Broke Boyz From Fresno
Hey everyone it's Martin from the Broke Boyz From Fresno Podcast, my goal here is to entertain, inspire, and uplift our community. I'm all about keeping it real, sharing my daily struggles, and motivating others who might be going through the same. Join me as we navigates life’s challenges, supports one another, and builds a stronger, more connected community together.
Broke Boyz From Fresno
Reflections on Social Media and Self-Growth
Have you ever wondered why genuine passion often triumphs over the pursuit of clout in the world of content creation? Join us as we explore this intriguing question and share our experiences navigating the challenges of starting from scratch, building a supportive creative circle, and the emotional rollercoaster of comparing ourselves to more established influencers. Together, we uncover the essence of creating content that resonates on a personal level, focusing on the joy of connecting with an audience driven by authenticity and shared passions.
From Instagram reels to a broader message of self-love and personal growth, we've embarked on a journey to leave a lasting impact through motivational and self-healing content. Through candid discussions, we reflect on the importance of perfecting one aspect at a time and the dangers of seeking validation through social media. Our aim is to inspire and connect with others by continuously refining the quality and message of our work, one step at a time. Despite initial criticism, we underscore the value of starting over and remaining true to our creative vision.
In this episode, we also reminisce about nostalgic social media features, accompanied by our special guest, DJ, who shares his insights on minimalism and life's essentials. DJ emphasizes the need to eliminate distractions and make the most of available resources in creative projects. As we broaden our conversation to the challenges of discerning accurate information online and the impact of technology on literacy and education, we address issues ranging from misinformation to the struggles faced by those with dyslexia or learning English as a second language. Tune in for a heartfelt look at how we can use our platforms responsibly and meaningfully while appreciating the crucial role of teachers and mentors in shaping the next generation.
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Intro Music by Rockstar Turtle- Broke Boyz (999)
So Julian really got you out of your comfort zone.
Speaker 3:Yeah. So like immediately right after I got on my last relationship, me and him like touched bases with each other, again started hanging out with each other and stuff like that, and then I mean it was just like we never left off. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And we ended up becoming good friends. And I mean, every weekend now it's been like I want to say like the 10th weekend in a row I've gone over to this dude's house. We've done something, we'll figure something out just to get our minds off of the things that stress us out the most. You know what I'm saying and that's just what it is. So, as far as content creation, I always felt like if there was someone I could do it with, naturally that I know to roll off with, it would be you and him. Yeah, because even every time I come over to your house, bro, it's just like we can sit here for hours and just chop it up even even before, before we hit recording, we were chopping it up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, literally like tossing different ideas and tossing different things. It's just like, oh shit, maybe we should start hitting recording.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we for sure could have got some good content yeah and it's just.
Speaker 2:It goes back to the whole thing that we were saying earlier is is content creation is not easy for us because we're starting off right. We're nowhere near like, uh, these other content creators that are are well known and same thing, like in the podcast industry. That that I've I've seen is that I'm nowhere near as Joe Rogan or I'm nowhere near as Zayn and Heath or the Dropout podcast. There's multiple podcasts that are just. They have such a strong fan base, just because they're already social influencers. Right.
Speaker 2:And who's to say that we can't get into that status? Right, and like you were saying, you and Julian were driving down Venice and you guys were like how can we get a house like that? Like what does it take? And it could be anything. Right. The amount of opportunities are endless, right, and we just have to start somewhere. I know in the beginning with the podcast we had to start somewhere. Yeah.
Speaker 2:No matter how hard, how rough, rough, how difficult it was in the beginning, you just had to start right and that's what we did. And and you look back at the first episodes and you're just like fuck, that shit was rough, like if you were to see how, how shit is now like you're like fuck, that was rough but we got through it and somehow we have the following that we do yeah and again we're grateful for, for what we, what we have and the, the amount of ideas that we can contribute, we can think of is how can we make it bigger, how? Can we?
Speaker 2:continue it and and make more of an impact in this community right and again. It's just. You see these ideas from other social influencers. How can we do it better?
Speaker 3:right, right. I think the biggest thing, too, is having a group of people who are already creative minds before the content creation, before for sure you know what I'm saying. Yeah, they're like willing to put in the work yeah, even like, even if they are content creators already, as is, you can already scale them and be like okay, well, like, what kind of content does he make? Is it quality? Is this?
Speaker 3:something that feels authentic, is it genuine, and then go from there. You know, I mean I've dealt with a lot of other content creators where I see what they do like other car content creators right.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:These dudes making reels of their cars, cars, and I'm like, okay, how are they doing it? Because I'm sitting here putting in putting the same amount of work as they are yeah, like I feel like I'm doing pretty well, but these dudes are like doing some top-notch work. What? What equipment are they using? What software are they using for editing?
Speaker 2:and then sometimes you think about you put so much like effort into one reel and you're just like this is it? This is gonna go viral, this is gonna be the one. Yeah, ten views only.
Speaker 5:I know the feeling.
Speaker 2:Oh, my bad yeah, I know the feeling.
Speaker 3:It's like I ended up finding out that sometimes it's not even about what the other person is doing or what equipment they're using. Like if you already feel passionate about what you're doing in that content creation. So like, for instance, if I'm passionate about me editing a video about my car, my homies whip and I choose a song that I know is everybody fucks with yeah I know this song is grooving with the the vibe of the whole video yeah, I'm saying I got a sunset in the background.
Speaker 3:It's looking crazy, yeah, and I'm like, I'm excited to post and I'm satisfied. I'm not even gonna care about the numbers at that point yeah. Because I know I did it out of pure passion, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but I feel like that type of content creation versus clout creation is everything, because people will try too hard to try and satisfy their audience, or try too hard to try and get an audience's attention and it's like, ok, bro, you're trying too hard to try and get an audience's attention. And it's like, okay, bro, you're trying too hard.
