Men At Work Podcast - The Loudest Man On the Internet: Pearlmania500
Episode Date: April 17, 2025We're back outside! We're back to the format you fell in love with and we've got a great guest: Pearlmania500. Many have called him a plant, a CIA psyop, but we just call him the loudest m...an on the Internet. You'll see him like you've never seen him before (not screaming into his phone) as we interview David a starving artist trying to sell paintings in Philadelphia's parks who has the same characteristics as another former German painter, Charles a music producer who doesn't need a tagline, and Liam and his dog Crush who is a data scientist just trying to not get his job taken by AI while navigating the city with his lawyer wife who he pisses off by leaving the cabinets open. <br><br>Check out  @Pearlmania500 's podcast Too Many Tabs and everything else he does: https://linktr.ee/pearlmania500 <br><br>About Us: The Men At Work Podcast asks one question: What do you do for work? After that the conversation flows from there. We’ve met substitute teachers, Bangladeshi t-shirt moguls, a real estate broker tight with LeBron James, and more. And we’ll record anywhere. Random sidewalks during an eclipse, a baseball game, a bar crawl, casino, and more. We like to find out what people do for a living. If you want us to come to your event email us at: menatpodcast@gmail.com <br><br>APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/men-at-work-podcast/id1373108039SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4XcFWt0I6gFvMotqDp5bsZ?si=2273debc08e5485d <br><br>If you want more bonus content from every episode check out our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/menatworkpod*If you subscribe to the Patreon consider subscribing on a desktop or website or an android device, NOT THROUGH iOS (Apple) APP. Apple takes 30% of every month you're subscribed (yea they suck). <br><br>Follow Us: <br><br>The Pod: https://www.tiktok.com/@menatpodcasthttps://www.instagram.com/menatpod/ <br><br>Follow Matt: https://www.tiktok.com/@mattpeoplescomedyhttps://www.instagram.com/mattpeoplescomedy/ <br><br>Follow Kyle:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kylepagancb/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kylepagancb <br><br>Follow Vito: https://www.instagram.com/vito_visuals/?hl=en
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You used to be a man who made things.
Not one. And I used to go to a job every day.
Sometimes screw things together slowly.
Nuts and bolts. And you put it together.
Now what do you do?
You sit there on your phone and you scroll through the YouTube studio app.
Oh, no.
30% of people turned away when I looked directly into the camera.
Oh, because they said his left eye is slightly bigger than his right.
For some reason, at this time.
And guess what?
Guess what?
Blue shoes never going to sponsor you or your podcast known as Too Many Tabs that you're
here to promote on the Men at Work podcast.
That's how you link things together.
That's how you build a nation.
That's why we hold the mics to put up some calluses.
My hands are freezing.
This is the worst studio I've ever been in.
Yeah.
All right.
Welcome back to another episode of Men at Work.
As always, I'm joined by Matt
Peoples. We are back outside and we're coming straight from the governor to Alex Perlmania
500. I call him the loudest guy on the internet.
Oh, thank you. I do appreciate being loud. I am terrified that your last guest was nearly
burned alive with his family. Yeah, not ideal
I want to I just got to the gov. Hey, all right. Yeah gov shaps. We love you
We do gov is Shapiro. You're an amazing man and I've gotten to know him pretty well
Yeah, like I guess best as best as you can know a governor
Yeah, like he's invited me to a couple things and I've done some events with him
He's a really great guy and he's really like did did he do that thing where he talks to you guys,
like it feels like he actually is listening.
And I'm like, that's weird, I don't like that.
He gov'd us.
He gov'd you hard.
So we got 25 minutes with him
and he started asking questions.
Such a gov move to kill the time.
I can't tell you what he's gonna do to you.
Next time he sees you, he's gonna remember one thing.
And it's gonna be the thing you're not gonna fucking expect.
But yeah, no, he's cool, he's cool.
But I was like, I said yes to you guys,
and then like six hours later,
they're like, a meth head jumped the fence.
Yeah.
And tried to burn the governor of Pennsylvania alive.
And that guy is on meth.
Yeah, absolutely. Have you seen him?
You seen him? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Tongue hanging out, he was walking down.
When I saw the guy, I was like,
all right, where is he from?
Like Harrisburg, I was like, don't even,
there's no politics involved with this.
That building was close.
Yeah. That's it. Okay. He's walked an hour. Sure, that's a good point. He walked an hour? That was a meth man even there's no politics in all of this that building was close yeah that's it okay an hour that's an hour that's a mess man that's
a mess man yeah he already lived in Harrisburg right if he lived in like
Doyle's town it would have been that there would have been the courthouse he
just knew that building he probably just didn't have Google Maps out so we
didn't know where like the state capital was yeah there's too many of them in
there and so he just looked at that.
He was like, ah, the little fence.
That's a skateboarding distance.
That's about an hour skateboarding it over there.
And he took it there, the human version of meth.
What's wild is I've been in that, the exact, the room that
was burned the worst, I've been in there.
That's like the piano room.
That's like this area right before you go in.
It's like a nice reception area.
Yeah.
Like I was there.
And for Christmas, they set up these really nice Christmas
trees. And there's this whole little train that runs around. And it's like, oh reception area. Yeah. Like, I was there. And for Christmas, they set up these really nice Christmas trees, and there's this whole little train that runs around.
And it's like, oh, here's Hershey,
and here's stuff from Pennsylvania.
It's like real cute.
It's like that dude just burned a museum that people sleep in.
That's what actually had happened.
And there's a lot of people who don't seem to understand
that when they say it's Shapiro's mansion or the governor's
mansion, it's actually Pennsylvania's mansion.
Yes.
That is our mansion.
It's our.
He burned our shit. He burned our shit our shit yeah what the frig I know it's
terrible I want reparations from that guy I know I but yeah listen he's gonna
be paying for a while yeah all right is there something wrong with me that
obviously what happened was horrific but I saw the pictures of the mansion after
the burn and I was like still nicer than anywhere I've lived still looks kind of
gorgeous honestly yeah well I mean if it was as Philly, that would still be fucking 2400 a month.
That's true.
To be in that room.
It just got a Tim Burtonized, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ah, listen, they're gonna flip that thing real fast.
That whole floor is gonna be that weird
millennial gray wood.
And then all the walls are gonna be just white.
And it's just, you're gonna feel it.
You're gonna come in, you're gonna be like,
mm, don't, no nails.
Yeah, they're like, hey, granite countertops,
what is that black granite that you can't ever see on
with the streaks every time that you wipe it down,
stays on it.
That weird faucet where the top is open.
Like it's like a fake reed.
You know what I'm talking about?
It's a barman, right?
Do you have that?
Yeah, I got that.
I got the old abandoned warehouse, the wooden roof.
So you're like, oh my God, look at this guy.
The smallest sliver of exposed brick
so they can charge $500 more on the rent.
I had an exposed brick when my wife and I lived in Fishtown.
I thought it was so cool when we moved in.
And then my next door neighbor, Gary,
he would rip a gravity bong about three times a night
and he would seep through the walls.
I'd be sitting there, my wife was really into
Once Upon a Time, remember that show on ABC?
She was super into that.
And we were sitting there, I'm like, this isn't good. She's like, I think on ABC? Yeah. She was super into that.
And we were sitting there, I'm like, this isn't good.
She's like, I think it's great.
And I was just like, I waited.
Gary went out of town.
He went to Tijuana to go visit his ex-wife and he was gone for a week.
And then during that week, she was like, this show isn't good.
I was like, you've been getting contact high this entire time.
100%.
Gary's been fucking you up through the walls, babe.
She's suggesting crazy stuff.
She's like, what about a club cracker with vanilla ice cream on it?
And you're like, it's actually a great idea.
That sounds good.
Yeah, I had one last night.
That's why it's kind of firmly on my mind right now.
Yeah, that's crazy right now.
Because I'm going through same exact situation except my Gary sings.
And my Gary is a small, peculiar woman who has never looked me in the eye
on the elevator.
OK, all right.
Is it a building?
It is a building.
It's a big deal to an elevator?
But right through the air vent, she must be doing some gravity bongs
because, listen, dude, it's the guest room thank God but man
can she torch yeah she torches with she torches with what she's saying what she
sang mostly I when I meant torch I meant she smokes a lot of weed oh I thought you
meant like torches and like she can fucking belt yeah I thought she could
belt I thought you were gonna be like yeah my neighbors in there she's like take me to check she belts yeah she belts she belts
but she back she moves is convinced she is a professional singer and I say you
are the worst judge of entertainment character of all time and now I don't
know why I'm your girl pop thinks you can sing well she can sing very well
what genre is the neighbor singing it's always like your your hosier, it's your ballads.
You're always women ballads,
a little Whitney Houston and she plays in there.
She hitting that Benson Boom?
Does she do the front flip off the piano?
I hope so.
She does close the drawers a little too hard.
Is she next door or upstairs, downstairs?
Next door.
Next door?
Right next door.
I hope that she checks out the Men at Work podcast.
I hope that she watches this and then she realizes, she's like, that's the guy I never look at.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Sweet lady.
Tall freak.
Sweet, sweet lady.
Yeah, Joe.
You are tall.
Yes.
You're tall.
When I walked up, I was like, ah.
Yeah, I know.
That guy's uncomfortably tall.
Yeah.
Me too, Alex.
Like you were saying, you were just saying it beforehand. I know you mentioned that too for me also. Yeah, no, I would say that you value Matt Peoples.
I'm always like, Matt Peoples,
I think he was the first guy
I ever saw drink a White Claw in person.
That's exactly right.
And the last two, I'm going that quick.
You are a tall drink of White Claw.
Yeah, I think we were in New Jersey at an open mic
and you walked up and you ordered two White Claws
and said, what are those?
You're like, ain't no laws.
And I was like, that's not, no.
I whispered the no laws thing.
No, you did not whisper it.
You're on your fourth one, you're like, ain't no laws. And I was like, that's not. No. I whispered the no laws thing. I whispered the no laws. No, you did not whisper it.
You're on your fourth one.
You're like, ain't no laws.
Between you and me.
It's actually amazing,
because typically you're the reddest person on this podcast,
but actually you shaved.
This is huge.
And we do have.
Yeah, this is all in solidarity for me and Alex.
We have a very ginger moment here, dude.
It's huge.
Yeah.
This is big time.
Why did you shave on us?
I saw a photo of myself with a mustache and a fat face,
and I said, something's gotta change
and I'm certainly not losing weight,
so the mustache had to go.
And yeah, that was a bit of a crisis I had.
Just 24 hours ago, Kyle Pagan, yes I did.
Was it because it was warming up a little too?
That's when I shave.
Oh, is that really?
Yeah, well, so there's two times
where it gets real dangerous for me.
Number one, middle of the night, about 2 a.m.,
after about somewhere between six to 19 drinks,
and I decide something needs,
like I need to change my entire life.
I'm looking in the mirror, and like something's not right.
And then I come walking out of the bathroom,
my wife's like, who the fuck, why, why?
You were so pretty before, now you look like a worm.
The other time is for some reason
right before it gets super cold.
Yes.
Which is always the dumbest time.
