Speaker 1: Everyone knows you, you know by DJ Lizetto, but you
Speaker 1: are Daniel.
Speaker 2: That is the name that you were born with.
Speaker 3: I always wanted this since I was I was young.
Speaker 3: I always told people I'm gonna be on radio. Hey,
Speaker 3: I'm I manifested it. I never really interested the importance
Speaker 3: of my health, that's for sure once and that's something
Speaker 3: I do want to do different once I get you know,
Speaker 3: when I have my children and I start my family, you know,
Speaker 3: show them that prioritizing your health is the greatest former
Speaker 3: self love.
Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, welcome to this week's episode of Cheeky's and Chill.
Speaker 1: I am so happy you are all here.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 1: We're going to be sitting down with one of my friends,
Speaker 1: DJ Lechetto.
Speaker 2: We've known each.
Speaker 1: Other for a while now and I think he's so
Speaker 1: funny and has a really great story. So I'm excited
Speaker 1: that he's finally on the pod. So let's get right
Speaker 1: into the episode. This is Cheeky's and Chill. As promised,
Speaker 1: we have DJ Licetto on the mic with us today.
Speaker 1: Lichetto is a dear friend of mine, but he's all
Speaker 1: I'm still a radio host on ninety two point three's
Speaker 1: The Cruise show. He's also a DJ producer and an entrepreneur.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, lit Shadow.
Speaker 2: It's so nice to like see you.
Speaker 1: You know, it's very hard to get him on the podcast,
Speaker 1: you guys, just FYI just want to let you guys know.
Speaker 1: He's a very busy man, so I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: I'd rather be productive than busy. That's the goalways to
Speaker 3: be productive. But there was a lot of things happening.
Speaker 3: I went on a vacation for the first time in
Speaker 3: a long time, so I was just making time for myself,
Speaker 3: something that I don't do often. Or sometimes when we're
Speaker 3: actively trying to reach new heights and chase something that
Speaker 3: we've always wanted, we forget to do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's you know. I realized, like, hey, it's okay
Speaker 4: when you come back.
Speaker 3: Plus, I know, like, hey, that relationship between you and I,
Speaker 3: it's always there.
Speaker 1: So yeah, oh see, this is why I love him.
Speaker 1: You guys, this is my friend. Oh I consider him
Speaker 1: my friend. Although the last time I saw you was
Speaker 1: when was for the Microtura event right in August.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my goodness, it's been a minute.
Speaker 4: It's been a minute. It's been a minute.
Speaker 3: I was hosting it we had a look I thought
Speaker 3: that radio it was she's in chill and then the.
Speaker 4: Super Secret Restic Club by Kelloggs, look it, I'm still
Speaker 4: on script.
Speaker 1: They're not getting the check anymore, Yes, exactly, by Kellogg's.
Speaker 1: All right, well again, I said, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it because I know you you you know
Speaker 1: you're you're doing the damn thing, and you have been
Speaker 1: for a long time. You've been like at it for
Speaker 1: I mean, how long now.
Speaker 3: Doing radio six years, but chasing this since I was
Speaker 3: fourteen fifteen. I remember fourteen fifteen. I just sat that
Speaker 3: dream of being like a famous DJ and being on
Speaker 3: the radio. It's I don't know, it's weird, but I
Speaker 3: always wanted this since I was I was young. I
Speaker 3: always told people I'm gonna be on the radio. He
Speaker 3: I'm I manifested it.
Speaker 4: It was just weird. I mean, I worked for it too.
Speaker 3: But it's been a long time coming and I'm finally
Speaker 3: soaking in my new reality that I'm here, you know,
Speaker 3: and I belong.
Speaker 2: Yes, and I belong absolutely.
Speaker 3: And it took a lot of time to be, you know,
Speaker 3: get to the state of mind. But I'm happy to
Speaker 3: be here. I'm blessed to be here.
Speaker 1: Yes, amen, amen to that. I mean, and everyone knows
Speaker 1: you by DJ Let's you know, but you are Daniel.
Speaker 1: That is the name that you were born with. So
Speaker 1: what's the difference between Danielle. Did you say Daniel or Danielle?
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter. Like the people closest to me, they.
Speaker 5: Call me Danny, my mom, nanny always see right, But yeah, no,
Speaker 5: I think Daniel If if I I don't know, I've
Speaker 5: never thought about this, like if there's a difference, But
Speaker 5: if there was a.
Speaker 4: Difference, I don't know, I would say no.
Speaker 3: But if I have to sit down and give you
Speaker 3: an answer right now and look at it closely, like
Speaker 3: they say that food's gone wild, I would say Daniel
Speaker 3: is always was always trying to be and is always
Speaker 3: trying to be the man at the house and provide
Speaker 3: for his family, his loved ones. And the shadow was
Speaker 3: like a persona, like not a persona, but will let
Speaker 3: you always try to define the odds.
Speaker 4: And and you know the nickname stem from like people.
Speaker 2: Bullying me like oh really it was to ask you.
Speaker 4: That I was. It was middle school.
Speaker 3: I was chubby kid and man boobs and they're like, oh,
Speaker 3: this fool probably got milk in his boob, so they
Speaker 3: called me the Milkman.
Speaker 4: And when I.
Speaker 3: Wanted when I started teaching, I'm like, well, everybody would
Speaker 3: call me the Chetto.
Speaker 4: I was like, well, I'm the same guy.
Speaker 3: But I guess I always wanted to be like cool
Speaker 3: and and but like never switch up.
