KIC Back Podcast Episode 9 | Nitesh Prasad | 20 Years Old, 2 Businesses & a Relentless Work Ethic

In Episode 9 of the KIC Back Podcast, we sit down with Nitesh Prasad, founder of Pradaan Decors and Pradaan Musical Imports.

At only 20 years old, Nitesh is already building two businesses, but his story did not start with everything going right.

He talks about getting scammed at 14, losing money, making mistakes, and learning how to keep moving forward instead of quitting. This episode gets into business, work ethic, family, culture, tabla, dholak, and what it really takes to build something when you are still figuring life out.

And because it is KIC Back, we had to keep it real.

We played dholak, sampled hot sauce, talked music, laughed, and got into the mindset behind a young entrepreneur who is already making serious moves in the community.

This is more than a business conversation.

This is a story about setbacks, culture, discipline, and refusing to stop when things go wrong.

Watch the full episode now.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

I had a mind for business all like my entire life. From when I was 15, I started Pradon Musical Import. And it just the best part of it's I guess seeing people happy at the end of the day. You literally made a dream come true.

SPEAKER_07 0:11

I was told that Richie's gonna sing. He voluntarily said that he was gonna sing. Cha derbi chau balima.

SPEAKER_05 0:17

Chow daddy.

SPEAKER_04 0:18

Cha derbi chau balima.

SPEAKER_01 0:20

You know what? I'm gonna just take the risk.

SPEAKER_00 0:29

My name is Mark Prasad. I'm a personal injury attorney located in New York. Uh my firm and myself are located in Queens, New York. We represent all of New York, whether you're in Queens County, Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Staten Island, Long Island, Nassau, or Suffolk, I'm an attorney that can get you the maximum compensation for the injuries that you have from an accident. If you've ever been involved in an accident, give me a call at 657-799-6171. I guarantee you I will fight till the end to get the maximum compensation for you.

SPEAKER_04 1:58

So when we started this podcast and uh really the taser group, too, I I always realized that um I think people in our community put other people down, right? And that's something that we always wanted to do uh differently. We want to help people build themselves up, promote other people in our community. And we're starting that today uh with our small business series, the kickback small uh business series. And our first guest is someone who represents exactly that. Uh he grew up in New York and then made the move to Florida to attend UCF. Uh and while most people his age are still figuring things out, he was building a real hustler, man. Uh, not one business, but two. Pradon decors, a luxury wet wedding decor uh company servicing Florida and New York, and Pradon Musical Imports, a business built around keeping traditional Caribbean and Indian instruments alive. Uh so what I respect the most about you, man, we were speaking about uh speaking to you uh yesterday and we realized you were only 20. That was really cool and it was really inspiring uh to learn more about you. So a little bit about you, man. What's going on?

SPEAKER_01 3:03

So yeah, um, as you said, I'm the taste for side, uh grown and grown and raised in Queens, New York. Um, I basically just I had a mind for business all like my entire life. From when I was 15, I started Pradon musical imports, and then at like 18, I started Pradon decors at or 19. Um, and I've just been on the grind pretty much trying to get things out there for a better price but higher quality. That that's always been my goal, and it's been working when it came to musical imports, so I kind of transported that into doing uh Pradon decorations, that part of it. Um, and it just the best part of it's I guess seeing people happy at the end of the day. That kind of is like my main goal of doing this decorations. Like yesterday when I was telling you Kareem and Sharon's, they booked me out about a year ago, and the seeing their reaction after and getting that little text after saying, like, hey, you literally made our dream come true. That was like mind-boggling to me. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_06 3:55

Rich, hold on, before you even continue, you gotta give the man a round of applause.

SPEAKER_07 4:01

I miss 20 out here and killing the game. I didn't want to cut him off, you know, because you just introduced him and he was trying to give his little bit. Oh no, that's my fault. That's my fault. Run it one more time. Round of applause.

SPEAKER_04 4:11

I'll tell you what, man. 20 years old, and you got this, like, oh I dude, I that's so inspiring. 20 years old, but now one business. Two. So and he was in college. When I was speaking to you yesterday, I want to run through a wall, bro. I'm so excited for you.

SPEAKER_09 4:27

Appreciate it. I'll trade branded for you any day.

SPEAKER_03 4:30

Oh damn mesh.

SPEAKER_04 4:33

So Natash, a little bit about you, man. How did you get into this? You said you always had a mind for business.

SPEAKER_01 4:39

Yeah, so um, I I've been playing Tubla my entire life. Since I was five, I've been going to uh Sungi Villas, Kenarji. Um that's been my guru my entire life.

SPEAKER_04 4:48

And Brooklyn here, right?

SPEAKER_01 4:49

Uh he's out in Corona. Okay. So he's in Corona and Long Island. Yeah, he's in Queens. So we I've been going there my entire life, and I around the age of like 14, I started to get more bookings and uh things like that. So I had to have more of a concert quality Tubla. I ordered one, it came, it ripped. I complained, never got the skin. I'm like, okay, if I'm never gonna get the skin, I'm in a rush, I'm losing money, I'm losing gigs, I'm canceling gigs, things like that. What can I do to get around that? So I this did a lot of researching, found a few people in India, got scammed a few times, found the right people in India. Um and then we all we oh yeah, and 100%, bro. Bro, it's not fun how many times I got scammed, but eventually I uh I uh found the found the right people, found my sources, found my manager guys out there, and through that I started my own company, started to resell a little bit. Um, Robbie Churn, this guy, he bought the first red magical dolak for me, people call it. That's sweet. Yeah, that's yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_06 5:46

Isn't it birthday? Happy birthday, birthday to you, baby. You know what's crazy, Richie? I think Nikki over here, right? He I think Nikki, doesn't he live by your house? Robbie? Yeah, there you go. Yeah, both that yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:59

He he's the first guy. He like trustees. I'm sorry. Yeah, he like trusted me. He was like, bro, um, I trust you. I'm gonna give you my money. Let's deliver something good. He's been using the same dog for now over four years, and it's like, oh, like he's he's good. He kind of got my break out there. So very thankful for him and everyone else like uh accounting me in the beginning. But yeah, that's pretty much how I started to start selling, uh adding a little profit there, uh customizing more, trying to see exactly where India pushes its limits to customizations. And once you teach them how to do something, they really don't stop the limits. So it's just keep we keep going and growing and things like that.

SPEAKER_04 6:36

Wow, wow. So, like even before that, you must have had some really great pet parents, man, to really start you up by this time. Oh, yeah, at a really early age, I mean. Um a little bit about them.

SPEAKER_01 6:47

So, yeah, my my dad, um he is uh he owns a construction company in the Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx area, uh New Jersey and Connecticut, too, where he does like uh I guess like renovating and things like that and construction buildings. Can't really tell you the parts about that. But he does a lot of those stuff, the interior design, the whatever those stuff, um the big buildings, and then my mom, she's right now a director at some healthcare company. She does like billing and payroll and stuff like that. Uh thing I something I never want to go into, you know what I mean? Oh yeah. Like they do they have their both like niche different uh I guess work uh parts that they're in. And based off of that, I took the entrepreneur side more than I took like the billing and payroll and computer part. Um, and then yeah, I guess that's they're both who are inspired me because when I was choosing my mundups and things like that, or like I'm trying to make a harmonium design, they're the people who I'd go to be like, hey, do you think this looks good? My mom should be like, Yeah, I like this design, or like for Predante chords. I'm like, Dad, I need to make a stage by tomorrow. Uh my guy cancel on me. How do I do it? He would just give me his workers, he would build that stage in a few in like uh minutes, you know what I mean? So it's like very thankful for both of them. Uh they're their go-to when it comes to those things.

SPEAKER_07 7:57

Wow, man, that's that's awesome. Speaking of building home reno, um, I remember we were talking yesterday. I went home and I was sleeping on it, and I think we're gonna go forward with that 30 scale. Hi we're gonna go forward with that 30 scale. And you know, as a fellow um tablet player as well, um one of my tablets as a gift, uh, it came from you. Yeah, and I found that out yesterday as well. Yeah, that's a really nice tablet, too. It is a really nice tablet.

SPEAKER_01 8:20

Uncle A G Uncle A G. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a Gotham. That's um that was one he actually got, I think, my second um Nut and Bolt tabla that I've ever sold because it was brand new at the time.

SPEAKER_07 8:31

Which is which was my birthday gift, actually.

SPEAKER_01 8:35

That's so serious. Yeah, that's that's cool. Yeah, he he has that, and then the Harmonium, his uh L Unc Ojeek guy, he bought so many stuff for me, tablazolix, harmoniums, things like that. So I guess that's kind of another way. It just spread like my company kind of spread by word of mouth a lot. Yeah, because one thing I really hated until I got to Florida was marketing. My Pradon Musical Imports page has like 30 posts, and before I met my camera guy in Florida, I only had like maybe 10 posts on my Instagram for Pradon to the page.

SPEAKER_04 9:01

By the way, shout out to him, is it Marvelous Moments, right? Yeah, Marvelous, Marvelous. I see all that, all those videos, man. And that's how I I learned about you. So you grew up here in New York, and then you moved to Florida, right? And how is that move going from, I guess, like the hub we call it here?

SPEAKER_01 9:18

Yeah, so I I guess what made it really easy was I had my cousins have all my cousins out there, so all my guy cousins are there. So when I went there, I didn't know I had no friends pretty much, but I had my cousins who are like my brothers, you know what I mean? So it wasn't really hard for me to get there. Um, it was a little bit of an adjustment for sure because like when I'm hungry at 12 a.m., there's not really anything open, you know what I mean? So there's literally no options, but um everything's closed. Yeah, it's like it's kind of slow, it's a little slow, but then coming back to New York now to visit, I realized I really do love Florida and like I really love the I guess the serenity of it, the peaceful vibe. Um, in comparison to here in New York where it was like we were on our toes all the time, type shit. Uh, our neighborhood was like, it was fine at first, and eventually it was like, I don't know what the fuck going on.

