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Getting Personal with Miles and Troy: Unfiltered Q&A · Corporate Dropout

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You just drop back into corporate drop out. Drum roll for the guests today. Where's your drum roll,
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bro? Absolutely no one.
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We're getting back to our roots. Miles is dressed like he was a part of the French Revolution. I got
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the same beanie on. How are you feeling? Hot and steamy over there. Feeling a little. I'm feeling
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studious today. We got the beanies on. It's gonna look a little hot, but, you know, it's just. Just us
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today. Just, like, all the time. It's just us. As a matter of fact, you guys are interviewing us today.
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We're going to go through a Q&A. You know, we ask a lot of people, a lot of questions, but what do you
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want to know from us? I'm an open book. You open book. I'm wide. Open. Oh, wow. Okay. Wide open. So we're
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gonna go through all these questions and, um, from the series to the sentimental. To the goofy. To the
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silly. To possibly the freaky. I guess we'll answer those, um, from your, uh, studious fit and
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opinion. Where do you see yourself in five years? Looks like you got some investments lined up
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today with that fit. In five years. Um. Wow. What do I see that? See,
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that's that's a question. Yeah, that's that's quite the question I can answer first, if you want me to.
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You go first. I'll let you go first. All right. So we're gonna we'll probably get into my school
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stuff later. You know, I got my investments rolling. I just got out here to New York. In five years, I
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hope to see myself with more bread. Maybe owning a property. Mm. Being a grown man,
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hopefully. I mean, our apartment has a kids center. Hopefully. I'm not using that by then, but I hope
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to be happy, healthy, family happy and healthy. More money and more money invested.
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So when I'm 60 and I'm not doing buck bangs anymore, I don't have to worry about putting the
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putting the fries in the bag. You know what I mean? How are you feeling over there? I think I mean,
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that was. That was beautiful. Uh, my main goal, I guess, is just to be happy. I got some little
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business plans. I don't want to speak too much. I don't I feel like if you overshare sometimes, it,
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um. It could, it could affect the outcome, but. It manifested in the wrong. Way. Yeah. I also see
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myself, hopefully with a nice little property and, um, kind of want to get a dog eventually. You see
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yourself living with me in five years? No. Definitely not. But hey, we hope we
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stay friends though, for sure. Okay, yeah, sure. I'll make it to the wedding. So should I do the next
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question? I, um, yeah, I guess I'll get into the next question. The next one
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is, how did you guys get into modeling? I mean, you modeled a little bit more than me. I've done, you
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know, a few shoots here and there. I know you're a little cockeyed, so it's kind of. Yeah, I know it's.
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Um. But for me personally, it was just straight up, um, being doing fashion content for a long time. A
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lot of the brands you model for, people that like you end up being friends with and being homies
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with. So a lot of times they just reach out off the love. I feel like a lot of you guys ask me for
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modeling stuff. I did start as a model, but it was kind of a flop. I was with a agency in Chicago and
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they kind of told me I never walk a runway, didn't really book any jobs. The way I get my jobs is not
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the conventional route. I, like Milo, said. We kind of get them off social media. That whole four, two,
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four show I walked. I got it straight off of muck bangs on the internet. So it's an unconventional
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approach if you're looking for the more proper way. I've been told this a million times you got
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to shoot digitals. So if you're a girl or a guy, just go on the internet. Type in. Men's digitals is
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going to be a dude in a tank top in some skinny fitted jeans. You're going to take those pictures,
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you're going to shoot a personality video. You can fake it if you want to. I'd be like, hi, I'm Troy, I
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play basketball, I do all these cool little things. You should book me for a shoot. And then you just
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get your measurements, and then you're gonna reach out to mother agencies. A mother agency kind of
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looks over all the different parts on the map in which you're going to work. And once you get that
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mother agent, they're gonna book you for castings. You go to the castings, and now you're getting
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jobs. But it's pretty cutthroat. And it's like an industry that's kind of based on your physical
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appearance and not much more about what's going on inside your mind. So it's pretty. Amazing a
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little bit, though. So I feel like a lot of social, like if you have like a social following,
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especially if you start to build it up, it does increase your chances. Yeah. I mean, like if you
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look at fashion shows the past like three years, they're not really booking conventional models
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anymore. Like you're going to see net spin walking down the runway. My homie. Yeah I walked with
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clavicle or I walked with opium baby. And Jesus like my homie he walked with Kodak Black. So
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you're either gonna go the conventional route or just build some motion online and it might pay
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off that way. Our models, even models anymore. Are they just famous people who are tall and skinny?
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Well, shows nowadays I kind of don't like it, even though I'm a part of it. It's less about the
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fashion now and the clothes, and more about what's going to get the most social media interaction. So
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what I'm saying. I mean, I feel like, no offense, but aren't you a little tall to be. A little bit the
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prime model? Heavier. Dude, six one. Six two. You're in the money. I'm, uh. I'm gonna say six six. Because
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if I say the other inch above, everyone starts going like this. But I am a little too tall. When I
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used to go to the castings, I used to take the insoles out of my shoes, so I appeared shorter. I'd
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tell them I'm six three, and then they'd be like, oh, you look a little taller. I'd be like, oh. The
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reverse height. Yeah, they're the reverse height boosters. And then I'd be like, oh my, my basketball
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team is going to be happy that I'm a little taller. But that's kind of the approach you take.
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Conventional and unconventional. Um, maybe we get a model on here and they do the full breakdown. Yeah.
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Alex, I want to see let us know we can we can get a motto on here, and they can give you all a
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different outlook on. Yeah. Pick your favorite model commented below, getting a couple questions
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on if we should become rappers and then be the next Rae Sremmurd and make a couple songs and
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then, you know, screw the whole social media thing. Let's just make party music. You think you have on
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the beat one time. Sometimes when we get fried, we start freestyling and I don't think we're there
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yet. Not yet though. It's not not saying no, but we're not there yet. If I were to make a song, I'd
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have to go off the dome. No notes. I'm gonna write some deep shit down. Maybe we make a song
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on the podcast. Maybe you get, like, a Playboy Max in here. No, I'm writing something. I'm gonna get
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deep and philosophical in my tracks. Okay, wait. There's a contrasting perspective on this one. How
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long did you. How long did it take to grow your hair? Because you just under that hair, there's a
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whole bunch of nothing. Now, how long till you grow your dreads? Uh, Like six years. Damn. Yeah.
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And then just one day, I woke up. I posted the video, did pretty well, but I woke up and I was
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like, I'm done. I wasn't going through nothing. I was in a lot of dancing. Like, are you going
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through something mentally? But I was like, bro, I just woke up and I was like, yo, I'm over it. I
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don't want hair in the back of my neck. I like swimming in pools, I enjoy pools. I really like
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pools. Worst thing about getting out of pools is you just got wet locks on your neck all day, bro.
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And you gotta go get a read twist. It's like 200. You got to tip them. You gotta wait and never have
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AC in there. They pull on your hair. Advil doesn't work. You just gotta deal with it. Then you leave,
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then you go to sleep. It hurts again. For what? Yeah. I kind of just roll out of bed and call it a day.
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Well, I had a pixie cut 2000 scare and soccer mom cut before this. That was a year ago. So I've made
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this much progress. In one year, my hair grows like a weed, though maybe it is because I smoke a lot
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of greenery. I don't know, maybe that's something to do with it. Good. Probably does. You got like, you
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got something more sentimental for me over there. Sentimental vibes right. Now. Yeah, I don't know. Um,
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maybe it's a therapy session today. Uh, I'm not getting much sentimental on this. On this right
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now. Well, well, what did you do to help start out with your content?
