October 23, 2025 • 38 mins
EP9 Tonio Skits | From Foster Care to Fame foster care to fame — Tonio Skits has lived it all. In this raw and unfiltered conversation, Tonio opens up about the heartbreaks that shaped him, the hustle that saved him, and the Hollywood grind that tested everything he’s built.Lexis Star dives deep into Tonio’s journey — from surviving the system to creating viral comedy, breaking barriers, and proving that purpose can come from pain. This is more than a success story — it’s a story of resilience, reinvention, and real talk you won’t hear anywhere else.🌐 Visit us: https://LexisStarShow.com🎙 Guest Links:Tonio Skits – https://www.instagram.com/tonioskits/✨ Subscribe for new episodes of The Lexis Star Show every week!👉 Don’t forget to like, comment, and share to support the show.🎤 Follow The Lexis Star Show:Instagram: http://bit.ly/3JEkJJnFacebook: http://bit.ly/3JIOVTyTwitter/X: http://bit.ly/45URj0RTikTok: http://bit.ly/460bpqq⭐️ Follow your Host:Instagram: http://bit.ly/4mKfmHbFacebook: http://bit.ly/3JHRYeG
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And then she goes, He wanted me to tell you your daddy's here.
And I was like, that would have been really funny if my husband
answered the phone. But.
I was hoping he wouldn't answer it.
He's like, yeah, go like that. OK, no, let me show you.
And he starts the girl for you like this.
And then he goes back every timehe goes no, but you're not
(00:23):
giving him head, right? And people were sending me clips
of Brazzers. I'm looking at the video, it's
almost frame by frame. They copied one of my skits
which is not illegal. It's fine.
I feel flattered and I was so mad.
I'm like man, I could have done this boy.
I could have bade me to direct this about to fight my ex.
You about to fight your ex what she do huh What she do?
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Why are you going to fight her? She.
Didn't want to hold herself accountable and the first video
I made was about. Heartbreak.
Being cheated on, OK, it's not funds, you know this this is
allocated to marketing. This is allocated to whatever he
goes Nah, give me that marketingmoney.
I'm going to do it myself. Universal like what?
Like I'm Kevin Hart bits. So they did that and he decided
to use the top 10 influencers inthe world to him at the time,
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fly them to Hawaii, use his production company and create a
script and write something that he's going to be in to market
the movie. And I was one of those 10 that's
old stories. This is the Lexus Star show.
(01:33):
This show is presented by King Rilla.
Welcome back to the Lexus Star Show guys.
I am so excited that you are tuning in listening.
Joining me today is a really funny, talented man, Tonio with
the skids. Please welcome Tonio.
What up? What?
(01:56):
Up. I told you guys he was funny.
Thank you, Tonio, for joining ustoday.
I'm glad we're going to sit downand have a little chitchat.
I'm not here to be funny today. I'm really getting ready for a
fight. OK.
About to fight my ex. You about to fight your ex?
What she do huh? What she do?
Why are you going to fight her? She didn't want to hold herself
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accountable. Just like every woman.
Sorry ladies who weren't listening.
What's up guys? What up, What up, What up?
Wait, do we have a budget from Sounds Can can somebody?
Put the I think I think we can. I think Coke can do something
about that. OK, cool.
We do. So we're good.
Don't worry about it. We're going to do it exactly how
you like. OK, All right.
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So tell us, for the people who don't know who you are, give
them a little introduction of who you are.
What you do please? Well, I am Gina Valentina's my
back, my back. She's in my head for some
reason. My back, my back.
I, I wasn't my back. Gina, hit me up.
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I am a content creator. I've I've have stand up comedy
shows on HBO. I have a few movies.
One just came out in August on Apple TV and Amazon.
It's called Kill Street. Make sure you guys watch that.
It's a horror film, but it's funny.
It's it's well, I'm the comedic relief in it.
I'm on an MTVI mean. I'm on an improv comedy show
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called Wilding Out and I do concert every day and hit up
beautiful women to shoot with. Yeah, that's why you shot you.
You hit me. Up.
That's why we met. There we go.
No, actually I had lost a bet. So what?
Was that OK? We'll get back to that later.
So you got a lot of things goingon and I want to get to how this
all started. So I know that you started when
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it was the good old days on Vine.
What, what pushed you to, you know, put that first video out?
Like, were you always funny or was it always?
I know you went to school for theater, right?
Yep, Yep. I was in dancing drama.
Well, back back in the days, I was in dance and drama back in
New York. I was born and raised in New
York. I was in foster care during the
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time that I found the arts because they put me in a
completely different school. So I was out of my comfort zone,
my element. But there was a program of dance
and what was it? It was dance and drama and I was
performing in those shows. And that's where I, I learned I
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was good at certain things, right?
So the arts in school is so important.
You know, a lot of kids get to find themselves.
I'm one of them. But anyways, you know, my mom
passed when I was 15 and then I,I went to foster care for three
years. And then I found out my mom had
a sister in Miami, hence why I ended up in Miami sometime after
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high school. Anyways.
So how to let all that go? Because I mean, I can't, I can't
go. Well, I'm going to go act that I
need to make money. I need to find a place to live.
I got to figure all that stuff out and Fast forward, I'm in
nursing school. I meet this girl fast.
My, my bad. I meet this girl and I was with
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her. We were together for like, you
know what I'm saying, four years.
Damn. And she cheated on.
Me. Oh, snap.
So that's the one you're going to be, you're going to fight.
No, no. OK, Nah, we cool.
What up? What up girl?
That put me in a different mindset.
Like I was I was broken like I I've never experienced.
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Heartache. Yeah, I never, yeah, I never
experienced that. And it just put me to a place
where I needed to fill my time being distracted.
And I I, I found Vine and Tick and Instagram and started making
videos. And the first video I made was
about. Heartbreak.
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Being cheated on. OK, she found out, she texted
me. Why are you talking shit?
Da da da. So I'm like, oh, I made nine
more videos. Did did your first video go
viral like they did? Pretty good, yeah.
That's good for that time. Yeah.
And then I just got really good at storytelling, and I never
stopped. That's amazing.
We're here today because of it. That's crazy.
Thank you. To the girl who cheated on you,
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you see, everything happens for a reason.
I absolutely believe that. I mean, I know what, we've all
gone through some shit. And then after I'm like, you
know what? I was dating this like, really
shitty guy. Yeah.
Long. Time.
Long time. Long time.
So I was seeing this guy for five years and I was like, God,
there's going to be something good after him, right?
And then look what I got, right?Lucky, lucky.
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Yeah, you got yourself a cameraman.
A cameraman. A guy knows where to put the the
apples at. Put the apples at.
We'll link the. We'll link the cart on.
On the description. For anyone who wants to put
their fruits and veggies in a cart.
So how old were you when that happened?
Like your first vine, Like. I was what I don't know, 2928
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when I when I started doing that.
And you're what, you're 40 now, right?
Yeah. Shit.
Vine was that long ago? I feel like it was.
Longer than that. Well, I started in 2014, OK.
And in 2015 I felt, I felt I wasjust just as good as all those,
those guys that were like getting millions of views.
But I'm by myself in Miami in myaunt's garage.
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And I, I just made a decision. I'm like, I need to go to Lai.
Can I can kick it with them. I can, I can move like them.
And I told my family they thought it was.
They thought it was. Crazy.
Of course it's crazy to. Leave a six figure income job to
go shoot videos with strangers. I was like yo.
It's always like that, right it?Sounds crazy.
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And that's exactly what I did and I think I'm my third month
there. Like I did everything I needed
to do. I knew where they were working
at, they were filming out, so I'll just appear, but like, hey,
I can hold the camera for you guys.
Whatever. I provided value to them and in
return I got it back. And then I just kept that
formula going and by my third month I'm working.
I'm in Hawaii with Kevin Hart working with him.
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I was going to ask you about that, yeah.
I'm in, I'm in I'm I'm I'm shooting constant with the big
people. I'm growing fast.
I'm on TV like I used to be in porn stars DMS now they ain't
mine Gina. Gina, how did how did working
with Kevin Hart happen? Like, did he reach out to you?
Did you reach out to him? His people.
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So he had put out, he put something out saying, Hey, I'm
looking for the top influencers in the world.
So at the time Kevin was going through a change himself, right?
He I don't know if the AC matters sound we're good.
OK, so Kevin Hart was going through a change, if you will,
himself, because he he was one of the first comedians to fill
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seats using his social media platform.
And and now he was changing things again, where I think it
was Universal that was funding his what now tour.
And obviously when, when they, when they put out funds, you
know, this, this is allocated tomarketing.
This is allocated to whatever hegoes, Nah, give me that
marketing money. I'm gonna do it myself.
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Universal is like what? Like I'm Kevin Hart Biss.
So they did that, and he decidedto use the top 10 influencers in
the world to him at the time, fly them to Hawaii, use his
production company and create a script and write something that
he's gonna be in to market the movie.