SPEAKER_03 10:03

Um, hold up.

SPEAKER_01 10:07

No, don't worry, don't worry.

SPEAKER_04 10:08

But eventually, I was like, I don't really know what's happening, you know what I mean? So, so Natash, um I thought I would have been the first one, but never mind. No, it's all good, man. It's all good. Nate, so when I was 20 years old, I had no clue what I was about to do. You still don't know what you're doing. No, no, I have a pretty good idea now, but I'm talking about like I'm a pretty successful guy.

SPEAKER_07 10:32

Every time they get in their thoughts ready, very quick. I gotta ask you, right? Coming from New York into Florida, right? How was it like, you know, competition-wise, um, you know, being someone that you know people go to for instruments and stuff like that?

SPEAKER_01 10:45

So yeah, uh, Florida, they only have uh rhythm store, which doesn't service any Indian products like mine, so Harmonium, Zolics, things like that. They do focus on like Tasa and West Indian things like that. So going there as Pradhan Musical Imports, having my own harmoniums and having that set up down there, it was actually really welcoming in the market, I would say. Um, I donated a few harmoniums to like three or four munders already out there, and that kind of got my name to spread because it says Pradhan on the back of them, you know what I mean? Um, so but it's really, really nice out there.

SPEAKER_04 11:13

I like all those harmoniums on yours. It says Pradana on the back. I thought that was the name of some company in India.

SPEAKER_01 11:18

No, no, no, that's fine. So we have like our own custom harmonium, I would call it. Well, dude, you have a lot in Queens, man. I've seen that a lot. There we have we do have a lot. There's um actually if I start naming people who have them, we never we never go in there. I mean, but yeah, there's definitely a lot of them.

SPEAKER_07 11:32

It's really surprising because again, in Queens, New York, there's a lot of people that, you know, it's in the musical um a lot of harmonists uh that place hominum and a lot of people used to go to India to try to get the hominum. Yeah, right? Because the hominum in New York, they suck. They really suck.

SPEAKER_01 11:50

Fair, fair, fair.

SPEAKER_07 11:51

Right. I'm telling you this because I used to go into the stores and I would look at them and I'll be like, even though I'm not, you know, a harmonist, I couldn't tell me if that was a good quality harm because the fact that the way it looked, or not even by the way it sung, but the way it looked, right? Yeah, the drums, the door locks that's there, the toplets that's there, you could see like the cracks on the masana.

SPEAKER_01 12:13

That ain't right.

SPEAKER_07 12:13

But the price, bro, the price on these infrastructure.

SPEAKER_01 12:16

It's like a professional instrument, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 12:18

So like you were like, I don't know, 14 at the time, 13? How old were you when you've made that call to India? Like, I need to find these folks.

SPEAKER_01 12:23

Yeah, so I was I was 14 turning 15. Right? So 14 turning 15.

SPEAKER_04 12:28

Now, where did you even start, man? Did you like research like wholesale got uh Indian instruments or something? What did you do?

SPEAKER_01 12:34

Um, so the table I got actually is it had the number on it. Oh I was like, I was like, damn, I make it easier. So I I gave them a call. Uh the guy spoke not a lick of English. I'm like, oh shit. So then based off of that number, I like kind of went through his friends on Facebook. I was kind of creeping on his stuff, you know what I mean? So I was looking through his uh following mutual friends, and then I found like smaller people that once I see English in their bio, kind of um, I just messaged him like, hey, this is Facebook. Yeah, all on Facebook, and then I would message him via WhatsApp or something like that too. Um, and basically I just kept shooting messages out there, and when I got a response in English, um, we're for the most part in English, then I was suffice with that, you know what I mean? Um a lot of these people they would run their business and they would have like a brother or a sister, which is crazy to me. They have like their brother or sister just doing the communication part with America to get them more of those bigger budget sales and things like that. So I found out a whole bunch about India at the age of like 14 or turning 15 at the time. Um, but it was cool. It was definitely cool to see. Like, I got now these people, they're like my family now, I feel like in India. I s I send them gifts and everything like them. Shout out to India.

SPEAKER_06 13:40

Um now you gotta take a trip on there.

SPEAKER_01 13:44

So I have not. Um, but if I if I go, I want to go alone. Like, because I'm gonna be going into the some crazy parts of India if I'm going out there. So I I if I do, I would definitely want to go alone and like travel and see the parts where my my boys are living at. Um, because I have my people that are living like Kolkata, New Delhi, Varnasi, and then I'm having my people that live in like Patiala Punjab or like other parts of New Delhi. So there's a lot of different parts to visit. I gotta go across the whole country. But if I'm there, if I'm there, I'm going to business, uh, going to visit my business people.

SPEAKER_06 14:13

That's awesome, man. Wow. So let me ask you college kid having two um fully built um organizations, how do you balance? How do you have a social life? How do you enjoy life with all of that going on?

SPEAKER_01 14:27

So, yeah, so shout out to my parents. They got me an apartment. Um, they bought it now. We're renting it to my uh my two friends, and so it's me and my two boys, we're always in the apartment. I can't lie, UCF clutched up because they gave us a like a real mode, is what they call it. So I go to classes once every like three or four weeks. Um, and I have five of them. So it kind of works out to having like two or three classes a week. So I still have a lot of the daytime hours, or I used to, now I have a job coming up, so I'm gonna be busy. But other than that, I do have like a lot of daytime hours spending my boys, and then nighttime, I really don't sleep. So I'll be calling India and then we'd be going out to like a little party or something like that. You know what I mean? But I still do have that time to go out and show my boys, even if we're studying at an actual library or something like that.

SPEAKER_06 15:10

Oh, I tell my mom goes to the library, it's when I'm out there.

SPEAKER_03 15:12

UCF, library.

SPEAKER_01 15:15

Yeah, no. If it's weird, whether which whichever library we are at, we are having fun regardless. I know which library are you at. Yeah, 100%. Bro, um, so yeah, it's it's a fun place, man. Yeah, no, no doubt. It's like there's a lot to do, there's a lot of um fun activities going on in that area. Lots of reading. Yeah, 100%, yeah. Nonstop reading, and um, they got a lot of like different waters and coffee shops in the same area, too. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. So it's like there's a lot of stuff going on, and it's it's definitely very social. Uh, me and my friends, we hang out all the time. So I have two of my roommates. Everyone comes to our par our house. They have like a they call it the party crib in a way because like I don't know, we all we have a big 80-inch TV, so we're watching football or we're watching like UFC fight night or something like that. So we definitely I do balance a social social life because a lot of my work too is on the phone. Um, so I go into my room, take a meeting, come back, watch a game or something like that. So there's there's definitely a good balance. It gets busy though. Gets busy.

SPEAKER_04 16:08

Absolutely, man. Absolutely. Oh no, I thought you had something to say. I was with thank you. Yeah. No, I don't want to cut you off, man. Uh uh. Oh wait. I I got like a thousand questions in my head here. I got a few too.

SPEAKER_09 16:24

So they tell you that's um, you know, obviously you've been doing these businesses for I say 2018, right? Yeah. So it's been a couple of years now. Now that you're a little bit more established, or now that you're a little more out there, what are some things that you know now that you wish you would have done differently when you first started off?

SPEAKER_01 16:40

Yeah, that's a good question. So um I guess uh I guess getting one thing is uh verifying your sources. Um when I for not only when I first started Pradon music imports, but Pradon uh decors, verifying where you're getting your items from is something huge. Um, making sure that you're a very stern person because a lot of times when you're first starting your your business, you're kind of getting pushed over a lot. Um, and that was me in the beginning, I can't lie. Like whatever these indie guys said, I was like, ah, yes, sir, whatever. They're like, I need 10 more dollars.

SPEAKER_04 17:08

14, man.

SPEAKER_01 17:08

Yeah, literally. I was like, all the money I gained up from playing Tablo, I was like sending it to India, send to India. And then you get scanned one by one. Yeah, one by one. It's like I was like, Oh, this guy gotta be an honest guy. Blocks me. God, man, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_04 17:19

One of them might have been Brian. How many times were you scammed, do you think?

SPEAKER_01 17:24

Uh if I if I do count it, maybe like to start my company. Like, I lost over twelve hundred dollars in uh 14.

SPEAKER_04 17:32

That's like a like a bro. That was like that's like a house, bro.

SPEAKER_01 17:35

I don't know. Like at 14, that was a lot, that was all the money I had pretty much. Yeah, yeah. And then I found my guy. But yeah, so I guess knowing who you're working with is something huge. Um, and then for Pradon Music or Pradon decorus, uh verifying who you're you're like I never understood the backgrounding of your staff. Like, I thought like we can hire anyone to really matter, but going into the background of who your staff are, uh, if you can kind of vibe with them in a way, that's like something huge because at the end of the day, we're spending like 12, 13 hours with these people. So if there's a guy that's standing there like very stern and straight, and I can't make jokes, and someone I don't want on my team, you know what I mean? But it's also there's also people out there that like I worked with, they they've came to my events in the middle of the event. If they don't get their food on time, they're very they're cranky, they don't move, things like that. Yeah, so I have to find like the people that share like a similar mindset with me and like a hustle kind of mindset to get the things done, get it looking proper, and then also like caring about what the client says at the end of it.

SPEAKER_04 18:29

Wow. Wow, that's amazing, man. So you started the Pradhan uh musical imports, right? And then how did you start up the decors um sort of company? Did where where did that come from?

