Radel Ortiz On Cardi B Reposting Him, Denying A Man To Use The Bathroom + More
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
What's up his way up at Angela Ye, I'm Angela yee.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Maino is here with me, mao, and Dell Artis is
here yo. So while you're here, his name is Maino.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Today, Maino.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
I love I love that, But.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Listen, I want people to know, like, your story is
amazing to me just seeing what your come up has been.
Seeing that Kendrick Lamar actually sampled.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
You, I can't even believe that. Bro, you're saying that
just now. It just reminded me that I can't believe.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
That by steppers.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yeah, and so tell me where you were when you
found that out.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I was sleep because I had Yeah, I was sleeping.
My friends was having a listening party with make Kendrick fans.
But I had an early flight to Montreal, like at
five am, so I was trying to get some sleep.
My phone started blowing up like seven different people. I'm like,
who died? Bro? And I wake up and they're like, yo,
Kendrick got you on his song I saw. I was
(00:58):
like in the Twilight.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
The power of the Internet though, Yeah, to clear it
or nothing.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Afterwards, we we yeah, yeah, I got you.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Donty about you.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
That skit about and this is so true, because I
totally agree. When you had a cookout and there's no cheese,
I can't eat a burger without cheese on it. I
eat like veggie burgers, but I can't eat it without cheese.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Right, I don't know what that summer, I kept going
to barbecues and cookouts and I kept noticing the pattern,
Like everybody, they would bring every condiment, everything, but there
would be no cheese. So I was like, I got
to make a skit about this, and then that one
day I just had it, and that's what came out
of it. That a I know that came out.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Of it, right, But a lot of these skits that
you're doing there, they've been going viral. Now, I want
to ask you, what was the first, like big one
that you did when you did were on Instagram just
doing this. Your family's involved, everybody loves to see them.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I mean, honestly, the first one that really went crazy,
I did a I did a video where Cardi b
reposted it.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Oh I love that Cardially showing up.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Oh my. But y'all gotta understand. I was working at
Dick's Sporting Goods and I hated my job and I'll
never figet I was at Popey's with my girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
You don't love Dick's. I loved that.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Oh I hated Dick Bro, I hated you.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Gotta stop. Were talking about sporting good store. Okay, that's okay.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I'm talking about Deck sporting goods. I'm selling hockey masks. O. Yo.
So I was literally about to get ready for work
and then my sister called me. Yo. Cardi B reposted
your video this is twenty eighteen Bowdack Yellow Cardi B.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I called my job. I said, Yo, I can't make
it to work today just.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Because over that Bro, just over that, Bro? Are you
kidding me?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Bro? Cardi B reposted me, I'm not going to work. Bro,
it's time to celebrate. Really yo. Ten minutes past, I
don't know what happened over there in Cardi B's camp.
She deleted that video.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Oh no, what was the video?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
It was a video I made with my moms and
I will never forget Bro. I had to call my
job back, like, Yo, I'm on my way.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
That celebration. I canceled quick. Yeah did you ever ever
ask you know?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
It's crazy to this day, like I still haven't asked
her about that party.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
What happened.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
It's all good. She's reposting me.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Culture's birthday party.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah, and that's the first time I went to like
a party, like like they had money for real, Like
I never seen Dominicans like because most you go to
Dominican party, you have fun or whatever. But that type
of fun is different. Like you see the compass she
knows with the well. They had Alaskan King Crabs, they
had Mermaid Pussy. Oh kind you from Nah? I'm born Brooklyn.
(04:01):
Oh yeah, Brooklyn, East New York. See how you assume
that everybody always think that all the time. Yeah for me, Yeah, Racis,
we were Washington Heights. Bro, I've never been over there.
They as exactly. It's even hour the Bronx. I'm like, Bro,
(04:23):
I was raised in Brooklyn with the Jam Makeadya and
the Trinidaddy is Bro.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
That's crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
And then we moved to Queens, so I've been living
in Queens.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
So how you started getting into doing comedy and stuff
like that?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Damn, Bro, I just always I always loved comedy, Bro,
But I really started taking a series on social media
in twenty eighteen because I was going through like depression myself.
I like to talk about mental health a lot because
me myself, I was in that depression of like I
don't know if y'all remember, like early on Instagram, it
was really about like trying to stunt like like oh
(04:56):
I gotta still you're right, you're right.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Not for me, I'm even yo.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
But that's like like I kind of like stepped into that.
I gotta get a nice car. I got to show
people like I'm living better than you, like like fuck everybody,
you know. And then like I was doing that for
so long that I kind of like I kind of
like was depressed, but I didn't know I was depressed. Wow,
because as Dominicans, like, you're not supposed to be depressed. Bro.
Like I told my pops I'm depressed, He'll be like, yo,
(05:21):
you pussy bro, get a job. So I like had
this like realization like I I don't want to do
this shit no more, like I don't think that I'm
here to try and shit on people and belittle people
so I could feel higher. I feel like I'm here
to bring people up, you know, and make.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
It relatable exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Most people are not, you know, if they're standing on
the grim, A lot of times they don't got.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
It, Yeah exactly. It's it's it's literally putting a mask on.
It's the mask of I'm good, I'm a man, I'm happy,
I'm getting money, anything good in my life, when in
reality it wasn't that. And when I took my mask off,
what it did was I seen it allowed other people
in my life to take their mask off too, and
I'm like, damn, like this is how this is like
growth right here, like now we can all move forward.
(06:04):
Now what do I want to do. I want to
make comedy. I want to do funny videos. And when
I started, it wasn't even like, oh, I want to
become famous, I want to do I want to go viral.
It was just like yo, it viral. Yeah, no exactly.
My thing was like I want to do this because
this shit just feels good. I have fun, like getting
(06:27):
with my mom and my sisters and just bugging out
for an hour, freestyling in the video and improvising and
just having fun, you know.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
And your mom seems like she really enjoys it too.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Oh, she loves it. And in the beginning, my mom
is like super in church, bro. She was like, it's
called the Saturday Daughter. That's one of the servers in church,
you know, the ladies walking around with the with the basket.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
For the offering.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
My mom was super in church. So when we first
started making videos and they started popping off, I remember
the ladies in the church, they started gossiping of my mom,
talking shit about her, like, y'all you overhear in the church,
but you're over there smacking your son and cursing in
the videos and stuff, and they're doing.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
The same thing at.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Home right exactly, so that my mom, she was discouraged.
