Speaker 1: Sydney Castillo. Because Steely.
Speaker 2: Is in the building.
Speaker 1: I know they're going to make fun of me in
Speaker 1: the little bloopers for that. Absolutely, I'm really excited about
Speaker 1: having you on the show. I was in those d ms, guys.
Speaker 1: I was consistently following up. I was.
Speaker 2: I was like, hey, listen, we're cooking. I was like,
Speaker 2: I would love to give me a date. I get
Speaker 2: you to give me a time.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie, guys. I was a little nervous
Speaker 1: because he didn't give us his ingredients till this morning,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh my god, he's going to cancel.
Speaker 1: Like he's going to cancel. And then I had, I had, got,
Speaker 1: I got. I was fortunate enough to go to the
Speaker 1: screening of My Cup Is Full, which is out right
Speaker 1: now guys on YouTube check it out. I was fortunate
Speaker 1: enough to watch it, and then I walked up on
Speaker 1: him and he was like, who are you. You ain't gonna
Speaker 1: shoot in a couple of days. Don't forget about me.
Speaker 2: He was all over with the specialis was like oh booh,
Speaker 2: my gosh, yeah and everything. I was like, I'm definitely
Speaker 2: coming down and cook though, because I love to.
Speaker 1: Cook, so yes and Before I ask you about the dish,
Speaker 1: I just want to tell you guys about my cup
Speaker 1: is full. It's a really therapeutic, relatable, funny, great storytelling,
Speaker 1: just just amazing talent from the second I saw you,
Speaker 1: So just to kind of give you guys what you
Speaker 1: can look forward to. It's just one hundred percent relatable
Speaker 1: with a lot of humor.
Speaker 2: I'm appreciate it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, but now we get to get into this dish,
Speaker 1: which I'm really also excited about because we've never had
Speaker 1: it on the show and it's over. We've done over
Speaker 1: like one hundred and forty episodes, so that's a huge deal.
Speaker 1: So why don't you tell me what you're gonna be
Speaker 1: cooking for me today?
Speaker 2: Hey, today I'm cooking you one of my favorites. Man's
Speaker 2: called chicken egg rolls. You know, I started cooking chicken
Speaker 2: egg rolls because it helped me. I think cooking helps
Speaker 2: me with like anxiety. Now that's what my special thoughts about,
Speaker 2: like dealing with a bunch of stuff and cooking is
Speaker 2: like very therapeutic for me. I mean I can put
Speaker 2: on some music, you know what I mean, make it
Speaker 2: look like I'm a real chef. I like watching cooking
Speaker 2: shows online YouTube TikTok. My algorithm is stand up cooking
Speaker 2: and animals eating other animals. That's my stuff. Yeah I didn't.
Speaker 2: That's that's my that's my that's my that's my stuff
Speaker 2: right there.
Speaker 1: Do you watch like the little Instagram reels of the
Speaker 1: lake when they do the dishes and all that.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I follow a bunch of chefs. I'm in their
Speaker 2: d m's like, yo, bro, what so how you make
Speaker 2: that sauce?
Speaker 1: For real?
Speaker 2: Absolutely?
Speaker 1: Do they actually respond and.
Speaker 2: They love that? Then they start checking out my stand
Speaker 2: up like, bro, you funny. I appreciate that. In the
Speaker 2: backs to me loaf, you know what I mean? I
Speaker 2: love I love cooking man.
Speaker 1: And then I'm curious, so you said it's very therapeutic.
Speaker 1: So like, if you're having a bad day, you get
Speaker 1: some bad news, do you hit the grocery store and say,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm gonna Do you really do that? Wow?
Speaker 2: Like most people like comfort food. I'm like, let's go,
Speaker 2: let's go to the grocery store. I got you. I
Speaker 2: love that. Absolutely, I'll make some. If it's a summertime,
Speaker 2: people know, I invite people over it, just cook ribs.
Speaker 2: I'll cook chicken, you know what I mean, turkey legs,
Speaker 2: you know, put some pineapple in the grills. Bight at
Speaker 2: the end, it'd be like a dessert. I loved. I
Speaker 2: love to cook man and chicken egg rolls is cool
Speaker 2: because it can really take you about thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: So have any of your friends discovered this Achilles hill
Speaker 1: and just said, you know what, Today, I'm gonna call
Speaker 1: him up listen, and I'm gonna get in his head
Speaker 1: and then I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2: Over for me at my boy j snow shout out
Speaker 2: to Jay snow Man. He told me, he said, now,
Speaker 2: I love when you're going through stuff. He said, whenever
Speaker 2: you going through stuff. I just had to the grocery store.
Speaker 2: He come over and I cook, and.
Speaker 1: I like, you know, oh, he literally shows up with.
Speaker 2: The literally He's like what I said, Man, I need
Speaker 2: to talk today. Go to the grocery store and I'll
Speaker 2: be like, yeah, okay, can cook wings y.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's gonna be me. If I can maneuver this
Speaker 1: past episode, I'm gonna be like, yo, I dropped off
Speaker 1: my kid today. Check in you're having a bad day.
Speaker 1: I could come home and my kid could have it.
Speaker 2: I was thinking about opening up like you know, I
Speaker 2: found out online you can like open up an Uber
Speaker 2: eat from your kitchen, from your house. No way will
Speaker 2: they come grab your food, like you can have an
Speaker 2: uber driver downstairs and do it like that. I just
Speaker 2: gotta get like a license because I want to open
Speaker 2: up a egg roll and wings spot serve.
Speaker 1: I love eggirls. I love them. You know what I
Speaker 1: was randomly thinking too when we were shopping for the
Speaker 1: groceries today, I was like, I wonder if he ever
Speaker 1: puts cream cheese in his eggrol.
Speaker 2: Listen, don't play with me.
Speaker 1: Listen, yes, that would add like extra Ooh.
Speaker 2: It's a place in Texas, man called I don't want
Speaker 2: to mess up their name, but they got what's called
Speaker 2: Texas Twinkie. So it's a valapeno pepper, right, that's following me,
Speaker 2: a valapeno pepper right, wrapped in bacon, right, But it's
Speaker 2: stuff with cream cheese and brisket, and then they put
Speaker 2: barbecue sauce on and they slow cook it. Let me
Speaker 2: tell you something. They know me by name. They know
Speaker 2: me by name. Texas Friscos. They got in two locations.
Speaker 2: They got in like an outside of Fort Worth and
Speaker 2: they got it in Frisco, Texas. Oh my goodness, that
Speaker 2: right there. That's my next thing to learn, because you
Speaker 2: got to get a real good grill to cook the
Speaker 2: pepper on for smoke. Smoke.
Speaker 1: You know, I have a smoker that's been sitting in
Speaker 1: my garage, brand new in the box. Bought all the
Speaker 1: coals and everything, because I don't know how to put
Speaker 1: it together. Because I'm the type I put together a
Speaker 1: bed it falls apart that day, like you're honestly, but
Speaker 1: I'd be happy to donate my smoker to you with
Speaker 1: all the I'm dead serious because I got it.
Speaker 2: My camera stopped playing with me as I'm massage this chickens.
Speaker 2: Stop playing with me.
Speaker 1: But in ingreeance that go ahead. You owe me smoked
Speaker 1: like I get dips on like some of the smoked goods.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I'm gonna smoke ox tails in there. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: smoke ribs in there. I'm gonna smoke chicken wings in there.
Speaker 2: It's turkey legs in there, a smoke of your best friends.
Speaker 1: Like, I'm dead serious. I'm gonna hold you to this
Speaker 1: promise because it's been sitting in my garage just taking
Speaker 1: up space and I can't put it together, and I
Speaker 1: can't eat red meat anymore, so oh really yes, but
Speaker 1: but the turkey legs and anymore. I mean, I still
Speaker 1: will risk it on a good day because I love
Speaker 1: ox tail. So maybe for some of your dishes, I'll
Speaker 1: say forget, you know, but that's our trade off, are we?
Speaker 2: Is that a deal?
Speaker 1: Okay? Cool? All right? So now, oh we got the
Speaker 1: smoker thing happening. Now you've been working away, tell us
Speaker 1: what you've been doing in the kitchen so we can
Speaker 1: know how to make this dish at home.
Speaker 2: The words, I just like to season my peppers first,
Speaker 2: and like get them going with some butter, some garlic
Speaker 2: and no wait wait.
Speaker 1: Wait, go through all the ingredients, sik.
