WEBVTT - NAVV GREENE  - Taco 'Bout Hustle

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm your host, Colleen wat and today we have very

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<v Speaker 1>special guest, comedian actor Nabed Green in the building.

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<v Speaker 2>How you doing.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you for taking time out of your schedule to

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<v Speaker 1>come hang with me.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh man, for sure. Yes.

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<v Speaker 1>So what are you gonna have us eating today?

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<v Speaker 3>Uh?

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<v Speaker 2>Chicken tacos.

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<v Speaker 1>Chicken tacos? Okay, pretty simple.

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<v Speaker 2>It sounds simple, but not the way I make it out.

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<v Speaker 2>Is it gonna be good? Oh? Definitely that okay?

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, what are the ingredients for your chicken tacos?

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<v Speaker 2>I got a few dice onions, some Tyson grilled chicken breast,

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<v Speaker 2>We got some grape value pepper jack cheese. Then we

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<v Speaker 2>sprinkle on top of that, and we got.

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<v Speaker 1>Some kyeso okay, and then you have salt and sor.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's that's your discretion' I didn't have that.

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<v Speaker 1>But so we're gonna have kyso in the tacos.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, we just sprinkled.

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<v Speaker 4>You got you got my interest problem.

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<v Speaker 1>By the way, when you said a few onions, you

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<v Speaker 1>was real serious. It's like a little splash.

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<v Speaker 2>But yeah, yeah, cause you don't want to overdo it.

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<v Speaker 2>You don't want to overdo it. You don't want to

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<v Speaker 2>take away that flavor of the chicken. So that's why

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<v Speaker 2>I always do that.

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<v Speaker 1>And then I heard you ask earlier if the butter

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<v Speaker 1>was salted. Is there a reason?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so I won't put that much uh season salt

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<v Speaker 2>on my uh chicken cause you don't want to overdo

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<v Speaker 2>that as well. Yeah, I I know, I sound like

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<v Speaker 2>a real chef. I could have been one problem.

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

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<v Speaker 1>to what was going on in the Chicken Chicken taco

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<v Speaker 1>air of brokeness.

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<v Speaker 2>Mainly, I think doing that chicken was a lot cheaper,

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<v Speaker 2>So if you want tacos, I think chicken was was cheaper,

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<v Speaker 2>and then you felt like it was being healthier because

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<v Speaker 2>it was going through that phase with beef and pork.

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<v Speaker 2>How we was kind of like trying to lay off

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<v Speaker 2>of it. And then plus I think taco Tuesday, like

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<v Speaker 2>people now, you know, feel like you only could eat

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<v Speaker 2>tacos on Tuesday, but tacos are good essential meal. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>So is this dish go back to being in your

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<v Speaker 1>home with your parents or is this college? Is this before?

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<v Speaker 2>It's a lot, it's a little both.

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<v Speaker 1>Take me there.

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<v Speaker 2>I think at home it was either like this, I

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<v Speaker 2>felt like this was like a gourmet meal. And plus

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<v Speaker 2>with these kind of chicken, With this kind of chicken,

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<v Speaker 2>you could do so much with it afreido, we can

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<v Speaker 2>do tacos. So it was like multi purpose. So anytime

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<v Speaker 2>I bought this chicken, I know it could last me

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<v Speaker 2>the week.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, did you did you buy the pre made ones?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, this is pre Oh you never did the raw?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh no, no, no, no, because that costs more.

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<v Speaker 1>It costs more for the raw.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, because you're getting the chicken breast. Then you gotta

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<v Speaker 2>cut it this already, come cut. It's only so much

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<v Speaker 2>you could do in a in a dorm room as well.

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<v Speaker 2>And then at the house.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, did you come from two parent household? Middle class?

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<v Speaker 2>Rich for well, two parents, but we was a little

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<v Speaker 2>under middle class okay, yeah, but we was to two parent.

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>the last couple of interviews, everyone's so educated.

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

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<v Speaker 2>guess what they're doing same place as me. So that

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<v Speaker 2>just going to show you. But nah, real, real talk.

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<v Speaker 2>Like I went to college just because my parents were

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<v Speaker 2>telling me, like, man, you know, go to college. We

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<v Speaker 2>felt like that was the right thing to do. But

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<v Speaker 2>once I got to college, I was like, man, after

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<v Speaker 2>I started dropping them first couple classes and I was

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

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<v Speaker 2>I'm out of here.

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<v Speaker 1>You got to check from school.

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<v Speaker 2>Then you dipped. No, no, no, I ain't gonna lie.

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<v Speaker 2>I got the sick one too. So the you know

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<v Speaker 2>how they do it in disbursements. I think I said

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<v Speaker 2>it right. So when they said that, I was like.

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<v Speaker 1>Nah, okay, so you drop out of school. What are

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<v Speaker 1>your parents in and what were you even going to

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<v Speaker 1>school for besides appeasing them business.

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<v Speaker 2>I had to think about it because I didn't man,

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't care what I just you know, anytime somebody

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<v Speaker 2>just go to school for business, they don't know what

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<v Speaker 2>they're doing, It's like, why what point?

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<v Speaker 1>Well, we want money at the end of this, so

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<v Speaker 1>we'll just choose the option business.

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<v Speaker 2>But I went there and I was taking up certain

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<v Speaker 2>certain classes, and then after I would get out of class,

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<v Speaker 2>I would like be joking in the be joking outside

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<v Speaker 2>by the calf and stuff like that. And this one

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<v Speaker 2>girl had told me. She was like, man, she was like,

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<v Speaker 2>you really got talent. So her saying that, I was like,

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<v Speaker 2>what you mean? She was like you could be like

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<v Speaker 2>an entertainer or something like that. And when she said that,

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<v Speaker 2>I was like, yeah, I ain't coming back.

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<v Speaker 1>So all iok.

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<v Speaker 2>Was one girl and I don't even know her name.

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<v Speaker 2>She probably don't even know she she changed the trajectory

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<v Speaker 2>of my life. Wow, well not trajectory, cause I was

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<v Speaker 2>gonna do it anyway, but I did it faster.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay fast.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't even waste the time because when when I

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<v Speaker 2>go back, so you know, in the summer, they started

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<v Speaker 2>sending you information about dorms and stuff like that. So

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<v Speaker 2>my mom was like, uh uh you didn't give me

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

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

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<v Speaker 2>gonna tell me? I was like, uh, I been thinking

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<v Speaker 2>about it. So, you know, saying that to your mom

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<v Speaker 2>and stuff like that, and she you gotta think just

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<v Speaker 2>a year before you done. Just had a a high

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<v Speaker 2>school graduation party. Everybody bringing you all this stuff to

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<v Speaker 2>go to college with. But they don't realize when you

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<v Speaker 2>get to college that money goes so fast and it's

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<v Speaker 2>before cash up. So like I had aunties and stuff

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<v Speaker 2>like that, cause you know, a lot of my family

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<v Speaker 2>they never went to college. So they would give you

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<v Speaker 2>twenty dollars. They felt like, hey, man, that twenty dollars

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<v Speaker 2>old last you want to go somewhere, talking about don't

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

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<v Speaker 2>So it was just that and there it just felt

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<v Speaker 2>like you being a burden asking for money. You know

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<v Speaker 2>why you down there cause you still at home. It

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<v Speaker 2>was different. You could go out and hang, but in

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<v Speaker 2>college you felt like you were by yourself.

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<v Speaker 1>You feel me and then you don't have a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of money, right, So I didn't go back. So you

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<v Speaker 1>but you went back to mama's house.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I ain't had no choice. I ain't have a plan.

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<v Speaker 1>So what you say when you're like, hey, epiphany, change,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not doing this? Did she ask the good old

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<v Speaker 1>what do you? What's your plan?

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<v Speaker 2>Uh? So to be transparent with you. When I was

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<v Speaker 2>in high school, I had did this show called Your Mama.

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<v Speaker 2>It was an MTV Your Mama Show, and I had

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<v Speaker 2>one a couple episodes on that. So after I won,

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<v Speaker 2>I knew then like I could do it. I wanted

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<v Speaker 2>to be an entertainer, but it was like I'm thinking

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<v Speaker 2>somebody was gonna call from that, but no, that didn't happen.

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<v Speaker 2>So I like, boom. So now I'm in college. So

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<v Speaker 2>when I come back, I'm like, I'm gonna work this

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<v Speaker 2>job and then I'm gonna get me some money and

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<v Speaker 2>go to LA. That was my whole plan. Okay, So

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<v Speaker 2>I'm working at the Congress Center stacking my little money.

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<v Speaker 2>And when I say little, it was little because once

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<v Speaker 2>you go to LA, you see boys saying, man, that

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<v Speaker 2>money was going so quick. Like the money I saved up.

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<v Speaker 2>It was to share a room. I said, bruh. And

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<v Speaker 2>you know how when your parents tell you something like

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

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<v Speaker 2>My mama knew, like my dad, he never really tried

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<v Speaker 2>to give me the el because like I think, and

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<v Speaker 2>him thinking like, sometimes you got to just find out

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<v Speaker 2>by yourself. And I found out. So I stayed out

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<v Speaker 2>there probably.

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<v Speaker 1>Like four five months, and what happened.

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<v Speaker 2>Ship out right back in Atlanta.

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<v Speaker 1>No way. Yeah, did you so you were did you

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<v Speaker 1>at least do the shared room thing?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, so that ran up? And what did you do

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<v Speaker 1>while you were in LA for that short stint?

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<v Speaker 2>I met. I met a couple of people I had knew. Uh,

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<v Speaker 2>this guy Brendan Lewis, I knew him from he had

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<v Speaker 2>did to Your Mama show as well. And I met

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<v Speaker 2>a a few comedians while I was out there. But

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<v Speaker 2>it was like I didn't understand in LA, like you

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<v Speaker 2>had to have credits or something to get on stage.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, yeah, l A is weird because they like make

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<v Speaker 1>their comedians literally work from the door up.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and I saw that. So sometimes when I first

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<v Speaker 2>moved out there, if you're familiar with the area, I

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<v Speaker 2>was staying out there in Palmdale.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh that's far you was on another island.

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<v Speaker 2>Listen shared room, No, I have my own room. Listen.

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<v Speaker 2>So when I'm in Palmdale, I'm running the metro link

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<v Speaker 2>to the city that I didn't.

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

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<v Speaker 2>Whatever the big train is. Yeah, yeah, it come down

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<v Speaker 2>to the city. So when I how long is that right?

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<v Speaker 1>Like two hours? No?

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

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<v Speaker 2>well it's not that far.

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<v Speaker 1>So when I to the city to Hollywood to Lay okay.

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<v Speaker 2>So when I get down there, I could be off

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

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, our max I would say an hour.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, good, I said fifteen minutes. So look, I get

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<v Speaker 2>there me not knowing how the train works. It stopped

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<v Speaker 2>running at nine. The comedy clubs don't start to about

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<v Speaker 2>eight thirty nine. Yeah, so and then I would have

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<v Speaker 2>to go to the train station and I gotta wait

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<v Speaker 2>till it start running in the morning at five. So

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<v Speaker 2>I was like, nah, this ain't gonna work. I have

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<v Speaker 2>to move closer to the city. That's when I found

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<v Speaker 2>out about the U c LA. Like, now, this was

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

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

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

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<v Speaker 2>be true because it was what was it that a

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<v Speaker 2>shared room. I'm seeing the price and I'm seeing the area.

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<v Speaker 2>I was like, oh, man, I don't find my lik man,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm sharing the room. So I was like well, I'm man,

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<v Speaker 2>may he opened the door and somebody laying in their bed.

