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DJ D-WREK - Fried Bologna and Noodles · Eating While Broke

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  Speaker 1: Yo, what's up? Shiman d J d W rec And
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  Speaker 1: this is what I'm doing today, eating while broke, chilling
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  Speaker 1: here with my girl Colleen with and we're going to
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  Speaker 1: be whipping up a little broke meal. Little meal I
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  Speaker 1: used to make you know when I was when uh
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  Speaker 1: money was a little bit short. Nice? So what are
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  Speaker 1: you gonna have me eat today? Because well you could
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  Speaker 1: just I guess walk through the ingredients, all right, So
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  Speaker 1: what we're gonna do? What we have here? This is
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  Speaker 1: just regular bologning, like you know, bologna and cheese, and
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  Speaker 1: which is type of bologna, kindergarden food. This yere is
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  Speaker 1: beef top ramen and then butter it and said, what
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna make is beef top ramen with fried bologny.
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  Speaker 1: Got it? So this is an extremely affordable this affordable this,
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  Speaker 1: I mean this is this might be thirty cents right here.
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  Speaker 1: This is thirty cents. What all the big money was
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  Speaker 1: spent here? The butter. It's like all these dishes, like
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  Speaker 1: the nutritional value is like so low. Yeah, it's not.
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  Speaker 1: It has nothing to do with that. It's all about
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  Speaker 1: feeling the tummy, filling the tummy. Well, why don't you
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  Speaker 1: fill our tummy and start cooking for us because I'm hungry. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: this is what we do since since the top ramen
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  Speaker 1: is already unpackaged, we're just gonna put it in the
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  Speaker 1: in the boiling water. Most of the time, I kind
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  Speaker 1: of break it up a little bit for you know,
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  Speaker 1: you break it at hungry just because you know, other
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  Speaker 1: than that, you're if you don't break it, then you're
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  Speaker 1: having spaghetti. So I put im make it in a
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  Speaker 1: little I'll break it in a little four little okay,
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  Speaker 1: little top ramen pods. So there's a method to the matter.
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  Speaker 1: There's a method to it. So what I just did
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  Speaker 1: was I put the top ramen in the boiling water,
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  Speaker 1: let it boil, and I use just to kind of
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna get soft, and so if you don't want to,
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  Speaker 1: you don't want it to get too soft. Okay. So
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  Speaker 1: when was the time you ate this dish? Probably like
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  Speaker 1: nine seven, So since ninety seven you have not resorted
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  Speaker 1: back to this. I haven't. I haven't added fried bologny,
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  Speaker 1: but just sometimes like on a late night, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to eat a huge like I'm hungry,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't want to eat anything like heavy. I'll
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  Speaker 1: make like, you know, a little top run or something.
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  Speaker 1: So what we'll do now is we're gonna add We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna fry the blood. Okay. So what we want to
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  Speaker 1: do is it's just on right here, that is on. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: where are we? Don't burn yourself? No, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what the insurance policy, what you guys kind of insurance?
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're on eating more broke, So I don't
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  Speaker 1: have too much faith in it. So right now I'm
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  Speaker 1: putting a little butter on the in this skillet, just
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  Speaker 1: to you know. And now is that for it's to
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  Speaker 1: not stick or for it to actually just to you
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  Speaker 1: know kind of this is it adds labor and look
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  Speaker 1: calcium calcium, got it? This is calcium on the package. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: go for it. Okay, so you get yourself a couple
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  Speaker 1: of these here boom, let that fry up? All right?
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  Speaker 1: So what what this is gonna do? And this is
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  Speaker 1: what everybody did that fries bacon knows this It should uh,
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  Speaker 1: it should create able Okay. So we're looking for the bubble,
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  Speaker 1: waiting for the bubble. So take us back to seven.
