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Speaker 1: Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.

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Speaker 1: I'm Colleen with your host, brought my apron, brought the

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Speaker 1: girl streets. Let's go check out day Storm Power's house up. So, hey,

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Speaker 1: go on in. This is for me, all right, come

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Speaker 1: on in, Hey, welcome to you, broke as bitches to

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Speaker 1: my home. I'm gonna straight up, We're gonna start up

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Speaker 1: in here right here. Follow me on in here. This

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Speaker 1: is my podcast last studio room. Um, so you won't

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Speaker 1: get one of these when you're broke. You have to

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Speaker 1: actually start making money, which I decided to do in life,

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Speaker 1: and then I decided to get me a podcast from

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Speaker 1: So this is why I shoot all of the music

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Speaker 1: and all the podcasts and videos. If we walk over

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Speaker 1: here inside this door, if I showed you what was

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Speaker 1: in here, I'd had to kill you. So over and

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Speaker 1: here if you want here. This was a garage, but

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Speaker 1: I decided to turn this into the set of the

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Speaker 1: Retro Show. It's really beautiful. I'm shooting my new series

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Speaker 1: Everything Wretch. Well everything eighties, nineties and two thousand's happened

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Speaker 1: on the Retro Show set. Now, most people they use

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Speaker 1: this room as a garage, but fun that every room

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Speaker 1: in your house has to be usable space. This is

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Speaker 1: my illustrious UH Trophy and slash metal case by the way. Today,

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Speaker 1: actually I got two new nominations for UM the Streaming Awards.

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Speaker 1: The Streaming Awards is the biggest awards show for any

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Speaker 1: type of digital content. I just got two new nominations.

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Speaker 1: That's kind of dope. I got four streams. I've been

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Speaker 1: nominated ever since. Streaming has actually used to look like this, y'all.

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Speaker 1: They was shaped like bubble gum rappers, but they're not

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Speaker 1: like that. This is my Emmy nomination. That's my YouTube

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Speaker 1: when I hit a million back in twenty eleven. Now

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Speaker 1: as we come into here, this is all my dining area,

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Speaker 1: all the artwork I did that art piece right there,

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Speaker 1: that's my artwork. And as we swing around, as I

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Speaker 1: swing around here, this is my kitchen. And this is

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Speaker 1: where we're gonna actually shoot eating while broke. And this

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Speaker 1: actually kitchen right here. This is actually an amazing in kitchen.

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Speaker 1: I need to do something with it. Now let me

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Speaker 1: swing on around this way. You have my living room

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Speaker 1: area right here. This area is used a lot. I

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Speaker 1: don't know how big this TV is. I think it's like,

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Speaker 1: I just say, give me a TV that's bigger than me.

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Speaker 1: And I think they they successfully pulled that off, because

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Speaker 1: when you broke, you don't get none of this stuff.

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Speaker 1: So you get all the ship that you want when

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Speaker 1: you actually become somebody. And I said, if I'm longer

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Speaker 1: biggest selfie mirror in the world right here, by the way.

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Speaker 1: I figured. I just grabbed one of these and put

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Speaker 1: my hands and I don't even like taking pictures. I

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Speaker 1: just had it because I got a lot of female

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Speaker 1: friends and girls like taking picture, so I got it

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Speaker 1: for them. I don't use it. Actually, nine in the

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Speaker 1: go upstairs. This is artwork right here by my boy

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Speaker 1: Don Benjamin. Right here you get the artwork on the wall.

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Speaker 1: This piece of artwork was done by me. Piece of

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Speaker 1: artwork on that room, my friendly am Viva the artwork.

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Speaker 1: We don't say master bedroom anymore because black lives matter

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Speaker 1: and we don't have masters anymore. So this is the

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Speaker 1: premier bedroom. I decided that I was gonna put a

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Speaker 1: share and end the leer in the bedroom, which was

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Speaker 1: pretty cool. I like colors. Designed it all myself. I

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Speaker 1: like the black and white effect that we brought to

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Speaker 1: the room. I think it's really cool. And and this

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Speaker 1: growing up, I think my closet stopped about here, but

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Speaker 1: now I can actually walk back about twenty ft to

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Speaker 1: I got my affirmations, my twelve month ago affirmations on

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Speaker 1: the on the wall. I gotta get five million in

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Speaker 1: the bank or my Facebook accounts see my family and

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Speaker 1: the window as we work our way to this bathroom here.

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Speaker 1: This bathroom right here is the only bathroom place in

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Speaker 1: it was pretty damn cool. Then across adjacent to this,

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Speaker 1: much use. I gotta needify it. But we have everything

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Speaker 1: from choir outfits to ban outfits. We have every mask

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Speaker 1: think of, every hat, every top, we have cop outfits.

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Speaker 1: We have tactical wear. We have skeletons, everything that you

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Speaker 1: need for any type of comedy sketch that we collected

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Speaker 1: over the years. We put them all into this this

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Speaker 1: this closet right here. So that's basically I don't go

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Speaker 1: And uh, thanks for coming to my Oh one more thing.

