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Miami Beach Al Capone with Petey DeAbreu
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This week I am joined by the hilarious Petey DeAbreu, we talk about how we met. His love for kicks and being adjacent to the community. How we connected, the first time I saw him do stand up. Also we touch on his journey from working at a sneaker store to doing comedy full time. We go over when he went from rock bottom to where he is now.
Plus much much more!
Where to find Petey DeAbreu:
Socials: IG: https://www.instagram.com/pdeezjokes/
Podcast Linktree: https://linktr.ee/myfirstkicks
Intro Music by The DoppleGangaz: https://thedoppelgangaz.bandcamp.com/
Outro Music by Gordon Bombay: https://thegordonbombay.bandcamp.com/
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Transcript
Introduction and Guest Anecdotes
00:00:15
Speaker
Let's get everyone, welcome back to my first kiss. This is episode 199, and I'm here joined by longtime friend, longtime, you know, comedy peoples, because everybody, it's always funny, because people always think that, because I hang out with so many comedians that I'm also a comedian. You dabble though. No, never dabble. Back then. When? Like one day. One day? It was one day I seen you. And I said, damn, I hope you don't pursue this.
00:00:45
Speaker
Welcome to the podcast PD, man. Yeah, it's a long time coming, bro. I've known you through like two body shapes course. He had the, cause he was the, when I met him and he had the different haircut and I'm like, but you young, so I'm gonna let it ride.
00:01:04
Speaker
We're the same age. mean, i mean I know you had like and eight different lives
Age Revelations and Humor
00:01:12
Speaker
though. No, I'm a dinosaur. I just had a 42nd birthday, Jackie Rob. Hey, let's go. yeah You don't look 42nd. It's 42 at all. son it's cause you know God made me poor, but he made me a little younger.
00:01:23
Speaker
I mean, God like, yo, I can't give you everything, bro. I can't give you something else. For real, was like, yo, I can't give them both, son. Give them the struggle, but preserve the vibe. You know what I mean? Preserve the vibes. We good to go on that. But yeah we've been rocking with each other for ah such a long time, man. I mean, i' seen I remember that first time I seen you do comedy. And it was it was at the Comedy Central so showcase. because ah That was the first time? That was crazy. That's wild. It was like, was that that wasn't the MetroCard joke. That's the one after.
00:02:03
Speaker
that was ah um That was the my heart joint. That was the Jewish people in the hood. Yes, that's what it was. And that video went crazy. That video went viral for that. but I feel like it should have came out now. yeah yeah Maybe we should bring it back. You have to bring it back. yeah I had a joke that good since, bro. What are you talking about? You got baggage. That's crazy. Let me stop. Let me stop.
Comedy Beginnings and Sneaker Scene
00:02:32
Speaker
But, but since then, you know, I seen from there to, you know, you traveling the world and now you're doing, I saw your one man show and I think, you know, it's great. And that's why I always wanted you to be on this podcast. Like, I mean, shout out to Chris Cheney because the broski, the broski but when he was doing sup pod, you know, he got, he had y'all, he had you on and, and it was just like, that's man funny. Like, that was bad funny. RFP sub pod. That was-pandemic. Yeah, they were doing that. They were going crazy with the episodes. They were doing weekly, just talking about everything that was dropping, but yeah, you were.
00:03:08
Speaker
I feel like you've also been in the New York sneaker scene for like a heavy, heavy long time. I don't know. The sneaker scene? I just like sneakers. And I'm from New York. Yeah. I don't know if it's a scene. It's definitely a scene, bro. It can't be a scene. You know what? It can't be. I guess it can. It can definitely be. But I don't.
00:03:26
Speaker
I feel like I'm not in the scene. I'm just, you know what I mean? It's part of the scene. It's like I'm not in the scene. It's like, you know what I'm saying? Like painting that's on the wall. It's not the wall.
00:03:40
Speaker
It's not a part of the wall. It's on the wall. It's hanging on it? Yeah. You just hanging on? I'm not hanging on, but I'm like, I'm an accessory to the vibe, to the community. I'm an accessory to the community, but I don't pay tithes and offerings. Not like that. That's how back to you. Yo, I heard you in the sneaking community now, man.
00:04:03
Speaker
What happened to the comedy community? 10% every month. 10% time to film night. weird SAG? yo SAG union. Sneaker. Sneaker. Sneaker is all the SAG.
First Jordans and Childhood Memories
00:04:21
Speaker
Yo, that's crazy. But hard pivot. You're here to answer the question that I ask everybody each week. And that question is, what's your first kicks with that first person? First pick kicks. All right, so here's what happened, man. OK.
00:04:34
Speaker
I'm trying to think how old I was. I might've been like... 27. Nah, like seven and eight. And I remember my... My older sister, we got we got different moms, because my pops was outside, you feel me? So different moms. But she was she's seven years older than me. And she used to, she's living queen. She's from Queens. We in the Bronx. oh hu So it was like, she had a different vibe, you feel me? So she used to be like the, and then she dated a drug dealer, you feel me? Not to put her business out there like that. Nah, my son was getting money, so he used to have a lookin' crazy dip, and I remember seeing him like, fool no, this is, I'm about to take you back, bro. She used to have a like- Oh, minx in first? Nah, nah, nah, like a little the French, the Tam joint, French beret lookin' joints, and then she had the, she had the white and red Jordan Sixes, bro, when they first came, I'm talkin' about
00:05:33
Speaker
not retro like yeah so imagine sitting in with the and i seen them because i had seen them in like a magazine but i didn't see them up close you feel me when i seen them with her feet i was like nah right yo nah you don't understand bro like uh yeah i don't know how kids i don't know if kids still get excited like or not even gonna say that i don't i don't know if they're still like new technology, or if it amazes people, like Howard did back then. right yeah I think that was like 1992, 1993. So like yeah, that was the Olympics. Yeah. That was. And those are Carmine's sexes? 1993? Nah, just the OG red and white. OG red and white. OK. OK. I think those came out before the black and red joint, the reds. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The infrareds. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Those was the first so and the level. It was white level. I was like, whoa! Damn, you just took me back. So anyway.
