Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of the Chicks on the Right podcast,
Very Excited.
Speaker 2: We have a very special guest today.
Speaker 1: You might recognize him, but you might not know his name,
and it is Dwayne Maynard who goes by cruise Control
on his socials. And you went viral what was it
like several weeks ago with a video that you did
about the LA protests And that was what That was
the video that we got introduced to you with and
we were blown away. We showed it to our audience.
It completely went gangbusters. Everybody fell in love with you,
and now you are exploding as a content creator yourself.
So we want to know how did this happen? What
is your background? Who is Dwayne Maynard?
Speaker 3: So I'm just the guy with a phone.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, that video went viral in I think it
was June, and the only reason why it went viral
is because of mister X himself, Elon Musk. So he
actually took a video from another creator that posted the
video who didn't tag me because she didn't know she
didn't know my socials.
Speaker 3: So she posted it's a lot.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, so she posted it and then I mean,
I guess he took it and then next thing, I know,
my phone's blowing up six in the morning, like Heylon
posted you what.
Speaker 2: It's a good person to be reposted by?
Speaker 3: Is no big deal? You know whatever? You know?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so here, so here you are, here, you are
so you Okay. First of all, I got to get
this out of the way. I heard you're a Georgia
Bulldogs fan. I am mac is a huge bulldogs. She
sleeps with a bulldog. I do not like a bulldog,
but a bulldog fan.
Speaker 3: And I started to wear a bulldog shirt too.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, would have been twinsies.
Speaker 5: I would have, right, because I'm a volunteer, so I
would have been like, okay, enough, we can't have that.
Speaker 2: But anyways, I just.
Speaker 5: Wanted to get that the way you guys have your
little niceties with your bulldog, your little dog wolfing thing
that you do. And then I also wanted to see
you describe yourself not as a gen xer, but what
what generation do you fall into?
Speaker 2: Your what are you are?
Speaker 3: You? Like? I'm eighty two. That that's considered I guess as.
Speaker 2: Any okay as any l So.
Speaker 3: You a the top of millennial.
Speaker 5: I was going to say, because you have a lot
of gen X sensibilities about you, I feel like, because
we're gen x ers, and so when I saw you,
I was like, this guy's got to be like a
I mean, you look like you have a babyface, but
you but you have the sensibilities you do. But you
have the sensibilities of a of a gen xer. And
so in the way that you talk and the way
that you look at the world, it seems like it's
very gen xy.
Speaker 2: It's kind of.
Speaker 3: Similar common sense. I think, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: And my parents, I mean, they're they're they were born
in sixty So I don't I don't think that A
lot of my my ideals and and you know, viewpoints
come from the lower end of millennial.
Speaker 5: I guess you could say, yeah, yeah. So I was
just so, do you think that over the past, you know,
like twenty years, because when we were growing up, like
race relations, for instance, I felt like when I was
growing up in the eighties and nineties, things are pretty
good in this country. I felt like it was anyway.
I grew up in Atlanta, and I felt like, you know,
things are pretty good. I feel like, I like my
country's awesome. There's like a sense of national pride. Things
are I feel like the economy is pretty decent. Maybe
it's because I was just jaded, I don't know, but
I felt like things are all right. And then I
feel like in the past, since we've been doing this
for the past seventeen years, more specifically probably in the
past ten, there's just like, I don't know, things just
kind of seem suckier now than they did, you know
what I mean, than they.
Speaker 2: Did in the eighties.
Speaker 5: Like we look back at the eighties and nineties and
we are wistful, like we think things were really great then.
I wish we could go back to those days. Do
you think that we're looking at it like through rose
colored glasses? Or do you think things were really better
back then?
Speaker 4: I mean I can't really speak for anyone. I mean, well,
i'd speaking for myself, but I can't really speak about
the eighties like that.
Speaker 3: I mean, I was born in eighty.
Speaker 5: Two, right, so like nineties, early two thousands, What do
you think do you think things were better?
