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Speaker 1: What's up his way up at Angela Ye, I'm Angela yee.

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Speaker 2: Maino is here with me, mao, and Dell Artis is

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Speaker 2: here yo. So while you're here, his name is Maino.

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Speaker 3: Today, Maino.

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Speaker 4: I love I love that, But.

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Speaker 1: Listen, I want people to know, like, your story is

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Speaker 1: amazing to me just seeing what your come up has been.

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Speaker 1: Seeing that Kendrick Lamar actually sampled.

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Speaker 3: You, I can't even believe that. Bro, you're saying that

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Speaker 3: just now. It just reminded me that I can't believe.

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Speaker 2: That by steppers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and so tell me where you were when you

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Speaker 1: found that out.

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Speaker 3: I was sleep because I had Yeah, I was sleeping.

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Speaker 3: My friends was having a listening party with make Kendrick fans.

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Speaker 3: But I had an early flight to Montreal, like at

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Speaker 3: five am, so I was trying to get some sleep.

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Speaker 3: My phone started blowing up like seven different people. I'm like,

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Speaker 3: who died? Bro? And I wake up and they're like, yo,

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Speaker 3: Kendrick got you on his song I saw. I was

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Speaker 3: like in the Twilight.

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Speaker 4: The power of the Internet though, Yeah, to clear it

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Speaker 4: or nothing.

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Speaker 3: Afterwards, we we yeah, yeah, I got you.

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Speaker 4: Donty about you.

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Speaker 1: That skit about and this is so true, because I

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Speaker 1: totally agree. When you had a cookout and there's no cheese,

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Speaker 1: I can't eat a burger without cheese on it. I

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Speaker 1: eat like veggie burgers, but I can't eat it without cheese.

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Speaker 3: Right, I don't know what that summer, I kept going

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Speaker 3: to barbecues and cookouts and I kept noticing the pattern,

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Speaker 3: Like everybody, they would bring every condiment, everything, but there

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Speaker 3: would be no cheese. So I was like, I got

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Speaker 3: to make a skit about this, and then that one

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Speaker 3: day I just had it, and that's what came out

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Speaker 3: of it. That a I know that came out.

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Speaker 1: Of it, right, But a lot of these skits that

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Speaker 1: you're doing there, they've been going viral. Now, I want

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Speaker 1: to ask you, what was the first, like big one

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Speaker 1: that you did when you did were on Instagram just

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Speaker 1: doing this. Your family's involved, everybody loves to see them.

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Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, the first one that really went crazy,

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Speaker 3: I did a I did a video where Cardi b

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Speaker 3: reposted it.

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Speaker 2: Oh I love that Cardially showing up.

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Speaker 3: Oh my. But y'all gotta understand. I was working at

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Speaker 3: Dick's Sporting Goods and I hated my job and I'll

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Speaker 3: never figet I was at Popey's with my girlfriend.

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Speaker 2: You don't love Dick's. I loved that.

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Speaker 3: Oh I hated Dick Bro, I hated you.

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Speaker 4: Gotta stop. Were talking about sporting good store. Okay, that's okay.

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Speaker 3: I'm talking about Deck sporting goods. I'm selling hockey masks. O. Yo.

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Speaker 3: So I was literally about to get ready for work

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Speaker 3: and then my sister called me. Yo. Cardi B reposted

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Speaker 3: your video this is twenty eighteen Bowdack Yellow Cardi B.

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Speaker 4: Bro.

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Speaker 3: I called my job. I said, Yo, I can't make

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Speaker 3: it to work today just.

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Speaker 4: Because over that Bro, just over that, Bro? Are you

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Speaker 4: kidding me?

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Speaker 3: Bro? Cardi B reposted me, I'm not going to work. Bro,

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Speaker 3: it's time to celebrate. Really yo. Ten minutes past, I

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Speaker 3: don't know what happened over there in Cardi B's camp.

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Speaker 3: She deleted that video.

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Speaker 4: Oh no, what was the video?

