like the Internet likes to say, Kevi, 558 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:29,040 Speaker 2: if you're from Atlanta, you should know. 559 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:31,840 Speaker 1: I like him. 560 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:35,159 Speaker 2: I like him cooling in the polar bears toenails, like 561 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:36,200 Speaker 2: Big Boy said. 562 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:38,120 Speaker 3: I love that. 563 00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:41,080 Speaker 4: All right, let me ask you this, did you ever 564 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:43,640 Speaker 4: because it's far I mean, it's been years since I've 565 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:45,960 Speaker 4: been following you, But in your own life, did you 566 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:49,120 Speaker 4: ever foresee any other career? Or was it always this 567 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:50,119 Speaker 4: or some version of this? 568 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:51,040 Speaker 1: Yo? 569 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:55,280 Speaker 2: I honestly keV man, listen, I don't know like how 570 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,080 Speaker 2: similar we I mean, we talk, you know what I'm saying, 571 00:26:58,080 --> 00:26:59,840 Speaker 2: but like like I don't think we got a p 572 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:01,600 Speaker 2: chapter of the book yet. 573 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:02,720 Speaker 1: But my parents were. 574 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:08,720 Speaker 2: As parents, they were not like you're gonna do what, motherfucker, like, no, 575 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:10,440 Speaker 2: you do that in the living room when you're making 576 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:13,280 Speaker 2: fun of your uncle, like as a job, get the 577 00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:14,080 Speaker 2: fuck out of here. 578 00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:17,760 Speaker 1: So I was teaching, you know, like my mom got me. 579 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:20,160 Speaker 1: My mom, Actually this is yo. This is this thing 580 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:21,320 Speaker 1: in New York called The Chief. 581 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:27,040 Speaker 2: It's like a newspaper that has like every like municipal 582 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:31,240 Speaker 2: job listing in it, so like fire department, you know, 583 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:35,720 Speaker 2: police department's sanitation port authority, all that stuff, and it 584 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:39,880 Speaker 2: tells you like when the testing is, when the application data, 585 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:40,440 Speaker 2: all that. 586 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:40,959 Speaker 1: Type of stuff. 587 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,600 Speaker 2: And she would just give me that shit like, yo, motherfucker, 588 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,680 Speaker 2: just apply to everything in this bitch. And then I'm 589 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:49,720 Speaker 2: just like damn yo, And I'm like in my head, 590 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:51,199 Speaker 2: cap I'm forty two years old, my mom. 591 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:52,600 Speaker 1: I still won't smoke with in front of my mom. 592 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:53,680 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. 593 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 2: R Nah, not in front of my mom, bro, No, no, 594 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:00,720 Speaker 2: because she's like at this point she won't smack me, 595 00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:06,360 Speaker 2: but she'll just like she'll just be like I the disappointed, yeah, 596 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:12,760 Speaker 2: and I'd rather get smacked. They get that ight, you 597 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:14,919 Speaker 2: know what I mean. It's just like it's like the 598 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,600 Speaker 2: disappointment hit it hurts more, you know what I mean. 599 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:21,399 Speaker 2: Like I was like, it was like, yo, it reminds 600 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:24,240 Speaker 2: me like when like when Dave Dash was a breakfast 601 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:27,399 Speaker 2: club and he said Charlamagne was gay and Charlamagne was like, 602 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,920 Speaker 2: I'm not gay and Dave Dash was like you are. 603 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:35,840 Speaker 1: Just like that, like you are man, and it's just 604 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:36,680 Speaker 1: like disappointment. 605 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:36,840 Speaker 3: Bro. 606 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,600 Speaker 1: It's just like yo, like come on, stop live your truth, man, 607 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:42,280 Speaker 1: like stop lying, you know what I mean? Like that, 608 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:43,480 Speaker 1: and that's the feeling I got. 609 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:46,320 Speaker 2: I was like damn mon, likeamn, like yo, hit me, 610 00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:50,080 Speaker 2: like I'll go get the belt like here, whoop my ass, 611 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:51,600 Speaker 2: like make me smoke. 612 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,080 Speaker 1: A whole pack of cigarettes, you know, whatever the fuck 613 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:55,080 Speaker 1: used to do back in the day. 614 00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:59,120 Speaker 2: But man, but yeah, no, but like so yes, like 615 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,600 Speaker 2: we definitely like so my parents were very serious. 616 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:03,440 Speaker 1: They were not with that shit at all. 617 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:07,600 Speaker 2: But you know, I ended up doing a border bad 618 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:09,840 Speaker 2: going working as a teacher. 619 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:12,720 Speaker 1: And this is crazy because people like they hear that 620 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:15,840 Speaker 1: and they're like, oh, like, oh, yo, you like you 621 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,040 Speaker 1: for the youth, like you love kids. And I'm like, yeah, 622 00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:20,600 Speaker 1: I love my kids, motherfucker. 623 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:25,520 Speaker 2: Like like, you know, I'm I'm generally pro kid. You 624 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:28,160 Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, Like, I'm pro kid like kids 625 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:31,040 Speaker 2: are great. You know what I'm saying, blessing, bless them 626 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:32,920 Speaker 2: from God. You know what I'm saying, like, of course, 627 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:35,880 Speaker 2: you know, cherish my babies of the world. You know, 628 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:38,440 Speaker 2: I believe that the future teacher will let them lead 629 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:42,320 Speaker 2: the way, et cetera. But Yo, I'm working in the 630 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:46,600 Speaker 2: South Bronx like, and I took the job because they 631 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:50,280 Speaker 2: don't piss test. And once I started working as a teacher, 632 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:54,560 Speaker 2: I realized why you know what. 633 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:59,160 Speaker 4: I'm saying, Because Carol, they we know how kind of 634 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:01,560 Speaker 4: these kids are. You got to have something, y'all. You 635 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:02,920 Speaker 4: gotta have something. 636 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:07,240 Speaker 2: You need a nightcap after eight hours in the trenches 637 00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:11,240 Speaker 2: with kids in the South Bronx. Cav Okay, like them 638 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:13,960 Speaker 2: kids is grown. They come in their sixth grade and look, 639 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,640 Speaker 2: I had a professor in college. Tell me, yo, I've 640 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:22,840 Speaker 2: taught every level. I've taught from K through twelve to college. 