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Nothing wrong with the pussy. Welcome, welcome, welcome back. This is episode 8 of Something Wrong with the Podcast is Julian. Before I go anywhere, you know the drill. Call in for some awful advice at 877-557-SWWP to get in contact with me, your intrusive thought therapist. I came in today with no agenda. I came in with no intentions of getting political. I came in with no intentions of subbing anybody. I just wanted to reflect on my week and my day and what I have coming up in my life. So let's just have like a little hangout. I woke up this morning not feeling the best. I had a little bit of a long night last night with some friends. Hadn't had one of those in a while. First proper hangover in probably two, three months. Two months around there at least. And yeah, not feeling great. I. This is the thing with New York. Everything's available, but you got to pay to play. I was craving a bagel sandwich from one of my favorite spots called Kosar's. There's a few in the city. It's a real thick boy, the bagel. And they have this one called the classic. It's like your classic. Locks, capers, cream cheese, all the the stuff you'd want out of a very Jewish deli. A New York bagel. And it's like 20 something. It's like 20. It's 20 bucks. It's not like it is. It's $20. So I, I wake up single, single track minded. That's only thing that's on my mind. And I slept and I woke up at about 1 today, which is very rare these days. I'm an early riser most of the time and I'm doing some work and then I can't get this bagel out of my mind. So I walk. And it is unbearably windy this spring, if you want to call it spring. I feel like we're flirting with winter still here in New York. It's beautiful outside. It's sunny and it looks incredible. And the weather app will tell you it's 50 degrees, which, depending on where you're listening from, may sound cold here. That's pretty good. This time of year. I'm walking and the wind is like 30 to 30 miles an hour and it just drops the temp, you know, it's like the real feels like 25. So anyway, I'm fighting through the hangover. The wind is hitting my face. The wind actually kind of feels nice in terms of like whatever's going on in my head and I get to this spot, Kosar. As I walk in, I'm like, am I really about to spend. I've been awake for a half hour and I'm about to spend $30 on a coffee and a bagel. But like most New Yorkers, I do it without hesitation, which is bad. Like I feel New Yorkers are. We are conditioned to just pay more for everything. And everyone's like, it's expensive to live in New York. Which is true. The rent's expensive. The parking if you need a car, which you really don't. Expensive. Like the, the living expenses are a lot. But it doesn't help that the restaurants and the, you know, the, the everyday spots that you want to grab a quick bite or something like that, or I guess they have to be expensive because they're also trying to keep their damn lights on. Commercial space is not cheap in New York. The whole reason everything's expensive because the fucking real estate market. But I saw it as completely normal. And this is the problem. I saw it as normal and acceptable to come out of pocket $30 to spend on a small coffee, a small iced coffee and a bagel. Mind you, that's all I ate today that was. Well, it's not that late. It's currently seven, so six hours ago. I'm not. These days, I'm not much of an eater, which is probably not good. I said episode two, I believe. Or three was it when I was talking about my dry January, which clearly in the condition I'm in is long gone. I have. I cut back significantly on drinking. But point is, I lost like 10 or 12, 10 to 12 pounds from that experience. And I chalked it up to the no alcohol. But I really don't think I eat enough. I think I, I don't. I know I don't eat enough and I eat more often than not. I'll have my smoothie after I work out and then I won't eat my first meal. Like first chewing meal of the day usually comes around 2, 3 o'clock for me. And then sometimes that's the only meal I'll eat. Or I'll like run to Whole Foods and get some sushi or grab something to eat for dinner. But I'm looking at probably like a meal and a half to two meals a day. On a lighter side, on a light, light meal side. I'm not really throwing down. I don't like being full. I'm not someone that likes to eat for discomfort. If I'm eating a steak, I won't just finish the steak. Because there's steak on the plate if I'm done. Like, if my stomach. I listen to my stomach when I eat. I don't. I don't plow through food. I take time. Because your stomach, it's. There's a delay between your actual feelingness of how full you are and what your brain is telling you. So you need to respect that window and listen to your body when you're consuming anything, certainly food. And