WEBVTT - DESTORM POWER - That's Not A Sandwich?! 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:03.760 Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke. 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:06.920 I'm Colleen with your host, brought my apron, brought the 0:00:06.960 --> 0:00:16.560 girl streets. Let's go check out day Storm Power's house up. So, hey, 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:19.360 go on in. This is for me, all right, come 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:22.919 on in, Hey, welcome to you, broke as bitches to 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:26.640 my home. I'm gonna straight up, We're gonna start up 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:29.240 in here right here. Follow me on in here. This 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:33.920 is my podcast last studio room. Um, so you won't 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:35.960 get one of these when you're broke. You have to 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:39.120 actually start making money, which I decided to do in life, 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:41.360 and then I decided to get me a podcast from 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:42.880 So this is why I shoot all of the music 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:45.240 and all the podcasts and videos. If we walk over 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:47.440 here inside this door, if I showed you what was 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:49.320 in here, I'd had to kill you. So over and 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:52.199 here if you want here. This was a garage, but 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:54.720 I decided to turn this into the set of the 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:58.280 Retro Show. It's really beautiful. I'm shooting my new series 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:04.000 Everything Wretch. Well everything eighties, nineties and two thousand's happened 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:06.840 on the Retro Show set. Now, most people they use 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:10.080 this room as a garage, but fun that every room 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.520 in your house has to be usable space. This is 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:18.160 my illustrious UH Trophy and slash metal case by the way. Today, 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:22.600 actually I got two new nominations for UM the Streaming Awards. 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:24.680 The Streaming Awards is the biggest awards show for any 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:27.039 type of digital content. I just got two new nominations. 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:29.120 That's kind of dope. I got four streams. I've been 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:32.760 nominated ever since. Streaming has actually used to look like this, y'all. 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:35.920 They was shaped like bubble gum rappers, but they're not 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:39.640 like that. This is my Emmy nomination. That's my YouTube 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:42.280 when I hit a million back in twenty eleven. Now 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:45.600 as we come into here, this is all my dining area, 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:48.560 all the artwork I did that art piece right there, 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:52.080 that's my artwork. And as we swing around, as I 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:54.560 swing around here, this is my kitchen. And this is 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:57.760 where we're gonna actually shoot eating while broke. And this 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:00.400 actually kitchen right here. This is actually an amazing in kitchen. 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:02.280 I need to do something with it. Now let me 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:04.120 swing on around this way. You have my living room 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:06.920 area right here. This area is used a lot. I 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:09.040 don't know how big this TV is. I think it's like, 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:11.320 I just say, give me a TV that's bigger than me. 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:15.080 And I think they they successfully pulled that off, because 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:16.800 when you broke, you don't get none of this stuff. 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:18.440 So you get all the ship that you want when 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:21.880 you actually become somebody. And I said, if I'm longer 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:24.160 than the TV, I don't want it. This is the 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:26.640 biggest selfie mirror in the world right here, by the way. 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:28.639 I figured. I just grabbed one of these and put 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:30.840 my hands and I don't even like taking pictures. I 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:32.600 just had it because I got a lot of female 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:34.280 friends and girls like taking picture, so I got it 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:37.000 for them. I don't use it. Actually, nine in the 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:38.919 house I don't use, by the way. So we're gonna 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:41.679 go upstairs. This is artwork right here by my boy 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.600 Don Benjamin. Right here you get the artwork on the wall. 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:47.959 This piece of artwork was done by me. Piece of 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:51.040 artwork on that room, my friendly am Viva the artwork. 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:54.280 We don't say master bedroom anymore because black lives matter 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:57.079 and we don't have masters anymore. So this is the 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:59.720 premier bedroom. I decided that I was gonna put a 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:02.360 share and end the leer in the bedroom, which was 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:05.280 pretty cool. I like colors. Designed it all myself. I 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:07.520 like the black and white effect that we brought to 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:10.560 the room. I think it's really cool. And and this 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:13.040 is my closet. It's it's a walk in closet because 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:16.240 growing up, I think my closet stopped about here, but 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:20.520 now I can actually walk back about twenty ft to 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:24.200 actually have a closet with some some good space. Don't 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:27.400 get a big closet because it's actually I don't even 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:29.480 use a lot of the things in here, A lot 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:31.240 of shoes and stuff like, I just don't use it. 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:35.680 I got my affirmations, my twelve month ago affirmations on 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:38.520 the on the wall. I gotta get five million in 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.040 the bank or my Facebook accounts see my family and 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:43.160 friends more because I don't see them much. I gotta 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:46.320 sell two projects. I gotta released four new songs. I 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:49.400 gotta reinvest in crypto. I got a lot of things 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.440 that I have to do. Uh, let me see there's 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:54.480 anything on here that's believable. I gotta get my podcast 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:57.400 to a hundred thousand. I gotta direct four projects. And 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:59.320 I gotta win an Emmy Award because I only have 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:02.200 a nomination there. So that's that's my actual goals on 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:05.560 the window as we work our way to this bathroom here. 