Bronx Memories with Dj Kool Mike Ski

We talk about so much in this Episode I wasn't sure what to name it!  My guest is The Bronx Bomber,  DJ Kool Mike Ski,  We talk about the Cultural things that collectively makes us who we are today.   

Check out his reaction to what this podcast was about as he came on blindly, not even knowing what the name of show was!

We talk about what brought him to Florida, what he enjoys about it as we reminisce about all things New York. 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Besitos to you, I'm your host, Lizette Perez. From Apple to Oranges is a podcast about the New Yorkers that now live in Florida. Real stories, real people, real moments happening in both New York and in Florida. And who knows, maybe one day you'll be a guest on the show too. Because one thing I learned over the years is that when I meet another New Yorker, we can't seem to stop talking about it. And this podcast is gonna get down to all the reasons why. Today's episode is sponsored by Clean and Clear Headlight Restoration. Give them a follow at Clean and Clear Headlights to book today. Especially before taking that road trip for your Florida staycation or that road trip back up north to New York City, now serving Central Florida. Bestitos to you. I'm Lizette Perez once again. If this is your first episode with me, welcome. Check out my very first show called You Can Take the Girl Out the Bronx Butt. So that way you can learn a little more about me. But in a nutshell, I am a native New Yorker. I'm originally from the Bronx, who now lives in Florida for decades now. I'm a wife. I married my high school sweetheart. We have three girls. Our oldest Melinda's in college, and our twins are disabled. They have special needs. So we're special needs parents. They have cerebral palsy. They were 24 weeks at birth. You'll hear about that in the first episode, but they have been uh on the subway in New York. Well, they've been on the path train anyway. Wheelchairs and all. We're not scared. So, so many fun and serious experiences are gonna be shared on this podcast. Make sure you download some episodes so you can easily come back and check us out, okay? I do a lot of community work here in Central Florida as well. I even got an award from the White House once for my community work. So, from President Obama. So, yeah, it's a humble brag, because you know, why not? But I started this podcast because this is my new hustle. Because these girls are expensive. All right, I need I need to put some food on the table. Today, my guest goes by the name of DJ Cool Mike Ski. He too is originally from the Bronx. He's only been in Florida like five years. You know, we're gonna talk about his experiences with his move. He's a New York City DJ. He's DJing out here now, and he's even been heard on New York Time 97. We're gonna talk about that during this episode. Plus, he's also a comedian. So let's see if he's gonna make us laugh today. All right, let's get started. My guest today, he goes by Cool Mike Ski. Hello, welcome to my podcast.

SPEAKER_00 2:21

What's happening, Mommy? I'm happy to be here. Thank you for inviting me. You don't even know why you're here yet. I I really don't. And and you know, the element of surprise I usually tell my kids, you're gonna love the elements of surprise. So, um, I'm ready. Why am I here?

SPEAKER_01 2:34

All right, so going off of the little bit that you know me, because we don't know each other that well. So, going off the little bit that you do know about me, you tell me what you think this podcast may be about.

SPEAKER_00 2:47

Hip hop.

SPEAKER_01 2:48

Nope.

SPEAKER_00 2:49

Okay. Enlighten me.

SPEAKER_01 2:51

This show, and when you find out, it's gonna be obvious why you're here today. This show is about the New Yorkers that now live in Florida.

SPEAKER_00 2:59

Hey, let's get it, baby. The Bronx Bomber from the 718 to the 407. We here.

SPEAKER_01 3:04

I'm calling it from apple to oranges. Hey, hey.

SPEAKER_00 3:08

Okay, I love it. I love it.

SPEAKER_01 3:09

Yeah, I just figured, you know, so many New Yorkers, at least here in Central Florida and all throughout the state, so many New Yorkers come down here. Facts. And we can never stop talking about New York. We can never let go of the vibe. We we never not missed the city. That's a fact. Right?

SPEAKER_00 3:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:24

So tell me, why did you move down to Florida?

SPEAKER_00 3:27

Um, COVID. COVID. COVID. Well, first and foremost, um, I've been coming to Orlando since 2004, right? Transplanted New Yorkers, came out here, they were DJs, promoters, and a couple of comedians. Moved out here in the early 2000s. And um in 2004, they um one of them got a spot. He got in 2003 and he became consistent with it. He built it up, and he said, Yo, Mike, I'm gonna build it, and hopefully they'll come. And people started coming. And um, he hit me up, like, yo, if I bring you out here once or twice a year, you down? I'm like, bro, I'm down like a clown, baby. Of course, let's do it. And uh since 2004, he would bring me out once, one event to DJ, another event to host a comedy show.

SPEAKER_01 4:06

And how long you been a DJ?

SPEAKER_00 4:08

Uh it's going on 46 years.

SPEAKER_01 4:09

You don't look old.

SPEAKER_00 4:10

56 in November, baby, November 2025, November 21st. I'm a Scorpio. I'll be 56 years old. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We celebrating together. We're gonna do that. Did you do anything before becoming a DJ? What were you doing? Man, I was in second grade. So you were in school, okay? Yeah, yeah. I was in second grade. Uh my mom, you know what? Let me let me shout the foundation. Um, my amazing mom. I'm I promise I'm not gonna get emotional because I get emotional when I talk about her because she's not here no more. Um, I lost her almost 20 years ago. But my mother, well it's a Cuban immigrant, um, who came to this country not knowing the language and never really, really learning it. And yet, she made sure I did. She sat me in front of the TV at a as soon as I was able to talk and introduced me to the American culture. You know what I mean? Introduced me to Flip Wilson, introduced me to Sanford and son, the Flintstones, the Jets, and Sesame Street was he was in my house. And I think that's how I learned English. Uh, and then she introduced me to comedy and music, and that's where Cool Mike Ski was born, you know what I mean? Um in 1977, I met Grandmaster Flash at the age of eight. He was DJing in my in a park in my neighborhood. And the way that happened, the way we even found that, we came from a record store on Vice Avenue in Tremont. That's where I grew. I was born on 174 and Vice Avenue. And the record store was on Tremont and Vice Avenue, and we came out of there, and we lived on 100 between 177 and Echo Place, um, right off of Tremont Ave in the Bronx. And when we came around the corner from buying records, 12-inch vinyl albums at that time, I heard music. And I was one of those inquisitive kids, like, where's that coming from? And I just, you know, you ever seen a kid dragging their parent in a store because they want to see something or they want to get something? Of course, yeah. Well, that was me. I wanted to know where the music was from, was coming from. And my mom was 4'10, maybe, maybe 4'10 in height. And here I am, seven, eight years old, dragging this lady into the park. I didn't care who was there. My mother said there had to be 500 people there. We bum rushed tripped in typical Bronx fashion. I dragged my mother through the crowd all the way to the front. And we in the front, and nobody said nothing because it's a little kid with a with a with a woman. They let us through. They parted, the crowd parted and let us through. I tell Flash this all the time, every time I see him. He said, he said, like your mic, that's unbelievable. I said, believe that, that's how I was inspired. That's how that's when I, if anybody was to ask me when did I fall in love with hip-hop? It was the summer of 77, which also was a summer of Sam. But we're not gonna talk about that. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:31