I'll never forget this. Like one time, I'm like, yo,
all right, we're gonna make this video, I'm gonna say
this and that you're gonna smack fire outby And then
when it was time for her to smack me, she
was like, she gave me some weak ass flash.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I'm gonna smack you hard.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I was like, bro, what you doing, Broma.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
You know that's a shame that in the church that
people will be judgmental. Oh yeah, you know somebody instead
of you can still laugh and have fun and have
a good time and understand what the.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Sketch is because yeah, because your skits aren't.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Like anything that crazy, it's regular.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
But it's regular, regular, everyday life, right.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
The flip though the priest, like the main pastor or whatever.
One time they was having a meeting and he went
and asked my mom for a picture to send it
to their family members because he, like his family were fans.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
That's dopeyeh oh yeah, he was jealous, like that's a shame.
But I'm glad to see the success that you've had. Now.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I want to go back to Culture's birthday party that
you went to, Cardi b and offsets young little baby Culture.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
You were in there, you got drunk.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Is that what happens at these kids birthday parties?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Bro, Hennessy, Bro Hennessy, no double one Tom Hennessy. Yeah yeah,
Cardi says to Hennessy. They had a big old bottle
a hot Henny Andy. Yeah, that's the thing. I mean,
it's just room temp, Bro, It's not literally hot. My
Henney go down hot Henney is just drinking handy out
(08:47):
the bottle, no ice, no nothing, drink tequila. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
We've been in here doing it a little bit. We
got a little bit. Look at me, drink that whole
bottle before you got here.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
I can't do Bro, It's absolutely do tequila. I'm in
Mexico or something, but I'm again bro from really drink
that that handing out the brown paper baghuses. Yeah, I
was raised with that. Boy.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Now you also now transitioning.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I saw April fifth you had your first ever comedy show, yep, okay,
so talk to me about the preparation behind that. Because comedians,
it's a serious business. Doing stand up is not a game.
It ain't like you could just be like, I'm funny,
let me get on stage, right.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
And for me, I definitely respect that. I respected that
because I feel like stand up is like it's like
you actually going to war, like live, Like the risk
is live, because when you're making a video online you
could there's no risk to that. Like you make the
ship in your crib. There's nobody to tell you, oh
this ship is whack, and then you post it and
(09:52):
maybe you get a whack a bad comment. But that
don't hurt you as much as you on stage right.
But not even bood Bro.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
But your silence, silence people talking and not acknowledging.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
That you're even on stage. Silence is bad. I think there's.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
There's I think there's three levels.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I think the worst is booze.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Then the second worst is people talking and eating their food,
and eventually it gets louder and louder, like you gotta scream,
and then the third worst is silence.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Yeah, you're right, you're right, And I've seen that before too,
but usually it don't be in comedy clubs. It'll be
like when you go to a restaurant or like, you know,
one of them things, and people is just like having
a time of day life with their best friend. They
haven't seen them how long, and they're screaming over your
jokes and stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
No, I've seen it where the first comic was good,
but then somebody else came on and it progressively gets
louder and then it's eventually like you're not even there
and then you just lost it, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
So how was the first one April Fest?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
The first one was a movie. It was so out
and it's just different, Like for me, it was like
all my people's So it's like an highly sold that
was like three fifty, three hundred and fifty people in
the seats.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
That's a lot.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Yeah, yeah, and there was eight there was eighteen hundred
people on the waiting list. Wow for that bro, who
the fucking mind. Bro, that's crazy. But it was all
my people. So it was kind of one of those
things like, bro, no matter what I say up there,
like I'm gonna kill this shit, you know. But just
now I had shows in Naples where that was a
(11:27):
little different. That was different you don't know people. Yeah,
not everybody in that crowd was my people, like a
lot of them, Like it was like older white folk
that came out, you know. And then I had to
learn live like damn some of these jokes, like these
people are not gonna know what a mufungo is, bro,
you know, like I'm gonna have to switch something that
I'm gonna have to not switch it up, but explain
(11:48):
it make a little bit more related exactly. And that's
like what I'm thinking, Like real good comedians could do that,
Like they could work any room, you know.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
They have to.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I think that's interesting what you say about mufungo because
I know that culturally, like in New York, we know
a lot of that, but when you go to different places,
certain things on the menu they're not familiar with. Yeah,
And so it's like learning a lot about what it's
like going from from city to city, state to state,
what are some staples there, because I know people come
(12:18):
to New York. I had people who came here and
never had plantings before.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
And to me, it's like we had plantings with everything.
You know, it's Caribbean, it's you know, it's Spanish food.
It's like, let's get some platino, so you just get
the yellow plant ins. But some places they're like, what's that.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Nah, that's crazy. Yeah, life without plot bro.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
No.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Now, let's also talk about some of the other experiences
and people you've been affiliated with. John Leguizano, Oh yeah,
talk to me about that.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Damn. I met John Legizamo back in twenty nineteen. Also,
I got invited to a dinner and that was just
math fun, like just meeting Like it's just crazy, like
to meet these legends, like I'm even here with y'all,
like you know, like like I'm I'm blessed to be
able to meet like people that I've watched my whole
life growing up, you know, and then get to kick
(13:07):
it with them and just talk to them, you know,
and and learn so much from them. Like John Loasamo
was one of them ones, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
And he's he's definitely a legend. So what are some
of the things that he said to you or I
taught you?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
He was like, bro keep it up, you fat bitch.
Basically that's what I heard.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Oh my god. And then you also did a short film.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Oh yeah, yeah that yourself. No, hell no, He's like
that was my boy John. He reached out to me
and was like, Yo, I think you'd be great for this.
So I went. I auditioned. That was my first time auditioning.
That was weird. Like, I mean, I feel like for me,
(13:50):
like the past few years has all been like this
is this book is called Feel the Fear and Do
It Anyway, And I feel like I've just been living
that way, like like yeah, I'm scared to do this,
I'm nervous to do it, but I'm gonna do it anyway.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
You know.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
It's like that feeling of right before you jump into
a cold shower, you know, like just do it. Yeah,
you just hop it.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
After a little while, you start to feel better. Yeah,
as you get more accustomed to it. What was the
scariest moment for you?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Was it?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Bad?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Bunny? Like, talk to me about the most intimidating and
tell me about.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
I'm not gonna lie it was probably it was probably
the Bad Bunny opening up for Bad Bunny.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
That is really really huge.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yeah, because all right, so tell us about how that
came about and what that was like for you, because
you look you look nervous thinking about it.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah, you need some honey.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah. So we opened up for Bad Bunny at the
Prudential and then at the Barclays two nights, so Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
And it was my manager. He's like connected with Bad
Bunny's people. And I met Bad Bunny like in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Everybody, twenty nineteen was your year.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Yeah, so that's where we met. When I first met him,
I was like, yo, I want to go give him
a handshake, and he was like, oh, it's the dude.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
From the video.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I was like, I was like, oh, I can't believe
it was Yeah. I was surprised. You never know who's
watching it, Yeah, exactly like to anybody who's like a creator, bro,
you never know who's watching, bro, so keep doing your thing.
