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Corie Sheppard Podcast
Episode 244 | Funny
Celebrating the Life of Lord Funny – Calypso’s Master of Wit
In this heartfelt and laughter-filled episode, Corie pays tribute to the late great Lord Funny, one of Trinidad and Tobago’s most beloved calypsonians. From his razor-sharp social commentary to his unforgettable humour, Funny’s music could both break the tension in a heated calypso tent and shine a light on the nation’s biggest issues. Corie revisits classics like Farmer Brong, Sweet Sweet Trinidad, and Bamsie, weaving in reflections on the role of comedic calypso in national life.
Alongside the celebration, Corie also dives into recent current affairs, the importance of learning from different voices (including controversial ones), and why listening for what’s useful in someone’s story can unlock personal growth. From funny’s lyrical brilliance to the lessons learned from recent podcast guests, this episode is a mix of cultural memory, social insight, and classic Trini humour.
Well, this time Oli can't tell me long time. No see, right, this time we seeing each other all the time. Oli going, everybody good, sonny.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes to every man and since we got independence it means you gotta fight.
Speaker 2:It means you gotta fight. It means we need cooperation. Fight with all your might. It means if you have to work, work your fingers to the bone.
Speaker 4:It means that you're on your own. Twenty-five years have gone. How do you feel?
Speaker 2:You feel you put your shoulders to the wheel, you feel you post fire on a chief. You feel you clean up the mess. You feel you could stand up proud and say you feel that you did your best.
Speaker 3:You feel that we just keep moving on.
Speaker 4:Back in back on we heal.
Corie:I think we're each about 50 years gone now. Welcome to everybody who's been listening. Welcome back All the new people. Welcome Nice to have you on board.
Speaker 2:We're here to celebrate the life of our great man, but independence means productivity. You must produce to build an economy. It means we're facing stormy weather.
Speaker 3:And the burning sun All together.
Speaker 2:Independence will be effect With big, big celebration. It means that we are one people Building a nation. It means if we are one people building a nation. It means, if you are asleep, wake up from your sleep.
Speaker 3:It means what you sow, you shall reap. Twenty-five years of fun. How do you feel?
Speaker 2:You feel it joke me, we joke. Oh, for real. You feel we work hard and we produce. You feel that thing's going fine. You feel we reaping the benefit.
Speaker 3:So you feel we on the decline, you feel exported was really good and we make the proper deal. 25 years on, how you feel.
Corie:It's only fitting that we start with a funny man. You know they used to call him funny and he was funny in real life. But it's only fitting that we start with a. It's only fitting that we start with a serious kaiser From a man called Funny right? So if you didn't hear the news yet, let me go to the news day. This is from Melissa Doughty Dunrick.
Corie:Master Funny Williams, 84, has died. He turned down Tobago Calypsonians organization. Tuco Made the announcement in a social media post on July 31st. He died from cancer. Former NCC Commission Chair and Calypsonian Winston Gypsy Peters said he had lost a close friend and someone he called a brother. In a phone interview on his 31st of July, gypsy said I've lost a friend and a personal friend of mine for more than 55 years. This country has lost one of the greatest humorous minds. He said Master Funny had been ailing for some time. One of the best personalities you could ever find in a human being was Dunrick Williamson. Gypsy said he wanted Trinidad and Tobago to remember Master Funny as one of the greatest calypsonians it ever produced. I want to clap that. Just know we were going to get a good clap right. He added that Master Funny was also one of the most underrated as well. I did see Mr Shaq posting about this as well.
Corie:Funny being known for being funny, known for being humorous and coming at some topics. We're going to cover some of them. Topics today I feel like we'll get through all, no, but we will cover some of them. Topics today and some of the Kaisos and the way he put things together One of the greatest in terms of a wordsmith and putting words together, one of the greatest to me, for people who would have been listening to this podcast a long, long time ago. All you know when you say when I mean we played kaizo, have you still enjoy saying yes, you know, just like funny. You know they say master funny was very frank but also very measured. Gypsy said this made him a great human being. Even though his family and friends were expecting it, as he had been ailing for a while and he had been had gone into the hospital last week, it was still very devastating to gypsy. Gypsy described master funny as irreplaceable, just as the late Calypsonian Theophilus Spoiler Phillip, was also irreplaceable. I wonder if I could squeeze in a two spoiler In this episode, because when it comes to humorous Calypso, them is men.
Corie:The name is always calling us, spoiler, being a humorous lyricist. He had plenty of humorous men. He had people like Rex West who was very funny. He had people like Cardinal, who was funny, trinidad Rio, who I expect to come here at some point in time, who was crafty in the way he put together Calypso, where he was funny.
Corie:But funny and spoiler seem to be the ones who people credit a lot with being some of the funnier Calypso and it's one of the eras I had loved in the 90s and the people from before would tell you about it before where the Calypso tent was an important part of the fabric of our society. And now we're finding that the Calypso tent they like to say the tent dying and Calypso dying well, not if I could do anything about it, right, not as long as I hear it. I'm not dying while I hear it. We come to breathe fresh life into everything. But funny, it was one of those people who was a breath of fresh air and a breath of fresh life in the tent when you go, because what people might not remember was that the tent was a very, very serious place. There's plenty serious conversation was happening in the tent, both by the tent, mcs, which would include people like rachel price sprang along. Tommy joseph um, who's my partner again. I was just talking about him the other day. Uh, who's my partner again. I was just talking about him the other day. Uh, there's this video I like to watch, with both of them here and all around they're having a back a nap, hep burn as announcers in the tent. So many of them who passed through the tent. But it was a place where people was having to come into have a serious discourse. The tent is a serious place, you know, because when you're that business person and your, your practices are above board and we're finding out that, listen and remember that the days they're finding this out, we're finding out in the morning news or the evening news that you have corrupt practices or you're paying bribe, or if you're a politician and you're going into a thing and they find your name calling in scandal and them kind of thing. Or even if you're that public figure, miss Universe, why does this happen? That is what's coming to be discussed in the Calypso tent and it's a discussion. You know.
Corie:The tent was not a one-way exchange, it was a back-and-forth thing. Where I come out, I say and I announce. I make a joke, I make a statement, I say something I call out a caissonian. Now the caissonian come. You don't know what a man coming with you, don, cardinal or Gypsy, or Chalky, or Stalin, you don't know what they could come with to say. But when you find out what they come with, it's serious matters. Man come to discuss in the tent and we as the audience have a part to play in them.
Corie:Serious matters too, because the simple the tradition of calling back on a Calypsoanian right. Some of us, the people around my age, go remember when calling back on a Calypsoanian was about big song. Remember when calling back on a caissonian was about big song and you know you want to see more of him. Or it was about the performance, but we had to remember the idea behind an encore and calling back a calypso on stage. A lot of times the encore was about the message. In other words, I want you to say more about that crime in the country higher, come out and you deliver a masterful piece. A man started to clap. Now they want to hear more of that. It was so that that that clap on was a clap on of agreement or clap on saying hey, we want our encore. We want that to be said.
Corie:So the tent was a space where, if the politician ain't paying attention or if the businessman or society as a whole not paying attention, you could, you could be attention, you could be in trouble. You could be in trouble because it is the voice of the Calypsonian and the response to the way the Calypsonian brought forward what they brought forward in terms of public issues. At one point in time it would be heavier than the social media influencer it had that back then, or the journalist or whatever it might be who have the voices and who are telling these stories today? The calypso, no one knows who was waiting for these stories and the uncle was away telling them. That is the issue we come to hear about. As a matter of fact, man might be disappointed. If they come to the tent and they have a big public issue and none of these calypso and the cast talk about that, we're going to have a problem.