That's the summer. I love that story. How you got started as a DJ in New York, that city vibe, that community at the park coming together through music. One of the things I love about New York and how I ended up in radio out here in Orlando, and now the reason behind From Apple to Oranges podcast. Are you really feeling it?

SPEAKER_00 6:50

Phenomenal. You got hey, listen, you got my stamp on it. Give me a stamp. You got my stamp on it. I co-sign it whenever you need me. Listen, uh, uh, whatever you need for me, you got cool mic ski and my ski team. You got a lot of support. Thank you. Yeah, I love it. I love it. Apple to oranges.

SPEAKER_01 7:05

From apple to oranges. From apple to oranges, heck yeah. It's very niche. It's a niche. No one's doing it.

SPEAKER_00 7:11

Nah, that's fine. How'd you come up with that? Um, interview you now. From apples to oranges, right? How'd you come up with that name?

SPEAKER_01 7:18

Well, I mean, it's obvious because of the fact that, you know, we're from the Big Apple and Florida Oranges. You know, I had um talked about this in my very first episode. Just the fact that I still very much love and miss New York. Some people think I'm crazy because personally, I would love to go back. But I need money and I need space for my kids because they're disabled. They're wheelchair kids. But I wish I got to experience more of New York as I was growing up, because it wasn't my choice to leave. My parents moved the family out to the Lake Mary area of Orlando. I finished high school here. I started at Stevenson in the Bronx. Hey, kind of baby story. Yeah, once I moved here, I was devastated. My parents just wanted to give us a better life and a change, and I wasn't co-signing at all. And I miss New York to this day. I'm stuck in my trauma with that.

SPEAKER_00 8:09

No doubt. You know what? I miss our city too. I miss the Bronx, but I ain't going back.

SPEAKER_01 8:15

You know, I don't know. It's just not the city no more. I get it. It's not the same. I get it from your standpoint. You know, but for me, I needed this podcast. I'm like, you know what? I could finally just voice my love and talk about it and talk to other New Yorkers that love it. But, you know, even the stories of the people who hate it. Like, you know, these are discussions I want us to have. Facts.

SPEAKER_00 8:35

Nah, this is a great, this is a great platform that you're creating. Uh, I'm proud of you.

SPEAKER_01 8:39

Thank you, man. I'm proud of you. This is fire, man.

SPEAKER_00 8:42

Um, I can't wait to brag about it. I can't wait. When you tell me, Mike, you can post it, you can tell people about it. The episode's gonna air. Uh, I can't wait to let everybody know about it. This is a great idea. And and I'll tell you right now, it's gonna go somewhere.

SPEAKER_01 8:54

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 8:55

It's gonna go somewhere. Listen, Joe and Jada got a podcast.

SPEAKER_01 8:58

Right.

SPEAKER_00 8:59

Okay. And and and and do respect.

SPEAKER_01 9:02

I mean, they're celebrities though.

SPEAKER_00 9:03

So they could do it all. They could do anything. But you're a radio celebrity. Come on now. Besitos to you presents. Oh, you like that? You know what I mean? I like that. That's your trademark. Where's the Besitos to you t-shirts?

SPEAKER_01 9:15

I don't well, I used to have some back in the day, so I I gotta redesign. Got to bring something new.

SPEAKER_00 9:21

And I gotta design this for you.

SPEAKER_01 9:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 9:23

The one that designed my shirts.

SPEAKER_01 9:24

Nice.

SPEAKER_00 9:24

We'll make that happen. And you know how foolish of me. I should have brought you one.

SPEAKER_01 9:28

Oh, it's okay.

SPEAKER_00 9:29

But I will. No, well, we're gonna do some things together.

SPEAKER_01 9:31

Yeah, we're working on it.

SPEAKER_00 9:32

We're it at the shows.

SPEAKER_01 9:33

And that's why you're here today, because we're new friends. We're working on some stuff in the old. And uh, yeah, I'm just glad that you're here today. Thank you so much for trusting me, first of all.

SPEAKER_00 9:42

Oh, for sure. For sure.

SPEAKER_01 9:44

To come on the podcast, not having no clue whether if I was setting you up or not.

SPEAKER_00 9:47

Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Flex could have been here. Yo, Mike Ski. I heard what you be saying about me, Shanghai. Folkmaster Flex, hot 97, call us up right now. I want to help you. Let me stop. You are a comedian as well. Oh, yeah. So do you have other impressions? Uh you put me on the spot. But uh well, uh, yeah, let me tell you about uh the deficit. Uh, you know, Sasha, Malia, Michelle, and I just talk about uh the deficit and what's happening in Orlando. You know, we don't we don't get along with your governor here, you know? No, no, listen, let me tell you. It's really serious. Um, now that I'm not I'm not in the White House anymore, can I curse? Can I curse? I can curse. No, I can't. I'm from Chicago, baby. Chicago, baby. You're a shot town kid here. All right, that's about it. Thank you, Mr. President. Absolutely. I got a celebrity laugh. Yeah? Oh, I love Eddie Murphy. Oh, my God. I love Eddie. Hercules! No. All right, that's enough.

SPEAKER_01 10:38

You know, I always celebrate Peresidence Day on the radio every week. Come on, man. Did you know that's the day I launched this podcast? Oh, that's that's fire.

SPEAKER_00 10:46

Perescreen. Peresidence Day, that's right.

SPEAKER_01 10:50

That's fire. And I want to say thank you, Mr. Obama, for excuse me, President Obama. I gotta put respect on the name. Yes. Because I got a 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award for community work that I do here in Orlando. If I could humble brag, you know, I can Obama award.

SPEAKER_00 11:06

Absolutely, and I got Obamacare. Oh let's go. We both affiliated. Come on.

