Speaker 1: Welcome to the Good Stuff. I'm Jacob Schick and I'm
Speaker 1: joined by my co host and wife, Ashley Shick.
Speaker 2: Jake is a third generation combat Marine and I'm a
Speaker 2: gold Star granddaughter, and we work together to serve military veterans,
Speaker 2: first responders, frontline healthcare workers, and their families with mental
Speaker 2: and emotional wellness through traditional and non traditional therapy. At
Speaker 2: One Tribe Foundation, we.
Speaker 1: Believe everyone has a sword to till, not only about
Speaker 1: the peaks, but also the valleys they've been through to
Speaker 1: get them to where they are today.
Speaker 2: Each week, we invite a guest to tell us their story,
Speaker 2: to share with us the lessons they've learned that shaped
Speaker 2: who they are and what they're doing to pay it
Speaker 2: forward and give back.
Speaker 1: Our mission with this show is to dig deep into
Speaker 1: our guests journeys so that we can celebrate the hope
Speaker 1: and inspiration their story has to offer.
Speaker 2: We are thrilled you're joining us again.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Good Stuff. Today, our guest is fantasy A,
Speaker 1: an absolute legend from the great City of Seattle, Washington.
Speaker 1: He's a rapper, producer, actor, and advocate for people with autism.
Speaker 1: Fantasya himself has autism and proudly speaks his truth.
Speaker 2: He's a beloved member of his community and the muse
Speaker 2: for the filmmaking team Doctor Clean Productions. Their short film,
Speaker 2: Fantasy A Gets Jacked is a cult classic, and their
Speaker 2: debut feature film, Fantasy A Gets a Mattress, recently one
Speaker 2: Best Narrative Feature at the Seattle Black Film Festival.
Speaker 1: He's a magnetic leading man on screen, a beast on
Speaker 1: the microphone, and a shining light in his quest to
Speaker 1: speak about living with autism.
Speaker 2: I am already so excited for this episode, smiling already.
Speaker 2: Let's jump right in. Let's do this. Yes, Fantasy A,
Speaker 2: thank you so much for joining us. We love the
Speaker 2: energy that you bring to the world through your music
Speaker 2: and the films that you've started, and we're so thankful
Speaker 2: for your openness and honesty when it comes to talking
Speaker 2: about autism.
Speaker 3: Thank you guys for having me. I'm looking forward to
Speaker 3: tell you about my whole story.
Speaker 2: We were jamming out the other day to your Summer
Speaker 2: in Seattle video.
Speaker 3: Oh did you Yeah?
Speaker 2: It was so fun. It's such an uplifting song. It
Speaker 2: made me want to go walk on the pier and
Speaker 2: eat ice cream. So glad to hear that you can't
Speaker 2: listen to it and not be happy. That was a
Speaker 2: pretty little lady you had in there with you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've known her. We were co workers at ball
Speaker 3: Park Stadium. Oh cool, Moble Park, Oh fun, very cool.
Speaker 3: And that's how that's how I got her involved of
Speaker 3: being doing projects with me, and she's inspired of what
Speaker 3: I do good and that made her really happy.
Speaker 2: I imagine you have a lot of people that you've
Speaker 2: inspired that have wanted to be a part of your projects.
Speaker 2: I have a question why Fantasy A.
Speaker 3: Well, why I picked that stage name. It's because I
Speaker 3: just read books that's based on magic and fiction, like
Speaker 3: Harry Potter and The Lawyer of the Rings and much
Speaker 3: more more like wizard magic. And because I like to
Speaker 3: go around a lot, and I'm the hard person to
Speaker 3: miss When people haven't heard of me and they want
Speaker 3: to meet me so bad, I'm the hardest person to miss,
Speaker 3: so I moved around quickly. Some people who want to
Speaker 3: meet me need to catch up with me before I
Speaker 3: disappear again.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: And the AA stands for my real name, which is
Speaker 3: Alex So that's.
Speaker 1: Hrad and I completely dig it, brother, and I completely
Speaker 1: relate to the whole disappearing act. So when did you
Speaker 1: first start loving hip hop?
Speaker 3: When I first started hip hop when I was about
Speaker 3: four years old, when I was in my mom's car
Speaker 3: when she's driving. I like to listen to old school
Speaker 3: wrap me like Tupac, Victoria's Big Stoop Dogg and other
Speaker 3: artists out there. That's how I first started loving hip hop.
