The Kid Mero Interview with Throwing Fits

Summary

Podcast Summary: “The Kid Mero Interview with Throwing Fits”

Podcast: Throwing Fits
Date: March 16, 2026
Guest: The Kid Mero
Host(s): Throwing Fits (multiple hosts: Host 1 and Host 2)

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Episode Overview

This episode features The Kid Mero, known for his comedic takes and as the new host of Hot 97’s Mornings with Mel (now “Mornings with Mero”), discussing his transition to early-morning radio, his Dominican/New York upbringing, family life, negotiating the big media move, and his unique assimilation into celebrity, fatherhood, and parenting in the suburbs. The conversation is laced with humor, authenticity, pop culture references, and an unfiltered take on personal, local, and New York culture.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Fit Check & Morning Routine

Timestamp: [02:55 – 11:00]

• Style & Comfort over Flash: Kid Mero describes his daily fit, prioritizing comfort due to his early-morning work schedule but flashing a North Face x Gucci hoodie, custom chains, and a big-face Rolex.
• On Jewelry: “If I do not, everybody thinks I’m wearing my girl’s watch, bro. It’s embarrassing, you know, it’s emasculating.” (Kid Mero, [03:45])
• Wild Underwear Trends: Surprised by his kids' influence: “They got Gambit spongebob on your meat is crazy.” (Kid Mero, [06:58])
• Caffeine + Vyvanse: Survives morning radio with “a large Duncan. Diabetic coma. Sugar out the ass.”—and explains his inability to maintain his old “wake and bake” routine due to the show's demands.

2. The New Hot 97 Gig: Origins, Negotiation, Impact

Timestamp: [12:09 – 24:02]

• How He Got the Job: Not a competitive shortlist—opportunity came after speaking gigs. Hot 97 approached him “confidentially” at a corporate event.
• Negotiation Story: “He comes in, writes a piece of paper...folded it and then like this. I was like, add a zero.” (Kid Mero, [20:06])
• Unseating the Old Guard: Mero replaced the previous hosts and was met with authentic goodwill: “...everybody’s like, yo, yeah. Like, yo, he really from here. Like, yo, for the people.”
• Early Wins: “Jumped up from...seventh to third. Oh, in a month. Like, Booker T said to Hulk Hogan, we coming for you.” ([23:49])

3. Goodwill, Recognition, and Celebrity Encounters

Timestamp: [13:03 – 15:04], [33:40 – 36:46]

• Support from Legends: Nas (Nasir Jones) left him a congratulatory voice note. “Nas is a fan...this is crazy, bro.”
• Dream “Blunt Rotation”: Hosts joke about the legendary status and community recognition—“I feel like Derek Jeter out here, bro.”
• Everyday Recognition: “If y’all stop bothering me, something has gone very wrong.” ([33:57])
• Courtside Perks: Shares stories of sitting next to Knicks legends like John Starks, “with a cup full of ice and Jose Cuervo.” ([35:15])

4. Family, Parenting, and Suburban Life

Timestamp: [24:48 – 34:44], [51:48 – 54:48], [103:32 – 107:25]

• Waking Up Early: Now on the “home invasion” schedule, trying not to wake his wife (who’s a morning person herself) and shares the challenges of trying to nap or rest later.
• Dominicanizing His Kids: Keeps heritage alive: “Every single one of my children has a baseball game sized Dominican flag in their room.” ([103:41]), teaches nightly “bendicion” (“God bless”) rituals.
• Kids’ Identities: “They’re mostly Dominican. Like, if you break it down...50% Dominican. So to them, they’re Dominican. They don’t even rep German.” ([105:07])
• Suburban Dad Life: Navigates being the cultural outlier among suburban, Republican dads—“They know I smoke hello weed...and they know I’m kind of left-leaning.”

5. Parenting Challenges & Nostalgia

Timestamp: [29:41 – 34:13], [54:58 – 56:54]

• Learning from His Father: Reminisces about his dad’s lessons—manual labor, street smarts, and the realities of New York.
• Raising Athletic Kids: Talks about coaching his kids, their mix of sports, and how Dominican heritage plays into suburban sports leagues.

6. Weed Policy, NYC Authenticity, & New Platform Direction

Timestamp: [39:42 – 42:13], [91:10 – 94:00]

• Weed at Hot 97: No weed in-studio but Mero’s lifestyle means being “already fried” from night before. “I'm a very heavy, you know, blunt smoker. He's a bluntsman.” ([42:22])
• Reviving Local NYC Flavor: Makes deliberate moves to spotlight local legends and “true New Yorkers” on air, from graffiti writers to unsung cultural contributors: “I knew I was gonna give the people...New York City.” ([91:43])

7. Pop Culture, Urban Trends, and The “Wiga Uprising”

Timestamp: [66:39 – 75:47]

• Content Creator Transplants: “Open up Pandora’s box, and you can’t close it...I’m not even mad, bro, because if y’all want to act like me, go ahead.”
• Authenticity in NYC Culture: Mero’s take on white kids adopting NYC culture—“You grow up around dudes like that...they’re from the block.”
• Making Local Cool Again: Champions contemporary and OG local culture, blending the generations meaningfully on his show.

8. Financial Responsibility, Shoplifting, and Money Mindset

Timestamp: [44:03 – 48:31], [107:28 – 112:47]

• Maintaining Financial “PTSD”: “I need to set myself up so we’re, like, generationally good...I didn’t know about financial literacy...my wife, little bit.” ([46:34])
• Attaboy Purchases & Caution: Mero treats himself to nice things (like a 2017 AMG GT, crashed on a hairpin turn), but keeps habits modest and is wary of “going back.” He still buys generic food, saves packets, and even “allegedly” shoplifts: “Can’t leave the game alone, it needs me, man.” ([107:58])

9. Radio Censorship and Live Broadcasting Challenges

Timestamp: [95:41 – 98:10]

• Cursing on Air: Nearly slipped once, but “shout out to Shiny Culture...he hit that dump button so fast.” Fine for swearing is “100 bands” for the company during drive time.
• Navigating Restrictions: Finds it easy to switch modes—“as soon as I walk out that building...Omar with the shotgun, is off safety now.”

10. Hopes, Politics, and Legacy

Timestamp: [86:11 – 91:10]

• Political Ambition? Approached to run for office, but realistic about his “corrupt file” and past: “This podcast alone, come on, dog...they’ll pull up some of me...being like, yo, this health insurance in this country is f***ed, I’m about to join ISIS.”
• On Show’s Mission: Focused on authenticity, spotlighting NYC’s essence, and leaving a legacy for his kids: “My pops was mad funny. He brought joy to the world. And he didn’t have to do no weird...didn’t have to be somebody compromised.”

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• On Negotiating His Deal:
  “He writes a piece of paper, and just like in the movies...I was like, add a zero.” ([20:06], Mero)
• Early Community Love:
  “If y’all stop bothering me, something has gone very wrong.” ([33:57], Mero)
• Celebrity Recognition:
  “Nas is a fan...this is crazy, bro.” ([13:08], Mero)
• Street Parenting:
  “Every single one of my children has a baseball game sized Dominican flag in their room.” ([103:41], Mero)
• Financial Wisdom:
  “I've always maintained that mentality of like, ‘yo, I don’t got it like that,’ right? Even if I do, I’m like, no you don’t. Because you need your kids to have it like that—generational wealth, you know what I mean?” ([112:30])
• Shoplifting Confession:
  “I still do, bro. I still be shoplifting, man. Allegedly. Can’t leave the game alone, it needs me.” ([107:55])
• On White NYC “Wiga” Culture:
  “You grow up around dudes like that...graffiti taught me that...bunch of white boys that...I'll f*** this up, and I'm like, bro. Albanians too...they, in their mind, they're like, we’re not white, we Albanian.” ([70:21])
• Diva Status?
  “Nah, nah.” ([65:08], on whether he’s become a diva after his success)

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Notable Timestamps

• Fit Check & Underwear Talk: [02:55 – 08:01]
• Negotiating Hot 97 Job: [18:01 – 21:45]
• Getting Recognized on the Street: [33:40 – 34:44]
• Parental Life & Suburbs: [24:48 – 27:19], [51:48 – 56:17]
• Cursing on Radio: [95:41 – 98:10]
• Pop Culture & Wiga Uprising: [66:39 – 75:13]
• Financial Mindset/Shoplifting: [107:28 – 110:04]

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Tone & Style

The episode is energetic, irreverent, and filled with jokes, cultural references, and real talk about “making it” and not forgetting where you’re from. Mero keeps it candid about everything from family to finances to weed, mixing local NYC pride with new-age media wisdom, and never missing an opportunity for a punchline or a teaching moment.

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Closing & Plugs

Timestamp: [123:33]

• Where to Follow: “The Kid Mero everywhere...@thekidmero”
• Plugs:
  • Hot 97 “Mornings with Mero”
  • 7pm in Brooklyn Podcast
  • Victory Light Podcast
  • Book on fatherhood upcoming
  • Shouts out show producers, Min Substack, community

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For New Listeners

This episode is a snapshot of New York culture as lived by one of its native sons: funny, brash, proud, honest, with real lessons about money, fame, authenticity, and family threaded throughout a rich, dynamic conversation. Even for the uninitiated, it’s a crash course in “making it” but keeping it real—and keeping your duck sauce packets organized.

Transcript

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[Host 1]

Our guest this week is early to bed, early to rise and back to pod with the guys. Calm Zoran, Mom, Poppy. Because the honorary mayor of the Bronx is getting New York City going Monday through Friday at the ass crack of dawn. The host with the most is se Sunrises and a trust fund kid who loves the afters and is yapping just as much if not more after I assume boofing a coffee enema. The best media hire of the year is here to chat. The home of hip hop and R B's weed policy, Dominicanizing his kids and becoming a diva. We are joined by the host of Hot 97's Mornings with Mel, the Victory Light podcast and the 7pm in Brooklyn podcast, the Kid. Mero Mero, how the hell are you?

[Host 2]

What up dog?

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, this mic is gonna be in the red this whole time. Thank you man, thank you. Ill intro.

[Host 1]

And you're not going to get asthma today because we don't have the Canadian wildfire smogging up New York City.

[Kid Mero]

Last time I was here with y', all, the apocalypse was happening. It was. Or so we thought, you know. But now it's beautiful day we survived.

[Host 1]

The apocalypse is still happening.

[Host 2]

They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds. Etc. Mero. Thank you for joining us though.

[Kid Mero]

Thank you for being. I was gonna say thank you for being. Yes, Crazy. Thank you for coming on my show. Throwing fists.

[Host 1]

You're the, you're the host now. You're a host now.

[Host 2]

Afternoons with Mero on throw.

[Kid Mero]

It's true though. We just di well before we got on Mike and we just dodged the ballistic missile, you know what I'm saying? From my ranch.

[Host 1]

Well, this is coming out in like a week or so, so there might.

[Kid Mero]

Those might be interesting.

[Host 1]

You might be able to see this in a bunker.

[Host 2]

Time will tell. Time will tell. Mel, real quick, before we get into the show, let's do a little fit check. What's everything you wore today?

[Kid Mero]

I'm very regular today, you know what I'm saying? Because as you mentioned, I do the morning show. So a lot of times, bro, when you wake up at 3, 45, 4 in the morning, you know what I'm saying?

[Host 2]

You know, not thinking about fits.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. You think about comfort, you know what I'm saying? So I try to flex on them today. I got the North Face Gucci hoodie collab on. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Victory like new, Eric.

[Host 1]

The matching, matching jacket.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, they got the puff over there, you know what I'm saying? Shout out to. Shout out for getting me that for Christmas, you know what I'm saying? With my money. Yeah. You know what I mean? Got the little joggers on with the wuang situations, you know what I mean? A lot of yellow. Yeah.

[Host 1]

And the gold.

[Host 2]

Let's talk about the jewelry.

[Kid Mero]

Little jury got the little sky dweller, you know, I got, I got big hands. So people be like, yo, oh you getting a 40 millimeter? You. You trying to flex on us. And I'm like, bro, I got big ass hands, you know what I'm saying?

[Host 2]

It's a necessity to have the big face rolling.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, you got to have the big face. If I do not everybody thinks I'm wearing my girls watch, bro. It's embarrassing, you know, it's emasculating.

[Host 1]

And you just, you just got the

[Kid Mero]

Cuban l returned to you from men Word Shout. The men folding me down real quick.

[Host 1]

Min have health insurance now.

[Kid Mero]

Yes, he does. It happen.

[Host 1]

We made it happen before, after he up his acl.

[Kid Mero]

Before, before we.

[Host 2]

That's right. Yo, he was up.

[Kid Mero]

He knew. He was like, yo, I'm going to go skiing. Something's going to happen, Mel. Yo, I need, I need the health insurance. I was like, yo, we got you we going to make that happen.

[Host 1]

He's like, bet I can do white activities now.

[Host 2]

Yeah, I saw him hobbling in Fort Green like a mile away multiple times.

[Kid Mero]

It's rough. He could ollie now. Yeah, you know. Please don't, dude. Please don't. Please don't, man.

[Host 1]

Tubular, dude. Cowabunga.

[Host 2]

So you got the gold on. We got Jesus piece, Cuban links.

[Kid Mero]

Cuban with Jesus piece with my peeps. You know what I'm saying?

[Host 1]

And you've been consistent with these two, right? This isn't like a new. You haven't switched up. You haven't changed up.

[Kid Mero]

I can't. I can't. Because I feel like a lot of like the new guys got like the little choker 24 inch situations. Nah, bro, I'm always here. Prodigy in my head. Recipes, yo. 40 inch cables. My piece playing glass tables. Which it does. Right. It's annoying as. Because when you're on the radio, you're doing a pockets and some. And you lean forward and this is like. Oh, man. Because this is not Soulja Boy jewelry, bro. This is.

[Host 1]

Oh, yeah, serious.

[Host 2]

Occupational hazard, man. It's gonna. It's gonna ring out.

[Host 1]

It's not chocolate, though.

[Kid Mero]

No, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah, you actually open it up.

[Host 2]

Yeah, that's from the diver district.

[Host 1]

Did you see the baseball player? This. He's like the. He's like the Jackson dart of baseball who had like 10 chains on.

[Kid Mero]

Yes.

[Host 1]

And then he. And he miffed the pop fly twice. Twice.

[Kid Mero]

Two times.

[Host 1]

He blinded himself.

[Host 2]

I was gonna say the glare, you know, refracted.

[Kid Mero]

So it was like, you know, the stadium lights hit the. Hit the. You know what I mean? Hit the jewels and it's just like bing. It's crazy. That's. We had them crazy Oakley on eye black. Yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? He got the Bernie Williams.

[Host 2]

He had blackface.

[Host 1]

He had the Jackson dart blackface on.

[Kid Mero]

It's crazy. Yo, shout but shout out to all my white athletes out there. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying?

[Host 1]

Getting a little.

[Kid Mero]

Little sauce on them. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, yo, here, I'm going do a eye black. I'm going to wear a chain. And that's what I feel good about. The Giants.

[Host 1]

We're going to talk wiggers and Tim.

[Kid Mero]

Hell yeah, bro. Let's go. Yeah.

[Host 1]

Oh, what about the underwear?

[Kid Mero]

Oh, the other way. I think these are just like Nike boxer briefs. Or they could be PSDs. I don't know. My kids got me wearing PSDs. I don't even know what that. I don't even know what that means. But if you look it up, it's like the. They're like very long boxer briefs. Okay. That. It's like all the kids wear them now.

[Host 2]

It's like a compression short.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, it's almost like a compression short. They're almost like biker shorts.

[Host 1]

The first one is cool. The Kool Aid. The Kool Aid man.

[Kid Mero]

They got all Spider man. Yeah, they're, like, branded.

[Host 2]

There's a Trojan Magnum one, too.

[Host 1]

There's a Barbie.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, bro.

[Host 2]

You got your kids wearing. Your kids got you wearing these.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, bro, but like, cotton. The cotton joints, though, you know, they got the.

[Host 1]

The. The Ben Franklin $100, yo.

[Kid Mero]

It's like the Durags back in the day. Except draws, Yo.

[Host 1]

The Rick and Morty ones.

[Kid Mero]

Rick and Morty draws. They got the Looney Tunes. They got Flamingos.

[Host 1]

The fape.

[Kid Mero]

The. Yeah. The fake bape joint. Like, yo, it's crazy. They got fake Monclair.

[Host 1]

It's like they got the. Yeah. The Jolly Rancher guys.

[Host 2]

Gummies on the. On the Dick.

[Host 1]

Dick is nuts.

[Kid Mero]

They got Gambit spongebob on your meat is crazy. Yeah. Look at that. Patrick.

[Host 1]

Patrick. On your balls.

[Host 2]

Okay.

[Kid Mero]

All right, well, I'm doing more of these.

[Host 1]

Oh, Big Dink Energy.

[Kid Mero]

Oh, pickleball.

[Host 1]

It's pickleball. That's what it is.

[Kid Mero]

There you go.

[Host 2]

They got flavors for whatever your hobby is, whatever you got.

[Host 1]

You.

[Kid Mero]

If you. If you need to show your drawers and let people know, like, yo, I'm

[Host 2]

really into what your hobbies are.

[Host 1]

Before the PSD draws, the craziest ones we had on the show were Rhino dick pill.

[Kid Mero]

Yes.

[Host 1]

Which is a brand about those, but these are crazier, I think.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, it was so. I didn't even know, like, I didn't know anything about this type of. This is like, lamelo.

[Host 2]

Ye. Yes, exactly.

[Kid Mero]

You know what I mean?

[Host 2]

He has similar tattoos to the designs on the underwear.

[Kid Mero]

Exactly. Like a UFO alien on a ufo. Like, shooting up.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

You know what I mean? Like, yeah, hot.

[Host 1]

The hot Cheetos toes.

[Kid Mero]

Chester Cheetah smoking f. Like, get the. Get out of here with this, bro. Let's just give me black ones. Right? Make my. Let my nuts breathe a little bit. That's it. That's what I was looking for. It's like, drawers that, like.

[Host 1]

You don't want Takis on the testes.

[Kid Mero]

Nah.

[Host 2]

No, sir.

[Kid Mero]

Not at all, bro. I don't need the fuego. I got the fuego already.

[Host 2]

All right?

[Host 1]

And Fit check. Sipping on some water and some milky. It's a milky, milky coffee. What's your caffeine intake these days?

[Kid Mero]

Od.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. It's a lot. So, like, it's crazy because, like, I don't. Like, I was not drinking a lot of coffee before, you know, I mean, like, I was just, like, waking up at 10:00am okay. You know?

[Host 1]

Yeah. When you live life like a normal person.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

You know, having like a, like, glass of water. Sure. You know, room temp. You feel me? Nothing fancy. Yeah. Nothing crazy. You know, and also, in Jersey, tap water is ass.

[Host 2]

Oh, really?

[Kid Mero]

It's terrible. I don't know if it's like, it's because I'm born and raised in New York. I was like, yo, this New York tap water is amazing.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

This tastes like bottled water. But when you go anywhere else, I'm like, why does this taste like.

[Host 1]

Like.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, I got forever chemicals in it. Like, I could taste the BPA in this.

[Host 2]

The microplastics.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. You know what I mean? So then I don't do the tap water. So that's as bougie as I get. But since I started working at i97 and doing a morning show, waking up dumb early.

[Host 1]

What time do you wake up?

[Kid Mero]

I'll be trying. I'll be playing. I'll be playing with. I'll be playing with it like, hey, yo. You know what I'm saying? I get very close. I fly very close to the sun. Sure. Like, what does that mean? I'm like 5am I'm like. Cause. No. Cause I gotta be there. Like, I gotta be there between five and six. Okay. You're on the.

