Speaker 1: Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.
Speaker 1: I'm your host coleeen Wit, and today we have very
Speaker 1: special guests, famous YouTuber Alisha Bernie, producer, writer, director Alisha
Speaker 1: Bernie is in the building and I'm excited to hear
Speaker 1: your story because it's a long journey for you.
Speaker 2: It is, it's been a long time.
Speaker 3: It's been a long time.
Speaker 1: And what are you going to have me eating today
Speaker 1: on the show?
Speaker 2: I call it good chose like good nachos.
Speaker 4: So yeah, basically, whatever you got in the cabinet, I
Speaker 4: just combine all four ingredients together.
Speaker 3: And what are the ingredients?
Speaker 4: Sour cream, sauce. You could use tortilla chips like regular tortillas,
Speaker 4: but today we're gonna use Doritos and shreded cheese.
Speaker 1: Oh do you usually use tortilla chips or you only
Speaker 1: do the thrido cool.
Speaker 4: Ranch honestly is whatever chips I can find, but like, yeah,
Speaker 4: oh really, any chips.
Speaker 2: Any chips, always chips.
Speaker 1: Okay, have you ever done it with like Cheetos? M
Speaker 1: I don't like Cheetos, not even the puffy one. Oh no,
Speaker 1: you're tripping maybe, Okay, we're gonna have to judge this
Speaker 1: dish hard, so before well, I guess while you Another
Speaker 1: thing I wanted to share with you guys is that
Speaker 1: Alicia said that she only usually does this dish in
Speaker 1: the microwave yep, which is interesting because I would assume
Speaker 1: the chips get hot.
Speaker 4: They do, but you don't, like they're not in there
Speaker 4: for a long time. It's probably like thirty seconds to
Speaker 4: a minute, okay, just to milk the cheese.
Speaker 1: And then today you're gonna take one for the team
Speaker 1: and cook it on the soap top.
Speaker 2: I am, okay, all.
Speaker 1: Right, so get into the cooking of the cheese so
Speaker 1: I can eat cheese.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: And then what was going on around the time when
Speaker 1: you're making this dish?
Speaker 4: Actually my mouth, I mean my unty. She taught me
Speaker 4: how to make this. Like one day I called her.
Speaker 4: I was like, I'm hungry because it was never no
Speaker 4: food at home. And then she was like asking me, like,
Speaker 4: what's all in the house. And then she told me,
Speaker 4: like literally to combine these four ingredients.
Speaker 2: And how old were you at the time, Probably like nine?
Speaker 4: And you know, I can only really cook in the
Speaker 4: microwave or else I was gonna get in trouble.
Speaker 1: So she was like walking around the house like, hey,
Speaker 1: there's some chips here, there's some shredity, and she was like.
Speaker 2: Oh, combine all four.
Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, now are you a cook
Speaker 1: at home by nature?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, I am. Cooking is like my love language. Okay, okay,
Speaker 2: Like if I cook for you, I love you.
Speaker 3: When did you start getting into writing and producing?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 4: I started off with sketch comedy. Oh, we should get
Speaker 4: our chips ready.
Speaker 3: Yeah, put a lot of cheese.
Speaker 2: I should just cook, cook all the tea. Yeah.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I started getting started with writing and producing.
Speaker 4: I was very young when I started, like doing comedy sketches.
Speaker 2: I was like eleven.
Speaker 4: I started on Facebook, like I would hack into my
Speaker 4: not necessarily hack, but my mom was logged into her
Speaker 4: Facebook account on the laptop, so I would log in
Speaker 4: there and I would just upload videos of myself to
Speaker 4: her Facebook page. Of course I got in trouble. I'm
Speaker 4: not supposed to be doing stuff like that. But after
Speaker 4: that I just started. I kept going with like the
Speaker 4: comedy sketches. Then I was like, I want to like
Speaker 4: take it more serious. So last year I write, produced, directed,
Speaker 4: and acted in and filmed my own short field and
Speaker 4: then ever since then, I just keep like producing films.
Speaker 1: But take it back to when you were you said eleven,
Speaker 1: when you started, what inspired you to get into comedy?
Speaker 1: Even think of comedy sketches?
Speaker 4: So my mom she would like always be playing like
Speaker 4: Kevin Hart and stuff. I thought he was so funny.
Speaker 4: Still to this day, I think he's very funny, and
Speaker 4: I don't know. It made me want to like kind
Speaker 4: of like be like him because I would always see
Speaker 4: him like on the TV. She would just replay the
Speaker 4: comedy stuff back to back.
Speaker 2: I used to watch this.
Speaker 4: Is a commentary on YouTube Trey Melvin. I used to
Speaker 4: also watch Delano Edwards, who else is one more other one?
Speaker 2: T Pendell.
Speaker 4: I used to watch all three of them on YouTube
Speaker 4: and then I was like wow, like I wanted to
Speaker 4: create content just like them because I thought their content
Speaker 4: was so funny.
Speaker 2: So it inspired me.
Speaker 3: And they were short skits at the time.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then what was do you remember like one
Speaker 1: of your first skits that actually did well?
Speaker 4: It was actually a story time, It wasn't really a skit,
Speaker 4: but it popped off my channel. I think it was
Speaker 4: types of workers like I just I think I was
Speaker 4: like seventeen and how did this git? Like types of workers?
Speaker 4: It was just me like pretending to be a worker
Speaker 4: and also playing the character as well.
Speaker 1: So I played like, yeah, I notice you'll play different characters.
Speaker 1: And while you're doing all this, what is your mom
Speaker 1: saying about this passion that you're developing.
Speaker 4: She wouldn't really say much, like she was just like
Speaker 4: I was a kid. She was just like, oh, you know,
Speaker 4: like she didn't really say much. But I did have
Speaker 4: some people like telling me like.
Speaker 2: Oh, you need to stop. Like I don't know. I
Speaker 2: was a kid, so I don't know.
Speaker 4: Some people was like saying stop because I used to
Speaker 4: start like cussing in the skits as well. But then
Speaker 4: it's like once they saw it was like working for me,
Speaker 4: like making money and like doing you know, beneficial stuff,
Speaker 4: everybody kind.
Speaker 2: Of like started supporting it. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: And then what were your friends thinking when you were
Speaker 1: getting into that at that age?
Speaker 2: I would like forced them to be in stuff like baskets.
Speaker 1: Now, when you were doing this, this was before Vine
Speaker 1: and all those guys came out, correct, huh.
Speaker 2: But I also hopped on the Vine wagon as well.
Speaker 1: You did how well did you do on Vine?
