Speaker 1: This conversation is not just about laughs, although Miya one
Speaker 1: on from No I was laughing ninety percent at the time,
Speaker 1: but it's also to reflect on perseverance, identity, legacy, and
Speaker 1: the quiet power of knowing you are not alone in
Speaker 1: your struggle or your healing. This episode is both hilarious
Speaker 1: and introspective, with the overall message being, as we say
Speaker 1: in Jamaica, what is for? You can be on fel
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Speaker 1: Things Now. Grab your tea, coffee, or a glass of
Speaker 1: wine and let's talk the things. Hello everyone, Welcome back
Speaker 1: to another episode of Let's Talk the Things. I'm your host,
Speaker 1: Ash and this week we are talking to things with
Speaker 1: comedian Owen Hi Owen. How are you?
Speaker 2: How are you doing? Hi to why?
Speaker 1: Please, I'm don't starry. Please to use your real voice?
Speaker 1: How are you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm I'm trying to use.
Speaker 1: No, we have to come again.
Speaker 2: This is how I talk like y'all not might believe me.
Speaker 2: I swear, I promise this is my real voice. All right,
Speaker 2: bombs If we can't do it again, alight. That is
Speaker 2: not gonna get no different.
Speaker 1: Okay, Oh my gosh, I don't know how I'm gonna
Speaker 1: manage this. Okay, re Hi, Owen, how are you I'm doing?
Speaker 2: I'm doing magnificent, my yo. Hold on, let me tell
Speaker 2: you a quick story for recording. Right when I moved
Speaker 2: to Orlando, I'm second generation. People don't notice I'm second Wait.
Speaker 1: But oh when you start already you can't start yet.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about that, oh you Okay? For you
Speaker 1: and those of you that are listening that are first
Speaker 1: time listeners, we begin each episode with our listener's favorite segment,
Speaker 1: and it's called that a soon safe And so basically
Speaker 1: what it is is, I'm gonna read messages or social
Speaker 1: media posts that listener is sent in and Owen, if
Speaker 1: you think it sounds crazy or a little concerning, you'd
Speaker 1: say that notes sounds safe and explain why. And if
Speaker 1: you agree, then you say you agree and explain why.
Speaker 1: Sounds good?
Speaker 2: Okay, no problem, no problem.
Speaker 1: All right. So the first one, if only people understood
Speaker 1: the importance of being consistent. Everything that has value, everything
Speaker 1: that has value in life is a product of consistency.
Speaker 1: Success health, fitness, wealth, friendships, relationships, and all other aspirations
Speaker 1: are all about consistency.
Speaker 2: Now, let me thinking about that. That sounds extremely safe. Okay,
Speaker 2: that sounds comforting. Okay, and that is true. Thing that
Speaker 2: sounds safe. Bobby, whoever wrote this post, let me let
Speaker 2: me coggle you. I want to coggle you. I want
Speaker 2: to be in your your comfort.
Speaker 1: You to tell us why you think?
Speaker 2: All right, all right? Why I think it sounds safe? Because, like,
Speaker 2: consistency is the key. Like if you watch TV and
Speaker 2: you be like, how did this person? He's not that funny?
Speaker 2: How did he get to here and there? It is
Speaker 2: because of consistency. Right, hard work beats talent. Right, you
Speaker 2: could be the most talented, but if you have the
Speaker 2: hard work and you have the vision, guess who's gonna win.
Speaker 2: Hard work I come from. I come from an era
Speaker 2: like I'm living in Florida. It's so many guys that
Speaker 2: play sports, right, and I'm seeing these guys that have
Speaker 2: the talent not succeed. And I used to ask to myself,
Speaker 2: I'm like, yo, oh, this is my friend such and such.
Speaker 2: I don't want to call no names, right, And I
Speaker 2: used to ask myself, I'm like why are they not
Speaker 2: there prospering prospering? It is because of the consistency. Right,
Speaker 2: So BOMs, now you know all right, you say you
Speaker 2: need grades and you know it, you need to fit
Speaker 2: the things. You're not doing that thing. You just playing
Speaker 2: ball right right, But there's somebody else that's playing ball,
Speaker 2: also taking care of the grades, and you don't have it.
Speaker 2: And he's doing what he's staying what consistent? You can
Speaker 2: knock it. You are better than him, but he's being consistent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so consistency, that's true. And I think you're right.
Speaker 1: There's so many talented people. I just think even us
Speaker 1: being you know, of Caribbean descent, there's so much talent
Speaker 1: in all of our countries, right, but clearly everybody does
Speaker 1: it make it. There's not a million Rihannas or Shansias,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And so a lot of
Speaker 1: it is hard work, a lot of it is perseverance,
Speaker 1: a lot of it is patience. But you're right, hard
Speaker 1: work is going to be talent every time. And I
Speaker 1: think that this generation that's so used to having things
Speaker 1: handed to them sometimes don't understand that.
Speaker 2: You know that our understand the geography, like what you
Speaker 2: got to do to make yourself present and yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: like you got to think outside the box. Okay, I'm
Speaker 2: a I'm a Caribbean content creator, right, that's cool, Like,
Speaker 2: how can you use your Caribbean content to touch the masses?
Speaker 2: Now you have to have to think and it don't
Speaker 2: have to be much, right mm hmmm. So it's like, okay,
Speaker 2: if you feel like if you feel like, yo, miss stuck,
Speaker 2: I'm stuck doing Caribbean comedy or I'm stuck doing Jamaican comedy,
Speaker 2: like you need to if you're a creator, you need
Speaker 2: to able to create to touch the masses. You will
Speaker 2: find a way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like that. That sound safe for sure? All right.
Speaker 1: The next one, the person said, I show up to
Speaker 1: the airport two to three hours early because you guys
Speaker 1: are not gonna have me running through the airport like
Speaker 1: the McAllister is on home alone.
Speaker 2: That is funny, and that is safe to the airport
Speaker 2: to untree alls early. I'm gonna can't do what we
Speaker 2: need for these I rebuke it in Hallelujah. I rebuke
Speaker 2: in them jus.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like we we all know growing up,
Speaker 1: we used to get especially if you were alive in
Speaker 1: the nineties. So those of you that are younger, maybe
Speaker 1: not so much.
Speaker 2: Speaking to.
Speaker 1: Our parents had us at the airport like four hours
Speaker 1: early for no holy reason.
Speaker 2: Holy goals.
Speaker 3: Yo.
Speaker 2: My uncle Alfred, My uncle Alfred, he was going to law,
Speaker 2: he was going to la He called me. He said, oh,
Speaker 2: and you're up. I'm like up. But your your flight
Speaker 2: says it leaves at twelve o'clock noon. My uncle, I
Speaker 2: promise you, my uncle for twelve o'clock noon. He was
Speaker 2: there seven am. He well, may I try, may I
Speaker 2: try Philip philical food. There's nothing open my Virgin McDonald's.