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

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<v Speaker 2>have a I had an air mattress.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh you actually went through the shared room.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I ain't had no choice. I had like I had.

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<v Speaker 1>The game all right, Oh before you even.

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<v Speaker 2>Sawry man, you know how bad you gotta be doing

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<v Speaker 2>again with a deposit on the shared room?

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, So then what happens?

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<v Speaker 2>So I stayed. I stayed a couple of months doing that,

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<v Speaker 2>and then that's when did you.

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<v Speaker 1>Get into any of the clubs?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah? I had got in a couple of clubs, and

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<v Speaker 2>it mainly was like networking, but to a certain degree

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<v Speaker 2>what you mean, cause it's like, hey, yeah, I'm out

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<v Speaker 2>here to do this and do that, Like okay, they

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<v Speaker 2>don't really care cause you gotta think it's so many

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<v Speaker 2>people out there with the same story as you, as

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<v Speaker 2>you rather so then I found out I had a

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<v Speaker 2>child on the way, So that was my rules. I

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<v Speaker 2>have to go back now, cause to be honest with you,

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<v Speaker 2>I felt like this is what I was supposed to do.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, you hear it so much like it's so cliche,

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<v Speaker 2>like you gotta struggle to make it. So I feel

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<v Speaker 2>like I'm just living in my truth. Like I'm hearing

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<v Speaker 2>so many people that said they slept, slapping, they cars

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<v Speaker 2>and stuff like that. So I'm like, yeah, I was

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<v Speaker 2>willing to do all that till I found out I

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<v Speaker 2>had a child, And I'm like, naw, you don't wanna

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<v Speaker 2>bring no child in you trying to chase your dream.

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<v Speaker 2>So that kind of side. I ain't gonna say it

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<v Speaker 2>sidetracked me, cause it helped me out so much. So

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<v Speaker 2>after that then I had came back to Georgia.

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<v Speaker 1>So you went back. Now did you end up having

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<v Speaker 1>to get a job? What was the plan after you

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<v Speaker 1>found out?

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<v Speaker 2>Man, I went back to that same job. I was

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<v Speaker 2>working at the Congress Center of Georgia Dome, and I

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<v Speaker 2>went back there cause it was it was like a

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<v Speaker 2>temporary job. Anyway, you work a certain amount of hours,

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<v Speaker 2>so they they they'll always let you come back long

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<v Speaker 2>as you left on good terms.

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<v Speaker 1>So you start doing the job. Are you packing up

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<v Speaker 1>with the idea on your dreams at this point?

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<v Speaker 2>Nah? I never gave up on my dreams though, I

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<v Speaker 2>never I just didn't know when or how it was

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<v Speaker 2>gonna take shape. Or form. But I was like, it's

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<v Speaker 2>s something gonna come from this, and like what it

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't know what it was gonna be at the time.

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<v Speaker 1>Are you living at your mom's or with your girl

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<v Speaker 1>at the.

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<v Speaker 2>Time or I was living with my uh my girl

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<v Speaker 2>at the time.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, cool, Yeah, so you're raising this baby and it

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<v Speaker 1>I think it.

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<v Speaker 2>I would have rather been staying on my mom.

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<v Speaker 1>Cause, like you're hilarious.

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<v Speaker 2>No, I'm telling you truth. If you go home broke

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<v Speaker 2>to your mom, like it's sympathy, you go home broke

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<v Speaker 2>to your girl, that's a different type of you hear

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<v Speaker 2>her complain, Like you can hear your parents complain about

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<v Speaker 2>the beatings all days, like shit job, been doing that

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<v Speaker 2>since I was three. O. Man, you hear your girl

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<v Speaker 2>saying that sh making you feel bad? Like man, So

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<v Speaker 2>it was like that was different. So we thugged it out.

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<v Speaker 1>Wow. So are you guys still together?

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<v Speaker 2>No? Okay, this every story on any way you think?

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, okay, So you so you staying with her, You're

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<v Speaker 1>you're working at this this temporary job type place and

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<v Speaker 1>you're not actively pursuing your dreams or you're like praying

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<v Speaker 1>on a miracle.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, at the time, I'm not even actively like pursuing

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<v Speaker 2>it because to be uh, all the way, we we

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<v Speaker 2>had actually had to move to Savannah. My girl she

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<v Speaker 2>was in the army.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh so her she was a benefits.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah for them. Yeah, so she uh, she's down there

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<v Speaker 2>at Fort Stewart in Savannah. That's like three and a

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<v Speaker 2>half hours away from Atlanta. So like every weekend we

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<v Speaker 2>coming back. But you know, that's gas money and stuff

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<v Speaker 2>like that. So it was like on Sunday, Uptown would

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<v Speaker 2>have Sunday for comedy club, but it's only so much.

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<v Speaker 2>If you not around the scene and don't know nobody,

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<v Speaker 2>they don't really take you serious.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, So that was that Backack, how'd you end up

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<v Speaker 1>in the yo mama situation? In high school?

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<v Speaker 2>So look a buddy at the school I was at,

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<v Speaker 2>he had he was talking about it, so he was

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<v Speaker 2>gonna do it. So he was like, just come down

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<v Speaker 2>here with me. So all of us were joking class.

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<v Speaker 2>We go down there to actually they had auditions at Uptown,

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<v Speaker 2>so we get on stage, were doing it, and then

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<v Speaker 2>after we left that was it. But I got a

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<v Speaker 2>call back.

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<v Speaker 1>He didn't I know, he was probably thinking like why

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<v Speaker 1>did I take him with me.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but or was yeah, I don't think he really

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<v Speaker 2>gave it, damn. Okay, yeah, it was just something to do.

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<v Speaker 2>So then they give me a call back. So the

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<v Speaker 2>first time that I leave to go because this when

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<v Speaker 2>you do like the free for all for the show

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<v Speaker 2>when they have you in the big circle. So they

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<v Speaker 2>had already told us like, you get paid regardless, so

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<v Speaker 2>I was like, I don't give it. Damn. Yeah. Of

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<v Speaker 2>course I know I'm gonna get some money from this,

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<v Speaker 2>but I didn't even know how entertainment worked. I'm thinking

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<v Speaker 2>they gonna hand me the money right out. So I

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<v Speaker 2>get down there end up winning. So they was like, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>you come back next week and then we do like

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<v Speaker 2>the raid the house thing where they showed the different rooms.

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<v Speaker 2>That's how the show used to work. But they go

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<v Speaker 2>to your house. Well I wasn't even supposed to be

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<v Speaker 2>doing it, so I'm like, they can't come to my house.

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<v Speaker 2>So they was like, do we get permission? I was like, nah,

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<v Speaker 2>my mom she said no already and she don't even

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<v Speaker 2>know I'm doing the show, so boom. I lied about

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<v Speaker 2>everything till I brought this when I I got on

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<v Speaker 2>the last show, when I brought my dumb ass friends.

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<v Speaker 1>You got called by your mama.

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<v Speaker 2>No, my friends, they putting the wrong they putting they

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<v Speaker 2>real age down. So they were like, how's he eighteen

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<v Speaker 2>hanging on with all these sixteen year olds?

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<v Speaker 1>Oh my gosh.

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<v Speaker 2>So they pulled me to the side of the one

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<v Speaker 2>of the consultants that like tell the truth. They were like,

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<v Speaker 2>how old are you? I was like seventeen and a half.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh my gosh.

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<v Speaker 2>You know how you put the a half under you

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<v Speaker 2>make him feel better? But nah. So after that they

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<v Speaker 2>had to get permission from my mom. So that's how

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<v Speaker 2>she found out I was even on the show. Oh snap,

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<v Speaker 2>I was the youngest one on the show.

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<v Speaker 1>But at least it led with hey, he already won, right.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well my at first my dad was like, nah,

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<v Speaker 2>tell him bring his ass home. It was like, well

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<v Speaker 2>he already won up the three thousand and nine, well

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<v Speaker 2>he better win it. Like he was part of his

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<v Speaker 2>head then. But at first it was like cause I

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<v Speaker 2>had been I had skipped school to do it, cause

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<v Speaker 2>like they would shooting certain scenes during the daytime, I

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<v Speaker 2>would leave school like or not even go.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh my gosh, okay, so you you got into some

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<v Speaker 1>kind of trouble even though you walked away with a check, right.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but then I didn't even know how it worked

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<v Speaker 2>the check. The check didn't even come to like two

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<v Speaker 2>months later. But I knew my money was coming, so

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<v Speaker 2>people would I tell somebody like, you know, my money

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<v Speaker 2>on the way. So by the time I got to check,

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<v Speaker 2>that shit was gone anyway. Okay, but no, but after

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<v Speaker 2>I did it, it made me see for myself after just

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<v Speaker 2>being on TV, you gotta think this before social media,

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<v Speaker 2>it's all. Wait, so this before social media. We had

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<v Speaker 2>Facebook and not in Facebook. We had my Space back then.

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<v Speaker 2>Uh but it's like when you was on TV and

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<v Speaker 2>people come back to school, man, they was tr like, man,

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<v Speaker 2>now we saw you on TV, like, so it was

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<v Speaker 2>different and I never wanted that feeling to go away. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>I think once we started doing social media skits and.

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<v Speaker 1>What what platforms are you using at that time.

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<v Speaker 2>That's when Instagram started coming around.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, so did you do the vine error?

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<v Speaker 2>I missed the vine era. I caught the end of

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<v Speaker 2>the vine era and it was straight on Instagram. That's

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<v Speaker 2>when Instagram started making the videos. I mean, you can, yeah, but.

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<v Speaker 1>They were longer than Yeah, that's how them.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>So then once Instagram started doing the videos, it was okay,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm just gonna do Instagram. So with that being said,

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<v Speaker 2>at the time, I'm still with my child's mother, so

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<v Speaker 2>you know, like of course, were starting to do more things,

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<v Speaker 2>and so she was like, you don't think you want

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<v Speaker 2>to get a job. So when she said that, it's like,

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<v Speaker 2>you know how you see the pressure of that, like

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<v Speaker 2>I do have to. I know I'm chasing my dream,

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<v Speaker 2>but I still gotta make sure my family is straight.

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<v Speaker 2>But when she said that, it's like, man, I'm putting

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<v Speaker 2>money into the house. I'm doing all the necessary like

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<v Speaker 2>I never work a job.

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<v Speaker 1>And when I said it, still you're still contributing, right, Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>And when I said that, I realized then I met it.

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<v Speaker 2>I was like, I don't want to work. That's all

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<v Speaker 2>I want to do. So like you know how some

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<v Speaker 2>people like you. You meet people and they they have regrets, like, man,

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<v Speaker 2>I wish I would have did this so much. I

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<v Speaker 2>never want to do that. Like growing up, we try

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<v Speaker 2>to tell our kids you could do this and be that,

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<v Speaker 2>don't give up, but then you give up. Yeah, because

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<v Speaker 2>it's like that's what I would have been. I probably

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<v Speaker 2>would have been a I'm a great father, but I

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<v Speaker 2>would have been a superb father. But I would have

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<v Speaker 2>been bitter as hell.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, like you watching a lot of resentment.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, resent man, that's the better word for it.

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<v Speaker 1>And then you also end up resembling with your mate too.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>So so you decide, like, in this conversation with her,

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<v Speaker 1>that's it, I ain't never going to get a job

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<v Speaker 1>a kid.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, Okay. So with that being said.