Speaker 4: I think things were better back then. I mean I
know everyone wasn't as sensitive back then.
Speaker 5: Right, right, like soicly incorrect, politically correct stuff like that, right.
Speaker 4: And I mean, I like you said, like you said,
you grew up in Atlanta. So I spent time in
Atlanta too, yea, so my parents are we bounced around
a lot. So my dad was in the military. I'm
an army brat. As everyone already probably knows. We ended
up moving to Atlanta from California in ninety eight. I
think it was ninety eight, ninety nine or.
Speaker 3: Something like that.
Speaker 4: So I spent the rest of my high school years
in and after high school, I went to vocational school
in Atlanta, well in South Georgia, and then when I
was done.
Speaker 3: With that, I just decided I was going to go
back to California.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So what were you doing before you were doing this?
Speaker 1: I mean, were you are you still like working in
another job or what was your background?
Speaker 3: No, so I'm not working in another job right now.
I'm stay at home dad full time.
Speaker 1: Okay, awesome.
Speaker 4: So I was working with a medical supply company out
in California. I don't go into that too much because
of leak legalities and you know, things like that, so
I can't really talk about a lot of it.
Speaker 3: But yeah, so I was. I was doing that for
a while.
Speaker 1: So what prompted I mean, like, what was the day
that you were like, man, I have got some stuff
to say, and I'm going to put it.
Speaker 2: I'm going to say it into my phone.
Speaker 1: I'm going to post it. Like what is the first
thing that made you do that?
Speaker 3: The day I got laid off?
Speaker 4: Okay, so it was there was that day and I
just ranted into my phone. So and then my girlfriend Brittany,
so she's just like, you need to post something. I
was like, I'm not going to do that. So because
I'm an I'm I'm I'm an introvert one. I'm not
an extrovert whatsoever. I mean, even like doing this like
it feels live, even though I know it's not right.
Speaker 3: It's like, Okay.
Speaker 2: You know it took coaxing.
Speaker 5: I will say it took a lot of coaxing to
get you to do this too. You're like, if I
want to do this, if I feel comfortable.
Speaker 4: Because like when I was talking to you, Daisy in
the beginning, I told you like it was, it was
Brittany who was like, no, you need.
Speaker 3: To go ahead and do it.
Speaker 5: You should totally yeah, And it gets easier each one
of them gets easier. And so listen, we were talking
before we got on our podcast today, like when you
do hit the really really big time and you surpass
us and you're like on all these shows you get
to go all these fancy dinners, Just remember us, all right,
because that happens quite a bit where people will they
will surpass us. We'll have them on our show. They'll
surpass us, and then they don't ever look in the
rear view mirror.
Speaker 4: And I don't even know where this is, where this
is going, or where it's going to take me. But
my thing is like, okay, just let go and let
God's right.
Speaker 1: That's how you see, and it's you have been absolutely
exploding in popularity. I mean, I know you're growing on
all the platforms, and for I don't know if it's
what you're saying. I mean, I'm sure it's a combination
of what you're saying and how you're saying it and
who you are saying it. One of the things I've noticed,
and I'm sure you've already experienced this, even though you're
relatively new into the whole, you know, having all of
this popularity that come on suddenly, but you're probably getting
a lot of naysayers and you're probably experiencing hate because
it happens to all of us. What has been how
have you responded to that? Because I know some of
it has to do with your you know, you like
to drop the F bombs as jew we from time
to time, and you've been tone policed, and I've seen
you get tone policed. What's been the hardest sort of
hate that you've had to deal with? And how not
only how are you dealing with it, but how is
Brittany dealing with that?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 4: I would say Brittany is just you know, taking it
with a grain of salt. She's just she's like she's
my rock, so and she always has been. She she
doesn't really she kind of she just laughs at some
of the stuff or you know, and if there's something
that does bother her, you know, she'll go and she'll
go and respond.