SPEAKER_01 18:41

So yeah, so I started Pradon Musical Imports and I was gaining uh I guess I was saving my revenue, my money for approximately five years, and then I took that big, like huge investment of like whatever I had pretty much, and a leap of faith. Yeah, quite literally a leap of faith. Thank god these people didn't scam me. But I got my items, so I went to India, not went to India, but I was searching on the internet, found this company, um, got my items, and that that's kind of where I started. But I guess where I got the inspiration to start it from. Um honestly, I went to my cousin's wedding and they went with the biggest company like you could find, kind of, and they weren't really too satisfied with the quality versus like how much they're paying and things like that. And I'm like, in my mind, I'm like, okay, I started Pradh musical imports, and people are happy with my quality, they're happy with my price. What's stopping me from going into something like very niche like Indian wedding decor and delivering the same good quality and using my brain to create new uh curate more ideas when it comes to like uh decorations and things like that. So I was like, you know what? I'm gonna just take the risk. I see a good big profit in it because I can't lie, I do see a lot of money in the business. Um, people that tell you that they're not in it for the money is they're crazy design. Um, but there is definitely a good uh standard when it comes to like income, and then also like well, like I said before, seeing your clients happy at the end of the day, that's something huge that I really um like. So going into this market was something that definitely it fits my palate, I would say.

SPEAKER_09 20:07

That's awesome. So Natash I know you mentioned going to um UCF, right? So I know you were in we spoke, you said you were in a business, you're doing a business major, right? I think you said finance was your major. Do you pr do you like see yourself, you know, obviously having this entrepreneurship background? Do you think you're more likely to pursue entrepreneurship or do you like want to find a job in finance?

SPEAKER_01 20:26

So yeah, I just got recently I went into Chase and I opened my business account, and I guess having that uh communication with the banker there, she was like, Hey, like you're really good at communicating. I really like how you are. You should come in for an interview. So I didn't really apply, I just went in for the interview um a week, a few weeks later. I went to two or three of them actually. And then eventually they're like, Hey, you got the job, come out. So I do have a Chase job now, and I the only reason I'm getting it. A lot of people are like, dude, when are you gonna have time? But I realized I don't really do anything from nine to five other than sleep and this like sit there. So I kind of wanted something to get me more in like that strict timing, you know what I mean? Uh so yeah, I do definitely want to get a job, and well, I have now that I have now that I have the job, I want to stay there long term. That's kind of what I'm trying to do. Have something where I can stay there long term, and eventually when I do have a family like insurance and things like that, it it comes from the job. So I feel like that's something that could save me in the future. And um the Pradhan musical imports and Pradhan decors, I realize those are all things that happen after 5 p.m. around like eight o'clock, because everyone that I'm talking to, they're getting married, so they also probably have a job, you know what I mean? Yeah. So with that being said, I can communicate with them after work and things like that, have my meetings, and then everything's kind of come becoming more self-run as my staff learn more how to handle interviews or not interviews, handle meetings. I don't have to be over hovering over everyone anymore. I kind of just let them do their part, and then eventually at the end of it, like 9 30, 10 p.m., I'm like, okay, what's the synopsis of what the meeting was? How does the client feel? Things like that. That so it's I definitely do want to keep a job though.

SPEAKER_07 22:03

How much oh go ahead, Brian. Real quick. So you know, being that you have your business and that you have employees, what's the feeling like being a boss and having employees? So telling them like, yo, I need you to do this and then you do that.

SPEAKER_01 22:16

So what I try to do is I try to um okay, where I'm different from a lot of other bosses is that I work with my guys. So if I'm telling them do this, do that, do this, I'm doing this, that in the third two with them because I feel like leading or get if you're telling people to do stuff and you're not helping them out or anything, you're kind of like not motivating them in a way. Yeah. So when I tell my guys, like, okay, can you open this package? I'm on the other side opening the other packages, or like they're opening the packages, I'm sweeping up. I'm doing something to keep them motivated. Like the other day, uh I had two 40-foot containers come into my warehouse. So we're emptying these things. Um, I couldn't really help them with that part because these uh boxes are like mad heavy. So not my territory. You gotta hire this guy right here. Yeah, yeah, heavy lifter right here. So these guys, they were they were opening the boxes, taking out all everything came in a wooden pallet. So we were opening all the wooden pallets, and they left to uh take lunch and they came back. They saw me sweeping up the ground, taking all the plastic, throwing in the garbage, and they're like, bro, you're doing so like thank you so much. You're helping us out. I'm like, hell yeah. So then they came back, they started working even harder, faster. It's like, so I know this like that's how I can keep that like boss but also employee kind of relation there. Um, because at the end of the day, I am 20. It doesn't matter how what way you put it, I am 20. These guys are all like 35, 40 years old, and I just still have to have my respect to them. Yeah, so yeah. So I guess working with them is kind of how I keep that uh relationship going.

SPEAKER_04 23:36

Well, Diz, you're only 20, but it seems to me like you're very wise beyond your years. Like it sounds like I'm speaking to someone my age or a little bit, you know, older. How old are you? I'm 31. Right? So you should ask him how old this one is.

SPEAKER_01 23:48

I actually am curious. I was gonna ask you. I'm 35. I'm like 65.

SPEAKER_09 23:54

So Natash, I would say this though, right? It's like, I mean, as somebody who has a finance background who went to business school and all that other stuff, like I understand having a full-time job. Like, we all have full-time jobs and we play TASSA on the side. We obviously do this, everything else that we got going on. But like you really take for granted that free time you have when you're in school, and those couple of years, like when you graduate, trying to really find what it is that you want to do with your life, you know. And I feel like, I mean, back then I didn't know. I was just like, all right, whatever could get me a job, whatever I could get money, whatever I can start saving and start moving forward, then I'll do that, right? But now that I'm older, I'm like looking back, I'm like, you know, those years that I had that time to really focus on something that I really wanted to do and like even pursue this entrepreneurship or whatever it is, kind of focus my attention on that. Like, you never get that time back, you know. So my advice to you, you know, somebody a little bit older who's been through those phases, is to kind of take that time and really think, like, oh, if this is something I can do, because bro, imagine you're 20 and then imagine when you're you're my age, like you know, there might be 40 more Pradhan businesses at that point.

SPEAKER_01 24:54

There's also Pradhan Sengeet, we can't forget it.

SPEAKER_07 24:56

Three, no, we'll be a function five in a company.

SPEAKER_01 25:00

So Pradhan Sangeet, um, me, my boy Shiv Suraj, and then uh my boy Rush, we have so we do like uh wedding singing in Florida because that's something we notice is like completely lacking in the industry. There's like literally no wedding singers down in the Orlando region. So we started, I knew them my whole life from um Kanarji and Sungi Villas. Well, I have a question.

SPEAKER_06 25:19

You said Suraja who?

SPEAKER_01 25:20

Suraj and Shiv. Do they used to live in New York? Yeah, Ramatar. Oh, okay, yeah, we know them.

SPEAKER_03 25:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:25

So yeah, shout out to them, bro. They're they handle that part, like uh contracting and stuff. I kind of made it, so this is cool to get into. Um, so I have Predanda Corps, and a lot of people came to me and they're like, hey, um, we're going to Trinlando, who's like the biggest in Orlando, and they're they're really booked up all the time because there's only you can only handle so many gigs on one weekend. You guys would know, right? Um, so with that being said, I I was like, okay, we'd have we have to change this. There's no other uh tassa people or music singing people for live wedding production. So I made it with my boys. Uh we just started practicing tasa, practicing singing music, whatever it is. Um, all those bojpuri songs you're practicing and things like that. And we just started getting more bookings, and I started to offer those in my Pradondecourse packages to my West Indian clients. Um, and then we also offer dole to our East Indian clients too. So I guess that kind of works out in a way because I would go set up for the wedding, or my me or my workers would go, they would set up for a wedding. I would come, play some table, and then I'm there for takedown right away. You know what I mean? Wow. So it's like, and then I don't have to.

SPEAKER_04 26:25

One stop shop for everything, man. Yeah, quite literally, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:28

And what's good about it is like I really I'm not running the Pradhan Singee part. So my face, when you our content's gonna come out very soon, and my headshots and stuff, I'm not gonna really be on that side because Shiv and Sewers, they're really they're killing in that in industry. Um, so I'm letting them take the lead and letting them take charge, but having the the name Pradon kind of like becomes more familiar to the West Indian community. So, like, oh, Pradhan did my wedding. What do you mean, Pradhan you did your wedding? They did my music, they did my um wedding decor. Everything, everything, you know what I mean? So they're they're handling it all, and it's if it's not me, it's the Marvelous team who's doing your photo video or doing your uh your DJing stuff. They they're in contact with a few DJs, things like that, like Orlando Sparklers. We're in contact with the whole bunch of these people, and we put together like a super team, and we all understand that like, hey, the people that are going out going out to get married right now, it might be a tough time. So we don't have to charge that really 40k for a wedding kind of package deal. So we we understand that we if we make it a little cheaper for people, we will bring you more business and we'll make every client happy for and also deliver that luxury uh feel to the weddings.

SPEAKER_04 27:30

Dude, that is amazing, man. Well, round of applause again. For real, dude, dude. You have so you basically just summarize an NBA and like no that's what I really want to ask. Like, where did you go out of our book? Yeah, where'd you like? I mean, Tomatoes went into debt to learn learn on that.

SPEAKER_01 27:48

Listen, bro, I'm doing it too in like two years.

SPEAKER_04 27:50

Yeah, uh, like do you read a lot, man? How would like did you like research a lot into business? Like, what what was your like how did you learn about this business savvy? Brandon, read.

SPEAKER_06 28:01

Yeah, actually, I'm a math teacher, not an English teacher. You you teach math?

