November 6, 2024 • 29 mins
Meet @cozylieofficial, a rising influencer from the #highdesert and proud #VictorValleyCollege (VVC) alumnus! Cozy attended VVC’s EMT academy, where he gained the skills that helped shape his journey toward becoming a #contentcreator In just one year, he has rapidly built a strong following on #TikTok, sharing everything from local business reviews to everyday humorous moments. VVC students will find Cozy’s story especially inspiring. He shows how hard work and dedication—whether in the #classroom or on social media—can lead to unexpected success. Cozy’s content offers a unique mix of #entertainment and #motivation, making it the perfect watch for anyone looking to stay authentic and chase their dreams, no matter where they start. Tune in to see how Cozy went from EMT training to influencer fame, and get inspired to take your own path toward success! Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more content from this rising star!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
And welcome to Ramplify. We are still here. The college
has not canceled this wonderful ASP production. Haley's in the background,
say hello, Haley, Why did you put your hand up waving?
No one can see you? Okay, wow, all right, Hey,
we have another alumni that we're going to feature for
(00:30):
this episode. All of you watching this, like, if you
live locally, I'm sure you have seen their face every
time you're laying in bed at two o'clock in the
morning because you can't fall asleep. Maybe you're going to
the bathroom and you're scrolling through TikTok or Instagram. Ladies
and gentlemen, the one and only Cozy Lie Official is here.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
So your real name is Eli. So what do you want?
You want to be called Cozy for this? You want
to be called Eli? What's your preferred name here?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Let's use Cozy. Let's keep the stage name okay, and
keep the running the.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Stage name okay? Cool? Yeah, yeah, See he sounds like
an influencer. This, this should be exciting. So okay, so
you're kind of like a micro influencer. You're you're you're
making a name for yourself. Right, we'll talk about the
alumni aspect and how you're connected with Victor Valley College
a little later in the show. But how did this
all start for you? Like? I do know that, like
you had like like frendhy bulldogs that you were breeding
(01:23):
and stuff, but but how did that translate to what
you're doing now online?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I think what happened was I just wanted to be
more in front of the camera. I started off doing
contentt with like the French bulldogs, but I wanted to
be known. I wanted my face on there. So I
just started going around doing food trucks and it blew up.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Do you have a preference on what you like? What
type of food trucks? What was genre of food culinary
delights that you prefer more than others.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
When I first started, I was going anywhere. I was
living on my own, so I was like, whatever food
truck wants to give me free food, I'll take it.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
But starving artists' mentality, I love that.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, that's what we started as. But now I mean,
I hate anything.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Have you had an allergic reaction yet to something?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I think I have so I have a small allergy
to want it's but I don't tell people because it's
like very small.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Tell us what happens.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
And so when I get like when I eat, wanna
it's my lips get itchy, my throat gets scratchy, and you.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Can't breathe or whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
It's a little tight.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
You got an EpiPen yourself.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
It's not that bad, not that bad, not that bad.
But yeah, it gets a little tight.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
But you're a paramedic or an EMT, so you could.
You could save your own life.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Hopefully I never had to, but hopefully I can.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Doing CPR and yourself, I'd be interesting to watch. Uh,
make sure make sure your camera guy who's here today
is there for the content if and when you have
an allergic reaction.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah, definitely. He's always on it. He gets everything cool.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
So where are you now with it? Like, how many
you know at the time of this podcast, how many
followers do you have online?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Just on Instagram alone? We're coming up on eighteen thousand followers?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Why is it so low?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
The fuck? That is crazy? I mean it is low,
don't get me wrong, it is low, But we're coming up.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
No, no, no, I think for the high desert audience,
I think you're doing a great job. It's it's entertaining
to watch Thank you. You know, let's see what I
want to ask you, and we're gonna save it for
a little later on in the show. Is the like
diversifying because you do more than just food reviews, you're
doing you're doing other businesses as well. You're also doing
(03:16):
promotions and things of that nature. But before we before
we move forward with that, another question that I wanted
to kind of get into is where do you find
the time to have a full time job and then
have a full time persona with social media because when
we talk about life work balance or work life balance,
it's kind of tricky to do stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah, I mean it's hard. I think, like what I
believe is everybody has time for anything. You know, you
have a passion, you'll make time for it. But that's
something I struggle with myself, is like finding a balance.
I'm still struggling with it. But if you have a
passion for something, you'll find time to pursue it.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
A lot of people, because this is the high Desert,
they kind of fall into what what can be classified
as like a rut, same same thing, day in day out,
and they don't really get to those passion projects that
you're speaking of, How do you how do you overcome that?
You know, and you know what I'm talking about. We
see it everywhere we go with with maybe people that
(04:10):
we interact with in general in the in the general population.
So how do you overcome that to make sure that
you're not in a rut and you're constantly changing it
up for yourself with the routine that you have right
now to get content done?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Like, how do I.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Like, how do you allow yourself not to get into
a rut to continue to make content?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I mean, I just keep pushing myself.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I just what do you what do you tell yourself?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
That's what there? I'm sorry I was like I was
struggling with there. I tell myself just keep going, Like
no matter how tired I am, there's times where I
wake up, I have bags under my eyes. I don't
want to go out. You got to have that inner
want and everybody has it, but it's just you've got
to have it within yourself. Believe in yourself and just
know that there's more out there for yourself.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
And before we wrap up and go to our quick
break here, have you ever had a shoot that you've
done it did not go according to plan, and maybe
it's never seen the light of day.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Oh yeah, there's so many videos that I have in
the vault that I cannot push out because there's either
something was said that I can't put it out there
even if I edit it, it just makes no sense. Or
there's just like the business was not the way I
wanted it to be. So there's things in the vault
that I can't push out.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Okay, fair enough, And I'm going to talk to him
about that stuff while we're at break, just you know,
because I want to know. But when we come back,
we have some more here. It's Cozy Lai official. He's
in the studio for Ramplify and he's a VVC alum.
We're going to talk a little bit about that when
we come back. Don't go away and we are back
(05:42):
on Ramplify. Aside from what I was just told, I
was just informed by everybody in the studio they don't
know what the word rut means. Did you find it
on Google, Hayley, Oh my gosh. It means the same
like mundane routine day in and day out to or
that becomes like your system and there's no growth at all.
