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Speaker 1: Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Colleen wat and today we have very

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Speaker 1: special guest, comedian actor Nabed Green in the building.

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Speaker 2: How you doing.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for taking time out of your schedule to

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Speaker 1: come hang with me.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, for sure. Yes.

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Speaker 1: So what are you gonna have us eating today?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 2: Chicken tacos.

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Speaker 1: Chicken tacos? Okay, pretty simple.

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Speaker 2: It sounds simple, but not the way I make it out.

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Speaker 2: Is it gonna be good? Oh? Definitely that okay?

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Speaker 1: Okay, what are the ingredients for your chicken tacos?

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Speaker 2: I got a few dice onions, some Tyson grilled chicken breast,

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Speaker 2: We got some grape value pepper jack cheese. Then we

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Speaker 2: sprinkle on top of that, and we got.

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Speaker 1: Some kyeso okay, and then you have salt and sor.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's your discretion' I didn't have that.

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Speaker 1: But so we're gonna have kyso in the tacos.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we just sprinkled.

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Speaker 4: You got you got my interest problem.

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Speaker 1: By the way, when you said a few onions, you

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Speaker 1: was real serious. It's like a little splash.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, cause you don't want to overdo it.

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Speaker 2: You don't want to overdo it. You don't want to

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Speaker 2: take away that flavor of the chicken. So that's why

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Speaker 2: I always do that.

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Speaker 1: And then I heard you ask earlier if the butter

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Speaker 1: was salted. Is there a reason?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I won't put that much uh season salt

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Speaker 2: on my uh chicken cause you don't want to overdo

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Speaker 2: that as well. Yeah, I I know, I sound like

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Speaker 2: a real chef. I could have been one problem.

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Speaker 1: You're having with this. Yeah, okay, So take me back

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Speaker 1: to what was going on in the Chicken Chicken taco

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Speaker 1: air of brokeness.

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Speaker 2: Mainly, I think doing that chicken was a lot cheaper,

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Speaker 2: So if you want tacos, I think chicken was was cheaper,

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Speaker 2: and then you felt like it was being healthier because

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Speaker 2: it was going through that phase with beef and pork.

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Speaker 2: How we was kind of like trying to lay off

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Speaker 2: of it. And then plus I think taco Tuesday, like

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Speaker 2: people now, you know, feel like you only could eat

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Speaker 2: tacos on Tuesday, but tacos are good essential meal. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So is this dish go back to being in your

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Speaker 1: home with your parents or is this college? Is this before?

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Speaker 2: It's a lot, it's a little both.

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Speaker 1: Take me there.

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Speaker 2: I think at home it was either like this, I

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Speaker 2: felt like this was like a gourmet meal. And plus

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Speaker 2: with these kind of chicken, With this kind of chicken,

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Speaker 2: you could do so much with it afreido, we can

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Speaker 2: do tacos. So it was like multi purpose. So anytime

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Speaker 2: I bought this chicken, I know it could last me

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Speaker 2: the week.

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Speaker 1: Now, did you did you buy the pre made ones?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is pre Oh you never did the raw?

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Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, no, because that costs more.

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Speaker 1: It costs more for the raw.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because you're getting the chicken breast. Then you gotta

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Speaker 2: cut it this already, come cut. It's only so much

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Speaker 2: you could do in a in a dorm room as well.

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Speaker 2: And then at the house.

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Speaker 1: Okay, did you come from two parent household? Middle class?

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Speaker 2: Rich for well, two parents, but we was a little

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Speaker 2: under middle class okay, yeah, but we was to two parent.

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Speaker 1: Okay, nice. And then you went to college for a year?

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Speaker 1: Four years? Oh finally a college dropout. I've been, man,

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Speaker 1: the last couple of interviews, everyone's so educated.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, man, and that's just a waste of time. And

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Speaker 2: guess what they're doing same place as me. So that

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Speaker 2: just going to show you. But nah, real, real talk.

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Speaker 2: Like I went to college just because my parents were

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Speaker 2: telling me, like, man, you know, go to college. We

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Speaker 2: felt like that was the right thing to do. But

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Speaker 2: once I got to college, I was like, man, after

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Speaker 2: I started dropping them first couple classes and I was

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Speaker 2: doing work study and got that first refund check, I'm like,

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Speaker 2: I'm out of here.

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Speaker 1: You got to check from school.

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Speaker 2: Then you dipped. No, no, no, I ain't gonna lie.

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Speaker 2: I got the sick one too. So the you know

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Speaker 2: how they do it in disbursements. I think I said

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Speaker 2: it right. So when they said that, I was like.

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Speaker 1: Nah, okay, so you drop out of school. What are

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Speaker 2: I had to think about it because I didn't man,

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Speaker 2: I didn't care what I just you know, anytime somebody

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Speaker 2: just go to school for business, they don't know what

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Speaker 2: they're doing, It's like, why what point?

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Speaker 1: Well, we want money at the end of this, so

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Speaker 1: we'll just choose the option business.

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Speaker 2: But I went there and I was taking up certain

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Speaker 2: certain classes, and then after I would get out of class,

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Speaker 2: I would like be joking in the be joking outside

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Speaker 2: by the calf and stuff like that. And this one

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Speaker 2: girl had told me. She was like, man, she was like,

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Speaker 2: you really got talent. So her saying that, I was like,

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Speaker 2: what you mean? She was like you could be like

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Speaker 2: an entertainer or something like that. And when she said that,

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Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, I ain't coming back.

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Speaker 1: So all iok.

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Speaker 2: Was one girl and I don't even know her name.

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Speaker 2: She probably don't even know she she changed the trajectory

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Speaker 2: of my life. Wow, well not trajectory, cause I was

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Speaker 2: gonna do it anyway, but I did it faster.

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Speaker 1: Okay fast.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: She was like, I'm not even gonna waste some man.

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Speaker 2: I didn't even waste the time because when when I

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Speaker 2: sending you information about dorms and stuff like that. So

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Speaker 2: my mom was like, uh uh you didn't give me

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Speaker 2: the paper to fill out your dorm information. I was like, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 2: uh I'm not going back. She's like, when you was

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Speaker 2: gonna tell me? I was like, uh, I been thinking

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Speaker 2: about it. So, you know, saying that to your mom

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Speaker 2: and stuff like that, and she you gotta think just

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Speaker 2: a year before you done. Just had a a high

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Speaker 2: school graduation party. Everybody bringing you all this stuff to

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Speaker 2: go to college with. But they don't realize when you

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Speaker 2: get to college that money goes so fast and it's

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Speaker 2: before cash up. So like I had aunties and stuff

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Speaker 2: spend it all that man, I can't spend nowhere. Well nah,

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Speaker 2: So it was just that and there it just felt

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Speaker 2: why you down there cause you still at home. It

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Speaker 2: was different. You could go out and hang, but in

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Speaker 1: You feel me and then you don't have a lot

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Speaker 1: of money, right, So I didn't go back. So you

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Speaker 1: but you went back to mama's house.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I ain't had no choice. I ain't have a plan.

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Speaker 1: So what you say when you're like, hey, epiphany, change,

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Speaker 1: I'm not doing this? Did she ask the good old

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Speaker 1: what do you? What's your plan?

