October 1, 2025 • 39 mins
In this episode of Made For This Mountain, Josh sits down with New York City comedian Splou to talk about what it really takes to grow as a comic and as a person. Splou opens up about his life struggles, the lessons behind the laughs, and the reality most people never see off stage. From the grind of building a career in comedy to the moments of doubt and breakthrough, this conversation goes deeper than punchlines. If you’ve ever wondered what fuels an artist’s growth or how to keep going when life gets heavy, Splou’s story will inspire and challenge you.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So blue. Thank you so much for being on this episode.
It's actually weird. We're just like casually talking and I'm
just like, let's stop, just start the episode. But thank
you for being here. For those people that don't know you,
who are you?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
My name is flu.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I am a Spanglish comedian uh Dominican parents, born and
raised in the Bronx, and I am a rising star.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
This is made for this mountain with Josh Rosa, who
we're turning pain into purpose. That's a That's a great
way to put it, because I know I H'm thinking
about in the heights. That's like as valid as it gets. Foos,
the man everyone talks about like this is their job.
I saw that I was dying. I forgot where I
was going, but I was because I travel often, so
(00:54):
I traveled speaking it's not fun. I missed my bet.
But it was like five in the morning or something,
some some crazy thing, and I saw the video and
I started dying. I was like, this is hilarious. Three
out there somewhere just living his best life.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Living his best life, not knowing. He changed my mind, bro.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Literally literally, So what do you think has been the
hardest part of like diving into this comedy thing, right,
because that's like your thing, right, you love comedy, You're
doing comedy. What's been the hardest part of that?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I think the hardest part has been the balance, because
I really I want to do so much, but I
realistically can't, you know. I like we were saying, like
we were talking off camera, like I work two jobs.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
So I started.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Working at eleven o'clock at night, I get out of
work at seven am. By seven thirty, I'm at my
other job, and I'm getting up at three three.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Thirty Dominican, I am, you got three jobs Dominican of Jamaican.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Nando.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
So it's like, by know, I sell on my leg right,
So it was a you know for a while, I
you know, I went through some things.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I went through some things and and.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I, like local then said all my savings, you know.
And at that point I realized that I will go
to work of two hours of sleep, three hours of sleep.
And then I started thinking to myself, why don't I
just take this energy and put it to make money
instead of just going out and spend money. Because we
got those nights two hundred dollars, three hundred dollars put
(02:35):
out the night.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I spent that on dinner earlier.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Okay, so there you go. That's a good night with
you and your family. Man, you're just going down.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Apple Bee's because you spent apple Bee's. See, I like
it's cotton and water. So what like, what was the
rise of this stuff? Like you're coming into comedy? It
was it like how did you get in the door
or how are you getting in the door? Because I
know that's a process in itself.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I'm gonna be honest with you, Josh, there's so many
things that's been happening, uh to me that you know
you that have been happening to me. But it's not
necessarily that I'm like, you know, not necessarily. I mean
that I have a checklist that I'm like, oh, you know, I.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Mean that that's the reality that we have to overwork,
overstride for things, and it's when you're like making yourself
available to it at this even the.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
That yes, right, but I feel like sometimes well right now,
my mentality is that I I wanna in a good way.
I want to overwork myself because this this work that
I'm putting in now.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
And so I said, you know, Yoki always.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Said fru Yeah, I mean, I want to kind of
shape that for you. Maybe it's not overworked yourself, but
it's worked with purpose, Like you know that there's something
that as as you're working towards and okay, working just
the work, working a lot of it, but it's like,
this is the thing that I'm working towards. Social Media
has been a big thing for you, right, that's a catalyst.
How does that? How's that going for you?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
It's been, man, social media has been great. It's been great.
It's been It's been man. There's so much love received
through social media. So many people send me messages. Man,
you know, I'm so happy of I was having such
a bad day today and I saw the video. You know,
I'm so happy I came across your page. But I
(04:51):
know you get that a lot, because I'm gonna tell
you right now, I feel like that when I come
across your page and I'm having a little bad day.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
But social media has been so good to me.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
So many opportunities have came to me through social media,
and you know, I if there's one thing I could say,
is it is you know, yesterday I was having a
conversation with a with a hat designer and shout out
who knows ca Yeah, man, shout out to Knowa's cat man,
that's my guy. And he was like, Yo, how do
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you do it? How do you how do you come
up with three four different videos a day, all of
them different, all different videos? And I was like, dude,
you know, I wish I knew how to answer to you.
But that's just me, Like my brain is on go
twenty four to.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Seven's naturally flowing. Naturally Yeah, no, but that naturally flowing,
you know?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
You just yeah, you know, so Polka is fassy, but
I mean it's fossy because it's just me.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I'm being me.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
And man, people have been so accepting of that, man,
and I just love it.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So do you think, well, okay, before going to deeper
in that, do you know what? I think this would
be a really good place to tell people about the
commercials that are gonna come. Don't leave. We'll be right
back with some really good stuff after these commercials. Okay,
So those commercials were I don't know what they were actually,
actually they don't really tell me. So people are gonna
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hear something figuring it out. We're talking about your work
life and the things you do. It splue. The onlyaman
isn't Nober Wow.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Okay, So, so my real name is Lewis, right, and
I've always been known as in my block, it was
about eight different Lewises.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I was the youngest, shortest, littlest Lewis, so.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I was little Loo.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Now.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
One day we was we was all hanging out and
you know, there was like a group of girls that
was like the consistent group of girls that we were
chilling with that summer. And at the beginning of the
of chill with them, the girls were like, what's your name?
You know, all I know is that you're always so
well dressed, like you always fly, My boy chicken, that
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was a compliment. That was a compl that was that
was a fly, you fly, right, and it's coming from
the girls that chili with. So I'm just like already
like yeah, you know. So my man, Chica le Chicaly,
his real name was Davie.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Listen, that's a whole nother podcast.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
My man trying to jump in there, and he was like, oh,
what he meant to say was little lou Is always fly,
And what came out was a little splu sply because
it let a gogle better.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
We ain't my low gago.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
So he was like he stuttered for a little bit,
and then all that came up was little Splu sply
And the girls was like, what the fuck did you
just say? But one of them caught it. It was
like little Splu sply, he's seven.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yea, that's the worst way, Broe.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Not so Now the girls they're all little sploos fly,
little sploos.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Fly inside and they can change hey, little splus fly
and before you know it, everybody on the flo like, yo,
you know, because now no which one little splu spl
So now you know, for a few years I was
a little Splu sply, and then I got older. I
started hanging with the O g s and one of
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them pulled me to the sign and I made send them, no,
send them my I'm gonna have to splew.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah, I mean gonna see these.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Brook He saved my life because they might hear a.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Little spoos fly gave it up for a little spleu sply. Guys,
they would have been who's the mad off the stage?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Bro together?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I need that gangster you everybody, little splus fly, you
don't get out of my face.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I did that fly about these little gnats because I
don't know who convinced me to get real trees. It's
like some might dopy that maybe like buying a real tree.
Those on all of them, but some of them are
road So there's these little splue splies flying around the
idea that being placed.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
But you know, blew is actually a real thing. Is
a it's a military term, is it? Yeah, it's like
it's like it's like a you know, like a tenure.