Speaker 2: Tupac and Biggie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean two of the greats, right, I mean
Speaker 1: two legends.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like who who whis? People don't don't know who
Speaker 3: Tupaca b i G Is. Huh.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure those people don't exist. Like everybody knows
Speaker 1: who Tupac and Biggie are.
Speaker 3: Everyone knows. Everybody knows already over the years.
Speaker 1: So fantasy, what was it in Tupac and Biggie's lyrics
Speaker 1: that spoke to you? Or what did it start off
Speaker 1: more as the beat that really started to speak to you.
Speaker 3: What they're talking about like life expressions and much more.
Speaker 3: That kid relates to what I've been through. So that's
Speaker 3: that's that's that's how reason I want to be like
Speaker 3: them and say differently than what they written.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, that's beautiful. I mean music has that
Speaker 2: ability right to really speak to us.
Speaker 3: Yes, exactly.
Speaker 2: What was it like growing up for you?
Speaker 3: It was tough to be when you're younger. It is
Speaker 3: because you know, I have ups and downs and something
Speaker 3: that kind of bothers me. That kind of made me
Speaker 3: think of how nervous and afraid when growing up.
Speaker 2: And what was it like in your household when you
Speaker 2: were a kid.
Speaker 3: I have my one brother, one sister, one's younger and
Speaker 3: one's older, and just my dad, my mom. He would
Speaker 3: live in the small house with only one floor, and
Speaker 3: that's it. It's a bit different, to be honest.
Speaker 2: Did you and your siblings get along? Jake and I
Speaker 2: both have siblings, and we were very different from them.
Speaker 3: We always got into arguments and fights. You know, it's
Speaker 3: like it was in the past. We didn't get along
Speaker 3: with each other back then, and now we get as
Speaker 3: we grow up. We just learned our lessons.
Speaker 1: Yeah, isn't that interesting? Fantasy like, because it's the same
Speaker 1: with us. We talk about it all the time with
Speaker 1: our siblings, and we see it with our boys. You know,
Speaker 1: they go at it and it's like, hey, really yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, just like last night I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: hug each other and look each other in the face
Speaker 1: and tell each other how much you love each other
Speaker 1: right now. Of course they hate it at the time,
Speaker 1: but they'll hug each other. And then I told them,
Speaker 1: one day, you're gonna miss this one day where you
Speaker 1: guys will you know, you're gonna have your own families
Speaker 1: and live in different places. You're still gonna be tight,
Speaker 1: but you don't get to see each other as much
Speaker 1: as you want, just like with our siblings. And you're
Speaker 1: gonna miss this, you know, And they're gonna think back
Speaker 1: on it because the same thing that with you growing
Speaker 1: up the way you did with the siblings, and you
Speaker 1: have your arguments and your disagreements, and now that we're
Speaker 1: all adults, it's like, we know how much of a
Speaker 1: blessing it is to have siblings and to be able
Speaker 1: to have that relationship and that connection.
Speaker 2: What was the relationship like with your mother growing up?
Speaker 3: Well, when I was young, my mom and I don't
Speaker 3: get along with each other because of the meltdowns I've
Speaker 3: been and then couldn't get my way, and my mom
Speaker 3: doesn't want to get my way, so I get angry
Speaker 3: with her, have meltdowns, and through middle school and high school,
Speaker 3: my mom and I don't get in along with each
Speaker 3: other because the way acting and it's really hard for me.
Speaker 2: Do you feel like they just didn't understand you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my mom doesn't understand me and much more, she
Speaker 3: doesn't understand what I want and she just doesn't want
Speaker 3: to do it. So that got me really angry. It
Speaker 3: makes me want to do something. And my mom is
Speaker 3: a bit afraid that I do meltdowns and bad and
Speaker 3: my mom doesn't want me to be around her her
Speaker 3: because of what I did. It's something personal and and
Speaker 3: and after high school, my mom.
Speaker 1: And I.
Speaker 3: Slowly to start getting along again. And the fact is
Speaker 3: my mom she just had a health issue. She suffered
Speaker 3: a stroke back in twenty sixteen, and she's also diabetic,
Speaker 3: so and she she couldn't take care of herself sometimes.
