Is $10,000 a Month Really Enough in 2026? | Reemo Rod @MoreThanCULTR

Like, I'll be a great deadbeat dad. I'll be an amazing deadbeat dad. What the fuck? If I can't deliver the shit that you saying that you want, that I say that you can get, oh man, you might not see me in 2, 3 years.

2, 3 years?

Do you like my daddy did me? Got to keep this generation of shit going.

Wait, do you have any kids?

Not yet.

Hold the fuck up. I brought him donuts when he was feeling down.

That's the weirdest shit. Eric, don't do that again.

Why not? You are feeling sad and down. And I said, hey, I'm buying pastries right now. Do you want one? Yeah. Okay, I'll pull up in like 5 minutes. I'll bring you one.

That's some bullshit.

Fuck, what are you—

Why ain't you get him no wings?

I don't eat meat, so that's on me. You said you want pastries. What did I do? I pulled up with a motherfucking pastry and I gave you the goddamn pastry.

He wanted you to feed it to him.

No, I'm not a feeder. I don't feed no pastries.

She's an eater, not a feeder.

Well, fuck, damn it.

Therapy with Lesya. Come on, man.

Yeah, I love therapy.

You go every week?

Not every week, every other week. I have like a psychiatrist and a therapist. Yeah, because like my anxiety sometimes goes so far that like it's hard for me to just do anything. So like unless you are willing to take on that, then yeah. But it's, it's a lot. Like that's why I'm like, just stay, just leave me the fuck alone. I'm good.

She's not good. She's not well at all.

This is Talk Less. Talk less, do more. This is— I don't get it.

What?

When you're around all the boys, you're so like—

and now you came here, it's like, you know, it might be the collared shirt.

Cam Newton, you know, it took me an hour to like shake him up.

This feels like a, you know, a good therapy session.

You film here too, and there is— I don't see no therapy session.

Oh no, we don't have no therapy session.

That's not a therapy session.

This is all nice, you know, abstract art, you know.

This is nice, but yours is not pink.

Nah, it might be the pink vibes.

Are you nervous?

A little bit.

Is it because I look white to you?

You are white.

I'm not.

You're not? No, you're just a light-skinned Black woman.

I'm Russian.

That's the whitest of all white. That's where white started. Wait, what? With a shot of tequila.

What?

White people came from Russia.

Really? You think that's where it started?

For sure.

So we fucked it all up for everybody?

Y'all didn't fuck it up. Y'all just came out the mountains and was like, hey yo, what? Who?

Where? What school did you go to?

The mountains are in Russia.

Caucasian mountains are in Russia now. Yes, technically they weren't before, but yeah, now Legally, yeah.

You guys want everything.

But we don't— you don't call me Caucasian, you call me white.

For sure, all Caucasians are white.

But why don't you just say Caucasian? That would not be as offensive as saying white.

White is offensive?

Yeah, I don't know why, just I feel offended.

Oh shit, because all the shit that white people did?

I guess, I don't know what it is.

All of the ancestors?

I don't know what it is because then I'm like I don't like when people call me white because I'm like, now you're putting me into something that I don't belong to.

What would you like to be called?

Russian? Russian? Lesya? Less?

Less?

Less?

Yeah, to keep it less.

Yeah, just keep it less. Everything is less.

Everything less. Everything less until you get more.

Less is more though.

See, I told you this shit feel therapy. Less is more and she trying to get all deep.

I like to get deep, but then, you know, having all these comedians on the show is just— I can't, I can't. Honestly, I don't even know if I need this because I know where this is not— it's not going this direction anyways.

I mean, you're prepared for a reason. So let's see what's on those magical cards you have.

There's not much.

It's all good. Less is more.

Less is more? No, but I got, I got, I got a couple of things I want to, I want to ask you about today.

Boom.

Just because I am curious, and I think it's because maybe I'm not cultured enough, or I, I'm not from here, and I feel like when it all started, it was way before I got here, and even when I got here, I still didn't know about it. So it's just like now I'm coming in touch with all of it.

Hey man, it's more than culture time, so it's time to give you some culture.

Oh, that's right, more than culture time.

There it is.

Okay, well let's do a little introduction and then we're going to get into this because I With every single person that's been coming on, we've been talking for 25 minutes and then we get into the intro and then the episode is like 3 hours long.

It's a good rolling start.

And then people yell at me because I don't want to cut anything out and people yell at me, it's too long.

Hey man, fuck them. How you feel about your show? Do you like it?

I love it. I watched the whole thing.

If you love it, they gonna love it more.

And I watch it like— Carlos's episode, I watched it, I don't know, I told Rod, I think maybe like 24 times at this point and it's a 2.5-hour episode.

Damn, so you spent like half a day just on rewatch?

I was editing it until 4 in the morning.

You edit your own shit?

Yeah, I'm so like— again, because I'm telling you, like before we started rolling, every time I give it to somebody else, they fuck it up, and I'm tired of having fuck-ups every time. So I just— I'm a control freak.

So why are you single? Because I'm a control freak, right?

Me? Yeah, that's what Carlos told me too. He's like, you just demand too much. And I'm like, I say it right off the bat, I'm demanding. What do you want?

Like, you gotta tone that shit down. Nobody want a 6'2" woman telling them when and where. That shit sounds like a CO. That shit sounds like I'm in prison.

That's what it is.

Hell yeah.

No, but people piss me off sometimes. Like, like, especially— okay, before we start, I'mma tell you this story. This one person recently— I don't know if I said that story before, but no, it just happened like literally a couple days ago. He told me, call me in the morning, call me, I'm going to be up at 8:30 in the morning, call me. Okay, I said Okay, I'm gonna call you. And he said, we're gonna go to brunch, just gonna figure it out in the morning. Cool. 8:30, I get up. I'm like, I'm not gonna call him at 8. I'm gonna call him a little— let him sleep a little bit just in case, you know, because I know he went out the night before. Call him at 10 in the morning. No, like, he doesn't pick up the phone. Text him, he doesn't respond, right? That's fine. Hour goes by. I'm like, well, I need to figure out my day because I don't want to just sit here and wait for whoever it is. I'm just going to, you know, I'm going to take my dog on a walk and I'm going to play tennis. And I need to, you know, I need to do a bunch of different little shit. So I just go about my day and I go, I play tennis and whatever, whatever. 4 p.m. This man says, hey, had a busy day.

Did you call him at 8:30 though?

I called him at 10 a.m. because I let him sleep.

Fuck that. You didn't call him when he had availability. Oh, oh, now he with his real family, you know what I'm saying? He had like them a little hour gap to where y'all could have went, got some food, but now I got to do my real life. You just messed up.

But at 4 PM, I mean, at this point, just don't even— just, just wait till Monday. Like, just don't even—

you want him to wait the whole weekend? Then you would really be upset.

No, it was on a Sunday, so like he was trying to mess my Sunday up, but I'm like, nobody's gonna play with my Sunday. That's You know, that's a holy day. I cannot— tennis is essential on Sundays.

You do it every Sunday?

Now we have like a group where we go 2 PM Sunday, we go play tennis.

Okay.

So I won't— I don't want to, you know, say no to my tennis group because somebody wants to go to brunch or whatever, right? But when you mess with my time like that, piss me off.

Yeah, I don't like people fucking with my time too. I was, I was fucking with a girl and, and she was like telling me all this stuff she wanted to do for her birthday, and I was like, we ain't going to do all of that shit, but we'll do 2 or 3 of them things. And she was like 4 hours late, 4 hours behind.

I'm just like, oh hell no. Yeah, did she let you know, hey, I'm running?

Hell no.

See, this is the thing that pisses me off in Atlanta. I can't— I don't understand, like, what y'all got going on that you need to do 3, 4 hours getting ready or whatever? Like, why?

How long it take you to get ready?

Like an hour at most. Today I started getting ready at 6:45 and I was on the road at 7:30.

I mean, you know, shit, women, it take a lot. They gotta get the nails done, hair done, face done, outfit picked out. Sometimes they done gained some weight, so the outfit they picked out don't really rock no more.

But you need to, like, if you know you have a date at 7 PM, right, you need to, if you know it takes you 5 hours to get ready, start getting ready at 2. Yeah, you know, why are you gonna disrespect my time and start getting ready at 6 when you know it takes you 5 hours to get ready?

Yeah, I don't fuck with her. I mean, that's a big-ass red flag for me. So like, I kind of scale back from that. Like, once I see that, to me it's a respect thing.

But that's what I said too. To me, it's a respect thing too. Like, you asked me to call you, I called him, and then I said— so I responded to him, I said, so what happened to the, you know, call me, call me in the morning, right? And he said, well, I had, uh, I want to work out, and then I just wanted a day to myself. And I said, just say that. Just communicate those things. I don't understand. Like, you're a grown-ass man and you can't say, hey, I need a day to myself. You think I'm gonna be like, oh my God, what happened? I'm gonna be like, no, okay, fine, that's fine. Just, you know, if you need anything, let me know.

You know what, sometimes it's hard for a man to know who he can tell the truth to, you know what I mean?

Well, then stay in your little bubble and you're never gonna have anybody. Especially like me. Fuck that.

Talk your shit, Lesya.

It just pisses me off when people disrespect my time. Like, if I'm running 5 minutes late, I'm gonna be like, hey, I'm 5 minutes behind. I'm annoying with it. I'm just being like, I'm so sorry, like, it is what it is. Like, you know, I was, uh, when I was going on More Than Culture, I was like, oh my God, I'm so sorry, I'm coming at 7:31. Like, I'm already stressing that I'm getting there a minute late, and then I end up getting like I was 7 or 8 minutes late, and I'm like stressed out because now I'm disrespecting y'all's time. You know, you were there, you prepared, you're ready for me. I'm like, whoo, I don't like that.

We was ready for you, Lesya.

Bitch, y'all love me. Shout out to More Than Culture.

Hey, we had a good time, man. Make sure you check that episode out, More Than Culture with Lesya.

Yeah, I think it's gonna come out probably before this one.

For this one?

Okay. Yeah, when are you dropping it?

Probably like 2 weeks.

Yeah, probably. Maybe. Maybe.

Actually, I don't know. Maybe.

Let's see how it goes.

Maybe it's tennis. We'll drop, then you drop. Boom, boom.

There you go. Hey. All right, let's do a little intro. I didn't write too much for you because I feel like I need to get to know you. There's something that we need to understand about you.

Let's do it.

Okay. So today's guest, guys, is a comedian. Actually, wait, hold up. Welcome back to Talk Less Show, where conversations go a little bit deeper than the surface. And we have yet another Amazing comedian and a writer who understands humor both on stage and behind the scenes. From stand-up to working around the world of Wild 'N Out, he's been a part of— he's been a part of space where time and culture and observations collide. So today I want to understand the mind of a comedian and how humor actually works. Welcome to the show, Ringo Rod.

What's going on, Lesya? How you doing?

I'm doing incredible. I'm exhausted, to be honest.

What'd you do today?

Shit, what did I not do? So I was editing the episode until 4 in the morning, and then I got up and I went to the gym, and my trainer was like on drugs because the shit that we did in the gym, I like, I was drenched in sweat.

It was a lot of upper body, lower body day.

It was like kind of like a full body. So like my warm-up was doing the sled push and pull.

Hell yeah.

Yeah. And then, and then we went into like jump squats, push-ups, some abs. It was a lot. And then like we started lifting after that and I was like, you know what, I gotta go because I gotta go back to editing. So I just spend like, honestly, most of my days are now spent editing. Like I'm in my house.

You and your edit bag, man. Yeah. There's nothing wrong with that shit.

No. And then like it just, I think I like have dreams now about the episodes that I'm watching and sometimes I'm like, I cannot listen to my voice anymore.

Man, you at that point.

I hate it.

Yeah.

Do you like your voice?

Oh, um, I finally gotten out of the place to where I'm doing things like editing, cuz I'm also, you know, familiar with, uh, the production of everything and editing and stuff like that. So when I stepped away from that, yes, I'm cool now. But before, I was very harsh in critiquing every little thing. But it's good though, it's good though. You get better.

All right, well, let's start the episode. So, um, Every guest that comes on the show, they always answer this one question. If there's one thing you can talk less about, what would it be?

Talk less about? Give me like an example.

Like talk less about and do more of. Like, you know, this man talking about he's just overpromising and underdelivering. Hate it. Talk less about promising things that you need to do tomorrow.

Damn, right. You talking straight to me, Ro. She talking straight to me, ain't she?

What is it?

Look outta here. Yeah, no, that's exactly what it is. I just need to stop talking. I just need to stop talking.

You overpromise and underdeliver?

I do that a lot.

Why? What is it with men? Why do you guys do this? Break it down.

It's not necessarily men. I mean, a lot of people do. It is more so a thing called analysis paralysis.

Okay.

Is when you overcomplicate the smallest of situations because you build this mountain of shit to do to get it accomplished. And you built this mountain of shit and you can't even see the vision anymore.

But if you know that you have so many things to do, right, why can't you just use your communication skills to say, hey, can't do this today, I'm sorry, can we reschedule?

Well, I mean, that's a very specific circumstance, but, uh, I mean, for that circumstance, I don't know, it's like, you know, you just got to be honest about shit like that. But like, just, I got an idea and I really want to execute it, but this gonna have, I need this, I need that, I need this, I need that. You can just get overwhelmed with shit. Shit can just get overwhelming. And so, and it's a small piece of being a people pleaser that's in there.

Oh yeah, I get it.

And if you can't please the person, you kind of like, ugh. So you kind of just kind of back off and recluse.

