EPISODE 12 | DILLON MACC: WHY HE REFUSES TO BE BOXED IN | CONTENT, FREEDOM & LIFE BEYOND THE 9–5

In Episode 12 of The KIC Back Podcast, we sit down with Dillon Macc, one of the Caribbean community’s most recognizable and original content creators.

Dillon opens up about how creating videos during the pandemic grew from a genuine creative outlet into a platform reaching hundreds of thousands of people across Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and beyond. He explains why he never chased fame, how he developed his unique approach to Caribbean comedy, and why authenticity remains at the center of everything he creates.

Beyond the content, Dillon shares the side of his life that audiences rarely get to see. We discuss his decision to keep his personal life private, his refusal to be placed into one cultural box, and how speaking to the wider Caribbean community has helped his work resonate across different islands and backgrounds.

The conversation also explores entrepreneurship, walking away from the traditional nine-to-five, balancing business with creativity, and building a life centered around freedom. Dillon speaks candidly about his future goals, his passion for cars, the lessons he learned from his entrepreneurial family, and why he believes people should give themselves permission to explore different paths.

This episode is a look at the person behind the viral videos and the mindset behind the platform.

EPISODE 12 | DILLON MACC: WHY HE REFUSES TO BE BOXED IN | CONTENT, FREEDOM & LIFE BEYOND THE 9–5

Transcript

SPEAKER_05 0:00

Curry chicken? Chicken curry.

SPEAKER_02 0:01

He's not gonna answer that.

SPEAKER_03 0:02

Yeah, I'm not gonna answer that. Oh, Auntie Radica, your daughter is a She teething people, man, as if that is all she know.

SPEAKER_04 0:12

That was the first one that I did.

unknown 0:17

All right, all right.

SPEAKER_00 0:25

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SPEAKER_02 2:28

Nine?

SPEAKER_05 2:28

Nine.

SPEAKER_02 2:32

Who knows? Who knows? But today we have a very special guest. Uh, someone that I've been following, we've all been following for quite some time. Um, so our next guest has built one of the most loyal audiences in our community today. So we live in a time where everyone is trying to be seen, of course, right? Everyone has a platform, everyone is posting, and everyone is chasing the algorithm. And in the middle of all that noise, very few people are actually making something original. Uh, what he does is harder than it looks. He takes the small things, the nuances, the inside jokes, the things that make us us. And he's been turning that into content that's sharp, I think, well thought out, and genuinely funny. The kind of things that you watch and immediately send to a friend. Uh, but here's what I respect the most about our uh you know next guest here. He's not just speaking to Trinidad, he's not just speaking to Guyana, he's speaking to all of us, Caribbean people as one. And he's putting who we are and the way that we actually are on a world stage. That's the kind of unity we've been needing. So, creator, musician, and one of the original voices we have in the community, Dylan Mack. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. I appreciate it. First of all, I appreciate you glazing me real quick right there. We got glazing back with the guest. Wait, imagine like, oh, what a terrible guy this is. Second of all, I'm a little nervous.

SPEAKER_04 3:50

I don't really do things like this, you know. And third of all, you guys got a really nice little setup here, man. This is pretty dope. How long have y'all been doing this? For nine episodes?

SPEAKER_02 3:59

Dude, so we actually just started this in March. Okay, cool.

SPEAKER_04 4:02

I got a question.

SPEAKER_05 4:02

Where do you got that chain from?

SPEAKER_04 4:03

This chain. Well, I don't like how you're asking with that mask on. I mean, that now watch this, watch this, be dope. I feel like I want to tuck it in.

SPEAKER_06 4:16

But now over you. The chain blinged so much I had to put my glasses on.

SPEAKER_04 4:20

Yeah, nah. Um looking like Drake out here, man. Looking fire. Yeah, the pendant, I got this custom made on it. Thank you, Richie, for letting him know. Yeah, I got this custom made. I think for my birthday, I got this made. So um, I don't know. I like to like every year my birthday, just like buy some like extravagant thing, like just for myself, just so like throughout the year I could just be motivated to, you know, work towards the next thing. So uh my last birthday, I I got this little pendant. And um, and the one that just passed, actually, I I just bought the S2K for my birthday. So awesome, man. So Dylan Mack, where the Mac came from? Mac, well, my last name is McIntyre. Oh MacIntyre ain't nobody trying to say all that. So I just put Mac and Cheese. I thought about it like um from my Instagram handle. Like, if I just want to be like, if someone asked me what my handle is. Yeah, like Dylan Mac. If I put MacIntyre, how do you spell that? Dylan Mac.

SPEAKER_02 5:15

Dylan, so like I think one of the cool things, um, I guess you share a lot on socials, right? Yeah, but you don't really should share much about yourself. No, like I know a lot about the content you have, right? Yeah, but I don't know much about you. Yeah. So I guess in the preparation for this episode, I was trying to like, you know, find things about you. Yeah. But I really don't know.

SPEAKER_06 5:32

So tell tell us a little bit about yourself. By the way, by the way, real quick. Great job on the contents that you've been talking about. Thank you so much. Great job on the content.

SPEAKER_04 5:38

Thank you. I appreciate it. Um, a little bit by myself. Um I don't know. I mean, I'm I'm just a pretty ordinary guy. Like, I never like uh try to become famous or like viral or anything like that. I'm just a person that likes to create stuff. Um ever since I was a kid, I'm always drawing, painting. Like I I I you know play the piano, I play the drums, like I just like music, I like creativity, I like art. And so um that's just how the whole content thing came to be. Just me just the videos was another way of me to express myself, and then it's even deeper than just shooting the video, it's just the way you edit it too. It's even like you express yourself in the way you edit. And so it's like I don't know, I just I have a good time just taking something from my head and uh getting it out there to where you can see what I came up with and you can see and you can see, and everyone can interpret it in the way they want to, but it I don't know. I just like uh I just like creating stuff, that's just all it is. That's all I like. Yeah, just I'm just a creator, that's all it is.

SPEAKER_02 6:37

That's awesome. So, how how did you first get into it?

SPEAKER_04 6:41

COVID, I was just on lockdown like everybody else, just bored in the house. Um TikTok was like popping in COVID, and I just picked up my phone and I just started shooting stuff. I was posting like three videos a day sometimes. Like I just wasn't had nothing to do besides post.

SPEAKER_01 6:57

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 6:57

You know, um I was in college and it was all online, so I would just knock out my homework or whatever real quick and then start shooting videos and whatever. Um, especially in the summertime when I didn't have any schoolwork to do. I would just had nuts, I literally had nothing to do but to shoot videos. So um, that's just how it came to be. And then slowly but surely I just ended up going viral, like off of some like I don't know, some stupid video I put up just went viral. I was like, I got the bug right there. Once I got that my first viral video, I just got the bug and I just kept going with it, and then I just stayed consistent every, you know, twice, two videos a week I would put up. Been doing that for dang six years now, kind of crazy. Is this like your full-time job or um, you know, I do a little, you know, I do stuff here and there, like it's not my full-time job, you know. I get income like other other ways, but um, I'm now like starting to like monetize it a little more. So um it's like becoming more lucrative for me now, but I never like got into it for money or anything like that. You know, I just it's a hobby, you know, it's a hobby. And if it can make me some money, that's cool. But I would do it for free. Like I would I would I would just genuinely just do it for free. I I genuinely love making videos, and I just think it's so cool that I can come up with an idea and then post it, and then people around the whole world can just laugh at it and see it. Yeah, it's just that's just all it is.

SPEAKER_02 8:13

You want to tell a little bit about you, man. Do you work like full time? Do you have like a day job?

SPEAKER_04 8:18

I own a business. Um I keep it private because I operate out of my house, so I don't want people, you know, knowing where I live and stuff like that. So I keep it all, it's like a separate thing. I never like really post it on my main account or anything like that. Um, but I do have a business and um I went to school for business. Um I never really had the traditional job. Um, I tried and I lasted four days before I quit. I like got a little job. Yeah, it was like why my wife, what was it about? I mean what about it? Right after I got my degree, um, well, Rwanda a little bit. My dad um owned a car dealer, like a used car dealership. He would just buy like flip cars, like you know, buy them, fix it up, flip them up on you ever owned a Subaru before? No, I'm not really a big Subaru guy to be honest. Subaru sucks. Yeah, I I never really I know this guy to draw the Subaru and I feel like someone I feel like the Subaru's in the room somewhere. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's trying to throw some heat at the come on, you're gonna beat the man when he's down, man. Yeah, but um well yeah, uh I used to I used to flip cars on my dad in high school. And um, so when I got out of college, I had my degree and I was like, let me try and get a let me just try a job. Let me try, let me try and get a job. I got a job at Kia, a Kia dealership as a sales consultant, which I'm like. Yeah, it's alright. I never really drove it, but and it's not it's not really, you know, the kia is like we'll get into your S2K later. I know you drove. Some exciting stuff coming for the S2K. Yeah. Yeah, but um, but anyway, so yeah, I got the job at Kia. I didn't even make it past training before I quit that job. I was like, I I lasted three and a half days. And then I think what what happened was is on my last day, which is the third day, um, I was like two minutes late to work because there was like an accident on the way there. What time did you clock in? What time did I clock in? It was like I think I I think it was like 9.30 at the clock in. And I got there at 9.32.

SPEAKER_02 10:16

Brandon right here, right, is a school teacher, right? Oh lord. And he You're a school teacher. It's not too old. You're like a school teacher. What's the halfway in school sees this with the with the uh shisteon? Brandon, take take the shit off a little bit. Dylan, so Brandon here sometimes I think he starts school at 8, right, Brandon? 8, 10. And Brandon sends us these like videos of him uh and he's recording his assistant principal, right?

SPEAKER_05 10:47

No, that's we can't say who, but it's not it's we can't say who. I'll just leave it like that. But every morning, like they say in school, right? Cover your ass. No problem. So what I do is I got called in one day and they were saying I was late every day, which is true to an extent. Because the parents, right, they like to take our parking spots. So I'm like, if I can't park there and I can't park on the main campus, where am I gonna park my car? Right? I drive a full Mustang. I don't care, I can't like you know, leave that anywhere. It's a 1989. Okay. Right, old school. I spent 40k on the engine alone. So you're just late looking for parking. No, so it's not that. The parents take our spots. So during the winter, it was snowing, whatever the case it might be, right? And parents would take our spots. So I brought it to the principal's attention, and he's like, try your best, you know, double park a car and uh block a car in because they're not supposed to do it. I blocked the car in. I had parents leaving notes on my car, I had people like move my car and this, that, and third. And I'm like, yo, they leave in notes, you're telling me to do this, and I'm following your rules, but now I'm getting in trouble from the other school because of you guys. So I said, alright, no problem. But like, what can we do to do this? So I got called in the office one day, and it was for my latenesses. It wasn't because of the shisley. Nah, I should have won a sickly, but I got called in, I'm like, why am I being called in? And it was for my latenesses. But I'm like, dude, I told you guys that parents are taking my spot. Where do you want me to park? Right? And I gotta clock in at 8.10. I clock at 8.11, 8.19, 8.15, whatever the case is, right? But it's before the first bell. I'm always there, I love my students, right?

SPEAKER_02 12:25

I hope my everyone was like, We wouldn't have to cut the part out when you just said fire me. Right?