Yeah. And I was one of those 10.
That's amazing. Did he shoot with everybody or?
Yeah. Yeah, in that group, yeah.
(09:32):
It was only 10 of us, so everyone had their own ideas.
Logan Paul was there. Nice.
I saw the video this morning, actually, because I I remember
you had told me that you you shot with Kevin Hart and I saw
it. I saw it today.
And that was that was really funny.
Those were your ideas. Yeah.
Yeah, you're. You're you're really good.
So we worked together about two weeks ago.
We did right, and I was. Your husband was there so.
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Yeah, my husband was there. I made a sure.
When we know me, I was like listen don't make me look
stupid, like a stupid IG girl. He was writing to me.
No, I was writing to you. I would have been like, yo, hold
on, 'cause he wrote heart faces and.
We're gonna have to look at thatback.
Maybe he did like while I was sleeping.
Take my phone. Send me an eggplant.
I ain't gonna lie to you. Eggplant.
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OK, well, we're gonna have to have a talk after this.
But what I wanted to say was we you, you, your mind works in an
amazing way because you get a little idea and then you make
this whole thing out of it. And even while we're talking, I
can see you, like, mumbling. And I'm just, I'm like, how does
he how does that happen? Like, did you have to practice
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that or does it really just comenatural to you?
I think it's a little bit of both.
I've been doing it for so long that now my subconscious is just
trained to look for these thingsand it just stays there.
And I just, I'm able to tap intothis memory like, oh, OK, well,
I'll look at something and then I, I'll wait.
If this was a video I can changelater.
It it over. In the beginning I had to think
of ideas and, and I, I'll show if I have my phone, I'll show
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you. I have ideas from 2015 to now,
just random ideas. I just write what's in my head.
And doing that is practicing. It's you're training your mind
to think a certain way and it starts just filtering that way
and and you know. Do you ever get like, does it
over? Does it ever get like crowded in
your brain like with all these ideas, you ever be like fucker,
like it's a lot or you just write it down in it?
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I don't smoke weed, right. I think I've attempted maybe
three times in my life, maybe 4 because of a girl.
And it's like, ah, you should smoke.
I'm like, alright. When I smoke weed is when I
learn of all those thoughts are that are there.
They're they're it becomes overwhelming.
I have so many thoughts and I'm here sitting down thinking of
all these thoughts while I'm floating, but I'm not floating.
And then I realized, wait a minute, I'm a floater.
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I just, I can't do weed. Yeah, I'm not.
I'm not a fan that either. Never.
I mean, I've done it a bit more times than you have, but it's
just, I just grind my teeth and I feel like they're going to
fucking fall out You. Grind your teeth when you smoke
weed. Well, when I when I lay down in
bed. That's not weed, that's called
lace. Maybe it was and I didn't know,
but I'll be I'll be laying in bed, like ready to go to bed.
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And then I I don't even think I'm grinding them.
It just feels like I am and I feel like they're all going to
fall out and I really don't likethat.
So I mean, I just, I'll have a glass here and there, you know,
of, of wine or or whatever, but.What?
What time is it? It's 1042.
OK, no, because Gina Valentina is supposed to call me at 11,
but what actually? Anyways, just.
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To call you at a level we can wecan press cut and we'll.
No, we can press no cut. We can, Gina, You can wait.
And and you we, we can have the we can.
Record. No.
Gina could wait. Do you know this Gina girl?
Do you know her? Gina Valentina?
Yeah. I think I follow her.
But like, I don't know. I know.
OK. We're going to film.
Yeah, I know, I know. Okay, so Wilding out, I know
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you've been on that for a few seasons.
I just know Nick Cannon is like the host.
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It's an improv comedy show started by Nick Cannon.
OK, and it's just one of those think of SNL type vibes.
I think we were around before SNLI think SNL copied us.
Yeah, I said that. But I mean, SNL lives in, in his
home world, but he created this show to allow, you know, kids
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that would never really have theopportunity to be on TV to be
seen because this, this talent everywhere.
And he, he gets the most funniest people and, and, and
put them on stage to improv certain certain improv certain
situations, like for example, let me holler, let me holler.
It's a segment where there's a girl on stage and we got to come
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up and come up with the funniestpick up line.
If you do good, you got a bell. If you do bad, you get a buzzer.
So, so imagine all the games arelike then you have to be quick
on your feet and while and out is literally to this day one of
the hardest things I've ever done because like you literally
have to improv. Like you have to be on your A
game. Yeah, on the spot.
I thought it was about rapping. It is, it's, it's this rap in
it, right? They'll come up with a segment
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where. So at the end there's the wild
style battle where you literallyhave to roast your person in a
rap battle. OK, and what if you don't rap?
You still. Yeah, you're not.
Then you trash. You won't make it.
OK. And is there a prize at the end
of this? A prize?
No, we'll just. You.
Just you. Just.
Yeah, it's just for fun. It's a show.
OK, OK, 'cause I, I mean, I never really quite understood
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the concept of it, but I see. So like people go crazy.
I see like a, you know, a few clips and and bits of it.
Isn't there a girl Valentina on that?
Yeah, Justina Valentine. OK, so I will keep getting
confused with those two. Yeah, red hair.
Guys really good. She yeah, yeah, she's the.
I feel like she's the poster child of the show.
She's amazing. She's one of my one of my best
friends. Oh, really?
(15:14):
Oh, OK. Well, we'll have to Fact Check
that. I'll call her right now.
Don't play. OK, so you were on that for a
few seasons and why do you say I, I know you said that it was
it was hard because you had to improv.
Was there any other challenges that you had with with?
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Yeah, I mean, did you ever? Flop like on stage on while.
I've never, I've never flopped the thing.
It is so when we go from the show, we, we have like
rehearsals for two weeks. And what rehearsals is we play
every game back-to-back to back-to-back.
So you're comfortable, so you can think faster on your feet.
Because let's say in rehearsals I said a line and nobody really
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laughed. And but for whatever reason, I'm
going back on stage and I can't think of something or I black
out. I can remember the stuff I did
in rehearsal. I'm like, let me see if I could
deliver that line again, but differently or something.
And then I'll do go on stage. But also the reversal, it did
good in rehearsal. Then I said that line, but on
stage they flop. So it's it's how you deliver it.
(16:16):
And the idea is if you fail, fail.
Funny. Yeah.
So let's say I say something that didn't go over.
I'm like, alright, bitch. Well, you don't speak English
now. I took a moment that failed, but
I made it funny. And that's what it's about.
That's what it's really about. That's awesome.
Have you ever had, like, any content that flopped or you
said, you know, what am I? Every week?
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Every week? Yeah.
Did ours flop? No.
We did. Pretty.
We did. We did decent.
We did decent. We did.
The thing is, you know, I don't nothing really flops because
videos that just didn't hit, it's getting reposted within 30
days and it it'll hit again. It's just people need to
understand there's an audience for everyone.
Like if I had hairy toes here right now, I bet you I can find
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an audience for myself. Like there's an audience for
everyone and it just takes time sometimes to find it.
I'm good and I shave. You're looking at your toes.
I I shaved a. Little are you good?
I took pictures earlier. Don't sell them.
I'm going to sell them before you do.
You. I'm already making money on FIFA
and the witch out toes. Why you think I worked with you?
Easy. Did you did you ever have any
times where you're like, OK, this is too much.
(17:19):
Like I'm constantly thinking of content ideas.
I'm constantly and it's like I'mgoing to burn out.
Did you ever have a moment like that or you just I?
Personally, Well, yeah, yeah, I have moments where it's the
pressure that is upon someone when you have to stay relevant,
You have to keep posting. You know, I, I, I still hear to
this day like, yo, you fell off.We don't even see your content
(17:41):
no more. I post every day on 7 different
platforms on Facebook. I post 10 times a day.
So for me to hear I fell off because you don't see my content
has nothing to do with me. It's the algorithm.
But you hear shit like that. So there is a constant pressure
sometimes for you to continue feeding the machine.
If not, you feel like you're notdoing anything and also you got
bills to pay so you got to feed the machine even when you're not
(18:01):
at your utmost. At your best, 1000%.
Yeah. So yeah.
So you're on 7 platforms, Is there one that you enjoy the
most? Facebook because it pays me a
lot of money. Thank you Facebook.
How do you get paid on Facebook?You're going to have to teach me
the the the the loops and the tricks.
You're going to have to follow my course, follow Antonio skits.
(18:22):
He's already selling a shit. Actually, I give it.
I get, I, I actually every day, every morning I have this.
It's, it's a channel, but it's achat room.
But Facebook channels and Instagram channels, OK, where
people follow that chat room. And every morning I give them
tips how to grow faster, algorithm tips and motivational
(18:45):
stuff every morning on both platforms.
So I'm always giving free stuff away.
That's free. OK, we're gonna have to.
We're gonna, we're gonna follow that.
Yeah, subscribe. It's free.
