Yannis Pappas Hour - Stumbling onto Fame w/ CUG

Episode Date: January 13, 2023

CUG was an internet influencer in the making for years. From making fun cooking content and silly videos in college in upstate New York to the now fame and fortune of his parents house in StatenIsland, CUG was making videos into the abyss for fun for years. Cug describes who his perfect wife would be, the types of dm’s he gets now from the ladies and what Martha Stewart is like. This is a fun & inspirational success story for anyone who does something for years unknown because they have a passion. Keep doing it, you may stumble into success. Take care, brush your hair.Follow CUG: https://youtube.com/@Meals_by_cugDraft Kingshttps://www.draftkings.comPromo: fumesBox of awesomehttps://www.bespokepost.com/startPromo fumesButcher boxhttps://www.butcherbox.comPromo: fumesJoin for our weekly bonus episodehttps://www.patreon.com/yannilongdaysSee Yannis live Dates & Cities belowAll tickets: https://www.yannispappascomedy.comMiami Jan 13-15West Nyack NY Jan 20-22San Diego Jan 26-28Seattle (Tacoma) Feb 16-18Chicago Feb 24-26Atlantic City March 3rdEmmaus Pa, March 4DC March 9-11Dallas March 16-18Springfield MO March 23-25Phoenix March March 30-4/1Mohegan Sun April 13-15Tampa April 21-22San Fran May 4-6Providence May 12-13Watch Yanni’s stand up special: https://youtu.be/ArlCFemEDvQJoin our highlights page for highlight clips of every episode: https://youtube.com/channel/UCfMy34qIYYy7XiRaHKO1ykwNew episodes every Friday and new bonus episodes every following Tuesday at Patreon.com/yannispappashourGambling Problem? Call 877-8-HOPENY/text HOPENY (467369) (NY), If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-GAMBLER (1-800-426-2537) (CO/IL/IN/LA/MD/MI/NJ/PA/TN/WV/WY), 1-800-NEXT STEP (AZ), 1-800-522-4700 (KS/NH), 888-789-7777/visit ccpg.org (CT), 1-800-BETS OFF (IA), visit OPGR.org (OR), or 1-888-532-3500 (VA). 21+ (18+ NH/WY). Physically present in AZ/CO/CT/IL/IN/IA/KS/LA(select parishes)/MD/MI/NJ/NY/PA/TN/VA/WV/WY only. Void in OH/ONT. Eligibility restrictions apply.$200 in Free Bets: Valid 1 per new customer. Min. $5 deposit. Min $5 bet. Promo code req. $200 issued as free bets that expire 7 days (168 hours) after being awarded. Free bets must be wagered 1x and stake is not included in any returns or winnings.Stepped up Same Game Parlay: 1 Stepped Up Same Game Parlay Token issued per eligible NFL playoff game after opt-in. Min $1 bet. Max bet limits apply. Min. 3-leg. Each leg min. -300 odds, total bet +100 odds or longer. Profit boosted up to 100% (10+ legs for 100% boost).Promotional offer period ends 2/12/23 at 11:59:59 PM ET.See terms at sportsbook.draftkings.com/footballterms Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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That was turned into a studio From an apartment It was an apartment We may do the whole episode like this I got Cooge here Now if you're not on TikTok I don't know what you're doing You're trying to hide from the Chinese government

It's not gonna work They're gonna know where you are anyway Don't fight it They know you're doing You're trying to hide From the Chinese government It's not gonna work They're gonna know Where you are anyway Don't fight it Yeah they know You're social already They know it There's no point

Like people like You shouldn't get on TikTok Because the CCP The Chinese run it They're gonna take All your information I'm like they already got it Yeah they got it

If they need it They have it They have it Everyone's got it So Kuj Blew up on TikTok I love his videos They're fucking hilarious You say a bunch of funny stuff Funny analogy Everyone's got it. So Cuj blew up on TikTok. I love his videos.

They're fucking hilarious. You say a bunch of funny stuff, funny analogies, a lot of old school Italian expressions that me and Jesse remember our whole lives hearing, you know, like your sister's ass. Sister's ass. Now, can you talk that way around your mother? Yeah, I mean, that's kind of where I got it from, my mother and father. Every other word in my household is fuck it's crazy i went to high school you fucking going to church like that

church yeah see there oh god i think i'm giving those pedophiles a dime but uh yeah every other word was fuck like this is normal in my household yeah now i found out and i was surprised um you're 25 years old. Yeah, I'm a kid. Because you're kind of agely ambiguous. You know, some people are racially ambiguous. You're agely ambiguous. I got the goatee.

Yeah. Long hair. Fucking luscious today, I got to be honest. The glasses throw you off. Yeah. That's about it. And then, you know, a little shadow. Yeah, like I couldn't pin down

What your age is But 25 makes sense Cause I read this article Where it said So you were going You were going to some High class school Something community

Something something Yeah SUNY New Paltz How you doing It's a fucking classy school Right Classy Now SUNY New Paltz

It's a good school To go to If you wanna get a job that doesn't ask if you went to a college. Yeah. We were talking before. I had friends. We had friends growing up who went to all these SUNYs from New York. We have one friend who went to Sullivan Community College. And it's like when you go to one of those schools, it's almost like a disadvantage when you go to a job interview

because I'd rather a guy if I was employing someone if they came in and they were like hey man I didn't go to college it's not for me

I just want to learn from the working world I'd be like I like this kid he's smart but if they went in and said hey I did four years

at Sullivan Community College I'd go this kid's fucking stupid why would he go to Sullivan Community College but you went to New Paltz good school decent school

good enough good enough good enough for government work yeah yeah Sullivan Community College. Yeah. But you went to Newport. It's a good school. Yeah, decent. Yeah, decent school. Good enough. Good enough. Good enough for government work. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, when you put mail in your mailbox, fuck out of here. So you went there.

Did you finish? Yeah. Got the whole degree, the whole nine. Yeah. Actually finished a semester early. You did, huh? Yeah, I'm fucking intelligent, bro. Yeah, and you went and got you were studying

accounting yeah i got one of those degrees yeah not because i liked it because i was good at it like i like numbers yeah weirdly enough i just like you know there's always numbers going on in my head yeah i don't know about what but it's just ring ring ring yeah you gotta have a brain for that type of stuff it's like a language i see that's what I love about your story is your story could not be more, it could not be more random. You got a vibe about you. You got a very good vibe. I like your vibe.

I'm supposed to be here right now. There's no way. Anyone I grew up with, they're like, what the fuck are you doing? I don't know. I'm working it out, all right? Yeah, but that's part of the charm.

