Episode 25 - From Not Speaking English to Directing for Mr. Beast w/ Tareq

Yeezy Busta sits down with Mr. Beasts director Tareq to talk background and his journey to where he is today. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's going on? Guys, Welcome back to another episode of
Legit Check. Today. I'm here with my good friend Tarik,
director from Mr Beast. What's going on? Um, Welcome to
the second guests that we have on the podcast from Quarantine.
So it's very nice, you know, I mean you should.
You should feel pretty um, pretty cool because you are

(00:23):
the second one. You know what I mean, dude, it's
an honor. It's an honor to be your second Quarantine guest.
I love I love the set up here, I love
your background. It's very nice. Thank you. All the shoes
you got, all the shoes going. Okay, I see it,
I see it. Yeah, I have nothing because I just
moved into this house. So it's just like a little
hat just hanging. But that's about it. Is the hat Supreme.

(00:47):
At least it's Adidas. So okay, we're getting well. Go ahead, man,
introduce yourself. Tell us a little bit about yourself. For
those listening who may may not know even the you
don't know, you're living under a rock. But go ahead, guys.
My name is Tweek and I um um the director

(01:08):
in DP for Mr Beast Um and all we do.
If you haven't heard about the channels. We just go
around and just do good things and give good to
people and make everyone happy hopefully and see where it goes.
So yeah, it's been it's been a journey. I've been
with him for a little over a year now and
it's it's been a good time. Man, it's been a
great time. That's awesome. That's so cool. I love I

(01:29):
love all you guys, and I love what you guys
are doing. So it's always so good to hear from
from you and from all the boys. And I'm really goody.
You guys are still killing that. Dude. We love you too, man,
we love you too. You gotta come visit. You gotta
come by, dude, I will. And you know I was
supposed to come visit, but you know, quarantine, quarantine happen. Yeah, yeah,
the whole uh situation occurred that you know, no flights

(01:54):
were ticking off, there was nothing available. Everything, everything is
just getting delayed. Like one of my friends, he tried
to leave to go back to California and he couldn't.
They kept canceling his fight like every day. It was crazy, dude,
that's wild. I mean, I'm not I'm not surprised because
nobody wants to fly right now. But you know, I've
actually been prepared for um coronavirus for like the last

(02:16):
five years, because I've been wearing this mask for five
years straight. I can tell I can tell you kind
of prophesiesed it. I think you just called it, like, dude,
there's so many like theories. I've seen so many TikTok
videos of people saying, yo, easy bus to knew about
coronavirus and you just never never told us, which I
think is it's hilarious. It's so funny that you should

(02:38):
just go with it. You should just yeah, I've seen it.
I try to tell the scientists nobody told, nobody heard anything,
like I am the whistleblower. Um, yeah, it's funny, but easy. Sure,
you gotta make it happen, man, make it happen. Yeah,
you know what, I might I might just run for
president at this point, bucket, But no, I'm just choking.

(03:01):
But it's crazy, man. I um like, obviously I've been
selling I've been selling my mask as like a part
of my merch and a part of my brand for
like four years now. I've been selling masks, and now
it's it's cool because I've finally been able to, um,

(03:22):
just make a difference. You know, you have people's lives.
I feel like exactly, and so many people like need
it and you you have it, you make it perfect
for everybody. It's I love that. Like I I remember
when I visited you, but a couple of months ago, Um,
You're like, yeah, man, I got plenty of you want
if you want to take some, And I think I forgot,
but now I'm like, oh, I wish I had like

(03:43):
a cloth mask. And then you told me earlier, are
gonna send me something? I'm like, yes, I'm excited, I
got you do worries. You know, I'm gonna hold it down,
but you're saving lives. Yeah, dude. It's crazy because there's
like the news flip up so many times. At first
they said masks aren't going to help, and then they

(04:03):
said masks are going to help, and then they said, um,
excuse me, cloth masks don't help. And now that they're
now they're saying there they are helping. So they keep
flip flopping. But in my opinion, I think anything that
covers your face, even if it's not like a mask,
like just a T shirt or anything, and it helps. Yeah,
I think it's preventative, you know, yeah, because I mean

(04:24):
I think they should listen to you because you definitely
have a medical background. People like, A lot of people
don't know is because I have a medical medical background too,
and you know, I worked closely with this stuff. So
like the importance of a mask is is just insane.
And now there's like a huge shortage. And I think
it's cool, Like you came from a medical background and
like you have a mask on the whole time. It's

(04:45):
that's cool. I think that's so cool. Yeah, I appreciate it.
I appreciate it. And you know, and I don't know
if you heard, but I like all my masks. I
actually kept them at the same price. A lot of
people were complaining, but the reason why I did is
because I'm donating all the profit to Feeding America. Oh
that's amazing. So and also I was actually gonna lower
the price, make them really cheap, but so many people

(05:08):
already had bought them at twenty dollars, and I just
figured since my community and I didn't want to make
those people saw team you, oh I paid this much
for whatever. So I just said, like, hey, we're gonna
make it even for everyone. I'm going to donate all
the money, and so far the response has been great. Um,
I think I haven't finished counting exactly because it's been

(05:30):
kind of crazy, but um, we're going to be able
to donate basically, I think. I think the last time
I count it was like seventy meals wow from the profits,
which is good. You know, I'm not doing that. I'm
no Mr Beasts, Mr Beast, but those are those are
big numbers. Those are those are Beast approved. Well, I
appreciate it. Yeah, So it's been Um, it's it's been

(05:55):
good and I'm really happy that I'm am able to
help out, you know, especially with you know, the brand,
and people have been so excited to be rocking out.
I've been getting so many pictures of people wearing him,
so I'm really really excited. But enough about me. Let's
talk about you. You're the guest here unless I'm on
the podcast right now, than we could talk about me more.
I mean fun fact, I did used to be a host.

(06:17):
I I hosted comedy shows all around North Carolina for
a while. So it's I'm comfortable with you talking about yourself.
That's I like that. I like that. Well, let's let's
let's talk about um let's talk about you a little
bit more. So, what what's your background? Where are you from? Um?
So I am. I'm posting in and I grew up

(06:39):
in Jordan's and I lived there until I was like
ten years old, and I mean my family we moved
to America. You're back in oh five And I didn't
know any English nothing. I was just like walking around.
I had like some weird shoes. I'll never forget this.
This is this is when I started, like really caring
about shoes was when I came to America, because um,

(07:02):
I didn't really care about the shoes that I had
until I got here. And like all my friends they
had like Jordan's, they had like new balance at the time,
Like they loved that and it's all they would talk about.
And they would ask me, like what kind of shoes
of those, and like, I don't know, I just bought those,
you know, they're just all my feet. But then I realized,
like it's a big culture thing here, like shoes are important,

(07:22):
and that's when I started falling in love with him too.
And like I collected at one point in my life
and then stopped and then did other stuff. But yeah,
Gary oh five learned English fully by like two thousand
and eight, two thousand nine, um, and then finished college
and I did I went to like a medical background