SPEAKER_05 12:30

I love my students, right? So I'm always there on time. Always, well, before the first bell. But then they called me and saying that I'm late every day. And me being late every day, I didn't say nothing, but the person that was telling me I'm late every day, they're late themselves every day. So what I started doing for a whole month, right? I started staying at the window and I started recording the person every day coming in late. Late. And I was like, so the next time she tells me this, narrates it, and I narrate it, and I say the date, the time that she's coming in, or he or she coming in. And I and I have a little drink, like I have a little NG drink in the morning or whatever, coffee, and I shout out to Starbucks. I sponsor it, right? Whatever's there, and I record that person coming in late every day because I'm waiting for the next time they tell me, Oh, you're late. Because I'm gonna Bop, what what's your excuse? I I have a valid excuse, right? Because parents take my parking. And ever since the day that they told me I've been late, I've never been a day late after that. Why? It warmed up, there's no snow. Yeah. The principal said that he spoke to the other school about the person. There's a person that used to park. Swear to god, that person can't freaking park for nothing. It used to park two spots. Parking in New York is always rough. Yeah. No, but it's literally a pull-in. Oh, you just pull in, not parallel.

SPEAKER_06 13:44

The person we used to pull in between parking and Pajos? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 13:48

Well, the person used to pull in and take up two spots. The principal said, Oh, I spoke to the person, whatever, whatever. It was the biology teacher. And he said that it was somebody from that school, the um like like board member. I'm like, no, it's not. Because I see her every morning. Yeah. So that's how I know he didn't speak to them. Yeah. More of the story is I said, alright, no problem. I start recording every morning, so I have my proof to cover my ass, as they say. So I'm just waiting for them to fire me or tell me, oh, hey, you're late again. Cause why? Boop. I have the.

SPEAKER_02 14:16

It seems like you should have recorded. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 14:18

Yeah, well, I'm. I'm going to the union. Yeah. I'm going to the union. I don't even have time for all that. Like, he like he got mad at me. Well, wait, what happened was I figured because I'm late, I'm just gonna go at my desk, just sit down, just get to work right away, right? Um, he calls like a meeting at the end of like the day and like brings all the like in sales consultants in, and he like, he's like nick picking everybody, and then he like going online, like like like the manager's like a favoritism. Yeah, like the manager's just being mean to everybody for no reason. Yeah, like like our principal. I guess you know what, you know what it was? Like he was like a new manager, so he was trying to like prove himself, like whatever. But he he got down to me, right? And then he was like, If he's like, if you if you're late one more time, you're fired. I'm like, I'm just gonna leave then. So like the next morning, like well, I told my dad about it, and he was like, just leave the job, whatever. So I'm like, okay. So I so I the next morning I went in and um I just I quit the job. Um I said bye to all the little friends I made, like in the three days that I worked there. I jumped in my car and content. I jumped in my car and I went home. And then what happened was I also like um I like posted on my story like what happened, and then all of my followers were just like went on Google and it was leaving one star, one star, one star. To the point where yeah, to the point where like the the owner like called me and was like, Can you can you start leaving one star? I'm like, it's not me. It's like hold on, where's my phone now? I got you right now. I'm gonna leave it one star right now. Yeah.

unknown 15:44

Hey boy, you got my phone?

SPEAKER_04 15:46

But it was like it was like one of those things where it was just like a blessing in disguise because at the end of the day, like at the end of the day, I'm an entrepreneur at heart. I come from like a line of entrepreneurs in my family. Like my dad did his own thing, my grandfather did his own thing. So it's like that was never like meant for me, anyways. And it's I'm just glad it ended sooner than later, to be honest. Like, I just that seemed like the type of job where I'm just gonna be trapped. Then that old school nine to five thing. It's like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 16:10

So honestly, so you do business, right? What kind of what line of business do you do if you don't mind me asking?

SPEAKER_04 16:16

Um yeah, I don't know if I want to say because if I say it, it'll be easy for people to like figure it out.

SPEAKER_02 16:21

Like, yeah, so you gotta just gotta do that.

SPEAKER_04 16:26

Yeah, so the business that I'm in now is like it's been doing pretty well for me. I've been doing a four years. Yeah, I'm you know, I'm making my little change and I'm able to buy the things that I want to buy. So that's all that matters to me. As long, you know, as long as I can as long as I can um just keep growing it at my own rate, have my freedom to, you know, do things on my own schedule. I can wake up whenever I want to, go to sleep whenever I want to. I don't gotta get up, you know. I'm not I'm not like an early morning guy anyway. So getting up at like seven in the morning. Me either, but I gotta do about four or something. Yeah, I can't do it. I'm like, and the thing about me is I'm more productive at nighttime. So I'm up all night, like editing stuff, shooting stuff.

SPEAKER_05 17:01

If it wasn't for my kids, I wouldn't even go to work. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 17:04

You can edit this, I don't care. It's the truth. I love my kids. Yeah. And it's not, and it's not to like, it's I'm not saying that to like, I was like, I'm not trying to put down that type of like career because it works for it's not for everyone. It's not for everyone, it's like it's just not for me, and I kind of accepted that. I'm not saying that like if push comes to shove and I get desperate, I'm gonna have to get something, you know. Like, I it's not beneath me by any means. But um, right now in my current, like, you know, I'm young and I just want to be able to have my freedom. How old are you if you don't mind me asking?

SPEAKER_05 17:33

26. 26. So let me ask you the same age as me.

SPEAKER_04 17:35

Yeah, give me a five-year plan. Five-year plan. Well, I want to get into real estate pretty soon, which is what I've been saving up for, like, with my business right now, is I've been saving it up to get into real estate and start investing in flipping homes, getting rental properties, like just you know, passive income, just like rolling. I also wanted to like develop. I have a lot like I'm the type of guy where like I just want to try everything. I want to try owning a restaurant, I want to try, you know, being a contractor. I want to like, you know, flip houses, I want to, you know, I don't know, I want to own a car wash. Like, I don't know. I like anything, anything, bro.

SPEAKER_05 18:07

Like, I'll just my next goal. I just opened up a uh a driving school. So that's why I'm gonna go.

SPEAKER_04 18:10

Yeah, I just I just want to try my head. Like, why not? Why not try everything? Yeah, yeah. Why not? Like, why not? Why not you know dip your toes in the water? Figure out what you like. You never even know what you're passionate about until you try it. You know what I mean? And if something fails, it fails. Like, whatever, like you got we have one life here, you know what I mean? Try everything. But why would I get stuck in a job that's gonna hold me back and then I'm gonna retire at what 70, 60 years old? That sounds whack to me. I wanna like I'll retire at 40. Yeah, like and I'm uh maybe I won't even want to retire at 40. I want to be busy, but like I want to be busy doing something that I want to do on my own time that's generating me income. I don't know. I just you know, the five-year plan thing, that's what I want to do, but at the end of the day, I'm just taking it day by day. Like, my goal is to retire by 30, dead by 40. Dead by 40. Yeah, get out of here. I don't know if I want to peace out that young, but peace out.

SPEAKER_02 19:03

Oh man, Dylan. So like you said your uh your dad is a entrepreneur as well.

SPEAKER_04 19:08

Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_02 19:09

So I'm sure you you learned a lot from from him.

SPEAKER_04 19:11

Yeah, definitely, definitely. He had me um, he had me go into the auctions with him, bidding on cars and stuff. I was Oh, he he still he still does that. He doesn't do anymore. Now now he kind of he he still has the the LLC, but we have dealer plates that he'll just like rent out the dealer plates to. What was the most expensive car that he bought? Um we never really had expensive cars. We had like a bunch of like um, you know, like hoopties. It was a bunch of hoopties, like, but it was cool because I was driving and like I was driving any car I wanted in high school because you know I had I had everything to choose from. You drove a Subaru? I never had a Subaru, I never had a Subaru, but I did have one of one of my favorite cars that we had. We had a Maserati, Carcio Porte. It was an 05. And back in 05, the Maserati had Ferrari like like engines in them, like they had like Ferrari engines. But it was like it was a Maserati, but nobody knew it was like having electrical problems, like, but I'm pulling up in the Maserati in school, and everyone thinks I'm everyone thinks I'm that guy, but I took that part of school, the engine smoking, like it's blowing blue smoke at the exhaust. Like, I remember I was driving one of my sister's friends home in the Maserati, and this and it just starts smoking, like it looked like a fire, like just broke out under the hood, and I'm like, I'm like, listen, you might have to walk the rest of the way because I gotta take this thing back home, bro. So I don't know what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_02 20:26

So historically, those aren't good cars, you think?

SPEAKER_04 20:29

Not the one that I had, like, yeah, like when you're buying in from the auction, you don't know what you're getting. One time we one time we bought a car that couldn't go into reverse. Oh shit. And we had to we had to drop a whole new tranny in it and stuff like that. Like, yeah, we had some hoopies. We don't know what you're gonna get, man. We had some hoopties, but I but like I had the Mercedes I had a Mercedes truck that like the door locks didn't work right. So every time, like, you know when you pull off and the door's locked on its own, I uh you would pull off on that car and it would go like it would start bugging out, like like it would sound like a machine gun.

SPEAKER_05 20:58

It's like you could ask him, I locked my car like five times before I actually walk away from my car. Yeah, it don't work.

SPEAKER_02 21:04

Yeah, I just had I had I had No So when when Brandon bought we when we go somewhere, yeah, Brandon be like, I don't say we gotta talk about this. He we lock his car, he checked the front. He was locking his car, he checked the back. If we lock his car, he checked the right side. The windows. Don't forget the left side. Yeah. He checks the hood. Really? He checks the boot. No, which I understand. Like, you know, he put like his entire life into that car.

SPEAKER_01 21:37

I opened it back up, just so lock it back again.

SPEAKER_04 21:40

You know what sucks? It sucks when you start when you look at your car too hard and you start seeing little things that like you didn't you wouldn't recognize. Like nobody else would see. But because it's your car and you like know what you did to it, and like you're like, oh, there's a chip. They all someone dinged my door right there.

SPEAKER_05 21:53

Like, not about my car. Let's talk about your car. I know you have an S2K. Give us details. That's okay. Um Buy in an auction? Can they go in reverse? No, no, no, no. What's the mileage on it? Because those things are high. I was looking into those. What's the mileage on it?

SPEAKER_04 22:08

They're not cheap. But they're definitely not cheap. Yeah, they're not cheap. But long story short, unfortunately, I lost my RX8. We saw that video about it. Yeah, I lost my RX8. We won't talk about the pass. Yeah, it's it's it's a depressing story. But um fast beat? Rather, the RX8. Well, I was converting it to manual because I bought it. Long story short, my dad bought it in 09. He was like, if you do good in school, you can have the car. So I like that was the only thing like keeping keeping me motivated in school. Like, I want to drive, I want that RX8. And so I got the car and I drove it. And then um the engine went. I I gave it to this guy. That's the rotary engine for you. Yeah, the engine. But I was pushed, honestly, I was pushing it. Like I was shooting flames. That was an RPM. I was pushing it, but the car was man, like it had 50,000 miles on it. It was a min, it had the greedy um body kit, turbo, everything. The car sounded nice. Uh uh, anyways, um gave it to a mechanic. He you took my money, didn't really work on the car, and then left it somewhere. He had the same car as me. He was like screwing other people over with their cars.

SPEAKER_02 23:11

You know what you know what I thought about when I saw your video of you like you know, really explained that. I was like, I did it to the wrong guy. Yeah, yeah, like more because you have like all these followers. I'm like, bro, and he's coolie. So I have all his like family following me. Like, is he stupid? Coolie, bro.