That's the whole thing is it's very funny. So you were going to be an accountant and then you quit that because you like fuck this yeah so the whole time i'm in school i knew i wasn't doing accounting work like you know post school but i was like fuck it my parents want me to get a degree i'll get a fucking degree so i got one of them did a couple of job interviews got one i. I don't know how. I guess they were desperate. And five days, I sent an email 3 o'clock in the morning. I'm like, listen, it's not for me.

I quit. Thanks for the opportunity. They're like, all right, thanks for that. I'm not going to waste their time. I'm not going to waste my time. I think you made the right decision. You want me to tell you why? Well, first of all, obviously.

But secondly, I think if anyone walks into an accountant's office And hears that voice No but I hear that voice If I'm coming in going Hey man can you help me with my taxes And you're like Yeah absolutely Give me one second here Oh fuck your sister's ass

Sorry about that Fuck your taxes The fuck Yeah if My accounts go Why are you fucking Paying in checks? You don't want the fucking IRS to come down your throat

Breathing down your balls You don't know Everything about your life Yeah, you just, you know Sometimes you just need A good Jew accountant Oh, Jewish They're good for that

They're good for that Accountants, lawyers, agents Yeah What do you need? Yeah, Italians I don't know Like an Italian accountant I don't know I would Italian accountant I don't know

I would be like No I want an Italian Fucking flipping my pizza And making my chicken pommes Other than that I'm the fuck out of here Yeah So yeah I don't know

I don't know You probably made the good decision there Because people would have just been turned off And like I can't have an Italian Fucking accountant Calls himself Cush How you doing pal? What are you doing?

You doing your taxes on fucking TurboTax? Go see my guy Cooge My guy Cooge will hide your fucking money Get the fuck out of here You walked in to get a DC Yeah, you get a fucking Diet Coke He told me, what are you doing? Why are you here?

Just put your fucking money in the mattress Get the fuck out of here Trust the banks Father and mother Are they old school time? Yeah, I would say old school Out of here. Trust the banks. Father and mother. Are they old school time? Yeah, I would say old school-ish, new-ish. Yeah.

They're kind of in the middle. They didn't immigrate here. They're from Staten, Italy? Yeah, from Staten. I'm like fourth generation Staten, Italy. My parents- Wow, that's almost legally retarded. Yeah, it's stupid. My family's been there since the like, the early 1900s.

Like, Staten Island. Wow. So, like, Brooklyn is, like, fucking foreign to me. Wow. Yeah. So, like, Italians who come from Bay Ridge to buy a house in Staten Island with a little more space that's a little cheaper, your parents called them hipsters.

Yeah. Like, these fucking gentrifying fucking hipsters. These rat bastards. Get the fuck out of the neighborhood. That's hilarious. So how many times have you been off Staten Island before this? Did you bring your passport to the Bay Ridge? Yeah, yeah.

Were you like, do I need my passport? I don't know. Were you across the Verrazano? You were like, oh, fuck, I forgot. I jumped in the trunk. They don't have to know. So you quit your job. There.

And then you start, you get a job in a kitchen. Right. So I quit my job. And then I was still living in Newport. So I'm like, I need a quick job. So I just got a job at the the supermarket Just to fucking do something Hang out That was a joke And then I was like

I gotta get the fuck out of here Which supermarket were you at? It's called Tops It's like an upstate thing Oh upstate By New Paltz Yeah I lived there Not at Wegmans

No Wegmans up there? No fucking Wegmans Nah Tops I know baseball cards Tops Nah Tops Tops Supermarch

Wegmans Yeah all that Hannaford's too Hannaford is big up there Yeah Hannaford is his class I gotta be honest Yeah

Topps Shithole Did you try Did you try to get it At the classy one Nah it was too far Yeah it was too far Topps was in the neighborhood

Yeah So you're going to Topps How many days Did you work at Topps I was doing like Four days So I was doing Four days there

And then I got my old job At the deli back For like three days So I was working like Seven days a week It was crazy What am I doing? And were your parents going

Jesus Christ He's getting an Accountant degree Yeah my mother was like When are you gonna get A real job? I'm like I got two of them Yeah

I'm fucking I'm fucking making sandwiches. Don't worry about it. And then. So then you started on the side. You just started fucking around on TikTok. Yeah. So that was like 2017.

I started on Instagram, like just cooking, but not to like fucking do this shit. Right. I was just fucking around. I was like, I just want to do it. You know what I mean? Sometimes you just want to do something. It doesn't matter like what it comes out of i did that for like five years and then let's see last

july you know i started posting on tiktok a little bit threw my face in there i don't and uh here we are janice poppies what do you want to do yeah it just blew up yeah yeah that's yeah because instagram doesn't give the love like TikTok gives. No, you need help on Instagram. You need other people putting you on. TikTok's algorithm is way different. Yeah, TikTok's algorithm is all about discovery and interest. So they throw you in there.

Like if you watch some cooking videos, then they'll throw you in there. And Instagram's now changed it because of TikTok. Because TikTok said they have to. It was beating everybody so you're good at everything yeah they're a step ahead they are they are and so it started to blow up what did that feel like when the first one kind of went big were you like what the fuck's going on here yeah so i was so at this point when it blew up i I was a cook now at the new job. I checked my phone. I go on TikTok, and I'm like 99 plus notifications.

I'm like, oh, shit, that's pretty cool. So I go to the video. I'm like, oh, it's kind of doing its thing. So I kind of just was like, let me do that again. Like, we'll try. I did it, and it blew up again and then again. I'm like, I kinda got something Over here huh

Yeah And uh You know I just kept Doing that for like I don't know Four or five months And I was like Alright I'm done with this job

Quit and then I just did TikTok Without making any money Off TikTok I was like fuck Let me see what I can do here You felt something was cooking Something was cooking

Yeah I don't know if it was Gonna go anywhere But Now when you try to Explain this to an Italian American ma You felt something was cooking Something was cooking Yeah I don't know if it was gonna go anywhere But Now when you try to explain this To an Italian American ma You're living in her house at the time Are you still

I was living upstate at the time Oh you were upstate Right so I was living on my own In New Paltz Right So I just moved home in January Oh so you were up there Yeah I was up there

That was that little apartment Where the stove was up there Yeah the old school stove Yeah cause I there? Yeah, the old school stove. Yeah, because I noticed you went from the old school stove in a small apartment. Now I got some fucking classy shit. Yeah. But don't get it twisted. It ain't my place.