Speaker 2: You feel me. There's nothing open my Burgin.
Speaker 1: But you know what my point is, even though that
Speaker 1: may be a little extreme, I think they were onto
Speaker 1: something by just getting there early so you can relax,
Speaker 1: like you're not, like the person said, running through the
Speaker 1: airport panicking, panicking.
Speaker 2: But that's so, that's so true, because on my last
Speaker 2: trip I did that, and everything wants good.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I guess, yeah, maybe not four hours early,
Speaker 1: but maybe you know two hours or and a half.
Speaker 1: That's on safe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one that's safe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, next one, the person said, if you
Speaker 1: really want to make him mad, stare at his haircut
Speaker 1: and say they must have been rushing.
Speaker 2: That not see if that not see if may I
Speaker 2: tell her right now that not saf that not self atal,
Speaker 2: my girl, hold on that not sef.
Speaker 4: Ash that's wickedness.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but maybe.
Speaker 2: Imagine no imagine no imagine missed can so much time
Speaker 2: from the earline. I'm gonna come to you. You know
Speaker 2: some of my hairline is missing. I fill it in.
Speaker 2: I fill it in. I know how you feel like
Speaker 2: hold on you know how you feel about your edges, yes,
Speaker 2: and lace front and them things? When I got.
Speaker 1: You feeling it?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, yes, eating you you're giving
Speaker 2: your eating or whatever I want to say. But some booms,
Speaker 2: no supports me come from a gym. No, I'm here
Speaker 2: like musclet. I'm not muscle up, but feeling good. Right yeah,
Speaker 2: some said no. I said to my booms, get trim.
Speaker 2: No right boom boom, I'm trying to cover the spots
Speaker 2: and you fifty se my haircut is not worthy. It's
Speaker 2: not safe. My good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is a act. I can't like that one.
Speaker 2: Not safe. It's like it's like me telling you me
Speaker 2: like you coming in with the hairstyle. You feel me,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, oh, you got the side park. But no, no,
Speaker 2: I'm like not really feeling the side park. I'm not
Speaker 2: feeling your lace front. Your lace front is not at
Speaker 2: the front. You feel me. It's a couple of steps
Speaker 2: back my wild Yeah something aline is me on your
Speaker 2: boat noor something. You're like, it's diminish, diminishing.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, so it's a sensitive topic.
Speaker 2: It's sensitive.
Speaker 1: It's sensitive, Okay.
Speaker 2: Especially when on the right corner of my hair right now,
Speaker 2: it's going through some things. But and then.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to, you know, trying to catch it back up.
Speaker 2: Don't do me like that.
Speaker 1: That's true.
Speaker 2: You can take that in give me that. I want
Speaker 2: to talk to a personally like.
Speaker 1: No, I will keep their identity confidential.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Next one, the person said, people will call you boring
Speaker 1: for not wanting to fill every second of the vacation
Speaker 1: with activities. Well, guess what action, Jackson, I'm taking a nap. Listen,
Speaker 1: action Jackson is crazy.
Speaker 2: Action Jackson is for real. Like, I one hundred percent
Speaker 2: agree with this person, Like, listen to me, taking a
Speaker 2: good nap on a vacation is everything. Like when I
Speaker 2: go on vacations, I work. I work, right, my vacation
Speaker 2: when I start my vacation is after I literally get
Speaker 2: off work, so Booms said, my vacation, Yeah, my vacation
Speaker 2: is the twelfth, the eleventh. I'm getting off on the eleventh. Right,
Speaker 2: I have to maybe drive somewhere to get into the facilities,
Speaker 2: right for the twelfth, right, so Booms. No, when they
Speaker 2: get pund the bull, I me get punic plan Mick
Speaker 2: tired Billby. Let me take me look, let me take
Speaker 2: my local nap. All right, I understand your I understand
Speaker 2: you want to zip line syst we just we are called.
Speaker 1: But what if it's not even like a vacation. What
Speaker 1: if it's like your friends some some friends you want
Speaker 1: to have like everything planned out.
Speaker 2: They are the worst, They are the worst.
Speaker 1: You have to know who you're I think the point
Speaker 1: of this you have to know who you're traveling, because
Speaker 1: if you want to have an itinerary, then travel with
Speaker 1: those kind of friends. If you want to relax, travel
Speaker 1: with the relaxing friends.
Speaker 2: Otherwise work all right, so Booms thone, you have relaxed friends,
Speaker 2: and them a kid can merge like, right, I have
Speaker 2: a relaxed friend. Right, And this is my bro and
Speaker 2: I'm going to say, I'm going to say his name,
Speaker 2: Anthony Bush. I'm going to say his whole name so
Speaker 2: I can get him mad.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, Hi Anthony.
Speaker 2: We went on a cruise. Right when we get on
Speaker 2: the cruise and like, Budge, where are going to do? Listen,
Speaker 2: just trying to catch your sleep. So it's like sometimes
Speaker 2: your friends be like tired.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the more love the story. Let your friends relax.
Speaker 2: Miss Field said.
Speaker 1: Midfield said, yeah, okay, that's so safe.
Speaker 2: Give me our number so we can't both, okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: The next one, Jamaicans don't believe in zodiac then proceed
Speaker 1: to say so January people stay.
Speaker 2: So that is so true, and it's so true they
Speaker 2: don't believe in zodiac. But my mother is a Capricorn, right,
Speaker 2: and she was like a Capricorn. But as soon as
Speaker 2: like maya zodiac the blood of Jesus, like what are
Speaker 2: you doing? What are you doing? You feel me? What
Speaker 2: are you doing? So long story short, Jamaican people try
Speaker 2: to believe, and I try to say they don't believe
Speaker 2: in zodiac.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I one hundred percent agree. All right, last
Speaker 1: one in this segment just because you can help does
Speaker 1: not mean you're assigned to help preserve your energy.
Speaker 2: I agree with that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And I think that's a big thing in
Speaker 1: our community, right, Like we grow up where we see
Speaker 1: our parents and grandparents like helping persons in the community
Speaker 1: or in the family, and so you think like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, that's what I'm supposed to do. But you've
Speaker 1: also seen your grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, parents, whoever help
Speaker 1: someone to their detriment, you know what I mean, like
Speaker 1: where the person should really be helping themselves. But because
Speaker 1: that's kind of how we grow up, you overextend yourself
Speaker 1: and then you're left depleted, so you kind of have
Speaker 1: to balance, you know, like you can't pour from an
Speaker 1: empty cop is what I'm trying to say, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: to help people with your.