I'm saying this from the high horse of someone that's extremely hungover right now. But not extremely, but enough that it's a. It's agonizing and. I don't know. Food. I've never. Yeah, I love to indulge. I think the thing that I can pig out on to discomfort is candy. I still. I don't know what it is. Maybe I'm just holding on to being a child for as long as I can. I love candy. I've been eating. What do I get? I. I have osberry. Have old man taste buds too, as my friends and family would say. I love black licorice, which I know is odd. Don't care. That means no one wants to share candy with me, which is great. I love Good and Plenty, which most people don't even know. But that is a black licorice candy. I love Milk Duds. Underrated candy. Underrated boxed candy box candy is so. It's just perfect. I had little cardboard yellow box carrying that. I mean, I watched at home here. When you go to the movie theater, you want that little box of candy. I mean, the chocolates we can run down. I was staring at. I got a bacon, egg and cheese for breakfast two days ago, I believe it was. And I was staring at that when I. When they were making it. By the way, secret hack for bacon, egg and cheese and. I can't believe I'm giving this up. This is my. My gift to you, the listener. When you get a bacon, egg and cheese, especially if you're in. In New York, which is probably the only place you should get a bacon, egg and cheese, you get the usual. And then you add bacon, egg. And this is how we order. Bacon, egg and cheese with a hash brown. Salt, pepper, ketchup. I'm telling you, the. The layer of hash brown on a bacon, egg and cheese is a game changer. And it's. It's got a beautiful crunch to it. It's more texture. It's obvious a hash brown. So we know it's just delicious as is. But when it's on the sandwich. It is incredible. I had a friend of mine in A and R actually, over at Warner, was in town for a few days, and we try to find time to meet up, hang out, and we got breakfast together. But our breakfast is. That's what I love about him. He's very low maintenance. Our breakfast was just going to my local bodega and getting bacon, egg, and cheeses. So I. He ordered his, and then I ordered mine. How I just said it to you. And he goes, whoa, wait a minute. What's that? And I put him on the game, and he tried it, loved it, and I'm happy to put my friends onto that for sure. In person. I love seeing their reaction, especially when they take that first bite. But please, please, please, please, if you're. Especially if you're in New York, but even if you're not, throw a hash brown on your bacon, egg, and cheese comment. Let me know if you like it. I also have very other, like, unique hacks to simple orders that I like to do to enhance them. I'm a very, like, additive heavy guy in things. Like, even when I cook at home for salads, I love, like, I love, like, I've been making, like, these salmon balls and things, and I'll buy, like, the sesame seeds or the little accoutrements that make it more of, like, a restaurant robust experience. It's always the little things that you don't think to buy that always takes something to the next level. Like, my cabinet is, I'll buy. And that's the problem with, like, whole Foods. Everything's stupid expensive. But you buy, like, say, a very specific topping or a paste for an entree. And of course, the recipe itself only calls for, like, a fucking quarter of a teaspoon. You. You hardly need any of it. It's like, can I just put, like, a scoop in a Ziploc bag and walk home and not have to pay $20 for this? So, you know, you buy it, you bring it home, you take the teaspoon, put it in, and then that thing sits in your damn pantry for three years until you decide to make the recipe again. Point is, my pantry is filled with stuff that I've used for, like, once or twice for a meal where it's just the sliver of the ingredient is necessary, and now it's just there for. For eternity. Which, speaking of, I made a spicy rigatoni a few weeks. A couple weeks ago. Probably the best pasta, one of the best pastas I've ever had. Honestly, I'm gonna give myself that much credit. Certainly the best pasta I've ever made. It was incredible. But there is a very specific ingredient in that recipe that I needed very little of and now I have a jar of it at my, my apartment which honestly is enough of a reason for me to make it again. So maybe I should do that for myself soon instead of paying $25 and then up to $30 for a bagel and coffee just to breathe in New York to get hit with the tax man. It's, it's really tough here. I'm in the process of moving. Well not yet I'm looking. I've been currently in my, in my home here for four years. Longest I've ever lived anywhere I believe until this apartment. From my stint in Chicago till officially moving into here. I believe that was what that spanned