Speaker 4: So like, I guess, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I guess with the Chetto, I'm defining odds and in
Speaker 3: my head, I guess, you know, like.
Speaker 2: Is it like an alter ego sort of thing where
Speaker 2: it's like, I don't know.
Speaker 3: There is different there's other projects where I do channel,
Speaker 3: like I don't know, different kind of personalities that I
Speaker 3: might have. I don't know if that even sounds real
Speaker 3: to say, but I think we all have layers to ourselves, you.
Speaker 2: Know, absolutely, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4: I've been figuring that out.
Speaker 3: But artistically, I've been wanting to express that and see
Speaker 3: where those different.
Speaker 4: Layers of me can take me.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So you know, I'm working on different projects where I'm
Speaker 3: wearing a mask. People are not going to know it's me,
Speaker 3: it's really me and embodying something someone that I know
Speaker 3: is inside of me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think let chend down in the same guy, okay,
Speaker 3: but there's definitely different layers to me.
Speaker 4: I'm weird, I'm complex.
Speaker 1: I'm I get it because I have cheeks and I
Speaker 1: have Jennee, you know what I mean. Like it took
Speaker 1: me a while to understand. I was like, Okay, Jeanne
Speaker 1: is the hippie. Jenne is the one that wants to
Speaker 1: stay home. She's more introverted, but Cheeese has to be extroverted.
Speaker 1: So it was like, in a way of like me
Speaker 1: separating the two kind of helped me with protecting Janney
Speaker 1: and my ones. Yeah, and sometimes I'm like, okay, right now,
Speaker 1: im Janey, I'm gonna put cheks away right now, you know.
Speaker 1: And I'm just gonna be everything that I am. And
Speaker 1: sometimes I don't not that I don't show that to
Speaker 1: the world, but I keep it very sacred. And then
Speaker 1: Cheek'ese is the glitz and the glam and the extensions
Speaker 1: and the you know, right now you're talking to Jenney,
Speaker 1: but his Chiki's and chow.
Speaker 2: You feel me. So it's like it's like, I get it.
Speaker 1: It's the same person, but in a way in my
Speaker 1: mind it helps me just protect one from the other.
Speaker 2: That makes sense, you know.
Speaker 3: That's a great way of feeling it. Yeah, for sure, definitely.
Speaker 3: I I understand completely what you're saying. And it's not
Speaker 3: to even say like, let Chado or Chiki's are the brand,
Speaker 3: because it kind of sounds cliche to say that.
Speaker 4: You know, Yeah, but I give my mom there, it's
Speaker 4: like that stuff right, like, you know.
Speaker 2: But I get what you're saying, though, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's lately it's been weird though, like because I even
Speaker 3: come around the family parties and they're starting to treat
Speaker 3: me a.
Speaker 4: Little different, like I made it and I could feel it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but in my head it's weird because I don't
Speaker 3: I don't even feel like I'm there.
Speaker 2: I know exactly what you're talking about. I used to
Speaker 2: swear to you.
Speaker 3: They just almost it's almost like they see you like
Speaker 3: established as well.
Speaker 4: I don't know, it's weird. Yeah, it's weird. Yeah, And
Speaker 4: I don't know how it makes me feel. I just
Speaker 4: know it's like I just feel the energy.
Speaker 2: But the good thing.
Speaker 1: The good thing is that your feet are on the ground,
Speaker 1: you feel me where you're like, I like to be
Speaker 1: that way where I'm like when people are like hey,
Speaker 1: you have no idea, you know who you are. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, I'm just me, Like what are you
Speaker 1: talking about? Like I sometimes forget, I'll go somewhere, I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh shit, what are these Oh wow, Yeah, they're staring
Speaker 1: because I'm I come out on TV, you know, I
Speaker 1: sing or whatever. So it's it's the craziest thing. But
Speaker 1: I totally get it. I did notice because you FaceTime
Speaker 1: me before with your mom. You guys have a very
Speaker 1: close relationship, huh.
Speaker 4: I think so I tried to.
Speaker 3: You know, I grew up with a single month for
Speaker 3: the most part, so like, yeah, it's a very honest,
Speaker 3: very transparent relationship. Never lied to my mom consciously, like
Speaker 3: lied or like try to hit something.
Speaker 4: I'm never are you the oldest? I am the oldest, okay,
Speaker 4: but yeah, like I don't know, like how we grew
Speaker 4: up it was. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I just felt like we always had to keep it
Speaker 3: real with each other. Like, you know, I'm a product
Speaker 3: of an affairs. So my mom was a mistress. And
Speaker 3: I mean I talk about this and I don't know
Speaker 3: if she ever feels okay with me talking about the situation.
Speaker 3: But with that being said, I always saw her chasing
Speaker 3: a man, you know, chasing a man and do everything
Speaker 3: for him, willing to adapt and do anything. And I
Speaker 3: just had sometimes really have really hard conversation with her, like, Yo,
Speaker 3: he doesn't love you. You know this is a kid
Speaker 3: like telling because I'm like, if he loved you, he'd
Speaker 3: be here, Like he wouldn't be with his other family,
Speaker 3: you wouldn't have to be moving to Texas just to
Speaker 3: be closer to the or so he could see you
Speaker 3: when he's you know, making trips to buy cars in
Speaker 3: the US and take them back there. Like she was
Speaker 3: ready at any given time just to be close to
Speaker 3: this man. So I don't know, like we just always
Speaker 3: had this very brutal, just kind of keep it a
Speaker 3: buck attitude with each other because I just felt like, yo,
Speaker 3: that's all we have.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how many siblings do you have?