Speaker 3: But I still do love my mom and she's still
Speaker 3: here and I was, and I always checking with her
Speaker 3: and she calls me. And we used to live with
Speaker 3: each other before I became independent. And my dad he
Speaker 3: was an alcoholic and that kind of affected my life ability.
Speaker 3: My dad and I don't get along with each other
Speaker 3: often while I was young, younger and after high school
Speaker 3: and before I grew up. It's because of his alcoholism.
Speaker 3: He also suffered a stroke in Alzheimer's and he kind
Speaker 3: of makes me really uncomfortable and afraid. And and I
Speaker 3: usually talked back to my dad, which is I shouldn't
Speaker 3: do that makes him do something that he shouldn't do
Speaker 3: to me, and he should know that that makes him
Speaker 3: a bad father. No father can do something bad to
Speaker 3: their child with autism. My dad doesn't understand autism. Well,
Speaker 3: that's why he treats me that way. Yeah, so my
Speaker 3: dad and I don't get along with each other back
Speaker 3: in the days, and says he had a stroke. Him
Speaker 3: and I we talk sometimes and he loves me still,
Speaker 3: and he and he he makes mistakes and he overcomes
Speaker 3: his mistakes and he's that he's sorry.
Speaker 1: So thank God for that. We all get older and
Speaker 1: we grow and we understand, you know, and then we
Speaker 1: start to get wiser the older we get. You know,
Speaker 1: it's just more life experience. I'm grateful to hear that
Speaker 1: fantasy grow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if my dad is not alcoholic, he should be
Speaker 3: a better person. He should remind himself be a better person.
Speaker 3: That's what that's that's what kind of dad I want.
Speaker 2: What about when you're in elementary school? What was it
Speaker 2: like for you.
Speaker 3: To be honest, it's just a bit different because when
Speaker 3: I was little, I usually have hard time paying attention
Speaker 3: and don't get along with my classmates. Usually I did
Speaker 3: something that I shouldn't do, like throwing stuff in the ground.
Speaker 3: That was the old me. That was the old younger me.
Speaker 3: It's just like that. I couldn't learn anything like right,
Speaker 3: and I usually get in too large meltdowns at school
Speaker 3: because I would I'm in special ed. I'm in that
Speaker 3: specialized class with people with disabilities, and I usually get
Speaker 3: angry when I couldn't get what I want and it
Speaker 3: couldn't do anything that I want, can't play around my
Speaker 3: classmates during recess, and it's tough because I get angry
Speaker 3: usually when I have bad days at school.
Speaker 2: In elementary, yeah, for sure, did you have many friends?
Speaker 3: I hi set friends, but I have no friends. When
Speaker 3: I was in elementary school, I have no friends at all.
Speaker 2: That must have been really hard for you.
Speaker 1: It is what kind of impact did your teachers have
Speaker 1: on you when you were coming up through school?
Speaker 3: Well, the impact that I get from them is they
Speaker 3: don't know how to handle a person with disability well.
Speaker 3: And I found it irritating when they like try to
Speaker 3: like rab me and put and put and put me
Speaker 3: at the wall, which I don't find it safe.
Speaker 2: And you're just a child at the time, right, how
Speaker 2: do you how do you even try to understand that.
Speaker 3: I'm just trying to like calm myself down and try
Speaker 3: to control myself, but they just held on to.
Speaker 1: Me, and.
Speaker 3: I just could not help it.
Speaker 1: You know, we go through these traumas as children, and
Speaker 1: then we get into adulthood and we hadn't really done
Speaker 1: anything to address those childhood traumas, and then they seep
Speaker 1: into our adult life. Then we experienced a high stress
Speaker 1: situation and we don't know how to handle it. And
Speaker 1: it seems like through the various forms of art that
Speaker 1: you've become so accustomed to and you've gotten so experienced
Speaker 1: with through music and now film, it seems like that's
Speaker 1: a way that you've really been able to channel that
Speaker 1: and grow and heal forward from those traumas in your childhood.
Speaker 1: So when did you start making music?
Speaker 3: Like that introduction of music, it won't got into just
Speaker 3: till I'm in high school. Actually, it's called hip Hop Club,
Speaker 3: which is one of the after school programs I go to.
