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NAVV GREENE - Taco 'Bout Hustle · Eating While Broke

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  Speaker 1: Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Colleen wat and today we have very
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  Speaker 1: special guest, comedian actor Nabed Green in the building.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for taking time out of your schedule to
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  Speaker 1: come hang with me.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, for sure. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: So what are you gonna have us eating today?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Chicken tacos.
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  Speaker 1: Chicken tacos? Okay, pretty simple.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds simple, but not the way I make it out.
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  Speaker 2: Is it gonna be good? Oh? Definitely that okay?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, what are the ingredients for your chicken tacos?
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  Speaker 2: I got a few dice onions, some Tyson grilled chicken breast,
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  Speaker 2: We got some grape value pepper jack cheese. Then we
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  Speaker 2: sprinkle on top of that, and we got.
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  Speaker 1: Some kyeso okay, and then you have salt and sor.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's your discretion' I didn't have that.
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  Speaker 1: But so we're gonna have kyso in the tacos.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we just sprinkled.
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  Speaker 4: You got you got my interest problem.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, when you said a few onions, you
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  Speaker 1: was real serious. It's like a little splash.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, cause you don't want to overdo it.
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  Speaker 2: You don't want to overdo it. You don't want to
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  Speaker 2: take away that flavor of the chicken. So that's why
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  Speaker 2: I always do that.
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  Speaker 1: And then I heard you ask earlier if the butter
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  Speaker 1: was salted. Is there a reason?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I won't put that much uh season salt
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  Speaker 2: on my uh chicken cause you don't want to overdo
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  Speaker 2: that as well. Yeah, I I know, I sound like
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  Speaker 2: a real chef. I could have been one problem.
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  Speaker 1: You're having with this. Yeah, okay, So take me back
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  Speaker 1: to what was going on in the Chicken Chicken taco
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  Speaker 1: air of brokeness.
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  Speaker 2: Mainly, I think doing that chicken was a lot cheaper,
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  Speaker 2: So if you want tacos, I think chicken was was cheaper,
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  Speaker 2: and then you felt like it was being healthier because
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  Speaker 2: it was going through that phase with beef and pork.
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  Speaker 2: How we was kind of like trying to lay off
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  Speaker 2: of it. And then plus I think taco Tuesday, like
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  Speaker 2: people now, you know, feel like you only could eat
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  Speaker 2: tacos on Tuesday, but tacos are good essential meal. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So is this dish go back to being in your
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  Speaker 1: home with your parents or is this college? Is this before?
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  Speaker 2: It's a lot, it's a little both.
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  Speaker 1: Take me there.
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  Speaker 2: I think at home it was either like this, I
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  Speaker 2: felt like this was like a gourmet meal. And plus
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  Speaker 2: with these kind of chicken, With this kind of chicken,
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  Speaker 2: you could do so much with it afreido, we can
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  Speaker 2: do tacos. So it was like multi purpose. So anytime
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  Speaker 2: I bought this chicken, I know it could last me
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  Speaker 2: the week.
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  Speaker 1: Now, did you did you buy the pre made ones?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is pre Oh you never did the raw?
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, no, because that costs more.
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  Speaker 1: It costs more for the raw.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because you're getting the chicken breast. Then you gotta
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  Speaker 2: cut it this already, come cut. It's only so much
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  Speaker 2: you could do in a in a dorm room as well.
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  Speaker 2: And then at the house.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, did you come from two parent household? Middle class?
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  Speaker 2: Rich for well, two parents, but we was a little
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  Speaker 2: under middle class okay, yeah, but we was to two parent.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, nice. And then you went to college for a year?
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  Speaker 1: Four years? Oh finally a college dropout. I've been, man,
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of interviews, everyone's so educated.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, and that's just a waste of time. And
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  Speaker 2: guess what they're doing same place as me. So that
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  Speaker 2: just going to show you. But nah, real, real talk.
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  Speaker 2: Like I went to college just because my parents were
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  Speaker 2: telling me, like, man, you know, go to college. We
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  Speaker 2: felt like that was the right thing to do. But
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  Speaker 2: once I got to college, I was like, man, after
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  Speaker 2: I started dropping them first couple classes and I was
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  Speaker 2: doing work study and got that first refund check, I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm out of here.
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  Speaker 1: You got to check from school.
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  Speaker 2: Then you dipped. No, no, no, I ain't gonna lie.
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  Speaker 2: I got the sick one too. So the you know
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  Speaker 2: how they do it in disbursements. I think I said
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  Speaker 2: it right. So when they said that, I was like.
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  Speaker 1: Nah, okay, so you drop out of school. What are
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  Speaker 1: your parents in and what were you even going to
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  Speaker 1: school for besides appeasing them business.
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  Speaker 2: I had to think about it because I didn't man,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't care what I just you know, anytime somebody
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  Speaker 2: just go to school for business, they don't know what
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  Speaker 2: they're doing, It's like, why what point?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we want money at the end of this, so
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  Speaker 1: we'll just choose the option business.
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  Speaker 2: But I went there and I was taking up certain
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  Speaker 2: certain classes, and then after I would get out of class,
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  Speaker 2: I would like be joking in the be joking outside
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  Speaker 2: by the calf and stuff like that. And this one
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  Speaker 2: girl had told me. She was like, man, she was like,
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  Speaker 2: you really got talent. So her saying that, I was like,
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  Speaker 2: what you mean? She was like you could be like
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  Speaker 2: an entertainer or something like that. And when she said that,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, I ain't coming back.
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  Speaker 1: So all iok.
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  Speaker 2: Was one girl and I don't even know her name.
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  Speaker 2: She probably don't even know she she changed the trajectory
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  Speaker 2: of my life. Wow, well not trajectory, cause I was
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  Speaker 2: gonna do it anyway, but I did it faster.