[Host 1]

On the air at six. You're live at six. Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

So, you know, before then. So at first I was like being a good little soldier, waking up at like 3:45 in the morning, getting a car for getting there 5. And then it was just like, I was like, all right, man. Like, hey, good morning, Meryl. Like, you sitting around for like, a little bit, right? You know, so I'm just like, all right, you know what? Let's eliminate. Let's turn this sitting around time into sleeping time into REM cycle. So now I'm like, all right, set my alarm for 4:33. Like, I'm just one minute going to say, you can.

[Host 1]

You're not smoking at 4:20am Not.

[Kid Mero]

Yo, listen, and that's the. Like, that was my thing, cuz. I would wake up, like, wake and bake everything.

[Host 2]

Sure.

[Kid Mero]

So now I'm like, all right, bro. I Can't do that because I'm already tired.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

And I already. I smoked two hours ago before I went to bed at 145. I just. I just smoked.

[Host 1]

I'm still high.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. Like, my wife's in bed. Like, change your shirt. You know what I'm saying? So, you know. But so. But nah. So now I'm drinking a large coffee every day. Like, a large Duncan.

[Host 1]

Did you say Meryl runs on Duncan?

[Kid Mero]

Diabetic coma.

[Host 2]

Sugar out the ass.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And. But I love it, bro. That just, like, turns me up. That and the vivance, you know what I'm saying? Like. Oh, yeah.

[Host 2]

I think it's probably divided.

[Kid Mero]

She got me moving like Whitney Cummings.

[Host 2]

Hey, guys.

[Kid Mero]

Hey. Hey. Yo, that is crazy. But, like, not.

[Host 1]

And are you re upping throughout the day, or is it just the one?

[Kid Mero]

Just the one bang. You know what I mean? Energy drinks holds me. Nah, I can't. Like, they give me, like, palpitations, bro. I mean, then it's, like, weird. Then I gotta start doing, like, balancing out. Like, I let me have a clown of pimples, my mind is going crazy.

[Host 1]

But yeah, not like Jordan Belson.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

Wolf of Wall Street.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

Jordan Belfort.

[Host 1]

Belfort.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. I was gonna say shout out to him. You did mad financial crimes. Yeah. Like, you got away with it. And I made a movie.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

If I did that, I'd just be in jail regular.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

So you're waking up anytime between 3. 45 and 4. 33.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

Have you slept through your alarm yet? Have you been late to work yet?

[Kid Mero]

One time. Okay. And I called in from the car.

[Host 1]

Really?

[Kid Mero]

Yo, what up, y'? All? Good morning. You're like, I'm doing a bit. Yo, morning tomorrow. Yo, the traffic out here is crazy.

[Host 1]

Live, I'm doing live traffic report.

[Kid Mero]

Live traffic report from the. From the chopper. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? AKA my car. Yeah.

[Host 1]

You know, there is no one on the streets right now.

[Kid Mero]

No one's outside. But I just slept too much. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yo, I. I thought I could leave, but I had to take a. And that took 15 minutes, and now we here.

[Host 2]

Did you get in trouble?

[Kid Mero]

No. Oh, okay. Nah. You know what I'm saying? I got the over a barrel, B. We doing good. You know what I'm saying?

[Host 1]

Like, what is that?

[Host 2]

We're doing good.

[Kid Mero]

You got.

[Host 1]

You got the goodwill going.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. You know, and that was the thing because, like, everybody, like, when Shout out to Ebro shot the Lord, shot the Rosenberg, you know? I mean, when they got unceremoniously, you know, let go. There was a lot of, like, negative energy. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's like, yo, whoever the. They announced we're gonna OD and be like, yo, get the. How dare you. But then when they announced me, everybody's like, yo, yeah. Like, yo, he really from here. Like, yo, for the people. Yeah, yo, he was smoking weed, listening to this back when he was 12. Like, that's fire. And I was like, yes, we put you.

[Host 1]

We put you on our short list of, like. We keep a running list of like, you know, woe to the year, bozos of the year. Go to the year. Best trend, like fashion. What are best movies? And we put you immediately on as the first contender for go to the year. When that. When that announcement was made and the goodwill was so crazy and it's obviously still going. Who, like, who reached out that maybe surprised you?

[Kid Mero]

Nice. Oh, nice. Yo, Nasir Jones, dog. Hold on, let me find this, man.

[Host 2]

Did he. Did you know he had your number, fam?

[Kid Mero]

He left a voice note because, like, so this is gonna sound crazy. I promise I'm not glazing myself. Nas is a fan. Like, he's like, yo, you, man. Funny. Like, I got a video on my phone of him, like, doing a selfie facetiming like his niece, okay? And being like, yo, guess who I got over here? And he's just like, yo, yo, yeah, some that I would do with knots. Right? Right? And I was just like, this is crazy, bro. I was like, yo, I never brag how real I keep it because it's the best secret. I'm in the legs watching Kathy Lee and Regis.

[Host 1]

I was like, oh, like, yeah, she Wally Wal.

[Host 2]

Yeah, I was one of the goats, easily. Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

Come on. He also gotta be like, I wrote that. I know. Yeah, yeah, I know those songs.

[Host 1]

He's also the only person that reached out to Kendrick about the super bowl,

[Kid Mero]

you know what I'm saying?

[Host 1]

According to Kendrick's, you know.

[Kid Mero]

So listen, we're gonna get you that file so we could put it in here because, like, if I start going through these text messages, boy, I might send you a new bag.

[Host 1]

Did anyone give you really good advice or advice that you, like, took to heart that you brought into the show with you?

[Kid Mero]

Who gave me a really good advice? My man Riggs. Riggs Morales. You know what I'm saying? Hip hop, like legend, bro. From the Source, from Atlantic, from Def Jam, from everywhere.

[Host 1]

What'd he say?

[Kid Mero]

He was just like, yo, bro, like, this is this is all you, bro. Like, go in there and just do your thing. Like, don't overthink it.

[Host 2]

Right?

[Kid Mero]

Just go be mero, bro. Because that's what people with. Because I went to a Knicks game with him and he's just like, fam, I'm out here with rappers all the time. And he's just like, yo, you getting mad love.

[Host 2]

Yeah. Rapper love. Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

He's like, from. Just from people, you know what I mean? So I was just like, all right, cool. So I guess I'm doing something right. You know, people fuck with me like the long way, you know what I'm saying? Like, even if, you know, I'm not on TV or I'm off this or, man. Yeah. You ain't heard from me in a week. Like, people still lock in. I pop up with some shit and they like, yo, he's on throwing fist. Yo, we locked, yo dream blood rotation. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Sure.

[Host 2]

Yes, exactly.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. You know, we here 1, 2, 3, 4, and Min is off camera. So it is your dream blood rotation.

[Host 2]

Do you have an idea of who. Who you maybe beat out for this job? Did you ever get any rumors about

[Kid Mero]

who else was on the short? So I'm gonna keep it a beam with you. Yeah. There was never a running.

[Host 1]

Oh, really?

[Kid Mero]

Was that paper that came out and was like, yo, with Matt, like, like side talk and like all these people on it.

[Host 1]

It was like that Spider man on the morning Spider, cuz.

[Kid Mero]

But I was just like, yo, this is. I was like, this is crazy because what happened was I was doing. I had just done the. The Somos conference in Puerto Rico. And that's like some very like dry, like, health insurance type of like speaking engagement type.

[Host 1]

It was a check, though.

[Host 2]

That was a bag.

[Kid Mero]

It was. It was a. It's one of them bags where you pull up and they just hand you a check.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

Like a hard cut check. And I'm just like,

[Host 2]

from big pharma, you know?

[Kid Mero]

I was like, good looking out. Yeah. And so I went up there and I was like, yo, Trump sucks dick. And everybody's like, yeah, that was it.

[Host 1]

So throw out some paper towels.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. I was like, yo, this is crazy. So. So I did that and like, I had them turned up at like 10am and it's like, yo, y' all should be at the beach right now. I don't know what the you in here listening to me for. Like, we in Puerto Rico.

[Host 1]

Sure.

[Kid Mero]

You know, and then. So I did that and I guess I did a good job. Because then they booked me again to do some in New York. I think it was like, at the Hard Rock or some. Okay. But it was another one of them, like, kind of speaking like, yo, conference. Corporate. Corporate situation, whatever. Which, by the way, yo, listen, it's

[Host 1]

good bread, bro, if you got a corporal gig from Maryland.

[Kid Mero]

Exactly. Yeah. You got a corporate speaking engagement. Holla at Mintran the Freaky Man. You know what I'm saying? He'll make it happen.

[Host 2]

Get it done.

[Host 1]

The biggest. One of the biggest. One of the best sub stack writers in the game right now.

[Kid Mero]

I'm trying to tell y', all, bro, like, your weapon, yo, listen, is four people, and I'm one of them. And I'm like, that means two. Yeah, yeah. Facts. Yo, this mother. He be writing his ass off, man. Like, he. Listen, this guy's a. He. He's the guy. Big brain, you know, me.

[Host 1]

But there was nobody else.

[Kid Mero]

Nobody was a TV executive. TV wouldn't be dead.

[Host 1]

MTV's coming back.

[Kid Mero]

Put it like that.

[Host 1]

Min TV.

[Kid Mero]

Come on. Min.

[Host 1]

Trans video.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, it's coming. You know what I'm saying? Yeah.

[Host 1]

Wait, so you turned a corpo healthcare opioid gig into OxyContin? This good gig into Hot 97?

[Kid Mero]

Oddly enough, it wasn't like a farmer joint. It was for the union. Okay, so it was like. Yeah, so it was like. It was like fighting a good fight. You know what I mean? Like the working man, I'm doubting. So, yeah, all that. So I did that, and then I did the other joint. And when I did the joint in New York at the Hard Rock, the guy that booked me for this shit came and was like, yo, a colleague of mine would like to speak to you about an opportunity. And I was like, another one of these shits? Hell, yeah, bro. Tell them a. Fucking. Coming to my green room. Yeah, so the dude comes to my green room and he's just like, hey, man, confidentially, you know, we. We're moving on from our morning show hosts. And. And I was just like, what?

[Host 1]

Also, what accent is this? Are you like. Are you escaped?

[Kid Mero]

I don't even know. I know this dude's ethnicity. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the confidentiality.

[Host 1]

It was a white guy. It was a white guy with a Nigerian accent. It was a white Nigerian.

[Kid Mero]

One of those white. It was a Nigerian, bro.

[Host 2]

Master of the universe, Timothy Shaman.

[Kid Mero]

So he. He said that. And I was just like, all right, man. So then I'm like, all right, cool. Like, you know, I was like, yo, I got motion, baby. Like, We. We got going on. So I was like, listen, that it gotta be right? Cause it's like the morning show. I know that's like a big commitment, you know, blah, blah, blah. But at the same time, I was like, yo. Oh, shit. Like, I wasn't even thinking about it as like, yo, like, I'm gonna bring radio back, right? You know what I mean? Like, it was more like. Like, I grew up on this. It would be dope to come back and be the guy, you know what I mean? Like, that's on here, and it's like the face of New York radio in the morning.

[Host 1]

So what era, what morning show era did you grow up on?

[Kid Mero]

Sorry. Book Wild.

[Host 1]

Sure.

[Kid Mero]

You know what I'm saying?

[Host 1]

Kind of problematic, though.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, Extremely.

[Host 1]

The best possible way with misinfo.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. I'm get back with you. I read that dm. I was mad high, you know what I'm saying? And I thought. I responded, but I didn't. Ms. Simple. I love you. You know what I'm saying?

[Host 1]

Legends.

[Kid Mero]

Absolute legend.

[Host 1]

What are some option out. Did they ever. Did they unmask the. The gay rapper? Yeah, that was a weird bit.

[Kid Mero]

Who knows? We're still out here. We found out it was Diddy.

[Host 2]

Yeah, yeah, right? It turns out.

[Kid Mero]

It turns out, you know, I mean. But yeah, now. So, like, he was like, yo, basically like, yo, we want you to do this. And I was like, it's yours if you want it.

[Host 2]

Right, okay.

[Kid Mero]

You know? So then they were like, I. Can you come to the offices? And I was like, all right, cool. So I go to the office, bro, No, I was like, I ain't never been negotiated like this. Like, I get. I sit down and homie comes in like the CEO. The comes a holding company that owns. Comes in and writes a piece, like, gets a piece of paper, and it's just like.

[Host 1]

Like in the movies.

[Host 2]

Oh, he did the number on the.

[Kid Mero]

Folded it and then like this. Oh, fire.

[Host 1]

What'd you do?

[Kid Mero]

I felt so powerful. I was like,

[Host 1]

add a zero.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. Oh.

[Host 1]

Oh.

[Kid Mero]

I was like, hey, man. I was like, yo, listen, my last deal was for. I was like, that ain't even close, bro.

[Host 2]

That's cute.

[Kid Mero]

That's cute. I was like, yo, this is. We can't. I can't do that.

[Host 1]

I was like, how good of a liar are you? How good of a liar are you?

[Kid Mero]

A tremendous. I've been married for 130 years. I'm very good at this. But I. But it was. It was. It was. It wasn't close. If you. We Got to get close to this number.

[Host 1]

Did you have your own piece of paper that you whipped out, or did you take his?

[Kid Mero]

No, I just took it back. Let me get a Sharpie. Let me get a Sharpie. Come here. Yo, this is what. This is what I need.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

And he was just like, oh, okay.

[Host 1]

All right.

[Kid Mero]

That's a lot of zeros. You know what I'm saying? And I was just like, well, I got two. Four kids, right. You know what I'm saying? And only one of them is athletic. I mean, so, you know, I got five two nines. I gotta.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

Pump money into Roth IRAs.

[Host 2]

Right, sure.

[Kid Mero]

All that. You know, we're responsible over here. Yeah. So then, you know, got the number.

[Host 2]

Okay.

[Kid Mero]

You know, and then immediately or did it like. Yeah, a little back and forth, you know, a little back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And I was like, all right, listen, if they went down, I'd go up. They go down, I go up. They go down, I go. So I was like, all right, listen, this is the final number. Plus this, plus this, plus this. And y' all gotta give me this and give me that.

[Host 1]

Like, you know, health insurance perks, big

[Host 2]

body Cadillac, psyche tickets to the Knicks, etc, that part.

[Kid Mero]

So I was just like, yo, access to, you know, whatever. Go to summer jams, pull my dick out. You know, whatever.

[Host 2]

I'm a summer jam screen.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. I'm straight up. Like, yo, put the. Yo, where's my single? You know what I'm saying? But yeah. Nah. So it. It was like that, bro. I felt like Mad Men. I was like, yo, are we supposed to be smoking cigarettes right now? Because, like, we're indoors. You wearing a suit, you just wrote a number on a piece of paper. Yeah, but we went back and forth on that, and that's what really took the long time to make the announcement. And then they announced, like, Atlanta, which is a TV channel, and everybody was like, yo, this is crazy. No, yo, how could you do this? And then it was like, all right. Nah, psych. It's mero. Which my shout out. To shout out to pyc was like, yo, what kind of rollout is this? She was livid. But, you know, we made it happen, you know.

[Host 1]

Yeah. And the. That moment. Because when. When was this announced? Like, late last year, early this year. It's. You started early this year, right?

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. So it was like, January.

[Host 1]

It was definitely 20, 26. January 2nd. Oh, wow. So, Mom, Donnie, starting on January 1st, the announcement slash you starting on January 2nd. It. There's a Very. It was a very good feeling.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

In New York for a second.

[Host 2]

A lot of goodwill.

[Kid Mero]

Everyone called in to the first on my first day.

[Host 1]

That's right.

[Kid Mero]

Yo, bro, what's up, baby? Like, yo, congratulations.

[Host 1]

We are outside. Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

He's like, turn the volume down. This. A lot of. I had this doing my rallies, and the mic was popping every time.

[Host 1]

Did funk master Fliggity give you any of this, dog?

[Kid Mero]

He was like, yo, welcome to the family. I was like, yeah. I was like, yo, I just dapped up, like, yo, this is crazy.

[Host 2]

The Godfather.

[Kid Mero]

Yo, does he.

[Host 1]

Does he have, like, a little Bluetooth speaker dropping bombs on the side?

[Kid Mero]

Yo, I was like. I told him. I was like, yo, what's the bomb button? Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like, how can I. And he was just like, nah, I don't do that, bro. Yeah, compliments. Come on, chill, chill.

[Host 2]

You can take an air horn or

[Kid Mero]

whatever, but, yeah, the bomb is me.

[Host 2]

That's a TM after that bomb.

[Kid Mero]

Come on. Yeah, yeah. You know, so. But yeah, not like all them dudes, bro. Camillo, Flex, Nessa, all of them.

[Host 1]

Did DJ Envy reach out to credit, congratulate you?

[Kid Mero]

He might be. He might be embroiled in some things right now.

[Host 1]

He's.

[Host 2]

In his name.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, yeah. Open cases. I don't know if you can pull people. Phone might be tapped.

[Host 1]

I don't know. I don't know. It might be too early. But, like, numbers wise, is the morning show crushing the Breakfast Club.

[Kid Mero]

So just got the first month numbers back and jumped up from, I think, like, seventh to third. Oh, in a month. So I'm like, hey, yeah, like Booker T. Said to Hulk hugger, we're coming for you. You know what I'm saying?

[Host 1]

So another zero. Put another zero on that piece of paper.

[Kid Mero]

Because that's the other thing. I. I should have set up, like, a football contract, like, so if I hit certain. Oh, benchmarks.

[Host 2]

Oh, yeah.

[Kid Mero]

So I'm going hard. I'm not playing, bro.

[Host 1]

You're like Lawrence Taylor in Any Given Sunday. I need one more couch. Come on. Come on.

[Kid Mero]

This is for the lake.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

Like, I got dreams. I got hopes and dreams over here.

[Host 1]

You know what's crazy is in that movie, I just rewatched it. The bonus was only a million dollars.

[Kid Mero]

Only.

[Host 1]

He's like, don't drop me, boys. I'm worth a million dollars. It's like, yo, you're. That's not that much taxes.

[Host 2]

I spent that much on cocaine in real life, in a weekend, your earring cost that much.

[Kid Mero]

Like right now.

[Host 1]

What. What's your wife think of the new schedule? Waking up at between 3:45 and 4:30?

[Kid Mero]

You know what's crazy? Like, she's a morning person. I'm not. So, like, before this, like, you know, I was on, like, Entertainment Guy schedule. Like, you know, I wake up at creative hours.

[Host 2]

Yeah. 10am waking.

[Kid Mero]

Big 100. Like, double digit wake up. I'm not waking. Do not call me pre 10am, dog. It's not happening. I'm like, yeah, I'm on West coast time. You know what I'm saying? Like, right. You know, just keep up with the industry.

[Host 2]

Waiting for the west coast markets to open.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, saying, just gotta, you know, just gotta make sure I get my REM cycle before, you know, hit the road. Before the rubber meets the road type. But it's crazy because I feel like I'm doing a home invasion every morning, bro. I'm walking around my crib with a flashlight because my wife is like, can you stop making so much noise? Oh, wow. What the. Yeah, she's like, there's four showers here. Like, do you have to use the one in our bedroom?

[Host 2]

You gave her a case of her own medicine.

[Kid Mero]

That part. So I was just like, how does it feel now when I'm trying to sleep and you over here stomping around with your golden gooses on? Not very nice suburban mom.

[Host 1]

Are you in breakfast and are you just out the door?

[Kid Mero]

I'm out the door, man. I don't. I was telling me. I was. We was just like, Cafe Cormado. Shout out to Cafe Gomorrado. Shout to Carla. Shout out to see everybody out there. But, like, we was just over there and we're talking about that, and I was like, yeah, I don't eat, like, I don't eat, like, breakfast. I don't eat, like, lunch. Really. Like, I'll just have like a massive dinner. Okay. And just like, hydrate throughout the day. Because I'm like, yo, when I eat, I crash. Like, oh, sure. I don't know. Like, yo, Dominican breakfast, bro.

