WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.560 --> 00:00:07.320 This conversation is not just about laughs, although Miya one 2 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:11.400 on from No I was laughing ninety percent at the time, 3 00:00:12.400 --> 00:00:19.559 but it's also to reflect on perseverance, identity, legacy, and 4 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:23.320 the quiet power of knowing you are not alone in 5 00:00:23.359 --> 00:00:29.000 your struggle or your healing. This episode is both hilarious 6 00:00:29.239 --> 00:00:33.840 and introspective, with the overall message being, as we say 7 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:37.679 in Jamaica, what is for? You can be on fel 8 00:00:42.399 --> 00:00:46.240 If you're listening to the podcast on Apple Podcast, please 9 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:51.280 remember to rate and leave a comment below. Also, don't 10 00:00:51.320 --> 00:00:54.759 forget to follow us on Instagram at Let's Talk the 11 00:00:54.840 --> 00:00:58.960 Things Now. Grab your tea, coffee, or a glass of 12 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:06.200 wine and let's talk the things. Hello everyone, Welcome back 13 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:10.519 to another episode of Let's Talk the Things. I'm your host, 14 00:01:10.840 --> 00:01:14.760 Ash and this week we are talking to things with 15 00:01:14.959 --> 00:01:18.439 comedian Owen Hi Owen. How are you? 16 00:01:18.719 --> 00:01:25.120 How are you doing? Hi to why? 17 00:01:27.319 --> 00:01:32.280 Please, I'm don't starry. Please to use your real voice? 18 00:01:33.719 --> 00:01:34.519 How are you doing? 19 00:01:36.599 --> 00:01:38.840 I'm I'm trying to use. 20 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:42.000 No, we have to come again. 21 00:01:46.319 --> 00:01:50.040 This is how I talk like y'all not might believe me. 22 00:01:50.359 --> 00:01:53.959 I swear, I promise this is my real voice. All right, 23 00:01:54.120 --> 00:01:58.480 bombs If we can't do it again, alight. That is 24 00:01:58.519 --> 00:01:59.680 not gonna get no different. 25 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:02.599 Okay, Oh my gosh, I don't know how I'm gonna 26 00:02:02.599 --> 00:02:07.760 manage this. Okay, re Hi, Owen, how are you I'm doing? 27 00:02:08.159 --> 00:02:19.919 I'm doing magnificent, my yo. Hold on, let me tell 28 00:02:19.919 --> 00:02:24.919 you a quick story for recording. Right when I moved 29 00:02:24.919 --> 00:02:28.639 to Orlando, I'm second generation. People don't notice I'm second Wait. 30 00:02:28.479 --> 00:02:30.680 But oh when you start already you can't start yet. 31 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:40.919 We're gonna talk about that, oh you Okay? For you 32 00:02:41.520 --> 00:02:44.439 and those of you that are listening that are first 33 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:49.840 time listeners, we begin each episode with our listener's favorite segment, 34 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:54.560 and it's called that a soon safe And so basically 35 00:02:54.599 --> 00:02:57.479 what it is is, I'm gonna read messages or social 36 00:02:57.520 --> 00:03:00.639 media posts that listener is sent in and Owen, if 37 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:04.199 you think it sounds crazy or a little concerning, you'd 38 00:03:04.280 --> 00:03:07.680 say that notes sounds safe and explain why. And if 39 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:10.479 you agree, then you say you agree and explain why. 40 00:03:10.639 --> 00:03:11.199 Sounds good? 41 00:03:11.280 --> 00:03:19.520 Okay, no problem, no problem. 42 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:21.280 All right. So the first one, if only people understood 43 00:03:21.759 --> 00:03:27.400 the importance of being consistent. Everything that has value, everything 44 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:30.319 that has value in life is a product of consistency. 45 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:37.039 Success health, fitness, wealth, friendships, relationships, and all other aspirations 46 00:03:37.080 --> 00:03:39.560 are all about consistency. 47 00:03:40.680 --> 00:03:45.159 Now, let me thinking about that. That sounds extremely safe. Okay, 48 00:03:45.240 --> 00:03:49.719 that sounds comforting. Okay, and that is true. Thing that 49 00:03:49.919 --> 00:03:54.719 sounds safe. Bobby, whoever wrote this post, let me let 50 00:03:54.800 --> 00:03:57.039 me coggle you. I want to coggle you. I want 51 00:03:57.039 --> 00:04:02.520 to be in your your comfort. 