I don't know something in the military.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Like I was and they kicked me out.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
So we want to cut this out.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
That's fine. I remember a talk it was like, yeah,
this ain't for you brother. You you you talk, well,
go do that.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
So that's the ilu fly, Yeah, louse fly.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
So we were talking about social media before and now
I was gonna mention like TikTok and stuff not so
pride to deep. But have you like been making money
off a TikTok yet? I have, I was gonna say,
but we can help with that.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I have.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
I have been making money on TikTok. The thing with
TikTok is you have to be I just don't have
the time. Yeah, yeah, I just don't have the time.
So you have to be consistent. You have to kind
of crack the algorithm.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Right.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Once you do that, you know you're in there. Obviously
you have to do lives. Yeah I don't have time.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah, I don't have time for the lives. But I'll
say this, my bills are all paid because of TikTok.
No way, I'll tell you a little bit. I'll show
you a little bit later. But that's definitely on avenue
that because it's it's perfect for you because you tell stories.
So what people love, what people engage with is that,
Like the thing is that you have to have a
good hook and then you have to have a good
storyline whatever. It's just moving things around and keeping people on.
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But that's why people and I say this often, why
people connect to people, why they relate to people is
not because of the things they say. It's because the
stories they relate to. So the comedy is as much
as it's comedy, there's something in there that people are
looking at and they're like, yo, this this is me.
Like I was a little spoo supply and I lorado.
But it's being able to connect with people. And that's
(10:54):
what we've been talking about, right, this premise of just
building relationships through social media and actually making social media social.
I think that that's the biggest, biggest thing. So what
is a damn I don't want to call you spooshply
brother Nick said.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
No, I was.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I was like, what's spoof life goal this year?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Like that part that would be an exclusive of this
interne the only interview days don't want to be my
childhood name where it's flu actually came from what's.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
What's the goal for this year? Like we're talking about
working with purpose and on purpose right not just working
to work. What are you working towards right now?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Man? I feel like that's a hard question because handle
come on that specifical.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
The other day, somebody called me famous and they were like, oh,
how does it feel to be famous?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
And I was like, I I'm not famous.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Bro, five people know me from the block.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
That's it, you know to me, you know. But then
it's like they sit me now and they're like, bro,
you have.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
One hundred and seventy seven thousand followers, how are you?
How do you not consider yourself famous? You walk into
places people know you, You walk in the street, people.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Know you better.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
You know you're come on, okay, No, way, that's not
what I'm working for. I, like I said earlier, I
enjoyed the blessing. I appreciate the blessings that comes with
all of this, But I don't to answer a question,
I would love to feed my family off.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yeah, I would love for this to be.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
You know that I can replace the money that i'm
making of these two W two's that i'm bringing in
a year that I can say I'm making that off.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
And it said, Okay, I'm not seeing, but.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I'll tell you this much. Enjoy those ws because I'm
assuming you got to health asured into the I'm not
smiling as much, Bro, I said again. And so I'm
going to Columbia for the two.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
We're gonna have a conversation.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
You got a person, bro, Bro, Bro, you see this.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
In the country.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
No, Bro, They told me I paid fifteen hundred for
the switch or only the fake tooth that you put
in while they do the other one. I don't even
want it anymore. I'm keep it, keep the money too.
But that's why I'm saying. Sure. So the scary part
of diving into like the entrepreneurial stuff and living into
that life is that is that you really have to hate, say,
(13:25):
you really have to grind after that. How do you
feel about that? Though? Is that scary or is that exciting?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Is that you know, it's a little scary. It's a
little scary after you see how much.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Do you see potential? That's that's scary about it.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Well, the scary part is I see how much it
is covered when for example, I'm I'm you know, because
of my night job in the union, Yeah thirty two
b J.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
You know. So yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
So when like I was really messed up with my sciatica,
my whole back was just I was gone.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Bro shot.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
And when I was seeing what was being covered, I
was just like new in the Union, but you know,
they was holding it.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Down, should be massages, dumb, you know.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
And I was like, man, you know, and I say,
you new in the union, like new with like receiving
my benef So it was like, oh, you have benefits.
You know we're gonna we're gonna activate this like right away,
you know. And man, when you see all that's covered,
because holdo, this is where things get that dumb are
(14:37):
uh you know, like since when my ankle has hurt,
like I see out of nowhere, I try to swap
a fly sitting down the other day, Bro, I had
to stay there for like.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
We're waking up. I don't know what's going my wrist,
I didn't fall.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
My body was hurting because I slept too long on.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
The couch too much. You got too much rest a season.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Who like, so you you start realizing how important these
benefits really are. So it is scary, you know, to think, Okay,
I could give all of this up, you know, to
go follow my dream.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
But uh I was.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
I was watching a podcast and they were talking about
how it's sad how these people entertainers, right, they entertain
you for all these years betterheito, and they're no longer entertaining.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
There's no backup plan for them.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
So they didn't make the right investments and they didn't
move their money correctly.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Yao, bro.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Unfortunately they got to go into the system because there
is no there's no thirty two BJ because you made
the world laugh for forty years.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
That's the reality. And I also think, like the scary
thing about like being an entrepreneur diving into that world
is that reality that you have to make the right investments,
Like you have to learn about money management, you have
to learn about those things. I was I was joking,
well kind of not joking, like the cost of the
equipment I have here. I'm like, that's it. That's that's
Luke's tuition right there, my kid. But that okay, these
are investments that I'm making in that. But after that,
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bro yo ramen e. But just because it's like five
dollars for a plate, but after that, like you really
have to be conscious about what you spend, even the
tooth stuff. Like I like, I'm joking, but I'm not joking.
It's so expensive that I'm like, is this worth spending
on right now? Because it's a physical thing, But I
still need a tooth. So you know, that's that's the
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hard part. So have you so this being a dream
being a goal because I've I've said this before and
I've heard it said somewhere else that if if their
dreams don't scare you, then not big enough. Oh man,
I cry because of that big yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I like because I said, yo, like the sky like
I'm going to do this. Yeah, And and I say like,
come okay, Joe man, there may day I'm gonna see
Joel Unho or Joel Ko And I'm like I can.
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I can do that, like, and my heart even racist
bro like like Masuto because it's like, oh my god,
am I going to do this?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
You know, I'm about to have a show right now.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
One hundred seats, that's yeah, that's the most I ever
did come.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Down, you know.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
And today I'm you know, sitting there doing the budgets
with my fiance and my beautiful fiance now and I
love your baby, shout out to you.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
But we'll just crop that just one that we're just
posting that one nothing more.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
We're sitting there and we were doing the budgeting for
the show, you know, and she's like, Babe, we're like
ten tickets away from selling out. God, you know, and Broy,
you know you're seeing the reality the fruits of it. Yeah,
because like I said, right like I thought about it,
(18:10):
I was like, man, what if I have a show
at Captain Kirk's Shout out to Captain Kirks. What if
I have a show at Captain Kirks. We did the
Dominican Versus Puerto Rican show comedy show there, one hundred
and seventy five people sold out, four nights back to
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back every night.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
So I'm like, how these are all these people coming
one night together at one place, you know.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
So I'm like, man, I could I could probably do
a hundred And in my mind I was like, already
this seventy five at comedy in Harlem, So I know
for sure I could do seventy five.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Maybe I should keep that that yi my heart started.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Really I was like, you see yop and go see
a low you see yok on thet out of em.