Yeah, for sure. OK, Now on a more serious note,
I did read that you had a reallybad injury.
Yeah. What happened there?
So me and Gina Valentino, we were out or not.
(19:06):
That injury. Oh, my bad.
Hey, Gina, I promise you. Yeah, we got to put that tape
out. Stop playing with us.
I had a motorcycle accident. Yeah, I your spinal cord is
divided into 3 parts, right? Your cervical thoracic in your
lumbar, which is the lower in mythoracic spine.
I shattered T3 and T4 from that accident.
I went straight into a van. A van cut me off.
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I had the light. I had the right away and the van
turned and I went straight into the windshield, bounced off,
fell down, broke ribs. I broke my sternum, ribs, and
then my thoracic thoracic spine.I read Were You that you were in
a coma. Is that?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was.
I was in a coma. I was on life support.
Goddamn, actually I I during operation one of my lungs
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collapsed and I flat lined. I was, oh man, I was gone for
like 22 seconds and they broughtme back.
And how long ago was this? It's like like 15 years ago.
So this was before you started doing Yeah, contents.
Yeah, well, you know what's crazy?
That incident led me to go back to school to become a nurse
because I wanted to be what those people were to me.
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So I went to school to do that. Then.
I mean, my ex, my ex, you know, the story LED social media.
And then when I look back, it's like all that shit had to happen
to be where I am today. 1000%. And it's like, I Remember Me
being in the hospital. I have this saying I, I think I
read the same, but I say so muchnow I'm saying I own this
saying. But this this saying is from
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like there's someone in the hospital right now praying,
praying to be in the position you are right now.
Just don't waste your time. And I was one of those people.
I was the person in the hospitaljust wishing to walk, just
wishing to to be normal or, or like just just normal shit that
you do every day. I was, I was praying for that.
And I wanted to be what those people watching me in the
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hospital and became a nurse. And it's amazing.
Yeah. So when you really look back,
it's like even at your lowest point, you could be at the but
you have no idea what you're going through right now is
necessary for the person that you're about to become.
I, I totally believe, like, I don't know about you.
I mean, I, I, you said you were praying like I believe in God
and I believe that, you know, shit happens.
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You can feel like it's the end of the world that like, why the
fuck is this happening to me? But then you're just like, this
had to happen, right? This had to happen because God
had a better plan for me and Godknew what the outcome would be.
It's just you need to suffer a little bit to get what.
This is what I think. This is what I think God was
doing, right? God's like working whatever.
And then he hears from the background, from one of the
(21:39):
angels. They're like, yo, Tonio's here
and he goes, what? He goes Tonio, He's like, we got
Aaliyah here, right? You know, the artist, She's
like, you know what, just send him back because I'm not ready
to deal with his shit. And that's why he, I think
that's why God sent me back because he knew, boy, if I see
Aliyah, Aliyah, if I see you andhim, girl, I'm a rock the boat,
rock the boat, you know what I'msaying?
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But he knew. So he's like, you know what, 10
Antonio back. So now I got a second chance.
That's it. That's so I'm out here living my
best life as as much as I can And and and.
That's amazing. And you got, you said you got
were you working on shows? 1 is already out.
Yes. Well, yeah, I'm in a movie right
now called Kill Streak that's out.
It's on Apple and Amazon. Kill Streak, Kill Streak, it's
(22:22):
actually good. But is that one that you
produce? No, I'm, no, I'm an actor in
that movie. Movies I produce, I'm still
working on that. I have, I have an action comedy
called Mr. Social and other films, but that one's ready to
go have the script. So it's out right now.
It's it's in people's hands. I'm, I'm, I'm, I got investors
involved. I'm going to start raising money
(22:43):
for the film and, you know, start putting my movie out.
That's what I want to do. My five to seven-year plan is
act as many possible films I canbe in and also put my put my
stuff out. My 7 to the year 10 year plan.
I want to I just want to direct movies.
Nice. You know what I'm saying?
And be I have. A few movies you can direct if
you like. I'm.
(23:06):
I'm just joking, I'm joking. I'm just trying to be funny like
you. You're.
You're no, no, no, because I take it serious because I would
love to direct it. I would like I got I already got
apps look, we can call it booty and the beast right?
We can. Well, there's so much we can do
like. I like it.
You know what we're? Fast and the curious, you know.
Write these down. The nerd with the glasses fast
(23:27):
and the curious, you know? Yeah.
That's funny. OK, let's say somebody is
starting out, you know, somebodywants to start making content
and doing skits or whatever. What would be your advice to
them? Somebody who you know wants to
make social media their, you know, their work, their, their
life. OK, so.
(23:48):
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lot of those questions in my DMS.
And the first thing I do is go look at a person's page and see
nothing's posted. You just lost an opportunity to
(24:31):
have someone that's been in the business for 10 years look at
your content and maybe critique.And I say this to say, because
the difference between me and someone who wants to do what I
do, it's literally execution. That's it.
If you have a phone, you have anidea, execute.
A lot of people are perfectionist, right?
Which is a flaw or, or, or they have to have certain things.
So I just don't have this lighting.
You don't need none of that. As long as you have a good idea
(24:54):
and motivation, you literally can do what I do.
I'm just 10 years ahead of you doing what I'm doing, but it
doesn't matter. You can just do it.
So my advice is execution. And another issue people have or
something that stops them from doing is but everybody's doing
it or the market saturated. Nobody's you.
Yeah, like nobody's you. You can literally be you put
(25:17):
your stuff out there. There's an audience for
everyone, no matter when you start.
That's, that's, that's somethingthat I need to remember.
There's an audience for everything and also there's
execution. But I feel like consistency
would be, yeah, something else. Because people, I mean, even me,
sometimes I'm like, I'm on a, I'm on a roll and I'm just like
taking content, taking content, posting, posting.
And then like for a day I, I didn't post something in a day
and I was like, God damn, I gotta you know.
(25:39):
I mean, one day it's not going to kill you.
For sure, But you know what? It's.
And consistency. Something every time you open
TikTok, make sure you post something before you start
scrolling, you know? You know, I haven't posted a
TikTok almost two months becauseI'm really, I'm mad at TikTok.
Why? How?
Why is that? Just cut the views down unless
you're not selling an item like hey, have you tried this cup?
It's water, but not regular water.
(26:00):
It's reverse osmosis water. And you can buy this for four.
I got to do that. I know, I know I I every time I
open TikTok and that's that's funny that you mention that
because it's either did you knowhow to grow on TikTok?
This is what you got to do follow these steps and it's a
it's a minute video of them saying absolutely nothing or you
(26:24):
know, they're they're trying to sell something.
So I totally get it Tell. Me about these gurus that tell
you they have all these secret growth and then when you go to
the page they're not using it. Exactly.
Yo your video can go viral if you follow these steps.
I go to your page. None of your videos are viral.
Well you gurus stop. I hate you guys.
He hates you. Don't do it.
No. Antonio's coming for.
You unless Gina, Gina did a a a my back, my back.
(26:46):
Gina Valentina, maybe you shoulddo one of those videos on
growing. You know, all right, Never mind.
My back, my back, my back. OK, you kill me.
This is going to be a funny a funny episode.
Let me see. I I want to make sure that
before you know, I asked you that.
I asked you that. Let's see.
Am I still red a little bit? Oh, it's OK, all right.
(27:09):
The What about the lion fling? The lion fling.
You have to be like hairy. Movies.
No, I'm thinking of movies. I know.
I know what you're. I know, I know.
I got it, Yeah. Who did you look up to when you
were growing up? Is there anybody that you were
like, OK, Like he inspired me todo?
This Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, when he was on In Living Color,
(27:30):
those two people were just for me because you know Jamie Foxx,
he does everything he. Does.
Yes, he really does. You know what I'm saying?
He did his last special. I think he was like singing in
it. He did like, did you smell?
It Yeah, Yeah. He sings, he acts, he's a
comedian. He does stand up and he doesn't
very well. I aspire to be that great and
(27:51):
I'm friends with him. Shout out to Jamie Foxx.
You're yeah. Any good skit ideas coming up or
you're just constantly working or?
Yeah, well, I'm just overwhelmedwith a lot of work.
I think I, I, I, I'm ready to, Ithink just give in and just get
an assistant. Lisa.
(28:13):
She got a period. I know, Gina.
Gina, Gina I. Don't know why we're bringing
you up right now. Gina Valentina.
So many. Times I feel like it's only
right, but you definitely need an assistant.
I'm I'm actually surprised you don't have one.
Yeah, I got to figure that out. You.
You, you got it. We, we just.
Got 1 so so I need. An assistant, so if anybody
(28:36):
needs a job. Listen up, yo-yo, holla at me.
Listen, if you're not Gina Valentina, just keep scrolling.
Keep scrolling. Wait, no, I'm, no, I'm not
trying to hire you, Gina. I'm in if you want me to.
But no, Yeah, yeah, I need an assistant.