So then my manager was like, yo, Ken Roddell open
up when he show.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yeah that was bold Hill.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Yeah, I mean he's a good question.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Nobody and that's.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Never been done, Like he's never done that, like at.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
A show, And he said, yeah, why not?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Yeah, And then I'm like, at first I was hyped
that he asked, but then I was also hoping, Like
he said, no.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
A lot of prussure, a lot of prussure. Be careful
what you asked.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Tell me your preparation for my preparation was, I said, bro,
I want to do five minutes. Let me give five minutes.
I could do five minutes. I could just mess with
the crowd for five minutes. Right. So the thing is
before the show, they had a DJ, right, they had
Alex Sensation, right, so they had some heavy you know,
some some DJs. But they put me after the DJ,
(16:09):
which is right before the show starts. Right, so it's like,
nobody's in the art, nobody's in the oars getting popcorn
and food, no more getting drinks. Everybody seated. So I
come out. I got my five minutes ready them five
minutes flew by. Bro.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Oh, they did that's good. That makes you did great.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
No, but then he didn't come out yet. Oh yeah,
it actually took it him like twelve Oh gosh. Then
I'm like, yeah, ready for bad Bunny, somebody in my
air like yo, yo, keep going, keep going. So I'm
like yo. I literally had to just freestyle it for
(16:48):
the rest of those twelve It was like an extra
six seven minutes that I was up there. That's like
being in a yeah, bro, it was like that's a
lot of time though. Yeah. So then the next day
what they did was it was like, all right, bro,
we canna put you before the DJ just in case
like he takes it. You can keep the music people exactly,
(17:08):
and that could keep going forever. So the second time
was way better because I went that MYO brought my
mom's out. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yeah, how she got to meet bad Bunny too.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Oh yeah, it's just a beautiful thing. And she got
to tell me.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Oh that's right, that's so huge.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
That's part of what's exciting when you get to like
do stuff for your family.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Oh that's the most beautiful thing because like my mom,
imagine a lady in her fifties who worked her whole
life as a first of all, just from the compo
from dr like literally lived in the Jungles that's to
come over here and then to work as a home attendant,
you know what I mean. And then to now be
like doing all of these crazy exciting things. And you
(17:53):
just see, like when I see her like dancing and
hop like on stage with with Romeo like that one time,
you just like see like like the little kid in her,
you know what I mean? Yeah, that's like that child
to enjoy that probably she couldn't enjoy. You know that
now she's living the.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Fact that you can provide that is really really dope.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
And they're having fun, having fun. Yeah, and your sister
she used to film everything for you. Yeah, yeah, okay,
family affair. We're not playing no games. What were you
like as a kid?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I was? I was ugly as fun.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
I was.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
I used to get in trouble all the time. I
used to cut school all the time. I love cutting school.
What did you do to see what Steve Wilcos was
talking about?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
You the father twelve possible men, they're like none of
them all right, we'll be back next week.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I hated school. I used to cut all the time.
I used to get in trouble too all the time.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
But look at how you turned out.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
For all the parents that are listening to know them
might have had a badass kid that's always come in school.
You know, sometimes you have to figure out a way
to kind of play into that creativity.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
What did you think you were going to be when
you were a kid.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
I honestly thought I was gonna be like a fire
like cab.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Driver, fire cab driver, really like one of them months.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Yeah everybody knew.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Yeah yeah, like everybody.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Bro, he got good convos, He's run lights, like I
just thought, not.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Such an aspiration. But that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
I never really it's crazy because as a kid, like
I never really had like there's people who like, you know,
when I grow up, I'm gonna be a doctor, I'm
gonna be there, and they lock in you know what
that goal. Like I never had that. And it's kind
of like if you if you are one of those
people that's listening that you kind of like don't know
what you want to do in your life, but you
have certain things that interest you, like lean into that
(19:57):
and see where that takes you. Especially now, like any
any hobby now could become like a business.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Right it's a lot easier.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yea social media it's a lot easier, but it's also
a lot more congested.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Right yeah, yeah, I mean like it was after the pandemic.
Bro everybody was like, yo, we home. Everybody started what
they got a.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Podcast, and everybody started the games online.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Yeah the podcaster. Everybody crazy. And then afterwards it was like,
I ain't going back to work, bro, Like I'm staying
on TikTok live. Bro. Fuck that job.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
No, But I mean, I think it's really inspiration and
we could tell that you're just a naturally funny person
with your energy. So it's good to see you being
able to monetize that. And when were you able to
start monetizing that, because you know, we always got to
talk about some money up here.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Yeah yeah, yeah, so me and I think I was
like in the end of twenty eighteen nineteen with my job.
But I quit my job too early, Okay, so I did.
I had left dicks, right, I left the dicks alone
(21:08):
and I want to go work at it. I was
working at a piece area, so a hipster pieceria in Brooklyn,
and I was making pretty cool money there. But then
like that's when the video started popping off, Ay yo,
what the fuck like? And I remember I was the
food runner there and bro, people would like stop me
and be like, yo, ain't you that ain't you that
(21:28):
fucking guy bro from the internet. I'll be like, yeah,
what's up. Nice to beat you. They'll be like, yokay,
bring me some extra napkins though, like, and it.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Was just like damn, like you still got a job
to do it right, right, right of course.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
So I just I was just like, you know what,
I'm quitting, bro, I'm gonna just go I'm gonna just
go full thro out. And I started selling merch So
that's how I started making like money, okay. And I
was just buying it myself. So I would buy like
two hundred shirts, you know, like a thousand bucks. Yeah. Yeah.
First I had my cousin doing it and we would
just go to the city and get the shirts like
(22:04):
like wholesale.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
You do hustler.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Oh yeah, I was us. And then I quit my
job too earlier. I say that because there was some
months where shit was kind of spooky, you know. I
had to borrow some money, you know, financially, Yeah, to
like pay rent, Like there was months like that. And
this is I got like sixty thousand followers at the time,
you know, and people's like, oh, he's nah, Like you
(22:27):
have to be smart with it, you know, you have
to be smart, like I don't think I should have
quit at the time, but I just did. I was
one of those.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Like thank got it worked out right, Thank got it.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
You know, like you jump off the cliff and build
your parachute. Yeah, that's what I was doing.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
But yeah, some people will say that you have to
back yourself into a corner to fight your way out.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
It worked for some people. Yeah, that's the thing. Some
some people they do good like that, like under pressure,
you know.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Like Damon John has a book it's called The Power Broke,
and he kind of talks about power. It sounds that's
a fire name power Broke because sometimes when you have
nothing to lose and every force you to.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Start thinking, you know, you don't have a choice.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
A lot of times when you when everything is lit
and it's all good, comfortable, you're not thinking.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
That's part of the thirty three Strategies of war too.