(07:42):
kind of deal. I worked in the hospital for like
a year before joining Beasts, and then um, while I
was at the hospital, I didn't like, did not enjoy
the job at all. So I was doing other things,
like I was freelancing videography, and I was doing stand
up at night. So like during the day, on my
off days, I would just like go to a small

(08:03):
business and tell them, hey, you know, I'll pitch him
like a business idea, like hey, I can do like
a one minute promotional video for your business for this
certain price. And a lot of them would say no,
a lot of them would say yes, you know, so
it just it was like a fifty fifty kind of deal.
So I do that during the day, and then at
night I'd just go to the comedy clubs or comedy
rooms around the area and just you know, try out

(08:23):
some jokes. A lot of them were not funny, which
is the process. You know. It's um, it's it's it's
a really hard process and it's and um, you know,
I do that all night and just kind of build
my craft there and while building my craft during today
and those are my off days from the hospital, and
then I go back to the hospital. It's like, you know,
so um. But then eventually, like I kept freelancing, freelancing,

(08:46):
and then I ran into um what's it called. I
ran into Jimmy and I did a project with Jimmy,
and Jimmy Rede liked it and he called me. He's like, hey,
you know, I would love to have you just let
me know, like, you know, what's your days looking Like
I said, man, I have this full time job, Like
this is crazy. And he was like, dude, you know,
would love to have you joined the team. And honestly,

(09:06):
like I joined him because like not only he's like
a great guy or anything, but like he he has
this vision. It's it's a big, big vision. It's like
pretty much to help a lot of people. Yeah, and
I appreciate that. I appreciate My AirPod just fell out
by the and um I was and I was like,
you know what, you know, I go from the hospital
of helping people to like helping people on a larger scale.

(09:29):
So I said yes. Ever since then, I joined him
back in December two eighteen, which was you know, if
you know like YouTubers, you know, December's the crazy month
for everybody. So I joined in when it was like,
you know, we're filming so many big videos at the time,
and I was like, whoa, Like this is legit, you know.

(09:49):
I think my first project with him was donating a
hundred thousand dollars to homeless people. And here we are
spending a hundred thousand dollars in one day and trying
get like all this food, you know, and like we
gave him a lot of money to to homeless people,
and I'm like, this is beyond me. This is crazy.
Like I was my first day on set and we're
spending all this money and I'm like, this is like

(10:11):
a lifetime experience, Like this is one of the coolest
things I've ever seen, you know. So from there, you know,
we grew together and became really good friends. And when
all these trips and all these videos and got to
know the guys and here we are, here we are.
That's awesome. That's a that's a really really amazing story.
I think it's so cool when people from very different

(10:32):
and like obscure backgrounds come into something almost on accident,
or it's not even on accident. It's like the stars
aligned perfectly, you know. It's it's really really cool, like, um,
it's amazing. You'd never you'd never guess, like I would
have never expected working with Jimmy, you know what I mean,
because like in my in my eyes, he was like
this big YouTuber in town, so like you know, maybe

(10:53):
he'll take a chance, but like he did. It was
it was so cool, man, it was so cool. So
that's so cool. So you said, I think you told
me that you learned English through like just watching TV
shows and stuff, right, yes, So this is this is
pretty much where my love for um, just like videography
and directing and like filmmaking came is UM when I

(11:14):
came here. So I'm like, I'm make like I've always
been like a social kid, especially back home, and I
had a lot of friends and I was always hanging
out with kids and whatnot. Um, but then when I
came here, I couldn't I couldn't communicate with other people.
And that's when it hit me. That's when it really
hit me. I was like, I can't use my words
to be friends with these people, like, I don't know

(11:36):
what to do. So I whenever I get home, my
parents always had the TV on, and my mom always
told me, like, hey, watch TV and just like learn
learned to always had the close caption on. She's like,
you know, hear the words and see how they look like,
and so you can just learn. So I started off
watching cartoons and then from there, I like started watching movies,
and you know, I spent a lot of time alone

(11:57):
with the TV, and I would watch all kinds of movies,
Like I remember watching fight Club and I think one
channel had Fight Club on like just on replay all
day for some reason. And I watched that film maybe
four times in a row. And um, by the third time,
I started understanding what was happening, and I was like
this is cool, Like this is really cool. So from
there I started not only learning English, but I was,

(12:20):
you know, learning more about just like storytelling through film,
and I just was fascinated by that, you know. So
from there, like watched other films that kids shouldn't watch,
like The Departed. You know, Um, I watched that a lot,
you know, Martin Scorsese film, And you know, from there,
I just kind of fell in love with you know
how everything just comes together on screen, you know, and

(12:42):
so I got into it that way. Um. And also
like in high school, I remember because I had a
really thick accent for a while. And Um, in high school,
I remember, um one of our theater teachers. She would
always teach us improv you know, and and like she
would put us in these crazy situations. She would always
made us learn the British accent because Harry Potter was

(13:02):
like big at the time, and we become like a
Harry Potter character. So like, you know, I learned to
lose my you know, thick accent try this British accent.
And then from there I started trying different accents. And
that's why I kind of like became this accent. You know.
Well You're English is perfect now. No one would thank you,
thank you? Yeah, um yeah, it's thanks to that teacher. Yeah.

(13:25):
Ms Cullins may ever forget her man she was. She
definitely made it happen. Shout out Miss Cullen real quick
one time. Yeah. It's funny because, um, a lot of
people don't know this about me either, but when I
was a kid, he used to have a really thick accent. Um,
I haven't really shared that. Yeah, so for those of
you listening to the podcast, see you guys heard it

(13:46):
here first. But yeah, I did not grow up in America.
My my family's immigrants. You know where I grew up.
I'm not going to say exactly where because it might
give away more of my identity, which you know nobody knews. Um. Yeah,
so I I came here. English was not my first language.
I think it was actually my third. And I used

(14:08):
to get made fun of all the time because I
had a funny accent. And slowly but surely I started,
you know, getting away from the accent because it definitely
wasn't like a like a like the sexiest of accents
for the you know what I mean. Like it's not
like it was like a franchise. It was so bad, dude,
Like I like, I bet both of our accents were

(14:31):
literally memes. You know, I think they are. I think
they might be. They still are. Yeah, but yeah I do.
That's amazing. And so wait a question, what time period
did you come to America? Like what year? I so,
I'm born my family moved here in so I was
like I was like a year old, but my my

(14:54):
mom was working two jobs, and then my dad, Um,
he was he had to like retake a lot of
his board exams in English because where we came from. Um. Yeah,
so you know the day was the tough full exam,
the toughel I don't I don't even I don't even
remember what it was called. That's not probably And um

(15:16):
so I was living with my my grandma a lot,
like I'd spend summers and like the year and in Europe,
and like I I officially moved to the States when
I was I don't know, maybe seven eight, like that
was like officially, like I'm going to school, you know,
that's where I started like really learning English and making

(15:36):
an American friends and all that. But yeah, it's interesting
similar backstories in that sense. And then the medical the
medical route as well was really really cool. Um it
was that something that you always had a passion for
or was that like the yeah or was that something
kind of like your parents influenced a little bit more