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I just generally loved editing and posting videos. I love. The game. I just loved it. I still love it.
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It's just like, I like I like, like my favorite part of it is when you post a video and you read
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the comments, bro. I single, I think my the people who be in my comments are like like the funniest
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people in the world bro. Like I will post sometimes just to read comments, just to just to
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read what people got to say. Just for. Fun. Yeah bro. I think all the, the stuff they got to say is
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way more lit than what I gotta say. I mean, yeah, I feel like I was in it for the love of the game
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too. I was making Fortnite montages, I was making vlogs. I was never the type of YouTube video dude
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to be like spending 24 hours at Walmart or anything like that. But love the game consistency
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and you can't base how far you've come off motivation because motivation runs out. You're
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going to feel like a slacker one day, but you still get a lock in. There's things you got to get
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done every day. What's your favorite country you've been to? My favorite country.
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I mean, for me, it was my first trip ever South Korea. First time out of the country and I'm on my
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one's out there for three weeks just figuring it out. I only know two words. What is it?
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And I say, oh, and come somebody. Duh. I think that's like, thank you or something.
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But you know yourself as a man, you should definitely take a solo trip. I do have a story
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about this though. Same night in the club. First of all, dude, I'm dancing and dancing,
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dude. Shoulder bumps. Me, I turn around, he looks like stereotypical villain. Like tattoos.
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Ponytail, leather jacket. Okay. Maybe about five, nine, five eight. He
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bumps into me. He turns around. Slaps the shit out of me. What? Mind you, I'm. I'm a little
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tipsy. I'm a little groovy. I ain't really. He just slapped. You. Yeah, he slapped me. I don't know what
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he called me. And then, um. I just kind of laughed, bro. And you know, that leather jacket was hefty. I
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couldn't really tell. I felt it a little bit, but, you know, I just kind of laughed it off. Because
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I'm not gonna fight someone in South Korea and then get locked up for the rest of my life. No one
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to pick your battles. Because after he slapped me, they picked him up, threw him out of the club, and
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then right after that, you know, I'm in there having a drink. I'm Google, translating, talking to
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this dude. And one thing I didn't realize is sometimes the words don't translate correctly. So
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we're having a couple of drinks being this guy, having a conversation, you know, very friend like.
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And then he Google translates me something. he's like. Do you want to leave? I want to
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play with you, I said. Safety. I was like. You didn't run that
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well. That kind of threw me off. So I slowly, respectfully migrated to the other side of
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the bar. Okay. But then next day I realized what Google translates. I want to
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play with you really just means I just want to hang out, chill, be cool. So he
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wasn't trying to translate. He wasn't trying to, you know. Damn. Kiss. He was just trying to
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chill. I understand. But that was a pretty memorable moment for me. Damn. Once you go out the
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country, that culture shock like you gain a whole new perspective on life. You really be walking
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around like, wow, people really grew up here. They ain't got chick fil A, they ain't got Chipotle,
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they ain't got the Dispo. I mean, I'm not really thinking about that actually at all. I And just
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kind of how, like, people just live such different lives. I feel like this is something that people
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really don't know about, and we're gonna have contrasting answers. What are things you don't
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like, slash um, or what are things you don't like about being known? Slash being in the industry.
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You're in. Mhm. I can't answer my question. If you
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want to sit there and think about it, go ahead. Um. Everyone knows everyone.
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It's a lot like before I was making content. I used to think like, oh, it's a whole nother world
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up here. Like, no one really knows each other. Everyone knows everything. False information and
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rumors are gonna spread. Um, people talk and you gotta think
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like we have, like, me and Miles started as Instagram
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friends. Really? And now we live together. And when you kind of meet someone that you work on the
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same thing. Like if you meet someone at your job, you kind of relate on that and kind of get close
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quick. I feel like you kind of gotta watch your back because you don't know what
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people's intentions are. Like, a lot of people are just like, cool, we're homies. Like, some people are
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just quote unquote clout chasing. Some people are looking for a reason to like one up. You. Some
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people treat it as a competition. Like, uh, I'm doing better with my socials than you. I'm in
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these places like I'm flexing on you. I hate when people treat you like a competition. Like, bro,
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we're all just. A little bit. You disagree a little bit. I feel like a little friendly competition. You
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don't gotta, like, hate the person. I feel like if you have, like, like someone who makes similar
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content to you, like a little, like in your head, like, oh, he made this. I'm gonna make this. And then
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he does that. I feel like it kind of makes both content better, but, like, you don't have to be like.
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Like in, like, a rude way. But like, let's say you post an eating video and you edit it super fire.
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And I'm like, well, I'm gonna try that. And I edited mine super fine. Oh, I'll do him, aunt. Both of our
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content's doing what on both of our videos. Increasing in quality.
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Yeah. But like for the. Right reasons. Comp. Yeah. Friendly comp I mean yeah yeah, yeah, I see what
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you see. There's two sides to it. Yeah, there's definitely an evil side to it as well. But I feel
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like if you do it in like a friendly way. But you know, I think my things more of just like if you
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do something, everyone's gonna find out. Oh, yeah, I know that for sure. Especially like when you, when
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I first kind of got into, like, the social media space, like, you kind of like meet people and you
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think that they're, like, genuinely genuine friends and they just be chatting, bro. Chat and like,
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overly chat. Just like, like, I'll be outside and then I'll hear something about myself that I
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didn't even know. Yeah, no, I didn't do that. Like, people will not like you over something that you
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didn't even know you did. And that's just like, you just gotta deal with it and just take it on the
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chin. Yeah. You gotta you gotta be careful. But you know, me and Miles kind of just mind our business
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over here with the make up videos. Shoot this podcast. So, you know, hopefully no one has anything
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too bad to say about us. Definitely. Do we try to be kind with our stupid hats on? Yeah.
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I gotta answer some car questions because I got a lot. Oh, yeah. Tell us about that car, Miles. What a
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lot of the questions are. Why do you have so many cars? Um, please answer that. Because we're in New
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York, bred for the car. Let me let me let me pay you this picture. Right. Yeah. Paint the picture
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real. Well a year and a half ago and go to Romania, right? I rent a nice GT3. Okay. Get on the
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roads. I go past the Dracula's castle. I just keep driving and I'm in the mountains, going through
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like the the the the trees. It's snowing. I'm just going. I got my homie in the car that I met in
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Romania. Just off a story post and we're like, she's like, yo, keep, keep going north, keep going
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north. Then I hear like the Ukraine war. Like we're at the border. I hate the Ukraine war. I'm hearing
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like bombs going off. I'm going through the mountains, I see Dracula's castle. And I was like,
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bro, I'm just like driving a porch, living life. And I just really fell in love with cars. And that's
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real life. That sounds like a dream, bro. It was real life. I got the videos and then after that I
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got back and I was like, bro, I like, I think I like it, like, I like, I just loved it so much. And then I
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ended up kind of getting into more cars. But a lot of questions are like, how do you afford them? But
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if you buy the right car at the right time, it's free. Can you break that? Yeah, write that
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down, please. For example, the Audi R8 that I picked up, I knew because I have like too much screen
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time. The Audi in like no car brand is making any v tens. So I'm like, yo, this is the last v ten ever
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made. Which is like the engine. So I'm like, this is bound to go up in value. So I bought it. And like
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at the time that car was worth around like 120. I got it for weigh less than I fixed it up, but at
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the time the car was worth around 120. Fast forward like two months. Audi announces no more
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VNS, so there's no more VNS being made in the world. So that drove my value up by like 40 K. So
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when I go to sell it, I'm making money on it. Can you or you could break that down to like any car.