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Speaker 1: When you get a house, you've gotta have a book

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Speaker 1: that you can pull that leads you into a club room. Right,

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Speaker 1: so this is my uh I like to call this

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Speaker 1: get a home of your own. Yeah, so you gotta

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Speaker 1: have a bone bone room. I don't even know you

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Speaker 1: had this. I can't believe this a theater, a secret room,

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Speaker 1: I would have been brought you upstairs. I don't even

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Speaker 1: use the rooms in here. I told you I only

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Speaker 1: use temper Center the house. We only watched two movies

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Speaker 1: unless someone wants to come in and spend on the poe.

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Speaker 1: You want to spend on the boat? No, I'm good,

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Speaker 1: I'm good, But I want you to cook something to

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Speaker 1: of how you acquired all this. So why can you know?

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Speaker 1: Maybe howse sit sometimes? Come on, you should have said

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Speaker 1: it to that camera camera. Welcome to another episode of

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Speaker 1: Eating While Broke. Today we decided to step outside of

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Speaker 1: the podcast studio and into someone's house. Whose house they

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Speaker 1: Storm Power's House, entrepreneurs, social media mogul. Here we are

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Speaker 1: about to eat probably one of the brokest dishes of

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Speaker 1: the season. So the broker the dish, probably the better

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Speaker 1: the story. So the question is, day Storm, what are

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Speaker 1: you gonna have us eating today? I'm gonna have us

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Speaker 1: eating syrup soudes. Now, there's a science to the syrup sundwich.

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Speaker 1: It has two ingredients. So you have your bread. This

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Speaker 1: is for you, thank you, This is for me than

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Speaker 1: we in the hood now right, yeah, and a mansion

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Speaker 1: in the hood we share and you have your syrup. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's it. So do you want me to make yeah?

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Speaker 1: Make one? Okay, this is how you make a syrup

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Speaker 1: sundwich here I thought we would need. How you're done, Damn,

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Speaker 1: I'm very impressed with your that's it. So now you

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Speaker 1: just folded. I'll make me one bone like that, and

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Speaker 1: you you do, you do this angle? You can. But

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Speaker 1: just you folded a half. We don't get two pieces

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Speaker 1: of bread. No, because you have family. Family has to

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Speaker 1: eat too. Don't be standy. So you take it, you

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Speaker 1: fold it in a half. Yeah, and then and then

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Speaker 1: you eat it. Yeah, you eat it from the back

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Speaker 1: because you've got to save the ends for dinner. Is

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Speaker 1: this real? You save the ends for dinner? Yeah, well

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Speaker 1: ends are different. They have a different flavor to them,

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Speaker 1: you know. So you pick the edges and that's like

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Speaker 1: a totally different meal. Maybe if the middle is too sweet,

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Speaker 1: the sweetness. No, because you just take the sweetness. I mean,

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Speaker 1: look how the food comber. So therefore you don't have

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Speaker 1: that's a lot. I don't even I can't believe you

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Speaker 1: know if it's just too much syrup, but I'm surprised

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Speaker 1: you made it to live. So that's where didn't this

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Speaker 1: I think I think what happens is you run out

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Speaker 1: So we ran out of food and my mother knew

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Speaker 1: someone who worked at the super market. At most supermarkets

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Speaker 1: the leftover bread, You've got something ill storm you were

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Speaker 1: seriously that broke obviously, I mean, yeah, you know, how

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Speaker 1: do you come from syrup sandwiches to please? Can I

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Speaker 1: move in with you? It sounds amazing. This is just

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Speaker 1: for the set a lot. It was just a lot

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Speaker 1: lot of work. And I had a plan hit it

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Speaker 1: all in my head. You had a plan. But in

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Speaker 1: that environment, sitting there with your siblings, how many siblings

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Speaker 1: did you have? I have seven siblings, so there's eight

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Speaker 1: of us, and so was my mother. The eight of us,

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Speaker 1: my two cousins. My cousin had a child, so it's

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Speaker 1: about thirteen of us in one So one loaf of

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Speaker 1: a couple of loaves and if he was lucky to

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Speaker 1: get some bagels bagels last, because they thinker you get

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Speaker 1: the bagels, bagels more dents. So if you get if

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Speaker 1: you get the bagels, good for two days. What I

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Speaker 1: love about your story is the fact that I can

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Speaker 1: honestly say I was never this broke, and the fact

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Speaker 1: that in your house, I'm assuming, did you guys see

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Speaker 1: yourselves as poor or broke? No, it was cool and

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Speaker 1: it was cool. We didn't. I think I think it's

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Speaker 1: about who your parents is, right. My mother and never

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Speaker 1: puzzles and things to keep us busy while she would

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Speaker 1: outfits upstairs in the closet, so she was like yeah.

427
00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:38,480
Speaker 1: So she was sitting there with her wine in her hands.

428
00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:40,359
Speaker 1: She's sitting back like this and ship. And I'm like,

429
00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:42,520
Speaker 1: we even the outfits upstairs in the closet and then

430
00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:45,080
Speaker 1: just like go upstairs in the in the closet in

431
00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:46,400
Speaker 1: your office. So I ro was up to the top

432
00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:48,240
Speaker 1: of stairs. She lived in this mansion of ship. So

433
00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:49,480
Speaker 1: I got up to the top of the stairs and

434
00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:51,159
Speaker 1: when I opened the closet or whatever, there was a

435
00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:55,240
Speaker 1: panda outfit. So I had to wear a panda outfit

436
00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:57,879
Speaker 1: with the it was so fucked up, So I had

437
00:19:57,880 --> 00:19:59,800
Speaker 1: to wear a panta outfit with the mid section dog.

