WEBVTT - JORDAN OMLEY - Don’t Clean Your Pan! 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:03.720 What's good, guys. I am Jordan's Omley. This is eating 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:07.240 while broke check the apron. I'm with my good friend 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:11.400 Colleen Witt, who I've known for a long time, one 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:12.840 of the first people I met out here in l 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:16.279 A when I moved from Seattle. So I'm really happy 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:20.360 to be here. And I'm a producer, musician, singer, songwriter. 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:23.680 UH do a little bit of everything, saying wrap cook, 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:26.400 So today we are making one of my favorite things 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:28.400 to make, and a great meal to make if you 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:31.800 don't have a big budget, which is breakfast burritos. Because 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:33.879 when I moved to Seattle, they turned me out out 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:38.920 here and let so I've got hash Brown's going right now, 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:41.199 which kind of take the longest to make, so I've 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:43.640 had those cooking for a minute. I've got my spicy 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:47.360 refried beans going right here, which actually I'm gonna add 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:50.960 some cheese because cheese and beans is, you know, two 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:53.800 of the best words in the English language, So we're 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:58.640 gonna get that going. I've got um jalapeno. I've got 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:03.040 some red onion going over here. That's a flavor combination 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:06.039 that I use and I don't know most most of 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:09.800 what I cook unless it's specific to like a region. 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:12.720 I'm always cooking with peppers and onions, So I've got 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:17.199 that going. Uh. And then we've got some Colleen didn't 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:20.080 know what this was, which is hilarious to me. So 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:21.440 if you live in l A and you don't know 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:24.560 what dys so is, you just ain't doing it. I 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:27.800 heard the word guy. We had it was off camera. 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:29.720 She looked at this thing like a like a cow 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:33.240 at a new gate. I didn't know what to expect. Um. 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:37.520 So this is beet theresa, which is a must um 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:39.640 for breakfast burritos in my opinion. Although you can make 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:42.760 them with whatever chicken. You could do a vegetarian, you 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:45.280 could do a soada, whatever you like. But for me 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:49.400 is the way to go. Um. And then we got cheese, salsa, 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:54.160 we've got eggs, we've got avocado. Um. You know, it's 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:56.560 not one of those dishes that's super complicated. I think 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:59.480 it really is just about getting ingredients that you think 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:02.320 work well the other and all this stuff is it's 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:07.080 good together. And I'm not I'm I'm completely not shocked 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:11.560 that your dish would come with all these ingredients because 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:15.079 I've eaten at your house and You're a real You're 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:18.440 the real deal. I like to cook. I grew up 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:21.040 around like Dad is an incredible cook, so I just 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:23.160 grew up around it. I've always loved to cook and 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:26.760 I love to eat. So now that we kind of 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:31.120 have the basis of your meal, I'm gonna saw this. 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:35.800 I just want to get to know you more. Um. 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:37.920 And uh, it's a little smoky in here, guys. So 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:40.160 if I choked up, no one judged me because I'm 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:43.760 one of those people that every burner and if they 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:45.880 had another burner, I'd have that one going too. So 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:48.440 we're working in here today. We are definitely working in here. 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:52.880 So um, Jordan's has worked, like I said, with the best. 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:55.680 But one of the most amazing things about Jordan's story 0:02:55.960 --> 0:03:00.880 is how you got your start. Tell us about it. 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:02.760 I know I had something to what your day job 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.520 actually right, Well, yeah it did eventually it did. Yeah. 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:08.800 Like I said, I was, I was rapping at a 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:12.280 young age and I was Um. I was signed when 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:16.880 I was fourteen years old to Sony form a development 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:20.840 deal and I got in the studio actually in Seattle 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.239 with Sir mix a lot when I was really young 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:25.359 and Sir mix a lot kind of took me under 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:27.040 his wing, introduced me to a lot of people, and 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:30.400 I ended up on tour with Snoop and Mystical and 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:33.680 Digital Underground, and I was like, you know, live in 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:37.320 a high school life, um, singing in choir, and then 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:40.360 I was on the road, like rapping with these legends. 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:42.840 But how did you in the crossing paths with them 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:45.840 if you're in Seattle? Mix a lot knew these dudes, 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.160 so they would come to they would come to Seattle 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:50.120 to do shows, and then Mix would take me to 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:52.240 the shows. He'd introduced me to him with my boy 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:55.040 the Dog, who was someone like a local kind of 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:57.400 a local legend up in Seattle, and the Dog kind 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:58.960 of put me in touch with all these dudes. And 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.840 then I started doing show was with them, and um, 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:05.040 that let me know that I at least had the 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:07.560 talent to do what I wanted to do. But at 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:11.880 the time I was one of the funniest things that 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:14.440 people don't know is I've never drank in my life. 