six years. Six now about seven or eight years I lived in I believe 12 or 12 or 13 different places. A lot of jumping ship couch to couch lease here I was on basically never had a longer than a year lease since I stepped in New York until this one. I moved in here with the intention of staying a year. Ended up resigning that second contract for two and then resigning the third contract for a year. It's coming to an end next month. I'm asked them to push it to a month to month because I have a very, very busy schedule coming up that I'll get to in a second. But like everything in New York, it seemed like the world at large, the market is trash. The real estate apartment hunting here is not kind and it has been a grueling process. My best plug in the industry has stepped away from her firm so I don't have like the back end access to when apartments are becoming available or you know that, that, that peak before it goes on street easy or Zillow if you're looking for a new apartment. I don't have that insider access database anymore which sucks. That's how I got this spot. I locked this in before they put it on market officially which was actually pretty nice. Shout out to her. She really hooked it up. But I'm dolo this go around man. And yeah if you're listening to this I'm in Austin. I'm in Austin, Texas for south by for south the week doing some really cool stuff with creators, a lot of podcasters actually I'm working on some really really fun stuff which is cool. You'll probably see a lot of content from that and I'll talk about it. I'm not bringing my equipment down but I'll certainly when I come back to New York talk about it on that following episode. Might shoot some stuff down there. Tequila 512 is down there. The homies that sponsored my first episode, they have a really sick studio office space and they sent me their availability in their schedule and they're like yo, come by whenever. Love to have you host you. So if my schedule allows, I will go down there and love to shoot something probably at night there, which would be sick. While I am down there though, I have a lot of good friends coming into into town for south by my buddy the Pangea guys which you've probably heard me speak of. They're the. The DJ group. My buddy, my homie. I know Falcons and Joaquin will be there. I don't know if Joe and Nova will be there, but we'll see. So I'm gonna be bopping around with them at night and then who else is going to be in town? My buddy Ali mixed by Ali, the legendary engineer. That td, you know, TD affiliate previously is like the, the. The man. The guys always a good time that he's speaking on a panel. If you're listening this. He spoke on a panel last night. So I hopefully I'm spending that Monday night with them, him and Luke. My homie Luke, who also now lives in la, he's their lead engineer over there. Good, good people, great company. A lot of good friends will be in town. I also just need a break from New York. I've been in New York since shoot. I haven't taken like a travel. I haven't taken time. By the way. This isn't like a vacation trip. I'm going to work, but I haven't been out of New York proper in damn. Holy hell. Honestly, the first thing that comes to mind, it may be Dreamville last year, which was almost a year ago. There's no way I haven't been anywhere. Yeah, sadly I think that's honestly the reality of it. That is dark. Holy shit. I did not know it's been that long since I've left the city. I went home for the holidays, but that's just upstate New York. That's a. You know, a few. A few hours up on the Amtrak to Albany, Schenectady. But outside of doing a week there for Thanksgiving and then a week again for Christmas, I mean getting fired kind of choked up my income in my ability to do anything of leisure. So I pretty much been locked in here at my apartment in the city and have endured the entire winter. This is my first time like Just being in a New York winter fully in. In years, honestly, in quite some time, I usually am good about going to LA or evading the weather. Obviously I missed the brunt of it, but going to Austin for a week is going to be very nice to feel the sun and no wind. I'm packing. I packed earlier today. I don't really know how to pack. I always do. I love traveling. But the. The packing, it's just. I don't. I'm not. I also should have done laundry. I'm staying at Airbnb and it's like, do I want to be the guy that brings dirty laundry to an Airbnb and does a load as soon as we check in? Probably not. Have I done worse? Yes. Do I want to do that now? Not at this big age. I might. I'll probably do some laundry before I leave, though, because. That sounds smart. Yeah. It's gonna be like 80 degrees. I'm stoked. I want to just be outside. I want to be active. I want windows open. I want sun on my skin. Like, I want to do outdoor shit. Honestly, if