Corie:But funny was one of them men who could break that tension in a masterful way, either by singing a song that completely hilarious or by taking a serious issue and easing up the way we do it, because they had some men who was, who was, was biting. All you know the men who was biting, right them, important, the biting men and them coming to tell you direct and call men name. It's at a point in calypso where it turned from being crafty and double entendre and suggesting that this is the person I'm talking about to outright calling people name. You know, big and brave, they're calling it in big but funny was one of the people you had. I would imagine that, as somebody who curating intent and deciding who coming next, who going on and that kind of thing, what art is following, you had to be careful where you put funny, because you could put funny in a place to break the tension or you could put you could wait too late for a man like funny to come in and the whole tent could turn into a riot. You know so funny and them used to come in and again, as the first song suggests, you used to do serious ones too. So as, going back to the article, the tucco release said that the calypso was known for his wit, patriotism, enduring contribution to the art form. It was said that he was uh, it said he was born on may 23rd 1941 in east port of spain, where he began composing calypsos in the late 50s.
Corie:Master funny made his performance debut in 1964. He gifted us with timeless classics like sweet, sweet trinidad, farmer brong, blending human social commentary with unmatched lyrical brilliance. As a man, when I come here I have a work to do, you know so. Any, any time, anytime I hear kaizo name call and we have a few issues to talk about. Right, all the other forgiveness for the long time, listeners especially right, all you had to be a little patient with me on. I give my grace Because you know that I would typically come and talk about all the issues that happen in the country every week. And now starting to get back into current affairs. So we go talk about a few, but we're really here to pay respects and to celebrate the life of our great one.
Speaker 3:So if the author in the article mentioned Farmer Brum, yes, farmer Brum, the neighbors and them keep complaining about these jackass every day. So the police send out the sergeant who went to farmer brung and he say he tell him that jackass of yours, farmer brung, the neighbors them keep complaining. You better try and watch the animals. So, because all the plants he destroyin' Keep your eyes on the jackass, because he's giving them a real task. You will get yourself in trouble, farmer, if you don't watch your ass. I'll tell you.
Corie:Yes, I want you to picture the tent After Krookro and them gonna blaze the government and for the end them come with us.
Speaker 3:Farmer brought the jackass on a rotten tree. Then he jumped on his bike and he gone down the road in the rum shop to spree the jackass, branch up and get away. And he gone cross by neighbor John. The neighbor gone to the farmer in the shop and start to get on. He tell him that jackass of yours, farmer Brown, you better come and see Because it pull down the tree, bust away the chain and it inside me gallery. You are sure going to lose it. So you better do something fast Because if it should damage my property, so help me, I'll kill you.
Speaker 3:I'll tell you, farmer Brong, let the jackass go in the people's lawn and Farmer Brong will stand up and see a destroyer in the neighbor's corn. The neighbors and them was very mad and when they jammed it couldn't pass. When Farmer Brown see what was happening, he run quick to save his ass. I tell you, these jackass get jammed in a corner down in the garden. Neighbors and them was in a rage so they didn't care what happened. Farmer Brown, he started begging, but the neighbors, they wouldn't stop, they didn't care what Farmer Brown did.
Speaker 2:They kick his ass up, I tell you.
Corie:Hey, the great funny, the great Lord, funny man. You're coming serious matters going on in the country and then funny, come on the stage and drop one like that on you. You cannot predict him, you can't predict him, you don't know. With a name like funny, the expectation is that you come with some serious. You come with some kicks and some humor and things, but sometimes you come in with serious matters. Well, as they say here, they say he gifted us with timeless classics like Sweet, sweet Trinidad and Farmer Brong, blending human social commentary with unmatched lyrical brilliance. He was a longtime headline actor at Calypso Spectacular and later joined the Back to Basics Calypso tent in 2019.
Corie:You know, spectacular was a place where I was known for a lot of, a lot of more like. It's almost like. My interpretation of it as a youth was when you go down by Kitch. By that time, kitch was down on Rison Road. For me, right Kaizo House. Was it Kaizo House? When you go down on Rison Road, you know there's serious matters being discussed down there and Calypso Spectacular had plenty of serious matters going on too, because, if I remember right, they had people like Rio, they had Watchmen, they had the Heavators. At one point I want to believe. They had Chalk Dust too, if I remember right. But you're sure to get funny and you're sure to get some humorous calypso and them kind of thing in the midst, and I don't know that. I don't know that on ricin road, when kitchener had pretended that man was in charge, I don't know that he would have got rex west on these fellas at all, they said.
Corie:Though he often spoke of challenges faced by calypso nians, his love for trinidad and tobago never wavered. His favorite, his famous line when a dead, please bury me in the center of the city. It's prophetic, eh, boy, when you look at a day like today where we get to celebrate his life, where we get to reflect on the opportunity we had to even live in the time where a man like this live and choose to do what he did with his life In the center. One of his greatest songs he said when I'm dead, please bury me in the center of the city. We go revisit that song, right? Only if we can take it in. Yes.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes. Foreigners always asking me why, in Trinidad, people so happy, what to do, man, I have to tell them the truth. I say a man could sleep until ten o'clock. Get up and stay in late for a way out of war. Be getting transferred in front the door and this poker boat be going all day, and until they still draw.
Speaker 3:Yes, I don't want to live at all. Ever since I was small, look at all these streets. We're training them. Brother, brother, feeling glad when I'm dead you bury me In the center of the city. I'll tell you. I'll tell you to get up and get and anytime things a little bad. Man, you have a garden in your backyard and no doubt the food almost in your mouth. We got women class or three, any kind of a woman that you need. You could bet the sweetest woman you could get. Yes, so until you sleep, sleep Trinidad, cause I love this country bad. I don't want to live at all. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Corie:Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. One of the best social commentary for me. You know what I mean, one of the greatest. And it's a song. Give yourself some time to listen to it, right, listen to the lyrics, listen to what it is he's saying, because again, as a man like Fonye, I come in tongue-in-cheek to say again sweet, sweet Trinidad, I love this country. Bad Love it since it's small. You know what I mean. He want to leave at all when country. Bad love it since he's small. You know I mean he wants to live at all when he's dead, bury him in the center of the city and then, in the verses, when he sang a chorus like that in the verses, he went into. He went into. It's a real, real, real trend.
Corie:Big one, yan kaiso, you know, because he not just talk muddy issues and talk mud sweet trinity, but he talking not just about our issues but our laxed approach to these issues. Reach the to work anytime, leave early, clock your card. A man told me the other day quite confidently that in a public sector company he used to work for that is dealing with water and sewage provision and so on. He said men used to start to work three o'clock so that overtime could start o'clock immediately. So to me, one of the greatest guys who ever, written by the great Lord, funny because it talks about our approach to the idea of any serious issue.
Corie:And you know, one of the things about being Trinidadian or Trinbegonian is that there's a lot to complain about. Let me put that up front. Right, there's plenty you could complain about in this country and all kinds of things wrong and the poverty line. There's not the hospitals. You name the issue and I could tell you a hundred different things you could complain about. Right, but for me I kind of like to focus. This is me personally. Right Me, don't tell nobody how to live Me. Don't give nobody no advice. If you ask me for advice, I will try and tell you, but I am sure I can't advise nobody Me and know if what I tell you go work for you or not. You just have to find the words of a great doctor by the name of David Brisan. May he rest in peace.
Corie:I was on a course with him and he tell me you have to figure out what's useful in this life. Forget the idea of what's right and what's wrong and try and focus on what's useful. Let me tell you why that was an important statement for me. Right, I get into a point for me. Right, I get into that point. I always get into that point.
