Dive into Dominican comedy culture with superstar creator/streamer Ivan Maito and fan-favorite Comedian “Black Rose”! We talk building a Latino “Office”-style web series (La Factoria), why creators don’t need Hollywood, smart ways to fund Season 2, and the grind from IG skits to sold-out stand-up. Expect behind-the-scenes stories (casting, platform deals, keeping the original cast), spicy dating/DM etiquette, relationship boundaries, and real talk on streaming as the next wave. If you love NYC Dominican humor, creator entrepreneurship, and community-first content, this one’s for you. What you’ll get: How La Factoria started + Season 2 updates Creator ownership vs. studio deals (and why YouTube wins) Sponsorship/funding ideas for indie series Candid takes on relationships, clout & comedy hustle Subscribe for more Latino comedy, podcasts, and BTS of the journey. Drop your favorite moment in the comments! #DominicanComedy #LatinoCreators #LaFactoria #Ivamito #BlackRose #NYCComedy #StandUpComedy #Streaming #YouTubeSeries #CreatorEconomy
In this episode, we sit down with Dominican comedy superstar and streamer Ivan Manito alongside the always-hilarious Comedian Black Rose. We dive into the making of La Factoria — the Dominican “Office”-style web series that hit over 100K views — and talk honestly about ownership, sponsorships, and why creators don’t need Hollywood to succeed.
Expect laughs, behind-the-scenes stories about casting and production, and candid conversations about relationships, social media, and the hustle of building comedy careers in NYC.
If you’re into Dominican comedy, Latino creators, stand-up, and the business of entertainment, this episode is for you.
0:00 Okay. And today's episode, we got this uh Dominican superstar, influencer, 0:07 streamer. All right. Uh Ivamito. 0:14 He's also written, he wrote. All right. Anything else you want me to 0:19 say? No. And we also got a special guest, you 0:26 know, the one one of my favorites. Uh, you already know Akita Black Rose 0:31 Playboy official Dominican grandma. Oh, hey. 0:37 But I'm a retired playmate. Yeah, I'm a retired playmate. Only did that for 4 months. For four months? Yeah. She was a 0:43 playmate. Are those are those I Hey, 0:52 Rose is not smart. 1:10 I used to use 1:17 but you do come out. So when you come out you come out with fan boo 1:23 there's no more boy. 1:36 I was doing it consistently. 1:47 Sexy pictures that I've had before, but like a sexy picture 1:54 walking by. 2:03 I stopped because, you know, unless I'm doing professional photo shoots, which cost a lot of money as well. I don't I 2:10 didn't have it in me to be bent over in my in my living room or my house, you know, like I didn't have If it pays the rent, why not? 2:17 No. Playboy. Next up, only 2:43 show that we be in your comedy shows. We be with you at the comedy show. 2:59 I want to be your slave, please. That's That's perfect. 3:05 It's baseball. No, I would charge them $6 just to DM me. And I would And then they have 3:10 $6 for a DM. Yeah. Yeah. Per per DM, per message, per part of the thread. 3:19 because this I was like I couldn't believe that this is what they wanted. What I can't believe is that you stopped 3:26 doing that. Can somebody 3:32 to send me a message? Hell no. They wanted to see nipples. 3:37 Then you show them nipples, man. There's like 50,000 nipples on Google. Google one that look like yours. So send that 3:44 shit balco. 3:58 You know the panoramic pictures. 4:18 No discriminating. 4:31 God damn it. Um, 5:01 see. 5:12 I see. 5:18 I dated somebody that took money from men. I didn't know this when I first started dating him. 5:24 I didn't know. 5:34 that he would use his looks to get women and men to send him money 5:39 Western Union and I know cuz I would walk with him to Western Union and he would be like, "Yo, look." 5:46 Wow. Wow. It's scary though. It's scary though. 5:52 The good thing is your turn on board. 6:02 You stupid bitch. You don't think I see everything. And then they stop me. Wow. That's a gift and a curse. 6:10 So, but she be in it, too. She'd be like, she's part of the g the gag. Yeah. She knows. Like when someone DMs 6:15 me, she sees it. they go see. Do you get like naked pictures of from 6:21 shorties or No, don't get no naked pictures cuz they already know that you know she's there. So, 6:31 but I it's like people know that that comes with my territory. Like for example, 6:37 and in the show and she was gonna take a picture with all of us. 6:45 Yeah. Yeah. I saw that shit. I was like, "Oh, damn." Turns out my boy is recording from my 6:51 phone, you know, the behind the scene. And he's like, "Yo, 6:56 so I'm like, cool. When I go, the first thing is Emily." Like, 7:03 no. And I'm like, "What are you talking about?" When I look at it, I'm like, "Damn, she they caught me just like 7:11 they caught me, right?" So I was like, "You know what?" and like 7:17 like I I put it on the ground like yo because of this. 7:23 So it went crazy that I didn't ask a girl for permission. Right. 7:29 So I didn't I didn't take her feelings in consideration. I was like you know what 7:36 wait she hit me up and she was like yo can you take that down? No she was with it. That was the good 7:42 thing. She was like, "But he said, "Thank God it worked well." 7:48 Yo, take that down. Yeah, you would just take it down. So, I had to take it down. No, cuz what 7:53 happened is a lot of people like, "Yo, the guys on the comedy show, they posted you." 8:00 So, everybody wants to see what's up with that ass. And of course, 8:08 and I told her like, "Yo, you know, thank you for taking it as a joke. the de and then she even spoke to Emily and 8:14 everything. Oh, that's what's up. So, you know. So, okay. But the way that you said it, I thought something bad happened. No, it it could have. It could have, 8:21 right? No, I just Hey, but then they had a threesome. 8:28 I've never I always say this. You have you ever done a threesome? 