The REALationship Method
The REALationship Method is a comedic podcast about dating, relationships, and advice, blending tips with plenty of tangents. With stories and experiences shared by the cast and guests, it offers cautionary tales to help you avoid making the same mistakes. So sit back, relax, and maybe learn a thing or ten!
The REALationship Method
Beyond the Algorithm, Discovering Unknown Siblings, and Breaking Niche's
Mekel Kasanova isn't just a voice actor, streamer, podcaster, and content creator – he's a testament to forging your own path when you don't fit the mold. Growing up as the shortest among thirteen siblings in a family of musical prodigies, Mekel had to find his own lane, leading him on an unexpected journey from Western Samoa to voicing villains in major DC and Marvel productions.
The conversation takes a fascinating turn when Mekel shares how he discovered unknown siblings in the most unexpected ways – like learning his college best friend was actually his half-sister after a year of friendship when his father showed up at her birthday. These candid family stories reveal the complex tapestry that shapes Mekel's authentic approach to content creation.
When discussing the local creator scene in Hawaii, Mekel doesn't hold back about the challenges of navigating community politics. After witnessing behind-the-scenes negativity and superficial metrics-obsession, he decided to leave a prominent creator collective, only to later receive notice he'd been "kicked out" – a paradox that highlights the sometimes toxic nature of creative communities.
For anyone struggling with content creation advice, Mekel offers a refreshing perspective by challenging the concept of "niching down." Drawing from his success across multiple platforms, he explains why authentic versatility trumps forced specialization. His practical insights about utilizing AI tools like Opus Clip to transform podcasts into platform-specific content and understanding YouTube's algorithm provide valuable strategies without the typical guru-speak.
Whether reminiscing about classic fighting games, revealing the physical toll of voice acting, or explaining how he landed roles in major franchises, Mekel's journey demonstrates that the most compelling creators aren't those following a formula – they're the ones brave enough to embrace their unique perspective while strategically sharing it with the world. Follow Mekel Casanova across all social platforms to continue the conversation and discover his four distinct podcast shows.
• Originally from Western Samoa, Mekel grew up as the shortest in a musically gifted family where he had to find his own path
• Discovered unknown siblings in surprising circumstances, including meeting his sister Chanel after being best friends in college for a year
• Transitioned to voice acting through connections with established actors, landing roles in DC's Justice League Dark and upcoming Marvel projects
• Found his niche voicing villains, explaining the physical toll voice acting can take without proper preparation
• Left a local creator collective after experiencing toxicity and inauthentic behavior, later receiving notice he was "kicked out" after already leaving
• Challenges the concept of "niching down," advocating for creative versatility instead of limiting oneself to one content type
• Reveals tools like Opus Clip that use AI to transform podcast episodes into dozens of platform-specific clips
• Explains YouTube's current algorithm strategy, noting how posting shorts consistently can dramatically increase visibility
• Discusses his passion for classic fighting games like Virtual Fighter, Street Fighter, and Fatal Fury
Follow Mekel Kasanova across all social platforms to keep up with his four podcasts including Casting Over Podcasts and Decked Up.
Am I good? Yeah, I'm good. Yeah, cool, yeah, yeah you. Alright, we on this bitch 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Welcome back to another episode of the Relationship Method Podcast. I'm Chris. Today I got a very special guest. I got voice actor, streamer, podcaster, porn star, gigolo, cook daddy.
Speaker 2:I mean, I mean.
Speaker 1:I got my boy Mikael on this. Hoe, yay, hey, what's up? Dog man, thank you for coming on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man, it's an honor to be on the show. We were supposed to do this before, but my schedule got all crazy, so I apologize for that. But, man, I'm happy to be here.
Speaker 1:Hey, I do appreciate you and let me ask you, dog, how did I get the yes from you to come on Like the very first time? How did yeah?
Speaker 2:how did I get that? Yes, okay, so I got a really shitty memory. Can I swear on this?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, dude, I got the E on the very bottom. I got all that shit. Oh my goodness, you know what I'm saying. Do it.
Speaker 2:Okay. So I got really shitty memories. So as far as I remember, I I believe you hit me up in the dms. You're like, hey, you know, would you be down to come on the show? I was like, fuck yeah, like I'm always down. Here's the thing about me. A lot of people may not know this like, but I love collaborating with my fellow locals out here in Hawaii. I love doing that. If I can put anyone on or if I can work with anyone out here, I'm all about that. So when you were like, hey, you want to come on the show, I'm like say, yes, let's do it. So that's how that went. At least I think that's how it went. Again, I have very shitty memories.
Speaker 1:That's a story and I'm'm gonna hold him to that story hey, a lot of a lot of rugby.
Speaker 2:You got hidden head a lot, so hey oh, oh shit, you play rugby.
Speaker 1:For how long you dude? Uh, I don't know if, uh, you could tell by his body type this motherfucker is like he. Uh, he's one of them motherfuckers. He kind of, he kind of swole, no, I mean, yeah, you know yeah let me make these motherfuckers pop real quick. Nah, but yo rugby, like how did one, how did you get into it? And then two, um like why are you? Uh, yeah, what's making you continue doing it?
Speaker 2:Well, I'm not doing it now. Okay, my bad, my bad, I'm not doing it now.
Speaker 2:But I got into it when I was like. I want to say I was probably like five or six this is back in Western Samoa, so I'm originally from Western Samoa, from Musula, it's my village, and yeah, just, my whole family was into it. And so they were like, hey, you know, you don't want to be a pussy, get into this. And I was like, okay, you know how some ones are, like we talk shit all the time. So, you know, I got into it and I'm the youngest. Okay, I always have to count. My dad got around, okay. Oh, yes, he did. My dad is just. Anyway, he was horny, he spread his lo-fi everywhere, his lo-fi was everywhere.
Speaker 2:So, anyway, Literally that I know of, I'm the youngest of 13. Holy crap. Yeah, okay, my oldest sibling is like 21, 22 years older than me.
Speaker 1:Okay, I can see that. So Okay, my oldest sibling is like 21, 22 years older than me. Okay, I can see that. So Okay, and I'm the shortest, holy crap. Yeah, you're pretty tall, wait you're shortest.
Speaker 2:I'm the shortest in my family. Well, aside from my parents, like, yeah, all my siblings, my sisters, my brothers, everyone's taller than me. So I'm the rut of the family. I have two sisters that are like 168, 166.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, yeah, freaking Amazons Damn Hold up. So how tall is? Who's the tallest?
Speaker 2:My brother, Nick, is 72, 73.