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<v Speaker 1>And so at this point, you're also so how are

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<v Speaker 1>you supporting the family at that point where you're like,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm never getting a job because at the time she

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<v Speaker 1>you didn't have a job.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, Yeah, I was getting unemployment. Shout out unemployment. It

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<v Speaker 2>help it, don'll save my life a few times. So,

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<v Speaker 2>uh unemployment. And then I was getting the while she

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<v Speaker 2>was in the army, when we was in Savannah, I

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<v Speaker 2>had uh did the I end up doing it as well?

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<v Speaker 1>You joined the military, Get the freak out, no talking

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<v Speaker 1>about Yeah, did you did you make it through at

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<v Speaker 1>least a couple of years or probably right at that

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<v Speaker 1>Oh so you tell me, tell me did you get

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<v Speaker 1>kicked out the army or did you get what is

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<v Speaker 1>the honorable discharge? Or whatever they call it.

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<v Speaker 2>Nah, it was. It was man when I first got there.

0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:43.119
<v Speaker 2>So a lot of people don't know this. So like,

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<v Speaker 2>with that being said, when you go into a recruiter's office,

0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:50.080
<v Speaker 2>they gonna tell you everything you want to hear. So

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<v Speaker 2>I was like, man, my uh, my kid and my

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<v Speaker 2>baby mom they right here at Fort Stewart. He like,

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<v Speaker 2>oh yeah, yeah, you'll be right here with him. So

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like, okay, cool. He was like, are you got

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<v Speaker 2>to do is go through your training. I went through

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<v Speaker 2>the training. Man. They sent me to Korea. Man, when

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<v Speaker 2>I got the paper it said career, I could have

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<v Speaker 2>cried cause I'm like, now, it's like as a grown man,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like, he lied to me. But I'm I'm thinking

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<v Speaker 2>I'm at twenty. I'm twenty at the time. I'm like,

0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:19.760
<v Speaker 2>he lied to me. And they're like who They were like,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm just sick. So I get to Korea and that's

0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:24.919
<v Speaker 2>when I realized, Man, this.

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<v Speaker 1>Shit fun, Like the military's fun.

0:21:28.520 --> 0:21:32.639
<v Speaker 2>No Koreer career. Okay. That's why I ain't think I

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<v Speaker 2>was gonna last long.

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<v Speaker 1>Man.

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<v Speaker 2>I had I got so many if.

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<v Speaker 1>You know about the military, No, not really.

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<v Speaker 2>I hain't got so many article fifteen's.

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<v Speaker 1>What what's that?

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<v Speaker 2>That's like basically, you done got in trouble for doing

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<v Speaker 2>what were you doing? No, I got in trouble before

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<v Speaker 2>I even got to Korea. I swear to God to you, like,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm in basic training. So they take away all your

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<v Speaker 2>privileges and stuff like. So when I say privileges, like

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<v Speaker 2>if you smoke, you can't smoke for those eight weeks,

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<v Speaker 2>so how long you in there? You can't eat candy,

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<v Speaker 2>you can't eat ship. Yeah, they strict on you because

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<v Speaker 2>they really trying to show you could a vibe without

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<v Speaker 2>that stuff, because if you, like you go to war,

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<v Speaker 2>you won't have it.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, And some people are crack, so I.

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<v Speaker 2>Guess it was the myth of their method. Long story short,

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<v Speaker 2>I get the basic training and like, I'm from Atlanta,

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<v Speaker 2>so like a hustling mentality is gonna come to me.

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<v Speaker 2>So I was like, we could start. Our family could

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<v Speaker 2>sent us stuff. So I would tell them to take

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<v Speaker 2>the soap out of there and put a cigarette box

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<v Speaker 2>in the soapbox and and clew it back. I'm selling cigarettes.

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<v Speaker 2>Ten dollars a cigarette.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh my god.

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<v Speaker 2>Ten dollars a cigarette, and you gotta think this is

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<v Speaker 2>my first time really around white people, so I'm not knowing.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like these white people cool as hell until they

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<v Speaker 2>got caught. They're like, where you get that from?

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<v Speaker 1>Man?

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<v Speaker 2>So minute they came in and start pointing me. But

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<v Speaker 2>so I'm so good. I would buy cards from the PX.

0:23:07.720 --> 0:23:10.080
<v Speaker 2>I would buy cards from there, and I would send

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<v Speaker 2>it back to home, but I would have the money

0:23:12.440 --> 0:23:14.960
<v Speaker 2>in there. So I never kept money in my locker.

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<v Speaker 2>So when they saw that they had no evidence on

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<v Speaker 2>me for real, I think I was the first one

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<v Speaker 2>with a real rico charge.

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<v Speaker 1>What's that?

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<v Speaker 2>Just a bunch of crime?

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<v Speaker 1>So discharge?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it sounded like a line, I swear to God,

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<v Speaker 2>like I could show you proove.

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<v Speaker 1>How long did you last?

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<v Speaker 2>After that? I went to Korea, and when I got

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<v Speaker 2>the career I had, got like, they give you so

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<v Speaker 2>much freedom to wait, you either punish yourself.

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<v Speaker 1>So they go from all restrictions to mad freedom.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah in career, Oh man, it was grat.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, how long were you there for a year? Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>so you made it a year and then you came

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<v Speaker 1>home and they said get out.

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<v Speaker 2>They just say it like that.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay. Uh.

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<v Speaker 2>The commander, he was like Green. I'm gonna be honest

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<v Speaker 2>with you. I'm surprised you last this long. I mean

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<v Speaker 2>too Yeah, but he said you could pass me spool.

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<v Speaker 2>He said, now you could get out or you could

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<v Speaker 2>re enlist, but I don't think you a last here.

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<v Speaker 2>So with that being said, I was like, I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 2>get out because I'm still at this time. I feel

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<v Speaker 2>like I got some money, so I'm like, now I

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<v Speaker 2>could get back and chasing my dream like for that

0:24:31.080 --> 0:24:32.919
<v Speaker 2>was my whole plan. But I just never thought I

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<v Speaker 2>would go end up in Korea.

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<v Speaker 1>So the military was paying you weekly while you were there,

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<v Speaker 1>or I don't you.

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<v Speaker 2>Paid by week? You get paid by week? Okay, but

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of people this is what the people don't

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<v Speaker 2>realize what the military do. It kind of sets you

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<v Speaker 2>up for failure that you always need them because every

0:24:48.200 --> 0:24:50.280
<v Speaker 2>two weeks you start depending on you live and checked

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<v Speaker 2>the check.

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<v Speaker 1>But that's the thing. Don't they take ere of your

0:24:53.040 --> 0:24:56.320
<v Speaker 1>like overhead and all that stuff? Well, I thought, you

0:24:56.400 --> 0:25:00.840
<v Speaker 1>don't you live in the army or something. You live together?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, if you live on base and stuff like that.

0:25:03.240 --> 0:25:05.160
<v Speaker 2>But you gotta think about it. You gotta have a car,

0:25:05.760 --> 0:25:08.080
<v Speaker 2>you gotta get around so if you wanna you don't

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<v Speaker 2>wanna eat the food in the cafeteria. You know what

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<v Speaker 2>I'm saying. So what that being said is like God forbid,

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<v Speaker 2>if you like wearing tennis shoes, you buy tennis shoes.

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<v Speaker 2>All that stuff is started.

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<v Speaker 1>Just so you was a stagnan tips. She was having

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<v Speaker 1>a good old time.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, I ain't stacked nothing.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, so you get you get honorable discharged. You tell

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<v Speaker 1>your girl, was that a difficult conversation? No?

0:25:34.800 --> 0:25:36.879
<v Speaker 2>I think she knew I wasn't gonna stand. She probably

0:25:36.920 --> 0:25:39.040
<v Speaker 2>was surprised. I lasted that long. Like I'm telling I

0:25:39.119 --> 0:25:46.000
<v Speaker 2>started off. So the other article fifteen, we had found

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<v Speaker 2>some cards. Man, we playing cards in the dorm room

0:25:51.440 --> 0:25:54.080
<v Speaker 2>where you're supposed to be like sleep. So we playing

0:25:54.119 --> 0:25:58.119
<v Speaker 2>cards and I'm talking trash to the guy, and all

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<v Speaker 2>of a sudden, I don't see him no more. All

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<v Speaker 2>I see is the drill starry. So I'm the only

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<v Speaker 2>one get caught with the cards. But I did not tell.

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<v Speaker 1>You who. And people in they how they snitch.

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<v Speaker 2>It, Well, that's what they were used to doing. You

0:26:16.440 --> 0:26:18.400
<v Speaker 2>can't blame them for what they used to. They didn't

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<v Speaker 2>want to get.

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<v Speaker 1>In trouble, so you get out of the military. Next

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<v Speaker 1>next milestone.

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<v Speaker 2>That's when I started the videos.

0:26:25.080 --> 0:26:27.359
<v Speaker 1>Okay, that's when you need to start a social social

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<v Speaker 1>media So when do you see ones starting really hit man?

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<v Speaker 2>When I I think it was doing the shift Leader

0:26:35.600 --> 0:26:40.800
<v Speaker 2>in the in the Professor Fleet character. But when I

0:26:40.800 --> 0:26:43.480
<v Speaker 2>did that shift Leader, cause I had did a few

0:26:43.560 --> 0:26:46.879
<v Speaker 2>videos before then, but only my friends were like laughing

0:26:46.920 --> 0:26:49.440
<v Speaker 2>and like cause they know me. But when I saw

0:26:50.480 --> 0:26:53.480
<v Speaker 2>so many people that I didn't know start like laughing

0:26:53.560 --> 0:26:55.840
<v Speaker 2>at the shift Leader videos, I was like, man, I

0:26:55.840 --> 0:26:58.960
<v Speaker 2>got something with this. And after that it just started

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<v Speaker 2>going and I just stop.

0:27:00.600 --> 0:27:03.080
<v Speaker 1>I was f in the takeoff then and then it

0:27:03.119 --> 0:27:06.480
<v Speaker 1>went from there. So what's your first acting gig after that?

0:27:07.160 --> 0:27:12.840
<v Speaker 2>My first acting gig, it was Dirty South House Arrests

0:27:12.920 --> 0:27:15.920
<v Speaker 2>or either Digital Lives Matter and that was where uh

0:27:16.000 --> 0:27:21.360
<v Speaker 2>we was uh with archive, it was me, DC, Emanuel Hudson,

0:27:21.640 --> 0:27:24.400
<v Speaker 2>like all of us was under the same Like who

0:27:24.400 --> 0:27:27.280
<v Speaker 2>else was over there? Uh, Erica Dutchess and Mark over

0:27:27.320 --> 0:27:31.320
<v Speaker 2>It was so many people, Ernestine Morrison. So while we

0:27:31.480 --> 0:27:32.640
<v Speaker 2>over there like.

0:27:32.560 --> 0:27:35.359
<v Speaker 1>It, how'd you get over there to begin with?

0:27:35.560 --> 0:27:38.480
<v Speaker 2>Sh shooting the shooting the videos? When I once once

0:27:38.520 --> 0:27:42.440
<v Speaker 2>I shot the uh video with the shift leet the video,

0:27:42.760 --> 0:27:45.320
<v Speaker 2>they saw that and then just started shooting over there

0:27:45.359 --> 0:27:49.720
<v Speaker 2>with them. So long story short, a lot of people

0:27:49.840 --> 0:27:52.720
<v Speaker 2>was on DC at the time, just like now, but

0:27:52.920 --> 0:27:55.600
<v Speaker 2>with them, they was like, if you want DC, found

0:27:55.640 --> 0:27:57.359
<v Speaker 2>a role for them. So that's how we were getting

0:27:57.359 --> 0:27:59.760
<v Speaker 2>in movies and stuff, okay, and getting like getting a

0:27:59.760 --> 0:28:01.600
<v Speaker 2>little gigs and stuff like that.