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:08.560 This bathroom right here is the only bathroom place in 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:11.640 my house that has color. So I decided to make 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:16.880 it every color in the rainbow without saying gay. I 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:18.720 love gay, but I didn't want it to be gay. 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:21.520 I wanted to be like colorful, you know what I'm saying. 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:24.320 And this is what I came up with. When I 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:27.159 put every color in this bathroom right here, I thought 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:29.920 it was pretty damn cool. Then across adjacent to this, 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:34.240 right across from there, you have the theater. So if 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:37.400 you step into the theater room, uh, you gotta have 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:40.200 a theater. So I decided to make this just in 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:42.560 case I want to make some premiers or something. So 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:45.040 I put a theater upstairs with a couple of shows 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:47.560 that I did on the walls there. I thought that 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:50.640 was pretty cool. This is a really important room because 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:54.640 this room right here is every prop that we pretty 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:58.480 much use. I gotta needify it. But we have everything 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:03.559 from choir outfits to ban outfits. We have every mask 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:05.840 you can think of, every color wig that you can 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:09.080 think of, every hat, every top, we have cop outfits. 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:13.280 We have tactical wear. We have skeletons, everything that you 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:16.480 need for any type of comedy sketch that we collected 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:18.680 over the years. We put them all into this this 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:21.520 this closet right here. So that's basically I don't go 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:24.279 to party city anymore. I just go into this closet 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:27.160 if I need something for a sketch. I think I'm 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:29.159 gonna expand a little more when I get a chance. 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:32.400 And uh, thanks for coming to my Oh one more thing. 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:34.880 When you get a house, you've gotta have a book 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:39.200 that you can pull that leads you into a club room. Right, 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:42.520 so this is my uh I like to call this 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:46.039 the boom Boom room, and this is where we have 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:49.919 the pole and the things that go down. Whenever you 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:54.000 get a home of your own. Yeah, so you gotta 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:56.120 have a bone bone room. I don't even know you 0:05:56.240 --> 0:06:00.760 had this. I can't believe this a theater, a secret room, 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:03.640 and all I do is push weights in your backyard. 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:06.880 I would have been brought you upstairs. I don't even 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:08.320 use the rooms in here. I told you I only 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:11.480 use temper Center the house. We only watched two movies 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:14.040 in there. I definitely don't use the boom boom room 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:15.720 unless someone wants to come in and spend on the poe. 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:17.279 You want to spend on the boat? No, I'm good, 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:19.120 I'm good, But I want you to cook something to 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:20.960 eat and tell us some of this behind the scenes 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:23.800 of how you acquired all this. So why can you know? 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:29.880 Maybe howse sit sometimes? Come on, you should have said 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:35.839 it to that camera camera. Welcome to another episode of 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:38.640 Eating While Broke. Today we decided to step outside of 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:42.600 the podcast studio and into someone's house. Whose house they 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:46.720 Storm Power's House, entrepreneurs, social media mogul. Here we are 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:49.400 about to eat probably one of the brokest dishes of 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:52.800 the season. So the broker the dish, probably the better 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:55.720 the story. So the question is, day Storm, what are 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:57.720 you gonna have us eating today? I'm gonna have us 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:01.560 eating syrup soudes. Now, there's a science to the syrup sundwich. 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:05.680 It has two ingredients. So you have your bread. This 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:07.680 is for you, thank you, This is for me than 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:12.880 we in the hood now right, yeah, and a mansion 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.840 in the hood we share and you have your syrup. Okay, 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:18.120 that's it. So do you want me to make yeah? 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:20.480 Make one? Okay, this is how you make a syrup 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:25.120 sundwich here I thought we would need. How you're done, Damn, 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:27.680 I'm very impressed with your that's it. So now you 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:31.560 just folded. I'll make me one bone like that, and 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:34.600 you you do, you do this angle? You can. But 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:36.080 what I do is I just take it and I 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.880 just you folded a half. We don't get two pieces 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:41.520 of bread. No, because you have family. Family has to 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:44.120 eat too. Don't be standy. So you take it, you 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:47.520 fold it in a half. Yeah, and then and then 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.280 you eat it. Yeah, you eat it from the back 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:55.720 because you've got to save the ends for dinner. Is 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.960 this real? You save the ends for dinner? Yeah, well 