WEBVTT - AdamRayOkay Didn’t Tell His Mom He Was Famous 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:05.440 I remember going home one day and I had already 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.039 hit a million. I was so excited, and I walk 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:12.440 into my house. My mom's watching my videos, and it 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:15.160 was the one where I was literally making fun of 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:39.800 her secrets. Everybody's got them, and everybody else wants to 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:42.880 know them. You know, maybe maybe you've got a secret 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:45.800 child out there that another rapper outed on a disc track. 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:48.879 I'm looking at you, Drizzy, Or maybe you've got a 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:53.559 secret recipe, you know, with eleven herbs and spices, and 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:55.680 I'm pretty sure I've figured out what ten of them are, 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:57.760 but I still don't know what that eleventh is. Maybe 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:02.800 it's turmeric or turmeric or whatever it is. I'm looking 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:07.759 at you, Colonel Sanders, that's your real name. Or you know, 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:15.160 maybe you murdered somebody that's dark. Looking at you, O. J. Simpson. 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:18.200 I don't think that's really a secret anymore. Anyway, Maybe 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:20.880 your secret is that you have over a million followers 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:22.880 on TikTok and you haven't told your mom yet. Every 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:26.600 parent's worst nightmare. Now, my friend Adam Riyoka knows all 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:29.080 about that. Adam is a twenty three year old creator 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:31.800 from San Antonio, Texas who many know for his alter 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:36.360 ego Rosa, the flaming hot, cheeto loving, nail clacking, gossip 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:39.600 loving latin x TikTok character. Now Adam and I sat 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:41.360 down at VidCon last summer and he told me about 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:43.800 the first time he was recognized in public and how 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:47.280 it changed his life. I'm will closet full of skeletons 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:50.640 McFadden and this is hashtag storytime, brought to you by iHeartRadio. 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:54.320 So I want to talk to you about the time 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:57.720 when I first got recognized in public as like Rosa. Yes, 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:00.640 so let me tell you. Before Rosa, my life was 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:03.800 so boring, Like I had a boring job. I can 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:07.720 I also say, before Rosa my life was born. That 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:12.240 makes more interesting. Yeah I've heard that too, so I 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:15.320 don't not believe you. I just kidding, um, But yeah, 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:20.680 I had a boring job, boring car, boring everything pretty much. 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:23.840 So like once I started on social media, it was 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:25.840 kind of just like a whole new world. And mind you, 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:29.840 I had watched like social media creators forever, like that 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:31.639 was like my thing on my downtime. I was your 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:35.040 favorite creator. Okay, well, how ironic is it that one 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:36.799 of them is like literally one of my best friends. 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:40.079 His name is Louis Castro. I was obsessed and now 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:43.400 he's like my realmi um and like a lot of 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:47.080 people in the Latin community like um Jenny sixty nine, 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:50.760 Manny Mua yeah, um, the Mourio Twins, like so many 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:53.240 people that I'm friends with today. I was I would 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.760 literally watch all the fans and now you're like, I 0:02:56.880 --> 0:03:00.280 like wished it into existence, kind of manifested them. So 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:05.160 I started social media, like not intentionally. I literally posted 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:08.639 my first video like for my friends to see. And 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:10.720 when was this? Wait? When? So this was December of 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:12.880 twenty nineteen. Okay, all right, so we're going on three 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:16.280 years this December. But what a skyrocket to fame. I 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:19.839 mean that's three years. O. No, that's so fast. That's 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:22.400 like scary. I always heard like people say like, oh, yeah, 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:24.359 I've been doing this for years, and I'm like, I've 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:26.400 been doing this for three years, Like what the heck? 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:30.480 That's that's I mean, But that's like, that's that's a milestone. 