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  Speaker 1: What was going on in I was a cashier at
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  Speaker 1: Costco wholesale, and I was living in l A. I
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  Speaker 1: was a cashier at Costco hostel and I was just
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  Speaker 1: out in l A doing what I call the Hollywood shuffle. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I got that from a Robert Townsend movie, but I
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  Speaker 1: was really doing that. I'm still Hollywood shuffling, but just
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  Speaker 1: on a different level now. Um and uh, auditioning for
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  Speaker 1: different TV shows and and and you know, dance gigs
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  Speaker 1: or whatever. So you are a dancer, Yes, I should
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  Speaker 1: do I should dance for different artists and music videos
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  Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, I mean you
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  Speaker 1: see the bubble, yeah, Bubble'll see the bubble. I see it.
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  Speaker 1: So are you supposed to pop it? Oh? Yeah, part
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  Speaker 1: of it being fun. So you wanted to kind of
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  Speaker 1: be a little crispy not to Christmas. So that's the
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  Speaker 1: whole point of frying is for the texture. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: for the texture and to add protein to to your meal. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Now do we know what
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  Speaker 1: really is in boloney? Is it like one of those
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  Speaker 1: hot dog things? Are probably? I mean it doesn't look
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  Speaker 1: like you should just shave this off the side of
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  Speaker 1: a cow. So so when did you realize you wanted
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  Speaker 1: to get into entertainment. When I was a little kid.
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  Speaker 1: I used to watch like, you know, Good Times and
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  Speaker 1: the Jeffersons and Different Strokes and things like that, and
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  Speaker 1: I would see these actors that I was I would
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  Speaker 1: always emulate anyway, you know it was you know he
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  Speaker 1: acts like I mean, I would, you know, kind of
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  Speaker 1: you know, emulate the young black actors that were out.
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  Speaker 1: You know, like I was always mimicking j J or
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  Speaker 1: something and uh, you know doing it what you're talking about. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's all that kind of stuff like that. And then
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  Speaker 1: the TV show Fame came out, and I was like
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  Speaker 1: I could dance too, and then be born and breaking
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  Speaker 1: came you know, all that stuff. So I was like
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  Speaker 1: I used to enter like little hip hop dance contests
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  Speaker 1: and things like that, and uh and I would win
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  Speaker 1: like first, second or third place, and I was winning money.
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  Speaker 1: So my mom wouldn't have to uh give me much
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  Speaker 1: allowance because I was always winning, like, you know, a
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  Speaker 1: few dollars at Chuck E Cheese every weekend. Yeah. So
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  Speaker 1: then so she did she standed up supporting that because
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  Speaker 1: you're always winning her Well, it was it wasn't that
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  Speaker 1: I was. It wasn't She didn't support me because I
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  Speaker 1: was winning. She just didn't discourage me. You know, like
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  Speaker 1: when I said, Okay, Mom, I'm gonna go to this
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  Speaker 1: little kid's club and we're gonna you know, it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be like a breaking battle or whatever, popping battle and
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that. You see. Right now, I'm chopping up
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  Speaker 1: the belogni because you gotta put little pieces of bologni
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  Speaker 1: in the ramen. Year when we turned it down a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, it's it's actually smells pretty good. Yes, it's
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  Speaker 1: not bad. It's not bad, okay. So right now I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna turn off the rat it, okay, because we don't
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  Speaker 1: want to get too soft. Yeah. I like my ramen
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  Speaker 1: where it's like I don't know what that means, sounds
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  Speaker 1: like it's like a little harder, like you know, I
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  Speaker 1: don't like my ram and too soft. Right, So right
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  Speaker 1: now I'm gonna pour off some of this water right
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  Speaker 1: because I don't like it. I don't like it too soupy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah me either. Don't be like me. Don't try to
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  Speaker 1: promise you. I always drain it. I don't like it
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  Speaker 1: too soft, and I don't like it too soupy, So
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  Speaker 1: I pour it off enough to wear the water in
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  Speaker 1: the rama are about the same level. Okay, got it,
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  Speaker 1: all right, So we do that. So it's a little
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  Speaker 1: bit soupy, but in fact, let me turn off a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, pour off a little bit more, all right,
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  Speaker 1: that actually smells pretty good. I'm not saying I would
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  Speaker 1: like go and eat, you know, pack of baloney. But
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna be making this at the crib by yourself.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Let's see how bad or how well
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  Speaker 1: eating will broke does. So just purring that. So let
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  Speaker 1: me tell you what we're doing now. So right now,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna season to see, didn't need package right now,
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  Speaker 1: and we're gonna season at the time where we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna dump it into the into the noodles, into
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  Speaker 1: the pot with the noodles, and you just empty all
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  Speaker 1: the contents of that. So you just want to you
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  Speaker 1: just want to, you know, stir that up in there now.