It's my parents'. So, yeah, I imagine, you know, money's not really an issue. You know, you're making a little money now. But money for Italian kids isn't much of an issue. It's more about It's hard to rip An Italian kid away From his home Italians love home

Yeah not me You want to get out? I wanted to get out Well I graduated college I'm like fuck that I ain't moving back to Staten Island What the fuck is that? Right

I was having a ball In New Paltz And going upstate For a kid from Staten Island That's like going to France That's far I was like This first time I realized

I was Italian. You talk funny. I'm like, so do you, pal. Get lost. Don't bother me. Fuck out of here. Yeah, kind of just hanging out there. Rent was cheap. Had a few friends and just, you know, going to the

dive bar every night and just hanging out. Yeah. It's kind of like what the life was. Very life so january you moved back home right that was like three months into tiktok full time and so how do you explain to your parents what's going on well they like because i'm sure they look at the followers they're like you know they kind of knew so i think when i quit so last year i went to the San Gennaro Fest, right? And at that time I had like 150,000 on TikTok followers. I'm like, all right. And then I was getting crazy notice.

Like everyone in the mother knew me. So I'm like, fuck, I got something here. So I went back to my job, drew in my two weeks. I was like, let's see what we can do. And, you know, I just fucking ran with it. And they were like, okay, you know. They saw, like, I had, like, a little bit of a following. They're like, how are you going to make money?

I'm like, I don't know. I'll figure it out. Like, what the fuck? Yeah, you're like, you fucking, you don't understand. Because I was at the San Gennaro. They were fucking going wild. I'm going to figure it out. They were throwing me free cannolis.

Wow. I'm going to figure it out. They were throwing me free cannolis. Do you remember which was like the last person who said, hey, Cooge, that it clicked in your mind? Were you like, fuck this, I'm quitting? Was it the first time someone recognized you at the San Jose? No.

Well, the first time I got recognized was like three weeks after my first viral video. Upstate. It was actually back in Staten Island. So I had to come back. I had like a family party. I go to the mall. I'm standing on like the Starbucks line, minding my business.

Some kid's like, yo, I watch your videos. I'm like, the fuck you talking about? I have like five viral videos. Not even five, you know, a couple hundred thousand views. And I'm like, and then he's like pulling up his phone. Like, yo, I share them to my buddies and this. You're the. And I'm like, and then he's like pulling up his phone like, yo, I share them to my buddies and this. You're the greatest.

I was like, oh, that's pretty cool. Fuck off. And I was like, oh, that's different. Like, you know, the views are actually like showing in public. I didn't think anything of it. And then a little bit more upstate, people are like, oh, you popped up on my For You page. I'm like, that's cool. And then just little by little. And then St. janelle was like the first time like a mass amount of people that's

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Is that a goal of yours to get on one of those fucking walls? I'm on a- I mean, I see it now. Fucking Bobby De Niro, Chaz Palmitari, Big Pussy, fucking Couch. I'm on John DeBlica Street Pizzeria Get the fuck out of here That's fucking big time That's huge time

I don't know if they Took it down But like Last time I was there The fucking picture Was still there That's like winning A Nobel Peace Prize

From being from Staten Island Yeah that is Fucking big time That is huge John Zablica Considered by some To be

20 out of 5 marrons. Fucking tartare. Good slice. Fucking pizza. Now, what's great about your videos, they're very funny. They're very funny. And I'm saying that honestly. I enjoy the hell out of them.

They're very funny. You're very funny. So the reviews are not really earnest. You're not really earnest about it. I don't really give a fuck about, like, how it... To me, my palate is very elementary. Right. Like, you take me to a five-star restaurant, I'm so out of place.

I don't even know how to use chopsticks. Yeah. I was at a tile the other day, aching for a fork. Yeah, because when you give it a review, I'm not even sure if it's good. You just go, yeah, yeah, oh, God, God, bacon, egg, and cheese. I'm like, you're all bacon. I don't know if you could fuck up a bacon, egg, and cheese. Yeah, that's pretty hard. I mean, I don't know. One of these yuppie joints probably can, but...

Yeah, but a good old-school bacon, egg, and cheese at a fucking deli. A way extreme bacon, a slice of cheese, a little pepper, ketchup action. Sometimes he gives it 12 out of 4. Yeah, sometimes. Whatever I'm feeling, whatever kind of comes out of my mouth. But I've kind of been veering away

from like the rating scale. I've been really veering away from like food. Like I'm always there eating the sandwich, but literally none of the context is about the sandwich. Now how much is, you can't keep saying DC without a check. Are they sending you a check at some point? I hope so.

Yeah, I mean, Jesus Christ. You've done more for Diet Pepsi. I'm Diet Coke. I'm sorry. Sorry about that. I fucking fucked up. I apologize. That was a Freudian slip.

D.C. Yeah. He calls them D.C.'s Diet Coke. Every time I'm at a restaurant, not every time, but the waiter or someone who works there, they'll just bring over a fucking Diet Coke. They get it. Yeah. He calls them DC's Diet Cokes. Every time we're at a restaurant, not every time, but the waiter or someone who works there, they'll just bring over a fucking Diet Coke. They get it. Yeah. Bro, I'm not on camera.

What are you doing? Yeah. Well, you know, I drink it anyway. Yeah. Do you really drink a DC in the morning? No. No. Sometimes.

Not really. If I'm down horrendous, you drink a Diet Coke. Yeah. Diet Coke is addictive, man. Bro, it's crazy. If I have one today And one tomorrow I'm like on a path of destruction

So like So I try only like Limit like a couple a week You know Not back to back days Yeah And I kind of just stick to water and coffee Yeah

Yeah DC There's something in the DC That gets you hooked Yeah I don't know My brother was hooked on DCs They got to be throwing heroin in there Yeah they do something in the D.C. that gets you hooked. Yeah, I don't know. My brother was hooked on D.C.'s. They got to be throwing heroin in there or something. Yeah, they do something in there. It's not good for you.

Now, a lot of the food in some of your videos. No calories. What do you mean? I wouldn't say you're a health food nut. No. Fuck no. Look, sandwich, grease. I just fucking made donuts, grilled cheese.

Like, that isn't even fucking healthy. Yeah. Sliced ham thing. Yeah, and you also, I like you have like a, you're self-deprecating. Your humor's self-deprecating. Which is. The final word. The fuck does that mean?

Self-deprecating means like, you make fun of yourself. Oh, yeah. 100%. You got to make fun of yourself. If you can't laugh at yourself, you can't laugh at others. Yeah, it's endearing. It's like it's attractive when somebody can joke about themselves. Yeah.

And you always say you got a face made for radio. And I've heard you say some funny things about your chin. Well, in high school, they used to call me Chin. They used to call you Chin? Chin. Actually, my first job, they called me Chin. Chin, and then I came back from college, and someone added Daddy at the end. Chin Daddy?

I'd walk in, Chin Daddy. I'm like, Tony, relax. You're 38 with two kids. Because, yeah, Italians will take the worst quality about you and make it your nickname. Yeah. So I had a nickname in high school. It was Danny Donuts. Your nickname.

Yeah. So I had a nickname in high school. It was Danny Donuts. It was just because I ate like a dozen donuts at like this fucking car wash drive that I was trying to, you know. I don't even know what I was doing there. But everyone kept on bringing donuts. What am I going to do? Not eat them?