SPEAKER_04 23:30

I don't know who's like I don't know what's going on. His whole family follows me, most likely. Like all his peers follow me. Yeah, yeah. So so anyway. No, he wasn't too smart that guy. Yeah, anyway, long story short, um, he left it in some tow yard. Somebody um thought it was his car because we had the same RC color, like in the same color. Someone else that he screwed over thought that was his car. They like bashed all the windows, cut up all the seeds. Didn't hate him that much. Yeah, yeah, because he's taking like tens of thousands of dollars from these people and now like working on the car. They're even like taking his parts on his parts off his. I didn't I you know, obviously, I didn't know this until. But why do you even drop your car to him? I didn't like that wasn't the case. Like when I dropped it off to him, he had like a legitimate shop. Oh, he seemed trustworthy. Yeah, he seemed like he was like doing like don't trust the guy next to you. No, but but he was at some point he was working on that. I saw the new engine that I got from Japan coming on the crate. Yeah, like I saw it. Like, like he was it was on the lift, he was working on it at some point. That engine finally in his car now. I don't know what happened to him. Yeah, yeah. I don't at some point, like he just like I don't know if he like fell behind on like he's in a lot of debt, like is what I found out. So I don't know if he was like just getting desperate, like taking money from people to pay his debt off, wasn't working on the cars. Anyway, so yeah, the car got messed up in a tow yard. Then the people at the tow yard that you know he was renting the spot in that tow yard, and um he wasn't paying for the spot, so they just took the car and just took it somewhere, and then they wouldn't tell me where they took it. So the car is gone. Like the car, I don't know where the car went. It had no um plates on it, no one it's a project car. You know how that goes. There's no insurance on it, no.

SPEAKER_06 24:58

It's gone.

SPEAKER_04 24:58

So it's gone, and I don't know where it went.

SPEAKER_06 24:59

So rather than me went to some chop shop, or it's probably in Haiti somewhere, like you know what I mean. They're gonna get to RA7 soon. If it's not in Haiti, it's probably in Africa or it's probably in like it's alright.

SPEAKER_05 25:10

We know a guy, right? He owns a bum ass Subaru, right? So he had a Civic before the um Subaru, and they actually stole his car too. So don't worry, we we know about it.

SPEAKER_04 25:21

Yeah, you know, it's you know, it's it's bad, it sucks for me because it's not like I crashed the car. Yeah. And be wondering if it was my fault. But it was like it I didn't even like, you know.

SPEAKER_02 25:30

You know, so here's the thing with like, you know, kind of S2Ks, right? I feel like everyone loves that car. Yeah, what's the mileage on that? Yeah, back to the S2K.

SPEAKER_04 25:37

Okay, so back to the S2K. So I bought the S2K kind of to like, rather than me suing this guy and spending all my money on lawyer fees and court fees, whatever, I'm like, you know what? He has nothing to go after anyways. What am I gonna do? You know, he doesn't have a like I can't garnish his wages.

SPEAKER_06 25:48

You just gotta spend money out of your pocket.

SPEAKER_04 25:50

Yeah, so I'm like, rather than that, I'm let me just buy another car and like get into another project rather than like dragging this oppressing thing on for the rest of my you know life, whatever. So I kind of just on Facebook Marketplace, you know, just Doom Scroll on Facebook Marketplace. And I always wanted a convertible, and so I'm a big fan of JDM cars. So convertible, JDM, S2K. I never really like looked into them like that until I was looking for a new car to like replace the RX8 with. And then I found one in Massachusetts, um Boston. Not Boston, it was uh some something like it's like a smaller town than that. But um I found one in Massachusetts, and I'm like, you know what? Uh I'm negotiating with the guy. The the car looked in really good condition. I saw the underside of it, there was no rust. Um it had 117 on the clock, which it you know, I I wanted to get a I didn't want to get a super low mileage.

SPEAKER_05 26:42

Yeah, it's not bad for that year, though.

SPEAKER_04 26:44

Here's the thing, here's my logic behind it. First of all, yeah, it's not that bad for that year. Secondly, if I got if you get a low mileage S2K, you're looking at like $40,000. That's also true. You know what I mean? That's true. Ain't no one trying to drop down. I'm I'm I'll get a higher mileage one and then have the extra money to put into modifying it. Um so also the guy that I bought it from is a Honda technician. So he was keeping up with like the oil, like you know, that was a good thing. That was a day in maintenance. Yeah, it was a really good example. Um, the interior was in good condition, the underside again had no rust. It was like tastefully modified. Um, it wasn't like too modified, but the models that were on it was like tasteful stuff. And it also came with a carbon fiber hardtop.

SPEAKER_02 27:24

Oh nice. So um No, but my my fear with that car, right? I would be always scared like if someone would come steal my car, right?

SPEAKER_04 27:31

Yeah, um everyone like when they see that car, they're like damn S2K. Yeah, so I do get nervous about that. I have a garage, so um it's like parked up in there most of the time. But um, yeah, so I I got the S2K. Um shout out to my boy Andy at Simplicity7. He's been helping me um, you know, with modifying it. I just got a I just ordered a wrap. So the wrap is I'm we'll see. You can't give out all the details.

SPEAKER_05 28:01

Yeah, so far.

SPEAKER_04 28:03

You know, my plan is to make content with like the build. It's like the comeback build like with from the RX8. So um we're making content out of it. My boy Andy, real stand-up guy. He's been helping me. He knows my situation with the RX8. He knows like he knows the guy that like screwed me over too. Um, so he's like he really like felt for me. He's been helping me out, even with my Range Rover too. He's been helping me some some some person like scuff the front of the video, he painted it um for me and stuff like that. So he's he's a good guy, and I'm trusting him to um help me with that car. And the rap is coming in on Monday. That's awesome. And so we're gonna go.

SPEAKER_05 28:41

I'm probably hearing it.

SPEAKER_04 28:42

Yeah, so we're gonna get it going soon. And I'm just ready to you know fall in love with like a like I love cars, bro. You know? Yeah, yeah. I'm ready to make it, I love making cars my own. So five speed or six speed? It's a six-speed.

SPEAKER_06 28:54

Six speed.

SPEAKER_04 28:55

And you know what? I actually learned to drive manual in the S2K. Wow, that's awesome, man.

SPEAKER_05 28:59

You'd rather marry a car than marry a girl. It's a very forgiving.

SPEAKER_04 29:04

Everybody know that. You're lying. He loves it. It's a it's a very it's a very forgiving car to like to like. I've been money shifting that car, and I, you know, it it it's been very forgiving to me. Nothing has gone wrong with it so far, but now I now I can drive stick pretty you know easily now.

SPEAKER_02 29:19

But excellent, man.

SPEAKER_04 29:20

Um, yeah, I kind of just taught myself in the in the in that car, you know.

SPEAKER_02 29:23

So um let's like shift gears a little bit.

SPEAKER_05 29:27

I like that one. I like that one. I learned to drive stick a little bit right from my dad only, but uh there was also another guy, he drived a Subaru. The man is going through something right now. That's what I'm picking on, because I miss my boy. Is there a problem if I miss my boy? He used to squeeze us up, me and Brian, right here, and he's not here. That's the issue right now with my boy.

SPEAKER_02 29:49

So cool. What the hell? So I don't know what I was gonna say. That's a good thing. Shifting gears. Shifting gears, man. Um yeah, man. So like I guess like you don't share anything about yourself online, right? So are you Guyanese? Are you trini? Are you full of Trini?

SPEAKER_04 30:08

I'm whatever anybody wants me to be. Oh, so you're you're not anything. I am, but I learned that um if if I and I'm not hiding what I really am, like it's not hard to figure out what I am if you look at my content, but um I I learned from Major Hype, who I've been following for a very long time. Then you gotta be Trini then.

SPEAKER_05 30:27

I don't even know if he's trini. Like, I don't even know what he is. I'm Japanese.

SPEAKER_04 30:30

Yeah, I don't know what he is. I met him and I don't know what he is, you know. But um I learned that me not saying what I am allowed allows people to like draw their own conclusions and larger audience, too. More people can relate to me.

SPEAKER_02 30:45

Make some unique.

SPEAKER_04 30:45

Yeah, I don't want to like put myself in a little box, like a guy needs trinity box, whatever. Like um It's very hard sometimes, right? Yeah, whoever whoever can relate to my stuff, watch my stuff, you know. I don't wanna I don't wanna like put myself I'm already in a small box just making Caribbean content as it is. You know, I don't wanna I don't wanna make it smaller by like just No, that's that's a really interesting way to think.

SPEAKER_06 31:04

Yeah, because a lot of people I gotta ask real quick. I'm so sorry, but I really gotta ask real quick, right? I know you still you you don't want to put yourself in another box, but when you go to all these like Caribbean uh restaurants and you're doing like Caribbean contents and everything, right?

SPEAKER_05 31:16

Yeah, I need some spots to eat after this.

SPEAKER_06 31:18

What do you what do you do with it, like so you go and you wind up with curry? Do you call it chicken curry or chicken?

SPEAKER_04 31:24

Brian, do not open up a can of worms, Brian. Yeah, um, I actually, well, the food review thing, I've I just started doing that.

SPEAKER_05 31:33

Pretty cool, by the way. Curry chicken? Chicken curry. You're not gonna answer that.

SPEAKER_04 31:36

Yeah, I'm not gonna answer. Curry chicken curry, you know, whatever you want, you know. Say as long as you can cook it, you can call whatever you want. I agree, I agree. Um, but but yeah, um I don't yeah, whatever you want me to be, that's what I am.

SPEAKER_02 31:52

But so did that uh like mindset come from major hype or something?

SPEAKER_04 31:57

Yeah, I kind of well, I've been following him since I was like in late middle school, early high school. So like 2015, I've been just watching this stuff, and he I just I learned from him like just cater to everybody, cater to the Jamaicans, cater to the Ghanese, cater to the Bajans, the Chinese, everybody. Just like capitalize off of everybody. Why not? You know, like allow everyone to enjoy stuff and I don't know, just be broad, you know. You know, I don't I'm not on there like talking with no trinity accent, Ghanaian accent, you know, if you just relate, you know, relate to it.

SPEAKER_05 32:26

No, that's that's an interesting way to do it. Have we seen the the um concept like with the speakers coming down and it's uh I gotta I got music in my car, so yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:35

So Dylan, so um I guess like walk us through how you come up with these things. So you seem like a very creative guy. Because some of these these things I'm I look at, I'm like, wow, that's actually really uh you know unique.

SPEAKER_04 32:47

Some of it is just me growing up just in a Caribbean household, Caribbean parents. Um just like certain nuances that you know I picked up on that they do that other you know parents don't really do that are not in our culture. Um so I'll just you know pick from stuff like that. I'll get inspired by other people's like stuff that they post. Like if I see a post that I think is funny and be like, oh that's funny, but I can maybe twist it into a Caribbean way like this. Um yeah, I just I'm always like I do them score like everybody else. I'm seeing like the trending stuff, and you know, I always try to like twist it with a little Caribbean like flavor and just put my little twist on it. That's you know, that's pretty much my process.

SPEAKER_02 33:23

Wow, that's that's that's that's that's that's really great, man. So I guess like from idea to shooting to you know, I guess the final how long does it really take you to um well like uh for example, your graduation one I thought was like pretty cool.

SPEAKER_04 33:40

Yeah, that became like an annual thing that I do. I did it last year too, and it was a hit. So yeah, so um I don't know, it's just a funny thing, like some like just some concepts that I try and do every year, like as an annual thing. Um, but yeah, I'll just see um something funny, and then I'll come maybe I'll come with an idea. Um, I'll write it down in my notes app or whatever, and then I'll plan it out in my head. Like I'll kind of have the video in my head shot edited already. And it's only you, man, right? You don't have like a shit. Yeah, I'm a one-man show. Yeah, besides the food reviews, I have my boy Manny that you know comes with me with the camera and stuff like that. Oh, but it's good.

SPEAKER_05 34:12

One man show you gonna do the show.

SPEAKER_04 34:13

Yeah, I'm just a one-man show. You know, it's it's better, it's more efficient, and um nobody like really knows my like the way I want it to be done better than myself.

SPEAKER_05 34:21

So walk me through your day from like what time you wake up? Give me an example. Oh my god, you don't have you don't have his job, so you know we're giving him home. Say, say 10 a.m. to 12 a.m. What do you do? What is your like well we like to say 90 a.m.

