Cousin Jay: Social Media Tricks You’re Not Using Yet | DSH #1446

Yo, Nick Narasina, how we all had a group together.

You know, one time we went to the studio and we used to go support him all the time.

We were all hanging out a bunch.

And he asked Slim, yo,

yo, what do you think of my song like that he was working on?

Slim was like, that shit's ass.

And I'm like, yo, that's crazy.

Okay, guys.

Got him back on the show.

This time in Vegas.

Let's go, cousin Jay.

What happens in Vegas ends up on YouTube, right?

Oh,

what's up?

Thank you for welcoming me.

Yeah, interesting feedback on our last episode and wanting to get to know you more, man.

No, pleasure, man.

Yeah.

We had a couple of technical difficulties, which is why we're back here.

Yeah.

Shortly after that episode, the reunion happened, which was kind of came out of nowhere, right?

Yeah, that was unexpected, like a mixtape.

So, Kyle, he hit me up and he's like, yo, Jay, I need you.

And then I was like, bet, say less.

I'm here.

I never left.

So,

so it's just all love?

Yeah, it was actually very sentimental.

The reunion in Canada.

It was in Toronto, I believe.

And then we flew to Montreal for a happy dad meetup.

Yeah.

But yeah, it was very heartfelt seeing Jesse, Kyle, Salim,

MTV Pat.

That's Jesse's dad.

Nine of them.

Brought the whole squad back together.

Literally everyone.

I mean, besides Bradley Martin, I'm not really sure why he wasn't there, but

yeah, I had a really great time, honestly.

It was, it was amazing.

Other than the Bob Menery incident?

Yeah, we'll get, we'll get to that.

We'll save that one.

Save that one for later.

Put it in the oven on preheat.

380.

It was cool to see that, though, man.

Not a lot of groups reunite like that, you know?

Yeah, it's like when we're together.

Kyle likes to call it in Salim, like the Avengers.

Yeah.

And it really feels like that when we're all together.

I mean, you guys changed social media.

I watched nelk for years like you guys created a lot of trends and a lot of movement yeah in 2020 that's like when we first joined officially and it was unlike anything ever like this

we all leveled up times 10.

i feel like that was the peak too when you joined that was like the pinnacle yeah for kyle yeah in terms of content because they've kind of switched to the pod now and they're more they don't do like the pranks the employee pranks and shit no yeah because i mean he doesn't want to get arrested man he's getting to a a certain age he's reaching onk now you know he's onk status you're on your way yeah i'll be there i actually have like a eight or nine nieces and nephews actually damn so you're already onk i've been a i've been uh damn you're young for an onk i haven't been like a super active unknown like i'm like a deadbeat unk but like this year is going to be different man hell yeah how's the content house coming along it's it's doing extremely good you know i've been on a hiatus off of youtube everyone's like jay why aren't you posting on youtube it's because i've been shadow banana

bonnie blue right yeah spring break did a lot of crazy content and you know it got us off of the internet you know you live and you learn i got blued so i've been i've been in my blues man i'm a little nervous because she's coming on next week actually what what what was the specific thing that got you blued it was a little nipple slip oh okay so as long as she doesn't slip a nip yeah you'll be good i'm chilling i hope so i mean yeah you never know you never know with her

She's wild.

She is wild, man.

She just got banned.

Did you see that?

Yeah.

OF.

Yeah.

Yeah, I heard.

Which is hard to do.

Yeah,

she knows what she's doing, I guess.

Right.

Like, that's actually impressive to get banned on OF.

She knows how to get people banned, including herself, man.

No, but.

She's a really, really nice person off camera.

Nice.

Really nice lady.

You're going to add her to the Dream Squad.

You pick out the members yet for Dream Squad?

I don't know about Bonnie, but we have a couple other people at mine.

I'll just say that.

And I want my group to be very diverse.

She is diverse, you know, Bonnie, but we're going to be a little bit more wholesome this time around.

You like in Miami, though?

Moving there?

It's growing on me very, very well now.

Like, last year I was in an RV.

This year,

we're in a big house now.

And I got a house for the Dream Squad members.

So I'm just waiting to fill in some spots.

And

yeah,

that's where we're at.

Big change from Cali, right?

Yeah.

You were in stock?

Yeah, growing up from up until the age of like 18, 19.

And then I traveled all the way to LA and I liked it there because at the time that was like how Miami kind of is now.

You know, I feel like Miami is the new LA.

And, you know,

LA was just blowing up.

They had DDG.

They had a bunch of different concentrators.

They had Fousey2, Vitaly at the time.

And I was watching all these people.

And I was like, I think this would be a good place.