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Speaker 3: It was a video I made with my moms and

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Speaker 3: I will never forget Bro. I had to call my

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Speaker 3: job back, like, Yo, I'm on my way.

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Speaker 4: That celebration. I canceled quick. Yeah did you ever ever

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Speaker 4: ask you know?

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Speaker 3: It's crazy to this day, like I still haven't asked

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Speaker 3: her about that party.

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Speaker 2: What happened.

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Speaker 3: It's all good. She's reposting me.

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Speaker 2: Culture's birthday party.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's the first time I went to like

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Speaker 3: a party, like like they had money for real, Like

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Speaker 3: I never seen Dominicans like because most you go to

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Speaker 3: Dominican party, you have fun or whatever. But that type

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Speaker 3: of fun is different. Like you see the compass she

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Speaker 3: knows with the well. They had Alaskan King Crabs, they

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Speaker 3: had Mermaid Pussy. Oh kind you from Nah? I'm born Brooklyn.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Brooklyn, East New York. See how you assume

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Speaker 3: that everybody always think that all the time. Yeah for me, Yeah, Racis,

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Speaker 3: we were Washington Heights. Bro, I've never been over there.

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Speaker 3: They as exactly. It's even hour the Bronx. I'm like, Bro,

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Speaker 3: I was raised in Brooklyn with the Jam Makeadya and

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Speaker 3: the Trinidaddy is Bro.

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Speaker 4: That's crazy. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And then we moved to Queens, so I've been living

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Speaker 3: in Queens.

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Speaker 4: So how you started getting into doing comedy and stuff

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Speaker 4: like that?

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Speaker 3: Damn, Bro, I just always I always loved comedy, Bro,

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Speaker 3: But I really started taking a series on social media

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Speaker 3: in twenty eighteen because I was going through like depression myself.

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Speaker 3: I like to talk about mental health a lot because

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Speaker 3: me myself, I was in that depression of like I

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Speaker 3: don't know if y'all remember, like early on Instagram, it

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Speaker 3: was really about like trying to stunt like like oh

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Speaker 3: I gotta still you're right, you're right.

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Speaker 4: Not for me, I'm even yo.

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Speaker 3: But that's like like I kind of like stepped into that.

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Speaker 3: I gotta get a nice car. I got to show

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Speaker 3: people like I'm living better than you, like like fuck everybody,

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Speaker 3: you know. And then like I was doing that for

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Speaker 3: so long that I kind of like I kind of

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Speaker 3: like was depressed, but I didn't know I was depressed. Wow,

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Speaker 3: because as Dominicans, like, you're not supposed to be depressed. Bro.

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Speaker 3: Like I told my pops I'm depressed, He'll be like, yo,

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Speaker 3: you pussy bro, get a job. So I like had

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Speaker 3: this like realization like I I don't want to do

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Speaker 3: this shit no more, like I don't think that I'm

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Speaker 3: here to try and shit on people and belittle people

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Speaker 3: so I could feel higher. I feel like I'm here

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Speaker 3: to bring people up, you know, and make.

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Speaker 2: It relatable exactly.

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Speaker 1: Most people are not, you know, if they're standing on

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Speaker 1: the grim, A lot of times they don't got.

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Speaker 3: It, Yeah exactly. It's it's it's literally putting a mask on.

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Speaker 3: It's the mask of I'm good, I'm a man, I'm happy,

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Speaker 3: I'm getting money, anything good in my life, when in

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Speaker 3: reality it wasn't that. And when I took my mask off,

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Speaker 3: what it did was I seen it allowed other people

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Speaker 3: I'm like, damn, like this is how this is like

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Speaker 3: growth right here, like now we can all move forward.

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Speaker 3: Now what do I want to do. I want to

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Speaker 3: make comedy. I want to do funny videos. And when

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Speaker 3: I started, it wasn't even like, oh, I want to

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Speaker 3: become famous, I want to do I want to go viral.

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Speaker 3: It was just like yo, it viral. Yeah, no exactly.