Speaker 4: She me and my sister, and then I have half
Speaker 4: brothers have sisters.
Speaker 3: I don't speak to them, or not that I don't
Speaker 3: want to, or not that I never wanted to.
Speaker 4: Remember I'm in my dad's death back. I met them
Speaker 4: for the first.
Speaker 3: Time, I was at sixteen, and I told them like, hey,
Speaker 3: you know, we're technically brothers and sisters, if you guys
Speaker 3: ever want to communicate, I mean her like, that was
Speaker 3: my attitude.
Speaker 4: That was my mindset at sixteen.
Speaker 3: And I remember his wife was like, I hope I
Speaker 3: never see the day after that to happen.
Speaker 4: I'll never forget that.
Speaker 2: Oh shit.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't communicate with them. I don't know them.
Speaker 2: But see, that's a crazy thing because I.
Speaker 1: We kind of had something similar in our family where
Speaker 1: my grandpa had a baby outside the marriage or whatever,
Speaker 1: and it was like, don't talk to the kids, like,
Speaker 1: but I'm like, that's not even the child's fault, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like, it's not your fault. Like
Speaker 1: not to judge anybody, but it's just it's such a
Speaker 1: difficult situation. That's what I was going to ask you
Speaker 1: if if you had any type of relationship with your dad,
Speaker 1: But you said he passed right when you were sixteen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he passed when I was sixteen.
Speaker 3: The thing is he would come around, like you know,
Speaker 3: whenever he could, and all the times that he did
Speaker 3: come around, it was good times. It's good great memories
Speaker 3: as you get older like that or when I was,
Speaker 3: you know, being an adolescent, a teen, and when he
Speaker 3: passed like that's where you were stuck on, Like why
Speaker 3: only bits and pieces, like you just get a taste
Speaker 3: of what something stable can be, you know, with the
Speaker 3: idea of what family is, and you're like, oh damn, yeah,
Speaker 3: but yeah, I know. I mean, whenever we did see
Speaker 3: each other, it was good times. It was never like
Speaker 3: nothing toxic. My dad never raised his voice at me, He.
Speaker 4: Never hit me.
Speaker 3: My mom was more stern with me, but like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I remember we used to go to the city up
Speaker 3: north called Porterville. He had a family friend named Garino,
Speaker 3: and they had a ranch together, and we used to
Speaker 3: go to the ranch, and I remember some of the
Speaker 3: things that I remember, like me and him, we'd have
Speaker 3: being contests.
Speaker 4: We'd stand next to each other and like my lecos
Speaker 4: you know, so.
Speaker 3: We'll just be obviously he didn't win all the time,
Speaker 3: but you know, yeah, no, so it was it was.
Speaker 4: It was good.
Speaker 3: It was never like a toxic relationship, but just the
Speaker 3: situation wasn't you know, it wasn't ideal, but we made
Speaker 3: it work.
Speaker 4: I did. I did hate him for a bit.
Speaker 3: I had a lot of resentment towards him, just because
Speaker 3: I would see what my mom, my mom was going
Speaker 3: through and then so.
Speaker 2: She maintained a relationship with him throughout the years they try. Yeah,
Speaker 2: for sure, she.
Speaker 4: Did everything even that.
Speaker 3: Now, like I see how I am when it comes
Speaker 3: to like, you know, building relationships or like when you have.
Speaker 4: A mother that does so much.
Speaker 3: It's like it's not you compare women to your mom
Speaker 3: by any means, but you also want to see, like
Speaker 3: I want my future life partner to.
Speaker 4: Be bil tough dog.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because not that I plan on on dipping, but
Speaker 3: like if I pass away, if something happens, like at
Speaker 3: least I want to know that my child, our children,
Speaker 3: our family.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they gonna have a warrior dog. So like you know,
Speaker 4: it's it's not like no, what's flaws? No, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Sometimes I do appreciate some alpha alpha energy and the
Speaker 3: female like you know, like yeah, yeah, you'll go get it.
Speaker 3: You don't wait, like let's go, you make you make
Speaker 3: something happen out of nothing.
Speaker 4: I appreciate that. I respect that. It turns me on
Speaker 4: nice you know.
Speaker 3: But yeah, now my mom, my mom did everything she could.
Speaker 3: You know another that you know, I look back and
Speaker 3: she did everything she could. And I also try and
Speaker 3: see things from my dad's perspective. You know, he maybe
Speaker 3: he was broken as well, and he thought love he
Speaker 3: could find it everywhere, and he was a mess, so
Speaker 3: he ended up creating more messes. But that's who am
Speaker 3: I to judge. You know, it's up to me to
Speaker 3: change the those cycles.
Speaker 4: Is up to me. Whatever happened happened.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I might be dealing with some of the things
Speaker 3: of those situations, but that's fine.
Speaker 4: I also decided to outcome, you know, absolutely me. Yeah,
Speaker 4: So That's where I'm at now in life, Like.
Speaker 3: Like I don't know, I do feel fine to look
Speaker 3: I was telling you, I finally feel like I'm somewhat established.
Speaker 3: The things that I've done are no longer an accident,
Speaker 3: like I belong here. So once you get to a
Speaker 3: certain place, and I'm sure you've been there as well,
Speaker 3: you realize like the things you're chasing and you feel
Speaker 3: like you made it, Like then you really got time
Speaker 3: to look into yourself. And then that's when you look
Speaker 3: and realize like, oh shoot, I got a lot of
Speaker 3: work to do inside, like like that European car ain't
Speaker 3: gonna fix nothing. Me living in a nice apartment don't
Speaker 3: mean nothing. Me my mom and my sister don't have
Speaker 3: good communication. Yeah, And it's not that we don't talk,
Speaker 3: but we're not able to express our feelings to one another.
