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Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Colleen Wait, and today we're out of the podcast studio,

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Speaker 1: thank god, and into Atlanta. And guess who is with

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Speaker 1: us today? None other than Make You Dance, Dance, Dance.

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Speaker 1: I'm not y'all. Wow. I'm so happy to have you

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Speaker 1: here today, Thank you so much. So we were on

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Speaker 1: the phone, we were chatting. I was like, what are

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Speaker 1: you gonna make us? What are you what are you

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Speaker 1: cooking for us? What are you feeding me today? Um? Turkey,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna do a little turkey and meat. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: do some nice little jazz rice. I'm gonna chop it

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Speaker 1: up with a lot black beings on the side. You know,

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Speaker 1: you know that's my little one too, a little one

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Speaker 1: too quickly, Yes, quick. And it was a completely affordable.

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Speaker 1: I went into Walmart. The only thing is that pretty

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Speaker 1: View wanted the salt and vinegar chips. And I felt

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Speaker 1: so bad because she asked me, you know about the

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Speaker 1: salt in vinegar chips? And I did look. I was all.

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Speaker 1: First of all, I didn't know what I was looking for.

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Speaker 1: I looked at sour cream chips and I didn't know

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Speaker 1: what exa I've heard of them, but I didn't know

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Speaker 1: what bag they came in. So okay, okay, So now

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Speaker 1: okay is always in the hood, you gotta have a

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Speaker 1: soft if you broke you know what s because that

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Speaker 1: was twenty five since and min when I grew up.

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Speaker 1: Now it's probably a dollar act, your little local corner

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Speaker 1: storep you in New York. You gotta godega. That's just

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Speaker 1: what it is. But you gotta know what. I didn't

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Speaker 1: know what they are, and I've definitely had them before,

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Speaker 1: but I haven't seen them enough to be like, oh,

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Speaker 1: that's the But I did. I searched, and I was

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Speaker 1: telling me, like I searched, I'm down here in Atlanta's

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Speaker 1: my first time. It was a whole experience. Okay. Liveing

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Speaker 1: in l A, we don't see as many black people.

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Speaker 1: I was just like, oh my gosh, it's black people everywhere.

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Speaker 1: This is amazing. But I won't say the Walmart was

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Speaker 1: like bone dry. It was. It was like every shelf

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Speaker 1: was like half empty. Like it was since I told

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Speaker 1: you to go slide to the our gas station and

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Speaker 1: get you a que If I said man to due,

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Speaker 1: we said gets to get medic chips. You could put

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Speaker 1: it we should put we would have put some hot

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Speaker 1: sauce in there, and we put the hot sauceae and

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Speaker 1: that's when you see pork. We eat hot sauceas and

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Speaker 1: to crushing, the crushing, the crushing up. I used to

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Speaker 1: have song men get chips hot sauce, and we said that, um,

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Speaker 1: hot sausage. But you would put the sausage where in

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Speaker 1: the bag and crunch it up. You put the chips

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Speaker 1: in the bag with the hottuce, and then the hot

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Speaker 1: sausages in the hot sausages and but then how would

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Speaker 1: you eat it? Gop it up? Why did we eat

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Speaker 1: that today? Because I couldn't find sol in vinegars and

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Speaker 1: I don't eat pork, so that's okay. You could have

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Speaker 1: done a turkey sausage. All right, Well, why don't you

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Speaker 1: get us started on this and then hit the same alright,

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Speaker 1: so y'all, this is what time we on. We got

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Speaker 1: this turkey, so the meat okay, um, we are not

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Speaker 1: going to use all of this right, so we're just

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Speaker 1: gonna take a quick glob is the stove on? What

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Speaker 1: are we doing? Stuff has to be blood plots on?

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Speaker 1: So the comedian pan it's so well, I gotta take

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Speaker 1: the local spool or I gotta goupe like this, as

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Speaker 1: you guys could see the accent to go ahead. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm definitely cooking this for my girl Coco. So nowadays,

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Speaker 1: are you cooking at home or you uber eats and

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Speaker 1: um eating? Now I'm cooking, but I'm definitely going out

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Speaker 1: to eat. And my mom lives like fifteen minutes away

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Speaker 1: from me, so I have the best of both worlds.

