Conversations with the homies #03

How many mics do you need? All I need is one mic, one mic. Hey, open. No? I'm sorry, it took a minute. I was lagging. Not one mic open? Yeah. No, no, that's fair. The one mic is open. Um, hello everybody. Hey. Um, I am Vengeance. I am the knight. I am Batman. Ooh. And who the hell is this with me? Who could it be? Who could it be? Tis I, lady of the land. You decided to do it. Of things substantial. Only substantial. In the highest regard. In substance, hey. Brr, brr, brr, brr. Yeah. We the best. Holiday season. Oh no. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Don't get me started. There are so many different songs that started with that tag. Yeah. It's a fun time. You got Itty Bitty Piggy. Come on. You got, uh, She Gotta Dunk. Come on. Oh my God. Wait, what else, what else, what else, what else? Literally the only two I know. Okay. I really wanted to support you with that, but I'm like, oh, he said both of them. Yeah, that, that was all the dat piff taught me. Do you remember that piff for like mixtapes and shit? Absolutely. I used to listen to Gucci on that piff. Oh my God. Wait, Fat Gucci? Yes. Obviously Fat Gucci. Obviously Fat Gucci. The superior Gucci. You know, the Gucci. I don't know who the Gucci man is. The Gucci. Wait, no, not Gucci. Not the Gucci. That's not gonna work. The Gucci man. The. The Gucci. The Gucci man. Ew. Gucci is funny as fuck. So we are back with conversations with the homies. Numero three. Three, three, three, three, three, three, three, three, three, three, three, three. Ran out of breath. I did the poet thing where you're like trying to get all. I'm trying to get all of the words out and I'm running out of breath, but I have to make sure that it sounds good. Oh my God. If I hear a nigga. Take your time. Take your time, King. Come on. Come on, King. We ain't gonna rush you. So do you like do you snap for everybody? Do you exclaim for everybody? Do you try to like support all the performance that way or do you only do it when you're really feeling it? So. I try to be as supportive as I can be honest about as long as it's genuine. You know, I'm with it. I do applaud people for doing anything. So I'm going to applaud if you. I always clap. If you, you know, I always applaud. But I got to really be feeling it to just to yell out something. To exclaim. Yeah. I have to really be feeling it. And because I'm anxious as hell once I have like taking that step. So I really got to be spirit got to move me. You sit in here like. Okay. That's how you sound in the background. Okay. That's how it sounds when like. Oh, yeah. If anyone was ever wondering if you're on stage, this is what it sounds like when people are like applauding for you. Yeah. Come on. You better. So, yeah. Wow. We gave them like a we gave them a 3D experience. We did. I need to start charging. They don't even know what we just. The bag is going up. Oh, cruel. So cruel. Active. Listen, I'm not afraid to admit that lately I have been listening to more ice spice. Why would you be afraid to admit that? Because she can't rap. Okay. But she's fun. Her beats are fun. I mean, she's a funny thing, you know? Oh, yeah. I've heard in like little commercials or whatever. And they're like, who's that over there? Is that Lotto? She's been in commercials. She's been in a commercial. Yeah. So, wait. That's like not funny at all. But I just. Is Ice Spice gay? I hope so. I think she is. Because they made a joke about her and Lotto. Like together? Or like. Gayly? Shit. What's going on in the news? Unconfirmed. Unconfirmed. Exclusive. Exclusive. Holiday season. I didn't think that would come back so soon. I thought I had more time. The rules of three. And recall. In comedy. In life. In life. Some people are like, if I want to be funny, I just got to say something three times? No. No. No. No. No. Absolutely not. I am flabbergasted. Expecto Patronum. I was just thinking of like Harry Potter and shit. I wasn't ready. I wasn't ready. I wasn't ready. So, what are you currently watching since we're talking about Harry Potter? Um. Okay. Okay. Always watching Abbott Elementary. Whether it is new episodes or the old ones. I'm always tuned in to Abbott. Gotta be. A-W-A-E. Always watching Abbott Elementary. Yeah. Away. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Okay. But I've been watching My Wife and Kids lately. What? Yeah. What? He was a dickhead to her. He was a dickhead to everybody in that home. He was. The only person who deserved it was Junior. Sometimes. Like 60% of the time. At some point we got to look at the parents. We should have started with the damn parents. Oh my God. Like first of all, your daughter was dark skinned and now she's light skinned. Let's talk about that. Can we? Can we discuss that? Can we? Because it just happened so suddenly. It just happened so often across sitcoms. Come on. They love to do that. They love to do that. And I don't understand it. I really don't. Dark skinned Aunt Viv for life. Oh for sure. She ate that up. She ate that up. Okay. And it's crazy because she left no crumbs and then they tried to get light skinned Aunt Viv to. Do something. Do something. She worked with what she had I feel like. Well original Aunt Viv. Yeah. Six plus two. Come on. Come on. Eight. Come on. Okay. Yeah. Four plus four. What'd they say? Nine minus one. Now we're trying to think of all the different ways to get eight. Literally. Okay. The square root of 64. Okay. X minus two equals six. Solve for X. Damn. Some little basic algebra for your eggs. I hate that. Num num. Like an ant eater. Num num. Num num. Okay but you said Abbott Elementary, my wife and kids. Yeah. So sitcoms. I live for a black sitcom. That's fair. I really do. How do you feel about Fresh Prince? I haven't been able to rewatch it but I enjoyed it. I enjoyed watching it when I was growing up. I do. It's some scenes that I can't live without though. Yeah. That room of Will and Ashley. I mean that scene of Will and Ashley dancing in her room. I can't even remember the context no more but I can see it in my head clearly. Yeah. I remember that. Wasn't that also where he taught her the whole backup? Backup. Mind your business. Mind your business. Mind your business. Now that's the more important scene there. And then it got all real when Carlton got shot. I'm sorry. Why don't I remember that? You really don't remember that? Carlton got shot like with a gun? Yeah. They were at an ATM and I think it was for wedding shit. Oh shit. And then he was like just give it to him. He was like. It wasn't that many. It was a pop. It was a guh. Guh. Still recognizing the belly. Damn. I forgot all about that. I forgot all about that. And then Carlton also ended up like in the hood with a whole different persona. In an apartment building. I really forgot about this. Listen. When it comes to old shows for some reason my memory recall is just there. That is crazy. Thank you for that. No problem. That'll make me watch Fresh Prince again. I can't imagine what other things I've forgotten. Is that what you're watching right now? Fresh Prince? No. Okay. What you watch? I am watching Game of Thrones again. Okay. Period. And like I know what the last season is going to bring me. And I'm almost there. And so far I'm loving the experience again. Okay. It's a good show. Period. And if we get to the last season, like the last two episodes, it'll just... It was like, yeah, Game of Thrones, metal. Damn. Damn. And then I don't think I'm watching anything else right now. I think after I finish my rewatch of Game of Thrones I might go back through Buffy or Charmed. Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A fun random fact. Go for it. About Buffy the Vampire Slayer in 2024. When I was a child, my uncle used to call me Buffy. And it was inspired by the Vampire Slayer. But I still to this day do not know why. To this day? Like he still calls me Buffy. Oh no! I just connected the dots! Never mind. Cut that from the track. Oh my god. Edit that out. Edit that out. The explanation wasn't even given so we're good. We're good. It's up to people to figure it out on their own. That's funny. Easter egg. It gave nothing. It gave nothing? My dad went by Buff. Oh. Yeah, that's the connection I just made just now, literally. Oh, no. Phil. That's a nickname. It's something. What's good, Buffy? I was like, okay. Thanks. I haven't even turned on Netflix so I have no idea what's on there. My wife and kids. Heard. Heard ya. That's all? That's all we got? No. That fucking end of the Carol and the end of the world, I think it's called. What the hell is that? It's a cartoon about this lady named Carol. And the end of the world? Yeah. There's like nine months left for the Earth to survive and shit. Holy shit. And she's just living life. It's actually a really cool show. A lot happens in that show. Living my life like it's golden. Living my life like it's golden. Golden. Come on. Golden. Yeah, that's on Netflix. Okay. Taylor Swift concert is on Netflix too, isn't it? I wouldn't know. I feel like it came across my feed one time and then they knew better. Is there a way to have terms blocked on Netflix? Can I block Swift, Taylor, Beautiful Gowns? Yeah. Please. Please? Thank you. Just need a filter. Thank you. Oh my God. Thank you. You sound like the, I don't know how many people are hip to Corporate Aaron. Corporate Aaron is so