WEBVTT - "The Hitmaking Expert" with Sam Taggart 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:05.440 Forever. Look at God. 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:12.080 Hey Sydney, are you wearing brass knuckles? 0:00:12.119 --> 0:00:14.640 I am that's what kind of energy I'm given right now, 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:16.040 but dazzled breas. 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:18.040 Yes, yes, yes, I went to Vegas and I don't 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.800 know act now. 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:20.880 I also went to Vegas and was on the same 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:23.480 floor as you went. I don't have brass knuckles. 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:29.720 I'm ready to fight. It's about to be a girl fight. Well, Sydney, 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:30.360 is good to see you. 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:34.279 Seen you since No, no, I saw you for your 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:35.720 Comedy Central tape. 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:40.400 Yes, yeah, she's I shot. 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:43.320 I recorded something for Comedy Central the other day and 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:46.440 I felt good about it. And then I went home 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:49.639 yesterday and was like, oh, I should have done all 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:52.680 those jokes differently, Like I was sitting in my house. 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:56.040 Like, yeah, I should have not my girls. 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.080 That's what we all do. Everybody as artists do that. 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:01.000 They do something in the think about it later, and 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:03.560 but sometimes you have a good show and you're like, oh, 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:05.160 I couldn't have done it any better than that. 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:06.280 Those people are delusional. 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:10.720 Those people are yeah, those people are black men superstars. Okay, 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.600 way exactly who looks terrible right now? By the way, 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:16.800 I don't know if you've seen him recently, but he looks. 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:19.639 Like, well, the lean will make you look like you leaning. 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:23.319 I mean his locks are like blonde now and they're 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:25.959 like clumped together, and he's got bald spots. So I 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:27.520 don't know if that's the cough syrup. 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:30.840 He looks homeless, but it happens. It looks terrible. 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:34.000 You did great, and I'm proud of you and it 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:35.559 was amazing and it was a good show. 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:36.399 Yeah. 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:38.880 But you know, so Comedy Central is not really like 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:40.399 the people who watch Comedy Central. 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:43.040 It's not really our demographics. Right, We're gonna do this 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:48.080 on the podcast a minute forty four, Hey, Comedy Central. 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:50.880 Hey, but when I think of Comedy Central, I think 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:52.160 of like white frat dudes. 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:54.520 I think the Lebrons players that might put something in 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:54.920 your drink. 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:57.080 Like, that's what I think about when I think people 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:59.800 who watch like, that's who watches Comedy Central. Oh my god, 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:02.600 I went up up there with some real big dick 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.760 black energy. It just started talking about how terrible white 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:08.520 men are. So I know that the comments under all 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:10.760 my videos are going to be hot garbage. 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:12.359 Let me tell you the white men in this room 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:15.360 right now, sweating, sweating, Oh they look funny. 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:17.000 They're just drinking coffee with oat milk. 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:20.040 So's I just spent. 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:22.240 The day yesterday like why did I do that to myself? No, 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:23.000 it's fine. 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:24.720 I mean, I mean a black lady came up to 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:25.720 me at the bar and she was like, I thought 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:26.520 you were really funny. 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:28.600 That's all that matters. That's how you need couldn't hear 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:30.920 you laughing from the stage. You should have got here 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:32.639 on times so I could have seen you. No, no, no, 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:33.720 she saw it. It was great. 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:36.239 That's how I felt about when I did a Clusterfest 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:37.359 and I did my video, I was. 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:38.919 Like, oh man, this is I don't know how it's 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:39.280 gonna be. 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:42.040 And then got the comments underneath, and I was like, 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:43.320 oh shit, but whatever. 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:45.520 They weren't gonna love me anyway. But it's fine. No 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:48.760 one called you ugly. Nobody called me ugly because they can't. 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:49.359 They can't. 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:52.280 They actually said I was pretty hot boom, So I'm 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:56.600 a model. Now I'm a model, a model? Right, absolutely, Marie. 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:58.359 Were you an expert in this week? Oh, this week, 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:00.240 I was an expert at having time? 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:01.639 Okay, can we talk about this? 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:05.840 Having had time to call Amazon and scream at them 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:08.480 for not delivering my bed in a box on time. 