Speaker 2: The words I like to season. I like chopped my peppers,
Speaker 2: so chopped yellow peppers, chopped red peppers. Put some butter
Speaker 2: in here. I like to put garlic powder. I put
Speaker 2: some onion powder. I don't put too much like salt
Speaker 2: in here, just because we're gonna have some salt in
Speaker 2: our meat, so I don't want to put too much salt.
Speaker 2: So it's just like an onion powder, garlic powder, some pepper,
Speaker 2: with some butter. And if you want to get a
Speaker 2: little fancy. I'll be throwing winter here just because it
Speaker 2: looked cool on TV. So I throw like a little
Speaker 2: slash of water here, a red or white on hare
Speaker 2: and then mix it in here. We want to kind
Speaker 2: of see this down. And when that's done, we're gonna
Speaker 2: put in the bowl. Then were gonna prepare our chicken
Speaker 2: while the grease is still getting hot. Now the chicken's
Speaker 2: been seasoned.
Speaker 1: When did you season the chicken? Wet?
Speaker 2: We got garlic powder right here, we got pepper, we
Speaker 2: got lemon pepper here, and we got onion powder and
Speaker 2: we got pepper right and then booming, as this is
Speaker 2: season we're waiting for that heat up. We can kind
Speaker 2: of start our sauce, okay right, And then for the sauce,
Speaker 2: I like to use ketchup right here. Boom, alright, we'll
Speaker 2: take some ketchup, put it in here like this, boom boom,
Speaker 2: boomom right cause we cooking a small bash wold just
Speaker 2: use that when I used Jon mustard.
Speaker 1: Okay right, and is there a reason why it was Jon?
Speaker 2: Cause it's a little tinier. I got a little bite
Speaker 2: to it, okay, right for your sauce, okay, uh boom.
Speaker 2: And then you wanna put some hot sauce, okay, right,
Speaker 2: that's like for a kick. Now do you like spicy food?
Speaker 1: Not really?
Speaker 2: Okay, boom, you wanna put like some hot sauce. And
Speaker 2: if you don't like a lot of spice, you know
Speaker 2: what you could do is cut this with honey. Right.
Speaker 2: So if you put it in there and it's like
Speaker 2: too spicy, that's fine. You just put some honey in
Speaker 2: there and make that in there and contact the steam away.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you know your stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so then I still season it right here, right,
Speaker 2: so a little garley powder, right, okay, still a little pepper.
Speaker 1: I hope you make a hundred of these yea, all
Speaker 1: of this all over again.
Speaker 2: Boom. And then you wanna put a regular.
Speaker 1: Sauce okay, and this is the dipping sauce.
Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am. And then we got onion powdered. I kind
Speaker 2: of season like a meat most Boom. Now we kind
Speaker 2: of start this up here. We'll can use this round
Speaker 2: right here. You get a little color to it because
Speaker 2: of the mustard. Oh it looks fancy, yeah, okay, And
Speaker 2: then what you could do, you know what they do
Speaker 2: make it a little fancy. You could drip this on
Speaker 2: the egg row like a little line, or if you
Speaker 2: just like to put it on a dish and kind
Speaker 2: of like smear it all for presentation, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 2: You want to get fancy, you know you can get
Speaker 2: you some partially chop it up booming over the egg row,
Speaker 2: over the sauce type jazz, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna fit down in like two seconds, so I
Speaker 1: don't do that. There's a guy involved, what you say?
Speaker 1: You know, when there's a guy going over, you're like,
Speaker 1: let me make it all presentation. I'm trying to sell
Speaker 1: the whole package, you know. But if it's just me at.
Speaker 2: Home, Yeah, don't be afraid to see your vestibles either.
Speaker 2: Then what'd you say, gonna be afraid of season your
Speaker 2: vestables over here? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean, little gar But you're not gonna mix the
Speaker 1: meat with the vegetables.
Speaker 2: Absolutely not. This is going to go in a separate bowl.
Speaker 1: Okay, Oh you may need another bone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't make a work wash. This is gonna
Speaker 2: go here. Okay, right, this is gonna go here.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll see you.
Speaker 2: Because we're gonna because this is gonna go into our
Speaker 2: egg roll and fry. We kind of cook this down.
Speaker 2: That's fine, right, boom now, and you just.
Speaker 1: Don't want the peppers, like too crunchy or.
Speaker 2: Something, right, I just kind of want to separate. I'll
Speaker 2: put the chicken in, cook it down, and then I
Speaker 2: put the well, I'll put this down first, put the
Speaker 2: chicken in, and then when I mix them, when I
Speaker 2: fry them, I put them in together.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm excited.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So then right now, boom a little bit more butter,
Speaker 2: because now we're goin to put the chicken in. Boom.
Speaker 1: Okay, I like that you cook the butter and chicken.
Speaker 1: Just a sidebar. How much butter do you go through?
Speaker 1: That's how I really test if you could cook.
Speaker 2: I use a lot of butter, right, That's what my
Speaker 2: flavor is now. I use like no salt butter a
Speaker 2: lot sometimes, you know. I mean that's people with my
Speaker 2: hot blood pressure. You. I mean you could put real butter,
Speaker 2: that's fine, but no salt butter is on you still
Speaker 2: see in your vegetables. I feel like you should be straight. Okay,
Speaker 2: so then boom, chicken down, chicken in the pan? Right
Speaker 2: there you go. We already cut our chicken daghs. Because
Speaker 2: we're doing egg rolls. I like to cut them kind
Speaker 2: of you know small. Okay, we're not doing chicken tender,
Speaker 2: so it's not no necessary for them to be real big.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: That way, when you put them in their egg grow
Speaker 2: their fine right m boom boom. Here's where you know.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna use more of my butter right because I
Speaker 2: like my I like it to have flavor.
Speaker 1: I like to be juicy. Yeah, you use a lot
Speaker 1: of garlic too, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Like little garlic can hear and boom boone? Now where
Speaker 2: is my butter right here?
Speaker 1: I'm a butter freak. I go through like I buy
Speaker 1: the Costco, but I do salted.
Speaker 2: You see it in your butter too.
Speaker 1: No, because I do salted.
Speaker 2: Okay, better, little garlic powder on my butter for tom
Speaker 2: what Yeah, he gives you butter a little flavor.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm learning. Did you put lemon pepper in the
Speaker 1: chicken too?
Speaker 2: Yes? Oh that's only where you salt is in the
Speaker 2: chicken with no salt. No salt in this right here,
Speaker 2: and no salt on the butter, just garlic powder.
Speaker 1: That way you don't come off too salty, okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: And you know that's salted.
Speaker 2: Right garda potter butter. Oh yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay cool, all right, So now you're cooking the chicken.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let this get a good see man, listen, if
Speaker 2: you want a hervey, you can cook you can, you know,
Speaker 2: put this in this Just let it brown and put
Speaker 2: it in the oven like on three fifty four hundred.
Speaker 2: Let the cook faster because you're in the fry it.
Speaker 2: But right here we're gonna grill it. This fine and
Speaker 2: grease is. I can feel it being warm, so that's
Speaker 2: gonna be perfect. So this is done.
Speaker 1: How do you test your grease to you?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? I put a pepper in there, peper a pepper
Speaker 2: or like some powder.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, my mom used to.
Speaker 2: Throw something in there boom boone is sizz a little
Speaker 2: like a little piece of garlic whatever to have you
Speaker 2: bone boon and should cook up good?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well yes, okay you good. Now now we can get
Speaker 1: into Take me back to what was going on during
Speaker 1: this moment in time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, dog, when I learned how to really well just
Speaker 2: really I guess tapped into cooking. I was going through
Speaker 2: it lout, you know what I mean, Like my my
Speaker 2: I mean, my brother died like twenty seventeen. That's my
Speaker 2: best friend at boone, I see, and then like you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, went through divorce and then my
Speaker 2: mom got cancer twice. So it's like, mmm, then all
Speaker 2: these motion I needed something like I ain't gonna go
Speaker 2: fight or go like just all this emotion. So it's like,
Speaker 2: what could I do? So cooking and therapeutic, chopping it
Speaker 2: up the vegetables, seasoning enough stuff, looking at different recipes
Speaker 2: I can get online, putting that into like a form
Speaker 2: of therapy, like cooking you know what I mean, being
Speaker 2: detailed in it, right, because I put my brain off
Speaker 2: that and now I'm focused on just cooking.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, Now did you do any type of therapy
Speaker 1: going through all that early on?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? In the beginning. You know, I was probably like
Speaker 2: most people who never been in any form of therapy,
Speaker 2: like skeptical, and my first one didn't go well. You know,
Speaker 2: God is good man. I've been doing well in stand up,
Speaker 2: but I had a therapist in midway through We're talking
Speaker 2: about my brother dying, and like what it meant to me?