SPEAKER_01 28:06

Yeah, that's another time for another day. Whoa, that's like not what I expected. That's cool. That is fire. I do geometry and algebra.

SPEAKER_04 28:14

All right, so okay. If you didn't know what him and what he did, what what would you expect?

SPEAKER_02 28:18

Completely unemployed.

SPEAKER_09 28:20

No, like punk rock band.

SPEAKER_02 28:24

I feel like you look like a chef. Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 28:27

Yes, Chef. You gotta try my Vienna sauce as lace. That's his meal, man. You know about that, man? I have no idea that is.

SPEAKER_04 28:34

So he uh I got you later. Oh yeah, dude. That that's a whole story.

SPEAKER_06 28:37

So let me ask you what's the name of the company? Pardon? Yeah, Perdon. I don't know if you already uh uh touched about it. I couldn't pronounce it. I'm sorry. How did the name come about?

SPEAKER_04 28:44

Dude, we're like 40 minutes in here.

SPEAKER_06 28:46

I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Again, again. I'm a math teacher, not English. The English part doesn't turn off.

SPEAKER_07 28:59

I think on the hair on top of the head.

SPEAKER_01 29:03

It's the antenna, bro. It's a losing connection.

SPEAKER_05 29:05

It's like you still have to speak English, you know? Signal, the signal is not, you know, it's not coming. Sorry.

SPEAKER_01 29:09

I mean it. I didn't have to have my coffee this morning. So yeah, Pradan, um when I first started the musical imports, it was literally called uh musical imports or something like that. And I was like, okay, this name is not slapping, you know. I mean, I need something like towards me. So I kept I went on Google and I'm like, I give me some names. I went to ChatGPT, said give me some names, whatever it was at the time. Uh ChatGPT was like starting up when I first looking for the name. So it gave me like the weirdest names. It was like Indian musical Indian imports or something like that. I'm like, I this is not gonna work. So I was going on Google Translate and I was typing in like um uh to give, to do something, to whatever it is, and then I typed in to provide, and then to provide came up to be Pradhan. I was like, oh, Pradhan to provide musical imports. That makes sense. So uh Pradhan musical imports, and then to provide wedding decor to Pradhan decors, uh provide decors. I was like, this makes sense. So when you slap Pradhan in front of anything, it literally means to to provide yada yada. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_06 30:07

Sounds better than KIC.

SPEAKER_01 30:10

Kick sounds like it's fine, it's fine. Oh, there's a whole story behind my music.

SPEAKER_06 30:14

Yeah, the whole story behind it.

SPEAKER_04 30:16

It makes no sense, but it was tool to change the name.

SPEAKER_05 30:19

It made a lot of sense, actually.

SPEAKER_04 30:22

No, no, I mean like dude, that's awesome, man. Dude, Pradhan, man. Pradhan to Pravad. No, dude, that is amazing. You Pradon someone's I'll be honest with you, man. Not it's not often that I'm in awe of someone, man. I'm in awe of you, dude. Like you're you are killing it, dude. You're killing it, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:42

I appreciate it, bro. And I hope like other people they see it and they're like, okay, I I I've been wanting to start a business. Let me take the risk. You know what I mean? Yeah, well they really will. That's the oh my god. I was one of my friends there, he's he came into me, he's like, bro, I need to start a business or do something. I'm like, he's like, take I'm like, he's like, can I sell t-shirts? Can I sell this? I'm like, bro, you gotta find something neat like that when you hear about it, it's like, oh, I really love this. Like, I've been playing Tubla my whole life, and I learned harmonium for a good while, and then I transferred into Dolak, whatever it was. You can play Dolak too, right? I I I couldn't.

SPEAKER_04 31:12

We're about to have a dolak off right now.

SPEAKER_07 31:14

Right before we go into the Dolak thing, I I want to ask you, right? You've been playing Tublo your whole life. How long did you would you say it took you to learn Tublo like from scratch?

SPEAKER_01 31:23

So I started from when I was five. Uh I started going to Sungeep Villas. Um, and I would say I started playing for my dad. Um because he's he's a pundit, so he sings a lot, and then my mom and my sisters they all sing. So playing for them at Temple, I guess around like 10. Like five years, yeah. When I was like 10, I got more confident to play for like whatever the next song is without preparing for, you know what I mean? Whether it's like Dodger or if it's like deep chundi or something that comes up out of nowhere. And now I know all the bass beats, so I could play for anyone that sings, you know. I mean, I can just count it out and then start playing. So I think five years later, like when I was 10, that's when I really started to be like, I I can just play for anyone. So I mean it wasn't really good then, but I can't lie, but it was something.

SPEAKER_07 32:04

Being that you went to, you know, uh lessons and everything, I'm pretty sure you could read the music, right? Sad thing about me is that I cannot read the music. Oh god. So just we're gonna set it ourselves up today.

SPEAKER_04 32:19

You can read like English, though.

SPEAKER_07 32:25

Brandon can't read the English. That's what I don't know what it is, like seriously. I don't know what it is about these notes that I I cannot read it. I can't I can't grasp it.

SPEAKER_01 32:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 32:33

But ask me to play a B. Wait, hold on.

SPEAKER_01 32:35

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

unknown 32:36

Jump into it.

SPEAKER_04 32:37

Uh I want to raise my hand first. What you gotta say? What you gotta say, Richard? Wait, wait, so like Dolak, uh is there like musical notes? Like is it like half notes, or notes?

SPEAKER_07 32:45

So it's the same like goals in a way everything. There's notes, but it's just me personally, I just I never had a teacher.

SPEAKER_03 32:52

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 32:53

So I never had someone to teach me the notes or like, hey, yo, play this note, right? What I did was I listened to what they were playing, and I try to mimic that myself. No, and bro, you created your own style about that, man. I think that's why that's why my style is different, like compared to pretty much everybody else.

SPEAKER_01 33:10

Because like no, it's definitely unique. I I've seen you play. It's like uh I guess when you don't know the bowls and you're making it up yourself, you're making it, you're making the same sound the way that you feel comfortable. Um but I definitely it it works out that you're making your own things, and then when I was young, I was getting something pushed onto me with that same exact it kind of works out to be the same thing because now I'm getting used to the the things that someone's teaching me, and you're getting used to playing your own uh instrument, uh the your own style, you know what I mean? So it kind of evens out to be the same thing, and it does work out. So like teach your own, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_07 33:42

I think I think in my case it would have to be more like I'm always improvising. So, like, for example, like the one same song, right? It will be sang the same very way one time, two times, a hundred times over. But the drumming will not be the same. It will always change, it will always be a different tile, it will always be a different, like, you know, different beat in it.

SPEAKER_09 34:01

Yeah, guys, this is the perfect segue. Yeah, go ahead, Mesh. Oh no, actually, I was gonna do the same thing. So I'll say we can actually play a little game right now so our viewers have an idea of exactly what you guys are talking about. So if you guys didn't know, actually singing is a very big passion of Richie's. She got from Golan. Because Richie's gonna sing.

SPEAKER_07 34:17

Shout out to Gam's gonna have to definitely shout out to Golan real quick.

SPEAKER_04 34:21

Oh, you only sing like um your your grandma match. You only sing one.

SPEAKER_01 34:26

So I played Tubla, by the way. I don't play Dola, but we're gonna try something. All right, you ready? Oh no, he don't sing that much, bro.

SPEAKER_04 34:32

Brendan, you gonna sing a song?

SPEAKER_07 34:32

Hey, Mesh, you go sing a song? I can't, I can't. My vocal cords are so I was told that Richie's gonna sing. He voluntarily said that he was gonna sing. So I do my facial exercise. Oh my god, here we go. Play your dog, bring it, play it.

SPEAKER_04 34:53

So, I'm gonna go to the church.

SPEAKER_06 35:04

Wait, wait, hold on, hold on, stop, stop real quick, hold on. Everybody, everybody, everybody stop real quick.

SPEAKER_09 35:08

Ah, much better. All right, all right. What notes are those, by the way, that you just play? Do you know?

SPEAKER_01 35:15

Uh your mic.

SPEAKER_09 35:17

Oh, your mic, your mic, your mic.

SPEAKER_02 35:20

Oh, you don't know. Wait, don't forget the mic. Don't forget the mic.

SPEAKER_01 35:24

Oh, uh da ta-da-da-da-da-da. So, yeah, it's a mix, but like for that one's kind of like folky, so it's like you kind of do improvise 90% of it. Um because then if you resing the line another time, you have to figure it out yourself. So it's not really a set, but you should know the base of it, like the amount of beats. And that's you definitely know the amount of beats in the song. So that works out too much.

SPEAKER_07 35:45

Yeah, definitely. I mean, you're up here. Like the fundamentals, I got the um tempo, the rhythm, and stuff like that. But um it's again, a lot of people that do sing and they they're accustomed to like, you know, the people playing like a certain way. You know, when someone like you go to the gym to the you didn't go to the gym tonight, um, especially if I'm not if I'm playing and you know, and they're not accustomed to me playing. Da da da da da da da.

SPEAKER_02 36:15

Oh, wait, so do you want to sing dude? Nah, I don't sing. I don't sing, bro. No, no, it's you, it's all you, it's all you. It's your show, bro. No problem, man. Bula be sade Oh Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_08 36:28

Do the face, do the face.

SPEAKER_01 36:32

Count him in, count 'em in.

SPEAKER_04 36:33

Bula Bisare Mate Jana, de Sayamore, Galio Meana. Bula Bisare Mate Jana, de Sayamore, Gallio Meyana, Bula Biseri Rad. Alright, that's all I got. I can't sing. Rum don't bother me here.

SPEAKER_02 37:00

I was joining in, bro.

SPEAKER_08 37:04

I think if you keep on singing, see, we're supposed to get summer.