Speaker 1:Oh God, did they do anything with you know, like your brother, your siblings, did they do anything with you? Know, your brother, your siblings, did they do anything with their, with their height, like? Besides, you know, getting the goddamn cereal, you know? Did they do like any? Um, I don't know, like you know. You know where I'm going. It would like sports or anything, or acting or modeling, because they're always wanting.
Speaker 2:So my brothers all did sports. They did basketball, football, but their first love and passion is music. So everyone's musically gifted in my family. Yeah, I'm the one that struggled to keep up, oh shit, yeah. So everyone else can sing, they can play any type of instrument. Just by hearing it, they can read music. They can play any type of instrument just by hearing it. They can read music, they can write it.
Speaker 2:My brother, tony the oldest, he's like, or was for like 20-something years, considered the best bass player in the South. Wow, so, if you guys know, like Josie Scott and Saliva and that band and all that. So we left Samoa when I was seven and we ended up going because my dad he's, uh, dominican black, he's from um, from memphis, cnc, so we we moved there, okay, and so like saliva and them were in that area of memphis that we were, and so my brother, my oldest brother, was friends with them, so like they would come over and play and jam and I mean cops come over and names like I plan the music too damn loud and cops be like, yeah, but that's just good though. So, um, yeah, he was considered the best, best bass player in Memphis. My brother, nick, was one of the best drummers. My brother Devin was one of the best guitarists, rhythm guitar.
Speaker 2:My sister Sheila, she was phenomenal. I mean I ain't talked to her ass in like 10 years, 15 years, I don't know. She went to Europe. I ain't heard from her since. Is her name Sheila Sheila?
Speaker 1:if you're hearing this shit, holler at your brother.
Speaker 2:I mean for real, though. My heard from her since Is her name Sheila, sheila, yeah, sheila, if you're hearing this shit, holler at your brother. I mean for real, though. My number ain't changed, girl. Aw, see, holler at him, please, anyway. So, yeah, all of them. And I'll also shout out to my sister, chanel, she was, she's great at singing too, like everyone's gifted. Then there's me and I'm just like, damn, I'm everybody's shadowed night, not only figuratively, literally, because I'm the, I'm the run, yeah. So so it's like I had to like try and figure out something. I'm not good at sports outside of like I mean rugby, yeah, I'm okay with it. Baseball shorts, I play shortstop, that's okay with it. Play golf, and when I went to because I went to Chaminade, sorry, I was on the golf team for like a little bit Because I wanted to play basketball. But I'm like looking at all the basketball players and I'm like I got short person eyes, so I felt just so short next to everyone there and so I just did golf, and even that I barely played.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:So yeah.
Speaker 1:Are your siblings still doing the whole music thing? Oh no, they're raising their families now. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Are they?
Speaker 1:all here, or are they all spread out? All spread?
Speaker 2:out, let's see all over the US and internationally.
Speaker 1:Oh snap, see man, I only S, and internationally. Oh snap, see man, I only have two sisters and a brother, 13? Yeah, in one household.
Speaker 2:No, no. So with my mom and dad there's five of us.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:And it's like every time I would go back to Memphis or like so this is a crazy story, I love to tell this. So, my best friend in college, it's my sister chanel, right, and I had no clue until I think it was either her, I think it's her 19th birthday because I'm like two years younger than her, so I think it was her 19th birthday. My dad showed up at her dorm Because I was over at her dorm. We were like making her cake and everything like that. And then, like my dad walks through the door and I'm like what the hell are you doing here? And he's like, oh, I forgot, you went to this college. My dad's an asshole. Hi, how you doing Anyway. So then my sister comes in she's dad what do you?
Speaker 2:what are you doing here? And I was like wait, dad, yeah, yeah, oh, yeah, yeah. So that was a whole thing. That was a whole fucking thing. Ah and um, like, at that point we were her and I were best friends for like a year and a half.
Speaker 1:Didn't even know that, because we never really talked about our families, yeah.
Speaker 2:We were kind of like the outcasts at Chumrod and so it was just funny that she was my sister. My half-sister Explains her attitude. You know, dominican, black and Puerto Rican, so yeah, she got all that spice. And then the second time that happened, I was working for Microsoft. So I was working, we I think we had opened the Microsoft stores out here, so I had left Washington. I went to Washington state for a little bit to work Microsoft over there because I was with my ex Her dad worked for Microsoft, got me in, came back here, we opened up I think it was 2013.
Speaker 2:So when we opened up the Microsoft Store out here and so the guy there, cameron, is my we became as my second best friend. So we were working together for years and then we ended up helping the. I want to say it's the best buys had like the. It had the, the Apple representative. To say it's the Best Buys had like the, they had the Apple representative and then they had the Microsoft representative. So we were the Microsoft representatives at the Best Buy. We moved from the store to the Best Buys to help train people and everything like that, you know, upsell surfaces and shit. And then one day, on his birthday, I think the 29th or 30th birthday the same shit happened. I'm at his place, that's. My dad didn't show up for none of my damn birthdays. Oh see, I feel some kind of way about that. Showed up for his and I'm like he's like, uh, and I'm like so that's my, that's my brother, right? He's like, yeah, okay dog that's.
Speaker 1:Oh, man, I could only imagine like your guys's faces and the conversation after your dad left, like what the hell? So did you feel like with these two? Did you feel like an instant connection when y'all started chopping it up for the first time? Yeah, yeah, oh okay. It wasn't any like so with you know, your sister. It wasn't like, oh, I want to make out with her type stuff. It was more of a man like we're cool, we're vibing. I don't see anything past that. Oh, oh hell yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, let's just say, uh, I was interested in her to a point, uh-huh, and then once that came out like she was never interested in me, uh-huh. But I was just like you know, I was interested in her, yeah. And then when I found out, I'm like, well, I missed that bullet, yeah, oh thank god, you know. Thank you, jesus jeez yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that was that was gnarly.
Speaker 1:That's crazy. We had a like several episodes back. We had, um, like we mean, while we was talking, and uh abu talking to like a relative that you didn't know. That was, uh, your relative, right, yeah?
Speaker 1:so the story. My story was um, it was my, it was my aunt's wedding reception and I was I'm gonna say I was still in middle school chopped it up with, um, these two females they were twins. Uh, after chopping it up, went back to my table. My older cousin was telling me hey, do you know these, those two are your cousins. I was like no fucking way. And she's like yeah, do you have your last name? I was like no, who they related to?