8:34 No, I haven't. You know what I say? 8:39 Oh, that's dope. You know why I don't want to do nothing like that? Because 8:54 that is crazy. Look at him like that's why because 9:16 one of the guys that I recently dated, he looked at me cuz I look fun, right? 9:22 And all the girls What's up? 9:28 Look, this my bitch. Oh, you look good, girl. Peeping my like flow. And he said, 9:35 "Oh, we're going to have threesomes together." And I was just like, "Yeah, 9:41 no." And then he said, "I heard I heard that every girl's fantasy, if it's true, that they want to 9:46 at least have two guys or have a train ran on them." I 9:51 If I'm going to do it, let's be honest. It would be a boy and a girl, not two guys. Because 9:59 you would be surprised. You'd be surprised. 10:04 I think like me in if I ever do get to do 10:10 that. Yeah. Like no. 10:21 do it, you know. So, you got Hey, you guys have to be real selfish. 10:29 I don't like It's like It's crazy. It's like, put it this way. 10:40 A lot of fast food. 10:53 It be like that. But I can't do it like 11:00 be more interesting no matter what. 11:16 like 11:22 and then I know she's gonna be like, "So, you had to live your life with a three. I want do mine." 11:29 Put it this way. 11:47 for never in the light. So the Yeah. I said like I wouldn't do it. 11:53 So she told you like if we do it, we're going to have to do if we if I do it, she do it. And I'm 12:00 like it's only fair. Like we have a lot of conversations and one of my conversations always been this 12:06 like United States 12:15 and I'll say this now. If you are in Thailand Uhhuh. be in Thailand because if I go to 12:23 Thailand, I'm going to be in Thailand. It's that simple. Don't bring Thailand 12:28 to New York. So So how long how long you guys been together? We've been together like 20 years. We've been together. All right. We know we've 12:35 been together more like we have more together like if we wouldn't know each other. 12:41 Wow. I I got a question for you like like what what what keeps it what do you got to do to keep it spicy? 12:47 Well, in the beginning I was the type of person because I always wanted to wait 12:52 it out. But I was very romantic. Yeah. You know, like I will like do 12:58 crazy not crazy stuff like you know we watching a movie 13:05 like what? Oh, you know 13:10 we we be on the 13:17 like I'm always Wow, you know and I pay a lot of attention you know 13:23 like Yeah. So, like she'll be watching something on on TV and I like 13:29 I'll Google it. It be like $3,000 like I'll wait for the next thing, you know? 13:36 So, and then I like I pay attention to what the what her friends are doing. Like if her friends are buying shoes, 13:42 you know, when their friends shoes, so a week or a month after I'll buy her some shoes. So now she be like, you 13:48 know, so they have something to go back and forth with. So I so like you know like we'll go out and 13:56 like I have a burger picnic and I'll go and grab after 20 years you're still doing it. 14:02 Yeah I still do these things. I still do these things like you know you have to do it. 14:09 And don't get me wrong, we sometimes we look at each other be like a day, 14:16 you know, but and there's a lot of things to do for you not to get bored. Like, you know, if she cooks, maybe you 14:23 cook one day, you know, that's a new conversation like 14:28 you feel I feel like a lot of people are like a lot of people are single nowadays because like there's like a level of 14:33 selfishness. I I don't but my I don't think 14:39 I'm back in the I think people are not themselves because of social media that's what it is like 14:46 for example when I send a text when you send a text you send it and you feel a certain type of way me 14:53 I could take the however yeah you take it differently 15:01 but you're just like yo my boy You know, so it's it's that and I think 15:08 people say social media. So when you meet in person, you try to 15:14 be that person that's not you. That's that's hard for you to be who you 15:20 are and be love for that person. Straight up. The guy I just spoke to somebody recently. He No, I have not let 15:27 him see my Instagram. I haven't talked about it, but I did mention that I have 15:32 some type of popularity and I'm a stand-up comedian. And if we out and about, people might 15:38 say, "Hello, I want to let him know that I am this 15:43 person." Like, is he going to be intimidated off the back like being a comedian? if it 15:50 wasn't because you have your woman already. She finds a woman that understands you, 15:58 she understands your lifestyle, but that's not the case for all of us. I think it will be hard for the girl to 16:03 to to accept me because I'm 16:08 like whoever you see on the ground, that's literally who I am in real life. People could tell you 16:15 that if you say that this is how you are, I will plan according to how you say you are. 16:21 Yeah. I going and you out here like I know. 16:28 I'm like you say you are going I spend money on this you know. 16:37 Yo. So, so, so you tell guys that that you have a certain level of popularity 16:43 and stuff like that too before you go out. What's going on with you in your dating life? 16:48 Like I I haven't dated in a long time and now I'm starting this past two months. I was just like, "Okay, 16:55 okay. I spoke to this one guy. He was cool. We met at an event. So, we have mutual 17:00 interest." Per he wasn't from here. He he was from Texas. So, 17:07 I wasn't sure when I was going to see him again. You never know. Long distance 17:13 relationship. 