641 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:26,600 Speaker 2: He's like, if you want to teach, do not teach 642 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:29,840 Speaker 2: you in high school. It's the worst. And I was 643 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:34,160 Speaker 2: like why He's like, because they come in at sixth 644 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:37,240 Speaker 2: grade and they ten eleven years old, and they little kids. 645 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:39,840 Speaker 2: By the time they get to eighth grade. They like 646 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:42,480 Speaker 2: we in the hood. They fucking they smoking weed. They 647 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:46,280 Speaker 2: think they're grown like they are outside. They jumped off 648 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:48,480 Speaker 2: the porch, you know what I'm saying. So it's like 649 00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:51,720 Speaker 2: a crazy mix, Like you'll have a class of ten 650 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,920 Speaker 2: of those like me, me, me kids with holding a 651 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:56,440 Speaker 2: little little boo boo, and then you got you know 652 00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:00,680 Speaker 2: what I'm saying, like jose and Trommel over there playing 653 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:02,800 Speaker 2: with a butterfly knight for shit, like a home new class. 654 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,600 Speaker 2: So I'm just like, oh, like this shit is different, 655 00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:07,400 Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like I gotta hit the 656 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,280 Speaker 2: zie when I get home, brocause I gotta you know, 657 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,520 Speaker 2: I gotta lock in for the next day, like you know, 658 00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:16,080 Speaker 2: and be kind. You know what I'm saying, Like that 659 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 2: shit taught me patient and like you know, I had 660 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:21,760 Speaker 2: PD's for the patients, but you know, and a lot 661 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:23,240 Speaker 2: of them kids still call me to this day. 662 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:23,400 Speaker 1: Bro. 663 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:26,520 Speaker 2: I think I forgot I said this ship or if 664 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,000 Speaker 2: I just said it hanging out. But I had a 665 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:33,200 Speaker 2: kid who I taught, like you know, la years laid 666 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:37,360 Speaker 2: it down the line, be like yo, yo yo, mister y'all, Matt, 667 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:41,320 Speaker 2: proud of you. One nigga like Yo, you're doing your thing, Yo, yo, 668 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:44,360 Speaker 2: your crib is ill, Like yo yo, you think I 669 00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:45,800 Speaker 2: can shoot a video at your crib? 670 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:46,880 Speaker 1: And I was. 671 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:50,600 Speaker 2: Like, like a rap video and he was like yeah, 672 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:52,040 Speaker 2: And I was like, all right. 673 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,080 Speaker 1: Fuck it. So I'm in a rap video of one 674 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:59,400 Speaker 1: of my former students, bro shot the Lord Stunner. Yeah. 675 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:11,880 Speaker 1: I thought of linking the chat real talk. 676 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:14,840 Speaker 3: Oh my god, amazing. 677 00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:15,760 Speaker 1: Yeah. Man. 678 00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:19,680 Speaker 2: So you know, oh my god, a lot of years 679 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:23,960 Speaker 2: in the border bead teaching, and so the whole entertainment 680 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,440 Speaker 2: thing ended up happening kind of like by accident because 681 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:30,120 Speaker 2: I would just you know, as I'm teaching, like my 682 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,960 Speaker 2: homegirl at the time, Crystal hit me up and was like, Yo, 683 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,200 Speaker 2: this is this thing called Twitter, Like it's perfect for 684 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,680 Speaker 2: you because you are You'll be fried and you'll tell 685 00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:41,200 Speaker 2: a joke and then tell a joke that got nothing 686 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,640 Speaker 2: to do with the joke you just told. Within two minutes, 687 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,680 Speaker 2: of each other. And that's Twitter, you know what I'm saying. 688 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:48,480 Speaker 2: I was just like, what's the fuck is Twitter? 689 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:48,840 Speaker 3: Yeah? 690 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:50,800 Speaker 2: Because I didn't have like one of these. I had 691 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:52,760 Speaker 2: like the joint that you you know what I mean. 692 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:55,440 Speaker 2: You gotta flip it open, right, you know what I mean. 693 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:57,520 Speaker 2: So in order to tweet, I had to tend the 694 00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:58,600 Speaker 2: text message. 695 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:02,760 Speaker 4: To four zero four zero four and was really getting 696 00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:05,240 Speaker 4: it out the mud early days. 697 00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:06,480 Speaker 1: Yeah nasty. 698 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:10,280 Speaker 2: So you know after doing that and then you know, 699 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:14,280 Speaker 2: starting to write victory like like that's where I felt like, Okay, 700 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:16,720 Speaker 2: I was like I started like just paying, like. 701 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:18,240 Speaker 1: I called it digitally panhandling. 702 00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:20,320 Speaker 2: Like I was like, if your niggas think I'm funny 703 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,960 Speaker 2: on Twitter, please just paypound me twenty dollars, bro, because 704 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,640 Speaker 2: I don't got no wee Like I'm broke. I make 705 00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:29,600 Speaker 2: twenty three thousand dollars a year after the taxes, so 706 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:33,680 Speaker 2: I don't have money for luxuries, okay, so help me 707 00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:38,080 Speaker 2: out and people will PayPal me like it wasn't nothing crazy, 708 00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:41,000 Speaker 2: Like niggas, pay have me fifteen dollars or twenty. 709 00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:42,480 Speaker 1: He'll be like, yo, go get you a double hates 710 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:46,719 Speaker 1: sour bro. And I'm like that's it. I'm good like 711 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:50,560 Speaker 1: I that's it. I just I made it like I 712 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,960 Speaker 1: could have stayed right there. Kevin been like, yo, we're good. 713 00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:55,560 Speaker 2: All I gotta do Togein we is go to the 714 00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:59,520 Speaker 2: internet act strangers like I'm straight, you know what I mean, 715 00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:01,400 Speaker 2: my wife and yelling at me because I'm spending money 716 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:03,240 Speaker 2: on you know, frivolously whatever. 717 00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:07,760 Speaker 3: You know, right, that's that's hilarious. 718 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:10,799 Speaker 4: So what was the Was there an actual moment which 719 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:12,160 Speaker 4: you were like, oh my god, I can quit my 720 00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:13,840 Speaker 4: job or was it like more gradual? 