438
00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:02,160
Speaker 1: So like my dick's out and I'm just like staying

439
00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:04,480
Speaker 1: just like dancing in front of her, you know what

440
00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:06,280
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like, and she's just sitting up there and

441
00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:08,520
Speaker 1: just enjoying it, like, yeah, my husband doesn't have one.

442
00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:12,479
Speaker 1: And then she was just like, man, it was like

443
00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:15,119
Speaker 1: it was a it was a thing. Was that like

444
00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:18,240
Speaker 1: one of your last escort sessions? No? No, I think

445
00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:21,359
Speaker 1: my last one was after this woman blindfolded me. And

446
00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:22,879
Speaker 1: then so I see her at the door and she

447
00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:24,680
Speaker 1: puts a blindfold on me. I turned around and what

448
00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:28,040
Speaker 1: backwards into her house and ship. She lays down, ladies

449
00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:30,040
Speaker 1: me down on the bed and she starts reading me

450
00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:33,680
Speaker 1: like children's stories and ship. Oh yeah, I think that would.

451
00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:36,920
Speaker 1: I was. I was. I was, really, you know, So

452
00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:44,440
Speaker 1: how do you go from all these experiences and hitting

453
00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:48,239
Speaker 1: these little bomps side hustling and still saying, Okay, I'm

454
00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:52,359
Speaker 1: gonna keep going. Motivation? You know, Like, I think what

455
00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:55,240
Speaker 1: motivated me was seeing what my mother went through, and

456
00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:57,400
Speaker 1: I'm like, if she could take care of like twelve

457
00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:00,760
Speaker 1: people and she didn't complain once. I never seen someone

458
00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:04,480
Speaker 1: ever not complained like this woman. And she loved life.

459
00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:06,480
Speaker 1: She would just have fun. Well, we're gonna have fun.

460
00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:08,119
Speaker 1: All of us is gonna go out. She never was like,

461
00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:10,000
Speaker 1: oh my god, the bills are not paid and we

462
00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:13,199
Speaker 1: were moving. I went to five elementary schools, four middle schools,

463
00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:15,760
Speaker 1: to high schools, so you gotta think we were getting

464
00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:19,960
Speaker 1: evicted so much growing up. I mean, I never knew.

465
00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,200
Speaker 1: I dropped down to school in ninth grade. I didn't

466
00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:24,640
Speaker 1: even finish high school. I didn't do champ leven twelve.

467
00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:26,359
Speaker 1: I went back to go to college when I got

468
00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:28,200
Speaker 1: my g D and I got a free ride because

469
00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:31,159
Speaker 1: I was a sprinter. But I did never even finished

470
00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:33,440
Speaker 1: high school, don't even I don't even did prom or anything.

471
00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:36,040
Speaker 1: But she we were getting evicted the whole time, and

472
00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:38,320
Speaker 1: we thought that we would just move into a better place.

473
00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:41,439
Speaker 1: She's like, we moving again. Yeah, yeah, We're like, oh,

474
00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:44,679
Speaker 1: we moving again. She made it a moment instead of

475
00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:47,600
Speaker 1: making it the opposite, because most people will take that

476
00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:49,679
Speaker 1: experience and be like, oh man, we're getting kicked out.

477
00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:51,280
Speaker 1: She's like, we get to go and get some new

478
00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:53,000
Speaker 1: walls to draw one because every time when we get

479
00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:54,800
Speaker 1: a new place, I draw mirrors on the wall. I

480
00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:56,760
Speaker 1: was an artist, like all the paintings in my house.

481
00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:59,000
Speaker 1: I did most of the paintings, and like that one,

482
00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:01,600
Speaker 1: the one behind us, these paintings I did. My mother

483
00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:04,440
Speaker 1: knew that I loved art, and she just sit here

484
00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:06,000
Speaker 1: just drawing the walls. We're gonna be out here in

485
00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:08,000
Speaker 1: a few months anyway. So I would draw murals on

486
00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:10,840
Speaker 1: the walls, and eventually that paid off because by time

487
00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:12,760
Speaker 1: I was sixteen seventeen years old, I would get a

488
00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:14,680
Speaker 1: few hundred bucks, maybe a thousand bucks here and there

489
00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,840
Speaker 1: to actually draw in churches and the mosques and synagogues,

490
00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:20,040
Speaker 1: to draw like you know, the Last Supper and things

491
00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:22,280
Speaker 1: on walls and things so all that kind of like

492
00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:25,560
Speaker 1: just growing up. She would keep us busy and active

493
00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:27,680
Speaker 1: with what we did. So we never like we would

494
00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:30,160
Speaker 1: build forts and you know like mahm, I we get

495
00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:32,720
Speaker 1: no furnaces like brought sheets, just built forts, you know,

496
00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:35,679
Speaker 1: so we would do she would. She was just clever.

