(upbeat music) Welcome back all my nerds, geeks, blurs, and freaks to another episode of Gadgets and Geekery Presents, Geeky Sexual and Intellectual. Ooh, shout, it's a mouthful. Every time I say it, I gotta take a deep breath like I'm about to hit a note. But I'm glad y'all back. Today's guest is Mr. James Boyce. Also known as Grand Mrs. Up Every Time. I need to send an interview. Grand Master Facts. How do you know what is hard, just like a tongue tip for me? But anyway, this brother is phenomenal. He'd be really getting it in for the people, for the calls, for the culture of Indy, Black, comic book, and content creators. So if you never heard his brother look into it, follow the man, he got a podcast coming out called The Facts Project. You can find him on Spotify and any other major streaming platform. So we about to get into it, enjoy. (upbeat music) - All right, welcome back to another episode of Geeky Sexual and Intellectual. I am your host, Q. And today's guest is Mr. James Boyce from the Grand Facts. I'm sorry, I always get this wrong. Grand Master Facts. (laughing) He's like, yeah, I don't wanna do this show anymore. - It's just a monika, it's like a nickname. You know, it works. - Yeah, but every time I write it on something like, you know, without a blurred fleet, I'm just like, Grand Facts. I bet that it's not his name. (laughing) - Yeah, so how you doing tonight? - I'm good, I'm good, I'm happy to be here. Thank you for inviting me. - No, it's overdue, sir, 'cause I got like, how many people we got in a blurred fleet? Like 20, over 20? - 27? - Yes, I'm like that. And I'm like, I've been so lazy. I'm like, I need to talk to all my folks. So, but I wanted you to be the first. (laughing) - Look, look, I'm happy to be the first. - Yeah, man. - But I like to start this show out. I ask all my guests, you know, if we go on through Corona season, it ain't even season, it's year. So, how you doing? How have you been making it through this year? - I'm doing okay. As a matter of fact, the probably the biggest reason that like, I've been more active on social media and everything is basically through the pandemic because I've been home, but pretty much, I mean, this has been my therapy. You know, the reason that I haven't gone to the lengths of the depths of being insane. You know, it's been my calling just to come downstairs, do some work, video edit, and shoot. I even ask you a few questions and zoom in on everything so I can just get some work done. - Yeah, yeah. - I mean, it's turned into from a hobby into a life project. So, this has actually been pretty not overwhelming, but well-meant. - Oh, okay, cool, 'cause you know what? That is the happiest Corona story I've ever heard. - Yeah, yeah, I mean, outside of here, there have been some things that have happened, you know what I'm saying? That I do not wish to discuss, I mean, but you know what I'm saying? That's just, I mean, aside from the pandemic, it's just everyday life. I mean, I pick and choose my poisons. - Yeah, that's true. But I mean, that's the silver lining of this whole situation that we all have to go through is that the creativity has been overflowing since March. - Yes. - Yes. - Yes. - And, you know, like you said, we've had all this time, like before you, like, oh, I wish I could do more. I don't have enough time, well, we got the time now. - And you don't know what to do with yourself. - Now, you don't know what to do with yourself, and I'm just like, okay, now I've got too much time. Like, bitch, make up your mind. (laughing) Yes, I'm glad you been, you know, holding it in there. I was telling somebody, I think this whole time, I think I had like three mini breakdowns in the shower, like the complete shape moment to just (laughing) and like, in your knees. - I'm home, where homeschooling my daughter, she's in virtual for the rest of the year, pretty much. They asked us if we were gonna do it like next semester and everything like that, and we decided to do so. So I've been mostly at home with her as far as like doing that 'cause my fiancee works. - Yeah. - So she's after work and essential employee knocking it in, you know what I'm saying, taking care of business. All the while, I am here. - Playing. - You know what I'm saying, I am here. Me and my daughter getting it in, you know what I'm saying? - Cool. - And play, we go to the park, do our thing. - Oh man, and you know what's so crazy? Like, this year has flown by. I literally, it literally feels like just March. So I think this is my third week of in office work. I've been working at home the whole time doing the pandemic, doing school, my daughter, school started back with her, she goes two days a week, and now I'm just like, I'm so well. It was like, I never had that time. Like I forgot all the time I had, that's how you know you spoiled. I'm like, I wanna be here. It's like you got almost a year at home, come to hell down, it's three weeks. So. - Right, right. - I'm hating you, I just wanna, I was my long way around saying, I know. (laughing) - So anyway, I wanted to have you on the show 'cause I know you, and it's like a compliment now, back in my day, it will bring you to tears. You like a huge nerd. - I am. - Yeah, so I'm so excited to have you here. So I like to dig into people's past to figure out what they got into at a younger age to bring them to who they are today. So tell me about what were some of the things that got you into a geek culture as a child. - Well, I'll tell you the story that I basically related on the partners podcast, the podcast that I'm on. - Yeah. - As well, I've told the story of what got me into comic books. And the story goes that there was a bookstore where I grew up, I grew up in South Jersey in a very, very small time on the tip, the end of South Book, end of New Jersey called Cape Man. And we had a bookstore called Kelsey's Books. And a few of my friends brought me to the bookstore one day and decided to let me see the comic wreck for the very first time. I think I'm about eight years old. - Okay. - And, you know, I'm sitting there, I can't believe what I'm saying. I've only heard about Spider-Man. I've only heard about Batman. I've only heard about Green Lanham because all, you know, the older cousins and everything like that are pretty much like been talking about it. You want to get included in the conversation. You try to jump in as a little kid and you get shoved out. You're like, "Get the hell out of here, little nigga." You know what I'm saying? So I finally feel like I didn't hit the Holy Grail because I'm now being brought to the comic shop to get my first comic. And we're sitting there just like reading long on the, it was like a turnstile, you know what I'm saying? It turns out they had the comic book going back into that. So I'm going through it and my older cousin Hub was like, "Yo, man, which one you like?" And I was like, "Oh, man, I gotta get this Spider-Man." But it was like, it was like a, I think it was like a buck 50. It was Spider-Man saga number one. It was a retelling of the origin story of Peter Parker. And it was built into this very thick comic book. Almost like it's thick is like some of these, some of these are mad. Like a graphic novel style. It was like a graphic novel. So it was like pieces and chunks 'cause of what they call my omnibus where you get like all the story, the one book. Yeah. So I was like, "Yo, I would love this one, "but I ain't, you know, I ain't bring no money." And I thought we was just coming in here to read and he was like, "Open up your jacket." So he opened up my coat and slid. He rolled it up like a neighbor and slid it in my sleeve. And he said, "Go." (laughing) Welcome to the dog's side, my nigga. I know. So it was like, "Oh my god." (laughing) So I ran all the way home. I mean, we made it, we get caught. (laughing) So I had Spider-Man saga number one. And I swear, I like set on this thing for like two, three weeks and just going through page by page, trying to basically find out the intricacies of Peter Parker and everything that's basically brought him to be Spider-Man. And I was enthralled. I got caught up, caught up so much that from that day on, I wanted to get money. I wanted to get money to get a job at everything like that. And it was me and my mother, that's it, no brothers and sisters, single mom. - Yeah. - So I started working at age 11. I was a dishwasher under the table at this place called the Rose Garden in Congress Hall. And they would pay me $20 a night. - Wow. - They would give me a 20 spot. Like I would do eight hours of work, dishwasher, and they would give me a 20 spot. And this is, I was 11. So this is 1990, you know, this is 1990. I got $20 in my hand and I'm like, okay, and I do this two nights a week. So I get $40 in a weekend. - Yeah. - I'm like, oh, man. - Make it clear. - Make it clear. - Look, first off, yeah, I had a little bit of time to get away from being a Kelsey's for a while 'cause I'm sure they remember me running out of that damn store and everything. - Oh, and they still there? - Yeah, actually the bookstore is not there anymore. There's a closeout of everything. But the thing is, there was like a time frame where I was like, damn, I could not go back there to getting new more comics. It's the only place in town.