SPEAKER_04 34:34

boring, bro? The thing about it is like my days are so boring. Like I'll I'll wake up 12 o'clock afternoon. What's the breakfast or lunch? Breakfast, okay. So I eat oatmeal every morning for breakfast. Oh, every morning? Yeah, every morning because I eat oatmeal and then I'll just go to the gym. Um, it's like it's like quick like protein. Like, so I just eat some oatmeal, go to the gym.

SPEAKER_05 34:52

But one month straight, you know what's my breakfast? What? Dollar rice and bodgie and shrimp.

SPEAKER_04 34:56

That's not bad. It's amazing. You know? That would be more of like an after workout thing for me. Like I'm at the gym, I'll get like a susceptible. Yeah, I'm just gonna do it. I can eat that anytime.

SPEAKER_05 35:04

Yeah. You have your oatmeal. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 35:08

Love that.

SPEAKER_05 35:08

Amen. You should.

SPEAKER_06 35:10

Come on.

SPEAKER_05 35:11

So you have your oatmeal. What's your oatmeal worth? Just plain oatmeal or fruit powder or bread process.

SPEAKER_04 35:15

No, just oatmeal and milk. Like just I'm not even hungry like when I wake up. You know, you ever had like the dino chicken nuggets? Yeah, but I'm not like that's like some. Maybe when I was like when I was like five years old, maybe.

SPEAKER_06 35:25

I love the dino chicken nuggets with some nice ketchup.

SPEAKER_02 35:27

No, no, no way. So this is what what would I do, right? I could take in raw oats, yeah, protein, peanut butter, and milk. That's it. You see this bonsai? No, no, but it really helps you put put on like on the sides. But yeah, absolutely, man. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_04 35:40

I just don't have an appetite like that in the morning, to be honest. I'll eat something quick and then um, yeah, I head to the gym and then I'll work out for like an hour, an hour 15 maybe. I do that um, I go to the gym Monday through Friday, and I only I only I take rest on Saturday and Sunday. And then um I get home, whatever business stuff I gotta take care of, I'll take care of. Whatever content stuff I gotta take care of, I'll take care of. If I shoot something, if I'm just planning a video out, I'll do that. Um and then I'm I'll just be on social media scrolling, see what's hot, see what's trending. If there's a new song that's like trending, I'll figure out something with that. Um and then I'm just up all night. I'll get on the game with my boys at like, I don't know, like 10 o'clock or whatever. And then that's it, man. Like, I'm a pretty simple guy. I don't have much I don't really hunt my favorite game. I recently got back into Warzone. Recently got back into it.

SPEAKER_05 36:34

Brian Warzone all day. Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_04 36:37

I took a break, I took a breakup from Warzone for a year. I took back. What do you think about the new update? The map kind of sucks, bro. Like the Fortune, I don't like Fortune's Keep. Like, they're back they gotta bring like if they if they're gonna bring back Fortune's Keep. My favorite map, yet? Huh?

SPEAKER_06 36:52

Did you do the Easter egg?

SPEAKER_04 36:53

I didn't play it yet. I didn't play it yet, but um I'm trying to play it tonight, low key.

SPEAKER_02 36:57

But um Yo, I haven't played Warzone in years, man.

SPEAKER_04 37:01

Yeah, I'm I heard it was popping like during COVID.

SPEAKER_05 37:03

But the only time this man plays video games when I come is when I come to this house.

SPEAKER_02 37:08

Yeah, if you're busy.

SPEAKER_04 37:09

Yeah, when I was like when I was busy, I wasn't playing any video games. Like when I was in college, I didn't get a console until after college. Dude, a great game to play.

SPEAKER_05 37:15

I'm not gonna lie to you. First light 007. I love it.

SPEAKER_04 37:18

Really?

SPEAKER_05 37:19

Sounds pretty cool.

SPEAKER_04 37:20

It came out like two weeks ago. Oh, okay. It's amazing. I thought I was playing, well, I'm into Warzone. I play a lot of um Rocket League. Rocket League. I've never been a 2K guy. That's a driving soccer game. Yeah, all right.

SPEAKER_02 37:31

What about the Knicks, man? Knicks and four. Knicks and four, baby. Oh my god, man. When be folded.

SPEAKER_06 37:36

You know, you know, I had my broom last night sweeping. Hey won my one. I had my broom last night sweeping.

SPEAKER_02 37:40

No, but like every game is just like, oh man, it is like so intense, so give me anxiety. Watching three.

SPEAKER_05 37:47

I was at Tribe in the Bronx. Yeah, it's a new new like lounge or whatever. I went there, eating some food, taking a couple drinks, whatever the case is, right? And the energy in there comes from Coley people. Now I said, and two to third. Oh. Coley people. Yeah. And you know, they're not as big basketball. Even uncles, they don't know what's going on as much. But imagine the uncles.

SPEAKER_01 38:09

Just because it's next. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 38:11

Just because it's New York, the energy is live. That's about anybody. Even if you don't know who some auntie was she was saying, go Jeter, go. I was like, what you mean? Yeah, Jeter's a baseball player. But New York, just because it's New York, everybody.

SPEAKER_04 38:25

That's the good thing about it, is a unity is because like I'm not I'm not like a diehard basketball watcher, but ever since last year, like when we made it to the playoffs, like I started like picking up on it last year. Like Paces. Yeah, yeah, like I'm not a big like I was never like a big basketball watcher, but I but like I just got put onto it by like one of my sister's friends that was like watching it, and that got, you know, I got hooked on it like it's crazy. I didn't even know you had a sister. Yeah, it got well that's another thing I don't keep, you know. So like I'm very private online, but that's fine, that's fine.

SPEAKER_02 38:52

No, but yo, great job, man, because like doing a phenomenal job. Yeah, post like their family and stuff, and uh that's what I get that's yeah, I keep online in it.

SPEAKER_04 39:00

Like, I'm just here for the content. I'm not here for you to for people to get into my business and know my family and stuff, stuff like that. I'll put my dad on there because he's a character in his own. Like people like love my dad when I post him on there, but I'm not like really posting my mom or my sister or any like that's fun.

SPEAKER_02 39:15

Yeah, I think because you don't speak to one specific, you know, I guess, audience, you've been able to grow so so large, right? Yeah, you're growing phenomenally. Yeah, dude, you're doing an awesome job, right? Because like I guess if you like identified as hey, I'm a truny creator or a guy who's creator, you sort of limit yourself to those things. Yeah, so man, so I guess throughout the years, have you have any brands like approached you for any like brand deals or anything like that?

SPEAKER_04 39:39

Any caramel cream soda? Um, nothing like that yet. Um, I did get to go to trade at Carnival. Oh, we were there.

SPEAKER_02 39:46

Oh, we were there, man. I think I think we were there around the same topic. Oh, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 39:49

I think I wasn't there, but I was there. Yeah, I got to go on the um on a cruise ship called Epic Carnival. Oh they sponsored me to go on there. So that was dope. You was alone or you were with people? I was able to get a plus one. Oh, you had a plus one. Yeah, so I so I brought a plus one with me, but it was yeah, it was cool, and I was able to like network. That's how I met Major Hype, he was on there too. Um I met um Junior Lee, like all the other creators, like Was that your first time there, man? For Carnival, yes. We met DJ Private Ryan.

SPEAKER_05 40:15

Oh man, we met Travis World. Yeah, I was at Soca Brainwash. I saw Travis World too. Yeah, it was a brainwash. We was at uh well uh what what's the one? What was it?

SPEAKER_02 40:23

I don't know, Brandon. Try a whole bunch of things.

SPEAKER_05 40:25

Yeah, we did a bit like the minute we landed, we were for doubles, eight, boom, straight to it. Yeah. We were trying to get tickets for the Sunday morning one, like at 3 a.m. I forgot the name of it. But um, what was it? It was some of those times, man. Yeah, those times started out. I missed one of mine because this man was sleeping, I'm here drinking, punching at like four in the morning. Yeah. And this man's sleeping, I was like, well, and the best part about it, we went to a fet at like 12 o'clock at night, fed all this at 6 a.m. I took like a doze off, so like an hour in the car, woke back up, I was in Moroccas beach. Yeah, threw me in there, ready to go drinking.

SPEAKER_02 40:59

Very unique experience, man. What about you? You said you missed one.

SPEAKER_04 41:02

Yeah, I missed one of my feds. Which one did you miss? It was called Mecca. That's where we were at the Thursday night. The cooler fet. Oh, okay, okay. Yeah, I ended up missing that one. I was I was at a different one before that. Um Mecca Tribe. I forgot the name. I think I think it was like Duck Work, and then there was a Wednesday. Did you go to the um the army one? No, I didn't go to that one.

SPEAKER_05 41:24

There was like a beach party fair, like a yeah, I didn't go to that one more.

SPEAKER_04 41:26

I think I think that happened before like my cruise ship got to Trinidad. Well, Doreen, when you go, are you going this year? I'm gonna try.

SPEAKER_05 41:33

Me and him and this guy right here, we're going. We gotta go. Okay. Right? So let us know.

SPEAKER_02 41:38

I mean, I'm not a big part party guy in the first place, but like being around that energy was like, wow, this is it was cool to see.

SPEAKER_04 41:44

Well, one person that I really wanted to see perform live was young Berta because he never like comes to the States. I don't know what's on with his visa or whatever, but he never like comes here. So seeing him perform was like dope. And he always like shows love on my posts too. Like he like reports a couple of my stuff, like likes my stuff.

SPEAKER_05 41:58

So I got a question for you. You ever ate eight doubles or eight aloe pie with pepper sauce? Yeah. Eight, eight, the number eight, ocho. The number after seven, just to be exact. That's just eight, eight, double. No, hold on. I gotta I gotta ask between eight and eight. No, no. Did you eat did you eat eight aloe pie or doubles? What pepper is that? Bro, you stay quiet. You know exactly where I'm going with it. I don't know. Well, I have a friend, right? He ate eight aloe pie. We're marching, I'm drinking, having a good time, you know. Everybody having a good time. This man gotta use the bathroom in the middle. Yeah, you're kind of looking for that when you eat it. No names, Richie. No names.

SPEAKER_02 42:31

I don't know who that is, man. Of course you don't know who that is. What a tail that is, man. They didn't even have to edit this one, too. Yeah. No, but Jalen, like the pepper sauce there, bro, is like another. It's different. It's different. Even my dad be making his own. No, but this guy had eight alu pai. No, but dude, like the pepper sauce, like, you know, we eat here. I could eat all day. Yeah. I'm fine. All right. But as soon as we went there and I had doubles, I had bacon shark, I had aloopai. I'm like, this is different, right? It's like much more potent for sure, right? Yeah. Straight from like mother's milk. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 43:03

I don't really, I don't I I stay away from that kind of stuff. Yeah. I'll eat like a little bit of. I don't like OD on end though. Like my dad can eat pepper sauce all day, long with everything. He'll put it on everything. He'll put on pasta. I'm not the right guy. You know it's the right guy. Yeah, he'll put on pasta. I'm like, he'll put on pizza. It's meant for pepper sauce and coffee. Yeah, like I'm not doing all of that, bro. I like to enjoy my food and not be like in pain.

SPEAKER_06 43:24

Pepper sauce and a coffee. I said, man.

SPEAKER_04 43:26

Oh, he's exaggerating.

SPEAKER_06 43:27

I'm not lying.

SPEAKER_05 43:27

I've seen him on us. How are you supposed to taste it? This man eats anything. You not see this bite size?

SPEAKER_02 43:34

No, no, but look, let me tell you guys something. The doubles in Trinidad, man, like really makes everything here. How big was the bar? What?

SPEAKER_05 43:42

Shout out to Jagasar, son. Yeah, wow.

SPEAKER_02 43:44

Bro, I couldn't even hold it. The thing is like so huge. No, what was the best food you had in Trinidad, man?

SPEAKER_04 43:50

Definitely the doubles.

SPEAKER_02 43:59

Nice, nice.