Yeah. You can't not eat a donut if someone brings you a donut. All right. They're crazy. And then they called you Chin Daddy. Chin Daddy. And now it's just Koosh. Yeah.

Everyone calls me Cush. Yeah. It's funny. When people call me my real name, I'm like, what the fuck do you know me? I almost don't turn around anymore, but it's a little refreshing. Does your mom call you Cush now? No. You didn't ask her, hey, Ma, from now on, I'm fucking Cush.

No, I would hate it. Like my family, I like for them to call me my real name. Yeah. Family business separated. So you think at some point you're going to move out of my house? Yeah, I mean, I almost did earlier this year. Fucking rent is crazy. Not that it's like...

I know. It's like just a waste almost. Yeah, yeah, it is expensive. I'm moving out of my house for free. Yeah. And yeah, that's about it. Is dad still there too? Yeah.

Oh, both parents are still there. Yeah, I got a normal... Nice, normal Catholic, Italian Catholic family. Oh, I don't know about Catholic. Is dad still there too? Yeah. Oh, both parents are still there. Yeah. Nice, normal Catholic, Italian Catholic family. Oh, I don't know about Catholic. Your parents aren't Catholic? Oh, they are, but we're not, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So your generation of Italian, you guys grew up knowing what's going on in there.

Yeah. Yeah. Jesse and your generation didn't know what was going on in there. No, they didn't. It wasn't in the news yet. No, it wasn't. Yeah, we didn't make the news. We didn't make the news.

Catholic, that's a tough PR snafu. That's a tough stunt. Yeah. I mean. It's a tough, when you go to Catholic school, and they have to say, we promise we won't rape your son. Yeah.

And you're like, are you sure? Sign the waiver, it may happen. Did you go to Catholic school? I went to public up until high school. In high school, I went to Catholic school. Play sports?

You look like the athletic type. Yeah, I mean, I was on the team. Yeah, yeah. Played ball for two years and then I hung up my sneakers.

I don't want to do this. Oops. Yeah. Yeah, nice. It was fun. It was like a big part of my life as a kid And then you know Sometimes you just

You gotta like know when to hang it up You know Yeah You can't just keep forcing it It's not worth it You knew you felt it It was time It was time to just you know

You're like I'm gonna hang it up And I'm gonna get it I'm going to fucking work it What's it called? What's the supermarket? Miggy's Miggy's Well that was the? What's the supermarket? Miggy's. Miggy's. Well, that was the one on Staten Island.

That's where they call me Chin Daddy. Dude, there's a supermarket called Miggy's? Well, actually, they just got bought out like a few months ago, and they changed the name. Fucking pissed. Because that was my neighborhood. That's like the neighborhood supermarket. So when they changed the name, it's kind of like a downer.

Now, are you still in the room, or did you take the basement? No, I got the basement. You got the basement. Yeah. When they change the name, it's kind of like a downer. Now, are you still in the room or did you take the basement? No, I got the basement. You got the basement. Yeah. Upgraded. But there's no fucking bedroom down there, so now I got to walk up the stairs to take a leak. It's a fucking lot of work.

It's like the only exercise I get. Yeah. I don't leave the house too much. It's a fucking pain in the ass. It's like the only exercise I get. Yeah. I don't leave the house too much. It's a fucking pain in the ass.

Do you think Italian families get a basement on purpose knowing that my son is going to move down there? They're hoping they move down there. Are you shitting me? Yeah. My parents don't want me to leave. They want you. Of course they don't want you to leave. They don't want me there.

I'm like, I don't know. So are they giving you like a break on the rent to try to? There is no rent. There is no rent. They keep telling me like, you ain't gonna pay rent soon I'm like yeah whatever I got a ton of money Whatever you need

But When they start charging I'll give it to them I know they're gonna give it to me Right back when I move out Right So like They just don't want you

To go right now No rush You're 25 You can stay there Italian Italian's different It's dog years It's like Italian years

Yeah As aging right About leaving the house. As long as I'm like 29, you got to leave. I would say 45. I think you can stay there until 45. It's different in the Italian community, right? A lot of Italian guys, you'll know they'll have a lot of money.

You'll see them pull up in an Escalade and go right down the basement stairs. Is your mom cook good? I don't know She used to when she was She doesn't really cook too much Right Do you do the cooking in the house sometimes? Sometimes

Very rarely Yeah Like it's a treat when I go So you do a lot of Uber You order it out? Yeah So I'll go pick it up Once in a blue moon

I'll do a little grub hub action But yeah A little cooking here and there You know a lot of people from It's weird When you're from New York It's so easy to eat out It's crazy

It's like There's fucking five pizzerias in my neighborhood It's like so I need a slice Yeah you could just go I'm gonna go get a bacon egg and cheese in the morning I'm gonna go get a slice You order

There's so many restaurants around You can eat any Any Indian food Whatever you want Yeah, you could just go, I'm going to go get a bacon egg and cheese in the morning. I'm going to go get a slice. You order. There's so many restaurants around. You can eat any Indian food, whatever you want. Actually, not in my neighborhood. There's no Indians here? There's only fucking guineas. Still? Still. Yeah.

It's crazy. Like, there's no other cuisines either. Right. There's, like, very little. The only Mexican is really, fast food ones like Adoba. But other than that, like it's just Italian restaurants. It's all of Staten Island. That's the only thing that fucking exists over there.

Yeah. Italians, their holds out are set. It's a real holdout in Staten Island. Yeah. It's like the Italian Alamo. They're like, we're not fucking letting them take us. Yeah. Long Island's kind of similar, too.

There's some certain areas of Long Island where it's just Italian holdouts. You go to the restaurant and the waiter's still got vests on. Do you have a few of those? I think so, yeah. Yeah, like professional waiters. Yeah, I'm like, give it up. What are you doing? Do my chicken palm and leave me alone.

By the way, my fucking wine is low. No, I'm very nice when I go out. Do you go to any fancier stuff? Do you venture out? Very rarely. I'm so out of place there. I can't even name you a fancy restaurant in the city. Like Carbone?

That's about it? Yeah, Carbone. Carbone's class. Have you been there? A couple of times. What do you think? I think it's about it Yeah Carbone Carbone's class Have you been there? Couple of times What do you think? I think it's good Yeah

Solid They just lost their Michelin star They did I know it's great Them and Peter Lugas Well Peter Lugas I read that article Some New York Times

Famous food reviewer Smashed them That was like two years ago They got smashed By some like Famous food reviewer went in there and said this is garbage now and i think uh that really hurt him but uh the carbon lost a michelin star that's what i read to me it's fucking still banging but yeah i get better than that spicy

rigatoni yeah carbon is good class now are Now, how's the ladies' situation now? Pretty good. Fucking DMs are, like, disgusting. Yeah. It makes me not want to have a daughter, you know what I mean? I had this one DM yesterday. It was, I was, like, slap mud on my titties and call me a pig. I'm like, what?