00:06:25
Speaker
It was time to go to school now, back to school, you know what I mean? Me and my sisters, my me and my sisters that I live with, yeah my older sister with the J's. So we go to Modell's, we go sneaking shopping back in the day, you know what I mean? Shout out to Modell's bro. Oh, and then, you know, me and my pops, he was one of them, you know, in and outs, you know what I mean? He wasn't around type, type, type. So when he come, he spend the block. Oh, let me take kids, get sneaky, you know what I mean? Let me do one of them. Let me do my one good thing. Yeah, yeah. So I don't look like a toad that be there, but like, you know what I mean? He like, yo, let me see. Let me pull up one time. We just spend Modell's one time. I got a few, you know what I mean? Yeah. So my sisters, I remember my sister got some like,
00:07:02
Speaker
Some avias. Those was crazy work. The high top joints? No, bro. In the 90s, avias wasn't avia in no more. In the 80s, the baby early, nah, it wasn't really. You had Jordan on the block. Everything looked crazy. The closest, like my sister my other sister had LA gears, and those was more valid than that a so the And then, so my pops tried to get me the avials too. I said, nah. He said, what you You You gotta understand, bro. Models, man. Like, yo, the Jordans, they had the, and it was the brads. They just came out, bro. They had them on the shelf, bro. And it was like,
00:07:52
Speaker
They had him like like and then you gotta understand like we never see no clear like they had the little clear clear the clear on the bottom right? Oh We never see they had the two holes and the joy
00:08:15
Speaker
rony had to spoiler And Like a car, bro. They had the spoiler on the back with the bubble, bro. So he tried to hit me with the ambulance. I said, nah. But see. He was like, he tried to pump fake. Like, yo, I ain't got the, because I got to get you, you, and you. So I ain't going to be able to get you, you, and you. So I'm like, what about me? Yo, and it's like, he he wasn't in the he wasn't in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, family community, you know what I'm saying? So, boom so i'all I just remember, yo.
00:08:48
Speaker
I think this might be the only time I ever cried for some shit. OK, OK. Bro, I started crying. In the middle of Models. In Models, bro. Not even in the middles at the wall, bro. I was at the wall like this. Because they let me stay, let me hold it. Joyce, I felt it. And I was like, nah. Y'all went crazy, bro. I started balling, man. And my pilot, you know what it was? It was $92. I was like, $92, son. Yeah, yeah. son 92, you know how crazy that is in in the early 90s? My pops wasn't even selling drugs, bro. $90? He probably was like, 90 going to take care of all three of them. You go to Burger King and that. I was like, nah. Take them to the ball pit. I need them Jordans, man. Yo, I remember I got them, bro. Yo.
00:09:39
Speaker
You know, I think I might still have the same traditions when I get shoes now, like the joints that I really, really, I only get joints that I really like. I don't get just whatever. So like, I remember like I still, I take them out, bro.
00:09:55
Speaker
You know what I'm saying? I got to let the
Designing a Hit T-shirt
00:09:57
Speaker
let the laces breathe. Yeah, god get yeah. Because sometimes they'd be choked up in the box. They'd be like, yo. I hate that that first initial. Yeah, got be like because you got to get them. So now I remember, and I put them on the box, bro. And and I'm just looking at them, bro. I'm like, yo, I really got these. And then, bro, I will wear them to death, bro. Of course. Bro, I used to sleep in the master's room. What?
00:10:21
Speaker
Not like not like like all like the first couple of days. I was gonna say, on the street straight into bed. Nah, first couple of days. i wouldn't up Yeah, bro, those was crazy. You don't understand. I was thinking about that earlier. I'm like, bro, you don't understand, bro. Get in the pier.
00:10:36
Speaker
Cause I mean, you know, Jordan got countless legendary joints. I just remember being a kid at that time, bro. And I was a Knicks fan. So that's how you know you ill, bro. You know you got good product, bro, where you could kill somebody's team. And they still cry. And they still cry. That should have been easy. My poshos would be like, yo, but he beats your team. I'll go get my Uings. And you know what's crazy? The Ewings had like a year or two. They had like two years. Strong two years. Strong two years. I mean, the basketball key chain on the... And then you got the... What's the cross joint that Nike ended up making? Air raids? The air raids. When they started putting out the air raids, it was crazy. Those was hard. I'm trying to think. Those was like around above the rim.
00:11:34
Speaker
Yeah, and then they did, because Yuens did the air raid first, then Nike took that model and made their own air raid. Made them better way better. Yeah, way better. way better um And then that's when we got the Spike Lee joints with the with the like but african Africa print on them. You know what I'm talking about? The Kinte print on it.
00:11:54
Speaker
All the, yeah, the same aerates with the on it. And the NAACP, Phil Knight joints, you know the vibes. You The Kwanzaa kicks. My first pair of Kwanzaa kicks. You know what's ill though? You know what's ill? Like if you really was on some of my first pair of Kwanzaa kicks, you could probably pull it off.
00:12:18
Speaker
The black history month. Yeah, because it's like at least I don't know how long they've been doing it. They stopped. They haven't they haven't put out. I guarantee you, if you look close enough, there's probably you probably don't. Let's find out something you would model. You would rock. But I'm pretty sure it is like somebody that they like. Oh, B.H.M. baby. I copped the BHM, I copped the Kobe joints. Yeah, I was just gonna say the Kobe, but the 10s, I think it was, right? The 10s? Nah, I think it was like black and white. It was black and gold. I got the, I think that was the sixes, the phenomenon joints. Yeah, the phenomenon joints. Yeah, the old sixes. It has black with the gold on the back, bro. Whoo! You was like, we got February and more. Bro, you know what, I used to work at a sneaker store in Miami. That's how it, called Simon's. Simon's. Liberty City in the hood hood. In the hood of the hood.