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:11.360 I had time, okay, yelled at them. And then I 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:14.040 had time to get the fifty dollars gift card that 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:17.679 they promised me for my troubles. And I was like, 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:18.920 oh yah, said yeah, I was gonna give me one 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:20.960 hundred dollars gift card and the guy was like, actually 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:21.880 we said fifty. 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.239 Okay, And then we're still good. 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.440 And I used it already on birthday stuff and then 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:29.880 that I'm returning, I had time to make a bunch 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:31.680 of returns, because that's the type of person I am. 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:34.280 Now I order things and I'm like, they're gonna have 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:35.320 to accept this back. 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:39.119 I had time to get into it with this this 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:40.800 this makeup artist, this white woman. 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:45.920 She was like, do you use an I cream? 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:48.800 And I was like, no, not really. You know, you know, 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:53.960 I'm young. The melanin is keeping my eyes moisturized or whatever. 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.280 And she was like, you should really look into you. 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:58.080 You're never too young to use an I cream. 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:00.200 What's she trying to say? That's my life? Shit on? 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:02.880 Sis, hold on, that's it. I said, well, you look, 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:05.080 your eyes look really good for forty five or whatever. 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:07.040 Oh my god, I said, I don't think that I 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:11.440 need it, she said, I'm thirty two. 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:13.840 I said, well, you should probably. 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:14.960 Start using an icon. 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.479 Don't come for me unless I sent it for you. 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:21.360 Did I send for you? 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:21.720 No? 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:22.200 I did not. 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:25.400 I had time to sit in a car that Comedy 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:27.679 Central ordered for me. That was that took me legit 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:28.240 two blocks. 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:30.120 That's beautiful. I was like, I could take the trip, 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:31.520 and I was like, no, I'm gonna take the car. 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:34.479 I had time. Do you want these brass knuckles? I 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:36.599 feel like you no, no, no, no, no. Sis. You know, 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:39.960 I'm basically an fless celebrity now, and I'm you know, 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:40.960 I have time now. 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:42.880 I had time to wait for these things. I had 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.640 time to sit and think about this set after I 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:49.040 did it. You know, I had time to eat a 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:50.960 kale cell. Listen, I'm doing really well. 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:51.960 I'm so proud of you. 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.000 You can't tell about looking at my arms. But I 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:55.640 also had time to go for a run this week. 0:04:55.839 --> 0:05:00.000 So you know, the fall body, the autumn equinox body, 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.200 it's gonna be y'all, y'all not gonna be ready. 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:04.120 You're gonna be wearing crop tops and two degree weather. 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:06.360 I feel like I read it like I want you 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:08.240 to wear the crop top like I want you to 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:10.080 have Like, what is it under boom? 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:15.160 Under boom? Can we do like a little photo shoot? 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:20.280 We're just under booth like a Kardashian. Okay, Sydney, were 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:22.240 you an expert in this week? Because I don't have time. 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:23.880 Listen. 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:26.560 I just got in it with got into it with 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.719 a friend. Oh yeah, a text, a text friend that 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:36.159 I know. Yes, I accidentally called his girlfriend not the 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:38.520 right name. It was an accident. It was a This 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:42.360 was after Comedy Central, your thing I had. I was deliriately. 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:44.280 I have been up since seven am. I was on 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:47.600 two Red Bulls. I was exhausted and I yelled at 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:50.680 the red Bulls have cocaine and no, it's fine, but 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:54.760 I like yelled his name, and then I yelled her 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:58.400 not the right name, and I was like, oh my god, 0:05:58.440 --> 0:05:59.680 I'm so sorry. I was about to get out of 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:02.760 the car like I'm so sorry. I'm like, I felt 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:05.200 really really bad. Then I got in the car and 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:08.040 my phone died. So then I got home and I called, oh, 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:09.480 they drive it in and have an OX coder. 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:09.599 No. 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.479 I called immediately and I text and I was like 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:13.560 so sorry, so sorry. 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:16.719 I apologize I was out of it because you called 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:20.480 his girlfriend by the wrong name. Yeah, because I'm not 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:24.960 going to speak about the situation. I'm just I feel 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.719 like he's on the defense. He's on the defense about it. 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:30.880 Because he's a home No. No, no, no, it's just 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:31.320 cheat on. 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:32.560 No he didn't. 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:34.400 You just you know how you get in a relationship 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:37.080 and you know people are not giving you all the 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:37.640 right vibes. 