497
00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:37,959
Speaker 1: She was the perfect like mother. You know. So I

498
00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:39,960
Speaker 1: always do life. I just feel like I'm gonna figure

499
00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:42,360
Speaker 1: it out. I don't care what goes wrong. I'm gonna

500
00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:44,440
Speaker 1: look at what goes right and then I'm gonna figure

501
00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:46,760
Speaker 1: out how to make it work, you know, no matter

502
00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:49,320
Speaker 1: who I'm with, whether I mean, I've injured myself this

503
00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,720
Speaker 1: that another, And I remember when I broke my knee

504
00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:54,000
Speaker 1: and the doctor told me, he said, you'll never even

505
00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:56,480
Speaker 1: walk properly again. And you've seen me. You work out

506
00:22:56,480 --> 00:23:00,520
Speaker 1: with me, I'm jumping out, spreading, dunking basketballs out with you.

507
00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:04,960
Speaker 1: I don't let you know. So when she she was,

508
00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:07,359
Speaker 1: she had that same attitude. And although she didn't have

509
00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:10,000
Speaker 1: the business mind behind it like I do have, she

510
00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:12,320
Speaker 1: had the attitude that lets you know that I'm we're

511
00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:14,440
Speaker 1: going to be unstoppable, you know, and I think that's

512
00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:19,440
Speaker 1: very important. So now you've been around as an entrepreneur

513
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,800
Speaker 1: and a social media mogal forever, it seems I feel

514
00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:26,000
Speaker 1: like every time a new platform comes out, you're like

515
00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:31,040
Speaker 1: so versatile. You literally, I, for lack of better word,

516
00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:33,880
Speaker 1: I feel like birth millionaires, like everyone in your circle,

517
00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:38,040
Speaker 1: you played a tremendous role in their success. So my

518
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:41,240
Speaker 1: question is is how are you able to keep keep

519
00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:45,720
Speaker 1: transitioning every time something new new happens them? So, I

520
00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:47,840
Speaker 1: know I'm getting older, you know what I'm saying, I'm

521
00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:51,000
Speaker 1: them at forty, So like what so, what what I'm

522
00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,000
Speaker 1: gonna do is I find new people, new talent, and

523
00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:56,639
Speaker 1: then they're going to keep your name a lot, you

524
00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:59,119
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It's almost like the Gospel and

525
00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:02,080
Speaker 1: people continue to talk about Jesus, Jesus gonna be main Jesus,

526
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,200
Speaker 1: you know. So I look at it like that. Every

527
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:07,240
Speaker 1: time I find someone new that's talented, I don't want

528
00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:09,320
Speaker 1: to be your manager. I don't want to be your agent.

529
00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:11,720
Speaker 1: If we're cool and we get along, I'm your friend

530
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:13,880
Speaker 1: and it's a real friendship. You know what I'm saying.

531
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,240
Speaker 1: I don't want anything from you and return. I already

532
00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:18,439
Speaker 1: know that if you I culdate a real friendship and

533
00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:20,240
Speaker 1: I made more millionaires than a lot of the like

534
00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,720
Speaker 1: Jay Z said, right, that's just what it is. So

535
00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:26,080
Speaker 1: tons of millionaires. And what I do is if they're

536
00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:29,600
Speaker 1: my friends. People going to have interviews with these successful people,

537
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:32,239
Speaker 1: They're gonna sit at eating while broke and they're going

538
00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:33,639
Speaker 1: I was like, damn, you were like, yeah, how did

539
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:35,480
Speaker 1: you get your start? They're like, oh yeah, they storm

540
00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:37,080
Speaker 1: helping me out. You know, he was the first thing

541
00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:38,679
Speaker 1: that kind of helped me get it to it. So

542
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:40,840
Speaker 1: they keep my name alive. And at the end of

543
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:45,200
Speaker 1: the day, if you're managing someone taking right, I can't

544
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,600
Speaker 1: afford their rates anymore. Man technically I could, but I'm

545
00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:51,280
Speaker 1: not gonna pay them hundreds of thousand dollars post right.

546
00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:53,560
Speaker 1: They're going to post about it for free. If I

547
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:55,600
Speaker 1: come out with a food company, if I come out

548
00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:57,840
Speaker 1: with a clothing brand, if I come out with new music,

549
00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:00,920
Speaker 1: all my friends that have helped becomes a scessible. They're

550
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:03,800
Speaker 1: going to show love because I showed them love. Now,

551
00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:05,880
Speaker 1: how are you able to like when you look at

552
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:09,919
Speaker 1: how many platforms do you transition from you went from YouTube,

553
00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 1: started my space, YouTube to YouTube ye ye to Instagram TikTok,

554
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:21,720
Speaker 1: But you remain I would like to say, in the

555
00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,480
Speaker 1: world of like boxing, it would be like you remain undefeated.

