0:03

Hush, Hello, welcome

0:05

to post run high. Thanks for having me,

0:08

Thanks for coming.

0:09

Yeah, it was brutal.

0:11

Okay, for a little bit of context. Coush

0:14

and I just filmed an episode of the

0:16

Treadmill Show. We ran about a mile. Our

0:18

pace slowly got faster as we were running.

0:20

I think it was the first time you've ran in a year, which is okay.

0:23

Yeah it was. It was

0:25

tough. It was probably the toughest thing I've

0:27

done over yet. Telling

0:34

myself, I gotta start doing like

0:36

you know something. But I

0:39

go for walks. I do walk home, Okay, do like

0:41

two tree walks a week, you know, nice calming.

0:43

Music in the Where are you walking?

0:45

Just around the neighborhood? Head down? Don't want to see

0:47

nobody around Brooklyn? Yeah I

0:49

love that.

0:50

Okay, you so you walk around, don't want to see

0:52

anybody? Why because you're getting recognized

0:55

all around.

0:55

I just don't want to talk to nova. I just want to get my

0:57

run walking run, can't

0:59

run. I just you know, be left

1:02

alone.

1:02

I get that. The first time Kush and I ran

1:04

together was about a year and a half ago for the Running

1:06

Interview show, and we ran around Williamsburg

1:09

and I think almost every single block,

1:12

somebody was screaming how you doing

1:14

or how is your sister? It

1:16

was wild.

1:17

It's like every

1:20

day, I guess, but whatever you get used to,

1:22

it's part of the territory. It's good in big

1:24

you know'd rather that than nothing.

1:26

I'm very introverted, so I don't really like talking

1:28

to people.

1:29

I find that so wild that you were saying, I'm.

1:31

Just like staying olevision. I'm like, no, I'm shy,

1:34

Yeah, leave me alone.

1:36

It's shocking because I feel like from

1:38

knowing you online, it seems

1:40

like you would have an extra hearted personality.

1:43

But I often find with content

1:45

creators that a lot of us are more introverted,

1:48

So I can totally understand that.

1:49

I mean, you could be whoever you want to be

1:52

online. Didn't I tell you that? Don't trust anyone

1:54

online when you're like growing up in school. You don't know who

1:56

you told me to. M h. I took that

1:58

in like a different way and that way,

2:00

But like, I could be anyone I want

2:02

online.

2:03

Who do you feel like you show up as online?

2:06

I guess this character Cuishine

2:08

and I created, and it's colder than your sister's

2:10

heart. Out this instead of getting a bacon, egg

2:12

and heart attack. We're going to do a little egg in

2:14

the whole extra. But a little cliss

2:17

ain't leaving the fucking house today. Cuisine

2:19

is me too, Like it's just very exaggerated.

2:23

You know, so few things I do

2:25

in real life. I'd like, uh, you see

2:27

me cook in a white robe. I do wear a white robe

2:29

around the house, so that is like real. But

2:32

for the most part.

2:33

You know, you turn it on, right, Yeah,

2:36

you turn it on for that.

2:37

I wants to do cush twenty four hours a day.

2:39

You gotta be fucking right.

2:41

I actually talked about this with Little Mo. Little

2:44

Mo was one I know, you and Mo are good

2:46

friends, and he was one of the first people that I

2:48

had on the podcast.

2:51

And if you guys want to go listen to that

2:53

episode, go to my YouTube channel because you

2:55

can watch it there. But a Little

2:57

Mo was talking about how he has like a

2:59

scale from like a one through ten, and

3:01

he's like, I can either give you a ten, which is full

3:04

little Mo, or I can give you a five, which is

3:06

a more kind of rained in version

3:08

of myself. So I feel like that

3:10

definitely relates to people that are

3:13

in the content or entertainment space.

3:14

Yeah, you know, you gotta read the

3:16

situation and give what it looks

3:19

appropriate.

3:20

Right.

3:21

But you're known for your one liners, yes,

3:24

so I feel like that is you right, you're

3:26

naturally kind of a funny person.

3:28

I guess I'm naturally funny. I mean the one line

3:30

is in the videos I do, right, you

3:32

know, just write jokes.

