Andy Frasco's World Saving Podcast - EP 265: Carter Cruise

Episode Date: April 9, 2024

It's Tuesday. We think. Hard to tell with all this traveling Andy and the boys have been up to - where are they know? Where am I now?? Somewhere, working hard to bring you this HIGHLY charged episode.... Choose your battles as Jason reminds us from the band's new tour bus but do always seek that special sit in from Rage Kage himself: Kyle Gass. Also: is Gonzo driving the tour bus?? Time is a flat circle. And on the Interview Hour we got cool girl, DJ, producer, and former adult film star, Carter Cruise! Andy met Carter on the Bert Kreischer cruise. She is both sick and also tight. Check in on these podcasting road dogs now, and remember: It's all about perspective... (that POV perspective amirite Logan!) And guess what... You can watch the full episodes Exclusively on Volume.com now in color!  Psyched to partner up with our buddies at Volume.com! Check out their roster of upcoming live events and on-demand shows to enrich that sweet life of yours. Call, leave a message, and tell us if you think one can get addicted to mushrooms: (720) 996-2403  Check out our new album!, L'Optimist on all platforms Follow us on Instagram @worldsavingpodcast For more information on Andy Frasco, the band and/or the blog, go to: AndyFrasco.com Check out our good friends that help us unwind and sleep easy while on the road and at home: dialedingummies.com Produced by Andy Frasco, Joe Angelhow, & Chris Lorentz Audio mix by Chris Lorentz Featuring: Chris Lorentz Shawn Eckels Andee Beats Avila  Arno Bakker

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Starting point is 00:00:00 And now, a moment between a man, his guitar, and the love that helps them overcome. Yeah! Yeah! Oh, f***ing yeah! Oh, bring it out! Holy s***! And a half! huh Oh bring it out and a half whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa oh shit
Starting point is 00:00:34 oh oh yeah take it baby hard boner oh Oh f***ing yes! Oh bring it out! F***ing hard pumps! Oh shit! Holy shit! And a half! It came to my face! Oh my god! Yeah! Yeah!
Starting point is 00:00:56 One more time for the f***! Ah! Great play! Oh! Oh! Oh yeah! Take it baby! Great play! I've got the tools that can make you weather Legs are spread, I can almost taste that It doesn't matter if there's too many hairs Maybe just pull down those underwears Lick and push
Starting point is 00:01:47 Lick and push Oh We're lick and pushing Lick and push Lick and push Oh We're lick and push now It's the World Series Podcast
Starting point is 00:02:04 Let's do it We're licking pus now. This is the World's Saved Podcast. Let's do it. All right, and we're live. Andy Frasco's World's Saved Podcast. I'm Andy Frasco. How's our heads? How's our minds? Are we not letting Gonzo's wild ass driving affect our sleeping today? Let's go.
Starting point is 00:02:28 Jesus Christ. That man can make some turns. Holy shit. I got Jason here with me. Jason, how we doing today? He's working on, we're putting out some live nugs.net videos or what
Starting point is 00:02:43 do we call this? I don't know. It's kind of a mashup at this point. Don't tell anybody. No, it's not a video. It's not a video. Nugs and video, yeah. I've been sleeping, but yeah, Gonto's driving. You've been sleeping.
Starting point is 00:02:59 You haven't been staying up that late. No, I choose my battles. Yeah. I just get my edibles and then go to bed Yeah, I know I gotta get that shit popping I'm always going to bed now at 4am And just kind of like Drinking
Starting point is 00:03:14 Until I can fall asleep It is a bumpy ride, this tour bus It's definitely a bumpy ride And being on the top bunk versus the bottom bunk It's definitely a difference It's like the Eiffel Tower, dog. It's definitely a difference, but I've gotten used to it. It's like the Eiffel Tower, dog. You're just out there.
Starting point is 00:03:28 Exactly. You're just sailing. You're like one of those air stick people that just go to the wacky inflatables. Sometimes, dude, with some of those speed bumps
Starting point is 00:03:40 and shit he's hitting, God damn. You're trying to make coffee and surf at the same time. We're surfing out here, but we got a tour bus, so we can't complain. So far, so good. The West Coast tour, we were expecting lower crowd attendance, and the attendance have been wonderful. Yeah, and even the ones that have been lower, still mighty crowds, dude. They've been great shows. Pioneer Town was sick. Yeah, it it always is Yeah, that was fun as fuck
Starting point is 00:04:05 Pioneertown's always fun Kyle Gass This whole tour with Kyle Gass Has just been fucking awesome You got him to sit in on that one What are you eating? You got him to sit in on that one You need some candy?
Starting point is 00:04:14 I need one of those Alright, come sit down Come sit next to daddy Sean Eccles is in the building today We got other Sean, thank you Oh, I need an Adderall today Thank you very much
Starting point is 00:04:29 How you doing, Sean? We're doing good We're feeling good, we're happy Yeah, the bus makes us happier It's pretty crazy It's different You know, when you do 14 years in the van Even the Sprinter was exciting in the beginning
Starting point is 00:04:42 It was And then it was like, fuck the Sprinter And then we got bunks in the Sprinter. It was like, dude, this is fucking... We never need a bus. We're fucking good. We can sleep here. And then we're like, fuck the Sprinter. And now we're in the bus. We're good. And until we say, fuck the bus.
Starting point is 00:04:56 Until we say, fuck the bus, we need a fucking airplane. Let's go. PJs. PJs. First... I was going to say first jam band with an airplane, but actually the Grateful Dead beat us to it. Damn it. God damn it.
Starting point is 00:05:09 Fucking Jerry. Dude, how great was it? Kyle Gass sitting in with us last night. We did Good Times, Bad Times by Led Zeppelin with him. I mean, did you forget to tell us that he wanted to sit in? I forgot to tell you. But he told us he was going to sit in tonight. Because I was backstage with him, and he's like,
Starting point is 00:05:25 he's like, Good Times, Bad Times. And I was backstage with him, and he's like, she's like, good times, bad times. And I was like, you know, start playing, and he goes, get the lead out. He's cracking me up.
Starting point is 00:05:33 And then he gets on stage, he's like, Sidney just looks at me, he goes, good times, bad times. I was like, fuck, nobody told me.
Starting point is 00:05:39 I forgot, he texted me and said, we drug Floyd and Beast through it. And I was like, it was good, now we know it really well. Yeah, we practiced it, and we're going to sit in, he's going to sit on it Beast through it. Now we know it really well. Yeah, we practice it.
Starting point is 00:05:45 He's going to sit on it tonight as well. It's awesome. Remember the first day of tour? He's like, I don't sit in. He's like, I've been waiting for this moment for me to tell you no. And then he's like, you guys are our brothers, man.
Starting point is 00:06:02 It is the Dream Team tour. Their band's awesome, all of them Mike, John, Jason, and Tim Shout out to the Kyle Gass band Jason Keene The bass player This is the craziest story He was a photographer in 2008, 2007?
Starting point is 00:06:17 2006 And took Andy Frasco's senior picture Oh my god We gotta get him on this show. That's crazy. No, it's been fun. This tour has been nice. We have one more week left.
Starting point is 00:06:31 Guys, grab your tickets. We're playing in Portland tomorrow. Then we're playing in Seattle. We're going to get tattoos in Portland. We're going to try to get tattoos. You want one too? Let's get one. I got my favorite artist is in tattoo.
Starting point is 00:06:43 So Wednesday We actually I fucked that up Wednesday we're in Seattle Thursday we're in Portland Friday we're in Boise And then we end the tour In Salt Lake City And all those shows
Starting point is 00:06:55 Are with Caleb Hawley The motherfucker One of the best songwriters Out there He's opening Let a little love in What a beautiful fucking song
Starting point is 00:07:02 Nicholas Moyle From the World Saving Podcast New York edition. The Sean Eccles local band. The World Saving local band is going to be backing up Caleb Holly. Famous from the World Saving Podcast local band New York
Starting point is 00:07:16 style tour. We love it. I feel like the new songs are really hitting well. We're easing into it. We got more to bring out. We're easing in. We're playing four of the new ones. I think slowly but surely, let's get all the songs. This week in Seattle and Portland, we'll probably be playing more.
