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00:02:12.180 I've had some crazy commission requests where I've even turned them down.

00:02:16.120 Like, this billionaire in Texas was like, I shot a lion.

00:02:21.280 Could you graffiti on my lion?

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00:02:29.320 Hey guys, welcome back to Impulsive

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00:02:38.440 Got a special guest today, ladies and gentlemen

00:02:40.200 To my right is Alec Monopoly

00:02:41.720 He's here in the studio

00:02:44.880 You saw the pre-roll

00:02:46.740 You saw the intro

00:02:47.600 Not 30 minutes ago

00:02:49.960 He was painting

00:02:50.800 What would you call that art?

00:02:54.320 Graffiti-ing? Painting?

00:02:55.580 I would say painting

00:02:56.280 You were painting an Impulsive logo

00:02:58.180 x alec monopoly uh you're my neighbor good friend so happy to have you on on impulsive bro thank

00:03:04.320 you for having me do you mind if your dog eats your bird again uh god because he's dead set on 0.85

00:03:10.340 it i'm i'm sorry maverick i couldn't i couldn't have stopped it the first time and that sucks

00:03:14.780 well bro good to have you on man how are you i'm good i'm good good this is your first podcast ever

00:03:20.500 yes first podcast why why is that i'm i'm actually curious it just never felt right

00:03:25.580 i've been uh i've had a lot of dms from big people with podcasts i will fly you here there

00:03:30.780 but uh being your friend i just felt like it wouldn't be right doing a podcast

00:03:35.700 thank you it's like cheating you would it is cheating it is and uh no bro i i appreciate

00:03:41.440 that and and i remember before i became your friend hearing about you and you've always been

00:03:46.400 a little enigmatic you know like i think it's good that people don't fully get to dive into

00:03:52.060 your brain and and you kind of keep them on their toes it's something about like access to people

00:03:56.260 yeah and it works really well for artists one of the 48 laws of power is is actually uh scarcity

00:04:02.520 and making it and keeping yourself scarce so like not not being around like showing up only when

00:04:07.800 needed and it creates an illusion of of uh inaccessibility and i think that that was

00:04:12.420 something that you did a really good job of in your you know first coming up years and and i

00:04:17.600 think it was a part of it was blocking the face and no one knew who you were what what's the uh

00:04:21.900 background between trying to keep that that uh anonymity well it's kind of like uh where is that

00:04:29.660 anonymity anonymity being anonymous it's it's like kind of a part of graffiti like there's so many

00:04:36.340 graffiti artists that are still anonymous say banksy i don't know there's a lot of guys and

00:04:40.760 it's basically to give you give you the freedom to paint on whatever you want illegal spots these

00:04:46.400 spots so so for for many years i was anonymous because i was doing a lot of illegal graffiti

00:04:51.620 everyone forgets that it's illegal you know like when you're doing it outside

00:04:55.960 you actually sometimes break the law to get these murals up and you have murals everywhere dude now

00:05:04.140 that i'm your friend i like pay attention to it more i see the areas you've traveled to paint

00:05:09.560 these massive murals i was with you in new york one time you invited me uh 3 a.m does it always

00:05:14.460 have to be at night if if that one was a a legal one correct it was a gray area on the lawn but

00:05:21.660 we were okay so so do you always have to go at night like were you really were you sneaking in 0.81

00:05:26.820 breaking doors down hopping fences and shit david she's here it's like we're wired come on speak to 0.96

00:05:33.460 us what uh how'd you get in and out ingrid i'm gonna have someone come in come out and grab you 0.78

00:05:37.980 right now sure all right thank you like i told you alec our podcasts are pretty light pretty

00:05:44.740 pretty relaxed yeah i mean it all kind of started for me in uh in new york and i was like going

00:05:49.900 crazy with graffiti in new york i have you know a very addictive personality i love the rush of it

00:05:55.640 so i was just tagging everywhere in new york and i kind of really overdid it and uh the new york

00:06:02.220 police department was like really out for me they had uh i think even the mayor found out about it

00:06:06.660 It was like Bloomberg at the time.

00:06:08.360 And they sent out a task force to like get me basically.

00:06:11.820 And this was in the beginning of my art career.

00:06:13.940 Like I had just had, I had just locked in this big collector.

00:06:17.520 I'd never sold any artwork before.

00:06:19.220 So he was like, we're going to fly you out to New York and I want to buy 30 pieces.

00:06:23.620 So as I'm creating the works in the space in Chelsea, I'm graffitiing everywhere.

00:06:27.660 And this is a space that's in the arts district of Chelsea.

00:06:30.660 I papered up the windows so you couldn't see in.

00:06:33.800 So I was doing graffiti everywhere.

00:06:35.920 i was tagging and i'm not even gonna say the places and then the genius idea was that the

00:06:41.180 paper on the wall i should graffiti on that and turn it around so like you know it's a piece uh

00:06:46.300 in the studio which immediately like a couple hours later like four cops showed up to the studio

00:06:51.880 to and they were like they i could tell they were undercovers because they had like the hitting gun

00:06:55.640 they're like is uh is alec monopoly here like this artist here and i was like cleaning up

00:07:00.720 randomly i had a broom and i was just like no i don't know you know i just work here

00:07:04.860 i'm just cleaning i'm just cleaning and then they're like okay uh we'll be back so after that

00:07:11.980 i was like i'm getting the fuck out of here so so i bounced and uh i didn't even go to my first

00:07:17.560 art show it was my first gallery show and i didn't even go because the police were there waiting and

00:07:21.920 then they came into the show oh my god to buy art exactly because they're fans so the police came

00:07:29.160 into the show and uh and then it was like world it was like world news it was featured in all the 0.81

00:07:34.640 newspapers and that's kind of where my career took off is because the nypd came into my art

00:07:40.540 show and was trying to arrest me dude shout out nypd yeah thank you guys you're a fugitive that's

00:07:46.300 amazing you're running from that you're a real criminal yeah they finally got up to me i mean

00:07:49.980 you never get away from these guys no that's true that's true don't break the law kids yeah i feel

00:07:54.080 like you had to say that like you're impressed okay listen when you're on the podcast just admit

00:07:57.660 that they'll get to you yeah exactly they got me so it's okay no but you also i mean you got them

00:08:04.460 you know they they uh they spawned a career and it's funny how some careers can like start out of

00:08:09.220 controversy i bet i bet then was it scary or did you realize that that could that was about to be

00:08:14.180 the beginning oh my god it was like one of the scariest moments of my life i mean at one point

00:08:18.740 when they showed up like because they came and then left and then i was sneaking into the studio

00:08:24.340 to try to finish the works for the art show oh my god so they were monitoring the show so there

00:08:28.360 was like an undercover guy who was out front and i met this girl randomly because i guess like the

00:08:33.320 paper was only so high but if you lived above across the street you could see down into the

00:08:37.900 paper and i thought no one could see so i'd be in my boxers like with my girlfriend like yo i was 0.71

00:08:43.440 like all types of weird shit was happening in there and then finally this girl comes up to me

00:08:46.880 she's like she was like you know i live across the street and i can see down into your studio 0.70

00:08:50.960 and and she was like she was like by the way like uh if you need it like i see what the cops are

00:08:55.440 doing like i can be your lookout and call oh my god when they come for one page because they were

00:09:00.800 like there was like an undercover cop always outside but they would go and leave so she would

00:09:04.860 let me know when and then she was like by the way my dad is like the governor of vermont i'm like

00:09:09.340 you're like thanks so much next time i next time i go skiing at killington i'll give him like what 0.63

00:09:14.960 the fuck am i gonna do with that hello vermont are you there hey that's wild so she would call 0.81

00:09:19.840 me when the undercover cop would be gone so like i want when i'd have like an hour window i'd sneak 0.98

00:09:25.080 in and like sign the pieces and try to finish them up so uh one day i went in there to go finish them

00:09:30.520 and uh and like five cop cars surrounded the place and they were like coming to get me because

00:09:37.580 they i guess they knew i was there whatever so i literally there was a garbage chute that i could

00:09:41.940 climb through that i climbed through to go out the back and then i bounced that way

00:09:46.120 Dude, when you're sliding down

00:09:50.820 a garbage chute, I think that's definitely

00:09:52.680 a moment where you're like,

00:09:53.900 I took a wrong turn.

00:09:56.160 That happened in the last Rock movie.

00:09:58.500 No, well, I'm not going to say

00:10:00.080 where I painted, but I painted on a very

00:10:02.280 special place that was a very special thing.

00:10:05.080 Statue of Liberty?

00:10:06.220 To the mayor of New York

00:10:09.160 at that time. So I pissed off the big boss.

00:10:11.220 So he was like, let's get this 1.00

00:10:13.220 motherfucker. Let's get this guy. 1.00

00:10:14.440 Can, can you give a little bit of context for people out there watching that don't or aren't familiar with your, your portfolio of work? Like, um, who are some of the, the higher profile people that you've sold pieces to? And what are, what's, what's the price range for one of your, for one of your commission pieces look like?

