Picture this: a makeup artist turned food vlogger, with a secret penchant for dropping beats on SoundCloud—meet Luke, our Renaissance man, whose eclectic life is a treasure trove of creativity and surprises. We peel back the curtain on Luke's unconventional path, revealing the vibrant tapestry of hobbies and passions that fuel his fire.
We'll cap off our journey with a dash of St. Louis pride, sharing those viral TikTok moments that bind our community and a rallying cry for more live music in our beloved city. This episode is your ticket to a rollercoaster of emotions, laughter, and perhaps a spark of motivation to pursue what makes you come alive. Join us for an adventure through the quirks of life and the art of embracing every unexpected twist and turn.
Watch the visual version of this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@thisisntmydegree
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Host: Original Dante
IG: www.instagram.com/originaldante
Guests:
Luke London: www.instagram.com/ohheate
Picture this: a makeup artist turned food vlogger, with a secret penchant for dropping beats on SoundCloud—meet Luke, our Renaissance man, whose eclectic life is a treasure trove of creativity and surprises. We peel back the curtain on Luke's unconventional path, revealing the vibrant tapestry of hobbies and passions that fuel his fire.
We'll cap off our journey with a dash of St. Louis pride, sharing those viral TikTok moments that bind our community and a rallying cry for more live music in our beloved city. This episode is your ticket to a rollercoaster of emotions, laughter, and perhaps a spark of motivation to pursue what makes you come alive. Join us for an adventure through the quirks of life and the art of embracing every unexpected twist and turn.
Watch the visual version of this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@thisisntmydegree
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Host: Original Dante
IG: www.instagram.com/originaldante
Guests:
Luke London: www.instagram.com/ohheate
So these, oh wow, oh fuck, oh my God, Is this rolling? Jesus Christ, oh my God, you can like get comfortable. I feel like when I lean back, I'm just like all like a blob. So a blob, yeah, I try to be proper, you know, and just like you know. Hi, welcome to the podcast.
Speaker 1:This is my degree. Where should I throw? How many times should I throw this? Where should I throw it? You determine? Not at the TV, no, you looked at right at the TV. So that was like I was actually looking at the camera. I said, ok, oh, so not that either. Yeah, I prefer not. But can you like get it like over the camera onto that little section? Well, you want me to do trick shots with the degree you want me to like there's like a little narrow, yeah, space right there that I could throw it like. Let's see what you got. I mean, you've been doing this long enough. I feel like you're right, you've had. It's OK, I could use a little. Oh, he did it, guys, he did it. That's my degree and this is not my degree.
Speaker 1:Welcome to the podcast. And today I am brought to you with Luke London. Oh, he ate. I thought you were going to say it, I don't know. It's OK, we're.
Speaker 1:This is my first time doing this, so I this is your first podcast. Yeah, ever, ever, ever in my life. Ok, well, how do you feel so far? Like, what is it like? Is it what you expected? It's more, more. Yeah, oh, I'm exceeding expectations. I didn't expect to spill water on the ground or get filmed in a compromising position right off the bat. You usually they like ease you into that stuff before those kinds of went right into it.
Speaker 1:I know you wanted to film a creator. I do, though, and I have so many questions. You like one already, so I mean, what is this like? The launch, this is the aftermath of the filming session, you guys. So here you go, let's just subscribe. The wide camera can pick it up. It's only two ninety nine right now.
Speaker 1:Two ninety nine, yeah, what Introductory rate? You know, for the first, like one time, people like get them in, and then like 10, 90, 90 a month. So like Hulu. Oh, that is how they get you. Yeah, because I don't pay for the force, I don't know. It was like a penny a month, I don't know. Ok, there's like through Verizon or something. Ads, though. Right, that's like embarrassing, I think, so I don't watch it, though. Yeah, it's like a dollar is just going out the window every every month.
Speaker 1:I like I see the charge on my card and I'm like, oh shit, there it goes. Yeah, but Apple, apple, be sneaky with it. True, I just get all these transactions from Apple and I don't know what they are, but I also don't question them. I'm just like I don't need them. Ok, like it just says oh, you paid ten dollars to Apple services. I'm like like today I just got one.
Speaker 1:It was like you paid twelve, ninety nine to Apple services. I'm going to see if I can pull it up. I just let it happen. What did it even go to? Yeah, you paid seventeen, ninety eight. I don't know what the fuck. What cost seventeen ninety eight? That's what I'm saying, although sometimes they like lump them together, that's true, because it could be like Apple music plus something else.
Speaker 1:Oh no, let me pull this back. Let me put this back. Look at it. Where, where'd it go? Yeah, what do you pay for? Holy crap it's.
Speaker 1:What kind of subscriptions do you have, dante? That's the real question. I'm the interviewer. Now You're interviewing me. Well, here we go. Look at this this you paid seventeen, ninety eight to Apple services. Like, what is Apple? What is Apple services? You tell me I can't. What kind of services do you pay for through Apple? What do I pay for? I got condon to pay in for Apple arcade. What the fuck is Apple arcade? I don't know. I played like one game I think it was Fruit Ninja and then all of a sudden I'm getting charged. Fruit Ninja what fucking year is it? It should Listen. Remember like recently? Yeah, it was like a year ago, and then I discovered that I was getting charged for Apple arcade. I'm not proud of it. I'm not here to judge you. Listen, that seems very judgmental. Believe me, we haven't even talked about anything.
