November 21, 2023 • 20 mins
On this episode of ItsLitBoston Podcast, we sat down with the owners of ExpozedTV "Matt & Katiria". We spoke briefly about their recent endeavors as new parents, owner their studio space while learning to balance business & personal relationships. Take a listen, share with a friend and remember to support.
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Is. Every man guy ain't your friend
a Mosley bitching for the street.
I took his hypers up and play for.
You could keep them switching sweets.
(00:21):
How you turn your back on me when I had needed you the most.
I took risk. I loaded on them bags took them
coast to coast. White folks see my TR risk and
be like down that bitch and clean every day.
I hit the guns though and I buy MO magazine.
We make sure that we Don 'm. I'm actually happy that I'm out
(00:45):
of that because I felt like I couldn't be free.
We recorded now, so chill out, chill out.
Anyways, I'm free guys. I'm free to talk about whatever
I want and I'm happy we back, show we back, we back, we back.
I'm on its leg. And we joined by the one and
only the one, the notorious. Notorious.
Notorious. She got us banned and shit.
(01:07):
Notorious like KIT. Mescal Terrier expose TV expose
the at the. Dropout Summit 2023.
Yes, you know what I'm saying. I've been saying shout out to
Kerfox. And all day, all day, all day
for real, shout out to Kerfox. Shout out.
To Kerr Let's get it this. Is beautiful.
How's your your experience been at the summit?
(01:27):
It's been really good. I'm actually it's crazy, but I'm
like. I was telling Yelena and Matt,
I'm like, I actually like everybody that's here.
No, this is a because I was. I was thinking, I'm like, damn,
about to find somebody I don't like.
I will. Say this though I will say this
stuff but you loud so that's oh.OK, I can.
(01:48):
Talk. I can talk 'cause these.
Motherfuckers keep looking. I'm about to do the ASMR, what's
that mean? I.
Don't know, just talk very so like ASMR, what's that mean?
I don't know. I don't know Young kids.
She's picking it up. How's motherhood?
Yeah. Congratulations.
Thank you. They're trying to hide it for
(02:09):
years like bro. I know.
When we first met you guys, we was like, yo, we could anyways.
We got crazy. You know why, though?
You know how I know how? I know because.
He picked her up. I went to an event, I think.
Was that these years ago? It was.
Martina, the rapper from Providence Demon Martinez.
(02:30):
Yeah, Demon. Yeah, it was his event.
It was his event. We walked in, you walked in.
He was wearing some dress and hewalked in there way.
He walked in. He let know.
He was like, you hear that? That's.
Me, my guy. He get that No, no, no.
You want to know something crazy.
When we were we went to an eventwith it was Ubas event and
(02:50):
that's when. We was like tired of it, like
tired people not knowing. And we the first person we told
was show. Peru Yeah, man, yeah, Shout to
show. Everybody knows I'd be chilling.
I And then we we smoked. I think we smoked the blast.
Of course. Gossip.
Yeah, I kind of news celebratoryblood.
You need that, Yeah. No, I appreciate the trust.
Yeah, after we told you, we feltreally good.
(03:12):
Because it's like, I think we were judged.
Yeah, I think we were hiding it so long because.
You know the scene. You know, we understand people
were saying that it was with himbecause of like videography
stuff because it was cheap. Yeah, and but.
It's. Like free We ain't knocking,
yeah. It was cheap.
Do it all the. Time, but it was real because we
got a baby and real love. He better have shot it while and
(03:35):
now my all these years. That's fine though.
I know, right? He.
Held that for Spanish girl, I ain't gonna lie.
Well, you know what it's like when we first met, like, we have
great chemistry in terms of likefriendship.
And then I was like, in a reallystupid ass fucking relationship.
He's a psycho and he like saved me from that cycle.
That's why you saved. Me.
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Yeah, he stole me from. From what we've learned, he
saved you from many cycles. He is my rock.
He is my. We exposed for real, yo.
No. Where is?
And then you know what's anotherthing too.
And when you put your relationship out on social
(04:19):
media, this is for anyone. It's dangerous.
It's dangerous. It's dangerous.
It's dangerous because you're giving people the ability to
give an opinion about your relationship.
Exactly. And that's currently.
I feel like what's going on. I mean, I probably don't hear it
to see it, but I know people areprobably don't pay attention to
it no more. It's not important.
It's not important and I. Don't families was important.
Exactly. And I don't care, but I know
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there's people judging all the time.
But it is what it is. But that's what I was scared at
first. It's like, damn these.
Opinions Because you've been in the media game for so long and
you know how. Impactful people haven't had on
relationships out here. Yes, it's hard.
It's hard. It's.
Hard. You got to deal with the rumors
with the so-called acid. Anytime they see you, somebody
knew. It's this time the. 3rd If I
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were to give you guys a hug here, people would be like, oh,
but we don't care. It's just this is one thing
about us. Criteria, you know, is that we
don't give a fuck about public opinion.