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  Speaker 1: You want to get that a little bit not too crispy,
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  Speaker 1: but a little bit crispy. And um. While and that
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  Speaker 1: went away. So I was back to Hollywood shuffling with
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  Speaker 1: without a job. And when you say Hollywood shuffling, that's
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  Speaker 1: like auditions or you just are you trying to find
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  Speaker 1: places to DJ auditions, uh, DJ, and you know DJ
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  Speaker 1: gigs and stuff like that, you know, but uh, I
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  Speaker 1: really wanted to do. You know. DJ has been good
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  Speaker 1: to me, you know since I started DJ, and uh
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  Speaker 1: and being on television is great because it actually gets
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  Speaker 1: me more DJ gigs. But uh, you know, I like
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  Speaker 1: I like acting and that's really hard to get in too,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so every nothing. Then you know, you book
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  Speaker 1: a few commercials, you book two or three commercials a year,
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  Speaker 1: and you're doing all right, but uh, you know when
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  Speaker 1: it's when it's dry, it's dry, you know, So right now,
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  Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do? He kind of looks like a
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  Speaker 1: little bacon bits. Yeah, see little bacon bits here cutting
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  Speaker 1: this up. You put that in there like that, you
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  Speaker 1: cut it up. What you do, You gotta mix it
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  Speaker 1: all up, mix it up a little bit. This is
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  Speaker 1: what it looks like overhead cam. Alright. Nice. When you're
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  Speaker 1: doing the Hollywood shuffle and things dry up, is there
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  Speaker 1: like a special thing you do in your mind to
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  Speaker 1: handle the cash flow going up and down. You just
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  Speaker 1: want to keep your your sanity and know that you're
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  Speaker 1: still in the right place, You're still with your thank you.
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  Speaker 1: You're welcome, you know what I mean. Like, so there
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  Speaker 1: are times that I would feel like, man, maybe maybe
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  Speaker 1: show business is not for me. And there were times
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  Speaker 1: you oh, yeah, there were times when I felt that way,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And then you know, I get a call
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  Speaker 1: from my agent for an audition and it will conflict
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  Speaker 1: with something that I have to do, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I booked or maybe i'm you know, doing a
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  Speaker 1: day job or something like that, and then they're like
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  Speaker 1: they're they're like, well, if you go to this audition,
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  Speaker 1: you're not you know, you might as well just quit.
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  Speaker 1: And so, you know, my passion is show business, so
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  Speaker 1: I would just go to the audition and then you know,
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  Speaker 1: look the commercial and then it kind of reassures you
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  Speaker 1: and let you know, remind you that you are where
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  Speaker 1: you're supposed to be. Now, did you have any naysayers
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  Speaker 1: around you that would make you doubt yourself or was
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  Speaker 1: it just all like in your head where the doubt
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  Speaker 1: would come and go? Um. I never really had any naysayers. Um.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, any time if you ever have to
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  Speaker 1: call a family member to tell you, you know, to
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  Speaker 1: borrow money. Family member was a state man, you need
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  Speaker 1: what you need to do. You need to move back home,
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  Speaker 1: and you need to get a job, a real job,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And those are the same family members, are
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  Speaker 1: the same good friends or whatever that when you know
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  Speaker 1: you're back doing what you do or what you set
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  Speaker 1: out to do, those are the same people to tell
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  Speaker 1: you that they knew you were going to make it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I knew he's gonna make it. Man, how
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  Speaker 1: do you feel about men? It was something special about
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  Speaker 1: you when I first met you. How do you feel
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  Speaker 1: about that when you it's the nature of the business. Yeah, wow,
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  Speaker 1: all right, let's try to try your cooking. And I
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  Speaker 1: like that it's not too soupy. It's not too soupy.
