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Year-End Review And Big Plans

• Corie Sheppard

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Just a quick check in from Corie & David to say thanks for being a part of the journey in 2025 and to share some of our plans to make 2026 even greater!

Corie:

It's your money enough. Oh, yeah, I should be quiet. Welcome to the Cory Shepherd Podcast. Welcome back to everybody who's been listening. Welcome to all the new listeners. I finally have a man on camera here that you all know by name. I don't know if you know him by face. Everybody knew me. Yeah, that's the truth. And you know everybody. And who don't know me? I know them. It's a good combination, not a bad combination at all.

SPEAKER_00:

In walking up to now.

Corie:

Ah, so here and I silly, we come together the year end. It was a hell of a year, a roller coaster ride for me. That was lovely. I see you say it's lovely. I say roller coaster. He's saying it lovely. I frighten only. That's why that is my work, huh? Yeah, no, I know, I know. That's why I silly. We come together. And well, firstly, the gratitude for everybody for tuning in for making this a staple for them every Monday. It's easy to get into people's household every Monday, you know. Thank you. I've tried. You know what I mean? It's not an easy thing to accomplish. So I appreciate everybody for tuning in on them kind of things. And you always tell them to give people the floors. So it's a good opportunity for me to tell you thank you as well for coming on board with this thing. And he cost me five five minutes after this done.

SPEAKER_00:

Every day. If I'm bothering him on the phone, well, oh good, now we don't go day. I have things to say, this, you know, finally getting back at you.

Corie:

Every day is a castle. Well, you don't understand. When you're watching these videos and them kind of thing, I really don't understand. A man tell me a time, he said, when you're going in a five-star restaurant and you're having a great meal, he's a food man. He said you must understand that in the kitchen, while you're having this great experience, he said, knives are flying at one another. Yeah, the process never smooth. I witnessed it. I witnessed it in the past. Local and international. I'm sure, I'm sure, I'm sure. You're behind the scenes. But the truth is that that's only happened when the chefs care about the meal. And the chefs care about the experience. So I'm sure we have a bunch of chefs who care about the experience.

SPEAKER_00:

And we go fight on, we go fight to the death. Yes, and the same thing has happened. The customers don't care. They'll come and just tell everybody, hey, great meal. And we cannot skin in teeth. Not happen. Skin in teeth.

Corie:

It's true, it's true, it's true. So I wanted to take a year in review, boy, to look back, to reflect, look at what this year looks like. Reveal some things about what's gonna happen next year. Oh I mean, yeah, something's gonna happen next year.

SPEAKER_00:

No, no, no, no. Well, we we just vault everything till the week at the Friday before.

Corie:

Well, tell them I say January finish. Now we don't record the whole of January ready, no. January? Wait, wait, wait, no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_00:

We are more too April finish. Because you people have been the kicksiest thing is people coming in, coming and calling me. I ready for you? And I suppose I'm like, seriously, you're ready for April?

Corie:

Difficult, difficult, difficult.

SPEAKER_00:

July.

Corie:

How you could do that with this? Yeah, but maybe that's a good place to start, right? We explain to people why, because there are people who they're getting the right feathers ruffled, and David is not the right man to get feathers ruffled or wrong, you know. I mean, because that's Mr. Ruffle.

SPEAKER_00:

Hello on my head.

Corie:

So the issue is that we I try to make sure that we can consistently put episodes out every week. We have to.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah.

Corie:

It's the only way to do this thing. I love podcasts myself. I like I hate when I have a podcast, I wake up Monday morning to see it on and them men in part, no episode, and it's late on them kind of thing. The only way to do that is to record the whole of January. We must you record, but we finish with January, must be in November and record. Correct. Yeah. Again, the only way to say consistence is to book way in advance because I'm a cancellation. We had this year.

SPEAKER_00:

I read you to call me with that too, you know. Yeah, see, that's what call on him. Don't call no name. Good, good, good friend.

Corie:

All of them is your good friend. So nobody ain't gonna know who is who. But cancellations happen. The truth is life does happen. I had to cancel too. I had to cancel too. You know what I mean? All kinds of different things happen.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes, true, true. Tell them you want to tell them. No, no, I understand. All I will say, the shoe fitting on one foot. That's all I will say. Anyway, we'll go ahead.

Corie:

We'll get to that. But yeah, the truth is that I feel like the only way, and uh, and I remember when we first started talking, uh, we started, I started putting out episodes maybe January, February with with um with guests, right? I've been recording by myself for the last five years, a long time.

SPEAKER_00:

No, you've been putting out yeah, because you started without me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that's how I started. Yeah, you saw the episodes.

Corie:

Yes. So I started with people, and there's some people who I have to salute because one of the things I think that people do factor in sometimes, you and all, in the beginning, is that because while I do it for a long time and people say this be good and thing, I'm nervous like hell. I trying to figure out why I got so about studying this person through the. So and sometimes it is you accustomed to this, and I not. Being around or sitting face to face with somebody who you idolize for a long time and having to ask them questions and they looking at you for what's coming next. It's it's it is it can rattle you. Yeah. So I be so focused, I always blackout focus just to be able to land the plane.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, it's easier for me because that was what I've been doing for the last 25 years.

Corie:

Tell them what you're doing for the last 25 years now.

SPEAKER_00:

I was a media photographer, then a short stint at photojournalist. I did some writings, and then I started to go online and basically I lived online as most of you might know for many years. But because of me being in the media, locally, regionally, and internationally, I used to follow the diaspora, the carnival diaspora, and I used to do as much as 17 carnivals a year, and that was that same Mr. Daniel used to have to beg him. No fireman, a quin, taking no pay leave, heading on getting out on a Tuesday, coming back on a Tuesday, and just following Carnival. But because of that, I've been fortunate to work with greats like Lisa Wickham, also, who also did E-Zone. So we I have always been meeting people and been keeping in contact with stars, again, local, regional, and he's a star too.