(06:04):
It's just the same thing.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Oh right, that makes sense. Well, hopefully my answer kind
of answered that question without knowing what reutmant.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
That's hilarious. Okay, cool, all right, So how are you
as an influencir that does massive food reviews for some
of the biggest small business restaurants in the High Desert.
How are you connected to Victor Valley College? Tell us
a little bit about that.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
So I came to VVC, I want to say last
year or maybe the year before in summer. I did
an eight week EMT course here.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
And that's it, and then you became an EMT.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I became an EMT just like that.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
So you went to our public Safety center way out
there in Apple Valley to go do that? Right? Yes,
eight weeks? Was it intense for you?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
It's one of the hardest courses I've ever done. And
it's possible. I mean, I've been in college for almost
five years now and that's one of the toughest courses
I've had.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
But you only wanted to do the EMT thing there.
So where are you going to college?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I'm going to college as West Emandino.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
West San Bernardino. Okay, wait, oh cal State, Sam, did
you say West or did I hear west cal State?
See Ernie your your videographs said you said West. I
was confused.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I don't even know what West is.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Okay, cal State, Sanmrnidan Sandino. All right, make sure you're
not in a rut, you know, just okay. So so
you never you never got like an associates here was
there at that at that time frame in your mind?
Was there a mentality where like maybe you didn't want
to get like a higher education degree and you just
wanted to do like an eight week course, Like why
(07:36):
did you specifically decide to do that instead?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I feel like VBC offers like so many programs where
you can take different routes that you, you know, whatever
you want to pursue. And so the eight week course
with the EMT course was like perfect what I wanted
and I fit the needs at.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
A So you wanted to go and help people? Yes,
is that what you're saying?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Definitely?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
So since then as an EMT, I mean, what what
is that like for you? What did it like walk
us through like a day for you or a week round?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Do like a little day in the life of an EMT. Well,
I work nights, so it's gonna be a night Are
you a night out? No? I struggle with that, Okay. Basically,
we start off just loading up our ambulance, getting all
their supplies and stuff like that. Get everything loaded. Then
we go ahead and log in and let our dispatch
know that we're ready to go. They're either hand us
some calls or we're just gonna get posted and wait
for calls.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
What's the most dramatic call you've ever got?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Definitely a full rest.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Okay, and like your heart was pumping and stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Oh yeah, it's like eight in the morning. I'm not
gonna lie. I was kind of waking up from a
little nap. I supposed to, but I dozed off and
we get on scene, and.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
So it's almost like somebody like through cold water or
scared you out of out of like dozing off, and
you're like, oh my gosh, what do I gotta do?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah? Yeah, it's like an eye spikey challenge.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Okay. And then, uh, speaking of challenges, we'll get to
that a little later in the show. There's there's stuff
coming up with you.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
You just ready?
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah, good good? Okay. So, so did you have to
do CPR on this person?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I did, but it was it was a team effort, thankfully,
It's always a team for.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
What is that? Like? What is that like? Like? How
intense is it for you to start doing chest compressions
on somebody who's like not breathing.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
It can be intense, It could be traumatizing. It could
be something that you have to put your emotions to
the side and just act right then and there and
be ready for it.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
What about like accident scenes? Have you have you had
to do a lot of those?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Surprisingly not, I hope I don't jinx you after this.
I know, Surprisingly I haven't, but I've ran a few.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Okay, all right? What is aside from like overnights, like
what is probably the most mentally draining thing as a
as an EMT.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Would probably be dealing with things that people don't relate
to and meaning is something like I can't go home
and tell my parents I struggled with this at my
job when everybody else is working like you know, an
office job or you know, working at restaurants, because they
don't understand the stress that I feel, like EMTs and
paramedics or any first responders go through.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
So what you're saying is you see stuff and you
go through stuff on a daily that your family and
your close friends have no idea, So like where do
you even begin to have those conversations with them, because
there's certain aspects that they're not going to understand.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yeah, I mean, I think it's just always relating to
other people who can relate to you. So like you
want to go to coworkers, they offer different types of
programs and programs and stuff to help you out with that.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Okay, have you ever needed to like talk to like
a therapist or anything like that for the type of
work that you do, because I do know with first responders,
I've interviewed several officers and several firefighters in my time
as a journalist that you know, there is a mental
health debilitating aspect to doing first responding the longer that
you're in the field.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Thankfully I haven't. I found other ways to cope with it,
and this is definitely one of the things that I
love doing, like the social media stuff, so that's another way.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
So it's kind of like your therapy to create content
and get out there and do who you are as
cozy online.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
M hmm.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
That's cool. Yeah, awesome. All right, let's see one more
question that Hayley do you have any questions since just
be sponsoring this, Is there anything? I mean, you have
a social media influencer in front of you right now, like,
is there anything you want to ask him? I mean,
I've viewed a lot of your reviews and oh, okay,
(11:21):
that's a good point. It can't all be good food,
Like how come you've never given a bad review?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
And the reason I don't do that? And I kind
of consider my reviews like highlights in a way, because
if I give a bad review on a restaurant, a
small business, I feel like I can possibly like ruin
their business. And I don't want to utilize social media
for like negativity or anything out here, So I consider
them more like highlights rather than reviews. Like if they
have bad stuff, I won't really mention it. We'll kind
(11:50):
of stray away from it and mostly put out the
good stuff because my goal with these is not to
really like like put a business down. It's to you know,
bring the business up.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, that was a good question. Good gold gold star
for Haley today. I love that. All Right, We're gonna
take a quick break and when we come back, we
got some more here with Cozy in Studio BBC alum,
social media influencer and EMT Moonlight says an EMT look
at that. We will be right back and welcome back.
(12:26):
We are here in the studio with the one and
only Cozy Lie Official. I think you've already been asked,
like I've seen some of these podcasts with these dudes
are like asking you, like where did you get your name?