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  Speaker 1: So you look a little soft everybody. I'm not trying
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  Speaker 1: to judge him, but because she was talking to me,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, I normally don't, you know,
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  Speaker 1: cook it as long as I did. So Colleen's fault.
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  Speaker 1: It was good m hm, soft noodles on. You're welcome you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, I'm sorry for a gapping. When do you
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  Speaker 1: feel like you were officially confident that the entertainment business
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  Speaker 1: was where you were going to be? Like, was there
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  Speaker 1: a level of like checks had to ride before you
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  Speaker 1: were like, Okay, this is it, I'm never turning back
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  Speaker 1: to Costco. Or well, I got fired from Costco so
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't go back to Costco. Why did you get
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  Speaker 1: fired because I went to an audition When I had it,
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  Speaker 1: I had a jerk for for for a supervisor. Do
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  Speaker 1: you shop at Costco? Finding? Okay? Do you ever like
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  Speaker 1: when you see someone that did that type of thing
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  Speaker 1: to you? Do you ever like wish you could bump
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  Speaker 1: into them? I waved to him, why does he still
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  Speaker 1: work there? Still Costco? He's one of those dudes. I
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  Speaker 1: knew you were gonna make it. He probably takes side
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  Speaker 1: tries to take credit. Do you know I'm gonna fire man?
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  Speaker 1: Just to encourage me? Kenny? Can I cuts on here?
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  Speaker 1: It's funny. I had Celebrity High, as you know. And
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  Speaker 1: when I was creating the company, I worked at country Wide.
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  Speaker 1: This was right before the crash, and yes, country Wide
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  Speaker 1: played rolling. They had yeah, probably they had everyone, And
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  Speaker 1: uh I remember I was doing Celebrity High and I
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  Speaker 1: would have like the little posters of like what this
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  Speaker 1: magazine was going to be, and a lot of my
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  Speaker 1: coworkers would come by my desk the girls and they
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  Speaker 1: would laugh at me because I drove a bucket that
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  Speaker 1: like I could start with anything. And uh. I remember
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  Speaker 1: country Wide fired me and I cried because I was broke.
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  Speaker 1: I was only making like ten dollars an hour, and
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  Speaker 1: of the ten dollars an hour, I was investing into
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  Speaker 1: this idea. And I remember calling my grandfather and he
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  Speaker 1: was just like, I'm so happy they fired you. And
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  Speaker 1: I was like, how am I gonna pay my My
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  Speaker 1: rom was like four a month. Do you remember when
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  Speaker 1: was that cheap? And uh? But yeah, I looked back
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  Speaker 1: and ironically enough, I am thankful that they fired me,
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  Speaker 1: because sometimes that's that last inch you need to like
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  Speaker 1: push your drive even further. Right, Yeah, absolutely, because I
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  Speaker 1: mean one thing that I did have, I had health
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  Speaker 1: insurance through Costco. I had if I needed to get
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  Speaker 1: more hours at work, I could just you know, go
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  Speaker 1: to switch the full time for like six months. And
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  Speaker 1: it's really hard to get fired from Costco. Um so,
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  Speaker 1: but getting fired from Costco definitely lit a fire under
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  Speaker 1: my behind and I had to I mean from there,
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  Speaker 1: I was a waiter at the soul food restaurant, you know. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: and then right when I booked book that keeps saying. Right,
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  Speaker 1: when I started waiting at this restaurant, I got this
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  Speaker 1: gig um that took me to Korea for like six
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  Speaker 1: months that paid me like and asked, well, at that time,
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  Speaker 1: what felt like an astronomical amount of money? And so
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  Speaker 1: I went over there and K pop groups and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Was at your first time flying out of the country. Absolutely, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you were excited. I was, but I also