Speaker 3: It's only run every tuesdays.
Speaker 2: What made you want to sign up? Obviously you love
Speaker 2: Biggie and Tupac, so you're like, oh, hip hop Club,
Speaker 2: I'm in that.
Speaker 3: Yeah. What makes me want to join that is when
Speaker 3: I was at my old school at club in high school,
Speaker 3: I used to write my own rhymes, and when I
Speaker 3: went to EMP When which is now MoPOP, I just
Speaker 3: learned how to make my own beats through those machines
Speaker 3: they have, and that's how I get into music and
Speaker 3: record myself and much more. That's why I want to
Speaker 3: get involved with Hip Hop Club because it will help
Speaker 3: me put me on the right track and show everyone
Speaker 3: that I have feelings to share.
Speaker 1: I'm curious to know to fantasy, what was it like
Speaker 1: to connect with the other students in the hip hop
Speaker 1: club when you went to the Center school.
Speaker 3: Well, I told the students of what I've been through.
Speaker 3: How music helps me is to express my emotions and
Speaker 3: take me into the better path, and I just want
Speaker 3: them to do the same thing. Music takes them to
Speaker 3: the good path and remind themselves how good they are
Speaker 3: and not to worry about what other people said about them.
Speaker 2: Did you connect with some other friends in that group?
Speaker 3: Yes, I connect with the other three people like Sam
Speaker 3: and Peter who are who put together a hip hop club.
Speaker 3: They're really cool to connect with.
Speaker 1: Awesome.
Speaker 3: Rapping helps me to make my verbal skills better because
Speaker 3: I had speech trouble back in the days, and it's
Speaker 3: kind of hard for me for people to understand what
Speaker 3: I'm saying and everything. So rapping helps me to get
Speaker 3: my verbal skills in a right direction without messing up.
Speaker 1: I respect and admire your courage for being your authentic
Speaker 1: self in this endeavor of creating your own music and
Speaker 1: now films. It's just something to be admired, and I
Speaker 1: love it. You and I actually have on the acting side, definitely,
Speaker 1: not on the music side, but on the acting side
Speaker 1: something in common because I've been able to do some
Speaker 1: acting too in my day. I really enjoy it because
Speaker 1: I get to kind of channel my life experiences and
Speaker 1: have it portray somebody that's not really me. I would
Speaker 1: love to know where did you get in to the
Speaker 1: acting side of it?
Speaker 3: How do I get to come to it? I just
Speaker 3: kind of joined this, uh this program. It's it's on
Speaker 3: the weekends, though it's within a different different organization, and
Speaker 3: they do they do this play audition thing for people
Speaker 3: with disabilities. We were auditioned for a play and we'll
Speaker 3: just do it for fun, and we did the real thing.
Speaker 3: It's down at the see how Children's theater at the Armory.
Speaker 3: And so that's how we got into acting. And that's
Speaker 3: how I get in the drama because it helps me
Speaker 3: to express my interests, get my feelings out and show
Speaker 3: people that how how well I am to get myself.
Speaker 2: Going absolutely and how did how did this? How did
Speaker 2: making music and how did acting? How did that change
Speaker 2: your life?
Speaker 3: How it changes my life is not to look back
Speaker 3: in my past. And so that's how I get into
Speaker 3: music and acting because if I will help me to
Speaker 3: overcome my disability, so it would would not come back
Speaker 3: to haunt me. And and it helps me to get
Speaker 3: myself up, stand myself up and believe in myself and
Speaker 3: not to fail myself. That's the reason why I'll get
Speaker 3: into music and acting because it will overcome it will
Speaker 3: help to overcome my failures.
Speaker 1: I personally love being on set when I get to
Speaker 1: be in a film. For you, what's it like to
Speaker 1: make a movie?
Speaker 3: What is like to make a movie. It's it's cool
Speaker 3: because I've never been by someone if I can be
Speaker 3: in a movie before they just experience about me and
Speaker 3: they asked me if they wanted to make a movie
Speaker 3: about me. So and I said, oh, okay, I'm down
Speaker 3: for that. Awesome. So that's those that's what that's what
Speaker 3: gets me into being in a movie is by you know,
Speaker 3: say yes and accept it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what really drives you to do it.