Speaker 2: You know what I mean? I had opened up so much.
Speaker 2: I was crying in the session, and as I was crying,
Speaker 2: he was like, wait a minute, he said, you do
Speaker 2: stand up? I said, yeah, he did. I seen you
Speaker 2: at the Arlington improvlem Man, you're hilarious. I closed the
Speaker 2: laptop so damn fast because I felt like I was
Speaker 2: being it was intrusive, like what I mean, So I
Speaker 2: stopped going and I got like an old black lady
Speaker 2: and she came of life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah. Do you talk about her? Does
Speaker 1: she's still your therapist?
Speaker 2: Yeah? She is? She is. Yeah, she's really dope, man. Like.
Speaker 2: She kind of helped me just understand certain things, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. She kind of emphasized what the
Speaker 2: doctor told me one time, like you can't just manifest
Speaker 2: the stroke sitting. You can't just get hyping you're finna
Speaker 2: have a stroke. That's not how it happens. Because my
Speaker 2: brother had a stroke. So my mom, my brother had
Speaker 2: a stroke. My brother died at forty two, right, I
Speaker 2: just turned forty three. I was like, something going to
Speaker 2: happen to me my dad? Did my mom got cancer?
Speaker 1: You know, it's like, did your dad passed from a
Speaker 1: stroke or something?
Speaker 2: He was older. He died in seventy eight, but he
Speaker 2: had cancer, but it was like he had it like
Speaker 2: for like it literally four days he found out he died,
Speaker 2: but he was seventy eight, so I could digest that,
Speaker 2: just miss him. Yeah, my brother died, you know, he
Speaker 2: had a stroke in twenty eleven, you know, twenty ten.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, he passed in twenty seventeen. Yeah, And so
Speaker 2: that was kind of hard to deal with, just because
Speaker 2: I never thought. I knew he had a stroke, but
Speaker 2: I thought he would be fine, and him not being
Speaker 2: fine kind of like really affected me.
Speaker 1: Why did you think he would be fine after the stroke?
Speaker 2: Well, I knew to stroke, so that was my first
Speaker 2: time in my family dealing with one. So you know,
Speaker 2: he had lost a bunch away. He was straight ten
Speaker 2: and he got down.
Speaker 1: With like two sixty after the stroke.
Speaker 2: After the stroke, and he had learned like therapy, his
Speaker 2: speech was getting better, and so I didn't know the
Speaker 2: life expect to see when you have a severe stroke,
Speaker 2: it's literally seven to eight years. But they told my
Speaker 2: brother he wouldn't walk off the hospital. So when he
Speaker 2: did all that and he was living, he got back
Speaker 2: to working, I was like, okay, cool.
Speaker 1: Oh and he got out the hospital too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he got to the hospital, he got back to
Speaker 2: working doing things. It was like, okay, cool. And then
Speaker 2: you know, I was on a road with Marlin in
Speaker 2: New York and he used the umpire that was like
Speaker 2: his side up. So after he had a stroke and
Speaker 2: I guess he had a heart attack on the field,
Speaker 2: and there was like on a Monday, I talked to
Speaker 2: him and he was in the hospitals, like yoa, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna come Tuesday and I'm gonna see you. And then
Speaker 2: the oary bet and so then Tuesday morning I got
Speaker 2: the call he passed away. So I got it, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. When I got there, he had
Speaker 2: already passed, and so dealing with all that was like hmmm.
Speaker 2: And so it's like that was twenty seventeen, May thirtieth
Speaker 2: actually coming up May thirty, twenty seventeen, and he was like, okay, cool,
Speaker 2: you gotta get over that. I'm working on the show,
Speaker 2: Marlin TV show. I'm wrighting on it, and my mom
Speaker 2: comes to visit me. Boom boom on set. It's a
Speaker 2: great thing. Boom boom. As soon as I'm done, we've
Speaker 2: done tape and she hit me with I got cancer.
Speaker 2: I'm like, what, Oh my god, so then.
Speaker 1: That to happen boom, and then especially after your dad's
Speaker 1: experience with cancer, you're definitely probably scared today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you really, to be honest with you, you clock
Speaker 2: in to like everything gonna be okay because you've got
Speaker 2: to for her. So that's like you clock into that,
Speaker 2: like everything gonna be.
Speaker 1: Straight, you mean, like facing her in person, like you.
Speaker 2: You are nervous, but it's like your faith kicking, like
Speaker 2: you know, prayer words, praying for you. And I looked
Speaker 2: up people who actually survived and read them stories versus
Speaker 2: the people who didn't. Just feel like my own mental capacity.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you were still trying to like march the
Speaker 1: good March. This is without therapy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is without therapy. Now listen. So I've gotten
Speaker 2: the therapy. I remember, so Martin, Martin Williams, I opened
Speaker 2: him a lot and so, but this time I take
Speaker 2: care of my mom. She had cancers during COVID it's
Speaker 2: before any vaccinations. I go through a show with him,
Speaker 2: and they still doing shows in the County Club. But
Speaker 2: the thing is it's not at full capacity. Everybody spaced out.
Speaker 2: I get that. I tell him, I say, hey, man,
Speaker 2: that's a lot of people in here. He was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you think so. I was like, yeah, do the show
Speaker 2: go back to my mom? He called me like that's
Speaker 2: probably on Saturday. Sunday. He hit me on Tuesday like,
Speaker 2: hey man, I got COVID. You know, just make sure
Speaker 2: your mom is good. Stay away from your mom. And
Speaker 2: now something happened in my body that triggered me. I
Speaker 2: was like, I thought I could hurt my mom giving
Speaker 2: her something. I ain't have COVID, but just the thought.
Speaker 2: That's when my body first. I first time it started shaking,
Speaker 2: couldn't breathe type stuff. Calling my friend like yo, she's like,
Speaker 2: you have anxiety. I said, what the hell is at?
Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Got to a doctor first,
Speaker 2: you know, I tell it on stage, a white lady.
Speaker 2: I said doctor first. I was like, hey, my body's shaken.
Speaker 2: I can some medicine. She's like, I'm not giving you
Speaker 2: no medicine and like kind of boot and I was like,
Speaker 2: So I dealt with that for like maybe a month later,
Speaker 2: kept dealing with it and then got that black lady.
Speaker 2: I told you about a doctor, and then she referred
Speaker 2: me to a therapists, a black therapist, and then we
Speaker 2: was good money from there, you know the sense of
Speaker 2: like dealing with it. Yeah, I mean started becoming way better. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, We're about to be good one.
Speaker 1: Now, how regularly do you go to therapy?
Speaker 2: Now? Don't have to go as much like I do.
Speaker 2: Therapy Probably once a week, no excuse me, once every
Speaker 2: other week. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say if it was once a week.
Speaker 2: Like how yeah, once every other week. It's just like
Speaker 2: now like checking in managing like different stresses like my
Speaker 2: mom's health right now. You know, he's kind of managing
Speaker 2: stresses that don't take everything on personally. That's what therapy
Speaker 2: to teach you.
Speaker 1: Where did the divorce come into play and all that?
Speaker 2: I got to I got married in twenty nineteen, divorce
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one, so it's like twenty.
Speaker 1: Minutes okay, Yeah, it was like two years. Yeah it
Speaker 1: wasn't Britney Spears.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's funny, Okay, But yeah, I was married quick.
Speaker 1: It was like in love and out of love faster.
Speaker 2: It was just a situation where I think, you know,
Speaker 2: it was best for the both of us to kind
Speaker 2: of like separate and get divorced. You know, I think,
Speaker 2: you know, going into it, it is like I just
Speaker 2: lost my brother really didn't know what depression was. I
Speaker 2: think me and her, I think he look back at now,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't want the best for her. I
Speaker 2: think it was just two people who weren't really connected
Speaker 2: that tried to us let's just say we can get married,
Speaker 2: versus like having an organic connection and deciding to do this.
Speaker 2: And I think it manifested during the marriage. And then
Speaker 2: when my mom got cancer, it was just some things
Speaker 2: that we were transpirings, like it's best that we separate,
Speaker 2: and I think we I think it's best for both
Speaker 2: of us. So it's like married a year and a half,
Speaker 2: and then people ask me like, would you get married again?
Speaker 2: I was like, absolutely, you know absolutely, I like being
Speaker 2: I feel like.
Speaker 1: It didn't Your perspective on marriage is a little bit
Speaker 1: different though, after going through it.