I'm looking at a hundred faces that came to see me, bro,
because it's like.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Like you no mean like that enemy. It kicks in
and it's like, what if you.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Don't you become your own biggest enemy.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
What if you don't What if you got a hundred
seats and you sell twenty.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
We're going to dive right into that after these quick
commercial breaks, let's get it, so we're coming back to
that reality twenty. The crazy thing is that I feel like,
even on a bad day, you would still hit those
numbers because this is this is the benefit of having
like a following and a growth and as you grow
and as you progress, it become better, This becomes more
of a reality. But I think that's the scary part too,
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is that and this is something I'm facing myself because
I've spoken in arenas with five thousand people. I was
in the contin she do my blanco, that me vida,
and I was like, I'm Dominican. Dominicans in here the
third row in an arena. Somebody goes, whooa. They came
to say hi to me. After She's like, I'm half Dominican.
I U I guess. But it's that same premise. Is
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that that lie that we tell ourselves that I would
never get to that place. You convince you that you'll
never get to that place you It's called the self
fulfilling prophecy. Can you guarantee that you don't do the
thing you're afraid of? You say, well, that's not possible,
that's not real. The people that are most I'm a
person I'm not going to save his name because I
know Santos knows it. By the way, Santo's is here
every hearing you might you might know him. The hood
(20:20):
knows him. He hit the people, but oh he is
so delusional that he could say and he could dance.
He had He's like on radio shows without a fuck
these people. I might have gave too much informationalway I
don't want to talk hit the thing. But other people great,
great can it? And people are laughing and whatever, blah blah.
(20:43):
But you know what, the dude is everywhere because he's
delusional about what he can do. Imagine if you actually
had talent. You have talent, so imagine being delusional about
what you can do about you. That's the only time
to being delusion is okay, it's to believe that you're
capable of that.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
I you know, this is why, this is why, when
when when the conversations of partners come up, I think
it's important to have someone that has what you may not, right. So,
I'm more of a realist, right, so it's a little
hard for me to sometimes be that delusional. But Nana,
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she dreams. Nana be like, I'm like, babe, I don't
think I could do one hundred. She's like, why can't
you do five hundred?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
That's it?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Why can't you do a thousand? Why what are you
talking about? You know?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
I go places and I'm like, bro, we this is
a real story, right, But I could do some women. Nana,
we we're going somewhere, we get invited somewhere. I'm like, no,
we gotta wait outside because we got to go in
with the person who invited its like, do you know
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who the fuck you are? Like walking there, you're spleu yeah,
And I'm like nah, because you see there, I'm not.
I'm not delusional enough, right, So, being the realist that
I am, I'm like no, because in reality, and I
think they're gonna make on no sing on the Instagram,
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They're not just gonna soka pasa.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Yoya nana like Okay, you want some money? Cool?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
I get on the line. On the line, security is
like looking, he stops everybody. He goes to me, who
you with?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Like just me and my girl.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
He's like, let's go, brings me in, brings me in there,
cuts me all the way to the front. Right when
we're about to pay, they like hey them too. By
the in throw, she just looked at me like I
told you, so what do you need to wait for?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
You know?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
So you know I say that because she's she's my dreamer.
Yeah you know for me, that's my heart, bro.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
But she's also capable of seeing in you what you
don't see yourself. That's what you need. You need her,
you need to what we need in general, like people,
people relationships are so just shouldn't be such a struggle.
You need a person and you need to be that
for her too. You need to see in her well
you know that, and that's that's the beauty. That's the
beauty of continuity that you guys are doing that for
each other. That's what growth is. That's that's just stay
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with her.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
I mean, she became an influencer.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
You know, that's beauty because you're working together. If you
both rub off of that, that's it. And it's just
just gonna create her own thing, her own lane. I
feel like I feel like the next step is you
gotta put a podcast together. I got a studio for you.
Let me know, these things are gonna be on wheels
(23:41):
so we can move and make it look like what
you want. Appreciate that. That's awesome, bro, And that's awesome
that you have that with her. You know that that's
rare to find because a lot of times it's like
either I ride your wave or you carry me. It's
never like we're working together or I believe in you
enough to push you into those things. You know, that's
that's the healthiest relationship you could ever ever do. What
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would you consider a mountain for you. So Made for
this mountain is a podcast. So what's a mountain is
a place of challenge difficulty. So we're saying that the
belief that's one, But what is like the thing that
you feel like stops you from believing in you? Like,
how much more validation do you need to actually believe
in yourself?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
I think it's it is.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
I still don't believe a lot of the things that
that that's happening for me.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
It's real.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Yeah you think that plan I see little.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Like you know, I challenge with myself a lot and
as much like against myself and and as much as
people see Instagram and it's like, oh no, but swim
up persona.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
You know, I just I just let's say, don't have
it because of real life ship.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
So I guess my momsey would be to feed my
family of comedy, get my kids together. I don't have
my kids right now. You know how you have? I
have three kids? Yeah, and just life and mean people.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
You know this room, we all we all know about that.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
So and you know that that that's one of those
things that I have to like fight against myself. So
every day I have to wake up and tell myself.
Even though let's say, for example, you're not allowed to
see your kids or not.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
That they haven't been muchacho. You are a good dad.
You are a good person.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
You know, you make the world laugh, no matter how
much of a no matter how much of a shitty
person the world may make.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
You want to feel like.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
There's another side of the world that's just like yo, Bro,
you brighten our day. You know that we don't know
how we would have gotten through.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
This day without you. So that's new to me.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Bro.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yeah, all of that shit is new to me. So
I guess you know, and I'll be at the top
of my line.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Yeah. And I think it's also important. That's an important
thing for you to take on and for other people
to realize that, even though you might make other people
happy and all these things, that you're a human. You're
gonna make mistakes, and you're going to fall short, you're
gonna fall flat, you're gonna do stupid things, But that
doesn't define you. What you do next does, and every
other aspect of that real the avenue of that. That's
who you are. Someone said this once and I I
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feel like it was like marmother King or something. But
I don't remember he said that you're not the first
thought in you comes to your mind. You're the action
that you take after. So it's not the first thing,
not the first thing you thought, but it's the action
that you take. What did you do next? That that's
the big question, that's the big answer that we're all
living with. What what did I do next? And advice
to you that I gave to myself that I'm living
through right now because that's the same thing I've deal
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I've dealt with imposter syndrome. I've dealt with thinking that
I'm not worthy of the platforms that I have, or
I dealt with I shouldn't be the person speaking because
told you. But I thank God that God is good
and merciful that even though I'm a hot mess, he's
good so he fixes his mess. But what I've been
living in is enjoying this season. So the season that
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I'm in right now, whatever it looks like this is
podcasting only lasts from the May that it started to
the May that it ends. Then there's gonna be the
hottest year I've ever respect in that and I'm stepping
into it. So enjoy the season living that really, just
say Yo, I'm enjoyed. It's just like I'm gonna ride
it to the wheels fall off. For our last section here,
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I asked tagipt because I'm trying to use chajy Bt
to ask intricate questions and we're just get jump through
coke a few of these real quick. I don't think
we'll do all the but this is what Chadjibt has
to ask you. So I said, if you were interviewed
Splue and you had some good questions for him that
I might have not thought of, what would you have asked?
Chat said this? It says, all right, this is your
first question. New York is brutal, beautiful, loud? How has
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the city specifically shaped your comedy? And what's something you've
learned on stage here that you couldn't have learned anywhere else?
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I was like, I was like a child is level.