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you know it it was like the best decision for me moving to la

but now if i were to start over I'd say moving to Miami would be the move.

If I'm like 18, 19 and I want to do content.

It's really hard, but it's possible.

I agree.

All the guys are in Miami now.

Aiden Ross is out there, right?

Yeah.

All the streamers.

Because you just want to be around people that are like-minded and, you know, and try not to come off as needy.

And, you know, because no one wants to help someone who's super needy, you know, you got it.

You got to fake it to even make it.

I did it.

Yeah.

You got to fake it a little bit.

You got to, you know, rub shoulders.

And it's part of the game.

Yeah.

Just say, just say, hey there, you know?

Yeah.

And then keep grinding, stay consistent, and then boom, you end up on a podcast like this, the digital, the digital social hour, you know, bro.

We got a lot of views on that first one.

No, yeah, the clips are going viral still.

People hit me up all the time.

Millions, bro.

Well, all the time.

I think people wanted to know what happened, you know, so it's cool to see you explain a little bit of it.

And now you have a book, which you're going to explain more of it.

Yes, man.

Can't wait for that.

Cousin Jay, he's a really,

he's an author now.

Not officially put to the public.

The book is releasing February 8th, 2026.

Why'd you pick that date?

It's my birthday.

Oh, Aquarius?

Yes, Aquarius.

Valentine's Day.

Yes.

That's crazy.

So you're spreading love that day.

Yeah.

I'm always in my head.

Aquarius is our.

So I can relate to you, man.

So yeah, you're probably on your bed at night thinking about shit all the time.

All the time.

Like, I can't stop thinking.

I can't get out of my head, dude.

Yeah, it's like ADHD inside there, like just all over the place scattered.

I can't just ever be still.

Yeah.

I struggle to meditate.

Yeah, my ex said I had autism.

Damn.

Yeah.

How'd you take that when she said it?

I started looking more into it.

Now I want to actually donate to like some autism foundations.

Oh, so you think you might have it?

I think I might be on the spectrum.

Shit.

Well, a lot of people have it these days.

Elon has it.

I have it.

I diagnose myself.

Fuck it.

Yeah.

I know Steve talks about it too.

Steve says he has it.

He might.

He

like, no, Steve, I love Steve, man.

He's kind of going through it right now.

Everyone who's watching this, please send your prayers out to him.

He really needs us.

You know, he's going through a tough time in life.

You know, we haven't really talked too much about it in depth, but, you know, I bumped into him the other day and I just really want the best for Steve, man.

Like, he's done so much for me.

He even blessed me with this chain.

Wow.

You know, and he blessed me with a $10,000 investment, you know, on my clothing line.

That's dope.

Like a few years back, you know, and I'll never forget moments like that.

Not just the money aspect, but just him being such a kind-hearted person.

You know, he's an introvert.

He has extroverted tendencies, but I think he really needs,

he really needs us.

And, you know, he really wants to get back on YouTube.

And I hope that YouTube will take him back.

You know?

Yeah, YouTube was, I used to love watching his videos, man.

He would give away a car every video.

He's one of the most gifting people I've ever seen.

He genuinely is.

I've never seen anything like it yeah he gets it back he will i have high hopes for it people are starting to get unbanned i think on twitch and youtube so hopefully right shout out to steve sending good energy your way man i saw his video with nick the other day the double date video yeah i've seen that pop up nick's a good content creator too yeah he's grinding yeah he's hustling the frat parties yeah i didn't know he worked at full sand yeah he was working for steve he was steve's filmer and then he came on to salim's channel when I was filming the videos, and then we started going back and forth and we blew him up, you know.

That's what I mean.

You guys have had such a impact

on everyone.

Like, I had a lot of different, yeah, I got into content because of Full Sun.

Like, there's just so many people that have come from Full San.

A lot of people, like, to this day, like, they tell me, like, yo, you're the reason why I started doing content.

Like, I've been filming videos for the past seven years, and it's, it doesn't even feel like work to me.

You know, highs and lows, but you know, it feels really good.

That's so.

Yeah.

Do you have a list of video ideas you want to film?

I mean, I'm trying, I'm planning for this sub-a-thon that I'm going to be doing.

Uh, because all of the earnings that I make on Twitch, I'm actually going to be giving it to all the fans.

Dope.

Because I make money from Patreon and I make money from my clothing line, like a bunch of different things.

And soon, next year, like from the book.