Speaker 2: Overflow, that's some that's some real stuff you feel, yea,
Speaker 2: And sometimes and sometimes in our culture and our state
Speaker 2: of mind, especially if you have family abroad, right, you
Speaker 2: put you put your feelings, your emotion, your hard work, right,
Speaker 2: you put it second to the people that I'm doing A.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very true, so very really you.
Speaker 2: Put it aside and then you put them in front, right,
Speaker 2: And it's so much going on and and not it
Speaker 2: might not turn out the way you want it to
Speaker 2: turn out. So like, so, as a Caribbean person, you
Speaker 2: need to protect yourself first, protect your feelings first.
Speaker 1: Yeah, your mental health.
Speaker 2: Your mental health. I've seen I've seen my mother like, right,
Speaker 2: in the lack of better words for the young people
Speaker 2: who's listening, I've seen my mom's crash out on some
Speaker 2: stuff that she didn't need to crash out on, and
Speaker 2: it's because it's her loyalty to Hey, if you make it,
Speaker 2: you need to come back and.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, oh god, yeah.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: That's the I think it's it's such a delicate balance,
Speaker 1: right because since we grow up where family is such
Speaker 1: a core of who we are, you do feel obligated
Speaker 1: to help your family out when you have it right, exactly,
Speaker 1: there's like a fine line between the family that appreciates
Speaker 1: the help and the family that, like you said in
Speaker 1: your analogy, looks at you as like, oh, well, your
Speaker 1: cup is overflowing, so I can just kick up my
Speaker 1: feet and just take from your cup. Even though you're
Speaker 1: working so hard, you're swating, you're doing all these things,
Speaker 1: but they just look at the output. They just see
Speaker 1: the output They don't see the blood, sweat and tears
Speaker 1: that goes into like even what you do, you know,
Speaker 1: and they might think, oh, well, you can afford to
Speaker 1: do this because you got a new car or you
Speaker 1: got new shoes, not thinking you worked really hard to
Speaker 1: get those things for yourself each you know. So I
Speaker 1: think it's a really delicate balance because on one hand, no,
Speaker 1: you don't want to leave your family behind, but how
Speaker 1: many persons that we know in the generations before us
Speaker 1: aren't where they could have been because they were lifting
Speaker 1: up everybody else. Imagine you're climbing up a mountain and
Speaker 1: you can't make it to the top because you have
Speaker 1: seventy people on your back. That's what it's like preach.
Speaker 2: The craziest thing for us in our generation. It's saying no.
Speaker 2: No is of its stating for me like.
Speaker 1: Yes, no, don't don't luck now because like you, but no, my.
Speaker 2: Strong my mind, Like yo, when I have a cousin
Speaker 2: like you feel me are a friend because I'm second generation. Right,
Speaker 2: I lived in Jamaica for two years, right, so I developed.
Speaker 2: I developed a lot of friends. And sometimes they hit
Speaker 2: me and I'll be like and I work, I work, Yeah,
Speaker 2: ash I work, work with. So when they say something
Speaker 2: that like hey, and like I have to say no,
Speaker 2: it's it hurts you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're saying. For those listening, you're saying like when
Speaker 1: they ask you for a ting, like to help them.
Speaker 2: Out, ask me for a ting to them out right,
Speaker 2: So when I say no, that's not all right yo, gud.
Speaker 2: But like I want them to understand where I'm coming from, right,
Speaker 2: I have a daughter. My daughter is fourteen, right, yes,
Speaker 2: she talked, well, she want to go. I don'ee them,
Speaker 2: then them, and I want her to yeah, experience everything,
Speaker 2: so for certain yeah them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, responsibilities, responsibility.
Speaker 2: So when a friend come and be like yo, I
Speaker 2: feel bad, even to this day. It used to be
Speaker 2: different when I was a little bit younger, when I
Speaker 2: was sexy on I'm growing on when they chocolate, I
Speaker 2: wanted to spread I want to spread that out right,
Speaker 2: But it's different like right now when somebody asked me
Speaker 2: like hey, like I'm like, yo, I got responsibilities, but
Speaker 2: it's still hurt. It still hurts.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's because you're not a mean spirited person, so
Speaker 1: it's going to I'm not bad, but you have to
Speaker 1: do it. You want to protect yourself and also you
Speaker 1: know the fact that you have a daughter.
Speaker 2: Yes, that was.
Speaker 1: Fun and little ice breaker it's a laughter, you know. No,
Speaker 1: we're going to talk the real things.
Speaker 2: So I.
Speaker 1: Want to talk about your roots. And you started talking
Speaker 1: about this a little bit. But we know you're Jamaica,
Speaker 1: But can you tell us a little bit more like
Speaker 1: where you grew up?
Speaker 2: And all right, I'm gonna tell you the whole story.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, man.
Speaker 2: So my mother, right, my mother and the family came
Speaker 2: here from Jamaica in seventy seven. Right, my grandfather used
Speaker 2: to do sugar cane. We have we in Spanish Town.
Speaker 2: We had a shot. But you know all the shop
Speaker 2: people them them, I forgot to for Booms get their products. No,
Speaker 2: my grandfather had the trucks coming straight to his ting right,
Speaker 2: and my grandfather was the first person to get electricity
Speaker 2: in Spanish Town and toy Spen in toy Spend, let
Speaker 2: me make that not Spanish town. And so booms know
Speaker 2: how my grandfather got my grandmother. It's crazy because she
Speaker 2: tells me this before she died. Right, this what made
Speaker 2: her say, Booms, let me let me give you my try.
Speaker 2: He said, Wait, he rolled up on her he said yo,
Speaker 2: and said William saying to those I give, but to you,
Speaker 2: I give the leaf some.
Speaker 4: Crazy I give the so long story shark, I look
Speaker 4: alone and that Spanish tone both ten and that that
Speaker 4: was it.
Speaker 2: Some people I was born in America. I was born
Speaker 2: in Newark, New Jersey. Some people, yes, some people feel
Speaker 2: like I'm Jamaican and Jamaican but I'm second generation. But
Speaker 2: m hmm, I have American girlfriend. Right when she put
Speaker 2: on Isley Brothers and all these other type of things,
Speaker 2: I cannot resonate. I don't know. I don't know Isley Brothers.
Speaker 2: I don't know Marvin Gay. I do know them, but
Speaker 2: like growing up as a kid, right, my Isley Brothers
Speaker 2: was bearist.
Speaker 1: I know you're going to say uncle Berr's.
Speaker 2: First BIS Dennis Brown, not nurse them, Isaac, what you know,
Speaker 2: the ting them like when it was like, oh my
Speaker 2: struggle meal is oodle than noodles. You know, it's my struggle, Billert, Beefine, Rice,
Speaker 2: Dusty Young, so you can you feel me? And it
Speaker 2: was it was so crazy. This is how I know.