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Speaker 3: My thing was like I want to do this because

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Speaker 3: this shit just feels good. I have fun, like getting

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Speaker 3: with my mom and my sisters and just bugging out

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Speaker 3: for an hour, freestyling in the video and improvising and

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Speaker 2: And your mom seems like she really enjoys it too.

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Speaker 3: Oh, she loves it. And in the beginning, my mom

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Speaker 3: is like super in church, bro. She was like, it's

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Speaker 3: called the Saturday Daughter. That's one of the servers in church,

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Speaker 3: you know, the ladies walking around with the with the basket.

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Speaker 4: For the offering.

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Speaker 3: My mom was super in church. So when we first

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Speaker 3: started making videos and they started popping off, I remember

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Speaker 3: the ladies in the church, they started gossiping of my mom,

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Speaker 3: talking shit about her, like, y'all you overhear in the church,

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Speaker 3: but you're over there smacking your son and cursing in

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Speaker 3: the videos and stuff, and they're doing.

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Speaker 2: The same thing at.

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Speaker 3: Home right exactly, so that my mom, she was discouraged.

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Speaker 3: I'll never forget this. Like one time, I'm like, yo,

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Speaker 3: all right, we're gonna make this video, I'm gonna say

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Speaker 3: this and that you're gonna smack fire outby And then

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Speaker 3: when it was time for her to smack me, she

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Speaker 3: was like, she gave me some weak ass flash.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna smack you hard.

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Speaker 3: I was like, bro, what you doing, Broma.

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Speaker 1: You know that's a shame that in the church that

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Speaker 1: people will be judgmental. Oh yeah, you know somebody instead

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Speaker 1: of you can still laugh and have fun and have

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Speaker 1: a good time and understand what the.

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Speaker 2: Sketch is because yeah, because your skits aren't.

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Speaker 3: Like anything that crazy, it's regular.

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Speaker 2: But it's regular, regular, everyday life, right.

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Speaker 3: The flip though the priest, like the main pastor or whatever.

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Speaker 3: One time they was having a meeting and he went

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Speaker 3: and asked my mom for a picture to send it

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Speaker 3: to their family members because he, like his family were fans.

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Speaker 2: That's dopeyeh oh yeah, he was jealous, like that's a shame.

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Speaker 2: But I'm glad to see the success that you've had. Now.

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Speaker 1: I want to go back to Culture's birthday party that

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Speaker 1: you went to, Cardi b and offsets young little baby Culture.

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Speaker 2: You were in there, you got drunk.

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Speaker 1: Is that what happens at these kids birthday parties?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Bro, Hennessy, Bro Hennessy, no double one Tom Hennessy. Yeah yeah,

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Speaker 3: Cardi says to Hennessy. They had a big old bottle

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Speaker 3: a hot Henny Andy. Yeah, that's the thing. I mean,

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Speaker 3: it's just room temp, Bro, It's not literally hot. My

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Speaker 3: Henney go down hot Henney is just drinking handy out

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Speaker 3: the bottle, no ice, no nothing, drink tequila. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: We've been in here doing it a little bit. We

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Speaker 2: got a little bit. Look at me, drink that whole

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Speaker 2: bottle before you got here.

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Speaker 3: I can't do Bro, It's absolutely do tequila. I'm in

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Speaker 3: Mexico or something, but I'm again bro from really drink

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Speaker 3: that that handing out the brown paper baghuses. Yeah, I

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Speaker 3: was raised with that. Boy.

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Speaker 2: Now you also now transitioning.

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Speaker 1: I saw April fifth you had your first ever comedy show, yep, okay,

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Speaker 1: so talk to me about the preparation behind that. Because comedians,

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Speaker 1: it's a serious business. Doing stand up is not a game.

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Speaker 1: It ain't like you could just be like, I'm funny,

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Speaker 1: let me get on stage, right.

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Speaker 3: And for me, I definitely respect that. I respected that

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Speaker 3: because I feel like stand up is like it's like

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Speaker 3: you actually going to war, like live, Like the risk

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Speaker 3: is live, because when you're making a video online you

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Speaker 3: could there's no risk to that. Like you make the

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Speaker 3: ship in your crib. There's nobody to tell you, oh

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Speaker 3: this ship is whack, and then you post it and

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Speaker 3: maybe you get a whack a bad comment. But that

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Speaker 3: don't hurt you as much as you on stage right.