I was not gonna ask that. I would have been like,
what's the craziest thing you see? Those? So?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
What's your favorite sneakers? Bro? I see you've got a
lot of sneakers. I go with that, Hey, get your Brandivo.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
What I've learned first of all, I've I've learned to.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Find my people. You know, we are as sad to
say we're a large group.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Like like I gotta bring us out, you know, like
we out we out here. It's just like unfortunately, what
people see from us, it's no good. You know, when
they hear Latinos, they hear Hispanics, it's rare, you know
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that others see any good. So what I've learned is, yeah,
I've done comedy with the with for the American side. Man,
doing comedy for my people, getting my people to come outside,
you know, finding my people all around these different states.
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I get hit ups from different states. Man, that's that's
not okay. I gotta see the Captain Day.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
That's that's a great one. But this is this is
what's good too. If I could be in being your
first laugh, that's that's kind of kind romantic. Do you
remember the very first time you made a stranger laugh?
What did that moment do to you? That's cute?
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Probably probably not a stranger. But I remember my first show. Okay,
I remember my first show, and it's such a surreal
moment that I still remember it. I can still write it.
I can still remember riding home and now being able
to like thinking about it. Man, I made people laugh. Right,
it's like this. You get in the car, you ride home. Man,
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I made people laugh.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
You parked the car. You're walking home. Bro, I really
made people laugh tonight. Now you're in bed, I see
you're like, yeah, Bro, I made people laugh tonight. Until
you're like, people really laughed. Oh man, it's a high, Bro,
It's a high that I've never.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
That shit made my endorphins reach a level that it's
never been before, and it can only be reached doing that.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Yeah, that's awesome. All right, So we'll leave with this
last one just because it's interesting. Have you I'll rephrase it.
I'll say what they said. Have you ever felt like
you bombed? Like you didn't do well on stage? Oh? Yeah,
why did that go? What was that like?
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Ah? You want to can crawl under a rock?
Speaker 3 (31:03):
It's it's brutal, Bro, it's brutal, but you also understand
that it's part of the process.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
We're human beings. We don't have it all together.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Even though I'll tell you one thing, I could say
two of my best shows that I would say that
two of my best shows I've been Cassie, The Hell,
the Nana equal Tiando, Because you, Bro, we're human. It's
of course, like mile Bro, I'm stressed. My boys convincing
me like, yo, you gotta do the show. This is
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like with a big comedian you can't. And I'm I'm
in my house like fuck this comedy ship I'm doing.
I'm done with all this ship. I don't want nothing.
I'm not even leaving my house.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
And you know.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
It's like, you go do it, Bro. It's been comedy
shows that loco.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
And only if they knew that I.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Was just fucking crying two hours ago talk about I'm
done with all this ship.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
You know. So man, Bro, I feel like you brought
me back.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
To some moments. No, no, look at the NKA damn
so bro bombing. It's it's part of the process you
learn as a comedian. That is part of the process
because also you have to get comfortable with it when
you're practicing materials. When you're practicing material and you know,
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to these open mics. Sometimes there's comedians that feel so
comfortable to want to try new materials in the show.
You know, you throw it out there and people don't laugh. Cool,
you know, but that's what open mics are for. There's
times that I've seen movie and your tongue on stage
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working on materials and people be like, oh my god,
is this that really him? But they don't understand that
I'm working on this material right now exactly. I'm running
it out until you catch it until boom, oh ship
that gotta laugh, all right, cool.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Then you start adding to that. But bombing is part
of the process.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Out out of the way, Guando, that's not your crowd,
you know.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (33:27):
You know, because if I could, if I go to
you know, to a speaking of yours, right, people are
expecting to see you, right, but you want to be
like I break a special guest flu he be right.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Going there and here people like what the fuck is happening?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Like your high class people here here, you know.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
So unfortunately that's just it's just not my crowd. And
not to say that, maybe I won't catch a few
lives here and there. You know, that's not my crowd.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
I'm trying there.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
It's so good by the way, and we'll be like, hi, listen, jemn,
I'll see it later and just like.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
There's that, uh that's fun and SpongeBob with the community
like this guy.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Sticks boom, I've seen that.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
I would have thought about coming back to comedy.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
But that's like, that's a life lesson. Many was just
about comedy. That's everything. That's everything we're doing. Like, you
need to you need to be refined, and the only
way you become refined is by feeling. I made a
post about it today, funny enough because I was showing
like the videos like when I started trash and I
had people had people really close to me that I
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love dearly, and it was not a good advice. Good
advice is good. People close you are going to give
you bad advice. And he was like, He's like, yo,
don't post the content. Let's perfect. If I had waited
to be perfect, I would not be getting paid. You
got you gotta just do the thing, that's it, and
you're gonna get refined away.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Give me up, Josh bro your boom just me talking
like this, yes, Clemente.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Seventy thousand views in.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Five hours, right, Selemente, boom go yo, let me get
a camera, let me do this and let me boom
get there. Two hundred views in the same amount of time,
ten comments, two shares.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
You're like, yo, that, but I will say this. I
was if they like the rawness and that's a fact.
But I will also say this social media Instagram. This
will post that there Instagram. You can't even say the
name without them perking their ears up. And I made
the mistake. I know Instagram really well. I don't care
(36:07):
about it anymore. Bout me so yeah, because TikTok pays me,
you bought my loyalty. But Instagram is doing something specifically
where they are limiting your reach. Your engagement is under
two percent, so it comes to a point that they're
limiting it because they make money. They don't want you
to make money without them making money. So what's happening
(36:29):
is that they're limiting them out of reach. So the
more polished your stuff is, the less likely they are
to push it because of that same factor, they believe
that you have the money to pay for it. I'm
not gonna dive into that because that's a other episode
and I could tell you that later. We'll talk about
it better. They do that. They do it on purpose.
They actually limit your reach, and so many people are
complaining about it, and they're gonna fix it. And I'm
(36:51):
saying this, Okay, I'll say this, and we'll save will
squeeze that into somebody. For a person that wants to
be a creator and wants to create in the next
couple of months, this is when you got to start
because because of how bad it has been, they have
to fix it. So what they're gonna do is that
I call it the waves, right, because we're in the
bottom part of this wave now. But this wave, this
next wave, is going to be big for people that
want to create make content. This next wave is going
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to push very heavy. Because of how bad it's been,
they're trying to adjust and correct things, and they're actually
going to start pushing people like right, two percent, less
than two percent of your followers actually see your content,
so the people that are new are the people that
are seeing it. So if you have your on the
upside of the wave now is good. But if you're
going to catch the next one, life changing social media money,
(37:36):
just let's hope.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
We can catch out. That's what we're trying to work on,
you know.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
So, Bro, we're going to stop this episode here, not
because because uh we would, because we wouldn't stop talking.
I don't even know if I'm supposed to add another commercial.
If y'all heard of commercial my fault. I got to
ask my producer, because I at this point I think
we're well over the two commercial thing. But if you're listening,
first of all, thank you for being on this episode.
Thank you for listening they were standing with us and Spool.
(38:02):
Thank you for being here, brother, Thank you for your presence.
Thank you just for what you do, and for just
for taking that drive out here. You got to enjoy
the mountains, maybe the horses outside. This is a message
that you want to share before you signed off, how
to find you all that wonderful stuff. This likely will
episode will air after your thing, so you want to
(38:23):
throw in there.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Yeah, well, first, thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
You know, like I told you, you know, I don't
really appreciative of being here, but I'm appreciative of being
here with you because I am a fan.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Everyone. I know.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
You can find me anyway. Ya can spell it s
B l o U, follow me on the grammar whatever
you can spell it. I got shows coming up Miami.
