WEBVTT - Eating While Broke: ALYSHA BURNEY - Hoodchos 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:04.200 Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke. 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:07.000 I'm your host coleeen Wit, and today we have very 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:13.880 special guests, famous YouTuber Alisha Bernie, producer, writer, director Alisha 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:16.160 Bernie is in the building and I'm excited to hear 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:18.840 your story because it's a long journey for you. 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:20.599 It is, it's been a long time. 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:21.919 It's been a long time. 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:24.400 And what are you going to have me eating today 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:44.200 on the show? 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:51.400 I call it good chose like good nachos. 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:54.560 So yeah, basically, whatever you got in the cabinet, I 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:57.080 just combine all four ingredients together. 0:00:57.360 --> 0:00:58.480 And what are the ingredients? 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:03.040 Sour cream, sauce. You could use tortilla chips like regular tortillas, 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:06.280 but today we're gonna use Doritos and shreded cheese. 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:08.960 Oh do you usually use tortilla chips or you only 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:10.280 do the thrido cool. 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:13.679 Ranch honestly is whatever chips I can find, but like, yeah, 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:15.240 oh really, any chips. 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:16.399 Any chips, always chips. 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:19.000 Okay, have you ever done it with like Cheetos? M 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:24.319 I don't like Cheetos, not even the puffy one. Oh no, 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:26.680 you're tripping maybe, Okay, we're gonna have to judge this 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:31.160 dish hard, so before well, I guess while you Another 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:33.680 thing I wanted to share with you guys is that 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.000 Alicia said that she only usually does this dish in 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:40.440 the microwave yep, which is interesting because I would assume 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:41.760 the chips get hot. 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:44.000 They do, but you don't, like they're not in there 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:45.840 for a long time. It's probably like thirty seconds to 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:47.760 a minute, okay, just to milk the cheese. 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:49.440 And then today you're gonna take one for the team 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:50.640 and cook it on the soap top. 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:52.640 I am, okay, all. 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:55.800 Right, so get into the cooking of the cheese so 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:57.920 I can eat cheese. 0:01:58.240 --> 0:01:58.520 Yes. 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.480 And then what was going on around the time when 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:03.600 you're making this dish? 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:06.680 Actually my mouth, I mean my unty. She taught me 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:08.800 how to make this. Like one day I called her. 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:10.560 I was like, I'm hungry because it was never no 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:12.920 food at home. And then she was like asking me, like, 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:15.280 what's all in the house. And then she told me, 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:18.520 like literally to combine these four ingredients. 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.760 And how old were you at the time, Probably like nine? 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:23.520 And you know, I can only really cook in the 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:26.359 microwave or else I was gonna get in trouble. 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:28.679 So she was like walking around the house like, hey, 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.840 there's some chips here, there's some shredity, and she was like. 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:34.040 Oh, combine all four. 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:37.480 And I was like, okay, now are you a cook 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:38.400 at home by nature? 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:42.920 Oh? Yeah, I am. Cooking is like my love language. Okay, okay, 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:44.600 Like if I cook for you, I love you. 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:48.040 When did you start getting into writing and producing? 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:50.000 So? 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:54.160 I started off with sketch comedy. Oh, we should get 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:59.960 our chips ready. 0:02:57.880 --> 0:02:59.200 Yeah, put a lot of cheese. 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:03.840 I should just cook, cook all the tea. Yeah. 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:06.519 But yeah, I started getting started with writing and producing. 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:09.880 I was very young when I started, like doing comedy sketches. 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:12.680 I was like eleven. 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:14.920 I started on Facebook, like I would hack into my 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:17.920 not necessarily hack, but my mom was logged into her 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:21.480 Facebook account on the laptop, so I would log in 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:24.400 there and I would just upload videos of myself to 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:27.000 her Facebook page. Of course I got in trouble. I'm 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:30.280 not supposed to be doing stuff like that. But after 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:32.080 that I just started. I kept going with like the 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.440 comedy sketches. Then I was like, I want to like 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:38.720 take it more serious. So last year I write, produced, directed, 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:42.800 and acted in and filmed my own short field and 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:46.080 then ever since then, I just keep like producing films. 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:49.320 But take it back to when you were you said eleven, 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:52.520 when you started, what inspired you to get into comedy? 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:54.400 Even think of comedy sketches? 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.000 So my mom she would like always be playing like 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.160 Kevin Hart and stuff. I thought he was so funny. 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:01.400 Still to this day, I think he's very funny, and 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:04.400 I don't know. It made me want to like kind 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:06.280 of like be like him because I would always see 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:08.520 him like on the TV. She would just replay the 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:09.760 comedy stuff back to back. 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:11.680 I used to watch this. 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.800 Is a commentary on YouTube Trey Melvin. I used to 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:20.360 also watch Delano Edwards, who else is one more other one? 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:23.000 T Pendell. 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.520 I used to watch all three of them on YouTube 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:27.320 and then I was like wow, like I wanted to 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:29.640 create content just like them because I thought their content 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:30.360 was so funny. 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:31.240 So it inspired me. 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:33.320 And they were short skits at the time. 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:36.640 Okay, and then what was do you remember like one 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:38.559 of your first skits that actually did well? 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:42.839 It was actually a story time, It wasn't really a skit, 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.400 but it popped off my channel. I think it was 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:47.919 types of workers like I just I think I was 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:51.280 like seventeen and how did this git? Like types of workers? 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:54.800 It was just me like pretending to be a worker 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:56.760 and also playing the character as well. 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:59.640 So I played like, yeah, I notice you'll play different characters. 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.080 And while you're doing all this, what is your mom 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:06.160 saying about this passion that you're developing. 