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Speaker 3: But not even bood Bro.

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Speaker 1: But your silence, silence people talking and not acknowledging.

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Speaker 2: That you're even on stage. Silence is bad. I think there's.

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Speaker 1: There's I think there's three levels.

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Speaker 2: I think the worst is booze.

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Speaker 1: Then the second worst is people talking and eating their food,

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Speaker 1: and eventually it gets louder and louder, like you gotta scream,

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Speaker 1: and then the third worst is silence.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right, you're right, And I've seen that before too,

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Speaker 3: but usually it don't be in comedy clubs. It'll be

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Speaker 3: like when you go to a restaurant or like, you know,

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Speaker 3: one of them things, and people is just like having

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Speaker 3: a time of day life with their best friend. They

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Speaker 3: the fucking mind. Bro, that's crazy. But it was all

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Speaker 1: And to me, it's like we had plantings with everything.

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Speaker 3: Nah, that's crazy. Yeah, life without plot bro.

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Speaker 1: Now, let's also talk about some of the other experiences

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Speaker 1: and people you've been affiliated with. John Leguizano, Oh yeah,

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Speaker 3: Damn. I met John Legizamo back in twenty nineteen. Also,

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Speaker 3: He was like, bro keep it up, you fat bitch.

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Speaker 3: Basically that's what I heard.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god. And then you also did a short film.

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Speaker 3: So I went. I auditioned. That was my first time auditioning.

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Speaker 3: is this book is called Feel the Fear and Do

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Speaker 3: It Anyway, And I feel like I've just been living

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Speaker 3: It's like that feeling of right before you jump into

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Speaker 2: Was it?

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Speaker 3: Bad?

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Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie it was probably it was probably

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because all right, so tell us about how that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you need some honey.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So we opened up for Bad Bunny at the

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Speaker 3: And it was my manager. He's like connected with Bad

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's where we met. When I first met him,

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Speaker 3: I was like, I was like, oh, I can't believe

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Speaker 3: it was Yeah. I was surprised. You never know who's

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Speaker 3: So then my manager was like, yo, Ken Roddell open

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Speaker 2: Yeah that was bold Hill.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's a good question.

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Speaker 4: Nobody and that's.

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Speaker 3: Never been done, Like he's never done that, like at.

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Speaker 4: A show, And he said, yeah, why not?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And then I'm like, at first I was hyped

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Speaker 4: A lot of prussure, a lot of prussure. Be careful

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Speaker 3: Tell me your preparation for my preparation was, I said, bro,

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Speaker 3: I want to do five minutes. Let me give five minutes.

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Speaker 3: I could do five minutes. I could just mess with

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Speaker 2: Oh, they did that's good. That makes you did great.

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Speaker 3: No, but then he didn't come out yet. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 3: it actually took it him like twelve Oh gosh. Then

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Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, ready for bad Bunny, somebody in my

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Speaker 3: what they did was it was like, all right, bro,

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Speaker 3: and that could keep going forever. So the second time

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how she got to meet bad Bunny too.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's just a beautiful thing. And she got

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Speaker 2: Oh that's right, that's so huge.

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Speaker 1: That's part of what's exciting when you get to like

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Speaker 3: Oh that's the most beautiful thing because like my mom,

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Speaker 1: And they're having fun, having fun. Yeah, and your sister

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Speaker 3: I was? I was ugly as fun.

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Speaker 3: I used to get in trouble all the time. I

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Speaker 3: What did you do to see what Steve Wilcos was

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Speaker 3: I hated school. I used to cut all the time.

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Speaker 2: But look at how you turned out.

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Speaker 1: You know, sometimes you have to figure out a way

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Speaker 2: What did you think you were going to be when

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Speaker 3: I honestly thought I was gonna be like a fire

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Speaker 3: Yeah everybody knew.

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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, like everybody.