They talk about that of being backed into a corner
and then having to fight your way out of that corner.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
It's him, I actually do really good. Like like now
that you're talking about that the power of broke, like
that power you did that? Yeah, harness that power of broke.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
There's a lot of power right now, I have no
power because you got you got some money. Now, let's
talk about some of these influenza campaigns that you got
tapped to do as well, because I know there is
money in that. Yeah, and how did you even know,
like how to start negotiating for those dollars?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Well, I have a I have a manager.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
So you don't even have to deal with it.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Oh thank god. My manager his name is our Thotof.
He's the one who connected with bad Bunny and stuff. Okay,
and I linked with him probably like two years ago, no,
three years ago, because at first I was just doing
everything myself, styling, I'll answer emails myself, and then I
have my friend toss to you also he was he
was one of my managers at the time. And before
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that was just be me like hey, I'm a representative
of Yeah, so that you know people can respect you
or whatever, right, because bro, if not, well they talking
to you. Yeah. And then people was like, yo, bro,
come over here, like come promote my you know, business,
I give you forty dollars.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
You know know this is his manager.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
He can't make it right exactly. So you have a manager.
People kind of they respect that a little bit more right.
So my manager, he's really good with, you know, working
with brands and like talking to people and stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
All right, and can you tell us about some of
the brand partnerships that you've done.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Well, we did something with Crocs. Yeah, we did a
digital got Crocs.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Okay, okay, okay, it's a little warm, but go ahead.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
It was windy out.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
He's definitely.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
In the summertime.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
We did something when Hennessy you have Tones White. Yeah,
when Hennessy White released over here, we did that Henny Bro.
That's how you got to drink it. You drink that
Hennessy hot Bro. That should make your voice deeper.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
I definitely used to work with hen.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
It was good. Well, fuck you doing?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
What do you see next for you?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
I'm trying to give mad money, bro. No, I'm trying to,
you know, keep doing the stand up. Get into movies
because I love acting. I love reading roles and getting
into character and doing skits like like like portraying a character,
you know, like my Daddy Ranch. I have a video
(25:50):
now with Daddy Ranch where I played the Cowboy. I
want to turn that into a movie. You want to
hear the Cowboy? Have you ever lapped? You're couck in
between two center blocks in the middle of the winter.
That's what it's like to drive a Ford truck. I
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tell you what you read, son of a bitch?
Speaker 1 (26:15):
You right?
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:17):
I had it one of those big red.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Your stand up.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Actually yeah, I actually like walked out on stage like
saying that ship. I've never seen so many gap there
Mexicans in one room.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
You got it, you got it the stand up.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
I really am. I really am. I'm enjoying now. I'm
having so much fun. Like I'm I'm I'm starting to
learn how to do like crowd work, messing with the
audience and stuff like. Yeah, the other show he had
this guy he was sitting on the front row right
and he had to get up to use the bathroom.
So he got up. I'm like, yo, what the fuck
you shit the fuck down?
Speaker 4 (27:01):
He sat down.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
He sat down, but he's like laughing about it. Right.
I'm like, Bro, I'm trying to tell you something, Bro,
sit out. But it's funny, you know. I'm not like
pressing them. He's laughing the audience. I'm like, what you
gotta go do? He's like, y'all gotta pee. Bro. I'm like, bro,
hold it. You a man, ain't you hold it? So
ten minutes pastilf No, he got back up, tease the
bathroom again. I'm like, shut the fuck down, and I'm screaming.
(27:26):
The audience is going crazy.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Ten minutes past again and he's still sitting. He jumps
on stage and run towards me. Security think he's going
to attack me, but he runs past me, hops off
the stage and runs full speed to the bathroom to yah.
The audience was. I had to wait literally like a
minute and a half for the audience just to relax
because we was in tears, crying, even me.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
I was just like, bro for nobody.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
No, of course he didn't have to the first off. No,
you didn't have to the first time. So when he
sat down, that's what made it funny, Like, you know
what I mean to me, I'm not Michael Jackson. Bro.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
When I was on a flight and you know how
you can't get out your seat when the flight is
and we were taxing for so long, it was somebody
that I had to.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
I got up. They were yelling over the thing. They
were like, get back in your seat, man, you have
to give it.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I was like, I gotta pee an adult and if
I have to pee, like because sometimes you're like, I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Just hold it until you can hold it land, I'll wait.
You know extra twenty.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Could it you had to go, So sir, whoever.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
You are, next time, you do not have to listen
to you are grown man. Go to the bathroom if
that's what you need to do. Okay, And you're gonna
be in Chicago.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Oh yeah, Chicago, that's next week.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
We have Miami and then oh k New York.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Is now New York is yeah tomorrow Okay, we got
four sold out shows. Oh wow at the Levity Live. Okay,
West nayak Oh that's upe.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I think last time Ida was here out of Rodriguez,
that's where where she was headed to.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
And then you're gonna be in New Jersey as well.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Yeah, and New Brunswick. Okay, I got Chicago next week.
It's busy.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
You get into that money.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
So what are some things that you've bought, you know,
since twenty eighteen, Like, did you get a new house?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Did you get a car?
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Nah? No, Nah, I'm still building it up. And one
of my biggest depressions was my car that I had
for real, like I had a Beamer.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Did you change it.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I had a Beamer, right, and this is why, this
is one of the reasons I was depressed, y'all. I
had a Beamer right, and then I couldn't afford the
car no no more because they gave me like eighty
percent interest, so yo, and then they was trying to
repull my car, damn. And I was trying to hide
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that shit. So like one time there was a storm
and a big tree fell, I backed my car into
that bush so they couldn't see the Like I had
all the tricks.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
There's nothing more embarrassing when people see your car geting.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Oh my god, neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Nah for real. So I don't know why, like ever
since then, I was just saying, you know, I like
became like a monk type shit, you know, like I
got on my J Cole shit. You know, like I
wasn't riding no bike because you know.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
My weight, but you're not even big, Like.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
No, your boy your boy is stick bro.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Have you got to see you some tighter situation.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
But anyway, radel Ortiz tell people how they could follow
you also, how could they see how they can see
all the shows that you have coming up and see
your whole journey.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Oh, you could just follow me at Rodell Ortiz everywhere
I'm on, what I'm on, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Twitter, that Instagram,
and if y'all want to come see me live, the
link is in my bio.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Okay, all right, well, thank you so much for coming.
We appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Thank you so much representing Heavy Brooklyn.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
God bless y'all, but God bless me way more.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
All right, Maybe I don't know if I can co
sign that way up
What's up his way up at Angela Ye, I'm Angela yee.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Maino is here with me, mao, and Dell Artis is
here yo. So while you're here, his name is Maino.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Today, Maino.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
I love I love that, But.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Listen, I want people to know, like, your story is
amazing to me just seeing what your come up has been.
Seeing that Kendrick Lamar actually sampled.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
You, I can't even believe that. Bro, you're saying that
just now. It just reminded me that I can't believe.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
That by steppers.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yeah, and so tell me where you were when you
found that out.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I was sleep because I had Yeah, I was sleeping.
My friends was having a listening party with make Kendrick fans.
But I had an early flight to Montreal, like at
five am, so I was trying to get some sleep.
My phone started blowing up like seven different people. I'm like,
who died? Bro? And I wake up and they're like, yo,
Kendrick got you on his song I saw. I was
(00:58):
like in the Twilight.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
The power of the Internet though, Yeah, to clear it
or nothing.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Afterwards, we we yeah, yeah, I got you.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Donty about you.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
That skit about and this is so true, because I
totally agree. When you had a cookout and there's no cheese,
I can't eat a burger without cheese on it. I
eat like veggie burgers, but I can't eat it without cheese.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Right, I don't know what that summer, I kept going
to barbecues and cookouts and I kept noticing the pattern,
Like everybody, they would bring every condiment, everything, but there
would be no cheese. So I was like, I got
to make a skit about this, and then that one
day I just had it, and that's what came out
of it. That a I know that came out.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Of it, right, But a lot of these skits that
you're doing there, they've been going viral. Now, I want
to ask you, what was the first, like big one
that you did when you did were on Instagram just
doing this. Your family's involved, everybody loves to see them.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I mean, honestly, the first one that really went crazy,
I did a I did a video where Cardi b
reposted it.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Oh I love that Cardially showing up.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Oh my. But y'all gotta understand. I was working at
Dick's Sporting Goods and I hated my job and I'll
never figet I was at Popey's with my girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
You don't love Dick's. I loved that.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Oh I hated Dick Bro, I hated you.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Gotta stop. Were talking about sporting good store. Okay, that's okay.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I'm talking about Deck sporting goods. I'm selling hockey masks. O. Yo.
So I was literally about to get ready for work
and then my sister called me. Yo. Cardi B reposted
your video this is twenty eighteen Bowdack Yellow Cardi B.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I called my job. I said, Yo, I can't make
it to work today just.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Because over that Bro, just over that, Bro? Are you
kidding me?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Bro? Cardi B reposted me, I'm not going to work. Bro,
it's time to celebrate. Really yo. Ten minutes past, I
don't know what happened over there in Cardi B's camp.
She deleted that video.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Oh no, what was the video?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
It was a video I made with my moms and
I will never forget Bro. I had to call my
job back, like, Yo, I'm on my way.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
That celebration. I canceled quick. Yeah did you ever ever
ask you know?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
It's crazy to this day, like I still haven't asked
her about that party.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
What happened.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
It's all good. She's reposting me.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Culture's birthday party.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah, and that's the first time I went to like
a party, like like they had money for real, Like
I never seen Dominicans like because most you go to
Dominican party, you have fun or whatever. But that type
of fun is different. Like you see the compass she
knows with the well. They had Alaskan King Crabs, they
had Mermaid Pussy. Oh kind you from Nah? I'm born Brooklyn.
(04:01):
Oh yeah, Brooklyn, East New York. See how you assume
that everybody always think that all the time. Yeah for me, Yeah, Racis,
we were Washington Heights. Bro, I've never been over there.
They as exactly. It's even hour the Bronx. I'm like, Bro,
(04:23):
I was raised in Brooklyn with the Jam Makeadya and
the Trinidaddy is Bro.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
That's crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
And then we moved to Queens, so I've been living
in Queens.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
So how you started getting into doing comedy and stuff
like that?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Damn, Bro, I just always I always loved comedy, Bro,
But I really started taking a series on social media
in twenty eighteen because I was going through like depression myself.
I like to talk about mental health a lot because
me myself, I was in that depression of like I
don't know if y'all remember, like early on Instagram, it
was really about like trying to stunt like like oh
(04:56):
I gotta still you're right, you're right.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Not for me, I'm even yo.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
But that's like like I kind of like stepped into that.
I gotta get a nice car. I got to show
people like I'm living better than you, like like fuck everybody,
you know. And then like I was doing that for
so long that I kind of like I kind of
like was depressed, but I didn't know I was depressed. Wow,
because as Dominicans, like, you're not supposed to be depressed. Bro.
Like I told my pops I'm depressed, He'll be like, yo,
(05:21):
you pussy bro, get a job. So I like had
this like realization like I I don't want to do
this shit no more, like I don't think that I'm
here to try and shit on people and belittle people
so I could feel higher. I feel like I'm here
to bring people up, you know, and make.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
It relatable exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Most people are not, you know, if they're standing on
the grim, A lot of times they don't got.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
It, Yeah exactly. It's it's it's literally putting a mask on.
It's the mask of I'm good, I'm a man, I'm happy,
I'm getting money, anything good in my life, when in
reality it wasn't that. And when I took my mask off,
what it did was I seen it allowed other people
in my life to take their mask off too, and
I'm like, damn, like this is how this is like
growth right here, like now we can all move forward.
(06:04):
Now what do I want to do. I want to
make comedy. I want to do funny videos. And when
I started, it wasn't even like, oh, I want to
become famous, I want to do I want to go viral.
It was just like yo, it viral. Yeah, no exactly.
My thing was like I want to do this because
this shit just feels good. I have fun, like getting
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with my mom and my sisters and just bugging out
for an hour, freestyling in the video and improvising and
just having fun, you know.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
And your mom seems like she really enjoys it too.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Oh, she loves it. And in the beginning, my mom
is like super in church, bro. She was like, it's
called the Saturday Daughter. That's one of the servers in church,
you know, the ladies walking around with the with the basket.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
For the offering.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
My mom was super in church. So when we first
started making videos and they started popping off, I remember
the ladies in the church, they started gossiping of my mom,
talking shit about her, like, y'all you overhear in the church,
but you're over there smacking your son and cursing in
the videos and stuff, and they're doing.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
The same thing at.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Home right exactly, so that my mom, she was discouraged.
I'll never forget this. Like one time, I'm like, yo,
all right, we're gonna make this video, I'm gonna say
this and that you're gonna smack fire outby And then
when it was time for her to smack me, she
was like, she gave me some weak ass flash.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I'm gonna smack you hard.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I was like, bro, what you doing, Broma.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
You know that's a shame that in the church that
people will be judgmental. Oh yeah, you know somebody instead
of you can still laugh and have fun and have
a good time and understand what the.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Sketch is because yeah, because your skits aren't.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Like anything that crazy, it's regular.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
But it's regular, regular, everyday life, right.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
The flip though the priest, like the main pastor or whatever.