Like, how down horrendous are you at 2 o'clock in the afternoon? It's not like two in the morning Right On like a Saturday I'm like What are you doing? Yeah Are you indulging Or are you just

You're gonna wait Until you get out You're not gonna You couldn't do that To your parents' house I don't bring them home To my parents That's classless

No you can't No You can't do that to them So you go First things first sweetheart You got your own apartment Yeah Alright we can

We can work it out Other than that Touch it It's gonna you know Ring me in about 24 months First sweetheart, you got your own apartment? Yeah. We can work it out. Other than that, it's going to, you know, ring me in about 24 months, all right? But it must be nice to be getting a little attention from the ladies. Yeah. I get attention from, like, I don't walk out of my house anymore. Because you get recognized, yeah, a lot. And I'm quiet.

I don't want to know nobody. I don't want to talk to nobody. I'll take the pictures. I'll shake their hands. I'll try to smile in there. Yeah. A lot. And I'm quiet. I don't want to know nobody. I don't want to talk to nobody. I'll take the pictures. I'll shake their hands. I'll try to smile in there. Yeah. Do one of these. Yeah.

Other than that, like. Yeah. It gets a little weird, right? Yeah. Because they like, they know you, but they don't know you. Yeah. They don't know you though. Yeah. Like, bro, I'm like making fun of myself on the internet 45 seconds a day.

Like, it's not me. You know what I mean? Yeah. The rest of the time, I'm just watching Netflix and, you know, eating know eating edibles yeah you're a pretty down-to-earth guy i like that you gotta you got like a down-to-earth quality about you very humble you're a very humble guy watch we watch he comes back in like two years he's fucking wearing like a pimp hat he's got cavalry cheese on yeah he's like what's going on the fuck, where's the brats? There's no fucking brats here? You didn't read my fucking rider?

Jesus Christ. I got a fucking rider. I need six brats. Wherever I go into a place, chicken palm, salt on the side. Which was a sliced gabagool, thin. Look at you with Martha Stewart here. Martha, she had no idea who I was. Yeah.

You're like... I love how one minute... I just love how one minute you're working at a supermarket in upstate New York, and the next thing you know, you sit with Martha Stewart. You actually, you might be the only person in history that took a shower in Staten Island and his mom's fucking upstairs, and then went and met Martha Stewart. Yeah, yeah. person in history that took a shower in Staten Island and his mom's fucking upstairs and

then went and met Martha Stewart. When you took an Uber to go meet Martha Stewart, probably the Uber driver's going like, get the fuck out of here. Because he picked you up in Staten Island. We're in a Camry right now, buddy. Yeah, it's like not normal. Yeah, what was that like? Did she give you any

Fucking inside stock tips? I wish Yeah it was like This was about The only meeting we had It was about a two minute convo Let's do this for the internet And I'll see you later

Yeah that was it It was just at like some Food festival But it was cool meeting her She's a very nice lady I gotta admit Yeah she is She caught

They really made an example At her for no reason It's like everybody does that. Do you know what happened to her? Inside of trading? Yeah, well, they said. You got to do what you got to do. Yeah, like somebody said, hey, buy this, and she bought it, right?

It's basically. Oh, that's what happened? I feel like she was like. What was it? Do you know the deal? Yeah, she got a heads up that the stock was going to go down or something like that, and then she sold. But she like shorted?

No, she sold. She sold, yeah, something like that. Shorted it. Come on. She's going to jail. Make some money. I mean, like Nancy Pelosi and her husband don't do that every fucking- That broad is one big-

She's just wheeling all day long. All day long. She's got to follow her stock tips and you'll be a fucking gazillionaire. Yeah. You're like, Nancy Pelosi, I think her government size is like $200,000, $250,000, whatever. And they're worth like what? She's a gazillionaire. Gazillionaire.

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hey, we got to get you in with Martha? No, so this is at a food festival, and she was doing some host there, doing some talking there, and I just was there for a food festival and she was doing like some hosts there like doing some talking there and i just was there for the food festival too and the people at the festival were like you want to meet martha i'm like they're saying no right so so i met mart well i met martha's like i don't know the people manager yeah and you know they were like, this is cool. She's, like, big on the internet. Whatever. Yeah.

This was kind of, like, the whole, that's kind of what I do with, like, the famous people. Yeah. Just because it's funny and easy and it's a lot less work than, you want to go cook something? Or review food? You know, it takes 10 seconds. What the fuck are you doing? Getting a hard-on looking at these pictures? Look at Martha.

She's 80. 78 years old. She's 78? She looks good for 70. I have to be honest. She was a good-looking lady. Are you serious she's 78? Not much work she's got done.

I mean, she looks good. That's a six-figure face right there. Now, yeah, I mean, you know, so when you're growing up in Staten Island, you don't come in contact with too many white Anglo-Saxon Protestants. Wasps. Yeah. She's a wasp. Now, when you got close to, you know, because they all look at the wasps, they look at all of us like

trash. Yeah. They think we're all trash. I am. Staten Island. When you got near, did she recoil a little bit From your ethnicity? Nah I don't even remember I was pretty like

I had a few drinks in me The way your career's going I think we're gonna see you like Starring with Brad Pitt in a movie I did a movie this summer It was kind of fun Yeah Oh you did a movie?

Oh you did Yeah tell us about it I don't know how much I could say It was kind of fun. Yeah. Oh, you did a movie? Oh, you did. Yeah, tell us about it. I don't know how much I could say, but I kind of play myself and then I turn into a zombie. Ah. Pretty cool.

Yeah. I think you just said it all. Yeah. So, I got a few scenes. Very nice. I was sitting in the chair for like three hours getting this fucking makeup done.

Yeah. Shocked. I was trying to read my lines that I had no idea what I was supposed to say. I'm like, can you stop fucking airbrushing me me I don't know what I'm saying I'm going on 10 minutes

What was that like It was different Yeah I mean It's very like You act for 3 minutes And then I gotta sit on my ass For 30 minutes

Like waiting for them To change the fucking camera Yeah Fucking Christ It's annoying Let's go here This is a big budget movie I mean

They had a few dollars I guess Talking Marvel? Nah It was some independent thing As we know it That's the film What's it called?

It's called As We Know It So I guess It should be out Next year Keep an eye out For As You Know It As You Know It With Cush

As he turns into a zombie He's not supposed to tell us But we told you anyway Nobody knows nothing Alright Now has TikTok Done anything cool for you Like

Flowing you out And you met like Charlie Delimio What's her name D'Amelio D'Amelio I have to legally not know

How to pronounce that That's how you do it When someone's that young Over 40 Yeah're over 40? Yeah, I'm over 40. You got to go, what's her name? Charlie Caciclio? You got to pretend like you've never taken a peek.

