Broke Boyz From Fresno
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Broke Boyz From Fresno
Dreams, Fears, and Grinding: A Creator's Journey
Martin and special guest Chango dive deep into the realities of content creation, discussing the journey from equipment investments to building authentic connections in the digital world.
• Chango reveals the significant investments he's made in equipment, including a $1,000 mixer and high-quality microphones
• The concept of the "Broke Boys Universe" - creating recurring characters and consistent storytelling that audiences connect with
• How Chango's partnership with Jackie from Main Tires opened doors to filming supercars and events across California
• The shifting landscape of social media and content creation, including the rise of livestreaming over traditional video content
• Both creators candidly discuss the algorithm challenges and the unpredictable nature of view counts
• The emotional struggle of having parents who don't fully understand content creation careers
• Martin and Chango share their dreams, fears, and commitment to grinding despite uncertainties
• Messages to their future selves about persistence, vision, and staying true to their creative paths
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Intro Music by Rockstar Turtle- Broke Boyz (999)
Christmas Intro Song by Nico
Well, like these now are like the older version of them, oh okay, but when I first got them, when they just came out, they were $200 a piece oh shoot. Yeah, and that mixer. That mixer was, I think, I got it for $9,000. No, I got it for $1,000. Oh damn. That whole mixer, yeah, and there's so much qualities that I could do with it. I know I can do like you know if I wanted to record, music record or you know um, what is it? Uh, instruments and all that okay, yeah, it has it has multiple interfaces on it too that's crazy.
Speaker 1:That's clean, though, yeah it was definitely like a huge, like investment. That was like that was the biggest one that I wanted to do for, especially just because at the time I knew that most of my audience were listening yeah and so I wanted to give like a better quality of, of hearing, you know oh right, right I definitely didn't want to continue using like the cheap mics.
Speaker 1:And then it's just like kind of cracking and then yeah you know, but yeah, I mean that was like the greatest investment that I think I can, I can ever do right, right, you know, yeah, it's clean, the clean setup yeah, um, welcome back to another episode of the broke boys. I'm martin and today I got a special guest changu. What's up?
Speaker 2:guys. So it's uh. I've been on here a couple times already with my boy Martin.
Speaker 1:You're part of the, kat was telling me she was like you have your own Broke Boy universe For real. So you are part of those people that continuously come back and are welcomed whenever you want to come on and just you know, just come, you bring good vibes. You're such an amazing person and you create such quality amazing person and you create such quality content thank you bro and you're just all around, bro, like for sure thank you.
Speaker 2:Thank you, yeah, it's. It's uh, now that you say the broke boys universe, bro, I was watching a video on like branding, like about like managing your brand and like creating your brand and your image, and that was a thing that they talked about. They said you got to make your own universe. You know, like there's characters in the universe, there's conflict, there's stories, you know, and I was like that's crazy because you know, it's so true. Like you know, like you have the Broke Boys universe and now everyone you have on here is part of your universe.
Speaker 1:So it's just like and then everybody that listens they're also a part of it.
Speaker 1:Like you see the journey, because then it's just like people are like cool, like Chango's going to get back on Cool, like they enjoy that. They enjoy when people come back. It's like recurring characters that come, yeah, back like a show, yeah. And then some people love to hear the updates. I know, I love to hear the updates and then I'm pretty sure everyone else that's listening is just like, oh shit, like what's the next projects that you guys got going on?
Speaker 1:you know yeah, yeah, definitely, bro, definitely yeah, but it's the beauty of it I love. I love it when everyone comes back and they come and they tell me the wonderful things that they're doing, the stuff that they're going on.
Speaker 2:You know, there's a lot of ups and a lot of downs in this whole game and and seeing that you guys are all continuously winning, and I can see that and it's just great, and then you guys come back here and reflect on it, it's even better yeah, yeah, right, yeah, because I mean the first time that I came out here, bro, was what, like a year ago, yeah, or longer, and I'm like damn time flies, like I remember when I first like not met you, but like we met up for the very first time, you know, I'm like heck, yeah it just it's so crazy to where at that time you weren't doing video yet, you know. And then look at you now yeah you know.
Speaker 1:So it's just like it's crazy how it just progresses, like you're continuously, yeah, like you're witnessing it, and you were just saying it too, like you were looking at your old videos and you were like fuck, like the evolution of the whole thing yeah, bro, and time, time, time don't does not stop.
Speaker 2:You know it's a while, bro, but you know I, I'm just so happy to see that you're you, you keep going, you know, you keep. You know now you have light, now you have the camera, and then you know, later on you add more stuff and they'll just keep, keep, keep getting better yeah, and it's just same for you man like I.
Speaker 1:You have such incredible brand deals. You go and literally go film in the bay area or downtown la. You know supercars and all that, man, yeah yeah, thank you, bro.
Speaker 2:I, I, I want to give a huge shout out to jackie. She is the, she's the owner of main tires. Um, you know, I I think she's one of the first people that really like gave me that opportunity to like. All right, show me what you got. You know, yeah, um, because it's so hard. It's so hard to find people like that. That will give you that trust you know, she, when we first started, she was starting her tire shop online yeah and she, she needed someone to like make uh content, like videos or like, you know, yeah.
Speaker 2:And then that's when her brother shout out to luis uh and andrea. They, they told her like oh, we know someone who who does all that. So that's when she messaged me and then we met up at starbucks for the first time.
Speaker 2:I didn't really know her yeah and then, but she's like you know we can make this happen. And then you know, at that time, bro, I was at a point where I was like I need to find a way to, like, go out of town more, you know, and go see more things, because there's so much things going on out there yeah, yeah so then, bro, like, it was like, if the universe heard me, you know, like.
