just a little shady - Growing Up With Uncle Nate | Ep. 27

Episode Date: February 3, 2023

Uncle Nate comes on the podcast to look back on what life was like growing up together, we explain why Nate is more like a bruncle (brother-uncle) than a regular uncle, Nate gives his take on current pop culture events, discusses what his life is like nowadays, reveals how/why his music career evolved into what it is today & shares his own shady story to end the episode!Submit your shady story to be featured in a future episode anonymously here: https://forms.gle/wntAePFeWhtfda7u7Subscribe to our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/justalittleshadypodcastFollow us on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justalittleshadypodcast/Watch us on Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR6yk19Q/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello and welcome back to the podcast. We are on episode 27 and it's going to be super special and exciting because we have our second guest ever, Nate Cain. I thought you were clapping for yourself. Oh God. Yeah, welcome to the podcast, Nate. I'm here for good no replacing our co-hosts hey if you guys want it let me know out of control to start yeah here we go and what what's going on i don't know okay well if for those of you who may not know nate is my uncle my dad's younger brother but also kind of grew up together because nate lived with us for a while when i was young so he's kind of like a bronco or a funko. I would say a brother uncle more than a funko. No, it's a combination of the three. There you go. You definitely act younger than your age. I always think that we are closer in age than you are to dad. But still, I never realized like how much older you are than me because I feel like you are like a brother.

So young at heart, young at heart. So you kind of grew up with us and, you know, lived with us for a while. And one of the things that Brittany and I have talked about on the podcast is growing up, we were convinced there was a ghost in the house that we grew up in so to start out to be a little shady was that you confession time it was definitely not that's unfortunate to hear so you can confirm some of these like crazy ghost stories that we always talked about because when it was halloween time i told quite a few stories and britney cooperated some of them yeah i had uh quite the experiences you too i remember you telling me before but i thought maybe you were playing into it so that you would scare us. Because you were a little troublemaker back in the day.

I have some good memories to share. So you were like a young adult, late teen at the time that you lived with us, right? Yeah. Started living there around 16. Okay. And one of the things I remember is how messy your room always was what do you mean that was clean oh yeah so nate would have piles of clothes in there which us being young and idiots we would go knock on the door door and ask Nate if we could go looking for change

through his piles of clothes. Good times. Yeah. So, uh, it got a little out of control. I could say, I admit it. You had, you had a bunch of clothes cause you would, didn't you say you would like take whatever dad didn't want anymore? So he would get so many free clothes and buy clothes that I would just take some. So I would take his hand-me-downs and like his big, huge fat farm outfits and stuff that I thought would fit me being like, what was I, 110 pounds at that time, just trying to wear like a 3XL? Fit perfect. You know what? Baggy clothes are in style now, just trying to wear like a 3XL. Fit perfect. You know what? Baggy clothes are in style now, though.

So you were ahead of your time. I guess you could say that. And also, didn't you, so you took dad's clothes, but you also dyed your hair, too, to match his, didn't you? Those were the days, man. I mean, it grew like that. Yeah. As I got older, my hair started turning blonde oh that's how it usually goes yeah it's like a a psychedelic uh genetic thing to where if one sibling dyes

their hair kind of oh the others just naturally goes that way yeah didn't you what'd you say you dyed your eyebrows too yeah so when I was 12 and went to your dad's first show my briller obviously um my cousin John convinced me going to his show that not only should I dye my hair that my brother your dad dyes his eyebrows being young i'm like oh really so i want to dye my eyebrows too it sounds like a perfect idea i want to look like twins yeah not the case he didn't dye his eyebrows so you just looked like hey you know what though that's ahead of the time too because everyone bleaches their eyebrows now i look like a ferret i was like an albino ferret you just didn't have the red

eyes. Yeah. I mean, you have pretty dark hair naturally. So I can imagine that it kind of just probably looked like you didn't have eyebrows. You couldn't even see my expression if I was excited either. It was like, oh, does he like it or no? I'm smiling. So you were like 12 when all that happened? Yep. I was 12. I mean, so I was like barely, I was what, two? Like a baby. Yeah, a baby. See, because like I think probably that's why like our experience was a lot different

because I don't really remember, like I remember some things before, but like I didn't totally understand what was going on. And like you were definitely old enough more to understand what was going on. Yep. I started understanding it a little more when, you know, reality would hit when I would start seeing him more on TV and going to shows and all the signatures and crazy people. I'm like, all right, well, this is real. Yeah. signatures and crazy people I'm like all right well this is real yeah see like I I didn't really know the magnitude of things but I also like I was more I think more sheltered from it than you