721 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:15,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, so it was. 722 00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:19,120 Speaker 2: I tell you the exact moment, and it goes back 723 00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:22,680 Speaker 2: to the teaching thing because I'm like, you know, my 724 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,200 Speaker 2: dad always used to tell me, like, Yo, don't ever, 725 00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:32,480 Speaker 2: ever ever quit a job until you already done onboarder 726 00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:35,360 Speaker 2: to your new job. You know what I'm saying, Like, 727 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,520 Speaker 2: like you a week away from from your first check 728 00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:38,400 Speaker 2: from this job. 729 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:40,040 Speaker 1: Then you could quit this other job, right. 730 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:45,520 Speaker 2: So I interviewed the MTV, you know, like a bunch 731 00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:48,600 Speaker 2: of people over there, Shata de Ra Cook, you know 732 00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:52,400 Speaker 2: what I mean, Like, man, I can't even remember these 733 00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:55,040 Speaker 2: people's names. It's like twenty eleven, you know what, I'm saying, 734 00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:58,520 Speaker 2: so I get it, Like I meet with these people, 735 00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:03,799 Speaker 2: right and Yo, the whole Bronx hustler shit jumped out 736 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,400 Speaker 2: because I'm sitting with this dude and this is like, 737 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:10,120 Speaker 2: you know, like a like a tall executive white man 738 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:14,560 Speaker 2: Viacom executive dude. And this motherfucker got on flip flops 739 00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:19,279 Speaker 2: at our meeting, and I'm just like, this. 740 00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:21,440 Speaker 1: Nigga's wearing flip flops. Baby. I was like, I can 741 00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:23,359 Speaker 1: spin this motherfucker, you know what I'm saying. 742 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,680 Speaker 2: So I don't know what it was, but like him 743 00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:27,960 Speaker 2: exposing his toes to me before we knew each other, 744 00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:32,000 Speaker 2: I was like, this dude is manipulatable, you know what 745 00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:35,560 Speaker 2: I'm saying. So we would. So we just started talking 746 00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:37,920 Speaker 2: and he's just like, hey, man, like just asking me 747 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,279 Speaker 2: questions like Yo, do you write, you know? And I 748 00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:41,880 Speaker 2: was like, yeah, I've written a bunch of stuff, like 749 00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:44,680 Speaker 2: I've written for other comedians, I've written for I've written 750 00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:47,640 Speaker 2: other shows that you know I've sold and da da 751 00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:51,120 Speaker 2: da da da. Actually I got five shows ready to 752 00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:53,960 Speaker 2: go right now, like character Bibles, the whole nine. I 753 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:56,440 Speaker 2: got a reality joint, I got this, I got that 754 00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:58,000 Speaker 2: keV I ain't have shit. 755 00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:03,520 Speaker 1: I had one shh written, one scripted show written. 756 00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:07,080 Speaker 2: But I went in there and said that ship with 757 00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:08,960 Speaker 2: my whole chest, bro, And I was like, Nigga, were 758 00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:10,000 Speaker 2: gonna figure this shit out later. 759 00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:11,840 Speaker 1: We just got to get in the door, you know 760 00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:12,319 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. 761 00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:15,359 Speaker 2: Because this fucking white man got the ticket to that 762 00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:18,680 Speaker 2: building on in Times Square where they did t r O, 763 00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:22,480 Speaker 2: and you're gonna get up in there and and fucking 764 00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:25,080 Speaker 2: make shit happen, bro, like Mashap making shake. 765 00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:26,399 Speaker 1: So I went in there. 766 00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,200 Speaker 2: I finissed the white man and I was like, Yo, listen, 767 00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:31,960 Speaker 2: white man, let me tell you something. I'm ready, I'm 768 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:33,960 Speaker 2: loaded for bear. I will make you look like a 769 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:38,080 Speaker 2: motherfucking genius. Just pay me, you know what I mean. 770 00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:42,719 Speaker 2: And then the whole negotiation shit started and bro keV. 771 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:46,960 Speaker 2: I'll be real with you, I A never ever, ever 772 00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:51,000 Speaker 2: been offered six figures to do anything at this point 773 00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,160 Speaker 2: in my life, you know what I'm saying. That was legal, 774 00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:58,400 Speaker 2: you know. And I was just like, Yo, this is crazy. 775 00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:00,000 Speaker 2: And then they were like, Yo, but there's no benefit. 776 00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:01,719 Speaker 2: Do's no health insurance, there's none of that. And I 777 00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:05,680 Speaker 2: was like, I was like, I got a wife for kids, bro, 778 00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:10,080 Speaker 2: Like I need that. So then I negotiated sure, whatever 779 00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:13,319 Speaker 2: it would cost me to pay out of pocket and 780 00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,279 Speaker 2: they were like yeah, sure, no doubt, Yeah, no problem man, 781 00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:18,319 Speaker 2: no problem man. And I just like the way they 782 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:19,240 Speaker 2: folded so fast. 783 00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,120 Speaker 1: In my mind, I was like, bro, you probably should 784 00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:23,279 Speaker 1: have asked for double what the podcast for? You know 785 00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:23,719 Speaker 1: what I mean? 786 00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:26,959 Speaker 3: They just have faster Yeah. 787 00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:30,640 Speaker 2: Yeah. I was like, okay, uh uh ship, but we're 788 00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:33,400 Speaker 2: here now. And I was like, I'm I'm so, I 789 00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:35,080 Speaker 2: tell you when I really felt like I made a kid. 790 00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:38,480 Speaker 2: I got the job there and then TV, and I 791 00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:40,839 Speaker 2: wasn't really doing that. I wasn't doing nothing like they didn't. 792 00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:43,319 Speaker 2: They didn't hire me and say hey, we're gonna put 793 00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:45,319 Speaker 2: you on this show, like you're gonna you know, you're 794 00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:47,640 Speaker 2: gonna be a cast member on while now you know 795 00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:50,520 Speaker 2: you're gonna you're gonna replace steel O brim on ridiculousness. 796 00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:52,000 Speaker 2: They didn't say none of that. They were just like, yo, 797 00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:55,319 Speaker 2: you're signed to us. So they put me in this 798 00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:59,160 Speaker 2: room that I called the swag chamber because it was 799 00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:03,160 Speaker 2: a big ass kind of like open room and it 800 00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:04,920 Speaker 2: was just like it was just me in. 801 00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:05,960 Speaker 1: There, you know, what I'm saying. So I was just 802 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:06,880 Speaker 1: like this is crazy. 