Boogie Speaks: EP1- LETS TALK ABOUT IT

Welcome to the first episode of Boogie Speaks.

This episode is really just an introduction to me, my life, my mindset, my journey into fatherhood, and the goals I’m chasing while building Boogie Studios and creating a future for my family. I talk about where I’m at mentally, what’s changing in my life, and what you can expect from this podcast moving forward.

This is the beginning of something bigger. Welcome to the journey.

Transcript

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Yo. Y'all don't understand how blessed and how excited I am to be doing this right now. You know what I'm saying? I recently uh just got, you know, I'm like I said, the the process has been slow but steady. You know what I'm saying? Um But I man, what there's so much we gotta talk about. Let's talk about it, you know what I'm saying? So much we gotta go over, I feel like. And this is just for the first uh podcast, you know what I'm saying? This is for first podcast I'm doing. Um, so I'm like, let's talk about it. You know what I'm saying? Let's talk about it. You know, so I'm gonna start with the simple. My name is Boogie. You know what I'm saying? Those who know me, Boogie, Boogie Boogie, Boogie, be for real, Boogie. You know, you don't gotta add the be for real boogie bar. You know what I'm saying? Just call me Boogie for short. Be for real boogie, but boogie the sensei, boogie the wise one. I'm just kidding. But um, nah, Boogie is what I go by. It's it's it's it's it's it's me. And this is Boogie Speaks. And this, I ain't gonna sit here and lie to you. Like I said, this is my podcast. I'm I I plan on doing two podcasts, but um, you know, right now, Boogie Speaks is the one to start off. The Hear Me Out podcast is gonna be a podcast when I do when I do collabs. That's gonna be their story. We're gonna hear what made them drive, what what pushed them forward in whatever career they're doing. You know what I'm saying? Like, I don't want to sit here and get it twisted and make it seem like it's about I'm gonna sit here and one day just interview people who's also doing it. Could be a fucking doctor, you get what I'm saying, or someone who knows. I just want to be able to give everybody a voice and tell their story, what's the reason why, and whatever it may be. You know what I'm saying? So that's pretty much what hear me out will be. Boogie Speaks is me. This is me, this is my perspective, this is my life, this is my growth in real time. Drop the mic on him. Can we get can can we get a fucking clap around here? I'm here all week. So now I'm not gonna sit here and act like you know, I have everything figured out and shit. Nah. I just got tired of waiting, right? I got tired of seeing people live the life that I want to live. And not necessarily I'm in and don't get it twisted that I'm in the uh whole, oh, I wanna be famous, I wanna be no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I want to be successful, I don't care about the fame, I don't care about that. So if I can build an animation studio, right? And that's one of my goals, uh, Boogie Studios. Um, if I can build an animated student studio without the fame and people just enjoy the work itself, people be like, oh, that's the CEO? That's fine by me. You get what I'm saying? But end of the day, you're creating I'm creating things for you to enjoy. That's that's the goal. That's the goal for me. That's the goal that I have always I have actually I won't say always been wanting. It's the goal that spoke to me finally after for so long of trying to figure out what my purpose is. What do I want in life? And I did a lot of different things just to arrive here, just to get to this moment, just to understand that this is what I want to do, and this is what makes me happy because I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you the evolution of how it went. I was young, kid, 18, 19 years old, didn't know what the fuck to do. Getting in trouble, left, right, and center. Boom, joined the military, stayed in the military, thinking I was gonna do the military for the rest of my life, retire and die. I'm not gonna sit here and lie to you. I had no idea what I was gonna want to do. Boom, get out the military, fast forward. Thought I wanted to be a film student, which I'm glad I was a film student. It taught me things. Yes, I'm glad I finished that and shit. But boom, um thought I wanted to be a film student, so I went to try and go into LA film school and stuff like that, right? Uh doing film and shit. And then boom, I had my son. I told my son a story, Budtime story one night. And then I was making it up as I go, but what it did was reactivate the creative imaginary imagination that I had as a kid growing up, right? Like it helped me there. Like, because as a kid, you know the technology we have now, anyone who's who was born in the 90s, right? They know, they know, you know what I'm saying? They know. We was at the beginning of this shit, so y'all know what the fuck we was doing with. We was outside damn near all the time, playing with sticks, running the fucking block and shit. You know what I'm saying? That's what we was doing. You know what I'm saying? Now it's not so much because people are more, I would say bold, but not bold, because they definitely were like, no what? Let me kill this nigga right now. And just do it, just cuz. And would do it. You know what I'm saying? I don't know. I don't know. Or kidnap somebody. You know what I'm saying? So it's just like, nah, nah, nah, nah. Right? But end of the day, I'm like, I'm gonna teach my son there's a way you can be creative. I'm watching him right now, and he is exhausted, bro. Man, it is exhausted. But I'm he's in his uh