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You just got to recognize like trends in the market. And once you get one you kind of got one
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foot in the door and then you just kind of jump around. So I remember last like like on the 420
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you're talking about, it was a barnyard find. It is. It was a barn find. Can you. Yeah. So if you're open,
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can you break down those numbers? Yeah. So I picked up my my R8. I was, I was scrolling on Facebook
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like 4 a.m. and I saw this R8 and I was like, it was like 76 K. I'm like, what's wrong with it? He
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said, flood damage. I said, don't move. I'm coming to look at it tomorrow. I literally left the crib an
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hour later. Drove three hours. He was like, yo, if you want it, like you got to do it. I didn't have a
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76 K liquid, so I had to give him a little deposit. Went back to the crib. How to analyze how I'm
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gonna get 76 K. I sold one of my other cars, sold some clothes, got to 76. Got the
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car, had to repair, you know, a few little parts in here. You know, a seat here, a little module there.
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Three cars in car as good as new. And now I'm like, it's on the market right now. I'm probably gonna
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try to get like 130 for it. And I'm gonna take that money and take a little bit for myself. And
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we just redo it. So by the car, when it's a low price, buy a
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bunch of parts, put it all together, make it look spick span, spiffy and beautiful. But you gotta
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love it, though. Or else it feels like work. It's all for the love of the game. It feels like work.
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All right. Drive it around a little bit. Get bored. Sell it. Rinse and repeat. I could do that. Honestly,
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if I really love the car, I'd keep it forever. But that car just isn't for me. Okay, though. But here's
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my question. So I was pushing good. Ford escape. Six years in Michigan. Okay. Sold my car. I don't have a
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car. I don't really need a car here. So why in the hell do you need four cars? You got it. Okay, so you
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got your date night car, right? Little two seater John for me. Some slick, some comfortable, some that
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shawty likes. That's one thing. Okay. And you got your daily. You want something a little bigger. You
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got space. You got the homies in. That's another one. Then you got your project car. That's the car
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made for you. Everything in there is for you. The seat that fits you the best. The gear that you
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like the best. The. The handling. Everything that wheels you like. That's your project. Car ticket to
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the track, whatever. And then you solid with three. But sometimes you can go up a little bit for the
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four. You usually have the investment one. Right. The car that's going to go up in value that you
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know. So you bring it out to, you know, a little car show, a little cars and coffee pop out stunting a
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little bit. And then, yeah, nothing too crazy, don't you? You actually showed me like, I've never
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actually heard of this before. You told me before. Don't you, like, share one of your car with your
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homies? Yeah, I got a I got an old BMW e30. Also living in a city. Keeping the cars is also
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expensive too. I don't keep, I don't keep. I only keep one car at this apartment at a time. So like
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I'll drive like my M3 for a week and then I'll go swap it out with my R8 drive that for a little
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bit just because like the paying to keep a car in Jersey City or New York is just mad expensive. So
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what was your question like? I feel like a lot of people maybe not have the funds to get
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the new car and start building it up. What are the advantages of, like, doing it with homies? Oh, um. You
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know what I mean? You guys both get to enjoy the car. Definitely had homie that you trust. Um, I
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wouldn't do it with, like, I have some homies in Miami that share yours three ways and each pay
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200. Don't do that. Because then you gotta, you know who wants it on Friday type shit. But I got to be
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a car that, like you, don't mind not having for a little bit. And then once you have one second
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bread, then you got two. It's like your brother, you got three. Now you got a fleet, and then you just
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swap them around. But the advantage, I'd say is everyone gets to enjoy it and the cost is like
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really low. What's the dream car? It's does it change a lot. Or the dream car changes every three
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days? Okay. Yeah. What's on the way right now? Pagani. Utopia.
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Bugatti. Utopia. Pagani. Utopia. Sounds like a movie title. Yeah. It's a dream. Yeah. I don't know if I
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have a dream car. You know, I'm from Michigan. We. We drive scat packs, long sleeves, challengers,
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Chargers, Escalades. Um, you might see, like, a young kid in a
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in in his grandma's minivan. Like booking it, like, 95 down the freeway. Tractors. I don't even know
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what that means. Tractors. Oh, a tractor, and sometimes you see a horse and buggy, though. The
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Amish. I get down with a horse. I wanna get a horse one day. Those are expensive. I mean, the fit you
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got on. Looks like you. You go play. What's the thing? Where they be? On the horse. Like in the. In
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the balls. Polo. Yeah, if that's what it is. What did you do before? Content to afford daily
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spendings. Uh, I've worked many, many, many day jobs, some pyramid schemes here and there.
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Why did you tell me you were in a pyramid scheme course? You all ever heard about cut code knives?
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Anybody in New York probably heard about cut co knives. You probably got a homie that tried to
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sell you some knives. It was a great pyramid scheme. Think about pyramid schemes are it's like
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I was like 15. But you can scheme them. That's the thing I learned once I learned how to scheme. And
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scheme the scheme. Bro. Because you would get paid $16 an hour. You can out cheek the cheeks. Yes. You
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could pay $16 an hour to basically try to sell knives like you like. You talk to someone like a
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family member usually and try to sell them cutlery. So I was just like, bro, what if I just
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stack like ten family members and then log it as like ten different hours? So I was getting paid
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160 to do one hour of work, and I saw them each like one fork, I'm up bread. And they found out and
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they fired the kid. But that was a good little. It's a good little vibe. Door to door sells for
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knives. Yeah. I don't think I've ever been in my head like I need to buy a knife. And I don't think
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I've ever wanted someone to pull up to my door and sell me a knife. I could sell you a knife. I'm
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selling me this pen. What did I do before? Um, got a couple
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I used to in high school. On the weekends. I used to work for this florist woman. And
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so I'd pull up to, like, weddings at, like, on Saturdays at, like, two in the morning and just
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throw away all the flowers and clean up the wedding. And then she'd give me a crisp, a crisp
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blue strip, and I'd give you my gas money. Um, I used to coach little kids in basketball. They used
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to be having me coach, like soccer and football and baseball. I didn't know nothing about it. But
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as long as the parents are happy. And then, um. I worked at Carrabba's. Worked at Carrabba's. I was a
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server. Imagine me serving you pasta at Carrabba's on a Wednesday night. But like I used to also make
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the bread. And if you ever worked in a restaurant, they probably have the bread slicer. So you take
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the loaf. Put it in the bread slicer and it comes out in like six pieces. What I do because I used
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to be. Like, can I just have some? One time, one day I walked in the house and I saw you eat an entire
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loaf of bread. No, Bev, no nothing. I just had to put that out there. That he's different. He's different.
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Okay, wait, let's let's take a step back for a moment. Living out here. Oh my goodness. I miss
23:36
being at my mama crib because my mama would make me like, 4 pounds of spaghetti and I would just
23:40
eat that. And I'm realizing it's like, genuinely like a financial issue for me, because I'll buy
23:47
the food and I'll eat all the food and I'll be like, I'm still hungry. Like the other night I ate
23:53
14 rice cakes because I'm trying to save money. I'm like, dude, I'm still hungry. And then in that
23:58
last night, I lay him over rice. He did. He. And I was gonna eat your burger too. But you ain't like
24:03
me. Day old lamb over rice. If it gets the job done, it gets the job done. But yeah, back to Carrabba's.