Where I can get comics and now since I don't ran out of there with this comic book, I cannot go back in there So I have to wait stack my money Until maybe they have like a mental lapse and everything like that. I can come in there and some separate clothes So I didn't go back in there until like Summer so when that happened it was winter. Yeah, I went back in the summer and I finally like got some books and everything I built up actually a real cool relationship with the people that own the bookstore And and they saw me in there like almost like week after week and they're just buying books buying books buying books and I was sold I was sold that was my kingdom, you know what I'm saying it said that uh you had to start on the criminal side comics Everybody's journey is different. I know And the thing is I'm not a thief. I wasn't one of those knuckleheads. I just did that all the time That that happened because of my cousin hub and and the thing is shout out to him for doing that Joe said his horrible is that is But it worked Yeah, that's a story dang. Well, I tell you my story real quick It is super short But I had a friend in elementary school and I think I'm old way older than you but this was like Early 90s, I think but anyway my friend Sammy his day, you know had dad's off in the 80s in the 90s He wasn't around but he left Sammy a big ass you haul box full of comics And it was a comment time We took all the comics at the book book box and feel the whole house the floors with comic books his mom was upset She was like if you don't get all this shit off my floor, but it was like a treasure trove And we was like we don't even know what to start with this shit and like she let us keep it on the floor So I would go home and then I come back and then we tried to go through all the books to clean up all the comics off the floor So it was an amazing summer You know what happened with those comic books because he ended up having to move It was some crazy shit, but I'm like that box is too too big to bring with them So I don't know what they did with it, but that's what started me I don't know if that's if he's still into that so, but that's what got me going It was like a lot of teen Titans in there. I do be good to be careful. Oh my god. That would be worth so much Like they was old shits. Yeah Yeah, I'm telling you I was like like you said eight years old in the early What's with the early 90s? I was at the 80s. Oh shit. I'm oh But anyway them shits was old We'd be paid in a shade right now Makes me sad to think about them kind of books sometimes, but hey Hey, man Anyway, I'm here. We we had a great summer and now we hear talking on this podcast Uh-huh. Well, basically what I want to give to also I started following party nerds. I want to say maybe five four or five years ago And had no idea that you were affiliated with them. Uh-huh So you like to do it in the background that brings the knowledge to the forefront I All right, I have to give credit what credits do. Okay. There's there's two gentlemen that started the party nerds There's Darnell and Jorge. They're the founders of it. So it started out as a meme page Uh Long time ago. It's I think I got established around 2014 2015. Mm-hmm. And it all started Basically, it's called the party nerds because we we all work the nightclubs I was a I was a manager of a nightclub for about 10 years. Okay, and Jorge was our senior VIP manager for the nightclub. We ran a pretty successful nightclub They're in the time in in Atlantic City. And uh, Darnell also worked the nightclubs. That's what we're called the party Nerds, you know what I'm saying? So started out as a meme page between those two brothers. Yeah, hilarious Yeah, so so it they brought me on because you know in between the time that we will be working we would discuss comics anime like and the thing is Oblivious to us because of our age, you know, we're just sitting there like shooting the shit and we're like We're finding out things about each other that we have similarities about about whether it's something uh Infused with like DC or whether it's something to infuse with like gaming or anything like that like consoles back in the day And then I get wind of their page Okay, and I'm like Wait, y'all like do this like y'all just do this for real And they're like yeah, we've been doing this for like a long time and the thing is aside from that they were also doing Um party planning like event planning. Okay, so they would have cosplayers show up at parties In order to do like, you know, like you would you if you hired them you would get like a bunch of like girls and guys dressed up as like comic book characters anime characters Uh, sometimes they would do like the tape the black tape shows Where to dress up with the tape And they would do these events and everything's like I wonder this I'm like y'all are like y'all doing this like just Just that just off just off of the whim of everything that you knew you built the company off this it like yeah And it was like oh, yeah, by the way, you know, I'm saying we're starting a podcast and he was like I know you love talking about this shit. Would you like to join us and I was like yeah, I was like to talk about Absolutely, so it was it when they got formed like Voltron. It was It was Darnell or hey our friend Devin Wade from the Devin Wade show Uh Aubrey who was like our Star Wars girl Nicki Geeks Provo Jerve from survivor and myself And you know saying like I jump right in I think they were like episode 10 or 12 when I jumped in like we're now like in hundreds You know, say it so like it's it's been a whirlwind and just like having fun with it I've always been the guy that's like, yes, I've been the guy that's played the background I didn't have any social media at that time. I've only jumped on Instagram two years ago. Okay Only jumped on Facebook two years ago or anything like that. So like I was always like the As much as I talk I was the introvert, you know, as much as I was the I was a shy person and everything like that pretty pretty much Reserved as far as just like jumping into the forefront. So The Jorge and them kind of like pushed me into this like the reason that I right now is because like yo go ahead and do it And see what happens So I started doing it a couple years ago and here's where I'm at Yeah, I thought that was just so cool because like you said it was a mean page and it was like when the algorithm Algorithms weren't after on Instagram. I used to see them all the time like that's how I was starting my day out We wanted a means and I'm like who is who is turning this shit out like it is so commercial I'm like, this is nice. So it made me wanted to like step my game up. I wasn't doing means, but I was like Oh, I know this is probably that somebody that's working a nine to five like me I can get it in too They had a caliber that you wanted to come up with. They showed me Yeah, they showed me they had actually like with schedule they had them like their memes They would be scheduled post yeah, that they would be like released at a certain time because they knew they would get more They started to be finicky with the with the algorithm and everything like that to where they were like scheduling mean post To be released at certain times during the day Because they knew they were like hot times in order to beat the algorithm and therefore you could actually like get more views Or get more get more likes and then get more followers. Yeah, I'm saying so so they told me like all these intricacies and everything of how to do it Of course, you can't do that shit no more But this is what they did to like basically like get their footing in social media Yeah, and it was like a perfect time because like you said it was all these intricacies I had no idea about Like algorithms hot times like they'll say Monday at noon is your time and your people around yeah I didn't know nothing about this shit. I was just posting shit and back then that was 2014 I was posting like like I crack it like 16 times I'm like, how are you working you have a full-time job and you posted six times a day in my boss He was cool. We was both in the geek shit. And so he followed me. He was like so, uh, you're on post number 20 for the day I said, I don't get my work. No, don't come in here checking me. Well, yeah So it was like a thing that you had to learn it. I feel like they broke the The code early in the game Yeah, as they had a lot of fucking followers and it was like easy back then Yeah, was he huh? It was easy. Yeah, like it was no work Like you didn't have to jump through the hoops that they do now and that's when I got my followers around the same time they did and it was just like I didn't do anything special And now they're there and none of those motherfuckers see my posts now because the avarifices sucks So yeah Yeah, but I know now you have jerk out of your own and use the podcast Yeah, yeah, so I'm going to be starting my own solo podcast aside from being with the party nerds I'm still going to be doing the party nerds, but um I'm starting the facts project. So Through the pandemic me being busy. I've actually accumulated a lot of these i g lives that I've been doing with a lot of creators Especially in the in the comic room, especially in the black indie comic room And pretty much pinpointing their reasoning for making the creations in which they have and it's all ultimately just proving That you know us as black folk are not one dimensional at all You know because like people tend to get I guess a little bit put in a box where they're thinking that you're just going to create another superhero genre But that's not necessarily the case at all. Yeah, they're creating black sci-fi. They're creating black supernatural horror. They're creating