So you just choose to not interact with them and then like be like, okay, you just—

I don't know, it's weird as shit. You kind of feel like a child, like they're gonna find out, they're gonna find out I ain't shit, or I can't really deliver what I promised. So you just kind of shut the fuck up and you just kind of like remove yourself, just remove yourself from it because you don't want the confrontation of it because you feel like the confrontation is going to be bigger than it is. The confrontation might not even be a conversation, this might be like, man, it's cool, I understand. But in your mind, it's so big. It's like, "Oh man, I look lame as shit.

They ain't gonna fuck with me no more, blah, blah, blah." Oh, so you already think that the other person is bigger than you and they're going to, I guess, make you feel some type of way.

Well, you're making yourself feel some type of way, but for sure, you just don't want to disappoint nobody or see the disappointment on them. I'd be a great deadbeat dad. I'll be an amazing deadbeat dad. What the fuck? Like, I would, if I can't deliver the shit that you saying that you want, that I say that you can get, oh man, you might not see me in 2, 3 years.

2, 3 years?

Do you like my daddy did me. Gotta keep this generational shit going.

Wait, do you have any kids?

Not yet.

Hold the fuck up. What is going on in that More Than Culture universe? Because Tyler told me that I'm gonna raise kids by myself, and then you said you're gonna be a great deadbeat dad. What?

Come on now, we gotta stand up for the people who left these kids behind so they can be greater.

Oh, so you're just gonna be like, my daddy did that to me, I'm gonna do the same thing to my kid?

This is, this is why I'm here.

Oh really? Okay, so you think it's gonna work?

Hell, I mean, at this great age, if I had kids, man, I'd be straight in their life and they're going to get tired of me.

There you go. See, now we're talking.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Because hell no, don't be dead. What the fuck? See, it's like those definitions are just— but I mean, from the other side, I can kind of understand that now they're, you know, they ain't shit dads. So now they're like just choosing not to even participate because why even face the trauma and pain, right? And, you know, take accountability because men have a hard time I'm taking accountability to begin with.

Don't you dare just throw that on us though.

Oh really?

Women are the accountability snipers. They don't— they don't never take accountability for shit.

What?

You just said— we was off camera though, so I ain't gonna talk about it.

What was it? What did I say?

You said something about, um, dating a dude, or you said something— oh no, no, you said something on Carlos episode. And Carlos had to check your ass by bringing pastries.

Oh, that's a friend of mine.

Okay.

That's a friend of mine. I brought him donuts when he was feeling down.

That's the weirdest shit ever. Don't do that again.

Why not?

Bring in—

You are feeling sad and down, and I said, hey, I'm buying pastries right now. Do you want one? Yeah? Okay. I'mma pull up. I'mma pull up in like 5 minutes. I'll bring you one.

So you asked him, he said yeah.

Yeah, and I brought him a pastry and then he ate them and he was like, oh my God, because it was from Paris Baguette. And he was like, oh, I've never had that before, this is amazing. And he's like, well, I don't want to get fat, okay? I was like, all right, well, enjoy your pastry, go work out, and I gotta go. But I gave him a hug and I said everything is gonna be okay. And there, that's the whole interaction.

You're a good friend, Lesya B. You're a good friend.

See?

That's some bullshit. Why ain't you get him no wings?

I don't eat meat, so that's on me. But I asked him because it was in the moment. That was the first thing that like, I was only around pastries. That was the only thing I saw.

You were just, okay.

I mean, and I asked him, I said, do you want coffee? Do you want matcha? Do you want any of that stuff? He said no.

I ain't never had matcha. Is that good?

Oh my God, it's amazing. I'm gonna take you to a good spot.

Matcha?

Matcha is great, but it depends where you go though. Because it can be gross. It can taste like grass.

Oh, hell no.

Yeah, no, it's got to have syrup in it and it's got to be made in a proper way. But he was like, no, I don't want— and mind you, we're no longer friends because he wasn't a good friend to me. And I don't like that because when I needed to move, that man calls me in the middle of the day and he goes, well, I'm going to the gym right now. And I said, I asked you to come help me move. You can move all this heavy shit. It's just the same thing as going to the gym. And he goes, well, okay, I'm gonna call you after the gym, and just hangs up on me. And I said, don't worry about it, just don't.

Are you one of those movers that puts everything in the drawer and just tape the drawer and try to lift the whole fucking drawer?

Yeah, I just— at this point, I'm— yeah, I'm not trying to make like 25 trips. Like, just let's just get this shit over with.

That's why I don't care. You want to blow his back out with all this shit you got?

You go to the gym and lift 400-pound weights. You can lift this, man.

Lifting a dresser and lifting a set is different.

But that's— here's another thing. You can say, I don't want to help you, and I would have appreciated that. But when you keep like feeding me the illusion of the fact that you're going to come and help me— people, fuck that.

People pleaser.

You said you want pastries. What did I do? I pulled up with a motherfucking pastry and I gave you the goddamn pastry. You ate it.

He wanted you to feed it to him.

What, the pastry?

Yeah.

No, I'm not a feeder. I don't feed no pastry.

She's an eater, she's not a feeder.

Okay, I didn't eat nothing he ate, and it was good for me because I was like, I cannot be eating those pastries. It's great to look at them, but I can't touch them because then I'm gonna get fat, and I don't want to get fat. So you get fat.

So you passing on the calories?

Yeah, he needed— he's, you know, he, he boxes and like does all this kind of cardio workouts, so he needs it more. It's, it's, it's going to turn into energy.

What's a good friend to you? Like, what's the traits of a good friend?

Traits of a good friend, you know, it's been like a conversation lately because I just had a breakup with a friend, like a girl.

You done broke up with everybody.

Yeah, and, um, the reason why I broke up with her was because she crossed the boundary, and I just felt like as if like my boundary was crossed to the point where I had to sit and think about it. I was like, what was it that like really hurt me? And it was when she got into like, it was like something personal, right? Life related. And when people try to push me to tell things about my personal life when I don't want to say those things or like tell them those things, there's certain things I wanna keep to myself. And when people try to impose on that, I have a problem with it cuz it's a boundary. Like, If I, if you're my friend and we're having a conversation, mm-hmm. And let's say like I start talking to somebody, I'm gonna share this moment of like me talking to somebody, to a friend, only when I'm comfortable with it. Not because I need to or because I'm talking to a friend, but because now, okay, I know how I can process whatever's going on with that person and I know how to like deliver the, the, the information. Okay. But when somebody's trying to like, actively like poach for information from me, right? I don't like that because it's like now you're crossing my personal boundary because it's like I don't really like to— well, I can't say I don't like to share my personal life because I've been talking about this shit all day long on them. But I'm just saying like the shit that I'm talking on a podcast that already happened like some time ago, already processed all of that. But when it's something new, I've learned that I want to like— I want to hold on to it and I don't really— I don't— it's none of your business what's going on. I don't care if you're a friend or mom or whoever, unless I'm ready to share this information, I'm Don't poach for it. Don't try to like drag it out of me.

I mean, she just wanted the tea. She just wanted the new information.

No, and I think she was coming from a very good place, and then she said that like it's a sisterhood and we're protecting you and blah blah blah blah blah. And I'm like, to me, this whole idea is like, I'm a grown-ass adult and I don't need protection. I'm—

oh, you must have been messing with one of them crazy niggas.

No, no, no, no. I don't know. He isn't crazy. I would— I don't— we'd I still don't know much about this person. That's the guy who didn't call me back. So, you know, it's the same person, but it's just like the way that it happened, it was like I felt like my personal boundary was just violated and I don't like that. I didn't feel okay with it. I was like, there's certain— especially I'm a very anxious person. Like, I'm a very like emotion— my emotions go high. Like I told you, when the shit with Cam's episode happened, I go like, I'm extreme. And so I don't like when people poach me when it's like emotions are hot because I know I need to sit down and I need to think about it and I need to let it all pass and I need to calm down before I can talk. Because if I don't, then I might say things that I don't mean and I don't want that to come back at me and saying, oh, she said this and this and this. And then, you know, because I know myself, so I want to protect myself to begin with. But people are saying, oh, we're trying to protect you. Like, no, you protecting me is not going against my boundary and just like staying in your way.

Now let me ask you a question.

Mhm.

It's a two-parter. Number one, did you— do they know that this is a boundary for you?

Yeah.

Okay. And then the second part is— well, fuck the second part, cuz all right, if they, if they knew, then yeah.

It's— I think it's just like this specific friend, she's been an amazing friend. I can't tell, like, I feel like maybe this is going to pass, I— cuz like we, we got into like a texting fight and I still haven't responded.

So what the hell is a texting fight?

Like when you have long-ass messages, but you know, her—

you getting sassy.

She was getting long messages. My messages are like one-liner, cuz whenever it goes like that, I'm like, I'mma just let it be. I, I'mma let it—

I see how men feel, right?

But so like, exactly, that's why I don't do this shit. Like I don't do the long messages, cuz it's like, for what? Unless it's, you know, work-related and I have to like pinpoint certain things, that's a different story. But when it's relationship stuff, no. First of all, we're going to have a phone call, or we can have in-person conversation. But with her, like, she gets heated, and she just like— with her, she just wants to win an argument. And I'm like, I'mma let you have it. So it's been like 2 or 3 weeks that I haven't responded. I was like driving here, I was like, maybe I should respond. But I'm like trying to come up with things that I want to say, because like, I don't want to— I'm not a type of fighter that's going to be like, you did this, you did— I would say, I feel this way.

And you sound like you miss her though.

I do miss her. She's a good friend, but it's just like, man, make up.

Bring her some pastries and y'all can damn make up.

Yeah, I, I don't know. I feel like it's just, um, I've been very to myself. I don't, I don't know what it is, like, in the last couple of months.

You've been editing the fuck?

I've been editing, yeah. And there's like so many things that are going on that I'm like, I just can't be distracted. Because the moment I'm distracted, I can't focus on my life.

You need all focus.

Yeah.

Come on now, it's your time.

Yeah, but enough about me. Who the fuck— nobody cares about me. They care about you. They don't watch my show for me, they watch my show for my guests, man.

All these men is watching your show trying to learn how they can get into your DMs. You told us on Order Culture how many times it takes too. Brothers, you got to be persistent. If you're trying to talk to Lesya, you can't just leave one or two DMs. You got to be, what, 4, 5, 6?

Yeah, but be cool about it because like there's some, some person that I met, um, recently and I gave them my phone number because they like came at me with whatever angle that was like, like work kind of related stuff. Then I get messages, what are you doing? How are you? What are you doing? Where are you?

How do women feel about that? Like if you come on some work shit but then you try to curve it onto some personal No, no, it's cool, but like, if curviness is some personal—

if you see, if you feel some reciprocation, but when there's no reciprocation, like, don't ask me, what are you doing? Or like, where are you? I don't fucking know you. You coming at me with work stuff, so it's like, now it's like, this is a little weird now, okay? So don't, don't— you can question something that's not like— that's a little bit, again, too personal for me. Like, what are you doing? It's like What the fuck do you care what I'm doing? I mean, what are you trying to do? I don't know. Just— well, you can say something like, oh, like, you know, I had such a long day, blah blah blah. Like, how was your day? Like, that's a different conversation. But asking me what am I doing, where am I, like, nah, hell no. What are you, my boy?

You don't have the authority to—

no, you don't have the authority to do that. That's too, too early, too soon.

I feel you.

Yeah, that's the whole like WYD thing. People got to cut that shit.

WYD?

WYD, WYA. Unless you only just want to fuck that person. Send it. But if you want more than that, no, it will never work.

Yeah, I mean, yeah, WYD is a, is a good icebreaker, but like you can't do it every day.

For what? What are you breaking with WYD?

What you doing?

But so you get— if you text WYD, you get responses?

For sure.

What time of the day do you send that message?

Evenings.

Like, are we talking before 9 PM or after 9 PM?

After 9.

So yeah, unless she wants to fuck, she's not going to respond.

That's why they respond.

Oh, so they want to fuck?

They want to fuck.

Oh, you got it like that?

I mean, not everybody. Okay, the ones I do, I have.

No, I don't give a shit who it is. If you text me 'WYD,' no, that's like— if you want to irritate me, that's the way.

So how do we What do we need to say to get the fuck less? Let's just get straight to it. Fuck this. What do we need to text or DM less?

It's not about what you need to text or DM less, it's about— it's a lot that goes into it. I'm a complicated person.

Hey guys, fuck it, go on to somebody else.

Yeah, go on to somebody else. Don't even waste your time because I am I'm a mess. I'm a lot. I'm demanding. I'mma annoy the shit out of you. And I'm gonna be— I'm gonna make sure if you tell me, I'm gonna call you back. You know how many men I tell, stop telling me this, because it— like, even people who I'm close with, I literally say, stop telling me you're gonna call me back because you're not gonna call me back. And I can't stand when people overpromise and underdeliver. Like, I can't stand that shit.

Why they don't call you? Why you feel like they don't call you back?

I don't fucking know why. And the thing is, it's fine because sometimes you're gonna get busy and it's okay. Just say bye. Don't say I'm gonna call you back. I take words literal.

We see.

Yeah, because it's like, the fuck are you saying? Talk less, do more.

Oh, this shit is— oh, this is trauma for you. Why is it therapy for you?

Yes. Why?

Well, goddamn it, therapy with Les. Come on, man.

Yeah, I love therapy.

Yeah, you go every week?

