WEBVTT - DJ D-WREK - Fried Bologna and Noodles 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.080 Yo, what's up? Shiman d J d W rec And 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:07.000 this is what I'm doing today, eating while broke, chilling 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:10.319 here with my girl Colleen with and we're going to 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:13.480 be whipping up a little broke meal. Little meal I 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:17.880 used to make you know when I was when uh 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:22.720 money was a little bit short. Nice? So what are 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:24.840 you gonna have me eat today? Because well you could 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:27.680 just I guess walk through the ingredients, all right, So 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:30.120 what we're gonna do? What we have here? This is 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:34.479 just regular bologning, like you know, bologna and cheese, and 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:39.080 which is type of bologna, kindergarden food. This yere is 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:43.440 beef top ramen and then butter it and said, what 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:46.440 we're gonna make is beef top ramen with fried bologny. 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:50.280 Got it? So this is an extremely affordable this affordable this, 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:52.519 I mean this is this might be thirty cents right here. 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:55.400 This is thirty cents. What all the big money was 0:00:55.480 --> 0:01:00.920 spent here? The butter. It's like all these dishes, like 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:04.360 the nutritional value is like so low. Yeah, it's not. 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:06.000 It has nothing to do with that. It's all about 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:09.000 feeling the tummy, filling the tummy. Well, why don't you 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:14.640 fill our tummy and start cooking for us because I'm hungry. Okay, 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:17.200 this is what we do since since the top ramen 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:19.840 is already unpackaged, we're just gonna put it in the 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.080 in the boiling water. Most of the time, I kind 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:25.440 of break it up a little bit for you know, 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:30.679 you break it at hungry just because you know, other 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:32.720 than that, you're if you don't break it, then you're 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:36.480 having spaghetti. So I put im make it in a 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.880 little I'll break it in a little four little okay, 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:44.720 little top ramen pods. So there's a method to the matter. 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:47.800 There's a method to it. So what I just did 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:50.920 was I put the top ramen in the boiling water, 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:54.280 let it boil, and I use just to kind of 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:56.560 it's gonna get soft, and so if you don't want to, 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:59.280 you don't want it to get too soft. Okay. So 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.400 when was the time you ate this dish? Probably like 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:11.000 nine seven, So since ninety seven you have not resorted 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:14.239 back to this. I haven't. I haven't added fried bologny, 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:17.760 but just sometimes like on a late night, you know, 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.160 I don't want to eat a huge like I'm hungry, 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:22.480 but I don't want to eat anything like heavy. I'll 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:24.600 make like, you know, a little top run or something. 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.280 So what we'll do now is we're gonna add We're 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:32.760 gonna fry the blood. Okay. So what we want to 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:35.640 do is it's just on right here, that is on. Okay, 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:39.720 where are we? Don't burn yourself? No, I don't know 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:42.280 what the insurance policy, what you guys kind of insurance? 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:44.840 You know, we're on eating more broke, So I don't 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:47.919 have too much faith in it. So right now I'm 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:51.960 putting a little butter on the in this skillet, just 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:54.919 to you know. And now is that for it's to 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:57.880 not stick or for it to actually just to you 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.760 know kind of this is it adds labor and look 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:05.760 calcium calcium, got it? This is calcium on the package. Yeah, 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:08.120 go for it. Okay, so you get yourself a couple 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:12.960 of these here boom, let that fry up? All right? 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:16.560 So what what this is gonna do? And this is 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:24.440 what everybody did that fries bacon knows this It should uh, 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:30.280 it should create able Okay. So we're looking for the bubble, 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:34.720 waiting for the bubble. So take us back to seven. 