00:10:29.420 well i mean so many people have my work but the first big celebrity to buy my work was seth rogan

00:10:35.140 and at that moment i had a website connected to paypal like you could just buy like i was just

00:10:41.260 doing graffiti i was selling prints of my work not even canvas for like 200 bucks and i saw

00:10:45.560 like in the paypal like i'm not gonna say his email but like seth aaron i was like wait is this

00:10:50.300 the seth rogan he was like yes it is these i'm like come over and you know pick up the piece

00:10:55.080 and it was so funny because at the time i was living with this photographer my mentor

00:10:58.840 uh michelle comte and he had like the biggest mansion in beverly hills and i was just like

00:11:04.060 like kato kaly and like living in the back and like making the painting so he came to pick up

00:11:08.360 the piece and i all i'll never forget like seth rogan coming he's like wow look i should become

00:11:13.200 a graffiti artist oh so it was actually so it was actual arnold it was arnold schwartz i'm like dude

00:11:18.580 this guy laughs just like in the movies that's great and then i took him to the basement and

00:11:22.860 we were there smoking weed and then like the owner of the house the my mentor like hated weed and 0.84

00:11:27.220 shit but i was like with seth rogan he was just like stop smoking down there and like oh he didn't 0.90

00:11:31.120 care no the owner of the house he did he did care but i was like i'm with seth like i can't say no 0.99

00:11:36.200 spark it up you see his uh his rolling tray that he it looks amazing yeah no he's killing it with

00:11:41.800 the is that is that a product do we know if he's selling that yeah he does i think he sells them

00:11:45.980 like one of a con like you can buy they're not like uh mass producers that dude smokes like a

00:11:49.860 chimney like that dude is he smokes some i asked him uh a few months ago i'm like a thing that we

00:11:55.820 did together i was like when was the last time you weren't high and his answer was like i think

00:11:59.960 it was like david what did he say it was like a decade or something like that oh when he was in

00:12:03.040 singapore and if you get caught with weed there they kill you so he's like i couldn't smoke but

00:12:06.840 he's like i can't remember any other time besides that that i wasn't high in the past like 20 years

00:12:10.740 wow i always forget the other countries like look at marijuana like yes yeah bad drug yeah that's 0.99

00:12:16.220 crazy so all right so don't be too humble who else who won't who else owns your shit and then 0.98

00:12:21.940 the next big guy was um nobu the owner of all the restaurants came over and this was all happening 0.99

00:12:28.900 in this mansion house i was living in the basement what year is this by the way this was like 2008

00:12:34.360 2009 and then he brought my work to robert de niro and then de niro put my piece in his office

00:12:42.020 in tribeca which was like like all the biggest bosses of bosses if you're in de niro's office

00:12:47.660 And you see Alec Monopoly portrait of him

00:12:49.900 From Taxi Driver with the Mohawk 0.99

00:12:51.480 So 0.99

00:12:52.360 No it's the one where

00:12:55.880 He just like shoots

00:12:57.460 Yeah and he's got the blood all over his face

00:13:00.060 So it was that portrait

00:13:01.320 So after that it was just like

00:13:03.920 After I got De Niro like obviously a bunch of other

00:13:06.000 Celebrities collected my work but 0.99

00:13:07.080 After De Niro what do you give a shit 0.99

00:13:09.320 The second part of that question 1.00

00:13:11.920 Was how much is a commissioned piece going for

00:13:13.960 These days

00:13:14.720 um around you know like 75k to like 150 for like you know the right size gotcha depends what you

00:13:21.280 want like i've had some crazy commission requests where i've even turned them down like this uh

00:13:27.480 billionaire in texas was like i shot a lion could you graffiti on my line and i was like wait wait

00:13:33.920 wait before well how much i don't know if there's a price and and the hair i don't know if it would

00:13:41.520 he's like logistically i just i don't understand he wanted you to tag his taxidermied lion

00:13:47.660 and so you won't do that no what else what else won't you do or tag um i think that's about i

00:13:55.540 mean the lion was where i drew the big game yeah it's never too early to start gift shopping for

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00:14:50.400 like anything that won't like support a positive outcome we when before the episode started we

00:14:56.240 asked you to uh use a piece of wood as opposed to the wall and you said it was too porous yeah and

00:15:00.900 wouldn't have come out right so like even if the price is right it seems like your your work is so

00:15:05.540 value valuable to you that you won't do it unless it's going to produce the right outcome is that

00:15:09.400 is that the case exactly exactly i mean i just have to feel comfortable with the situation

00:15:13.360 and uh you know i don't want to close any doors or hurt anybody you know it is interesting watching

00:15:19.440 you create and and watching you make decisions as and a true artist through and through i don't i'm

00:15:27.440 not i you're the only like artist painter friend of mine and so it's cool to watch you like

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00:15:45.000 nothing for less expedia made to travel not paint a piece because um i i've seen you uh turn things

00:15:52.640 down because people will have you paint something or sign something and then go and sell it and

00:15:56.500 flip it for you know thousands of dollars even even that impulsive sign out there like if he

00:16:01.400 painted that someone could come in here oh we could sell it for sure you could sell it bro

00:16:06.920 like i'm i'm probably gonna take the wall that you painted well you should definitely take the

00:16:11.480 cardboard garbage that i was doing the rough sketches and showing you that's a that's a nice

00:16:15.620 piece oh that's cool yeah yeah i'm i'm trying to make a couple thousand off it's in the garbage

00:16:19.880 what's the yesterday when he was working i i saw you working on this piece i'm i'm not going to

00:16:24.520 mention because it's between you and your work but every time you added something to it i can't

00:16:28.740 in my head i go no no stop stop here stop here it's perfect and then you would add one more

00:16:32.060 thing and i'm like oh that needed that i didn't know that needed that i'll go okay enough done 0.99

00:16:36.640 and then you add one more i was like son of a bitch he knows the guy's good the guy's good 0.99

00:16:42.400 you you taught me how to paint too you like teaching or you try to i'm no not at all i 0.99

00:16:46.520 don't like to but you're you're a very special person oh thank you you know thank you well you

00:16:50.540 are a very good teacher because i walked into your house at 3 a.m last night with no idea how

00:16:55.720 to be a dj and you quite literally taught me how to use uh pioneer turntables last night and changed

00:17:01.440 my life you didn't you didn't fuck up once you were actually pretty good he was great he was 0.63

00:17:05.460 really good i forgot that he wasn't a dj i was like the music is just on and it was really good 0.97

00:17:12.540 and i also i gotta make fun of both of you yeah because i fucking came back to la and i was like 0.81

00:17:18.560 Alex teach me how to DJ guys 0.96

00:17:19.980 I might be a DJ for a little bit 0.99

00:17:21.560 And both of you fucking laughed at me 0.99

00:17:22.940 And now he has the bug 0.98

00:17:24.740 I'm so sorry to say this

00:17:26.160 No I've heard you DJ

00:17:27.540 And let me tell you something

00:17:28.560 I'd rather you go into BJ 1.00

00:17:29.920 Because that shit fucking sucked 1.00

00:17:32.400 You were like 1.00

00:17:32.960 But that was the first time I ever heard him

00:17:35.740 You might be good now

00:17:36.920 But I left

00:17:37.860 I left the house

00:17:38.700 Because I was like

00:17:39.300 I can't hear the same song over and over

00:17:41.180 I left

00:17:41.740 Took a shower 1.00

00:17:42.440 Took a shit 0.99

00:17:43.000 Shaved 1.00

00:17:43.580 Came back 1.00

00:17:44.240 I was like 1.00

00:17:46.240 Change the fucking tune bro 1.00

00:17:47.960 Logan likes going to space in Miami, you know, he likes that kind of tunes. 0.99

00:17:51.940 But the reason I laughed originally is because, you know, you have you have multiple other avenues that are that are so, you know, beneficial boxing and all these different things.

00:18:02.120 And like, I'm always looking for something that I really enjoy doing.

00:18:05.120 I love music.

00:18:06.080 That's that's I think the difference.

00:18:07.320 You know what I'm saying?

00:18:07.800 Like, I really do all the songs you had on your on your thing.

00:18:10.380 I knew.

00:18:10.800 So you just started this this DJ thing.

00:18:12.900 When did you start that?

00:18:14.480 Well, I I know you just started.

00:18:17.240 You just hyped yourself up and then passed the mic. 1.00

00:18:19.840 You're like, I'm so fucking good at this shit, man. 1.00

00:18:21.760 This is real. 1.00

00:18:22.240 All those songs, I fucking knew it. 0.96

00:18:23.880 Anyways, about you, bro. 0.86

00:18:25.100 What'd you start?

00:18:25.740 That's generally what you're supposed to do.

00:18:28.320 I'm trying to get off of myself and back to the cast. 0.99

00:18:31.300 He said, he's like, damn, I'm lit. 0.99

00:18:33.160 You just started this. 0.98

00:18:34.040 When'd you start?

00:18:34.520 When did you start?

00:18:35.720 Because I'm just good within a few hours, bro. 0.99

00:18:37.960 How long have you been fucking doing this? 0.99

00:18:43.260 You're performing at Live. 0.99

00:18:45.040 Yes, on Saturday.

00:18:45.860 Are you excited about that?

00:18:46.460 yeah i'm excited i get i get very nervous it's uh and honestly i like getting nervous it's like a

00:18:51.880 new feeling like obviously in the beginning when i was doing art shows and gallery shows i would

00:18:56.100 always be nervous about it because i'm so passionate about it yeah so it's nice to have

00:18:59.620 something new that i'm nervous about that i'm like excited oh that is cool and then after you

00:19:04.180 have like this gratitude like after you kill it and everyone's like oh best set like you have this

00:19:08.720 rush of gratitude as well so i'm nervous but i know after it's gonna have you opened up to the

00:19:13.840 world on how you do your set is that are we allowed to talk about that yeah i mean i just

00:19:18.480 kind of honestly i put like i have so many different playlists from different places i

00:19:22.600 played i was talking about how you you graffiti while you're doing oh that yeah i mean it's it's

00:19:29.320 it's real hard work bro that's because he told me he said he said after an hour he's exhausted

00:19:36.100 yeah like basically okay so basically my plan of this when i do it is i do a drawing like

00:19:44.000 beforehand so i kind of know because you don't have time to think of what am i going to paint

00:19:47.700 so you have a plan of the canvas and then so i put on the first track you know obviously a banger

00:19:53.640 because everyone's excited and then i start like spray painting on it and i do all the spray paint

00:19:57.960 in the beginning it's a cheat code it's a cheat code and uh you know as i go like i don't drink

00:20:07.060 before i start like uh painting the first dj to ever do that and then once the painting is going

00:20:12.640 then i start doing some shots and then i start getting in the zone and then and i love how much

00:20:17.040 you're so into your art that you're like i gotta do the silver yeah no there's no way to be drunk

00:20:21.600 and making a painting and mixing it yeah that's good that logan huh can't be drunk uh i'm not

00:20:29.340 interested anymore towards the end of your set you can honestly i've dj'd where i'm like i don't

00:20:33.940 know like if i could ever drive a car or vehicle but i don't know how i'm driving this technology

00:20:38.720 you know what i'm saying like it is a lot um the reason i was so bad that particular night was

00:20:44.940 because of because i was inebriated and so yeah and that was the that was the actually alec the

00:20:49.980 first time i learned i was like damn i i kind of would rather be like the one enjoying the music

00:20:56.060 not the one curating it oh so you don't want to be a dj it's not that it's just like i noticed i 0.69

00:21:01.280 was i'd be djing and everyone else is having fun and i'm like damn that looks like but that's one

