C (2:09)

We should change this.

A (2:09)

You know what, let's run it back. So we never posted this episode ever. It's my first time podcasting, my first time with the mic, first time headphones, first time me and Marty going, play, action, go. First time we ever did anything together and we never posted it. So to end the year with a bang, I'm out of town.

B (2:29)

I've been out of town for like.

A (2:30)

Over two, like a week and a half. I had shows in San Diego, then went to Merced, and I came straight to Vegas for the shows so we didn't have an opportunity to film. So me and Marty said, you know what? Instead of doing like a remote episode, let's give them episode zero. We've never posted this. Thank you, guys. Thank you for being here. I was supposed to do a 30 second clip. This is now at 3:10. Thank you for being here. I appreciate you guys. Happy new year. Happy Tuesday, 12:30. If you're in the chat, thank you very much. Shout out to all you guys in the chat. I finally met T faren from the chat last week. Shout out to you, dude. Thank you for coming to the show. I'm high and rambling. Thank you guys for being here. I appreciate you. This is the Dope As Usual podcast. End of the year 2025. Have a dope ass.

B (3:36)

Episode. Practice, Practice episode number one, guys. Hello, my name is Dopa Jola, and welcome to the Dope As Usual podcast. The dopest podcast in the world. Even though it's the first episode, we're not even done. We're only saying that because we have confidence in ourselves. All right? This is a long time coming. Marty's right here. Marty's Drastic graphics right here on the edge mic. There he is right there. Guys, we've been putting this together for over a year. For everyone out there that's been waiting, welcome. I'm sorry it took so fucking long, but people are assholes and they don't want to rent us warehouses. Also, the pandemic's going on and it took light years to get these fucking lights here. And I mean, I'm telling you, we don't even have all of our shit fully. It's fucking Covid. I mean, that's the number one statement of this damn year, is fucking Corona virus. Anyway, guys, let's bring it up a little bit. If you are new to to me, this guy right here. My name is Thomas. Everyone knows me as dope as you all. That's what I go by on the Internet. I've been going by that name since 2012. It's about to be 2021. And that's scary, mainly because I've been high the entire time, and years and months just mixed together. And I remember based on the pictures in my camera, roll and go. That was two years ago. I'm still fat as. Man. I thought I was gonna get in shape by now. That's my main concern. All right, but, guys, if you don't know anything about what we do, my name is Thomas. Like I said, I make content. That's what I've been doing since 2012. So this is a little backup for everyone out there that's a fan and already knows what's up. Remember, not everybody watches our shit. Not everybody knows what I do. So here's a little background. I started off making content just like everybody does on Instagram. And they're like, yeah, it's not a real job. It's not a real fucking job unless you get paid. And I never got paid. So what happened, guys? I just made content for eight years because I love doing that shit. It's the. It's what I do. In the past couple years, I've been talking. I've never talked on camera before. And I found out that I'm pretty good at it. Or at least I think I'm pretty good at it. And people like to watch. That's why we started doing so much YouTube, which turned into me meeting Marty, and a little backstory. I met Marty seven years ago, had no fucking idea, and he shot one of the clips in a YouTube video from one of my first videos. I had no idea. Small world, guys. We circled back six years later, and we were working together officially, Marty, for a year.

C (6:00)

Yeah, right? Almost legit.

B (6:02)

Almost to the day.

C (6:03)

Yeah, exactly.

B (6:04)

Almost to the day. Yeah. Yeah. We work together for a year, guys. So, as you can see, if you're a fan on YouTube, our videos just got better because Marty's editing them, and I'm not very good at editing, and he is. So, guys, that's a slight backstory. What really what I did until I started making content. So fucking weed. I sold. I mean, only so coke a few times, but I sold weed. That's what I did. That's how I made my money. That's how I did everything. I only had a job, so nobody would know I was the guy selling everybody weed. And I know it sounds a little like a movie, because it fucking is. I am 100% that fucking kid you see in movies selling packs and Then tries to do something that's. That's me. That's what I've been doing my whole life. So the backstory is I used to sell weed, started doing Instagram. It got so big that I had to stop selling weed because I didn't want my door kicked in. I was selling 100 packs and I was dumb. I. I mean, I wasn't dumb. That was fun, as I was just a little less cautious than I should have been. So, yeah, that's pretty much it, guys. We turned everything into creating content, and here we are. I do something called story time on YouTube. If you don't know, just type in story time. It'll pop up. It's orange thumbnails. I just talk about my life, dude. I have a super, super, super photographic memory. And it sucks dick sometimes because I don't want to remember a lot of. But sometimes it's awesome because I can tell you exactly what you said. And if you're trying to play me, let's rewind. I'll show you exactly what you said and what you're wearing. So that's what's really been driving everything, to start a podcast. Because we know so many people, we do so much. We do so many videos on YouTube. And honestly, the fans is what the big push was when they kept asking to do a podcast, because the you I do, the Story Times on YouTube, I did, like I said, talk about my life, but it is a podcast. It's. It truly is what a podcast fucking is. And the more and more we started doing it, the more we realize we need to get on this, we need to actually do it. And I know Marty's never going to say it, but Marty, when it comes to podcasts, Marty's the guy behind all of it. Marty, real quick with. I know you're not going to sound like an Marty's not an. But real quick.

C (8:16)

Thank you, sir.

B (8:16)

Just drop some. Who. Who are you working with in podcast that made us go, wait, why don't we just do our own.

C (8:25)

It was really unique timing and how it all came together. And I mean, as far as my credentials in the past, I had already had this whole arc in podcasting with Rogan and Theo and Brendan and Brian and a lot of the LA comedians, even some of the New York comedians that have been in podcasting, people that really were the foundation for it. And it was just, you know, I was just a fan, just really just as far as dope as Yola goes. And after we met, keeping an eye on the channel and Everything. I went off and had this whole career in podcasting. So when I heard you say, I want to start my own podcast, it was immediately the same type of reaction. Like how when, you know, the fighter and the kid first started and I, I, it was the same feeling when I was like, oh, I need to go after this. I, I could instantly see what it could be. And, and it was even with the pandemic, you know, like, the way things turned out, just where everybody's at now, I feel like it's just going to be way better than had we just it gone through when we originally set off.

B (9:23)

Exactly. If we would have just started and tried. Right. Because it wouldn't have worked. It's a year in the making, man. Talked about this a year ago. Searching for a building for nine months. Found it.

C (9:34)

Yeah. And everything that's happened in the meantime, comedy collapsing. This.

B (9:37)

The whole world, like, world shut down, man. Yeah, world shut down. But the Wii got bigger.

C (9:43)

Yeah, I would say so.

B (9:44)

Yeah. Yeah. People making more money off weed than ever before. Promise.

C (9:49)

Okay, I'm gonna take your word.

B (9:50)

Yeah. Take my word for it. Yeah. But yes, guys, I wanted to introduce Marty, that Marty's background is making podcasts cooler. Making sell out and making cooler stuff. That's what I'm missing. I am not a technical person. Marty's a very technical person. Here we go, guys. Here's the two worlds trying to come together and make something fun. So this is. I know if you guys are fans before, this is not a weed podcast. This is not 420, let's smoke every five seconds. That's not what it's about, man, because that's not me. I'm not sitting here throwing out weed leaves to people. And that's not the way it is. I'm a regular ass person. I just happen to love the out of weed and what I do. I make videos about weed. I smoke mass, mass amounts of weed. And that's really what I do, man. And then, like I said, turned into story time. And I realized, hey, you're. You're okay on camera. You could talk. You can carry a conversation. So the first podcast I ever did was because of Marty. Marty got me in with Ryan Sickler, Josh Wolf. Fun as two really cool guys never did. I think I could actually hold a microphone like this and just talk and it'd be okay because you guys all know right now, if you're listening or you're watching, you're at home right now. We've all done it. You look in the mirror and go, yeah, I don't think I'd watch myself either. You know what I'm saying? When people go, I can't be on camera. I feel the same way. Until I really started looking at it and going, you know what? We have supporters. There's people that want it non stop. I get thousands of DMS a week asking for more. Just videos of me talking, essentially, which is cool for me because I'm high most of the time. I'm just gonna sit here and rant. Anyway. We're not on the billboard angryness. Even though I love that, man. If I started expressing how I feel all the time, I think you guys would think I'm insane. Because half the time I want to punch everybody in the mouth that's near me. I don't. I don't like people. Even though I'm very polite. People are weird. So that's really, really where it happened. And when I met Marty, I started writing all my comedy stuff because I've been wanting to do stand up since I was a kid. And stand up, I feel, is a. This is a good segue into it. And I'm not saying this is practice, but it's practice if you really want to think about it. Oh, yeah, sorry. Let me like this.

C (11:58)

It's practice for getting good off the cuff and not having.

B (12:02)

Well, honestly, dude, I think people would want to shoot me if they hear the stupid. I say stupid.

C (12:08)

Yeah.

B (12:09)

All right. I don't mean those things sometimes, but.

C (12:13)

People forgot that's what comedy was.