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:38.760 What was going on in I was a cashier at 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:42.880 Costco wholesale, and I was living in l A. I 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:46.680 was a cashier at Costco hostel and I was just 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:51.160 out in l A doing what I call the Hollywood shuffle. Um, 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.000 I got that from a Robert Townsend movie, but I 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.520 was really doing that. I'm still Hollywood shuffling, but just 0:03:55.600 --> 0:04:00.760 on a different level now. Um and uh, auditioning for 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:05.960 different TV shows and and and you know, dance gigs 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:09.000 or whatever. So you are a dancer, Yes, I should 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:11.720 do I should dance for different artists and music videos 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:14.080 and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, I mean you 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:17.400 see the bubble, yeah, Bubble'll see the bubble. I see it. 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:21.320 So are you supposed to pop it? Oh? Yeah, part 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:23.320 of it being fun. So you wanted to kind of 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:26.960 be a little crispy not to Christmas. So that's the 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:30.080 whole point of frying is for the texture. Well, yeah, 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:35.920 for the texture and to add protein to to your meal. Okay, 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:38.200 you know what I mean? Now do we know what 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:40.440 really is in boloney? Is it like one of those 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.279 hot dog things? Are probably? I mean it doesn't look 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:45.039 like you should just shave this off the side of 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:51.000 a cow. So so when did you realize you wanted 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:54.400 to get into entertainment. When I was a little kid. 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:58.039 I used to watch like, you know, Good Times and 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:01.440 the Jeffersons and Different Strokes and things like that, and 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:05.880 I would see these actors that I was I would 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:09.480 always emulate anyway, you know it was you know he 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:13.320 acts like I mean, I would, you know, kind of 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:20.080 you know, emulate the young black actors that were out. 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:23.000 You know, like I was always mimicking j J or 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:26.960 something and uh, you know doing it what you're talking about. Well, 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:29.080 it's all that kind of stuff like that. And then 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:32.440 the TV show Fame came out, and I was like 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:35.200 I could dance too, and then be born and breaking 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:39.400 came you know, all that stuff. So I was like 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:42.760 I used to enter like little hip hop dance contests 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:47.000 and things like that, and uh and I would win 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:53.159 like first, second or third place, and I was winning money. 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:56.520 So my mom wouldn't have to uh give me much 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:01.400 allowance because I was always winning, like, you know, a 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:06.120 few dollars at Chuck E Cheese every weekend. Yeah. So 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:10.520 then so she did she standed up supporting that because 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.359 you're always winning her Well, it was it wasn't that 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:15.919 I was. It wasn't She didn't support me because I 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:19.919 was winning. She just didn't discourage me. You know, like 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:22.280 when I said, Okay, Mom, I'm gonna go to this 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:27.000 little kid's club and we're gonna you know, it's gonna 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:30.479 be like a breaking battle or whatever, popping battle and 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:33.200 stuff like that. You see. Right now, I'm chopping up 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:35.520 the belogni because you gotta put little pieces of bologni 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.840 in the ramen. Year when we turned it down a 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:42.920 little bit, it's it's actually smells pretty good. Yes, it's 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:45.400 not bad. It's not bad, okay. So right now I'm 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:49.640 gonna turn off the rat it, okay, because we don't 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:52.680 want to get too soft. Yeah. I like my ramen 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:58.320 where it's like I don't know what that means, sounds 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:02.080 like it's like a little harder, like you know, I 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.840 don't like my ram and too soft. Right, So right 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:07.200 now I'm gonna pour off some of this water right 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:09.080 because I don't like it. I don't like it too soupy. 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:12.080 Yeah me either. Don't be like me. Don't try to 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:16.560 promise you. I always drain it. I don't like it 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:18.960 too soft, and I don't like it too soupy, So 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:24.720 I pour it off enough to wear the water in 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:27.120 the rama are about the same level. Okay, got it, 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:30.360 all right, So we do that. So it's a little 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:32.640 bit soupy, but in fact, let me turn off a 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:36.520 little bit, pour off a little bit more, all right, 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:41.720 that actually smells pretty good. I'm not saying I would 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:44.960 like go and eat, you know, pack of baloney. But 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:47.360 you're gonna be making this at the crib by yourself. 