Speaker 1:You, who are you? What do you do Normally? Like? This is not how a typical podcast. Oh, sorry, no, we got to, we got to. There's a rewind a little bit, should we? Ok, I don't know. For those that don't know who you are, who are you? You don't know who you are. I don't know who I am and I'm hoping that this was because you reveal that. Listen, you have like five job titles.
Speaker 1:Yeah, on like a low day, I'm a food vlogger. Yeah, follow me Literally flexing with the ice. Yeah, you also have a bucket list award. Oh, yeah, shout out to Estelle bucket list, Thank you. Did you win Influencer of the Year? No, I'm a vlogger. The vlogger, oh, so I don't have any influence. What are you talking about? It's like like you sell places out. Well, yeah, see if that leads me to no, I'm just kidding. Now, what are you opening a pop up? Um, we'll save that for the end of the podcast. Oh, no, I wish, I wish I was that cool. But no, yeah, I am a food vlogger.
Speaker 1:I feel like at this point, that's what most people would like connect me to. Ok, but I am going on 11 years of being a hair and makeup artist, which is 11. Really dope. But also, I feel like that's how you know you're old is when you can say that you've been doing something for like 10 years or more. I'm just like, yeah, like that. That big three O is really like setting in now. I don't know what.
Speaker 1:Is it OK for somebody that's like so far from turning 30, what is it like? Are you like pretending to be someone else right now? Or like what do you mean? It's a long time Like, is it? Yeah, I'm turning 29 again, so areas like to lie? We are not deceptive people, we are just didn't say anyone believes you. What is the description of an Aries? Because, like, I really don't know a whole lot. All I know about areas is that y'all like to fight.
Speaker 1:Ok, so you, you are a food vlogger, you are a hair and makeup artist. You music also. Yeah, it's like a secret thing, kind of like. I feel like my friends know about it and like every now and then I'll just randomly share some shit on my story. I'm not listeners. Do you have on Spotify? None, I'm not even on Spotify. Like, that's how secretive I am about my music. You on SoundCloud? So I wasn't. So what is I'm on SoundCloud? Ok, this is going to sound really weird, I'm scared, but I, so I used to do in Chaz over there.
Speaker 1:He knows I used to do like remixes to songs. Yeah, so, like any song that I like or whatever, I would just pretend like, oh, if they asked me to like be on this track, like what would I say? So I would write a verse to it and I would record it. Ok, sometimes it's singing, sometimes it's rapping, yeah, and I would upload them sometimes to SoundCloud. But a lot of the reason why I don't have a lot out there is because I would get flagged for copyright all the time because it's not my original music, even like if you had your own twist on it. Like it's not like I don't know how to get around that, but like so goofy, because I thought you could do that because of like creative I see other people do it.
Speaker 1:I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, but there was one that I uploaded. It was a remix to I forget how what the song was called. It was that like I never been with a Betty like that song. Oh, yes, I can't remember Randomly just like uploaded a remix to that and it got like over like 200,000 plays or something on where? Like on SoundCloud. Oh, on SoundCloud. Hello, random, does that make you like SoundCloud Platinum artist or something? Yeah, I was like artist of the year on SoundCloud for just knew it. I knew it. Yeah, no, but that's about it.
Speaker 1:I I'm constantly working on stuff, but I feel like I'm so critical of my own work that I don't allow it to like be put out there. Yeah, I'll play it for friends and stuff and they're like oh, this is good, you don't put this out, whatever. And I'm like, ok, maybe, and then years go by and it's, and then it blows up no, it's just in my phone, it didn't go anywhere, it didn't actually go. I haven't found like a music distributor or anything like that. Like I'm, I still don't even know how that shit works. So, oh, tbd, but I do make music.
Speaker 1:I know you need to find if you're listening or watching. We need to find an agent, yeah, something like that. Like real talent is here. You haven't even heard myself. So like I've look, I've seen the stories, ok, I've clicked on the post All right, I'm aware, Period and see it's because it's real support. I feel, seen, I feel like I need to drop a mix. Save now you should.
Speaker 1:I have told people let's rap battle right now. I would be so bad. I'm not mentally prepared for that. I'm not either it's. I think I would embarrass myself to the point that I actually might go by. I would embarrass you Probably. Like I can't rap, I'm just talking shit. Sorry guys, I'm not a poet, but I feel like you are a poet because you let's look at the resume here. Hair and makeup OK, do you like draw or paint or anything?
Speaker 1:When I was like younger, like I was like the artist yeah, we have food, vlogger, award winning, mind you. Ok, what else do we have? Do you play any instruments? I kind of play piano, okay. So we have a pianist in here, yeah, and then what else do we have? I Don't know. I think that's it. I think that's like enough, right, I don't know if I believe you. I was like you have such an extensive list of creative hobbies, well, so I do Beethoven, yeah, your philosopher, yeah, you're the next. Like I think that sums it up. Okay, we're good. So, all right, so let's get into food. Then let's get into the food, let's do it.