One time they was having a meeting and he went
and asked my mom for a picture to send it
to their family members because he, like his family were fans.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
That's dopeyeh oh yeah, he was jealous, like that's a shame.
But I'm glad to see the success that you've had. Now.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I want to go back to Culture's birthday party that
you went to, Cardi b and offsets young little baby Culture.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
You were in there, you got drunk.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Is that what happens at these kids birthday parties?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Bro, Hennessy, Bro Hennessy, no double one Tom Hennessy. Yeah yeah,
Cardi says to Hennessy. They had a big old bottle
a hot Henny Andy. Yeah, that's the thing. I mean,
it's just room temp, Bro, It's not literally hot. My
Henney go down hot Henney is just drinking handy out
(08:47):
the bottle, no ice, no nothing, drink tequila. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
We've been in here doing it a little bit. We
got a little bit. Look at me, drink that whole
bottle before you got here.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
I can't do Bro, It's absolutely do tequila. I'm in
Mexico or something, but I'm again bro from really drink
that that handing out the brown paper baghuses. Yeah, I
was raised with that. Boy.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Now you also now transitioning.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I saw April fifth you had your first ever comedy show, yep, okay,
so talk to me about the preparation behind that. Because comedians,
it's a serious business. Doing stand up is not a game.
It ain't like you could just be like, I'm funny,
let me get on stage, right.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
And for me, I definitely respect that. I respected that
because I feel like stand up is like it's like
you actually going to war, like live, Like the risk
is live, because when you're making a video online you
could there's no risk to that. Like you make the
ship in your crib. There's nobody to tell you, oh
this ship is whack, and then you post it and
(09:52):
maybe you get a whack a bad comment. But that
don't hurt you as much as you on stage right.
But not even bood Bro.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
But your silence, silence people talking and not acknowledging.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
That you're even on stage. Silence is bad. I think there's.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
There's I think there's three levels.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I think the worst is booze.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Then the second worst is people talking and eating their food,
and eventually it gets louder and louder, like you gotta scream,
and then the third worst is silence.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Yeah, you're right, you're right, And I've seen that before too,
but usually it don't be in comedy clubs. It'll be
like when you go to a restaurant or like, you know,
one of them things, and people is just like having
a time of day life with their best friend. They
haven't seen them how long, and they're screaming over your
jokes and stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
No, I've seen it where the first comic was good,
but then somebody else came on and it progressively gets
louder and then it's eventually like you're not even there
and then you just lost it, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
So how was the first one April Fest?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
The first one was a movie. It was so out
and it's just different, Like for me, it was like
all my people's So it's like an highly sold that
was like three fifty, three hundred and fifty people in
the seats.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
That's a lot.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Yeah, yeah, and there was eight there was eighteen hundred
people on the waiting list. Wow for that bro, who
the fucking mind. Bro, that's crazy. But it was all
my people. So it was kind of one of those
things like, bro, no matter what I say up there,
like I'm gonna kill this shit, you know. But just
now I had shows in Naples where that was a
(11:27):
little different. That was different you don't know people. Yeah,
not everybody in that crowd was my people, like a
lot of them, Like it was like older white folk
that came out, you know. And then I had to
learn live like damn some of these jokes, like these
people are not gonna know what a mufungo is, bro,
you know, like I'm gonna have to switch something that
I'm gonna have to not switch it up, but explain
(11:48):
it make a little bit more related exactly. And that's
like what I'm thinking, Like real good comedians could do that,
Like they could work any room, you know.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
They have to.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I think that's interesting what you say about mufungo because
I know that culturally, like in New York, we know
a lot of that, but when you go to different places,
certain things on the menu they're not familiar with. Yeah,
And so it's like learning a lot about what it's
like going from from city to city, state to state,
what are some staples there, because I know people come
(12:18):
to New York. I had people who came here and
never had plantings before.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
And to me, it's like we had plantings with everything.
You know, it's Caribbean, it's you know, it's Spanish food.
It's like, let's get some platino, so you just get
the yellow plant ins. But some places they're like, what's that.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Nah, that's crazy. Yeah, life without plot bro.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
No.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Now, let's also talk about some of the other experiences
and people you've been affiliated with. John Leguizano, Oh yeah,
talk to me about that.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Damn. I met John Legizamo back in twenty nineteen. Also,
I got invited to a dinner and that was just
math fun, like just meeting Like it's just crazy, like
to meet these legends, like I'm even here with y'all,
like you know, like like I'm I'm blessed to be
able to meet like people that I've watched my whole
life growing up, you know, and then get to kick
(13:07):
it with them and just talk to them, you know,
and and learn so much from them. Like John Loasamo
was one of them ones, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
And he's he's definitely a legend. So what are some
of the things that he said to you or I
taught you?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
He was like, bro keep it up, you fat bitch.
Basically that's what I heard.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Oh my god. And then you also did a short film.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Oh yeah, yeah that yourself. No, hell no, He's like
that was my boy John. He reached out to me
and was like, Yo, I think you'd be great for this.
So I went. I auditioned. That was my first time auditioning.
That was weird. Like, I mean, I feel like for me,
(13:50):
like the past few years has all been like this
is this book is called Feel the Fear and Do
It Anyway, And I feel like I've just been living
that way, like like yeah, I'm scared to do this,
I'm nervous to do it, but I'm gonna do it anyway.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
You know.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
It's like that feeling of right before you jump into
a cold shower, you know, like just do it. Yeah,
you just hop it.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
After a little while, you start to feel better. Yeah,
as you get more accustomed to it. What was the
scariest moment for you?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Was it?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Bad?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Bunny? Like, talk to me about the most intimidating and
tell me about.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
I'm not gonna lie it was probably it was probably
the Bad Bunny opening up for Bad Bunny.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
That is really really huge.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yeah, because all right, so tell us about how that
came about and what that was like for you, because
you look you look nervous thinking about it.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah, you need some honey.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah. So we opened up for Bad Bunny at the
Prudential and then at the Barclays two nights, so Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
And it was my manager. He's like connected with Bad
Bunny's people. And I met Bad Bunny like in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Everybody, twenty nineteen was your year.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Yeah, so that's where we met. When I first met him,
I was like, yo, I want to go give him
a handshake, and he was like, oh, it's the dude.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
From the video.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I was like, I was like, oh, I can't believe
it was Yeah. I was surprised. You never know who's
watching it, Yeah, exactly like to anybody who's like a creator, bro,
you never know who's watching, bro, so keep doing your thing.