like epic fantasy comics and everything like that. Like, and the thing is, once I got like the stride of just like talking to a lot of these creators, it just more so, just pinpointed the fact that, you know, there's so much out here, especially in the indie community. It's beyond nuts. I didn't even know it was this big. Like, we used to go to Comic-Cons and do press junkets and everything like that. And it sucks 'cause I used to be over there with the mainstream distribution from Marvel DC, image and everything like that. And then, you don't even necessarily see when you go like the New York Comic-Cons, one of these major metropolitan Comic-Cons, there's this whole artist alley indie world that is huge, huge, full of boops. And I'm talking about numerous amount of boops, maybe in hundreds. And all these guys are coming in there with crates, you know, I'm saying, looking like DJs back in the 80s, early 80s and everything like that. Got milk crates, full of their books, banners that they're setting up themselves, they're pretty much like sharing tables in between tables and everything like that. And they're just doing so much on the fly as far as like an independent, independent based business. And the thing is, the community within that is so strong because they support each other in it. And you see them, like Marlon DC don't even have to do anything. They put their little, they put their little highlight up, maybe a little bit of the lights. And they're not even there to sell books. They're there to release multimedia content basically through TV, movies, and everything like that. And they're selling toys. - Yeah, well, let me tell you something, that's a good show. But like Marlon DC, they don't have to advertise. It's kind of like what I tell my husband, like what do they even have, tampon commercials? We just need this shit. You ain't got to advertise it. Marlon DC, we just need this shit. We know they can go out. They've been advertising since the fucking Chinese. They don't need to do no more work. - They don't need to do a damn, you know what I'm saying? So like I'm sitting at in the independent section, like with all the indies and everything like that. And I'm watching these guys like work their pitches. You know, when they're talking, they're talking to families. So you, and I've heard Newton-Lavis, who does Dream Fury comics. I've heard him say he was like, I've been the comic convention so much that I've talked to, I've talked to maybe like one person, a grown man. And then throughout the years, when I start releasing more comics, I see that person get married than him and his wife are there. And then I see the next comic con. I see a kid, you know what I'm saying? This is what's happening, because these people are necessarily following you and becoming ultimate fans. And you're touching the customer. You know what I'm saying? Quote on quote, no pun intended. Then touching, it's not wearing a pandemic. They're not touching. - No more, none of that. - You get none of that. You get what I'm saying. Might be a fist bump, might be a elbow bump. That's what, that's all we're keeping. - Bam, shit. - Air clap. You might get the stop, rub it together. - That's what I'm saying. - But, but the thing is they say, we've basically built a community of followers that we know that are going to pretty much be sold on anything that we're creating because they've gotten so used to us and they know that they can see the author or the illustrator or the writer personally. - Exactly. - And talk to them about the comic. And then, you know, necessarily, yeah, comics are primarily a kid's item of maybe like a first time reader or anything like that. So, you have to almost dissolve your pitches of how you're constructing how to sell your comics. Not only to an adult, but to a child, you know. Kids love superheroes. I know I did. So, pretty much like when their parents come down and you see like the kid point at the superhero, they're like, oh, dad, that guy looks cool. You know, that person then comes from around the table and he was like, let me tell you about him. And you'll notice how much this world is being created and how interesting that person is and it inspires these little kids, which then therefore inspires the adults. And then the purchase is made. So, I've got a square and then they swipe in cards, but done. But the thing is, the hustle of it is the coolest thing in the world is pretty much like how I kind of saw hip hop back in like the late 80s, early 90s when it was like first starting. People basically selling you, when you went to the gas station, somebody was there with some tapes. Out the trunk of their car, you know what I'm saying? Just like, and the thing is, that dude, he might have been the worst rapper in the world, but he was gonna sell you some motherfucking inspiration, boy. He was like, yes, let me show you some of this fire. You be like, I know this shit ain't fine, but go ahead, bro. Get it all. Go ahead. - Oh, man. Yeah, I think it's a untap, well, you know what, it's starting to come into its own now, but it was so untap for so long in de-comics. But it's just, I'm like, like when I think about movies, mainstream movies, I'm like, that shit really, I did a post a long time ago. It's kind of played out for me. I'm like, I can only watch so many different versions of Superman and Batman, inspired me. I'm like, it's so many characters with great stories. Why aren't y'all utilizing it? And I know it's just a money graph for Hollywood. It's all about the green bags, but I'm like, the stories are amazing, they will sell. I'm like, I know when people didn't even know Constantine was a comic book when it came out. I love fucking Constantine. So. - There's a lot of movies that you wouldn't believe a comic book. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm just like. - History about Vigo Mortensen. The history of Vigo Mortensen is an image comic. - Yeah. - And it's a great story. - Yeah, it's tons of them. And they're not even, they're not even on a childish level. I don't know if they're trying to, they don't want to, I don't know, I don't know what I'm trying to say. Like Superman Spider-Man, you know, suited up. I'm like, it's so many types of comic books. Like Hell Racer, or is it called Hell Racer, a Hell Blaser? It was a comic book I got back in, huh? - Hell Blaser. - Yeah, that could be an awesome movie. - Yes. - So I'm just like, they just not tapping into all this gold. - Yeah. And the thing is like, okay, what you're discussing with Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and everything like that. They've been retconned so much that basically their origin stories have now been skewed, you know what I'm saying. So, and because it's happened over and over and over again, because you're starting a story in a comic book about a certain character. At some point in time, that story is going to end. And then you have to start a whole new story. So if you could, you could start it maybe from like a whole different viewpoint, or the thing is, if you're that author, be like, oh, I want to give you my take on Spider-Man. - Exactly. - He's going to create a whole new different origin. And then to the reader, you're like, wait, and this is where the arguments happen amongst like gatekeepers and everything like that. But like, wait, this is when I first started reading Spider-Man comics, he had this type of thing. Well, Uncle Ben was alive in this one. What happened? Like, Uncle Ben actually got killed in the first one. If you didn't know, this is where it happened. So when you look at indie comics nowadays, it's like, you're going to get a different story every time. Every time. Totally distinct different types of characters and everything like that. And the thing is, if they feel as though that the storyline is going to get dissolved a little bit, they're going to push you towards another character maybe in their universe. And that character might be something that you've never seen before either. So it works out consistently. And there's so much out there. The one thing I can tell you is that just through kick starters, that indie comics have made record breaking year after year, last year and this year. Last year, they made $19 million, just in comics. This year, they made $22. They're still a month left in this year. Because of the pandemic, people have taken the opportunity to read a lot more. And it's been beneficial to a lot of these creators out there. And especially through not only the pandemic, but through the racial climate that we basically have been experiencing this year, a lot of these black indie comics have been fledgling. Just pushing the market as far as they could get. And you see a lot of them, they reach out to us, some of us that promote their content in order to push out as much as we can. But they needn't necessarily, they're taking maybe like their first crack at it at kick starter or something like that. And then boom, it happens for them. And they're like, oh my god, I didn't get through 100% of what they had they asked for. Yeah, like, was it? This book I have here. So this book is "Ocomeus" by T.J. Ireland. So I picked this up maybe earlier in a year. And he put out the fourth book for this. So I have the first three. And then the fourth book. So the fourth book, the first three, he put out strictly through comic contes, hustling, going from city to city, you know, trying to push the storyline of his comic. So he's had to physically drive, fly, take a bus, and everything like that to sell his comics either in Arkansas, Louisiana, Florida, North Carolina, where he's from in New Jersey and New York. He puts it up on kick starter for the first time that he's ever used it, $20,000. - Wow. - His goal was only five. - Yeah. - Yeah. [BLANK_AUDIO]