Starting point is 00:07:32 Yeah, exactly. What we used to be is not who we are is charting. Like on the playlist. So let's fucking go. We're on the top biggest playlist on Spotify right now. If you want to know what's going on,
Starting point is 00:07:48 you got to listen to the podcast. You got to listen to the podcast. I don't, I'm too tired to tell anyone any news, but nice work, Sean. It's true. I get it. Nice work, Sean. We wrote a good song together, bro. I'm really happy about it, and it's taken off.
Starting point is 00:08:04 I remember Remember when You came to my house I was like let's write a song Let's write a song And you had that one line wristband Yeah And I was like He's not gonna like this shit
Starting point is 00:08:12 I'm like this could be emo And I said What we used to be Is not who we are We talked about like Wristbands cover the scars And you were like Yes
Starting point is 00:08:20 Emo Emo It was good man It was good I think that's a great tune Yeah we still went to that chorus together And you killed the verses Feeling good
Starting point is 00:08:27 You meant wristbands Like from Come here Andy Alva From festivals From festivals It's like I thought you meant
Starting point is 00:08:34 Like your guitar wristbands Those are sweatpants No Oh I'm full of sweatpants To cover the sweat The Warped Tour Are you kidding You're just realizing that
Starting point is 00:08:43 Yeah Oh my fucking god Andy actually Sean Come on Pass the baton Pass the baton Andy Alva's in the building The Warped Tour. Are you kidding? You're just realizing that? Oh my fucking God. Andy, actually, Sean, come on. Pass the baton. Andy Ov was in the building. We just both brushed our teeth. We're ready. Oh my God, I need to do that. I smell myself right now. I'm so good. I mean, my butt still smells,
Starting point is 00:08:55 but my mouth is good. This is the perks. This is the perks of not having a shower. You're going to miss a couple days. I mean, you're going to miss a couple days You're going to miss I could have showered last night But I chose to hang out instead
Starting point is 00:09:10 We're like Should we shower or should we drink beers Just hang out in the van We're going to hang out I'm going to skip the shower We were bonding hard last night It was a 4am bond It was good
Starting point is 00:09:24 I'm always like, right before the show, I'm like, I'm going to go to bed early. I'm going to sleep right when the bus starts calling and we out there chugging beers and laughing
Starting point is 00:09:33 and having a great time. Having a good time. We're writing songs or maybe we're just like writing dumb shit. We're just hanging out. Talking about life. How,
Starting point is 00:09:42 I was in San Diego during Easter. How was Easter With the band It was awesome What'd you guys do So So we go to my dad's house
Starting point is 00:09:51 And all the kids are there And they're Easter best And here comes Floyd With his fucking Three day old shirt The kids and the fucking band And the bus Is just
Starting point is 00:09:58 Parked in the back Oh god It was hilarious And then we hit Easter eggs for the kids And Floyd's out there with a beer in his hand And he opens up one of the eggs and throws a $20 bill in there One of my nephews found it and was all stoked
Starting point is 00:10:11 Of course, Daddy Warbucks over here Fucking Nantucket Fucking Nantucket Nantucket's throwing 20s We're out here just trying to get by We're just, you know, skating by I knew it was going to be a night when I saw the group text and all I heard was, we'll meet you at the Applebee's in 10 minutes.
Starting point is 00:10:31 Oh, God. I was like, they're going to the fucking Applebee's. We're going to Bee's. We love Applebee's. The fan does love Applebee's. We did Easter all day and then we went to Applebee's after. I fucking love it. It was pretty tight.
Starting point is 00:10:42 Are you having fun still? Yeah. It's a good one. Yeah. I sleep love it. It was pretty tight. Are you having fun still? Yeah. It's a good one. Yeah, I sleep really good on the bus. Yeah, I do too, but we got we got pound, the doors got pounded on this morning saying like, you can't park your bus here at the
Starting point is 00:10:57 Planet Fitness. So once I was up, I was up. I didn't hear shit. I know, you guys were knocked the fuck out. I tried to go to bed at 3.30 last night and I was up, I was up. I didn't hear shit. I know. You guys were knocked the fuck out. I tried to go to bed at 3.30 last night and I was like kind of close. And then I passed out. But then I was like, you ever like wake up just thirsty and hungry and have to take a piss? Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:16 And then you're back up again. And then you're back up. And you're like eating. You're like. I'm like eating someone's pasta. Whoever had pasta left over. Oh, that was so old. Oh, really?
Starting point is 00:11:25 That was like Co someone's pasta. Whoever had pasta left over. Oh, that was so old. Oh, really? That was like Cooney's pasta. Dude, it was like a week and a half. Oh my God. I was kind of buzzed. I had to piss so bad, but I was so hungry that I just ate like some like, it felt like an ice cube of pasta. I was like, why is it still in here? But I mean, maybe somebody just thought it was
Starting point is 00:11:46 someone else's, but it was definitely Cooney's when he the first day of tour. The first day of tour. Which was like a week and a half ago. That pasta's been there for 10 days. Ooh, throw it away, but you didn't shit yourself. Oh, fuck. No, I didn't. Okay, good. Well, I haven't. I'm pretty constipated right now. Well, geez. Because I need to be, I need, I don't know, I need to be comfortable
Starting point is 00:12:02 if I'm going to take a shit. You got to be comfortable? What'd you say? Yeah, like I can't, I'm very, I need, I don't know, I need to be comfortable if I'm going to take a shit. You got to be comfortable? Yeah, like I can't, I'm very, everything has to be perfect for me to take a shit. Oh, like the temperature, right, you don't want to be in a shitty gas station with like condoms on the floor
Starting point is 00:12:18 and shit. I can take a shit anywhere. I don't care. That's a blessing. That's a blessing. If I gotta go, when you gotta go, you gotta go. I mean, look out. I'm coming in. Scoot over. This bus is moving.
Starting point is 00:12:37 It's happening. I don't care. Well, it's been fun. I think we have one more week left, and then we get four days off, and then we do 420 Fest with Little Stranger and Beck. I heard those tickets aren't selling that well. So please buy your tickets to Atlanta. Please.
Starting point is 00:12:51 Come on. Big festival. 420. Don't let it get canceled. We need people to go to it. Look who's here. Dingus. Oh, look who's here.
Starting point is 00:13:00 Ladies and gentlemen, Floyd Kellogg is in the building. Get over here. And I was just saying, this is what it feels like in a day in the life of Floyd. I'm unshowered. I kind of smell. I know.
Starting point is 00:13:10 We do feel like you right now. How does it feel to be you? I feel the same right now. I am in the part of the same struggle, all right? You guys think you're alone in your journey, but we are here together and I stink too. And I'm not, I'm not happy either. Do you like that?
Starting point is 00:13:28 So what you're saying is you're not happy all the time. I told Floyd, you know, he thought it was prison when we were just in the hotels, but this is real prison. Andrew Mitchell, Brasco, penitentiary.
Starting point is 00:13:44 I'm out there. I'm out there just waiting for you to wake up. I'm like, get over here. This place is like, the penitentiary's in a really nice place right now. I know. Santa Barbara's too nice. It makes Nantucket look like Wilkes-Barre or something.
Starting point is 00:13:59 You know, right as the sun's coming out, have you ever felt him sneak into your bunker? Well, I get a lot of when you go by his bunk, the shade's a little open. I just see this eyeball looking at me.