B (12:15)

That's what comedy is. Way I see comedy. Ooh, I can hear that train. All right, we'll cut that. Hold on. It's coming from this side, so we'll cut it real quick. Well, we'll cut this out of the episode anyway. Let this train pass. Loud as. Wait, Marty, can you see the camera?

C (12:43)

I can see it, yeah.

B (12:44)

Oh, oh. So I thought I was streaming to your computer. What's that noise? Cracking. Oh, okay. Okay. Are you good? You're good? That chair does that. Don't worry. Here we go. So, yeah, like I was saying, I think if I said the things that I really are thinking in my. I'm a. But I'm super polite. I just. I can't. Just like you're saying it's a good thing to be off the top. Off the top is gonna get me canceled. I say stup stupid. And that gets me to the point I was trying to make. Like you said, comedy is supposed to be you. You just want to do cargo loads at night. Do you hear this?

C (13:26)

It might not be coming through.

B (13:29)

It's so loud in my ears.

C (13:30)

I know. It might not.

B (13:31)

If it's not, we'll just cut it. If it is, we'll just leave it in.

C (13:33)

It's gonna have to be the dope, as usual. Train rolls through from time to time sometimes.

B (13:39)

All right, here we go. So the point I was trying to make is the way I always like to see comedy and people always talk shit like, how can you make fun of a certain person, a certain race demographic? Like, hey, I'm a person. You're a person. I fucking hope I'm a human. You're a human, right? What's the differences between us? Why can't we make fun of that? Why can't, if not? Like, hey, remember that time you brush your teeth? Yeah, I brush my teeth too. That's not fucking funny. All right? But you know what's funny is saying, hey, you're a Mexican. You probably have 30 kids. Like, I do have 30 kids. I'm not saying all Mexican, dude. My dad's got enough. You know what I'm saying? I'm from Merced, dude. Everyone's got a kid by 14. Are you serious? Sorry.

C (14:23)

There's a train race going on so loud.

B (14:26)

What is happening? That shit's once a day. It just went three times in a row.

C (14:34)

Friday at 7:30 is trains race.

B (14:36)

It's a train race. Yeah. It's too fast. Too Furious Part 12. You ready?

C (14:42)

Yep.

B (14:42)

Here we go. So back like, go. So like I said, it's funny to me when. When you're a kid in school and I don't know, you're a black friend, your Asian friend made fun of you for being Mexican. If you're Mexican, you made fun of them for being black or Asian, right? You're not like, you hate the person. You're just like, hey, well, here's a stereotype. And then they laugh. Why? Because it's funny. When Bernie Mac goes that used to go out and talk about old black woman. All the black ladies in the crowd love it. When George Lopez goes out and talks about Mexican. All the Mexicans love it. Why? Because it's relatable. If it's relatable, you can relate to it. And it's funny. That's how I see comedy. If I can with you and make you least think, go, you. That's funny, man. And if you get offended, then just don't watch. That's, that's, that's another thing. But people are in the getting canceled thing. Right now. But you can't get canceled if you don't fucking care.

C (15:37)

The big thing prior to the pandemic in podcasting really was like the whole social justice culture. I felt like a lot of podcasts, that's basically all they were talking about, was having to watch what they say. And they're how societies kind of lead turned to this cancel culture and people looking for reasons to get offended. Really looking. But it's like, in all actuality, you can tell where I'm coming from. And I mean, like, you're saying the way we grew up was you just went for the funniest thing that you.

B (16:03)

Could think of and whatever's fucking funny.

C (16:05)

Who. That was the whole point. Playing basketball at recess, Obviously, I'm not coming with hate in my heart about any of this. I'm just the little dude that lives inside my head, has no bias or filter, and he just.

B (16:18)

Exactly. Has no filter or bias. Like, yo, I'm not making fun of you because you're Mexican. I'm making fun of you because you're stupid.

C (16:25)

Everybody's on the table equally. Yeah.

B (16:29)

But I don't know. It's not like I'm sitting here just being a racist or a misogynist. That's not how I am in real life. So why am I going to pretend to be. No, I'm just saying comedy is. How can you point out differences of people. Or the other one, Mexican George Lopez. I always say George Lo. Mexican people love George Lopez like black people love Bernie Mac. It's the same. Like, that is the king of our comedy. Like. Oh, exactly. The kings of comedy. That's exactly what I'm trying to say, guys. Comedy's comedy, man. If you don't like it, you do not have to support that person. That's it. You don't have to support that person. But I guarantee you, they got a cult following because there's other people out there that just want to laugh. Why can't you just. Can't you break the rules sometimes and just make laugh? I don't know. That's why comedians, no phones, no this, because they don't want to get canceled. They. They have a career. I understand. I get that. Just don't be an about it. That's it. If you can be funny, like I said, I watched the Andrew Schultz stand up the other day. That is funny. The way he. I get it. I. I get why people get upset about him. I understand. But it's a comedy show. Like, you can leave. Don't watch it. There's Netflix you.

C (17:37)

I hope coming out of this whole pandemic and just the world being in such a serious situation that when it does get back to normal, as far as comedy goes, it'll at least be more laxed like so too things that didn't really matter. I hope come back is less, you know, serious in our society, like weed or like, you know.

B (17:58)

Yeah. And I'm not saying we got to be out here and go, just, I want to make fun of him, be a racist on stage. But like, no, I don't mean it. That's not what I'm saying. If it's funny, what you're saying is.

C (18:09)

You don't want to hold back.

B (18:10)

You don't want to hold back. Go, oh, that was a good one. But those people might get mad them.

C (18:17)

And I mean, you're also in a different situation because you're not playing the same hierarchy system that the comics have to on their way up the ladder.

B (18:25)

I, I, that's why I said they have a career. I understand how they're like, well, let's not push the boundaries too much. Which is fine. And I get it. You're playing it safe. There's nothing wrong with that at all. There's nothing wrong with that. It's just, you better be funny somewhere else then. You better, you better make up some better jokes then. Cuz that's what makes me laugh. I, I love seeing the comparison between people. I love that. And I'm not saying that's all comedy is, but it's funny.

C (18:51)

And what's funny is what's surprising. You know, like half the time when something's funny. That's why it's funny. It's cuz you came out of nowhere, out of somewhere outlandish.

B (19:01)

It's fun, man. That's, that's what damn, we got into this about. I wanted to do comedy and then we're over here talking about racism and comedy. All right, that's fine, that's fine.

C (19:14)

But it's all about where you're, how, how offended you want to be, how like how offendable you are. Like, when we were on set filming last weekend, Anthony and his mama were talking shit back and forth. Like, yeah, they were just going to try to say, to see how like, hard they can make everybody laugh. Like the most outlandish.

B (19:31)

Don't be so down about it. And not saying Marty filmed a Super bowl commercial last week. All right, guys, you don't want to say it, but he's feeling super bowl commercial last week. All Right. That's what he's talking about. It's awesome. It's so epic.

C (19:45)

Yeah, it was pretty sick.

B (19:46)

It's sick.

C (19:47)

Yeah, it's pretty sick. But that was a. A legit example because I just know like I, in my world and most people's world, like especially in my family, like very easily offendable there. Even if, even if I'm trying to. And even in trying to joke like we're trying to have a real moment, like that's like, you know, I, I have that.

B (20:09)

Have I ever talked to you? I don't. Let me tell Marty through the camera. Marty. My whole entire family on one side is white. 100 from Maryland, last name's Walden. We are. That's why I not. I'm not that dark because half my family's white as. And I. I'm not going to say the names because they might listen to this and get upset. I don't really give a. But I have some cousins that are. You guys would call them Karen's. You guys would call them crazy. Crazy feminists, I guess you would say feminists. I don't have no problem with that. Stand up for what you think. But when you're over here screaming at me in my face or. I'm not saying they do, but that's the kind of side I have. I have a. One side is completely from Mexico and one side is from Maryland and Connecticut and like that. Yeah. So I understand the easily offensive things. I used to say things when I was a kid that I thought were funny. My aunt would check me on it and then I'd go, no, no, I'm right. I can say what I want. Okay, cool. And I just continue. All my life, guys, I've been. Have the same mentality in my brain since I was able to think and remember. I swear to God, I've never changed. I've had the same, the same mentality. So yes, when people get offended, it's just. It drives my like yo, you don't listen. I used to get. I used to get with when I was a kid because I've been. I was fat. So I used to get played. I mean I used to get made fun of like crazy as a kid, dude. But that's why I'm so quick with talking shit to people. I made people cry just from the words that come out of my mouth. I've made full grown teenagers just cry in class. Shouldn't have been a dick to me. Don't make fun of me because I'm fat. I'm gonna talk about your entire family and break you down in front of everybody. But I'm not mean. I was just trying to do my work. I was high, you were mean, so I. I ended it. So I think that you're saying, like, this is practice for comedy? Like. No, I think getting with my whole life was practice for comedy. Any heckler, come out. Oh, you're gonna leave. You're gonna end up leaving the show with your mask on. Yeah, I don't think the world's going back, man. I think we're gonna have masks forever. We'll see. But I'm not mad at it. I'm not mad. I'm not mad either. Oh, six feet. You can't come up to me. I don't got to share my Wii with you. Yo, where was this world at in the. When I was 15? Trying to preserve my. Conserved and preserve. Conserve my weed. I love the six foot. Don't get. It's close to me times two. All right, that's great. I love it.