0:28:01.840 --> 0:28:05.040
<v Speaker 1>What do you mean by if you if you, what

0:28:05.080 --> 0:28:05.760
<v Speaker 1>do you mean by that?

0:28:06.320 --> 0:28:09.879
<v Speaker 2>Like they would want DC on fly yea yeah, but

0:28:10.840 --> 0:28:13.600
<v Speaker 2>they would tell them, well, we also got these people,

0:28:13.640 --> 0:28:15.959
<v Speaker 2>could you find a road for them? So that's how

0:28:16.000 --> 0:28:18.920
<v Speaker 2>we would get some yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

0:28:19.640 --> 0:28:24.520
<v Speaker 1>Okay, I like that you guys. To you, you guys

0:28:24.520 --> 0:28:26.359
<v Speaker 1>are kind of like moving like the Kardashians, like you

0:28:26.440 --> 0:28:27.360
<v Speaker 1>all brought us all on.

0:28:27.640 --> 0:28:29.360
<v Speaker 2>Yeah yeah, it was kind of like that for real.

0:28:30.400 --> 0:28:33.959
<v Speaker 1>Okay, so you get on what a success is success

0:28:34.000 --> 0:28:36.040
<v Speaker 1>starting to be a little bit more real to you

0:28:36.080 --> 0:28:38.480
<v Speaker 1>at this point hood success, hood success.

0:28:38.640 --> 0:28:41.440
<v Speaker 2>And when I say hood success, like people around the well,

0:28:41.440 --> 0:28:43.920
<v Speaker 2>I see you that type of ship, Like.

0:28:44.120 --> 0:28:47.880
<v Speaker 1>Was the money equaling the not okay, got it?

0:28:47.880 --> 0:28:49.800
<v Speaker 2>It was it was it was something like you know,

0:28:52.000 --> 0:28:54.440
<v Speaker 2>to get by with but it wasn't enough money to

0:28:54.600 --> 0:28:57.840
<v Speaker 2>like just be like living. Yeah, because it's still.

0:28:57.720 --> 0:29:01.520
<v Speaker 1>You're still like living check or hustle to hustle check exactly. Okay,

0:29:01.600 --> 0:29:03.600
<v Speaker 1>what are your parents saying during all of this.

0:29:03.920 --> 0:29:06.280
<v Speaker 2>Well, see my mom she was telling me at the time,

0:29:06.360 --> 0:29:08.360
<v Speaker 2>she was like, you gotta have a plan. Beat. She

0:29:08.480 --> 0:29:11.800
<v Speaker 2>was like, it's not guaranteed, you know, like being a

0:29:11.840 --> 0:29:15.400
<v Speaker 2>real mother. But my mother had never seen me on stage,

0:29:16.200 --> 0:29:18.640
<v Speaker 2>so she come we had a show at Uptown. She

0:29:18.800 --> 0:29:22.320
<v Speaker 2>come to see the show live. It was we would

0:29:22.360 --> 0:29:24.520
<v Speaker 2>do a Wratchet People meat show. She come see the

0:29:24.560 --> 0:29:28.920
<v Speaker 2>Ratchet People Meat Show. And once she see me live,

0:29:29.360 --> 0:29:30.560
<v Speaker 2>she was like, you're gonna make it.

0:29:31.400 --> 0:29:32.160
<v Speaker 1>I love that.

0:29:32.240 --> 0:29:34.520
<v Speaker 2>And when she told me that, I knew then. I

0:29:34.600 --> 0:29:37.480
<v Speaker 2>was like, boy, that's what you know, Like you want

0:29:37.480 --> 0:29:40.760
<v Speaker 2>your your parents to believe in you. But my mom,

0:29:41.240 --> 0:29:43.400
<v Speaker 2>she had seen her your mama thing and she used

0:29:43.400 --> 0:29:45.520
<v Speaker 2>to always say she was like, you like fast money,

0:29:45.920 --> 0:29:48.280
<v Speaker 2>Like she was like, you don't. You don't understand you

0:29:48.320 --> 0:29:50.240
<v Speaker 2>have to work for certain stuff. But at the same

0:29:50.280 --> 0:29:54.520
<v Speaker 2>time she was right, yeah, like I do like fast money,

0:29:54.640 --> 0:29:57.440
<v Speaker 2>but I'm still gonna have to work for what I want. Yeah,

0:29:57.480 --> 0:29:58.440
<v Speaker 2>it wasn't gonna be handed.

0:29:58.520 --> 0:30:00.680
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and it definitely wasn't gonna be fat. Man, how

0:30:00.760 --> 0:30:03.000
<v Speaker 1>many years? How many years of struggle would you say

0:30:03.040 --> 0:30:03.440
<v Speaker 1>you had to.

0:30:03.400 --> 0:30:06.640
<v Speaker 2>Go through shit since two years ago?

0:30:08.560 --> 0:30:11.000
<v Speaker 1>I like that. I like that. I like that. I

0:30:11.080 --> 0:30:14.000
<v Speaker 1>like that, though, I like you. Yeah, so it's like

0:30:14.360 --> 0:30:16.560
<v Speaker 1>over ten plus years, right, and then you say two

0:30:16.600 --> 0:30:19.840
<v Speaker 1>years Agould you say it's been at least over ten years?

0:30:20.280 --> 0:30:22.880
<v Speaker 2>No, I would say probably right at seven and a half,

0:30:24.120 --> 0:30:29.160
<v Speaker 2>because it's like all all between those first before two

0:30:29.240 --> 0:30:31.760
<v Speaker 2>years ago, I was living, like we were saying, hustle

0:30:31.800 --> 0:30:35.040
<v Speaker 2>to hustle. So it's like you kind of like willing

0:30:35.080 --> 0:30:38.680
<v Speaker 2>to like work on this, work on network, but now

0:30:38.720 --> 0:30:40.080
<v Speaker 2>it's like it's to your discretion.

0:30:40.320 --> 0:30:43.360
<v Speaker 1>Like, okay, So what was the pivot moment that happened

0:30:43.360 --> 0:30:48.840
<v Speaker 1>two years ago where the landscape kind of changed?

0:30:48.960 --> 0:30:52.000
<v Speaker 2>Okay? In twenty nineteen, I had did come into America,

0:30:53.640 --> 0:30:57.120
<v Speaker 2>and when I did come into America, that paid very well.

0:30:59.240 --> 0:31:00.960
<v Speaker 1>And at this point you you probably know how to

0:31:00.960 --> 0:31:02.080
<v Speaker 1>manage money a lot better.

0:31:02.160 --> 0:31:06.880
<v Speaker 2>No, I fucked that money up so fast, cause it was,

0:31:07.520 --> 0:31:09.880
<v Speaker 2>like I told you it was, it came so fast.

0:31:10.320 --> 0:31:14.760
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, bro' were living. Yeah. So when it came,

0:31:14.920 --> 0:31:17.960
<v Speaker 2>I was like, man, it's so dope, and I'm thinking

0:31:17.960 --> 0:31:20.200
<v Speaker 2>it was gonna always be like that, which it wasn't

0:31:20.560 --> 0:31:23.040
<v Speaker 2>because you gotta think after that movie said it's over with.

0:31:24.320 --> 0:31:27.880
<v Speaker 2>So but you gotta get some money to realize how

0:31:27.920 --> 0:31:29.800
<v Speaker 2>to maintain it and manage it.

0:31:30.200 --> 0:31:32.880
<v Speaker 1>So after that, Oh so, it's not not having it

0:31:32.880 --> 0:31:34.480
<v Speaker 1>that teaches you. It's once you get it.

0:31:34.440 --> 0:31:37.720
<v Speaker 2>And you could not have it for a long time.

0:31:37.760 --> 0:31:39.880
<v Speaker 2>And then when you get something, you're gonna start buying

0:31:39.880 --> 0:31:42.600
<v Speaker 2>stuff that you wanted. You're gonna look out for people

0:31:42.640 --> 0:31:44.480
<v Speaker 2>that you always felt like you had to look out.

0:31:44.520 --> 0:31:47.200
<v Speaker 2>But I wasn't in the the space to do that.

0:31:47.240 --> 0:31:48.880
<v Speaker 2>You but I ain't realize that.

0:31:49.200 --> 0:31:52.760
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, so you blew it, not all at once, but yeah,

0:31:53.160 --> 0:31:53.840
<v Speaker 1>pretty fast.

0:31:54.080 --> 0:31:57.480
<v Speaker 2>And then you know what, the pandemic happened right after that,

0:31:58.320 --> 0:32:01.560
<v Speaker 2>So we're not working and the money I felt like

0:32:01.640 --> 0:32:04.440
<v Speaker 2>I had saved up. Oh shit, I ran through that.

0:32:04.560 --> 0:32:07.640
<v Speaker 1>Yeah yeah, so then you're going through the pandemic. What's

0:32:07.640 --> 0:32:08.520
<v Speaker 1>your next playoff?

0:32:10.200 --> 0:32:13.000
<v Speaker 2>And then right after that, after I do come into America,

0:32:13.080 --> 0:32:14.680
<v Speaker 2>I start touring with eighty five South.

0:32:15.120 --> 0:32:18.240
<v Speaker 1>Okay, nice, I love the I love the homie bond

0:32:18.280 --> 0:32:19.200
<v Speaker 1>in the like, man.

0:32:20.320 --> 0:32:23.440
<v Speaker 2>But as soon as we started touring, that's when the

0:32:23.440 --> 0:32:26.760
<v Speaker 2>pandemic happened. As soon as I started touring with.

0:32:26.760 --> 0:32:29.840
<v Speaker 1>Them, yeah, I even like, dang, God, come on work

0:32:29.920 --> 0:32:30.600
<v Speaker 1>with me, man.

0:32:31.320 --> 0:32:34.160
<v Speaker 2>I counted them. They sent me the dates. I counted

0:32:34.200 --> 0:32:36.920
<v Speaker 2>them dates and multiplied my money by I was like, boy,

0:32:37.200 --> 0:32:41.280
<v Speaker 2>I'm rich forever. I like, I felt like I'd never

0:32:41.400 --> 0:32:43.960
<v Speaker 2>be broken in the pandemic.

0:32:46.320 --> 0:32:48.880
<v Speaker 1>What's your mind state when that happens. Do you start

0:32:48.920 --> 0:32:51.280
<v Speaker 1>to question your purpose or what are you thinking?

0:32:51.360 --> 0:32:54.040
<v Speaker 2>Well, no, I would question. I would question in the world.

0:32:54.160 --> 0:32:56.640
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, what the going away? Wait till I started

0:32:56.640 --> 0:32:57.200
<v Speaker 2>getting some money?

0:32:57.400 --> 0:32:58.640
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, exactly.

0:32:59.280 --> 0:33:01.280
<v Speaker 2>So then with that being said.

0:33:01.120 --> 0:33:03.000
<v Speaker 1>By the way, did you know because I remember when

0:33:03.000 --> 0:33:05.160
<v Speaker 1>the pandemic happened. I was one of those students that

0:33:05.160 --> 0:33:08.480
<v Speaker 1>didn't pay attention in school ever, and so I didn't

0:33:08.480 --> 0:33:11.680
<v Speaker 1>know that like pandemics and things like that happened. So

0:33:11.760 --> 0:33:14.480
<v Speaker 1>when it first happened, I was completely like what the

0:33:14.560 --> 0:33:19.120
<v Speaker 1>what the f I remember specifically the NBA canceling the game,

0:33:19.160 --> 0:33:23.479
<v Speaker 1>so that was like a huge like you yeah, And

0:33:23.520 --> 0:33:25.640
<v Speaker 1>then at first I was like, oh, well, last three months, oh,

0:33:25.720 --> 0:33:27.640
<v Speaker 1>the last six months. Then I was like, yo, are

0:33:27.680 --> 0:33:32.520
<v Speaker 1>we ever getting out of prison? Like you know, but

0:33:33.200 --> 0:33:36.560
<v Speaker 1>I didn't realized how important paying attention in history class

0:33:36.720 --> 0:33:37.160
<v Speaker 1>was and.