SPEAKER_07 37:08

Right? If you keep on singing, we're supposed to get summer, but I feel like we're gonna get some snow because this weather don't know what's going on.

SPEAKER_08 37:15

No, yeah, dude.

SPEAKER_07 37:16

And you might zink some snow down.

SPEAKER_01 37:18

So Rudolph, they're at nose.

SPEAKER_06 37:21

You didn't see what happened? Richie started singing, the screen started cracking.

SPEAKER_04 37:27

So um, I guess moving from New York to Florida, man, how is that sun out there? I I'm really jealous when it's nice and warm over there.

SPEAKER_01 37:33

Oh, bro. So I guess this puts me into the yesterday. I was setting up and it was oh my god, it was cold, bro. It was raining, it was cold. In Florida at the same time, it would have been hot, it would have been nice. You could have gone inside, catch some breeze, come back outside, be hot again. I'd rather that hot than that cold. I cannot lie to you, bro. Um, so I do like the Florida weather, but sometimes it gets unbearable because now you're like literally sitting inside, and if you go outside, it's like way too hot. So I don't really know which one I like more because here it's like all groggy and nasty outside, but right now in Florida, it's probably all nice and bright. But then Florida, it gets worse because you'll be chilling outside trying to go to the pool, then it starts torrential downpour out of nowhere when it says sunny skies for the next week. So I don't know which one's better. I can't lie.

SPEAKER_07 38:16

So I gotta ask you real quick, right? When you eat your food at home, right?

SPEAKER_06 38:22

Here we go.

SPEAKER_05 38:26

Wait, do you know what a buck crab is? Is it buck crab, right? We're not gonna get into buck crab right now.

SPEAKER_02 38:32

No, he's a very knowledgeable young man. So I'm gonna go. So do you use your hand? Yeah, yeah. Wait, wait, wait. Not like, no, no, no. Nah, nah, nah, nah. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 38:41

When you're at Mundier, right?

SPEAKER_02 38:43

Do you get in there with it? Nah, nah, nah, nah.

SPEAKER_05 38:44

You ever eat something cutting with your hands?

SPEAKER_02 38:46

No. Fork and swoon. Big no. I'm a fork and swoon guy, yeah. Why?

SPEAKER_01 38:50

You don't want the like the flavor from your. So, okay. I was, where was I? I was eating out somewhere, and I saw like everyone going at it, digging in, and I'm like, this is my hand, bro. Cause I'm like, I like using my phone when I'm eating or something like that.

SPEAKER_06 39:03

Or like get your arms dirty, keep his hands clean. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:06

100%, 100%. Nah, so I get the fork, I would put it down, check my phone and something like that. You know what I mean? But to dig in with my hand, I'm like, nah, hell no, bro. I can't do it. I can't, I can't do it. I can't do it. You're missing all the extra seasoning. Yeah, the little sort in there.

SPEAKER_06 39:20

Rich, I just kicked something on my foot. What is that down there? Oh, that's down there, Rich. Sorry, bro.

SPEAKER_04 39:27

That's the perfect segue, guys, into our next segment here. Rich, you don't mind picking up what I just kicked? So we have some chicken tenders down here, right? Oh, wow. All right, and we have we were kind enough from Shauna and Randy to they sent us over some of their uh pepper sauce. It's called West Indies pepper sauce. Whips. Whips. And this is something, guys, we're gonna call the whips hot sauce tasting segment. Oh, we're gonna try spicy. We're gonna try some sauce here. They have the bathroom's right there. We already know how you operate. They have two flavors. They have a yellow scotch bonnet and the red one is let's see what the red one is. A red scotch bonnet. All right. Very tasty. We're gonna try some of those.

SPEAKER_08 40:06

Which one do you think is gonna be more spicy?

SPEAKER_04 40:08

I think the red one. I'm gonna try both. Of course, you're gonna try that. So you wanna open up some chicken there, Brandon? I'm gonna measuredly the way. Thank you so so much, guys, for sending this to us. I think this is based in Florida. Give people a round of applause. Yeah, round of applause, right? Thank you. Thank you. The marketing and the way how this looks, it's really appealing. The whips. Well, what do you think, man?

SPEAKER_01 40:30

Yeah, it's good colors. I like that. I do like the little container right there.

SPEAKER_05 40:34

Definitely like the container. Yeah, yeah. They ain't have grill over there? Huh? They ain't have grill. Well, if they had grill, that would have definitely bought it. Trust me.

SPEAKER_09 40:42

Oh man, that's a hearty meal over here. This ain't real. Raising cane's got nothing on that.

SPEAKER_05 40:47

Listen, listen. It's career. I don't want to put it on top of the dollop. Chicken in there. That's a oh my god. That's a dinosaur. It's a career fried dinosaur, though. Jeez, this is a big piece of chicken. All right, who's up? You you're up. You're first. Oh, my fault. Not taste right. Oh yeah, notation is right first.

SPEAKER_01 41:10

Yeah, I drink the whole, I drink the whole thing. How about a little taste?

SPEAKER_06 41:14

Oh, let us know how you how you feel.

SPEAKER_01 41:20

That's it. It's a mad flavor. This is mad good. It's very, very good. Yeah, a little kick. Yeah, but which one do you have there? This is um the red one? Red scotch bottom. Yeah, I got the red scotch bond, too. Yo, this makes sense. It says citrusy, and you got that. This is good. This is good. I like this.

SPEAKER_04 41:33

And it seems like it's all natural over here. Cucumber vinegar, red scotch pot. Nice. What is it? Whiskey? That's a scotch part. Right after you, my friend.

SPEAKER_06 41:44

Let me uh let me get one more. Look how tight we are over here.

SPEAKER_04 41:52

I kind of want to like dip the whole chicken into the jar, but I'm I'm gonna leave that for home. Mesh, you want to try the yellow one?

SPEAKER_08 41:58

Where's the yellow one?

SPEAKER_05 42:00

I'll take one of them.

SPEAKER_06 42:03

Interesting. I can't. This thing is good. No, yeah, no, it is pretty good. It is pretty good. I got the well, you got the red one. Give me the yellow one.

SPEAKER_04 42:09

On the back here, it says Orlando, Florida. Rich. Give me a yellow one.

SPEAKER_05 42:13

Let me get one of the yellow one. What there'd be.

SPEAKER_04 42:16

I think they're all red.

SPEAKER_05 42:17

Oh, really? Yeah, you gotta open up the jar.

SPEAKER_04 42:19

Open another jar. Oh, there we be.

unknown 42:21

Oh yeah, definitely open the jar.

SPEAKER_04 42:23

Interesting. Okay, I'll take I'll take a little test over there. So, Jace, do you like like uh heat, man? Do you like spicy food?

SPEAKER_01 42:29

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 100%. Yeah, we're pepper guy.

SPEAKER_04 42:32

We're a pepper guy, right? Red and yellow. You gotta cra crack open that uh that jar there, man.

SPEAKER_06 42:40

You pick the little you picked the one that I I I threw to you that you missed? Yeah, yeah, I put it on the table. You want it? Oh yeah, I'll just take that one.

SPEAKER_04 42:48

Oh thank you. Do you do you like uh what's your favorite meal, man? Your favorite like Guinese meal? You're fully Guy's or Chinese as well?

SPEAKER_01 42:55

Yeah. So I you know I'm I'm fully Guy's. Hold on.

SPEAKER_06 42:59

Cook up.

SPEAKER_01 43:01

Uh cook up, cook up.

SPEAKER_06 43:02

See, we got problems. Come on. Chicken curry. Okay, chicken curry. Oh wait, chicken curry. Brian, I hope you eat that and it gives you diarrhea immediately. Oh my goodness. Yeah, I think I may have to dip that. That smells this. Take a little taste.

SPEAKER_08 43:18

Take a little taste. Smellish, smell it. Yeah?

SPEAKER_09 43:21

Oh kind of, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 43:22

I gotta keep it.

SPEAKER_02 43:23

This is ridiculous. We gotta put it down, Brian, because if it can't pass pepper.

SPEAKER_05 43:32

Don't ever pass pepper because you're gonna fight. Yeah, that's right. At home, how much my wife never gives me pepper sauce in my hand.

SPEAKER_04 43:38

Oh, a little kick. That's good. This one is nice too.

SPEAKER_09 43:43

Take a little dip.

SPEAKER_05 43:46

I want to just take a take a little drink. Rich might just eat though. No, no, no, no, no, no. Off the bottle.

SPEAKER_07 43:50

Like waterfall, waterfall, waterfall. Waterfall. Waterfall. Rich, waterfall. Show them. Show them that they invest.

SPEAKER_04 43:58

Can I have a spoon?

SPEAKER_05 44:01

Do you want to put a fork to the side?

SPEAKER_02 44:02

Hey, so it's not anything dip it all in. A fork. Okay, all right. That'll work.

SPEAKER_04 44:10

Alright, let's try some of that then. Give me one more fork for Natasha over there, man. Yellow one's great. Wow. Nice.

SPEAKER_07 44:26

Come on, man.

SPEAKER_01 44:31

That's just got some space. Yeah, that's good. That's good. Oh no.

SPEAKER_08 44:34

Let me get one of the red packets in. I gotta try the red packets.

SPEAKER_01 44:36

Wait, I think the red one's spicier. I don't know. Wow, it's really good though. It's different. This is different. They're different. I never had something like that.

SPEAKER_06 44:45

Not getting that much.

SPEAKER_01 44:47

These are good. Nah, this is maggot. It's very different.

SPEAKER_04 44:50

Oh, you want to pig like what's your favorite sort of like you know, hot sauce? Let me get one of them too.