Corie:

That's the worst introduction ever. Yeah, let me do a real introduction. You remember the picture with Akon in A in Zen with Akon? But me, Akon had a single whole song. They should name that song the David Wells song. David is the man who takes the photo and catch Akon with underage girls and them kind of thing. Like why when he reached out to me the first time to say, Come on, I said, Well, I don't know if I should let David do a process. You take the wrong picture of me all hellbreak, Lucius. But is any in them early days? I I felt most comfortable, and you see it again after my injury, right? What you go talk about. I felt most comfortable talking to people I custom talking to. Exactly. So salute to people like Omari Ashby, Mr. Shaq, them fellas and them. They've been on since when Kurt, I talked to for the first time after kind of. I didn't know Kurt before, yeah. I didn't know him at all. Thank God he came. I also wonder why people say yes. So just to be honest with you. Because I mean Umari, and Omari's a big spark for why I do this and always give encouraging words on them thing. But I remember Bongsnap or Marie, Ozzy Merrick was doing her thing by Kali and them. Right. Jam Bram. Oh, that was before, right? Right. And I bongst up Mary there, and a bungsa Ozzy. Does it feel some I really meet Ozzy Merrick? And Omari gave my call. He said, You know, he said, I finally invited me on this podcast, and I that man no little kai son thing too, you know. And I say, you know what? I talking to Conrad all the time and I say, Boy, get this thing done. Conrad tells me, boy, we go figure out money and thing after. Let me get this thing done and all them kind of things. So I start off with people like Omari, people like Keegan Taylor, who I spoke to before. Yeah, Mr. Shaq. Anytime me and Mr. Shaq say down, it's a ring-dong debate. Ring dong. He's just that kind of fellow. You're ready to bring him back in here. He needs a show. Yeah. He needs a show. His own. Boy, listen, he's the coolest man he ever talked to. But when he has a strong opinion about something, it's it's it's it's not just edifying and educating, but it's entertaining. Okay, passionate about what you talk about. So that was where the year starts off for me. And through things like that, you're right. I end up you call man, you say, Well, the thing got I know he's a man, no quality. Well, I thought he was a man no quality. And then you come and say the thing good, and we start, we start, we start working together. Yeah, yeah. But I'd ask you because them early times when you when you reached out, like what what make you decide that you're gonna reach out and help out with this thing?

SPEAKER_00:

It started actually with I think the first time I saw one of your um interviews was Omarie. Was Omarie? And uh I was asked to take a look at it. And I'm a follower of that that time period. Yeah, you know Marie. Yeah, no. Well, I know him professionally, again, everybody I know professionally professionally, but um it was nice to be able to, you see, and this was it was more you than Omari when I watched this, and it was how easy and calming you were with now he's a different person. He's a professional, he this is nothing for him. So from watching that and then watching a couple others, that is when I said, no, this this boy has something good, and I tell Maria so Maria to take a drink for me to get his thing done. No man, but uh with that, it was very easy. So I felt really and truly I started to feel committed towards this project. And knowing what I know, I remember reaching out to you and I tell you, give me a list, give me a list, a weird one. First thing he says, Boy, David, Rodher Boy, and I had a chunk doing how well Duane was the man that really brought Duen, I mean brought um David to the table, and it happened very quickly.

Corie:

Let me give my side of that story now. This man, tell me, tell me, gave my list, right? No, I always hesitate. I understand how this thing I always felt like I understood where we needed to land at the end of this year in terms of the style, not just the style of the interviews, but the people we interview and the variation of the interviews every week. I don't like the anytime we get to the point where people can guess who comes in next week, we're in trouble. Correct. You know what I mean? Correct. So but I had David on my bucket list of things to do. I don't even care if we publish that, just talking to him would be something amazing for me. So boy, this man, I tell this man rather. That man called me back in about 15 minutes and send rather number. And I remember I was going in the gym, right? Up in a few days after. And you called me was something else. You was telling me, come and take a coffee by district. I didn't know that district was dead. Mm-hmm. My office. This man said, Yeah, talk to David. I said, What do you mean if I talk to David? He said, He ain't calling yet. Why frightened to call this man? I said, What the hell wrong when this man tells me to call David? Right, why go tell this man? I know he said he was sick, he had Parkinson's and me know what to call him and say, and yeah, you must call about 10 times. You say, but he said, Call him, call him. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And when I call him, surprisingly to me, he said you'll do it, and he'd give me the times, and he gave me the time of day and when it's best for him and think and everything is very smooth.

SPEAKER_00:

And I mean, that was that was all part of knowing that this is going to be something great. And uh the end result is always again, keeping in when you never stayed on one plane, you know, you had many different people, and that's when it started to get diverse, and which was great. I mean, yeah, we know a lot of great people.

Corie:

Let me get a joke with David now before we move on to that, right? I mean, you know, as a man now obsessive about the research about the interviews, right? So when you tell you about here on the phone and take, I can't think I don't want to call me when I editing or when I researching interviews, because it's take a lot, I find, you know what I mean? A little better now. But in the beginning, I was obsessed. So, in doing the research for David, and you know, Chargy PT is my partner, so I was saying, well, boy, this man has Parkinson's. I'd ask him about that. I can't interview him and do ask him about it. I don't know. I saw in our interview before he spoke about it and he's comfortable. But all then, any question that borderline contentious, I frightened to ask. So I put it in Chargy PT, I say, well, alright, I interviewing David Roder, this, that, that, that, that, da, that. And here Parkinson's. What what what else should I do to make the environment comfortable? And it's say, well, alright, it's great. It's showing the level of respect you have. I've only not to me. So they say, one thing you should be aware of with people at Parkinson's is look out for how if they're getting tired. Look, pay attention.

SPEAKER_00:

I remember you.

Corie:

And they say, don't wear any bright colours. So boy, I go and through my thing, and I find the most neutral great thing. They say, Wherever you do, don't wear red. Go back and check rather episode.

unknown:

He woke in it.

Corie:

He walk in a whole red flat shirt. It's one of the greatest things I see. And that's when I say, boy, it's all those reality. Boy, and he was he was cool as ever. He makes it very, very easy because again, up to that point of the year. And and still now, I, in most of the interviews we've done, right? I am on camera less than everybody else who we're talking to. Everybody else accustomed to camera and accustomed to the public space. You know? So I see new fights here, I've seen you once. So that was interesting. They come in a whole red thing as to what the hell is this? But to me, it was one of the more um what it turned out to be as an episode. I don't know. I don't know what people receive anymore, but for me it was very, very, very, very.

SPEAKER_00:

Everything that y'all say, write, post. Yeah, see all of it. Yeah. Really, I should receive it. Yes, try to respond to all that's amazing. I try my best. You know? But I mean, with with that, we also learn a lot from what you'll what you're thinking and what you're saying, and sometimes it it will give us the opportunity to use it, use your ideas in the future.

Corie:

Yeah, and to implement it takes time. Let me remind people of that too. Because keep in mind that we play in this out there's a last day of the year thing for you, right? Yeah, but at this point, we don't record everybody for for January already. Yes, you know what I mean? So, guys, guys, that was one of them things. But as you came on board, it started.

SPEAKER_00:

But I was really excited about that. Yeah, Temple Temple. You know, I was afraid to say we used to say ish. This guy. But fuck that.

Corie:

We take it long enough together. They took you long enough together. They had some pivotal points for the year, or that was one of them, and very, very special moment to me. And all the interviews, I when I come here, I have a standing rule in this studio. When we come here to interview somebody, I don't want to hear about nobody else. That person is who we focused on for that couple hours. Don't want to hear nothing about nobody else who comes next week, who was here last week, what happened, but I just want to be focused on that person, and that that's that's important. Yeah, I can come to you and say, well, look at the next week.