We moved to the. Drunk facts, I said.
Everything that we do, and it's all built on our morals and our
integrity. Like, all right, you don't fuck
with them. Cool.
That's what we fuck with. Them.
I gotta do it right. We have our relationship with
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them and we have relationship with you.
Yeah. Don't conclude the two.
But I'm jealous. Why?
So because when I seen you guys,yeah, I was like, these are my
people. You don't.
Have to. Be possessive?
What the fuck are they doing? We're always here.
We're always here for you too. We had to get our flowers, Yeah.
No, but you know what? I'm happy you guys did because
you guys are amazing. Thank you.
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Thank you. OK, thank you.
You guys been working hard and it was such a strategic play.
This is national syndicated syndicated show.
This is. A million people heard you guys,
but you know what? I mean, yeah, we.
Did it and we was happy about it.
Too, Yeah, in the beginning I was like, what the fuck?
But then I was like, wait, this is a good play and I'm all about
chess. Boom.
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That's what it. Is I was fine because with us
being a local podcast right on aon a platform that we grew up
listening to facts, jam scams and stuff, that's a big win.
And now Romero, a couple of Altazar back in the day.
Yeah, to Romero. That's how far we go.
He passed away, right? Oh, I don't.
I didn't know that. I think he did, Bolt is all.
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I think don't be, don't be saying more crazy shit like.
You know, yeah, I can't say any crazy shit.
I think so, but I'm not sure, OK?
Because I remember when I was onthere, someone had passed away
with cancer and they worked there for a long time.
But I don't know if it was him. We're.
Going to do our. Googles.
Yeah, Google, Google. Do not quote me on that.
Do not hit me up with nothing. I gotta ask the I gotta ask the
question in a row. Let's do.
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It What happened with C Dub. Gotta ask.
Tell the truth. Because the reason why we ask
you is because we don't want to go to the person that left the
establishment. You know what?
That. No, no, that's actually fine.
Because there's two stories. There's two stars.
True. Yeah, but I want the Queen's
version of. Course you know what I mean of.
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Course, honestly, like, it's crazy because you know, we've
had partnerships, we had friends, we both have that.
We just either stop talking, whatever.
But. Them, you know, what really
happened was that they disrespected our studio, right?
You know, in a very negative way, physically.
(07:31):
Oh, messed up our studio, disrespected our team.
And so I can't. As a business owner, I can't do
the blind out to. That I can't do that and like
till this day like I always and I still speak to Chanel.
And I'm always like, girl, I support you like.
Shout out to Chanel. Shout out to Chanel, Definitely.
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You know, I'm never going to be like, oh fuck, damn dude.
Like that's not my energy. And because, like, I'm sorry
guys. But like, I'm huge.
Like, I do a lot of big stuff and I'm not about to like, go
out on a rampage and continue talking about something, talking
about something when I made the decision to.
To to let you guys out and kick you guys out, because as a
business owner, I can't accept that.
(08:14):
No, you cannot. We invested over 100 grand in
our studio and we're going to respect it and anybody that
comes in it has to respect it. I have something.
For you, right? You know what I mean?
I've heard a lot about how you guys do business and all of that
and how you guys charge high. And Sam and I, who were both
photographers and videographers,we understand that whole charge
(08:36):
for my time thing, so. Banter, videographer and a
photographer. Yeah.
And he does the drones and all that.
I know how much that runs. Yes.
So when I see the packages and people like, oh, like when they
charge a mad bread, I'm like, I'm thinking to myself like, yo,
do you know how much time goes into this editing that he's
about to do for you? And I already told him
congratulations and shots him onour dope ass video he did for
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the kid because that's the firsttime I see him go outside his
box editing wise. But it makes sense.
It makes sense though. So how has the growth been for
exposed TV with now you guys trying to expand and you got
your own? Studio Yes.
I see a lot of video shoots and everything going out of there.
You know what I'm saying? So how has it been with the
growth? It's been amazing, but it's also
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been hard because you have to realize, like, we're not going
to be the studio that charges $50.75 an hour.
The way we built our studio is highly teched and professional
like you. Go to LA or New York.
That's what it looks like. So for me, I don't care if I'm
charging 150 an hour or 200 an hour, it might even go up next
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year 1000%. And that's how it should be.
Because at the end of the day, I'm not the cheap choice.
I'm the better choice. That's it you.
Get what you pay. For you get what you pay for and
when you come to the studio, you're not going to get someone
that OK, just come and know, hey, do you need a water?
Hey, do you need help, Matt? He don't even get paid for this.
But he'll ask people like, hey, do you need me to change the
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light and do do anything that you need help with?
Like, we got a little thing. It's a little thing.