(15:56):
than yeah, so you probably you probably know it, bet right.
So it's you know, your parents bring you here and
you're like, you know, a better life, better education. So
they want you to see they want to see you
be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer or whatever. Right, So, um,
that was the case. I remember I didn't even want
to do college to begin with. I was like, I

(16:16):
don't I just I didn't know what I want to do.
I didn't even know if I wanted to get into film,
you know. Um, I just didn't want to do college.
That was I remember, just not wanting to do it.
My mom was like, oh, no, you're doing it. Yeah.
So we started looking at professions and stuff and I
was like, I don't want to be a doctor. I'm
not going to go into this doctor thing. Like I

(16:36):
was so against it. So um, we ended up doing
something in the medical field, which is radiation therapy. And
I did that, which is like treating cancer patients, which
is a great job, very rewarding. Um. But it got
it got to be a lot, you know, because you know,
cancer is a really you know, a hard thing to
go through, especially like those people that go through all that,

(16:58):
and you know a lot of people just don't make it,
you know. And I started losing just a lot of
people in my life and I was like, that's not
that's someone I want to do for work. Like, you know,
we save a lot of people, but we also lose
a lot of people and that kind of took a
toll on me, like emotionally. So luckily, what kept me
saying through all of this is, you know, doing the
comedy thing and um, you know, the videography thing, but

(17:21):
mainly the comedy thing because you get to speak out everything.
You know, you've seen a lot of comedians and they
talk about like frustrations, they talk about small things, you know,
like what people do, and you become very observant and
that was kind of like a um, like a therapeutic
thing that kind of got me, got me through it
along with you know, doing the whole filming thing, and

(17:42):
yeah it was My mom pretty much was like, yeah,
just go into it and do it. And I did it,
and I did it for a year and I went
to my parents. I was like, look, I'm not doing
this anymore. I can't. It's a better Yeah, here's a
better alternative. You know. I made a promise to them.
I was like, you know, as long as you let
me do YouTube, I can keep up with my license

(18:03):
so you guys can be happy. So they're like, yeah,
so we did that and here we are. That's awesome, man, Yeah,
it's it's great. I only lasted a year too, so
that's crazy, which is even weirder. Yeah, I finished my
first year med school and then I, you know, that's
the one thing maybe, um, when we defer it is

(18:24):
like like I was always so interested in in a
in an anatomy class, Like in high school, I had
like a hundred percent hundred and three percent and anatomy.
I loved anatomy. It was like my favorite subject. Yeah,
I just think the human body is so like yeah,
it's and it's the only machine that repairs itself, which
is incredible. And I was always so interested. And then

(18:45):
obviously you know, having that um push kind of from
my parents much like you, and then um, I I
had easy buss to just kind of on the side
that I was just like, you know, doing for fun.
And then I really I kind of thought about and
I was like, yo, there's a lot of money to
be made, but also I mean the money thing is
is cool, but for me it was more so like

(19:05):
I can really create something cool out of this, and
I can reach millions of people and and help them
in different ways, and that it aren't just you know, um,
just like in the hospital, you know, much like how
you were saying, how like you've like you love helping people,
and like what do you guys have done is like
incredible and it's amazing, and how you've contributed and how

(19:26):
the whole like all you guys like it's like I
can't even like begin to tell you guys how amazing
it is. So but low key. If if anything ever
went wrong, I would go back to school, and I wouldn't.
I wouldn't have an issue with going to going back
to med school because I loved it. I genuinely did.
But um, I think what I'm doing now is a
lot more fun. So what kind of what kind of

(19:49):
what kind of doctor were you trying to be? I
wanted to be an asesiologist. Very cool. There's a lot
of sleep. Yeah, so I basically kill him and bring
him back to life. Yeah, that's an important job though,
That's so important. I remember being in the and a
lot of like the surgery rooms where that was the
main guy like that had to get everything right because man,

(20:13):
if you don't, then man, you are screwge. You are
in big trouble, big time. Yeah yeah, man, but but
now it's just it's you know, I think we're both happy,
so it's good and that's what matters. Kind of like
what I was saying earlier were like the stars aligning,
you know what I mean. It's like you never know
where life's going to take you and then it just
takes this crazy turn and you just run with it.

(20:35):
So it's pretty awesome. But absolutely so. Besides, like obviously
you said, you're like a videographer. You love like, um
stand up? So who who? Like, what is the thing
that got you into startup? Or sorry stand up? Or
who is there a certain comedian? Like who's your favorite
stand up comic? Yeah? A fun fact about stand up comedy.

(20:58):
I never, I've never, ever in my life wanted to.
It wasn't a dream of mine, you know what I mean.
It was the kind of thing that once I started
doing it is when I fell in love with it.
Um So, originally I had a really good friend in
town that did stand up comedy, and uh, he always
would te him He's like terky, really funny, like you
should try it, should try it, And I'm like no,

(21:20):
So he's like, well, just come out and check me
out and see it, you know, just see the atmosphere.
Someone up there and I saw him and he was
pretty good, but everyone else like I remember watching them
and I was like thinking to my head, like, man,
I could I could do better, you know, like I
could I could do something a little better. You know.
My friend finally talked me into when he goes, dude,
it's my last night in town, because he was graduating.

(21:42):
He was older than me at the time, and he
was going back to Arizona. Because he was like, do
it's my last time in town if all I want
to do is just see you on stage. One time,
I said, all right, whatever. So I it was the
night before, so I wrote a whole five minutes set
the night before. I wasn't really prepared. I invited a
bunch of my friends out and I was like, you know,
let's just make this a good time. And I did good.

(22:03):
I did good the first time, right mainly because my
friends were there. That's the only reason. Because the next
the next fifteen times I went on stage, I flatlined.
I mean I bombed so bad, to the point where
I would tell a joke and I would look at
the people and everyone in the crowd would look at
me like with nothing, like that's the worst feeling you

(22:25):
can get, you know that, extremely humbling, extremely extremely humbling.
So I remember, like the fifteenth time I went home
and I was like, you know what, maybe this isn't
for me. You know, maybe I'm doing it wrong. Maybe
it's just it's just wrong. And then um, I talked
to my friend my friends, like, dude, just do it
one more time and if if you really don't like
it and you don't enjoy it anymore, just stop. So
I changed up my material and I made it all

(22:47):
like personal, like really really personal stuff. Um. Because I
was watching a lot of like stand up comics. I
was like, yo, they talked about like really intimate personal situations.
So I started doing that and it worked, and it
finally worked. And just the feeling of that big laugh
after like a big silence is probably the best feeling.
It's it's addictive. So um, from there, I was like, yeah,

(23:12):
I love this, Like it's it's like the big laugh
is so addicting, Like you have to you have to
hear more, you have to hear more. So I just
started doing it, man, um been doing it now for
four years. I did it in my hometown. My hometown
didn't have a comedy club. It was just small bars
starting out, small open mics, and a lot of these
bars closed down and then um, two years ago, you know,