Corie:That was important to me because at that point in time I had very, very strong views on what is right and what is wrong and maybe, by extension, who is right and who is wrong and who have a right to say this and who have a right to say that. Right, I always remember being very, very angry as a young fellow, 20 something years old, finishing a bachelor's degree, finishing her master's degree, trying to come out in this world. I do what the people tell me was right. I do what the people say was good. I study and I learn my work, all the things that I was supposed to do. I do it slowly. I repeat a few times right, you know what I mean. I'm going to clap my damn self. I repeat a couple of with.
Corie:That was difficult, but somehow and I went to UWE I was accepted to UWE to do Carnival Studies. I ended up getting a degree in business, but I had to struggle to switch from Carnival Studies, which was a humanities thing. No, not Carnival Studies. What I'm saying I mean government is what I first got accepted to do, and I had to get my grades to switch out. You would say, if you get above 60% which I believe was a B plus average at the time I went there and once you're above 60% you could switch to any faculty you want. So I said, well, this is my route to get to study business right, and you know, I get 59 point something percent. I just shorted him out so I had to beg salute to miss dr. What's your name, arjun? I had to go and beg him to give me to sign more off so I could switch faculties and that's how I end up doing business.
Corie:I went on to do business in lockjack, do marketing there, and a part of what my issue was then is that I do all the right things but I still care for the house, I still care for a nice car, I still buy my mother. I'm struggling, you know. I mean, and at that point in my life I was very much into looking at what are all the factors that are causing me to not succeed or not achieve. But there was one key factor I never used to look at enough. My old Michael Jackson told me, man in the mirror. I never used to spend enough time looking at myself and say, okay, well, what are you doing? Yes, you did all the right things. Cool Doing all the right things. Cool Doing all the right things don't guarantee you nothing. I'm not saying fuck, I'll put it this way Nothing guarantees you nothing. I can say that now at 40-something right, but at 20-something I didn't understand that.
Corie:I was very angry and very frustrated and the height of my anger came when the government of Trinidad and Tobago at the time built, built a national flag in the stadium. I was maddened. Only remember the big flag, then a big big one by Centre Excellence and then a next big one run by the stadium on the foreshore side between the stadium and movie town. Here now I am angry as a patriot and a national man, and I know I mean I love this place. But why would I be so angry at a national flag? Largely because at the time the kind of houses I wanted to live in and the place that I wanted to live in, the houses, were costing $2 million. I can't even qualify for a million salary at that point in time. But them men went and built the flag and said that the flag cost $2 million and I could not put that together in my mind. I couldn't reconcile that. I was just basically angry and saying, hey, what the hell is this? Then people spending two million dollars on my tax money and I can't even afford a million, ah, and I was driving around the place upset. I'm driving angry. Now think of it from this standpoint before I get to the stupidity of my anger.
Corie:At that point in time, when I angry and stressed out and I dis on that the people who build that flag, them living their life, and it was my blood pressure and my cortisol levels and all them things to catch and my gray hair. You know what I mean. It's all them things to catch for me, and also it's my focus and my energy which go in towards that. That could well be going towards something else that could help me progress and do a little better in life and maybe afford that $2 million. Maybe, if I took that energy I had then and I see, okay, how I could advance my degrees or whatever it might be, or how could I invest in something, how could I go and buy something and sell, or how could I figure out something. You know, I feel more empowered when I focus on me and what I could do about a situation than the situation itself.
Corie:Again, I don't want to ever sound like I say in these things easy, I talk about something 20 years ago and I talk about something where I feel like I still adjust into it today, thanks for courses like Brizanne and them. I could sort of pause a little bit and look at myself. When I'm blaming circumstances or looking at this. That only tells you reason why I can't get through. I pay attention to that and when I catch myself thinking like that, I say hey, hey, what you could do about it, what you could do differently, what you could, what you could adjust, what you could, and and that includes how could I look at this situation differently? Because I'm blessed and and I want to say like lucky in a lot of ways to be able to sometimes more than once a week sit down with what I think are enormously successful people in my eyes. Every single episode, every single week. I ain't missing a Monday morning. It come like a walk now, and every Monday morning I come in More successful people and I am asking questions.
Corie:Yes, I understand that our audience to cater to one. I want the episodes to be informative and entertaining and thing, but half the time I just soaking up knowledge across that table. I want to know how you do what you do. I want to figure out what in that message is useful. Because what I know is that whatever circumstances between me and what is my goal, whatever obstacle is there or whatever's happening around me, I can choose to focus on that. If I want, I could put all my energy into focusing on this and this thing wicked and the people, this and the government, this and the business do that, or you, we do this, and they didn't agree and the degree not internationally recognized. I could focus on all them things I can. I can take all my energy and focus on that. Or I could focus on okay, what do I want to, how do I, how do I want to be different and what can I do to accomplish that? And, and you know, maybe it's a, it's a sign of old age, because as a young had plenty energy and you see now how our old I know too much energy and I had plenty of energy, and you see now how I'm old, I don't have too much energy and I have a limited amount of energy. So if I take that little bit of energy and I focus it on things that are not helping my progress, I actually hurting my chances even more of progressing.
Corie:What the hell is the moral of all this? Why am I coming here preaching? I always talk about myself. I want you to understand something I'm never telling people what to do or how to think. You can focus on whatever you want to come out. This thing is my life story. It's just me and the way I see the world. And keep in mind too that by next week Friday, that could change, or next week Monday morning, it could change how I see the world. I'm always willing to share it with people.
Corie:But I say all that because the last episode I put out was with Adam Aboud, right, and if you're here listening for a long time, you would have known that I would always want to interview Adam Aboud or any successful business person and I'm using that word successful deliberately. So that is not. That's powerful. It costs for me, but I guess people have to have to get used to the fact that everybody, a lot of people I always let me say it like this I talk sometimes and I do the interviews or the conversations sometimes where I'm assuming that a lot of people listen from episode one which my son remind me was five years ago. It's not my boy, zachary. Five years ago was when we do episode one, so I just kind of assume everybody here that they had written in ink you could always go back and look at that too, and let me get some numbers down in the early ones now. You know what I mean. It's a struggle but after after understand respect and adjust to the fact that people your last episode is really the first one of most most people here and um, so it's no surprise to me and I I've spoken about my history and adams for a long time. I've always admired him and I admire him for the fact that he's in his business every day.
Corie:He said his age on that episode and I was a little blown away by it because I have a stupid tendency to think everybody's my age. I just think everybody in their 40s. You know I mean it works against me all the time. You know I mean I don't have the best working functioning brain and all you have to work with my little bit here. But I can't assume everybody's wrong my age and while I might understand that he's a little older, but the thing about it is I just talk about the energy, because the way I feel if I had a restaurant like his, I probably not going to be there every day. Honestly, I'm just being honest, I'm not going to be there every day. I don't know if I have the energy to deal with all the staff and all the people and all those things and and maybe that says something about what where my accomplishments are versus where I want them to be. So I am eager to hear from him how you overcome obstacles, how you use the energy to go there, how you turn this thing into this. What is your thought process like? What are you going to do next? You hear how excited he is about talking about expanding.
Corie:So the point I'm making is this I've gotten a lot of feedback after the episode about the 1% and the privilege that he has and da-da-da-da-da, nobody wants to hear this and all that. I even heard somebody surprised. I was so shocked to hear how could I let the 1% be the first businessman that comes on the podcast? Because and it sends the wrong signal and I think to myself is Conrad Baird not a businessman? Is Omari Ashby not a businessman? Is Ozzy Merrick not a businessman? Is Zan is not a businessman, mr Shaq is not. I feel like I do the same thing every week Junially is not a businessman, junially talk.
