Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast

Ep 580 - Skrilla (The 67 God)

55 min
Oct 11, 20256 months ago
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Summary

Episode 580 features Skrilla (The 67 God), a Philadelphia-based rapper known for his viral hit "6 7," discussing his rise to fame, touring experiences, personal background in Kensington, and future plans including a full-body skeleton tattoo and album release.

Insights
  • Viral songs can take 6+ months to gain mainstream traction despite initial momentum, requiring patience and strategic promotion
  • Geographic authenticity and local roots remain powerful marketing assets for emerging artists in hip-hop
  • Personal branding through distinctive visual aesthetics (skeleton tattoos, specific fashion) creates memorable fan identities and Halloween costume trends
  • Touring infrastructure and live performance energy management differ significantly based on venue capacity and audience size
  • Artist success metrics now include sports broadcast appearances and youth cultural penetration beyond traditional music charts
Trends
Viral song adoption by youth culture and sports broadcasts as primary discovery mechanism for emerging rappersLocal/regional artist authenticity as competitive advantage in oversaturated streaming marketArtist-driven merchandise and visual branding extending beyond music into Halloween costume cultureTouring as essential revenue and audience-building strategy for mid-tier artists with limited streaming payoutsCollaboration with established artists (Natasha Bedingfield, Kanye West) as validation and cross-genre expansion strategySocial media-driven artist discovery replacing traditional radio and label promotion for Gen Z audiencesNitrous oxide (Galaxy Gas) use in music/entertainment spaces creating health awareness and regulatory concernsPhiladelphia/Kensington street culture as authentic brand narrative for emerging East Coast rappers
Topics
Viral music marketing and delayed monetization timelinesArtist touring economics and venue capacity managementMusic collaboration and feature strategyPersonal branding through visual aesthetics and tattoosRegional authenticity in hip-hop marketingSubstance use in entertainment and health risksSocial media influence on music discoverySports broadcast integration for music promotionAlbum production and feature acquisitionLive performance energy managementYouth culture adoption of music trendsGeographic identity in artist brandingStreaming platform economics for emerging artistsHalloween costume culture and artist merchandisingEast Coast hip-hop scene dynamics
Companies
PrizePicks
Fantasy sports app sponsor offering player prop stacks and lineup copying features for NFL betting
ZipRecruiter
Recruitment platform sponsor helping businesses build teams through job posting and candidate matching
Spotify
Streaming platform where Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast episodes are distributed
Rockstar Games
Video game developer; GTA 6 discussed as upcoming release featuring Florida setting and Skrilla's music
People
Skrilla
Philadelphia-based rapper known for viral hit "6 7," touring and discussing music career trajectory
Matt
Co-host of the podcast conducting interview with Skrilla
Shane
Co-host of the podcast conducting interview with Skrilla
Bert Kreischer
Comedian mentioned as tour bus companion where hosts first discovered Kensington cameras
Big Jay Oakerson
Comedian who introduced hosts to Kensington live stream cameras during tour
Natasha Bedingfield
Collaborating with Skrilla on remix of her song and potential new track
Kanye West
Mentioned as desired feature collaboration for Skrilla's upcoming album
Kodak Black
Mentioned as artist Skrilla listens to; hosting Halloween party in Tampa
NBA YoungBoy
Brought Skrilla out as performer at recent show in Orlando
Quotes
"I just had a fucking show in Orlando... he got his fucking face painted as a clown... he snuck inside your room"
SkrillaEarly in episode
"They hated me though like growing up. I was just I was drawing. I just didn't care... but now they know me from when I was 16 to now and they tilt they had to me like they're welcome to me"
SkrillaMid-episode
"I got things where like drugs help me communicate... they help me communicate and be myself a little more"
SkrillaMid-episode
"I'm working on my master plan right now though, but I'm like knocking a lot of like my little checkboxes off the board"
SkrillaLate episode
"You're not an onk... You got to be at least 30 for to be onk"
MattMid-episode
Full Transcript
Wow Wow West Skrilla was good. Thank you for coming podcast bro. What's your what's your so you Matt Matt? I'm Shane Shane Shane. Yep. All right bet. So good. Yeah, it's nice to meet you man Yeah, nice me you guys to pump your own You say hope I'm on pumped your own man. I'm gonna show Pump me on the show. No, I'm pumped. Yeah, I'm pumped you're on the show. I'm excited. I'm excited I'm excited you're on the show. All right, you know you already know I want to get you on for a while. Yeah, not for sure I remember when I first seen Josh shit though probably like you've been like a year, right? Yeah Yeah, I was watching the Kensington cameras. Yeah, dude. Yeah, yeah, I was dude. We're on it. I was on a tour bus I was on tour with Bert Krasher and we're just after the show hanging out and I'm like I think big big J O'Gerson, he's a funny comedian He was like yeah, he was like dude check this out and he put on the Kensington cam and I was like That's grill. I was like what the fuck? I mean, yeah, we just like that. We were watching it was looked kind of sick up there Honestly, look fun. Yeah, I've got there all the time and I'm in the city. Yeah, man. It's pretty cool Yeah, so you grew you yeah, you grew up around there, right? Yeah, I grew up. Yeah, I grew up in Kensington Yeah, now where you see me at though. That's not where I grew up. Yeah. Yeah, that's like right That's like where all the cool people chill at this from Kensington. Yeah So I just chill over there though. I'm from like the heart like