So now, because this is a, you know,
beard's a built-in insulation.
It's a solid beard, Captain.
And you know what, I don't need as much chapstick
because the oil is keeping the lips good.
Yes.
All this different stuff.
I can't tell you how many times, though,
it'd be like right before the cold snap would hit.
We're talking about November.
We're talking about December.
You know, unseasonably warm December. Sure. Just got on the other side of Christmas. You're talking about November, we're talking about December. You know, unseasonably warm December.
Just got on the other side of Christmas.
You're like, you know what?
I wanna look better in some pictures.
Yeah, can I go shave?
And then you come back, you're like, I made a huge mistake.
That's really what it is every time.
I will say, you do have a little bit of an advantage.
I just found out about chapstick a year and a half ago.
What were you doing before?
Just bleeding.
Every time I smiled, I bled,
and I said, this is just the price to pay for happiness.
And I just found out my girlfriend was like,
how about some, first she hit me on like the Vaseline,
and I said, yuccarone and cheese.
And then I switched over to like the very nice
kind of like minty chapstick.
Beautiful invention.
Everyone, if you guys are out there listening,
give ChapStriker a try.
Is this your attempt, you're trying to get
a chapstick sponsorship right now?
Yeah, it's also kind of expensive.
On my podcast, Too Many Tabs,
which you can hear on YouTube
or wherever you listen to podcasts,
all 12 of you out there,
we did a whole episode actually about Burt's Bees.
Really?
The guy who owned Burt, Burt himself.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because Burt actually had some honey
and he had the honeycombs and those things,
and it was actually other people that did it.
And we had two episodes we really liked,
because a lot of our podcasts we talked about like depressing
stuff and like kind of like you know you get into something you start looking
you're like oh this is pretty cool and like racism every time you're like ah no
just about but it was a Bert's bees and then we did one about Bob from Bob's
red mill and it was just no they do They do all sorts of different type of grain.
So it's like-
Bob's Discount Furniture is the only Bob
I kind of fuck with in the corporate world.
Fuck that guy.
Okay.
I'm not a fan.
I'm not a fan.
Have you ever been?
You can't flip a cushion at Bob's Discount Furniture.
They're all like, it's one,
it's like they cover three sides of the cushion.
The bottom is a completely different one
and then it's Velcro.
Wow.
Oh, I hate the Velcro.
Have you ever not walked around the showroom?
I've never been, I just like the commercials.
No, the commercials are all right, but go walk around.
We had one down in Delaware by my parents' house.
We used to cross the border, you know, get that cheap stuff.
Across the border, my wife and I were looking,
like, Bob's Discount Ferture, this isn't so bad.
And then I just went, I just pulled one cushion off.
Because my thing is, whenever I buy a couch,
I want to make sure that the back cushions are removable.
I don't like a sewn in. I don't like a sewn in back cushion. I just got to the new the Velcro
back cushion and it's been a bit of an adjustment but I don't like it. I move
around quite a bit. Do you have a dog? No I have a girlfriend. Well that's not a good comparison.
You had a girlfriend. She's gone. She's. No, this is a podcast called Men at Work.
Yeah.
You're Philadelphia comedians.
Yeah, that's a tough one.
You just called your girlfriend a dog.
Yeah, she's my dog.
Joe Rogan is on speed dial.
Yeah, dude.
I'll let you know right now.
Oh no, not Joe Rogan.
Yeah.
Oh, good.
Yeah, my career.
Yeah, what are your thoughts on
ignoring what Elon has to say?
Or salute.
Yeah?
Could this get me booked at the comedy place you own?
Okay, yeah, dude. Yeah, okay. Big Elon's trying to fire me right comedy place you own? Okay, yeah, dude, whatever.
Big Elon's trying to fire me right now.
What?
Big Elon, yeah, Big Dog, Big Doge.
He's a Fed.
Oh, you're a Fed?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I've been accused of that.
Really?
Of firing me?
No, no, I've been accused of being a federal agent.
You're a Psy-O.
Oh yeah, no, listen.
It is so crazy.
You'll know that when you guys have made it,
when people write whole fucking like,
10 page long conspiracy theories about you,
or they make like nine minute long videos.
I do, really?
It was, oh dude, it was, kick out, great.
It was last year, and the best part is like,
I could see it happening, I saw where it was coming from,
and if, like my explanation of it sounds more insane
than what they were claiming about me
Because it was actually like a Steve Bannon RFK aligned Psyop on me That's a tough one because they realized that my audience was is half like it's rare
Online for somebody to have an audience as half men half women and also that bridges
Political and economic divides. Well, you're an algorithm's dream have issues and it is really the fillies and if you do those are right
and then things that people can argue about you or i i have a lot of i have
things i like to say and you know what it makes the chinese government very
happy to because often what i have to say is quite divisive and then on it
listen when they're over there i'm just like you know this country sucks today
and i guess it does it And then on it listen when they're over there, and I'm just like yo this country sucks today, and they're like yes
It does
It's called the heat button no they got this and they admitted it it was crazy
But they have a button where they'll be watching a video
Because they use it for like new they used to at least they use it for new celebrities
So like Dolly Parton joined tick tock yeah
And they're like we need her first video to be seen by everybody. Like hit the heat button. They hit the heat button. Boom.
Two million people watch Dolly Parton. She's like, oh, I need to make sure I keep
doing TikToks. And they're like, okay. All right. And she's hooked and turn it off.
And they've done it. You can see so many celebrities. You go, go back.
Justin Timberlake, all of them. You go back there first, like two, three videos.
Huge splashes. Wait, so they're hitting, they silenced Dolly.
They didn't silence her, they just said,
no, you gotta play the algorithm game like the rest of us.
They're hitting, so they're hitting like,
you know, like celebrities with like,
here's a bunch of views,
and then they make you kind of like slave over it
like any other influencer would try to be doing.
Yeah, no, they, well it's like all these platforms.
Every single one of these platforms.
When you guys are seeing it right now,
you post this stuff on YouTube, is your SEO perfect?
You got the right thumbnail?
Did you make sure you checked on all your subscribers at the right time of day do you pour over the
analytics to the point where you don't think your dick will ever work again
because god damn it you used to be a man who made things not walking hands
used to go to a job every day and screw things together slowly nuts and bolts
and you put it together now what do you do you sit there on your phone and you
scroll through the YouTube studio app.
Oh, oh, 30% of people turned away
when I looked directly into the camera.
Oh, because they said his left eye
is slightly bigger than his right
for some reason at this certain time.
And guess what?
Guess what?
Bluechew's never gonna fucking sponsor you
or your podcast known as Too Many Tabs
that you're here to promote on the Men at Work podcast.
That's how you link things together.
That's how you build a nation.
Do you build it with nuts and bolts?
No, you build it with tariffs and hate.
Yes, and I'm sorry to my girlfriend about calling you a dog.
Also that too.
That's why we hold the mics to put up some calluses.
Yeah.
My hands are freezing.
This is the worst studio I've ever been in.
Yeah, it's not our best.
It's the producers fault.
Yeah, it definitely is the worst studio.
I was watching the podcast before this.
You had the governor in a building.
Yeah, we had a building. I have more Instagram followers than the governor. I was watching the podcast before this. You had the governor in a building. Yeah, we had a building.
I have more Instagram followers than the governor.
That's true.
I don't have state police with me.
I mean, that didn't seem to help.
But I don't have state police.
Yeah.
Listen, in this exact part, we're in Rittenhouse Square.
See right over there, that wall over there?
Yeah, I see it.
Back in 2012, when I had long hair then, I came here.
I was smoking a cigarette. I used to smoke. I a quit when was two years ago. Thank you for your applause
Let's go. I smoked cigarettes and I was leaning on a wall and this lunatic walked up to me and he was like
Can I bum a cigarette? I said yeah buddy and I handed to him. He's like, thank you so much
Will you tell me soon when it ends? I'm like when what ends and he looked at me goes you're our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ, right?
What are you talking? Is it cuz I have long hair and a beard he goes no it's
because of the alpha and omega and I looked down and I didn't realize my mom
had gone to Greece and she bought me a shirt and in Greek it said Alexander and
like there was also an omega like symbol on it and so he saw I was just walking
this dude's schizophrenic dream and he was incredible you might be cheese at
Christ dude you might be cheese at Christ. I might be cheese at Christ.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm cheese at Christ.
I love that.
That's my drag name now.
When you said you were going to Greece,
I thought you were gonna come back with a toga.
I didn't realize it was just an Alexander shirt.
No, my mom was a Latin teacher.
So she goes to all that ancient shit.
Yeah, she goes there all,
she loves going to Greece,
loves going to Italy.
She'll do like some light archeology.
Nice.
You know, which is basically she walks up
and they dust some stuff off.
We have her on my podcast, too many tabs,
you can hear it on YouTube.
That's pretty sweet.
Or wherever you listen to podcasts,
or on my Patreon, ProManio500.net to join that.
Dot net.
Dot net.
Listen, I got, hold on.
You wanna know why I got dot net?
Because I was too popular,
and someone else already bought.com. I got
ProMania 500 on everything. I got it on everything. I got it on the
Instagram. I got it on Twitter even though I don't use it. Lunchboxes. My one
friend was like you should get it on Pornhub. I was like get the fuck out of here.
And then I looked and I was like she has hers on Pornhub and she does not make
that type of content. She was like she got it on true socials. She was telling
me everything. I was like okay so I went on all the ones I wanted to.
Blue Sky, all of them, I grabbed them.
And where was it going with this?
Oh, I got big enough though,
that when I was talking, at one point somebody like,
you need to make a landing page.
And they're like, go to cheap names,
or cheap domains, or whatever it is,
and go get it, get your shit.
So I typed in pearlmania500.com,
they're like, already taken.
And they're like, do you want it? I was like, yeah, I want it, they're like, $1,000. I was like, I'm not paying you.com already taken and I do you want
it I was like yeah I want it like a thousand dollars paying you a thousand
when you land you landlorded my name come on put on a payment plan to come up
with my wife came up with a name kinda I kind of like the land I mean they bought
into Fishtown they bought Fishtown. They bought Fishtown. Oh, do you like landlords? No, I don't like landlords, but I like where that guy with his head's at.
Oh no, listen, listen.
The guy hustled. I'm not mad at that.
But also, I'm a millennial.
I'll buy a dot net. Fuck you.
Oh, not dot org.
I'm not an organization.
That's just how that goes.
I would take a dot gov, but then Elon would be out there cracking down on me
just like he's going to crack down on you.
Give me the guff, give me the crud, dude. It's unbelievable. I said my five points only only just yesterday my five points
Yeah, please leave me alone. Yeah, that was all one
I'm fearful. Whoopsie. I like that. They were like we gotta make sure they aren't using chat GPT for this job that we can then
Replace them all with chat
Fuck out of you. I love these rich fucks who think that we're good. I'm gonna hold on I'm gonna be accused of sounding like Bill Burr right now. I love these rich fucks sitting around thinking we're gonna replace everybody. Who's gonna buy your shit? You ever think about that? Who's gonna fucking buy your shit buddy? True. You're just gonna be sitting around we got all this money in the world oh yeah what no one's gonna have enough money to make a kid? I. I told you kid Are you gonna hunt on an island now you billionaire bitch?