But

ideas,

just like like we're both aquarius is i mean i'm not really into that aquarius is zodiac this but there's levels to it yeah i'm i'm not like those crazy girls

you know what i mean with the zodiacs like what's your zodiac i don't base my whole life off it no but i do see no yeah there's there's it definitely the shoe fits in some aspects

but ideas right now i kind of want to

similar to like what steve was doing i want to give back like i'd naturally do that off camera

and like for me it kind of feels weird like showing like you giving gifts to people yeah but since I do it off camera so much and I feel like I don't get credit for it I feel like it's a great way for me to just showcase what I do it sounds kind of contradicting no you might as well I see what you're saying you know what I'm saying like I really do this like for a living like

like I feel like Like when I get older, I want to be a philanthropist.

Really?

Yeah.

So you've always wanted to give back?

Yeah.

A thousand percent.

Wow.

I don't think a lot of people think that way.

Yeah.

I mean, it comes, it really comes from, if I were to think about it, from my grandma, she was really a very giving person.

And like, I want to just share that side of like what I remember from her.

She was big on your upbringing.

Yeah, yes, yes.

She was the nicest person in the world

to me.

Shout out to her.

And like a lot of people like taking advantage of her.

Like, if I think about that too.

And I relate to that too, like, getting taken advantage of just,

and she just continues to just be selfless.

Then eventually she got dementia and, you know,

people just really started like using that, you know.

Wow.

Imagine having so much money and then, you know, the closest people around you just like take advantage of that.

It's fucked up.

Yeah, it actually is.

No, that's super messed up, dude.

I see when parents die, the kids start fighting for the money.

Exactly.

It's so messed up.

Yeah, rest in peace to my auntie, but she was one of those people that was taking advantage of her wow and then my mom found out and it was just like a whole big family feud no that's messed up dude when my dad passed actually i wasn't on the will

yeah and i had uh he had two other kids so they got everything but i didn't i didn't make a deal about it did that make you feel any type of way i was upset yeah i mean not just for the money mainly just like damn he didn't Well, he wrote it when I was in high school and we used to fight a lot.

But I think if it was a more up-to-date will, I would have been on there.

Yeah.

I was a little upset.

But at the same time, I'm not going to cause a scene and fight over it.

Yeah, not going to, it's not enough to shake the room.

Yeah.

But I can see where some people would want to.

If you're in a bad spot, I could see that.

Yeah.

That's usually when it goes like that.

Yeah.

But nah, that's not cool, dude.

That's your parent.

Like, they wouldn't want their kids fighting.

Hell nah.

You still close with your fam, though?

I'm working on building them up.

And, you know, I want to really,

this year, I mean, I have goals.

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Thank you.

Goals of retiring my mother on the 16th of October, which is her birthday.

And I told her all she has to do is simply work out three times a week and send me a picture every Monday of the scale.

It sounds kind of crazy, but that's all I really want from her.

is just to give me a little bit of effort something that she did do like here and there growing up i'm not going going to discredit her, you know, entirely, but I felt like I was neglected.

So I want to show her a way of like, you know, just showing up for herself because I feel like she's focusing on a lot of different things that can just,

like, just make her not lock in.

And I just want the people around me to be locked in.

So that's all you got to do, mom.

You got a couple more months and you'll be, you'll be there.

Nice.

June, July, August, September, October.

Four months.

And she's,

I mean, she's been doing it for the past month and a half, like staying consistent with it

since whenever I proposed it to her.

And yeah, I'm very proud of her.

Let's go.

Keep it up.

She's grinding.

I love it.

Keep it up.

Mama J.

Yeah.

Let's go.

Seriously, man.

I love that, man.

UFC this Saturday.

You've been to a lot of UFC events.

You met some powerful people at these events.

Yes.

I got to hear about what it was like to meet Donald Trump.

Yeah.

Donald Trump, I met him like two years ago or a year and a half ago at the Live Golf tournament.

And the first thing he said to me is like,

I'm going to need some clout from you guys.

You know what I'm saying?

I thought that was pretty funny.

I mean, you guys gave him his most viewed interview of all time.

Yeah, he got emotional.

Yeah.

It got taken down.

That's how many views it got.

Right away, just boom.

Is that 10 mil in like two hours or something?

Crazy.

Yeah.

Yeah, that was nuts.

But that dude's a legend.

Shout out to him.

You also met Dana a bunch of times, right?

Yeah, the first time I actually met Dana, he actually gave me $2,000.

Wow.

Like, it was like one of those chips from the casino.

Yeah.

He's like, do whatever you want with it.

And I was like, yo, that's lit.

Thank you, Dana.

Dude, I'm about to spit a Dana story that's never been told.

Talk to me.

So I had this assistant.

I won't say his name out of privacy, but he used to work for me and he was really struggling at the time.

Sure.

Just had a baby and was living paycheck to paycheck.

He runs into Dana at the casino.

Yeah.