Corie:That man asked me. I I say I look like a man who need a promoter. To you I want to say that at the time of recording this the man canada shows sold out and his show sold out 28. So I saw and I listen. I tell you I'd be genuinely shocked when I hear these things. I'm like you think adam is the first businessman I had here and and I was also thinking like, if he is so, what, so what? Every episode to me is one of 10,000. It's a body of work. If you want to come week to week and judge it by the episodes and judge it by what's said and what who didn't say, and if you didn't ask that, that is fine too. I'm okay with that. But what I want more than anything else is for people to look at what's watch beyond the things that being said, or watch beyond who says it. It does not matter to me. It doesn't matter to me About his privilege, for instance, people saying he failed to acknowledge his privilege in the interview.
Corie:I did a terrible job as I interviewed, it's true, but the thing about it I want people to understand is I asked Adam to come here. I asked him and I was very grateful that he would come and share his story, because he does not need to do that. He don't want to talk to nobody. The men do well enough, you know. I mean, even when I, when I say no, I'm talking to him and he says things like uh, which I genuinely believe that he sees it that way. He's like, you know, we're not super wealthy. I'm like, if I get a little bit of percent, you're super wealthy or you're not super wealthy. It's a big difference to me. You know. I understand that. I acknowledge that His life is his life. He's living it every day, but he does not have to give any of us a glimpse into anything. So the fact that he's willing on it was for real. Why do we lord the Mark Zuckerbergs of this world and the Jeff Bezos of this world and the Warren Buffetts? We lord them.
Corie:Everybody had to tell me last week about Diary of a CEO and you should change your interview why we don't talk about we have a thing here, why I have to be compared to Diary of a CEO, why we always need some foreigner or something to be the standard of who we are. No foreigner is not no standard of nothing I do. I am following people who are here and I'm not knowing they're as good as them. I know I'm nowhere there. I'm following Alison Hennessy. I'm following Daley Knock and Tony. I'm following Dominic Calipasad. I'm following Alvin Daniel. Those are the people I pattern myself after and I watch it. I'm not saying I don't watch the foreigners, but there's no standard on nothing I do and they cannot provide no standard for me as me. They must watch me. Why don't they watch me and learn how to do what we just do? Hey, hey, hey, hey. Let me tell you the finest thing in my life. I can't remember if I talked about it last week Because my memory ain't good at all.
Corie:My father had a company one time I was in UWE, right, it's called Innovative Procurement Services Limited, right, and he had an office in Baratari and I had to campus. Your mind, you know what I mean. If you're anything like me. You're just living and I go on by my father. You know he's in time to collect the little kakada. When I have kakada to collect, you know what I mean. Your little Allah wants something. I used to go and check my father in the business, right, and I must say go on to collect whatever little money, because I'm living on campus and them thing and I'm trying to make ends meet.
Corie:If that's a real thing, you know and that was one of the other things people said about the episode I see somebody in the comments say imagine I think and I just go, my business fail on Bundong and I go on to New York for a month and I could just go on. Okay, that's true, that's true. Not everybody could do that. But story, if you hear that and don't want to listen to none of the other gems that were said in this episode about how we could pattern ourselves and see things differently and improve ourselves, dies on you. If that's what you want to focus on, then that's cool.
Corie:My father can't send me New York to sing for a year to do nothing. He can't send me back in no bagel shop to learn about bagels, but my father do the best he could do it where he had, and I understand that. Even that is a privilege that people who have no father. No help, no support, no positive messages. But that is why I am doing this. I hoping one of them who might not have the kind of voices I hear or the kind of things my father said. My father always tell me, boy, you will do fine, you, this is when I come in last intestinal. I come in last intestinal every track I pass. But he always tell my boy, you do good, you're always bright, you have a way. That is how he is up to today and I fully understand that that is a privilege and all them kind of things. But that is my life. So if I talk about my life and I talk about my father, he would chastise me for talking about the things that I had.
Corie:I don't understand this notion, that so because adam could say I did this or I was that, or I had this person in my life, that was a man's life. So what we want to do, we want to ignore, you know, throw the baby with the bathwater, kind of thing. I don't think I understand it. So I go to my father to collect this little allowance, right, and when he was there, he was there with a lady and they're talking about something and something he tell me about, and he telling me about, and he's telling me about patty austin. If I know patty austin, I don't know patty austin. I know pat bishop and I saw you know his reaction to that was like die my son. You know, I mean because my all, all my stuff.
Corie:Again, again, salute to everybody who accomplish everything globally and thing. But I want my examples to come from here. And if we live in a country where the examples are not coming from the households themselves, why would we not find a way to create platforms like these where people could hear examples? My dream is that one of these 10,000 episodes affects one child and they could see life differently and see that they have all the potential in the world to become anything that they want to be in this world. So I rather, I rather sit down here for 20 hours and celebrate funny. I rather celebrate them because if kendrick, lamar and clips had that, that would be a big issue and a big story. Let's want to cover that. Let them cover that. I want to cover. I want to cover what I covering and speak on behalf and speak with with my people, and I see adam as one of my people. I, I would have been? I would have been, he would have been invited here, regardless of what it is. So when I I tried my best right to get him to talk a little bit more about okay, when that place burned down in the cool, how you felt.
Corie:The reason'm asking that question is really to get him to say what just his genuine experience, so that anybody else who in business and felt the obstacles when he say he cry I hear my father talk about how he cry. He say when he first leave the job, he closing himself in the office when none of us was there, and he cry Because he's like what you do? You leave everything behind and you start this company and this thing ain't working and he cry. Talk to any entrepreneur. I was talking in an episode recently about a youth man who's selling coffee on the highway. The man see, all need, you know what I mean. He see, boy, listen, I wanted coffee when I was selling so-and-so and I selling coffee. Now we become a national story and a viral sensation. So why he can't end up being rituals, why he can't end up being Starbucks?
Corie:I feel, by putting the limitations on, if you hear this story and you focus on the privilege and the da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. I want you to consider that you are putting limitations not on yourself, because the people who are listening to this are highly successful and doing well. You're putting limitations on little children. Little children who you're telling them that they can't be that because their father can't fly them to New York and go for a week, or their mother can't make bagels in the kitchen and this, and that they have to listen. Beyond that, they have to listen past them things. And I say I'm focusing on Adam because Adam out this week, right, our next one next week and then week after that, we're never gonna stop. It's going to be stories from all different people.
Corie:I would encourage you as well that sometimes you see, when the person look like us and the person talk like us and their style is like us and they talk about something that we could relate to, it's easier. As we human, we tend to get them messages faster and get them messages easier. You know I mean them is the easier message to get them messages faster and get them messages easier. You know what I mean. Them is the easier message to get and digest. But I want to challenge you, as I always challenge myself, to try to listen to people who are not like you. Try to focus on the people who are not like you at all, who you may have preconceived notions about. Try and listen to them. It's as good as traveling to another country and seeing different cultures and different experiences. It's a different education. And again, the ideas as you listen, this is one of 10 000. It's one of 10 000 always have bugs to work out. It always have things. It happens all the time and the more successful to me, the more successful the individual that here is, the more feedback and the more comments on all them kind of things. I had to get used to that a little bit. I'm trying not to become one of them people who only respond to negative comments. I do appreciate a lot of the feedback on adam. I'll be honest with you.
Corie:I did not expect adam's episode to be as popular as it was. A matter of fact, after junily I was glad to release adam. That's so good. I never see dm something like that, like that after June. Nearly. That's a lot of spotlight for me. It creates a lot of work. Very popular people create a lot of work after the episode or when the episode is published. So I tell myself. Well, alright, adam, we have a little bit of a break, we have a lull. I tell David. I say David, I had to slow down. It's plenty work. I have a work to do. You know I'm talking about my father and my father. If you only call me now, it will all hell break loose. You know, because I'm behind on every metric, every KPIs I have. I'm behind, but the reality is that it's been.