SPEAKER_01 11:14

All right, so you moved from New York. You said during COVID.

SPEAKER_00 11:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:17

What? I mean, okay, you were already coming down here, is what you said, right?

SPEAKER_00 11:20

I was coming down twice a year. Okay. For that was 2020, so for 16 years, I was coming back and forth twice a year.

SPEAKER_01 11:26

Oh, so you were preparing yourself slowly but surely, mentally, okay. Emotionally, all that.

SPEAKER_00 11:31

I got three children, right? I got a 30, soon to be 33 year old, soon to be 31 year old, soon to be 16-year-old. Um, at that time when I was with his mom and we were preparing to come down here in 2009, then we found out that he was coming. You know what I'm saying? I'm pregnant. I'm like, hey, who's the father? You know what I'm saying? But um, yeah, we found out that I was about to be a father for the third time. And um, and then also we both had gotten raises in our jobs. So now with a baby coming, and at the same time, you see how God works at the same time. We both got raises at our present jobs. It was like I felt that that was a sign for us to just remain planted in New York. So we went and we just got a bigger place. My son was born January 2nd, 2010, and he, like I said, he's about to be 16 years old, and he's six, three and a half at 15. He plays the trumpet. Yes. Yeah, and my daughter plays the trumpet. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh yeah. We're gonna make that connection. We're gonna make that connection. And then, you know, my 32 is doing her thing in dermatology in the city, and my 30-year-old uh is doing this thing in Miami at the airport, killing him, doing his thing. You know, I tell him, you know, when they runs, runs into a couple laptops, holler at me. And I'm sorry, that's a joke. That's a joke. I'm sorry, the Bronx just came out of me. I forgot I'm in Orlando. No, I'm kidding. But uh, no, I'm just a proud dad. I love my kids. And um when COVID hit and everything in New York shut down, all the restaurants, all the lounges, all the clubs, um the comedy clubs, everything shut down when that happened and and I lost my day job. It's like little by little, you know, you're running out of funds, little by little, the bills are piling up, and there's no source of income. So decisions had to be made. Luckily, I was uh on the outs of a relationship, you know what I mean? And it was easy for me to just at that time make that decision. I made some phone calls, I called my people out here. Hey, what's going on in Orlando? What's going on all over Central Florida with COVID? Hey, Mike, nothing, man. We messed up. But we're spread out here.

SPEAKER_01 13:24

So it was I'm sure it was different than being in the world.

SPEAKER_00 13:27

Everything was still open. Yeah, yeah. Everything. I mean, so much so that when I got here, let's say I got here on a Sunday, by the following Saturday, I was a resident DJ at American Social. Okay. I became a resident within six days of being here. You know, the the promoter, my man introduced me to the promoter who was a great friend of uh Tracy McGrady. He was his bodyguard. You know what I'm saying? And he introduced me to him, and um he da the yo. And the funny thing was, you know, we from New York, right? So we got that stigma, oh, you know, we hard, we don't take no mess. So when I'm in American Social with my man, we just sitting on the table eating, drinking, not drinking soda. I don't, I don't, I don't consume liquor. Um, not no offense to everybody who does. I mean, I can, I just choose not to. So, you know, I see this big 6'5 muscular dude coming at me. My thought process is where am I gonna hit him? You know what I'm saying? That's that New York thing. My New York is like, where am I here? So I'm going low. Because he's too big. I'm six feet, but this dude's six five, and he got more muscles than me. So I don't care how tough my mind may think I am. You know what I'm saying? That six five, three plus, yeah, I gotta go low. But uh no, he and then he came up, hey, you cool Mike Skeet with that voice. Cool, I mean, yeah, what's up, man? And I did the Jamaican thing, one foot behind the other. Yeah, blood clap, I'm masha fierce. No, so yeah, I'm part Jamaican too. Um, so he came up to me and said, like, hey Mike, hey, what's up, man? How you doing, brother? Can you walk with me and me show you the spot? And I'm thinking, why is he showing me the spot? And then when we go back to the table, he says, Yeah, your man told me about you. I know who you are, had your mixtapes in the 90s, early 2000s. How long are you here for? I said, hopefully the rest of my life. Why was up? He says, All right, next Saturday, you doing something? I go, next Saturday? Six days from now? Um he go, yeah, next Saturday. I'm like, no, I ain't got no plans. I just got here yesterday. You know what I'm saying? I was like, I just got here yesterday. So got boxes celebrate. The U-Haul is not empty yet, you know what I mean? So uh he thought, like, yeah, yeah, well, you now you got something to do. I said, what am I doing? He goes, here. I'm like, here? Next, and I was there for a year and three months. From that Saturday, a year and three months. And the only reason I left is because he got into it with the general manager and they got rid of him and his whole team. If not, I probably would have still been there today. So that's my first Orlando story.

SPEAKER_01 15:34

That's your first Orlando story. Okay, so as a kid, let me ask you this. Did you like New York as a kid?

SPEAKER_00 15:40

Come on, of course. We all did, right? We all did, right? I still got the scars on my knees and elbows and knuckles to prove it.

SPEAKER_01 15:45

I feel like it was special growing up in New York. Watching my kids grow up here is definitely different.

SPEAKER_00 15:50

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 15:51

From so many different angles.

SPEAKER_00 15:52

Agreed.

SPEAKER_01 15:53

But yeah, it was definitely something special. I was an 80s kid. Yeah. You know, I moved here in the 90s, and and it was just different. Like I told you, I was traumatized. But I'll probably say that every episode. Man, that's fine.

SPEAKER_00 16:05

That's all good. So prepare yourself for you. Listen, I don't know. I'll tell you what, with the heat and humidity that we get here in Central Florida, I'm gonna tell you what part of New York I miss right now. La Pompa.

SPEAKER_01 16:15

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:16

Every time I walk by a hydrome, I'm like, yo, I wanna open it, and I'm gonna go get a Goya can and scrape it on the ground to open up and just shhh, you know what I'm saying? The water like we used to do back in the days. Has anybody ever opened up a pompa in Florida? Probably not.

SPEAKER_01 16:30

Um, no. The water's nasty here. But I saw Universal Studios in the little New York section. They had a pump open, it was so sad. It was just like a little street. Little drizzle like there. They gotta open it full glass. Yeah. Yeah, not that. But I thought it was cute, they're trying to represent. That's not even a pumpa.