556
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:26,959
Speaker 1: You're always at the top. How are you able to

557
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,840
Speaker 1: transition and choose the platform? I think I think what

558
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,600
Speaker 1: it is is a lot of people don't realize that

559
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,680
Speaker 1: there's a different audience on every platform. And although I'm

560
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:39,320
Speaker 1: not the biggest on any platform, um one of the

561
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:41,960
Speaker 1: best on every platform, if that makes sense. And you're

562
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:44,239
Speaker 1: the most consistent, and I try to stay consistent, right

563
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:48,320
Speaker 1: because on every platform there's a different audience. Like my

564
00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:50,679
Speaker 1: YouTube audience don't even know that I do. They know

565
00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:52,280
Speaker 1: me for my music, they don't even know that do

566
00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:56,280
Speaker 1: comedy sketches. I'll do comedy like this is terrible, you know. Yeah,

567
00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:58,480
Speaker 1: I've been doing this for years, bro. So when I

568
00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:00,800
Speaker 1: realized that years ago, I said, they're not coming out

569
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:04,520
Speaker 1: of YouTube, the people on Instagram and not leaving Instagram, Well, lazy,

570
00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:06,800
Speaker 1: then I'm going to leave that platform. So I said, well,

571
00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:09,199
Speaker 1: then I'm just gonna have to grow in every platform.

572
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:11,320
Speaker 1: So I'll just make sure I grow on Facebook. I'll

573
00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:12,879
Speaker 1: make sure I grow in Instagram and make sure I'll

574
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:16,000
Speaker 1: grow on YouTube. And sometimes I'll just cross reference and

575
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:17,879
Speaker 1: just put the same content on some But for the

576
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:19,720
Speaker 1: most part, I try to say, what's the best thing

577
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:21,760
Speaker 1: I need to do for YouTube, what's the best thing

578
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 1: I need to do for Facebook, What's the best thing

579
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,199
Speaker 1: I need to do for Instagram? Because they're different worlds.

580
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 1: My YouTube content is not like my Instagram content because

581
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:32,560
Speaker 1: YouTube is more of a cold following the people that

582
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:36,119
Speaker 1: really like involved. Instagram is more like universal, you just

583
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,680
Speaker 1: have everybody there. Facebook is like more family oriented, right,

584
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:41,840
Speaker 1: It's like that's the people's from back in school and everything.

585
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,000
Speaker 1: So you once you learn who the audience is, you

586
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:45,840
Speaker 1: make the content for the audience. And how are you

587
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:49,639
Speaker 1: able to depict that? Like, say, for instance, let's choose Vine. Okay,

588
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:52,399
Speaker 1: how are you able You you killed Vine, and I

589
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:54,680
Speaker 1: know there's an amazing backstory that you know, I want

590
00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:58,000
Speaker 1: everybody to hear about, um, but you killed line. But

591
00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:01,160
Speaker 1: how are you able to pinpoint that audience and cultivate

592
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 1: an amazing elite group of talented individuals. But I think

593
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,639
Speaker 1: for me it was it was high schoolers, juniors and

594
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 1: seniors will are the people who decide what's the dope.

595
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:15,919
Speaker 1: I don't care what anyone says. That's because you have

596
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:19,680
Speaker 1: to understand freshman and sophomores want to be like juniors

597
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 1: and seniors once. Once you're finished being a senior in

598
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:25,200
Speaker 1: high school, you go to college and life hits you.

599
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 1: You have to get a job, you have to do that,

600
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:28,400
Speaker 1: you have to do the other. When you're in middle school,

601
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,640
Speaker 1: you still trying to figure it out. Elementary school doesn't

602
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 1: really count, and once you've grown, you don't really count.

603
00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:35,919
Speaker 1: You're just doing what's hot. But when you're a junior

604
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,119
Speaker 1: and you're senior in high school, that's the moment of

605
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:41,159
Speaker 1: life when everything is just cool. You just don't want

606
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,200
Speaker 1: it because it's fucking cool. You don't care, You don't

607
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,639
Speaker 1: really have too many responsibilities. You do, but you don't. Right.

608
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,400
Speaker 1: So I've seen what the juniors and seniors on. When

609
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:51,200
Speaker 1: Vine came out, I was like, you know at the time,

610
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:52,639
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh my god, Like the kids

611
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:54,919
Speaker 1: are really on you know that. You know, they're on

612
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:59,200
Speaker 1: this app not just because it's popular, but because it's cool.

613
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,639
Speaker 1: They just love using it. So whenever they're doing I'm

614
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:04,399
Speaker 1: like all right, I gotta kind of like get involved

615
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:08,480
Speaker 1: and see what they're on. Yeah. So I would say

616
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,800
Speaker 1: that juniors and seniors to me are tricky audience because

617
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 1: unlike elementaries kids that just buy into whatever Elmo, whatever

618
00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:17,159
Speaker 1: you put in front of them, middle schoolers that are

619
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:19,400
Speaker 1: still trying to figure it out, and then everybody else

620
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 1: that's looking up to the junior and seniors, juniors and

621
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:24,200
Speaker 1: seniors kind of know their power and they're like, don't

622
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 1: try to sell me this. I'm gonna find the crack

623
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:30,760
Speaker 1: in the covie and the jay Z under the rock in. Yeah,

624
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:33,439
Speaker 1: they're like the Nike, Like Nike always signed someone before

625
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:35,880
Speaker 1: they propped there like oh right before you pop, here's

626
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 1: this check you know the end. I feel like, how

627
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 1: are you able to say this is the platform that

628
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:45,240
Speaker 1: the juniors and seniors are going to buy into? Do

629
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:47,480
Speaker 1: you wait like a couple of weeks? Because you're on it,

630
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:51,960
Speaker 1: you you kind of can feel it, especially if you've

631
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 1: been doing something for a while. I think one thing

632
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 1: that I've been blessed with is the knock to know

633
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:59,720
Speaker 1: of someone's still. I really feel when I see talent

634
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:01,520
Speaker 1: and a lot of people like we don't see no talent.