It's amazing because if my daughter was a part of an Indie comic Kickstarter, she was a, we was for the book was called I Can't Breathe. So there was a gentleman that was asking petitioning like a lot of artists to submit their work. And then he was going to create a book, yada yada yada for Kickstarter. So and the proceeds went to different organizations for Black Lives Matter and all the organizations. So she's published in a book. This dude, I think he asked her something like that for publishing costs or whatever, like $5,000, he made 230% more than what he asked for. So I was like, yes, that's crazy. So yeah, I'm talking to somebody tomorrow by Kickstarter. But the thing that brings me to is just a distribution of content creators, because I talk to I have a friend of Virginia that does music. So me and him talk about the back doors and the dirty deals that, you know, the music industry try to give artists like they said, I'm like, we not in the 80s no more, why are you still giving people these shitty contracts? So what a lot of distributions and publications and whoever else don't understand, people don't really need y'all anymore. With stuff like Kickstarter, their social media, Patreon, like you can do it all on your own without having that big for a handout. And then it's probably a crappy deal. Anyway, it's like dealing with them up, like you don't want that deal anyway. And you own the content is yours, you can do it how you want to nobody is going to, you know, tell you what you need to change. I don't maybe they care to needs to be white, white, there's so many black people. So I'm just glad that black people are doing it for themselves. And other people are black people are just thirsty for it is sucking it in big time. Yeah, so for do. Yeah. And pretty much the whole landscape is changing anyway. I mean, Lord only knows when we're going to get back outside again. And in some regular type of, regular type of frame. So the whole concept of people being at home, going to their mailbox, getting comics, or even like being at home, like take, for instance, Jason Richardson, who's one of the blood fleet members that basically created VT heroes, a tabletop car game, put it up for 500 bucks, a close to $10,000. Yes. You know, but it's a tabletop board game. It's something for people to do at home. And there's a tabletop car game, especially in in nerd them with Dungeons and Dragons and everything, have cold filings. So that happens. So I was I was super related to see that happen for him. And that was that was beyond crazy. But the thing is like the whole concept of these like small mediums of everything to where you're doing things at home. I used to have game night at my grandpa's house every Friday. You know, saying play life, clue, all that type of stuff. So something like that is cool. Because you know, I'm saying you're like bringing like maybe like a few friends over. You don't have to do too much. You don't have to do, you don't have to be in no crazy as thousand person setting or anything like that. And you're just having like a good time. But in the meantime, with the comics and everything like that, that's cool too. You can go out to your mailbox, go right back in the mother fucking house. You ain't got to touch nobody. You just got you got your comments book and you're done. And then you can talk about it. Yeah, on in and on in it. Don't touch. Yeah, nothing, nothing. You'll be surprised. My mom came over today. I was like, which what are you doing here? You've been out in the world. We just see y'all all right. Go out to the window real quick. And I'll show you the baby through the window right? Yeah, but just just content, you know, indie content in general is fascinating to me because I always wanted to do my own comic book as long as I can remember, I wanted to go to school for sequential art. That's what it's called at the Savannah College of Art. But I didn't do that because it was and I was like, I'm gonna stick to, you know, some some other type of cheap ass art that I don't have to pay to learn how to do. But I'm glad that people, these are self-taught artists, the majority of the time. Yeah, yeah, they show pictures like before and after you know, when they say a 2015, this is how it's been going. And now these motherfuckers making out of money on Kickstarter. Right. Yeah. I just think it's amazing, but I had a art director, a sex tomorrow on my show, and we were talking about black content content creators in the right and rooms, because he does television and animation. So what would be your dream for the industry and black creators in the future now that we've gone through this? And we know that we are I guess financially feasible? Yeah, I would definitely say to not be displayed as much as in a box as we are like me and you basically talking through through the internet. There's not a lot of us in the media talking about nerddom, geekdom or better yet pop culture. In the sense of our own point of views. That that doesn't happen that often. Like you like take for instance, I was I was looking recently at Irene Simon, who is a black Latina female creator, who's now the she's on this she's on this esports gaming channel called called called Zen, which is which was just got just got its footing in LA been around a month ago. But now she's she's now the part owner of exek gaming. So she had to become an owner, you know, pretty much in order to like set her footing. Now no, she's done hosting gigs on like cheddar esports and and through Zen and everything like that. But pretty much it's catapulted her and she's very she's young, you know, and and that's just one person. Oh, yeah, you know, saying so for for a lot of us to basically give our perspectives on pop culture and everything like that. It doesn't happen that often. You know, and the thing is especially for people that are outside of New York and LA. You know, I'm saying so. So to get reached out for perspectives and wanting to just basically speak on the opinions in which we have for like either certain certain mediums, whether it is gaming, anime, comic books, whatever it is, I feel as though that representation has to take footing somewhere, especially the way that we've been building ourselves to be how we're putting ourselves in position to succeed. Yeah, because at this point, the industry have to be dumb, deaf, and blind to not see how valuable we are in those media spaces. Because it just it didn't start, but it did kind of blow the mother fucking doors out with Black Panther. But I'm like, you see the dollars are there. And like I say, people want to say, well, that's just they being racist. And then they could be it. But the 90% is about, I want to know, at the gate, can I make money on this? And I've never made money off of Black shit. So can we make money off of Black shit? And the thing is even after, well, not even after, but during the injustices during with the aftermath of the George Floyd killing, all those companies started reaching out, wanting, wanting a lot of Black companies and Black spokesperson's at their, at their, you know, at their whim, you know, saying, but the thing is, what happened after that? Nothing. You know, so like pretty much it was a crapshoot. Oh, yeah, if you want to jump on, jump on now, because like the boat's going to say a law pretty soon. Yeah. And I thought that I thought that was corny, you know, saying, it's like, okay, after this man has been slain, this is our shot. Yeah. Like, like, that doesn't even make sense. I know. I was blown away because it was like in the same week of Funimation, Crunchyroll, PlayStation, all these companies, these nerd companies came to the forefront. We, we'd love and support our Black audience that, and I was kind of like, have like, get the fuck out of here. I like, I like, how long is going to last? Yeah. I'm like, this shit lasted a month. I remember, I was actually shot, because like, Tsunami came out with this commercial, and I was like, kind of blown away, because I grew up on Tsunami. And I saw like time from Tsunami talking about he was, he was basically making this entire speech about Black Lives Matter and everything like that was like, what? I was like, time has never spoken about anything as far as social culture. And this motherfucker go come out his ass. Hard. And hard as shit. For Black Lives Matter. I like, this nigga ain't never recognized anybody Black. And now all the sun is coming out his pores. How? Exactly. He's like, I'm coming out politically, and I'm coming out on the hardest shit ever. That was confusing to me. About girls. I think they can weigh your bed. Yeah, it's just crazy. I can't, you know, I guess that's part of being Black. Like, you like, thank you. Clap it up. But I'm keeping out. You saw animation. That's that's that's the funny thing about it. Because like, we look at it from like the curiosity lens. We're like, like, like, pairing our eyes together and like, looking at it like, nah, this might be some shady shit. I don't know. Clicked Bay shit. Yeah. I ain't fucking with this. Hold on, man. Let me, if two of my boys get put on, then I might consider it. I don't know. Damn, let of support. I want to know when y'all hiring. Because animation is 30 masks for me. Yes, I apply.
