Going Viral on Social Media, Racing Cars and Overcoming Homelessness | Dan Rue DSH #283

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Ladies and gentlemen, he is back on social media.

He's making a comeback.

Dan Rue, how's it going?

What's up, Sean?

Thanks for having me.

Hey, good to see you, man.

I know you've been a bit low-key, but I saw you on a few podcasts, so I hit you up.

Yeah, I appreciate you, man.

Yeah,

it's fun being back.

Definitely took a year off from social media.

A whole year?

Yeah, basically.

I would say about nine, nine months.

Wow.

Not even using it at all barely and I would post maybe like twice or three times a month maybe and it was like reposts mostly you know

father passed away last year wow really devastating for me

so you know if you've ever lost someone and I'm sorry that we've had a conversation that you lost your father too yeah so you know what I'm feeling it was really rough yeah mentally just broke down and just needed to separate myself because I'm a happy person on the internet right smiling dancing and you can't can't be that person when you're just not healthy yourself so yeah dude I just saw in the news like I think Charlie D'Amelio or something she was like talking about how she was super depressed and when she hit a hundred million followers it was like the lowest point of her life really yeah I mean well I mean for me man I like making people laugh yeah you know I don't really there like as far as monetization access for Instagram there's not a lot of money in it people don't realize that I can hit millions and millions of views and maybe pull a thousand dollars dude I pull nothing i'm demonetized you know

you know what i'm saying like it's not a lot of money that people think i do this for fun i love making content yeah making people laugh and the best thing at my high you want to know what my high is when people come up to me and either want to hug me or tell me how much they appreciate what i've done for them i've had people tell me i was at the lowest life lowest point in my life and your videos just made me so happy that's awesome that's worth it yeah that's definitely worth it people don't realize that i love doing this yeah that's so cool what were those first few viral videos what were you doing oh man.

So I've always been dancing.

I've always doing funny videos.

Even from back in the day when I started in 2017 is when I first went viral with my friend Nick.

He would be like, we live, baby.

And I'd dance on tables, steal stuff, blah, blah, blah.

But even moving forward into 2020 during,

I kind of started to do my own thing.

Me and my buddy Nick are still friends.

He just got married, too.

Congratulations.

Congratulations to you, Nick.

Shout out to Nick.

Shout out to Nick.

Congratulations.

But basically, I started doing my own stuff.

Dancing videos, simple stuff,

bringing girls into the equation or small businesses and dancing on their tables and just being funny and laugh and smile like no one's watching.

And, you know, I've, that's what made me go viral over the years.

You caught that TikTok trend when dancing was super hot, right?

And yeah, I'm the one who made the diploma.

Oh, that was you?

Yeah.

Oh, nice.

Yeah, so everybody was doing it.

Everyone.

Now, you see that new one where it's like a group of people.

Yeah,

there's so many TikTok.

There's always something new.

Yeah.

And, you know, I love what other people do on social media.

You can't ever hate on what people do because I came from doing silly stuff too.

Absolutely.

Always.

So I know you're big into cars.

Were you able to save up some money from social media to buy your first car?

So I got a GTR in 2018.

All right, let's back forward real quick.

Boom.

I'm going to tell you something.

So I've lost two dads in a lifetime.

Yeah.

And I try not to talk about it too much because I do get emotional, but I'm going to hold my own today.

Growing up, I had a stepdad.

He passed away about 10 years ago.

Before he passed away,

we was always into cars together growing up.

Didn't have no money.

We just talked about it.

We'd go to the track strip and watch cars, and we had little cars.

We put a little money into and try to make fast, but we didn't have no money.

But my dad told me.

It's crazy, it happened literally weeks before he passed,

that I was going to get a GTR one day because they just came out.

It was back in 2010, you know.

And

man, I just like that was soaked in my mind.

And then when I went viral in 2017, literally the next year I had enough money, I went get a GTR.

It was my dream car.

It's what my dad wanted me to get.

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Car.

And I got that.

That's so cool.

You know, and that was really special to me.

So he died on a motorcycle.

in 2010.