0:33:37.080 --> 0:33:39.920
<v Speaker 2>Not even that because we hear about stuff that goes

0:33:40.000 --> 0:33:42.360
<v Speaker 2>on all the time, but it's like if it don't

0:33:42.640 --> 0:33:45.120
<v Speaker 2>affect us, we don't really care. No people can say

0:33:45.120 --> 0:33:47.360
<v Speaker 2>they do. They don't really care because this shit happening

0:33:47.440 --> 0:33:50.680
<v Speaker 2>on right now, but it don't phase us. But it's

0:33:50.720 --> 0:33:52.640
<v Speaker 2>like when that happened, I was like, man, the whole

0:33:52.680 --> 0:33:56.440
<v Speaker 2>world shut down, luckily for Atlanta, Atlanta and stay shut down, loon,

0:33:57.240 --> 0:33:58.680
<v Speaker 2>Like the world was shut down?

0:33:58.720 --> 0:34:00.200
<v Speaker 1>What do you mean Atlanta in station down?

0:34:00.560 --> 0:34:02.000
<v Speaker 2>We were back running in three weeks?

0:34:02.240 --> 0:34:05.680
<v Speaker 1>What no way, no, no, lie.

0:34:05.800 --> 0:34:08.240
<v Speaker 2>We couldn't We couldn't do certain stuff. We still couldn't

0:34:08.239 --> 0:34:11.680
<v Speaker 2>tour eighty five South couldn't tour. But we started working,

0:34:11.760 --> 0:34:15.000
<v Speaker 2>like doing stuff in house, and like it was still

0:34:15.080 --> 0:34:20.359
<v Speaker 2>like the who Like what's the what's the governor name? Yeah?

0:34:20.440 --> 0:34:22.520
<v Speaker 2>Camp say ship life goes on?

0:34:22.600 --> 0:34:24.640
<v Speaker 1>Oh no, in La it was it was, Oh yeah

0:34:24.719 --> 0:34:24.920
<v Speaker 1>it was.

0:34:25.719 --> 0:34:27.759
<v Speaker 2>I was shut down, was out there.

0:34:27.800 --> 0:34:30.399
<v Speaker 1>So I'll tell you something though I had this really

0:34:30.440 --> 0:34:33.160
<v Speaker 1>bad thought during the pandemic. I really shouldn't confess this,

0:34:33.239 --> 0:34:34.879
<v Speaker 1>but like when they broke out, like you could wear

0:34:34.960 --> 0:34:40.000
<v Speaker 1>masks the evils. I guess side of me was like, yo,

0:34:40.400 --> 0:34:44.560
<v Speaker 1>we could like really rob somebody, Like what are they

0:34:44.560 --> 0:34:46.440
<v Speaker 1>gonna say that person with a mask? Like you know,

0:34:46.520 --> 0:34:48.480
<v Speaker 1>it was so easy, And I was like, yo, this

0:34:48.520 --> 0:34:51.040
<v Speaker 1>is a dangerous setup, like you're going into these stores

0:34:51.120 --> 0:34:53.680
<v Speaker 1>with masks on. And I thought that for at least

0:34:53.880 --> 0:34:56.720
<v Speaker 1>a year, like, yo, this could be the ultimate robbery.

0:34:57.760 --> 0:34:59.960
<v Speaker 1>Get away with things. You know, you could wear weeds

0:35:01.080 --> 0:35:04.200
<v Speaker 1>all that and get away with it right right, you know.

0:35:04.400 --> 0:35:06.759
<v Speaker 1>But anyways, that was that was a definite thought in

0:35:06.760 --> 0:35:09.480
<v Speaker 1>my mind. But I also remember going through the pandemic

0:35:09.520 --> 0:35:11.960
<v Speaker 1>even though the whole world was going through it. That

0:35:12.120 --> 0:35:14.319
<v Speaker 1>was the first time I realized like how selfish I was,

0:35:14.320 --> 0:35:16.319
<v Speaker 1>because I was like, I get the world's going through this,

0:35:16.360 --> 0:35:17.400
<v Speaker 1>but what about.

0:35:18.800 --> 0:35:21.840
<v Speaker 2>You not really being selfish because you like we really

0:35:22.040 --> 0:35:23.120
<v Speaker 2>we didn't.

0:35:22.920 --> 0:35:25.839
<v Speaker 1>Know what was going on. Yeah right, damn like every

0:35:25.880 --> 0:35:27.480
<v Speaker 1>time someone tried to pick me up, but like, you know,

0:35:27.600 --> 0:35:29.640
<v Speaker 1>the whole world's going through this. Mine, I get that,

0:35:29.719 --> 0:35:32.080
<v Speaker 1>but let's focus on But.

0:35:32.120 --> 0:35:34.520
<v Speaker 2>You know another thing though, it made you realize like

0:35:35.520 --> 0:35:38.440
<v Speaker 2>we have to figure something out, yeah, because why we

0:35:38.560 --> 0:35:43.280
<v Speaker 2>depending on depending on like we were. I think before

0:35:43.320 --> 0:35:46.080
<v Speaker 2>that everybody was depending on this or depending on that

0:35:46.239 --> 0:35:48.520
<v Speaker 2>to happen. But then it's like, I gotta I gotta

0:35:48.560 --> 0:35:50.799
<v Speaker 2>put some content out. Let me do this, let me

0:35:50.840 --> 0:35:51.120
<v Speaker 2>do that.

0:35:51.200 --> 0:35:53.680
<v Speaker 1>Well for you guys, yeah, for the content creators. It

0:35:53.719 --> 0:35:57.080
<v Speaker 1>was good for for y'all to some degree. I think

0:35:57.120 --> 0:36:00.000
<v Speaker 1>for me with the most I walked away from the pandem,

0:36:00.239 --> 0:36:02.239
<v Speaker 1>especially living in La la' is one of those cities

0:36:02.280 --> 0:36:03.920
<v Speaker 1>it's like, Hi, nice to meet you. What do you do?

0:36:04.520 --> 0:36:06.680
<v Speaker 1>Like it's we don't even care what the last name

0:36:06.760 --> 0:36:08.120
<v Speaker 1>is or nothing. What do you do?

0:36:08.520 --> 0:36:10.080
<v Speaker 2>How can we a fake place?

0:36:10.280 --> 0:36:12.239
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's super fake, But it was the first time

0:36:12.280 --> 0:36:15.200
<v Speaker 1>where people started having conversations like how are you doing?

0:36:15.760 --> 0:36:16.680
<v Speaker 1>What are you doing?

0:36:16.840 --> 0:36:16.880
<v Speaker 2>What?

0:36:17.160 --> 0:36:20.000
<v Speaker 1>You want to hang out at your house? No fancy restaurants.

0:36:20.000 --> 0:36:24.239
<v Speaker 1>And I really can say that those two years to

0:36:24.360 --> 0:36:27.000
<v Speaker 1>be able to get one on one with friends, even guys,

0:36:27.000 --> 0:36:29.920
<v Speaker 1>because guys don't really talk. They kind of do activities

0:36:29.960 --> 0:36:31.760
<v Speaker 1>with you. You know, they'll be like, let's work out together,

0:36:31.800 --> 0:36:33.839
<v Speaker 1>let's go. If I hit up my homies and I'm like, yo,

0:36:33.880 --> 0:36:37.040
<v Speaker 1>you want to hang out there? Like no, but I'm

0:36:37.080 --> 0:36:39.799
<v Speaker 1>going to the gym. You can work out with me

0:36:39.920 --> 0:36:41.520
<v Speaker 1>if I'm not working out with the name or something.

0:36:41.719 --> 0:36:42.920
<v Speaker 1>But it was the first time I got to have

0:36:42.960 --> 0:36:45.319
<v Speaker 1>like eye to eye conversations with men where it was

0:36:45.360 --> 0:36:49.200
<v Speaker 1>like they were talking about actual issues, like the way

0:36:49.239 --> 0:36:50.319
<v Speaker 1>women do. You know what I'm saying.

0:36:50.320 --> 0:36:54.200
<v Speaker 2>And it made you appreciate family too, because I ain't.

0:36:53.480 --> 0:36:57.000
<v Speaker 2>I was. I had well, I had no choice, but

0:36:57.040 --> 0:36:59.319
<v Speaker 2>I was spending so much time with my family, like

0:36:59.320 --> 0:37:02.000
<v Speaker 2>we were doing stuff around the house. So it's like

0:37:02.160 --> 0:37:04.480
<v Speaker 2>after that, I kept doing it, like like, let me

0:37:04.640 --> 0:37:06.279
<v Speaker 2>at least do something with them right now.

0:37:06.280 --> 0:37:08.160
<v Speaker 1>And then after the pandemic.

0:37:08.760 --> 0:37:10.480
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, even after the pandemic.

0:37:11.080 --> 0:37:14.880
<v Speaker 1>Family, Okay, so you survived the pandemic.

0:37:15.760 --> 0:37:17.839
<v Speaker 2>Oh, soon as it opened. Soon as the.

0:37:17.800 --> 0:37:20.400
<v Speaker 1>Pandemic, Well for you guys, it's three weeks later. No,

0:37:20.520 --> 0:37:24.200
<v Speaker 1>but I'm saying, but you could do little stuff in Atlanta.

0:37:24.400 --> 0:37:26.440
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, we could do little stuff in Atlanta. So it

0:37:26.560 --> 0:37:28.480
<v Speaker 2>was certain stuff we were finding out we could do.

0:37:29.120 --> 0:37:33.040
<v Speaker 2>So after the pandemic ended, I want to say tours

0:37:33.080 --> 0:37:37.640
<v Speaker 2>the end of the year. The tour started back the.

0:37:37.719 --> 0:37:40.239
<v Speaker 1>End of the year. It wouldn't be two years later.

0:37:40.840 --> 0:37:44.400
<v Speaker 1>The next year, I was like, god, it was two years.

0:37:47.320 --> 0:37:49.839
<v Speaker 1>The money had been gone, well, they had the unemployment.

0:37:49.920 --> 0:37:53.000
<v Speaker 1>Like I saw people that were like Homewoods doing backflips okay,

0:37:53.000 --> 0:37:54.439
<v Speaker 1>because they were like, yo, this is the most money

0:37:54.480 --> 0:37:55.520
<v Speaker 1>I haven't made in my life.

0:37:55.719 --> 0:37:58.200
<v Speaker 2>And I don't know if I can talk about that.

0:37:58.200 --> 0:38:02.000
<v Speaker 2>That helped too. But moms were legal because I had

0:38:02.440 --> 0:38:05.919
<v Speaker 2>just worked on that coming to America set so I

0:38:05.960 --> 0:38:10.200
<v Speaker 2>was employee, okay, and it ended right then. So I

0:38:10.280 --> 0:38:11.680
<v Speaker 2>was getting my unemployment from that.

0:38:12.719 --> 0:38:14.160
<v Speaker 1>I know in La it was doing. There was a

0:38:14.200 --> 0:38:16.000
<v Speaker 1>lot of people doing unemployment schemes.