High limit room.

tells him what's going on 13 000 cash bro just like that just like that off camera see

He's the Steve will do it off-camera.

Actually, that's exactly how I feel.

I feel like Dana, but I want to mix up.

I want to be like a mix of Dana.

Steve, combine that.

Boom.

And with a little bedazzle of Mr.

Beast.

Yeah.

Ooh, Mr.

Beast.

You know what I'm saying?

Beast cams was lit, bro.

I can't wait for season two.

They're filming it in Vegas.

Yeah, that's wild.

You're going to apply?

Where do you apply?

There's a site.

I think the deadline's soon, though.

Yeah, you guys.

I was thinking about it, but it's like six weeks.

I'm like,

yeah, send me the link.

I'll be down.

I'll send you it, bro.

No, I need to film pods.

Like, I can't take six weeks off.

You film like eight podcasts a day, no?

Six today, yeah.

Six tomorrow and six yesterday.

I don't know how, what gives you the drive?

I'm getting really important messages out.

I'm letting people express themselves.

I'm inspiring their youth.

The messages I get, bro, like you would, if you saw these messages, you would, you would do it.

Like, I've I do like 20 a day.

Yeah.

I'm not even trying to brag, but like people have like been on the verge of suicide or whatever.

And like mental health is very, very.

So stuff like that just fires me up that I have the ability to do that.

That is awesome, man.

Yeah.

I like that.

I really like that.

We have a lot of influence, man, with our network.

It's crazy.

Yeah, you never know who's watching it.

Even if you got like 10 viewers in your starting out podcast, that one view out of those 10 viewers, you could have changed someone's life from like committing.

100%.

Speed, I saw Speed on an interview.

He said he had one viewer like the first month, like two viewers when he first started streaming.

Wait, was it his pops that was watching it, or was it someone else?

It might have been someone he knew or a friend, someone, and then he got to eight viewers, and then 16, it kept doubling, and now he's the biggest streamer in the world.

Yeah, right now I'm averaging like seven viewers to 70 on my stream, so, like, which is probably top 1%, honestly.

Yeah, I'm we up, but it, you know, they like say cousin Jay fell off, but you know, I look at it as like it's a new foundation, a new platform.

You got to start somewhere.

So, you know, starting off at seven, 70 viewers this year.

just give it one year of consistency.

I haven't stopped since I started a week and a half ago, and I'm the most consistent TikTok streamer, Twitch streamer in the world right now.

So let's keep it going.

Good for you, man.

Because some people would see those comments and just quit.

Yeah.

You know?

Yeah.

You know, I never, I never quit.

I'm still here.

You can in social media.

You got to be consistent.

The day you stop, the day you choose to stop, the day, that's when you fall off.

For real.

You're starting a new platform.

You ain't fall off, You know what I mean?

You just started.

You just started.

So this was falling off of like, hey, I fell off.

Yeah.

Thank you.

People will always say that, though, the fall off stuff.

Even if you average like 10 less viewers in the world.

Yeah.

They're going to be like, you fell off.

Yeah, yeah.

They just want to comment.

They just want you to react.

Yeah.

You're not going to get a reaction out of me.

You don't respond to the trolls?

It depends.

They be saying I'll be looking like Unk though.

Like, because I'll be wearing these shoes, like, not these ones, but these like African sandals.

And it's just so comfortable.

and like are those the wooden ones um they they look like Jesus sandals oh you know what I'm saying yeah they're coming out soon I actually got a your merch line new pair of shoes coming out let's go they're called the

the cousin J's like the but the style of the shoe we're gonna call them the Uncle Jay's like that name yeah who are your fashion influences You know, Mike Amiri, I really look up to him.

I actually got gifted a pair of jeans from his, I think, nephew or cousin, like

a year before I joined now.

And

yeah, actually, Kyle, he lost those jeans.

I'm actually going to need those back, Kyle.

Damn.

Yeah, man.

It's been a year and a half.

I'm going to need those back.

You lent them to him?

Yeah, and he just, he said he can't find them.

He borrowed them for a day for a video shoot or some shit.

You left him at some shit's house or something.

Yeah, and I don't know.

Where are my jeans back?

That's $2,000 down the draft.

Damn, jeans are 2K now.

Yeah, that's how much Michael Mealy charges for his jeans.

Um,

Haron Preston, Virgil Abelow,

uh, cousin Jay, you know, he's pretty, he's pretty creative.

I really look up to him, yeah, you know, you're talking like Kanye out here.

Oh, my cousin Yay

talking in third person.

Oh, yeah, I actually do that a lot, you know.

It's, it's actually, and that's parts of um, some of the books that I'm working on, They are speaking in third person.

Like, it's, it's really interesting.

It's very, very interesting.