So hit me up. Send your resume, dude.
You said you need an assistant. You were going.
To say something else. Was there anything else that you
need? Nah, just Gina be Gina fucking
my. Head up bro.
Why? Why is Gina what I don't?
(28:57):
Know story with Gina. I can't.
Say. Is it?
Is it 11? Yet do you think, oh, it's it's
11 and, and did Gina call me anddid Gina call?
Have you done? Any skits with Gina?
Yeah, you guys are like, actually friends, right?
It'll be cool. OK.
Like, are you trying to be more than that?
No, no, no, no. She got a boyfriend.
No, no, no, no, no. Now he, we, I don't even know.
(29:18):
You don't know She has a boyfriend.
No, she. Did like 2 years.
Ago Oh OK or a year ago I written a show a year ago.
But Nah, Nah, Nah. We we cool, we friends.
OK, OK, OK. Well.
Why don't we? Why don't we do something
different, right? Let's go.
This segment of the podcast showis called Oh no Reverse, where
the person that's being interviewed becomes the
interviewer. Hi, welcome to my show, the
(29:39):
Tonio Skits show here. I have Lexus and she spells it
with an I because she's Canadian.
We don't know why, but we're here to question everything
here. Thank you for coming for the
coming coming to the show. Please tell me about the latest
ventures you had going on right now.
And what are you doing differentthis year that you didn't you
didn't do last year, something you've learned.
(30:00):
We want to see your growth. You want to see my growth?
Yes. Ma'am.
OK, let's see. Well, thank you for.
Having me on your show, Yes, although my names are on the
cup. So what have I done different
this year? Something that hubs and I have
ventured on. We actually just had a Brazzer
scene released. What?
(30:20):
Yes, Brazzers. Brazzers.
Sir. And I actually.
Wanted to mention it on the pod so thank you for for have a bone
to pick with. Brazzers why back in 2017 my DMS
were getting flooded. They wanted you, No.
People were sending. Me clips of Brazzers.
So I go and look. Oh, Brazzers, I'm looking at the
video. It's almost frame by frame.
(30:43):
They copied one of my skits, which is not illegal.
It's fine. I feel flattered, but they
copied one of my skits and turned it into a point and I was
so mad. I'm like, man, I could have done
this. Boy.
I could have bade me to direct this.
But yeah, so risers, do you wantto direct one of your videos?
Just say that you can direct ournext one.
Maybe. So no, that's something that we.
(31:05):
Did that we did this year that Ifeel you know, I I said to hubs,
I was like, you know, if we everdo Brazzers, because mind you,
like I'm not. I just got a video idea right?
Now just get in my head. Imagine I'm directing a porn and
the director, he's so like over the top.
He's like, yeah, go like that. OK, no, let me show you.
(31:25):
And he starts fucking the girl for you like this.
And then he goes back every timehe goes no, but you're not
giving him head, right? And he goes, oh, well, I just
made a game. My bad.
All right, moving on. That's funny, but no.
We, we, we, we only shoot for like ourselves.
That's why I was saying that's that's the quail over there.
Is that an earthquake? No, it's.
(31:46):
Not an earthquake. They're they're they're doing,
they're dropping dynamites or what is it?
What do they do over there anyways?
Yeah, yeah. So it's normal, don't worry.
So the thing with Brazzers is that they want girls to shoot
with like these big star people who have been doing browsers and
and whatnot. But what I do, what we do is
only between us. So that allows you guys to
(32:08):
continue. Doing what you're doing 1000%,
They asked. They asked if I was, you know,
comfortable shooting with anybody else.
But I, I've said it from the getgo, like that's not going to
happen. I get a bunch of DMS daily to,
you know, shoot with people, which would be like a lot of
money and great exposure. But like, we have our limits.
I say it, I keep saying it. I only shoot with one guy.
OK, And so we did that. What if?
(32:31):
What if? 'Cause now they have AI.
Would you shoot with an AI version of your husband?
What do you mean? Shit just got weird.
What do you what do? You.
What do you? Mean So what it would be another
person, but they put his face. No, no, no, no, no, no, God, no,
that's, that's still no. So you know, we, we, we have a
boundary that we don't cross. But it was like it was nice to
(32:54):
get recognized because not many amateur couples right get to
have that opportunity. And so I think that's an
accomplishment that we're like, shit, we we were on Brazzers.
So that was really that's yeah, yeah, we've done 1 scene.
I don't know if we'll do more. We'll see, we'll see how it
goes. But I think that is like the
highlight of the year, right? The podcast too I.
(33:17):
Love it. Yeah, OK, cool.
Back to me. Back to me.
Because the focus is on me, right?
It's my show. Well, you, you reversed it.
You. Did the reverse, sorry.
Before I was really interrupted by my engineer.
I love you too. Anyways.
I love you too, Daddy. OK, wait before we.
Continue. So Mr. over here comes over and
(33:40):
just to show you guys how funny he is, I mean, I don't want to
like, blow your head up because it's already babe.
I know, I know. But I got a call from the gate
and the lady at the gate is like, you have a visitor.
And I was like, yeah, I can let him in.
I knew who it was. And then she goes.
He wanted me to tell you your daddy's here.
And I was. Like that would have been really
(34:02):
funny if my husband answered thephone, but I was hoping.
He was answering it Letterman sothat.
Was that was really funny. But go back to yourself and to
you yourself. Tell us more about you.
What what do we what, what, whatyou know?
What do you want the world to know about Antonio?
You're funny. I like to leave like tips,
right? And this is a great tip guys.
(34:23):
I want, I want you guys. Well, it's something I learned.
It's something you can't do, right.
Let's say you're dating a porn star, right?
What's something you can't do that's not going to It won't
embarrass her because I fucked up and told this girl one time
I'm like, oh, yeah, oh, yeah, watch me.
Watch me post your nudes. I'm a porn star, stupid.
So, ladies and gentlemen, do notdate a porn star.
(34:45):
I am threatening that you're going to post some news because
that's a good tip because they're already.
Out there, right? Yeah, like, like what you, I
mean you if the. One thing that you could do is,
you know, put our dirty laundry out there, but that wouldn't be
cool. Ain't nobody going to believe
it. Yeah, exactly.
I mean, that's crazy. Like OK, what?
Oh, I mean, we're all. A little crazy, especially if
(35:05):
we're on our period. Yeah, if you're on your period.
Lisa. You guys, you guys can't see?
It but off camera there's someone here that she's on our
period. I hope, fucking hope he's on
your. Period.
And we? Have been, I don't know, talking
about it a lot and it's just, it's just highlighting that
(35:25):
because I can hear her period sometimes, fellas.
Can't tell me I'm wrong. Sometimes, like if you lay in
your girl's stomach, you can hear the period, right?
You hear the blood just just cruising down the side of the
wall and, and, and reaching the cervix like you, you, you, you
got a really good. Hearing I'm I'm going to give
you that. Yep.
Did you hear that my period justended?
(35:47):
Yep, No. I hear you ovulating.
No, not yet. I will be in a few days so I'm
going to have to be 9 days to beexact.
I'll have to check my calendar. I got you, I got your.
I can give you. My sign in so you can.
Be I have your calendar. Clocked it, clock it.
Clock it. Clock it.
(36:08):
Why y'all be doing clock? It sounds stupid.
They look like to me clock. Clock.
It's so stupid. I see people we did it at the
same time and. Then you're just like.
Or like, I watch this, I don't know, it's just this, this, this
girl that I follow on on IG and they're like, they're not
allowed to laugh. So they're just like.
(36:29):
And I'm like you look. So dumb, but you know, stop
doing this, but whatever. And then you you, you DM me with
your leg clock in. That's what the young.
People are doing. Now and I actually laughed so so
that was good. Tonio.
Thank you for being here. Thanks for having me shining up
our day. What?
But he, we talked about his shows that he yeah, yeah.
(36:52):
Don't fucking cut me off Love it.
Marriage. No, no, no.
I did that. He's going to beat me up after
he's going to beat. It up not it me.
No, I'm joking, Tonio. Thank you so much for coming.
You are so fun. You are so great.
Give us your social so that we can so that our viewers and our
(37:15):
listeners can, you know, collegeat G.
INAV that's Gina Valentina. It's Tonio skits.
Like what is yo, Tonio skits on all platforms.
Also, I'm I got a new movie coming out.
It's called, it's called Musk. It's about Elon Musk.
I'm actually leaving Friday to finish filming in Arizona.
But yo, yeah. So Musk is coming out soon.
(37:36):
I play the realtor of Elon Musk.So all you people that you know,
don't get into politics and hatethem, I'm just doing the movie
in it, OK. I'm not.
I don't even drive a task well, but yeah, that's awesome.
Check it out guys. Tonio skits, maybe.
I mean, if you, I know you guys enjoyed this, this podcast, this
episode. He's really funny as you can
tell. Maybe we'll have him on next
(37:57):
time, another time, I don't know.