803 00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:09,480 Speaker 2: Like people are walking in and they're like, who the 804 00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:12,200 Speaker 2: fuck is this guy sitting writing graffiti on the walls 805 00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:15,560 Speaker 2: because the one whole wall was dry race. So like, 806 00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:17,239 Speaker 2: since I'm sitting up there doing a lot of nothing, 807 00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:19,600 Speaker 2: I'm like, yo, I'm just writing my own shit, doing 808 00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:21,920 Speaker 2: my own thing. And then when I get bored, I 809 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,920 Speaker 2: go outside. I'm like, oh me and Tom Square, So 810 00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:27,000 Speaker 2: I'm just like, oh, yo, Allan Iverson is doing a 811 00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:28,359 Speaker 2: sneaker signing at the reebox store. 812 00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:29,359 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go check that out. 813 00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:31,080 Speaker 2: Like and I would just leave the building, bro and 814 00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:35,360 Speaker 2: go do graffiti, swear we come back like write a 815 00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:38,319 Speaker 2: movie like and just and then they would come into 816 00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:42,320 Speaker 2: my office and be like, yo, merroo, tomorrow is Bullying 817 00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,640 Speaker 2: Awareness Month? Can you dump out this bucket of tennis 818 00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:48,120 Speaker 2: balls for Bullying Awareness Month? And I'm like what that 819 00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:53,560 Speaker 2: got to do with bullying? But fuck it, Like y'all 820 00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:55,160 Speaker 2: paying me half a ticket is just sit up here 821 00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:57,400 Speaker 2: and do nothing, So let's get it, like right, you 822 00:38:57,400 --> 00:38:57,919 Speaker 2: know what I mean? 823 00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:00,759 Speaker 1: So, like, what's that happening? Like to me, it was 824 00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:03,840 Speaker 1: like I went to the first time I went to 825 00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:07,480 Speaker 1: the supermarket, keV, and I just I just got what 826 00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:11,840 Speaker 1: I wanted to get. I did not. I did not. 827 00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:16,600 Speaker 1: What an amazing feeling, yo, keV. Man tell me you 828 00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:17,560 Speaker 1: felt that, man. 829 00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:22,520 Speaker 3: Bro I remember, I remember the moment I thought I 830 00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:22,880 Speaker 3: made it. 831 00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:26,479 Speaker 4: It's very simple for me when I realized I could 832 00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:30,400 Speaker 4: get gas without calling my bank or checking my bank first. 833 00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:33,120 Speaker 4: I remember when I was like, Yo, I just got 834 00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:36,680 Speaker 4: gassed and didn't think about how much gas I could get. 835 00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:39,080 Speaker 3: I just went and put gas in. 836 00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:40,960 Speaker 1: My car because it was filling up. 837 00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:45,440 Speaker 4: Merril, you for years, I can't just make those kind 838 00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:47,200 Speaker 4: of purchases just crazy. 839 00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:50,879 Speaker 3: I gotta, I gotta make it till Friday. I got 840 00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:53,719 Speaker 3: a hold on Okay, so I get gas. 841 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,759 Speaker 1: Okay, you're doing like that. You're doing like a right man. 842 00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:57,760 Speaker 1: This is so how. 843 00:39:59,719 --> 00:39:59,879 Speaker 5: Bru. 844 00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, because you are at that time of your life. 845 00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:04,839 Speaker 3: You got you. I got my account memorized. 846 00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:07,799 Speaker 4: I know what charges eight hit when I'm dropping down 847 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:09,880 Speaker 4: to I know exactly when I get to twelve dollars, 848 00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:11,000 Speaker 4: everything's hit, alright. 849 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,000 Speaker 3: I got nothing left until I get paid. 850 00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:16,440 Speaker 1: Yoka, nigga. Let me tell you something. And I know 851 00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:18,319 Speaker 1: you know because we both we've both been there. 852 00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:22,400 Speaker 2: When you are broke, fam you check that checking account 853 00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:24,920 Speaker 2: balance like you are a motherfucking day trader nigga on 854 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,640 Speaker 2: robin Hood. You just on that bitch like refresh refresh 855 00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:32,000 Speaker 2: refresh yo. I just bought to me a chicken refresh, refresh, 856 00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:35,719 Speaker 2: refresh yo. Oh shit, some shit automatically came out. Oh no, 857 00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:39,560 Speaker 2: refresh refresh Nah shit, Now I'm overdrawn. 858 00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:43,680 Speaker 1: Ah damn yo, Baker Marta got me now negative forty 859 00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:47,480 Speaker 1: eight dollars. Shit, bro thirty five dollar fee? Fuck me 860 00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:48,600 Speaker 1: up like that? 861 00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,799 Speaker 4: All that I say, poor people are never people like, oh, 862 00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:55,319 Speaker 4: poor people don't budget. Poor people budget way better. They 863 00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:58,080 Speaker 4: just do got enough to make ends meet. But they 864 00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:02,719 Speaker 4: ain't they poor people. Bro people know exactly how much 865 00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:06,080 Speaker 4: they got, the exact price of gas, exact price of eggs, 866 00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:07,399 Speaker 4: exact price of mic. 867 00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:10,680 Speaker 1: Chicken, everything to the scent. 868 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:12,919 Speaker 4: I want to take a quick break from the show 869 00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:34,439 Speaker 4: to hear from our ad sponsors. One thing I find 870 00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:37,279 Speaker 4: interesting is you get Mornings with Meryl on Hot ninety seven, 871 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:42,000 Speaker 4: which is prestige, prestige, prestige. You still be arguing with 872 00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:47,640 Speaker 4: people on Twitter. Don't have what you have. I thought 873 00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:48,239 Speaker 4: you would be. 874 00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:52,160 Speaker 3: You make time to go back and forth still to. 875 00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:53,600 Speaker 1: This day, Joe. 876 00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:56,600 Speaker 2: You know what's crazy, Like people really like the people 877 00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:59,799 Speaker 2: that troll on Twitter, they really think that like, Yo, 878 00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:03,759 Speaker 2: you're too lit to respond to me, Like, Bro, I 879 00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:05,960 Speaker 2: also have bowel movements just like you. 880 00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:07,400 Speaker 1: Like you know what I'm saying. 