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:17.159 I've never even tasted alcohol. I've never had a drug, 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:20.080 a cigarette, nothing. So when I was doing shows with 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:23.279 these dudes, like the after parties were like every cliche 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.560 you could think of for these crazy after parties was 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:28.919 super real and I was uncomfortable. So I would go 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:32.080 like back to my hotel room or wherever we were staying, 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:36.200 and I would be writing pop songs secretly, like I 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:38.600 love to sing and I was inquired. So I started 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:42.000 writing pop songs at a young age and fell in 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:45.000 love with that too, so I kind of I was 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:47.599 doing a little bit of everything. Um, when I've decided 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:50.440 I wanted to move out of Seattle because I didn't 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:54.560 see a musical future there at the time, I got 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:58.400 a job selling over the phone for Direct TV. They 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:02.479 had an office in Orange County. And the whole time 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:05.040 this is going on, your parents are saying what exactly? 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:10.039 They my dad and my bonus mom, Nina, his wife, 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:14.200 we're really supportive. My mom was a little apprehensive about 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:18.120 me doing rapper music at first, but she eventually came 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:20.599 around when I worked with one of her favorite singers. 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:23.560 We could talk about that later, but yeah, it was 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:26.560 it was cool. They were supportive, you know, they knew 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:28.200 that I was going to do it anyway. At a 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:30.400 young age. I told him, Look, school is not my thing. 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:32.640 I'm not going to college. I'm not gonna get good 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:35.040 grades in high school, but I'm definitely gonna make it 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:37.440 as a as a rapper or a songwriter. And they 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:40.800 were like, okay, so thank god it works because there 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:43.920 was no plan b um, but yeah, they were cool. 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:48.520 So I made the move and I was in uh Irvine, 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:53.400 UM selling direct TV day job nine to five type 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:59.960 stuff for UM yeah for about three months. UM. Early 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:04.120 here in my life, I had been in different cities. 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:07.000 The Bay Area was one of them, and I had 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:09.360 made some connections that I saved like business cards in 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.680 my phone type stuff. And one of the connections that 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:14.640 I made was to a big producer up in the 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:17.480 Bay Area. His name was Nardam Michael Walden. He said, 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:21.560 legend in the world of pop music, and UM. I 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:24.360 started calling everybody and everybody turned me down. Everybody said 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:25.880 no to wanting to meet me now that I was 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:28.120 in l A. But he was one of the only 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:31.400 people that said yes. So I took a trip up 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:35.159 to the Bay Area. I drove my like old broke 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:38.680 Honda cord that had two d fourteen thousand miles on it, 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:41.359 but it worked and it got me up to the 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:44.400 Bay and I met with him and he had me 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:47.080 sing like my three best songs he wanted me to sing, 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:51.000 and he hated all didn't like one song, and so 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:53.320 I was like really deflated walking out of the studio 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:55.360 because I was like, damn, like I really thought these 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:56.919 were good songs and I thought this was like a 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:59.280 big break for me. And as I was leaving, this 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:01.760 dude came out of the control room and he was like, hey, 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:04.680 he doesn't like anything, so I don't sweat it, like 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:06.920 I thought your songs were great. And I was like, 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:08.800 thank you, man, but like I'm feeling pretty down, and 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:10.880 he was like no, Like, I'm a producer, my name's 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:13.280 Mike Monty, and I want to give you this beat 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:15.800 c D of my tracks. So I was like okay, 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:19.000 bet So Mike gave me this beat t D and 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:22.440 I drove back six hours back to my place where 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:24.600 I was living in Orange County from the Bay Area, 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.160 and I wrote to all of them, every track and 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:30.200 I just fell in love with his music. And I 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:33.520 called him when I got back to Orange County and 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:35.240 I was like, bro, your tracks are amazing, Like I 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:37.720 don't say I love him, and I wrote like crazy 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:39.080 to him. He was like, which one did you write to? 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:43.320 I said all of them. So he was like, okay, Well, 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:46.160 he said, the next time you're in the bay, uh, 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:48.520 come by and show me the songs. I was like, okay, bet, 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:55.080 hung up, got in the car, drove six hours. UM 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:57.720 showed up at his house. Because my dad always told 0:07:57.760 --> 0:07:59.560 me when I was young, this is there was no 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.800 like this was like a long time ago, keep in mind, 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:05.080 so I map quested this. There was no like GPS, 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:07.960 like I printed out my directions up map quest. If 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:09.520 you don't know what map quest is, I don't know 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:12.520 what to tell you. You're too young, but that's okay. 