funny. Yeah. So we just really need to talk about our deliverables. Is that every non-profit meeting I've been in? Oh my gosh. It's not even just a non-profit meeting. Oh Jesus. Any meeting that occurs over specifically the app Zoom is almost exactly like that. Give or take a few variants. Yeah. So we're going to go ahead and get started. Thank you. Thank you. Make sure everyone is on mute. Let's take a moment to do that now so that we don't have any interruptions. Thank you. We're going to use the whole 72 minutes. So yeah. Be prepared to stay. Thank you. Okay. I know it's a binder. We're closing time. I know everyone's ready to quit. If you haven't seen Corporate Aaron, just look up Corporate Aaron on TikTok. Don't do it on Instagram. You won't really see a lot. Do it on TikTok. On TikTok. On the TikiTok. Clock. On the clock app. The tickety-tock. Let me see. Movies? Music? They kind of go hand in hand. Let's talk about them then. What have you been listening to? If I could just get free real quick. Get free poet. So I had Apple Music. And one day I woke up and I decided I wanted to listen to music in order to get myself ready for my day. And Apple Music had decided to take away all my music. My entire library. Oh my God. My entire library. I had one song and it was a song that I paid for on iTunes years ago to support my nigga King Nate. That's the one song that is in my Apple Music library. That is fucking wild. That is fucking wild. But I say that to say I haven't been listening to as much music because I get kind of pissed every time I go to my phone to listen to things. They're not there. I wish the fuck Spotify would. I wish Spotify would. I have 1,200 like songs and I'm picky about my like songs. Sometimes I even go through here and I'm like I don't like this song anymore. Period. Because you can fall out of love with a song. You really can. And sometimes it's necessary. And sometimes it's your own song. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. So we're going to go ahead and get started. Period. OK. But I have been listening to Yeah Glow. I have been listening to Hiss. I just want to say fuck y'all. Why you do it like that? First off. Yeah. I just want to say fuck y'all. Yeah. Get the hell out of the way. Megan Thee Stallion. Come on Meg. Love it. Come on Meg. Big foot. Small foot. Don't matter to me. It really doesn't matter to me. It doesn't matter to me. It doesn't matter to me. It doesn't matter to me. It doesn't matter to me. It doesn't matter to me. It doesn't matter to me. It doesn't matter to me. It doesn't matter to me. It doesn't matter to me. It doesn't matter to me. It doesn't matter to me. Big foot. Small foot. Don't matter to me. It really don't. Nobody ever gave a fuck. Nobody gave a shit. She still found heels her size. Um. And Nikki got defeated like a troll doll. Um. So what are you mad about? Um. Worry about your glass home. You know. Before you got her throwing stones. You know. Cause aren't you. Aren't you. Cannons to the left of me. Since we were talking about Fresh Prince. I'm now thinking about. Isn't there butler? I'm thinking about butler. I'm thinking about butler. I'm thinking about butler. I'm thinking about butler. I'm thinking about butler. I'm thinking about butler. I'm thinking about butler. I'm thinking about butler. 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Different person but it just came to mind. It's like similar energy. It really is. Oh my God. They could do a song together. That would eat. But then wouldn't Blueface be involved? He would be writing it. Yeah. Yeah. So he's the one who's out here slipped like a Barbie. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's where the meme came from. He was showing her how to say it. Yeah. He's like, come on. Stop playing with me. Yo, it's all coming together. Right? I remember the first time that I smoked. And it wasn't because I was on like an Ice Spice song. Okay. Let me see. Post high school. I was good in high school. I know, right? I didn't drink. I didn't smoke. I didn't do any of that. I was focused on let me get this diploma. Wonderful. And then I have the rest of my adult life to do stuff. Yeah. Fuck it up. Yeah. I like that. It sounded like I had a smoker going. But I was with my friend Josh, and I was 19, 20. Not the year. I was 19 or 20. Because one of the kids that I'm teaching at CSA currently went ahead, and it was like, oh, yeah. Well, things are the same when you went back here in 2015. And I was like, girl, I went here in 2005. He was like, damn. Oh, no. Oh, no. And then I said, because I couldn't just let it go, I said, listen, if you make it to 33, then we can talk. Damn. Because there's a lot of time