Not every week, every other week. And I go to— I have like a psychiatrist and a therapist. Yeah, because like my anxiety sometimes goes so far that like it's hard for me to just do anything. So yeah, that's another thing that like people need to understand about me. I'm a very anxious person. So like unless you are willing to take on that, then yeah, but it's a lot. Like that's why I'm like, just stay, just leave me the fuck alone. I'm good.

She's not good.

She's not well.

She's not well at all.

Well, fuck all that. I really want to talk to you about Wild 'N Out. How did you end up on Wild 'N Out?

So your husband, uh, put my name in the mix. They were looking for writers.

And, uh, who is my husband?

Oh, a good friend of mine, uh, Tyler. Tyler Chronicles.

Y'all motherfuckers. Husband, can you please put a ring on it because I'm tired of having an empty finger?

It's a big-ass ring, Tyler. You gotta goddamn save up a few checks.

He got it.

I mean, you know, but nah, he put my name in the mix. They were looking for, this is the first time Wild 'N Out was doing two seasons at one time. They were doing 19 and 20. It was like right during the pandemic. And I was on the set just, you know, being in the background as a fellow comedian since season 15. So the cast was, you know, used to me. A lot of the producers were used to me. So when my name came up, they had an opportunity. Uh, I went in there and kicked ass. We had fun.

But how does that work? Because like, I never really watched the show again because like I got here way before Wild 'N Out was— oh no, way after Wild 'N Out was like a thing. I've heard of it.

You've never seen Wild 'N Out?

I might have seen it in Russia, to be honest, because I'm pretty sure— because it was on MTV, right? It still is on MTV. MTV was the biggest thing in the world in Russia. That was like, if you watch MTV, you were the coolest person in the world. Like, it was just, you know, we had the crib thing, like when they were going in like— yeah, it was we had that. Like, we were watching a lot of American stuff because like at the time they didn't have no Russian content, so they were just translating everything that was coming from here. So Wild 'N Out was on TV, but like it didn't make sense because it was in Russian. Yeah, because it was in Russian.

I would love to see them translate these fucking jokes. That's crazy, right?

So like sometimes, you know, they would translate, but it would be like with this like weird voice because back then the translation was like, like it was one person who was like, and listen, like They were like, they would, as if, like, it just sounded horrible.

Was that DC Young Fly voice?

Worse. It was worse. But like, they would pretend to be like, as if they had an American accent, they're speaking Russian.

Oh my God.

So they had to do it right. And it would be always men's voice. It wouldn't be like a female voice, right? So, you know, like, obviously I'd see it, but I'd be like, I don't know what the fuck is going on here. Just a bunch of people laughing like crazy and just, you know, it just didn't make any sense. But I know that they made like, they they created a lot of shows that are similar to Wild 'N Out, um, just like a Russian concept.

Oh really?

So yeah, like they— because a lot of the stuff was stolen from the US. Like, you know, the— obviously the ideas were great and they're all coming from here, and so they just pick it up and, you know, make it their own there because there's no— well, at the time they could do like copyright and they could do it because they were working with all the Sony Entertainment and all of that, right? Now obviously they can't because of all the political shit, but right But yeah, so I've never really watched it. So now I'm like, now I'm like, I need to, because this is— you were like, what, the fourth person from Wild 'N Out that's on my show? I had Carlos, Tyler, That Boy Funny, That Boy Funny, and now you.

There it is. Well, shit. So now I'm like, gotta watch some episodes. So if you get somebody else, you know, right? What you talking about?

But how do you know, like, when you're writing those jokes, how do you know that they're actually going to hit?

The thing about jokes, writing, especially for somebody, and mind you, we were writing for the guests that come on the show. 'Cause you know, they're just here to come on the show. They're not necessarily comedians. They could be music artists or Olympians or, you know, so they don't really have comedic skills or timing, but everybody knows what funny is. So, you know, we, We all probably sit down. It's probably about 6 writers in a room. We're all pitching ideas to each other, and the best ideas go on the page. We might have 5 or so ideas, and then we pitch those ideas to the talent. And then the talent says, "Oh, I like this one," or, "That's funny." You know what I mean? And we tried, you know, we're there, their soundboard. So they'll deliver it to us and we'll be like, maybe deliver it a little bit less aggressive, or maybe bring up your energy when you delivering it so, you know, it could hit. So it's a little rehearsal with the artists, but pretty much people on the cast, they funny, they know what they doing. That's why they get hired. You know what I mean? So we writing for them. My biggest moment for me was writing for Tevin Campbell and him like really loving what we wrote for him. And it's like, Tevin's like, I never met Michael Jackson, but like just his demeanor, you know what I mean? Felt like, you know, Michael Jackson, real just chill, cool, calm, humble, super shy. So for him to come outta his bubble, Yeah, that was a win for us. That was a win.

So basically all these people, celebrities that are coming on, they're not, that's not their jokes. It's, a lot of the stuff is written for them. Has there been moments where people like say something and it actually becomes funny and it was not written?

For sure. Glorilla, she funny as hell. And she can really, really rap. 'Cause sometimes like in the musical games, we'll come up with their lines too.

Mm-hmm.

But some of the musical artists take more liberty and say, I mean, that's cool, but I'mma put my spin on it. And she delivered. She delivered. She was funny as hell. And then you get the greats that come on and they're just flawless. Like, you know, Kevin and Kat, Michael Blackson, you know, especially people who've been in the circuit before. They've been on Wild 'N Out before or were you know, old guests that have now elevated. And that's the thing about Wild 'N Out that I love. It's just the alumni of Wild 'N Out is like as big as SNL, for real.

Yeah. When I looked at who came out of Wild 'N Out, I was like, wait, I did not know that Kevin Hart came out of it. I did not know that Katt Williams came out of it. I was like, wait, what? But I mean, this whole idea of Nick Cannon, because then, you know, Nick Cannon, when he got famous because of the whole baby mama thing, right? Like the kids. And then, but like, that's one of the biggest punchlines for sure, right? Right. So like, that, that kind of outweighed it because at first I remember I was like, what does this guy do that he can afford so many kids? And when I saw how big it was, the Wild 'N Out, I was like, oh, he good.

Oh yeah, he good, good.

He good. He got money, he got time. I mean, I don't know about the time, but yeah, he, he, he, he can afford all them kids, man.

You know what, working with, uh Nick is like, because I seen him early on in his career, like when we did Drumline. And coming from, you know, low responsibilities, no kids, just living life to now corporate mogul, the brother, like he gotta be like some type of hyperbaric chamber. He gotta sleep upside down or something. I've seen him go on set, do 2 shows, 3 shows a day, fly out to see a kid graduate or, you know, or do some homework, come back, work out, hit the set again and do it all over for like months on end.

What?

Months on end.

See, and then men cannot call back, like the regular guys who have regular motherfucking jobs.

You are— he's— you know what, you might be a Nick Cannon candidate.

I—

you look candidate. Hey, we might have to connect the dots. Connect the dots.

Break him on here. Call him, be like, hey, might have— what is it, the 15 baby mama? He'll have to marry me though.

Well, that ain't the vibe. That ain't gonna happen.

Oh, well, Tyler, it is, you know. But low-key though, see, for me it would have to be somebody who can be like— I can be myself with Tyler, you know. Like, I don't have to pretend to be nothing else because it's like we're cut from the same cloth at this point, you know. We're just— we're in the same industry. We just— it is what it is. I'm not saying that like, oh my God, Tyler is my husband. I'm just saying that like My husband is going to be the vibe like that, like where I don't have to pretend. I don't have to like— even if I call you out, you're just going to laugh about it. Like, shut the fuck up. Like, you know, 2 hours is nothing. Or like, you know, you still had a good day. Like, somebody has to be able to, you know, talk back to check your ass, to check my ass and just be like, whoa, what, did you have a bad day? You want to play tennis? So what the— like, what happened? Everything is good. Don't worry about it.

Hey, can't be no little bitch to talk to Lesya B. You got to be a grown man with two nuts.

Two of them. Yeah, please, because fuck, man.

Traumatic.

Traumatic. So you only did two seasons there?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then that's it?

Two seasons in and out. Um, yeah.

Wait, are there like— so this is what I was thinking today. You know how most of the things in life that we do, they have patterns, right? Or like when we do the podcast, we know the topics that are going to hit. Like, you know, we know the topics that are going to be controversial or funny or whatever, right? Is it the same thing with comedy when you write it? Like, you know that there's certain things that are gonna for sure hit?

Um, well, there's subjects that more people can relate to, like relationships. Everybody can relate to a relationship, right? Um, but then if you go a little bit more niche, um, people who like pickles It's like not too many people like pickles versus people who've been in a relationship. So if you're trying to write, if you want to be true to yourself, then if you like pickles, go crazy on the pickles. You know what I mean?

Listen, we're in the era where I think more than 50% of women has said that they gave up on dating. So soon we're going to have more people who like pickles than been in relationships.

That might be true.

Because now you actually can come across so many people who have never had a relationship before. Like a serious relationship. Yes. It's becoming more and more a thing where like people are in their late 20s. They've never had a relationship.

Oh yeah. Early 20s, shit. They had to go through COVID. They screen babies. They like behind the screen. It's like, you know, social interaction for them kids ain't, they don't do it too often. Right. So, you know, where in our era, shit, you had to learn how to talk to somebody. Yeah, you have to face to face and you're gonna have relationships. Situationships, I feel like, is the new relationship. A situationship.

All this fucking labels, I'm so confused. I don't even understand because I feel like now it's this new thing where you can't even talk. If you say the word relationship, whoa, whoa, you might scare them away, right? Like literally like this, right? It could be so quick.

Yeah, I mean, people ain't trying to really commit. Why? Because it's a commitment. It's like, it's accountability behind it. Oh, you got to keep doing it every day, day after day. And we're so used to scrolling and flipping, we want the next shit.

What's the next shit?

The next shit is the next person you meet, or the person you see at the game, or, you know person you see at the gym, start— it starts off business, but then it's WYD.

I hope not. I hope not. I pray not, because that's crazy. That is crazy. But like, if you think about it, okay, it's one thing when you do something and you know where you're going. Like, if you go to a job, you know you're going to get paid at the end of the month. Like, you're going to get paid maybe twice a month, right? But when you do situationship, you just don't know where it's going to go. What the fuck is the point of this?

The fuck?

And fuck for what? You're not gonna then randomly have kids and have dads that don't show up, or for what?

Welcome to America.

What's the logical explanation?

I don't think it's based in logic. I just think it's based on, uh, trauma. It's just based on like probably, uh, just trying to do something. There's something to do. You know what I mean? Like, instead of feeling like a hoe— that's really what it is— instead of me feeling like a complete slut, I'm fucking 4 people. We in situationships, so we might go out, we might, you know what I mean, kick it here and there, but ultimately we just fucking with no intent of being in a relationship.

Hmm, interesting.

I think that's how it's going right now. And women are, women are leading the, leading the situationships.

Why? How? Where did you get those stats from?

Women are leading. We cool, we can kick it, but you know, let's take our time. Let's, let's kind of roll this thing out slow.

That's what women say?

Hell yeah.

Where do you find those women?

I mean, you know, I'd be at the crab leg night and karaoke nights and—

oh, crab leg The fuck is that?

We gotta take you around Atlanta.

Yeah, I don't know, I've been around Atlanta because— what is that?

You never been to a lamb chop night?

No.

Crab leg night? A lemon pepper wing night? No.

You just sit there and eat like a bunch of seafood boil and shit?

Oh, you don't eat meat?

I don't eat meat, but I—

so that'll probably fuck you up, your noses and your senses. Be like, oh God, I don't really—

again, I don't really leave my house much. I'm just gym, house, take my dog out on a walk, maybe I'll go get matcha across the street, but that's it.

You be outside. Don't act like you know damn none, Lesya. You be outside.

I used to be outside. I'm not, not anymore. I'm too tired for it. I, I don't have energy. I like to sleep, you know. I like to—

you focus right now.

I'm very focused right now. It's my problem.

What's, what's your goal? Like, what's your— where are you trying to go?

I wanna, I wanna make sure I can call Nick Cannon, he's going to be right across from me. I want to make sure I can call Shaq, he's going to be right across from me. I want to make sure I can call anybody I want to talk to on my podcast, they're going to come and sit across from me.

I mean, you know, I would say for someone like yourself, that's easy, you know. Yeah, just, just keep yourself around the situations and they gonna lend themselves to you.

Yeah, I just— I'm like, this is, this is, this is what I'm building. This is— I haven't been doing this just to, you know, have it as a situationship, not knowing where it's going.

And people do their businesses like situationships too.

That's fucked up.

They do their hobbies and their businesses like, maybe this is gonna work, maybe it's not going, but I'm just gonna try it out and see what it do. They don't have a goal for it, you know what I mean?

No, no, no, no, no, no. I, I know where I'm going. We fight sometimes me and Talk Less Show. Sometimes I'm like, fuck you, I don't want to do this anymore, this YouTube, like, man. And I blame anything and everything, and I'm like, maybe I should cheat on you and have somebody else, right? You know, have a co-host or something. And then no, I come back and I still sit here and I do the same thing again and again and again. We're committed.

Hey man, it ain't going nowhere. So if you supporting, you supporting something. That's gonna be around for a while.

Yeah, it's not— I can't. But I'm— that's how I am. That's why I'm like, my mind's relationships, they're not gonna work, because I'm like, if you're mine, you're mine. Like, you're not going nowhere.

Oh, if you're mine, you're mine.

Yeah.

Okay.

How else is it supposed to work?