But,

yeah.

Why do you think you do that?

You think it's just like a habit?

It's like a way of indirect communication, you know.

And sometimes there's many different forms of communicating.

There's direct, there's indirect, there's.

you know, eye contact.

Like, you can look someone in the eyes, and that's communicating a different way from me not looking you in your eyes.

Right.

And, you know,

like i practice not looking at people as a form of communication just because i understand like how people view me like people are really intimidated by me when they meet me because of my influence or you know i there's many different reasons everyone has might have it different but like i don't know like a lot of people are scared of me really yeah that's so weird it's so it's so weird it's so weird just because of your influence and followers you think i think so even sleep has that effect too like I think it's because we're so blunt, you know?

Yeah.

Like, I'm not afraid to tell you, like, if you have flaws in a constructive way.

You know, I always want the people around me or whoever I meet to, like, just better themselves.

And, you know,

a lot of people don't like that.

You know, you giving them constructive advice.

That's true.

Whether they ask for it.

or even if they don't.

Like even,

you know, Salim is so blunt.

You know, Nick Narasina, Narasina, how we all had a group together.

You know, one time we went to the studio and we used to go support him all the time.

We were all hanging out a bunch, and he asked Salim, yo,

yo, what do you think of my song like that?

He was working on Salim was like, That shit's ass.

And I'm like, Yo, that's crazy.

Like, but I'm more like the guy, you know, to be like,

yo,

it's cool, but you could do better.

But that hurt his feelings to where he left the studio and pretty much almost cried, you know,

because, you know, at that time, we were all kind of fresh with knowing each other.

And, you know, you know, being an artist, it's very,

what's the word for

emotional is it's almost like vulnerable.

Yeah.

You know, you're pouring your heart out into the mic.

And for someone to just say that it's like ass, like, I can understand where it makes you want to cry.

You know?

Yeah.

I'm pretty blunt too i think it's a east coast thing yeah but i'm from the west coast and i'm i'm blunt but i don't smoke maybe it could be a sack thing too are people blunt out there yeah yeah could be a sack thing because la people are the opposite they're not blunt they're more yeah but he's from chicago and so i would think that he's more of a maybe it's a tough neighborhood thing too you know because you got to be honest to get get by yeah yeah

But yeah, the truth hurts, and that's why people call me the truth now.

Paul Pierce.

Yeah.

Look at you.

That's a good nickname, though.

We ain't in the NBA, but we're balling, though.

You said you could beat Angel Peace last time.

Yeah, man.

I was dunking her.

Oh, my gosh.

What sports you playing right now?

Pickleball.

Yeah, you on the pickleball with me.

I'm really big on the pickleball.

I want to go pro.

For real?

Yeah.

Not right now.

Like, once I

build up my dream squad cast and everything like that, and I have more free time.

I'll be able to do that.

I'm looking for an assistant right now.

That's a tough role.

I need a.

I've been through five assistants exactly in a year oh wow they're tough bro like how long do your assistants last it ranges from a week to like three months one of them got drunk on the job i was like what the fuck are you you can't be drinking on the job especially when you're first trying to start come on now yeah so no i wasn't even at first he got too comfortable too quick my issue is i think i need to hire a girl Yeah, yeah, a thousand percent.

Because when I hire the guys, I become friends with them.

And then it gets too friendship-y and the business.

And then they they forget that it's a business, yeah.

And so they're like, bro, like, we, we, they don't say that we're homeboys, but that's the vibe that they're giving you.

And you're like, okay, I see, yeah,

yeah, I felt you on that one.

Yeah, I want to actually hire like 70% women at least.

They're great at organizational stuff, great, communication, great,

it's benefiting you.

So, me trying to help you,

like, that's that's all I want for the cast members to just listen to simple,

simple steps steps and you know and not drink on the job, you know.

Yeah, like when we're working, we're working, you know, yeah, have fun on your own time, you know what I'm saying?

Like, if I put two years in to this to two and a half years in to like get a big moment, like once we all,

once Nelkin and I align forces, that was a pretty big moment.

If it took me two years to get a moment like that, and for the characters who I bring around, for them to get into a big moment like that, it takes two weeks to four or five months.

You know, that's a pretty big difference.

And I actually want the best for my team.

Like, I want them to outgrow me.

I'm not afraid to fall off, you know.

Really?

Yeah.

You wouldn't care if one of them got bigger than you?

Nah, honestly.

Yeah, a lot of people in this industry are afraid of that.

And I understand why, because, you know, you don't want.

your people to just leave you like like when you raise them you know what i'm saying yeah you want your kids to be around you.

It's similar.

It's similar almost to like parenting.

