WEBVTT - Feeling the Love with Fantasy A 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:12.040 Welcome to the Good Stuff. I'm Jacob Schick and I'm 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:14.720 joined by my co host and wife, Ashley Shick. 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:18.159 Jake is a third generation combat Marine and I'm a 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:22.200 gold Star granddaughter, and we work together to serve military veterans, 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:26.000 first responders, frontline healthcare workers, and their families with mental 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:30.160 and emotional wellness through traditional and non traditional therapy. 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Today, our guest is fantasy A, 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:06.960 an absolute legend from the great City of Seattle, Washington. 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:11.200 He's a rapper, producer, actor, and advocate for people with autism. 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:15.240 Fantasya himself has autism and proudly speaks his truth. 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:18.039 He's a beloved member of his community and the muse 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:22.040 for the filmmaking team Doctor Clean Productions. Their short film, 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:25.520 Fantasy A Gets Jacked is a cult classic, and their 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:29.040 debut feature film, Fantasy A Gets a Mattress, recently one 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:32.080 Best Narrative Feature at the Seattle Black Film Festival. 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.240 He's a magnetic leading man on screen, a beast on 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:37.920 the microphone, and a shining light in his quest to 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:39.399 speak about living with autism. 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:43.319 I am already so excited for this episode, smiling already. 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:49.760 Let's jump right in. Let's do this. Yes, Fantasy A, 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:53.600 thank you so much for joining us. We love the 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:55.880 energy that you bring to the world through your music 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:59.120 and the films that you've started, and we're so thankful 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:01.400 for your openness and honesty when it comes to talking 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:02.880 about autism. 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:05.800 Thank you guys for having me. I'm looking forward to 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:07.440 tell you about my whole story. 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:10.240 We were jamming out the other day to your Summer 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:11.359 in Seattle video. 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:13.760 Oh did you Yeah? 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:16.280 It was so fun. It's such an uplifting song. It 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:18.240 made me want to go walk on the pier and 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:23.720 eat ice cream. So glad to hear that you can't 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:26.079 listen to it and not be happy. That was a 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:27.840 pretty little lady you had in there with you. 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:34.600 Yeah, I've known her. We were co workers at ball 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:38.799 Park Stadium. Oh cool, Moble Park, Oh fun, very cool. 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:43.200 And that's how that's how I got her involved of 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:47.000 being doing projects with me, and she's inspired of what 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:50.200 I do good and that made her really happy. 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:52.679 I imagine you have a lot of people that you've 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:55.640 inspired that have wanted to be a part of your projects. 0:02:56.080 --> 0:03:00.640 I have a question why Fantasy A. 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:04.800 Well, why I picked that stage name. It's because I 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:08.880 just read books that's based on magic and fiction, like 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:12.600 Harry Potter and The Lawyer of the Rings and much 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:18.240 more more like wizard magic. And because I like to 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:21.400 go around a lot, and I'm the hard person to 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:25.320 miss When people haven't heard of me and they want 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.640 to meet me so bad, I'm the hardest person to miss, 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:32.480 so I moved around quickly. Some people who want to 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:34.760 meet me need to catch up with me before I 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:35.760 disappear again. 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:36.600 That's right. 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:40.520 And the AA stands for my real name, which is 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:42.960 Alex So that's. 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:46.080 Hrad and I completely dig it, brother, and I completely 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:49.240 relate to the whole disappearing act. So when did you 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:50.880 first start loving hip hop? 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.280 When I first started hip hop when I was about 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:56.360 four years old, when I was in my mom's car 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:59.600 when she's driving. I like to listen to old school 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:04.400 wrap me like Tupac, Victoria's Big Stoop Dogg and other 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:08.240 artists out there. That's how I first started loving hip hop. 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:10.200 Tupac and Biggie. 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:13.360 Yeah, I mean two of the greats, right, I mean 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:14.120 two legends. 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:19.520 Yeah, like who who whis? People don't don't know who 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:21.680 Tupaca b i G Is. Huh. 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:27.040 I'm pretty sure those people don't exist. Like everybody knows 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:28.280 who Tupac and Biggie are. 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:32.880 Everyone knows. Everybody knows already over the years. 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:38.760 So fantasy, what was it in Tupac and Biggie's lyrics 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:41.280 that spoke to you? Or what did it start off 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:44.720 more as the beat that really started to speak to you. 