881 00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:08,839 Speaker 2: What do you think I'm doing on a toilet when 882 00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:12,120 Speaker 2: I'm taking a shit like I'm a forty year old man. Bro, 883 00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:14,799 Speaker 2: I'm on a toilet for at least fifteen twenty minutes. Bro, 884 00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:17,320 Speaker 2: minimum you know what I'm saying. Like we in the 885 00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:18,240 Speaker 2: avoiding life. 886 00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:19,040 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. 887 00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:22,719 Speaker 2: So, Dog, I'm on the phone, I'm scrolling, I'm looking 888 00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:23,080 Speaker 2: at shit. 889 00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:25,680 Speaker 1: I'm laughing at oh yo KEP dumped the new skit, Yo, 890 00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:27,560 Speaker 1: this shit funny. You know what I'm saying, Like Yo, 891 00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:30,719 Speaker 1: I'm yo yo shit yo oh he got Deontae you 892 00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:32,160 Speaker 1: the Hey, Hey. 893 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,319 Speaker 2: That's my guys, you know what I mean? Like, and 894 00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:36,600 Speaker 2: then I go over it on Twitter. I go in 895 00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:39,840 Speaker 2: to Mansius and somebody be like, yo, yo, your your 896 00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:41,960 Speaker 2: chew wife blah blah blah and all this crazy shit, 897 00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:46,520 Speaker 2: and I'm like, man, suck my did motherfucker. Like you 898 00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:50,160 Speaker 2: know what I'm saying like I'm still from where I'm from, Like, bro, 899 00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:52,040 Speaker 2: you can put me on Mars. I'm still from the Bronx, 900 00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:53,920 Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, Like that shit ain't gonna change, 901 00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:56,960 Speaker 2: Like you can't just try me all the time all crazy. 902 00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:58,239 Speaker 3: Like what are we doing? 903 00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:05,720 Speaker 1: Like come on now, Like I love that. 904 00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:11,080 Speaker 4: Bro be you have time, man, you got time and 905 00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:13,839 Speaker 4: you led the Chopper singe. So but let me ask 906 00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:16,160 Speaker 4: you about Borings and Mary because I remember when they 907 00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:18,600 Speaker 4: announced the previous host were leaving, I was like, I'm 908 00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:21,080 Speaker 4: curious who who they're gonna get, like cause that's New 909 00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:24,160 Speaker 4: York radio and specifically New York hip hop radio. Like 910 00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:27,080 Speaker 4: everybody knows, it's a this that's up there, Like New 911 00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:29,320 Speaker 4: York is the premium destination for a lot of things. 912 00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:31,880 Speaker 4: But like music and radio, it's always had like a 913 00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:36,520 Speaker 4: important piece in black music. It's it's hip hop specifically, 914 00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:38,640 Speaker 4: And I'm not a hip hop and story and i 915 00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:40,799 Speaker 4: only listened to my first g Z album this week, 916 00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:43,879 Speaker 4: so I'm just saying, but everybody knows. For for many years, 917 00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:46,720 Speaker 4: New York was the one that was breaking artists. Almost 918 00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:48,279 Speaker 4: all the rappers came out of New York. All that 919 00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:49,879 Speaker 4: and all that, and you grew up in New York. 920 00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:53,120 Speaker 4: So when you get that, like take me back to 921 00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:55,200 Speaker 4: the moment you think this is even the possibility of 922 00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:58,160 Speaker 4: a job, are you like, oh my god, like if 923 00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:03,640 Speaker 4: I get this like or or you like, this is mine. 924 00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:06,319 Speaker 2: It's crazy keV. Because they it was so it was. 925 00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:08,400 Speaker 2: It was kind of bucked out to me. I understood 926 00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:10,560 Speaker 2: why they did it the way they did it, But 927 00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:17,200 Speaker 2: so how this happened was I was doing like like 928 00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:20,080 Speaker 2: a private like a like a corporate gig, you know 929 00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:22,799 Speaker 2: what I'm saying, Like for like the Health Workers Union, 930 00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:24,520 Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. So I had done the 931 00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:28,239 Speaker 2: somost Health conference in Puerto Rico, Like they flew me 932 00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:30,719 Speaker 2: out there to do like talk there, and I talked 933 00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:32,800 Speaker 2: about like you know, just like being a dad father 934 00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:36,160 Speaker 2: for you know, health insurance disappointed, like you know, my 935 00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:39,360 Speaker 2: pops is diabetic. My mom says hypotension, Like you know, 936 00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:42,000 Speaker 2: we all got something. My sister's asthmatic. We grew up 937 00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:44,480 Speaker 2: in the Bronx. It's asthma ally, you know what I mean, 938 00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:48,560 Speaker 2: highest asthma rates in like the world, I think. So 939 00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:51,200 Speaker 2: you know that type of shait matters, you know, so anytime, 940 00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:54,040 Speaker 2: you know, I get an opportunity to do something like 941 00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:57,040 Speaker 2: that and then also get a bag, I'm in you 942 00:44:57,040 --> 00:45:00,200 Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. So I did that and when 943 00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:02,839 Speaker 2: I came back, they were like, Yo, you killed it. 944 00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:05,160 Speaker 1: We loved what you did. You were great. 945 00:45:05,239 --> 00:45:07,160 Speaker 2: You had them, You had them people up there rolling 946 00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:09,080 Speaker 2: like when they could have been on the beach, and 947 00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:10,560 Speaker 2: it was in a conference room, locked in with you. 948 00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:12,680 Speaker 2: And I was like, wow, that's crazy. Thank you, I 949 00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:14,440 Speaker 2: appreciate it. And they were like, naw, we're not just 950 00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:17,040 Speaker 2: saying I just say it. Here's another gig. So then 951 00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:20,800 Speaker 2: I did another one in New York for the Healthcare 952 00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:24,719 Speaker 2: Workers Union eleven ninety nine, and the dude that book 953 00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:27,880 Speaker 2: being shot to Dave Collymore, he was like, Yo, I 954 00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:32,319 Speaker 2: have a friend of mine, like an associate, wants to 955 00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:34,040 Speaker 2: speak to you. Is it okay if I sent him 956 00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:36,239 Speaker 2: to your green room to chop it with you? And 957 00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:38,400 Speaker 2: I was like yeah, Like I didn't even ask for what. 958 00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:39,680 Speaker 2: I was like, Yo, you know what I'm saying. It's 959 00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:41,279 Speaker 2: like nine o'clock in the morning, like I'm about to 960 00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:43,080 