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Speaker 2: Uh? So to be transparent with you. When I was

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Speaker 2: in high school, I had did this show called Your Mama.

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Speaker 2: It was an MTV Your Mama Show, and I had

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Speaker 2: one a couple episodes on that. So after I won,

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Speaker 2: I knew then like I could do it. I wanted

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Speaker 2: So I like, boom. So now I'm in college. So

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Speaker 2: when I come back, I'm like, I'm gonna work this

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Speaker 2: go to LA. That was my whole plan. Okay, So

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Speaker 2: I'm working at the Congress Center stacking my little money.

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Speaker 2: And when I say little, it was little because once

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Speaker 2: money was going so quick. Like the money I saved up.

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Speaker 2: It was to share a room. I said, bruh. And

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Speaker 2: you know how when your parents tell you something like

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Speaker 2: you think life ease, I'm like, man, she don't know. Man.

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Speaker 2: My mama knew, like my dad, he never really tried

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Speaker 2: him thinking like, sometimes you got to just find out

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Speaker 2: by yourself. And I found out. So I stayed out

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Speaker 1: Like four five months, and what happened.

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Speaker 2: Ship out right back in Atlanta.

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Speaker 1: No way. Yeah, did you so you were did you

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Speaker 1: at least do the shared room thing?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Okay, so that ran up? And what did you do

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Speaker 2: I met. I met a couple of people I had knew. Uh,

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Speaker 2: this guy Brendan Lewis, I knew him from he had

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Speaker 2: did to Your Mama show as well. And I met

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Speaker 2: a a few comedians while I was out there. But

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Speaker 2: it was like I didn't understand in LA, like you

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, l A is weird because they like make

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I saw that. So sometimes when I first

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Speaker 2: was staying out there in Palmdale.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's far you was on another island.

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Speaker 2: Listen shared room, No, I have my own room. Listen.

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Speaker 2: So when I'm in Palmdale, I'm running the metro link

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Speaker 2: to the city that I didn't.

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Speaker 1: Even know they had a metro linoponent. I've been there twice.

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Speaker 2: Whatever the big train is. Yeah, yeah, it come down

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Speaker 2: to the city. So when I how long is that right?

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Speaker 1: Like two hours? No?

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Speaker 2: No, it's not even alone. Forty five minutes. Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 2: well it's not that far.

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Speaker 1: So when I to the city to Hollywood to Lay okay.

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Speaker 2: So when I get down there, I could be off

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Speaker 2: ten or fifteen minutes, but it's not that long ago.

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Speaker 1: Okay, our max I would say an hour.

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Speaker 2: Okay, good, I said fifteen minutes. So look, I get

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Speaker 2: there me not knowing how the train works. It stopped

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Speaker 2: running at nine. The comedy clubs don't start to about

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Speaker 2: eight thirty nine. Yeah, so and then I would have

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Speaker 2: I was like, nah, this ain't gonna work. I have

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Speaker 2: to move closer to the city. That's when I found

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Speaker 2: out about the U c LA. Like, now, this was

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Speaker 2: a good apartment. I'm like this when Craigs listen, just

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Speaker 2: where you find all your cribs? This shit. So I'm

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Speaker 2: on crazy and I'm like, but it's too good to

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Speaker 2: be true because it was what was it that a

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Speaker 2: shared room. I'm seeing the price and I'm seeing the area.

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Speaker 2: I was like, oh, man, I don't find my lik man,

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Speaker 2: may he opened the door and somebody laying in their bed.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, man, what it is? So I ain't even

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Speaker 2: have a I had an air mattress.

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Speaker 2: No, I'm telling you truth. If you go home broke

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Speaker 2: No, my friends, they putting the wrong they putting they

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like you watching a lot of resentment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, resent man, that's the better word for it.

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Speaker 1: So so you decide, like, in this conversation with her,

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Speaker 2: oh yeah, yeah, you'll be right here with him. So

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00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:00,200
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, cool. He was like, are you got

438
00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:02,160
Speaker 2: to do is go through your training. I went through

439
00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:07,360
Speaker 2: the training. Man. They sent me to Korea. Man, when

440
00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:09,280
Speaker 2: I got the paper it said career, I could have

441
00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:13,000
Speaker 2: cried cause I'm like, now, it's like as a grown man,

442
00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,160
Speaker 2: I'm like, he lied to me. But I'm I'm thinking

443
00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:17,480
Speaker 2: I'm at twenty. I'm twenty at the time. I'm like,

444
00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:19,760
Speaker 2: he lied to me. And they're like who They were like,

445
00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:23,280
Speaker 2: I'm just sick. So I get to Korea and that's

446
00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:24,919
Speaker 2: when I realized, Man, this.

447
00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:28,320
Speaker 1: Shit fun, Like the military's fun.

448
00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:32,639
Speaker 2: No Koreer career. Okay. That's why I ain't think I

449
00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:33,640
Speaker 2: was gonna last long.

450
00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:33,880
Speaker 1: Man.

451
00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:35,760
Speaker 2: I had I got so many if.

452
00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:38,119
Speaker 1: You know about the military, No, not really.

453
00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:40,360
Speaker 2: I hain't got so many article fifteen's.

454
00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:41,520
Speaker 1: What what's that?

455
00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:44,400
Speaker 2: That's like basically, you done got in trouble for doing

456
00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:47,440
Speaker 2: what were you doing? No, I got in trouble before

457
00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:51,359
Speaker 2: I even got to Korea. I swear to God to you, like,

458
00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:56,600
Speaker 2: I'm in basic training. So they take away all your

459
00:21:56,840 --> 00:21:59,760
Speaker 2: privileges and stuff like. So when I say privileges, like

460
00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:03,160
Speaker 2: if you smoke, you can't smoke for those eight weeks,

461
00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:05,520
Speaker 2: so how long you in there? You can't eat candy,

462
00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:08,480
Speaker 2: you can't eat ship. Yeah, they strict on you because

463
00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:10,680
Speaker 2: they really trying to show you could a vibe without

464
00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:13,359
Speaker 2: that stuff, because if you, like you go to war,

465
00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:14,320
Speaker 2: you won't have it.

466
00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:16,600
Speaker 1: Okay, And some people are crack, so I.

467
00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:19,680
Speaker 2: Guess it was the myth of their method. Long story short,

468
00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:24,120
Speaker 2: I get the basic training and like, I'm from Atlanta,

469
00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:27,800
Speaker 2: so like a hustling mentality is gonna come to me.

470
00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:32,000
Speaker 2: So I was like, we could start. Our family could

471
00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:34,480
Speaker 2: sent us stuff. So I would tell them to take

472
00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:37,040
Speaker 2: the soap out of there and put a cigarette box

473
00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:41,040
Speaker 2: in the soapbox and and clew it back. I'm selling cigarettes.

474
00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:43,119
Speaker 2: Ten dollars a cigarette.

475
00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:44,280
Speaker 1: Oh my god.

476
00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:46,399
Speaker 2: Ten dollars a cigarette, and you gotta think this is

477
00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:51,160
Speaker 2: my first time really around white people, so I'm not knowing.