C (22:51)

I was already really germ aware, right. People looked at me crazy the whole time, you know, like my wife, my kids, like with the hand sanitizer after the gas pump. Real basic stuff.

B (23:01)

Oh, yes.

C (23:03)

I mean, like to me, the real basic stuff.

B (23:06)

That's real.

C (23:06)

I'm just grossed out by public things in general. Always. Usually.

B (23:11)

Yeah, yeah. I've been GR. Grossed out many times in public. I'm from Merced. I've seen so many crackheads take shits in public. I've seen, I've seen crazy. You're. Well, Marty's from Buffalo. Hold on. Marty's from East Buffalo, right? No, not where you from? South Buffalo. South Buffalo.

C (23:32)

Two completely different things.

B (23:33)

Still, still not the greatest, not the greatest neighborhood to grow up.

C (23:37)

Well, the crackhead crazy culture, the homeless culture is completely different in Buffalo. Yeah.

B (23:41)

Because you. You'll freeze to death, right?

C (23:42)

Yeah. They don't do. There is no everywhere and like it is in la. Like it's not so accepted at all.

B (23:48)

Oh, where I'm from, bro. Oh my God.

C (23:52)

That was. I had to get used to that moving out here. It's a completely different.

B (23:55)

Oh, no, you're not used to it yet. You haven't lived in LA yet, Marty.

C (23:58)

No.

B (23:59)

You haven't experienced it. But Merced is, has just as many homeless people as all of LA City. We. Here it is, guys. Where I'm from. I'm from Merced, California. When every, all the bums left, all the homeless people left like what, 10 years ago, they made them all leave. They gave them bus tickets and like, what, 200 bucks? Can't remember what it was. They sent them to Merced County, Fresno County. So we had thousand plus homeless people at least. There was a homeless camp right off Santa Fe street where I'm from. There was a homeless camp miles long. I mean, thousands of tents. Thousands. And our population was 70,000 at the time. And at least over a thousand homeless people are just roaming around, literally taking shits. I've seen guys with open gashes in their arms just from them tweaking and clawing and picking. You guys know. You know tweakers, right? You guys know tweakers? My town is literally one eighth tweaker. I swear to God, everyone there has at least hit the Pookie once. I've never hit the Pookie. I snorted me some meth once. Twice.

C (25:05)

On purpose.

B (25:06)

Yeah. I ran out of cocaine. Said my friends. Oh, come on, man. My friend Nick Moore, I love that guy. He loved doing Chris. But me and my friend Joe Fish, we used to do coke and we're like nine. Touching the Chris, man. No, thank you. My entire family smokes crystal, and they're not on the right track. Even though I'm just sitting there doing lines, selling weed as a kid. Anyway, never hit the Pookie. The first time I ever saw someone hit the Pookie was with Nick and my friend Steve. We went to some super trashy girls trailer. As we were pulling up, I regretted going on the ride. We pulled up to a trailer and I was like, I'm the only brown kid. Everyone else is white. I'm in the cuts. This might be bad. This might get bad. And my stepdad, well, you know the story. I won't say it yet. My stepdad was a crazy white. A crazy wild man. And I've seen some insane. I've never even Talked about on YouTube. I've seen some. Some that I thought I'd never see as a kid. And that man is insane. Just a quick one. My stepdad was a certified white supremacist. Murdering. My mom married him. And it sounds so weird, like, your mom married a white supremacist and you're brown. Like, this shit's real people. And the people that know what's up are like, yeah, that's fine because you're not in prison, right? Yeah, as long as you're not in prison. You got married, that's fine because you won't get accepted. But once you're in there, that's your wife and kids. There's a lot of backstory to that. And I'm high. I already forgot where I was going with that story. Oh, white tweaker. Yeah, I saw somebody hit the Pookie. And if you've ever. At the white girls trailer, and they were watching, like, daytime tv, and I was thinking, like, yo, the house smells like cigarettes and, like, burnt plastic. I don't know what that smell is. It's crystal meth burning. I had no idea. She hit the Pookie. And then the smoke went up, and then it took forever to come down. I don't know if you've ever seen meth smoke, but it stays like. It's almost like a cloud. Like, you can grab it. It stays together, doesn't dissipate at all. And then it hit the ground. Sat there, and then it started to move away from each other. And then my friends both hit the Pookie, and I just looked at it like, yeah, no, I'm good. I need to get out of here. And then I went to my grandma's off Belcher, and that was it. That was the end of my day. Still hung out with him the next day, but I watched both my friends hit a fucking Pookie pipe and realized, this is not the life for me. I want nothing to do with fucking meth.

C (27:41)

See, I was in a known drug zone in Buffalo, and I never even saw or even heard of meth till Breaking Bad came around. Like, it was not.

B (27:48)

There's no meth. Wait, there's no east coast meth.

C (27:51)

I'm sure there is, but I never heard of crank. No, listen, it was coke and it was little shitty Molly ecstasies floating around.

B (28:01)

Chris out there.

C (28:03)

I was fully unaware of it if it was. I mean, not. I'm not. I wasn't even into drugs like that. But, yeah, I know.

B (28:09)

If you're not into drugs like that, then it's different. Did you ever sell drugs when you're a kid, Marty?

C (28:12)

No, no, no, I never sold drugs.

B (28:14)

I thought, you know, your homies did.

C (28:16)

Yeah, all my friends did. But not like, we're just talking your standard street drugs, like weed.

B (28:21)

We crack. Yeah, crack sucks.

C (28:24)

Shitty little nickel bags of weed. I'm talking about, like, two for fives.

B (28:29)

Like, I bought nickel bags before. I've never been fucking satisfied with nickel bags. They're always bad weed, even if it's only for five bucks.

C (28:36)

I didn't know what good weed was till I moved here, so, like, it was all the same to me. It was like. It just, you know, I didn't know the difference. And I didn't start smoking weed till I was like 19.

B (28:47)

That's so awesome, man. I really wish I could have done that. But then we wouldn't have all these fun stories.

C (28:53)

Yeah, yeah, I know. I want that for my kids. Like if you're going to do it, like, at least give yourself the chance to get out of your teenage years with a clear mind before you start.

B (29:02)

That's cool. I fuck with that. But now with the Wii, there's like pens and green juice and fucking online class. It doesn't matter if you're high at school no more. Mm. It's cool now.

C (29:12)

Yeah.

B (29:12)

If you don't get high and you're a teenager, you're fucking weird now.

C (29:15)

Yeah.

B (29:15)

And that's insane. I used to get in my druggie ass town and we get looked down upon for this. I was also an athlete. I was a student athlete. You know what's crazy right now? I can't get up. Hey Rosie, can you roll me another joint? Hey, thanks. That's so cool. I don't have to roll anything next. This is a practice episode, guys. Next time I'll have multiple joints rolled. Okay. This is so fun. This is practice. I'm gonna be so like on it. Okay, here we go. Let's just start around. Practice episode. The only people that are ever gonna see this is probably like a paid membership or some. I don't think we'll ever post a not super tight podcast even though so far it's okay. It's not like we have downtime.

C (30:01)

No, no, you're just getting loose.

B (30:02)

It's okay. Yeah, it's fun. This is fun. It's just I need for. I'm a perfectionist, so. I'm a perfectionist and I'm overweight. I'm a perfectionist with my actions.

C (30:16)

Yeah, you're like not in words. I guess you're gonna have to get loose that you're used to. Like just. It's like less control.

B (30:23)

Less control, man. I have to. It's not that I have to control everything. I just have to know my job. And if I have my job, that's the one thing about my. Me and my entire family except for like two people. But every one of my Rosie even knows every one of my family is such a hard ass worker. It's kinda unreal. It's kind of weird seeing. I mean as a kid my grandma was a truck driver. I just hear like loading, doing the landing gear, changing tires. I'm like, that's just what we do, right? That's what I didn't realize. Everyone else's 55 year old grandma's not sitting there changing tires and taking tomato loads and you know, I didn't realize like oh, what do you, your mom doesn't work, what'd your dad do? Oh, you know, where we just, you know. Welfare.

C (31:06)

Yeah.

B (31:06)

Huh.

C (31:07)

Yeah. In the whole cities like that.