Starting point is 00:14:13 It's like... And the blanket's just like... Floyd! The curtains are moving. I've got a twin bed, so I'm always like, Floyd, just in case you get... Is that a twin? It's bigger than yours.
Starting point is 00:14:27 It's got the height. I told you, if you ever want to cuddle, the bed is ready for you. This has been great, guys. Have a good one, Floyd. Later, Floyd. Thank you so much for being here. Thanks for being here, Floyd. You know who else I want to get up here? Logan.
Starting point is 00:14:42 Where's Logan at? We have our new merch guy. Logan, grab Logan in here. We have our new merch guy. Logan, grab Logan in here. We have a new merch guy. What's up? What's up, Logan? How you doing? I'm fucking... Couldn't be any better, dude. Wow. You're on the podcast. You're in the band. Do you still love us?
Starting point is 00:14:58 I love you guys more than ever. How's it going, buddy? You're selling merch. You're our merch guy. You're feeling good Yeah Just talking to all the fans And I love it Making all the friends
Starting point is 00:15:09 What are our fans like? Crazy Yeah Yeah crazy like you guys It's great Are they friendly crazy? Are they giving you drugs? Are they trying to have you
Starting point is 00:15:18 All of the above They want to take me home You're about to have Have you had sex? Yeah You've had sex On tour You've had sex on tour? It's so cool,
Starting point is 00:15:26 dude. Let's fucking go! Live! Who'd recommend? 10 out of 10. You've made love? That was sneaky wins. The first time you guys brought me out in Omaha. I'm so happy for you. Whoops. And you like a woman with
Starting point is 00:15:43 a little moreion for the person Yeah Tell me about that The girls be loving too I know I was raised by a good dad Fat bottom girls You know make the rock and roll go around
Starting point is 00:15:53 So I love the big girls You I'm clapping He loves them He loves the big girls I do too What
Starting point is 00:16:03 Logan So tell me. What else is going on? Are you ready to go home yet? You've been on the road with Joe Hurtler for a little bit. Yeah. Is it time to go home? No, not at all.
Starting point is 00:16:14 You love the road. Yeah, I'm a road dog. Give me a whole year of touring and I'm there. I fucking love it. Speaking of making love, we have Carter Cruz on the podcast. She's an old porn star, now DJ. We met her on the Burt Kreischer tour.
Starting point is 00:16:30 She was so cool. She loves talking about anything we wanted to talk about. It's pretty fascinating how she was paralleling the porn industry and the music industry. Interesting. Do you into porn?
Starting point is 00:16:45 Yeah. What kind of porn do you watch? POV. POV? Yeah. I'm a camera guy. So you watch the POV. So you can't fuck with anything
Starting point is 00:16:53 that's like for camera. You want that one camera. You want that raw dog. We love it. Let's give it. Let's fucking give it. Well, Logan, I'm so proud. I'm so proud of you.
Starting point is 00:17:04 Thanks, dude. Go out there. Go make us some money. Yeah. And keep doing it. Well, Logan, I'm so proud. I'm so proud of you. Thanks, dude. Go out there. Go make us some money. Yeah. Keep doing it. Do it. Do it. Do it. Yeah. I love you. Ladies and gentlemen, Logan's on the fucking thing. Let's go. He's here. All right, guys. We have Carter Cruz on the podcast.
Starting point is 00:17:21 We are really excited for this one. She's awesome. Me and Nick met her on the Burt Kreischer crew. She was on tour with the Fruity Load. She was a DJ. She's a great DJ. Fantastic DJ. She started her career as doing
Starting point is 00:17:37 adult films. She graduated college. Didn't even graduate. I think she left college and said, you know what what I'm going to do this and she was kicking ass in that career and then she kind of got burnt out from it and became a DJ and she's got OnlyFans but she was
Starting point is 00:17:54 a huge huge huge porn star back in the day I think you're going to really love this interview she's so cool she's so humble and it's going to be a fun one but if you want to watch this interview live on volume.com, make sure you check it out. Go to volume.com.
Starting point is 00:18:11 It has everything you need. Literally everything you need. If you're a listener, you can watch all these archived live streams of your favorite bands. They have so many. And our podcast is archived over there. We just signed our contract with them. We're back with volume, baby. Let's go. Shout have so many. And our podcast is archived over there. We just signed our contract with them. We're back with volume, baby. Let's go. Shout out to Greg. Shout out
Starting point is 00:18:30 to Greg. Beautiful time to be alive. And then what else? And then if you are a content creator, the best part about being part of volume is that the push notification. We need to take the power back. Facebook and Instagram was down today. You couldn't get any of your stuff to your people. What if you had to promote a show? What if you were doing a sale or something? We got to take the power back. If you sign up
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Starting point is 00:19:12 Frasco is live streaming, or yo, Goose is twerking, whatever it is. And you will get a push notification, and you get to watch everything you need. So head to volume.com and the staff is amazing. Constantine came out to my show in LA. The crew came out to
Starting point is 00:19:31 my show. They're just super supportive. That was a fucking blast. Shout out to everyone who came to the Fonda. Shout out to everyone who came to San Diego. San Diego was a fucking blast. That was a great show too. Yeah, this tour has been good. I was skeptical about it. I'm like, fuck. It's like we're getting accustomed to these, playing for thousands of people every night. We're like, oh fuck, ticket sales were low. But if you change the perspective on it and say, wow, this is good for the first time we're getting bigger crowds in the West Coast, then you could change your mind state of how you feel things. It's all about perspective people. So what are you going to do out there
Starting point is 00:20:05 You're going to just marinate in shit all day And feel bad that things aren't going the way it's planned Or you're going to change that lens baby Change it Clean that lens to make sure That you can have a good day Say not today devil I'm not going to let nobody
Starting point is 00:20:20 The music industry even though the music industry is bullshit I'm not going to let it fucking hurt my day. Because today is going to be a good day. It's all about perspective. Alright, guys. Enjoy Carter Cruz. I'll catch you next week. We have a pretty big show next week. Who's next week?
Starting point is 00:20:38 Ryan Miller from Guster. That should be fun. Then Nick. I get to see Nicky. Then I got to fly to Nashville to write another song with Galbuta. We're playing 420 Fest on 420. And then we start the Southeast tour. Guys, buy tickets. We're in Savannah on the 23rd.
Starting point is 00:20:58 We are in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on the 24th. We are in Athens, Georgia on the 25th at the Georgia Theater. We're really excited about that. We are doing two nights in Charleston, South Carolina at the Poor House. We're really excited. That's Johnny Shields' birthday. We got to do something nice for John's birthday, Bo.
Starting point is 00:21:18 Remind me. We got to do something nice for John Shields' birthday on the 27th. Let's do something cool. Let's get him a stripper or something. And then we have a couple days off. And then Jazz Fest, we're playing April 30th at the House of Blues. We have a killer stacked lineup sitting in with us.
Starting point is 00:21:36 We have Daniel Donato. We got the Dogs in the Pile boys. We got, who else do we have? Maggie Rose. She's just, she's fucking blowing up. I'm so proud of Maggie. She's fucking killing it. And then I have a couple other people that I don't want to tell you yet,
Starting point is 00:21:52 but we got some nice surprises. Then we're off to Florida. Yes. The land that reggae built. On Wednesday, May 1st, we're in Pensacola, Florida. That show's almost... Actually, guys, I'm going to clap over Florida. Y'all almost sold out this shit.
Starting point is 00:22:12 I fucking love you. Pensacola, May 1st. Tampa, Florida is already sold out. This is the first sellout in advance, and we got it in Tampa, Florida. Shout out to Tampa, Florida on May 2nd. May 3rd, we're in Stewart, Florida. I don't know where the fuck Stewart, Florida is, but that sounds good.