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:10.560 She wouldn't really say much, like she was just like 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:13.000 I was a kid. She was just like, oh, you know, 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:15.720 like she didn't really say much. But I did have 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:17.200 some people like telling me like. 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:20.520 Oh, you need to stop. Like I don't know. I 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:22.200 was a kid, so I don't know. 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:25.080 Some people was like saying stop because I used to 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:27.880 start like cussing in the skits as well. But then 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.000 it's like once they saw it was like working for me, 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:33.840 like making money and like doing you know, beneficial stuff, 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:35.000 everybody kind. 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:37.720 Of like started supporting it. Yeah, okay. 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:40.200 And then what were your friends thinking when you were 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:41.800 getting into that at that age? 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.440 I would like forced them to be in stuff like baskets. 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:49.560 Now, when you were doing this, this was before Vine 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:51.560 and all those guys came out, correct, huh. 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:54.440 But I also hopped on the Vine wagon as well. 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:57.400 You did how well did you do on Vine? 0:05:57.839 --> 0:05:59.640 By the time, I like really started popping off. I 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:01.880 think I had like thirty thousand followers. I was in 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:04.680 the eighth grade with like thirty thousand followers on vine. 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:08.080 It was people at school like telling me like I'm 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:10.800 full of bs, Like it's never gonna happen for me, 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:12.880 because I would come to school and be like, oh, 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:16.520 everybody subscribed to my YouTube channel. Yeah, they was just 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:19.360 talk stuff. But now it's like all those people they 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:21.080 support now wow. 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:21.880 Yeah. 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:25.799 Now where were you at when you got your first 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:26.920 check from YouTube? 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:27.760 I was at home. 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:31.479 I remember my first big check, actually my first check 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:33.919 in general. What grade was that I was in the 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:36.320 It was senior year of high school and I got 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:37.560 like a five hundred dollars check. 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:39.200 And to me, that's a lot because I was working 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:41.680 at the time at highv Do you know how he is? No, 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:43.360 I was like a grocery store in Missouri. 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:45.680 Okay, well you're not even from out here. 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:49.520 Where are you from? Kansas City? Okay? Kansas City? Kansas 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:52.440 City be coming up on this show a couple of times. Okay, yeah, 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:54.600 I saw Bobby was on here Kansas City too. 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:58.120 Yeah. Yeah, he he's an interesting interview. I don't know 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.840 if you heard it. Yet, but yeah, he's interesting. So 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:04.280 you're in Kansas City, You're in the twelfth grade, and 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:08.000 at what point did you get the notification from YouTube 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:09.560 to monetize the channel. 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:13.280 So I started YouTube at a very young age, and 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.160 the rules were like different. My channel was monetized since 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:19.679 I was like sixteen, but I wasn't making any money because. 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.360 I didn't have any views like look at the time. 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:25.040 But then when I finally got views and stuff, they 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:26.760 gave me my first five hundred dollars check in the 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:27.320 twelfth grade. 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:29.560 I was so happy. And then I was like it 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:31.160 was in twenty twenty when covid had hit. 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:35.400 I transferred colleges, and I was just so like depressed, 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:36.680 and I was like praying to God. I was a 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:40.160 god like like if you give me enough money, like 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:42.800 I literally leave Missouri and I'll move to la like 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:43.760 to pursue my dreams. 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:45.320 Like that's all I really wanted at the time. 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:48.640 So that next month, I got a twenty five hundred 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:51.200 dollars check. Twenty five hundred is a lot from like you. 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:54.920 Taking but at this point, you're you're in college, you're 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:56.840 not your past high school. So you get your five 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:59.440 hundred dollars check, and you're what are you going to. 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:01.760 College for digital media production? Okay? 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:02.560 And at this. 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:04.880 Point, are you still recording on iPhones or are you 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:06.000 buying your own equipment? 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:06.760 How are you? 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:11.840 I would record on my iPhone? Like, I never bought 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.360 equipment till this year. Till I moved here. I started 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:16.520 taking everything more serious. 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:20.040 Okay, Yeah, you may want to put that in that 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:22.280 bowl or something. Uh? 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:26.240 Okay, are you ready to dump the cheese? Let's do it, 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:27.000 let's do it? 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:32.120 Make make hood hood shows? Yeah, hood shows? Okay, hood 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:33.440 shows not chose? 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:34.040 All right? 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:38.800 Chose? Okay, So first you mean to make yours? Yeah? 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:40.000 Oh, I didn't know if you dump it in the 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:41.280 bowl or how you're going to do it? 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:43.480 Oh? Should we do that? 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:44.000 No? 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:44.560 I don't even. 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:47.400 Okay, okay, hair just go ahead. Let me here, I'll 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:47.600 do it. 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.640 Okay. Just a bunch of chips, right, okay, and then 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:57.200 just lay them out. It's like spread them out? Okay? Perfect? 0:08:58.080 --> 0:08:59.320 Then what we dump the cheese? 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:01.040 But let me get some more. 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:02.320 Yeah, we gotta put a. 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:06.600 Lot get into hood choes hood chose y'all make this 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:11.080 whenever y'all are hungry and high, don't forget to turn 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:13.800 off that stove. Oh, yes, I don't want to burn 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:14.280 mess off. 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:18.520 We don't want you to burn yourself. 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:22.840 Yeah. Wow, that's it, And that's how the cheese comes out. 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:29.000 That's thick. That is thick. All this oil that's in cheese. 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:35.920 So while you're in college, you're praying for this window 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:38.240 of opportunity, but you're in Missouri. 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:42.440 Still, I'm just gonna dump this. Oh yeah, it's very oily. 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.040 Yeah is that how it usually comes out when it's 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:45.800 out of the microwave? 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:50.640 No, okay, you can put this back on that stove. 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:54.760 Oh I don't know what I was doing. I'm glad. 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:57.199 That would have been the first life burn on the show. 