(23:32):
we didn't have a place to do comedy in this town.
So it was like I went to this brewery and
I started this room of my own, and I hosted
the room, and we started doing it every week, and
it got a really good reputation and it would just
literally like it's became a standing room only, like people
packed it out every week. People talked about the room
and it was a good time. We had a lot

(23:53):
of good comics um getting performing on stage. Like it
was genuinely a good time. And I got to host
the whole and then from there I made it into
it was like a free show every week, right, and
then from there I made it into a page show
every month. So I still do the weekly shows, but
like once a month, I'd advertised that like monthly show,
like hey guys, I'm having like comedians, some of the

(24:14):
best comedians in North Carolina, Like that's our state, um
coming in and like doing a show like it's only
ten dollars to see like come through. And it worked.
We started selling out rooms and a couple of nights,
I started selling out rooms twice a night, like people
had a huge, huge demand on it, and um, it
did so well. Like it it helped me, like, you know,

(24:35):
helped my storytelling big time. You know, it helped kind
of because the biggest, one of the biggest things in
comedies they tell you that when you first start out,
is cut the meat off your joke, right, cut the
fat off your joke so you can have like a
straight set up punchline like get to the funny quick.
And that helped me with everything. That helped me with
you know, my filmmaking. It helped me with everything. So

(24:56):
definitely grateful for Stand Up big Time. And you know,
I always looked up to big comedians like, um, you know,
Dave Chappelle, Um, Bill Burr of course, you know, those
two are the main guys that I'll watch because they
channel a lot of their emotions into the jokes and
the way they do it is just so beautiful, just

(25:16):
well done. It's very well done. So yeah, so that's
that's pretty much what got me into it. I still
do it to this day, um, whenever I get time.
But now during this quarantine, stand up is canceled like
it's because it's a big group event. You know, people
are sitting close together in a room, so like no
one's doing it. And all of my stand up friends
are starting to do these. Uh I g live stand

(25:39):
up shows at which I recommend you see if if
anything pops up on your feet, definitely just watch it.
It's really cool because it's interesting because it's just a
bunch of comics just yelling into their phones for like
five minutes at a time. It's kind of funny. Um,
I have yet to do one. Um, I don't know
how I feel about it because I like to hear

(26:00):
a crowd. I'd like to hear people. But um, if
I ever do one, I'll let you know. So yeah, dude,
you know you should do is? You should? You should
make like a Zoom comedy special like on Zoom because
you can have I think with the paid version you
can have up to like a thousand people. Yeah. So
maybe I don't know how exactly it would work, but

(26:21):
maybe if everyone has their audio on you're talking, then
you would hear that laugh and you would like get
the reaction, which would be really really cool. It's it's
funny that you mentioned that because my friend. He he's
also a comic, and he was telling me the other
day that he did a comedy show in Zoom with
a comedy club, like a big comedy club, Helium Comedy club,
and I was like, what was the viewership on that?
He goes A d people were tuned in. I was like,

(26:43):
eighty people. He goes eighty people were watching and you
get to see like you know, like the comment like
ha ha ha or like you know whatever, you can
see the as like, I don't know, I don't know
how to because like I'm the kind of person I
work off the energy of the crowd. Like if if
I say something and the crow would reacts, I work
off that reaction and then just go from there. But
if I'm not hearing anything, I'm I get in my

(27:05):
head and I'm like, oh, they don't like it, and
you know, I try to look for other ways and
stuff like that. So yeah, but still like I'm still
like in the comedy world, I'm still like a like
a new like guy at it because a lot of
the comics, like I watch a lot of big interviews
with like some of the big comics out there, and
they say, like the first five years you're still figuring

(27:27):
out your voice, you know, on stage, and then after that,
once you find your voice, you go to a certain
direction and then like by ten years in your a comic,
you're like a well developed comics. So I'm four years old,
so we'll see you're you're getting there. Well, yeah, dude,
that's so cool. Like I would love to I would

(27:48):
love to watch the show and you know, see your element.
It would be awesome. But um, I love dude, I
love stand up comedy. My favorite is Brussel Peters. I
don't know if you've ever watched Love So Featers. He
is so funny, dude. I've watched him live I think
three times, maybe four or three. Like so the first

(28:11):
two times I watched it with um, watched him with
my parents, so and you know, his jokes are like
super sexual, like oh yeah, where I was like, I
was like, oh god, like I'm sitting like six ft
from my from my parents and like I'm like, dude,
and you know how Russell always interacts with the crowd

(28:33):
and but um, but dude. The first time I I
saw him, I was in the sixth row, so I
was like towards the front, dude, I was crying. It
was so he's amazing. That's that's what makes like life
stand Up so special, is that the comic can go
off the rails and just pick on someone or like

(28:54):
say something crazy or just do whatever, you know. Because
that's why I always like tell all my friends that's
never seen a live comedy show, even if it's like
an amateur one, just go see it, because it's a
different it's a different field, it's a different vibe. Like
it's some one of the last like art forms that
people can fully say whatever they want, but like you
have to actually, you know, make it work, you know

(29:15):
what I mean, Like you can't just say it and
then's like all right, that's it, Like no, you have
to make it good, you know. And that's that's why
I appreciate about this craft. And you know, like I
think that one of the last comics I saw live
before the quarantine was christ' Liah actually um and he's
about to release a special which is a special that
I saw live, and he's so good. He's probably one

(29:37):
of the most unorthodox comedians I've ever seen. He's just
a weird guy but hilarious. Like and he said it
in his most recent special, UM how he writes his jokes.
He lives mostly alone with his two dogs, and all
he does is he just walks around his house and
just speaks out loud to himself. He just walking around

(30:00):
the house just yelling random things, and he goes, if
I think something's funny, I write it down, and I'm like,
oh cool, let's dude, that's crazy. That's so weird. I
could definitely envision him doing that because he's such a
weird Yeah, yeah, that's funny. I the first time I
watched him, I really didn't think he was funny. A
lot of people, a lot of people think that. I

(30:21):
was like to think that. I was like, dude, this
is so dry and like like I was like, why
is this funny? But the more I started watching him,
I'm like, dude, this guy's genius, you know. And I
love it. UM and you know it's funny. This is
It's gonna be a little bit of a segue too
into like the next topic that I wanted to bring up, UM,
because this is a show about sneakers and sweetwear. Chrislia

(30:46):
is a big sneaker head. That dude. It's all about
the shoes. All of shoes. I see him wearing Yeezys
and Jordan's all the time. And it's funny because one
of my really good friends, he was actually on the
podcast to um he and UM shout out shout out
Keegan he Um. He's an actor and him and Chris
are are pretty good friends. And he always told me, like, dude,

(31:07):
I got introduced to him as a huge sneaker head,
and I'm like, okay, cool, Like I really want to
meet this guy. You know, maybe you would love you, dude,
like I've been wanting to link up with him, So
hopefully after this quarantine thing is over, UM, we'll set
it up. But with that being said, how do you like?
I know you're this is like my first impression of