3:33

And well you write them out.

3:35

Yeah, I'm not as as

3:38

quick as maybe I once was, or maybe

3:41

I don't know. It gets harder and harder, you know what I mean.

3:43

A video that I did like three years ago that I got

3:45

two million viewers. If I did the exact same one

3:48

would get fucking two views. So

3:50

like, I have to be a little more

3:52

clever and think about, you know, everything

3:55

I do and everything I wear, and

3:57

you know, alpha change. It sounds

3:59

stupid, but you know the

4:01

little things, right.

4:02

What do you feel like is the cou's uniform Because

4:05

the shirt that you're wearing right now, I know you were

4:07

the first time we filmed together, which I love.

4:09

Guys. I wore it just for OK because

4:12

I figured you brooke good luck

4:14

last time, so I figured, you know, we'll bring it back.

4:16

This is literally the cutest thing ever. Like when

4:18

you told me that you were wearing that. My heart

4:20

but I was so happy.

4:22

So cute, a little nostylish.

4:24

Yeah, God, is it the sopranos on your shirt?

4:27

It's just tony, you know.

4:29

I think there's a quote or something. I don't even know. He

4:32

is in a white robe, which is what I like to cook

4:34

in, m you know whatever.

4:36

Some inspiration, yeah, I mean, who

4:38

else to be inspired by them?

4:39

Rather just serial murderer? You know, it's

4:41

fantastic.

4:43

Okay, Let's back it up a little bit though, because

4:45

I want to paint the picture of who Coush is. So

4:48

let's share your backstory a little bit. Good

4:50

Danny True True,

4:52

Well, first, Danny Danny

4:55

intertwine. Yeah, so actually

4:57

this is kind of funny. But Coosh and I

4:59

when we first at our run, we were together

5:01

for probably like an hour and a half filming and

5:03

it wasn't until the end of the video that

5:06

I found out that your name isn't actually

5:08

Kujh, it's Danny. And I was

5:10

like, wait, what who is cush?

5:12

Then you know, get how'd you get the nickname?

5:14

Like, how how does Kujh come from?

5:16

Danny? Some people don't know that Cujine

5:18

is like a.

5:19

Nickname, right, So let's talk about Danny

5:21

and then we'll get into Kush and how the name came to

5:23

be and how you started out online. But talk

5:25

to me about growing up in Staten Island. What were

5:28

you like as a kid, You know, kind

5:30

of like the same.

5:30

He's just like a quite good two older

5:33

brothers, you know, regular family. Grandma

5:36

lived in the apartment in the house, so

5:38

that was nice. I got to grow up with too, you

5:42

know. I just you know, played sports,

5:44

stayed out of trouble a lot. I guess I did

5:46

okay in school. I don't even know.

5:48

Yeah, did you ever think you would find yourself

5:50

working in the entertainment industry, which

5:53

is kind of what I consider content?

5:55

Yeah, yeah, I think it is too. I think more and

5:57

more as we go on, we're starting

5:59

to become will recognize as entertainers

6:02

and into like the Hollywood world almost

6:04

because they see us more than they see like a Hollywood

6:07

actor on screen. They see us

6:09

every day.

6:09

I think it's really similar. So, I

6:12

mean, the fact that you're getting recognized all around

6:14

Brooklyn and New York and

6:16

honestly wherever you go is equivalent

6:19

to an actor.

6:21

Yeah, So I guess it works, I

6:23

don't. But yeah,

6:25

entertainment, no, I never saw. I was always too

6:28

shy. I never thought I could do this. You

6:30

know, I think everyone grows up and they want to be a

6:32

movie stuff because who doesn't want to be a movie star when

6:34

they're a little kid or like something like that,

6:36

you know, or astronaut

6:38

or someone famous. But they

6:40

never really pursued.

6:43

It kind of just happened. I just make

6:45

life take me. I go with the flow. I don't really

6:48

I don't change life. I make life

6:50

change me.

6:51

I like, you go with the flow. Yeah, absolutely,

6:53

it's kind of just letting the universe

6:56

figure out your poth do.

6:58

Make the simulation simulate.