Starting point is 00:22:31 And that's the day we release the single, I Found God at a Festival with Little Stranger. You're going to love that music video. It is so fun. May 4th, we're playing in Miami, Florida, and May 5th, we're in Jacksonville, Florida. Yes, and then that following week, May 11th,
Starting point is 00:22:52 I am doing a duo show in Peoria. That show's, I think, sold out. There might be like 50 tickets left or 100 tickets left. Bayless and Frasco. Brendan Bayless and I will be doing a duo set. Yes, my first acoustic show. We're ready He sent me the songs he wants me to learn
Starting point is 00:23:08 I gotta learn a fuck I'm learning on free songs Take that, Joel Cummings Yep, I'm coming for your dick I'm not coming for your dick But yeah, it's gonna be a blast So Peoria at Kenny's Westside Grab some tickets, we love ya
Starting point is 00:23:23 Alright, that's it And then we're going on tour with Dogs in a Pile And Pidge is playing ping pong So Peoria at Kenny's Westside. Grab some tickets. We love you. All right. That's it. That's all this. And then we're going on tour with Dogs in a Pile and Pidge is playing ping pong, which those tickets are selling amazing too. Guys, thanks for supporting us. I love it. You guys are out here showing us so much love. You guys are coming out to like multiple shows and I can't thank you enough.
Starting point is 00:23:41 The band thanks you too. And thanks for helping us pay for this bus. Because if we didn't get a bus, I think we'd be fucking, we'd probably break up. It's hard. We're out here though. All right,
Starting point is 00:23:51 guys, I love you. We wouldn't break up, but we'd be really angry at each other. Cause we wouldn't get any sleep and we're getting old. All right, guys, enjoy Carter Cruz.
Starting point is 00:24:00 And, um, I'll catch you next week with Ryan. I'll try to get, I'm trying to get Nick on one of these Skypes. I'll try to get him on next week. All right. Love you.
Starting point is 00:24:08 Bye. All right. Carter Cruz. Hey. What's up, bud? Are we on film? We're filming. Oh, yeah, we are.
Starting point is 00:24:16 Oh, hi. But mostly people listen to it on Apple Podcasts. We just got to make our sponsors happy. That's why you called my level. Is it good? Yeah, you're perfect. How's it going? Pretty good.
Starting point is 00:24:28 Tell me about this DJ life. You loving it? Yeah, it's pretty good. How many years have you been doing it? Let's see, about 10 professionally, but a little longer than that as a hobby. What got you into it? I actually started off as just like a little raver kid
Starting point is 00:24:43 back in college. But the first time I ever heard a dubstep song, it changed my whole fucking life. What song was it? Kind of same. I think it was a Skrillex song. I'm pretty sure it was Scary Spiders and Ice Brides. I'm pretty sure it was one of those like that he first came out with when that was all popping. And I was like, what the fuck is this? I need to hear all this stuff.
Starting point is 00:25:05 And so then I started just going to raves. And I was go-go dancing at some shows. And then, you know, I just kind of from there started, like, finding all this music. And I'd be going to all the frat parties in college being like, you guys got to trap music. It's about to be the next biggest genre. And everyone's like, what is this? Like, no, it's going to be huge. And sure enough, 2012,
Starting point is 00:25:26 it took the world by storm. We back, baby. Let's go. I just wanted to be the person who was playing the music instead of just the person who was dancing to it. Here comes the hero boss. Do people
Starting point is 00:25:41 go to your shows and don't know that you're a DJ now? They're like, God, I recognize that person from somewhere. Yeah, I was telling my agent the other day how often it is that people go, you look so familiar. And I'm always like,
Starting point is 00:25:56 oh, I just have one of those faces. I always say one of that. But usually people, the thing I get all the time is people go, oh, I know. I know where I know you from. And I'm like, oh, no. time is people go, oh, I know. I know where I know you from. And I'm like, oh, no. And they're like, oh, you look like Miley Cyrus, which I do not.
Starting point is 00:26:10 But I will happily take it because she's hot as fuck. I am thrilled. She's a fucking babe. I'm thrilled to be mistaken for that. But that's not why they recognize me. And I know they'll probably realize it like a few weeks later. They'll be like, oh, yeah, it's not because she looks like Miley Cyrus. My friend,
Starting point is 00:26:27 Rheanne, she works on the boat and there's like so many, so many couples who wanted to have like a throuple with you. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:35 She's wearing the shirt. She's wearing the shirt. She's wearing, I'm not Carter Cruz. Yeah, her and Catherine too, which is funny because I told Catherine,
Starting point is 00:26:42 I was like, well, one day you're going to have like a million Netflix specials and I'm going to get to tell people that there was one weekend where people thought that you were me. Right.
Starting point is 00:26:53 It's got to be wild. Is there creepy dudes? Do you have to deal with a lot of creepy dudes or anything? Not too much. I feel like people always assume the worst. They think it's going to be really bad. Sometimes people feel a people always assume the worst they think it's like gonna be really bad i will sometimes people feel a little too comfortable but i think that can happen with anyone like like what how come like what what's give me an example you know you're like
Starting point is 00:27:13 you talk to someone but then it's like okay we've been talking for like 20 minutes like yeah you know like i didn't come here with you i'm here with my friends kind of thing but i mean i think that can happen with anyone who like, especially with the comics. I think it's a common thing. Because people feel like they know you. It feels so connected. Right, you've been vulnerable to them in some way or another. And so they feel connected to you.
Starting point is 00:27:33 They feel, which is great. I love that. I want people to feel comfortable with me. And, but yeah, occasionally, but it's usually not creepy. I mean, I travel all the time by myself. I tour alone pretty much all the time. And it's usually not creepy I mean I travel all the time by myself I tour alone pretty much all the time and it's usually just the main thing that will happen to me is I get
Starting point is 00:27:49 overwhelmed by this social stimulation not that I'm ever worried for my safety when did you start going into sex work and stuff? In college in college? Yeah. What at Eastern Carolina? Yeah I was in my second senior year. college? Yeah. At Eastern Carolina? Yeah, I was in my
Starting point is 00:28:05 second senior year. Really? Yeah. Everyone does that at VCU. They kind of make it impossible to graduate in four years. They make it really hard there to graduate in four years. But yeah, I just got
Starting point is 00:28:21 into it in college. Then I dropped out my last semester because- You were making bank. I'm making money. Yeah. Well, I didn't really want to go to college anyway. My parents made me go and I didn't know what else I was supposed to do. So I went. From the minute I had money, I was like, it doesn't really matter what they think. I don't need them anymore. I mean, I do need them. Love you, mom and dad. For emotional support, you know? No, it's so fascinating because like I work,
Starting point is 00:28:47 I grew up in the Valley where they made porn and I was like, the summer jobs I was getting was just working at the- You ever been on a set? I've been on the set. I've been on multiple sets. Just I haven't like- So you know how casual it is.
Starting point is 00:29:00 Yeah, it's casual. And like, but I thought it was a fascinating, like all the girls who are doing sex work were rolling in BMWs, and then the dudes were rolling in 92 Jettas and Cynics. I'm like, the queens are making money in this thing. Yeah, it is an industry where you can actually make more money as a woman to a certain point. But I will say one thing with the male performers
Starting point is 00:29:23 is that they have more longevity with their careers. Because you do get they can be much older and they can do a lot more scenes a day. When you're a woman, you have to go and get your makeup done. You've got to take all these promo photos, all that stuff. The guys, they can come in
Starting point is 00:29:42 right before the scene starts. They'll do three scenes a day. So, and then once you're a top, once people know you can perform and they like rely on you, they know you're a really good male performer, then, you know, you're getting paid the same as the highest paid girls. And you're also able to do multiple scenes a day. So, in the beginning, it's much better for women. It's really rough for guys.
Starting point is 00:30:06 Is it exhausting? Oh, 100%. Like, yeah. It's like, it's got to be the hardest working. I was telling Leanne last night, my longest day on set was 23 hours. Oh, my God. What? Can you go?