0:38:16.400 --> 0:38:18.840
<v Speaker 2>My cousin. My cousin was getting unemployment in LA. He

0:38:18.880 --> 0:38:28.440
<v Speaker 2>ain't never been out there. Yeah no, I went.

0:38:28.400 --> 0:38:29.680
<v Speaker 1>After let me tell you something.

0:38:29.760 --> 0:38:33.080
<v Speaker 3>There was some people's mailboxes that was getting overloaded with

0:38:33.080 --> 0:38:35.960
<v Speaker 3>them unemployment texts, like people was finding ways to ship

0:38:36.000 --> 0:38:41.040
<v Speaker 3>them checks out went after the fact but doing yeah yeah, so.

0:38:41.120 --> 0:38:44.319
<v Speaker 1>Okay, so you you survived the pandemic gracefully. You come out,

0:38:44.640 --> 0:38:47.879
<v Speaker 1>you start going on the road. Yep, the money comes back.

0:38:48.560 --> 0:38:51.080
<v Speaker 2>But then you got to think you really playing ketchup.

0:38:51.960 --> 0:38:54.759
<v Speaker 1>Even with thet the unemployment during the pandemic was like,

0:38:56.640 --> 0:38:57.960
<v Speaker 1>you're hilarious.

0:38:57.520 --> 0:39:00.799
<v Speaker 2>Because I wasn't. I wasn't working for it. Ain't appreciate it.

0:39:00.920 --> 0:39:09.200
<v Speaker 1>How's your how's your feed me? I think this is

0:39:09.239 --> 0:39:12.359
<v Speaker 1>the first ever episode where some fathing meal and just

0:39:12.440 --> 0:39:17.800
<v Speaker 1>cooked like I'm at your house. You're like, I'm supposed

0:39:17.800 --> 0:39:21.520
<v Speaker 1>to your food.

0:39:31.520 --> 0:39:31.840
<v Speaker 2>Taco.

0:39:32.120 --> 0:39:36.880
<v Speaker 1>It's got the little sauce to show you this. This

0:39:36.960 --> 0:39:38.560
<v Speaker 1>looked like a definite hood taco.

0:39:39.520 --> 0:39:42.200
<v Speaker 2>Check it out. You add legos and stuff to it's

0:39:42.200 --> 0:39:42.680
<v Speaker 2>pretty good?

0:39:44.800 --> 0:39:47.279
<v Speaker 1>Do you usually add this white?

0:39:47.680 --> 0:39:51.520
<v Speaker 2>You need a ca Okay, I want a little bit

0:39:51.560 --> 0:39:56.600
<v Speaker 2>more cashe on it? What it's salty? Mm hmm? What

0:39:56.760 --> 0:39:58.440
<v Speaker 2>it's dry? Man? You need like a lot of.

0:39:59.000 --> 0:39:59.560
<v Speaker 1>Well I didn't.

0:39:59.600 --> 0:40:01.440
<v Speaker 2>I didn't. I didn't know you was gonna eat it.

0:40:01.560 --> 0:40:01.960
<v Speaker 1>I can't.

0:40:02.120 --> 0:40:05.160
<v Speaker 2>I can't, George my good.

0:40:06.640 --> 0:40:10.080
<v Speaker 1>Oh damn, I wasn't add that much messed up.

0:40:10.160 --> 0:40:11.720
<v Speaker 2>Hold on now, bit let me see.

0:40:11.600 --> 0:40:14.080
<v Speaker 1>Let me see. Hold on, I'm gonna end up making

0:40:14.080 --> 0:40:14.880
<v Speaker 1>this super saucy.

0:40:20.120 --> 0:40:21.160
<v Speaker 2>That's all you were missing.

0:40:22.320 --> 0:40:24.279
<v Speaker 1>I don't know if I like it with the for

0:40:24.320 --> 0:40:27.120
<v Speaker 1>real you know what cuss on? Mm hmm.

0:40:27.280 --> 0:40:29.120
<v Speaker 2>Then sometimes you just get you a bag of chips

0:40:29.120 --> 0:40:32.120
<v Speaker 2>and eat with it too. Oh man, don't crunch up

0:40:32.120 --> 0:40:32.920
<v Speaker 2>them chips on there.

0:40:34.560 --> 0:40:37.040
<v Speaker 1>That would have been great if we would have put

0:40:37.040 --> 0:40:40.960
<v Speaker 1>the chips on there, but we got some chips.

0:40:41.080 --> 0:40:42.600
<v Speaker 2>I didn't know how the budget was set up.

0:40:47.239 --> 0:40:49.480
<v Speaker 1>So when you're at home during these broke times, is

0:40:49.480 --> 0:40:51.040
<v Speaker 1>this is what you're doing? You're like, oh man, you

0:40:51.080 --> 0:40:52.560
<v Speaker 1>know what this could just use a little bit of

0:40:52.640 --> 0:40:53.480
<v Speaker 1>chip ad.

0:40:53.760 --> 0:40:55.439
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, man, you know what's so good?

0:40:55.680 --> 0:40:58.000
<v Speaker 1>Are you gonna do it with chips? It's gonna be good.

0:41:00.520 --> 0:41:02.560
<v Speaker 1>I think I was on this show. I forgot who

0:41:02.600 --> 0:41:04.600
<v Speaker 1>They added chips to a sandwich and I said.

0:41:04.600 --> 0:41:06.839
<v Speaker 2>Oh, yeah, that's the bit, and you cut it diagonally.

0:41:07.760 --> 0:41:10.799
<v Speaker 2>I don't know what about cutting that sandwich diagonally.

0:41:11.000 --> 0:41:12.920
<v Speaker 1>In Atlanta thing, because yes, I was asked to be like,

0:41:12.960 --> 0:41:14.680
<v Speaker 1>how you cut it?

0:41:14.800 --> 0:41:15.600
<v Speaker 2>That's a difference straight.

0:41:16.239 --> 0:41:18.399
<v Speaker 1>I said diagonal and they were like, yes, you won,

0:41:19.200 --> 0:41:19.840
<v Speaker 1>you passed.

0:41:21.200 --> 0:41:26.439
<v Speaker 2>So when we started back tour, they's good, now we're

0:41:26.440 --> 0:41:31.040
<v Speaker 2>talking mm hm, and I got yeah, let me add

0:41:31.080 --> 0:41:36.400
<v Speaker 2>some saucea to it too, and that pepper jack cheese

0:41:37.040 --> 0:41:39.520
<v Speaker 2>I think it was. That's that's good, right. You don't

0:41:39.520 --> 0:41:44.120
<v Speaker 2>want to overdo it. Check the flavor from your chicken away.

0:41:44.920 --> 0:41:49.040
<v Speaker 2>So we started back tour. This time I realized like, okay,

0:41:49.920 --> 0:41:52.720
<v Speaker 2>I never know what could happen. I need to start putting.

0:41:52.800 --> 0:41:55.919
<v Speaker 2>I need to save better, put money up in case

0:41:56.000 --> 0:41:57.759
<v Speaker 2>this happened, because you never know.

0:41:58.880 --> 0:42:01.239
<v Speaker 1>Also that the pandemic I only teach you one of

0:42:01.239 --> 0:42:04.480
<v Speaker 1>the things that I definitely walked away with because I

0:42:04.520 --> 0:42:06.520
<v Speaker 1>owned the business and it was like doing really well

0:42:06.560 --> 0:42:09.120
<v Speaker 1>and it was my only stream of income. When the

0:42:09.120 --> 0:42:12.440
<v Speaker 1>pandemic happened, I learned that you should never only have

0:42:12.520 --> 0:42:13.480
<v Speaker 1>one stream of income.

0:42:14.640 --> 0:42:26.839
<v Speaker 2>Good hold on any of that crunch mhm, we don't.

0:42:27.520 --> 0:42:28.719
<v Speaker 2>We don't fuck them up with that.

0:42:29.520 --> 0:42:32.959
<v Speaker 1>It reminds me of the crunchy wrap at Choco boll.

0:42:34.160 --> 0:42:38.440
<v Speaker 2>This might be a little better though, Okay, I.

0:42:38.400 --> 0:42:40.040
<v Speaker 1>Love how proud you are of your cooking.

0:42:42.320 --> 0:42:46.000
<v Speaker 2>Well, no, you're right though, because it's like you just

0:42:46.000 --> 0:42:47.160
<v Speaker 2>got to have some money, man.

0:42:47.320 --> 0:42:50.720
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, but multiple streams more different. So you get this money,

0:42:50.719 --> 0:42:53.239
<v Speaker 1>now you're thinking about saving and making it work.

0:42:53.680 --> 0:43:02.160
<v Speaker 2>And then more opportunities just start coming. Oh I'm tripping

0:43:03.640 --> 0:43:08.719
<v Speaker 2>another thing. During the pandemic, eighty five South got to

0:43:08.800 --> 0:43:14.120
<v Speaker 2>host the BT Awards. Okay, so all between this time

0:43:14.160 --> 0:43:19.000
<v Speaker 2>I'm getting unemployment. I do the BT Awards with them.

0:43:19.239 --> 0:43:23.600
<v Speaker 2>They stopped my unemployment because they felt like I was employed.

0:43:24.440 --> 0:43:26.080
<v Speaker 1>But I would think that that would be like an

0:43:26.120 --> 0:43:28.000
<v Speaker 1>independent contractor, you wouldn't have to deal with that till

0:43:28.040 --> 0:43:28.600
<v Speaker 1>the very end.

0:43:28.760 --> 0:43:30.880
<v Speaker 2>But when you put that Social Security number down on

0:43:31.400 --> 0:43:34.560
<v Speaker 2>the right away. So then they sent me some stuff

0:43:34.600 --> 0:43:36.399
<v Speaker 2>in the mail. They was like, are you employed them?

0:43:36.480 --> 0:43:39.600
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, no, I just didn't right back cut my

0:43:39.680 --> 0:43:43.640
<v Speaker 2>unemployment off. Oh shit, yep, That's what I had to

0:43:43.640 --> 0:43:46.399
<v Speaker 2>think about, like what happened during that time. But after that,

0:43:47.160 --> 0:43:51.880
<v Speaker 2>we get back to touring. And then another thing I

0:43:52.000 --> 0:43:56.080
<v Speaker 2>keep You can't really just know you're automatic because if

0:43:56.120 --> 0:43:58.399
<v Speaker 2>they have dates, anything could happen, Like, well, we got

0:43:58.400 --> 0:44:00.600
<v Speaker 2>to cut back on the budget, so I'm not guaranteed.

0:44:00.640 --> 0:44:02.120
<v Speaker 2>So I was like, I need to just start saving

0:44:02.120 --> 0:44:06.000
<v Speaker 2>money in case those things happen. But God forbid, it

0:44:06.000 --> 0:44:09.480
<v Speaker 2>never happened. I did that just and just start saving

0:44:09.520 --> 0:44:13.359
<v Speaker 2>more and then just like notoriety, like more people knowing you,

0:44:14.600 --> 0:44:18.399
<v Speaker 2>and then even like doing the eighty five South Show,

0:44:18.920 --> 0:44:24.479
<v Speaker 2>and then after that, I start I did a few

0:44:24.600 --> 0:44:28.600
<v Speaker 2>music videos. Okay, yeah, So it was like it just

0:44:28.719 --> 0:44:32.560
<v Speaker 2>was like the trajectory just was happening exactly how I

0:44:32.560 --> 0:44:34.919
<v Speaker 2>would think it was gonna happen, but it just didn't

0:44:34.960 --> 0:44:37.479
<v Speaker 2>come at the time. And that I thought. I thought

0:44:37.560 --> 0:44:39.560
<v Speaker 2>right after I did come to America, I was just

0:44:39.600 --> 0:44:42.000
<v Speaker 2>gonna yeah, but it it didn't happen like that for

0:44:42.040 --> 0:44:42.520
<v Speaker 2>a reason.