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:32.760 Three years. And but it's also so fast for what 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:34.679 you've achieved. And I found like three years in social 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:37.560 media time is like twenty Yeah, it does. It's like 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:41.800 dog years. Yeah for sure. I'm like, whoa, okay, um, sorry, 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:45.960 I get a side checked the lot that's going to happen. Um, 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:48.840 what was it? Oh? Yeah, so I was boring all right, 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:52.960 and then um I started social media December of twenty nineteen, 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:56.640 and then after that, my life, literally, my kid, you not, 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.320 was never the same. I remember after my first video 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:01.160 blew up, I went to work the next day and 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:03.160 I was like, big Orge, I'm putting my two weeks 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:06.000 in like just joking. I literally like talked to him 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:07.680 my co workers. I'm like, it was so good knowing you, 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:11.880 Like I will forget about I'm like, I'm going to 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:16.360 miss you. Just remember me. But everybody was like super 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:18.760 supportive at my workplace. It was so funny. I went 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:20.760 to work the next day after my video had blew up. 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:22.279 I was like, oh my god, I posted a video 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:24.200 and like it's like going crazy and was this your 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:26.840 very first, very first it also I didn't even have 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:28.520 a name, like it was just like some girl that 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:32.000 I made up. And um. So I went to work 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:35.960 and I told everybody that what had happened, and they 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:37.800 were telling me because everybody had known that I would 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:39.839 watch people on social media. So they were like, bitch, 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.800 if you are making these videos, you can somehow meet 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:44.520 these people, like be friends with these people, and like 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:46.359 kind of just being supportive and I telling me to 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:48.640 keep going, because at that point, I was like what 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:50.560 do I do? Like do I make another video? Do 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:52.919 I like stop? Am I embarrassing myself? I didn't know 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:55.440 what to do. So everybody was just being super supportive 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:58.919 and telling me, like to continue. So I was like, okay, 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:01.200 I guess I remember that day. I went to work 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:04.200 on my computer and I went onto the TikTok website 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:06.080 to see if like I would see my face yea 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:07.760 like on the four you page. Back then it was 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:09.680 like very much like just the four you page. I 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:12.440 was kind of yeah, yeah, So I was like, let 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:14.600 me just scrow until I see like my video pop up. 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:16.919 I was literally sitting there for hours, and I like, 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:19.040 mind you, I had like two videos up, so like 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:20.960 out of the millions of videos that there was, I 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:22.960 was like, I need to see my video. Get there. 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:26.400 So um I was there. I was looking for my 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:29.760 video and like talking to everybody about the situation. After 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:31.279 I went home that day, I was like, you know what, 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:34.000 like they're right, if I don't do this, Like, I'm 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:35.760 never gonna know if like what could have happened. You know, 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:37.720 if I would have continued with rows good thing, you 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.400 were surrounded by friends who told you to keep going 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:42.440 because what a sad world we'd live, and if they 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:46.120 were like, oh, don't make anymore very hater vibe, Yeah, 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:49.120 that would have that would be a totally different life. Yeah. 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:52.520 Imagine if it also wasn't created. I know the world 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:56.159 would be a worse place. I would imagine, be sad. 0:05:56.680 --> 0:06:00.200 I'm gonna say that on my panel. I just kidding, um, 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:02.560 But yeah, I went home that day. That's when I 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:06.719 created Rosa the name okay, and ever since then, I 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.440 made another video that day I uploaded it, and after that, 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.680 every single video that I would upload it like did 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:15.280 its day. Yeah, it like took off and it like 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:18.760 made my face known to millions and millions of people. Yea. 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:25.520 So I remember it was during like COVID was barely starting, 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:27.839 so I was and I was never really like a 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.200 person to go out because like I just wasn't like 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:33.080 that bitch back then. So I would always just stay 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:34.920 in until like my family would want to go out, 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:36.400 or like my friends would want to go out. So 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.760 I remember the first time I went out. I was 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:42.440 already doing Rosa for like a month, I want to say, 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:44.839 and I went to I was I was living in 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:48.840 San Antonio and nobody had known kids you, not only 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:52.880 the people who had TikTok where were like my friends, family, 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:55.960 my mom, my grandma was so clueless as to what 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:57.680 I was doing upstairs in my room. I'm sure they 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.520 were like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, they like who I Like, 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:02.240 they knew the type of person I was. Like I 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:03.839 would just always made people laugh, but they didn't know 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:06.159 I was like putting it onto the internet like that. Yeah. 