SPEAKER_01 44:54

Uh my favorite, I like weary weary pepper. Like Ghana hot sauce, pepper sauce. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I like that, yeah. And then like I would put like any hot sauce in my whatever I have next to me. Um, my roommates are Indian, so they really have like their different types of Indian hot sauce that they make at home. So I just put that, whatever it is. So it's very good. I like the I like the hot sauce though. It adds flavor.

SPEAKER_05 45:13

Oh, he got the chicken tender.

SPEAKER_07 45:17

Yo, I am scared because this thing already looks so kind of chicken tender that is.

SPEAKER_04 45:22

That was the only place I had, so I was like, all right. Alright, let's see, let's see, bro. That yellow buffalo tender. Brennan, can I have a uh can I have a of course.

SPEAKER_01 45:32

That yellow one got a cake to it for real. Yeah, I'm gonna get it.

SPEAKER_04 45:37

Not bad?

SPEAKER_07 45:41

Brian, you mean like that's your last meal? Oh my god. Yeah, try it. That gives you an amazing taste.

SPEAKER_05 45:49

Mike, Mike, Mike. An amazing taste, trust me. Now I'm kind of curious. I'm gonna eat that afterwards.

SPEAKER_04 45:54

I'm gonna get food in my teeth right now. That means he ain't eating it. Ah shit. It's alright. So um back to you, man. So tell me, what is do you have any like cre insane stories of uh do you have any crazy stories about like you uh you know decorating things going wrong, things like that?

SPEAKER_01 46:13

So yeah, the decoration game, it's not easy as uh just go there, set up your mundup, and then put the flowers on, you're done. So actually yesterday, I um it was it oh my god, insane. So the day before yesterday, I went to my storage and I had 45 boxes to unbox, all full of flowers, and in there was a metal mundup that I was supposed to use, uh a metal pergola, you you can call it, I was supposed to use to set up this wedding. So I opened the box, I see like 16 poles, and I'm supposed to have 32. I see no screws, I see no connectors. I'm like, oh my god. So I look and I open every single box, I'm like, all right, there's nothing here. This is not good. So now I don't have I have the flowers, but I have nothing to put the flowers on, you know what I mean? So then I'm like, like I'm in the car, I'm in the U-Haul waiting, like, all right, so what am I gonna do? What am I gonna do? So I go to I go to I'm talking to my decorator, I'm talking to my other staff guy, and they're like, all right, this is what we're gonna do. So we together we came together, we made a plan. We went to um we went to Home Depot, we got four by four by ten wood, and then we got pergola connectors, two of these. Um obviously I'm a little we keep all this in our budget just in case. But this happened. So I went there for uh maybe less than a thousand dollars. We put this entire Munda together, fully custom, it's made to us with the four by four pillars, um, 10 feet tall, 10 feet wide, and it just like it looked insane with the flowers and stuff on it. Um, so we set it up at home and we're like, okay, this is easy. Let's put the flowers on it, and then let's travel there, take all the flowers off. No, not even take the flowers off, leave the flowers on, then we're gonna put it on together when we get there. We got to the venue uh and we did we tried this on a concrete floor, but when we're at the venue, it was on a uh acrylic stage with 12 feet, and this is a 10-foot mundup. So when we put the pillars up, they were slipping, it was like very humid outside, so it was like moist everywhere. Um that whips hot sauce is really like but um I was like we put up the pillars it's great, it's great, yeah. No, so we were putting up the pillars. The pillars couldn't stand up as easy because it's not on concrete, so we had to like take all the flowers off, all that extra work that we put in for like four hours, put it on flowers. We had to take all of that off, then sand up the pergola, then we built it again, and then we put the flowers on, and we were there all night. I slept for we didn't I didn't sleep in over 36 hours that night. So that was like definitely like a holy smoke hell kind of experience, but it was so worth it to like I said before in the beginning of this to get that text from Sharon Cream. Um, like, hey, you literally brought our dream to life, and like we're so thankful, all these things. I'm like, this is this is really nice.

SPEAKER_04 48:54

Yeah, shout out Sharon Son Cream, it was a really fun wedding. Thank you for having us too. Oh, yeah, it was a really fun to win. That whoops on the account.

SPEAKER_07 48:59

Um, that's how it's right. So, you know, seeing seeing your contents on social media, right? You know, always I'm always on social media scrolling and I'm always coming through your content. Um, you know, uh I always see your your decoration uh videos and pictures and stuff like that. But to see it in person, right, for the first time, I was amazed, right? I was amazed that I appreciate it. It was like truthfully, when we walked in, it was so simple, right? It was so simple, but yet so elegant. Right? Yeah, like it stood out, it was it stood out.

SPEAKER_01 49:30

Yeah, it's something I would see on like TikTok and be like, damn, like I want that for my wedding. And then that's literally what happened. Cream and Sharon, they saw something happen at the BAPS Mundur, and they're like, that looks really nice. Sent it to me, and I'm like, all right, let's try something new. Baps in New Jersey? Yeah. Oh wow, someone got married there, they had that same kind of style mund up, and they're like, This is the style we want to go for. We never did this before because we don't see an all-floral mund up a lot in Queens. We more see like a mund up with uh a few flowers on or whatever it is.

SPEAKER_04 49:59

Usually the flowers be on top or something, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 50:01

Usually on the top around the poles, and that's what we usually do. But this was like very different. It was like straight florals everywhere with the hanger wisteria and things like that. I'm like, this looks this thing look nice. So you gave it our best shot, and it came out looking like oh my god, I was amazed too. I can't lie.

SPEAKER_06 50:14

No, beautiful, man. Beautiful job. Yeah, beautiful job, man. So I have a question. You're 20, right? What is your next 10-year plan?

SPEAKER_01 50:22

Yeah, so the other day I did plan this out. Um, I can't ask five.

SPEAKER_06 50:27

I gotta ask 10. Dude, God bless you, man.

SPEAKER_01 50:29

God bless you. Thank you. So, like, I am a forward thinker when it comes to like anything, anything I'm decision I make in my life. I do try to think at least 10 years in advance. Like, what if I'm married? What if I'm when I have kids? What about this and the third? You know what I mean? Um, so I was thinking, I'm like, okay, I finished college in approximately a year and a half, right? And then I have my job going. So I'm gonna continue out with my job. I'm taking my SIE, this is my securities test, uh, these other series seven, uh series 66, series seven tests, all these other ones. Um, and I so I have that planned out within the next like two years. I'm gonna take all those certificates and have that done. And I do want to well, I feel like while I'm in school, if I stop it, I'm not gonna want to go back because it's like uh torture.

SPEAKER_04 51:09

I would say wants to go back afterwards.

SPEAKER_01 51:11

Definitely not. I do.

SPEAKER_04 51:12

I know. I mean, I love school, right? School is fun. I want to go back to school, but I mean, it's just that you know, once you leave, you're just like yeah, nah.

SPEAKER_07 51:20

It's always that a lot of people always take that gap.

SPEAKER_01 51:23

Yeah, I don't want to do it.

SPEAKER_06 51:26

I have an assignment due tonight.

SPEAKER_01 51:28

Yeah, so I'm I'm I think right after that, I'm gonna go do um my master's, and then I was considering like either going and taking my CFA, which is like uh a lot of people know the CPA for accountants. CFA is the same thing, but for uh finance, so I really I'm looking to go somewhere into that field too, or I take a complete random turn and no one really knows about this yet. But I might want to become a general contractor, so we're gonna see where I go in life. Wow, whoa, that's that's a curveball, man. And then pr with Pradon de Coras, I would say my plan, but there are a lot of people out there that um if I say my plan out loud, they're gonna take too much advice or then don't worry. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_04 52:05

So certainly you can't be that confidential and classify.

SPEAKER_07 52:08

So we got some classified little information there, but let's say it's just wait and see.

SPEAKER_01 52:12

Yeah, quite literally wait and see, and then also like um I will be expanding my inventory all the time. So that's gonna be happening within the next 10 years. I have around eight mundups right now, and I'm planning, I'm planning on having uh within the next five years, I would say, I want to have expand to at least 15 Mund ups. Um and 15 to be exact because there's only so many options you could have out there, and there's also so many styles that that are out there for now. We like custom building our own Mund Ups, so that's something I really want to focus on and do within the next five years, and then after that, we'll see where the Pradhan company goes.

SPEAKER_06 52:45

With the rate you're going, you might have 30.

SPEAKER_04 52:47

Honestly, yeah, hold on. But like I know you said you spoke earlier about health insurance and that stuff, but like, yeah, at the rate you're going, man, you're gonna take over, man. You're gonna take over contractors. That's the leaders. That's what I said.

SPEAKER_05 53:00

That's why I said uh Fortune 500.

SPEAKER_04 53:03

So Nitish, where where do you get this like drive from? Is there was there anything in your childhood or anything in your upbringing that made you feel like wow, I need to succeed?

SPEAKER_01 53:12

So I I I won't lie, I grew up in a very middle class, like very nice like family. I cannot complain about that. So I I wasn't growing growing up in like the slums of things where like whereas like compared to a few of my boys where they're like, bro, I'm going home, we don't eat out, things like that. Like I'm used to going out, things like that. So I really didn't have like that uh background where I had to build and make money for the family. But seeing my parents seeing their drive, their grind, my mom works all the time. Like right now, she's probably working and it's after hours on a Saturday. But when just to see that drive, like yo, I love working because I make not only I make money, but I'm happy doing what I'm doing. And then see my dad come home late from work because he's he's doing constructions, or like it's like 8 p.m. There is a water leak in the building, none of his work is available, he has to go fix it, something like that. Just seeing the drive on them was something that really uh put me into my place, and then it's also my extended family. Like everyone and my extended family has some sort of degree, they're all working, and just seeing like how everyone goes forward, and if they can do it, I can do it too, kind of thing. You know what I mean? Um, so they're my entire family is like my inspiration, I would say.