478
00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:53,560
Speaker 2: I'm like these white people cool as hell until they

479
00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:57,160
Speaker 2: got caught. They're like, where you get that from?

480
00:22:57,440 --> 00:22:57,680
Speaker 1: Man?

481
00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:01,679
Speaker 2: So minute they came in and start pointing me. But

482
00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:06,440
Speaker 2: so I'm so good. I would buy cards from the PX.

483
00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:10,080
Speaker 2: I would buy cards from there, and I would send

484
00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:12,440
Speaker 2: it back to home, but I would have the money

485
00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:14,960
Speaker 2: in there. So I never kept money in my locker.

486
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:18,199
Speaker 2: So when they saw that they had no evidence on

487
00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:19,920
Speaker 2: me for real, I think I was the first one

488
00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:21,240
Speaker 2: with a real rico charge.

489
00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:22,720
Speaker 1: What's that?

490
00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:25,800
Speaker 2: Just a bunch of crime?

491
00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:29,520
Speaker 1: So discharge?

492
00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:31,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, it sounded like a line, I swear to God,

493
00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:32,760
Speaker 2: like I could show you proove.

494
00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:34,200
Speaker 1: How long did you last?

495
00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:37,080
Speaker 2: After that? I went to Korea, and when I got

496
00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:39,800
Speaker 2: the career I had, got like, they give you so

497
00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:44,560
Speaker 2: much freedom to wait, you either punish yourself.

498
00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,520
Speaker 1: So they go from all restrictions to mad freedom.

499
00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:51,000
Speaker 2: Oh yeah in career, Oh man, it was grat.

500
00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:53,840
Speaker 1: Okay, how long were you there for a year? Okay,

501
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,200
Speaker 1: so you made it a year and then you came

502
00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:57,879
Speaker 1: home and they said get out.

503
00:23:58,640 --> 00:23:59,600
Speaker 2: They just say it like that.

504
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:01,720
Speaker 1: Okay. Uh.

505
00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,200
Speaker 2: The commander, he was like Green. I'm gonna be honest

506
00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:07,959
Speaker 2: with you. I'm surprised you last this long. I mean

507
00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:10,760
Speaker 2: too Yeah, but he said you could pass me spool.

508
00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:17,640
Speaker 2: He said, now you could get out or you could

509
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:20,400
Speaker 2: re enlist, but I don't think you a last here.

510
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:24,560
Speaker 2: So with that being said, I was like, I'm gonna

511
00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:26,440
Speaker 2: get out because I'm still at this time. I feel

512
00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:28,760
Speaker 2: like I got some money, so I'm like, now I

513
00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:30,960
Speaker 2: could get back and chasing my dream like for that

514
00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:32,919
Speaker 2: was my whole plan. But I just never thought I

515
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:34,000
Speaker 2: would go end up in Korea.

516
00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:36,600
Speaker 1: So the military was paying you weekly while you were there,

517
00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:37,320
Speaker 1: or I don't you.

518
00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:39,800
Speaker 2: Paid by week? You get paid by week? Okay, but

519
00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:41,960
Speaker 2: a lot of people this is what the people don't

520
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,200
Speaker 2: realize what the military do. It kind of sets you

521
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:48,160
Speaker 2: up for failure that you always need them because every

522
00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:50,280
Speaker 2: two weeks you start depending on you live and checked

523
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:50,640
Speaker 2: the check.

524
00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:53,000
Speaker 1: But that's the thing. Don't they take ere of your

525
00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 1: like overhead and all that stuff? Well, I thought, you

526
00:24:56,400 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 1: don't you live in the army or something. You live together?

527
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:03,159
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you live on base and stuff like that.

528
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:05,160
Speaker 2: But you gotta think about it. You gotta have a car,

529
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,080
Speaker 2: you gotta get around so if you wanna you don't

530
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:11,480
Speaker 2: wanna eat the food in the cafeteria. You know what

531
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:17,920
Speaker 2: I'm saying. So what that being said is like God forbid,

532
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:21,000
Speaker 2: if you like wearing tennis shoes, you buy tennis shoes.

533
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:22,359
Speaker 2: All that stuff is started.

534
00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:24,920
Speaker 1: Just so you was a stagnan tips. She was having

535
00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:25,440
Speaker 1: a good old time.

536
00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:26,680
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I ain't stacked nothing.

537
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:30,640
Speaker 1: Okay, so you get you get honorable discharged. You tell

538
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:33,679
Speaker 1: your girl, was that a difficult conversation? No?

539
00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:36,879
Speaker 2: I think she knew I wasn't gonna stand. She probably

540
00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 2: was surprised. I lasted that long. Like I'm telling I

541
00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:46,000
Speaker 2: started off. So the other article fifteen, we had found

542
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:51,399
Speaker 2: some cards. Man, we playing cards in the dorm room

543
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 2: where you're supposed to be like sleep. So we playing

544
00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:58,119
Speaker 2: cards and I'm talking trash to the guy, and all

545
00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:00,560
Speaker 2: of a sudden, I don't see him no more. All

546
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:02,960
Speaker 2: I see is the drill starry. So I'm the only

547
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,160
Speaker 2: one get caught with the cards. But I did not tell.

548
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:13,440
Speaker 1: You who. And people in they how they snitch.

549
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,399
Speaker 2: It, Well, that's what they were used to doing. You

550
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:18,400
Speaker 2: can't blame them for what they used to. They didn't

551
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:18,880
Speaker 2: want to get.

552
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:21,720
Speaker 1: In trouble, so you get out of the military. Next

553
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:23,040
Speaker 1: next milestone.

554
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:24,840
Speaker 2: That's when I started the videos.

555
00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,359
Speaker 1: Okay, that's when you need to start a social social

556
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 1: media So when do you see ones starting really hit man?

557
00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:35,200
Speaker 2: When I I think it was doing the shift Leader

558
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:40,800
Speaker 2: in the in the Professor Fleet character. But when I

559
00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,480
Speaker 2: did that shift Leader, cause I had did a few

560
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:46,879
Speaker 2: videos before then, but only my friends were like laughing

561
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,440
Speaker 2: and like cause they know me. But when I saw

562
00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:53,480
Speaker 2: so many people that I didn't know start like laughing

563
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 2: at the shift Leader videos, I was like, man, I

564
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:58,960
Speaker 2: got something with this. And after that it just started

565
00:26:59,040 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 2: going and I just stop.

566
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:03,080
Speaker 1: I was f in the takeoff then and then it

567
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 1: went from there. So what's your first acting gig after that?

568
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 2: My first acting gig, it was Dirty South House Arrests

569
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,920
Speaker 2: or either Digital Lives Matter and that was where uh

570
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:21,360
Speaker 2: we was uh with archive, it was me, DC, Emanuel Hudson,

571
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:24,400
Speaker 2: like all of us was under the same Like who

572
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:27,280
Speaker 2: else was over there? Uh, Erica Dutchess and Mark over

573
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:31,320
Speaker 2: It was so many people, Ernestine Morrison. So while we

574
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:32,640
Speaker 2: over there like.

575
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,359
Speaker 1: It, how'd you get over there to begin with?