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Speaker 3: I never really it's crazy because as a kid, like

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Speaker 3: have certain things that interest you, like lean into that

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Speaker 3: and see where that takes you. Especially now, like any

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Speaker 2: Right it's a lot easier.

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Speaker 1: Yea social media it's a lot easier, but it's also

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Speaker 3: Yeah the podcaster. Everybody crazy. And then afterwards it was like,

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Speaker 1: No, But I mean, I think it's really inspiration and

439
00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:38,119
Speaker 1: we could tell that you're just a naturally funny person

440
00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:40,720
Speaker 1: with your energy. So it's good to see you being

441
00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:43,359
Speaker 1: able to monetize that. And when were you able to

442
00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:45,200
Speaker 1: start monetizing that, because you know, we always got to

443
00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:46,199
Speaker 1: talk about some money up here.

444
00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:49,679
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, so me and I think I was

445
00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:55,320
Speaker 3: like in the end of twenty eighteen nineteen with my job.

446
00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:59,080
Speaker 3: But I quit my job too early, Okay, so I did.

447
00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:06,199
Speaker 3: I had left dicks, right, I left the dicks alone

448
00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:09,680
Speaker 3: and I want to go work at it. I was

449
00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:13,120
Speaker 3: working at a piece area, so a hipster pieceria in Brooklyn,

450
00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:17,280
Speaker 3: and I was making pretty cool money there. But then

451
00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,160
Speaker 3: like that's when the video started popping off, Ay yo,

452
00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:22,879
Speaker 3: what the fuck like? And I remember I was the

453
00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,600
Speaker 3: food runner there and bro, people would like stop me

454
00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:28,240
Speaker 3: and be like, yo, ain't you that ain't you that

455
00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:31,320
Speaker 3: fucking guy bro from the internet. I'll be like, yeah,

456
00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:33,800
Speaker 3: what's up. Nice to beat you. They'll be like, yokay,

457
00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:36,160
Speaker 3: bring me some extra napkins though, like, and it.

458
00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:38,600
Speaker 2: Was just like damn, like you still got a job

459
00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:40,080
Speaker 2: to do it right, right, right of course.

460
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Speaker 3: So I just I was just like, you know what,

461
00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:44,800
Speaker 3: I'm quitting, bro, I'm gonna just go I'm gonna just

462
00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:47,640
Speaker 3: go full thro out. And I started selling merch So

463
00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:52,239
Speaker 3: that's how I started making like money, okay. And I

464
00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:54,399
Speaker 3: was just buying it myself. So I would buy like

465
00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:58,320
Speaker 3: two hundred shirts, you know, like a thousand bucks. Yeah. Yeah.

466
00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:00,800
Speaker 3: First I had my cousin doing it and we would

467
00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:04,360
Speaker 3: just go to the city and get the shirts like

468
00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:05,440
Speaker 3: like wholesale.

469
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Speaker 2: You do hustler.

470
00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:09,480
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I was us. And then I quit my

471
00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:12,040
Speaker 3: job too earlier. I say that because there was some

472
00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:16,439
Speaker 3: months where shit was kind of spooky, you know. I

473
00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:19,080
Speaker 3: had to borrow some money, you know, financially, Yeah, to

474
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Speaker 3: like pay rent, Like there was months like that. And

475
00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:24,280
Speaker 3: this is I got like sixty thousand followers at the time,

476
00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:27,320
Speaker 3: you know, and people's like, oh, he's nah, Like you

477
00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:29,919
Speaker 3: have to be smart with it, you know, you have

478
00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:32,520
Speaker 3: to be smart, like I don't think I should have

479
00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:35,000
Speaker 3: quit at the time, but I just did. I was

480
00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:35,680
Speaker 3: one of those.

481
00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:38,360
Speaker 2: Like thank got it worked out right, Thank got it.

482
00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:40,160
Speaker 3: You know, like you jump off the cliff and build

483
00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,240
Speaker 3: your parachute. Yeah, that's what I was doing.