7:00

It's so funny talking to Kush about

7:02

how how he works and

7:04

all of that, because you're like, I don't really work. I'm

7:07

lazy, and I'm like, I don't get it because you have. You're

7:09

so successful, Like you can't be lazy to be this

7:11

successful. I mean you're in a good situation.

7:13

Yeah, I guess I set myself off for success.

7:16

You know, it's you got to

7:18

play the game a little bit. Put the game.

7:20

You know, you ended up going to college

7:22

where you were there for accounting,

7:25

which I find fascinating. The pipeline

7:27

from studying having an accounting degree to

7:30

being a massive content creator is

7:32

just yeah, it.

7:33

Just doesn't go doesn't go hand in hand.

7:35

But yeah I did it. I kind of knew

7:37

I wasn't going to be an accountant. I'm just

7:40

I was just good at it, So I was like, I could

7:42

just coast to college with you

7:44

know, I like numbers, so it wasn't too

7:46

hard. But I always worked in like Deli's

7:49

and Super Mak, so I was always around food.

7:51

So that's what I really like to do. So when

7:54

I got out of college, I got an accounting

7:56

job. Quit in five days.

7:58

Wow, Baroto, Wait,

8:01

that's so interesting, right, So you

8:03

did end up graduating, getting a full

8:05

time job in accounting, working for a

8:07

short period of.

8:08

Time five days.

8:12

I just quit. I was like, I'm not doing this

8:14

bullshit sitting in the Cuba, go yeah,

8:16

looking at a computer screen.

8:18

Good for you that you knew it wasn't right for you.

8:20

So many people.

8:21

Stay, yeah, I wasn't gonna be

8:23

miserable. I mean, I'll be miserable, but at least

8:25

I'll be miserable in the kitchen, you know, getting

8:27

screamed at by a chef because the fucking

8:30

steak is two role at some ship. We knows

8:32

what I did.

8:33

Wait, so you went from an accounting job for five

8:36

days to then working in a kitchen. Is that what

8:38

you ended up doing?

8:39

Yeah, so I had. I was

8:41

still living in Newpools, so

8:43

I went back to like my old job in the deli,

8:47

and then I just worked there. And then Covid hit

8:50

and then

8:52

I just got a job at like a restaurant as a line

8:54

cook, but still upstate, and you worked through

8:56

act to Alcohovid. So I actually I had to work to al

8:58

Covid kind of sucked. I didn't

9:00

get that extra singx hundred brotal. I'm

9:02

still fucking salty.

9:04

M m oh my god. Being a line cook

9:06

is a grind, isn't it.

9:07

Yeah, it's hard, but it's like a sport because,

9:10

like, you know, you wake up and you like

9:12

prep and then you're on your feet for like eight to

9:14

ten hours, no breaks. Hot,

9:17

it's like ninety five degrees in the kitchen, gotta

9:19

with pants and you know, sleep,

9:22

you know.

9:23

I mean, I feel like that was a stressful job.

9:24

It's definitely stressful, right, no wonder all

9:27

over the place. Really, I mean I used.

9:29

To what kind of food were you making?

9:31

It was like fast casual,

9:33

but uh, you know, burgers,

9:36

sandwiches, beninis,

9:39

salads, bowls.

9:40

Did you ever think maybe I'll go to culinary school.

9:43

Not really, it's expensive, push you

9:45

don't really need it. You could learn just get

9:47

a job in a kitchen and just cook

9:50

and you learn. You learn way more in a year

9:52

of that than you will in four years cooking

9:54

and spending two hundred thousand dollars on a degree

9:57

that says you could salt the steak or some shit.

9:59

You know. Backing up a second, just to paint

10:01

the picture, you started really cooking

10:03

a lot when you were in college, right. I read that you moved

10:06

off campus and you know, you had

10:08

a big kitchen for the first

10:10

time, and you started checking up food and

10:12

at that time was when you started your

10:15

first meal's pay koos account, which I'm assuming was

10:17

Instagram.