Speaker 5:And then the thing is, once you get an audience like that, then you have to maintain it and if that's not, truly you, then you're going to be exhausted Fast. You're going to be stressed, yeah, fast.
Speaker 2:And that's, that's the hardest thing, that what I've like when I came to more people to gain like I can. I can say so much of like. Follow. Follow our instagram, follow our. I can only say that.
Speaker 2:So much for people to be actually doing it like okay, but to actually like find a way of like where can I get a grasp of it? And then I, and I told you, I, I literally thought about it. I was like, well, what do I promote? Right, and I thought about this question that jay already had told me what makes your podcast better than any other podcast? Uh, around around the central valley, right, like why do, why do you want, why do people want to listen to you? And when he said that I literally didn't have a answer. Yeah, because I was just like well, I don't know, what do I have, what do I have to offer?
Speaker 2:yeah and then it, kind of you know, spiraled me to the point where it's just like, hold on, like, like, yeah what am I doing?
Speaker 5:What am I doing? What am I doing?
Speaker 2:And then I was just like no, hold on. Like I'm here to be an impact in the world, I'm here to make something, no matter how big or how small the change is. My goal has always been to make sure that I leave something behind, Whether it's the biggest or the smallest impression. Because, at any given point I can go to somebody and tell them everything and be cool with them and you know what, and leave something behind and they'll be like fuck. I remember Mark and I had that conversation with Mark. Right.
Speaker 2:You know, and it's just, that's my whole purpose.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I remember you did mention that, if I'm not mistaken, last year or the year before that that you that was your exact word was you wanted to leave a mark?
Speaker 2:yes, and I mean, dude, that gave me chills thinking about that, bro. I'm not gonna lie bro, it's crazy how fast time goes. Yeah, and that's what my whole purpose was. When I, when I did the instagram reels and then shifted that and see, like okay, let me grasp into it, I had people criticizing it at first. They were like wait, why are you doing that?
Speaker 5:Yeah, aren't you a podcast?
Speaker 2:Yeah, like, aren't you a podcast? Now you're developing into this motivational page, right, and I told them I was just like, no, I was just like it's not about motivation, it's about self-love, it's about self-healing, it's about knowing that. Hey, right, remember that, not giving up finding your passions. Every different post that I've made, there's always some significant value, whether it's for me or it's for somebody else. Right at the end of the day, like I'm just making it for myself and if, if it, sometimes I'll look at it and be like, fuck that hit me. Yeah, fuck it, I'm just gonna post it for myself, right, post a couple pictures and, you know, make a reel into it and it and it's for me. Yeah, now there's some that hit harder than others and there's some that grasp the attention of others Right.
Speaker 2:But I can say that equally all the posts have gave Broke Boys the page a significant defiance of what it stands.
Speaker 5:I think it's also easier too, because it's not like you're not at the forefront of it, whereas before it was like pictures of you and like not just you, but like people of, like the hosts and stuff yeah and now it's easier to like, take in, because there isn't someone like. It's just sceneries and it's places you've been, it's things like you want to say, but it's already like pre, like pre-written, I guess yeah, yeah so it's a little bit easier digest too. Yeah.
Speaker 5:And then, if it's on your page and they see your page, they see your page. They want to eventually come listen and it's the same thing as what they're seeing and they'll say which is eventually the hope?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I'm not, and I'm not, you know, forgetting the fact of grabbing clips. You know, guests, I'm not forgetting that. The only thing is is because of that is that we're currently moving and making sure that we have almost, so they can upgrade. So, I'm switching rooms from the podcast room to a different base and trying to get a different look trying to do anything.
Speaker 2:I want to perfect the visual first and then hop on the editing of it before I even publish anything. Right? Because again, like I, I started this and and I threw myself in, yeah, and again, not knowing anything, not knowing how to edit, not knowing how to figure anything out, right? So now I was just like you know what, maybe do one thing at a time maybe take my time.
Speaker 2:I already kind of know how things work. I already know how to work the camera, so why not perfect one thing at a time and not be in a rush? Yeah, so that's, that's just where I'm at, and eventually, again, I'll have those, those reels, and I'll have those, uh, video clips and little shortcuts of all of everybody yeah but for right now I mean everything's working yeah, and don't be afraid to restart or start all over.
Speaker 3:That's one. One thing I had to figure out for myself is like I took a huge break after you know the situation with my solar company and stuff like that. I sat back and I was, like you know what, like no-transcript. Like no, you have to remember that this is your personal life. Social media can only go so far. Like if you're not doing it for a monetary value, then you're doing it for cheap dopamine. If you're looking for acceptance from you know, what I'm saying social media.
Speaker 3:So if you can't take a step back and say, okay, let me just start all over without it impacting you that much, then maybe it's not for you. You know what I'm saying. I do feel like it's hard. Don't get it twisted. Let's just say your whole account got deleted and you had to start all over again. I'm like that will test your patience.
Speaker 5:That will test whether you want to go back. Yeah, your determination. Are you gonna do it again or not?
Speaker 3:yeah, exactly. And so I mean don't get it twisted. I know it's hard, but at the same time just don't fall. Don't let your soul get too attached to what you're doing. You know what I'm saying. If you're passionate about it, by all means you know I'm saying do what you got to do, but don't let social media destroy you. Don't let it, don't let it get that grasp on you. You know what I'm saying, because it's it can get dangerous man.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and like you said too, like people sometimes make, make reels or make clips for clout, right, you know, it's just like. Okay, like I get like, because I see that I sometimes I see some, some of these influencers or people that are trying to be influencers that make, make those types of content or make those types of trends. And it's just like okay, cool, Like you're doing that, but what are you promoting, Right? What's your purpose of doing these?