I'm coming out October twenty third, twenty fourth, twenty fifth.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
I'm gonna be in Tampa, Orlando, Miami, you know. November November,
I'm will.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Be in Boston to sum up Will be in Boston
and many tour dates to come. So thank you so
much for your support, and thank you Josh again for
having me.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Thank you brother. We'll cat you guys in the next one.
So blue. Thank you so much for being on this episode.
It's actually weird. We're just like casually talking and I'm
just like, let's stop, just start the episode. But thank
you for being here. For those people that don't know you,
who are you?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
My name is flu.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I am a Spanglish comedian uh Dominican parents, born and
raised in the Bronx, and I am a rising star.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
This is made for this mountain with Josh Rosa, who
we're turning pain into purpose. That's a That's a great
way to put it, because I know I H'm thinking
about in the heights. That's like as valid as it gets. Foos,
the man everyone talks about like this is their job.
I saw that I was dying. I forgot where I
was going, but I was because I travel often, so
(00:54):
I traveled speaking it's not fun. I missed my bet.
But it was like five in the morning or something,
some some crazy thing, and I saw the video and
I started dying. I was like, this is hilarious. Three
out there somewhere just living his best life.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Living his best life, not knowing. He changed my mind, bro.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Literally literally, So what do you think has been the
hardest part of like diving into this comedy thing, right,
because that's like your thing, right, you love comedy, You're
doing comedy. What's been the hardest part of that?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I think the hardest part has been the balance, because
I really I want to do so much, but I
realistically can't, you know. I like we were saying, like
we were talking off camera, like I work two jobs.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
So I started.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Working at eleven o'clock at night, I get out of
work at seven am. By seven thirty, I'm at my
other job, and I'm getting up at three three.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Thirty Dominican, I am, you got three jobs Dominican of Jamaican.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Nando.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
So it's like, by know, I sell on my leg right,
So it was a you know for a while, I
you know, I went through some things.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I went through some things and and.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I, like local then said all my savings, you know.
And at that point I realized that I will go
to work of two hours of sleep, three hours of sleep.
And then I started thinking to myself, why don't I
just take this energy and put it to make money
instead of just going out and spend money. Because we
got those nights two hundred dollars, three hundred dollars put
(02:35):
out the night.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I spent that on dinner earlier.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Okay, so there you go. That's a good night with
you and your family. Man, you're just going down.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Apple Bee's because you spent apple Bee's. See, I like
it's cotton and water. So what like, what was the
rise of this stuff? Like you're coming into comedy? It
was it like how did you get in the door
or how are you getting in the door? Because I
know that's a process in itself.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I'm gonna be honest with you, Josh, there's so many
things that's been happening, uh to me that you know
you that have been happening to me. But it's not
necessarily that I'm like, you know, not necessarily. I mean
that I have a checklist that I'm like, oh, you know, I.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Mean that that's the reality that we have to overwork,
overstride for things, and it's when you're like making yourself
available to it at this even the.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
That yes, right, but I feel like sometimes well right now,
my mentality is that I I wanna in a good way.
I want to overwork myself because this this work that
I'm putting in now.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
And so I said, you know, Yoki always.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Said fru Yeah, I mean, I want to kind of
shape that for you. Maybe it's not overworked yourself, but
it's worked with purpose, Like you know that there's something
that as as you're working towards and okay, working just
the work, working a lot of it, but it's like,
this is the thing that I'm working towards. Social Media
has been a big thing for you, right, that's a catalyst.
How does that? How's that going for you?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
It's been, man, social media has been great. It's been great.
It's been It's been man. There's so much love received
through social media. So many people send me messages. Man,
you know, I'm so happy of I was having such
a bad day today and I saw the video. You know,
I'm so happy I came across your page. But I
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know you get that a lot, because I'm gonna tell
you right now, I feel like that when I come
across your page and I'm having a little bad day.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
But social media has been so good to me.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
So many opportunities have came to me through social media,
and you know, I if there's one thing I could say,
is it is you know, yesterday I was having a
conversation with a with a hat designer and shout out
who knows ca Yeah, man, shout out to Knowa's cat man,
that's my guy. And he was like, Yo, how do
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you do it? How do you how do you come
up with three four different videos a day, all of
them different, all different videos? And I was like, dude,
you know, I wish I knew how to answer to you.
But that's just me, Like my brain is on go
twenty four to.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Seven's naturally flowing. Naturally Yeah, no, but that naturally flowing,
you know?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
You just yeah, you know, so Polka is fassy, but
I mean it's fossy because it's just me.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I'm being me.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
And man, people have been so accepting of that, man,
and I just love it.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So do you think, well, okay, before going to deeper
in that, do you know what? I think this would
be a really good place to tell people about the
commercials that are gonna come. Don't leave. We'll be right
back with some really good stuff after these commercials. Okay,
So those commercials were I don't know what they were actually,
actually they don't really tell me. So people are gonna
(06:20):
hear something figuring it out. We're talking about your work
life and the things you do. It splue. The onlyaman
isn't Nober Wow.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Okay, So, so my real name is Lewis, right, and
I've always been known as in my block, it was
about eight different Lewises.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I was the youngest, shortest, littlest Lewis, so.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I was little Loo.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Now.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
One day we was we was all hanging out and
you know, there was like a group of girls that
was like the consistent group of girls that we were
chilling with that summer. And at the beginning of the
of chill with them, the girls were like, what's your name?
You know, all I know is that you're always so
well dressed, like you always fly, My boy chicken, that
(07:08):
was a compliment. That was a compl that was that
was a fly, you fly, right, and it's coming from
the girls that chili with. So I'm just like already
like yeah, you know. So my man, Chica le Chicaly,
his real name was Davie.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Listen, that's a whole nother podcast.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
My man trying to jump in there, and he was like, oh,
what he meant to say was little lou Is always fly,
And what came out was a little splu sply because
it let a gogle better.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
We ain't my low gago.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
So he was like he stuttered for a little bit,
and then all that came up was little Splu sply
And the girls was like, what the fuck did you
just say? But one of them caught it. It was
like little Splu sply, he's seven.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yea, that's the worst way, Broe.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Not so Now the girls they're all little sploos fly,
little sploos.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Fly inside and they can change hey, little splus fly
and before you know it, everybody on the flo like, yo,
you know, because now no which one little splu spl
So now you know, for a few years I was
a little Splu sply, and then I got older. I
started hanging with the O g s and one of
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them pulled me to the sign and I made send them, no,
send them my I'm gonna have to splew.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah, I mean gonna see these.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Brook He saved my life because they might hear a.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Little spoos fly gave it up for a little spleu sply. Guys,
they would have been who's the mad off the stage?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Bro together?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I need that gangster you everybody, little splus fly, you
don't get out of my face.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I did that fly about these little gnats because I
don't know who convinced me to get real trees. It's
like some might dopy that maybe like buying a real tree.
Those on all of them, but some of them are
road So there's these little splue splies flying around the
idea that being placed.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
But you know, blew is actually a real thing. Is
a it's a military term, is it? Yeah, it's like
it's like it's like a you know, like a tenure.
I don't know something in the military.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Like I was and they kicked me out.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
So we want to cut this out.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
That's fine. I remember a talk it was like, yeah,
this ain't for you brother. You you you talk, well,
go do that.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
So that's the ilu fly, Yeah, louse fly.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
So we were talking about social media before and now
I was gonna mention like TikTok and stuff not so
pride to deep. But have you like been making money
off a TikTok yet? I have, I was gonna say,
but we can help with that.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I have.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
I have been making money on TikTok. The thing with
TikTok is you have to be I just don't have
the time. Yeah, yeah, I just don't have the time.