the middle of it though They can't put they ain't got no cameras right there. Yeah, true It's like the bad bad Right there where you see that's like the outskirts Yeah, I like the people all like to not to say it like that though But the fiends come to that side and just sit there and chill out. Yeah, that's where the cops are Everything is safe right down that side. So that's the sound like the fiends seem pretty chill. Yeah. Hell. Yeah, they just like us Yeah, they seem all right. Yeah, they just like us. I just had a fucking show in Orlando It was Orlando, right? We're bro jumped off for the uh, yeah, this is my man. He's from Philly though. He's from Philly He moved to Orlando bro. He fucking jumped on so he so when I got to the show He already at the show and when I see him he walked right up to me and grabbed me by Got my shoulder. Yo, bro. I just snuck inside Inside your room And he got his fucking face painted as a clown I'm sure you put you got a face painted as a clown. He got the red nose and everything Yeah, you're like, bro, I fucking snuck in here, bro. You gotta take me on stage with you I'm like, all right. I'm taking on stage. We get to the stage We get to the stage and I let it I'm like, yo, you could just come for like probably like one or two songs And that's it bro. Not too much. Yeah, he get on stage. He's sat there for the whole And then then he keeps walking he walked up to your girl. I showed he said yo, bro It's a track. Oh, you know, I got like my my setup though like my setup is like Kensington's I got the trash can I got the tents. I got clothes. He took the trash can he's like throw the trash can in my face Oh, I'm on the stage performing. So I'm like, damn. Should I do this shit? I just did it He's like bro now I need to do something else bro, just count off the three count off the three and I'm Rapping my son's and he's whispering in my hair the whole time like oh count on the three count down to three So I'm like, all right, bet we just gonna count down to six seven then I say six seven he jumps off the trash can and jumps into the crowd and this in the crowd didn't Yeah But when he jumped he hit his face on the corner of the And he fractured him be broke a bone in the skull The air tunnels weren't going to his tunnels the air tunnels that go to your brain I don't know. I don't know if I'm explaining it right, but he wasn't getting air Oxygen towards his brain. Oh shit. He got fucked up. Yeah, he broke his entire eye socket Broken his eye hole and tell you can you see right now? I can even see that He just ran away just ran out of the hospital He escaped the hospital too Also too I want to give you credit you started the six seven trend a lot of people don't realize that What's up, bro Yeah Hey, yeah, I'm gonna podcast Tell what you just did tell Matt. I was at the funniest funniest affiliate when he won that shit. Oh nice Hey, yeah, tell him tell him how you did tell him where you just ran out of the hospital though Yeah, oh Jesus It's fucking bullshit I see on the video. Yeah, I just explained it to him though stories pretty good All right, I'll call you a little bit That's awesome Yeah, you from Philly though how the hell the show's been man Yeah, I'm going on to my third tour show my third show on tour It was going great. I just had my last show so my last my first two shows was in Miami, Orlando Out of the roof. They was when were you in Orlando? How I know when were you I was just there like literally like three four days ago We just miss each other just miss it That show was that show is a movie too, but I just had a show in This this Houston All right, so I just had a show in Houston. Yeah. Yeah, and I was that it was I don't know. It probably was because I didn't promote it a lot though But it was probably only like a hundred people there, but the venue only carried 200 though. That's fine. It was like half What venue was it? Yeah Yeah, so and when I be it don't be a lot of people and I'll be able to feed off a lot of energy I get like a little nervous, of course. Yeah, you know how it is though like when you perform it and everybody's not Oh, yeah, but it still was a great show though. Like I'm not saying it was a bad show. It was a great show though It was just I was expecting more. So I was like, you know, I just you know how to nervous Yeah, the nervous shows are when you leave off of the show is like did you do good or did you not do good? I just like in your head. I guess it's hard. Yeah, it's hard to tell are you getting like young kids coming now because of six seven Yeah, hell, yeah, every single so any sporting event I go to any time a camera is on a kid every single time they go Yeah, no, that's just crazy. Yeah, that's just crazy. I never expected no shit like that for over that song Yeah, I look crazy. Kim Kardashian even doing it. Yeah. Who are you just on stage with? The lady who sings what's that song? Yeah, Natasha Benningfield. That's awesome. That's my baby girl. I love her. Yeah, she's great I love her. Yeah, we we bought a do a remix We doing a read we just doing a remix six seven when we actually doing a song I forgot what it's called though. It's called. It's a song called. I know you guys know it though It's called like zombies like a country song She won't do it Let me see. I think can I ask you something real quick. Yeah, do you still have your pet alligator? Yeah, yeah, I just told him I just text my mom earlier today to go over to my house and feed it How long how long have you had it probably about a year how big you're probably getting fucking big uh he's like I had I had him for probably about a year and some change You got an alligator in Kensington That's where I bought it. It's crazy How'd you get that? I was crazy because I bought it in Kensington. I bought the alligator Kensington. It was a it was a fiend walking That's malage Alligator crazy to say just walking around. I was shooting a video and I just happened to see somebody walking by With an alligator walking by and I'm like, yo, I want what you want for it. I'll buy it for you I'll for you right now. He's like no, this is my baby And I'm like, bro, I'll give you whatever you want. 