[Host 2]

Yeah, it would be tough.

[Kid Mero]

Like, what the. Like, if you eat mango and salami and fried cheese and two fried eggs, bro, and a Coke at 8am I'm going back to bed. Right? Yeah, that's it. Yo, great day. Ate two pounds of platinum. You know what I'm saying? Now we're going back to sleep, so. Yeah. Nah, I don't even. Which is probably bad advice.

[Host 2]

Well, coffee and Vyvanse is carrying you through.

[Kid Mero]

You know what I mean, occasional Newport, you feel me?

[Host 1]

Like, what do you, what do you go to bed now? Like, are you hitting that Jersey diner early bird special at 4pm?

[Kid Mero]

I tried. You know what I mean? Like, I tried. I was like, yo, you know, let me go to bed when the kids go to bed. Like, my, my oldest son is 14 now. He's in high school. So it's just like, yo, your bedtime got extended to like 10. So you can like jones with girls after all. Yeah. Siblings are in bed and they don't run a room. Like, yo, you talking to a girl. You're gay. Yeah.

[Host 2]

Wait, ye.

[Kid Mero]

This doesn't make sense. How do you want to check the math on that also? But like, but not so like

[Host 1]

your bedtime.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. See, See what I'm saying?

[Host 1]

Can spend some 5 hands stat.

[Kid Mero]

Give me IV rich in the bag.

[Host 2]

Damn, a real bag, man.

[Kid Mero]

Hey, yo, mentor his ACL and actually needed his perks. And I was like, yo, let me get one of them. Drop it on the floor. No, it's all good. Four perk with seasoning. Yeah. I was like, oh, I knew the perk was on the floor, but I ate it. But yeah, now I try to go to bed earlier and it just resulted in me waking up at like 2:00am oh, like, yeah. So then I wake up and I'm like, ah, I'm up at 2:30. I could find something to do until I'm ready to get out the door. And then it was just like, nah fam. Like them two hours, two and a half hours until my man Sneak pulls up is like an eternity, bro. And nobody else is up, so it's just me. Yeah, yeah. Just sitting there. I'm like, yo, what am I gonna do? Play arc raiders at 4:00am?

[Host 1]

Sure.

[Host 2]

I mean, probably, you know what I mean?

[Kid Mero]

With some dude from Belgium.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

Some random. In a different time zone. Yeah. Like, you know, so that. So then I started like again flying close to the sun and like going to bed at like my normal time which is like 12:31 to 2:33. Bro, that is a little late, which is crazy. I used to go to bed like 3. Ish. 3. Really? That was a normal bedtime. Normal.

[Host 1]

And what is. And now it's still that or it's a little.

[Kid Mero]

It's like one like midnight.

[Host 1]

Well, that's crazy. Are you napping?

[Kid Mero]

That's the thing. So now I get home and I feel like my pops, like, even though my pops is like, shout out to my pops. Y. I love you. I love you. My Nigga Tito, salute. Capitan. You know what I'm saying? Because he. I grew up watching him, like, just do physical manual labor, bro, and wake up at, like, 5am yeah. And on weekends, like, he would take me with him, like, on some fake apprenticeship. But, like, I'm seven years old. Yeah. So now I'm over here, like, dang, like, shocking myself. But we at Hunts Point Market, bro, and I'm learning life. He's taking me around. He's just like, pape, mira. That's how you say it. English. Prostituta. Yeah. That's showing the ropes. Yeah. He's. She's selling right here. The pussy's for sale right here.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

And then over here, you see that man? He's not asleep. That's. That's called a manteca. English. I think he's a heroine. Heroin. That man right here, he's some heroin. And that woman right here, she's selling toto.

[Host 1]

Real life. Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

I'm saying, yeah. He'll be like, are we gonna go fixing the refrigerator over here for the lettuce? And, you know, so then seeing that, I'm like, yo, and he would come home and just, like, you know, like, working man, like, take his boots off and, like, take the work clothes off. And he come. My mom, like, with a little two fingers of cognac. Like, he go, one ice cube. He's just like, how was the school?

[Host 2]

How are you doing?

[Kid Mero]

Everything today? Everything good? Okay. Okay. How the girl that you're talking to

[Host 1]

so you kind of become your father?

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

100. But it's 20, 26 now, right? Saying so back then, it was like 96 80s. You know what I mean?

[Host 1]

So the cognac, Sour macha.

[Kid Mero]

The cognac now. Oh, yeah.

[Host 1]

Okay.

[Kid Mero]

You have to take Avery to basketball. I'm like, I walk in a door, and it's like, bro, this is a meme that I could never. I saw it once, and I could never find it again. But it was. It was like a. Like a meme of Kobe throwing Shaq. Like a. No look when he was on the Lakers. But Shaq ain't really ready to catch the pass, so he's like, you know what I mean? But he caught it.

[Host 1]

But he's like, that's a good Shaq impression.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. So he's just like, yo, like this. And it says on Colby, it says, my wife. The ball says the baby. And shike is like, me. Yeah. And it's just like, me walking in the door, like, oh, oh, okay. All right. Yeah, yeah. I'm a father. Yes.

[Host 2]

Remember, I will raise my child. I will raise these children.

[Host 1]

What's the youngest kid's age?

[Kid Mero]

Shout out to. My daughter's Ellie. She's eight.

[Host 1]

So the 14 year old can't watch, the high schooler can't watch the rest of them. Is that the whole point of having like, multiple kids?

[Kid Mero]

And that's what I'm trying to say. Yo, I would try to tell her this, but the problem is that she's white. So she's just like, yo, nah, that's. That's unsafe.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

And I'm like, what do you mean? I was like, I was like 10 years old watching my siblings, bro. Like, yo, just don't open the door, right? Unless, you know, look through the peephole. Like, bro, they got a ring. You got a ring. Camera, you got life360. You know where these are at all times?

[Host 1]

Aura rings.

[Host 2]

Yeah, you got an air tag in the.

[Kid Mero]

Hello. Like, literally, bro, I got an airtag. I know I can tell you exactly where my dog is right now. You know what I mean? So it's like white people be like,

[Host 2]

hold on, let me check my dog's air tag real quick.

[Kid Mero]

Longitudinal latitude of Steven. A dog named Steven. And Steven's good.

[Host 1]

He's good.

[Kid Mero]

Steve the Cavachan. But yeah, now dog is like, you

[Host 2]

know, so how do you nap?

[Kid Mero]

I. I try. So like, depending on what time it is. Because my kids, like, my. My oldest gets out at like 2:15 and my. The younger ones get out at 3:15. So if I get home like around noon or one nap time, you know what I'm saying? But if I don't

[Host 1]

tell your driver to take the long way home.

[Kid Mero]

Well, I've tried that. But the problem is that these stupid cars nowadays, they're all. If I open up, if I'm like, open Cadillac, it'll open up the app and you hit the map button and that says exactly where you are.

[Host 1]

Your wife has an air tag on you.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, I'm driving an airtag. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, we don't share location. We don't do none of that. But like, she'll go in the app

[Host 1]

and be like, why were you in Delaware?

[Host 2]

Yo, he's in Atlantic City, right?

[Kid Mero]

100. I'll lie like a. Yo, you leaving? Yeah, I just left right now. Oh yeah, bro, look, I see how many messages I got.

[Host 1]

Three.

[Kid Mero]

Three unread messages. You know what I'm saying? I'mma pick them up and lie. They from 10 minutes ago. Right. Right where you. Where you. What are you doing? Did you leave yet? Yeah, I left. I'm on my way. And she's like, nah, she'll send me a screen grab of the car park. Like, nah, no, you right there.

[Host 2]

You're driving yourself. You don't have a driver? No, no, no.

[Kid Mero]

My man Sne.

[Host 1]

Oh.

[Host 2]

So can you sleep in the car, then? Do you catch these? Like, is that.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. So in the morning. That's exactly what I do, bro. Because if I had to drive myself to work at 4 in the morning, y' all would have a rip airbrush, you know what I'm saying?

[Host 1]

Merrell mural.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. Or the Merrill AI, Come on. Just sitting back there like, yo, making weird faces and, like, just juggling, blocking holes, doing something.

[Host 1]

Well, all right. So the. The new job has seemingly shaken up your home life. But what has been, like, the biggest perk of it so far?

[Kid Mero]

Yo, just like, you know, I mean, like, it was happening before, but there's been an uptick and, like, regular degular New Yorkers being like, yo, it's my. Right there. Yo. Mornings and Merrill. Yo, what's good, baby?

[Host 1]

Yo, can you walk down the street now?

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, yeah.

[Host 1]

And be constantly stopped, like, by dude

[Kid Mero]

just being like, man, I love it. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's like, yo, I tell people this all the time because people be like, yo, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I don't want to bother you. I'm like, yo, please bother me. Yeah. I'm like. Because if y' all stop bothering me, something has gone very wrong.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

You're delaying me from getting home.

[Kid Mero]

You know what I mean? Like, also that. Yeah. You know, I mean, like, oh, deal. Come on.

[Host 1]

So you love the love?

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Host 1]

Feel it.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. You know what I mean? Especially in New York, you know what I'm saying? Because New Yorkers don't give a about nobody.

[Host 2]

True.

[Host 1]

So if you said to the hometown heroes.

[Kid Mero]

Exactly. So that's my thing. I feel like Derek Jeter out here, bro. Because it's like, you know, the. The Con Ed guys. Like, hey, when. You know, when I'm walking by ups, Dude's like, yo, what up?

[Host 2]

It's a real approval rating.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. You know what I'm saying?

[Host 2]

Selfies are like, like, selfie requests. Like ratings, right?

[Kid Mero]

I guess to some hundred.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

And I'm like, yo, throw this on the gram. Tag me. And I'm gonna put it. I'm gonna throw it back up. You know what I'm Saying. And then every time, nice. You know what I'm saying? Give a little clout. Okay.

[Host 1]

Get yourself a little. Or in terms of perks, like, you get, like, courtsided. Msg.

[Kid Mero]

Not yet. You know what I'm saying? You know, there's been some. There's been some. Some discord. Jimmy D. Yeah. I'm saying. But, yo, Jimmy Holl at me, man. You know I. With you, baby. You know. You know Fat.

[Host 1]

Would Fat Joe try to square up with you because you talked about his Ozempic nipples?

[Kid Mero]

I don't think so. Joe know me. You know what I'm saying, Joe, you know, like, I'm a comedian, right? So he's just like, yo, that was funny, man. Like, talk about my nipples, you know what I'm saying?

[Host 1]

Who would you want to sit next to you? Courtside. Of all the courtside legends. Celebrity Row.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, yeah.

[Host 2]

Spike Courtside Dream. Blunt Rotation.

[Kid Mero]

I mean, I already did it, and I want to do it again. John Starks.

[Host 1]

I'm just gonna say another hometown hero,

[Kid Mero]

because Starks a lot. Little known fact, John Starks, if you see him baseline with a cup. That is a cup full of ice. And Jose Cuervo.

[Host 2]

Oh, hell yeah.

[Kid Mero]

You know what I'm saying? And by the third quarter, he's like, hey, Josh, man. Hey, you get. Hey, shoot that, man. Hey, like, shoot that, like. And I'm just like, yo, this is crazy. Like, bro, I'm doing him. I'm like, did this dude just did this? I'm like, yo, this is crazy. Him. Stacey Morgan. Oh. You know what I mean? Like, cinematic, you know what you said?

[Host 1]

I want him to throw up on you.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. Or do it.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

We had a gallon show. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like, we had C roll. You gonna get splashed.

[Host 1]

Is Starberry sipping on something?

[Kid Mero]

I don't know. He got the. You never know. It could be, you know what I'm saying?

[Host 2]

Some Vaseline.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

So it's like Mystery Science Theater with you and the Legends.

[Kid Mero]

And then mellows over there, like, on the other side being like, you know what I'm saying? Just like, doing, like, the. Doing the Obama waves. Everybody like, yo.

[Host 1]

Wearing the split hats,

[Kid Mero]

like, yo. Yeah, please. Yeah, yeah. No, that's his thing.

[Host 1]

That's him in the NBA. Jeans.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. Yo, we got. We got some. We got some drip, bro. You know what I'm saying? Because men can't do the set one time. He's like, yo, I got the mellow jeans. I was like, what? What is that? Is that a real thing? And they. He. He slid with him. And I was like, oh. I was like, this is real. And I was like, yo, nah. Yeah, I gotta flick up, right? And it. We made it happen. We made a cultural moment.

[Host 1]

And I think there's something was cropped out of the photo as well. Red, man,

[Host 2]

you're not a mic. Don't worry, you're good.

[Kid Mero]

It was me with a eight grand back one. Yo, this is called Toad Venom. That's my man, Stacks. This thing could come through with some weed that you have never heard of in your life. It's like. And even mellow's like, yo, we gotta smoke this after the show.

[Host 2]

Let's be professional.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, yeah.

[Host 1]

What's the. Yo, if you could smoke weed with any current Nick, who would it be?

[Kid Mero]

Any current Nick? Ah, probably. Oh, shit. Fucking Jose Alvarado. Oh, yeah, yeah. Like, I was thinking Poppy, bro. He's a real New York Puerto Rican bro. And I'm just like, yo, there's nobody better to smoke weed with.

[Host 2]

Sure.

[Kid Mero]

You know what I mean? Because they'll just stand with you in front of the building, no shirt on, like, you know, I mean, yo, yo, yo, yo, Bong. Yo, you want to get some Paul Massamba? Get a little drinky drink, you know?

[Host 1]

You see him making fun of Josh Hart, bro?

[Kid Mero]

I was. I was trying. The WI Fi was so ass where I was at before that I was trying to watch it. I couldn't watch it and pissed me off because I know he said some funny ass shit. Because I'm like, yo, you a Brooklyn Puerto Rican dude with braids this long. You know what I'm saying? Like, you got the Puerto Rican lesbian stud braids, bro. Like, them shits is long. They got mad hang time, bro. Like, shout out to Looney like another Puerto Rican stud. She is one of my favorite people in the world because she is like the most like, yo, what's good? You know what I'm saying? Like, daps. I'm just here. Like that sound like golf claps.

[Host 1]

Sounded like Operation Epic Fury.

[Kid Mero]

Crazy. Yeah, for real. Epic Fury. Daps, bro.

[Host 2]

Dropping bombs on your palms.

[Kid Mero]

Shout out to all my Puerto Rican studs, yo. You know what I'm saying? Shout the Williamsburg.

[Host 1]

I've never seen Josh Hart look so sad when he got his ass handed to him.

[Kid Mero]

And that's what it is. But this is what I'm saying. I was like, New York. See, this is why I'm glad that I'm the host of Mornings in New York. Because you gotta understand, bro, you can't you can't go toe to toe roasting with a New York. Anybody that went to New York City public school.

[Host 2]

Right, right, right.

[Kid Mero]

Built this out.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

They're different if they went to public school in the. In the Bronx or Brooklyn especially, bro. Like, don't start with them because they've been. They've been frying people since kindergarten. What are you bag?

[Host 2]

Big arsenal.

[Host 1]

What about Stuyvesant High School?

[Kid Mero]

Oh, the ones that you don't got to test into. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, clear to be clear. You know what I'm saying? I told Z. I was like, I probably robbed you schools if I wasn't steep tech. I wasn't like 10 years older than you. I definitely robbed you, bro. Like, you know, I mean, I probably might.

[Host 2]

Might have another victim.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. That's why I got a cabinet position, you know, out of guilt.

[Host 2]

You know? What, what.

[Host 1]

What's the in studio weed smoking policy at Hot 97?

[Kid Mero]

Not happening. Because WBLS is also there. So you got the old heads and they'll be like, that smells a rea.

[Host 1]

Is everyone, like, outside? Because I used to work at Def Jam and there's like a little at the parking garage around the corner. That.

[Kid Mero]

Where everyone just smoked that. Yeah, yeah. Nah, I'll be doing my thing. I was, man. At this point in my life, I feel like, bro, like, because when I was smoking weed, I've been smoking weed since I'm 13, right. I'm 42. You know what I'm saying? We. We've been doing this multiple decades. So, like, when I started doing it, it was like smoking crack. It was like wild, illegal. I'm climbing up onto a roof. I'm in a. I'm in a staircase that's full of old used condoms and cigarette butts and there's a bum sleeping up there. And I'm. Yeah, now I'm like this. I'm walking.

[Host 1]

It's legal.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

I'm like, probably harder to smoke in, honestly.

[Kid Mero]

100%.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

So I'm like, yo, the hotel says no smoking. I'm like, that means no smoking in common areas. Like, I'm blowing this up into the bathroom vent every time. Like, stop it.

[Host 1]

Yeah. You said to do the paper towel sheet over the. Over the toilet paper.

[Kid Mero]

I don't even do that. I'm like, you used to have to do that. Yeah, exactly, right? Spoofing.

[Host 1]

And I just whip out apparatus.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

Now you just whip out the UFO and hit it.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. It's crazy. I gave one of them shits to my uncle. I was like, yo, here. He's like, what the is this? He's like, he called it boning. Up. Up. Yeah. I said what? I was like, all right, that's some 70, bro. Shout out to you. He's like, yeah, man. You know me and my guys, you bump up and go watch Black Sabbath. Bumping up.

[Host 2]

And you gave him, and you gave him a geek bar.

[Kid Mero]

Like what? So I had like a, like a care. Like a care package from like a dispensary. So like, I'm not really like a super edibles guy.

[Host 1]

Okay.

[Kid Mero]

And I'm not like a vape guy either, cuz, like shout out to Tony. I don't even know how to say his last names. The Tavi. Yeah, he got the long hair. He's like always going viral. Oh, that dude's hilarious. I know. Funny dog.

[Host 2]

He's great.

[Kid Mero]

He's the funny. And like one of the funniest things that he ever put out in my opinion. He's like, yo, the difference between smoking weed, like flour and like smoking weed from like a cart. Oh, sure. And like, like when he's smoking like regular weed, like smoking a joint, they're like, oh, like what brand of paper is this? Oh, this is amazing. Oh, exquisite. And then it's like smash cut to like the smoking a car. It's like, yo, yo, yo, you wanna. What is it? What? Like he's just hear like noises in the background. And it's true.

[Host 1]

Everything's about fog eating, smoking a double a battery.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

100%. Like if you hit two blinkers, bro, you're gone.

[Host 2]

It's a rap, it's over.

[Kid Mero]

So I'm just like, bro, I'm like my. And also I smoke blunts. So I'm like, yo, until they make blunt vapes or whatever. Blunt flavored vapes. Blunt flavored. A vape with grabber in it. Like, I don't know, like something. Yeah, but yeah, no, I'm a very heavy, you know, blunt smoker. He's a bluntsman. Got it. That's my. You know what I'm saying?

[Host 2]

But yeah, you're a creature of habit.

[Host 1]

We get it. Zero, zero tolerance policy at hq.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, as far as I know, I haven't tried yet, you know.

[Host 1]

But you, but you don't smoke before you go on. That's like your, your personal policy.

[Kid Mero]

I'm just, I'm just, I'm just autom. I'm just already fried.

[Host 1]

Yeah. From the night before.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. Cuz I'm Like. And I wake up and I go home, and I'll be like, I do the tiger with fist bump every time. Time. Because I'll roll too much weed. And then I'll hit the last blunt at like, 3. 45am And I'll be like, yo, yo, I really probably should get in bed. Like, I gotta get up half an hour, so let me just take a quick nap and take a shower and then get to work. Like, now put it out. And then I get home, and there's like, three quarters of a blend. Yeah, yeah, big dog. Let's go. Unless the cleaning ladies come because they just throw all that in the trash. I'm like, how y' all don't know that's a whole blunt?

[Host 1]

Yeah, they know.

[Kid Mero]

It's the. I call them the. The Ukrainian clean team. You know what I'm saying? Oh, you got white.