Starting point is 00:30:17 No overtime. Oh, my. So 23 hours. Like, what's happening? How many different shoots? It was two scenes, but we were shooting a whole movie. So there was dialogue and all that stuff. And there was other people shooting scenes.
Starting point is 00:30:29 So I had like downtime. But yeah, I think I got there at like seven, eight o'clock in the morning. And I think, yeah, we wrapped around 6 a.m. the next morning. I would have cried. Oh, I burst into tears the minute they said cut on the second scene.
Starting point is 00:30:43 I just instantly started sobbing like panic attack like yeah I was really and I'm pretty laid back about things and I can like go for a long time
Starting point is 00:30:52 but that was that was too much all the crew was just hugging me going I'm so sorry I'm so sorry I'm like this is the worst
Starting point is 00:31:00 day of my life did it desensitize sex for you? no not so much. I think one thing is like mentally, like when you have sex, you're trying to get out of your head, right? You want to like forget about everything else
Starting point is 00:31:19 that's going on in your life. And when you're shooting, you tend to, you're always thinking because you're thinking about the lights, the angles, like you're thinking about where are we going to go? What position are we going to move to after? How are we going to get there? You're always thinking about something. And so that was the hardest thing for me to get over, I think, was just turning off my brain again. Learning to just like relax and not worry about, oh, you don't have to perform. You don't have to worry
Starting point is 00:31:45 about any of those things. You can just enjoy it. What are the parallels between sex work and teaching? There's got to be because you're over and you're thinking about the next song while you're you can't even enjoy the other song because you're always thinking about the next BPM, right? Yeah. A little bit
Starting point is 00:32:01 of that, right? I guess it's you're doing things that are so fucking fun but there's still a job, right? I guess it's you're doing things that are so fucking fun, but there's still a job, right? Exactly. And there's definitely a grind to it. The exhaustion, the physical output of it, which I mean, you're a performer, so you understand. Exhausting.
Starting point is 00:32:17 I cry. When I have to do three hours, I'm in the jam band scene. I talked to Marcus about this. We're like, after we do a two-hour set, we're just like, fuck, dude, we just want we do a two-hour set, we're just like, fuck, dude. We just want to do a 45-minute set. Two hours is my max.
Starting point is 00:32:31 I can't do more than... I mean, I'll do two hours if it's like a private party where you're kind of background music. But if I'm full-on performing the whole time, I mean, I just can't... 75 minutes. Yeah, I mean, 90 is good. But two hours, I mean, that's like... I can't physically. 75 minutes. Yeah. I mean, 90 is good. Like two hours.
Starting point is 00:32:47 I mean, that's like, I'm jumping up and down the whole time. Yeah, you're fucking. That's cardio. You're like a body rabbit, dude. I don't really work out either. So it's kind of like, it's crazy I can even do that. It seems like that'd be more exhausting than sex work. You're jumping up and down, like fucking doing BPM work.
Starting point is 00:33:03 The thing with sex work too is if you're working with like a top male talent, you don't really have to do much of anything. They kind of just do it to you. All you have to do is just be positive and just go along with it. So it's pretty much like when they're really, really good, they're holding you, they're putting you, you don't even have to think about what you're doing. So in a way, DJing is more physically exhausting.
Starting point is 00:33:26 Yeah, because you're using so much of your brain to find out what... What's your theory on set list? Do you pick... When you're on the Fully Loaded Tour, and where people fall... Yeah, cheers, dude. I don't have a beer. You want to throw me a beer, bud? We got a little time.
Starting point is 00:33:42 But you're on tour, like Arena Tour as a DJ. Was that just fucking so surreal or what? It is absolutely unhinged to me. Cheers, bud. Cheers. Was it surreal? I have a liquid death.
Starting point is 00:33:55 It was. Hey, it's all good. Same thing. It was extremely surreal. The first day of the tour, I cried. I cried all day. It's like 10,000 people every night. I was extremely surreal. The first day of the tour, I cried. I cried all day. It's like 10,000 people every night. I was really stressed.
Starting point is 00:34:10 Yeah. And I had no idea. Everyone just said, you're amazing. Do whatever you want. You'll be perfect. And I was like, I've never done anything like this. This is so high pressure. But now I feel a little bit more comfortable.
Starting point is 00:34:24 But I mean mean at least opening for Burt but this cruise was completely different because I thought it was going to be more like background music like I usually do for Burt and obviously it was set it's been lit I don't know if you
Starting point is 00:34:38 we went last night with Syph with you holy shit that was lit it's been crazy and I was not expecting that. So I had to really, like, the first night, I was like, I'm going through, like, trying to think, like, where am I going to go from here? Like, what am I going to play? Yeah. And, like, having Syph as, like, your side, the duo as a DJ, like, doing two DJs, I never understood it at first, but then as I started watching more these like, you know, double
Starting point is 00:35:07 DJs, I'm like, oh shit, they're both working. They're both mixing. They're both like picking songs. Like how different of a set do you do when Syph's there versus or like when you have a double DJ versus by yourself? Well, I mean, when you're playing with somebody else, you got to be kind of more in tune with them, right?
Starting point is 00:35:24 So if it's just me, I'm going to do whatever I want. But with Sypha, I would say I'm going to go way more hip-hop because that's what he likes to play. But usually, if I'm playing with another DJ, we tend to go more house because it's easier to mix back-to-back
Starting point is 00:35:39 if you don't know someone else's song. But Sypha and I weren't really mixing back-to-back since we were on different setups. So we were kind of doing like, you get a few minutes, I get a few minutes. But usually when you go back to back, you're on the same setup. And so you're having to mix into the previous DJ's song. And you may have never heard that song before. So, you know, you can sit there and you can hear in your ear,
Starting point is 00:36:00 okay, that sounds like it's in the right key. I can mix that in. But you don't know, you can see their waveform. So, you know, you can see like, all right, I'll be like it's in the right key i can mix that in but you don't know you can see their waveform yeah so you know you can see like all right i'll be like that's the drop i can see where the outro is i can like i can get an idea of the song structure right but you don't know for sure so a lot of times you're just going in blind and you're just have you fumbled a couple times oh all the time what was the worst drop you've ever done? Do you remember it? Biggest train wreck cringe.
Starting point is 00:36:27 Oh, honestly, it's never been that, it's never been that bad because I'll tell you the best lesson someone taught me like when I was first starting to like DJ,
Starting point is 00:36:37 the best lesson anyone ever taught me is if it sounds bad, get the fuck out of one of the tracks. Yeah. Like it doesn't matter if like if you're...
Starting point is 00:36:46 Some people try to force it. They're like, if you can't... Sometimes you're having trouble getting it on beat and if it just sounds bad, just cut one of them. Just get out of one of them because the worst thing... Most people won't realize that there's just a weird kind of
Starting point is 00:37:01 a little intro for a minute, but they will hear if it's people are gonna hear that it's gonna like really like fuck up the vibe so i just anytime it's like not working it's more for me disappointing because i have these really cool blends yeah that i'm doing for like a minute long and sometimes i fuck them up and i know to the crowd it doesn't matter at all but to me i'm like oh that would have been so sick if I didn't fuck up are you a perfectionist? a little bit yeah
Starting point is 00:37:28 DJing you know I've respected more and more as I get more involved with it because like we're homies with like we're from Denver we live in Denver so like all the Grizz and Big G and all these guys who are kind of mixers and producers.
Starting point is 00:37:48 It's mind-boggling how much time it takes to have the right blend. Are you out there always looking for new sounds? How do you approach a new set? How do you approach new blends? Are you always crate digging from vinyls
Starting point is 00:38:03 and stuff? What's your philosophy for that? I usually, I do these like, I do like crate digging days where I just go and download like 200 songs. And you got to go through all those.
