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

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Coley Witt, and today we have very

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Speaker 1: special guests, Alex Media in the building. Usually I do

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Speaker 1: not read bios or anything, but this is very short,

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Speaker 1: but I want you guys to get a full encompass

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Speaker 1: of what Alex does. So. Alex Media is a filmmaker

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Speaker 1: and producer recognized for his work across major comedy and

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Speaker 1: digital platforms. He's a co host of Flagrant Podcasts, which

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Speaker 1: we all know and love, the director of Andrew Schultz

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Speaker 1: Netflix special Schultz Saves America, producer on the Brilliant Idiots podcast,

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Speaker 1: co owner of WTF Studios, where we are today. We

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Speaker 1: are not in studio, so he will not be cooking

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Speaker 1: for us, and which is a full service production facility,

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Speaker 1: which if you've watched any of our remote remote episodes

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Speaker 1: we always tape at WTF. We don't cheat on him

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Speaker 1: unless he is overbooked, which today he was slightly overbooked,

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Speaker 1: very very overbooked, And so I cheated on him for

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Speaker 1: like a micro one session down the street, and I

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Speaker 1: came right back to where I belong WTF Always I

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Speaker 1: forgive it. Yeah, I had no choice.

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Speaker 2: Forgive, but we fixed that problem. We're adding another space

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Speaker 2: we did.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm in. You know, I'm going to speak some

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Speaker 1: other good things into fruition for La too. You know,

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Speaker 1: we'll see. But anyways, before we get into Alex's story,

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Speaker 1: we got to know what you and I are going

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Speaker 1: to be eating today.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So my struggle meal. When I was young, I

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Speaker 2: had a lot of cereal because I didn't know how

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Speaker 2: to cook. And to this day, to this day, I

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Speaker 1: So you still don't know how to don't know how

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Speaker 1: to cook? Okay.

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Speaker 2: I make two things I could do steak like a

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Speaker 2: nice restaurant sake.

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Speaker 1: And I love how you added that you could really

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Speaker 1: do this steak, you know, like not.

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Speaker 2: Just regular steak, like good stick cut steak. And a

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Speaker 2: mac and cheese. My mac and cheese. I took my

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Speaker 2: mom's recipe, I improved it a little bit, and I

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Speaker 2: make it one time a year Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, I love how you also semi hated on

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Speaker 1: your mom in that bit.

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Speaker 2: No, I mean, I gotta give it a credit. It's

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Speaker 2: not like I came up with the recipe, but I

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Speaker 2: took her recipe.

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Speaker 1: And improved it though. Okay, so not only did you

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Speaker 1: improve her dish, I'm wondering how Yeah, go ahead open it.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna be eating it. So Alex has a nice

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Speaker 1: twist to his honey nut cherryos. I have never had this.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, tell tell everybody what we're doing to this honey.

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Speaker 2: So when I was young, I also like sweets. I

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Speaker 2: had a problem with sweets up until about a year

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Speaker 2: now I got I got everything.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, diagnosed, I'd be thinking I'm invincible when it comes

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Speaker 1: to candy. But it's possible.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's a problem. It's anything sweet in the house.

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Speaker 2: It's gone in like five minutes. But now and now

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Speaker 2: I got it under wrapt. So this might send me,

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Speaker 2: you know, relas me. But Okaynat, I don't.

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Speaker 1: Oh, he does have it. Okay, the sarment. So we're

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Speaker 1: gonna do the So are you gonna live large tonight? Yeah? Yeah, okay, okay.

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Speaker 2: So we got the terials and then I would either

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Speaker 2: add sugar or honey, but the honey. I would steal

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Speaker 2: the packets from McDonald's cause they would have the honey

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Speaker 2: packets that you would get. Oh yeah, yeah, but it's

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Speaker 2: better with the honey, cause honey cheerios. You know, you

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Speaker 1: I've never done this, so go ahead.

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Speaker 2: So you got stay over here. So you gotta lightly

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Speaker 2: lightly drizzle, but you have to cover all the surface

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Speaker 2: area and then once you do that, oh yeah, it

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Speaker 2: don't matter, it's all going the same place.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, nice little circular motion. You gotta cover all

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Speaker 2: the top. Yeah yah, you should have saw it. You

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Speaker 2: should have saw my frosted flakes. Yuh, like I used

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Speaker 2: to cover it and sugar. It's crazy. Also, they're not

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Speaker 1: Okay, so I didn't know if you were like black

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Speaker 2: Are you wearing a wireless bike?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 2: Oh, they're not gonna be able to.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we doing podcasting alright. But then it's very important.

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Speaker 2: The same way you did that with the honey, you

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Speaker 2: have to do it with the milk. You have to

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Speaker 2: else it's not gonna like break down.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, cause I see it grouping up.

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Speaker 2: There exactly, So you gotta like that and make sure

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Speaker 2: you get all the spots.

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Speaker 1: And when did you come up with this theory?