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:51.480 I don't know. Let's see how bad or how well 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:55.240 eating will broke does. So just purring that. So let 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:57.120 me tell you what we're doing now. So right now, 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:01.280 we're gonna season to see, didn't need package right now, 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:04.800 and we're gonna season at the time where we're gonna 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:07.880 we're gonna dump it into the into the noodles, into 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:10.680 the pot with the noodles, and you just empty all 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:13.640 the contents of that. So you just want to you 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:16.440 just want to, you know, stir that up in there now. 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:18.400 You want to get that a little bit not too crispy, 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:22.640 but a little bit crispy. And um. While and that 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:26.200 went away. So I was back to Hollywood shuffling with 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:29.240 without a job. And when you say Hollywood shuffling, that's 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:31.880 like auditions or you just are you trying to find 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:36.120 places to DJ auditions, uh, DJ, and you know DJ 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:40.080 gigs and stuff like that, you know, but uh, I 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:43.439 really wanted to do. You know. DJ has been good 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:45.839 to me, you know since I started DJ, and uh 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:50.880 and being on television is great because it actually gets 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:56.679 me more DJ gigs. But uh, you know, I like 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:00.199 I like acting and that's really hard to get in too, 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:04.720 you know, so every nothing. Then you know, you book 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:07.160 a few commercials, you book two or three commercials a year, 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:10.559 and you're doing all right, but uh, you know when 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:14.559 it's when it's dry, it's dry, you know, So right now, 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:16.520 what I'm gonna do? He kind of looks like a 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:20.600 little bacon bits. Yeah, see little bacon bits here cutting 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:23.760 this up. You put that in there like that, you 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:28.960 cut it up. What you do, You gotta mix it 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:31.760 all up, mix it up a little bit. This is 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:37.040 what it looks like overhead cam. Alright. Nice. When you're 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:39.640 doing the Hollywood shuffle and things dry up, is there 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:42.040 like a special thing you do in your mind to 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:45.000 handle the cash flow going up and down. You just 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:49.840 want to keep your your sanity and know that you're 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:53.600 still in the right place, You're still with your thank you. 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:57.439 You're welcome, you know what I mean. Like, so there 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:00.559 are times that I would feel like, man, maybe maybe 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:04.680 show business is not for me. And there were times 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:06.960 you oh, yeah, there were times when I felt that way, 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:08.880 you know. And then you know, I get a call 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:11.560 from my agent for an audition and it will conflict 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:13.560 with something that I have to do, like you know, 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:17.160 maybe I booked or maybe i'm you know, doing a 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.360 day job or something like that, and then they're like 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:21.480 they're they're like, well, if you go to this audition, 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:23.720 you're not you know, you might as well just quit. 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:28.960 And so, you know, my passion is show business, so 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:31.440 I would just go to the audition and then you know, 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:34.560 look the commercial and then it kind of reassures you 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:36.839 and let you know, remind you that you are where 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:40.319 you're supposed to be. Now, did you have any naysayers 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:44.800 around you that would make you doubt yourself or was 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:47.400 it just all like in your head where the doubt 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:53.720 would come and go? Um. I never really had any naysayers. Um. 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:55.800 But you know, any time if you ever have to 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:57.800 call a family member to tell you, you know, to 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:00.920 borrow money. Family member was a state man, you need 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:04.000 what you need to do. You need to move back home, 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:06.440 and you need to get a job, a real job, 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:08.840 you know. And those are the same family members, are 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:11.840 the same good friends or whatever that when you know 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:15.240 you're back doing what you do or what you set 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:17.760 out to do, those are the same people to tell 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:19.240 you that they knew you were going to make it. 