WEBVTT - NILE EVANS - Eggs and Toast 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:03.000 Welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke. Today, I 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:06.960 have a personal friend, executive producer walling out now Evans 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:10.479 here joining us, spilling the teeth on what life was like, uh, 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:13.160 from the beginning all the way to the executive producing 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:39.280 walling out problem. What are we cooking today? Today? We're 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:43.600 cooking eggs and toast, old school, uh broke classic from me. 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:45.720 You know, I still eat it to this day, but 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:49.200 I love it. And this was the get through meal, 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:52.680 you know, through all of my life. Yes, and it's 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:55.600 definitely affordable. I think this whole meal out of pocket 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:59.480 was exactly five dollars. Definitely can last you a couple 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:01.920 of meals all day long. I can eat this all 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:04.440 day long. I can eat it every meal, breakfast, breakfast 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:07.399 for dinner. And another note is that when we were 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:10.040 talking about doing this show, I remember you talking about 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:13.440 hacking the box tacos and all the shortcuts by just 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:16.320 eating fast food. But this actually priced out to be 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:18.839 cheaper than hacking the box. Yeah, it does it does 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:20.920 you know? Hack in the box? You gotta you know, 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:23.720 they make it so you can go in there, boom, 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:26.479 get your two tacos for a dollar and you're good 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:29.800 but this requires you to have, you know, something to 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:32.720 to make it on. So I think hack in the 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:35.840 boxes is on the go broke. This is in the 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:38.880 house broke, all right, So walk us through the all right. 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:41.640 So you got your your toast, your semi whole week toast, 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.200 because you don't want the whole wee grainy stuff one. 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:46.679 It's gonna cost you too much. You know, you don't 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:50.080 want to spend four dollars for a loaf of grainny 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:54.560 nutty ass bread, so you get the almost wheat um. 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:58.720 Then we have our eggs, you know, brown, free range. 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:01.840 I'm sure we don't really care. They're just eggs. Hopefully 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:04.800 there's not a baby chicken off in there. So we're 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:10.440 making beloat. No, that's a Filipino joker anyway. So we 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:14.200 got our cheese. You know, it looks like it's prepackaged mixed. 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:18.079 That's like the Mexican in the bag cheese. Whatever cheese 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:21.160 you rock with, whether it's uh, you know, American, whether 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:25.320 it's Government, whether it's Monterey Jack, whatever, whatever you're rocking with, 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.519 that's you know, that requires you not to have to 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:31.919 grate for an hour, you know what I mean? Um, 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:34.840 any kind of green sauce for me if I So 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:39.200 the variation on this is tacos. So if let's say 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:44.960 you don't have any bread my household, we always have tortillas. Tortillas, 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:48.240 throw a little grease in the pan, boom, crisp them up, 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.720 and now you got egg tacos. So eggs on toast, 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:57.440 eggs on tacos. Actually, I'm originally from l A. I'm 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:02.000 originally from l A. I'm listen, I'm I'm old O 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:07.520 g l A, which which makes me almost Mexican. So, um, 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:10.000 you know, hopefully I'm not going to get canceled for 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:13.600 saying that I'm almost Mexican. It's it's just a joke. Uh. 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:18.560 And so you know, I've lived around uh Latino culture 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:20.720 for a long time and everywhere you go in to 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.920 l A's tacos, so you know, nothing better than an 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:27.440 egg taco if it's not gonna be on toast, So 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:30.639 why don't you whip us up some breakfast? Essentially, that's 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:32.880 what we're having. And I forgot this alt pepper, so 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.720 we're gonna do wow. I don't know how wow, no 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:38.440 season and hum, that's what we're doing while eating my 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:44.600 broke that's broke. Eating right there when there's no seasoning. Okay, 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.880 I so we're just want to ex scramble. Can I 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:50.920 get I've never had you want? You want to rock 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:53.840 with the tortilla. Let's do it. Do you have any grease? 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:59.040 But no, I mean you don't really make tortillas with butter. 