Just watching so you are Jesus Christ, I'm not Jesus Christ. I am NOT Jesus Christ. I'm maybe John the Baptist
Johnny B's good. I'm John. I'm maybe John the Baptist
I will be beheaded by a stripper Johnny B kind of had the lightest role of all the disciples of just the guy who got
To hang out in the river with his knees in there the entire day story not a disciple you fucking idiot
Disciple no he was a fucking he was like another
This isn't even my shit dude, it's even my shit. What did you do?
Yeah, we are Catholics. Yeah.
We are Catholics.
Yeah, we do.
That's bad.
I'm married in.
Oh, really?
I'm married to Catholics.
How do you like it?
It's all right.
Sometimes every now and then she puts too much cabbage
and stuff.
Yeah, that's a Catholic thing.
She's big into the cabbage.
Irish.
Huh?
She Irish.
Yeah, she's a little bit of everything.
She's a mutt.
And then I'm half Jewish.
So we both got our girlfriends and wife's dogs
in this one episode.
Hey, she'll say it herself. She'll say it herself.
She'll say it herself on that one.
Yeah, his girlfriend will too.
Yeah.
Now she won't be able to say your podcast sucks,
eh, you guys, you're gaining weight, stuff like that.
No, no, but my wife is like, she's like,
I learned a lot from her about, like,
because my mom is Baptist.
My dad is Jewish.
And I'm all crazy, right?
Like one of those fucking, no, but it was one of those ones,
so like I was raised in this weird mix
where my dad's not really religious
and my mom was religious or still is religious
and I just kind of stood in the middle of it
when I was like 13, I was like,
ah, fuck both of you and they're like,
all right, fuck off then.
And then I met my wife and then she's like,
she's Catholic and I'm like,
oh, so you had like this whole rebellion phase?
She's like, against what?
Yeah.
She's like, everybody who's Catholic hates it. Yes. There's not a single part
Like the only person who's into it is like the guy who gets transferred every five years
Yeah, I just found out about that you guys really they move the priests every five years every five years
Yeah, no, I know like that's that's a good credible shell game
That was it there like listen we could we could maybe like work this a little bit better
or move them every five years.
I think that's the foundation of the-
It's the craziest shell.
Have you dove into the-
Because they didn't used to do that.
No, a lot of them were in some of those areas
like 20, 30 years before.
Back in the 60s and 70s.
Yeah, true, true.
I would say when we started growing up,
that's when they started doing it.
Have you read into the Saints stuff,
the New Orleans Saints?
The which side?
The New Orleans Saints.
The New Orleans Saints?
Yeah, helping out with that?
No, no, no. They used a lot of funds, a lot of power, a lot of connections to silence a
lot of bishops and archbishops and priests and stuff. Okay. That their names
were never released and so they're kind of going through it right now. There's a couple draft picks.
Yeah? New Orleans? Wait, wait, wait. You're talking about the New Orleans Saint the football team.
When you said the New Orleans Saint and we're talking about Catholicism, I'm Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, of the New Orleans Saints. Okay, yeah, the NFL owners of New Orleans Saints. That's what I'm trying to say.
I'm, listen, I'm, I was stuck in a lot of traffic
to be here.
I like that.
So I don't appreciate you pushing back on me.
I apologize.
In any way.
You wanna break bread?
I wanna break bread.
All right, but make sure it's unleavened, all right?
Because technically, it's gonna be culture, dude.
You gotta bless it.
Of course, yeah.
And gluten-free.
You gotta admit though, we'll say.
That's where it starts. You draw the line right there. That's why I draw a line of Catholic mass now.
Once you start making gluten-free Jesus, I'm out of there. Well actually I think the church itself said no. I thought they do. Yeah no, they said no to gluten-free.
No, I thought they do it. I swear I was at a mass. No, no, no, I think it was like this year. Are we pushing back on each other now?
No, no, no, we're not pushing back on each other. I'm saying you have old information. I'm saying that like, I think it was in the last six months
or so, because my wife has celiacs.
And one of the things, so she is gluten free.
So we like, I, listen, the second I get out of the house,
I'm gonna give me that fucking cheesesteak, right?
They're giving me that fucking soft pretzel.
It's so crazy, because my wife was from Northeast Philly
and her entire childhood is just gluten.
It's just fucking everywhere she turned, it was just gluten.
And then one day the doctor was like,
you're gonna die if you don't stop eating
Soft pretzels on the side of broad really I thought that that disease was just if you ate a piece of bread you just shit
For no no listen it eventually becomes colon cancer. Oh my god. It becomes cancer
There's so many there's listen for anybody feel so bad for making fun of everybody
I'm saying like oh you have a tummy ache and then I'm like well. No it's worse than that
No, don't worry. Don't worry about it. RFK is on it.
He's going to fix it.
By September, he's going to autism, celiacs.
They're all going to go to El Salvador.
Perhaps connected.
Who will see?
Everybody's free playing.
You're actually going to a prison, honey.
All the celiacs are going to El Salvador.
We got to pick these bananas.
The fucking Banana Republic.
All right, so the...
Button dance.
Yeah.
How did this podcast start?
A fire?
Yeah, that's it.
Fire crush.
I'm just trying to...
Hello, folks.
I'm just trying to build you guys clips.
Yeah, we gotta go.
I can tell you're...
I'm just aiming better at this than we are.
We could probably end the podcast right now.
I'm just aiming out here for it.
15.
Clip haymakers is all I'm trying to make.
You wanna get a cold people one?
Oh, I don't trust that.
You got people?
Talk to the publics?
I got a painter, what's going on?
You got a painter?
Bring them on.
All right, what's your name?
David.
And what do you do for a living?
I'm unemployed right now,
so I'm out here in Rittenhouse Plaza
just selling some paintings and shit.
You're not unemployed, you're an entrepreneur.
That's right.
Absolutely, yeah, yeah.
That's a great way of looking at it.
In my business, we call that a content creator.
You're creating content. You call that a content creator. Yeah
You're doing a live content stream except instead of it being on twitch. You're doing it in person for the people. Yeah
Yeah, right that down
Probably should
Have a sexual partner right now. No, okay, we're gonna we're gonna tell you how to fix your resume. Yes, but when you're talking to people
Okay, okay. You're gonna build me a resume for
Bitches no, not forgetting bitches just talking to people. Yes right now. We asked you what you did. You're like, I'm unemployed
I'm selling paintings. Well, what do you do for a living? No that I'm surviving. I'm barely living
That's fine. I get the on that but I'm saying in this moment though, you would have said I'm a content creator.
I make physical content.
I'm a content creator in physical content.
How have you done today?
I didn't do anything today.
I just sat there and didn't get any,
but I've gotten some compliments and stuff today,
so that's good enough for me.
Yeah, seedlings.
Yeah, where do you get them?
No, no, no, they can't be,
I gotta side with Perlman on this one.
That can't be okay.
No compliments, we need sales. Yeah, that's true. Sales, sales, sales. I disagree, I'm on your side, okay. no, no, that can't be. I got to side with Perlman on this one. That can't be okay. No compliments, we need sales.
Yeah, that's true.
Sales, sales, sales.
I disagree, I'm on your side, okay.
Yeah, yeah.
First of all, he's a talented artist.
Yes, he is.
He's hanging out in the park
for the large audience.
Well, you're sitting over here,
you haven't even seen it,
I feel like you're just talking
out your ass right now.
I'm looking, it's over there.
It's all the way over there.
I'm on their side.
Why would you do that, dude?
Well, you know, be on their side,
be on my side.
I'm on your side.
Dude, pick a side, man.
I'm in between.
I'm sweetened right now, baby.
I'm sweetened.
You're trying to make the guest comfortable.
That's right.
I'm starting to think of a terrorist.
Don't listen.
When this is over, okay, we don't know you that well, but when this is over, we'll give
you his home address.
That's right.
So you want to burn him alive while he's sleeping.
Yes.
We want to keep the street going, and I don't want it to be me.
Absolutely.
That's what this really comes down to. No, no, yeah. Okay? As long as I can. You guys can all, it'll be like a Mexican standoff. Yes, we want to keep the street going. I don't want to be me
You guys can all it'll be like a Mexican standoff you could give everyone like you could you give me his address you give me His yes sure on and yeah, like whoever whoever I decide to attack flavor the week. I like that
Maybe like now I'll go for you you know. Can you say it directly in one of these cameras over there?
Say your full name and social security number one. That's cool. What were you doing before?
I generally cook. I like working kitchens and stuff like that. Okay. Any restaurants in the
city that you worked at? I worked at the Four Seasons. I was the guard manjé there for a while.
I was awful at it. Where's the garde-man-ger?
It's a pantry chef, so you do salads, sushi,
shit like that.
That's a very, very fancy word for the guy
who just puts some lettuce and carrots in there.
Yeah, exactly.
But that's what they called me,
so I'm like, you know, might as well.
That works on a resume, it sounds cooler.
It sounds awesome.
And listen, that place is 1,100 a night.
I was just talking about it to my wife,
because Bethany Frankel said
that that's the greatest hotel in America
Oh, really?
I just saw it on the TikTok. Yeah. Wow on the TikTok. Are you on the TikTok? Yeah
Yeah, I hope you put your paintings on TikTok. I've seen you. You've seen me on the TikTok? Yeah, a few times.
See that's what's dangerous. It is dangerous. This is the reason why I should be- I've been able to track you down.
I know you see what the fuck's happened. I told you fuck it anymore.
And then you're gonna give me your address? I'm not giving you my address, I'm giving you his address.
Well no, he's gonna give me, if you give me.
He doesn't have my address.
He doesn't have my address.
He does.
That's what fucked up.
He got me an early conversation.
Early conversation, we were chatting,
he said, where are you coming from?
I was like, fucking long drive, stupid fucking traffic.
And then I just, like an idiot, I fucking forgot,
blurred it out.
And I was like, eh.
You hit your exact address when you told me you were there. Well, no, I could actually figure it out. 10 square miles. He couldurted out. Yeah, I was like Oh, you hit your exact address when you tell me I could actually figure it out
That's where miles could figure it out
Here's what I'm trying to say if I have any stalkers out there who still believe that I'm a secret federal agent
Yeah, this guy right here. He has all the information
I do and you know what he doesn't like he doesn't like having rats put on his tummy sure with a with a big
Mixing bowl on top and then a candle lit on top of that to heat it up
That scares the rat so it has to crawl its way out. Yes, that's what guard on Jays do what that's what guard on Jays
Do right guard man?
So here we go here we go. Here's the thing right here guard on J is a Sixers position
Three deflections a game. Yeah, he's the he's on the he's on the I'll tell that's right
Next time you sit down on a podcast in a random park and you tell people what you do for a
living, just fucking tell them you're a guard, Monjay.
Yeah.
Just tell them.
Because I don't know what it is.
No one does.
No.
So do you do more beyond salads and sushi and stuff like that?
Did you go get trained for classical cooking and anything like that?
No.
Is there a job you fell into?