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:01.679 Okay, so salsam, I'm gonna lad their mind and then 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:07.240 what sorry. Yeah, so you're in college, you're praying for 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:10.000 a miracle, but you do know that your end results 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:11.719 is you want to come to Los Angeles. 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:13.960 Yes, so my dad he moved here, like when I 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:16.880 was like two, and he was out here. He was 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:19.800 pursuing his dreams of becoming like a comedian, also like 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:23.520 writing directing as well, y'all, this is what it looks like. 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:24.760 Yeah, it looks good. 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:25.600 It looks official. 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.600 So he's pursuing his dreams and is he telling you 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:30.640 like the whole time, like you. 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:31.520 Should come to LA? 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:36.120 And yeah he was. But was your mom with it? 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:42.160 No, not at all, which I'm glad everything played out 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:44.120 the way it did. I wanted to move there here 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:47.079 when I was younger because I just love the idea 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.000 of LA. Because did you. 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:51.640 Did you come and visit before when your dad was here? 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:54.080 I visited first for a cruise and then I got 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:57.160 a while naw had hit me up. 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:58.839 They were like, we want you to come down and 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:01.760 audition and wanted the little It was either I think 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:03.679 New York, Atlanta, and then it. 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:05.800 Was LA and that was like day directly hits you 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:06.960 up and you're in college. 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:08.600 Yeah. I was nineteen when they hit me up. 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:10.640 I was like, so you were making little waves. 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:15.240 Yeah. I started coming up before. The cheese pretty good. 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:18.679 Mm hmmm. I feel like the cheese is stick though 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:22.520 it is thick. I like this though. 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:24.400 Do you like it that thick? 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:29.840 Hm hmm. I like it better than the microwave. But 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:31.160 I like it in the sow too. 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:35.120 I'm gonna be honest, these hood shows would taste good 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:36.520 with just the sauceed and the SOUTHCN. 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:38.160 Don't you think so? 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:40.840 I agree. 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:42.280 I don't even think you need the cheese. 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:44.920 I don't think I'll ever eat the rito's playing again 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:47.200 because this is amazing. 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:48.080 Thank you. 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:49.520 I'm gonna take one more. 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:57.439 Okay, shows made up really affordable dish fun snaps. 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:00.800 Yeah, this is the best meal on the show. That's so. 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:06.719 Yeah, we're not gonna say that, but we're gonna give 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:07.640 it a ten out of a ten. 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:10.120 So it's up there. Am I the runner up? 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:12.560 Though, you'll run her up like this is definitely good, 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:16.360 Like we've had the nachos, the dorito nachos, but as 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:19.120 far as simplicity, a couple of minutes to make I 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.000 really like it with the salsa and just the sober. 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:23.560 Him though sometimes I do that if I have doritos, 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:24.680 I'll just put to our cream. 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:26.640 That's awesome. 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:31.439 Never ever thought to do this ever. So wil'n Out 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:33.319 hits you up. So you're getting it. Seems like you're 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:36.160 getting signs that you should be. You're going in the 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:40.280 right direction. Parents are all supportive. Yeah at this point, 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:43.720 all right, so take me on to the next chapter. 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:46.760 So do you do you do the wild'n Out audition? 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:48.240 I did, but at. 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:50.600 The time, I was nineteen, so everybody's like when I 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:53.440 went there, when I'm around people, I don't know, I'm 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:55.880 not thinking like, oh, this opportunity could change my life. 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:59.520 I'm just shy, like because I'm nineteen. These people were like. 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:02.840 Way older to me, Like they have very big personalities. 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:04.760 Like if the auditions everybody was loud, it seemed like 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:06.840 they kind of knew each other as well. So I 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:10.120 was just sitting there like just very like shy and timid. 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:11.839 I didn't really say too much, and I feel like 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:15.480 I didn't show much of my personality. I didn't make it, 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:19.600 but well obviously, but yeah, I feel if I could 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:21.920 redo it, I would wish that they would hit me 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:24.880 up at an older age because I feel like that 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.280 I have the confidence now back then I didn't. 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:30.840 What was your following at the time when they hit 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:31.280 you up. 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:41.440 I think I was at two hundred k on on Instagram. 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:43.160 And then on YouTube. Now YouTube is where you make 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:44.000 most of your money. 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:46.080 But I wasn't popping on YouTube back then, so I 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:47.559 feel like they filed me on Instagram. 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:50.679 Okay, what was your YouTube following when you made the 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:52.320 like twenty five hundred dollars check. 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:55.320 Oh, it started skyrocket ick. 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:12.960 Problem. So that was the year of twenty twenty. This 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.600 was October when I made the twenty five hundred. So 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.000 in December I hit one hundred k on YouTube. So 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.240 I'm not sure where I was in October, maybe like 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:22.920 eighty k. I think I was in eighty thousand, but 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:25.600 I was coming up like that's when I popped off. 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:27.760 Like some people they would meet me and be like, oh, 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:31.320 the quarantine queen. It was like that's when my channel. 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:33.360 Was boring up during quarantine. And were you doing any 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:35.720 day jobs during quarantine? How are you surviving? 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:39.240 I wasn't just social media, really, that's it. 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:41.720 So how are you Were you getting paid enough to 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:43.040 survive on social media? 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:44.280 Well I lived with my mom. 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:46.480 Well I lived on campus, but like when I would 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:47.800 go home, I would be with my mom. 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.920 So all right, good, So you were good. So what 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:53.960 were your checks consistent? Like are they monthly or yeah? 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:59.040 Once a month. I was getting also paid from like promos. 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:01.640 People would pay me to like post their businesses on 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:02.440 my account. 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:04.800 What else? That's really it. 