Speaker 2:And then that's when she messaged me one day on instagram, randomly. She's like hey, you know, I'm looking for a videographer to help me with this idea that I have and I was like, yeah, I was just thinking about this for a while now that I need to find a way you manifested it, bro.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly so, bro, I it felt unreal. And then we met up and she's like, okay, we have all these car meets we're gonna go to. And then I was like I'm down, yeah, I'm doing it, watch, I'm gonna show you what I got. And then I was like I'm down, I'm doing it, watch, I'm going to show you what I got. So then we started going and I just started seeing more like a lot of car shows, all kinds of cars that I've only watched on movies or TVs, you know. And I was like this is crazy. But yeah, she's one of the first people that like believed in. All right, you know, I know you can do this, and that's someone who I'm really grateful for.
Speaker 1:Again, shout out to jackie shout out, jackie man, shout out, good shit man yeah, because it, like I said, it's hard for people to like and to take that risk, knowing to take a risk on somebody. And then you as well, like you know, you being so open and being like you know what, just full, send it, yeah, with no risk, like just I'm going to do it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, bro, yeah. And then after that we started going to LA, San Fran, all over the place, bro, and I've met a lot of people that I'm just like damn, this is like a blessing, you know, to have that opportunity. And you know, I'm just enjoying the journey, bro, Just enjoying the journey.
Speaker 1:That's good. What's like your favorite supercar that you've seen?
Speaker 2:Oh, in person, probably the Lamborghini, bro. Yeah, that's been the car that I've always really like, that's my dream car right there. So it's like just seeing it in person, I'm like, oh, shoot, this is insane, but it's uh, it's been quite a quite a journey so far and I know I love seeing it when you post it on your stories and it's just like, dang, you're looking at different, I'm looking at over here.
Speaker 1:I'm like fuck bro, you really like looking at all these supercars and just like wow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, bro, yeah, it's cool, it's cool. I'm just, yeah, like I said, I'm really grateful for that opportunity and I continue. I want to continue to, you know, help people build their vision, bro, like, especially with this Create brand. I want to, like, I help Jackie, you know, whenever she needs someone, Like, hey, I need video. So I want to start doing more of that, like branching out to help other people with, like, what I know. Yeah, in order to, like, you know, especially right now, with social media, bro, it's going crazy. Everyone wants to do social media stuff, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So it's just like it's the opportunity to to branch out and figure things out for yeah, yeah, yeah right now is the perfect time yeah, it's insane how much social media, the internet, uh, it's all.
Speaker 2:It's all shifting, bro, because I was also watching a video recently. I don't know if you noticed, but a lot of people stream now like live stream and that wasn't a big thing back then it was mostly like youtube videos, but now they're they're shifting into where live streaming is like popping off more.
Speaker 1:Yeah with life. Live streaming is is what is being rooted to be like, what pays more yeah, you know, and I've seen that too and so like, yeah, like it's true, you, if you live stream, like there's people that I know that they do live streams on tiktok and they make you know, ten thousand dollars within, like just crazy yeah insane of just how quick and how that shit works, like I don't know, like I don't understand it sometimes, because I'm just like fuck, I'm not part of that universe yeah, yeah, I mean, I don't I don't know what those lives do.
Speaker 1:I don't know the consistency of doing it, you know yeah and I will, I ever, I don't know like maybe a live stream when I'm doing this. But other than that, for me to, like you know, set aside and be like all right, I'm gonna hop on live yeah, I don't think I could do it bro right.
Speaker 2:I feel like that's like, if making a video is hard, bro, like, imagine a live stream and then having to censor yourself or like yeah try to slip up or something you know exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2:It's a whole different ball game yeah and I'm just like damn, but I don't really watch live streams like that. But it's just that video that I seen that they say a whole lot of people are they rather live stream than make youtube videos? Yeah that is just a transition because, bro, I used to watch YouTube back in the day Like there was a lot more YouTubers that would make like YouTube videos.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But now they just live stream and then they clip it. Like they can make like 10 videos out of one live stream, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So they're like finding a way to make things much like quicker. Much quicker, yeah, yeah, instead of like okay, okay, I want to film a couple youtube videos.
Speaker 1:obviously it's going to take time and it's going to take uh, just the ideas to make them, you know yeah, but it is crazy, it's all shifting right now yeah, it's, it's a crazy point in time and, you know, when I just't, there's a lot of things that I do understand and I don't understand. Obviously, the algorithm is one big one, and then there's things like you know, like the traffic control of people, like interacting. We just had the conversation of how we see people that see the stuff but they don't like it or they don't comment, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's just like it's weird. But then you know, yeah, and it's just like it's, it's it's weird. But then you know this is the whole part of the creative motion, you know, um, so I don't, I don't necessarily know like what stuff to do, what are the right things to do, because there's some people that sometimes they say, like um, just doing it, and then it just happens for them.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Where there's some people that are like oh well, if you buy my course, I'll show you guys how to do it, you know, oh yeah, and it's just like I don't think, I don't know, I don't think any way that you do things isn't necessarily the bad way. It's however you interpret it and however you can figure yourself out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, bro, definitely you could figure yourself out. Yeah, bro, definitely like the algorithm, bro, like right now with david. You know how we have those compas react. Yeah, and we're like one video is doing good. The next video gets 30 views yeah and we're like what happened, yeah?
Speaker 1:and then, um, I'm like, damn bro, I'm like, but you know what, let's just not focus on the numbers, let's just focus on putting putting yourself out there, yeah, you know, and it's crazy too, because they say like the more you post, the more the algorithm will put you out there, you know, sometimes yeah, yeah so, and sometimes I hear too, it's like if you take a like a week off from posting, then the algorithm pushes your content I don't know like it's just, it's random, yeah, bro it's and I feel like, bro, with so much traffic in, in, in, you know whether it's youtube or tiktok is is it's so hard to um pop out?