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Speaker 1: You should say, food is ready, I'm there, speedy Gunzales.

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Speaker 1: Oh you're not late because you know it's there. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm late. But then when I know I'm hungry and

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Speaker 1: I just want my mom company, I'm there. You know,

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Speaker 1: my mom is a pastor too, so sometimes I need

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Speaker 1: to he got good up, good up word. So I

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Speaker 1: like to just go and sitwhere and then when it's

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Speaker 1: food involved, hilarious, are you good to go? So what

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Speaker 1: we're gonna do? You guys? We have a turkey meet

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Speaker 1: in the hot right now. And again, like I said,

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Speaker 1: this is my meal while I was broke. I mean,

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Speaker 1: so for some people, a mazing my great, that's a

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Speaker 1: regular meal I eat on the day. But babey, I

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Speaker 1: was eating this swinty four seven of my day coming

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Speaker 1: Fair Marriott. I used to work for the Baby. I

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Speaker 1: used to work for somebody. Did you say I used

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Speaker 1: to work for the Baby, Yes, I was doing his

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Speaker 1: admin work. I was working for South Because Music, the

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Speaker 1: group with Honor Teller, and um, I was doing like

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Speaker 1: radio plays. And I started off doing radio. I wanted

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Speaker 1: to do radio so bad. I looked up to Art

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Speaker 1: Angie Martinez still do La La the Ludicrous is Wendy Williams,

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Speaker 1: everybody like in that field, and I wanted to do that.

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Speaker 1: You know. I didn't want to be in front of

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Speaker 1: the camera at first. Um, but I just knew because

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Speaker 1: I could do different voices and different things and different characters.

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Speaker 1: I was like, I could do this, Um. But it

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Speaker 1: didn't pop off of me like that. But I didn't

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Speaker 1: have my own radio show in college called the uh

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Speaker 1: Lounge twenty two. And then I moved to Charlotte and

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Speaker 1: I had my own show called the v XL Show. So, um,

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Speaker 1: I was, so, you've been moving around, You've been around

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Speaker 1: in the industry. Yeah. And then I was working at

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Speaker 1: phil Firm Maria, and I was so tired of it.

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Speaker 1: So I used to go into this building and I

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Speaker 1: always hear music, like what is that? And I'm like, God,

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Speaker 1: I just want to be in some form of this industry.

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Speaker 1: I don't know which part you have for me, but

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Speaker 1: I know it's there. Um and Donald Taylor told me, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I have a job open for you. Want to be

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Speaker 1: my assistant, my admin? And I said yeah. And from

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Speaker 1: there he had an artist called Baby Jesus now the

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Speaker 1: Baby and there was this was two thousand and seventeen,

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Speaker 1: sixteen seventeen. Yeah, so you're working for them, You're are you?

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Speaker 1: Are you? Would you say you were struggling or were

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Speaker 1: you just like paycheck to paycheck? Because you're also doing

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Speaker 1: where you working in the Marriott? And yes, I was

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Speaker 1: working the Marriott, And well I got fired from the Marriott,

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Speaker 1: and then I went to South Coast Music Group and

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Speaker 1: I was actually working on my craft and working on

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Speaker 1: South Coast. I didn't forget the comedy, like I was

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Speaker 1: still doing skits on Instagram. So you were doing your

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Speaker 1: comedy and in working it, but you're not in radio

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Speaker 1: at all. I'm not in radio at all. I mean

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Speaker 1: I had my own show at a station, but I

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Speaker 1: stopped doing that because of some some conflicts I haven't had,

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Speaker 1: but um, I was still like, you know what, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna still do this comedy theme my cousin, you know,

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Speaker 1: I was like, Yo, you need to show the warrior

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Speaker 1: talent on Instagram and that from that, that's when I

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Speaker 1: created Peanut Mom, Sharon and all my characters from there.

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Speaker 1: So were you doing stand up comedy at all before

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Speaker 1: the skits? Yes, I did. I. Um, I went on

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Speaker 1: the road with Jess Hilarious and some other comics and

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Speaker 1: and I was doing that too, and I was still

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Speaker 1: like trying to figure it out. You know. That's when

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Speaker 1: I auditioned for a while and out around that time too.