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  Speaker 1: Okay fast.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: She was like, I'm not even gonna waste some man.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't even waste the time because when when I
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  Speaker 2: go back, so you know, in the summer, they started
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  Speaker 2: sending you information about dorms and stuff like that. So
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  Speaker 2: my mom was like, uh uh you didn't give me
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  Speaker 2: the paper to fill out your dorm information. I was like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: uh I'm not going back. She's like, when you was
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  Speaker 2: gonna tell me? I was like, uh, I been thinking
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  Speaker 2: about it. So, you know, saying that to your mom
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  Speaker 2: and stuff like that, and she you gotta think just
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  Speaker 2: a year before you done. Just had a a high
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  Speaker 2: school graduation party. Everybody bringing you all this stuff to
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  Speaker 2: go to college with. But they don't realize when you
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  Speaker 2: get to college that money goes so fast and it's
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  Speaker 2: before cash up. So like I had aunties and stuff
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  Speaker 2: like that, cause you know, a lot of my family
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  Speaker 2: they never went to college. So they would give you
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  Speaker 2: twenty dollars. They felt like, hey, man, that twenty dollars
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  Speaker 2: old last you want to go somewhere, talking about don't
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  Speaker 2: spend it all that man, I can't spend nowhere. Well nah,
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  Speaker 2: So it was just that and there it just felt
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  Speaker 2: like you being a burden asking for money. You know
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  Speaker 2: why you down there cause you still at home. It
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  Speaker 2: was different. You could go out and hang, but in
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  Speaker 2: college you felt like you were by yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You feel me and then you don't have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money, right, So I didn't go back. So you
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  Speaker 1: but you went back to mama's house.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I ain't had no choice. I ain't have a plan.
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  Speaker 1: So what you say when you're like, hey, epiphany, change,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not doing this? Did she ask the good old
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  Speaker 1: what do you? What's your plan?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? So to be transparent with you. When I was
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  Speaker 2: in high school, I had did this show called Your Mama.
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  Speaker 2: It was an MTV Your Mama Show, and I had
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  Speaker 2: one a couple episodes on that. So after I won,
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  Speaker 2: I knew then like I could do it. I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to be an entertainer, but it was like I'm thinking
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  Speaker 2: somebody was gonna call from that, but no, that didn't happen.
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  Speaker 2: So I like, boom. So now I'm in college. So
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  Speaker 2: when I come back, I'm like, I'm gonna work this
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  Speaker 2: job and then I'm gonna get me some money and
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  Speaker 2: go to LA. That was my whole plan. Okay, So
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  Speaker 2: I'm working at the Congress Center stacking my little money.
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  Speaker 2: And when I say little, it was little because once
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  Speaker 2: you go to LA, you see boys saying, man, that
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  Speaker 2: money was going so quick. Like the money I saved up.
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  Speaker 2: It was to share a room. I said, bruh. And
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  Speaker 2: you know how when your parents tell you something like
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  Speaker 2: you think life ease, I'm like, man, she don't know. Man.
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  Speaker 2: My mama knew, like my dad, he never really tried
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  Speaker 2: to give me the el because like I think, and
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  Speaker 2: him thinking like, sometimes you got to just find out
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  Speaker 2: by yourself. And I found out. So I stayed out
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  Speaker 2: there probably.
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  Speaker 1: Like four five months, and what happened.
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  Speaker 2: Ship out right back in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: No way. Yeah, did you so you were did you
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  Speaker 1: at least do the shared room thing?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so that ran up? And what did you do
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  Speaker 1: while you were in LA for that short stint?
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  Speaker 2: I met. I met a couple of people I had knew. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: this guy Brendan Lewis, I knew him from he had
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  Speaker 2: did to Your Mama show as well. And I met
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  Speaker 2: a a few comedians while I was out there. But
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  Speaker 2: it was like I didn't understand in LA, like you
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  Speaker 2: had to have credits or something to get on stage.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, l A is weird because they like make
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  Speaker 1: their comedians literally work from the door up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I saw that. So sometimes when I first
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  Speaker 2: moved out there, if you're familiar with the area, I
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  Speaker 2: was staying out there in Palmdale.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's far you was on another island.
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  Speaker 2: Listen shared room, No, I have my own room. Listen.
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  Speaker 2: So when I'm in Palmdale, I'm running the metro link
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  Speaker 2: to the city that I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Even know they had a metro linoponent. I've been there twice.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever the big train is. Yeah, yeah, it come down
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  Speaker 2: to the city. So when I how long is that right?
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  Speaker 1: Like two hours? No?
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  Speaker 2: No, it's not even alone. Forty five minutes. Okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: well it's not that far.
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  Speaker 1: So when I to the city to Hollywood to Lay okay.
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  Speaker 2: So when I get down there, I could be off
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  Speaker 2: ten or fifteen minutes, but it's not that long ago.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, our max I would say an hour.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, good, I said fifteen minutes. So look, I get
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  Speaker 2: there me not knowing how the train works. It stopped
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  Speaker 2: running at nine. The comedy clubs don't start to about
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  Speaker 2: eight thirty nine. Yeah, so and then I would have
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  Speaker 2: to go to the train station and I gotta wait
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  Speaker 2: till it start running in the morning at five. So
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  Speaker 2: I was like, nah, this ain't gonna work. I have
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  Speaker 2: to move closer to the city. That's when I found
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  Speaker 2: out about the U c LA. Like, now, this was
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  Speaker 2: a good apartment. I'm like this when Craigs listen, just
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  Speaker 2: where you find all your cribs? This shit. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: on crazy and I'm like, but it's too good to
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  Speaker 2: be true because it was what was it that a
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  Speaker 2: shared room. I'm seeing the price and I'm seeing the area.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, man, I don't find my lik man,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sharing the room. So I was like well, I'm man,
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  Speaker 2: may he opened the door and somebody laying in their bed.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, man, what it is? So I ain't even
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  Speaker 2: have a I had an air mattress.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you actually went through the shared room.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I ain't had no choice. I had like I had.
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  Speaker 1: The game all right, Oh before you even.
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  Speaker 2: Sawry man, you know how bad you gotta be doing
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  Speaker 2: again with a deposit on the shared room?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So then what happens?
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  Speaker 2: So I stayed. I stayed a couple of months doing that,
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  Speaker 2: and then that's when did you.
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  Speaker 1: Get into any of the clubs?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I had got in a couple of clubs, and
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  Speaker 2: it mainly was like networking, but to a certain degree
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  Speaker 2: what you mean, cause it's like, hey, yeah, I'm out
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  Speaker 2: here to do this and do that, Like okay, they
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  Speaker 2: don't really care cause you gotta think it's so many
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  Speaker 2: people out there with the same story as you, as
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  Speaker 2: you rather so then I found out I had a
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  Speaker 2: child on the way, So that was my rules. I
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  Speaker 2: have to go back now, cause to be honest with you,
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  Speaker 2: I felt like this is what I was supposed to do.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you hear it so much like it's so cliche,
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  Speaker 2: like you gotta struggle to make it. So I feel
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  Speaker 2: like I'm just living in my truth. Like I'm hearing
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  Speaker 2: so many people that said they slept, slapping, they cars
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  Speaker 2: and stuff like that. So I'm like, yeah, I was
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  Speaker 2: willing to do all that till I found out I
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  Speaker 2: had a child, And I'm like, naw, you don't wanna
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  Speaker 2: bring no child in you trying to chase your dream.