So like when you come to our studio, it's like Lux, you know
what I mean? So it's been hard.
Yeah. Yeah, it's been hard because
people don't want to accept the price.
They're like, you know, because you're never satisfy a cheap
person. You'll never satisfy a cheap
customer because a cheap, cheap customer equates that money for
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how hard they had to work for it.
So for them, they can't fathom spending 150 an hour for
something, even though that's still cheaper than the average
cost. And I and I realized I was doing
my homework and everything, thatwe and Sam had a lot of
conversations about this. I'm like, yo, bro, what the hell
was going on? But and I realized the way we
charge in Boston, Well, from what I've noticed about the
videographers and the photographer saying we on the
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charge ourselves, yes, a whole lot.
Yeah, a lot of them. But you have.
But you have to, I understand because of the field, right?
And everybody here is a personality, but they don't
recognize their personality, right.
And everybody here can have a summit, can have an event, but
they don't see themselves in that light.
So it's hard for us as photographers and videographers
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to get people that want to spendthat money because they don't
believe in themselves. It's a big salary that later
there's nothing spending that breath.
You know what's crazy? When I went to LA.
I was telling people at the studio and I was like, yeah, I
charged 150 an hour, 200 for events.
They laughed at you, they laughed at me and I asked them,
well, how much you charge for yours to do.
They're like we charge 400 an hour easy.
So. And people are paying so because
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because they believe in them. So guess what?
Guess what? So what I've been doing is I
have AI, have a couple of other friends who who do like website
managing and stuff like that Go yo.
Somebody wants me to do something for them.
Boom, boom. How much do you know?
I don't start no less than 1500.I'm like, damn, I guess I know
where to start $10,000, Yeah. You know what I'm saying?
So it's I feel like in our fieldespecially, I don't want to put
it on the people of color. Nothing like that gets for like
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because of the creatives in our area and what they.
Have in their pocket? No.
But I understand what you're saying because I know people
that come to the studio like, no, you know, we the same
people. Like can I can I get a discount?
I got to pay 2. They're like.
Yeah, but you don't go to BMC, just go.
Fast. You don't go to Gucci saying,
oh, can I have that belt for 500instead of 1200?
That's why I say I don't even care about speaking on that,
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because that's just negative. Adding to the repair for us,
yeah, for us, we know the quality that we're trying to put
out. We know what they want from us.
So the price is the price. Yeah, plain and simple.
It's like landlords, right? Pay for it.
But because you don't pay for it, somebody else will. 1000%
oh. My.
God for you, but it might be there with the price you.
Have the room. Yeah, and as entrepreneurs, we
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need to learn that. And we learn that sometimes the
hard way or the easy way, it doesn't matter.
You learn to know that somebody will pay for it, so it doesn't
matter. Give us, give us.
Before you go, give us one pieceof advice that you can give
somebody. Stay true to yourself, no matter
what situation you are like. Believe in what you believe in
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and keep moving forward, becausethis is your life, this is not
someone else's life, and your energy is your resume.
Period. I love the mother, Kateria.
They love me. I got you drop.
A bomb. I got none that said she killed
that. You know what I'm saying, Matt?
Get your ass up here, boy. Get it, Matt.
I'm. Saying get you talking.
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Thank you, Kateria. Older.
It died. Yo, it died.
You don't need it don't need. It we don't need it.
No, we say Matt, Matt's here. Matt.
Get it, Matt. Let's get it.
Matt shout out to dad of the year.
You got your nomination for Videographer.
You got your video of the year. Who '?
(13:35):
Come on, bro. Gotta give you those problems.
Bro, how you doing bro? You never really talked.
You always been a quiet dude. You always got a turtleneck.
He's always, always got. A turtleneck?
Always. How many you've got?
My 4. Four.
That's it. Same color.
They look good. They look good.
Steve Jobs. Oh shit.
(13:55):
OK. I had the tag that was.
Good, got my iPhone. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
How you been bro? I've been good.
Got the studio, got the kid, gotthe queen, and from saying
checkmate. How is Matt himself?
Matt himself is a, you know, a guy that just loves to work,
(14:17):
just loves to do video. That's how it started.
I started, actually. I started doing skits first.
OK, skits. Pause every time I pause, right.
Don't look. No way.
There you go. How to fix that was annoying me.
It was annoying. Good, go ahead.
Go ahead. Yeah.
So yeah, I was doing skits firstand then I started doing music
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videos and then, you know, I metcriteria and.
Then, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Man, was it the Sofrito. What's the best part about being
a father? The best part about being a
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father is being a father. You got to do better than that
because I'm right here, bro. I mean.
Honestly, I'm going to give you a pack.
As you knew, it's a lot of new things going on for you.
It is so. What's the?
I have a beautiful son. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. Congratulations.
What's his name? Name is Ocean.