SPEAKER_04 44:00

So that the first thing I ate when I touched down was like get some doubles, get some coconut water.

SPEAKER_02 44:03

So they they flew you out there just to go on the cruise. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 44:05

They flew me to Puerto Rico to catch the cruise from Puerto Rico.

SPEAKER_02 44:08

That's a migration, right? That's cool.

SPEAKER_04 44:10

And then yeah, the the the ship sailed to Trinidad.

SPEAKER_02 44:13

And how how long is the trip from Puerto Rico to Trinidad? Um like three days.

SPEAKER_04 44:18

Three days, yeah, like three days on the water, yeah. And then you went back to Puerto Rico. Um, so what happened was is there was like a little miscommunication with my um plus one because um she met me in Trinidad instead of coming because she was like doing finals or whatever, so she couldn't come with me to Puerto Rico. But what they didn't tell me was is that if you board on Trinidad, you have to get off the ship in Trinidad or Tobago.

SPEAKER_05 44:39

Oh well, how long was it?

SPEAKER_04 44:40

Well, how long was the cruise originally? The whole the whole thing was the whole thing was ten days. But they didn't tell me that Oh, but that's a that's a pretty big thing.

SPEAKER_05 44:48

Yeah, at the time, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:49

All inclusive?

SPEAKER_04 44:50

Yeah, it was all inclusive, yeah. Nice man, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:52

I would have drinking everything. Well, even though they had like Trinity food on the ship. Oh, that's great.

SPEAKER_04 44:57

Yeah, they had stuff on there. The oxel on the ship was actually really good. They had bhaji? Um yeah, there was bhaji on there, yeah. They gotta make sure, they gotta make sure. Yeah, but they had sai jum baji. They had everything on there. I love my saijun bodgy. But um, but I didn't I didn't like catch the cruise like back to Puerto Rico like I was originally supposed to. Yeah, I ended up just staying in Trinidad because she could have come back with me to to Puerto Rico. And I'm not gonna leave her in Trinidad, you know. She ain't even from Trinidad, so I just um I call my dad. My dad's always in Trinidad. I guess I kind of just leaked that over.

SPEAKER_01 45:28

We'll edit that part up.

SPEAKER_04 45:30

We'll edit that part up. It's I'm gonna go.

SPEAKER_02 45:32

Give it away, give it away. We'll edit up part. I sort of I need to.

SPEAKER_04 45:35

Honestly, but but again, like I'm not hiding where I'm from. Like, you don't even have to edit that, like I'm not hiding where I'm from, you know. I know what it is. Um I'm just like I'm not going out of my way to say where I'm from, but I'm not gonna like act like I'm not from where I'm from.

SPEAKER_02 45:45

Like, no, yeah, but I feel like it adds a layer of like mystery.

SPEAKER_05 45:49

I'm just like, oh, it doesn't matter, you know why? Because whatever you're doing, you're only going up. Yeah, so you're doing a great job. So whatever you're doing, keep on doing it.

SPEAKER_02 45:58

Yeah, so like I'm surprised no brands have like approached you and said, hey, like, you know, do you wanna uh sort of have our products? Uh can you they'll sort of sponsor you, things like that.

SPEAKER_04 46:08

Maybe like um, like small, like I would get clothes sent to me for free. Like where this, like well, don't worry. The kickback podcast, they'll be there soon. Yeah, like people send like people send me stuff to like wear like in my videos. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I've done it. I kind of stepped away from doing that because I want I might have start making my own stuff. So um I kind of stepped away from like wearing other people's clothes. Um, but yeah, not I mean there's always people reaching out to me, but I'm not taking like I don't know if it is if I don't feel like it's gonna align with like my type of content, yeah, yeah. I'm not really gonna take it. The the cruise thing was cool because um I was able to go to training and like shoot like IRL stuff like engine and ad. So that was cool. And then like I get to like do the whole you know experience with the um carnival and stuff like that. I get to shoot like all like the fets I went to and stuff like that. So that was cool.

SPEAKER_02 46:54

Yeah, I'm sure, man. You get to meet some really cool.

SPEAKER_04 46:56

Yeah, met some cool people.

SPEAKER_05 46:58

So content creating, what like drove you into that direction? Like, why become a content creator? Why did you choose that part again?

SPEAKER_04 47:07

I didn't even choose it. It kind of just chose me. Like, that's not to sound corny, but like that's kind of what happened. Like, yeah, yeah. I never like went out of, I was like, uh, let me just like try and get poppin' online. Like, that was never my thing. I'm like, I'm like actually really introverted, like it was it's not even it's not even really me to like put myself out there like that. It's uh like but my love for just creating it it kind of like is over like my introvertness, so it kind of just worked out to where um I was just making stuff and people resonated with what I was creating, and that's all it was like people saw that I was just you know authentic.

SPEAKER_02 47:39

That's so cool, man. Because like yeah, I guess online you seem very extroverted. Yeah, and speaking to you now, I see that you're kind of introverted, very like private and personal. That's that's great. Yeah, that's cool. But I'm just like, wow, like you said, the mystery behind it. Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of people. That's what draws everybody in. Well, well, done. So look, if someone was trying to get into content, right, and grow their page to where your page is right now, right? What advice would you you just gotta be yourself?

SPEAKER_04 48:04

Like, don't like don't be copying people because when you copy people, you you're already not gonna get there's already someone else like that, you know. So just be yourself. Um, what I do is I just post what I would like if I saw it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So like if I like I'm just gonna I I'm posting stuff that that I genuinely would like it if someone else posted it. Um so like if if I don't like it, I'm not gonna post it. Like if I think it's funny, more than likely someone else is gonna think it's funny, you know? And if they don't, they don't, but most people do. So um it just comes down to me putting out just what I like to watch myself, you know. I grew up watching a lot of different content creators, not even just Caribbean people. I grew up like watching a lot of YouTube, like YouTubers and stuff like that, um, back in the day. So that's a good thing. Yeah, so I I just I always I kind of knew like how to like once I got into that creator like mode, I kind of knew how to like I kind of had some people to like model it after. Yeah. And um like in editing styles and stuff like that. Um I I kind of like have the algorithm a little figured out now to where I know what's gonna get pushed and um what's not. How much follows you guys, if you don't mind me asking you? I have two.

SPEAKER_05 49:13

Well, up to date. I know I follow you, but I just don't know.

SPEAKER_04 49:15

Yeah, I have like two. Uh can I be honest? I don't even really keep up with the follower count, to be honest. I took a look before you came here, it was like 274.

SPEAKER_02 49:21

Yeah, it's like yeah, something like blocking you. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 49:23

Well, you came out, I want to know, right? Yeah, it's it's like 400 something thousand on TikTok. It's it's 200 something on Instagram. Um, I just like started getting like popping on Facebook a little bit. So I'm like about it. Oh, the Monty them. Yeah, the auntie, the auntie, yeah, the aunties on Facebook are messing with me. So I'm about to hit 10k on Facebook.

SPEAKER_05 49:40

That's good. All I'm seeing is you you started here. The only way you're going, yeah, that's what I keep it up.

SPEAKER_04 49:47

It's just consistency.

SPEAKER_05 49:48

I love the content, love what you do. Yeah, I appreciate that. You know, so big shout outs to you, man.

SPEAKER_04 49:52

Yeah, I appreciate that for instruments to play. My favorite instrument. Um, I'm actually just gonna say the piano just because I've been playing it since I was like four years old.

SPEAKER_02 50:00

Oh man, I tried to learn the piano last year. That's pretty hard.

SPEAKER_04 50:04

Yeah, it's hard if we try to do it like as an adult, but like when you're a kid, like my I have the type of parents where like they just put me in piano. Like I play, I play the alto, the socks. I'll never try piano. Yeah, um, they just put me like in in music. I was in my church playing too, like when I was super young.

SPEAKER_02 50:19

You could reread the um sort of notes and everything.

SPEAKER_05 50:22

Yeah, so so let me ask you is it church or temple? For me, it's church.

SPEAKER_04 50:26

All right, yeah, for me, yeah. I grew up Christian. Um nothing wrong with that. Yeah, I grew up in a Christian household, which is another like layer of my content too. I like do some church videos and some of those go super viral.

SPEAKER_06 50:36

I used to go to Sunday school.

SPEAKER_04 50:38

Sunday school, yeah. I used to go to Sunday school, I used to go to youth group, I used to do all of it. I used to play in the church band. Um I used to play a piano.

SPEAKER_06 50:48

Yeah. The seven pieces and stuff like that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 50:50

Did you play the uh drums tomorrow? Yeah, so I kind of taught myself the drum kit. Um I was like, Oh, we're gonna have you play some tasa, just haven't. Yeah, so uh yeah, I never touched a tassa before, so I'm kind of interested to see how that's gonna go.

SPEAKER_06 51:01

Pretty much like like a percentage like a percussion.

SPEAKER_04 51:03

Yeah, so I so I did percussion in like in like band in school. But just these these six flacks. So yeah, I noticed that, yeah. But um, yeah, so I grew up like around music my whole life. Like music is music shaped my personality. And any one of your family members like playing music, yeah. Yeah, just playing music, and even just it just coming down to like what my dad played for me as a kid. Like, I grew up heavy on reggae, I grew up heavy on dancehall. Um, my dad my dad was never like a real chutney-leg uh listener. So I didn't really listen to that a lot, but like I was like heavy into like um But Danny, I saw that I mean I'm sorry, man.

SPEAKER_02 51:39

Uh you have some songs on Spotify, right?

SPEAKER_04 51:43

Yeah, so those are so those songs are not like meant to be taken seriously, those are just parodies. Yeah, you can sing all for us right now.

SPEAKER_03 51:51

Um she teething people, man, as if that is all she knows. Oh, Auntie, yeah. That was the first one that I did.

SPEAKER_04 52:03

And then um, them girl and them so lazy, they don't know how to cook.

SPEAKER_06 52:09

Hold on, let me let me let me get this straight, right? So, you know, you just mentioned that your dad was more into like this reggae field, like more into like hip hop and like RB and all these types of things, right? Yeah, it's that's pretty much like where reggae is kind of, right? It's more like it just kind of socks. How the hell did you manage to anti-ratic?

SPEAKER_04 52:29

Well, well, so what happened was is I kind of like put myself onto Chutney music as I got more into like this content creation. Like when so I'm like it was it's kind of cool because me becoming a content creator, like in the Caribbean space, got me more into my culture because now I'm discovering stuff that I didn't really grow up on, such as like um like the Chutney stuff and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_05 52:49

Um let me ask you, are they original?

SPEAKER_04 52:51

Like, are they like they're parodies, like yeah, they're parodies. Like all I all I really do, I just I don't I I just take a beat that the freestyle.

SPEAKER_02 52:59

No, but don't the um the song that you put out during Christmas time, I thought that was pretty cool.

SPEAKER_03 53:10

One, two, three. Let me go. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 53:16

Those of this, yeah, yeah. Those I take okay, so those I take a little more seriously than the Chutney songs because Chutney is like the Perong's stupid. Yeah, the Purang I take a little more seriously because that's um that's not really something that is like I don't know. I just don't feel like that's the type of genre that you really want to play with. Like I feel like if you're I think if you make a Purang song, like you want to like do it like a good one. Like make it funny, but like do a good attempt. Like a Chutney song, like Chutney has always been kind of like like a little goofy, like you can make yeah. Like there's a song right now that's popping about a like a guy talking about bread. Like yeah, like Melissa, Melissa's the big thing. Yeah, like you can like I don't know, you can make a Chutney song by anything.

SPEAKER_02 53:53

Like come sit down, my puckere. Yeah, like you gotta go home, son. Come sit down, yeah. No, well, uh that song is not bad. It's a great song. I kind of song.

SPEAKER_06 54:05

Huh?

SPEAKER_02 54:05

This one song that I shout out, my boy Mario, bro.