(31:30):
you when you first came to the warehouse, Um in
l A Dude. You were like bright eyed and bushy
tail just looking at everything, dude, and I could just
I could just tell like how how intrigued and how
amazed you are and everything. And I love that because
I love, dude. I love when people can appreciate you,

(31:52):
know what I mean? So would you would you say that? Um?
Kind of You're you're mentioning that when you were growing up,
your friends were wearing Jordan's and like new balances and
stuff like that. Would you say that you're a sneaker
head or not as much? Or do you respect or
then you are a part of it or what do
you think? So, yeah, I'm definitely I wouldn't say I'm
a total sneakerhead, but I have all the respect in

(32:15):
the world for it. I know at one point I
try to become one, but I didn't have enough money
at the time. So but I remember at one point
all of me my friends did was um, I was
just watch like pretty much keep up with Ronnie Fike.
He was like one of our favorite favorite shoe designers.
Everything he released, we were all on top of it,
you know, like, um, his A six, you know, the volcanoes,

(32:38):
the stage, um, the rose Golds, Like I remember wanting
those so bad, Like me the last time said I
ended up finally getting those because I've always wanted them, right.
But yeah, at one point, like I remember just keeping
up with it so much and just like trying to
like buy something. But at the time, I just I
was a kid, you know, I couldn't afford it. Um,

(33:00):
But you know now I try to keep up with it,
but like it's just so much else going on that
I can't because of work and stuff. But I truly
truly respect it. Like it's when I was walking through
that warehouse and it was just shelves up to the ceiling.
It's incredible, incredible, It's just the coolest stuff. Man. I
love it. I love it so much, but definitely respect it. Dude,

(33:23):
you gotta come back and you got to pick up
those strange loves. Bro. You have to love to I
have to know you saw, you saw how I was
holding these, so so you actually went after when I
wasn't there, right, did you end up just swapping, um,
swapping out the hoodie or did you get something else?
Or yes? Yes, so I ended up swapping out the

(33:45):
hoodie for the right size, and then um, I got
like two more shirts. It's like two supreme shirts. Um,
and that's it. I had to leave. I can't stay here.
Did Jake take care of you? Yes? He did, Okay,
he did. Awesome. He did awesome. I will him no,
otherwise I would have scolded him. No. They were very
welcoming and they even showed me like all the shirts

(34:07):
and stuff. They're like, you'll take your time look through it,
and um, I picked out I was originally gonna get one,
but I ended up getting two. And that's when I
was like, I need to leave soon before I see
another thing. What did you end up getting? Um? It
was is this the Colorful Supreme. See I'm really bad
with names, like really names. It was the words depressed me.

(34:28):
I don't know the names either. It was like the
Colorful Supreme shirt is like the paint Supreme whatever. And
then um, I got the other one. It was like
the New York City Supreme, like an orange Yeah, the
store opening shirt, right, Okay, yeah I got that that

(34:48):
and then the other one and yeah, I love those.
I would love to wear them out, but I would
just wear him inside. Now you just gotta flex. My
mom just well check out the Supreme and she's like,
what is that. I'm like, don't worry about it, mom,
the shirt costs more than your whole outfit. What are
you doing about? So? Yeah, that's um, that's that's what

(35:13):
I got. And it was dude, I tell all my
friends about just the warehouse, like how it's cool. It
is so appreciate that definitely a lifetime experience. I recommend
anybody visit it if you can. It's it's so cool.
It's such a cool place. Well it's not open to
the public, it's just friends and family, but we're opening
up the opening up a store, so visit the store.

(35:35):
But visit the store. Yes, Project Blitz by the way,
make sure you guys check that out. Um. But but yeah, dude,
it's always a pleasure to have you there. And um,
we will get you that pull up box logo because
I know how much you've been looking up. Don't tempt me, man,
those that's probably one of my favorite that's my favorite
artist too. So it's like when I saw that on

(35:56):
a shirt, it was I just lost my mind. I
was like, that's the thing actually forgot Honestly, I almost
forgot that even existed. But dude, if that wasn't worth
like a small car, you know, no, And I'm glad
it's worth that much because like it's a special shirt,

(36:17):
you know, it's a very very special piece. Yeah. Um,
it's it's crazy because Supreme Collapse with a lot of artists,
you know, it's not just like skaters and stuff, Like
they did something with Damien Hurst. They've done a collab.
But the Pause, they've done obviously the pullog Jason Pullock right,
Jason Jackson, Pea Jackson. Sorry sorry, and then um, and

(36:39):
then who else they've done, like some clouds of some
Japanese artists. They've done a Futura collab. I love Fatura. Um,
They've done so many and it's it's so cool because
you never really think like a skate brand would be
collabing with these like high end artists. But it's cool.
It's cool. I like it, you know. Um. But so
you said you haven't really had enough time to keep

(37:01):
up to date, and I don't blame you. I don't
even have enough time to keep and it's literally my job. This,
this is how I keep up with it. I just
watch your stories, your Instagram stories, because you always do
those poles like which shoes should I do? And I'm like, oh,
that's a cool shoot, just look it up on stock Acts.
I'm like, oh that's cool. That's that's literally that's like
my main way of keeping up is through you. And

(37:21):
then like I have stock x notifications on like they
just update me with some new releases and stuff like that,
and if I have time, I look through it. If
I don't, I'm just like, oh, just look at bust
Us story later, just see what's going on. I love it.
I love it. Yeah dude, Um, it's crazy how like
sneakers really took over my life. But it's interesting how
sneakers kind of somehow touch everyone's lives in some way

(37:47):
or another. You know, absolutely people even people who don't
who don't really care care for it, they can they
can still respect it, you know, like it was. It
was funny the second time, um, like the boys came in. Um,
Jimmy was like looking at a bunch of shoes, he
did not give a ship at all, Like like certain

(38:10):
shoes like we showed him, He's like, oh, those are cool.
And then he showed them to Maddie and she's like
I don't like those and he's like, okay, never mind.
And I was like god damn it. Um and um,
but even with Jimmy, I like really walked him through
a lot of things and he was like, oh, wow,
this is really cool. And I know he's really big
on investing, so I kind of tried to explain that
aspect to him, and um, he understood, and I felt

(38:34):
like he had like a new found um you know,
like aspect on sneaker culture and like street the whole thing. Yeah,
he loves he loves anything like investment wise, He's all
about it. Dude. Yeah, me too, bro. Like, as much
as it's like a terrible time right now, you know,
it's a really good time to invest. And you know,

(38:56):
even though I don't, it's like it's messed up, man,
because I and and and that's why I give back
so much, because like at this at this point in time,
you know, I'm obviously blessed enough. I worked, I worked
my butt off to to be at the point where
I am now where I can invest and I have
some money saved up. Just sad, man, like seeing so

(39:16):
many people lose their jobs and like, you know, dude,
one thing that's crazy to me. I saw this statistic
online that of Americans cannot cover a five dollar emergency
medical bill. Are you serious? Eight zero? Not eighteen eight zero?
Which that's ridiculous. Is that's ridiculous. It's absolutely insane if