Wow.

And then moving on forward, my brother, I'm sorry, my mom's brother, my uncle, my Uncle Bubba, he was my dad.

He was like, I'm here.

You know, he's like, if you need me, call me.

I'm going to be your dad, father figure.

You know, he had no kids, so I was his nephew.

So he was there.

I lost him last year.

So losing two dads in a lifetime was really rough.

Yeah.

One's already a lot.

Two issues.

Like I said, I try not to talk about it because I do get emotional, but I'm strong right now.

So we're good here.

We're good here.

But no, that's, you know, I got into the car scene.

And yeah, I've been in the cars my whole life.

And doing that on the side and yeah, and just having fun on social media, dancing, bringing people good energy.

It's what I love to do, so yeah.

So, knowing a lot about sports cars and hyper cars, do you think there's certain ones that are way better, like way better quality, and things like that?

Oh, well, I mean, so if you're an enthusiast, uh, but there's also a lot of people out there who don't buy hyper cars for the simple fact of it being fast.

It's one of 30 or one of one, so they will spend that millions of dollars to get that car.

You know,

I have, I bought a GTR

and you can put money on anything and make it fast.

But for the price that I've put with the GTR, got the car for like 80, 88.5 or 89.5 in 2018 and I have about 90 grand in the car and it's extremely fast.

Oh, so you invested more in the upgrades than the actual car?

Yeah.

Wow.

So the car is fast.

It's extremely fast to where at a point where if I line up against a Bugatti or Kony Seg or something like that, I will beat it, you know, in a half mile or up to 200 miles an hour.

I'll be way ahead.

The race will be over with.

I mean,

it's, it's, I'm not going to get into technical details, but my car is very fast.

And it, you know, like, it's faster than a bike, a plaid, anything you see on the internet.

But yeah, it's, it's fast, man.

Put a little money into something, but at the end of the day, it still costs not even a quarter of the price of a

Bugatti or something like that.

You could take a Honda or like a Hyundai and just put a Honda in it.

They got some Hondas out there that are fast.

Yeah.

Yeah, man.

What?

Some old Hondas, E.G.

hatches.

So it's like the 90, the early 90s Hondas.

They'll take,

put like 100 or 80 grand, and it will be fast.

Damn.

Fast.

So it's not the actual like car.

It's like what you put like up there.

You can put money into anything and make it fast.

Wow.

Do you think any cars are just like certain brands are overrated, overhyped?

Yeah, I mean, there are a lot of

overhype out there.

I think the BMW guys are a little over

hype in the car world, but the BMWs are good cars.

My mom bought one.

She didn't like it.

Every car is a good car.

You know, you can't bash on it, but when you come into racing and start getting to more detail about fast cars,

there are cars that do stick out and dominate, especially the GTRs.

It's a dominant car in roll racing at these events they have every year.

And then, of course, your V10 platform, which is the R8.

and the Lamborghini Hurricanes.

They have the same motor.

It's basically the same car.

And those cars are, and they have vipers too, Dodge Vipers, you twin turbo, but you put money into those cars, and they're basically the fastest on the earth right now.

I think that's cool.

In my opinion, how does the racing work?

Like you guys go out to a track and they have big, they have quarter mile racing, they have half mile racing, they do all kinds of different races nowadays where they're like the hyper car guys will do like zero to 200 back to zero.

Who can do it the fastest?

Got it.

Yeah.

So you're destroying your brakes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Put us all to test your car to its limits.

Yeah, there's a Speed Speed Vegas out here.

Have you been there?

Yeah.

Dude, that shit looks nuts.

Tracks are amazing out here, man.

I mean, dude.

What about Formula One?

Are you excited for that?

I'm pumped.

I've never been to one.

So, yeah, I heard, you know, I heard mixed reviews because I heard the locals are not happy with their

and you know, it sucks because you see, you see that it's also, I could say, hurting small business owners in a way.

Because of the traffic.

Yeah, I could see that.

And I also, it's crazy.

I was talking with a taxi driver.