Corie:The response to it has been great. I'm happy that people are enjoying it. I want to publicly thank Adam for coming and sharing his story. He has a way of talking Like what you see in the video and what you see in the room is kind of like two different things. Right, that's why I decided to talk about this and do some behind the scenes things. He does not like to spend a lot of time talking about obstacles. You know when you're talking about obstacle and drawbacks and is he's almost like he had to say all, right all right, you want to talk about this.
Corie:It's like, yeah, I cry because and I took something from that. I took from that that he approaches it like life is full of obstacles, as he said, the bus coming and going, you know, I don't know, you're off. So he spends his time focusing on okay, how can I improve this, how can I change this, how can I recover from this? How can I better this? And he himself has a way, even in an interview not wanting to talk to the problems, to to problems for too long, not wanting to complain. It's what it is. You get robbed, you get robbed. He was not complaining about getting robbed, burgled or the coup. It's me waxing and, um, he have, he have parents on them, have some money to send him to college. Yeah, he has some money to send his parents to college over here. All those things is true. Somebody tell me you have an engineer he could call for. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All that is true. So my focus in life is how I go get to a point where I could send my son to school five times. You know, when you say you have a daughter who's a perpetual student. If my son decided he would be a perpetual student I want to send him back to school five times before he finds himself in life and how I can have a business where I could come so much in an interview along the road and talk proudly about how zachary changing the company, the way he spoke about what his son is doing for adams. That's why I focused on you know how I could get my sister to be so good that she threw a whole thing in hills on that. I could now have someone of my nephew come to sell bagels. Because the stories among some of our think of your story, among your sister and her children and the issues they might be having is a different story and a different ballgame, and there's a lot that I take from every one of these episodes. I try to hold on to something from all the episodes and one of them is Maxine talking about. Maxine, in the midst of the thing, started to talk about boy me and her were long ahead, for you know, I want to eat our mango one time. I'm like Maxine. What happened? Boy, me and him? We're long ahead, for you know, I want to eat our mango one time. I'm like Maxie. What happened? How did you think I'd get so heavy, so fast. Same thing with Juneli. Juneli, this is where the grass will grow back. I could die any moment.
Corie:I say, hey, how is this so morbid? So if the most successful people have a common thread they're talking about in the episode, then I have to find out I have if it's useful for me. And one of the things they say and it's in a way that might sound morbid, but what I took from them was that time really flies. Time is a thing where we feel we have a lot of, we feel like there's this tomorrow that is going to come, where everything is going to be ideal and we will get everything we want and everything will be in place. And if I only had time and da-da-da-da, this statement that the bus pass, you could stay and stand by, and thing is that the time or the grass grows back, or maxine saying I go eat up. What I take in from that more than anything else is that time is not ours. We feel like we have a lot of time, but the time to do the thing is now and there's nobody better telling us that than late. Great, funny.
Speaker 3:While walking in the city, I met an old girlfriend. We grew up from small.
Speaker 2:She was surprised to see how much hair that I got, and so handsome and tall.
Speaker 3:She said it doesn't seem like long. We were so very young, you mean. So much time went by. Life was just the other day. We used to run and play. Oh, how time could rarely fly. So I show her day before yesterday.
Speaker 2:Was yesterday yesterday. Yesterday was today yesterday.
Speaker 3:Today was tomorrow. Yesterday. Tomorrow today Gonna be yesterday. Day after tomorrow Tomorrow Gonna be yesterday.
Speaker 4:Time does fly.
Corie:Yes, time does fly, I'll tell you If it's the long and the right, is your mind really different today?
Speaker 3:Time does fly. She remind me about the first time. It is the longer you ride this, your mind really different. I didn't want to go, I was going in too slow and I reached halfway, so she hold me by my head and pushed me facing it. Boy, that seemed like yesterday. Yes, yes, the day before yesterday was yesterday. Yesterday, yesterday was today, yesterday, yes, today was tomorrow. Yesterday, tomorrow, today, gonna be yesterday. Day after tomorrow Tomorrow, Gonna be yesterday.
Corie:Time does fly Makes sense. Right, time does fly, yes, time. It's a good message for me too, you know, because I say don't listen to Kaiso, like if Conrad and Demingo put me out just now. It's a little affordable and buttered, because time is flying like hell. Here too, you know, I do have a couple, a couple, just a few. You know what I mean. A couple is a few, how much is a couple? Two?
Corie:I do have a few quick things to talk about in terms of, uh, the current affairs and what's going on in the country right now. Right, of course, we're here to celebrate the life of the great calypso and the master. Funny, you know. We, you know we don't want to lose sense of that at any point in time, but there are a few things going on in this society that we had to touch on, right, uh, one of them, as we're talking about, and just really my viewpoint and being, I guess you know, very, very lucky to have a front row seat to some of these stories, and sometimes, you know, I feel sorry for, like, I wish I could put out unedited versions of these interviews or some behind the scenes and the before and after what really is be going on here and some of the things that we we'll be fortunate enough to talk about. So my boy, aaron, who always making sure I have a little bit of behind the scenes going on that I could share. But I'll tell you something. The behind the scenes conversations so rich pause, you know I mean quotes and quotes, you know I mean no pun intended, whichever one of them works behind the scenes conversations so rich in terms of seeing the way they may see the world or the like. They have some things that always stun me, like I remember. You know you're looking forward to talking to somebody like mr shack. Right, and a big part of it for me is that the, especially the people I like and the people who I support in the kaiso hunting. I want to see them. I want to see them win a Calypso Monarch.
Corie:And when I hear Mr Shaq, you know I would think that somebody like Mr Shaq, who I feel gets some raw deal in the competition, wasn't in the competition this year. And you know you hear a lot of shadow songs talking about you. Catch them judges in hell and have them jump in it. That'd be enough for Mr Shaq to gross about in them competitions, but when I hear him say he don't look back at none of the things that the judges had to say. He don't watch your rubric, he don't watch your metric.
Corie:My first thing is like why? Why? Like watch that and adjust yourself to that so you could win one for my selfish benefit. But he basically saying that, listen I. But he basically saying that listen I, have a greater purpose.
Corie:He say I not letting no judges come between me and my audience. It's a serious message. We will get a proper clap right. It's a serious message that I not letting what the judges had to say or the judges opinion about my performance or the judges opinion about my song affect my performance. It's really an important part of it's a really important part of the discussion for me. Or the mindset again of those people who are successful.
Corie:And when somebody like that says that it carries a heavy weight. But just like that question, half the answers that people give is shock. I expect the answer to go a certain way and I just be shocked like hell when they say it differently. And again, it teaches me a lesson as to, okay, my focus really be and where is the purpose. And again, I always heard in bob marley documentary he's saying he was talking about black america, right, uh, and not listen, black american not listening to reggae music. And he was saying he said in almost in passing, I think, like a woman, music to reach its rightful people, which he was talking about black americans, you know, and and the message behind his music to reach rightful people. And I'm always encouraged by a lot of the comments.
Corie:I think people starting to finally see the true line, like what is the commonality and why we're here and what we're talking about, and and and the types of things that we could get to extract from the guests in an hour and a half, two hours. It does no justice to the lives of the people we're talking about. It is impossible, but at least we could get some of our own success stories and hopefully those success stories start to flood the libraries of this country and the libraries in the universities of this country and and the the hallways of places like uct and ue, so that as people going into those institutions, they start to learn a little more about us and from us, and and you have somebody like funny who could stand up as part of what we learn from and part of what we emulate and part of what we live like. And then, of course, from the business side of it. If there's anything that's coming out of that where you always wanted to start a business or you have a business and it's struggling, listen for what is useful. Listen for what's helpful, something that I found very, very useful I wanted to talk about today. This is from the Guardian, right? I hope I'm reading that, right? Is this from the Guardian? It's either from the Guardian, the Express or the News. They're one of them three, right? But it says Be Mobile hosts SME sessions.