SPEAKER_00 16:46

That's a that's a pump. Yeah. You know, it can't get it can't get the pie. It can't get the pie.

SPEAKER_01 16:50

What else do you miss about New York?

SPEAKER_00 16:52

Uh, besides the Yankees, the Bronx Zoo, Botanical Garden, uh, Fordham Road. When Fordham Road was Fordham Road. Because I went to, I was in New York two years ago. Uh, I'll be back up there later on this year because I got a couple of events coming. You know, I still get bookings in New York, you know what I'm saying, in the Bronx and all that. So I missed, I miss Times Square being Times Square. You know what I'm saying? Cause now when I went two years ago, I went downtown to to see my daughter at her job, and uh I picked up after work. So we walked from 34th all the way to 49th to 50th in Broadway, and it's like every two stores was closed out of business. New York City is just not, and and that was two years ago. That was 2023, could you imagine now?

SPEAKER_01 17:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:31

You know what I mean? It it's just and I think that's why there's so much uh negativity happen. I'm not gonna lay exactly what I'm you know, what I'm t I'm thinking, I'll tell you off off the air. Um, but you know, that's why there's a lot of things happening because people um don't have as much to do now in our city as as we used to, you know what I mean? So it's something that's missing, and because of the economy and the way things are, I I think it's gonna get worse before it gets better.

SPEAKER_01 17:58

I haven't been to New York since last year, and I didn't notice that the last time I was there. Let me ask you this though. I mean, you mentioned Times Square, so it just made me think when you go back to the city, do you ever kind of become a tourist?

SPEAKER_00 18:13

Um, not really. Not really. Only if I see something that I've never seen before, like a new store or something. But as far as landmarks and and the boroughs, nah. Because even somebody called me right now and be like, yo, I'm on 25th. I'm trying to get to the heights. Oh, but oh, take the one train. You know what I'm saying? Go take the one train. Or if you drive and jump on the West Side Highway, get off on, depending on where in the heights you want to go. You want to start at 157 and Broadway, work your way up to 181st, up to Dykman, where you want to go. You know what I mean? So I I still, I still know almost all the uh everything of all of four and a half boroughs. Because who knows about Staten Island?

SPEAKER_01 18:48

Not many, but we're gonna be talking with them on the show. Staten Island, make sure you hit us up.

SPEAKER_00 18:52

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 18:53

So I can have you as a guest. But uh because we need to know. We got questions.

SPEAKER_00 18:57

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 18:57

But uh for like for me it was a little different because you know, I was younger and I didn't even get like my first club experience was not in the city. Oh. It was out here.

SPEAKER_00 19:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 19:07

And you know, uh actually, that's how I got in the radio. That's that's in my first episode. But I basically, you know, started doing the radio thing from 19 when after I moved here. And yeah, I started doing the clubs here. So when I went to the clubs out there, what a difference. Oh, yeah. It was a culture shock just being in the club here, though. Because the people 18, 1917, you know. So you were close to me. You know, it was like 18 and 11. Yeah, I wasn't quite, yes, yeah. And um, I remember the radio station did a teen night back in the day, too. I remember, and it was a hot spot.

SPEAKER_00 19:39

Right.

SPEAKER_01 19:39

So now that I think about it, I think there was older folks in there that probably should not have been in there.

unknown 19:43

Right.

SPEAKER_00 19:44

See, my first club experience was in 1985.

SPEAKER_01 19:48

How old? Let me think. Let me do the math. So you were a teen, you were like 12, 13.

SPEAKER_00 19:52

It was at the Devil's Nest. It was two spots. One was a double's nest with Sal Albatello from Fever Records. He owned that spot. Um, and he had um L.O. Cool Jay performing. That was fresh off of um Crush Groove, the movie Crush Groove. Yeah, LO down there. Everybody on my block went, they were 18, 20. You know, I had a little peach buzz. So I looked 18. You know what I mean? So that was that was that was one of my first ones. And my second one was I became, I mean, I started DJing five years before in 70, six years before in 79. So I was already, you know, working my way. I was already, I was the I was definitely the neighborhood DJ. You know what I mean? So I heard about this spot called the Stardust Ballroom on Boston Road. And that's the first time I met Bruce C B, world famous Bruce C B and Star Child, they were DJing. And I went and it was it wasn't even about me going in there and trying to, you know, meet girls or nothing like that. Where's the DJ booth? And I wanted to sit wherever I could see the DJ booth. I didn't care. Bring me Pepsi all night. You know what I'm saying? Bring me Pepsi and water all night. At that time, I drank Pepsi. You know what I mean? And I'm not trying to plug Pepsi unless they start to start the sponsor. Right. I need sponsors. You know what I mean? Yeah, listen, Pepsi, you listening? Pepsi, we need sponsors, all right? Come on, besitos to you. All right, apples to orange podcast needs sponsors. So get at us. Get at Lizette Perez, get at Cool Mike Ski, and let's work. From Apple to Orange. From Apple to Orange. I will get it. By the time we're done here, I'll get it. You know what I mean? So from Apple to Orange, there you go. We need sponsors. Get at us, holler at us from apple to orange at gmail.com. If that's the email. I'm just being silly. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 21:25

It actually close. It's from Apple to Oranges. Okay. S. I forgot the S. At gmail.com.

SPEAKER_00 21:30

There it is. See, and that was just off the dome. You know what I mean? See, that's that's that's that's some New York issue right there. That's what we do.

SPEAKER_01 21:36

Uh love my New Yorkers. What do you think it is about New York that when people move away, mm-hmm, like you, you moved away by choice. Right. What is it about? Well, actually, I was forced out. You was forced because of COVID. Oh, okay, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_00 21:47

Yeah, I lost.

SPEAKER_01 21:48

Okay, so you're blaming COVID for the.

SPEAKER_00 21:51

I ha COVID cost me everything.

SPEAKER_01 21:52

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:53

I had to. Okay. And I don't regret it. So I'm I'm kinda in debt to COVID a little bit, uh, except for all the losses. You know what I'm saying? So my heart goes out to anybody that lost anybody during COVID. But um I I feel that it was I was destined to uh become a Floridian. But I'm never ever gonna stop being a New Yorker.

SPEAKER_01 22:11

We can't.

SPEAKER_00 22:12

Nah.

SPEAKER_01 22:12

We can't, and people don't understand.

SPEAKER_00 22:14

I mean, you see the dome, the Yankee hats on all day.