He's like, bro, my money's cut in half because of formula line because nobody's the traffic.

That's not cool.

Because

nobody wants to do that.

They want to either Uber or walk because the traffic's so bad.

That's what he's saying.

I mean, you know, but that's also opinions.

I mean, no, that I've heard.

I'm not from here.

So I'm from here, so I'll speak on it, right?

So I took the tram for the first time yesterday, ever.

Yeah.

I'm a local.

I've never taken that because the traffic's just so bad.

Yeah.

So I'm literally on a tram now.

Yeah.

It's the way to move out here?

I guess so.

I took it to the game last night, the hockey game.

Oh, sick.

Yeah, someone actually knew you.

I ran into him.

Cody.

Cody, yeah.

My Cody, Barkley.

He's got the burger spot.

Yeah.

Barcode.

But yeah, dude, those guys go fast, like 250.

Yeah, bro.

I mean, like, and it's the time to get there, though.

Like, so, like, my car, it's, it's extremely fast.

Like, it'll get to 200 miles an hour.

You've hit 200?

Easy.

Quick.

Damn, dude.

I've only hit 100.

And even that was sketchy on the highway.

You know, these are all closed courses.

Of course, and stuff like that are closed out, abandoned airstrips or like really nice highways away from everybody.

Right.

There's no lot of resident holes.

There's a lot of kids out here who really hurt the car enthusiasts by doing crazy stuff in residential areas.

Yeah.

And they have this thing called takeovers where kids will do donuts in the middle.

Have you seen it on the street?

I've seen that happen on like a parking garage and the guy got pissed.

Yeah, it's dangerous, man.

Yeah, donuts.

I never understood the hype behind donuts.

I mean, it's cool, but like...

You're risking your life, you know?

Yeah, I mean, it's kids who are drifting is something different.

You know, drifting is organized.

It's out of track.

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And kids going in circles.

I don't know.

They're just doing wild stuff.

And, you know, in a public eye, they should go do somewhere disclosed away from all.

away from all the public eyes man you know they do have courses for stuff like that they have pits they call them pits they barricade them off, make big black top, and they go do them.

That's what they need to do instead of doing it on the public streets.

Yeah, for sure.

So you got your dream car.

Is there another one you want to get one day?

Is that it?

I'm pretty much.

I'm good, man.

I mean, if I had the money,

I might get something.

No, I'm good.

I love my car.

I love my car.

You know, homes, this is the next thing.

Get a couple houses.

Get in real estate.

Yeah, real estate.

I think I want to get into real estate.

Yeah, I'm going to get into it because it seems pretty safe.

I mean, there's obviously crashes every year, every 20 years or whatever.

Yeah, but social media has been a blessing, man.

I could talk consulting right now.

I've been working with Snoop Dogg for a couple years.

Nice.

Doing marketing and helping him with his NFT.

He created an NFT called Dr.

Bombay, and Dr.

Bombay is everywhere.

If you watch Snoop, he's always wearing the Dr.

Bombay logo.

Seen it, yeah.

So he's asked me to help him.

I help do the marketing, the content, and stuff behind the scenes.

And we just released Dr.

Bombay Ice Cream.

Hell yeah.

It's in 3,200 Walmarts across the nation right now.

Holy crap.

So any Walmart you go to, Dr.

Bombay Ice Cream is there.

We're about to release an Albertson's.

The Dr.

Bombay NFT also has a Skecher's shoe right now.

That's huge.

It's massive.

Rushing it.

Yeah, Snoop really NFT World, man.

He really did.

He really did.

And I'm glad he hit me up to help him in some type of way to do content and marketing.

Yeah, and someone to develop that social media marketing skill, it's so valuable.

Yeah.

And you can apply it to brands, to your own products.

There's a lot of people who like to reach out to me for advice.

I have friends that run businesses and stuff.

And even in the cannabis world,

you know, you can't, there's certain things you can and can't post, even on TikTok.

You know, TikTok is very scarce with anything like that.

And people will reach out to me and ask for advice.

And luckily, I've been blessed with meeting up with people from TikTok.