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:02.400 We can know I can do that because we're broke, 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:06.200 do it. That's what we're gonna do. But it's all good. 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:08.640 We could pause, we could get the oil for you. 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:14.120 I mean that would help a season, that could help 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:16.719 you know. We're gonna take a quick break. You guys, 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:21.520 get your commercials break. We're back from finding the salt 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:24.640 pepper oil and all the missing ingredients for Nole's cooking 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:28.640 meal for today. All of a sudden, we have salt pepper, 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:32.120 which is very embarrassing on my part. So while you 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:35.479 live these eggs. Uh And ironically we are taping in 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:38.599 the morning. So this is my second breakfast of the day. 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:43.560 Everybody go um, But luckily it's it's a breakfast that 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:47.040 I'm accustomed to eating. Yeah, So right now I'm heating 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:50.160 up the I'm gonna heat up this pan so that 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:53.880 we can quickly fry these tortires because it only takes 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:58.280 a second to get them crisp. We're gonna, yeah, we're 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:01.560 gonna do that. While all that's happening. What I'm gonna 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:03.760 do is I'm gonna whisk up some of these eggs. 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:07.880 So get a little crack on the eggs. And while 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:11.679 you're doing that, I'm just curious. When we were talking 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.040 about doing this episode, I know we went back and 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:18.000 forth on what your meal was going to be, and 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:20.960 we talked about eating out, eating fast week, which I've 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:26.240 done plenty of times. Uh, and then we we ended 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:29.880 up with this. This was your main go to? What 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:33.080 memories were you taken back to? This was your main 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:36.040 go to? Um, this goes back to me and my 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:39.440 mom living in uh, south central l A. You know 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.359 what I mean. Um, that's where that's why I originally 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:46.200 grew up, um in the eighties, and uh, you know, 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:48.599 she would always make breakfast for dinner. And I didn't 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:50.760 know that it was because we didn't really have much, 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:53.800 but we always had eggs, We always had some bread, 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:57.960 So you know that's what we did. You never got 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:01.080 sick of it. No, I could eat that. I could 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:03.360 eat that breakfast lunch and dinner all day, every day 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:08.120 till this day. Um. Because it's a light meal. It's easy, 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:10.200 you know what I mean. If you take out the toast, 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:13.080 it's a low carb you know what I mean. Um, 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:17.080 So you throw a little whisk. That's my whisk. Some 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:19.800 people just do that and I just do what. I'm like, 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.040 what are you doing? And you don't add milk and 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:27.600 all the other stuff. Some people add, um, you know, 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:30.400 sour cream to make them creamy. I saw that on 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:32.200 a cooking show and I was like, Oh, that's how 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:34.360 you make them fluffy like that, and they kind of 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:37.320 climb up a little different. But I just go, I 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:40.360 go right for this. But you gotta you gotta throw 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:43.359 a little salt in here. Some people do it after 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:47.680 I do it. Now, little salt, little pepper. I usually 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:50.200 like to use the ground pepper because I like to 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:54.680 I like that peppery taste. Right there. Hit the whisk. 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:58.800 Check over here. I feel like this is this is 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.839 coming along right. You don't throw the green sauce into 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:05.400 the little mix. That's after. That's after. Okay, that was 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:10.800 that was a dumb question. You want to put right 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:16.240 there because I don't use hot sauce. You don't. I 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:19.200 don't use hot sauce. You don't use it ever, ever, 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:21.960 not really ever. No, I'm from New York though. I 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:24.120 think that's just the l A thing. L A is 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:28.880 the tackles, and you don't. You're probably chicken. Maybe put 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:37.800 some honey on it. Anyways, this isn't about me. It's 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:42.880 how do you go from South Central to executive producer 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:46.880 of walling Out? Um? You get out of South Central, 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:49.880 you know, I think that's that was the main thing, 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:54.200 was getting out of South Central. My mother in the eighties, 0:07:55.080 --> 0:08:00.360 UM had you know, I had an aunt. I lived 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:03.880 in the Bay Area. I went up there for you know, 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:07.560 the summer to spend with my cousin, and it was 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:10.480 just completely different. You know, I didn't have to worry 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:15.600 about getting shot. I don't have to worry about you know, gangsters. Um. 