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm really Jamaican. Right when my mom
Speaker 2: moved from New Jersey. Then we moved to Miami. Right, okay,
Speaker 2: so my my English because I speak Pato, was a
Speaker 2: little bit off, right, So you know what they did.
Speaker 2: They put me in the class with the Haitians and
Speaker 2: the Mexicans. Yeah. So when I get in there, so
Speaker 2: they was like hey, they was like, oh, and come
Speaker 2: up to the board. My name is On. I'm like, ma'am,
Speaker 2: I know how to say this. There was like they own,
Speaker 2: come to the board, my name is On. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: my girl, my name is Owen. Me. I tried for
Speaker 2: tylor isn't me. I know, I got this accent, but
Speaker 2: I'm I'm American, my girl. She was like oh, I said, yeah,
Speaker 2: my name is Owen. So like so that that was
Speaker 2: like a culture shop to me, you feel what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So that's why like when certain people ask me like
Speaker 2: you're away from I'm Jamaican, bro, like I don't, like
Speaker 2: I don't know your.
Speaker 1: History like that, like that's all you know, That's.
Speaker 2: All I know. You know what browne stewed chicken panastan
Speaker 2: panastand you know, like eliss, like I know that, I
Speaker 2: don't I don't know.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question, because that's a conversation
Speaker 1: that I often hear, and I've heard for most of
Speaker 1: my life, is that Caribbean people are the only set
Speaker 1: of people, and really particularly Jamaican's get the brunt of it.
Speaker 1: But I think it's in every Caribbean country where if
Speaker 1: you weren't born there, they tend to say, you're not
Speaker 1: really from there? What do you think?
Speaker 2: Yes? Yes, And that brunt is crazy because when you
Speaker 2: down in Jamaica or wherever you're from, they call your
Speaker 2: finer kinea, this fin of that. But like, really and truly,
Speaker 2: when I look over it, it's not true. Like your
Speaker 2: parents and you beer where you're from. Your parents are
Speaker 2: from there, that's where you're from. So I feel like
Speaker 2: I have strong roots. I'm Jamaican. I'm Jamaican. I tell anybody, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm Jamaican, and even together the traffic coffee, I'm Jamaican.
Speaker 1: So no, that makes sense, that makes perfect. So speaking
Speaker 1: of that, and you know, kind of assimilating to the
Speaker 1: American way of life, I have to talk about something
Speaker 1: that I see you do regularly and it literally brings
Speaker 1: tears to my eyes of laughter. The twanging impression of
Speaker 1: your dad owen, the stuttering, the I'm just telling you
Speaker 1: what I know all of that, Like, is that just
Speaker 1: something like genius you came up with or does that
Speaker 1: actually happen? Because it's so on point for so many people.
Speaker 1: My dad doesn't twang, but so many people in my
Speaker 1: family do, and it is so on point.
Speaker 2: So listen, it's a mixture between my mom right and
Speaker 2: my two uncles. Right. I have an uncle named Uncle Alfred.
Speaker 2: Right when he came here in seventy seven, he learned Spanish.
Speaker 2: They taught him how to speak Spanish. Right. I have
Speaker 2: an other uncle named Uncle Sam. Between all of them covered,
Speaker 2: my mom's always used to try to twang, right, so like,
Speaker 2: all right, so when my moms first got here, she
Speaker 2: had a friend at the school. Right, you know that,
Speaker 2: all right, there's a movie called the Lean On Me,
Speaker 2: Lean On Me. Yeah, So my moms went to that
Speaker 2: high school, east Side high right, crazy right, So all right,
Speaker 2: So my mom's gained a friend from there, and she
Speaker 2: told she always used to tell me this story. It
Speaker 2: was nothing but fog when she was trying to when
Speaker 2: they were trying to drive through the way right of
Speaker 2: a highway in New Jersey. So my mom was like,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, this things so faggy. And it was like,
Speaker 2: so like you. She was like, oh, I can't see
Speaker 2: it's so faggy, right.
Speaker 1: So like, oh my goodness.
Speaker 2: That used to resonate with it. And then so when
Speaker 2: I used to play sports my mom's when I used
Speaker 2: to get in trouble, she said, we want speak to whoever.
Speaker 2: So I was like, all right, that's my coach. So
Speaker 2: she said, we you call him couch. I want to
Speaker 2: speak to the couch. This is this is real, like
Speaker 2: this is real like life stories. But what made me
Speaker 2: come up with the character is because of Uncle Sama,
Speaker 2: uncle Alfred. So it was a time I was like
Speaker 2: eight years old, right, we stopped to a Dunkin Donuts.
Speaker 2: My uncle Alfred got into it with a dude. Right,
Speaker 2: this is back in the nineties. After that happened, he
Speaker 2: on the phone with my mother. It's a yeah, I
Speaker 2: love it because that's my mom's name, pet name. My
Speaker 2: mom's name is calling. But they call love it. He said, yeah,
Speaker 2: I love it, love it, love it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: About the Dunkin Doughnuts, I mean I feel I said dunkin.
Speaker 2: I thought it was duncan love about the dunkin don
Speaker 2: and I try to eat me at the dunkin doughner.
Speaker 2: So you feel me, that's where I get it from.
Speaker 2: And right, oh my gosh, my uncle Sam he's very
Speaker 2: he's very well off. Right, so he feels like because
Speaker 2: he's well off, he can say anything you want to say.
Speaker 2: So so when I do the skit like ye owe
Speaker 2: me that the chicken lay like that's that skin. So
Speaker 2: so my uncle Sam he's very much like you feel me.
Speaker 2: Like if he talked to me, he'd be like, hey man,
Speaker 2: what hey man, what you're going through in life? I'd
Speaker 2: be like, Uncle Sam, I'm going in something. He's like,
Speaker 2: hey man, you need you need to get your stuff together.
Speaker 2: Like he don't. He don't try to like soothe you.
Speaker 2: He don't try to see it be like, hey man,
Speaker 2: you need to get your stuff to get a man.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know what you gotta do,
Speaker 2: but you have to do something.
Speaker 1: So it's based off of him, really, it's based.
Speaker 2: Off them, Like, yeah, if you don't do something right,
Speaker 2: you're gonna be a cockade. That's my uncle's favorite. Hey no, no,
Speaker 2: because that's because that's all you become a coked you
Speaker 2: don't do what you need to do. I signed you
Speaker 2: for the ball. Hey, I signed you for the ball again.
Speaker 2: You're not doing the ball game right because you don't
Speaker 2: know what you're doing to the ball. Again. People don't
Speaker 2: who don't know what they're doing, they become cocad.