chair, because I got him on camera in this room right now, um, and I'm in my office, and I'm just watching him uh as I speak, right? Uh so you know, it's he is that weird. He don't know I'm watching him. So did I say something? Hey son, you're being watched. I love you. Why? You know what I'm saying? Like, what the fuck? But anyways, yeah, man. So then after telling my uh son these stories and stuff, right? And realized that I can do more. I want I then bust out a notebook. I'm like, all right, let me try it. So I started writing again. Boom. Next thing you know, I started enjoying it to the point where I was dazed, dazed, glued to the uh writing a story, glued to building a plot in the uh ecosystem around this uh world. Like I'm not just building a story to tell, I'm building a world where even once this story is complete, you can take a like think of cyberpunk, right? You know how even though you got the cyberpunk game, there's a cyber cyberpunk TV show, like you can follow different people within this world because you set up the ecosystem around it, meaning the world can function without following the main character. There's people around that you can tell a story with as well without giving a uh story, even with Avatar. I'm talking about not the blue people avatar, the avatar the last airbender, one of my favorite cartoon series. If you haven't seen that, you're tripping, bro. You are tripping. So it's like the the crazy part about uh Avatar uh The Last Airbender, even though all the entrants had followed the Avatar, right? My point is you can literally do other things in that world. Maybe you have to name it different. You can't necessarily name an avatar if you're not gonna follow the avatar, right? Like, so if you bake another story within that world, it's also there's they already have the rules and the ecosystem set up, bending, elements, stuff like that. You get what I'm saying? They can do so much more with Avatar, the at least the franchise within it. You know what I'm saying? They can do so much more with that. And it's like, think about it. I don't know. Me personally, and as a fan of Avatar, me personally, I would love if they did more than just follow Avatar. I I want my uh what's it called? My um what what's the word I'm looking for? My I'm a fucking junkie for it. I want my avatar fix and going these this log without it, you know what I'm saying? It's like, bruh, can we get a new series of avatars? Something I want something for this. So that's just my uh take on that, and that's why that's where I'm at. That is what Boogie Studio is going to bring. So, like, think of it like this. I'm gonna give you one that I'm really passionate about. I got I got a few series on and works. One called Hustle, one called Um, so it's is actually so this next one I'm about to mention, the over so the umbrella for it is called Echo, right? Echo is the umbrella for it, right? But then that story is a two different two different stories. So necessarily, like the other, so one half of it is called frame break, right? Hold on, I'm writing, and the other side of it is called Frontier. What is it? It's uh how can I put it? So it's it's two stories. It's two stories, two different groups, but under the same thing. But it you like I said, when I I want to explain it, but not I know I'm not good at explaining things quite yet. I'm still working on that, so maybe uh I will come back and talk about it more. But I'm I can tell you, I can show you everything I've done for it. And when I say I've been that oh, excuse me, did I just burp on the goddamn podcast? That just came out the blue, goddamn. Um when I say I'm passionate about this one, I'm bro, this this this is this is the goal right here. Hustle is a series, it's a long-term series, and I can tell you more so about that one because hustle is a story, is my life. Hustle is what followed my life. Now, with the hustle, I'm not gonna confirm. I'm I'm taking elements that happened in my real life. Of course, all of it ain't gonna be real, but there's gonna it's gonna have you wondering what's real and what's not. What did you go through and what's not. Okay, majority of the elements, I would say this. A lot of the elements are moments that happened in my life. Now, I'm not gonna confirm which one that is, because you know, I don't I don't need that. But it's just it's gonna make you, and the reason why this story is taking forever, because there's only one key thing that I'm waiting for. Not how or not like whatever, it's how my story ends right now. I'm still currently living the story I want to tell. I'm here working in school, doing the podcast, doing all this, being a dad. You know what I'm saying? My story's still going. And then you may think, well, your story isn't gonna forever go. That means this series is never gonna come out. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Right? It's gonna come out, right? But this is, I guess I just gotta get to that one checkpoint. And that one checkpoint is like my version of six of early success. Meaning, not like, because what I'm doing now is early successful. Yes, I call it early success, early wins, whatever. You know what I'm saying? Understand there's gonna be L's, whatever, blah blah blah blah. But I'm talking about like oh, like this some this stuff is established. I'm no longer in school. Boogie Studio has uh it has its footing, right? Collab and like not maybe collabs, but um, I have projects out, like all this stuff is now like out there, not me working on it because the work little do you guys know, or maybe y'all do know a lot. This is a lot of work. What I'm doing is a lot of work, it requires so much time, but then at the same time, it requires so much waiting right