the weather permits and they're with the vibes, I would love to go paddle boarding. I would love to get on that lake paddle with the homies. In Austin, I do have a couple, like good friends that live there. Everyone that I previously named is visiting just for south by. But I do have some friends that call Austin home. Austin, man, they're really pushing it. It's like a new Brooklyn. It's a very new scene. Texas as a whole is not for me. I'm still very not a big guy on the South. The south scares me. As a Northeastern kid, I was raised to fear the south via school. And my upbringing with my family in particular had some horror stories that my dad shared about younger days when he was. You had to go down there or whatever. And it just had always had a sour taste. The history of this country. We know the south is quite brutal to people with a little bit of melanin in their skin. So, yeah, even though it's Austin, even though there's, you know, so house and they'd like poke bowls now and you can get a matcha on 6th street and you can do all the whoopty doo de do. Let's go to the mothership. Still Austin. It's still in Texas. So I am going to have my head on a swivel and be very weary of passerbyers. And there are signs. I'll look out for big, tall hats. I'll look out for anybody with a pocket knife. Anybody that recreationally carries a pocket knife, to me is like, you're inviting a certain type of energy into your life, and it concerns me. I don't know what it is. I don't want to be a part of it. Keep the blade away from me, sir. You live in Austin, Texas. You drive a Tesla. You work in tech. You don't need to have a knife and a gun in your dashboard. You're not. No one's coming after you. You're not a healthcare CEO. No one's gunning for your man. Like, what are they going to take the Celsius that sits in the middle of your car? Like, no one wants what you have. Respectfully. So I just want to avoid. I'm not a fighter. I want to avoid all confrontation. I just want to go about my time, hang out with my friends, have a couple drinky drinks, and then, you know, and just enjoy it, man. I'm. I'm stoked. And then I come back here to New York, and then shortly after that, I'm shipping off to Dreamville Fest, the last, final, fifth and final Dream Build Fest. The homies are calling it quits after this one. Certainly not for lack of success or ticket sale sales. They are just, you know, sometimes things come to an end. Chapters close, and this was a beautiful chapter, but they're, they're ready for. For bigger projects, ready for other business ventures putting their focus on other things. I actually had a really great phone call earlier with Boz talking about the music he's been working on earlier today, actually, and he was telling me about a really cool story. I can't name the artist. Hopefully he tells this story somewhere on a public platform about getting a song cleared through a very legendary artist. It was very, very, very cool story. And I hope that he shares that. Maybe he'll share it with me at Dreamville. I want to do some version of a setup and bring my stuff down just on some, like, gorilla hang out with the boys. Let's shoot in the, in the hotel or something. I'd love to have something like that set up. So we'll see. But yeah, last Dreamville. And what a year. I mean, it's weird. Like, I'm measuring my year since then and where I was in my life career wise and just like, emotionally and just a very different space for me in that. In a calendar year since April of last year. I know it's not April yet, but just thinking ahead, it's been a while ever since that, that Final day. I mean, obviously the, the Drake Kendrick thing dominated the timeline and our. Our news feeds even got to the Oscar stage. Obviously. We saw Conan O'Brien talk about that. The jab at Kendrick, which that writer was very happy that that joke performed. Well, he said he made a bet with another person that Conan O'Brien's Kendrick jab that he wrote would get a big crowd pop. And sure enough, it did. The joke was it's halftime of the officers here, all that. Now we have to. Kendrick comes out and calls Drake a PDF for, you know, for the crowd. Big crowd pop from a lot of PDFs. Probably ironically, you love when the pot calls the kettle black. And that just seems like that moment. It's. It's just permeated the culture, man. What's. What's blows, what really blows for Drake and his stands is like it's, it's so far beyond music now that this is just going to be something that it's gonna be like a pun. He's a punchline now. Like the punchline is, is him when it comes to those kind of stories or those kind of cases. So, yeah, it's just. That's a, that's a constant that's not going anywhere. He's kind of got to live with it, which sucks. That Nokia records a hit, though. Got one on his hands. My Queen