SNEAKO - December 08, 2024


SNEAKO's Full Interviews From December 6th One Minute Podcast!

Topics
perfume conference stage management dreams self-sabotage and limiting beliefs destroying White Supremacist
Hosted by
Nicolas Kenn De Balinthazy
Mentioned
Jimi Hendrix B7 Soul Wicked Hillary Clinton Steve Vai Donovan Abdul L. L. Trombone Brittany Griner Cynthia Erivo Andrew Tate Miles Davis Kurt Cobain X. Okay X. Yeah Sneeko Trump Frank Zakat Dude and 2 more
I was assaulted by a black woman in the train station BAN ONLY FANS ON X

Episode Stats


Length

29 minutes

Words per minute

196.68

Word count

5,752

Sentence count

973

Harmful content

Misogyny

6

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Toxicity

38

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Hate speech

11

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Summary

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Actress Peyton Peaden ( ) joins Jemele to talk about her career, her favorite movies and TV shows, and what it's like being a Black woman in the entertainment industry. She also talks about the Red Pill and why she thinks it's a good thing.

Transcript

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00:00:00 What'd you do today?
00:00:01 I'm a chiropractor.
00:00:02 I was in my office all day long.
00:00:04 Are you tired?
00:00:05 Yeah, very tired.
00:00:06 Long day.
00:00:07 Some people say that chiropractors aren't real doctors
00:00:09 and that it's a pseudoscience.
00:00:11 I don't think that's accurate information.
00:00:13 I've been a chiropractor nearly 40 years.
00:00:15 I take care of people every day without any medications,
00:00:19 severe low back pain.
00:00:20 Everybody goes through back pain.
00:00:22 We can't medicate it.
00:00:23 It gets worse.
00:00:25 Chiropractor really helped me.
00:00:26 I don't know what he did, but it helped.
00:00:27 Yeah, I know.
00:00:27 No, it helps.
00:00:28 I help people every day.
00:00:29 No medication.
00:00:30 And I've heard all the questions and the doubts
00:00:32 and the skepticism.
00:00:36 Like I said, that information isn't accurate.
00:00:38 And not all conditions are medical.
00:00:42 Let's put it that way.
00:00:43 Some conditions are non-medical.
00:00:44 And again, it's your spinal column.
00:00:46 All your neurology runs through your spine.
00:00:48 All your ascending sensory pathways
00:00:50 and all your descending motor pathways.
00:00:52 If your spine is off, your nervous system is going to be off.
00:00:55 So you're saying if you have bad thoughts,
00:00:56 your back is going to feel it?
00:00:59 There's mental stress, physical stress, and chemical stress.
00:01:03 Bad thoughts is mental stress.
00:01:05 It can create a problem.
00:01:07 Cardiac, gastric.
00:01:09 It's all connected.
00:01:10 It really is.
00:01:11 Do you love what you do?
00:01:12 I do.
00:01:12 My name's Peyton.
00:01:13 I love your scarf.
00:01:15 Thanks.
00:01:15 It's my grandma's.
00:01:16 What do you love doing the most?
00:01:19 Acting and being with my friends.
00:01:21 Which one's better? 1.00
00:01:23 Fuck. 1.00
00:01:25 Fuck. 1.00
00:01:26 Being with my friends. 1.00
00:01:27 Okay.
00:01:30 Where are they right now?
00:01:31 They're in Atlanta and here.
00:01:32 My community are actors.
00:01:34 So I get to be with my friends while I act sometimes.
00:01:37 Where do you act?
00:01:39 Right now at...
00:01:41 You'd be going viral.
00:01:42 Right now at a school.
00:01:44 Okay.
00:01:44 And one day, I will not be at a school.
00:01:47 And I will act, hopefully on Broadway.
00:01:51 What's your favorite character to play?
00:01:53 Or what's your favorite move?
00:01:54 What's your favorite thing to act?
00:01:55 A scorned mother. 1.00
00:01:57 I see something.
00:01:57 A scorned mother. 1.00
00:01:59 Yes.
00:02:00 Yes.
00:02:00 Yes.
00:02:00 Scorn me.
00:02:01 I'm the son.
00:02:02 Okay.
00:02:02 Okay.
00:02:04 Um, Sneaker.
00:02:06 I'm so disappointed in you.
00:02:08 You have really changed over the years.
00:02:11 What has happened to you?
00:02:13 You need to go out there and make things right.
00:02:16 You need to change all these stances that you have made in the past.
00:02:18 Do you understand me?
00:02:20 I'm sorry.
00:02:20 Do you understand me? 0.99
00:02:22 No more Andrew Tate shit, Sneaker. 1.00
00:02:24 Do you understand me? 1.00
00:02:25 I was so proud of you.
00:02:27 You made fantastic art.
00:02:30 What are you doing?
00:02:31 I'm sorry.
00:02:32 Come back to us.
00:02:33 We miss you.
00:02:34 I moved back.
00:02:35 I'm here.
00:02:36 I'm actually really proud that you're doing this. 0.99
00:02:38 You back on the artist shit? 0.99
00:02:39 Yeah. 1.00
00:02:39 Watch me on X.
00:02:40 I've been posting every day.
00:02:41 Watch my last eight videos on X.
00:02:42 You're going to like them.
00:02:43 Okay.
00:02:43 All right.
00:02:44 All right.
00:02:44 Glad that we changed.
00:02:46 This is hard.
00:02:47 It was bad.
00:02:48 People are human.
00:02:49 Yeah.