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Speaker 2: When when you're a kid you got mad time for.

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Speaker 1: Someone that doesn't cook, you invested a lot.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but I had a lot of cereals, so I

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Speaker 2: had taught to you don't change it. I've tried different things.

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Speaker 1: When was the last time you had this dish?

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Speaker 2: It's been years? Like cereal, I try to stay away from,

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Speaker 2: you know, the carbs. Now I'm just high protein, low

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a treat. But I want to see,

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Speaker 1: like how much nostalgia comes from you eating this?

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Speaker 2: Oh man, this is gonna spike my insulin happily.

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Speaker 1: But you're pre pre right. Do you have to monitor

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Speaker 1: your insulin if you're Look how happy he is.

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Speaker 2: Look at that you got you gotta I'm on now,

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Speaker 2: come on now, I ain't.

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Speaker 1: Gonna I purposely tried to get the spoon with the

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Speaker 1: honey on it. I'm not gonna front. Yo, you live,

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Speaker 2: Mm after I do it, my mom's back and you know,

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Speaker 2: little change make it a little better.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. I would totally do that as

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I would to, and I'm probably gonna do

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Speaker 2: this when I get home now. Yeah, oh that.

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Speaker 1: Was good, Yo, that was actually really good, like really good,

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Speaker 1: impressively good shout outs to. So take me back to

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Speaker 2: So I grew up in far Rockaway, Queens. It's not

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Speaker 1: And this was the classic, the og classic. And when

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Speaker 1: So you would go and like grab your little honey

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Speaker 2: You know, like you know, you would stop in McDonald's babies.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes you can get the happy meals. Sometimes you just

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Speaker 1: Okay. So single parent, household kind of walk me towards

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, so that came much later in life. I

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Speaker 2: to speed through it because I've lived a lot of lives.

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Speaker 2: Like you know, back when I was younger, I was

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Speaker 2: like I kind of like lived the double life. I

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Speaker 2: it was just like I always just got experience to

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Speaker 2: Fast forward to when I started working, Like you know,

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Speaker 1: So did you do you know if you liked the

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Speaker 2: What I can do with the money. I like the freedom.

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Speaker 2: To do stuff that I wanted to do. Yeah, Because

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Speaker 2: I wanted a car. So in like sixteen, I was

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Speaker 1: Was your mom feeling about your entrepreneurial ways in the

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Speaker 2: She never knew what you never knew?

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Speaker 1: So how did you get a car without her? Like figures?

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Speaker 2: I had a job, like I had the Kmart cafe.

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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, so you had got it so very smart. Okay.

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Speaker 1: So and she didn't catch on when you buy a car.

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Speaker 2: I mean, she didn't like the people I hung out with,

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Speaker 2: but like you know, I was. I didn't get in

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Speaker 2: So only child, No, I have an older sistant.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, so you're doing your entrepreneur thing. What's

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Speaker 2: I feel like this studio is the one. Yeah, because

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Speaker 2: it's like I didn't know what I wanted to do

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Speaker 2: didn't like nursing. Then I went to law enforcement. I

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Speaker 2: became a court officer here at Manhattan Supreme Criminal Court.

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Speaker 2: I did that for about three and a half years,

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Speaker 2: and then the editing thing was just fun. Like I

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Speaker 2: and now I would just like edit it together and

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Speaker 2: Yeah time, I love that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I love your guys. Dynamic. I feel like he's

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Speaker 2: You know, a lot of it was just trialing error

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00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:45,280
Speaker 2: and then I just got good. And so the idea

438
00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:49,080
Speaker 2: was like, hey, I been We've had to shoot our

439
00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:52,280
Speaker 2: podcast at so many studios that were shiit like really

440
00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:55,399
Speaker 2: just like bad customer service, poor conditions. I can do

441
00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:58,760
Speaker 2: this better, and so I basically emptied out my savings,

442
00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:02,000
Speaker 2: took out a little business loan, and I first spoke

443
00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:05,600
Speaker 2: about the I spoke about the idea with Weezy because, like,

444
00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:07,560
Speaker 2: Weezy's like one of my best friends.

445
00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:10,800
Speaker 1: Let me just tell you I'm not gay or anything,

446
00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:13,240
Speaker 1: but if I had like a choice to be gay,

447
00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:15,440
Speaker 1: Weezy would be my number one.

448
00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:17,679
Speaker 2: I mean she's by though, you know what.

449
00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:21,760
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like if God forbid, like it would never happen,

450
00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:24,480
Speaker 1: like one hundred percent would never happen. You're straight all

451
00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:27,080
Speaker 1: the way. But like if someone was like, you have

452
00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:32,879
Speaker 1: to Weezy personality, Weezy on everything. Personality of course supersedes

453
00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:35,840
Speaker 1: her looks. Honestly, Weezy would be my number one.

454
00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:38,560
Speaker 2: She's my best tie. But that ship out of it,

455
00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:41,320
Speaker 2: I could like was.