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Join me and shane plus millions of users and sign up for america's number one fantasy sports app Uh download the prize picks app today and use code drench to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup It's good to be right Huh? So the alligator, how do you how do you take care of an alligator? Yeah, so I got I got a cousin I got a cousin. I don't know how she's not scared to grab the alligator the way she is though like she just Goes in there grabs it. I'm scared So when I want to play around with it, I'll call my cousin like yo, yeah come to my house I'll call my cousin like yo Coming to my house She'll come over and she'll just pick it up But when I feed it, I just get like little tonsils and yeah, I have the mouse in there. What do you feed it? Yeah, I feed them mice. I feed them rats Where does it live from it? Does it live like in a tank or? Yeah, I got a tank. Yeah, I got a balcony and my complex. I got a balcony and the tank is like Like you really like the size of this part of the car. That's awesome. Yeah, so I just he's just in he's just in the tank Yeah, I got a feet. I got a nice feet. I got to clean it out. I'll be scared to like Yeah, I'll clean it. So it's like a dirty tank right now Swampy It's swampy right now But your mom's handling the alligator right now. Yeah, she bout to I just texted her this morning Yeah, she should have probably went over there and fed him already. Damn. Yeah. Yeah, did I bit you yet? No, but it tried When I first got it when I first got out, I didn't have a tank for it. So I sold it in your shower There's a video we're just an alligator You're your first rapper to get bit by an alligator So when I first got it when I first got it, I didn't have nowhere to put it and then it never cost my money I put it in the shower. So I had it running around the entire house for like two days And they mostly stay still every day while I'm sleeping running around. Yeah when I bought in my house I don't gotta um, I don't got a bit set up. I got a bit, but I don't got the uh, What is it called the frame? Yeah. Yeah. I don't got a bit. I just got a bit in the beds on the floor Yeah, yeah, I just bought a king size bed and just threw them on the floor like just imagine just do it on the floor You're alligator range. So when I'm laying down, I'm laying down right this low So when I first got it and put it in the house, I couldn't even go to sleep Because I lost them the first time I lost them and I couldn't find them. So I just couldn't go to sleep An alligator in the fucking house I can't sleep if I saw a spider If I saw a spider before I turn the lights out I'm That fuckers in here You got a gait going down there That's so terrifying. So I could yeah, I couldn't sleep if there's a gator on the loose Yeah, so even a baby gator bite would fucking hurt. Yeah, they're like hell. Ah, damn Yeah, you know, they do like a death twirl Yeah, that'd be a terrible way to wake up God, so what are you gonna do when it gets like I guess do they are they like I know a guana is only grow so big as their tank Yeah, what are you gonna do when the thing gets it's kind of like the same thing with the alligators though, too Though but they're always gonna outgrow the tank. They're not like a guana's though. They grow They're still gonna grow but they the process of their growth is slower Water in a smaller tank. Got you. But just put them out on kenten. Yeah, no when you get older Just put them out on kenten Don't take care of it. Somebody will get it when he get older. I probably just move him back to the top. Yeah Yeah, now you have no choice you you gotta get the big mansion so you can get an alligator You can get a you can put him in a moat outside your house. That'd be tight. That's that's my whole plan Get a moat. Yeah, because he grew up with me. He got it out the mud with me What's his name? Does he have a name? Yeah, Trank Oh My god, yeah, I was so excited to have you on I've seen you do I saw you do no jumper the first time. Yeah, and you're off the galaxy gas now. Yeah, that shit's bad, dude I know I didn't even know what it was and I was doing it. Yeah Yeah, I just went in the smoke shop And I saw it and I'm asking like what is it and he told me like it's like hippie crack So I'm like, fuck it. Let me try it and I just It just went with my image though. It just went with my image show. I didn't even know what it was. I thought it was just Nitrous. Yeah, it looks cool as shit though. The box looks cool. It says galaxy gas is like a picture of that I was playing poker and it was in north philly. Yeah, literally everybody else was just doing nitrous. Yeah, I was like I'm gonna win In between the hands Better call Apparently if you do it like you can do it every now and again if you're like the dentist or whatever if you do even a little bit Every day your body stops producing beat like vitamin b12. That's why people's legs go numb and shit Did you get any of that or you were just like I'm taking this shit too long. Yeah, exactly. You'll get shit legs pretty much forever I get I look I get it every now and again Yeah, looking at your phone on the toilet. Yeah, no luckily though. No problems. That's good. Yeah, no health problems That's good. Yeah, thank god That's good. I didn't even know what I was doing. So if I got health problems, I would have been like questioning god like why you do this to me And I jitted to myself I mean, it is crazy. They don't warn you like yeah, you can do that. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah Does make your voice sound cool as shit though Yeah, I was doing it and I was thinking it was cool and then I got a lot of people Other people were doing it making it. You know, I got yeah, so many people see me doing it And they're like, oh, what's going on? We're doing that too and then I actually like start really like understanding what it is and then I'm like Fuck man. I got so many people on And now I can't take it back from her and so it's just like I just completely stopped and I just Now I let let it be known though. Yeah, you know, like that shit is no good. Yeah Well, did you have like an experience that like turned you off from it where you were like no more or like No, I don't I didn't really have any experience though. I just got like informed but Nice who told you who like pulled you aside? Like instagram One night was like, yo cut that out I'm high No, no, but I just I just people they informed me on instagram and shit like that You know, I might go through my comments then other people Yo And then what the fuck I was about to say. Oh my my memory. Yeah memory. Yeah Like I would be thinking it's just me naturally though, but I don't know if it was that or just me But yeah, my memory was going a little bit like I'll be like, you know, I'm gonna go Uh to go I order uber eats McDonald's and forget and remember three days later like damn where the fuck mom And I go down It's just Oh I get that from booze. I'll fucking I'll grab up something fall asleep. Yeah. Yep next day at fucking 1 p.m I opened the door. I got fuck. Fuck. I could have water buried Yeah, but my memory was gone I didn't know memory. So what's the regimen now? It's just the vape. I know you hit the vape all the time It's just the vape. No, I don't even really hit the vape. I just wanted to hit it right now. Got you. Yeah I had to be just like once in a blue. I got like I got like something where um I was saying I'm gonna say I got things where like drugs help me communicate. Yeah, they help me communicate and um Be myself a little more like without the shit. Um, I'm like more like real like quiet chill Like you're not really like Communicative. Yeah, you know, I mean, I'm just like more than myself But when it helps me community, it just helps it just helps me a lot with a lot of things though A lot of the things that like I that come with my lifestyle to make music and shit It like a lot of shit, you know, I just kind of signed up for it and that's just like Yeah, you so even how long you've been making music for like eight years eight years. Yeah, not bad Yeah, and I've been like my big thing to go to want to make music Yeah, I saw I saw a clip of you where you were wondering if you're achieving onk status I think you're far from an onk, dude Say it again. I saw a clip of you said you're worried. You're like you're like, I don't I've been doing music for eight years I don't know if I'm becoming an onk and it was like I was watching it like dude. You're not an onk And I but these guys are onks, dude. Yeah That's on I'll be hanging around. I'll be hanging around a lot of people that's uh younger than me my age and younger though You know, a lot of my friends are like my age and younger. So when I'm with them, I'm an onk though Right now, y'all onks though I'm definitely I'm definitely not Yeah, yeah, but you're you're 26 right? Yeah. Yep. Yeah, you're not onk You got to be at least 30 for to be onk. Yeah, so we're almost aging out of onk, dude What are we what is after onk? Is there even anything after that? Uh, oh Oh, I can't wait to be an og dude Yeah, we're close. We are close. We're close. We're close. I'll be 40. I'll be 40 this year 45 is right. You're og your whole head is gray Like one more d1 You're right. I have kids I'm pretty good. I'm an og now. You're right. Thank you Now that's good. There's a blessing a lot of people don't even get make it past 21 Yeah, definitely we're out come from but they're not making it past 21 at all Yeah, it's gotta be crazy. Yeah. Now you're like, uh, you know, I think you're definitely kind of ticking upward, man What's what's the master plan? What are you trying to do? Uh, I'm working on a master plan right now though, but I'm like knocking a lot of like my little checkboxes off the board though Like a lot of things that I want to do with myself though. Like one thing I'm working on is well, this I'm finally on the tour Right now Finally got a good song like I want to say I want to say a hit but I would say a hit The song yeah finally got a hit song out to hit now Yeah, and that should be about six seven months ago Literally and it's just now taking out six seven months later. Damn. What do you make about? What do you make of that? Yeah, no because at first it was taken off though, but now it's like Yeah They say it on during games. Yeah, it just needed some time to suck in though, but Uh, I got that out of the way. Uh, I'm working on my album Uh, I want a couple features that I haven't got yet And I work I'll get my I'm working. I'm getting my uh working on getting my rest of my body tatted I'm getting my whole body tatted as a skeleton And oh just in time for halloween I'm getting my whole tiring body and I'm gonna start coming out with just superior draws on and some slots All right Damn I mean that is the fucking master plan. That's awesome. Yeah, that's cool. Hell. Yeah, that's cool Yeah, hopefully I'm wearing a suit so everybody dressed up as me for halloween Oh, dude, uh, one of our friends daughter's dressed up as you for halloween big jay's daughter Oh, really dressed up as you for halloween last year. Yeah. Yeah, what the hell is he dressed up like? What's he doing? She's blackface. No No, she just wore like I don't know I gotta see the pictures again, but she just kind of wore something you would wear You know what it was? It was the big flowy pants Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's pretty cool. Yeah, that's tough. That's awesome Yeah, you're capturing the minds of you know a lot of people do yeah Yeah, that's tough. Yeah, it's a blessing. Who would you who do you want to feature with? Uh Natasha Benningfield Did that or yeah? Yeah. Yeah, but yeah, definitely. Yeah, it could be anybody. Um All right, Natasha Um, you ever heard of tear awek? Tierra wet. Yeah, it's such a tear wet. We don't get a chance. She's from philly. She's from kinship. Really? Yeah, she's from kinship Yeah, you look at the portal you might see her walk around next