00:02:49 So benefit of the doubt.
00:02:50 But scary times, Sneaker.
00:02:53 You think so?
00:02:54 As a fan? 0.99
00:02:55 Dude, that was fucking harsh. 0.99
00:02:56 I'm a black woman. 1.00
00:02:57 I know. 0.96
00:02:58 You are a black woman. 0.98
00:02:59 Yeah.
00:02:59 So imagine my perspective.
00:03:02 I don't know.
00:03:03 What's your perspective?
00:03:03 I mean, you know, as a black woman who likes artists and to see you as an artist, you 0.99
00:03:08 were making really beautiful shit initially. 0.98
00:03:11 Like I used to watch you a lot. 0.97
00:03:12 And then as the Red Pill thing happened, it was kind of disappointing. 0.99
00:03:18 I felt like it was a fuck you to the fans who looked like me, you know? 0.96
00:03:21 I love everyone. 0.97
00:03:23 It didn't seem like it.
00:03:25 I understand your perspective.
00:03:26 Thank you.
00:03:27 And good luck with your friends and your acting.
00:03:29 What's your name?
00:03:30 Peyton.
00:03:31 Peyton.
00:03:31 Nice to meet you.
00:03:32 It was nice meeting you too.
00:03:33 All right.
00:03:34 You're a good actor.
00:03:34 The Scorn Mother is good. 1.00
00:03:35 Wow.
00:03:36 That's a good one.
00:03:36 I felt the disappointment.
00:03:38 Yeah.
00:03:38 Yeah.
00:03:39 But I'm really proud of what you're doing now.
00:03:40 I was almost too real.
00:03:42 I'm going to a perfume conference.
00:03:44 I don't smell like anything because I'm heading to a perfume conference.
00:03:49 Oh, so you came in bare.
00:03:50 Yeah, of course.
00:03:51 Okay.
00:03:52 There's a perfume conference, so I don't get it.
00:03:55 What's not to get?
00:03:56 So it's a bunch of people with a lot of perfumes?
00:03:58 It's a bunch of perfume brands and a lot of people that love perfumes that go.
00:04:02 Is perfume what you love the most?
00:04:06 No.
00:04:07 What do you love the most?
00:04:09 My best friend and food.
00:04:13 Culinary and?
00:04:15 Joy, friendship and food.
00:04:18 You don't seem like you love food that much.
00:04:20 You're pretty thin.
00:04:23 I love food a lot.
00:04:25 And I love exercising a lot.
00:04:26 But it's not my favorite thing.
00:04:29 How did you hear about the perfume conference?
00:04:32 I'm a perfumer.
00:04:33 I make perfume.
00:04:34 Can you rate my smell one through ten?
00:04:36 Can't smell you, so you're failing at it.
00:04:38 Have a good one.
00:04:40 You here first?
00:04:41 Yeah.
00:04:42 You here first?
00:04:42 Yeah.
00:04:42 You here first?
00:04:43 Yeah.
00:04:44 Yeah.
00:04:44 Yeah.
00:04:45 Yeah.
00:04:45 Yeah.
00:04:45 Yeah.
00:04:45 Real man, it's L. 0.99
00:04:47 L.
00:04:47 Trombone lab is what I've been one of you known as, though.
00:04:49 Trombone lab?
00:04:50 I thought that was a trumpet.
00:04:51 It's a trombone.
00:04:52 What's the difference?
00:04:53 Trombone got the small vowels.
00:04:54 Trombone got the sly.
00:04:56 What did Bill Clinton play the trombone or the trumpet?
00:04:59 Bill Clinton played the sax.
00:05:00 It was a completely different thing.
00:05:01 Sax. 0.63
00:05:02 That's the one that come down like that.
00:05:04 Okay.
00:05:05 And they don't play with a mouthpiece.
00:05:07 They play with a reed.
00:05:08 So that's a whole different setup.
00:05:09 Why'd you choose this out of all the brass instruments?
00:05:13 Well, this cuts through the soul.
00:05:14 This touched people miles away.
00:05:17 Blocks away.
00:05:17 I over-exaggerated.
00:05:18 But yeah, this is a more spiritual sound.
00:05:22 It cuts through.
00:05:23 If you feel bad, this make you feel good.
00:05:25 It did.
00:05:25 It was disrupting the podcast, but I was enjoying it, though.
00:05:28 I was enjoying it.
00:05:29 Let me tell you what happened.
00:05:29 I got off the train.
00:05:30 I thought this was 34th.
00:05:32 I normally get off on 34th and rock out, but I got off at the wrong stop.
00:05:36 So I was like, let me just play until the next train comes.
00:05:39 But I didn't know I was interrupting.
00:05:40 My bad.
00:05:41 No, no, no.
00:05:41 Don't worry.
00:05:41 It was that good that I wasn't that angry about it.
00:05:44 That's what's up, man.
00:05:44 What do you love doing the most?
00:05:46 I love, love, man.
00:05:47 I really wear that.
00:05:47 I wear it on my shirt.
00:05:48 B7 Soul is the name of my joint.
00:05:51 I'm a dad.
00:05:51 Hold this for one second.
00:05:52 I'm a dad.
00:05:53 I got seven children.
00:05:55 Five of them live with me.
00:05:56 That's a lot of kids.
00:05:57 Yeah.
00:05:58 B7 Soul.
00:06:00 My last name start with a B, and I got seven souls.
00:06:03 So everything I do is feeling full.
00:06:05 Everything I do.
00:06:06 I don't ask for nothing.
00:06:07 I appreciate everything, though.
00:06:09 You know what I'm saying?
00:06:09 So when I come out here and I get to playing, sometimes I hear people say, yo, I felt so bad.
00:06:15 And just hearing that just uplifted my spirits, that's what I love to do.
00:06:18 I feel like that's what my job is.
00:06:21 That's what keeps me going as well.