24:07
So you take the bread, put it in the bread slicer comes out six pieces. What I used to do, I said
24:12
take out the middle piece, eat it, and then put it back together. So it just looks like nothing ever
24:17
happened. Never got caught. And shout out to the kitchen staff because they used to give me right.
24:21
It was a whole bunch of Spanish mothers. Um, and I would just tell them, like I would tell them in
24:27
Spanish, like gran, like large, large portions, gran, gran gran. And they I'd be walking out of there
24:32
with, like, seafood pasta. Tres leches cakes and tiramisu every night. It was a phenomenal
24:38
experience. Shout out that boy Jose he used to give me right to with the salads. Churros. But yeah,
24:44
I was doing that. And then, um. Oh yeah, that Covid chick that was helping me out for a while. I was
24:50
on bullshit doing Covid. And then when I was playing at in college, you used to get like, um, a
24:57
refund every semester. So that'd be like 8000 of my bank account. But if you're playing sports in
25:02
college, you know you're broke because you don't have time to work a job. So once I got to
25:07
Vanderbilt, I was like, all right, I'm either going to pop off of the internet or we're back to
25:12
Carrabba's. And somehow I got blessed with this, and I'm very thankful. And now we're here chopping
25:18
it up with studious smiles. Yes, sir. Someone asked me, what's one thing y'all can't live without?
25:23
What's the one thing I can't live without? Air fryer. Do we want the sentimental answer or the
25:28
stupid answer? Rice cakes. One thing I can't live without. Pizza. Grubhub. I would
25:35
say the puff go. You know, but I think I don't know. Just.
25:43
I feel like talking to my mama. Talking to my homies back home. Ha! I know. But, you
25:50
know, like, I'm out here in a new space. And these people have known me my whole life, so it's just
25:55
like, got to get back to my roots and connect with who? Who seen me grow up. I guess I'm gonna say a
26:00
car. I like driving sometimes to, like, clear out my head. You know what, dude? Respectfully. But
26:07
sometimes I just want to go on to drive and just, you know, I'm saying I don't want to hear Troy's
26:10
music and whatever. I just want to go out and, you know, vibe a little, catch a little vibe. How is it
26:14
living with me? I feel like it's literally exactly what I thought it would be. It's not bad. He's
26:20
clean. He's chill. Didn't do too much sometimes, you know, it's a little over. You get over steaming,
26:25
though. I just pull up. No one knows where he's at. I'll just come in the crib, like, 2 a.m.. Tell him
26:30
about last night. From sleep on the couch last night. Netflix on, like, volume two. Cozy. He
26:37
walked in, I got the weed, the bitches, the bottle I got the weed, the bitches, the bottles. With a
26:41
bottle of, I don't know, white wine. Some czar starts turning on, uh, what?
26:48
Some. I don't even know what music. I was still trying to wake up and. Yeah, now we're up till 5
26:53
a.m. just bullshitting. And that's just Tuesday. I mean, it, screw it. There it
26:59
is. How is it living with Myles? Um. I mean, this is the first time I've lived in an apartment.
27:06
I've been in the dorm the last three years. Um, I guess the first thing was when Milo said the the
27:13
the light blue BMW, he had the stars in the roof. He had the stars. I've never been in a car with
27:20
the stars in the roof. And it just it changed the whole aura. Because when someone FaceTimed you and
27:24
you answer the FaceTime and the stars in the roof. What? I'm saying, I did it. For a good, great laugh.
27:28
Phenomenal laugh. But, um, it's been chill. I've never actually lived with someone who also makes
27:34
content, so sometimes it does feel like we're both just like unemployed as shit in here. But it did
27:40
get into it though. Yeah, no, we be locked in it. Just like it still blows my mind that I'm able to,
27:45
like, make a living off making videos, but it is nice to be able to, like, bounce ideas off each
27:51
other. Yeah. Bad spot first. Bad spot first. What, are you gonna like him,
27:57
bro? I feel like we'd answer. Your girlfriend broke up with me. Give me some advice. All right, you go
28:03
first. I'm over here struggling with this. Um, cliche, bro. Just get in that gym.
28:10
Get busy. Go test drive a car or some. Um, yeah. Stay busy. You got any advice for
28:16
that? Um. Well. Well. David de well, we're going through the same thing over here.
28:23
You know, I'm single as a Pringle right now. You know, nothing really bad happened. I hope the best
28:29
for the the other person I was in a relationship with. Um, you know, you're going to go through the
28:35
the seven cycles of grief about 80 million times. You're going to crash out, don't do things out of
28:41
spite. Don't do things out of jealousy. Don't try to make the other person's life worse, to try to
28:46
make yours feel better. Um, I think one of the biggest things that helped me kind of realize
28:51
that it's going to be all right one time heals all. You're going to go through BS days. If you
28:58
weren't sad or upset about a breakup, then that's not like that's not the right approach. You're
29:04
gonna feel sad. You're gonna feel upset. You're gonna be depressed. Like, you just gotta work
29:09
through these things. And you also got to look at it as you see a lot of older people all around
29:14
the world, all these older people around you, they all went through the exact same thing, and they're
29:19
still here and they're still living life healthy, making money, you know, having a wife, a new family.
29:26
So just think about the fact that he went through it. She went through it. So why can't. You?
29:34
But yeah, no, it sucks. And, uh, does it get better? Yeah. But is it like,
29:41
damn, you just gotta hit yourself with the steel goods, like ten sets of steel goods and you'll be
29:45
all right. So no hinge or nothing, you know? No, no. No. Rebounds, no hinge, no flying
29:52
chicks out. I said just get on hands or something. No, don't listen to this guy. Don't listen to this
29:57
guy over here. Always talk to someone. No need to talk shit about the other person. Just
30:04
let it be. Just let things be. Let it go. Focus on yourself. The healing will come
30:11
over time. You can't rush the process because you can't control the process. Yeah, I just fit right
30:16
there. Don't, uh. Yeah. Don't stress over what you can't control. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's, um.
30:23
Oh, that's a good one for me. What's your death row meal looking like? Ooh. So you go first before I
30:29
really get into my. Uh, my grandma, my mac and cheese.
30:36
That's it. My death row meal. All right. My mom's sugar fajitas. My mom's barbecue chicken. My mom's
30:42
spaghetti with the Hawaiian rolls with the Arizona green tea and the chocolate cake. Um,
30:48
cheesy beef burrito from Taco Bell. Let's just go to Taco Bell. Steak. Quesadilla. Crunch. Wrap. Supreme.
30:54
Uh, cinnamon delights. Nacho fries. We move over to McDonald's. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. How
31:00
do we go from mom's? It's one you can't order all that death row meal. They're not going at 12
31:04
different paces. Yes they are. It's my last meal. They doing. It? Yes. They'll do anything as long as
31:10
you don't say nothing. Crazy. All right. McDonald's screw Hussein. Um. We go. Six piece
31:16
nuggets. Sweet sour barbecue ranch. We go make chicken spicy if it's option. Add mac sauce. Add
31:23
cheese. Move over to Burger King. Hershey pies. Move over to Wendy's. Spicy nuggets. What are we missing
31:29
here? Chocolate chip cookies. Sushi. Oh, pizza. I was getting there. Bonito is
31:36
pizza with pepperoni and mushrooms on it. With the side of ranch and hot honey drizzle. Um.