456
00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:44,720
Speaker 1: She was my favorite episode of Eating While Broke and

457
00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,800
Speaker 1: we've done five seasons. There's another girl that now rivals her,

458
00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:51,359
Speaker 1: but Weezy. If people would be like, who's your favorite episode,

459
00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:54,600
Speaker 1: I'd be like, Wheezy, Wheezy's my fuck favorite.

460
00:21:55,160 --> 00:22:00,240
Speaker 2: Hopefully this hope, but probably not your story.

461
00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:05,159
Speaker 1: He has stories, yeah, like stalkers and ship like I

462
00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:08,080
Speaker 1: had so many problems after her episode.

463
00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:11,840
Speaker 2: I was like, oh really bad. Oh yeah that we

464
00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:14,320
Speaker 2: have a bad stalker guy and yeah, talk about it.

465
00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:17,879
Speaker 1: But no, so I wanted to hear this, this story

466
00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:19,840
Speaker 1: about how you and weazy so you hit up wheezy.

467
00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:22,480
Speaker 2: Yeah. So, And this is funny that we're having this

468
00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:24,720
Speaker 2: conversation now because I was talking with this comic last

469
00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:27,800
Speaker 2: night Alex Babbitt, funny guy, and we were like it

470
00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:30,320
Speaker 2: was like a therapy session. He's like, you know, why

471
00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:31,920
Speaker 2: do you think you have this stage fright or whatever?

472
00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:35,119
Speaker 2: And it's like I couldn't figure it out. And eventually,

473
00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:37,400
Speaker 2: long story short, we got to the point is I'm

474
00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:39,560
Speaker 2: afraid of failing, and then I'm afraid of failing in

475
00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:43,560
Speaker 2: front of people. That makes it worse. So it's like, wow,

476
00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:44,160
Speaker 2: that's deep.

477
00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:44,960
Speaker 1: That was all in want.

478
00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:47,199
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, like we we was going in it

479
00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:50,240
Speaker 2: and I really think that's the thing. It's like I

480
00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:52,879
Speaker 2: don't like to fail, Like I like to do things

481
00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:55,280
Speaker 2: that I feel confident or passionate about because then I

482
00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:59,480
Speaker 2: put my effort into it, and talking in front of people,

483
00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:01,840
Speaker 2: I don't feel confidence, so I never attempt to do it,

484
00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:04,800
Speaker 2: and it makes it even scarier because I'm like, oh,

485
00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:07,000
Speaker 2: I'm going to fuck up and say something wrong in

486
00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:07,680
Speaker 2: front of people.

487
00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:10,880
Speaker 1: And then it's like, yeah, So I remember the first

488
00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:13,440
Speaker 1: time I met you, like four years ago, you did

489
00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:14,760
Speaker 1: seem very shy.

490
00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,080
Speaker 2: Yeah.

491
00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:19,800
Speaker 1: I don't even know how we did it. I think

492
00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:23,320
Speaker 1: I said something to you. Maybe you're promoting WTF. But

493
00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:25,280
Speaker 1: I got your number, but you were very shy. I

494
00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:27,639
Speaker 1: was shy to at the time, but you were shy.

495
00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:30,840
Speaker 2: I'm still shy now. I just I've gotten a bit more,

496
00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:32,640
Speaker 2: especially being in front of the camera a bit more

497
00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:36,400
Speaker 2: with Flagrant. I've gotten a little bit more comfortable. But yeah,

498
00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:39,199
Speaker 2: I'm still the shy, introvert guy that liked to just

499
00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:41,800
Speaker 2: be behind the computer screen. That's my comfort zone.

500
00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:45,200
Speaker 1: Okay, So take us back to you and weezy.

501
00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:48,360
Speaker 2: Okay, So we were drunk on a beach. I tell

502
00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:51,200
Speaker 2: her about the idea. I only feel comfortable telling her.

503
00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:53,440
Speaker 2: I don't know why. I guess I'm just comfortable enough

504
00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:57,159
Speaker 2: with her. And I knew that because she works in

505
00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:01,560
Speaker 2: the industry, she would have like ideas that can make

506
00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:03,320
Speaker 2: this thing better. And then I'm like, you know what,

507
00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:05,880
Speaker 2: I'm afraid of not being able to do this shit,

508
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:10,159
Speaker 2: Come and do it with me, and so I really

509
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:14,360
Speaker 2: just like I need you to help me, like make

510
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:17,240
Speaker 2: this dream come true because I don't think I have

511
00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:18,720
Speaker 2: the capability to do it myself.

512
00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:21,440
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, and that's what you said to.

513
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:23,840
Speaker 2: Her, Yeah, something, But we were talking to Beach, so

514
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:24,760
Speaker 2: probably it wasn't as.

515
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:26,840
Speaker 1: It's interesting that you said that because you're the one

516
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:31,439
Speaker 1: that had the idea, you had the the seed in you.