00:21:06.320 of those things like there's certain people in the world that just get off on curating an experience

00:21:12.260 for people at a park like bro like you know those dudes when you go on their boat and they're like

00:21:16.780 you know the sandwiches are over there

00:21:18.620 this song's playing like if you want to use

00:21:21.040 the jet ski it's out back

00:21:22.820 like there are people that literally just get off

00:21:24.760 on showing people the best

00:21:27.000 possible time

00:21:27.920 your parents are totally like that

00:21:30.600 yeah

00:21:31.000 you're like I don't even know what that is

00:21:33.360 oh I love it

00:21:35.080 we figured out what Lugna was by the way

00:21:37.680 Lugna

00:21:38.080 it's Skitter

00:21:41.120 Skitter

00:21:42.080 Skitter

00:21:42.780 skitter skitter oh the yogurt it's icelandic yogurt yeah it's it's tart i don't know i just

00:21:49.380 i just like i don't know every culture adopts something and then they claim it as theirs

00:21:54.340 like we just add a little into it it's like all right i guess it's ours now but it is cool to

00:22:00.320 watch you go from artist to dj i saw you do that in less than a month in less than one month it 0.96

00:22:04.960 went from like damn bro you know i've been djing for a little bit now are you are you gonna lean

00:22:09.140 into it i mean what are you going to be a dj artist both yeah i mean it's kind of funny because 0.96

00:22:14.040 it's ironic because people are like so like are you djing more not painting i'm like dude

00:22:18.860 i'm creating a three by foot three by four foot canvas while i'm djing so the productivity is

00:22:26.060 actually going up yeah because i'm you know pressured into making this huge piece very

00:22:30.480 quickly yeah within a two-hour window of a dj set and i'm very blessed that i have an exclusive

00:22:35.640 agreement with my gallery where the the painting's already sold which bop wait wait talk about this

00:22:43.360 deal with your gallery how does how does this work so basically i did a five-year exclusive 0.98

00:22:47.340 agreement basically the art world is uh it's like it's politics and it's a it's a fucking headache 0.96

00:22:54.260 because before this i was hustling you all come to dinner with my rich friend you might buy a piece 0.99

00:22:59.460 or meet this guy and you're doing all this bullshit work of meeting people when you should

00:23:04.000 be thinking about creating so now the gallery basically controls the market so there's only

00:23:08.880 one funnel of where the paintings are coming from so there's not two galleries there's not a gallery

00:23:13.180 uh different brand gallery in london and different brand in new york that are fighting to get the sale

00:23:17.900 so they're lowering the price it's your exclusive broker so if you have one guy he has the set price

00:23:23.200 there's nowhere else to go no one's fighting each other there's no competition cool so we control

00:23:27.020 the market so it's it's in colorado yeah the actual the no they're uh they're everywhere

00:23:31.820 they're they're in new york aspen london paris but aspen's aspen does very well they're the big

00:23:37.880 buyer right or no new york is the new york and dubai i'd say dubai we do the best what about

00:23:44.040 chicago chicago buy or no i think we don't have a gallery there but i'm sure people from chicago

00:23:49.460 it's interesting yeah they're they're they're um they're watching how scarce your pieces are and

00:23:55.780 and I guess regulating, uh, the market, which is that easier on your part? Like you don't have to

00:24:02.040 worry about where your paintings are going and being, um, you know, too exposed. Yeah. I mean,

00:24:08.080 uh, financially it's amazing and the deal is great, but at the same time, it's kind of fun

00:24:13.700 putting on shows and like seeing them sell like, Oh, this one sold that one. They're already now

00:24:19.200 with this contract, they're already all sold. The second I make the painting, it's already sold.

00:24:23.300 so i don't know if it's sold right away or i don't know you know i just make it and it's already

00:24:27.760 sold so it's kind of a dream come true i'm not complaining about yeah you know like every piece

00:24:32.660 i make is already sold but you know um i'm i'm blessed so i'm very grateful when we were hanging

00:24:38.260 out this morning i really really do and i was talking to logan about this this morning uh

00:24:43.000 you're a very grateful human being and i'm so happy that you're blessed but i'm also really

00:24:47.300 happy that you are you're where you're at right now because literally bro you're you're painting 0.99

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00:25:02.140 dude i'm really i'm really proud of you and i'm actually very excited bro you should suck his 0.99

00:25:05.900 dick um well hold on you guys dj i dj so uh no no you're right you this kid brought the whole 1.00

00:25:13.540 fucking squad coffee before he did before our podcast that he's the guest on the guest brought 0.96

00:25:19.120 us coffee that we were like he was already here sitting down hey you guys come in do you guys 0.98

00:25:22.880 want coffee i can get out of here and get you guys coffee no but it's it's a it is a humbling

00:25:27.200 experience being your friend um and then obviously you came down to puerto rico to create did you

00:25:32.180 find that the noise everywhere else was uh distracting as an artist yeah i mean it's just

00:25:40.040 crazy if you look at my work before i moved to puerto rico and after it's like night and day

00:25:44.620 really i swear it's so different like before i was just like all right like i gotta finish this

00:25:51.140 piece i'm gonna lunch it uh down in beverly hills or there's this a party whatever here i'm like

00:25:56.900 there's no one like okay like you'll stop by and say hi but i'm still working yeah and you have

00:26:02.680 that time to look at the piece over and over again because there's you know there's nothing

00:26:06.820 else to do but work on yourself work on your career work on your art so i think i've become

00:26:12.020 a better person uh you know better artist definitely better boyfriend that's sick

00:26:17.580 definitely because i've been isolated i've found myself being a better boyfriend 0.82

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00:27:37.760 Can we go back a little bit and talk about the culture that's involved in your pieces? You did that piece with De Niro, the taxi driver piece. You do these Nicholson pieces. And I also see a lot of fear and loathing in your stuff. Were you raised in a way that you ingested a lot of movies, a lot of music? Because you seem to bring a lot of that culture from your life into your work.

00:28:03.520 Yeah, totally. I mean, for me, I started out creating work like my body of work that you guys know today is just from relating it to graffiti and street art. So I wasn't making canvas to sell. I was making graffiti and paintings for people in the neighborhood, people walking by to connect with and and like iconic images that people would enjoy looking at and that I enjoy looking at.

00:28:26.260 You know, I'm, I'm painting Goodfellas cause it's one of my favorite movies or a De Niro

00:28:30.380 or you know what I'm, um, so it's kind of based on my graffiti and connecting with people.

00:28:35.800 Sick.

00:28:36.240 So, but I really, I enjoy anti-heroes like, you know, uh, taxi driver for sure.

00:28:42.220 So I like kind of Jack Nicholson vibe and the Joker, the new Joker I did a piece of.

00:28:47.960 Did you always want to be a superstar artist?

00:28:52.900 because you from what you just said you know painting uh graffiti on walls and then to where

00:28:59.300 you are now was that ever on the horizon or yeah i mean i can say this now because it actually came

00:29:04.340 true but like every birthday since i can remember as a kid when i blow out the candles i would say

00:29:08.980 i want to be a famous artist in museums no way so like every every year i would be like this is my

00:29:15.040 wish this is my wish i didn't tell anyone that and then when i had my first museum show and then i

00:29:19.540 guess i was kind of known by people i was just like all right now what now what do you change

00:29:23.200 your wish yeah i'm not gonna say it do you miss anything about being uh like because that that

00:29:30.580 underground like art scene like the graffiti by night like that's a that's a huge click of his

00:29:36.000 own like there's there's you know books and magazines and and and podcasts dedicated to

00:29:41.320 that art form of being a runner on the new york you know new york streets or la streets

00:29:45.520 do you miss anything about being uh unrecognized and being on the come up and like and trying to 0.69

00:29:51.080 bust your ass yeah i mean i miss it so i had so much fun i remember i had this old 74 bronco with 0.96

00:29:56.940 no doors and back and i would just fill it with paint cans and like buckets and shit like that 1.00

00:30:01.960 and thing was trash and i would just roll around la destroying the streets like it had off-road 0.57

00:30:07.120 tires and didn't have doors so i'd literally like hop up on the curb and like graffiti out of the

00:30:12.140 door and like spray paint out of the door and then like drive off to the next spot like or like use

00:30:17.100 it like come up on the curb and stand on it to get a high spot or you know just not really giving a 0.72

00:30:21.460 shit and the the la scene presented uh new opportunities to you i mean at that point in

00:30:27.020 2008 2009 2010 it was like la was the epicenter of street art and graffiti and creativity it was 0.80

00:30:34.540 just a special moment in time and it was before they they call them buffers where it's like the

00:30:40.140 city where they come and they paint over your stuff so they didn't really have a buffing squad

00:30:44.660 so much in LA so your pieces would stay up forever so uh that was it was an amazing time

00:30:50.460 there's books about it and you know that time period that time period was very special what's

00:30:54.800 the what's the spot now like what's the most vibrant street art scene right now would you

00:30:58.480 say if you had a call Miami for sure 100% Wynwood Miami is like the number one spot it's the epicenter

00:31:04.760 during Art Basel which is coming up and I'm lucky enough to be like have most of the walls in

00:31:10.980 Wynwood like we've really taken over. Admittedly when I was a kid I was always a bit afraid to

00:31:17.760 pursue my dreams my true dreams because they were risky and they weren't a guaranteed path

00:31:24.660 of success for me but I knew I could be a good engineer and I think a lot of kids that have that

00:31:29.640 dream to become something big are, are kind of a deterred or scared off when they're young

00:31:34.820 because society has kind of funneled people to go down a certain path. And, and, and this,

00:31:40.460 I was, I was even afraid to drop out of college to pursue a career that I had that are, had already

00:31:46.860 been working for me. Even how scary is it to tell your parents, mom, dad, I'm going to go

00:31:52.360 paint on walls illegally at night. Or did they not know where you were doing it? Like, how do you,

00:31:56.680 How do you have the balls to pursue a career path as unknown and into the dark as that? 0.92

00:32:03.260 Well, I mean, first of all, I kind of knew my career path from the start because in high 0.89

00:32:08.280 school we had like one of those contests where you can enter your painting and then

00:32:12.880 the painting can go to an art fair and the painting won the, in class, it won the award

00:32:18.420 and then went to the art fair and then sold for 500 bucks.

00:32:20.840 So in high school I had 500 bucks cash.