We'll see. Hey guys if you want me to
direct their next. Video when you see this go
comment have Tonio direct your next video have Tonio direct it
and I'm going to direct the shitout of it.
I promise you, I promise. And I'm hands on, you know, see
you on the next. Episode.
And then she goes, He wanted me to tell you your daddy's here.
And I was like, that would have been really funny if my husband
answered the phone. But.
I was hoping he wouldn't answer it.
He's like, yeah, go like that. OK, no, let me show you.
And he starts the girl for you like this.
And then he goes back every timehe goes no, but you're not
(00:23):
giving him head, right? And people were sending me clips
of Brazzers. I'm looking at the video, it's
almost frame by frame. They copied one of my skits
which is not illegal. It's fine.
I feel flattered and I was so mad.
I'm like man, I could have done this boy.
I could have bade me to direct this about to fight my ex.
You about to fight your ex what she do huh What she do?
(00:44):
Why are you going to fight her? She.
Didn't want to hold herself accountable and the first video
I made was about. Heartbreak.
Being cheated on, OK, it's not funds, you know this this is
allocated to marketing. This is allocated to whatever he
goes Nah, give me that marketingmoney.
I'm going to do it myself. Universal like what?
Like I'm Kevin Hart bits. So they did that and he decided
to use the top 10 influencers inthe world to him at the time,
(01:08):
fly them to Hawaii, use his production company and create a
script and write something that he's going to be in to market
the movie. And I was one of those 10 that's
old stories. This is the Lexus Star show.
(01:33):
This show is presented by King Rilla.
Welcome back to the Lexus Star Show guys.
I am so excited that you are tuning in listening.
Joining me today is a really funny, talented man, Tonio with
the skids. Please welcome Tonio.
What up? What?
(01:56):
Up. I told you guys he was funny.
Thank you, Tonio, for joining ustoday.
I'm glad we're going to sit downand have a little chitchat.
I'm not here to be funny today. I'm really getting ready for a
fight. OK.
About to fight my ex. You about to fight your ex?
What she do huh? What she do?
Why are you going to fight her? She didn't want to hold herself
(02:16):
accountable. Just like every woman.
Sorry ladies who weren't listening.
What's up guys? What up, What up, What up?
Wait, do we have a budget from Sounds Can can somebody?
Put the I think I think we can. I think Coke can do something
about that. OK, cool.
We do. So we're good.
Don't worry about it. We're going to do it exactly how
you like. OK, All right.
(02:37):
So tell us, for the people who don't know who you are, give
them a little introduction of who you are.
What you do please? Well, I am Gina Valentina's my
back, my back. She's in my head for some
reason. My back, my back.
I, I wasn't my back. Gina, hit me up.
(03:00):
I am a content creator. I've I've have stand up comedy
shows on HBO. I have a few movies.
One just came out in August on Apple TV and Amazon.
It's called Kill Street. Make sure you guys watch that.
It's a horror film, but it's funny.
It's it's well, I'm the comedic relief in it.
I'm on an MTVI mean. I'm on an improv comedy show
(03:22):
called Wilding Out and I do concert every day and hit up
beautiful women to shoot with. Yeah, that's why you shot you.
You hit me. Up.
That's why we met. There we go.
No, actually I had lost a bet. So what?
Was that OK? We'll get back to that later.
So you got a lot of things goingon and I want to get to how this
all started. So I know that you started when
(03:43):
it was the good old days on Vine.
What, what pushed you to, you know, put that first video out?
Like, were you always funny or was it always?
I know you went to school for theater, right?
Yep, Yep. I was in dancing drama.
Well, back back in the days, I was in dance and drama back in
New York. I was born and raised in New
York. I was in foster care during the
(04:04):
time that I found the arts because they put me in a
completely different school. So I was out of my comfort zone,
my element. But there was a program of dance
and what was it? It was dance and drama and I was
performing in those shows. And that's where I, I learned I
(04:25):
was good at certain things, right?
So the arts in school is so important.
You know, a lot of kids get to find themselves.
I'm one of them. But anyways, you know, my mom
passed when I was 15 and then I,I went to foster care for three
years. And then I found out my mom had
a sister in Miami, hence why I ended up in Miami sometime after
(04:46):
high school. Anyways.
So how to let all that go? Because I mean, I can't, I can't
go. Well, I'm going to go act that I
need to make money. I need to find a place to live.
I got to figure all that stuff out and Fast forward, I'm in
nursing school. I meet this girl fast.
My, my bad. I meet this girl and I was with
(05:08):
her. We were together for like, you
know what I'm saying, four years.
Damn. And she cheated on.
Me. Oh, snap.
So that's the one you're going to be, you're going to fight.
No, no. OK, Nah, we cool.
What up? What up girl?
That put me in a different mindset.
Like I was I was broken like I I've never experienced.
(05:29):
Heartache. Yeah, I never, yeah, I never
experienced that. And it just put me to a place
where I needed to fill my time being distracted.
And I I, I found Vine and Tick and Instagram and started making
videos. And the first video I made was
about. Heartbreak.
(05:50):
Being cheated on. OK, she found out, she texted
me. Why are you talking shit?
Da da da. So I'm like, oh, I made nine
more videos. Did did your first video go
viral like they did? Pretty good, yeah.
That's good for that time. Yeah.
And then I just got really good at storytelling, and I never
stopped. That's amazing.
We're here today because of it. That's crazy.
Thank you. To the girl who cheated on you,
(06:12):
you see, everything happens for a reason.
I absolutely believe that. I mean, I know what, we've all
gone through some shit. And then after I'm like, you
know what? I was dating this like, really
shitty guy. Yeah.
Long. Time.
Long time. Long time.
So I was seeing this guy for five years and I was like, God,
there's going to be something good after him, right?
And then look what I got, right?Lucky, lucky.
(06:37):
Yeah, you got yourself a cameraman.
A cameraman. A guy knows where to put the the
apples at. Put the apples at.
We'll link the. We'll link the cart on.
On the description. For anyone who wants to put
their fruits and veggies in a cart.
So how old were you when that happened?
Like your first vine, Like. I was what I don't know, 2928
(07:01):
when I when I started doing that.
And you're what, you're 40 now, right?
Yeah. Shit.
Vine was that long ago? I feel like it was.
Longer than that. Well, I started in 2014, OK.
And in 2015 I felt, I felt I wasjust just as good as all those,
those guys that were like getting millions of views.
But I'm by myself in Miami in myaunt's garage.
(07:23):
And I, I just made a decision. I'm like, I need to go to Lai.
Can I can kick it with them. I can, I can move like them.
And I told my family they thought it was.
They thought it was. Crazy.
Of course it's crazy to. Leave a six figure income job to
go shoot videos with strangers. I was like yo.
It's always like that, right it?Sounds crazy.
(07:44):
And that's exactly what I did and I think I'm my third month
there. Like I did everything I needed
to do. I knew where they were working
at, they were filming out, so I'll just appear, but like, hey,
I can hold the camera for you guys.
Whatever. I provided value to them and in
return I got it back. And then I just kept that
formula going and by my third month I'm working.
I'm in Hawaii with Kevin Hart working with him.
(08:05):
I was going to ask you about that, yeah.
I'm in, I'm in I'm I'm I'm shooting constant with the big
people. I'm growing fast.
I'm on TV like I used to be in porn stars DMS now they ain't
mine Gina. Gina, how did how did working
with Kevin Hart happen? Like, did he reach out to you?
Did you reach out to him? His people.
(08:26):
So he had put out, he put something out saying, Hey, I'm
looking for the top influencers in the world.
So at the time Kevin was going through a change himself, right?
He I don't know if the AC matters sound we're good.
OK, so Kevin Hart was going through a change, if you will,
himself, because he he was one of the first comedians to fill
(08:49):
seats using his social media platform.
And and now he was changing things again, where I think it
was Universal that was funding his what now tour.
And obviously when, when they, when they put out funds, you
know, this, this is allocated tomarketing.
This is allocated to whatever hegoes, Nah, give me that
marketing money. I'm gonna do it myself.
(09:10):
Universal is like what? Like I'm Kevin Hart Biss.
So they did that, and he decidedto use the top 10 influencers in
the world to him at the time, fly them to Hawaii, use his
production company and create a script and write something that
he's gonna be in to market the movie.
Yeah. And I was one of those 10.
That's amazing. Did he shoot with everybody or?
Yeah. Yeah, in that group, yeah.
(09:32):
It was only 10 of us, so everyone had their own ideas.
Logan Paul was there. Nice.
I saw the video this morning, actually, because I I remember
you had told me that you you shot with Kevin Hart and I saw
it. I saw it today.
And that was that was really funny.
Those were your ideas. Yeah.
Yeah, you're. You're you're really good.
So we worked together about two weeks ago.
We did right, and I was. Your husband was there so.
(09:54):
Yeah, my husband was there. I made a sure.