52 00:04:00.520 --> 00:04:02.520 You to tell us why you think? 53 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:08.680 All right, all right? Why I think it sounds safe? Because, like, 54 00:04:09.199 --> 00:04:13.439 consistency is the key. Like if you watch TV and 55 00:04:13.479 --> 00:04:16.480 you be like, how did this person? He's not that funny? 56 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:19.120 How did he get to here and there? It is 57 00:04:19.199 --> 00:04:26.800 because of consistency. Right, hard work beats talent. Right, you 58 00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:30.360 could be the most talented, but if you have the 59 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:35.079 hard work and you have the vision, guess who's gonna win. 60 00:04:35.879 --> 00:04:40.000 Hard work I come from. I come from an era 61 00:04:40.279 --> 00:04:45.680 like I'm living in Florida. It's so many guys that 62 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:52.839 play sports, right, and I'm seeing these guys that have 63 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:57.120 the talent not succeed. And I used to ask to myself, 64 00:04:57.160 --> 00:05:00.680 I'm like, yo, oh, this is my friend such and such. 65 00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:03.000 I don't want to call no names, right, And I 66 00:05:03.079 --> 00:05:06.160 used to ask myself, I'm like why are they not 67 00:05:07.399 --> 00:05:13.319 there prospering prospering? It is because of the consistency. Right, 68 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:18.560 So BOMs, now you know all right, you say you 69 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:21.600 need grades and you know it, you need to fit 70 00:05:21.639 --> 00:05:24.040 the things. You're not doing that thing. You just playing 71 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:29.800 ball right right, But there's somebody else that's playing ball, 72 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:34.279 also taking care of the grades, and you don't have it. 73 00:05:35.480 --> 00:05:39.959 And he's doing what he's staying what consistent? You can 74 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:44.360 knock it. You are better than him, but he's being consistent. 75 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:48.600 Yeah, so consistency, that's true. And I think you're right. 76 00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:52.279 There's so many talented people. I just think even us 77 00:05:52.279 --> 00:05:56.199 being you know, of Caribbean descent, there's so much talent 78 00:05:56.360 --> 00:05:59.879 in all of our countries, right, but clearly everybody does 79 00:05:59.879 --> 00:06:02.920 it make it. There's not a million Rihannas or Shansias, 80 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:05.959 you know what I mean. And so a lot of 81 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:09.120 it is hard work, a lot of it is perseverance, 82 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:12.279 a lot of it is patience. But you're right, hard 83 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:14.800 work is going to be talent every time. And I 84 00:06:14.839 --> 00:06:18.360 think that this generation that's so used to having things 85 00:06:18.839 --> 00:06:22.240 handed to them sometimes don't understand that. 86 00:06:22.920 --> 00:06:26.680 You know that our understand the geography, like what you 87 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:35.319 got to do to make yourself present and yeah, you know, 88 00:06:36.199 --> 00:06:39.199 like you got to think outside the box. Okay, I'm 89 00:06:39.199 --> 00:06:45.160 a I'm a Caribbean content creator, right, that's cool, Like, 90 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:51.279 how can you use your Caribbean content to touch the masses? 91 00:06:51.959 --> 00:06:55.240 Now you have to have to think and it don't 92 00:06:55.240 --> 00:06:59.959 have to be much, right mm hmmm. So it's like, okay, 93 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:03.360 if you feel like if you feel like, yo, miss stuck, 94 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:08.680 I'm stuck doing Caribbean comedy or I'm stuck doing Jamaican comedy, 95 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:13.839 like you need to if you're a creator, you need 96 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:19.199 to able to create to touch the masses. You will 97 00:07:19.199 --> 00:07:19.839 find a way. 98 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:25.360 Yeah, I like that. That sound safe for sure? All right. 