00:13:09
Speaker
but i got it was the stories i gotta know i'm just saying like thehood like So I'm from New York, but I was living in Miami for a little bit. And even working in a sneaker store, that was my rock bottom, because I'm not a job guy. But I was just like, shit, it's the only thing I do. But this is to reference the one-man show. This is before crime or after crime? After crime, for sure. Who the hook? I gotta, what's the stories? I gotta know these Not way after, stories. but a I'm couple just saying like the hook. years after. But yeah, so I'm working in the sneaker store.
00:13:43
Speaker
it was like It was a chain sneaker store because I think it was about seven of them at the time. They probably got more now. um But it was just that they was a valid spot. It was like a Jewish owned spot, Hebrew owned spot. um They had the Nike account.
00:14:01
Speaker
And you know, and they, you know what I'm saying? And they in the middle of the hood, so they was letting the things go early and all that double up, no box. It was like, but like, and then the consumer, like you gotta think Liberty City is like one of the most hoodest hoods. So I don't know anything about Liberty. I didn't know, I didn't know, so I'm just like, yeah, Liberty City, whatever. Cause my man used to, he used to be the manager and the buyer for the store. So that was cool too, like,
00:14:26
Speaker
More like one year me and him went to Magic in Vegas. You know what I'm saying? I was the one to go to Magic so far. Bro, that shit's crazy. But like, so boom. I'm in there with him. um And just ah it was different, bro. like The shoppers, like people have guns on them. like you just It's just normal. like In New York, people have guns, but I not like how I've seen it down there. like I mean. In New York, people have guns? Yeah. you I don't know if you've seen the news lately. It's getting boomed every second. You heard? It's getting boomed every second. Every second. Yo, got off topic, bro? Yeah, yeah.
00:15:03
Speaker
So the other day I was like, yo, if the mayor got boomed, will we more than celebrate? That's definitely a celebration. viral. Yo, the whole city, that's like the Knicks won the championship, bro. And you know what's going to come out the hole? Hookah. That shit is going to come straight here. That's hard. That's hard. That's hard. But nah, so it was just an ill environment. That's because the store was ill. But yeah, so I got isomes.
00:15:26
Speaker
What release, did you work any like big sneaker release? Every Christmas, bro. What are you talking about? In the middle of the hood? The 11th? The 11th? Motherfuckers be trying to kill me, bro. They weren't trying to be your friend? I ain't going to hold you. No. They weren't like, yo, man, I got to get these. You got to help me out. You got to help me out. Yeah, they try to be your friend at first until that day come, man. You know what I mean?
00:15:45
Speaker
And you ain't got everybody in the family's kicks, bro. Because you know they got a big family. You know what I'm saying? We need the 4C up to the 12th. Everything in between. You know what I'm saying? I used to nip off to the stock room, bro. When they let people in, I was in the back.
00:16:04
Speaker
because I would make my little side deals. Like, they would allow everybody in the store to make like one or two side deals. OK. And by side deals, I just mean like hook people up for more money. Right. Yeah. You know what I mean? So it'd be like, yo, 50 on top. Which was dope. You got to think, come on, man. I mean, you barely making any money? Like, yo, I could get a little more money on top. And it was like, you got paid regular joint commission was like, so you know, you in the hood, bro, in the middle of the hood. You know where it's the most dangerous place? The most sneakers get sold, bro.
00:16:34
Speaker
Yeah, of course. So, you know what I'm saying? Out there, dude come in, just got out. Uh-huh. I need a new J's. Shorty come in, she work at the barbecue, at the smoke house. She smell crazy every day. Yeah. She come in. What y'all got?
00:16:49
Speaker
What y'all got? What y'all got? What y'all got? Did you actually be knowledgeable about this thing? Or were you just like, yo? Yo, really? Yeah, you gotta be knowledgeable, but then you know what it taught me too? Because back to what I was saying about how crazy it was, I was just good. It taught me even more to be like, to use my gift of gab type shit.
00:17:10
Speaker
even how I would talk to people. Yo, what's up, boss? Everybody was my boss. You know what I mean? It put people at ease. Like, if you call somebody your boss, we got a chop on them and be like, hey, it's just, I just took that employees. I took that employees out here. Yo, where? Where? Put the chop on it. Got the chop like, yo, I don't have my shoes.
00:17:32
Speaker
I remember I'd be like, yo, what's good, boss? He'd be like, yeah, that's me. Yeah, that's me. He'd clock it back. He'd just like, all right, let me freak it back. You good? But yeah, just yeah, I think anything customer service like that, it's like, I think the better you could talk. But yeah.
00:17:53
Speaker
And then that was when 23 is Back was first, like 2010, 2009.
Career Shift to Comedy
00:18:01
Speaker
It wasn't first out, but that was when it was on it, heavy. And then everybody knew the colorways, so that was the other thing too. My man saw the t-shirt company back in the day. Right. Yeah, I heard about that. You were saying you were doing t-shirts.
00:18:16
Speaker
but yeah Was it the, was it the ones that go with each release? Like you'd be like, yeah, whatever though, whatever like the hallway, the most illest shirt I ever had ever that me and my man's made, bro. And then we had i artists too. So that was like, it wasn't just like some AI and be like an actual artist that we know, be like, yo, here's a vision.
00:18:36
Speaker
And say this, because this is at the time when it would be like, you know what I mean? You take a verse or whatever on a shirt. So it was when the LeBron South Beach first. That had to be a movie. That had to be the first LeBron. The ninths. The ninths. With the icy bottom ground.
