In this FYM Show episode, hosts Yo (Speaker A) and Worldwide Ty discuss a surprising incident where Yo received an unsolicited mailed resume from a fan who somehow obtained his physical address. The conversation expands into broader themes of privacy, the ease of being findable online, and the tactics of cold outreach—both via traditional mail and digital channels. Ty shares anecdotes about receiving fan mail, birthday cards, and even a delivery driver who recognized him, illustrating how public figures become reachable. They recount historical examples of resourceful networking, such as a mailroom job that launched a major entertainment career, and Ty’s own early strategy of using a camera as a “resume” to gain entry into clubs. The hosts frame the discussion around Earth Day, using the metaphor of “planting seeds” to encourage listeners to be resourceful yet mindful when reaching out to others. They also touch on the practicalities of managing mailboxes, the role of their producer Vanessa, and promote Ty’s Coachable Volume 2 and an upcoming podcast tour. The episode ends with a call for listeners to share their own cold‑call or cold‑mail experiences.
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And we're back with another episode of FYM with Ty and Yo. It's the FYM Show, and that's my man Ty. I'm Yo, and we, you know, we have ignorant conversations about wellness. In today's episode It's very special because it's kind of personal. You know, we're talking about reaching out and getting in contact with people you are interested in working with or people you're trying to get their attention. Because over the last couple of weeks, I received some mail, right? And when I looked at my mail, I was surprised to see I had a letter from someone I did not know. Right, which is, you know, I was trying to figure out, this name doesn't look familiar. I opened the mail and it's a letter and a resume. And the letter pretty much said that a longtime supporter was reaching out. And not only were they a longtime supporter of me, but they were a longtime supporter of Ty and Brand and If You Money and Rap Portraits. Pretty much everything I'm involved in, they were a longtime supporter of, which I appreciate if you're watching this. Thank you for supporting. Please continue to support us. But I have to say, when we received your letter, we were surprised because I don't know you. I've never known you. I've never— in my mind, I don't think I've ever interacted with this person before. And they explained to me how they were able to receive my address, which I did not give them, to mail me a letter letting me know that they received my address, how they received my address, how maybe I should change the way they receive my address. And their resume, which is pretty thorough— they got jobs. This ain't somebody never had one. They had some jobs on this resume. It was— I was impressed, but I was also a little shook because I, in all my years of recording and writing and interviewing people, I have never received someone's resume through the mail. Yeah, and, uh, and, you know, so my first thought was I gotta tell Ty because his name is— he's, he's in the letter. Ty's in the letter, right? And, you know, Ty's a little bit more seasoned than me, and I want to ask Ty, have you ever received someone's resume through your mail?
Well, in celebration of Earth Day, it is our, our sponsors for today The young man planted a seed, okay? He planted a seed and it might grow, who knows. But he planted the seed and he actually put a little sunshine on it as well by giving you some advice about privacy, advice what you might want to do about that on these publicly platform places, you know. So find it very savvy and resourceful, to be honest with you. I mean, it— if, if I had let's say the CEO of Netflix address, and I knew that was his real address, send him a letter if I want to get his attention. I'm gonna send him a letter. I'm gonna be like, hey man, listen, I found your email, I found your address here. First of all, I have a company that can help you get more privacy so that you don't get mails, letters like this all the time. But man, I just wanted to say, man, if you were willing to really down, like really sit down and have a conversation with me, even if it's via Zoom Uh, it can be timed. And I would love to pitch you some of the things that we're doing on the indie film space, man, you know. And love what you all are doing, and hurrah, you know. I would do that if I had the address for the CEO of Netflix or the CEO of, you know, uh, Amazon, you know, any, any other company that I feel like I'm super impressed by. I would, I would do the same thing because obviously it's effective.
It's okay.
Mail is not the same as getting email. My email, I got about 13,000 emails in one of my emails, but I don't got 13,000 pieces of mail. So no Russian roulette. If you can't find an address, there are many to send something to me. I probably would find it, I probably would not, but I guarantee you somebody is checking it though. And probably would say, hey man, somebody sent you some mail, I think you should probably look into it. I've had kids in high school send me letters, handwritten letters about, um, Brent inviting them to their graduation.