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:06.720 I did have jobs here and there. I was always 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:09.880 getting fired though, Like I worked at a hotel, but where. 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.960 Were you getting fired from? Like why, Yeah, I don't know. 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:15.480 You just weren't into it, You weren't passionate about it. 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:15.840 Yeah. 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.520 So you're continuing with your YouTube channel and your social 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:22.520 media right now, you have almost a million subscribers on YouTube, 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:25.320 which is a huge fee. Says you started your channel 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:30.320 in twenty thirteen. What was like the hardest hiccup in 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:34.560 that journey? Were there hard like moments like even coming up? 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:36.640 Did you feel the pressure to come up with content? 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:40.360 Yeah, that's kind of how I feel right now. So 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:42.720 at first, everything came to me naturally, like I would 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:45.120 just upload like once a month, which is not consistent 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:47.600 at all. Sometimes I'll go like three months without uploading, 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:51.080 but I would just I had my channel just for fun, 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:56.400 like I was creative, so I wanted to like showcase that, 0:15:56.960 --> 0:16:01.000 and of course I want to followers too, or subscribers. 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:03.040 But it became hard. 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.360 Like when everybody wanted me to start posting work consistently, 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:06.720 because I wasn't used to it. 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:09.680 When you say everybody, like fans were reaching out like 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:10.680 when's your next post? 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.280 Yeah, it was like dang, like it's getting real. 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:15.720 So I have to post like once a week and 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:17.520 I just graduated college. 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:18.000 Like last May. 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:20.560 So when I was in school, I had work due, 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:23.760 but I know I had the post so I was like, dang, 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:25.000 like I have a lot too. 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:28.440 And then at this point, like how consistent are the checks? 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:31.040 I went just to once a month? Once a month, 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:32.640 but the size of the checks. 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:35.520 Are they go up and down? Like my biggest check 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:37.360 that I got one month was forty thousand. 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:39.840 Never seen forty Yeah. 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:40.320 What they happened? 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:40.600 Again? 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:41.440 You know? 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:43.080 That was one time. 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:45.400 I was like, but that was during that time I 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:46.080 was coming up. 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:47.920 So but was that during the pandemic. 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:53.240 It was in twenty twenty one. 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:54.840 So that's right after the pandemic. Oh my gosh. So 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:55.960 what did you do with the money? 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:00.760 I didn't do anything like big, I just kind of 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:02.360 kept it. Do you still have it? 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:03.240 Kind of? 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:05.400 Well? Did you? Yeah? Yeah? 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:08.080 Okay, so you're you're managing your money. Now do you 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:10.840 have when you get checks like that? Like who was 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:12.800 the first person you called? And did you did you 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:14.240 know that check was a arriving and or does it 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:16.160 colme in the mail or did they send you an email? 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:17.359 How does it work? 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:19.240 So if you go in the app on the studio 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:22.840 app YouTube studio, it'll like tell you what you're getting 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:23.240 that month. 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:25.560 When I saw that, I was like what, Like that's crazy. 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.560 But I was also getting like like ten thousand a month, 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:31.720 so it didn't really like like effect. 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:32.320 Ten thousand a month. 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:35.720 It is really good money. And are you telling your family? Like, Yo, 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:37.040 this is how much money I'm making. 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:38.560 So that's the mistake I made. 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:41.040 I told my mom, like I made my first eleven 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:44.560 thousand in December of twenty twenty, and I was proud, 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:47.040 so I told my mom. She told the whole family, 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:49.440 like now everybody knows how much I make. 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:54.040 So yeah, why is it like a not so good thing? 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:58.360 Because people will start asking you for stuff, Like if 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:01.000 you like make a lot of money, they'll start like, 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:01.960 I don't know. 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:03.359 It's like I don't know. 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:05.040 Like when you guys go out to you, they'd be 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:06.479 like you got the bill? You got it? 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:10.000 Like like I want to feel like like I don't know, 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:13.320 like when people buy stuff, like if I buy something 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:15.840 for somebody, it's because I care about them or like 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:17.560 I don't know. I want to feel like somebody cares 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:20.119 about me too, Like that's one of my oh, my 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:21.480 love language, one of my love. 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:25.000 Language is like gift giving. Yeah, okay, so like. 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:28.200 When somebody buys me something, like I feel like, I 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:30.400 don't know, feel like they care, even though that could 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:33.679 not always be the case. But yeah, but yeah, so 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:36.040 I'm always having to buy people stuff. People expect me 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:39.800 to like pay for everything. So that's why I just say, 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:42.200 anybody they got money, keep it on. 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:45.160 Did you ever have that conversation with your mom later? 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:48.160 So like if she were to listen to this interview, 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:50.320 she would be like, oh my gosh, I didn't know that. 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:52.320 I'm sure she knows. 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:54.440 I think I did tell her, Like it does bother 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:56.720 me when people ask me how much I make from like. 0:18:56.800 --> 0:18:59.280 Oh really, are you uncomfortable saying it on the show? 0:18:59.320 --> 0:18:59.960 Oh no, I don't care. 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.320 Okay, yeah, but we just talked about it on the 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:05.520 show because there's like our show was like really created 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:08.080 for the underdog, and so we're trying to get them like, 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:09.399 don't quit even though. 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:11.680 Oh yeah, don't quit, keep going. I have that channel 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:14.000 since thirteen. Now I'm living off of my channel, So 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:16.520 I feel like anybody that was ten years ago so 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:19.639 well eleven now because it's swinging be ford, but keep going. 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:23.040 But it wasn't until like years intil you got your 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:25.160 first step, right, It wasn't like year one. 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:28.040 Twenty twenty is when I got my first beach checked. 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:29.560 Oh that's seven years. 