576
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 2: Sh shooting the shooting the videos? When I once once

577
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 2: I shot the uh video with the shift leet the video,

578
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 2: they saw that and then just started shooting over there

579
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:49,720
Speaker 2: with them. So long story short, a lot of people

580
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 2: was on DC at the time, just like now, but

581
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 2: with them, they was like, if you want DC, found

582
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:57,359
Speaker 2: a role for them. So that's how we were getting

583
00:27:57,359 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 2: in movies and stuff, okay, and getting like getting a

584
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:01,600
Speaker 2: little gigs and stuff like that.

585
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 1: What do you mean by if you if you, what

586
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:05,760
Speaker 1: do you mean by that?

587
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:09,879
Speaker 2: Like they would want DC on fly yea yeah, but

588
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 2: they would tell them, well, we also got these people,

589
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:15,959
Speaker 2: could you find a road for them? So that's how

590
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,920
Speaker 2: we would get some yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

591
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 1: Okay, I like that you guys. To you, you guys

592
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 1: are kind of like moving like the Kardashians, like you

593
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:27,360
Speaker 1: all brought us all on.

594
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:29,360
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, it was kind of like that for real.

595
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,959
Speaker 1: Okay, so you get on what a success is success

596
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 1: starting to be a little bit more real to you

597
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:38,480
Speaker 1: at this point hood success, hood success.

598
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 2: And when I say hood success, like people around the well,

599
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 2: I see you that type of ship, Like.

600
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 1: Was the money equaling the not okay, got it?

601
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:49,800
Speaker 2: It was it was it was something like you know,

602
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 2: to get by with but it wasn't enough money to

603
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:57,840
Speaker 2: like just be like living. Yeah, because it's still.

604
00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:01,520
Speaker 1: You're still like living check or hustle to hustle check exactly. Okay,

605
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 1: what are your parents saying during all of this.

606
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 2: Well, see my mom she was telling me at the time,

607
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 2: she was like, you gotta have a plan. Beat. She

608
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 2: was like, it's not guaranteed, you know, like being a

609
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 2: real mother. But my mother had never seen me on stage,

610
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 2: so she come we had a show at Uptown. She

611
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 2: come to see the show live. It was we would

612
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 2: do a Wratchet People meat show. She come see the

613
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 2: Ratchet People Meat Show. And once she see me live,

614
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 2: she was like, you're gonna make it.

615
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:32,160
Speaker 1: I love that.

616
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 2: And when she told me that, I knew then. I

617
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,480
Speaker 2: was like, boy, that's what you know, Like you want

618
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 2: your your parents to believe in you. But my mom,

619
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 2: she had seen her your mama thing and she used

620
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 2: to always say she was like, you like fast money,

621
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 2: Like she was like, you don't. You don't understand you

622
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 2: have to work for certain stuff. But at the same

623
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:54,520
Speaker 2: time she was right, yeah, like I do like fast money,

624
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,440
Speaker 2: but I'm still gonna have to work for what I want. Yeah,

625
00:29:57,480 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 2: it wasn't gonna be handed.

626
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it definitely wasn't gonna be fat. Man, how

627
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 1: many years? How many years of struggle would you say

628
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 1: you had to.

629
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:06,640
Speaker 2: Go through shit since two years ago?

630
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:11,000
Speaker 1: I like that. I like that. I like that. I

631
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 1: like that, though, I like you. Yeah, so it's like

632
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 1: over ten plus years, right, and then you say two

633
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:19,840
Speaker 1: years Agould you say it's been at least over ten years?

634
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 2: No, I would say probably right at seven and a half,

635
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 2: because it's like all all between those first before two

636
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 2: years ago, I was living, like we were saying, hustle

637
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 2: to hustle. So it's like you kind of like willing

638
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:38,680
Speaker 2: to like work on this, work on network, but now

639
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 2: it's like it's to your discretion.

640
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 1: Like, okay, So what was the pivot moment that happened

641
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 1: two years ago where the landscape kind of changed?

642
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:52,000
Speaker 2: Okay? In twenty nineteen, I had did come into America,

643
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:57,120
Speaker 2: and when I did come into America, that paid very well.

644
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:00,960
Speaker 1: And at this point you you probably know how to

645
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 1: manage money a lot better.

646
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 2: No, I fucked that money up so fast, cause it was,

647
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 2: like I told you it was, it came so fast.

648
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:14,760
Speaker 2: I'm like, bro' were living. Yeah. So when it came,

649
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 2: I was like, man, it's so dope, and I'm thinking

650
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 2: it was gonna always be like that, which it wasn't

651
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 2: because you gotta think after that movie said it's over with.

652
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:27,880
Speaker 2: So but you gotta get some money to realize how

653
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 2: to maintain it and manage it.

654
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 1: So after that, Oh so, it's not not having it

655
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 1: that teaches you. It's once you get it.

656
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 2: And you could not have it for a long time.

657
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 2: And then when you get something, you're gonna start buying

658
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 2: stuff that you wanted. You're gonna look out for people

659
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 2: that you always felt like you had to look out.

660
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 2: But I wasn't in the the space to do that.

661
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 2: You but I ain't realize that.

662
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you blew it, not all at once, but yeah,

663
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: pretty fast.

664
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 2: And then you know what, the pandemic happened right after that,

665
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 2: So we're not working and the money I felt like

666
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 2: I had saved up. Oh shit, I ran through that.

667
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so then you're going through the pandemic. What's

668
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 1: your next playoff?

669
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:13,000
Speaker 2: And then right after that, after I do come into America,

670
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 2: I start touring with eighty five South.

671
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 1: Okay, nice, I love the I love the homie bond

672
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:19,200
Speaker 1: in the like, man.

673
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 2: But as soon as we started touring, that's when the

674
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 2: pandemic happened. As soon as I started touring with.

675
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:29,840
Speaker 1: Them, yeah, I even like, dang, God, come on work

676
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 1: with me, man.

677
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 2: I counted them. They sent me the dates. I counted

678
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 2: them dates and multiplied my money by I was like, boy,

679
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 2: I'm rich forever. I like, I felt like I'd never

680
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 2: be broken in the pandemic.

681
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 1: What's your mind state when that happens. Do you start

682
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,280
Speaker 1: to question your purpose or what are you thinking?

683
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 2: Well, no, I would question. I would question in the world.

684
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 2: I'm like, what the going away? Wait till I started

685
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 2: getting some money?

686
00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.

687
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 2: So then with that being said.

688
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 1: By the way, did you know because I remember when

689
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 1: the pandemic happened. I was one of those students that

690
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 1: didn't pay attention in school ever, and so I didn't

691
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 1: know that like pandemics and things like that happened. So

692
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,480
Speaker 1: when it first happened, I was completely like what the

693
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 1: what the f I remember specifically the NBA canceling the game,

694
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:23,479
Speaker 1: so that was like a huge like you yeah, And

695
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 1: then at first I was like, oh, well, last three months, oh,

696
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 1: the last six months. Then I was like, yo, are

697
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 1: we ever getting out of prison? Like you know, but

698
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:36,560
Speaker 1: I didn't realized how important paying attention in history class

699
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 1: was and.