517
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:31,840
Speaker 2: Yeah.

518
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:34,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, but then you had and you clearly were going

519
00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:36,760
Speaker 1: to go on this track, but you just wanted a

520
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:38,240
Speaker 1: partner to Yeah.

521
00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:41,399
Speaker 2: And then also it's like she has so many like

522
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:45,960
Speaker 2: qualities that I lack, like being able to just put

523
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:50,480
Speaker 2: yourself out there and out going, like she's great with promotion, marketing,

524
00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:52,960
Speaker 2: all that type of stuff. Me I I just want

525
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:54,879
Speaker 2: to be the guy who connects a bunch of cameras

526
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:56,840
Speaker 2: and lights and hope, you know, we can get a

527
00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:58,960
Speaker 2: good picture on screen and fill.

528
00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,600
Speaker 1: The space, right yeah. Yeah. Because also it's a significant

529
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:03,920
Speaker 1: investment if you started in New York, right, Oh yeah,

530
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:07,359
Speaker 1: it's versus La La La. There's some negotiations, but New

531
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:08,000
Speaker 1: York is definitely.

532
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's rough, but yeah, we and it was just

533
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:13,160
Speaker 2: an ideal during COVID.

534
00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:15,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, so then what's your next play? After that?

535
00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:19,680
Speaker 2: It was just perfect timing because it's like COVID, everybody's

536
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:23,239
Speaker 2: home podcast boom is happening, so now everybody wants to

537
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:27,359
Speaker 2: get into podcasting. So it took off after the first studio,

538
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,600
Speaker 2: like within six months, we needed a second one, and

539
00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:33,479
Speaker 2: now we're like up to five in New York. And

540
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:34,280
Speaker 2: then we have one.

541
00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 1: We're five in New York. Yeah, how how could I

542
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:38,600
Speaker 1: not get an extra studio?

543
00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:41,760
Speaker 2: Five in New York?

544
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:43,720
Speaker 1: Where are the other locations?

545
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:46,840
Speaker 2: So it's like each set I would consider one, so

546
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:50,640
Speaker 2: this will count. And then Midtown we have two and now.

547
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:53,800
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah that's right, Okay, yes, you're right.

548
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:56,560
Speaker 2: And then we just got another space in Midtown opening up.

549
00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:59,000
Speaker 2: And this one, I like, I tried something new, so

550
00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:01,480
Speaker 2: you know, like a white psych or like a white wall.

551
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:05,199
Speaker 2: It looks like just an infinity room, So I just

552
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:06,800
Speaker 2: built that inside of a studio.

553
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:07,360
Speaker 1: Wow.

554
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:11,399
Speaker 2: And then I have it like all set up for podcasting, commercials,

555
00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:15,400
Speaker 2: all that stuff. And I'm excited about this because white

556
00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:19,360
Speaker 2: Sykes you usually have to pay per thing so it's

557
00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:21,480
Speaker 2: like you can rent the space, but then you have

558
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:23,120
Speaker 2: to pay extra for lights, you have to pay extra

559
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,159
Speaker 2: for cameras, extra for audio. By the time you do that,

560
00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:27,480
Speaker 2: it's like maybe one thousand dollars for an hour. I'm

561
00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:29,119
Speaker 2: gonna do the same thing but offer it at like

562
00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:32,720
Speaker 2: four hundred dolls. So I'm just gonna undercut the whole industry.

563
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:34,120
Speaker 2: And now you're probably.

564
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:36,639
Speaker 1: You're gonna you're gonna be like, what app was it?

565
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:38,960
Speaker 1: I what is it?

566
00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:39,840
Speaker 2: Steve?

567
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,920
Speaker 1: When they used to steal Yeah, yeah, iTunes or whatever,

568
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 1: You're like, you're gonna do it again, but in video

569
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:51,240
Speaker 1: and audio. I like that. Yeah. I used to always

570
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:54,119
Speaker 1: wonder though, because you guys have such big, big names.

571
00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:57,159
Speaker 1: This is probably messed to ask on camera. But you

572
00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:59,919
Speaker 1: have so many you have people like my company that's

573
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:01,919
Speaker 1: very small, and then you have some big talent right

574
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,199
Speaker 1: that comes in. Do they all end up paying the

575
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 1: same price?

576
00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that was a thing that you know, I

577
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 2: wouldn't say we argued about, but we definitely went back

578
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 2: and forth, and I was like, you know, I want

579
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,359
Speaker 2: to keep prices down because I definitely want our people

580
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 2: to be able to, you know, use the studio and yeah,

581
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 2: Like I just wanted accessible for everybody, and I think

582
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 2: that's part of why we're so busy. It's because, yeah,

583
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 2: it's affordable. I should rent this out for a lot more.