SPEAKER_06 54:08

Yo, Brian, Mario said, shout him out. Yo, definitely shout out to you, Mario.

SPEAKER_02 54:11

Man, shout out to my man. Dylan, you want to shout out your uh personal barber, dude? My barber? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 54:18

Shout out to my boy Justin, I guess. That's not what we're getting.

SPEAKER_02 54:21

What would we get in the front? Yo, our barber man's like, yo, shout us out in the episode.

SPEAKER_04 54:24

Amazing. Shout out to all barbers, man. I got a Dominican barber. Yeah, we got Dominican Bob, dude.

SPEAKER_02 54:29

Well, look, look, look.

SPEAKER_06 54:30

Don't sleep on the Dominican barbers, bro. You got a Dominican barber in Queens? In Long Island. In Long Island.

SPEAKER_02 54:35

I went to high school with them. Yeah. Dominican people cut hair so well, man. Yeah. So well. Like I'm like, why? Yeah, they for Tuda's lit. Yo. Facts.

SPEAKER_05 54:45

Facts. Tuda lit, yeah. What?

SPEAKER_04 54:47

Yeah. And then you go in there, you hear the nice pachata music in the barbershop. Like, yo, can't you? No, it's it's always so funny when they're like they have beers.

SPEAKER_05 54:56

You know, yeah, that's what I'm saying. Oh, that's part about them, right? They be drinking beers drunk as hell and they cut your hair and mushroom. I'm almost like that. I'll tell you one thing.

SPEAKER_06 55:03

I'll tell you one thing about a Dominican barbershop. You go into a Dominican barbershop and you're it's worse than a fish market. Literally worse than a fish market.

SPEAKER_02 55:11

And guys, wait, whoa, whoa. How?

SPEAKER_06 55:14

How? Bro, do you not hear the conversation that it's like it's like all right, so you see how we're here, like, and we're talking, right? Yeah, yeah. These guys are talking to each other right here, next to each other.

SPEAKER_02 55:26

And it's like me, okay, come on.

SPEAKER_06 55:29

Right. It's like they're talking to someone across the street or across the road, or you feel me? Like they're talking to somebody back in the room. Yeah. Yeah, but why you gotta be so loud?

SPEAKER_04 55:40

I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 55:42

I understand you're trying to get your, you know, I try to get your messages. My mommy will stand right there and she's talking to me and she's yelling at me.

SPEAKER_05 55:49

Ryan, why are you coming home so late for?

SPEAKER_06 55:51

I'm in the chair. I'm waiting patiently to get my hair cut. I'm blah blah blah blah blah blah in my ears.

SPEAKER_02 56:00

Can you fall asleep, man, in the chair? No. I fall asleep all the time.

SPEAKER_04 56:05

No, I need to see what's going on in my head.

SPEAKER_05 56:07

You got a video of Brian falling asleep literally two days ago. Yeah, no.

SPEAKER_04 56:11

Yeah, no, I'm not falling asleep in the chair. I need to I need to be checking, you know, make sure you, you know, he is the sideburns are even and stuff like that on both sides. My barber's pretty good, though. I don't really have to check on him like that. But I'm also just talking to him too. Like we converse, we like we converse.

SPEAKER_05 56:23

My guy don't even speak English, so. Yeah, well, he speaks English. So I'm sorry, we added that part out. Yeah, we we get to talk and chop it. I love him, I love him, I love my guy to death, man.

SPEAKER_06 56:32

Nixon four, man.

SPEAKER_05 56:33

Yeah, that has nothing to do with a barbershop.

SPEAKER_06 56:36

Nixon four. Because that's all the barbershop's talking about right now, because they're not talking about baseball. They gotta talk about it.

SPEAKER_05 56:43

Dude, I went to a Yankee game just yesterday, man, and the freaking Yankees lost to Boston Red Sox, man. Like I said, you go to the ball. He heard his red understandable, but like, come on, man.

SPEAKER_02 56:53

What a time to go to a game. Like, this is the the Knicks run the fight. No, so here this.

SPEAKER_05 56:56

Here it is. Hold on. Hold on, wait, wait, wait, wait.

SPEAKER_06 57:00

The Yankees game was going on and they were playing the Knicks game. So do you know that, do you know that I just checked that, I just checked that um uh tick pic, right? Uh the cheapest tickets is ten thousand seven hundred and seventy thousand dollars. That's okay.

SPEAKER_05 57:16

Yo, yo, don't worry. You see this man right here? He don't pay for us.

SPEAKER_02 57:19

I can't, I can't. What the hell? That's his thing. You said it was PG 13. No, but I would love to go to the game, man. Like, I dude, I have I've been watching the Knicks for my entire life.

unknown 57:29

Right?

SPEAKER_06 57:30

Planning on making my own broom to take to the game. The broom? The pint the broom.

unknown 57:37

No.

SPEAKER_04 57:37

It'd be nice to be in there. But you know, that's just that's just that's just like economics. Like, do you follow basketball a lot or just like just like at the end like now? Like if the Knicks weren't even playing right now, I probably wouldn't be following it, to be honest. Like, I'm I'm a very I'm a super casual like watcher. Okay, there's nothing. I'm not gonna act like I'm like a diehard like Knicks fan. Like been watching. Well, the man about you is a diehard Knicks fan. What about like football, man? Any other sport you watch other? Nothing besides basketball right now. Like, I've never no baseball no Yankees Mets. I never even played sports growing up. I'm like, yeah, I was just like I was like the band kid. Like, you know, I wasn't watching band, like instead of growing up in the Bronx. Yeah, I was playing the snare, bro. I was playing the snare drum, I was playing the bass drum, I was playing, you know, the symbols. We should be able to play this no problem. Yeah, you know, we'll get into it. We'll see what's happening later.

SPEAKER_05 58:19

Growing up in the Bronx, like I can't speak for us, but growing up in the Bronx, like as a training guy, right? I was like the only Indian kid on the team. Like, and I used to, these guys used to walk all over me, and I was like, I can't do it. Yeah, nobody. So you gotta be tough. Like, he could even tell you because he we go to growing up, I went to a Catholic school. The school that I work at is the school I went to. Okay, right. So growing up, seeing all these kids, African American, Latino, and good at baseball, good at basketball, I'm like, nah, they can't push me around. I used to I remember playing football, I couldn't even catch the ball. Yeah. Until I made the team and I was running back. Well, not for my school, I played off league. Yeah. And I was a beast. I was a beast, but it's just doing what you like. If you put your mind to it, you'll get it. Because I wasn't the biggest sport guy, but growing up, sports changed my life. I met people playing like I got an arm. And I didn't even know I had an arm. I would have a bullshit.

SPEAKER_04 59:11

I wish I would have been in sports. Like, I wish my parents would have done it for me, but it's amazing. They wanted me to do a bandit. They didn't want me getting hurt. Like, you know, I wasn't a big guy, I was a small kid.

SPEAKER_05 59:19

So my mom, but my dad was like, 'Cause my mom's like, oh, you got a pretty face. Psh. I didn't care about it. My mom was bored. My mom loved my face. Yeah. But I didn't care about the face. Yeah. You know, go black eye. Running back getting tackled. I don't know if he's concussion. Yeah, no, my parents like do sports.

SPEAKER_04 59:36

Like they didn't do any sports, like when like so it wasn't really their world. But they just wanted me to like, um, I don't know, they wanted me to have some extra curricular thing. So it was like piano and you know, I'll be doing like comp like shout out to the people that know about NISMont. Um, I was like doing like state like um tests, like like stuff like that, um, where you get like a little award if you like, you know, they test you on like the side, like they'll give you like a sheet of like music to like just read. They'll test your rudiments and stuff like that for the drums and stuff like that. Um, so I was just heavy in that. I was playing it in church, I was playing in school, I was just I just grew up around like that's awesome music. I was born in Queens, but I grew up more in Long Island.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:16

But you stole my question. Yeah, that's because like I guess most of the community is in Queens, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:23

But it actually is a lot of people like going to Long Island now, like especially like in Valley Stream. Like there's like a big yeah, there's like a big community there.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:30

Um the thing about brown people, I feel like you know, they're everywhere. Yeah, like sometimes I just like we're like in the most crazy space. Randomest spot ever. This year we went to play in um Cape Cod, and there were like a bunch of brown people there. Yeah, and it was a great wedding. Yeah, yeah, it was pretty fun. Pretty fun to look at.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:45

Yeah, my boy who does my camera work for me when I do the food reviews, he's Guyanese and he lives up the street from me. Oh, that's awesome. So yeah, there's like there's a there's still a population like where I'm at. Um, it's just not as like um dense as it is here, I guess.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:00

Oh bro, I'm sorry. I feel like I was talking the whole episode, so I'm gonna stay quiet now.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:04

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:05

Um what is wrong with you, Brandon?

SPEAKER_06 1:01:11

So yeah, uh, you know, creating content, right? And doing this or during like COVID time, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:01:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:17

Being the fact that there wasn't really like that much stuff for you to do, and there wasn't really like that much places for you to go because you know there was a cut for you out.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:26

Um was it like difficult for you to like you know, create stuff? Like doing it.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:32

I don't think that really had an effect on me to create stuff. I was and I was doing it super like bass. I was just like green screening myself and in my environment. You was green screening? I was just green screening, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:42

Dude, where have you got that chain from? That chain is you like it? So fire, man.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:46

Shout out I want to get one just but just with like the KIC logo. Shout out to uh my jeweler, her name is Mary. She's an older, she's an old white lady, but she's like Long Island or Queens? But she went crazy. Nah, nah, she's in Long Island, but she went crazy on this.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:01

I'm actually Let her know, let her know. Shout out, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:03

Shout out to Mary. Um, I'm actually gonna actually melt this down and make another one, and I'm gonna flip it so it says Dylan on this side, and it'll say Mac on this side.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:12

So no, so we had another guy on here. Everybody knows him, Das Delhi.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:16

I actually saw that podcast. He has, he has his chain's gold. Sounds pretty cool. Yeah. That's all I want just for us, just for like, you know, us. Yeah, Brandon. Got it. I'm gonna as you can see, I have this chain on my neck. The same one right here, right? I probably had this chain on, and I never took it off. Yeah. Since I was like, I want to say 20.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:35

Also, gold is like a really good investment. Like, I love silver.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:38

I don't even wear it. I have gold, but I'd rather silver.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:40

Yeah, I'm a gold type of guy, so I like parking in my money in gold. Like, so I don't broke, so yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:47

I'm sorry because gold is on a rise right now, so definitely, definitely gold is where you can.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:53

Yeah, luckily I made this before it went super high in value, so I didn't have to like pay like too crazy for this piece.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:58

No dude, it looks great.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:59

Yeah, but now it's worth a lot more than what I paid like to get it made. So that's like that's a cool thing about gold, is like you can just like it's like a Pokemon card. Yeah, you can like value. It's like a it's like a bank. You can just park your money and go like have some gold like in the house, like some jewelry, wear it. And then if push comes to shelves and you gotta like you need some money, like melt the gold or sell it or whatever, and then somebody will buy it. And I don't know, but I like making pieces like this, and I don't know, jewelry is like a new thing that I'm like I it's another thing that I like to collect.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:27

Yeah, yeah, that's awesome, man. Dylan, so I guess with the way the content has gone so far, you said you started about six years ago. Yeah. Um where would you like it to go? Where do you did you ever have like a question? Oh my god. Well, Brandon's God! Yeah, but you start originally. No, yeah, yeah, man. So like um I guess do you have like a vision of where you would like it to be in terms of growth or for myself?

SPEAKER_04 1:03:52

Yeah, um, well, right now I'm trying to get the um the food review thing going. Um there's a lot of uh cool things. There's a lot of places I can go, yeah. Um but the food review thing is mainly well, now I'm in a place now where because I have a bigger audience, I'm just trying to use my audience to just highlight other like smaller like people, businesses, stuff like that, which is where the food review thing really came from. It was just me trying to give back um to the community and highlight different businesses. So um that's what the food review thing is about. And where has been the best place to be eating so far?