Speaker 2: I think that even though I got divorced quickly, I
Speaker 2: was respect up on marriage is like marriage is the
Speaker 2: pinnacle of like deciding to fight for somebody you know
Speaker 2: day in and day out that you love. You know
Speaker 2: what I mean. I just did it through the wrong person,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. But I still believe in
Speaker 2: those principles. I would definitely get married. It wasn't like
Speaker 2: I lost a bunch. I think men who rightfully, So
Speaker 2: when you get a divorce and you've like accumulated so
Speaker 2: many assets, and I was talked to an Uber driver,
Speaker 2: kid you not and he said, I'm Uber and he's
Speaker 2: be a millionaire, he said. My wife left me for
Speaker 2: a younger man, he said, and no prenup or whatever.
Speaker 2: Half of everything went to her. So now she's like,
Speaker 2: I think that perspective of some men, or like, I
Speaker 2: would never do this shit again because even if I
Speaker 2: love you, if you happen to not want to be
Speaker 2: with me no more, I risk losing so much.
Speaker 1: Right, But it also depends on the state, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: But I didn't have kids, we didn't have property, so
Speaker 2: I didn't have that happen to me. Right.
Speaker 1: So it's just like, because you guys just filed some
Speaker 1: paperwork and went away.
Speaker 2: It should have been that quickly, but it took a while.
Speaker 1: Now you got you don't have any kids at all? No, okay,
Speaker 1: you want to have kids. Hey, guys, he's not married,
Speaker 1: is no kids?
Speaker 2: Married? No kids? You know? Career?
Speaker 1: Okay, So prior to all of this, let's back all
Speaker 1: the way up to pre comedian Sydney. Yes, because I
Speaker 1: kind of want to know this backstory.
Speaker 2: So pre comedian Sydney Ready raised by dad from musko Ye, Oklahoma,
Speaker 2: twenty years about twenty years older than my mother. Right,
Speaker 2: So my dad was born in nineteen thirty two, right,
Speaker 2: that's old, right, the Korean War. So my mom from Gary, Indiana,
Speaker 2: hard and noss a woman, oldest of her family, born
Speaker 2: in Guardena, California. Right, raised out there for like eight years,
Speaker 2: and then we moved to Texas, Forward, Texas. So I
Speaker 2: was raising Forward Texas from nine until I moved back here.
Speaker 2: Was hoping playing basketball, right, but knew my capabilities. I'm not.
Speaker 2: I'm always been a realist, right. I can't do what
Speaker 2: it takes to get to D one right O D two.
Speaker 2: But had a good time playing play at junior college.
Speaker 2: But I always kind of comedy was like my thing.
Speaker 2: I can make people laugh in my own little way.
Speaker 2: I'm not an extrovert by any means, right, but I
Speaker 2: still make people laugh.
Speaker 1: And he knew this early on that you had this.
Speaker 2: I watched like Fresh Prince a lot, and like literally
Speaker 2: watching first Prince Billy, I was like, I want to
Speaker 2: do that. I want to do that. That's literally what
Speaker 2: I want to do. So I was like basketball was
Speaker 2: like not going well. In junior college, I was like,
Speaker 2: I want to see this acting thing. So I got
Speaker 2: into an acting class. I was like twenty, I did
Speaker 2: like some print work, like for a foot action ad. Right,
Speaker 2: I was like on every foot action poster in America
Speaker 2: and them all what. At twenty, I was like, I'm
Speaker 2: going to LA. My mom was like boy. I was like,
Speaker 2: they paid me a thousand dollars. I didn't care. I
Speaker 2: bought my ticket and then I moved out to LA
Speaker 2: to pursue modeling originally because I'm silly, and they said
Speaker 2: absolutely not.
Speaker 1: And you're modeling, yeah, because I six four, you're six four.
Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, still doesn't.
Speaker 1: Work that way.
Speaker 2: No, you have that ads and stuff I never really believe. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I know what it is. Now.
Speaker 1: We're in a new air though, because when you let's
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: The dream.
Speaker 1: Okay, No, you're right, I just.
Speaker 2: Want to be paid. I want to be paid one.
Speaker 1: No, No, you're right, you're right. Well, first of all,
Speaker 1: you're very you you you you are. We already know
Speaker 1: what your destiny and your purpose is. So but yes,
Speaker 1: all right, go back to your store. I didn't mean
Speaker 1: no wordes.
Speaker 2: So then I was doing that and then you know,
Speaker 2: stand up, and I started stand up. And then I
Speaker 2: was like waiting tables, you know what I mean, waiting
Speaker 2: table with the DJ's restaurant in Burbank, and I was
Speaker 2: like making good money. I was like, damn, which is
Speaker 2: a trick to any artists, because when you move out
Speaker 2: here in La ex expensive, you gotta sacrifice. Did I
Speaker 2: come out here to get rich doing this on my dream?
Speaker 2: So I literally stopped working during the night shift's bartending,
Speaker 2: which where you make your bread. So I just said,
Speaker 2: give me lunch shifts, which is a way cut difference.
Speaker 2: But I can do stand up at night. So I
Speaker 2: was like, they even try to make me a manager.
Speaker 2: True story. They was like, yo, why don't you be
Speaker 2: a kitchen manager? You know, I run the kitchen Dadada,
Speaker 2: you can make I forget such and such a year
Speaker 2: And I was like, oh no, I was like twenty five.
Speaker 2: I was like, no, man, I really believe in my
Speaker 2: stand up. I'm good. And they was like okay. And
Speaker 2: then like I got my first TV appearance in two
Speaker 2: thousand and seven, Boom started. Now listen it was PDD persisted,
Speaker 2: bad boys in comedy, this would We didn't know none
Speaker 2: of that. We didn't know none of that.
Speaker 1: I just love how you tried to skate.
Speaker 2: We didn't know none of that, trying to get on HBO.
Speaker 2: Yo did that, and then from there got my first
Speaker 2: writing gage. Short after who I worked for a hell date?
Speaker 2: Oh excuse me? From there, no, I did the TV
Speaker 2: show that Boys and Comedy Booming. Then from there I
Speaker 2: did two TV shows. I did a High Ghetto Mess
Speaker 2: with Charlie Murphy. I was like a co host. And
Speaker 2: then I did a show called Social Offensive Behavior with
Speaker 2: Do Hughey as the host, and it was like hitting
Speaker 2: camera show. So I did that out the gate like boom.
Speaker 2: I still waiting tables, getting recognized, still having serve burgers.
Speaker 2: But you know, it was just the journey.
Speaker 1: So you're still not making enough to like fully support
Speaker 1: you exactly. Are you managing your money.
Speaker 2: Well at this time? Waiting tables? Absolutely, when you do
Speaker 2: those shows, that's when I found out it's not like
Speaker 2: life changing money. Yeah, right, so it's enough money to
Speaker 2: pay some bills. And then my first writing job two
Speaker 2: thousand and eight is when I was able to quit Okay,
Speaker 2: I was able to quit working at waiting tables, and
Speaker 2: that's when it was like a blessing.
Speaker 1: Now, were you a little nervous about well, I guess
Speaker 1: waiting tables work, but were you a little nervous because
Speaker 1: some of these writing shows, like you don't know if
Speaker 1: they're going to continue on?
Speaker 2: And now listen, that's my mom at the time. I
Speaker 2: got my first writing job. Hell date, and I told
Speaker 2: my mom. She's like, but you're not quitting the job.
Speaker 2: The waiting table job, right, some mom was a writing job.
Speaker 2: And she's like, yeah, I understand, but how long is
Speaker 2: the job? Right? And I was like, I don't know,
Speaker 2: whole season? How long is a season? Right? Because I
Speaker 2: was making a thousand dollars a week, so for me,
Speaker 2: that's the most money I've ever made. It's like, okay, cool,
Speaker 2: one thousand of the week in two thousand and eight,
Speaker 2: you know, I'll take it. And then she was like
Speaker 2: but then from there it went from that to the
Speaker 2: BT Awards to Tony Watt Project, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Then it's like I'm in the swing of things. Comedy
Speaker 2: Central hired me in two thousand and like ten, and
Speaker 2: I did like a pilot in twenty eleven. So now
Speaker 2: it's like I'm making money in as you're in ye
Speaker 2: yeah right, it's.
Speaker 1: Like, okay, your name and your resume. You're not even looking.
Speaker 1: They're just calling right, word of mouth everything.
Speaker 2: Now I'm just getting the egg gross.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm just curious, are you at this point
Speaker 1: like an LLC a C Corp? Or are you still
Speaker 1: making money?