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:17.480 So my mother let me live up there for a 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:21.520 little while. So I got out of the Bay ended 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:23.480 up going to school there and moved back and forth 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:26.480 a little bit. Um and then I went to college. 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:29.480 And you know, when I was going to college, my 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:32.400 uncle was doing the Jamie He was doing the Jamie 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:34.800 Fox Show when I was in high school, was doing 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.040 in high school. He was doing Martin and then he 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:40.040 started he created the Jamie Fox Show. So I was like, oh, man, 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:42.640 look what he's doing. I want to do that. And 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:45.440 so you go see him on set or something. Yeah, 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:47.120 I We'll go down to the to the set of 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:51.120 Martin and Jamie Fox Show. And then, um, you know, 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:54.720 I went to college for a couple of years, dropped out. Um, 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:58.120 and then you know, he said, Yo, do you want 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:01.040 to finish school? I said, He's like, because I'll pay 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:03.440 for you to finish school. I was like, now, I said, 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:05.319 well you want to come work? I said yeah. So 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:09.600 I came down back to l A. And started working 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:12.320 on the Jamie Fox Show as a production assistant. Yeah. 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:16.240 So how old were you then? I was, I don't know, twenty. 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:19.760 I think I was twenty something like that. And then, um, 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:22.800 and what was your mom's thoughts when you're like, I'm 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.760 gonna drop out in Well, it was it was a 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:30.480 financial thing. You know, it was a financial thing. So, um, 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:34.520 I'm gonna need some other tools. Do you have any tongues? 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.360 We don't need them. Okay, you don't have any tongues 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:43.360 in the kitchen. Now, ironically, another thing is, uh, we 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.200 do there in the back. I've never fried a taco 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:51.760 or fried anything. You've never I've never even fried chicken. Boom, 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.800 So this is all a learning. Then you bring another 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:58.199 one in just to start it to save time, just 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:00.680 so you guys know. I just watched him but heat 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:04.719 a vegetable oil. Then he put the tortillas in and 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:08.600 folding them like a taco. So this is gonna happen 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:15.280 really really fast. So boom. Now will that make the 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:18.079 shells crispy a little bit? And that's what I like. 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:22.640 I've never seen this done in real life, ever, this 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:25.160 is my first time. Now, if you notice what this 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.400 looks like, it looks like that place we talked about 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:34.600 that has ninety cents um tacos, right, so it looks 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:39.280 kind of similar. Right, Oh yeah it does right. I 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:43.920 can't believe I just learned how to make tacos. Is 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.960 your man from l A. No, he's from Detroit. Oh 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:50.080 that's why, because that would probably be a requirement if 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:52.400 he was from l A. You know, I was like, oh, 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:55.720 you don't make tacos, we're gonna have a hard time 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:59.120 being together in life. So he's from Detroit, so he 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:02.760 doesn't really have taste for anything, right, I don't know 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:07.520 that island. It's like to me, it's like the why 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:12.199 why Doestroit Coney Island? Which is good. I've never understood that. 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:14.440 I never understood it. But all I knows that if 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:17.280 you go on Instagram and you like typing Coney Island, 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:22.280 see a lot of he has a a hot dog. No, 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:26.079 that's in New York. No, Coney Island in Detroit is 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:29.319 the hot dog place. No. I think it's like a Danny. 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:31.920 I'm not asking you what I'm telling you. Oh, have 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:36.360 you been to it? They serve different things. Yeah, but 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:39.480 Coney Island they have. It's called Coney Island because of 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:43.240 the hot dog. I thought it was called the Cony. 