since you were like a little bit older when it was all happening but you you came to live with us after that so like that was you were like 12 when that was happening and then at later a little bit later you came and yep a few years when I was able to leave from being under my mom's care, I moved in with you guys. Yeah, that's why it's like, like you kind of were like, you know. I was pretty much, you know. Brother, dad, figure, bronco. But I also remember it was you, your room was like right across the hall from mine and you know the one thing about you were up at all times i could always i always do if i

knocked on your door you were up oh yeah you had always so much besides the clothes in your room, snacks, and just there was a fridge and a microwave in there. And I never like that to me was the weirdest thing. But also like I thought it was so cool when I was younger. I'm like, oh, his microwaves in there. I'm staying ahead of my time. I guess so. Well, that was like basically your dorm room. I guess you could say like.

Yeah, I was in college when I was there. You treated it that way. You're like, oh, yeah, let me just heat up some noodles next to my bed. Some ramen, pop in some popcorn, watch a movie with my late night Walmart trips. Yeah, you did used to do that a lot. So I would get these spikes of randomness where i would literally be like it'd be late and i'd be like tell my friend emo hey let's go to myers let's go to walmart and uh i want to get something he's like what do you want to get i don't know the store will tell me

no but when we get there i'm'm going to find something. And I come home with like a coffee table, a couch, like that microwave, a fridge. You set up a whole like living room in your room. I remember that. And also in your closet, you turned it into like a DJ space too, didn't you? Hey, you got to have fun even when you're not going out. I guess so. Yeah, that was an interesting one. They have a thing that's similar to Omegle.

Like the online chat thing? Yeah, so it was like a face-to-face chat with a bunch of people, and I would just have, I'd go in there with random strangers, but I'd also have some of my close friends. They wanted my friend Chris and stuff like that go in there with random strangers, but I'd also have like some of my close friends. They want my friend Chris and stuff like that go in there. And I would play music and be the DJ because sometimes they would have somebody just playing a radio. So I was like, I'm going to close off the space and I'm going to try to be the entertainment. So I would go in there, set everything up, close the door, try to move some of my clothes out of the way

yeah they were and and i would literally play some music and i was in my 20s i wasn't a teenager at this time okay and clarify that was not a teenager i was like you know 23 24 probably 22 and i would if i couldn't go out to the bar i would join that chat play the music and me and a friend would drink and pretend we're in a club wow sounds like a lot of fun oh i like i like to have fun yeah i. I never really knew that was in there. Like, we would always want to go hang out in there, but then we were like, you know, we were so young. We're like, what the hell is that? Yeah, like, what is he doing in the closet?

There's a party. Apparently. Yeah. I didn't know about. We just didn't have a bouncer. Yeah. Well, all the animals would also get into your room. Oh, yeah.

Remember that debacle? We had some, like, dogs that would get in there because everybody in the house apparently knew that that was the room where all the snacks were. Oh, yeah. I mean, it went from my friend Nemo eating all the easy cheese and raiding the cabinet all the time where all the snacks were. We did that too. So I would hoard them in my room late after the bar or just staying up, couldn't sleep after playing video games or something. And I knew you guys,

you guys were up where you got to try to come in there and steal some snacks because there is none because I took them all yeah those were those were the days but um i was thinking for this episode we've never had a guy's perspective on some of these pop culture shady things we talk about so i was going to kind of treat it like you're the co-host as you said in the beginning here we go and go through some of the things that happened last week and then i'll ask you some stuff like based on what's going on what's going on so first and foremost did you see that paris hilton was like you know pop princess of your your time just had a baby via surrogate at 41 years old. So you have kids, too. I do.

I do have kids. I have three. And how old were you when you had kids? Around 24, 25. So do you feel like you wish you were any younger, older when you had kids? No, I'm in a content age. Yeah. Having kids at that age, I think that's still like a great age.

Unless you don't want kids. Yeah. Then, I mean, if you want to be that old parent that's not fun. You know me. Like I said, I'm young at heart, and I want to be able to share my experiences with my kids. And I didn't have a father, so it'd be nice to be that father to them that I didn't have. Well, you definitely are.

Like I I would say that that's one thing like about you that I was when we were growing up, I said like you were you were always like the older brother kind of like a little troublemaker you know um I balanced it yeah but well not never to us like obviously we like we always got along but I always was kind of like you know you were like you would get in trouble and you know I was like a little nervous for like if you ever had kids or anything like that, that I was concerned. But just when you had kids, I was like, wow, you totally changed, like turned everything around. We're like so serious about. Oh, man, I was a party animal going to the. Yeah, that's kind of what I mean.