Speaker 2:you know, oh, yeah, because you have all this information that that are trying to get your attention, you know. So it's like I don't know it's hard to be a small creator, bro, because you're obviously you don't have a following. You know, yeah, and it's just so hard to like try to get that. It takes time, yeah, but with time it just it's an uphill battle yeah uphill.
Speaker 1:You know you're gonna take its time, but you know if you keep at it and keep going, eventually it's gonna start, you know yeah, definitely everything falls into place for sure yeah, definitely, bro, definitely.
Speaker 2:But yeah, it's interesting the algorithm, the all these hacks, or post at this time throughout the day and it'll do better, all kinds of everything is different.
Speaker 1:I've definitely tested the waters with like, okay, what if I do like spam posting? Or what if I do like, you know, posting in a certain time, you know, or? But I think you just have to find where you fit in yeah algorithm.
Speaker 1:And then boom, just send, boom send yeah you know, and it's, it's definitely worked out for me. Like you know, like I find my sweet spot of like, okay, this is where it goes and that's it. You know, like I, I get it. If there's some people that just spam their content and then they get it, they get the attention yeah but again, like I think, uh for me, for broke boys, what it stands for is, it's not for me to spam a whole thing oh, it's more like hey this is my platform.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna do it however I want. I'm gonna do it like you know yeah taking my time, taking, like you know, figuring out where I fit in, rather than being, you know boom forcing everything down, right, right, the last thing, I think the last thing that I want is people to be like fuck, here it goes, like I'm fucking annoyed of seeing this guy, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, that's the thing too. That's the thing too, where they say that I think it's. Have you ever heard of the 48 Laws of Power?
Speaker 1:No no.
Speaker 2:What is it? It's a book and it's pretty cool. There's a lot. There's 48 laws, and it's like one of them is like the less you're seen, the more people want to know. Like, where's he at, what is he doing? Yeah you know. But then it's like I don't know, I don't know if it's true. It's just like say, let's say, for example, j cole, right, he's super, always super low-key. You don't know, I don't know if it's true, it's just like say let's say, for example j cole right, he's super, always super low-key.
Speaker 2:You don't know what he's working on yeah and it makes you wonder, like where is he at when? When is he gonna drop an album, you know? So it's just like that's a thing that I seen, that I was like huh I feel like that works only if you're already a big artist, like J Cole was a huge artist.
Speaker 1:It's like Playboy Cardi, I think.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:And then he's very. He'll pop up every now and then. Yeah, he's super mysterious, yeah super mysterious.
Speaker 2:It builds up hype and then he pops out and it's like, oh shoot, cardi dropped.
Speaker 1:And I'm like I don't get the hype, but yeah it just. I think you're right, I think you reach a level of a status. Yeah, you can do that.
Speaker 2:You can do that yeah, but at first it's like ain't nobody care about you. Yeah, I'm like all right you know, it's just it is what it is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I get you, I get you, creation is hard and it's just crazy. Well, before we continue, let's go ahead and let's roll the intro. 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 his goodbye. We make it out a lot. So, chango, I wanted to ask you, you know we related in a lot of aspects of our families. You know we last time that we hung out and I wanted to, you know, dive in a little bit deeper with, like you know, um, talking about how our parents like, how they see this social media world for us you know yeah.
Speaker 1:So how do you parents see you doing content? Like, do they have an opinion, do they? You know, how was it the first time when you were like, hey, I'm going to pursue my career as a YouTuber or a content creator?
Speaker 2:so so at all. They've always seen that I really like um cameras. You know I've always been a fan of cameras, pictures, uh. So you, I don't know if you do this, but um, I, I go to walgreens and I get, I print out all like. I make photo albums of like, family pictures of like back in the day. So I have all these photo albums and they're like like you don't, nobody does that, no more. You know, everyone has a phone. I'm like nah, but these are here in years, like 20, 30 years.
Speaker 2:These are to be gold right here you know, these are memories, so I've always been a huge fan of that and then. So I graduated high school and I was like, oh, I'm going to go back to school. They're like for what you know they're expecting, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Lawyer doctor I don't know something crazy.
Speaker 2:right, I was like photography and they're like what?
Speaker 2:Photography, photography and they're like what photography? Like, yeah, I, I want to do this photography stuff. I really like it like all right, well, at least you're going back to school, you know. So I was like, yeah, I'm gonna do it. And I've always been a fan of like art, just creating, bro, like photography, and like I don't know if I was ahead of my time.
Speaker 2:But I was at a point, bro, where I had already envisioned that this was gonna happen, like I don't want to sound crazy right now, but like how everything is happening right now with, like everyone wants social media, everyone for their business, all that. Yeah, I've always envisioned like it's going to get to that point, because I was seeing how advanced technology was getting and I could see it too. Like at school, I would see, like you know, obviously I was learning like Photoshop, I'm like huh, so this is how they make corrections on pictures for them to look perfect. And I was just learning, bro, and I was like I was gonna it's gonna get even more crazy. So then I started, just I was going to school, learning, learning, and then I just I was seeing how everything was picking up. Picking up like phones were a big thing. Uh, youtube was huge. At that time, everyone was making videos.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And then COVID hit. Yeah, covid hit. And then I started seeing how there was virtual concerts there was. It was a huge shift, bro yeah, for everybody yeah, huge shift.
Speaker 2:So I was like, oh shoot, like I had a feeling this was gonna happen soon. So then, after COVID, everything was like social media, you know, it still is, and I'm like I knew it, like I had a feeling. So then the years went on and then, uh, I started making youtube videos. And then, uh, you know, at first you tell I would tell everyone like, hey, subscribe to my channel. I had no videos, yeah, but I'm gonna start making videos. And they're like all right, you know, and my mom, my mom, has always been the one to like watch my videos, you know, and she like shout out your mom.