635
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 1: How do you see talent that person? I don't know.

636
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 1: I just whether And it's not just the talent to

637
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 1: sing or rapid dance or have a specific skill set.

638
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 1: It's the talent the most I feel the hardest talent

639
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,479
Speaker 1: in the world is keeping people's attention. So like if

640
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 1: you look at the Kardashians, for example, I think they're

641
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:20,720
Speaker 1: very talented because a lot of people can't keep people's

642
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,880
Speaker 1: attention for a decade just people watching you. You know

643
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, that's very difficult to do. Not a

644
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 1: lot of people might say, oh my god, they don't

645
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 1: do nothing. Yes they do. They got millions of people

646
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:32,280
Speaker 1: just watching you. You know how hard is they have?

647
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:34,680
Speaker 1: People just want to see what you do. And that's

648
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 1: a talent in itself, and they did it for a

649
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 1: long time, but forever, you know what I'm saying. Little here, No, it'swhere, right,

650
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 1: His ass on Instagram is asked, on YouTube, there's asked,

651
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 1: there's free ass on porn hub, right, So it can't

652
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 1: be just the ask right, So it's it's more than

653
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 1: that to be able to keep people's attention. So I

654
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 1: see that in people and I'm like, Wow, this person

655
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:58,560
Speaker 1: can keep my attention because I have a very very

656
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 1: short attentions. Man, if someone keeps my attention, I'm like,

657
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 1: oh my god, then they have it. They have it.

658
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 1: And then if you have an ability to come along

659
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:07,720
Speaker 1: with it, whether you sing or dance or wrapper or

660
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 1: speak or anything, then you're just doubling it down on on.

661
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 1: You're going to be a star, you know, And that's

662
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 1: that's what it is. So I know we got a

663
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 1: wrap up scene. Okay, I have to hit you with

664
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:24,479
Speaker 1: this when it comes to vine, Okay, I want to

665
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 1: hear the rise in the fall. Now we're friends. I've

666
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 1: heard you know some of the behind the scenes when

667
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:32,760
Speaker 1: it came to buying, but I would love it if

668
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 1: you could share how one misstep on UND's behalf took

669
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 1: down an entire platform. So we're vying um. One thing

670
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 1: that we did was I was I was, I was before,

671
00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:48,720
Speaker 1: I was before the times. When it comes to short

672
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 1: form comedy and sketches, I was doing short form sketches

673
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:55,360
Speaker 1: on YouTube, like really short form, and no one wanted

674
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 1: to accept it. It was like this is whack. No

675
00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 1: one wants to do this, Get out of here. And

676
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 1: I remember my company failed and we lost millions of dollars.

677
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 1: I mean, we did. The companies just flopped and I

678
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:05,960
Speaker 1: was like, wow, like what am I going to do?

679
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 1: But I had already had a lot of people looking

680
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 1: up to me, like you know, it's like this is

681
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 1: what you know we looked up to you. You have.

682
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 1: A company was called Forefront TV like Batch, and we

683
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,560
Speaker 1: had like you know, the whole squad was good and

684
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 1: Page Kennedy and all the all of the guys are

685
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 1: mostly the black and brown creators who that you see

686
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 1: today or on the internet. But I was the president

687
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 1: of the company and I kind of felt like I

688
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 1: failed them. One day, I think I saw Kevin Hart

689
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 1: on on Vine and he wasn't doing comedy sketches or anything,

690
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 1: but it was an app that people would do short

691
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 1: selfies to let you know where they were. Type down,

692
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:43,800
Speaker 1: Hey guys, I'm out here this way man. I was like, yo,

693
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:49,240
Speaker 1: suppose we do a sketch in six seconds on the platform.

694
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 1: I said that everybody would watch it and and it'll

695
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:56,400
Speaker 1: be something that's different for the world. So I remember

696
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,240
Speaker 1: me Batch, my boy Kane and Small Shepherd. We did

697
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 1: the first actually sketch online and it went super viral,

698
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 1: like world start picked it up. Whole bunch of other

699
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:07,479
Speaker 1: places pick it up, but we did like a sketch.

700
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 1: So then we called ourselves viners, which wasn't a phrase yet.

701
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 1: It was like your way out here vining with the

702
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 1: l A Viners. So then Detroit got involved in New

703
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 1: York and um, you know, Philly and Florida, and then

704
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,720
Speaker 1: it became vining became a thing that we kind of created.

705
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 1: So we started vinding and then from there the problem

706
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 1: was as we grew on Vine, we have millions and

707
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:31,120
Speaker 1: millions and millions of fans. Remember even Badget Broke Againness

708
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 1: world record for the most followers of Againness gave him

709
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:37,239
Speaker 1: a black or something right. And then what happened was

710
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 1: I went to Karen over at Vine. That's funny, my

711
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:44,000
Speaker 1: name is Karen, and I said, uh, Karen, because on Vine,

712
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 1: what happens if enough kids flag your content, it automatically

713
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 1: gets pulled down. So I emailed Karen. I said, Karen,

714
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 1: we're the biggest viners in the world, and these kids

715
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,440
Speaker 1: are pulling down our content and then it's not inappropriate,

716
00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 1: it's appropriate content, but their haters pulling down our content.