Like I can see how

that relates to it.

I think the houses are coming back.

Bob House is doing well.

Faze is doing pretty well again.

FaZe is blowing up, man.

They're killing.

Shout out to Banks.

I doubted him at first.

I didn't know if he could pull it off again.

Really?

No,

he got all these characters on the rise.

Yeah.

The Lacey kid.

He got the Ronaldo.

He got the light-skinned one.

When I'm out of town, I'll be tripping.

I'll be on.

Yeah, I know who you're talking about.

Forget his name.

I know who you're talking about.

But yeah, all the streamers.

Just brilliant move.

He's good at adapting to the new social media trends.

And that's literally what I'm doing with my cast.

Like, adapting.

Because if you don't adapt, you're going to, that's when you fall off.

What works a year ago doesn't work anymore.

Exactly.

Crank videos don't get the same amount of views anymore.

It doesn't.

Like, people just want to see the real, authentic you now.

You know, it's going to.

Twitch and YouTube are going to be the ones battling with each other.

You know, it goes with live, then people want to see more like chopped up edits, sound effects underneath it, which is why YouTube feel like that's the bread and butter.

But you got to live streaming is a new wave, and that's why we're on Twitch now.

Yeah.

People love the IRL show.

They love it.

Because you get to see another side of the creator.

Like you, it's exposing people who have no personality.

Like that just douche,

say, for example, short form or just like a 10-15-minute video that's way different from doing what the Grace are doing like Kai or Speed.

Like these guys are really showing

like 10-hour streams, six-hour streams of just pure on comedy, like for a long period of time.

Anyone could fake it for 10 minutes.

You can't fake it for three hours, bro.

You can't fake it for 30 days, bro.

You actually have to be like, you have to be so invested in this to where,

yeah like it exposes like imagine if like you're a music artist and you do auto-tune and then now you're just in front of everyone with no auto-tune that's what youtube is compared to streaming yeah 100 auto tune versus no auto tune your cellathon about to be crazy yeah you already started planning the days yeah i think i want to do it in the month of like December.

I want to go all in 30 days straight.

Just boom.

Just every single day have like a different event planned.

Or maybe we can even do it for the fall tour.

That'd be sick.

Yeah, let's talk about the fall tour.

What's going on with that?

So like all the Dream Squad characters are just going to be traveling around a bunch of different colleges

and just interacting, showcasing like the good side of the frats and the

sorority life.

And a lot of times like when I'm interacting with the college kids, it just goes super viral.

And,

you know, a lot of the characters that I'm bringing up are young.

Like,

I can't announce who is going to be next,

but it is a guy, and he's amazing.

He's from Connecticut and

Connecticut, or we're going to announce someone who's from Pennsylvania and he's very special.

He's graduated.

Very diverse group.

But yeah, we're just going to be traveling and just highlighting like the good parts of every location that we go to.

Nice.

Like highlighting the frats.

And like I said earlier, we're going to be, I mean, I'm going to be investing all the money I make from Twitch into all the fans.

And I want to give someone a car this year, like a Tesla.

I want to give,

I want to, what else?

What other plans do we have?

Listen, I spot talent.

I feel like I could be like a talent like finder.

What do you call those people that?

Talent booker.

Yeah, I'm going to start.

Talent agent.

Talent agent.

I don't know.

Found Salim.

Found Chaffee found Chaffee.

Yeah, that was you.

Wow.

Like, I was like, yo, Kyle, I was like, really, like, yo, you need to

put the camera on that guy.

You know what I'm saying?

I mean,

Salim.

Like, that's a huge find.

That's the number one find for me.

You know, because at first he was just going to be like a music writer.

That's what, that's what he was planning to do.

And I was like, I really think that you could like perform on camera.

So, like, let's, let's shift it a little bit.

You're like a visionary.

Like it just takes me like three seconds to like three minutes to really tell if someone has it.

And like, that doesn't mean other people don't have it.

It's just I might not have caught it, you know?

And I only want like four or five people in my group too.

So it's going to be really.

I wonder if that's like a learnable skill or if people just have it or they don't.

I think you got it or you don't.

Really?

But like, yeah, you can learn anything you want, but like to find talent, like

for social media influencers i could tell it's just like i i look at everything like a movie like my my favorite movie is crazy stupid love with ryan goslin

and you know the wood is a really good movie uh

i just look at everything kind of like a movie like the fact that we're on this podcast right now it feels like a movie no light to camera action

you know you just gotta you gotta just feel it yeah you know i love that honestly um you had a teacher you wanted to shout out Shout out to Mr.

Spalding, man.

Hopefully, this year from the Twitch earnings, I could gather a, I really want to just cash him out with $20,000.