Oh wow.
Nobody really sent their resume, but people have definitely sent letters and invites and things of that nature for sure, man.
That's so interesting.
Birthday cards, all types of stuff.
But were you surprised that they got your address, man?
You know, this whole industry thing, this being famous thing, is just weird, you know. So it just doesn't surprise me if the same person that literally screams out your lyrics and look up at you like you're like their Lord and Savior and literally will wait out in line for hours at a time to come see a person stand on stage and yell song lyrics, it's not that far-fetched that they will find your address and send you a letter. Now, not all fans, but like the deeply, deeply committed fans. I'm just not a fan of too much things like that in this worldly sense. I'm a fan of the Lord Jesus Christ. I would definitely send the Lord Jesus Christ on my resume because I'm trying to get into heaven.
But, uh, amen.
But it doesn't surprise— it doesn't surprise me that's— that somebody who's seeking employment, trying to find a different way, you know. I'm gonna shoot bro a text. I don't know if I got a job for him, but I'm interested. I'm interested in seeing what's going on over there, you know. He got a lot of, you know, software, uh, resume, you know, information on there. Yeah, you got a lot of software experience. So I'm curious. I'm curious now. I'm curious.
I mean, I, I was impressed. Ty, the word resourceful is, is key here because I did find him finding me to be resourceful and scary. A little scary, you know. I had to remind myself that people can find you, that you are findable out here. Um, and it's interesting, you know what I'm saying? But I guess in my world cold emails are a little bit more familiar, right? Because I have a, you know, I have an account with my bio where my email is clearly in my bio, right? If I would have got sent an email, I gotta admit, I don't think we'd be doing an episode about this, you know, because that's a little bit more formal, that's a little bit more familiar. But to send some mail, I just— and it's funny because, uh, we were supposed to have a meeting the next day, the day after the mail received, and we did just the one day we didn't have our FYM meeting. So I called our show producer Vanessa, and I'm like, hey V, this is what happened. And V's like, oh no, oh no, no, no, no, no. V's like, this is not okay. Oh no. I was trying— I was, I was letting her know that, like, I wasn't spooked, I was surprised, but I did not know what to do. Like, because now they have my address, so that's one thing, right? But I also have all this information about them. So I did feel like somewhere it's a fair exchange. We know each other now a little bit. I just didn't know how to move forward, you know what I'm saying?
Fun fact about mailrooms, um, David Giffin finessed his way into a mailroom job at William Morris that basically, basically started his career in the music entertainment business. He lied on his resume that he graduated from the University of Southern California. And this is back in the day, so they had to send a mail to confirm that he actually was a graduate. Once he realized, like, oh snap, they actually checked the resume— he worked in the mailroom in New York City for William Morris, Or was it CAA? I can't remember which one. I think it was CAA. And he checked the mail every day. He got to his job hours early every day checking the mail for the superior that's supposed to get this confirmation where he graduated from. He found the mail, he forged it, changed up it, put it back together, and That is how he started his career. Yep, man, the first man to make a billion dollars off the entertainment business started it by fraudulently lying about graduating from University of South Carolina— I mean, Southern California. And he worked in the mailroom at CAA or William Morris, one of those talent agencies, and based in New York City. I want to say in the '60s. Wow. Yep. So I'm not saying go be fraudulent and lie because I don't think this guy did anything fraudulent. He just used the information at his fingertips to best benefit him. Uh, like I like to say, resourceful. We like resourceful people, man, you know.
One of my favorite, uh, playbook stories in Volume 1, when I interviewed one of Ty's first mentors Cersei, he tells a story about Ty, seeing Ty at the club. And Ty, you had a camera where you were portraying yourself as a photographer. Yeah, to get into sections to meet people. And he actually wanted to hire you to do photo and video work. Yeah, and you had to tell him that you didn't know how to use that camera. You were just using the camera You're tapping it down, brother. But even that story, I always was impressed by because I was like, wow, to think that the camera is just a key into a door and this man don't even know how to use the thing. But it just looked like, you know what I'm saying, that was your resume at the time.