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:47.520 I honestly, can't you learning stuff on your show? I'm learning? 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:50.480 Look at that. How many tacos you want? I want to? 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:54.839 You want to? Boom? I'm gonna go one more. I'm 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:57.840 excited for these. I now officially know how to cook tacos. 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:00.920 So you're on the Jamie fox I'm on the Jamie 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:05.440 Foxx Show. Um, My uncle says, you know, I got 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:08.520 a call from Will Smith. He's got this kid and 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:11.880 he's super talented. Um, he wants to do a TV 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:15.920 show with this guy, sixteen year old kid named Nick Cannon. 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:20.240 We go see him do stand up. He's amazing, brilliant, 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:26.599 smart kid. Um and uh, uncle says, and and so 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:29.000 me and me and Nick hit it off. We're two 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:32.520 young guys in the next six six seventeen years old. 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:36.760 I'm twenty, you know what I mean. Um, So he's like, 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:40.880 you know, I'm like big brother and so uh you know, 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:43.559 and I'm I'm always around because I work on the 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:49.599 show while we're developing this thing. So we uh, we 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:54.439 turn this off so we get to what do I 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:56.600 do with this? I don't know, we'll figure it out. 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:59.920 All right, I'm turning that off and put that over here. Boom. 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:03.439 Now we're gonna start on these eggs. Now. If you 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:08.480 want to get fancy, this is what you do. Hit 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:11.600 that with a little salt while there's still a little wet. 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:15.120 Put a little extra flexo. But no, he's not the 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:19.160 t You are not from l A. I am from 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.560 New York. All the way. Taco doesn't happen, And did 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:28.839 we We didn't taco? You know, so time tortillas going down, 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:33.480 trust me, So that's gonna happen I'm warming this up, 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:38.720 only fool with real butter. Yeah, you were very very 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:42.200 strict about it. I honestly haven't. I didn't know there 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:43.880 was such thing as real butter until we were like, 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:46.600 I need there's gotta be butter. It can't be spread, 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:49.320 it can't be some sort of margarine or some sort 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:52.599 of canola oil. Get down, No, I'm not gonna do it. 0:13:54.520 --> 0:14:00.520 I slather the butter on the bread like. I don't 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:04.280 just go up scrape like. I'm like corner to corner. 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:06.600 We got to add this and then I'm gonna show 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:08.880 you another little technique just to make it taste a 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.320 little better. On top of that, let me get this warm. 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:18.240 So back to back to the story. Um, Nick is 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:24.080 sixteen seventeen. We are um doing this project. Working on 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:29.960 this project. Nick and Will have some creative differences. You know, 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:33.840 they split apart, but me and Nick we remain friends 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:37.520 later on in life. Um. You know, a couple of 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.520 years later, he's doing Drumline. He's got a record deal. 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.880 He says, hey, man, I know you want to write, 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:47.760 but I need somebody to come on the road with me. Um, 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:49.440 And I'm like, yo, man, I'm a writer, Like I 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:51.720 don't want to. I'm trying to get on as a writer. 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:55.440 He's like, look, here's the deal. Come on the road 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:57.480 with me. We're gonna travel the world. He says, give 0:14:57.520 --> 0:14:59.880 me like two years, and I promise you will will 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:03.840 I'll create something and we'll get on. How old was 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:06.960 then when he's saying all this to you, twenty he's 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:11.240 at the time, probably twenty one. He had just done drumline, 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:13.600 just got the record deal. He's no, maybe he's twenty three. 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:15.760 I don't know. I can't remember it so long ago. 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:22.440 So uh, you do it. So you know, I just 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:26.920 got laid off of a job and he called literally 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:30.080 the next day, and I was like, wow, that was 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:34.920 that was ironic. Um, so I go on the road. 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:38.680 I don't come home for a month. You know what 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:40.720 were you doing? That? Just music to kind of like 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:42.960 road managing, you know what I mean? It was like 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:46.240 I was road manager, security, I was everything, you know 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:48.000 what I mean. I was like taking care of the 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:51.280 schedule making, and I was his stylist for a while. 