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:50.520 What they're talking about like life expressions and much more. 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:54.880 That kid relates to what I've been through. So that's 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:58.080 that's that's that's how reason I want to be like 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.799 them and say differently than what they written. 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:05.200 Yeah, for sure, that's beautiful. I mean music has that 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:07.240 ability right to really speak to us. 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:09.080 Yes, exactly. 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:11.440 What was it like growing up for you? 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:16.840 It was tough to be when you're younger. It is 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:21.960 because you know, I have ups and downs and something 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:25.160 that kind of bothers me. That kind of made me 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:29.280 think of how nervous and afraid when growing up. 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.560 And what was it like in your household when you 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:33.120 were a kid. 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:37.280 I have my one brother, one sister, one's younger and 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:42.080 one's older, and just my dad, my mom. He would 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:45.240 live in the small house with only one floor, and 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:48.000 that's it. It's a bit different, to be honest. 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:50.680 Did you and your siblings get along? Jake and I 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:53.360 both have siblings, and we were very different from them. 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:59.320 We always got into arguments and fights. You know, it's 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:02.279 like it was in the past. We didn't get along 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:05.720 with each other back then, and now we get as 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:07.960 we grow up. We just learned our lessons. 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:12.200 Yeah, isn't that interesting? Fantasy like, because it's the same 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:14.120 with us. We talk about it all the time with 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:16.840 our siblings, and we see it with our boys. You know, 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.520 they go at it and it's like, hey, really yeah, 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:21.600 you know, just like last night I was like, hey, 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:24.440 hug each other and look each other in the face 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:26.280 and tell each other how much you love each other 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:29.039 right now. Of course they hate it at the time, 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:31.280 but they'll hug each other. And then I told them, 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:36.440 one day, you're gonna miss this one day where you 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:38.960 guys will you know, you're gonna have your own families 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:41.880 and live in different places. You're still gonna be tight, 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:43.480 but you don't get to see each other as much 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:46.440 as you want, just like with our siblings. And you're 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:48.599 gonna miss this, you know, And they're gonna think back 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:51.440 on it because the same thing that with you growing 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:53.080 up the way you did with the siblings, and you 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:56.160 have your arguments and your disagreements, and now that we're 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:59.000 all adults, it's like, we know how much of a 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.520 blessing it is to have siblings and to be able 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:03.560 to have that relationship and that connection. 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:07.400 What was the relationship like with your mother growing up? 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:11.600 Well, when I was young, my mom and I don't 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:14.120 get along with each other because of the meltdowns I've 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:17.440 been and then couldn't get my way, and my mom 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:22.000 doesn't want to get my way, so I get angry 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:28.360 with her, have meltdowns, and through middle school and high school, 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:30.800 my mom and I don't get in along with each 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:35.200 other because the way acting and it's really hard for me. 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:37.880 Do you feel like they just didn't understand you. 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:43.240 Yeah, my mom doesn't understand me and much more, she 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:46.800 doesn't understand what I want and she just doesn't want 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:49.840 to do it. So that got me really angry. It 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:52.920 makes me want to do something. And my mom is 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:57.920 a bit afraid that I do meltdowns and bad and 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:00.640 my mom doesn't want me to be around her her 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:05.120 because of what I did. It's something personal and and 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:07.960 and after high school, my mom. 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:08.360 And I. 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:15.560 Slowly to start getting along again. And the fact is 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:21.480 my mom she just had a health issue. She suffered 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:28.280 a stroke back in twenty sixteen, and she's also diabetic, 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:33.240 so and she she couldn't take care of herself sometimes. 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:35.560 But I still do love my mom and she's still 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:39.000 here and I was, and I always checking with her 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:42.800 and she calls me. And we used to live with 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:48.120 each other before I became independent. And my dad he 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:55.360 was an alcoholic and that kind of affected my life ability. 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:57.880 My dad and I don't get along with each other 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:02.520 often while I was young, younger and after high school 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:07.360 and before I grew up. It's because of his alcoholism. 