Speaker 1:Why did you start making food videos? I like to eat, that's it. No, I mean just document it. Yeah, like I feel like I document so much of my life already. Like I'm a very sentimental person, so I love. I'm that person who everyone's like, oh, put your phone down, live in the moment. But like that is me living in the moment. It's like capturing all that stuff. So I felt like food was no different.
Speaker 1:I Don't really do stuff by myself a lot. I love to be with friends, mm-hmm which is why Chas is here, because I was like I don't want to do this like by myself. I was, I need, I need to like have a friend with me, like anytime I go somewhere. Yeah, that's not always true, but I'm always like hanging out with friends, so everything exactly. I have kind of an entourage, so Everything's like an occasion going out to eat, an occasion going to the movies as an occasion.
Speaker 1:So would you say you're an extrovert At this point in my life? Yes, yeah, but oddly enough, it was not always like that, because I feel like what you just described is the textbook definition Of an extra and I don't know how I transitioned from being introverted to becoming extroverted. I think it was like a willpower thing and it just kind of happened like naturally. I like always wanted to be this way, but I just never felt comfortable doing it and I think that the more you just put yourself out there and open yourself up to like making friends and Saying yes to experiences, the more you do it, the less scary, the less uncomfortable it gets. So you can Change, I guess, because it could just happen.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was just having this conversation with a client earlier today, like how, when I was younger, I feel like I'd go to work. My all my friends were people I worked with and that was it and like we were cool, but it was still just like their work friends. You know, yeah, it's like you can only have so deep of a like right before it starts to compromise. Yeah, then it's like, yeah, I don't know. Yeah, it's like there's that that border, that like you just can't like exactly, you can't push the balance. There's just certain things you can't like bring up. Yeah, without it being kind of weird, the friendship can only get so, yeah, unless you guys both quit and then decide, oh, then it's, take it from there. Gloves are off.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, I would just work and go to Applebee's with my work friends and Applebee's, yeah, I know like that's probably like really weird to say as like a food vlogger now, like if you just look for like 10 seconds at your Instagram feed, look how far we talk about Applebee's, like it's just not even the same person. I know I sound like a totally different person. Like what happened? Like a fraud, what would you order it? Applebee's, um, okay, like the honey. Like Chipotle chicken tenders why is it some fire that they were? Like I wouldn't be opposed to? Like the Applebee's partnership, low key. So, applebee's, if you would like to sponsor, I want to be in a commercial, like I want to. Oh, yeah, imagine with okay, so needs Travis Kelsey in an Applebee's commercial when you have, oh he, is he in those? No, I just, oh, my, I just someone like, I guess kind of relevant right now.
Speaker 1:You know, I'm like a big football fan. So, yeah, actually, you know, before we started the podcast, you were talking about all types of like facts. Everything is going on right now. I'm like a moves that need to be made. Football nerd I love. You know, yeah, nice to be the quarterback.
Speaker 1:You're telling me about the legacy. Actually, zoo, yeah, cuz you. Yeah, yeah, you were like the all-star, yeah, so before I became World-renowned food vlogger that's how a lot of people do me as. But then your ACL injury that's what, yeah, that's what kind of like took you out. Yeah, I like hurt that ACL thing that you just said. So then you had to, like, you know, go back. My career was just shattered, mm-hmm over. So then you became a food vlogger, so resilient I feel, you know. Well, you know, whenever you're faced with adversity, you just pivot. Exactly, you know, you just got a.
Speaker 1:What did Bruce Lee say be water, keep on flowing, or something. Yeah, I took that from my friends Instagram bio. Then I yeah, I think he said that. I think he said it. You know, I can't one of those confirm that Bruce from from, like finding Nemo Isn't the shark. Oh, my god, the shark is Bruce. Well, actually, though, if the shark from finding Nemo said, be water, keep on flowing, that wouldn't really be that weird. Cuz Dory says just keep swimming. Yeah, I mean, they're quite. There's so many parallels here. Maybe you should be a Disney writer. Hmm, disney seems a really corrupt and creepy, so I don't know. Okay, well then, maybe not. Maybe you could just start your own yeah thing, true, your own fish movie creepy.
Speaker 1:Does anyone else feel that way about Disney? And they're also just like recycling their ideas over and over again. Like I heard there's a new toy story. How many are we on the fuck ass for that? There's four or five.
Speaker 1:Didn't they send those toys off, like three movies ago? Like I didn't even watch after the third one, I don't know, I watched the one where, like, towards the end of the movie, they were about to fall into some kind of like yeah, yeah, like that one, not a lot of love, but like fire or something. It was the bear. Yeah, yeah, I thought that was it. I thought that was like is there another one? There were more after that shit. I didn't watch them really. This was. They left, they escaped the fire. Yeah, they went off and, like, did their own thing, they forgave the bear and they've been through enough. Like what more do you need to do? I thought that was it. Yeah, I thought so too. I'm shocked. Now I have to go find out. Don't, don't watch it, don't. Have you seen that satisfaction of watching every toy story? Yeah, that's true. I don't know how many there were. They don't deserve that. No, they're really good. They're good. There's five now. Wait, wait, wait, wait. So buzz got shipped off again.