[Host 1]

You got white cleaning ladies.

[Kid Mero]

Come on. Wow. Stop playing with me. You know what I'm saying? Wow.

[Host 1]

That number on the piece Paper.

[Host 2]

Yeah, White cleaning team, Them.

[Kid Mero]

That number on the piece of paper must be big. Yeah, n. It's 300. Oh. You know what I'm saying? Whole crib. 7,000 square feet, man. Guy get busy.

[Host 1]

Four bathrooms. Four bathrooms.

[Host 2]

Better pirouette on that. Let's go. Ain't going to dust it.

[Kid Mero]

So myself, I'm over here using Google Translate and like, yo, don't throw the weed away. Yeah. Shorty's like, no, we don't go in the garden. Yeah, like, what? No, no, no, no, Mar. Don't throw the marijuana away. You know what I'm saying?

[Host 1]

Did you get yourself. Not a new chain, but did you get yourself an attaboy gift when you got the new gig?

[Kid Mero]

So I got myself an attaboy gift before that, and then I destroyed it. So now I'm. I'm going to get it again.

[Host 2]

Which is.

[Kid Mero]

So I looked for a very specific model car, right? It's a. A 2017AMG GT, like the Benz joint. Because I was like, bro, midlife crisis. You know what I'm saying? Also, you know, and. But nah, I found one that was super clean, had, like 20,000 miles on it, you know? And they say. They say that about business. Like, you can't really, like, drive them, like, whoop they ass until you got, like, 10,000 miles on him. So I was like, this is perfect. I was like, yo, this. And it's like some old man that was just putting highway miles on it. She was in Florida. I was like, oh, this? This. Drove this to publix. And back. Yeah. To get a pub sub and then go back and talk to. And talk to his wife Martha about taxes and, like, how Obama's like, you know, unprofessional or whatever. The.

[Host 1]

You know, that damn tan suit.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. Not my president.

[Host 2]

Not becoming of the president.

[Kid Mero]

He looks like a real estate. Looks like a realtor, not a. Not the president of the United States. So I got that, and then I absolutely macked it one day, coming up around, like, a little kind of like, hairpin turn or whatever, and just, like, fishtail the shit. And I'm in Jersey, so there was. Unfortunately, there was no curb where. And. And it was wet. So, like, where the car would have hit the curb and stopped, it just slid onto some dude's yard, which was massive, huge front yard. And then there was a fire hydrant in the middle of the whole bruh. And. And of course I hit that part. Yeah. And I just hit a fire hydrant rip up and just go under the car. Yeah. I was like, all right, man.

[Host 2]

It's a rap.

[Kid Mero]

It's a rap.

[Host 1]

Speaking Star Wars.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, bro. That was.

[Host 2]

And then, man ran over Jar Jar Binks, dude.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, dog. And them cars, bro. I didn't even realize this, bro, because I'm not. Listen, I just started getting nice things, you know what I'm saying? Because I was not. Not when I got the bag. I was like, yo, you know, I was already married. I had kids.

[Host 1]

The first bag.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, the first bag. One Bag one. Bag one. And bag two. I was like, yo, we gotta invest these, because you never know. So also, I was just like, bro, I'm not gonna. I didn't do the attaboy gift, like, with the first two bags. So I was just like, we're gonna do atta boy gifts now. You know what I'm saying? Father's Day, we doing this. You know what I'm saying? You know what I mean? We do gotta get the whip, this, that. But, like, I never was on some, like, yo, I got.

[Host 2]

Yo.

[Kid Mero]

Oh, I just signed a deal. Let me go buy a Lambo. Never, bro.

[Host 1]

Because when you first came on, it felt like. I mean, I don't know if we kind of talked about this, but you had, like, PTSD from growing up in poverty. Like, I'm never going back.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

I need to, like, set myself up and set my family up so that we're, like, generationally good.

[Host 2]

Financial responsibility 100.

[Kid Mero]

And that was the. I was like, I didn't know about finances and, like, financial literacy and that. Like, that. My wife Flew a little bit. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, you're saying. I want. He said it. I mean, but you know, I hear the drones coming, you know what I'm saying? We here, you know, and then my uncle, my shout out to my Uncle Rich, you know what I mean?

[Host 1]

The guy, the boning up, you know what I'm saying?

[Kid Mero]

Shout. The uncle Rich, he put me on game and he, he worked for. For Verizon. Oh, he works for Verizon. And he's been there since the shit was like 9x, Bell Atlantic, whatever the fuck. So he's been there for a long time. He's had a regular job, but he got mad bread and he was just like, yo, I invested my shit, right? Like, I didn't go blow money on dumb shit. And now I'm 50 something years old and I just be traveling the world with John, you know? I mean, like, you got a Dominican shorty out in like fucking Venice, you know? I mean, like waiting for the gond

[Host 2]

and so hosting different area codes.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, he put me on game and I was just like, oh, okay. Bet index funds.

[Host 1]

Yeah, but, but you set the foundation and now you're. Yeah, now you're copping toys.

[Kid Mero]

Like, yeah, so like, once that was there, I like, my account is like, my homie, like, I call him up and I'm like, yo, because we both like, like, you know, low key, like, hate our wives. You know what I'm saying? Like, so, like, I'm playing, I'm playing, I'm playing, I'm playing. You my guys.

[Host 1]

You guys got 10 more texts.

[Kid Mero]

Damn. Five. We up to five now. When it gets to a 10 pack, I gotta answer. Yeah, we're gonna take a break, but nah. So I'll be calling him up like, yo, like, yo, can I do this? Like, not even can I do this? Like, do I have enough money to do this? Because I know I do, right? That's not a flex. How stupid, how stupid would it be? How stupid would it be if I did this? And he'll. He'll keep it super funky. Be like that Merrill. That'd be like. He'll say it like that. I'm like, yo, chill, chill. You can't say that.

[Host 2]

Yeah, yeah, right?

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, that was problematic. That was problematic. You know what I'm saying? Hit the button. Stop. You know what I mean? But like, no, but he'll me. He'd be like, bro, that's not a good idea. Don't do that. Yeah, like, yo, don't do that.

[Host 1]

So when I Buy that Derek Jeter rookie card or whatever.

[Kid Mero]

The what? Right? Yeah. Which, by the way, shot the ADHD in full swing. My man had four Jordan rookie cards, you know what I'm saying, that were valued as something. And then the last dance came out, and them shits.

[Host 2]

Investment, bro.

[Kid Mero]

And bro, he got rid of three of them shits before that came out. Oh. So I was like. Oh. I was like, bro, you would have held that for one more month.

[Host 1]

Yeah. Damn.

[Kid Mero]

You would have been.

[Host 2]

Yeah, that doc did come out early because of COVID so, like, maybe he.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, I'm saying.

[Host 2]

But he missed it.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, but. Yeah. Nah, but, like, so, damn, that was a tangent that took me.

[Host 2]

You replaced the whip.

[Kid Mero]

You replaced the gt, so now I. I want to. You know, I'm going to.

[Host 1]

You want to get the same. The same whip?

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, I just want to get the same one because I. I like that specific. Because it has enough technology, but not too much.

[Host 1]

Okay, what year is it from?

[Kid Mero]

17. 2017.

[Host 1]

Okay. So it's not like driving a iPad.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. Nah. I got, like, the Bluetooth booth. It got. It don't even have carplay. Oh. I'm saying. So I'm like, I'm good. I gotta buy, like. I gotta go to the gas station and get, like, one of them phone holder things anytime I take a tight turn. That's just like. You see the G force. This got a G force meter, dog. That's the kind of type of car this is. So, like, I ain't never had no

[Host 1]

to the air conditioner, bro.

[Kid Mero]

So I macked this. And, like, you know, I'm trying to get a new one, but, like, to. To. To, like, finish the. The whole Mac and store story. I didn't even realize, like, this is what happens in this type of car. So, like, I, like, I mack it. Like, you know, I run over the fire hydrant. I it up, and now it's, like, going on. Yo, the seat belt was like, oh. I was like. I was like, yo, what the. I was like, yo. And it's just like, pull over immediately, like, bad flashing on the thing. Like, yo, you're good. And I'm, like, smelling smoke. I was like, oh, nah. I was like, I gotta. I was like, yo, son, get out. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. And my wife. I told my wife the other day, I was like, yo, I'm getting a GT again. She was just like, yo. She's like. She's like. I told her. I was like, I'm gonna buy myself a car. I need A car, right? You know what I'm saying? Cuz, I'm like, you be tracking me in the school bus all day. So I was like, I gotta get my own because she. She got a car, you know? So I was just like, it's only fair. It's only fair.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

You know, I was like, yo, the. I was like, I got you a little something. I was like, let me get my.

[Host 1]

Say, did she get herself an atta girl gift with the.

[Kid Mero]

Well, I got her an at a girl gift, you know what I'm saying? Like, and she called. She just calls it like a late push gift.

[Host 2]

Okay?

[Kid Mero]

And I'm like, don't say that. Because that push gets. Did not exist eight years ago. Yeah, yeah. This is. Come on, stop. But, like, so. But little C300, you know, like, nice, regular. But the thing is, we. We in the suburbs of New Jersey, B. So it's just like, everybody. Like, I go to the pizza shop and Willie Randolph is like, can I get a calzone? You know what I'm saying? I'm just like, yo, that's Willie Randolph. I tell people all the time, I'm like, yo, there's three types of people that live in my neighborhood. The Real Housewives, people that blocked for Eli Manning.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

And like a random rapper.

[Host 1]

Rapper.

[Kid Mero]

Like, you know what I'm saying? Like a boogie. Yeah. Like, I go to the bodega, I'm like, yo, let me get a pack of back ones. They're like, oh, my friend Sonny. Yeah, he was with the hoodie. Yeah, with the hoodie. And he sent his friend out of the car and he take all.

[Host 1]

I was gonna say, do the suburban dads now that you like are such a face and name. Even more so than before, like, and kind of transcended, you know, out of, like, our world and now mainstream. Do the suburban dads now look at you with more respect or more, like, racially tinged feel.

[Kid Mero]

Oh, yeah, yeah. So I came in. I came in like, like, I'm going to coach the game like this. You know what I'm saying? Like, I. I'll throw on, like, the gear, you know what I mean? But chains on the whole, like, yo, Bluetooth speaker playing Young Dolph, you know what I'm saying? Rest in peace. Yeah, Flipper, you know, and that. Because that's what the kids want to hear.

[Host 2]

And the other coaches, you're a player's

[Kid Mero]

coach, you feel me? Yeah, that's how I want. I'm Ty Lou, you know what I'm saying? 100%, like, I pull up the kids like, yeah, yo, Coach Mero's here. Like, yeah, yo, what you got on the. I'm like, yo, what you trying to hear? And then I'm like, yo, Joe, key clock keep lock. Yeah, 100. Like, Little Joe Positano wants to hit key.

[Host 1]

Yeah, right.

[Kid Mero]

I'm just like, all right, I got you, champ. Like, I don't know if that clean version of this exists. Yeah. But it's football, and it's crazy because I coach football and baseball, and they're both very different, okay? Football is like, what the. Like, and these are peewees, bro. They like, 10, 11, you know what I'm saying? It's like. You know what I mean? And they playing music. The music is crazy. It's like we're playing, like, 22 GS and, like, gangster, gangster, gangster. And. And they, like. They turning up, bro. They hitting each other. I'm like, oh, this is. This is very different. You know what I'm saying? Paulie in the building.

[Host 1]

Come on camera.

[Kid Mero]

Come on.

[Host 1]

Don't dox him.

[Kid Mero]

You know what I'm saying?

[Host 1]

I know this is the frat, bro, that, you know, you always have.

[Host 2]

I live in Brooklyn, bro. Get out of here, yo.

[Kid Mero]

You dead ass. This is the roof. Yeah. Oh, the roof. Oh, I'm doing a filling on that tonight. I just snitched on myself on camera. You know what I'm saying? Broad daylight. We doing it.

[Host 2]

It's good to see you, buddy.

[Host 1]

It's like a radio show. We just had a random call.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, come on, baby. You know what I'm saying?

[Host 2]

Any of this.

[Host 1]

Our bro's getting roasted, yo.

[Kid Mero]

He. Yo, Paulie will never let me live down defending dub zeros, bro. And they what? That listen, activities. We would just talk about Jose Alvarado, but every Jose Alvarado in the Bronx had dub zeros on, bro, and they were valid.

[Host 1]

You were not getting high number Jordans.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Host 1]

High level Jordans.

[Host 2]

Yeah. Barely legal Jordans. Yeah, yeah.

[Kid Mero]

What.

[Host 1]

What music are they? Okay, so they're playing 22 GS. What are playing at? Baseball?

[Host 2]

Yeah, those are the Italians, the Itals.

[Kid Mero]

You know what I'm saying? So they're like, yo, a lot of AC DC oh, really?

[Host 1]

Is that for the dads, though?

[Kid Mero]

That's for the kids that they play for the. I'm like, you think the kids are turning up to this? They don't want to hear this. I'm like, yo, I'll come in and start playing like some Dembo and, like, you know, bring The Dominican. Because when we go to the training facility, everybody in is Dominican, right?

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

And they, like, they look at them and they're looking at the roster and. And they're like, like, hey, Amadi. They looking around. Amari Martine.

[Host 1]

Who the.

[Kid Mero]

Like, where is this kid? And cuz that looks Polish. He don't even look Dominican. So, like, they looking around. They, like. And they. And he's a big. He's. He plays left guard on the football team and. And third base and pitches on. On a baseball team. So he's a big. He was 140.

[Host 2]

He's your one athletic child.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

And he's the third and last boy, right? So it's like they always say, like, the youngest son. Oh, really is like the most something. I don't know. Know, I heard that on like a baseball broadcast somewhere, and I was like,

[Host 2]

that checks out facts.

[Kid Mero]

I was like, yo, it's true. Like, my first one is a runt, and the middle one is, like, kind of a little bit slow. And then this guy, he's smart and athletic. That's crazy.

[Host 2]

He's beast mode.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. But he is like the type of kid that, like, you know, first of all, his name is Amari Martinez.

[Host 2]

That's built to be a pro.

[Kid Mero]

You know what I'm saying? So it's just like, pro something. Yeah. So then we in the facility and I'm with my dad, and they like, doing, like, throwing around the bases and shit like that or whatever. And the coach, one of the trainers is like, doing, like, the shit where you just hit the ball and you gotta make the play. So my son's playing third, and he goes. He runs out to make a play and, like, steals a play from another kid, like, and then throws the shit in a laser, bro. To the catcher. And it's quiet in there. And you just hit a. In the glove. And the coach was like, who. Whose kid is that? Cause all, like, the dads were sitting outside the cage and shit. And I didn't say shit. My pops, like, was like, that's my grandson. That's my grandson right there. That's. That's him. Yeah. I make it his father. His father making him so me, you know, and that was.

[Host 1]

That is the law of transitive property.

[Host 2]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

And he got a black belt in judo. My pops a black belt in judo.

[Host 2]

Oh, not to be trifled with, clearly.

[Kid Mero]

Nah. And he used to be like, yo, come at me when I was a kid. I be like, hey, yeah. And I'll be like, yo, all like, Guy what, he flip you and he would just use your weight against you. 100. I'm like, damn, bro. Like, what? But then he also told me, like, he was a big boxing fan, too, so, like, oh, he is. I'm talking, like, not here. Yeah, he loves boxing. So he would just have me, like, you know, say, shadow boxing. And, like, I'm just like, all right, bro. Like, this is what we doing.

[Host 2]

I learned a lot from this, man.

[Kid Mero]

Clearly a lot, bro. And, like, I'll bring him through, and I'll be like, yo, train them.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

To my son. He'll have them in the basement scrapping. Like, no, you have to set it up with the job. You job left. Who, when he put his guard down, you come in with the counter because

[Host 2]

your kids fighting each other in a fight club in your basement.

[Kid Mero]

Straight up, bro.

[Host 1]

Is he a fan of Jake Paul?

[Kid Mero]

Amazing. Nah, he's like, that motherfucker is a piece of shit.

[Host 1]

Was in Puerto Rico.

[Kid Mero]

You see what he say about Puerto Ricans, about Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans and that motherfucker, man gringo getting out of here. But it's too much cocaina, which is a fact. Yeah. I mean, so I was. I was calling the Mayweather Logan Paul fight back when they.

[Host 1]

Oh, right.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, yeah. And they kept cutting a Jake, and he's like, he's won every round, man. He's w. He's won every round. And I'm just like, bro, that coke talking crazy, that Miami. Yeah. Is hitting you, boy. Like, we the tusi. Yeah. That was what he got that straight from. That was on a.

[Host 1]

He got from Stefan Diggs.

[Host 2]

Yo, free agent stuff on.

[Kid Mero]

Free agent stuff on. Soon to be J Jet, you know what I'm saying? I'm not even a Jets fan, but I just know he's gonna end up. Oh, yeah, With a quarter pound of two seats.

[Host 2]

Either that or in jail. I guess it will.

[Host 1]

TUA to Diggs is coming up.

[Kid Mero]

It's gonna be nasty.

[Host 1]

So the suburban dads, they like.

[Kid Mero]

How do they.

[Host 1]

They treat. How do they treat you? Oh, yeah.

[Kid Mero]

They like. They're like, what's up, my man? Are they. They. They back the dad from back here. Yo, what's bro? What's up, bro?

[Host 2]

You're killing it, bro. You're killing it, bro.

[Kid Mero]

Dude, you're so funny.

[Host 1]

You good with the Roth IRA? You good with Roth IRAs? You saw Willie Randolph.

[Host 2]

They try to be like your boy. Like, they want. Like. They invite you over to, like, have

[Kid Mero]

beers or, like, so you know. So they know. I don't drink like that. They know I smoke hello weed. And they know I'm like kind of like left leaning politically. Yeah. Liberal, whatever. And so. And they are not. You know what I'm saying? So like, you know, that's how they

[Host 1]

made it out there. Yeah, that's why they're out there.

[Kid Mero]

Exactly. So I'm just like, yo, like. And they made. One of the guys made a joke about it. They were like, yo, you know. Yeah, we're all Republican except for Joel. And they call me Joel. And I was just like, that's crazy. Like, yo, I was like, damn, Mike. I was like, like, all right, hit

[Host 1]

it with the government.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, but like, it's all like funny games and. Cause like, they know, like, this will shoot me. You know what I'm saying? So like. Or like. Or he knows people that will. And then. And then I got people out there that he'll hit me with his Bens. Yo, I'll run you over. Yeah, but yo, this is so funny. So I go to a. I go to an event for my kids school, right? Like a Halloween event called Trunk or Treat. Because, you know, the hood is. Yo, this hood is different, bro. Bro, Like I'm sure. Yeah, because there's. You can't trick or treat. There's no sidewalks, and everybody's house is so big, you got to walk a quarter mile to the neighbor. And then when you get there, I was. And I told my wife, I was like, I'm not walking this dog.

[Host 1]

So they centralize the trick or treating.

[Kid Mero]

They're like, yo, this is the trick or treating zone. It's like Amsterdam on the wire for candy. And Phil Sims house is there, right? You know what I'm saying? And one year, Phil. The first year I got there, Phil Sims gave the first 50 motherfuckers Xboxes. What? I was like, yo, whoa.

[Host 2]

He's fucking the game up for everybody.

[Kid Mero]

I was like, dog, you. You skewing shit.

[Host 1]

Yo. That's inflation.

[Kid Mero]

Come on. Yeah, you. Yo, you. You manipulating currency rating on a curve, dude. Yo, come on. I got. I got little snack size Reese's in the bowl.

[Host 1]

Did your kids get an Xbox?

[Kid Mero]

No, we got there late. Listen, I'm not waking up before 10am you know what I'm saying?

[Host 2]

People like lined up outside Phil Sims House 7:00am early, like.