I'm actually about to work with TikTok on something I can't say now, but yeah, I'm about to work directly with TikTok starting next week.

But, you know, I've reached out to my connections through Instagram and TikTok and know there's certain things you should and shouldn't post.

Yeah.

You know, people don't realize there's a lot of strategy behind it.

And using my knowledge,

it's worth something.

And that's why I like working with businesses and helping them out for the social media aspect of growing and moving forward to help.

their business in a way.

Super valuable.

I mean, you look at brands like Prime, like Mr.

Beast Bars, they're all built on social media markets.

They're all social media.

And now they're in retail stores.

It's crazy.

It's like the next evolution of the creative.

It really is.

It really is.

And I love that for people who are in the influencer world.

Love it.

Because now there's like an end goal.

It is.

Before it was sketchy.

Yeah.

But, you know, no one had faith in it.

You know, people were like, remember back in the day, like, or like parents would be like, why are you doing that?

You need to get a job.

You know, now it's the job.

And now kids want to be YouTubers and want to be social media influencers.

That's what they want to do.

But I've been in the game for a long time, and I'm glad to be back.

I took my year off and back to making funny videos, having fun, working with brands, being blessed, being on your podcast.

Yeah, crushing it.

I appreciate you hitting me up.

Yeah, I was going through all your old YouTube videos.

Used to do a lot of stuff with DDG, right?

Yeah, DDG, my boy, man.

Shout out to DDG.

Didi G, he hit me up

in 2020 during COVID.

It's when everything was shut down, and he's like, yo, I'm doing this YouTube thing.

I want to have you.

I want to help you with your YouTube and to be honest I think it was more of me not taking YouTube too serious

I was known for short form film and I did vlogs and I did you know videos on YouTube and I tried that but it was really me

I probably could have done a lot better and been more successful as I've been consistent thing is I wasn't I slept on it a little bit and I was really focused on the Facebook, the Instagram, and the TikTok.

Because at the time, well, Facebook does pay really good for their shorter terms.

I heard that, yeah.

Yes, they pay really good.

Snapchat.

I'm on Snapchat now.

So

getting back to my roots, like just posting content every day.

That's my goal right now.

Getting back to being on the internet.

I'm doing really well right now.

The last week, 30 million impressions.

Wow.

So that's good.

That's insane.

That's from four or five videos.

That's nuts.

So you don't even drop every day?

No, I don't.

I'm going to get back to trying to post every other day.

Yeah.

That's my goal.

Well, yours are more complex because you're dancing.

So it's, yeah, it takes more effort.

It makes sense, too, for me, because I've always done that.

So when I do something new, like I've been talking about cars recently, people are like, wow, they're shocked that I'm even in something else other than in dancing, you know?

Yeah, so yeah, I mean, but man, look,

God is good, and

I'm just glad that I'm here.

back on the internet, back having fun.

Yeah.

And my mind is in the right place.

That's the best thing.

Yeah, I love to see that.

Because you could get caught up in the scene, especially you're in L.A., right?

Yeah.

Yeah, you could get caught up in that sauce.

Man, people don't realize L.A.

is

a different animal, man.

Oh, for sure.

I tried it for five months.

I couldn't do it.

It's a different animal, man.

It's not the people in L.A., though.

It's everyone else who comes from all over the place to come.

That's a take I haven't heard.

So it's not the locals, it's not the locals.

It's the people because everybody goes to LA.

Right.

So nine times out of ten, it's always like if it's whether it's influencers or businessmen, everyone gossips.

Everyone tries to badmouth another person or competitor.

And it's a fact.

For sure.

It's what they do.

Even me,

if I'm confident in selling a product or something like that, I'll be like,

I'm the best.

This is the best.

Oh, that guy, you're not that good.

But that's how it is in life.

And being in the...

being in LA these past six years now,

I've learned that, you know, a lot of people are just, they're out for themselves, of course, but you have to respect that because everyone's out for themselves because not everyone's going to have your best interests.

Not everyone's going to have your back.

I've met some people that I can clearly say that will literally take the shirt off their back to give it to you.