Before I worked there, I worked at food trucks and shit.
I'm originally from the Poconos.
OK, nice.
Really rural, not like anywhere you'd ever hear of.
But I worked at a food truck, stuff like that.
So they just kind of hired me on a whim.
Yeah.
Because I was like, yeah, I have some cooking experience.
Sure.
You know, I was awful at it.
I worked in restaurants for nearly 20 years.
Yeah, it's awful.
So that's like everybody's fucking.
It's awful.
That's why I was asking because some guys,
some guys end up on the line
and you just happen to be cool.
You happen to be like somebody likes you,
you work your way up, you're saying like
onto the line cooking stuff like that.
And then the head guy, he just has a good connection
to Coke.
Like that's where the head chef usually,
he's like, I got a good connection to Coke
and I stole my girlfriend's fucking recipes
and now here I am.
The true line guy, yeah.
Yeah, the true line guy.
That's definitely, that's why he's the head
of the line cook.
That's exactly right.
He's the most qualified, you know?
Stealing recipes from your girlfriend
means you're more qualified than most people
in the kitchen industry.
Yeah, and it's-
Yeah, 100%.
100%, yeah.
Oh, dude, there's the biggest, listen, I love him.
I love him.
I never look back, but like the fucking,
when people are arguing about like, who would you trust your kid with? Would you trust your kid with a trans woman? Yeah, with a line. I love them. I never look back, but like the fucking when people are arguing about like who would you trust your kid with?
Would you trust your kid with the trans woman? Yeah, well line cook fuck no
Absolutely not yeah, so the last restaurant I worked at our fuck
We had this we had this line cook named Vinny, and I didn't know I didn't know he relapsed
Halfway through the shift. Oh shit any and like I didn't know what was going on and like I'm like
He's starting to act weird.
And it's like the end of the night.
And then we got fired Vinny dude, he relapsed.
And like, I finally, I looked behind the line
and he's got the fucking crazy face
and he's like leaning all weird.
And I'm like, fuck, we got rid of Vinny?
I was like, yeah.
I'm like, all right.
And I went over like, Vinny, I was like,
you stole me 10 bucks.
And he's like, oh shit, yeah.
And he gave me like 10 bucks.
I was like, cause I gave him 10 bucks to ride the bus home.
Like a week prior.
And I got it. I've never been prouder in my life to get that fucking ten bucks back because I was like that shit
That that might have been the ten bucks that did it to fucking yeah bus huh ten bucks
I'm saying as I think he needed I think he didn't need the bus at all
I think I wanted ten bucks he got over to Kensington. Yeah
It's before Venmo.
I think you could buy the bus.
And it was as small as Bill had.
That was a serious one.
Yeah, that was a serious one.
The way Seth was being funny.
It was more he owed a bus.
I was cool with Vinny.
I was like, ah, Vinny's a good guy.
Like, you know, he bought a lot.
I didn't know.
And now here he was.
That was a fun comparison.
A trans person and a line person are two people that,
too many people are worried about
what they're doing in the bathroom.
Yes, that's a good, you know what?
Yeah. That's a good joke. Thanks know what? That's a good joke.
Thanks man.
That's a good joke right there.
I like that you called them line persons.
Yeah, that's exactly right.
Thank you for that.
Just kind of one of those cool kind of guys
who just kind of takes it as it comes, you know,
something like that.
Anyway, you're a guard, you're a guard, you're a guardisil?
You're a guardisil for the cervical cancer?
I guess so, no, I mean now I'm a painter
for the past like two months or so.
So how's that been going?
What's like, how's that, how's that look like
on a day to day basis? Are you out here just kind of like, shocking and jiving? Yeah, I'm just kind of like a street two months or so. So how's that been going? What's like, how's that? How's that look like on a day to day basis?
Are you out here just kind of like?
Yeah, I'm just kind of like a street vendor more or less.
I come out, I'm normally in the exact same spot.
I'm sure the camera guy will get it.
It's right here by the fountain.
Sitting on the corner of the fountain,
just selling random abstract paintings.
And I just started doing it maybe like a month and a half ago.
And I've gotten, wow, I've sold like five or six.
That's fucking awesome!
How much do they retail for typically?
I tend to work with people because you never know like if it's like a college student or something
they don't know like you don't know how much money they have.
I'll be like hey I want like 60 for this and then we'll negotiate.
So it'll be like maybe I'll get 50 for one or something like that.
Do you ever worry that the art is going in like a sex dungeon or somewhere nefarious
I would think about that all the time honestly
That that makes it sound better. Honestly. I think that's pretty cool. Yeah, yeah, that'd be pretty cool. That's kind of nice
I like that. They're putting their own kind of art on top of it. Yeah
Maybe yes coming all over them and stuff like that
My bad, remember we're friends we're friends we hate these guys yeah I'll give you his
address thank you yeah I'll wear a dress how about that
yeah all right painting for two months I yeah I've been selling them for yeah no
I've been painting for years but I I mean just selling them, you know,
because otherwise they were just sitting around my house.
Do you have a website or a Pinterest?
No, I kind of just post everything on Instagram.
On Instagram?
What's your Instagram handle?
Say it right into the camera.
David Dietzsch, David Dietzsch, D-I-E-T-S-C-H,
is how you spell the last name.
German.
Yeah, German.
It literally translates to, as to denote a German person.
Oh, really? Yeah, yeah, so your name is David the German
Nothing wrong with German painters
Quick both my parents were Baptist
Just found your new Instagram handle David the German is so much better than you.
Listen, and honestly right now in America
that might do really fucking good.
You might pick up a whole new audience.
I went to University of the Arts, so I had to drop out.
So I'm a German art school dropout.
Good Lord, dude.
It gives the people out there more reason.
All right, now here's my question.
We have World War III coming up.
Please, we have a server there, dude. Please, hold on, hold on, hold on, time out to buy my paintings. We have World War III coming up, please don't serve in there, dude.
Please, hold on, hold on, hold on, time out.
David the German.
Yeah.
Are you mostly painting landscapes?
How are you on perspective?
I'm awful at perspective.
Ah, we're doing it again, we're running it back.
We're running it back, here we are.
First they come for the homegrown.
Yeah, yeah.
Ah, fuck, dude.
I hate that goddamn poem.
I fucking hate that poem
Oh, I'd like to extend my divas gratitude to your absolutely
You were great. Thank you. Yeah, thank you so good luck with remember this member these smiling faces when you turn you should
Grab a couple paintings and bring them over actually you really should yeah
Absolutely absolutely I can't know we'll keep rolling
Holy shit yeah, I burns my house down. I am gonna be royally pissed. Yeah
Yeah, you know how they always have that joke where it's like would you kill baby Hitler? I think we got to kill
Young adult I'm not I'm not comfortable with that joke in today's
Political and violent environment folks time stamp. I'm kidding. I'm very comfortable with that
Saying for no, I'm just I'm actually just physically uncomfortable. It's so
The element it is mid-april This feels like when I went to an opening week game. Yes.
With the Phillies and I underdressed
and I wore the wrong socks
and then I paid $29 or whatever it is
for like some special Philly socks
and I was wearing like fucking Converse's
because I wanted to look cool.
Yep, yep, yep.
With my mom.
Yeah.
It's fucking crazy.
I just had a similar thing.
I just got ankle socks for the first time in years
and I feel like I'm a totally different guy.
Really? Oh yeah. I'm not wearing them right now because I'm not totally comfortable. I wore them a similar thing. I just got ankle socks for the first time in years, and I feel like I'm a totally different guy. Really?
Oh, yeah.
I'm not wearing them right now because I'm not totally
comfortable.
But I wore them the other day, and I was agile.
David the German is back.
Let's go.
David the German.
OK, here we go.
Give us the full rundown.
Give us your interpretation.
Give us your full kind of, in like a 10 second or less,
your pitch on each that you're going to show us.
All right.
Well, I mean, I do abstract art, so there's not really
much of a pitch.
You know, I know.
Yeah, but what does it mean to you?
Yeah
Uh, it's whatever it means to the person buying it
Sweet, okay, that's the art there, the customer's always right
The customer is always right
So I got, you know, I got like this, I like to build like texture and stuff like that
And just do weird abstract shit
What's that one called? Do you have a name for it?
Understanding Loss
Understanding Loss?
I put down my cat recently and that was the thing that they sent me. They sent me like some fucking pamphlet.
Again, we're gonna fix your resume here. You create content and you slay pussy.
Oh yeah. Well. Alright. We're gonna fix your fucking resume. We're gonna fix your outlook on the world.
If we're lying here then we can say slay pussy.
What do you think a resume is but lies?
That is basically half of what I do like, you know, you guys say tell a story
I when someone walks up I just I just spew bullshit out and then they buy a painting
Surrounded by life Park
This one this one actually does have a little bit of a story. You got the
little creature here. And then you got the chaos all behind. I'm going to Rorschach that
and call that one Pikachu suicide. It looks like he's taking one to the back and it's
the back of his brain. I think you might get a buyer on Pikachu suicide. I don't have that.
Pikachu suicide. I'm going to have to call it that you take memo yeah
You know what maybe I will venmo
Dude I mean he got he's the one who he's the reason we have JD Vance,
so fuck that guy.
Oh damn.
Yeah, he paid for it, yeah, it's pretty brutal.
Alright, I'm gonna throw this one, hold on real quick, I know he's a painter that dropped
out of art school, but like if he's anti Peter Thiel, then we might actually have the good
painter.
Okay.
He might be the good German painter over here.
His politics are lining up good for us right now.
If he gets a shepherd dog though,
we gotta be worried about after the cat.
Maybe, maybe, I don't know.
What are your thoughts on public transportation?
Oh dude, I love public transportation so much.
I think it's a very important thing.
Okay, I like them.
I just hate driving.
Okay, gotcha.
I'm scared of most vehicles.
So building a giant, massive highway system. Yeah, fuck that shit. All right, allcha. You know, I'm scared of most vehicles. So building a giant, massive highway system.
Yeah, fuck that shit.
All right, all right.
Yeah!
David, David.
Anytime I've been behind the wheel of anything,
I've crashed it, so it's just public transit all day.
It's just, it's so much better.
What we got next here on the paintings?
This one, oil pastels that I kinda just scraped
along the thing, and then just drew some like,
child-like little fuckin' trees.
Yeah, I like the cube up top,
that's how I used to draw that a lot in math class.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, yeah.
Some of these are really low effort, but it's like,
someone will buy them, someone buys them.
It doesn't matter, dude.
I've been to the art museum, they put three lines on something
and they're like, here you go.
But not only that, you only have to have two good,
because listen, you're going to sell like one or two a day, right?
So you're going to have to have two good pieces,
you have the rest, fill it out.
But also, much like a strategy, right?
Who do you stand next to when you're trying. But also, much like a strategy, right?
Who do you stand next to when you're trying to look good?
Your ugliest friend, right?
So put a shitty one on both sides,
put the one you're proudest that you think
you're gonna sell in the middle,
and then bing bang boom.
I think that's right, I think it's exactly right.
Marketing.
Yeah, absolutely.
It's all about marketing.
And then I've started doing some collages.
I like that one, let me see this one.