between you and me. Honey. Wow. Goddamn. Life is not over at 30. Can be. It's over at least 60, 70. You know? On average. I'm trying to live long. Don't even think about it. I'm trying to live long and prosper. Come on, now. But anyway, I was with Josh. Yes. And we were at someone's apartment? Oh, it's blurry. All I know is that we smoked, and I was like, how are you supposed to hit this? Because this is the first question I have. I didn't smoke cigarettes. I didn't any of that. So I'm like, how do I do this? And then he was horrible at explaining it. He's like, you just inhale. Like, I'm dumb. Like, I'm the stupid one. I'm sorry I haven't been doing drugs since I was 13. You know? I don't know if that's true or not. I'm just hyperbolic. Okay, sweet. But yeah, I was like, how the fuck do I do this? Instruct me. He's like, just breathe in. So I was sitting here like... Literally. Oh my god. There's an art to it. You draw it into your mouth, and then you can inhale. So you can control the amount you're getting. If you just want to face it, then yeah, just go straight for the... Like, if you're having a bad fucking day, go ahead and do that. But we were playing... I think we were playing Left 4 Dead. Okay. And it was split screen. He was on the top screen. I was on the bottom screen. Okay. So we're going through the mission. And I feel like I'm doing surprisingly well for having played the game for the first time. Like, I'm navigating okay. I'm making my shots. I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing. And then we reach the end of the level. So I'm waiting for it to end, but the character's just standing there. So then Josh is like, yo, are you going to move your character? Are you going to move your character? And I was watching the top screen instead of the bottom screen. So I was watching him play the whole time instead of myself. I was just running around in a corner for the most part. Wow. And that's how I do it all the time. Yeah, that'll do it. That'll do it. That'll do, donkey. That'll do. Yeah, that'll... Sorry, I was imagining it in my head. Just a little character going around and around. Yep, just going around in circles. That's hilarious. Hilarious. My first time smoking? I shouldn't have been doing what I was doing. Lord God. I was out here capping, man. I used to be a bad liar when I was younger because I wanted to fit in real bad. So niggas thought I had already been smoking. Oh, God. They thought you were a pro at this point. They thought I was a stoner, bro. I ran into an old family friend. Okay. She was a couple years older than me. Ran into her on the rapid before school. So it's like six in the morning. Oh, no. She was like, yeah, I usually smoke before I go. And I'm like, shit, I'm trying to... I'm trying to smoke with you. She's like, alright, bet. Meet me tomorrow at the rapid station. We'll smoke before I hop on the rapid. So I got up early. I got up early. You woke up early to go smoke some weed. I woke up early to go smoke some weed before school. Went to the rapid station. We smoked. I didn't smoke correctly, for sure. The whole art to it thing. Yeah, straight for it. I felt a little weird, but I didn't smoke. I felt a little weird, but I knew that I was determined to act like somebody who was high because I knew I smoked. So when I got to school, it was over with. I was just laughing all day. I think that was the first time I got in trouble in class, for real. I almost got a detention. Oh, my God. Yeah. Ms. Kosir, she was not happy with my behavior. But I had a great time. I had a really great time. And most of that time, I was not even high. Let's see. Let's see here. I got a random work email that just distracted the fuck out of me. It was so annoying. And it's fine. It's fine. I just needed to check it real quick. And I was like, a partner reached back out. And then I got another email that was like, hey, hold off on responding to them. I'm going to check in with you on Monday. I was like, oh, okay, cool. Hmm. Idiot. You ain't got to tell me I don't got to do work. Listen, if you want me to hold off on responding, I will hold off on responding. Not a problem. Not a problem. Do you get the munchies when you smoke? Uh, infrequently now. But every now and then, yeah. Okay, okay. I think it really depends on the strain nowadays. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a lot of different wheedles out there. Wheedles and waddles. I like, uh, I like fruit. When I have access to it when I'm high. It's great. It really is. Pineapples. Slap. Grapes. Slap. Strawberries. Slap. Ooh, mangoes. Mangoes go so crazy. Mangoes go so crazy. And I think the fact that you have to eat them a little more complicatedly makes them taste even better. It's something about working for it that really makes that, that experience very gratifying for me. Oh, yeah. Like, uh, it's the same thing with a pineapple. Come on. Like, even though you don't get much out of the pineapple by the time you're done breaking it down. No. You really don't. No. You get like two, three squares. And you can cut those up into little pieces if you want to. But. You might as well eat that right there and then. Right. My folks, they be using the skin to make holistic drinks and shit. Damn. Yeah. DC natural healing concoctions. I ain't even mean to throw the ad in there. I was just genuinely like. Damn. If you want to really get the use out of a pineapple, you got to use every part of it. You can't just eat the middle of that core and get you right. Heard. OK. OK. I did not know. Yeah. It'll get you right. I was unaware. Yeah. I need one of those little. There has to be some device for like pineapples. Like coring a pineapple. They do got one. OK. It's like. Crazy. It's like a small circle. That you insert. OK. And you can turn it. Oh. And it rings. And it cuts out the middle. The middle core. That sounds so good. That invention is so raw. It's so raw. Yeah. Whoever made that. You did your MF in thing. I don't even know what it's called. The pineapple cutter. The pineapple cutter. The pineapple core cutter. On me. Oh. Let's see here. Oh. What else? What else? You know what today is? 2-1-6 day. I really want to know. Before today. Before February 16, 2024. Have you heard anybody else call it 2-1-6 day? On the radio. On the radio? Yeah. OK. OK. 1079. OK. Because they're hosting something in Richmond Heights. They had a day party for 2-1-6 day. Oh. And they do it annually. Oh. I was not informed at all. Yeah. No. Every year. Wow. OK. OK. 2-1-6 day. So I just wasn't hit. So what exactly happens on 2-1-6 day? Is it just that day party? Is there any other? There might be some other events going on at some other spots if you happen to look it up. But yeah. Yeah. I was today years old. That's fair. I was today years old when I found out Cleveland was doing that. But is Cleveland doing that? Because nobody hit me up and said, hey, what are we doing for 2-1-6 day? Yeah. Nobody cares. OK. It's an area code. And it's not even an area code that everyone has. Nope. Not at all. I've always had a 2-1-6 number. But I know a lot of people with 3-3-0, 4-4-0. Hell, even Columbus people who come up here 6-1-4. 6-1-4? 6-1-4? Yeah. I'm repping the 6-1-4. The 2-1-6. It just sounds better. It does. And with the 4-1-6. Nope. It doesn't work. It doesn't work. I think 3-0-4 is cute. What area code is that? Um. Uh. Um. Google help me. Oh my God. Google help me. Oh wait. You just happen to have a friend with a 3-0-4 area code? Oh no. Oh. So you just made up that number? I did make it up. OK. OK. No. Ah. Not on Beyonce's internet. We're not doing that. I looked it up. Oh my God. I just thought we were saying numbers that sound cute. No. I was just saying 3-0-4 is cute. I was talking about extra area codes you hear about here. Oh. You were still on topic. OK. I was trying. Gosh. I think you did a great job. Boo. Hee hee. OK. OK. One thing I want to round out on. OK. Is some more art stuff. OK. Do you remember your first performance? I do remember my first. Actually. OK. One of your first performances. The most memorable. The one that changed the game. The one that changed the game. The one that you're like, I can do this. I remember it. I remember it very clearly. I was always a writer. All my family's are writers. Shouts out. Yeah. They be doing their things. Everywhere. Everybody. It was at church. And I had prepared a Jesus poem. Oh. Because that's what I used to do. That's where I started. I started in the church. In his name. And I loved God as a child. I really, really did. OK. Mother to the blood. I was serious. I was serious about my Jesus poems. Mother. Don't you play. Don't you play. Yeah. It was at church. But it was about my mom, actually. Aw. It was for like a Mother's Day program, I believe. Aw. That's not so sweet. It was a Jesus poem about my mom. And everybody just. Oh, my mama. They lost their shit on my hood. On my Bible. I look sanctified. Yeah. I look good. And do bless, not stress. Well, yeah. It was at the church. They ate it up. It was them responding that made me feel like, OK. Maybe this is something I would do. Oh, they four times too. Again. They was for real. Like, they ate it up. Tears. You know. It was tears. Stand in ovation. To be fair. Wait. Small church. That reminds me of Mr. Hickson. Oh, my goodness. Mr. Hickson was. Rest in peace. Mr. Hickson was an English teacher