31:43
It's enough. That's enough. I think that's enough. You sure? I think so, you guys. That was good. Yeah.
31:50
Um, someone asked me, is it better to buy designer clothes secondhand or in installments? Let's ask
31:54
this guy because, um, I don't really, like, buy clothes. Like, really? I'm not gonna lie. I had
32:01
my Po box at my school and my bio, and I was getting blessed. It felt like Christmas every day.
32:07
I was just getting clothes, so, like, you know, PR, PR, PR and these are just my
32:14
shower slides. Yeah, but, like, you've been out here your whole life, huh? What would you say? I feel
32:19
like growing up in New York, um, you got to get fly sometimes and get that designer on and feel like
32:26
the way he he he said the question. I feel like he's kind of saying what's like a better, cheaper
32:30
way to get into designer, either secondhand or in installments. I've never done an install. I make a
32:35
lot of jokes about cleaning a fit or or doing installments on some Lindsay jeans. Um, I don't
32:40
think it's worth it, to be honest. I will say. Though, my Klarna paid the drip. Yeah. You saying
32:45
either either. Oh, don't ever do that. Oh my. Goodness. Okay, though, um. Could it be paying for
32:50
kiss heels for five years. No no no no no second hand. Don't buy it for retail secondhand, you know.
32:57
I mean, yeah, I feel like for retail. Um, depending on the piece, sometimes you can get by, sometimes
33:03
it goes up in value. But, uh, there's not many designer brands that I genuinely think are worth
33:09
it. And I feel like it really depends on the piece. But sometimes, like, especially if you want like a,
33:14
really like a nice silhouette, the only like one brand makes, then I recommend getting a second
33:19
hand that that Klarna thing. You'll be out on a date in that last 200 Camacho account. You buy
33:25
work, bro. Just get a second hand, go to go to second Street, bring all the clothes you don't buy,
33:30
get a little credit and then just dip out. Yeah. Don't don't ever clarinet don't ever do
33:37
that. If you had to build your brand back up from scratch, what would you focus on first. Like
33:42
personal brand? I think I feel like he's talking about clothing brands. I'd say for me,
33:49
um, the biggest thing I'm having an issue with is just like production times. Like getting samples
33:54
made. Um, like, I've, I've created a product, like, months ago, and I still don't even have the
34:01
sample. I would definitely build up an inventory. And I feel like people think you have to have a
34:07
lot of money to build your brand. Um, I definitely say, like, if you got five K,
34:15
I feel like you're pretty solid off that because once you have that five K and if you break even
34:20
or sell all your stock, you're going to come back with more money and you kind of just rinse and
34:24
repeat. Um, you just really got to think about like, like you can't just start making clothes and post
34:31
them. Like, what's your brand identity? What's your logo? What's the meaning behind it? Like, is your
34:36
website easily accessible? Like I go to a lot of these like small brand websites and they have all
34:41
like this extra like scroll and make it look super cool. You know how I test if it works or not?
34:47
I give the phone to my mom and say, hey, go shop on this website and if she can't figure it out.
34:52
That's not the right approach. Super easy. Super accessible. Rinse and repeat your money and make
34:57
sure you have a brand identity. Now how is your silver overriding going? Yeah, I've, um,
35:04
kind of ran into one of the problems. You said. I dropped certain pieces at different times, but
35:09
sometimes, like, I kind of overthink things and I started to feel like merch a little bit, so I like
35:14
Step back. I'm like restarting. I want to tell, like, an actual story behind the clothes. I don't really
35:18
want to sell it as clothes. I want to sell it as like different experiences, and I want to tie it
35:22
into like an overarching story rather than just, oh, here, these pants buy them because they mine
35:27
type shit. So I like step back and like starting from scratch because, I don't know, I'd be
35:32
overthinking it a lot. And I'd also say like, you have to work a season ahead. So if it's winter
35:38
right now, we should be working on the spring and summer stuff. If it's spring and summer, you should
35:43
be working on the winter stuff. That's kind of something I'm struggling with because, for example,
35:48
when I drop my backpacks. I wanted to drop more colorways in August, which is back to school
35:54
season because that's when people are buying backpacks, but I can't get them produced in time,
35:59
so I'm missing that opportunity where I can make a lot of profit and put that back into my
36:04
business just because I wasn't prepared months in advance. So there's a lot of long term goals of
36:11
planning now to see the return later, and you're almost betting on yourself like you go through
36:15
this whole super long process. And the only way you're going to make money is if people like it.
36:19
It's like the opposite of making content. I do a brand deal. I get paid for one video. I don't have
36:25
a lot of money put in up front clothing brand, putting in a lot of money on upfront and hoping
36:30
for a return. But it's a lot more rewarding when it actually pays off because you're like, damn,
36:36
this really came from my mind and people are wearing it out on the street, which is crazy to me.
36:41
Why did you start getting into fashion and creation? What what made you want to get swag out?
36:48
You was trying to get some ladies in middle school. Pretty much. Pretty much. Yeah. You can't be.
36:52
Yeah. Um, it's trying to be drippy for the. You know, you just want to be fly. Sometimes you want to be
36:58
fly. Oh, I feel like mine was basketball. Like I grew up with that Nike League baggy shorts era. Um,
37:04
my coach always says you got to have source and substance. You can't. Too much sauce, not enough
37:09
substance. Can't have too much substance on the sauce. So you look good. Play good. I was going Nike
37:14
Elite socks. I feel like I got funneled into, like, the Hypebeast sneaker kind of sneaker head kind
37:20
of dude. And then once I got sick of retros and jays, I was like, ooh, I kind of want some boots. And
37:25
then. And then once you once you fall into that, you're into a D. Like most fashion people start
37:29
off with just sneakers. Yeah. For sure. What else? How did you evolve your style?
37:37
I feel like that's a good question. Um, I feel like when I started, I was very, like, trend hoppy, and
37:43
then eventually you kind of figure out what you feel most confident in and it changes over time,
37:47
but certain pieces stay. But I feel like you don't really. It's kind of not something you think about.
37:53
It just kind of just happens. You just kind of find yourself gravitating towards certain pieces
37:56
that you like wearing more than others. Like if you're about to go on like a date, whatever you
37:59
grab first is like usually what your style is like, what you feel most confident in. So you can't
38:04
really, like, teach it, just kind of what you feel natural. And. Um, my boy follower said something one
38:10
time that stuck with me. He said, you got to find yourself within the clothes. So when you're
38:14
shopping, you're not shopping for the clothes, you're shopping for you. So, for example, I grew up
38:20
watching zombie movies. I love playing Call of Duty zombies, like I got a Walking Dead zombie
38:24
shirt that is tied to an experience I had when I was younger. And also like a huge thing. I'd say
38:30
traveling opens your eyes very wide. Yeah, definitely. What you like and what you don't like.
38:36
Um, but really, looking back on your experiences in your life and what you find joy in and what made
38:43
you, in finding that within the clothes? Does that make sense? What do you think has the best drape.