Speaker 1:Why can't this man stay out of the box? Oh, so it turns into like a romance. She doesn't like even white him, right? Oh my god. Yeah, what I thought bow peep was like. Nah, didn't she like friends on him? That's what I thought.
Speaker 1:I thought so too, but whatever happened to, uh, what's her name? Jesse? Oh, she was annoying to me. Yeah, that controversial? I don't think so. I found her to be very annoying. She was kind of out there like low key. If I was the girl, what was it? Was the girl's name Emily or something? He the one that I would have got rid of her too. You would have thrown her out a window in the middle of nowhere on a dirt road, maybe not that cruelly, but like or like, put her in a box. I would have given her to like my niece or something. But like, here you go, girl, enjoy. It's just like a have fun. Yeah, have fun, have fun with Jesse. So why?
Speaker 1:Why do we need a fifth? Yeah, what is ends need to be tied up here. Is it out? I'm actually. Is it out? Hold on, is the fifth toy story out yet? But? But there's like trailers for it though.
Speaker 1:Oh, so we don't know if this even exists. Like, conceptually, toy Story 5 is a 2026 film. Oh shit, wait. Then why did they even talk about it? Can we curse? Yeah, okay, what? Well, because I've been doing it and I didn't really like. No, I thought it was assumed. Like, well, I did, but then you know what they say about assuming. So, hey, facts you can curse. I say you can say whatever you want. Fuck. Toy Story 5 may also see the return of Andy Essie.
Speaker 1:Graduates from college and goes to the carnival where Woody lives. Just now. Woody lives in a carnival. Oh, I was shocked that he's just now graduating college. Yeah, he only took him. How old is he now? He just, you know, he it's probably like 80. Like I gotta be honest, he's gotta be at least 40. I mean, when did the first one come out like like the 20s of 19? No, like came out 1990, something. Okay, then what? It was like 10 or 11, right, yeah, what is he just now? I mean no judgment, no, not to be one of the college, yeah, yeah, you can do it whenever.
Speaker 1:Just Don't get an arts degree. It's not worth it. It's literally a prop in my video now. That's just sadly sitting on the floor, yeah, but it has a purpose though, that's true. That's true in a roundabout way.
Speaker 1:You are using it, shit. You know what I mean. Oh, my god, so do I have to change the name of this now? So, like, your whole brand is like oh, I don't even use my degree, but you are using it. Do you ever think about that?
Speaker 1:This became therapy. I don't know what to do now, because now I feel like I need to rebrand. You don't have to use your degree the way society wants you to use it. You know what I mean. Well, this became a pep talk. Like, you paid for it, you did the work, you can do whatever you want with it, and that doesn't make it any less valid. And that doesn't make you any less valid. Thank you, you're welcome. Now I feel, seen you should. Wow, wait what? What he lives? Okay, so the carnival? Okay, so the carnival that we're going to be honest, this is like I'm just impressed.
Speaker 1:So we go to the carnival where Woody lives to celebrate and see him by chance as the carnival travels from place to place. So I guess Woody somehow ended up at a carnival, ok, I don't know how that happened. So he runs away with the circus. Like that's such a stereotype. I swear to God if, if Andy rescues this damn toy from the carnival and is like, let's go on another adventure, just let the toy go.
Speaker 1:Like, focus on your exams here in college. Like seriously, like it's, you have bigger things to worry about, right, like you have an education. And then he's at the end of the movie, he's going to go get his masters. Now he's going to actually drop out to support Woody and his friends. He's going to realize that, like, friendship is more important than higher education. That would be some Disney shit If I've ever seen it. I support that. I mean friendship is more important, yeah, higher education unless you're like a doctor or some shit, then maybe you should like pay attention to that, yeah.
Speaker 1:But like, do doctors have friends? I really don't think they do. You know what I mean? I mean, like in TV they have like other doctor friends, like it's like that goes back exactly that goes back to work Friends. So do they have real friends? Do they have? If you're a doctor, do you have time for real friendships? Probably not. I mean, I just imagine you would like, because I don't know any of my friends with any doctors. I was just thinking about that. I don't think I'm friends with any doctor. Like friends, yeah, with any doctors. It's more like if I see you like out and about, I'm like oh hey, how have things been going? Oh good, you know, I don't think I am, and if I am, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1:What's considered like, do you have to be like a medical doctor or can you be like a dentist? Ok, I guess, well, that's still a medical doctor, you know? Like, is that considered, because isn't there doctor? It's still like an MD. Yeah, yeah, it's just. You know, you don't really think of them as like doctor. I've always found that interesting. You know, like dentists aren't looked at the same way as doctors are, even though they still have to go through like, yeah, the same school and then also like additional schooling specifically for like dentistry. Right, yeah, I imagine which you should see your dentist. Just a PSA to everyone out there. Don't look like that. Yeah, I see the dentist.