717
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 1: We just want an email from you guys. So that

718
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 1: we can contact you and let you know, this is

719
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 1: our content getting pulled down. Can you put it back up?

720
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 1: Because we lose our momentum and this is our job.

721
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 1: Companies are coming to us paying us six figures to

722
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,640
Speaker 1: post bones, maybe given a hundred thousand dollars for one

723
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 1: vine just so they can have like a background in it,

724
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 1: or companies like they would just pay you for what though,

725
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 1: to create a six seconds to create a six second company,

726
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 1: whether it was you know, bad just different companies that

727
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 1: was big at the time, or just pay us like

728
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 1: his fifty tho dollars give us six seconds, hundreds give

729
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 1: us six seconds. It was just one of those type

730
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: of things, right And at this point they didn't want

731
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: to give us that, and we said, we also want

732
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:43,240
Speaker 1: one more thing. We want to be the link out

733
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 1: to our other accounts or whether me, YouTube, Facebook or whatever.

734
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 1: They said no. So I was like, well, we are

735
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 1: the you know, the people are coming to watch us

736
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 1: with the reason that the after lives. She said, you're

737
00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 1: the one percent. There's nine percent of people using our platform,

738
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 1: and you are the one percent. We're not going to

739
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 1: do that for you. I said, well, I suppose I

740
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 1: told the one percent to walk. Well, then what are

741
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 1: you gonna do? Well, you tell the one can sit

742
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 1: to walk? We still go, oh, all right, bitch, I'm

743
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 1: gonna call the one percent. So I called up you know,

744
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,440
Speaker 1: by a hundred of the top creators in the world

745
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 1: Vine at the time, and I said, oh, We're not

746
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 1: gonna do this no more. Let's go and walk and

747
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:27,719
Speaker 1: go over Instagram. I got fifteen seconds anyway, So we dipped.

748
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 1: And when we dipped, I think the company got fifteen

749
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 1: seconds anyways. Yeah, so when we dipped, the company lost

750
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 1: about sixty percent of their profit in the legend. Within

751
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 1: a week, Vine crashed. I mean you been looking at it,

752
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 1: Remember they lost couple hundred million dollars and they like

753
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 1: fell off. So then Karen calls me up, Hey, thanks

754
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 1: a high. Can I have a meeting with you guys?

755
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So we probably met with

756
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:57,399
Speaker 1: Karen on at sixteen hundred Buying Street, which is where

757
00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 1: a lot of the Viners stayed. Hilariously, um, and we

758
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 1: set in the conference room myself with twenty other viners,

759
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 1: and I told her in that day, I was like, look,

760
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 1: you know, if we want to continue to use your platform, once,

761
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 1: I want you pay everybody in the room, you know,

762
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:12,800
Speaker 1: a million dollars and I want two million dollars for

763
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:16,319
Speaker 1: for pain and soffer. So um uh. They agreed to

764
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:18,880
Speaker 1: pay all the viners in the room the money, and

765
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 1: we were supposed to post two vines a week to

766
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,239
Speaker 1: get the numbers back up. But someone in the room

767
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,799
Speaker 1: at the time told fifteen others about the deal, and

768
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:30,960
Speaker 1: those fifteen others wanted moneys too. But it's like, we

769
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 1: don't have forty five million dollars. We got twenty, so

770
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 1: they wasn't able to pay. So no one ever went

771
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:40,399
Speaker 1: back to mind and buying Die damn Karen. So at

772
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 1: one point you didn't mention that like you were you

773
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 1: you were a millionaire, you had success, and then at

774
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:49,520
Speaker 1: one point you lost twice up twice. I remember. I

775
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 1: mean one time I had like seven million dollars on

776
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 1: my account and then I went down like seven seven

777
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:58,799
Speaker 1: thousand and things. What are you thinking at that time? Um?

778
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 1: I was like, yo, I'm not as broke as I

779
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:03,279
Speaker 1: was when I was in New York, so I could

780
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:05,319
Speaker 1: get it back again. There was more money than I had.

781
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 1: It's more money when I had when I was living

782
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 1: in the subway. So I was like, I know the blueprint.

783
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:11,320
Speaker 1: I just gotta figure out and not make the same mistakes,

784
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 1: you know how like you fixing? A part of it

785
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:16,239
Speaker 1: was like, maybe this is my time to be broke

786
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 1: because I've been. You weren't embarrassed, No, like I'm gonna

787
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:25,439
Speaker 1: go from living in the in the hills coach. I

788
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:28,840
Speaker 1: wasn't because I think what people have to realize is

789
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 1: like when you look at success and becoming successful, you

790
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 1: ask yourself, what's the worst thing that can happen if

791
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 1: you take this chance? And the worst thing that can

792
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:40,200
Speaker 1: happen is you go back to where you were. And

793
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 1: I was already there, and your mom did make it

794
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,359
Speaker 1: seem painful, right, So I've already been here, So how

795
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:48,239
Speaker 1: can I be afraid of something that I've already seen?