Speaker 3: And you know what I'm saying, You realize, like a
Speaker 3: lot of the things that you were chasing, yeah they're nice,
Speaker 3: but they're not the.
Speaker 4: Most important, right.
Speaker 2: It's getting your priority straight, which is important.
Speaker 3: And I always felt like I had my priority straight
Speaker 3: because what drove me to that was to be the
Speaker 3: man of the house. I remember, I'm telling you, And
Speaker 3: it's just something that I always played in the back
Speaker 3: of my head, like why I operate or function in
Speaker 3: certain ways like I'm very like right because I got
Speaker 3: sixteen when my dad passed, right, and this depth that
Speaker 3: I tell them, Hey, don't worry about it. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: take care of my mom and my sister. At sixteen,
Speaker 3: I didn't know what kind of pressure that meant for me,
Speaker 3: but in the back of my head, I equated to
Speaker 3: be the man of the house, was the bread winner
Speaker 3: and man, if you made a lot of money, you
Speaker 3: could pay the bills. And if you pay the bills,
Speaker 3: you're the man of the house. You realize that once
Speaker 3: you make that money and you chase you and to me,
Speaker 3: like my dreams are gonna pay me out like it like,
Speaker 3: if I'm gonna be a famous DJ, I'm gonna get
Speaker 3: cash out. If I'm gonna be on radio, I'm gonna make
Speaker 3: a lot of money. So that was like my driving
Speaker 3: force reach your dreams because with those dreams, who possibly
Speaker 3: come financial stability. And with that financial stability you finally
Speaker 3: get to become the man of the house. The thing
Speaker 3: you much your dad on his deathbed, and again you
Speaker 3: reached that and then you realize the man of the
Speaker 3: house ain't just providing financially.
Speaker 4: The man of the house is also you're supposed.
Speaker 3: To lead, You're supposed to be able to communicate, you
Speaker 3: should be emotionally aware and intelligent.
Speaker 4: So that's where I'm at. I'm still trying to be
Speaker 4: the man of the house. I'm still trying to be
Speaker 4: the man. I'm thirty two.
Speaker 2: Thirty two, Okay, I just turned thirty two.
Speaker 4: Yes, keep the keeper, but I didn't.
Speaker 3: I didn't get to this state of mind until thirty
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. So still two years of
Speaker 3: after kind of like losing the weight them in Like
Speaker 3: that's when also like I also had to focus up here,
Speaker 3: you know, physically, Okay, that's one thing cool.
Speaker 2: You said you've lost what one fifty around one fifty
Speaker 2: or yeah.
Speaker 4: One fifty, one sixty? I nikolo, which I mean I'm
Speaker 4: grateful for.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. What what caused the change?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: What what was it that clicked in your mind?
Speaker 3: There was a career, career, career, career, It was all right,
Speaker 3: let you have you finally feel the established. I felt
Speaker 3: established with radio, right, what did you put on hold?
Speaker 3: Put on hold our DJ career, my music career things.
Speaker 3: You know, it's okay, what are we doing to get
Speaker 3: back to it? If you really want to do that,
Speaker 3: you have to be in shape. I told myself, you
Speaker 3: got to be in shape. You want to be torn,
Speaker 3: You got to be healthy because being on stage for
Speaker 3: an hour, you got to be in shape.
Speaker 4: Are gonna be winded?
Speaker 3: I remember it was performing was when it first popped out?
Speaker 3: Oh no, thought it was a minute and a half.
Speaker 4: Long and I was winded.
Speaker 3: I was performing a minute turn and be like, let
Speaker 3: you if you want to be jumping up and down
Speaker 3: in Vegas and at EDC and at Ultra, you got
Speaker 3: to be in shape. If you want to be torn
Speaker 3: on stop, you got to be in shape. You got
Speaker 3: to be able to fit in an airplane. I remember
Speaker 3: one time on a work trip, We're going to Vegas
Speaker 3: and I had to basically add for an extender for
Speaker 3: the airplane.
Speaker 4: That was embarrassing, but it was career.
Speaker 3: It was career, Like, Yo, if you want that Forerrari,
Speaker 3: you gotta be able to fit in one you have.
Speaker 3: You know, like, I'll never forget Jimmy and mea let
Speaker 3: me borrow this Ferrari once and Bro, I couldn't. I
Speaker 3: couldn't drive it.
Speaker 4: Hey.
Speaker 3: I was just like, yo, like this ain't even comfortable.
Speaker 3: I remember growing up I was always how drive the
Speaker 3: big houses. I was just like to envision myself in it,
Speaker 3: and that would give me so much drive.
Speaker 4: So even like filling a car, I was like, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's gonna be mine, It's gonna be mine.
Speaker 2: Your visionary Yeah, I was like yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it was just career.
Speaker 3: I was like, Yo, if you really want to take
Speaker 3: this to the next level, if you really want this,
Speaker 3: you got to be in shape.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you got to be in shape.
Speaker 1: And have you ever thought about what caused you to
Speaker 1: gain the weight? Do you feel that it had to
Speaker 1: do with childhood stuff or was it just something you
Speaker 1: just didn't care. You didn't really understand the importance of
Speaker 1: your health or have you thought about that.