at Cleveland School of the Arts. And he also did theater before that. So he was one of those. Yes. Very much so. Yes. So anytime someone did something that was like genuine. He would cry. Tears. Tears. Tears. That was good. Tears. Tears. Yes. That was good. A plus. A plus. He cried at a few reenactments of Romeo and Juliet. He had us paraphrase with like present day language. Oh, my God. And he cried at a couple scenes of Romeo and Juliet that we did. That's how you know you got A. No, seriously. If he cried. That's the goal. You got to make Hickson cry. Like, that's how you get the grade. Baby, that's an A. Come on. Come on. We still don't know what was under that hat. That ain't none of my business. Because this man had a hat atop his head. Atop is the perfect word. In a very specific way. Like, it sat in a very specific way. Almost like it was glued. Not moving. Not moving. Like, no one's ever seen him take it off. Nope. No one's ever seen under it. Nope. It's the best kept secret in the world. Very well might be. Very well might be. Hickson was a spy. Had to be. Somebody sent him. There's no way. There's no way. He was not trained for exactly what he was doing. Because he was very specific. Very niche. But, so you said everyone responded really well. And from there you just kind of kept it going? I did. How old were you at that point? Twelve. I was twelve. I know. I was twelve. You were twelve? I was twelve. What grade is twelve? Fifth? Sixth or seventh? Sixth? Sixth or seventh? Because you're fifteen in freshman year typically. Typically. Yeah. Fourteen. Thirteen, fourteen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, sixth, seventh depending on when you turn thirteen. Yeah, I think. Yeah, that would make sense. I started at Cleveland School of the Arts in sixth grade. So, I think it was like a direct pipeline. I was like, ooh, I could do it at church and at school? So, you're saying that I could do this for a grade? I could do this again. Every day. Like, all my life. How was your time at CSA? How would you, yeah, how would you say your time was at CSA? I really enjoyed my time at CSA. I'm not one of them people who got a lot of terrible stories. I feel like I was in my personal bag at CSA. Not going to lie, my high school years were some of the best years of my freaking life. Just because of who I was at the time. I was very self-assured. I don't know where it went, but I was very self-assured. So, I had a great time because I was just living life, doing the art stuff. And what has your most recent performance been? My most recent performance... December. What did I do in December? Was it a group show? I'm trying to remember if that was the last one, but it was one of the last ones. I did like three shows in December. Okay! Come on! It's not a flick. But, I don't remember. I don't remember the order no more, so I don't know which one was most recent. But, that group show ate. That group show ate. That group show ate. The group show ate. Um, Cone 2. Oh, yeah! Cone 2, me. You're going to be back on this season. I am going to be back on this season. Oh, you are? You already got your date? Let's get a date, babe. They gave me a date. Oh, I need to send in my head shot. What date? When? So I can mark it off my calendar. I'm just playing. April 7th. Okay. Ooh, during National Poetry Month. April 7th. April 7th. And I will be there with Khadijah again. Khadijah Wingo is on that, on that lineup. And she was on the one in December. Sierra Delane was also on that lineup in December. Three of my, or, well, yeah, I'll include myself. Three of my closest friends. Me, myself, and I. We did that Cone 2. Oh, you know what's crazy, though? What? Speaking of with you. You, this Sunday, actually, and I don't know when this is going to air. But we can still talk about this here and now. Oh, yeah. This Sunday. This will be out next Wednesday or Thursday. February 18th. Eric Odom will be taking the stage as the poet of the night. Yes. At Cone 2 Live. Yes. And it's going to be a great time. I'm really looking forward to it. I'm very excited. I'm looking forward to it, too. I invited a few people, a few of my friends that normally aren't able to make my shows. Okay. And I was like, can y'all make a Sunday performance? And they're like, yes. Period. So I was like, period. Period, period, period, period. Yeah. I'm excited. I got my pieces. I got five of them I want to do. One of them is just an extra if I need to throw something in there. Okay. But I forgot, how long do we get? 10, 15 minutes? 15 to 20. I might have to add a few pieces. Because each of those are like two or three minutes. So if I got six of those, that's like 12, 13 minutes. 