(39:41):
you think about it, you know, And there's so many factors.
I don't know, it's really hard to it's really hard
to really understand exactly everyone's situation because I'm sure there's
some people who you know, don't save up enough money.
I don't have any savings. I'm sure there's some people
who are very who are working three jobs and have

(40:02):
five kids and our single parents and then you know
they can't um you know, all their money is spent
on all that stuff. And it's sad, man, especially at
this time now when so many people lost their jobs
and um. And that's I think I read before this happened,
So now I can't even imagine you know what I mean, Wait,
you had this before the coronavirus. Oh my gosh, yeah, no,

(40:28):
this is I mean. And there's a lot of it.
I was talking. I was telling my friend this the
other day, like there's a lot of you know, cons
to this, right, there's a bad things are happening to
a lot of people. Um, you know, from health to
financial to everything. Um. But I think this time is
gonna literally like truly truly bring us all closer, Like

(40:48):
you see it all over the internet, like we're all
kind of realizing that we took took a lot of
things for granted, in terms of just being around your friends,
being around your family, just like just interacting with a
they're humans, you know, we're all now like locked into
our house like we're it's like we're all like just
pressed against our windows looking outside, waiting, Hey, what's you know,

(41:10):
what else is happening? You know. It's so it's like
it's I think it's I think it's it's definitely bad
on a lot of things, but it's also good in
terms of just you know, making people whole again. I
feel like I feel like whenever this is over, people
are gonna I'm like, you know those scenes in the
movies where like people just run to hug each other.
I feel like similar to that, Like, you know, I'm

(41:32):
just gonna see like some friends that I haven't seen
in a while, like, oh my god, I missed you.
You know, like it's gonna bring us a lot more,
a lot closer. Um, and it's gonna it's going to
motivate a lot of people to do a lot of
things that they've always wanted to do as well. Um,
a lot of people go ahead, no, no, please please continue. Um.
There is because a lot of people now are taking

(41:53):
this time to just learn a lot of things, are
doing a lot of things that they've always wanted to do.
Kind of like what we're talking about earlier how a
lot of people now are just gonna start their twitch
streams or their YouTube and you know, get in touch
with their creative side, you know, and just make best
of what do you have around you, you know, in
your house. And and I think I think it's going
to do a lot of good eventually. Um, but right now,

(42:15):
we just kind of have to tough it out and
be strong and help each other anyway we can. I
mean I see a lot of those um nonprofit organizations
and charities and stuff like that all over the internet,
and I try to give as much as I can,
you know, because people people need help. People do need help.
You know, there's there's a lot of people out there
that just can't pay rent, you know, Dad, it's it's yeah,

(42:38):
it's very sad. And you know a big part of
me really wants to try to push, you know, give
give these people something because you know, the worst case
scenarios like these people will end up without a home
out here with this virus going around. You know, that
puts a lot of people in danger. So, UM, I
think this time is making us think of each other
more than ever, which I appreciate. Yeah, absolutely, And dude,

(43:02):
I haven't seen my friends in like three weeks, and
it's all for you know, a good reason. And um
it's funny because, um, you know how you were saying
that when once this whole thing is over, people are
gonna be running and hugging each other. I feel like
people are gonna be running and fist bumping. It's not
quite over yet, but you know what I mean. Um,

(43:25):
But yeah, man, it's a really sad time. And like
I said, I think what you what you guys are doing,
and how you guys are contributing is like incredible. Um.
I think it's really important for all creators to not
only give back to you know, our communities and people
who support us, but to give back to the world
and to set an example to you know, stay at home,

(43:45):
like like I honestly, I've only left my house I
think maybe a handful of times, and that's only to
get like necessities if I had to go to the
store or um, to go on to walk around my neighborhood.
But I'm not even posting my walks in the neighborhood
because I just I don't even want to put that.
You wouldn't deal with that message out because I think
people like, but I'm like, dude, I'm literally around my

(44:08):
neighborhood not and it's crazy because other people in my
neighborhood are walking around too. And it's funny because if
they're on the same side of the road, I will
literally cross the street. Like you know what I mean,
exact same. Yeah, Like nature walks are so important. I
call him like me and my friend we call him
nature walks. It's like, you gotta get your nature walk
today because you just need some sunlight. Um, but definitely

(44:30):
be safe about it. Like yeah, like you said, like
or we're a easybust to mask. There we go, perfect
time to plug right there. Had to do a shameless
merch plug. But on the real on the real though, guys,
if you guys are listening to this and um, the
quarantine is still in effect because I don't know exactly
when this video is going to be I mean when

(44:50):
this podcast is gonna be posted. If you guys do
purchase a mask, I'm donating all the profits to Feeding America.
So I'm not just shamelessly plugging my merch. I'm just
trying to make a difference one mask at a time. Yes, guys,
definitely get the mask. It's gonna go for a good cause. Bro,
Well what else, what else have you been up to
during the quarantine? Have you guys been able to work

(45:12):
on any new videos? So yeah, so it's mainly now
like a pause. Um, so we're trying to practice all
the safe you know, precautions. We don't want to do
anything that could endanger anybody. So right now we're kind
of working from home, brainstorming ideas from home, talking to
each other. We talked to each other all the time
every day. Um, so that's definitely a good thing. We

(45:35):
checking on each other and make sure everybody's good. So
we're eventually gonna just come up with a plan just
to see like how long this quarantine is going to
go for. And you know, if it does go for long,
we'll have to figure out a plan to make it
to where we can shoot while also being safe. You know.
So that's good. I'm I'm I'm happy to hear that.
And like, from from your perspective, like, um, as a

(45:58):
part of the team, what are you kind of brainstorming now?
Like obviously don't give us any ideas or what do
you guys are going to do, but what are you
kind of brainstorming, like are you thinking of some creative
ways to make it work or so. So what I've
personally been doing is, um, I've been taking this time
to just learn a lot about just like directing and filming.

(46:19):
So I took a bunch of masterclasses. And you heard
me earlier mentioned Martin Scorsese, um taking some of his
classes to just to learn more about like just how
to shoot an entire you know, film, or like a
scene or just to feel. Um. So I'm learning a
lot about that, and um, you know, I'm learning new
tactics in terms of editing and like how to shoot,

(46:40):
how to film efficiently, and you know, stuff that would
help us big time on set on shoot because like
we're so busy that it's hard sometimes to just stop
and like try to learn certain things because like we're
always on the go. But now this is the perfect time.
And I told the guys, I was like, you know,
I'm just learning all this stuff on masterclass. Like I
recommend it. This is they're not paying me or anything.