B (31:10)

Merced county is the fastest place in California to get Welfare. In Section 8, you can get it within how long, Rosie? Yeah, you don't have to live there. You can get it within 24 hours and it usually takes a week at least to approve as long as you have. When Rosie went to go get help because she real quick story. My, my girlfriend before I met her, she, her dad and her got in a fight and she's like I'm moving out. It she went moved out and then she's like, yo, this is expensive. I have to go get like help with food and get like a grocery card from you know, the state. The state will give you money if you're like in college like she was. So when they were there, the lady told her, you don't have kids. If you had kids I can help you out a lot more. She actually said, rosie, it might be a good idea to have a kid. How you can tell 18 year old struggling ass girl to go have a kid so she can get more help from the state. That's Merced. That's where the we are from. That's, that's, that's Merced, man. Oh, Merced. Meth stats. Whoa. At one point in time we had the highest STD rate under 25, the highest teenage mother and teenage pregnancy, highest unemployment rate, highest murder rate per cap. We had five. It was on the news. It showed all these places and we were number one on five of them. And I remember thinking we're not number one on anything cool. Nothing cool at all. Yeah, the only good thing about Mercedes, the weed. That there's fire. There's fire weed all the time. Because it's like a pit stop between the bay and la and all the drug dealers come and dump their there. Whether it's coke or meth or pills, whatever. Somerset's like a really good pit stop. It's a small town, it's a quick stop, but it's not a super small town. We just got a university. I don't know why they picked the university for as Merced, but they did. I was there for the groundbreaking. It was my seventh grade field trip.

C (33:00)

Oh, you're Talking like that is new. It went in like it went in.

B (33:04)

When I was in high school like 15 years ago. Yeah, well, when I first started high school. Wow, that long ago?

C (33:12)

But I mean, yeah, you know, it's a small town. If you're referring to like we got a college, like I mean, I guess.

B (33:17)

Yeah, yeah, we're a small town, dude, we're small, man. Not anymore though. We have a lot of out there now. Population is probably at least over 100.

C (33:27)

Yeah, the LA imported. All those homeless people out there.

B (33:29)

Oh, they left, they left. I remember the day they went and took the cat. It was called the homeless camp. That's what everybody called it, the homeless camp. And there was thousands of people and they cleared them all out in one day. It was the craziest shit I've ever seen.

C (33:43)

Cleared them out how?

B (33:44)

They made them get up. All the law enforcement came and made them get up and just start walking. I'm not fucking around, dude.

C (33:51)

Forrest Gump style.

B (33:52)

Yes. Get up, start moving, carry your shit. And they just kicked everyone the fuck out. It's right. Google that shit if you want. Google Merced fucking homeless camp and I guarantee you that shit pops up.

C (34:03)

That's what I would think. Like when I first moved here I would have thought that would have been every cops approach to like homeless. But then you realize that there's. That's not the case usually.

B (34:16)

Oh, that's a little one, bro. That's the one by the storage. That's not. It's nothing. That's nothing. I have a feeling we're going to come across some of my homies in these pictures and I'm going to be sad. I've never looked this up. Don't do hard drugs.

C (34:35)

Yeah, that's what I was just gonna say. Like, what's the difference? Like it's got to be just meth.

B (34:40)

So addicting. That's it. I don't have addictive personality at all. My, my family does just throw it. I mean, and people are like, you smoke a lot of weed. I smoke a lot of weed because I used to be really broke when I liked weed. And I said one day I'm gonna have enough money and all this so I can smoke weed whenever I want. I hit the bowl today. That was the first time I smoked today. And it's seven o' clock at night. I don't have to smoke all the time, just when I want to. I haven't wanted to today because I was busy.

C (35:10)

It's like there's a part of my routine for me, like, it's part of my, like, I'm very routine.

B (35:15)

That's different. You get up at like 5 in the morning.

C (35:18)

Yeah. And I'm running. It's like a party.

B (35:21)

Like, this was by himself. Listen to sticks and in his sweats smoking balls. You smoke bowls?

C (35:29)

Yeah, I got the. Yeah, I got the bubbler and the bong going in. But that's just like. To me, like, I can't even justify it. Like, I don't even know. Like, you could say I smoke a lot of weed. Like, yeah, I should. I guess I do. But it's just keeps. Keeps the gears moving. But then. Then I get around people like you and your friends and that actually really smoke weed. And I realize I don't even really.

B (35:50)

I don't smoke weed. I never really realized how much mass amounts that we're smoking because it's just regular. Because a lot of my friends used to be drug dealers too.

C (35:58)

You give. You kind of throw away like the weed I go through and like a week and shit.

B (36:03)

Like, oh, I see what you're saying. Yeah, I know. I know what you mean. I don't throw weed away. Do not throw weed away. I give weed away.

C (36:09)

Yeah.

B (36:09)

I can't bring myself to throw weed in the trash. Even no matter how old it is or how like dry it is, I can't bring myself to waste it.

C (36:16)

Good, good. Because I thought you. I thought you wasted weed that you scoffed at.

B (36:21)

No, everyone wants some weed. If I have weed, I will give it to a homeless dude. If it's like a fat sack of shake. I can't waste. I can't waste clothes. I can't waste food. I have to go give it to somebody because, like, I can't. It's. Something in my brain will not allow me to just throw the away. I have to give it to somebody.

C (36:39)

Yeah. I was like that my whole life with just everything like, oh, it's something. Yeah.

B (36:46)

I can't, dude. I can't.

C (36:47)

No. Once you have a couple kids, it's like, I don't want.

B (36:49)

I don't want any of this.

C (36:50)

Anything.

B (36:51)

No.

C (36:51)

I feel you quickest to get rid of everything because then you turn around and your garage is just full of. And you can't even walk through it. Now you got just a burden of to deal with. And, you know, dad's out. Yeah, you're a dad. When you got to start scheduling the Goodwill truck to come pick up at the house.

B (37:10)

Did you know you could write that off for everyone out there? Did you know you can write off Goodwill things. If you give things to Goodwill, they have a price for everything. And you can write that off in your taxes. I need you guys to Google that. Don't let. Don't get played. Goodwill, you can write off things you give up to a certain number a year. So if you can write it off in your taxes, and you were just going to do it anyway, don't let the government come up. Goodwill sells the clothes that you give them. Did you know that all the you give to Goodwill they put in the store for sale?

C (37:40)

Yeah, but you're just like, take it. Get it out.

B (37:42)

Yeah, you're just like, I don't want this problem. You make money and tax people for people. You could have gave to homeless people. There's a. There's a. There's 500 homeless people with old push tree shirts and Merced, because I give that right there off 27th Street. I used to give weekly because I get so much stuff in the mail for advertisement and doing sponsorships, and I can't wear it all. I can't use it all. I would leave it in a plastic bag right by the bear Creek for 27th Street. And. And like between the railroad tracks right there, I used to leave bags of. So there's so many push trees that. There's so many weed company hats. So much stuff just floating around. I've seen one guy with my shirt on when I passed him in my car, and it made me like. It was awesome. Dude, it was so sick. And we saw one chick wearing Rosie's entire outfit that we dropped in the bag. It was sick. I can't. Yeah, I just can't throw things away if I know somebody can use them. If it's useless, then I'll just throw it away.

C (38:38)

Yeah.

B (38:39)

How the did we get on this topic?

C (38:41)

You're educating me on Merced.

B (38:43)

Yeah, Merced. Damn, dude. At this point, I completely forgot what the we were talking about. I need to. This is a practice episode. I need some structure. Yeah.

C (38:58)

Yeah.

B (38:58)

I need structure. Because at this point. Point I am ranting, which is not bad. Every video I make, I hate it until I'm done with it. I always look at it go, did I really mess up that bad? And it's because you're editing yourself and you're trying to critique yourself. So it's. It's very hard.

C (39:15)

It's different.

B (39:15)

It's different. It's different. Editing yourself is so much different than any another person. Yeah, it's.

C (39:21)

Well, you remember when I like those first two or Three videos when we started working together. Like I edited all of them from.

B (39:28)

Start to start to finish. Yeah.

C (39:30)

And how different was that from. It was weird. Yeah, it was different. Somebody else is, something's not.

B (39:39)

And then we got to the thing where I edit the video. The skeleton, you'd call it. I do like the ground work. Give Marty timestamps and then he makes them. Awesome. That's how it works so well. Because I. I can't do the things that I can't. Yo, real quick. You have to remember so many steps to do editing programs. And this guy. Do you know how to do long division, Marty?

C (40:02)

No.

B (40:02)

No. I'm surprised. I love the way you said that.

C (40:05)

No. Oh, man. No. I blank out at math real quick. When you, you did some math in your head the other day and I.

B (40:12)

Was like, I'm really good at math in my head.

C (40:13)

Yeah.

B (40:14)

Drug dealer.

C (40:14)

Yeah. Yeah.

B (40:15)

No, I'm.

C (40:16)

I'm the worst.

B (40:16)

Yeah. I'm so good with math in my head because I would always be like that in high school. Like, how much you want? Okay. If I have to sell for this and I got it for this. Okay. And I don't want to tell them like, give me a second so I can do this math. How much I'm going to tax you as a kid, I meant not taxing, but like my eights are $50. Back then when I was in high school, eights for 55, 50 bucks, you got a deal. We used to get taxed when I was in high school. Man, I used to pay a lot of money for weed before I started really selling a lot of weed. When I started selling weed then that was it. It became. I didn't. Like I said earlier, I didn't realize how much weed or smoking and how much weed you're flying through until you really stop and look at it. Cuz when you. Because you see this movies with drug dealers, they happen hell away. And all these people, that was literally my house, but they were all my friends and we're all having fun and laughing and watching stupid. But at the same time, there is mass amounts of weed being sold because people are coming in, I'm giving in bags and. Or selling weed all day. It was a fun ass. It was.