99 00:07:25.439 --> 00:07:28.720 The next one, the person said, I show up to 100 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:32.600 the airport two to three hours early because you guys 101 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:35.000 are not gonna have me running through the airport like 102 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:36.879 the McAllister is on home alone. 103 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:44.759 That is funny, and that is safe to the airport 104 00:07:45.079 --> 00:07:48.600 to untree alls early. I'm gonna can't do what we 105 00:07:48.680 --> 00:07:53.920 need for these I rebuke it in Hallelujah. I rebuke 106 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:55.040 in them jus. 107 00:07:57.639 --> 00:08:01.480 Yeah, I feel like we we all know growing up, 108 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:04.279 we used to get especially if you were alive in 109 00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:06.480 the nineties. So those of you that are younger, maybe 110 00:08:06.480 --> 00:08:07.240 not so much. 111 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:08.279 Speaking to. 112 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:12.519 Our parents had us at the airport like four hours 113 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:14.879 early for no holy reason. 114 00:08:14.759 --> 00:08:15.759 Holy goals. 115 00:08:16.079 --> 00:08:16.240 Yo. 116 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:21.279 My uncle Alfred, My uncle Alfred, he was going to law, 117 00:08:21.720 --> 00:08:24.839 he was going to la He called me. He said, oh, 118 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:29.800 and you're up. I'm like up. But your your flight 119 00:08:29.959 --> 00:08:35.240 says it leaves at twelve o'clock noon. My uncle, I 120 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:39.320 promise you, my uncle for twelve o'clock noon. He was 121 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:42.679 there seven am. He well, may I try, may I 122 00:08:42.720 --> 00:08:49.799 try Philip philical food. There's nothing open my Virgin McDonald's. 123 00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:53.519 You feel me. There's nothing open my Burgin. 124 00:08:53.960 --> 00:08:56.639 But you know what my point is, even though that 125 00:08:56.720 --> 00:08:59.639 may be a little extreme, I think they were onto 126 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:02.679 something by just getting there early so you can relax, 127 00:09:02.840 --> 00:09:05.559 like you're not, like the person said, running through the 128 00:09:05.559 --> 00:09:07.159 airport panicking, panicking. 129 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:11.080 But that's so, that's so true, because on my last 130 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:15.360 trip I did that, and everything wants good. 131 00:09:15.799 --> 00:09:19.440 So yeah, I guess, yeah, maybe not four hours early, 132 00:09:19.480 --> 00:09:21.960 but maybe you know two hours or and a half. 133 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:23.279 That's on safe. 134 00:09:23.919 --> 00:09:27.039 Yeah, that's one that's safe. 135 00:09:27.360 --> 00:09:32.120 Yeah, all right, next one, the person said, if you 136 00:09:32.279 --> 00:09:35.279 really want to make him mad, stare at his haircut 137 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:37.799 and say they must have been rushing. 138 00:09:40.240 --> 00:09:44.000 That not see if that not see if may I 139 00:09:44.039 --> 00:09:48.360 tell her right now that not saf that not self atal, 140 00:09:49.399 --> 00:09:54.799 my girl, hold on that not sef. 141 00:09:56.000 --> 00:09:58.720 Ash that's wickedness. 142 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:00.279 Yeah, but maybe. 