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:12.679 He also suffered a stroke in Alzheimer's and he kind 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:18.640 of makes me really uncomfortable and afraid. And and I 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:21.400 usually talked back to my dad, which is I shouldn't 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:24.800 do that makes him do something that he shouldn't do 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:30.040 to me, and he should know that that makes him 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:33.559 a bad father. No father can do something bad to 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:38.880 their child with autism. My dad doesn't understand autism. Well, 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:43.800 that's why he treats me that way. Yeah, so my 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:45.840 dad and I don't get along with each other back 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:49.000 in the days, and says he had a stroke. Him 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:52.240 and I we talk sometimes and he loves me still, 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:57.599 and he and he he makes mistakes and he overcomes 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.720 his mistakes and he's that he's sorry. 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:06.000 So thank God for that. We all get older and 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:08.640 we grow and we understand, you know, and then we 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:12.400 start to get wiser the older we get. You know, 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:15.599 it's just more life experience. I'm grateful to hear that 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:17.240 fantasy grow. 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:21.000 Yeah, if my dad is not alcoholic, he should be 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:25.360 a better person. He should remind himself be a better person. 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:28.680 That's what that's that's what kind of dad I want. 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:33.679 What about when you're in elementary school? What was it 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:34.160 like for you. 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:38.880 To be honest, it's just a bit different because when 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:41.560 I was little, I usually have hard time paying attention 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:46.760 and don't get along with my classmates. Usually I did 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.880 something that I shouldn't do, like throwing stuff in the ground. 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:52.920 That was the old me. That was the old younger me. 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:58.320 It's just like that. I couldn't learn anything like right, 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:03.160 and I usually get in too large meltdowns at school 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:06.520 because I would I'm in special ed. I'm in that 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:11.280 specialized class with people with disabilities, and I usually get 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:15.439 angry when I couldn't get what I want and it 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:18.439 couldn't do anything that I want, can't play around my 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:25.120 classmates during recess, and it's tough because I get angry 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.680 usually when I have bad days at school. 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:32.320 In elementary, yeah, for sure, did you have many friends? 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.560 I hi set friends, but I have no friends. When 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:39.079 I was in elementary school, I have no friends at all. 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:41.559 That must have been really hard for you. 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:46.199 It is what kind of impact did your teachers have 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:49.040 on you when you were coming up through school? 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:56.320 Well, the impact that I get from them is they 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:59.440 don't know how to handle a person with disability well. 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:04.959 And I found it irritating when they like try to 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:09.599 like rab me and put and put and put me 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:12.439 at the wall, which I don't find it safe. 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:15.480 And you're just a child at the time, right, how 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:17.719 do you how do you even try to understand that. 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:25.640 I'm just trying to like calm myself down and try 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:29.280 to control myself, but they just held on to. 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:30.480 Me, and. 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:33.719 I just could not help it. 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:38.719 You know, we go through these traumas as children, and 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:43.640 then we get into adulthood and we hadn't really done 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:47.839 anything to address those childhood traumas, and then they seep 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:51.360 into our adult life. Then we experienced a high stress 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:54.199 situation and we don't know how to handle it. And 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:59.360 it seems like through the various forms of art that 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:03.520 you've become so accustomed to and you've gotten so experienced 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:07.120 with through music and now film, it seems like that's 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:10.199 a way that you've really been able to channel that 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:14.760 and grow and heal forward from those traumas in your childhood. 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:17.360 So when did you start making music? 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:21.679 Like that introduction of music, it won't got into just 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:24.600 till I'm in high school. Actually, it's called hip Hop Club, 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.640 which is one of the after school programs I go to. 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.439 It's only run every tuesdays. 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:32.880 What made you want to sign up? Obviously you love 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:35.280 Biggie and Tupac, so you're like, oh, hip hop Club, 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:35.800 I'm in that. 