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  Speaker 2: So that kind of side. I ain't gonna say it
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  Speaker 2: sidetracked me, cause it helped me out so much. So
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  Speaker 2: after that then I had came back to Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: So you went back. Now did you end up having
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  Speaker 1: to get a job? What was the plan after you
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  Speaker 1: found out?
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  Speaker 2: Man, I went back to that same job. I was
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  Speaker 2: working at the Congress Center of Georgia Dome, and I
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  Speaker 2: went back there cause it was it was like a
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  Speaker 2: temporary job. Anyway, you work a certain amount of hours,
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  Speaker 2: so they they they'll always let you come back long
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  Speaker 2: as you left on good terms.
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  Speaker 1: So you start doing the job. Are you packing up
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  Speaker 1: with the idea on your dreams at this point?
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  Speaker 2: Nah? I never gave up on my dreams though, I
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  Speaker 2: never I just didn't know when or how it was
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  Speaker 2: gonna take shape. Or form. But I was like, it's
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  Speaker 2: s something gonna come from this, and like what it
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know what it was gonna be at the time.
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  Speaker 1: Are you living at your mom's or with your girl
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  Speaker 1: at the.
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  Speaker 2: Time or I was living with my uh my girl
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  Speaker 2: at the time.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, cool, Yeah, so you're raising this baby and it
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  Speaker 1: I think it.
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  Speaker 2: I would have rather been staying on my mom.
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  Speaker 1: Cause, like you're hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm telling you truth. If you go home broke
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  Speaker 2: to your mom, like it's sympathy, you go home broke
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  Speaker 2: to your girl, that's a different type of you hear
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  Speaker 2: her complain, Like you can hear your parents complain about
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: the beatings all days, like shit job, been doing that
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  Speaker 2: since I was three. O. Man, you hear your girl
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  Speaker 2: saying that sh making you feel bad? Like man, So
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  Speaker 2: it was like that was different. So we thugged it out.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. So are you guys still together?
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  Speaker 2: No? Okay, this every story on any way you think?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, So you so you staying with her, You're
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  Speaker 1: you're working at this this temporary job type place and
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  Speaker 1: you're not actively pursuing your dreams or you're like praying
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  Speaker 1: on a miracle.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, at the time, I'm not even actively like pursuing
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  Speaker 2: it because to be uh, all the way, we we
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  Speaker 2: had actually had to move to Savannah. My girl she
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  Speaker 2: was in the army.
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  Speaker 1: Oh so her she was a benefits.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah for them. Yeah, so she uh, she's down there
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  Speaker 2: at Fort Stewart in Savannah. That's like three and a
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  Speaker 2: half hours away from Atlanta. So like every weekend we
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  Speaker 2: coming back. But you know, that's gas money and stuff
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  Speaker 2: like that. So it was like on Sunday, Uptown would
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  Speaker 2: have Sunday for comedy club, but it's only so much.
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  Speaker 2: If you not around the scene and don't know nobody,
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  Speaker 2: they don't really take you serious.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So that was that Backack, how'd you end up
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  Speaker 1: in the yo mama situation? In high school?
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  Speaker 2: So look a buddy at the school I was at,
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  Speaker 2: he had he was talking about it, so he was
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  Speaker 2: gonna do it. So he was like, just come down
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  Speaker 2: here with me. So all of us were joking class.
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  Speaker 2: We go down there to actually they had auditions at Uptown,
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  Speaker 2: so we get on stage, were doing it, and then
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  Speaker 2: after we left that was it. But I got a
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  Speaker 2: call back.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't I know, he was probably thinking like why
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  Speaker 1: did I take him with me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but or was yeah, I don't think he really
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  Speaker 2: gave it, damn. Okay, yeah, it was just something to do.
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  Speaker 2: So then they give me a call back. So the
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  Speaker 2: first time that I leave to go because this when
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  Speaker 2: you do like the free for all for the show
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  Speaker 2: when they have you in the big circle. So they
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  Speaker 2: had already told us like, you get paid regardless, so
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I don't give it. Damn. Yeah. Of
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: course I know I'm gonna get some money from this,
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  Speaker 2: but I didn't even know how entertainment worked. I'm thinking
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  Speaker 2: they gonna hand me the money right out. So I
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: get down there end up winning. So they was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you come back next week and then we do like
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: the raid the house thing where they showed the different rooms.
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  Speaker 2: That's how the show used to work. But they go
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  Speaker 2: to your house. Well I wasn't even supposed to be
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  Speaker 2: doing it, so I'm like, they can't come to my house.
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  Speaker 2: So they was like, do we get permission? I was like, nah,
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  Speaker 2: my mom she said no already and she don't even
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  Speaker 2: know I'm doing the show, so boom. I lied about
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  Speaker 2: everything till I brought this when I I got on
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  Speaker 2: the last show, when I brought my dumb ass friends.
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  Speaker 1: You got called by your mama.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: No, my friends, they putting the wrong they putting they
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: real age down. So they were like, how's he eighteen
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: hanging on with all these sixteen year olds?
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: So they pulled me to the side of the one
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: of the consultants that like tell the truth. They were like,
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: how old are you? I was like seventeen and a half.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: You know how you put the a half under you
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: make him feel better? But nah. So after that they
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: had to get permission from my mom. So that's how
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: she found out I was even on the show. Oh snap,
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: I was the youngest one on the show.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: But at least it led with hey, he already won, right.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well my at first my dad was like, nah,
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: tell him bring his ass home. It was like, well
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: he already won up the three thousand and nine, well
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: he better win it. Like he was part of his
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: head then. But at first it was like cause I
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: had been I had skipped school to do it, cause
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: like they would shooting certain scenes during the daytime, I
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: would leave school like or not even go.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, okay, so you you got into some
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: kind of trouble even though you walked away with a check, right.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but then I didn't even know how it worked
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: the check. The check didn't even come to like two
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: months later. But I knew my money was coming, so
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: people would I tell somebody like, you know, my money
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: on the way. So by the time I got to check,
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: that shit was gone anyway. Okay, but no, but after
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: I did it, it made me see for myself after just
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: being on TV, you gotta think this before social media,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: it's all. Wait, so this before social media. We had
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Facebook and not in Facebook. We had my Space back then.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Uh but it's like when you was on TV and
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: people come back to school, man, they was tr like, man,
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: now we saw you on TV, like, so it was
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: different and I never wanted that feeling to go away. Yeah.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: I think once we started doing social media skits and.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: What what platforms are you using at that time.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: That's when Instagram started coming around.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Okay, so did you do the vine error?