Speaker 4: By the time, I like really started popping off. I
Speaker 4: think I had like thirty thousand followers. I was in
Speaker 4: the eighth grade with like thirty thousand followers on vine.
Speaker 4: It was people at school like telling me like I'm
Speaker 4: full of bs, Like it's never gonna happen for me,
Speaker 4: because I would come to school and be like, oh,
Speaker 4: everybody subscribed to my YouTube channel. Yeah, they was just
Speaker 4: talk stuff. But now it's like all those people they
Speaker 4: support now wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now where were you at when you got your first
Speaker 1: check from YouTube?
Speaker 2: I was at home.
Speaker 4: I remember my first big check, actually my first check
Speaker 4: in general. What grade was that I was in the
Speaker 4: It was senior year of high school and I got
Speaker 4: like a five hundred dollars check.
Speaker 2: And to me, that's a lot because I was working
Speaker 2: at the time at highv Do you know how he is? No,
Speaker 2: I was like a grocery store in Missouri.
Speaker 3: Okay, well you're not even from out here.
Speaker 2: Where are you from? Kansas City? Okay? Kansas City? Kansas
Speaker 2: City be coming up on this show a couple of times. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: I saw Bobby was on here Kansas City too.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, he he's an interesting interview. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you heard it. Yet, but yeah, he's interesting. So
Speaker 1: you're in Kansas City, You're in the twelfth grade, and
Speaker 1: at what point did you get the notification from YouTube
Speaker 1: to monetize the channel.
Speaker 4: So I started YouTube at a very young age, and
Speaker 4: the rules were like different. My channel was monetized since
Speaker 4: I was like sixteen, but I wasn't making any money because.
Speaker 2: I didn't have any views like look at the time.
Speaker 4: But then when I finally got views and stuff, they
Speaker 4: gave me my first five hundred dollars check in the
Speaker 4: twelfth grade.
Speaker 2: I was so happy. And then I was like it
Speaker 2: was in twenty twenty when covid had hit.
Speaker 4: I transferred colleges, and I was just so like depressed,
Speaker 4: and I was like praying to God. I was a
Speaker 4: god like like if you give me enough money, like
Speaker 4: I literally leave Missouri and I'll move to la like
Speaker 4: to pursue my dreams.
Speaker 2: Like that's all I really wanted at the time.
Speaker 4: So that next month, I got a twenty five hundred
Speaker 4: dollars check. Twenty five hundred is a lot from like you.
Speaker 1: Taking but at this point, you're you're in college, you're
Speaker 1: not your past high school. So you get your five
Speaker 1: hundred dollars check, and you're what are you going to.
Speaker 2: College for digital media production? Okay?
Speaker 3: And at this.
Speaker 1: Point, are you still recording on iPhones or are you
Speaker 1: buying your own equipment?
Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 4: I would record on my iPhone? Like, I never bought
Speaker 4: equipment till this year. Till I moved here. I started
Speaker 4: taking everything more serious.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, you may want to put that in that
Speaker 2: bowl or something. Uh?
Speaker 1: Okay, are you ready to dump the cheese? Let's do it,
Speaker 1: let's do it?
Speaker 2: Make make hood hood shows? Yeah, hood shows? Okay, hood
Speaker 2: shows not chose?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: Chose? Okay, So first you mean to make yours? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Oh, I didn't know if you dump it in the
Speaker 3: bowl or how you're going to do it?
Speaker 2: Oh? Should we do that?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: I don't even.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, hair just go ahead. Let me here, I'll
Speaker 3: do it.
Speaker 2: Okay. Just a bunch of chips, right, okay, and then
Speaker 2: just lay them out. It's like spread them out? Okay? Perfect?
Speaker 3: Then what we dump the cheese?
Speaker 2: But let me get some more.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we gotta put a.
Speaker 2: Lot get into hood choes hood chose y'all make this
Speaker 2: whenever y'all are hungry and high, don't forget to turn
Speaker 2: off that stove. Oh, yes, I don't want to burn
Speaker 2: mess off.
Speaker 3: We don't want you to burn yourself.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Wow, that's it, And that's how the cheese comes out.
Speaker 2: That's thick. That is thick. All this oil that's in cheese.
Speaker 1: So while you're in college, you're praying for this window
Speaker 1: of opportunity, but you're in Missouri.
Speaker 3: Still, I'm just gonna dump this. Oh yeah, it's very oily.
Speaker 1: Yeah is that how it usually comes out when it's
Speaker 1: out of the microwave?
Speaker 2: No, okay, you can put this back on that stove.
Speaker 2: Oh I don't know what I was doing. I'm glad.
Speaker 3: That would have been the first life burn on the show.
Speaker 1: Okay, so salsam, I'm gonna lad their mind and then
Speaker 1: what sorry. Yeah, so you're in college, you're praying for
Speaker 1: a miracle, but you do know that your end results
Speaker 1: is you want to come to Los Angeles.
Speaker 4: Yes, so my dad he moved here, like when I
Speaker 4: was like two, and he was out here. He was
Speaker 4: pursuing his dreams of becoming like a comedian, also like
Speaker 4: writing directing as well, y'all, this is what it looks like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it looks good.
Speaker 2: It looks official.
Speaker 1: So he's pursuing his dreams and is he telling you
Speaker 1: like the whole time, like you.
Speaker 3: Should come to LA?
Speaker 2: And yeah he was. But was your mom with it?
Speaker 4: No, not at all, which I'm glad everything played out
Speaker 4: the way it did. I wanted to move there here
Speaker 4: when I was younger because I just love the idea
Speaker 4: of LA. Because did you.
Speaker 3: Did you come and visit before when your dad was here?
Speaker 2: I visited first for a cruise and then I got
Speaker 2: a while naw had hit me up.
Speaker 4: They were like, we want you to come down and
Speaker 4: audition and wanted the little It was either I think
Speaker 4: New York, Atlanta, and then it.
Speaker 3: Was LA and that was like day directly hits you
Speaker 3: up and you're in college.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was nineteen when they hit me up.
Speaker 3: I was like, so you were making little waves.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I started coming up before. The cheese pretty good.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm. I feel like the cheese is stick though
Speaker 2: it is thick. I like this though.
Speaker 3: Do you like it that thick?
Speaker 2: Hm hmm. I like it better than the microwave. But
Speaker 2: I like it in the sow too.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest, these hood shows would taste good
Speaker 1: with just the sauceed and the SOUTHCN.
Speaker 3: Don't you think so?
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 3: I don't even think you need the cheese.
Speaker 1: I don't think I'll ever eat the rito's playing again
Speaker 1: because this is amazing.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take one more.