Speaker 2:things Right Like are you trying to get just the short term, or are you trying to look for the long term?
Speaker 3:Is it an ego boost? Is it monetary value?
Speaker 2:Like what is it? And then somebody I forgot what podcast, but Kat was showing me a podcast and they brought up that social media. You almost have to be an attention whore, or like you're seeking attention all the time.
Speaker 5:Yeah, that social media influencer full of themselves.
Speaker 1:And you have to be to do it.
Speaker 5:You have to think you're the prettiest person, you have to think you're the best, of the best to put yourself out there, because if not, and you sit there and really think about it, there's no way you'd do it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, not, and you sit there and really think about it like there's no way you do it. Yeah, yeah, and sometimes I'm just like I'm nowhere near that. I don't have the ego boost nor the fucking talk, just because I I don't want to ever be perceived as like, oh, look at martin, he's top dog now like right, big and bad. You know, he's all about business. Now I can't talk to him.
Speaker 3:And if that's the case, talk to my agent, please, yeah right I also feel like the social media pressure is just a lot too in general, so like I was talking to my homegirl about this earlier today. As a matter of fact, you know, like, have you ever seen someone who was huge in social media and they were like trying to defend their name in the comments?
Speaker 3:They got all these trolls on here talking mad smack about them, they're commenting on each and every one, and it's like that can make or break you. Either you can go back and try to defend your name and say oh, this, that and the third, you know what I'm saying or you can just let them think whatever they want. Because if you feed into that and I'm not going to bring up no Drake, but he just made a really good point. He said he basically was saying like what do I look like trying to defend myself in every room that I'm not in?
Speaker 5:yeah, you're gonna stress yourself out yeah, and you're never gonna get ahead of it yeah you're not gonna be able to get ahead of it.
Speaker 3:You're not gonna be able to stop the, the lies, or the the rumors that people are starting on you and like what most people say, if you want to believe those rumors, believe it. Just leave me the fuck out of it. Yeah, um, but I don't know man, it's just social media. Sometimes, if you let it get to you, it can take a toll.
Speaker 5:It can take a toll I just think it's funny, though, because now we're like 24, 25, like 20, almost 26 years old. In middle school, I was posting every day on instagram, like I had to post every day on instagram, like if not like how are they gonna know how to instagram if I'm not posting like Like you had to Like, there was no, not posting.
Speaker 5:So it's funny to see like I have cousins that are like a freshman in high school and like what they're posting and the way they're posting is so different from like what we posted or like what we would get to. Like, get attention.
Speaker 5:So, it's just funny to see like. And then when my cousins complain like oh my god, this person followed me on instagram and this person unfollowed me, I'm like who cares? But then I have to remember like at one point, like I was like that too, and that was like I don't know. It's just crazy to think about social media.
Speaker 2:Beef back in the day was was crazy, do you?
Speaker 5:remember, when you can see people's street like people's, how many snaps they sent? Yeah, dude, I was on. Or your best friends list, why?
Speaker 2:did they do that? Why did they do that?
Speaker 5:I was dang. Did you see that instagram's off topic? Did you see that instagram, you can add a song to your profile now yes like uh, myspace I'm already ahead of you I'm on that I haven't done it yet, but I'm gonna put one today I'm on that, what you, what you got on your yeah, what would be your song?
Speaker 3:life imitates life by quantic. It's like underground rock it's not hey, go off nothing, nothing, mainstream
Speaker 2:what would be yours I don't know you're gonna be run away by kanye west.
Speaker 5:I know, I know it, I love, I love. You don't love kanye west.
Speaker 2:You love that song no, don't get me wrong, the young the king, kanye west, will make a return.
Speaker 5:Whoa, whoa, whoa um he's just on medication, not on his medication I don't know, I just put a billy eilish song probably but that's what that's obsessed with billy eilish right now yeah, like over my over, my over, my whole life song. I don't know what I would do I don't know there's. I know if I like here by alicia cara, but I just know that one's depressing.
Speaker 2:I'm like maybe not we didn't even fucking roll the intro, we just jumped right into it. Roll it. Before we continue, let's go ahead and roll the intro.
Speaker 1:We them broke boys from the hood. We on them. Issues understood Won't catch us lacking. We that good. We always winning, like we should. We flying high, we butterfly up to the sky. No way you catching us. Goodbye, pretty God. We make it out alive. I'll never leave my dogs behind. We stick together like we signed. We shooting stars, one of a kind. We undefeated, just resign. Money more lower than a bitch nowadays all right.
Speaker 2:Welcome back to another episode of the broke boys. I'm martin I'm kat, and we got here special guest my boy, dj yo yo yo. So, uh, we kind of just dove right into it. We didn't have really what's this.
Speaker 5:A topic.
Speaker 2:A topic to talk about. We wanted just to hey, let's just continue the conversation deep into it. Dj mentioned open mic, so just really just let loose and let our minds just go.
Speaker 3:Just a certified yapper trying to yap, that's all.
Speaker 5:And we're all chilling.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 5:Like DJ's in a hammock chair. I'm in my computer chair, you're in your computer chair, everyone. The vibes are good right now.
Speaker 3:Yes, fan blowing, I feel great.
Speaker 2:So is there anything new that you've been doing or up to? I know you've been trying to look for work and taking your time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean, I really just tried to hone in on being as what's the word? Not great Like I'm grateful already I've been grateful for the opportunities I was given but I'm trying to hone in on being as like.
Speaker 5:Like present.
Speaker 3:Not even that, just like limiting myself to the bare minimum. You know like I don't know if this is like a survival instinct, but when things go to shit, I tend to drop a lot of things that were unnecessary around me yeah, and I stick to the things that I just basically need to survive on. You know what I'm? Saying and so I feel like I've dropped a lot of unnecessary people.