SPEAKER_05 1:04:23

Yo, yeah. I was gonna ask next. Like, I see like you going to all these restaurants and trying to all hungry as we speak. That's why I'm like spot to go to.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:33

You went to Greenleaf Bistro. I did, yeah. So that's pretty cool because it's the only like healthy spot on that street.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:39

He went to like a trinity spot like a couple days ago. Like I saw it, I was like, I saw the jerk chicken, the jerk lamb, jerk.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:45

No, because I'd be going there too, man. Right? When I when I'm in Queens and I don't want to eat like rotier doubles all the time.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:51

Yeah, shout out Steven, bro. That was crazy, that one, because he brought the whole thing, like he made everything on the menu and put it all out for me to try. No, no, no. For the last place that I did on the city.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:00

Yeah, no, no, so I saw that. I was like, yo, you eat swell. Yeah, no, that was crazy. And you don't put on size of towel.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:05

I don't. Yeah, that's that's my mom's jeans, bro. I'm coming. Yeah, mom. I couldn't get fat if even if I tried to. I couldn't. Tomatoes.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:18

That's what I'm taking in on.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:20

I'm taking it in. Yeah. Yeah. Um, but but yeah, so the food review thing is cool. Um, I'm excited to keep doing that. Actually, me and my boy Manny.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:29

What started what started you with the food review?

SPEAKER_04 1:05:32

So, yeah, so me and my boy Manny actually had the idea.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:34

We were first of all, we were just gonna try um, we had this idea in the winter time, and we were like, whatever leftovers you got, so I'm gonna give you an address, drop it over after.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:42

Yeah, I've I'll be sharing it out everywhere. But um, but me and my boy Manny, we had an idea in the winter time. We were like, Well, you know, when it gets like warmer outside, let's go just like trying to see who has the best doubles. Like, let's just try to think like like let's just go like doubles taste as it and just compare the doubles between spween spots, super unbiased, stuff like that. And then um It just so happened that there's a guy who owns a food cart right in front of Toxic on the window.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:08

That brown paper bag? He hit me up in my DMs. 123rd. Amazing. Yeah, he hit me up.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:13

We still, you know, I'm sorry to cut you off real quick. But that brown paper bag for rice has been in my mind for the longest. So we're going tonight. We're going tonight. We got to go back. Apparently. It was really good. Yeah. A lot of people were saying the hacks had the brown paper bag, right? But for some odd reason, apparently it's not the best. I don't know. Um I have to hit a thing. I have to try that brown paper bag first from the cart, and then do my comparison.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:42

Right? And then I'll be able to buy it. But nothing be.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:44

I was a guy. And I'm not even Guyanese. Listen, anti-suit, ain't nobody gonna be a shit. I had a brown paperback for his. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:52

Yeah. Amazing. So he hit me up in my DMs, and so I I told Manny, I was like, this is like low-key like our chance. Like it kind of like the opportunity that we just like fill in our lap. So instead of like it just being like doubles, now we can just just broaden it up, just make it everything, you know? The food card, the restaurant here, the healthy spot here. Like, I don't know. And I just think it's dope like just to put people on. Like the guy with the paperback. Um, I I'm forgetting his name, bro. I can't, whatever, but don't worry. Shout out to the brown people. Yeah, shout out to the paperback, bro. Um, and his food is really good.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:21

And we get him here one day. Looks like I used to get him here.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:24

Yeah, he's super chill too. Like, super like a cool guy. Listen, if we do get him, just make sure you tell him. He better bring some food.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:30

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:31

No, no, he edited that part out too.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:33

Yeah, he'll bring it. Like, he got some dope, like rasta pasta. Oh, yeah, like that.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:36

I've tasted the rice and the chicken, the jerk chicken. Yeah. The pasta, the rasta pasta. Oh man, yeah, it's dope. His man has a good hand.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:44

Got some really nice uh jerk chicken, mac and cheese.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:47

Um, what's it called? Uh it's on Atlantic. Caribbean. No, so Caribbean Heat. Caribbean heat. That's what it's called, right? Yeah, yeah. Oh, I've been there before. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I've been there. You know what you're gonna try?

SPEAKER_05 1:07:59

His dad's fish cakes. It's amazing. Richie, don't start. His dad's fish cakes.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:06

With the mango sauce.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:08

I'm not gonna try anything. But yeah, so so um, so basically, yeah, I it started out with him. We tried that video. He told next weekend he texted me, like the food car went crazy from the video. And people were coming up to him saying that he watched like they watched our video, and like, so that was dope. And then um, yeah, I did um Trini Delight was the second one. I did shock. Yeah, they were dope too. Um, they let us like film like in the in the back and stuff like that. Super cool people. It's like it's just dope. So like, I don't know. I like to be like, I like to be a part of like the community and like know people and like you know what spot you gotta try?

SPEAKER_05 1:08:42

Trinity Jam, Brooklyn. Okay, we shoot the whole time. But that man over up there, Trinity Jam's a shout out to Trinity Jam, man. Yeah, yo, but that man could they could cook over there, man. Brooklyn, yeah. Where's it over Chi? Where's it at? Is it Best Thai?

SPEAKER_02 1:08:56

That's a good question. I think I think it is, I think it's Best Thai. Yeah, they amazing, man. The rum punch.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:01

I'm sure you get yourself a rum punch. Yeah, okay. You probably might have to get like five.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:04

Like you know, I don't know about five, but actually, we're going there soon. Yeah, we're going there soon. Dude, the food the food there top tier. So where do you think has the best sort of doubles?

SPEAKER_04 1:09:16

Okay, so I'm I'm gonna be a little bit biased here because I just I've been eating at the spot. If you need the mask, I got you right here. I've just been eating at this spot my whole life, and it's because my dad would just always bring it for me, like whenever he's in the area. Things trin city, trin city. No, Trinity Maps. Leopard's all lift.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:32

Trinity hands down got the best doubles and the Pilori.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:38

Yeah, I pretty much just grew up on the doubles and the Pilori. I said every time we're like out there, we just go get some Pilori, some doubles, caramel, solo.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:45

Like I'll love me or Caramel. Yeah, speaking of caramel. I used to eat the eight-pack by myself. I did the same thing. Yeah, I'll die it'll go in one thing. One nip, so I used to do it in one hour.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:56

Listen, I got two. So you know how camera got the they got they got the four, they got the four pack, yeah, and then they got the eight-pack, yeah, and then they got the like the gigantic ones, bro. The gigantic ones was like 16 in the in the pack, right? I could eat that thing within like two hours. Yeah, I can eat it in one with a case, with a case of lemonade. Yeah, a case. A case of lemonade. How much bottles are the case?

SPEAKER_04 1:10:23

Yeah. So I'm going with Trin City, me personally. Yeah. What about you guys? What do you guys think?

SPEAKER_05 1:10:28

It's hard, man, because like I'm not gonna lie to you. I back in the day growing up, my dad and mom, I used to love Sings doubles. Nah. Love a sing double.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:36

Well, back in the day, I said back in the day. No, well, we don't we don't want to you know say anything bad about anything. Of course, of course, of course.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:41

Here's the thing, right? Here's the thing Sings was was good.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:45

Also, hold on, I got let me just cut you off real quick. Shout out to Sings. They also be showing me a lot of love of my content. They'd be commenting, pull content over there. Yeah, yeah, I definitely want to hit them up too. I don't think they want me to pull up, and it's not hitting me up yet, but uh, I pull up on it. Yo, if you go there, try some palau. So you heard me, Brian?

SPEAKER_05 1:10:59

Pilau.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:00

That's what I was trying to say, right? Sings was amazing, right? I'm talking about Sings was popping, their food was banging. Up until when the chef, the head chef.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:10

Yeah, man, I don't know what the hell they do there.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:12

Well, like I feel like the chefs change all the chefs change all the time, right?

SPEAKER_05 1:11:15

You know what's crazy about my deli? When I asked for a chicken over rice, there's a Mexican making it back. I'm like what the hell.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:21

Another spot where I when when they first opened, right? They first opened and their food was like I'm talking about top tier, right? Uh Chef Kwan in Brooklyn. When they first opened up, they're Chef Kwan. Um it's on Atlantic and uh between like uh 75th, I believe. 75th.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:38

That was deep as hell. I never been there before, you know.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:41

Rico Chimmy. That's where I want to go. It's not that far from Rico Chimmy. Um Fulton and Warwick and all the rest around that. Yeah, yeah. Um, yeah, you know, the food was amazing, bro. Amazing, amazing. But then the chef got changed. And then the quality of food just started dropping and yeah, there's a lot of factors that can go into it too.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:01

Like, if you change up your like source of ingredients, like that can mess it up too.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:05

Well, Don, so like I guess when you're doing these food reviews, right? Like, if you don't like the food, like you don't want to say anything bad about it, right? Because then it sort of hurts their business, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:12:13

But at the same time, like I also like you want to be honest. Yeah, I do want to be on, like, and at the same time, like I also want to be like a reputable source for people that are trying want to try the food. Like, um, so I'm trying, and again, I'm like super new to the food review thing, so I'm still kind of working out the kinks of it um in terms of like how I'm shooting it, what I'm saying in the video. Um, so I'm still working it out, and every time I post a new one, I I look at the feedback and I'm like, I'll I adjust it for the next one and so on and so forth. Hopefully, like by like June, like July, August, I'll have like a better system for it. But um, yeah, I want to like um yeah, I just want to be honest, like, you know, whether you're paying me or not, like I just wanna be honest and and you know, because you know what? If if the honesty is gonna bring the best out of the restaurant any of these like it's true.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:04

It's like for me, I I do a lot of like I'll be watching a lot of social media videos and stuff like this. So one of these guys that I watch is uh New York Cheap Eats, or like, you know, New York and $20. Um and this guy that does it, like, you know, he goes around, he finds restaurants like that, you can now get a four-course meal basically like 20 bucks. 20. Yeah, yeah, I think too. Um so he he's like, you know, just like you're saying, like he tried to be true to the the audience because you know, audience basically watch his video, and based off the the you know the comments that he makes, people would rather want to go eat there or people would not want to go eat there, right? And I feel like when he came to our like you know, West Indian side or our Caribbean side and he tried the food, a lot of the foods that he tried, he didn't really know what it is that he was actually trying and how it's it's supposed to taste.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:51

Right? So he couldn't really give an honest like review for the people that actually wanted it, you know, taste it. Yeah. Um and you know, same, you know, same goes for like a lot of like a different food from different uh ethnicity. You want to try it, you see people buying it. Like, like for me, I've always wanna try a goosey and fufu. Right? I want to try a goosey and fufu so bad.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:15

Fufu kind of scares me because I heard you know, fufu. Well, you're not supposed to chew it.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:20

That's why I heard you like it. Yeah, why don't you swallow it, right? That kind of scares me.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:24

But so here's the thing it's not the fufu, the the barbers make the noise.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:28

It's not the fufu itself that scares me. Right? Every day, yeah, but more so the the soup, the ago soup. No, wait, the who soup? The agoosey. Agoosey? Agoosey. Spell that for me. I don't know how to spell that, but they got too much. Thank God we ain't got that segment of it.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:45

Actually, actually, Brian, this is a good good moment. So let's do a quick Mr. B's and stumble bee. Mr. B.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:52

Dylan, so can you this shit was gone. Hold on, hold on.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:57

Dylan, can you give me a word off the top of your head, right? For Brandon, the math teacher, to spell. A goosey. Um, asparagus. Asparagus, Brandon. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:04

Dylan, I'm gonna start with you. Come on, come on. Asparagus, asparagus. I can't spell that. I'm the math teacher.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:12

Do you have the etymology of the word? Uh I eat it. All right, come on, let's see. A-S. Rich, you spell it. A S-P-A-R-G-A-U-S. I think you spelled that wrong there, actually. Yeah, that's how you spell it. Asparagusa. Oh the hell, Rich. Brian, one more word for Brennan. Brian was taught a goosey. It sounds like A-G-U-S-S-E.

unknown 1:15:37

Oh, God.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:38

When you say like cultural like words, yeah, that's kind of unfair. All right, what about Automatopoeia, Brendan? You spell lit, Rich. I was asking you this when I was showering earlier. All right, all right. I guess that you rich. The segment's over. Thank you, Rich.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:52

Back to back to my ago, you know, situation. Um, I always watch these videos, and everybody that's trying it, right? First of all, you eat with your eyes, you eat with your nose. Oh, we know watching you.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:05

But yo, I love you, Brian, because whatever you don't eat, Rich coming right behind you.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:11

Um, yeah, so I see a lot of videos, and people always say the first thing they say, right, it has a certain smell. First of all, if you're gonna eat something, I don't know, like that smell has to be like, you know, intense, like, you don't want to eat it.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:27

And if, you know, there's this African restaurant by where I live at and I walk past the line, St.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:33

Lawrence, I don't know exactly where.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:35

Every time I walk past this restaurant, it's like I want to pick my guts out. Right? It's so bad. It's so it's like, have you ever went to like a um, like a like a uh, what do you call it? Like a uh a chicken farm, right? And you smell like you smell all this like lifestyle that's like you know, like everything just like.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:54

I go I go into our I know my like when my dad goes in there and he wants a chicken or whatever, I get a whiff of it. It just reminds me of Tamish for some odd reason. I don't know why.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:04

Do you ever think you would like review uh places outside the community?