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  Speaker 1: knew what you know, the money is what motivated because
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  Speaker 1: if I could have stayed here made that money, I
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  Speaker 1: would have, but there were no other offers at that point. Now,
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  Speaker 1: was there ever anything that you did where say you like,
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  Speaker 1: for instance, do you take wilding Out? And I know
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  Speaker 1: wilding Out doesn't have a huge like every month schedule
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  Speaker 1: is probably a couple of weeks. But have you ever
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  Speaker 1: gotten an opportunity while you secured another opportunity? What was
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity that you felt like you wish you you
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  Speaker 1: didn't have to say no to? Um? Well, one thing
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  Speaker 1: I'm never gonna do is say no to whiling out. Yeah, um,
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  Speaker 1: but one of the things I mean. I So, what
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  Speaker 1: happened when I there was one gig that I booked,
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  Speaker 1: I booked a tour dancing for a popular artist and
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  Speaker 1: m But the week before I went to the audition
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  Speaker 1: for the dance audition, I auditioned for this big McDonald's commercial.
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  Speaker 1: Every day we're seeing everybody. So I went to the audition,
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  Speaker 1: and then that following week audition for the dance. I
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  Speaker 1: went to the commercial audition, and then that following week
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  Speaker 1: audition for the artist and um to be a dancer,
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  Speaker 1: and then during that week I got a call back
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  Speaker 1: for the McDonald's commercial. Right, so I went to the callback,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm starting rehearsals for the the the dance, the
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  Speaker 1: dance gig. So then you know, that's in the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of the week. And then at the end of the week,
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  Speaker 1: I get back from rehearsal for the dance gig and
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  Speaker 1: I'm at home chilling. Is a Friday, and I didn't
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  Speaker 1: get a call. I hadn't gotten a call from my
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  Speaker 1: agent to let me know whether or not I booked
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  Speaker 1: this gig, the commercial gig, and I'm laying in my
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  Speaker 1: bed and I'm like, I'm looking at my watching this
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  Speaker 1: like five something. I know the agency closest at six,
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  Speaker 1: and then I'm like, I'm not gonna get this get
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  Speaker 1: this gig five forty five fifty my phone rings and
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  Speaker 1: my agent caused me. She says, uh, um, you just
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  Speaker 1: put yourself un you know this commercial. I was like, what,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, She says, you shoot next third, next Friday,
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  Speaker 1: so a week from that day. That day, I was
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  Speaker 1: so that following week I was supposed to leave to
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  Speaker 1: go to Orlando to do the first show for this
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  Speaker 1: tour on Thursday. So which and that first show is
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  Speaker 1: going to be on Friday when you're typing the commercial.
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  Speaker 1: So I asked the choreographer and you know, talk to
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  Speaker 1: the artists and stuff, and said, hey, I booked this commercial.
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  Speaker 1: I really want to do this gig. I really want
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  Speaker 1: to do the dance gig, but I really need to
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  Speaker 1: do this commercial. And I said, so they had like dancers,
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  Speaker 1: so they could have just you know, allowed me to do,
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  Speaker 1: you know, miss that first show. I said, hey, can
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  Speaker 1: I miss the first show? And they were like, well
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  Speaker 1: if you can't miss. If you can't do the first show,
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  Speaker 1: then you can't do the gig. You said, peace, and
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  Speaker 1: he said to McDonald's, McDonald's paid more. Yeah, even though
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  Speaker 1: I would I would have loved that had that experience
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  Speaker 1: dancing for that artist. But once I did, that was
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  Speaker 1: my first major commercial that I was the star of.