Speaker 1: Okay, shows made up really affordable dish fun snaps.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the best meal on the show. That's so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're not gonna say that, but we're gonna give
Speaker 1: it a ten out of a ten.
Speaker 2: So it's up there. Am I the runner up?
Speaker 1: Though, you'll run her up like this is definitely good,
Speaker 1: Like we've had the nachos, the dorito nachos, but as
Speaker 1: far as simplicity, a couple of minutes to make I
Speaker 1: really like it with the salsa and just the sober.
Speaker 4: Him though sometimes I do that if I have doritos,
Speaker 4: I'll just put to our cream.
Speaker 3: That's awesome.
Speaker 1: Never ever thought to do this ever. So wil'n Out
Speaker 1: hits you up. So you're getting it. Seems like you're
Speaker 1: getting signs that you should be. You're going in the
Speaker 1: right direction. Parents are all supportive. Yeah at this point,
Speaker 1: all right, so take me on to the next chapter.
Speaker 1: So do you do you do the wild'n Out audition?
Speaker 2: I did, but at.
Speaker 4: The time, I was nineteen, so everybody's like when I
Speaker 4: went there, when I'm around people, I don't know, I'm
Speaker 4: not thinking like, oh, this opportunity could change my life.
Speaker 2: I'm just shy, like because I'm nineteen. These people were like.
Speaker 4: Way older to me, Like they have very big personalities.
Speaker 4: Like if the auditions everybody was loud, it seemed like
Speaker 4: they kind of knew each other as well. So I
Speaker 4: was just sitting there like just very like shy and timid.
Speaker 4: I didn't really say too much, and I feel like
Speaker 4: I didn't show much of my personality. I didn't make it,
Speaker 4: but well obviously, but yeah, I feel if I could
Speaker 4: redo it, I would wish that they would hit me
Speaker 4: up at an older age because I feel like that
Speaker 4: I have the confidence now back then I didn't.
Speaker 3: What was your following at the time when they hit
Speaker 3: you up.
Speaker 4: I think I was at two hundred k on on Instagram.
Speaker 3: And then on YouTube. Now YouTube is where you make
Speaker 3: most of your money.
Speaker 4: But I wasn't popping on YouTube back then, so I
Speaker 4: feel like they filed me on Instagram.
Speaker 1: Okay, what was your YouTube following when you made the
Speaker 1: like twenty five hundred dollars check.
Speaker 2: Oh, it started skyrocket ick.
Speaker 4: Problem. So that was the year of twenty twenty. This
Speaker 4: was October when I made the twenty five hundred. So
Speaker 4: in December I hit one hundred k on YouTube. So
Speaker 4: I'm not sure where I was in October, maybe like
Speaker 4: eighty k. I think I was in eighty thousand, but
Speaker 4: I was coming up like that's when I popped off.
Speaker 4: Like some people they would meet me and be like, oh,
Speaker 4: the quarantine queen. It was like that's when my channel.
Speaker 1: Was boring up during quarantine. And were you doing any
Speaker 1: day jobs during quarantine? How are you surviving?
Speaker 2: I wasn't just social media, really, that's it.
Speaker 1: So how are you Were you getting paid enough to
Speaker 1: survive on social media?
Speaker 2: Well I lived with my mom.
Speaker 4: Well I lived on campus, but like when I would
Speaker 4: go home, I would be with my mom.
Speaker 1: So all right, good, So you were good. So what
Speaker 1: were your checks consistent? Like are they monthly or yeah?
Speaker 4: Once a month. I was getting also paid from like promos.
Speaker 4: People would pay me to like post their businesses on
Speaker 4: my account.
Speaker 2: What else? That's really it.
Speaker 4: I did have jobs here and there. I was always
Speaker 4: getting fired though, Like I worked at a hotel, but where.
Speaker 2: Were you getting fired from? Like why, Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: You just weren't into it, You weren't passionate about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So you're continuing with your YouTube channel and your social
Speaker 1: media right now, you have almost a million subscribers on YouTube,
Speaker 1: which is a huge fee. Says you started your channel
Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen. What was like the hardest hiccup in
Speaker 1: that journey? Were there hard like moments like even coming up?
Speaker 1: Did you feel the pressure to come up with content?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's kind of how I feel right now. So
Speaker 4: at first, everything came to me naturally, like I would
Speaker 4: just upload like once a month, which is not consistent
Speaker 4: at all. Sometimes I'll go like three months without uploading,
Speaker 4: but I would just I had my channel just for fun,
Speaker 4: like I was creative, so I wanted to like showcase that,
Speaker 4: and of course I want to followers too, or subscribers.
Speaker 2: But it became hard.
Speaker 4: Like when everybody wanted me to start posting work consistently,
Speaker 4: because I wasn't used to it.
Speaker 1: When you say everybody, like fans were reaching out like
Speaker 1: when's your next post?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like dang, like it's getting real.
Speaker 4: So I have to post like once a week and
Speaker 4: I just graduated college.
Speaker 2: Like last May.
Speaker 4: So when I was in school, I had work due,
Speaker 4: but I know I had the post so I was like, dang,
Speaker 4: like I have a lot too.
Speaker 3: And then at this point, like how consistent are the checks?
Speaker 2: I went just to once a month? Once a month,
Speaker 2: but the size of the checks.
Speaker 4: Are they go up and down? Like my biggest check
Speaker 4: that I got one month was forty thousand.
Speaker 2: Never seen forty Yeah.
Speaker 3: What they happened?
Speaker 2: Again?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: That was one time.
Speaker 2: I was like, but that was during that time I
Speaker 2: was coming up.
Speaker 3: So but was that during the pandemic.
Speaker 2: It was in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: So that's right after the pandemic. Oh my gosh. So
Speaker 1: what did you do with the money?
Speaker 2: I didn't do anything like big, I just kind of
Speaker 2: kept it. Do you still have it?
Speaker 3: Kind of?
Speaker 2: Well? Did you? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, so you're you're managing your money. Now do you
Speaker 1: have when you get checks like that? Like who was
Speaker 1: the first person you called? And did you did you
Speaker 1: know that check was a arriving and or does it
Speaker 1: colme in the mail or did they send you an email?
Speaker 3: How does it work?
Speaker 4: So if you go in the app on the studio
Speaker 4: app YouTube studio, it'll like tell you what you're getting
Speaker 4: that month.
Speaker 2: When I saw that, I was like what, Like that's crazy.
Speaker 4: But I was also getting like like ten thousand a month,
Speaker 4: so it didn't really like like effect.
Speaker 3: Ten thousand a month.