SPEAKER_01 22:16

Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_00 22:17

You know what I mean? No matter what. Absolutely. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 22:21

And that's why I wanted to start this podcast because there's like a misconception about New Yorkers. We think we all that. You know, people wanna water us down and dumb us down because we're too much for them. In my experience, a lot of times I've been too much for people. And, you know, having been here now so long, I have had to water myself down. At least in a professional setting, you know, depending on the situation, you know, I had to adapt. And I mean, you just have to when you're here.

SPEAKER_00 22:50

For sure.

SPEAKER_01 22:50

I mean, because if not, you're gonna look crazy in the streets. That's a fact. I mean, if people coming down from New York, you know, and they're in the streets talking about I'm from New York, you know, a lot of people here don't get that. No. They don't get that. So I hate that part because sometimes we do sound crazy, and I don't like the fact that we may sound crazy to someone. Yeah. It's like, yo, this is where we're from, and New Yorkers are dope. And hopefully they're listening so they can find out why.

SPEAKER_00 23:12

For real. I I from what I've gotten from people out here, um, and they see me. I I got something New York on at all times. If it ain't a hat, it's a jersey, it's a shirt, something that identifies where I'm from. You know what I mean? Like I love Orlando, I love being here. You know what I'm saying? There you go. You see? Got a Yankee's. I see that Yankees bracelet. Y'all gonna see it. You know what I mean? But um, see the way I talk.

SPEAKER_01 23:34

My bracelet.

SPEAKER_00 23:35

Anyway, I don't I don't want them to think you were wearing a bracelet. No, it's all good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's her bracelet. I don't I don't wear bracelet. I mean, I got this on, but that's not uh, you know, not that kind of bracelet. This might sound funny versus seeing it visually, might sound funny. So it's like the way we talk, too. You know what I'm saying? Like, yeah, I mean, you know what I'm saying? Like, yo, what up? What's good? You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 23:53

But yeah, but yet we're so influential.

SPEAKER_00 23:55

Yes. Come on. Come on.

SPEAKER_01 23:58

The birthplace of hip-hop, you know, that is just amazing. Like, come on.

SPEAKER_00 24:03

We are a vibe. We are we are responsible for so many cultures, so many um fashions, you know, whether music, graffiti, breakdancing, you name it, it started in New York. Most of it started in the Bronx. You know what I mean? So we're we're responsible for so many things that what ends up happening is that people become um envious, and that creates hate. You know, and then and it's unfortunate because we are lovable and we are loving. Just gotta embrace us, don't hate on us.

SPEAKER_01 24:33

Envious how? How would you say envious?

SPEAKER_00 24:35

Um like in what aspect? Like, what are you what are you referring to? I'm a big sports dude. So um from the sports aspect and even musically, um, you know, you could go back to the to 95 with the East Coast, West Coast beef. As unfortunate as that was, we became hated. We weren't only hated in 95, we were hated for a while. I think for the rest of the 90s, we were hated. You know what I mean? Uh, especially after losing, you know, Pog and Big, you know. So it became crazy that something so minimal became a worldwide phenomenon, but for all the wrong reasons.

SPEAKER_01 25:11

Do you think that's why the music industry and the hip-hop world changed? Because like I remember early 2000s, it kind of that 90s vibe died down. And then Buster came in 2006-ish. I I don't remember exactly when. And I was like, ooh, bring New York hip hop back.

SPEAKER_00 25:26

Yeah, but he was the only one. But he was the only one, correct. He was the only one, you know what I mean? I mean, Kiss has been holding it down, doing his thing, fab to an extent, you know.

SPEAKER_01 25:34

Everybody on and off, you know, they they touched the music scene here and there, but it definitely changed.

SPEAKER_00 25:39

That's what we lost. We lost our consistency. Like, to me, if anybody asks me what was the greatest era of hip-hop, I say from 86 to 98 to 99. From 86 to 99, from Eric B. as president to top billing to one more chance to Jay-Z, give it to me. To Big Pun 100%, 2000. Yes. You know what I'm saying? So from 80, I'll give it though that 14, 15 year span, there's no other era. Nobody could tell me different that there was a better era in hip-hop, especially in New York, especially the East Coast, you know what I mean? And unfortunately, like I said, 1995 put a hurting on hip-hop because of all the beefs, you know what I mean? But then a couple years later, 1998 was the ish.

SPEAKER_01 26:19

Oh, I started in 95 and I got on the radio around 97.

SPEAKER_00 26:24

Right.

SPEAKER_01 26:24

98. 98, come on. DMX. That was what? That was just an incredible year.

SPEAKER_00 26:29

That was an incredible year in hip-hop. He dropped two platinum albums in the same year. You know what I'm saying? The world was introduced to DMX. The world was introduced to Ja Rule. You know what I'm saying? Jay-Z leveled up like crazy in 98. You know, I mean, it was just an insane year. You know, unfortunately, by that time, we had already lost Pac and Big, and we were two years away from losing, um, from losing Pun and three years away from losing Aliah. Um, so, and I remember and left eye. You know what I mean? So those are iconic figures that also haven't been here in 20 plus years making music. Could you imagine what what the RB and hip hop world would have been had all those people still been here? And and so many more?

SPEAKER_01 27:04

No doubt. It would have been absolutely incredible. And we probably wouldn't have lost that gap in the music.

SPEAKER_00 27:10

New York probably would have still been New York. Yeah. And we both probably would have still been living there.

SPEAKER_01 27:14

I was already here though.

SPEAKER_00 27:15

We probably would have been on another radio station in New York together. Right. You know what I'm saying? Only two, two, three, nine, seven, nine, seven, call it stuff right now. No, let me stop. You you told me Flex put you on, right? Yeah, yeah. You know, um, and shout out to Flex, man. We um uh and at that time it was Funk Master Flex. Uh I'll say it's government, but that has that has no relevancy right now. Uh, cause I know that. Um, and I met Flex in 9091 in the Bronx, and then we bumped into each other at a bunch of different clubs. Um The Underground, which used to be on Union Square. Uh, we played there together. But where it really, really started happening uh was at this spot called Home Base on 18th Street, wet right off the West Side Highway. I believe it was between 10th and 11th or 11th and 12th in New York City. And uh and then, you know, and then of course he started popping off at Hot 97. I salute him, man, because there was uh a couple of summers that he was doing guest DJs on Thursdays and he brought me up there several times. And uh, I mean, I remember I was like a kid at the candy store. The first time he called me, you know what I'm saying? Um, I think I was in my mom's house and the phone rang. Um I at that time I had the real big cell phone, you know what I'm saying? That it was like you were selective on who you spoke to because you had to wait till nine o'clock. So you got free nights and weekends. You know what I'm saying? And he he called me, he was like, I mean, hey yo, Mike Ski, what you got, baby? It's Master Flex, how you feeling, baby? Hey, yo, I got a I got a gig for you, man. Like Thursday nights, I'm starting on guest DJs, you know what I'm saying? I just had cipher in Mr. C. Want you to come down and do your thing, baby. Hold on, hold on, Mike Ski, hold on. Yo, call this up right now, 1800-223-9797. Call us up right now, New York. This is serious, this is serious New Yorker. He emphasizes whenever Flex talks about New York, right? He emphasizes on the cake. Like, let it let it be something tragic. Oh, call us up right now, you funk master flex hot 97, call us up right now, 1800-223-9796. This is serious New Yorker.