Corie:Be Mobile Business has launched a new entrepreneurship series targeting small and medium enterprises as they continue to drive business activity in Trinidad and Tobago. In a news release on Wednesday, the company said a four-part power on your business. Power on your business, I suppose, is how to say it. The series debuted at the recently held 2025 trade and investment convention to help local businesses sharpen their strategy, improve visibility and build build for long-term growth. Uh daryl duke, assistant vice president of business sales at tst entrepreneurship, says entrepreneurship is a significant driver of economic growth and supporting that ecosystem is central to our role as Trinidad and Tobago Indigenous Communication Solutions provider. He added at a B-Mobile business. He said at B-Mobile business. He said at B-Mobile business I can't read so well now Our focus goes beyond connectivity and infrastructure. It's about helping local businesses access the tools, expertise and networks they need not just to survive, but to thrive. This series wasn't about selling products. It was about investing, showing up as a partner to the business community, offering support and being of service to the greater good of Trinidad and Tobago. It brought together entrepreneurs, creatives and business advisors who delivered experience-driven insights on brand building, content strategy and business development. It's something I want to applaud.
Corie:I think more and more we, we, we see, uh the well, maybe people grasping the idea that this goal we have about national development and about getting first world status. I'll put it to you that that cannot be done by any government. There's no government who can carry no country from developing to developed a part of the infrastructure. The government have a role to play, yes, but do you see entrepreneurship? Just forget the word small business or sme for a minute. You see, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship and innovation is one of the ways that we could really change our circumstances.
Corie:If we fail to innovate and we fail to entrepreneur, we're going to end up in a situation where we still totally, 40 years from now, dependent on oil and gas or dependent on a non-renewable resource and crying, oh, it ain't going to be we. It could be the people who come after we Crying that that non-renewable resource has run out and we have no money and the standard of living continues to slowly but surely deteriorate and then it becomes less of a comfortable place to live. And that's not a trend. Down, I want to be in. I'm assuming that's not trend. That's a big way you want to be in. So I always, if I have the chance and if I see anything like this in the public space, where businesses helping each other, I want to highlight it because you know what's funny, you know what's under the other true lines of these episodes.
Corie:You hear a lot in the public space that younger artists talk about not getting help from the artists that came before. But you also hear, when we sit down here talking to them, that the artists who are established and been out there a long time, they don't want to interfere with what the youth's doing. They just want to call them and tell them hey, do this, do this, do this, because it could be seen as you're all out there. You're all out there, you're all out there, you're all out there and them kind of thing. And then the young people don't know where to access or find the old people or even know some of our stories or every generation or youth we have feel they're creating it from scratch, and that's the truth.
Corie:In talking to artists here or producers, you hear it all the time where I didn't really have a mentor to figure this out myself, one of the things I noticed and as we have more business people here, is very, very much the same. It feels as though you cannot access people. But one of the things I like is that, um, and I'm hoping is that this little, these episodes could be a bridge so that, coming off when you, when you realize that adam is just a person, he's just, he's just, he's just a person and he might be approachable, he might be somebody you could ask. I think he is, you know, you know where to find him. Now we say he always in adams, them kind of thing. It's a good place to start to go and ask them. It's the same thing with the established and the foundation artists if you want to call them just those old artists, right, but all of them talking about the fact that, yeah, it would help anybody. I talked to this one, remember, sister Ron Singh? I talked to Nelly Mada and Nelly Mada had, and then they work and they do some things together. You know, I feel like there's a powerful part of what we have that we're not really tapping into.
Corie:And in one of my more recent interviews with Akalip Sonia and you're going to see that in a few weeks, well, but she was talking about the power of Kaiso Blues Again, business entrepreneurship them fellas open up my Kaiso Blues and they make it into a space where you're seeing rock bands, comedians, all different types of creatives and people who would be business people to me. You know, you have us art and you have us. It's like this for me. This I guess the podcast is more of a creative pursuit than anything else I ever pursue, but the idea is to turn it into a business. I want this to build my legacy to the point where Zachary could simply say yeah, where's he seen me? I'm doing so good, I like me in New York.
Corie:Every day, I listen to all the messages. I want that to be his reality and I hope that when that becomes his reality, he takes the time and gives back and shares his wealth, his treasury, his time and his talent, as they would say. You share some of that with the people who are coming because there's no individual progress. I learned that myself. You know individual progress is a facade. It's not a real thing. Because what does it take to gain the world and lose your soul? You know what I mean. What does it take? A man should gain the whole world and lose my grandma. They'll be proud of me. I could quote a little one verse, but as we don't talk more soul, we had to get back to funny.
Speaker 3:Yes, them politicians in this country Only good for cocktail party In Stella Dacey Bowdy country. They dig in soul with some young lady, always with a glass drinking whiskey, mouthful Like they always hungry, whining and dancing and, believe me, dig in soul more than anybody. Who they put in charge of agriculture? Ah so right. Who in charge of agriculture? Ah, so mad. Who in charge of agriculture?
Speaker 4:Ah so mad, who suppose to save?
Speaker 3:on them highways? Ah so mad. Who suppose to fix up them byways? Ah so mad. You invite them to come and discuss your problem, rain or shine. You can't see them, always making some stupid excuse, leave you there digging the booze. But if they get invited to a party the right day, shaking their body, when you check the whole center, them are soul men. Who's supposed to clean up this city? In the body. When you check the whole set of, them are soul men. Who's supposed to clean up this city? Are soul men? Who in charge of electricity? Are soul men? Who's supposed to see what we transport? Are soul men? Who's supposed to take what we transport? Ah, so man. Who's supposed to take care of his sport?
Corie:Ah, so man, and you know the man's so funny. He make a kind of soul beat up over the song too. You know you let it be known what he said. We're here to celebrate the life of the great funny. I mean it, I like it, I like it, I enjoyed it. I just want the light be known to that.
Corie:I'm enjoying all this thoroughly. I'm enjoying the feedback. I'm enjoying all of it. Again, I'm not too much into the negative versus positive.
Corie:I can't get to all the social media, the comments and them kind of thing. Well, while you're watching Adam, I'm focusing on who I had today, I kind of thing. Well, while you're watching Adam, I'm focusing on who I had to do today. I need to do research and make sure that I had things covered for today so that you are something every Monday morning. So I can't get to all of them, but I want to be known again that, as we continue to turn corners here, this all is happening plenty faster than I thought.
Corie:But I appreciate people who, for the long haul, I saw the comments where people, people gave some very encouraging words about starting the Patreon and pledging to that and subscribing to the merch. Those things go a long way. You know what I mean. To get anything done, bills have to be paid and I have to be conscious of that. You know what I mean.
Corie:I have a young wife, my young wife, she's watching and she's starting to ask questions and I appreciate the people who pop in in, who pop in, who do not there for the long haul, but they like a certain person and they come to take in a certain person. I also appreciate the people who just pop in to see well, all right, well, who is this and what was done wrong and all what could have been right and all what could have been better and all you know. I appreciate them people too, because trinidad and cannaval is our land. Back in our land is Carnival. If you don't have that, you're not doing anything right, right and funny.
Corie:I have a thing to talk about that, because it ain't no shortage of songs about a little peep in this country. You know what I mean In this country and region. You know what I mean, james. You can't see everybody peeping. It's about a hundred thousand songs abouto. But this is what makes funny one of the greats the way he will put together songs, because he have a song about Mako too in your head.
Speaker 2:For those of you who don't know what a Mako is, a Mako is someone who is very knowledgeable in other people's business, like a peeping Tom. You'll find one or more in every neighborhood.