143 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:06.159 Imagine no imagine no imagine missed can so much time 144 00:10:06.200 --> 00:10:10.600 from the earline. I'm gonna come to you. You know 145 00:10:11.879 --> 00:10:14.639 some of my hairline is missing. I fill it in. 146 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:17.279 I fill it in. I know how you feel like 147 00:10:17.360 --> 00:10:20.639 hold on you know how you feel about your edges, yes, 148 00:10:21.159 --> 00:10:23.879 and lace front and them things? When I got. 149 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:33.919 You feeling it? 150 00:10:34.879 --> 00:10:41.279 No, no, no, no, no, yes, eating you you're giving 151 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:47.519 your eating or whatever I want to say. But some booms, 152 00:10:47.559 --> 00:10:51.559 no supports me come from a gym. No, I'm here 153 00:10:51.639 --> 00:10:55.799 like musclet. I'm not muscle up, but feeling good. Right yeah, 154 00:10:56.240 --> 00:11:00.360 some said no. I said to my booms, get trim. 155 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:06.399 No right boom boom, I'm trying to cover the spots 156 00:11:06.440 --> 00:11:14.559 and you fifty se my haircut is not worthy. It's 157 00:11:14.600 --> 00:11:16.960 not safe. My good. 158 00:11:17.279 --> 00:11:19.639 Yeah, that is a act. I can't like that one. 159 00:11:19.720 --> 00:11:23.720 Not safe. It's like it's like me telling you me 160 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:26.960 like you coming in with the hairstyle. You feel me, 161 00:11:27.039 --> 00:11:30.000 and I'm like, oh, you got the side park. But no, no, 162 00:11:30.039 --> 00:11:33.440 I'm like not really feeling the side park. I'm not 163 00:11:33.639 --> 00:11:36.879 feeling your lace front. Your lace front is not at 164 00:11:36.919 --> 00:11:41.960 the front. You feel me. It's a couple of steps 165 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:53.240 back my wild Yeah something aline is me on your 166 00:11:53.240 --> 00:11:57.559 boat noor something. You're like, it's diminish, diminishing. 167 00:11:57.639 --> 00:11:59.960 Okay, Okay, so it's a sensitive topic. 168 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:01.000 It's sensitive. 169 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:03.519 It's sensitive, Okay. 170 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:07.279 Especially when on the right corner of my hair right now, 171 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:09.759 it's going through some things. But and then. 172 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:14.000 I'm trying to, you know, trying to catch it back up. 173 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:16.399 Don't do me like that. 174 00:12:16.399 --> 00:12:16.919 That's true. 175 00:12:17.360 --> 00:12:24.799 You can take that in give me that. I want 176 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:26.399 to talk to a personally like. 177 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:29.600 No, I will keep their identity confidential. 178 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:34.000 Okay. 179 00:12:34.080 --> 00:12:37.919 Next one, the person said, people will call you boring 180 00:12:38.120 --> 00:12:41.360 for not wanting to fill every second of the vacation 181 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:49.200 with activities. Well, guess what action, Jackson, I'm taking a nap. Listen, 182 00:12:49.440 --> 00:12:51.879 action Jackson is crazy. 183 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:59.320 Action Jackson is for real. Like, I one hundred percent 184 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:05.360 agree with this person, Like, listen to me, taking a 185 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:13.279 good nap on a vacation is everything. Like when I 186 00:13:13.320 --> 00:13:19.320 go on vacations, I work. I work, right, my vacation 187 00:13:19.879 --> 00:13:23.559 when I start my vacation is after I literally get 188 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:28.159 off work, so Booms said, my vacation, Yeah, my vacation 189 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:33.639 is the twelfth, the eleventh. I'm getting off on the eleventh. Right, 190 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:39.559 I have to maybe drive somewhere to get into the facilities, 191 00:13:39.639 --> 00:13:44.600 right for the twelfth, right, so Booms. No, when they 192 00:13:44.639 --> 00:13:47.159 get pund the bull, I me get punic plan Mick 193 00:13:47.240 --> 00:13:51.480 tired Billby. Let me take me look, let me take 194 00:13:51.519 --> 00:13:55.159 my local nap. All right, I understand your I understand 195 00:13:55.200 --> 00:13:59.159 you want to zip line syst we just we are called. 