time too No, no, no, I'm joking up She's from kinship though. Tierra wet. Yeah, search up tear awek. Um, who else I feel like you could do that I feel like you definitely know those I just wanted to put her name in it. I just want to see her name Uh, all right. I'm gonna think let me think all right my number one Hmm Tired of the creator nice Tired of the creator and Kanye For sure, let me pretty sick actually. Yeah for sure. Yeah, I look up the kong. Yeah. Yeah, you like to go Like he's like god or rat. I think he is. He's pretty awesome. We've had this argument a lot and we've all agreed consensus Yeah, I was calling Kanye. Yeah, he's a beast. I wonder what he's up to right now Ran into some trouble Got himself into some trouble got a bit of a pickle with the jews Yeah, he'll give a fuck. That's why I like about him. He does not give a fuck Yeah, I fuck with Kanye Yeah, that'd be cool. I think you dude you I think you could do it. It's it's pretty I don't know it could happen Who y'all listen to like was your taste of music? I listen to a lot of it I'm trying to think I listen to everything man. I listen to like old folk music. I listen to some rap. I listen to Pretty much everything. I'll take a rap. We listen to you look like when you you look like you take vacations You got your shit packed up the boat On top of the car You might need to go cut Yeah, like he looks like he goes crazy. Like you look like the father off of Ozark. You like the dad off of Ozark Yeah, I can see that. Yeah. Yeah, no my uh, who would be mostly dray can Kanye. Yeah, he's dray can Kanye I like who's my out of my favorite rapper besides you obviously Styles I was a big Yeah, listen to my music though. Yeah, dude. What are you talking about? For real? Yeah, were you kidding me? I talk about yourself all the time. Yeah, I watch every video that comes out I get genuinely excited for it. Yeah, that's time. Yeah That's tell you say me who I like styles p. Yeah From the locks member jdk I'm a fucking og There was another uh, who was I just thinking about the other day. I was like, damn. I fucking I love them too Kodak's up there. Kodak black You've you've done some code I just want to film him yesterday. He having a Halloween party. He want me to be at the Halloween party. It's so tight to be in Florida. Yeah, yeah, Tampa So you should probably do that. Yeah, that's fucking awesome. Yeah for sure. I'll go What's your favorite city besides philadelphia? Obviously, uh, florida. You like florida my number one cities I like it out here though, too. I like I like it out here I like it out here. How you look chicago. I love chicago. Chicago is actually my number one Is it really but no florida is my number one favorite state But but I like florida though, but I like chicago more. It's like I can't choose out of chicago and florida They like it's like bad little bands for real Yeah, so chicago and florida is like my number one. What do you like about chicago? Uh My family lives there. Oh nice. Yeah, my family lives there. Um, and I just like I was like, I don't know. I just like it. I see what you like about florida. I can tell Yeah, florida is crazy. They're fine florida fucking rules. I love florida. I like florida and chicago as well They're both really good. Yeah chicago is crazy because if yeah, I didn't go there for the first time until I was in like my 30s And it's it's amazing. It's like yeah, it's such a night. I never even thought about it It's my wife's from chicago and I went there for the first she always be like chicago is so cool I'm like, fuck chicago and then I went there and I'm like, damn this place actually rules chicago Chicago's super nice. The lake. Do you ever go in the lake the beach and everything in chicago? I never have Dude, it's fucking awesome. It's like a shoot always be like, oh, it's a great lake. I'm like, it's not an ocean man It's bullshit. You go there. There's like real waves. No. Yes. No. Yes. Fucking gigantic massive. It's awesome Chicago definitely rules. Yeah, I like chicago though. Yeah, my family's from out there. So when I'm there, I met my grandma They're like raised me to my grandma's house all day. I got my own room over there In her house, I got just go around. I just maneuver. I got to take my take her How's your family feel about your success right now? Um It's regular I mean unless you're talking about like the younger ones like yeah, they're excited Like yeah Like the older one like my grandma Mother and it's just like yeah, congratulations. It's just I'm still the same person Yeah, are they ever on your ass being like bro, you better stop fucking around or anything like that What with like telling me to make music? No, not with the music just with the Yeah, yeah Yeah, it was a bit on my ass. I know my mom and father been on my ass all my life Where it got to a point where it's just like just let him let you do nothing we could do He's headed straight to getting an out What was school like for you? What was school like like how were you like good in school or? I was good I wasn't bad. I wasn't bad in school. Like I was a good kid. Yeah, I I'm not like no pressure. I wasn't going there like fighting and I was just going to school and just not do nothing Yeah, that's the most I would do like yeah, I just would just go there and just just hang around I was like cool kid. Just chill regular Yeah, go to one of my friends crazy. I just go I just basically didn't do nothing for a nice Yeah, I didn't do nothing, but I passed though. Like I still pass Everybody I hung with was smart. I everybody gave me the I just passed off a yeah. Yeah, of course But uh, I've been to that though. I was going to school going to my neighborhood selling drugs And going home doing the same thing Yeah, so I really like had like, yeah, nice. I was on high. I was on house arrest from my entire school High school, right? I was on house arrest from 10th grade until I graduated. Damn. Yeah So I was from 10th grade to 12th to I graduated. I was in on house arrest I was in drug and alcohol programs. I was in probation