SPEAKER_00:

You want to? Nope, not yet. No, no, no, no. We had a creative and in fact, you calm down plenty because at one point in time I couldn't make noise behind the camera. You see, all he hearing me, that he relaxed, that I could make noise, and he comes and tell me at first, you'll come and say, Yeah, now you're only talking behind the and I'll be concentrating and say, no problem.

Corie:

Let me tell you how funny that is, and maybe I get better at it because I just get used to it. Because you at the time before you came. Well, you see how it works here. Salute to the guys that are affordable, Bud Jordan, Kyle, Che, Aaron, Conrad, of course. But when they set up and think, they go on, it's usually me and I guess in here alone. So every little noise is distracting me and them kind of thing. But uh at that point in time, I hear noise, I blackout in them conversations. When I sort of hear movement, I think I say, Hey, who talking? We had to focus on this guest and that and that person alone when we come in here.

SPEAKER_00:

It's a work in progress because when I was invited by you to come and do this, I know nothing. You tell me, Well, come and take in uh one of the interviews, no? I say, Well, all right, I come and I said I'm there. I made some comments on it, and he said, No, I like what you're doing. Yeah, so and that's how I'm gonna do it.

Corie:

Yeah, since then you never miss miss a day. No, yeah, you hear more often than me.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, but baby. That's what it is. That's what it is. I mean, no, yes. I set up, break down. That is nice.

Corie:

When I hear you say we, well, it's so much more than set up and break down, yeah, because I don't want to interview this year. We was near. Because you want to go on the world's longest cruise, you want to be cruising three shit ten weeks, this man up and down the place. And I'm uneasy, uh uneasy, uneasy, uneasy. But but that's why I'm glad I'm glad to hear you say we. But you know what I feel really good about from where we start off to now? Every time I see the comments now, I see people say David where's this and that? To call David on camera. We're gonna interview David and them kind of thing. So I set him up today, no.

SPEAKER_00:

I didn't tell him he was doing this. I say I will bring him up. He did not. And I warned him, man. I see if this is not to be shit. Well, it's not going up. Uh but um really and truly, 22 years of being behind the camera, have recorded everything. I don't like to be in front of the camera. Well, that ships in look at it. Episode one of David. So I'm I'm I'm reading.

Corie:

I couldn't get it done. I couldn't get it done without without without you coming in. And at that point in time, we still working on okay, what they scheduling. And that is one of you say set up and break down, but one of the biggest assets is us sitting down together. People might know how much hours we spend trying to figure out okay, what what was the experience for them for January? We could put this one, we could put do two this week, we go move this place, we could do it. It is a lot of work, but sometimes more work than the interview these days. But one of I want to talk about a few pivotal points this year where where the thing changed. Mohammed Muakil is somebody I want to specially, and you know, it's so hard to single out guests and single out episodes, but you know why? When I went by Ray's bar, same thing with Aussie, because at that point I go in every Wednesday night, Ozzy eating German injunction, and we go in and take it in. We see crazy the Johnny King artist right on the pavement there on Cypriani Boulevard, right? And again, a chance to talk to Umary because, brother, any conversation with Umari is an episode. Entertaining. So so deep in his thought. And I remember going there and I see Mohammed. Oh, again, Mohammed is a star to me. Well, you know now how I have to watch Calypso, yeah. I said, Jesus Christ, go and talk to this man, boy. Because in my young days, I had a website called Trinisound.com. I was 20-something years old. I used to interview all them sound men and all them things. When I see somebody somewhere, I'm going and they say use the promoter, Bazo. They say Bazo is the owner base. I go, I say, Bazo, my name is So So So So So. Boy, like I lost that over the years. So I frightened my mom, boy. I said, Oh God. And something eventually told my boy, let me go and ask him. And I asked that man, and he said, Boy, those things are real important. Now he doesn't he never see this, huh? He never says a clip, he never see the show, he never seen nothing. And he said, Yes, before the thing wasn't taking off at that point in time. Yeah. Somebody now messaged me and said, I wish Radha episode could really do the kind of numbers the episode's doing now. So Mohammed don't know nothing about this. He don't know me from no way. You know what I mean? And he knows how he just dressed and thing. Yes. And I look like a cornball come here to ask this man question, smelling a cigar smoke. Is the easiest no, he could probably tell somebody. But I always remember him saying, Yeah, he could do it because those things are important. And actually, come here and nerve us before. I want to tell him, I say, Mohammed, this is not they know TTT and thing, you know, it's just a little thing. He's like, boy, you ask me anything, I was cool with that.

SPEAKER_00:

And that's that's the thing with you. I mean, they mightn't say it before, but the appreciation that they have after every interview, before they get up that table, I'll tell you something, you know. And we have to thank our guests for number one, Corey. Is this not an interview, it's a conversation. So, as y'all know, you'll see he just they just talk. You see why there's no iPad or no phone and thing now?

Corie:

And I gotta get back to barbershop days. You see the barber shop. When we used to talk in the barbershop, we talk all kinds of things. We talk heavy talk, real talk, laugh and joke. But apart of why that's missing now, is because everywhere you go, everybody in a device. And it's a too much facts. Apart of the thing we had we need, we need to bring back damn lies and innuendo. You remember that?

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, yeah.

Corie:

The man can just talk because one of the realities about our conversations is that like this, me and you just sit down here talking. We don't need no notes, we don't need no nothing, you get things wrong. And I always see it like I always tell his body awake. I see every episode of one or ten thousand, so a man go come back. I don't see nobody who was here that might come back. We don't go there, you know. Man go come back. Look at Muhammad. I went, no, I'm doing research, so I decided I go in and I think they had named tiny spaces. Yeah, you know this do the show contest, yes. Why wish I never wear that? I should have never gone nowhere. You know, my hours, I don't like to leave my house, right? David go telling you frustrated, like I don't like to leave home. So boy, I say, but I never see Mohammed and then perform outside of one off little never like a show then. So when I started listening to the music and I realized how varied the music is, because I first talking to him about Kai Song. I said, but these men is rockstars. Yeah. I listened to the men's album Born in Darkness. So I said, boy, I had a good men's show. They come and do tight spaces. I'm gone the night. Me and no, when I walk in, I write in front of Muhammad's face and the thing. He said, No, don't worry, don't worry about leading late. Put me on your old spotlight. That's sour. And that night I talked to Lou. And Lou said, You do, but I used to follow Lou all the time. I used to talk to Lou on Facebook and them thing all the time, message him. Because he had a few shows he used to do. And I always used to tell him, boy, he Lou knows. So that kind of leads us up and so. But one of the turning points was also Maxine Williams. A huge shift. Because at that point in time. And it's the connection, eh? It's the connection. Tell you, no the connection, you know. Let me tell you what happened. Because I tell myself, boy, I need people who are more on the business side and more on the corporate side. Because I uh this if this year proves anything, maybe to me, is that it don't matter who across from that table, we could have a good conversation. What's sake? It's okay, talk to you for six hours. So I go on and I think them days before I meet you, I really watching who's watching the page. So as a man like the page, I say, Hey, thanks for liking, and I asked to come on and them kind of thing. Right. I do that with Maxine. And Maxine message back and say, Well, what make you ask me? I never sing nothing. I say, Maxine is Maxine, you know exactly why I asking you, you never sing nothing. But she said, Well, it's funny because I was just listening to Lou interview. She said she had just finished with the Lou episode. Right. And I she picked up the phone, she said a message from me. I say, Well, you like it? So I was used to I respond one time. And she decided to do it, which I saw them that is a favor to me. Me care what Maxine say. That is a favor because she has been in media for a long time. She told me, she said Peter Menschell told us some very charitable things. But she tells me very charitable. But you know what she said? She said, when she talked to Mohammed, who's a good partner, she said, Mohammed said, nah, do it. She said, with Corey, you're not gonna interview yourself. He will be ready and he will be prepared. And I was never less prepared in my life, so when you're like, ah, Maxine had to come twice. People might know that Maxine had to come back. You remember that? Maxine is a whole part of that episode. But that was really that was really. I leave out a whole part. It's when I reach up and I say, Maxine girl, one thing we ain't covered because it was a great episode. If I had put it out as is, people would have loved it. And I sent it to her picture of her and brother resistance. I said, Girl, I forget this. She said, Nah, that's too important a part of my life to leave out about things like this. And she came back, boy. She was back here again. We held the episode, we came back, and then she teach me about things like continuity, and she said, just put back on the same clothes. I go, well, may I have an idea about that? I washed that thing must be two weeks before Maxine. Tell me Pondy thing, I go forget and do wear the same thing and all that kind of thing. But that was that that shifted, I think, how people saw how people saw the thing, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00:

It was it was it was I must say um your mistakes were few. There have been some and some big ones, but the mistakes were few. Mistakes was a mess. We had some fun times. Yeah, it was good. I mean, I enjoy all. And the guests that we've had, I mean, again, I will always be thankful. Um, if Corey doesn't reach out, it's I have to reach out, and plenty of letters buffed before. Meaning. But I think that's another thing too. But they had to call me.

Corie:

I'm not organized.

SPEAKER_00:

Call Corey, call me. I will listen more bed.

Corie:

If I'm not answering my boon. I ain't answering my phone. Yeah, it's I will take long to respond to WhatsApp.

SPEAKER_00:

I'm not uh I'm not I'm not good with it. I'm not good with it. But we I mean, again, and that was the branch of with Maxine Adam Mark Jardin.

Corie:

I was surprised when I had I know Jardin all my all my school. Yeah, when the school must say Jardin Boy, where you come and do this thing. That man says, Yeah, I couldn't believe most of the times. I used to be shocked as like they say, even if I used to ask you that all the time, I was like, they say yes.

SPEAKER_00:

Like, what didn't understand the what he held before that?

Corie:

Well, yeah, I remember that I talking for four or five years, yeah, and irony had two, three months of evidence, you know. I mean, I I I mean, I feel I know we had something good, and uh, there's something I want to thank people for. The people who've been listening to this since COVID. There's some people who don't miss no episodes and it's vexing. You see, last episode I put out there a little Christmas thing with me and my son. But I was listening to be mad when they say they say, Corey, we're hearing from all kinds of people. You ain't hearing from you, biggest things happening in the country. You ain't saying nothing.

SPEAKER_00:

We don't go there. All you know, my mouth anyway. But your son, only look out for he might bring out he and podcast soon, huh?

Corie:

He's a natural. And here on that day.

SPEAKER_00:

Excellent.

Corie:

David, he's hungry, he's tired. Well, we say all that. That's the nice thing about it. Well, let me tell you. I go send you something with he, where he could carry a show.

SPEAKER_00:

He can. He can.

Corie:

The introduction. And I mean that unplanned, uh I was looking for a song. Let me tell you what happened. When them say we were rolling and them press record, I was looking for the first song we're gonna play to open the episode. Because I was going to start with Merry Christmas to talk about go back fatima function. Boy, not for nothing. I can't remember the name of the damn song. So if you watch it back, you'll see me singing through my phone. Yes, and when they when they sing them play when they're done play, I still scroll. So I'll introduce the episode.

SPEAKER_00:

So that yeah now because that song's so scripted. I mean, it was just natural. Even bringing you in the way he brought you in again. In the early days of recording, who are you watching? Yeah.

Corie:

I in a bedroom recording memorys. He used to come in and we'll take notes and tell me, all right, daddy, you should edit all this, you should keep this short, you should do it. And but one day I just put a mic, I said, let me see what he thing. And boy, a man is an actual word. He built for that. He's the grandfather child. Two of them, two of them, two of them could talk.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, the next thing, let's let him learn some editing now. Yeah, let's do it.

Corie:

He does edit, he does very good.

SPEAKER_00:

Some of them clips I do this year.

Corie:

He gets it. He's editing resolve. He's easy in it.

SPEAKER_00:

I love his choice and music. You see that what is it? Jingle Jingle. Jingle. What do you wanna name Radio?

Corie:

Boy, listen, I hear more song from Shane or either play, but I'm gonna bring him back. I will bring him back.

SPEAKER_00:

He he is he's one of them people who every time he comes on, it's always be a happy episode for very entertaining, and he's a very true person. I love that bow. That's how he is.

Corie:

That's how he is.

SPEAKER_00:

Bring my child in, she'll watch our camera all night. Bring sheep to the world. Like embarrassment, you know.

Corie:

He's a hater. She will just watch me do you. Zachary was also here for another pivotal episode, Junior Lee. Junior Lee. Junior Lee. Junior Lee. A lot change on Junior Lee. Come on. Again, another episode that I see as a favor. Because he ain't bong to come here, this youth man flying high. But I felt as though at that point, we talking to a lot of the people who are foundation because I mean Colin Lucas was a big change in this. Yeah. I I remember, you know, I was real despondent going into Colin Lucas episode. You wasn't here. No. You wasn't here for Colin episode. You was near for Rudd. You just set that up. You didn't come either. I did I wasn't in no setting up then. When I heard Ruddho, and I put in that and I hear the quality of the interview. Because I I I kind of read it that he was getting tired. And I was getting up from the table. And I say, boy, well, you know, I always check my notes before I get, but I say, boy, one song I once asked about enough respect. I forgot. I'd ask about that 10 billion bullets of wet love, what that means. And he started back talking. I sit back down and we record for another 15-20 minutes. Was good. Yeah. And I expected that to blow up. I say, boy, David Roddow. You know, people would love to see this boy. And I see the numbers kind of like. And I never too obsessed with the numbers. I know it's our body of work and it is what it is.