00:32:23.000 Like that's like a million dollars now.

00:32:24.980 You know what I mean?

00:32:25.500 like i was rolling in it so immediately i knew i was like bro this is yeah this 500 bucks cash

00:32:31.120 like i'm good like i'm gonna work on this but but once i got into graffiti and i started getting

00:32:35.920 arrested a lot my mom like obviously i'd get grounded and she'd be like you're gonna go to

00:32:40.400 jail for life like crying like because it was really scary like i mean imagine that moment

00:32:45.140 when i was having an art show and my mom was helping my mom's an amazing artist she's the

00:32:49.560 who taught me how to paint oh cool oh there it is she's an amazing artist she's like one of those

00:32:54.520 like ladies that does those oil paintings that take like a year and it looks like exactly like 0.81

00:32:59.340 the field with the cows and like the french countryside type shit those take a year to make 0.66

00:33:04.440 you know like uh you know not 15 minutes impulsive graffiti you know so uh so she taught me how to 0.72

00:33:12.740 paint and draw and stuff like that and then when i started doing graffiti and like the cops were

00:33:16.240 coming and she actually was helping me finish my paintings in that space when the cops were around 0.98

00:33:20.840 it so she knew what was going on so she was like dude you're she was like you're fucked like do not 0.95

00:33:27.020 like stop doing graffiti and all this stuff now it's like it's so ironic that that's what yeah 0.97

00:33:31.520 made me the artist that i would never be here if it wasn't graffiti you know so so don't so don't

00:33:37.360 listen to your mom so never listen to your parents man she must be so proud of you she is she's she's

00:33:44.680 very proud and the pops uh you know my dad's a little out of it my dad was in the music business 0.99

00:33:51.300 actually which is ironic he was the president of columbia records oh shit for for a number of

00:33:56.140 years like he discovered like peter tosh and jamaica and he was huge in the music business

00:34:01.840 so this media art stuff kind of runs in your family do you know the craziest thing is there's

00:34:07.220 a picture of my mom and my dad on their first date at andy warhol's house oh yeah and andy

00:34:12.780 warhols there holy shit it's the craziest thing that's not that was their first date because my

00:34:17.000 dad was like trying to flex that he knew warhol yeah yeah that's a flex man that's a that's a 0.98

00:34:22.180 serious yeah you collect as well i'm assuming you have some warhols i have two yeah but my dad had

00:34:28.320 one when he divorced his first wife who was like the richest lady in the world johnson and johnson

00:34:33.960 billionaire lady he and he just like walked away from it because he had no ego but uh the next guy

00:34:39.420 who divorced or got like the biggest set of like 500 million or something but more of the story he

00:34:44.860 uh he went to andy warhol's house and he was super sad and warhol gave him a uh print of mick jagger

00:34:50.760 and signed it like i hope you feel better oh cool cool but my uh my cousin has it so we're trying

00:34:56.260 to buy it from my cousin i don't know how my cousin how does that it's your it's a long story

00:35:01.400 my dad's a little out of it now he's selling some possession you know we got to work it

00:35:09.380 My dad sold him a truck, I got him, and then bought a motorcycle, and he didn't tell me he did it.

00:35:15.180 You met Greg.

00:35:16.840 You met Greg on an interesting night as well.

00:35:20.140 That was the night where he told me the stories he never told me as a kid,

00:35:23.500 where I didn't realize how truly chaotic Greg Paul was.

00:35:26.820 That story.

00:35:27.880 As a youth, Bill Church and Chuck Stoll, brother.

00:35:30.980 Chuck Stoll.

00:35:32.080 I can't wait to meet these guys.

00:35:33.340 We should bring them on the podcast.

00:35:34.420 We really should.

00:35:35.980 Bill and Chuck, you're coming on.

00:35:37.760 Bill and Chuck's excellent events.

00:35:39.240 why monopoly why the monopoly like why all of that and i and i yeah that's it no it's good

00:35:47.540 why i actually have a question to parlay with that one nice one see have you ever got in trouble

00:35:52.760 with them have they ever been like yo man doesn't oh yeah with monopoly okay okay which one do you

00:35:57.260 want me to answer first go on in time why he's been co-host for a lot longer than me okay all

00:36:02.200 right so i'm gonna be honest with this answer because i've i mean i obviously the story relates

00:36:07.780 to itself that's out there that everyone knows but there's also a story behind that so when i was

00:36:13.760 starting out um you know i was out on my own whatever i couldn't afford the art supplies all

00:36:20.800 this stuff i was living with this very wealthy girl she was a young girl pretty girl she looked

00:36:25.180 like a tall skinny model but she had the trust fund and she was you know helping me you know

00:36:30.140 buying my paints and all this stuff and and in 2008 when you know the stock market started to

00:36:34.900 crash and bernie madoff was stealing money from all these big new york families she was affected

00:36:39.680 immediately so her family was affected immediately by bernie madoff oh shit and it went from like yo 0.98

00:36:45.700 alex yo ballin like taking all his friends to lunch and all the art supplies you want to like 0.83

00:36:49.940 not at all so i so i ironically just did a drawing of bernie madoff uh as mr monopoly because it's

00:36:58.660 weird i was watching the news of bernie madoff getting arrested and we were playing monopoly

00:37:01.940 the game because i love the game so i was like dude this is so ironic like i should make bernie

00:37:07.280 madoff's head on mr monopoly with the money bag running away you know representing wall street

00:37:12.320 and what was going on so so i did that drawing first and then i was like you know i'm just gonna

00:37:17.000 do a monopoly one and then i was like because i had already done graffiti writing i had never

00:37:21.200 incorporated my artwork and my drawing into my graffiti so literally i started that painting i 0.97

00:37:27.100 still have the first one and i never finished it because that night i was like yo fuck it let's go 0.99

00:37:31.860 out in the streets and let's go fuck it up with this monopoly shit so literally all i took was 0.99

00:37:37.160 one black spray can and just went around la and did a bunch of monopolies and signed alec 0.99

00:37:42.360 so literally like two days later it was featured in a magazine and a newspaper like commentary

00:37:48.320 and they named me i didn't name myself alec monopoly they just named it because i just wrote

00:37:53.180 alec and then the monopoly man right there yeah and the rest is history that's great yeah that's

00:37:58.360 That's awesome.

00:37:59.520 Shout out to Madeline.

00:38:00.420 Thank you.

00:38:00.800 I don't know where you're at, but. 0.94

00:38:02.880 She's in an alley just counting pennies. 1.00

00:38:04.880 She goes, fuck you, bro. 1.00

00:38:08.460 Damn. 1.00

00:38:09.500 And then I asked you this once before too. 0.98

00:38:12.320 How are there not any trademark or copyright infringements?

00:38:17.080 Honestly, because I was very smart from the beginning.

00:38:19.940 So I kind of took the artist business model of Andy Warhol.

00:38:26.040 Oh, yeah.

00:38:26.760 Andy Warhol, his first paintings that made him famous and successful were of the Campbell's

00:38:32.440 soup can.

00:38:32.980 Yep.

00:38:33.600 So basically, I kind of took that model in the fact that I'm not making merchandise of

00:38:38.760 it.

00:38:39.380 There's there was a Supreme Court case on numerous artists.

00:38:43.980 I think there was one involving Mickey Mouse and I forget the other artist's name.

00:38:49.460 But so basically, if you don't make T-shirts, merchandise, if it's an original painting,

00:38:54.660 you can use any trademark no way wow so like i could use mcdonald's logo and do whatever with

00:39:03.420 it as long as i'm not making t-shirts and whatever but at the same time i have a good relationship

00:39:08.180 with them and and i don't uh cross the line you know i know it's a children's game i know uh i

00:39:14.300 know i have a lot of fans that are young kids so you know i'm very yeah i'm very responsible how i

00:39:19.660 do it i don't i don't paint monopoly uh smoking crack yeah exactly exactly i have a responsibility

00:39:25.960 and i i feel like they they enjoy it because i bring you know i'd i'd buy some oh if you oh

00:39:33.040 100 i'd buy some risque monopoly art they'll never do it have you ever thought about partnering

00:39:38.380 with them for an actual board i was just gonna ask see that's i think where uh where where it's

00:39:46.380 like the gray area because i still do graffiti you know i'm not gonna say i'm uh got it usually

00:39:53.800 i have permission but you know yeah so i mean hopefully at some point we'll do it but i i feel

00:39:59.820 like if they put their stamp on him you know then it's like as and at the same time then every

00:40:06.040 graffiti piece people like is that a paid billboard for the collaborations oh i see you know what i'm

00:40:10.860 i see there's a whole okay interesting so so if you uh if you make it just a one-on-one piece of

00:40:16.440 art one-on-one i never make i've never made a t-shirt with monopoly man i've never made a print

00:40:21.520 a multiple it's they're all one-of-a-kind pieces now do you do you feel i i never asked you this

00:40:27.800 as a friend but i'm genuinely curious do you feel like um you could be pigeonholed potentially

00:40:34.240 because you're alec monopoly you know um do you think that i don't know eventually you're

00:40:41.620 going to switch a style or uh evolve into a different form of artistry alec candy land

00:40:47.400 100 no for sure um i mean i have a whole other body of work that i've been preparing and getting

00:40:55.100 ready for for the next stage in my career you know so uh i i it's funny because some of the

00:41:00.740 pieces that i'm creating today i thought of like three years ago that i never really got it done

00:41:05.840 so it's like i'm you're already ahead of it so yeah i mean in the future i want to work more

00:41:11.300 uh on oil paintings and like stuff where it's like i've been working on that piece for like a year

00:41:16.580 you know yep and that piece is a million dollars or whatever yeah so and and i did have one piece

00:41:22.360 that was like that and uh that i've been working on for like six months and i've been adding stuff

00:41:27.700 and whatever and then someone's like name your price i'm not even gonna say how much it was a lot 0.60

00:41:31.900 and then i sold it but then now i'm like what the fuck like why did i sell that i spent so long on 0.60

00:41:37.720 it like should ask more how much you sell it for i think it was like 200 what's the most expensive 0.95

00:41:43.080 piece you've ever sold uh i think it was like i think it was 250 for a sculpture was see i don't

00:41:49.880 want to inflate the price so much you know i'm these artists that say oh they're at three million 0.73