00:06:22 Knowing that, because I be down.
00:06:24 And when I pick up my horn, I feel better.
00:06:26 But knowing that I could touch somebody else with a gift that I didn't practice.
00:06:30 You know what I mean?
00:06:30 I did practice, but I don't read.
00:06:33 This comes from, this was a gift.
00:06:34 It comes from the soul.
00:06:35 It comes from the soul.
00:06:36 And so B7 Soul means a whole lot.
00:06:38 And that's what I love.
00:06:39 That's one of my mottos, man.
00:06:40 Every day above is a great day.
00:06:42 It's up to us to be great with the day.
00:06:44 And love is always love.
00:06:45 You put love first.
00:06:46 You put God first.
00:06:47 Because everything falls in place.
00:06:50 Thanks a lot.
00:06:50 I appreciate that.
00:06:51 Yo, I wish y'all the best, too.
00:06:53 Make sure y'all attack.
00:06:54 How do we meet each other so I can know about this?
00:06:56 Salute to everybody.
00:06:57 Keep doing what y'all doing.
00:06:58 Might not be nothing right now, but it's great what you're doing.
00:07:01 Find me on X.
00:07:02 You know Twitter?
00:07:03 Yeah.
00:07:03 Yeah, I'm not on there yet.
00:07:04 I need to jump on that.
00:07:05 Get on that.
00:07:05 Best platform.
00:07:06 B7 Soul.
00:07:07 Make sure you find me at Trombone underscore lab.
00:07:10 T-R-O-M-B-O-N-E underscore L-A-V. 1.00
00:07:15 Much love.
00:07:16 Thank you.
00:07:16 Be safe.
00:07:17 My name is Charlotte.
00:07:18 Where are you headed to?
00:07:19 I'm going to work.
00:07:20 You're from the UK?
00:07:22 Yes.
00:07:23 Okay.
00:07:23 Why'd you come to New York?
00:07:24 So I work on Broadway.
00:07:26 So I worked from the West End for a bit.
00:07:28 And now I work on Broadway.
00:07:30 So I moved here to work on Broadway.
00:07:32 Do you sing?
00:07:33 No, I'm a stage manager.
00:07:34 You look like an actress.
00:07:36 No, no, I'm not.
00:07:37 I just stay kind of.
00:07:38 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:07:39 Okay.
00:07:40 Do you love doing what you do?
00:07:41 I do.
00:07:41 I, um, I've wanted to do it since I was like 14.
00:07:45 So I literally spent 10 years working towards it and then did it.
00:07:50 So your dreams came true?
00:07:52 Literally, yeah.
00:07:53 Is there anything else you'd rather be doing right now?
00:07:54 No.
00:07:56 Do you feel like the main character?
00:07:59 No.
00:08:00 Because I work with performers.
00:08:03 So they're the main character.
00:08:04 And I just support that.
00:08:06 But that makes me happy.
00:08:09 So.
00:08:10 What would you be doing if you weren't a stage manager on Broadway?
00:08:12 Um, I really love to travel.
00:08:14 My backup, which isn't a very good backup, but I really wanted to be a pilot.
00:08:19 Like, my main thing was stage management.
00:08:22 Like, I want to be a stage manager and I'm glad that came true.
00:08:24 But I also love to travel and I'm obsessed with planes.
00:08:26 So if I wanted to do anything else, be a pilot.
00:08:30 But I don't think I'm smart enough for that.
00:08:32 You don't think so?
00:08:33 No, I don't think so.
00:08:34 I mean, I'm happy.
00:08:34 Like, what I do is what I'm happy to do.
00:08:37 Do you know what I mean?
00:08:38 I went in a helicopter for the first time two days ago in New York and it was a female pilot. 0.99
00:08:41 Yeah.
00:08:42 Are you from New York?
00:08:42 Yeah.
00:08:43 Oh my God.
00:08:44 I was a little bit nervous because I haven't, you know.
00:08:46 Done it before.
00:08:47 People have this idea of female pilots, but she was really good. 1.00
00:08:49 Yeah.
00:08:49 I did that in Australia about six years ago and it was really fun.
00:08:54 Yeah.
00:08:54 So why New York out of all places?
00:08:56 Is it because Broadway's here?
00:08:57 Sorry?
00:08:57 Why New York out of all places?
00:08:59 Oh, because like, well, New York is like the place people come to for like the best of my job.
00:09:04 So this is the best place to be for my job.
00:09:07 And I think a lot of performers and people like me come to New York to make it on Broadway because this is like the best place for it.
00:09:15 How would you compare it to London?
00:09:17 It's like London, but like more intense, I guess.
00:09:23 I think London is more chill and the people are more chill. 0.92
00:09:27 Here people are crazy.
00:09:30 I mean, London has a reputation for the machetes. 0.95
00:09:32 Uh, yeah.
00:09:33 Yeah.
00:09:33 I mean, like not so much now, um, but I like both, but I'm going to try and get my citizenship for America in a couple of years.
00:09:42 I've only got my green card right now, so hopefully I can get both.
00:09:46 And then if something comes up in the West End, I can like go between the two.
00:09:50 How are you going to get that?
00:09:50 Are you going to get married?
00:09:51 No, so I am married.
00:09:52 My husband's American.
00:09:54 Oh, so yeah.
00:09:54 It usually happened right away, right?
00:09:56 Yeah.
00:09:56 Well, no.