Speaker 2:Yeah, shout out to my mom, shout out to my mom and she started like, uh, just watching my videos. She's like, oh, you upload another video. Huh, I'm like, yeah, and then she'll just till this day I'll show up to work. And she's watching my video, you know. And she's like, oh, I just watched your video. I'm like, oh, yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 2:And then I was like, um, they just started seeing that I really liked it. And then they would see me like I'll be like, oh, I'm buying me a new camera, like another one, like what, like yeah, and then I'll get like little photo gigs and stuff like that. And they just like, now it's just like, okay, you know, I'm at a point, bro, where I'm still like, they're still like, because I I'm still looking for a job, like a set job and and to incorporate this, you know, and I've been applying and stuff, but no luck yet, but hopefully soon, I feel like once I get an actual job where I can live off, live off of this yeah then they'll be like okay, you know yeah but it's still like, but I know like, oh, I'll find it soon?
Speaker 1:yeah for sure, yeah it. It takes a minute for you to get that traction and sometimes, like Jay already said it best to me, he was just like eventually, like you know, you were getting nine to five and you're always you know, constantly trying to figure things out. He was like and then you come over here to do this on the side, he's like, and then you start seeing the one on the side start making more money or start making more to cover what you're already doing over here at the night.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that you can finally let it go definitely bro, yeah and then you just got to see it as like no, this is still my passion project, this is still what I want to do yeah, it's still the yeah yeah that is the goal, for sure.
Speaker 1:Now has there been times that your parents, like you, catch your parents like bragging about you to like other friends, other family members of like, oh like, go check out jungle's videos oh, yeah, so, uh, so that that that, that youtube video that I made the junior age music video that blew up, it got over like a million views.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and my mom seen, and then she started bragging to my aunt, you know yeah and then, uh, I don't know, bro, I'm not a huge fan of that because I don't know. It's that that parent clout, you know they want it's like a weird feeling.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm just like I don't know, bro, it's just it's a, it's an eerie feeling you're just yeah, but then at the same time, like you have to be like proud of yourself yeah, definitely, definitely bro, but I get it I get it, I've been there and like sometimes I'm like dude, stop, don't, stop, don't say nothing like yeah you know, like I, I've been there too, like my mom has been, like oh yeah, I'm wearing a little bucket like, yeah, for real, for real, or even youtube videos, but I'm like, oh, he makes youtube videos.
Speaker 2:I'm just like it's still a I don't know. I feel like I'm still getting like, yeah, because, bro, I, I, I went for a walk a couple couple, like a week or two ago, right. It had been a while since I went like out like that in nature and I went for a walk a couple couple, like a week or two ago, right, it had been a while since I went like out like that in nature and I went for a walk and I met, uh, one of my friends was there. It had been a while since I seen him and he's like what, you've been out so, oh, you know, it's the same work just working, and youtube, you know. So now I'm starting to like like, if I really want to take this serious, I need to like Embrace it, embrace it, bro. So I feel like I'm still, I'm like, okay, now it's just like you just got to embrace it. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that's good that you're at that stage. I'm not at that stage yet. I want to be, but that's something like I said just don't. I don't ever want to be seen as the person and be like, oh yeah, I do, you know youtube and I do podcasting, and be like, oh, it's like you know yeah, yeah, I don't ever want to be seen like that, so that's why I think I'm so shy and so reserved of it and I don't want to embrace it yet yeah, yeah but that's good that you're embracing it.
Speaker 1:You know that's a lot of confidence in yourself after years.
Speaker 2:Yeah, bro, now I'm like you know it's, if you're putting your all into it, like you gotta be proud of what you're building, you know, and that's something that I'm like you just gotta give your.
Speaker 2:Uh, like you gotta be your biggest fan, bro, because true that's good if you're on advice, bro, that's good to hear yeah, because sometimes, bro, it's a lonely road out here, bro, when you're, when you got a vision and and so it's like you just gotta be your biggest fan, just like. All right, you you're doing this and you you stick to that vision that you have, you know yeah so that's something that I've been like trying to embrace now, like, okay, you know, let's take this a little bit more serious and, you know, pick it up yeah.
Speaker 1:I get you, I get you. If you gave your parents the control of your videos and of your content creation, what kind of videos do you think they would make? Oh man, that's a tough one.
Speaker 2:Good question though I keep live in the face for real, bro. It's crazy how many people do that, how many uh dude.
Speaker 1:Sometimes my mom does that oh really it's crazy though I there's.
Speaker 2:I love the level of confidence, though, yeah, I can never do it bro you see him like hella concentrated, like yeah, recording everything I'm like, and they're on live too. I'm like she's loved thrifting, bro, like she loves thrifting, so I feel like she would be like a thrift store vlogger. Yeah, yeah yeah, so, uh, my dad, huh, I don't know, he loves to, so something to do with work.
Speaker 1:He's worked in the restaurant business, correct, yeah?
Speaker 2:he's worked in the restaurant business most of his life.
Speaker 1:He could probably mount a camera somewhere and he's just cooking all the time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for real, probably those.
Speaker 1:Those are good ones. Those are good ones, probably those. Yeah, those are good ones, those are good ones. You think your parents would like if in their prime you know back in Mexico. You think that they would be influencers.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's, bro, that's a good question.
Speaker 1:Can you imagine? That?
Speaker 2:If they had like the resources we have now.
Speaker 1:And like what would their page be?