It's definitely my resume at the time. Like, while we're on this call, I'm literally gonna text my man that sent you that. I'm trying to find his number right now. Oh, it's not— okay, I got the number.
You got it.
Okay, okay, we're gonna do real-time, real-time data analysis.
Yo, so someone did tell me, yo, you gotta call them on air and just have them on the episode. I was like this, you know.
Yo, it's so funny because I like, it's like I never really thought about like the concept of like randomly texting somebody and like, yo, yo, this time-based, and then them being like, right? So the same thing used to happen to me When like I was working at Target, I remember when KP first called my phone and I was like, yeah, I was helping a guest and I was like, yes, may I help you? I'm at the electronic booth. And they were like, oh yeah, let me see if I show the camera. And my phone started vibrating in my pocket. I looked, I opened it and it was like KP. And I was like, hold on real quick. And I walked away. I like, hello?
Oh, for real?
Same thing happened with me. Yeah, 1,000%. Same thing happened with, um, it was this A&R name. Dwayne Williams. I can't remember his full name, but he was like R. Kelly— don't shoot the messenger— he was R. Kelly A&R at RCA. And I had— we had— I had met him with Cersei, and he called me at my job because he was like— it was something. He was like, man, because I said something in the office that made him think something about young women, or it was something about 2 Chainz. It was something. I can't remember what it was verbatim, but like, I would walk away from people and answer the phone.
Yeah, yeah.
Like, even one time, like, like in like the summer of 2021, I got a text message randomly. It was like, yo, um, Ty, what's good? I got, I got, I got your number from Drake's manager, this Steve Stopp. I'm like, oh snap, Steve Stopp texting me? That's crazy. Same thing, like, with like, I, I've had that experience and countless amount of times. Yeah, that it'd be funny when I, when I be texting people because, you know, I'm like, I don't know if they're gonna be like, if they're gonna actually know, like, like how they're gonna respond. Yeah, because you don't, you don't know none of this stuff. Like, I was at a, um, I was at a, uh, bro, I don't know if I did I tell y'all the story about it, about the DoorDash?
No.
Oh bro, listen, my girl ordered some food on Postmates. This happened like 2 weeks ago.
This is relevant.
This is, this is the Earth Day, Earth Day discussion. We talk about planting seeds, okay?
Planting seeds.
I'll BS you now. Either I was on a call, I was doing something, my girl ordered something from Postmates or Uber Eats, but she couldn't go to the door. I heard the door knock on the door. I'm in Miami. Well, I go to the door, open the door, and I was like, black guy, you know, young. He was like, um Hey man, I got your postman. Postman. Okay, cool. He said, you got the, you got the, um, pin code? I was like, yeah, I got a pin code. And he said, are you Top Ace? I was like, uh, yes. He was like, man, I really like what you're doing for independent artists, man. Like, I really— that's really honorable. I said, okay, what's up, man? I doubt him up. He was like, would it be weird if I asked for your number? I was like, no, that's all good, brother. I gave my email. I gave my email. Um, I need to look at my email to see if you emailed it, but I'm pretty sure he emailed me if he asked for it at my door in Miami randomly, because I didn't order it. My girl ordered it. Yeah, I just opened the door.
I was just like, he watches the show because he has to know your face. That's the thing, he has to be able to recognize you.
He 1,000% know my face. And I just took it as— bro, I just took it as like, listen, man, if God is gonna If God— if God's will is for me to be seen more so people can recognize me and I can give them a little bit of courage or a little bit of wisdom, okay, cool, man, I'm with it, you know what I'm saying? But just know that I got them angels on me, you know what I'm saying? Just so know that if we move around the city, them angels is on me, okay?
Yeah, so That's important to know. That's important to know.
Extremely important.
But I guess, I guess that's, that's, that's what was in the letter. He called me a public figure, which—
are you a public figure? You don't even have a public figure. That's right, we don't know what we are. We just show up to life. We show up there every day.