C (41:18)

So did you make, did you make the decision like this what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna go after it and I'm gonna find the plugs I need and make it happen or did it just happen to you?

B (41:26)

I started selling the weed because I sold a sack of weed and I made $15 extra profit off of a 10 sack. I didn't have a scale. I ripped a 10 sack and a half. And I go, this is for 10 bucks. Do you want it? Because somebody asked me, like, yeah, I'll take it. Go. Cool. 10 bucks. I just got a free nug. This is before I started selling weed. So I wasn't. Had no money. I was poor. I grew up poor. So I didn't have no money. So when I made 15 because I sold the other half to some girl for. And she's like, you have 15 worth. My homie said you had a really good weed. I go, I sold a guy a half a nug. And the word got out during lunch. This a small ass town. Like, this town is so small. And then I get like, it's like this. It's not a lot, not a big. I told her it's not a big sack or anything, but this is what I have if you want it for 15. She looked at, she smelled. She goes, I'll take it. I go, okay, yeah, sorry, I'll get more later. I pretended like I sold weed. I'll get more later. And I knew the girl from when I was a really little kid. I knew her from when I was real young as my mom's friend's daughter. She's cool as and I knew her. That's why she, like, came up to me. And I wasn't like, what? What do you mean? You heard like, oh, what's up here? Yeah. And I remember I looked down at it. I was like, Whoa, I have $25. And I bought a 10 sack at the beginning of lunch. And now I have money and I got cheese fries. And then what? Before I got the cheese fries, Joe, my friend Joe was my best friend. He came up to me and I told him, and he goes, no, you didn't. I go, joe, you know, I don't got no money. I have 25 in my hand. Like, I show him like, dude, I got a 10 sack. It sold for 15 and a 10. And he looked at me and both the sparks went off in our heads like, oh, I can hear that.

C (43:19)

That was good timing. Actually. A hustler was born.

B (43:24)

Literally, dude. Joe looked at me and he goes, let's start selling. I go, I'm down as. And he goes, I'll buy the first, like, sack. He I'll try to buy a. A ounce from Sam. We got a one ounce from this guy Sam. I won't say his last name. Sam. He was a grade older than Us. He was our friend, but he was kind of a. He was our friend. The old, you know, he's the older guy that you're like, oh, what's up, man? He's like, yeah, what's up? And then kind of be a dick later and like, ah, he's older. I'm not his friend. I just as an acquaintance. He got nicer as we got older, but he was a. Anyway, we got an ounce of pink champagne. What now I would call straight Bammer. We got some trash ass weed. We got. We, I think, charged us like 260 bucks for an ounce. And me and Joe, like, what the. We got an ounce of weed and we made bags out of plastic bags. Like, we got a Ziploc, cut it and then put like, the weed. Eyeballed a 10 sack, put the weed and closed it with a lighter, made a bag. We made like this many bags. We had an ounce. And I lived right across. Well, not across the street, one block and across the street from my high school. And I told him, like, my mom will stab me. You know, she'll kill me if I. If I smoke weed, let alone get caught selling.

C (44:40)

She wasn't smoking weed, my mom.

B (44:42)

Yeah, my mom smoked weed when she was a kid. She said in high school, didn't smoke weed whatsoever until she would hit the. I guess she would smoke bowls here and there, like once or twice a year type. Like when she's faded with her friends when she was like 35.

C (44:58)

I don't understand how people do that.

B (45:00)

But I don't know, dude. But now she smokes weed all the time. Mom. My mom smokes all the time now for like the past six, seven years. So it's kind of odd. It's. It's odd because. Well, the second she punched me in the face and I went, you don't even hit hard. And that was it. As soon as I realized, like, you didn't knock me unconscious. You ain't. Because I was scared to death. She's the fucking scariest person on the planet as a kid. And that was it. She punched me in the face. And I went, are you kidding me? Yeah. And I went, like, get out of my way. And I went and got my. And when she kicked me out, I was like, yeah. She's like, you're not getting your stuff. Like, what are you gonna do about it? And then I got my stuff and I left. That's the day I stopped being afraid of my mom. I was 15, and I walked to Joe's house right behind. I Walked through La Crescenta and through the mud. I walked through this whole mud field. You know when you would have no car, you look at a field like, all right, I think I can make it out there without my shoes up. Okay, I'll make it. I'll go. And then you take it and halfway through you get mud on your. And you're just. The day is done.

C (46:02)

Yep, 100.

B (46:03)

You feel me?

C (46:04)

Oh, man, listen. You feel me, man, listen. We grew up with Jordans and the muddy snow. Eight months.

B (46:11)

It's different though. Yeah. You grew up in a place that I only see on tv, man. I only see snow on Home Alone. I don't see snow. Other places you have snow. What the. My. My East Coast, My east coast knowledge and how I think all the east coast, like hood parts are. I just watched the Wire and I saw and go. I feel like any place with a lot like a tall apartment buildings. It's just like the Wire because we don't have the highest building in Mercedes, five stories high. And it's one. The other one that's close is like two. That's not a big. Like we're a small ass town. So when I came to LA for the first time as a kid, looking up like, what the fuck? My only knowledge of New York or East coast or any of those states is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as a kid. And then. Solid.

C (47:00)

Yeah, solid references every day.

B (47:04)

I assume everyone talks like the Ninja Turtles over there. I have no knowledge. I watch Seinfeld, but they don't really have New York accents. Except for George. And it's not even that bad. Like, it's not that thick. You can't hear it. So that's my New York knowledge. I mean, that's my east coast knowledge. Mar. That's where I feel like you're from.

C (47:23)

You're from the Wire of the Wire in Seinfeld somewhere in there. Pretty accurate. Yeah.

B (47:29)

That's cool. If you could describe your life in one show, what would it be like? Damn.

C (47:37)

We were. I was talking, going back to talking about the commercial we were doing last weekend. I was like, I didn't want to annoy Anthony with like talking about like the podcast and all this other. And Adam's like, no, no, just let's tell them it's you. It's 8 Mile.

B (47:53)

It's 8. They call you 8 Mile, apparently. That's awesome. I think that's hilarious because they're never going to forget that that's your name forever. You know that, right?

C (48:05)

Yeah. I was like, all right. I'll. I got a name.

B (48:07)

I'll take it. I'll take. Yeah, exactly. All right. That's not a. Not the worst thing you could have called me. Yeah. Oh, my God. Marty. I can't believe I never asked you. Marty used to be a musician. Guys, I think it's fun. This is fun. Let's talk about this. I've never really asked you about it. So you started making music at what age 19? Just randomly just started making music or you always wanted to make music, you just started actually making music at 19?

C (48:34)

No, see, it was like I was. I'm obsessive. So I was obsessed with basketball fully. I was. I loved.

B (48:41)

You good at basketball?

C (48:42)

I was. I mean, I was decent. I was good. I played a little bit of college and stuff.

B (48:46)

Oh, so you play basketball?

C (48:48)

Yeah.

B (48:48)

So, like right now you could play basketball?

C (48:50)

No, I'm trash. I'm not gonna lie to you. It's been a long time. But back then I was obsessed.

B (48:59)

So funny. I didn't know you were into basketball, dude. All I did from about 13 to 15 besides do weed when I was at my grandma's because I had to sit there every weekend because it's my dad's time and he was never there. So they built me a basketball hoop and all I did was watch and one compilations and.

C (49:16)

Yeah.

B (49:17)

Did you know I'm really good at dribble.

C (49:20)

You did the 5,000 milligram video I edited.

B (49:22)

Yeah, you edited.

C (49:23)

I put the. Hey yo, hey baby.

B (49:26)

That's right. I haven't done. I haven't done that. But me fat. I was fat too. Still, I can actually. Until you. I'll pass you in. You make it. You dunk it. But until then, I'm going to just go shake the out of people. I do the whole Throw it through.

C (49:43)

Your shirt without a listen.

B (49:46)

It bounce on the floor. It bounces over you and you catch under your. Oh, hot sauce was. That's who I was.

C (49:52)

I've been watching these videos with my son, man. Like these. Oh, man, you can't watch these videos.

B (49:57)

That's cool. That's. That should still.

C (49:58)

That was my lifestyle. We would. Me and my friend Khalil would walk around and people would be like, do some trick for us. No, like we. We would. It was literally like at Delaware park, the biggest park in Buffalo for probably seven, eight summers in a row. All summer, every day, more sun up to sundown. And it was some and one where people were all gathered around. I'm the only white dude on the court the whole it was. And one.

B (50:22)

It was like, oh, yeah, Marty's white guy. Sorry.

C (50:24)

It was amazing. Yeah, very much so. White as.

B (50:28)

Very much so.

C (50:29)

Yeah. But anyway, to answer your question, yeah, like, I played all through high school. I was way more of a playground player than a school player.

B (50:37)

Got Same, same. But.