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:09.560 So I was there, and like I said, I had 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:11.280 never really gone out. My family had no idea that 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:13.920 I was doing social media. I would go out every 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:15.560 now and then, but nobody really ever came up to me. 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:17.160 I kind of just saw like eyes look at me, 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:19.360 but like not really like say anything. They were kind 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:22.640 of hearing whispers like yeah, very that and mind you. 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:26.160 I feel like that's when TikTok was barely like finding 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:30.120 its creative because there was a couple months when TikTok 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:32.360 after it shifted from musically where it was just cringey 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:34.559 and people were like, this app is terrible, and then 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:39.480 people like you started making characters and like really creating 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:42.360 amazing comedy content on there too, and then I was like, oh, 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:44.800 there's a shift happening. And then yeah, we started to 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.760 see kind of the rise of like, yeah, really amazing 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:57.840 talented creators. So that's whenever people were like starting to 0:07:57.920 --> 0:07:59.920 like put like a face, like a name, and like 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.560 kind of just like do everything like that. Yeah, So 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:05.560 never nobody really ever came up to me, and then 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:08.440 up until it was just one time, I went out 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.200 with my mom and my grandma. Okay, so ironic, right, 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:13.120 the two people that had no idea what I was 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.560 doing online. I went out with them to a pizza 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:19.160 place called Peter Pipers shout out Peter Pipers yes, and 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:23.760 then we I As soon as I entered, I saw 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:25.960 a group of people look at me, and I was like, 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:28.360 because like, I'm not the type to be like, oh, hey, 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:29.680 like you want to picture it, because like I don't 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:31.320 know if they're looking to be this is funny or 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:34.240 like because this is the first time being kind of 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.280 you know, yeah, So I was like, yeah, you're not 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:40.640 gonna be like, hey, do you want to Yeah, like oh, TikTok, come, 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:42.960 you know what I mean. So I was like, yeah, 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:44.440 I'm just gonna ignore it, like I'm not gonna like 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:47.280 pit any attention to it. And then my mom's like, 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:50.640 my mom's like crazy, She's like San Antonio like southside bitch, 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:53.400 you know. So she was like are they looking over here, 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:55.600 like getting all heated? And I was like I don't 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:58.880 know why. I just like ordered the pizza, and so 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:01.079 I think I at one point my mom that didn't 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:02.800 want it to go up and be like oh, like 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:04.640 do you have a question or like what's what's that? 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:08.719 I help you? Yeah, bury that, and then um, they 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:11.400 just kept smiling at me. So my mom initially thought 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:13.719 they were like making fun of me. Okay, so she 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:16.839 was like mama, mama bears ready yeah. And I didn't 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:18.200 want to say like, oh no, it's because I'm on 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:20.320 social media, like because she had no idea. It's because 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:22.680 they loved me. Yeah, And mind you, at that point, 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:26.840 I was still straight. I was very closeted, like so 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:28.760 my mom Like, if my mom found out that I 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:30.560 was like putting on makeup and like making funny videos, 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:32.320 she would have been like, huh, you know what I mean, 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:33.959 so I was like, oh my god, what am I 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:35.880 gonna do? What am I gonna say? There's layers to 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:40.480 this now that yeah. So uh, like after we order 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:43.240 our pizza, we're like standing there waiting for it, and 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:45.000 I guess one of the girls finding gets the courage 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.320 to come up to me. But she comes up to 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:50.040 my mom and I'm like, girl, is she the one 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:51.720 on TikTok? Why would you not come up to me? 