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:39.920 Yeah. What makes me want to join that is when 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:41.720 I was at my old school at club in high school, 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:45.040 I used to write my own rhymes, and when I 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:48.199 went to EMP When which is now MoPOP, I just 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:51.199 learned how to make my own beats through those machines 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:53.959 they have, and that's how I get into music and 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:57.839 record myself and much more. That's why I want to 0:13:57.880 --> 0:13:59.760 get involved with Hip Hop Club because it will help 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:05.720 me put me on the right track and show everyone 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:08.360 that I have feelings to share. 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:12.760 I'm curious to know to fantasy, what was it like 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:16.720 to connect with the other students in the hip hop 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:18.439 club when you went to the Center school. 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:22.280 Well, I told the students of what I've been through. 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:26.840 How music helps me is to express my emotions and 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:32.120 take me into the better path, and I just want 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:35.000 them to do the same thing. Music takes them to 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:39.600 the good path and remind themselves how good they are 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:44.240 and not to worry about what other people said about them. 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:48.320 Did you connect with some other friends in that group? 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:52.600 Yes, I connect with the other three people like Sam 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:56.880 and Peter who are who put together a hip hop club. 0:14:57.680 --> 0:14:59.000 They're really cool to connect with. 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:00.600 Awesome. 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.520 Rapping helps me to make my verbal skills better because 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:09.520 I had speech trouble back in the days, and it's 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:11.800 kind of hard for me for people to understand what 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:16.040 I'm saying and everything. So rapping helps me to get 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:19.760 my verbal skills in a right direction without messing up. 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:24.440 I respect and admire your courage for being your authentic 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:29.600 self in this endeavor of creating your own music and 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:34.520 now films. It's just something to be admired, and I 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:39.360 love it. You and I actually have on the acting side, definitely, 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:42.120 not on the music side, but on the acting side 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:45.320 something in common because I've been able to do some 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:49.080 acting too in my day. I really enjoy it because 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:52.640 I get to kind of channel my life experiences and 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:56.400 have it portray somebody that's not really me. I would 0:15:56.440 --> 0:16:00.800 love to know where did you get in to the 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:02.120 acting side of it? 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:05.600 How do I get to come to it? I just 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:09.880 kind of joined this, uh this program. It's it's on 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:15.960 the weekends, though it's within a different different organization, and 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:21.160 they do they do this play audition thing for people 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:26.680 with disabilities. We were auditioned for a play and we'll 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:30.280 just do it for fun, and we did the real thing. 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:35.720 It's down at the see how Children's theater at the Armory. 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:41.480 And so that's how we got into acting. And that's 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:45.600 how I get in the drama because it helps me 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:50.560 to express my interests, get my feelings out and show 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:58.520 people that how how well I am to get myself. 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:02.840 Going absolutely and how did how did this? How did 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:05.080 making music and how did acting? How did that change 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:05.520 your life? 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:10.240 How it changes my life is not to look back 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:14.520 in my past. And so that's how I get into 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:18.760 music and acting because if I will help me to 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:23.719 overcome my disability, so it would would not come back 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:30.400 to haunt me. And and it helps me to get 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:36.159 myself up, stand myself up and believe in myself and 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:39.600 not to fail myself. That's the reason why I'll get 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:44.040 into music and acting because it will overcome it will 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:45.679 help to overcome my failures. 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:48.280 I personally love being on set when I get to 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:51.280 be in a film. For you, what's it like to 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:51.960 make a movie? 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:56.359 What is like to make a movie. It's it's cool 0:17:56.760 --> 0:18:01.280 because I've never been by someone if I can be 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:05.480 in a movie before they just experience about me and 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:07.600 they asked me if they wanted to make a movie 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:13.720 about me. So and I said, oh, okay, I'm down 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:17.119 for that. Awesome. So that's those that's what that's what 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:21.200 gets me into being in a movie is by you know, 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:23.720 say yes and accept it. 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:26.680 Yeah, what really drives you to do it. 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:32.200 What drives me into acting is when I go to 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:39.480 bed and it tells me what a great day to 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:43.600 be doing the filming and bew, be a good actor? 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:48.520 How great? How great I am? That's what That's what 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:50.680 I said to myself before I went to bed. 