C (50:39)

But I was one of only two people to go on to play college for my high school team. No, yeah, I went, I played.

B (50:46)

So, yeah. When I asked you, are you good at basketball, you should have said, yeah, I'm good.

A (50:49)

I'm okay.

B (50:50)

Not as good as I used to be. I'm trash. That is not the response you should have gave me.

C (50:56)

Yeah, well, I mean, I, I know I am like, I've shit.

B (50:59)

I've Compared to what you used to do.

C (51:01)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. But you know, it was, it was one of those situations where like, I was just convinced I was going to go to the NBA or something. Then I did my first year and then I transferred to a smaller school for my, my sophomore year because I wanted to play more. So I transferred down. I went through this whole like gruesome.

B (51:18)

You did all this because you played basketball then you were dedicated as basketball?

C (51:22)

Yeah, yeah. I mean, I was working a full time job. I was commuting to school. I was like doing college. I had a lot.

B (51:30)

Yeah, you were that guy. Yeah, you were that dude with the high socks and sandals. No, no, that's most basketball players.

C (51:38)

Oh, I know what you mean. Not. I was. Yeah, no, I was. But it was like, yeah, we. I did the, the training, the summer training. The team that I went and played for, the. In my sophomore season, who, when I transferred, they hadn't won a game the year before. They were horrible.

B (51:58)

Damn.

C (51:58)

They went, oh. And whatever. So I was like, all right, I'm going to come down here and get some playing time and, you know, stand out. So I did the whole thing, the whole summer training camp and everything. We're running around the park, passing the medicine balls, everybody's trying to outdo each other and all this. And I started to dorm. I dormed there.

B (52:17)

Was that. Oh, you lived there?

C (52:18)

I lived in the dorm, but I was in Buffalo. I was still in my hometown. So it was like I was just too close to all my friends basically. So like. And that's when I started getting into weed, actually right in that same moment. So I like got caught smoking weed in the dorm. This whole chain of events where we got blackout drunk. I came back to the dorm, smoked weed in the dorm. My girlfriend at the Time was passed out naked, blackout drunk, puking everywhere. And the next. It was a fiasco and it ended my basketball career.

B (52:52)

They kicked you out?

C (52:54)

Yeah, basically. Basically I had to do community service at the school and then I out.

B (53:00)

Because you had hella fun.

C (53:03)

No, no, they didn't kick me. I kicked myself out over it. Like. So I got in trouble, I got caught. I didn't even realize it. And now I'm being a dick to the coach about it. Like I'm trying to play it off like it didn't happen, all this shit. I'm not really. Because what I'm getting at simultaneously is I started to like, dabble with music a little bit. I was getting these little instrumentals and me and my friends were going, like, starting to write. But it caused me to like, start to like fall back from basketball. And this is all within like a week or two. And I had prior, you know, really, really. But then when I went and like started to do some rough recordings and stuff, like, one of my good friends at the time was like, you need to really seriously take this seriously. Like, no, no, stop it. You need to really seriously take this serious. And when he said that, I really did. And then like, I. I.

B (53:54)

Cool.

C (53:54)

Like. But literally from that time in that semester, fast forward a couple weeks, maybe a couple months. Not even. Because once I started smoking weed, having the school was over. But big record, that whole situation, 50 cent G unit and everything was right after that. Like, it came very quickly. No, like putting out thousands of CDs. It all really happened quickly.

B (54:14)

Within like a couple months.

C (54:15)

Yeah. Of quitting basketball and just fully. I quit my job. I quit everything and just fully went into it and. And just hoping, basically. And it. And nothing transpired for a while. It was, you know, just me dumping money into it. Me going as hard as I could, going, like giving everything I had to it and just. I mean, there is no opportunity. It was really. It was pre Internet almost, so, like.

B (54:41)

But eventually they called you eight mile. You literally just sat by. They called you eight miles.

C (54:46)

I went through all that, all those eight mile moments in those little bars and the showcases. Driving back and forth to New York and just eating, wasting money. Studio times, man. Like, although going to studios in neighborhoods that were so dangerous that like, I remember like going to pull up, he's not there. All right, we gotta keep it moving because we can't even. We can't even just sit because.

B (55:08)

No, I know what you mean.

C (55:09)

Like. Yeah, you know, stuff like that. Stuff I look back on very super Finely. No.

B (55:15)

I hate that feeling of, oh, man, I might get shot.

C (55:19)

Yeah, the tension. The tension is high. Like, I noticed that when I moved here. Like, there's not that tension in the air.

B (55:24)

No, no, there is, man. But you're. You're not the color over here. You're fine here. You're not Mexican. You're not. You're not black.

C (55:34)

It's an Orange county thing, too. Orange county is just like.

B (55:37)

You're also. You're not in la.

C (55:38)

It's a different.

B (55:39)

See me out here. Even though I'm a super nice person, I'm not gang affiliate at all. My car is a monster. When I have that Monte Carlo souped up, I have to. I'm gonna have my window down. I'm gonna be smiling, wearing a not red or blue shirt. That's what I know. I don't wear red or blue, as you can see. And this shirt has red and blue on it just to be a little safe. Yeah, you're fine out here, man. Yeah, over there, it's different. You're like, oh, you're the white dude. You're playing basketball and you're rapid. You. Oh, you're good at both.

C (56:12)

There was. See, I didn't realize I was naive at the time, like, how much is tension. I was drawing to myself that. But at the same time, like, I'm just super grateful because all I ever got out of Buffalo was respect and love and support. For the most part, like, as much as they could, they did and still do.

B (56:29)

It's awesome.

C (56:29)

Yeah. Hell yeah.

B (56:32)

For the timeline of this video, Buffalo Bills and playoffs tomorrow.

C (56:36)

Oh, what a year it is. The fact that we're doing this right now, this has all come together. Everything's coming together.

B (56:43)

The Bills play tomorrow. It's gonna be a good game. It's gonna be a good game. Ryan Sickler is from Baltimore.

C (56:51)

Yep.

B (56:51)

He's a big Ravens fan.

C (56:52)

Me and him talked this morning.

B (56:54)

Yeah, What'd you guys talk about?

C (56:56)

Huh? I invited him over.

B (56:57)

You guys gonna watch it together?

C (56:59)

No, he was already going somewhere.

B (57:00)

Okay. That's probably not the best.

C (57:02)

No, it probably wouldn't be. Yeah, I know, I know. Because, like, either way, somebody's gonna be salty coming out of that one. Yep. I hope it's not basically what Marty says.

B (57:11)

Like, if we lose, I'll be pissed. Someone's gonna be salty. At least.

C (57:17)

After last week. We almost had a heart attack. April was in tears.

B (57:20)

Yeah. I had to watch the highlights of the game after you said, you know, talked to me about and go you didn't see the end. I didn't see the end. Holy. They fumbled the ball, dude. You guys lost it. You still came. Sorry. And you still came out on.

C (57:35)

That's how I know something's different about it this year. It always happens where we get screwed, but then we never come out on top.

B (57:42)

But you did.

C (57:43)

Something's different this year. I don't know what it is. Like something's.

B (57:46)

I told you a while back, I think the Bills might take it. I think they might. They're a good team. And like I said, the Ravens are good. They have. They're good. They have good stars. But I feel like they're as a whole, they're not as good as a team together. They have really good standout players and.

C (58:02)

I think we need it. That's why I feel like we deserve it. It's too long in the coming. We're a real team now. All these other teams have had championships. We need it. Like it's big for the city. It's big for how people's self esteem and how they're kids feel growing up. Like, as stupid as it sounds like it really makes a huge impact even like, I mean look at Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Cities that have had big sports franchises and superstars. Like, I don't know, it keeps them from. I feel Buffalo's had this. Just this gray cloud over it for so long and just even working in comedy with people that travel all around like it. Like it's almost like a punchline city is it in a lot of ways for just it being so cold and so extra and just like so poor and like it's the comics that travel. Anytime they bring up Buffalo. It's a joke in my experience.

B (58:54)

Got you, got you, got you, got you.

C (58:56)

So it's nice now to have some real credibility. Not just because it's that, you know, four Super Bowls in a row, like really like this, you know. And like you're saying about Merced like you could never even. You'd have never known when the economic crisis happened or whatever in Buffalo. Like it was just always.

B (59:12)

It was. Yeah, it was always shitty. Yeah. The what crash? The housing market. I. I don't know anyone whose parents own a house. The. Except my grandma grandpa. But my grandma grandpa, they might as well not have money because he ain't never gonna get no money from my grand grandpa. They're smart, they're good, they're good with their money. My grandma grandpa rich as. But they were poor. Poor as when they came to this country and they Worked until they were old as. And they're still old as. They. They're old now, but they just stopped working. My grandma's 88. Just stopped working and.

C (59:46)

Well, mission accomplished for him. Look at the position here. I think I was talking to April about this the other night. Like, people came over on boats for us to be in this position we're in right now. They didn't even. They looked generations ahead for us to possibly have a shot to live like this.

B (60:02)

Yeah, it's a trip. I know exactly what you mean.

C (60:06)

Yeah, that's real.