SPEAKER_00:

But that's that's the nice thing because um you would look at for the first month and you'll see a certain number a certain number. But then you notice when you go back six months later, you're seeing in my double. And you're watching that as like, you know. I mean, Junior Lee was the first boom. Yeah, that's skyrocketing.

Corie:

Colin was the first one where I see the numbers on Instagram. Yes. Because I remember Colin's son, salute Kevin. I see Kevin in the gym every morning, and uh I have rather recorded behind Pit out here. So I say I said Colin. And that in my mind then, I know I want lead singers of the bands. Because I had Eddie, I had Colin. It's Jungi get Eddie for me, you know. Yeah, yeah. Jungi call Eddie, and Eddie say you go do it. So I say, Well, I say, I but I don't see Colin in no interviews, you know. So I say, Kevin, if you feel followed, go do it, but he said, You're serious? I say, seriously ask him. And when he asked me, he said yes, you'll do it. And Colin was such a let me tell you, somebody asked me about it the other day. You know, if you go back to YouTube now and you watch Colin episode, the table, I on one head of the table, and he had the next head of the table. It wasn't side by side. Because I too close to the person, I looking down in David Roder, I frightened like I said, when he held his man, I says, I say, Conrad, we need space between me and he guessed. I started to get nervous, the moment getting bigger than me. And we end up when I reach and see the setup, I say, I say, I say, Conrad, we're too far. And he said, Nah, don't worry about it. We don't set up and thank God Colin is a professional, he's energetic, he's a storyteller because he carried the episode.

SPEAKER_00:

And that was your first that was the first one.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

On a lookout somewhere. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Corie:

When he said he do the dollar wine. Well, that them days I I I recorded, and when I'd done I so relieved to finish, I forgot to ask people to say they're gonna be here next year. So I'd call Kevin and ask him to beg your father, I see boy, ask him, please let him do something. And when he do that dollar wine clip, the story is so it just goes on. So I I do that clip, put it out. And I pick up my phone again, 15,000 views. I said, but I said, but this is what I expected with the Rodder episode.

SPEAKER_00:

No, but Rodder is a very popular. You know, a lot of people do interview him when last we saw Call of the World.

Corie:

Well, I suppose that's Ryan, think of it that way, but take off, take off.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, and Chat G PT told it that was. That was funny, yeah.

Corie:

So to the blue, don't know. When I posted it, and I would typically, when I an hour after the episode goes up, I will I'll send back all the metrics into Chat GPT and ask it, okay, what do I do next? I put the whole transcript in Chat GPT and I say, what other clips do I post from this episode? And no one needs to do the thing behind the songs, right? So he had football dance, he had um Dollar Wine, and he had I Wa Butterfly Shadow Wave. I know I need to do those, but I was asking like what other parts I should clip. And it'd say, when it sees the numbers for dollar wine, it'd say, don't clip nothing. Don't post nothing. I say, What do you mean don't post nothing? I say I had a post and running out of days because I have something to release next week, you know. Yeah, yeah. And boy, listen, they said no, that's going and go. That's not going, it's say it ain't reached nowhere near where it's supposed to go. To the point where I asked again, Chat GBT said, Hey, you're worried about riding the wave. You are the wave. I see what the else is, but that's it's calling storytelling, no? Yeah, it's calling storytelling, boy. That that was something else. And then well, Junior come and change things in terms of all.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, Junior because you went away, you went with a wave there, it was junior and then Adam Aboud, which changed he met. And Maxine was the week before Junili. And Maxine before. So it kind of just went boom, boom. Yeah, it's true, it's true. It wasn't changed that Adam was after.

Corie:

And well, people mightn't know that's a real coincidence. Because you asking me for the list all the time, I tell you, boy, from a business standpoint, Adam Aboud is somebody all like you. You say, but I know Adam, he could get Adam. 15 minutes. But Junelli, I see him follow the Facebook page. Because he's Jovel Limo on Facebook, eh? So them days me ain't no nothing. So I said, but what if that is real Junieli boy this song? I sure. And then I see him share one of the posts. Probably calling Lucas and I say, Hey, thanks for sharing it, boy, this thing. He said, Yeah, like you're doing proper content and things. I say, Well, he will come out. He said, Yeah, anytime you're doing proper content. That was his response. And what people mightn't realize is we book him a day, I make a mistake and perhaps pass it instead of 10 o'clock.

SPEAKER_00:

I don't know what the hell I was thinking. But not only not knowing, I never knew that he worked in training that I thought Junior living in Canada.

Corie:

Oh, you did?

SPEAKER_00:

No, then he dung here. He dung here.

Corie:

And I genuinely find him to be one of the funniest people. Junior Funny. And boy, that show any episode because I could not catch myself. He was here, Jade was here, so my partner, Jade Zachary here. And that man, I think that might be the first episode where everybody from Affordable Import stay outside. Yeah, yeah. Because usually it'd be just me and the guesser though. And boy, let me tell you something. That man's so funny. But what was nice about him is also that he has a certain depth to the way he's talking. He learned you know the social media taking real. The stories with his mom and his mom falling sick when he had the first episode and them kind of things.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, he came real. He was real.

Corie:

And that's somebody else who, when I look back at it, I always tell myself, this youth man does me a favor. He must just say, Boy, hey, let me get his men a blah, let me show up at his men of them show. But I had to add a lot of respect for his knowledge about those who came before him. And both Kais. So because what people might know is if we record for two hours, you had to go. But we line here for must be about three hours after, you know. That young man is something else. He knows old-time kite. So he knows he's very, very knowledgeable. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00:

He's an old soul, 28 years old. As you talk about old soul and knowledgeable, Hoppy. Now, what was nice about Hoppy was when when you did it, it was without even knowing what was coming up, you know, with the show. But the show that was three weeks ago, two, three weeks ago. Oh no, no, no, you're right. Right. So but to me, it laid a foundation.