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:22.040 You know, I knew he's gonna make it. Man, how 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:24.240 do you feel about men? It was something special about 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:26.720 you when I first met you. How do you feel 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:31.000 about that when you it's the nature of the business. Yeah, wow, 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:34.640 all right, let's try to try your cooking. And I 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:37.400 like that it's not too soupy. It's not too soupy. 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:41.040 So you look a little soft everybody. I'm not trying 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:44.360 to judge him, but because she was talking to me, 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:47.160 you know what I'm saying, I normally don't, you know, 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:51.079 cook it as long as I did. So Colleen's fault. 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:59.800 It was good m hm, soft noodles on. You're welcome you. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:03.160 I'm saying, I'm sorry for a gapping. When do you 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:08.360 feel like you were officially confident that the entertainment business 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:10.959 was where you were going to be? Like, was there 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:14.160 a level of like checks had to ride before you 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.880 were like, Okay, this is it, I'm never turning back 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:20.120 to Costco. Or well, I got fired from Costco so 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.560 I couldn't go back to Costco. Why did you get 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:26.240 fired because I went to an audition When I had it, 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:29.880 I had a jerk for for for a supervisor. Do 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:36.160 you shop at Costco? Finding? Okay? Do you ever like 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:38.480 when you see someone that did that type of thing 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:40.040 to you? Do you ever like wish you could bump 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:43.200 into them? I waved to him, why does he still 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:46.800 work there? Still Costco? He's one of those dudes. I 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:50.360 knew you were gonna make it. He probably takes side 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:54.520 tries to take credit. Do you know I'm gonna fire man? 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:59.160 Just to encourage me? Kenny? Can I cuts on here? 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:04.199 It's funny. I had Celebrity High, as you know. And 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.880 when I was creating the company, I worked at country Wide. 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.600 This was right before the crash, and yes, country Wide 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:18.240 played rolling. They had yeah, probably they had everyone, And 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:21.199 uh I remember I was doing Celebrity High and I 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:23.280 would have like the little posters of like what this 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:25.719 magazine was going to be, and a lot of my 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:27.560 coworkers would come by my desk the girls and they 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:29.520 would laugh at me because I drove a bucket that 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:34.520 like I could start with anything. And uh. I remember 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:37.959 country Wide fired me and I cried because I was broke. 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:39.880 I was only making like ten dollars an hour, and 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:42.200 of the ten dollars an hour, I was investing into 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:46.560 this idea. And I remember calling my grandfather and he 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:48.640 was just like, I'm so happy they fired you. And 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:50.080 I was like, how am I gonna pay my My 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:52.520 rom was like four a month. Do you remember when 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:57.360 was that cheap? And uh? But yeah, I looked back 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:01.200 and ironically enough, I am thankful that they fired me, 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:03.800 because sometimes that's that last inch you need to like 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:08.360 push your drive even further. Right, Yeah, absolutely, because I 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:10.640 mean one thing that I did have, I had health 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:14.680 insurance through Costco. I had if I needed to get 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:18.240 more hours at work, I could just you know, go 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:21.320 to switch the full time for like six months. And 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:25.120 it's really hard to get fired from Costco. Um so, 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:30.480 but getting fired from Costco definitely lit a fire under 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:35.000 my behind and I had to I mean from there, 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:38.560 I was a waiter at the soul food restaurant, you know. Uh, 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:41.760 and then right when I booked book that keeps saying. Right, 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:45.120 when I started waiting at this restaurant, I got this 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:48.960 gig um that took me to Korea for like six 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:52.600 months that paid me like and asked, well, at that time, 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:56.560 what felt like an astronomical amount of money? And so 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:59.720 I went over there and K pop groups and stuff. 