00:18:54
Speaker
Bro, you ready for the, you ready for the tee? And I remember, shout out Joe Buttons, he wore it at a Summer Jam. You know how crazy I felt seeing Joe Buttons wear the shirt I made at Summer Jam, bro? He didn't even know I existed, but whoever was shopping for him bought the tee. And bro, it was ah all great remember kicks right right yeah all gray. All gray.
00:19:16
Speaker
And I had a cartoon, my man drew like a cartoon of like Al Capone, like an ill cartoon though, like valid. Sometimes it'd be bad drawings, and you'd be like, yeah, that's cool. But you'd be like, yo, sudden control. But nah, this was valid, valid, valid. So it was like ah I was like, yo, let me get Al Capone.
00:19:38
Speaker
but like or like an image of what Al Capone would look like, cartoon with like a beach, like a beach shirt on, like beach vibes. Tom Bahama vibes, you know what I'm saying? and then And then they say, yo, gangsters don't die. They get chubby and move to Miami. And he had to tell me like that, bro. You know the type of numbers that did in the hood, bro? Do you don't know? I had to go crazy. yeah like And then it's tools like, think about it, yo. We we like we knew when it was coming, we had them.
00:20:08
Speaker
Like we had the shirts before. Like we yeah like so even when we was dropping them early, yeah selling them early, we was hitting like the yo, we need that shirt. It was like that all of Liberty City and the whole Miami.
00:20:24
Speaker
It was in Summer Jam. It went from Miami to New York. That's crazy. To Summer Jam, bro. I need to, somebody needs to find this shirt. I'm gonna find the picture right now. I mean an actual shirt. Like the actual shirt. Somebody, imagine it's in- Oh, you know it's wild. In like, what's the Goodwill? What? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. That would be it. Final in it. Yo, you know what's crazy? I remember coming back visiting like New York.
00:20:52
Speaker
and seeing somebody rocking one in the subway, bro. Like just writing like, you know how crazy like in my mind, it was like, damn, like. Cause it wasn't nobody, we was on Facebook. You didn't stop up and be like, yo, I made that shirt. I'm from the Bronx, son. I can't even play, is it bro? I look like, bro. This is wild, son, that's wild. And yo, my man, yeah yeah that on your chest, pause. is yeah yeah
00:21:25
Speaker
That's wild, bro. he said you ain't stop
00:21:30
Speaker
Yo, yeah, yeah. Yo, I did that. that's Boy. I mean, yo, it's funny, cause like because obviously, i drop we dropped shirts for the pod. And i oh i if I see somebody on it, I'll be like, yo, Shiba.
00:21:51
Speaker
you want me to eat me me You want me to sign that? Yo, just like, wow. Just walking with a marker. Like, yo, you want me to sign that for you on a train? Like, hem. Hem. Hem did it. Hem did it. It's your boy. It's your boy.
00:22:22
Speaker
Nah. Nah, but yeah, seeing your shirt in like- Nah, I was like, cause like I said, that was like 20, what year was that? Cause it was in Miami. So wait. That was the ill thing too. That's why I- I'm trying to remember. So was it the nine or was it the elite that dropped? The 11, the elite. Nah, it was the first, it was the first South Beach joint with the Air Max bubble that went up. The Air Max bubble joint. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The shoe was legendary. That and the entourage. Yeah. Crazy. Crazy. T-shirt for that.
00:22:51
Speaker
three well You did one for the entourage too? oh no no I was gonna say. That was but before i was yeah i was still I was still in the entourage. I was on the entourage. I mean, they one, it's funny cause like that show showed people that like other people can be sneaker heads cause of turtle. But then it was like,
00:23:13
Speaker
you you You associate it with that like the world seeing a sneaker head as somebody who is the best friend of an actor. And the only reason he got he's like getting sneakers is because he's getting paid to be in his entourage. True. I mean, that's how I be sometimes. That's all it is. If you may you make you make it, I'm like, i'm like yo, bro. Slide me a couple hundred on this. Especially if we the same shoe size. like If we the same shoe size.
00:23:39
Speaker
But you know what I was thinking about earlier, though? I was thinking about sneaker spots. Yeah. Because your man you had on here, I'm friends with him online. Team Mark? Yeah, Team Mark. He had mentioned a spot in Co-op City called Basics. Yeah, yeah. But they just closed, though. They just, it was heartbreaking, bro. I caught my last pair, Tim's, just off on GP. yeah I didn't even need a pair. You were just like, I gotta get one last seal. I Bro, I've been, imagine you go, and then I started thinking about another spot called H and&Y back in the day that was on Gun Hill, right, on like wild White Plains, right under, that was like the whole neighborhood spot, like,
00:24:19
Speaker
It was, but anyway, so I was thinking about it, like, damn, like, what would happen if, like, if it was, imagine if we could rewind time and it wasn't retros, bro. Right. So you had the whole, like, like the, you know, the value of the shoe? Like, would it? I don't know. Cause I always feel like when the shoe originally drops, people don't really want it.
00:24:44
Speaker
So that's why, I think a lot of- Nah, but like, I'm saying like, say with the J's, right? When I'm like, yo, I was crying for those. right yeah Imagine if they never all like- They never came out again. Or they might've came back one, like now I feel like it's so much yeah yeah that it's just like, it kind of kills that anticipation. Oh, for sure. Because it's almost like, somebody will cop the same pair every year. Every year, bro. I know somebody. I got another pair. yeah know I know somebody that copped, has like every single release of the black cement threes.
00:25:21
Speaker
I mean, that makes sense. so Yeah. And but it's like they have the OG, like they have the and like they all are still in really good condition. So it's like, are you rebuying because you like it's like you rebuying it because you love the shoe. get I got that. But it's like you still are you going to go back and wear the the OG pair or are you going to go back and wear the 2015 pair? You know, like it's like yes and a mantle for some people.