SPEAKER_01 29:09

I remember I first met Flex in the 90s when he brought one of his car shows to Orlando. And I just remember the way he looked around one or two jams. Everybody was crowding him, like giving him love, you know, just trying to welcome him. And he looked at all of us like we were just a T-Mu bootleg version of High 97. Like he's never seen radio being done outside of New York. Right. Because he was looking at us with a crazy, crazy look.

SPEAKER_00 29:40

Like, and though those are the times when, yeah, you know, he was untouchable at that time. You know what I mean? I I love Flex, you know what I'm saying? It's been a lot of changes that's gone down in the past few months. A hot, uh, not gonna address that because that's that's that's been happening. It's, you know, I'm not gonna say it's water under the bridge, because, you know, I don't know what my other brothers are doing right now. But shout out to Flex, uh, because he looked out for me uh when he did, you know what I'm saying? And and I could always put that on my resume that I I had a lot of uh uh radio appearances, uh not only there, but uh several other radio stations. But um High 97 Funkmaster Flex, yo, thank you, baby. Worried up cool mic ski, you did your thing, son. Call us up right now, 100-2239797. Call us up right now. This is serious New York.

SPEAKER_01 30:21

Besitos Flex, besitos to Maria too. Oh gosh, you are you you're you're funny. That's good. That's good. So I love this, man. Thank you so much again for just here today. I'm honored. Um I'm glad. You're like one of the first guests. Thank you. You're one of the, I think you're my you're my second official guest on my third show right now. Yeah. Who was the first? His name is Luis Hernandez. He's actually uh the guy that got me the job at one or two jams way back in the day. So I had him on the show because uh naturally I know people thinking that I'm gonna do a podcast about radio and music. And although, of course, because I got so many DJ friends and know people in the industry, it's gonna be a little bit about that, but mostly about the New Yorkers that live here. So that's the criteria. If you want to be on the show, you have to be a New Yorker that now lives in Florida.

SPEAKER_00 31:08

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 31:08

And we're gonna exchange stories and talk about lifestyle and content going on, current events, all that. So for the sake of the podcast, I'm gonna do some quick hit questions for you. Let's do it. That I want you to answer. We got maybe 10 minutes left, and I'm trying to see if we can lock down and, you know, move on with our day, our night. Now that I know that you moved here because of COVID and you like it here, you're not planning on going back.

SPEAKER_00 31:32

No, I felt I fell in love with Central Florida.

SPEAKER_01 31:34

What is it about Florida that you absolutely like love?

SPEAKER_00 31:37

Well, you know what? Growing up in New York, all you all we heard, in my neighborhood at least, on University Ave, Vice Ave, you know, Fordham Road, Kingsbridge, the stigma was that Florida is where you come to retire. Um, that's what we always heard. Like people come out here when they're ready to retire, they buy a house, they put their feet up, and then, you know, just wait for God to call you home. And let me end the stigma, if it's still out there, it's not like that at all. You could come out here, continue with your career, change careers, become an entrepreneur, whatever you want to do, the same thing that we could do in New York. The only thing we don't have buses and trains out here, like in New York. You know, there is a train system, but it's not like the two-train, the four-train, or the six-train, you know what I mean? Or the five.

SPEAKER_01 32:21

Not every 15 minutes, every five minutes. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 32:24

Here you gotta definitely check the schedule and don't be late because the train will leave you. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_01 32:29

And you gotta be early. Sometimes it'll come early and then you're stuck for another hour.

SPEAKER_00 32:34

Yeah, and that's I was about to say. The next one won't come for another hour, and you're gonna be late wherever you were going. So you definitely got out here, you definitely gotta be punctual, you gotta be on time. You know, I I love the lifestyle. I do love the laid-back lifestyle, but it it kind of reminds me a little bit of New York because I can go, like where I live, it's very quiet. You know, I live behind the golf course. You know what I mean? It's extremely quiet. All I hear is the is the you know, the dudes cutting the grass in the lawn in the mornings, you know what I'm saying? You hear the ducks, you know, I hear the quacks, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, there's flamingos out there. It's it, I mean, it's beautiful. It really is. But, you know, that's where I live. But then you could go to downtown Orlando and get, you know, get your DMX on. Yo, what's good? What's going on? Hey, what? What? You know what I'm saying? So, you know, it I love I feel like Florida's ambidextrous. You know what I'm saying? That's how I feel. Uh, you know, you could come out here and and and really, like the old saying for the army, you really can be what you want to be out here because you do have options. You can put your feet up and relax if you have if you have the means to do that. Or you could come out here and be an animal and grind and and do whatever you like I said, if you want to be an entrepreneur, you know, whatever. You know, the options are there. It's really just up to you what you want to do when you once you get here.

SPEAKER_01 33:45

Now, is this something that you wish you would have known about Florida before moving here? That maybe you didn't know even during your visits prior to the decision of coming from.