12 to 15 minutes. Oh, okay. Maybe that's not bad. I'll add like one more. You know what I really appreciate about your poetry? What's that? Because I was just thinking, like, I'm really excited to see you perform. And I was just telling, I think it was Khadijah last night. Like, one thing I'm going to do is watch Eric get these poems off. Sure. If I don't do nothing else in Cleveland, Ohio. Yo. I got to see it. And I got to see it live. There's just a way that you are able to captivate a crowd and keep us there for this very, very engulfing moment. And I feel like every poem with you is a moment. And we're with you. Well, maybe I should speak for myself. I'm with you. I'm with you every moment. I feel like most people are with me. I think so, too. You can feel it in the energy. I'm not feeling bad. You really can just grab the audience and say, hey, experience this moment with me. Come and sit with me. And then it's like, now, get out of my face. But wait, I have another moment that we can share. And now, get out of my face. Also, you can go away. Stay for a little bit. Stay for a little bit. But when it's time to go, you go. You know? You go, damn it. Yeah, I'm very excited to see what you bring into the literal stage this Sunday. Ooh. 8 p.m. Dunlap's Corner Store. I'm halfway tempted to do one since this is going to be after. Do you want to hear a preview? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So, yeah, I know y'all did not tune in for poetry, but this is a poetic, artistic, smoking episode. Come on. So, oh, this is funny because it's called First Memories of Smoke. Let's go! Sorry, that is good. No, no, no, you're good. I just got to make sure that I am. Yeah. My dad smoked Marlboros. My earliest memories of smoke were on his lap or in front of the TV. Tendrils of white clouds hung in the air. We didn't know any better. I'd play in the clouds trying to imagine dragons in each coil. It was better than trying to be outside where all the wild things are. These clouds were safer. My first memories of smoke is heat and screams and don't put your hands on mom and five-year-old bodies and not enough power to make threats reality. Not enough power in hands to crack jaws. A chimney made out of my mouth. All this anger had to vent somehow. My first memories of smoke were screams. And fog. And misdirection. And I've known him since high school. And a stepfather. And a pair of hands that didn't know where they ended and I began. I wanted to burn like a martyr. But who cries for the Latin boy? Just another statistic. Another adverse childhood experience. Another notch in my skin. This one was from surviving a forest fire made of men. My first memories of smoke were his memory. My dad made wind. Couldn't be there to protect me. Wasn't there to hold me. Wasn't what I needed. Just blown away like so many cigarette butts. Thrown away like so many brown boys. I am smoke now. I feel my lungs like a dragon ready to exhale. And I try to become wind to blow through streets. Try to become a storm so I am seen and remembered. My gale force lungs. My foundation shaken but not broken. Boom, boom, boom. This what I'm talking about. That's exactly what I'm talking about. Y'all heard that moment? Was y'all there for that moment? I had to close my eyes and really allow myself to get into it because that was a moment. My faith. Did you ever have like a lie that you come up with that you're like, yo, where did that come from? Yeah. The one for me in this one was. Talk about it. This one was from surviving a forest fire made of men. Yeah. That one got me too. I don't know if you heard me over here. I did. Yeah. I think you're allowed to impress yourself without being arrogant. Absolutely. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Listen, listen, listen. I wish y'all could see my face right now. People are so weird for that shit. People are so weird for that shit. For feeling good about something you did. For gassing yourself up. You over there appreciating your artistry? What the fuck is that? Like what's wrong? What's wrong with people? People will try to roast you with like compliments. They're like, look at this motherfucker over here using big words. Yeah. Over here liking their work. Yeah. Get out of here. Yeah. You rascal. Not rascal. I see a little rascal. Oh my God. Thank you for that. I wasn't expecting to get a show. Listen. Thank you for that. I figured that was a good way for us to bring it back. Yeah. Let's put it back on. We got a good 45 minutes here. With barely any pauses. I don't think I have to do any edits to this episode. Which would be nice. Yeah. Get my laugh in there. Gross. Yeah. All right, y'all. Until next time. Peace.