Seven days a week, every week, getting four hours of sleep. I was living the life. So having kids wasn't in the card for me at that point and then you know trying to have a career and just not being able to focus on that yeah yeah no I definitely was like once you had kids and you like I saw how good you were with your kids I was like wow you know what they but it's it's kind of like the same thing with dad like a lot of people weren't were like concerned that he wasn't gonna be like a good dad or something and then oh yeah I mean going off the lyrics and everything yeah I could see that and but here we are and like not only did you

also turn out good but like he was the best role model I could have had to help me be the dad that I am today. Yeah. And it's kind of cool, too, because, like, something I always appreciated was, like, dad was kind of young when he had me and, like, mom, too. And I remember when I was little, which you probably remember this, too, I always played with baby dolls. Like, I, like, was obsessed. too. I always played with baby dolls. Like I like was obsessed. Like I thought they were real.

Like I wanted to like have a baby and I always would be like, I'm going to have kids when I'm 20, which like clearly that didn't happen. Just don't throw your babies in the fan and cuss. You would always say that to me. I'm going to throw your babies in the fan and cuss. No, you're not oh gosh yeah um we're not doing that with our babies but um it's not I yeah like I always was like oh yeah 20 is like a good age and good age to have kids obviously I look back now and I'm like when I was 20

oh my god but like I was also in school and stuff but still I can't imagine having had a kid at that point so but it is cool when you're a younger parent I think because you get like a friendship a little bit too with your kids exactly yeah so I was I always did appreciate you just gotta always balance that friendship and that parenting so they know the difference yeah i mean i agree it's it's good i think like you said you feel like you did everything right like you you weren't you wouldn't have done it any differently because it worked out for you guys but also this is kind of a random fact with the paris hilton thing going back to her um she apparently revealed the olympics logo which you thought i thought that was fake and i thought it was a meme because i see stuff all the time and i'm like yeah okay

that's not real there's no way yeah no i i wasn't sure about this either but supposedly it's because like it's it's in paris so like paris in in Paris bringing it up about memes and and things I didn't believe did you see that there was an airplane that someone took a video of flying in the air next to another one and it was supposedly Drake's airplane with a Lamborghini strapped to the top. No. Did you not see that? No. So I just seen this the other day and I'm like, everyone's like talking about it and

they're like, there's no way that's real. It's green screened and it looks pretty real. It looks like there's some really good straps, but you would think with that altitude and that speed, there's no way. And they usually put that stuff in cargo. Yeah, like wouldn't it be inside the plane? I mean, unless like you would also have to have like an Air Force one size plane to fit a car in probably. It looks like some pretty good CGI.

Really? Yeah, it's incredible. I'll have to look it up. Well, that actually reminds me. I was going to ask you about this, but I kind of forgot. We talk a lot about AI and technology on here because actually, too, I just went and saw that movie Megan. I did not see that yet. I want to see that. I'm a huge fan, I'm sure you remember, of Chucky.

Yeah. Chucky's always been my thing, even though your dad tortured me with it as a kid when i was a baby i was five or six yeah he messed with me yeah but now i i love it i love chucky i always we we would watch scary movies too when we were younger and like probably shouldn't have and i vividly remember being so terrified of chucky but this was like that but like a modern day version well it was pg-13 so the megan was yeah wasn't it pg-13 was it there was kind of there was like some gore in it yeah it was pretty good though i i will say but there were some parts that were like oddly funny and i'm like am i supposed to be laughing right right now because like there's

so many movies that do that where they're trying to be serious or scary and you laugh and you're just like yeah like I was like is this supposed to be supposed to do that like is this a joke or if you're in the theater and you do it and you're like oh I just ruined it for them they were actually scared um no but I thought it was good but it was it kind of we were talking about this last week that google like fired a guy because he came out saying that they developed AI that was a sentient being, which was self-aware. So it had feelings and was thinking it was a person. And so me and Brett always are like,

do you ever think robots are going to take over? What's going on with all this AI? That is pretty crazy to think about because I just seen two. They have a McDonald's. It's actually all robotic where it dispenses out the meals and they got this little robot that travels over and delivers your food and stuff. It's like a whole robotic experience. What? Yeah.

