WEBVTT - SPLACK - Haitian Pikliz on Everything! 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:05.800 So we got splack hair spilling the tea on everything 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:08.720 about splack. But we gotta start with an eating while 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:13.640 broke dish. So what do you have us eating today? Today? 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:23.200 I have us eating top ramen noodles with ena sausages. 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:26.040 It's something that I used to eat a lot growing 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:29.960 up in college, especially during my rough times. Nice And 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:32.440 then I see you have a secret and ingredient because 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:35.960 I couldn't buy this secret yeah, this right here. You 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:39.360 won't be able to buy this anywhere unless you know 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:43.479 a Haitian parents somewhere and they're willing to offer you this. 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:46.199 But it's basically a bunch of vegetables cut up in 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:49.000 the really small pieces and they add a lot of 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:52.080 like it has a very very strong taste and very 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:56.360 strong smell, and it's very spicy. And every family is 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:58.800 different as far as how spicey like to make it. 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:02.640 But these days to run for like a small little 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:06.399 cup for like five dollars. What's it called? Though? It 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:15.319 is called kick lee? So is it pickled vegetables? Pickled vegetables? 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:17.640 This is called pickles. I don't know where they get 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:24.240 that turn from, but I think it's catchy, like it quick? Yeah, awesome. 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:27.920 Well let's go to ad break and while we go 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:30.679 to ad break, maybe we could start boiling this ramen. 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:35.600 Oh yeah, we can set started to get started. Yeah, 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:46.160 before the water boils out, cook tu man, I'm gonna 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:51.720 be hungry to the they't advertise do you have? That's 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:55.040 how that's how broke it? Were you have have a ramen? 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:58.280 So I'll break it and say the other head, really, 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:03.120 you're really that broke? Yeah, it was college, So take 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:06.120 us back when were you eating? This was back in 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:10.760 Florida and the university back in two thousand and six seven. 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:13.480 I don't know when I graduated or was in college, 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:20.160 but I remember those times where financial abeles very very 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:24.520 very limited. It wasn't that much. And of course, you 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:27.400 know when you join activities in the school ground, you 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:30.080 gotta pay for certain things like the fraternity. You know, 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:33.400 I had to pay a lot of my uh financial 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:36.680 aid went into that. And so of course we had 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:41.120 you know, mill plans on school campuses, but even that 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:43.440 would take that if you if you had a mill plan, 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:46.320 that would take away from your financial aid. So I 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:48.320 was like, no, I can just stick it through. I 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:50.120 don't want to financially, I figured out the food. So 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:52.520 I used to be on campus, no finding, no mill 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:56.040 plan because I was trying to just get every dollar 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:59.800 that I can and I would just try to like 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:03.120 make the best out of because that the rent was 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:05.160 so high. And then I knew I wanted to join 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:09.320 activities like either the football squad or danced squad or fraternity. 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:12.839 All of that take money. So I had to stub 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:15.040 to too, like, Okay, if I want to join these things, 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:19.359 I gotta you know that it's my food and this 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:21.919 was it and usually this is a lot. I used 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.760 to cut it in half just so I can save 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:28.280 it throughout the day. But but then what would you 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:30.280 do to fill up? So you were just like never 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:32.959 full and I was never full. And to this day 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:35.400 I would say that that's how I am now, Like 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:38.640 I think it affected me so bad. Food Now, if 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:42.280 you can act unique for my girl back there, Uh, 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:45.160 it's like I eat very small and it's just not 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:47.280 because I want to just a thing that I've been 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:51.360 doing for so long that it helped me get along 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:54.320 or it helped me get past a lot of the 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:58.200 rough days in my college years. That is not ingrading me, 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:01.000 Like it just doesn't leave I was your girl, I 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:04.720 would definitely benefit from someone that doesn't eat all their 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.920 food so you don't get mad when she's in your dish. 