Speaker 3:I've dropped a lot of like background noise just stuff that I was just like I'm gonna be honest with you, but I don't need this around me at this at this point. Yeah, um, but as far as like anything new that I'm getting into, um, not necessarily like I. I said just me and Julian scheming on ideas of starting a new YouTube channel, trying to figure out how we can progress with content creation. We really just want to do it because we already know we can make content. It's not hard. We actually do have a YouTube video that we made with the homie Lalo. This was like back in 2020, when I had that gray Lexus and I mean it was a pretty solid video. I wish we would have dropped it. I don't know if we would have had trouble with copyright with music or nothing like that, but it's just like that.
Speaker 3:Even that video alone goes to show that content creation is not hard. It's not something that's impossible. We could do it if we really just put our minds to it. A Content creation is not hard. It's not something that's impossible. We could do it if we really just put our minds to it. A lot of it is just getting up and doing it, the same way that you know when you came out with the idea, with that hey, you know what, maybe we just drop this now why? Don't we just start now?
Speaker 3:What's stopping?
Speaker 1:us.
Speaker 3:Of course equipment's going to put that hold on you, but but use what you got. Yeah, I mean shit, even if it's just an iPhone bro. I make all my content on an iPhone. I've had people literally ask me hey, what do you use to make it real? I was like bro, I use Instagram.
Speaker 2:That's it. I use the app Literally the app to edit.
Speaker 3:I have not used one single edit that is published on my Instagram with a cap cut edit.
Speaker 5:Yeah, which is cool as fuck honestly.
Speaker 4:The sample. That's talent. I cheat I, cheat I got to cheat.
Speaker 2:I try. I work full time bro. I have to cheat.
Speaker 3:So as far as like my editing and stuff, and whether it's like capturing photos or anything like that, I do all my editing by the T, like literally, whether it's shadows, highlights, brightness, saturation all that, I do all that.
Speaker 5:Do you find it hard to like be in taking the pictures or recording the video? It's hard for me to remember, or is that like your main?
Speaker 3:yeah, it's hard for me to be like, oh, I should get this. I'm so in the moment to sometimes, where I'm just, I get done, you're like fuck.
Speaker 5:I missed it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I get done with the situation. I'm like bro why, didn't I just pull my camera out and get some content. It's still a thing for me. I got really good about pulling my camera out when I'm around the homies, because everybody can talk amongst themselves and I'm the kind of person where, if it's a big group of us, I'm usually on the outcast. I'm usually the person that's standing around like looking at my car. I'm like you know what, Let me bring the camera out.
Speaker 4:Let me get my phone out. Someone's talking. You're just yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly, exactly. And so I mean, yeah, it does get hard sometimes to just bring it up, but once I get back in the groove of like video editing and stuff like that. I mean it's easy. I can make a real. Like I was telling Martin earlier, I can videotape a car meet or like a group of cars and then edit it and be done in like 10 or 15 minutes.
Speaker 5:Oh wow, that's quick.
Speaker 3:But again through CapCut. I just dropped a sample of what I was doing, I think, saturday or Friday or something like that. Bro, I'm still not even halfway done.
Speaker 5:Capcut to me is just, it's harder, it's more complicated.
Speaker 3:Yeah there's so much to it, so much.
Speaker 2:But yeah, I mean, I can only imagine I struggle with and I told you this already that it's so different when you have, like I have a GoPro, right Whooping out that whole GoPro and recording, like it's just so intimidating, right? So like I don't want anybody in public to be like what the fuck are you doing?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:You know? It's just because then I know how I would be. I would be like fuck you recording dog, like yeah but not even that.
Speaker 5:But I think you just get like you feel like everyone's looking at you so you don't want to pull it out and then it's just like that's why I whip out my phone or something.
Speaker 2:You know, something quick, right, right, you know, because everyone's on their phone. There's not going to be no, I guess no attention drawn to it.
Speaker 5:I think it's kind of funny because the gopro's tiny yeah like in his big ass hand. You can't even see it but, yeah, or without the like, because that's what his thing was. He was like I don't want to like hold the camera because I'd be like you should record this and he's like no, that's weird. And I was like, okay, so we took off the handle and now it's just the gopro right and it fits in his pocket. He pulled it out and I was like okay, pull out your gopro.
Speaker 2:He's like no everyone's gonna look at me.
Speaker 3:It looks like I'm a sketchy ass dude tiny around with a tiny camera. I'm just looking around all scared dude brother, private investigator. Nah, I mean, you know what I always thought would be kind of cool for something like that, right for people who are nervous or people who just don't really feel like comfortable about pulling a camera out, or like a lot like trust me, you won't catch me out here with a GoPro on a camera stick pointed towards me like hey, how's it going? Everybody yeah like it's hard. I can't do that.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry.
Speaker 3:The best thing I feel like in our generation that we could use to our advantage, for that is literally those Ray-Ban shades, the ones with the cameras on it.
Speaker 5:Oh, I've seen those.
Speaker 3:It's so like Discreet. Yes, it's so like you can wear it in your outfit. Nobody would know. You can record something and be like yo, what the hell is that? Yeah, people would be like oh, he's just talking to himself. Yeah, he's worried about what the fuck he's looking at. Yeah, but the whole time you're recording the whole situation or you're vlogging. You're walking with people having a full conversation and you don't have to carry the whole stick with you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know who you are. Your audience knows who you are if they follow you. It's like a body cam that you walk around.
Speaker 5:Well, and then, if you can, you can have someone else wear the glasses and be like hey, follow me.