00:09:57 So, I mean, like you have to, so in the, in the U.S., you have to be married for, I think two years?
00:10:02 Two years.
00:10:03 I mean, no, no, no.
00:10:04 Sorry.
00:10:04 A tale of a lie.
00:10:05 It's different for everyone.
00:10:06 I think you have to live in the States for three years and then you can apply for citizenship as a green card holder through marriage.
00:10:12 So it's like different for everybody.
00:10:14 That makes sense.
00:10:14 It's more complicated now.
00:10:15 It's going to get more complicated with Trump now too, probably.
00:10:18 Uh, yeah.
00:10:18 Yeah.
00:10:19 But I can, I can vote in the last election because I'm like a green, I'm a green card holder, not a citizen.
00:10:23 So I couldn't vote.
00:10:25 But in the next election, I'll be out to vote.
00:10:28 Are you a good person?
00:10:29 Um, I think so.
00:10:32 I think so.
00:10:34 Do you think you're a good person?
00:10:35 I do.
00:10:36 Yeah?
00:10:36 Yeah.
00:10:37 What makes you think that you're a good person?
00:10:40 Well, it makes me think I'm a good person.
00:10:42 Um, I think, uh, I'm kind with people.
00:10:46 I'm patient with people.
00:10:47 I think I, I, there's a lot of kindness that comes with my job.
00:10:51 Um, I think I'm, I think I'm like, yeah.
00:10:58 I mean, being a stage manager.
00:10:59 I respect people.
00:11:00 I respect everyone's religion and culture and experiences.
00:11:04 I don't think I have any discriminations.
00:11:06 I think I'm like, I see all people as equal.
00:11:10 I don't know.
00:11:10 I think that makes me a good person.
00:11:12 Does your job require a lot of patience?
00:11:14 Yeah.
00:11:14 Oh, this is my trade.
00:11:17 Nice to meet you.
00:11:17 Nice to meet you.
00:11:18 Stay warm.
00:11:19 Stay warm.
00:11:19 What's your name again?
00:11:20 Charlotte.
00:11:20 Charlotte.
00:11:21 You say, good luck with everything.
00:11:22 Thank you very much.
00:11:24 So what's for a client?
00:11:25 Like, uh.
00:11:26 You're a photographer?
00:11:27 No, I'm an artist.
00:11:28 What do you make art of?
00:11:29 I'm a visual artist.
00:11:31 So I do, uh, black figurative portraits.
00:11:35 Oh, I could use one of those.
00:11:36 Mixed media.
00:11:37 Um, I paint people that I know.
00:11:40 Um, I'm also a certified life coach.
00:11:42 So the conversations that I have are, or the, or the conversations that I have, that's
00:11:47 what's emulated on, on the canvas.
00:11:50 Okay.
00:11:51 So is it like therapy?
00:11:52 Life coaching?
00:11:52 Um, yeah.
00:11:53 Well, it's not necessarily therapy, but it's more like goal setting.
00:11:57 Okay.
00:11:58 What's the number one thing that people need coaching on when it comes to life?
00:12:02 Oh man.
00:12:03 Um, I think sometimes like self-sabotage, um, limiting beliefs, like people, like we have
00:12:09 so many different, um, we have so many different, um, voices in our head.
00:12:15 Like some people have projections.
00:12:17 Some people have like people telling them that they can't do it.
00:12:20 Some people have people that tell them they can't do it.
00:12:22 And it's like people choosing which voice to listen to, which one to trust, which one
00:12:26 sounds, you know, the best for them.
00:12:29 Doesn't that mean you're schizophrenic if you have a lot of voices in your head?
00:12:31 No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:12:32 I don't think, I don't think it's schizophrenic.
00:12:33 I think it's just, we're just like, if someone's telling you for your entire life, if someone's
00:12:38 been saying, you can't do it, you can't, you're not, you can't do it.
00:12:41 You're not smart enough.
00:12:42 You start believing you can't do it. 0.99
00:12:43 You're not smart enough.
00:12:45 But then you have someone that says, oh, you can do it.
00:12:47 I totally believe in you.
00:12:48 You're smart enough.
00:12:49 But it's like, you don't trust that because you're used to trusting the other voice.
00:12:54 How do you focus on the positive voice?
00:12:56 Um, I think it's like, you have to cut out the noise.
00:12:59 Then you have to cut out the noise.
00:13:00 Um, and I think it's all about like distrust.
00:13:03 It's being open and just, just, just, you know, trusting that voice, you know?
00:13:08 How do you do that personally?
00:13:09 How do you, cause I, I mean, I have those voices too.
00:13:12 Uh, I think for me, you know what, again, like a self-sabotage and a limiting beliefs.
00:13:19 It's like, I don't, I try my best not to let, um, ideas of people like, uh, limit my beliefs,
00:13:26 you know, or tell me what I can and what I can't do.
00:13:28 Like for me, for instance, growing up, I used to have a whole bunch of people tell me like
00:13:31 what I couldn't do.
00:13:32 You know, um, my parents were always saying like, we believe in you, you can be whatever
00:13:36 you want to be, but my peers had never seen artists, you know, do the type of things that
00:13:42 I've done, you know, um, no one like believed it was possible because they've never seen