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:54.760 And she was always could we want to take a 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:56.600 picture with him? And my mom looks at me, She's 0:09:56.640 --> 0:10:01.480 like what so why yeah, And then they ended up 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:03.240 telling her like, oh, well he does the videos on 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:06.360 TikTok like blah blah blah. And I was like I 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:07.880 just looked at my mom and my grandma was like 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:13.320 so it almost like yeah, very like surprised, and I 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.520 was just like I just like smiled and like I 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:17.760 didn't say no. So I was like my mom was 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:20.480 like okay, like she just like let them. So I 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:22.720 took a picture with them. Is your mom in the photo? 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.080 I hope she's in the back. I think she took 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:27.280 the photo. She literally took the photo. She was like 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:31.360 so confused, Yeah, literally, what is happening. So then, um, 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:34.640 we took the picture. We didn't talk about it. Literally, 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:36.680 after we took the picture, we got her pizza. She 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:39.199 didn't even ask me about it was your grandma. My 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:41.280 grandma was so confused. She was like she honestly thought 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:43.040 like they were my friends or like she was like, oh, 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:48.440 they're from school or something like just like rekindling old friendship. So, um, 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:51.360 we ate and then my I guess my mom didn't 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:53.000 want to talk about it in front of my grandma. Yea, 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:55.200 So my grandma went to the restroom and we waited 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:57.360 for her in the car, and that's when I'm sitting 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:58.800 in the back seat. My mom's in the front seat, 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:02.080 and my Mom's like, so, are you going to talk 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:04.839 about like what just happened, Like why random people are 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:06.440 just taking a picture with you? You're like, no, rather 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.760 not yeah, And I was like, I don't know how 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:11.040 I was gonna like direct this because I didn't want 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:12.240 to bring up the fact that I was like gay, 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:14.600 because I wasn't ready to come out to her. But 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:15.880 then I didn't want to bring up the fact that 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:18.000 I was like putting on makeup and like doing videos. 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:19.440 So I was like, how do I like, how do 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.080 you say this? And then also not show her video 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:25.520 like immediately after. So I was like, why pretty much 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:28.600 make videos online? I post them and people love them 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:30.760 and they laugh at them, and like that's why they 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:32.880 recognize me. They like my video got a lot of 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.800 views and my faith, they just recognize me. Yeah, And 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:38.800 my mom's like, well, I mean, are you being like safe? 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:41.520 And I was like, well, yeah, I'm not doing anything crazy, 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.240 like I wouldn't do anything to like endangerous or like 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:48.080 you know what I mean. Yeah, um, she worried, you 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:52.120 were like like though, I honestly don't know what she 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:53.760 thought I was doing. But I don't know if she 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:55.920 thought I was doing like only fan vibes were like 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:59.200 what your feet? Yeah, I imagine, or she was like 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:03.280 doing she on her mind. I honestly think she was 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:07.439 thinking like Illuminati vibes. They're like doing something like worshiping 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:12.439 some type of Satanic culture or scientologic Latina vibes, and 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:14.760 she's like very Hispanic, like don't like you know what 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:16.800 I mean, like the ray those vibes don't invite the spirits. 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.520 Yeah yeah yeah. So I was like, yeah, I do 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:21.640 these videos online and people love them and like they 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:24.920 laugh so they recognize me. Yeah. She asked me if 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:27.200 I was being safe and like at one point she 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:29.400 was like, what kind of videos? And I was like, 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:31.720 I can show you, but I don't know if you're 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:34.719 gonna like them, so I mean, if you want to 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:36.640 see them or not, like you let me know. Yeah, 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:38.840 she was like no, I don't want to see them, 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:43.520 so I was like okay. So then at that point 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:48.280 we ended up like we dropped it at there, and 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.240 then after that I continued to make medals of videos 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:53.439 and then I just grew bigger and bigger. I ended 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:56.320 up hitting a million followers. Yeah. I remember going home 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:59.840 