00:41:54.720 dollars at auction then they're fucked because not everyone has three million dollars to buy a piece 0.56

00:41:59.760 you know i just kind of do it with supply and demand when the art show sells out immediately 0.98

00:42:04.880 and there's nothing for sale uh obviously you bring up the price yep so i kind of do it organically

00:42:10.540 i'm not trying to you know uh get into a place where i'm not selling any it's it's a lot of

00:42:16.340 politics honestly yeah yeah do you have a favorite piece that you that you ever made that piece i'm

00:42:22.220 talking about oh the the one that you spent a lot a ton of time yeah yeah are you you you're sad 0.86

00:42:27.140 i know that shit back i want it back yo if you're watching this episode of of impulsive rich man 0.94

00:42:32.880 that bought that painting can you please consider just selling it back yeah please give it back 0.98

00:42:38.460 and you've gotten to meet so many cool people i i was um taking it back how worldly you are

00:42:46.720 you just know so many people and things and have gotten to go in the craziest experiences 1.00

00:42:52.480 as an artist so interesting bro why don't you suck his dick man fuck no dude what's up with 1.00

00:42:59.520 that it's just that's so weird that you're like i have uh i have present your wiener 1.00

00:43:06.900 present your yeah present your wiener i was thinking about this um when you said you missed

00:43:12.660 the rush of being like oh that you know i'm like well are you were you in the well i mean it was

00:43:16.680 kind of a does that feel bad when you cut somebody off mike well i just didn't know if he had

00:43:20.840 something i you know i i i'm so sorry you're a worldly person you've traveled like do you have

00:43:25.520 a favorite location you have a favorite party favorites what the what is this mike the bad 0.69

00:43:29.480 school yearbook who's the most popular person in your graduating shut up uh my question is if you

00:43:36.180 missed uh the wait i was gonna answer him you don't have to where are we going with this yeah

00:43:41.820 answer me answer me okay worldly person yeah no no no no that's what okay go ahead answer me

00:43:48.600 was recently i went to the palace to meet the the prince of monaco see now we're talking and that

00:43:54.520 was dope because i've met the you know the princes of saudi there's that but to go to the prince of

00:43:59.960 monaco to the palace this is like real royalty you know you're coming into the palace there

00:44:04.420 there's like the soldiers out front and and he was actually the coolest guy like we were because i

00:44:09.380 made a painting of grace kelly his mom you know she was the famous hollywood actress that um that

00:44:15.480 became a princess and so i i did a paint and it was actually a painting i did live in monaco while

00:44:21.760 i was djing cool very cool in in the palace so it was nice to meet the big boss so we go to monaco

00:44:29.080 Was that on that same trip that we were talking about last night?

00:44:33.220 The one with the boat that got canceled?

00:44:35.940 No, no, no.

00:44:36.860 This was recent.

00:44:38.000 What did the boat do to get canceled?

00:44:41.060 There's COVID restrictions.

00:44:42.880 Yeah, yeah, we'll stick with that.

00:44:44.400 We'll stick with that.

00:44:45.160 Too many people on the boat.

00:44:46.560 Say you're going down this road of being a DJ artist, which I find it very cool.

00:44:50.460 But you were saying that you miss the fact of being new and getting in your car and doing all these things.

00:44:54.900 have you ever like wanted to make a different name and cover up the identity of it and just

00:45:00.380 do different art around the street it's not label it under you yeah i've thought of this but then

00:45:05.340 it's just like so much extra work it's it takes so many years to build well actually it was very

00:45:11.880 quickly for me it was about 22 days my dj career my my graffiti career blew up pretty quickly dude

00:45:21.200 But I've actually thought of it

00:45:23.080 But at the same time

00:45:23.800 It's like I have so much energy

00:45:25.080 No I was just saying

00:45:25.760 To get rid of your risky ideas

00:45:27.240 To have that thrill bag 1.00

00:45:28.220 To do shit that you can't do 0.99

00:45:29.520 With your art that you're doing now 0.99

00:45:31.220 That's a good idea 1.00

00:45:32.020 Like Prids dude 1.00

00:45:32.920 To bring it back to the DJ 1.00

00:45:34.180 Only 10% man

00:45:34.820 Alec to bring it back to the DJ 1.00

00:45:36.620 Like Prids has Prida

00:45:38.480 And like two

00:45:39.160 What he has

00:45:39.600 Like three different

00:45:40.360 Like monikers

00:45:41.720 Or like surnames

00:45:42.900 Diplo has Major Lazer 0.99

00:45:44.440 And all that shit 1.00

00:45:45.100 Well that's a group 1.00

00:45:45.740 What's him?

00:45:47.680 It's he's in the group

00:45:48.720 It's like NSYNC

00:45:49.680 But with DJs

00:45:50.580 First of all

00:45:50.960 Nothing's like NSYNC.

00:45:51.900 You do that again, that's blasphemous.

00:45:53.340 You look like you're in NSYNC.

00:45:54.760 I wish.

00:45:55.320 I look like Lance that just gained a few pounds.

00:45:58.720 Here he goes again with fat shaming.

00:46:00.320 Stop fat shaming yourself. 0.97

00:46:01.500 You guys called me a rhombus. 1.00

00:46:02.900 I had to Google that shit. 1.00

00:46:06.660 Your head is just a perfect building. 1.00

00:46:09.140 Roblox.

00:46:10.200 You're Roblox.

00:46:10.860 I'm fasting, though.

00:46:11.600 You're fasting.

00:46:12.180 Nice work.

00:46:13.160 You're really, you're terrified of this new you.

00:46:16.200 I don't like it, bro.

00:46:17.480 Bro, you gained like three pounds.

00:46:19.420 I gained 13.

00:46:20.400 Look at Quinn

00:46:20.980 The reason I don't like it is because it just snuck up on me 0.97

00:46:23.960 And I'll hit here man 0.62

00:46:24.980 I didn't know 0.97

00:46:25.900 You got the turkey neck going

00:46:27.080 I do

00:46:27.640 Alec I'm impressed actually with your commitment to fitness

00:46:32.000 You're always finding a way to go to the gym

00:46:34.420 Heck even today

00:46:35.500 Me and Alec worked out

00:46:36.780 But also we were up to like 5am

00:46:40.460 Just drinking and

00:46:41.660 Listening to Mike DJ

00:46:43.400 I was cooked

00:46:45.760 Today dude

00:46:47.220 And I had to drive to San Juan to get my passport

00:46:49.580 but your commitment to health is actually

00:46:51.760 remarkable. That's why it's nice

00:46:54.240 having you guys because like coming to

00:46:56.120 train with you guys when you were getting ready

00:46:58.160 to fight Mayweather I was there every day

00:47:00.100 with you guys and it's

00:47:01.760 fun. I enjoy it. How is your lifestyle

00:47:04.080 you'd say in general? Healthy? Like you drink

00:47:06.060 and you party and smoke and not sleeping a lot?

00:47:08.020 I would say it's healthy when I'm in Puerto

00:47:10.100 Rico.

00:47:12.140 I don't know about the DJ tour life.

00:47:14.080 It's not a wholesome

00:47:16.260 atmosphere I don't think but

00:47:17.940 dude you popped up as much there too as you did in the art art world as fast dude like

00:47:24.640 you just started djing and i swear to god i was next to you djing with afro jack at phd the other 0.95

00:47:30.060 night how deep are you into your dj career he's a fucking he's a month and a half he's a stadium 0.90

00:47:35.320 selling djs i'm one of the biggest global djs like and you're literally like yeah afro jack 0.94

00:47:40.600 asked you to spin next to him a phd tonight and it really happened i was actually really nervous

00:47:44.660 to DJ with him

00:47:45.440 and then it was like

00:47:46.220 it was cool

00:47:46.680 we were just going

00:47:47.900 with the flow

00:47:48.460 he was like

00:47:49.820 I gotta play some of the hits

00:47:50.760 here and there

00:47:51.420 and like you know

00:47:52.020 I was playing my techno

00:47:53.280 I don't know 1.00

00:47:54.800 D-Pals 1.00

00:47:55.360 stuff like that

00:47:56.300 but uh

00:47:56.980 I saw some of his

00:47:57.960 original stuff coming out

00:47:58.880 it's pretty good

00:47:59.320 yeah I have some

00:48:00.120 original music

00:48:00.760 yeah so you're

00:48:01.600 leaning into it

00:48:02.240 and I know this

00:48:05.380 that you're taking

00:48:06.180 lessons

00:48:07.000 like you're working

00:48:07.740 with someone

00:48:08.460 to

00:48:08.920 producers

00:48:09.880 DJ

00:48:10.820 all of that

00:48:11.840 it's why you're great

00:48:13.940 so you have to work at it i know but everyone misses that step and it's cool it's one of the

00:48:18.760 coolest things about being on this island is seeing everyone really doing their own thing

00:48:22.940 and living in that own their own environment and and you can you can so easily here see the

00:48:28.860 ingredients for success and there's like a through line for all of it like the fact that you're going

00:48:34.260 behind the scenes to to uh improve your skill yeah is is it's it's that that secret recipe

00:48:41.060 secret ingredient everyone forgets about well for me i'm i'm not afraid to like call someone and ask

00:48:45.720 them for help or learn you know what i'm saying like oh i want to learn uh watercolor i mean i

00:48:51.420 know how to watercolor paint but i want to get better at it i'm like i'm the type of guy who's

00:48:56.000 like okay to call someone who's a pro at watercolors and say you come over and teach me a

00:49:00.820 little bit you know i don't have an ego with that yeah you don't wrestle with pride yeah i have no

00:49:04.620 ego with that so i'm i'm always learning on that's i think that's the most important part

00:49:08.300 about being an artist

00:49:09.280 is growing and developing

00:49:10.940 and learning.

00:49:12.620 You know, by the time

00:49:13.440 you're under your career,

00:49:14.240 look at Picasso.

00:49:14.980 His paintings were amazing.

00:49:16.560 I mean, he was a little lazy

00:49:17.420 in the end,

00:49:18.160 but they were amazing.

00:49:20.340 I saw a tweet the other day.

00:49:21.460 Someone was like,

00:49:22.000 dude, I...

00:49:22.280 He's a little lazy.

00:49:22.920 I would have touched up

00:49:23.880 a little bit.

00:49:24.640 They said,

00:49:25.280 I thought Pablo Picasso

00:49:26.720 was from the 1500s.