Speaker 3:And that's what I told Julian earlier. I said, okay, if we're doing like group content creation, we could all like go out to a restaurant or something. We're all wearing glasses Literally, I mean the views let's get them for Disneyland.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I'm like imagine just wearing the glasses and walking around. No one's going to know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean you might look like men in black with like six people wearing the same shoes.
Speaker 5:But I mean, mind your business. People do weirder things. Yeah, exactly that's a good idea. I haven't thought about that.
Speaker 2:I've seen them. I've seen them and and I know they were linked up with is it the meta? The meta, yeah, maybe Well didn't Snapchat have like? An old pair Snapchat glasses. Yeah, they were like the, not the first ones but they were like, pretty early on, it was a Snapchat camera too right, the little one that you could take everywhere.
Speaker 5:I thought it was just the glasses.
Speaker 3:I remember the goggles, but I don't remember them.
Speaker 5:I don't remember a camera either.
Speaker 2:The only reason why was because David Dobrik got sent one. And he was showing like oh, this is what it looks like through my perspective. And look, this is the camera dedicated for Snapchat.
Speaker 5:Oh, maybe.
Speaker 2:The Snapchat is all for the influencers. Now I feel like Snapchat pays.
Speaker 5:They say that it pays.
Speaker 3:Snapchat pays.
Speaker 5:That's what they said. I don't know anybody in my circle. They said it's one of the highest paying.
Speaker 3:I don't know anybody in my circle that's like yo. Have you seen us on Snapchat? I?
Speaker 5:watch people on Snapchat.
Speaker 2:And I don't feel like anybody's going to be like, yeah, I'm going to watch this person on Snapchat.
Speaker 3:I'd be doing that. I mean, maybe the younger generation might, maybe.
Speaker 5:I think it's for beauty influencers too. They're doing their makeup. They're like this is what I got. Then you can add links now. So it's like I'll slide up to get this concealer, slide up to get this.
Speaker 2:Whatever you can hear that they whooping that ass um what's like your what would you say is your biggest target audience?
Speaker 3:like where, where do you want to be the biggest in like? You want just your, like tiktok, you want just your youtube, just your instant like. What would you want to? I think the?
Speaker 2:goal and I've thought about this before and I'm glad that you brought up this question is I think the goal has always been is through all platforms right? Is that? It's always been available for people on youtube? It's always been available. I've on YouTube. It's always been available. I've always made sure that podcast is available for everybody. Right.
Speaker 2:And same thing with our social media. If you look up Broke Boys, I guarantee you you're going to find pictures of our social media or clips of our social media everywhere. Now my, my whole goal was it doesn't matter of of what, where I wanted to be, whether it's all on tiktok all on instagram, all on facebook, whatever right. My whole thing was. I wanted to be everywhere, to the point where it's like I'm not even posting it yeah it's some dude in in china that's right you know that's that's, that's my goal of it.
Speaker 3:I do think eventually, like, you'll get to the point to where, like your clips are so controversial or like the things that we talk about is just so huge and relatable to where you got people like I know you've seen, like stream snipers, people are in there watching the stream, waiting for clips, clip farming and stuff like that. I think eventually you'll get there. You are a year and how many months in?
Speaker 5:I want to say it's like, um, what are we in august?
Speaker 3:august, two months dude and as many people you've reached already I'm telling you, bro, you're gonna grow big, like, like huge quick and I hope that you know the ideas of collaborations and you know having other influencers reaching out to you or just collabing with you in general. I hope that really boosts you know what you're trying to do, because it's huge. Yeah, I appreciate that and you're genuine though it's not the fact that you're trying to. Oh, I want to be number one artist on YouTube.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to be Mr Beast Like number one artist on YouTube.
Speaker 3:I'm trying to beat Mr Beast. You're authentic about what you want in this entire situation. A lot of people don't have that. A lot of people are just like I just want to get rich, bro.
Speaker 5:I'm just trying to make the money while you're working from home.
Speaker 2:They see how influencers make the money, and they were like you know what I want to do it like that. That's a bonus.
Speaker 1:Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 2:If this were to pay one day and it's just incredible of how much money you're getting then, absolutely then you quit your day job and you do this full time Right, that makes sense.
Speaker 3:But you're not like one of those people who are biting ideas from other people. Like I know, mr Beast has people who and he talked about this in one of the podcasts I watched he has people who literally watch a video or like a specific stream. He does and they'll mimic it. Yeah, and they get numbers off it, which is crazy, crazy right but it's like you're not doing it authentically for yourself. You didn't come up with the idea yourself, and now you just look like you're really chasing clout.
Speaker 2:That alone, just, and he has such a huge pr team, yeah, and a creative content team, yeah, like I know, and even with all the controversial shit that's been going on, right, I don't know if you've seen yeah yeah, just just that whole thing. Team, yeah, and a creative content team, yeah, like I know, and even with all the controversial shit that's been going on, right, I don't know if you've seen yeah, yeah, just just that whole thing.
Speaker 2:And then you have some other influencers that that say that they got robbed and rigged for one of the competitions and that's that shows proof in the receipts about it, right? So it's just like you see all these cancellations. He's the only influencer that I know that can bypass all these cancellations, right?
Speaker 3:yeah, because cancel culture is a bitch.
Speaker 2:It's huge bro and you're telling me that the number one youtuber can't get canceled at all.
Speaker 3:Right, but there's so much things that are like out already about him you remember the whole johnny depp situation yes, my goodness, how quick that was so quick, it was that, but how quick people were to be like oh, johnny depp, fuck this guy. Yada, yada, yada. We, we supported you.
Speaker 3:And then, when the court was finished when it came out my god, yeah, it just shows that, like it goes to show how easily influenced social media is and, yeah, just people and society in general. Like I feel like the internet has ruined that a lot for us, because before you had to really research something, before mass social media, propaganda and mass social media like informants came in, you had to really sit down and be like dang, did you hear about what happened to chris brown? And you're like, no, what happened? And you gotta go in and do the research, you gotta go to forbes or you gotta go to whatever website you can to figure it out.