Speaker 1: It is really good money. And are you telling your family? Like, Yo,
Speaker 1: this is how much money I'm making.
Speaker 2: So that's the mistake I made.
Speaker 4: I told my mom, like I made my first eleven
Speaker 4: thousand in December of twenty twenty, and I was proud,
Speaker 4: so I told my mom. She told the whole family,
Speaker 4: like now everybody knows how much I make.
Speaker 1: So yeah, why is it like a not so good thing?
Speaker 4: Because people will start asking you for stuff, Like if
Speaker 4: you like make a lot of money, they'll start like,
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's like I don't know.
Speaker 3: Like when you guys go out to you, they'd be
Speaker 3: like you got the bill? You got it?
Speaker 4: Like like I want to feel like like I don't know,
Speaker 4: like when people buy stuff, like if I buy something
Speaker 4: for somebody, it's because I care about them or like
Speaker 4: I don't know. I want to feel like somebody cares
Speaker 4: about me too, Like that's one of my oh, my
Speaker 4: love language, one of my love.
Speaker 3: Language is like gift giving. Yeah, okay, so like.
Speaker 4: When somebody buys me something, like I feel like, I
Speaker 4: don't know, feel like they care, even though that could
Speaker 4: not always be the case. But yeah, but yeah, so
Speaker 4: I'm always having to buy people stuff. People expect me
Speaker 4: to like pay for everything. So that's why I just say,
Speaker 4: anybody they got money, keep it on.
Speaker 1: Did you ever have that conversation with your mom later?
Speaker 1: So like if she were to listen to this interview,
Speaker 1: she would be like, oh my gosh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 2: I'm sure she knows.
Speaker 4: I think I did tell her, Like it does bother
Speaker 4: me when people ask me how much I make from like.
Speaker 3: Oh really, are you uncomfortable saying it on the show?
Speaker 2: Oh no, I don't care.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, but we just talked about it on the
Speaker 1: show because there's like our show was like really created
Speaker 1: for the underdog, and so we're trying to get them like,
Speaker 1: don't quit even though.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, don't quit, keep going. I have that channel
Speaker 4: since thirteen. Now I'm living off of my channel, So
Speaker 4: I feel like anybody that was ten years ago so
Speaker 4: well eleven now because it's swinging be ford, but keep going.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't until like years intil you got your
Speaker 1: first step, right, It wasn't like year one.
Speaker 2: Twenty twenty is when I got my first beach checked.
Speaker 3: Oh that's seven years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, dedicate seven long.
Speaker 1: Years, and no part of you was like during that
Speaker 1: journey like maybe I should give up or maybe I
Speaker 1: should pause this.
Speaker 2: I loved it so much.
Speaker 1: Really, Now, tell me about your concept process. Is it
Speaker 1: like you're going through everyday life and then you see
Speaker 1: something and its sparks, Like, tell me what that process
Speaker 1: looks like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, everyday life, Like I'll see stuff I'd be like
Speaker 4: I need to make a scit about this, or I'll
Speaker 4: see something trending and I'm like, I gotta hop on
Speaker 4: the bandwagon because that's how videos go.
Speaker 3: You just gotta hop on what's trending, like when they're trending.
Speaker 1: I have this I don't know if you know him,
Speaker 1: but James Andre Jefferson Junior.
Speaker 3: He's such a long name. That is a long name,
Speaker 3: but he's he's like.
Speaker 1: He makes fun of like a lot of the celebrities
Speaker 1: and trending. But I remember when he was getting into
Speaker 1: social media. He had discovered that if you could strike
Speaker 1: while the trending was happening like on topic, then your
Speaker 1: stuff can trend with it. But the turnaround has got
Speaker 1: to be like a lot of pressure.
Speaker 4: Yeah it is, because it's like you gotta come up
Speaker 4: with something quick, like how the whole Like, what's something
Speaker 4: trending now? I re cauld say like like all the
Speaker 4: submarine stuff going on, Like if somebody makes like a
Speaker 4: review about how they feel, I feel like that's easier.
Speaker 4: But if you make like you just hop on the bandwagon,
Speaker 4: talk about what's going on like in the moment, like
Speaker 4: even the Jaded Pinkett stuff, it was Yeah with Will Smith,
Speaker 4: I hopped on the trend like I made a skit
Speaker 4: like pretending I was hurt and I was getting interviewed.
Speaker 4: Yousally gotta hop on quick, do something create?
Speaker 1: What was the one thing that like, because you have
Speaker 1: nine hundred almost a million followers on YouTube, what is
Speaker 1: the one thing that you did that where you saw
Speaker 1: like a huge jump in your numbers?
Speaker 4: I started doing these videos what is it if slavery
Speaker 4: existed in twenty twenty one or twenty twenty two, But
Speaker 4: I would make like parodies. But I get a lot
Speaker 4: of backlash from black people because they're like, oh, slavery's
Speaker 4: not a joke when they were.
Speaker 2: Not even running with hereot you know.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I don't know, but that's something a lot
Speaker 4: of people like, I guess. And then the online class
Speaker 4: videos because in twenty twenty, those were like, that's trending
Speaker 4: because like COVID and stuff, so a lot of people
Speaker 4: were taking classes online. So I hopped on that, and
Speaker 4: we're not necessarily hopped on that. I created that wave,
Speaker 4: like the whole online classes parodies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then where did you learn how to edit?
Speaker 1: Are you editing your videos or are you having someone
Speaker 1: else edit? Oh?
Speaker 2: I edited though?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 1: And then you sit there with the lighting and the
Speaker 1: shooting and all of that.
Speaker 2: That's my brother taught me how to edit. We used
Speaker 2: to make videos together. We had a channel and everything.
Speaker 3: Where's your brother at now?
Speaker 2: He lives in Dallas.
Speaker 4: He graduated college in like twenty twenty one. Yeah, he moved.
Speaker 4: He's older than you one year or eleven months. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's like my best friend. I wish he was here.
Speaker 3: Ah, that's so sweet.
Speaker 2: Shout out brother, Shout out to Charles, y'all.
Speaker 1: So does your brother have a YouTube channel or does
Speaker 1: he just kind of support yours?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: He does, but he doesn't. He's not really active on there.
Speaker 4: We do not feel like he should be, but he's
Speaker 4: not active.
Speaker 3: Like is he choosing a different route from you?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we did.
Speaker 4: Start together, like my channel now that I have now
Speaker 4: me and him created that channel in twenty thirteen and
Speaker 4: then I think it was called like Charles and Alicia,
Speaker 4: and like, I don't know, he just I don't know.
Speaker 4: I think when he went to college, he just kind
Speaker 4: of stopped.