Nah, TikTok really hasn't done too much. I have like a person at TikTok that I talk to every month or two, and they just update me on analytics. You got to post more yeah all right pal right and like he knows i'm not gonna post more and i know i'm not gonna post more like it's hard coming up with like these funny analogies like you're a comedian it's not easy like writing jokes every day like they don't just like they do come like that but they don't come like that every fucking minute yeah why do they want you To post more

Like what does that do You already got a lot It's cause like the algorithm It looks better I don't fucking know But I seem to be doing alright You're doing alright What are we up to now

We're up to a couple mil I think I got like 2.3 on here 2.3 people I got like another 700 on Insta Did they put your Fucking picture up

In the supermarket They should be I should have my Fucking jersey with ties Chin daddy Chin daddy Now What were you doing

In the supermarket Were you the meat slicer Or what were you doing Yeah I was in the So the supermarket In college Was the one in Staten Island That's the chin daddy one Yeah, I was in the, so the supermarket in college was the one in Staten Island. That's the chin daddy one. Yeah.

Yeah, I was in the deli. And that's where I really found out I kind of like food. Yeah. Like working with food. Yeah. And I was like, oh, this is not bad. So I did that for the summers, coming home from college and whatnot. And yeah, it was great.

And that's kind of what I did at the other supermarket too. Yeah. Actually, it was the seafood guy Oh, you were the seafood guy over there? I did absolutely nothing You just stood around? I'd clock in at 8 o'clock Throw some ice in the bin

There was a bagel shop, like a five-minute walk So I'd go to the, lead the station Nobody's there Go eat a bagel Smell a little weed in the car Come back 9.30 Fill the case And then just sit on the counter

Sit And the manager would just look at me And I'm like, listen I'm not getting off this counter Come back 9.30, fill the case, and then just sit on the counter. Sit. And the manager would just look at me. I'm like, listen, I'm not getting off this counter unless you tell me to get off. You know what I mean? You're looking right at me. Right. What the fuck you want me to do?

Pay me minimum wage here if you get minimum work. So if this TikTok thing didn't happen, I don't even know if you would have ever made middle management at the supermarket. Probably not. Well, yeah. Or fucking been more than a line cook. Yeah. Thank God I fucking, it popped off. Because being a line cook is a lot of work.

That is a lot of work. People don't realize. It's like going into a sports game every day. Yeah. Being on the line, banging out 30 dishes an hour for five hours straight, that's crazy. That's why I think they do so much drugs in the kitchen, right? Yeah, unfortunately my kitchen wasn't one of those kitchens. A little bit of a downer.

Yeah, it wasn't a party scene. It wasn't a party scene. Just Cuj and a bunch of Mexicans. No, well, you know. All Italians? Nah, but you know. I mean, the kitchens are like baseball now. You got to have a few South Americans on your squad.

So we had one from Brazil. He was the manager. But he was like a real culinary guy. Went to the culinary schools, did the whole nine. And then, you know, a couple felons. That's normal. That's a normal thing. Everyone in the kitchen was a delinquent.

Right. Kitchen's always higher, guys who were in jail, right? Because it's very informal. Because no one wants to fucking do the job. Right. It's not an easy job. Right. Kitchen's always higher, guys, who were in jail, right? Because it's very informal Because no one wants to fucking do the job Right Like, it's not an easy job Right So when you're fucking at a restaurant

Waiting for your food 35 fucking minutes Relax, alright? Because that guy's getting fucking 12 an hour While the waitress is pulling in 500 a night Just showing her tits It's a little unfair, right? It's great Like, when I would hear the waitresses over talking

Like, how much they got I wanted to fucking slap them over the head yeah you're not getting your shift meal today hon it's actually kind of crazy i mean i just posted a joke i did about that uh years ago but it's kind of true like whenever i saw that with the tip yeah you hear what you you know because at one time like they do 80 of the work in the back of that they fucking do nothing i remember my i gotta deal with the people and the people definitely suck. But besides that, give me a fucking break.

They don't even, it used to be the waiter would actually bring the food to your table too, but now the runners do that, right? So it's like all they do is take your order and then come over

and say, how you doing? Hey, you need a straw? No problem. Fuck the turtles. Meanwhile, these guys are slaving away back there. So they don't get any of the tips? How does it work?

No So most restaurants At least the one at Back of the house Just Back of the house is like Cooks, dishwasher, prep guys We didn't get any tips

So most of us were salaried Or per hour And that's kind of like You get what you get There's a lot of overtime Yeah If you wanted it But me I was working 9 to 5.

I was working out at 4.58. Fuck out of here. We had a shit load up. My chef would be like, yeah, we got to do all this. I'm like, it's 4.58, pal. I don't know what to tell you. I'm going home. You know what would make a restaurant probably would give an incentive for the restaurant to be good is if you tip the chef.

Right. That's the person Who should get it Yeah They wouldn't mind But And that would be good For the restaurant

Because they'd be Making sure that those meals Are good Right Making sure that medium rare Is medium rare Yeah I mean the waitress

Is kind of actually The person who does the least They do the least They just deal with the people And you know Oh is that so hard I mean the people just go Sometimes

One out of They get paraded Once in a blue moon Once in a blue moon That's not that bad Yeah not that bad I'll take it Yeah by a couple of strangers

Who get upset Right you're never gonna see him again Yeah it's not a fucking big deal Smile a wave Move on with your life Is there a cool I'm looking down the future now I'm seeing a fucking restaurant

Fuck I just had a vision So much work But you just slap your name on it Like Donald Trump does the buildings He don't really fucking own them Yeah He doesn't know nothing

He gets to tell everybody he does But he doesn't See yeah I could do that Slap Cuj on a restaurant Hey don't show up once a month Yeah you show up Once in a while

Like salt babe Like my residuals Yeah you know he just That restaurant's a total Another scam by the way I heard it's gross Yeah I heard it's no good

It's fucking overpriced. Listen, a steak is a steak. Obviously, there's Wagyu and fucking Chop, right? But he's fucking selling like $800 sherbet. I know. Who the fuck? What the fuck is that? Well, people go there because they want to see him do that.

Yeah, he ain't even there. You're seeing some fucking slapdick waitress doing it. That doesn't even know how to, you're the last source not even on the fucking plate,

toots. WWE, your food. You know, what's funny about him is, you know, I think he's

Turkish, right, or something. He doesn't speak a lick of English. No? Didn't he even learn?

No, he's like five foot one. He wears like platform shoes, he shows up, and he just has his glasses

on, and he just hits you with the salt. Give him a lot of credit, though. He's got some gimmick going on. He's got a gimmick going on. That's what you need these days is a fucking gimmick.