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:55.160 Good for you. We all can really learn a lesson 0:18:55.240 --> 0:19:00.320 there that positive affirmations and speaking kindly to ourselves and 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:03.440 telling ourselves, you know, today was a great day and 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:04.480 I'm doing good. 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:04.800 Right. 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:07.679 I think that's a great lesson we can all all 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:09.000 learn from that. 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:10.840 Everybody should practice every day. 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:15.920 They should because if they don't practice it, then you 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:18.040 never know what's going to happen to them. They will, 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:20.680 their failures will come to them and they they will 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:23.800 probably didn't listen to themselves, right, that's absolutely right. 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:26.760 Okay, So we were watching some of your stuff on 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:30.160 YouTube and you are so entertaining. It's so much fun 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:32.479 to watch, and I mean it's hard to watch anything 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:34.600 done by Fantasy A and not just have a huge 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:37.040 smile on your face. So thank you again for bringing 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:38.560 joy to the world. 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:40.919 No doubt anytime. I'm glad it helps you. 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:45.080 Guys, it really does. It really does. And the movies 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:49.800 you made with Doctor Clean Productions, they're absolutely wild and hilarious. 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:53.639 So we just want to know what's it like because 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:55.280 recently you were at a film festival. 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:57.320 Correct, Yes, I was. 0:19:57.840 --> 0:20:00.240 What was it like to see your movie up they're 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:01.440 at a film festival. 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:05.600 I was really shocked that they premiered it on the 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:09.680 big screen and I'm just laughing, laughing, laughing, and I'm like, 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:16.320 wait a minute, I'm on the big stream. That's what 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:17.680 I was thinking to my head. 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:21.639 Did it just give you this great sense of accomplishment? 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:26.119 Yes, it gives me the great accomplishment. And how proud 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:27.320 I am to help those. 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:30.760 Guys out to put that together, most definitely. 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:33.159 And I'm telling you it was the best moment of 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:36.600 my life to that to make the film festival happened, 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:38.960 the best moment of my life. 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:42.760 Ever, how did it feel to be embraced by such 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:47.760 a loving, supportive community after having such a hard time 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:51.800 socially when you were younger? Now you're older and you're 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:54.600 an adult, and you were at this film festival and 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:56.520 you were up on the big screen and you had 0:20:56.680 --> 0:21:00.879 all these people giving you love. What was that like? 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:03.120 What did that do for your heart and your soul? 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:08.239 That's a good question that got me all hyped up 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:15.320 and loved. It truly helps me. What to do with 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:21.000 that is is to keep keep on thinking positive. And 0:21:22.520 --> 0:21:26.119 that's what that's one of my reaction is. It's just 0:21:26.200 --> 0:21:30.720 the beginning. So that's how I how much pride I 0:21:30.800 --> 0:21:36.399 am of how big my heart has become. That I 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:39.680 have a great heart, and I feel loved and I 0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:44.440 feel so much energized that every the whole community knows 0:21:44.480 --> 0:21:47.600 who I am and knows how much I changed their 0:21:47.720 --> 0:21:51.720 minds when they see me, what I've changed and what 0:21:52.040 --> 0:21:53.200 I made them become. 0:21:54.200 --> 0:21:57.080 Most definitely, and you, I mean you are clearly very 0:21:57.160 --> 0:21:59.880 proud of Seattle. Tell us about Seattle. 0:22:01.480 --> 0:22:04.720 Well, Seattle is a good city where people go on 0:22:04.920 --> 0:22:07.920 tours to like see the Pipe Place market, to say, 0:22:08.160 --> 0:22:12.520 you know, all the great parks and cherry blossoms and 0:22:13.280 --> 0:22:18.920 water parks and waterfront and Alkai Beach and golden gardens 0:22:19.080 --> 0:22:22.400 up and Ballard. That's that's Seattle is a good city. 0:22:23.440 --> 0:22:30.080 But everything's changed around there, you know. But I remain 0:22:30.119 --> 0:22:33.560 in Seattle until I die. And and people who are 0:22:33.640 --> 0:22:36.280 from out of town they love Seattle. And some of 0:22:36.359 --> 0:22:40.040 them don't because you know, they don't find it interesting. 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:45.159 That's just them. But me, I am proud of my 0:22:45.240 --> 0:22:48.359 city of Seattle because I just want them to like 0:22:48.920 --> 0:22:53.600 be happening with me changing their attitude and remind them 0:22:53.600 --> 0:22:56.159 of the same model every day, and that kind of 0:22:56.200 --> 0:22:58.479 made them happy. That's kind of made Seattle the happiest 0:22:58.520 --> 0:22:59.280 place to be around. 0:23:00.280 --> 0:23:02.960 And another great lesson that we all should be focused 0:23:03.000 --> 0:23:06.800 on every day. Right, It's all about mindset. You are 0:23:07.200 --> 0:23:09.920 clearly such a great ambassador for the city of Seattle. 0:23:10.000 --> 0:23:12.879 What would your ideal day in Seattle be? 0:23:14.840 --> 0:23:18.280 My ideal day in Seattle will be Friday, because that 0:23:19.600 --> 0:23:22.879 is when everything gets cooled down at the end of 0:23:22.960 --> 0:23:28.399 the day and I will say to myself, Wow, what 0:23:28.680 --> 0:23:32.920 a great week I have. Glad that day's over. So 0:23:33.119 --> 0:23:35.680 that's the ideal day that comes to my mind. 0:23:35.920 --> 0:23:38.439 Good for you tgif we have. 0:23:38.560 --> 0:23:41.000 Something else in common. When it comes to public speaking, 0:23:41.080 --> 0:23:42.359 I do a lot of public speaking. 0:23:43.400 --> 0:23:45.240 Oh do you I do? That's cool? 0:23:45.600 --> 0:23:48.520 Yeah I do. And for me it's therapeutic. You know, 0:23:48.800 --> 0:23:51.480 every time I get off a stage, my soul is 0:23:51.480 --> 0:23:53.600