196 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:03.919 But what if it's not even like a vacation. What 197 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:06.759 if it's like your friends some some friends you want 198 00:14:06.840 --> 00:14:08.679 to have like everything planned out. 199 00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:12.240 They are the worst, They are the worst. 200 00:14:12.440 --> 00:14:14.200 You have to know who you're I think the point 201 00:14:14.240 --> 00:14:16.919 of this you have to know who you're traveling, because 202 00:14:17.320 --> 00:14:19.919 if you want to have an itinerary, then travel with 203 00:14:19.960 --> 00:14:22.000 those kind of friends. If you want to relax, travel 204 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:23.080 with the relaxing friends. 205 00:14:23.080 --> 00:14:27.879 Otherwise work all right, so Booms thone, you have relaxed friends, 206 00:14:27.960 --> 00:14:31.440 and them a kid can merge like, right, I have 207 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:37.279 a relaxed friend. Right, And this is my bro and 208 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:39.679 I'm going to say, I'm going to say his name, 209 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:42.320 Anthony Bush. I'm going to say his whole name so 210 00:14:42.360 --> 00:14:43.279 I can get him mad. 211 00:14:43.399 --> 00:14:48.120 Right, Okay, Hi Anthony. 212 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:51.720 We went on a cruise. Right when we get on 213 00:14:51.759 --> 00:14:54.039 the cruise and like, Budge, where are going to do? Listen, 214 00:14:55.679 --> 00:15:01.200 just trying to catch your sleep. So it's like sometimes 215 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:04.480 your friends be like tired. 216 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:09.919 Yeah, that's the more love the story. Let your friends relax. 217 00:15:10.480 --> 00:15:11.320 Miss Field said. 218 00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:15.559 Midfield said, yeah, okay, that's so safe. 219 00:15:16.679 --> 00:15:23.320 Give me our number so we can't both, okay, okay, okay. 220 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:27.519 The next one, Jamaicans don't believe in zodiac then proceed 221 00:15:27.600 --> 00:15:34.759 to say so January people stay. 222 00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:38.559 So that is so true, and it's so true they 223 00:15:38.600 --> 00:15:43.240 don't believe in zodiac. But my mother is a Capricorn, right, 224 00:15:43.559 --> 00:15:46.720 and she was like a Capricorn. But as soon as 225 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:49.559 like maya zodiac the blood of Jesus, like what are 226 00:15:49.559 --> 00:15:55.480 you doing? What are you doing? You feel me? What 227 00:15:55.519 --> 00:15:59.399 are you doing? So long story short, Jamaican people try 228 00:15:59.440 --> 00:16:03.320 to believe, and I try to say they don't believe 229 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:04.639 in zodiac. 230 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:09.759 Yeah, yeah, I one hundred percent agree. All right, last 231 00:16:09.799 --> 00:16:13.960 one in this segment just because you can help does 232 00:16:14.039 --> 00:16:18.399 not mean you're assigned to help preserve your energy. 233 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:20.840 I agree with that. 234 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:25.919 Yeah, yeah, And I think that's a big thing in 235 00:16:25.960 --> 00:16:28.919 our community, right, Like we grow up where we see 236 00:16:28.919 --> 00:16:32.200 our parents and grandparents like helping persons in the community 237 00:16:32.320 --> 00:16:34.840 or in the family, and so you think like, oh, 238 00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:36.879 you know, that's what I'm supposed to do. But you've 239 00:16:36.919 --> 00:16:41.799 also seen your grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, parents, whoever help 240 00:16:41.919 --> 00:16:44.879 someone to their detriment, you know what I mean, like 241 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:48.600 where the person should really be helping themselves. But because 242 00:16:48.600 --> 00:16:51.879 that's kind of how we grow up, you overextend yourself 243 00:16:51.960 --> 00:16:55.200 and then you're left depleted, so you kind of have 244 00:16:55.240 --> 00:16:58.039 to balance, you know, like you can't pour from an 245 00:16:58.080 --> 00:16:59.960 empty cop is what I'm trying to say, Like, yeah, 246 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:01.159 to help people with your. 247 00:17:01.080 --> 00:17:05.359 Overflow, that's some that's some real stuff you feel, yea, 248 00:17:06.440 --> 00:17:11.680 And sometimes and sometimes in our culture and our state 249 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:18.119 of mind, especially if you have family abroad, right, you 250 00:17:18.160 --> 00:17:23.759 put you put your feelings, your emotion, your hard work, right, 251 00:17:24.480 --> 00:17:26.839 you put it second to the people that I'm doing A. 252 00:17:26.960 --> 00:17:31.680 Yeah, it's very true, so very really you. 253 00:17:31.480 --> 00:17:36.960 Put it aside and then you put them in front, right, 254 00:17:37.720 --> 00:17:43.119 And it's so much going on and and not it 255 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:45.119 might not turn out the way you want it to 256 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:50.720 turn out. So like, so, as a Caribbean person, you 257 00:17:50.799 --> 00:17:53.839 need to protect yourself first, protect your feelings first. 258 00:17:53.960 --> 00:17:55.240 Yeah, your mental health. 259 00:17:56.000 --> 00:18:04.799 Your mental health. I've seen I've seen my mother like, right, 260 00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:07.640 in the lack of better words for the young people 261 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:11.960 who's listening, I've seen my mom's crash out on some 262 00:18:12.680 --> 00:18:18.759 stuff that she didn't need to crash out on, and 263 00:18:19.119 --> 00:18:23.960 it's because it's her loyalty to Hey, if you make it, 264 00:18:24.519 --> 00:18:25.720 you need to come back and. 265 00:18:27.039 --> 00:18:34.119 Right, yeah, oh god, yeah. 266 00:18:31.079 --> 00:18:31.160 So. 267 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:38.279 That's the I think it's it's such a delicate balance, 268 00:18:38.359 --> 00:18:42.039 right because since we grow up where family is such 269 00:18:42.119 --> 00:18:46.640 a core of who we are, you do feel obligated 270 00:18:46.759 --> 00:18:50.440 to help your family out when you have it right, exactly, 271 00:18:50.799 --> 00:18:55.599 there's like a fine line between the family that appreciates 272 00:18:55.599 --> 00:18:58.000 the help and the family that, like you said in 273 00:18:58.039 --> 00:19:01.200 your analogy, looks at you as like, oh, well, your 274 00:19:01.240 --> 00:19:03.160 cup is overflowing, so I can just kick up my 275 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:05.240 feet and just take from your cup. Even though you're 276 00:19:05.279 --> 00:19:09.079 working so hard, you're swating, you're doing all these things, 277 00:19:09.359 --> 00:19:11.599 but they just look at the output. They just see 278 00:19:12.119 --> 00:19:14.559 the output They don't see the blood, sweat and tears 279 00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:16.599 that goes into like even what you do, you know, 280 00:19:17.240 --> 00:19:19.960 and they might think, oh, well, you can afford to 281 00:19:19.960 --> 00:19:22.559 do this because you got a new car or you 282 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:25.759 got new shoes, not thinking you worked really hard to 283 00:19:25.799 --> 00:19:29.759 get those things for yourself each you know. So I 284 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:33.480 think it's a really delicate balance because on one hand, no, 285 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:36.319 you don't want to leave your family behind, but how 286 00:19:36.440 --> 00:19:39.680 many persons that we know in the generations before us 287 00:19:39.920 --> 00:19:42.599 aren't where they could have been because they were lifting 288 00:19:42.680 --> 00:19:46.000 up everybody else. Imagine you're climbing up a mountain and 289 00:19:46.160 --> 00:19:47.799 you can't make it to the top because you have 290 00:19:47.920 --> 00:19:51.880 seventy people on your back. That's what it's like preach. 