(47:03):
Masterclasses Dope, definitely get it. I've learned so much within
like the last two weeks. You know, every day they
have like fifteen minute video lessons about literally anything you want,
not just film or anything. It's from cooking all the
way to architecture, like to like basketball. Steph Curry has
a class like it's so cool, Like, yeah, it's you

(47:25):
can learn so much. Um and definitely recommend it. You know,
if you can get it, definitely get it. But but
we been learning and a lot of that stuff and
just been taking time for myself to rest and relax
so we can come back stronger and just better than ever.
So yeah, definitely take this time to learn. I'm like,
learning is fun. I I might sound like a nerd

(47:45):
for this, but like once you after you learn something,
that feeling like oh I can do that now. You know.
It's a cool feeling. You know, it's just definitely do it.
Definitely do it as much as you can. So I
agree with you a thousand percent. I Um, I started
learning a lot of new tricks on like Photoshop and
guy because I was always like pretty decent at it,

(48:06):
but now I started learning how to use it. And
there's millions and millions of things that you can do
on Photoshop. Um, I've only like hit the top of
the iceberg, but I've learned so many new things, and
I'm like, dude, I wish I knew this six months ago.
It would have been so much easier to do this
and this and this. Um, you know, obviously like my

(48:27):
my new video, I UM shout out to d hc
um shout out to Zach. He really kind of helped
me and coached me on how to create a pretty
better content and more entertaining content. So I kind of
learned some of his editing styles and techniques and um

(48:47):
kind of figured out a little bit how to use
the secret sauce you know what I mean, it's not
and UM, so far it's great. Dude. My my videos
that like almost half a million views. UM, that's awesome already,
which is awesome, And you know, I'm gonna start posting
like once a week. So I really locked myself down

(49:08):
and been like, okay, cool, Like now I really got
to make content. I'm gotta learn not only from um,
like an entertainment point of view, but from an algorithmic
point of view. I know, I know you guys are
huge on that. UM. So yeah, that's what I've been
trying to learn and trying to put out a new
content for it for all you guys. Yeah, and it's
so easy to like, especially like these days with quarantine happening,

(49:31):
where you don't have any responsibility, right, it's so easy
to just not do anything than to just do something,
you know what I mean, Because yes, there's a lot
of people out there. It's like, you know, you know,
like I finally do this thing that I've always wanted
to do, and then you checking on them, it's like,
oh no, I haven't done it yet. It's just like, well,
you got it. I'm still a fortnight. And that's yeah,
because there's a lot of distractions. There's a lot of distractions,

(49:53):
you know, and so um that's why I like I
kind of you know, broke my day into a schedule,
right like in the morning, Um, I have like any
work calls I do, Like those are the first things
I you know, approaches. I call, you know, everyone at
work or whoever I need to work and make sure
you know, you know, I'm doing my part and they're

(50:14):
doing their part, and everybody's doing you know whatever for
the goal. And then after we're done with that all right,
still in the morning time, I'm gonna work out in breakfast.
Then afterwards from like lunch too, maybe six PM. I
use that time to like either go outside or like
read or whatever. And then from six to like you know, bedtime,

(50:36):
I either edit something or learn something and editing kind
of like photoshop or after effects, and then uh, I write.
I do a lot of writing, if it's stand up
or whatever. Um, and then I end the whole day
with just watching like a show that I'm following, and
then started all over again the next day. It's just
kind of uh but yeah, like you know, definitely breaking

(50:57):
down your day and schedule when it accordingly helps you
just do more. You know. That's one piece of advice
I give to everyone at home is you know, writing
on a piece of paper and try to follow it,
because if if it's you know, if it's all in
your head and you don't really commit to it, then
it's just not gonna happen, you know. So of course,
of course that's a great routine. I love it. I

(51:18):
love it. So so what do you, um, so, do
you do all the editing for all the videos or
you kind of like, okay, you're not so so I
used to um help edit, but it's it's always been
like a team of editors, and so what now what
we do is I shoot the UM the video, and

(51:41):
then I put some editing notes of like what happened
on set and stuff like that, and I give it
to the editors and we just work, you know, they
work on it and we kind of talk about it
until it's uploaded and it's a good video after that.
So it's it's it's a loves a lot of teams doing,
you know, working to achieve a common goal. That's awesome.
That's awesome because I was gonna ask you what do

(52:02):
you what do you edit on? Because because you said
you kind of learn learning new editing tricks, said after effects,
So do you do premiere or so? Yeah, so UM,
mainly for our videos we use premiere and after effects
UM for like the graphics that you see and stuff
like that. UM. Personally, I'm just learning after effects because
I just want to learn it. I've always wanted to
learn it UM because it's such a deep, deep software,

(52:25):
like there's so much on it UM and I kind
of want to because I know that a lot of movies,
like big movies use it too. So I just got
into it and started like watching a lot of YouTube
videos about it and UM reading about it and yeah,
just take like small clips around the house and then
I just put it in the computer and put it
in after Effects and just play with it and see
where it goes. But it's cool, it's fun stuff. I

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wanted to learn after Effects because I use Final Cut
because I was just kind of so hold on, we
gotta we gotta have this debate right now, because as
I always in my in my opinion, because I've tried Premiere,
I've tried it. It is so complicated, everything is all

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over the place, but hold on, hold on. The best
way I could describe Final Cut versus Premiere in my
opinion is I think Final Cut is like obviously because
it's the Apple software. It is like the iPhone, and
then Premiere is like the Android because liked because the
iPhone is like so pretty and aesthetic and so easy

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to use, even like your grandma could use it. And
then um, and Android is like more complicated on and
it's not as user friendly, but you can do so
much more. So I feel like maybe that's the difference
in my opinion, I'm going to be completely honest with you.
I was born into Premiere, and even I didn't even
like I tried find Cut, like one time, but like

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I didn't even give it any mind. But um, mainly
I got into Premiere because I knew that's what, like,
I guess, like all the films, you know, a lot
of the films used at the time and stuff like that,
so I know now they use something else. I don't remember.
I think it's the Vinch here or something, but um,
I got into that. And then you know, if you
get into Premiere, you get the whole Adobe set up,
so you know, if you do something on Premiere, you

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can open it and after effects you can open it
and illustraight, you can open anywhere same thing with like
a photoshop and audition and stuff like that. So you
get a whole bundle of just like you know, ways
to do or create. And that's mainly why, like why
I got it. But I haven't really yeah, I haven't,
honest with I haven't played with Final Cut at all,
so I don't know much about it, but I know

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there's a lot of people that like it. It's so
easy to use. And like me, coming from an absolutely
like negative you know, like cinema background, I you know,
I feel like I got pretty decent with using Final Cut,
But dude, you know what's crazy to me, you know,
Zach because so Zach z HC. I feel like I'm

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going to expose him here. But he uses I movie. Yeah, dude,
you'd be surprised. I mean, I learned everything thr a
movie because it was on your phone, so it was easy.
But no, my movies, my movie is very user friendly,
which is what motivates a lot of people to do
these things. You know, of course, yeah, um but yeah

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that's cool. That means good for him, like he's obviously
super successful with it, you know, so oh no, he's
killed cool. No. But but the thing that blew my mind,
like I was like, oh, so what editing software do
you do? You do you use Premiere Pro or Final Cut?
And he was like, I use I movie And I
was like, I was like, what, like, bro, because he's
the first YouTuber that I ever met that didn't use
one of the two. He used my movie. And I