Speaker 1:I feel like I take really good care of my be, my be floss. Yeah, I brush a floss, but using like the fancy mouthwash with like the natural. What's your favorite mouthwash? Oh, gosh, my favorite. If I'm just trying to go for something that's like clean, I'll honestly go for like the pink grapefruit listerine. Oh, I know it's different, it's out there, but like it's like the alcohol free, it's kind of, yeah, but like it does everything I needed to and it's not.
Speaker 1:I don't feel gross, after you know, I feel like any of the colors of listerine that aren't like the bluish ones, like kind of like to me just look gross. I don't know that's fair. I mean it's just pink and clear. Yeah, you know, but it's like the light pink. You know, it's really gross to me. What Like they have a yellow one. What Don't they? They have like a yellow one. They have a yellow. I'm pretty sure I've seen a yellow. I know they have a brown one. Well, maybe it's like brown, but like yellowish brown, like it looks like ice tea or something, and I'm like, why would the brown listerine will like clean your soul Really? Yeah, it's just fireball. It's just fireball, that's it. It's just yeah. But also, tom's is also a good one because it's just like clear.
Speaker 1:I don't like any of that natural shit. I mean, that's OK, yeah, everybody can have their opinion. Yeah, well then, what do you like? I like their breath, like that's good to. Yeah, yeah, like that, I'll be like that.
Speaker 1:Specifically like the dark blue bottle. I feel like that's the best one. The other ones kind of make me gag a little bit, but oh, I feel like what's wrong. The dark blue ones just like so, like fresh and minty and like you know that, you know that shit's going to smell nice. Ok, the other ones, I'm like I don't feel like this is really worth the ten dollars I just paid. Like I don't feel like it's. You know it's like dollars, I think. Well, I get like the big ones, yeah. So I think that's how much it is. I don't know when you got it like that. You don't look at the price, so, and I don't have it like that, I don't know. That's why I look at prices. I'd be looking at the prices. Everything's going up, everything is on me and going around.
Speaker 1:I like deodorants like ten dollars, so like people are saying it's more acceptable to smell, and I'm like I don't know about that, I don't know about that. We still don't understand it. Not ten dollars. As someone who frequently buys deodorant, I can confidently say that like it's around like seven, eight dollars. Yeah, that's that's what I thought, at least at CVS. That's where I go.
Speaker 1:I stock up, I get like three at once, and then I'm like I go to Costco sometimes. Oh, I, costco versus Sam's Club, I don't pay for either. You, just how do you get these things so I have? Is it just because of the connections? You just walk in and they ask for your Costco card and I just go. They're like, oh shit, my bad Carry on, sir. You know like, can I can actually help you, can I? Can I pick things up for you. Yeah, they usually have like a personal assistant, like come with me, and they just like spawn, yeah, ok, speaking of spawning, I know that you, you share a lot of Pokemon, oh, yeah, and every time I respond, I'm like, thank God, someone else, and I appreciate that you do respond, because nobody else does.
Speaker 1:I'll be honest, like you know, only one really responds to those, so we are limited, I feel, you know, at least validated by that, because everyone else watches it, but they never have anything to say. You can't be a lurker. Yeah, I'm like we all grew up Well, most of us grew up in the 90s and 2000s Like you can't tell me that you don't have some kind of connection to Pokemon. Wait, isn't today, or like yesterday or something, the start of the new series? I think so, yeah, I think yeah, like Team Rock, team Rock, well, that's like the OG, like the. Yeah, and I just I feel kind of silly for just now noticing this, what? But when they pose together, they always pose in the shape of an R. Holy shit, did you know that?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I saw like something on Twitter or X, sorry, hey, well, well, don't try to be down, it's got to be Twitter. I am a big big Twitter, you know, do you tweet? I don't tweet, I lurk on Twitter. You lurk. I feel like Twitter is the lurking at. Twitter is for observing. Yeah, you know, like I don't really participate, I tweet, maybe like Twitter is a quarter Assess pool. It's bad, but I like watching what comes out of it, but I don't want to dip my toes into it. You know, yeah, it's like cool to like pass by and be like oh yeah, I saw Twitter. That's how you feel.
Speaker 1:But if someone actually like tweets regularly, then that's when I get concerned. I don't even know if I know anybody like personally that tweets on a regular. I'm sure we could find some people like they just tweet. Yeah, it affects more people than you think it does. Do you know people on threads? Do people name? So I just recently like downloaded threads again because I downloaded it when everyone thought it was going to be cool, like, and I was actually yeah.
Speaker 1:When I had the school vibes, yeah, one million nine hundred ninety ninth something person joined. That's why I like joined it under two million, which is crazy. I hate to hate to brag, but I was like number two hundred thousand. Were you actually? Yeah, I don't know how, though, because I didn't join immediately. I wanted to join first. So bad, because I don't know why. But they said, like this was the date that it was going to roll out. Yeah, everybody, yeah. But then it was actually earlier than that, yeah, and then, once I realized I could join, I was like fuck, I missed it because I didn't want to be like one of the you know 10 million, blah, blah, blah. Like that's embarrassing.