Ocean, yeah. Like the ocean.
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OK, fire, fire. So how is you now that you have
your kid? You got the business how you
staying balanced? I know the overnights is
probably rough, a little bit starting off and all of that.
Balance. I mean that in the beginning it
was tough, but we, you know, he he's.
Cool. He's chilling.
He knows how to you. Know.
OK. He's like a Saul Real chill.
Just chilling. Sleeps like 12 hours.
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Oh shit, that's what's up. Yeah, you know what?
I'm saying putting. His time out at.
Night, so I'm able to work around that time you.
Know. OK.
All right. That's what's up, man.
Well, your wife spoke on it and what she said that you told her
to speak the truth as to the C dub situation because we ain't
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trying to be messy, but it's just more so to get clarity.
We're trying to get clarity on the situation and instead of us
being chatty patties, we never wanted to speak on something
that we weren't really too right.
So that's why we wanted to ask the people because we, we
haven't had Charlie on, but we're going to have Charlie on
and we'd rather ask you guys first, you know, where do you
feel like it went wrong with them using the space or the
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partnership that you guys had because a lot of their videos
they said expose TV. Yeah, exactly.
I mean, yo, like just like how she said like you know, they
they they disrespected us, you know, they disrespected our
place and we wasn't having that,you know, We we we let them know
that you know and you know. It's not.
Was it true? It's called a Lorraine Cam.
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Wait, where you get that information from?
Son, come on, bro. That's baby.
That's why we didn't ask her. Yeah, we met.
Yeah. Yeah.
I'm not going to ask her that. Yeah, I mean, you know, there's
more to the story. Of course, You know, I don't
know. It's all the.
Details. I don't want to, yeah, like, you
know, get into into details. Yeah, there's some stuff put
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out, but. That, you know, you know, we
don't want to express, but you know, yeah, we, we do have a
ring Cam. Yeah, that's the hardest part
about being a business, right. Because you guys have to take
the High Road. Yeah, right.
Every time. Because exactly.
If you talk bad about the peoplethat you did business with,
people who want to do business with, you will see how you
treated other facts. And that we was not but good
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people, you know what I'm saying?
We were good people. We gave you a spot.
And. Things that happened.
Things happened. Things transpired and it got to
where? How you do business with people
follows you around and so you know, everybody's got a pass,
man. Everyone.
Everybody's got a pass, but I'm glad that you guys work through
everything that you guys had andstill are relevant, right?
(17:53):
Because some people will be like, damn, you know, we lost
them. That's one of our biggest
clients. You know, they always brought
people here, but Nah. We're still, we're still, we're
still shining. We're still growing.
They're still exposed to TV without them.
Exactly. Before they came and after they
came. So I think people do need to
understand that if somebody is already putting work, whether
you're there or not, they're going to prosper.
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If they want to prosper, they ain't based off of you being
there. So like I said, I love watching
you work. You've always been quiet and
just showing by your work. Like I told you, congratulations
to the video you did. As somebody who was really
diving into the video aspect of doing things now, seeing what
you did, I was like, oh, I see me.
I know how he did that, okay, because you never really used to
do things like that with your videos.
(18:34):
So what made you want to try something different with his?
Give me the kids name again. The Yeah.
What made you want to try something different?
With him, I mean because. I mean because I've been using
green screen for a while now butyou know I just you know we just
we just wanted to I just wanted to to fuck around Can I swear,
yeah of course. I just wanted to fuck around
with green screen a little bit more and then I know I have the
studio, so I'm like, you know, it was all shot at the studio
(18:58):
mostly green screen, OK, you know, so.
Yeah, green screen. It's fun to play with, right?
It is anything. Especially out of studio.
Premiere or Final Cut? Final Cut, Da Vinci.
Final Cut. Yeah, I use Da Vinci.
But Final Cut is my goal, yeah. It's more user friendly.
Yeah, Da Vinci for the color. Yeah, Final Cut.
Definitely more Davinci for the color and the lighting.
(19:20):
The color and the lighting. Yeah.
Am I too loud? I don't know.
I don't listen to Travis. I can't only hear myself.
So yeah, I don't give up for Boston you.
Know. Damn, I didn't was that that
loud on the speaker? But yeah, that's.
(19:41):
Good. But we're glad to see you.
I'm glad of everything you were doing.
Thank you. I mean, I'm glad for y'all
endeavors as well and I see y'all too.
You, man. Thank you very much.
We've all come a long way, bro. That's right.
We'll be at talk tall types of shit about us.
But guess where? We here.
You here, Yeah. New law.
New law? That's why I think I don't care
(20:03):
about coming outside. I don't need.
To outside, it's called. We homebody.
We outside where we need to be. Matt, good seeing you My.
Appreciate you bro. For sure, bro.
Is. Every man guy ain't your friend
a Mosley bitching for the street.