Starting point is 00:38:14 And then I start slowly mixing those into like different sets, right? Like, you know, you're not going to try all of them at once.
Starting point is 00:38:19 Although I have done that in a few sets. Just have like a bunch of songs I've never heard. Just a BPM and a key? Yeah, you're just guessing. You're like, no. What did Beatport send me today?
Starting point is 00:38:32 There's a little bit of that. And wait, where was I going with this? Oh, crate digging. Are you always looking for new stuff? And also always looking to how I can mix different things together. So that's usually what I do on flights. When I'm flying to a gig. I just sit
Starting point is 00:38:47 for the entire flight and I just play around mixing things. I'm like, ooh. At the end of the day, I could always just freestyle it. You usually have a depending on the genre, an 8 to 16 bar intro at least. You could just do it like that.
Starting point is 00:39:04 In hip hop, sometimes you can just hard cut it. So you just you're not even, no one else is really hearing that mix. You're just into it. But I just sit there and you don't need to do that, but I want to do that. So I just sit there and I try different things. And you know, you understand
Starting point is 00:39:19 because as musicians, you hear it. So sometimes I'll be hearing a song and I go, oh, that would make so dope with a vocal of this other track. Because you can kind you hear it. So sometimes I'll be hearing a song and I go, that would make so dope with a vocal of this other track because you can kind of hear it in your head because it's like the same key, like chords and everything like that. It's fucking wild. You know, like, yeah, musicians like
Starting point is 00:39:36 your friends, we're close with Briley King and Marcus is one of our closest friends and stuff. I've always was curious about this because she was a singer. Did she know you were a porn star in college? Or were you friends back then? Well, so we lived together in the sorority house
Starting point is 00:39:54 my sophomore year, which I was actually in my sorority. When I went to college, I was pre-law. Yeah? Shut the fuck up. Really? I was trying to be a politician. I'm going to clap to that.
Starting point is 00:40:06 Let's go. Damn. DJing and being tender. DJing. Well, because my parents told me I needed to get a real dream. So that was, to me, politicians seemed like
Starting point is 00:40:15 I wanted to be a performer and, I don't know, pretty close. Yeah. Yeah, that's the same thing. So I was really lame in my sorority. I had a boyfriend from high school. And so I wasn't really, I was taking extra hours.
Starting point is 00:40:29 I had to get approval from the school to take 21 hours. I went to the gym twice a day. I was incredibly disciplined. And Riley used to get so mad at me because my alarm clock would go off at 7am every day because I always had 8am and I don't wake up. I'm a hard sleeper. So I had to have it far from my bed and it's a loud ass alarm.
Starting point is 00:40:53 And I lived in a room with seven girls and Riley was on the other end of the room every morning because she would always be going out and she was always like, shut the fuck up. Bitch, wake up! I could see her. I've seen her chew out some people. She's shut the fuck up. Bitch, wake up. I could see her. I've seen her chew out some people, dude. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:07 Really? She scared the fuck out of me. She's scary. She's scary. I've seen her like go. I love you, Bri. I'm scared of her. Like, yeah, I would never fuck with Briley.
Starting point is 00:41:15 Yeah, no, I was terrified of her. And yeah, we just really didn't like have anything in common. And everyone in my sorority thought I was like, because I never really went out. I mean, it's not that I wasn't like how I am now. I was obviously always like this, but I was just focused on something I want. And when I get, I'm a goal-oriented person. So when I get focused, I forget about all the other stuff. So I was just doing what I was doing.
Starting point is 00:41:39 And it wasn't until after college that we kind of connected. So you graduated? I did not. I have 14 hours left. Shut the fuck up. You're like, so how's that conversation with your mom and dad saying, Mom, I'm not going to finish school. I'm actually going to be a porn star.
Starting point is 00:41:57 Well, my dad did make me pay for the last semester of school I didn't finish. Really? Like, I got the money. Don't worry. He was always like, I'll pay if you go in state, I'll pay for school. And then he was like, all right. And I was like, that's fair. I'll pay for it.
Starting point is 00:42:10 But it was in state school. It wasn't a big deal. But honestly, I'm kind of a hard ass. So I just told them, this is what I'm doing. I've thought it through. I have a plan. I know this sounds insane, but I have really thought it through because I knew I was going to do music after that.
Starting point is 00:42:29 I knew I was going to use it. Oh, so you had your whole life planned. I had everything planned out. I wanted the money and I wanted the freedom that I knew that the adult industry would bring me. So that's what it was. And I knew I could do well at it. It wasn't like, I mean, I do love sex. I think I'm a very
Starting point is 00:42:46 sexually curious person, so that definitely appealed to me. But it wasn't like, oh, my dream was to be a porn star. It was just like, my dream was to have freedom and to be a performer and to work in entertainment. Honestly, that's what
Starting point is 00:43:01 I love acting and performing so much that like, to me, like porn was like, that's the closest thing I could easily get to. Like what it was like, I didn't have any money to move to LA and like spend six months going to auditions for like TV shows getting told,
Starting point is 00:43:19 no, I didn't, I didn't have that ability, but I could take my clothes off and send pictures into an agency. And they were like, yeah, we'll fly you out right now. That's the easiest shit. How was the approach?
Starting point is 00:43:30 What was the first thing? Did someone tell you, hey, you should do porn? I think I could do this. Did you film yourself? How does that process? I read an interview with this. It kind of all started
Starting point is 00:43:42 because I read an interview with a porn star that had used her kind of clout and money. She actually DJed for a while, too. And now has a clothing company, a jewelry company, all this stuff. And I was like, wait, this is cool. I just read an interview with her. It just happened to pop up.
Starting point is 00:44:00 It was on Vice. Wow. And I just read some interviews. And I was like, wait, I had never seen a porn in my life. Literally never. Not because like I wasn't. You just used your imagination. You know, growing up, we had the family
Starting point is 00:44:14 computer. I wasn't going to put it in the living room. Your mom's like, what the fuck's on AOL today? I learned to use my own brain. And so even once I had my own laptop and stuff, I just didn't really ever think about using porn like that. And so I had all these interviews with these girls. And I was like, these girls have a dope life.
Starting point is 00:44:35 I could do that. So I watched exactly one porn. What's the porn? It's called Portrait of a Call Girl. But little did I know, the guy who directed it, he actually only directed two movies ever. And they both won tons of awards. The other one that he made, Wasteland, I think is... Like, I bought it.
Starting point is 00:45:00 And I don't really watch porn. I own it. Because I think it's just an amazing... It's like beautifully shot and stuff. Yeah, it's great. And the way they shot Wasteland, I'll say like... So, you know, usually a lot of porn movies, they do like
Starting point is 00:45:13 10 minutes of dialogue, like 10 minutes of sex. It's very formulaic. Wasteland was shot with... The scenes were fully shot, like 30 minute scenes, but they only put about five minutes of the sex into the movie. So if you buy the DVD, you can watch the full scenes, but when you're watching the movie,
Starting point is 00:45:32 because I'm like, I don't want to watch four 30-minute sex scenes in a movie. Right, right, right, right. It's like two hours. It's just a Titanic, bitch. I don't want three hours. And the only one at the very end, the longer, like the kind of culmination scene is the one they have the longest. So it's kind of a tease the whole time.
Starting point is 00:45:48 And I haven't seen another movie like that, like really ever. And I watched, so I watched, happened to watch the arsiest porn that's ever been made. And I said, I could do that. And then I found out that it's not like that. Day one, they're like, okay, so this is your step brother. Why is incest so popular right now? What's going on
Starting point is 00:46:12 with that? What do you think? I have a theory about that. I think that, sorry, I feel like my when I turn to you it's kind of going this way. Oh, you're good. My theory about that is that we have fetishized shame
Starting point is 00:46:26 about sex because like usually like most people aren't given a safe space to explore their sexuality when they're like a child, when they're like going through puberty
Starting point is 00:46:39 and all that stuff. So, you know, it's just like the person who develops a stalking fetish because the first time they ever got a boner, it was because they saw their teacher's legs and stockings. And now that's plugged into their sexuality, right? And I think that most people feel ashamed the first few times they jerk off, they get a boner, they get wet, whatever it is, you know? And I think that we turned that into, we fetishized the taboo because of that. So it's not like, I mean, even I can get behind some like step-born.