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: I missed the vine era. I caught the end of
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: the vine era and it was straight on Instagram. That's
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: when Instagram started making the videos. I mean, you can, yeah, but.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: They were longer than Yeah, that's how them.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: So then once Instagram started doing the videos, it was okay,
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna do Instagram. So with that being said,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: at the time, I'm still with my child's mother, so
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: you know, like of course, were starting to do more things,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: and so she was like, you don't think you want
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: to get a job. So when she said that, it's like,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: you know how you see the pressure of that, like
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: I do have to. I know I'm chasing my dream,
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: but I still gotta make sure my family is straight.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: But when she said that, it's like, man, I'm putting
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: money into the house. I'm doing all the necessary like
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: I never work a job.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: And when I said it, still you're still contributing, right, Yeah.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: And when I said that, I realized then I met it.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: I was like, I don't want to work. That's all
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: I want to do. So like you know how some
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: people like you. You meet people and they they have regrets, like, man,
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: I wish I would have did this so much. I
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: never want to do that. Like growing up, we try
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: to tell our kids you could do this and be that,
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: don't give up, but then you give up. Yeah, because
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: it's like that's what I would have been. I probably
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: would have been a I'm a great father, but I
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: would have been a superb father. But I would have
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: been bitter as hell.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like you watching a lot of resentment.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, resent man, that's the better word for it.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: And then you also end up resembling with your mate too.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: So so you decide, like, in this conversation with her,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: that's it, I ain't never going to get a job
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: a kid.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Right, Okay. So with that being said.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: And so at this point, you're also so how are
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: you supporting the family at that point where you're like,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: I'm never getting a job because at the time she
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: you didn't have a job.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I was getting unemployment. Shout out unemployment. It
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: help it, don'll save my life a few times. So,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: uh unemployment. And then I was getting the while she
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: was in the army, when we was in Savannah, I
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: had uh did the I end up doing it as well?
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: You joined the military, Get the freak out, no talking
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: about Yeah, did you did you make it through at
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: least a couple of years or probably right at that
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Oh so you tell me, tell me did you get
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: kicked out the army or did you get what is
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: the honorable discharge? Or whatever they call it.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Nah, it was. It was man when I first got there.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: So a lot of people don't know this. So like,
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: with that being said, when you go into a recruiter's office,
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: they gonna tell you everything you want to hear. So
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: I was like, man, my uh, my kid and my
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: baby mom they right here at Fort Stewart. He like,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: oh yeah, yeah, you'll be right here with him. So
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, cool. He was like, are you got
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: to do is go through your training. I went through
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: the training. Man. They sent me to Korea. Man, when
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: I got the paper it said career, I could have
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: cried cause I'm like, now, it's like as a grown man,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: I'm like, he lied to me. But I'm I'm thinking
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: I'm at twenty. I'm twenty at the time. I'm like,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: he lied to me. And they're like who They were like,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: I'm just sick. So I get to Korea and that's
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: when I realized, Man, this.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Shit fun, Like the military's fun.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: No Koreer career. Okay. That's why I ain't think I
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: was gonna last long.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: I had I got so many if.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: You know about the military, No, not really.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: I hain't got so many article fifteen's.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: What what's that?
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: That's like basically, you done got in trouble for doing
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: what were you doing? No, I got in trouble before
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: I even got to Korea. I swear to God to you, like,
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: I'm in basic training. So they take away all your
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: privileges and stuff like. So when I say privileges, like
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: if you smoke, you can't smoke for those eight weeks,
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: so how long you in there? You can't eat candy,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: you can't eat ship. Yeah, they strict on you because
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: they really trying to show you could a vibe without
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: that stuff, because if you, like you go to war,
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: you won't have it.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Okay, And some people are crack, so I.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Guess it was the myth of their method. Long story short,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: I get the basic training and like, I'm from Atlanta,
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: so like a hustling mentality is gonna come to me.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: So I was like, we could start. Our family could
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: sent us stuff. So I would tell them to take
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: the soap out of there and put a cigarette box
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: in the soapbox and and clew it back. I'm selling cigarettes.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Ten dollars a cigarette.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Oh my god.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Ten dollars a cigarette, and you gotta think this is
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: my first time really around white people, so I'm not knowing.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: I'm like these white people cool as hell until they
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: got caught. They're like, where you get that from?
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Man?
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: So minute they came in and start pointing me. But
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: so I'm so good. I would buy cards from the PX.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: I would buy cards from there, and I would send
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: it back to home, but I would have the money
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: in there. So I never kept money in my locker.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: So when they saw that they had no evidence on
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: me for real, I think I was the first one
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: with a real rico charge.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: What's that?
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Just a bunch of crime?
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: So discharge?
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it sounded like a line, I swear to God,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: like I could show you proove.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: How long did you last?
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: After that? I went to Korea, and when I got
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: the career I had, got like, they give you so
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: much freedom to wait, you either punish yourself.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: So they go from all restrictions to mad freedom.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah in career, Oh man, it was grat.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Okay, how long were you there for a year? Okay,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: so you made it a year and then you came
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: home and they said get out.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: They just say it like that.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Okay. Uh.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: The commander, he was like Green. I'm gonna be honest
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: with you. I'm surprised you last this long. I mean
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: too Yeah, but he said you could pass me spool.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: He said, now you could get out or you could
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: re enlist, but I don't think you a last here.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: So with that being said, I was like, I'm gonna
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: get out because I'm still at this time. I feel
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: like I got some money, so I'm like, now I
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: could get back and chasing my dream like for that
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: was my whole plan. But I just never thought I
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: would go end up in Korea.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: So the military was paying you weekly while you were there,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: or I don't you.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Paid by week? You get paid by week? Okay, but
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: a lot of people this is what the people don't
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: realize what the military do. It kind of sets you
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: up for failure that you always need them because every
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: two weeks you start depending on you live and checked
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: the check.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: But that's the thing. Don't they take ere of your
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: like overhead and all that stuff? Well, I thought, you
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: don't you live in the army or something. You live together?