B (60:07)

Like, we.

C (60:07)

We did the little ancestry. Like, my. Goes right back.

B (60:15)

Everyone in your family does this. I never understood how could fight like that. And then I watched Gangs in New YORK When Leonardo DiCaprio's fighting, I'm like, all right. For some reason, when he. Oh, it's because you're an actor. But for some reason, when you do it, I feel like it's more realistic. Actual, real fights.

C (60:37)

Like the Notre Dame logo.

B (60:38)

Yes. Yes. Dude, Mercedes Merced's logo is a. A pookie. It should just be a.

C (60:46)

See, I don't even know the terminology. Pookie, to me, is before meth.

B (60:50)

Pipe.

C (60:51)

Yeah, I've gathered.

B (60:52)

Oh, oh, CB4. I love that movie, man. I have that in my house. Yeah, that's a good one.

C (60:59)

Hell, yeah, it is.

B (61:02)

Yo, can I bring something up real quick? And I might get on for it. I'm gonna talk about it, and I need to bring it up because it has to be talked about. I have never fully seen New Jack City all the way through as a kid and getting in, like, adulthood. I've seen, like, 60 of it in pieces. I've never sat and watched the whole thing. You know what I'm saying? I know New Jack said he's like, a cult classic, right? Have you ever seen that movie before? I continue. Yeah. Okay. That movie was so poorly directed. I was literally doing every five seconds looking at Rosie like, yo, is Chris Rock supposed to be making me laugh right now when he's trying not to smoke crack? He's making the funniest faces alive. And you're not supposed to die laughing. And then I'm just going to point it out again.

C (61:56)

Yeah. You know, I don't remember that.

B (61:58)

It's. Do you remember this?

C (62:00)

I ruin all the time like that for people when I watch stuff with it.

B (62:04)

Dude, I was. I was so shocked. I love iced tea. Iced tea is awesome. But you're going to tell me you take 1980s ice tea serious as a cop? That's tough. I'm sorry. This. When I lost it, I lost it. I started dying, fucking laughing. Ask Rosie this.

C (62:26)

That is ironic to have him play the cop.

B (62:29)

Right? Right.

C (62:29)

He's a cop killer. Right, dude?

B (62:31)

Exactly. At the same time, when that song was coming out, I rewound it because there's a part. If you guys never seen New Jack City, I said, I. You guys probably have. There's a part at the end. I just want to know. Like, yo, ice tea, I'm your acting coach. This next scene is real dramatic, all right? So don't make everybody laugh. I cool. And he walked up and he goes, I want to shoot you so bad. My dick's hard. He does that and shakes his lips and everything. I died fucking laughing. I rewound it just to watch it again. Again, so I could laugh harder. I cannot believe that the director went, yo, that's great. No, keep going. Were they afraid? Iced tea?

C (63:16)

That's probably.

B (63:17)

That's probably what it was, right? Because I see was a scary. When I was a kid, and I'm not saying he's not scary now, but that scene made me go, is this a comedy? Because that was hilarious.

C (63:28)

Unintentional.

B (63:30)

My dick's hard. Like, the way he said it was like, did Dave Chappelle write this movie? Because this is funny. I swear to God, dude, I'm gonna.

C (63:40)

Go back and watch it. I can almost guarantee it was like, they didn't want to tell him to do another take, and they did. Like, even working with some comedians, I can sense that they're scared to be like, can we get that again? Really not scared. But, like, after one or two takes, the dude really legitimately might not want to do it again. And if you're dealing with iced tea.

B (63:59)

In the 80s, Iced Te in the 80s, I. Scary. He's scary for sure. But it was.

C (64:03)

He's like, the line is, get my dick hard.

B (64:06)

The line was, get my dick hard. All right, Well, I ain't gonna say that. All right, go. Then he spoons his Jerry curl that he had with a kangal hat. You're a cop. I know you're undercover. But even when he was with the cops in interrogation or the cops in the briefing room, he still. He didn't even look like a cop.

C (64:27)

Man, I gotta get. Remember Gridlocked Tupac? Wasn't Tupac play a cop role? There's a whole bunch of movies you're talking about, like, the above the Rim era.

B (64:36)

Oh, wow.

C (64:38)

Late 80s, not even 90s yet. There's a whole like genre, like movies like that.

B (64:44)

I feel like there's. There's a lot of good ones. I don't know if you guys ever watch. Are we just sitting here talking about movies? I love it. This is great. We got completely off topic. If we even had one. I don't even remember where we were going with, we got the meth in the new Jack City. But for everyone out there that is listening for the timeline, tomorrow we get a new president, right? I think so. I think tomorrow. I know I sound stupid because I don't know and I don't know anything about politics, but I don't pay attention. So I don't have a side, I don't have anything thing I appreciate of whoever's doing better. Whoever's doing better for everybody. That's it.

C (65:24)

I think that's actually the smart take on it.

B (65:26)

Like, yo, are you gonna do good things for us? No. Are you? No. Well, both of you. I don't give a man, who am I gonna vote for? The lesser? The whoever's nicer. No, you're still gonna.

C (65:39)

Whoever can roast the other one better.

B (65:41)

Yo, if that. Oh, my God. 2024. Here it comes. Kanye west versus Rock Barack. No, he already did. He already did two terms.

C (65:51)

No, the rock.

B (65:52)

Oh, he said Barack politician versus Kanye west because he's gonna run again. And it's a roast battle. That's what our country has become to other countries. They look at us like Wilder Valderrama. Your mama's house or your mama jokes. That's how they look in America right now. Hey, I'm American. I'm stupid and fat. Like, man, you're making us look so much worse. Yeah, you guys are all adults are all older than I am, and you guys are acting so stupid.

C (66:26)

We don't realize the way we look at Mexico is how Canada looks at us.

B (66:29)

The way we look at Mexico. Oh, like you guys. Damn, you guys have no bill. No, because the way I look at Mexico is. I mean, because obviously my family's from there. I didn't know there's like nice ass cities out there. I'm sure I didn't know that till I was like 1720.

C (66:45)

I still don't know that as an American.

B (66:47)

No, dude, it's exactly because America. Because they don't show you that there's some. It's not a third world country. As bad as, like. Yes, there's some parts. I get it. I understand there's cities, there's metro PCs and dominoes. And out there there's actual. When I Went to Mexico. The first time I was a kid, I went to Tijuana and that was the only thing I had of Mexico. But I went to the really, really poor side and I thought, yo, this is not fun. And I don't understand what anybody's saying. I was like six. That was my first impression in Mexico. So I didn't get to see the cool part. My grandma's from Acapulco. My grandma has a bomb ass spot out there. I didn't even know about it. And dude, there's nice ass parts of the. There's nice parts of Mexico, man. They don't show you on tv, they don't show you on American Team. They don't do it. I feel like they want to keep everyone thinking, don't go to Mexico, it's a lot cooler. They don't want people to know how cool Mexico is. I mean, I'm not going to move to Mexico, but it's not third world broken down buildings everywhere. Let me light this back up. So it's like we never stopped. Oh man, this is going to be fun. Dude, I. That one hour might as well have been ten minutes. Yeah, yeah. Easy time and flow is not a matter. I just need more structure, more topic structure. Well, then again, with another person, I'm going to do my, I'm not going to not do my homework every, every time, every person, no matter what it is. And now I have to start reading more. I need to start thinking outside of what I'm in the lane of which.

C (68:30)

Well, you kind of have a reason to now.

B (68:32)

Yes. Okay, here we go. All right, there we are. So this is just the practice episode. We talked about Buffalo. We talked about Merced. We talked about Buffalo. Doesn't have method, allegedly. Yeah, doesn't have meth. But we talked about drugs. Talked about a little brief history on the stuff that I've been doing with my girlfriend Rosie. We've been just doing this weed, I mean doing this legal content weed for about eight years. All the other weed was just before that. So yeah, so I'm never going to get used to this thing right here. So it's a microphone. I never use microphones for anything, so it's going to take some getting used to. This is fun. Practice episode number one, guys. Like I said, if you're seeing this, it's. I don't know how you are, but if you are, it's probably some membership thing that we only release to a few people because this is practice. Practice.

C (69:37)

So what, what would you say your best Case scenario, what would the goal be by this time next year?

B (69:43)

This time next year I want to have my show idea. I have that I'm working on my. I told you my homie Ace. I have a idea for a show. He can get it, he can get, he can get it brought to life for sure. This podcast, I feel I love doing YouTube. I love doing videos. I love it. All the reviews and all that fun. That's what I do for. That's what I do by this time next year. I want that to be second to this, to the podcast. I want the podcast to be my main focus because I think we can do some fun stuff and I think with the right fun guess the right. I want this podcast to be something you can come to and go. I'm at least gonna learn one thing out of this, you know what I mean? Even if the, the guest is an ex drug dealer or some or whoever it is. I want like a financial advisor. I want to bring on a famous financial advisor to teach us how to fucking manage our money. Because school never taught me that. And I think that's pretty informational. Our fan base, well Based on analytics 21 to 35 is our biggest. But we have a lot of like just turning 18. I know that, I know it sounds like you smoke weed. I can't stop people from watching. That's not something I can physically fucking do or do on the Internet. I put the age restriction, that's all I can want to do. If you lie about your age, what do you want me to do, man? I can't stop that. So our demographics are, are young people, you know what I'm saying? Like Even if you're 50, you're still young. I'm saying younger people that are just getting into the world of work, 21 year olds. You haven't been an adult that long. So how do you manage your money? I had no idea how to manage my money. I would have houses if I manage my, my when I was younger. So I think someone like that on the show as a guest. I really, really want people to be able to come out of something, come out of here with something. You know what I mean? Entertainment.