484
00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:45,240
Speaker 1: But yeah, some people will say that you have to

485
00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:47,840
Speaker 1: back yourself into a corner to fight your way out.

486
00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:50,600
Speaker 3: It worked for some people. Yeah, that's the thing. Some

487
00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,800
Speaker 3: some people they do good like that, like under pressure,

488
00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:54,080
Speaker 3: you know.

489
00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:56,800
Speaker 1: Like Damon John has a book it's called The Power Broke,

490
00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:59,800
Speaker 1: and he kind of talks about power. It sounds that's

491
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Speaker 1: a fire name power Broke because sometimes when you have

492
00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:05,520
Speaker 1: nothing to lose and every force you to.

493
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:08,800
Speaker 4: Start thinking, you know, you don't have a choice.

494
00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:11,440
Speaker 3: A lot of times when you when everything is lit

495
00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:14,760
Speaker 3: and it's all good, comfortable, you're not thinking.

496
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Speaker 1: That's part of the thirty three Strategies of war too.

497
00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:20,560
Speaker 1: They talk about that of being backed into a corner

498
00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:22,359
Speaker 1: and then having to fight your way out of that corner.

499
00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:25,280
Speaker 3: It's him, I actually do really good. Like like now

500
00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:27,399
Speaker 3: that you're talking about that the power of broke, like

501
00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:32,600
Speaker 3: that power you did that? Yeah, harness that power of broke.

502
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,600
Speaker 1: There's a lot of power right now, I have no

503
00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:38,320
Speaker 1: power because you got you got some money. Now, let's

504
00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:40,960
Speaker 1: talk about some of these influenza campaigns that you got

505
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:42,800
Speaker 1: tapped to do as well, because I know there is

506
00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:45,000
Speaker 1: money in that. Yeah, and how did you even know,

507
00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:47,640
Speaker 1: like how to start negotiating for those dollars?

508
00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:49,800
Speaker 3: Well, I have a I have a manager.

509
00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:50,560
Speaker 2: So you don't even have to deal with it.

510
00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:52,960
Speaker 3: Oh thank god. My manager his name is our Thotof.

511
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,760
Speaker 3: He's the one who connected with bad Bunny and stuff. Okay,

512
00:23:55,920 --> 00:24:00,199
Speaker 3: and I linked with him probably like two years ago, no,

513
00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:03,120
Speaker 3: three years ago, because at first I was just doing

514
00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:06,479
Speaker 3: everything myself, styling, I'll answer emails myself, and then I

515
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:08,600
Speaker 3: have my friend toss to you also he was he

516
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:11,600
Speaker 3: was one of my managers at the time. And before

517
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:14,680
Speaker 3: that was just be me like hey, I'm a representative

518
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:19,119
Speaker 3: of Yeah, so that you know people can respect you

519
00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:23,000
Speaker 3: or whatever, right, because bro, if not, well they talking

520
00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:24,880
Speaker 3: to you. Yeah. And then people was like, yo, bro,

521
00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:28,479
Speaker 3: come over here, like come promote my you know, business,

522
00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:30,000
Speaker 3: I give you forty dollars.

523
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:32,880
Speaker 2: You know know this is his manager.

524
00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:36,480
Speaker 3: He can't make it right exactly. So you have a manager.

525
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,320
Speaker 3: People kind of they respect that a little bit more right.

526
00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:43,159
Speaker 3: So my manager, he's really good with, you know, working

527
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:45,240
Speaker 3: with brands and like talking to people and stuff.

528
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,000
Speaker 1: All right, and can you tell us about some of

529
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,360
Speaker 1: the brand partnerships that you've done.

530
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:52,200
Speaker 3: Well, we did something with Crocs. Yeah, we did a

531
00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:53,760
Speaker 3: digital got Crocs.

532
00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:58,840
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, it's a little warm, but go ahead.

533
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:00,640
Speaker 3: It was windy out.

534
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:04,080
Speaker 2: He's definitely.

535
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:05,800
Speaker 4: In the summertime.

536
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:10,600
Speaker 3: We did something when Hennessy you have Tones White. Yeah,

537
00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:14,600
Speaker 3: when Hennessy White released over here, we did that Henny Bro.