0:44:43.280 --> 0:44:44.560
<v Speaker 1>What do you think that reason is?

0:44:45.360 --> 0:44:51.280
<v Speaker 2>Mm to keep you grounded, I'll say, keep you grounded,

0:44:51.320 --> 0:44:54.440
<v Speaker 2>and then to understand things like it's not on your

0:44:54.480 --> 0:44:58.000
<v Speaker 2>time and appreciate a lot of people. And we don't

0:44:58.080 --> 0:45:01.479
<v Speaker 2>realize people like you gonna appreciate this when you get

0:45:01.640 --> 0:45:04.160
<v Speaker 2>to this level or getting this place, and I ain't

0:45:04.200 --> 0:45:08.400
<v Speaker 2>realize it at the time, like because some people go

0:45:08.480 --> 0:45:11.040
<v Speaker 2>through way worse than I thought. I think I went through.

0:45:12.080 --> 0:45:16.880
<v Speaker 2>But after the fact, man, when I started just seeing,

0:45:17.760 --> 0:45:25.239
<v Speaker 2>like you see the productivity or like the progress of

0:45:25.280 --> 0:45:28.800
<v Speaker 2>your own career. Like if I look back certain certain

0:45:28.880 --> 0:45:33.040
<v Speaker 2>times when I'm getting deposits from a show, like this

0:45:33.200 --> 0:45:35.400
<v Speaker 2>might be twice the money I was getting for a

0:45:35.440 --> 0:45:39.040
<v Speaker 2>show and I was so happy to drive to. But

0:45:39.080 --> 0:45:42.400
<v Speaker 2>it's like we start feeling entitled, Like you know what I'm.

0:45:42.239 --> 0:45:45.000
<v Speaker 1>Saying, Yeah, how do you stop from feeling that entitlement? Though?

0:45:45.320 --> 0:45:47.360
<v Speaker 2>Man, you got to just go around people who bitter.

0:45:50.160 --> 0:45:51.239
<v Speaker 2>I don't know if I'm saying nobody.

0:45:52.120 --> 0:45:53.759
<v Speaker 1>So there's no such thing as the right thing. And

0:45:53.800 --> 0:45:55.680
<v Speaker 1>that's why I love this show because they get to

0:45:55.760 --> 0:45:57.000
<v Speaker 1>kind of get this perspective.

0:45:57.000 --> 0:45:58.760
<v Speaker 2>But no, like you know when you go around somebody

0:45:58.760 --> 0:46:02.520
<v Speaker 2>and you hear them complaining and feel like, oh, I

0:46:02.560 --> 0:46:04.719
<v Speaker 2>supposed to be doing Like nah, you gotta work for this,

0:46:05.280 --> 0:46:07.799
<v Speaker 2>or like this could be me if I don't keep

0:46:07.920 --> 0:46:09.280
<v Speaker 2>like grinding and keep working.

0:46:09.800 --> 0:46:11.640
<v Speaker 1>What are some key things that you learned about the

0:46:11.680 --> 0:46:15.000
<v Speaker 1>industry on your road to success?

0:46:15.400 --> 0:46:22.880
<v Speaker 2>Man, be useful. And when I say be useful, a

0:46:22.880 --> 0:46:24.880
<v Speaker 2>lot of people try to take away from a situation

0:46:24.960 --> 0:46:27.319
<v Speaker 2>when they get around the situation. Sometimes I'm thinking what

0:46:27.400 --> 0:46:29.759
<v Speaker 2>can I bring to this situation? Sometimes even if it

0:46:29.800 --> 0:46:32.160
<v Speaker 2>don't benefit me at the times, Like I want to

0:46:32.200 --> 0:46:34.399
<v Speaker 2>show I'm a team player. So a lot of people

0:46:34.400 --> 0:46:35.520
<v Speaker 2>don't want to be a team player.

0:46:36.080 --> 0:46:37.040
<v Speaker 1>They just coming with us.

0:46:37.160 --> 0:46:39.160
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, And a lot of people and like a lot

0:46:39.200 --> 0:46:42.439
<v Speaker 2>of people want to be like a lot of people

0:46:42.480 --> 0:46:45.279
<v Speaker 2>want to be the ultimate star. And when I say that,

0:46:45.320 --> 0:46:48.719
<v Speaker 2>like I'm thinking about on the sports side, a lot

0:46:48.719 --> 0:46:50.840
<v Speaker 2>of people want to be like the main face of

0:46:50.880 --> 0:46:53.439
<v Speaker 2>the franchise or something like that. Man, that don't mean

0:46:53.520 --> 0:46:56.160
<v Speaker 2>nothing if you're not a good teammate or a team player.

0:46:56.440 --> 0:46:59.960
<v Speaker 2>It's sometimes in certain teams if you think about maybe

0:47:00.040 --> 0:47:07.520
<v Speaker 2>the Chicago Bulls Dennis Rodney, going any other team Dennis Rodney,

0:47:07.880 --> 0:47:10.520
<v Speaker 2>but it's like how he was helping them win championship.

0:47:10.560 --> 0:47:13.239
<v Speaker 2>You're gonna remember Dennis Rodney. You're gonna remember stuff he

0:47:13.360 --> 0:47:16.000
<v Speaker 2>was doing. I'd rather be on a winning team and

0:47:16.080 --> 0:47:18.680
<v Speaker 2>being a role player than being on a team that's

0:47:18.719 --> 0:47:20.560
<v Speaker 2>not doing great and being a.

0:47:20.600 --> 0:47:22.800
<v Speaker 1>Star, because then it's like that makes sense.

0:47:23.440 --> 0:47:26.279
<v Speaker 2>A lot of people don't realize that though you want to,

0:47:27.000 --> 0:47:30.080
<v Speaker 2>because the people who make the most money, they they

0:47:30.160 --> 0:47:33.200
<v Speaker 2>usually have to have the most bills, more people to

0:47:33.239 --> 0:47:36.319
<v Speaker 2>take care of. Yeah, so you find the little level

0:47:36.400 --> 0:47:38.560
<v Speaker 2>you want to be at and stay right there.

0:47:39.800 --> 0:47:42.719
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I agree. I mean some people that'll be like

0:47:43.200 --> 0:47:48.319
<v Speaker 1>they'll be broke or and they they don't they don't

0:47:48.360 --> 0:47:53.280
<v Speaker 1>necessarily I don't say broke, but they don't really help others.

0:47:53.440 --> 0:47:55.200
<v Speaker 1>And they'll be like, well, when I am rich, I'm like, oo,

0:47:55.239 --> 0:47:57.640
<v Speaker 1>if you're not doing that this right, it's only gonna

0:47:57.640 --> 0:47:59.400
<v Speaker 1>get worse because with the more money you make, the

0:47:59.480 --> 0:48:00.560
<v Speaker 1>more bills go up.

0:48:00.680 --> 0:48:02.200
<v Speaker 2>Man.

0:48:02.800 --> 0:48:03.000
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

0:48:03.120 --> 0:48:03.160
<v Speaker 4>No.

0:48:03.600 --> 0:48:05.480
<v Speaker 1>When I first moved to la I think my first

0:48:05.880 --> 0:48:08.200
<v Speaker 1>room for rent was like four hundred and fifty dollars

0:48:09.440 --> 0:48:12.520
<v Speaker 1>that'd be impossible now, you know. But sometimes I joke

0:48:12.560 --> 0:48:14.239
<v Speaker 1>with my girlfriend's like, Yo, when I first moved there,

0:48:14.320 --> 0:48:17.160
<v Speaker 1>i lived on like twelve hundred a month, I'm like,

0:48:17.600 --> 0:48:20.200
<v Speaker 1>how did I do that? But the truth of the

0:48:20.239 --> 0:48:21.719
<v Speaker 1>matter is it is like your bills are just gonna

0:48:21.800 --> 0:48:23.920
<v Speaker 1>keep growing as you grow. So if you can't find

0:48:23.920 --> 0:48:25.480
<v Speaker 1>it now, you you know.

0:48:25.480 --> 0:48:27.799
<v Speaker 2>You're gonna want more stuff out of life. You see

0:48:27.840 --> 0:48:31.040
<v Speaker 2>more stuff you around certain people. Now your needs grow,

0:48:31.719 --> 0:48:34.600
<v Speaker 2>So it's like and plus, you're not the same person.

0:48:34.360 --> 0:48:37.240
<v Speaker 1>You was at twenty four, Yeah, yeah.

0:48:36.880 --> 0:48:38.719
<v Speaker 2>Twenty seven, thirty, you know what I mean?

0:48:39.719 --> 0:48:43.080
<v Speaker 1>What advice would you give to other comics or actors?

0:48:43.680 --> 0:48:46.560
<v Speaker 2>It gonna sound crazy, but don't give up. That's why

0:48:46.600 --> 0:48:48.200
<v Speaker 2>a lot of people don't make it. Don't give up.

0:48:48.800 --> 0:48:50.960
<v Speaker 2>And a lot of people when you look around and

0:48:50.960 --> 0:48:54.719
<v Speaker 2>you see certain people, they either gave up or they

0:48:54.719 --> 0:48:59.000
<v Speaker 2>got it. They got a bad ass attitude that stopped

0:48:59.040 --> 0:49:01.239
<v Speaker 2>a lot of people. If I'll come around you and

0:49:01.280 --> 0:49:03.200
<v Speaker 2>you always negative, I don't want to be around you,

0:49:04.280 --> 0:49:07.000
<v Speaker 2>even if like even if I'm going through, so I'm

0:49:07.040 --> 0:49:09.840
<v Speaker 2>not gonna bring that around you because then you go,

0:49:10.000 --> 0:49:15.400
<v Speaker 2>like every time we're always going through something like fear.

0:49:15.520 --> 0:49:18.759
<v Speaker 2>You still gotta be like lead certain stuff, like at

0:49:18.760 --> 0:49:20.560
<v Speaker 2>the house, if you're going through stuff at the house

0:49:20.640 --> 0:49:21.799
<v Speaker 2>or leave stuff at your job.

0:49:21.960 --> 0:49:22.719
<v Speaker 1>I agree with that.

0:49:22.880 --> 0:49:25.800
<v Speaker 2>A lot of people like you gotta be wanted people

0:49:25.800 --> 0:49:29.560
<v Speaker 2>to be be likable. Yeah, people not likable and they

0:49:29.560 --> 0:49:32.120
<v Speaker 2>give up. Yeah, and that's why they give up because

0:49:32.120 --> 0:49:32.840
<v Speaker 2>they're not likable.

0:49:32.880 --> 0:49:38.879
<v Speaker 1>Have you ever burnt bridges in the industry, I'm just y, Yeah,

0:49:39.000 --> 0:49:41.759
<v Speaker 1>can you share a story about that. We don't talk

0:49:41.760 --> 0:49:43.719
<v Speaker 1>a lot about it, but I do know in the

0:49:43.760 --> 0:49:46.600
<v Speaker 1>industry it's a dangerous It's a I learned a valuable

0:49:46.680 --> 0:49:49.160
<v Speaker 1>lesson at a very young age on how dangerous is

0:49:49.200 --> 0:49:52.040
<v Speaker 1>to burn bridges in the industry because you never know

0:49:52.600 --> 0:49:55.719
<v Speaker 1>who you and it comes full circle on your life

0:49:56.360 --> 0:49:58.439
<v Speaker 1>that one person it wasn't worth it.