A (71:38)

Yeah.

B (71:38)

That's fun. That's cool. Maybe we have like your favorite person you ever watch on TV and it happens to be the guest. Like that's going to be fun for you, right? Just like it is for me. I'm. When I leave and go home, I'm still. We're all the same, we're all just chilling. You Know what I'm saying? When we're on our downtime, like, yo, you want to watch a movie? Yeah, I do. Like, yeah, I love that movie. And that person you're watching on the show as a guest, you're probably gonna watch that episode and love it because you love that person. How cool would it be? And then you connect and it's. That's what I want you to connect with. The. That's in my head. There's a lot of people that think like I do and they're in the comments. They're always talking about it on our pages, our channels, about how relatable everything is because a lot of us grew up the same man. You don't have to have 17 million fans where you can just have a really, really, really strong. Like you said, all you need is10,000 loyal ass fans to watch. That's really all you need to suffice. You know what I'm saying? But if you have a million loyal ass fans, even better. That's awesome. As long as you care. Like, and, and trust me, guys, I spent a lot of time doing just to do it because I appreciate you guys. And like I said, even if we don't make money off it, who gives a we is. That's not why I started this. Like, you know what? I should get Instagram so I can make money. That's never happened. It's just, I care more about. I'd rather lose money and have somebody be happy. You know what I'm saying? Like, I have somebody come away and go, oh, that guy I watch on YouTube, that guy I listen to on the podcast, he's just as nice as he's appearing to be because it's real. I'm gonna walk out of here and be the same person. And that's a lot. When I moved to LA a couple years ago, that's when I realized that it's not like that not everyone is as genuine as they seem. And that's why, like a lot of people, I don't have a lot of friends. I don't have a lot of friends, but I like a lot of people. I like. You know what I mean? The first foot forward. Maybe I haven't got to know them enough to make a full judgment, but my friends are my friends. I don't even know I've got on this topic at all. But if for everyone out there, oh yeah, it's relatable because a lot of you think the same way. Like, I have a few close friends and I Have some people I see sometimes that it's okay. You don't have to have. Like I said, you don't have to have 500 friends to have good friends. You just need a few good ones. And like I said, we have a few good fans. We have more than a few. But they're loyal, you guys. Our fans are so fucking loyal and they're so active because we're doing what you're doing at home. It's this, it's the same thing. We just, we're making a platform at it. We're doing it on a platform. We made a show. It's an idea, a series or that's just the way we think. I used to be a pizza delivery driver. I used to work at U Haul and go to school and work at McDonald's in a wine box bag company. We all, we all started somewhere and maybe you're still working at those places. That's fine. That's great. That's. As long as you're okay with that. That's awesome. If you're happy, then there's no. Just because you're not a fucking rich ass fool doesn't mean shit. I'm not a rich ass fool. I'm fine with that. You know what I'm saying? I know a lot of rich people that are not that stoked. So as long as you're happy, be happy with what you're doing. And I think that mentality, it like attracts other mental. Like that energy. Then everybody in our. Do you never see people being dicks in our comments? Because everyone's there to have fun. If you're not here to have fun, you don't have to watch. There's a million other YouTube channels, a million other people that doing the same thing. Go ahead and watch. Our fan base is so damn positive. And I think it's because that's. That's what we are. That's what we do. We're not. We're not weird, mean people. So why wouldn't that attract people just like that? And that's what's been happening over the past couple years on YouTube. And all our platforms are growing and everything is just so positive and everyone's so supportive. And I think the reason for that is because we are relatable. Because we are supposed to be. We're actual human or people. You smoke weed sometimes, maybe smoke weed with your fucking aunt and your uncle in the garage or whatever the case may be. That shit's fun. I'm fucking not even a kid and I smoke weed. My aunt and uncle and it's awesome. So I understand we all have relatable stories. You guys tell me the same thing when you watch Story Time. Like, oh, I had this instantly. I believe it because it went through. It happened to me. So I totally believe it happened to you too because why wouldn't it? So what I'm trying to come away with this long ass high kid rant is thank you for watching. I appreciate you guys, all of you. If you ever meet me in public and we talked, thank you for saying what's up? I appreciate that. I thanks guys. I appreciate everything. This is just the start of something new and for sure I need like a white board or cue card that keeps me like, oh yeah, you wanted to talk about these eight things because I am over here just high as ranting so bad. If this is a video I was making, I would have clipped out the last six minutes because I'm just sitting here talking. But that's fun. I'm down with that first episode dope as usual. This is it, guys. I love podcasts. We all love podcasts. But a lot of the comedians that were doing it left. They're gone and a lot of them aren't doing their podcasts. I love. I. That's my. I love comedy. Before all this happened, the Comedy Store was awesome. I. I didn't get to go to a comedy show until I moved to la and now that I'm here, it was just fun. I love that whole scene. I get it. I understand. It's not like I'm saying I'm doing podcasts so I can be a comedian. That's not, not what I'm doing. I'm doing podcasts because our fans are down and they want to hear it. So let's do it. I just comedy something I've always wanted to do and if it leads and helps out for that and helps me practice, I, I guess you would say to riff like Marty was saying off the top. That's fine. This is everyday we just rift for an hour and a half and I was supposed to stay on topic and I didn't. But that's okay. This is practice. This is a mic check. This is mic checking. Cinematography.

C (77:39)

Check out the mic's the mic sound bomb. Yeah.

B (77:42)

Yeah. So we're just doing a practice episode, hanging out. I'm about to go hang out with Jay. It's the first time I've hung out with anyone in like two months. We've been non stop working. If when I see Marty, I see Marty more Than my friend. Like, my friends that I used to chill with every day. It's weird. It's. It's odd and how much. We've seen each other twice in the past month, and I've seen you more than anybody that I know. Besides. No, that's it. Me and Rosie are just in work mode. We've been in work mode for like a year. But that's cool. That's fun. That's. We're getting done. But yeah, I'm gonna have to hang out with my friend Jay for the first time in like two months and I'm gonna go take some dabs. I haven't dabbed in a minute. That's the end of the show. Thank you guys so much. First episode, dope as usual. I'm gonna go smoke more stuff at my house and then hang out for the rest of the night. Marty, thank you for making it possible. We have a set behind us, man.

C (78:37)

Yes, sir.

B (78:37)

We've been talking about this for a long, long time. Every, like four days. We're talking about it like. We never talked about it. You understand? We talked about it like it never happened. Like, oh, did you know that we're gonna do this? This, like. Yeah, me too. Yeah. And then four days later, I tell you the same. Yeah, dude, I'm. I'm happy. It's like we just finally opened our Christmas present presence. I. I swear to God, it's so cool to be able to walk in. Oh, yeah. If you see the sign, there's no sign right here. Because we want somebody to professionally install that. I feel like I might it up and our sign's gonna break and I don't. I don't install stuff. I don't do that. So we're gonna. We're gonna have that fixed. And yeah, this is practice episode number one. Practice episode. Thank you guys so much for watching. No more ranting. I'm gonna get on out of here. Marty. Thank you very much, guys at home. Thank you so much for watching. If you're listening in your car, everyone's an Remember that everyone drives like, so be cautious. That's the one rule I give everyone when they don't know how to drive. Well, like, you drive good. Pretend everyone's a piece of. Assume everyone sucks and you'll be safe. So out there. If you're listening in the car, thanks for listening. Please be careful. People are pieces of. And they will run you off the road and not give a. So be safe out there. Thank you guys so much for watching. If you're buying sacks of weed tonight. Be safe. Don't get in trouble if you're in an illegal state, and if you're in a legal state, just go to the store, get your weed the. You doing all right, guys? That's all I have to say. And that's all I have to say about that. Yo, could we do a face swap since we can, with this and just put characters that I start quoting and put their faces over my phone?

C (80:18)

My God, dude, I don't know if you understand who you're talking to. This is the face swap OG that.

B (80:22)

You'Re speaking to right here? Yeah. Oh, my God. And that's all I have to say about that. And then you just put Forrest Gump over my fucking face. I can't wait. Oh, my God. Oh, the cops are coming. I hear it. Thank you guys so much for watching. We're gonna get out of here, Marty. Thank you, guys. Thank you at home for watching. Like I said, if you're in the car listening, I already went over this. Good night. Oh, it's getting louder. Have a good night. Oh, no, no. Have a dope ass day. I can say whatever the fuck I want. 1. Have a dope ass day, guys. Perfect, Perfect, Perfect.