Thank you so much.
Give me this one.
What we got here, we got a? Hold on, we got a robot.
Yeah, we got a little robot.
So I went to,
I go to a lot of like local house shows and stuff like that.
I was running doors at the Philly style pizza up by Temple.
They do shows.
I was running doors there.
The other people who were running doors
were doodling all over the box.
So I just stole the box.
And then you ripped it up and then I ripped it up
so I can collage them on there.
Yeah. I like that one. That one's cool. Use the paint as glue and stuff like that. Yeah, what do you call this one?
Fucking am I to fear cuz that's what I wrote on there. There you go. That's alright
And then there's a Walt Whitman quote on there cuz I have no clue what to write half the time
I'm not a writer. I'm a painter. I thought you just like bridges the Jersey. So I just yeah, I just
I'm a painter. I thought you just like bridged the jersey.
So I just, yeah, I just,
I just flipped to a random Walt Whitman quote
and I just got to, I discovered myself
on the verge of a usual mistake.
Okay, doodling on boxes.
Sorry about that.
Let's do one more.
I like how you took away.
I like how you took this off.
Give us your best.
Is this off a pill bottle?
Give me one more.
Yeah, that's my Zoloft prescription.
Okay.
Everyone needs antique presents.
That is your address.
Yeah! We got him, folks is your address. We got him! We got him folks, thank you.
We got him.
What's this one?
This one's very similar, I made it in the exact same day.
This one's like a little, I feel like you'll enjoy that
cause it's a little, it's a little portrait of Philly.
Oh yeah, we got Philadelphia salt.
If you really want to judge my cheese steak order,
you can, but that's just a random receipt that I had.
I'm gonna go, is that from Wawa?
No, that's from the poppy store down the block.
Got it. I'm proud of you. I'm proud of you for going to the poppy store.
Scoop roll. Yeah, yeah, you scoop the roll, you know. Sometimes I get a little bit of mayo on there, you know.
That's low carb, yeah.
Get some fries, get some fries and get some honey mustard on the side, you know.
Scoop roll, white American mayo, light ketchup, oregano, pepper seed. That is poppy store order.
I'm not very proud of the white American. I'm not very proud of the white American.
I'm not very proud of the white American.
I can tell that because you're a painter
in Rittenhouse Square.
I knew you weren't proud of white American just from that.
Okay?
You had no receipt.
But the thing is, that's the cheese they give for free
at that Poppy Store, so it's like,
you know, I don't really have a choice.
Your receipt does kind of sound like a new age boy band.
It's like, we got cheesesteak, we got white American,
we got mayo and light ketchup, and oregano on the ones and twos
Peppers
Italian cheesesteak
And you got any of the new ports up here in the corner
Okay, you know smoke I I do but okay, you know normally's just, I bump cigarettes off people in the middle of the park.
Gotcha, I don't smoke.
Was that the guy from two years ago?
No, no, no, no, no, it was a different,
it would be incredible.
I'm pretty sure that you were like 12
when that story happened.
Probably.
All right, that story was from 2011 or 2012.
Damn, yeah.
Holy crap.
Put some time in in Philadelphia.
Listen, I put my time in here,
and then I'll be telling you as you get older,
you know what happens?
Is you don't feel it until one day your knees click.
And that's it.
One day your knee does a click, and you're like,
that's not a young man's game.
The knees click, no place like home.
Yeah, that's how it goes.
Then instantly I'm like, what time's that party start?
8.30?
Fuck you.
Holy crap.
I don't even like you as a parent.
Thank you so much.
No, thank you, Dave.
Thank you.
David Sherman, we appreciate you. Thank you so much. No, thank you, David. Thank you.
David Sherman, baby.
Very fucking awesome.
Thank you so much.
If any of the viewers out here come to Rittenhouse,
you'll probably see me.
Don't harass me, I'd prefer that.
Yeah, he's right over here by the fountain.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but you know.
If anyone harasses me, I have your address,
so it's like, I can just blame you guys.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Perfect, very awesome.
Grab your favorite scooped cheesesteak,
bring it to written house,
and sit across from the starving artist and eat it.
And that in itself is its own art piece.
It's performance art.
It's performance art.
That's beautiful.
That's a beautiful idea.
Yeah, and then you can add performance artists
to your resume.
That's true.
And when people ask what you do,
you're a content creator who is also a performance artist.
Wow, you guys are brilliant.
Brilliant. By you guys, you mean me. Yeah. They haven't said artist. Wow, you guys are brilliant. By you guys you mean me.
They haven't said shit.
He's literally commandeered this entire podcast.
It's his now. I really enjoy this.
This is just how that goes. But thank you so much.
You've been awesome dude.
Absolutely. Good luck with everything.
Thank you so much.
I think we got another one.
You want to come on?
Hell yeah.
What is going on dude?
How you doing?
Pop those on if you'd like.
Oh wow.
Come here, we just kinda, we kinda just joke around dude.
Whatever's comfortable.
Yeah, I think they're like double sided.
They're both on the same side.
Yeah, they don't really make a difference.
I'm sorry.
What's up?
Hey, how are you?
What's going on?
What's your name?
Charles Nathaniel.
Charles Nathaniel.
I'm thinking about changing that because I'm also an artist.
Starving I am not, though.
Cool, what type of art do you make?
What type of art do you make?
I'm a musician.
Musician, awesome.
I make beats.
Oh, really?
So you're a magician for a second.
I was like, damn, you're going to make a beat up here?
No, no, no.
Well, kind of a magician.
Yeah, listen, when you do it right,
that's the thing with music,
is you can take people to a different place with it.
So what type of, do you make them on the computer?
Do you use a drum base?
So I use a digital audio workstation, FL Studio.
So basically it's like a sequencer,
a playlist and a score.
You can do a lot of different things with it.
It's very versatile, easy to use, very user friendly.
So, yeah, like I guess I started making music when I was in seventh grade.
OK, we had a class project.
Yeah. Were you were you learning like an individual instrument back then?
Or is it where you guys getting into like the actual beat making back then?
So it was actually science class.
OK, so we were learning about waves.
Okay.
Yeah, like troughs and dips and stuff like that.
And we were learning how the different types of waves
and like different mediums of like,
so you got like water, sound.
And so for our class project, our final was to make a beat.
Okay.
So we had a teacher come in and install the Reason,
that's another digital audio workstation,
Yeah.
on all the laptops, and for the final we had to like,
just make and complete a beat.
Okay.
So it was pretty fun.
And that's what, that started it for you.
Yeah, that pretty much started everything for me.
Do you remember what the beat sounded like though? Was it just like it
was terrible? It was her first beat ever. Yeah, I don't have it at all. Um, like,
I'll give. Can I give you a sample and you tell me if this is any good? You
tell me this is a solid beat because I'm a bit of a beatboxer myself. Okay,
Alright, here we go. Alright.
Is that the RFK remix?
That's the RFK remix.
You know, some of my better stuff.
You can keep that too if you want to take that by all means.
I'll sample it.
So how is it, making beats in the modern age,
like is that like the SoundCloud era?
Like are you noticing that people are getting like
their beats that they make themselves?
Are they getting like poached a lot?
Or are you, there's kind of like a financial transaction?
How's that look?
Beats now, the beats made at the TikTok,
are they still on SoundCloud?
Like if I drink.
The thing with like, alright being a producer is,
it's fairly, I can't even explain it really.
So we're at the age of the producer.
So like right now, you know all these, like a lot of different artists are coming out,
they're rappers and like, they're pretty much all kind of the same as to where the
beats used to be kind of similar.
Now it's like like as long as you
got a hot beat you know you can pretty much say anything.
Playboy Cardi is a prime example if you ask me. Well I mean Playboy Cardi he's
he's came a long way so like you got to kind of like do your go do your history
I'm not gonna say research, but he has an aesthetic
and a style where it's like, it's lame where it's untapped.
Yeah.
Whereas he uses rock and roll genres and style
to perpetuate his music.
Yeah, but he also incorporates a lot of gangster music in me.
And he's kind of followed that young thug model
where a lot of times they're making their own beats
with their vocal inflections.
A lot of times they're their own beat.
Their vocals definitely have a lot of movement in there.
They're, what's it called, they're ad-libs.
They definitely have a lot of life to them.
Where they can, like you said can be pretty much the song.
So when you're making beats, are you using a drum pad yourself or are you finding samples
from different places or pulling stuff together?
What does that look like? Um, honestly, starting out is really frustrating because you might want to do something, but
you're only capable of doing one thing.
So like when I first started out, I always wanted to sample, you know, J Dilla type style. And then I got more into like the trap.
Oh God.
Like the Southern like,
Yeah.
Very like big orchestral sounds and stuff like that.
Like the 808s, is that the right term?
Yeah.
Yeah.
The like complicated like.
What are you into now?
You're still in the trap or you're still in the.
Well, I mean like I've ventured from like every genre.
I was doing EDM for a while.
Oh, okay. Do you ever listen to Mr. Weatherall?
I'm not sure.
He's at a, I think it's Baton Rouge.
I don't know, he follows me on Instagram.
So I followed him back because I was like, oh, this guy's got a check, and he's got a lot of followers. And then now all I have is white women at Mardi Gras
just dancing the craziest way I've ever seen possible.
But yeah, it's like Badlands, it's San Louisiana,
but it has that Louisiana feel to it,
like the New Orleans feel to their beats.
And I didn't realize until more recently,
like obviously, I'm 40 now, so I was growing up, I was like Nellie in St. Louis
had a certain feel to it.
New York has a certain feel to it.
It's kind of like Go Go a little bit.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I didn't notice about how much
the beats themselves when it came down
to each individual producer are so regional.
Yeah.
So what's the Philly beat?
Is it anything like the Philadelphia sound back in the day?
So you have, well, was like a big band.
Yeah.
You know, the sound of Philadelphia, like the stylistics and stuff like that, those
are like pretty staple like sounds.
You know, the roots, they're really big like.
Is Drill pretty big in Philly right now?
The rap scene anyway?
They have like, well, Drill started in Chicago. Yeah.
And then like when it, when you're talking regional, I guess the style of the bass,
like how it's scored on a track is like basically um kind of how you differentiate the sound.
Drill, I'm not gonna say I'm not a big fan of it like
I definitely listen to it. I think you just said it. Yeah, pick it up what you're putting down.
Yeah, you know what I mean. But like, Philly Drill is more than lyrics I guess.
Yeah, Philly Drill's got kind of interesting outs.. I mean, I guess they take that shit to real life
a lot of times.
They rap a lot about it.
I mean, most of the rappers take it to real life.
I mean, from Philadelphia.
I feel like Drill in Chicago and Philadelphia
really upended an entire community and shit.
Where it's like, what was the guy's name?
Mr. Weatherall.
Yeah, I don't think Mr. Weatherall.
He's bringing people together.
Yeah, I think Mr. Weatherall.