I've met some really wonderful businessmen, people, but it's very hard to find people like that.

So I tell anyone who comes to LA, be careful.

Be careful.

Don't trust everybody.

You know, you can't just, I'm a friendly person.

I'm happy going.

But you really, for yourself and for your benefit of your future,

be careful of who you work around.

Yeah, that's facts, man.

So

I was too trustworthy when I moved there, I guess.

Played basketball with this one person, developed a relationship with him, invited him over.

He ended up robbing me, breaking into my car.

And I'm like, whoa, this wouldn't happen in New Jersey.

So it was definitely a wake-up call.

Bro, it's like I said, man.

And that person probably wasn't from L.A., was he?

Probably not.

I didn't ask, but probably not but I'm just saying like

I feel bad for for people who tell me these stories and like this person me over or this person me over

and I'm like whenever I meet someone I tell them watch yourself you know yeah I'm not asking I don't need nothing just telling you watch your back yeah because not everybody has your best interests and for sure some people will try to use you for what you have and what you know what you don't even have yeah and it's everywhere too like in Vegas there's a lot of scammers here too I've heard yeah Yeah.

So it's not just an LA thing.

L.A.

definitely gets a bad rep.

I think it's amplified over there because of social media.

Social media, and then it is L.A.

So everybody tries to go to L.A.

Yeah.

But yes, you're right for sure.

I'm from the South, man.

Where are you from?

I'm from Louisiana.

Okay.

I've never been there.

That was fun.

Best house in the world.

I heard that from multiple people.

Yeah, I'm definitely going to get out there.

I love food.

Going back to the dancing, bro.

So how'd you get good?

Because I'm getting married next year.

I got to take dance classes and all that stuff.

Got you.

Man,

you know, it started with YouTube videos videos of watching my favorite dancers growing up from Michael to Chris Brown to, you know, mostly mainstream artists, but then I started to get into more detail of watching people who really dance and that's all they do.

You know,

just watching YouTubers dance, like, well, not even YouTubers, but dancers on YouTube and learning like that.

That's how I started learning.

You know, I would play it over and over again and practice a move or something like that.

And that's basically how I would learn.

So, you didn't have a coach or anything?

I used to dance, like, used to dance.

I tried a couple classes, but choreography wasn't really something I was focused on.

I liked hip-hop and I liked doing my own freestyle.

And that's basically where I was like, I'll just watch YouTube and teach myself.

I feel that.

So,

that's what happened with me with that.

But nowadays, with the dancing I do, it's all like a comedic dance, funny dances.

Yeah.

Like the dance I made on TikTok and stuff like that, you know, that everyone was doing in 2020, 2021.

People still doing it.

Yeah, it's crazy.

That must have gotten like over a billion views collectively.

Probably more than that, I would assume, you know.

And even the old dances that I would do with my friend Nick, the Peter Pan, the swiggle, some New Orleans-style dances, but it was dances that I put on the platform and blew up to an extent.

So when,

yeah, did any of your dances end up in Fortnite?

So they tried to put a dance in Fortnite,

and

it was a

we had some people reach out to them and it was just a like scrap type thing.

Oh, they wanted smoke?

No, they just

they put they put a dance that was very similar to my dance and another creator's dance.

It was like all in the same motion.

Okay.

So they immediately took it out.

His team hit them first before.

Before I hit my people up to reach out.

Yeah.

They took it off the game the first season.

What was the dance?

So the swiggle.

It's Roland's.

Dude, I remember that one.

Yeah, you remember the swiggle?

Yeah.

Yeah, they put that in the game, but then it was like a swiggle, and then he went to doing another dance that was someone else's dance.

Got it.

So they reached out to them.

So they just pulled it immediately.

But it's okay because since 2017, and currently I'm still working with NBA 2K.

Nice.

So I have all the dances I've done over the years.

So a lot of the dances, the emotes that people use in the game, I put the mocaps in.

Oh, that's sick.

I created them.

They have my jump shot in the game.

They have all that in the game.