Speaker 2: be done. I just made it bag, Like I just 961 00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:45,960 Speaker 2: did thirty minutes of work. Which is crazy, bro because 962 00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:48,759 Speaker 2: coming from like working my dad waking me up at 963 00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:50,719 Speaker 2: six am to go work with him starting from the 964 00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:54,719 Speaker 2: age of like eight years old, like fixed refrigerators and shit, 965 00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:59,319 Speaker 2: Like getting paid to make people laugh is like, yo, am, 966 00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:01,400 Speaker 2: I like I feel like I'm robbing a bank. Like 967 00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:06,320 Speaker 2: this is crazy, like you know, but I digress. So anyway, 968 00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:09,879 Speaker 2: the dude comes into my green room. Kujo's this guy's name, 969 00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:15,120 Speaker 2: and he's like he's like, hey, man, Meryl Man, really 970 00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:18,120 Speaker 2: great job up there. Man, Man, you have me dying. Man, 971 00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:20,680 Speaker 2: it's nine am. Man, you gotta nine am. You got 972 00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:22,840 Speaker 2: a room for the New York is laughing man, so hot. 973 00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:24,960 Speaker 2: It's so hard to do that, man, but you you 974 00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:27,959 Speaker 2: had like a presence on stage, and there's one hundred 975 00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:32,120 Speaker 2: percent amazing, amazing presence. He's like French like dude, like 976 00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:35,439 Speaker 2: he like like a like an MC solar French black dude. 977 00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:37,799 Speaker 2: Like it's crazy, like he got the little French flow 978 00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:40,319 Speaker 2: to it. But like so he's he's telling me and 979 00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:42,759 Speaker 2: then he's just like he's like, yo, can you come 980 00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:45,040 Speaker 2: into the offices tomorrow? And I was like, yeah, no 981 00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:46,839 Speaker 2: doubt because I was doing victory like the next day 982 00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:48,200 Speaker 2: so I was gonna be in the city anyway. So 983 00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:50,040 Speaker 2: I was like, Yo, let me just pop in and 984 00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:51,440 Speaker 2: see what they're talking about. 985 00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:52,920 Speaker 1: I go in there. Yokay. 986 00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:57,360 Speaker 2: These motherfuckers like Homie just like did one of the 987 00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:00,359 Speaker 2: like some like nineteen sixties like mad Man. Bro. 988 00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:01,000 Speaker 1: It was just like. 989 00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:14,040 Speaker 5: H and I was just like, like, what. 990 00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:18,160 Speaker 1: Is this, y'all? Are what is oh? You want me 991 00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:21,000 Speaker 1: to oh? Okay? 992 00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:23,880 Speaker 2: Because what Homie said in the green room was he 993 00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:25,800 Speaker 2: just said it straight up. He's like, Yo, we're moving 994 00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:29,319 Speaker 2: on from the morning show. Uh, we're looking for a 995 00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:32,400 Speaker 2: new host. And he's like you're the guy. He's like, 996 00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:34,200 Speaker 2: you're the guy. I want you to be the guy. 997 00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:38,000 Speaker 2: Do you want to be the guy? And I was like, yeah, 998 00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:44,640 Speaker 2: you know nothing, bro, no Yo, send us some this yo, 999 00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:49,160 Speaker 2: trial period nothing, bro. Contract in the mail and like 1000 00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:52,560 Speaker 2: within like five days. So it was like it was 1001 00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:55,200 Speaker 2: He basically was like, YO, the job is you if 1002 00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:58,360 Speaker 2: you want it? And I was like, do it, motherfucker, 1003 00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:02,680 Speaker 2: Like I didn't. By the way, you know, as you 1004 00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:06,480 Speaker 2: know entertainment media people, you can't get to hype in 1005 00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:07,640 Speaker 2: front of executives. 1006 00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:11,239 Speaker 1: You can't be like yo, hell what what because then 1007 00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:12,600 Speaker 1: they'll be like, ah, we got. 1008 00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:15,600 Speaker 2: Them all right, So we're gonna pay you in Popeye's 1009 00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:18,680 Speaker 2: Chicken Sandwiches in Newports but you get to host the 1010 00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:20,960 Speaker 2: morning show in New York City and that's very prestigious. 1011 00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:23,680 Speaker 2: And da da da da. And I was like, no, no, no, no, listen, 1012 00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:25,399 Speaker 2: I got I gotta I got a family to feed. 1013 00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:28,640 Speaker 2: I we gotta keep motion, you know what I'm saying. Like, 1014 00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:33,320 Speaker 2: uh so, Homie was basically like, Yo, it's it's yours. 1015 00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:35,600 Speaker 2: It's the job is yours if you want it. And 1016 00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:37,479 Speaker 2: I was like, all right, if it makes sense, let's 1017 00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:38,799 Speaker 2: do it. So then when I go, like I said, 1018 00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:40,359 Speaker 2: when I go to the office, Homies just like write 1019 00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:42,560 Speaker 2: a number on a piece of paper, slides it over. 1020 00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,359 Speaker 1: I look at it. I was like, broin't enough. 1021 00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:47,360 Speaker 2: I gave it like I was playing hardball because I 1022 00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:49,719 Speaker 2: was just like, let me see, you know what I mean, Like, 1023 00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:50,440 Speaker 2: cause I don't know. 1024 00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:53,080 Speaker 1: What radio money's like, so I'm like, is it comparable 1025 00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:53,439 Speaker 1: to TV? 1026 00:48:53,719 --> 00:48:53,879 Speaker 2: Though? 1027 00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:55,120 Speaker 1: Like what are we doing here? 1028 00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:57,799 Speaker 2: So I'm just like pushing into the limit and I'm 1029 00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:00,759 Speaker 2: like I got the number I wanted, so you know, 1030 00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:03,080 Speaker 2: I was like, you know, signed, and then it was 1031 00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:06,080 Speaker 2: a rap and but the craziest thing about it was 1032 00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:09,839 Speaker 2: that it happened mad fast. Like it was no like 1033 00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:12,520 Speaker 2: if I don't do that, talk like, Yo, God is 1034 00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:15,640 Speaker 2: good all the time, bro, because if I don't, if 1035 00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:17,640 Speaker 2: I say no to that gig or, I'm like, nah, 1036 00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:19,879 Speaker 2: I'm too tired, man, I just got back from the thing. 