38:49
Which I think has the best drip, like in the world? Mm. I mean, I don't feel like I've traveled enough
38:55
to, to tell because, like, I heard, like, people in Japan, like, dress crazy. They put it on in Tokyo
39:01
especially. They put it on. I still got New York on number one. Little bias, but Tokyo, they'll be
39:06
getting flea. I think the one. Thing. I've noticed. The one thing I've noticed about moving to New
39:12
York, it's literally every type of person here. Like, you're gonna walk, it's a GTA server. You're
39:18
gonna walk out the door and be like, what the hell did I just see right there? I like I'm seeing
39:22
something funky every day, but I definitely feel like being here. It makes you feel like. All right,
39:28
fuck it. I'm gonna wear it because who else cares? This dude's walking down the street with the
39:32
fishnet tank top on and the tail. And I was living in South Carolina, and then, like, I was wearing my
39:37
New York fits, and I looked like people looking at me crazy. But then I came back to New York, and I
39:41
was just like, I'm back at home. Like, it's just like a regular fit. And I feel like depending on
39:45
where you are, you kind of sometimes gotta like, adjust how you dress. That's why I like New York
39:50
and Tokyo so much, because you can literally wear anything if you think it's good, like it's good.
39:55
And I also feel like that ties into like if you're like a lot of people overthink about what
40:00
they're wearing because they care about other people's opinions. And it can be tough coming from
40:05
a less popular place like in Michigan, I'd be wearing a whole bunch of funky stuff. I'm probably
40:10
getting weird looks at when I was in class at Vanderbilt, I would. Y'all, y'all know how I dress.
40:16
That's exactly what I was wearing in calculus two at 1130 in the morning. You just gotta stop giving
40:22
a shit and the best way possible. You can't give a shit because no one's gonna remember what you're
40:28
wearing tomorrow or yesterday or the day before. Last week, I probably walked past 100 people. Today,
40:33
I don't know, I don't remember what they were wearing. So just dress for yourself, dude. Dress for
40:37
yourself. What piece holds the most meaning to you. When you like clothing. What clothing piece holds
40:42
the most meaning to you? Probably my galaxy foams because, like, growing up like, that was like the
40:48
shoe. And then I ended up getting it for free. Like through a brand deal. And, like, they don't even,
40:54
like, fit, right? But I can never get rid of them because that's just like. That's just like my
40:58
entire childhood embodied in, like, one product, low key. And it just happened from me posting silly
41:04
videos on the internet. I feel like it's kind of the same thing for me. All my Nike Elite like
41:08
Christmas birthday when I was younger. Yo moms, please buy me Nike Elite socks please. It was
41:15
tagged with a 15. It's like $18 each, bro. Like, please buy the Nike Elite socks. Mom and I still
41:21
have them all. And I can, like. You, ever run the Walmart reps? They didn't have the swoosh, but they
41:26
had the on the back. No, I don't do that. Back then if you were rocking fake stuff, you were getting
41:32
absolutely flanked. I didn't even know where to get fake kicks back in that day. I didn't even
41:37
know that was feasible to go by him. Go, go easy. Com yeah. I didn't like if you weren't fake Jase,
41:44
your life was over with. But back then it was able you were able to tell like Jordan was doing a
41:48
little. Yeah. Jordan. Jordan had a butt crack, bro. Now the only way to know is like, no, he got a butt
41:53
crack. No. No. But it was like he had a BBL butt crack. A little bit. But now the only way to know
41:57
is by like smell. You see the grill on TikTok. He'll be inspecting it. Yeah. He's owned by the
42:02
sneaker company. Yeah. Like back then you could just look at them and like, Jordan's doing a split.
42:06
They spelled Nike wrong. Now it's tough. Like people be people be getting away with them fakes.
42:11
I know some of y'all favorite content creators weren't fakes. Some of them in this room. Wait, what?
42:17
I'm playing. What's the next question? What's your craziest story from a photoshoot or runway? Yeah,
42:22
I've never been on a runway, so I guess you. Can you get a team cap? Um, I'm trying to think what
42:29
happened at that runway. Well, the craziest thing to me when I was in Paris and I had to go
42:36
before the Vermont show. I had to go to the fitting and I was like, I ain't got enough motion
42:42
to be in here, bro. Cause I'm getting fitted right next to gunna. A gun is on my right and Lancey
42:49
on my left. I'm like, dude, I just be getting fried. I lie to eating food and I'm next to gunna, which
42:55
is absolutely insane. Um. The runway. They can be very
43:02
blunt on how you look, so don't get your feelings hurt. And I don't know. I guess
43:09
the craziest thing for me in the experience was like looking at the videos after, because when I
43:16
was walking, I was kind of just like, all right, mug locking, don't look around. Because I remember I
43:22
could see some of my homies and they were trying to make me like, smile or something, but I was like,
43:26
I hit the ultimate locking, like, literally. But like when I go back and look at the videos and
43:31
like, all the cameras were pointing at me like all these super famous people are just like sitting
43:37
there watching me. And this fit strolling down in 108 degrees in a trench coat. It's like, Holy shit,
43:42
dude. Like the eyes that were on me. I felt like I was on the voice or something. They had the
43:46
spotlight on me. I got a story on the runway. Remember, I did a shoot in college, and like, you
43:52
ever, like, do a shoot, but, like, they don't have that many pieces, so you gotta, like, share. Yeah. It
43:56
was, like, outside, and it was dumb hot. And I like fake. I think I faked dodged the deodorant that
44:00
day. So I had a, I had to put on the t shirt, and it was like a girl in the shoot that I was like. Like
44:05
she was pain. And then they were like, yo, we need y'all to switch. And I was like, bro. And my shirt
44:10
was dumb, wet, funky as hell. It was like one of those nine. Yeah, she did it for your shirt. Yeah. It
44:15
was like one of them, you know, the, like the. What's that, like, the dry fit type of shit. So it holds in
44:18
the funk like extra. So I was like, oh, I bet I'm gonna go change. I went in the back, I just hit the
44:23
shirt and I'm like, I can't find it. And I ended the shoot there. I swear to God, I never gave the
44:27
shirt. I was like, bro, I'm not risking like, everything that I worked. This is like junior at
44:31
college, I was trying to work up and kind of build a name for myself. I wasn't about to just go down
44:35
over. Over some funkiness. Um, I will say, if you're doing photo shoots. Have extra shirts,
44:42
especially if they're dry fit. You don't want people sharing the dry free shirts, bro, in your
44:46
cap. If you're doing photo shoots like make sure to voice yourself like, don't put yourself in an
44:52
uncomfortable position, because when I was trying to be a model, I did a shoot with this one dude.
44:57
And like, he wanted to like he wanted to shoot it like Calvin Klein, like in my underwear. And he's
45:02
like, you just pull him down a little more. It'd be some weird photographer. Just a little more like,
45:07
dude. Like, no, please, no, no, no. You ever seen that? You know, when the
45:14
NBA players used to be doing the naked photo shoot, the other one is. Wait. No, it wasn't Chris
45:19
Paul. How much you have to get paid to do that. Shit, bro. Oil change.
45:27
All right, next question. Um, what do you think of choice? PB and J's. You never made me one.
45:34
Because you're never at the crib when I'm. If most of the time when I'm like, actually cooking up,
45:38
like, the rancid stuff he's done in the crib because he just can't witness what's going on in
45:42
there. Oh, here's a good question for you to answer. Since you've lived in New York your whole life
45:46
and been to a lot of apartments. How do we find our place, and what approach would you take to
45:51
kind of finding a spot in a big city like this? Hmm. Well, first of all, you got to decide what like,
45:57
is most important for you. So for us, it was like space. Full court, basketball court. And a
46:02
basketball court. So it kind of slimmed it down a lot. But I mean, I've lived in like five apartments
46:08
all over from, like, East Village to, like Brooklyn and whatnot, and they all just felt so different.