Speaker 2: We're still making directly money to me now twenty eleven,
Speaker 2: I shouldn't live in color the reboot. Who think it's
Speaker 2: coming back? Right? It doesn't come back Like, oh that
Speaker 2: kind of hurt because I told everybody back home I'm
Speaker 2: about to be famous.
Speaker 1: That was my favorite. Let me just tell you something
Speaker 1: that was when I was a kid. That was the
Speaker 1: each show that you just had to watch continue absolutely,
Speaker 1: so getting a part to be a part of that
Speaker 1: reboot had to have been like a amazing So.
Speaker 2: It was like guest starring on the Women to guest star, like, okay, cool,
Speaker 2: my character I was doing from stand up Keenan really liked.
Speaker 2: So now I'm like I'm really geeked. Okay, cool that
Speaker 2: happened twenty eleven. It doesn't come out now. We get
Speaker 2: a little hard Time twenty twelve, thirteen twelve, it's like
Speaker 2: I haven't worked. Okay, savings is coming down, you know.
Speaker 2: So then I auditioned to do this show, right called
Speaker 2: Funniest Wins Right, and it was like, I don't like
Speaker 2: competition shows. It's not it's not my thing, right, So
Speaker 2: initially I was like, I don't want to do this show,
Speaker 2: and so I go audition. Tiffany had is there auditioning
Speaker 2: Billy Surrels. Jeannie's at Greenover? Now?
Speaker 1: Is this when they're at the height of their career?
Speaker 2: So no, it's like before they pop up. Now. Tiffany
Speaker 2: was recognizable from a couple of things she did, but
Speaker 2: she hadn't done Girls Trip yet. Okay, So twenty fourteen,
Speaker 2: I do the show, and the audition process they kind
Speaker 2: of I'm a reserve to be on the show, which
Speaker 2: means they haven't decided completely on me. Yeah all right, cool,
Speaker 2: last day of like you know, letting people know, you
Speaker 2: have to know by midnight eleven fifty five literally there,
Speaker 2: so you're gonna be on the show? Wow? Cool? Ended
Speaker 2: up winning the show was the price one hundred thousand dollars. Yeah,
Speaker 2: come listen, that's hilarious. Listen. So I'm dog, so excuse
Speaker 2: me that dog. But like I literally like one hundred thousand.
Speaker 2: They gave it to me at the last episode. I think, okay,
Speaker 2: they're going one hundred grand my account. I go to
Speaker 2: the bank, mama, and like I got on sweats right,
Speaker 2: a T shirt right, And there's this white man in
Speaker 2: a bank, he like, you know, doing his business, and
Speaker 2: this white lady she helped me. She was like, I
Speaker 2: slide the check on her. She was like, just so
Speaker 2: you know, we're gonna have to verify the check so
Speaker 2: the funds will not be available right away.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hear when they do that shit loud attitude.
Speaker 2: And I said, no worries. She goes, you know, check
Speaker 2: goes like that. She goes, oh, seventy thousand is available
Speaker 2: right now, and thirty thousand will be available like in
Speaker 2: such and such that white man will turn around. He
Speaker 2: lived at me. I said, thank you guys very much.
Speaker 2: I walked out. I called my boy like we all like, now,
Speaker 2: was that.
Speaker 1: Your biggest check today at that point?
Speaker 2: Yes? Oh had it at one time? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: Do you look at those game shows a little differently too,
Speaker 1: after that experience, cause I know you said you weren't
Speaker 1: into that before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to anybody, like just the whole feeling of being
Speaker 2: on a game show feels it's not a good feeling. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like the projects build, but
Speaker 2: just compete. It's like, you know what I mean for me,
Speaker 2: but the money absolutely like you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Now you can live your dream a little more freely.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: It's like I'm not so much stress cause I got
Speaker 2: money in the bank.
Speaker 1: Yeah. How much money did you think that that bought
Speaker 1: you at the time?
Speaker 2: A hundred thousand should have lasted me probably a little longer,
Speaker 2: but it last me probably like a year and a half,
Speaker 2: two years.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's great. Most people would have been what was
Speaker 1: the first thing you bought? I was gonna say most people.
Speaker 2: Buy cover shoes. Come on, I had never had Jordan's
Speaker 2: growing up, right, So I literally that's I bought, Like
Speaker 2: any Jordan I wanted. I bought like maybe ten pair
Speaker 2: of shoes, and my boys like, what the hell are
Speaker 2: you doing? It was like I never had shoes. Y'all
Speaker 2: had shoes growing up, like I never had, like you
Speaker 2: know what I mean? So I did that. I went
Speaker 2: to like Dubai. I went to Dubai. I took my mom. So, Mom,
Speaker 2: well go anywhere in the world where you wanna go.
Speaker 2: She's like, what anywhere in the world, Mama, anywhere you
Speaker 2: wanna go? She was like, I wanna go to Vegas, Mama.
Speaker 2: Me and Daddy got married to Vegas. I wanna go
Speaker 2: back to Vegas and I want to play lots. Mama,
Speaker 2: we go to Hawaii, we go to France Vegas. Took
Speaker 2: her to Vegas. Took myself to Dubai.
Speaker 1: Okay, did you don't bring anybody with you to Dubai. No,
Speaker 1: you did a solo trip.
Speaker 2: Which was nerve wrecking. But my partner always told me
Speaker 2: and said, whenever you get a check, take your where
Speaker 2: take take you take yourself somewhere where you can put
Speaker 2: your foot in the water and it be reflection all
Speaker 2: the hard work you did. And so my choice was God,
Speaker 2: I love that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Who was the homie that gave you that advice?
Speaker 2: His name was David Arnold.
Speaker 1: Okay, David Arnold. I freaking loved him.
Speaker 2: He gave me the advice, and I was like, okay, bad,
Speaker 2: So that's what I That's what I do. Wheneverybody do
Speaker 2: with something like I feel like worthy of like, okay,
Speaker 2: celebrate myself, cause I've been conditioned like just to do
Speaker 2: the work, you know. I man, I've been really broke before, right,
Speaker 2: So it's like waiting tables. I'll never forget that stuff
Speaker 2: like that. So it's like I never try to like
Speaker 2: party or kick it too hard work Like I'm not
Speaker 2: doing work, so I try to wake up early, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, make sure I'm getting stuff done,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, that kind of condition myself.
Speaker 2: But then yeah, my special basically reflects of the triumphs
Speaker 2: of going through certain things in your life, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. Where I had my place broken up
Speaker 2: by somebody else, dealing with my family stole like you
Speaker 2: know about fifty thousand dollars for me, I say, it
Speaker 2: was the kind of my mother.
Speaker 1: Did you end up repairing that relationship in the end.
Speaker 2: Absolutely nothing. That's my friends say you're gonna do another
Speaker 2: special to address that, and I was thinking maybe, but
Speaker 2: that's dead, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you you go, let's go back to Dubai.
Speaker 1: So you're your go to Dubai. Living color doesn't come out,
Speaker 1: but you're still where does the going on tour with
Speaker 1: Marlon Wayne's.
Speaker 2: And all that that happens. Okay, So I went Funniest
Speaker 2: Wins twenty fourteen, going toward Marlin probably around later two
Speaker 2: thousand and twenty fifteen, right he asked me to go
Speaker 2: on a road with him to I think the first
Speaker 2: place was Nashville, Tennessee. We went, yeah, in Nashville, Tennessee.
Speaker 2: Because I had been doing stand up longer.
Speaker 1: Than Marland, so like you said, you had.
Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely, I've been doing a cent away longer than Marlin.
Speaker 2: So I've been doing stand up probably a decade before
Speaker 2: Marlin start.
Speaker 1: But was the call did it? Was it like oh
Speaker 1: my gosh? Or was it because you guys had been
Speaker 1: working together so long?
Speaker 2: It was like whatever, No, it's never whenever, when you
Speaker 2: get to work with a superstar, you get to learn.
Speaker 2: Now we develop a close relationship over time, but initially,
Speaker 2: like he would be in clubs doing stand up, so
Speaker 2: he was approachable, so we knew him, so it wasn't
Speaker 2: a starstruck moment. And like I've been knowing the family
Speaker 2: for a minute through Chante and Damon Junr Like and
Speaker 2: Damon Junior kind of start stand up together. Okay, So
Speaker 2: it was definitely like a he was like, you know,
Speaker 2: a cool moment, you want to do a road date,
Speaker 2: like okay, bet, yeah, very excited. And then you learn
Speaker 2: a lot, you know what I mean, Like as he's
Speaker 2: learning the craft that stand up and like you know,
Speaker 2: from being an actor, it's like you kind of learn
Speaker 2: how to be a star, you know, and how he
Speaker 2: deals with different things, his work ethic, like that man
Speaker 2: gets he works out every day before.