So then my manager was like, yo, Ken Roddell open
up when he show.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yeah that was bold Hill.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Yeah, I mean he's a good question.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Nobody and that's.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Never been done, Like he's never done that, like at.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
A show, And he said, yeah, why not?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Yeah, And then I'm like, at first I was hyped
that he asked, but then I was also hoping, Like
he said, no.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
A lot of prussure, a lot of prussure. Be careful
what you asked.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Tell me your preparation for my preparation was, I said, bro,
I want to do five minutes. Let me give five minutes.
I could do five minutes. I could just mess with
the crowd for five minutes. Right. So the thing is
before the show, they had a DJ, right, they had
Alex Sensation, right, so they had some heavy you know,
some some DJs. But they put me after the DJ,
(16:09):
which is right before the show starts. Right, so it's like,
nobody's in the art, nobody's in the oars getting popcorn
and food, no more getting drinks. Everybody seated. So I
come out. I got my five minutes ready them five
minutes flew by. Bro.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Oh, they did that's good. That makes you did great.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
No, but then he didn't come out yet. Oh yeah,
it actually took it him like twelve Oh gosh. Then
I'm like, yeah, ready for bad Bunny, somebody in my
air like yo, yo, keep going, keep going. So I'm
like yo. I literally had to just freestyle it for
(16:48):
the rest of those twelve It was like an extra
six seven minutes that I was up there. That's like
being in a yeah, bro, it was like that's a
lot of time though. Yeah. So then the next day
what they did was it was like, all right, bro,
we canna put you before the DJ just in case
like he takes it. You can keep the music people exactly,
(17:08):
and that could keep going forever. So the second time
was way better because I went that MYO brought my
mom's out. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yeah, how she got to meet bad Bunny too.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Oh yeah, it's just a beautiful thing. And she got
to tell me.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Oh that's right, that's so huge.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
That's part of what's exciting when you get to like
do stuff for your family.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Oh that's the most beautiful thing because like my mom,
imagine a lady in her fifties who worked her whole
life as a first of all, just from the compo
from dr like literally lived in the Jungles that's to
come over here and then to work as a home attendant,
you know what I mean. And then to now be
like doing all of these crazy exciting things. And you
(17:53):
just see, like when I see her like dancing and
hop like on stage with with Romeo like that one time,
you just like see like like the little kid in her,
you know what I mean? Yeah, that's like that child
to enjoy that probably she couldn't enjoy. You know that
now she's living the.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Fact that you can provide that is really really dope.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
And they're having fun, having fun. Yeah, and your sister
she used to film everything for you. Yeah, yeah, okay,
family affair. We're not playing no games. What were you
like as a kid?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I was? I was ugly as fun.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
I was.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
I used to get in trouble all the time. I
used to cut school all the time. I love cutting school.
What did you do to see what Steve Wilcos was
talking about?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
You the father twelve possible men, they're like none of
them all right, we'll be back next week.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I hated school. I used to cut all the time.
I used to get in trouble too all the time.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
But look at how you turned out.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
For all the parents that are listening to know them
might have had a badass kid that's always come in school.
You know, sometimes you have to figure out a way
to kind of play into that creativity.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
What did you think you were going to be when
you were a kid.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
I honestly thought I was gonna be like a fire
like cab.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Driver, fire cab driver, really like one of them months.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Yeah everybody knew.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Yeah yeah, like everybody.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Bro, he got good convos, He's run lights, like I
just thought, not.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Such an aspiration. But that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
I never really it's crazy because as a kid, like
I never really had like there's people who like, you know,
when I grow up, I'm gonna be a doctor, I'm
gonna be there, and they lock in you know what
that goal. Like I never had that. And it's kind
of like if you if you are one of those
people that's listening that you kind of like don't know
what you want to do in your life, but you
have certain things that interest you, like lean into that
(19:57):
and see where that takes you. Especially now, like any
any hobby now could become like a business.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Right it's a lot easier.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yea social media it's a lot easier, but it's also
a lot more congested.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Right yeah, yeah, I mean like it was after the pandemic.
Bro everybody was like, yo, we home. Everybody started what
they got a.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Podcast, and everybody started the games online.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Yeah the podcaster. Everybody crazy. And then afterwards it was like,
I ain't going back to work, bro, Like I'm staying
on TikTok live. Bro. Fuck that job.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
No, But I mean, I think it's really inspiration and
we could tell that you're just a naturally funny person
with your energy. So it's good to see you being
able to monetize that. And when were you able to
start monetizing that, because you know, we always got to
talk about some money up here.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Yeah yeah, yeah, so me and I think I was
like in the end of twenty eighteen nineteen with my job.
But I quit my job too early, Okay, so I did.
I had left dicks, right, I left the dicks alone
(21:08):
and I want to go work at it. I was
working at a piece area, so a hipster pieceria in Brooklyn,
and I was making pretty cool money there. But then
like that's when the video started popping off, Ay yo,
what the fuck like? And I remember I was the
food runner there and bro, people would like stop me
and be like, yo, ain't you that ain't you that
(21:28):
fucking guy bro from the internet. I'll be like, yeah,
what's up. Nice to beat you. They'll be like, yokay,
bring me some extra napkins though, like, and it.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Was just like damn, like you still got a job
to do it right, right, right of course.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
So I just I was just like, you know what,
I'm quitting, bro, I'm gonna just go I'm gonna just
go full thro out. And I started selling merch So
that's how I started making like money, okay. And I
was just buying it myself. So I would buy like
two hundred shirts, you know, like a thousand bucks. Yeah. Yeah.
First I had my cousin doing it and we would
just go to the city and get the shirts like
(22:04):
like wholesale.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
You do hustler.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Oh yeah, I was us. And then I quit my
job too earlier. I say that because there was some
months where shit was kind of spooky, you know. I
had to borrow some money, you know, financially, Yeah, to
like pay rent, Like there was months like that. And
this is I got like sixty thousand followers at the time,
you know, and people's like, oh, he's nah, Like you
(22:27):
have to be smart with it, you know, you have
to be smart, like I don't think I should have
quit at the time, but I just did. I was
one of those.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Like thank got it worked out right, Thank got it.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
You know, like you jump off the cliff and build
your parachute. Yeah, that's what I was doing.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
But yeah, some people will say that you have to
back yourself into a corner to fight your way out.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
It worked for some people. Yeah, that's the thing. Some
some people they do good like that, like under pressure,
you know.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Like Damon John has a book it's called The Power Broke,
and he kind of talks about power. It sounds that's
a fire name power Broke because sometimes when you have
nothing to lose and every force you to.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Start thinking, you know, you don't have a choice.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
A lot of times when you when everything is lit
and it's all good, comfortable, you're not thinking.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
That's part of the thirty three Strategies of war too.