584
00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 2: But I want everybody to be able to And I

585
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 2: personally feel good that It's like I'm providing a space

586
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:39,160
Speaker 2: for people to, you know, try to do something and

587
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:41,159
Speaker 2: if they take if their show takes off, it's like

588
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,359
Speaker 2: that shit started here. It's like dope. And I've had

589
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:45,719
Speaker 2: a lot of success stories of people signing pretty big

590
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:47,120
Speaker 2: deals after they started here.

591
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 1: Oh please let that. Yeah, even though I was very lucky,

592
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,119
Speaker 1: I did a similar thing with Dolly at La La

593
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:58,400
Speaker 1: So I had told her during pandemic, I was doing

594
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 1: a legal activity with weed or whatever. Yeah, her my

595
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:05,480
Speaker 1: company like crashed and burned, like personally of COVID, Like

596
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 1: I had an events company that was like the second

597
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 1: the NBA canceled, it was over. So I was doing

598
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:15,400
Speaker 1: like terrible stuff. We lost a crazy amount of money.

599
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 1: Don't even like thinking about it. But I also followed

600
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,960
Speaker 1: SBA loans, so I'm still paying board. But anyways, I

601
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:23,240
Speaker 1: had called Dolly and I was like, I want to

602
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:25,680
Speaker 1: do the show eating while broke but I had been

603
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,160
Speaker 1: out the industry for like ten years, and I was like, yo,

604
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:30,640
Speaker 1: you're still doing walling out this now? Mind you. Nick

605
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 1: was also getting canceled for wilding out at the time,

606
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 1: for the jew comments whatever, So I call her up like, yo,

607
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:39,040
Speaker 1: I don't even know if I have industry contacts anymore. Whatever,

608
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 1: fuck with me for real. So since you just left

609
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,720
Speaker 1: walling out and you probably had more plugs, you come

610
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 1: on board eating while broke this idea, I have, not

611
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:51,480
Speaker 1: knowing that Charlemagne was like within six months of that

612
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 1: conversation making her president of Black effect to which on

613
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 1: a call, you know, and you see the snowball effect

614
00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:00,080
Speaker 1: of like right place, right time. But I went I

615
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 1: do the same thing kind of that you went through

616
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:04,719
Speaker 1: with Wheezy, where it was like, look, I may have

617
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:08,240
Speaker 1: a negative part. And I'm also shy about the fact

618
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 1: that I had been out the game so long and

619
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 1: then to come back and be like, hey, I want

620
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:13,080
Speaker 1: to do this show. And by the way, guys, I'm

621
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:15,720
Speaker 1: gonna be on the other side of the camera that

622
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 1: you would never expect me to be on. So you know,

623
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:20,840
Speaker 1: it's nobody had faith I could do it or whatever.

624
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 2: Was it scary for you.

625
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,520
Speaker 1: It was mainly scary because Dolly was like, Yo, we

626
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 1: should have pretty V doing and I was like, I

627
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:32,960
Speaker 1: like pretty V. But this show needs to be real stories,

628
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 1: like it can't be gimmicky. We're not making fun of

629
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:38,240
Speaker 1: this place. We're inspiring from this place. Yeah, and so

630
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 1: I was like, it's gonna have to be me and

631
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 1: I been I was pregnant and Dolly was like absolute,

632
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 1: not only are you going to first time, but you're

633
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:49,880
Speaker 1: gonna be pregnant. I was like, Cardi B's rapping on

634
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 1: stage right now with a belly, Like I'm thank God

635
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 1: for Cardi B. And she flew in and was like,

636
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:57,800
Speaker 1: we're gonna see if you can do this. And that

637
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 1: was scary because Dolly showed up and I was like,

638
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 1: scare And then she said right after I was done,

639
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 1: she was like, this is you. This is where you're

640
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:11,560
Speaker 1: supposed to be at and I was like what and

641
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 1: she was like you you can stay.

642
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:15,719
Speaker 2: Oh that's awesome, And I was like, yeah, that's awesome.

643
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:18,960
Speaker 2: I'm about to embark on that journey as well. So

644
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 2: it's like now my next move, I'm working on a

645
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 2: show for myself. Yeah. So it's like we all see

646
00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:28,440
Speaker 2: the discourse online. It's like it's so polarizing, and so

647
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,400
Speaker 2: this side versus that side, and it's like everybody's in

648
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 2: their echo chambers and stuff like that, and I don't

649
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,720
Speaker 2: feel that's a good representation of what people really are.

650
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 2: And so this show it's like a play on old

651
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:42,800
Speaker 2: school radio where it's just like you know, the call

652
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:44,960
Speaker 2: in radio. You have a topic and then everybody calls

653
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 2: and tells us how they feel about it. But now

654
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:48,520
Speaker 2: it's like my new age take to it is you

655
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:50,840
Speaker 2: have to show your face, so there's no hiding behind everything.

656
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 2: It's all video call So it's a live show, a

657
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 2: live show.

658
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 1: Every live show live.