00:25:46
Speaker
All right, you won. No, I'm not saying I understand. Like, you know, but I'm just saying that's that's what I'm saying. Like, that's because then too, like one pair might be the rainy day cement. Yeah. Oh, one may be the burgundy carpet. Not quite the right. You know what I'm saying? Different cements for different levels of carpet. You know what I'm saying? There's a burgundy.
00:26:12
Speaker
There's the red, you know know that red carpet where you step out showing what it's all about. hu Yeah, that carpet. And then there's like the mild, there's like a I think a blue carpet, green carpet. I understand what you're saying now. At first I was like, you're just going to people's houses and you're like, what color is your carpet? And now I'm thinking, now I'm like, okay, to do the walk, do it in the walk. and then Yeah, pull up pull up and to the Met Gala black cement threes, bro In a in a in a in a in the in the Al Capone in a in a cement He's in a cement print suit being like
00:26:59
Speaker
Yo, yeah. Oh, that would be crazy. The elephant the elephant man suit with the elephant print. Ooh, that'd be awesome. That'd be fire. Bring him back. That's it. Get you back in the t-shirts. Elephant man. Ooh, that's a hard shirt. The elephant man with the print on him.
00:27:18
Speaker
The Tommy Gun is like a black and red Tommy Gun. You don't even need the gun, you just throw the elephant man. What's the quote? What's the quote then? Just put elephant man, you need that elephant man to the point. Back then you you you couldn't get right to the point you had to jazz with it. Yeah. I miss that era though. the The and one shirts? Nah, I feel like there was a t-shirt moment.
00:27:41
Speaker
where, or not even just T-shirt, but like it was a graphic moment where I feel like it was like you just flip a word or you just like flip a saying or you like throw a verse or you just, like it was little stuff that, cause remember I was retail. So that's what even got me into making my own shirts. Cause I see how people would shop in. And I'm like, I could, my ideas is better than these ideas. You know what I mean? So, but I feel like now it was like a little more,
00:28:08
Speaker
it' It's definitely still image. I don't know. I think a lot of it is, like, cleaner. No, I mean, like, this clean like your shirt is, like, yeah image. I got shirts that I'm like, damn, it's like, it's images more than it is, like, a scene. Yeah. Like, whatever, you know what I mean? Right, yeah. I do. i Because, like, I remember, I'm trying to remember, like, the, you know, the shirts from, like, the sneaker shirts that would be, like, Kiss My Airs. That's what I'm trying to say. That's what I'm talking about. Like, sneaker, what's the name of that joint?
00:28:36
Speaker
Yo, what was the name of that shirt? they was I mean, the brand was legendary back then. I'm trying to remember. Sneak tip. Sneak tip. Oh, my God. Shouts to sneak tip. Oh, oh, oh. And y'all, it's so ill, bro. I remember eight and nine when they first, first, first, like, I was day i was in the in the in Miami at the time, Ray and them. Oh, yeah. To even see him go from, like,
00:28:59
Speaker
at the sneaker, at the little sneaker convention joints. And he just like to see him grow it. It felt like I was like me and my mans was like here, but he took it man serious. And I was like, and then it was like, I see my one shirt in the subway and I seen like, sweatsuits. I see eight and nine in every store I went into. He had the Jabal eight and nine joints. I was like,
00:29:21
Speaker
Damn, bro, it really went on. good But that was from that era of sneak tip. Right, yeah. Rock Smith. Mm-hmm. All that. All the Moose Limited and Karma Loop days.
00:29:36
Speaker
Karma Loop days is crazy. Those are the legendary. So imagine I'm working the store, and then my man um My man and Brett, shout out to Brett. He was like one of them dude, he probably, holed ah you might know Brett, matter of fact, yeah. You probably know Brett, matter of fact, cause now I'm thinking. and um But um yeah, he was like, I love, I used to love that, like that part of it, like just being the homie with the homie that's the buyer of the store. yeah So you get to see all of everything that's coming out. You get to see all the gear people try and sell.
00:30:05
Speaker
You know what I mean? That shit was fire. Yeah. So then like, I mean, you move back to New York and you do comedy. Do comedy. And like, what what was that switch from how did that feel and what what but pushed you over to that point to actually
Early Comedy Days
00:30:18
Speaker
want to do? Oh, I got fired from the sneaker store. So I had to figure it out. You know what I'm saying? That was my rock bottom. How you get fired from your last hookup? I was like a hookup. That was like my life, like Brett hooked it up and then I fucked it up. He hooked it up, I fucked it up. What'd you get fired for?
00:30:33
Speaker
um just I wasn't a subordinate employee. I wasn't a subordinate of like I'd be. I just was pretty... I thought you was boss. I thought everybody was boss. Not my boss. yeah Everybody with a gun was a boss, but everybody that paid me wasn't a boss. I'd be like, what? I was in notorious for what? Hey, PD, can you grab this? What? All right, all right, give me a second.
00:31:02
Speaker
I was wild, I'd be like, yo, give and then you know what it was? They had hired a dude, a new, like, a like my there was a ah manager supervisor named Milan, that was my dude, Brett, my dude. Then they hired a new dude, and he was like, younger than me. I'll play that. So I'm like, so i'm like and but he was trying to son me. oh So I had to sun him. I had to, you know what I mean? Judo the sun, the sunmanship. I had to Judo the sunmanship. I had to sun him. He tried to sun me. So he'd be like, yo, I think there's something that needs to be folded. I'm like, I'll be there. And then I just keep doing what I'm doing. I used to do that shit all the time, bro. But my sales was up. But I felt like he was messing with me. But yeah. So I got fired from that joint. Moving back to New York, I was doing comedy.
