WADAYM Episode 1 : Take Me to the Water and Baptize Me: The Meet & Greet

Transcript

Hi. Oh my gosh. Why are you cheesing like this on camera? You can't show people out this stuff.

What's wrong with you? Why are you doing this stuff? Happy one year anniversary.

Happy one year anniversary to you as well. This is why we're here. You know, it's been a very transformative year.

And I was like, I think we should do a recap. Or we should talk about how our lives changed as we look back a year from today. Okay.

How do you, how do you feel since, I mean, like I'm trying to do stuff chronologically, but it's probably not going to happen. But it's, I think let's, let's do that. Like I liked the idea of starting from day one.

Okay. So I want to, but the way I got to bring it in is, is things I learned later. Okay.

Okay. So you have, so you have a partner at the time when I'm, so when I'm meeting you at the time, I don't know how, what's the word I'm looking for? Are we going first day? It's not like in an opportune.

Yeah. Like first day. First day.

Okay. Well, just talk about the first day that we met just that day. Oh, what can I tell you to the beginning? Come on.

Okay. So I was, I was at, I was at home. This is September.

So one time at band camp. Yes. Of 2022.

You know how my story started? This is a story. It's a story.

That's what your life is. It's a story. So it's, I think maybe it was the 6th of September.

And there was this publisher that I had worked with previously and I hadn't worked with in a while. And just intuitively I was thinking like, man, I wish I could really get some work with these guys. This last set of work that I did was really dope.

You know, the project really got to the point where I was like, I'm going to have to work with this guy. And like, I was like, oh, I'm going to have to work with this guy. And I was like, no, I'm not going to.

I can't, this last set of work that I did was really dope. You know, the project really got a lot of traction. So I was like, you know, let me see what's going on.

And I was, I dreamed that night. I was like, man, I was like, I need to, or I went to bed like in the morning, I got an email or man, get up. There's an email from her to me.

So she emailed you overnight. Yeah. Overnight.

Right. And so then the young lady that I'm working with there, she's she lives in NYC, but she's just transplant from Vermont. So she's very, very, very kind, very professional, very interesting to talk to.

Super cool. And so she was like, hey, you know, this book just came across my desk called self-observation. And, you know, the author had an opportunity to listen to the roster and decide like, hey, you know, we want you to, he wants you to narrate the book.

So at this time, you know, I've, I have a very wide palette as far as what I narrate, you know what I'm saying? I do like anything that's intelligent and intelligent is a very broad term, you know, or can be, you know, that I find intelligent or provocative. I'm going to like, I'm going to do it.

And so when, just when I saw the cover of the book, I was like, yo, this, this thing is going to be like massive. And so. Oh, just based on the cover? Yeah.

Just based on, but, but I mean, just, well, just based on the title, like, you know, self-observation, like you knew, like right then, like you're, you're, you're probably going to hear something that you've either ever been running from, or people don't know exists that they like need to actively do. Okay. Like to be a whole.

So you felt like it was going to be a great self-helper. Right. So it was, it was one of the most complete self-help books I had been around.

You know, there's a great story, you know, that goes to it that I won't, I'm going to at that time, but that's what I was working on about around the time that I was meeting you, like making the decision to open the email to, to narrate that book, I think created the environment that allowed me to, to meet our friend that we met that night at the, at the play party to even get me in the same room, you know? Oh, you're talking about, oh, okay. Yeah.

And so then I, um, like I said, I just remember being at this event and just seeing this person. And like, even then, it's so funny that you joke about, it's so funny then that you, that you joked about, um, oh my gosh, I lost my train of thought. Hold on.

It's, um, oh yeah. When you talk about your size, like how you're like, oh, I'm five three, but I, I, like, that's how it felt. Like, so when I saw you, I was like, you looked like regular height or like, I guess what people say about like short, but like, there was something about you that kind of seemed like a little bit more like tough, even though you like looks super feminine to the eye.

I was like, there's a, there's gotta be a feist factors. This person, this doesn't happen like, you know, all the time, but like you were, but like your energy seems super good, you know, then. And so like, I think I just, at that moment, I was like, you know, this is a person that, um, I definitely want to chop it up with before the event is over, you know what I'm saying, to see if there's chemistry.

And so, you know, that's when I asked you for a hug, I was like, yo, um, do you, like you, do I feel, I was like, you feel like such and such and such and such to me. I'm like, do I feel like that to you? And you're like, yeah.

And I'm like, so I've been, I've been hugging like this and didn't nobody tell me that I felt like this and I've been doing this for free. But I remember the first hug I remember from you was when I walked in. Really? Oh my gosh.

Oh, you know what was it over here at the counter? Yes. Oh, I completely forgot because I'm trying to place it happening in the doorway.

No, that was later. That was actually. No, not like the door when you came in.

Um, it was right when I was making the table. Right. Because I was setting up my table and you walked your naked ass over to me, like bad-ass naked.

And you're so tall. Like your dick is like at my shoulder. Basically right there.

This nigga asking for a hug. And it was a genuine ask. Like that probably, as crazy as I am, it probably crossed my mind at the time.

That's the first hug I remember. That's on brand. There we go.

Right there. I hugged you and I hugged both of y'all. Naked ass naked.

Oh, I forgot. Y'all came and hugged me at the pool. So that was the first hug I remember.

So yeah, that was my first interaction, you know, and then, um. But my thoughts of you from that ask, I had like three succinct thoughts. Oh, okay.

Like my first one was this tall ass nigga asking me for a hug and he's naked. And then my third one was, but that's dope. Look at how brave he is to just be in here, naked, dick out, and asking me for a hug like it's normal.

Right. But all three of those, like, happened for me. And I was like, okay.

But I did, I immediately thought like I did, because I was like this motherfucker, you know, that's how it's right. That's right, because you don't know me. Only I know me in that way.

Yeah, that's the thing about, yeah, that, and I think that's what makes this so wild is, I guess I'm subconscious about how the chemistry, like from contact, the chemistry was already in play, I guess. It was like I had to be accepting. Like that was, so you talked about that, but you jumped to like the first hug.

But like, I'm still in this motherfucker. Like, when you follow me to the fucking front, because I'm there alone. I know you're there alone, too.

Oh, yeah. But I don't know you're there alone, too. Right.

You know what I'm saying? Like, I learned that much later. But I'm there alone.

So I'm like, as soon as I walk in, I got you naked niggas hugging me. I try to put my shit up. I know no one here.

Right. And so it's just like, and then I'm still gonna be myself. So I go, I paint a big black dick.

I mean, that's what got me. I was like, Oh, my God, why? Why am I feeling like this? This is what I would expect from this person.

This is not all that this person is. But this is what I would expect from this person. And then it's, and as the relationship has gone on, I was again, it is on brand.

But then there's a certain drip it had on the neck. I was like, Oh, my God, I was like, this is how this person lives their life. I was so That was funny.

But like, so I'm doing those things. But I know no one there but more. And so when we finally get a minute, where I'm like, Oh, my God, okay, all these new people, I'm like, kind of go to the front and hide.

Oh, my God. Here the fuck you come. And I'm like this nigga.

Because you scared me. Oh, I'm sorry. Are you sorry? Yeah, because I have to be conscious about that.

But do you remember that? Because I was looking for something to drink. And I turned around, I was like, Oh, my God.

And you were like, Oh, well, what are you looking for? And I was like, Well, I was looking for something to drink. So you pretend like you know where I can get something to drink, but you know, kind of find a little something.

But that's when we started talking. Yes, we started talking in the front. And where we were painting.

Yes, when there was no one. I was looking for some solid. Looking for some looking for some spirit.

Yes. Let's keep it on.