Speaker 2:That's a good question, bro. That's a good question, bro. I feel like probably not my parents, because they're just like really in their own world, like they don't really, but I feel like we would see that a lot more like oh, my grandma was an influencer you know it's so crazy how, in the future, that's gonna be a thing, bro, like oh, my mom, my uh she, uh, my mom's uh sister was an influencer, made videos back in the day, you know, and yeah, and what's finding?
Speaker 1:you can search it up on youtube, yeah, yeah, it's like what the fuck?
Speaker 2:yeah, it's it's bro, it's wild. That's a good one, though. Like, imagine if they had the resources back in the day. It would be a whole different world, bro.
Speaker 1:If your parents could rename your job title, what would they call it? In your content creation? Oh, like job title, as like what he does Instead like instead of like a content creator or youtuber, like what would be a different, what would they? What would if they could like? What would they rename it?
Speaker 2:I don't know. It would probably just say I said videos because that's what they say. That's what they say but probably, yeah, probably that he just, he just makes videos, which is hilarious.
Speaker 1:But yeah it's it's tight. I had a question here and it says was there ever a moment where your parents saw uh, saw a check uh from your content creation and, finally, you respected your hustle?
Speaker 2:oh yeah, bro, that was recently. That was recently. Um, with that youtube video that I made, um, you know, I made a pretty good amount like, and then, uh, I had to get my mom's information to for the taxes and all that yeah so I told her like oh, look, you know, and it showed them out and they're like, oh, shoot, you know, that was.
Speaker 2:I think that was a moment of realization, like okay, he's doing something. Good, you know, for him to start uh, getting like something like that, you know. And I was like it's still on road to me, bro. I was like, but it was a moment like oh, okay, it's a milestone, yeah, and it's like it's something that took years for it to happen, you know. So we're like just seeing it and like it's finally, all the hard work pays off.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's insane, it's a crazy feeling, bro, that, um, you know, and it's something too, bro, like it says, uh, like how it took years for this to happen, like five years ago.
Speaker 1:If you would tell me all this was happening, that we'll be filming this right now, yeah, it'll be like what you know I'd be surprised too, like if, if I were to go like you know, yeah, talk to the like years back and be like, hey, warren, you're gonna do consecration, you're gonna do all this stuff exactly, yeah, I'd be like you're fucking smoking shit, like you're smoking fat dicks yeah, yeah, it's insane, bro, but it's so true.
Speaker 2:Like what we're working on right now, bro, is like five years from now, we're gonna be like we've been. You know, we've been putting in the work, yeah, you know. So it's like that's how you gotta think about it. Like all your, your work and hustle right now is gonna pay off with time, bro. That's why, like, you got to enjoy every part of the journey, because then, years from now, you'll look back like damn. I remember when we filmed this podcast right here, you know.
Speaker 1:And then Even like you said earlier, like you saw me not have all this equipment.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And it's just like that.
Speaker 2:And look now yeah.
Speaker 1:Who's going to know what's gonna happen in the next five years?
Speaker 2:yeah, it's, it's insane, bro. It's, there's, there's a code there, bro, like it's like a like a hack.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're breaking out of the matrix. Yeah, exactly, exactly but it's it's.
Speaker 2:It's cool, though it's cool to just see the the journey in the process of things for sure, man, we're gonna shift gears and we're gonna get a little deeper all right, for sure, ready um do you ever like?
Speaker 1:do you ever feel guilty chasing your dreams um, even though they your parents don't fully understand it, especially knowing how hard they work just to get here?
Speaker 2:Yeah, bro, there'll be times, bro, that I have been like damn, like this is an area that's so hard to understand like for other people to understand, but like only you know what you're capable of.
Speaker 2:You know an area that's so hard to understand. Like for other people to understand, but like only you know what you're capable of you know. So there's been times where I'm like, damn, maybe I'm, maybe I just need to let this go. Yeah, you know, maybe this was just a moment in time and this was just it's gonna let it go yeah but there's always been for me, there's always been like hints to like just keep going yeah and there'll be times, bro, where I just want to give up.
Speaker 2:I'm like you know what, like this is it like you know, um, I don't know, it's just moments like that. But then I'm like nah, I'm already deep in, like I just gotta keep it going and just hope for the best, you know yeah, and you'd rather fail doing something you love rather than failing not yeah, exactly bro, so yeah there has been times, but I'm like you know what. You just gotta work through it and just hope for the best.
Speaker 1:I'm pretty sure you had moments like that, oh for sure, many more than that you can imagine, and I do feel guilty, like in that sort of sense of like my parents, because it's like I see my dad's and my dad's story is insane. You know being, you know coming from a different country at 13 years old and trying to figure your life out. And then you know, um, you, you want all your kids to have an incredible education, be smart, make millions of dollars, yada, yada, yada. Right, that's their dream, because for them they don't have that education. And then you know, then he sees me and he's just like what the fuck are you doing?
Speaker 1:you know You're over here fucking around on the camera or doing something that you know on social media, yeah, and it around on the camera or doing something that you know on social media, yeah, and it's just like, well, I mean, this is something that I believe in, this is something that I like to do and this is my, my thing, and and uh, I don't think my dad ever disapproved of anything, but he was definitely the one to to disapprove of any sort of chasing my dreams.
Speaker 1:It was more of like chasing the safe route getting a job, making sure you make enough money to you know, take care of everybody you know and not be, you know, distracted onto stuff that isn't going to make you money or isn't going to do you know, um, so I do feel guilty in that sort of sense, because I'm able to do something that I'm passionate about, and I'm able to do something that I really enjoy doing, rather than being stuck on a nine to five, not knowing, you know, hating my job and all that stuff, which is why I think I'm such in a great position, because the job that I do now requires so much labor, but I enjoy what I do.