I took his hypers up and play for.
You could keep them switching sweets.
(00:21):
How you turn your back on me when I had needed you the most.
I took risk. I loaded on them bags took them
coast to coast. White folks see my TR risk and
be like down that bitch and clean every day.
I hit the guns though and I buy MO magazine.
We make sure that we Don 'm. I'm actually happy that I'm out
(00:45):
of that because I felt like I couldn't be free.
We recorded now, so chill out, chill out.
Anyways, I'm free guys. I'm free to talk about whatever
I want and I'm happy we back, show we back, we back, we back.
I'm on its leg. And we joined by the one and
only the one, the notorious. Notorious.
Notorious. She got us banned and shit.
(01:07):
Notorious like KIT. Mescal Terrier expose TV expose
the at the. Dropout Summit 2023.
Yes, you know what I'm saying. I've been saying shout out to
Kerfox. And all day, all day, all day
for real, shout out to Kerfox. Shout out.
To Kerr Let's get it this. Is beautiful.
How's your your experience been at the summit?
(01:27):
It's been really good. I'm actually it's crazy, but I'm
like. I was telling Yelena and Matt,
I'm like, I actually like everybody that's here.
No, this is a because I was. I was thinking, I'm like, damn,
about to find somebody I don't like.
I will. Say this though I will say this
stuff but you loud so that's oh.OK, I can.
(01:48):
Talk. I can talk 'cause these.
Motherfuckers keep looking. I'm about to do the ASMR, what's
that mean? I.
Don't know, just talk very so like ASMR, what's that mean?
I don't know. I don't know Young kids.
She's picking it up. How's motherhood?
Yeah. Congratulations.
Thank you. They're trying to hide it for
(02:09):
years like bro. I know.
When we first met you guys, we was like, yo, we could anyways.
We got crazy. You know why, though?
You know how I know how? I know because.
He picked her up. I went to an event, I think.
Was that these years ago? It was.
Martina, the rapper from Providence Demon Martinez.
(02:30):
Yeah, Demon. Yeah, it was his event.
It was his event. We walked in, you walked in.
He was wearing some dress and hewalked in there way.
He walked in. He let know.
He was like, you hear that? That's.
Me, my guy. He get that No, no, no.
You want to know something crazy.
When we were we went to an eventwith it was Ubas event and
(02:50):
that's when. We was like tired of it, like
tired people not knowing. And we the first person we told
was show. Peru Yeah, man, yeah, Shout to
show. Everybody knows I'd be chilling.
I And then we we smoked. I think we smoked the blast.
Of course. Gossip.
Yeah, I kind of news celebratoryblood.
You need that, Yeah. No, I appreciate the trust.
Yeah, after we told you, we feltreally good.
(03:12):
Because it's like, I think we were judged.
Yeah, I think we were hiding it so long because.
You know the scene. You know, we understand people
were saying that it was with himbecause of like videography
stuff because it was cheap. Yeah, and but.
It's. Like free We ain't knocking,
yeah. It was cheap.
Do it all the. Time, but it was real because we
got a baby and real love. He better have shot it while and
(03:35):
now my all these years. That's fine though.
I know, right? He.
Held that for Spanish girl, I ain't gonna lie.
Well, you know what it's like when we first met, like, we have
great chemistry in terms of likefriendship.
And then I was like, in a reallystupid ass fucking relationship.
He's a psycho and he like saved me from that cycle.
That's why you saved. Me.
(03:57):
Yeah, he stole me from. From what we've learned, he
saved you from many cycles. He is my rock.
He is my. We exposed for real, yo.
No. Where is?
And then you know what's anotherthing too.
And when you put your relationship out on social
(04:19):
media, this is for anyone. It's dangerous.
It's dangerous. It's dangerous.
It's dangerous because you're giving people the ability to
give an opinion about your relationship.
Exactly. And that's currently.
I feel like what's going on. I mean, I probably don't hear it
to see it, but I know people areprobably don't pay attention to
it no more. It's not important.
It's not important and I. Don't families was important.
Exactly. And I don't care, but I know
(04:39):
there's people judging all the time.
But it is what it is. But that's what I was scared at
first. It's like, damn these.
Opinions Because you've been in the media game for so long and
you know how. Impactful people haven't had on
relationships out here. Yes, it's hard.
It's hard. It's.
Hard. You got to deal with the rumors
with the so-called acid. Anytime they see you, somebody
knew. It's this time the. 3rd If I
(05:01):
were to give you guys a hug here, people would be like, oh,
but we don't care. It's just this is one thing
about us. Criteria, you know, is that we
don't give a fuck about public opinion.
We moved to the. Drunk facts, I said.
Everything that we do, and it's all built on our morals and our
integrity. Like, all right, you don't fuck
with them. Cool.
That's what we fuck with. Them.