Speaker 1: But you know what, all fun and joke aside, his
Speaker 1: heart is in the right place because when you hear
Speaker 1: the story slay no, no, all that Ti, I'm hearing
Speaker 1: the story, it's like he wants to keep you busy
Speaker 1: and occupied because the devil signs work for idle hands
Speaker 1: to do. I know you heard that saying before me,
Speaker 1: thinking if you're busy, you can get wrapped up in
Speaker 1: the ray ray and the rah rah.
Speaker 2: You know, well, let me tell your story.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: It was like, listen, it was in two thousand and four, right,
Speaker 2: I'm fourteen in two thousand and four, Okay, I said Booms. Though,
Speaker 2: I said, ma, I'm trying to go to this football
Speaker 2: camp in Miami. Mind you I live in Orlando. You
Speaker 2: went from Orlando to Miami.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's like four hours.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's a big deal, right, and you're going to
Speaker 2: a camp. Right. So she was like, owen, call uncle
Speaker 2: some So I said Booms, I said, uncle, someone need
Speaker 2: to go to a camp. He said, Hey man, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna tell you this right now. You can't be depending
Speaker 2: on it. I'm telling you what I know. You can't
Speaker 2: depend on people. I'm gonna give you the money, but
Speaker 2: it's not what you need to do. When when they
Speaker 2: go to the camp, get a scholarship.
Speaker 1: I'm like, he's he's talking to Its true, that's.
Speaker 2: That's not how that works.
Speaker 1: You have to be.
Speaker 2: The top of the.
Speaker 1: Top, right, I see what you're saying. They don't just
Speaker 1: have no scholarship.
Speaker 2: Yes, man, you need to get a scholarship. If you
Speaker 2: go there, I give you the money you need to
Speaker 2: go there. You need a scholarship. I'm telling you what
Speaker 2: I know. I want to come back, so he telling me.
Speaker 2: He said, so you know in Florida, you know when
Speaker 2: Dixie and stuff, you can get a job at fourteen,
Speaker 2: said I tell you what you yeah, fourteen fifteen, you
Speaker 2: can be a bagger. He said, hey man, I'm telling
Speaker 2: you what you know. When you come back, you need
Speaker 2: to get a job, because guess what, if you don't
Speaker 2: get a job, you don't work out. That's what you're
Speaker 2: gonna be. This man has been telling me that for
Speaker 2: the longest life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he it's extreme. But you know what, he's right.
Speaker 1: He's right in the sense of like you need to
Speaker 1: be occupied because and here's here's the crazy part. Right,
Speaker 1: I'm sure both of us know people that had a job,
Speaker 1: did good in school and they still did questionable things
Speaker 1: with their life. Right, So it's not guaranteed. But his
Speaker 1: heart is in the right place. It's just Caribbean people
Speaker 1: they don't know, especially men, usually they don't know how
Speaker 1: to say that in a soft waymb No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's true.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: No. My uncle Sam was the same one when he
Speaker 2: was getting married, like I was feeling, you know, joyous.
Speaker 2: He came back from his his bachelor party or whatever,
Speaker 2: and it was the next day, so he keeped in
Speaker 2: the room and he said to me, you look at me,
Speaker 2: and he said no. When he came in the room,
Speaker 2: he was looking at me. He was like, I was
Speaker 2: like uncle, uncle, some I love you. Yeah, and closed
Speaker 2: the door.
Speaker 1: I'm like this and heart wow, I.
Speaker 2: Mean room like yeah, go sleep.
Speaker 1: I just he definitely loves you. It's just he probably
Speaker 1: doesn't even know how to express that, so.
Speaker 2: He he doesn't he uncomfortable. Definitely, my boy, I love you.
Speaker 2: You know you're finna be like you said, yeah, go sleep.
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, all right, Oh my gosh. Let
Speaker 1: me ask you a question though, Even though those are
Speaker 1: based off of your family members, do you remember the
Speaker 1: first time that you made someone laugh and thought like, oh,
Speaker 1: I might be onto something with this.
Speaker 2: That's very hard because honestly, mm hmm, what you see
Speaker 2: on my Instagram is what I am in real life.
Speaker 2: So I've always since alydication, I've always been like, like,
Speaker 2: if you be around any of my family, even even
Speaker 2: during funerals, like i might cry a little bit, but
Speaker 2: I'm going to find a joke somewhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so your mom. Are you very close to your mom?
Speaker 1: I'm assuming so because I know you do impressions of
Speaker 1: her as well.
Speaker 2: People think my impressions of my mom is my mom.
Speaker 2: It's not.
Speaker 1: It's not.
Speaker 2: My mom have a very husky Alicia Key's voice when
Speaker 2: I be like, this high pitched voice is not her.
Speaker 2: So I tried to do my mom voice. I couldn't
Speaker 2: get it down. I tried to do my auntie voice.
Speaker 2: I couldn't get it down. But I try to do
Speaker 2: my grandmother voice. I can't get it down. But the
Speaker 2: faces I make is my grandmother demeanor, right, and other
Speaker 2: people I just try to make up. But the mother character.
Speaker 2: I did not want to do it because I couldn't
Speaker 2: resemble my mother. I didn't could I couldn't resemble my
Speaker 2: mother voice. Or I couldn't resemble my auntie voice, right,
Speaker 2: So I had to make up this. This voice is
Speaker 2: made up. That's not how they that's not how they sound.
Speaker 2: My mother voice don't sound nothing like that.
Speaker 1: My auntie, well the voice doesn't. But it is the
Speaker 1: stuff that you portray them to do. Is that comes
Speaker 1: from your mom or you? That's yes, okay, yes, in
Speaker 1: the name of Yes the blood of Jesus. Yes, Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh. And when you do the thing where like
Speaker 1: you hold out like what is what is the thing
Speaker 1: you did where you asked her, no, she volunteered you
Speaker 1: to like take something.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, that that that skip Let me tell
Speaker 2: you it's a they's say that's not even funny, Like
Speaker 2: the one time I try to go down as a teenager, right,
Speaker 2: you know, when you're a teenager, you traveling, you get
Speaker 2: the lanyard to say that you're a teenager and stuff.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, when you travel alone.
Speaker 2: My mom had so many prescriptions and so many in
Speaker 2: the foil. I'm like, yo, what are you really doing
Speaker 2: to the point they had to check these back, like heh, bro,
Speaker 2: you got pills. She said, oh, this is blood pressures.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, ma, do you not know? Like it's unmarked,
Speaker 2: this is your I could go to jail, virgin Nah,
Speaker 2: this is I'm like, Mama, she's just look a pill.
Speaker 2: I'm like, ma, it's look of pills, but that's your
Speaker 2: pills burgon, like it's real stuff that happened. I just
Speaker 2: can't do my mom voice.