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  Speaker 1: It was me and a whole bunch of little kids. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was literally me and a bunch of kids and
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: a a a McDonald's rapper that was like flying through
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: there and so but that just made me say, I am.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: I am where I'm supposed to be. So what would
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: you say, like two people that are trying to get
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: in the game, you know, like, what would you say
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: to those that may have been trying for the last
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: five us ten years and still haven't been able to
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: make a decent check, but they're still going out? I
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: would say, you mean you still auditioning and things like that,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: and they're starting to doubt themselves maybe they're in their
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: mid thirties, or I mean, keep a day job, like
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: you know, take care of yourself and your responsibilities. But
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, show business is not for everybody. But I'm
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: not I'm not the one to tell anybody to give up,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: you know, I'll just if you feel that passion, just
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: keep pressing. Have you ever met, like say, a guy
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: that wants to be a rapper, a girl that wants
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: to be a rapper, and you're like you heard their
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: music and it's just not where it's where you think
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: it should be at. Do you do you ever tell
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: them to maybe look into alternatives or do you just no?
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: I never discourage people because I mean those people all
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: the time, because they're they're a way. There are much
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: more people that are not good at you know, they're
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: not good artists or they're just they're just not there yet.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: But you know, I wasn't always there, So you just
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: keep going. You get better, but you still have to, like,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: don't go rob banks and support that habit. Yeah, you
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: gotta keep a job. If you've got kids and responsibilities,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: you gotta do what you gotta do to survive, you know,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: including eating alone round exactly. And I'm enjoying mine. She
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: didn't look like I have to ask questions and have
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: a whole interview. But the second the cameras cut, I'm
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: gonna be taking a couple of extra fights. What season
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: are you on a walling out? Now? We just wrap
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: season sixteen? Sixteen seasons? What would you say is the
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: one thing you walked away learning the most of benefiting
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: the most from walling out? I would say that even
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: though as steady as that gig is it can still
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: go away like that. Speaking of that, when the whole
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: controversy with the Jewish and wilding out and some of
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: the comments Nick made, did a part of you panic
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: a little bit that there was a chance that the
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: show wasn'tna come back, or have you been there before
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: so you were prepared? I was not prepared. UM kind
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: of panned a little bit because I mean, at this point,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: I have a family, and you know, this is my
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: main source of income. I mean, I've been on the
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: show of since day one, you know what I mean?
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: And so, uh, I literally if all I did was
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: wilding out, that's all I have to do. Yeah. So yeah,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: So so I panicked a little bit. But then, I mean,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: I know Nick and I kind of understood everything that
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: was kind of was happening, and I was in touch
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: with Um, with other producers on the show, the executive
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: producers was in touch with Nick and everybody. So we
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: were having conversations, and I felt confident that we were
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: going to come back, you know. And then one of
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: the the most um negative people on this show and
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: one of the most negative producers on the show, he
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: called me and he said, we'll be back we just
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: gotta work some things out. Once he felt confident that
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: we'd be back, then, um, I felt really confident. But
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: I just you know, it doesn't matter how much money
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: you have when money is just going out. I mean,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: because it wasn't just the pandemic, it was when the
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: show went away, and then you couldn't get other gigs
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: because you know, there weren't many other gigs you could
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: get that we're paying the kind of money that you
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: needed to sustain the lifestyle that you already have. So
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: when that happened, I was like, Okay, I'm confident that
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: we're gonna come back. When when are we gonna come
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: back now? Because pretty soon, when money is just going
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: out and doesn't matter how much you have, you know
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: you gotta take care of that overhead. No, I'm just
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: curious just to get into the Devil's advocates say it
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: didn't come back, and you know you have your family,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: would you ever like if pandemic because during the pandemic
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: there was no tape and there was absolutely nothing going on.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Would you ever, you know, do whatever job. I love
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: that you are really enjoying this dish. I'm gonna save
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: mine just so we could just but um, would you ever?