10:17

Yeah, Instagram, Yeah,

10:19

that's what happened. Was basically, my mother was like,

10:22

I'll pay for groceries, but if you want to go out

10:24

to you got to pay. So

10:26

obviously I was like, all right, I guess I'll just cook

10:28

and then I just double it. So I feel like maybe

10:31

what you do with your content, and mine is like

10:33

I cook every day or used to, so

10:35

why not film it? Like you run every day? Why

10:37

don't you film? You know, I think a lot of people

10:40

asked me, like, how do you become a content from?

10:42

Like just pick something that you do every day and just add

10:45

on to it. It's only going to take you another half

10:48

hour hour to create

10:50

that content. Plus

10:52

you're on the fucking Instagram six hours a day. Anyway,

10:54

you might as well pay as well, might as well make some money,

10:57

attempt to make some money off it.

10:59

So you started out filming yourself making food.

11:01

What kind of food were you making back.

11:02

In those days? It basically this exact

11:05

same food. It's just the talent food, meat pools,

11:07

chick and gutlet. It was really really simple stuff.

11:10

I would kind of just make macaroni for like the

11:12

roommates and we would just out. You

11:14

know.

11:14

I find it so fascinating that when you first started posting

11:16

content, you weren't putting your face in the content.

11:19

But now it's like you're so known for you. It's

11:21

like as soon as somebody sees a video on their for you

11:23

page and it's your face, they're watching you

11:26

know. So at what point did you make the shift

11:28

and start putting yourself in your content.

11:30

It was before it blew up. I mean

11:32

I don't even know. I almost just gave up me. It was like

11:34

oo shine, not because I

11:37

never did it to do this, It just I just stopped

11:39

doing it, just because I was like, all right, you know, I

11:42

did it and that's all I wanted to do, and I'm happy

11:44

I did it, and you know, it ran its course.

11:47

So I was like only posting like once a month

11:49

for a couple of you know,

11:51

for the last few months before I got viral. And

11:54

then my friend sent me a video and she's like,

11:56

if you could do fucking better than it was

11:58

of someone else, and she

12:00

was like, you're better than this guy, why don't you do better?

12:02

I was like, all right, just kicking the ass I needed,

12:04

I guess.

12:05

Yeah, it takes a friend.

12:06

Yeah, definitely, definitely takes

12:08

a lot of like your regular

12:10

friends, which I always have

12:13

haven't really lost. I haven't lost any of them, but

12:15

they humble you. You need your regular friends

12:17

to the ground. Yeah.

12:19

I'm a big believer with content that there's

12:21

like certain like layers to it. It's like if

12:23

your content makes sense for your

12:25

family and friends and they're like, this is

12:27

a good thing for Koosh or this

12:30

is a good thing for Kate. Right. If

12:32

they see it and they accept it, then

12:34

it kind of gets into that next layer of like periphery

12:36

friends, and if they see it and understands it and accept

12:38

it, then it like keeps going from there.

12:40

Yeah, does that make sense? You build it from like yeah,

12:42

because when I had like the when I

12:44

first started making content, you

12:47

know, I only had a couple hundred file It was just like my

12:49

friends. I treated as like a regular Instagram

12:51

page, but like I would make jokes that

12:53

I knew like my closest friends

12:55

liked. And it wasn't for the

12:58

mass public. It was just because oh

13:00

fucking Pat will think this is funny and me

13:02

say this. You know, it would literally be for

13:04

like one or two people at some videos

13:07

because I knew, like they would find that

13:09

funny. And that's all I wanted was to make that, you

13:11

know, people around me laugh. That was

13:13

just doing it was like a hobby. Like when people

13:16

will be like even now, like you ask me,

13:18

like what are your hobbies, It's like, well, my hobby was just

13:20

cooking and doing this little meals by cooliche page.

13:22

But now that's no longer a hobby like became of

13:24

job, so now it's more of a fucking pain in the iss.

13:27

And you know, so you're like, what are

13:30

you what are your new hobby problem? I don't that's

13:32

the problem.

13:33

It's you know what I mean, because I

13:35

sometimes just want to like make a video and

13:38

like fuck off, but like I know, I

13:40

can't post because it would do horrible, so there's no

13:42

point of doing it. You know. It's like sometimes

13:45

all the fun is sucked out of it, and you're like, fuck,

13:47

I gotta I'm not doing this for

13:50

ships and giggles. I gotta make some

13:52

money over here.