Speaker 1: The show, works out as it hits the gym every day.
Speaker 2: And I never assume that Marlin works out so much
Speaker 2: during the day, eats very well, and his body is
Speaker 2: like a machine. And then you realize, like, damn, I
Speaker 2: do I could eat a little better as I sit
Speaker 2: here coachest all.
Speaker 1: The butter that you talk about.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, yeah, but listen he had my I'm a little.
Speaker 1: Confused because Marlon. Marlon was always on the thinner side. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he always worked out a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this man work out.
Speaker 1: I mean he looks I'm not even gonna lie like,
Speaker 1: he looks amazing, like you know, but that's that's double
Speaker 1: the little aggroll things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's because it's our last meet.
Speaker 1: Okay, cool, I'm really invested in this meal and the story. Guys,
Speaker 1: this is so when you get the first tour date,
Speaker 1: are you what are the emotions of that?
Speaker 2: I have it on tour before with him though, Oh
Speaker 2: with him, it was just that we go to Nashville,
Speaker 2: you know, then you kind of like go to the show,
Speaker 2: do my time, you know what I mean? And I
Speaker 2: kind of help him with his stand up as far
Speaker 2: as like if I have a joke I think can
Speaker 2: benefit him off what he was saying, you know, give
Speaker 2: him that. Well now now because I'm worst baby, Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: give him that. And then it became like consistent and
Speaker 2: now we developed like you know, a friendship more. And
Speaker 2: then like he was preparing for it first special and
Speaker 2: that was real fun because you like got a tour
Speaker 2: bus and we go across the country like performing.
Speaker 1: Oh and most comedians they don't really just give jokes,
Speaker 1: by the way, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: But see it's like when people are like you establish
Speaker 2: a relationship with somebody, It's like, yeah, I can make
Speaker 2: money charging jokes, but this man has brought me on
Speaker 2: a road. It's like a rapport. It's like whoever I
Speaker 2: go on a road with, it's like the opportunity to
Speaker 2: be on the road, thank you. So if I have something,
Speaker 2: it would behoove me to tell you, because it's like
Speaker 2: it's not even you know, and my blessing ain't attached
Speaker 2: to your success, you know what I mean. So it's like, yes,
Speaker 2: it says, doesn't mean I'm not gonna get blessed. So
Speaker 2: if I have something for you, I'm give it to you.
Speaker 1: Now. I had seen you do the stand up at
Speaker 1: the Black Party and I love him. Yeah, shout outs
Speaker 1: to Chris Spencer and the Elliott Brothers. You have a
Speaker 1: lot out of jokes, you know, I don't think I
Speaker 1: saw all your jokes that I've seen in person on
Speaker 1: the special. At what point do you how do you
Speaker 1: figure out which jokes are you going to release? Because
Speaker 1: we're in a digital age and you know, like some
Speaker 1: that's a hard call to which jokes you're gonna to
Speaker 1: kind of give up, you know, and so when you
Speaker 1: do a special, you kind of technically in my mind,
Speaker 1: I would assume you're like retiring the joke, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's what story am I telling? Right? So if
Speaker 2: I'm telling my cup is full, all the things in
Speaker 2: my cup that have made me anxious and my points
Speaker 2: of view, those bits gotta go in there, okay. And
Speaker 2: so there's like, okay relationships. When I talk about the
Speaker 2: letty who broke up my place, now I can retire
Speaker 2: the dating my dating perspective going into love is blind. Boom.
Speaker 2: Now it's like, Okay, suicide, I could talk about that
Speaker 2: because I've dealt with that in my family. Boom, do
Speaker 2: that then get to my mom. So it's really basically
Speaker 2: I choose by the theme of the show. So like
Speaker 2: I'm you know, I mean debating if my next specials
Speaker 2: called two Things Can be True, there's a bunch of
Speaker 2: perspectives of how tooth pe can be true. Those will
Speaker 2: go into the bucket of like what would be decided
Speaker 2: to perform, Like random jokes won't make it right. So
Speaker 2: it's like random jokes that are just kind of funny
Speaker 2: or people might know me from. If it doesn't fit
Speaker 2: the Oprahall theme or what I'm trying to do, then
Speaker 2: those don't make it. Those can live online.
Speaker 1: How often are you planning to release specials?
Speaker 2: Now? It feels so good just to release his last one.
Speaker 2: I want to Now I'm like, oh, I want to
Speaker 2: release another one in a few months. Okay, So I'm
Speaker 2: thinking two a year right now, maybe two three years?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, they seeing at least a deep due kind
Speaker 2: of like the blueprint of like putting out a bunch
Speaker 2: of good quality product. Its like influenced me to be like, yo,
Speaker 2: if you keep putting great product out there, people will
Speaker 2: keep coming back, you know what I mean. So I
Speaker 2: think he set the bar on the hustle on how
Speaker 2: to put out your own product online.
Speaker 1: Really so, did you have to finance the project?
Speaker 2: No, this woean was finance for me. They actually called
Speaker 2: me they had a spot available, right I didn't. I
Speaker 2: was trying to shoot my special, you know, thinking about
Speaker 2: it putting together. These people call my manager were like, hey,
Speaker 2: we have a slot open. Would he like it? You
Speaker 2: know what I mean? Say, we're paying for the special?
Speaker 2: Like oh absolutely.
Speaker 1: Now it releases on YouTube or on YouTube, but it's
Speaker 1: under their financing.
Speaker 2: So how does this it's under their YouTube so their
Speaker 2: YouTube pages. Yes, a one hundred pound gorilla, they have
Speaker 2: like five hundred and twenty some thousand subscribers on their page.
Speaker 2: So release on their page and we're doing well, like
Speaker 2: the mixed with like my push and they put some
Speaker 2: advertising behind it. We dropped it yesterday and it said
Speaker 2: sixty thousand views already, so the goal is to get
Speaker 2: it to a million, so I think we do on
Speaker 2: track of doing it.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, that's awesome, thank you.
Speaker 2: And look these egg rolls you want to put in
Speaker 2: here just two three minutes aside they use a rack
Speaker 2: or you can use them four just to kind of
Speaker 2: let a drain cut this greasauce so we don't burn
Speaker 2: ourselves boom and then you kind of clean as you
Speaker 2: go because all therapy boom boom, kind of as you
Speaker 2: will as you go as you go. But let me
Speaker 2: set you at first, this is our we'll use this
Speaker 2: as a plating dish.
Speaker 1: Besides the little bit of a gap in what was
Speaker 1: like the biggest hurdle that you feel like you had
Speaker 1: to you ended up going through during your whole career.
Speaker 2: With my mother's health, Like you know, she's alive, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. I think I think the biggest
Speaker 2: journey currently would be you feel like away being away
Speaker 2: from her now for you know what I mean. So
Speaker 2: it's like she's able to take care of herself, but
Speaker 2: like because I've lost family and like you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: it's like every moment I'm away, like working or doing
Speaker 2: something that has to be valuable time spent, because when
Speaker 2: you're away from her, you be feeling like a bad son.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, so I think the hardest thing in therapy
Speaker 2: is to learn that I'm not a bad son. I'm
Speaker 2: doing what's best for my family. But I think just
Speaker 2: because I've lost family, every moment i'm away from her
Speaker 2: sometimes can feel guilty, you know what i mean? So yeah, wow,
Speaker 2: got deep on you? What so the everyone was ready,
Speaker 2: I'm super happy. So I'm gonna cut it for you.
Speaker 2: Cut it in a half quick. I'm stand a really
Speaker 2: to that.
Speaker 1: Look at the crunch or you're trying to do a presentation, hilarious.
Speaker 1: If you're trying to be fancy and there's no cheese, I've.
Speaker 2: Done cheese before with the stream Ones, whatever you're trying
Speaker 2: to be fancy, it's just kind of like, you know,
Speaker 2: spread you're hilarious.
Speaker 1: I'm a real person. That he's real. I'm from New York.
Speaker 1: I you real?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: You really getting into this? Look at this, guys, you're
Speaker 1: gonna see me chump jump jump jump jump. Look at it.
Speaker 1: It looks great. Is there a reason why there's no
Speaker 1: cheese in it? I'm just curious, just to cut down,
Speaker 1: just cut back. Now, this isn't considered a broke dish.