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:00.640 you can just you can just feel them off. Some 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:03.280 people just like to put its pretty good because the 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:06.120 ends are different. They have a different flavor to them, 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:08.320 you know. So you pick the edges and that's like 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:11.600 a totally different meal. Maybe if the middle is too sweet, 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:14.120 maybe you use it to like soften the blow up 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:17.520 the sweetness. No, because you just take the sweetness. I mean, 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:21.520 look how the food comber. So therefore you don't have 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:23.400 to worry about eating in the next day. Oh my god, 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:27.440 that's a lot. I don't even I can't believe you 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:31.920 just to eat this. It's crazy. I'm sorry. I don't 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.800 know if it's just too much syrup, but I'm surprised 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:44.280 you made it to live. So that's where didn't this 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:46.840 dish come from? Like what happened? What was going on 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.520 at the time when you guys were consuming dinner ends? 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:51.760 I think I think what happens is you run out 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:55.920 of food. So that's where it starts. Know what? Um 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:58.680 So we ran out of food and my mother knew 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.960 someone who worked at the super market. At most supermarkets 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:03.920 around the country, what they do with the bread that 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.400 they don't usually throw it out, So because she had 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:08.920 to connect, they would throw the bread out behind the supermarket. 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:10.520 So we would just go and get the left over 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:12.680 bread and then the certain we could just get that 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:16.040 from McDonald's. We could get that from you know, KFC 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:17.880 or any place. You know they have little surf packets. 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:19.880 So do you take the serve package with the with 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:24.199 the leftover bread, You've got something ill storm you were 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:27.840 seriously that broke obviously, I mean, yeah, you know, how 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:33.360 do you come from syrup sandwiches to please? Can I 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:37.920 move in with you? It sounds amazing. This is just 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:43.040 for the set a lot. It was just a lot 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:44.600 of work, a lot of a lot of faith, a 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:46.199 lot of work. And I had a plan hit it 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.240 all in my head. You had a plan. But in 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:51.800 that environment, sitting there with your siblings, how many siblings 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:53.839 did you have? I have seven siblings, so there's eight 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:57.160 of us, and so was my mother. The eight of us, 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:00.679 my two cousins. My cousin had a child, so it's 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.960 about thirteen of us in one So one loaf of 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:07.920 bread last, one meal. I would assume dinner, we grab 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:09.760 a couple of loaves and if he was lucky to 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:13.720 get some bagels bagels last, because they thinker you get 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:16.280 the bagels, bagels more dents. So if you get if 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.600 you get the bagels, good for two days. What I 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:22.400 love about your story is the fact that I can 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:26.559 honestly say I was never this broke, and the fact 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:28.520 that in your house, I'm assuming, did you guys see 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:31.160 yourselves as poor or broke? No, it was cool and 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:33.280 it was cool. We didn't. I think I think it's 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:35.400 about who your parents is, right. My mother and never 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:38.240 let us realized we were broke, because she would go 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:40.040 to the drift stores and get us like a little 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:42.839 puzzles and things to keep us busy while she would 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.400 work in things. So we would have little odd jobs 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.400 here and there, and she just kept us busy with 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:50.040 what we did. So we never even thought about it 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:51.920 being broke until someone like you brought it up there 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.800 and this was the del I'm sorry, this was this 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:58.959 is the new pancake dinner. Um, so what was the 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:02.280 last time you eat this day? Um, it's been years. 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:06.240 I haven't had I haven't had bread in in years. 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:09.200 I don't need bread or right or any of that. 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:12.199 Definitely don't need to serve classified. This is unhealthy. This 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:13.960 is very unhealthy. I don't I don't need that all 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.240 kind of Once you learn about nutrition, you don't touch 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:18.680 this stuff. But back then you have to survive. You eat. 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:21.440 I take a whole load of I had to. So 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:25.920 when you're eating this, you're saying you knew you always 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:28.760 had a plan. When did that plan hit you? I 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:30.560 think the plan hit me when I um me and 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:32.120 my brothers put it. We had a song that hit 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:34.920 the radio in Baltimore, and we did in Bostibore. They 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:36.679 have their own thing. They have club music. It's like 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.560 DC has Gogol Music and Chicago has their own music. 