programs. Like so after school, I would have to go to program I was like really like one of like real like straight time and schedule Yeah, and then I had to be in the house right after program and I would try to sneak and go do something before I go in and then go End up getting what you get and what you get in trouble for originally? um Selling drugs. They got you. Yeah. That was my big thing. That's like the only thing that I had a problem with Yeah, yeah, it's just I just sold out. I just sold drugs. I got fucking Uh, dope tatted on my face. Yeah, it's a dead giveaway Son of a bitch Yeah, the police line up. It's like, I'm pretty sure That's that's him Bowser is back Bowser Everyone calm down the super mario brothers can take care of the kingdom Let's go on april first toad pack our things The galaxy Whoa, he's waiting Who is this? So some cool dinosaur just shows up and he's now part of the group cool the super mario galaxy movie only in cinemas april first How how are philly cops to you that because i'm sure some of them definitely know. Yeah growing up though They hated like they hated me though like growing up. I was just I was drawing. I just didn't care. Yeah. Yeah growing up though, but now uh, like not not till right now probably Starting about a couple years ago like i'm 26 for starting about five years ago probably maybe four They a lot of the cops grew up with with me. So Now they know me from when I was 16 to now And they now when they look at me they tilt they had to me like they're welcome to me and shing a hand. Yo, yeah You doing like they they they they they um They're happy for me. That's cool. A lot of them happy for me in their own type of way though So, you know, they'll see me and they'll make jokes and remember I remember this remember You fucking asshole I'm not supposed to talk about it no more. All right, fucking I really didn't shoot it. I really didn't shoot him in his face. The guy was in accident. He just You got shallow water gun about it. I'm he lied about it. I just was shooting the orby gun towards their way And they made it they made they made something out big Well out of it that didn't happen to be like they just started it wasn't even all of them It was just that one cop. He just started overreacting. I really didn't even mean it that way Like, huh? How old were you? It's just happened. Oh, all right What color was the water gun? It was like a month. It was like two. Yeah, he got it. Yeah, they arrested What color? I guess if it's an adult man doing it to you. What color was the water gun? I thought you were a kid I was gonna be like that sucks. Yeah. Now if an adult man shoots you with a water gun you got it You gotta fight How much how much well like what was it a super soaker was like a little dollar store water gun? It was like the little dollar store white orange. It was like like I could shoot you in there You just gonna laugh like I was just trying to be they like not they frame. I was trying to be cool. Like yeah Yeah, there you guys You know, somebody Yeah, if it was one of the ones with like a backpack it was like a super soaker 5000 I could see him get a little bit missed. Yeah, true dollar store This one's on instagram So how far away from them were you? From here, they're out of the door. It's got some range on it No, it didn't hit them It sounds like a five tails I shot at church. I'm at dinner Were they trying to claim like they thought it was a real gun or like they said something about I was on the news and everything about like the shit was I did like didn't mean was it like a bright green water gun or was it like it was white and orange Yeah, yeah, white and orange. It was just something taken out of the I don't know how to say to a big word for context. I guess so context. Yeah That's bullshit, man. Yeah But how long did you get where you just like locked up overnight? Yeah, I was in the district for a day and a half I was sitting in the district for a day and a half Yeah And you know, and you know the cops when I was doing they was locking me up There are cops who's all like super mad at me and they're like exaggerating situation Like I tried to go in my cell and I'm like, can I take my hoodie? I I had a tank top under my hoodie So I'm like, can I take my hoodie because you know, it's cold inside the district Like I'll take my hoodie and they're like, no So I'm in there with a tank top on dude. I'm soaking wet. I've been playing with the water gun all day And I'm cool this shit. They give me a fucking cell like where it's fucking throw up, you know the district You know the Kensington district is where all like the fiends go and you know, they've been going through with draw So it's like where throw up everywhere piss everywhere So I'm in the set so they actually couldn't use the super sucker in there They put me in a cell with uh multiple people though it's about five people and um While I was in the cell everybody was like running up to me like yo, bro. Yeah, what you in here for that? Oh, it's a nightmare. Yeah, so and then I'm looking at the uh officer like You gotta do this to me like I'm in I'm in I'm in there with a whole bunch of random people and they all like rain in my face Trying to talk to me and I'm like, damn At least for me by myself. Yeah, and I'm looking at them. I didn't even say nothing though They just they it was like after like a minute left They hear the people screaming still talking to me and I'm just sitting there talking back with a mad Duh, and they take they like come on. They pull me out They took me to my own cell but the cell they put me in this throw up It's throw up in the corner It's someone like shit. There's like all this pee on the floor So I had to sit there and lay on a certain part of the then I'm sitting there with the coldest shit standing right here The whole time for a whole day and a half But and then I'm asking them for tissue. They didn't give me no tissue They didn't give me no water no food. I just was in there like like a dog. Damn. Yeah But What was it? What did they actually charge you with a lot symbolists? aggravated sub police officer symbolists up police officer Um and control I forgot it's called reaps. It's like control of everybody. Yeah To me and citing. Yeah, like not supposed to be as a whole bunch of different charges Like they just put a book at me. Damn. They thought you're gonna incite like a water balloon. Yeah some serious Damn, so yeah, that sucks. You got to fight all that stuff because that's like jail time, isn't it? Salting and all I don't know. I don't think so. I don't want to sour the mood my bad. Yeah. I don't know. Hopefully not We'll see it up Damn, there you go Hey, we'll see This episode is brought to you by zip recruiter. Mm. Our team is amazing We wouldn't be able to do this show without them Matt talk about the people you work with now great job They do and how they make your job life easier. 