now, right? Because since I'm in the early stages of this, it requires me to sit back and wait. Like my school, I gotta sit back and wait. Learning my 3D animation and animation uh work, my craft and stuff like that, it takes so long. You know what I'm saying? This shit takes so fucking long, bro. Pardon my language, I be trying not to uh curse as much these days, but I'm telling you, man, you I hope y'all, man, y'all gotta understand. I'm passionate about this shit, bro. I really am, bro. I'm really am. And the reason why it's not just my kids no more, like my my dream is bigger than me now. And I'm I'm talking about like bruh, listen to me. My at first I wanted this, right? But then yes, I want more for my kids, but now it's more so I want to show that regardless of how you start, like I want to actually show, regardless of how you start. I want to show you there you can finish the way you want to finish. Like, bro, stop playing with me. Okay, like I was just having a conversation last night about uh bro to one of my boys or whatever, right? And man, like bros, they got heated, shit like this, then a third, right? Boom. My my perspective of everything, regardless of what it is, and they was about to fight and all that type of shit. And I'm sitting there telling, like, yo, think about this. You know what I'm saying? I understand bros fight, bros get into it, whatever, but don't ever go to that point where you actually like I don't know, man. I guess I'm I'm really built trying to build that peace aspect of it because it's like at the end of the day, one wrong move can really change your whole life, make it that much harder for you to get to your destination. And who wants that? I'm not saying you want the easy path, but you don't want to make it harder for yourself. You get what I'm saying? Like, like fucking communicate. Something happened, or whatever happened, communicate with one another. You know what I'm saying? We'll take time off. So we did. And I'm glad I was there at the end of the day. I'm not saying they would have fought, I'm not, I'm not saying I was deciding for uh reason for it. End of the day, I you know, was there like yo bro uh let's wrap this up. Let's not do this, let's go somewhere else and have fun. Right? It was Sunday night, and normally I go to the uh go out downtown. Uh I won't say normally, because actually, normally to me is every four or five months. Like the last time I was out, bro, I I was before that, it was fucking months. I don't go out now because I'm go driven. All right, I'm I'm I'm I'm hungry for more. The party will come, parties are always there. Parties ain't going nowhere. You know what I'm saying? At the end of the day, I it's it took a lot for me to get. I'm saying this stuff now, but it I'm it took a lot for me to get here. It took a lot for me to get to where I would in the way I'm thinking now. That that that mindset that I'm in now. It took so much for me to get there. I'm talking about stupid mistakes, dumb shit. People would probably tell you, or old people who probably know me would probably tell you about me then and not me now. I realize my mistakes and I learn and I'm growing for them from them. I mean, I I go to therapy, you feel me? So it's just like just a talk. There and I'm realizing that the things that I grew up in, like the cycle that I grew up in when it came to parenting, right? Uh was it a cool one? Abusive parents. You know what I'm saying? One was actually gone, so one of them wasn't abusive, but you know, so it's just like, bruh, you know what I'm saying? It's like all I'm trying to do, you know, is like I didn't ask to be here, but it's like, I don't know. So now with my kid, right? With my every time I like my son, for example, I love my son. Anybody who knows me knows I love my son, right? So, and then every he's getting he's one now, walking, talking, X, Y, Z, right? And of course, I expect kids to be kid things, right? And then the day, respect is also still a thing. Kids, I'm one of I'm the parent where a child is still a child, right? So meaning, but doesn't mean my child is restricted to tell me anything, right? Whatever, if he's feeling something, whatever. So I'm trying to create that space where even though I may have like I whoop my kids, right? And that's the well, when I say I'll whoop my kids, that's the absolute last result. And it's not even a whooping, it's a popping, right? So, like, example, um, I popped Amari just the other day because he was acting out, this done third. After I said no, we all have if we all if you have kids, we all been through this stage already. Yeah, y'all, if y'all kids are going through this stage, or if you haven't had a kid yet, prepare. If you have had kids, you're probably past this stage, or currently going through this stage. So it's like, yeah, so I end up like it's like the terrible twos. It's like, is there one for ones, right? Is there terrible ones, right? Um, but like, nah. In that whole, you don't you don't want them walking yet. You know what I'm saying? Shit like that. I understand that statement more. I mean, I I'm glad my kid is walking. God damn, I don't want to be carrying them everywhere. She's motherfucking heavy. God damn. But anyways, uh, nah. Um, so hold up. Alright. So yeah. Um hold on, what the hell? Shit's just happening. Alright. Anyway, so yeah, I popped him, and then right like, so then he cried, whatever, you know, as the as being a dad, I did a caught on him as he started crying. I told his ass to lay the fuck down now and think about what the fuck he did. Right? That's exactly what I said to him. And then I left the room. And when as it got cryer, whatever, I come back, I came back, kneeled in front of him, right? And