Speaker 4: I never really interested the importance of my health, that's
Speaker 4: for sure.
Speaker 3: Once and that's something I do want to do different
Speaker 3: once I get you know, when I have my children,
Speaker 3: I start my family, you know, show them that prioritizing
Speaker 3: your health it's the greatest former self love. That's the
Speaker 3: greatest for my self love. Prioritizing your health. Don't miss
Speaker 3: the doctor appointment. Don't miss it, not just's appointment. You know.
Speaker 4: My mom was like, I don't care.
Speaker 1: But yeah, no, uh, it's so important. I talk about
Speaker 1: that on the podcast all the time.
Speaker 3: And again I'm not saying this to shame my mother,
Speaker 3: because she loved me.
Speaker 4: She did her best, she did her with all she knew.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know exactly.
Speaker 3: So like, yeah, I lost weight in high school, right,
Speaker 3: I was a chubby kid freshman sophomore year.
Speaker 4: I used to lunch in the classroom. I used to
Speaker 4: wear my mom's jeans because it fit me better.
Speaker 3: I've always had like big legs. I used to wear
Speaker 3: the same sweater every day.
Speaker 4: I was a loner. I really was a loner, Like
Speaker 4: not even the nerves would talk to me.
Speaker 2: Oh, so you spent a lot of time alone.
Speaker 3: Alone, alone from the outside looking in, or at least
Speaker 3: thinking what.
Speaker 4: Would it be like to be on the other side,
Speaker 4: you know, like being cool. I lost weight, right, and.
Speaker 3: Then the girl started thinking I was cute. I joined
Speaker 3: the soccer team. I started playing soccer, and it was different,
Speaker 3: and I realized how people treat you different based on
Speaker 3: what you look. So I learned very, very very young.
Speaker 3: But after that, after high school. I graduated high school
Speaker 3: when I was sixteen. When I graduated high school, like
Speaker 3: my friends were eighteen, they were.
Speaker 4: Off to college. Me I was still like to mom,
Speaker 4: I want to be a DJ.
Speaker 3: I want to be on the radio. Like it's like, no, yeah,
Speaker 3: this's cocad. I was like, well, give me this summer off.
Speaker 3: And then I figure out what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 2: Why did you finish school so early? You're just that smarter?
Speaker 4: What I mean? I was smart? I was I was
Speaker 4: four point zero.
Speaker 2: Got straight a's damn, that's dope.
Speaker 4: I was really a nerd.
Speaker 3: I really like love school, like one thing I think
Speaker 3: about all the time. I was like, man, I know
Speaker 3: I could have done I could have had my bachelor's
Speaker 3: by not I if I just never went to college because
Speaker 3: I was scared. I didn't want to get in debt.
Speaker 3: My mom was By the time I was fourteen, my
Speaker 3: mom was bankrupt. So I was so traumatized credit cards
Speaker 3: and just debt. The word debt was like it was
Speaker 3: so like it, you know. So I was like, why
Speaker 3: am I going to go to college and then pay
Speaker 3: so much money? And then what if I don't even
Speaker 3: get to the job, the job that I studied for.
Speaker 3: And at the time there was sixteen, my dad just
Speaker 3: passed away. I'm guys, I'm like, well, I'm just gonna
Speaker 3: have to start helping the house.
Speaker 1: So it was always your focal point was I want
Speaker 1: to be a DJ, and you just didn't steer from that.
Speaker 2: It was what it was.
Speaker 3: Nah, Yeah, I was like I wanted to be a
Speaker 3: DJ and I wanted to be in music. So at
Speaker 3: the time I was DJing on the weekends, I had
Speaker 3: a hip.
Speaker 4: Hop blog, I had m blog. I've always just trying
Speaker 4: to figure out a way.
Speaker 3: I was doing graphic design, like I had so many
Speaker 3: jobs in between. The focus was always like music and DJ,
Speaker 3: music and DJ and radio. But I think what helped
Speaker 3: me gain weight or what. The reason behind that was
Speaker 3: just kind of like I remember my dad passed away.
Speaker 4: I was sterning with my mother about what I wanted
Speaker 4: to do with my life.
Speaker 3: And when I told her, like, yeah, I don't want
Speaker 3: to go to school, I want to be a DJ,
Speaker 3: she told me, I can't believe it, Like you were
Speaker 3: so smart, you disappointed me.
Speaker 4: The word disappointed stuck with me forever forever.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I probably put on like fifteen twenty pounds and people
Speaker 3: would see me in the street and they always just
Speaker 3: tell me, hey, dude, what's going on, what's happening? You
Speaker 3: let yourself go because they had known me as a
Speaker 3: chubby kit that lost weight and I was starting to
Speaker 3: get a little bit more weight, so that traumatized me.
Speaker 4: I didn't leave my room for a year.
Speaker 2: Oh shit, shut up, bro, I.
Speaker 3: Thought I was gonna kill myself. I got I was
Speaker 3: just processing everything. Yeah, like from like sixteen to seventeen, Like, Bro,
Speaker 3: it'd be rare fermatingly my room, Like it'd be rare
Speaker 3: I'll just stay in my room. But I was what
Speaker 3: I was on the computer, learning how to do graphics,
Speaker 3: learning how to DJ. In a way, I was kind
Speaker 3: of without knowing, like crafting my skills yourself.
Speaker 4: Tho, yeah, putting myself through school.
Speaker 3: But it's stemmed from like being ashamed of myself, I
Speaker 3: guess because I didn't want people to see me going
Speaker 3: on the way.