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:53.960 Like I was doing a little bit of everything. But 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:57.040 the dope part about it was, you know, you're traveling 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:00.600 the world on someone else's dime. With your friend, Like 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:03.080 he's not even paying for the record labels paying for it, 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:06.640 so you know, And that was the first place I 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.320 ever made any real money. Like I remember, I came 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:11.920 home and I had to check. I had like checks. 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:13.840 I had like forty dollars at checks, and I was like, 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:19.480 and I like, how old are you? Then five? But 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:23.200 I've never I've never invoiced, so you know, like, invoice 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:25.840 is weird. You Like, you send out this invoice for 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:28.000 the first time, You're like, they're not gonna pay me. 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:32.600 This was because I'm used to getting a little hourly 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.240 rate somewhere and I'm like, they're not gonna pay me that. 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:38.960 And then and the and the lady at the record label, 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:41.240 Nicky Benjamin, she was like, I'll just do your invoice 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:42.920 because I didn't know how to do an invoice. So 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.720 she's doing the invoices and she's like and so I'm 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:47.920 just working and getting the clothes and doing all this stuff. 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:49.920 And I come home and I got like fortys and 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:53.640 I'm like, WHOA, Like this entertainment money is real, Like 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:57.080 this is crazy, right, And so we were on the 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:00.720 road for about two maybe two and a half years, 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:06.600 and then um, I had a kid, and I told 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:09.480 I said, I'm not going to be on the road 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:11.879 if I have a kid. So I came off the 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:17.280 road well before that. Um before that, you know, Nick 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:21.280 pitched the show Whiling Out. He didn't pitch it. We 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:23.359 went and shot it. So we went and shot a 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:29.600 version of Whiling Out, and we went and right you 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:33.640 rented the rented a club much like what you're doing here, 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:38.159 rented a spot, rented the Comedy Union. Shout out to 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:41.680 Ends Mitchell for for letting us do that. Um, you know, 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:43.639 we rented out the Comedy Union. He rented out the 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:49.119 Comedy Union, and we shot a pilot. We shot a presentation, pilot, 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:53.960 shot a full episode. Um, you know, Loon was the 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:57.400 that's how long ago was Loon, who was a bad 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:01.000 boy artist, was the you know, was a special guest 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:04.560 on the show. You know, Kevin Hart was a cast member. 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:10.040 He was he was a little short guy named Kevin. 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:12.080 He wasn't Kevin Hart really, you know what I mean. 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:15.040 So Kevin Hart was a cast member at the time, 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:17.840 and you know he's kind of still doing He did 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:19.879 the pot and you know when we did when we 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:22.480 did the second pilot, so they gave us money to 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:25.560 do a real pilot. By then, Sole pointed hit so 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:29.200 he was a bigger name, and so we so Kevin 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:32.280 was our special guest for the pilot, which is super dope, 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.200 you know, just even as a story is just amazing. 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:39.720 And so yeah he uh uh. We sent it to 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:43.440 MTV and they had ordered eight episodes and we were 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:46.879 on and that was how it started. And you know, 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:49.680 I I came off the road, I was like, this 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:51.159 is what I want to do. This is it And 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:54.400 that was my That's when like, that's when Dorian came 0:18:54.480 --> 0:19:00.479 on and so I met you right around that time, uh, 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:03.320 celebrity high right when while when I first came out 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:05.520 and you guys had I think you guys had a 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:08.440 a office in the empty on the viying lot or 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:15.600 somewhere out there. Yeah, so back to this, I'm gonna 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:19.280 I'm gonna probably drop these. I feel like it's warm enough. 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:22.879 Um you know what we might need We might need 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:26.760 another egg, go ahead, brow up, we might. I was 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:29.359 about to do something all the way wrong. What I 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:31.159 was about to crack this over here because I'm not 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:33.520 thinking because I'm doing an interview at the same time. 