17:19 My guy in Texas got it. Good job, boy. This good job, boy. That's 17:27 Thank you. you know, and instead of doing what I initially 17:33 wanted, the next next person, we're going to have to get to know each other. You know, it's going to have to be a 17:38 process. That shit went out the window once. I was like, "Oh my god, this man is so good-looking. He's funny. He's a 17:44 good vibe, but he's not from here. I'm only going to get to see him this one day." 17:50 Wow. You know, so so what she's saying is if you travel and you see somebody while you're traveling, most likely they're 17:56 going to give it up. That's what you're saying. But I I've always thought of that. I thought of that. I thought of that because you 18:02 know I like I started do like all this that happens to me and said I'm just in the right place like you know 18:08 Tommy was doing comedy. I used to go to the shows. He's like yo maybe you should try and that's how all this journey 18:15 began. Right. Yeah. How you you got into comedy anyway? I just like that like Tommy was the only one doing comedy in New York at the 18:21 time. English and Spanish, right around here. So, I was like, "Yo, these 18:28 guys are hilarious on Instagram 18:35 and I think you was also you was also on social media as well. 18:42 Um, everything was starting. I was in Bronx, Lebanon just liking everybody's joint." 18:47 Okay. But you know, but I will go to his page. No way. 18:53 Yeah. Some petty shit, right? For no reason though. You know, I will follow the other guys, but I don't know. 18:59 And then at one time like just follow the dude. So, 19:06 right. It made no sense. So, you were a Tommy hater. That's what you're saying. No, I wasn't a hater, but I was 19:12 That was kind of hater shit. They were collect. So I would like 19:19 select everyone and for some reason and I was like he had 19:24 T5K T5K so I would just go through it like that and 19:30 I was like you know fuck it and then he started doing standup and he started posting that and I was like fuck it show 19:36 and I went with Emily and I got fired from bro so she was like 19:41 yo come let's cheer you up and you know Tommy like oh if you have a joke better 19:47 than mine. I was like, I got to joke. So my girl's like, "Go, go." So I tell 19:53 the joke, crowd goes crazy. I'm like, what was the joke? I can't remember right now. 19:58 And then but the but I do remember that Tommy went and came in and said another joke in English. Uhhuh. 20:04 And then I went back and I told another joke in English and then the crowd liked it and then he just never bought me the 20:09 shot. So So he keep his word. So So I left, right? And when I woke up in the 20:16 morning, I'm like, "Yo, what the fuck was I doing on stage?" No way. And then I see that Tommy messaged me. 20:23 He's like, "Yo, maybe you should do comedy." And I was like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, 20:29 yeah." I wake up like around 12 to 1 and I'm like, "Oh, nah." Yo, my man. 20:40 He's like, "No, you're good at it." He's like, "No, I'm not. I was just me being myself and then he goes 20:48 flyer. So he responded with a flyer. So now I told my boys like and they was like yo 20:55 do it. And 21:01 I think it was the one with the parrot. The the parrot joke. 21:06 Yeah. I was the one with the parrot. So my threat to talk cuz you had me thinking about the joke. Yeah. Yeah. 21:12 Yeah. Yeah. So, what about the parrot? No, no, that was the joke that I told the first joke of of the night. It was 21:18 about a parrot. Okay. And then what's what was I talking about before? I remember that Tommy sent you the flyer. 21:24 He sent me the flyer and it's a content seven week. I was like, "Fuck it." So, every week I will think of a joke and I 21:31 will go and then I will present it and yo got it seven weeks straight. No way. And then the winner goes to travel the 21:39 states to tell his comedy. So, But I was enjoying cuz I like to make 21:45 people laugh. Yeah. Yeah. And my first big night and I started just talking about you know me at night 21:53 like porn star by names. 21:59 So you you one of those that writes a comments. Yeah. No I don't I read them though but I don't write. So I'm good. Yeah. If you 22:07 write the comment it's over cuz you got you know why I don't write comments? Cuz you got to sign in. I'm not doing all that. 22:14 Yeah. Like I'm not going to You're not leaving that much of a blueprint behind. No, no, no, no. We all know by by by 22:20 name, right? And I'm good always. I don't like in comedy. I don't work the crowd like, you know, 22:27 that's not my thing. They're there to see me. You know, I'll do here and there, but like you're like naturally funny, bro. 22:32 Like when I met you, I was like, "Yo, I think you were saying stories about how you got caught." Yes, cuz I'm Let's talk about that in a 22:39 bit. That was hilarious, too. So, um, I'm just there and I was like, you know, 22:44 I like to do these things. I don't do it no more, but because I didn't feel safe that it was 22:49 going to work, whatever. So, I will go ahead of the people and be like, raise your hand. Raise your hand. 22:56 Then when the guy raises hand, I be like, and I got him. So, it's a guaranteed 23:03 laugh. And then I will go like, leave your hand up if you know who Pinky is. And then everybody 23:10 and then I kept saying like 23:22 we all so yall gonna sit down next to your wife and they're going to be like who the fuck is Pinky and then they're going to 23:28 go back home and Google it. So like that's what I used to do. So in in 23:35 the seven weeks cuz I would like tell the crowd. I would engage with the crowd within the joke. 23:41 And then after that, that's when you're like, "Okay, I'm part of the crew now." Like you're integrated, right? 23:46 I became part of the crew when Tommy had section 8's ball in Colossia El Brenda 23:51 and DJ Alamo. So he took me over there. Um those were good times. He took me over 23:57 there loat and then I was interested and I felt like yo you guys need this for 24:03 the show to be better and they was like we don't have that person. I was like you know what I'll be that person I'm 24:09 like the vibe here is great but project that in the shows. Yeah and they was like yo fuck it. Let's do 24:16 it. So I met Brenda there and I met DJ Alamo and Smurf from LMP. Shout out to 24:21 Smurf man. good guy. Ah, so 24:27 I think I heard of Smurf. You talking about met probably met him? Yeah. So, 24:32 and from there on I just always kind of told the group like, "Yo, maybe this is what we need and let's try to do this, let's try to 24:39 do that." And that's how factori I rose to tell you we in New York. 24:48 And by the way, let's talk about that because that was the best experience ever. my first time being in LA 24:56 because you might not act like that. You know, you know who you are confidence, but to me when I got there 25:04 and I was like, you know, 25:11 so but later in life I got to understand and that's why you appreciate that. 25:17 So, and I always told the group that the Rose is killing it. We all have a nice 25:24 hand together. Ken Stark gets his page deleted again. He comes back with another thing. He's the king of this 25:29 shit. That they do content with the ass. We're killing it. But 25:35 people want to be more. Some want to be actors, you know? They can't be taken serious because of the 25:40 content that they make here. So, how do I get the whole group to the next level? 