Speaker 1: So yeah, when you do those impressions of her, like
Speaker 1: like I said, holding out those the end of those
Speaker 1: words for a long period of time like most of
Speaker 1: our moms do. When you don't, you know, you can't
Speaker 1: do something that they need you to do. That's your mom,
Speaker 1: but just not her actual voice voice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, got you? Okay, Yes, that's my mom, but not
Speaker 2: her actually voice. Like I wish people could know my
Speaker 2: mom's actual voice. I can't do it, like I'll be
Speaker 2: trying to. I be trying to do it.
Speaker 1: So tell me something. What has Because you are very
Speaker 1: popular on social media, like I said, I'm not really
Speaker 1: on TikTok like that, but on Instagram for sure. So
Speaker 1: two questions. With that and that popularity, what has being
Speaker 1: a creator taught you about discipline? And also what has
Speaker 1: been the most like surprising reaction to your content, whether
Speaker 1: that's just a regular person saying, oh my gosh, this
Speaker 1: touched me or this made me have a better day
Speaker 1: I was going through a hard time, or maybe like
Speaker 1: a celebrity, you know, reaching out to you something like that.
Speaker 2: What social media has taught me is that you need
Speaker 2: to be consistent and you need to be yourself. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: because when I first started out, I did not do
Speaker 2: Jamaican content. I started on twenty fourteen. Oh really, right, Yes,
Speaker 2: I tried to do I tried to do American content.
Speaker 1: But see you said earlier, that's not you. So that
Speaker 1: makes me.
Speaker 2: So when I tried to do because I'm American, right,
Speaker 2: so I'm trying to do like the funny American stuff,
Speaker 2: it didn't resonate. But like all my like I went
Speaker 2: to a private school with American school, everybody thought I
Speaker 2: was funny, but like, it didn't resonate. But as soon
Speaker 2: as I tap into my Caribbean stuff and intertwine, intertwine
Speaker 2: the American stuff it worked for me, So it shows
Speaker 2: me like it shows like your engagement. You need to
Speaker 2: do something engaging, but like you also need to be
Speaker 2: yourself in certain atmospheres. Right. But the way how social
Speaker 2: media works, if you're not coming from an organic place, right,
Speaker 2: you could do whatever to make you pop. There's people
Speaker 2: that do stuff that can make it them pop. But
Speaker 2: if you're coming from organic place, just be yourself and
Speaker 2: somehow it will work. Right. I'm not at the top
Speaker 2: of the list. I'm not at the bottom of the list,
Speaker 2: but I ash I could tell you from me. I
Speaker 2: look away, right, I know that this is what I'm
Speaker 2: meant to do, so I don't care how long it takes. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get there. Yes I'm not there, but I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go there. So that's my take on that. So
Speaker 2: what was the other question?
Speaker 1: The other question was what has been the most I
Speaker 1: guess intriguing reaction to your content. So the choices were
Speaker 1: whether that's somebody just saying, you know, I was having
Speaker 1: a really really bad day, or I just went through
Speaker 1: something and your video just brought joy to me, or
Speaker 1: a celebrity you know, reaching out to you or commenting
Speaker 1: on your video that just made you exit.
Speaker 2: I got two okay, right. There was a lady that
Speaker 2: say that said she was going to kill herself. She
Speaker 2: was about to jump off a building, jump off a building,
Speaker 2: and she seen my video and it reminded her of
Speaker 2: her mom's. It laughed her off the building. So I
Speaker 2: didn't know how to come with that. So I just
Speaker 2: like I just said a little bit, Okay, you're finding
Speaker 2: stuff like that, you feel me. She hasn't contact me since,
Speaker 2: but she was like, you're doing God's work. Right. But
Speaker 2: when she when she said that, it was like I
Speaker 2: was in a battle, like I'm not going to do
Speaker 2: this no more because it's not working. So that motivated
Speaker 2: me stop. See so one of my biggest right beside her,
Speaker 2: one of my biggest it was.
Speaker 1: Winnie, Winnie Harlow.
Speaker 2: Yes. So I don't know if you're seeing my video
Speaker 2: when I I call her, if you go on the
Speaker 2: page and I said, Booby, you look nice. You look
Speaker 2: like Alex and Milo. I feel like Alex and na
Speaker 2: Mon and Mileo and ather Night so yo. So when
Speaker 2: she's seen that, I'm like, yo, I'm doing this like
Speaker 2: because I feel like she's beautiful. I said, like, what
Speaker 2: would did Jamake. She is a just making guy, right,
Speaker 2: And when she replied to that, she was like, oh,
Speaker 2: like y'all don't take nothing serious. And I'm like yo,
Speaker 2: like that was so dope and.
Speaker 1: Like I love that.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. If you go on my page,
Speaker 2: please check it out. Like definitely she posted like I
Speaker 2: was at a thousand views when she reposted it was
Speaker 2: like three hundred thousand. What yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1: So that was your most significant, like celebrity experience.
Speaker 2: That was my most significant celebrity because she's she's in
Speaker 2: the culture. Yeah I've had Yeah, I've had other celebrities
Speaker 2: yeah around that's not American. But that made me feel
Speaker 2: good because I'm like, she gets.
Speaker 1: Because she's Jamaica, so she really ja. Yes, that's for
Speaker 1: my significant that's beautiful. And the story before, I mean,
Speaker 1: my gosh. I think that just shows you know, that
Speaker 1: comedy isn't just funny or about laughs. You know, it's
Speaker 1: also something that heals people. I was telling you earlier
Speaker 1: before we started recording that I had uncle Oliver on here,
Speaker 1: Oliver Samuels, and we talked about that because he mentioned
Speaker 1: to me that they're you know, I'm sure there are plenty,
Speaker 1: but one story he told me were a woman came
Speaker 1: up to him and said she was going through a
Speaker 1: really hard time and you know, he just makes her laugh.
Speaker 1: And so I always say, like he provides a sense
Speaker 1: of healing that's not medicine, right, because healing is not
Speaker 1: always from medicine, you know what I mean. It can
Speaker 1: just be from being around someone, someone making you laugh.
Speaker 1: And so the fact that you were thinking of quitting
Speaker 1: and then you got that message, I think that God
Speaker 1: has a way of reminding people, you know, keep on
Speaker 1: this path, because this is why I brought you here,
Speaker 1: Like this is your purpose, you know, especially because you
Speaker 1: said it's something that you've wanted to do since you
Speaker 1: were a little child. I just feel like you're showing
Speaker 1: the world that the Caribbean experience with all its humor
Speaker 1: and nuances and authenticity. It's really worth like a conversation
Speaker 1: and worth talking about. And I think that's really.