700
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 2: Not even that because we hear about stuff that goes

701
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 2: on all the time, but it's like if it don't

702
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 2: affect us, we don't really care. No people can say

703
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:47,360
Speaker 2: they do. They don't really care because this shit happening

704
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:50,680
Speaker 2: on right now, but it don't phase us. But it's

705
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 2: like when that happened, I was like, man, the whole

706
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 2: world shut down, luckily for Atlanta, Atlanta and stay shut down, loon,

707
00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 2: Like the world was shut down?

708
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 1: What do you mean Atlanta in station down?

709
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 2: We were back running in three weeks?

710
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 1: What no way, no, no, lie.

711
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:08,240
Speaker 2: We couldn't We couldn't do certain stuff. We still couldn't

712
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 2: tour eighty five South couldn't tour. But we started working,

713
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 2: like doing stuff in house, and like it was still

714
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:20,359
Speaker 2: like the who Like what's the what's the governor name? Yeah?

715
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 2: Camp say ship life goes on?

716
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 1: Oh no, in La it was it was, Oh yeah

717
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:24,920
Speaker 1: it was.

718
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:27,759
Speaker 2: I was shut down, was out there.

719
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:30,399
Speaker 1: So I'll tell you something though I had this really

720
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 1: bad thought during the pandemic. I really shouldn't confess this,

721
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:34,879
Speaker 1: but like when they broke out, like you could wear

722
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 1: masks the evils. I guess side of me was like, yo,

723
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 1: we could like really rob somebody, Like what are they

724
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 1: gonna say that person with a mask? Like you know,

725
00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 1: it was so easy, And I was like, yo, this

726
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 1: is a dangerous setup, like you're going into these stores

727
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 1: with masks on. And I thought that for at least

728
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:56,720
Speaker 1: a year, like, yo, this could be the ultimate robbery.

729
00:34:57,760 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 1: Get away with things. You know, you could wear weeds

730
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 1: all that and get away with it right right, you know.

731
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:06,759
Speaker 1: But anyways, that was that was a definite thought in

732
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 1: my mind. But I also remember going through the pandemic

733
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 1: even though the whole world was going through it. That

734
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:14,319
Speaker 1: was the first time I realized like how selfish I was,

735
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:16,319
Speaker 1: because I was like, I get the world's going through this,

736
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:17,400
Speaker 1: but what about.

737
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,840
Speaker 2: You not really being selfish because you like we really

738
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 2: we didn't.

739
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:25,839
Speaker 1: Know what was going on. Yeah right, damn like every

740
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 1: time someone tried to pick me up, but like, you know,

741
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 1: the whole world's going through this. Mine, I get that,

742
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 1: but let's focus on But.

743
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 2: You know another thing though, it made you realize like

744
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 2: we have to figure something out, yeah, because why we

745
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:43,280
Speaker 2: depending on depending on like we were. I think before

746
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:46,080
Speaker 2: that everybody was depending on this or depending on that

747
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 2: to happen. But then it's like, I gotta I gotta

748
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:50,799
Speaker 2: put some content out. Let me do this, let me

749
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 2: do that.

750
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 1: Well for you guys, yeah, for the content creators. It

751
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 1: was good for for y'all to some degree. I think

752
00:35:57,120 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 1: for me with the most I walked away from the pandem,

753
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 1: especially living in La la' is one of those cities

754
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 1: it's like, Hi, nice to meet you. What do you do?

755
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 1: Like it's we don't even care what the last name

756
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 1: is or nothing. What do you do?

757
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 2: How can we a fake place?

758
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:12,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's super fake, But it was the first time

759
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:15,200
Speaker 1: where people started having conversations like how are you doing?

760
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 1: What are you doing?

761
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:16,880
Speaker 2: What?

762
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 1: You want to hang out at your house? No fancy restaurants.

763
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 1: And I really can say that those two years to

764
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 1: be able to get one on one with friends, even guys,

765
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 1: because guys don't really talk. They kind of do activities

766
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:31,760
Speaker 1: with you. You know, they'll be like, let's work out together,

767
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:33,839
Speaker 1: let's go. If I hit up my homies and I'm like, yo,

768
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 1: you want to hang out there? Like no, but I'm

769
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:39,799
Speaker 1: going to the gym. You can work out with me

770
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 1: if I'm not working out with the name or something.

771
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:42,920
Speaker 1: But it was the first time I got to have

772
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 1: like eye to eye conversations with men where it was

773
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:49,200
Speaker 1: like they were talking about actual issues, like the way

774
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:50,319
Speaker 1: women do. You know what I'm saying.

775
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 2: And it made you appreciate family too, because I ain't.

776
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 2: I was. I had well, I had no choice, but

777
00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:59,319
Speaker 2: I was spending so much time with my family, like

778
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 2: we were doing stuff around the house. So it's like

779
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 2: after that, I kept doing it, like like, let me

780
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:06,279
Speaker 2: at least do something with them right now.

781
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 1: And then after the pandemic.

782
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, even after the pandemic.

783
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:14,880
Speaker 1: Family, Okay, so you survived the pandemic.

784
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:17,839
Speaker 2: Oh, soon as it opened. Soon as the.

785
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:20,400
Speaker 1: Pandemic, Well for you guys, it's three weeks later. No,

786
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 1: but I'm saying, but you could do little stuff in Atlanta.

787
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:26,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, we could do little stuff in Atlanta. So it

788
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 2: was certain stuff we were finding out we could do.

789
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 2: So after the pandemic ended, I want to say tours

790
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 2: the end of the year. The tour started back the.

791
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:40,239
Speaker 1: End of the year. It wouldn't be two years later.

792
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:44,400
Speaker 1: The next year, I was like, god, it was two years.

793
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:49,839
Speaker 1: The money had been gone, well, they had the unemployment.

794
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 1: Like I saw people that were like Homewoods doing backflips okay,

795
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:54,439
Speaker 1: because they were like, yo, this is the most money

796
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 1: I haven't made in my life.

797
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 2: And I don't know if I can talk about that.

798
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 2: That helped too. But moms were legal because I had

799
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:05,919
Speaker 2: just worked on that coming to America set so I

800
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 2: was employee, okay, and it ended right then. So I

801
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 2: was getting my unemployment from that.

802
00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 1: I know in La it was doing. There was a

803
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 1: lot of people doing unemployment schemes.

804
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:18,840
Speaker 2: My cousin. My cousin was getting unemployment in LA. He

805
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 2: ain't never been out there. Yeah no, I went.

806
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 1: After let me tell you something.

807
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 3: There was some people's mailboxes that was getting overloaded with

808
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 3: them unemployment texts, like people was finding ways to ship

809
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 3: them checks out went after the fact but doing yeah yeah, so.

810
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:44,319
Speaker 1: Okay, so you you survived the pandemic gracefully. You come out,

811
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:47,879
Speaker 1: you start going on the road. Yep, the money comes back.

812
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 2: But then you got to think you really playing ketchup.

813
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:54,759
Speaker 1: Even with thet the unemployment during the pandemic was like,

814
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 1: you're hilarious.

815
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:00,799
Speaker 2: Because I wasn't. I wasn't working for it. Ain't appreciate it.