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Are you? Do you feel like you're above going back
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: and getting a real job just to support your family. No,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: I do not feel like I want above. That's and
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: I would have done that if if I need to,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: And I still do that if I have to. Wow,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: that's amazing. That's amazing to hear that. Now. When I
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: saw the whole controversy with the While and Out, so
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: I honestly didn't feel like anything Nick said was controversial.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: I don't want to say controversial. It was a total
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: negative slant. I thought maybe his quotes were missed, he
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: didn't quote them. Well, but I understand what cancel culture.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: It's like you're you're really skating on the nice while Now.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: It's kind of interesting because there's a level of comedian
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: breach where nothing is off the table, but yet cancel culture. Yeah,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: but cancel culture hasn't even come for some of the
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: stuff that While and Out has, you know, some of
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: the jokes that have aired on this show. But do
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: you feel like now that cancel culture is becoming more
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: of a mainstream being comics are starting or when you
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: guys in your writing room, they're starting to be like, well,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: maybe we should inch away from this. I mean, I
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: don't I don't know all that Nick said. I never
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: saw all of that whole podcast Um episode. But I
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: think that what it has done is it it has
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: made people that like comedians just more aware because comedians,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, they don't care what
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: anybody like. That's their freedom to They're not the PC police.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: But and you know, and comedians that they want to
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: they want to say what they want to say. I mean,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: they community are some demented people, a lot of them,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: you know, you know, to find humor in some of
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: the most tragic things, or just to to find humor
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: just everyday life that we all live. And uh, you know,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: they tell their experience and and you know we all
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: laugh from that because we can relate to it's all relatable.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: You know, that should be something that they're allowed to do,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: but it's aware. It definitely has made us aware. And
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: I think that what makes I my little brother is
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: a comedian, my husband's a comedian. When I look at them,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: I'm like, what makes you guys great is actually keeping
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: it real. To put a censor on on comedy is
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: a weird space, right, I mean, to my understanding. Nick
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: wasn't telling jokes at the time, you know, he was
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: doing he was doing his podcast interview and people get offended.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: You can't help how people feel, you know, and people
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: are gonna feel the way they're gonna feel. And not
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: everybody's gonna be happy with you, you know. But I'm
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: going to post the most positive posts on Instagram or
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: social media and somebody's gonna have something negative. You'd have
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: a thousand positive comments and the one that's gonna stick
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: out is the negative one. Yeah. Yeah, when you and
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Nick got together, this was long before whiling out or
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: did you have to audition onto walling out and you
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: guys just built your relationship from there. No, I met Nick.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I met Nick in ninety seven. We didn't start wilding
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Out until two thousand four. So and actually wilding Out
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: was created in my living room. Yeah, because at the
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: time Nick was renting, uh he was, he was my roommate.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: So in North Hollywood, in Studio City. I was gonna say,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: not the walk up where you cannot that. So you
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: guys were roommates, and then he conceived this idea in
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: the living room. Yeah, we were just at the crib,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: you know, just acting silly doing you know, I can't
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: remember everything we were. We're just doing stupid stuff. And
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: then you know, Nick comes up with this idea and
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: says it can be a TV show. And we were
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: at that time, we were doing the whole you know,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: we were on tour. We had been on tour, were
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: doing like the Scream Tour and the and he had
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: like a little not a little, a little rap career,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: but he had I think it was like jo or something.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: He had something out and we were doing a lot
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: of shows. So you guys weren't necessarily broke then, but
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: you guys were like, yeah, but we were still living
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: paycheck to paycheck, you know, I mean record deals. It
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: looks all glamorous, you know, and sometimes once you sell
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: records you can make some money. But you know, we
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: were doing shows, we were traveling, we were you know,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: but we were still the roommates in an apartment. I
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: love that so um And that's crazy. You look at
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Wall and Out now and it has this huge budget
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: and it's a little different now, yeah, from when you
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: guys first started. Now, I remember hearing like when you
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: guys first when it first started, it was like in
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: a club and it was like, did you guys self
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: shoot it or we did? The first pilot was at