I gotta do it right. We have our relationship with
(05:23):
them and we have relationship with you.
Yeah. Don't conclude the two.
But I'm jealous. Why?
So because when I seen you guys,yeah, I was like, these are my
people. You don't.
Have to. Be possessive?
What the fuck are they doing? We're always here.
We're always here for you too. We had to get our flowers, Yeah.
No, but you know what? I'm happy you guys did because
you guys are amazing. Thank you.
(05:43):
Thank you. OK, thank you.
You guys been working hard and it was such a strategic play.
This is national syndicated syndicated show.
This is. A million people heard you guys,
but you know what? I mean, yeah, we.
Did it and we was happy about it.
Too, Yeah, in the beginning I was like, what the fuck?
But then I was like, wait, this is a good play and I'm all about
chess. Boom.
(06:04):
That's what it. Is I was fine because with us
being a local podcast right on aon a platform that we grew up
listening to facts, jam scams and stuff, that's a big win.
And now Romero, a couple of Altazar back in the day.
Yeah, to Romero. That's how far we go.
He passed away, right? Oh, I don't.
I didn't know that. I think he did, Bolt is all.
(06:24):
I think don't be, don't be saying more crazy shit like.
You know, yeah, I can't say any crazy shit.
I think so, but I'm not sure, OK?
Because I remember when I was onthere, someone had passed away
with cancer and they worked there for a long time.
But I don't know if it was him. We're.
Going to do our. Googles.
Yeah, Google, Google. Do not quote me on that.
Do not hit me up with nothing. I gotta ask the I gotta ask the
question in a row. Let's do.
(06:46):
It What happened with C Dub. Gotta ask.
Tell the truth. Because the reason why we ask
you is because we don't want to go to the person that left the
establishment. You know what?
That. No, no, that's actually fine.
Because there's two stories. There's two stars.
True. Yeah, but I want the Queen's
version of. Course you know what I mean of.
(07:07):
Course, honestly, like, it's crazy because you know, we've
had partnerships, we had friends, we both have that.
We just either stop talking, whatever.
But. Them, you know, what really
happened was that they disrespected our studio, right?
You know, in a very negative way, physically.
(07:31):
Oh, messed up our studio, disrespected our team.
And so I can't. As a business owner, I can't do
the blind out to. That I can't do that and like
till this day like I always and I still speak to Chanel.
And I'm always like, girl, I support you like.
Shout out to Chanel. Shout out to Chanel, Definitely.
(07:53):
You know, I'm never going to be like, oh fuck, damn dude.
Like that's not my energy. And because, like, I'm sorry
guys. But like, I'm huge.
Like, I do a lot of big stuff and I'm not about to like, go
out on a rampage and continue talking about something, talking
about something when I made the decision to.
To to let you guys out and kick you guys out, because as a
business owner, I can't accept that.
(08:14):
No, you cannot. We invested over 100 grand in
our studio and we're going to respect it and anybody that
comes in it has to respect it. I have something.
For you, right? You know what I mean?
I've heard a lot about how you guys do business and all of that
and how you guys charge high. And Sam and I, who were both
photographers and videographers,we understand that whole charge
(08:36):
for my time thing, so. Banter, videographer and a
photographer. Yeah.
And he does the drones and all that.
I know how much that runs. Yes.
So when I see the packages and people like, oh, like when they
charge a mad bread, I'm like, I'm thinking to myself like, yo,
do you know how much time goes into this editing that he's
about to do for you? And I already told him
congratulations and shots him onour dope ass video he did for
(08:56):
the kid because that's the firsttime I see him go outside his
box editing wise. But it makes sense.
It makes sense though. So how has the growth been for
exposed TV with now you guys trying to expand and you got
your own? Studio Yes.
I see a lot of video shoots and everything going out of there.
You know what I'm saying? So how has it been with the
growth? It's been amazing, but it's also
(09:16):
been hard because you have to realize, like, we're not going
to be the studio that charges $50.75 an hour.
The way we built our studio is highly teched and professional
like you. Go to LA or New York.
That's what it looks like. So for me, I don't care if I'm
charging 150 an hour or 200 an hour, it might even go up next
(09:40):
year 1000%. And that's how it should be.
Because at the end of the day, I'm not the cheap choice.
I'm the better choice. That's it you.
Get what you pay. For you get what you pay for and
when you come to the studio, you're not going to get someone
that OK, just come and know, hey, do you need a water?
Hey, do you need help, Matt? He don't even get paid for this.
But he'll ask people like, hey, do you need me to change the
(10:02):
light and do do anything that you need help with?
Like, we got a little thing. It's a little thing.
So like when you come to our studio, it's like Lux, you know
what I mean? So it's been hard.
Yeah. Yeah, it's been hard because
people don't want to accept the price.