Every day, you know. But in my mind, I just never thought when I set up the LLC that I should have did it under, you know, a different address, you know what I'm saying? Because I'm not thinking that somebody gonna one day send me some mail. If I would have known that, then maybe I would have did this differently. And I, and I do believe I was trying to make this experience a divine experience. Was like, this is just the way God played it out for me. To not only meet this person but to get the advice that they want to give me, because I did not know. I didn't know in my entire 6 years of having that LLC, I did not know it would be traced back to me in this way. So now I gotta get in the box.
Truth of the matter, we good. Take this in consideration, right? Although we're still building our platform, we don't have a whole bunch of views, right? But just think about whenever we run ads and thousands of people see the ad, they might not click on it, go watch the whole thing, but there's a, there's a, there's a face to a name that's happening. Yeah, through that process, you know what I'm saying? We got some ads running right now. Yeah, some ads is running.
I mean, for me, the experience that I had where somebody recognized me out in public was very funny because it was Ty's mom, who I had never met.
Oh, that's funny. Yeah, I remember that.
And she was like, excuse me, because we was at like a little restaurant or whatever, and this very nice lady, excuse me. Yes? Uh, I think I know you. Um, I don't, I don't think you do. You do the podcast with Ty. I'm like, oh wait, you do know me, you do know me. She's like, I'm his mom. I'm just like, man, out of the million people in Atlanta, Georgia, to end up in the same restaurant as Ty's mom. And we hadn't met formally before, you know what I'm saying? We sat next to each other at Ty's birthday dinner, but to meet her in public that way, I was shocked because I wasn't ready.
I don't even think it was as many.
Oh yeah, no, it was, it was, it was kind of early. Yeah, it was kind of early.
I ain't gonna lie to you.
Yeah, I don't know how your mom know—
knew me.
You know what I'm saying? I have no, no clue where she could just eyeball me out in public.
It's crazy. She got Instagram. Yeah, yeah, she be sending me memes and stuff in my DMs.
This is one of those things that I just wasn't ready for, but it did kind of open my eyes. Like, oh man, you know, you never know who gonna recognize you while you out moving around. I just didn't think somebody was gonna send you some mail, you know what I'm saying?
Right, right, right, right. No, it's funny because more than I wonder how many people send their parents DMs. We should get a poll going. How many people send their parents funny DMs, memes? I definitely send my mama memes. Let me see, what's the last meme I sent my mom?
Yeah, you send your mama memes? Y'all too tech savvy over at the Basin House for me, man.
Listen, she learning now. Don't get it twisted. Hold on, what's the last thing I sent my mom?
I love that.
Yo, you want to know the last thing I sent my mom? Hold on, I'm gonna play, I'm gonna play the audio.
Oh my God, bro, what, bro? Get out of here. Yeah, nobody likes prank videos more than parents.
All right, that's the last thing I said my mom— that's the last thing I said my mom on Instagram.
Why did you send your mama that, brother?
That lady said, Jesus. So basically the guy was putting a prank on her where he was like a hypnosis prank.
Yeah, yeah.
So he walked in with the thing and he had the guy in front of it, had like he got hypnotized, he just fell. And he just— bro, I laughed so hard looking at that. I definitely said it to my mom.
Hey, she wasn't going— she won't go for whatever he had coming in.
She definitely responded. She looked at it, but she did not respond. So, so that everybody knows, today is Earth Day. I know I keep saying that today is Earth Day. Because it's important that we acknowledge the Earth. You know, we have dominion over the Earth, and we're supposed to manage it properly. And we, we're failing at this right now. We're failing, right? And so that is something that, you know, people got to get better at. But besides that, um, the reason I brought up the Earth Day thing and the reason I keep going back to it is that I, um plant a lot of seeds in people DMs with funny memes.
Really?
Really? What? That's like my thing, bro. Send funny memes on Instagram DMs, bro. I be laughing. Like, I probably spend an hour a day just laughing and sending the memes out. Like, I be sending them out like they— like they Culture Playbook Volume 2 pre-orders. Like, it's them thing. But I like, oh, I know exactly who I'm about to send them to. I'm like, oh, this right here, I'm gonna send this to TK right here. This is gonna be a funny one. For real, bro.