Listen, I can't tell you. They look up Mr. Weatherall. Yeah, I don't think people together. Yeah I think listen, I can't tell you they look up mr
Weatherall and now that I've said it honestly if this if this ends up being cut into a clip on IG or
Anything else just by saying certain words it throws it into your FYP forever
Oh, but I just want to let you know that like first of all, I was like, huh
this is I stopped for a little bit because I was like the song is pretty good and
It just kept going and then I was like, huh, this is, I stopped for a little bit, because I was like, the song's pretty good, and it just kept going, and then I was like, what? What is happening here?
And then slowly over time I was like,
oh, it was Mardi Gras, it was this,
and it's just like, the dude just is having a good time.
It's like drinking, like almost like,
you're drinking, have a good time.
Yeah, it's like that, but also like,
when they have the parades, just the same way
of like what the feeling of the momer should be,
where it's like, it's the people on the big floats and they're throwing
The beads and everybody's having a good time
But you see like a mom and her three kids and then the mom just throws it back and you're like
Whoa, yeah in front of the kid and then the kid just turns my mom and you're like, holy shit
I was like, this is the fucking okay. If I didn't know the politics Louisiana. I'd move there
Yeah, but I also didn't know the sea level I'd move there
In my defense it was Mother's Day
So so I'm kind of curious as like a producer are you noticing like it seems like there's a lot of these like
Yeah white dorks who go out there and their thing now is they just remix like a Taylor Swift song and now they're playing Coachella
I give you notice that like a John Summit and like these dudes who really just
feels like they just put like
stuff you would do kind of from scratch. They're just throwing it on an existing song and next thing you know they're selling out arenas.
Well, I mean that's that's the beauty of the music industry.
Like how long do those guys last?
Right, right. Unless they come up with
another lane or like unless like because most of the time when that happens
They're usually doing something else
true, but they
Yeah, well like usually they're doing something else and then that branches out into
Their big thing now, right right and then they become like one-hit wonders or whatever and things like that
But that's what it seems to be.
Yeah, that's kinda.
Yeah, you know, like some standups do a podcast
and then they hope that carries them all the way.
Yeah, I can't relate at all.
You can't relate at all?
No.
I gotta ask, you gotta have a producer tag in this day and age.
No, you don't.
Oh, I like that.
That's the tag right there.
Yeah.
You can have a silent tag like Pharrell. Okay, the Neptune's like
So they just start the first beat four times. Yeah
Shit okay, so you're not mustering on the beat or anything. You're not doing that. No, I don't have it
I don't have a tag. So got it. I feel like I don't need it
I feel like tags are so popular now that being the guy who doesn't have a tag is actually cooler
Well, yeah, I mean
It's all it's a bunch of different lanes man. It was like you got a bunch of different stuff happening
Yeah, you got people doing the same thing and then trying to redo it
But in their own way, but it's really technically the same thing, right?
But in their own way, but it's really technically the same thing, right?
So like I got like a lot of like stuff like a lot of my work has been like
Plagiarized oh yeah, I'm just gonna say plagiarized or whatever yeah, so
A lot of your stuff in plagiarized. Yeah. Yeah, they might get stolen all the time. It sucks, but like honestly
It once you post it, once you post it you post it, you know it's gonna get grabbed. But in the beginning, it feels like,
fucking, fuck this person.
Oh yeah.
But then you think about it and it's like,
you know what, actually I'm kinda flattered.
Yeah, of course.
Because if you think about it,
the people who are actually watching,
they know your work, they know your style.
So you honestly get looks from...
But that's why you gotta do... The people who actually really matter. But that's why you gotta do producer tags all over it. Yeah. They know your work, they know your style. So you honestly get looks from the people
who actually really matter in that industry.
But that's why you gotta do producer tags all over it.
Yeah, but I feel like it's not necessary.
No, no, I know, but I work in social media,
I do a lot of content, stuff like that,
my shit's being ripped all the time.
So when I was really trying to grow my name
and stuff like that, what I discovered
was just putting a watermark on the video,
just like my handle.
And just like having that real basic thing on there as these guys were ripping me off.
And they had to go, I had to make them work for it.
Because I turned off downloads for a while, I turned off a bunch of other stuff.
I don't mind as much anymore, because the one thing with the internet, and I don't know
if you have this feeling, when you make a piece of content a piece of art a piece of
anything once you release it it's not yours anymore it's all my it is
monetarily great of common license yeah yeah but it but I'm saying in general
though like the way that Dave the German the artist that was here he was like I
was what do you call this piece is that what is this about he's like whatever
person who views it it's kind of like that in that same way of like I can say something, I can say a joke, I
can say a rant, I can do things a certain way and hope that it is
interpreted that way. But I also am quite aware that somebody else will grab that
shit and cut it up and make me say a whole other sentence. Which is the part that's crazy
which I don't like. Yeah yeah yeah. And with AI and shit like that,
that's where my wife and I have been having
a bunch of conversations about it.
She goes, what happens if one day you open up Instagram
and you're selling fucking pots?
And I'm like, they're gonna pay me
to sell those fucking pots.
But that's the thing is right now,
because we saw it happen to Gordon Ramsay.
No, I didn't see that.
I fucking went TikTok.
You guys wouldn't have seen it.
One day I opened up TikTok and every third video
was a fake AI video of Gordon Ramsay selling knockoff pots.
Damn, get the fuck out.
And it was like, it was so crazy as I was going through it.
And I've seen this happen to like other content creators.
I've seen it happen to like smaller influencers
and stuff like that, where they take it
and they chop it up real crazy.
And then when you see it, it doesn't have a lot of views,
doesn't have a lot of likes, doesn't have anything, but it's like just enough.
Yeah.
And they blast it across like a thousand channels.
Well, that's on a lower level. So I sell merch for Crossing Broad.
Yeah.
And I had a good shirt that went out. It's an AJ Brown, like kind of a
reading rainbow kind of shirt.
Yeah, yeah.
I used to see it all the time and people were sending it to me all the time.
Hundreds of different people just put it all the time and people were sending it to me all the time.
Hundreds of different people just put it on there,
put it on their TikTok and being like,
hey, you can go buy off the TikTok shop for $10, $15
and everything.
So this wasn't even a TikTok shop.
That was the part that was crazy.
This was just like, hey, like they paid for ad space.
Like it was great.
Like when I saw it, like how it hits, it was wild.
But like one of the things is that for me
is always trying to protect as much as I can.
So at least that when, I don't want people to hear something
and think it's from me is more what I'm worried about.
Because I've seen this happen to quite a few people
where it's like people get used to you putting
a certain output of content, maybe you take a week off
or you come back and then you're like, wait, people think I said what?
And not even like because they misinterpreted something
because somebody has chopped some shit up,
or even worse, I've had people pull a video
from two years ago and release it today type of shit.
And it's like, I'm talking about a completely,
listen, the world of 2022, that was a good world.
We didn't know how good we fucking had it.
You can't take 2022 Pearlmania and drop him in 2025,
all right, because now it sounds like I'm aligned
with a lot of different forces.
I love our old white senile president.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, that was Delaware senile.
That was a lot different than Florida senile.
True, true, true, yeah.
All right?
Yeah, our thin True. Yeah. All right Yeah
our thin skin desperate
That's still been something have you guys seen the video of like
The like so this is like an AI video. It's a music video by the Dole brothers
I think it's I think this to me, but they do it's like all the world leaders and they're like partying and drinking and stuff
But it's like AI. Yeah leaders and they're like partying and drinking and stuff, but it's like AI. Yeah. Yeah, and it's really
This is fucking hilarious. Oh with Trump Gaza Trump Gaza. Yeah
No, I listen I've been getting right now ever since the the tick-tock ban and like the change in the algorithm
I get nothing but Trump AI videos and
Goddamn, they try to make him look cool and big
It's like Trump leading an army like through the desert and they're all waving flags.
What the fuck is this?
And I scroll like three more,
and then it's just like Trump driving a truck.
I'm like, why?
And then you go to the comments and the comments are AI.
And because the thing is, is a lot of people don't realize.
Yeah, a lot of those are bots.
So many of them are bots.
And then I'll see, if you go to, on TikTok especially,
if you go to any news, any news, it doesn't matter, MSNBC, Fox News, CBS,
any of these fucking things,
if you're in there early enough,
you'll see a comment that'll have like 95 likes
and people will be arguing with it.
And it's, you can read it,
and then go read the fucking caption of the actual video
or listen to what the actual video said,
and then go back and read it,
and you realize that's an AI written fucking comment yeah and then when you click on
the person's profile like this is a porn bot like this is a fucking porn bot and
like I saw one today and it was like Pam Bondi talking about Sue and Maine
because of trans people playing sports and then there was this comment we have
to protect women and then there was like a hundred people screaming you're fucking
gonna kill you I hate you and then I click on the person
I'm like that's a porn bot
But on tik-tok I can't say that's a porn bot because then I'll get a fucking no
Yeah, you'll get horny and you'll get a comment
Yeah, but no and then I'll talk about it look at the pictures But here's the the thing then you look at the pictures like these aren't even she's not even a real girl
They're AI pictures of the girl like these aren't even fuck. She's got six fingers. I mean hot yeah
She's got six fingers. It's snowing in Tahiti. What the fuck are we doing here?
Good on you for
Realizing she had six fingers. There's no fucking chance. would. Her knees were, listen, I wouldn't notice,
but her knees were too sharp.
You gotta be careful though, because if that's that video,
like Pam Bondi talking about like trans people,
if somebody comments like, she's not a real woman,
it's like, that's exactly what you're saying.
Yeah, I know, I know what that's what I'm saying.
No, that's a fair point.
That's what's so crazy.
It's like, hey, there's so many layers of the internet now
where like, you can think, like,
that's why it's so important to be like outside and just talk to people and like even random strangers
Yeah, just to find out because like just doing what you guys are doing honestly
Would you guys what these guys are doing right here is is a mitzvah?
All right, somebody has some glass. It's a term. It's a term that I learned from their last guest before nearly burned alive
It's a term that I learned from their last guest before he was nearly burned alive by a meth head.
But the fucking...
That could be your producer tag, by the way.
Just a quick L'chaim before your beat starts.
Yeah, listen, listen.
You want the bar mitzvah?
My friend, he's Jewish and he makes beats too.
Listen, I'm telling you right now.
Stripping a bank?
No, no, you want the bar mitzvah crap, okay?
Trust me.
Do you think the Black Eyed Peas are good?
I'm pretty sure I have the bar mitzvah.
All right, they threw it.
No, no, no, I'm saying they threw in that L'chaim in that one song, you know what I'm talking about? Oh yeah, they threw, no, no, no. I'm saying, I'm saying they threw in that Lahayim
in that one song, you know what I'm talking about?
Oh yeah, they did.
No, no, black eyed peas, they had it somewhere like,
you know, the.
I'm gonna be a good night.
Good night.
Oh, that's what it's gonna be.
Yeah, in that, in that, they have a line,
where out of nowhere they just yell, Lahayim.
The reason I know this is my wife used to work
at a bowling alley here in Northeast Philadelphia.
They got a lot of bar mitzvahs.
That song is played at every fucking bar mitzvah.