Speaker 2: But that's crazy, you're going through like a depression.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like so yeah, so that that word disappointment stuck
Speaker 3: with me for a long time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and.
Speaker 3: After that year, I just find like I said, you
Speaker 3: know what, fuck it, So what if I'm fat again,
Speaker 3: I'm still the same guy.
Speaker 2: I'm still cool, I'm still funny.
Speaker 4: I'm yeah, I'm still cool. You know. So I just
Speaker 4: I rolled with the punch. I said, that's fine, that's cool.
Speaker 3: But you know, DJing late at night, coming home and
Speaker 3: eating late like that just one thing led to another, right,
Speaker 3: So I just gradually started getting way. And then when
Speaker 3: I was twenty two, I'm like, or twenty one twelve,
Speaker 3: I was like, Yo, this shit ain't working out for me.
Speaker 4: These stuff's not working out for me.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm gonna I gotta change my name or something,
Speaker 3: because like I felt like people were just kind of
Speaker 3: like following me to be nosy to see what I'm
Speaker 3: doing in my life, not because they believed in my vision,
Speaker 3: not because they were fans per.
Speaker 4: Se, Like I get you.
Speaker 3: You could always, at least for me, intercept the kind
Speaker 3: of energy people will see you as. I was just like, okay, well,
Speaker 3: back to the drawing board. Back to the drawing boards.
Speaker 3: So what am I doing? I got on the computer.
Speaker 3: I started studying music. I'm like, fucking lay. I didn't
Speaker 3: want to deal with the promoters. They're fucking paying you shit,
Speaker 3: and they expected it. I was like, nah, I'm thinking
Speaker 3: world big, worldwide. I always wanted worldwide in my head.
Speaker 3: I'm always like I meant to be everywhere. And I
Speaker 3: stumbled upon this genre called minimal techno and progressive trends
Speaker 3: and uh and then changing my name, changed my name
Speaker 3: to Jack the Soul. I took French in high school,
Speaker 3: so I always had like this thing like for France
Speaker 3: and shit. My sister's name is Jacqueline right, so Shack
Speaker 3: that was the first name of the name.
Speaker 4: My mom's name is Ada Mansel Soul.
Speaker 3: And then my name is Daniel, so Shaq instead of
Speaker 3: thhe it's Da, so it was Shack the Soul. So
Speaker 3: I started making these mixes longstter shirts, started making these
Speaker 3: mixes on SoundCloud.
Speaker 4: The first mix I make it goes viral.
Speaker 3: But what I did in this mix was in between songs,
Speaker 3: I was talking in English, Spanish and French.
Speaker 4: Why Because I'm like, I can get a bigger audience.
Speaker 4: I paid for a.
Speaker 3: Pro count I started looking at the analytics the countries
Speaker 3: that I was hitting. Okay, all the countries in Europe
Speaker 3: are popping. I'm uploading these mixes at three am. Why
Speaker 3: because it's at nine hour difference. It's noon in Europe,
Speaker 3: and that's the time it was getting the most traffic.
Speaker 3: So when I was doing that, that allowed all these
Speaker 3: mixes to be on the top on the top charts
Speaker 3: of SoundCloud for that genre. In a year, I got
Speaker 3: to ten thousand falls a SoundCloud and the group of
Speaker 3: guys messaged me and they're like, hey, we're starting an
Speaker 3: agency and we want to sign you and fly you
Speaker 3: out to Paris.
Speaker 4: And want to book you. We'll get you a place
Speaker 4: to live with us. Are you down. At the time,
Speaker 4: I was working about flow while beings, I was a
Speaker 4: cooking and server, and I was like, fuck, well, if
Speaker 4: I go.
Speaker 3: Like I'm not, I'm gonna come back and I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna have a job, Like, I knew I was gonna
Speaker 3: go make millions. I knew I was gonna go change
Speaker 3: my dream, right, So I just told my boss.
Speaker 4: I was like, hey, dude, like, can you like? He's like,
Speaker 4: Creamy go when you come back, you have your job.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: I was like, fuck, So I go whatever, right, first show,
Speaker 3: I sell it out one hundred tickets, sold out one hundred.
Speaker 4: I sold one hundred tickets in the middle of fucking
Speaker 4: in Paris. Dude, A kid, no manager, No, I'm like,
Speaker 4: what the fuck? Like I got.
Speaker 3: Friends here now, Like even if I'm DJing to ad
Speaker 3: them on the list, not even ten of them will
Speaker 3: show up.
Speaker 4: And that's free cump bottles. It's like, what the fuck
Speaker 4: Now that.
Speaker 3: I look at it now, I was like, dude, like
Speaker 3: like those situations now make me, make me realize the
Speaker 3: things that I was doing before were monumental.
Speaker 4: A group of six people took a three hour train
Speaker 4: ride to see my debut in Paris. It was a
Speaker 4: six It was crazy.
Speaker 3: They asked for autographs, they ask Everything I ever wanted
Speaker 3: happened in that trip.
Speaker 4: Like I realized, like, what the fuck?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: Whatever? I had? Another show? The line was along the
Speaker 4: line I had a security guard walking with me.
Speaker 3: It was a crazy shit ever, like walking me up
Speaker 3: to the venue, like I'm like, no, this is nuts,
Speaker 3: this is nuts.
Speaker 4: Like you're like, gee Jesus crazy.