Speaker 3: And he just wanted to do what do you know
Speaker 3: what he's majoring in?
Speaker 2: He did it informational technology.
Speaker 1: Okay, so both of you guys are choosing good, well
Speaker 1: good careers and hard careers at that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know it is hard. So when you moved
Speaker 2: to LA, Like, what does that move look like?
Speaker 4: I actually, so I graduated May sixth and I moved
Speaker 4: out here May fifteenth, like I was not doing no.
Speaker 3: Plan twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: Uh huh.
Speaker 1: Oh so you've only been out you're a newbie. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: So did you move in with your dad right away?
Speaker 2: Oh? No, I moved in by myself, Like I just
Speaker 2: came up here alone.
Speaker 1: And what was the conversation with your mom? Looking like
Speaker 1: when you make this jump.
Speaker 4: I was telling everybody like before, I was like, y'all,
Speaker 4: I'm moving to LA. People don't be taking me serious,
Speaker 4: but yeah, I moved out here.
Speaker 1: Wait, you moved to LA, So tell me the story
Speaker 1: about you moving to LA.
Speaker 4: So I was in college, like coming home from classes,
Speaker 4: searching up like apartments in LA, calling Them'm getting a
Speaker 4: virtual tourist because at first I couldn't go out there,
Speaker 4: like because I had to be in school. So I
Speaker 4: was searching up like apartments like in LA.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So I was doing like virtual tours. I didn't know
Speaker 4: downtown was as bad as it is.
Speaker 3: Oh, sked Row and all that. You had a nice
Speaker 3: reality check.
Speaker 2: I walked outside like what is this? I don't know
Speaker 2: it was. So you graduate and you're like, I know,
Speaker 2: I'm moving to LA. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So, and I was making good money at the time
Speaker 4: for my YouTube channel, so I was like I'm good,
Speaker 4: Like I'm gonna just move out here. And my dad
Speaker 4: he moved out of LA twenty twenty two, but I
Speaker 4: moved into LA twenty twenty three, so it was like dang,
Speaker 4: like he left and I came.
Speaker 2: So I was just out here alone. When I first
Speaker 2: moved out here, I was so depressed, like very depressed.
Speaker 4: I started getting a lot of weight because I was
Speaker 4: just eating, like to fill my voids.
Speaker 2: Why were you depressed? I was lonely.
Speaker 4: I would reach out to people. I feel like I'm
Speaker 4: about to cry, but I'm not going to.
Speaker 1: On this show people cry real, so you know, yeah right,
Speaker 1: this is the safest place to cry.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, But I was just very depressed, and I feel
Speaker 4: like nobody like back home, like really cared. I would
Speaker 4: reach out to people, like telling them how I felt,
Speaker 4: but people would like literally take me as a joke.
Speaker 4: And I know, I like make funny videos and I
Speaker 4: like do stuff to like shield my emotions, like I'll
Speaker 4: be funny or something.
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
Speaker 1: So when you were calling people saying what you were
Speaker 1: going through, were they doing that like cliche like oh girl,
Speaker 1: you're lucky, or it could be hard, it could be harder.
Speaker 1: I used to hate that, like when people be like
Speaker 1: the whole world in my life crashed going end, and
Speaker 1: then they'd be like, it could be harder. There's kids
Speaker 1: in another country, yeah you know, and you're like, I
Speaker 1: get that, but right now I need help.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I feel like all I had was myself. That's why
Speaker 4: I'm like so like independent because like I don't know,
Speaker 4: that's why I do everything on my own, everything on
Speaker 4: my own. Like I literally didn't have no help, like
Speaker 4: physical help, like moving any of my stuff, Like I
Speaker 4: hired movers, hire somebody to move my car, Like I
Speaker 4: just had to get And you're.
Speaker 1: Like twenty two, I'm assuming at the time or yeah,
Speaker 1: early twenties. Yeah, and you're doing this all on your home,
Speaker 1: No mommy, daddy help at this point, You're just one
Speaker 1: hundred percent on your own.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But that's like what I wanted, because like I want
Speaker 4: to be independent because I feel like I really feel
Speaker 4: like nobody be caring about how I feel like I
Speaker 4: genuinely feel like that.
Speaker 1: I feel like independence comes from a lot of neglects.
Speaker 3: It's almost like a survival spirit.
Speaker 1: Whenever I see someone that's like ultra independent, I'm like
Speaker 1: they went through some stuff, you know, like a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah wow.
Speaker 1: Okay, So when you move and you finally land, I'm
Speaker 1: hoping it's not in downtown.
Speaker 2: A lake because you say like it was culture shock. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was like, what is this a joke?
Speaker 4: Like literally, because I got my apartment tour and I
Speaker 4: was like, oh, is it a good area? I should
Speaker 4: have just came down here and looked. But he was like, yeah,
Speaker 4: the area is good. There's a few homeless people downtown,
Speaker 4: but you'll be fine. No, not few?
Speaker 3: Was it in downtown?
Speaker 2: I live on Fourth Street? Like oh wow? Yeah? So wow? Okay,
Speaker 2: so you're like buy it.
Speaker 1: It's like, uh yeah, But you know what's crazy because
Speaker 1: some of those lofts down there are really nice. So
Speaker 1: I could see you looking at the loft like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: lived my best life I love And there's like, you know,
Speaker 1: ten million homeless people and that's like a culture shock
Speaker 1: that is very scary to like, Okay, so you're making
Speaker 1: it work, though, Now are you doing anything else? Are
Speaker 1: you just one hundred percent YouTube, one hundred percent short film?
Speaker 1: And then have you developed your own little crew to
Speaker 1: survive la.
Speaker 4: I do have a few people that I just got
Speaker 4: done filming a short film. It's called Los Angeles Lost Angelus.
Speaker 4: So it's just about like me narrating my life here,
Speaker 4: crazy situations and stuff.
Speaker 2: I did find some people, but the people out here are.
Speaker 4: So weird, like they're like like when I first meet somebody,
Speaker 4: I don't tell them, like what I do like initially
Speaker 4: because people have ulterior motives.
Speaker 1: But when I meet people, they like, if someone meets you,
Speaker 1: what do you tell them?
Speaker 2: I just talk to them like I just don't even
Speaker 2: bring it up.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's the second question when whenever you
Speaker 1: meet someone in LA, it's like, Hi, my name is
Speaker 1: and they're.
Speaker 2: Like, what do you do? Yes, that's so true.
Speaker 1: The one thing I liked about the pandemic was it
Speaker 1: was the first time people stopped asking what you do.