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:13.120 You're like, go ahead, baby, you can't all that. You 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:19.560 got this talk like, yeah, go ahead, how about you? 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:25.279 And it works out. Yeah, I guess, so it works out. So, 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:28.080 just kind of going off topic, I noticed you talk 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:32.599 about being a superhero and Marvel being in a Marvel movie. 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:35.840 And when I look at your Instagram and a lot 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:39.600 of the content you put down out, it's a lot action. 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:45.760 Oh yeah, is that is that where you where your inspiration? Yeah? 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:48.919 And this kind of came from like me trying to 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:52.880 find a way to stand out. I had, um, you know, 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:57.360 I started off on buying. No, you guys haven't no, 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:00.520 you know, I started off on buying. But I remember 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:04.360 one time this girl said to me and we're like, oh, 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:06.400 you guys are funny, but you guys are all like 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:10.040 the same because they're like, you guys have nothing different 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:12.680 about you guys. And I remember that was true. Like 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:14.400 we used like one of our friends would create a 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:17.479 video and then it was just like, you know, we 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:20.440 all try to remake what he did, because if he 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:23.440 went viral. We're like, oh, then went viral. Let's try 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:25.520 to do that but make it our own. And after 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:27.839 while it worked, but then people start catching onto that 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:31.119 and you start seeing people like, oh, you guys are 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:34.239 copying this person or this is just like that person video, 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:37.280 and that was like, so I like, how can I 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:41.080 stand out? I knew I I was a fraternity guy, 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:44.840 I was a dancer back from college, and I knew 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:48.200 I loved to do fight stuff. But you know, it's crazy. 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.320 I've never fought in my entire life. I've never got 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:56.440 into one fight ever, but people would fake like my friends. 0:05:56.480 --> 0:06:01.080 Now I think like I can man handle anybody, because yeah, 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.880 but I've never got to fight in my entire life. 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:09.960 I don't know why, and I like, it's so bad. 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:13.880 I used to work um at the Roosevelt Hotel as 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:17.440 a security guard overnight and this is after college, after 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:21.400 grad school, and I was the security guard, sprawling little 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:23.000 me as a security guard, and I remember I used 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:26.200 to guard the door at the you know, at our 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.440 at our hotel, we have like different rooms they have 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:34.919 like nightclubs. And then I tell you I issue not 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:38.760 I'm not trying to curse, but there will be altercation 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:42.440 will drop people with my other security guards and they 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:44.479 will be yelling and they're like, yo, you need to 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:46.320 get out of here. And the guy who would jump 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:51.840 like a few men, that's my bar. That's like they're 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:55.680 whatever they they're yelling at and then um, as soon 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:58.840 as I come for some reason, I don't know if 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.320 it's because of my face or you're high, you're not 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:06.960 at all. No, the guys and it was just dead it. 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.000 They'll come to meybe yelling at the other person, and 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:13.200 they'll come, bro, man, what's something? How can I get 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:14.800 in the club? Man? And I'm just trying to have 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.840 a good time. They'll come to me talking calm. And 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:22.840 that's how my whole entire life always been good in 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:26.040 public and job related stuff. I've never get to fight, 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:30.600 and I've always wanted to. Oh, okay, well because I 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.560 don't want to see, like, you know, people gonna watch 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:35.200 us and listen to this, and they're gonna they're gonna 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:43.200 try to challenge you. They come chal me, I don't 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:44.840 know good. I don't want to see if I can 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:49.040 hold my own? How do you go from college? You know? 