538
00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,399
Speaker 3: That's how you got to drink it. You drink that

539
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:19,639
Speaker 3: Hennessy hot Bro. That should make your voice deeper.

540
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 2: I definitely used to work with hen.

541
00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:25,600
Speaker 3: It was good. Well, fuck you doing?

542
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:27,880
Speaker 2: What do you see next for you?

543
00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:34,800
Speaker 3: I'm trying to give mad money, bro. No, I'm trying to,

544
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:38,880
Speaker 3: you know, keep doing the stand up. Get into movies

545
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 3: because I love acting. I love reading roles and getting

546
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:47,639
Speaker 3: into character and doing skits like like like portraying a character,

547
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:50,639
Speaker 3: you know, like my Daddy Ranch. I have a video

548
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,040
Speaker 3: now with Daddy Ranch where I played the Cowboy. I

549
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 3: want to turn that into a movie. You want to

550
00:25:55,840 --> 00:26:01,040
Speaker 3: hear the Cowboy? Have you ever lapped? You're couck in

551
00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:03,520
Speaker 3: between two center blocks in the middle of the winter.

552
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:10,760
Speaker 3: That's what it's like to drive a Ford truck. I

553
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:13,240
Speaker 3: tell you what you read, son of a bitch?

554
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:17,199
Speaker 1: You right?

555
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:17,640
Speaker 4: Yeah?

556
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 3: I had it one of those big red.

557
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:27,320
Speaker 2: Your stand up.

558
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:31,159
Speaker 3: Actually yeah, I actually like walked out on stage like

559
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 3: saying that ship. I've never seen so many gap there

560
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:36,200
Speaker 3: Mexicans in one room.

561
00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:40,560
Speaker 2: You got it, you got it the stand up.

562
00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,360
Speaker 3: I really am. I really am. I'm enjoying now. I'm

563
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:46,320
Speaker 3: having so much fun. Like I'm I'm I'm starting to

564
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:48,720
Speaker 3: learn how to do like crowd work, messing with the

565
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:51,640
Speaker 3: audience and stuff like. Yeah, the other show he had

566
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,200
Speaker 3: this guy he was sitting on the front row right

567
00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 3: and he had to get up to use the bathroom.

568
00:26:58,080 --> 00:26:59,720
Speaker 3: So he got up. I'm like, yo, what the fuck

569
00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:01,200
Speaker 3: you shit the fuck down?

570
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:02,359
Speaker 4: He sat down.

571
00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 3: He sat down, but he's like laughing about it. Right.

572
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 3: I'm like, Bro, I'm trying to tell you something, Bro,

573
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 3: sit out. But it's funny, you know. I'm not like

574
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:13,159
Speaker 3: pressing them. He's laughing the audience. I'm like, what you

575
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 3: gotta go do? He's like, y'all gotta pee. Bro. I'm like, bro,

576
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:18,800
Speaker 3: hold it. You a man, ain't you hold it? So

577
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:22,399
Speaker 3: ten minutes pastilf No, he got back up, tease the

578
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 3: bathroom again. I'm like, shut the fuck down, and I'm screaming.

579
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:28,280
Speaker 3: The audience is going crazy.

580
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:28,560
Speaker 4: Bro.

581
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:32,479
Speaker 3: Ten minutes past again and he's still sitting. He jumps

582
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 3: on stage and run towards me. Security think he's going

583
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:38,879
Speaker 3: to attack me, but he runs past me, hops off

584
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 3: the stage and runs full speed to the bathroom to yah.

585
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:45,480
Speaker 3: The audience was. I had to wait literally like a

586
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,640
Speaker 3: minute and a half for the audience just to relax

587
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 3: because we was in tears, crying, even me.

588
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 2: I was just like, bro for nobody.

589
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,119
Speaker 3: No, of course he didn't have to the first off. No,

590
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:57,520
Speaker 3: you didn't have to the first time. So when he

591
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,679
Speaker 3: sat down, that's what made it funny, Like, you know

592
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 3: what I mean to me, I'm not Michael Jackson. Bro.