So, because that's another thing we talked about. So, did you see the chat GPT thing? I didn't. So, it's AI and you can go on it online. You, like, register and you can type in any prompt that you want it to do and it will do it. So, you can say, like, write me a five-page essay on prompt that you want it to do and it will do it so you can say like write me a five page essay on whatever topic you want right away it does it you can say like write me a formula to solve this problem it will do it and it's just like based on tech like ai that it gets information

from the internet pulls it all together to answer your questions. So crazy. And so I'm like, we are not far off from this Megan situation here. We aren't. You always send me the newest technology stuff, like that McDonald's thing you were talking about. Oh, I love technology. Yeah, and it's so cool in so many ways,

but then sometimes I'm like, are we going too far here? Like, what's going on right what's gonna happen next yeah I know it's like a zombie apocalypse no seriously but robots right robot apocalypse um robocalypse really that's the title of the episode um also though you know going back to things that happened this week um the show came out and I don't know if you saw this but it's called milf manor on tlc got my attention you're grounded ashley's not gonna like that um no so these moms go on the show and they're obviously like all a little bit older they go on the show, and they're obviously, like, all a little bit older.

They go on the show. They think they're going to be dating people that are younger, and they are, but it turns out it's all their sons. So they're watching. All right. Yeah, they're watching their sons date other moms their age um and it's very like controversial because they also have a lot of exercises that are like probably going a little too far that like a parent wouldn't want to go with their kid seems a little weird yeah it's very watch that it's going viral though because it's just so absurd strange yeah one of the moms actually just saw it so i haven't watched it either but i've seen people reacting to it and the last clip i just saw um they all like wrote out their secrets their

deepest secrets and the parents and kids had to guess which ones were their kids and which ones was their moms and the one mom confessed that she had hooked up with her son's best friend on the show and so like how traumatic what in the world this kid just starts like getting so upset at his mom and people are like are you forgetting that like so many americans are watching this show right now and like also the other people in the room like like this poor kid was just so shocked. But I can imagine it kind of got me thinking, you know, your kids, what are you going to do when they start dating? Because, you know, that's going to be not too far away. Liam, you got a milf. Good job, buddy.

No, get him, buddy. No. Really? Get them, tiger. No, I don't even want to think about that. Yeah. I got a teenage daughter right now, and I'm not even trying to think about that right now. Oh, man. Yeah, well, I think the better approach is probably not to, don't ever tell them not to do it because then they'll want to do it more, which I think you can attest to.

Yep. I can attest to that. I've definitely been guilty on multiple occasions of that. Yeah. I also saw on TikTok, maybe this is a. I mean, I didn't. Right. Right.

Of course. I think this is a strategy maybe you could use. I saw this mom say this. She never tells her daughter that she can't date somebody, but she'll say that you have to go on so many double dates with this person and her and her husband. And if they can make it past like so many double dates, then they can like be together. And it never works out because the person doesn't stick around long enough to get through the double dates. I can't see that. But maybe that's a strategy.

That is definitely. That's a strategy, huh? It's kind of, though, like the same thing as the MILF thing. You don't really want to watch your kids date people. Yeah, I don't think I could do that. It'd be kind of weird. It's a little uncomfortable. So all in all, I don't really know if that's a good concept for a show.

You'd be judging the whole entire time. Hey, why are you grabbing his hand? Hey, what are you doing there? Don't touch, don't look, don't do anything. Hey, what's going on? His eyes are up there. Yeah, pretty much. So yeah, the show is kind of weird and don't really know, you know, what the, that was

the best idea for a show. But also kind of going back to things that we've talked about on the podcast before, it might be nice to get another opinion on. Did you hear, so Tom Brady, which again, listeners are probably like, really? We're bringing this guy up again. Here we go. But so he got divorced from Giselle, which is like why we started talking about him in the first place. And then now he just recently came up again.

I brought up Deflategate on here, which I was like, is this controversy? Like, is this a hot topic? It was a while ago. I don't feel like, is this controversy? Is this a hot topic? It was a while ago. I don't feel like it is anymore. But I don't feel like he did it. I don't feel like he deflated it. I don't know. He did get in trouble.

And that's what I brought up on the podcast. That was just his greatness. Yeah. So Brittany was sitting here being like, he's the GOAT. He's this. And I was like, well. You can't deflate greatness. Really? I was like, well't deflate greatness i was like really i was

like well um there was that one thing like and she was like no don't bring it up but um apparently he so him and giselle got divorced but he just came back up in the news it wasn't me because they're still building um their 17 million dollar mansion that they were building in Miami. He's still building it, even though like she's not going to live there with him. And I thought to myself, because I don't know if you heard this and we talked about this on here, but Shakira, recently single, is moving to Miami. And I was like, what if her and Tom get together? I think you're on to something there.

But also it kind of reminded me because you had a destination wedding in Miami. Yeah, I did. Which was a lot of fun and probably too many mojitos were consumed. A little bit. But would you ever move? Because you still live in Michigan. I do live in Michigan still. I don't think I would move.