13:53

Absolutely. I mean that is

13:55

one of the hard things about content. And

13:58

it's like you do something for so long and

14:00

then it's kind of like you just have to mix it

14:02

up right and get like recreatively inspired,

14:04

because I feel like what you're describing is almost like burnout

14:07

that people talk about a lot, right, Like, how

14:09

do you deal with that?

14:10

Just chug along? I mean keep

14:13

You.

14:13

Can't just chug along because you keep

14:15

themes a cycle.

14:16

Though, well you know, so I can, you.

14:18

Know, right right? Well, okay, so.

14:20

For me, you just got to stay relevant. So like for me,

14:22

my whole thing right now is just stay rope. And so

14:25

that's why I do a lot of collabs. You hit me

14:27

up. I was like, I know I had to. I'm gonna be

14:29

fucking miserable running, but

14:31

I know it's very good for me and

14:34

I know it would be good for you. So you know,

14:36

if it's good for everybody, then I like

14:38

to do it.

14:39

Have you ever thought about hosting a podcast

14:41

or something like this?

14:42

Yeah, I mean I think I'm going to get into like long

14:44

form and early twenty Fuck

14:46

we're in twenty twenty five, so I think

14:49

I'm gonna start doing that. But like subscribe

14:51

it base because I want to get a little degenerate on there,

14:53

and you can't really do that with YouTube, you

14:55

know what I mean. I kind of want to like do like my favorite

14:57

dive balls and just go there and just kick gritty

15:01

and discussed things.

15:02

You know, where would that be? Like where would you post

15:04

that content?

15:05

But like I subscribe you know, like Patreon, maybe

15:08

not Patreon, but like something like that God

15:10

where you kind of pay.

15:11

For access to that content. Yeah, basically OnlyFans.

15:14

Yeah, yeah, we're at there.

15:16

Yeah, you heard it here guys twenty twenty five

15:18

coups just launching his only Fans Sick.

15:22

You want to collab ten.

15:23

Dollars a month you get access to exclusive

15:26

content from meals by Huge.

15:29

May not be what you're looking for, but what

15:31

you need.

15:37

I totally could see you with a long form podcast.

15:39

I do have to say, like, based on kind of like what we were just talking

15:41

about, doing this and sitting down

15:43

with people has like recreatively inspired

15:46

me and made me love my like running

15:48

interview show content again. Even

15:51

so I feel like it's just a matter of like mixing

15:53

things up. But I'm curious, like what would your

15:55

advice be to people that want to get into the

15:57

content space being that you've been

16:00

in it for a couple of years now, right, how

16:02

many years are five?

16:03

Full time? Three? I started the page

16:05

in twenty seven, so like seven years

16:07

been doing it, but like full time a little

16:09

over three years? Would

16:12

be the advice do something

16:14

that you like, because you know,

16:17

it's like picking a job, like don't don't

16:19

do a job that you're gonna hate, and like nobody loves

16:21

their job. I mean, I don't care what anyone

16:23

says. If you know, people may enjoy

16:25

their job, but nobody loves it to the

16:27

one hundred percent degree. So pick

16:30

some content that you want to that

16:32

you won't mind doing, and then that you're

16:35

doing anyway and that you find funny.

16:37

And you just gotta find a way

16:39

to differentiate yourself. That's like the main thing

16:41

in marketing when take a marketing place,

16:43

it's like what differentiates you from

16:45

the other brands or from the other products

16:48

that you compete with. So, you

16:50

know, I'm a cook or you know food

16:52

reviewers, so I just have to put

16:54

my own spin on cooking and whatever

16:57

and make sure that no one can emulate mer

17:00

know, you want to be one of one.

17:02

I agree, And I think it's like leaning into your personality,

17:04

like nobody can be you. So if you're just being

17:06

so authentically you, it's.

17:08

Going to work.

17:09

And I think that's a testament for your content, like you're

17:11

so authentically you and that's what your audience loves.

17:13

Right. Yeah, I'm curious when

17:16

you were working your line job into

17:18

covid, at what point did you go

17:20

full time with your content.