46:12
But whatever, like time you are in your life, whatever is like most important for you, you just
46:16
want to put that on the top of your list. I mean, I toured like six apartments, but this one had the
46:20
best court, and that was kind of that was kind of it. And the space to like, our rooms aren't as nice
46:26
as, like some of the other apartments like tour. Like we don't have, like a crazy view of, like the
46:30
city or anything. But we got a we got a basketball court and a bowling alley and a sauna and a movie
46:36
theater and two pools. And I got a follow up question. This is Troy. Why did you move from
46:42
Nashville? I moved from Nashville to move here, but I guess I didn't really share online like what
46:49
that process was looking like. I feel like I kind of just posted that I moved. Um, some of y'all
46:55
think I graduated. I didn't actually graduate yet. I didn't drop out. So I don't say I'm a I'm a
47:01
corporate dropout. I won't say I'm a school dropout yet. Um, I deferred so me and Miles
47:07
wanted to live in New York for a second, like, and shoot this podcast and everything. So what I did, I
47:14
only have one semester of school to finish, which is like 14 credits. So I just deferred this year,
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kind of took a step back so I could focus on this and then most likely next year or whenever I get
47:26
around to it, and I'm gonna get around to it. I'm not going to be that dude that like, I'm all the
47:31
way at the rim and I didn't lay the ball up. You know what I mean? No, I'm going back, I got you. You
47:35
know how much money I spent on school already? I'm going back. I've spent damn near probably, like, six
47:41
figures on school. I gotta finish it. But I'll be back in Nashville, probably, like, in a year and a
47:47
half to finish up that last semester at Vanderbilt. Um, don't drop out of school. I know
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everyone's trying to tell you school is not worth it, but at 100% is. And it's not always about the
47:58
education. It's about who you're meeting and the connections you'll get. Because I'm cool with
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Miles, I'm cool with artists. I'm cool with people in the fashion space. But I go back to Vanderbilt.
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I'm cool with lawyers, doctors, accountants, all those people that are gonna help me out when I'm
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35 and I'm looking to save some money. Go back to the you know, that was good. Back to the apartment
48:18
thing, though. I just had to get it off. Yeah. Get out. You get off your chest. If y'all are looking
48:22
for apartments, I'll be running street easy, but low key Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace got
48:28
some low low. If you're trying to, like, move to New York quick, you can either like pick up someone
48:32
else's lease, like they're trying to get out of it. Um, which is normally like easy because they don't
48:37
like, there's like, no credit check. You just kind of pay someone who's paying the lease. And, uh,
48:41
don't be afraid to, like, get a roommate. Um, especially if you're like, you want to move to,
48:47
like, a part of the city that's a little bit more expensive, because in the beginning, like,
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especially like if you just want to get into New York quick, like, that's, you're going to save a lot
48:55
of money because you don't want to like month four, month five, one, six, just start to get paid.
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Yeah. If you want to live in Manhattan and have a dorm sized apartment by yourself, it's going to
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cost at least four bands a month easily. Yeah, I was living in East Village. I had a little. It was
49:10
a studio with an airport bathroom, and I was paying like three, eight, and it was like the size
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of this room. Yeah, well, now we're living together. Who's the better roommate? Me.
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How? I got the weed, the bottles. We'll let y'all just let them. Who y'all think.
49:32
I'm the housemaid? Though I'm really clean. Hey. Be cleaning. I like the dabbing and get the cleaning,
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but. Like I'm not. I'm gonna tell you when I. When I hit the dev. Like, it just makes me start locking
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in like crazy. I'll just start cleaning everything. But some people have opposite effects like him. He
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just starts chatting. Well that's normal. Like who? Who who smokes weed and then says, yeah, let me
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clean the whole house in vacuum at 2 a.m.. Not regular. Actually, no, we're not, in fact. Wait, how do
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we meet? So the first time I came to New York was September Fashion Week 2024. Um,
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I've been building my social media over that year. I think I was around like 75 to 100 K. Um,
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I had a whole bunch of mutuals that lived in New York, and I basically just texted them all. I was
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like, yo, I'm coming to New York for the first time. Here's my number. It just hit my line because I
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don't know what I'm going to do. We were already mutuals. Yeah. Okay. So I don't know. I don't know. I
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didn't know where the story was going. Okay. So I hit them all up. Um, so, like, the first time I
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linked Miles, I actually met you garments and CJ all that
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day. And then, um, I wasn't 21 yet, and there was, like, this event, and, uh, I used my cousin's
50:48
ID that said, I was 28 years old, and, uh, we went up to this event and it looked like a, like a, like
50:55
a GTA party in there with all those, like, burlesque dancers and stuff. I don't think you'll
50:59
probably not remember it because, you see. I don't know who's in the back room ever been. I don't
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know about that. I don't know anything about it. I was like, dude, why am I here? But yeah, then, uh, me
51:09
and Milo smoked a J. And he's like, do you got an agent? I'm like, what do you mean an agent? Like.
51:14
Like he's like a manager. I'm like, why do I need someone to tell me how to post videos online. I
51:19
just kind of post the videos. He's like, bro, you gonna be making mad bread right now? I was like, oh,
51:23
for real? So then, yeah, he put me on to his manager and then, um, I got signed over there, and
51:29
then we were just going back and forth a little bit, linked them here and there. That's my.
51:34
Perspective. The next thing I know, we're living together. Yeah. Tell your perspective. So it was a
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clear night. No. Thank you. Actually, there was a light in the sky. We were on the
51:45
balcony overlooking the city, and, um, now we just chopped it up, and I was like, yeah, get an agent.
51:51
And then we went to, like, another bar. We started throwing back some brews. I don't even remember.
51:56
Yeah, well, yeah. No, we just chilled. Just homies kicking it. And, um. Fast forward, we're here.
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Yeah. Not much. You know how dudes be, though. Just like y'all meet a couple times, and now y'all cool.
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It's not like girls. Girls go through a lot of back and forth, but, like, if you're cool, you're
52:12
cool. Um, how do you guys come up with new ideas? I'd say the hardest part about content
52:19
creation and like especially being consistent every day, is coming up with ideas every day.
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Um, I'd say this job, it's one of the most
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it's one of the most intertwined with your life. So like a corporate job, you go from 9 to 5, and
52:41
then the rest of your night, you're chilling, hanging out with your friends. Like, separate from
52:46
your work. This is all intertwined. So anytime through my life where I say, hey, I'd like to share
52:52
this with people or I think this would be good, I just record it. So that's why I feel like I'm very
52:59
authentic. Like I'm very authentic to y'all. Because if I wasn't recording what I was doing,
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I'd still be doing it. I'd still be going to the gym hooping. I'd still be making, uh, a gluttonous
53:09
PB and J at 3 a.m. what I did, I just put the camera up and press posts on Instagram and
53:15
somehow it's working out. Yeah, I've been doing it for a little longer than you, so I feel like over
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time you sometimes don't want to share some things, but then like your content starts to lack.