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:56.360 Then you you're pursuing film correct, Yeah, but I wasn't. 0:07:56.400 --> 0:08:01.400 Actually I studied criminal justice actually just because I wanted 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:03.600 to feel like I was doing something important, Like I 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:06.560 want to be a lawyer. I wanted to be in 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:10.440 a swat team still around fighting. Okay, okay, I see 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:16.680 this really cool along with sat I wanted to be Remember, 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:21.080 I wanted to be a garbage man wants. I wanted 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:23.000 to be that. I wanted to be a swat team. 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.200 I wanted to be uh in a marine. I wanted to. 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:28.200 I guess it's all kind of like, oh, you want 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:35.520 something I thought was all right, But yeah, I studied 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:39.040 criminal justice, and then from there I also, uh, then 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:42.400 it got to you don't know. I'm good. I'm good. 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:44.559 I don't look at how a little bit of food 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:48.120 I have. Guys, I'm gonna be starving what I want 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:54.880 way more than this college called Coco Cocoa Scrabble. My 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:58.400 fraternity brothers are gonna be laughing at the stuff. But Colleen, 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:03.800 thank you, thank you. All right. But I also did 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:09.840 a minor and performance arts um and uh even then, 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:12.800 when I started doing performance arts, I wasn't really into 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:14.880 it like that. And it wasn't until like I was 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:17.640 forced to a play because of their fourth year, you 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:20.320 have to do a play to like graduate, And I 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:23.320 did a play and I think it was like after 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:25.120 the second night that a kid came up to me 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:28.439 and was like because the play was like a very 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:34.440 dramatic playing and You're like, oh, I watching your play, man, 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:36.200 I just want to say thank you. You want you 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:39.240 maybe want to reach out back to my mom and 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:42.560 kind of rebuild our relationship. So thank you. And I 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:46.600 was kind of blown away from that because that little interaction, uh, 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:48.360 is what led me to be here to this day. 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:51.160 I like, that's one of the only conversations I had 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.760 with the individual that I would never ever forget. And 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:55.560 I don't know why, but it just kind of I can't. 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:58.520 I think that's who the conversations that opened my mind 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:02.040 and my like I idea of like pursuing this fully 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:06.280 because I like, if I can change a kid perspective 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:09.760 on life, on how to like a pro certain things 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:11.560 and reach out back to his mom, and he was 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:13.480 very sincere at the time. It took me a while 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:16.800 to like understand what impact I had on this kid, Like, 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:20.640 but that inspired me and I'm like, dang, this is 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:22.960 pretty cool. I guess I can do I guess I 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:26.000 do have a purpose because for once in my life, 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:29.240 I felt like I I serve a purpose. I did 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:33.400 something to help someone else, And to this day, Um, 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:36.719 the thing that kind of keeps me pushing is just 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:39.280 literally I don't know how many other people who have 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:41.679 here who can't agree with me as far as influences, 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:44.480 but it's the comments to fans who reach out and 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:48.240 who tells you. You know, I had people who were 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:51.240 in the hospital and they were like, yo, your videos 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:54.480 helped me out through a lot, and all of that 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:57.600 is always kind of like, yes, this is what I like. 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:01.199 This is the reason why I keep doing it, and 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.920 I can do this as long as I'm making somebody 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:07.199 days better or happier or because this war is a 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:11.720 stressful world already, and so that we kind of pushed 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:14.440 me towards where I'm at now. And why I keep pushing, 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:17.440 it's just the fans. So I want to take it 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:22.800 back to Vine. So you you graduate college, Hm, when 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:27.600 does Vine end up into changing in that hole? So? 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:31.240 I think I graduated from college in two thousand and twelve, 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:33.920 and I think immediately I went to grad school to 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:38.400 New York Film Academy, and I was in school with 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.400 one of my good friends Batch. We also went to 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:44.920 college together. I didn't know that. Yeah, he went to 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.080 U know what, He went to Florida State. I went 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:50.119 to Florida and M University. They're literally next door neighbors. 