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:40.920 Multitask multitask all right, So this is almost hot, so 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:42.520 you want to get the pan nice and hot. You 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:43.960 want to get a nice and hot because these are 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:46.480 gonna come off quick. It's not gonna take mong. So 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:50.680 you like your ex extra fluffy, you know, I just 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:54.399 like him scrambled. Some people like their eggs so fluffy 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:56.200 it doesn't even look cooked. I'm want of those people. 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:59.080 I like to know my eggit cooked. Yeah, I mean, 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:02.520 you know, it just depends on you know. I don't 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:06.280 like him. I don't like him super hard, and I 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:09.480 don't like him, you know, Um, I just like him. 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:12.879 You'll see how to make him. Here we go. I 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:15.400 would be the judge of this whole meal to there 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:17.399 it is. So we got tortilla, so we're ready for that. 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:22.840 Um you know, we got this cooking. We'll get these 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:27.440 eggs going, which won't take too long. So you you 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:30.960 went on the road with Nick, Yes, okay. Then after 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:33.520 the road, you guys decide you're going to do the 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:35.359 pilot for a while, and out it gets picked up. 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:38.720 I can't imagine that there was no hiccups on the way. 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:43.840 I mean, you didn't blow your forty grand it was 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:47.240 no I mean, you know, I was at that point, 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:49.720 I was kind of like, you know, I was still struggling, 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:52.440 you know what I mean. I think the biggest hiccup 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:54.280 I would say, I wouldn't call it a hiccup, was 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:58.200 so I'm getting on the road money. So I'm getting 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:02.560 money from being road manager. Now when I go to 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:04.879 when I have a kid, I said, I'm not going 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:09.280 to do the road, so about of my income goes away. 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:12.840 And now I have the show that could not may 0:21:13.000 --> 0:21:17.159 or may not come back. So now I'm I'm in 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:20.399 risky time. I'm like, oh, I don't know if we're 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:23.680 gonna get a season two. Always think I don't know 0:21:23.720 --> 0:21:25.560 if we're gonna get a season two. What do you do? 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:28.960 Did you like like a little? I mean, when you 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:32.280 when you're in entertainment, you have to save money, so 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:35.760 you you might get a little chunk, but you gotta 0:21:35.840 --> 0:21:38.480 save it. And because you're not gonna get a weekly check, 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:42.919 so if you're not getting a weekly check, you might 0:21:43.040 --> 0:21:45.840 get a lump sum and you gotta make that stretch 0:21:46.200 --> 0:21:48.800 until the next show or whatever else you're doing. So 0:21:49.320 --> 0:21:52.600 it's a risky time. So, you know, and I got 0:21:52.680 --> 0:21:56.640 a kid, you know what I mean. So it's it's 0:21:56.720 --> 0:22:01.120 it's definitely a risky time. So I'm gonna put these 0:22:01.160 --> 0:22:05.280 off right here. While this is going, I am going 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:12.000 to put this here. I'm gonna drop said toast. Hopefully 0:22:12.119 --> 0:22:16.600 it's not too toasty and burns, so I'm gonna lighten 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:20.639 it up, making light skinned toast. Um, where where was I? 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:25.359 You were talking about stretching your money, So yeah, you 0:22:25.440 --> 0:22:28.600 gotta stretch your money. So there were times where you know, 0:22:29.000 --> 0:22:32.600 I have a kid, and you know whether they're gonna 0:22:32.600 --> 0:22:35.080 do season two or not. I'm like, oh, okay, I 0:22:35.160 --> 0:22:37.640 got a little bit of money, but you know things 0:22:37.680 --> 0:22:44.800 are thin. Are you thinking backup plan? Day job? Nah? Nah? 0:22:45.280 --> 0:22:47.920 You know why because what I learned about trying to 0:22:47.960 --> 0:22:51.159 have a backup plan is you're not focused on the 0:22:51.280 --> 0:22:53.480 one thing. It's like, I'm doing production, I'm gonna be 0:22:53.520 --> 0:22:56.399 a writer, I'm gonna do something in this business. Like 0:22:56.920 --> 0:23:01.520 if you have a backup plan, like you're gonna fall 0:23:01.600 --> 0:23:04.520 back on that. I was like, this is I'm all in. 0:23:05.240 --> 0:23:08.440 I gotta do something like there's no oh, I'm gonna 0:23:08.480 --> 0:23:12.360 work at FedEx Taco Bell to do whatever. Now, it's 0:23:12.359 --> 0:23:15.840 always good to have a side hustle, but I think 0:23:15.880 --> 0:23:22.720 everyone should have a side hustle. Candle crack. Yeah, it's 0:23:22.720 --> 0:23:26.119 considered a side hustle. So you know, I started a 0:23:26.240 --> 0:23:30.280 candle company. I'm was writing a book about a hundreds 0:23:30.280 --> 0:23:32.000 of central things that make you a grown ass man 0:23:32.880 --> 0:23:35.680 and um that's the name of the book and it's 0:23:35.720 --> 0:23:38.040 you have to be put out. But um, you know 0:23:38.520 --> 0:23:40.399 in the book, I said, every man should have candles 0:23:40.400 --> 0:23:45.000 in this house because one dudes houses, you've been to 0:23:45.040 --> 0:23:47.800 a guy's house before one, they don't always smell good. 0:23:48.800 --> 0:23:51.080 My husband always kept candles by the way, right, that's 0:23:51.080 --> 0:23:54.760