[Kid Mero]

Like it's a Supreme.

[Host 2]

It's a Black Friday at Best Buy, dude, but it's Phil Sims house, dude.

[Kid Mero]

On Halloween. Yeah, and it's crazy because there's so many football guys out there, but that that let me know. I was like, I. Bro, this shit is different, right? You know? But yeah, you know, I put. So to that point, I put a big ass Dominican flag in front of my house. And I was like, that's not enough. I put another one on the other side. Now this looks like the Dominican embassy in New Jersey. Yeah.

[Host 1]

Do they try to be like, dead ass be. Would you like a chopped cheese?

[Kid Mero]

So there's a couple. So there's a couple of dudes that are like, got it out the mud type dudes, guys. And they'll. They'll come up to me and be like, yo, what's up, my. And I'm like, what the white guys are you.

[Host 2]

Wait, like, I received 23 and me, dude.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm like, let me see.

[Host 1]

Let me see your credentials.

[Kid Mero]

No, it's cool.

[Host 2]

I'm Italian,

[Kid Mero]

yo. I'm Sicilian. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. My grandmother was black. Yeah. And some of them dudes, I'm like, you look more Dominican than me. I'm like, Steph, Curry flavor. Like, you got, like.

[Host 1]

But they got. They got like the crazy lineup and everything, bro.

[Kid Mero]

With the half moon. Yeah, like, skin fade. I'm like, like, bro, this is. What is this? Like, what.

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[Kid Mero]

It's so I'm at Trunk or. So this is the thing, right? So I put the two Dominican flags up, right? Because in my mind, I'm like, there's no Dominicans out here, bro. There's like eight black people, and they're all professional athletes, all rap rappers. You know what I'm saying? So I go to this situation and I'm like, oh, this is more diverse than I thought. This is great. And then I see a dude who is like, you know, people see you. I know you haven't experienced this. Like, somebody will see you out and be like, oh, yo.

[Host 1]

Oh, yeah.

[Kid Mero]

But they don't want to say, like, yo, right? And they'll just give you, like a.

[Host 2]

They don't want to fan out, right?

[Kid Mero]

So they'll just give you, like, a little nod or whatever. So I'm like, bro, we in an enclosed space. We. All the kids are running around like, I. I'm not going anywhere for an hour, neither of you. So I just go up to homie. I'm like, yo, what's up, baby? And he's just like, yo, what's good? Yo, you. Yo, I thought you was the only Dominican in the neighbor neighborhood, bro. Yo. And I was just like, I. I didn't know there was other ones. I was like. I was like. Because speaking of the whole heavy, I was like, yo, after the fat got arrested, I was like. Because he lived like a block.

[Host 1]

Oh, really?

[Kid Mero]

So, like. So, right. So, like, I'm in my crib and I see. I ain't never seen police lights out there, never heard sirens, never seen light. So I'm looking out my window and they just, like, sipping my coffee, whatever. I look out the window and this fucking police car is going down the street. Street, like, 10 deep.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

And they have, like, the flash sirens, but just the flashers.

[Host 1]

Did they have, like, the swat, like, tanks and all?

[Kid Mero]

I saw the first, like, like, you know, run of police cars, right? As soon as I saw that, I was like, oh, let me get away from the window. Yeah, yeah, I'm good on that. Yeah. I was like, we're good. I got too big as a medical flight for my house. Let me pull back.

[Host 1]

Let me get an alibi going real quick.

[Kid Mero]

So, like, turns out they was going to arrest the mister, not even him, his partner, to do the Donald Rollins. Yo, you sell the houses, the fake, fake big. You know what I'm saying? Like, that dude was like, two blocks away. So I was like, oh. So then I told that story, and the guy was like, yeah, that was my business partner. I was like your business partner. I wanted to disappear. Yeah. I was like. I was like, yo, yeah, I'm working on this hour.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

You know what I'm saying?

[Host 2]

No, it's just Joel, man. It's just Joel.

[Kid Mero]

It's just me, man. We're me, baby.

[Host 1]

No wonder. No wonder you're handing out Kit Kat minis and not the full size.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. Goddamn. You'll be hating on me. But yeah. N. Man, I was like. After that, I was like, okay, I. I guess I'm the. It's just me and you, champ. Yeah. And I forgot his name.

[Host 2]

That.

[Kid Mero]

That Juan. Yeah, him.

[Host 1]

Yeah. Juan. Now that you are on one of the biggest platforms in the world, have you become a diva in any way?

[Kid Mero]

Nah, nah.

[Host 1]

You don't want, like, I could. Organic platanos con salami from Whole Foods.

[Kid Mero]

It's f. It's crazy because one of the dudes that like, lives in my neighborhood, he's like the guy that like, runs like, Sibao Meats, which is like the company that makes. Oh, wow. They're like the salami. And like, that's.

[Host 1]

That's a good plug to have.

[Kid Mero]

Incredible plug. Salami plug, bro. Like, he got. He got flavors.

[Host 2]

The salami king of New Jersey, bro.

[Kid Mero]

I didn't know. I thought it was just a regular, like, salami. In Dubeka, they got like jalapeno flavored joint. Like, I was like, oh, does he

[Host 1]

hit you with like, the Christmas basket?

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, bro. He came to the field one day with two big ass salamis and then handing them to me like it was a bad visual.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

I'm like, yo, you know what the optics is like on this, bro? Like, how long you been out here double fisting like two big ass thick ass salamis? Like, yo, here, no bag. No bag, no. Nothing raw.

[Host 2]

Like, yo, here, dog, just what you order, dude.

[Host 1]

You wanted like, you to play his kid more or something.

[Kid Mero]

Like, I was like, nah, he's a coach on the other team. Like, my. My kid. That. My 12 year old. That's a crash out. Was like the one year he played football, he played for him because he was like, oh, he's Dominican, so I'll play for him. Like, right, right, right. He gets me, right? And I'm like, bro, he's not going to get you when you start up them ladder drills. Yeah, yeah. You mean this is football?

[Host 2]

So the olive branch was two giant salamis.

[Kid Mero]

Massive salamis, bro. You know what I'm saying? Delicious.

[Host 2]

Thought that count.

[Host 1]

What flavor were they?

[Kid Mero]

One was just like the Regular, and one was jalapeno, which was fire. You know what I'm saying?

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

Apparently they're having a hard time selling that. I don't know why. Yeah.

[Host 2]

Maybe the shape I want to do.

[Host 1]

Ask about the, like, the suburban dad, like, d be like, what do you think of you? You and Jesus were, like, such a, you know, big part of making just, like, New York culture bring into the. To the wider world. What do you think of transplants and content creators now that are, like, obsessed with New York City and are, like, on, like, you know, urban dictionary.com? like, what does brick mean? Yeah, I mean, just ordering chopped cheeses.

[Kid Mero]

I can't even get mad, bro, because it's like, you know, open up Pandora's box, and you can't close it. You know what I mean? So. And it's funny because, like, I went to. I went to, like, the. A WWE joint at the Garden, and it was like, John Cena's last match at Madison Square Garden or some like that. And, like, the activation that they had there was like, a behind bodega.

[Host 1]

Oh.

[Kid Mero]

And I was like, all right, man. I was like, that's crazy. I was like. I was.

[Host 1]

How does this make sense?

[Kid Mero]

I was like, you're welcome. You know what I'm saying?

[Host 2]

So you don't think. You're not mad that it's getting pimped out? Or you're like, yo, it is what it is.

[Kid Mero]

It's positive business. Yeah. It's pop culture, bro. You know what I'm saying? Like, you know, it is, like, think

[Host 1]

of, like, the bodega owners that are now, like, yeah, eating right, you know?

[Kid Mero]

So it's just like, people come in, they're like, yo, I want to find the. Yo. Yo, can you recommend the bodega to me? And I'm like, fam, do you understand what that means?

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

That's insane.

[Kid Mero]

Like, dog, I'm. I'm. And then I said to the hood, I'm like, yo, oh, the best in the world is on 176th street in Morris Avenue in the Bronx. You know what I'm saying? Take the full train to 176 and get off Dodge, you know what I'm saying? The fiends and go over there and get you a bacon, egg, and cheese that's has. That's just a pile of bacon that's been sitting on the fryer and getting flipped every 20 minutes, you know what I'm saying?

[Host 1]

So as for the middle.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, right? And, man, so. But yeah, nah, it's crazy. But I'm not. I'm not even mad, bro, because I like, like, to me, it's me. You know what I'm saying? Like, like, so if y' all want to act like me, it go ahead.

[Host 1]

Yeah, you know? Yeah, we got the white boys out here moving kind of different, crazy. You did interview Timothy Chalamet. What are your thoughts on the current Wiga uprising?

[Kid Mero]

It's yo, so I said this to him on when I interviewed him. I was like, fam, like, people think that this is like a put on, right? But you are really a New York City white kid, you know what I'm saying? Because it's like, yo, when you grow up in the city and you go to public school, he went to LaGuardia. Yeah. So I was like, I. A lot of hoes in LaGuardia, bro. Like back in the day.

[Host 1]

So that art ho, OG Arthur.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, all the dance majors, bro. Like, they had cheeks. Flexible. Yeah, they have flexible, you know, I mean, it was very flexible, very thick, you know?

[Host 1]

Nicki Minaj.

[Kid Mero]

Nicki, yeah, all of them.

[Host 1]

So what's your name? Azalea Banks.

[Kid Mero]

All of them, bro. So I'm like, yo, a lot of people, these are real New Yorkers, you know, they just happen to be like, I'm an artist. And their parents were like, not first generation maybe. So they were like, yes, pursue your passions. My mom was like, you need to go to a real school. Yeah, school. This is not. You going to draw in drawings.

[Host 1]

Did you want to go to LaGuardia or like an art school?

[Host 2]

That graph.

[Kid Mero]

And a lot of my friends, that was graffiti writers went to graphic arts in like, on 70 something street.

[Host 1]

I don't know, near like Lincoln Center.

[Kid Mero]

Right? Leave it in the comments. Yeah, somewhere around there. So, like, a lot of graffiti dudes went there. A lot of rappers went there. I went to Clinton, you know what I'm saying? Which was just like a regular Deula, you know, Bronx public high school. But the alumni is crazy because the school's like 100,000 years old. So it's like James Baldwin, Ralph Lauren, like Stan Lee, Joel Martinez. Joel Martinez, AKA the Kid Marrow, to win Clinton radio. James Baldwin radio. Say trapaholics, home of hip hop and James Baldwin,

[Host 1]

home of hip hop and queer literature.

[Kid Mero]

Queer pros.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

Blazing queer pros and R B. Yeah. Damn, bro.

[Host 2]

BE street radio.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, it was a fun time, though, but it was chill, you know, But.

[Host 1]

But so it's not so white boys from New York on wiggers. That's your second.

[Kid Mero]

Who they are. That's just who they are. So it's just like, bro, you grow up. You grow up around dudes like that.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

And it's just like, graffiti taught me that. You know what I'm saying? Because I know a bunch of white boys that are like, yo, that I'll this up. And I'm like, bro, bro, it's 2026, and the Internet exists, bro. Like, you know, but these dudes are, like. They're from the block, you know? I mean, so I. I know one dude. I'm not gonna say your name is. I'm not gonna put you on blast. But, like, in particular, who is, like. Is a tradesman, you know, I'm saying. And, like, graffiti dude since forever and is, like, straight off the block. Like, you cannot media train this guy. Right?

[Host 2]

He's black in his mind 100.

[Kid Mero]

Because he grew up with us.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

So, like, you know, he's like one of the two white boys in the hood. So it's just like, all right, you one of us type?

[Host 2]

Sure.

[Kid Mero]

Albanians, too. Like, I'll be, bro. There's a lot of Albanians in the Bronx, and they, like, grow up amongst us. You know what I'm saying? So it's just like, they. In their mind, they're like, we're not white. We Albanian.

[Host 1]

Sure. We wear a Miri, too.

[Kid Mero]

Right, right. And yo, big body best is proof of that.

[Host 2]

Yes.

[Kid Mero]

Puerto Rican.

[Host 2]

So you.

[Kid Mero]

So.

[Host 2]

So with, like, the Uyghur uprising and these guys, like, whether it's Timmy or what, like, Chet Hanks is an example.

[Kid Mero]

That's. That's a real wigger right there.

[Host 2]

Right? So did you, like. Yo.

[Host 1]

Yo, prayers up for Chad. I hope he makes out Columbia.

[Host 2]

Well, he got new teeth. Do you see his new teeth? He was in Medellin to get veneers.

[Kid Mero]

He got veneers.

[Host 2]

They look fantastic.

[Kid Mero]

Oh, man.

[Host 2]

Hanks going to Medellin to get veneers

[Host 1]

for also the Med Kulo.

[Host 2]

He's sober, so allegedly, I do follow Chad Hanks on social media.

[Kid Mero]

Clearly. Okay.

[Host 1]

Santa Barbara. He's Santa Barbara sober. So if you're.

[Kid Mero]

He posted the coiny shade. Oh, look. Yeah. Wa. My.

[Host 2]

Will you give, like, a non New Yorker wiga the pass?

[Kid Mero]

Who, like, I don't know, like, it also. It depends, too, because, like, people would tell me, like, you know, being in entertainment is cool because I got to be a lot of different places. So, like, being in, like, Oakland, people was like, yo, the white people out here, they really be in the trenches with us. And I'm like, all right, I Guess, y'. All. Yeah, you know what I mean? But listen, y' all gonna watch this and be like, yo, Mero's out here saying that he could tell people who could say. Who could say nigga, who? What?

[Host 1]

No, Mero said I could say it.

[Host 2]

Nah.

[Kid Mero]

No, I'm not saying that at all. What I'm saying is that y' all grew up around us, so y' all adopt some of the same. And even Osmosis. Yeah, osmosis. And even the parents be like, yo, what's up? Up. Smoking cigarettes in front of the crib like, yo, with the doobie rap. I'm like, yo, you're like. Your hair doesn't like.

[Host 1]

No, no, I'm North African.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, I'm up here.

[Host 2]

Is it good or bad for culture that these dudes are front and center right now? I feel like it's entertaining.

[Kid Mero]

It's entertaining, but, like, yeah, I think it might be bad, you know what I'm saying? Because it's like, you know, like, where is the culture really coming from? You know what I mean? Like, does it have to be filtered through this guy to be valid? You know what I'm saying?

[Host 1]

For a lot of people.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, that's what. And that's what I'm saying. And that's the problem.

[Host 2]

The sanitized version.

[Host 1]

The pendulum is going to swing pretty. I don't think we're there yet, but it is going to swing pretty far. Then we're. Eventually we'll be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, what are we doing?

[Kid Mero]

What's going on here?

[Host 2]

Course correct immediately.

[Kid Mero]

Hold on, hold on, hold on. John Oliver just said, this nigga's crazy. Like, what. What is going on here? Like, we got to go back. We got to turn this back. That would actually be sick. We got to find this nigga's crazy and just stay down to battle the camera for 10 seconds straight.

[Host 2]

Like, just let that sink in.

[Kid Mero]

I'm like, God damn, bro.

[Host 1]

Wins another Emmy.

[Kid Mero]

Yes.

[Host 2]

For bravery.

[Host 1]

Wins the NAACP Award.

[Kid Mero]

Winning Image Award, bro. That's crazy.

[Host 2]

Soul Train Award, dog.

[Kid Mero]

He's at BET Honors, hosted the BET Award. Well, it's. My name is John Oliver. Welcome to the BT Awards. The baby. I'm like, what? This is crazy.

[Host 1]

How do we get here? How do we get here?

[Kid Mero]

How do we get here? You know? But, yeah, n. It's going to swing the other way eventually, you know? You know, I'm waiting for that.

[Host 1]

Give him out. Do you have a Mount Rushmore White Boys? O.

[Kid Mero]

Mount Rushmore White Boys? Yeah. Yeah, definitely. Right now, probably, if you ask me tomorrow, I'll probably change, but right now it's Tyler kick the kid with all the chains that dropped the Tupac flies, you know what I'm saying? I forgot the name.

[Host 1]

The left fielder.

[Kid Mero]

Left fielder.

[Host 1]

What team was he on?

[Kid Mero]

He's in like the minors. He just got drafted. Oh, really? Yeah.

[Host 2]

So the presumed NBA rookie of the year and then a dude in the minor leagues.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, Larry, of course. You know what I'm saying?

[Host 2]

Come on, you heard it. It's gonna change tomorrow. But take it for what it's worth.

[Kid Mero]

Every legend, bro, that's a real Ivy legend right now.

[Host 1]

Jackson darts.

[Kid Mero]

Come on.

[Host 2]

And.

[Kid Mero]

Oh, yeah. Come on. Thank you, my guy, Jax, you know what I'm saying, with the Anakin Skywalker, you know what I'm saying? Like, hood kind of like and icy on the. Yeah. So now we got, you know, Jaden Daniels, we got Jalen, it's like a valid Joe Burrow. Yeah, that part. You know what I'm saying? It's like, so with that, with that, now the NFC east got Jalen Hurts, he got Jada McDaniels Jackson Dart, you know what I mean? And Dak Prescott. That's the only division in football with four black quarterbacks.

[Host 2]

Yeah. And Dak is the least swaggy, is 100%.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. He's the least black out of all of them. That's crazy.

[Host 1]

He had to get.

[Host 2]

I'm not going to say that, but that's fair.

[Host 1]

He got the five hour anesthetics. You get the full, like back. No, the full leg piece.

[Kid Mero]

I think all.

[Host 2]

Listen, I think did the same for like his big back piece. These dudes get it all done at in one sitting and they go under anesthesia.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah, I don't. Because I wouldn't do that. I just thought it out.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

Like, my anesthes would be like a pint of Hennessy. Like, you know, thin my blood. You know what I'm saying? I might bleed out on the table, but we don't care.

[Host 1]

But then they like leave blank spaces for like. Oh, the super bowl trophy is going to go here.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, it's like in the shape of like a Larry o' Brien trophy.

[Host 1]

Like. Yeah, but it's like, yo, you play for the Jets? Like, it's going to be a while.

[Kid Mero]

It's going to be a while, champ. Yeah. If it ever happens.

[Host 1]

How often are you texting with our boy?

[Kid Mero]

Mom?

[Host 1]

Donnie.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, well, he's the mayor now, so, like, it's hard. You know what I Mean, like, I'll. It's. It's crazy because now I feel like people. I feel the same way people say they feel about me when it comes to texting. Because, like, you'll text me today and I'll be chopped at the crib at like, 9:30 sitting there watching YouTube videos about, like, you know, I don't know, man, like, how Pangea turned into the continents that we have today or whatever. Yeah.

[Host 1]

And is that. What are you watching? Are you on your, like, historical education? Have you hit 10 texts? We're still at five.

[Kid Mero]

Still at five.

[Host 1]

That might have been a missed FaceTime.

[Host 2]

That counts for three texts.

[Kid Mero]

Let's see. Hold on. Let's see.

[Host 1]

Is that a Ms. FaceTime?

[Kid Mero]

Oh, that was French. Oh, oh, okay.

[Host 2]

Big flex alert.

[Host 1]

Yeah, I saw a screenshot of it.

[Kid Mero]

I'm holla at you, my guy. I'm. You know what I'm saying? We can't do this, man. But yeah, nah.

[Host 1]

Shout out French Montana.

[Kid Mero]

Shout out to French Montana.

[Host 2]

Billionaire. Yeah, I know. He married up.

[Kid Mero]

Yo, bro.

[Host 2]

Legend.

[Kid Mero]

He, bro. He's.

[Host 1]

Is he safe, though? Is he good right now? Is he in the Middle East?

[Kid Mero]

Oh, yeah, yeah. He's always safe. He's from the Bronx. I'm saying, like, dog, they have bomb shelters in all nicer housing. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?

[Host 2]

He's been deployed.