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guess like he does the hard, hard cuts and the
hard edits on um my movie, and then he has
like a team that does like a bunch of after
effects and stuff. But yeah, which goes to show for
people who are listening if you do want to get
into YouTube. You don't have to start at the highest
kind of love or top. Yeah, you know what I mean.
You can start, you can start small. Everything is available

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in your phone literally, especially these days, like you can
do everything on your phone. Even Jimmy. Jimmy started with
an iPhone, like he says that all the time. You know,
he started with an iPhone and then built his way up,
so like, go for it, go for it, go for it. Yes, yes,
I love it. I mean, dude, even when I started, Um,
I I started on a cannon on an a d
D just because Casey and I stad had it and

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you know, beautiful camera and um shout out to Casey. Yeah,
a quick shout out to Casey. And then I got
like a fifty dollar road mike and like a gorilla pod.
You know, I had basically like the literally the yes, dude.
Literally right before I started like going serious on YouTube,
I spent I think like three thousand dollars on my

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laptop and then I spent another on my camera. Never
bro I was when I tell you I was broke.
I was broke. I nothing because I was like, you
know what, like if I'm gonna do it, I gotta
do it. Right, and I just went crazy. I was like,
and um, now I know I shoot on a Sony.
I have like way more equipment and stuff. Now it's different,

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But like, dude, back then, I was like, you know what,
I'm fully invested. I'm gonna do it. You know what
I mean, you made you made a very smart investment,
and like look where it took you. You know that's
what That's what like it holds back a lot of people,
is like I don't know, maybe I shouldn't. Maybe that's
what separates who doesn't who doesn't, you know what I mean?
And that's the thing. Everybody can do it. Everybody can
do it, you know. And and um, honestly, looking back,

(57:36):
did I need the A D D? Nah? Could I? Could?
I have bought G seven X for a six of
the price. Absolutely, But again, if looking back at it,
like if you if you didn't get the A D
D at the time, like I think, I feel like
just the new equipment just motivates you to do more, right,
Like oh, you know, like you know, I have this laptop,

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I have this camera, Like I gotta put it to use,
Like you know, I'm just gonna pump out a bunch
of content and go from there because I think that
that adds a lot to it, because that's what happened
to me. Um, when I was freelancing, didn't have a
lot of money at the time I do. I spend
all my money, like you like you on on a
new camera which is like a Sony A sixty three
and my laptop, which pretty much ended me like I

(58:22):
didn't have any more money afterwards. So that motivated me
to just do a lot of those small freelancing gigs
for small businesses. Uh and um, like, I ended up
doing all these small commercials, online commercials, and then eventually
one of my commercials ended up on like local TV here,
and I was like, oh my god, that's so cool.
Yeah it was. It was a big moment um. But
then I ended up paying off my laptop through those

(58:42):
jobs and stuff like that, so it was it was
cool to just see the turnaround, like pretty much fully
come back and pay from my laptop, pay for my camera,
and just go from there. So it was cool. It's
worth it if you love it, it's it's definitely gonna
be worth it. Of course, it's it's totally an investment. Um.
But apart from all like the mr be stuff obviously.
Is there any personal projects that you're working on right now?

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Is there anything else that you're working on on the
side or I don't know, have you ever tried free writing?
M hm um. Free writing me is just type down
whatever comes to your mind in that moment, and just
even if it doesn't make sense, sentences don't even have
to make sense. It's kind of like a therapeutic thing.
And a lot of the times you just get a
lot of ideas out of it, right because you're just
going you're letting your your subconscious just go and you're

(59:28):
just typing. Um. So like I like to do that
at the end of my day and I just start
off like talking about my day and then it just
goes into whatever it goes. That's all. You know, I've
never done that. I'm gonna start doing that. You're You've
inspired me to start doing that. It feels like like
everything that's been going on in your mind is just
it's gone. It's on your screen, like it's it's there.

(59:49):
You know. It's kind of like a it's like an event,
like you're venting to something or someone, you know what
I mean. It's it's kind of cool. It's very cool.
Definitely recommend it. Yeah, definitely, Well you're since we have
been talking for a while now and we could talk
from for hours, but my camera is literally about to die.
So um, so I always um. I introduced this new

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segment in the show, it's like the Sneaker of the Week,
and I dropped one episode every week, so um, this week,
I figured that, you know, maybe we can kind of
like have a quick little discussion on just just is
there a sneaker that you've always loved or never been
able to get your hands on or you've saw and
you're like, holy sh it, like I really, you know, dude,

(01:00:34):
hands down the red octobers. Those I've always wanted those.
I've always always wanted those because I remember because I
was I went to I was at a Kanye concert.
It was the um the easiest concert, and he was
talking about how, like you know, how he does his
rants and stuff like that. So he was talking about

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how he was still with Nike at the time. He
was talking about how Nike was limiting him like creatively
and they won't let him do like whatever he wanted
to do and stuff like that, and he mentioned like
the red Octobers and he I think he had the
Red Octobers on, and um, I just wanted those so bad.
I was like, you know, I'm gonna get those when
you get those, And then of course he leaves Nike

(01:01:17):
goes todas the Red October has become extremely expensive, and
he said, like, that's a shoe that I've always just
wanted to have, So We're gonna make this week sneaker
of the week the Red October. And it is my
favorite true as well, so amazing. So that's why I
was saying, like my man, like like you know, great
minds think alike. Absolutely, but um but yeah, so yeah, man,

(01:01:41):
I mean, thank you so much for coming on the show.
I definitely want you to come on again. Um, thank
you for having me. We should, we should, we should
do another one when the quarantine is over with Kelly
if she's down to Yeah, absolutely, post quarantine podcast or something.
I like that post quarantine podcast. That's a I like that,
Like that will definitely make it happen. But Bro, thank

(01:02:02):
you so much for coming on. I really really appreciate you, man,
and it's always so so awesome to to talk to
you and about anything. Bro and I'm sure we could
talk for hours after this too, but I always do
this for all my guests at the end, if you
want to leave with leave the listeners with something like
whether it be a quote or something you preach, or

(01:02:23):
you can literally just say go follow me on Instagram.
It does it matter, Just just like leave the listeners
with something before before we go. I definitely, I definitely
want to leave with a quote that I read recently
and I really love. Um, it's pretty much never explain
why you're doing good to anyone, uh, because I love explainations.
Just not needed, just not needed. Just do good, Just

(01:02:45):
do good. And I know this these times are rough,
so just kind of keep your head up, learn make
the best out of your situation. We will come out stronger,
I promise, UM, and just stay positive, stay positive. I
love it. I love it. That's that's amazing. Make sure
you guys go follow Tarik on his instagram. UM. But yeah, man,

(01:03:06):
appreciate you one more time. And yeah, I'm definitely gonna
have to come come back on the show. We'll set
that up for next time. And thank you so much
for having me. Great, great experience, of course, bro, I'm
so happy. We'll make it happen again. And for those
of you listening, make sure you guys are subscribed. Appreciate
you guys, and I'm gonna catch you guys next time
on legit check