Speaker 1:they're related to them and I'm like holy crap, here I am trying to like get their digits and shit and I'm not even knowing they're my cousins. I'm like you know, and then my boy, he was, um, they were never related but you know like the families were so close that they considered themselves cousins yeah, so I can't. I don't know if that story is funny or not. They made out that's the only thing they did, but um yeah dude it's.
Speaker 1:It's funny how this world is so big to where, dude, what's your dad's name? Maybe you and I related william james, okay, no, but that'll be.
Speaker 2:That'll be cool, right oh my god, hey pause pause.
Speaker 1:I need to fucking reconnect to my brother. I know that's what I would have done. That's what I would have done, hey, so voice acting, we were chopping it up.
Speaker 2:How did you get into voice acting? So I got into voice acting for okay, so I got into it within the last, I want to say like year and a half. Yeah, maybe a year and a half to two years. Because, like, I've been interviewing so many voice actors for like the last decade to a point where a lot of them were like, hey, you did acting in high school and college. Like you do impersonations, you can do method acting. Why don't you get into voice acting or go into like acting and whatnot? And I'm like, well, I never considered it, you know, like I just never thought about it.
Speaker 2:So the one that really pushed me into doing voice acting was my friend, mark Whitten, who does Rengoku and Demon Slayer. Okay. So, and every whenever comes out here he saves with me and he's like, yeah, you know you need to go ahead and do it. And I was like, okay, so who do I? You know what I do, what workshops do I take and whatnot, cause, like I know how to act in front of a camera but I don't know how like convey all that within a mic. Yeah, so I started taking classes. And then my other friend, gerald Rivers, who does in Bison and Street Fighter Ooh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like he comes out here all the time. He's like all right, let me start giving you some lessons. So he started training me. And then John Eric Bentley, who does Barrett and Fonfay and C7 Remake and Rebirth he used to be on star trek was it voyager I forget which one it was, but he was on that and, uh, he started training me too.
Speaker 2:So I got to both of them training me. Then they were like pointing me towards all kinds of stuff, because a lot of people think when it comes to voice acting, they're thinking, you know, anime or video games, which I meant some stuff coming up I can't say what it is yet ndas, um, some stuff dropping this year end of this year is put that way. So, um, they were training me for anime and voice acting and, well, animating and gaming, but also telling me, like, okay, where the real money is is audiobooks, because voice actors don't typically get paid a lot. And right now they're going through this whole process with ai and you know companies just cloning voices because they're like I don't want to pay this voice.
Speaker 2:I can just clone it. So, um, which is I think we got the strike going on right now currently with that, but yeah, so they got me into that. So I started doing a couple small bit roles, like just doing like battle cries or like random NPC character, and then the first role I landed was for what's it called Justice League Dark.
Speaker 1:Oh shit.
Speaker 2:For DC, so I landed that role for this four-part audio drama. So I'm the main villain, the Floronic man. They wanted me to. They're like what's the most villainous voice that you can do? And I'm like, well, I can talk like this, Like I'm just some type of damn demon. And they're like, okay, can you do that and also make it sound like you're slowly going between this mild, meek-mannered scientist, but who's like transforming into this? Okay, and I was like okay, they're like, but we want you to fluctuate during your delivery.
Speaker 1:Like fluctuate, as in volume-wise.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so like I'll go from Tone-wise Well, I'm talking like this and you know I need to do this.
Speaker 1:Oh God, it's taking over me, you know like doing that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2:Okay, and the thing is I've got In a four-part series. Like I've got the most lines in parts one, three and four. I've got the most lines in parts one, three and four and. I have to stay in that tone of talking like that Fucked my voice Really. Yeah, because I forgot I needed to do vocal warm-ups and like don't drink anything cold chamomile hot tea prep yourself.
Speaker 1:Yeah, holy crap, I did not know that. Yeah, there's a whole routine.
Speaker 2:Really Holy crap. I did not know that there's a whole routine. Really Getting ready. So yeah, so that was the first thing and that was my first major role that I did last year. So I did that. I then landed some acting, like some on-camera stuff, from some of my actor friends, and so one of them I'm an extra in a DC movie. Let's just say that. Ooh, okay, so I had to fly to the UK for that, so I went to Birmingham.
Speaker 1:Ooh okay, now we got to search DC, dc, upcoming movies filmed in UK. We'll figure out which movie it is.
Speaker 2:Let's just say, I'll just say this who's the current Batman?
Speaker 1:Hold on hold on hold on the dude from Twilight.
Speaker 2:Oh, but I said nothing, did I? No, you didn't.
Speaker 1:Team Jacob all the way though.
Speaker 2:So yeah, I did that. So I got that. Immediately after that I had to fly to Australia. Okay, good night mate. For a Marvel project, oh nice, so can't tell you what that is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, but what's coming up? Hold on. Is it the four Fantastic Four? No, what is coming up? You know what? Don't tell me, I'll figure that bitch out, but fuck it, goddamn. Oh, I meant, oh, oh, I meant extra. Oh okay, I didn't. Oh okay, say that, yeah, so do they. Are they paying you to fly out or is it coming out of your dime?
Speaker 2:no, no no, they pay for it. Oh hey, that's what's up and extras.
Speaker 1:Is it um?
Speaker 2:is it a hard gig to get to be like an extra in a film um, typically, from what I understand, it is and these are the first two on-camera things- I've done for acting. Typically, a lot of people go through an agent or have this whole process or they're signed to some agency Like out here there's a Kathy Mueller talent agency which a lot of people are signed to Me personally. I just got in on these things just because of who I know oh, I skipped the line I know I pissed people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I pissed people off with that, I'm sorry. Well, I'm not man who cares but that's you know. Typically you have to have, like, some type of like agency or an agent or someone that can you know, get you these gigs. But because I knew people, yeah, you know that opened those type of doors. Now, uh, I can't, I can. I can actually say this because the guy said in the podcast I did with him uh, so there's a game coming out called gear slayer, which is, um, fighting game. Uh, they're doing a.
Speaker 2:They're doing a fighting game, but they're doing like a trading card game first Okay, okay, okay, they're trying to compete with Magic and Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon and all that, and I'm going to be voicing a couple characters, but primarily I'm going to be voicing the main villain. So that's going to be my second lead type of role.
Speaker 1:Like apparently.
Speaker 2:I keep getting voiced as a villain. I keep even on-screen stuff from doing the villain.
Speaker 1:I'm like do I look?
Speaker 2:like a villain. Is it the dreads?
Speaker 1:It's got to be. You just got that villain demeanor bro.
Speaker 2:I guess, so you know.