But it's kind of like a mixture of like a
nickname that you had growing up, right.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yeah, I mean it's something that my stepmom kind of
just gave to me when I was trying to grow
my platforms. You just say cozy and I ran with it,
and then lied just came from my name.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Eli Eli Right. It's not that he's a liar of mouth.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
No, some may call me that, but I'm not all right.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
So hey, you know what, since we have a social
media in influencer here in the studio, we might as
well just call him out on his videos. So we
found some videos of yours online that we thought might
be interesting for the podcast just to kind of just
graze over and talk about. So let's see here this
was different and we'll go ahead and put it up
(13:18):
on the screen. So you guys can follow along that
are watching right now. You you somehow got the idea
that you were going to go and get your eyelashes
done tell us or your eyebrows. So what was that
all about?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Well, I think there's a big stigma, by the way,
and it's very demrror. Oh, thank you, thank you. But
I think there's a big stigma and men shouldn't really,
you know, pursue like self care or beauty or anything
like that which tease your own But I mean we
all got to look good, you know, to a certain extent.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Sure, I mean, looking at your face right now, it
looks like this was a while ago, because it's not
what I'm seeing in front of me.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I did you know, I did just get off a
little shifts. So that's a little rough right now?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Fair enough? Yeah? No, So was that your first time
ever doing something like that?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Did it hurt?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
It wasn't too bad. I think the nose was a
little bit more scarier than ibrows.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Yeah, I mean they drove that thing right up your nose,
that popsicle stick. Oh yeah, yeah, Okay, did you shout
what's that line that Steve Carell does in that movie?
Kelly Clarkson did you Kelly Clarkson do that? Please tell
me you know what I'm talking about. Oh my gosh,
I'm not gonna have no clue. Please tell him in
the comments, please. Okay, So I'm gonna I'm gonna go
(14:25):
ahead and highlight this one because one of the goals
of the ASP here on campus is to have more
healthier options as far as food goes, vegan options, specifically
for students. And I noticed that in the community you
decided to highlight vegan Bird, which is an all vegan,
authentically vegan. Uh, you know Burger Joint. Tell us a
little bit about that? Do you you to me? And
(14:47):
maybe I'm just stereotyping, but you don't come off as
somebody that eats vegan or vegetarian often? Is that? Is
that a safe assessment?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yeah, you're spot on.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Okay, so I'm sure that you were maybe curious and
open to what vegan Berg was, you know, So what
did you learn about about the vegan world?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I mean, I think it's cool. I think it's a
cool concept. The food is definitely like processed a lot differently,
tastes a lot differently, but it's a cool concept. It's
healthier and that's what I pursued.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
I mean, did it blow your mind at what it
tasted like versus what you may have thought it was
gonna taste like.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I don't think it blew my mind in relation to
the standards.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Well, it blew my mind because I also ate there
and I thought it was amazing.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
It was good, Don't get me wrong, but it was
it was I kind of had a feeling it was
gonna taste a little bit different than like normal food
and stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
And you did something that every kid in the High
Desert has done at one point or another. You explore
the hospital, the abandoned hospital. That's all we're gonna say
about it. But what was that like? Because you've never
you've never done it before, right.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
That was my first time.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Do you believe in ghost I do? Okay, do you
feel like some type of spirits were there with you?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I do, and we may be going back to find out.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Okay, yeah, just bring a whole uh smudge stick of
sage or whatever, so you know that's how you get
the spirits off of you. Okay, yeah, you can google it.
I'm not making this up, I believe. Yeah, Ernie, google
that smudge stick. Uh So what was that experience like
for you going, uh, going into the hospital in the
middle of the night, and how did you and I
(16:19):
didn't see the whole thing, but did security did security
find you?
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Guys?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
They didn't. I mean we were we were hiding in
the bushes all that.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Were they were they doing their their were their routine patrols.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah, yeah, they were doing their job. We were being
kids and being heart pumping. Uh yeah, yeah. It was scary.
I mean even from the video alone, it looks like
it's scary out there.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Okay, all right, see that even from the video. If
you haven't seen the video, he wants you to go
see the video. That is that is a tactic. He
is using a tactic on you right now. Okay, So
something else I want to talk about, uh before we
go to break, uh, is you're obviously expanding, right You've
done the food you You've done like boxing events, You've
done some promotional stuff. Uh, you know, you did Haunted Hospital.
(17:02):
Where are you going with your content moving forward? Is
it is it mostly high desert? Are you looking to
expand more Southern California, broad or different types of content specifically?
Tell us a little bit about that.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I feel like I'm stuck in such like a predictament
because a lot of people are telling me get out
of the High Desert, grow bigger, go out more. But
I want to be like I don't know if you
know who Phase Rug is? Who Phase Rug?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
No?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Oh, we got some people. I want to be like
the Phase Rug of the High Desert. I want to
who is Phase Rug? Just a YouTuber in San Diego?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Okay, I'll have to look at that.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I'm sure a lot of people may know who I'm
talking about. But I want to be like the Phase
Rug of the High Desert. I don't want to leave
this like cities or anything like that. I want to
make content out here and make things like happen.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
So you want to be like the King Desert Rat,
is what you're telling me.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
If that's the name I'm giving, I'll take it King.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
If anybody anybody watching this uses that, that was me. Okay,
that was coined by me, King Desert Rat.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I'll take it. That's the goal. I want to stay
out here. This is my cities.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Okay, Well, good for you for being such a hometown cheerleader.
That's exciting, thank you. I yeah, sure, No, it's really cool.
To see somebody who you know, came to this college
and is getting out there spreading their wings, maybe not
necessarily wanting to go down the career path that that
(18:23):
you know they set out to, but but kind of
going in a different direction.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
One of the things I wanted to ask you about,
you know, West San Bernardino College or more commonly known
as cal State Sam Bernardino. Uh, what are you majoring
in because obviously you're getting You're getting a degree in
higher education now.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yeah, so I'm majoring in public health in a bachelors
in public health.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Okay, so you so you can be the king desert
rat that has a degree in public health so you
can tell people how to be healthy.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Yeah, that's the goal. And honestly, I couldn't do it
without VBC, without the E and T stuff. So I'm
just getting a bachelor's degree just to pursue like the
long term goal. But I really couldn't do with that
VVC and CD.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Do you feel like the EMT programmed helped prepare you
for all the different types of people or personalities you
may come across in everyday life, Because as an EMT,
I mean you're running into everything under the sun, and
it's it's unpredictable what what should get next on a call,
So you have to constantly adapt as a person to
the different to the different personalities and energies around you.