Speaker 1:I'm not like other people that are like, oh fucking, I hate dealing with this. I hate doing, honestly, like there's days that that I do hate dealing with it. But I, at the end of the day, I enjoy what I do at work and I and I can't complain about it I get paid great. And then I come to come home and I do the other thing that I love to do and I do my podcast and I do vlogs and I'm I'm at that point of like, hey, I'm doing what I dreamed of doing is is being an impact in this world and that's all that matters exactly numbers don't matter.
Speaker 1:People like you know that are criticizing me, they don't matter, like, at the end of the day it it's hey, I'm still posting, hey, I'm still having fun and boom.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm living my life.
Speaker 2:Exactly, bro. Yeah, that's. You know that's right now. There's a whole thing going on with, like, the job market. You know it's so hard right now to get a job. Yeah, and some people are saying I guess I'm gonna just go and follow my dream. You know, and that's so true, like hey, if you can't find a job, like follow your dream, follow your passion, whatever you like doing, like yeah, do what you want to do.
Speaker 1:Like you know, waste like not even waste your time, but it's more of like investing your time in something that you, that you love doing, rather than continuously you, you know, do something that you hate.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And. I feel, bad because there's people that are like, oh, like, they've asked me for advice of, like you know, doing podcasts or content creation, and I've never solely said like, oh, I'm a content creator. One thing is that I'm not no content creator, I just have my own platform and that's pretty much it. Um, but I've always told them like, if you dive into it, just dive into it, like it's not gonna hurt you. I didn't have the proper equipment, I didn't have anything like I didn't master anything.
Speaker 1:I didn't master editing, I didn't, I didn't know any of this stuff I just dove into it just because I was like you know what I believed in, what I wanted to do, and I am going to make it happen one way or another. As long as you put yourself out there, just fucking do it.
Speaker 1:Yeah definitely You're going to learn. You're going to learn from your mistakes. You're going to learn from not having anybody listen to you. I've dealt with that in the beginning, where I felt like there was nobody listening to me. I didn't have a viral clip, I didn't have none of that. I've been there. I've been in those moments of you feel like you do fucking 120% of the effort and it's not getting reciprocated. I know the feeling, so you just got to dive in and just do it, just do it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's the same thing with, like, when I start making videos. It's just boy, just put out that camera, press record and just hey, just hope for the best.
Speaker 1:You know, yeah, just hope for the best If you mess up I mess up every now and then you know yeah, I mean, it's part of it. It's part of it. You live and you learn. You just got to do it. I have another question. If your parents could see your work through your eyes, how do you think they would feel?
Speaker 2:Like my work, as like what I make.
Speaker 1:With the consecration and all that. Maybe they would be overwhelmed with like knowing, like fuck, I have to edit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely, you know, definitely. Because, even like bro, sometimes it's like I go to work and then I go home and just edit for hours, you know, and it's like shoot, like hey, relax, you know, like watch a movie or something. But sometimes I'm like I even got to tell myself, like you don't got to edit today, just chill. But I'm like no, no, no, I need to finish this video, you know. So it's like I feel like they would feel overwhelmed, like bro, you're doing too much you know, but it just I just love what I do, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I would find it that they would be overwhelmed in my shoes too, you know they would see it and be like fuck, like, how do you come up with these questions? How do you come up with like you know, continue making it entertaining and not feeling like? You know? I feel like if they were to look it through my eyes and they would see like, okay, everything's properly connected, all the wires are good, all the like.
Speaker 1:you know, it's just like yeah it has to function for it to be running smoothly. They would be super overwhelmed because they wouldn't know what it takes yeah, to do all this stuff?
Speaker 2:no, and it is a lot because you take the roles of like everything.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:The camera set up the lights? Is it recording the audio? And then you're the host.
Speaker 1:And then, at the end of it, you're the editor and you're the editor publisher marketing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all that, all that you know, but it's just part of it.
Speaker 1:Do you think your success will ever feel like real to your parents, or is this something that you're doing for yourself now?
Speaker 2:this is something that I'm doing for myself now because we all live our own experiences, you know, and this I feel like our parents had their own journey. Yeah to where we're having our own journey, you know. So it's like, as long as it makes sense for me is all that matters, because they don't know what I've been through. They don't know a lot of experiences that I've had. You know from just everything. So I feel like they'll always be like proud, but they'll never fully understand what it is to do this. Yeah To you know, even you, even you like making this podcast happen, like everything you've gone through. It's just like only you're going to fully understand that because you put in that work. It's part of it, bro. You got to be misunderstood to make it happen.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're true. You set it up perfectly for this next question. If you could have a sit down with your parents and explain to them everything, whether it's your fear, your grind or your dream, which one of the things would you tell them first?
Speaker 2:Probably the dream, the dream.
Speaker 1:Yeah, then, if you don't mind, can you explain the dream and the?
Speaker 2:yeah, then, if you don't mind, you'd explain the dream, the dream and the fear, and then the grind I feel like the dream, bro, is just doing what I love. Bro, because it's so hard right now to be able to follow your dream and be able to afford living and being able to, you know, uh, and be able to afford living and being able to, you know, uh, just to survive, yeah, now, yeah, so the dream is just to be able to just be comfortable, you know, and obviously be happy. So, um, that's just my goal to keep working, keep you know, keep doing what I love. Um, the fear, good question the fear. I don't know what the fear would be, but like in what? What sense fear like?
Speaker 1:I mean it could be like, if anything, the fear I would say to interpret the question would be like if fearing that you fail, or fearing that it doesn't work out or pan out the way you want it to, or maybe fearing that the relationship between you and your parents ends up falling out, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It could be one of those fears. Yeah, I mean that could be one of them. If you don't have any, yeah, no, yeah, it could be one of those fears.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean that could be one of them. If you don't have any, yeah, no, yeah, I feel like. You know, sometimes it's so hard to like. I said it's always you're always going to feel misunderstood because some people just and I feel like my parents, you know, if we do end up falling out when you know, hopefully it doesn't happen, oh, because of that that you know, uh, work, yeah, get a. You know, um, like they don't really see the vision as when, like, you're doing something different.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know they'll see, then they'll see this as like a real job yeah, yeah, exactly yeah, I get you, I get you on that what about for you?