Speaker 3: And then I had a group of fans that went
Speaker 3: to the first show that they told me, Hey, we're
Speaker 3: having a barbecue. Do you mind DJing it. I'm like,
Speaker 3: of course, Like I'll do it. I'm like, dude, I
Speaker 3: got fans and fucking friends. I took the train and
Speaker 3: I went to the barbecue. Was five feeble, but there
Speaker 3: I was. I DJ and I was. I ended up
Speaker 3: going to the restroom. Long story short, I go number
Speaker 3: two and I'm twenty three at this point. I go
Speaker 3: number two and there's blood in my stool.
Speaker 4: Oh shit, and I'm like, what the fuck?
Speaker 3: My dad died from cancer, stomach cancer. So I remember
Speaker 3: when I go to the restroom, I'm like what that.
Speaker 3: I jump on Google and this has signs of cancer.
Speaker 3: I panic, I fucking panic. I just the next flight.
Speaker 3: I'm like, if I'm dying, I'm gonna die next to
Speaker 3: my family. I should have got Oh fuck. Anyways, I
Speaker 3: come back. I'm fucking scared. I got in the head
Speaker 3: space to where I'm dying. I'm gonna die. So what
Speaker 3: did that do? I'm like, well, I'm gonna live life
Speaker 3: every day to the fullish.
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna eat. I'm gonna eat whatever I want.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna eat.
Speaker 2: So did you ever check what it was or was
Speaker 2: it just a hemorrhoid?
Speaker 4: It ended up being just a hemorrhoid.
Speaker 2: But I didn't check this.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I didn't check until I started.
Speaker 3: The weight loss thing, okay recent because I'm like, bro,
Speaker 3: I was losing.
Speaker 4: Weight so fast, sums up something's up. Something's up from
Speaker 4: time to time.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, to bleed and like, okay, something's up,
Speaker 3: and like, yeah, I was losing the pounds, but it
Speaker 3: wasn't I wasn't enjoying it. I was like, first month
Speaker 3: I dropped eighteen. Second month it was twenty six, thirty month,
Speaker 3: twenty seven.
Speaker 1: Oh shit, I'm like, bro, but it's just because you've
Speaker 1: made a huge life change. Thought in you're good, you're healthy.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I went to the gas room like yo, I
Speaker 4: gotta check because I'm not. I'm like, yo, I'm not.
Speaker 4: This is not even feeling good. Yeah, I go gastro
Speaker 4: sticks the thumb up my butt, you know, he checks,
Speaker 4: he checks, and and he's like, yeah, it's just hamorrhoids.
Speaker 3: I'm like, what I was so relief. I was show relief.
Speaker 3: But yeah, but if you're listening, go get checked. Ever
Speaker 3: since I committed myself, committed to losing weight and improving
Speaker 3: my health, like that's always been a focal point.
Speaker 1: I always tell them. I'm like, you girls, go get
Speaker 1: your pap smears.
Speaker 2: Go get your bovies check. Like yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 1: Not a sexy thing to talk about, but it is
Speaker 1: what has to happen.
Speaker 2: Real, it's real. It's a real shit.
Speaker 3: So especially I think in our culture, like you know,
Speaker 3: us man were I don't know. My dad knew he
Speaker 3: had cancer, but I never told us why because he
Speaker 3: didn't want to worry anybody. M yeah, man, there's so
Speaker 3: much to talk about it.
Speaker 4: I don't know. Forty five minutes and.
Speaker 2: Enough, I know. But I have one question, though, talk
Speaker 2: to me, okay.
Speaker 1: One thing that I was blown away with you guys
Speaker 1: when I thought, I don't know, I mean, I thought
Speaker 1: you drink the keli. I thought you probably smoked a
Speaker 1: little bit of herb. But you don't do any of that. Huh,
Speaker 1: You're not a big drinker. You drink one thing. You
Speaker 1: don't even really drink coffee. I hear you were drinking.
Speaker 1: You gave me he made me this delicious green tea. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's like you're more of a tea guy. You
Speaker 1: always have your like your your water with you. Like
Speaker 1: you're pretty, you're pretty healthy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I try to be.
Speaker 3: I do drink and I do smoke from time to
Speaker 3: time now, but I mean I didn't drink.
Speaker 4: I was very little.
Speaker 3: Yeah, first time I drank I was twenty five. First
Speaker 3: time I smoked weed was twenty six. And I only
Speaker 3: and I only smoked because at the time I was
Speaker 3: I was you know, my girlfriend, she was a big smoker,
Speaker 3: and I always had this like, ah, she's a piet,
Speaker 3: like she for the streets, you know.
Speaker 4: I always had that attitude.
Speaker 3: But you know, she was a great woman, you know,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, what if I'm just being closed minded?
Speaker 2: Yeah, like nah, stereot.
Speaker 4: She never made me smoke.
Speaker 3: I smoked because she told me it caused my anxiety,
Speaker 3: relaxes me.
Speaker 4: So I smoked, and I realized, like, yo, what does
Speaker 4: calm me down?
Speaker 2: Does it make you hungry?
Speaker 4: It does make you hungry. That's why I also don't
Speaker 4: smoke because I don't want to get hunger.
Speaker 2: And give a munchie.
Speaker 1: That's why I was like, I'll smoke to like relax,
Speaker 1: but then no one can stop me. I will eat
Speaker 1: everything in my way. It's bad, so.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, I try and limit it, like I
Speaker 4: can go out and not drink mm hmm.
Speaker 1: It's not like you need it to have. I don't
Speaker 1: at all at all at all, just such a happy like.
Speaker 4: People don't mean they think I'm on cocaine. That's how
Speaker 4: hyper I am.