[Kid Mero]

Come on. He's been deployed to Third Avenue. Yeah.

[Host 1]

You know what I'm saying?

[Kid Mero]

So he's been out there. He had Khloe Kardashian out there.

[Host 2]

That's true.

[Kid Mero]

That's crazy. That's why to me, like, I don't care if he falls off terribly rapping. He's gonna be a legend forever. Because. Because only, bro, how do you get S. Lathan and Khloe Kardashian to go to, like, Bruckner Boulevard in the Bronx?

[Host 1]

You know, Go to Lamarina in a yacht, buddy.

[Kid Mero]

You know what I'm saying? It's kind of like a pirate with your thought, you know what I'm saying? Come on, bro. Like, yeah, n. Man, that dude, living legend for sure. Legendary, you know what I'm saying? But, yeah, N. Mom, Donnie. Mom, Donnie. So, yeah, N again, I. You'll text me, I'll be chopped. I'll hit you next week and answer the question. Yeah, 100. Like, yo, yo. Yeah, yo. Yeah, I'll be there. And you were like, fam, I asked you to if you could go to dinner tonight. That was Tuesday, right?

[Host 1]

And he's not. He's. He's not even on his phone anymore.

[Host 2]

He's got people for that now.

[Kid Mero]

But he got rapper amount of phones. Probably now. He probably got like three, four phones.

[Host 2]

That's true.

[Kid Mero]

You know.

[Host 1]

How do you think he's doing so far?

[Kid Mero]

Phenomenal. You know what I'm saying? And. And no, no glazing, you know, but like, the. The I think people, because to me, I'm a single issue voter, you know what I'm saying? I got four kids, and what made me move to Jersey was like, I couldn't afford daycare, bro. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, after de Blasio, that ended, and I made too much money by like $3.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

You know what I'm saying? To qualify. Which is crazy to me because I'm like, yo, if. If the cutoff is 55, 000 a year and I make $55,008. Yeah. I'm like, fam, that $8 ain't put me over the top. What the.

[Host 2]

I need a little more wiggle room here, bro.

[Kid Mero]

Come on. So that was my thing because my sister's there. She shot the angry. She works at NYU Langone, and so she's, you know, working mom.

[Host 1]

Like I say, is there ever a world where the Merrell clan was back to New York City?

[Kid Mero]

Yo, yo, Zara, man, help me get that townhouse me, you know what I'm saying? Like a little townhouse. My wife is like, yo, I'll move back to the city if we go to like the Upper west side, okay?

[Host 1]

Think of all the. Think of all you're losing in congestion fees right now driving into Jersey.

[Kid Mero]

It'll pay for that town.

[Host 2]

Although you for itself, dude, you're probably

[Host 1]

hitting the Holland tunnel before congestion feed price kicks in at like 7am or whatever, dog.

[Kid Mero]

I'm in the Lincoln early. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like, early. Like, there's nobody there besides the sleep. We'd be doing like 110 in that big ass. Allegedly, you know what I'm saying? But since I'm not being tracked, but my kids are. Anytime I'm in the whip, and I was in the gt and I was like, yo. And my oldest son was in there. You know what I'm saying? This is might get me arrested, but fuck it, we in the gt. And he's like, yo, daddy. He's like, yo, open it up.

[Host 2]

Open it up.

[Host 1]

Let her rip, dad.

[Kid Mero]

Turn up. And I'm like, oh. I say less race mode. Let's just say I was like. And there's a stretch of highway going up to my crib. That's like a. That's like three and three, four miles of, like, straightaway. Love that. So I'm on there, and I'm like, fam. He's like, yo. He's looking at the speedometer. He's just like, yo, this is y. This is fire dash. Yo, turn the music up. Like, yo. I turned up like, yo, Yo. So then we get to the crib, and my wife is waiting for me, bro.

[Host 2]

Oh, no. In the driveway.

[Host 1]

But she got an alert.

[Kid Mero]

She's just like. Opens up the Life360 app. She's like, you were traveling at a dangerous speed.

[Host 2]

She had an alert, and it says,

[Kid Mero]

like, yo, you were traveling at this many miles per hour. And. And he was like, no, no, no, it was wrong. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like, no, no, no. I was like, yo, that's what.

[Host 2]

He caught the. He was like, I'll take the charge.

[Host 1]

Whatever you.

[Kid Mero]

Yo. Yo, he's down, you know what I'm saying? He's like, I'll do a bit for you, pop. I'll give a. That my future is brighter than yours. You know what I'm saying?

[Host 1]

I'll do a five. It's five out. Five days grounded.

[Kid Mero]

I'll be out two and a half. I'm saying, just hold me down.

[Host 2]

When I get five days detention, I'll get grounded.

[Kid Mero]

I'll do the. I'll do the bid. I'll do it, baby. Just make sure you got my Versace silks on deck. When I get out, I'm like, all right.

[Host 1]

Make sure my people good.

[Host 2]

Give me some fresh pack of PSD undies.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. Put some money on my books, you know what I'm saying? I'm like, all right. I just open a door like, yo, here's $5. Yeah, here's some Rogers apple cash.

[Host 1]

Here's some Doritos.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, yeah. Which is crazy.

[Host 1]

You ever smoked hookah with zoron?

[Kid Mero]

No. Which is. Which is we're not gonna do, because that was one of my main things. It's like, yo, fam, like, hold on. Like, if anybody could smoke hookah is zoron. Because, you know, like, you know, he's a young guy. You know what I'm saying? When you the old, like Eric Adams smoking hookah with rappers looks crazy. You know what I mean? That's like you smoking weed with your PO and like, what we do doing here? Bazon's like 30 something years old. You know what I mean? Like, he. He don't look weird. Swunga he don't look weird in the mix with young people, you know, which is amazing because we finally have a man that's not a lame.

[Host 2]

Right?

[Kid Mero]

You know, we gonna work on that bench press though, bro. I got you.

[Host 1]

Oh, yeah, yeah, that's true.

[Kid Mero]

You know what I'm saying?

[Host 2]

Not the best look, but, you know, have you ever.

[Kid Mero]

I don't want my smart guys to be diesel either, but I don't want my politician. I don't want. Yo, RFK Jr.

[Host 2]

Thinks he's like, doing something he's overcompensating

[Kid Mero]

by walking around doing, like, doing muscle ups. I'm not like, bro, you look like the. That was in jail. Yeah, in a park by my crib, bro.

[Host 1]

Cuz it's like also doing pull ups and jeans.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, yeah. Calisthenics and jeans. Like, get the out of here, bro. Like NBA jeans.

[Host 1]

The nerds. You look like nerds.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. Like, yo, bro, like, you went to Bronx Science. Like, that's what I love about him, that he owns that. Like, he's not trying to be cool and. And like trying to do extra. He just is cool. Yeah. He's just him. You know what I'm saying? And that's fire. Like, you know, every. Yo, I got a short, naughty Far Rockaway. I used to knock that down. You might catch me in the back of an establishment with some Hennessy and a marijuana stick and I'm like, bro, get out of here.

[Host 1]

Did you ever. Did you ever interact with Eric Adams?

[Kid Mero]

Not in, like, not in any meaningful way.

[Host 1]

What about like, online or something? Because he was a prolific. He was a prolific tweeter.

[Kid Mero]

Oh, sir. Well, I mean, I used to be like you all the time and he never got at me, so he must have known.

[Host 2]

Do you think you would get along now that he's out of office and he's just a civilian?

[Kid Mero]

Probably, yeah.

[Host 2]

That's like, I would.

[Kid Mero]

He seems like a good thing because I'm like, yo, I'll be real with you. Like, the up thing was that you were the mayor of New York City. That's right. Yeah. Not who you are. Like, I know a lot of scumbags. Yeah. Like, it's just like, it's cool to be a scumbag. Just don't be in politics.

[Host 1]

Don't be the mayor. Don't be in charge.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. Like, don't be in charge and be giving people money and like stealing money, doing all this weird passing money in a Dorito bag. Oh, yeah. Like, come on, dog, what are we doing? But if it was Just if it was just like, yo, E from the block.

[Host 2]

Yeah. Yo, my boy E. That's Electronic Arts.

[Kid Mero]

Yo, it's my boy. Yo, it's in the game. Let's go, baby. Damn.

[Host 1]

Why did he use that?

[Host 2]

He should have used that.

[Host 1]

Get out of when he's in office.

[Kid Mero]

E.A. mayor.

[Host 1]

E.A.

[Kid Mero]

mayor. I am the game, you know what I'm saying?

[Host 2]

The buddies in the back, I rigged the game.

[Kid Mero]

I rigged. He just sp with the big ass veneer. And Stu, I'm like, man, if also only bald to go to Turkey and come back with no hair.

[Host 2]

That's right.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

We told when Zon was on the pod, we're like, yo, are you ever gonna. He's like, if I ever go to Turkey and I come back, you know, with a nice little touch up, you know that I, I, I've been corrupted, I've been compromised.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. And he's not that type of dude either, you know what I'm saying? And that's the thing I love about him. Like, he is like, he's unshakable, low key, you know what I'm saying? Like, you can't spin him, you know what I mean? Because a lot of people, like, I feel like a lot of politicians, you get him, you start asking them a lot of questions and they, and he's just like, nah, bro, this is the message. I'm staying on message, you know what I mean? And shout out to him because what type of people don't do that?

[Host 1]

What type of fan was he at the Nick game? Was he like, he does he know ball?

[Kid Mero]

He don't really know ball like that. I ain't gonna lie. You know soccer guy, he's a soccer

[Host 1]

dude, 100 and a metsman.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, he's a mess guy and a gooner, which is crazy to say in 2026. But like, you know, but if they

[Host 2]

came up with the name, they call themselves that.

[Kid Mero]

That's, that's y'. All. Y'. All, Y' all nicknamed yourself, which you're not supposed to do, you know what I mean?

[Host 2]

They're like, this will never come back to hurt us. Let's.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, Gooners is it, you know. Yeah, yeah. Are you a soccer fan or are you on pornhub? Which one is it? But yeah, nah, but I put him on game. It was a little bit. We was in the cheap seats and I was like, yo, listen, that's. That guy's Dominican, you know, I mean, that's why I love him, you know what I'm saying? He's my Cousin, shout out to Cat.

[Host 2]

You feel good about the Knicks?

[Kid Mero]

I feel great about the Knicks. Everybody's like, yo, we don't know. Cat's soft. Oh, my God. Yo, there's that.

[Host 1]

When I do sound like Cat,

[Host 2]

he's

[Kid Mero]

talking about something crazy, and I'm just like, all y', all, man, you're bugging. Like, this is the. One of the best big men in the league.

[Host 1]

Jalen Brunson is like, Cat's having a historic year.

[Kid Mero]

And that's what I'm trying to tell, bro. I'm like, yo, forget the narratives, B. Like, look at the numbers Be. The plus minus is all off the chain. Yeah. Like, he's leading.

[Host 2]

Tatum's coming back this Friday. Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

To get fried.

[Host 2]

Yeah, we'll see.

[Host 1]

We'll say, though, the one strike against Cat is that he did try to make speaking. He tried to give himself the nickname Bodega Cat. That was a little. But that was last year.

[Kid Mero]

You know what I'm saying? But, yeah, you know, we could look past that.

[Host 2]

Everyone makes mistakes.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. You know, it was his first year, you know, so, you know, we give. We give him a pass for that.

[Host 1]

Do you think that obviously, like, Mornings with Marrow is going spectacular, the podcast going spectacular Spectacular. Is there a world where kid Merrow enters politics?

[Kid Mero]

Yo, it's crazy that you said that, because somebody shout out to my man Ben America. You know what I'm saying?

[Host 1]

Ben America.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, he's.

[Host 1]

Where's he from?

[Kid Mero]

He's just a Twitter homie. Okay. But he's worked on, like, various political campaigns or whatever, and he DM me one time. He was just like, yo, fam. He's like, yo, you're in Jersey and you're. Your district is Josh Gottheimer's district. District. Okay? And he's like, you know. And he. They were like, yo, Jewish guy got. Presumably. Presumably. You know, I don't want to jump to conclusion. Yeah, no.

[Host 1]

Does it even matter? Come on.

[Kid Mero]

You know. But. But, yeah, n. So they were like, yo, he's a.

[Host 1]

Is he a good guy or bad guy?

[Kid Mero]

Apparently, he's like a establishment, okay. Democrat type of dude. Yeah. You know, that. That type of. And they were. And he was like, fam. Like, you could easily unseat this dude.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

And I was like, my man, you've been following me on Twitter since, like, 2008. Like, you know, the culprit file is this thick. Oh, my God. I was like, bro, this podcast alone, come on, dog. They'll be like. They'll pull up some of me in like 2012, being like, yo, this health insurance in this country is. I'm about to join isis, you know what I'm saying? Like, Kid Mero said he wanted to join the terrorist group. Like, he wants to give transgender children surgery.

[Host 2]

If there's enough compromise, then it's like, could they even use it against you if there's so much.

[Host 1]

Look at Trump, bro.

[Kid Mero]

And that's what I'm saying. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. But, you know, unfortunately not light skinned enough. You know what I'm saying?

[Host 2]

That don't pay well, so.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, and that part too, you know.

[Host 1]

Yeah, but the corruption is.

[Kid Mero]

The corruption pays great.

[Host 1]

Yeah. You know, grift is grand.

[Kid Mero]

I go to doctor and do that. Yeah. I'm saying, just become a congressman in some random town. Right. Start stealing goats. You know what I mean?

[Host 2]

Do you.

[Host 1]

Do you use, like, do you get political on the, on the morning show at all?

[Kid Mero]

A little bit. You know what I'm saying? It's just not even political. Just like, yo, this is fucked up. This exact common sense, right? Which is crazy because it's like, this is fucked up. Has become political.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

Like, it used to be like, yo, kids are starving. That's fucked up. Yo kids are getting killed. That's fucked up. Yo kids are getting violated. That's fucked up. Well, actually, actually, well, you know, you know, okay. Woke, right? Exactly like, libtard. I'm like, whoa, yo, what? I'm like, fam, like, it's your fault. Yeah. This is crazy. Like, y' all are bugging. So. Yeah, you know, political in the sense of like, yo, this war is stupid. Like, this is dumb. Like, you know, you know why you're doing this? You know what I mean? I mean, the whole, like, yo, no more wars. America first. Like, you know, that was all them podcast, everybody in the bro spirit. I was like, oh, we didn't vote for this. That whole. That they doing now, they trying to walk it back. It's like, all right, dog, listen. Yeah. This ain't a video game gang. You can't just hit, like, reset or like, restart from last checkpoint. Yeah.

[Host 1]

Did you ever hit up the manosphere? Like, were you ever a guest in that. In that realm?

[Kid Mero]

Nah, I don't think so. I. I don't know if Burke is Burke Kreischer in the manosphere. N. It's like Rogan adjacent, maybe.

[Host 2]

I mean, they're the boys.

[Host 1]

You're the media. You're the new medium.

[Host 2]

He's like a mastermind, like, one degree removed.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. So I. We had him.

[Host 1]

He says no.

[Kid Mero]

All right, cool.

[Host 1]

But it's like. It's like Theo von Andrew Schultz Rogan.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

Kill Tony. Yeah, all that.

[Kid Mero]

All that. And all them swear, like, Austin has, like, the best comedy in the world. I'm like, bro, you're smoking dick, bro. Like, it's New York, bro. It's New York.

[Host 2]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kid Mero]

It's New York, bro. There's a guy on the train that's funnier than the funniest dude that's ever been on. Kill Tony. Sure. Yeah. And he's on a train asking for money with a. With a fake hospital bracelet on. You. I just got a. At the hospital, you know. You know, they told me that I had testicular cancer.

[Host 1]

That is funny.

[Host 2]

You know, Hilarious.

[Kid Mero]

Yo, yo, I have half a Newport in my pocket.

[Host 2]

Last half work on the G train.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. And he's crushing it.

[Host 1]

Like, that's not my wife,

[Kid Mero]

yo. But yeah, no, I don't think. I don't. I don't really got no interest in going over there, you know what I'm saying? Like, because, you know, to me, it's like, yo, if you. If you move like that, that means that you're down to, like, change. You know, who you kind of. Kind of who you are.

[Host 1]

That's got to be the slimiest realm possible, right? But music is also kind of, like, little icky.

[Kid Mero]

It's icky and it's weird, but, like, I, like, stay out of all of

[Host 1]

that because you're like, it's entertainment and media. Not like, you're not in the business,

[Kid Mero]

in the trenches of, like, Yo, Sile. Hey, would you like to sign this 720 deal?

[Host 2]

Like, they're not even doing 360 plus

[Kid Mero]

a one plus 180.

[Host 1]

The Tony Hawk 900.

[Host 2]

Can I interest you in a couple more rotations?

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, come on, now. You know, like, good for us. Every say what you make. We. We own half. Like, what. I'm not doing that.

[Host 2]

You get the cross, bro.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, but not like the. The. Yeah, it is. It's a kind of, like, slimy area to be in. And I'm like, like, I got four kids, bro. You know what I'm saying? Like, I got my own problems. I got my own problems. And also, like, I can't even run my household. Yeah. And I can't run the country.

[Host 2]

Come on, now.

[Kid Mero]

And. And then. Then the other thing is, too, like, you know, like, at the end of the day, I want my legacy to be something positive. You know what I'm saying? That My kids would be like, yo, my pops was mad funny. He brought joy to the world. And, like. And he didn't have to do no weird. He didn't have to be somebody compromised. Yeah. You know?

[Host 1]

So was there something you knew you immediately wanted to bring to Mornings with Merow? That, like, yes.

[Kid Mero]

I was like, yo, we gotta do. Like, first of all, like, everybody was complaining. Like, yo, like I said at the top of this, like, shout out to E. Bro, Laura and Peter. But, like, everybody's complaints was like, yo, they're not from New York, okay? They're not from New York. They're not from here. They didn't grow up here. They don't understand what it means. And, like, I don't necessarily believe that, but, like, I knew that I was gonna give the people that were saying that New York City, you know what I'm saying?

[Host 2]

Like, authenticity.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. So, like, the first kind of like, 24 hours that I was up there was just, like, having yo Corn call me up. Like New York Cash Cobain. Yo, Nas, right. Zoron, yo, Mr. Graffiti. People like, you know what I'm saying? Like, all that call me up. You know what I'm saying? And that was. That was a. That was a moment for me, too, because it was like having my man missed a call up. And it's like, if you don't do graffiti, you might not know who this dude is, but if you. They put a picture of it in the reels, and now it's like, oh, like this. I see this everywhere. I'm driving my car when I'm on the train, when I'm on the. On the bus. So, you know, adding that, like, element of, like, culture, you know what I mean?

[Host 1]

Localizing it.

[Kid Mero]

Localizing it. Making more, like, highlighting more New York people. Like, shout them in. Because, like, he put me onto Xavier, so based.

[Host 2]

Sure.

[Kid Mero]

You know, which I wouldn't have found out about on my own. Let's be real, you know what I mean? So, like, he put me on, and I was like, this is weird. What the is this, bro? But then went to the show at Webster hall, and I was like, oh.

[Host 2]

Oh, it's turn as.

[Kid Mero]

Yo, this is. I. I get it. You know, I mean, it was like my first hockey game.

[Host 2]

Sure. Oh, yeah.

[Kid Mero]

I didn't watch hockey at all. And then I went to a live hockey in person, man. And I went there, and I was

[Host 1]

like, why are these guys having sex with each other?

[Kid Mero]

Oh. Oh, yeah. Oh, this is crazy. But it was a devil's game, and that's why? I'm a Devils fan. People like, yo, you, jersey, and you abandoned New York. Nah, bro, I never went to a Rangers game in my life. I never went to a hockey game ever. The first one I went to was a Devil's game. I see PK Suban on the ice, I'm like, that's a black guy. Yeah.