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you live on base and stuff like that.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: But you gotta think about it. You gotta have a car,
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: you gotta get around so if you wanna you don't
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: wanna eat the food in the cafeteria. You know what
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: I'm saying. So what that being said is like God forbid,
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: if you like wearing tennis shoes, you buy tennis shoes.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: All that stuff is started.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Just so you was a stagnan tips. She was having
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: a good old time.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I ain't stacked nothing.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Okay, so you get you get honorable discharged. You tell
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: your girl, was that a difficult conversation? No?
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: I think she knew I wasn't gonna stand. She probably
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: was surprised. I lasted that long. Like I'm telling I
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: started off. So the other article fifteen, we had found
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: some cards. Man, we playing cards in the dorm room
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: where you're supposed to be like sleep. So we playing
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: cards and I'm talking trash to the guy, and all
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: of a sudden, I don't see him no more. All
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: I see is the drill starry. So I'm the only
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: one get caught with the cards. But I did not tell.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: You who. And people in they how they snitch.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: It, Well, that's what they were used to doing. You
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: can't blame them for what they used to. They didn't
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: want to get.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: In trouble, so you get out of the military. Next
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: next milestone.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: That's when I started the videos.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Okay, that's when you need to start a social social
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: media So when do you see ones starting really hit man?
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: When I I think it was doing the shift Leader
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: in the in the Professor Fleet character. But when I
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: did that shift Leader, cause I had did a few
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: videos before then, but only my friends were like laughing
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: and like cause they know me. But when I saw
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: so many people that I didn't know start like laughing
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: at the shift Leader videos, I was like, man, I
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: got something with this. And after that it just started
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: going and I just stop.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: I was f in the takeoff then and then it
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: went from there. So what's your first acting gig after that?
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: My first acting gig, it was Dirty South House Arrests
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: or either Digital Lives Matter and that was where uh
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: we was uh with archive, it was me, DC, Emanuel Hudson,
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: like all of us was under the same Like who
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: else was over there? Uh, Erica Dutchess and Mark over
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: It was so many people, Ernestine Morrison. So while we
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: over there like.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: It, how'd you get over there to begin with?
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Sh shooting the shooting the videos? When I once once
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: I shot the uh video with the shift leet the video,
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: they saw that and then just started shooting over there
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: with them. So long story short, a lot of people
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: was on DC at the time, just like now, but
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: with them, they was like, if you want DC, found
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: a role for them. So that's how we were getting
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: in movies and stuff, okay, and getting like getting a
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: little gigs and stuff like that.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: What do you mean by if you if you, what
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: do you mean by that?
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Like they would want DC on fly yea yeah, but
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: they would tell them, well, we also got these people,
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: could you find a road for them? So that's how
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: we would get some yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Okay, I like that you guys. To you, you guys
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: are kind of like moving like the Kardashians, like you
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: all brought us all on.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, it was kind of like that for real.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, so you get on what a success is success
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: starting to be a little bit more real to you
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: at this point hood success, hood success.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: And when I say hood success, like people around the well,
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: I see you that type of ship, Like.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Was the money equaling the not okay, got it?
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: It was it was it was something like you know,
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: to get by with but it wasn't enough money to
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: like just be like living. Yeah, because it's still.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: You're still like living check or hustle to hustle check exactly. Okay,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: what are your parents saying during all of this.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Well, see my mom she was telling me at the time,
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: she was like, you gotta have a plan. Beat. She
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: was like, it's not guaranteed, you know, like being a
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: real mother. But my mother had never seen me on stage,
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: so she come we had a show at Uptown. She
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: come to see the show live. It was we would
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: do a Wratchet People meat show. She come see the
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Ratchet People Meat Show. And once she see me live,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: she was like, you're gonna make it.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: I love that.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: And when she told me that, I knew then. I
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: was like, boy, that's what you know, Like you want
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: your your parents to believe in you. But my mom,
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: she had seen her your mama thing and she used
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: to always say she was like, you like fast money,
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Like she was like, you don't. You don't understand you
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: have to work for certain stuff. But at the same
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: time she was right, yeah, like I do like fast money,
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: but I'm still gonna have to work for what I want. Yeah,
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: it wasn't gonna be handed.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it definitely wasn't gonna be fat. Man, how
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: many years? How many years of struggle would you say
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: you had to.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Go through shit since two years ago?
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: I like that. I like that. I like that. I
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: like that, though, I like you. Yeah, so it's like
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: over ten plus years, right, and then you say two
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: years Agould you say it's been at least over ten years?
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: No, I would say probably right at seven and a half,
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: because it's like all all between those first before two
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: years ago, I was living, like we were saying, hustle
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: to hustle. So it's like you kind of like willing
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: to like work on this, work on network, but now
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: it's like it's to your discretion.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Like, okay, So what was the pivot moment that happened
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: two years ago where the landscape kind of changed?
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Okay? In twenty nineteen, I had did come into America,
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: and when I did come into America, that paid very well.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: And at this point you you probably know how to
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: manage money a lot better.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: No, I fucked that money up so fast, cause it was,
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: like I told you it was, it came so fast.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: I'm like, bro' were living. Yeah. So when it came,
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: I was like, man, it's so dope, and I'm thinking
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: it was gonna always be like that, which it wasn't
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: because you gotta think after that movie said it's over with.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: So but you gotta get some money to realize how
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: to maintain it and manage it.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: So after that, Oh so, it's not not having it
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: that teaches you. It's once you get it.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: And you could not have it for a long time.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: And then when you get something, you're gonna start buying
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: stuff that you wanted. You're gonna look out for people
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: that you always felt like you had to look out.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: But I wasn't in the the space to do that.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: You but I ain't realize that.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you blew it, not all at once, but yeah,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: pretty fast.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: And then you know what, the pandemic happened right after that,
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: So we're not working and the money I felt like
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: I had saved up. Oh shit, I ran through that.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so then you're going through the pandemic. What's
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: your next playoff?
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: And then right after that, after I do come into America,
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: I start touring with eighty five South.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Okay, nice, I love the I love the homie bond
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: in the like, man.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: But as soon as we started touring, that's when the
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: pandemic happened. As soon as I started touring with.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Them, yeah, I even like, dang, God, come on work
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: with me, man.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: I counted them. They sent me the dates. I counted
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: them dates and multiplied my money by I was like, boy,
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: I'm rich forever. I like, I felt like I'd never
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: be broken in the pandemic.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: What's your mind state when that happens. Do you start
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: to question your purpose or what are you thinking?