25:46 How can we do something collectively? everybody be themselves and you know bring their instrument. 25:51 That's that's that's how you created La Factori. La Factori I watched The Office Friends and Game of Thron every year 25:58 and I was watching the off the office at that point and I was like damn there's just been a Dominican or Spanish office 26:06 in Chile and it was good. Yeah. But for some reason no 26:13 it didn't hit but I was like you know what given the whole Instagram 26:21 So I I'm chilling with Tommy and I was like, "Yo, Tommy, what do you think if we do like a Dominican office?" 26:27 Mhm. It's like, "Do it." I'm like, "How?" I'm like, "You always know how to figure it out." Like, "Just do it." I'm like, "We 26:33 need money. We need all these people." It's like, "Give me the list of the people that you want. Um, see how much 26:39 money it is and then we'll just shoot a pilot." And I was like, "You sure?" Like that heavy. So I made sure that everyone 26:46 that we started with was on it. Like if you were doing comedy, you was with us and Tommy had your phone, 26:52 you got that call. Yeah. See, and that's exactly how we and I even call people. 26:59 Wow. Like they weren't really doing comedy or anything. They just, you know, 27:05 I was like, you want And that was a success, bro. Like I feel like like And so that was the crazy part. That's a crazy part cuz I I think you 27:12 guys directly just threw it on YouTube, right? We This is what we did. We We got 27:17 everyone on board. Our hardest one was Tahiri. Shout out to Tahiri. Tahiri uh 27:22 almost said no. And her sister read the script and she said like, "Nah, you got to do this." Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 27:36 dope because when Rose could tell you when we first started before anything happened and we got everyone I 27:42 specifically said in here everyone is an actor and no one here is an actor only 27:47 three or four people. So when you guys come here all that fame all that Instagram all followers 27:55 in here help each other help each other make the lines. This is a good chance that, you know, we 28:02 could go to the next level. Into one ear, out to the other. 28:15 It was Saturday Night Live in us in the other room. Sh quiet. 28:21 It was a great vibe, right? And we're shooting left to right and then 28:27 Yes. I remember like like like like even me too wanted to buy 28:35 we we shoot the first episode the last scene is done everybody's getting ready 28:41 and digital bodega shout out to Izzy and digital bodega saw the script and was like I got you 28:46 guys and it's like yo y'all want to watch something I was like oh here and they put the 28:54 Mhm. and Y Mafu because I started crying because I was like, Diablo, finally 28:59 we did that. Wow. It was great. It was It was greatly 29:05 shot. It was funny, bro. Like everything everything like like the Dominican 29:11 that we needed. It was It was so relatable and and yo cuz I was like, "Yo, we did this, you 29:16 know." And you did you made that shit happen like something you came up with idea. It was the first time 29:30 So, so what was your process in writing it? You're like, I'm just going to write a script. My process was in the first episode, 29:37 watch the first episode of The Office and take two, three things that people can know. It's kind of that. 29:42 Yeah. Yeah. And I and I, if you watch the first episode, there's three things exactly from The Office. 29:48 The garbage is one. So, and for me that was like, yo, 29:55 oh my god, how do I tell them I have three more episodes? How do we go from here? I was like, you know what? So, all 30:01 that's going there, but I just get emotional cuz like, yo, we did that shit. I can't wait. How many How many views it has right 30:07 now? Uh, right now it has I know it has 100,000. That's fucking phenomenal. 30:14 This mean only on YouTube. This only on YouTube. We have We don't have it anywhere. So you so you you guys haven't 30:19 even cut it up and posted it anywhere else. No, we at this point we we finished the 30:24 first episode. I thank everyone in the room. Thank you for doing this. Everyone is sad. Rose is like nah, what you 30:32 talking about, Ivan? Yeah. And I was like, that's it. This is only one we're doing. And then they wanted 30:38 more. So I was like, I have three more written. Four, three or four. They was 30:44 like bam. I'm like, what? I'm like, yo. We don't want We don't got no money. We 30:49 don't got nothing. All we got is Izzy that's helping us. 30:55 Izzy. So, do you guys make any money out of 31:02 it? Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing yet. Nothing yet. But with 100,000 at least, YouTube be 31:08 like, "You monetize now?" That's the money. We We do all four episodes. We do the 31:16 first episode and then we want to do the other four or the other three. Everybody's happy. We was like, "Yo, 31:22 we're gonna drop the first episode to see how it goes and then if it goes well 31:30 because my whole thing free. 31:36 We couldn't pay because they know because we all do the same thing. They know everyone is making the same money." Yeah. 31:41 Do it. Yeah. So I'm like, yo, 31:48 you know, sometimes um we had to like pay extra and gracia. Yo, 31:55 Tyler Rivers was uh that's a whole another story how I got Tyler to produce the whole thing on that on that. 32:01 Did he pay his father? That was his father's business. No way. Yeah. Do you guys didn't get like a sponsor or 32:07 anything? Nothing. A record. It was He knew him. He knew her. But now, but now like now 32:12 you guys have a proof of concept that that works. Now you Now see, but we still don't know how to 32:17 put it on paper. Episode one goes out. Everyone is on the chat. When we 32:24 shooting the next one, let's shoot the next one. Let's shoot the next one. Let's shoot the next one. Whole season. 32:30 And so now, so now it's negotiation time. Now you're in season two. Now we still in season one, but now it's 32:37 fully done. You know, Izzy has it down pack is on YouTube. Let's let's talk 32:44 business. First piece we talk to tell them take the whole season, pay for 32:49 season two. Yeah. Two years. No, they don't work like that. I'm like, I 32:56 understand. They got they got to buy it. They got to buy it from you. Is that what it is? I'm not selling it. 33:01 Which is another big problem why these guys especially is mad at me. Like I I 33:06 can't sell you this because if you sell it, you can't do another season until they 33:12 approve. Exactly. So So I'm like, "No, no, I could loan it to you for two, three years. And if it goes well there, then 33:19 we'll sit down again." How much they wanted to buy it for? They didn't want to buy it. They just wanted to make money off of it without 33:24 investing nothing. Without investing nothing, right? So I'm like, that's not happening. I 33:30 need to go back to these guys that I'm with with something. Hey, we're doing season two. Everyone's getting paid. 33:36 Yeah. Yeah. So, they was doing I think uh 7030 no 30%. 33:42 Wow. I was like, this doesn't make sense cuz in those you put all your Yeah, 33:47 I know the business. So, I'm only getting 30%. 30%. Yeah, we 33:53 could do episodes. They put money behind it. They put 33:59 marketing behind it. Oh. 34:06 They're not going to talk to me. They're going to talk to them cuz they own it for those years. Yeah. They could switch out everybody 34:12 else. So if they be like 34:19 they're going to lowball us and and you know and that was something I was like no thank you. Maybe. So what 34:25 happened with me too? 34:34 They love everything. There's only two problems. What? They didn't like the way I portray the Mexican 34:40 with the luchador mask. With the luchador mask. Okay. But the reason why we have him in a luchador is because 34:46 we didn't we we didn't have a Mexican that does concert in New York that had great numbers, you know, 34:52 for us to kind of like, yo, we need you for this part. Uhhuh. And the guy was I wrote a Mexican in it 34:58 because I wrote a Mexican, Argentina, Colia, Cuban, 35:04 very diverse and it hit every market. Gotcha. So that's how I wrote. So was it like like was the Mexican one 35:11 two 35:31 cuz they're going to have a problem with it, right? So, so there was like, you know, 35:39 shout out to Mustang Mustang for must we don't have any Mexicans. Yeah, I 35:45 couldn't even pick up Mexican. We could have done everyone from but then he did such a good Mexican in the 35:51 math. It was like you know what and is free and when he was there he was 35:57 he would not get and then that was his name cuz that's what we call every hey Mexico you know 36:04 like I know so hey yeah so okay so we named them Mexico and they didn't like you know cuz their biggest fan base 36:11 is Mexico yeah they're going to they're going to feel and I was like all right cool that's not a problem 36:19 what's next oh we want to change the cast I Like o the whole cast. They want to change the whole cast. 36:24 The whole cast. What? What? Only if you can only keep four. 36:42 I was like, "Listen, why they what did they say? Why they want to change the cast? It's 36:49 something new, something fresh." And then I'm going in there telling them like I'm telling them like, "Yo, 36:54 should have been y'all." Yeah. Yeah. Netflix. 37:24 So they're like, "Okay. Mhm. So I'm like, 37:46 I'm not I'm not going to do that. I was like, I would definitely change the Mexican character, though. I was I was 37:52 willing to work around the Mexican character so no this is happening 37:59 and we go back and then everybody's like okay so no goes you dumb ass I'm like 38:05 what like this is business bro you should have took all that shit you would have left 38:12 and whenever you done with him you come and pick us up I was like I didn't want to like damn that makes sense but I'm like nah this 38:20 is if They want this. We started with this. This is who they going to get. You know, like that's just how it is. Nobody 38:26 was like, I understand that respect. Honorable man right there. But just think about what I told you. 38:31 And I was like now later down I'm like if I would have done that I probably 38:37 would have just got more money more money because 38:47 you know I was going to be able to bring everyone up but I was going to be all right. All right let's just play a game 38:52 then we go. Who would have been? Let's play a quick game. You thought about it. You know you know 38:58 damn well you went home. Brenda, Ivan, and those are the four people. 