[Host 1]

With a huge ass.

[Kid Mero]

I was like, yo, they got black

[Host 2]

guys a couple, right?

[Kid Mero]

I was like, I didn't even know that. Yeah, this is new to me. So I'm like, all right, I need his jersey. So I go down, I cop the jersey, and now it was my neighbor's box.

[Host 2]

Oh.

[Kid Mero]

So now he's. He's like, yo, you want to go?

[Host 2]

Hey, yeah, yo.

[Kid Mero]

Got it.

[Host 2]

Got his ass.

[Kid Mero]

Got him. But, yeah. So he's like, yo, you want to go to Devil's game all the time? So I'm just like, yeah, hell yeah.

[Host 2]

Let's go up there, throw the jersey on.

[Kid Mero]

Throw the jersey on. Get lit. I got the Kid Merrell jersey now. They made me one.

[Host 2]

And hell yeah.

[Host 1]

So is it kind of like, for the show? It's like. Of just going after or whatever, like, doing the biggest. It's like, no, it's. Let's highlight the. The. The locals, the kooks, the weirdos, the eccentrics, the. The people in New York, which also is.

[Kid Mero]

Is. Is. Which. They're also huge, you know?

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

It's like, yo, a guy like Xavier is like, yo, he might not be on the radio, you know what I'm saying? But, like, bro, that show was packed.

[Host 2]

But he's popping. He's popping, he's lit.

[Kid Mero]

You know what I'm saying? So it's just like, bro, this is a Dominican kid from New York City that skates and does graffiti. Graffiti. I'm like, bro, that was me. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? So I'm like, that. I'm bringing this little up here, bro, and shout out to dj. Ready? See, like, Rennes, he's like, from my generation, so he's like, yo, Mero, man. Like, yo, this is. This guy's a legend, bro. Like, so when we went backstage at the show, and everybody in there is, like, 20 years old, right? Yo, what up? Shot the Josh dick, you know what I'm saying? He was like. He was back there. So it was like, the manager guys.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

And then Ren saw me. He was like, yo, what's up, yo? And then it was on from there. I was like, yo, listen, y' all gotta come up station. So after that was a rap. And then guys like Rock Marciano, you know, so hitting, like, every. Because, you know, I knew if I brought Xavier up there, like, the og, like, yo, Hip hop. Yeah. People would be like, yo, that's crazy. Why you bringing this little up there? That's weird.

[Host 1]

Yo, where's the storytelling?

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. Yo, what's the narrative, bro? He's just talking about getting his dick sucked by two white girls. That's crazy.

[Host 1]

That's awesome.

[Kid Mero]

So I'm like, ah, that's fire. What are you talking about?

[Host 2]

Do you hear yourself? That's incredible.

[Kid Mero]

That's incredible. Doing amazing. Like, you're saying, like, that's a bad thing. But then, you know, you follow it up with Rock Marciano, and then you do like, a big, like, mainstream artist, like Lil Baby or the baby or whoever they. You know. One of the babies. Yeah, a baby. A baby. Or maybe an actual literal baby from, like, you know, in a nicu.

[Host 1]

Little AI Baby

[Kid Mero]

beefing with my chick while I'm in jail. You know what I'm saying? I don't know why I said that. Just popped in my hand, bro.

[Host 1]

They had an AI Baby doing stand up, but he's like, I'm my mother. Make makes me my. I get my food for my mother. She my mother. Refrigerator.

[Kid Mero]

Oh, man, we're. We're cooked. AI is cooked. Yeah, we're fried, bro. AI is making bad jokes. Bad.

[Host 2]

That's where we draw the line. Jokes.

[Kid Mero]

Have you hit.

[Host 1]

Have you hit any stumbling blocks? And, you know, it's relatively new. You've only been in the studio for, what, two months or so?

[Host 2]

Like, have you.

[Host 1]

Have you hit any early stumblings?

[Kid Mero]

So I did cuss one time on the air, but luckily, shout out to Shiny culture. He be on the boards. He hit that dumb button so fast.

[Host 1]

Oh, nice.

[Kid Mero]

Because he knew. He's like, yeah, Mero's here. It's, what, his first week?

[Host 1]

What can't you say, yeah, okay, what's the. What's the furthest. Up to the. What's the line?

[Kid Mero]

I could be like, ass. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, like, that's ass, bro. Like, yeah, meat tits. I think dick. You could say dick, but, like, in a roundabout, you know what I'm saying? Like, we were talking about, like, yo, how did. How did. How did a dude named Richard say yo, call me dick?

[Host 2]

Right, right.

[Kid Mero]

Like, where did that come from? You know what I'm saying? Like, that type of. And then be like, y. He's a Richard head. You know, like, got type.

[Host 1]

He's a Richard Eater.

[Kid Mero]

You gotta work around. Yeah, I mean, it's like being in Catholic school, dog. You gotta work around. Like, yo, the nuns don't understand this word.

[Host 1]

Does that? Is that hard?

[Kid Mero]

I'm a cuss in Spanish, curse. Nah, not really. Because I got, you know, like I said, I got four kids, I be at kid events and.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

You know, and like the suburban dads love it when I cuss. And like I'd be like, man, look at this little.

[Host 1]

He said it. Yo. He said it. He said it. He said it.

[Kid Mero]

Yo, he, he called, he called me.

[Host 1]

He called me the word. Anyone hear that?

[Kid Mero]

They.

[Host 2]

He called it.

[Kid Mero]

He called me that.

[Host 2]

You hear it?

[Kid Mero]

I'm his.

[Host 2]

Huh?

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, it's like the Larry David, but yeah. Nah, man, so like, nice. I've, you know, and also be doing this for so long, you know, I mean, like, I'm sure. Listen, man, if like bro, like I don't know.

[Host 2]

That's two right there.

[Kid Mero]

Like

[Host 1]

I'm saying, this is easy.

[Kid Mero]

As soon as I walk off, as soon as I walk out that building, bro, like Omar with the shotgun, like is off safety now. It's like ass. Merl's coming.

[Host 2]

They think you have Tourette's, dude, when

[Kid Mero]

you 100%, bro, it's like I was at the BAFTA awards, except not saying slurs, you know what I'm saying?

[Host 1]

Like, it's just Tourette's.

[Host 2]

It's just, it's a medical condition. Okay.

[Kid Mero]

It's moretz, you know what I'm saying? I just say what I want. But no, it's easy, you know, like you're professional, dude. Yeah, it like did you get finer.

[Host 1]

You got beeped when you. That one time you cursed, he hit

[Kid Mero]

the dump, so it never would have

[Host 2]

costed you 100 bands.

[Host 1]

What?

[Host 2]

What?

[Kid Mero]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

Wait, you were the company.

[Kid Mero]

The company at that time of the morning, cuz it's drive time. So it's like yo, kids are getting dropped off of school. Yeah. So somebody's going to call and be like, I can't believe you said that.

[Host 1]

Is it 100 racks no matter the word? Or is it like if you're like.

[Kid Mero]

Or like any like anything that falls in that bucket dick ass, like, whatever.

[Host 1]

That's 100.

[Kid Mero]

If I, if I said that.

[Host 2]

This 500 grand.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, that's like a half a mil right there. Like I'm like, bro, sorry, you know.

[Host 2]

Yeah, sorry for partying.

[Host 1]

I got on the wrist.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, yeah.

[Host 1]

Damn. Do you get penalized like if, if they're like, yo, Mero, like you cost Us half a mil?

[Kid Mero]

Nah, cuz. You know, like, I would keep it a be, bro.

[Host 1]

Yeah, up there, bro.

[Kid Mero]

And I was just like, man, you're the.

[Host 1]

You're the golden child right now, man.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, I just signed, you know, John Moran, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, with the guns and. And active Instagram.

[Host 1]

Yeah. With the grenade launcher, you know what I mean?

[Kid Mero]

The bazooka.

[Host 2]

John Moran with a bazooka. Drive time. Drive by drive time.

[Kid Mero]

And I'm dunking on everybody.

[Host 1]

Are your kids allowed to listen?

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, okay. I got a drop for my daughter, you know what I'm saying? On the first day.

[Host 2]

Oh, that's right.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Shout out to. Shout out to daily, man. Daddy loves you. Yo.

[Host 1]

What was.

[Kid Mero]

Because they're gonna watch this too. They watch all the. Oh, hell yeah.

[Host 1]

How do you spend all the snow days with your kids this winter?

[Kid Mero]

Oh, so it's not a flex, it's just what it is. So my driveway is like the top, and then there's like a little kind of like turn down to the garage. So we were sledding on that.

[Host 1]

Oh, far all.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

All day.

[Kid Mero]

Like, I would get home and be like, yo, we going outside. Yo, hold on, let me smoke. Have a blunt first and then just jump out, yo, you know what I mean? And then was. It's. It was the most fun I've ever had with snow. Cuz New York snow is not fun.

[Host 2]

No, no, it's disgusting.

[Kid Mero]

It's nasty. You know what I'm saying?

[Host 1]

It's fun for 35 minutes, literally.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, it's lucky it exp. It's like that got the shelf life of. Of guacamole, you know what I'm saying? Like, it falls, it hits the ground, it sticks, and then it's automatically, you know. I mean, there's in there, bro. It's like you can make Jurassic park out of this.

[Host 1]

Now that it's melting right now, it's like. Yeah, it's like, you know, we're unearthing all these archaeological finds. It just.

[Kid Mero]

Straight up, it's just.

[Host 1]

And piss.

[Kid Mero]

That's it.

[Host 1]

And needles.

[Kid Mero]

That's it. It's like a Green boots, but it's a heroin needle, you know what I'm saying? Like, oh, yo, that was there from June. Wow.

[Host 1]

Look, I found an arrowhead, but it's just. It's a blue top.

[Kid Mero]

It's just half a Newport from. From last July.

[Host 2]

A fiend fossil.

[Host 1]

Was this the most ass winter of your lifetime? Like, weather.

[Kid Mero]

Weather wise, I would say.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

Because I'm an adult Because 96. The Blizzard of 96.

[Host 2]

Yeah, exactly.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. I was a kid, bro.

[Host 1]

I saw Jumanji that day.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. I was like, yo, you know I'm 11 years old.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

You feel me? So I'm like, I'm having the time of my life, you know? But now I'm like, I gotta clean this. I gotta.

[Host 2]

I'm responsible.

[Kid Mero]

I'm responsible.

[Host 1]

You can't call. You can't call like a kid to shovel it.

[Kid Mero]

They don't do that no more.

[Host 1]

One of your kids?

[Host 2]

Not in this neighborhood. Those are. That's like, beneath their pay grade.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

Called Ukrainians show.

[Kid Mero]

I wish I could, bro. Like, they like, no, we only clean inside the house. I'm like, how you know English? Yeah. Wait a second.

[Host 1]

What the.

[Kid Mero]

Katarina, you trick me. You know what I'm saying? Also, them ladies be coming in my room when I'm asleep.

[Host 1]

Really?

[Kid Mero]

Which is crazy.

[Host 1]

They don't know you're.

[Kid Mero]

They don't know I went to the pool.

[Host 2]

Closed door policy.

[Kid Mero]

Nah, they just in there. I think. I think my wife does it on purpose. You'll go in there and start vacuuming. Wake you want to put on top of the covers. No, under. You know what I'm saying?

[Host 1]

That's how you sleep.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. With it straight T shirt, no drawers. You know what I'm saying?

[Host 1]

What's the. What's the T shirt? It's random Hanes White Tea.

[Kid Mero]

Like a. Like all them promotional tees that you get in like the. In like the tote bag. They're all like organic cotton, distressed, and they're all mad soft. So I either give them to my wife or, like, wear them to sleep. Yeah.

[Host 1]

The worst sleep shirts are the free ones. They get it like Knicks games because

[Host 2]

it has like, scratchy.

[Kid Mero]

They're mas.

[Host 2]

They got a mad print. Yes.

[Host 1]

Trash sweat in the circle here.

[Kid Mero]

That was up at the. Say I wake up and I'm like, yo, did I pee on my chest? Like, what the.

[Host 2]

That T shirt was fired at you

[Kid Mero]

out of a weapon.

[Host 2]

Do not wear that to sleep.

[Host 1]

Did Katarina piss on my chest or is it.

[Kid Mero]

Oh, hold on.

[Host 2]

I gotta pay her extra. I gotta tip her. She's gonna be.

[Host 1]

Can you clean this piss off my chest?

[Kid Mero]

Yes. While I lay here? Yeah.

[Host 1]

Are you.

[Kid Mero]

This is random. But like, I thought about it because I. We talked about Stavis but podcast, but I do. I want to get a non sexual sponge bath. Like a. Oh, you know what I'm saying?

[Host 2]

A medical sponge.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

Just to come really old you know what I mean?

[Kid Mero]

Like, but not being old, though, I could still do it myself, but just have somebody else do it. I'm sure you could find, like in a non sexy way.

[Host 2]

So you want to get a busted nurse to do it for you.

[Kid Mero]

Like, maybe not a busted nurse, you know what I'm saying? But go to.

[Host 1]

Go out to Jackson Heights.

[Kid Mero]

A flat nurse. Oh, yeah.

[Host 1]

$16.

[Kid Mero]

Oh, that's what I hear.

[Host 1]

Men, right?

[Kid Mero]

Confirmed.

[Host 1]

Like a really old man.

[Host 2]

An old man with a squeegee.

[Host 1]

He's like, yo, I used to do this to cars in the 80s.

[Kid Mero]

That, that, that industry's dead. Now I'm doing this now. Now I'm squeegeeing. Thanks Uber.

[Host 1]

It got disrupted.

[Host 2]

Now I'm squeeging men's.

[Kid Mero]

Yo, this is crazy. Now they got me doing this. But hey, it's a living. Like the little burden is not the camera.

[Host 1]

It's not much, but it's honest work.

[Kid Mero]

Yo, this is how I pay my bills.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

You know what I'm saying?

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

Squeegee and booty holes.

[Host 1]

I mean, he sprays you down and then he's like, squeegee, squeegee. And then he had to pay him for it.

[Kid Mero]

Then you got to. Because he got.

[Host 2]

They don't ask for consent.

[Kid Mero]

Nah, it's crazy. Not consensual. Windshield wiping is nuts, bro.

[Host 1]

I know. Raise your kids out in Jersey in the Tony burbs. Are you low key trying to Dominican. Dominicanize them in any way?

[Kid Mero]

Every single one of my children has. Has a baseball game sized Dominican flag in their room.

[Host 2]

Okay.

[Kid Mero]

Like pin to the wall just to keep.

[Host 1]

Let them know.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. And I'm like, we have the same routine every night. Like, so my parents. There's a saying in Spanish that you say to your parents when you see them, and it's bendicion. Bendision, papy. Bendicion, mommy. Which means, you know, God bless you, mom, God bless you, dad. And then they, and then they say, you know, they say, God bless you. You know what I'm saying? So it's like pleasantries, you know what I mean? But it's like a traditional thing. And that's how my parents used to put me to bed. Like, yo, I'm going to sleep. All right? So we do that, but we all got individual handshakes that we do. You know what I'm saying? So we throwing up, yo. And I say the same thing every time. I'm like, yo, what do you say? What are you doing? Dominican Y.

[Host 1]

Okay?

[Kid Mero]

And then we do like the handshake. Throw it up.

[Host 1]

Very baseball.

[Kid Mero]

Love it. Yeah, Very baseball. So, you know, and even my daughter, but I thought she got the most gangster. Oh, yeah. Like, yeah. And then women in stem. You feel me stacking women.

[Host 1]

Women in asl.

[Host 2]

So true.

[Kid Mero]

But yeah, not so. Yeah, so they. Very much. Yeah. They're very, like white, biracial Dominican kids.

[Host 1]

And are they proud of that heritage

[Kid Mero]

or are they just kind of super, super, super. Because my wife is German Irish, you know what I'm saying? And they're so.

[Host 2]

They.

[Kid Mero]

They're mostly Dominican. Like, if you break it down by like a pie, you know what I'm saying? Like, they're 50% Dominican. So to them, they're Dominican. Like, they don't even rep. They're like, we don't give a. About no German either.

[Host 2]

No German flag in the room.

[Kid Mero]

That might be a little crazy for, like, kids now. Which one from which year?

[Host 1]

Where were your kids in 1939?

[Kid Mero]

Hold on, yo, hold on.

[Host 1]

For kids now.

[Host 2]

Are they like.

[Host 1]

Because I feel like back in. When we were kids, it was like you. You hid, you know, your poc. Ness. Or like, you, you know, if you're half. Half and half or whatever. But are they now, like, yo, like, at school and are they, yo, I'm Dominican. Or like, play it up or lean into it, bro.

[Kid Mero]

It's crazy because I'm very, like, I'm not one of the. I know black Dominicans because I'm like, everybody in my family looks like Alfonso Soriano. So, like, there's no.

[Host 2]

There's no.

[Kid Mero]

Ain't no way, you know? And I, I don't trust that 23andMe, right? I think it's weird, but my brother did it and it came back and it was like 60 West Africana, right? This. That da da da. I'm like, all right, cool. So clearly, you know what I'm saying? I'm just Steph Curry flavored.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

You know what I'm saying? So. So I've. They've. All their life, they've heard, yo, I'm black. You know what I'm saying? I'm black. I'm Afro Latino, you know, new term, whatever. But, like, yo, I'm black Dominican.

[Host 1]

Black Dominican, black African X.

[Kid Mero]

Right? So Latinx, you know what I'm saying? And so now these kids run around talking about, yo, I'm black. It's just like, dog. Yeah, but no, yeah, like, you know, genetically go with Dominican. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? But then they go to Dr. And they 10, they look like different kids. Oh, so once the summer hits.

[Host 1]

Mini Sorianos.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, bro. They get melanated like a bro. Yeah, it's. It's wild. So. Yeah. But the 12 year old, the crash out is like, yo, I'm black. Stop playing with me. Yo, you can't say that. You know what I'm saying?

[Host 2]

Like, yo, he's g checking.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, he's g checking everybody anywhere, bro. Because, you know, suburbs, they thought they'll throw the hard R out there correctly and he'll. He'll fire off.

[Host 1]

Yeah, that's great.

[Kid Mero]

Bing, bing, bing. Like, yo, I'm like, all right, bro, you just got.

[Host 1]

Keep it down. Positano.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, word. He's over here snuffing. I'm like, you just got yourself kicked out of school again. Yeah, thank you. But it's judging. So they got to pay for private school. Parents don't let them gas you up if they kick you out of a public school because they don't have the resources necessary. They got to pay for private school.

[Host 2]

Oh, wow.

[Kid Mero]

You know what I'm saying?

[Host 2]

Yeah, not bad.

[Kid Mero]

So free private school for a little homie.

[Host 2]

Yeah, Keep crashing out.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, yeah.

[Host 2]

Tuition's due.

[Host 1]

Mary, you're good. Now, bag wise, we had, you know, bag one, bag two, foundational security, bag three. You're just copping cars to crash them.

[Host 2]

That is true. What a bar cop.

[Kid Mero]

Christian. Yo, cop was to crash, yo. Who said that?

[Host 1]

I'm trying to.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

Oh.

[Kid Mero]

Oh, yeah. That's hard.

[Host 1]

Put me on radio.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, let's go. Come up freestyle.

[Host 1]

What was the brokest behavior you used to indulge in as an adult?

[Kid Mero]

I still do, bro. I still be shoplifting, man. Allegedly.

[Host 1]

Allegedly.

[Kid Mero]

Allegedly. You know what I'm saying, cuz?

[Host 2]

I'm like, yo, you know, can't leave the game alone.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, it needs me, man.