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:39.520 I feel like that might be the situation. 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:43.560 I don't know, but it's anyway, he ignored my phone calls, 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:46.479 ignored my text for like more than a day, and 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:49.800 then finally I was like, yo, is this about something else? Like, 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:53.760 what's the problem right, And then he wrote, you were 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:57.440 disrespecting my girl. Wait, hold on, those are like aggressive, 0:06:57.480 --> 0:06:58.080 that's aggressive. 0:06:58.120 --> 0:06:58.719 I'm triggered. 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:03.040 I'm triggered, very disrespecting. I mean, you pronounced people's name 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:05.760 wrong all the time. He called you Mary for the 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:06.719 longest time. 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:08.600 I'm trying to figure out who you're talking about. You 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:09.680 know who this person is. 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:13.560 But anyway, he was just like, you didn't stay to 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:16.120 like hang out with her more to get to know 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:19.080 her more so, like you don't know her like that, Oh. 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:20.560 You don't know her because you called her the wrong name. 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.920 But also like it's New York City. Half these people 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:27.440 don't even know anybody's name. They're just like waiting for 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:29.560 you to say your own name so they know it. 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:31.920 Oh yeah, I had a full conversation with this woman 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:33.160 on the train twenty minutes. 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:35.280 She knew who I was. I had no idea who 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:35.520 she was. 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:37.960 Yeah, we hugged and everything, and I was like, good 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:42.200 to see you. I legit felt bad. And then and 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:45.480 then the friend throws in, I mean, remember when we 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:47.960 took you to go get impananas when you were depressed. 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:51.920 Oh oh, oh that's what you're doing. What that's you? Are? 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:54.240 We going low? We I'm going high? 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:58.920 You going lois when they go high? I couldn't you 0:07:59.120 --> 0:07:59.800 go low? 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:02.240 I'm like really upset about it. 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:03.960 Who took you to getinatus? I still don't know who 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:06.240 the hell will tell you later, but it is for 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:06.640 the name. 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:09.920 That's if you're having a disagreement with a friend, don't 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:10.720 throw shit in it. 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.880 That's irrelevant. It's irrelevant. I can't believe you called my 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:16.040 girlfriend the wrong name. We took you to get a 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:19.640 banatus when you were depressed? What? Well, actually, I'm still depressed, 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:21.320 so you should probably take me out to get more 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:24.280 than us or better food. Take me out to get 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:25.160 some lobster wrong. 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.880 Yeah yeah, yeah, Like I'm just like, come on, dude. 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:32.160 People get people's name wrong and it happens, like how 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:35.080 many shows have we been on that someone totally said 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:37.360 the wrong credit and said your name backwards? 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:37.920 Oh my. 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:40.559 I did a show two days ago and they introduced 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:44.000 me as Sydney Washington. I said, I'm the only black 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:45.840 person in here, and you called me the other one 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:46.520 that I be with. 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:49.280 And then when I got upstairs, I was like, thank 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:51.959 you so much, guys, I've been Sydney Washington. And the 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.600 girl was mortified, and then she tried to hug me, 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:56.720 and I felt like I could have done, you know, 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.400 some real Regina George type stuff, but you know, I'm 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:03.200 a Christian, so I hugged her with one arm. But yeah, 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:04.680 people call people the wrong name all up. 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:07.200 I don't know what to do because I'm really ready 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:09.440 to like, you know what, you should cut these you 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:11.160 should cut these people out of your lives. 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:13.760 I was like, this is some reasons to block you 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:19.120 mm hmm, because it's not that serious. I called I said, sorry, disrespecting. 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:22.040 Come on, dude, you call my girlfriend Ike Turner in 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:22.920 front of strangers. 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:27.280 Oh, I know who you're talking about. Now, Yeah, he 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:27.880 does call your. 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:30.480 Girlfriend in front and so people be like, your girl 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:32.280 hits you. I'm like, well, not all the time. I 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:37.240 mean I think she might. Since you got a lot 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:40.440 of concealer around your eye, it's not in your. 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.280 Shade speaking of domestic abuse. 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:48.280 This guest speaking of Ike Turner. Uh, this guest, Ike 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:50.520 Turner was a was a hitmaker. He wrote a lot 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:52.199 of Tina Turner hitmaker. 