Speaker 3:Yes, I'm a cautious neighbor man. They call him Bam. He's the biggest Marco in the whole island man. He always peeping and he always seeing Everybody business he does bring in public. If you take a girl to cinema, fancy. If you buy popcorn and give her Bouncy. If you go and sit in a corner Bouncy. If you put your arms around her Bouncy. And if you hug, she Bouncy. And if you squeeze, she, bouncy. If you pinch, she Bouncy. And if you're squishy, bamsi. If you're pinchy, bamsi. And if you're kissy, bamsi.
Corie:I'll tell you Bajibijibijibijibijibijibijibijibijibijibijibijibijibijibijibijibijibijibijibijibijibijibijibijibijibijibijibijibijibijibijibijibijibijibijib. Funny, the man say bam, see you, that is. That is how to put together some. A quick one, right? A quick one I want to touch on because I feel a little left out, right? This is, this is just my gripe and gross, right, just my gripe, and growly. Forgive me for a minute. I had to read this right. And all this positivity about b-mobile and so on, getting involved in smes, those are things we will continue to look for. And you know the person who they're talking about. They're're Daryl Duke, as Communications and B-Mobile Daryl Duke is also part of the ownership of Decky's. I hope to get, if not all of them I would love for all of them to come but at least one person from Decky's to come and just talk a little bit about the story behind Decky's. You know Decky's have a very interesting story, including a name that I think more and more people should hear. You know.
Corie:But in talking about business, I want to read something from the Express here. These are not my words, these are the words of the great Marc Poissant from the Trinidad and Tobago Express. What is it called? Trinidad Express? Trillion Systems Limited director James Caron Rose has reacted with expletives to news of a probe into his company by the Trinidad and Tobago Securities Exchange Commission. Rose took to the company's Instagram page the day the story of the probe was published by the express and posted a defiant message. Rose, who has failed to appear to answer any phone calls or text messages from the express, as well as investors, posted on his instagram. Nothing does be very good when the government's involved, but you all so-and-sos keep trying to get the government involved in our things. But no problems officially, from the media to the lowest imps involved. How long? So on, so on, so on, so on, so on, so on, so on.
Corie:Here was my gripe with this right. It happened to me with dss. It happened to me with what he called next name organo goal. It happened with trillions. What I want to know, understand right, is how it is. Nobody don't call me when they have their get rich quick scheme. I, I, I just, I just understand it. I just understand it. I'd want to get rich fast too.
Corie:And I hear, when I hear the, the people talking about all the struggles as our artists, our broadcasters, coming here to talk about thing, men own businesses over the years, men is telling about all the obstacles, all the problems, all the what I want them set of problems for in life. I want to get in on something like trillions of them early. Invest enough so I can take a break and cut out All the people who went into the SS early and get out and say, how, nobody don't call me, I find out about this trillions. It's one of the greatest to ever do the investigative journalism thing and this story, a story covered. I'm surprised they have so much people who invested in this thing. I wonder if some people of course I'm talking tongue-in-cheek, right, if you didn't get it, I'm joking Ha ha, ha, ha ha. But I'm not putting my money in none of them kind of thing. My money is for bank and you see the people they call the TTSEC I. I go put more money there and earn somewhere around 5-6% a year and eat little and live long.
Corie:I always remember when I was in Jamaica there was a fellow who wanted to invest in a taxi driver. He wanted to invest in this thing so bad. He wanted to borrow money to put in something called Cash Plus. Boy, cash Plus was the same thing. People like these things where you invest in something and you do nothing and you get multiples. If it's too good to be true, it probably ain't true and it's a good thing to stay away from all them sort of things. I like coffee a lot but you can get it in any Massey, any store. You go in any corner shop, have Massey selling coffee and things. But people like to put themselves into these things and invest in them and then they're so shocked at when it busts. And you know, even in that he blaming the government, some of the people who. I saw it with dss, where people when it collapsed, people say the government wicked because they seized the man money and they got the the no, no, knock on anybody.
Corie:I ain't saying nothing bad about nobody. We just have to say when, um, when, when, when you, when you, the libel and the thing right. There's more eyes on me now. I'm more concerned about libelous statements and defamatory statements. You know, remember when you used to play pitch, you could. You could say fair, no lawsuit. I just find no lawsuit right. Fair, no litigation, fair, no pre-action protocol letter.
Corie:But the people who are running these things, they're doing very good, the fellas and them going out there and living good, going on cruises, going on trips all over the world. We see them doing things, they're wearing the best, and we still home saying the government do this and the government take the money and them can't take. You see why I don't get involved in them thinking my money is not for that but I I okay with my money coming in chirrup, chirrup. And you know they say like come chirrup, chirrup. Because you know they used to say say a thing, want all, lose all. Where's all the versions of them saying we used to have a long time With the dog and the bone and the tax and the tax.
Corie:Like people, you save up $9,000, right, $9,000,. I find hard to save up, to have $9,000 and it banked it. You should be proud of that $9,000. How I go put my $9,000 into something that's supposed to give me 81,000? You know how hard it was, with my little hard head, for somebody to explain to me how a susu does work, because when I hear 9,000 and I hear 81,000, I hear, all right, well, it's not nine people in the susu. Then I started here it's only a four and I was like, well, nine by four is not 81 by my. I feel matt's a lot, you know. But I know that they're right. It's a song and right song is smaller, so I can't add up them. I cannot tell you up to today what exactly is trillions investment about? I don't know what it is. It's all more bitcoin and thing.
Corie:And he just like everybody else and all the other schemes that came before, he's like hold the line, don't let go the line. You know, I mean, if all of we stand up, we could think. But again, I feel like a lot of that is born out of the same issues that people have with the idea of the 1%, and I create this place for the 1% to come and talk and say I feel like a lot of them systems and the reason people fooled by that is because they think that they think that anybody who do well do wrong and they do harm to do well Me. There are no time for that. I can't think in them kind of metrics, I can't add them kind of thing.
Corie:I see Jay-Z in an interview once talking about the Illuminati thing, right, and he said he believed that when people see enormous success, they put limitations on themselves to get that success. They want to put them limitations on you and because you don't have them limitations, they automatically say you're in, they automatically say you're in the lodge in the illuminati, you're doing black magic, white magic, any kind of thing, but risking a dollar, making a dollar 25, doing it over and over, learning from your mistakes, you place, bundong your gap again. You accept and implement all the privilege you have in life, which I try to do, all the things that working for me, I use them to my advantage. I want to do that. I'm not making it to anybody else's disadvantage. My privilege is not making anybody else underprivileged. I'm talking about me. So I want to use all the tools that I have that I develop, including my family, the backing, the support I have, my friends, you know, know things like that.
Corie:And if I could, if I could find ways to leverage those things to get better, then I go listen to the people and them who don't figure out how to do that. Already, if I was to blame the illuminati, it mean that I think I had a joiner illuminati to do, like them, and I don't think that. So I rather listen to here, okay, where the message is, where the thing is, how I could improve, and focus on me. Focus on me. I'm not saying anything that anybody said. Me don't know nothing and me are not caught close to say, when nobody get wealth and nobody, I don't know nothing about them kind of things, I, I, I, I I'm talking to somebody who Figures some things out, and I talk about people who figure some things out Every week, every Monday, tune in week, and maybe, if that person is not enormously wealthy or that person is not seen as this beacon of wealth and they talk, maybe you might listen and say, well, hey, I could do that and that's my purpose and my goal and one of my other goals is to celebrate the great caissonians that pass through here.
Corie:And, of course, you know, funny is one. There's no message in this song. Right, the words of this song is funny. It's not mine.
Speaker 3:Yes, it's me next door neighbor. They always want pen and paper. They borrow me screwdriver. I just let them money and they always eating by me. Them people eat the glockens and they never give me nothing. Give me a break. I want a break. Give me a break, I want a break. You ain't living by me, you ain't my family. Give me a break. Give me a break, I want a break. Yes, Give me a break. Give me a break, I want a break. Yes, Hell yeah.