That'd be life-changing for him.

Yeah, for sure.

Teachers don't make much.

An extra 20K, I'll take it.

Yeah.

Teachers, I think the average salary is like, I don't know if it changed, but when I was in high school, it was 54K or something.

Yeah.

For a teacher.

He was my art teacher.

And like, he honestly invested in my clothing.

Like, he would buy like all my merch drops for Girls of Artist.com, shameless plug, shameless plug, um, merch drop on the, on the 4th of July.

No, no, but, like, honestly,

like, he always just, I looked up to him like a father figure, you know, me being in like a single mother family household.

It,

you know, like, the older people that I come in, to contact with, like, I don't attach myself to them, but I, I, I really listen to what older people say.

I respect my elders.

Seriously.

Like, that's like an old saying, respect your elders, but just naturally, I just do that.

And especially if they're respectful of me, I really like to take heed in what they're saying.

He would just always be like, yo, Jay, like, you really got something.

And it was like, he was a talent agent, you know, then you just.

Like, if I, if I messed up on like one of the drawings that I was making, like with the charcoal or whatever, he'd just be like, see, I like what you did there but what you could do is you could just shift it a little bit like this you know what I'm saying and he wouldn't be like yo you suck if he knew knew that you suck he would tell me like if he thought somebody's shit was just ass he'd be like yo kind of like you know what I mean but then

for me whether my stuff was shitty or not he just really just speak highly and just just coach me kind of like Tiger Woods dad coached him that's kind of like how I felt to Slim

I love that optimism that's cool though yeah shout out to him I think everyone's got that one teacher, right?

Yeah.

I saw Kyle just made a video and he went back to his high school.

Yeah, it was beautiful.

That was really wholesome.

Really inspiring.

Yeah.

I need to get back to my school, man.

Got to, man.

You've definitely made it.

You got some alcohol.

I still am.

I still feel like I'm just getting started, to be honest.

No way.

But made it to most people.

Yeah.

It's all relative, right?

Like, I have really high standards for myself.

Yeah.

You, you have a really good, like, way you carry yourself.

You're very humble.

Like, we obviously conversated before this and you know, in the past, and I feel like you just

got it.

Thanks, bro.

You got it.

You have to.

When you get to a certain level, your ego could get in the way.

Oh, my gosh.

Tell me about it.

You know, it's happened to me.

Like, I've, I've used, you've adjusted yourself.

I had to, man.

You spanked yourself on the back.

I lost all my money.

Yeah.

I'll do it.

Going broke.

Oh, my God.

I'll do it.

I think, as a man, you need to go broke, or at least you need to lose a lot of fucking money to like really understand the value of money, adversity.

Yep.

Whether that's you investing in your team whether that's you just making

this the wrong mistakes with your money you know spending habits there's uh really like people i would look up to in business they'll tell me that they won't work with someone if they haven't lost it all before actually yeah i like that yeah it's like a a big thing in the investing space you need yeah because if you never lost it you how are you gonna value it you're delusional you know what i mean if you think you lost it yeah it's yeah i agree like honestly i don't want to work with anyone i don't want a lot of people ask me yo jay can i work for you i don't want anyone working for me i want to work with people i think we should shift like the way that we communicate like the way word for you sounds like a slave right

you know i don't want to i don't want a slave i don't want to be slaving anyone there's a lot of modern day slavery going on right now a thousand percent people just robots acting like they don't have their own thoughts yeah you have to use your own brain.

You have to not value money to where that's everything to you.

Like, you got to love what you do with me, not for me.

Because at the end of the day, a lot of people will try to say, yo, Jay, I'm doing this for you.

Like, I'm here for you.

You're not here for me.

You're here for yourself.

We're all selfish to a certain extent.

Yeah, we'll do things for free for some people because we love them.

or we have a love for them.

But, bro, you need to take care of yourself.

So don't sit up here and try to act like you're doing it just for me.

Like, this is that's a lie.

That's cop.

And I can't work with someone who's lying, saying that they're just doing shit for me.

It's always cop.

That's a lie.

I used to believe it, but I used to believe it too.

Because then when shit gets foggy and funky and shit starts running dry and you need money, then when I give you

my last earnings because

I really care about you.

That happened to me, bro.

That happened to me.

I was on my last dollar with this podcast, to be honest.

And

I paid my guy or whatever, and he quit the next day.

And

my bank account was negative when he quit.

He doesn't even know this.

No, this person knows who this person.

The shoe fits.

I literally showed people my last dollars.

Like, my bank account's negative.

And I'm investing more negative.

I'm going more negative to try to make it positive for someone else so they can see the value in the long-term partnership that I'm trying to create.