Speaker 1:And then you stream as well. Yeah, Okay, I had a streamer on. She educated me on like some words and shit. I used to call it Twitching. But are you on Twitch? No, Okay, no, I used to be. Is there other streaming platforms besides Twitch, because that's the only one that I know?
Speaker 2:So there's Twitch Okay, youtube, okay, youtube. They're really pushing that right now. So if anybody wants to stream on YouTube. This is me letting y'all in. I was on an eight-week boot camp from YouTube Stream vertically.
Speaker 1:As in like your camera up, like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so you know how, like when you're on like TikTok you see the.
Speaker 2:TikTok reels and it's that vertical format. Or if you're on Instagram, you see the TikTok reels and it's that vertical format. Or if you're on Instagram, you see the reels. Youtube is trying. They're dumping billions into trying to compete with TikTok Uh-huh, so they're also probably one of the reasons it's trying to get banned is because they want to eliminate their competition. Yes, their competition, yes, but um, if you can set up a 9 by 16 aspect ratio and stream on that, even if it's half an hour, they will push the hell out of it no way yeah, they're.
Speaker 2:They're really pushing vertical streaming, so anyone who wants to stream yeah, you can do twitch.
Speaker 1:I don't know anything about it, so uh okay but so streaming is it? Um, we'll just talk a little bit briefly about that. Uh, is it? Is it hard to stream? Like, like how, how does one get into that shit?
Speaker 2:like what do you need a computer, a green screen, and you're, and you're going, or like uh, a lot of times you can just do it straight from your phone, straight from your phone, like you don't. You don't need anything really really okay the best platforms right now to stream? I mean, if you got the time to invest into it, obviously twitch, but I don't know the moves that twitch is making is probably going to be gone in the next seven to eight years. Oh really, yeah, there's a lot coming out about.
Speaker 2:Oh snap um but um, yeah, so twitch youtube, uh kick I've heard, I've heard of kick.
Speaker 1:Don't know what it is, but I've heard of it there's so much controversy with kick. Oh, that's another twitch, sir, I mean twitch stream service yeah, okay, and then uh, tiktok.
Speaker 2:So I stream full time on TikTok.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2:So I signed with Carter Pulse Talent Agency and they're like hey, you know, we want to help blow up your TikTok. At the time I had like probably 500 followers. I'm at 14.5 thousand now and so, like, all they did was like hey, you know, do this, do that, set your schedule. So, when it comes to streaming, the hard part about that is not immersing yourself too much into what you're doing. Like, if you're gaming, it's easy to just like lock in on playing the game, but then you forget oh well, shit, there's a mic, there's a camera, I'm supposed to entertain, you know, people aren't. A lot of people will assume like, oh, it's about me playing the game. Like, no, it's not about just playing the game, it's about the actual entertainment. What value? Because people aren't.
Speaker 2:The way that Carter Pulse explained it to me was streaming and content creation right now is completely replacing, like TV. So people would rather watch, you know, youtube video or stream than actually watch a TV show or reality TV. Yeah, it was like people think it's already fake nine times out of ten reality TV shows. Bullshit. Yeah, but that you know when they, they gave me that that idea. Well, not the idea they. They told me that's how it is, and then when you're streaming, to focus on a little bit on what you're doing, because you don't want to play like shit, unless you're going to play into like goofing off, like, oh man, I at this, that's how I am in Madden. I suck at Madden. I'll put it on easy. I'm not ashamed to say that. Okay, I will get that 70-point blowout playing on easy, but you got to be entertaining, you got to have some type of personality that makes you stand out, because a lot of people will see like their favorite content creator and try to emulate them to a point of not injecting no ditty.
Speaker 2:But, injecting their own Heavy pause on that. But they don't want to inject their own type of personality into the persona me. I will say whatever's on my mind, but I have to catch myself from cursing because TikTok is very strict about that. Are they really? They are.
Speaker 1:You know who's strict on cursing as well, who, some type of group that we're fitting to get into? You know what group it is? Dog, I do, yeah, okay. So tell me. You know what group it is? Dog, I do, yeah, okay. So tell me. You told me the story that you got booted off, kicked out, whatever. How did that shit happen? Because I think my ass is in that same boat and it's because let me tell you why Okay, it's because, my see, I don't even want, to like, consider myself as a content creator, because I don't think I am. I'm just doing, like, something fun and therapeutic for you know, for me, you're a tastemaker, I get. What is that? What is that?
Speaker 2:So that's you know. You just create quality like that you enjoy yeah.
Speaker 1:And you put it out there and people vibe with, yeah it's like, yeah, it's not for them, yeah, yeah. So I do that and because of like say the way I talk, because I cuss a lot my topics that I, you know, that I come out with, yeah, it's not to, you know, their liking, you know, and I'm always getting these yeah and it's uh if they watch or if they, if they listen.
Speaker 1:I'm always getting these like the rules, the warnings. I'm getting them emailed. I'm like, oh dude, I'm sorry, but it came to the point where I'm just like I don't give a fuck, I'm just going to just do it, I'm going to tag them. If they don't post, I honestly don't care no more. But yeah, man, what was your story on getting uh, yeeted? Yeah, how does that even fucking happen? Like I don't see that happening at all. Like how? So oh yeah, it's time for this one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah okay, so I basically went to. For those of y'all who don't know, there's a collective group out here in hawaii for for I know right, it's a collective for creators with no mission statement that really promotes or helps anyone.
Speaker 2:It's it's so. I've been in this content creating game, okay, for 14 years now. Oh, I've seen this. We come together, like for like, follow for follow, post for post, reshare for reshare. You're gaming the system, but it doesn't really help outside of the people who are at the top uh top in my people, so, anyways. So I was in this group, we both were well, you still are. I'm not.
Speaker 2:Yeah anyway, so there is an event, connie, oh hang, there's a lot of shit talking going on for a lot of group towards specific groups and people in this collective. I didn't vibe with that because my thing is, if we're coming together to promote, collaborate, why are we talking shit about each other? Yeah, facts, like I don't get that and maybe that's just because I've worked with groups outside of here. I've worked with brands and business. Like, if we're coming together, that's what we're doing, this shit talking. Like, oh, I'm smiling in front of your face and then, as soon as you turn your back, I'm gonna talk shit about you.
Speaker 2:I saw so much of that. Uh-huh, it was this one young kid, um, you know, and he was a fan of a specific other creator in his group and uh, who does comedy, and I guess they rap too. So the kid wanted to rap to impress this guy. The guy talked shit about him and walked away while the young guy was rapping. He's like, oh man, you're my hero and all this. I'm listening to that. And then I'm also seeing the guy walk away, stand to the side. I walked over to him and he's talking all that shit about him. I'm just like that's fucked up.