Corie:

Yeah, I told him, yeah, it was a few. But it wasn't done. I told him I say, because I uh when I was doing the clips, I tell him I say because uh with any artist I'll I would talk to, I want the stories behind certain songs. I was in fit when Eddie was singing, where did he fuck your whole me phone? So I'm so glad I have that captured. You know what I mean? So when Hoppy came and we talked about the thing, when I watch back the episode, because plenty of times around the table, to tell you the truth, I used to be kind of blacked out, you know. I don't know what we talk about. By the time we're done, I don't know what we talk about. I can't remember. But when I edit it, and I see it and I see it all about the deliriums. I say, Hoppy send me the delirian plate now. Let me do a clip. He said, Man, when I do that, I said I said, Boy, the waitresses here. I said, I go rise back up song clashing in this country, you know. But hoppy was an interesting one because it's all about cuss when two obvious cuss one another. But when I was done with Hoppy, it's all about cuss because you have vex. I had because at that point in time I'm doing real research, I think the interviews going more or less where I want them to go. Boy, Hoppy, to me, when I finished with that, I said, This is the worst one. We lose it. Yeah, I was mad. I said, David, you're booking too much interviews because David come and David only calling people. Right, this book for this week. This because I think we record Maxine, Junelli, and Tycho three days straight. Yes. Ba ba ba. Yeah, yeah. And I thought, I said, Well, dad, I have a walking. I walked to go and do. And I had to cut these clips and all these kind of things. So, boy, and I I say, I said, David, stop. One a week. I need to be able to do the research for the thing because the research was sloppy, it was hoppy. We just talking, it's just a whole remember when come. Boy, you know, and I poured out exactly love that episode. I I don't know, I did not like that conversation. I feel like I was crumbling.

SPEAKER_00:

Again, Trinidad loves Trinad's loves a story. Yeah, and hoppy's a storyteller. It was, I mean, I was getting a lot of people calling, you know, I had a real story for this, and the real story for that. I say, Oh, yeah, hold up, hold up. But what I loved about it, and this was not this just happened, was boom, umba come and give a reply on the week of the sound clash. And I mean, that I read that came out and that just tricked everything. That was a beautiful retort.

Corie:

Yeah, well, umbo is I mean, umbo is umbo. That's umbo is who he is. Again, he's somebody I said it in the episode as well. Anything I ever try to do, he's somebody that supports it. He's just he always has answered your phone. You know, what you think security worry yourself outcome? We make the same mistake with Umba we make with Junili. Because I booked the half a seat down morning. So like a fool. I don't know what the hell I was thinking. I call Umbasi Umba boy, I make a mistake with his name. Umbasa say, yeah, no, don't worry, we go, we go, we go with it all. That's just we ever get a late, a late, usually late man. Yeah. He just walk in after them artists, them artists long they're waiting to hear now, vex. You know, when it's the first time that happened with Lou Lions. Yeah, yeah. I walk in with Lou. And Edit Studio so dark. I just don't see nothing. So when I walk in, I say what happened to the yeah, you know, reaching in, you know, strong. But Lou is a good segue because they have some conversations happen this year that I felt like would be the true essence of the show. I I the show became by that time it was out of my hands. I I I I come, I try my best to research, I try my best to have the conversation, and I have a tendency, no matter what I research now, I let the conversations go where they go. People talking and me having a good time, I not stopping that for the sake of questions that I feel I should ask. And I I think is like you say, it's it's conversational. I like how you just chime in. All of them know David and all, every one of them knows David. So I want you to watch back Alvin Daniel episode, Dane Gulston episode. That would be talking to David Adam about them talking to David more than they're talking to.

SPEAKER_00:

I was I was embarrassed by them things. I look cool. But again, it came with the feedback. Boy, wait no, let me hear David now. It's a vibe. I'm not talking anything it's special enough.

Corie:

No, you are, you are, you know, but that's Lou was one of them where you know it it fit the sort of the essence of the way I would say because I I like to or Marie was one of them where the title, we get a chance to talk about them and their life and the story and so on, but we get a chance to talk about some issues, you know what I mean, or what happened with the country or what happened with the entertainment industry and them kind of thing. You know, those episodes to me well, well, well, well balanced because them things shake me, you know, because when you hear tiger perspectives on things, I come here with a plan, I say this, and she goes say that. And I said, Boy, Tiger, say not me. I come in and go any theatre to make people uncomfortable. I ain't doing no queens wall. You know, I mean she was she was great, you know, and Maxine is another one. But I was we had to stop booking lawyer because see, Maxine, Lou, and them fellas, and them have our way with words. But again, you get a lot of respect.

SPEAKER_00:

Chromatics, yeah, matics.

Corie:

Yeah, but that but that was sweet. I enjoy those. I enjoy those. We're people talking about, not just themselves, which I think it's important to document that.

SPEAKER_00:

But we could get some perspectives on what happened in the country now. And that's the purpose of these things. That these things are we want them for research purposes. When them child when all your children coming up, it's them gonna be looking. You understand? And we have to have facts, we must they must get the stories, and that is what brings people from stars to icons. Well, it's all crazy.

Corie:

We have with stars and we icons dying off, and nobody don't know what they do, nobody don't know what they used to work in engineering or they write calypso, they arrange it.

SPEAKER_00:

It it it happens, and I'll say that Corey is responsible for building respectfully long format interviews. We don't say interviews, we say conversations.

Corie:

Well, I'm glad they get to that because Alvin was about two and a half hours, you know, the better accustomed to that for next year. We nearly talk for four. I cut on. Yes, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

And something gives a two and a half hour episode. Well, yeah, no, let me tell her. Mama called me and tell me today, Robert Taylor, thank you. He said, I listened to that three times in two days. You know, a lady told me too.

Corie:

I don't know, I can't remember her name, but she told me she she messaged me before. Came out and she said, I had a drive from New York to Connecticut. She said, and I timed that drive for seven o'clock to listen to this. I say, Well, girl, you might return before yesterday. She said, Well, maybe when it's done, she says, unless it's long. But I many people, that is the longest episode. That's the longest single episode. You know, it's the longest episode of the year. Mevon Sudin. Oh. Mevon had to come back. Oh, yeah. Yes, yes, yes, yeah. I don't know where the hell went on. Usually we book two hours and we talk for as much of that as we could. And something with Mevon, I booked an hour and a half. So when I now get any source, I see Conrad come and Sunna by the camera. So when Mevon, I said, Conrad, what happened? He said you were supposed to finish 15 minutes ago. I say, what? And we had to dive over again graceful, graciously. Mevon called me and said, Nah, don't worry yourself. I had to go to Jamaica and say, and he said, when you come back, we could record again just before we get. But thank God I had the experience with Maxine to know what to do. You know what I mean? Any next joke with Jamaica? Remember what episode came out when I was in Jamaica? No. Lou Lyons from Freetown Collective boy. Who said Jamaica and Trinidad have a sibling right now? Yes, yes. That was done on overvironment. Remember that? Yes. Cray Zay. And yeah, no, I so unaccustomed to this thing. I in Jamaica, I get an Uber driver to drop my. My plan was to fly into Kingston, rent a car and drive up the road. And you know, I mean we go check out Kingston a little bit, but the hotel was up in Ocho Reals. When I reached me and Stacey, and no one here put and no rental. Only rentals are. Well, they have one, they have one SUV they're renting, but they deposit to pay for the thing is 4,000 US. Yeah, to pay us. The man carry me off the road and this and that. By the time I uh uh you know, uh it's a honeymoon trip. I married a long time, but we never had a honeymoon, so we take our honeymoon trip. So I frightened to take out my laptop and about a cut clips for Lou. So boy, when I started here, I pull out my laptop easy and I think Lou I said nice thing, Jamaica. Actually, at GPT, yeah, what's up? Was the first clip that said this thing about Jamaica and trying nice baby post that. But it's all-inclusive resort and drunkness, and you know, I go now. Me studying nothing. Boy, by the time I see my phone again and I see the kind of comments and people cussing one another, and he goes I said, Jesus Christ. Boy, is Lou attack reach out to me because I feeling bad. No, I said, Oh god, boy, I wonder if I'd put this man in a bad light. All then I'm frightened. So, but the most controversial thing as the clipper. Boy, is he checking a good boy? I say, I good, you're good. I see if you want me to take it on or take it on, you say, take it on for what? You know, and afraid nothing. No, and he talk facts. Because long after TJ, a Jamaican artist, come and say Trinidad bust him many times.