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Speaker 1: I didn't make it at that that year in two

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Speaker 1: thousand eight nineteen is when they called me back to

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Speaker 1: to be on the show. And it's been my seventh season. Now,

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Speaker 1: that's amazing. Yeah. So I've been all over the places

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Speaker 1: you have been, and seems like you pivot a lot

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Speaker 1: throughout your whole career. Yeah, now I do notice. So

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Speaker 1: you dance very well. Is that like just natural or

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Speaker 1: was there any passion in the dance. Definitely, It's still

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Speaker 1: doing ballet and I stopped doing that, and then I

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Speaker 1: for the Miami Heat but we used to do Junior

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Speaker 1: League tries to come out halftime. So yeah, dance, ballet

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Speaker 1: do tap, yeah, but in being Jamaican, you grew up

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Speaker 1: around your family with this or anything they do is dancing.

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Speaker 1: So I grewup around people on their head top, split

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Speaker 1: that's just me. Wow. Yeah, I love dancing. It's just

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Speaker 1: it keeps you youthful. When when did you say would

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Speaker 1: you say like was a pivotal moment where you were like,

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Speaker 1: I think I'm onto something, because if you were, you

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Speaker 1: went from you know, you were doing radio, you were

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Speaker 1: When along that journey where you like, I think I'm

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Speaker 1: I was like, man, you're too funny. Do your ship.

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Speaker 1: So that year was the year I was like, I'm

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Speaker 1: onto something, Jesus. And that year was about faith. It

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Speaker 1: was about movement for me and knowing that I have

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Speaker 1: haven't stopped since. So when you got fired, where you

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Speaker 1: when he said he fired you because you had higher purpose.

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Speaker 1: But it was more of, you know, I didn't have

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Speaker 1: He was he said what he said, like, I gotta

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Speaker 1: what you need to focus on. But they didn't know

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Speaker 1: I didn't have a backup. I didn't have no backup,

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Speaker 1: but Jesus, so how are you making them? To meet? Um?

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Speaker 1: I got viral off Instagram and then I was making

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Speaker 1: five in allars of month. And then from there me

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Speaker 1: and my sister was putting the bills. Wow, yeah, y'all,

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Speaker 1: we're putting this. We just finished putting this pepper on it.

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Speaker 1: We brought the salt Arairea on the air. I was,

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Speaker 1: it's looking good as it get a little dark. You

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Speaker 1: got the black beans wrong. We got the black beans

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Speaker 1: all hot up the hood. Put some water on in

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Speaker 1: that baby too loud. Let's let's put a little sick

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Speaker 1: and sick and sack and sack act. Okay, all right?

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Speaker 1: Okay you burn? They pop? Okay, So look we're gonna

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Speaker 1: more tools. What do you have more tools? Okay? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we need a little stir. Okay, do you need me

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Speaker 1: to stir the beans while I please please make yourself

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Speaker 1: at home? I will, I will, I will. I'm so

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Speaker 1: sorry the beans put it down for all of you listeners.

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Speaker 1: I have never made beans before outside of on this show.

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Speaker 1: So this is my first time experiencing black beans. I

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Speaker 1: thought they just come like ready made, like baked beans,

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Speaker 1: but they don't. Um. But back to you being viral,

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Speaker 1: was like, oh, I gotta move that I used to

424
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Speaker 1: eat back in the day. So it's just really at

425
00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:01,800
Speaker 1: my humble beginnings where I started and just know, like

426
00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:04,320
Speaker 1: me my sister was actually sharing a two bed room

427
00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:07,159
Speaker 1: apartment in Charlotte, just trying to figure it out. You know.

428
00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:09,840
Speaker 1: Was there ever a point in your career and I

429
00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:11,720
Speaker 1: know you're very faith driven where you were like a

430
00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:15,000
Speaker 1: little shaken where you're like maybe maybe I meantually just settle.

431
00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:18,919
Speaker 1: I mean, those moments came through my mind, but I

432
00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:20,720
Speaker 1: just knew I had a bigger purpose and I just

433
00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:23,959
Speaker 1: knew if I could turn that frown into a smile,

434
00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:26,600
Speaker 1: I know I have a purpose and not seen it.