Speaker 3: What drives me into acting is when I go to
Speaker 3: bed and it tells me what a great day to
Speaker 3: be doing the filming and bew, be a good actor?
Speaker 3: How great? How great I am? That's what That's what
Speaker 3: I said to myself before I went to bed.
Speaker 2: Good for you. We all can really learn a lesson
Speaker 2: there that positive affirmations and speaking kindly to ourselves and
Speaker 2: telling ourselves, you know, today was a great day and
Speaker 2: I'm doing good.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: I think that's a great lesson we can all all
Speaker 2: learn from that.
Speaker 1: Everybody should practice every day.
Speaker 3: They should because if they don't practice it, then you
Speaker 3: never know what's going to happen to them. They will,
Speaker 3: their failures will come to them and they they will
Speaker 3: probably didn't listen to themselves, right, that's absolutely right.
Speaker 2: Okay, So we were watching some of your stuff on
Speaker 2: YouTube and you are so entertaining. It's so much fun
Speaker 2: to watch, and I mean it's hard to watch anything
Speaker 2: done by Fantasy A and not just have a huge
Speaker 2: smile on your face. So thank you again for bringing
Speaker 2: joy to the world.
Speaker 3: No doubt anytime. I'm glad it helps you.
Speaker 2: Guys, it really does. It really does. And the movies
Speaker 2: you made with Doctor Clean Productions, they're absolutely wild and hilarious.
Speaker 2: So we just want to know what's it like because
Speaker 2: recently you were at a film festival.
Speaker 3: Correct, Yes, I was.
Speaker 2: What was it like to see your movie up they're
Speaker 2: at a film festival.
Speaker 3: I was really shocked that they premiered it on the
Speaker 3: big screen and I'm just laughing, laughing, laughing, and I'm like,
Speaker 3: wait a minute, I'm on the big stream. That's what
Speaker 3: I was thinking to my head.
Speaker 2: Did it just give you this great sense of accomplishment?
Speaker 3: Yes, it gives me the great accomplishment. And how proud
Speaker 3: I am to help those.
Speaker 2: Guys out to put that together, most definitely.
Speaker 3: And I'm telling you it was the best moment of
Speaker 3: my life to that to make the film festival happened,
Speaker 3: the best moment of my life.
Speaker 1: Ever, how did it feel to be embraced by such
Speaker 1: a loving, supportive community after having such a hard time
Speaker 1: socially when you were younger? Now you're older and you're
Speaker 1: an adult, and you were at this film festival and
Speaker 1: you were up on the big screen and you had
Speaker 1: all these people giving you love. What was that like?
Speaker 1: What did that do for your heart and your soul?
Speaker 3: That's a good question that got me all hyped up
Speaker 3: and loved. It truly helps me. What to do with
Speaker 3: that is is to keep keep on thinking positive. And
Speaker 3: that's what that's one of my reaction is. It's just
Speaker 3: the beginning. So that's how I how much pride I
Speaker 3: am of how big my heart has become. That I
Speaker 3: have a great heart, and I feel loved and I
Speaker 3: feel so much energized that every the whole community knows
Speaker 3: who I am and knows how much I changed their
Speaker 3: minds when they see me, what I've changed and what
Speaker 3: I made them become.
Speaker 2: Most definitely, and you, I mean you are clearly very
Speaker 2: proud of Seattle. Tell us about Seattle.
Speaker 3: Well, Seattle is a good city where people go on
Speaker 3: tours to like see the Pipe Place market, to say,
Speaker 3: you know, all the great parks and cherry blossoms and
Speaker 3: water parks and waterfront and Alkai Beach and golden gardens
Speaker 3: up and Ballard. That's that's Seattle is a good city.
Speaker 3: But everything's changed around there, you know. But I remain
Speaker 3: in Seattle until I die. And and people who are
Speaker 3: from out of town they love Seattle. And some of
Speaker 3: them don't because you know, they don't find it interesting.
Speaker 3: That's just them. But me, I am proud of my
Speaker 3: city of Seattle because I just want them to like
Speaker 3: be happening with me changing their attitude and remind them
Speaker 3: of the same model every day, and that kind of
Speaker 3: made them happy. That's kind of made Seattle the happiest
Speaker 3: place to be around.