Just because I'm too close with family here. I wouldn't want to be away from all you guys. And kids are close with everybody. And I would hate to take that away from them. Yeah, that's kind of what I said. And I love, don't get me wrong, I do love being in the tropical climate, but I can't be away from family. But I will vacation a lot.

That's like what I said. I can do vacations and I I would consider like buying a another real estate property in another state and then going there to vacation to but not living that's what I said that's exactly what I said because it's it's like unless we all were like all right one two three we're all gonna move to the same place like going up north we used to go up north it's like unless we all did it at the same time at the same place i really wouldn't want to do it i also do like as much as i like warm weather it's nice to get all four seasons but like only for a second of winter um but yeah so you you did your thing you you guys do kind of travel a lot um for your birthday which is it's coming up yes it is old um no i'm just kidding just old news yeah old news yeah um but you usually go

somewhere for your birthday too which you usually go somewhere warm yep i usually go to like Miami Miami's a fun place that I always have a great time at um California um recently had went to Vegas before uh depending on you know how the weather is I like going to Vegas I like going to Miami California places like that. You're a little bit smarter than me when it comes to that because when I I did my birthday out of town once and I was like oh let's go to Chicago and it's just as cold. Oh yeah if not colder. Yeah. Windy city. I know I but I do I love Chicago so much because I don't know if you saw like the second episode we go you know we go to Lollapalooza every year and so it kind of just has been started with that and then now like any chance I get to go to Chicago I'm like I'm going um so that's kind of like Chicago's my Miami

what what Miami is to you I feel like Chicago's like a little miniature New York it's like a little miniature New York because it's so busy and there's a lot of opportunities and things out there. Yeah, I really like it there. Do you have any places that you haven't traveled that you really want to go? Everywhere. No. I haven't really been much out of the country. Oh, yeah.

I've been to Mexico for the first time, and I've been to Canada. Same. I have never been to Europe. Me either. Yeah. It would be nice to go to Europe, Bora Bora, anywhere. I would go anywhere out of country, really. Yeah.

I feel like that's surprising to people. I love seeing a lot of that water and different ventures and stuff like that, but not a fan of too much being in the water. Oh. I have a little fear of water. I don't really like, not water in general, or? No, just like- The ocean. Oceans. Me too. Ocean is crazy. You don't know what is in there i strongly agree i'm very irrationally terrified of sharks irrationally um yeah sharks you got whales you

got big huge cruises and boats just disappear in titanics like it's millions and millions of miles down and it just turns completely black blind fish stuff with teeth i'm good that was like uh and plus at night it's pitch black yeah you can't see anything yeah fuck that that was kind of like what we were talking about we talked about how like reptiles were just like not okay with alligators existing touching on the water do you remember the time that we went to california and we had to go i think it was like snorkeling it was me you erica elena and them and we got in the water and i think erica was going into a cave or whatnot and i think you were going to try to go into it and the second that i got in the water and and went to go in the water and I think Erica was going into a cave or whatnot. And I think you were going to try to go into it. And the second that I got in the water and, and went to go in the water, I immediately

grabbed the boat because seaweed started touching my feet and I thought something was pulling me under or trying to bite me. Yeah. So I definitely, I, we tried to snorkel multiple times and I always, I don't know if you remember this, but I would always choke on the water. Like I could never do it correctly. And then everyone would get so mad. Cause I'd just be like vomiting the like stuff that I just like swallowed up. But disgusting. But the seaweed thing. Yeah. Cause you just don't know what's in there. And it was like what I was saying with the, the reptiles and stuff like me and britney talked about this i'm like why are people

okay with that these animals just exist it's like dinosaurs these are like baby dinosaurs these are like the dinosaurs of the sea though like something that large of a whale exists and like it's just fine unbelievable we're just fine with it like being Pinocchio and just jumping in a whale's mouth. Sounds perfectly normal. Oh, yeah, no. The sheer size of some of the things out there is very alarming. And they're still discovering things. Yeah, I know.

I don't like it. I agree with you. I am good on that. I mean, I'll go jet skiing. I'll go on a boat. Yeah, but you don't have to go in it. I'm good on being on top of it just not in it i i 100 agree on that um also random you're not gonna you you don't really go on tiktok do you

i mean my wife sends me things that's how it goes that's how i do the same thing to evan i'm like here watch this he's like i don't go on tiktok she'll send me multiple and I'm like come on there's so many here I know and then you click it and it takes you over to the app which I like I I have the app but I just don't ever really go on it yeah it's uh it's it's a it's a hole you don't really want to get sucked into so good for you stay on that's what I've heard yeah but um so there's this girl she actually is from the University of Miami I believe that's where she goes to college she went viral in the last few months and she's just now like going viral again because so she's in college and they did a full kind of like you had your wedding there they did like a full fake wedding we like literally

got a wedding dress bridesmaid dresses ice luges suits everything the whole thing you would have thought it was a real wedding just for like a theme of a party and even being like having gone to college I've never seen anything to that extent. Like the most that were at the frat parties we went to was like a handle of Burnett's on the table. Like, here, take your pick, this $5 vodka. I don't think I've seen anything like that. And yeah, it was just absolutely wild. I was like very confused, but also got me thinking, you know, you didn't really go to like college for anything specific, but you did do class.