one day and I had already hit a million. I 0:12:59.880 --> 0:13:03.960 was so excited and I walk into my house. My 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:07.360 mom's watching my videos and it was the one where 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:10.520 I was literally making fun of her and she was 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:14.000 cracking up, literally sitting on the couch dying of laughing, 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:17.439 like yeah literally, I was like, I literally was like 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:19.200 so nervous because I heard my voice walking in and 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:21.200 I see her laughing. I was like I literally broke 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:23.760 out laughing too. I was like like my weight was 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:26.200 lifted off my shoulders because I was like, oh my God, 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:28.800 like my mom's laughing at my videos. And what if 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:32.480 your mom was your million follower, Like what if she 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:38.200 was the one to be little that little boop? Oh 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:41.160 my god, let's just say that that sw yes. I 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:43.800 think that's I had a little like spice. Yeah, story, 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:47.840 she is number one. So I walk in and I 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.320 hear my voice and she's cracking up and she's like, 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:53.440 I found your page. And I was like I can see. 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:57.280 And she was like you're so funny, like blah blah 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:59.800 blah blah whatever whatever, and I was like thanks. He's 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:01.880 like I can't believe you hit a million followers, like 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:04.080 she was so excited for me. Oh yeah. And then 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:06.840 at that point I couldn't hide anything else from her 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:08.760 because I was already getting asked to do a meet 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:11.800 and greet. I was asked to like yeah, it was 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:13.800 like crazy already, and I was like, oh my god, 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:16.240 like I have to just tell her. I didn't tell 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:17.800 her that I was gay. I was just like okay, mom, 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:19.880 Like this is something that I can take seriously, Like 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:21.400 I can make a career out of this. I can 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:23.520 do so much with this, and like if I'm making 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:25.000 people happy, and like I could make my job I'm 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:26.400 going to do that because she was always just she 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:29.120 was also scared of me quitting my my nine to 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:31.840 five job, yeah of CO two, because I was like 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:34.080 my income, like that was how I was living. Yeah, 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:35.800 and she was like, oh my god, you can't know, 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:37.480 you can't do that, like you don't know what, like 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:40.240 what's going to happen. So I was like trust me, yes, 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:42.920 I have to follow this. Yeah, and then that's when 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:47.800 I ended up meeting Rocio, my manager, and ever since then, 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:51.760 my life was no longer boring. It's will I will Yeah, 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:55.120 I agree, you live a fascinating life. It was. It 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:58.560 was insane, but that was my the whole like first 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:01.320 time getting recognized and like for my life being like 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:03.600 and I always say, my life did a complete one 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:07.760 eighty yeah, like it just changed completely after like my 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:11.880 first video. And that's the beauty of TikTok especially is 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:15.640 how quickly you can you can have that full kind 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.920 of life altering experience. Yeah. And a lot of my 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:22.600 creative friends also like the same story, like they went 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:25.200 from this to like this a matter of like months. Yeah, 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:27.840 it's crazy to see if somebody making videos in their 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:31.160 bedroom can Yeah, And I love seeing like like for me, 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:33.320 I remember how my background from my videos and like 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:35.640 to the background now it's like so insane, Like watching 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:38.160 other people's videos start with this background and now they're 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:41.080 like times square like filming it like time square behind them, 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:43.720 and I'm like, that's so insane, Like how exciting is that? 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.880 What would you say the moral of the story or 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:49.960 what you you know, the wisdom that you took away 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:52.760 how you were kind of changing, Well, I would I 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:55.320 would want to mention or like add that in the 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:58.120 beginning of me starting social media, I was like probably 0:15:58.160 --> 0:15:59.920 at one of the darkest places of my life that 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:03.360 I had ever been in and now three years later, 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.640 I'm at like the highest point of my life. So 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:08.280 I just if I want to put a message out there, 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:11.920 it's definitely to not give up and to just keep going. 