(19:25):
So do you think do you think maybe some of
the training that you got through the EMT program in general,
not just as an EMT, but kind of helped you
with dealing with people on a day to day basis.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah, one hundred percent. From the staff, to the equipment,
to my classmates, everything that you know, the school provided
for us. Definitely send me up to prepare myself as
an EMT or to prepare myself, prepare myself to be
you know, better person and prepared it.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
But like going above and beyond being an EMT, Like,
do you think it helped you with interacting with people
just in general?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Yeah? Yeah, I definitely didn't.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Okay, all right, very cool. We have a special foodie
challenge for Cozy when we come back, So hang out,
don't go anywhere, and we're gonna we're gonna test him
on some stuff. We'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
I'm scared. I am scared.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
And oh I'm not here. We are I'm in frame now. Hey,
welcome back to Ramplify. I'm your host, Andrew Caravella, Cozy
Lie Official is here. Okay, so everybody knows him as
the dude that does like all the foody reviews in
the High Desert, but no one has ever challenged him
to do a foody challenge of some kind. I thought
(20:45):
it would be cool to revive something that was super
popular in the ninety slash to early two thousands, where
you have to taste tests and guess different brands of soda.
So we are going to, for copyright purposes, we are
going to call this the Cozy Cola Challenge. I like
(21:06):
that it's because your name's in it. Okay, So in
front of you, our audience will see that there is
five red solo cups and there are five different colas,
hence the name Cozy Cola Challenge. In each of these,
the only hints that you're going to get is that
each of these are sold in large quantity commercial at
(21:30):
any typical supermarket here in the High Desert. So we
don't have any craft Cola's, nothing super special like that.
These are all name brand cola's. However, there is a
cola that's out there that is a wild card and
I'm not going to tell you what that means. He
is so nervous right now.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I am nervous, as So.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Which one do you? You don't have to go in order,
you can pick anyone you want, and it's up to you.
You can and you can guess right away. You can
move on to the next one and then come back
and we're going to see if you can guess if
you can beat the cozy cola challenge.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I'm so confident that I'll probably guess after I taste it.
But I'll start with this green one.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Okay, but first, do you do you have a favorite cola?
Speaker 2 (22:17):
But first, actually, don't even drink soda.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
You don't drink soda. I don't drink soda. You've had soda,
you just don't prefer it.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Yeah, I did. I have drink soda, but yeah, I
don't like I won't go out of my way to
drink it. But okay, I'm confident I think I got it.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Okay again, they're all name brands. You can buy them
at any you know, in large quantity, commercial two leaders whatever,
six packs, eighteen packs at any supermarket here in the
high desert. How do I know this? Because they were
bought yesterday with my own money. All right, go for it, cozy.
Let's see. So you're gonna start with green.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Yeah, let's go with green.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
All right. We have our judge, our goalkeeper here on
the side that will tell you if you are right
or wrong. Okay, and again you can tell me right
off the gate, or you can move on to the
next and come back. It's up to you.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
That is doctor Pepper.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Are you Is that your final answer? I'm gonna say
no after that. I wasn't quick enough. No, that is incorrect.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Oh my, this is wait, can get one more.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Yeah, we're literally picking up his swallow sounds. It's that's disgusting.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
I know what it is. Okay, it's pepsi.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Is that your final lance?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
That's my finanswer? It's pepsi. Yeah, I have no clue.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Okay, all right, that's okay. We will get back to it.
Go ahead. Number four.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
That tastes like some water down coke.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Water down coke. Okay, nothing is watered down.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Let me go to the next one. I'm gonna just
go to the next one.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Okay, let's go to the next one.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
My confidence is dropping.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Okay, that's a huge gold. My gosh, the next one.
He has no idea. Number two they're all coke. No,
they were actually all different. There's no way they're actually
(24:29):
all different. I'm so confused. No way, you didn't even
do number one.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Okay, let me do number one?
Speaker 1 (24:36):
All right, red straw, here we go.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
No, I swear they're all coke. I swear they're all.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Do you want to drink? Number five? The green one?
Once again? This is the one you claimed with doctor Pepper.
This is amazing. Yeah, they have to be aw they
(25:06):
are not. They are all different.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
I don't want to rip on the mic.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
No, please do that's good content for me. Oh my gosh,
I was disgusting. Okay, so do you give up or
do you want me to give you the name brands
and then you can go back and decide again.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Let me yeah, let me get the name brand.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Okay, in no order, Hayley, Please tell me the name
brands minus the wild card. What we have out there? Pepsi,
r C Coca Cola, so pepsi, what pepsi cola, Coca Cola,
Shasta Cola and r C Cola? And then the wild card,
which you're not going to find.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Out, I promise you I got it now.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Okay, So let's let's start with green straw again and
see if you can figure it out.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
That's Shasta Cola.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Shasta Shasta. But yes, is he correct?
Speaker 2 (26:01):
My okay, I'm gonna just go down the list.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
That one's no, no, no, tell him, tell him what
it is? That is r C Cola.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I was so close. I was gonna see that.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
He definitely weren't. It was a completely different brand. All right,
go to go to the blue.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
All right, let's see. Let me do one more.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Let me he is deep in thought over here.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Is blue r C.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
No, man, now, the other one was r C Cola.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
This is hard.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
What is number four? Number four is the wild card?
The wild card, which is coke zero?
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Yeah, I would not have it one that okay. So
we have r C Coke zero, and then I have
these three left, those three left? Okay?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
All right, you want to you want to go pink straw,
yellow straw, red straw.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Let me let me just do. Let me do red,
go red.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
All right, Let's see what he does here.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
I've been on that one. I'm sorry. Is that one
is that pepsi?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Number one? Is it pepsi?
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Let me just get one. Let me get one more
shot at that.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
One more shot, Okay, one more shot. There was only
two options.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Now is that is that coke?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
He got one? All right? Yellow and pink are left.
One is pepsi and one is uh whatever, the other shasta? Right,
Pepsi and shasta are left.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Okay, I think yellow is shasta?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Is he correct? So?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
It is pepsi. Wow, cozy thought pepsi taste it like shasta?
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Not even and three is three is shasta. I'll take
you on the second go around. So hey man, thank
you so much for coming in. Thank you for going
out there spreading positive messages, positive energy, and uh yeah,
thank you so much. Is there anything that you want
(28:30):
to say to our viewers before we wrap it up here?
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Thank you so much for having me on, had a
good time, one of my favorite podcasts. And this is
only the beginning for the High Desert. And yeah, thank
you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
All right, guys, we'll see you next time later, and
that's it. You're done.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Stop playing. Those are all coked. No, those are all coke.