Speaker 3: And I'll just leave it at that. But if it's
something that is towards me, I really don't just like
I just kind of brush it off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's probably.
Speaker 4: But if it's like, if it's something that really digs
at me and they catch me on at the right time,
you're going to get a response from me. But I mean,
other than that, it's just like I don't deal.
Speaker 5: You can always use it for fodder too, if you
can use it to your advantage kind of. We've done
that over the years too. Yeah, and you get a
pair of shoes over it. That's always a good thing.
Speaker 4: I mean, And I've used I've used some comments too
as content.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm, right, yeah, that's all it is.
Speaker 3: Like you guys are just giving me content.
Speaker 2: And totally yeah, especially what they hate.
Speaker 3: And I've said before like you're my unpaid street team,
Like it's that's what it.
Speaker 2: Is, right, right.
Speaker 5: So there's a lot of people, I would imagine too,
kind of along that same vein who don't think that
you should exist because I mean, I don't even I
won't categorize you because I don't even know if you
call yourself a conservative. I think you're just a person
with common sense, which I think automatically falls into the
conservative category these days, because there's a lot of people
on the lap too, are just like we're gonna cut
genitals up, kids, and we like crime and we want
illegals coming in the country bluff. So a lot of
the stuff that they're doing just is not common sense.
So I think it's just kind of by default you
end up on the right side of the aisle. But
you know, I would imagine there are a lot of
people that are like, but wait, you're a black guy,
and like kind of like, we got your women. You're
not supposed to be conservative. If you're Hispanic, you're not
supposed to be conservative. If you're gay, you're not supposed
to be conservative. We get that all the time for people.
Speaker 3: I don't understand that at all.
Speaker 5: Right, it's crazy, and that's what we saw. There was
a woman that was talking the other day that on
a I love it when my mac does that, But
when there's a woman talking the other day on the
podcast which I will not name, but she's just this heinous, liberal,
elitist white lady who thinks she's speaking for everybody, saying
that we cannot or or people should not. We should
not be able to engage in businesses like Mexican restaurants.
We shouldn't have our haircut by a gay hairdresser, we
shouldn't do all of these things because for some reason,
we're because we're conservative. And I guess she believes that
there aren't black conservatives. They are not women conservatives, they're
not Hispanic conservatives. They're not. She just doesn't understand because
a lot of these liberals think that they make the
rules and that all of these different flavors of conservatives
or just regular people don't exist. And that's always irritated us.
For seventeen years, We've been like, we're I guess we
thought we were there, we were the anomaly, but were not.
Because there's tons of conservative women, there are tons of
black conservatives, there are tons of Hispanic conservatives. So I'm
sure that that probably irritates you. And I bet that
there are people that are coming to you now saying,
but you can't be what you say you are.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I think that. I think that's a
crock of shit.
Speaker 2: But excuse me, right, it is a crock of.
Speaker 4: Shit because I look at it like this, now, if
if people only realize how many black men there are
that are conservative or Republican, the tide would totally shift.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that's what I believe. Yeah, I wish that
that's still the case.
Speaker 1: I mean because obviously with the last election, there was
a pretty significant growth in the number of black particularly
men who were supporters of Donald Trump. Do you think
that's gonna hold or do you think that's just a
Trump phenomenon. Do you think there's going to be that
same level of enthusiasm, for example, for a potential JD
vance if he's next in line.
Speaker 3: I don't know any So.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's just a Trump phenomenon at all.
I think that once people and start to realize and
start to open their eyes, then they'll start to see
the future that can happen.
Speaker 3: M hmm.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope you're right.
Speaker 5: Only gosh, I really do too, because I think that,
you know, especially with creators like you, and there are
lots of other people who don't look like and act
like and sound like what I think that they have
stereotyped conservatives to be. And we were like that too
seventeen years ago. I mean when we came onto the scene,
they were like, wait, you're not supposed to look like that,
because white women are supposed to be liberals, right, I
mean that's that's what they used to say. Tell us anyway,
because it's like you're fighting against your own rights, and
we were like, what are you what are you even
talking about?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 3: But I just don't fall into the stereoptype. I just don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, and so and so we totally.