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:32.360 Yeah, dedicate seven long. 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:34.840 Years, and no part of you was like during that 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:37.440 journey like maybe I should give up or maybe I 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:38.159 should pause this. 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:39.960 I loved it so much. 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:44.119 Really, Now, tell me about your concept process. Is it 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:46.560 like you're going through everyday life and then you see 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:49.400 something and its sparks, Like, tell me what that process 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:49.800 looks like. 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:53.119 Yeah, everyday life, Like I'll see stuff I'd be like 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:55.600 I need to make a scit about this, or I'll 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:57.560 see something trending and I'm like, I gotta hop on 0:19:57.600 --> 0:19:59.840 the bandwagon because that's how videos go. 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:02.680 You just gotta hop on what's trending, like when they're trending. 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:05.520 I have this I don't know if you know him, 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:07.399 but James Andre Jefferson Junior. 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:10.280 He's such a long name. That is a long name, 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:11.920 but he's he's like. 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:14.160 He makes fun of like a lot of the celebrities 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:16.160 and trending. But I remember when he was getting into 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:19.159 social media. He had discovered that if you could strike 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:23.160 while the trending was happening like on topic, then your 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:27.320 stuff can trend with it. But the turnaround has got 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:28.520 to be like a lot of pressure. 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:30.879 Yeah it is, because it's like you gotta come up 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:34.160 with something quick, like how the whole Like, what's something 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:37.960 trending now? I re cauld say like like all the 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:40.919 submarine stuff going on, Like if somebody makes like a 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:43.240 review about how they feel, I feel like that's easier. 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:46.240 But if you make like you just hop on the bandwagon, 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:49.399 talk about what's going on like in the moment, like 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:52.160 even the Jaded Pinkett stuff, it was Yeah with Will Smith, 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:54.879 I hopped on the trend like I made a skit 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:57.520 like pretending I was hurt and I was getting interviewed. 0:20:57.840 --> 0:20:59.960 Yousally gotta hop on quick, do something create? 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:04.000 What was the one thing that like, because you have 0:21:04.119 --> 0:21:07.159 nine hundred almost a million followers on YouTube, what is 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:09.320 the one thing that you did that where you saw 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:10.920 like a huge jump in your numbers? 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:16.120 I started doing these videos what is it if slavery 0:21:16.240 --> 0:21:19.600 existed in twenty twenty one or twenty twenty two, But 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:21.600 I would make like parodies. But I get a lot 0:21:21.600 --> 0:21:24.320 of backlash from black people because they're like, oh, slavery's 0:21:24.359 --> 0:21:25.720 not a joke when they were. 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:26.959 Not even running with hereot you know. 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:30.919 But yeah, I don't know, but that's something a lot 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:33.679 of people like, I guess. And then the online class 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:37.120 videos because in twenty twenty, those were like, that's trending 0:21:37.200 --> 0:21:39.440 because like COVID and stuff, so a lot of people 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:42.719 were taking classes online. So I hopped on that, and 0:21:43.320 --> 0:21:45.840 we're not necessarily hopped on that. I created that wave, 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:48.440 like the whole online classes parodies. 0:21:49.520 --> 0:21:52.040 Yeah, and then where did you learn how to edit? 0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:54.040 Are you editing your videos or are you having someone 0:21:54.040 --> 0:21:54.760 else edit? Oh? 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:55.480 I edited though? 0:21:55.800 --> 0:21:56.080 Wow? 0:21:56.200 --> 0:21:57.879 And then you sit there with the lighting and the 0:21:57.920 --> 0:21:59.640 shooting and all of that. 0:21:59.640 --> 0:22:02.479 That's my brother taught me how to edit. We used 0:22:02.520 --> 0:22:04.640 to make videos together. We had a channel and everything. 0:22:05.080 --> 0:22:06.240 Where's your brother at now? 0:22:06.560 --> 0:22:07.480 He lives in Dallas. 0:22:08.040 --> 0:22:12.600 He graduated college in like twenty twenty one. Yeah, he moved. 0:22:12.640 --> 0:22:15.560 He's older than you one year or eleven months. Yeah, 0:22:15.600 --> 0:22:18.240 it's like my best friend. I wish he was here. 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:19.920 Ah, that's so sweet. 0:22:19.920 --> 0:22:22.240 Shout out brother, Shout out to Charles, y'all. 0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:26.840 So does your brother have a YouTube channel or does 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:28.440 he just kind of support yours? 0:22:28.800 --> 0:22:29.000 Oh? 0:22:29.040 --> 0:22:32.160 He does, but he doesn't. He's not really active on there. 0:22:32.280 --> 0:22:34.240 We do not feel like he should be, but he's 0:22:34.280 --> 0:22:35.160 not active. 0:22:35.000 --> 0:22:37.600 Like is he choosing a different route from you? 0:22:37.960 --> 0:22:38.120 Oh? 0:22:38.240 --> 0:22:39.360 Yeah, we did. 0:22:39.200 --> 0:22:41.840 Start together, like my channel now that I have now 0:22:41.960 --> 0:22:44.800 me and him created that channel in twenty thirteen and 0:22:44.840 --> 0:22:47.000 then I think it was called like Charles and Alicia, 0:22:47.480 --> 0:22:50.919 and like, I don't know, he just I don't know. 0:22:51.080 --> 0:22:52.800 I think when he went to college, he just kind 0:22:52.800 --> 0:22:53.760 of stopped. 0:22:53.480 --> 0:22:54.960 And he just wanted to do what do you know 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:55.840 what he's majoring in? 0:22:56.359 --> 0:22:58.359 He did it informational technology. 0:22:58.400 --> 0:23:00.680 Okay, so both of you guys are choosing good, well 0:23:00.760 --> 0:23:03.000 good careers and hard careers at that. 0:23:03.359 --> 0:23:06.200 Yeah, you know it is hard. So when you moved 0:23:06.200 --> 0:23:08.879 to LA, Like, what does that move look like? 0:23:10.240 --> 0:23:13.560 I actually, so I graduated May sixth and I moved 0:23:13.600 --> 0:23:15.800 out here May fifteenth, like I was not doing no. 0:23:15.720 --> 0:23:16.880 Plan twenty twenty three. 0:23:17.040 --> 0:23:17.360 Uh huh. 0:23:17.359 --> 0:23:20.200 Oh so you've only been out you're a newbie. Yeah, okay, 0:23:20.280 --> 0:23:22.639 So did you move in with your dad right away? 0:23:23.000 --> 0:23:25.800 Oh? No, I moved in by myself, Like I just 0:23:25.840 --> 0:23:26.800 came up here alone. 0:23:27.560 --> 0:23:30.320 And what was the conversation with your mom? Looking like 0:23:30.320 --> 0:23:31.600 when you make this jump. 0:23:33.119 --> 0:23:35.120 I was telling everybody like before, I was like, y'all, 0:23:35.160 --> 0:23:37.600 I'm moving to LA. People don't be taking me serious, 0:23:37.760 --> 0:23:39.680 but yeah, I moved out here. 0:23:40.359 --> 0:23:43.000 Wait, you moved to LA, So tell me the story 0:23:43.000 --> 0:23:44.360 about you moving to LA. 0:23:44.440 --> 0:23:47.880 So I was in college, like coming home from classes, 0:23:47.920 --> 0:23:52.600 searching up like apartments in LA, calling Them'm getting a 0:23:52.680 --> 0:23:54.920 virtual tourist because at first I couldn't go out there, 0:23:55.119 --> 0:23:57.080 like because I had to be in school. So I 0:23:57.200 --> 0:24:01.920 was searching up like apartments like in LA. 0:24:02.080 --> 0:24:02.439 Yeah. 0:24:03.760 --> 0:24:05.359 So I was doing like virtual tours. I didn't know 0:24:05.440 --> 0:24:06.959 downtown was as bad as it is. 0:24:07.119 --> 0:24:09.800 Oh, sked Row and all that. You had a nice 0:24:09.840 --> 0:24:10.560 reality check. 0:24:11.800 --> 0:24:14.119 I walked outside like what is this? I don't know 0:24:14.200 --> 0:24:16.000 it was. So you graduate and you're like, I know, 0:24:16.040 --> 0:24:17.359 I'm moving to LA. Yeah. 0:24:17.400 --> 0:24:19.000 So, and I was making good money at the time 0:24:19.000 --> 0:24:20.760 for my YouTube channel, so I was like I'm good, 0:24:20.840 --> 0:24:24.160 Like I'm gonna just move out here. And my dad 0:24:24.240 --> 0:24:27.040 he moved out of LA twenty twenty two, but I 0:24:27.080 --> 0:24:30.399 moved into LA twenty twenty three, so it was like dang, 0:24:30.720 --> 0:24:31.960 like he left and I came. 0:24:32.240 --> 0:24:35.080 So I was just out here alone. When I first 0:24:35.080 --> 0:24:37.680 moved out here, I was so depressed, like very depressed. 0:24:37.920 --> 0:24:39.600 I started getting a lot of weight because I was 0:24:39.680 --> 0:24:41.480 just eating, like to fill my voids. 0:24:41.640 --> 0:24:44.240 Why were you depressed? I was lonely. 0:24:46.080 --> 0:24:47.560 I would reach out to people. I feel like I'm 0:24:47.560 --> 0:24:48.960 about to cry, but I'm not going to. 0:24:49.560 --> 0:24:52.640 On this show people cry real, so you know, yeah right, 0:24:52.680 --> 0:24:54.240 this is the safest place to cry. 0:24:55.520 --> 0:24:55.840 All right. 