SPEAKER_00:

Um but talk about it too how much but boy. I didn't talk about facts. Yeah, Pelam was see them young boys, producer, what producer? Pelum, Pelum, talking mine. Talkie mine. And you're right, talking mine.

Corie:

He's right. As with everybody else who comes here, I feel Pelam right. You know, I mean, there's ever some things where Pelum because I was lucky enough. When you look at it this year, I was watching Take Me Home was his song of the year. And I had Muhammad, Lou, Kit Israel, and Mevon, all the people who work on his song as producers and contributors to the song. So Pelum saying something, and I ask all of them it when I talk to Kit about code construction and thing, Kit say, I know not more. Mevon said the same thing too. And Kit say, boy, I know what song and write. And he writes, and Pelham writes. I had to take up a page from them correct. Yes. Because if if if Kit and Mevon and these fellas learn music theory the same way Pelam and them had learned it, the music would be shaped differently. What Pelham said that I'm not sure if people pay attention to, Pelam said music are three parts rhythm, melodies, and harmonies. And he said rhythm is the most basic thing. And he's right, because rhythm, you can make a rhythm here now. We can make a rhythm with very little. If you had to make a melody, now you have to know chords. And if you had to know harmony, you had to know which chords work with which chords. So it's layers, it's like it's like it's like a master's, it's like a your bachelor's and your master's and your PhD. So the fact that most of the music now is stopping at rhythm. And he ref he referenced Lou and them in one. He said, I like this song, take me home. He said, But you say, take me to a place where my heart don't feel no pain. And he said, Way the pain. I I'm not sure if people understood what he meant. What he was trying to say is they have chords in music that express pain. Yes. But you go back to the same rhythm, nothing changed in his song. And he was making the point that when you talk about sugar boom boom, he said, Look how you remember to ask me about sugar boom boom. He said, Kitchener never say none of that, but you remember that. That's an important statement in our culture and our music. I hope people pay attention to it and they'll listen to it because I could also say boom boom pitin boom. Boom boom pum piting. Shadow never say that, but you remember that. Or it's Christmas time, right? When I hear pity being ping ping ping pity. That song don't have a word that people remember it. So I think it's a challenge to people like Mevon, Kit, the two Kyles, the bosses today in terms of music. It's a challenge for them to adjust the way they're producing or arranging the music to lead to more musicality. More musical. I think it I think it's missing from the music. It's missing from the music. But Pelam talking. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So get any backstory to Pelam?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, I think so. Guys, watch me. That's what I'm playing. Only let us know. Pelum is my partner. I don't tell him Pelum. Pelum is his first one. Pelam is his mother partner.

Corie:

Pelom is them bad friends. I could call Pelum. I tell my mother, I said, girl, I want to start doing interviews. This is three years ago. I say, but I want to start with Pelumboy. Pelambo, you have to get Pelam's story and think, we ain't talking to Pelam yet enough. We need about six episodes to talk about what Pelam really does. So I called Pelumboy. I called Pelham. I say, Pelum Boy, this Corey Boy Linda son. Hey, my Corey, where are you going? I say, I want to do an interview to him. Well alright, anytime you're ready. The next time I called Pelham after that was three years after that. When I start doing the interviews here. Pelum said, Who Corey? He said, You still talk about you and do that? I said, no, and now we're a studio and thing we recorded in Elsa Coro. Pelum said, which Elsa Coro? I'm not going Elsa Coro. Come on by me and record it. I said, Pelam, I can't record by you me don't know nothing about this camera and thing. Because why this is all before I talk to you, you know. That man said, come on by him. Me, you know, to say, I don't talk to Conrad about it. I say, Conrad, here we're going on. We have to get Pelum. If push comes to shop. And Conrad, you know Conrad. Conrad is our problem. So Conrad more like you than he likes me. Conrad said, boy, we could get anything done, you just name the date, just give me things, we'll go and we would think and we fix it lighting. And I say, but what the hell is this? I frightened to talk in the studio. I talking every week. I'll go home by Pelum now to see all national awards on the wall and all kinds of things now to frighten me. I can't talk to this man. And man say, I ain't coming there. We doing radio station and boy, the thing, I feel you know with Rada and so on. It's trying to pick up momentum.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes, exactly.

Corie:

So me and David back and forth, every day is cussed. This one, that one, no, we can't put this one. You have to put this person down. Every day is that. And something needs to come back up with Pelham. I said, David, how call him? And I prepare to get cussing. I said, Boy, Pelum go cuss me up stink me. He fed up on me calling. Because one time I called Dream Carnival, hey boy, this is Carnival. I go in and record it super blue now. You calling me about the interview? I said, Jesus Christ. Calling all the time, but I leave it in the morning, you know. When I come back. But when I call him, he said, Corey, you still recording an Elsa Coro, boy? He said, Well, when I come back, we are relative to some brother. I said, Nice, we have him. And I went and picked up Pelum home. Yes. Pick up Pelum home and Pelom had a limited time. I'm jumping back home. Yeah. Yeah. Pelom had a limited time to come and get the home.

SPEAKER_00:

He was flying the next morning.

Corie:

So we had a limited amount of time for sake. Pelum is the fastest man leave after me. I Pelom get up from that table. Pelum say, alright. David, I'm ready. Yeah, David are ready. Let me go. By the time you get up, Pelum not outside the door. But special moment again for me personally to be young, be able to talk about uh Charlie Swords. Barely talk about Exodus, you know.