816
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 1: How's your how's your feed me? I think this is

817
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:12,359
Speaker 1: the first ever episode where some fathing meal and just

818
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:17,800
Speaker 1: cooked like I'm at your house. You're like, I'm supposed

819
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 1: to your food.

820
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:31,840
Speaker 2: Taco.

821
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:36,880
Speaker 1: It's got the little sauce to show you this. This

822
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 1: looked like a definite hood taco.

823
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 2: Check it out. You add legos and stuff to it's

824
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:42,680
Speaker 2: pretty good?

825
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:47,279
Speaker 1: Do you usually add this white?

826
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 2: You need a ca Okay, I want a little bit

827
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 2: more cashe on it? What it's salty? Mm hmm? What

828
00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 2: it's dry? Man? You need like a lot of.

829
00:39:59,000 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 1: Well I didn't.

830
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't know you was gonna eat it.

831
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 1: I can't.

832
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 2: I can't, George my good.

833
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 1: Oh damn, I wasn't add that much messed up.

834
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:11,720
Speaker 2: Hold on now, bit let me see.

835
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:14,080
Speaker 1: Let me see. Hold on, I'm gonna end up making

836
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 1: this super saucy.

837
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 2: That's all you were missing.

838
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:24,279
Speaker 1: I don't know if I like it with the for

839
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:27,120
Speaker 1: real you know what cuss on? Mm hmm.

840
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:29,120
Speaker 2: Then sometimes you just get you a bag of chips

841
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 2: and eat with it too. Oh man, don't crunch up

842
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:32,920
Speaker 2: them chips on there.

843
00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 1: That would have been great if we would have put

844
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:40,960
Speaker 1: the chips on there, but we got some chips.

845
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 2: I didn't know how the budget was set up.

846
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:49,480
Speaker 1: So when you're at home during these broke times, is

847
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 1: this is what you're doing? You're like, oh man, you

848
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 1: know what this could just use a little bit of

849
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 1: chip ad.

850
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:55,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, you know what's so good?

851
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 1: Are you gonna do it with chips? It's gonna be good.

852
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 1: I think I was on this show. I forgot who

853
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 1: They added chips to a sandwich and I said.

854
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:06,839
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, that's the bit, and you cut it diagonally.

855
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:10,799
Speaker 2: I don't know what about cutting that sandwich diagonally.

856
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:12,920
Speaker 1: In Atlanta thing, because yes, I was asked to be like,

857
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 1: how you cut it?

858
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 2: That's a difference straight.

859
00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:18,399
Speaker 1: I said diagonal and they were like, yes, you won,

860
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:19,840
Speaker 1: you passed.

861
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:26,439
Speaker 2: So when we started back tour, they's good, now we're

862
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 2: talking mm hm, and I got yeah, let me add

863
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:36,400
Speaker 2: some saucea to it too, and that pepper jack cheese

864
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,520
Speaker 2: I think it was. That's that's good, right. You don't

865
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 2: want to overdo it. Check the flavor from your chicken away.

866
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:49,040
Speaker 2: So we started back tour. This time I realized like, okay,

867
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:52,720
Speaker 2: I never know what could happen. I need to start putting.

868
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:55,919
Speaker 2: I need to save better, put money up in case

869
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:57,759
Speaker 2: this happened, because you never know.

870
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:01,239
Speaker 1: Also that the pandemic I only teach you one of

871
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 1: the things that I definitely walked away with because I

872
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 1: owned the business and it was like doing really well

873
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 1: and it was my only stream of income. When the

874
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 1: pandemic happened, I learned that you should never only have

875
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:13,480
Speaker 1: one stream of income.

876
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:26,839
Speaker 2: Good hold on any of that crunch mhm, we don't.

877
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 2: We don't fuck them up with that.

878
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:32,959
Speaker 1: It reminds me of the crunchy wrap at Choco boll.

879
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:38,440
Speaker 2: This might be a little better though, Okay, I.

880
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:40,040
Speaker 1: Love how proud you are of your cooking.

881
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 2: Well, no, you're right though, because it's like you just

882
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 2: got to have some money, man.

883
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:50,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, but multiple streams more different. So you get this money,

884
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:53,239
Speaker 1: now you're thinking about saving and making it work.

885
00:42:53,680 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 2: And then more opportunities just start coming. Oh I'm tripping

886
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 2: another thing. During the pandemic, eighty five South got to

887
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:14,120
Speaker 2: host the BT Awards. Okay, so all between this time

888
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 2: I'm getting unemployment. I do the BT Awards with them.

889
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 2: They stopped my unemployment because they felt like I was employed.

890
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 1: But I would think that that would be like an

891
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:28,000
Speaker 1: independent contractor, you wouldn't have to deal with that till

892
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 1: the very end.

893
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:30,880
Speaker 2: But when you put that Social Security number down on

894
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:34,560
Speaker 2: the right away. So then they sent me some stuff

895
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:36,399
Speaker 2: in the mail. They was like, are you employed them?

896
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 2: I'm like, no, I just didn't right back cut my

897
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 2: unemployment off. Oh shit, yep, That's what I had to

898
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:46,399
Speaker 2: think about, like what happened during that time. But after that,

899
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 2: we get back to touring. And then another thing I

900
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 2: keep You can't really just know you're automatic because if

901
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:58,399
Speaker 2: they have dates, anything could happen, Like, well, we got

902
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:00,600
Speaker 2: to cut back on the budget, so I'm not guaranteed.

903
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:02,120
Speaker 2: So I was like, I need to just start saving

904
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 2: money in case those things happen. But God forbid, it

905
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 2: never happened. I did that just and just start saving

906
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:13,359
Speaker 2: more and then just like notoriety, like more people knowing you,

907
00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:18,399
Speaker 2: and then even like doing the eighty five South Show,

908
00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:24,479
Speaker 2: and then after that, I start I did a few

909
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 2: music videos. Okay, yeah, So it was like it just

910
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:32,560
Speaker 2: was like the trajectory just was happening exactly how I

911
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:34,919
Speaker 2: would think it was gonna happen, but it just didn't

912
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:37,479
Speaker 2: come at the time. And that I thought. I thought

913
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 2: right after I did come to America, I was just

914
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 2: gonna yeah, but it it didn't happen like that for

915
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:42,520
Speaker 2: a reason.

916
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 1: What do you think that reason is?

917
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:51,280
Speaker 2: Mm to keep you grounded, I'll say, keep you grounded,

918
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:54,440
Speaker 2: and then to understand things like it's not on your

919
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:58,000
Speaker 2: time and appreciate a lot of people. And we don't

920
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:01,479
Speaker 2: realize people like you gonna appreciate this when you get

921
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 2: to this level or getting this place, and I ain't

922
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:08,400
Speaker 2: realize it at the time, like because some people go

923
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 2: through way worse than I thought. I think I went through.

924
00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:16,880
Speaker 2: But after the fact, man, when I started just seeing,

925
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:25,239
Speaker 2: like you see the productivity or like the progress of

926
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:28,800
Speaker 2: your own career. Like if I look back certain certain

927
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 2: times when I'm getting deposits from a show, like this

928
00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:35,400
Speaker 2: might be twice the money I was getting for a

929
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 2: show and I was so happy to drive to. But

930
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:42,400
Speaker 2: it's like we start feeling entitled, Like you know what I'm.