said, My son, do you understand what you did? You know what I'm saying? I popped you because of this. I talked to him. You get what I'm saying? Like, that's all I did. I talked to him. I didn't hugged him, gave him a kiss and said, I love you, son, and I don't want to have to whoop you. I don't want to do that. I won't, but I have to also make sure you grow up with the respect in XYZ. You know what I'm saying? So it's just like, yeah, man. I'm not gonna try to make this podcast too too long, but it just let's talk about it, right? I've been saying it for a minute now, and let's talk about it. Now we're talking about it, and I need to talk about it. Okay, I need it to talk about it, goddamn. I need to goddamn get on this motherfucker and talk. Okay, sometimes it's just like you need to sit back and just you feel me? Like, it's just one of those. Have you just you had those, right? We've all had those. You just want to sit back and relax. Sit back and just vibe, bro. Like, if you don't smoke, cool. If you do, hit one. If you drink, now responsible, responsibly have have one or stuff. You know what I'm saying? That's it. Call call call hold yourself accountable and actually only do one or two. You know what I'm saying? Boom. Now you chilling. An important thing that I feel like I preach is always self-care now. Make sure you're taking care of yourself, you have a partner, make sure your partner understands the same thing. I feel like people need to stop rushing shit now and take their time. Understand, communicate with one another. Do you understand me? Like, bruh. And if that person is not communicating with you, and you feel like you have to hold everything in, and that is not for you no more. And I I regardless, I understand you know, every situation is different. I understand how love works. I mean, we've all been in love. Okay, we've all been in love. I understand have having kids work. I do get that. Right? But look at it like this: if you hold yourself in something that's not good for you like that. Now, I'm not saying if you I'm not saying go give your excuse to be a deadbeat dad or none of that. Let me make that clear. No, okay, that's a whole different different level. But I'm saying relationship-wise, even if and I'm I'm talking family included. If you don't feel like they're I would I won't say benefit, but like if they're not bringing you that peace, right? If they're not like it's just it's not if you every time you get around them, you get mad, angry, and you lose yourself. That is not for you. That is not for you. Okay, that is not because all that's gonna do is continue the cycle that needs to be broken. You you people want to grow up into people's households for the sake of their kids and stuff. Well, you know, I feel like listen to this. I'm not saying go break up your family. No, no, no, no, no. What I'm I'm more so saying, like, it's never gonna stop because now you all you're doing is showing your kids why you need to stay in something like this. It's the cycle that just needs to be broken, you know what I'm saying? And being unhappy, all that's gonna do is just blow up later. Everybody knows this by now. It's 2026. There's countless movies out there, and countless people saying holding shit in like that, is all it's gonna do is be a big ass explosion later. Kaboom! Motherfuckers, do I have a kaboom sound effect? What the fuck is that? I can't have it perfectly, but hey, uh anyways, nah man. Like I said, that's we went from boogie studios to this. You get what I'm saying? Like, this is why I said, let's talk about it, let's talk about it. Because we we get we had a lot to talk. Talk about. We had a lot to talk about, bro. We had a lot to talk about. And honestly, now that I felt like I've talked about it, I'm looking over my uh I guess like I said, I have two notebooks, right? And one notebook I write it and it's like a my journal, you know what I'm saying? Say what I got to say, and then the other one is my um podcast book. I write my notes in these motherfuckers, and helps me keep keep on track because if I don't keep on track, then I'ma just be going into different uh topics and don't know when to really end my podcast, right? So yeah, you know, it's a fun fact, it helps me. I um that's why when I said earlier, I was like, hold on, I'm writing. You know what I'm saying? Like, wait, what? You're on a podcast, what are you doing? You know what I'm saying? So that's why I was like, I'm writing because it helps me keep track of everything that's going on, you know what I'm saying? So pretty cool, pretty cool. Do it sometimes, you know what I'm saying? I recommend it 10 out of 10, you know what I'm saying? 10 out of 10. Anyways, listen, I'm gonna end this motherfucker. Okay, I'm gonna end this podcast, bro. I do have a lot to talk about, but I'm looking at the time we're going into goddamn 25 minutes right now. Um, you know what I'm saying? Maybe be less than that in post. I don't even fucking know. Uh, but nah man, can't give y'all too much too fast. You feel me? You know, I getting a little season on you. Razzle dazzle. I'm doing that. Uh, if y'all don't know, because you guys also cannot see me. I'm doing a little sprinkler emoji, you know, like when you put in the seasoning, you with a good you know, you're doing a little goddamn like what the fuck. Anyways, again, this is your boy boogie, bro. This is your boy Boogie. B-O-O-G-I-E. Remember it, lock it in. If you fuck with me, you fuck with me. If you don't fuck with me, you fuck with me, all right? But at the end of the day, lock it in. It's your boy Boogie. I appreciate y'all for listening to my ramble. And again, welcome. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to Boogie Speaks, bro.