So I'm still working with 2K and been with them since like 2K17.

It's sick to see you really monetize this because I feel like professional dancers that dance for like artists and stuff, they probably don't make that much.

Well, the thing is, during the tours, they'll make money.

Oh, yeah.

But, you know,

I can say that artists do take care of their dancers that I know of.

Okay.

You know, they do make sure they're good.

But it's also a hard space for people.

I try to tell people, you know, dancing is fun.

Don't make it a career.

I say more so make it a hobby.

Have fun with it.

And then if it works for you, then turn it into a career.

Yeah.

Because it's not going to be for everybody.

I love how some people do it as a, a lot of people do it as a hobby.

It's fun.

It keeps you in shape.

You're always moving.

You know, your cardio, it's the best cardio.

Great workout, yeah.

Great workout.

But I do encourage people, don't quit your day job.

Don't, unless you know that dance is going to soar.

Right.

Don't.

And that's anything in life.

I feel like people jump the gun too soon and it costs them.

And they like, you know, that's a life lesson that I learned.

For sure.

But once you have something going,

make sure you keep going at that.

And then if you want to do like dancing, like a hobby, and it's starting to take off to where it's able to keep up with what you've got going on, bills, et cetera.

Move on and then do that, you know, but don't jump the gun.

I hate when people jump the gun.

Yeah, and you only have like a few prime years of dancing because i saw a clip of justin timberlate dancing yesterday i don't know if you saw it but he looked like he was struggling man man i've seen you remember uh i think this is it was viral early this year genuine was oh yeah i didn't see that one oh it was it was funny man but no yeah i know what you mean you know you gotta seize the moment i'd say like your 20s is probably the best time right yeah i would say the 20s but there are people who are still going strong in their 30s okay that still dance for the top people yeah as health gets better pro athletes are playing in their 30s now so that makes sense.

Yeah.

Who's on your Mount Rushmore for dancers, like top all-time?

We'll put the Les Twins at one.

Okay.

We'll put them ahead together because they're twins.

I would do Michael.

Michael's a massive inspiration.

Yeah.

CB's up there, Chris Brown.

Yeah, he's a beast, man.

Yeah.

He can hoop, too.

Yeah, he can hoop.

He can hoop.

So.

I would choose.

Yeah, that's tough.

It's tough.

There's a lot of dancers out there.

So there's different styles then.

You got B-Boys, you got freestyles, you got people who dance to dubstep.

Right.

There's so much.

Marquis Scott is non-stop.

He's amazing.

And I guess, you know what?

I'm going to throw a female in the equation.

My homegirl, Ladia Yates.

I haven't seen her.

She does Memphis joking.

Got it.

I love watching her dance.

She's dope.

I like CB because the rappers don't really dance these days.

Yeah.

They just sing these days.

Yeah, you're right.

You're right.

But it's crazy I brought up Ladia.

She's done an amazing job with a group of kids in Memphis.

Yeah.

Teaches them dance.

She does Glorillas.

She did Glorilla's choreography for her recent performance.

And

I think they go on tour with her sometimes with her and her crew, but she does a great job for the kids out there.

I love seeing people do stuff with kids.

Yeah, I got to check that out.

What makes you so passionate about helping kids out?

Man, because I was a kid once.

You know, I had nothing.

And if I can help, you know, sometimes, and I, you know, it's crazy is I was talking about this the other day.

Just a random guy having a YouTube video.

He's asking me a question.

I do a lot of stuff for people, and I don't show it on social media because there's no need to.

Right.

I like doing stuff out of the kindness of my heart.

So, like,

it's nothing against the people who do stuff for people.

I love that.

I love the fact that, you know, people do stuff to surprise people with money and stuff.

Some of the content is genuine.

There are other people who out there, Cloud Chase.

For sure.

And for me, I don't really need to post that I'm giving a homeless person money.

I'll just give him some food or whatever he needs real quick.

Boom, go on with my day.

Our kids, sometimes I'm at Foot Locker.

I'm not on Shaq's level.

Shaq is, hey, yo, I'll buy the store.