39:04 Okay. Because 39:13 Izzy is behind the camera. And then to here, she's there because she fucks with the strip. She likes the show. and 39:26 like the Latin people like so she's seeing that side of fame which is the 39:33 Latino is in the American market. Yeah. So you know she's seen that this is 39:40 happening so she fucks with it you know. So, I'm like, and in in all honesty, like right now, 39:47 y'all don't really need to sell anything to nobody. No, I like we're talking about studios are 39:53 closing down. All the executives I know have lost their jobs in major studios. Like, Hollywood is talk about it. 39:59 Uh, yeah. They're not the capital of entertainment anymore, right? So, what you guys did and you guys haveund 40:05 100,000 views on YouTube, you're already garing a fan base. It works. Why sell 40:12 the motherfucker? Why try to get another company to do it? That's old way of doing thing. That's legacy media. When 40:18 you guys already have a proven product, you have the cast that did it. Next season, just get get a sponsor for next 40:25 season. That's it. Get Red Bull to help you out. 40:30 Then they sponsor they pay for the season. You see what I'm saying? You could get a whole lot of people that you 40:35 could sp that could sponsor the freaking season and everybody gets paid for the next season. And well, guess what? The 40:41 third season is gonna even be even bigger. Well, so we're gonna do that for that one book. Yeah. Season two season 40:48 because what's the what's the point of getting fucked? I I if if you don't even need them for 40:54 distribution when people don't even watch cable. Yo, there was a study that came out. But 41:00 this this is you sound like me when he was here. Yeah. Right. Cuz it's is exactly what you're saying, 41:05 bro. People like I think people went from cable to streaming last year. It was like 15% of the people 41:12 went from cable to streaming. You know who's the number one streamer? 41:18 What's the number one streaming platform? The number one What is that? YouTube. YouTube. Yes. 41:24 Over Netflix. YouTube over Netflix. Yeah, people do watch YouTube a lot. 41:30 Way more than Netflix. You turn on your TV, YouTube is there. YouTube is there. And And Netflix will 41:36 never ever catch up to YouTube. Never. That's true. You know why? Because YouTube, you could 41:42 turn shit around so fucking fast. That's going to be extremely hard for somebody in Netflix to gather a hundred something 41:48 people to turn around and make content to put it out again. Now studios are switching their mindset because 41:56 now why why are we losing? Because of speed. Yeah. The speed of production is now so fast. 42:03 Yeah. It it probably I don't know how it probably took you guys so much faster. Like I've been I'm working on a movie. 42:10 I've been working on this movie for two year two three years so we could get 42:15 finance so we could get a big A-list actor. So like that nobody's 42:24 going to get we need $3 million in order to do this and there's people doing it with hardly any money. 42:32 Yo, I could have shot three movies when niggas that nobody know about 42:38 facts and they would have been good. And they would have been good. They would have been great. It's it's happening so fast. You remember and you 42:45 know I don't know the the the DVD part of movies 42:50 on the movies. So for example 42:56 on on a DVD on a VHS six months 43:03 they don't have that now. They don't have that now. So the process from a movie from the theaters straight to streaming platforms 43:09 is so fast you know and then they're selling it to 43:15 the streaming platform you know are selling everything by bulk. 43:23 My my whole thought process of this futuristic movie Hollywood was 43:31 streaming platform and I could have called Rose like yo you guys could jump 43:36 in the stream the same thing and that's that's that's what's happening. So 43:55 I mean we don't if you guys want I'll watch I'll watch that's going to be the next 44:02 Twitch stream. So we speak to me too. Well yes he speaks to me too and we got a decent 44:09 deal at this point. You know, the factorial for a bit, you know. 44:15 Yeah, we need a we need a boost. Yeah, we shot this during co by the way. Oh, no way. 44:20 Everybody m out. We were outside, bro. And um they got me too. Easy guesses 44:26 deal with them. Me too. Um promises and they're the best. They're a great 44:32 platform. Yeah. Yeah. Right. So they're coming from Los Angeles Joe like you know. I'm like 44:37 they connected. I'm like, why not, Izzy? What? We don't have nothing else to lose. 44:43 So, they picked it up, right? Perfect. Uh, we saw it. The thing came out 44:51 this year and me too on the on the platform. 44:57 Oh, yeah. They do have like their own like They have their own app right on TV. They can put on TV. On TV. So, 45:04 and damn, what was this guy's name? Is it Ben? Ben? I was in Ben's house, by the way. 45:10 Shout out to Ben's house. Ben's house in the back, bro. That's a vibe, bro. 45:18 That is a vibe. It's a vibe. It's a mood and everything. 45:25 Amazing. So, we watched it there. Shout out to Ben, man. I don't know if Yeah. And Ben's for the culture, man. 45:30 Ben is there. You know, Ben is yo, Ivan La is doing great. We got to sit down. 45:36 And, you know, they're coming up. They're buying content left to right. Glory. 45:43 So, we're all like, you know, 45:55 we don't know this. 46:03 And me too happens. and we didn't really hear a big buzz with them, but we knew 46:08 that it was on the on the platform. We knew that was on the app and then Izzy was the one that made the deal. Okay. 46:14 So, we didn't know if there was money or anything behind that per when is on the book the first season is me, Izzy, and 46:21 Izzy and section 8 is balling. So, those two have the same say. Okay. So, you know, 46:28 we was like, okay, let us know. It was more of like 46:35 and whatever he makes, we give you a percent and then he never gave you anything. 46:50 So I was like, you know what? 46:55 We waited the the the years of the contract to worn out when the like it was two year two-year lease I think it 47:02 was. So we call Izzy and like yo Izzy we going to do season two is like fuck I'm busy 47:08 right now you know but if you guys want to go ahead it's fine. I was like all right we're going to go ahead. So we 47:15 went ahead because now season two is fully section 8. Okay. 47:21 You know, so right now sections 47:28 before it was better. So, so section 8. Who's section 8? 47:34 Section is bowling is Tommy's company. And I'm like, he's the president. I'm the vice president. 