00:13:46 it in my neighborhood.
00:13:47 So when I moved to New York, those things just became possible.
00:13:50 And those are the voices that I trust now.
00:13:53 What was the lowest moment in your life?
00:13:55 Uh, maybe today, maybe today.
00:13:58 Was the interview that bad?
00:13:59 No, the interview is good.
00:14:00 It's just, you know, um, you know, financially, I haven't been in this, this situation since
00:14:06 my twenties, you know, um, I don't know if it was the election, but, um, no one's buying,
00:14:10 um, paintings right now.
00:14:13 I'm also a logo designer and no one's buying logos right now.
00:14:16 So I don't know if everyone's like kind of saving their money or not know what's going
00:14:19 on, but, uh, yeah, so it's just like, I'm just being, um, grateful, being in gratitude,
00:14:25 being trusting, uh, and being open that, you know, something's going to happen, you
00:14:30 know, you don't seem like you're at a low moment.
00:14:32 You still seem confident on the inside.
00:14:35 Yeah.
00:14:36 Maybe I'm trying to wear it on the outside, you know, that's how I'm probably trying to
00:14:39 smile about it, you know, but on the inside of man, this is tough.
00:14:42 You know, this is like, this is New York city.
00:14:44 And, you know, it's like every day it's like, uh, you know, you hear the phrase of, you know,
00:14:48 if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.
00:14:49 And it's like, I've been in this situation before, um, I'm not going to be like that
00:14:54 forever, you know, but like, I know without a shadow of a doubt, things can turn around
00:14:58 within like a second.
00:14:59 If you did it once, you could do it again.
00:15:00 Yeah, exactly.
00:15:01 Exactly.
00:15:02 And like, like I was always taught, like a setback is a chance for a comeback.
00:15:08 Hey, best of luck to you.
00:15:09 Thank you.
00:15:09 What's your name?
00:15:10 Sneeko. 0.54
00:15:11 Sneeko?
00:15:11 Yeah.
00:15:12 Nice to meet Marcus.
00:15:13 You got Instagram or anything?
00:15:14 Nah, I've been on Instagram.
00:15:16 Oh, okay.
00:15:16 Got it.
00:15:16 Follow me on X.
00:15:18 Okay, on X.
00:15:19 Yeah.
00:15:19 Sneeko. 0.54
00:15:20 Got it.
00:15:21 Thank you, man.
00:15:21 Appreciate that.
00:15:22 Appreciate you.
00:15:24 Jazz.
00:15:24 Would you like to sit down?
00:15:26 All right.
00:15:26 What's your name?
00:15:27 I'm Sneeko.
00:15:28 You're going to a local jazz show.
00:15:29 Yeah.
00:15:30 What do you love to do the most?
00:15:32 Listen to music.
00:15:34 Miles Davis?
00:15:36 Definitely.
00:15:37 Yeah.
00:15:38 My uncle is a trumpet player.
00:15:39 You don't want to make music?
00:15:40 No, my family makes music, not me.
00:15:42 So you just want to listen?
00:15:44 Yep.
00:15:45 Is there anything else that you'd rather be doing in life?
00:15:48 Yeah.
00:15:49 Um, yes.
00:15:51 Liberating myself from white supremacy and capitalism.
00:15:54 How do you liberate yourself from white supremacy?
00:15:57 You have to destroy it and no longer depend on it or feed into it.
00:16:02 So how do we destroy white supremacy?
00:16:04 I think we have to divest from initiatives and companies and politicians who uphold it and
00:16:13 create worlds where people of color, black folks, queer folks, disabled folks are prioritized.
00:16:18 So create black, queer, disabled supremacy? 0.97
00:16:22 No, no supremacy. 0.98
00:16:23 Just earth supremacy.
00:16:25 Just an ecosystem that prioritizes the health of all beings, not just white folks, not just whiteness.
00:16:32 Where are white people prioritized?
00:16:34 Everywhere. 0.99
00:16:36 They are the supremacy.
00:16:37 Can you give us some examples?
00:16:39 Um, redlining.
00:16:41 Okay.
00:16:43 What about, um, gentrification?
00:16:46 Yeah.
00:16:46 Got it.
00:16:47 That's another one.
00:16:47 Well, what about in schools that minorities, like we get, uh, we're prioritized when we
00:16:52 apply to schools.
00:16:53 Are we prioritized?
00:16:54 Cause I'm pretty sure white folks actually benefit from affirmative action, which is so 0.96
00:16:58 interesting, right?
00:16:59 Like it's not for them, but somehow they get benefits from it.
00:17:03 Yeah.
00:17:03 We also don't learn our history in school.
00:17:06 We were taught that Columbus was, you know, it's to be celebrated.
00:17:09 It's all pretty unfortunate.
00:17:12 Okay.
00:17:13 Um, so that's the, that's the number one thing holding you down.
00:17:19 The number one thing holding me down. 0.86
00:17:21 Is white supremacy.
00:17:22 Maybe I would say capitalism and white supremacy are working hand in hand quite aggressively
00:17:27 to hold me and all folks of color back. 1.00
00:17:30 Yeah.
00:17:31 I'd say that.
00:17:32 Or maybe like my lack of interest in playing the game is holding me back.
00:17:37 Your lack of interest in playing the game.
00:17:39 Yeah.
00:17:39 My lack of interest in, in like enjoying capitalism and like leaning all the way into capitalism.