Speaker 2: And another great lesson that we all should be focused
Speaker 2: on every day. Right, It's all about mindset. You are
Speaker 2: clearly such a great ambassador for the city of Seattle.
Speaker 2: What would your ideal day in Seattle be?
Speaker 3: My ideal day in Seattle will be Friday, because that
Speaker 3: is when everything gets cooled down at the end of
Speaker 3: the day and I will say to myself, Wow, what
Speaker 3: a great week I have. Glad that day's over. So
Speaker 3: that's the ideal day that comes to my mind.
Speaker 2: Good for you tgif we have.
Speaker 1: Something else in common. When it comes to public speaking,
Speaker 1: I do a lot of public speaking.
Speaker 3: Oh do you I do? That's cool?
Speaker 1: Yeah I do. And for me it's therapeutic. You know,
Speaker 1: every time I get off a stage, my soul is
Speaker 1: a little bit lighter. I feel a little bit lighter
Speaker 1: just from being able to express that emotion that we
Speaker 1: all carry. And so I was curious, So know, how
Speaker 1: is how is speaking publicly about autism impacted your life?
Speaker 1: How is it one helped you deal with autism? And
Speaker 1: how has it impacted others on their view of autism.
Speaker 3: How it impacts them is when they have like bad
Speaker 3: days or something, and how it impacts them. How it
Speaker 3: impacts me is when it comes to autism, I usually
Speaker 3: like get distracted on what's been going on. And for
Speaker 3: the people of the autism too, they get distracted and
Speaker 3: they didn't pay attention and they have speech troubles. I
Speaker 3: was just tell them to like remind themselves to listen better,
Speaker 3: learn better, talk slowly so people will understand them. And
Speaker 3: tell people to respect of who they are and socialize
Speaker 3: with more people so they can get a hang of them,
Speaker 3: so they can get a hang of me. So they'll
Speaker 3: be more understandable of what I've been through and I'm autistic,
Speaker 3: and I want them to accept that. I want them
Speaker 3: to talk, you know, nicely to me than being badly,
Speaker 3: because that will make me uncomfortable and scared. So I
Speaker 3: just want them to know that, not to scare me
Speaker 3: with their attitude.
Speaker 2: We all just want to be understood, right, And that's
Speaker 2: across the board. That's a human thing. And I know
Speaker 2: when you were in school, I mean that was a
Speaker 2: couple decades ago. We didn't have all of the resources
Speaker 2: that are available now for people that have autism. So
Speaker 2: in your experience, have things gotten better?
Speaker 3: Well, it got better now, but back back in my
Speaker 3: childhood days, it didn't get better because they don't understand
Speaker 3: what autism is and they just took it the wrong way.
Speaker 1: Thank god, we've been able to progress with the science
Speaker 1: and having a better understanding of it and to where
Speaker 1: we can provide people with more resources who have been
Speaker 1: diagnosed being autistic. You know, I mean, that's my little
Speaker 1: brother is one of them. And it's so really yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's just so courageous of you, fantasy like you
Speaker 1: have so much courage to be able to do what
Speaker 1: you do on top of working, and then you create
Speaker 1: in the art industry with your music and with your acting,
Speaker 1: and you're such a light. You're such a light regardless
Speaker 1: of your past and your childhood that was tough and
Speaker 1: you've been able to come out on the other side.
Speaker 1: And you inspire people all over now because of the
Speaker 1: films and the music. And it's a beautiful thing to
Speaker 1: be able to say that, you know, more people should
Speaker 1: take the fantasy approach.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, more people should.
Speaker 1: Yeah, more people should look at life in the light
Speaker 1: and not the darkness. And you are such a light.
Speaker 1: I just want to commend you for your courage, because
Speaker 1: you have a lot of it, and I think that
Speaker 1: it's something that by default makes you an inspiration to
Speaker 1: the human race. It's not that I think that. I
Speaker 1: know that because I get to meet people all around
Speaker 1: the world and I speak to a lot of people
Speaker 1: all over and I'm telling you, don't stop the path
Speaker 1: you're on because you are an inspirational human being and
Speaker 1: you have a lot of light to give this world.
Speaker 1: And the fact that you're continuing to do it and
Speaker 1: you're continuing to work as hard as you do. It's
Speaker 1: such a beautiful thing. I'll speak for Ashley and myself
Speaker 1: when I say this, We are honored to know you
Speaker 1: because you are a beautiful human being in fantasy. You
Speaker 1: really are.