SPEAKER_00:

I mean, what one of one of them moments. I mean, it's nice to talk to those people. And young and old, I mean, Raymond was, you know, the same thing. Raymond Ramnerine, thank you, sir. Oh my god.

Corie:

You know? Not just Raymond Ramnarian, buddy. Ramnerine as a whole, boy. True. I have never met people nicer than them. Yeah. And everybody tell me so, you know.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, no. The first time he gave me that, that man used to come anywhere in the world. I see him coming and hugging me up like a. I said, This man, I guess you chopping this, you know.

Corie:

Let me tell you something. Them fellas much bigger and taller. They're bigger and taller than they seen on TV. It could be intimidating. A family boy. What was big boys with Richard and Raymond and them? I mean, I boy, listen, that that was a change. That was a day that changed a lot for me too. Because I tell myself, I say, boy, here I'm me showing you. I don't know enough about Chapney. I know if that know these men and them history. I don't want to. I hate to be by a table with. And I get more comfortable now, eh? But you see me being unprepared, and I don't know people's history, and I don't know what they're talking about, and I don't like that. But boy, Raymond and them had a we had a conversation there. And you know, things so funny because with Raymond, I want to get his stories behind some of these songs because That's the thing, correct? Some of these songs you have, it's a no kind of chutney at all anything, Basi. But we're missing this part of the culture. As I say, James Boy, they are an important part of the thing to me. So I wanted to talk to him about Ramsing Shaman. We did talk about that, but we talked about Taj Suraj. And you know, the week I put out the Rayman episode is we come again injured the week. And I didn't have enough time to do the amount of clips I would have liked to do for that. So I never had any clips behind the Delinada and songs. But it comes in.

SPEAKER_00:

You know what I mean? But as they say, you see what's going on. So I had a what else do backstage? 15 minutes left. We are less than that.

Corie:

That was another man with nothing to do. Woo with an X. We waiting out. Tell him David where he's recording. No, but there's a there's a few of the um there's a few of the episodes that really stood out and you know I mean it's just hard to identify any of them.

SPEAKER_00:

But we had to go into the list here, and I we have people to we have many, everybody should be mentioned, everybody needs to be thanked. I mean David boxed so much people in 2025.

Corie:

We came tank.

SPEAKER_00:

We didn't get into Lady Lava. I mean, oh gosh, you know, that I we give it.

Corie:

So they bring me sex music and think no mean no, yeah, sake is yeah, no, all of them, all of them. Everybody, but again, I I don't think, and and people mightn't realize the lead time and the work that goes into it because we first spoke about booking Alvin Daniel must be in August. Yeah, could be as early as August. Yeah, so I had his number, and I say, Yeah, have his number. Yeah, I remember us talking to him in district and him confirming that he will do it and so on, and it became one of those special episodes. You happen to be traveling for like a hundred weeks at a time, and I say, Well, I will come up as I had to go up and do it. And no, people might know. Ricky the night before. The night before we travel, our bus markies. I had to go up there in our boot and hobble my way to meet Alvin Daniel, but it couldn't be nicer again. He carried the episode. Yeah. Because if people people might not even know, but that's the first episode I take off the boot. I take off the boots and I have to sit on barefoot just to be able to rally through it. I came back and I do the surgery and so on. I want to salute B-Mobile, the first and only sponsored episode we had for the year. At least we said that. Some proof of concept. As you say that. Patreon. Yeah, so next year, a few things changing as Kyle and them trying to put me out, right? Kyle and them say we are three minutes. But we're professionals, we can do everything we have to do in three minutes. So something's changing next year. I like the lineup for January a lot. Again, thanks for all the cuss. And he's talking like I just cussy, like you don't cuss me back, yeah? But natural. The lineup for January, I think, is something special. I really, really, really like it. It's balanced, it's great conversations, very deep conversations, and it's people who you want to hear from. Uh, and and that is despite me having to cancel two or three weeks' interviews because of the Achilles injury. Yeah, yeah. And running into some cancellations along the way. Apologies to you. And before I get into next year, I want to take a moment to say a special thank you to all the women who came on in 2025. And I thank you in advance to those who agreed in 2026 because I want to acknowledge that it takes a different level of effort and cost for a woman to come here and sit on and talk about her life story and them kind of thing, and me asking question, question, question. Because man like me and you just roll right out of bed and come on camera.

SPEAKER_00:

Damn right. And so many men who's come in come to do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When men no wake up and they come on. There's been at least. We think so. When you see them come and sit down, like Dyn God's son, when you see he sit down, yeah, yeah. They're improper.

Corie:

Yeah, being proper, they're in proper. But that it takes a different level of preparation for women. I want to acknowledge that. But next year we're doing some things differently because his sponsors ain't come as fast as we want. So they're going to be a certain amount of episodes released on YouTube, but a certain amount are gonna be released on Patreon as well. And it will be behind our paywall. I will release all that on the 1st of January next year. So look out for it on New Year's. Please support. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Support it, support it. Yeah, David had to get paid. David had to get pay. David working for free. And somehow we think he's gonna get paid when we have a Patreon.

SPEAKER_02:

Well, I hope.

Corie:

I beg it. So we're making that adjustment. Uh, I want to officially say that we have a website and we have merch available for sale. Are we in some of the merch now? David ain't wearing any merch. It's it do have that, it had this, and it has some hat and some bottle and so on. But I do want to say that is only available for people in Trinidad right now, and it's very limited quantity. So I want to launch that at this point in time. Finally, we wish to thank the boys who's moving behind the cameras. Let me tell you something. How much time are I cutting? Is the worst settlement? No, thanks to the people in the football port. Kyle Jordan, Che, Aaron, Conrad. I mean, I the the year was a complete roller coaster. I can't tell you how much time is it? Well, I don't cuss them. Them is the ones that cuss me. All kinds of things that go wrong. But what I one thing I could tell you is what these fellas are them up to our challenge because even this episode that we're recording now, them fellas now find out what we're supposed to be recording about two minutes before we start. So salute as always to the team at affordable imports. And I just my last announcement before I go is that the solo episodes will be back with the regular frequency that people are accustomed to. We're gonna be doing the solo episodes and we will talk about the things them. But the things them this make man lost busy and lost political connection and lost thing, and I go lost David. So we go keep the thing behind our paywall too, right? When I talk about myself, let me sort out my own life and pay behind Patreon, and all this is until we get the right sponsors and the right things. Uh so Patreon will have some exclusive episodes that will be Patreon only, and you'll be able to get early access to episodes via Patreon. So we thank you again for 2025 for the support that you give. Thank you. And we look forward to your support and your patronage. And I think you're gonna enjoy it. If you like 2025, you're gonna love 2026. 2026 is gonna be a movie. Cheers. First drink for the year. Cheers to life.