You feel like, you feel like that's great for your relationship building?
Um, I think everybody need to laugh, man, you know what I'm saying? I think people need to laugh. Uh, I think laughter is a part of one of the, you know, uh, magnificent joys of breathing every day. I think it's like waking up, then laughing. That order.
You got laughing, you got laughing over food.
Yeah, yep.
Okay, okay, okay. I ain't mad at it.
Sometimes you just laugh when you're hungry. Do you know how many times we've been pro poor and didn't have nothing to eat? And you just gotta laugh at it. But it's crazy, but I can't even believe this is my life right now. But that's crazy. You just gotta laugh, you know what I'm saying? Laughing instead of crying. You heard, you heard that saying?
Yeah, yeah, I have, I have.
Yeah, so when you wake up, that's the first thing, because that's the gratitude and the love that Lauren has for you. Then after that, laughter. Gotta laugh.
Ty, I really appreciate that. I do think that's a great message to share. You gotta laugh. I think when I first told you about the letter and the way you laughed, I was like, oh, this, this feels good, because V did not laugh. V was like, because V is a woman, you know what I'm saying?
We got angels protecting her too, but you know, I did— you know, my angels look— you know, I can see my angel right now, you know.
I do, I do think if we would have received the mail, she would have been like, restraining order.
And I wouldn't blame her, you know what I'm saying?
You got to be careful.
I would blame her. I be like, get your email, get you off of public, off of the public. Nobody did this to you but you. It's like you shot yourself and called the police and said, somebody shot me, somebody shot—
not the same, not the same, not the same, not the same. Somebody mailed you a gun and you shot yourself, that's different. Yeah, but, but, you know, I just, I just love that.
You should be worried if anybody that you don't know mail you a firearm. You should be like, this is alarm, you know. 100% resume, resourceful, resourceful. A gun, that's a bit problem-some.
Problem-some, problem-some. But that, that is the lesson here, guys. Like, be resourceful, don't be problematic, right? So reaching out to people because it's, um, it's National Earth Day. Yes, plant, plant seeds. Cold call.
Yeah, yeah, that seems in the real grass. Go grow a tree, go grow a tree in your backyard to help that, help the environment. It's National Earth Day, brought to you by our sponsor Earth Day.
Earth Day is our sponsor. Uh, well, yeah, that, that was our episode. I feel like we gave out a lot of great information today. Um, next episode, if you get a text back, we'll, we'll find out what— oh, let me check the next one.
Let me check if they— let me check if they text back. Let me see. Yeah, let me make sure I got the right number. They didn't text back yet. Let me see. All right, they're probably too busy at the post office. I'm crying.
I'm crying.
Hey man, but listen, man, Coachable Volume 2 is out. You know, we're going on this— well, I'm gonna be going by myself. Yo might join some of these, but I'm going on a podcast tour, you know what I'm saying? Going on these podcasts, we're going to talk about it.
I'm excited for Ty's podcast tour. I'm geeked for it because I think he's just, you know, ready for the world.
You can get way more—
you're gonna get way more mail after the tour.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what I'm saying? I'm with the mail, you know. You just send me the mail, especially if you can find an address to a mailbox that I actually check. Um, um, hint is I rarely check mailboxes. So, um, but somebody checks them. Somebody checks them.
I think that's a flex to really check mailboxes. It's like, yeah, I'm trying to get to that level.
Yeah, I don't check mailboxes. It's, um, I travel too. I travel. I'm, I will— I'm not the person you assign the mailbox duty to.
Yeah.
Although I will have— I will go to FedEx really fast and send something next day if it requires money or somebody's salvation. Yeah.
Amen. Amen. Well, well, Ty, that is another episode of the FYM Show with Ty Young. Please, guys, uh, leave us a comment if you've been successful with a cold call, a cold email, if you ever mailed somebody your resume. Let us know in the comments. And, um, yeah, y'all, we'll see y'all soon. Peace.