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:52.480 We joined the same fraternity at the same time. That's 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:54.720 how I knew him. Were in the same fraternity and 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:57.320 he was doing videos. I've seen him his videos in 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:59.920 earlier days. I just never really paying attention to that 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.000 cause I never thought I'd be into this. And then 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:06.680 right after college, I went out to New York Film 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.600 Academy that's here in California, and they have one also 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:11.840 in New York. And then I think the very next year, 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:15.600 Batch came in and he went to New y from 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:17.600 Academy and we went to school together that two years. 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:21.839 Within the two years, uh, I remember seeing Badge doing 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.960 these little six second videos. I didn't know what they 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:29.440 were but why he was doing it. But I remember 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:32.319 him at the time where he had only like fifty 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:35.880 thousand followers on Buying and he was like, yo, I 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.280 got this amount of people my beautiful and viral and 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.080 it was just like okay whatever. And then it wasn't 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:45.560 until like he had like three hundred thousand, and other 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:50.920 people were doing it um and I remember LeAnn v 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:57.040 I was, I was, I think in Dave Stormhouse and 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:01.360 it was her day storm Badge and of our few friends, 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:05.079 and I remember Leam was doing a brand deal and 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:09.040 it was a killer Brandon for like twenty thousand for 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:16.319 six seconds, and that's back. That's back and before social 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:20.120 media became a thing, before that's even making twenty thousand 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:24.400 and six seconds and two thousand and twelve were eleven 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:28.959 and I was working at the Roosevelt Hotel making chump 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:32.400 chain dealing with drunk people, and I think that would 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:36.560 open my mind and my like I did like pursue it, 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:40.880 and I started doing videos at my job every time. 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:43.240 I knew that all the cameras around my job, so 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:46.079 I would always try to like use the blindside of 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:48.320 the cameras to do something really quick because my job, 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:50.840 I used to work from ten PM to six I 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:55.040 was a graveyards and from like seven to eleven, I'll 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.720 take a little nap or rest, and if I'm like 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:01.640 twelve to like three four years, I'll try to like 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:05.000 uh film some stuff with my friends because they were 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:07.440 all doing very well. And then from like six to 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.000 seven or eight, I'll try to take a nap or 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.320 do some work or some classic I was in class. 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:15.080 I try to Like, So you were still in film 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.360 school when you guys were taping vines. Yeah, and it 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:21.560 did batch in Lean and day Storm today. Did you 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:23.440 just say, hey, guys, I want to join you guys 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:25.880 or where you just you just kind of got in 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:30.440 where you're fitting. That's gonna be so salty. I'm curious. 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:35.680 First of all, you gotta do too, Yetta see his girlfriend. 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:39.040 I'm sorry, guys, we gotta shout her out because I 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:42.840 don't know if this man has ever cooked for you. Look, okay, 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:44.720 this is not that bad. I'm doing it how it 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:48.640 was in college, just for all the listeners. He drained 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:51.000 the ramen and then he took the seasoning of the 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:58.840 ramen and he put it on the dry ramen. Yeah, okay, okay, okay, 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:01.600 you go. That's all you need. So so they help 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:07.520 you with your your They they you guys pulled together 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:11.720 and you guys are all doing these these videos. Um, 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:13.720 was it a hard ask them or were you just 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:22.080 like I wanted? It was kind of because it was 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:25.240 kind of because I don't like asking for favors. I 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:27.320 don't like I don't like any hand out. So it 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:29.720 was one of those things where I tried to fit 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:31.800 in where I can. If they needed help, I help. 