I swear those are all coke.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
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This podcast is made possible with the support of the
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and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of
Victor Valley College or its affiliates. Ramplify is hosted by
Andrew Caravella, produced by Robert A.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
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Speaker 3 (29:14):
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And welcome to Ramplify. We are still here. The college
has not canceled this wonderful ASP production. Haley's in the background,
say hello, Haley, Why did you put your hand up waving?
No one can see you? Okay, wow, all right, Hey,
we have another alumni that we're going to feature for
(00:30):
this episode. All of you watching this, like, if you
live locally, I'm sure you have seen their face every
time you're laying in bed at two o'clock in the
morning because you can't fall asleep. Maybe you're going to
the bathroom and you're scrolling through TikTok or Instagram. Ladies
and gentlemen, the one and only Cozy Lie Official is here.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
So your real name is Eli. So what do you want?
You want to be called Cozy for this? You want
to be called Eli? What's your preferred name here?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Let's use Cozy. Let's keep the stage name okay, and
keep the running the.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Stage name okay? Cool? Yeah, yeah, See he sounds like
an influencer. This, this should be exciting. So okay, so
you're kind of like a micro influencer. You're you're you're
making a name for yourself. Right, we'll talk about the
alumni aspect and how you're connected with Victor Valley College
a little later in the show. But how did this
all start for you? Like? I do know that, like
you had like like frendhy bulldogs that you were breeding
(01:23):
and stuff, but but how did that translate to what
you're doing now online?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I think what happened was I just wanted to be
more in front of the camera. I started off doing
contentt with like the French bulldogs, but I wanted to
be known. I wanted my face on there. So I
just started going around doing food trucks and it blew up.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Do you have a preference on what you like? What
type of food trucks? What was genre of food culinary
delights that you prefer more than others.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
When I first started, I was going anywhere. I was
living on my own, so I was like, whatever food
truck wants to give me free food, I'll take it.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
But starving artists' mentality, I love that.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, that's what we started as. But now I mean,
I hate anything.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Have you had an allergic reaction yet to something?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I think I have so I have a small allergy
to want it's but I don't tell people because it's
like very small.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Tell us what happens.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
And so when I get like when I eat, wanna
it's my lips get itchy, my throat gets scratchy, and you.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Can't breathe or whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
It's a little tight.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
You got an EpiPen yourself.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
It's not that bad, not that bad, not that bad.
But yeah, it gets a little tight.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
But you're a paramedic or an EMT, so you could.
You could save your own life.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Hopefully I never had to, but hopefully I can.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Doing CPR and yourself, I'd be interesting to watch. Uh,
make sure make sure your camera guy who's here today
is there for the content if and when you have
an allergic reaction.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah, definitely. He's always on it. He gets everything cool.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
So where are you now with it? Like, how many
you know at the time of this podcast, how many
followers do you have online?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Just on Instagram alone? We're coming up on eighteen thousand followers?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Why is it so low?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
The fuck? That is crazy? I mean it is low,
don't get me wrong, it is low, But we're coming up.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
No, no, no, I think for the high desert audience,
I think you're doing a great job. It's it's entertaining
to watch Thank you. You know, let's see what I
want to ask you, and we're gonna save it for
a little later on in the show. Is the like
diversifying because you do more than just food reviews, you're
doing you're doing other businesses as well. You're also doing
(03:16):
promotions and things of that nature. But before we before
we move forward with that, another question that I wanted
to kind of get into is where do you find
the time to have a full time job and then
have a full time persona with social media because when
we talk about life work balance or work life balance,
it's kind of tricky to do stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah, I mean it's hard. I think, like what I
believe is everybody has time for anything. You know, you
have a passion, you'll make time for it. But that's
something I struggle with myself, is like finding a balance.
I'm still struggling with it. But if you have a
passion for something, you'll find time to pursue it.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
A lot of people, because this is the high Desert,
they kind of fall into what what can be classified
as like a rut, same same thing, day in day out,
and they don't really get to those passion projects that
you're speaking of, How do you how do you overcome that?
You know, and you know what I'm talking about. We
see it everywhere we go with with maybe people that
(04:10):
we interact with in general in the in the general population.
So how do you overcome that to make sure that
you're not in a rut and you're constantly changing it
up for yourself with the routine that you have right
now to get content done?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Like, how do I.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Like, how do you allow yourself not to get into
a rut to continue to make content?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I mean, I just keep pushing myself.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I just what do you what do you tell yourself?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
That's what there? I'm sorry I was like I was
struggling with there. I tell myself just keep going, Like
no matter how tired I am, there's times where I
wake up, I have bags under my eyes. I don't
want to go out. You got to have that inner
want and everybody has it, but it's just you've got
to have it within yourself. Believe in yourself and just
know that there's more out there for yourself.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
And before we wrap up and go to our quick
break here, have you ever had a shoot that you've
done it did not go according to plan, and maybe
it's never seen the light of day.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Oh yeah, there's so many videos that I have in
the vault that I cannot push out because there's either
something was said that I can't put it out there
even if I edit it, it just makes no sense. Or
there's just like the business was not the way I
wanted it to be. So there's things in the vault
that I can't push out.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Okay, fair enough, And I'm going to talk to him
about that stuff while we're at break, just you know,
because I want to know. But when we come back,
we have some more here. It's Cozy Lai official. He's
in the studio for Ramplify and he's a VVC alum.
We're going to talk a little bit about that when
we come back. Don't go away and we are back
(05:42):
on Ramplify. Aside from what I was just told, I
was just informed by everybody in the studio they don't
know what the word rut means. Did you find it
on Google, Hayley, Oh my gosh. It means the same
like mundane routine day in and day out to or
that becomes like your system and there's no growth at all.
(06:04):
It's just the same thing.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Oh right, that makes sense. Well, hopefully my answer kind
of answered that question without knowing what reutmant.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
That's hilarious. Okay, cool, all right, So how are you
as an influencir that does massive food reviews for some
of the biggest small business restaurants in the High Desert.
How are you connected to Victor Valley College? Tell us
a little bit about that.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
So I came to VVC, I want to say last
year or maybe the year before in summer. I did
an eight week EMT course here.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
And that's it, and then you became an EMT.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I became an EMT just like that.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
So you went to our public Safety center way out
there in Apple Valley to go do that? Right? Yes,
eight weeks? Was it intense for you?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
It's one of the hardest courses I've ever done. And
it's possible. I mean, I've been in college for almost
five years now and that's one of the toughest courses
I've had.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
But you only wanted to do the EMT thing there.