SPEAKER_09 54:16

That's awesome, man. Yeah, that's awesome. Great, man. It's a great mentality to have, to be honest. So, what was the hardest moment for you?

SPEAKER_01 54:24

Um, well, I guess the hardest moment for me was um that house was really good. No, it has a good flavor, it's still in my mouth. It's still resonating.

SPEAKER_04 54:32

Like, you want some more? I'm a fan. I'm gonna I'm gonna go off air, I'm gonna eat one of the chicken.

SPEAKER_06 54:37

No, we need to see it live and on camera.

SPEAKER_04 54:41

All right, while you ask a question, I'm gonna get I'm gonna I'm gonna get that set up.

SPEAKER_07 54:44

But you gotta choose um use the uh yellow one.

SPEAKER_04 54:48

Alright, no problem.

SPEAKER_06 54:48

Let's do it. What was your question again? What was your hardest moment working?

SPEAKER_01 54:52

Yeah, so hardest moment so far was probably yesterday, but other than really interesting. Yeah, that was like real, that was that was tough. But honestly, getting the 40-foot containers in and unboxing and getting all those out and seeing what I have, putting it together, like these guys when they're when you order from India, they don't really send you a like uh a manual of everything. So then um you just kind of have to figure out how to put it together. Oh man.

SPEAKER_06 55:19

Wow. Brain shock, man. Bustin' look, he had that one bite, he gotta go work over six hours now.

SPEAKER_04 55:27

And you guys know how anything fries.

SPEAKER_08 55:29

This is really about a cry.

SPEAKER_04 55:32

Oh, great, great, ma'am. Whips.

SPEAKER_01 55:38

Whips. Yeah, um, I guess, yeah, definitely unboxing everything from um the two 40-foot containers. Fun fact when you are getting your shipment in, if you guys ever want to get a shipment of I don't know what in, but when you're unboxing, you only have two hours free. And after that two hours, um, they charge you like a lot of money. So we had two hours to empty a 40-foot container full of these heavy, over 600 pounds worth each box. A lot of them are over 600 pounds, and we had to like empty that box. That was the heavy hardest thing I ever done in my life. But thank God I'm in a very known and very uh clean environment that has a whole bunch of forklifts, a whole bunch of these random tools that we could use um to help get these boxes out. With like, I don't even know. There was so much stuff that had to go in in that given moment. My items arriving, but it's definitely a lot of work and it was it was fun though. It's uh to look back on it that now it's done, all my stuff is ready. I have a showroom now in Florida in the warehouse. Like, it's just crazy to look back and it's like that was only two weeks ago. But it's crazy now to go there and walk through my showroom and be like, wow, that's a mundup that I have. That's my Lord Shiva Mother Poverty, uh big six-foot murti. I have a Rada Krishna, all these other things. I'm like, this is just crazy to me, you know.

SPEAKER_04 56:47

I mean, so I know with Pradhan Musical Imports, you can of course service, you know, the entire world, right? But uh with Pradon decors, you can service New York and Florida, right?

SPEAKER_01 56:57

So I could so okay, I could service New York and Florida, but I could also service anywhere in um the America and Canada region in a way. Really? Because if your budget is proper, we do own our trucks. We have uh our trucker, we have our trucks, we have truckers as are with in the warehouse. We also have um everything that we have is owned pretty much. Wow. So we don't want to want a truck, man. So yeah, so the um the where the warehouse I'm in currently, uh Chris Badacey, shout out to Badaci Cream Soda. They um they have their trucks and we work hand in hand with it. So I get to use his trucks, uh, he drives for me, and then I also get to use the um I guess all the warehouse stuff. Like I have my own like hand cranks and stuff to put up the mondups and things like that. But other than that, like yeah, we just work together and we we're able to go places at a way discounted price in comparison to U-Haul. Um, for example, the past week I've been using U-Haul and I'm paying upwards of $800 for it. In Florida, if we're using the his truck, it's only gonna be the same distances, maybe $200 or something like that, because the gas is like there's there's such a drastic difference between New York and Florida. Um, but we could service anywhere and like at any anytime pretty much, uh, depending on the budget, of course.

SPEAKER_04 58:08

It is a huge difference. If you go to a New York wet wedding compared to a Florida wedding, it's always everything is just different, man. I think the prices are different. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 58:15

People um slowly the prices and slowly whips.

SPEAKER_08 58:24

A spoonful of whips. It's gonna warm up your soul. Yeah. Right.

SPEAKER_04 58:30

You ever went to um like the West Indian supermarket and you get those like uh vitamins that's in like a syrup form? The fish oil and stuff?

SPEAKER_07 58:37

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I don't yeah, no. One of the worst things, one of the worst things I would take growing up as a kid would probably be SS tonic. That thing was crazy. What is that?

SPEAKER_06 58:47

I used to take my Flintstone vitamins.

SPEAKER_07 58:48

Yeah, it was called SS tonic. You know what that is, right?

SPEAKER_05 58:53

You drank that much? I don't think that's a good thing.

SPEAKER_07 58:55

Listen, I was forced, I was forced to take that thing. It was crazy. Um, I would I want to ask you real quick, right? So having the Padons, um, you know, having your decor and your music, right? A lot of these stuff you're in you're um importing, right? Um when the tariff tax went up in motion. Oh man. How did that affect you?

SPEAKER_01 59:18

Okay. So one thing I'm gonna say is media is very misleading. I'll lead with that. Um, I was scared. Say it again. Hell yeah. Um without giving your political. Yeah, without giving the political okay, so um seeing on the news that yeah, there's a 50% tariff on every single goods, we're we're we're all screwed, you know what I mean? It's all it's all messed up here in uh the Americas. I did my own research and and then importing my own items. I did learn that that's not applicable to everything, it's only on certain items, like a very, very small and niche uh amount of items, like niche, I'm saying like very random product that I would never be importing, you know what I mean? So when I'm bringing my fiber and my metal mundups and like whatever other uh like uh I guess uh chairs and things like that, those have their own individual tariffs. So my mundups and everything, like I paid um two years ago for my other shipment. I've done like three shipments so far, um, and they all had different prices. But the first one, they're it had the same exact tariff on this as the second one. It had 10% tariff. Um, and I only played, yeah, around 10% tariffs for this one. So it really didn't uh cook me. Because if I did have to pay the 50% tariff, oh my goodness, it would have been a lot more than it was now. Um, it did add up a little bit, but those are things that when you're going into the importing business, you have to be like, okay, I'm setting aside around 10 to 20, 30, whatever amount of uh thousand dollars out there, just yeah, just in case like this happens. Um, so I did set aside enough for 50%, but thank god the 50% was like a myth, and I would say um it did not affect me at all, thankfully.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:54

So I I gotta ask as well, um another part of that. A lot of people was not getting their you know their packages in time. You know, it was a long wait, packages was going missing and stuff like that. So again, you know, you were supplying people, uh demands was high.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:08

Were you getting like crazy backlashes from like you know so yeah, the timing did kind of mess me up because uh and that comes from the fact that a lot of people don't want to pay their actual uh tariff rate when it comes to their door. So, for example, when I'm selling someone a harmonium, I say, okay, this is the price of the harmonium, and I need your phone number, your email, and when your harmonium arrives, maybe a week later you're gonna get a tariff of like almost nothing. It's very maybe $20, $30 for compared in co yeah, in comparison to a $2,000 harmonium. So um $2,000 Harmonium, wow. Oh, yeah, this it gets out there. Um, but the tariffs only around $20, maybe maximum $50. Um, so I tell them, like, hey, you're gonna have to pay this. But other people outside of my industry that are even from Amazon, DHL, that they're using those services, they don't pay their tariffs. So that causes holds and that like slows down messes it up everything. Like it's just like a kind of a huge effect on my market, but also everyone else's market that's shipping out because all of the planes are getting full, but they're stopped because everything's on hold, or like all the planes are getting full, and or all the planes are empty or like halfway full, they can't ship out without everything being on there. So it did cause a lot of major delays, but um, thank God the people that I work with right now, they're very understanding when it comes to like timing and delays and things like that. And then I do tell my clients I keep them very informed and also tell them, like, hey, by the way, like we're gonna have to wait another another two to three weeks. Is that something you're comfortable with before you pay me? You know what I mean? So I make sure they're comfortable with that and they understand like the political uh I guess impact on um their delivery services. Um, and a lot of the time it does it works out perfectly.

SPEAKER_09 1:02:46

Wow. Nice, man. Well, first of all, I want to say Brian, great question. That's a round of applause for that question that was way above Brian's level of questioning. Oh, Brian, Brian asked a great question. Also, um, Natasha, I think that was a great answer. And it seems like based off of your your answer, your response is also like you're very calculated in what you're doing. So it's not just about making a business, you're like you're actually looking at what it costs to create a business and you're considering your taking consideration your costs with your business so that you know where your profit could be at the end of the day, which is amazing, man. And so for somebody at 20, like dude, why is beyond your years, man? I'll probably applaud again. We're clapping a lot in today's episode. My question to you, I can't say Hold on, I wasn't done. Oh, I'm sorry. My bad mesh. All right, so I was gonna say ask, we're gonna do like a little AirPods check. So when you were out there yesterday building the Manda, would you have you know bumping in your AirPods to get yourself hyped up to the biggest?

SPEAKER_01 1:03:36

That new Drake album ice many goblins up. I I had the managers pumping in my ears the whole time. That's who I had. But other than that, I had my place. I I I do listen to a lot of Indian classical music. Um, so like anything from the Indian Guzzles, yeah, a lot of guzzles because I play Tabla. So I like listening to that. It kind of improves my mind.

SPEAKER_07 1:03:56

What's your favorite um Gazelle singer?