Speaker 1:That's a kid. Yeah that's a kid just rapping at you for a little bit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and he's a fan of yours. How many of us going into this content creating thing are actually expecting to have fans? Yeah, so appreciate that. And so there's that. Then some of the females that were there talking a lot of about some of the other females and some other groups in there, and then, way bro, and then it came about like oh, how many instagram followers do you have? Who cares? I'm just like, and mostly all motherfuckers pay for this yeah, yeah, you know like like I.
Speaker 2:My thing is like how you got thousands of followers and you barely got any engagement right.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, that is so true yeah, just saying so anyways.
Speaker 2:So after that whole event and all the shit talking that was going on, I ultimately I reached out to, you know, some of the folks that were running the group and I told them, like this ain't for me, I'm not about this. This is like I already was starting to feel some kind of way about the you know how things were being done, some of the things that were said behind folks' back, but I'm like, look, I built my shit on my own. I don't need to be part of a group, I'm good with it, I'm done. And I had a couple one-on-one talks with some of the folks running the group, yeah, and they were like, okay, we understand, cool, don't worry about it, we hate that you had this experience. I was like, okay, well, I appreciate the opportunity, but you know, it's not for me, uh-huh. So that was I want to say it was either.
Speaker 1:I think it was april when that last year of last year oh, I mean, that was a real mature way of doing it it was like yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So then there's a then. Oh. So then, wow, juicy, on my birthday in october of last year. Then I get this email hate, hate to say this, but it was a tough decision for us to make to let you go from the group. But you can reapply if you want to and I'm like I got let go, I'm kicked out of the group. How the fuck I get kicked out if I walked out? But you know that's what I got.
Speaker 2:And a lot of folks in the group, could you know? Let's just be honest. A lot of us we are cool, we do talk, we do engage with each other's content, but a lot of folks are in there just to self-promote and grow themselves.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And so, like I started having a mass exodus of people that were following me. They were in the group, they just unfollowed me and I'm like, well, I ain't mad at you, yeah. And then, you know, a couple other folks would hit me up on the side. They were still in the group. They're like, yeah, I heard you got kicked out of the group. I'm like, oh okay, I got kicked out. I got kicked out, I left, yep, but yeah, like there's some good people in that group. Yeah, you, james main, 808 viral. Uh, daniella, some, you know, roy, roy, yamada, there's some really good people in that group, but there's a lot of fuckheads in that group too. And the heat can come to me. I want the smoke All of it. Bro, look, we can move some furniture. You can be a barbecue up in here. I'll, chef Boyardee that bitch Salt and pepper.
Speaker 1:Hey season it, bitch. Salt and pepper ain't seasoned a bitch, do you still talk to these people?
Speaker 2:Occasionally. James, that's my Uso. I hit him up a lot. We talk back and forth all the time. Daniela and 808 Viro talk to her a lot too. Roy, here and there. Uh, mostly just about fitness and such and um, you know, whenever you're free and I'm free, we chop it up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you know, beyond that, I don't talk to anyone else in the group oh snap okay oh dude yeah, it's a because, uh, when I started, you know, when I got into to that specific group, one person, he tried coaching me on how to post things, which it helped, because I for sure as hell didn't know what to do. All I did was, just when I started, I was just posting Because I mean shit. I thought it was funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then it became like months on end. It became to the point where you can't do that. Too much explicit words, the topic is a little too thing. We got to be child-friendly and I'm like, dude, you're flashing, like and I told this story a couple times You're flashing, you know, you got people in boobs, you got booty out there. You got people in boobs, you got booty out there.
Speaker 2:You got liquor there.
Speaker 1:I'm like dog, but I can't say shit. Or fuck, you know what I'm saying. Or I can't talk about like well, I mean, yeah, that's kind of bad. I was going to say, oh, you know, like head lessons. No, okay, that's okay, I understand, I had a clip of that. That's really cool. But, um, but, yeah, it's. It was just there's so much, so many rules and I was like, fuck. I talked to him, I asked my wife about it. I'm like, should I even like stay in, because they are asking me like, hey, man, you want to come out to this? And the third I'm like, nah, man, I'm sorry, I'm recording. Or, you know, I'm with my kids because I'm not, I'm not trying to like lose time with them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so yeah I don't know if it's a, you know, I don't know if I'm gonna get pushed out or whatever. But going back on that, um, what was your niche or quiche, or whatever they say, you know, like, yeah, like you got to have a niche or something, right yeah? Yeah, okay, so can you break that down to people that don't know what a niche or a quiche or whatever that is. I still be getting confused as hell.
Speaker 2:So like the big thing about a niche. So basically a niche, Niche. Nah, I want some quiche. I don't even know what it is, but it sounds delicious uh, it's.
Speaker 1:So it's some white people food, I know, right, it's. It's like a. It's like a, an egg pie or whatever. So it's like it looks like a. Uh, it's. It's made out of eggs, you can put whatever in it, but it looks like a pie.
Speaker 1:It's like a square or whatever so it's uh, for I mean I say white people food, because that's the very. That's like. The first time I ever had it was with white people, yeah, and they knew what it was and I was like, oh snap, you had a little ketchup and tabasco.
Speaker 2:That's just buzzing boy okay, so, so, so, yeah. So like a niche is basically like you have like a specialty in like a particular field, like whatever it is you're doing, if you're doing beauty or makeup. You're doing flippy parkour shit. No offense to you who do that in a group.
Speaker 1:Parkour, parkour, parkour.
Speaker 2:Or if you're doing music or something, it's just like you're specializing in something that's a niche.
Speaker 2:So mine is podcasting, because that's the genesis of any content I've done was podcasting, which I got into it because of that brother that I was working with at Microsoft. It was his idea originally and so you know that's my niche originally and so you know that's that's my niche. But I also branch out of that because I feel like you're constantly told, as a content creator, you got a niche down, niche down, niche down. You got stay in your niche.
Speaker 2:The problem is we're human, we're multifaceted, we're not just a niche and a lot of the people that I know that have been super successful as content creators millions of followers or millions of subs or whatever they get sick of only being able to do that one thing. Now, if you just do the one thing, you will blow up very quickly or faster than most, as opposed to doing variety content. I do variety content, so I do podcasting, I do streaming, I do video and game and tech reviews. I do all this other stuff. So when I got in a group, their niche was, oh, you're a streamer, because they didn't know what the other stuff I did was. Even I explained. I explained it. They're like oh, so you just play video games.