931
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 1: Saying, Yeah, how do you stop from feeling that entitlement? Though?

932
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:47,360
Speaker 2: Man, you got to just go around people who bitter.

933
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm saying nobody.

934
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:53,759
Speaker 1: So there's no such thing as the right thing. And

935
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 1: that's why I love this show because they get to

936
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:57,000
Speaker 1: kind of get this perspective.

937
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:58,760
Speaker 2: But no, like you know when you go around somebody

938
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 2: and you hear them complaining and feel like, oh, I

939
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 2: supposed to be doing Like nah, you gotta work for this,

940
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:07,799
Speaker 2: or like this could be me if I don't keep

941
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:09,280
Speaker 2: like grinding and keep working.

942
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:11,640
Speaker 1: What are some key things that you learned about the

943
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 1: industry on your road to success?

944
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:22,880
Speaker 2: Man, be useful. And when I say be useful, a

945
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:24,880
Speaker 2: lot of people try to take away from a situation

946
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:27,319
Speaker 2: when they get around the situation. Sometimes I'm thinking what

947
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:29,759
Speaker 2: can I bring to this situation? Sometimes even if it

948
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 2: don't benefit me at the times, Like I want to

949
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:34,399
Speaker 2: show I'm a team player. So a lot of people

950
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 2: don't want to be a team player.

951
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 1: They just coming with us.

952
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, And a lot of people and like a lot

953
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:42,439
Speaker 2: of people want to be like a lot of people

954
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:45,279
Speaker 2: want to be the ultimate star. And when I say that,

955
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:48,719
Speaker 2: like I'm thinking about on the sports side, a lot

956
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:50,840
Speaker 2: of people want to be like the main face of

957
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:53,439
Speaker 2: the franchise or something like that. Man, that don't mean

958
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:56,160
Speaker 2: nothing if you're not a good teammate or a team player.

959
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 2: It's sometimes in certain teams if you think about maybe

960
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 2: the Chicago Bulls Dennis Rodney, going any other team Dennis Rodney,

961
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 2: but it's like how he was helping them win championship.

962
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:13,239
Speaker 2: You're gonna remember Dennis Rodney. You're gonna remember stuff he

963
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:16,000
Speaker 2: was doing. I'd rather be on a winning team and

964
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 2: being a role player than being on a team that's

965
00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:20,560
Speaker 2: not doing great and being a.

966
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:22,800
Speaker 1: Star, because then it's like that makes sense.

967
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:26,279
Speaker 2: A lot of people don't realize that though you want to,

968
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:30,080
Speaker 2: because the people who make the most money, they they

969
00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 2: usually have to have the most bills, more people to

970
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:36,319
Speaker 2: take care of. Yeah, so you find the little level

971
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:38,560
Speaker 2: you want to be at and stay right there.

972
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:42,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. I mean some people that'll be like

973
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:48,319
Speaker 1: they'll be broke or and they they don't they don't

974
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:53,280
Speaker 1: necessarily I don't say broke, but they don't really help others.

975
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:55,200
Speaker 1: And they'll be like, well, when I am rich, I'm like, oo,

976
00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:57,640
Speaker 1: if you're not doing that this right, it's only gonna

977
00:47:57,640 --> 00:47:59,400
Speaker 1: get worse because with the more money you make, the

978
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:00,560
Speaker 1: more bills go up.

979
00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 2: Man.

980
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:03,000
Speaker 1: Yeah.

981
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 4: No.

982
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 1: When I first moved to la I think my first

983
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:08,200
Speaker 1: room for rent was like four hundred and fifty dollars

984
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:12,520
Speaker 1: that'd be impossible now, you know. But sometimes I joke

985
00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:14,239
Speaker 1: with my girlfriend's like, Yo, when I first moved there,

986
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:17,160
Speaker 1: i lived on like twelve hundred a month, I'm like,

987
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 1: how did I do that? But the truth of the

988
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 1: matter is it is like your bills are just gonna

989
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:23,920
Speaker 1: keep growing as you grow. So if you can't find

990
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 1: it now, you you know.

991
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:27,799
Speaker 2: You're gonna want more stuff out of life. You see

992
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 2: more stuff you around certain people. Now your needs grow,

993
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:34,600
Speaker 2: So it's like and plus, you're not the same person.

994
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:37,240
Speaker 1: You was at twenty four, Yeah, yeah.

995
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:38,719
Speaker 2: Twenty seven, thirty, you know what I mean?

996
00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:43,080
Speaker 1: What advice would you give to other comics or actors?

997
00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:46,560
Speaker 2: It gonna sound crazy, but don't give up. That's why

998
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 2: a lot of people don't make it. Don't give up.

999
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 2: And a lot of people when you look around and

1000
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:54,719
Speaker 2: you see certain people, they either gave up or they

1001
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 2: got it. They got a bad ass attitude that stopped

1002
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:01,239
Speaker 2: a lot of people. If I'll come around you and

1003
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:03,200
Speaker 2: you always negative, I don't want to be around you,

1004
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:07,000
Speaker 2: even if like even if I'm going through, so I'm

1005
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:09,840
Speaker 2: not gonna bring that around you because then you go,

1006
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:15,400
Speaker 2: like every time we're always going through something like fear.

1007
00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:18,759
Speaker 2: You still gotta be like lead certain stuff, like at

1008
00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:20,560
Speaker 2: the house, if you're going through stuff at the house

1009
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:21,799
Speaker 2: or leave stuff at your job.

1010
00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:22,719
Speaker 1: I agree with that.

1011
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:25,800
Speaker 2: A lot of people like you gotta be wanted people

1012
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:29,560
Speaker 2: to be be likable. Yeah, people not likable and they

1013
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 2: give up. Yeah, and that's why they give up because

1014
00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:32,840
Speaker 2: they're not likable.

1015
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:38,879
Speaker 1: Have you ever burnt bridges in the industry, I'm just y, Yeah,

1016
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:41,759
Speaker 1: can you share a story about that. We don't talk

1017
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:43,719
Speaker 1: a lot about it, but I do know in the

1018
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:46,600
Speaker 1: industry it's a dangerous It's a I learned a valuable

1019
00:49:46,680 --> 00:49:49,160
Speaker 1: lesson at a very young age on how dangerous is

1020
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 1: to burn bridges in the industry because you never know

1021
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:55,719
Speaker 1: who you and it comes full circle on your life

1022
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:58,439
Speaker 1: that one person it wasn't worth it.

1023
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:00,640
Speaker 2: But you know what, I do know this though, it's

1024
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:05,440
Speaker 2: like I'm just not burning them just because just to

1025
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:08,520
Speaker 2: burn them. After a while, I was like, man, hey,

1026
00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:11,520
Speaker 2: we don't reach the peak, like if we never have

1027
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:14,759
Speaker 2: to work again, that's cool, and then I'm loyal. So

1028
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 2: it's like the people that I work with and stuff

1029
00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:19,600
Speaker 2: like that. Now, if it gets to the point where

1030
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:22,880
Speaker 2: we don't work work together, anymore. They donet done. We

1031
00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:25,440
Speaker 2: done done so much business together. I know. It's just

1032
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:27,919
Speaker 2: it's just reached its time, you know what I'm saying.