No, you're right. I mean, shit, you found a— you found the right one for you too. All right. The best advice I've gotten, in my opinion, is it's all about who can put up with your bullshit. If somebody can put up with your bullshit, then that's your person, right? Everything else is just all flexing and fluff, you know. If they can put up with your controlling ass and your anxiety and, you know, I mean, if they can put up with, you know, all that shit, then That's your, that's your person.

Yeah, I also don't think I want to be in a relationship right now. I don't really care for it. Yeah, I just, I, I don't think I have time for it, nor do I have a mental capacity for it.

What about a situationship?

No, I don't have time for— fuck that. No, for what? If you can't be an adult and communicate your shit, like, especially because I'm not going to date somebody who's in their 20s, they got to be in their 30s or 40s. And they got to be able to communicate their stuff if they like it, if they don't like it, even if they don't know how to do it. I need them to tell me, hey, I'm not really best at communicating, so bear with me. Now I know. But when people don't do that, it's like, I can't. It's just, it's like, what the fuck is going on in this world? Yeah, it's very hard.

That's one thing I do do. I'm very open about like, hey, communication and following up is not my best thing. So, you know, I'm just letting you know. And if you fuck with it, cool. If you don't, that's cool too, you know?

Yeah. Because at the same time, like, you know, you need, you need space and time for yourself, right? You can't just always be, you know, a part of this, like, other person's life. I was just watching this podcast. It's with a friend of mine. And actually, both of those women did my podcast, and they were talking about if you you have a girlfriend or like a wife, right, then, um, as a man, you shouldn't be going and hanging out with your friends who are women. You should not be doing that one-on-one. And then they said like, versa, vice versa, that as a woman, if you have a husband or a boyfriend, you shouldn't be going and hanging out with your friends one-on-one. Like, you can bring your friends into our relationship, it can be 3 of us, But like, you shouldn't spend time with each other. And I was like, what the fuck?

Yeah, that's, that's, I understand where that comes from. Like, I got a good friend that just got married not too long ago. And like, this is a writing partner of mine. Like, we write plays and other forms of content. And we used to, of course, one-on-one all the time. But she got married. I go over to, you know, their house. Her husband's super cool. We all, you know, get along. So it's like, I understand that, you know, you're just trying to protect your partner. And then sometimes you might have somebody that's insecure. Everybody's not secure. So you might be with someone who needs that reassurance. I don't think that's wrong to give it to them. If you love them, you got to give them what they need. Yeah, I feel like maybe I can't be selfish, Lesya.

No, no, I'm just saying— I'm not saying that's selfish, but I'm just saying that I feel like I've learned one thing in this life is that if you're doing a relationship, you still have to have your life separately from that other. Like, your life is not just going to be intertwined with your man or your woman. It's going to be really hard because you guys are going to suffocate each other at some point. And I think that's why, to me, communicate those things. Like, I don't give a shit. Like, if you're going to go out with your boys, you're going to go out with your boys. I can't control what the hell you do there. And if you decide to do something that you want to do, that's on you. That's between you and God, not me. I don't give a shit because I know how I'm going to behave and I know what I'm going to do. And if I decide to do something, then that's on me. And then I'm going to express that and we're going to have a conversation later. But I'm going to just say, hey, go ahead, go be with your homeboys. I'm going to go to sleep.

So y'all in the house, 10 at night. He want to step out with the homies, you about to go to sleep. You cool? You're okay with that? You're not going to, like, question him too much.

And so if we have agreed that we're going to have a night to ourselves, then I'm going to say no because we had an agreement. So you should have let your homeboys know. But if it's like some business stuff or something that—

I just want to hang out. I just want to—

Oh, no, just want to hang out. If we have agreed that this is our night, then no. If we're just like chilling, doing nothing, and he's like, I want to step out, cool, that's how you feeling. I want to stay inside, I'm staying inside, you go out. But if that was our night, fuck no, don't mess with my night.

Controlling.

No, I just think it's like we've agreed. So it's like, again, I don't know why people don't— there's no— I guess like there's no value in the words anymore.

A lot of this shit done got diminished. I think social media is really We've seen the effects of it now. Like, we're really seeing the effects.

But what do you— so as a writer, how did you even become a writer?

Um, shit, put the pen to the pad. Uh, you know, you have ideas as a— well, as a comedian, you're always writing. Like, so you're just living, you're experiencing life, but you're all— you're, you're taking things down as you go. Different. And sometimes that makes the page, sometimes that doesn't. Sometimes you might go on a date and here comes some funny shit and it's like, okay, I gotta remember that. So you just jot that down. So it evolved from that. Um, and I've always like used to write short stories and stuff like that in school, like little short stories.

Um, think about what, what do you write the short story about in school?

I mean, just, you know, I'm an only child too. So that's like for me to, you know, create my own worlds. And storytelling, man, if you can tell a good story, shh.

That's money.

That's money. You know? And it's getting more and more important that the story is the winner of it, of everything. Because like the little microdramas that they do, like the little short form content, It's all story-driven.

So you see those AI story-driven things? Oh my God, I keep seeing those things. It's like, um, it's like a, an orange and an orange, and then her boss is a banana, and then she got pregnant all of a sudden, and the baby comes out as a little banana, and her husband is like, you cheated on me with your boss. And it's like this whole drama. I don't want a banana, I'm an orange. We're supposed to be proud oranges, and you brought a banana. Here, and then he kicks her to the curb, and then, you know, she's like on the street crying, and then somebody else picks her up. Like, it's a whole— like, this whole AI shit is hilarious.

All stories.

All stories though. Yeah, podcast, they're all stories.

All stories.

Everything is a story now. Yeah, that's why I'm so jealous of people who can write, because the way that you can tell a story, especially like as a comedian, it's, it's, it's, it's a talent.

Yeah. And it's something that you have to grow into. Like, all comedians don't tell stories. Some comedians are just like real witty one-liners. Observational comedians to where they're just talking about what they observe. And very few people have stories to tell that— I mean, to be able to talk to somebody, to have a microphone for, 10 minutes and tell one story, one story that everybody's intrigued by, laughing at, like all of the things, that's, it takes some talent for sure.

It does take some talent 'cause it's not easy.

That's why people put Dave Chappelle up there 'cause he's a great storyteller. You know, he'll tell one, he'll tell a story for 20 minutes, one joke.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But the way that they can describe like, Now we know where we at, we know what we're talking about. And now I feel like I'm watching a movie just because of the way you're describing the story or like telling the story. So now it's visual for me. So like, that's, I feel like that's the real talent.

I mean, you naturally have it because when you was on our show, we had By Felicia Candles as a sponsor and you was like, "Hold up, hold up." And then you did your story. About how you walked in and it was cloudy with a Chan Zarifa and, um, how that candle saved the day. So yeah, I had—

you know, I always thought I don't have a talent like that because I can't do solos. I suck at it. Yeah, no, I can't do it.

You need some bounce back?

Yeah, I need some bounce back. I need to go off something. I like to have a conversation. If I'm just sitting there and like by myself, I can spiral to something that you would be like, what the fuck, Lesya? Like, just let's— nobody wants to hear that. It's a little too much. Okay, it's a little too deep. And it's like, it's just going completely the opposite direction. But like, to tell a story, I got to tell it in the moment though, because like, see, like in the moment I can— I'm a very last-minute person. Like, I can figure this shit out because when Tyler was given the commercial, I was like, bro, this sucks. Nobody would want to pay money for that. Like, what kind of commercial is this?

Let's revamp it. Yeah, do it over.

I like to, you know, especially when I have sponsors, I like to make sure that I do something that's going to be meaningful. That's not just going to be like— and I try to do it. And you know, it's like ads now, they're so different than what it used to be. Used to be like, buy this product for like two price— two products for the price of one, blah, blah, blah. Now it's like there's a whole thing that's just like, what's going to catch attention, right? So it's kind of like now it's transitioned to that.

It's an art to it for sure, to get people interested in some shit that they never heard of. Like, I always— like, people who open up, uh, anything in food, I'm like, that's crazy because you gotta— like, strangers are trusting and putting this in their bodies and it's like, I like it or it's gonna kill me. Like, what if you get your ingredients wrong and start fucking people up. That's crazy.

Or like med spas, you know, or doctors. I mean, you never fucking know. Yeah, you don't know what they're— especially if you have a surgery like BBLs and shit, you never know how they're gonna come out.

You never know.

The only thing you can do is look at the work, but if you haven't done the work, then they don't have nothing to look at. So like, how are you gonna start? So you gotta have blind trust.

Blind trust. And that's why like you got to see another BBL and like, where you get your ass at? And then they be like, what shit? I went to Remo, you know what I'm saying?

Would you do a BBL? Do you be a BBL surgeon?

I would be a BBL surgeon.

You like the BBLs?

I don't like the BBLs.

So why would you be a surgeon?

You know, to help, to help the flat booties.

The flat booties?

Yeah, I'll do butt lifts. I wouldn't do a full BBL.

Well, you have to lift it from something, you know.

You gotta, you gotta take the fat from somewhere and then put it somewhere else.

What if they don't have fat nowhere else? It's just flat.

Everywhere. That's, that's a good question. Where do they get that shit from? Where do they get up? Where do they get asses from?

They have to— if they're super skinny, they have to gain like 20 pounds. So they're going to make them gain weight.

Oh wow.

So they have like extra fat pockets so they can pull the fat out from there and then insert into the places.

Oh shit.

Mhm. It's like a whole thing. I had a friend who had to do that. She had to gain like 25 pounds and like she had to— it was quick too. So like she had a month And so she had to gain in like a month, 25 pounds. And then like, they were just like taking fat out of all places.

Women. And then like, you got to let that shit heal before you hit the streets.

Yo, every time I'm in the gym, I'm like, I'm gonna just get a lipo. I'm tired of this shit. And then I see all these videos on TikTok of women getting lipo and crying from pain because it takes like 5 to 6 months to recover.

6 months?

It takes a while.

Yes.

Yeah, they can't take the faja out. And then, you know, it's like, it's a lot of pain. So like the first couple of weeks they're in a lot of pain, so they have to be on medication. And I'm like, nah, fuck it, I'm just going to lift. It's okay. If it's going to take 5 years, at least I don't have to suffer. This pain is only going to last for like, you know, a day.

Right. And you got to keep it done. That's the one thing I learned. Like, you can get a BBL one time, but you got to keep going back. And getting it like a redone, a re-up.

Yeah, yeah, you have to. And then you have to stay active so you can keep it up because BBLs be dropping. Yes. So they actually lose about 30% of their fat after, like, yeah, throughout a certain time because it's not natural fat. So it's just, it can go away, especially if you're like prone to being skinny. If you're prone to being bigger, then you are going to gain more weight and the shape is going to be gone.

Oh shit.

Yeah. Because they take out like the fat cells, but then like they gain fat, they gain fat in other areas, and it's just because fat is just going to grow, right? So it's not— it's like, it's all bullshit. Honestly, I don't know why women do that.

You know why women do that?

Why?

Because they want to be curvy. No, I think they do it for each other.

I think so, because a lot of—

not for men.

Because men what?

I said I don't think they do it for men.

Because men what? Men don't like BBLs.

Some, some men don't mind it. I don't— I mean, I don't fuck with them personally, just because they smell a little bit sometimes.

Really?

Yes.

What?

Yeah, you never— you never smelled a BBL?

No, never had to.

Sheesh. Yeah, they smell.

They smell.

Some, some of them do. Like, like somebody who gets new teeth, and sometimes, you know, it's the new teeth smell. I don't know, it's like it's some food trapped in the new teeth.

Yeah, yeah, like the veneer smell.

The veneer smell.

Yeah, I don't like that. That's just—

BBL smell like veneers.

Oh, that's gross.

Yeah, and you hitting it from the back smelling veneer.

So do you wear a mask? What do you do?

You just gotta turn your head and keep your dick hard. As long as that dick don't get soft.

Oh, I can't imagine. Oh, you guys, poor man, have to deal with the smelly BBLs. Yeah, and then taking accountability and doing situationships. It's just— I don't know how you guys do it. It's so tough for you. And then you have to be providers because everybody wants the 6 feet, 6 figures, 6 inches. I, I don't know.

That's the mark of the beast. Yeah, that's 666. I don't know if y'all know about this shit.

What is it?

Oh, that's okay.

Come on, tell me.

Come on now, talk to me about it.

Well, okay, story time.

In the Christian community, uh-huh, uh, the mark of the beast is 666. Supposed to be like, you know, the devil. Okay, so the 6 feet, 6 figures, 6 inches is the devil? I ain't saying it's the devil, but it's 666.

666.

So it might need to be 777. Raise the bar.

I want 7 figures or 8 figures. What the fuck is 6 figures for? It's not enough. Not in this economy. Yeah, no, it's not enough. They can come at me for all they want. I don't— like, unless I make over 7 figures, I don't think I have enough money.

Facts. Because, well, shit, I mean, but it depends on your lifestyle. Like And where you from? If you get six figures and you ate, uh, uh, noodles with no, no seasoning and milk and cereal with no milk growing up, six figures is what? What?

No, I understand. To me, I feel like $10,000 a month after taxes, it's not— after taxes is less than, huh?

Nobody pays taxes.

Yeah, but like, so if you— if we do it the proper way, but even, okay, $10,000 a month with rent, car payment, insurances, groceries, which are not cheap right now, for you to even eat like a normal— even if you eat out, like, even if you eat the, you know, McDonald's and all that, it's still a lot of money. So like, and a lot of people have debt, so what is it? $10,000 is nothing.

Shit.

10,000.

Put in the chat, $10,000 a month. If you— $10,000 a month. If you got $10,000 a month, would you be okay, or that's not enough? Put that shit in the comments. $10,000 a month, that's decent.