So you have to be consistent. You have to kind
of crack the algorithm.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Right.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Once you do that, you know you're in there. Obviously
you have to do lives. Yeah I don't have time.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah, I don't have time for the lives. But I'll
say this, my bills are all paid because of TikTok.
No way, I'll tell you a little bit. I'll show
you a little bit later. But that's definitely on avenue
that because it's it's perfect for you because you tell stories.
So what people love, what people engage with is that,
Like the thing is that you have to have a
good hook and then you have to have a good
storyline whatever. It's just moving things around and keeping people on.
(10:34):
But that's why people and I say this often, why
people connect to people, why they relate to people is
not because of the things they say. It's because the
stories they relate to. So the comedy is as much
as it's comedy, there's something in there that people are
looking at and they're like, yo, this this is me.
Like I was a little spoo supply and I lorado.
But it's being able to connect with people. And that's
(10:54):
what we've been talking about, right, this premise of just
building relationships through social media and actually making social media social.
I think that that's the biggest, biggest thing. So what
is a damn I don't want to call you spooshply
brother Nick said.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
No, I was.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I was like, what's spoof life goal this year?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Like that part that would be an exclusive of this
interne the only interview days don't want to be my
childhood name where it's flu actually came from what's.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
What's the goal for this year? Like we're talking about
working with purpose and on purpose right not just working
to work. What are you working towards right now?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Man? I feel like that's a hard question because handle
come on that specifical.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
The other day, somebody called me famous and they were like, oh,
how does it feel to be famous?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
And I was like, I I'm not famous.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Bro, five people know me from the block.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
That's it, you know to me, you know. But then
it's like they sit me now and they're like, bro,
you have.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
One hundred and seventy seven thousand followers, how are you?
How do you not consider yourself famous? You walk into
places people know you, You walk in the street, people.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Know you better.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
You know you're come on, okay, No, way, that's not
what I'm working for. I, like I said earlier, I
enjoyed the blessing. I appreciate the blessings that comes with
all of this, But I don't to answer a question,
I would love to feed my family off.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yeah, I would love for this to be.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
You know that I can replace the money that i'm
making of these two W two's that i'm bringing in
a year that I can say I'm making that off.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
And it said, Okay, I'm not seeing, but.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I'll tell you this much. Enjoy those ws because I'm
assuming you got to health asured into the I'm not
smiling as much, Bro, I said again. And so I'm
going to Columbia for the two.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
We're gonna have a conversation.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
You got a person, bro, Bro, Bro, you see this.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
In the country.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
No, Bro, They told me I paid fifteen hundred for
the switch or only the fake tooth that you put
in while they do the other one. I don't even
want it anymore. I'm keep it, keep the money too.
But that's why I'm saying. Sure. So the scary part
of diving into like the entrepreneurial stuff and living into
that life is that is that you really have to hate, say,
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you really have to grind after that. How do you
feel about that? Though? Is that scary or is that exciting?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Is that you know, it's a little scary. It's a
little scary after you see how much.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Do you see potential? That's that's scary about it.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Well, the scary part is I see how much it
is covered when for example, I'm I'm you know, because
of my night job in the union, Yeah thirty two
b J.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
You know. So yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
So when like I was really messed up with my sciatica,
my whole back was just I was gone.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Bro shot.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
And when I was seeing what was being covered, I
was just like new in the Union, but you know,
they was holding it.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Down, should be massages, dumb, you know.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
And I was like, man, you know, and I say,
you new in the union, like new with like receiving
my benef So it was like, oh, you have benefits.
You know we're gonna we're gonna activate this like right away,
you know. And man, when you see all that's covered,
because holdo, this is where things get that dumb are
(14:37):
uh you know, like since when my ankle has hurt,
like I see out of nowhere, I try to swap
a fly sitting down the other day, Bro, I had
to stay there for like.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
We're waking up. I don't know what's going my wrist,
I didn't fall.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
My body was hurting because I slept too long on.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
The couch too much. You got too much rest a season.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Who like, so you you start realizing how important these
benefits really are. So it is scary, you know, to think, Okay,
I could give all of this up, you know, to
go follow my dream.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
But uh I was.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
I was watching a podcast and they were talking about
how it's sad how these people entertainers, right, they entertain
you for all these years betterheito, and they're no longer entertaining.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
There's no backup plan for them.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
So they didn't make the right investments and they didn't
move their money correctly.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Yao, bro.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Unfortunately they got to go into the system because there
is no there's no thirty two BJ because you made
the world laugh for forty years.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
That's the reality. And I also think, like the scary
thing about like being an entrepreneur diving into that world
is that reality that you have to make the right investments,
Like you have to learn about money management, you have
to learn about those things. I was I was joking,
well kind of not joking, like the cost of the
equipment I have here. I'm like, that's it. That's that's
Luke's tuition right there, my kid. But that okay, these
are investments that I'm making in that. But after that,
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bro yo ramen e. But just because it's like five
dollars for a plate, but after that, like you really
have to be conscious about what you spend, even the
tooth stuff. Like I like, I'm joking, but I'm not joking.
It's so expensive that I'm like, is this worth spending
on right now? Because it's a physical thing, But I
still need a tooth. So you know, that's that's the
(16:33):
hard part. So have you so this being a dream
being a goal because I've I've said this before and
I've heard it said somewhere else that if if their
dreams don't scare you, then not big enough. Oh man,
I cry because of that big yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I like because I said, yo, like the sky like
I'm going to do this. Yeah, And and I say like,
come okay, Joe man, there may day I'm gonna see
Joel Unho or Joel Ko And I'm like I can.
(17:09):
I can do that, like, and my heart even racist
bro like like Masuto because it's like, oh my god,
am I going to do this?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
You know, I'm about to have a show right now.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
One hundred seats, that's yeah, that's the most I ever
did come.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Down, you know.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
And today I'm you know, sitting there doing the budgets
with my fiance and my beautiful fiance now and I
love your baby, shout out to you.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
But we'll just crop that just one that we're just
posting that one nothing more.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
We're sitting there and we were doing the budgeting for
the show, you know, and she's like, Babe, we're like
ten tickets away from selling out. God, you know, and Broy,
you know you're seeing the reality the fruits of it. Yeah,
because like I said, right like I thought about it,
(18:10):
I was like, man, what if I have a show
at Captain Kirk's Shout out to Captain Kirks. What if
I have a show at Captain Kirks. We did the
Dominican Versus Puerto Rican show comedy show there, one hundred
and seventy five people sold out, four nights back to
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back every night.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
So I'm like, how these are all these people coming
one night together at one place, you know.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
So I'm like, man, I could I could probably do
a hundred And in my mind I was like, already
this seventy five at comedy in Harlem, So I know
for sure I could do seventy five.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Maybe I should keep that that yi my heart started.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Really I was like, you see yop and go see
a low you see yok on thet out of em.
I'm looking at a hundred faces that came to see me, bro,
because it's like.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Like you no mean like that enemy. It kicks in
and it's like, what if you.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Don't you become your own biggest enemy.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
What if you don't What if you got a hundred
seats and you sell twenty.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
We're going to dive right into that after these quick
commercial breaks, let's get it, so we're coming back to
that reality twenty. The crazy thing is that I feel like,
even on a bad day, you would still hit those
numbers because this is this is the benefit of having
like a following and a growth and as you grow
and as you progress, it become better, This becomes more
of a reality. But I think that's the scary part too,
(19:35):
is that and this is something I'm facing myself because
I've spoken in arenas with five thousand people. I was
in the contin she do my blanco, that me vida,
and I was like, I'm Dominican. Dominicans in here the
third row in an arena. Somebody goes, whooa. They came
to say hi to me. After She's like, I'm half Dominican.