Speaker 1:You know, when people had like a 10 million plus, I'm like yeah, wow, I'm like you live under a rock. That's sad. Oh, you just now started knitting. Wow, that's cool. We've been here. Not like we wanted to hear what you had to say. Yeah, you're just kidding.
Speaker 1:I don't really ever post on there anymore. I posted I don't know. I just feel like the engagement doesn't match up to like the followers. Every day I get new followers on threads and I honestly don't know why. Same. I don't know why people are notifications. I'm like why I don't post anything on there Like thank you, but so, oh, because it's like what are you like what? What's the goal here? Yeah, you know like why follow?
Speaker 1:I posted picture of my birthday and that was like the most like come to reality moment I ever had. Like no one gives a fuck. I had one person like it and I was like, yeah, I'll like it for you. No, it's OK. No, it's OK, I can. I can hop on threads. I actually don't want you. I'm actually going to have screen time on threads today. You don't have to do that on my behalf. Yeah, I, it's just a lot of people complaining, that's all.
Speaker 1:Threads has become. Yeah, like, look at this, and then I think I'm going to delete it today. Oh my God, you got these people that are like what was it? Oh, here's a 30 day threads growth formula. I'm like, yeah, here it is what. First 30 day daily threads growth formula. This is like literally the second day it was out. I'm like it hasn't even been around 30 days. So how the fuck is going on? Yeah, so why are we? Nobody fucking knows, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I feel like people that like constantly give out, like their whole brand is giving out social media advice. I just think they're scammers. They have to be all scammers because on day two they're talking about the 30 day formula. It's three new. You haven't even seen your kids in 30 days and it's like they try to make it look all flashy and shit and it's like 10 comments on thread accounts that are in your niche who's in comment? Yes for accountability. And everyone's just shitting on them in the responses, like go fuck yourself. Go touch grass.
Speaker 1:Sorry, this is getting a little aggressive, is it? Or is it just getting real? I think it's justified. Yeah, I think thread scammers should go fuck themselves. Oh, is that a niche of people? Does that actually like exist? There has to be scamming on threads. If there's one, there's got to be at least two and that's a group. Enough for me. We got the thread scammers influencing each other.
Speaker 1:I feel like thread scammers are just people that tried to scam on Twitter but weren't successful. Oh, so you had to go to threads? Yeah, like, what other choice do they have? The Snapchat Scam with three daily users on there. What was that one? That? Oh, vero.
Speaker 1:What Did you ever hear about Vero? What the fuck is Vero? I think it's called Vero, right, like it's like yeah, I don't know Vero. I think it's like V-E-R-O here. Look it up real quick. Is it like a social media platform? So they were like people for a second were saying like oh, this is going to be the next hottest app. Oh my God that's. But I feel like they've been saying that for a while about Vero. That's like Clapper Remember? Yeah, clapper was literally an app.
Speaker 1:I know what we're trying to be TikTok, really, yeah, but then it got taken over by, like, very political people. The music-cully to TikTok pipeline needs to be studied. I think so too. That's really crazy. Whatever happened to dancing videos? Yeah, actually, you never see them. People don't really do that anymore, do they? Well, like it's done. No, I think they do. Like what happened to the D'Amelios? Well, true, I think that's probably good that we moved on from that era. Yeah, back whenever it's like everybody was just trying to renegade, yeah, and like hit the wall. Do you know how to do that? Like hell. No, like that.
Speaker 1:Otherwise I'd be big on TikTok. I would have actually made something of myself on that platform. But now I sit here at 600 followers. But now you're big in St Louis. Yeah, because that's even better. The vlogger, that's lopsided, yeah, yeah, it's a little lopsided. That's even more valuable. It's improving millions of followers around the world. Yeah, it's just a see-through. Like Care about your content. A little Helvetica text. Yeah, I'm not shitting on the award? No, absolutely not. I'm just making observations. That's just like on Twitter. Damn, life's all about observations. Maybe I need to tweet. No, don't do it.
Speaker 1:I tweeted once, like in the past year, and it was like What'd you say, I think I said it smells like bread and my neighbors are yelling Wait, isn't it like, if you smell bread, like you're about to have a heart attack or a stroke or something? I would, are you okay? Hope not. No, like that's actually a thing. Toast, oh toast. Yeah, no, it just smelled like fresh baked bread, like sourdough. Yeah, okay, yeah, it was just like bread. Gotcha, am I gonna die? Because I was really scared for you for a second when you said that I'm not. I mean, it was, I'm not a medical doctor. It was a while ago. So, like, yeah, so you're fine, I should be fine, yeah, but now if I smell toast, if you smell toast and you're nowhere near any source of toast, that's gonna kick my fight or flight instantly. Like now, not trying to make you paranoid, you just gave me trauma. Fuck Shit. Balance, though. Now I can't smell bread or toast, does it just toast? I think it's toast.