Corie:Break. Give me a break. I want a break. The break Oleg could give me is when Oleg's sitting like trillions on DSS, pop up. Let me get in line one number and all they call me early. Let me see if I can get in and get out. I hear the only way to do it is to get in and get out early. You know what I mean, boy, listen, maybe I should probably take back everything I just said and just thank God that the people and the circles I run and the people who I talk to every day, they're so disinterested in things like that that it ain't reaching my wheel. Well, by the time I hear about it, it done bust on it out in the public. But I've a few more funny to leave you with, you know, before I get out of here.
Speaker 3:All you know this one yes, thank you without care. They flock in here, they flock in there, they flock in everywhere.
Speaker 3:I tell you Carnival 75, hacking like sand. Just to get to the corner I squeezed human and woman In. All the heat and excitement I went for movie by grace. Well, that was confusion. They flock up the human place. They flock up the airport. They flock in in the street. They flock up the dance hall. They flock in in the streets. They flock up the dance halls. People flock in in the heat. They flock in the calypso tents man. They flock in without care. They flock in here. They flock in there. They flock in everywhere.
Corie:Let me tell you something again Clean right, the PG-13 version. I have a film to drop for you and I'll lead it up to my favorite one, but you know this kind of funny.
Speaker 3:Yes, you eat and you drink and all life is sweet, but when last did you check up on your teeth? You eat up, you drink up, you say life's sweet, but why don't you make a check on your teeth? Your teeth is a thing must clean every day. If you don't, your teeth will struggle, decay. Just look at my teeth so clean and white too. So why don't you try to do as I do? I get up in the morning, I brush. After I have my lunch, I brush. If I eat between meals, I brush. After I'm had my lunch, a brush. If I eat between meals, a brush. After I'm at in-lap time, a brush. If I happen to just drink some whiskey or gin Before I go to sleep, I go brush again.
Speaker 4:Yes.
Corie:Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. I agree with the sentiments of that song, right, but I agree with it somewhere around 30, 40 years ago Because you see that idea. You wake up in the morning, you brush your eyes that's a lot from the great funny Before I get to my last one and you see a tune like that is exactly what I'm saying. It's important for you if you never hear about funny or if you don't know about him again. Rest in peace to him. Condolences to his family. I hope his family could get ears on this. You know and hear that we love Funny, we love him bad from a long long time, right.
Corie:But when you think of again how important the role of the comedic Calypsonian was in the tent and the fact that we come into here serious matters, discuss, in the midst of all those discussions, you'll hear that there's a, there's a genre and a type of calypsonian that gonna come out there and say or do something that go and break all the tension. What I want people to appreciate is that it doesn't just break the tension in the tent, it could break the tension in the nation as a whole. We might remember how important the calypso tent was as a, as a distillery of what's happening in the country and a storytelling avenue and and a place for venting, a place for letting the, the powers that be, understand how the people feel, right, and when you have people in the midst of them there, it might contribute that, like that sweet, sweet trinidad I'll go end with that again right, because how important that song is, not just it's a funny catalog and legacy, but to all of us. But that would have contributed a lot to how we function as a society, where we could take the most serious issue and make joke serious thing happening in this country and all are we laughing and, just like I say in the beginning of the episode, we could take that to be our fault, we could take that to be our flaw, you know, I mean like we ain't makeup right, we don't take nothing serious, or we could make that into something that is is unique to us and it could be something that changes the way the world views this country. In other words, no matter how bad the world get and no matter and the world you could see it will get bad all kind of thing happening all over the world, but we could be seen as the kind of people who this is the place to come to, you know, to escape some of it, to laugh about it, to feel good about the world.
Corie:And so we had to stop this notion that trinidad is not a real place. This is the realest place in the world, is the realest place we could ever be in, because we we could take whatever serious issue is ours heavy. We just take wake women dead and people mourning. We just take that and play card. You know, when Fanny talk about BAMC, we just go funeral to Mako and see who thing and who Take your thing. You know people bawling and collapsing in funeral and we going back home to say, boy, I see Miss Jean falling and thing. We have a uniqueness about us that we want to turn into a negative thing, which I seem to see. I view it as largely positive. Before I get back into my last few funny, I'd pay respects to the funniest man of them all and one of them who would be surely an inspiration for funny Uh-huh.
Speaker 4:I thought I was cool, but it's now I realize that I'm still a fool. You mustn't doubt me. I thought I was cool, but it's now I realize that I'm still a fool. Believe. I never realized this thing until all fools stay on the force. I believe I would have killed my wife and the brood.
Corie:If I told you I wasn't telling the spoiler the truth. I never see more belief in my life. A bitter man inside my own house kissing my wife on the road. If I talk to you I'm telling spoiler the truth. I never see more Believe in my life.
Speaker 2:A bitter man inside my own house kissing my wife.
Corie:I ask what is that? She turn wrong and say only fooling you. Spoiler is all fools, say. You hear the guy serious thing, man, take it out and make joke. Uh-huh, I ball up a hole because I know that my wife never get done, so I never see more Believe in me life.
Speaker 4:I meet a man inside me on me back. Tell me not to blame. She blame the almanac.
Corie:I never see more. Believe in me. Life Me come on inside me own house kissing me wife.
Corie:I ask what is that? She turn wrong and say I only fool in you Spoilers all fools day. Well, you know them kind of calypsos. You know them kind of calypso I leave in you with. Well, I go in the last Second to last. I'm watching something again which is, and again, people like Lord Crystal, plenty of them, plenty of them follow that road of being very, very funny, calypso Cypher being one of them. But one of my favourite funny, and I save it for Dong In Yen because he did have some bombs which I played in the episode with his big, big songs. That sure would be a big part of his legacy. But I have one in particular that is my favorite and I will play that and close with Sweet, sweet Trinidad, which again is a classic.
Speaker 3:Right Listen to the lyrics, right ding dong ding dong ding dong ding dong ding dong ding dong ding dong ding dong. Yes, yes, yes, party in full swing, sweet music jamming, jane dancing with Dan she might want. What a break she had. He stopped her head, she kicked and coughed, but in the east side she had enough, jammed the girl back to her wall. But it's he who stabbed the ball. You're pulling me, ding dong. You're squeezing me, ding dong. You're hooking me, ding dong. You're holding me, ding dong. You're rolling me, ding dong. You're stretching me, ding dong. You go boss me ding dong. Yeah, tell you. When he tried to bite, she only squeezed more tight. She say all you men to bowl. Then she start to squeeze and roll. You're playing that how you like to beat, making me shame all in this street. Then she bring him to his knees. He start to beg she darling, please Let go. Wedding gown, you're bowling, wedding gown, you're squeezing wedding gown. Thank you, ding dong. Yeah, ding dong ding dong. Ding dong ding dong.
Corie:Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong. So we're taking this opportunity to say thanks, we're taking this opportunity to honor and pay respects to the great one, the great Lord. Funny, you know what I mean One of the greatest to ever do it. And I'll leave it here on this one. Not just one of the greatest songs that Funny ever sang, but one of the greatest kaiso ever written here. You want to know about Trinidad and Tobago. You want to tell our tourists what we're about here.
Speaker 3:Play this for them. Yes, I say, a man could sleep until ten o'clock. Get up and stay here late for a wee hurry bro. He gettin', transferred in front the door and this poker boat may go in hold and until they still draw a big party, if they like they could call a big strike. So I tell them, sweet sweet Trinidad, cause I love this country bad, I don't want to leave at all. Ever since I small, look up all in sweet sweet Trinidad, brother, brother, feeling glad when the dead will bury me in the center of the city.
Corie:So, like I said, back to recording solo episodes, right? Yes, talk to you all soon. Bye.