Okay.

Lesya's like, fuck that.

I don't— I mean, I understand. I'm not gonna say—

What's okay for you?

So I understand— let me preface this— I understand how hard it is to make $10,000 a month. I'm not saying that— I'm talking about myself, you know. For a man, I can't count his pockets. I know that I can't deal with nobody who doesn't have money just because I like— when I do something, I don't want to think about money and like how much it's going to cost. If we're doing something, we're just gonna do it, right? So I like that freedom, especially men who are older. I don't think that men should be making $100,000. They should be making more. They should be striving for more. That's just my opinion for men that I'm gonna deal with, which not gonna be many. But for me, $10,000 a month is not enough because of the stuff that I got going on, you know, the production, the editing, the just, just like, you know, getting the outfits, getting together, paying rent, paying car payment. I have a dog and a cat, you know, I have a lot of expenses. So like my expenses sometimes will be more than $10,000 a month. You know, there are months where my expenses are $17,000. There are months where my expenses are $20,000. There are months where my expenses are $5,000. Right. So it's just, you know, and I have a lot of debt that I need to pay off still because, you know, there's just times where I didn't have income. So, or like, you know, taxes and all that. There's a lot that, that always just this moving pieces. So to me, $10,000 a month, that's like, okay, if I have $10,000, I'm like, all right, all right, I can get by in a month. But, you know, let's say that I'm filming like 7 episodes in a month, then the fuck, $10,000 is not gonna do nothing for me. Yeah, especially now that everybody's saying you need a team, you need to hire, you need to outsource.

See, that's $10,000 for the team.

Thank you. See, but that's what people don't understand, that like this isn't free, guys.

This is not free. Please know. And shout out to Creative Soul Studios, you know what I They're the best. They are.

They're the— but if you try to fucking book them in my time, no, I come first and then you can come next. I'm tired of being like, hey, do you have time for this? And now they're getting more and more booked. Shout out to them. They might— maybe, maybe, actually, maybe, come on, maybe we'll build a second studio.

Maybe, maybe.

Hey, business mindset. But I don't know, I've always been like that. To me, it's just just, you know, I come from nothing. I don't— I didn't come from money. So to me, I don't want to go back to what I know what it was, right? You know, I don't want to raise my kids in poverty. I don't want to raise my kids thinking like where the next paycheck is going to come from, right? You know, I don't— it's just to me it's this like concept like money is very important to me. I need to make sure I have— and there, there are months when like I'm breaking even, there are months when I'm in the negative. You know. So it's like, especially when I'm dealing with somebody else, like, right, I don't want to experience that. Like, I don't.

They got a, a saying that you can do bad all by yourself.

Exactly, exactly. So it's like, you know, and I've never been the person that's like, oh, let me rely on a man to pay my bills. Like, I never had nobody fucking buy me nothing.

Les, come on.

I've never had a designer purse purchased for me as a gift. Never.

Not a—

not even a fucking Michael Kors. Not even a Michael Kors. Not even a Michael Kors from Marshalls. No.

You talking about me where I get my girl? Where the fuck you be finding these men?

And they all be having money too. That's the thing. Maybe I don't deserve it. I don't fucking know what it is.

Maybe you don't deserve. Maybe that's some accountability right there.

Yeah, maybe they think I got it like, I got it like that to the point where I got my own designer bag.

You got on Yeezy 3s. Ain't they not even out yet?

Oh, they were on sale for 50% off. There were 400, I bought them for 200, and I put it on Affirm, okay? 4 payments or whatever the fuck.

Yo, Affirm is fucking people's lives up.

Really?

I like it because I mean, it's good, it's good, it's good, but You done affirm too much, you know. You need, you need some discipline on that affirm. Not you per se, but just like people be going crazy, like, okay, 4 payments here, 4 payments there, 4 payments there. Now you $10,000 a month, right? Making 4 payments, $10,000 a month.

No, I mean, obviously you got to be realistic. I only do that for like bigger purchases because it's like I got other places where I can put $200 in, you know. Now I'm very like, I don't buy Before, I used to be very much like, oh my God, I need designer bag, I need this and this, like I need some jewelry. Now I'm like, fuck, whatever I got, that's all I have. I'm not— I'm not like— I think once you get into this world, now you understand the power of money. Like, I'd much rather have the actual liquid cash than—

that's why when girls be screaming at money shit, I'm like, oh, you ain't never had no money.

Yeah, they don't—

I don't think I understand what it is because you understand the concept of what The fuck you talking about?

You know, even if like we go, you know, I went on a date last year. I went on a date. We went to this like super expensive restaurant and I'm sitting there. My only thought was, you can give me this money. I can pay Rod for my production right now. I really want that instead of—

You eating a $200 steak like, this could be Rod Rose's lunch.

Literally, I'm just like, that could have paid for the motherfucking episodes. And you out here eating all this fucking sushi and like, you don't even finish your sushi. And I'm just like, I'm just like, oh man. And like 3 years ago, I would have been like, yeah, I want to go to Nobu, you know, I want a $600 dinner. Now I'm like, let's eat at home, watch a movie and save the money.

Save that money.

I'm very like, now I'm very, because like I know what it takes and I know how hard it is. So for me, maybe that's why I don't have the audacity to just say, hey, buy me a Birkin bag, even though I know that they have the money for it. But I don't have it in me.

You might need to get that spirit back. You might need to just go ahead and dig back into the give me, give me spirit.

I've never had that. I don't know what that—

teach me.

How do you do that?

I'm not shit. I don't be getting shit.

Do you give gifts?

That's one of my love languages.

Oh, what kind of gifts do we give?

Uh, advice. I'm gonna get a girl to the next nigga.

You know, so you're not gonna buy her like, no, anything? No, no, I mean, okay, I asked Cam this. So let's say you're dealing with a girl and she says, I want a ring. I don't want to be married, I just want a ring. I want a piece of jewelry to remind you, to remind me of our relationship. Would you buy her a ring?

I would say, you dumb as shit. If you can't remember me without looking at your hand I mean, why do you want a ring? Why? All right, so, okay, a ring could be for two things, right? For a commitment, or to have people who respect rings to be like, yeah, she married, so I'm not gonna talk to her, or she's with someone, so I'm not gonna talk to her.

No, like a ring, like on the middle finger, like, like this one.

Oh, just, just a, just the regular jewelry. Yeah, jewelry. Okay, well, you know, they got bubble gum machines and all type of TeeMoo items. And you know, the middle of the mall has a lot of different things. You know, you'll be surprised.

You had to watch that episode with Cam, huh?

No, no, no, no. He said that, Rod?

Oh, you weren't there. It was Ferg who was here. He literally said that word for word, that you can go to a gumball machine and you can get a—

Yeah, shout out, shout out to the— you know, you from that same era. We from that era.

Okay, ladies, don't date Atlanta men because no, this is— you all gonna end up with the fucking fake rings and, you know, Never married.

Your finger not gonna turn though. That's the most important thing.

Turn?

It's not gonna turn different colors because it's fake jewelry. Oh, it's gonna last. It ain't gonna be no bad fake. It's gonna be the highest end fake jewelry you ever seen. Like, Moissanite diamonds are real.

No, but that's like— but let's say she wants, you know, like a Cartier love ring. It's like $1,000.

That's a lot of love. That's a lot of love. I don't know. I don't know about no Cartier. Cartier? No, no. How long have I known this person?

4 or 5 months.

Fuck no. What? See, with that same money, we could pay Rod Rose and have a whole lot of podcast episodes, and that could be making money on the money.

A lot of memories.

There you go. Or I like to travel.

Okay, would you pay for her travel?

Yeah, for sure.

So you would cover the flights and hotel and food and everything?

I would cover the flights and hotel.

What about the food? She gotta pay?

I mean, she ain't gotta pay, but you know, bitch, leave a tip. You know what I'm saying? Like, leave the gratuity or something.

Okay, that's good.

I like a woman who tries to go in her pocket. I'm like, oh shit. Yeah, no, no, you could. But if you, if you just like, when the bill come, you start whistling and start looking in the sky. Oh, come on now, be more involved.

When the bill comes, I'm gonna look you dead in the fucking eyes and I'll be like, so what are we doing?

Let's see, that might get it, that might get it though. You involved, but like, you know the bill coming, now you want to use the restroom. Hell no, bitch, come back and see the bill.

I'm looking at What card are we putting down? Do you want me to help you? I'll pull it up. You can pull out that Chime card, whatever the fuck is the card, as long as it's not the EBT or whatever.

Ain't nothing wrong with the government assistance.

I didn't even know what that meant until I watched the whatever clip of a podcast and I was like, oh, I thought it was like a cryptocurrency thing.

You thought EBT was cryptocurrency?

Yeah, it was like a short for stock.

That's funny as hell.

That was— I was like, wait, what is— I literally had to go Google because, you know, I'm not a citizen, so like I can't— I'm not eligible for no of those benefits.

You should be able to get EBT.

No, no, I can't. I can't get unemployment, I can't get EBT, none of that. So, so I— to my world, it doesn't exist, right? Like, and I, I know that there's a whole like debate with immigrants coming here and being on whatever benefits. And I'm like, I didn't even know it existed because it's not in my realm of—

they don't have EBT in Russia.

We do, of course, but that's like a, you know, that's a— it's for people who— it's very common there. It's way more common than here, but it's like a normal part because like Russia is, uh, you know, we don't have to pay for healthcare, we don't have to pay for education.

Is that like a socialist?

Yeah, it's a— it's— well, it's democracy, but it's like Canada. So like you have all those things that are normal. So like they're given right, birthright to you.

Right.

So we have the private medical practice that you can go to and get, you know, healthcare faster. You have private schools that you can go to, but you know, everything is given to you and people have pensions. So once they get to a certain age, they get pensions. Like my grandparents, they live off their pension for the last 15 years because they're in their 80s now. And so, and my mom, she, she kind of has that idea of a 401k plus the pension that's coming from the government. So yeah. Yeah, man, it's different.

America need to just jump on, on some of those ideas, man. Yeah, because free healthcare, why don't we have free healthcare?

Yo, I looked at my statement for the benefits for last year. The insurance billed me $19,000. My— like, they billed my insurance $19,000. I went to the doctor 3 times. Damn, $19,000. And I was like, what in the fucking world?

Did you break a bone or something?

No, no, I went to get tested, uh, like do the blood work, and I went to the urgent care one time because I was sick.

That's where they get you, the urgent care.

And I think the third time was like I went to a physical therapy. Damn, $19,000. So I was like, yo, that is obnoxious.

Yeah, this is America, man. They going to double charge your ass, triple charge you for the most basic of, of needs.

See, and that's why when—

if I—

I'm— I don't know, because if and whatever, it doesn't count. But I would think that if you were born in this country and if that's what you know, you already born into this, you know that healthcare is not free. You would want to make money, you would want to make sure your ass is covered. Yeah, but it's the opposite here.

Yeah, I mean, it's not really the opposite. It's like the opportunities to get to the money sometimes, um, you can't, you can't really get to it based on where you are. Sometimes there's no opportunities for jobs, or like jobs only pay so much. But shit like podcasts and social media has opened the door to get money off your phone. Just by being yourself. And you can get some type of, some type of income coming in from it.

I think it's, um, again, people are gonna hate me for that, but I think it's, it's like what you're willing to put in, what you're willing to do. Like, are you willing to put in the work, or are you just gonna settle and just say, you know, some people get lazy, I'm content with what I have and I'm good here. And then they go online and they see, you know, oh, I want a 6-figure, 6 feet, 6 inches, and like, well, good luck. You'll never find that because it's 1% of 1%. It's like, it's actually not. Now, 6 figures is bare minimum. Like, it's literally— it's poverty line.

That shit crazy.

It is crazy. I mean, it's insane. It sounds absurd because like 10 years ago it was not. 10 years ago, making $100,000 a year was a dream for sure.

Still is for some people, right?

Like, it's, it's, it's a big thing.

Hell yeah. Yo, $10,000 a month, a lot of people could— a lot of people would be very happy with their life, right, if they had $10,000 a month. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? We gotta— we gotta get your hustle up, man. Get your hustle up. Talk less and do more shit.

There you go, you tell them.

Come on.

Because I— to me, it's like, you know, when you guys were talking about basketball or like professional sports, how much do you want 'Cause if you truly want it, you gonna put everything on the line to make it happen.

You gonna play like it's your last game every game.

Yeah. And then sometimes you're gonna— and the thing is like, you're gonna get mad when you don't play well, but then you're gonna sit back and reflect and try to figure out, okay, how can I improve?

Yeah.

And that's how you make it.

Yeah. I mean, you know, some people want the easy way or not the easy way. They just want— I mean, a lot of people have been through a lot of shit too. So you want to take a break from life?

Oh, I get it.

Easy.

Yeah, I get it. I'm the same way.

You gotta work to that status, man. You can't just wake up with some easy shit. You'll be homeless as fuck.

No, no, but that's what I'm saying, that like, I don't think things are given to you. Things— you have to work for things. And I get it, sometimes mental health is going to take over and you need to take a break, and it's like, where the fuck do you go? And again, it sucks to be in this country because you don't have shit to rely on. So if you don't have the income and you're dealing with depression, you're on— you literally can end up on the streets. That's how a lot of people end up homeless.

Yeah.

And the fact that like there's no protection for it, or even if they want to have, you know, EBT or any insurance stuff, the shit show that they take you through to get your insurance to pay you out or even give you the benefits, it's obnoxious. It's crazy.