1033
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:30,080
Speaker 2: But it's like the people I'm around, It's like I

1034
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:33,000
Speaker 2: I like to be around solid people. So I feel

1035
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:34,759
Speaker 2: like you're not solid and I can't trust you or

1036
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:38,839
Speaker 2: I can't read you, then I'm faking it.

1037
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I don't.

1038
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:41,960
Speaker 2: Want to go around nobody. I got a fake laugh with,

1039
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:45,440
Speaker 2: fake kick it with. So it's like it's not so

1040
00:50:45,560 --> 00:50:47,600
Speaker 2: much a burning bridge. It's like if somebody were like,

1041
00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:49,959
Speaker 2: what happened with you? I say, i'n't fun with them,

1042
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:52,320
Speaker 2: and that be it. They'm not talking bad about it.

1043
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:55,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean sometimes you can burn a bridge like I,

1044
00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:58,400
Speaker 1: Like I said, accidentally you could burn a bridge. Yeah,

1045
00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:01,279
Speaker 1: but and don't have to be like I don't f

1046
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:04,320
Speaker 1: with them. It just be like I accidentally burned the bridge.

1047
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:07,560
Speaker 2: And not knowingly. Yeah, you know what, a lot of

1048
00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:11,080
Speaker 2: people don't have relationships to know that they burned the bridge.

1049
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:13,759
Speaker 1: I was very fortunate. I remember when I did it.

1050
00:51:13,760 --> 00:51:16,719
Speaker 1: It was ironically it had something to do with ludicrous

1051
00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:20,640
Speaker 1: def jam kind of messed me up, but it was

1052
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:23,839
Speaker 1: it was an accidental overstep. But I was fortunate enough

1053
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:25,759
Speaker 1: to have other people on the label call me and

1054
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:28,560
Speaker 1: be like, yo, you better send some flowers and start

1055
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:32,520
Speaker 1: kissing ass now, because you really did some damage.

1056
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:34,160
Speaker 2: But you had a relationship with them.

1057
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:37,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have a relationship. Yeah, they had relationships where

1058
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:40,920
Speaker 1: they were like, go take quality time and fixing. Luckily

1059
00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:45,120
Speaker 1: I was able to fix it. But I got someone

1060
00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:50,960
Speaker 1: on the inside saying you messed up. Fixed immediately, you.

1061
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:53,160
Speaker 2: Know, but them knowing you what if you was going

1062
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:56,320
Speaker 2: around them always with a negative attitude in the mass spirit,

1063
00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:57,799
Speaker 2: they were like, oh, that's just her.

1064
00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:00,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, they wouldn't have looked out for you, would have

1065
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:03,880
Speaker 1: looked out for me. But but I will never forget

1066
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:06,280
Speaker 1: that lesson. And I was like, never ever again, because

1067
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:09,600
Speaker 1: I remember I had to work with j jay Z

1068
00:52:09,840 --> 00:52:12,680
Speaker 1: on a project and that's when it bit me in

1069
00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:15,080
Speaker 1: the ass. And I said that hurt. It hurt, it

1070
00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 1: hurt more than you could ever imagine. I was damn,

1071
00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:22,759
Speaker 1: I don't know, I fucked up. I never forget it.

1072
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:25,200
Speaker 1: I was like, never again. You'll never forget a lesson

1073
00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:32,279
Speaker 1: when it involves jay Z. Right, Yeah, I was like, ah, man,

1074
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:36,240
Speaker 1: that was a major funk. Up and yeah, lesson learned

1075
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:38,560
Speaker 1: never ever after that, never ever burned.

1076
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:40,879
Speaker 2: What a good thing. He'll never forget you.

1077
00:52:41,719 --> 00:52:47,759
Speaker 1: Oh, it wasn't with j particular, so our cross pass

1078
00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:52,960
Speaker 1: he definitely forgot. But but it's so funny because I

1079
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:56,520
Speaker 1: still email requests the jay Z's publicist. I'll say, like

1080
00:52:56,640 --> 00:52:59,840
Speaker 1: once every four to six months, and I shoot my

1081
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 1: and I'll just be like, go worry. In a couple months,

1082
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:04,000
Speaker 1: I'll come back to you. Yeah, And I think she

1083
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:05,759
Speaker 1: thinks it's funny at this point.

1084
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 2: You know.

1085
00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:08,960
Speaker 1: Sometimes she'll respond really fast. Sometimes she'll be like, yeah,

1086
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:11,600
Speaker 1: I'll see you in a couple of months. She'll be

1087
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:14,320
Speaker 1: like that, Yeah, but thank you so much for your time.

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Speaker 1: I really really appreciate it. Where can people keep up

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Speaker 1: with everything? Nap Green on.

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Speaker 2: Social media at nav Green and avv green.

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Speaker 1: Is there any projects we could look out to in

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Speaker 1: the future future?

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Speaker 2: Right now? Something coming very so Drew Ski he's doing

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Speaker 2: a Could Have Been House?

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Speaker 1: And what's that about.

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Speaker 2: Well, he takes some challenge, he say, they challenge, but

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Speaker 2: he takes some artists and put him in the house

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Speaker 2: and they compete for fifty.

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Speaker 1: Thousand, okay, So, and it's called what Could Have been house,

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Speaker 1: could have been house. Yep, that's hilarious, and.

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Speaker 2: They got broken play on the Channel eighty five app.

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Speaker 2: That's my sports show touring with eighty five South. By

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Speaker 2: the end of the year, we got a movie Departments

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Speaker 2: out that Tip directed. Uh, Carlos Miller's in it. D

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Speaker 2: c On Fly, Little du Ball, j Ski. It's so

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Speaker 2: many funny comedians in it. K Dog that's out. Yeah, Ship,

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Speaker 2: that's about it.

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Speaker 1: Okay, everything that green, everything that all right?

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Speaker 2: You didn't finish your food? Tell the truth? Where was it?

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Speaker 2: Don't don't talk behind my back.

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Speaker 1: It's a it's a solid C plus, see a D plus.

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Speaker 1: It's one of those meals that I don't go home

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Speaker 1: and try to remake. Yeah it was cool. I gotta

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Speaker 1: be polite. And you're a comic. You can roast me

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Speaker 1: if you want to know.

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Speaker 2: So you made it. Look how much I ate you.

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Speaker 1: Was probably starving at It's a definite. I'm broke and

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Speaker 1: starving to that. I need to kill my stomach.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 1: I killed definitely look like you just twice. I tried

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Speaker 1: to help it with the sauce. I tried to help

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Speaker 1: it with the chips. I mean, I try to bless

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Speaker 1: you with a taco bell compliment sort of. But nah, man,

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Speaker 1: I've never been so bad. This was absolutely like one

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Speaker 1: of the dishes that I would not highly.

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Speaker 2: Come on, No, I appreciate you, hav No.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you taking the time out of your schedule

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Speaker 1: to share your story. Thank you, thank you. Peace out y'all.

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