I U I guess. But it's that same premise. Is
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that that lie that we tell ourselves that I would
never get to that place. You convince you that you'll
never get to that place you It's called the self
fulfilling prophecy. Can you guarantee that you don't do the
thing you're afraid of? You say, well, that's not possible,
that's not real. The people that are most I'm a
person I'm not going to save his name because I
know Santos knows it. By the way, Santo's is here
every hearing you might you might know him. The hood
(20:20):
knows him. He hit the people, but oh he is
so delusional that he could say and he could dance.
He had He's like on radio shows without a fuck
these people. I might have gave too much informationalway I
don't want to talk hit the thing. But other people great,
great can it? And people are laughing and whatever, blah blah.
(20:43):
But you know what, the dude is everywhere because he's
delusional about what he can do. Imagine if you actually
had talent. You have talent, so imagine being delusional about
what you can do about you. That's the only time
to being delusion is okay, it's to believe that you're
capable of that.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
I you know, this is why, this is why, when
when when the conversations of partners come up, I think
it's important to have someone that has what you may not, right. So,
I'm more of a realist, right, so it's a little
hard for me to sometimes be that delusional. But Nana,
(21:18):
she dreams. Nana be like, I'm like, babe, I don't
think I could do one hundred. She's like, why can't
you do five hundred?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
That's it?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Why can't you do a thousand? Why what are you
talking about? You know?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
I go places and I'm like, bro, we this is
a real story, right, But I could do some women. Nana,
we we're going somewhere, we get invited somewhere. I'm like, no,
we gotta wait outside because we got to go in
with the person who invited its like, do you know
(21:53):
who the fuck you are? Like walking there, you're spleu yeah,
And I'm like nah, because you see there, I'm not.
I'm not delusional enough, right, So, being the realist that
I am, I'm like no, because in reality, and I
think they're gonna make on no sing on the Instagram,
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They're not just gonna soka pasa.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Yoya nana like Okay, you want some money? Cool?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
I get on the line. On the line, security is
like looking, he stops everybody. He goes to me, who
you with?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Like just me and my girl.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
He's like, let's go, brings me in, brings me in there,
cuts me all the way to the front. Right when
we're about to pay, they like hey them too. By
the in throw, she just looked at me like I
told you, so what do you need to wait for?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
You know?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
So you know I say that because she's she's my dreamer.
Yeah you know for me, that's my heart, bro.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
But she's also capable of seeing in you what you
don't see yourself. That's what you need. You need her,
you need to what we need in general, like people,
people relationships are so just shouldn't be such a struggle.
You need a person and you need to be that
for her too. You need to see in her well
you know that, and that's that's the beauty. That's the
beauty of continuity that you guys are doing that for
each other. That's what growth is. That's that's just stay
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with her.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
I mean, she became an influencer.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
You know, that's beauty because you're working together. If you
both rub off of that, that's it. And it's just
just gonna create her own thing, her own lane. I
feel like I feel like the next step is you
gotta put a podcast together. I got a studio for you.
Let me know, these things are gonna be on wheels
(23:41):
so we can move and make it look like what
you want. Appreciate that. That's awesome, bro, And that's awesome
that you have that with her. You know that that's
rare to find because a lot of times it's like
either I ride your wave or you carry me. It's
never like we're working together or I believe in you
enough to push you into those things. You know, that's
that's the healthiest relationship you could ever ever do. What
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would you consider a mountain for you. So Made for
this mountain is a podcast. So what's a mountain is
a place of challenge difficulty. So we're saying that the
belief that's one, But what is like the thing that
you feel like stops you from believing in you? Like,
how much more validation do you need to actually believe
in yourself?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
I think it's it is.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
I still don't believe a lot of the things that
that that's happening for me.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
It's real.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Yeah you think that plan I see little.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Like you know, I challenge with myself a lot and
as much like against myself and and as much as
people see Instagram and it's like, oh no, but swim
up persona.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
You know, I just I just let's say, don't have
it because of real life ship.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
So I guess my momsey would be to feed my
family of comedy, get my kids together. I don't have
my kids right now. You know how you have? I
have three kids? Yeah, and just life and mean people.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
You know this room, we all we all know about that.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
So and you know that that that's one of those
things that I have to like fight against myself. So
every day I have to wake up and tell myself.
Even though let's say, for example, you're not allowed to
see your kids or not.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
That they haven't been muchacho. You are a good dad.
You are a good person.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
You know, you make the world laugh, no matter how
much of a no matter how much of a shitty
person the world may make.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
You want to feel like.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
There's another side of the world that's just like yo, Bro,
you brighten our day. You know that we don't know
how we would have gotten through.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
This day without you. So that's new to me.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Bro.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yeah, all of that shit is new to me. So
I guess you know, and I'll be at the top
of my line.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Yeah. And I think it's also important. That's an important
thing for you to take on and for other people
to realize that, even though you might make other people
happy and all these things, that you're a human. You're
gonna make mistakes, and you're going to fall short, you're
gonna fall flat, you're gonna do stupid things, But that
doesn't define you. What you do next does, and every
other aspect of that real the avenue of that. That's
who you are. Someone said this once and I I
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feel like it was like marmother King or something. But
I don't remember he said that you're not the first
thought in you comes to your mind. You're the action
that you take after. So it's not the first thing,
not the first thing you thought, but it's the action
that you take. What did you do next? That that's
the big question, that's the big answer that we're all
living with. What what did I do next? And advice
to you that I gave to myself that I'm living
through right now because that's the same thing I've deal
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I've dealt with imposter syndrome. I've dealt with thinking that
I'm not worthy of the platforms that I have, or
I dealt with I shouldn't be the person speaking because
told you. But I thank God that God is good
and merciful that even though I'm a hot mess, he's
good so he fixes his mess. But what I've been
living in is enjoying this season. So the season that
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I'm in right now, whatever it looks like this is
podcasting only lasts from the May that it started to
the May that it ends. Then there's gonna be the
hottest year I've ever respect in that and I'm stepping
into it. So enjoy the season living that really, just
say Yo, I'm enjoyed. It's just like I'm gonna ride
it to the wheels fall off. For our last section here,
(27:38):
I asked tagipt because I'm trying to use chajy Bt
to ask intricate questions and we're just get jump through
coke a few of these real quick. I don't think
we'll do all the but this is what Chadjibt has
to ask you. So I said, if you were interviewed
Splue and you had some good questions for him that
I might have not thought of, what would you have asked?
Chat said this? It says, all right, this is your
first question. New York is brutal, beautiful, loud? How has
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the city specifically shaped your comedy? And what's something you've
learned on stage here that you couldn't have learned anywhere else?
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I was like, I was like a child is level.
I was not gonna ask that. I would have been like,
what's the craziest thing you see? Those? So?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
What's your favorite sneakers? Bro? I see you've got a
lot of sneakers. I go with that, Hey, get your Brandivo.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
What I've learned first of all, I've I've learned to.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Find my people. You know, we are as sad to
say we're a large group.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Like like I gotta bring us out, you know, like
we out we out here. It's just like unfortunately, what
people see from us, it's no good. You know, when
they hear Latinos, they hear Hispanics, it's rare, you know
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that others see any good. So what I've learned is, yeah,
I've done comedy with the with for the American side. Man,
doing comedy for my people, getting my people to come outside,
you know, finding my people all around these different states.