Speaker 3:Now it's just like you've got other content creators who are waiting for something to happen yeah and journalists and stuff and they post certain things and sometimes it's not the right information, sometimes it's so, sometimes it's so out of touch.
Speaker 5:You go with it, you ride with it you tell somebody else, and now you got everybody looking stupid and then they look at you like you're crazy, you're like huh so it's just like I don't know this day and age of information output.
Speaker 3:It's a little dangerous.
Speaker 2:You gotta really still deep dive which is it's hard to see, like how social media, like on TikTok, for example, how so many people go and resource to TikTok to get different information. Yeah, it's just everything's too easily accessible and it's just like okay, some of this information can be right, some of this information can be wrong. Who's to say that we know which one's which anymore? So it just makes it. It does make it difficult. There is a lot of what. Is it the good to evil or evil good?
Speaker 3:right, right, yeah, yeah, I mean even then like it's horrific what ai can do now too, yeah ai is crazy I mean, I watch videos. I'm like it takes a few watches to be like, oh no, this is ai, this is fake, this is fake. But who's to say what kind of propaganda news outlets can use towards that?
Speaker 2:Well did you see Kamala Harris, she did a whole campaign. Yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 5:I've seen it on all kinds of people.
Speaker 2:All through AI.
Speaker 3:It's crazy and people caught it the flyer and you're looking at the flyer.
Speaker 5:You're like, wait a minute, People's phones aren't replicating what they're looking at and then you start looking further in the crowd, you're like these aren't even people I think it's so interesting though, because I think it is very cool, like I think ai, and like in its whole being, is very cool yeah but I think it just goes back to what you were saying, where it's like it's harmful to sense, like it's too easily accessible, like I have a friend and she she literally refuses to put her phone play her phone music through her car and she's like I'm just going to take whatever the radio gives me, like, and it's one less choice I have to make because she, because you go on social media and like everything's giving you all kinds of things you have to think about all the time right like you don't.
Speaker 5:You don't, your brain doesn't get a downtime at all, you're constantly making decisions, constantly having to decide, like what's true and what's not true. So she says that sometimes she goes home and she does not hook up her phone and whatever plays on the radio plays, she was like, and it just takes off. One less choice I have to make for what kind of music I want to listen to wow, or what do I want to absorb that is.
Speaker 3:I've never heard of anything like that.
Speaker 5:Isn't that crazy, that's insane, yeah we went to visit her and I was like, oh, what are you gonna like put on? I was like why are we listening to the radio? She was like because I don't want to decide what to put on. I was like, respect she's like think about it, All the choices you have to make constantly while being on your phone. She was like if I can cut one out and just listen to the radio? I'm good, and that's what she does.
Speaker 3:Sometimes that's all it really takes. Is that one to make a huge difference?
Speaker 2:Yeah, Legitimately, and then, truly, your phone's not hooked up, you don't know who's calling, you don't know who's texting, you're focused on the road, you can zone out, be in your thoughts and you're not having to make a decision, you're just driving. Now, in today's day and age, you can be on your phone and you're just driving. Yeah, and that's a bad habit and I know people do it and I know I do it sometimes where I'm just like if, if I get an important email or I get an important text message from from cat or from somebody else.
Speaker 2:Yeah, everything feels so urgent I'm driving and I'll be answering the fucking text. Yeah, and again, like you should never fucking do that, never text and drive right. And then sometimes I'm just like well, fuck, like I need to look at some of the social media posts and see what that's going on, because sometimes I'll get this long ass feed on instagram and it's just like fuck, like, hold on, let me check that. And I'm driving, checking social the same time. Yeah.
Speaker 5:And then it's like it does feel urgent because you know that the other person's on their phone.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 5:So you know they're going to get it immediately. So if they just sent it to you, you have to respond back or you're going to miss them.
Speaker 4:And then it's like this whole thing, that pressure is real yeah.
Speaker 5:And it's like the good, of the bad and the ugly yeah, literally.
Speaker 3:Isn't it crazy to you guys how one simple decision can like really make the huge change in your life, right? Yes yes, so, and it doesn't even have to be like a major choice right like not even a big one I was talking to one of my homegirls the other day and I was like I'm gonna be honest, like I used to be big in poetry when I was younger like crazy fact about me is I used to really like poetry back in the days I was quick with it you know I was a huge like english nerd, like I loved english you were a poet.
Speaker 3:I was a poet, um, and like growing up I I was really big into wordplay. If I really would have put my mind to it back in the days, I could have rapped, but I just you said, it wasn't my journey. Yeah, it wasn't something I dreamed of, but I used to study the dictionary. I used to be like seven, eight years old, open up addiction and just read the words. You know how vocab words used to be back in middle school. I would do that shit for fun.
Speaker 2:My dyslexia would never allow me to do it.
Speaker 5:My dyslexia would fuck me up.
Speaker 3:And so I thought about it, because me and her were talking about it and she sent me a reel of like poetry slam. I was like how did you know I like poetry and she's like you like poetry slam. I was like how did you know I like poetry and she's like you like poetry? I was like I mean, yeah, I used to write it in high school and she was just like what? So I would have never thought of that of you? And I was like you just made me think maybe I should get back into that. Yeah, and I thought about it even deeper. I said you know what? But I can't get into that because for one and this is huge, and I mean huge for people of our age A lot of people don't read by that. No Facts Guilty.
Speaker 5:Guilty. Factual.
Speaker 3:By that I don't mean on your phone reading a post, I mean getting a book, opening it up and reading it, just for the fact that you just want to read.