0:24:55.920 --> 0:24:58.360 Yeah, But I was just very depressed, and I feel 0:24:58.440 --> 0:25:02.840 like nobody like back home, like really cared. I would 0:25:02.880 --> 0:25:05.719 reach out to people, like telling them how I felt, 0:25:06.119 --> 0:25:08.160 but people would like literally take me as a joke. 0:25:08.640 --> 0:25:10.560 And I know, I like make funny videos and I 0:25:10.720 --> 0:25:13.760 like do stuff to like shield my emotions, like I'll 0:25:13.840 --> 0:25:14.840 be funny or something. 0:25:14.960 --> 0:25:17.479 But I don't know. 0:25:18.400 --> 0:25:21.080 So when you were calling people saying what you were 0:25:21.080 --> 0:25:24.240 going through, were they doing that like cliche like oh girl, 0:25:24.520 --> 0:25:27.280 you're lucky, or it could be hard, it could be harder. 0:25:27.320 --> 0:25:29.159 I used to hate that, like when people be like 0:25:29.200 --> 0:25:31.119 the whole world in my life crashed going end, and 0:25:31.119 --> 0:25:33.080 then they'd be like, it could be harder. There's kids 0:25:33.119 --> 0:25:36.040 in another country, yeah you know, and you're like, I 0:25:36.080 --> 0:25:39.440 get that, but right now I need help. 0:25:39.600 --> 0:25:39.800 Yeah. 0:25:39.800 --> 0:25:42.280 I feel like all I had was myself. That's why 0:25:42.280 --> 0:25:45.760 I'm like so like independent because like I don't know, 0:25:45.840 --> 0:25:48.199 that's why I do everything on my own, everything on 0:25:48.240 --> 0:25:51.520 my own. Like I literally didn't have no help, like 0:25:52.880 --> 0:25:56.560 physical help, like moving any of my stuff, Like I 0:25:56.640 --> 0:26:00.800 hired movers, hire somebody to move my car, Like I 0:26:00.880 --> 0:26:01.960 just had to get And you're. 0:26:02.240 --> 0:26:05.320 Like twenty two, I'm assuming at the time or yeah, 0:26:05.840 --> 0:26:09.200 early twenties. Yeah, and you're doing this all on your home, 0:26:09.280 --> 0:26:11.480 No mommy, daddy help at this point, You're just one 0:26:11.560 --> 0:26:12.760 hundred percent on your own. 0:26:12.920 --> 0:26:13.320 Yeah. 0:26:13.440 --> 0:26:16.440 But that's like what I wanted, because like I want 0:26:16.440 --> 0:26:18.680 to be independent because I feel like I really feel 0:26:18.680 --> 0:26:21.399 like nobody be caring about how I feel like I 0:26:21.480 --> 0:26:22.480 genuinely feel like that. 0:26:22.800 --> 0:26:27.680 I feel like independence comes from a lot of neglects. 0:26:27.720 --> 0:26:29.160 It's almost like a survival spirit. 0:26:29.200 --> 0:26:31.560 Whenever I see someone that's like ultra independent, I'm like 0:26:32.600 --> 0:26:36.040 they went through some stuff, you know, like a lot. 0:26:36.359 --> 0:26:38.240 Yeah yeah wow. 0:26:39.000 --> 0:26:42.240 Okay, So when you move and you finally land, I'm 0:26:42.280 --> 0:26:44.240 hoping it's not in downtown. 0:26:43.760 --> 0:26:46.480 A lake because you say like it was culture shock. Yeah. 0:26:46.480 --> 0:26:48.080 I was like, what is this a joke? 0:26:48.240 --> 0:26:51.600 Like literally, because I got my apartment tour and I 0:26:51.640 --> 0:26:53.680 was like, oh, is it a good area? I should 0:26:53.680 --> 0:26:55.360 have just came down here and looked. But he was like, yeah, 0:26:55.359 --> 0:26:58.159 the area is good. There's a few homeless people downtown, 0:26:58.200 --> 0:27:00.440 but you'll be fine. No, not few? 0:27:00.760 --> 0:27:01.720 Was it in downtown? 0:27:02.040 --> 0:27:06.119 I live on Fourth Street? Like oh wow? Yeah? So wow? Okay, 0:27:06.200 --> 0:27:07.240 so you're like buy it. 0:27:08.320 --> 0:27:10.920 It's like, uh yeah, But you know what's crazy because 0:27:10.920 --> 0:27:12.760 some of those lofts down there are really nice. So 0:27:12.760 --> 0:27:15.359 I could see you looking at the loft like, oh yeah, 0:27:16.200 --> 0:27:20.520 lived my best life I love And there's like, you know, 0:27:21.000 --> 0:27:23.560 ten million homeless people and that's like a culture shock 0:27:23.640 --> 0:27:26.680 that is very scary to like, Okay, so you're making 0:27:26.720 --> 0:27:30.320 it work, though, Now are you doing anything else? Are 0:27:30.320 --> 0:27:34.119 you just one hundred percent YouTube, one hundred percent short film? 0:27:34.160 --> 0:27:37.359 And then have you developed your own little crew to 0:27:37.440 --> 0:27:38.560 survive la. 0:27:39.320 --> 0:27:42.120 I do have a few people that I just got 0:27:42.119 --> 0:27:46.920 done filming a short film. It's called Los Angeles Lost Angelus. 0:27:47.160 --> 0:27:49.520 So it's just about like me narrating my life here, 0:27:50.520 --> 0:27:51.959 crazy situations and stuff. 0:27:52.240 --> 0:27:54.440 I did find some people, but the people out here are. 0:27:54.359 --> 0:27:58.440 So weird, like they're like like when I first meet somebody, 0:27:58.480 --> 0:28:00.960 I don't tell them, like what I do like initially 0:28:00.960 --> 0:28:02.680 because people have ulterior motives. 0:28:02.920 --> 0:28:05.960 But when I meet people, they like, if someone meets you, 0:28:06.000 --> 0:28:06.760 what do you tell them? 0:28:07.040 --> 0:28:09.160 I just talk to them like I just don't even 0:28:09.200 --> 0:28:09.679 bring it up. 0:28:11.520 --> 0:28:13.760 I feel like that's the second question when whenever you 0:28:13.760 --> 0:28:15.919 meet someone in LA, it's like, Hi, my name is 0:28:15.920 --> 0:28:16.440 and they're. 0:28:16.240 --> 0:28:18.240 Like, what do you do? Yes, that's so true. 0:28:18.320 --> 0:28:21.159 The one thing I liked about the pandemic was it 0:28:21.280 --> 0:28:24.200 was the first time people stopped asking what you do. 0:28:24.359 --> 0:28:25.720 It's more like, how are you doing? 0:28:26.000 --> 0:28:26.800 Yeah? 0:28:26.840 --> 0:28:29.359 And that was like, I think the most beautiful thing 0:28:29.720 --> 0:28:32.600 about the pandemic. It was also people going to people's 0:28:32.600 --> 0:28:36.639 houses and just eating around the table, playing board games, 0:28:36.640 --> 0:28:40.040 like doing stuff, not at a restaurant, you know, or 0:28:40.080 --> 0:28:40.640 what have you. 0:28:40.760 --> 0:28:41.440 I think there was. 0:28:41.400 --> 0:28:45.920 Something really beautiful in that space of we're all trapped 0:28:45.960 --> 0:28:49.120 in a nightmare together. But I hate, I absolutely hate 0:28:49.160 --> 0:28:50.840 that about LA, where it's like what do you do? 0:28:50.880 --> 0:28:52.200 What do you do? What do you do? So? 0:28:52.320 --> 0:28:54.760 But you moved here, you know, what do you do eric? 0:28:55.160 --> 0:28:56.680 So when they ask you what do you do, what 0:28:56.680 --> 0:28:57.240 do you say? 0:28:57.880 --> 0:29:00.640 I tell them like, oh, I direct produce feeling gradual 0:29:00.640 --> 0:29:01.520 comedy sketches. 0:29:01.720 --> 0:29:05.480 But people are full of Yeah, people are full of shit. 0:29:05.600 --> 0:29:07.080 So I feel like they probably. 0:29:06.760 --> 0:29:09.160 Like, oh, just another one of those. 0:29:09.200 --> 0:29:10.320 But I actually am like. 0:29:10.640 --> 0:29:12.560 Yeah, you're doing it like you're making money. You don't, 0:29:12.600 --> 0:29:15.240 you're not working at Target. You're one hundred percent doing you. 0:29:15.760 --> 0:29:17.920 So I feel like when they like first like people 0:29:17.960 --> 0:29:21.560 will treat me like like I'm just like nobody, which 0:29:21.640 --> 0:29:23.960 you know, it's fine treat me however, but well. 0:29:24.240 --> 0:29:27.880 Because you look very young, yeah, so they're like they're 0:29:27.920 --> 0:29:30.160 more like aspiring or what have you. 0:29:30.840 --> 0:29:35.000 Did you watch the Tyler Perry documentary? No you didn't. 0:29:35.120 --> 0:29:36.520 A lot of people keep telling me to watch it. 0:29:36.560 --> 0:29:36.920 I don't know. 0:29:37.840 --> 0:29:40.440 Let me tell you, girl, I watched. I cried a 0:29:40.440 --> 0:29:42.920 couple of times. I didn't even know his story. I 0:29:42.960 --> 0:29:45.600 think he was homeless, right, Well, he did end up 0:29:45.640 --> 0:29:47.239 with a little bit of homelessness, but he came from 0:29:47.280 --> 0:29:49.200 a lot of abuse, Like I did not know that. 0:29:49.320 --> 0:29:50.600 Yeah, it was kind of interesting. 0:29:50.720 --> 0:29:53.120 That's probably why he writes about what he writes. 0:29:53.200 --> 0:29:55.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely that's good. 0:29:55.520 --> 0:29:57.200 Well that's not good, but it's good that he like 0:29:57.280 --> 0:30:00.520 shows that in movies like that, people can get through it. 0:30:00.560 --> 0:30:02.520 Do you ever make fun of the characters in your 0:30:02.560 --> 0:30:05.959 family or like play around with the characters in your 0:30:05.960 --> 0:30:06.480 family or. 0:30:06.440 --> 0:30:10.240 Develop characters from people in my family my friends. 0:30:12.000 --> 0:30:14.360 No, I don't know where they come from. 0:30:14.920 --> 0:30:17.120 I feel like I got like ten different personalities, so 0:30:17.480 --> 0:30:20.880 just pick one play the character. Yeah, because like the 0:30:20.920 --> 0:30:23.280 mother I play in my films, Like sometimes I play 0:30:23.320 --> 0:30:26.800 like a mom that's not how my mom acts at all. 0:30:26.800 --> 0:30:29.240 I don't know where that character stem from. But my 0:30:29.280 --> 0:30:32.400 mom she's like very nice, very like quiet and reserved. 0:30:32.560 --> 0:30:34.479 But the mom that I play like in my films 0:30:34.560 --> 0:30:40.240 is very like, yeah, very loud, very like I don't know, 0:30:40.560 --> 0:30:42.800 just crazy, and my mom is not like that at all. 0:30:42.880 --> 0:30:44.920 So I don't know why I do that or like 0:30:44.920 --> 0:30:47.080 where I got it from. But that's probably one of 0:30:47.120 --> 0:30:49.320 my favorite characters. Like playing as the mom. 0:30:49.360 --> 0:30:51.560 What is the day in the life of you now 0:30:51.720 --> 0:30:53.160 that you're in la. 0:30:53.800 --> 0:30:57.320 Get up, go to the gym, come home, shower, make 0:30:57.320 --> 0:30:57.800 a video. 0:31:00.120 --> 0:31:01.760 After that the rest is history. 0:31:01.840 --> 0:31:04.040 When you say make a video, like just edit, Like 0:31:04.200 --> 0:31:06.040 what's that process? Like a couple of hours? 0:31:06.160 --> 0:31:10.680 Yeah, maybe like four hours max for YouTube video, make 0:31:10.760 --> 0:31:13.960 the video, edit it, upload it the same day. Probably 0:31:13.960 --> 0:31:16.800 gonna do that after the interview, really probably go home 0:31:16.840 --> 0:31:21.040 and make a video and your money from YouTube? Do 0:31:21.080 --> 0:31:23.280 you feel like it's sustainable or is it like the 0:31:23.400 --> 0:31:26.520 entertainment business where it's like up down, up down, up down. Yeah, 0:31:26.520 --> 0:31:28.880 I'd be up and down, like one month, go from 0:31:28.920 --> 0:31:31.720 forty thousand that month to next month, I'm making three 0:31:31.760 --> 0:31:35.320 thousand and five thousand and ten thousand back down to three. 0:31:35.480 --> 0:31:38.080 Like it's up and down. But I saved enough like 0:31:38.120 --> 0:31:39.880 before I moved here, just in case. 0:31:39.680 --> 0:31:41.440 It like fluctuates. 