00:31:51
Speaker
It was cool, cause i like I said, I i was like, i I would consider it rock bottom at the time. In Miami, when I'm like, damn, I don't know what I'm gonna do, bro. Like I had some money saved up, but I was like, yo, I don't know what I'm gonna do. And then I just...
00:32:09
Speaker
comedy, bro. Cause it was like, I seen some dude and he was like, you know, in a motivational type joint, he was like, he was like, don't ever die without trying to do something you always wanted to do. Right? So I knew it, then it hit me right away, bro. I was like smoking a Zaw one day after I got fired, bro. I was vegetated. I'm like, I'm like mad. I'm like, it's hitting me the first time, bro. Like reality's hitting me like, damn, I ain't got no education really.
00:32:37
Speaker
yeah Every job I ever got was a hookup, and I done ran down the hookup show with what I'ma do, man. And then that shit hit me, like, this for that voice, bro. yeah Yo, yo, try something, you ain't never dig, don't do it, boy, you got me. And I was like, yo, no! I was like, no!
00:32:57
Speaker
I was like, no, bro. That was it, bro. Then I was just like researching. Because I was always trying to be successful right yeah and and you know i'm saying in my my own way. I was always trying to be successful, even in the sneakers shit. like I was always trying to be successful, bro. T-shirts. I did a little art for one moment. You know what I'm saying? and But it hit me like, boom, like, oh, shit.
00:33:18
Speaker
I ain't gotta, I don't gotta invest nothing but time. Everything else I needed money, I needed to flip, grit, grit. You know what I mean? So I'm like, boom, I got, all right. I'ma just send it not just, the same way that I was trying to be successful in other things, I just, I applied everything I was doing but to comedy now. So it was like, with everything else I did, I would research like crazy. I would read about it. I would find every little bit of material about it. I would just nerd out about stuff that I wanna do. So then it was like, when I got into the comedy,
00:33:48
Speaker
Or when I started, I wanted to get into it. But like when you first, first start? I would that was i want to know about when you first, first started. Now, when I first, first started, it was that that's all it was, bro. It was like literally like, yo, just you know you whack, bro. For real. Because I never played myself. Right, yeah. I was like, yo, you know you, but you know you want to do that. you know You feel like you should be doing this. So then that was it. Did you did you start comedy in New York? Or did you try that? Started in Miami. OK. I feel like that scene has got to be Crazy. It was. i I mean, when I started, you got to think I didn't know nothing about nothing, bro. I was just I was literally going to open mics before I started just watching. Like, you know, because you'd be successful. They say, oh, you just got to go with that. Whatever you like. You got to go with that. And I would just go watch.
00:34:34
Speaker
get my little courage, up i would then I would ask people. i would So those is like the fundamentals, I think. so It sounds so simple, but I think those are the things that help propel me even further in the beginning, because I always came in humble, but I always like was like, just asking everybody. yeah Not everybody, but if somebody looked valid, I'd be like, yo, you shit, fire, yo, yo, I'm new. So like what what would you, if you could give me any advice?
00:34:59
Speaker
I did that for years, bro, for years. like Literally for years, yeah hundreds of people. yeah You know what I mean? I mean, that's that's great because I feel like that's the hardest part. You don't do that no more. Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. like you know people People don't ask like ask for advice or tips. like I'm always like, yo, if you got any advice, hit me up. Cheat code, bro. And then too, it's like...
00:35:18
Speaker
I get it because I mean sometimes people are busy whatever whatever but if I'm just like I would be like yo give me one thing can you give me one thing you would give me advice or whatever and I would love it if it's like somebody that's been doing it forever because now you got 30 years advice and you could like you know you won't be able to utilize it right away but it's in there so you know it's another option out right yeah but um yeah man that in the beginning was crazy. Yeah, that. And then, I mean, so like you moved up here, were you still collecting sneakers at all? like Or were you just straight? No, I had my joints from Miami. hu And then, too, I was your bro. I'm not going to lie. When I when I when I started doing comedy, I was so like.
00:36:03
Speaker
And when I came back to New York, I was, when I started doing comedy, all I ever thought about after that was comedy. yeah Until I started making a little money in comedy and I'm like, ah, do sneakers again. For real, cause I was like, and then even that, like I'll look back at like how I would dress or how I would be back when I first started. And it was really like, I fake look dusty a little bit. I did bro. Cause I didn't really, I wasn't really like. What are you going up with? What are you going up wearing?
00:36:33
Speaker
I wasn't dusty, but I wasn't like fly. yeah Like, if you saw me, you'd be like, I didn't think I got no style. What a nigga need a shape of a sign, a sign, something's off, something's off. I'm off. But then, you know what it would be too? I'm not even going to lie, like not even know funny shit, bro. Because of the the life that I lived before was so extreme. Extreme.
00:36:58
Speaker
Working at a sneaker's soul was the first step to humbling me, bro. And then after that, and no one i was like and and and trying to be successful, I just knew, like you gotta start at the bottom, bro. You gotta start like the in the lobby, you feel me? So I always, like I never carried over, like, yo, I used to make millions, yo, I had a poor show, I fucking had employees, yo. i I was like, yo, I'm just trying to do this. Let me get these jokes off. I'm going to be wack for a minute. And then I'm going to figure it out quietly. And then I'm going to finesse. and and And I know those little things, like just being enthused. That's like you got this podcast, right? And somebody didn't know nothing about podcasts. Say you was my man, and I wanted to get into podcasting, right? The easiest way for me to get into podcasting is to be like, yo, Haas, you need any help with anything?
00:37:55
Speaker
and With the podcast, let me know. I would love to... like right yeah or Or I'd be like, yo, can I come kick it and check it out a couple of times? and like I don't know if it's New York shit or some broad shit, but I'ma get my way in the building. Without even asking like, hey, can I get in the building? I'ma make myself available and I will always do that. So even in the beginning, I was interning for like years, bro.