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:16.680 So after Um, after I made that drive, I just 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:18.840 showed up at his place because because the addresses on 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:21.440 his business card. So when I showed up at his house, 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:23.480 he opened the door and he was like, I thought 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:25.520 you were back in Orange County and I was like, yeah, 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:28.120 but you said the next time I'm in the Bay, 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:29.880 I could come and show you my songs, and I'm here, 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:32.920 so what's up. So it was just one of those 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:35.520 moments where like I took a chance and I just 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:38.680 went for it, and thank god it worked because Mike 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:43.040 and I have been writing together for eighteen years since 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:46.640 that day, so I went back to the Bay area. Um, 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:49.080 and he loved those songs. He loved Yeah, he loved 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:51.200 the songs. We had a great chemistry. So I went 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:53.600 back to Orange County where I was working still my 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:55.840 nine to five job, and Mike was in the Bay. 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:57.439 So I was like, I have to figure out a 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:02.800 way to make this work somehow. So by a Fluke, 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:07.079 the boss of the Direct TV location, who was super 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:10.199 rich and super cool, but he was also like very 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:13.280 about his business. He had his assistant come over my desk. 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:14.760 She was like, hey, Tom wants to talk to you 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:17.560 in his office about you leaving for these back to 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:21.200 back days. I'm like okay, So I go. And by 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:22.680 the way, I had like a crush on this girl, 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:24.200 like I was. I knew I was about to get 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:27.280 scolded in front of this girl who like the cool. 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.920 So we go to Tom's office. Tom's like, look, man, 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:34.320 you left two days. You didn't give me any notice, 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:37.720 and you know the policy here. Unfortunately, like that's just 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:42.640 not okay, um, but um, I need you to sign 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.560 this paperwork before you leave. And now I'm pleading for 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:49.680 my job. I'm like, I'm like begging in front of 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:52.200 Tom in front of his assistant, looking like a fool, 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:54.160 and he said, it just is what it is. I've 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:56.440 made my decision. He like slid this envelope over to me, 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.720 and it was like a Manila full there was paperwork 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:03.080 in it. But I opened it up and on the 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:06.160 top there was a cashier's check on top of the 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:09.760 envelope and it was made out to me UM, and 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:12.680 it was in the amount of thirty dollars. And I 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:14.560 looked up at him and I'm like, I don't know 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:17.400 what this is. And he goes, look, I heard what 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:23.200 you made up in the bay, Um. You need to 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:25.400 take this money and get as far away from here 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:28.280 and go back to there and do as much of 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:33.680 that as you can. And I just instantly started crying, ugly, crying, 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:36.640 like you know what I mean like that, And it's 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.360 in front of this girl. No, it couldn't. It couldn't 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:41.080 have been worse. Do you think she knew about it? 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.680 I don't know. She was shocked too. But he had 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:47.360 heard the music because I played it, you know, for 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:51.560 people around the office, um at a party, and he 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:53.439 believed in it. And he was just like, look, man, 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:55.400 life is about paying it forward. I'm like, I will 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:57.520 pay you back this money. And he was like, no, 0:10:57.640 --> 0:10:59.920 this is a gift. The way you can pay me 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.760 act is by doing good for other people. And anytime 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:05.920 you get the chance, just do good for people. So 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.120 he gave me this check. I left the building with 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:09.959 this check, went to the bank and put this check 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:12.720 in my account, which was overdrawn by like eighty two bucks. 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:16.760 And I went up to the teller and she was like, uh, 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:19.560 this is nice. I'm like, yeah, this is crazy. What's 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:23.280 my balance? And she's like, you're overdrawn eighty two. So 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:24.640 I had to wait for this check to clear, and 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:26.400 then I called Mike and I'm like, bro, I'm moving, 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:29.200 Like I got money, I'm moving. That the biggest amount 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:33.280 of money you had seen at that time. Oh yeah, 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:35.760 of course, And none of that money was for me. 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:38.160 I gave that money to Mike to book him out 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:41.840 pretty much for six months. We like, I've moved. I 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:45.000 used that money to move, got a place, booked out 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:49.240 Mike's work for many months, and we just got to work. 