435
00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:29,359
Speaker 1: So could you tell me an exact point where you

436
00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:35,840
Speaker 1: were like, uh, I don't know, Um, I just maybe

437
00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:39,760
Speaker 1: felt like like where someone like maybe made you question,

438
00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:41,560
Speaker 1: Like I know, even with our show eating while broke.

439
00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:44,280
Speaker 1: I always have those moments where I'm like, oh my god,

440
00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:47,480
Speaker 1: I must be crazy. You know. Did you ever have

441
00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:50,840
Speaker 1: those moments where you like, maybe I'm just especially especially

442
00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:52,960
Speaker 1: if your dad was also like you know, if you

443
00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:55,200
Speaker 1: have one, I'm not saying it was a naysayer, but

444
00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:57,920
Speaker 1: someone that was like I mean, as influencers always trying

445
00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:00,600
Speaker 1: to figure out what's next. So even you any you're

446
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:02,920
Speaker 1: always just trying to forget you know, how far I'm

447
00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:05,399
Speaker 1: going to get into what I'm doing. But I always

448
00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:09,560
Speaker 1: live by longevity. My favorite meeting is Jim actor of

449
00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:12,919
Speaker 1: Jim Carrey. So I just always lived by like I

450
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:15,760
Speaker 1: want my name to be with besides him, beside his name,

451
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:17,800
Speaker 1: you know. So I think when my father used to

452
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:21,520
Speaker 1: always say they ain't this or this ain't that. I

453
00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,000
Speaker 1: just remember like I gotta keep going. You know. It

454
00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:27,560
Speaker 1: was some moments where I was like, you know, like okay,

455
00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:29,480
Speaker 1: but I just never thought of going back where I

456
00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:31,600
Speaker 1: came from. I always try to look ahead, so I

457
00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:34,080
Speaker 1: never had a moment where I'm gonna do this. In

458
00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:36,800
Speaker 1: my mind is always picture myself like I'm not here

459
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,240
Speaker 1: where else I would be, you know, But I don't

460
00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:41,320
Speaker 1: know because this is where I called to do it.

461
00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:44,399
Speaker 1: So there was never a backup plan. Ever, never a

462
00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:46,000
Speaker 1: backup plan. This is what I would be wanting to do.

463
00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:47,879
Speaker 1: Was always say I want to be a lawyer. But

464
00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:51,639
Speaker 1: ch'all no. Every time I talked to a lawyer of

465
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:53,879
Speaker 1: one of my best friends as a lawyer, oh they

466
00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:56,800
Speaker 1: it's a horrible job. It's just like good on TV.

467
00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:00,879
Speaker 1: Yeah no. So this was always my plan A plan B, B, plans, C, D, E, F, G,

468
00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:05,439
Speaker 1: and whatever the alphabets after that. So when you were

469
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:09,240
Speaker 1: working at the Marriott, you were just doing that to

470
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:15,239
Speaker 1: like survive, and you know, my mom tis ever, they

471
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:17,360
Speaker 1: will find a job. So I was trying to show

472
00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:19,159
Speaker 1: up a little bit, like all right, I'm gonna go.

473
00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:22,600
Speaker 1: Do you remember where exactly you were when you shot

474
00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:26,200
Speaker 1: your first video. I was at my best friend's apartment.

475
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,919
Speaker 1: There's somebody outside into it, and where you shy uploading it?

476
00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:34,239
Speaker 1: I get shot. Sometimes I'll be like, uh, I love that.

477
00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:40,399
Speaker 1: I don't know that thing, girl, yeahs ship that. What

478
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:43,800
Speaker 1: the hell we did upload that? Kid? I love that.

479
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:46,399
Speaker 1: I was excited. I wandered, I don't see what the

480
00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:48,639
Speaker 1: views was. And then I've seen Missy Elliot under that

481
00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,600
Speaker 1: Monica all these famous people. I'm like, oh, we lit

482
00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:54,760
Speaker 1: and it was funny. I was like, bitch, so what's

483
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:58,399
Speaker 1: the next kip? Yeah, and I was like I don't know,

484
00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:01,840
Speaker 1: So I had to really dig deep in my mind

485
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:05,879
Speaker 1: to create something. So yeah, yeah, I love your I

486
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:09,440
Speaker 1: love how real you are on your page. So when

487
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:12,760
Speaker 1: you get the call for walling out, like where are you?