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I'm trying to sell tickets One of these shows isn't gonna happen one of them is that I forget they buy tickets at your own discretion There's been some funny business at one of the clubs. Oh really? Yeah, so they're I think it might be the blue room now that I Say that so brick town comedy club. You guys are fine. Tulsa, Oklahoma. Where the hell yet? Um, yeah, so come on Matt mccousker.com for Nate you want to promote some shows please Uh, just uh octo not this october 21st Please come see me lemarron shaw and a bunch of other our friends and a please if you're in Atlanta October 23rd Atlanta helium. I think and it's technically an alfredo. Please come. I would really love that Nice appreciate it. That'll be awesome. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Nice, man. You got to perform an acl tonight, right? Yeah, yeah, aco. Yeah, awesome. Yeah Y'all call it aco. Yeah, awesome city limits. Yeah Aco aco austin city limits. All right Yeah, you got bone in you and call it aco too, right? Yeah Yeah, aco. Yeah, I got a show tonight. Yeah, and a couple hours at the festival. Yeah Yeah, yeah, so I might go there right after. I'll be right next Uh, san Antonio. Oh, nice san Antonio Hey, then I go to chicago. I don't know the order though, but I'm definitely going to chicago Yeah, my family live out here too. Nice. Yeah, they live in texas. Yeah, my family live in texas. You know, i'm mexican Yeah, so yeah So my mom all my family all lives out here like my mom's family lives out here in chicago Like that's where my family lives. Yeah. Yeah Hell yeah, so my mom might come out here. She might meet me in chicago though to meet the family Yeah, so I checked out your wikipedia before this. Yeah, so the mexican and then Depracticed uh santeria. Yeah, palo. Yeah, what's going on with that? I know nothing about that. Yeah That's going on like regular. That's like my religion. Yeah, yeah regular Pretty regular stuff. Yeah. Nice. Is there like levels to it or you just can't even talk about it? Not as levels though. Really? Yeah, as levels, yeah Yeah, you got it. Yeah, you get ceremonies. Yeah, you go to this different. It's different. Yeah It's different levels and it's different branches of it though too though. So it's like It's a lot of different like you have to like really like looking Yeah, yeah, yeah Isn't like a branch like isn't it like a combination of catholicism like spanish catholicism and Native religions could be that's what I always assume. Yeah, do they That was like Yeah, I think so. Yeah, it's like at like, I don't know what cathology means though. Just Christianity like across. Yeah, Jesus Yeah, I feel like every religion is like Cathology. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, so you could look in I mean Jesus is pretty chill looking at him. Yeah Yeah You said Jesus is pretty chill looking at him Yeah, you can look into that too. So you think Jesus looks like The impression that everybody shows No, he was jewish He's he looks aramaic. He's aramaic. Yeah. Yeah, so I think he looks like uh, looks like He was aramaic. What's that? That's uh, where he was from Aramaic. It's like the desert basically like, uh Yeah, like palestine israel where that is right now. So which y'all are? Catholic yeah, Catholic. Yeah, that's because I went to a catholic school though too. Nice. How'd it go? Yeah, great I went to a catholic school. It was great. Well, it was just a good school for a friend. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, yep, and they got like yeah, and we went I would used to go to like the catholic church and school growing up to school It was like a real good school. Yeah Yeah, it's boring, huh? Yeah. No, it was actually fun. Oh nice. Do you like catholic church? Yeah, yep. Yeah, the church was right next to the school Yeah, you know, yeah, we both went to catholic school. Yeah, we went there. Yeah. Oh, y'all went together No, just different ones. Yeah, I'm from like Harrisburg Oh, you're close to the crib. Yeah Yeah, here's bring like three hours. Yeah, like two two outside of Philly. Yeah Yeah, where you from Delaware County right outside of Philly. Oh, yeah How the fuck y'all get out here? Just from doing comedy. Yeah, we met and Philly did stand up there and then moved down here. Yeah. Yeah, and then he's Lancaster Jersey and he's redding. Yeah, you look like a football player Thank you so much And I used to live I had lived in Delaware for a little bit too. Where? Yeah, um, I don't even know. Yeah Yeah, I don't even know. I just I got a apartment company. I always try. I always, you know, I got kids So I always try to live on the outskirts of Philly though. Like always since they were born. Yeah I started I moved straight out of Philly and I always stayed on the outskirts Uh, but I lived in Delaware. I'm not sure exactly where in Delaware Yeah And I live in the outskirts right now too. Isn't norstown here Delaware? No, no north towns like right outside of Philly Delaware's like, yeah, you go down south Philly a lot though. Yeah. Yeah Was there this week? Yeah, I know you did tell me that. Yeah It was uh, I love Philly. Yeah. Yeah, I love Philly too. Yeah, it's the best. Yeah, as