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Well, no, I would question. I would question in the world.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: I'm like, what the going away? Wait till I started
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: getting some money?
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: So then with that being said.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: By the way, did you know because I remember when
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: the pandemic happened. I was one of those students that
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: didn't pay attention in school ever, and so I didn't
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: know that like pandemics and things like that happened. So
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: when it first happened, I was completely like what the
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: what the f I remember specifically the NBA canceling the game,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: so that was like a huge like you yeah, And
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: then at first I was like, oh, well, last three months, oh,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: the last six months. Then I was like, yo, are
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: we ever getting out of prison? Like you know, but
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: I didn't realized how important paying attention in history class
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: was and.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: Not even that because we hear about stuff that goes
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: on all the time, but it's like if it don't
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: affect us, we don't really care. No people can say
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: they do. They don't really care because this shit happening
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: on right now, but it don't phase us. But it's
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: like when that happened, I was like, man, the whole
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: world shut down, luckily for Atlanta, Atlanta and stay shut down, loon,
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: Like the world was shut down?
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: What do you mean Atlanta in station down?
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: We were back running in three weeks?
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: What no way, no, no, lie.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: We couldn't We couldn't do certain stuff. We still couldn't
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: tour eighty five South couldn't tour. But we started working,
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: like doing stuff in house, and like it was still
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: like the who Like what's the what's the governor name? Yeah?
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: Camp say ship life goes on?
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Oh no, in La it was it was, Oh yeah
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: it was.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: I was shut down, was out there.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: So I'll tell you something though I had this really
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: bad thought during the pandemic. I really shouldn't confess this,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: but like when they broke out, like you could wear
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: masks the evils. I guess side of me was like, yo,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: we could like really rob somebody, Like what are they
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: gonna say that person with a mask? Like you know,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: it was so easy, And I was like, yo, this
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: is a dangerous setup, like you're going into these stores
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: with masks on. And I thought that for at least
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: a year, like, yo, this could be the ultimate robbery.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Get away with things. You know, you could wear weeds
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: all that and get away with it right right, you know.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: But anyways, that was that was a definite thought in
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: my mind. But I also remember going through the pandemic
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: even though the whole world was going through it. That
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: was the first time I realized like how selfish I was,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: because I was like, I get the world's going through this,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: but what about.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: You not really being selfish because you like we really
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: we didn't.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Know what was going on. Yeah right, damn like every
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: time someone tried to pick me up, but like, you know,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: the whole world's going through this. Mine, I get that,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: but let's focus on But.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: You know another thing though, it made you realize like
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: we have to figure something out, yeah, because why we
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: depending on depending on like we were. I think before
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: that everybody was depending on this or depending on that
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: to happen. But then it's like, I gotta I gotta
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: put some content out. Let me do this, let me
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: do that.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Well for you guys, yeah, for the content creators. It
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: was good for for y'all to some degree. I think
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: for me with the most I walked away from the pandem,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: especially living in La la' is one of those cities
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: it's like, Hi, nice to meet you. What do you do?
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Like it's we don't even care what the last name
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: is or nothing. What do you do?
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: How can we a fake place?
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's super fake, But it was the first time
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: where people started having conversations like how are you doing?
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: What are you doing?
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: What?
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: You want to hang out at your house? No fancy restaurants.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: And I really can say that those two years to
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: be able to get one on one with friends, even guys,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: because guys don't really talk. They kind of do activities
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: with you. You know, they'll be like, let's work out together,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: let's go. If I hit up my homies and I'm like, yo,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: you want to hang out there? Like no, but I'm
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: going to the gym. You can work out with me
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: if I'm not working out with the name or something.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: But it was the first time I got to have
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: like eye to eye conversations with men where it was
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: like they were talking about actual issues, like the way
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: women do. You know what I'm saying.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: And it made you appreciate family too, because I ain't.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: I was. I had well, I had no choice, but
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: I was spending so much time with my family, like
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: we were doing stuff around the house. So it's like
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: after that, I kept doing it, like like, let me
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: at least do something with them right now.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: And then after the pandemic.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, even after the pandemic.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Family, Okay, so you survived the pandemic.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: Oh, soon as it opened. Soon as the.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Pandemic, Well for you guys, it's three weeks later. No,
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: but I'm saying, but you could do little stuff in Atlanta.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we could do little stuff in Atlanta. So it
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: was certain stuff we were finding out we could do.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: So after the pandemic ended, I want to say tours
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: the end of the year. The tour started back the.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: End of the year. It wouldn't be two years later.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: The next year, I was like, god, it was two years.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: The money had been gone, well, they had the unemployment.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Like I saw people that were like Homewoods doing backflips okay,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: because they were like, yo, this is the most money
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: I haven't made in my life.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: And I don't know if I can talk about that.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: That helped too. But moms were legal because I had
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: just worked on that coming to America set so I
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: was employee, okay, and it ended right then. So I
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: was getting my unemployment from that.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: I know in La it was doing. There was a
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: lot of people doing unemployment schemes.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: My cousin. My cousin was getting unemployment in LA. He
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: ain't never been out there. Yeah no, I went.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: After let me tell you something.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: There was some people's mailboxes that was getting overloaded with
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: them unemployment texts, like people was finding ways to ship
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: them checks out went after the fact but doing yeah yeah, so.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Okay, so you you survived the pandemic gracefully. You come out,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: you start going on the road. Yep, the money comes back.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: But then you got to think you really playing ketchup.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Even with thet the unemployment during the pandemic was like,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: you're hilarious.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: Because I wasn't. I wasn't working for it. Ain't appreciate it.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: How's your how's your feed me? I think this is
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: the first ever episode where some fathing meal and just
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: cooked like I'm at your house. You're like, I'm supposed
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: to your food.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: Taco.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: It's got the little sauce to show you this. This
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: looked like a definite hood taco.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: Check it out. You add legos and stuff to it's
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: pretty good?
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Do you usually add this white?