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: a club called the Comedy Union down on Off Brea
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: in l A. And that's the one that MTV saw
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: and they liked it, and then we did um, MTV
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: paid for us to do a yeah, and so that
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: was that was kind of cool. We did that at
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: a club. We did that at a Princess old club,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: I think, I think that's what we did. And then um,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: a couple of months after that, MTV I wanted to
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: buy like six or ten episodes or something like that,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: so we went to series there and you know, besides
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: that low that we had between two thousand and seven
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: and two thousand and twelve or thirteen or something like that,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: you know, the show has never been off the air, like,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: you know, besides but this recent thing. But it was
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: always on the air. They were always playing reruns. But yeah,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I never thought that I wouldn't
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: be able to make a living in this business. Never. Never. Wow,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: that's amazing. I think when I interview a lot of people,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: especially at this table, they're all as well, celebrities, influencers, entrepreneurs,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: and they all had that level of confidence, like we
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: knew at some point, even though we were homeless, we
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: were going to make it. Yeah, because you know, when
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: you're trash, do you think? So you have to Hopefully
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: you're self aware enough to just know, because I've seen
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: a lot of talent going American Idol, and you know,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: I'm like, come on, man, but they probably know because
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: I sometimes when I sing to myself in the shower,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I sound great, like move over, Mariah, and
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: then like if I were to record it, I play
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: it back, I'm like, oh, that's reality right there. You know.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: I just have to ask when you look at where
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: you guys started UM to where you're at now, do
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: you ever just sit back and go like that's crazy?
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Absolutely do you don you and Nick ever step off
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: the stage and say can you believe this? Especially like yeah,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: we we have UM, especially like when we're doing the
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: tour wild Out Tour, Like I can't remember what city
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: we were in, but you know it was a basketball
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: arena in a major city and it was sold out,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: so it was like, you know, not just the floor,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: but it was like probably eighteen thousand people there and
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: you just hear like the opening DJ playing music and stuff,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: and you you walk into the backstage area and you
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: can see the audience and it's just thousands and thousands
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: and thousands of people. And I remember saying to him,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: can you believe this started in the living room? You
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: know what I mean? And that's when you know Nick.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: You know, Nick is too cool for school sometimes and
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Nick's like it's crazy, huh. And then we're just you know,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: and then I go out on stage and I introduced Nick,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: and then we do our show. You know him? But
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: does happen a couple of times you kind of have
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: to you have to step outside of yourself sometimes, I think,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: and to appreciate what you what you've accomplished, you know
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, What you've been blessed to accomplish. And um,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: I think that's kind of that's smelling the roses, you know.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: And then I just have one last question and then
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: we'll wrap. Um. And this is kind of go back
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: going back to when you guys, oh when the pilot,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: when you're pitching MTV, where you guys cold calling or
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: are you calling every relationship in your roller decks saying here,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: I got this great idea. Here's the tape for it
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: or was it all a word document in a deck? No.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Nick is the one that had
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: all of those you know, relationships, um, and he had
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: all those avenues to get you know, because that wasn't
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Nick's first pilot. He had done probably called Loose Cannon
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: that we did, um, we did another show called The
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Nick Cannon Show. We did two shows called the Nick
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Cannon So one didn't go who one ended up on Nickelodeon. UM.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: So you know, and you know Nick at the time,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: especially Nick was like Hollywood's little guy that they were
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: trying to figure out, hollywood young new little guy that
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: they were trying to figure out, what can we do
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: with this guy? Because he's talented and he's got some
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: great ideas, and he was like clean cut. He was
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: like that clean he was like the new version of
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: the Freshman. Yeah. Yeah, I would definitely say that. Yeah.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: So you know, so he was able to use that
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: to pitch the show, and the people wanted to be
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: in business with him, you know what I mean. I
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: mean he's a likable Yeah, he's very nice, very nice,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: very likable, very hard working. Now he's got you know,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: neck tattoos. It's yeah, that can be a whole another discussion.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: But I'm so happy that you came out and fed
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: me uh some bologny fried bologny ramen. It's be flavored,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: and now I officially know how to fry rom well.
• 34:12
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