291 00:19:53.000 --> 00:19:59.240 The craziest thing for us in our generation. It's saying no. 292 00:19:59.240 --> 00:20:01.519 No is of its stating for me like. 293 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:08.359 Yes, no, don't don't luck now because like you, but no, my. 294 00:20:08.880 --> 00:20:15.359 Strong my mind, Like yo, when I have a cousin 295 00:20:15.759 --> 00:20:21.440 like you feel me are a friend because I'm second generation. Right, 296 00:20:21.920 --> 00:20:27.319 I lived in Jamaica for two years, right, so I developed. 297 00:20:27.480 --> 00:20:31.279 I developed a lot of friends. And sometimes they hit 298 00:20:31.400 --> 00:20:36.119 me and I'll be like and I work, I work, Yeah, 299 00:20:36.720 --> 00:20:44.720 ash I work, work with. So when they say something 300 00:20:44.799 --> 00:20:49.680 that like hey, and like I have to say no, 301 00:20:50.559 --> 00:20:52.519 it's it hurts you. 302 00:20:52.640 --> 00:20:56.079 Yeah, you're saying. For those listening, you're saying like when 303 00:20:56.160 --> 00:20:58.240 they ask you for a ting, like to help them. 304 00:20:58.079 --> 00:21:00.839 Out, ask me for a ting to them out right, 305 00:21:01.400 --> 00:21:04.720 So when I say no, that's not all right yo, gud. 306 00:21:05.000 --> 00:21:10.640 But like I want them to understand where I'm coming from, right, 307 00:21:10.759 --> 00:21:15.160 I have a daughter. My daughter is fourteen, right, yes, 308 00:21:15.519 --> 00:21:18.200 she talked, well, she want to go. I don'ee them, 309 00:21:18.720 --> 00:21:25.200 then them, and I want her to yeah, experience everything, 310 00:21:25.279 --> 00:21:27.799 so for certain yeah them. 311 00:21:27.680 --> 00:21:32.200 Yeah, yeah, responsibilities, responsibility. 312 00:21:32.319 --> 00:21:35.359 So when a friend come and be like yo, I 313 00:21:35.440 --> 00:21:38.839 feel bad, even to this day. It used to be 314 00:21:39.480 --> 00:21:43.559 different when I was a little bit younger, when I 315 00:21:43.640 --> 00:21:49.839 was sexy on I'm growing on when they chocolate, I 316 00:21:49.920 --> 00:21:52.759 wanted to spread I want to spread that out right, 317 00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:56.799 But it's different like right now when somebody asked me 318 00:21:56.960 --> 00:22:00.160 like hey, like I'm like, yo, I got responsibilities, but 319 00:22:00.680 --> 00:22:02.839 it's still hurt. It still hurts. 320 00:22:03.200 --> 00:22:03.680 Yeah. 321 00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:06.920 Yeah, that's because you're not a mean spirited person, so 322 00:22:06.960 --> 00:22:09.599 it's going to I'm not bad, but you have to 323 00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:12.559 do it. You want to protect yourself and also you 324 00:22:12.559 --> 00:22:14.400 know the fact that you have a daughter. 325 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:19.000 Yes, that was. 326 00:22:18.960 --> 00:22:22.440 Fun and little ice breaker it's a laughter, you know. No, 327 00:22:23.079 --> 00:22:24.880 we're going to talk the real things. 328 00:22:25.240 --> 00:22:26.640 So I. 329 00:22:29.880 --> 00:22:32.559 Want to talk about your roots. And you started talking 330 00:22:32.599 --> 00:22:35.240 about this a little bit. But we know you're Jamaica, 331 00:22:35.480 --> 00:22:37.640 But can you tell us a little bit more like 332 00:22:37.759 --> 00:22:38.680 where you grew up? 333 00:22:38.799 --> 00:22:41.519 And all right, I'm gonna tell you the whole story. 334 00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:42.480 Okay, yeah, man. 335 00:22:42.920 --> 00:22:48.160 So my mother, right, my mother and the family came 336 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:56.799 here from Jamaica in seventy seven. Right, my grandfather used 337 00:22:56.839 --> 00:23:01.480 to do sugar cane. We have we in Spanish Town. 338 00:23:01.559 --> 00:23:06.319 We had a shot. But you know all the shop 339 00:23:06.400 --> 00:23:10.359 people them them, I forgot to for Booms get their products. No, 340 00:23:11.319 --> 00:23:16.440 my grandfather had the trucks coming straight to his ting right, 341 00:23:18.200 --> 00:23:21.799 and my grandfather was the first person to get electricity 342 00:23:21.920 --> 00:23:26.039 in Spanish Town and toy Spen in toy Spend, let 343 00:23:26.039 --> 00:23:28.880 me make that not Spanish town. And so booms know 344 00:23:29.400 --> 00:23:32.799 how my grandfather got my grandmother. It's crazy because she 345 00:23:32.920 --> 00:23:36.920 tells me this before she died. Right, this what made 346 00:23:37.000 --> 00:23:41.200 her say, Booms, let me let me give you my try. 347 00:23:41.480 --> 00:23:47.400 He said, Wait, he rolled up