1037 00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:21,879 Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a couple of days off. I got 1038 00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:25,000 Speaker 1: victory led tomorrow. I want to focus up. Nah. 1039 00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:26,800 Speaker 2: I was like, Yo, you gotta go do it. You 1040 00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:28,640 Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, Like, this is a new audience, 1041 00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:31,400 Speaker 2: this is more people. You just want them to know this. 1042 00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:33,440 Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. This guy, you know what 1043 00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:35,360 Speaker 2: I mean? And they're locking you in a way like 1044 00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:37,680 Speaker 2: you were saying like like, Yo, that's that's my homie. 1045 00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:40,440 Speaker 2: That's not like a celebrity, that's my guy, you know 1046 00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:43,120 Speaker 2: what I mean? So like that was that's really my goal. 1047 00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:47,200 Speaker 2: So when they when the number was correct, everything was 1048 00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:50,120 Speaker 2: all good. I was like, Yo, let's go, let's do it. 1049 00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:51,719 Speaker 2: And they were like, Yo, who do you want to 1050 00:49:51,719 --> 00:49:53,960 Speaker 2: be your co host? And I was looking around. I 1051 00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:58,040 Speaker 2: was just like, who's there already? So they had Mia 1052 00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:00,719 Speaker 2: Bell on there and they had shiny culture on there. 1053 00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:04,160 Speaker 2: Miebel was doing different things around the station, like different shows, 1054 00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:07,759 Speaker 2: and Shane was on the former show, and I was like, 1055 00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:10,080 Speaker 2: I fuck with Shanee, I fuck with Mia Beel. 1056 00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:13,000 Speaker 1: They're radio pros, you know what I'm saying, Like they've 1057 00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:13,640 Speaker 1: been doing this. 1058 00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:15,600 Speaker 2: I'm not gonna act like I've been doing radio for 1059 00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:18,160 Speaker 2: my whole life, Like I don't know how this works, 1060 00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:20,520 Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like I've done podcasts in movies, TV, 1061 00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:22,839 Speaker 2: but that's not you know, that's like being like, yo, 1062 00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:26,480 Speaker 2: I was the MVP, you know in the American League. 1063 00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:29,839 Speaker 2: I'm gonna go play for the Knicks. Like those things 1064 00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:33,000 Speaker 2: don't necessarily translate. So I was like, these are professional 1065 00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:36,279 Speaker 2: radio people and they're funny, you know what I mean. 1066 00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:40,319 Speaker 2: They're young, they're from the city, so you know, these 1067 00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:44,720 Speaker 2: are radio you know, these are already established radio pros. 1068 00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:47,520 Speaker 2: And I'm like, yo, but they not like old heads. 1069 00:50:47,719 --> 00:50:52,040 Speaker 2: Also funny enough, I did not notice. But WBLS, which 1070 00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:56,600 Speaker 2: is like R and B, you know, old school classic. 1071 00:50:56,840 --> 00:50:58,680 Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Like everybody that work over 1072 00:50:58,719 --> 00:51:01,759 Speaker 2: there could be your auntie or your uncle, you know 1073 00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:04,759 Speaker 2: what I'm saying, Like it look like they like you 1074 00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:07,279 Speaker 2: see him at church on Sunday type vibe you know 1075 00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:07,959 Speaker 2: what I mean, like. 1076 00:51:08,560 --> 00:51:11,400 Speaker 1: Sixty five plus you know what I mean? Like you know. 1077 00:51:11,880 --> 00:51:15,400 Speaker 1: But so when they were like, Yo, who do you 1078 00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:16,920 Speaker 1: want to call host? D da da da da, I 1079 00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:17,120 Speaker 1: was like. 1080 00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:19,680 Speaker 2: Yo, they already there and they professional, you know what 1081 00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:21,640 Speaker 2: I'm saying, So let me get in there with them, 1082 00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:24,640 Speaker 2: you know, and like y'all tell me like if if 1083 00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:26,759 Speaker 2: y'all feel the energy, the chemistry, you know. 1084 00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:29,919 Speaker 1: Also, I've dealt with shitty. 1085 00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:31,520 Speaker 2: Executives keV, so I was just like, you know what, 1086 00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:34,759 Speaker 2: if I like him, I like him, I don't give 1087 00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:35,680 Speaker 2: a fuck if y'all like them? 1088 00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:36,200 Speaker 1: How about that? 1089 00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:40,520 Speaker 2: And then I was doing seven PM with Kaz and 1090 00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:45,799 Speaker 2: Kaz is phenomenal bro and the most solid dude in 1091 00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:50,319 Speaker 2: the world. But like just fam of cav Yo, there 1092 00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:53,040 Speaker 2: is not a lot of ethical people in entertainment, Bro. 1093 00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:56,840 Speaker 2: This dude is as solid as they come, bro like, 1094 00:51:57,040 --> 00:51:58,520 Speaker 2: and I just want to I just want to make 1095 00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:01,359 Speaker 2: that abundantly like say it allowed to the mountains like yo, 1096 00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:05,279 Speaker 2: and give him his flowers, because Yo, that motherfucker is professional. 1097 00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:10,239 Speaker 2: He is punctual, he is ready to go, bro, and 1098 00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:12,520 Speaker 2: he will just like he will make it happen. 1099 00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:14,160 Speaker 1: I tell him, I was like, Yo, you remind. 1100 00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:16,320 Speaker 2: Me of me like a couple of years ago, because 1101 00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:18,960 Speaker 2: you know, he got, you know, two little kids, and 1102 00:52:19,480 --> 00:52:21,319 Speaker 2: he's kind of like in that same space where it's 1103 00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:23,400 Speaker 2: just like yo, go get it, go get it, go 1104 00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:24,080 Speaker 2: get it, go get. 1105 00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:26,080 Speaker 1: It, you know what I mean. And you know, and 1106 00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:27,560 Speaker 1: I told him, I was like, Yo, listen, Bro. 1107 00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:31,120 Speaker 2: I was like, listen, I got to where I'm at, 1108 00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:36,560 Speaker 2: and I stated, because of this thing called index funds, 1109 00:52:36,719 --> 00:52:41,759 Speaker 2: I was like, Yo, do not buy European vehicles, do 1110 00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:45,040 Speaker 2: not do any of that. Get you a house and 1111 00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:47,080 Speaker 2: get you and throw the rest of that shit in 1112 00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:49,440 Speaker 2: the portfolio and act like it don't exist. 1113 00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:50,399 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. 1114 00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:53,799 Speaker 2: Roth iras all that type of shit like retirement. I 1115 00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:55,760 Speaker 2: was like, there's no retirement for comedians, bro, and people 1116 00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:58,280 Speaker 2: in entertainment. There's no pension, you know what I'm saying. 