Speaker 1:How did we come to this conclusion? How do we get this knowledge? They just took clips from like podcast from around the country of people that have had strokes and one thing that always came up in conversations was that they'd smelled toast. You know what? That's? A really great like pool of information to pull from is podcasts. Podcasts are a great source of random information that you never even ask to know. Low key they are, yeah, but I think we need to raise the price of podcast equipment, because some people just be yapping and they just don't need to be doing that. I think we need less podcasters and more construction workers.
Speaker 1:Yes, you know, not me or anything, but like what happened to like farmers and fishermen and like I don't know, because like I keep hearing about all these. Like we raised money to plant a million trees, but like who? So where are the trees? Who's planting the trees? Has anyone seen the trees? I haven't seen. Like I've been on LinkedIn. I haven't seen any jobs of tree. Didn't LinkedIn crash or something? Yeah, what the fuck it went on this week. That's embarrassing. Instagram, facebook, whatsapp Threads how do you have a whole platform for like people with jobs and none of you could do it right and then LinkedIn crashed and then, apparently, youtube is down for a bit too.
Speaker 1:Are we in the end times of social media? Maybe Is that good? Are we about to become just severe? Are we all about to go touch grass? Holy shit, wow, wow, we're about to go find the trees. We are, wow, wow, full circle, this conspiracy. They did this intentionally because they need people to plant the trees, true? So now they're having us do it because they're going to kick us offline. I mean shit. Orlando's Instagram was just deleted. What the fuck? I don't know how that happened. Not to make this about me, but I was scared for myself for a second. You were panicking. I was like oh shit, oh my god, see, I thought, but it's back now.
Speaker 1:My theory at first was like maybe a restaurant got upset with him or something, and it was like, yeah, I don't like that. We're going to report you. How did? Yeah, but like, is that enough to shut down someone's page? I don't think so, and I don't think he said anything crazy either. Yeah, but like you know how restaurants can be, yeah, if you say the pizza that you gave me was burnt, which did happen recently at a restaurant, and they were like listen, it was a. I mean, to be honest, it was oh, they gave me a burnt. Did I see you that night? I don't think so. I kind of like think I saw your stories.
Speaker 1:I think you went way earlier than I did. I was like low key about it because, like sometimes when I go to these things, I'm like I just want to like go eat. Yeah, it was a lot. It was a lot going on. When I went, there were like a hundred people. I'm like, yeah, what? Like where did you find all these people?
Speaker 1:And I was like excited, like I saw you had a video with, like the giant pizza slice, yeah. And I was like, oh, my God, that's so cool and really enough, I went viral on TikTok with that slice. Really, yeah, I didn't get that and that's fine, but damn, yeah, yeah, they didn't even not trying to sound ungrateful, but it wasn't even on the like menu. And I was just like I just asked the waiter. I was like you know, bro, so like I know you guys have a giant slice of pizza, can I get that? Or like that's awesome. And he was like let me see what I can do. And I was like I don't know, he brought out the giant slice of pizza.
Speaker 1:So it was ready, yeah, but then some random guy that was like some dad at like the table next to me, he like started getting photos of stuff. He's like, yeah, take a bite. I'm like, okay, the backup, sir. Like, please, like, if you wanted this, you should have ordered it Exactly. Like don't, don't, like, try to. And then, like clout chaser, like my girlfriend was filming it, like me eating the pizza and stuff, and then this guy was like putting his phone. If I was like, yeah, that's, yeah, that's crazy, isn't it? Can you eat that? Like five bites? Some like come get your father.
Speaker 1:I'm like you are definitely from the county. Yeah, I mean, I'm from, I'm from the county. Are you from the county? Okay, well, okay, are you from like the county or like the county? I'm from North County. So really, yeah, wait, where? Like Hayeswood, floris, what the fuck? I'm from Floris. Are you really what? Oh, wait, hold on. Yeah, like Wedgewood, I will.
Speaker 1:So I went to Sacred Heart for like up until eighth grade, which I think is as high as it goes there. And then, yeah, we just go up to eighth grade. And then I went to like Deshende for my freshman year, but then I switched over to public school and I graduated from Hayeswood West. What the hell, this is so St Louis. Here we are. So St Louis. We couldn't have an episode without bringing up Where'd you go to high school?
Speaker 1:I grew up like off of New Halls Ferry and like Lindbergh oh, that's, my grandparents lived over there. What the fuck. I grew up over by like North Hanley and Prashaw, like that area. So this is wild. Yeah, okay, so we're both technically from the county. Yeah, a little bitch from the north side.
Speaker 1:Whatever sexy red said, but I think she meant like a different north side. I want to have sexy red on the pot. So bad, Me too, and I want to be on that episode. Oh, yeah, you just like spawn places. Yeah, I just show up at restaurants because you have the ice. Exactly Like. This is like key to the city. This is like key to food city.