There should be a mental health tax or like refund where you go through the year, be like, hey man, let me get some mental health money. Yeah, you know, like if you just— I don't feel like working this much, the government should step in with some mental health money and be like, you straight, we got you.

They do it in Europe actually, you know.

Really?

Yeah, like you can— because in Europe your taxes are like 40-50%, so you can always rely on the government if something happens. Happens. A lot of them, um, I, I had a lot of friends who were from Sweden. When they came to the US, they not only— their schools was paid for by the government, the government was giving them money every single month to go to school and have food and have a place to stay because they've been paying this tax. Yeah, it's like a right.

Damn, man.

So they literally pay for them to go to school in the US and give them money like a happened on top.

But 50% of taxes is crazy. 40% of that shit's crazy. $100, $40 gone. But that's crazy.

But if something happens, you always have a roof on top of your head, you always have food on your table. Yeah, always, no matter what. You don't have a fear of not having things, right? Because it's a given, right? It's a birthright that you're gonna have your house, you're gonna have your food. So like, if you put that No, I get you. Then you can have a mental health month off and then not do nothing and, you know, have yourself a holiday. Exactly. So you see how it works?

I'm about to move.

Where are we going?

Wait, you say Sweden?

Mm-hmm.

You've been there? You've been there before?

Not Sweden specifically, but my family is very tightly connected to Sweden. Yeah.

Okay. What's your favorite place that you've been? You're from Russia. You're in Atlanta currently. What's your favorite place?

Australia.

What's so beautiful about Australia?

It's just a beautiful place in general. Australia is amazing. The nature is gorgeous. The ocean is like powerful there. It's different. Australia and Austria. I love Austria. Austria is very historic.

Fucking Austria.

Austria is amazing. Austria has it all. Austria has the Alps. Austria has a history. It's like it's a very European place. I love— I wanted to go to Vienna, um, to go to school there, but because it was in German, I was like, yeah, I don't have time to learn German. Yeah, but you can move to Sweden. Snow bunnies.

And I heard they pay you to move.

Maybe. Are you into white women?

No.

What? What happened?

I'm from, um, strong Black women.

Okay.

That would whoop my ass. And the white woman that I was with, she had a cold vagina. I don't know if that's every white woman, but—

Wait, what?

I felt like I was fucking a vampire.

Like she was just cold?

Her vagina was crispy.

Like you'd be like, ah.

It was cool. It was like— Icy Hot.

Oh baby, she put Icy Hot before. Damn.

Black pussy warm, you know what I mean? It's like sunshine.

So you try one time and you're like, fuck it, I'm not going back.

One time.

That's it?

That's it.

You only have one snow bunny in your life?

One snow bunny.

When was that?

I was probably 18, 19. What?

Things have changed, you know.

Things probably have changed.

What is it, like 20 years ago?

More than 20, you know, around that.

Damn. So basically in the 2000s era you've never had—

early 2000s. But yeah, it's 2026 now. Shit. Damn, it's been a while.

Damn. Maybe you need to go to Sweden. Stay there for like 2 months.

I should be going on tour this year in Europe.

Okay.

With a good friend of mine, Curtis. He's doing like, you know, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, like that whole little run. So we'll see.

You might have some— you might have to redeem yourself.

I'm gonna try it one more time.

Go to red light district.

I'm not paying for no pussy.

They might give it to you for free. You don't— you don't know. Take a chance.

Take a chance.

Just make sure you use a condom though, for sure, because you don't know what the fuck they got going on there.

That red light, you're gonna come up with some red onion shit. Hi. All right, what's your favorite— I mean, not your favorite, that's crazy. Do you prefer black men or white men?

I only date Black men.

Only?

Only.

You've never been with a white man?

I've been with a white man, but I— no, no, I've maybe two of them, I think.

So how you talking shit about me having one, you only had two?

I had two, you had one. I gave it another shot and I said not for me, didn't work out. Just, I'm not attracted to them.

You're not attracted to white men?

I don't find them attractive at all.

Really?

You would have to be some fine-ass white man for me to be like, oh yeah, good looking. Like, it could be an actor, or you would have to be funny as shit.

You like comedians?

I love comedians. I don't know what it is, y'all just making me like comedians. The question is, you know how like if you want to be a comedian, the stereotype is like you got to be broke to start, and then like, you know, you kind of make it out of the trenches?

Yeah.

So they got to be seasoned comedians.

You can't just start your comedy journey.

No, you got to be in it, deep in it.

How long you been doing it? About 20 years. Oh hell yeah, you good.

Yeah, yeah, now we can talk. Come on, let's go on a date.

That's fucking crazy.

But I feel like being funny is important though, you know.

Uh, being funny for sure helps, you know, because you're going through life and life is hard as fuck. Yeah, so you need something to kind of just, you know Balance that out. Some funny, uh, to me, every time a woman laugh, her pussy laugh too. I don't know if that's real.

Really?

I feel like she giggles, her pussy giggles. They connected.

Oh really?

If she got an attitude, the pussy got attitude, you know.

Oh damn.

Yeah.

But the makeup sex though, well, at that point she's already allowing you in her space. Yeah, yeah. All Damn, that's crazy though. I can't believe it only had one. So you— are you attracted to white women or no?

Not really.

See, now you know what I mean. Yeah, like you like what you like.

I like what I like. And I guess maybe it was that first time that was just like, she was cool, she looked good, but it was just the experience of it all, just a little cold.

Yeah, I don't like that.

Oh, you know what?

What? There's a second one?

There's a second one. Oh shit, I deleted that bitch.

Oh my God, why did you remove her?

She was horrible.

What happened? Oh man, tell us a story about that. Story time. What happened? Now I want to know. You cannot leave until you tell me.

This was when I was young. Okay, I was younger than 19. I was probably like 17. So anyway, I picked her up. I met her out, you know, I hate to say this shit. If a white woman ain't dirty in the face, you feel like she came from money or some type of status.

You know what I'm saying? Oh, okay, okay, okay.

So when I met her, I was like, "Oh, okay, you know what I mean? White woman, woo-gee-woo." I picked her up. I picked her up in a very bad neighborhood. And that's cool. You know what I'm saying? But the more she was talking, I was like, damn, you down and out. You like, you bad. You down and out real bad. And here we go with the odors. She had an odor.

Was she homeless or something?

She wasn't homeless, but she was staying with somebody.

Oh, so she didn't have a place.

She was probably couch surfing.

Probably.

Yeah. But she had a big bug odor about herself.

Bed bug odor.

Odor.

Damn.

Yeah, like, you know, musty socks.

Like, yeah, she probably didn't— yeah, she probably was like just, just trying to make it through life.

I hope she's doing better. But my two experiences have been, been, I guess, horrible. Horrible.

Yeah, that is not okay.

Cold vagina, homeless pussy.

I'm sorry, can't tell you nothing because I don't, I don't identify as white, so like I can't even, I can't even tell you.

Those aren't my people.

Those aren't my people.

Not my kind.

It wasn't in Russia, you know. If you came to Russia, they would fed you some soup, you know, they made sure you were good, gave you a massage.

What's the Black population in Russia?

Where you talked about with Carlos, 70,000. That's what Rod found out.

In the whole entire continent of Russia?

Continent? In the whole country. We're not a continent.

Country, you're right.

Not yet. Give us time. Yeah, it's 70,000.

Damn, that's smaller than Decatur. That is— that's, that's a small number.

But you know, it's not very populated though. Like, it's not, it's not like US, you know. In the US you have people everywhere. There's a lot of empty space where there's nobody there because like you can't really live in that condition.

It's inhabitable. Yeah.

It's, it's just, just, you know, see, you know a lot of words. You're such a writer.

You know, it's tundra up there. It's like, you know, a lot of mountains.

How do you know those words?

I read.

What do you read?

I read the Bible.

Well, more books than a Bible.

Yeah. I read, I read more books than the Bible. I do a lot of audiobooks too, so.

Okay.

Yeah.

So your vocabulary's up there.

We add words by the day, add words by the day.

That's good. Yeah, I love that.

The more vocabulary you have, I feel like, you know, the more money you could get, just because you can communicate with people, and it's all about communication. Money is a communicative energy, you know what I mean?

There you go. Talk to them, tell them about that, because people don't get it. I, um, I just had this conversation with one of my friends. He's Because the thing is, like, this is what I'm learning a lot about, especially Black men. The egos are very big, you know? And a lot of times it's kind of like they put the ego in front of anything, and they, and they don't do it from a bad place. They do it because they want to protect, or like they have respect, or whatever, whatever. And I'm, I'm like, you know, because he's also in the tennis world, right? And every time I'm just like, yo, just use my name, just put my name, you know, whatever you want to use my name. I, you know, I'm all about the community. I'm all about building this thing together. I'm not asking for money because I just care for— this is like my passion, and I want you to succeed in this, and I want to be successful in it myself. And if we can do it all together, then we're gonna do it together. It's just, that's how I believe in it. Like, I don't believe in doing tennis stuff, it's not just gonna be me, right? Podcasting is a little different because people want to leech on to you and they want to like, you know, get something out of you. So I don't— you got to move a little bit different here. But he— and then he called me and he was like, I want you to feel like I'm leaving you out. I just feel like, you know, I don't want to use your name because I feel like I want to make it on my own. I'm like, no, you have to collaborate. You have to be a part of this community because that's how we're going to do it together. We're going to do it together.

Yeah, I mean I guess there is some ego in that, but I guess there's some, some self-respect there too, you know, to be able to pull yourself up in the ranks. Um, but on some real shit, if you got somebody who can— you could drop a name and they want you to drop the name, drop that name.

Ask for things. That's what I've been saying.

That's about who you know.

It's literally about who you know, because I had to learn the art of asking. Like, it's just, you know, with everybody, because people are always like, how do you get those people on your show? Because, you know, like, I, I just started doing this a year ago, so I was not in social media before that. I wasn't, you know, I'm very new to social media relatively, you know. I'm not like you guys have been at it for years and years and years, you know. Your circle is impressive to me coming in and just being like, oh, you just hang out with Tyler, you just hang out with Carlos, you just hang out with Nick Cannon. Like, what the— like, just those names alone is like, wait, what? And so to me, but the way I started doing it is that I just started asking questions. And if somebody is ignoring me, a lot of people are like, well, fuck him. I'll be like, no, fuck you. I'mma literally send the message. I will be like, hey, please stop ignoring me. 'When are you going to come on the show? When are you going to do this?' Well, because some people are very, very, very, very busy. And, you know, like, even with people like Cam, you know, I had to ask multiple times, you know, 'Hey, what time works?' You know, 'Hey,' like— and it's just, it's just being persistent and consistent with it.

How bad do you want it? You said it earlier, literally, like, how bad you want it.

And I'm willing to look stupid, look dumb, look like I'm thirsty, whatever it is, because if I need this, then I'm going to make it happen.

The results are the results, man. Fuck how you look.

I don't, I don't care because if I won the sponsorship, so like for Carlos's episode, I didn't have a sponsor and then I just sat there. I was like, wow, I know that this thing is going to do numbers. I need to go and find a sponsor. So I sat there, I spent like about 5 hours redoing my pitch deck, making sure that it looks good. And then I started pitching, pitching, pitching, pitching. I literally was calling everybody and I was just saying, hey, Can you introduce me to this person? Can you introduce me? I ended up finding one.

Well, that's the thing, like most people don't know, um, you're never— you very rarely get a yes on the first time for anything.

For anything.

For anything. So it's like the cream rises to the top, and the cream is the thing that keeps churning, you know what I mean? You just keep whipping that thing up until it gets to the top, uh, I mean, from The Wild 'N Out, I was on just being background, just being around since season 15.

Mm-hmm.

16, 17, 18. This is me gas in the car. What studio y'all at? I'm pulling up. It's cool. Just, you know, get me through security, blah, blah, blah. To getting a job offer in season 19. Mm-hmm. So it's like, you know, I always knew that I wanted to be a part of the show in any form of fashion or fashion. And when given the opportunity, you got to show up, work hard and be memorable. So, you know, that's it.

That's all it takes. And that's why certain people make it, certain people don't, because they have this— especially like women. This is what I'm seeing so much, that they have this, like they put their— the way that they look and their status so much higher than you know, than the reality. It's like you want to get the money, you need to go and ask for money. Nobody's going to come and just give you the money because you look pretty or because you're so-and-so. And so they don't give a fuck. It's their business, right? They can't just give out. That's not charity. Like, they have to know, why are we investing money into this person? What are you going to give us back? And there has to be like a specific, you know, a specific path. Okay. We're— that's why situationships. That's why I feel like a lot of people who are in those things, things. They're just— they don't have that mentality of like understanding why are we doing those things. A lot of times people who are in situationships, they just— they don't do that well in life unless, you know. And even because like sometimes if you fuck with somebody, you're just gonna once, twice, three times, and then fuck it. Like it's a waste of time. But like you just need to know what you're doing, how you're going to get the return of investment, what are you doing, why, why do they need to invest in you, what can you do for them, you know, what is And people don't get it.

Yeah. And I mean, even, even in friendships, you have to— some friends don't grow. Like, you can have some friends and it's like, we're cool, but I'm at a place to where I'm focused and being your friend is costing me my focus. So you're easily deleted if you don't add value. Value, you know what I'm saying? To anybody, your friends, relationship, business, you got to add value to, to life, period. And if you just not— if you're not, you're just skating through. And that's quote unquote what they call the princess treatment, which is weird, like how women feel like maybe mostly that their looks or whatever are the only thing that you need. It's No, baby, this Atlanta, right? Everybody looks good over here.