Speaker 2: Is it. I mean, the chicken guys are pretty inexpensive, right,
Speaker 2: and so most people got mustard man mustard and ketchup
Speaker 2: in their house already with hot sauce. Go ahead, do
Speaker 2: you think, Oh my god, yeah right, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yo, this is it? This is it in the sauce. Guys,
Speaker 1: did we did you explain what mixed?
Speaker 2: We do ketchup de Jon muster because it got a
Speaker 2: little more bite to it hot sauce and again this
Speaker 2: from YouTube, and I see it like meat. So I
Speaker 2: do glic powder, I do onion powder, I do pepper,
Speaker 2: and I do salt.
Speaker 1: And that egg rolled paper, Oh my god.
Speaker 2: I like the vegan wraps. Why I I was good
Speaker 2: and I got a non v rock. It was too christy,
Speaker 2: like too much, too much shelved meal.
Speaker 1: So we couldn't find it at first, and we got
Speaker 1: the one that you said. But we were like, man,
Speaker 1: he obviously he's not vegan. And I said, maybe there's
Speaker 1: a reason to it. So we went Yeah, they sell
Speaker 1: it at Target. I don't know if they sell it
Speaker 1: all the grocery stores.
Speaker 2: So, guys, you.
Speaker 1: Know what I'm eating for dinner tonight, good money, cut
Speaker 1: down some ship and just so you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: giving you any credit.
Speaker 2: You're not supposed to no, but you tell that person, yeah,
Speaker 2: it was all me, you know what I mean, top
Speaker 2: of my head type of business.
Speaker 1: Then when the episode drives, you know.
Speaker 2: You could cut me out of the episode, like, look,
Speaker 2: I made chicken ear rows, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Honestly, do you ever notice this? I don't know. For me,
Speaker 1: I feel like the closer my circle is, the less
Speaker 1: they've watched my stuff.
Speaker 2: Because they're so used to you.
Speaker 1: Probably my will be like, I don't know, I've never
Speaker 1: really watched it. You know, I'm like, oh okay, it's
Speaker 1: like four years later.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get the side too. You can't waste it.
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 1: What advice?
Speaker 2: You can get a hole if you want, I will.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 1: The hardest part about the show is if someone cuts
Speaker 1: something really good and I know you're on a time crunch,
Speaker 1: but I'll usually be like, call up for like two
Speaker 1: seconds so we can enjoy this. Damn I got distracted.
Speaker 2: M that was good.
Speaker 1: This is delicious advice. Yeah, any advice for Thank you
Speaker 1: for catching me on that. M for comics, yeah, for
Speaker 1: comics and then secondly for people dealing with stress.
Speaker 2: MM. I say for comics, two things. Mm your first
Speaker 2: couple of years and stand up, stop worrying about being good.
Speaker 2: Really it's like, really, just learn how to be comfortable.
Speaker 2: It's like when you get into a boxing ring, you
Speaker 2: have to learn boxing. You have to learn how to
Speaker 2: be a doctor. Yeah, even if you've been doing it
Speaker 2: a year, you have to learn certain techniques to get
Speaker 2: you to be at a level where people trust you.
Speaker 2: So when your first couple years of comedy, just do
Speaker 2: so many reps to learn and don't worry about like
Speaker 2: even posting videos right now. Your p stand up for
Speaker 2: six months is not gonna hit like you're stand up
Speaker 2: when you're doing it for four to five years. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So when we're being a rushed or like showcase yourself
Speaker 2: being a rush to build yourself and then really work
Speaker 2: on your audience. When you want to promote a video
Speaker 2: real quick, you be doing set up six months, don't
Speaker 2: put up the stand up video, put up. You just
Speaker 2: work on gaining your audience. And when your voice becomes
Speaker 2: more mature and stand up, that's when you attack them.
Speaker 2: The first time. They first impression of you should be like,
Speaker 2: oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: Right, wait, how do you go back to how do
Speaker 1: you work on gaining your audience?
Speaker 2: That's like whatever it is that you do, what you're doing,
Speaker 2: you cook, right, so then you have a show about cooking.
Speaker 2: So online, find out what you know, what your niche is,
Speaker 2: if it's like doing reaction videos, if it skits, if
Speaker 2: it's like posting stand up videos, just be cons consistent
Speaker 2: on all platforms and then listen. They got streaming university.
Speaker 2: I'm forty three. I'll be learning from these dudes. Stay
Speaker 2: consistent and go live on TikTok every day. What's a
Speaker 2: trending song I can attach to my comedy like learn
Speaker 2: like learn the brand of online. Focus on that, right,
Speaker 2: it's a new era. Focus on that and build your
Speaker 2: stand up and then present it when the food ready.
Speaker 2: We can't eat raw chicken, you'll stand up raw in
Speaker 2: the first year. You ain't cooked it yet, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. So just focus on that and then
Speaker 2: when it's ready, present that to the world. But like,
Speaker 2: focus on the hours it takes to be great, which
Speaker 2: is like putting in the time of doing stand up anywhere.
Speaker 2: Coffee shops. It don't matter.
Speaker 1: But now how do they stay keep that consistency focusing
Speaker 1: on the reps if they get say booed, because they're
Speaker 1: not focusing on the laughter.
Speaker 2: Or what every fact.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, here's napkins.
Speaker 2: Every time you gonna say, you learn something. So if
Speaker 2: you got boo that's fine. I got boog before. I
Speaker 2: still put our special came out to this girl. From
Speaker 2: the consistency and learning off that bed preparation, you learn stuff.
Speaker 2: Curry might go three from fifteen from the floor. He's
Speaker 2: still the greatest shooter of all times. He's gonna keep
Speaker 2: putting up shots. So there's the consistency and the work ethic.
Speaker 2: And you might be bad, and you can go to
Speaker 2: a trainer, which is somebody or older comedian. Can I
Speaker 2: give you some advice? Go back to the fight?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, it's like any movie the boxer got beat
Speaker 2: up and then he wins in the end. You're just
Speaker 2: getting beat up right now?
Speaker 1: Who was your go to person that kind of was
Speaker 1: that person that would different.
Speaker 2: Says in my career. When I first started, it was Alizadi.
Speaker 2: He's the first person that kind of put me on
Speaker 2: stage and they gave me a guest set knew my
Speaker 2: brother you know me and him. Then it became like
Speaker 2: Chris Spencer, then Tony Rock took me on the road
Speaker 2: originally Marlin. Right now Ian Edwards big influence, he's a writer,
Speaker 2: big influence in my stand up when I was, you know,
Speaker 2: around him. So right now I have like a circle
Speaker 2: of people I trust Tyler James Roywood Jr. Ali if
Speaker 2: I have something, or my boy Chris Tremo. It's a
Speaker 2: circle of people I trust with my excuse me, my thoughts.
Speaker 2: I might not necessarily want a joke from you, but
Speaker 2: how can you expand my thought on this premise? And
Speaker 2: then attack is extra? But like, how can you open
Speaker 2: my eyes? So I got like maybe four or five people.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like they or was it a case
Speaker 1: where they were attracted to you because they saw your
Speaker 1: because you're very infectious, like you're very like, oh my
Speaker 1: god us like I love him like you know? Was
Speaker 1: it was it one of those cases where you approach them.
Speaker 1: I would imagine it was them approaching you like I
Speaker 1: see this diamond with friends, okay, friendship.
Speaker 2: So it's like the people I'm close with, my circle
Speaker 2: works extremely hard to right. So we're trying to help
Speaker 2: each other. So if Tyler I said something on stage
Speaker 2: when he come off, if my brain's like, oh boom,
Speaker 2: come here now, I might not take the time with
Speaker 2: somebody I don't know as much. And then if they
Speaker 2: asked me and I've seen it cool. But with my
Speaker 2: my friends about love, like Tyler, check on my mama,
Speaker 2: I send her stuff and I'm not even knowing. It's
Speaker 2: like flowers, like whatever Tyler needs.
Speaker 1: That Taylor, we love you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's like whatever you need. It's like in
Speaker 2: that moment, I you know, I'm submissive with my talent
Speaker 2: to you. You know what I mean, because it's like
Speaker 2: I love you my friends.
Speaker 1: So and that's very hard to get in la. Do
Speaker 1: you feel like comedy is more of a loving From
Speaker 1: what I've seen in comedy up, I have friends in
Speaker 1: it or family in it, it feels like it's it's weird.