on her he said yo, 348 00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:54.279 and said William saying to those I give, but to you, 349 00:23:54.480 --> 00:23:55.799 I give the leaf some. 350 00:23:56.160 --> 00:24:05.759 Crazy I give the so long story shark, I look 351 00:24:05.839 --> 00:24:09.720 alone and that Spanish tone both ten and that that 352 00:24:09.880 --> 00:24:10.200 was it. 353 00:24:11.960 --> 00:24:15.359 Some people I was born in America. I was born 354 00:24:15.440 --> 00:24:19.960 in Newark, New Jersey. Some people, yes, some people feel 355 00:24:20.000 --> 00:24:24.160 like I'm Jamaican and Jamaican but I'm second generation. But 356 00:24:24.960 --> 00:24:28.480 m hmm, I have American girlfriend. Right when she put 357 00:24:28.519 --> 00:24:31.880 on Isley Brothers and all these other type of things, 358 00:24:32.119 --> 00:24:37.359 I cannot resonate. I don't know. I don't know Isley Brothers. 359 00:24:37.559 --> 00:24:40.559 I don't know Marvin Gay. I do know them, but 360 00:24:40.759 --> 00:24:45.799 like growing up as a kid, right, my Isley Brothers 361 00:24:45.920 --> 00:24:46.519 was bearist. 362 00:24:47.400 --> 00:24:49.400 I know you're going to say uncle Berr's. 363 00:24:49.000 --> 00:24:59.279 First BIS Dennis Brown, not nurse them, Isaac, what you know, 364 00:24:59.400 --> 00:25:01.720 the ting them like when it was like, oh my 365 00:25:01.799 --> 00:25:08.200 struggle meal is oodle than noodles. You know, it's my struggle, Billert, Beefine, Rice, 366 00:25:08.279 --> 00:25:12.279 Dusty Young, so you can you feel me? And it 367 00:25:12.359 --> 00:25:14.920 was it was so crazy. This is how I know. 368 00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:21.079 I was like, I'm really Jamaican. Right when my mom 369 00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:26.279 moved from New Jersey. Then we moved to Miami. Right, okay, 370 00:25:27.359 --> 00:25:33.839 so my my English because I speak Pato, was a 371 00:25:33.839 --> 00:25:36.680 little bit off, right, So you know what they did. 372 00:25:37.160 --> 00:25:40.680 They put me in the class with the Haitians and 373 00:25:40.759 --> 00:25:47.400 the Mexicans. Yeah. So when I get in there, so 374 00:25:47.559 --> 00:25:50.119 they was like hey, they was like, oh, and come 375 00:25:50.200 --> 00:25:52.799 up to the board. My name is On. I'm like, ma'am, 376 00:25:52.920 --> 00:26:00.400 I know how to say this. There was like they own, 377 00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:03.079 come to the board, my name is On. I was like, yeah, 378 00:26:03.160 --> 00:26:07.240 my girl, my name is Owen. Me. I tried for 379 00:26:07.319 --> 00:26:10.440 tylor isn't me. I know, I got this accent, but 380 00:26:10.680 --> 00:26:18.400 I'm I'm American, my girl. She was like oh, I said, yeah, 381 00:26:19.319 --> 00:26:24.200 my name is Owen. So like so that that was 382 00:26:24.240 --> 00:26:26.640 like a culture shop to me, you feel what I'm saying. 383 00:26:27.680 --> 00:26:30.400 So that's why like when certain people ask me like 384 00:26:31.119 --> 00:26:34.559 you're away from I'm Jamaican, bro, like I don't, like 385 00:26:35.079 --> 00:26:35.960 I don't know your. 386 00:26:35.880 --> 00:26:39.079 History like that, like that's all you know, That's. 387 00:26:38.839 --> 00:26:42.079 All I know. You know what browne stewed chicken panastan 388 00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:47.319 panastand you know, like eliss, like I know that, I 389 00:26:47.359 --> 00:26:48.519 don't I don't know. 390 00:26:49.119 --> 00:26:51.759 Let me ask you a question, because that's a conversation 391 00:26:51.960 --> 00:26:54.960 that I often hear, and I've heard for most of 392 00:26:55.000 --> 00:26:58.599 my life, is that Caribbean people are the only set 393 00:26:58.680 --> 00:27:02.119 of people, and really particularly Jamaican's get the brunt of it. 394 00:27:02.200 --> 00:27:06.400 But I think it's in every Caribbean country where if 395 00:27:06.400 --> 00:27:08.880 you weren't born there, they tend to say, you're not 396 00:27:09.160 --> 00:27:11.319 really from there? What do you think? 397 00:27:11.519 --> 00:27:18.759 Yes? Yes, And that brunt is crazy because when you 398 00:27:18.960 --> 00:27:23.279 down in Jamaica or wherever you're from, they call your 399 00:27:23.319 --> 00:27:28.079 finer kinea, this fin of that. But like, really and truly, 400 00:27:28.119 --> 00:27:33.240 when I look over it, it's not true. Like your 401 00:27:33.279 --> 00:27:36.680