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:33.960 And so I got The way I got in was 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:37.960 like actually learning how to whip camp. It's kind of 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:42.480 like be a very good camera guy. And because viron 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:45.360 had no transition, we used to do like one of 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:51.360 these so you just we the camera around so we 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.320 cut so that we can do a whole transition. And 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:56.840 I was I was like the guy that everyone go to. 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:59.960 So after I got so good with like whipping the camp, 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:03.440 and they're like, can you be a part of this? Yeah? 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:07.480 And then um, that's kind of like how I got in. 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:11.760 And I started growing my following and I remember, yeah, 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:16.240 I figured with you one sausage, we got half a 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:20.600 rama and a Vienna sausage. And then I remember working 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:22.400 at the Roseby Hotel. After a while, I had like 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:25.360 two hundred thousand followers and I got fired from my job. 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:27.840 I remember the day when I got fired because I 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:33.760 got caught like filming so much on the property. They 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:39.640 were like, um, it really it's this this story. I 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:41.640 wouldn't forget too, because I remember them sitting They were 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:44.240 sitting right across from me, and they were like, hey, Jean, 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:46.200 I'm really sorry that you just is like your third 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:48.320 time on the phone and you know you can't be 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:49.920 on the phone, and then we're just gonna have to 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:52.240 let you go. And I just sat there and I'm 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:55.960 like uh. And then he the other guy comes in 0:16:56.600 --> 0:17:00.000 the supervisor. They're like, yeah, I'm really sorry. You never 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.400 gonna find a better opportunity in what you have now, 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:06.199 And then they're saying the result the Roosevelt was the 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:11.440 best opportunity at this time. And then I was so shocked, 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:14.840 Like them laying me off wasn't the problem. It was 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.200 that comment that kind of set with me. I would 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:22.080 never forget. Uh. And his name is Cory Johnson working 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:27.959 me now, Hey, okay, he literally said you're never going 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:30.679 to find out a better job. Because I understand his 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:33.119 perspective at that time, buying touch me, it wasn't a 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:35.399 thing you didn't understand that they way of thinking was 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:38.840 just meeting people, networking, auditioning, and that's there were a 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:41.919 lot of people like Roosevelt held so much premier. So 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.159 I understand when he was coming from and it's not 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:47.160 his fault. Yeah, that's where he's that's where he thought 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:50.040 at the time, at the time when he was saying that, 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:52.920 did you think you were onto something? But let me 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:59.440 see okay, let me let me test. Is it good? Okay? 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:01.520 If the way, I didn't see you heat of these 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:06.040 Vana sausages. Okay, he's the one's haste has he is 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:08.359 messing up all the format of eating wall broke. I 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:11.920 love it. You don't not do that. It was good, 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:17.159 they was good. That would be really salty. And then 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:21.320 you want to I want to try the Vana sausage. Old, 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:25.840 you gotta heat these things up? Man? Why you gotta 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:28.520 eat them? Phase up? You want to eat them up? 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:32.000 Never eating at your house? Man? Up? No, no, no no, 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:36.320 it's fine. I want to hear more of this story. Wait, 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:40.800 I want to try some of your pickle pickle up pickles, 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:52.439 probably pick pickles pickles. I was close, So you go ahead. 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:55.840 You want to take a small amount, take a small 0:18:55.920 --> 0:19:00.200 amount where you ain't gonna I'm just doing. Know that 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:02.560 I took way more than a small amount. That helped me. 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:04.640 Here we go. Wait wait, wait, get that big chunk 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:06.800 you could come all that you better take the whole time. 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:10.080 I see a big trunk right there. What do you mean? No, 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:13.600 you said, don't take a big chunk. Okay, guys, I'm 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:18.080 trying that. There's nothing on there. You just said, I 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:22.199 it's gonna be really spicy. Help me, guys, we may 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:33.560 have to cut to a commercial. Oh my god, two commercials? 