796
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:49,840
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. It's like someone trying to

797
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 1: shock you and you're surprised, and then they try to

798
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 1: do it again. It's like, yeah, I don't know, You're

799
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:55,800
Speaker 1: gonna be right there, So I'm not shocked. I just

800
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:57,800
Speaker 1: got to figure out how to get around this obstacle

801
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 1: so that I can move forward. There's times when I

802
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 1: go through financial problems like everyone does. You know I

803
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:05,239
Speaker 1: no matter what skill or level you are, you're going

804
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 1: to see financial hardships because you have finance, you have

805
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:10,440
Speaker 1: the franchise tax board, you have the I R s,

806
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:12,799
Speaker 1: you have things you invest in that don't go well.

807
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 1: Many invest because in order to continue to be successful,

808
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:18,320
Speaker 1: we have to make big investments and take big chances.

809
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 1: That's just what it is. You can't be safe. So

810
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 1: at the time, if I'm taking a big chance and

811
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:24,400
Speaker 1: I invest a million dollars into something that it doesn't

812
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:26,320
Speaker 1: come through, It's like, oh, ship, Now what am I

813
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:29,560
Speaker 1: gonna do? Now? I gotta figure it out. I wasn't afraid,

814
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 1: so closing out like what are some like pieces of

815
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:36,799
Speaker 1: advice or maybe some golden nuggets that either carried you

816
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:38,800
Speaker 1: through or that you would give to someone that doesn't

817
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 1: get the opportunity to meet you and get your blessing

818
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 1: of support in person. I think the most important thing

819
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:46,879
Speaker 1: for most people's consistency. You have to be consistent because

820
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:49,799
Speaker 1: they're going to be people, friends, family, people in your life.

821
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:51,960
Speaker 1: They just don't believe in your dream. You just think

822
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 1: just won't And the crazy your dream, the more successful

823
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 1: you'll be. There's times where where I dream big, but

824
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 1: I didn't even drink big enough, Like when I got

825
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 1: the Emmy nomination, for example, I remember standing in the

826
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 1: CBS with What's Good and then he was like, yo,

827
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:07,920
Speaker 1: I said you I'm gonna get an Emmy nomination next year.

828
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 1: He said, you don't even do TV content. I said,

829
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get it off the internet. He say really.

830
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 1: I said yeah, we'll figure it out. And I got

831
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:18,360
Speaker 1: the nomination, and I punched myself because I didn't ask

832
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 1: for the actual win. I only asked for the nomination,

833
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 1: which is what I got. So I think you have

834
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:27,279
Speaker 1: to ask for the biggest things in life, and when

835
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 1: you ask for those things, they'll come to. You just

836
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:31,319
Speaker 1: have to figure out how to get there. Consistency is key.

837
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 1: You have to believe it wholeheartedly yourself, because if you

838
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:37,040
Speaker 1: don't believe it and you're doubting yourself. I never put

839
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 1: negative shit out into the atmosphere. I'm always it's scared.

840
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:43,720
Speaker 1: You can't. You can't get scared. Get scared. You can't.

841
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:45,840
Speaker 1: But why because again, what's the worst thing that happened

842
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:51,880
Speaker 1: to And this is not that expensive goods on the episode.

843
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,759
Speaker 1: So consistency is key. And just finding your lane and

844
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:59,400
Speaker 1: stop and not doing what everyone else is doing. You

845
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:01,279
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like, I know my lane. I

846
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:03,520
Speaker 1: could have went other routes once I got successful, but

847
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 1: I said, why not to stay in my length? Yeah,

848
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 1: you know, I love it. I love it. I think

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Speaker 1: you're a blessing to this community. I think you're a

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Speaker 1: blessing to so many young people. Um, the fact that

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Speaker 1: you take your time and I as a personal friend,

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Speaker 1: you know, I come to your workouts. I'm always I'm

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Speaker 1: always the last one putting behind. But the fact that

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Speaker 1: you take time and you just you look past. You

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Speaker 1: don't look at someone for their wallet or you know

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Speaker 1: their background. You're just like, come as you are. And you,

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Speaker 1: Joe Jackson, they asked a little bit, you know, Joe

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Speaker 1: Jackson is sometimes you need that. So I need somebody

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Speaker 1: to kick your ass. At the end of the day.

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Speaker 1: You're getting moving forward, ye aren't you. I mean you

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Speaker 1: was fit at last time. I showed up rolling poly

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Speaker 1: and walked away like thirty pounds later. Last time, I

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Speaker 1: produced the whole baby, and now I'm small again thanks

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Speaker 1: to you. Just work. I mean, I'm gonna cut you

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Speaker 1: all every day. But what you're gonna call you on

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Speaker 1: up showing up. Well, thank you so much for your time.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you opening up your home, letting us tour

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Speaker 1: your home, and hopefully, you know, one day with you

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Speaker 1: out of town, you know, maybe I could house sit

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Speaker 1: you never know, never know. Yeah, I think I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: buy the house next door and then put a tunnel

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Speaker 1: that leads front of the walk way over to that house.

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Speaker 1: I hope to get there. I really hope all my

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Speaker 1: subscribers can support share their meal on Eating Wall Broke

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Speaker 1: at Eating Wall Broke and hopefully inspire me to somehow

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Speaker 1: figure out how to move next door. Insidational salves about

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Speaker 1: him doing just the Cops. Thanks Karen. For more Eating

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