They talk about that of being backed into a corner
and then having to fight your way out of that corner.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
It's him, I actually do really good. Like like now
that you're talking about that the power of broke, like
that power you did that? Yeah, harness that power of broke.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
There's a lot of power right now, I have no
power because you got you got some money. Now, let's
talk about some of these influenza campaigns that you got
tapped to do as well, because I know there is
money in that. Yeah, and how did you even know,
like how to start negotiating for those dollars?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Well, I have a I have a manager.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
So you don't even have to deal with it.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Oh thank god. My manager his name is our Thotof.
He's the one who connected with bad Bunny and stuff. Okay,
and I linked with him probably like two years ago, no,
three years ago, because at first I was just doing
everything myself, styling, I'll answer emails myself, and then I
have my friend toss to you also he was he
was one of my managers at the time. And before
(24:11):
that was just be me like hey, I'm a representative
of Yeah, so that you know people can respect you
or whatever, right, because bro, if not, well they talking
to you. Yeah. And then people was like, yo, bro,
come over here, like come promote my you know, business,
I give you forty dollars.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
You know know this is his manager.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
He can't make it right exactly. So you have a manager.
People kind of they respect that a little bit more right.
So my manager, he's really good with, you know, working
with brands and like talking to people and stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
All right, and can you tell us about some of
the brand partnerships that you've done.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Well, we did something with Crocs. Yeah, we did a
digital got Crocs.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Okay, okay, okay, it's a little warm, but go ahead.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
It was windy out.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
He's definitely.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
In the summertime.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
We did something when Hennessy you have Tones White. Yeah,
when Hennessy White released over here, we did that Henny Bro.
That's how you got to drink it. You drink that
Hennessy hot Bro. That should make your voice deeper.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
I definitely used to work with hen.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
It was good. Well, fuck you doing?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
What do you see next for you?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
I'm trying to give mad money, bro. No, I'm trying to,
you know, keep doing the stand up. Get into movies
because I love acting. I love reading roles and getting
into character and doing skits like like like portraying a character,
you know, like my Daddy Ranch. I have a video
(25:50):
now with Daddy Ranch where I played the Cowboy. I
want to turn that into a movie. You want to
hear the Cowboy? Have you ever lapped? You're couck in
between two center blocks in the middle of the winter.
That's what it's like to drive a Ford truck. I
(26:10):
tell you what you read, son of a bitch?
Speaker 1 (26:15):
You right?
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:17):
I had it one of those big red.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Your stand up.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Actually yeah, I actually like walked out on stage like
saying that ship. I've never seen so many gap there
Mexicans in one room.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
You got it, you got it the stand up.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
I really am. I really am. I'm enjoying now. I'm
having so much fun. Like I'm I'm I'm starting to
learn how to do like crowd work, messing with the
audience and stuff like. Yeah, the other show he had
this guy he was sitting on the front row right
and he had to get up to use the bathroom.
So he got up. I'm like, yo, what the fuck
you shit the fuck down?
Speaker 4 (27:01):
He sat down.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
He sat down, but he's like laughing about it. Right.
I'm like, Bro, I'm trying to tell you something, Bro,
sit out. But it's funny, you know. I'm not like
pressing them. He's laughing the audience. I'm like, what you
gotta go do? He's like, y'all gotta pee. Bro. I'm like, bro,
hold it. You a man, ain't you hold it? So
ten minutes pastilf No, he got back up, tease the
bathroom again. I'm like, shut the fuck down, and I'm screaming.
(27:26):
The audience is going crazy.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Ten minutes past again and he's still sitting. He jumps
on stage and run towards me. Security think he's going
to attack me, but he runs past me, hops off
the stage and runs full speed to the bathroom to yah.
The audience was. I had to wait literally like a
minute and a half for the audience just to relax
because we was in tears, crying, even me.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
I was just like, bro for nobody.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
No, of course he didn't have to the first off. No,
you didn't have to the first time. So when he
sat down, that's what made it funny, Like, you know
what I mean to me, I'm not Michael Jackson. Bro.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
When I was on a flight and you know how
you can't get out your seat when the flight is
and we were taxing for so long, it was somebody
that I had to.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
I got up. They were yelling over the thing. They
were like, get back in your seat, man, you have
to give it.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I was like, I gotta pee an adult and if
I have to pee, like because sometimes you're like, I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Just hold it until you can hold it land, I'll wait.
You know extra twenty.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Could it you had to go, So sir, whoever.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
You are, next time, you do not have to listen
to you are grown man. Go to the bathroom if
that's what you need to do. Okay, And you're gonna
be in Chicago.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Oh yeah, Chicago, that's next week.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
We have Miami and then oh k New York.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Is now New York is yeah tomorrow Okay, we got
four sold out shows. Oh wow at the Levity Live. Okay,
West nayak Oh that's upe.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I think last time Ida was here out of Rodriguez,
that's where where she was headed to.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
And then you're gonna be in New Jersey as well.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Yeah, and New Brunswick. Okay, I got Chicago next week.
It's busy.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
You get into that money.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
So what are some things that you've bought, you know,
since twenty eighteen, Like, did you get a new house?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Did you get a car?
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Nah? No, Nah, I'm still building it up. And one
of my biggest depressions was my car that I had
for real, like I had a Beamer.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Did you change it.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I had a Beamer, right, and this is why, this
is one of the reasons I was depressed, y'all. I
had a Beamer right, and then I couldn't afford the
car no no more because they gave me like eighty
percent interest, so yo, and then they was trying to
repull my car, damn. And I was trying to hide
(29:41):
that shit. So like one time there was a storm
and a big tree fell, I backed my car into
that bush so they couldn't see the Like I had
all the tricks.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
There's nothing more embarrassing when people see your car geting.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Oh my god, neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Nah for real. So I don't know why, like ever
since then, I was just saying, you know, I like
became like a monk type shit, you know, like I
got on my J Cole shit. You know, like I
wasn't riding no bike because you know.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
My weight, but you're not even big, Like.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
No, your boy your boy is stick bro.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Have you got to see you some tighter situation.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
But anyway, radel Ortiz tell people how they could follow
you also, how could they see how they can see
all the shows that you have coming up and see
your whole journey.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Oh, you could just follow me at Rodell Ortiz everywhere
I'm on, what I'm on, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Twitter, that Instagram,
and if y'all want to come see me live, the
link is in my bio.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Okay, all right, well, thank you so much for coming.
We appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Thank you so much representing Heavy Brooklyn.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
God bless y'all, but God bless me way more.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
All right, Maybe I don't know if I can co
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