Didn't you do a class for something? Yeah, I unfortunately did not get the opportunity to go to college being, you know. Trying to do a career and just not worrying about, you know, at that point which I should have never did that but I end up getting my GED and I went and took online courses for a sports medicine degree so that I could do personal training. Okay and you actually did did you ever do it or was it just for yourself because I know you like you're kind of like I did it for I did it for myself at first because I would be I'd have my spurts where I would be working out and I would get you know I'd get big taking supplements and uh whatnot from GNC and didn't know really like effects on certain ones if I'm taking the right

ones if I'm doing too much what body parts to to work out, what not, how, you know, your whole body works or whatnot. So I took the online courses, got the books and did all of that and studied up and started personal training for myself and started actually training clients that I would get privately that I knew or came to me without working for a gym okay so you just like did a couple clients like privately that yeah I would do a few yep I would do a few clients at a time what about um because you you've I feel like you've done a lot but have you have um did you ever take classes for the djing stuff because i know you you dj like on the side still so i never really took classes i know they do take classes and stuff like that but i literally learned from my friend okay shout out dj godfather um no he actually because i i've always been interested in in djing so it it started

when i would go to the clubs all the time i built up relationships with djs or whatnot and would hang out in the dj booth a lot of the times that i would go out so i would see them transitioning you know doing all the spinning and scratching techniques that it always amazed me and especially when I was drunk it was super amazing so that's how it goes so I I got into that and he was one of my close friends that I reached out to to ask you know I'm getting in to I really love music is there a way you could teach me how to work this equipment properly and what equipment should i transition to to learn on first and he had taught me and it just kind of took off from there that i really liked it a lot and knowing that i know a

lot of good music and you know having fun being in a lot of club atmospheres I knew what people would have a good time too and you know going to weddings and whatnot I learned that and you know just kind of ran with it for a little while and was doing private events grand openings and stuff just to test the waters out wasn't sure if I was going to do the club thing or not. Did you ever do that? I didn't really do the club thing yet. It was something that I was kind of like on the fence if I wanted to do it or not. Okay. So back in the day in the closet, it was just like a little makeshift setup.

Yeah. And I also, I don't like to use other people's equipment. And I know like the whole club thing, you kind of got to use other people's equipment. And I know like the whole club thing, you kind of got to use some of their equipment if there's more than one DJ that's going to DJ there. So I was like, oh man, I don't want to hook my computer up to theirs because I don't really know theirs. Like I know what I'm doing,

but I'm not like a super pro of like vinyl, doing it vinally. And a lot of these DJs are incredibly talented and they can do the vinyl thing I'm more on the digital which I'm I like technology that was always more my thing like a motorized motorized platters and stuff that wasn't vinyl so that way I can gauge like BPMs or whatnot. It's a lot easier for me to, you know, learn that way than actual vinyl. So you kind of just like got the gist of it from other people and then like as you go, you kind of just teach yourself on it? Right. Yep. Yep. That's what, and I would learn more too just doing actual events too, smaller events and then going into doing private events, doing, you know, charities. Because I do a charity for, you know, wounded veterans.

Oh, okay. All the time. Every year I do it. And I would do grand openings for, you know, stores, dispensaries, different things like that. And it was more like a hobby in testing waters to see because I always jump into so many things because I'm always intrigued by so many things. Can I do this? Can I do that? How many things can I do at once doing movies let me do yeah let me do this that you randomly did like the movie thing and I mean in my opinion it was pretty good but you know I didn't even know that you like ever really did acting or anything besides I mean obviously you were in a couple music videos but a few but I didn't know that like you could actually act so that was something I actually

never took any classes for so that's something I have my best friend Nemo obviously he's he acts and he's gave me some advice but that was something that I had to kind of teach myself and put myself in those positions to where I would be in that character for the moment. Like, what would I do? How I, how I would react. Yeah. So I was like, if I'm in this position in this person, how would I go about that? Just filling characters out and stuff like that.