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:55.680 Okay, you see that smooth ass segue in the studio. 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.120 This is why you are my partner. Thank you so much. 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:01.680 You know I'm f this. I'm famous now. So yeah, 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:03.679 I turned on with a hit maker and he also 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:04.280 hit people. 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:10.400 Our guest today, We love him, y'all gonna love him. 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:13.240 Yes, he has a show a monthly called Stevie and 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:15.400 the next one is on September twenty fifth. 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:16.559 At our Wicked Lady. 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:20.800 Yes, give it up for our hit maker expert, Sam Taggart. 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:24.600 Whoa hello, Oh my goodness, incredible to be in the 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:29.080 studio with you guys today. Yeah, first of all, I'm 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:31.600 an expert in hit making, but also an expert in psychos. 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:32.959 And these people sound like psychos. 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:34.720 You're talking about it, yeah, talk about it. 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:38.320 I would cut them out. Yeah, I mean holding over 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:41.960 like getting and panadas like over your head is absolutely 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:43.120 co crazy. 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:46.319 If you're holding ampanadas, like what else would you if 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.640 you do me a really big solid like are you 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:49.960 going to throw that back in my face? 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:55.320 Absolutely? When I'm accepting my Miami remember when time, Yeah, 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:57.360 you swept you with the metro card once. 0:10:57.720 --> 0:10:59.120 You gotta push those people away. 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:03.320 Yeah, we like this person, Yeah, we did gently. 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:10.559 He liked this person and honestly, like this person's girlfriends 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:12.320 don't come and go. 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:13.880 Come and go. 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.080 Yeah, wow, that's true. It's like what chapter we are 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:19.360 right now? Six? Like they come and go, So I 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:20.320 wouldn't worry about it. 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:22.080 And I love the honesty on the pod. 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:24.800 He keeps it real as if no one's listening. 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:27.480 That is expert Sam. 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:31.040 We lose people all the time, No, no, no, no, no, Sydney, 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:32.400 I have no one. 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:34.720 I have no one to offend. 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:36.640 Every time I try to talk about someone on a pod, 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:40.480 they end up hearing. Yeah, always, always, always. 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:41.040 Let's talk about that. 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:45.680 What's the worst, the worst uh thing that happened because 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:45.920 of that. 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.480 Okay, there was a guy who I was, a straight 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:51.040 guy who I was friends with, who felt romantic to 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:54.320 me a lot of the time I brought the he 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:55.679 was giving me eyes and I talked about it on 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:59.000 a podcast, but like very anonymously, didn't talk about his 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:02.520 name or fixed. And then he messaged me being like, 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:04.160 I can't believe you talked about me on a podcast, 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:04.920 And I was like. 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:09.200 Well, I didn't say your name, and nobody knows who 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:11.559 you know. Nobody knows if you think. 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:13.280 That I'm talking about you giving off gay vibes, then 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:16.280 you must be giving off gay if you listen to 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:17.520 it and you're like triggered. 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:19.559 Yeah, he could have ignored it and be like, he 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:21.520 ain't talking about me. You should have been like, did 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:24.880 you get hard though? We are you arouse? 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:30.640 It's quickly fizzled after that, you know, before it even 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:31.160 got started. 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:32.520 Were you guys friends for a long time. 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:35.360 Like maybe like a year? 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:39.120 So I mean it was it was ready to go anyway. Yeah, yeah, 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:40.360 after a certain age is like do. 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:41.920 We really need all these people in his boat? 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:44.520 I know on this boat, I don't have enough Lefe 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:47.120 jackets for we don't and I'm getting the doors, so 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:48.440 you know. 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:50.360 So, but you're in a. 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:53.079 Relationship now, it's true, and it seems like it's been 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:54.080 like a long it's been. 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:55.800 A long one. It's like four and a half years. 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:59.440 And so I don't need these straight guys anymore, just around. 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:00.880 I don't need them. 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:02.439 No straight guys can sucker. 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:03.920 Oh wow, Mari. 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:09.880 Yeah, yeah, yeah, because I have time. I have time today. Okay, 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:11.360 So can you tell us a little bit about you? 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:14.800 Where you come from? So you know, I'm a performer 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:19.120 in NY City. As we've talked about, I make hits. 