47:40 But section 8 is better. I won't be. Hey man, I'm down to walk by and be like 47:45 be a Oh, no. You definitely walking by. The only reason I'm here 47:59 no cameos are hard cuz like we want that 48:04 factorich for everyone, you know, like 48:11 come do your cameo because it can be that 48:17 right is Tommy. Tommy knows everyone the network of the Tommy. 48:24 So Tommy's able to reach every comedian and say hey and that's why it's there. 48:29 Season one it was fully us because yo like I have Rose I have no will miss 48:35 hosting to go work in La Factori. See I'm like bro I understand. He's like nah 48:42 I'm in every episode. I don't care. It's sim. 48:49 I was so sad that day. Rose it was, you know, 49:01 everybody was fucking that shit. Oh my god. No, Rose was always on point. Always 49:07 there. I'm always there. You missed You missed the the last episode. Just the last episode. I was visiting my 49:13 son. I was Hey, Rose is hilarious. No, we Hey, Rose is character. It was 49:19 something we It was something different, but she made it hers. Yeah. Yeah. Right. With that squeaky voice. 49:25 Yeah. Yeah. Perfect. She's perfect. It's It's It's like we hate it, but we love it. 49:31 Yeah. We hate it because like that's not Rose, but we love it because now people think that that's her. 49:36 Yeah. I was like, "Yo. 49:44 So it so where where you at right now with the season two? The season two right now we have four episodes in. 49:50 Okay. Uh I'm going to tell you Brenda's going to kill me. No, 49:59 right. This one is probably coming out in September 20th. 50:07 Okay. Okay. Drum roll, please. We had season one. 50:14 We had Sabo Latino. Okay. And we have lab. Okay. So, 50:20 and each of them is Tommy, Brenda, and me. We go transcender. Okay. Tells the story of me coming illegal. It 50:28 tells the story of Brenda, a single woman as a bartender. And Dontoas, who 50:33 is also illegal and came with, guess who? Jam. So the story is that 50:39 came together I like got some bread 50:51 but it was like the only dirty thing that ever did. Okay. Right. So that's how they know each 50:57 other. Right. 51:03 Right. And then now 51:10 because on season one it was only us. Now I think we have so and so passed by. 51:16 So and so is also there. 51:22 We can't that's who we are. But season two is is going to be a lot of cameos. It's going 51:28 to be a lot of cameos. Domingo. So, what what am I doing in season two? 51:39 Anyway, they were supposed to be part of it. They was they were supposed to be part of it. And what happened? Their schedule didn't allow it. 51:46 Bro, we we everything it was there was going to be an episode two. So, but um 51:53 uh in La Factoriia Elong, which is cello, 51:58 was supposed to be Radel. Radel Ortiz. Tommy Tommy called him and 52:05 Radel couldn't do it at the time, right? So I was like, "Fuck." So Cello had to step up and cello was 52:12 going to be our camera guy. So Cello because Chello is the only camera guy that I could say anything and he sees 52:18 exactly what I he was tight. That's not what I came here for like I need you. 52:24 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. and he's like so because we have an episode of Sabatino 52:31 the first pilot. Okay. So that would have made sense on 52:36 bringing him back which he's coming again. Okay. So Kada is has a different story 52:45 knows everybody. So he's able to call everyone and pass by you know but for 52:50 you you're not passing by. No one, nobody that go, everybody's going to get a character that could always come 52:55 come back in the future and be there. Oh, that's dope. See, like this is what community looks like, bro. Like you did 53:02 something like you took the reins, bro. You said like, yo, we took the bull by the horns and you said like, I'm I'm not 53:09 going to wait for somebody else to do it. I'mma do it myself, bro. And it started and it's organic. 53:15 Yeah, it's organic. You got the right people. Everybody's here to do it. Also like we 53:20 you don't I think we got to get out of the mentality that we need Hollywood, we need LA. We don't need none of that. 53:26 Loco we need is us. I'm very happy with the results of the fucking if anyone could find a bad 53:33 comment. Please let me know till this day. Those comments are like 53:38 when are you coming back or when is season two is is that yeah 53:44 bro create your own public and then be careful with the offers you're getting. It's that simple. Mhm. 53:51 The more the reason why the reason why YouTube is not Netflix never going to go over 53:57 YouTube because 54:18 Europa. So that's 54:29 people came and audition. We believe in your channel, buddy. Whatever you need from me. Yeah. And and that's what I that's kind of 54:36 what I did. Okay, we'll catch you further now. 54:43 Set the shit up. Like cheating. Yeah. Yeah. But one and edit the shit 54:50 and it's probably going to be out in a couple of weeks, but I already got like 10 episodes. This is the 10th episode actually. 54:56 You got content? Yeah. You got content. You got content and it's ready to go. Like tonight this is going to be ready 55:01 to go. Oh yeah, we could even shoot with our 55:06 own own films out here, bro. So 55:12 the Sabo Latino episode that we filmed, right? Was uh was is is we were not 55:20 going to use it. Mhm. Right. Because Izzy was the one that was supposed to edit it. Super busy. He 55:27 couldn't. I tried editing it two times and I was like, I'm not doing this. 55:33 So, I was like, you know what? This is season two. We have this episode that we shot. There 55:38 has to be something from there that I can use. So, now I'm like, let's 55:45 see. Cuz if I could save us that much money and do one throwback episode, we lit. So, I start editing and I was like, 55:51 yo, Tommy, come see this. So I start going in and Tommy start coming in and 55:57 I'm like, "Yo, Tommy, we got it." So now we got to convince Brenda. I'm like, "Bro, 56:05 if she's smiling, then we should go ahead. If not, we just talk about the sky and the retrogrades and Mercury, 56:13 right? So Brandon's like, "Yo, how much of this are we going to use?" So I'm like enough to tell the story