Starting point is 00:47:17 Step-mom, maybe. And it's not that any, I don't think most people, I mean, I'm not saying no one. I'm sure there's a few people. Most people are not watching it because they're like, oh, yeah, I always want to bang not saying no one. I'm sure there's a few people. Most people are not watching it because they're like, oh yeah, I always wanted to bang my stepmom. They would be like, no, that's weird. I don't want to do that in real life. It's a fantasy. I didn't scroll until you can't see the title.
Starting point is 00:47:35 And then it can be whatever you want. See, I actually get kind of annoyed about it sometimes because sometimes they'll be like, oh, it's a stepbrother porn, but then they don't really do that during the scene. Just for the algorithm or something. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:47:49 I'm like, no, I actually was in the mood to see some weird shit. You've got to do it throughout the scene. I think that people feel comfortable when they feel a little disgusted with themselves, which is interesting. It's the Catholic Church's fault is what you're saying.
Starting point is 00:48:06 Yeah, 100%. Yeah, I blame religion for that. I think America kind of put a shame on sex. You don't really see that in Europe as much as you see that in America where we're just such a prude country in itself that
Starting point is 00:48:21 everything is shunned. What? Shunned. What? Shunned. Everything is shunned. I was just talking to Catherine about art too. Everyone says, oh yeah, so what are you actually going to do?
Starting point is 00:48:38 We're actually artists. Why are you shunning on art? People don't think art as a main form of identity when everyone needs art. It doesn't matter what type of art you're doing.
Starting point is 00:48:53 I think a lot of people are projecting. They're projecting because they never tried to do anything. Oh, and they're jealous hoes. They know they want to do it too. They regret not even failing. You know what I mean? It's better to fail. At least try and fail. And I think that there's a lot of people out there that are 45 and middle America that I went to high school with
Starting point is 00:49:10 that are like, what are you going to do with your life? It's like, I'm doing it, bitch. Yeah. And they're just kind of mad because they never really even risked anything. You know, I was telling someone the other day that someone asked me, they said like, what do you think? Like, how do you get to do what you do
Starting point is 00:49:25 like to every day like that's your main job like i don't have a day job you know this is all i do how do you get there and i'm like well you just don't stop yeah that's the biggest thing i've learned because and i think for me it's once i did, and this was a big freeing thing about doing it, is that you're going to live without your entire life. And I knew that going in. I was very aware of that. And I think that was almost an appeal to me. Because for a lot of people, maybe you could move out to LA and you could try to do music for a few months and it doesn't work out. So you move back to your hometown and you get a job at your
Starting point is 00:50:05 dad's business or whatever. You have that fallback plan. I didn't have that. The thing I was doing before was to go into law and be a politician. I mean, I'm not saying I could never do that having done sex work, but it would be pretty much a first time ever in the United States. So it's not a common thing. And I can't go to any normal job and say, what am I going to tell them I've been doing for the last 10 years? I'd be comfortable with Senator Cruz. I'm okay with that. I'm not saying it's off the table.
Starting point is 00:50:39 It's still in the back of my mind. Let's go. But it's not an easy fallback plan. And I'll never have an easy fallback plan. And I'll never have an easy fallback plan because I did sex work. And to me, that's been, you know, while there have been times I have realized this and sobbed on my floor, you know, of my apartment in Los Angeles, just lying there going, oh my God, I fucked up my life. There's been those times, of course. But there's also this amazing free feeling of just knowing
Starting point is 00:51:12 that I literally don't have really another option. So the only thing to do is to keep fucking doing it. Just keep trying, keep doing new things. And I think during the pandemic, I was basically unemployed for a year.
Starting point is 00:51:28 Don't get me wrong, I did consider getting my real estate license. Well, let's go. Let's go, guys. And failed musicians, by the way. There's plenty of those, too. I know a bunch of musicians.
Starting point is 00:51:41 I'm like, I can do that. It's kind of like me watching a porn. I could do that. But so, you know, I've gone through those times where I've gone like maybe I should, maybe it's time to figure out something that has more security. But I don't really know what that thing is that I could actually do. So we just keep fucking doing it. And that's why we're here. If you're not laying on the floor and crying in shame at least once every six months,
Starting point is 00:52:04 you're probably not in the right business. But you're not an artist. Yeah, exactly. You're not an artist. As I was telling my friend the other day, because he was going through something like that, and he was like, I just sometimes I feel so good about everything I'm making,
Starting point is 00:52:16 and sometimes I hate everything. I'm like, yeah, welcome to being a creative. We all feel like that. I'm sure everyone. I'm sure accountants feel like that. I'm sure parents feel like that. I don't think that's everybody. You might as well just do
Starting point is 00:52:27 what you want to do. People feel up and down, but it's different when you're burying your soul, you're being vulnerable. An accountant, you're going in, you know exactly what you're doing every day. You don't have to wake up and go, what can I create out of my own body, brain?
Starting point is 00:52:44 And then if other people don't like it, it's so much more hurtful. If people don't like you as an accountant, well, it's probably because you didn't do a good job. But if people don't like your music, it doesn't mean that you didn't make good music. It just might mean that it didn't resonate with them. Yeah, for sure.
Starting point is 00:53:00 And I always believed, if you're even considering a backup plan, you're not giving your full dream a full effort. You're always just thinking of failure. You're not giving your dream a chance because you're always thinking that it's going to fail in the first place. And I've seen so many people do that like in Los Angeles, especially in music.
Starting point is 00:53:19 And I always get so disappointed because I meet the most talented people and they don't want to put anything out. They need it to be perfect. And I'm like, it's never going to be perfect. You're honestly never going to like it because I'm sure you guys understand this. Even if you make the perfect song, by the time you release it, you probably are going to fucking hate it. So it doesn't matter. Just fucking put it out.
Starting point is 00:53:43 It's not like people are going to be like, oh, remember 20 years ago? If no one heard it or cared about it, then just take it off Spotify and release new stuff. It's okay. You don't need to... I think people are overthinking art
Starting point is 00:53:56 and they're just hypercritical about their self-esteem or putting something out. If you think it's good, just put it out. Right. No, that's why. Even if's if you think it's good, just put it out. No, that's why. I'm going to throw shit at the wall. I mean, I did an EP a couple
Starting point is 00:54:12 years ago when I was like first learning to produce and it's kind of like I don't even know what genre to call it. It's kind of pop kind of electro. It's kind of electro pop I guess. I sang in all the tracks and I don't know i will never play it in my sets except someone did make a really dope remix of one of
Starting point is 00:54:32 them which i do occasionally play um but i would never really play it out i don't even know when you would listen to a lot of a lot of it but i was just so proud that i did it to me it was a learning experience and I'm and there's a few people like even one of my personal friends she loves one of the songs and she listens to it she's probably like the only person who actually listens to it
Starting point is 00:54:55 and she just loves that track and I really like it too to me it is cool as hell I think it's dope but I don't know I wouldn't play it. I don't even like just listen to it randomly. But I'm so proud of it. And it's so cool that I know that there's one person out there,
Starting point is 00:55:13 not just because she's my friend. She actually genuinely likes the song. And that's really cool to me. And I put it out. It doesn't matter. Yeah, fuck it. Because there's someone out there who likes it. And at the end of the day, I'm just proud I made it.
Starting point is 00:55:25 And that's okay. It doesn't need to be a hit. Let's fucking go. This is what I'm talking about. We're walking. We're moving, queen. I know you got to go. I got two more questions.