488
00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:15,080
Speaker 1: What are you doing? When it's like, okay, we want

489
00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 1: you to join wale, I was at my own girl

490
00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 1: house when they call me because I like to get

491
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,119
Speaker 1: on willing out the audition, I said. I told him

492
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:24,239
Speaker 1: I was like DC Young Plock cousin, and they were like, bit,

493
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,440
Speaker 1: all right, you're not did you even know him? No,

494
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:31,600
Speaker 1: I didn't know him at all. So you said that,

495
00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:34,760
Speaker 1: but obviously I didn't play a role in your getting

496
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:36,520
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm DC Young if I look cousin,

497
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:41,760
Speaker 1: and Colins Miller is my uncle on the tape on

498
00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:45,080
Speaker 1: the day and so then the back and then what happens.

499
00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:47,440
Speaker 1: My home girl was like my m was like, you

500
00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:50,159
Speaker 1: need to um, you know, you need to say that,

501
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:52,440
Speaker 1: say somebody your cousin on there. That's how I got

502
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:54,760
Speaker 1: the audition and then when I go, that's how you

503
00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:57,520
Speaker 1: got the audition? Okay, so you get that. Flew to

504
00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:03,399
Speaker 1: New York. I brewed to New York, y'all, and um,

505
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 1: I went up in that room and I seen Dolly.

506
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:10,080
Speaker 1: I see Nia, I've seen everybody from VITICM. And I

507
00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 1: was like, ship, well, here we go. He said do this,

508
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:15,000
Speaker 1: do that, and I was like okay. Dolly was like, oh,

509
00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:18,119
Speaker 1: that's the girl from Instagram. Dolly had Dolly had a

510
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:22,080
Speaker 1: little poofball and she was just like, um oh, I

511
00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:25,399
Speaker 1: know that girl. She's the group from Instagram. And I performed,

512
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:29,480
Speaker 1: but I didn't make it. Was there that day just hilarious.

513
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 1: Was in that day? They all made it but me.

514
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:33,320
Speaker 1: So they told you right there on the spot that

515
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:35,720
Speaker 1: you made if you made it or not. No, they

516
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:37,760
Speaker 1: just say next play games and then they call you

517
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 1: back after you leave. And I didn't get a call back.

518
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:44,160
Speaker 1: How do you know they got the call back? Um,

519
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,879
Speaker 1: because I don't. I don't know be someone never told me.

520
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,439
Speaker 1: I watched your YouTube and found out that she had

521
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:51,359
Speaker 1: got a call back. Oh gosh, how did that make

522
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,160
Speaker 1: you feel at the moment, like damn? Which I wanted

523
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,800
Speaker 1: to make it? Do but it's fine. I was trying

524
00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 1: to do it all my time. So then where are

525
00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:01,199
Speaker 1: you when you get that show call that you got it?

526
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 1: I was at my home ground. Wait, how many backs?

527
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 1: How many times did you audition? Audition once? I hadn't

528
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:08,960
Speaker 1: want to keep going on JEP moves, So I was

529
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:12,520
Speaker 1: the first time. That's what we at that So but

530
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:14,439
Speaker 1: I was it was still part where I was still

531
00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:20,040
Speaker 1: late because I was hosting Lala Carmelos Lala Anthony's uh

532
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:23,960
Speaker 1: um Um charity giveaway in New York two years in

533
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,200
Speaker 1: a row, you know, and I just like that was

534
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 1: a blessing, you know, for me around those times. So

535
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:31,040
Speaker 1: when while they called me back, I had something to do,

536
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 1: you know, so um, and you're already viral, You're already

537
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:39,080
Speaker 1: so so this sounds like it was an option, but

538
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:41,879
Speaker 1: you really wanted it. Yeah, the finances needed to just

539
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:43,679
Speaker 1: upgrade a little bit. Yeah, yeah, that's what we were

540
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:48,360
Speaker 1: looking at. Um. But but yeah, and then two seasons later,