So I just did what would come natural a few times to see how they reacted and if they liked it and just kind of took off from there were you ever nervous like in front of a camera yes when you got multiple cameras on you I mean here yeah obviously I'm comfortable with cameras now but it was like you're you're doing it one-on-one like this. I'm talking to you. But then they're going to replace you and they're going to put a camera there. So you're not really there. I'm talking to a camera. But I can't look directly at the camera, though.

I got to look beyond it. Yeah, I got to look like beyond it, but not too off. And it was like different camera angles and doing it over and over and over the same scenes. And then sometimes switching up lines or being fed lines like spur of the moment here, say this, do this, let's change that. And then once you memorize and do it a little more and more, once you get on set, you feel more comfortable and it just comes like a second nature but you just gotta you know get comfortable with the camera and where you look angles whatnot yeah that kind of um that was kind of always my hang-up because um even with this like now obviously I'm used to this but I was gonna do which I think you already knew this but I was gonna do do, which I think you already knew this, but I was going to do YouTube. And I've talked about that before on the podcast, but it seemed so intimidating to look a camera

dead in the eyes at that time. Like I was like, oh my gosh, it's AI. It's a robot. Yeah. Like, oh my God, I want to look at this thing. Um, so I kind of always had that, but you also did, you did music, like not DJing. You did, you put out some songs, some bangers. I did, I did. And so what was that like and kind of how did that start and what, you know, what happened with that? So I started getting into music writing at a very young age. Just, you know, writing on pieces of paper, trying to learn raps and stuff like that until, you know, as I got older and wanted to think about doing it as a career, I had learned from your dad, my brother, on how to do music and how to write formulas, compound syllables, whatnot,

and tested it out in the beginning getting comfortable with my voice and from there I started looking around for beats and what whatnot and got comfortable enough with my voice and writing skills that I started recording and getting a feel for songs that how I would deliver them and how that would formulate to where people would enjoy it it was never like I knew there was going to be a comparison hey how does he sound compared to his brother does he have the same formula does he have the syllables is he like a battle rapper is he a freestyler what what can he do can he he compare to that is he on that level can he be above that and it was never about that it was more it was more about just having fun and being able to be around music and and and do something that

other people would enjoy or enjoy in the club or enjoy in the car or that some people could probably relate to or how I was what I was doing at the time when I was having fun and this and that that I wanted to deliver into a song how could I formulate that or if there was something that was a storyline that I could come up with so I just kind of went into that ordeal and then was coached uh in the studio on how to deliver and how to stack vocals and harmonize and things of that nature to learn that whole aspect and learn a little more on the producing side as well so i would learn like you know an mp, it's a drum machine. And I would learn that, try to learn a little bit of the keyboard, how things hook up and like how to adjust volume and different things and tones on my vocals and all that nature. So that really took off for me and got me really super hyped into that.

And that's when I actually... How old were you I was when I first started getting into it and recording I was probably well I'd say about 18 19 and really took off when I recorded my it's Nate Kane and that's something that I closed myself off and just tried to think of the most craziest stuff that I could rhyme and would just write a bunch of little things down and try to formulate these,

how can I make all these crazy rhyming words into a sentence and form it into a verse that would just show people like, I have this talent. I can do this too, but I don't want to be compared. So I did that. And then from there, I ended up going into a couple more songs to test the waters

and went into flying out to Florida. And from Florida, I went out and found a management team and did a, or got a beat, which is crazy about this beat that I got from Chops. When I did this song called Sliding Over. Yeah, that's our favorite song. That's the one that we make you perform. Right. So when I did Sliding Over, I bought this beat, right, that I found online through this website.

I already had the course and stuff and I was able to you know formulate that whole thing into a fun experience but to get that beat was it like from SoundCloud or something it was I forgot the name of the website but it was similar to SoundCloud and you would just buy these beats and or you contact them and you could pay for like a certain amount of publishing or whatnot. And I remember when I got that beat, my management team had contacted them. They were like, you know, contacted this chops guy and they were like, you know, Nathan really likes this beat. Like, how much do we got to pay?