So where are you going to college?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I'm going to college as West Emandino.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
West San Bernardino. Okay, wait, oh cal State, Sam, did
you say West or did I hear west cal State?
See Ernie your your videographs said you said West. I
was confused.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I don't even know what West is.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Okay, cal State, Sanmrnidan Sandino. All right, make sure you're
not in a rut, you know, just okay. So so
you never you never got like an associates here was
there at that at that time frame in your mind?
Was there a mentality where like maybe you didn't want
to get like a higher education degree and you just
wanted to do like an eight week course, Like why
(07:36):
did you specifically decide to do that instead?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I feel like VBC offers like so many programs where
you can take different routes that you, you know, whatever
you want to pursue. And so the eight week course
with the EMT course was like perfect what I wanted
and I fit the needs at.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
A So you wanted to go and help people? Yes,
is that what you're saying?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Definitely?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
So since then as an EMT, I mean, what what
is that like for you? What did it like walk
us through like a day for you or a week round?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Do like a little day in the life of an EMT. Well,
I work nights, so it's gonna be a night Are
you a night out? No? I struggle with that, Okay. Basically,
we start off just loading up our ambulance, getting all
their supplies and stuff like that. Get everything loaded. Then
we go ahead and log in and let our dispatch
know that we're ready to go. They're either hand us
some calls or we're just gonna get posted and wait
for calls.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
What's the most dramatic call you've ever got?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Definitely a full rest.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Okay, and like your heart was pumping and stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Oh yeah, it's like eight in the morning. I'm not
gonna lie. I was kind of waking up from a
little nap. I supposed to, but I dozed off and
we get on scene, and.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
So it's almost like somebody like through cold water or
scared you out of out of like dozing off, and
you're like, oh my gosh, what do I gotta do?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah? Yeah, it's like an eye spikey challenge.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Okay. And then, uh, speaking of challenges, we'll get to
that a little later in the show. There's there's stuff
coming up with you.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
You just ready?
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yeah, good good? Okay. So, so did you have to
do CPR on this person?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I did, but it was it was a team effort, thankfully,
It's always a team for.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
What is that? Like? What is that like? Like? How
intense is it for you to start doing chest compressions
on somebody who's like not breathing.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
It can be intense, It could be traumatizing. It could
be something that you have to put your emotions to
the side and just act right then and there and
be ready for it.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
What about like accident scenes? Have you have you had
to do a lot of those?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Surprisingly not, I hope I don't jinx you after this.
I know, Surprisingly I haven't, but I've ran a few.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Okay, all right? What is aside from like overnights, like
what is probably the most mentally draining thing as a
as an EMT.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Would probably be dealing with things that people don't relate
to and meaning is something like I can't go home
and tell my parents I struggled with this at my
job when everybody else is working like you know, an
office job or you know, working at restaurants, because they
don't understand the stress that I feel, like EMTs and
paramedics or any first responders go through.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
So what you're saying is you see stuff and you
go through stuff on a daily that your family and
your close friends have no idea, So like where do
you even begin to have those conversations with them, because
there's certain aspects that they're not going to understand.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yeah, I mean, I think it's just always relating to
other people who can relate to you. So like you
want to go to coworkers, they offer different types of
programs and programs and stuff to help you out with that.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Okay, have you ever needed to like talk to like
a therapist or anything like that for the type of
work that you do, because I do know with first responders,
I've interviewed several officers and several firefighters in my time
as a journalist that you know, there is a mental
health debilitating aspect to doing first responding the longer that
you're in the field.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Thankfully I haven't. I found other ways to cope with it,
and this is definitely one of the things that I
love doing, like the social media stuff, so that's another way.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
So it's kind of like your therapy to create content
and get out there and do who you are as
cozy online.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
M hmm.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
That's cool. Yeah, awesome. All right, let's see one more
question that Hayley do you have any questions since just
be sponsoring this, Is there anything? I mean, you have
a social media influencer in front of you right now, like,
is there anything you want to ask him? I mean,
I've viewed a lot of your reviews and oh, okay,
(11:21):
that's a good point. It can't all be good food,
Like how come you've never given a bad review?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
And the reason I don't do that? And I kind
of consider my reviews like highlights in a way, because
if I give a bad review on a restaurant, a
small business, I feel like I can possibly like ruin
their business. And I don't want to utilize social media
for like negativity or anything out here, So I consider
them more like highlights rather than reviews. Like if they
have bad stuff, I won't really mention it. We'll kind
(11:50):
of stray away from it and mostly put out the
good stuff because my goal with these is not to
really like like put a business down. It's to you know,
bring the business up.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, that was a good question. Good gold gold star
for Haley today. I love that. All Right, We're gonna
take a quick break and when we come back, we
got some more here with Cozy in Studio BBC alum,
social media influencer and EMT Moonlight says an EMT look
at that. We will be right back and welcome back.
(12:26):
We are here in the studio with the one and
only Cozy Lie Official. I think you've already been asked,
like I've seen some of these podcasts with these dudes
are like asking you, like where did you get your name?
But it's kind of like a mixture of like a
nickname that you had growing up, right.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yeah, I mean it's something that my stepmom kind of
just gave to me when I was trying to grow
my platforms. You just say cozy and I ran with it,
and then lied just came from my name.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Eli Eli Right. It's not that he's a liar of mouth.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
No, some may call me that, but I'm not all right.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
So hey, you know what, since we have a social
media in influencer here in the studio, we might as
well just call him out on his videos. So we
found some videos of yours online that we thought might
be interesting for the podcast just to kind of just
graze over and talk about. So let's see here this
was different and we'll go ahead and put it up
(13:18):
on the screen. So you guys can follow along that
are watching right now. You you somehow got the idea
that you were going to go and get your eyelashes
done tell us or your eyebrows. So what was that
all about?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Well, I think there's a big stigma, by the way,
and it's very demrror. Oh, thank you, thank you. But
I think there's a big stigma and men shouldn't really,
you know, pursue like self care or beauty or anything
like that which tease your own But I mean we
all got to look good, you know, to a certain extent.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Sure, I mean, looking at your face right now, it
looks like this was a while ago, because it's not
what I'm seeing in front of me.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I did you know, I did just get off a
little shifts. So that's a little rough right now?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Fair enough? Yeah? No, So was that your first time
ever doing something like that?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Did it hurt?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
It wasn't too bad. I think the nose was a
little bit more scarier than ibrows.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Yeah, I mean they drove that thing right up your nose,
that popsicle stick. Oh yeah, yeah, Okay, did you shout
what's that line that Steve Carell does in that movie?