of 56:20 Dontomma on a flashback the Sabo Latino because I wrote that episode and I told 56:27 Brenda to to to have her for her that's hero latin her she has a dope ass concept the way it was shot with certain 56:34 things we were excited about it but she's going to use that further down and 56:39 then vi and we're going to do un throwback episode with that footage bro 56:45 is going to kill so fire because it's going introduce hint that are in the first episode and tell the story and get 56:51 everything together and that's when I was like 56:57 because this works out so fucking perfect 57:03 and that's what's happening on season two 57:09 but yeah man you know you know I shoot the podcast within an 57:20 I'm going to wrap it up here because it's still new. But I I appreciate you coming through, bro, and and dropping us 57:27 this knowledge and and motivating us. I think everybody, anybody that's listening today, we learned, right? You 57:33 know, take the bull by the horns. If you want something done, do it your damn self. And congratulations on your 57:40 success because not only on your success with La Fatoria and bringing people and uplifting the community, but also this 57:47 man is a kickass streamer. Uh oh, you got to pull up to the stream. I'm down. 57:54 We're definitely we're going to we're going to take over that world soon. And I'mma say it here. This is my next goal 58:01 because I need you Saturday Night Live. 58:07 But it has to be It has to be done in a stream way 58:12 the way Kai streams and just give the people everything raw 58:18 live. I love that big production in the back 58:23 and I kid you not, bro. We got to do this from there. It's over cuz now we 58:29 could get movies from, you know, that's that'll be the fruit of everything cuz that's their setup. Whoever's up and 58:34 coming SNL SNL movies. Yeah, you got to show me how to set it up. I'm trying to I'm trying to do streaming. 58:39 I got you. I got you. 58:46 Okay. Streaming. Streaming out. No, you guys got It's the next wave. It's the next wave. 58:52 It's the next wave. Yeah. So, all this all this is due. 58:58 Obviously, there's someone watching me, right? 59:07 cuz you guys pave the way, right? If we're doing this, these are the guys 59:13 that are ahead of us, which is you. Like, how do we get to the next level, 59:19 you know? Oh, like it was very uh not Dominican um 59:26 Hispanic. Yeah. We would take notes from that 59:33 which will limit us. 59:44 because there's always someone watching Tommy watching that's the minute 59:52 before I went to like I was like I'mma be the Tommy I was I I remember saying I'mma be the 1:00:00 Tommy of Pero taught me. 1:00:05 Dang. You believe that shit, nigga? I got goosebumps right now. 1:00:11 Yo, we fly out, bro. I'm like, I'm in LA. 1:00:19 And oh shit, that was when I went with y that trip. I think so. Yo, that was so right. I don't know. 1:00:29 But it was my first step to like getting into the stand up. We we we go there and I'm like, "Oh 1:00:35 shit." Comes out with some pass. I'm like, "Oh shit, Dom." 1:00:42 Cuz I thought he was like, 1:00:48 "Yo, like you're not doing this that time. Phones are not out now." So I'm 1:00:55 like, And you know he's showing us a story and 1:01:00 then was like, "Yo, this is so fire." Then he's like, "Yo, go in there. You guys going to be act something." I'm 1:01:06 like, "Oh shit, we working. This is how leg is, bro. 1:01:20 Okay. 1:01:30 But you know we are and show this inspiration. Yeah. Because if there was if there was no that's Dominican 1:01:37 I I there would be no me and Pero like that. You know what I'm saying? Like even you know they were like oh you want 1:01:42 to be part of us per was coming up and and I remember going like oh man 1:01:48 this is this could be that's Dominican for all Latinos. That's my mindset. So, I didn't care about the rest of 1:01:53 Buzzfeed. I was like, "Oh, well, whatever That's Dominican gave me, I'mma give that to Latinos in general 1:02:00 because I know that's Dominic's only Dominican." Yeah. But I I remember that feeling of looking 1:02:07 every fucking week to look like if that's Dominican put up a new video. And I wanted to give that feeling to 1:02:13 everybody else. Yo, my son loves this guy. He couldn't believe that that's my friend. He was 1:02:18 like, "You got friend. Is this your friend? Oh, my sister. My sister uh love short 1:02:26 curly. Oh, Curly. So, that was the first time for me cuz she was like, "You with Cody?" I'm like, 1:02:33 "Who's Curly?" So, I was like, "Oh, oh, okay. Yeah." 1:02:41 And then she was like, "Yo, Taco." And I'm like, "Yeah, your brother is." 1:02:48 No, I I appreciate you, brother. I appreciate everything you're doing. Anything you want to tell people like where to follow you and 1:02:54 Oh, yeah. I always I always try to end everything on a positive note. So, 1:03:03 thank you. 1:03:09 Okay. truly am like so proud of you. 1:03:19 And for you to believe in us and to keep pushing us and and to not give up really 1:03:26 shows how we got it and it's you you planted that seed. 1:03:31 Thank you, man. You planted that seed. Beautiful. No, we don't. I appreciate that, bro. Like I'm pretty sure we just 1:03:38 like every time we together is Rose, you're up in fives, 10 10 15 Rose, 1:03:43 you rehearsed. So, you know, I really appreciate you told me because I won the seven um weeks 1:03:49 straight, too. And nobody But hey, Rose, I know that I might not have 1:03:55 as many followers as all the other guys, but this was before you were even in the picture. 1:04:01 Tommy told me you know Tommy for the money a tour. 1:04:17 No, I love you. I'm so proud of you and like I trust you. We trust you. 1:04:23 Thank you so much. Thank you. And thank you bros for always coming up showing love and energy is it's very much needed 1:04:30 your essence. So thank you so much mama. That's what I'mma tell the guys that I'm trying to date. My essence 1:04:38 I was supposed to turn that that light off. Create an optimized seo description for the youtube video transcr