00:49:28.780 Didn't that dude die?

00:49:29.660 He died in 1972.

00:49:30.940 Did you know that, Georgie?

00:49:33.040 1972?

00:49:33.900 Yes, Pablo Picasso.

00:49:35.100 Same year I was born.

00:49:36.320 Oh, I didn't know that.

00:49:36.920 i don't think that's who are you watching any artists

00:49:40.200 not really i mean uh you have a focused on my own work that i'm not really but still i know i

00:49:47.120 know you collect like uh you watch banksy at all or pay attention yeah of course i mean he's like

00:49:52.960 the he's the godfather of all of this so he's the one who kind of made street art a real school of

00:49:58.900 art so it's like now street art is finally accepted like when i first started galleries

00:50:03.540 like oh you're a street artist you know oh street art uh but like now it's accepted as a school of

00:50:09.240 art so the school of art is the period of time period so say vincent bango was the creator of

00:50:14.560 modern art and then there was cubism impression you know there was pop art new york school of

00:50:20.540 art and then now there's street art yep so that's like a whole school of art and then i guarantee

00:50:25.940 the next thing is going to be digital art nfts let's talk about it exactly i had to i didn't

00:50:32.220 to go there. Nah, we're here.

00:50:33.720 Thank God. Our audience

00:50:36.200 is clicking off the video.

00:50:38.440 I just, I don't, listen,

00:50:40.160 my buddy called me and he goes, hey man, I have

00:50:42.260 500 to play with NFTs. What do you got for me?

00:50:44.580 I know you hang out with the boys. They can give

00:50:46.340 you a little insight. And I go, I go, what?

00:50:48.700 He goes, yeah, I got 500. I go, 500

00:50:50.340 what? He goes, 500,000. Let's get it. I'm like, you're

00:50:52.140 spending fucking $500,000 0.99

00:50:54.020 on something you'll never touch. 1.00

00:50:56.360 You'll never touch it. Is he interested in the

00:50:58.140 own one project by any chance? We actually have

00:51:00.000 one that we can do.

00:51:02.220 I don't know, man.

00:51:04.040 To me, I like your type of art where I can see it, touch it,

00:51:06.340 and if it's in my house, it's only here.

00:51:08.620 You get what I'm saying?

00:51:09.120 I feel like it gives you something rare.

00:51:11.180 You can't just open up your phone and screenshot it.

00:51:13.500 That's what I was going to ask, Alec.

00:51:16.100 Digital art, your take on it.

00:51:17.760 You're a brushstroke artist, dude.

00:51:21.320 I'm a digital artist, too.

00:51:22.740 You're in the trenches.

00:51:25.260 Honestly, I made an NFT in 2019.

00:51:29.320 What?

00:51:29.820 Yeah.

00:51:30.040 knowing like with the intention of it being sold as a piece of digital art yes it was for

00:51:36.020 leonardo dicaprio's foundation and uh this guy comes up to me and he's like dude you gotta 0.96

00:51:42.640 have this blockchain or whatever i'm like what the fuck are you even talking about bro 0.99

00:51:47.680 i'm like shut up this is the stupidest thing i've ever heard and he's like everyone's doing it like 1.00

00:51:54.960 i've got this celebrity this guy that guy i'm like all right just like give me the ipad and 0.99

00:51:59.520 i'll fucking do this thing and you did it and i did it yeah okay this is around people it's like 0.98

00:52:05.300 been bought and sold like five times oh my god okay and the incognito project yeah yo shut up 0.99

00:52:10.880 that is not an official alec monopoly piece by the way that's fucked up bro you're being used 0.96

00:52:17.580 a lot your name and likeness is being used a lot and i i thought you were part of that project and 0.98

00:52:23.040 just yesterday you were like what the fuck is this another reason why i don't like nfts no 0.98

00:52:27.900 Shut up Peter Schiff 1.00

00:52:29.720 No bud 1.00

00:52:31.840 Go buy some gold with your extra money

00:52:34.000 I saw a hilarious tweet about Peter Schiff

00:52:36.760 It's from Lolly

00:52:37.640 The company Lolly

00:52:39.000 He lives above me

00:52:40.580 He does live right above you right

00:52:44.660 The kids call him a boomer

00:52:46.200 He owns the unit above me

00:52:49.080 Oh yeah

00:52:49.460 He's super smart

00:52:51.120 Lolly tweeted this

00:52:53.520 Peter Schiff when gold was $1800

00:52:55.420 Peter Schiff when gold was $1800

00:52:57.520 it's the same 50 years ago and today gold gold it's moved sideways a little bit for the past

00:53:08.100 couple centuries they toast him bro look at look at young peter shift we love this guy that's 0.94

00:53:13.860 peter stiff this is peter stiff and this is peter shit has he been on the podcast yeah he did great 0.84

00:53:20.400 we had a great episode he crushed it he made a lot of good points i actually sold all my uh crypto 0.97

00:53:25.900 though because of peter i'm just kidding i'm just kidding i would never i would never so i was like

00:53:31.560 what wow he's like i'm all in no no no no you're diversifying your portfolio you're a big land guy

00:53:38.980 you got a nice plot of land here in pr right yep you got to be smart with your money yeah i mean

00:53:45.560 puerto rico real estate is gone i mean as you can see lucky you dude your unit is is could

00:53:53.620 potentially sell for what do you think right now um i mean i got offered like 10 million for it i

00:53:59.240 paid 2.8 million and i wanted to take it but there's nowhere to move to yeah so say you sell

00:54:04.920 it for 10 mil then you're gonna to rent the same unit i'm in is at least 50 to 60k a month yeah

00:54:10.220 so it's like uh there's nowhere to go what about the metaverse would you would you go there 0.97

00:54:15.960 potentially oh oh oh like get me out of here get me out of this bullshit do you know anything about

00:54:22.700 the i know and i almost bought a piece of land on it like a while ago i should have done it 0.88

00:54:26.560 you're you're ahead of the curve on a lot of stuff i'm sorry i didn't finish that nft conversation i

00:54:31.500 got distracted and i am a bit hung over today i can't really form thoughts fully uh it's bad

00:54:37.180 it's bad it's okay thank god for that coffee but do you have a uh do you have a take or a feeling

00:54:44.960 about non-fungible tokens or digital art in general for sure i see it as the future i mean

00:54:52.580 whether we like it or not it's the future because i'm already seeing billionaires and collectors of

00:54:57.740 mine building huge led nft walls no way staircases and features and galleries in their houses my

00:55:07.380 gallery is in their new dubai location is making an nft section in the gallery we can literally go

00:55:14.000 there and see your nft on the wall on a screen obviously and buy it like in art basil this year

00:55:18.580 where i don't want to jump the gun with saying it but we're going to do an event where i'm

00:55:23.340 launching a new nft and we're going to have huge screens and installations with them but i think

00:55:27.700 the next step is integrating the original art with the nft art how do you see that happening

00:55:32.960 so like say you have a sculpture one of my sculptures has a screen installed into it that

00:55:39.080 has that nft art inside the sculpture so you sell both of them as a package oh that's cool that's

00:55:45.800 how i mean that's how i see uh value and likeness but it's for sure the next step like i said there

00:55:52.540 was street art cubism digital art is the next form yeah and and it's so funny because i i'm

00:55:58.700 gonna admit i was a hater of it that like say five ten years ago these digital artists that i would 0.57

00:56:04.020 see making this art on ipads for fucking three weeks making one piece i'm like what a waste of 0.85

00:56:10.460 time like you should be drawing like because a lot of my friends they draw on their ipad they 0.93

00:56:15.020 their sketches yep i do all my sketches on paper and i keep all the sketches because they're worth

00:56:19.700 you know 10k for a little sketch but now that i'm seeing the nfts and the final project

00:56:25.500 like the final product becoming worth something now i'm appreciating it more so so interesting

00:56:32.480 it's so interesting to see our just everything evolved but art especially because so quickly

00:56:37.620 too so quick it was overnight it was like in two weeks these digital artists became superstars

00:56:43.520 nuts it's it's kind of the time frame we're living in now everything's happening so quick

00:56:47.360 so quickly people people dude oh my god people people in in what a year became one of the highest 0.70

00:56:54.440 grossing living artists yeah on the planet are you fucking kidding it's like it feels like it's 0.57

00:56:58.880 insane it feels like a timing thing too because it's just that that whole like space is so rife 0.94

00:57:04.140 with like money yeah or sorry with with crypto with coins that they're like i think a lot of

00:57:10.200 them just look at them as like chips that they can't take out of the casino so they're like yo

00:57:14.020 i have 8 000 eth that i bought in 2017 for 62 i think i'll drop 200 of them on the people you

00:57:23.480 know what i'm saying like it just doesn't matter it's like and so it it to to kind of to shift

00:57:29.560 direction and and to his point it's gonna be interesting to see what happens as things

00:57:33.420 continue to to play out you know and as the the field kind of like levels out because right now

00:57:38.660 it's you know there's a lot of people a lot of money in that space to just blow on whatever you

00:57:44.040 know no i mean one of my good friends that i met i mean i met him maybe uh eight months ago in dubai

00:57:51.160 his name's harry yay he's like a he's this guy from canada asian guy like genius he can work

00:57:58.300 like 10 computers at once and he gave he set me up with my first crypto account and gave me a

00:58:04.360 phantom coin when it was 13 cents he gave me like 35k in it and now it's at like three dollars or

00:58:10.960 something like that it's almost a million bucks and he's a billionaire now he's ordered like four

00:58:15.340 yachts he he bought three bugattis and brought them to the conference that he brought me to like

00:58:20.080 i've seen this guy become a billionaire in front of my eyes but it's not like this guy's not

00:58:24.280 gambling this guy graduated stanford at 16 he's a prodigy knows computer yeah so it goes to say

00:58:30.680 like it's not just gambling there's a science to it like like say people it's not like he blew up

00:58:35.140 over two weeks this guy was probably eating shit for years just making digital art not decades 0.50

00:58:41.340 making digital art when people are saying what are you doing you should be making canvas paintings 0.97

00:58:45.280 and now he's the king of the world and he's made more than all of us who are making canvas paintings

00:58:50.180 for 50k years ago so it's not like uh people think that they can just buy shiba inu kit like