SPEAKER_01 1:03:58

Actually, I don't have one. I just I like them all. Yeah, I really do. I listen to a lot of Jagjit sing though. Um, like that's that's just my goat. Um Hari Haran. All these people, I I listen to them uh and it keeps my mind in like an active flow state because I actually this is cool. I look I was looking at a video of Zakir Hussein. Uh God rest him, he's he's a goat. But he they did a study on him like showing when you're playing Tubla, what happens in your mind. And he was playing Tubla, and his the part of his brain that controls, I guess, like critical your thinking aspect and like confirming before you say something or confirming before you do anything, it gets turned off when you're playing Tubla or Adoluk or Harmonium, whatever it is. So that I play music and I listen to Tubla, and it kind of like turns off that like should I do this, should I do that aspect in my brain? And I don't know, that's that that works for me. But then yeah, I do listen to a lot of uh Bruno Mars, other than that.

SPEAKER_09 1:04:50

Oh wow, for branding that part of his brain is completely shut up.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:54

Oh, and pop smoke, pop smoke's like go map smoke.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:01

How'd it kill my boy, man? That's listen. In one of my car, in one of my cars, um, I had speakers and everything. Wait, which car is this? One of the cars. Beamer? Oh, cool. And that cord when I had this uh system in there, Pop Smoke had dropped his album and um one of the songs, one of my favorite songs from that album was um Gangster. Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Dude, when I tell you the bass and the low bass on that song, it's amazing. Yeah, right. So I'm a person like this. I like to bump it up.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:26

Yeah, bump it up too. No, 100%. Pop spoke's my like, I'm in my element.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:30

That song burnt four sets of speakers for me. Holy guy. I had two FI competitions.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:40

Right? Very powerful subs. And for some reason, dude, I turned it up and that song came on and put like within half a minute smoke. One more question. Then fire. Like, nah.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:55

God, so I know we're running out of time. About to hit the final four, but I had to have one question because you're Very young yourself before the other young entrepreneurs out there, what advice you got for them?

SPEAKER_01 1:06:05

Yeah, so um yeah, I'm pretty young, and I guess a lot of you guys are gonna be my s my age or maybe a lot of people.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:11

I wish I could be your age again.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:13

Um I would say if you there's something that I heard was you can go broke a billion times before you turn 25 and you can still become a millionaire or whatever it is. So that's my word of advice to literally. I guess that should still for us then. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:28

Yeah. I'm saying if you come on.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:30

Before what age? It doesn't really matter. You couldn't become a millionaire at any age, pretty much. I'm um, but I I guess that's my word of advice to take the risk and kind of if you're going into something, do your research first. Like make sure it's something that you enjoy. Because you can go and sell in products, but if you don't really know anything about a product, like I know everything about a table of harmonia mandolic and everything that else I sell. Yeah, bright. So, like kind of research into it and know exactly that hey, I this is something I I'm very uh like I love it. You know what I mean? Love what you're doing, love your craft, and that'll get you way further in the business in comparison to uh, I guess not loving what you're doing or not knowing anything about what you're selling.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:06

Awesome, man. So we're gonna go into now the final four af after every uh interview. We ask four last final, you know, quick questions. You say anything that comes to mind, right? So I'm gonna go first this time. Wow. Um Do you have a favorite book, Matt?

SPEAKER_01 1:07:23

Um Horizon.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:25

Horizon. What is that about?

SPEAKER_01 1:07:27

So it's about it's like it's four different perspectives of like a war happening in four different countries, and it's like you're getting each point of view of I guess a lower class life of what's I don't know, I I I guess that's what it was. It's like you're getting to see different point of views at the same time of someone living a happy life, someone living like really down bad life, someone living a medium scale life, or and it was just like really cool to see that.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:50

Wow, that's literally like the four of us right here.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:54

Who wrote that book, man?

SPEAKER_01 1:07:56

I have no idea. That sounds like a pretty perspective. It was like this is a cool book. I I found it one day and I was reading on my on my phone. Um, and yeah, that's the book. And then I guess, yeah, that's that's pretty much my favorite one. That's it.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:07

That's awesome, man.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:08

Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:08

Alright, so um, we've been talking about your jobs and working and um school. What are some of your favorite hobbies?

SPEAKER_01 1:08:16

Yeah, so definitely I play Tubla. That's like my number one thing. Um, and then my main hobby is I guess this sitting sitting back and chilling with my boys, bro. Cause I after doing all the Pradhan stuff and after a long day of like being on calls with brides and bridezillas, whatever it is, I just like I just want to lime and chill with my boys. Um go out and just play some music with them. So I guess Tubla and like hearing music and playing live music like that is my main hobby. Um I played football in high school, but what position, man? I was outside linebacker, but I was like left bench, bro, because I I just kind of played it for the helmet. I can't lie. You pass me a ball, I can't really catch it. You know what I mean? So it's like I was just I was just on the team for the.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:59

I used to be a runner back. Well, Brennan got an arm, though, right?

SPEAKER_01 1:09:02

Oh, so you quarterback and a running back running back. Oh, running back.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:05

Before I had the you know, sort of e and you can't spell that. So you were you were big up? That's how he spells water boy.

SPEAKER_09 1:09:12

I was pretty much waterboy, so it's not so it tastes with that, right? Do you consider yourself to be being uh to be a musician first or entrepreneur? What do you put first? Wow, that's a good one, man.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:24

That's a that's a hard one. Honestly, um I I have like you ever watch the movie Split? Uh personalities, yeah. Yeah, I feel like that's me because like if I'm in Mundir, uh I'll be playing Tubla and then I would split off into like my selling aspect of selling someone a Tubla. You know what I mean? Like, I don't really know where I have split personalities, kind of even. It would be like sometimes I'm focusing on selling someone instrument or I'm fixing an instrument as one personality. Then I gotta switch over, switch gears into selling the actual thing or like uh getting a client to confirm their order or whatever it is when it comes to decorations, choosing their design, complete different personality. And then with my boys, I get to loose back and actually speak how I want to speak, you know what I mean? Like uh make my English a little like less understandable. Like I just get to breeze out. So I have different uh personalities that kind of not I'm not saying like I'm I'm crazy, but I'm saying I'm not saying I switch out of nowhere, but like there's different ways my mind thinks when it goes into like no, you have to, man, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:10:22

Yeah, you have to enunciate your words clearly with these brides. They're like, what? What'd you say?

SPEAKER_02 1:10:27

100%.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:28

I guess um my final question would probably be uh, you know, being a musical um person, right? You've been playing Tubbler for all your life. Um you started this at five years old. Uh and also from the you know, this little gathering that we had here right now, uh what I got from you is that um, you know, you're a very busy person. You got your business going, you got your school going, you still you also got your family and friends that you keep in, you know, keep a part in your life. Um bring someone that's very talented as a Tubbler player. And you live in Florida, there's not a lot of people like you mentioned in Florida that plays Tubbler or that's in the musical field, right? If people reach out to you like to teach, or I don't know if you teach right now, but like if people do reach out to you, um, do are you willing to teach and like how that goes?

SPEAKER_01 1:11:17

So I uh that's something I have to talk to my guru about. I I don't know if at my current age I could keep up with the schedule of teaching because I have last-minute calls where I have to go out of somewhere, out of nowhere, like 8 p.m., 9 p.m. That's when you'd have classes, or like eight or something like that. I don't know if I can set my schedule in a way that I could be delivering the same quality of teaching timing and everything to my students in comparison to my Guruji. Um, I think later down the line, when I am more knowledgeable and more confident in my playing, I would look into it and talk to my Guruji first. Um, but right now I don't think I could teach. I can help people out. Like, there's always someone that comes up to me and be like, yo, I really like what you played in this video. How can I do that? So I'll give you the bowls and I'll help you in a way. Um, but to and I'll teach like a little kid, like my cousin, for example. I like help them, I would help them grow in a way. Like I'm giving my nephew, my I'm with my nephews right now. I'm I sent I bought him a Tubla, a Doluk, I bought my other nephew a harmonium, and I bought my nephew a tasa. So I'm waiting for this other one to grow up a little more and um so I can get him a base. But I guess instead of teaching, I'm kind of like putting them in the right path to get towards going to a proper teacher that can dedicate all their time towards it. Because when you're a teacher, like you would you would know like there's a lot that goes in even after hours. Is that someone's belly?

SPEAKER_02 1:12:42

It's the whip. What your belly's making the belly work, got trying to lock in this. Wow. Yup, this is I thought it was a phone, rather than stomach.

SPEAKER_09 1:12:59

On that note, guys, thank you very much for having me. No, wait, guys.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:03

We still, you know, what a first guest to start start this series, man. Um, Nate, we wish you all the best, man. I wish you nothing, absolutely nothing but success.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:11

Thank you so much. I appreciate it.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:12

You're a great man, and I think you're gonna do some really great things.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:14

Uh likewise, you guys, oh my god, you've been killing on it, killing it, whether it's the edits that we're seeing online, like the tasa playing in general, like everything's been really good. Um boy, I was dancing on the stage. I have videos of me and my boys. We're taking off the flowers and we're still dancing on the stage. I'm hitting the wiggle and everything for hours. We were lit, we were lit. That was the music in my ears too, bro. The task, that was like, that was like had me hype. And then you gotta hit him with the yeah. Yeah, he teaches high school middle schools, right? He's almost six seven all day, man. Yo, I'm surprised and I hit that. I said six uh series six and series seven or something, or six, whatever. I almost hit that. Let me lock in real quick.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:51

But it's thank you so much for your time, brother. And uh, dude, you're gonna do great things, man.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:55

Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Another round of applause.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:57

You're not gonna need to work, man. You're gonna entrepreneur, bro. You know what's I want to do.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:01

Dude, you're appreciated. Hell yeah.