541
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:49,720
Speaker 1: that's when they called me and says says, you want

542
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 1: to come on the show. I'm like hell yeah. And

543
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:53,960
Speaker 1: then did you have to audition that second time when

544
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 1: they called you again? Or no? I just want to

545
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:59,640
Speaker 1: trade into workshops. What so okay, Now tell me where

546
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,000
Speaker 1: were you that? What was going on? Yeah? I just

547
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 1: went straight into work shots and I was we was

548
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 1: in New York. Then for me back to where I

549
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:16,160
Speaker 1: lied to go, excuse me a little messy. I went

550
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:19,200
Speaker 1: right back to New York where I lied to the audition,

551
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:23,000
Speaker 1: and then that's it. We're and I've been on the

552
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 1: show for seven seasons broken now and so funny. Everyone

553
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:36,720
Speaker 1: you mentioned I've known since I was like twenty one.

554
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 1: I know now very well. Now now did an episode

555
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 1: of beating Will broke with like eggs and tacos. Yeah,

556
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 1: it was actually pretty good because he used real butter.

557
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 1: I didn't have never used real butter until now. It's delicious,

558
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 1: he said, Ill, no, it's good. It was really good.

559
00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 1: I was surprised, I promise you. I don't know if

560
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 1: it was as good as this dish though, Oh yeah,

561
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 1: nothing's as good as this. This is this is what

562
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 1: got me think back in the day. So, can you

563
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,480
Speaker 1: tell us anything behind the scenes of walling out that

564
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 1: would be juicy? Um? Ain't just like, ain't not really juicy.

565
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 1: Everything goes on on stage, well, they do the workshops

566
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 1: there's no like free. Nobody spills the tea on what

567
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 1: they're gonna say about anybody else before people close to

568
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:25,880
Speaker 1: the best yep. And then when it's sound that yeah,

569
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 1: we h, So who's your favorite cash member? Do you see? Really?

570
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 1: No favorite? Hands down? Why is because it's funny or

571
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 1: is it? It's like off cameras just like me, Like

572
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 1: we're the same working person, his physical comedy, him just

573
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,440
Speaker 1: being bold and daring, don't give two ships about what

574
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 1: somebody says about him. That's me. So when we link

575
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:53,200
Speaker 1: and we talked outside of wailing out gets it. He's

576
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 1: like my little person in the mind like yeah, so

577
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 1: we're just fun. It's just fun. What advice would you

578
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 1: give to someone that's for suing comedy that's pursuing because

579
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:08,040
Speaker 1: even pursuing being an influencer or pursuing being a mainstream

580
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 1: on television, your journey wasn't short at all. It seemed

581
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:16,200
Speaker 1: like it was a a a roller coaster a little bit.

582
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 1: My advice I would give to any upcoming comedian or

583
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 1: any actor actress, Um, don't give up. You know, you

584
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,960
Speaker 1: gotta be consistent and you gotta go with the punches.

585
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:31,560
Speaker 1: Everything is not gonna always go so smooth. It's gonna

586
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:33,640
Speaker 1: be obstacles in a way. It's gonna be tunnels, it's

587
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:36,240
Speaker 1: gonna be roller coaster. This is gonna be I always say,

588
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 1: if I don't need five and seventy and eighty five,

589
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,880
Speaker 1: whatever it is, it's just so crowded, take those back roads.

590
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 1: Because sometimes when you take those back roads, you could listen,

591
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:48,240
Speaker 1: you could hear, you could focus, and your blessing is right, dear,

592
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:49,840
Speaker 1: you just gotta keep going. We like to go off

593
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 1: those exits and we like to go to quick trip

594
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 1: and sit out and vibe out. No, sometimes God want

595
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 1: you to keep going, so don't give up. You know,

596
00:30:56,720 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 1: just wow, you never made traffics sound so good, Like

597
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 1: traffing just sounded amazing to me. I'm like, it doesn't

598
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 1: sound that. So we just want to go where anybody

599
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 1: who's going, and sometimes okay to go take those back roads.