1117 00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:03,120 Speaker 2: So I was like, yoh, like go fucking go get it, 1118 00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:05,759 Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, And like Yo, he. 1119 00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:06,319 Speaker 1: Was just like Yo. 1120 00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:08,480 Speaker 2: To this day, he'd be like, Yo, we'll be a conversation, 1121 00:53:08,719 --> 00:53:10,880 Speaker 2: like just in a kind of like a sight for 1122 00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:13,520 Speaker 2: just talking whatever and he'd be, Yo, this fucker put 1123 00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:16,279 Speaker 2: me on the index ones bro like, and I'm just like, yo, 1124 00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:17,879 Speaker 2: you know what I mean. But that'shit that I didn't 1125 00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:19,200 Speaker 2: even know about, you know what I mean that I 1126 00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:21,279 Speaker 2: had to get put onto And I'm just like, bro, 1127 00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:22,359 Speaker 2: like do. 1128 00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:23,760 Speaker 1: They want to tease just to white people? 1129 00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:25,560 Speaker 3: Like yeah, like. 1130 00:53:27,120 --> 00:53:27,920 Speaker 1: What are we doing here? 1131 00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:29,600 Speaker 2: I was like, so, you mean I put this money 1132 00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:33,960 Speaker 2: in here and it just make money like just by 1133 00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:34,799 Speaker 2: being there and. 1134 00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:38,560 Speaker 1: What like, I don't gotta work. I don't got to. 1135 00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:40,520 Speaker 2: Swing a hammer. I don't gotta tell a joke. I 1136 00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:42,960 Speaker 2: don't gotta like reboot a computer. I don't gotta do 1137 00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:46,759 Speaker 2: none of that. What this is just compound interest what 1138 00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:50,320 Speaker 2: So I told him, I was like, yo, right, like 1139 00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:54,080 Speaker 2: like listen as you as a married man, you know, 1140 00:53:54,400 --> 00:53:58,320 Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, Like when you are married 1141 00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:01,600 Speaker 2: with children, you're private, it different, you know what I'm saying. 1142 00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:04,840 Speaker 2: So like you think different and you know and you 1143 00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:08,920 Speaker 2: move different. So with me, it was, yo, I gotta 1144 00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:14,840 Speaker 2: get us situated and like stable before I do anything 1145 00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:17,640 Speaker 2: for myself, you know what I mean, like buy a car, 1146 00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:20,799 Speaker 2: or do some stupid shit, or buy a big ass 1147 00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:24,560 Speaker 2: chain or whatever. Fuck like everything. The kids gotta have 1148 00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:27,120 Speaker 2: five two nines. They gotta be rythyle raised. We gotta 1149 00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:31,680 Speaker 2: be retirement funded, up house mortgage, low interest rateed up, 1150 00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:34,560 Speaker 2: all that like adult shit, you know what I mean. 1151 00:54:34,680 --> 00:54:37,920 Speaker 2: And I did all of that with the Vice money 1152 00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:42,120 Speaker 2: and the Showtime money and like all that early like crazy, 1153 00:54:42,239 --> 00:54:45,719 Speaker 2: like wow, oh my god, like this is I ain't 1154 00:54:45,719 --> 00:54:48,040 Speaker 2: never yo, They're gonna come get me because I ain't 1155 00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:49,399 Speaker 2: never seen this much money in my life. 1156 00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:51,680 Speaker 1: I just I didn't go and blow it. 1157 00:54:51,719 --> 00:54:54,920 Speaker 2: Bro. I bought like a little house in Jersey and 1158 00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:57,920 Speaker 2: I fit the kids and everything, and was in a 1159 00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:00,840 Speaker 2: nice little school district this shit. And I just was 1160 00:55:00,920 --> 00:55:03,640 Speaker 2: doing the dad thing and you know dad husband shit. Yeah, 1161 00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:06,799 Speaker 2: and you know, working doing the comedy thing on the side. 1162 00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:10,440 Speaker 2: So you know, like to me, I'm like, I just 1163 00:55:10,440 --> 00:55:13,359 Speaker 2: want to yell yo yo yo yo, Like to any 1164 00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:17,279 Speaker 2: any like all young men coming up in entertainment that 1165 00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:19,200 Speaker 2: like hit a lick, you know what I'm saying, or 1166 00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:21,239 Speaker 2: like get a windfall or whatever, or get like the 1167 00:55:21,239 --> 00:55:23,600 Speaker 2: big bag. I'm just like, yo, fam, I want to 1168 00:55:23,640 --> 00:55:25,799 Speaker 2: just like be like their sleep paralysis demon. It'll be 1169 00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:30,800 Speaker 2: like invest matter fuck I invest invest like, don't be 1170 00:55:30,840 --> 00:55:33,200 Speaker 2: a landlord because that shit is that's that's kind of scummy, 1171 00:55:33,239 --> 00:55:33,719 Speaker 2: you know what I mean. 1172 00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:35,080 Speaker 1: But like invest you. 1173 00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:39,400 Speaker 3: Know, oh my god, yeah, I love this. 1174 00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:39,800 Speaker 1: Marril. 1175 00:55:39,840 --> 00:55:40,919 Speaker 3: We ain't gonna hold you, man. 1176 00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:48,840 Speaker 4: This has been amazing man, a brilliant comedian, investor, father, husband, friend. 1177 00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:52,520 Speaker 4: Before we let you go, just just say the thing 1178 00:55:52,560 --> 00:55:54,000 Speaker 4: that you say at the end of podcast where you 1179 00:55:54,040 --> 00:55:56,120 Speaker 4: people can find you and all that stuff. 1180 00:55:56,200 --> 00:55:59,680 Speaker 1: Man, Hey man, it's at the Kid Merrow spelled correctly. 1181 00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:01,759 Speaker 1: Is not Dug Kid. I know you think because I'm 1182 00:56:01,760 --> 00:56:03,200 Speaker 1: from the Bronx, I spelled the da. 1183 00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:08,239 Speaker 4: No, y'all, the Internet was not our friend. Towards the 1184 00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:11,080 Speaker 4: end of the podcast. You can follow him at the 1185 00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:15,360 Speaker 4: Kid Marrow th h E Kid merw m E r 1186 00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:20,799 Speaker 4: O not Doug Kid, not Serro the Kid Marrow. Check 1187 00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:23,880 Speaker 4: out Victory Life podcast Mornings with meryor on Hot ninety 1188 00:56:23,920 --> 00:56:30,000 Speaker 4: seven seven peop in Brooklyn with Carmelo Anthony. Follow him 1189 00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:32,960 Speaker 4: on Twitter. He's very funny. He's texting me now. He 1190 00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:34,480 Speaker 4: said he's shutting down the Internet. 1191 00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:37,399 Speaker 3: But we love him. We love y'all. 1192 00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:53,800 Speaker 4: I will see you next week. This has been a 1193 00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:56,759 Speaker 4: unanimous media original. Not my Best Mama was produced by 1194 00:56:56,800 --> 00:56:59,759 Speaker 4: iHeart Podcasts and Unanimous Media. It was hosted by Me 1195 00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:03,920 Speaker 4: Kevin Fredericks. Executive produced by Stephen Curry, Eric Payton and 1196 00:57:04,040 --> 00:57:09,120 Speaker 4: Charlotte Sumter Vigette. Co executive producer Klenna Maria Cutney. The 1197 00:57:09,120 --> 00:57:12,040 Speaker 4: executive producers of the iHeart Podcast are Sean Titne and 1198 00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:15,239 Speaker 4: Jason English. This series was produced by Peter Calter and 1199 00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:19,000 Speaker 4: Jabari Davis. Co producer Kurt Redmond. Special thanks to Stephen 1200 00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:21,160 Speaker 4: Curry and Will Pearson. Not My Best Moment as a 1201 00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:24,160 Speaker 4: production of Unanimous Media and iHeart Podcasts. For more podcasts 1202 00:57:24,160 --> 00:57:27,400 Speaker 4: from iHeart Radio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or 1203 00:57:27,440 --> 00:57:28,880 Speaker 4: wherever you get your podcasts.