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: You need a ca Okay, I want a little bit
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: more cashe on it? What it's salty? Mm hmm? What
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: it's dry? Man? You need like a lot of.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Well I didn't.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't know you was gonna eat it.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: I can't.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: I can't, George my good.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Oh damn, I wasn't add that much messed up.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: Hold on now, bit let me see.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Let me see. Hold on, I'm gonna end up making
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: this super saucy.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: That's all you were missing.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I like it with the for
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: real you know what cuss on? Mm hmm.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: Then sometimes you just get you a bag of chips
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: and eat with it too. Oh man, don't crunch up
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: them chips on there.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: That would have been great if we would have put
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: the chips on there, but we got some chips.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: I didn't know how the budget was set up.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: So when you're at home during these broke times, is
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: this is what you're doing? You're like, oh man, you
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: know what this could just use a little bit of
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: chip ad.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, you know what's so good?
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: Are you gonna do it with chips? It's gonna be good.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: I think I was on this show. I forgot who
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: They added chips to a sandwich and I said.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, that's the bit, and you cut it diagonally.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: I don't know what about cutting that sandwich diagonally.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: In Atlanta thing, because yes, I was asked to be like,
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: how you cut it?
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: That's a difference straight.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: I said diagonal and they were like, yes, you won,
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: you passed.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: So when we started back tour, they's good, now we're
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: talking mm hm, and I got yeah, let me add
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: some saucea to it too, and that pepper jack cheese
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: I think it was. That's that's good, right. You don't
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: want to overdo it. Check the flavor from your chicken away.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: So we started back tour. This time I realized like, okay,
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: I never know what could happen. I need to start putting.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: I need to save better, put money up in case
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: this happened, because you never know.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: Also that the pandemic I only teach you one of
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: the things that I definitely walked away with because I
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: owned the business and it was like doing really well
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: and it was my only stream of income. When the
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: pandemic happened, I learned that you should never only have
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: one stream of income.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: Good hold on any of that crunch mhm, we don't.
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: We don't fuck them up with that.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: It reminds me of the crunchy wrap at Choco boll.
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: This might be a little better though, Okay, I.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Love how proud you are of your cooking.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: Well, no, you're right though, because it's like you just
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: got to have some money, man.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but multiple streams more different. So you get this money,
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: now you're thinking about saving and making it work.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: And then more opportunities just start coming. Oh I'm tripping
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: another thing. During the pandemic, eighty five South got to
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: host the BT Awards. Okay, so all between this time
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: I'm getting unemployment. I do the BT Awards with them.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: They stopped my unemployment because they felt like I was employed.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: But I would think that that would be like an
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: independent contractor, you wouldn't have to deal with that till
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: the very end.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: But when you put that Social Security number down on
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: the right away. So then they sent me some stuff
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: in the mail. They was like, are you employed them?
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: I'm like, no, I just didn't right back cut my
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: unemployment off. Oh shit, yep, That's what I had to
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: think about, like what happened during that time. But after that,
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: we get back to touring. And then another thing I
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: keep You can't really just know you're automatic because if
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: they have dates, anything could happen, Like, well, we got
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: to cut back on the budget, so I'm not guaranteed.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: So I was like, I need to just start saving
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: money in case those things happen. But God forbid, it
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: never happened. I did that just and just start saving
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: more and then just like notoriety, like more people knowing you,
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: and then even like doing the eighty five South Show,
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: and then after that, I start I did a few
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: music videos. Okay, yeah, So it was like it just
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: was like the trajectory just was happening exactly how I
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: would think it was gonna happen, but it just didn't
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: come at the time. And that I thought. I thought
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: right after I did come to America, I was just
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: gonna yeah, but it it didn't happen like that for
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: a reason.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: What do you think that reason is?
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: Mm to keep you grounded, I'll say, keep you grounded,
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: and then to understand things like it's not on your
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: time and appreciate a lot of people. And we don't
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: realize people like you gonna appreciate this when you get
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: to this level or getting this place, and I ain't
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: realize it at the time, like because some people go
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: through way worse than I thought. I think I went through.
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: But after the fact, man, when I started just seeing,
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: like you see the productivity or like the progress of
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: your own career. Like if I look back certain certain
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: times when I'm getting deposits from a show, like this
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: might be twice the money I was getting for a
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: show and I was so happy to drive to. But
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: it's like we start feeling entitled, Like you know what I'm.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: Saying, Yeah, how do you stop from feeling that entitlement? Though?
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: Man, you got to just go around people who bitter.
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm saying nobody.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: So there's no such thing as the right thing. And
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: that's why I love this show because they get to
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: kind of get this perspective.
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: But no, like you know when you go around somebody
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: and you hear them complaining and feel like, oh, I
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: supposed to be doing Like nah, you gotta work for this,
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: or like this could be me if I don't keep
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: like grinding and keep working.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: What are some key things that you learned about the
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: industry on your road to success?
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: Man, be useful. And when I say be useful, a
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: lot of people try to take away from a situation
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: when they get around the situation. Sometimes I'm thinking what
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: can I bring to this situation? Sometimes even if it
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: don't benefit me at the times, Like I want to
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: show I'm a team player. So a lot of people
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: don't want to be a team player.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: They just coming with us.
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And a lot of people and like a lot
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: of people want to be like a lot of people
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: want to be the ultimate star. And when I say that,
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: like I'm thinking about on the sports side, a lot
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: of people want to be like the main face of
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: the franchise or something like that. Man, that don't mean
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: nothing if you're not a good teammate or a team player.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: It's sometimes in certain teams if you think about maybe
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: the Chicago Bulls Dennis Rodney, going any other team Dennis Rodney,
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: but it's like how he was helping them win championship.
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: You're gonna remember Dennis Rodney. You're gonna remember stuff he
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: was doing. I'd rather be on a winning team and
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: being a role player than being on a team that's
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: not doing great and being a.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: Star, because then it's like that makes sense.
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: A lot of people don't realize that though you want to,
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: because the people who make the most money, they they
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: usually have to have the most bills, more people to
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: take care of. Yeah, so you find the little level
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: you want to be at and stay right there.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. I mean some people that'll be like
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: they'll be broke or and they they don't they don't
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: necessarily I don't say broke, but they don't really help others.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: And they'll be like, well, when I am rich, I'm like, oo,
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: if you're not doing that this right, it's only gonna
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: get worse because with the more money you make, the
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: more bills go up.
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: No.
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: When I first moved to la I think my first
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: room for rent was like four hundred and fifty dollars
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: that'd be impossible now, you know. But sometimes I joke
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: with my girlfriend's like, Yo, when I first moved there,
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: i lived on like twelve hundred a month, I'm like,
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: how did I do that? But the truth of the
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: matter is it is like your bills are just gonna
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: keep growing as you grow. So if you can't find
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: it now, you you know.