659
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 2: So I do it on YouTube every Sunday eleven o'clock

660
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 2: and then if you want to call in, you have

661
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 2: to sign up to a Patreon. So it's like I

662
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:05,960
Speaker 2: want you to be invested if you actually want to,

663
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 2: you know, give your take or whatever. But everybody can

664
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 2: watch your free It's but it's so fun.

665
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:12,840
Speaker 1: I get you already started it.

666
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been like doing practice episodes. So here's another thing.

667
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 2: Afraid to fail. I've been doing practice episodes maybe like

668
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 2: a couple of months now, and it's like the show

669
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 2: is rated. I think it's amazing, and I'm just so

670
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 2: nervous to like announce it publicly. And here's probably the

671
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 2: first place that I'm talking about it publicly right now.

672
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 2: And so I'm nervous in this book.

673
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 1: Oh when you let me know when the weeks we

674
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:35,600
Speaker 1: sign it.

675
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 2: But it's called A m Mornings, I probably should see.

676
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 1: It's crazy with all your success that you still have

677
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:41,480
Speaker 1: this bug in you.

678
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I like just doing stuff new and that

679
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 2: excites me. If if I don't, if I'm not excited,

680
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 2: or if I don't want to do anything, I have

681
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 2: the luxury that I don't have to do it.

682
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 1: No, the bug I was talking about is that fair? Bud?

683
00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 2: Oh? The fair?

684
00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 1: Because you would think you would think that with all

685
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 1: your leads, you would say, okay, you don't have the fear,

686
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 1: especially even now that you've been on the other side

687
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 1: of the couch, you've been on the flagrant that you've

688
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 1: been on this side, right, Yeah, but you still have

689
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 1: that like scared to release fear of failure in front

690
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 1: of people.

691
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 2: Yes, so flagrant. It's an easier lift for me because

692
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 2: it's almost like I can imagine the cameras aren't there,

693
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 2: and I'm just talking with my friends that I've been

694
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 2: friends with over ten years now, and also Andrew and Akosh.

695
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 2: They're the big stars, like they drive the show. Like

696
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 2: I'm kind of there, you know, supplementary to them driving

697
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:34,479
Speaker 2: the show, and so I don't feel that I have

698
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 2: to drive it. So it's like a lot less pressure

699
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:38,920
Speaker 2: on me. This one. It's like, oh shit, I'm doing

700
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 2: a show. I'm the host. And it's like, so that's

701
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 2: why it's it's nerve racking.

702
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 1: Where do you tape your show up?

703
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 2: At my studio?

704
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:46,480
Speaker 1: Here?

705
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 2: The Midtown one. Okay, you should see the new set.

706
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 1: The new set is Oh, I gotta go see. I

707
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 1: want to try and see it before I least the white.

708
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 2: Cycle and I have another side that looks so dope. Yeah.

709
00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 2: I just each set, I just keep making better. I

710
00:32:59,080 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 2: love it.

711
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 1: I love it well, I love it all right. So

712
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 1: I was so you and Weezy. I thought you guys

713
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 1: had met through horrible, but it sounds like you guys

714
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:11,480
Speaker 1: had a long.

715
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 2: Oh no, we actually we met through horrible. Yeah. I

716
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 2: met her because she was trying to get signed with

717
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 2: loud Speaker, which Brilliant Idiots is also under it's owned

718
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 2: by like Chris Murrow, and so I just bumped into

719
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:26,959
Speaker 2: her and Mandy when they were like waiting to have

720
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,840
Speaker 2: a meeting and they were talking with other people about

721
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 2: their show. So I'm just like overhearing, I was like,

722
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:36,480
Speaker 2: oh shit, the concept this is fire, Like I can

723
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 2: spot good content. And at the time, they were only

724
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 2: doing audio, and I was like, guys, this has to

725
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:47,240
Speaker 2: be video, Like you have to add the video component.

726
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 2: And they were like, well, you know, one money time

727
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 2: all that type of stuff. I was like, you have

728
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 2: to do video. Let me provide video for you. And

729
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 2: the first couple months I was working for him, I

730
00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 2: was barely getting paid. So that's one of those things

731
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 2: where it's like even at the time I was doing jobs,

732
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 2: I was doing that for free or I think maybe

733
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 2: I was getting fifty dollars some low amount. But yeah.

734
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:08,920
Speaker 2: But then at some point video to their show and

735
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 2: then their show like four x stoor like four hundred

736
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 2: x some.

737
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 1: Crazy number of course, because now you have the beautiful faces.

738
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:16,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, people need to know that.

739
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 1: What I thought was interesting and I thought about this

740
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:20,720
Speaker 1: with your story was at some point you guys separate,

741
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and I think what I saw from it

742
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 1: as an outsider was like you established your worth, right,

743
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:29,840
Speaker 1: you established the value you bring and then there was

744
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:32,840
Speaker 1: obviously a disagreement, whether it was pay or or whatever.