SPEAKER_00 33:54

Um, probably what I just said, you know what I'm saying? Because I heard so much about, you know, it being, you know, just come out there when you're ready to retire, when you when you're done and you saved your coins in New York, you know what I'm saying? Um, yeah, if I would have known that you could come out here and do so much, you know what I'm saying, especially from a business aspect, from you know, from a music aspect, from a comedy aspect, everything I'm doing in New York, now yeah, it's not the same level as the way I was doing in New York. No. Nothing equates to New York. Nothing. No, nothing and nowhere. But if you come out here and you hustle and you grind hard enough, you come pretty close. What's the one thing you do truly miss about New York? Um, I'm gonna give you a few. Can I give you a few? Sure. Um, besides Yankee Stadium and the Yankees, um, yeah, man, there's a couple of spots, a couple of food spots, you know what I mean? One on Castle Hill. I'm not gonna name them because they ain't they ain't they ain't cut a check. You know what I mean? But there's one on Castle Hill, there's one in Dykeman, you know what I mean? There's one in um in T-Neck, New Jersey, you know. Um, there's a burger spot in Stanford, Connecticut. Like I just named all three states, the tri-state area. You know what I mean? So I miss Willie Burgers on 145th, that's close, I can name it, you know, there's no no, you know what I mean. I miss so there's a lot of spots, you know what I mean. I miss, you know, like I said, 161st, I miss Fordham Road, you know, I miss Tremont, you know what I mean? Just just I miss the whole Bronx, the Bronx Zoo, Botanical Garden, uh, Van Cortland Park, Pellin Bay Park, Orchard Beach in the 90s, section 5 through section 8, the handball courts, the basketball court, you know what I mean? The handball courts in Van Cortland Park, um, the the softball fields in Pellin Bay Park, all of that. You know what I mean? So yeah, that's a lot right there. The original Fordham Road when all the stores were open, you know what I mean? You know I got my first job in Fordham Road in 1983? Really? At Crazy Eddie. I was 13 years old. I remember that. Listen, I remember we were selling vinyls for $2.99, $3.99, and $449. Wow. I remember, I remember my boss's name was Evelyn, and the lady that got me the job, her name was Carmen. She lived on my block.

SPEAKER_01 35:53

You know what my first job in the BX was?

SPEAKER_00 35:55

What's that?

SPEAKER_01 35:56

Only in the Bronx can Lisette Perez be a pharmacist. Oh, wow. In a pharmacy. Wow, so you was dealing drugs? I was dealing drugs, okay? I was mixing the penicillin for the kids. Wow. I was touching medications that I probably wasn't supposed to be touching, you know, cutting. I was 13. Oh my gosh. I was 13. My mother had to hook up because she worked at the doctor's office next door. It was right next to the McDonald's on Westchester Avenue, Boynton Avenue. So next thing you know, she's like, you got a summer job at the farm. I was 13 years old. Wow.

SPEAKER_00 36:28

See?

SPEAKER_01 36:29

It was fun.

SPEAKER_00 36:29

I loved it. You those see stories like that, ladies and gentlemen, will only come from the Bronx, will only come from New York. You can't be like, oh yeah, that happened to me in Oklahoma. No, no, no, I'm sorry. Yeah, Oklahoma, love your city. Yeah, not gully like we are in the. See, gully. That's a word. Where do you hear that word gully in New York? New York. You know what I mean? See how we said it simultaneously? Because we know that's a Bible. That's a Hood New York Bible. The words gully. What up, yo? What's good? That's all New York. What's popping? All New York. What's popping, yo? You know what I'm saying? Yo, what up? Yeah, and see, what up can go in different ways. Like, hey, what up, man? How you been? Oh, yo, what up? That means somebody wants some smoke. You know what I'm saying? It's different levels to what up, ladies and gentlemen. It's different levels. Yeah, different meanings, you know what I'm saying? Like, what's poppin'? What's popping? Hey, yo, what's good, man? I ain't see you in a minute. What's popping? Well, yo, yo, what's poppin', son? You know what I'm saying? And what's good too, right? What's good? Yo, my man, how you feeling, man? Yo, you look great. What's good with you? You want some sauce? You want some sauce? What's good? It all depends on the bass and the voice. You know what I'm saying? Bass. How low can you go?

SPEAKER_01 37:33

So you're different, because when you moved here, the New Yorkers were pretty much already established. So you were good. When I moved here, and I still live in Seminole County. I was so jealous of everybody living on the east side of Orlando in Kissimmee. I'm like, why didn't we move there? We moved to Lake Mary. That couldn't be more opposite from the Bronx at all. Absolutely, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 37:54

I've done a couple of spots up there.

SPEAKER_01 37:55

Ugh, Lake Mary. I have a love-hate relationship with Lake Mary. Like I really think it's beautiful and it's changed, it's gotten better. But when I first moved here, oh my gosh. Yo, to this day, when I drive through Lake Mary, I get a little bit of nausea. And I realize that's a trauma response from the bad memories when I first moved there. Like, you know.

SPEAKER_00 38:16

I like Lake Mary Boulevard. I DJ'd in a couple of the bars up and down Lake Mary Boulevard.

SPEAKER_01 38:21

Yeah, there's some fun spots. You know, they've adapted to me. Yeah. But in the beginning, look, Lizzette had problems in Lake Mary.

SPEAKER_00 38:27

Well, look, I just did a spot right this past Sunday. I'm not gonna plug because they just paid me for Sunday. They didn't pay me for this podcast. Right. So they're opening up one of those in Lake Mary. That's all. So when you see the same restaurant that's in Orlando open up in Lake Mary, be like, oh, that's what Mike and Lizzette were talking about. Yes. Okay. So we'll see what it is. But yeah, it's nothing like New York, man. And if you're from New York and you're born and raised in New York, we just grew up different. We grew up different. Where else can you go? At least in the 80s, right? In the 70s and 80s, because we had a corner store. Everybody got a bodega in, especially in New York, mainly in New York, right? You got a bodega. Back in the days, we had a bodega on my block, and the owner, his name was Domingo, may he rest in peace, was in love with my mom's. So much so, we grew up with food stamps. You know what I'm saying? Food stamps is like that EBT, ladies and gentlemen. EBT card. Now it's all fancy. Now you get it on a card. It's a food card. They call it a food card. You know what I'm saying? We grew up on food stamps. They were um brown, green, blue, purple. If you had the purple, the purple was a $5. The green was a $10. You know what I'm saying? I remember that. We grew up on government cheese. All right? Government cheese was the ish back then. You know what I'm saying? We stood outside the church with the shopping cart, and we went in there and we got powdered milk. We got that loaf of bread that we had to cut up and make it into slices ourselves. We had a whole solid both. Ugh. Wow. Okay, yes. And my mother, oh, we're gonna make ham bag at tonight, ham bag tonight. So she cut off a thick piece. You know what I'm saying? We can make grilled cheese, she cut off a thinner piece. You know what I'm saying? And then the cheese, we had to cut it up ourselves. You know what I'm saying? I mean, it was just the way the culture, it'll never repeat itself ever again. I'm so happy that I was born and raised when I was born and raised. And my kids only know about it because I tell them about it. You know what I'm saying? So it's just like I'm sure you do with yours, you tell them about it, like, oh man, if you guys were b were born when I was born, you would have grown up differently. You would have grown up, you know, with a thicker skin. Because yeah, today's culture is way more sensitive. They're not built like we were built. You know what I mean? And and unfortunately, neither will the next generation and the generations to follow. And that's also because of technology. Yeah, technology's changing everything. Technology's changed. Now we got AI. You know what I'm saying? AI in the in the 80s and 90s to me was Allen Iverson.