00:17:45 Like we have to be a part of it because it is the dominant structure and I'm sure I'd
00:17:50 be like more successful if I enjoyed it.
00:17:52 But yeah, I thought interested.
00:17:54 So are you a communist?
00:17:56 No, no, I wouldn't, I wouldn't identify myself with any political parties on your podcast.
00:18:02 Okay.
00:18:03 So why not just play the game if that's the game in front of us and if your life's going
00:18:06 to be better and you're going to be more successful, why not just accept it?
00:18:09 Yeah.
00:18:09 I think we have to unpack what successful means to us.
00:18:12 And I think it'd be, I think there'd be benefits in some areas, but not other areas.
00:18:16 Capitalism requires us to be wasteful, requires us to, um, abuse the planet, requires us to
00:18:22 oppress other people in order for us to be rich.
00:18:24 So I wouldn't, that wouldn't make my life better. 0.95
00:18:26 That would suck.
00:18:27 Okay. 0.95
00:18:28 Yeah.
00:18:28 Why are you wearing a mask?
00:18:30 I don't want to get COVID for a third time and I don't want to give COVID to anyone.
00:18:34 And I also don't want to get any kind of sickness if I can avoid it.
00:18:38 Did you get vaccinated?
00:18:39 No.
00:18:40 How did you get vaccinated?
00:18:42 I was overwhelmed when it first popped off and I felt insecure and concerned about the
00:18:48 medical industry and it's historic, um, like timeline of using black and brown bodies to 0.77
00:18:57 create medicine.
00:18:58 So it was just all kind of happened too quickly and I didn't feel comfortable at the top of
00:19:01 the pandemic to do it.
00:19:02 And I haven't done it since.
00:19:04 There's a lot of people that criticize white supremacy that are very pro vaccine.
00:19:08 I'm surprised you're anti-vax.
00:19:09 I know.
00:19:09 Yeah.
00:19:09 I don't, anti-vax is a strong word.
00:19:11 I respect, vaccines have, are the reason why a lot of us are alive and I respect folks who
00:19:16 get vaccines.
00:19:17 I think that's one of many ways to protect yourself.
00:19:19 And I'm not like, yeah, get it how you live it, get it how you live it.
00:19:23 And let's prioritize the safety of all of us, especially vulnerable folks.
00:19:28 Okay.
00:19:28 Thank you.
00:19:29 Thanks for coming on.
00:19:29 I appreciate it.
00:19:29 Good one.
00:19:30 Good person.
00:19:33 Why not?
00:19:35 Because like, like they say, not everyone is perfect in this world.
00:19:39 I've made mistakes.
00:19:40 I've, I've made some decisions that probably I shouldn't have made at a young age.
00:19:47 But you've repented.
00:19:49 Yeah.
00:19:49 I've repented.
00:19:50 So do you think you're a bad person?
00:19:53 Uh, I'd say I'm, I'm not a bad, but not a good person either.
00:20:01 But you're working every day to be better.
00:20:03 Well, yeah, I'm working every day to be better.
00:20:05 I'm trying to better myself every day.
00:20:07 What's the best deed you've done recently?
00:20:09 What's the best deed you've done recently?
00:20:12 Uh, well, I haven't.
00:20:15 I've moved in.
00:20:16 I live alone with my, one of my cousins.
00:20:19 And I know it's, it's hard when you go through family issues and you have family problems.
00:20:25 And he's my cousin.
00:20:27 Uh, I call him my brother.
00:20:28 I grew up with him and I take care of him.
00:20:30 He's going to school right now.
00:20:31 I work and well, I try to, I try to make the day for both of us be good, the week, make
00:20:39 it to the week and make plans for the future.
00:20:42 Is your cousin, uh, what, it's like, does he have issues or something?
00:20:49 No, right now he doesn't have any issues right now.
00:20:51 He's good.
00:20:51 We're good.
00:20:52 He says he's happy.
00:20:53 He's been better.
00:20:56 What do you love doing the most?
00:20:58 What do I love doing the most?
00:21:01 Uh, that's a good question.
00:21:03 I'd say, uh, what I love doing the most is spending time with family, being around the
00:21:09 family.
00:21:10 It's that season for that.
00:21:13 Yeah.
00:21:13 It's that season for that.
00:21:15 Exactly.
00:21:15 It's the Christmas season.
00:21:16 That's is this, this is the season for that.
00:21:19 And I wish it would be like that every day.
00:21:22 Not only for every, for some events.
00:21:27 Christmas should be every day.
00:21:28 Christmas should be every day.
00:21:31 Hey, be safe, man.
00:21:31 It's really nice to meet you.
00:21:33 Thanks, man.
00:21:34 Nice to meet you.
00:21:35 Come check.
00:21:36 Oh, you're for what?
00:21:36 A studio?
00:21:37 DJ.
00:21:38 Oh, you're a DJ?
00:21:39 Yeah.
00:21:39 Oh, this is your card.
00:21:40 Yeah.
00:21:41 What do you love the most about New York City?
00:21:43 Um, the versatility of it.
00:21:45 You know what I'm saying?
00:21:46 You could be a teacher one day and a DJ the next, like myself.
00:21:50 You know what I'm saying?
00:21:51 So, uh, it's very versatile. 0.99
00:21:54 Um, shit. 0.99
00:21:54 My girl, hang on. 1.00
00:21:55 My bad for cursing.