00:38:19
Speaker
They should have never let me in the building, bro. That was all I needed, bro. To have a reason to be there every day. Right, yeah. It's like being locked in the gym. Where were you interning at? Greenwich Village Comedy. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Paying Dues in Comedy
00:38:32
Speaker
For bro. That's how I met man people too. That's why like I was thinking about that the other day, like dudes. like Whatever happened to paying dudes? Yeah.
00:38:40
Speaker
Now it's just like, you just gotta have 100,000 on. That's a great deal. You get 15, you good. But you know what, dude? Well, yeah, I was about to say some dumb shit. What? I was about to be like... I was about to be like, yeah, but...
00:38:55
Speaker
Dudes will get you respect. And I'm like, yeah, followers will get you respect. You're right. More respect than me, actually. I was about to be like, but nah, I ain't going to lie. But dudes get you respect. Not that it even matters, but if it does matter to you, it gets you respect with the people that are serious and serious, serious about it. Right, yeah. You know what I mean? For sure. Like, sometimes people be like, but I'm like, yo, bro, I'm like, but do the technicians consider you? Yeah.
00:39:23
Speaker
Like, do the people that's come up. Are you in the conversation? And not even conversation. What happens when your name come up? That's what I'm saying. Are you in the conversation? Nah, not even. Because you don't got to be in the conversation. No. If your name gets brought up, that means you are part of the conversation. OK, two-shack. That's all I'm trying to say. I'm just thinking about sometimes they can hear, they can talk, and they can be like, PD. And then they keep it moving. They don't really hop in the conversation. You know what I'm saying? They just be like, nah. Just throw your name in there.
00:39:48
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Don't even be about comedy. Just Pete and Petey. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just to have your name in a positive light, I think is, you know what I mean? No, yeah, that's what I feel like that's a lot. A lot of people need to know because then I'm going to sound dumb if I say this. I feel like there is like if you are if your intent is to do something, it's definitely you want to be part of it. Like you've got to be part of it. You can't just be like half ass. I'm going to just. Yeah, I was not to whatever. I was watching this. John Madden. I got to watch that. I want to. I need to watch that. But there was one part where they were talking about like when they two and they was like,
00:40:24
Speaker
when they would do hire when they would hire people. So in the interview process, they'd be like, so what game are you playing right now? And like if they were like, yeah, I just programmed, they'd be like, yeah, this is not your job. Get him out of here. Because even that, but it's the truth. So you got to think, like if somebody's enthusiastic, that was one thing too. like I had a shitty thing that I was doing. like fucking interning, I was like whatever that needed to be done, I would do it bro. Seating people, answer phone calls, clean the bathroom, do inventory. You know what I mean? So, I don't know man. That's crazy. So like people who are not familiar with your, yeah. But it got me, cause like people would see me, people would watch me, you got to think like but all the kind of whoever would watch me and be like, damn son really want to be here bro. yeah And then not only that, it would it would allow me the opportunity to be bad.
00:41:16
Speaker
Cause if everybody loved me and I'm enthusiastic about it, it's like, I can explore. I could, I could experiment. I could try. And like, that's what I did for two years. I didn't, and it was the advice I got from somebody I heard one day. He was like, yo, he was like,
00:41:31
Speaker
Don't go everywhere being mediocre. Find one place that allows you to stink, and then figure it out there, and then go everywhere once you figure it out. Oh, that's fire, yeah. Because you can't get a second chance. You can't do it, what's that, the first? You only get one chance to make an impression. That's it. But it's like, yeah, you found your dojo, and you were like, yeah, I'm going to keep doing my karate until I'm good enough to go fight somebody at another dojo. Hell yeah, bro. That shit was real. And then at the time, not as much anymore, but there was more scenes in New York back then. Back then, yeah. You got the Brooklyn scene. You got the club scene. You got the alt scene. It was kind of like the Brooklyn scene. And then you had the hood scene. You know what I mean? You had different scenes, bro. I've actually never been to the hood scene.
00:42:21
Speaker
I gotta, you gotta let me know, I'll pull up. These spots, they got conscious, and I'm gonna say it's hood, but it's just in, it's not downtown, it's not hood. It's nice, they got good food, good people, comedy and house. Soundview Comedy Club? Nah, nah, nah. Once it's at the Hookah Lounge and you gotta be like, hey! I've done that too, I've done Evo Lounge, Westchester Ave, you know what I'm saying, by Parkchester, you kidding, you know what I'm saying, Hookah?
00:42:46
Speaker
I've done it, bro. It's just mad hookah. It's like, yeah, let me tell these jokes real quick. Just shh, shh. Go on, son. Hookahs need laughs too, bro. it It's like, oh, the cold's not hot yet. You know me and the hookah's fine. But I think you're one of like the best like comedians I've ever seen in my life. So like you're you're fucking hilarious. And like I've never seen you do a joke over it. I've always seen you do fresh shit all the time, which is crazy. That's how you know you see me like once a year. That's crazy. You know I see you live, bro. You said that like you see me every week. Every week.
00:43:24
Speaker
they the ah But But learning about that process of like, yeah, you just fell in love with the process of like, yeah, I'm just going to figure this shit out. like That shit is hard. But also, too, I had not to. So I'm ah like i'm one of them nerdy type of dudes. like I believe in like signs and reasons and shit like that. And I always wanted to be a comedian since I was a little kid, like the first thing I ever did. But then life happened, and I forgot my dream, bro. Yeah.