Speaker 1: From the outside, it feels like it's very supportive. Even
Speaker 1: going to your special and seeing all the comics that
Speaker 1: came out, it's like it's it's weird. You hear about
Speaker 1: a little bit of hater aid, but for the most part,
Speaker 1: there's like this family system.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like any other job, like professional sports, you
Speaker 2: got teamate probably don't fuck with each other as much,
Speaker 2: or you don't like each other as much your regular job.
Speaker 2: God be discerned. Not everybody don't like each other, but
Speaker 2: you do have people that we're like a support system.
Speaker 2: The majority of people want to see you win. There's
Speaker 2: got some people that maybe don't right what you want
Speaker 2: to write several people or listen to that noise us
Speaker 2: to write several people that love you. You know they
Speaker 2: want to see you win. Like even yesterday, for example,
Speaker 2: I work on wild'n Out, Like I'm consulting that shelfe
Speaker 2: you like you don't question some time and so I
Speaker 2: was like talking to Tyler. He was like, have you
Speaker 2: reached out for anybody to cast to help you promote
Speaker 2: your special? And I was like, no, I've got everybody number.
Speaker 2: He was like one second he literally put me in
Speaker 2: a group text Hey Justina you know see it. She's
Speaker 2: like yeah, she calls me a sister. He's like, you
Speaker 2: helped me with his special. Just drop send me the
Speaker 2: information con conceded what you need, man, send me the
Speaker 2: information DC young Flag send me. So it's like, you know,
Speaker 2: they just naturally it's like Marlon, he puts out a
Speaker 2: video for me. So it's like Ralph Ralph Bobosa. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he put out a video. He accepted my collaboration of
Speaker 2: him like shouting me out. Forty thousand people heard about
Speaker 2: my special because in doing that, So it's like it's
Speaker 2: the thing you do in CONU to report people like
Speaker 2: you care about. You know, you mess with, you don't
Speaker 2: mind doing whatever it takes for them to like get
Speaker 2: a good shot.
Speaker 1: I love that. I love that. All right, Well, is
Speaker 1: there any place that we could keep up with everything, Sydney?
Speaker 1: And do you already have the next special lineup? Or
Speaker 1: should we just focus on I feel like we should
Speaker 1: just focus on my cup is full and how important
Speaker 1: it is to support, but not only support, but like share.
Speaker 2: Right please right now, go to meet Sidney can steal
Speaker 2: dot com.
Speaker 1: So you said it's so fast, all right.
Speaker 2: Go to meet Sydney cansteal dot com. That's s Y
Speaker 2: D N E Y castillo c A S T I
Speaker 2: l O dot and you can see where I'm torn.
Speaker 2: I'll be in Charlotte, North Carolina, August twenty first and
Speaker 2: twenty third. Right now, please go to YouTube type in
Speaker 2: my cup is full. My hour special is available right now.
Speaker 2: It's a sixty thousand views. IM trying to get it
Speaker 2: to one hundred thousand views by the end of the week.
Speaker 1: We can do that easy, and.
Speaker 2: So like, just support it of My Cup is Fool,
Speaker 2: My Coup is full, the podcast is out. You don't
Speaker 2: support that, and just if you got anxiety.
Speaker 1: With My Cup is Full, of the podcast is out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it started with a podcast. Okay, So I have
Speaker 2: a podcast called My Cup is Fool where I talk
Speaker 2: about the situations I talked about my special, talk about
Speaker 2: the real stories of them actually happening, and like how
Speaker 2: I felt about them. So it's more of a podcast.
Speaker 2: If a man who has anxiety and thinks he's going
Speaker 2: on in his life through a podcast form and I
Speaker 2: have guests, but take out the special. And if you
Speaker 2: have anxiety, like you ain't weird, especially as a black dude,
Speaker 2: you feel like insecure because when that attack happens, you
Speaker 2: feel defenseless. Tell somebody you know, check yourself into therapy
Speaker 2: because it does help.
Speaker 1: And that's like talk therapy helps you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah in person.
Speaker 1: Yeah, some medication, but you don't do the medication anymore.
Speaker 2: Nah, Nah, I don't really like the medication for me,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, I like talk
Speaker 2: therapy and I do take some medicine if I'm having
Speaker 2: an attack. I don't take a daily like lexipro like
Speaker 2: they be able to want me to. I don't take
Speaker 2: that as much anymore. But if you are having a
Speaker 2: panic attack, I will say this works. All the remedies
Speaker 2: to me, don't be working. If you feel overwhelmed and
Speaker 2: you're doing that and you're feeling this overwhelming feeling, get
Speaker 2: a piece of ice. I know it sounds silly, get
Speaker 2: a piece of ice rubbing in your hand, okay, because
Speaker 2: the coldness of the ice will shock your brain and
Speaker 2: you instantly be just thinking about how cold it is
Speaker 2: and you will settle what Trust me, I know. It's
Speaker 2: like the TikTok acts. I was like, man, whatever I
Speaker 2: was having one, I said, I did like this. You
Speaker 2: learned it from TikTok Dog that's TikTok University.
Speaker 1: Now have you had people approach you like where they
Speaker 1: were like, man, I haven't told anybody about my anxiety
Speaker 1: and or like what I've been feeling, like this allows
Speaker 1: me to be comfortable.
Speaker 2: Or yeah, the podcast helps with that a lot. Like
Speaker 2: healthy the special will too. After my shows, a lot
Speaker 2: of black men come up to me like, yo, I
Speaker 2: got an episode called DDG did that a game? Right?
Speaker 2: I talk about losing your father? And then a lot
Speaker 2: of men came with to me have the show like
Speaker 2: dark that episode, and a lot to me like I'll
Speaker 2: be going through the same feelings. So it's like that
Speaker 2: form of like expressing what I go through has definitely
Speaker 2: allowed me to meet people like me, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. It looked like me, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So it's like I'm happy for that. I didn't start
Speaker 2: it for that, but like if I could like tell
Speaker 2: my story and somebody like be influenced or feel comfortable
Speaker 2: enough to come up to me and be like yo,
Speaker 2: I'll be feeling insecure I be feeling like this, then
Speaker 2: it's working what I'm doing, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I feel like when you're as vulnerable as you've been,
Speaker 1: as easy for people. I hate to say this word
Speaker 1: cause I sound like really lame, but like you know,
Speaker 1: it's easy for people to love you versus like just
Speaker 1: like you. They're like, oh my god, I feel a
Speaker 1: connection because of that level of vulnerability. The one question
Speaker 1: I didn't ask, and I know you have got like
Speaker 1: one minute left. Is how much of a pivotal role
Speaker 1: did your father play and who you are today?
Speaker 2: M big And my father was older so when like
Speaker 2: we was outside doing things together a lot, he was older.
Speaker 2: So he helped me with like a perspective, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. His whole thing was like even with
Speaker 2: me pursuing his dream like and not going to college
Speaker 2: like that, his whole thing was like, have a plan
Speaker 2: and make sure God is a part of your plan. Right.
Speaker 2: That was my one my first tattoos, and it was like, okay, cool.
Speaker 2: So as long as I was had a plan of action,
Speaker 2: he didn't care. He knew right now, he said, And
Speaker 2: he's just say, your situation doesn't define you how you
Speaker 2: come out, your situation does, right.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: And so like this is back in the time when
Speaker 2: I first started TV. The Bad Boy's the thing I
Speaker 2: told you about my favorite memories of my pop. It
Speaker 2: was like it was on DVD and he was in
Speaker 2: his office and then like randomly I walked into office
Speaker 2: and he was like this maybe a year after it
Speaker 2: came out and he was watching it. I said, what
Speaker 2: you're doing? He was like, I'm watching my son and
Speaker 2: he was so proud. So that's probably the moment I'm like, man,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. He was heavily influenced on
Speaker 2: just like my mindset. It was like how to approach things,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, how to deal with people,
Speaker 2: even women like. He was very influential on like respect
Speaker 2: and things like that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, yeah, all right, Wow, I feel like
Speaker 1: I got to fully understand the make of Sydney Steeler.
Speaker 2: I'll appreciate you.
Speaker 1: I'm saying it right, am I still bhering like a
Speaker 1: who Castillo? Castillo? You know what? That's how you know
Speaker 1: I'm from like New York because I can't even say
Speaker 1: a polo local from New York Brooklyn and know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. But yeah, even you see me struggling with uphold,
Speaker 1: I know people are like you. I'm like, I am
Speaker 1: way too old to be struggling. But thank you so
Speaker 1: much for spending quality time and feeding me a really
Speaker 1: great meal. And I can't wait for the cameras to
Speaker 1: cut so we can dig in. So thank you. Piece
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