Speaker 2:what uh?
Speaker 1:for my dreams and goals, or my dreams, my fear and my grind. I mean the grind. The grind speaks for itself. Um, it shows the amount of dedication that I've always been with the podcast and you've known me for these past years as well. Um, and for anybody else that's been listening to the podcast, you guys known from not knowing what to do to bouncing back and fingering everything out, to having jay verdie, rockstar turtle chango, dj isaac, all these other wonderful guests that I've had on my family. Like they all see that I never quit, I never folded.
Speaker 1:So that grind always spoke with itself of like, hey, I'm going to push forward, I'm going to figure it out. Whether I fail at it or I succeed at it, either way I'm going to learn from my lessons. That's where the grind has always been is that it's never giving up's always building, putting 120 effort, um, just to go that extra mile. And for some people that do know, some people that don't know, I'll work my full-time job and then I'll come here and then I'll edit and then I'll figure other stuff out throughout the day, but by the time I come home, I'll barely have enough time for me to shower, to eat and then to figure something out. Or you know, um, to keep cat entertained. We have to. You know you always have to have your relationship. You know a strong bond and and being there for one another. So we we're constantly consumed with like I'm at work or I'm working like almost 24 7 and barely having enough time for my relationship so that's why it's like always, like no, no, we always got to figure something out.
Speaker 1:Whether it's a little bit of time that we have to watch a show or watch a movie, I'm always going to dedicate some time, uh, to her. And then finding time with the family, too, like that also takes another toll because you, you have all these relationships and all these friendships that you're trying to make sure like, hey, I'm still here, like I'm still putting effort, and then you still have to come and do the podcast, still have to come edit a vlog. You still have to do all these things. Just, it takes a lot of work, but the grind has always spoke, spoke for itself, and it still gets done, and it's I still figure it out.
Speaker 1:And I never gave up the fear. The fear has always been, uh, failing. The fear has always been not being good enough, um, and that's just with my own things. Like I know there's people, incredible people like you, who have told me, like dude, you're doing great, and then it's just the lack of confidence and the lack of, you know, in believing in myself, because I've always been hard on myself, um, and it's just like I said, like it's that's always been a fear, uh, for me, uh, and the dream, the dream has always been is to be an impact in this world, no matter how big, no matter how small. I've always said that, even from growing up, I don't know what I'm going to do, but in that sort of sense I'm always going to be an impact in this world. And even if I meet you for a couple of seconds or I've known you for a couple years everybody I've known that have been in and out of my life they all know and they can all say Martin was real. Martin always took care of us. Martin made sure that we were good. I've always left that imprint. I've never been a dick. I've never been an asshole. I've never been like that. There was moments that I was an asshole and there was moments that I've been stern on my own feelings, but that didn't change the amount of an impact I've always been to any of those individuals.
Speaker 1:I've always, I've always said this, saying with my friend group and everyone can vouch for it If I eat, you ain't nobody going to sit at my table, and if I'm not going to be the only one eating, if I'm going to eat, everyone's welcome to eat. I'm going to make sure I share my plate and there's some people that didn't deserve my plate but I still shared my plate with them. I still shared my wins with them and, um, those are again, are lessons that you learn in life. And, um, that just spoke a lot of who I am and everybody knows it and I'm glad that everyone does and everyone sees it because, again, a lot of those people that have fucked me over, they cannot be saying like, oh well, he didn't take care of me or oh, and he was never there for me. It's bullshit.
Speaker 1:I've always took care of my boys. I've always took care of everybody that was with me that I've I've had close friendships with. I've always made care of my boys. I've always took care of everybody that was with me that I've had close friendships with. I've always made sure like hey, bro, like I'll be so generous to them, to be like, hey, we'll go out to eat, I'll pay for the meal. Everybody in the group DJ can vouch for that. My girl can vouch for that, because there's times that she was just like you need to quit fucking paying for people's fucking shit, and times that she was just like you need to quit fucking paying for people's fucking shit. You know, I was telling her like no, it's not like that. I was like I'd rather, I don't mind paying for food, I don't mind for pain, for for memories, as long as, like, the love gets reciprocated, that's all that matters to me yeah and that's just again how impactful I am to other people no, yeah, I agree, that was definitely the highlight of this episode.
Speaker 2:Um, yeah, bro, you're one of the realest people that that I know, you know. And for me, bro, there's some people that that, right away, I'm like oh, I don't know some people, just, you know, you read people like I like to read people's lives.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and ever since, you know, I first met you, it's always been like, you always seem so genuine. You know, like, like, I know you're one of the realest people that I know. You know, and I totally agree with everything you said, you do leave an impact because I, I see, vibe, you know you're never like, oh, you're too. Whatever, you know, you're always like down to earth. You know, I really appreciate, uh, that from you, because it's rare to find people like that, bro, that you know, sometimes they have an image to where you think they're cool yeah but then you meet them in person.
Speaker 2:We talked about this earlier. You meet them in person. They're just like they're complete douchebags. Yeah, so it's hard to find real known days yeah.
