We got Ace Hardwares out here in New York.

We do.

But, you know, it's better elsewhere because they got, you know, factories and shit.

And they got to do something with the old clothes.

So why not sell them?

The T-shirt that you're wearing, what is that all about?

That's the NFT t-shirt that you may see in the style of MTV.

Okay.

Mm-hmm

... have my Google Translate on.

But then they could see me from a mile away, right? [laughs] And they want to make sure that that barrier is not gonna be the thing that gets them in trouble or gets you in trouble.

So I was like, I was repeating the thing back to them.

They were, like, we, we had, like, checks and balances.

This is not a thing to be playing with.

They're like, "Okay, you know what, girl? I know, I, I know you think you got it, but let's, we're gonna run it through the-"

Mm-hmm.

Was there a moment where you were like, I can't do this in the U.S. anymore? Yeah.

Yeah, I went to a place here in New York City.

They would not give me the cleaning that I'm supposed to have.

They wouldn't give it to me till I got the root canal, which felt a little suspect.

But I said, you know what? Trust the process.

Like maybe there's an order of operations.

I don't know things about dentistry.

What was it like navigating the language barrier?

What is that splitting like? yeah let's get into it I

gotta say that was that it was a tough time and a long time too because it was never a fork in the road obvious thing it was small negotiations and also like running two programs on your computer concurrently so every day I'm I'm this, right? I'm toggling.

I'm toggling.

So literally from 11 to seven or whatever, sometimes I would do 16s, right? Or 12 hour shifts.

Like I would do that by night.

That was my preferred shift.

Then I would daytime go do something in audio, something in expressive.

TK's got something to say.

Like, you have thousands of people now, like, trying to vet content to be like, "Nope, this isn't it," and, like, trying to show people, but this is another layer of media literacy we need now.

Have you ever gotten an email from your friend? Like, yo, before all this started happening and stuff, like, like, the AI videos got crazy, I got a message from a friend, and it was her face, and it was her voice, and it was like, "Oh, TK, oh, my God, thanks, yo, like, thanks for, like, responding.

Like, can you send me, like, some money?" And I was just like, in my mind, I was like, "We don't even know each other like that." And I just had my senses, and I texted her, and I was like: "Are you on Facebook right now? Right now?"

Yeah.

But, um, [chuckles] but, like, you know, the guerrilla, like, army came and, like, got, like, shot her sister.

It was crazy, man.

Anyway, she basically became a union worker and is, like, protecting the rights of domestic workers, but, like, the thing spans from age 16 to present.

So it's 67 episodes or something like that, and every day, I'm watching, like, five episodes at a time, so-