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:45.720 What's going with it? Let's no look, look, you gotta 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:47.720 put a whole thing it back. Bamn, you know what 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:51.080 I mean? You gotta live there. Come on, man, ain't 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:54.960 nothing wrong with you. It's hard to get back. I 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:58.480 Oh my god, that was way so spicy for all 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:03.639 your listeners. If you ever get what is that you 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:06.640 put it? Oh my gosh, that thing is way too spicy. 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:11.560 It's definitely not pickled. It's you don't need hot sauce. 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:14.080 Why did you even ask for hot sauce? You're doing 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:23.640 on cop you know idea? Yo? Yo? Please came resuming 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:25.320 on him eating this? What do you gotta put a 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:27.520 little bit type of They all got different flavors? You know, 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:30.960 you don't you know what it is that this pickle? 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:35.000 What is it? Pick pickles has destroyed all your taste buds. 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:37.200 So you can't even taste the hot sauce. That's what 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:47.040 it is. Yes, this needs apparent warning label that nice? Yeah, yeah, 0:20:47.080 --> 0:20:53.000 that's that's crazy, like something my food? Are you so bad? 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:56.080 Like if I don't see my nose running, it's not 0:20:56.119 --> 0:21:01.800 good enough. That's because yeah, pick what is it again? 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:06.400 Pickley's destroyed all your taste buds because honestly, you shouldn't 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:08.399 be able to. I can't even feel anything in my 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:14.440 mouth right now. So you get fired from the Roosevelt. Okay, 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:17.360 you know at that time, you for sure, knowing your 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:21.719 heart and your spirit, that it's that you're headed in 0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:23.640 the right direction, or is a part of you that's 0:21:23.680 --> 0:21:28.800 scared scared? I was scared because I didn't know, Uh, 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:32.439 I wasn't making any money, and I didn't know, uh 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:34.879 if this would have popped off from me, you know, 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:37.360 and I only had a few hundred thousands on there, 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:41.560 and it wasn't to like the very like a couple 0:21:41.560 --> 0:21:44.719 of weeks that I played my first gig, and it 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:46.960 was like at the time, was I thought it was great? 0:21:47.160 --> 0:21:52.480 What was your first gigumb What do you have to do? 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:57.199 You know? Love story? How much? How much do you 0:21:57.200 --> 0:22:02.960 get paid? Okay? That was your first six second video, 0:22:03.080 --> 0:22:04.679 and I was like that is good because I do 0:22:04.760 --> 0:22:08.080 work a whole week. Yeah, so like that is I'll 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:10.879 take that, even though I don't believe in dating us. 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:13.119 And the brands were reaching out to you guys, they're 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:15.520 reaching out to me. And then I was doing Bumble 0:22:15.680 --> 0:22:21.000 probably like two to three times, so like so like that, 0:22:21.440 --> 0:22:24.600 so I was making that like I don't know how. 0:22:25.440 --> 0:22:28.560 God always just making money. And ever since then, I've 0:22:28.640 --> 0:22:34.560 never had to work again except really And I was 0:22:34.600 --> 0:22:37.560 gonna ask you, so Vine's gone, you know, and we 0:22:37.640 --> 0:22:40.080 heard the backstory I had day Storm broke it down. 0:22:40.080 --> 0:22:42.600 It was a it was a crazy backstory. Were you 0:22:42.640 --> 0:22:48.879 one of the influencers in the meeting? So how do 0:22:49.160 --> 0:22:52.440 how does the influencer make money? Because I know uying 0:22:52.480 --> 0:22:54.520 back when day was doing brand news. It's because it's 0:22:54.520 --> 0:23:01.120 so spicy. Honestly, I can't eve feel my didn't even 0:23:01.119 --> 0:23:11.199 feel like dumbas Oh, so Vine's gone? How do you 0:23:11.240 --> 0:23:16.000 make money on Instagram? Uh? Instagram? So I think vining 0:23:16.119 --> 0:23:19.080 died out when I had a round like nine hundred thousand, 0:23:19.080 --> 0:23:24.840 baby a million, it's still hot, and um I started 0:23:24.880 --> 0:23:27.840 making money just some like third party apps companies reaching 0:23:27.880 --> 0:23:30.959 out to me. Um. But even then, when I think 0:23:30.960 --> 0:23:33.080 we're buying died out, I hopped up to Instagram and 0:23:33.160 --> 0:23:36.800 Instagram I still had like ropertly I like a hundred 0:23:37.600 --> 0:23:39.720 at had that much because for some reason people don't 0:23:39.760 --> 0:23:41.760 like me Instagram. I don't know why. Really, you have 0:23:41.840 --> 0:23:44.760 a how many it's like a couple of million or 0:23:44.880 --> 0:23:48.600 one point five or something like that now, but it 0:23:48.680 --> 0:23:52.600 is not really probably like really quested my stuff all 0:23:52.640 --> 0:23:55.280 the time. What are you talking about? I don't know 0:23:55.280 --> 0:23:58.160 where the rest of these people like sometimes I have them, 0:23:58.200 --> 0:24:02.600 but I think this is really one like one percent 0:24:02.720 --> 0:24:05.760 of it really, like really your engagement on it. So 0:24:05.800 --> 0:24:07.360 I have one point three but I don't really think 0:24:07.359 --> 0:24:12.159 that who actively time for me? But um, I started 0:24:12.240 --> 0:24:17.960 making money through third party ads, but it wasn't until um, 0:24:18.119 --> 0:24:21.160 we're buying that out. I tried Instagram. Instagram was always 0:24:21.200 --> 0:24:23.320 fifteen seconds, but it wasn't working that well for me, 0:24:23.480 --> 0:24:26.680 And then everyone started doing Facebook video and that's when 0:24:27.480 --> 0:24:31.359