for a job and then get it. But yes, I don't want your support. I want your financial support. (laughs) - To see a company like that, I mean, the dealings that are happening, 'cause like take for instance, that storyline where crunchy roll might get bought up by Sony. Sony already owns Funimation. - Yeah. - So, they'll own 90% of anime within the world. - Yes. - You know what I'm saying? The thing is, do we see black content going to get brought to the forefront through any of these two companies? I don't know. - Ooh, okay. So you said that and some just triggered my head and I can't even remember the title of it. It was a black anime head. One episode on, it was on Fun Crunchyroll. And I'm like, "What happened in the rest of 'em?" It was like children of, I can't remember shit. I have to look it up later and put it in the comments. But yeah, I was like, "Where are the rest of 'em?" And I think they got like an Aztec one coming out for the Zoom. Looks pretty cool. Yeah. So I'm like, "Maybe they trying to dip a toe?" But I'm like, there's a lot of shit. - But that's, hey, they just dip in a toe. You know how many half ways they have? - Yes. - They have, if not thousands of anime's. - People who do their own shit. - Yeah, exactly. So like you see those companies that are basically being brought up like their brother that created Dark Shell, which is that black anime company that's gonna be opening up in Japan. - Yeah, Japan. - And then you have Noah Caesar, basically here, based over in South Carolina, Johnny Bryant, former NBA player who now started his own anime and manga company. They're about to release their ad next year, 2021. So like, these are two independent black anime companies that are pretty much gonna get put on the market now. What happens to them when Sony becomes the juggernaut that is going to be with 90% of all anime funneled through them? Do we look at the independence a little bit differently? Or do we be like, oh man, they about to like, just be generic from now on? Let me go see what's happening on the other side of the fence. Is that gonna happen? We don't know. - I think the following that they have will stay, that you know, we're always like they said, foundation and current role are basically the DC and Marvel of the anime world. So we'll see. - You see what they doing though? Like they snatching up personalities and shit. - Yeah. - Like how Meg, Meg the salient is now like has her own little like line of culture role. - Oh, and then oh rappers are into this shit now. Hold on. Let's see who we can get. We're about to fucking gentrify this whole shit. - Yeah. - And the thing is, okay, Meg might be the start of this. - Yeah. - How far could they get if they really wanted to like be like, if they really wanted to put like independent black anime in the bucket and be like, okay, not even just black, independent black and independent anime outside of Crunchyroll and Funimation. It's happening out there and then all of a sudden, they starting to make all this money. Sony is about to put up $975 million for Crunchyroll. It hasn't happened yet, but it might be on the market soon. That's almost a billion dollars. - Yeah. - We already have Funimation. And the thing is it doesn't, Crunchyroll is its own network. So like what happens to these people that are pretty, I can't even call them like mom and pop shops that are putting it out there, but you have a lot of these guys that are like, putting out quality content. And do they get snatched up? And then putting the mix, does it get gentrified enough where anime starts to get more commercialized? And then you're going to see like rappers. And you remember how corny hip hop gotten like the 80s when you saw like backspin in a break dancing and it was like party house party rap? - Is it going to turn into what's that cartoon? Harry, the hamster or whatever where he has all the kids break dancing and shit. - Oh my god. - Is it going to turn into that? - I, I hope not, you know what I mean? - I always go back to why now? - What now? Like black, it's like, oh shit, black people like anime. We being like an anime. I got hooked on the anime. I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna even like, I was in middle school, it was Sailor Moon. I was like, what is this shit? Then I got to high school and I saw a Dragon Ball Z. I was like, oh shit. Then I saw Ninja Scroll and I was like, what the fuck is this? And then I was on it after that. Yeah. So it was like, it's always been in my life. So when people say, oh, Tony, I mean, I was like, yeah, no, it's other shit. You had to wait on tsunami. But. - We weren't the gathering audience at that time. - Yeah, I'm like, I always been on it though. - And we've always been on it. And the thing is, everybody I talk to has been on it. And it always goes the show. That black people push pop culture and everything like that. So when you have the opportunity to have anime and you want to push it out there even farther and you know how far black folks will drive some shit. Especially if they love it. - Yeah. So if we could push hip hop as much as we have, if we could push food, if we could push fucking buildings and everything like that, Lord knows what they can do with some goddamn anime. You put some rappers behind it. Oh, oh, Swalee from Ray Sharmered is into Naruto. That's cool. Michael B. Jordan loves that. - Michael B. Jordan loves it. - Oh, we got the fuck some shit up now. You're like, this is the thing. They get these interviews and they think it was like a setup. It was like a setup because they ask them, "Yo, what do you like find a childhood memories?" And then they be talking about anime and everything. We're like, "Oh, you like anime?" And then they talk to the next person and then you find that person likes anime. You find that person likes anime. What does that then tell those companies? - Money. (laughs) - Oh, I'm back. - Money. - Blow the doors off this month. I'm about to get real hood with the shit I'm about to put on TV. - But that kind of like 70% made me mad though, because with, you know, not a better phrase, they won't niggas the symbol to sell, you know, to get more money for them. - Exactly. (laughs) - Exactly. Exactly. - And the thing is, it's going to make the styling is an excellent hip-hop artist. - Mm-hmm. - He probably loves the shit at an anime. - Oh, yeah. - The anime. But she probably is not cognizant to the fact that the anime that Crunchyroll wanted her to promote is not, there's no black people in the room. There's not one. - Exactly. - There's nobody, there's nobody in production. There's nobody in the artist's room. There's nobody in the writers' room. So it pretty much is a check. - Yeah. - It's a check. - And I'm going to draw a lie. I don't do the research. I'm not going to lie. I don't want to do the research to see who is actually in those companies. But when I see content not coming up, I know brown faces are not in the spaces. - You can obviously tell that. So it took for like that brother from Darf Shao to basically make his own anime company in Japan. - In Japan. - It was like, 'cause I know I couldn't get into these rooms with Sony. So I got to create, this is the thing. It pisses you off so much the damn. I got to break my back and create my own shit. I mean, that's old, but this is the lips that I have to go to in order to pump out some content. - Yeah, and that's what I say. I wish we wouldn't, I don't know what dealings they have under the table. Like these independent companies, like you were saying to our sazer, but I'm like, I hope they wouldn't sell the companies out too fast. Because when it's yours, it's yours, baby. You can do what you want. And that's what I'm saying. They're not going to lose money because they have a solidified following. So the money's there. Just keep doing your thing. And if you do decide to sell, make the contracts to where it ain't just like, you just left in the dust. - Put my people on. - Put my people on. Yes, I still want to be a shareholder. I still want to have, you know, 30% say whatever. - Yeah, just don't Bob Johnson me and get on TV and start talking conservative shit. We gave you a billion dollars, but Viacom gave you a billion dollars. And now every time you get on TV, you talk some cool shit. I'll be like, hey man, you know what? I knew this was set up from jump. - I said, I got my eye on you. - I got my eye on you bro. Like you know what, I am not falling for the set up. This is bullshit. - Oh man, okay. Well, I want to get into the part of the show where I say it's called, I call it this or that. Basically, I haven't hit it in a while, but I asked your question. You tell me, nah, yeah, or you can give me a reason why your neck. 'Cause sometimes I have to go in on people like, that's bullshit. So I'm just trying to go in on you, James. But so this is that Netflix or Hulu? - Netflix. - Did you not post it today? - I didn't see it. Well, no, I saw that you had the raising prices that they basically, so this is the thing. We remembered Netflix for when they was shipping you sleeves of these to your house. And you know what I'm saying? We felt like we was family for a second. You see how they doing us right now, it's horrible. So this is the thing with Hulu, there's a package with Hulu. Hulu this plus and the ESPN plus. You could get it for like this small little bundle and everything like that. Netflix, Netflix, you see what they doing? - I got my eye on you. - Black content. You get a ton of black content, black movies and everything like that. Oh, wait, they got anime. Yeah!