You know,

I gave people my last thousand, my last dollar, and they just always end up just dipping and then try to come back when it's hot.

Right.

You can't come back.

I agree.

If they're not with you at the bottom, why would you let them in at the top?

That's literally the perfect way to see if someone's really for you is to just be at the bottom.

Because once you get to the top, I say it all the time, Sally.

It's spring break.

Remember, I said, just wait till the money comes in.

And I'm not sitting up here talking like I'm balling out.

I'm nowhere near people at the top.

I'm like, just getting started.

And like, I don't know what her perspective is on when I was saying that, but I said it very a lot of times around the big group that we're around.

And

like 98% of the people that we are with are not in in my circle or even anywhere near me.

And will I even let them near me?

Because,

you know, people just want to use me for my money, my connections.

And I understand it.

But don't sit up here and try to act like you're my friend.

Right.

You understand?

That's the difference.

I have a lot of frenemies.

Ooh, I like that word.

Yeah.

When I lost everything, I was now I'm grateful for it because I saw my true friends.

Yes.

I got rid of a lot of people.

Yes.

Yes.

And it's not like I was even asking them for money.

Yeah.

I just wanted them to be there for me.

Yes.

That's it.

And they weren't.

Yes.

So, like, yeah, I feel like you're a very empathetic person and you're very caring and it seems like very giving because you gave someone your last.

And that, that honestly will make.

How does that make you feel like actually inside, like deep down, like if there's like a word or two words, like.

At first I was angry.

At first I wanted to tell him the situation.

You can't tell him.

But then I was like, no, they don't think it's an excuse.

You know what I mean?

So I didn't tell him.

You can't.

And I just felt sad because he was with me for a few months.

And I was taking him to LA.

I was taking him around, filling podcasts with cool people.

So I thought he'd be here till the end.

We would have car rides about like, yo, it's me and you.

We're going to take this thing.

Ride or die.

Like, we got this.

Yeah.

You shaking hands.

We're shaking hands.

Behind like this.

He crossing his fingers.

You don't even see it.

Oh, he's saying he would die for me.

Like, yeah, like, I'm here for you.

I thought we would rock till the end and i thought so too man but not everybody can make it with you at the top like there's this one song i forget what it's called but it's like you know like the beginning of the song where snoop dog is saying something like sometimes in life like you outgrow people or something and everyone can't make it with you at the top if you can find that just pop that up

that is the realest shit ever like I think it's a song with him and Nipsey Hustle.

And Nipsey Hustle is so great, bro.

Like, legend.

The shit he be speaking he used to speak is insane rest in peace nipsey um

yeah

that

my one of my favorite songs from him is uh i listen to it often it's uh

it's with him and roddy rich

i don't know what is it called final single released before his death yes it earned a grammy That shit is different.

Wow.

That is one of, that's top five.

Damn.

You can't, you can't.

Might be number top three.

Top three.

I got Nipsey's Doctor coming on tomorrow.

So you know Dr.

Sebi?

Yeah.

His grandson's coming on tomorrow.

Oh, that's sick.

Legend.

See, you got it, nigga.

You up.

I'm here, bro.

I'm here.

I'm up next.

Sebi's a legend.

R.I.P.

to Sebi, too.

Yeah, man.

Well, dude, I can't wait to see you at the fights this weekend.

What's next?

I mean, a magician never reveals his secret, So just stay tuned if you want to follow me.

Real Cousin Jay on Instagram.

Cousin Jay Live on YouTube.

Real Cousin J underscore on Twitch.

Real Cousin J on Snapchat.

You know, I used to.

What's next?

You're going to see the real version of the real-ish Cousin Jay you've seen before.

All the content on my YouTube is taken down.

All the content on my Instagram has been removed.

Why is that?

Because Cousin Jay is going through a rebrand.

And I talked to Kyle the other day when I bumped into him, you know, and other other guys, everyone's like, why are you removing all the content off your pages?

It's because that was the old, real-ish, what you guys wanted to see.

You know, you highlighted a certain version of me that I don't think is fair to my audience because they like me for a certain image that you guys wanted to see.

But I'm going to show them.

the real me and what you guys are experiencing right now.

This is me.

I'm a grown-ass man.

I'm an uncle.

I want to be a great father one day.

You guys are going to see the real Cousin Jay, not the real-ish.

My name before should have been the real-ish

because they only got to see a glimpse.

Now you're going to see a live example of the real Cousin Jay.

Like, I'm a real ass nigga.

Sacramento, California, 25

2025.

Be live.

Let's go.

Stay tuned, guys.

Yeah, and yeah, February 8th.

I can't wait to show you guys my book.

Check them out, guys.

Peace.