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:16.240 As like cheesy as that sounds, like, honestly, like that's 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:18.760 what I needed to hear. Yeah, if I just kept 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.440 that momentum in that mindset, like look where I'm at 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:24.680 right now and it's so insane and also hopefully you're 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:27.400 at the highest you've been in your life so far, 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:30.080 but I still think you've got oh for sure, you 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:34.080 know you're still so much more and like I feel 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.480 like now like it's just getting higher and higher and 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:39.560 higher points in my life. Yeah for sure. Well, I'm 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:48.960 on board for the journey. I'm gonna keep watching. Let's 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:53.600 play that. Let's play a quick lightning round of first, last, best, worst, 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:57.880 and the category we're gonna go with is what about 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:01.760 a job? Okay, that's fine, Okay, so awgory job. First job? Okay, 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:04.400 mind you, I'm twenty three. I've probably had like twenty 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:08.400 three jobs. I've had so many jobs. Literally my first job, 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:12.200 it was at six Flags in San Antonio. All right, 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:16.639 the worst experience I've ever had, and that's because I 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:19.359 only worked there for one day. Oh my god. Wait 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:21.800 So your first job and your worst job, same job. 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:26.280 Oh wait, that's totally fine, that's totally valid. Maybe not 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:29.639 my worst. Okay, so there was worse than the one day. Yeah, 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:31.359 because okay, let me do what did you do it 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:34.159 for one day? So I got hired at six Flags. 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:36.080 I was fifteen. That's when six Flags was hiring at 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:39.720 fifteen years old at his child labor. Yeah. So I 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:41.480 was like, you know what, I have to make money. 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:43.160 Like I was like in the mindset of like being 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:46.640 a grown up hurting. I get that grind on mind you, 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:50.120 San Antonio weather is disgusting and like it's insane. It's 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:52.439 known for like it's bipolar and like hot and like 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:55.920 rain and like everything all seasons in one day. So 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:59.200 I woke up early, super early. Okay, let me start 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:02.199 from the beginning. I got interviewed and I got hired, 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:06.040 but they required a math test. My jo was a 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:08.720 little bad in school. Why do you doing math at 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:11.199 six Flags? Yeah? I'm like, why do I need to 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:12.760 know how much change I'm gonna give? If it tells 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:15.760 me how much change to give? We're not telling algebra here. 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:20.000 So I ended up failing the math quiz. I would 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:21.800 have been right there with it. I was still a 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:24.960 potential candidate according to six Flags. So they hired me 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:28.520 on as a janitor. Okay, a fifteen year old janitor. 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:33.600 So it was so bad because I was excited and 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:35.560 I was like, you know what, Like, what's like how 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:38.920 I'm back? Yeah, it's like it's fun, Like six Flags 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:42.000 is like fun place to be at them. So I 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:43.680 wake up super early for the first day of work. 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:45.199 It's like five am. I had to be there like 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:47.640 at six thirty six legs was a little far from 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:53.080 my house. It's pouring rain, like discussing, thunder lightning, insane, 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:56.159 like the worst thunderstorm I could have ever seen. And 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:58.600 I'm in my car. I had like a nineteen ninety 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:02.879 six Honda Civic or Classic, and my car was like 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:05.240 no AC, had no CY so I had to have 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:07.200 the windows up because it was raining. With no a C, 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:11.360 I was dying. I was suffocating, just very moist in there, 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:12.960 and I was like, you know what, I'm going to work. 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:14.520 I was still happy because I was like my first 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:16.960 day of work, like nothing can bring me down. The 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:19.600 rain was coming down so hard, like six tacks was 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:21.879 so far from me. I was in the freeway, driving 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:24.439 like forty miles an hour, and I was like and 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:26.960 like holding my string with with both hands because I 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:28.600 was so scared that my wheel was gonna like I 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:30.880 was gonna lose control. I was still with the smile 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:32.680