- Yeah, they don't have a wave quality. When they try to move. - You know what else Netflix, yeah? Kung Fu Flicks. - Yeah. - Old school Kung Fu Flicks. Old school Kung Fu Flicks. Old school TV shows that you know and love, 'cause I remember when they took the office off of Netflix, how much of people got into a tailspin about. I don't even watch the fucking office. But I was like, I was like, why has everybody like bitching about the office being off of Netflix? Or sign fell being off of Netflix and everything like that. But the thing is, some of the original products are cool and everything like that. Like, yeah, they don't want to continue to do that. Which sucks, but yeah, that's gonna happen. - This is my complaint because I saw, I received that email in the early hours today and I just woke up with a sleep in my eyes and I said, what the fuck? 'Cause two times last year, they raised the price. Two times a year, is that illegal? - Yeah, right. It's today, we're just gonna raise it by a dollar. Like, it's still my dollar on Netflix. (laughs) And what I get so messed up about is Netflix is just shows. Just shows. Least when Hulu tried to bend me over, they was like, we're gonna give you shows, we're gonna give you live content, we're gonna give you DVR. - We're gonna give you a chocolate. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Netflix ain't got sports. - Netflix ain't doing that. They just creepin' it up. I say, I'm gonna wake up two years from now. This shit gonna be $20. (laughs) And it's still gonna be just regular content. - We about to give you our seventh day of Chappelle special. We about to book this up another motherfucking dollar. - This day of Chappelle, it really is. - This day of Chappelle, look, we just paid day of Chappelle 70 million dollars. We gotta get our money back somewhere from you. (laughs) - Oh, so saddened them. I wrote it that kind of, I was just winning and I was like, pull back some. I was like, I remember 11 years ago, when this shit was $4.99, now y'all got this extra shit if you want more than two people watching it once. You got about a 13.99. I was like back in the day. Shit, my cousins all over the United States could share my account. They'll sue me Netflix. They not own it no more, I promise. (laughs) But I'm like-- - I remember when y'all niggas was red box. (laughs) - But they're too good now, they boozey. - They're boozey. - They're boozey. - You gonna leave, leave. - Y'all got y'all right. - Y'all got y'all pinkies out when y'all drink. - Yes, I'm like bitch, you're not going anywhere. Castlevania will be back, bitch. You're not going anywhere. - These greens coming out. - Exactly. I'm like-- - You love it. (laughs) - So. - I'm just complaining because I know I'm not going to leave. I know I'm not. - No, I know I'm not going to leave. - That's so, it's like a fucking drug, dude. Like, the one hit, that's free, even now. - If I was to be like, man, fuck y'all, I'm canceling. We like, oh, Dave, should pill special about to come out. Damn, oh, fuck. - I know. - I'm going to have to say, do you email address, so I can get this information. - Hold on. - Hold on. - Exactly. Okay, you like that trash. What does that-- (laughs) That's my word for this for 2020 trash. Everything trash is dumps the juice. Netflix is dumps the juice. I can't get over it. A dollar, and I'm over here like, fuck this shit, flip the tables. - Yeah, we have to raise in prices, fuck y'all. - You ain't gonna need it. - All right, so I don't know where you, you know, what line you're dancing on with this, but would you choose Hinti or porn? - Yeah, porn. (laughs) - I can't. (laughs) - And I always have to give my reason. I'm not gonna deal with no squid monsters. - Yeah, that's my jam. - But I grew up in a time when Human Peace Invasion and the blue girl was out. Those were like the first ones that you've seen, and those were the weirdest of the weird. (laughs) Like, to the point where they was just doing it and girls were blowing up. - Yeah, yeah. - I was like-- - You need a little strange. - Like, this is extra. - But like, both the genres, it can always go to the extreme. Both of them got extremes, you know that. - Oh, I'm gonna go to extreme, but you know what I'm saying? You ain't got to click on that category, buddy. (laughs) You know what I'm saying? It was like, like, you see the BDSM, you're like, "You know, not today, not today." - I gotta leave it to myself. But yeah, (laughs) but my whole thing-- - I got church in the morning. I can't be. - It's the time to watch it. (laughs) But I tell people, my thing is with Hintie, I don't have to, I have this inner dialogue with her. I'm like, is she really enjoying this? Is this really what she wants to be doing? Is she trying to get through college? Is she under age? Like, I can't even get to it, 'cause I'm thinking about it. What a cartoon is the cartoon. She ain't got no backstory. She don't have no struggles. She ain't got no daddy issues. (laughs) - We don't know that. We don't know that. - Well, she met that squid monster she didn't, there'd been anybody off the streets. (laughs) - I'm like, it's safe. Nobody's getting hurt. I don't know if anybody's been trafficked. - She might've just got kicked out of her house for eating the last piece of-- - Last piece of-- - Oh, it's wrong and both. - Last time I'm both got kicked out in a squid monster approach. Her dad did not know that when she stepped out them doors, it was gonna be the last time he saw her. - No. - For she got impregnated by town of us. - Exactly. - Massive medical. - Massive medical. - Massive has good babies. - Don't go there. - Oh, you would not condemn my likes. Okay, that's my shit all day long. Send me a link, I'm like, thank you. (laughs) All right, so that's enough of that. With this new thing that's hit the streets that I cannot afford, 'cause I got responsibilities in a family. PlayStation five or the Xbox? - Neither. - Exactly. I'm like, my shit still work. (laughs) - Look, I'll tell you another story. I don't play video games. - I wish I could play more. - I haven't played a video game since 2001. And you could ask the party nerds this because I've told this story before. I was in the military from '99 to '03. And I was big on video games. I brought my PS2 with me during that time. - The drag. - No, where were at? No where were at? PS5, last console James owned, PS2. I am on the two. - Oh my god, you got me crying. - Yeah, and I played Madden like a mad person. I would do three days in the field and I was off for four. And in four days, I would be in the barracks playing Madden consistently. So much so that I built an anger issue. I built up some horrible anger issues. And what did I do one day? And why not North Dakota where I was stationed? I got so upset in my game that I tossed that motherfucker right out the window. - Oh my god, that's a problem, sir. - So one of my boys came upstairs. Came upstairs and was like, yo, did you just toss a PS2 out the window? I said, yeah, man, that's it. I felt it was either that or y'all going to really have some problems with me. We might be fighting up on these dorms and everything like that. - What took you to that point? - I mean, look, I do not like to lose. - You can try again. You know, with video games, you can try again. - You just hit the start button and hit reset and everything. No, not James. No, no, no, no, no. Like, bro, all I saw was I parked my car and I saw a PS2 flying out the window. - Oh my god. - I was like, yeah, that was me and that was it. I gave up that day. - I gave up. - I gave up. - All the people with the little jackets that cross in the back for you. - That's it. Not on base, you know, on base, they think they think everything is normal. - Oh yeah, we just need you to fight. - People walking around with guns and shit, you know, it's like, this is normal. I was just getting off some stresses. I'm like, oh my god, that is not healthy. - Yeah, no, I just, I say everybody's like, oh, I'm getting a PS5, PS5. I'm like, okay, I guess I was just too responsible because I have a perfectly good PS4 up there. That does not make sense to me. And it's like, you're about all the games. - You could get Spider-Man for the PS4. - I'm like, and if I couldn't, my name, I can only play probably two hours in seven days. 