Speaker 2: Important absolutely, because like Ash, when I was going through
Speaker 2: my time of like hey I'm going to quit, like
Speaker 2: it was so much like I'm working at Red Lobster right,
Speaker 2: my phone was off and on like when I used
Speaker 2: to do my first videos. So there's this like little
Speaker 2: prestigious little area that where the older people live and
Speaker 2: they have local money, right, so I used to jump
Speaker 2: the fence over there to get their Wi Fi. So
Speaker 2: I'm over there, like I don't got no phone service.
Speaker 2: I'm sweating and stuff. I'm in the laundry area trying
Speaker 2: to do videos. And I asked myself. I used to
Speaker 2: ask myself for like why am I doing this? Is
Speaker 2: there bigger purpose? So that's where I feel like, I'm like, yo,
Speaker 2: there's a bigger purpose. And then two years later the
Speaker 2: lady wrote me the message, so like feel like there's
Speaker 2: a bigger purpose. And when you talk about your your
Speaker 2: uncle Oliver, like he makes me feel like I have
Speaker 2: a bigger purpose, like you know, like because like I
Speaker 2: watched certain things right, and his comedies stand the test
Speaker 2: of time. No matter what he do, you feel me
Speaker 2: and I want. I want my comedy or whatever I
Speaker 2: do stand the test of time. That's why I'm a
Speaker 2: big fan of Barriss, right, yeah, test of time. So
Speaker 2: like these people will live forever, right, and I'm trying
Speaker 2: to do the same thing.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you will, you will.
Speaker 2: I hope.
Speaker 3: So because yeah, because my dad asks me for too
Speaker 3: much money, it's do something and I think, and my
Speaker 3: daughter's my daughter is fourteen, Daddy, I need my hair,
Speaker 3: my girl, please roll on like you.
Speaker 1: Have lots of expenses coming up so expensive.
Speaker 2: Then then my top, then my talk about don tell
Speaker 2: them think that my girl I used to dance in
Speaker 2: my room. What And then she she wanted to be
Speaker 2: smart like I'm like my my girl, like I used
Speaker 2: to tell her, Hey, I forget them good there you
Speaker 2: can't go. So she's getting these grades and I'm like.
Speaker 1: Oh that's so good. Yeah, no, don'ts around here? What
Speaker 1: does Mosquito?
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, approach Philo dunce, but eat that. I'm wishing
Speaker 2: she I'm wishing she was both because I didn't know
Speaker 2: Jesus crises. And then you know she's trying to pick
Speaker 2: up on Jamaican lingo because she's trying to figure out
Speaker 2: the Jamaican school things. So yeah, daddy, I feel like
Speaker 2: I was in Jamaica. I could get this, this and this.
Speaker 1: You feel me she wants to go to Jamaica.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she wants subject. She wants something like, Daddy, I
Speaker 2: feel like I could get this and this subject. So
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say, yeah, you think you think so if
Speaker 2: you're feeling to if you feel to how people are
Speaker 2: freed when I'm gonna try to forget them subjects.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's not a not an easy thing. It's very
Speaker 1: nerve wrecking.
Speaker 2: It's nerve wrecking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's very like it causes a lot of anxiety.
Speaker 1: But I would equate it to like s A T's here,
Speaker 1: or like the F cat. It's the same thing, like
Speaker 1: meaning meaning the pressure.
Speaker 2: As don't bring up the F cat. You hear me?
Speaker 2: I know because my mother listeners ask the he the
Speaker 2: heath in Florida US in a whole you hear me? Yeah,
Speaker 2: my mother used to tell it like you're not going
Speaker 2: to Jamaica if you don't, if you don't pass it,
Speaker 2: I'm like mommy. Like the reading, yo, the reading comprehension
Speaker 2: was crazy, Like owen, how do you feel about the sky?
Speaker 2: You want to try for a full paragraph about the sky?
Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk about where you're headed, right, because, like
Speaker 1: you said, this is like your dream. You want to
Speaker 1: have a legacy like Uncle Oliver, and so comedy is
Speaker 1: obviously your thing. But I'm sure you have even bigger
Speaker 1: goals in mind. So where do you see yourself taking
Speaker 1: this next? Like do you want to expand into other
Speaker 1: types of entertainment, maybe even acting, or do you plan
Speaker 1: to stay rooted in comedy.
Speaker 2: I feel like God has blessed me to be entertainer, right,
Speaker 2: So I love comedy, right. I feel like God gave
Speaker 2: me the best of both worlds. God blessed me to
Speaker 2: be a proud Jamaican, but he also blessed me to
Speaker 2: be in America. Right. So as much as me count talk,
Speaker 2: as much as me count talk, there isn't it. It's
Speaker 2: as much as I can say, Hey, Ash, you know Harvard. Wow,
Speaker 2: that's a great place. I would love acting, I would
Speaker 2: love hosting. I'm coming up with short films. So I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna. I'm not gonna just put myself in this bubble, right,
Speaker 2: because some people are just they're just gifted to do
Speaker 2: certain things. Some people are just born to do some things.
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm born to do these things. So
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna try everything. I'm gonna try everything and
Speaker 2: until it rests my soul. Amen. So so bigger things, yes,
Speaker 2: bigger things, Yes, I'm gonna. I've been taking acting classes.
Speaker 2: I've been taking yes, improve improv classes. I do. I
Speaker 2: do good with improv, acting, is you know, you gotta
Speaker 2: tighten up doing acting right, because learning acting is like
Speaker 2: learning like Denzel like and then learning that he was
Speaker 2: he was a stage actor.
Speaker 1: First he was.
Speaker 2: He's a stage actor. So I'm like, okay, you feel me?
Speaker 2: So how do I refer that to? You? Feel me?
Speaker 2: But like some of his lines and his biggest films
Speaker 2: was improv like King Congo got King Congo got none
Speaker 2: on it that wasn't on there, like that's him. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: So like okay, so how can I be that?
Speaker 1: I have been allowing my guests to ask me one
Speaker 1: question this season because they don't get to ask anything.
Speaker 1: So is there anything you would like to ask me?
Speaker 2: Yes? Okay, So I was very intrigued when you tell
Speaker 2: me you like you did you went to Harvard? Right?
Speaker 1: Yes, I did, So I would like.
Speaker 2: To know what was your journey to Harvard In a
Speaker 2: short story.