Speaker 1:And when you find people like that, cherish them, be with them, like that's why I'm so grateful for the people that I have you, I've been rocks or, I'm sorry, j verity or dj isaac, all everybody that's been on here and have really opened themselves up and be vulnerable and have a voice and like that's. That just means a lot to me, you know, and that shows, like how much I value all you guys and everybody that listens as well. Because again, like this, I've always been the same person. I've never changed and I will always be like that. There comes times where you know you hurt yourself and you learn from your lessons, but that doesn't change the character that you are. If anything, that just helps the character development.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're all part of the broke boys universe, you know, and, uh, it's just great vibes. You know, that's what I really like about broke boys is that it's always so real. You know all the experiences everyone you have on there's always great stories and the vibes are always great. You know, and that's that's what it makes broke boys. Broke boys is the real. You know, whether the camera's off, we, we have conversations like this without the camera on. You know, and that's just to show how real this podcast is, to where it's not just for the camera, because the camera's on, it's like this is really us, like this is really us.
Speaker 1:We're not trying to portray some person or some online like other people do. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2:so it's just you know you're, and what's cool is that you're you're unleashing the broke boys Boys universe to something you know. It's becoming like a universe, like you're building it to where it just, with time it just keeps getting better and you're having new connections with people and you're seeing who you'll have in the Broke Boys universe and who you wouldn't want to have on the Broke Boys universe. It's like your thing, you cherish it.
Speaker 1:And I'll always cherish what Juan had told me when he came on is that you allow people to be their ear. You allow people to come on here and just let them be their own person. Let them be heard. Let them be like their own person. Let them be heard, let them, you know, be their own voice yeah, and and I made sure like, hey, when you come on here, this platform, I've built it, but I'm sharing it with everybody like hey go, I don't mind, I'm having fun.
Speaker 1:You're having fun, that's all that matters. Yeah, and there's no pressure. Like I said, if there's ever a thing that you say that you don't want in the episode, or something that you don't like and you completely want to trash it, there's nothing wrong with that. I will gladly do that. I won't publish something that you you know, because I know there's other people that are like no, you signed a contract. Oh yeah, I Like no you signed a contract.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I got to publish it, you know, yeah, and it's just like I'm not one of those people at all and I think I've always stood that this is very authentic. This is very one take, one take. Only we mess up. I edit it out. Don't worry, I stutter a lot. That's again. That shows the authentic version of the conversation. Yeah, yeah, and I just want people to feel like they're here. Yeah, they're here listening to the conversation, they're a part of it. You know, I've always made sure that my guests are always comfortable and always, you know, I've always put them first rather than like me, because that's the important thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, definitely, definitely, bro, rather than like me, because that's the important thing. Yeah, yeah, definitely, definitely bro. It's uh, it's good bro. I want to say thank you for having me on here, of course, um, you know, and just thank you for for being yourself, you know thank you, man.
Speaker 1:no, and thank you for for allowing you know yourself to come back on here and thank you for your time. I value your and thank you for allowing yourself to come back on here and thank you for your time. I value your time. I appreciate you for being here and being vulnerable and allowing yourself to open up.
Speaker 2:For sure, bro. Yeah, it's another one in the history books right here.
Speaker 1:Yep, another one Then, five years from now, we're going to reflect and be like what the fuck Imagine.
Speaker 2:For real.
Speaker 1:What's something that you want to say to your future self that's going to be looking back at this. Keep going, don't stop.
Speaker 2:Keep going, do not stop. Keep following that vision that you're following and hopefully, your dreams are playing out how you planned them and it's all going to make sense in the very end.
Speaker 1:Yep, absolutely. And, chongo, don't forget, don't forget that you got to keep going because you're going to be making big things, and I can already see it from the next years coming around. You're going to be doing bigger things, bro, Don't stop, just keep going.
Speaker 2:Broke Boys 2, my boy Martin. Keep going, brother.
Speaker 1:Keep going.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm talking to you directly, directly five years from now and just keep unleashing that, that fire that you got going on. Bro, no matter what you know, things change, things happen, but keep following that vision. Yeah, keep embracing the broke boys universe, and the sky's the limit, bro so you heard that here in future morning ain't it crazy how right this is, like a moment in time we will never, ever get back that's crazy and it's just like all right, it's.
Speaker 1:It's already written. Like you said, it's written in the history yeah for us for sure. That's fucking insane. Well, thank you guys for staying tuned for another episode of the bro boys. We appreciate you, chango.
Speaker 1:I appreciate you coming out thank you by there and, being so, being you, it's importantly, man, it's just incredible and I love seeing your journey. I love seeing you grow and and continue evolving, thank you, and you're doing such a great thing, bro. So, uh, everybody go check out chango's channel. I'm gonna make sure I I add him in the bio, in the description and everything.
Speaker 2:Uh, chango, go ahead and plug in your socials, man uh, so my instagram is official chango 10, my youtube is just chango and I have another channel with my boy, david los compas. React and um yeah, thank you, my boy marv, for having me shout out to the broke boys universe it's gonna keep unleashing and it's just gonna keep growing, bro, just keep going bro. It's so cool just seeing the journey that you're on so far and just seeing the growth Like I've really seen the growth now over time of my boy, martin, and I can't wait to see where this goes. Bro, like this is huge, bro, this is amazing. Bro, keep doing your thing until the wheels fall off, bro. Thank you, tunnel vision.
Speaker 1:Thank you, and you don't give up either, bro. Continue doing what you're doing. You're doing great. Don't forget life is beautiful.
Speaker 2:Life is beautiful, yes, sir.
Speaker 1:And you never give up. Jungle. You have such incredible talent and you show out every time that I see you and you give 120 with all your effort, right, with all your videos, and you put so much effort into everything, bro. Thank you, bro. Don't give up. You are, you are making it, you are doing incredible things and I'm excited to continue seeing you progress into this journey, bro thank you, thank you, thank you for your time thank you and thank you guys for listening to another episode. We love you guys. Take care much.
Speaker 2:Love, peace out this is a really great episode.