00:21:56 Um, but yeah, I just love the fact that you can be a million things in like one day,
00:22:00 much less, you know, in a lifetime.
00:22:03 So, Frank, right now you're a podcaster, five minutes, you're a DJ.
00:22:05 Set in?
00:22:06 Right now you're a podcaster, and five minutes, you're a DJ.
00:22:08 Pretty much, yes.
00:22:09 Yeah.
00:22:09 How'd you become a DJ?
00:22:11 Um, I've been doing this since I was seven.
00:22:12 So, yeah.
00:22:13 It's been a long time, so.
00:22:15 Is it what you love doing the most?
00:22:17 It is.
00:22:18 Uh, I love creativity.
00:22:19 I love art, period.
00:22:21 So, like, for me, that's, like, the biggest thing.
00:22:23 What I love doing the most is creativity.
00:22:25 So, music is a form of, like, creativity.
00:22:28 So, that's, that's who I am.
00:22:29 I don't want you to miss soundcheck.
00:22:31 Is that it?
00:22:31 I don't want you to miss soundcheck.
00:22:32 Yes, sir.
00:22:33 Hey, you said your iCard.
00:22:34 No doubt, bro.
00:22:34 Bye-bye.
00:22:37 Salaam alaikum.
00:22:38 What's your name?
00:22:38 Salaam alaikum.
00:22:39 Abdul.
00:22:40 Abdul, what do you love doing the most?
00:22:42 Uh, running my non-profit.
00:22:44 It's a non-profit for what?
00:22:46 Um, I help, uh, basically, underprivileged individuals in our area, northern Virginia,
00:22:51 um, get access to health care items, personal care items, and food.
00:22:55 Okay.
00:22:56 Do you do that in New York or in D.C.?
00:22:57 No, no.
00:22:57 We're hopefully to expand in New York someday, but right now we're local.
00:23:01 Why'd you start?
00:23:02 Wanted to give back to the community.
00:23:04 For Zakat or for yourself?
00:23:06 Um, just for the community, honestly.
00:23:08 Um, a friend of mine, you know, we thought it'd be just fun to give back on it.
00:23:12 Yeah.
00:23:12 Yeah.
00:23:12 So, it wasn't really for ourselves.
00:23:14 It's just, we wanted to help out somewhere.
00:23:15 Are you a good person?
00:23:17 I would hope so.
00:23:18 I don't want to make that decision myself.
00:23:20 Who makes that decision?
00:23:22 Dodd.
00:23:26 Oh, enjoy New York.
00:23:27 It's cold.
00:23:28 Hey, it was really great to meet you.
00:23:29 Likewise.
00:23:29 All right.
00:23:30 Likewise.
00:23:30 Sorry.
00:23:32 My name is Leo.
00:23:34 What do you love to do the most?
00:23:36 Um, I don't know.
00:23:36 I like to see my friends and I like doing photography.
00:23:39 Is there any place you'd rather be?
00:23:41 Right now?
00:23:42 Yeah.
00:23:43 Anywhere but here.
00:23:44 Home?
00:23:45 Yeah, probably.
00:23:46 Okay.
00:23:46 It's like colder than Alaska today.
00:23:48 It's very cold.
00:23:49 Yeah, no, it's awful.
00:23:49 You have a nice scarf though.
00:23:51 Thank you.
00:23:51 Yeah, my aunt made it.
00:23:53 What's so great about your friends?
00:23:55 Well, they're always there for me and they're fun to be around and it's better than just being
00:23:59 in school alone all day.
00:24:00 So.
00:24:00 Do you go to NYU?
00:24:02 Huh?
00:24:02 Do you go to NYU?
00:24:03 No, I go to high school.
00:24:05 I go to the high school down in Soho.
00:24:07 So, yeah.
00:24:07 What do you want to be when you grow up?
00:24:10 Um, I don't know.
00:24:11 I've thought about like journalism, photography, something like that.
00:24:14 What do you take pictures of?
00:24:16 Um, well, I just finished a project about like my community and this is my trade, but
00:24:19 I'm actually visiting at the ICP in like two days.
00:24:22 So that's exciting.
00:24:23 Good luck.
00:24:24 I love doing the most. 0.99
00:24:27 Oh, shit. 0.99
00:24:28 Drifting, bro. 1.00
00:24:29 Drifting?
00:24:29 Yeah, like fashion guys, right?
00:24:31 Yeah.
00:24:31 There's a big pop-up at this weekend in Soho.
00:24:33 Driftedef, wait. 0.99
00:24:35 Is it?
00:24:35 No, no, it's Drifting, Drifting.
00:24:37 Where does it go?
00:24:38 I don't know.
00:24:38 It's like New York.
00:24:39 Nico has a pop-up event.
00:24:40 I'll probably be there.
00:24:42 I bet.
00:24:42 I might pull up because I'm trying to go to Driftedef.
00:24:44 You know what that is?
00:24:45 You're going there right now?
00:24:46 Uh, nah, it's tomorrow.
00:24:47 Okay.
00:24:48 Are you guys brothers?
00:24:49 Yeah.
00:24:52 Who's older?
00:24:52 No?
00:24:52 No, we're like brothers, but like half-related.
00:24:54 That's the thing.
00:24:55 Oh, you're half-brothers?
00:24:56 Yeah.
00:24:56 Okay.
00:24:57 Do you guys ever, do you fight?
00:24:59 Nah, not really.
00:25:01 I have a lot of competitive nature with my brother.
00:25:03 How do you guys not get competitive with each other?
00:25:06 I don't really know, bro.
00:25:07 We just like, just live, bro.
00:25:10 You just live, bro?
00:25:10 Yeah, just live, bro. 1.00
00:25:11 Like if he does some bullshit, bro, it's like, it's whatever, bro. 0.99
00:25:15 Who's older? 1.00
00:25:16 Him.
00:25:17 Okay.
00:25:17 You look up to him?
00:25:19 Uh, not really.
00:25:20 Bro, we're like a year apart.
00:25:21 That's why it's...