Speaker 1: My experience at Harvard was amazing. I met some really
Speaker 1: great people. And while I was a little bit hesitant
Speaker 1: because you know, my parents grew me in a certain
Speaker 1: way where I never was brought up to think I'm
Speaker 1: better than anybody and to be pretentious. So I was
Speaker 1: concerned more of like the people That was my concern, like,
Speaker 1: are these going to be people that are going to
Speaker 1: be very you know, stand off fish and think they're
Speaker 1: better than And I do hear some people have had
Speaker 1: that experience. I did not. I had a really great experience,
Speaker 1: And I just would recommend to anybody, even if it's
Speaker 1: not Harvard, if you're interested in furthering your education or
Speaker 1: just learning more. I don't think you're ever too old
Speaker 1: to do so. For the last segment, I'm going to
Speaker 1: ask you a few rapid fire questions and you have
Speaker 1: to answer with the first thing that comes to mind.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, what.
Speaker 1: Is your favorite Jemmican food? I should have known that, Like,
Speaker 1: once it left my mouth, I'm like, I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: it's going to be Ouxdale. But never know. What character
Speaker 1: of yours would be the most fun to hang out
Speaker 1: with in real life?
Speaker 2: My uncle dad character.
Speaker 1: Oh and why.
Speaker 2: He's just dope man, Like, listen, if you go on
Speaker 2: my page, I have a video of my uncle Sam
Speaker 2: when he was on a cruise like he's just dope.
Speaker 1: Oh nice, I love that. I love that. Okay, what's
Speaker 1: one place that if you got a million dollars that
Speaker 1: you would want to go?
Speaker 2: To so.
Speaker 1: Oh so this is like your dream vacation. This is
Speaker 1: not like a regular trip. I just got a million
Speaker 1: dollars zanza bar Ooh that's a good one. I love that.
Speaker 2: I've been dying to go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've never been, but it looks gorgeous. I love that. Okay.
Speaker 1: Next question, if you could bring back one childhood memory
Speaker 1: from your Jamaica and upbringing to relive, what would it.
Speaker 2: Be my first time figuring out how to run aboard?
Speaker 1: Like h.
Speaker 2: Like I was like bridging. Everybody have a local money,
Speaker 2: everybody like run a board. Yeah, ah, okay, it was.
Speaker 2: It was awesome.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I love that. Very nice Okay. And the
Speaker 1: final question, when you look back at the impact that
Speaker 1: you've made so far, what's the one thing that you
Speaker 1: want your legacy to be and how do you want
Speaker 1: people to always remember you?
Speaker 2: Wow? I feel like honestly, I haven't reached anywhere yet,
Speaker 2: but my leg see I want to be is a
Speaker 2: good person. I just want to be a good person,
Speaker 2: like my daughter. If I have more kids, anything, Yeah,
Speaker 2: when I lay my head to rest, or we have
Speaker 2: a funeral, whatever, I just want my kids. And everybody
Speaker 2: was like, you know, I own was a good person.
Speaker 2: Forget all the accolades, Like I just want to be
Speaker 2: a good person because you could be famous and them
Speaker 2: think that nasty targetings. All right, okay, you help so
Speaker 2: many people be this and that, but aren't you a
Speaker 2: good person? Noama food for like yo, I want my
Speaker 2: food to be good at nine nights. I judge people.
Speaker 2: I judge people off if your food, if your food
Speaker 2: not good at nine night, whatever they say, whatever they said,
Speaker 2: you did, you did, whatever you said you did. I'd
Speaker 2: bet said you was a horrible person. Your food no
Speaker 2: good on that night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're about to have an emotional moment.
Speaker 2: I was. But I'm trying to say, Virgin, I want
Speaker 2: to be known as a good person, but I also
Speaker 2: want my food to be extremely good at.
Speaker 1: Nine I understood, understood, understood. Have to be there and
Speaker 1: have to taste nice.
Speaker 2: Have to taste nice because like Virgin, don't bury me
Speaker 2: off my food ain't good at night, don't bury me
Speaker 2: at all, like yo, Like, can you imagine going to
Speaker 2: somebody nine night and the food good them food like that?
Speaker 2: Whatever that said you did, you did, you did, you
Speaker 2: did whatever I'm saying though you do?
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, well owing this has been an amazing conversation.
Speaker 1: I love how you've used comedy to you know, not
Speaker 1: just entertain but to show the world who we are
Speaker 1: as Caribbean people and as Jamaicans and where we come from,
Speaker 1: and you know what makes us unique. And I think
Speaker 1: you're building something that's bigger than laughs and jokes. I
Speaker 1: think it's a movement and it's going to be a legacy,
Speaker 1: and it's really going to touch a lot of people,
Speaker 1: like more people than it has already touched. So thank
Speaker 1: you so much for coming to talk things with me today.
Speaker 1: And is there anything you would like to share with
Speaker 1: my audience.
Speaker 2: First of all, thank you for this opportunity.
Speaker 1: Oh you're welcome.
Speaker 2: It means so much to me what I would like
Speaker 2: to share, right because as a kid growing up with
Speaker 2: Caribbean descent, sometimes it might not resonate with their American
Speaker 2: partners or whatever it may be. But like I'm just
Speaker 2: telling the kids like you, being Caribbean, it's something amazing.
Speaker 2: Your culture is something amazing. So like for the Haitians,
Speaker 2: the Trinidadians or whatever whatever you might be in the Caribbean,
Speaker 2: you stand prideful in that. Trust me, and it adds
Speaker 2: another layer to you, like for people finding out who
Speaker 2: you are and what you are and you just being
Speaker 2: Caribbean and what you stand on. And I promise you
Speaker 2: it will work out for you, like down the line.
Speaker 2: And for the guys them love the look of accent there,
Speaker 2: so they're in a class like when I used to
Speaker 2: speak like oh and tell that stuff where you say,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, she said what you said, So it
Speaker 2: will work out for you. So be pride feeling who
Speaker 2: you are. I don't care what Caribbean culture you are.
Speaker 2: Be prideful and what you are because down the line
Speaker 2: it will help you. Like I'm here and I'm doing
Speaker 2: Caribbean comedy because of my background. I wasn't born to Jamaica,
Speaker 2: but like when I put my foot down, like yo,
Speaker 2: I'm Jamaican, this one stuff started opening up for me.
Speaker 2: So don't be shy, don't be scared of where you
Speaker 2: are or who you are. Just let it happen. And
Speaker 2: it worked for you. So that's all I got to say.
Speaker 2: I don't want to preach an I love that.
Speaker 1: Yes, I love that. That's a beautiful message. And don't
Speaker 1: forget to tell them where they can follow you.
Speaker 2: You can follow me on the underscore since eighty nine.
Speaker 1: Well, hopefully you enjoyed yourself joking the things with me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm me talking the things with your name. John said, sweetness.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, it's the best interview I've ever had.
Speaker 2: I've had a couple. Some people are gonna get mad
Speaker 2: when I say that, But okay, we'll talk to Yeah,
Speaker 2: you'll go to Arbor. An't number a big school numb,
Speaker 2: big school love. I talked to somebody about to Arbor.