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:02.760 Was at your first time flying out of the country. Absolutely, yeah, 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:06.920 I'm sure you were excited. I was, but I also 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:09.840 knew what you know, the money is what motivated because 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:11.200 if I could have stayed here made that money, I 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:15.640 would have, but there were no other offers at that point. Now, 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:20.080 was there ever anything that you did where say you like, 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:22.360 for instance, do you take wilding Out? And I know 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:25.160 wilding Out doesn't have a huge like every month schedule 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:28.160 is probably a couple of weeks. But have you ever 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:34.200 gotten an opportunity while you secured another opportunity? What was 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:37.320 the opportunity that you felt like you wish you you 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:41.600 didn't have to say no to? Um? Well, one thing 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:46.640 I'm never gonna do is say no to whiling out. Yeah, um, 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:50.120 but one of the things I mean. I So, what 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:53.640 happened when I there was one gig that I booked, 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:57.320 I booked a tour dancing for a popular artist and 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:02.400 m But the week before I went to the audition 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:08.160 for the dance audition, I auditioned for this big McDonald's commercial. 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:12.000 Every day we're seeing everybody. So I went to the audition, 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:17.280 and then that following week audition for the dance. I 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:20.360 went to the commercial audition, and then that following week 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:25.280 audition for the artist and um to be a dancer, 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:27.960 and then during that week I got a call back 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:32.240 for the McDonald's commercial. Right, so I went to the callback, 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:40.080 and I'm starting rehearsals for the the the dance, the 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:44.640 dance gig. So then you know, that's in the beginning 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:46.120 of the week. And then at the end of the week, 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:49.680 I get back from rehearsal for the dance gig and 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.520 I'm at home chilling. Is a Friday, and I didn't 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:54.160 get a call. I hadn't gotten a call from my 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:55.760 agent to let me know whether or not I booked 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:59.400 this gig, the commercial gig, and I'm laying in my 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:01.000 bed and I'm like, I'm looking at my watching this 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:03.360 like five something. I know the agency closest at six, 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:05.920 and then I'm like, I'm not gonna get this get 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:11.560 this gig five forty five fifty my phone rings and 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:14.919 my agent caused me. She says, uh, um, you just 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.680 put yourself un you know this commercial. I was like, what, 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:22.080 I'm like, She says, you shoot next third, next Friday, 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:26.480 so a week from that day. That day, I was 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:30.919 so that following week I was supposed to leave to 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:33.520 go to Orlando to do the first show for this 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:38.680 tour on Thursday. So which and that first show is 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:41.640 going to be on Friday when you're typing the commercial. 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.720 So I asked the choreographer and you know, talk to 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:47.560 the artists and stuff, and said, hey, I booked this commercial. 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:50.240 I really want to do this gig. I really want 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:51.560 to do the dance gig, but I really need to 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:58.160 do this commercial. And I said, so they had like dancers, 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:01.399 so they could have just you know, allowed me to do, 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:04.199 you know, miss that first show. I said, hey, can 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:06.359 I miss the first show? And they were like, well 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:08.120 if you can't miss. If you can't do the first show, 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:13.199 then you can't do the gig. You said, peace, and 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:18.760 he said to McDonald's, McDonald's paid more. Yeah, even though 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:21.320 I would I would have loved that had that experience 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:25.560 dancing for that artist. But once I did, that was 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:28.480 my first major commercial that I was the star of. 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:32.879 It was me and a whole bunch of little kids. Yeah, 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:35.119 it was literally me and a bunch of kids and 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:39.960 a a a McDonald's rapper that was like flying through 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:44.080 there and so but that just made me say, I am. 