soon as I got back I was like, oh Fuck does rule. I want to move back. You like better than out here. Uh, it's I don't know. It just depends where I'm at I always like I always want to be somewhere else You know, I mean and it depends on like what you're doing. So yeah, I I like here I like because it's warm all the time. It's nice and then It's just here. I have little kids and it's just it's like safer. Yeah, I hear Philly is crazy, man I had my kids for the first couple years in Philly and it was just like It was fine, but there's just Carjack, you know, it's just annoying. Yeah, but yeah, man My wife moved from Chicago and she was on Gerard Ave And like day three of living there some guy and like two doors down from her got shot in his house and it's just like She gets old after all. Yeah Yeah, it's like, especially when you have little kids you're like, yeah, fuck that man Nice man, I don't want to I don't want to keep you from your show bro. Yeah, no, no. It was a blessing coming up here Bro, thanks for coming. I never thought I would make it up here before ever. It's tough coming up here. Yeah Hell yeah, it's a lot of traffic. Yeah, you guys are in a battle of traffic getting back down to the festival So it's a good podcast like y'all could be interviewing like fucking the president's issue like that. We said no to that We said no to that Much rather talk to you honestly, we don't want politics on yeah, sorry Pete bootages, but you can't get on the podcast Kamala Kamala was begging to get on Kamala's still on time No, Kamala, but now man, dude, I'm telling you I've been talking about getting you on forever. I'm pumped No, every time I come on here, I don't know Hell yeah, fuck what out here though. For sure. Do you skateboard too? We can go to the skate park Yeah, it's skate park right down here. Yeah, there's one right here in my place Well, I always skate where this is a kid, but now I'm just not trying to get good Dude, we'll go there's like a real skate park. They have like ramps and everything. It's pretty fun. All right All right, but which I was doing though the rest of the day chilling. I gotta go home watch my kids Oh, man, you're og for My wife's going to a church group a church group and I'm gonna watch my kids. I'm an og man Dang she only women's night at the church I might roll up while she's there See, that's good Check it on the women's group. Check on the woman's group. I'll be present them with some sin Lost I don't got no dates coming up in Philly though. Uh No, no man. I just did helium when I was home If I'm home, I just do helium. Yeah That's cool. You do us in a blue. Yeah. Yeah. I'm still putting my whole thing together for the year So I'm gonna try to make it down there for sure because I just did Atlantic City And I feel like a lot of people from Philly went down there. So I don't want to give them the same You're not gonna see Kensington. Dude, that'd be sick. That'd be fun That would be actually a blast. I try to shoot my for my first comedy special I did an intro where I was just on rollerblades around the city and I my idea was to go down Kensington Ave And it was like it was just so crowded that day and we were filming and I'm on rollerblades Which people didn't like no one bothered me. I was on the blades But we had a camera guy in a trunk with a big camera And that started getting a lot of attention and then they everyone was getting kind of like I don't know I don't know Oh, yeah, I don't want to be on camera. But we did I've been you see it I'm up there and I'm on rollerblades and a guy just walks out and goes boom like that to me. I was like Jesus I was yeah, I was pretty it was right at Kensington in Allegheny and I kind of cut through the right through the intersection All right, the PlayStation or nothing. Yo, yeah xbox xbox. I see you know, that's probably what I'm doing now Just I got I just got an xbox No play say you don't like xbox I did but I got on the PlayStation PlayStation better I think right there photo. I got a big I got a big group. Oh really so fucking fun My PlayStation person is just like me. He got a skeleton face. He got a pseudo right now Oh, oh, yeah He drives the same car I got You guys are pretty similar never get a break from it. Yeah Yeah, GTA rolls, man. Yeah, that's what I said. I wait for GTA 6 to come out. Yeah, they've been waiting. Yeah, it's been a decade And I have six seven on there too. It's gonna be Florida. Six isn't it Florida? Oh six sevens on it. Fuck. Yeah, it's awesome. Yeah, that's gonna be cool. Definitely gonna be me and my own person on there playing my own music Yeah Gotta get an alligator. You got to talk to Yeah, talk to rock star get your character and an alligator. Yeah When you play do you keep it pretty chill on GTA or are you going nuts and like running people over and shit? So you're the reason I can't play Try to get on someone just I get the notifications and it's like, um, come it's like something like calm down Like, uh, yeah Oh, you have your set list right I just had no no no I just had a show and um Uh, who brought me out NBA young boy brought me out. Oh, no Show NBA young boy brought me out and I pulled up. I brought a I bought a 1946 Lincoln Well, I just seen 1967 Lincoln competent comp Yeah, I did it too. Yeah, that's and I wear the suit. Yeah, I had a job top. I'm gonna show you damn Yeah, this is tough Yeah, that's awesome That's tight Nice Yeah, that is wild. I I kept seeing that then I was like had to go back and I'm like, I sound so familiar and I was like, oh Shit, that's from your song. Yeah. Yeah, because some people don't know some people think it's from Yeah, I feel like most people don't yeah, so I'm trying to you know I'm trying to raise awareness the internet and they give you credit for starting the global trend Now that's tough though. It's a blessing just even hearing people screaming the words it came out of my mouth anyway Yeah, yeah All right, well, dude, thank you man. That's it. We got to six seven Yeah, yeah Six Watch new episodes of matt and shane secret podcast on spotify do it