Speaker 1:I was like bitch. No, I don't. I was like okay.
Speaker 2:Oh, this is a funny story, side note. So there's a girl specifically in this group, young girl, right? She's like so what is it exactly you do with your brand? And I'm like, what is it exactly you do with your brand? And I'm like, what do you mean? She's like, well, you just want another one of those streamers, right, one of those streamers trying to make. I'm like, oh, I'm just one of those fucking streamers. And she's like, well, that's what you, that's all you do. Right, like no bitch, I do all this other shit too, uh-huh. And she's like oh, well, I'm a business owner. Oh, really, what kind of business do you own? Do you have an LLC? Do you do your own taxes? Well, I'm part of this group where I give a referral link. I'm like oh, so you do multi-level marketing. You're not a business owner. Come talk to me in five years after you get your degree girl.
Speaker 1:He said you got no nipples, okay, okay but yeah thank god man.
Speaker 2:So see, you don't get me in trouble. I don't care, brain to smoke it's okay, it's okay but like that's the thing that just doesn't make sense to me, like they're they. You know they said the same thing to me. Like some of the content I put out some of the swearing yeah I couldn't do that. They're saying that to you, but I'm just like but you got some only fan type girls in this group. You know who?
Speaker 1:all they do is show tna, but it's got to be kid friendly, fuck outta here yeah, I liked how you described or like broke down the niche thing, because I started cause I just all I wanted to do was podcasting, right, and that's what I started out with. Before podcasting I was a blogger fucking just typed away right. So now it's like my creative juices are flowing. So now I'm writing like little comedy sketches or little you know, uh, little scenes for music videos that I want to like put out there, because I don't, like I've seen youtube and I've seen, like I watch my fair share of like comedy bits and stuff, but I want to like there's comedy stuff that I haven't seen yet, but I like I typed them all down right.
Speaker 1:So the, the way you described, the how you're, not this you're. You know you have different avenues. That's where, that's where I'm trying to, you know, go to in this whole niching down thing, like I didn't like it when they approached me with that like oh, you just straight up, or yeah, you're just straight up, just podcasting, and I was like, oh no, no way, dude, uh, I got more stuff like in my head. You know I'm saying like, don't funnel me in to that, because I mean I play basketball too. You want to get some, you know I'm saying like don't, don't funnel me in to that, because I mean I play basketball too.
Speaker 1:You want to get some you know like yeah, yeah, I do other things too, like I'm a parent too, like yeah, so I'm glad that you, you know, broke down the whole niche and like going on different avenue stuff.
Speaker 2:So that's what's up so, and that's one of the things, one of my good friends well, two of them NeuroKnowledge, which I don't know how many people know about him. He does a lot of quantum, mechanical and esoteric type of content on YouTube. And then he also our other friend, aj, who does a lot of personal coaching, consulting whatnot? Aj, who does a lot of personal coaching, consulting whatnot. He took NeuroKnowledge from like 5,000 subs on YouTube to over 240,000 in six months.
Speaker 1:Oh shit.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So AJ will tell you in a heartbeat F screw, not F screw. No, we love screwing. Okay, foreign stars over here.
Speaker 1:Anyways, ladies, you know what it is.
Speaker 2:Anyway, you know um, he'll say, screw niching down, because he's like you're more than just that and it's like people want the thing. People want some type of tangibility, some type of relatability yeah you know they want something real because we're in this time.
Speaker 2:You look at all this content that's out now. Everything looks like a goddamn commercial. Yeah, you go look at a scripted right, like everything is so scripted. You look at a review of a product and I'm like are you actually? You are you paid? Like I mean, I get asked this all the time. Are you getting paid for it? No, but yes, but no. But you know like people want something real, like you don't have to do overly edited or overly all the. You know like a lot of people like do all these jump cuts to different angles and all? Oh my bro, I can't stand that. I tried doing that one time.
Speaker 1:I'm like y'all, I'm tired bro, I I love you said love. You said that because I'm in that same predicament too, like the reason why I'm backed up on video, my podcast videos, is because I want those jump cuts right. But then my last. I want to say three or four videos that I put on YouTube. It was I did the cuts like in the beginning and at the end and in the middle I just left. It was I did the cuts like in the beginning and at the end and in the middle, I just left it raw. You know, and I'm so glad you fucking said it because it is fucking exhausting yeah.
Speaker 1:Like just click cut, pan it out, pan it thing, because, especially if you only have one camera, you gotta like I'm like oh my god, so oh, thank you for fucking saying that. Like oh my gosh, so oh, thank you for fucking saying that. Like the struggle, dude, dude.
Speaker 2:Do you use Opus Clip?
Speaker 1:I got suggested to use Opus Clip. I use DaVinci, resolve DaVinci, okay yeah.
Speaker 2:So a quick way and so, like AJ will tell you this, I will tell you this If you have like a video, like a pot, like you do a video version of this podcast, right, you take that link or you can just upload directly to opus clip. It'll make you anywhere from 20 to 40 clips. Really, it uses, utilizes ai. It can do the zoom in, zoom out pan. It can do the vertical layout regular. It can do the captioning. It cuts out dead space.
Speaker 1:Opus clips.
Speaker 2:And it will find what has the propensity or probability of going viral. It'll make sure you get all the tags. You can also tinker with it, man. You see all those clips I put out, man I don't manually do nothing Son of a bitch Bro.
Speaker 1:I got tired of that, look, look I'm manually fucking doing it and you're telling me you know how tiring that is. There's ai that could fucking. Yeah, oh my gosh. Hey, it's a different game, folks, and I'm fitting enough and you're gonna see me eat quiche.
Speaker 2:Boy, you better calm down like yo just throw it in there and just makes all your clips. You can also set it up to like. Post directly to what platforms? Tiktok, instagram, twitter, um, I appreciate whatever. Yeah, like and it's out there. They got free trials. I think I pay like 10 or 15 bucks a month for it. It's so worth it. Really. They're trying to because I did a they want to do. They want to work with podcasters, so and I'll refer you to them so you can get in touch with them. So basically, they want to make Opus Clip like your go-to for everything when it comes to podcasts. Like you can edit everything right there.
Speaker 1:Oh shit Really.
Speaker 2:And like they're integrating. Over the last year and a half I've been using it. Now they're making it to the point where you can just edit the whole damn thing there.