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:52.240 And since that day we've never stopped. It's just been 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:56.520 it's just been amazing. So really, that guy Tom Martindale 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:03.480 Direct TV. Everybody that man, right, there. I gotta put 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:05.200 my hash Browns in here with this. You kind of 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:08.760 want when you're cooking a breakfast burrito, you really want 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:11.600 the flavors of everything to start working together as soon 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:13.720 as possible. So when you feel like you've got your 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:15.920 Theresa done, which I do, and you feel like you've 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.400 got your hash Browns done, you want to like let 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:21.720 them get happy together. Okay. And I saw you dump 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:24.400 the onions and I dumped onions. Yeah, you like you 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:27.360 really want this thing to be like like beach front 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:30.400 property in Flavortown. You know what I'm saying. When you 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:32.800 buy into it, you really want that. So I get 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:35.320 this going all together because we're pretty much good now. 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:37.640 I haven't even got the burner off. Like we're at 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:41.960 the point with this stuff where now it's eggs clatillas 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:45.000 and we start putting it together, so we're good. This 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:48.920 looks so it's gonna be it's gonna be good. Um, 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:52.360 so we're doing eggs nice. So yeah, that's um. That's 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:54.079 kind of how I got my break, honestly. And then 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:57.640 Mike and I started working like crazy. We signed a 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:02.640 publishing deal um with Sony through Big John Platt shout 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:06.760 out to Big John for changing my life, and we 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:09.640 found our first artist. We signed a girl that was 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:11.880 twelve years old. We believed in her. Her name is 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:15.120 Tory Kelly. She's a pretty amazing singer. If you guys 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:17.760 don't know who Tory Kelly is, she's one of the 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:19.360 best singers in the world and she's gone on to 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:22.760 do really well. And that signing Tori and developing Tori 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:25.480 was a big break for us UM And then we 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:27.719 got lucky. We got in with the Backstreet Boys, we 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:31.800 got in with Pussycat Dolls, Brandy And at this point, 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:35.560 what when do you personally feel like you arrived? Like 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:38.840 when was it? Like, I'm sure that the thirty dollar 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:41.760 check was confirmation that you were on the right path. Yeah, 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:43.640 that did make because you know, the whole time, you're like, 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:47.559 I think I'm good. What if I'm awful? Like do 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:49.880 you ever watch American Idol or The Voice and you see, well, 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:51.959 the voices talent, But when you see American Idols some 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:57.920 of these people auditioning, you're like, someone know you're not good, man, Like, 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:01.160 you have to know you're not good. But with this, 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:03.040 it was like, I think I'm good enough. People have 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:05.320 told me that I have talent and I really hope so, 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:08.880 but yeah, that was confirmation for sure. So I did 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:10.800 feel like then when we started getting in rooms with 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:12.680 people that I was like big, Like when I was 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:15.360 in the room with Brandy writing songs for Brandy's album 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:17.920 and I'm a massive Brandy fan, I'm like, yea, this 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:22.280 is like I'm on, yeah, yeah, this is crazy. So 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:26.080 it wasn't the checks. It was like, it's almost like 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.640 my favorite rappers, jay Z, of course, So like if 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:32.760 I ever first of all people who know me, no, 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:36.800 I can't even But if I think that, if I 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:40.120 ever got an opportunity to interview jay Z, that's it. 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:44.040 I'm like, I've arrived. You can't. I'm almost Beyonce level 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:47.200 at this point. You know what I'm saying. I'm not mad, 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:49.880 I get it. So yeah, it was more than people 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:52.640 than the checks. Honestly, anybody in music, I don't care 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:55.520 how big you are, if you want to use that 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:58.720 term or successful. Everybody knows that money comes and goes 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:01.160 in this business. Sometimes you got it, sometimes you don't. 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.240 Like if I got songs on the radio that are 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:06.240 doing well or songs that are streaming well, business is 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:09.120 popping but there's times where you don't and then you're 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:11.000 you know, you've got to live a little tighter, and 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:13.200 that's just the way it is. So I've never really 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:17.600 defined success in music by money. It was more about 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:21.880 like the opportunities, because once you get into the business, 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:24.160 you realize how hard it is to get in rooms 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:27.080 with people. Anybody could write songs, and today there's so 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:30.760 many people writing songs off their laptops sending them in 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:32.880 from their bedroom, which is amazing because they didn't have 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:36.560 that when I started out. But it's really hard to 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:39.560 get in a room with people, you know what I mean, Like, 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:41.120 like you're a fan of jay Z. I was a 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:44.280 big fan of Tech nine and I got to fly 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:46.520 to Kansas City and work with Tech nine, you know, 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:49.160 and that was like that's hard. That those kind of 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:53.360 things made it more like believable for me. So was 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.760 there ever a point where you made money and you 0:15:55.840 --> 0:16:00.320 kinda blew it and then all the time, are you 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:05.400 kidding me? I've rented this house that was five bedrooms 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:07.640 and it was me living in it because I was 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:09.320 I was like, this is amazing and I want to 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:11.920 feel like a baller. And I built a shoe room, 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:13.960 and I got four hundred pairs of sneakers, and I 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:16.440 was just an idiot, and I blew money like crazy 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:18.720 all the time. And then you hit a point where 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.120 you're like, I don't know, you realize what's more important, 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:25.280 like stability and paying taxes and other things like that 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:27.000 that I didn't want to do for a long time. 