[Host 1]

It's muscle memory.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. You know, but. And I'm trying to also teach my kids the way, you know, in case

[Host 2]

you ever need to use it.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. Cuz I. This is the correct, you know, like, logic for me. It's like, yo, if you stealing from somebody, you're a scumbag. You know what I'm saying? You're a piece of. If you go, if. If you go to Larry's crib, if you go to my man Jimmy's crib, bro, and you still something at these crib. No foul. If you're at Target, bro. Yeah, they got insurance. Victimless crime, you know what I'm saying? That's a victimless crime. Truly get that lip gloss, baby. You know what I'm saying? Like, you know.

[Host 1]

So is that what you're seeing? Little bathroom trinkets, like the little toiletries?

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, you know, poo.

[Host 1]

What?

[Kid Mero]

I'm saying that. Yo, that works for weed. I didn't even know. Like, I was like, oh, I could just finish my office and then my parents come through and they be like, ah, you still doing this? I got. Yeah. You know what I mean?

[Host 1]

That loud.

[Kid Mero]

That loud parade. We just. Loud parade. We just try them. Like, don't. Don't do that because we trademarking it. That's it. Okay. All right.

[Host 1]

So shoplifting.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, well, that and also just like, shop. Like, I'll. I'm not buying, like, brand name anything. Like food.

[Host 2]

Generic.

[Kid Mero]

Generic. Generic cereal. Generic. Like ketchup cola. Yeah, like, yeah, word shop. Right? Cola. Like, you know what I mean?

[Host 2]

Like, shit wines in your fridge. It's hunts ketchup or whatever.

[Kid Mero]

Whatever if you're lucky, you know what I'm saying? Poland basket, you know, red sauce. Yeah. 1 million percent path mark brand. I'm like, they closed that 20 years ago. No, you still got that.

[Host 1]

Do you keep the packets from, like, from a delivery 1000.

[Kid Mero]

I got a drawer that is just

[Host 2]

that allocated just for the duck sauce,

[Kid Mero]

and my wife hates it.

[Host 1]

Oh, yeah.

[Kid Mero]

But she organizes it. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, yo, this is chick fil A sauce. This is Taco Bell.

[Host 1]

We got a full Taco Bell drawer over here.

[Host 2]

If you're going to force me, it's going to be organized, right?

[Kid Mero]

So shout out. You know, shout out to you for organizing the sauce drawer. But yeah, she is.

[Host 1]

She is a sauce gardener.

[Kid Mero]

Hey, couple. Wow. He's.

[Host 2]

He's at the buzzer.

[Kid Mero]

He's on a heater at the buzzer.

[Host 2]

Okay, write down sauce gardener as a pun for his wife organizing the sauce drawer.

[Kid Mero]

That'll play. Then I'll. Yeah, next time make sure you write

[Host 1]

down the context, too.

[Kid Mero]

But not. Yeah, it's in my mind, bro. I'm broke. Like, I've always been broke.

[Host 1]

Is that again, Is that kind of like the PTSD of, like, but not wanting to go back to where you were?

[Kid Mero]

It's partly. It's part that and, like, the other part of it is, like. It would be so embarrassing, Doug, to make it as a college dropout, you know what I'm saying? Like, out here hustling, doing dumb. Running around the street, doing all kind of crazy, goofy, illegal dumb, like, and turning that around into, like, a successful Career in entertainment, bro. And that money up.

[Host 2]

Yeah, true. You would never forgive yourself.

[Host 1]

Do you think there's ever a point, though, where you are past that, where you're like, okay, I'm not gonna go back or I'm not gonna like embarrass myself. I'm not gonna have to go launch my. On complex or whatever, have another complex show.

[Kid Mero]

Which, yo, by the way, y', all, if. You know if the bag is there, right? I'm saying I got. My bandwidth is unlimited, you know what I'm saying? Minutes like, no, it ain't.

[Host 2]

His bandwidth is not.

[Kid Mero]

So.

[Host 1]

Yeah, but is there?

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, exactly. Hey, the run. The. The bandwidth depends on the bands. You know what I mean? But yeah. Nah, it's.

[Host 1]

You don't think there's like a point you cross be like, I'm.

[Kid Mero]

So I talked to my accountant and he was just like, yo, I was like, how much money do I have to have liquid in a portfolio to just chill? You know what I'm saying? Just live off of like the interest or whatever. And. And I was like, Is it 10 million? Is it 15 million? And he was like, no, it's more like five and a half, seven, depending on how you live. He's like. And he's like, I know. He's like, he pays all the bills, so he knows how I live. And I don't live like a crazy lifestyle because a lot of lose. They hold their shirt because they out here doing dumb. Like, you know, the most I'm doing is buying organic chicken for my kids, you know? I mean, like that Bell and Evans, you know what I'm saying? We're not doing like the weird.

[Host 1]

The vacuum sealed joint.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. Air chilled, you know what I'm saying? I'm like. I don't know what the that means. Yeah, I'm like, sounds good. Sounds good to me. Let's try it on manager special once and then we'll buy it at full price the next time. Like, yo, you got to make this now. It's going to go bad. But yeah, nah, it's. It's organic food. And like, I got.

[Host 1]

I got the chicken in Nordstrom rack.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. And I got these Celine shades. Yo, it's a bundle. It's crazy.

[Host 1]

It's a bogo.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. You know, buy one, get one free chicken breast, you know? But yeah, that's. That's. I think I've. I've always maintained that, like, that mentality of like, yo, I don't. I don't got it like that right. Even if I do I'm like, am I? No, you don't. No, you don't. Because you need your kids to have it. Like that generation of wealth, you know what I mean?

[Host 1]

Are you trying to. Do you see your kids, like, maybe get a little too, like, splashy on something and you're like, yo, like, what are you doing? Or. Or the wifey.

[Kid Mero]

I don't know. Oh, man, listen, I'm. I'm getting text messages from Neiman Marcus

[Host 2]

now again, like, oh.

[Kid Mero]

You know what I'm saying? Because for a minute I was like, yo, we got to chill. Because like, yo, you know, like, is. Things were very giggy, you know what I'm saying? Like, I was still making money, but like, yeah, you know? And I was like, I don't have like a four year deal. 5. You know what I mean? Like, I have money coming in, but for what y' all are doing, that's

[Host 2]

max contract, you know what I'm saying?

[Kid Mero]

Behavior. Yeah, y' all are moving like, you know, funny. So I. Bro, I'll never forget this. Like, when I bag two was like, like the large, large bag. And I remember going to the mall with my wife and going to Chanel and then, you know, just looking at. Perusing, perusing, you know, and then somebody in there was like, oh, Meryl, what's up? And I was like, because.

[Host 1]

Because now you have to like, yeah,

[Kid Mero]

I gotta do something. Yeah. You know what I mean? So I'm like, all right, like, let me look around or whatever. I'm like, yo, the. I know the bags are wild expensive. I was like, put the clothes. Maybe not the clothes. Maybe I look at the sweater.

[Host 1]

Got any socks?

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, bro. I picked that sweat up. That was $5,500. And I was just like, the lady that was like helping us, she was just like, do you want this? And I was just like. I was like, ah. I was like, yo, because she was the one that recognized me. So I was just like, yo, you know your boy, man. I was like, yo, yeah. I was like, I ain't gonna hold you. I'm a little high right now. I'm gonna get something to eat. I'll be back. Back, cuz.

[Host 1]

Otherwise you think that they'd be like taking a video like, yo, Kid Marrow just in here. He couldn't afford.

[Kid Mero]

Yo, this broke, yo. Look at him right here, yo. Yo, say something. Yeah.

[Host 1]

Yo, you tried to price sort the store low to high.

[Kid Mero]

Crazy bum ass turn into Kevin Garnett immediately. How this Puerto Rican girl turn into trash ass. Like, I'm like, Whoa. This crazy.

[Host 1]

Anything is.

[Host 2]

Speak to your manager.

[Kid Mero]

So I. I left and I came back and I walked past the store and I looked in the store and Shorty looked like. And it. It was like across the street, like, you know, and I'm like. I was like, oh, yo, I forgot. And then I went back and then I was just like, ah, the sweater. Sweater for what? It was nice.

[Host 1]

For what?

[Kid Mero]

Like, it was like a knit, you know, situation.

[Host 2]

Chanel, dude, you know.

[Host 1]

Yeah, I'll take the receipt.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, please.

[Host 2]

Gift receipt, please.

[Kid Mero]

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. This is a business expense. I don't know how you going to write this off. Write this off?

[Host 2]

Yeah, I'm going to. I'm going to wear that on Showtime.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. This is a gift.

[Host 1]

You text me and you're like, yo, how do I log on to Grilled?

[Host 2]

Flip this.

[Host 1]

Yeah, yo, they got grandma Chanel sweaters on Grilled.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. Crazy. You know, I got all the. On it. Whatever.

[Host 1]

Was it for you?

[Kid Mero]

No, it's for her.

[Host 1]

Okay.

[Kid Mero]

So, you know, and then, bro, it's

[Host 1]

a late push gift.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. You know what I mean? Just like the car.

[Host 1]

Exactly.

[Host 2]

Just like everything else.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. And no talking about at a boy. Add a girl. I signed the i97 contract. I come back to the crib two days after I signed, and I'm like. I look in the closet and I just see three Neiman Marcus bags. And I'm like. I was like, let me see what you got in here. I was like, oh, Alice and Olivia. Okay, that's cool. That's fine. That's not too crazy. What's this? What's this box?

[Host 1]

Why is it horror.

[Kid Mero]

Whoa. You got Dior slingbacks. I'm like, yo, I pulled this out. I'm like, yo, what the. And then I didn't say, right. I just held on. I just put that in my back.

[Host 2]

Oh, yeah, I gotta save for later.

[Kid Mero]

Come on. You know it's worth.

[Host 2]

Honestly worth the money at that point.

[Kid Mero]

I'm like, yo, I put it back in my pocket and I was like. I was waiting because I knew she was gonna say something eventually.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

And I was gonna pull that out and be like, ah, reverso. Yeah. Do the uno reverse and then the shack on Chris Dudley dunk.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

Like tea bag shove you.

[Host 2]

You know, I mean, the backboard.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, yeah, all that. So I get. I had a bunch of unpaid parking tickets, and it was like $300 worth worth of tickets. And she was just like. She sends me a picture and this.

[Host 1]

Before you knew Mom Donnie could just

[Kid Mero]

make it go away. Right, right, right. Which, by the way, he's like, don't ever say that out loud. He's like, I'm doing. I'm. I ain't doing none of that. Yeah. He's like, I'm actually trying to be a real mayor. Like, I'm not just trying to be a homeboy.

[Host 2]

Disappear.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Host 1]

I'm going to ticket you for saying that.

[Kid Mero]

Jersey's different, though.

[Host 1]

Okay.

[Kid Mero]

Jersey. Like, yo, I hollered. I'm like, yo, what's up? Yo. Rob Menendez. Yo, what's good?

[Host 2]

You grease a couple palms?

[Kid Mero]

Yo, what's up, baby? Yo, get rid of this. Where was it? Wyckoff.

[Host 1]

Yo, Chris Christie. Let's get some traffic going so I get more time to sleep in the whip.

[Kid Mero]

Yo, Phil Murphy, what you doing tonight? Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Oh, it's not you. It's Mikey Sherelle, I bet. Yo, Mikey. Yo, you want to play poker at Tony's house? Yeah. Positano.

[Host 1]

I'll let you say it

[Kid Mero]

all. I can say it once before we start. Yeah.

[Host 2]

One pass for every ticket revoked. Gotcha.

[Kid Mero]

Well, yeah. But, yeah. So it was a 300 worth of for tickets, and she sent me a screen grab of this shit while I'm at work.

[Host 1]

She loves screen grab.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. I'm like, yo, I'm like, why you queen. Screen grab, like. I'm like, you gotta have a yes. Screen grab, like, folder, and your camera roll gotta be crazy robust. So she's like. She sends me this, and I just let it sit for a little bit, and I let it. I let her see, like. Because I got read receipts off of her. I'm like, red. Yeah. And then I came back and I was like, hey, you know, I was like, just a little bit less than 1500 Dior slingbacks. Oh.

[Host 2]

Got the product name ready to go.

[Kid Mero]

I was like. She was just like, well, at least these are a tangible thing that I have you. I just threw 300 out the window because you don't know how to fucking check a meter. And I was just like, But I got you. Yeah. I got you.

[Host 2]

Let the record reflect.

[Kid Mero]

Let the record that I got your ass. Scoreboard.

[Host 2]

Scoreboard part.

[Kid Mero]

Meryl won Heather 1 million. I was like, yo, but we catching up. Yeah. City boys is up.

[Host 1]

Merrell one half. You gotta have a point there.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, yeah.

[Host 1]

All right.

[Kid Mero]

You see what I'm saying? Yeah.

[Host 2]

That's married life, you know?

[Kid Mero]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

You'll know one day.

[Host 1]

You'll get it. Yeah, yeah, one day. One day.

[Kid Mero]

I know. You know, I know you in the trenches, my boy.

[Host 2]

That is. That is a fact.

[Host 1]

Mero, before we get you out of here, because it's almost your bedtime.

[Kid Mero]

It's 4 o'.

[Host 1]

Clock.

[Kid Mero]

It's almost time for supper, dog.

[Host 2]

Bell being run, dude.

[Host 1]

Do you have, as an experienced podcaster, radio host, all around good guy, New Yorker, do you have any constructive criticism you would like to give us? Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

Nah, keep doing your thing, man. Like. Like, you know, what do y' all have?

[Host 1]

Like.

[Kid Mero]

Like water, like, crafty. That's the only thing I was told in spring. Yeah, yeah. Like this. This is all you need, baby. Like, have a little fridge. Have a little fridge.

[Host 2]

We got a kitchen with a little. Yeah, communal. Communal kitchen.

[Host 1]

Oh, like four guests.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. Okay. Like, if you got a little something that guests can munch on, you know,

[Host 1]

should we've asked ahead of time, like, oh, like, what do you. Oh, like beverages.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah. But you know what? If you don't do the rider thing, because then they go too crazy with it.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

Like green M M's.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

I did this thing in. In South Carolina. Shot the More Perfect Union. I did this thing in North Carolina. It was like a. Some political. With Bernie. And I'm saying, I'm gonna give you all this video. I. I was. I was high as backstage making a video, dying, laughing, because, you know, Bernie, like, Bernie's like, like very. When he's talking, he's just like, yo, yo. So he's talking and like, I'm videotaping him because I'm like, yo, it's Bernie Sanders. Yo, he's right there. I just intro him, bro. It's crazy. He's fire and he's just like, yo, going like this. And then I realized later on, cuz, like, music started playing while the video was playing, that it lines up perfectly with Jadakiss at the verses doing like, hey, yo, Tech, drop that. Yeah, this is New York. The real New York.

[Host 2]

Yeah, he's a dick.

[Kid Mero]

You pussy. Y' all neighbors. Like, it lines up perfect. So I was like, yeah, you went from Miami.

[Host 2]

We outside.

[Kid Mero]

I'm from New York. The real. I'm from Vermont. You know what I'm saying? Hilarious. So anyway, shout out to Bernie and shout out to Jada Kiss. But yeah, nah, like, y'. All. Y' all been doing y thing, man. Y' all had the most illustrious guests up here.

[Host 1]

You gotta have. You gotta have Bernie Sand. You gotta bring Bernie Sanders to Hot 97.

[Kid Mero]

Oh, 100% incredible. One million percent.

[Host 1]

Do you have a dream guest.

[Kid Mero]

Make a free last question.

[Host 1]

You have a real, like, a dream guest you would love to bring on

[Kid Mero]

Mornings of Merrill, maybe. Shit. Probably Azalea Banks, bro. She's out there going. She's out there. She out there going crazy on Twitter, bro.

[Host 1]

Is she in Tel Aviv right now?

[Kid Mero]

I don't even know what she's doing. All I know is that I came back to Twitter after, like, being offered for, like, two weeks or some shit like that, and I go back, and she's on there going crazy. And somebody was like, yo, I had done something with Zoran, and, like, somebody. Some reply guy had replied to some shit and put me in. And it was. It was me and her and, like, a reply. And then she, quote, tweeted. It was like, oh, Mero, what's up, baby? Like, oh, hey, you. You here still. You still on Twitter? Like, yo, that's fire. Like, yo, keep doing your thing. Like, yo, let's. Let's link up. And I'm like, I didn't even know. I didn't. So let me.

[Host 2]

It could be bad for business.

[Kid Mero]

So I saw that, and I didn't know what she was up to. You know what I mean? Like, I didn't go on the tl. I didn't peruse. I didn't know what she was up to.

[Host 2]

Date.

[Kid Mero]

I was not up to date. Unk. Don't got into Internet type. So then like, yo, Yo. So I'm like, yo, I said, yo, what's good, shorty? And then the first reply under that is some random dude doing the. He just threw. He didn't put a single letter of text. He just threw that Michael Jordan gif. No.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I was like, yo. I was like, what? And then I went on her, and I was like, oh.

[Host 2]

I was like, oh, correct, Correct.

[Host 1]

Direct gift to use them.

[Kid Mero]

I was like, whoa. I was like, thank you, champ. I was like, damn. You, like, good looking out.

[Host 1]

Appreciate you.

[Kid Mero]

Appreciate you. Appreciate you, my king.

[Host 1]

She is a Tel Aviv, right? Yeah.

[Host 2]

Tweet sent from Tel Aviv, dude. A bomb shelter.

[Host 1]

She's smoking that desert pack with. With Quentin Tarantino,

[Kid Mero]

which is crazy, bro.

[Host 2]

All the.

[Kid Mero]

That's out there. It's like, damn. All right.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

All along, I had no idea, you know what I'm saying? Like, y' all was that with the more and the more.

[Host 2]

You know?

[Kid Mero]

You know? You know what I'm saying? Crazy. But you're not. My advice to y' all is keep it push. Keep going.

[Host 2]

Hell, yeah.

[Kid Mero]

You know Cuz, y' all consistent. Stay consistent. You know what I'm saying? Appreciate you, man. I know that Patreon is doing numbers O. Yeah, it is. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like I2GTs. Yeah.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Kid Mero]

2026ers. Yeah.

[Host 1]

With CarPlay.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

Oh, we don't crash them to get a new one. We just. We take care of what we got.

[Host 1]

We still got. We still got. We still got the black ice Air force fresheners. Mero, thank you for coming on my guys. Podcast that matters.

[Kid Mero]

Come on. Appreciate it.

[Host 2]

Always, dude.

[Host 1]

Yo, where can the kids follow you? What would you like to plug? The floor is yours.

[Kid Mero]

Yeah, yeah. Yo, you know what it is, man? It's your boy, the Kid marrow, the human durag 5. Because I keep it wavy at the Kid Marrow everywhere. T H e k I D M e R O. I'm not doing no duh, Kid Mero. The with an A. We're not doing that. You know what I'm saying? I got 95s and hundreds on all my ELA tests, you know what I'm saying? I did a 1440 in the SAT and I was on angel dust. You understand what I'm saying? So T h e k I D M e r O Everywhere High 97 mornings tomorrow, 6 to 10am 7pm in Brooklyn with Carmelo Anthony all over the place. And of course, last but certainly not least, most importantly, Victory Light. You know I'm saying we outside, it's your boy Min is the producing it, you know what I mean? He's the God.

[Host 1]

Yo, subscribe to Min Substack and subscribe

[Kid Mero]

to Min Substack, you know what I'm saying? Could have been at the club, you know what I mean? At the top of the dome. See, I'm locked in with my boy, you know what I mean?

[Host 1]

Exactly.

[Kid Mero]

You're right. It's your favorite writer's favorite writer. That's true. I mean, and I'm writing my own right now. That's right. Oh, book on fatherhood coming out. Oh, yeah. Not soon, but not soon, but sooner, but soon enough.

[Host 1]

Come back on the pod to promote it then.

[Host 2]

Yes, absolutely.

[Kid Mero]

Shout out to Ben Greenberg and Random House. Meryl.

[Host 1]

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[Kid Mero]

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