(29:26):
I get hit ups from different states. Man, that's that's
not okay. I gotta see the Captain Day.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
That's that's a great one. But this is this is
what's good too. If I could be in being your
first laugh, that's that's kind of kind romantic. Do you
remember the very first time you made a stranger laugh?
What did that moment do to you? That's cute?
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Probably probably not a stranger. But I remember my first show. Okay,
I remember my first show, and it's such a surreal
moment that I still remember it. I can still write it.
I can still remember riding home and now being able
to like thinking about it. Man, I made people laugh. Right,
it's like this. You get in the car, you ride home. Man,
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I made people laugh.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
You parked the car. You're walking home. Bro, I really
made people laugh tonight. Now you're in bed, I see
you're like, yeah, Bro, I made people laugh tonight. Until
you're like, people really laughed. Oh man, it's a high, Bro,
It's a high that I've never.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
That shit made my endorphins reach a level that it's
never been before, and it can only be reached doing that.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Yeah, that's awesome. All right, So we'll leave with this
last one just because it's interesting. Have you I'll rephrase it.
I'll say what they said. Have you ever felt like
you bombed? Like you didn't do well on stage? Oh? Yeah,
why did that go? What was that like?
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Ah? You want to can crawl under a rock?
Speaker 3 (31:03):
It's it's brutal, Bro, it's brutal, but you also understand
that it's part of the process.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
We're human beings. We don't have it all together.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Even though I'll tell you one thing, I could say
two of my best shows that I would say that
two of my best shows I've been Cassie, The Hell,
the Nana equal Tiando, Because you, Bro, we're human. It's
of course, like mile Bro, I'm stressed. My boys convincing
me like, yo, you gotta do the show. This is
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like with a big comedian you can't. And I'm I'm
in my house like fuck this comedy ship I'm doing.
I'm done with all this ship. I don't want nothing.
I'm not even leaving my house.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
And you know.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
It's like, you go do it, Bro. It's been comedy
shows that loco.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
And only if they knew that I.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Was just fucking crying two hours ago talk about I'm
done with all this ship.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
You know. So man, Bro, I feel like you brought
me back.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
To some moments. No, no, look at the NKA damn
so bro bombing. It's it's part of the process you
learn as a comedian. That is part of the process
because also you have to get comfortable with it when
you're practicing materials. When you're practicing material and you know,
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to these open mics. Sometimes there's comedians that feel so
comfortable to want to try new materials in the show.
You know, you throw it out there and people don't laugh. Cool,
you know, but that's what open mics are for. There's
times that I've seen movie and your tongue on stage
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working on materials and people be like, oh my god,
is this that really him? But they don't understand that
I'm working on this material right now exactly. I'm running
it out until you catch it until boom, oh ship
that gotta laugh, all right, cool.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Then you start adding to that. But bombing is part
of the process.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Out out of the way, Guando, that's not your crowd,
you know.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (33:27):
You know, because if I could, if I go to
you know, to a speaking of yours, right, people are
expecting to see you, right, but you want to be
like I break a special guest flu he be right.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Going there and here people like what the fuck is happening?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Like your high class people here here, you know.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
So unfortunately that's just it's just not my crowd. And
not to say that, maybe I won't catch a few
lives here and there. You know, that's not my crowd.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
I'm trying there.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
It's so good by the way, and we'll be like, hi, listen, jemn,
I'll see it later and just like.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
There's that, uh that's fun and SpongeBob with the community
like this guy.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Sticks boom, I've seen that.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
I would have thought about coming back to comedy.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
But that's like, that's a life lesson. Many was just
about comedy. That's everything. That's everything we're doing. Like, you
need to you need to be refined, and the only
way you become refined is by feeling. I made a
post about it today, funny enough because I was showing
like the videos like when I started trash and I
had people had people really close to me that I
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love dearly, and it was not a good advice. Good
advice is good. People close you are going to give
you bad advice. And he was like, He's like, yo,
don't post the content. Let's perfect. If I had waited
to be perfect, I would not be getting paid. You
got you gotta just do the thing, that's it, and
you're gonna get refined away.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Give me up, Josh bro your boom just me talking
like this, yes, Clemente.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Seventy thousand views in.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Five hours, right, Selemente, boom go yo, let me get
a camera, let me do this and let me boom
get there. Two hundred views in the same amount of time,
ten comments, two shares.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
You're like, yo, that, but I will say this. I
was if they like the rawness and that's a fact.
But I will also say this social media Instagram. This
will post that there Instagram. You can't even say the
name without them perking their ears up. And I made
the mistake. I know Instagram really well. I don't care
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about it anymore. Bout me so yeah, because TikTok pays me,
you bought my loyalty. But Instagram is doing something specifically
where they are limiting your reach. Your engagement is under
two percent, so it comes to a point that they're
limiting it because they make money. They don't want you
to make money without them making money. So what's happening
(36:29):
is that they're limiting them out of reach. So the
more polished your stuff is, the less likely they are
to push it because of that same factor, they believe
that you have the money to pay for it. I'm
not gonna dive into that because that's a other episode
and I could tell you that later. We'll talk about
it better. They do that. They do it on purpose.
They actually limit your reach, and so many people are
complaining about it, and they're gonna fix it. And I'm
(36:51):
saying this, Okay, I'll say this, and we'll save will
squeeze that into somebody. For a person that wants to
be a creator and wants to create in the next
couple of months, this is when you got to start
because because of how bad it has been, they have
to fix it. So what they're gonna do is that
I call it the waves, right, because we're in the
bottom part of this wave now. But this wave, this
next wave, is going to be big for people that
want to create make content. This next wave is going
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to push very heavy. Because of how bad it's been,
they're trying to adjust and correct things, and they're actually
going to start pushing people like right, two percent, less
than two percent of your followers actually see your content,
so the people that are new are the people that
are seeing it. So if you have your on the
upside of the wave now is good. But if you're
going to catch the next one, life changing social media money,
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just let's hope.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
We can catch out. That's what we're trying to work on,
you know.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
So, Bro, we're going to stop this episode here, not
because because uh we would, because we wouldn't stop talking.
I don't even know if I'm supposed to add another commercial.
If y'all heard of commercial my fault. I got to
ask my producer, because I at this point I think
we're well over the two commercial thing. But if you're listening,
first of all, thank you for being on this episode.
Thank you for listening they were standing with us and Spool.
(38:02):
Thank you for being here, brother, Thank you for your presence.
Thank you just for what you do, and for just
for taking that drive out here. You got to enjoy
the mountains, maybe the horses outside. This is a message
that you want to share before you signed off, how
to find you all that wonderful stuff. This likely will
episode will air after your thing, so you want to
(38:23):
throw in there.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Yeah, well, first, thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
You know, like I told you, you know, I don't
really appreciative of being here, but I'm appreciative of being
here with you because I am a fan.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Everyone. I know.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
You can find me anyway. Ya can spell it s
B l o U, follow me on the grammar whatever
you can spell it. I got shows coming up Miami.
I'm coming out October twenty third, twenty fourth, twenty fifth.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
I'm gonna be in Tampa, Orlando, Miami, you know. November November,
I'm will.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Be in Boston to sum up Will be in Boston
and many tour dates to come. So thank you so
much for your support, and thank you Josh again for
having me.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Thank you brother. We'll cat you guys in the next one.
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