There's so many bad bitches out here and they look amazing.

Those girls with so many bad bitches, like, that's what I'm saying.

That's why, see, that's why, like, to me, this whole concept of like, what am I gonna ask a man for? Like, if I'm gonna ask him for a gift, why would he give it to me? There's so many bad bitches that look way better than me, have way better body than me, that they can buy it too, and that's their lifestyle. And they know how to do it. I'm just like, I'm gonna talk too much. They don't, you know, it's just—

so you talk yourself out the gift?

I do, yeah, because I already know. Unless like, unless he's really like, okay, I really, really, really— he would really want me, and he'd be like, okay, I'm gonna buy her a gift, right? But most men don't move like that. Like, a lot of those girls that get gifts, they ask for it. They don't just get it for free. Like, you know, all this narrative that we see on social media, if he wanted to, he would— that's bullshit, man. They'd be begging for that shit.

They'd be begging.

They'd be sending links to it. They'd be saying like, this is how wanted. They'd be hiring people that are going to be setting up this whole thing. Like, it don't work like that.

This girl recently asked me for a Coach purse, and just because it was her birthday, she thought that she could ask for it. And I kindly denied it. It was just like, no, no, no, no, you good, you good, you good, good. Need another purse? The fuck you gonna do with this purse that's so special? But once again, this Atlanta, man, like like it's so many bad bitches that niggas sometimes think they bad bitches.

Yeah. Oh yeah, they do. Oh my God, man. R&B, you bad bitches. They are. They think that they're— they're so sassy now. They're so sensitive. I mean, they're so like—

I hate that word sassy, man. I hate that damn word, man.

Okay, well, not sassy. I don't know what the fuck we're gonna— something else we're gonna say, but you know, it's just one of those.

Why do you feel like men are sassy right now?

Why they're sassy. Yeah, maybe because they have a masculine energy, they have a lot of feminine energy, they have to like, you know, has to be a balance. So somebody has to be sassy, somebody got to be feminine, somebody got to be feminine. But it's just, it's a lot of like, it's a lot of like, uh, or what makes— it's like, it's, it's like an attitude that they have to the point where they get like they feel like they're— they need to be treated a certain way. Like, you know, to me, a man— I'm very old school with that. Like, it's a provider, protector, you know? Like, a man is a man. A man is a man of his word. Like, right, you know, like, y'all, like, you know, the, the energy in the house when I walked in, when we're filming the More Than Culture, there's a bunch of men in this, in, in the house, okay? Like, you know, you all come out, you greet me at my car, you take me back to my car. Like, you ask me, do I need, like, is just the normal energy of a man. Those men out here, man, it's like if you stand in front of a door, they're like, you can't open your own door? It's like, I can, but why the fuck would I need you, right? If I can do this on my own, I don't need you, because like you are now just wasting my time and my space. And it's like, at this point I like to be by myself, so like don't even fucking do it, because no, it's different now, man. It's just different now because now they see this narrative that like, oh, women want this and this and this. So now everybody's counting their coins and it's like, maybe I don't— your money is your money. Keep your $20 to yourself. It's okay. We don't— I'm good. Like, it gets to the point where sometimes I like, I would have, you know, I'd be around somebody and I'd be like, don't worry about it. Like, I'm, you know, I'll buy food. Like, I'll buy food and be like, how much is it? And like, and how much is it for my portion? And to me it's like, it's okay, don't worry about it. Because I'm not that person that's going to be like, hey, you owe me $12.93, you know, pay me for the half of avocado that you had. Like, no, I don't— like, at this point I got it. I pay even if I don't have money, even if I'm lost down to my last $100, right? I'll still be like, hey, if it's like $25, I'm gonna pay for it. Because that's just—

that's ego.

That's ego. And it's a principle for me because I don't understand that. Sad. Like, as a man, especially like on the first couple, like, just— I ain't asking for shit, but it's just like, you gotta at least pay for the first dinner or something.

Oh, for sure, for sure.

But then like, you know, when you have to sit there and you can— it clearly finances are a problem, right? And to me, it would be so masculine of you to say, hey, Lesya, I get it, you're used to certain lifestyle. I ain't got it like that.

So you want a man to be that vulnerable?

I would love for men to be that vulnerable with me because now I'm like, you're okay. No, no, that's what I'm gonna be like. You know what? I appreciate that and I respect that because you understand how like it's an issue, right? And you don't want to lose me, but you have enough respect for me to tell me this is where I'm at and this is what I got. Now it's up to me to decide, do I want to be in this or not? Like, now you're giving me the choice of decision and it's up to me to say. And a lot of times I'm going to say like, that's fine, we're going to figure it out. You know, if I can pay for things like, listen, I can pay for things if I still want to do this. Like, come on. Like, if I want to go to the game, I'm gonna pay for courtside seats. I'll do it and I will do it. And I have done that before, right? You know, not to a man, but like, I've paid for like my friends that I want to go to a game. So I want to go courtside. I want to pay for the fucking game. It is what it is. Just come on. Like, just come with me.

I got a question. I have a question. Why? Why is it cool for a woman to go out with her homegirls and split the bill? But when you go out with your dude, or not even your dude, but just a random guy, it's kind of automatically like, he gonna take care of everything.

I don't think so. Like, I always have this— it's such a weird feeling to me whenever the splitting the bill thing comes up. Along.

I, in my— but for the homegirls.

No, no, no. So like in my friend circle, like my, my, my, my best friend, my girl, we don't ever do that. So somebody always takes the bill. Either she takes the bill or I take the bill. Like, I can't stand this shit. Like this whole let's count the penny unless we're like, hey, like, you want to go half and half? You know, the thing that triggers me the most is when girls go, I had the pasta, the salad, I had the water. That's it. And then everything is on you. And it's like now we're splitting fucking items.

Item splitting.

I—

That breaks up friendships.

That— it's annoying because if you don't got it, like, just don't go to the place, you know, or say, hey, I ain't got it like that. And it's okay. Like when people say like, hey, I don't have the money, I'm like, that's fine. And I always, you know, I have enough relationships in Atlanta where I can go to places where the bill is going to be covered just because, you know, I might post them or I have, you know, some sort of like business relationship with people. So there are certain places in Atlanta where I can go and I can take you and, hey, like, you don't have to worry about those things. Just because I understand, you know, you have a kid, you have responsibilities, and that's fine, right? You know, and I get it. But, um, I think for women it's also like a provider mindset. Like, the first time you gotta— you gotta— like, if shit goes down, I need to know you got me as a man.

But we ain't even together, right? But why the fuck do I need to have you? We ain't even It's the first time we going somewhere.

But when you— so let's see that you— let's say that you go somewhere, like you see something and you might potentially like— let's say you want to buy a car.

Okay.

You look at a car and you're like, let's see, you want to make sure you test drive the car. We're just going to be like, hey, you can't do that. You have to make sure you like the way the car drives. You want to make sure. So you want to see how it's going to be if you were to purchase the car, how the life is going to be.

Right.

So that's how it is for me for dating. I want to know where we're going and how it's going to be before we get to it. Because like the moment we get into a relationship, that's not when all of a sudden you have to drop all these things, like you have to change your life. No, like now we're just doing life together. We don't need to readjust where, you know, that we are compatible with things.

Right. The first, first impressions are very important.

Yeah.

And like you said, it sets the tone. Tone for how things should go in the future. And if things fall off, you know, it's up to the person to be like, I got you, or this, this is too much for me and I need to move on.

Yeah. And I don't— so I don't think that a man is supposed to pay for everything. I don't think so. I think it's okay for— it depends on the financial status, obviously, right? But I think it's okay for a girl to be like, let's say he got a lot of money and she doesn't have that much. But she can do little things like, you know, she can do things that are— that, you know, like he can have any present that, you know, he can buy himself anything he wants. Girl, I bet you he doesn't have enough socks.

Like, I'll be telling girls that shit, man. It's the smallest thing. Bring some lotion over, some soaps, or some— throw a candle in the mix or something.

Clean his house. I don't know, cook, cook a meal. Like, I don't know, get him like a photo frame with your picture in it. Something like something that's more meaningful than—

don't get no damn donuts.

Why not? What's wrong with the donut?

I'm just playing. The pastries, I mean, it's cool, but you making them fat.

She get him cucumbers and carrots in the hummus. I don't know if that's what it is if he's an athlete, you know.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You gonna have an athlete? You're gonna have an athlete? Me?

You see it in the future?

I see it in in the future. Okay, but he might not be a good athlete. He might not be like LeBron or like Steph Curry. He might be like, you know, on the bench somewhere, but the love is gonna be there.

But he still got a contract. Who cares if he's playing less, hurting his body?

Hey, what if he's— what if he's making $10,000 a month?

He might have to start a business.

Investing in you, man.

He might have to start to get it. But hey, like, let's say he's making $10,000 a month and then, you know, with the income that I have, if we come together, if he's willing to combine it, then I think we should be okay.

That's cool that you, that you're even thinking about combining.

Yeah, because then like, you know, we can live together and then I don't have to pay all that for my rent. Right now the rent is cheaper. Shit, I'll take that all day long. The situation with a little love in the middle, half, half of my rent, that would be nice. That would be so nice.

Hell yeah. Fucking Les, talk less.

Les likes to talk. See, what the fuck did I print those cards for? Is it true that— what, I'd read it somewhere that comedians are like psychologists?

Wow. Um, we do a lot of observing. And our observations are the things that we talk about. That's the canvas. And then we start painting from there. So psychologist, we could be, we could be, you know, we like to break shit down to its smallest level and see why it is how it is and, you know, go from there.

Yeah.

I think we like to dig into especially crazy ideas and situations. That's like, that's like good music to our ears.

What's a crazy situation?

I mean, you know, if a friend tells you a little story, you like, oh shit, that happened to you, bro? Say that again. And so now we're like, you know, shout out to the men that think they got eczema but it's really they jury. You know what I'm saying? Like, oh, you bought a chain and now your neck all bumpy. Okay, that's crazy. We gonna take it to the stage. Okay, taking it to the stage. Can you, can you deal with that shit though? I know you want to, you know, you want somebody who's funny, but if you were a comedian, your life is going to be on that stage.

I want that. I, um, when I was dating this guy who made music I would always tell him, write a song about me. I'm a narcissist.

Did he ever do it?

Fuck no, they didn't do it. None of them did it. I said, you wrote it, you ain't got a gift, a song or nothing. I ain't getting shit. That's what I'm saying. That's why I gotta get everything on my own. That's why I'm like, it is what it is.

You might need to start doing more. Fuck this Lesya B. You start doing some more shit.

I might end up being a sugar mama, you know, just— there it is, just taking care of everybody.

Put your applications in right now, guys. Fuck that, she's looking to take care of—

I need to be spoiled first, okay? Give me the Birkin bag. I heard you was married to Space God, but it's like a space marriage, you know. We married up there, not here. Don't tell him that because he's gonna slap the shit out of me. Who said that I'm married?

Um, I think on Carlos' show. No.

Oh, like I used to be married. I was married like when I was very young.

Really?

I was 22.

Oh, okay.

But, uh, no, like we have a running joke with Space God that like he's my husband because that, that content goes far. They love that content. They love seeing me next to an alien and I'm taller than the alien, so it's like it's I am an alien. He's so— he's always like, I'm always asking him for shit and he does not give me nothing. No jewelry, no, no, no. But he's questioning, he's like, why are you hugging this man? Why are you doing this? Who bought you this ring? Who did? Me, myself, and I. All right, yeah, that's how it is.

So you want a space baby? You want an ET baby?

No, don't say ET, we don't fuck with ET, okay?

My bad.

Yeah, yeah, we don't— that's not in our family. We're against that. It's just Space God.

Okay, just Space God.

We're from Quadrant 4, apparently. I've never been up there, so like, I don't know.

Q4, Quadrant 4.

It was— yeah, it was a— that's a, that's a fun thing to say, you know. Actually, I Googled myself once and Google literally said that Quartzsite Lesya is married to Space God according to her social media.

Wow.

I have a screenshot of that. Yes. Yeah, because it was like one of the posts on Instagram, and I guess Google AI read that and then they, they put that in there.

I was gonna say, uh, have you ever looked up yourself in AI?

Mm-hmm.

It's starting to come up.

Well, because I'm such a heavy user of AI, so it is. I looked you up on AI too.

Really?

Yeah.

What the fuck did AI say about me?

So I said, you know, I asked who you are and, uh, what he's been doing. And so it just said you're a comedian, actor, you know, what you've been doing, basically the whole thing. And I said, how old is he? And he said— it said like anywhere from late 30s to early 40s. And yeah, it says that like never been married. I mean, it scans your social media and everything. So like it scans all this, everything that you've done before.

Wow.

Because it goes through the entire internet. That's why AI is so powerful. But I will say though, AI does not write like humans though.

Yeah, you can tell that, right?

You can tell. And it's like, because, you know, I use a lot of the stuff that I cut on, um, with my editing, I use AI for it. Or like even when I say, hey, cut up some reels.

Yeah, they don't, they don't get it yet.

No, they don't get it yet. Even like titles and description. Description, I let it write because I just say SEO optimized. But the titles, you still have to tweak it. Like, you just have to sit there and just see what you like, what you do. It gives you good ideas, but it doesn't like really take over.

It'll start you thinking for sure. Or if you're in a brain fog, AI is good for that. But this new AI shit that's coming out, like, I don't know, man. Like, entertainment and media, if you can't tell a story It's gonna be tough because I think, I think that's gonna take over. The writing is on the wall.