L.A., every L.A. restaurant is a gimmick. Yeah. That's how they work out there. You been out there? Yeah, a couple of times. How do you like L.A.? It's all right. Yeah.

I'll go out there to work, but I don't think I could do like. It's no Staten Island. It's no city. It's no city. It's no Manhattan. There's no spontaneity over there. That was a little tough word to get out. That's a good word. That's what New Paltz will get you right there,

struggling on the word spontaneity. There you go. Got my degree. Thanks for the piece of paper. Fucking useless. So, yeah, L.A., not a big fan the weather's good it's cool to like work and like hang out i was there for like two and a half weeks over the summer doing the movie like i got used to it but didn't get used to it yeah you gotta drive everywhere yeah there's no like so they didn't

give me a car and I was only on set Like three or four days So the rest You could drive You went upstate Yeah I gotta drive Staten Island you gotta drive It's not like

You gotta have a car Yeah we grew up in Brooklyn You didn't need a car Until you were about 70 years old Yeah When you were in Brooklyn I hate driving though If I leave the

Like today I Ubered Yeah Like I ain't fucking Trying to park Now how involved Are you gonna get In local politics Like what are we going to do?

Maybe there should be some sort of Listen, whoever pays me the most I'll sell that for anybody Yeah, I mean At the end of the day There should be a direct way to drive From Staten Island to Manhattan There is no

You got to go through Brooklyn It's far though I think it's too far, no? I don't know Because the ferry is like a half hour There's no way you can build a bridge that fucking long I think it can be done Maybe a tunnel

Tunnel They Maybe a tunnel. Tunnel. They need a tunnel or something. They need something. Because like Staten Island's almost like closer to Jersey than it is the rest of the city. And I'm not just saying culturally. Yeah, well,

we're basically, no, I'm not going to say that. Fuck that. But we're still New York City. They take taxes out of my fucking thing. I'm claiming New York City.

New York City. Yeah, I mean, you know, strong New York, strong New York City They take taxes Out of my fucking thing I'm claiming New York City New York City Yeah I mean you know Strong New York Strong New York City Staten Island is like New York Old New York

Retreated to Staten Island Right It's very Brooklyn-ish Yeah It's like a lot Everyone who like Wanted to raise a family

And not have their kids Be shitheads Moved to Staten Island Yeah They just became Drug addicts instead Yeah it's like when all the gentrification happened, everyone started moving to

New York. The old New York was like, fuck this. I don't want any part of this. And they all retreated to Staten Island. They wanted a backyard. Yeah, it's regrouped. But you can expect a counterattack from Staten Island soon. I don't think Staten Island's going to stay on the base of Staten Island. They're going to fucking... Those Italians

are going to cross that bridge and they're going to of Staten Island. They're going to fucking... Those Italians are going to cross that bridge, and they're going to fucking take it back. They're knocking down every bridge, and you got to stay there. That's it. Now, do you go to Staten Island Yankee games? What's not even called Staten Island Yankees anymore? Oh, what are they? Cyclones?

No, that's Brooklyn. What the fuck? They're Ferry Hawks now. They're the Ferry Hawks. A little embarrassing, I know. Ferry Hawks? I went to two games this year Got to throw out the first pitch

At one of them They had Do we have footage of that? I want to see how you threw it There is footage Not on my page Because it did horrible So I took it down

Yeah I fucking got it over the plate No problem You know Now do you ever So you're doing less food stuff now Well there's food involved but It's less about like The chicken cutlet

And the sandwich More about Your personality Well yeah Whatever joke It's kind of You know there's like a topic of every Of every video

So the other day I did like Chinese food Big Friday night out Was me eating Chinese food In the car I saw that one Yeah So that's kind of like the topic

And then the cooking ones Are obviously still food But I'm still You know Cracking jokes Now you threw your mom In a few vids I don't think so

Who's that woman That you're doing A whinger So that's She's a huge creator Like bigger than me She's got like 13 million On TikTok Oh Yeah Who is she Yeah She's in Jersey you so that's uh she's a huge creator like bigger than me she's got like 13 million on tiktok oh

yeah so she yeah she's in jersey and she's just like they it's her and her son and they kind of just blew up on tiktok and now they just kill it on tiktok instagram youtube yeah they're nice people yeah it is kind of like a new american dream right right? It's sort of like the kids that run up to me, like they want to be me. I'm like, yeah, I'm a schmuck. You don't know if you want to be me. But they want to do what I want to do, you know? Like being a TikToker is like the new movie star almost.

It's great. And I'm like, yeah, it's not bad. Could you even give them advice? Because like you didn't intend. It's not like, you know, use the advice. Not to intend. Find something you want to do. Yeah., like, you didn't intend. It's not like, you know, it used to be. That's the advice, not to intend. Find something you want to do. Yeah.

And just throw it up on TikTok. Make sure it's, like, semi-decent content. And just fucking see where it goes. Yeah. But don't quit after, like, a month. You got to, like, before I blew up, I was doing it for, like, four years on Instagram. Yeah. But, like, not serious, but serious, you know?

Yeah. I was posting, you know, a couple of times a week. You know, making sure, like I was happy with the videos. Yeah. Doesn't mean they were performing well. Same thing like now, like even if they don't perform well, as long as I'm happy with the video, I'm cool with it. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, it's almost like TikTok came over and was like, Instagram, you're not treating some of these people right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's some fucking class Will you Yeah Now TikTok How much time

Do you spend online Because TikTok's addictive I think they pull you in My phone time Is crazy It's like nine hours a day Mine too I look at my phone

It's crazy It's like all day long I'm just On the TV I'm like a fucking zombie I don't even know What the fuck I just watched It is crazy

How long I spend On my phone And I will do that Even when I'm watching baseball In between pitches I'll fucking check the phone That can't be healthy Nah

People's eyesight In 30 years Is gonna be fucked It's really gonna be bad Terrible It's gonna be absolutely terrible Everyone's gonna be hunched Oh we need a little evolution going on

Yeah it's like this Love hate relationship right Cause it helps our careers so much The internet We gotta be on there But at the same time Absolutely terrible. Everyone's going to be hunched over. We need a little evolution going on. Yeah, it's like this love-hate relationship, right? Because it helps our careers so much, the internet. We've got to be on there. But at the same time, it's destroying us. Then again, what else is there to do? Yeah. Cuj in 20 years.

Who's Mrs. Cuj? What do you see? Is she Italian-American? She doesn't have to be. It doesn't have to be. What are some of your do's and don'ts What are some things you won't put up with What are some things you will put up with

Number one If I'm gonna take them serious They can't call me Koosh Can't call you Koosh They gotta call me by my real name Is that a big moment If they They're able to say your real name

Which I'm not even allowed to say Well you can't say it on camera Not on camera But yeah like I would prefer like If we're gonna actually like Do something You can't call me Koosh It would be kinda. But, yeah, like, I would prefer, like, if we're going to actually, like, do something. You can't call me Koosh.