They're like, you know, because you're never satisfy a cheap
person. You'll never satisfy a cheap
customer because a cheap, cheap customer equates that money for
(10:23):
how hard they had to work for it.
So for them, they can't fathom spending 150 an hour for
something, even though that's still cheaper than the average
cost. And I and I realized I was doing
my homework and everything, thatwe and Sam had a lot of
conversations about this. I'm like, yo, bro, what the hell
was going on? But and I realized the way we
charge in Boston, Well, from what I've noticed about the
videographers and the photographer saying we on the
(10:44):
charge ourselves, yes, a whole lot.
Yeah, a lot of them. But you have.
But you have to, I understand because of the field, right?
And everybody here is a personality, but they don't
recognize their personality, right.
And everybody here can have a summit, can have an event, but
they don't see themselves in that light.
So it's hard for us as photographers and videographers
(11:05):
to get people that want to spendthat money because they don't
believe in themselves. It's a big salary that later
there's nothing spending that breath.
You know what's crazy? When I went to LA.
I was telling people at the studio and I was like, yeah, I
charged 150 an hour, 200 for events.
They laughed at you, they laughed at me and I asked them,
well, how much you charge for yours to do.
They're like we charge 400 an hour easy.
So. And people are paying so because
(11:28):
because they believe in them. So guess what?
Guess what? So what I've been doing is I
have AI, have a couple of other friends who who do like website
managing and stuff like that Go yo.
Somebody wants me to do something for them.
Boom, boom. How much do you know?
I don't start no less than 1500.I'm like, damn, I guess I know
where to start $10,000, Yeah. You know what I'm saying?
So it's I feel like in our fieldespecially, I don't want to put
it on the people of color. Nothing like that gets for like
(11:49):
because of the creatives in our area and what they.
Have in their pocket? No.
But I understand what you're saying because I know people
that come to the studio like, no, you know, we the same
people. Like can I can I get a discount?
I got to pay 2. They're like.
Yeah, but you don't go to BMC, just go.
Fast. You don't go to Gucci saying,
oh, can I have that belt for 500instead of 1200?
That's why I say I don't even care about speaking on that,
(12:11):
because that's just negative. Adding to the repair for us,
yeah, for us, we know the quality that we're trying to put
out. We know what they want from us.
So the price is the price. Yeah, plain and simple.
It's like landlords, right? Pay for it.
But because you don't pay for it, somebody else will. 1000%
oh. My.
God for you, but it might be there with the price you.
Have the room. Yeah, and as entrepreneurs, we
(12:33):
need to learn that. And we learn that sometimes the
hard way or the easy way, it doesn't matter.
You learn to know that somebody will pay for it, so it doesn't
matter. Give us, give us.
Before you go, give us one pieceof advice that you can give
somebody. Stay true to yourself, no matter
what situation you are like. Believe in what you believe in
(12:54):
and keep moving forward, becausethis is your life, this is not
someone else's life, and your energy is your resume.
Period. I love the mother, Kateria.
They love me. I got you drop.
A bomb. I got none that said she killed
that. You know what I'm saying, Matt?
Get your ass up here, boy. Get it, Matt.
I'm. Saying get you talking.
(13:14):
Thank you, Kateria. Older.
It died. Yo, it died.
You don't need it don't need. It we don't need it.
No, we say Matt, Matt's here. Matt.
Get it, Matt. Let's get it.
Matt shout out to dad of the year.
You got your nomination for Videographer.
You got your video of the year. Who '?
(13:35):
Come on, bro. Gotta give you those problems.
Bro, how you doing bro? You never really talked.
You always been a quiet dude. You always got a turtleneck.
He's always, always got. A turtleneck?
Always. How many you've got?
My 4. Four.
That's it. Same color.
They look good. They look good.
Steve Jobs. Oh shit.
(13:55):
OK. I had the tag that was.
Good, got my iPhone. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
How you been bro? I've been good.
Got the studio, got the kid, gotthe queen, and from saying
checkmate. How is Matt himself?
Matt himself is a, you know, a guy that just loves to work,
(14:17):
just loves to do video. That's how it started.
I started, actually. I started doing skits first.
OK, skits. Pause every time I pause, right.
Don't look. No way.
There you go. How to fix that was annoying me.
It was annoying. Good, go ahead.
Go ahead. Yeah.
So yeah, I was doing skits firstand then I started doing music
(14:39):
videos and then, you know, I metcriteria and.
Then, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Man, was it the Sofrito. What's the best part about being
a father? The best part about being a
(14:59):
father is being a father. You got to do better than that
because I'm right here, bro. I mean.
Honestly, I'm going to give you a pack.
As you knew, it's a lot of new things going on for you.
It is so. What's the?
I have a beautiful son. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. Congratulations.
What's his name? Name is Ocean.
Ocean, yeah. Like the ocean.