Speaker 1: When they mean, like you coked down, and that's just
Speaker 1: something that you've always been like that, even when you're.
Speaker 3: Like no, no, no, never, I've never done coke. I'm
Speaker 3: not a big drug person, like I'm not. I try
Speaker 3: to judge people that do drugs. Sometimes I'll be honest
Speaker 3: and I shouldn't judge, but I'm like, nah, life is
Speaker 3: much more beautiful than that, Like yeah, I just feel
Speaker 3: like it's an escape sometimes people like fuck, I know
Speaker 3: life is hard.
Speaker 2: But they use it for the people.
Speaker 4: Some people you feel me get it.
Speaker 3: The psychedelic things and my time nicker right now for
Speaker 3: people like that are into the psychedelics and are defending
Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm I'm completely ignorant to all other stuff,
Speaker 3: but I don't know.
Speaker 4: I refrain from any kind of substance. I try not to.
Speaker 4: The most I do is herb and a little bit
Speaker 4: of drink nice.
Speaker 3: Like that's it, especially when i'm DJ. And I also
Speaker 3: like to be focused, like I want to know what I'm.
Speaker 1: Doing, yeah, and then what you feel after the next day,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like my long term goal
Speaker 1: is not to drink alcohol because I love tequila. I
Speaker 1: mean that's something I love, but I'm not like an alcoholic.
Speaker 1: But I will get on stage and I'll drink. The
Speaker 1: whole thing is like part of the show. But I
Speaker 1: do want to live a life where I'm completely like clean,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like that's like I admire
Speaker 1: people like that. So it's like that's something I really
Speaker 1: really want to work on. I'm thinking for next year,
Speaker 1: I would get basat.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm not a ninety Yeah, I would say
Speaker 3: like ninety ten for sure. Like, like I do have
Speaker 3: a routine too, Like if I drink, it's either Friday
Speaker 3: or Saturday. And that's if if I drink a Friday,
Speaker 3: I won't drink Saturday.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you're disciplined.
Speaker 4: I'm also disciplined in regarding and it's like one two
Speaker 4: that's it.
Speaker 3: But that's if like yeah, other than that, like I
Speaker 3: try not to. I try not to because it could
Speaker 3: be an expensive habit as well.
Speaker 1: It's very true. And before you go, let's you, Danny.
Speaker 1: Can you share your your social media handles for for
Speaker 1: those of you that may not follow him, please follow him.
Speaker 1: He's he's a great dude. So again, thank you for
Speaker 1: being on. So yeah, share your socials.
Speaker 3: Okay, before I go, I do want to say I
Speaker 3: want this to be a part two because I didn't
Speaker 3: feel like we talked enough.
Speaker 4: I also wanted to get to know you, okay, so
Speaker 4: let this be.
Speaker 3: This is the teaser. Was just going to be a
Speaker 3: part two. I had to get to work, so that's
Speaker 3: why we're kind of kind of short. My handle is
Speaker 3: at lechetto l e c h e r oh on x,
Speaker 3: formerly known as Twitter. It's at dj chto dj l
Speaker 3: e c h e r oh TikTok. I don't really
Speaker 3: use it. That job made me make one so I
Speaker 3: could be more popping. It's at dj lchetto throughout this
Speaker 3: Chatto is the same thing as Instagram with us though
Speaker 3: I have I'm on Bigo now they're paying me to
Speaker 3: broadcast live.
Speaker 4: It's a low so follow me.
Speaker 2: And you're also a producer now, huh.
Speaker 4: I hear producer.
Speaker 3: I also have like an influencer marketing agency that called
Speaker 3: Spunched Post.
Speaker 4: I'm launching a tea company. I'm doing a lot of stuff.
Speaker 3: But again, I don't really like to talk to I
Speaker 3: like to do it first and then talk about it.
Speaker 1: You know, I love it, I feel you, so Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll leave that for part two.
Speaker 2: But that's awesome.
Speaker 4: You want a campaign, Yeah.
Speaker 3: You let me get some of that voice, and and
Speaker 3: you let me know how much its gonna cost to
Speaker 3: put that pretty face on my with my tea.
Speaker 2: Don't only if I love it. I won't promote anything
Speaker 2: unless I love it.
Speaker 1: And hell yeah, oh my god, I'm so excited for
Speaker 1: you guys. You know, he's a DJ, he's an entrepreneur,
Speaker 1: he's a producer.
Speaker 2: You guys, I'm happy. Oh, before you guys, before we go.
Speaker 1: I always have a motivational quote for you guys, but
Speaker 1: I don't have a motivational quote today. What I have
Speaker 1: is I want you guys to stop and think about
Speaker 1: three things right now that you are grateful for.
Speaker 2: It could be anything.
Speaker 1: Say it out loud, say it to yourself. I'm going
Speaker 1: to say, I'm grateful for you, for my listeners. I'm
Speaker 1: grateful that le Cetto is able to come on the podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm also grateful for the roof over my head. So
Speaker 1: that's what I want to leave you guys with before
Speaker 1: we end this podcastto thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Lete. I appreciate it in but we got to like
Speaker 2: link up soon, you know.
Speaker 4: What I mean? Yeah, I got to.
Speaker 3: I got two phrases on the way, I'll never give
Speaker 3: up and happiness is a choice.
Speaker 2: I love that. Okay, and tell me three things real
Speaker 2: quick that you are grateful.
Speaker 4: For health, family, and water and water.
Speaker 1: Honestly, water is a good one. Health, family, and water.
Speaker 1: All right, you guys, thank you so much.
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