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:30.560 So yeah, I mean, of course there's plenty of that stuff. 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:40.200 So since your career has taken off, this particular meal, 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:44.400 this signature dish, I'm guessing you still eat every once 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:46.760 in a while for luxury or has there been a 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:49.080 point in the last five years where you had to 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:53.720 eat it out of survival. Well, survival is so dramatic, 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:56.120 you know what I mean. If you're living in in 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:59.320 l a you're all right no matter how broke you are. 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:01.040 There's people that around this world that are doing a 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:03.160 lot worse. So survival is tough to say. But I 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:06.480 will say that is just really hard, because that's what 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:08.240 I'm saying. But if you can afford to pay rent 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:12.080 in l A, h, you know you're surviving. Yeah, that's true. 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:15.800 But I will say this, this is a meal that 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:20.320 my wife loves. I like to cook breakfast every weekend 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:22.440 if I can for us, and this is just one 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:25.320 that like, she absolutely loves it. So I make this 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:27.919 meal a lot at the house, so yeah, we do 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:30.199 eat this one. I'm just looking at this meal. I 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:34.400 feel like this is going to be drafted into first 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:36.840 of all, probably take ownership with my husband and be 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:40.320 like I came up with this dish. You know it's 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:42.840 going to see an episode of this, like stop that 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:46.560 line probably when I serviced when he's like, where'd you 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:51.320 get this? Eating well broke but um, but yeah, this 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:55.119 dish looks smells with all the ingredients. I'm like completely 0:17:55.119 --> 0:18:00.200 shocked that you can have such a real rest around 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:03.680 almost all dish for so cheap, and it's not even 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:06.800 unhealthy because most of the meals we see that com 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:09.600 on this show are just you know they're unhealthy because 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:12.399 I get it. Let me give you a tip to 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:16.560 for people out there when you're about to do yours. 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:19.760 Uh you want to put I like to cook it 0:18:19.800 --> 0:18:23.160 in the pant overhead shot, overhead camp. Don't clean your pan. 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:27.760 That's that's flavor. That's flavor. Just put that thing right 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:30.000 on there and let it get happy. Just look the 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:33.840 outside get dirty, or something. You're assuming that the part 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:36.399 I just put it on the outside. See what you 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:39.680 do is once this is ready, just is once it's warm. 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:41.800 Now you take this thing off and the bottom part 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:44.480 is the inside, and now I start filling it. So 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:46.800 I'll show you this part is a little bit of 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:50.600 like a a multi layered process because I like to 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:54.720 I like to load it up a certain kind of way. 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:57.639 But but I think it's interesting about George too. Was like, 0:18:57.680 --> 0:18:59.520 while I was watching and Cook, I'm like, oh, he 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:01.760 needs He's clearly going to need like way more pots 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:05.600 and pants. But no, you're just like swapping flavors the 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:09.120 entire exactly. You let everything get happy together. Look at that. 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:14.679 Now we do this. So who so far in your 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:21.399 career would you say, uh, probably left the most I 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:26.200 guess impact. Mm hmm. That's a good question. Who left 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:30.359 the most impact creatively? Or like, like, who did I 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:32.800 like the most? Those are different questions. You can answer 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:36.720 both because I'll use both of us. So I think 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:41.080 that somebody that left like a really big impact on 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:48.399 me personally that I went in with was Mariah. So 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:50.760 this was one of those moments where it's like, this 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:54.200 is a legend okay. But the reason why it left 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:59.040 such an impact was she was not like how you 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:02.159 might think in your head of how you know someone 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:05.280 so big would be in the studio. She was very 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:08.119 like when she would listen down to her vocals that 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:10.359 we were going through, she would say, oh, like, oh no, 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:12.359 don't play that one, like that's not it. And I'm like, 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:15.360 you're like anything you sing is amazing, Like this take 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:18.240 that you don't think is good is so good. And 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:21.920 I think that like it showed me a level of like, 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:24.520 even when you get to the top, you still have 0:20:24.680 --> 0:20:27.359 to be so vigilant and you still have to be 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:29.600 so selective about what you put out there and what 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:32.080 people here. And I kind of thought that was amazing 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:35.440 because you could at that level, you could just ride 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:37.439