(15:21):
OK, fire, fire. So how is you now that you have
your kid? You got the business how you
staying balanced? I know the overnights is
probably rough, a little bit starting off and all of that.
Balance. I mean that in the beginning it
was tough, but we, you know, he he's.
Cool. He's chilling.
He knows how to you. Know.
OK. He's like a Saul Real chill.
Just chilling. Sleeps like 12 hours.
(15:43):
Oh shit, that's what's up. Yeah, you know what?
I'm saying putting. His time out at.
Night, so I'm able to work around that time you.
Know. OK.
All right. That's what's up, man.
Well, your wife spoke on it and what she said that you told her
to speak the truth as to the C dub situation because we ain't
(16:03):
trying to be messy, but it's just more so to get clarity.
We're trying to get clarity on the situation and instead of us
being chatty patties, we never wanted to speak on something
that we weren't really too right.
So that's why we wanted to ask the people because we, we
haven't had Charlie on, but we're going to have Charlie on
and we'd rather ask you guys first, you know, where do you
feel like it went wrong with them using the space or the
(16:24):
partnership that you guys had because a lot of their videos
they said expose TV. Yeah, exactly.
I mean, yo, like just like how she said like you know, they
they they disrespected us, you know, they disrespected our
place and we wasn't having that,you know, We we we let them know
that you know and you know. It's not.
Was it true? It's called a Lorraine Cam.
(16:47):
Wait, where you get that information from?
Son, come on, bro. That's baby.
That's why we didn't ask her. Yeah, we met.
Yeah. Yeah.
I'm not going to ask her that. Yeah, I mean, you know, there's
more to the story. Of course, You know, I don't
know. It's all the.
Details. I don't want to, yeah, like, you
know, get into into details. Yeah, there's some stuff put
(17:08):
out, but. That, you know, you know, we
don't want to express, but you know, yeah, we, we do have a
ring Cam. Yeah, that's the hardest part
about being a business, right. Because you guys have to take
the High Road. Yeah, right.
Every time. Because exactly.
If you talk bad about the peoplethat you did business with,
people who want to do business with, you will see how you
treated other facts. And that we was not but good
(17:31):
people, you know what I'm saying?
We were good people. We gave you a spot.
And. Things that happened.
Things happened. Things transpired and it got to
where? How you do business with people
follows you around and so you know, everybody's got a pass,
man. Everyone.
Everybody's got a pass, but I'm glad that you guys work through
everything that you guys had andstill are relevant, right?
(17:53):
Because some people will be like, damn, you know, we lost
them. That's one of our biggest
clients. You know, they always brought
people here, but Nah. We're still, we're still, we're
still shining. We're still growing.
They're still exposed to TV without them.
Exactly. Before they came and after they
came. So I think people do need to
understand that if somebody is already putting work, whether
you're there or not, they're going to prosper.
(18:13):
If they want to prosper, they ain't based off of you being
there. So like I said, I love watching
you work. You've always been quiet and
just showing by your work. Like I told you, congratulations
to the video you did. As somebody who was really
diving into the video aspect of doing things now, seeing what
you did, I was like, oh, I see me.
I know how he did that, okay, because you never really used to
do things like that with your videos.
(18:34):
So what made you want to try something different with his?
Give me the kids name again. The Yeah.
What made you want to try something different?
With him, I mean because. I mean because I've been using
green screen for a while now butyou know I just you know we just
we just wanted to I just wanted to to fuck around Can I swear,
yeah of course. I just wanted to fuck around
with green screen a little bit more and then I know I have the
studio, so I'm like, you know, it was all shot at the studio
(18:58):
mostly green screen, OK, you know, so.
Yeah, green screen. It's fun to play with, right?
It is anything. Especially out of studio.
Premiere or Final Cut? Final Cut, Da Vinci.
Final Cut. Yeah, I use Da Vinci.
But Final Cut is my goal, yeah. It's more user friendly.
Yeah, Da Vinci for the color. Yeah, Final Cut.
Definitely more Davinci for the color and the lighting.
(19:20):
The color and the lighting. Yeah.
Am I too loud? I don't know.
I don't listen to Travis. I can't only hear myself.
So yeah, I don't give up for Boston you.
Know. Damn, I didn't was that that
loud on the speaker? But yeah, that's.
(19:41):
Good. But we're glad to see you.
I'm glad of everything you were doing.
Thank you. I mean, I'm glad for y'all
endeavors as well and I see y'all too.
You, man. Thank you very much.
We've all come a long way, bro. That's right.
We'll be at talk tall types of shit about us.
But guess where? We here.
You here, Yeah. New law.
New law? That's why I think I don't care
(20:03):
about coming outside. I don't need.
To outside, it's called. We homebody.
We outside where we need to be. Matt, good seeing you My.
Appreciate you bro. For sure, bro.
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