53:25
So I feel like that's another thing that people don't really talk about. Sometimes you don't want
53:28
to, like, share what you're doing. Sometimes you just kind of want to just chill and like separate
53:33
it. But like when your content does the best, it's when it's like your life and your content is one.
53:38
It's not like I don't want to share that. Like I got a flat tire and then like, Shorty broke up
53:43
with me the next day and you're like, bro, that's your life. Like, you got to kind of share it. Yeah,
53:47
and I. Feel like that'd be the content that does the best, because then people actually feel like
53:50
they can really, like, get to know you and connect. But sometimes you take it out, you don't want to
53:54
share it. And it's kind of like. Like if we planned a trip to, I don't know, Miami for the weekend. Like
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in my head, I'm like, all right, I got to record this, that and this. Like, what I tell people about
54:05
content is you gotta treat it like a girlfriend. You're going to call your girlfriend, you're going
54:11
to text your girlfriend every day. I'm gonna open that Instagram and post that video every day. It
54:16
don't matter what kind of day I'm having, I'm checking in. Okay, so that's what I tell people
54:22
because it's not like, oh, I can post Monday through Friday in the weekend. I'm taking off. No,
54:27
man. Like, the internet's the fastest moving place in the damn world. If you're not staying on track.
54:32
On the weekends, that's when people be on the internet the most to like when you least want to
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do it. It's usually when people like when you want to chat, everyone else wants to chat and be like,
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Sunday, we'd be in the crib just lazy and we're like, that's the best time to low key post. If you
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weren't doing content right now, what would you be doing? Where would you imagine yourself? I'd be in
54:52
Washington DC doing a working for my Chinese Business Council. I did a little internship out
54:58
there back in the day, and then I came home for the summer. I started posting TikToks in and blew
55:03
up, but I still I still keep in contact with them. And yeah, I've been thinking about that. Like
55:07
alternate universe miles. I'd probably be wearing this. To me without the hat. How are. You? Hey, how
55:14
are you doing today? How are you? Um. What would I be doing? I'd probably. I'd either
55:21
be finance bro, or I'd be playing overseas. Basketball. One of the two. I don't know if I can
55:27
see myself trusting you with my finances. Why? I'm trying to imagine me like sitting down in front
55:33
of you. But imagine. No. Like, so slick bag. Taco Bell bag. No no, no. Taco Bell
55:40
bag. Working bag. Bust down on the wrist. Good. Cufflinks. Wendy's bag.
55:46
Oh, man. How long did it take you to blow up on social media? What's like blow
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up, though? Like 100 K? Like what I'd say. How long did it take you to get to the point where it's
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like, okay, I can make some real bread off this. Like, one day? Well, like, just because it's weird,
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cause, like, no, cause I was making videos for, like, six, Ain't no probably like over
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a year, like a year and a half. But like, I could have been making money. I just didn't know about
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the whole agency thing. And then one day I got an agent. Next day I was making money, so I don't
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really know where and that I could have started, but I was making videos since I was a kid. Okay,
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but like, when are you, like taking it for real? I kind of started like 20, 22. I started like, no, no,
56:29
no. Yeah. Not like 2021. I started like locking in. By 2022, I was making some chicken.
56:36
2020, 2021 I was farming. 2022 I was making chicken 2023. I was serving, you know, I was putting the
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fries in the bag, so I shit. I was always making videos, um, my first year in college, like I said, it
56:49
was either I work a job or this, this TikTok gonna pay for my tuition. So I was literally I'd go to
56:54
class, come back, make like 2 or 3 yapping videos, talking about absolutely a whole bunch of nothing.
56:59
And that was paying me like 6 to 8000 a month. And I was using that to pay my tuition and cover my
57:05
daily expenses. That's when back when the TikTok monetization program was booming, like people were
57:11
making hundreds of thousands of dollars a month off it. Um, it's mainly a rack of video for like a
57:16
month. Yeah, like one video I posted, I made like $4,000 off the one video. And, um, so I was doing
57:23
that. And then the summer came around and sophomore summer in college, that's like when you
57:27
get your first internship. And it was like, all right, I'm either going internship or I'm gonna
57:33
lock in on this and see what happens. And I decide to lock in on the content and see what happened.
57:37
And I, um, kind of just start blowing up off that because I had a whole plan to it. And then, like I
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said, once I went to New York and met Myles, then got the agent and then they started bringing me
57:49
brand deals, I was like, wow, there's a whole nother level to the bread you can make on this. So I feel
57:54
like that was kind of my moment. Um, with the main video that blew me up was when I first got to
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college. I've never had access to that much food before. It was like one meal swipe all you can eat.
58:05
I was like, oh shit, hell yeah. So I made a video, like, would I eat in a day? And I was like, I
58:12
was just like, ripping the pan and just like, going to the dining hall, like five times a day and just
58:15
going absolutely nuts. And then someone posted it on Twitter and it got like 50 million views on
58:21
Twitter. Jesus. And then I just started running with the food stuff after that, because before
58:26
that I was posting like fashion and basketball only. So then I started doing fashion, basketball
58:30
and food and just my life. What's a niche thing that people don't really know about you? Um, in
58:36
college, first I was a Chinese major, then I was a physics major. Why do you want to be a Chinese
58:42
major? I was just nice in Chinese. That's a Chinese. In high school, I loved China. I went to China. Okay.
58:46
Can you can you give us a couple of bars? No, I ain't doing that right now. No, Ma, that's how you
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get. But no, I kind of. Did. It, right. Yes, yes. Thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then, um. Yeah, that's when I
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went to go work for this, for that, for that cult. That was. Nice. Cold. No no, no, I went to I went to
59:02
go work in DC for the US Taiwan thing and I really enjoyed it. But then, you know, tick tock is
59:08
just a different bag, bro. It's a different bag over there. What you got that's niche though. Oh
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what do I got? I'd say even before I like, wanted to do the content. I always wanted to be able to
59:20
make my own clothes. Um, I just never knew how to get in the process of, like, manufacturing
59:24
something or kind of making mockups or any of that. So I was just like, screw it. I'm gonna go to
59:30
the thrift store and just start painting on the clothes about what I want to see. So back in high
59:35
school, I was making some extra bread by, um, painting on different clothing, selling it to my
59:40
friends family, stuff like that. And I wasn't too bad. I wasn't half bad at it. That Jay Mitch
59:46
podcast that we did, he had a lot of things to say about starting a brand. Yeah, y'all should go check
59:51
that one out. I feel like we were going to have many other clothing brand owners out here. So
59:55
anything like content, fashion, clothing brand modeling space, you might hear some good advice
1:00:02
over here alongside some bullshit. But you know the game. It's all
1:00:09
for the love of the game at the end of the day, but I think that may be enough questions. We might
1:00:13
have to run another Q&A another time, but I can feel the heat radiating off Miles body because
1:00:19
he's in that suit. You know, he's loosening up the necktie a little bit. I feel like we definitely
1:00:23
got to get another guest in here, and we're gonna move forward into another episode. If you guys
1:00:28
want to check in with us every Thursday, it's gonna be at Apple Podcast, Spotify and YouTube.
1:00:34
Yeah, thank you for that one. Got you bro. Uh, any other guest you guys want to see? Always drop them
1:00:39
in the comments if you want to see another Q&A. Let us know what questions y'all got. Fantastic.
1:00:44
Myles I appreciate you being on the pod today. Of course. Appreciate having. You. Y'all have a
1:00:48
phenomenal day. And guess what. Deuces.