When we know me, I was like listen don't make me look
stupid, like a stupid IG girl. He was writing to me.
No, I was writing to you. I would have been like, yo, hold
on, 'cause he wrote heart faces and.
We're gonna have to look at thatback.
Maybe he did like while I was sleeping.
Take my phone. Send me an eggplant.
I ain't gonna lie to you. Eggplant.
(10:15):
OK, well, we're gonna have to have a talk after this.
But what I wanted to say was we you, you, your mind works in an
amazing way because you get a little idea and then you make
this whole thing out of it. And even while we're talking, I
can see you, like, mumbling. And I'm just, I'm like, how does
he how does that happen? Like, did you have to practice
(10:37):
that or does it really just comenatural to you?
I think it's a little bit of both.
I've been doing it for so long that now my subconscious is just
trained to look for these thingsand it just stays there.
And I just, I'm able to tap intothis memory like, oh, OK, well,
I'll look at something and then I, I'll wait.
If this was a video I can changelater.
It it over. In the beginning I had to think
of ideas and, and I, I'll show if I have my phone, I'll show
(10:59):
you. I have ideas from 2015 to now,
just random ideas. I just write what's in my head.
And doing that is practicing. It's you're training your mind
to think a certain way and it starts just filtering that way
and and you know. Do you ever get like, does it
over? Does it ever get like crowded in
your brain like with all these ideas, you ever be like fucker,
like it's a lot or you just write it down in it?
(11:21):
I don't smoke weed, right. I think I've attempted maybe
three times in my life, maybe 4 because of a girl.
And it's like, ah, you should smoke.
I'm like, alright. When I smoke weed is when I
learn of all those thoughts are that are there.
They're they're it becomes overwhelming.
I have so many thoughts and I'm here sitting down thinking of
all these thoughts while I'm floating, but I'm not floating.
And then I realized, wait a minute, I'm a floater.
(11:43):
I just, I can't do weed. Yeah, I'm not.
I'm not a fan that either. Never.
I mean, I've done it a bit more times than you have, but it's
just, I just grind my teeth and I feel like they're going to
fucking fall out You. Grind your teeth when you smoke
weed. Well, when I when I lay down in
bed. That's not weed, that's called
lace. Maybe it was and I didn't know,
but I'll be I'll be laying in bed, like ready to go to bed.
(12:05):
And then I I don't even think I'm grinding them.
It just feels like I am and I feel like they're all going to
fall out and I really don't likethat.
So I mean, I just, I'll have a glass here and there, you know,
of, of wine or or whatever, but.What?
What time is it? It's 1042.
OK, no, because Gina Valentina is supposed to call me at 11,
but what actually? Anyways, just.
(12:25):
To call you at a level we can wecan press cut and we'll.
No, we can press no cut. We can, Gina, You can wait.
And and you we, we can have the we can.
Record. No.
Gina could wait. Do you know this Gina girl?
Do you know her? Gina Valentina?
Yeah. I think I follow her.
But like, I don't know. I know.
OK. We're going to film.
Yeah, I know, I know. Okay, so Wilding out, I know
(12:47):
you've been on that for a few seasons.
I just know Nick Cannon is like the host.
Tell us a little bit about Wilding out because I have no
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It's an improv comedy show started by Nick Cannon.
OK, and it's just one of those think of SNL type vibes.
I think we were around before SNLI think SNL copied us.
Yeah, I said that. But I mean, SNL lives in, in his
home world, but he created this show to allow, you know, kids
(13:51):
that would never really have theopportunity to be on TV to be
seen because this, this talent everywhere.
And he, he gets the most funniest people and, and, and
put them on stage to improv certain certain improv certain
situations, like for example, let me holler, let me holler.
It's a segment where there's a girl on stage and we got to come
(14:11):
up and come up with the funniestpick up line.
If you do good, you got a bell. If you do bad, you get a buzzer.
So, so imagine all the games arelike then you have to be quick
on your feet and while and out is literally to this day one of
the hardest things I've ever done because like you literally
have to improv. Like you have to be on your A
game. Yeah, on the spot.
I thought it was about rapping. It is, it's, it's this rap in
it, right? They'll come up with a segment
(14:33):
where. So at the end there's the wild
style battle where you literallyhave to roast your person in a
rap battle. OK, and what if you don't rap?
You still. Yeah, you're not.
Then you trash. You won't make it.
OK. And is there a prize at the end
of this? A prize?
No, we'll just. You.
Just you. Just.
Yeah, it's just for fun. It's a show.
OK, OK, 'cause I, I mean, I never really quite understood
(14:54):
the concept of it, but I see. So like people go crazy.
I see like a, you know, a few clips and and bits of it.
Isn't there a girl Valentina on that?
Yeah, Justina Valentine. OK, so I will keep getting
confused with those two. Yeah, red hair.
Guys really good. She yeah, yeah, she's the.
I feel like she's the poster child of the show.
She's amazing. She's one of my one of my best
friends. Oh, really?
(15:14):
Oh, OK. Well, we'll have to Fact Check
that. I'll call her right now.
Don't play. OK, so you were on that for a
few seasons and why do you say I, I know you said that it was
it was hard because you had to improv.
Was there any other challenges that you had with with?
(15:35):
Yeah, I mean, did you ever? Flop like on stage on while.
I've never, I've never flopped the thing.
It is so when we go from the show, we, we have like
rehearsals for two weeks. And what rehearsals is we play
every game back-to-back to back-to-back.
So you're comfortable, so you can think faster on your feet.
Because let's say in rehearsals I said a line and nobody really
(15:55):
laughed. And but for whatever reason, I'm
going back on stage and I can't think of something or I black
out. I can remember the stuff I did
in rehearsal. I'm like, let me see if I could
deliver that line again, but differently or something.
And then I'll do go on stage. But also the reversal, it did
good in rehearsal. Then I said that line, but on
stage they flop. So it's it's how you deliver it.
(16:16):
And the idea is if you fail, fail.
Funny. Yeah.
So let's say I say something that didn't go over.
I'm like, alright, bitch. Well, you don't speak English
now. I took a moment that failed, but
I made it funny. And that's what it's about.
That's what it's really about. That's awesome.
Have you ever had, like, any content that flopped or you
said, you know, what am I? Every week?
(16:37):
Every week? Yeah.
Did ours flop? No.
We did. Pretty.
We did. We did decent.
We did decent. We did.
The thing is, you know, I don't nothing really flops because
videos that just didn't hit, it's getting reposted within 30
days and it it'll hit again. It's just people need to
understand there's an audience for everyone.
Like if I had hairy toes here right now, I bet you I can find
(16:58):
an audience for myself. Like there's an audience for
everyone and it just takes time sometimes to find it.
I'm good and I shave. You're looking at your toes.
I I shaved a. Little are you good?
I took pictures earlier. Don't sell them.
I'm going to sell them before you do.
You. I'm already making money on FIFA
and the witch out toes. Why you think I worked with you?
Easy. Did you did you ever have any
times where you're like, OK, this is too much.
(17:19):
Like I'm constantly thinking of content ideas.
I'm constantly and it's like I'mgoing to burn out.
Did you ever have a moment like that or you just I?
Personally, Well, yeah, yeah, I have moments where it's the
pressure that is upon someone when you have to stay relevant,
You have to keep posting. You know, I, I, I still hear to
this day like, yo, you fell off.We don't even see your content
(17:41):
no more. I post every day on 7 different
platforms on Facebook. I post 10 times a day.
So for me to hear I fell off because you don't see my content
has nothing to do with me. It's the algorithm.
But you hear shit like that. So there is a constant pressure
sometimes for you to continue feeding the machine.
If not, you feel like you're notdoing anything and also you got
bills to pay so you got to feed the machine even when you're not
(18:01):
at your utmost. At your best, 1000%.
Yeah. So yeah.
So you're on 7 platforms, Is there one that you enjoy the
most? Facebook because it pays me a
lot of money. Thank you Facebook.
How do you get paid on Facebook?You're going to have to teach me
the the the the loops and the tricks.
You're going to have to follow my course, follow Antonio skits.
(18:22):
He's already selling a shit. Actually, I give it.
I get, I, I actually every day, every morning I have this.
It's, it's a channel, but it's achat room.
But Facebook channels and Instagram channels, OK, where
people follow that chat room. And every morning I give them
tips how to grow faster, algorithm tips and motivational
(18:45):
stuff every morning on both platforms.
So I'm always giving free stuff away.
That's free. OK, we're gonna have to.
We're gonna, we're gonna follow that.
Yeah, subscribe. It's free.
Yeah, for sure. OK, Now on a more serious note,
I did read that you had a reallybad injury.
Yeah. What happened there?
So me and Gina Valentino, we were out or not.
(19:06):
That injury. Oh, my bad.
Hey, Gina, I promise you. Yeah, we got to put that tape
out. Stop playing with us.