You get all these 13 year olds
It would come on and they all know that in the middle of this pop song everyone yells lahayim. It gets played every
Fucking bar mitzvah. It's played at every Jewish wedding. I won't repeat right. It's like Bruno Mars should be there
I mean, I'm not sure be around. Yeah, like a Bruno Mars song from fucking ten years ago. Yes carry it forward
That shit's still good. That shit still rocks. Yeah, but the black eyed peas with Fergie. Yeah, put up at a bowl Mitzvah. You're gonna rock out
Oh, yeah, you just throw a lime in I'm telling you that should you could be DJ Laheyem
Write this down
I'm fixing people's resumes
Yeah
What's your handle on everything though?
Charlie with the Beats.
Charlie with the Beats?
Yes.
Okay, Instagram, Twitter, all that?
Yeah, so you can just go to Google CWTB215
and it all pops up.
Okay, sweet man.
The good, the bad, the ugly, everything.
Love it, man.
Love it, man.
Well, thank you.
Yeah bro, thank you so much.
Nice conversation with you, man.
Really appreciate it.
No, really appreciate it.
I'm gonna check you out.
Yeah, please. Me too. Thank you. If you guys need any work done, let me know. I'm not a plastic surgeon though, so
Disclaimer on that one. Thank you. Thank you. Good luck to Charlie with the beats. My hands are frozen
Yeah, we yeah, we probably got room for room for one more if you're cool with it. I'm down for whatever just just yeah
This guy's been waiting with the dog. You're the damn man thanks for hanging out. Well of course we
appreciate you. Listen am I home right now with the baby screaming in my ear while
Miss Rachel's playing on in the background? Sure. We love a Miss Rachel by the way.
We love a Miss Rachel. We love a Miss Rachel. Wow she's so... We got this one the dog on the
dog on the pod. Dog on the pod. Dog on the pod. Dog on the pod. Dog on the pod. Yes sir, dog on the pod. Dog on the pod. Dog on the pod. Dog on the pod.
Dog on the pod.
Dog on the pod.
Dog on the pod.
Dog on the pod.
Dog on the pod.
Dog on the pod.
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Dog on the pod.
Dog on the pod.
Dog on the pod.
Dog on the pod.
Dog on the pod.
Dog on the pod.
Dog on the pod.
Dog on the pod.
Dog on the pod.
Dog on the pod.
Dog on the pod.
Dog on the pod. Dog on the pod. Dog on the pod. Dog on the pod. Dog on the pod. now. The thing is, Crush is still non-binary. Crush could be a girl, Crush could be a guy.
Could be a gym. I think there's a Crush gym. Yeah. Hey, Crush. Hey, Crush. So I imagine
your name is Candy. There's a pro wrestler named Candy and Crush. Yeah, I'm uh, my name's
Liam. Liam? You got a microphone? Liam? Who we got? What's your name again? Liam. Liam.
Thank you. He just gave you the dog. Yeah. You want a dog? Shout out to Crush, man. He Liam? Liam? Liam? What's your name again? Liam.
Liam, thank you.
He just gave you the dog.
You want a dog?
Shout out to Crush, man, he doesn't leave.
Crush don't care.
Liam, I'll tell you this, I had this interaction a couple weeks ago.
I was at one of my girlfriend's friend's house and one of the people that we didn't know,
I went up and I asked if the dog did tricks and the person said to me, why would he need
to do a trick for you?
Do you ever speak to people like that? And thought it was mean those are my two questions. Yeah
That sounds ridiculous. I agree. Thank you. I need to hear that this crush do any tricks
Yeah, he actually can do Paul if they would like a demonstration
He can do Paul
Hello to take it to teach him that? A couple years actually.
Nice dude, nice.
What do you do for a living?
So I'm a data scientist.
Okay, okay.
Broadly, broadly.
I have a real estate background.
Okay.
So I work for a real estate developer in the city.
Okay.
And like basically.
As a data scientist or no?
Yeah, pretty much.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like, you know, in real estate,
it's really important to understand, you know, the lay no pretty much. Yeah. Yeah, like, you know in in real estate. It's really important to understand
You know delay the land and yeah, so I'm the like least smart data scientist there is
I'm sure you're great. Well, let me ask you this Liam. How come I can't buy a house
Yeah, cuz I was sure do want a house. Yeah, put down your V. Look up. I would love
My own crush sitting in my backyard. I would love to have that. That's true.
Yeah, well, I don't have an answer for you.
Okay, me neither.
He already told you he's a terrible data scientist.
Terrible, terrible data scientist.
You looked at him and said,
can you fix the problem that has been
hurting America for two decades?
I think the answer's in the question.
Maybe I need to date a scientist
and then they could buy me a house.
That might be the next move, yeah.
That's right.
Yeah, well, so you could also, I mean, you could also rent.
I think there's also, you know,
like some of the rentals in Philly are super nice.
So, you know, I think there's a lot to be said for that.
So I used to work as a data analyst at a bank.
That was my day job was I would,
I used to like do spreadsheets
and read tax returns for landlords
and figure out whether or not we could do mortgages for them.
And the answer always was yes.
It was apparently.
They're like, yeah, you're going to analyze this.
And I'm like, do you like that guy?
They're like, yes.
So the answer's going to be yes.
Yeah, sure.
Great.
Awesome.
But how much of your day is taken up
by you reading articles about how AI is going to replace you?
Because that was, at the end, for me.
I try not to look at those.
You know, honestly, I just read a book about this.
I'm sure that some of you hear all the time.
Honestly, I don't.
I live with, I currently stay at home with a toddler all day.
So mostly what I hear is mama, he doesn't say dadad.
And then he slaps me in the face
and then he points at the TV and says Elmo.
Because Elmo's not on the TV.
So I haven't heard anybody say read a fucking book
in so long.
But what was the book called?
So the book is actually a UPenn professor.
Okay, shout out.
Shout out UPenn.
And it's called Co-Intelligence.
And it talks about how the biggest challenge
that we have right now is to figure out
how we can partner with the AI,
like ChatGBT basically for example.
So if you have a problem, you should be working
in tandem with ChatGBT.
So you're gonna feel like,
say you're in a spreadsheet.
Like you wanna do something, you prompt it,
you know, say hey, I wanna do this,
and it gives you the answer.
So really the idea is like making it,
making you, you know, better at your job.
Like a multiplier of your brain kind of thing.
Okay.
So they want us to be friends with the AI?
Yeah, I think so.
Not me.
No? I could never be friends with a clanker.
Whoa, dude, with a hard honor, that's great, dude.
No, I can't do it.
I can't do it.
No, no, no, no, not me.
I'm gonna put my stance right now.
What is the issue?
The line must be drawn here.
What is the issue with the clanker?
What's going on with them?
What?
What, just AI in general?
No, it's just, I just don't,
I've been, I've seen so much technological change in my
40 years on this world. Yeah that I appreciate what there's what you're saying and what that that person's saying
Which is the idea that this will be a tool that people can use
but I also know how the owners of so many businesses work and and will view both the
employee and the AI and they'll take whatever
they can away from the employee and it'll just be one person doing the job of eight.
And I know this because again, I used to work in a bank and when I was a teller, I did the
job in a teller in 2022 was doing the job of 15 people in 1980.
So it's like the addition of computers,
the addition of debit cards, the addition of online banking.
So it's back in the day,
all a teller had to do was count cash.
You had to count cash, count coins,
make sure everything fucking added up
at the end of the night.
But they actually had to know some basic accounting.
They actually had to know how to do something.
Now there's literally a cash counter. there's change, goes in a giant change
thing, it shoots out a fucking receipt. Most people are showing up because they
can't get into their online banking. So now your teller is actually just there
to help reset passwords. But at a certain point somebody looks and goes,
we pay tellers $20 an hour to be a teller, to handle money. It turns out
they're just resetting passwords.
We can go, they can call a number now and then do this.
And it's the same thing what Doge is currently doing
across the government.
And it's like that fear is really what I see
because we have this idea that we can replace
all these fucking people,
but then these people are still gonna be here
walking around.
What the fuck are they gonna do?
They're not gonna be able to afford detergent eventually. So now everyone's just gonna have cum all over their pants and they're just walking around just what the fuck are they gonna do they can't they're not gonna be able for detergent eventually so now we're just gonna have
come all over their pants yep and they're just walking around and I know
it's that what's I can tell it's already happening it does think it reeks actually
I had to throw a joke in there
the joke is the nightiles. Yeah, yeah, it was pretty dark. Well, you know, you should see him on TikTok.
Yeah, you should. It's terrifying.
So Liam, where's the best place to look in the city right now?
Is it a fish town? Is it an old city?
What's kind of the hoppin' Scott and Pop?
North Philly?
I think fish town is pretty awesome.
Yeah, it's great. Nothing affordable.
Yeah, I mean, I think you get you get like a really, you know, really good value up and up in Fishtown
It actually just just bought a house around here. Nice here in Red House area
Yeah, just like the scientists must be doing pretty well. Yeah must be
Don't know you're the worst data scientist and you can afford to live in
I don't know. You're the worst data scientist
and you can afford to live in centers.
Seriously, what's the best data scientist?
Yeah, what the fuck's that guy?
Well, I'm engaged to a lawyer so that.
Ah.
Here we go, here we go.
Yeah, he did the data, no that's a good data scientist.
That's a nice one.
You are the smartest data scientist.
That's pretty good.
Best decision I ever made.
Branded numbers, I hear you did.
That's cool.
So how's that, are you guys at like competing
intellects at all time, or do you kind of just get home
and just nobody speaks at all?
No, I think we kind of find our own lane.
Yeah, because you did sit around waiting to get on
this podcast for at least an hour, so something tells me
that I need a little time out.
You wouldn't be the only one at this table who needs
a little time out for now, so.
Sorry.
No comment, no comment, totally fine.
We love her, she's great.
Listen, keep the insults one direction, all right? I drove an hour and 45 minutes to be here and I'm cold. That's truly appreciated. This man
lives two blocks away. Also millionaire lawyer wife. Also fiance or wife? Fiance. Fiance.
Okay. Don't mess it up for me. I know we're not gonna tag you. mess it up for me. All right. Well, don't, she might watch this. Yeah, no, we're not gonna tag you.
You're gonna be safe, all right?
Good, cool.
What's the data science Instagram handle look like?
Just first name, last name?
Looks like one of Elon Musk's kids' names, dude.
It's xxxyyx.
Yeah, that's right.
You gotta throw that A-E in there.
A-E, A-E.
Your TikTok name is like user with a bunch of numbers
on the other end of it.
So, yeah.
Go ahead.
Nah, you go.
No, no, you go.
I'm kind of curious, like being in the corporate world,
the people you work with, is it like,
you can be buddy buddy, but is there something
in the back of your head that's like,
I gotta take this guy down?
Like are you constantly competing in like a friendly way,
or are you kind of like able to look past that?
No, I think it's, I think, yeah,
I think it's pretty friendly, yeah.
Okay.
At a face value, but is there something in the back of your dark, twisted head, Liam? Okay. That's going, I need it's pretty friendly, yeah. Okay, at a face value, but is there something
in the back of your dark, twisted head, Liam?
Okay.
Let's go on, I need this guy's job.
I don't think there is anything dark or twisted
in Liam's head.
Nothing dark or twisted?