00:25:22 Oh, okay.
00:25:23 All right.
00:25:24 Thanks, bro.
00:25:24 Thanks for coming on.
00:25:25 What's your name?
00:25:26 Uh, Dion.
00:25:26 Dion.
00:25:27 Nice to meet you, bro.
00:25:27 Nice to meet you.
00:25:28 Great.
00:25:28 Donovan.
00:25:29 Donovan, what do you love to do the most?
00:25:31 Play guitar.
00:25:33 I thought you were going to say thrifting, too.
00:25:34 That's what he said.
00:25:35 Nah, he's more of a close guy than I am.
00:25:38 I'll play guitar more often.
00:25:39 Who do you look up to as a guitar player?
00:25:42 Um, like Steve Vai, Kurt Cobain, like kind of those like my two main idols for guitar.
00:25:49 Not Jimi Hendrix?
00:25:50 That's my favorite.
00:25:51 Jimi Hendrix, so I love Jimi Hendrix.
00:25:53 But I don't really look up to him as much as Steve Vai.
00:25:56 How did you find what you love to do?
00:25:59 Uh, guitar.
00:26:00 I played it in middle school for my middle school band in seventh grade.
00:26:03 And that's how I like started playing guitar.
00:26:06 Just in middle school.
00:26:08 Are you a good person?
00:26:09 Um, I would like to say I'm a good person, yeah.
00:26:15 It seems like he looks like he didn't admit it, but I think he looks up to you.
00:26:18 He definitely looks up to me.
00:26:20 He's my little bro.
00:26:22 Are you a good role model for him?
00:26:26 Uh, not really.
00:26:27 I'm not going to lie to you.
00:26:27 I'm going to be honest.
00:26:28 Not really.
00:26:29 Why not?
00:26:31 Uh, Nikolaj, I'm taking some bad actions.
00:26:35 You know what I mean?
00:26:37 Not some bad things, so.
00:26:39 I wouldn't be that, I wouldn't be that good of a role model to him.
00:26:44 And I've influenced him, I've influenced him in bad ways through a little bit.
00:26:48 But.
00:26:50 Alright, be safe, bro.
00:26:51 Stay warm out here.
00:26:52 Nice to meet you.
00:26:52 Nice to meet you.
00:26:53 I don't know.
00:26:54 I don't know the whole time.
00:26:56 Did you like it?
00:26:57 Sure.
00:26:58 It's fine.
00:26:59 Want to come on again?
00:26:59 I never saw it on the internet, but I was there.
00:27:01 Tell us in for a minute.
00:27:02 Okay.
00:27:02 So you were on two or three weeks ago?
00:27:06 What's your name again?
00:27:06 I'm sorry.
00:27:07 My name is Ryan.
00:27:08 Ryan.
00:27:09 What do you love doing the most?
00:27:10 Singing.
00:27:12 Yeah.
00:27:13 Can I hear something?
00:27:15 No.
00:27:16 My voice is shot right now.
00:27:18 From what?
00:27:19 From singing all day.
00:27:20 Oh, okay.
00:27:20 No, it's not actually shot.
00:27:22 It's just under pressure.
00:27:24 Yeah, I'm nervous.
00:27:25 What are your goals?
00:27:27 To perform consistently.
00:27:29 Yeah.
00:27:30 In New York?
00:27:31 Yeah.
00:27:31 Or anywhere.
00:27:33 National tour could be fun.
00:27:35 So are you like a jazz war type of girl or a Broadway stage or a?
00:27:39 Broadway stage.
00:27:39 Broadway.
00:27:40 Sure.
00:27:40 That'd be cool.
00:27:41 Yeah.
00:27:42 Did you see Wicked yet?
00:27:44 Yes.
00:27:45 Yes, I did.
00:27:46 It was perfect.
00:27:48 Amazing.
00:27:48 I sobbed.
00:27:49 I saw it twice.
00:27:50 It was so good.
00:27:51 You sobbed?
00:27:51 I cried.
00:27:53 What was so good about Wicked?
00:27:54 Oh, God.
00:27:54 I mean, it was just, it was what wasn't good about Wicked.
00:27:57 Ariana Grande was perfect.
00:27:58 Cynthia Eriva was perfect.
00:27:59 The vocals, the choreography, it was so, it was just perfect.
00:28:03 No notes.
00:28:04 Some of the interviews are really strange leading up to that movie.
00:28:07 Why?
00:28:08 The Ariana Grande and that woman, they're like crawling all over each other. 1.00
00:28:11 Oh, yeah.
00:28:12 I mean, it's emotional.
00:28:13 When you play a dream role like that, like, yeah, you get emotional.
00:28:17 What did I ask you last time you came on?
00:28:19 What did I ask you about?
00:28:20 You asked me what my dreams were, and then you asked me about...
00:28:23 Where I went to school, and you asked me if I liked it there.
00:28:27 I go to NYU, and then you asked me who I voted for in the election.
00:28:32 You have a good memory.
00:28:33 You remember all the questions.
00:28:34 Well, it was kind of a pivotal part of my day, I can't lie.
00:28:37 Did it make you think?
00:28:39 Yeah.
00:28:39 I was worried about what it was going to look like on the internet.
00:28:42 I was like, oh, God.
00:28:43 But it didn't pop up.
00:28:44 I didn't see it yet, no.
00:28:45 So overall positive.
00:28:47 Yeah, no, it was good.
00:28:48 Yeah.
00:28:49 Well, thank you.
00:28:50 Good luck with the singing.
00:28:50 Oh, yeah, thanks.
00:28:51 Nice to see you again.
00:28:51 What's your name?
00:28:52 Nice to see you again.
00:28:52 Ryan.
00:28:53 Ryan, I'll see you again.
00:28:53 No, wait, where do I follow you?
00:28:55 On X.
00:28:55 Nico on X.
00:28:56 Oh, on X?
00:28:57 Yeah.
00:28:57 Oh, I have to make an account.
00:28:59 Yeah, make an X account.
00:29:00 I will.
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