It would be kind of nice, though, to be banging abroad and she goes, oh, Koosh. Koosh, how many of my don'ts? I don't know. You didn't brush your hair, toots. So, yeah, so do's and don'ts. You know, just, I have a You want to have them From a good family Right

I'm from a good Goodish Good enough family Yeah So normally raised What are the qualities What qualifies as a good family What are we talking

You know If they got divorced parents Hopefully they made it To like 15 years of marriage Okay 15 That's a concrete You know what I mean I don't want you know

A little hang and bang to get divorced three years and then you're left on the fucking side of the road. So you want to see that her parents cared a little bit more? A little bit, you know what I mean? Have like a decent job. I don't want you to be a cashier. No offense to the

cashiers out there. You guys are very nice to me, but you know. Cashier's too low rung. I mean, you know, it depends how fat the ace is. Now, nurse. Is that the dream? You know what? My father's a nurse

and my mother was a nurse. So, there's like too many nurses in my family. So, it's like a little bit of almost like a turn off. But everyone in Staten Island, every broad is either a nurse or a teacher. Yeah. Or the fucking hair salon, hair stylist. That's where I brought it up.

That's what you get. Yeah, because Italian girls, you know, old school New York Italian girls, that's like the dream. Nursing school, kindergarten teacher. Right. That's what they like to do. My own hair salon. Yeah.

Right. So maybe if they got insurance, if their job job has insurance Because this job Has no fucking health insurance And the way I'm fucking eating I don't know what My cholesterol levels are So that's a good one Health insurance Health insurance is like

A number one Yeah Class is number two Good family is number three Honestly just like A nice normal broad That's not too negative That like doesn't

Bust my chops all day long Yeah That's what I want Yeah You do what you gotta do I'll do what i gotta do and then maybe we'll make something happen maybe we'll make something happen i like it that's a good those are good qualities yeah those are good qualities very easy going how educated does she got to be does she college or it doesn't matter uh it doesn't matter about at least high school Yeah I mean the job I think matters more than college

Right I don't want nobody from Sullivan fucking county Right That's not a good look Yeah You know unless they I don't know I don't really give a fuck

Yeah They make their own money You do what you gotta do right Yeah Now are you gonna Are you gonna wait a little while Are you gonna enjoy this Are you gonna enjoy the little fame here

All these dams a little bit Are you indulged a little bit Nah We're gonna wait a little while? Are you going to enjoy this? Are you going to enjoy the little fame here, all these dams a little bit? Are you indulging a little bit? Nah, we're going to wait a little. We're going to have fun. We're going to, you know, do what I got to do for the time being. Yeah. And then when I fall off, I'll fucking trap some hood. Very fucking practical.

I like it. You ride the fucking wave. Oh, you're making 180 grand a year How you doing touch You remember me You remember kush I was on tiktok For like a year and a half

Before they cancelled me Yeah I'll do Listen I'll be Mr. Mom I don't care Yeah you don't give a shit Oh man What's coming up next

Anything exciting Movies coming out Movies coming out? Movies coming out next year I just started Are you gonna do a sex tape? Cush? Sex tape? When I start falling off

OnlyFans What do you wanna do? I brought Jonah A nice hot dog bun Sprinkle a little mayo What do you wanna do? But no I would think

I just started a YouTube channel With my buddy Nick DiGiovanni Food React So check that out it's on youtube so that's basically what we're starting now that's like the next step youtube and that's about it i kind of like do the bare minimum like i was talking to one of my buddies this you know

nikki cas funny kid uh maybe if i saw him yeah so he does like a lot of italian stuff and he was like yo i'm working like 50 hours a week doing this tiktok instagram i'm like 50 hours like i Maybe if I show him Yeah so he does like A lot of Italian stuff And he was like Yo I'm working like 50 hours a week Doing this TikTok Instagram I'm like 50 hours Like I don't even know

How I would work 50 hours in this industry Right I'm putting in Three hours a week Right Like what are you doing For 50 fucking hours

Yeah so I was like You do what you gotta do But I'm hanging out Like What is he doing For 50 hours Did he ask you I don't know

I didn't even ask I don't wanna know 50 fucking hours even ask. I don't want to know. 50 fucking hours is crazy. Yeah. At that point, fuck. I mean, he does, like, very well for himself. But I'm like, well, like, what I'm pulling in for three hours a week is enough for me. Yeah.

You're like, hey, even if you make it more, I'm not putting in 50 hours. No, I didn't get into this business to work hard. Are you getting a lot of, like, meetings and stuff? Are people going like, hey, Kuj, we could do this, we could do that? Right. And I'm like, you're a bunch of hand jobs. I don't want to work on Are you getting a lot of like meetings and stuff Or people going like Hey Kuj we could do this We could do that And I'm like You're a bunch of hand jobs I don't want to do business with you

I don't even want to do business with Anybody Like I'll do like brand deals That's like my main source of income Cameo Saying happy birthday Yeah That's kind of fun

That's like it That's kind of the life of an influencer Right Which is kind of weird For me to say Like that's what I do But it's influencer right which is kind of what weird for me to say like that's what i do but it's what i do and it's fun you enjoy it you'd rather do that than deal with all the fucking you're a guy who doesn't want a lot of hassle i don't know i want to do bare minimum i don't want a lot of stress in my life post one or two videos hopefully they do well

if not i'll be in a depression mode for three days, but I'll get out of it. That's it. I don't want to work too hard. I've never wanted to. When I was a kid, when I was like 10, 12 years old, kids, people would ask me, like, what do you want to do when you grow up? Honest to God, I would say garbage, man. Sanitation. Yeah.

Because I don't know how I found out that they make like 100 grand a year. They kill it. Yeah. And they just pick up garbage. I mean, they like plow and snow and whatnot. But I was like, what am I, a fucking idiot? I'm going to sit in an office all day? Yeah. No, I'll smoke cigarettes just pick up garbage. I mean, they like plow and snow and whatnot, but I was like, what am I, a fucking idiot? I'm sitting in an office all day? Yeah.

Nah, I'll smoke cigarettes and pick up garbage. Yeah. Fuck. And it's not wrong with that. No, it's an honorable job. Yeah. People need their garbage taken out, and I'll fucking do it.

Yeah, and I bet you there's a lot of garbagemen who are a lot happier than a lot of other people who are making a lot of fucking money. Right, a lot of like schlepping to a nine-to-five, getting yelled at at their boss because the fucking Mr. Comma on their PowerPoint. Fucking blow me, all right?

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