Speaker 1:You should get a proclamation for that, because I feel like they just be given out proclamations too. Now it is. Remember they tried to give on to Beyonce. Wait, what was it? They accepted it. See, they tried to give her a proclamation and she wouldn't accept it here in St Louis.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, I'm like, what does she do for St Louis? Yeah, I mean, I love Beyonce, but, right, what's her tie to St Louis? Like influence and everything undeniable? That being said, though, I can appreciate that she is one of the celebrities that actually comes to St Louis though. Yes, so on that, on that end, like thank you, beyonce, because we appreciate you. There's far smaller like artists that think they're too good for St Louis.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I'm like, if Beyonce can come to St Louis, your bitch ass can come to St Louis. Yeah, so if you don't pack up your fucking tour and get over here to that enterprise center right now, I mean shoot Drake and Jake Holver just here. I think Olivia Rodrigo's here Right now, right now, tonight, I think, oh, period, I think it's either like this week or next week or something, and then Kit Cuddy's coming here later this year. Okay, like there's some sort of we still get people, we still get bitches. But like it just started, though, yeah, like we were slept on forever, and then Sexy Red happened. Maybe Sexy Red was the catalyst. Yeah, she's the one I will say.
Speaker 1:I went to the Sexy Red concert and how was it? It was as ratchet as I dreamed it would be. That's beautiful. Yeah, it was great. That's poetic. She was two hours late, but that's all right. Aside from that, I had a good time.
Speaker 1:But one thing I will say that I loved about the show is that she actually had like guests come out. You know how, like other cities, you know, like New York and Miami and LA, they always get like these really cool surprise guests. Like oh, it's Megan Stallion, like okay, but yeah, she brought Suki Hana, she brought Rob 49. She brought the baby. Who else was? Who else was she brought the baby? The baby was in St Louis. Why did I not hear about this? So Kihana was there. They did hood rats together. Love that they also did.
Speaker 1:Born by the River what. I was born by the River. I was in it. Ok, maybe I feel like I missed out now.
Speaker 1:I actually wore Red wig to the concert. Really, yeah, I just on the screen right now. That's going to be the thumbnail. We'll get. Yeah, we'll get the yeah, we'll be the thumb. No, please, no, god, no, it's too. Maybe it's already been like solidified, ok, well, so I was watching her stories one day leading up to the show and she said, oh, it'd be really cool if everyone came dressed as me, and so I was like I took that to heart, and so I went to Prince Beauty and got a $40 red wig and it looks so good that some girl after the show asked if she could buy it from me.
Speaker 1:Until she felt it, and she was, like this bitch is synthetic. And I was, like girl, I wasn't even offering it to you, but, ok, don't talk about my. Somebody offered to buy the wig you were wearing. Well, so I was after the show, I like took it off, ok, and like was carrying it around like a telfar and, and someone asked if they could have it, like buy it from me. And I didn't even offer to like sell it to her. But she came over and she like felt it. And then she was disgusted by the fact that it was synthetic. And yeah, I don't know, I just don't think that's fair because I didn't offer. So like why are you judging me? Yeah, so like before you even had a chance to respond. Yeah, like even process, really. Yeah, I just was completely blindsided. You were just like, oh shit, so if you're out there, I forgive you. Is it for sale now though? Yeah, actually, if someone does want to buy it, full disclosure it is synthetic, but it got me through a sexy red concert. You should like have like a notarized card with it. I'm going to auction it off and send like yeah, I'm going to have a live auction, actually. So you'll find that in the link description. Yeah, and I would even donate the proceeds to oh shit, yeah, like we got a car is going. Yeah, exactly, this has been a fun.
Speaker 1:I told you we're going to talk about like everything we really did and like you're going to have to come back. Yeah, I'm down. I have so much more to say. No, I feel like we didn't even like touch on anything we wanted to. What did we talk about? Talking about? I don't know, I don't know. I just kind of went tunnel vision and like we just started like talking. I love that for us.
Speaker 1:I'm not diagnosed, but I would bet money that I have ADHD and I think you guys would agree. Now I feel like I do and I feel like I might need to. I never knew or thought that I did until someone would actually just assume that I did. And then and then I started questioning everything and I was like I think you're right, it kind of makes sense, and you start like mapping it out on the wall and you like, do the pin thing that like crime scenes do. They said something like, oh well, it's OK, I have ADHD too. And I was like what do you mean too? Like wait, they just like assume that I did, yeah. And then they were like, oh well, you like, they were like I didn't mean any offense by it, but like you just come off like you know, like you have it. And they were like it's not a bad thing. And then they started explaining it and I was like, fuck, I think you're right, damn, but I never actually went to a medical doctor or a dentist and got like diagnosed. But a dentist, yeah, I had to tie that one back in.
Speaker 1:I'm at 3% battery on my laptop. We're going to wrap up. So thank you for tuning into this episode. Thank you for having me Joining when. Where can people find you? On Instagram? Oh, he ate, and that's about it. Any other platform that you follow me on? You're just stalking me at that point. All right, stalkers, we appreciate you. Thanks for tuning into this episode of this isn't my degree. You have any closing words for the last little bit of actual Actual recording, you know? Um, no, I don't. Thanks for watching. Have a good night, have a good one, enjoy your dinner. Thank you, we'll see you later. And that this is still not. It's become one with the carpet, yeah, and then it'll evaporate into the air and become one with the air, and then the plants will thrive and everything will be great. Breathe it back in. It's like the circle of life, the water cycle. Yeah, thanks for tuning in. Bye, bye, bye, peace.