600
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 1: I grew up in South Carolina too, so when I

601
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 1: used to see all those back roads, sometimes blue back

602
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 1: roads was just you and God, you know, you speaking

603
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 1: and you're trying to tell him what you want. Its

604
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 1: crowding you. On five, did you ever put a cap

605
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 1: in your career? Like if I don't make it in

606
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 1: five years or ten years or three years, I'm gonna

607
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 1: become a lawyer or something. I've never put anything anywhere.

608
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 1: I just let God leave because you know, I'm supposed

609
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 1: to be here no else. And then when you transitioned

610
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 1: out of work, when you got fired and you're now

611
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 1: making five dollars a month on Instagram, did you cut

612
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:45,920
Speaker 1: your overhead so you can focus on pursuing your craft

613
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 1: or like, how did you survive during that time because

614
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 1: obviously Instagram wasn't paying you that much. Um, it was

615
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 1: more of just me, just that's all I had. Of course,

616
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 1: you have your parents who help you, and you know, um, guys,

617
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 1: who I that's like Hella two and it all. It

618
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 1: was three own and all the spell of light, yell

619
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 1: of Phombio. But it was more for me, just like

620
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 1: I don't have no fair familiar yott. I got fired

621
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 1: from that. I got fired from every job going up McDonald's,

622
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 1: GJ Max, Dollar Tree, Southcos Music Group, TJ Max, I

623
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 1: mean everywhere you can think about in the black hell. Um,

624
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 1: So for me, I'm like I didn't got fired for

625
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 1: so many jobs. I know I was worth for nobody

626
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 1: but myself you know. So I think for me it

627
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: was more of just like I don't care if its

628
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,120
Speaker 1: found at all, you're gonna slit that, we're gonna flip that,

629
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:33,600
Speaker 1: and then I'm gonna keep being consistent. And after that,

630
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 1: Fancy carn and they were like, hey, I need to

631
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 1: come to l A. I'm do that for Rihanna, you know.

632
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 1: You know. So it's things that started happening out of nowhere,

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Speaker 1: you know, for me, and it was just like what

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Speaker 1: God said he was gonna do. Yeah, I love it.

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Speaker 1: So you have your own products, You went into business

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Speaker 1: for yourself, You sell your own Can you talk to

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Speaker 1: me about some of that? Well? At first, I was

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Speaker 1: um selling bathrooms bonnets. And my company is called the

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Speaker 1: vx Collection. VXL is ving Xcel, which is my last name, Xcel,

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Speaker 1: so we just and that's your real last name. Huh.

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Speaker 1: So that's amazing, Like, look at God, what a name,

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Speaker 1: VXL Collection, And then I have the VXLE Entertainment UM

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Speaker 1: and uh, I was selling bathrobes for since two guys

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Speaker 1: in like seventy so that's what kind of I was.

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Speaker 1: I was making my money off there too, And you

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Speaker 1: came over with that concept off of what you were

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Speaker 1: doing in my rope that was brilliant, Like, you might

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Speaker 1: as well sell ropes V because you're getting crazy many

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Speaker 1: rocking in the kitchen, Sharon, all those and you came

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Speaker 1: up with the idea to sell the ropes and then

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Speaker 1: my body to and like okay, So you were like, okay,

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Speaker 1: I need to make more income. I'm gonna go ahead.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna start my own venture. And you sourced, you

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Speaker 1: got your e commerce site going. You did all that.

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Speaker 1: I did all that. That's amazing, and then I stopped

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Speaker 1: doing that because it just got I got a lot,

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Speaker 1: you know. UM, and when the pandemic came, I definitely

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Speaker 1: stopped UM. And then after that, UM, I partnered up

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Speaker 1: with Adrons and now I have my products and stores. Wow,

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Speaker 1: what a journey. So so comedian entrepreneur pretty v wilding out.

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Speaker 1: Past member in the building fed us and I just

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Speaker 1: have one more question before we dip out. Is this

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Speaker 1: food is really delicious, But I don't know what you

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Speaker 1: played with the meat with. I just want to know

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Speaker 1: what did you put on it. I put um salt

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Speaker 1: and pepper, I put some glic powder, I put some

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Speaker 1: complete seasoning and UM, I think That's all I put there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's all I put. Okay, y'all this this was absolutely superb,

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