745
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 2: I asked for fifty.

746
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 1: Dollars fifty dollars more. I love that you did it

747
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:40,760
Speaker 1: and risk walking away because I think sometimes that triples

748
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:43,399
Speaker 1: your value where people go. You could try to head

749
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:45,239
Speaker 1: your bets with someone that costs less, but are they

750
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:47,480
Speaker 1: gonna one care about it? Are they going to have

751
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:49,799
Speaker 1: enough integrity to really care about the end product, which

752
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:53,279
Speaker 1: you always do, Like even in my studio, we don't

753
00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:55,440
Speaker 1: have these cameras. You know what I'm saying. These cameras

754
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:58,319
Speaker 1: are like ten times what you even know.

755
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 2: I like detail out like quality.

756
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,359
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, but I think that it said a lot

757
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 1: when you walked because it also showed that they it developed,

758
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,840
Speaker 1: like we need him right and did you see that?

759
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 2: I did see it, and you know not, you know,

760
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:16,799
Speaker 2: there's still my friend. But it's funny because you know,

761
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 2: after I stepped away, they were the show didn't look

762
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:24,920
Speaker 2: as good. But yeah, but they figured it out, they

763
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,680
Speaker 2: rebound it. They're great there. I'm actually working back with

764
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 2: them now. But now I'm there creative director instead of

765
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:35,640
Speaker 2: the producer. Okay, yeah, okay, yeah, but yeah, like and

766
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:39,080
Speaker 2: I guess it's just just how I operate, Like I

767
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 2: go by energy. If something feels good, I stay there.

768
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:44,319
Speaker 2: If it doesn't feel good out Okay, I've never been

769
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:45,239
Speaker 2: afraid to leave something.

770
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 1: Do you think the fear of I wouldn't. I don't know.

771
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 1: Obviously you had your therapy session. You're saying, but you

772
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:56,840
Speaker 1: say fear of failure as an entrepreneur at this point,

773
00:35:57,520 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 1: do you really categorize it as like a fear of failure.

774
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:03,280
Speaker 1: I can't understand the fear of failure in front of others.

775
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:05,960
Speaker 1: I get that, I get that, but the fear of

776
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:08,439
Speaker 1: failure as an entrepreneur if you've succeeded so.

777
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:13,279
Speaker 2: Much, I mean, this ship could stop any moment. Like

778
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 2: I never feel like I did it, you know, because

779
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 2: it's like, hey, what if people just stop wanting the podcast?

780
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 2: You know, I'm kind of fucked. But yeah, like I

781
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 2: I think doing it, I'm more it's less fear for

782
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 2: me to try other like entrepreneurial you know, task like

783
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 2: I I can start a business. I probably have seven

784
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 2: businesses right now.

785
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:44,279
Speaker 1: Awesome, that's pretty good though, it's really good. It's good

786
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:47,359
Speaker 1: at juggling and delegating. Yes, So what were what would

787
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 1: what would you say are the key things that keep

788
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:52,280
Speaker 1: you on top of the surfboard?

789
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:56,440
Speaker 2: First would say, if you're with someone, have an amazing partner.

790
00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:01,320
Speaker 2: My fiance is phenomenal. She makes me a better person,

791
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:03,880
Speaker 2: so that's great. And then your team, Like I have

792
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:07,240
Speaker 2: a great assistant, he keeps me. He's probably the person

793
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 2: you've been talking to in emails because I just give

794
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:12,360
Speaker 2: a passwords yeah Texas VI Texas.

795
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:12,759
Speaker 1: Yeah.

796
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 2: But if you're talking in emails, it's not me most

797
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:17,719
Speaker 2: of the time. But yeah, And it's just like, yeah,

798
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:20,400
Speaker 2: just have a good team around you and surround yourself

799
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:23,279
Speaker 2: with good people, good energy, like the same way. I've

800
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 2: learned so much from Charlotte and Andrew. They've had the

801
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 2: same good people around them like for the longest and

802
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:32,279
Speaker 2: that's part of their success. And so I just I

803
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 2: see them do something and it works. I'm same.

804
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:37,760
Speaker 1: What about cash flow and budgeting money stuff?

805
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 2: So I've had to learn that because coming out of

806
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 2: the regular corporate American world, it was like, you know,

807
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 2: you have a guarantee check whatever the case is. The

808
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 2: taxes get taken out and all that stuff. I remember

809
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 2: the first year where I was officially like working as

810
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 2: a contractor and not like a nine to five. I

811
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 2: wasn't putting money away for taxes, and then that first

812
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 2: tax bill, I was like, oh shit, like that was

813
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 2: a shock. Gotten a lot better at that now, but yeah, like,

814
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:11,240
Speaker 2: thankfully this studio is working. Thankfully, Flagrance doing phenomenal where

815
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 2: I'm pretty comfortable and like now I'm able to like

816
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:16,960
Speaker 2: have a little fun because it's like before it was

817
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:18,799
Speaker 2: just for ten years straight, I just had my head

818
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:19,560
Speaker 2: down and I was working.