Speaker 5: I think that's one of the reasons that I when
I saw you, I was like, I can totally identify
with that. And I think there are a lot of
us who can really identify with each other as conservatives
because we don't fall into a compartmentalized little box and
we don't want to be in a compartmentalism. We just
want to be American, you know, we just want to
be ourselves and we want people to freaking leave us alone.
And that's so that's why I just was it was
refreshing to see your content.
Speaker 2: We love it.
Speaker 5: We hope you continue to do what you do, and
you know, just more people can reach you and see
what you do, and you know, I love it.
Speaker 2: What do you think happen? Do you do you want
this to be? Like you're like, do you want to
take this further and further?
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 4: A lot of people have been telling me, like, you
need to do a post, you need to do a podcast.
I don't think I've worked up the nerve yet. I mean,
especially like a live podcast. I don't think I can
do a live one, just because like I don't want
to jump into something and I don't know what I'm talking.
Speaker 2: About I'm sorry, it's fine, Okay, We're.
Speaker 4: Fine, you know, because I want to take the time
to research right, you know, and actually think about what
I'm going to say before I say it totally, and
so I just don't want to just regurgitate anything.
Speaker 2: So how much prep? Just like one video?
Speaker 1: I noticed you did one recently about AI, You've done
one about Jasmine Crockett.
Speaker 4: This is where we are in twenty twenty five. Humanity
has runn out of ways to hate each other. So
we're just moving on robots now. We got slurs for robots,
new slurs. Let that shit sink in some examples, fireback, cogsucker,
tin skin, and to top it all off, clinker. Don't
you dare use that hard r. Jasmin Crockett not a congresswoman.
She's a full time influencer and a part time escalating enthusiast,
not to mention, a self proclaiming queen of Capitol Hill cosplayer.
Speaker 3: She's not running anything in politics, She's running her brand.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're you're covering all the hit topics of today.
So what's your process? How do you get ready to record?
Speaker 4: There is a formula that I'm not gonna you know,
disclose that I do in order for my delivery to
come out the way it does. So I use that
and I use the teleprompter to record my videos.
Speaker 3: And that's how I do.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, I mean you're like, honestly, that's more.
Speaker 2: That's more of a process than what we use.
Speaker 1: We just literally connect to each other in the morning
and we're like, Hey, what's up.
Speaker 2: I need some more coffee, what's going on? What we're
talking about today?
Speaker 4: You have your you do have your creators that that
just can jump on camera and just go for it.
I mean I can too, I just don't. I mean, like,
like Aunt Conservative Ant, that's one of my favorite conservative
creators ever. He's amazing. And then you got my guy
was a Smart's funniest shit angry as all.
Speaker 3: You know, it's funny. I like them.
Speaker 4: If you guys don't know who that is, I suggest
you follow them check it out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it. That's that is amazing.
Speaker 1: Well, we're glad to have sort of introduced you at
least a little bit into the podcasting realm.
Speaker 5: See, it's not so hard, say look at you, you're podcasting.
Speaker 1: You go, you're doing it, That's right, easy peasy, you're
a natural. We're very glad that you got into the space,
and I know people that have seen your videos, they're
definitely sharing them and you're growing and we love to
see it, and we appreciate you being with us.
Speaker 2: We really do appreciate you.
Speaker 3: Guys.
Speaker 2: Can you tell people how to follow you real quick?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: So on Instagram, I am cruise Control, so that's cruise
Control without the vowels. So it's c r W S,
c N t r L, And on X I am
take it up with HR, And on TikTok, I'm the same,
take it up with HR, and I'm starting to grow
my true social That's that's a really low following right now,
but that's cruise Control without the valves as well.
Speaker 3: So c R W S, c N t r L.
Speaker 5: Fantastic. Thank you so much. We appreciate you.