Um, but that's why I think you need to have something— like, people still want to hear from people, right? Like, people still want to hear something real, but it's got to be right now, right now. But, but no, I think in general, because people still want to relate to each other. I think that's why content is going so crazy, because now people can see like, oh you and I can make it, right? You know, you can look like this, you can look like this, you can look like anything. And so now they want to do it, but then also like, it also becomes to the point where they're overdoing it because not everybody is meant to do it. You know, there are certain things you still can do. You can be a plumber, you can be a doctor, you can be a lawyer, you can do all those things.

There's nothing wrong with that.

The one thing I think for technology though, a lot of the companies are going to disappear because AI is going to take over because a lot of company— now AI can do what those companies are doing for a lot of money, and I can do it in 5 seconds for $20.

Yep. Like accounting, even some law shit. Like, uh, I think I read somewhere where they took the ability away for legal questions.

Yeah, but you can say, hypothetically speaking, my friend. Yeah, so you have to—

you know, you got to know how to prompted.

Yeah, prompted. But that's what I'm saying. So that, that's the thing where humans have to still think. So AI is gonna work off the prompts. If you don't know how to ask the right questions, you're not gonna get the right answers.

Mm-hmm.

So yeah, everything has to be, you know, your brain's still gotta work. That's why it's scary for the kids that are gonna grow up because they're gonna grow up on AI without having critical thinking. And that's where we can go really left.

'Cause that's what I'm saying. Like, I feel like AI is a 20— about a 15 to 20 year type of situation to where like it's going— the kids that's growing up on this new shit on, on, on AI are going to think that's the norm versus how we grew up with no AI. We like traditional human-to-human conversations. That shit about to be Cartoon to cartoon and avatar to avatar. 'Cause these new kids is growing up and they stuck on the screens. Like, if you don't have a tablet for these kids, they gonna throw a fit. They not gonna focus. It's different. It's different now, man. It's different.

It is different. And I love the fact that I grew up without technology.

Right.

And that we grew up trying to figure shit out. Like, we had to— okay, how do we entertain ourselves? What game do we play? What book do we read? Like, there's something that you can do that's not, you know, being on the screen. We, we weren't— nobody was even questioning that. We're just not allowed to do that shit right now. People are busy, lazy, and, um, trying to get a $10,000 a month. If only, you know, some of them are trying to survive and that's, that's hard, right? So, hey, but I applaud to people who, you know, like, I love watching those videos on TikTok where people lose everything and they go DoorDash or they go hustle and they record a video about that. They post it on TikTok. So now their TikTok is monetized. They're posting about that and they're also making money by doing like random hustles. Like, I applaud those people. People.

Random hustles.

It's amazing what people can— the opportunities they can find, you know, because their egos are not big.

I think, yeah, social media— if you really want to kind of blow up on social media, you got to be vulnerable. You have to be funny. You gotta— you gotta have a little humor with it, for sure. Um, entertaining. And your ego has to really be— either, either your ego is so big that people come to your space place for your ego because maybe they don't have one, um, that's as big. Or you just have to like kill your ego, man. You gotta do an ego death.

I do that all the time. I'm just— I just say I fucked up, or I'm this or that, or I don't feel good, or like I'm always just— I'm just myself the way the life is. That's, that's what I say. And some, some of my friends would like— they would reach out to be like, don't ever say you fucked up. I'm like, they need to know because I'm a real human. I go through real shit. Like, I don't— I don't want them to have this perception that social media is a highlight reel of like good things. Fuck that. No, that's not how it is. Because like, I don't want them to think that, oh, she's a white girl, she just like moved to the country, and then, you know, probably her parents are so wealthy, and then she just— she's just sitting here and talking about 6 figures and 6 inches. Like, nah, it's Shit, the shit that I went through, like, I pray nobody goes through.

You was in the hood in Russia?

Mm-hmm. Yeah, I grew up in the hood.

Oh shit.

But our hood is different. Like, our hood is—

What's the hood in Russia like?

It's dangerous as a motherfucker. Like, it's dangerous. Like, kids go missing, and it's like, there's like drug addicts on the, you know, on the streets, and it's dangerous. Damn. Because if, if they can't find you, they can't find you. It's gone. No, no police is gonna like, you know, try to figure it out. It's just— it is what it is. Cold case. Gone missing.

Yeah. Mm-hmm. Say, okay.

Yeah, it's, it's different.

So Mother Russia.

Yeah, yeah, it's very different here.

Uh, like, they steal kids over here too then.

I know, but like, it's I think it's not as— I don't know, I feel like it's, it's worse there. I'm like, living in there and living in here, it's, it's definitely—

we sweep, we sweep the kids under the carpet. Y'all just let them. Y'all don't even give a fuck.

I don't know, I don't know. Yeah, I don't want to think about it. No, when it comes down to children or animals, it's no. I love them both.

That's your soft spot?

Yeah, animals for sure. Do not call me when somebody's up for adoption because I'm going to adopt that animal.

Really? Yes.

That's how I ended up with two.

You got a dog and a cat?

Yes.

They get along?

Yes, but the cat, I can't stand that fucking cat. But the cat was the one that jumped on my keyboard when I was editing Cam's episode and cut out 25 minutes. It was my cat. She still jumps on my keyboard, but now Yeah, damn, Cat.

Kitty be— did Kitty be editing too? That's what's up.

She likes to, you know, the, the sound of the keyboard.

Yeah.

Are you always so calm and quiet?

No, hell no. What's up? Let's make some music.

What kind of music?

I don't know.

You're so like— I'm like, how are you a comedian? You're just so Quiet.

It's reserved.

Reserved?

Yeah.

How do you wild it out if you were so reserved, man?

Wilding out is— you can't be around that much energy and be and sit back, you know? You kind of gotta like, you gotta have your own voice in all of that chaos, if that makes any sense.

Um, so I just make you fall asleep. That's, that's my energy.

You know, you— this is soothing as shit. The temperature is correct, you know, you got these pink lights and this, you know, everything is cool, man.

You familiar with Rod?

That's my dog, Rod Rose, man. The brains behind a lot of big shows.

I don't know why he never told me who he was. It's other people.

And Rose is— if you know, if you know Rod Rose Then you one of the chosen ones.

I would always be like, I don't know who to bring on my show. He'd be like, I don't know. And then come to find out he knows all of y'all.

That's the one.

Oh, that's—

you in good hands.

I know.

I don't know how you got right here to this particular studio, but you're in good hands.

God.

G-O to the D.

I told you the story on More Than Culture, and you guys would have to tune in to More Than Culture to figure it out. Because, uh, that's where we talked about it.

Yes indeed. Yeah, we had fun.

Yeah, it was—

we had a lot of fun. She was on a White Claw, y'all.

I was— I didn't even have time to drink because I was laughing most of the time. I drink like maybe like this much.

I'm in the store getting White Claws, everybody looking at me like, what the fuck, he has a white girl coming over. You got a white girl.

In the Hood, the third one.

Third one.

Do you have any white friends?

I do, yeah, yeah.

Oh yeah, because you were like in production spaces.

Yeah, I got a lot of cool white friends. Yeah.

So they've never tried to hook you up with their like sister or like their—

they know their sisters ain't shit. They know.

Damn.

Yeah, they know. Now I mean like if you had some suggestions I'll listen to you.

Okay, I have built enough credibility.

Yeah, yeah, okay.

Yeah, see, that's how I'm moving and growing.

You got any white friends? White girlfriends?

My Russian friend, she's here. Yeah, she's here, but I don't consider her white, so like, nah.

Damn, so the Russians really don't think— y'all, y'all don't think y'all white?

No, because white is American white, and it's a very different culture-wise. You got to go— I know the episode just dropped with Carlos, but you got to go watch it, and we really break it down.

We—

I had 10 talking points and we went through all of them, and Carlos said, damn, you guys are way more like Black people than white American people.

Yeah, no shit. I'm gonna watch it tonight.

You gotta watch it. It's 2 and a half hours, so you might fall asleep to it, but it's a funny one. Yeah, that's, that's what we talked about. Damn.

Maybe it's just the way I grew up, but yeah, to me I mean, when white people grow up in the hood, they got a little struggle in them, so they understand.

Yeah, see, like, that's, that's the thing. Like, I wasn't born with, like, what is it, gold spoon in my mouth, silver spoon in my mouth, whatever the fuck is a spoon. I, you know, we barely even had spoons, right? We did have plates though. Like, you know, we didn't do the paper plates because it's a, it's a big thing. Like, you gotta, you know, at least you gotta have a plate. At least. It wasn't many plates, but You know, you had a plate.

We got plates.

Plates. No, no, we had a plate. And then you had a cup, like your, your cup that you drink.

You had your one cup and your one plate.

Yeah. And like your, you know, spoon.

Okay.

Wasn't silver for sure, wasn't plastic, but it was not, you know, that's, that's, that's how. And when you talk about all this other things here with the way people grew up, I'm just like, I could never fucking relate to that. What is it? Like, I can't even comprehend the stories that I hear sometimes or the things that I see, because I'm like, ain't no fucking way. Even when I'm filthy rich, no way, not happening.

That you're not living that extravagant of a lifestyle?

No, no.

What would you spend your money on though, like trips? And are you charitable?

Charity? I wanna, I wanna go into philanthropy. Really, really, really, like, that's, that's where— that's honestly what I would want to do the moment that I got some funds that are like, I can, you know, kind of spend on kids and animals. Kids, um, um, probably kids, underprivileged communities, definitely animals for sure. Yeah, but definitely sports related. So like, definitely gonna make sure that my sport is alive.

Tunis.

Yeah, well, just in general, like, I have this idea where I understand how hard it is to make in sports, and then not many parents have money for it, where, you know, at least like maybe I can cover school, maybe I can cover practice, maybe I can cover like, you know, have some sort of exchange like that.

Gotcha. Yeah. Hey man, I believe in you. I think that shit gonna happen.

It's all happening.

You gonna marry you a little rich Black man?

Yeah, my husband.

And he gonna, he gonna, he gonna take care of some shit. That's crazy. So, uh, you and Tyler, how long, you know, how long y'all, uh, what, been kicking it?

I've seen him twice in my life. One time was on my show, the second time was on your That's all it take, 2 times. 2 times, we're married.

Damn, kid and everything. What you gonna tell Space God?

Baby, hey, he came in and, um, I still love you.

You got an alien man and a human.

Yeah, I'm gonna have to figure it out. I will come up with— I'll ChatGPT it.

You can't ChatGPT accountability. That's crazy.

Breakup. Baby, you were in space and I was just lonely. And then I ran into Tyler. God actually sent Tyler to me because I do believe that Tyler was God-sent. So Tyler sent— God sent me Tyler and that was it. The rest was history. And then just all of a sudden, I'm a single mom, I guess, because he said I was going to raise my kids myself.

$1,000 a week.

$1,000 a week. That's fine. A week, we can do that. The other one was doing a month.

Oh, I think he said a month. My bad, I think I put too much money on him.

Yeah, now you're giving it 4. We're rich now.

Now you're closer to your 10 a month, right?

So 2 more kids and that's it.

That's all you need. That's crazy.

Well, thank you for coming on. Where can people find you?

Hey man, you can find me at Remo Rod, 2 Es on the ree because I'm a little extra, on all platforms. R-E-E-M-O-R-O-D. Uh, make sure you tune into More Than Culture, but we got Les on there, and we got a new talk show, um, called Single Truth, where myself and Tyler, my husband, talk about being single. Maybe not for long. Maybe, maybe this shit ain't gonna— I thought he was gonna have a long little run, but you about to scoot my homeboy.

You're about to call it Married Truth, Les Truth.

Single Les Truth.

Single Les Truth. Oh shit, if I came on on that shit, Tyler would never marry me.

We might need to have you on there so you can speak some real shit to these ladies.

Oh yeah, bring me on. They hate me already, so it's—

you got to be raw.

Was I not?

We have fun on the podcast. We have fun, man. Shout out to Les, man. Keep supporting this shit.

You tell them. That's it? That's, that's— you got like a lot of accounts too, right?

I have a few.

And what about— what's like acting? You going on tour?

So yeah, this year, man, we're still on tour. Um, I'm writing and working on a few, uh, game shows, uh, with Jaleel White called Flipside. Uh, should be going on tour with my guy Curtis in the UK June and July. That's gonna be fun. Um, I'm on the road right now with D-Lay and, uh, DC Young Fly. So if you see me outside, come on inside. Shit, man. Remo Rod, two Es on a re.

I love that. Yeah, Rod. Why do they— what's your full name? Roderick?

Roderick. Sir Roderick.

Why do they call people Rod if it's Roderick?

Or you just cut all them letters off and just be like Rod, the first three letters.

It's like Rodney can be Rod, Roderick. You never know who you're dealing with.

Rods can— you can be a Rodriguez, right? You can be a Roger.

Shit. Anyways, guys, thank you so much for coming on. We didn't talk about anything that I wanted to talk about to begin with, but fuck them cards. And thank you for watching. Subscribe, like, um, follow. Go follow Remo everywhere, and I'm sure you're gonna see us together at some point somewhere because Now they're all my besties.

Come on now, welcome to Atlanta. We gotta take you to some lamb chop, uh, uh, seafood boils. I know you don't— you might not eat shit.

I want to try the seafood boil. I've never had that before.

You eat seafood?

Yeah.

Oh yeah, juicy crab. You never heard of juicy crab?

No.

Oh, what the— next time y'all see Lesya, she's gonna be, uh, dark skin.

All right, well, peace out. Thank you guys for watching. He said she's gonna be dark skin.