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: You're gonna want more stuff out of life. You see
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: more stuff you around certain people. Now your needs grow,
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: So it's like and plus, you're not the same person.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: You was at twenty four, Yeah, yeah.
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: Twenty seven, thirty, you know what I mean?
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: What advice would you give to other comics or actors?
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: It gonna sound crazy, but don't give up. That's why
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: a lot of people don't make it. Don't give up.
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: And a lot of people when you look around and
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: you see certain people, they either gave up or they
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: got it. They got a bad ass attitude that stopped
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: a lot of people. If I'll come around you and
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: you always negative, I don't want to be around you,
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: even if like even if I'm going through, so I'm
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: not gonna bring that around you because then you go,
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: like every time we're always going through something like fear.
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: You still gotta be like lead certain stuff, like at
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: the house, if you're going through stuff at the house
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: or leave stuff at your job.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: I agree with that.
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: A lot of people like you gotta be wanted people
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: to be be likable. Yeah, people not likable and they
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: give up. Yeah, and that's why they give up because
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: they're not likable.
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: Have you ever burnt bridges in the industry, I'm just y, Yeah,
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: can you share a story about that. We don't talk
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: a lot about it, but I do know in the
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: industry it's a dangerous It's a I learned a valuable
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: lesson at a very young age on how dangerous is
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: to burn bridges in the industry because you never know
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: who you and it comes full circle on your life
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: that one person it wasn't worth it.
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: But you know what, I do know this though, it's
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: like I'm just not burning them just because just to
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: burn them. After a while, I was like, man, hey,
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: we don't reach the peak, like if we never have
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: to work again, that's cool, and then I'm loyal. So
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: it's like the people that I work with and stuff
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: like that. Now, if it gets to the point where
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: we don't work work together, anymore. They donet done. We
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: done done so much business together. I know. It's just
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: it's just reached its time, you know what I'm saying.
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: But it's like the people I'm around, It's like I
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: I like to be around solid people. So I feel
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: like you're not solid and I can't trust you or
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: I can't read you, then I'm faking it.
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I don't.
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: Want to go around nobody. I got a fake laugh with,
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: fake kick it with. So it's like it's not so
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: much a burning bridge. It's like if somebody were like,
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: what happened with you? I say, i'n't fun with them,
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: and that be it. They'm not talking bad about it.
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean sometimes you can burn a bridge like I,
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: Like I said, accidentally you could burn a bridge. Yeah,
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: but and don't have to be like I don't f
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: with them. It just be like I accidentally burned the bridge.
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: And not knowingly. Yeah, you know what, a lot of
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: people don't have relationships to know that they burned the bridge.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: I was very fortunate. I remember when I did it.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: It was ironically it had something to do with ludicrous
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: def jam kind of messed me up, but it was
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: it was an accidental overstep. But I was fortunate enough
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: to have other people on the label call me and
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: be like, yo, you better send some flowers and start
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: kissing ass now, because you really did some damage.
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: But you had a relationship with them.
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I have a relationship. Yeah, they had relationships where
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: they were like, go take quality time and fixing. Luckily
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: I was able to fix it. But I got someone
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: on the inside saying you messed up. Fixed immediately, you.
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: Know, but them knowing you what if you was going
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: around them always with a negative attitude in the mass spirit,
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: they were like, oh, that's just her.
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they wouldn't have looked out for you, would have
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: looked out for me. But but I will never forget
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: that lesson. And I was like, never ever again, because
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: I remember I had to work with j jay Z
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: on a project and that's when it bit me in
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: the ass. And I said that hurt. It hurt, it
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: hurt more than you could ever imagine. I was damn,
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I fucked up. I never forget it.
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: I was like, never again. You'll never forget a lesson
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: when it involves jay Z. Right, Yeah, I was like, ah, man,
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: that was a major funk. Up and yeah, lesson learned
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: never ever after that, never ever burned.
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: What a good thing. He'll never forget you.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: Oh, it wasn't with j particular, so our cross pass
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: he definitely forgot. But but it's so funny because I
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: still email requests the jay Z's publicist. I'll say, like
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: once every four to six months, and I shoot my
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: and I'll just be like, go worry. In a couple months,
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: I'll come back to you. Yeah, And I think she
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: thinks it's funny at this point.
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: Sometimes she'll respond really fast. Sometimes she'll be like, yeah,
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: I'll see you in a couple of months. She'll be
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: like that, Yeah, but thank you so much for your time.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: I really really appreciate it. Where can people keep up
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: with everything? Nap Green on.
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: Social media at nav Green and avv green.
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: Is there any projects we could look out to in
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: the future future?
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: Right now? Something coming very so Drew Ski he's doing
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: a Could Have Been House?
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: And what's that about.
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: Well, he takes some challenge, he say, they challenge, but
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: he takes some artists and put him in the house
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: and they compete for fifty.
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: Thousand, okay, So, and it's called what Could Have been house,
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: could have been house. Yep, that's hilarious, and.
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: They got broken play on the Channel eighty five app.
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: That's my sports show touring with eighty five South. By
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: the end of the year, we got a movie Departments
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: out that Tip directed. Uh, Carlos Miller's in it. D
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: c On Fly, Little du Ball, j Ski. It's so
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: many funny comedians in it. K Dog that's out. Yeah, Ship,
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: that's about it.
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: Okay, everything that green, everything that all right?
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: You didn't finish your food? Tell the truth? Where was it?
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: Don't don't talk behind my back.
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: It's a it's a solid C plus, see a D plus.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: It's one of those meals that I don't go home
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: and try to remake. Yeah it was cool. I gotta
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: be polite. And you're a comic. You can roast me
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: if you want to know.
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: So you made it. Look how much I ate you.
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: Was probably starving at It's a definite. I'm broke and
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: starving to that. I need to kill my stomach.
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: I killed definitely look like you just twice. I tried
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: to help it with the sauce. I tried to help
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: it with the chips. I mean, I try to bless
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: you with a taco bell compliment sort of. But nah, man,
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: I've never been so bad. This was absolutely like one
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: of the dishes that I would not highly.
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: Come on, No, I appreciate you, hav No.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you taking the time out of your schedule
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: to share your story. Thank you, thank you. Peace out y'all.
• 55:53
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