Baby D is going through it. I saw that post from. I don't remember the other creator's name. I wasn't familiar with her before that post, but her and Damaris exchanged words with each other. If you're not familiar, Damaris had a clip of an episode that I was on. I was in the room when we shot it, and it was during the few episode stretch where everyone was basically yelling at Maul and trying to reason with him as to what's actually going on and why Drake was losing and Damaris was making a case for why people don't like Drake, referring to the culture vulture ways and all these other things that people have said about him. But she wasn't saying she believed those things. She was just using them as reference to what people have been saying about him. Actually in speaking with Damaris and knowing her as a, as a human and as a person, she prefers and loves Drake as an artist to Kendrick, but she also can understand how people look at him negatively and can see how two things, these things can coexist. It's funny because when we spoke while ago, she was always afraid of the K bots, but who knew that this whole Time it was the. The Drake fans that would be the. The people gunning for her. So anyway, that clip of her saying Kendrick and his culture vulture ways, whatever, gets clipped away out of. Way out of a context, like egregiously out of context and gets stitched to a video that she posted on, I believe, tick tock of her dancing to Nokia, Drake's latest hit record. And then this woman, oh, I do not remember her name, makes a video, reacting to it, like, stay over there. You're talking about, you know, K by. You're all miss. You know, you read books and all that. You're educated. Stay on that side. We don't want you over here. As Drake fans. We're. We're better than you. We have fun over here. So then Damaris responded. Love Damaris. But she, she gunned. She went for the woman's jugular, attacked her looks, attacked her, you know, hair, all that stuff. All that stuff I would not be comfortable saying. And the woman fired back with a very solid shot back. And unfortunately, these exchanges landed on plot twist. Drake's seems seeming seemingly his finsta, where he posts relevant content about him or things that he wants to, you know, is on his feed that he finds funny. It's kind of just his repost blog vlog. It's like a Tumblr, honestly. And she made it on there twice, actually. I have to look again. I don't follow the account. I have to go back and see if she's. If they did another shot at her. It sucks. I feel bad for Baby D. People are attacking her. We actually called, she called me, we spoke and I asked her, I said, I text her, I said, baby, what the fuck is happening? Are you all right? Something like that. And then like an hour or so later, she FaceTimed me and we talked for a little bit. This was last Thursday, I believe. Yeah. And I felt bad for. Because I know Damaris, man, she doesn't deserve any of that. And she's. She's got thick skin. But this stuff, it's cuts, especially when it's taken out of context and there. And it was just like, not at all what she was saying. And it's. And it's just ironic that Drake, the guy that makes this album for women and songs for women, is attacking women in this process as well. Not attack attacking, maybe a little too. Too tough of a term. But there's no need to. To kick Damaris's back in because of a. A silly video that was obviously taken out of context. And I'm Hoping with the connections at that show that that was communicated to Drake, but I doubt it. There were a lot of laughing emojis from mall which is like, come on man, that's. You don't do that. You got to defend Maris. So I don't know, Tough situation. I feel bad for her. I'm sure she's fine now. It's been a few days. I don't think there's much more will come of it. I haven't heard her address it, nor does she need to, but I'm here for you always, baby. D. It is Aries season. I. I saw that. It's also. We just passed International Women's Day. So shout out to every single woman listening special. Shout out to my mom who's probably listening as well. Yeah. So what else is going on, guys? I honestly, I came in here with the intentions of freestyling and just going off what felt right and what was on my mind. Back to moving. Well, the dream build. Let's stay on Dreamville for a second because with Dreamville you have to anticipate new music. This is a huge moment. It's the final Dreamville festival. Do not be surprised if new things come out or if you hear a rollout or someone announced. JID has been on the timeline saying the album's done. Artists love to just say that. We'll see if that's true. I feel like this is going to be a very active year release wise for Dreamville, which is exciting. I've heard of some collaborations and some things in the works behind the scenes that it's