00:43:53
Speaker
Imagine, imagine like, that's like, imagine you love kicks and you like, yo, I'm gonna be a sneaker head. And then life gets so real, you forgot you even like sneakers like that. But you knew you liked sneakers, but you didn't really, you know what I mean? You forgot that like you really wanted to be involved in it. You know what I'm saying? Like, imagine you just be wearing sneakers or you be fly. Like, I was always funny, but I wasn't thinking like,
00:44:16
Speaker
I wanted to be a comedian like when I was like six, seven. I wanted to be a comedian. I seen comedians, I was like, I want to do that. You know what I'm saying? So, um dan what was the question again? I don't even think there was a question. Nah, it was- Nah, I like that. That i was me telling, I was giving you your flowers about you know your comedy. Oh, I was me it oh i was saying, like I feel like the signs was like, um ah yeah So the way I remember, like, I remember wanting to be a comedian, like, first thing I ever wanted to be, or when you get older, what you want to be, a comedian. I remember, um so when I moved back with my moms, well, not even, I was visiting my moms at the time from Miami. I came to, you know, I came to say, well, I feel like a mom to do comedy.
00:44:56
Speaker
And she gave me, she was like, y'all found some of yours. And it was an old report from like sixth grade, bro. And it was an autobiography. Like we had to write an autobiography. Like we would imagine what our life would be. Bro, I wrote this whole thing about being a comedian and like a lot of the stuff that impact, cause I mean, I was like, yo, I'm gonna go to Morehouse. And I was like, yo, know I'm gonna be on Def Comedy Jam. I was talking crazy, bro. I was like, Coretta Scott King's gonna write my bio. You know what I mean?
00:45:24
Speaker
But like, yo, and like seeing, and like, I had to, this is before Photoshop, but you would like cut your photo out, and like, Xerox it onto a magazine cover, so it was like me on the cover of People magazine, like, me and Alf. I gotta see that. Legend there, bro. I gotta see that, bro. But now, so imagine, when I seen that,
00:45:43
Speaker
When I seen that, bro, it was one of those, like, I gotta make it, bro. Like, not even I got, I was like, yo, nah, this is my shit. Fuck are you talking about? That's how I always, I never said that. I never, but like, in my mind and in my heart, like, my shit. Fuck are you talking about? I love that energy. Supposed to be here. Hell yeah. My shit. And that's why I still be like, I feel like my standard is crazy. I'm not even hitting my... Man, don't break it. I haven't even hit my standard yet, bro. But like, it is one of them things where it's like,
00:46:11
Speaker
Interesting. you haven't you I feel um consecrated. But I mean, you've got to travel the world. The country, bro. Yeah, the country. Sorry. It's like the world. Prospect Park is like the Bahamas to me, where you coming from the Bronx. That's a big deal.
00:46:29
Speaker
<unk>s not It's nice. Yeah, but I mean, all right, you got to travel the U.S. because you can't legally go. No, I can't. Oh, actually, I got, I went to Canada, I went to Montreal. Yeah. We are in the world. Because I remember you posted that. We in the You did the probation. What is it? It's a probation. What was it? That you, you was off the, you beat the charge. I don't know. But I wasn't sure I could go through because it was this summer and it was like, yo.
00:46:57
Speaker
I had a show and then I didn't tell nobody that I didn't know if they would let me in. But I was like, let's see. And they let me in, I was like, oh, shit, it's on, son. I'm about to be a kid in the everyday. You got to go back. Yo, Montreal was fire. I was only there for like a day or two, like a day. Look, we're towards the end of the podcast, Petey, but it deals with a question. Another question deals with a little bit of reflection,
Sneaker Preservation Humor
00:47:24
Speaker
all right? So this question deals with a reflection. So I want you to think back to young Petey about to open that box with the
00:47:34
Speaker
with the the white and red sixes. Black, but the breads. No, the breads, you got the breads. All right, the breads. Suede, bro. Suede. That's back when Suede had a texture to it, when it had the crumble on it. Yes, sir. That's my shit. Now it's like this is fake. I'm a Suede guy. Hey, this Suede, it's not fake, but you know what I'm saying? Yo, look at the crumble on these joints, bro. i Yeah, the taro. I would love to keep it on the train. See the crumble? Yeah, the crumble. Oh, yeah.
00:47:58
Speaker
But I want you to think back to when Young Petey was about to open that box that box. Now you're you behind your younger self. What would you tell your younger self as they open that box? I'd be like, yo, son, don't wear them to death, bro. You fucking, yo, you beating your shits, bro. These shits is going to be a clip you're wasting like a year. You wild, bro.
00:48:18
Speaker
Yo, you don't take him with you to fucking Canada, bro. Why are you running in and them, son? Shit ain't gonna make you jump higher. Son, preserve it, bro. You play balling, though? Did you play ball? I played ball. I did everything. I done played ball with the church. yeah All kind of craziness, bro.
00:48:36
Speaker
I might have had the first icy souls that turned yellow before they was old, bro. They was yellow before. They was like a few months they was yellow, bro. I bet. It was oxidized. Oxidized, yeah. They was oxidized. You didn't hit it with the toothbrush? No, I went crazy, bro. No, I went crazy. But that's the thing, too. They was so ill. It wasn't even about like... I think that might have been with change, too. Back in the day, it wasn't really about like... It was keeping them crispy.
00:49:06
Speaker
But when you were a kid, it was just like, even if you had beat up sixes on, you was the only kid with beat up sixes, or you the only, you know what I mean? So you still had a level of like, like even if you look at them old like early 90s movies or like whatever, and the kid will have on like a fly, like some Jordans, and they'll just be like, oh, he playing in them? He wanna bike with aliens in them? I don't know if I'm gonna wear my Jordans to ride ET to, you know, hit the line.
00:49:33
Speaker
hit the Hit the line. E.T. say, yo, I gotta hit the line. You gotta call home, man. E.T. hit my line. In your mouth.
00:49:49
Speaker
Gangway. Elliott over there like. You got got the Jordans on, just like. Bunny hop. Bunny hop. let everybody know where to find you, man.
00:50:00
Speaker
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00:50:31
Speaker
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