Speaker 3: It's more like, how are you doing?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And that was like, I think the most beautiful thing
Speaker 1: about the pandemic. It was also people going to people's
Speaker 1: houses and just eating around the table, playing board games,
Speaker 1: like doing stuff, not at a restaurant, you know, or
Speaker 1: what have you.
Speaker 3: I think there was.
Speaker 1: Something really beautiful in that space of we're all trapped
Speaker 1: in a nightmare together. But I hate, I absolutely hate
Speaker 1: that about LA, where it's like what do you do?
Speaker 2: What do you do? What do you do? So?
Speaker 1: But you moved here, you know, what do you do eric?
Speaker 1: So when they ask you what do you do, what
Speaker 1: do you say?
Speaker 4: I tell them like, oh, I direct produce feeling gradual
Speaker 4: comedy sketches.
Speaker 2: But people are full of Yeah, people are full of shit.
Speaker 2: So I feel like they probably.
Speaker 4: Like, oh, just another one of those.
Speaker 2: But I actually am like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're doing it like you're making money. You don't,
Speaker 1: you're not working at Target. You're one hundred percent doing you.
Speaker 4: So I feel like when they like first like people
Speaker 4: will treat me like like I'm just like nobody, which
Speaker 4: you know, it's fine treat me however, but well.
Speaker 1: Because you look very young, yeah, so they're like they're
Speaker 1: more like aspiring or what have you.
Speaker 3: Did you watch the Tyler Perry documentary? No you didn't.
Speaker 2: A lot of people keep telling me to watch it.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you, girl, I watched. I cried a
Speaker 1: couple of times. I didn't even know his story. I
Speaker 1: think he was homeless, right, Well, he did end up
Speaker 1: with a little bit of homelessness, but he came from
Speaker 1: a lot of abuse, Like I did not know that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was kind of interesting.
Speaker 2: That's probably why he writes about what he writes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely that's good.
Speaker 4: Well that's not good, but it's good that he like
Speaker 4: shows that in movies like that, people can get through it.
Speaker 1: Do you ever make fun of the characters in your
Speaker 1: family or like play around with the characters in your
Speaker 1: family or.
Speaker 3: Develop characters from people in my family my friends.
Speaker 2: No, I don't know where they come from.
Speaker 4: I feel like I got like ten different personalities, so
Speaker 4: just pick one play the character. Yeah, because like the
Speaker 4: mother I play in my films, Like sometimes I play
Speaker 4: like a mom that's not how my mom acts at all.
Speaker 4: I don't know where that character stem from. But my
Speaker 4: mom she's like very nice, very like quiet and reserved.
Speaker 4: But the mom that I play like in my films
Speaker 4: is very like, yeah, very loud, very like I don't know,
Speaker 4: just crazy, and my mom is not like that at all.
Speaker 4: So I don't know why I do that or like
Speaker 4: where I got it from. But that's probably one of
Speaker 4: my favorite characters. Like playing as the mom.
Speaker 1: What is the day in the life of you now
Speaker 1: that you're in la.
Speaker 4: Get up, go to the gym, come home, shower, make
Speaker 4: a video.
Speaker 2: After that the rest is history.
Speaker 1: When you say make a video, like just edit, Like
Speaker 1: what's that process? Like a couple of hours?
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe like four hours max for YouTube video, make
Speaker 4: the video, edit it, upload it the same day. Probably
Speaker 4: gonna do that after the interview, really probably go home
Speaker 4: and make a video and your money from YouTube? Do
Speaker 4: you feel like it's sustainable or is it like the
Speaker 4: entertainment business where it's like up down, up down, up down. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'd be up and down, like one month, go from
Speaker 4: forty thousand that month to next month, I'm making three
Speaker 4: thousand and five thousand and ten thousand back down to three.
Speaker 4: Like it's up and down. But I saved enough like
Speaker 4: before I moved here, just in case.
Speaker 2: It like fluctuates.
Speaker 1: And then do you put yourself on payroll like we
Speaker 1: were talking about I think it was with Brandon Rogers
Speaker 1: was the other another YouTuber. It's like when you have
Speaker 1: your your money goes to a corporation or does it
Speaker 1: go to you? I would go, okay, so yeah, traditionally
Speaker 1: you would, you know, create a corporation and then maybe
Speaker 1: get like an ADP and they'll cut your salary and
Speaker 1: then you can kind of like live on a more
Speaker 1: budget and then build cash flow in the business.
Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't know that. That's a lie. I don't know,
Speaker 2: but I love to learn.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, we could talk after camera to like kind
Speaker 1: of fix that. But I'm guessing right now, do you
Speaker 1: put yourself on a strict budget? Like this is my
Speaker 1: monthly and I don't go over or do you just
Speaker 1: be like.
Speaker 2: It's ten thousand dollar a month.
Speaker 4: I just don't go crazy with spending, Like I'll just
Speaker 4: spend my money like how I would like if I
Speaker 4: make like five thousand, like that's like kind of I
Speaker 4: don't do too much, like at all, I'm very cheap.
Speaker 1: What advice would you give to someone that's trying to
Speaker 1: get into the game.
Speaker 4: Keep going and if the people are supporting you coming up,
Speaker 4: make sure you lock in with them once you come up,
Speaker 4: because yeah, all the people that like are around you
Speaker 4: when you're coming up. Just know those people are loyal
Speaker 4: and they like you for you, because when you get
Speaker 4: like I feel like where I am, I'm not like
Speaker 4: I don't know, like I need a better heart of
Speaker 4: discernments because some people just come into my life or
Speaker 4: try to come into my life because of who I am.
Speaker 4: So yeah, if you're coming up, make sure the people
Speaker 4: around you stay around them.
Speaker 2: Don't make any new friends.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I tell myself that my high school friends are
Speaker 1: my It sounds terrible. I have plenty of friends, but
Speaker 1: I always feel like my friends from high school are
Speaker 1: my real friends. Like you know, the good, the bad,
Speaker 1: the ugly. You know where I'm from, where I'm going,
Speaker 1: you know everything about me. And if I don't talk
Speaker 1: to you for a year, I know we could pick
Speaker 1: up the phone and I'm not getting like you ain't
Speaker 1: calling me and they're like clocking or whatever. You know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I went to New York recently. My girlfriend from high school.
Speaker 1: She was like, here's my car, here's my car seat,
Speaker 1: have fun like you know, like I got you type.
Speaker 1: You know. It was like just very much like family,
Speaker 1: and we don't talk every day. It's just like I'm
Speaker 1: coming girls whatever, or if I'm going through a breakup.