Speaker 3: That's really sweet. Thank you so much forgiving me that.
Speaker 3: That makes my day great. I'm really glad to hear it.
Speaker 3: And that's that's more like it.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: What would you say to someone with autism that's struggling?
Speaker 3: What I should tell people with autism is, don't think
Speaker 3: of bad thoughts, think of what's coming to you. Think
Speaker 3: of good thoughts.
Speaker 1: Think about that.
Speaker 3: People will love you, but it takes time. Just wait
Speaker 3: for the right time to come. Some people will come
Speaker 3: to you. That's why I should tell the people with autism.
Speaker 3: When people comes to you, you won't be alone. You'll
Speaker 3: never be alone until the right time comes. When the
Speaker 3: right people come to you, you won't be alone anymore.
Speaker 2: Ah, that's beautiful. What advice would you give to someone
Speaker 2: who has an autistic family member, or maybe not even
Speaker 2: a family member, maybe they just meet someone that has autism.
Speaker 2: What advice would you give to people.
Speaker 3: For the people who hasn't met an autistic person before,
Speaker 3: when you meet them, just respect of who they are
Speaker 3: treat them nicely and help them out. Help them. If
Speaker 3: they have bad days and people have been bullying that
Speaker 3: person with autism, just stand by that person, have their
Speaker 3: back and just keep that person safe and help the
Speaker 3: person out. If that person has a meltdown, just get
Speaker 3: that person to calm down and just accept who they
Speaker 3: are and just talk them treatly. That's what the person
Speaker 3: to tell should do if they met a person with
Speaker 3: autism is to get to know them better, make them happy,
Speaker 3: don't make them look afraid. So that's why I should
Speaker 3: tell people who will meet the autistic person.
Speaker 2: That's great advice.
Speaker 1: That would be great advice just for any human to
Speaker 1: agree human.
Speaker 2: You know, everybody should do that, right they have to, Yeah, because.
Speaker 1: All of us are fighting something. All of us are
Speaker 1: struggling with something, you know, whether it's paying bills or
Speaker 1: you know, having to get I need a better job
Speaker 1: to make more money, to provide for my family more,
Speaker 1: or I miss my parents or parent, or I miss
Speaker 1: my siblings, or you've lost someone or so on and
Speaker 1: so forth. And this sharing of love, which is essentially
Speaker 1: what you just say. People don't understand the power of
Speaker 1: healing that that has. And when you want to make
Speaker 1: somebody comfortable, the best thing to do is to just
Speaker 1: completely love them, just love them, knowing that everybody's fighting something.
Speaker 1: The words that you say that you've worked so hard
Speaker 1: in your life to be able to communicate to us
Speaker 1: are beautiful and they should be wretched in stone, because
Speaker 1: that's what life is all about. It's about just being
Speaker 1: a good human being and doing everything you can to
Speaker 1: help others. And I just think it's awesome that you
Speaker 1: figured that out obviously a long time ago, and that
Speaker 1: that's what you're doing now in your everyday life. It
Speaker 1: just truly inspiring fantasy. So thank you for that. Don't
Speaker 1: ever change. I'll tell you that, don't ever change.
Speaker 3: Appreciate it.
Speaker 1: I love what you always say when you're signing off,
Speaker 1: and you always say be yourself, be inspired, and be respectful,
Speaker 1: and I love that. I want to get a sign
Speaker 1: made and put it in our kids' rooms that just
Speaker 1: says that, and then I want you to sign them
Speaker 1: if you would, because we're gonna put them up in
Speaker 1: their room. If you wouldn't mind doing that, I'll send
Speaker 1: them to you, and then we can even do like
Speaker 1: a fan mail segment. We'll just send you some fan
Speaker 1: mail and then you can do a video and then
Speaker 1: we'll have the boys write something to you and then
Speaker 1: you can just read them on your fan mail. Is
Speaker 1: that cool?
Speaker 3: That'd be great because I do all fan mail videos.
Speaker 1: Awesome.
Speaker 2: What's your favorite piece of fan mail you've gotten?