SPEAKER_01 40:42

I'll tell you what though, I wish we had the internet back then. Because when I moved here, we had snail mail. I couldn't keep in touch with my friends. It was a com for me, it was a complete cutoff.

SPEAKER_00 40:51

Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_01 40:52

It was a cutoff. Like I felt like I was in jail. Like couldn't do nothing to do with it. Sound like punishment, right? Oh my God. I couldn't even go outside and go for a walk. I was melting.

SPEAKER_00 41:00

It's like some of the movies that you see the little girl in the back of the car waving bye to the whole friends.

SPEAKER_01 41:04

Listen, I have that sad story. Don't remind me. Yeah.

unknown 41:08

I'm gonna cry.

SPEAKER_00 41:10

I'm gonna cry. It's true. It's true, man. Those were the days, man, that uh, and see, see, memories like that can't even you can't even recreate that because people would would have to find people like us to tell them how to recreate it. You know what I'm saying? So it can be recreated if it's done right. You would need somebody like LP and KMS. Yeah, I just acronymed our name. You know what I'm saying? Our names. But uh, yeah, it we it we're just different. We're just different. At the end of the day, New Yorkers, we're built different, we talk different, we walk different, you know, our slang, you know what I'm saying? Uh uh just just everything. We're just different. That's all it is.

SPEAKER_01 41:45

Have you had any Floridians tell you, oh, like if you're talking about New York, oh, if you love New York so much, why don't you go back? Have you ever had someone tell you that?

SPEAKER_00 41:52

No. Um, because they they're also from New York and they love it here too. Um I'm talking about Floridians that might say. Oh, Floridians, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's always a couple, you know, there's always a couple of knuckleheads. No, there's always a couple of yeah, a couple of bad apples and oranges in a bunch. You know what I'm saying? Pun intended. Uh but yeah, I've gotten that where like, yo, man, you so hooked on on New York, on the Bronx. You talk about it so much. Don't you get homesick, won't you go back? And I look at them like if I wanted to be there, I'd go back. But I'm here. You know what I'm saying? I I gave New York 50 years. You know what I mean? I like I said, I'm gonna be 56 years old. I'm going on, I'm going on six years here. So I gave New York 50 years of my life, unregrettable. I don't regret not one second. But because I've been there as recently as two years ago, and I'll be going back in a couple of months to do a couple of events, um, because I have been there and I see how much has changed. No, I don't want to go back. At least not to live.

SPEAKER_01 42:46

Other than the peace you feel here and all that, what do you love about Florida the most? Is there one thing? Do you like the beach? Do you like the parks?

SPEAKER_00 42:54

Like the parks. Uh been been a few times. Um I'm um I'm That's that Florida vibe. I don't, yeah, I don't I don't know how to be anything else but truthful. So here's here's one that's probably gonna shock a lot of people when they hear this, knowing that I've been here over five years, right? I haven't been to a beach here yet. Oh. Oh, wow. I have not been to a beach here yet.

SPEAKER_01 43:16

Well, here's a tip. You could drive on Daytona Beach and you could drive on New Smyrna Beach. What? If there's enough sand, if it's not too rainy and if the current is in a pie, you know. But every other beach, no, you gotta pull up on you could drive on Daytona and I've DJed.

SPEAKER_00 43:30

Yeah, I've DJed in Daytona. I DJ'd at the rooftop hotel out there. So be and it was raining, so I I didn't really couldn't see anything, but wow, okay.

SPEAKER_01 43:37

So you could just roll up and check the vibe and uh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 43:40

Oh, consider it done.

SPEAKER_01 43:41

But Clearwater, Tampa area, they got beautiful beaches. You definitely gotta check that out there.

SPEAKER_00 43:46

You know what beach I heard is the best beach in Florida? I heard Siesta Keys.

SPEAKER_01 43:50

Ooh, I haven't been there, but I've been to Anna Maria Island. The seashells there. Ooh, you find them big seashells. Wow.

SPEAKER_00 43:56

It's beautiful. Mental notes for all of that.

SPEAKER_01 43:58

Mental to-do list. Yes, yes. Then you got to come back on the show and tell us about your beach experience. Absolutely. Give out your socials.

SPEAKER_00 44:09

We're going to wrap up now. My social is um 174-96. Oh, you said social. I was giving my social security numbers. No man. Nah, my socials. Hey, um, I'm on TikTok at DJ Cool Mike Ski. Cool Mike Ski B-X-N-Y on TikTok. And that's cool with a K. Cool with a K, yes. L L Cool J spells it with a C. I spell it with a K. Um, because I'm a killer on the turntables. You know what I mean? That's what I always say. Thank you. You and I'm not trying to brag. You know what I'm saying? I'm not, that's not what I do. I try to be always be humble because I know that it could all be over in a heartbeat. You know what I mean? But um, see, you know what I mean? That's New York. Um I can't help it, you know? On TikTok, that's it's Cool Mike Ski B-X-N-Y. See, bringing LeBronx, New York with me, and everything else, um, Facebook, Instagram, it's Cool Mike Ski or DJ Cool Mike Ski. But I think if you type in Cool Mike Ski, K-O-O-L, Mike M I K E Ski S-K I, uh, you'll find me. There's some stuff you can see uh also on YouTube, um, on Christian Mingle, Latino.com. Okay. Harmony. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Just me, like I said, just being silly, man. But uh, yeah, this is love. This is so, so dope. Uh, I'm so happy to be one of your first guests. I'm honored. Uh, it's a pleasure. Uh, and blessings to you and your family. You know what I'm saying? Eddie, what up? Shout out to your beautiful babies and your whole team, man. Thank you so much. You know what I mean? Besitos to you.

SPEAKER_01 45:36

Besitos. Thank you so much for being on my podcast.

SPEAKER_00 45:40

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