0:31:41.840 --> 0:31:46.040 And then do you put yourself on payroll like we 0:31:46.040 --> 0:31:48.360 were talking about I think it was with Brandon Rogers 0:31:48.480 --> 0:31:51.320 was the other another YouTuber. It's like when you have 0:31:51.480 --> 0:31:53.760 your your money goes to a corporation or does it 0:31:53.800 --> 0:32:12.120 go to you? I would go, okay, so yeah, traditionally 0:32:12.240 --> 0:32:14.800 you would, you know, create a corporation and then maybe 0:32:14.840 --> 0:32:18.200 get like an ADP and they'll cut your salary and 0:32:18.200 --> 0:32:20.760 then you can kind of like live on a more 0:32:21.240 --> 0:32:23.920 budget and then build cash flow in the business. 0:32:24.160 --> 0:32:26.640 Oh, I didn't know that. That's a lie. I don't know, 0:32:26.680 --> 0:32:27.600 but I love to learn. 0:32:27.880 --> 0:32:31.080 Yeah. Yeah, we could talk after camera to like kind 0:32:31.080 --> 0:32:33.640 of fix that. But I'm guessing right now, do you 0:32:33.680 --> 0:32:36.160 put yourself on a strict budget? Like this is my 0:32:36.240 --> 0:32:38.880 monthly and I don't go over or do you just 0:32:38.920 --> 0:32:39.240 be like. 0:32:39.240 --> 0:32:40.680 It's ten thousand dollar a month. 0:32:43.440 --> 0:32:46.160 I just don't go crazy with spending, Like I'll just 0:32:46.200 --> 0:32:49.240 spend my money like how I would like if I 0:32:49.280 --> 0:32:52.760 make like five thousand, like that's like kind of I 0:32:52.760 --> 0:32:56.960 don't do too much, like at all, I'm very cheap. 0:32:57.840 --> 0:33:00.240 What advice would you give to someone that's trying to 0:33:00.280 --> 0:33:01.040 get into the game. 0:33:02.680 --> 0:33:06.200 Keep going and if the people are supporting you coming up, 0:33:06.280 --> 0:33:09.640 make sure you lock in with them once you come up, 0:33:09.760 --> 0:33:14.280 because yeah, all the people that like are around you 0:33:14.480 --> 0:33:16.400 when you're coming up. Just know those people are loyal 0:33:16.440 --> 0:33:18.240 and they like you for you, because when you get 0:33:18.280 --> 0:33:20.200 like I feel like where I am, I'm not like 0:33:20.200 --> 0:33:23.280 I don't know, like I need a better heart of 0:33:23.320 --> 0:33:25.760 discernments because some people just come into my life or 0:33:25.840 --> 0:33:28.560 try to come into my life because of who I am. 0:33:28.680 --> 0:33:31.680 So yeah, if you're coming up, make sure the people 0:33:31.720 --> 0:33:33.200 around you stay around them. 0:33:33.560 --> 0:33:34.959 Don't make any new friends. 0:33:35.400 --> 0:33:39.560 Yeah, I tell myself that my high school friends are 0:33:39.600 --> 0:33:43.120 my It sounds terrible. I have plenty of friends, but 0:33:43.160 --> 0:33:45.960 I always feel like my friends from high school are 0:33:46.000 --> 0:33:50.320 my real friends. Like you know, the good, the bad, 0:33:50.400 --> 0:33:52.360 the ugly. You know where I'm from, where I'm going, 0:33:52.440 --> 0:33:55.040 you know everything about me. And if I don't talk 0:33:55.080 --> 0:33:57.280 to you for a year, I know we could pick 0:33:57.320 --> 0:33:59.640 up the phone and I'm not getting like you ain't 0:33:59.640 --> 0:34:04.840 calling me and they're like clocking or whatever. You know. Yeah, 0:34:04.880 --> 0:34:08.400 I went to New York recently. My girlfriend from high school. 0:34:08.440 --> 0:34:10.600 She was like, here's my car, here's my car seat, 0:34:10.719 --> 0:34:13.880 have fun like you know, like I got you type. 0:34:14.000 --> 0:34:16.400 You know. It was like just very much like family, 0:34:16.560 --> 0:34:19.160 and we don't talk every day. It's just like I'm 0:34:19.200 --> 0:34:22.320 coming girls whatever, or if I'm going through a breakup. 0:34:22.640 --> 0:34:25.560 I've had a girlfriend, like get on a plane, get 0:34:25.560 --> 0:34:27.360 a bunch of ice cream and candy, and like we 0:34:27.440 --> 0:34:30.160 watched Pretty Woman and a bunch of just silly stuff 0:34:30.200 --> 0:34:31.480 and all the way from New York. And I'm like, 0:34:31.600 --> 0:34:35.000 you're a real friend. That guess a real friend and 0:34:35.040 --> 0:34:39.960 those are rare. But how's dating in La? Do you 0:34:40.000 --> 0:34:41.560 have you tried dating in La yet? 0:34:41.680 --> 0:34:42.040 No? 0:34:42.239 --> 0:34:45.280 Yeah, I feel like the trickery is La. Guys are different. 0:34:45.719 --> 0:34:47.960 It was like kind of I think everyone in LA 0:34:48.040 --> 0:34:50.719 is kind of opportunistic. But I would I think the 0:34:50.800 --> 0:34:55.640 dangerous part of being in social media would be that 0:34:56.200 --> 0:34:57.960 I think even bigger than being a celebrity. 0:34:58.040 --> 0:35:00.640 Like if you're big on social media. 0:35:00.560 --> 0:35:03.520 Everybody want to date you. Yeah, and you just want 0:35:03.560 --> 0:35:06.239 some cloud. But who knows, maybe not, I don't know. 0:35:06.480 --> 0:35:09.880 I don't know. I haven't dated in la Okay, probably 0:35:09.880 --> 0:35:10.600 not ever going to. 0:35:11.239 --> 0:35:13.239 Are you single right now or you're not single because 0:35:13.239 --> 0:35:14.399 you said you're not going to. 0:35:15.960 --> 0:35:17.279 You're in a relationship. 0:35:18.440 --> 0:35:21.719 Yeah, you gotta say it. It's complicated. 0:35:21.800 --> 0:35:25.440 It's complicated, complicated. It's never good. It's never good. 0:35:25.520 --> 0:35:26.320 That's what I'm saying. 0:35:26.360 --> 0:35:30.920 Like, see see if the relationship confuses you leave, Yeah. 0:35:31.040 --> 0:35:34.359 I have my friends tell me all the time. They're like, 0:35:34.400 --> 0:35:36.480 you're so good at spotting a red flag. There's like 0:35:36.560 --> 0:35:40.239 there's nobody better that stop spotting a red flag than you. 0:35:40.920 --> 0:35:44.200 But for whatever reason, you will spot the red flag. Ago. 0:35:45.400 --> 0:35:47.120 Maybe that's just like a slowdown. 0:35:47.920 --> 0:35:50.399 Maybe that's a maybe maybe Like. 0:35:50.960 --> 0:35:51.879 No, it's a red flag. 0:35:51.920 --> 0:35:53.640 You gotta respect the red flag and put it in 0:35:53.680 --> 0:35:54.200 its place. 0:35:54.480 --> 0:35:54.840 Yeah. 0:35:54.880 --> 0:35:56.640 And I think as a woman, it just boils down 0:35:56.680 --> 0:36:03.440 to like it always bowls down to like women's like kryptonite, 0:36:03.440 --> 0:36:06.480 which is like knowing your worth. That is I don't 0:36:06.480 --> 0:36:08.480 know how we come up with our worth or knowing 0:36:08.480 --> 0:36:13.480 our worth. I think that's just a woman's greatest challenge. 0:36:13.680 --> 0:36:15.360 See, that's why I'm not dating in LA because I 0:36:15.400 --> 0:36:15.879 know my worth. 0:36:16.120 --> 0:36:18.399 You know you're worth, but you're in something complicated. 0:36:18.960 --> 0:36:24.000 Yeah, it's like about your red flags. And there's a 0:36:24.040 --> 0:36:26.600 lot of green flags as well, you know, but. 0:36:27.200 --> 0:36:28.920 Red means stop. I don't know. 0:36:28.960 --> 0:36:32.319 I just turned forty, so now I haven't turned forty yet, 0:36:32.680 --> 0:36:37.799 gonna be forty soon, And I'm learning like at this point, 0:36:37.840 --> 0:36:40.239 you just got to respect the red flag because the 0:36:40.360 --> 0:36:44.960 deeper you go, the harderest to get out, you know. 0:36:45.239 --> 0:36:48.840 I'm just that's just me being totally honest. You know, 0:36:48.880 --> 0:36:50.799 the more invested you are. And I also have this 0:36:51.040 --> 0:36:54.479 other philosophy when it comes to relationships, whoever invests more 0:36:54.800 --> 0:36:55.560 loses the most. 0:36:56.880 --> 0:37:00.439 That's true, Yes, especially if it's over Yeah. 0:37:00.160 --> 0:37:02.759 Yeah, yeah, whoever invests more, whoever. And that doesn't just 0:37:02.800 --> 0:37:05.440 mean monetary wise, it means time wise. It just means like, 0:37:05.480 --> 0:37:09.839 if the scale is not tipped evenly, I promise you 0:37:09.840 --> 0:37:11.960 you will be the one that's hurt more in the end. 0:37:12.160 --> 0:37:14.960 So it's a crazy way to look at it. 0:37:15.200 --> 0:37:16.960 That's a good way actually, But that's why you ever 0:37:17.000 --> 0:37:18.440 hear people say like you got to match the other 0:37:18.480 --> 0:37:19.200 person's energy. 0:37:19.680 --> 0:37:20.600 Yeah, oh you. 0:37:20.600 --> 0:37:22.120 Gave this, I'll match that. 0:37:22.239 --> 0:37:24.680 You know when I was young, outdated guy, but I'll 0:37:24.680 --> 0:37:28.520 go all out, you know, just same. 0:37:28.640 --> 0:37:31.440 That's how I am. I like to like spoil people. 0:37:33.440 --> 0:37:36.120 I like to be spoiled too. But yeah, I feel 0:37:36.120 --> 0:37:38.960 like I always give so much of myself and I 0:37:39.000 --> 0:37:41.680 need to just protect my heart at this point, like 0:37:41.719 --> 0:37:43.319 I need to give what I give to that person, 0:37:43.360 --> 0:37:44.520 I need to give that to myself. 0:37:45.400 --> 0:37:47.879 I'm learning that right now. And I'm old as heke. 0:37:48.160 --> 0:37:51.840 Well you know I'm up there. I've been trying to 0:37:51.880 --> 0:37:53.440 avoid the topic for a while. 0:37:54.000 --> 0:37:56.560 No, you look very young though, thank you, thank you? 0:37:58.040 --> 0:38:01.880 What else does do people just don't know about you. 0:38:04.320 --> 0:38:07.359 I'm a very introverted person. I know sometimes I come 0:38:07.400 --> 0:38:12.280 off as very like outgoing, which I am online sometimes 0:38:12.280 --> 0:38:13.560 I am in person, but I have to be like 0:38:13.840 --> 0:38:19.320 very very comfortable. Yeah, I'm just a very introverted person 0:38:20.000 --> 0:38:22.760 and I'm always sad. And people are gonna be believing 0:38:22.800 --> 0:38:24.920 me because I joke around a lot. 0:38:25.200 --> 0:38:28.799 I heard comics or like or comedians and that line 0:38:28.840 --> 0:38:32.080 of work. They're the most sad, which is crazy because 0:38:32.080 --> 0:38:34.120 they bring the most joy. 0:38:34.360 --> 0:38:36.479 It's because we have to go through things alone because 0:38:36.520 --> 0:38:39.560 like I'm not sure, I can't speak for anybody else, 0:38:39.760 --> 0:38:42.000 but I know with me, people don't take me serious 0:38:42.000 --> 0:38:44.000 and I'm also supposed to be the person it makes 0:38:44.000 --> 0:38:46.440 everybody else laugh. So it's like I don't even feel 0:38:46.680 --> 0:38:48.879 comfortable coming to people sometimes I don't want to bring 0:38:48.920 --> 0:38:53.640 them that energy. And then I don't know, I don't know. 0:38:53.760 --> 0:38:55.239 We just I feel like we go through a lot 0:38:55.239 --> 0:38:57.160 of stuff alone, like a lot of our emotions. 0:38:58.120 --> 0:39:01.040 Yeah, yeah, but it makes you stronger in there, it does. 0:39:01.160 --> 0:39:03.000 I mean, as long as you got that solid one 0:39:03.080 --> 0:39:05.120 or two, I think you're good. And then do you 0:39:05.120 --> 0:39:06.240 have mentors? 0:39:07.680 --> 0:39:10.520 No? What? Yeah? 0:39:10.920 --> 0:39:12.080 What you need to get something? 