Kelly Clarkson did you Kelly Clarkson do that? Please tell
me you know what I'm talking about. Oh my gosh,
I'm not gonna have no clue. Please tell him in
the comments, please. Okay, So I'm gonna I'm gonna go
(14:25):
ahead and highlight this one because one of the goals
of the ASP here on campus is to have more
healthier options as far as food goes, vegan options, specifically
for students. And I noticed that in the community you
decided to highlight vegan Bird, which is an all vegan,
authentically vegan. Uh, you know Burger Joint. Tell us a
little bit about that? Do you you to me? And
(14:47):
maybe I'm just stereotyping, but you don't come off as
somebody that eats vegan or vegetarian often? Is that? Is
that a safe assessment?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yeah, you're spot on.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Okay, so I'm sure that you were maybe curious and
open to what vegan Berg was, you know, So what
did you learn about about the vegan world?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I mean, I think it's cool. I think it's a
cool concept. The food is definitely like processed a lot differently,
tastes a lot differently, but it's a cool concept. It's
healthier and that's what I pursued.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
I mean, did it blow your mind at what it
tasted like versus what you may have thought it was
gonna taste like.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I don't think it blew my mind in relation to
the standards.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Well, it blew my mind because I also ate there
and I thought it was amazing.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
It was good, Don't get me wrong, but it was
it was I kind of had a feeling it was
gonna taste a little bit different than like normal food
and stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
And you did something that every kid in the High
Desert has done at one point or another. You explore
the hospital, the abandoned hospital. That's all we're gonna say
about it. But what was that like? Because you've never
you've never done it before, right.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
That was my first time.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Do you believe in ghost I do? Okay, do you
feel like some type of spirits were there with you?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I do, and we may be going back to find out.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Okay, yeah, just bring a whole uh smudge stick of
sage or whatever, so you know that's how you get
the spirits off of you. Okay, yeah, you can google it.
I'm not making this up, I believe. Yeah, Ernie, google
that smudge stick. Uh So what was that experience like
for you going, uh, going into the hospital in the
middle of the night, and how did you and I
(16:19):
didn't see the whole thing, but did security did security
find you?
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Guys?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
They didn't. I mean we were we were hiding in
the bushes all that.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Were they were they doing their their were their routine patrols.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah, yeah, they were doing their job. We were being
kids and being heart pumping. Uh yeah, yeah. It was scary.
I mean even from the video alone, it looks like
it's scary out there.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Okay, all right, see that even from the video. If
you haven't seen the video, he wants you to go
see the video. That is that is a tactic. He
is using a tactic on you right now. Okay, So
something else I want to talk about, uh before we
go to break, uh, is you're obviously expanding, right You've
done the food you You've done like boxing events, You've
done some promotional stuff. Uh, you know, you did Haunted Hospital.
(17:02):
Where are you going with your content moving forward? Is
it is it mostly high desert? Are you looking to
expand more Southern California, broad or different types of content specifically?
Tell us a little bit about that.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I feel like I'm stuck in such like a predictament
because a lot of people are telling me get out
of the High Desert, grow bigger, go out more. But
I want to be like I don't know if you
know who Phase Rug is? Who Phase Rug?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
No?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Oh, we got some people. I want to be like
the Phase Rug of the High Desert. I want to
who is Phase Rug? Just a YouTuber in San Diego?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Okay, I'll have to look at that.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I'm sure a lot of people may know who I'm
talking about. But I want to be like the Phase
Rug of the High Desert. I don't want to leave
this like cities or anything like that. I want to
make content out here and make things like happen.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
So you want to be like the King Desert Rat,
is what you're telling me.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
If that's the name I'm giving, I'll take it King.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
If anybody anybody watching this uses that, that was me. Okay,
that was coined by me, King Desert Rat.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I'll take it. That's the goal. I want to stay
out here. This is my cities.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Okay, Well, good for you for being such a hometown cheerleader.
That's exciting, thank you. I yeah, sure, No, it's really cool.
To see somebody who you know, came to this college
and is getting out there spreading their wings, maybe not
necessarily wanting to go down the career path that that
(18:23):
you know they set out to, but but kind of
going in a different direction.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
One of the things I wanted to ask you about,
you know, West San Bernardino College or more commonly known
as cal State Sam Bernardino. Uh, what are you majoring
in because obviously you're getting You're getting a degree in
higher education now.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yeah, so I'm majoring in public health in a bachelors
in public health.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Okay, so you so you can be the king desert
rat that has a degree in public health so you
can tell people how to be healthy.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Yeah, that's the goal. And honestly, I couldn't do it
without VBC, without the E and T stuff. So I'm
just getting a bachelor's degree just to pursue like the
long term goal. But I really couldn't do with that
VVC and CD.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Do you feel like the EMT programmed helped prepare you
for all the different types of people or personalities you
may come across in everyday life, Because as an EMT,
I mean you're running into everything under the sun, and
it's it's unpredictable what what should get next on a call,
So you have to constantly adapt as a person to
the different to the different personalities and energies around you.
(19:25):
So do you think do you think maybe some of
the training that you got through the EMT program in general,
not just as an EMT, but kind of helped you
with dealing with people on a day to day basis.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah, one hundred percent. From the staff, to the equipment,
to my classmates, everything that you know, the school provided
for us. Definitely send me up to prepare myself as
an EMT or to prepare myself, prepare myself to be
you know, better person and prepared it.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
But like going above and beyond being an EMT, Like,
do you think it helped you with interacting with people
just in general?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Yeah? Yeah, I definitely didn't.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Okay, all right, very cool. We have a special foodie
challenge for Cozy when we come back, So hang out,
don't go anywhere, and we're gonna we're gonna test him
on some stuff. We'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
I'm scared. I am scared.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
And oh I'm not here. We are I'm in frame now. Hey,
welcome back to Ramplify. I'm your host, Andrew Caravella, Cozy
Lie Official is here. Okay, so everybody knows him as
the dude that does like all the foody reviews in
the High Desert, but no one has ever challenged him
to do a foody challenge of some kind. I thought
(20:45):
it would be cool to revive something that was super
popular in the ninety slash to early two thousands, where
you have to taste tests and guess different brands of soda.