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:52.160 I am where I'm supposed to be. So what would 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:54.120 you say, like two people that are trying to get 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:57.240 in the game, you know, like, what would you say 0:18:57.359 --> 0:18:59.520 to those that may have been trying for the last 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:01.560 five us ten years and still haven't been able to 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:05.919 make a decent check, but they're still going out? I 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:08.360 would say, you mean you still auditioning and things like that, 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:11.080 and they're starting to doubt themselves maybe they're in their 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:16.000 mid thirties, or I mean, keep a day job, like 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:20.399 you know, take care of yourself and your responsibilities. But 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:24.359 I mean, show business is not for everybody. But I'm 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:26.800 not I'm not the one to tell anybody to give up, 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:30.320 you know, I'll just if you feel that passion, just 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:34.040 keep pressing. Have you ever met, like say, a guy 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:35.680 that wants to be a rapper, a girl that wants 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:38.000 to be a rapper, and you're like you heard their 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:42.920 music and it's just not where it's where you think 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:45.040 it should be at. Do you do you ever tell 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:49.720 them to maybe look into alternatives or do you just no? 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:53.560 I never discourage people because I mean those people all 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:58.280 the time, because they're they're a way. There are much 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:03.720 more people that are not good at you know, they're 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:07.240 not good artists or they're just they're just not there yet. 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:12.359 But you know, I wasn't always there, So you just 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:15.119 keep going. You get better, but you still have to, like, 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:18.480 don't go rob banks and support that habit. Yeah, you 0:20:18.520 --> 0:20:21.640 gotta keep a job. If you've got kids and responsibilities, 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:24.359 you gotta do what you gotta do to survive, you know, 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:30.119 including eating alone round exactly. And I'm enjoying mine. She 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:33.560 didn't look like I have to ask questions and have 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:36.440 a whole interview. But the second the cameras cut, I'm 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:38.720 gonna be taking a couple of extra fights. What season 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:40.960 are you on a walling out? Now? We just wrap 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:45.240 season sixteen? Sixteen seasons? What would you say is the 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:48.240 one thing you walked away learning the most of benefiting 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:52.760 the most from walling out? I would say that even 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:58.280 though as steady as that gig is it can still 0:20:58.359 --> 0:21:05.880 go away like that. Speaking of that, when the whole 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:10.359 controversy with the Jewish and wilding out and some of 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:15.280 the comments Nick made, did a part of you panic 0:21:15.320 --> 0:21:17.159 a little bit that there was a chance that the 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:20.280 show wasn'tna come back, or have you been there before 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:27.160 so you were prepared? I was not prepared. UM kind 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:29.840 of panned a little bit because I mean, at this point, 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:36.560 I have a family, and you know, this is my 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:38.359 main source of income. I mean, I've been on the 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:40.600 show of since day one, you know what I mean? 0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:44.840 And so, uh, I literally if all I did was 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:49.800 wilding out, that's all I have to do. Yeah. So yeah, 0:21:49.880 --> 0:21:54.560 So so I panicked a little bit. But then, I mean, 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:57.159 I know Nick and I kind of understood everything that 0:21:57.200 --> 0:21:58.960 was kind of was happening, and I was in touch 0:21:59.000 --> 0:22:03.000 with Um, with other producers on the show, the executive 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:05.560 producers was in touch with Nick and everybody. So we 0:22:05.560 --> 0:22:08.320 were having conversations, and I felt confident that we were 0:22:08.320 --> 0:22:11.000 going to come back, you know. And then one of 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:17.040 the the most um negative people on this show and 0:22:17.160 --> 0:22:19.480 one of the most negative producers on the show, he 0:22:19.560 --> 0:22:22.439 called me and he said, we'll be back we just 0:22:22.480 --> 0:22:26.760 gotta work some things out. Once he felt confident that 0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:31.280 we'd be back, then, um, I felt really confident. But 0:22:31.400 --> 0:22:34.440 I just you know, it doesn't matter how much money 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:37.280 you have when money is just going out. I mean, 0:22:37.280 --> 0:22:39.639 because it wasn't just the pandemic, it was when the 0:22:39.680 --> 0:22:42.040 show went away, and then you couldn't get other gigs 0:22:42.080 --> 0:22:44.960 because you know, there weren't many other gigs you could 0:22:44.960 --> 0:22:46.720 get that we're paying the kind of money that you 0:22:46.760 --> 0:22:50.360 needed to sustain the lifestyle that you already have. So 0:22:51.000 --> 0:22:56.159 when that happened, I was like, Okay, I'm confident that 0:22:56.200 --> 0:22:58.760 we're gonna come back. When when are we gonna come 0:22:58.800 --> 0:23:01.600 back now? Because pretty soon, when money is just going 0:23:01.600 --> 0:23:03.879 out and doesn't matter how much you have, you know 0:23:04.320 --> 0:23:06.840 you gotta take care of that overhead. No, I'm just 0:23:06.960 --> 0:23:11.760 curious just to get into the Devil's advocates say it 0:23:11.880 --> 0:23:14.679 didn't come back, and you know you have your family, 0:23:15.920 --> 0:23:19.400 would you ever like if pandemic because during the pandemic 0:23:19.480 --> 0:23:22.360 there was no tape and there was absolutely nothing going on. 0:23:23.160 --> 0:23:27.880 Would you ever, you know, do whatever job. I love 0:23:27.960 --> 0:23:31.600 that you are really enjoying this dish. I'm gonna save 0:23:31.640 --> 0:23:37.800