819
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,320
Speaker 1: But how do you balance the cash flow and the

820
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 1: growth of the companies with employees and payroll and all that.

821
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:29,760
Speaker 2: So with we have like team that does all the accounting,

822
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:31,920
Speaker 2: payroll and all that stuff. But another thing I'm really

823
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 2: proud about at WTF, like we pay more than everybody.

824
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 2: Like I've I wouldn't say recruited people, but there'd be

825
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:41,879
Speaker 2: people that worked at other podcast studios that came here

826
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,399
Speaker 2: and they're like, holy should I make double working there?

827
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:48,480
Speaker 2: And it's like I have some engineers that made six figures. Wow, Yeah,

828
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 2: that's so amazing. Yeah, And like in New York you

829
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 2: need to make some money to survive in this state.

830
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:57,840
Speaker 2: But yeah, we just luckily with the success of the

831
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:02,399
Speaker 2: first one first studio. I mean we've I haven't had

832
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:06,239
Speaker 2: to like get any outside money, any outside funding. We

833
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 2: just paid off the studio, made more money, opened another

834
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 2: studio with that money, and so we're just doing it slow.

835
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 2: If we were to get like a investor, we can

836
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 2: probably open up ten studios tomorrow. But I like it

837
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:20,479
Speaker 2: going out of space.

838
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, stay still, yeah, okay, well, where can everybody keep

839
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:28,240
Speaker 1: up everything Alex? Which, by the way, I I've always

840
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 1: liked Alex. I like this extra X on it. I

841
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:35,759
Speaker 1: literally always think about it whatever I see. I like

842
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:38,400
Speaker 1: the extra ex makes so much sense, and like, what

843
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 1: a creative mom, only to find out that the mom

844
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: doesn't exist. I like the brand. I love it, and

845
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:50,760
Speaker 1: the whole Alex media is just so nice awesome.

846
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:55,319
Speaker 2: But now I know everybody knows me as Alex. Now,

847
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 2: like the only people will call them my real neighbor

848
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 2: is my mom and maybe a couple of my best

849
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:02,439
Speaker 2: friends from childhood. No, she calls me Alex. She met

850
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:05,000
Speaker 2: me as Alex. That's crazy.

851
00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like when it's funny because now I was

852
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 1: talking to my little brother Eagle. He's like, I know, Alan,

853
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:11,920
Speaker 1: you know my little I was like, I don't think

854
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:12,760
Speaker 1: he knows what we're related.

855
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:14,240
Speaker 2: He's like, I did not know you were related.

856
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:16,120
Speaker 1: He was my little brother and he was like.

857
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 2: The comedian right, yeah, I did not know.

858
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:21,279
Speaker 1: Whenever people find out and I'm like the wits, the wit,

859
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 1: but yeah, yes, I call him. I describe him as

860
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:31,479
Speaker 1: the guy that he just surprisingly hasn't gotten canceled yet.

861
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 1: He straddles that fan so well. He straddles that one

862
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 1: you know, the one wheel bike. He straddles it and

863
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, somehow missed it.

864
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 2: Those people I love to be around the right there.

865
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 1: They just and you love to watch it because it's

866
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:52,479
Speaker 1: like so great. But you're like, so maw, he's made

867
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:56,920
Speaker 1: it out. Yeah so but and Thensama was like Alex yeah,

868
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, I finally get to sit

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Speaker 1: down with him. But they thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: sitting down and having some cheerios with me. Yes, og classic,

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Speaker 1: and I hope to get a picture from you later.

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Speaker 2: It's honey with honey nut cheerios, It's sugar with frusted flakes,

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Speaker 2: and it's cinnamon with cinnamon toe.

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Speaker 1: Scrunch cinnamon on extra cinnamon on the cinnamon to scrunch.

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Speaker 1: Now cinnamon and sugar.

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Speaker 2: Na, Actually I would do cinnamon and.

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Speaker 1: Sugar, but now too in the containers. Now really you

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Speaker 1: can get the cinnamon sugar.

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Speaker 2: Mane Oh shit, see I should have invented that.

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Speaker 1: All right, guys, thank you so much for tuning into

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Speaker 1: another episode of Eating while broke. Keep up with everything

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Speaker 2: Yes, so the new show it's called A m Mornings.

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Speaker 2: every Sunday eleven am YouTube. It's really fun. Check it out.

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Speaker 1: Shout out WTF studios.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely if this is the best podcast studio

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Speaker 2: also do off site and we do that around the world.

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Speaker 2: If you want to shoot a podcast, I've shoten podcasts

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Speaker 2: in Paris, I've shotten all over America. Yeah, we do

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Speaker 2: that and we keep our casts very low so that

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Speaker 2: afford it.

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Speaker 1: Yes, thank you. Guys, peace out, peace