I think it was like six grand or something like that. Three, six grand. And they're like, okay, we got to meet in like i think it was chicago or something and they were like uh to get this beat chops wants you to give the form of payment in gold coins and i'm like like real gold coins i'm like gold coins where the hell are you supposed to get gold coins so we had to struggle to try to figure out how do we get this currency into gold coins and get this and we were able to and then it's like here here's uh three six grand three to six grand in gold coins and here's the cd so oh my god it turned out to be a really good hit song which i didn't know i had an idea and a vision for it but I didn't know

it was going to be as fun and as big as it did which I recorded that in Tampa at a studio I believe Rick Ross and Flowrider have recorded at in Tampa oh that's cool dang so you were really like you knew I've like you were really in it I never fully knew I I mean, obviously, I heard the song. And fun fact, we actually make Nate, whenever we go out, for some of my friends that we've, like, all grown up together. But we will have him perform it. We'll put it on. And one of our friends, actually, at her wedding, gave Nate a microphone, put the song on. Oh, yeah. And we had him perform it and it's always so funny

because like we like will go on YouTube and find it and pull it up and be like here here play it play it um so yeah that's funny but I didn't really realize like how how deep you were into it I guess like obviously growing up I went to the studio as well but I was never fully and and I played guitar and stuff like I had my little musical moment I still love you're multi-talented don't don't discredit yourself but I never fully like tried to do something with it and even back in the day I remember like trying to play with the beat machine and like me and one of my friends made a song like on a on the beat machine like obviously it was fun and like back then it was just like it was I wasn't trying to be seriously making music but I never really tried but I think my thing was which kind of said you're a lot more comfortable

I think in front of the camera than I ever was so I I think you knew that I tried to do the talent show in like eighth grade and, um, I performed for the adults and I was like, okay, I can perform for them. Like they're not going to make fun of me. But when it came time to perform for the kids, I scheduled a tooth surgery. Cause I was like, so stage fright, but it sounds like you never really got stage fright, though. I did in the beginning. I did when I was comfortable with my music, but it's a little different when you're in front of a bunch of people you don't know and you know that this whole crowd of people is judging any word and anything that you say. Right. Especially like being who I am and in the spotlight I already knew I was going to be criticized whatnot so I just had to try to

learn to get over that fear and stop worrying about who's judging me what they're saying and just get comfortable with my own self and know that like they're going to judge regardless but I need to just be me and let them accept it if they like me they don't and just do my thing so all that was happening and then what you kind of like was it the fan like you you obviously ended up having kids and like starting a family and kind of settling down. The way, the way things just kind of fell in line was I had a management team at the time. We had a little falling out and then, you know, we're, we're on great terms now, but I had a falling out act rationally at that point. And then I ended up having, you know, kids and a family and just kind of wanted to be more of a father figure for my kids and not be too much away from them.

So try to balance that and find other things that I could probably do to see if I can do something other than music. Yeah. It seems like regardless what you do, it's always like a hobby of yours and like you're still going to always kind of find your way back to it. Yeah, everything always circles around to music. I know it does. Something I just can't stop. Yeah, I think that's kind of like for, for all of us in, in a way, like no matter what, like I still like, even with the podcast going to Lollapalooza and like, I will always love music. I don't know if I would ever tempt a career in music, but yeah, let me get on there while you DJ. Um, but you know know i feel like that's just like coming next episode no you know what you can maybe make my um the theme song for the podcast since we don't have one so let's put that pressure on um thanks also though is there any we usually end the episode with like a, you know, we read our shady stories.

I figured since you're the guest, is there any, it could be funny, but like a funny shady story that you have? Actually. So speaking of the slide on over song that I did do. Okay. Um, I was watching TV a little bit ago. Like recently? Like recently.

Maybe a few months ago. And I came across, I'm not even lying, a cat litter commercial. No. I was literally, I was starting to be into this commercial until... First of all, it's an Arm & Hammer commercial for a cat litter called Slide. No. So they ended this commercial, and I shit you not, is just Slide on over with Arm & Hammer.

And I was like, are you kidding me? Wait, you have to... Can I get some royalties or something wait arm arm and hammer call nate kane and get his song on this commercial hey does this stuff make your cat shit like just slide on over and take a shit you know what you know what arm and hammer call nate kane this is like the sponsorship of the century that's hilarious i really love that it's also funny just because of like throughout the years of how many like we had cats and i don't feel like you got along that well cats are a little shady yeah they are seriously you never got along with them but that's hilarious um what a great way

to i cannot ever i'll say i'll never can trust a cat i i told a few cat stories on this podcast and things are selfish everybody said they care about nobody but themselves you heard it here first nate is a dog person not a cat cat person. I do love dogs, hands down. Yeah, you have dogs. I do have dogs. I have two. Same. But that's so funny, man.

A cat litter commercial of all things. Oh, they really got me with that one. Oh, gosh. Okay, well, what a perfect way to end the episode. And thank you for coming on. If there is any questions that I didn't answer, then leave them in the comments. Or if you guys want to see Nate back on the podcast, leave them in the comments. Smash that like button.

Give it a thumbs up. You know what? You might be hired because I've never done that. All right. Thanks for listening, guys. i'll see you on the next episode see you guys