'Cause I have a life. - That dude. - It's not feasible, it's not. - No, and once again, we are in a pandemic and you motherfuckers are breaking the bank to get PS5s in your house. - That's my main thing. And just the planning, the corporate planning of this, like this was not the time, PS5. Like this is not the time. - He's like, is this going crazy? Like, come on, come on, y'all. Like, seriously? - You can have a job tomorrow. And you have your back, PS5? - Support some of these black companies. You over here just like fucking, y'all, support some of these companies. And y'all out here just give it some only. All your dough, all your dough, Microsoft, with the Xbox One, y'all giving all your dough. Y'all half broke arguing with your baby mama in your house. - Child support issues. - She talk about my baby, my baby just started growing. She can't fit none of her shoes. You talk about your PS5, they can fuck you. Come on, y'all.
- You make a real life choices out here. - Make a real life choices out here. Your daughter's fucking toes are in her shoe. Crouple up. - It's Nuffles Pearson through. - Nuffles Pearson through. And you got a PS5. You can kiss my ass, dog. - I'm telling you, I need people to send me stories about wack ass PS5 stories. Like trash. - Oh my God. - To take a stories. - It's the thing, it's happening right now. - Oh yeah. - There's at least five happening right now. - 'Cause I said they're supposed to keep putting up. It's like a Amazon cart where it's like a face mask, a gun, and some tennis shoes. We're like, "Oh, this PS5 is only $200 and $201." Like y'all willing to commit crimes for this little piece of nothing. - I grew up and I grew up as a child in the 80s when cats were getting shot for Jordans. So I don't need to be around here for no PS5s. Y'all can have that. - Y'all can have all this shit. - Okay. All right, so comics, see into the comics. What superpower would you want to have if that was a thing? - If I, hmm, hmm. You know what, that is a very tough one. I would, yeah, it would have to be teleportation. I don't want to read nobody's mind. - I used to think that, but then took that out in the 2020 heaven. - Yeah, I don't want to read nobody's mind. - No. - 'Cause the thing is all those, for people that always say, oh, I always love telepathy, you know, you nosy. That's your problem, it's, you're nosy. You over there, analyzing your boss's day through his hair. - Yes, you just got it, Molly. 'Cause that's what I was like, I want to see what's going on in my boss head so I can figure out how to get this promotion. (laughs) - Yeah. - Like, man, I wish somebody would just finish up the quarterly reviews like I asked. I was like, oh, you need some? - Right here, buddy, you know. (laughs) - Right here. - No, you need some help. - No. Okay. - Can you tell the portation? So I could just float the hell about the room. Just want to, because I wanted those cautious brothers where I like observe a room. And if I see shit that just look a little finicky or uncomfortable, I could dip out the wall. - Like, crawling on the ass. (laughs) - Like, poof. - And I'm out. (laughs) - And I'll be right on my couch. (laughs) - Exactly, I guess she was about to get out. I was out. I was like, you're shooting at the nightclub. Oh, I was just there. - I was just there. I know. (laughs) - So I always say this. I said this one day that I like people like, oh, you just, you know, trying to play off the boys. But if super villains and superheroes were a thing, how tragic or great would you think that would be? - Oh, they would be tragedy to the tee. - Yeah. - Because I don't feel as though anybody should, any person, regardless of what they are, and that probably human noise or anything. I don't believe in anybody being idolized. - Yeah. Like, the way that people like, idolized Trump is weird. - Yeah. Like, you do realize that's a man. Like, the way that like, people revere over like, their pastor and their church. But like, yo, that's a dude. There's a dude up there. - Yeah. - Like, he is not holding in now. I just saw him drive off in his Mercedes Benz. Like, chill out. - Can we pay for it? I saw him change his tire on his Mercedes Benz last week. That's a guy. - Yeah. And it's dangerous. - Yeah, it's dangerous. It's dangerous. But the thing is, they're idolizing people with superpowers. - Yeah. Which makes it even more weird. So like, for a superhero to actually like walk that thin line and be like, you know what I'm saying? To actually like have the notification in his head to say, this is weird. Why y'all crowding around me like this? Because I have power. Like his power that much of a construct in all of our minds that we basically, we ooze at it. And we just like, we like, oh man, this dude, he could just basically knock over this building and everything like that. No, that's scary, nigga. Why y'all hovering around him? - Exactly. But the other side of that coin, is that not celebrity in reality? - Yes, that's absolutely what it is. And I don't believe in that shit either. - I don't need that. Like the fact that, you know, we talk about KVK having like that many million followers. - For like, oh. Like for what? Like, and what does she do? She married one of the most narcissistic people on earth. My man said, I voted for the first time in my life. And I voted for the person that I trust the most. Me. And that said all you needed to say about that, well, fuck right there. - I can't talk about that. - He was not, he was not, Kanye was not in no type of resolve of progress at that moment. All the, his mother was a teacher. She didn't tell him none of this shit. Lord, God rest her soul, man, damn. She gone and, you know what I'm saying? And this is the man that she married. And she don't feel the need to check him every once in a while. So I'm gonna say, I got two things on it. Kanye, he can't be held responsible. But I'm like, he can't be held responsible. This man has a mental break. When his mother died, that's when every shit failed. - Everything, shit. - And so when people can't recognize that, I'm like, people, sometimes it depends. When your parents die, it can break you or you can keep on, you hurt, but you can keep going on with life. He's one of those people that broke him. - Yeah. - So then he turned around and married another narcissist. 