Speaker 3: The favorite piece of fan mail ever gotten is from
Speaker 3: one of the YouTubers who who was in elementary school,
Speaker 3: and I find it's handwriting good, but then write it's
Speaker 3: a bit funny, but he is still learning though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think it's awesome that you do that
Speaker 1: and you take the time to do that, and that
Speaker 1: it means a lot to you.
Speaker 2: What brings you joy?
Speaker 3: What brings me joy is to get people that I
Speaker 3: know together and I'm telling my family members how much
Speaker 3: I love them and how much they been there to
Speaker 3: take care of me in case if I have bad days,
Speaker 3: if people give me hard time, They're always been there
Speaker 3: for me. That brings me joy. And what else brings
Speaker 3: me joy is to meet the people who I trust,
Speaker 3: who are will be my real friends. It brings me joy,
Speaker 3: and like it brings me joy when I remind myself
Speaker 3: think of great, great thoughts from others and told me
Speaker 3: how much I appreciate changing their minds. That brings me
Speaker 3: joy a lot.
Speaker 2: Oh, I just got goosebumps. Fantasy A. You bring us joy,
Speaker 2: and thank you so much for coming and being on
Speaker 2: the good stuff with us today. It is such an
Speaker 2: honor to meet you and thank you for all of
Speaker 2: the work that you're doing, not only with your rap
Speaker 2: music and your acting, but also speaking about autism publicly
Speaker 2: so that more people can reach out and just understand
Speaker 2: each other better. And where can people find you?
Speaker 3: Well, where people can find me, y'all can find me
Speaker 3: on YouTube under Fantasy A, and you also can find
Speaker 3: me under SoundCloud Fantasy fan King, and y'all can find
Speaker 3: me on Twitter under hip hop King four three and
Speaker 3: also you can find me on band camp under the
Speaker 3: same name Fantasy A.
Speaker 1: You are crushing it, Fantasy Thank you so much. Whatever
Speaker 1: you're doing, keep on doing it, and keep on being
Speaker 1: true to you and keep on loving you, because that's
Speaker 1: what matters, man, That's what matters, and you're doing it brilliantly.
Speaker 2: You really are such a pleasure to meet you and
Speaker 2: get to talk to you today.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me to get to
Speaker 3: know you guys and tell you about what I'm doing
Speaker 3: and my whole entire story, you.
Speaker 1: Bet, Fantasy, the honor and privilege is all ours, brother,
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what. You got two new true
Speaker 1: friends in Texas, all right, So don't you forget that.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna be definitely staying in touch. I promise
Speaker 1: you keep bringing lights of the world.
Speaker 3: Brother, I will. I appreciate you so much, Thank you
Speaker 3: so much. That makes my day great. I really appreciate
Speaker 3: you too.
Speaker 1: Awesome.
Speaker 2: Thanks right.
Speaker 1: Please do yourself a favor and go find the short
Speaker 1: film Fantasy It gets jacked on YouTube, find his music,
Speaker 1: and make sure to stay updated on the future. Fantasy
Speaker 1: agets a Mattress.
Speaker 2: It's greatness.
Speaker 1: It is pure greatness, the fact that he gets to
Speaker 1: find therapy and something that he loves and grow forward
Speaker 1: all at the same time. It's not only entertaining an
Speaker 1: awesome I mean it's perfect for the perspective that we
Speaker 1: all need to one go easier on ourselves and two.
Speaker 2: Find the courage to grow forward and also have that
Speaker 2: compassion for other people because you never know what they're fighting,
Speaker 2: You never know what they're dealing with and what their
Speaker 2: reality is each and every day. So many great lessons
Speaker 2: to take from this episode.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a truanspiration.
Speaker 2: I just want to know where the best laugh in
Speaker 2: Seattle competition is because I'm submitting him for that. His smile,
Speaker 2: his smile, laugh contagious.
Speaker 1: Yeah, our people's stock went way up. Yeah, no doubt
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 2: Huge inspiration. Thank you so much for listening. If this
Speaker 2: episode touched you today, please share it and be part
Speaker 2: of making someone else's day better.
Speaker 1: Put on your badass capes and join fantassa and go
Speaker 1: be great today. And remember you can't do epic stuff
Speaker 1: without epic people.
Speaker 3: And y'all, Mama, y'all to be remember, be yourself, be inspired,
Speaker 3: and be respectful.
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