not my place to say, but some very interesting sounds and some very interesting features and collabs coming up. That should shake shit up this year. Honestly, it's been a pretty dry year for music coming off of the success of last year. Can you believe it's almost been a year since the hip hop fucking glitched and crashed out. It's still crazy to me. Like this is. This was like hip hop's. You know, like when before 9, 11 happened. No one remembered what there was like when you would count, count the months of the calendar. You'd have to go January 1, 2, 3, you'd have to count them on your hand like that. December is 12 and so on and so forth. As a kid, you always remembered you'd. If you had to count months, you'd count from the beginning or you'd always remember your birthday month. So I'm born in November. I always knew November was the 11th month because of that. You have to recite that. You have to fill that out on papers, et cetera, et cetera, on nursing forms when you're a child. It wasn't until September 11th that we had to remember 9. September is a month, which is crazy. And I forgot the original plan. What? What? What? The point is. Oh, yes. I'm saying this because April now, to me, April and May because the. The hip hop crash happened in May. But certainly the moment that set it off was a Dreamville fest last year. April is like the new. It's like the hit 911 of hip hop. Because that's when Cole did the apology on stage. April's like, stamped in my mind. Like going back to RA In a month's time is going to feel like I'm on ground zero, reliving a. A bloody battle in what was a joyous occasion was just a. The knife twist. It's going to be weird being back there. It's actually not the first time I'll be back there. I The. The first time I went back was. You can't see it. It's off screen here. Jungle in Boss did a tour together, which was incredible. But Jungle's last show was in Raleigh, and I had a free weekend. I flew down. This was in. Let's see, what's the date there? I was in Raleigh on. I was in October. No, I lied. Where the hell is it? Why can't I see it on this poster? I am blind. Raleigh, North Carolina, October 16th. I was there on October 16th in Raleigh. So it was weird being back. I'm not gonna lie. It felt odd. The. The air felt different and the environment was dreary. And it was also around election time. There were a lot of signs. It was interesting at that time in the. In the country to be in a swing state because you drive by, you could tell which which neighborhood and which districts voted for what based on the signs that occupied the lawn space. And it was a lot of Kamala, Kamala, Kamala Waltz, Waltz, Waltz stickers. And then you'd hit. It was like coming out the airport, you're in, like, the more rural county. So you're seeing a lot more Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. And then as soon as you get into the city and you're on like North Carolina State. I think it's NC State. The campus there. Yeah, the Wolf Pack. That's their campus. And you're seeing a lot of professor lawns and people that work in education that have all the Kamala and the Tim Waltz science. It's just very Interesting to be like in that. I mean, that's. I guess that's the beauty of America. There's such a different spectrum of beliefs and priorities in terms of who you support and what you want to vote for. And it was cool to be in that environment. So it was a very political, tumultuous environment. But then also I was, like, feeling the remnants of the last time I was there with the Cole apology moment. So it'll be interesting to be back that same a year, the year, same ground scene of the crime in that same exact park and see if we can recapture lightning in a bottle and see if it can just become the beautiful one. Send off. Hurrah. And a weekend full of incredible surprises and just met with just like the homies. I'm really excited to be back on that grounds with the Friends. I mentioned it earlier, but if you're listening to this, International Women's Day just passed. And I did want to give a special shout out to America's favorite woman, America's mother, the one that we all deserve, who has graced us with her presence in media. She's a legal expert. She's back on the timeline, and she's just here to really disrupt the system and just become an advocate for change and stand up to women and be a role model for little girls alike and just be the, you know, someone's got to do it. It's not an easy job, and a lot of women have come and failed. Kamala Harris couldn't get it done. Hillary Clinton couldn't get it done. But thankfully, our good pal Casey Anthony is back, and I think she's going to be the one. I think she can win a TikTok. She's going to win TikTok, and I'm pretty sure if she ran in 2028 shoe in. Let's hear what she has to say. She's back, guys.