Speaker 1:Shit. Do they do virtual podcasts too, on Opus Clips? They're going to add that in, or they're gonna add that I'm gonna add that I'm using riverside right now same here. Okay, cool yeah I was like oh, thank you, riverside, for doing the hard work for me. I know right, I just gotta show up so yeah.
Speaker 2:So, like, what I've learned is, when you use opus clip, uh, if you're gonna post to youtube, try to post two or three clips.
Speaker 1:As a short, as a short Okay.
Speaker 2:As a short, doesn't matter what it is, but like every day two to three, watch how they go from maybe a couple dozen views, a couple hundred, a couple thousand, and then you just get into that algorithm no fucking way. So you could literally do one or two regular videos, but as long as you got those clips going that's it and that's like and you're saying two a day will put you in that algorithm.
Speaker 1:Yep bro, I talked to my friends about the algorithm, right? I'm still clueless on the whole algorithm thing. So is it like, the much like the more you post, the more the algorithm, whatever catches it. Is that how it? So am I explaining that right?
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no. That's how it is it used to be. You could literally just do one video every other month, like that was before COVID and TikTok.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But because YouTube is now fighting so hard to go up against TikTok, they don't really even care about long-form content so long as you put the shorts up. But what you can do if you're uploading the shorts, you can tie it back to the original video. Oh so, like people would be like oh, I like this clip, I want to see more and it'll like provide a way for them to go straight to it. I've had videos like just blow up off of that. Like I think I put out a short for this one controller, the Vitrix Pro BFG.
Speaker 1:I've seen that. Yeah, I watched that one.
Speaker 2:That one short on YouTube, million views, fuck. And it continues to get per week 30,000 to 40,000.
Speaker 1:God damn.
Speaker 2:So I'm like well, shit, okay, opus Clip is worth it.
Speaker 1:Let's keep this recipe going. Ah damn.
Speaker 2:But yeah, like with the algorithm, like I say, if you can do the short one regular video a week or podcast, it doesn't matter. I know that they're really pushing hard for podcasts on YouTube because YouTube is now trying to compete with Spotify.
Speaker 1:I've seen Spotify podcasts. Like I didn't know you could watch it on spotify. Now you feel me? Yeah, because I thought it was just just just sound, you know, not watching. So yeah, someone, someone told me, but I was like no fucking way, you're fucking lying to me. Uh, I think. I think this was like a week ago too. I I was like no, fuck it wait. So I went on Spotify. I'm like holy fucking shit, I'm watching someone's podcast. I didn't know you could tie your shit to that platform now and I'm like what the fuck am I? I just feel so uninformed, you know, lost in the sauce.
Speaker 2:There's not what I found, especially in doing podcasting, like there's not a lot of people that know or talk about a lot of this stuff out there. I came to know about the video stuff for Spotify through my friend, chris Van Vliet. So Chris was like hey, you know why don't you move from whatever hosting platform you're on now and go over to Spotify? And I was like what? But I just do audio here and I do video on YouTube. He's like yeah, but you can do video. I was like wait, what I can do video on Spotify? He's like, yeah. So that was like I want to say two or so years ago, two and a half, oh shit.
Speaker 2:And so then Chris reached out to spotify because they sponsor his show. And then they got in touch with me and they started sponsoring my shows. So they're like yeah, you know, just put the video version up. We also reroute it to apple podcast, google podcast, sit your tune in amazon, all that you know. Make everything easy. You can make your revenue off of it directly. Oh wow, you can get sponsorships and brand deals straight through it. Like I was like, oh, no one talks about this stuff so you just upload the video on spotify.
Speaker 1:That easy, yeah, or?
Speaker 2:spotify for creators. Uh, you can, wow, set that up. You can tie it to your current Spotify account. If you have another hosting platform I know Riverside you can host through them you can actually take your RSS feed that you currently have, move it over to Spotify for creators and then they'll just take care of everything from there.
Speaker 1:Fucking dropping jams dog Dropping jams, bro, before we dip out. Man, what's your go-to fighting game? Like give me, like, give me, give me three, because I'll give you my three. That I'm really good at and I'll still like, if it ever came out in the arcade I'd say I'd competed in again. Okay, because I used to compete. So, yeah, what's the fighting games at off top virtual? Fighter virtual fighter okay fire.
Speaker 2:That's, that's my jam. I'm glad this series is finally back. Can't wait for virtual fire 6 to drop um second, um, I can't say tech anymore, because tech has kind of lost.
Speaker 1:It's just it just lost its, it's just. It just lost its it ain't. I think it lost me when you could do like the side Remember the side move yeah, you side, yeah, yeah, that's when it lost me.
Speaker 2:And now, like the recent game they, when they had the story where you're fighting on an asteroid falling onto the earth, I'm like what the tech? And yeah, I can't see tech anymore. Uh, street fighter, I love street fighter. Uh, um, I actually compete for street fighter six. Um, last one, and I was shocked that this was coming back. Fatal fury, really fatal fury yeah, okay, okay, so I'm actually right now I'm working with snk for because it's coming out. I'm not sure when this podcast is going to be going out.
Speaker 1:Like in a month, and some change.
Speaker 2:A month. Okay, so that is when the game drops.
Speaker 2:Oh shit, so it's first Fatal Fury in 26 years. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm working with them promoting the game. I'm working with uh all the voice actors that are in the game. One of them actually is at uh, kwai khan. Yeah, david matranga. He's uh bringing ken from street fighter over to fatal fury. So now they're cross fatal fury and street fire, are crossing over shut the and it's canon to each other's plots. And I was like wait, what? Which is crazy, because I know a lot of the young kids don't know fatal fury. We're all here, yeah, we grew up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, street fighter, fatal fury, double dragon noble dragon freaking final fight battle toads battle toads. Yo like we grew up with that, yeah, and just seeing all that come back, bro. We got new Shinobi and Ninja Gaiden coming out this year.
Speaker 1:Ninja Gaiden yeah, the last time I played that was on the. Was it the first Xbox?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That's when I think that's when the last time I played it.
Speaker 2:They dropped. They remade the sequel to that one and they had a I think it was. Xbox had a developer conference. They're like, oh, yeah, here's Ninja Gaiden 2 Black. And guess what it's available right now? Oh, we got Ninja Gaiden 4 coming out later this year. Whoa, wait a minute, we got a new 2D Ninja Gaiden, like the old Nintendo one. Oh, we got that coming out in summer. And then Sega's like hey, we got a new Shinobi coming out. We got was it Streets of Rage? A new one coming out. I'm like, what timeline are we in right now? It's crazy. Yeah, like a lot of the old stuff.