00:58:57.120 And it's just like

00:58:57.840 It's gonna blow up

00:58:58.720 Like there's a science to it

00:59:00.040 And like

00:59:00.320 If you work hard at it

00:59:01.480 These people don't come out of nowhere

00:59:03.140 Yeah

00:59:03.420 You know

00:59:03.720 Exactly

00:59:04.320 Well Beeple's was what 0.98

00:59:05.300 First 5,000 0.98

00:59:06.140 5,000

00:59:06.800 5,000 days in a row

00:59:07.860 First 5,000 days

00:59:08.620 I think more than that

00:59:10.140 I just know he definitely did

00:59:11.480 5,000 days in a row

00:59:12.740 And what is that

00:59:13.700 Creating a new piece

00:59:14.620 Of digital art

00:59:15.380 How many years is that

00:59:17.020 Is that 15 years

00:59:18.380 5,000 days in a row

00:59:20.040 Oh wait no 0.99

00:59:22.060 I fucked up big time 0.98

00:59:23.380 I did horrible math 0.84

00:59:25.240 36

00:59:26.040 Oh wait is it

00:59:27.260 Or is it like 12-13 years

00:59:28.400 It's something

00:59:28.780 I can't quite deal with numbers

00:59:32.040 I feel like maybe I wasn't even that far off

00:59:33.680 Is David paying attention

00:59:34.480 Because wouldn't 10 years be 3,600

00:59:35.660 5,000 divided by 365

00:59:36.700 13 years yeah

00:59:39.180 13 years

00:59:40.800 Every day

00:59:42.720 For that guy

00:59:44.860 Beeple

00:59:45.380 He deserves all of it

00:59:46.400 He's like the Banksy of

00:59:48.400 Yes he is

00:59:49.200 He's the Banksy of digital art

00:59:50.920 He definitely

00:59:51.480 You know what I'm saying

00:59:52.020 And he deserves everything he's got

00:59:53.520 That guy

00:59:53.880 He just sold the other

00:59:55.980 piece the first what's it called human one human one 29 million square box yeah the box yeah wow

01:00:02.200 and like you can tap into the wi-fi on it and dude dude this is insane yes he can update the art you

01:00:09.400 can change the art and it's still from the hand of people and he he's he can do it based on current

01:00:15.000 events like there's the human in the box so for those of you listening who don't know what the

01:00:21.200 pieces it's like a it's like a six foot seven foot tall giant spinning box right yep four sides

01:00:28.100 worth it with a human walking through it that people made and it's walking through um space

01:00:33.940 he's on the moon right now or something or he can be it can be nighttime it can be daytime and he's

01:00:38.640 changing it at all times exactly he's like yo if there if there's like forest fires going on in the

01:00:42.780 world and i want to have a guy walking through a fire at one point like i could do that instantly

01:00:47.060 and beam it to the buyer's house like i just want to know what he's doing with this like 29 million

01:00:51.960 150 like me i'd have a new yacht a new private jet like what is he doing with that money what

01:00:58.100 are you doing when you come up on that much money that quick people what are you doing i love watching

01:01:04.340 the scene of him when he finds out like when when he sees how much he made like it's like him with

01:01:09.480 no you could you could see him he doesn't care about the money no no no no but you could you

01:01:14.120 could see him eventually like when his that 70 million piece uh dollar piece sold um you could

01:01:20.100 see him it hits 20 million and he's like whoa and then 50 million he's like what and then eventually 0.97

01:01:24.600 he just stops he gives up trying to comprehend yeah yeah he's like fuck it i'm good for life 0.97

01:01:30.400 how much is he worth now i mean he's had a couple massive fucking sales i mean bro those two pieces 0.99

01:01:36.180 alone that we just talked about is a hundred million and those are the ones we know about 0.99

01:01:39.780 imagine the shit we don't know about that's going on 0.98

01:01:42.400 and he's still 1.00

01:01:44.300 making everydays

01:01:45.320 he goes to the dinner with these like you want to split this

01:01:47.280 I wish every guy would get money and be like

01:01:52.260 the guy Harry Yeh I was telling you about

01:01:54.020 like literally he like

01:01:55.680 became a billionaire he ordered three yachts 0.65

01:01:58.040 he brought two Bugattis into the

01:02:00.140 conference there was like this new Lamborghini

01:02:02.320 Centurio there was like three million

01:02:03.980 he's like I want it now and like it literally

01:02:06.120 just showed up I'm like this guy literally just bought

01:02:08.160 this right now like now you know like now he's in the back alley with me and he's like here's

01:02:11.800 100 grand alec i'm gonna give it to you in different groups like that guy knows how to

01:02:15.340 do it right i love his name you you got to meet him he's a special guy he's very amazing you like

01:02:22.020 to have some fun of course of course that was that was actually the coolest thing about you

01:02:27.460 that i learned this is you're you're you're a mad man you got that side to you you you go fast 0.80

01:02:33.000 on bikes you shoot guns you uh uh you go off roading you're like us bro you fish that's when 0.97

01:02:38.800 we hit i think that's when we hit it off immediately is when i was like should we go

01:02:41.680 on the quads and like i'll take you to the trail yeah and then we're like passing by like burnt

01:02:45.900 cars and dead bodies and like it's just burnt cars there yeah why is it only you can only get 0.90

01:02:57.260 a laugh from david because you're a dark you're a dark german german we cut that anyways all of 0.89

01:03:09.360 it stays so when you sorry about that we should just come back to him he's he's listen a lot's 0.94

01:03:21.640 changed right you see that's so wait yeah yeah so a lot's changed yeah yeah yeah yeah no but

01:03:27.620 those trails are dangerous back there yeah yeah let's just move on the trails are dangerous let's

01:03:41.280 let's let's move on so we're going out tonight i wish harry yay was coming with us dude me too

01:03:47.660 And he spends in the club

01:03:49.080 His after parties are amazing

01:03:51.720 Very colorful

01:03:52.580 You see any

01:03:53.720 Ever seen any dark sides to the partying

01:03:57.620 Lifestyle

01:03:58.380 100%

01:04:00.280 I was a victim of the dark side of the party

01:04:03.480 I was going to ask you up front

01:04:04.920 But I didn't know what you felt comfortable talking about

01:04:06.400 I was sober for like two years

01:04:09.080 I overdid it

01:04:11.980 And it caught up with me

01:04:13.760 What happened?

01:04:14.980 Because I think I'm headed there

01:04:16.080 i think the problem was i think the problem was and it's a it's a big problem in america is

01:04:21.560 these doctors that will over prescribe prescription drugs i think this is a big

01:04:26.960 problem like these guys are just ready to write you anything yeah and uh and you know and then

01:04:31.660 you get hooked on uh say your back pain is killing you and you're taking these pills all day long

01:04:36.340 and then you're dependent on that and for me i don't want to be dependent on anyone or anything

01:04:40.720 so like uh that's when uh you know was it a a pain medication yeah it was it was yeah percocets

01:04:49.800 so i was uh i was taking like three a day and then like at one point i was traveling

01:04:55.780 and i lost them and like it was just like i lost my life you know what i'm saying like i was like

01:05:01.720 getting sick and i was like freaking out and ended up flying home to to get more and i was

01:05:07.580 like dude i just like flew home from the beautiful south of france saint tropez to go get more 0.96

01:05:13.220 pain because they don't have them in europe and i was like this is the end of it this is fucking it 0.81

01:05:16.980 and then uh yeah i checked into like a rehab facility and it honestly changed my life that's 0.86

01:05:22.480 i was a different person before then like i was i had an ego i wasn't grateful in life i didn't

01:05:29.740 really you were a slave to it exactly so but it taught what you're saying is it taught you

01:05:34.200 everything it taught me so many lessons and it taught me an even greater lesson is just like not

01:05:38.740 to hold grudges with people like i forgive people immediately because like you being mad at someone 0.99

01:05:43.880 is just like fucking with your head yeah it's worse for you then it's worse for you because 1.00

01:05:47.440 all day long you're like fuck that guy and like he doesn't know what you're thinking that yeah 1.00

01:05:51.060 unforgiveness keeps them in control that's a big quote new stat today as of the uh as of today like 0.99

01:05:58.060 just before i read it just before we came on the podcast a hundred thousand americans died of uh

01:06:02.660 drug overdoses this year more than more than car accidents and uh gun violence combined

01:06:07.400 just mind-blowing i know it's and that's a dark stat it's no you know not it's not enough people

01:06:14.740 are talking about it's not getting the attention it deserves and you know it's it's all covid and

01:06:19.540 this and that and um it you know every year it goes up by 20 30 000 americans and they and they're 0.99

01:06:25.000 just forgotten and no one talks about it it's just this it's a sick fucked up uh pharma money 0.97

01:06:30.560 driven situation yeah exactly because in europe there's there's no issues with this you can't go 0.95

01:06:35.580 get percocets from they're just like dude take a tylenol yeah take an extra strength like why do

01:06:41.080 you need to get so high from unless your limb is severed like i've got demrol because my leg was 1.00

01:06:47.620 off my body yeah but like you had a little backache like go take a tylenol 800 you pussy i'm so glad 1.00

01:06:54.460 you guys say that because growing up i thought my mom was like losing her fucking mind i had one 1.00

01:06:58.500 wisdom tooth? Only one? Don't say any 0.99

01:07:00.520 jokes. I know where you guys are going with this. I only had one.

01:07:03.080 Where are we going, George?

01:07:04.480 Only have one wisdom tooth.

01:07:06.460 I was not going to make a single joke 1.00

01:07:08.660 about you being a dumbass. 1.00

01:07:12.160 But now 1.00

01:07:12.700 I did. Because you brought

01:07:14.640 it up. It's the same reason I call you fatty, 0.98

01:07:16.660 bro. I wouldn't have said a thing. No, no, no. You call me a 0.98

01:07:18.480 rhombus, bro. No, no. He called you a rhombus.

01:07:20.520 I said your head looks like the foundation of a building.

01:07:22.800 Cornerstone. It does.

01:07:25.280 You can't even get mad at that.

01:07:26.520 No, bro.