So we are going to, for copyright purposes, we are
going to call this the Cozy Cola Challenge. I like
(21:06):
that it's because your name's in it. Okay, So in
front of you, our audience will see that there is
five red solo cups and there are five different colas,
hence the name Cozy Cola Challenge. In each of these,
the only hints that you're going to get is that
each of these are sold in large quantity commercial at
(21:30):
any typical supermarket here in the High Desert. So we
don't have any craft Cola's, nothing super special like that.
These are all name brand cola's. However, there is a
cola that's out there that is a wild card and
I'm not going to tell you what that means. He
is so nervous right now.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I am nervous, as So.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Which one do you? You don't have to go in order,
you can pick anyone you want, and it's up to you.
You can and you can guess right away. You can
move on to the next one and then come back
and we're going to see if you can guess if
you can beat the cozy cola challenge.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I'm so confident that I'll probably guess after I taste it.
But I'll start with this green one.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Okay, but first, do you do you have a favorite cola?
Speaker 2 (22:17):
But first, actually, don't even drink soda.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
You don't drink soda. I don't drink soda. You've had soda,
you just don't prefer it.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Yeah, I did. I have drink soda, but yeah, I
don't like I won't go out of my way to
drink it. But okay, I'm confident I think I got it.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Okay again, they're all name brands. You can buy them
at any you know, in large quantity, commercial two leaders whatever,
six packs, eighteen packs at any supermarket here in the
high desert. How do I know this? Because they were
bought yesterday with my own money. All right, go for it, cozy.
Let's see. So you're gonna start with green.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Yeah, let's go with green.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
All right. We have our judge, our goalkeeper here on
the side that will tell you if you are right
or wrong. Okay, and again you can tell me right
off the gate, or you can move on to the
next and come back. It's up to you.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
That is doctor Pepper.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Are you Is that your final answer? I'm gonna say
no after that. I wasn't quick enough. No, that is incorrect.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Oh my, this is wait, can get one more.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Yeah, we're literally picking up his swallow sounds. It's that's disgusting.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
I know what it is. Okay, it's pepsi.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Is that your final lance?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
That's my finanswer? It's pepsi. Yeah, I have no clue.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Okay, all right, that's okay. We will get back to it.
Go ahead. Number four.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
That tastes like some water down coke.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Water down coke. Okay, nothing is watered down.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Let me go to the next one. I'm gonna just
go to the next one.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Okay, let's go to the next one.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
My confidence is dropping.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Okay, that's a huge gold. My gosh, the next one.
He has no idea. Number two they're all coke. No,
they were actually all different. There's no way they're actually
(24:29):
all different. I'm so confused. No way, you didn't even
do number one.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Okay, let me do number one?
Speaker 1 (24:36):
All right, red straw, here we go.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
No, I swear they're all coke. I swear they're all.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Do you want to drink? Number five? The green one?
Once again? This is the one you claimed with doctor Pepper.
This is amazing. Yeah, they have to be aw they
(25:06):
are not. They are all different.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
I don't want to rip on the mic.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
No, please do that's good content for me. Oh my gosh,
I was disgusting. Okay, so do you give up or
do you want me to give you the name brands
and then you can go back and decide again.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Let me yeah, let me get the name brand.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Okay, in no order, Hayley, Please tell me the name
brands minus the wild card. What we have out there? Pepsi,
r C Coca Cola, so pepsi, what pepsi cola, Coca Cola,
Shasta Cola and r C Cola? And then the wild card,
which you're not going to find.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Out, I promise you I got it now.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Okay, So let's let's start with green straw again and
see if you can figure it out.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
That's Shasta Cola.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Shasta Shasta. But yes, is he correct?
Speaker 2 (26:01):
My okay, I'm gonna just go down the list.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
That one's no, no, no, tell him, tell him what
it is? That is r C Cola.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I was so close. I was gonna see that.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
He definitely weren't. It was a completely different brand. All right,
go to go to the blue.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
All right, let's see. Let me do one more.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Let me he is deep in thought over here.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Is blue r C.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
No, man, now, the other one was r C Cola.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
This is hard.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
What is number four? Number four is the wild card?
The wild card, which is coke zero?
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Yeah, I would not have it one that okay. So
we have r C Coke zero, and then I have
these three left, those three left? Okay?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
All right, you want to you want to go pink straw,
yellow straw, red straw.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Let me let me just do. Let me do red,
go red.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
All right, Let's see what he does here.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
I've been on that one. I'm sorry. Is that one
is that pepsi?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Number one? Is it pepsi?
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Let me just get one. Let me get one more
shot at that.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
One more shot, Okay, one more shot. There was only
two options.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Now is that is that coke?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
He got one? All right? Yellow and pink are left.
One is pepsi and one is uh whatever, the other shasta? Right,
Pepsi and shasta are left.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Okay, I think yellow is shasta?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Is he correct? So?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
It is pepsi. Wow, cozy thought pepsi taste it like shasta?
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Not even and three is three is shasta. I'll take
you on the second go around. So hey man, thank
you so much for coming in. Thank you for going
out there spreading positive messages, positive energy, and uh yeah,
thank you so much. Is there anything that you want
(28:30):
to say to our viewers before we wrap it up here?
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Thank you so much for having me on, had a
good time, one of my favorite podcasts. And this is
only the beginning for the High Desert. And yeah, thank
you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
All right, guys, we'll see you next time later, and
that's it. You're done.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Stop playing. Those are all coked. No, those are all coke.
I swear those are all coke.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Ramplify. The podcast is film. They're recorded in Victorville, California.
This podcast is made possible with the support of the
Associated Student Body of Victor Value College. The views and
opinions expressed in this production are those of the speakers
and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of
Victor Valley College or its affiliates. Ramplify is hosted by
Andrew Caravella, produced by Robert A.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Sewele.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Production crew includes officers of the Associated student Body of
twenty twenty four through twenty twenty five. If you'd like
more information about this podcast, please reach out by email
info at VVC dot edu.
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