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:22.360 I started maybe like a year and a half ago, 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:26.280 I wrote, Yeah, I started like doing like songs, musicals. 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:29.199 That's crazy, Sam, because every time I see you on stage, 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:30.920 I'm like, you're electric. 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:33.240 It's like you've been doing it for so long. 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:35.480 Oh my god, only been a year and a half 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:37.520 for the musical side. You know, I was doing stand 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:38.280 up long before that. 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:40.559 No, no, no, But I'm saying, like, just to do you make 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:41.360 your own songs? 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:43.840 Yeah, you write them. I write them. I work with 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:46.840 other people to make Let's. 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:48.600 Talk about this. Let's talk about this now. 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:50.240 How do you like you come up with a concept 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.680 for a song, right, because everybody has heard a song 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:55.360 that made them think, damn, I wish I could write music, right, 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:57.640 We've all and I sat and tried to write a 0:13:57.679 --> 0:13:58.080 song once. 0:13:58.120 --> 0:13:58.800 It was not good. 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.080 And my sister, like when I was younger, she wrote 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:05.839 a song called I Just Lost Another Husband, and. 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.640 She had a whole video for it. She had the whole, 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:09.520 she had the bridge. 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:11.680 She still sings the song if you ask her to 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:13.679 sing I Just Lost Another husband, she'll sing a for you. 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:16.440 But I'm saying, like, we how do you sit and 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:17.400 write a song? 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:19.120 Uh? 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:20.840 Do you need like the music first? 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:23.720 For me, it's like the concept first, and I'll like 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:26.720 try to write the general lyrics and then work on 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:29.000 a beat and then try to match it up. 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:31.200 So you've never like heard a beat and been like, oh, 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:32.560 I gotta write something for this. 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:33.960 No, I do the beat. 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.320 Second, Well, you have a you have a really catchy 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:38.920 song that's about the gym, the weight room. 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.400 That is my therapy. 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:45.840 The weights are my therapists. 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:50.680 The water fountain, it's just a water fountain. Patrons are 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:53.160 my brethren. I know them all by name. 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:54.800 Can you tell us about that? 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:58.400 So this was the first one I got into. It's 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:02.520 a real like dance club hit, and it's like I 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:04.760 was deeply inspired by. I was just at the gym 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.200 all the time. I had recently joined a gym and 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:08.280 was like, the. 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:18.600 Ebbs, this is a planet. I've got that planet of 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.320 fitness Pizza Tuesday. 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:25.680 But it was blank and I'm a blank boy, and 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:28.560 my body has not changed at all since going. But 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:32.160 you know, I just love the environment. It's a nice 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:39.040 home away from home. Yeah. It was like, so, I'll 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:42.280 say it erotic. Everyone is like pumping and sweating and 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:45.480 like grunting, and I was like, okay, this is sexy. 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:47.720 Can you give us a little like bridge or something. 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:51.880 So the like first verse is just like bodies are 0:15:51.960 --> 0:16:00.240 crunching and muscles are straining, the boys are grunting. C 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:01.440 N is muted. 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:08.240 My gym plays Charmed on mute. Really, I had never 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:10.720 seen Charmed at my house. I've only ever seen it 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:11.320 at the gym. 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:14.400 It's on mute. I saw like twenty minutes of The 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:16.360 Fugitive at the gym, and I was like, I gotta 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:22.720 check this out. Fugitive Is that Harrison Ford? Oh it's 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:23.200 a movie? 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:26.400 Is he still making movies? Probably not Harrison Ford. 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:28.600 He's like a hundred right, yes. 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:30.440 But he's always been one hundred. He's like the white 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.320 Morgan Freeman. Yes, that's true. Have you ever seen a 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:34.520 young Harrison Ford? 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:38.280 No? Yeah, I have ever seen a young Morgan Freemane. 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:42.120 No, well, because he's legit always been old. 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:45.320 They had videots on at our at Our Blink and 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:46.760 it was on were we on? 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:48.560 We were on TV? Were on TV while you were 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:50.520 at the gym, and I was like, I'm not working 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:54.240 out more TV and they were like could you move? 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:57.920 Yes, yes, Wow, that's exciting, And no it wasn't. 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.640 Because I didn't look nothing like that did on TV. 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:02.680 You saw me, You're like, wait, is that Samuel L. 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:06.159 Jackson working out on our Master. 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:10.920