Speaker 1: I've had a girlfriend, like get on a plane, get
Speaker 1: a bunch of ice cream and candy, and like we
Speaker 1: watched Pretty Woman and a bunch of just silly stuff
Speaker 1: and all the way from New York. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: you're a real friend. That guess a real friend and
Speaker 1: those are rare. But how's dating in La? Do you
Speaker 1: have you tried dating in La yet?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like the trickery is La. Guys are different.
Speaker 1: It was like kind of I think everyone in LA
Speaker 1: is kind of opportunistic. But I would I think the
Speaker 1: dangerous part of being in social media would be that
Speaker 1: I think even bigger than being a celebrity.
Speaker 3: Like if you're big on social media.
Speaker 4: Everybody want to date you. Yeah, and you just want
Speaker 4: some cloud. But who knows, maybe not, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I haven't dated in la Okay, probably
Speaker 2: not ever going to.
Speaker 1: Are you single right now or you're not single because
Speaker 1: you said you're not going to.
Speaker 3: You're in a relationship.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta say it. It's complicated.
Speaker 1: It's complicated, complicated. It's never good. It's never good.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Like, see see if the relationship confuses you leave, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I have my friends tell me all the time. They're like,
Speaker 1: you're so good at spotting a red flag. There's like
Speaker 1: there's nobody better that stop spotting a red flag than you.
Speaker 2: But for whatever reason, you will spot the red flag. Ago.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's just like a slowdown.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's a maybe maybe Like.
Speaker 2: No, it's a red flag.
Speaker 1: You gotta respect the red flag and put it in
Speaker 1: its place.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I think as a woman, it just boils down
Speaker 1: to like it always bowls down to like women's like kryptonite,
Speaker 1: which is like knowing your worth. That is I don't
Speaker 1: know how we come up with our worth or knowing
Speaker 1: our worth. I think that's just a woman's greatest challenge.
Speaker 2: See, that's why I'm not dating in LA because I
Speaker 2: know my worth.
Speaker 3: You know you're worth, but you're in something complicated.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like about your red flags. And there's a
Speaker 4: lot of green flags as well, you know, but.
Speaker 3: Red means stop. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just turned forty, so now I haven't turned forty yet,
Speaker 1: gonna be forty soon, And I'm learning like at this point,
Speaker 1: you just got to respect the red flag because the
Speaker 1: deeper you go, the harderest to get out, you know.
Speaker 1: I'm just that's just me being totally honest. You know,
Speaker 1: the more invested you are. And I also have this
Speaker 1: other philosophy when it comes to relationships, whoever invests more
Speaker 1: loses the most.
Speaker 2: That's true, Yes, especially if it's over Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, whoever invests more, whoever. And that doesn't just
Speaker 1: mean monetary wise, it means time wise. It just means like,
Speaker 1: if the scale is not tipped evenly, I promise you
Speaker 1: you will be the one that's hurt more in the end.
Speaker 2: So it's a crazy way to look at it.
Speaker 1: That's a good way actually, But that's why you ever
Speaker 1: hear people say like you got to match the other
Speaker 1: person's energy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh you.
Speaker 3: Gave this, I'll match that.
Speaker 1: You know when I was young, outdated guy, but I'll
Speaker 1: go all out, you know, just same.
Speaker 4: That's how I am. I like to like spoil people.
Speaker 4: I like to be spoiled too. But yeah, I feel
Speaker 4: like I always give so much of myself and I
Speaker 4: need to just protect my heart at this point, like
Speaker 4: I need to give what I give to that person,
Speaker 4: I need to give that to myself.
Speaker 1: I'm learning that right now. And I'm old as heke.
Speaker 1: Well you know I'm up there. I've been trying to
Speaker 1: avoid the topic for a while.
Speaker 3: No, you look very young though, thank you, thank you?
Speaker 2: What else does do people just don't know about you.
Speaker 4: I'm a very introverted person. I know sometimes I come
Speaker 4: off as very like outgoing, which I am online sometimes
Speaker 4: I am in person, but I have to be like
Speaker 4: very very comfortable. Yeah, I'm just a very introverted person
Speaker 4: and I'm always sad. And people are gonna be believing
Speaker 4: me because I joke around a lot.
Speaker 1: I heard comics or like or comedians and that line
Speaker 1: of work. They're the most sad, which is crazy because
Speaker 1: they bring the most joy.
Speaker 4: It's because we have to go through things alone because
Speaker 4: like I'm not sure, I can't speak for anybody else,
Speaker 4: but I know with me, people don't take me serious
Speaker 4: and I'm also supposed to be the person it makes
Speaker 4: everybody else laugh. So it's like I don't even feel
Speaker 4: comfortable coming to people sometimes I don't want to bring
Speaker 4: them that energy. And then I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 4: We just I feel like we go through a lot
Speaker 4: of stuff alone, like a lot of our emotions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but it makes you stronger in there, it does.
Speaker 1: I mean, as long as you got that solid one
Speaker 1: or two, I think you're good. And then do you
Speaker 1: have mentors?
Speaker 2: No? What? Yeah?
Speaker 3: What you need to get something?
Speaker 1: I don't care how old you are, Like you could
Speaker 1: be my age. I still look for mentors. I'm always
Speaker 1: looking for mentor anyone that's like even semi where I
Speaker 1: want to be at or like just different from me.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, can you be my mentor? Can you
Speaker 1: teach me something new?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Girl, well I'm here in La, so I definitely if
Speaker 1: you ever need a mentory. Matter of fact, you could
Speaker 1: be my mentor in some areas you can, so yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because you know, I'm struggling with YouTube.
Speaker 1: I know my the girl that runs my YouTube, she
Speaker 1: we can monetize now, she's always like monetized the channel.
Speaker 1: I'm like, we're gonna get five cents. You just still
Speaker 1: menize it, That's what she says.
Speaker 2: She's like, girl, I'm like, you you should. You don't
Speaker 2: have to.
Speaker 3: You know what it's we're mentor. We're going to mentor
Speaker 3: each other.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my goodness, I can't believe it.
Speaker 1: And you have the ability to Yeah, we do. And
Speaker 1: she's been on me like just fill out the paperwork.
Speaker 1: I'm like, for what you need to do?
Speaker 4: It like your money could be growing. So there's a
Speaker 4: threshold on YouTube. It's one hundred dollars. So after you
Speaker 4: hit one hundred, they deposit whatever into your account. So
Speaker 4: right now, like, look like all of your views, I
Speaker 4: don't know, like add it up. If they make a hundred,
Speaker 4: I'm sure you're at one hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: So you're like, I don't at one hundred.
Speaker 3: But I didn't know that's how it works.