Starting point is 00:55:34 What was more intimidating? The first time walking onto a porn shoot or the first time getting on stage and being a DJ? Man. Oh, my God. I don't know. I would consider them to be pretty equal. My first porn scene ever
Starting point is 00:55:52 was actually in a nightclub. Really? There was a thing called In the VIP. I don't think they do it anymore. It was Reality Kings used to do it. It was at the Hard Rock in Fort Lauderdale. Kimbo Slate produced it. Are you from Florida?
Starting point is 00:56:04 Kimbo? I fucking love Kimbo. I remember Kimbo Slate produced it. Are you from Florida? Kimbo? No, yeah. I fucking love Kimbo. I remember Kimbo. There was 200 people there. It's a full ass club. Oh my. It's like actually open
Starting point is 00:56:13 and everything. It's not simulated. It's like actually. Yeah, there's a whole club's full but everyone's like you know, there to work.
Starting point is 00:56:20 Right, right, right. But there's only four people that are actually having sex. Two guys, two girls. So it's supposed to be a club scene that then people start fucking, whatever. And usually when people do that scene, they work as an extra first.
Starting point is 00:56:34 And then you get put on as a main. But that was my first day, really. That's intimidating as fuck. Oh yeah, no, I went into the bathroom and I cried. I literally, I started sobbing. I was like, I have no idea what the fuck I'm doing here. I went to the bathroom and I cried. I literally started sobbing. I was like, I have no idea what the fuck I'm doing here. I'm just a little college girl from North Carolina.
Starting point is 00:56:51 How old were you? 22, I guess. Wow. I was panicking. But me, I grew up being a dancer. So I have a very strong sense of just responsibility, work ethic. I went to a very strong sense of like, just responsibility, work ethic.
Starting point is 00:57:05 And I went to the bathroom and I was like, well, I wanted to go home, but I'm like, but I can't because like everyone's here. They're all going to be so mad at me. Like, you know,
Starting point is 00:57:15 I'm freaking out. And so I just go in the bathroom and I gave myself a pep talk. I'm like, you're going to go out there and you're going to fucking do it. And then luckily the other girl who was working there that day, she was, it was her last scene in the business and she was going to fucking do it. And luckily the other girl who was working there that day, it was her last scene in the business. And she was about to retire.
Starting point is 00:57:29 What advice did she give you? She was just so sweet. She grabbed my hand. She said, listen, you're with me. If you need anything, I got you. We're together. She just was really, really sweet to me. Made me feel very comfortable.
Starting point is 00:57:43 And I just went in there and dove into it and I got that kind of like you know high like that adrenaline rush and same thing with DJing my first like real DJ set I fucking was crying as well and at the end of it you got that high so I would compare them very they were very similar
Starting point is 00:57:59 it's like Dewey Cox when he looks himself in the mirror he's like you're about to remember your whole life so is OnlyFans like is that better It's like Dewey Cox when he looks himself in the ear. He's like, you're about to remember your whole life. So is OnlyFans, like, is that better? Like, it feels like it's way, it's a more controlled substance. Like, do you make bank on that? Well, I don't because I don't do porn on there.
Starting point is 00:58:22 Because I haven't done that in like eight years, eight, nine, a long, eight years? Yeah, a long time. But it a long, eight years. Yeah. A long time. Um, but I, it's better for everybody else. Yeah. For me, it sucks. Cause you know,
Starting point is 00:58:30 I had to actually like go to set for 12 hours to make way less money than you can make now. Just like teasing and nipple. Yeah. Sucks for me. Cause I'm like, damn, I kind of,
Starting point is 00:58:41 I was the end of my career. It was right when OnlyFans started, but I'm really happy for everybody else. I do have an OnlyFans, but it's more to connect with my long-term fans. I post nudes and stuff on there, but it's not
Starting point is 00:58:57 pornographic. It's more kind of like just me hanging out with me and my girlfriend. We're smoking weed, and oh, we're topless. It's more supposed to be kind of like... Personality having a vibe. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:59:09 I don't really promote it. Because it's really just for those people that have been following me forever. That they just want to message me. They want to. Because I don't have a lot of time. So it's like I can't be replying to everyone. So it's like subscribe if you want to talk. Right, right.
Starting point is 00:59:22 You got to pay me. I'll clap to that. Let's go. Make that money pay me. I'll clap to that. Make that money, queen. Let's go. Carter Cruz, what a fucking life. I know we're just becoming friends, but I really hope we can be friends. I got your back, dog.
Starting point is 00:59:38 I love Briley. I love Marcus. The Kings are my family. I consider you family, too. Hopefully, I'm in Denver soon. Denver, yeah. I grew up in LA. I love Denver. Yeah, you come out and hang out. That's like DJ Mecca. You gotta play beta.
Starting point is 00:59:55 I played there a couple years ago at Anton Hall. The temple? No, Anton Hall. In something. It started with A&T. I know that. But it was crazy because the guy who asked me to play, he had seen me open for Adventure Club years ago. Yeah. And that was back when I was a bass DJ.
Starting point is 01:00:16 Oh, wow. But that's what I started off as. Sick. And so he had seen me open for them. But this is years and years later. Now I pretty much like doing a lot of lot open format more housey kind of stuff and he asked me to headline this dubstep show and i was like fucking hang i was like i haven't played i haven't played bass music in years and uh that was my and it was crazy because it was all these amazing producers who were like opening for me. And I'm like, I'm so sorry. I'm headlining.
Starting point is 01:00:48 You deserve to be up there too, bud. No, but it was really fun. I love bass music. It's fucking awesome. Carter Cruz, thanks for being on the show. I know you got a DJ and stuff, but go check out Carter. She's an amazing DJ.
Starting point is 01:00:59 I was so manic when I got here. I literally, I ran down here. Now I'm running off the set. I was like, oh wow forgot I gotta Talk and get recorded I feel like that's why Hopefully I've been Yeah you're killing it Cause like
Starting point is 01:01:09 We're in that Comedy group text And it's just so funny Like always like I'm five minutes late I'm getting in here I'm almost there Okay my final question
Starting point is 01:01:18 So when it's all said I always ask this At the end of every podcast When it's all said and done What do you want to be remembered by? I think for me, the most important thing that I want to do is
Starting point is 01:01:31 whether everyone remembers me or I want people, I want to expand people's minds and get them to question a lot of that shame and stuff that we feel about ourselves um you know i always say that like we're only you're only as limitless as you allow yourself to be and i always
Starting point is 01:01:53 try to live like that like i went from being a sorority girl who's going to be a politician to doing porn to then being a dj where no one took me seriously for so long and I had to bust my ass. And then now I just started a podcast and so I'm doing this other thing and everyone can do that. And you're not restricted by society's rules or even your own
Starting point is 01:02:18 rules about yourself. I think a lot of people restrict themselves. And you're playing fucking arenas? Let's go! The thing that matters to me is even if, and I, this way I already feel good about everything because even if it was just 10 people that their lives were different because something that I did that matters to me,
Starting point is 01:02:40 you know, I don't need to be the most famous, the most rich. I just, I want to make some kind of difference in the world and that could be with a handful of people. And I know I've already done that because I have fans that be like,
Starting point is 01:02:51 I never thought I was into this thing or I never thought I could do this. And so those people, to me, in my mind, I'm already successful. I've already accomplished it. Of course, I want to keep doing more for myself, but that's really what matters to me. God damn it, you are badass. I'm going to. I've already accomplished it. Of course, I want to keep doing more for myself, but that's really what matters to me.
Starting point is 01:03:07 God damn it, you're a badass. I'm going to clap to you. Let's go, Carter. Thank you for being on the show. Now go out there and kick that comedy ass, queen. Go out there and kick that comedy ass. Go play some boi-goi. Bye.
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