0:49:58.480 --> 0:50:00.640
<v Speaker 2>But you know what, I do know this though, it's

0:50:00.680 --> 0:50:05.440
<v Speaker 2>like I'm just not burning them just because just to

0:50:05.480 --> 0:50:08.520
<v Speaker 2>burn them. After a while, I was like, man, hey,

0:50:09.480 --> 0:50:11.520
<v Speaker 2>we don't reach the peak, like if we never have

0:50:11.560 --> 0:50:14.759
<v Speaker 2>to work again, that's cool, and then I'm loyal. So

0:50:14.800 --> 0:50:17.520
<v Speaker 2>it's like the people that I work with and stuff

0:50:17.560 --> 0:50:19.600
<v Speaker 2>like that. Now, if it gets to the point where

0:50:19.920 --> 0:50:22.880
<v Speaker 2>we don't work work together, anymore. They donet done. We

0:50:22.960 --> 0:50:25.440
<v Speaker 2>done done so much business together. I know. It's just

0:50:25.640 --> 0:50:27.919
<v Speaker 2>it's just reached its time, you know what I'm saying.

0:50:27.960 --> 0:50:30.080
<v Speaker 2>But it's like the people I'm around, It's like I

0:50:30.440 --> 0:50:33.000
<v Speaker 2>I like to be around solid people. So I feel

0:50:33.000 --> 0:50:34.759
<v Speaker 2>like you're not solid and I can't trust you or

0:50:34.800 --> 0:50:38.839
<v Speaker 2>I can't read you, then I'm faking it.

0:50:39.040 --> 0:50:40.120
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Like I don't.

0:50:39.960 --> 0:50:41.960
<v Speaker 2>Want to go around nobody. I got a fake laugh with,

0:50:42.640 --> 0:50:45.440
<v Speaker 2>fake kick it with. So it's like it's not so

0:50:45.560 --> 0:50:47.600
<v Speaker 2>much a burning bridge. It's like if somebody were like,

0:50:47.640 --> 0:50:49.959
<v Speaker 2>what happened with you? I say, i'n't fun with them,

0:50:49.960 --> 0:50:52.320
<v Speaker 2>and that be it. They'm not talking bad about it.

0:50:52.719 --> 0:50:55.240
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean sometimes you can burn a bridge like I,

0:50:55.320 --> 0:50:58.400
<v Speaker 1>Like I said, accidentally you could burn a bridge. Yeah,

0:50:58.480 --> 0:51:01.279
<v Speaker 1>but and don't have to be like I don't f

0:51:01.360 --> 0:51:04.320
<v Speaker 1>with them. It just be like I accidentally burned the bridge.

0:51:04.400 --> 0:51:07.560
<v Speaker 2>And not knowingly. Yeah, you know what, a lot of

0:51:07.600 --> 0:51:11.080
<v Speaker 2>people don't have relationships to know that they burned the bridge.

0:51:11.400 --> 0:51:13.759
<v Speaker 1>I was very fortunate. I remember when I did it.

0:51:13.760 --> 0:51:16.719
<v Speaker 1>It was ironically it had something to do with ludicrous

0:51:17.400 --> 0:51:20.640
<v Speaker 1>def jam kind of messed me up, but it was

0:51:20.680 --> 0:51:23.839
<v Speaker 1>it was an accidental overstep. But I was fortunate enough

0:51:23.880 --> 0:51:25.759
<v Speaker 1>to have other people on the label call me and

0:51:25.800 --> 0:51:28.560
<v Speaker 1>be like, yo, you better send some flowers and start

0:51:28.640 --> 0:51:32.520
<v Speaker 1>kissing ass now, because you really did some damage.

0:51:32.520 --> 0:51:34.160
<v Speaker 2>But you had a relationship with them.

0:51:34.440 --> 0:51:37.080
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I have a relationship. Yeah, they had relationships where

0:51:37.080 --> 0:51:40.920
<v Speaker 1>they were like, go take quality time and fixing. Luckily

0:51:41.719 --> 0:51:45.120
<v Speaker 1>I was able to fix it. But I got someone

0:51:45.120 --> 0:51:50.960
<v Speaker 1>on the inside saying you messed up. Fixed immediately, you.

0:51:51.000 --> 0:51:53.160
<v Speaker 2>Know, but them knowing you what if you was going

0:51:53.200 --> 0:51:56.320
<v Speaker 2>around them always with a negative attitude in the mass spirit,

0:51:56.360 --> 0:51:57.799
<v Speaker 2>they were like, oh, that's just her.

0:51:58.200 --> 0:52:00.440
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they wouldn't have looked out for you, would have

0:52:00.440 --> 0:52:03.880
<v Speaker 1>looked out for me. But but I will never forget

0:52:03.920 --> 0:52:06.280
<v Speaker 1>that lesson. And I was like, never ever again, because

0:52:06.400 --> 0:52:09.600
<v Speaker 1>I remember I had to work with j jay Z

0:52:09.840 --> 0:52:12.680
<v Speaker 1>on a project and that's when it bit me in

0:52:12.680 --> 0:52:15.080
<v Speaker 1>the ass. And I said that hurt. It hurt, it

0:52:15.200 --> 0:52:17.640
<v Speaker 1>hurt more than you could ever imagine. I was damn,

0:52:18.640 --> 0:52:22.759
<v Speaker 1>I don't know, I fucked up. I never forget it.

0:52:22.800 --> 0:52:25.200
<v Speaker 1>I was like, never again. You'll never forget a lesson

0:52:25.200 --> 0:52:32.279
<v Speaker 1>when it involves jay Z. Right, Yeah, I was like, ah, man,

0:52:32.320 --> 0:52:36.240
<v Speaker 1>that was a major funk. Up and yeah, lesson learned

0:52:36.680 --> 0:52:38.560
<v Speaker 1>never ever after that, never ever burned.

0:52:38.640 --> 0:52:40.879
<v Speaker 2>What a good thing. He'll never forget you.

0:52:41.719 --> 0:52:47.759
<v Speaker 1>Oh, it wasn't with j particular, so our cross pass

0:52:47.840 --> 0:52:52.960
<v Speaker 1>he definitely forgot. But but it's so funny because I

0:52:52.960 --> 0:52:56.520
<v Speaker 1>still email requests the jay Z's publicist. I'll say, like

0:52:56.640 --> 0:52:59.840
<v Speaker 1>once every four to six months, and I shoot my

0:53:00.360 --> 0:53:02.160
<v Speaker 1>and I'll just be like, go worry. In a couple months,

0:53:02.280 --> 0:53:04.000
<v Speaker 1>I'll come back to you. Yeah, And I think she

0:53:04.080 --> 0:53:05.759
<v Speaker 1>thinks it's funny at this point.

0:53:06.040 --> 0:53:06.200
<v Speaker 2>You know.

0:53:06.280 --> 0:53:08.960
<v Speaker 1>Sometimes she'll respond really fast. Sometimes she'll be like, yeah,

0:53:08.960 --> 0:53:11.600
<v Speaker 1>I'll see you in a couple of months. She'll be

0:53:11.680 --> 0:53:14.320
<v Speaker 1>like that, Yeah, but thank you so much for your time.

0:53:14.560 --> 0:53:17.480
<v Speaker 1>I really really appreciate it. Where can people keep up

0:53:17.480 --> 0:53:20.359
<v Speaker 1>with everything? Nap Green on.

0:53:20.320 --> 0:53:23.040
<v Speaker 2>Social media at nav Green and avv green.

0:53:24.400 --> 0:53:26.279
<v Speaker 1>Is there any projects we could look out to in

0:53:26.320 --> 0:53:27.600
<v Speaker 1>the future future?

0:53:27.880 --> 0:53:31.960
<v Speaker 2>Right now? Something coming very so Drew Ski he's doing

0:53:31.960 --> 0:53:32.879
<v Speaker 2>a Could Have Been House?

0:53:34.000 --> 0:53:34.760
<v Speaker 1>And what's that about.

0:53:35.160 --> 0:53:40.040
<v Speaker 2>Well, he takes some challenge, he say, they challenge, but

0:53:40.120 --> 0:53:42.160
<v Speaker 2>he takes some artists and put him in the house

0:53:42.440 --> 0:53:44.200
<v Speaker 2>and they compete for fifty.

0:53:43.880 --> 0:53:48.439
<v Speaker 1>Thousand, okay, So, and it's called what Could Have been house,

0:53:48.600 --> 0:53:50.839
<v Speaker 1>could have been house. Yep, that's hilarious, and.

0:53:50.719 --> 0:53:53.520
<v Speaker 2>They got broken play on the Channel eighty five app.

0:53:53.600 --> 0:53:58.080
<v Speaker 2>That's my sports show touring with eighty five South. By

0:53:58.160 --> 0:54:01.399
<v Speaker 2>the end of the year, we got a movie Departments

0:54:01.400 --> 0:54:08.040
<v Speaker 2>out that Tip directed. Uh, Carlos Miller's in it. D

0:54:08.160 --> 0:54:11.560
<v Speaker 2>c On Fly, Little du Ball, j Ski. It's so

0:54:11.640 --> 0:54:17.319
<v Speaker 2>many funny comedians in it. K Dog that's out. Yeah, Ship,

0:54:18.360 --> 0:54:19.040
<v Speaker 2>that's about it.

0:54:19.280 --> 0:54:22.839
<v Speaker 1>Okay, everything that green, everything that all right?

0:54:22.960 --> 0:54:25.040
<v Speaker 2>You didn't finish your food? Tell the truth? Where was it?

0:54:25.360 --> 0:54:27.000
<v Speaker 2>Don't don't talk behind my back.

0:54:28.080 --> 0:54:31.960
<v Speaker 1>It's a it's a solid C plus, see a D plus.

0:54:33.080 --> 0:54:34.879
<v Speaker 1>It's one of those meals that I don't go home

0:54:34.920 --> 0:54:39.399
<v Speaker 1>and try to remake. Yeah it was cool. I gotta

0:54:39.440 --> 0:54:43.000
<v Speaker 1>be polite. And you're a comic. You can roast me

0:54:43.080 --> 0:54:43.680
<v Speaker 1>if you want to know.

0:54:43.800 --> 0:54:46.160
<v Speaker 2>So you made it. Look how much I ate you.

0:54:46.200 --> 0:54:51.400
<v Speaker 1>Was probably starving at It's a definite. I'm broke and

0:54:51.520 --> 0:54:53.760
<v Speaker 1>starving to that. I need to kill my stomach.

0:54:56.080 --> 0:54:56.319
<v Speaker 2>Man.

0:54:56.360 --> 0:55:01.680
<v Speaker 1>I killed definitely look like you just twice. I tried

0:55:01.719 --> 0:55:03.480
<v Speaker 1>to help it with the sauce. I tried to help

0:55:03.520 --> 0:55:05.640
<v Speaker 1>it with the chips. I mean, I try to bless

0:55:05.640 --> 0:55:10.200
<v Speaker 1>you with a taco bell compliment sort of. But nah, man,

0:55:10.280 --> 0:55:14.839
<v Speaker 1>I've never been so bad. This was absolutely like one

0:55:14.880 --> 0:55:16.560
<v Speaker 1>of the dishes that I would not highly.

0:55:20.520 --> 0:55:24.960
<v Speaker 2>Come on, No, I appreciate you, hav No.

0:55:25.200 --> 0:55:27.320
<v Speaker 1>I appreciate you taking the time out of your schedule

0:55:27.360 --> 0:55:33.440
<v Speaker 1>to share your story. Thank you, thank you. Peace out y'all.

0:55:53.080 --> 0:55:55.640
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