Speaker 5:Well, and not only that, they don't like getting a book is like detrimental to them, and like their image like there's no way yeah I need a book with pictures no, that is fact.
Speaker 3:Like the literacy is crazy, it's insane, it's crazy and I know covet had a huge thing to do with that with the younger generation they would like. When I was a freshman in high school, we were already given tablets. Yeah, they're already reading off of that. So I can already imagine the kids going through elementary middle right now with actual laptops. Yeah, I don't agree with it. That's beyond me anyways.
Speaker 2:Well, I will say this is like I struggled. So this is, this is for me, for you know, not being able to read a book, because I struggle reading a book. You give me a book right now yeah it'll take me at least three years to finish the book. It could be just 10 pages, but it's always been my dyslexia, and then it's also been the shameful reading.
Speaker 5:I think you're also an English language learner, Right, right right.
Speaker 2:So I remember. Sometimes in class you remember when you were a kid.
Speaker 5:They would do like oh, the popcorn reading, popcorn reading, you know.
Speaker 2:And then you'd be that one kid that would be like duh Right, They'd pick on you just to. Yeah, I would be that kid and people would pick on me for it, and it's just like I can't control it or sometimes I wouldn't be able to pronounce certain words.
Speaker 2:I still can't. Yeah, um, and that's again. There's so much things that I can blame for it. I have a lot of head injuries too, that kind of fucked me up with I, which is why I have like stuttering problems or mispronunciation problems, right, and a lot of people catch me on and they make fun of me for it, right, and then again I don't I don't mean cat does it sometimes.
Speaker 2:Yeah but again she does it just because you know it's acceptable me and her right we pick on each other, but when somebody is just like I've had somebody before be like why don't you fucking speak right?
Speaker 4:Yeah, that's a tough one, bro. I've heard that before too. That's when you put your arm back and you swing as far as you can.
Speaker 5:That's when you cock your arm back and go.
Speaker 3:That's when you say why don't you duck?
Speaker 5:Yeah, man, but, yeah, man see, but then it goes back to like the tablets, like I'm a teacher, like if they. If now we have an english language student, we can give them a tablet that reads it in english for them right they're getting it read to them in english and they're reading it in spanish and now they're like fostering both but wouldn't that be cheating?
Speaker 2:because if that kid is just utilizing it as like, oh well, it's breeding into me in english. I don't have to learn the english language, it's just how is it?
Speaker 5:I'm listening to it but how is it cheating if it art? My? My thing as a teacher is like if I can get you to at least semi understand the work, then it's easier than me throwing a worksheet at you and you not knowing what you're doing.
Speaker 3:I also kind of feel like it helps too, because if it's translating it right there and it's telling them what what the word is english, like for me, when I was learning spanish and this was in high school when I was learning it, I was able to like, look at certain words, I'm like OK, this means this, and I can tell that because it looks together.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it looks just like the same word you know what I'm saying, and so once you've read over and over and you see it in the same sentence over and over in a different language. You're like OK, now I know what this means.
Speaker 5:Yeah, and then they're like seeing it visually with their eyes, and then they're hearing it, and then if they have to fill out a worksheet, then they're writing it. Then that's three different ways that they're getting the information, while also getting it read to them in Spanish. So they're not completely lost. They've heard it once in Spanish, now they're hearing it in English.
Speaker 2:And if the teacher is lucky enough or quick enough, they can get the worksheet on the tablet and it'll read the questions on the worksheet, I think for me. I just see it because it would be lazy, because it's just like, oh, I'm just using this cheat sheet, but then also also at the same time, though, technology's not going anywhere.
Speaker 5:So for the rest of their life, while they live in the United States, they could also pull up their phone, pull up their tablet and translate right in front of them, like part of what we're doing in education, as, like a whole is like we can't beat technology. There's no way. So how can we teach these kids how to use it responsibly and like, in a way that's beneficial for them and everyone around them?
Speaker 3:I feel like that's the balance of the good and the evil, though, because think about what happens when and God forbid this actually happens. But doomsday hit and you don't got no technology. You can't look up how to set up a tent.
Speaker 1:You can't look up how to create a fire.
Speaker 3:You know what I'm saying? These kids are going to be like my phone don't work, I'm out.
Speaker 5:See, but then I feel like some of that's like the parents.
Speaker 3:Then that's up to you.
Speaker 5:Yeah, true, you know Like I feel like you can't teach them how to put up a tent in school. Yeah, then that hard like it's just like the balance again and everyone, everyone grows.
Speaker 2:How much is?
Speaker 5:too much and like yeah, I don't think it'll ever happen, at least in our lifetime. No, but I think everyone grows up in a different environment. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think there's for me it was like my dad showed me a lot of stuff hands-on, like hey, I'm not gonna pay for mechanics, I'm gonna do the work myself, yeah, so my dad kind of taught me the same way right and same thing. If door gets jammed or fucked, I'm not calling somebody to come. Hey, I need somebody to change my door or something I'll do it myself. Exactly Just a lot of things that I'll figure out, that he's taught me to hey, utilize the things yourself.
Speaker 3:You don't have to pay anybody to come out here to do it.
Speaker 2:You can do it yourself.
Speaker 3:I did the same thing just last week and I told the homeboy. I said, listen, because he was asking like on Instagram hey, who does oil changes? I was like, bro, I'll do it for 30 for you. I'll pull up to your crib with the tools and do it for you. Just get the oil and the filter, we'll get it situated. But I said I'm going to show you. So that way, once I'm done with this, you can you and be like oh no, I got a. I got a guaranteed customer. Every single time.
Speaker 3:And for the average businessman. Your friends are Gonna be customers, that's real. But I'd rather be able to Show you how to do it and you not be a customer To me at the end of the day, because I'm gonna still get it, no matter what.