Speaker 1: I just thought maybe like if I hit like five
Speaker 1: thousand subscribers, then I would hit monetization. But if I
Speaker 1: don't hit it, if is it only from that date
Speaker 1: four that it accruise or they'd.
Speaker 3: Look at the previous day.
Speaker 4: It's from that date for that's why I said you
Speaker 4: need to get Oh yeah, see okay, So like they're
Speaker 4: not going to give you any money from like anything
Speaker 4: before today if you monetize today.
Speaker 1: So when they gave me the opportunity, that's when I
Speaker 1: was supposed to do it.
Speaker 2: What did they tell you?
Speaker 3: Probably a couple of months ago.
Speaker 2: You should do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not like I missed out on that much.
Speaker 1: I mean you got a small little but I do.
Speaker 1: I would be very happy over one hundred dollars check
Speaker 1: just because it's like that milestone of Like I remember
Speaker 1: an interviewing like Country Wayne and he was talking about
Speaker 1: his like he monetized the channel during the pandemic. It
Speaker 1: was like get in like forty to one hundred thousand
Speaker 1: per Yeah, how much did he say?
Speaker 2: Yeah? He said he was getting like one hundred, two hundred,
Speaker 2: three hundred thousand. I was like, I was a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it was like during the pandemic he monetized it. Wow,
Speaker 1: could you imagine how much money you probably missed out on, yeah,
Speaker 1: because I did not know that's.
Speaker 2: How it works.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, yeah, yeah you should be my mental you
Speaker 1: heard it here first.
Speaker 4: I just send up comedy sometimes. But yeah, how's it going?
Speaker 4: I don't do it anymore? Really, but my last show
Speaker 4: was in November, November eighth, That was the last show
Speaker 4: I did. It's good, but like I'm really focus on that. Really,
Speaker 4: what made you get into stand up? My dad he
Speaker 4: was a center comedian out here as well, but he moved.
Speaker 2: Back to where Texas?
Speaker 3: Oh he's in Texas? Is he in Austin? All the
Speaker 3: comics are moving to Austin.
Speaker 4: He's in Houston? Okay, okay, but him, I don't know
Speaker 4: that's where he's from. And then my mom is from Missouri.
Speaker 4: But they met in college. Such a sweet love story
Speaker 4: like love and basketball?
Speaker 2: No, for real?
Speaker 3: Is it really like a love and basketball story?
Speaker 2: Well, love and track? I guess they've both were in
Speaker 2: track okay.
Speaker 3: But are they still together?
Speaker 2: No? Okay, okay, they should be.
Speaker 3: Why because they're like best friends or something.
Speaker 4: No, because they're my parents and they need to be
Speaker 4: even though they're both dating other people.
Speaker 2: I don't care.
Speaker 1: Ah, that's so sweet but did you grow up in
Speaker 1: two parent household?
Speaker 3: Oh no, they split two when you were two, right,
Speaker 3: so it was.
Speaker 2: Just me, my mom and my brother. Oh okay, okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: all right. There was something else that literally, like I
Speaker 2: was like, don't forget to.
Speaker 3: Ask this, and then I forgot.
Speaker 2: Was it something deep?
Speaker 3: It was something diff deep too.
Speaker 2: I need to be deeper. I think I got a little.
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you. I noticed you do dot
Speaker 1: meet and greets, don't you?
Speaker 2: I did one?
Speaker 3: You did one? How what made you do it? And
Speaker 3: like what was the experience?
Speaker 2: Like? What made me do it?
Speaker 4: This girl I went to school with, she she moved
Speaker 4: out there and she like does a lot of work
Speaker 4: in Atlanta. So then she like set up this meet
Speaker 4: and greet with this restaurant, so it'll bring people to
Speaker 4: the restaurant and then bring people to meet me.
Speaker 2: So it was like kind of a collaborative thing the experience.
Speaker 4: So it was like in like a small country part
Speaker 4: of Atlanta or Georgia. I thought it was in Atlanta,
Speaker 4: but I was on it promoting like hey atl So
Speaker 4: now a lot of people came, but it was still
Speaker 4: good to have the experience.
Speaker 3: Though, would you ever do that?
Speaker 2: Again and probably in a different location. Yes, like Texas.
Speaker 4: When I went to Texas this or last year. What
Speaker 4: month was this? It was like September or October. It
Speaker 4: was in October. I was getting stopped. I was gonna
Speaker 4: stop the lot like I have a big fan in Texas, Dallas.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, I would do it there all right.
Speaker 1: Well, and then if you were to do it, would
Speaker 1: you do stand up or would you just like talk
Speaker 1: about your experiences as a YouTuber?
Speaker 4: I would probably talk about, like I don't know my experiences.
Speaker 4: Have people come up because I have a few songs
Speaker 4: like on my channel with everybody knows cause it's like
Speaker 4: my ultrosongs, intro songs. I'll probably have them come up
Speaker 4: and see, like who could wrap it the best, do
Speaker 4: a giveaway, take pictures, stuff like that. I wouldn't do
Speaker 4: stand up though, because my fan base is younger. My
Speaker 4: stand up is like for adults.
Speaker 1: So yeah, oh my gosh, well, where can we keep
Speaker 1: up with you? If you do do stand up, do
Speaker 1: you announce it on your Instagram and share with our
Speaker 1: listeners what your Instagram is.
Speaker 4: My Instagram is a l y s a h bu
Speaker 4: r any y Underscore Alicia Bernie underscore my only page.
Speaker 1: That's your only page. And then you so you just
Speaker 1: have Instagram. You're not doing TikTok or any of those guys.
Speaker 2: I have a million on there, one point five million.
Speaker 1: And was it like instant or did you have to
Speaker 1: organically grow it organically?
Speaker 2: I started in COVID like during COVID.
Speaker 1: COVID COVID was like the real, real pivot, pivotal moment
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 2: Wow, I blew up on everything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, during COVID, that three that two years changed your life.
Speaker 4: It everybody says how COVID affected them like horribly.
Speaker 2: I'm just like, COVID blessed me. Wow. Shout outs to COVID,
Speaker 2: shout out to you COVID. And I never caught it.
Speaker 3: You never caught what? Yeah, girl, I don't had COVID
Speaker 3: so many times. I'm like, really I had. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: I've caught it a bunch of times.
Speaker 2: Or maybe I caught it and didn't know. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're one of those lucky ones because when I
Speaker 1: first got hit with it, I knew, Oh wow, I knew.
Speaker 1: Thanks for your evening midnight snack, Thanks for blessing us
Speaker 1: with your energy.
Speaker 3: Ah and thanks to all our listeners. Peace out guys.
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