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:41.400 So we had made a song and it hit the 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:43.319 radio and I knew. My mother said, wow, if you 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:44.920 even make it, heaven think it anyway, go to New 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:46.800 York and then we do a little party and then 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:49.360 I just packed up you know the clips that we 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:51.800 all pitched in for, and I joke to New York. Um, 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:53.960 it was scary, but I knew. I knew once I 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:56.000 got because I knew this one. I was doing all 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:58.360 these jobs. I was doing forty fifty drops with different 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:01.600 DJs around the treat. This is when the internet was 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:05.160 like brand new. And then this dude he worked over 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:06.960 and I think Bad Boy Records, and he was like, 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:08.840 YEO want you to come out to New York And 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.080 so I said, I believe them. So I kind of 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:12.880 drove out to New York. I just took the drove. 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.640 I drove to Harlem when I was like eighteen years old. 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:17.280 I'm guessing you didn't have a lot of money. I 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:19.800 don't have any money, So you drive there, you have 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:22.160 enough to pay for gas. I had enough to pay 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:25.600 for gas and um, so when I got there, UM, 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:28.600 there was this website called sublet dot com. So when 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:32.560 sublet dot com, I was leasing out this crackheads bedroom. 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:35.120 She was she was cracking and all, and she would 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:36.680 lease out of bar room. But she had a pimp. 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:39.560 So eventually I wasn't able to pay his rent. So 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:41.280 the pimp came to the door and he kicked me 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:43.280 out of her apartment. So then eventually I had to 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:47.520 live in my car. So then from my car, I 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:49.640 was and I was singing in the subway for money. 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:52.520 So you know in New York, you know, you know, 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:54.480 I know the hustle. Yeah, So I was singing the 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:56.680 subway and wrapping the subway so they would put money 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:59.080 in my hat. So I and I would use that 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.840 money to eat it too, paper gas because I needed heat, 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:03.920 and the eating the car because the wintertime. Yeah, and 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:06.680 winners in New York, you know. Joke. So did you 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.160 ever apply at some point of Duscher measures? I always 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:10.959 think this as a homeless person, like in New York, 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:12.800 I'm like, yo, I'm gonna just try to go to 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:17.000 jail for the winter. Maybe, I don't know, because I 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.000 had to be free so I could kind of so 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:22.920 I could kind of like make moves, make move, make moves, 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:25.800 so to make moves. So because I was working at 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:27.800 Red Lobster as well. I was working at Red Lobster 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:30.000 Times Square to fresciate it opened up because I had 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:32.280 a job every I had thirty jobs, by the way, 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:34.720 and and one of my jobs Red Lobster when I 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:38.880 was in Maryland Baltimore, and they transferred my my job 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:41.240 over to New York. But I lost that job the 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:44.480 first week I was there because I had braids in 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:48.520 my hair and the management racist, yes, short and sweet, 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:50.400 you were like, I'm not cutting my brains. Like no, 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.640 I was. You know I couldn't. We all read the Bible. 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:55.760 We can't cut your hair. That's your power. So I 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:58.560 didn't cut my hair. And I lost my job at 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:01.439 Red Lobster that year, and and um with my last check, 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:05.720 I brought amp. I bought that microphone. I brought two 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:07.240 outfits because you know, in New York you have to 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:10.400 look good. I brought the two outfits. I brought some 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:12.560 tents for the windows of the car that I had, 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:16.080 and what else on, and brought some CDs so I 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:19.280 burned all my demos onto CDs. I tended the windows 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:21.880 on my car myself. I brought the amp and the 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:23.640 keyboard so I could sing in the subways. And I 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:25.360 brought the two outfits so I could look good. So 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:27.320 you were prepared. I was prepared. Oh and I paid 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:29.000 my cellphone bill for two months because I say that 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:30.720 if I don't do this in sixty days, my mom 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:32.720 was gonna kill me. So she would call me and 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:34.440 I'm like, yeah, Mom would did it right now? I 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:36.720 didn't know, did it? You just didn't want to stress 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:38.440 her out. Didn't want stress her out because she had 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:39.960 things to take care of. So I thought I was 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:41.880 killing the New York. I was homeless, so I'm in 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:43.680 New York singing in the subways and everything. Then one 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:45.680 day I came home and my car was burned down. 