'Cause she faked humble, she faked humble. So she married him and brought nothing to the table. She not helping his man's work on his mental health. It's like, this is show for her. Like she used to be a part of the show, which is her career. She's a part of a show. - Now all of a sudden she wanna be in the Julya. She wanna be a lawyer now. - I'm not playing with her. - I'm not entertaining that her or her husband trying to be in politics and law. - Yeah. - And the thing is, okay. Like her getting Alice Johnson, her voter freedom was cool. That showed you the power of social media. - Yeah. - And everything like that. She put out the campaign and everything like that. And that woman did deserve to get released. Cool. But then she took it and basically made a polarizing notion that, oh yeah, I can do this. No, no, there's people that go to law school for very long periods of time. - Yes, and fail the bar. - And fail the bar. - Time and time and become lawyers and everything like that. They fail like almost at no resolve. Just happens all the time until they actually become lawyers and they've studied that book and then out to pass the bar exam. Some people get on the first try. Some people don't. And you just think, okay, I'm gonna be a lawyer 'cause my dad was a lawyer. You a crazy motherfucker. - I don't work for like this. - That's what I'm doing. - Like you, like I feel you, you know what I'm saying? I know her self-esteem is like not even, it's stratospheric. It's not even through the roof. - Yeah. - So you can't tell her shit. - Yeah, but that's why I say people could, like, okay, I'm gonna flip it on you. What if you did have a superpower? Would you tell anyone? Or would you just keep it, you said? Yeah, I think I would be my way too. Just. - Not at all. As a matter of fact, I go homeless. (laughing) - I don't fuck up, fuck up. - I'll be a big time. You find me on a stoop somewhere, just drinking and everything. - I know. It's just. - I'm gonna be the most low-budget superhero you ever seen in life. Matter-of-fact, people just ain't going to homeless. - Not gonna even know, 'cause I'm like, it's too much work, it's too much fucking work. But people have mental illness, like, them and the wrong people to get the powers. And we saw that from the boys. Like, people got mental illnesses. The majority of people in the world got mental illnesses. They just haven't been diagnosed. And then you get these motherfuckers in power. - Oh my god. - And you saw it in there. Like, it was pretty much, you know, that whole white-flake character that they had. Like, characters like the deep that thought that he could just get over on any woman that he pleased because he had these superpowers. So you had somebody like home-lender who was just the exorbit of ego, you know what I'm saying? Like, his ego is times 10. Because he feeds off of that audience, even though how much the ability nuts mentally that he is, you know what I'm saying? And then they brought that character a stormfront on there who was just, at no point, a filter. - No, all of them trash. (laughing) - Trash. - Trash, yeah. - This is what me out on that one. - It was really great. It was very tantalizing. And I was talking to Onaji from Connuckery Comics. And I was like, would all the shit going in the world? Why do we consume such a large portion of, you know, it's trash TV? That's true. I mean, it's good TV. But I'm like, then people got crazy shit going on. And we live in crazy shit. So it's like 24/7 we consume. And, you know, bullshit. Like when do we get a break? Shoken gets lovecraft country. (laughing) - Yeah. And no, lovecraft country was trauma after trauma every episode. Like, it's still the point now where we're watching TV. And TV is so cultivating now as far as the sight is concerned. Like it just like brings up so much because it's now ultimately connected. They're not even living in a fantasy world unless you go like to hallmark channel or some shit like that. And you're watching all of them Christmas movies. That's fake. - Yeah. - Ain't nobody that happy. But that's what you should be watching. - After the episodes, any of those shows, 'cause you can find me on the head niche and charge actually crying on an episode.
talking about life. Right. And this is the thing. Yo, say I saw that. That shit. I was like, man, you you bet me on that day. I saw that film. And the whole time I was burning. You know, you're trying to stop from crying. I was like, oh, I'm on fire inside. And I was just like, I gotta let it go. Oh, man. Yeah. No, Lovecraft Country was a spin. Even in the flaws that they had in that show, it just pretty much put you in those moments with all those characters. And you just didn't know where it was going to go. But it was like you, you were stuck. If you watched the episode, nothing is as crazy as it got. You couldn't leave. It kept you the entire time. But I thought was called between that and watchman earlier this year. Which I thought was fabulous, too. Yes. I was like, I got my eye. You HBO. Coming with the HBO. HBO has been doing some things. Yes. As far as content is concerned. And I, I, yes, they have. Yeah. And then you see, see, that's the thing. That's the thing. That's how they guess. It's HBO is a white company. You're like, you know, we want to put out some bangers. We're going to get you stuck. HBO Max is coming out. And I got it. Hey, that $13. I'm going to get you. That's what up and down. I'm going to get this shit. And I was like, love crap. I'm going to fuck credit card. Well, I can't be missing no episodes. I talk nerd shit. Oh my god. Okay. So my final question. If I could give you a million dollars right now, what would you do if that, uh, considering that you got a podcast coming out. You building up your content. What would you do with it? Uh, I would give 800,000 of it to probably the charity of my choice and keep 200,000 to flip it. Flip it in the way. Would you go flip? Flip my whole comfortability into just being like at a stage level playing field. I'm cool right here on this level, right here. Okay. Cool. I get my house in order. I put a little in savings and y'all have that other 800,000. Now, no. I will get that 800,000 back on taxes. Hey, you think I'm going to drop straight over there. I'm doing a good thing. I put that 800,000. Uh, I gave it to the charity of my choice. And you're like, Oh, well, that is a write-off. So you're going to get that back in a refund. Yeah. I'm going to get that money back. Oh, but I forgot that disclaimer. You're not getting any blessings in tickets in the heaven. All right. Jesus, look, it was a plan. I had a plan. All right, Lord. I know you, I know you know my heart. At least they got the money. The benefit was that I got it back. No, you ain't seen the good place. They didn't have it work. Oh, I just thought of watching the action. Okay. So I'm going to say this one last thing. Uh, I cried again. If I'm watching the good place. Yeah. I'm on episode seven of the first season. Yeah, it made me cry like a baby existential crisis. Anyway, well, James, it was a pleasure having you on this show. I laughed like a mad woman on every show, but I truly enjoyed your time and your company. Appreciate it. Thank you, Q. Yeah. You want to tell the people where they can find you? Yeah. Um, well, you can catch me, uh, right here on IG. Uh, well, not here, but you catch real IG. Grab us some facts. Uh, you catch me on the party nurse podcast and, uh, come Black Friday will be the debut of the facts project, which is basically a one-on-one interviewing journal to find out the things that stick out to a lot of people and how nerd culture has changed and captivated their lives. Okay. So can you give us a snippet of what episode one will enter? Uh, episode one, I can tell you, I have a conversation with, uh, Will Brown, who is the VP of Operation for No R Cesar. Okay. And we talk about basically his, uh, his upbringing of, uh, where he's a producer. He's the VP of Operation for No R Cesar. And he's also, uh, he also has a podcast called "Beat the Black Podcast," where he discusses a lot of people within the music business when they hit their mental breaks. How did they get through them? So he's talking about mental health and social issues. Okay. Sounds tight. I already watched it. I mean, listen to the trailer on your website. I was like, thank you. Yeah. Thank you. I was like, oh, this intro is fire. I was like, at work, I was like, oh, this one though, I got to hit the beats. Yeah. Look, I got a few people I could hit up. This is, that's one of the benefits of formerly being a nightlife is that you know a lot of DJs and they always got beats. Yes. Well, cool toes. I can't wait for episode one. So I got my notifications. I don't know, Spotify. Good. Thank you. All right, well, when you take it easy, keep doing what you're doing. It's amazing. And I'm glad that we are brother and sisters in the blood fleet. Absolutely. Yes. All right. Take it easy, bro. All right, you. 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