Speaker 1:And I've heard this and don't quote me, folks but New Killer Instinct is in the works, is what I've heard. So my games are Marvel versus Capcom 2. I competed in that Killer Instinct. That was like my shit too. I was always with Orchid, because that Infinity combo, that was my cheat code. And then DBZ Vodokai, that's like because my kids play it, my little ones play it. So I'm like, okay, okay, I get to fuck with them now, you know, but it's, it's crazy because, uh, my, my kids, they like these games and they're like six and eight yeah they don't know what the hell they're doing.
Speaker 1:But it's just, it's fun watching them like figuring around out like the moves and I'm talking about like they're not using the joysticks yet, they're still on the the controller. But I do want to bring my joystick back and like see how they react to it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But yeah, those are my top three, like my all-time fighting games Nice.
Speaker 2:The other ones.
Speaker 1:It's just like damn, I fucking suck, I suck. Like Mortal Kombat, I fucking suck. I can't play Mortal Kombat Like the new ones yeah.
Speaker 2:Like they're. So I don't know. I feel like when we were growing up playing Mortal Kombat, it was simple.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, it was super simple. Block back, back Fucking.
Speaker 2:That was it. You know that was it. But like now it's like you got to do all these extra combos and setups and still using the same old inputs, and I'm and still using the same old inputs and I'm just like, yeah, this is a, this is a bit much, yeah, yeah so yeah, did you ever get?
Speaker 2:finger cramp, or when you were like playing, like, let's say, in the arcade, when you're like, oh yeah, bro, back in the day with freaking nvc and nvc2, oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah, ah yeah, they brought back. Uh, did you get the Marvel vs Capcom collection?
Speaker 1:No, I didn't no.
Speaker 2:So they brought, it's got. Was it X-Men, children of the Atom, up to Marvel vs Capcom 2 with complete online rollback netcode, everything. Really, they dropped that. I want to say June or July of last year. Physical copies dropped a couple weeks back. They brought back Capcom vs SNK 1 and 2. Uh-huh.
Speaker 1:I've seen that that's coming back out.
Speaker 2:So it's like the young kids are like, oh, this is cool, and then they play it. Oh, this is hard yeah.
Speaker 1:No fucking shit.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:You need a controller to fucking do it. Right or like a joystick my bad, my bad. A joystick, well shit, hell man, that was fun. Dog, do you have any? Uh like shout outs or anything, or where can these people find you at man?
Speaker 2:this is too short. We need another hour. I know right. I know like we'll really. This is like club shea Shay, I'm loving this.
Speaker 1:Get it off your chest player. Get it off your chest, I know right.
Speaker 2:So as far as shout-outs, I want to give you a shout-out. Thank you for the opportunity to come on the show. This has been absolutely phenomenal and I've got to get you on mine.
Speaker 1:Oh, definitely, I've got to get you on mine.
Speaker 2:Other than that, other shout-outs. I want to shout-out my brother Cameron. He runs CarQuicks Podcast. He does a lot of stuff working with the automotive industry. We're supposed to collaborate again and bring back our old podcast, but our schedules are just all over the place Life is lifing Life is yeah, I, I mean this adulting thing is. It's whack, dude. You kids need to stop trying to grow up so quickly. Oh, definitely enjoy being a kid definitely um other than that? Uh, that's, that's, I guess. Do we want to shout out the hawaii group?
Speaker 2:shout out to y'all hey, thank you for giving a motherfucker a chance yeah, yeah, but but you know, what I want to say about that is you in particular, do not need that group. Oh why? Why you say that? Why is that before we dip out?
Speaker 1:what, yeah, why you say that shit I?
Speaker 2:my opinion yeah, let's hear you make phenomenal content oh, thank you podcast is really good, and I'm not just saying that, but when you're making content as good as you are, you don't need a collective, you don't need okay like I said, if you start using opus clip and you know, just get your stuff out there, especially on YouTube and whatnot.
Speaker 2:There are not a lot. And also, because we're in Hawaii, there's not a lot of competition. Oh, I'm not throwing shade, I'm just saying there's not a lot of competition. A lot of brands and businesses and individuals want to do something in hawaii and it's a perfect backdrop, it's a perfect springboard. We'll probably talk after this. But, like a lot of money, you can make a lot of opportunities, a lot of doors. There's zero competition.
Speaker 1:Well, goddamn, I'm going to end this shit. I'll play man, I'll play. Hey, I do appreciate you coming on. Oh, where can these people find you at?
Speaker 2:dog, you guys can find me, I'm on every social media platform. Am I only fans too? No, not really, only toes baby, only toes, only toes.
Speaker 1:Hey, only toes, only toes. Let him write your name.
Speaker 2:I know right. You can find me on every platform, mikhail Casanova across the board, which is funny. A lot of people think, oh, you have Casanova because you're a playboy Like no. My dad's father's name was Mikhail Casanova.
Speaker 1:That's gnarly as hell, yeah, casanova, yeah yeah. Imagine your last name was Draco too. Miguel Casanova, that's gnarly as hell, yeah, casanova, yeah yeah, imagine your last name was Draco too. I know right.
Speaker 2:I know right. So, like when I came up with it, you know my real name is Mikel Faltea, so I decided to honor my grandfather because he was a great. I mean, my dad's a piece of shit, but my grandfather was a great man, yeah. So I wanted to honor him with that and I just kept my real first name and then, instead of a C, I made it a K, and that's how that came about. But you can find me across the board. I got four podcasts that I do. You can find them Casting Over Podcasts Decked Up a Gaming and Tech Podcast. There's Podcasts Across Worlds decked up a gaming and tech podcast. There's podcasts across the world that I do with my partner. And then there's also hold on, I'm sorry. Then there's one that I'm on and off with called the best damn podcast show period, where it's just like unfiltered, we talk about anything, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:I like that one so that's, that's, that's.
Speaker 2:Uh, that's where you can find me, YouTube, Tik TOK, all that stuff. Just just search me up, You'll find me man.
Speaker 1:Hell yeah, I do appreciate you coming on, dog, thank you, thank you. Shout out to chaos studios. Thank you for the lovely beats, my man, and with that I'm Chris, I'm the cow.
Speaker 2:Y'all completely screwed. Oh no, y'all, that's right, I got running back, running back.
Speaker 1:Take two, five, four, three, two, one, uh fuck, Uh, studios. Thank you for the lovely beat and, with that being said, I'm Chris, I'm Mikkel and we out this bitch. Peace, peace.