Speaker 5:I got so many other trades.
Speaker 3:I can practice there. He'll eat for that day. Teach a man how to fish He'll eat for life.
Speaker 5:Yeah, that's what it is.
Speaker 3:So I mean, that, to me, was the biggest takeaway, because it's just like I'm not going to sit here and just know that I could show you something.
Speaker 5:Yeah, and.
Speaker 3:I'm still holding back, just like nah.
Speaker 5:Yeah, so you can make 30 bucks every once in a while yeah smart business idea and that's cool. That's what I'm saying they need. I feel like if more people were like that, then there would be a lot less problems, a lot less issues, a lot less like fallouts over money, because like you can teach him and he can do it himself and then he's better for the next one yeah you can like double and pass it on.
Speaker 3:Exactly, but everything's such a corporation.
Speaker 2:Everything's based in money. Now You've got to be willing to do the work. I think now it's like there's a lot of people that get lazy to even do the work themselves.
Speaker 5:There's a convenience factor to it. Why would?
Speaker 2:I do it. Why don't I just pay somebody to fucking do?
Speaker 3:it. It's understandable If you're a busy person, you're working, you're going to school you got a kid. I mean hey.
Speaker 5:Pay more power to you, yeah hey, I'd pay somebody too.
Speaker 3:I ain't gonna be mad at you, but if you know you got the time to do it, you're just like I'm not trying to do it yeah. Like you losing out on money. You could have used that money towards something else. You could have invested that money into something. You know what?
Speaker 3:I'm saying but yeah, I just think it's important that. Back to the topic of technology good and bad, right, even though we do have technology, and I'm not going to be some huge like oh, you need to take technology away from your kids, take the tablet out their hands, like no, you don't have to. There's educational stuff on there.
Speaker 5:Yeah, have to there's educational stuff on there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think in like moderation, like everything else everything in moderation, as long as they're not watching brain rot 24 7, then that's good. If you can at least like just every now and then look and be like, hey, what are you watching? And you watch tiktok with your kid yeah and interact with them at that moment, you know what I'm saying. Then you can like, maybe steer the path of what they're, what they're getting into, without being like overbearing on them, yeah, not overbearing yeah they can see things that are educational.
Speaker 3:They can watch things that can help them out. I've got a bunch of self-help and nature stuff that I get up on my tiktok about, like, even if it's just somebody out in nature, in silence, cooking up a whole meal, but I love those videos. I love those videos.
Speaker 2:I love that I was telling cat this too on my four years. I know it's completely off topic, but I have this little Asian man that fucking cooks everything, or he runs out of something, so like the other day, he ran out of soy sauce. So obviously they're from a third world country so they have to make everything by hand. So his whole video is just like oh man.
Speaker 2:I need to make soy sauce, gets the soybeans and starts doing the whole process. And you're watching the whole thing, bro, I'm literally watching this man do it by hand.
Speaker 5:That's crazy. It's just like it's insane. Just that's what I'm saying. There's a lot of good. I just think it's up to the new parents and like even the older parents, like teach your kid how to use social media yeah like teach them what's appropriate, what's not. Do it with them like monitor their thing. My mom watched my instagram till I was in high school and she was still like give me your login. No.
Speaker 2:I don't want to Give me your login.
Speaker 5:I need to see what you're doing. I appreciate it now, but at the time I was like damn, give me a minute. But I don't know. I think now you have a chance that the kids are growing up with it Now, you can teach them, Teach them how to use it and what to do. And hey, that's a fake account. You shouldn't answer that Like do all those kind of things, Because when we had social media, everything was fairly new.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 5:So like what the?
Speaker 3:We were the test junkies, for sure. We went through it all.
Speaker 2:More power to those people that have kids right now.
Speaker 3:Hey, all I want to say is, if you're out here studying trying to become a teachers, thank you. Thank you Because I've been seeing more people in my graduation class that have now become teachers, whether it's kindergarten or whether going through elementary school and I'm just like, damn, you wanted to become a teacher. I remember being in class next to you and it makes you think the different career choices people chose after they graduated. To make a difference and to sit down and really like help these kids is such a huge accomplishment.
Speaker 3:It's such a huge task to take on Like it's. That's a huge commitment and I feel like being able to guide the next generation even though, like, we're all still going through it and even though we didn't have the best. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think that's a really um career choice and career path to choose I I really wish that I could at least went into like I wanted to become a mentor. What do you call that? A um counselor, counselor. I wanted to be a counselor for high school, that's okay, never too late.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I just don't believe in school?
Speaker 3:I don't. That'll be your one hurdle. I, that'll be your one hurdle.
Speaker 2:I know That'd be the one thing that knocks you down. That will do it.
Speaker 5:That'll do it, that'll do it.
Speaker 3:I don't believe in paying for college and I mean, if you do it, more power to you. I don't really care, that's on you, I just I've always believed in you can be successful without having a college degree. You absolutely can.
Speaker 5:Which is fact. I just think, with what I needed, what I wanted to do.
Speaker 2:I had to go to school.
Speaker 3:I feel like there was no way that you do that It'll probably bite me in the ass later on down the road when I find out that I'm not the entrepreneur I thought I was.
Speaker 2:But you know what I'm going to keep pushing and then at least I got something, or you're going to reflect and be way it goes.
Speaker 3:I either learn my lesson or I stand on the sand and I die on it.
Speaker 5:You know it is what it is. It is what it is, yeah.
Speaker 2:So everything always happens for a better reason, absolutely.
Speaker 5:And that just goes back to one decision will change your life Absolutely.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, thank you guys for listening. I love this episode and thank you, dj, for coming out here. Absolutely. This was a great episode again, so shout out to all you guys that are listening and I appreciate you guys following us. Dj, plug in your socials.
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