593
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 1: When I was on a flight and you know how

594
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,160
Speaker 1: you can't get out your seat when the flight is

595
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 1: and we were taxing for so long, it was somebody

596
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:12,439
Speaker 1: that I had to.

597
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:14,159
Speaker 2: I got up. They were yelling over the thing. They

598
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:15,639
Speaker 2: were like, get back in your seat, man, you have

599
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 2: to give it.

600
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,479
Speaker 1: I was like, I gotta pee an adult and if

601
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,120
Speaker 1: I have to pee, like because sometimes you're like, I'm gonna.

602
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 2: Just hold it until you can hold it land, I'll wait.

603
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:24,920
Speaker 2: You know extra twenty.

604
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:28,639
Speaker 4: Could it you had to go, So sir, whoever.

605
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:30,560
Speaker 2: You are, next time, you do not have to listen

606
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 2: to you are grown man. Go to the bathroom if

607
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 2: that's what you need to do. Okay, And you're gonna

608
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 2: be in Chicago.

609
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Chicago, that's next week.

610
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,960
Speaker 2: We have Miami and then oh k New York.

611
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:45,560
Speaker 3: Is now New York is yeah tomorrow Okay, we got

612
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 3: four sold out shows. Oh wow at the Levity Live. Okay,

613
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 3: West nayak Oh that's upe.

614
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 1: I think last time Ida was here out of Rodriguez,

615
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:55,400
Speaker 1: that's where where she was headed to.

616
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 2: And then you're gonna be in New Jersey as well.

617
00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, and New Brunswick. Okay, I got Chicago next week.

618
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:01,719
Speaker 3: It's busy.

619
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 2: You get into that money.

620
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 1: So what are some things that you've bought, you know,

621
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: since twenty eighteen, Like, did you get a new house?

622
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 2: Did you get a car?

623
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:14,120
Speaker 3: Nah? No, Nah, I'm still building it up. And one

624
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 3: of my biggest depressions was my car that I had

625
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 3: for real, like I had a Beamer.

626
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 4: Did you change it.

627
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 3: I had a Beamer, right, and this is why, this

628
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 3: is one of the reasons I was depressed, y'all. I

629
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 3: had a Beamer right, and then I couldn't afford the

630
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 3: car no no more because they gave me like eighty

631
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 3: percent interest, so yo, and then they was trying to

632
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 3: repull my car, damn. And I was trying to hide

633
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 3: that shit. So like one time there was a storm

634
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 3: and a big tree fell, I backed my car into

635
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:52,000
Speaker 3: that bush so they couldn't see the Like I had

636
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:52,640
Speaker 3: all the tricks.

637
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 2: There's nothing more embarrassing when people see your car geting.

638
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 4: Oh my god, neighborhood.

639
00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 3: Nah for real. So I don't know why, like ever

640
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 3: since then, I was just saying, you know, I like

641
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 3: became like a monk type shit, you know, like I

642
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 3: got on my J Cole shit. You know, like I

643
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 3: wasn't riding no bike because you know.

644
00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 2: My weight, but you're not even big, Like.

645
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 3: No, your boy your boy is stick bro.

646
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,920
Speaker 2: Have you got to see you some tighter situation.

647
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:24,400
Speaker 1: But anyway, radel Ortiz tell people how they could follow

648
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 1: you also, how could they see how they can see

649
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 1: all the shows that you have coming up and see

650
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 1: your whole journey.

651
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,960
Speaker 3: Oh, you could just follow me at Rodell Ortiz everywhere

652
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:38,840
Speaker 3: I'm on, what I'm on, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Twitter, that Instagram,

653
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 3: and if y'all want to come see me live, the

654
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:42,800
Speaker 3: link is in my bio.

655
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, well, thank you so much for coming.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much representing Heavy Brooklyn.

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Speaker 3: God bless y'all, but God bless me way more.

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Speaker 2: All right, Maybe I don't know if I can co

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Speaker 2: sign that way up