01:07:27.140 But when I got my wisdom tooth taken out

01:07:30.600 They give you painkillers

01:07:32.560 My mom wouldn't let me take it 0.50

01:07:33.820 She like cut it into like 10%

01:07:36.340 And they gave it to me

01:07:37.440 And took it all herself

01:07:38.160 She cut it into 10

01:07:39.540 It was weird

01:07:41.340 How's your tooth honey

01:07:43.240 I was never allowed to take Advil growing up

01:07:46.660 I was never allowed to take Advil

01:07:47.460 No I'm not kidding they didn't want me to get used to this 1.00

01:07:49.940 That's a little fuck 1.00

01:07:51.900 Can you imagine being addicted to Advil 1.00

01:07:53.580 It's like yo you got more than ibuprofen

01:07:55.540 dog no they didn't they didn't want me to rely on things they want they because they they saw

01:07:59.960 how the school was just sending me to the nurse and all these kids were just getting advils or

01:08:03.980 like just ibuprofens and shit like that at school and she didn't like the family who's gonna tell

01:08:08.800 that's like that's like it's like getting a milk carton so i'm like what do you counter just go

01:08:14.180 i guess they didn't want it to grow into anything well i don't get how advil could grow into

01:08:19.400 anything it's not a seat it's been a long trip for me dude started off with motrin

01:08:23.580 Look where it ended, Mike

01:08:25.540 You got one headache and then you ended up in the nally 1.00

01:08:29.580 Oh, the fucking hospital gave me 1.00

01:08:31.420 Oxy-40, bro 1.00

01:08:32.780 Can you imagine

01:08:34.880 all major addiction

01:08:37.640 stems from

01:08:39.140 over-the-counter Advil

01:08:40.620 What if it's like, man, this headache went away

01:08:43.540 I wonder if I could get rid of this

01:08:45.040 Ah, more pills, pop, see

01:08:47.280 I actually won't take pills

01:08:49.440 the pain medications

01:08:51.600 after surgery

01:08:53.040 Because I just know I have an addictive

01:08:54.940 Personality to it

01:08:55.820 We're not talking

01:08:59.080 About ibuprofen George 1.00

01:09:00.240 My grandmother takes that she's 12 pounds 0.98

01:09:02.520 She didn't want me to rely on it because when I'm an adult

01:09:05.120 Now I don't do that I don't like for today I got

01:09:07.200 I'm not even going to go there

01:09:08.660 But there's levels to it like when I

01:09:10.800 Got hit by a Toyota

01:09:12.680 At full speed on a bicycle and

01:09:14.940 Shattered my skull I

01:09:16.780 Needed something like like

01:09:18.460 There's a level of pain that becomes

01:09:21.020 Torture if you don't take a pain

01:09:22.740 And by the way, when that happened, I didn't take a painkiller because it was posts getting

01:09:27.420 clean. 0.99

01:09:28.040 And so I actually still, even with blood squirting out of the back of my fucking head, I told 0.99

01:09:32.620 them, no, I don't, I can't take it. 0.99

01:09:33.920 Are you monitoring your behavior at all these days?

01:09:37.280 Yeah.

01:09:37.540 I mean, I had a root canal recently and it was amazing.

01:09:40.480 They prescribed me.

01:09:43.920 Are you relapsing right now?

01:09:48.400 What are you talking about?

01:09:51.320 Why are you giggling like that?

01:09:52.740 no i mean um he's like guys we got a problem yeah no i mean i do i i think um i think addiction is

01:10:02.700 a disease and it runs in your family and for sure i got it from my dad because my dad drinks a lot

01:10:09.600 and his dad had a problem so i think it's a hereditary thing for sure no it absolutely

01:10:13.980 addictive personalities but i realized this people that you go both ways because a lot of

01:10:18.580 successful people will say yo my father was like this or my mom was like i didn't want to be like

01:10:22.120 that or my brother was like this or I was like this and I got out of it for example Mike that

01:10:27.440 I think it has to do with just focusing I think our minds are made to focus on one thing and just 0.60

01:10:34.200 go 100 in so when you're like into drugs you're like oh shit I'm 100% into this so I think this 0.58

01:10:40.700 is dangerous if you're going to be successful and be focused it could be yeah do you know off that 0.76

01:10:45.920 point that is it is a really really strong point do you do you feel like you uh as you moved out

01:10:52.240 of that addiction you found yourself just addicted to your work for sure i mean i've always been

01:10:56.920 addicted to my work that's why i've been so successful because i was graffitiing on every

01:11:01.100 single street corner street light even on the ground and stuff like that so i think that's

01:11:07.280 what's uh attributed to my success like if i wasn't an addictive person i didn't have all 0.84

01:11:13.120 these problems and all this fucked up stuff going 0.78

01:11:15.140 in my head, I wouldn't be where I'm at. I would 0.97

01:11:17.120 just be a regular guy. A lot of artists are

01:11:19.120 like that. You know that. We had this

01:11:20.740 a couple episodes ago. That trauma

01:11:23.280 man is, you know, the trauma

01:11:25.180 man. There he is. He's like the boogeyman

01:11:27.380 for trauma. But I mean, there's nothing

01:11:29.140 that I would want to hear more if I was an

01:11:31.140 audience member that was like going 0.99

01:11:33.100 through some shit right now watching Impulsive that 0.99

01:11:34.960 that is what built me. It's what built you. 1.00

01:11:37.380 It's what is building it.

01:11:38.780 If you can make it out

01:11:41.160 of that whole

01:11:42.220 what a what a a growth process like honestly if you can make it out gives you everything it takes

01:11:50.220 a lot of work and dedication to get you out of that hole so when you're out and you're like okay

01:11:54.180 i'm with everybody you're like i still have this hustle mentality you have to focus that energy

01:11:58.460 somewhere and this is where you do but it's also too it's just everything that you learn about life

01:12:03.200 being in that place it just changes you yeah when you have nothing your back's against the wall and

01:12:08.920 And it teaches you empathy for other people that are in that position.

01:12:11.700 It teaches you everything.

01:12:13.240 And it's not just addiction.

01:12:14.360 It's not just this or that.

01:12:16.000 It could be any kind of struggle or trauma in life.

01:12:18.180 And the struggles are your best teachers. 0.99

01:12:20.820 There's no teacher like going through some shit that you don't know if you could beat. 0.98

01:12:25.200 It's the best. 1.00

01:12:26.200 It's the best professor in the fucking world. 0.99

01:12:28.600 You should you should clip that and post on your Instagram. 1.00

01:12:33.080 That one clip from impulsive is fucking gets posted a million times a day. 0.99

01:12:38.920 The way he closed his eyes 0.99

01:12:41.020 And said that though

01:12:41.900 So I want you to clip 1.00

01:12:43.420 Why is that girl gold? 1.00

01:12:45.700 Can we get a pan or no? 1.00

01:12:47.360 No no no no 1.00

01:12:48.080 Fuck 1.00

01:12:48.520 It was 1.00

01:12:50.220 I asked

01:12:50.860 Why did I point it out

01:12:52.360 If we want to get a pan?

01:12:53.260 She's never going to depreciate

01:12:54.400 You guys should invest

01:12:55.280 We got to show the girl

01:12:57.000 Yo Peter Schiff

01:12:57.700 Is going to come over here 0.98

01:12:58.640 And just rip her out 1.00

01:12:59.400 This is what I'm talking about baby 0.76

01:13:00.940 Peter don't talk like that 0.99

01:13:03.800 We got to show the girl 1.00

01:13:04.560 Is he a fucking 1960s gang 1.00

01:13:06.380 Chicago gang member 1.00

01:13:08.520 This is what I'm talking about baby

01:13:10.580 I love Peter dude

01:13:11.460 I love Peter Schiff

01:13:12.600 He's a guy

01:13:13.640 I didn't know you guys got so close

01:13:15.740 We didn't

01:13:17.140 He just came on the pod

01:13:18.340 But then we had

01:13:19.880 You know you sit down with someone for an hour and a half

01:13:21.480 You listen to him talk

01:13:22.260 He had really good points

01:13:25.040 Second longest podcast damn near

01:13:27.620 I mean he's not where he's at for nothing

01:13:29.340 He's a very successful guy

01:13:30.880 Alright so what's up

01:13:33.520 We going out tonight

01:13:35.880 Yeah I don't know

01:13:36.700 I have a girlfriend, bro.

01:13:41.840 So yeah, fair enough.

01:13:43.000 You ever pretend your dog's ears are, um,

01:13:45.240 the things that you use to save someone's life.

01:13:48.520 Defibrillators.

01:13:49.160 Yeah.

01:13:49.780 I'm happy.

01:13:50.460 I was thinking Flint.

01:13:53.480 He's like, stop pretending my ears are Flint, dude.

01:13:57.520 That's exactly what he said.

01:13:59.080 Hey man, these aren't defibrillators.

01:14:02.020 They're ears.

01:14:02.800 All right.

01:14:03.480 We're done probably.

01:14:05.040 Yo, that was good.

01:14:05.980 That's fine.

01:14:06.180 Alec, Alec, thank you, bro.

01:14:07.460 Thank you, bro.

01:14:08.120 Yeah, thanks for coming on Impulsive.

01:14:09.660 I mean, it's the number one podcast in the world. 0.99

01:14:11.300 I can't make this shit up. 0.98

01:14:12.560 If they want to follow you on Instagram, where can they do that? 1.00

01:14:15.500 Alec Monopoly.

01:14:17.060 He's great.

01:14:17.880 If you guys see him in person and he comes to your city to do a show,

01:14:21.200 make sure to be there.

01:14:22.620 I make a point to go to every one of your shows front row with a sign

01:14:27.660 that says, I heart Alec.

01:14:29.240 Guys, hit that's a guy button.

01:14:29.960 You actually started DJing, too.

01:14:31.880 Sometimes.

01:14:32.360 Remember, you were like, which button?

01:14:33.540 I'm like, okay, that one.

01:14:34.220 I turned a knob.

01:14:34.860 turn one knob

01:14:36.220 I'm very grateful

01:14:38.060 for your friendship

01:14:38.580 we're done

01:14:38.960 we're done with the podcast

01:14:39.620 bye

01:14:40.000 nice

01:14:41.520 very grateful

01:14:43.040 for your friendship

01:14:43.560 we're done with the podcast

01:14:44.180 I love that ending

01:14:44.860 well this is

01:14:46.360 and the ending too

01:14:47.600 you got smoked

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Impaulsive with Logan Paul - November 30, 2021

E303 Alec Monopoly Vandalized Our Studio

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