SPEAKER_04 1:17:09

Um as long as yeah, I definitely like want to travel like in and like as long as like my main focus right now is the Caribbean food. So like I'm I'm I'll be done to go to like Toronto or like Orlando or like what?

SPEAKER_06 1:17:20

I'll wait, I'll wait until you actually try the food negotiate them based off of your review. Okay, man.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:27

That's African though, so that's not really on my radar right now. But um, but yeah, I'm down to like so.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:32

Let me ask you, what's your favorite thing to eat? Off the top of your head, like if you're hungry on a Sunday afternoon, like what's your comfort food? What's one thing you would like if you you know had to eat this for the rest of your life, for you said running? Pelau from my father for my cookup.

SPEAKER_06 1:17:50

But that's because I changed the team, Pelau.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:53

If I'm thinking though, I think Palau and cookup is not even the same thing. Like it's it's similar, but I think there's like a slight difference. I'm not sure what the difference is, but thinking, Dylan. Yeah, pretty different. I've had balls and it's not the same.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:03

I'm gonna be and like palau is much better, in my opinion.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:06

Yeah, coming from a guy, bro. But that's because you don't know what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:13

Listen, listen, listen. You got Alan one, and you got cookup, and you got pillow, and then you got your pillow.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:18

Thank you so much. There's a thing about payout that I really love. Let them know, let them know, Mac. Let them know. It's dense, it's filling, you don't eat it, and then you're hungry afterwards. You heard that, bro? Like the I don't know. It's like it has everything in it. There's chicken, there's rice, like you can put like, I don't know. Yeah, like payout is like a good, like, comfort.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:38

And I'm gonna bring you some. Guys, guys, we're running out of time, so we're gonna have to do now. Final three? Well, okay. We're gonna do that. I'll miss my man mesh, man. Uh we're gonna have to do the final four, but it's only gonna be three questions because mesh is not here.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:49

So I guess, I guess um, for today's segment, you know, we do the final four in order in order to mesh.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:55

I miss my man mesh.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:56

Us three will ask him a question, and then I guess you ask us a question.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:01

Yo, so Rich, let's start with you. Go for it. All right, Don. So, what is your favorite type of music?

SPEAKER_05 1:19:07

Um, don't tell me no case about me. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:10

It's not it's not reggae and dance hall has always been neck and neck for me. Like, I love them both the same. I just I just grew up on it. My dad had the freaking um binder with the CDs. Oh man.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:20

Yeah, you remember those days? Listen, I remember I remember them days where my my pops used to go, like, we'll go to a market, right? And there's this guy specifically designated in this market, and he has all the latest CDs. Yeah. I'm talking about CDs that the songs just got released today this morning.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:37

But y'all know about VP Records. Yo, back back in the day, we used to hit a VP Records. My dad would get, yo, shout out um Oh, on Liberty, I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah. Shout out, shout out Strictly the Best, shout out Reggae Gold. Those were the two CDs that had B B I S. Yo, bro. Those were the those were the two, like, you had all the hottest tracks on that one CD.com. Yeah, they had a bunch of like different ones. Like, again, we have a binder for I mean, even to this day I can find it in my garage. You have a binder, like, and my had the freaking kickers in the minivan.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:10

Yeah, so yeah, I was wanted to I was wanted to know, right? Because there's this guy back home, right? And in this market, he used to have all the latest CDs. The song would get released at like eight o'clock in the morning, this morning. He got it by 12. By 12 o'clock midday, not only do he has the original songs, but he already got mixes of the song.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:33

I used to be eight years old burning my own CDs. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, me too.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:37

You know, I almost burnt my house down one time like that.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:40

Dude, my my dad has someone, uh, I have like uh almost like a tenant, and he had this like bullleg machine. Yeah you put in one CD or DVD, bro, you get 20. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:51

So hence why I almost burned on my um my house. Uh CDs.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:55

Well, you have one of those machines?

SPEAKER_06 1:20:59

We had one of those, right? Real quick, real quick. And I put a couple of CDs right, and it was like I was trying to burn CDs for all my friends. Yeah. Right? All my friends once they want the same tracks, they want to play the same thing, right? Because, you know, pumping it in the cars, you got some nice music. You know, you're the man. So I started burning CDs, and I'm burning CDs, and I'm not realizing that I'm like, you know, 30 sets in, and everything got hot. Oh God. Right? Like the CD burner, it got hot, and it got so hot that the wiring inside started melting and it started touching, it sparked up. Bro, when I tell you I didn't know what to do.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:38

This was like a dedicated CD burner.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:40

Yo, dedicated CD burner, it wasn't even minds. And it was going, it was working.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:45

So that's the question we don't have to ask. Dylan. I know you got an S2K for your dream car.

unknown 1:21:52

My dream.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:53

Car guy's car guy.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:54

I got a few because uh I like SUVs and I just need one. Ferrari 488.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:01

F 40.

SPEAKER_06 1:22:03

Okay. Oh, okay. All right. When you get your F40, remember me. You'll be next week. We'll be next week. Alright. So I guess my final question will have to be uh what? Danny sound like he live back there.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:18

Danny, come on the damn camera, Danny.

SPEAKER_06 1:22:23

Uh yeah, so I guess my final question would have to be, you know, being uh um a content creator, right? For a lot of people that's camera shy. What's you know, what's uh one thing that you could tell them. I'm ugly on camera.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:37

I'm ugly right now.

SPEAKER_06 1:22:38

Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of talented people outside, right? Outside, and they don't know how to, you know, capture themselves or they don't really have anyone to like capture them.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:49

Yeah, they may be like very sort of, you know, I guess like pretty introverted as well.

SPEAKER_06 1:22:53

Yeah, and they're very and there's a lot of people that's very shy. So like what's you know, what's something that you can say to them?

SPEAKER_04 1:22:58

If you're camera shy, um just don't worry about the audience at all. Like, just do it for you. Like make something that you think is funny that you want to watch. Don't worry about the reaction, don't worry about the people that are gonna watch it. Just make it, post it, and don't look at it again. Yeah, be original, be original. That's not text tools.

SPEAKER_06 1:23:16

It comes with a lot of criticism as well.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:18

So uh luckily, my followers aren't like I don't have no hate in people in my comments really. And if I ever do, like I have up my other people like just checking them, like you know, going at it back and forth with them, but I'm never like going back and forth with people on the internet. I'm never I'm never like feeding into any negative like narratives or whatever they're trying to put on me or anything like that. I'm just posting it. If you think it's funny, laugh. If you think it's not funny, and I'm not even trying to be funny, I'm just trying to be relatable. So you can't. Yeah, so if you can relate to it, if you resonate with it, share it around, whatever, interact with it. And if you don't, then that's fine too. You know, you know, that's that's awesome. I'm making it for whoever wants to watch it. That's all.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:54

Don't so this is usually four questions, but our guy, Tamesha, is not here. So do you have a question for us, man? For us to do this.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:00

I miss my man with Yeah, how'd you guys end up doing uh tasa, like me and a group?

SPEAKER_05 1:24:07

I just showed on this man's house, and that was it.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:09

That was a story. All right, so let's do this in in like one minute. Pretty much I had a group, then the group broke up, then English, English, English, English, I'll forget, I'll bring it up real quick.

SPEAKER_06 1:24:18

So he had a group uh that was not going that well. I had a group that was not going that well. I was in school to do and me. He was not even a part of this as yet. Yeah. One of the guys from my group um got in contact with him. They they you know they played together, and then he met my brother. And that was a song J Man. Yeah, they organized some kind of some kind of way, and then for some odd reason, I remember this one day I'm in the backyard in the in the in the garage between the garage door and the backyard, right? And we were we were talking about we uh we should actually you know combine groups. Yeah, because his group is falling apart, my group is falling apart, we both had issues in our group, and it yeah. And here we are.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:59

Do y'all be like, is it like competitive with other tasa groups?

SPEAKER_06 1:25:03

Well we're the best for the reason. Tasa, listen, it's like tassa beef. I said this in a whole tasa. I said this in a whole, right? We are the only tassa group in the Bronx, right? We are the only TASA group right now in the Bronx. We used to be two, but the other group, you know, everybody grew up like.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:24

I don't care what anybody says. We're the Bronx.

SPEAKER_06 1:25:26

We're the only Tassa group in our in the Bronx. We have competitions, right? Our competition is basically like Queens, Brooklyn, uh, New Jersey, and so on and so forth. People are gonna hate, people are always gonna like look up to us. It's it's it's you know, it's the musical world. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're always gonna have haters and you're always gonna have you know, people that's you know, willing to learn and willing to like tell you, yo, keep doing what you do.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:50

Is it like friendly competition or is it like competition competition? It's very cutthroat, man. Yeah, it's very cutthroat.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:55

And I guess when I first got into this, I was like, you know, like these people are acting this way because of Tasa? Yeah. It's really cutthroat, man.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:04

Really cutthroat. But I guess if you take a crap seriously, I don't know. I don't I just I'm not beefing with other like creators, like, you know. If you got your thing and you're doing good, and I got my thing and I'm doing good, let's do good together.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:16

That's what we do. You feel me? Like, we don't try to like, you know, have like like you said, we don't want to have social media beef for anybody. We're not trying to we're not trying to make a fool out of ourselves, you know. We we see we see it happen all the time. We don't want to be a part of that. Yeah we want to be different, we want to be an example, you feel me? An example that that that's leading for the youth, for the for the generations. Generations are gonna come, they're gonna look at, they're gonna look back, oh, this is you know, this is what we were supposed to do and not what these guys are doing.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:44

Right.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:44

Right? A lot of people don't want to go have a group that's gonna pull up to your event, not dressed properly, not well groomed, don't know what to play, and then you know, when I want to have a fight with you with people at your event and stuff like that. There's a lot of that goes into it, man.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:02

But um, we could do a whole nother episode just on that. Yeah. I'm sure. Well, Dylan, thank you so much, man, for your time. I think you guys even keep up with the good words.

SPEAKER_06 1:27:13

I think when that when that S2K is fully built.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:17

Yeah. We will be there. We'll be there. That's all right. That's all right.