Whatever you need.

You know,

it's Shaq.

Shaq's awesome.

I love what he does too.

But if I'm at the shoe store and and I see a kid, I've seen it sometimes where the mom's like, can't get those, you know?

Damn.

And I'll be like, yeah, we can.

Dude, that's dope.

You know, I've done that a couple times,

many a times in my life where I've seen that.

You know, I've seen a mom, we can't get those.

Yeah.

And I'll leave like, we can get them.

I got them for y'all.

You know, I've done stuff, little stuff like that.

It don't need to post stuff like that, man.

It's the kind of summer heart.

Dude, it's all relative, too, to whatever financial situation you're in.

So even like, dude, I was at this place that sells like hot dogs, crunchies, hot dogs in Chinatown, and this girl bought this homeless guy like a $5 hot dog sandwich or whatever.

Yeah.

I was like, dude, I could have done that.

Like, step it up.

And it's all like, it's five bucks, but it made the guy's day.

Yeah, man.

But it's so hard because sometimes it's like you just know when the person's not, you know, doesn't really need it.

Right.

There's people who, like, where I live, there's a, there's a little small, little homeless group there, and they know I'll, you know, I'll buy them food and stuff.

There's a couple guys who ask for alcohol.

I'm like, I'm not getting you alcohol, bro.

I'm not getting you vodka.

They want vodka.

I'm like, no.

I'll get you some tacos.

You want something to drink?

Water.

I'll get you some water, some Gatorade.

You know, there's no need for you to want a beer.

There's no need of vodka.

I'll give you like 20 bucks sometimes.

I stopped doing money.

Yeah, but they live by me, so it's a difference.

But you're right.

The money thing is a it's a no-go, you know, because nowadays, man, there's so many people out there who who will pocket a bunch of money and go hop in their Mercedes.

Yeah.

I've seen it, and it's crazy.

It's tough out there, man.

Last time I was there, I went to Venice Beach, and we had 200 sandwiches, and that wasn't even enough.

There was that many tents out there.

Damn, man.

It was crazy.

They went so fast.

It's harder out here because I do it here, too, but

it's wild, man.

L.A.'s got a big homeless problem for sure.

Yeah, it definitely, definitely does, man.

But, you know, I feel like God put me on the planet for a reason, to be

an inspiration, a funny person.

to make people smile and laugh and that's why I'm here.

So I like to have fun.

And that's a powerful skill, man, to be able to provide joy and make someone's day.

Like that adds up because you're getting millions of views.

Yeah, but like even what you're doing, you're putting people, you have a platform.

And just me speaking on your platform, I appreciate you.

Of course, man.

I always like to hear people's story.

And I like to hear why people do what they do.

You know what I mean?

And when I find people that don't do it for money, I know there's a greater purpose there.

Yeah, I mean, you know, the thing is, everyone needs money to an extent.

But for me, you know, I do my deals with brands and stuff like like that.

I make my money to live, take care of my loved ones, people I care about deeply.

But at the end of the day, I'm just having fun.

Yeah.

Trying to live.

That's what life should be about, man.

We're only here for a short time.

You never know.

Yeah.

We lost both our dads, man, way before I thought it'd be.

So you just never know.

Yeah.

I'm definitely going to pray for you.

I don't know if you've ever been prayed for, but I'm going to pray for you.

I don't know if I have, but thank you.

I got you.

I got you.

Yeah, dude.

Powerful episode.

Anything you want to close off with or promote?

Man,

right here.

So don't mind the beard.

We're in Vegas.

And I used somebody else's beard oil.

And

that's what I shouldn't have done.

I tested somebody else's stuff out, but I got my own beard oil, Rue Oil.

It's rueoil.com.

It'll be everywhere.

I have a social media handle for it.

It's Dan Rue Oil.

But I'm Dan Rue.

I appreciate you guys so much.

And thank you for having me here.

Thanks for coming on, man.

Powerful message.

Very excited to see how people react to this and help people out.

Thanks for coming on.

Thanks for watching, guys.

As always, see you next time.

Peace.