I had a motorcycle accident. Yeah, I your spinal cord is
divided into 3 parts, right? Your cervical thoracic in your
lumbar, which is the lower in mythoracic spine.
I shattered T3 and T4 from that accident.
I went straight into a van. A van cut me off.
(19:28):
I had the light. I had the right away and the van
turned and I went straight into the windshield, bounced off,
fell down, broke ribs. I broke my sternum, ribs, and
then my thoracic thoracic spine.I read Were You that you were in
a coma. Is that?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was.
I was in a coma. I was on life support.
Goddamn, actually I I during operation one of my lungs
(19:49):
collapsed and I flat lined. I was, oh man, I was gone for
like 22 seconds and they broughtme back.
And how long ago was this? It's like like 15 years ago.
So this was before you started doing Yeah, contents.
Yeah, well, you know what's crazy?
That incident led me to go back to school to become a nurse
because I wanted to be what those people were to me.
(20:11):
So I went to school to do that. Then.
I mean, my ex, my ex, you know, the story LED social media.
And then when I look back, it's like all that shit had to happen
to be where I am today. 1000%. And it's like, I Remember Me
being in the hospital. I have this saying I, I think I
read the same, but I say so muchnow I'm saying I own this
saying. But this this saying is from
(20:34):
like there's someone in the hospital right now praying,
praying to be in the position you are right now.
Just don't waste your time. And I was one of those people.
I was the person in the hospitaljust wishing to walk, just
wishing to to be normal or, or like just just normal shit that
you do every day. I was, I was praying for that.
And I wanted to be what those people watching me in the
(20:57):
hospital and became a nurse. And it's amazing.
Yeah. So when you really look back,
it's like even at your lowest point, you could be at the but
you have no idea what you're going through right now is
necessary for the person that you're about to become.
I, I totally believe, like, I don't know about you.
I mean, I, I, you said you were praying like I believe in God
and I believe that, you know, shit happens.
(21:18):
You can feel like it's the end of the world that like, why the
fuck is this happening to me? But then you're just like, this
had to happen, right? This had to happen because God
had a better plan for me and Godknew what the outcome would be.
It's just you need to suffer a little bit to get what.
This is what I think. This is what I think God was
doing, right? God's like working whatever.
And then he hears from the background, from one of the
(21:39):
angels. They're like, yo, Tonio's here
and he goes, what? He goes Tonio, He's like, we got
Aaliyah here, right? You know, the artist, She's
like, you know what, just send him back because I'm not ready
to deal with his shit. And that's why he, I think
that's why God sent me back because he knew, boy, if I see
Aliyah, Aliyah, if I see you andhim, girl, I'm a rock the boat,
rock the boat, you know what I'msaying?
(21:59):
But he knew. So he's like, you know what, 10
Antonio back. So now I got a second chance.
That's it. That's so I'm out here living my
best life as as much as I can And and and.
That's amazing. And you got, you said you got
were you working on shows? 1 is already out.
Yes. Well, yeah, I'm in a movie right
now called Kill Streak that's out.
It's on Apple and Amazon. Kill Streak, Kill Streak, it's
(22:22):
actually good. But is that one that you
produce? No, I'm, no, I'm an actor in
that movie. Movies I produce, I'm still
working on that. I have, I have an action comedy
called Mr. Social and other films, but that one's ready to
go have the script. So it's out right now.
It's it's in people's hands. I'm, I'm, I'm, I got investors
involved. I'm going to start raising money
(22:43):
for the film and, you know, start putting my movie out.
That's what I want to do. My five to seven-year plan is
act as many possible films I canbe in and also put my put my
stuff out. My 7 to the year 10 year plan.
I want to I just want to direct movies.
Nice. You know what I'm saying?
And be I have. A few movies you can direct if
you like. I'm.
(23:06):
I'm just joking, I'm joking. I'm just trying to be funny like
you. You're.
You're no, no, no, because I take it serious because I would
love to direct it. I would like I got I already got
apps look, we can call it booty and the beast right?
We can. Well, there's so much we can do
like. I like it.
You know what we're? Fast and the curious, you know.
Write these down. The nerd with the glasses fast
(23:27):
and the curious, you know? Yeah.
That's funny. OK, let's say somebody is
starting out, you know, somebodywants to start making content
and doing skits or whatever. What would be your advice to
them? Somebody who you know wants to
make social media their, you know, their work, their, their
life. OK, so.
(23:48):
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lot of those questions in my DMS.
And the first thing I do is go look at a person's page and see
nothing's posted. You just lost an opportunity to
(24:31):
have someone that's been in the business for 10 years look at
your content and maybe critique.And I say this to say, because
the difference between me and someone who wants to do what I
do, it's literally execution. That's it.
If you have a phone, you have anidea, execute.
A lot of people are perfectionist, right?
Which is a flaw or, or, or they have to have certain things.
So I just don't have this lighting.
You don't need none of that. As long as you have a good idea
(24:54):
and motivation, you literally can do what I do.
I'm just 10 years ahead of you doing what I'm doing, but it
doesn't matter. You can just do it.
So my advice is execution. And another issue people have or
something that stops them from doing is but everybody's doing
it or the market saturated. Nobody's you.
Yeah, like nobody's you. You can literally be you put
(25:17):
your stuff out there. There's an audience for
everyone, no matter when you start.
That's, that's, that's somethingthat I need to remember.
There's an audience for everything and also there's
execution. But I feel like consistency
would be, yeah, something else. Because people, I mean, even me,
sometimes I'm like, I'm on a, I'm on a roll and I'm just like
taking content, taking content, posting, posting.
And then like for a day I, I didn't post something in a day
and I was like, God damn, I gotta you know.
(25:39):
I mean, one day it's not going to kill you.
For sure, But you know what? It's.
And consistency. Something every time you open
TikTok, make sure you post something before you start
scrolling, you know? You know, I haven't posted a
TikTok almost two months becauseI'm really, I'm mad at TikTok.
Why? How?
Why is that? Just cut the views down unless
you're not selling an item like hey, have you tried this cup?
It's water, but not regular water.
(26:00):
It's reverse osmosis water. And you can buy this for four.
I got to do that. I know, I know I I every time I
open TikTok and that's that's funny that you mention that
because it's either did you knowhow to grow on TikTok?
This is what you got to do follow these steps and it's a
it's a minute video of them saying absolutely nothing or you
(26:24):
know, they're they're trying to sell something.
So I totally get it Tell. Me about these gurus that tell
you they have all these secret growth and then when you go to
the page they're not using it. Exactly.
Yo your video can go viral if you follow these steps.
I go to your page. None of your videos are viral.
Well you gurus stop. I hate you guys.
He hates you. Don't do it.
No. Antonio's coming for.
You unless Gina, Gina did a a a my back, my back.
(26:46):
Gina Valentina, maybe you shoulddo one of those videos on
growing. You know, all right, Never mind.
My back, my back, my back. OK, you kill me.
This is going to be a funny a funny episode.
Let me see. I I want to make sure that
before you know, I asked you that.
I asked you that. Let's see.
Am I still red a little bit? Oh, it's OK, all right.
(27:09):
The What about the lion fling? The lion fling.
You have to be like hairy. Movies.
No, I'm thinking of movies. I know.
I know what you're. I know, I know.
I got it, Yeah. Who did you look up to when you
were growing up? Is there anybody that you were
like, OK, Like he inspired me todo?
This Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, when he was on In Living Color,
(27:30):
those two people were just for me because you know Jamie Foxx,
he does everything he. Does.
Yes, he really does. You know what I'm saying?
He did his last special. I think he was like singing in
it. He did like, did you smell?
It Yeah, Yeah. He sings, he acts, he's a
comedian. He does stand up and he doesn't
very well. I aspire to be that great and
(27:51):
I'm friends with him. Shout out to Jamie Foxx.
You're yeah. Any good skit ideas coming up or
you're just constantly working or?
Yeah, well, I'm just overwhelmedwith a lot of work.
I think I, I, I, I'm ready to, Ithink just give in and just get
an assistant. Lisa.
(28:13):
She got a period. I know, Gina.
Gina, Gina I. Don't know why we're bringing
you up right now. Gina Valentina.
So many. Times I feel like it's only
right, but you definitely need an assistant.
I'm I'm actually surprised you don't have one.
Yeah, I got to figure that out. You.
You, you got it. We, we just.
Got 1 so so I need. An assistant, so if anybody
(28:36):
needs a job. Listen up, yo-yo, holla at me.
Listen, if you're not Gina Valentina, just keep scrolling.
Keep scrolling. Wait, no, I'm, no, I'm not
trying to hire you, Gina. I'm in if you want me to.
But no, Yeah, yeah, I need an assistant.
So hit me up. Send your resume, dude.
You said you need an assistant. You were going.
To say something else. Was there anything else that you
need? Nah, just Gina be Gina fucking
my. Head up bro.
Why? Why is Gina what I don't?
(28:57):
Know story with Gina. I can't.