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:48.600 I guess had electrical fire or something like that. Everything 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:50.840 I owned was in that car. So eventually I had 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:53.880 to actually live in the subway stations, and I had 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:55.520 to do that for my forty five days or so. 0:14:56.360 --> 0:15:00.760 Damn that tough. At that point, did you at least think, mmmm, 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:03.160 maybe it's something to go pack up and go back 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:07.200 to Baltimore. Yeah, I did. Um And and when I 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:09.240 got to the moment where I thought I'd go back 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:11.520 to Baltimore, I remember I had these bags around my 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:13.160 feet and I was walking through the snow, and I 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:14.600 was like, damn, I'm gonna call my brother and tell 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:16.320 him I didn't make it in New York, even though 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:18.120 I was lying to them the whole time. So when 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:20.400 I went to make a telephone call to call my brother, 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:23.080 I'm calling him up. And I remember when I'm singing 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:25.640 the subway, people give me their cards and stuff. So 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:27.440 when I went to make the car, one of the 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:29.840 cards that they gave me fall in the snow. I 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:31.560 picked up the car and I'm like, should I call 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:35.400 number on this card or should I or should I 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:38.600 just call my brother? Said I'm I'm gonna calling number 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:40.200 on the card. I'm already here. So I called him 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:42.240 on the card and this Dominican girl answers the phone. 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:44.640 It's like, oh my goodness, oh my girl, yo yo. 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.760 My boss loves them always dope you. And I'm lying 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:49.400 to her. I was like, well, if your boss let 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:51.040 my demo telling me, you pull up on me right now, 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:53.640 because I got these inter Music Universal records. I was lying, 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:56.360 but I can tell by her enthusiasm that she was serious. 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:58.200 So she said, no, no, let me put him on 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:00.320 the phone, so she put Jonathan on the phone. He 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:02.360 gets on the phone. He's like, Yo, day starm I 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:04.360 love your ship man. What's you come on down to 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:06.640 my my my joint? And I was like, yeah, I'll 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:08.480 come down there right now. He was like, I'm going 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:10.760 to the Hamptons. And I was like, well, you know, 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:13.840 I got these meetings over at Jake Records. I'm lying again. 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:15.480 He was like, no, come down here right now. I 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:17.240 didn't have money to get on the subway, so I 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:19.720 jumped the turnstyle. I caught the train down to the 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:21.640 Lower east Side. And when I get to his place, 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:24.640 he plaques all over his walls and everything, and he's like, yo, man, 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.000 I can get you drops on m t V, V, 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:28.800 H Want and b TV. I can get you right 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:30.760 for these arts. And I knew he was serious because 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:32.520 of the work that he had around. I was like, 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:34.560 all right, look, gonna be honest with you, John, to look, 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:37.640 I'm broke. I've been living on the street for like 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:41.480 forty five days. Did you at least you know? On 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:44.280 the course. So what I did like to shower in Macy's. 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:46.720 So I would take a shower in Macy's and then 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:49.520 how did you Because you wanted the sinks, you know, 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:52.280 they got to sing, you know, you clean up or whatever. 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:54.320 And then I would, you know, with a little bit 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:56.040 of money I made, sometimes I buy stuff. Well I 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:58.120 just used the five thing of discount and just you know, 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:00.160 get a couple of T shirts or whatever, and to 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:02.600 do what I had to do to get new outfits 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:04.560 so I look fresh. So he was like, no, you 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:06.719 look good. I was like, no, I've been on the 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:09.439 streets because you know, you gotta look good. So then 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:10.800 I was like, ye, look, I'll be honest with you 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:13.160 if you can. If you cut me in check right now, 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:15.359 I'll work for you and you get me off the 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:17.240 streets or whatever, and I'll give you what you need. 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:19.239 So he cut me in check, and eventually I went 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:23.000 from my hostel to an apartment, to um Aloft to 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:25.960 you know, working my way up. I started getting place 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:28.720 in some beach one MTV and I worked over the Universal, 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:31.080 went to Jay Records. From Jay, I went to Atlantic 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:33.920 I met with in Houston and J Records and Jeff Finster. Yeah, 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:36.800 so um wrote three songs that she never used. By 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:39.560 the way, Um, then I'm going to Atlantic Record. Did 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:41.159 you at least get to hear them. I got to 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:43.159 meet her and everything. Yeah, she said she started she 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:47.000 I met her everything, you know. So um So then 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:49.439 from there I went over to Atlantic Records, where I 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:51.360 wrote for a few hours and ghost right over here 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:54.440 for about two years. And then, um, I, uh, the 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:56.800 music slow, so I slow down because back then you 0:17:56.840 --> 0:18:00.119 were a ghostwriter. So what I did was I all 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:01.960 the while I was running track and things like that. 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:06.040 So I got my certifications from Prepostnado. I got my 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:07.800 A C s M, I got my INN A s M. 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:12.040 Nastities are physical personal training on certifications, so you're always hustling, Yeah, 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:14.159 the personal trainer on the side, just in case the 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:16.359 music wasn't selling. So then I started a boot camp 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:18.800 in Brooklyn and I would train like fifties a hundred 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:20.879 people in the park in Brooklyn Park. And I was 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:23.760 working at the Crunch Fitness New York Sports Club. And 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:26.040 I was just doing different jobs in New York so 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:29.960