I don't think so.
I think Liam's a pretty chill guy.
Pre-service level?
I think I screamed a bunch of stuff at AI
and the Terminator robots eventually to come kill us
and our cump pants, and he didn't even flinch.
He didn't, he's probably just like.
That was dark.
Yeah, true. And I think Liam is like he's got a dog named Crush.
Yeah.
He lives around the corner.
He was like, this seems like fun.
These guys seem like they're having a good time.
Sure, yeah.
And he kind of pop over here and you're, you know,
don't put all that on Liam.
I'm just asking questions.
Put it on yourself.
Somebody asked me, dude, I'm going through a lot.
I rolled my ankle last weekend.
Oh, I'm sorry.
That's okay.
Liam, do you want to answer for yourself after?
What did you nail?
No, no, no, I'm gonna be, just listen. Just like Liam's fiance, I'm sorry. That's okay. Liam, do you want to answer for yourself after? What did you nail? No, no, no. I'm going to be done. Just listen. Just like Liam's fiance,
I'll defend him in court. All right? Nice. Does she do what type of law? She's in litigation.
Litigation? Okay. Yeah. So she's very good at arguing. Yeah. So you too. Yeah. Okay.
I got you. Starting to make a lot more sense while you're sitting on the bench over there
for an hour. My wife was a paralegal and my sister's a lawyer.
And I can't fucking win.
It's just one of those ones where I've just learned,
you learn after a while of just like,
you gotta really pick and choose these battles.
And you just gotta duck and cover sometimes.
Maybe shimmy and swerve.
And that's just kinda how you gotta get through it.
My future wife's in marketing and I lose everything yeah exactly because yeah
that's just how it goes yeah because what are you gonna do what are you gonna
say when you're but when you when you know you're losing yeah cuz you know
what you know what she can do at the end of the day she can leave you and then
you're miserable that's the thing that's the nuke and you're getting jack shit
she's a lawyer that would suck no I'm in the shit stuff you think here's the
thing about my with my I don't know about Liam,
how long have you been with the fiance?
About two and a half years.
How long, how old are you now?
31.
31, okay so you had a couple years before her.
Were you single during like most of that?
Parts fit.
You remember that right?
Being single?
Did it suck
Yeah, yeah, yeah parts. I don't go back to that when I met my wife I had a I had a one-bedroom apartment with a with a lazy boy and a bucket of pretzels, and I brought her over
I thought the place is cool. It was $700 in South Philly. It was right on Snyder Ave. It was fucking beautiful
I love this apartment sure my wife walked in she said you might be be the saddest man I've ever seen in my entire fucking life.
And I think-
Being single's not fun.
Yeah, I sit down and think about it.
It's just like, there's some misery to it.
And it's just like not having somebody to be in bed
and like turn around and be like,
yeah, Dave's fucking crazy.
Yeah.
You know?
You don't realize it until you have a full fridge.
Well, it's honestly the biggest thing
is like being able to go into like bed, bath and beyond.
Having a girlfriend, you can go there, whatever you want.
When I was single, I used to have to like sneak in there,
pretend I was just kinda like looking for different stuff.
You know how long I know you,
it's been since you've been shopping?
Bed Bath and Beyond went under two years ago.
He's been trying to find Beyond this whole time.
He's walking around like, I'm at the Bed Bath, baby.
I'm at the Bed Bath, where are you?
My ankle's hurting.
Yeah.
No, it's not even that, it's just a matter of like,
just that feeling of just having somebody in your life
and somebody like a partner
or just somebody that you're going through everything with.
When you, that's the one thing.
It's just the reason why it's not like
I let my wife win every fucking argument,
but when we have an argument versus like my buddy.
If my buddy and I have an argument,
at the end of the day, oh, what's gonna happen?
Oh, I don't get to pay for fucking his lunch
because his broke ass can't fucking afford a hot dog.
True, yeah. You know? When it comes to my wife, I'm like, look pay for fucking his lunch because his broke ass fucking up for a hot dog.
You know?
Like when it comes to my wife, I'm like,
I'm looking at her, there's some winning in argument.
I just want everything to be good.
I want it to be cool and be like fine.
And that's kind of more what it comes down to.
And that's why I think Liam's a good guy
because clearly he's out here.
He knows he's wrong.
He's walking around the block in the park.
He just knows he fucked up.
Okay?
It wasn't sad. It was, listen, it had nothing to do, people are already in the comments. They're he fucked up. Yes, okay. It wasn't sad. It was listen
It had nothing to do and people already in the comments are writing a lot of things
They're coming up with a lot of they're writing a whole conspiracy theories about Liam
he just
He knows that when you run out of dog poop bags
Yeah, supposed when you come back and refill them yes, and then his wife goes outside now
She's an asshole because the dog poops, right?
She doesn't have, she's a lawyer.
She's a high powered lawyer.
And she can't just leave dog shit.
Have you seen the size of this dog?
The dog shit, that's a small dog,
but those are big shits on those types.
Proportionally, proportionally.
Proportionally huge.
Proportionally shit, proportional shit.
Of course, yes.
That's the data analyst.
He's like, that shit makes some big sense.
I actually do have something to share.
Okay, yeah.
Here we go, here we go. I guess I'll, everybody shut the big sense. I actually do have something to share. Okay, here we go.
Everybody shut the fuck up.
I'll talk now.
Alright, go ahead Liam.
Thank you.
Alright, so the other day I was talking to Katie.
I was talking to Katie, Katie's fiance.
Nice.
And I was like, what's the one thing that just really gets on your nerves?
And she thought about it for a second, and you know what it was?
Leaving the kitchen cabinets open.
Yeah.
That's a big one.
I never remember.
It's just something that I just.
Wow.
It was drawers for me.
Yeah, drawers.
Yeah, drawers for mine.
But they're tough.
Like.
Mine sucks.
Yeah, you have what you need,
and you just forget about it.
So now I have to like stop myself.
We don't do it in malice too,
which I feel like sometimes the ladies think we do it. Well, but we do it on purpose. We don't do it in Malice too, which I feel like sometimes the ladies think we do it in.
We do it on purpose.
I don't do it on purpose.
I'm just.
Now listen.
Stupid.
Listen, we're all men here,
which means we gotta come up with solutions.
So the first thing you can do
is you can go to Home Depot or Lowe's
and go get the auto closers.
Get the auto closers on there and they'll come.
Save my future marriage.
Save your future marriage.
Listen, same thing with the drawers.
You can balance them so they kind of roll, you know what I mean?
So for me, my thing was socks.
I'd come home after a hard day of work.
My socks would grab onto my leg hairs,
and it would drive me crazy.
And finally, it's like 5.30.
I just got home.
So I'd take my socks off in the living room,
sitting there watching TV.
And you're not thinking about it.
You just kind of toss them to the side.
Over time, I was just leaving your fucking dirty socks
everywhere.
We got sock
box sock box we went to like Marshall's and got this like cloth box with a lid
there's a sock box so it's okay at least bought me a week it's pretty good and
you put a lid on it so it doesn't stink and then over time I trained myself to
put them in the sock box and then slowly over time guess what I don't take my
fucking socks off in the living room you know why because I work from home now so I just fucking take them
off everywhere they just put a lid on a hamper yeah just a little hamper a lid
on a hamper yeah a lid on a hamper but it was a small one that was underneath
that we could slide underneath the couch so that would company came over they
weren't like what's with this weird box
totally fucking nuts dude I'm sorry I'm off the sock box. Just put your fucking socks in the hamper, dude. The hamper's upstairs.
The hamper's upstairs in the fucking room.
The washer dryer's in the fucking basement.
I'm sorry, Richard, you got bi-level, alright?
Some of us are just working with one floor.
Alright, it was a fucking fish town.
A great place to live, according to Liam.
I live in fish town right now.
I know, but where's the liberties fish town?
You only got one level in fish town?
I only got one level. Oh, you live in a building though.
Yeah, two beds.
Put a beautiful singer next door.
Yes, I do.
She is.
She's always torching.
She's always torching.
Just like the Gov, I remember one good thing.
Pretty good.
Liam, have you thought about just doing like the constant,
like when the cabinets open, just being like,
I was grabbing something.
Anytime she notices, I'm like, I'm getting a cup.
Can I get a fucking cup?
Put it on her.
That's really the move.
Okay, so I can't get a fucking cup you put all these cups inside the sink
That's totally fine. I can't grab one out of the cabinet
So like that true I'm fun like that, but for real are you out here because you love so many fucking cabinets open
No, are you the ghost are you the ghost from six cents?
You got crazier cabinets of Donald Trump give me that. Alright we'll catch you next time. Rain check.
What are you trying to say right now?
Leaving the cabinets open is good for ventilation.
You all interviewed Shapiro right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Here we go, he's a shooter.
You saw what happened to him after this podcast.
Careful there, mother bear.
Be careful there.
Well Liam, any parting words you'd like to share with our
audience? Do you have an Instagram? I do, I do. That's a smart man with a job. Content
has invaded the data science. Crush does have an Instagram. Crush is beautiful, Frenchy.
Beautiful, Frenchy. So it's Crush in Philly. Got it. So it's kind of like if you win the two, Crush in Philly.
Oh!
You were the fiance.
I think she bought it.
She's the brand.
My wife came up with my handle.
Pearlmania 500.
Yeah, she came up with it because we were,
I had something go kind of viral,
and she said, we should sell shirts.
And so she just like made
she made us a gmail for to be tied to like T public or one of those places to do the shirts and
Later when we decided like I'm gonna go full-time with content creation
I'm like I should have the same handle and everything because I couldn't get Alex Perlman everywhere
Yeah, I just couldn't get it
It was already a bunch of them were taken and also like there's like about 75 Alex Perlman's in America
Some of them are our ladies some of them are old men, some of them hate me. Listen because I've
we've messaged back and forth because I used to have the at Alex Pearlman
Twitter handle and they were like I'll pay you for it I am a actual journalist
and I'm like no I'm like I am I am trying to make it as a stand-up comedian in 2014 Philadelphia.
I need at Alex Pearlman.
But she came up with Pearlmania 500 for the email.
And then we were thinking, putting everything together,
she was like, well, I have this as the email.
I said, fuck it, we'll just make that everything.
So whenever somebody asks, where does it come from?
Like, fucking, God if I know.
My wife.
Liam, thank you, man.
I'll give you a doggy, buddy.
Appreciate it. Yeah, give a dog back. Maybe make sure you got the pup. my wife Thank you, man
All right, well that's the pod plug your stuff and then you've done it the whole podcast But you're really good at it. So yeah
If you want to listen my podcast when you hear me speak to my wife about everything that happens across the internet and by everything
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You can listen to it wherever you listen to podcasts or you can find it on YouTube too many tabs. Too many tabs. You can listen to it wherever you listen to podcasts, or you can find it on YouTube.
Too many tabs.
Or you can follow me across all the social media
at Pearlmania 500.
I'm on Blue Sky, I'm on Threads, I'm on Instagram.
I am not on Pinterest.
But yeah, find me everywhere,
and they'll definitely probably link me down
to show notes until one of them gets high and forgets.
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Peace.
Later.