0:39:12.160 --> 0:39:14.600 I don't care how old you are, Like you could 0:39:14.640 --> 0:39:17.720 be my age. I still look for mentors. I'm always 0:39:17.719 --> 0:39:21.400 looking for mentor anyone that's like even semi where I 0:39:21.440 --> 0:39:24.319 want to be at or like just different from me. 0:39:24.360 --> 0:39:26.440 I'm like, yo, can you be my mentor? Can you 0:39:26.480 --> 0:39:28.320 teach me something new? 0:39:29.600 --> 0:39:29.799 Yeah? 0:39:29.920 --> 0:39:33.640 Girl, well I'm here in La, so I definitely if 0:39:33.680 --> 0:39:36.520 you ever need a mentory. Matter of fact, you could 0:39:36.560 --> 0:39:42.160 be my mentor in some areas you can, so yeah, okay. 0:39:42.000 --> 0:39:43.840 Yeah, because you know, I'm struggling with YouTube. 0:39:43.880 --> 0:39:47.839 I know my the girl that runs my YouTube, she 0:39:48.040 --> 0:39:51.080 we can monetize now, she's always like monetized the channel. 0:39:51.080 --> 0:39:54.000 I'm like, we're gonna get five cents. You just still 0:39:54.080 --> 0:39:55.560 menize it, That's what she says. 0:39:55.600 --> 0:39:59.000 She's like, girl, I'm like, you you should. You don't 0:39:59.000 --> 0:39:59.200 have to. 0:39:59.360 --> 0:40:01.800 You know what it's we're mentor. We're going to mentor 0:40:01.960 --> 0:40:02.439 each other. 0:40:02.600 --> 0:40:04.680 Yeah, oh my goodness, I can't believe it. 0:40:04.719 --> 0:40:07.080 And you have the ability to Yeah, we do. And 0:40:07.160 --> 0:40:09.000 she's been on me like just fill out the paperwork. 0:40:09.040 --> 0:40:10.480 I'm like, for what you need to do? 0:40:10.560 --> 0:40:13.120 It like your money could be growing. So there's a 0:40:13.160 --> 0:40:15.960 threshold on YouTube. It's one hundred dollars. So after you 0:40:16.040 --> 0:40:18.759 hit one hundred, they deposit whatever into your account. So 0:40:19.040 --> 0:40:23.200 right now, like, look like all of your views, I 0:40:23.200 --> 0:40:25.319 don't know, like add it up. If they make a hundred, 0:40:25.400 --> 0:40:26.840 I'm sure you're at one hundred dollars. 0:40:27.120 --> 0:40:29.600 So you're like, I don't at one hundred. 0:40:29.880 --> 0:40:31.080 But I didn't know that's how it works. 0:40:31.120 --> 0:40:33.479 I just thought maybe like if I hit like five 0:40:33.560 --> 0:40:37.440 thousand subscribers, then I would hit monetization. But if I 0:40:37.440 --> 0:40:40.279 don't hit it, if is it only from that date 0:40:40.360 --> 0:40:42.080 four that it accruise or they'd. 0:40:41.960 --> 0:40:43.319 Look at the previous day. 0:40:43.320 --> 0:40:45.200 It's from that date for that's why I said you 0:40:45.200 --> 0:40:50.399 need to get Oh yeah, see okay, So like they're 0:40:50.440 --> 0:40:52.120 not going to give you any money from like anything 0:40:52.280 --> 0:40:54.720 before today if you monetize today. 0:40:56.280 --> 0:40:58.520 So when they gave me the opportunity, that's when I 0:40:58.560 --> 0:40:59.800 was supposed to do it. 0:41:00.600 --> 0:41:02.520 What did they tell you? 0:41:02.560 --> 0:41:04.240 Probably a couple of months ago. 0:41:04.239 --> 0:41:04.960 You should do it. 0:41:05.040 --> 0:41:08.160 Yeah, it's not like I missed out on that much. 0:41:08.320 --> 0:41:10.560 I mean you got a small little but I do. 0:41:10.640 --> 0:41:12.600 I would be very happy over one hundred dollars check 0:41:12.680 --> 0:41:17.840 just because it's like that milestone of Like I remember 0:41:17.840 --> 0:41:20.480 an interviewing like Country Wayne and he was talking about 0:41:20.520 --> 0:41:23.600 his like he monetized the channel during the pandemic. It 0:41:23.640 --> 0:41:25.520 was like get in like forty to one hundred thousand 0:41:25.560 --> 0:41:28.719 per Yeah, how much did he say? 0:41:28.800 --> 0:41:30.759 Yeah? He said he was getting like one hundred, two hundred, 0:41:30.760 --> 0:41:33.960 three hundred thousand. I was like, I was a lot. 0:41:34.400 --> 0:41:37.520 Yeah, And it was like during the pandemic he monetized it. Wow, 0:41:37.640 --> 0:41:40.439 could you imagine how much money you probably missed out on, yeah, 0:41:40.480 --> 0:41:41.760 because I did not know that's. 0:41:41.560 --> 0:41:42.880 How it works. 0:41:43.200 --> 0:41:47.239 Well yeah, yeah, yeah you should be my mental you 0:41:47.280 --> 0:41:48.240 heard it here first. 0:41:48.560 --> 0:41:52.839 I just send up comedy sometimes. But yeah, how's it going? 0:41:53.640 --> 0:41:55.560 I don't do it anymore? Really, but my last show 0:41:55.600 --> 0:41:57.839 was in November, November eighth, That was the last show 0:41:57.840 --> 0:42:01.600 I did. It's good, but like I'm really focus on that. Really, 0:42:01.880 --> 0:42:04.719 what made you get into stand up? My dad he 0:42:04.760 --> 0:42:07.360 was a center comedian out here as well, but he moved. 0:42:07.200 --> 0:42:09.080 Back to where Texas? 0:42:09.440 --> 0:42:11.840 Oh he's in Texas? Is he in Austin? All the 0:42:11.840 --> 0:42:13.160 comics are moving to Austin. 0:42:13.440 --> 0:42:16.960 He's in Houston? Okay, okay, but him, I don't know 0:42:17.040 --> 0:42:19.080 that's where he's from. And then my mom is from Missouri. 0:42:19.239 --> 0:42:21.600 But they met in college. Such a sweet love story 0:42:21.640 --> 0:42:22.680 like love and basketball? 0:42:22.920 --> 0:42:23.480 No, for real? 0:42:23.920 --> 0:42:25.399 Is it really like a love and basketball story? 0:42:25.560 --> 0:42:27.600 Well, love and track? I guess they've both were in 0:42:27.640 --> 0:42:28.400 track okay. 0:42:28.440 --> 0:42:29.400 But are they still together? 0:42:30.160 --> 0:42:31.640 No? Okay, okay, they should be. 0:42:32.160 --> 0:42:33.880 Why because they're like best friends or something. 0:42:34.200 --> 0:42:36.400 No, because they're my parents and they need to be 0:42:36.480 --> 0:42:38.040 even though they're both dating other people. 0:42:38.719 --> 0:42:39.239 I don't care. 0:42:40.120 --> 0:42:43.040 Ah, that's so sweet but did you grow up in 0:42:43.239 --> 0:42:44.160 two parent household? 0:42:44.160 --> 0:42:46.000 Oh no, they split two when you were two, right, 0:42:46.480 --> 0:42:46.920 so it was. 0:42:46.880 --> 0:42:50.000 Just me, my mom and my brother. Oh okay, okay, yeah, 0:42:50.040 --> 0:42:53.279 all right. There was something else that literally, like I 0:42:53.320 --> 0:42:54.239 was like, don't forget to. 0:42:54.200 --> 0:42:55.440 Ask this, and then I forgot. 0:42:55.880 --> 0:42:56.680 Was it something deep? 0:42:56.960 --> 0:42:58.399 It was something diff deep too. 0:42:59.520 --> 0:43:01.640 I need to be deeper. I think I got a little. 0:43:01.760 --> 0:43:04.040 I wanted to ask you. I noticed you do dot 0:43:04.160 --> 0:43:05.200 meet and greets, don't you? 0:43:05.440 --> 0:43:05.960 I did one? 0:43:06.200 --> 0:43:08.200 You did one? How what made you do it? And 0:43:08.239 --> 0:43:09.440 like what was the experience? 0:43:09.560 --> 0:43:11.839 Like? What made me do it? 0:43:12.719 --> 0:43:16.200 This girl I went to school with, she she moved 0:43:16.200 --> 0:43:18.000 out there and she like does a lot of work 0:43:18.040 --> 0:43:20.480 in Atlanta. So then she like set up this meet 0:43:20.520 --> 0:43:22.799 and greet with this restaurant, so it'll bring people to 0:43:22.840 --> 0:43:25.040 the restaurant and then bring people to meet me. 0:43:25.160 --> 0:43:30.440 So it was like kind of a collaborative thing the experience. 0:43:30.600 --> 0:43:33.759 So it was like in like a small country part 0:43:33.840 --> 0:43:37.160 of Atlanta or Georgia. I thought it was in Atlanta, 0:43:37.360 --> 0:43:39.840 but I was on it promoting like hey atl So 0:43:40.120 --> 0:43:42.200 now a lot of people came, but it was still 0:43:42.239 --> 0:43:44.080 good to have the experience. 0:43:43.640 --> 0:43:44.799 Though, would you ever do that? 0:43:44.880 --> 0:43:48.520 Again and probably in a different location. Yes, like Texas. 0:43:48.560 --> 0:43:51.719 When I went to Texas this or last year. What 0:43:51.880 --> 0:43:55.440 month was this? It was like September or October. It 0:43:55.480 --> 0:43:58.320 was in October. I was getting stopped. I was gonna 0:43:58.320 --> 0:44:01.120 stop the lot like I have a big fan in Texas, Dallas. 0:44:01.520 --> 0:44:04.760 Okay, Okay, I would do it there all right. 0:44:05.080 --> 0:44:07.600 Well, and then if you were to do it, would 0:44:07.600 --> 0:44:10.319 you do stand up or would you just like talk 0:44:10.360 --> 0:44:12.759 about your experiences as a YouTuber? 0:44:13.480 --> 0:44:17.200 I would probably talk about, like I don't know my experiences. 0:44:17.680 --> 0:44:19.320 Have people come up because I have a few songs 0:44:19.320 --> 0:44:21.160 like on my channel with everybody knows cause it's like 0:44:21.280 --> 0:44:24.480 my ultrosongs, intro songs. I'll probably have them come up 0:44:24.520 --> 0:44:27.480 and see, like who could wrap it the best, do 0:44:27.520 --> 0:44:32.400 a giveaway, take pictures, stuff like that. I wouldn't do 0:44:32.400 --> 0:44:34.880 stand up though, because my fan base is younger. My 0:44:34.960 --> 0:44:36.200 stand up is like for adults. 0:44:36.320 --> 0:44:39.399 So yeah, oh my gosh, well, where can we keep 0:44:39.480 --> 0:44:41.759 up with you? If you do do stand up, do 0:44:41.800 --> 0:44:44.640 you announce it on your Instagram and share with our 0:44:44.680 --> 0:44:46.600 listeners what your Instagram is. 0:44:46.880 --> 0:44:49.720 My Instagram is a l y s a h bu 0:44:49.840 --> 0:44:55.320 r any y Underscore Alicia Bernie underscore my only page. 0:44:55.160 --> 0:44:57.560 That's your only page. And then you so you just 0:44:57.560 --> 0:44:59.800 have Instagram. You're not doing TikTok or any of those guys. 0:45:00.280 --> 0:45:02.920 I have a million on there, one point five million. 0:45:03.320 --> 0:45:05.359 And was it like instant or did you have to 0:45:05.600 --> 0:45:07.480 organically grow it organically? 0:45:07.560 --> 0:45:09.080 I started in COVID like during COVID. 0:45:09.160 --> 0:45:14.520 COVID COVID was like the real, real pivot, pivotal moment 0:45:14.600 --> 0:45:14.840 for you. 0:45:15.600 --> 0:45:17.000 Wow, I blew up on everything. 0:45:17.640 --> 0:45:21.760 Yeah, during COVID, that three that two years changed your life. 0:45:21.960 --> 0:45:25.560 It everybody says how COVID affected them like horribly. 0:45:26.080 --> 0:45:30.280 I'm just like, COVID blessed me. Wow. Shout outs to COVID, 0:45:30.480 --> 0:45:34.120 shout out to you COVID. And I never caught it. 0:45:34.480 --> 0:45:37.680 You never caught what? Yeah, girl, I don't had COVID 0:45:37.680 --> 0:45:40.200 so many times. I'm like, really I had. Oh yeah, 0:45:40.200 --> 0:45:41.360 I've caught it a bunch of times. 0:45:41.440 --> 0:45:43.719 Or maybe I caught it and didn't know. Oh yeah. 0:45:43.800 --> 0:45:45.480 Maybe you're one of those lucky ones because when I 0:45:45.480 --> 0:45:48.320 first got hit with it, I knew, Oh wow, I knew. 0:45:48.760 --> 0:45:54.080 Thanks for your evening midnight snack, Thanks for blessing us 0:45:54.120 --> 0:45:55.360 with your energy. 0:45:56.560 --> 0:46:00.360 Ah and thanks to all our listeners. Peace out guys. 0:46:20.600 --> 0:46:23.800 For more eating while broke from iHeartRadio and The Black Effect, 0:46:24.000 --> 0:46:27.560 visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you listen 0:46:27.600 --> 0:46:28.720 to your favorite shows.