Say. Is it?
Is it 11? Yet do you think, oh, it's it's
11 and, and did Gina call me anddid Gina call?
Have you done? Any skits with Gina?
Yeah, you guys are like, actually friends, right?
It'll be cool. OK.
Like, are you trying to be more than that?
No, no, no, no. She got a boyfriend.
No, no, no, no, no. Now he, we, I don't even know.
(29:18):
You don't know She has a boyfriend.
No, she. Did like 2 years.
Ago Oh OK or a year ago I written a show a year ago.
But Nah, Nah, Nah. We we cool, we friends.
OK, OK, OK. Well.
Why don't we? Why don't we do something
different, right? Let's go.
This segment of the podcast showis called Oh no Reverse, where
the person that's being interviewed becomes the
interviewer. Hi, welcome to my show, the
(29:39):
Tonio Skits show here. I have Lexus and she spells it
with an I because she's Canadian.
We don't know why, but we're here to question everything
here. Thank you for coming for the
coming coming to the show. Please tell me about the latest
ventures you had going on right now.
And what are you doing differentthis year that you didn't you
didn't do last year, something you've learned.
(30:00):
We want to see your growth. You want to see my growth?
Yes. Ma'am.
OK, let's see. Well, thank you for.
Having me on your show, Yes, although my names are on the
cup. So what have I done different
this year? Something that hubs and I have
ventured on. We actually just had a Brazzer
scene released. What?
(30:20):
Yes, Brazzers. Brazzers.
Sir. And I actually.
Wanted to mention it on the pod so thank you for for have a bone
to pick with. Brazzers why back in 2017 my DMS
were getting flooded. They wanted you, No.
People were sending. Me clips of Brazzers.
So I go and look. Oh, Brazzers, I'm looking at the
video. It's almost frame by frame.
(30:43):
They copied one of my skits, which is not illegal.
It's fine. I feel flattered, but they
copied one of my skits and turned it into a point and I was
so mad. I'm like, man, I could have done
this. Boy.
I could have bade me to direct this.
But yeah, so risers, do you wantto direct one of your videos?
Just say that you can direct ournext one.
Maybe. So no, that's something that we.
(31:05):
Did that we did this year that Ifeel you know, I I said to hubs,
I was like, you know, if we everdo Brazzers, because mind you,
like I'm not. I just got a video idea right?
Now just get in my head. Imagine I'm directing a porn and
the director, he's so like over the top.
He's like, yeah, go like that. OK, no, let me show you.
(31:25):
And he starts fucking the girl for you like this.
And then he goes back every timehe goes no, but you're not
giving him head, right? And he goes, oh, well, I just
made a game. My bad.
All right, moving on. That's funny, but no.
We, we, we, we only shoot for like ourselves.
That's why I was saying that's that's the quail over there.
Is that an earthquake? No, it's.
(31:46):
Not an earthquake. They're they're they're doing,
they're dropping dynamites or what is it?
What do they do over there anyways?
Yeah, yeah. So it's normal, don't worry.
So the thing with Brazzers is that they want girls to shoot
with like these big star people who have been doing browsers and
and whatnot. But what I do, what we do is
only between us. So that allows you guys to
(32:08):
continue. Doing what you're doing 1000%,
They asked. They asked if I was, you know,
comfortable shooting with anybody else.
But I, I've said it from the getgo, like that's not going to
happen. I get a bunch of DMS daily to,
you know, shoot with people, which would be like a lot of
money and great exposure. But like, we have our limits.
I say it, I keep saying it. I only shoot with one guy.
OK, And so we did that. What if?
(32:31):
What if? 'Cause now they have AI.
Would you shoot with an AI version of your husband?
What do you mean? Shit just got weird.
What do you what do? You.
What do you? Mean So what it would be another
person, but they put his face. No, no, no, no, no, no, God, no,
that's, that's still no. So you know, we, we, we have a
boundary that we don't cross. But it was like it was nice to
(32:54):
get recognized because not many amateur couples right get to
have that opportunity. And so I think that's an
accomplishment that we're like, shit, we we were on Brazzers.
So that was really that's yeah, yeah, we've done 1 scene.
I don't know if we'll do more. We'll see, we'll see how it
goes. But I think that is like the
highlight of the year, right? The podcast too I.
(33:17):
Love it. Yeah, OK, cool.
Back to me. Back to me.
Because the focus is on me, right?
It's my show. Well, you, you reversed it.
You. Did the reverse, sorry.
Before I was really interrupted by my engineer.
I love you too. Anyways.
I love you too, Daddy. OK, wait before we.
Continue. So Mr. over here comes over and
(33:40):
just to show you guys how funny he is, I mean, I don't want to
like, blow your head up because it's already babe.
I know, I know. But I got a call from the gate
and the lady at the gate is like, you have a visitor.
And I was like, yeah, I can let him in.
I knew who it was. And then she goes.
He wanted me to tell you your daddy's here.
And I was. Like that would have been really
(34:02):
funny if my husband answered thephone, but I was hoping.
He was answering it Letterman sothat.
Was that was really funny. But go back to yourself and to
you yourself. Tell us more about you.
What what do we what, what, whatyou know?
What do you want the world to know about Antonio?
You're funny. I like to leave like tips,
right? And this is a great tip guys.
(34:23):
I want, I want you guys. Well, it's something I learned.
It's something you can't do, right.
Let's say you're dating a porn star, right?
What's something you can't do that's not going to It won't
embarrass her because I fucked up and told this girl one time
I'm like, oh, yeah, oh, yeah, watch me.
Watch me post your nudes. I'm a porn star, stupid.
So, ladies and gentlemen, do notdate a porn star.
(34:45):
I am threatening that you're going to post some news because
that's a good tip because they're already.
Out there, right? Yeah, like, like what you, I
mean you if the. One thing that you could do is,
you know, put our dirty laundry out there, but that wouldn't be
cool. Ain't nobody going to believe
it. Yeah, exactly.
I mean, that's crazy. Like OK, what?
Oh, I mean, we're all. A little crazy, especially if
(35:05):
we're on our period. Yeah, if you're on your period.
Lisa. You guys, you guys can't see?
It but off camera there's someone here that she's on our
period. I hope, fucking hope he's on
your. Period.
And we? Have been, I don't know, talking
about it a lot and it's just, it's just highlighting that
(35:25):
because I can hear her period sometimes, fellas.
Can't tell me I'm wrong. Sometimes, like if you lay in
your girl's stomach, you can hear the period, right?
You hear the blood just just cruising down the side of the
wall and, and, and reaching the cervix like you, you, you, you
got a really good. Hearing I'm I'm going to give
you that. Yep.
Did you hear that my period justended?
(35:47):
Yep, No. I hear you ovulating.
No, not yet. I will be in a few days so I'm
going to have to be 9 days to beexact.
I'll have to check my calendar. I got you, I got your.
I can give you. My sign in so you can.
Be I have your calendar. Clocked it, clock it.
Clock it. Clock it.
(36:08):
Why y'all be doing clock? It sounds stupid.
They look like to me clock. Clock.
It's so stupid. I see people we did it at the
same time and. Then you're just like.
Or like, I watch this, I don't know, it's just this, this, this
girl that I follow on on IG and they're like, they're not
allowed to laugh. So they're just like.
(36:29):
And I'm like you look. So dumb, but you know, stop
doing this, but whatever. And then you you, you DM me with
your leg clock in. That's what the young.
People are doing. Now and I actually laughed so so
that was good. Tonio.
Thank you for being here. Thanks for having me shining up
our day. What?
But he, we talked about his shows that he yeah, yeah.
(36:52):
Don't fucking cut me off Love it.
Marriage. No, no, no.
I did that. He's going to beat me up after
he's going to beat. It up not it me.
No, I'm joking, Tonio. Thank you so much for coming.
You are so fun. You are so great.
Give us your social so that we can so that our viewers and our
(37:15):
listeners can, you know, collegeat G.
INAV that's Gina Valentina. It's Tonio skits.
Like what is yo, Tonio skits on all platforms.
Also, I'm I got a new movie coming out.
It's called, it's called Musk. It's about Elon Musk.
I'm actually leaving Friday to finish filming in Arizona.
But yo, yeah. So Musk is coming out soon.
(37:36):
I play the realtor of Elon Musk.So all you people that you know,
don't get into politics and hatethem, I'm just doing the movie
in it, OK. I'm not.
I don't even drive a task well, but yeah, that's awesome.
Check it out guys. Tonio skits, maybe.
I mean, if you, I know you guys enjoyed this, this podcast, this
episode. He's really funny as you can
tell. Maybe we'll have him on next
(37:57):
time, another time, I don't know.
We'll see. Hey guys if you want me to
direct their next. Video when you see this go
comment have Tonio direct your next video have Tonio direct it
and I'm going to direct the shitout of it.
I promise you, I promise. And I'm hands on, you know, see
you on the next. Episode.
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