17:22

I think my first viral video was in a

17:25

July twenty one and

17:27

then July what is

17:29

that the summer I guess. So I

17:32

was just kind of messing around with it,

17:34

you know, and then kind of taken off.

17:37

But I was still working, and my friends were like,

17:39

fucking, why do you like just go

17:41

hard at this thing and then see what happens.

17:44

And then, you know, that's what I did. I took

17:46

their advice in the back of a dive pod at

17:48

this place called Snugs, and yeah, it

17:50

just I think in October, no

17:53

in September, they do the San Gennaro Fest,

17:56

the Italian feasting Lilately, and

17:59

you know, I was the first, Like I was getting recognized

18:01

like over the summer here and there, but I was upstate

18:05

and you know, small

18:07

community, so it wasn't too you

18:09

know hard. So when I went down here,

18:11

like everyone knew me. You know, I

18:13

was taking a lot of pictures. So I literally went back

18:15

up, you know, whatever it

18:17

was the next day or two whenever I had to go back

18:20

to work and hit my two weeks in, I

18:22

was like base, but they kind of knew I was on the way

18:24

out too, you know. It was just just

18:26

good timing. And then you know, I just went

18:29

hard for like for those three months.

18:31

I had three months left on my lease up there, I did a

18:33

video a day. Unless

18:35

my video hit a million, then I would treat myself

18:37

in that film

18:39

the next day. You know what I mean, take the daybreak,

18:42

you know, you got to take breaks. You know, all these

18:44

kind of thing creators just go hard and odd and all and they

18:46

run themselves down to the ground. And I

18:48

don't like it, you know. I try to tell them, like, celebrate

18:50

your wins. You have to celebrate

18:52

your wins and what else are you gonna win for? I don't celebrate

18:55

birthdays. I celebrate wins, you know.

18:57

Can I tell you something when

18:59

I'm It's so funny because Koush and I are the same age,

19:02

but you are such like a calming

19:04

person to talk to, Like you give like

19:06

grandpa vibes. Anybody ever told you.

19:08

Yeah grandpa? But yeah, I'm very calm,

19:11

demean it. My demeanor is.

19:12

Very yeah, Like I need to

19:14

be told over and over again that everything's okay

19:16

and you can take time to yourself because instead

19:18

I'm filming five Treadmill episodes. Yeah, you're

19:21

going to bring yourself drinking three celsi.

19:23

Yeah that's not healthy. You know, I might be healthier

19:25

than you, even though you run everything.

19:27

I think you are like based on our

19:29

heart rates over there, I control

19:31

yeah minm without a maximum in like zone

19:33

two. It was all over

19:35

the place. But yeah, it is really interesting.

19:38

You are such a calming person. Maybe

19:40

we need like a therapy podcast where you just

19:42

kind of sit with people and let's

19:44

do that. Let's let's let's turn the table therapy.

19:47

I don't know about that. What do I?

19:49

What do you?

19:49

I don't know.

19:50

Let's all Coosh is in the driver's you now,

19:53

Yeah, what are we calling it?

19:55

Cool it with?

19:56

Alright? Introduce it?

19:57

I don't cool it with cool.

20:00

I'm here with Kate Max the runner. She

20:03

just made me run, so I'm not happy with it right

20:05

now. So

20:07

how was the run today? What would you feel?

20:09

You know going into

20:11

it? I was definitely a little bit

20:13

tired at first. I did around this morning. It

20:16

was twenty eight degrees outside, so I

20:18

was definitely slow in the beginning

20:20

of our run. But then I started feeling good.

20:23

The runners high. I started hitting our

20:25

space. Heater was right behind me, so I started

20:28

warming up.

20:28

So the runners high. Tell me about a

20:30

running high. I don't understand the runners high

20:33

because you know, I could smoke and get it high

20:35

and you drink, you get drunk. But a runners

20:37

high I never got that. Who gets high from

20:39

a run? I get tired and depressed.

20:42

Right.

20:42

A runner's high can either hit or it

20:44

doesn't hit. I feel like there's some runs.

20:46

That I have missed. So you don't always get

20:48

a runner's high every time you.

20:50

Run, I don't think so that could

20:52

be open to discussion. I'm sure my runners

20:54

listening are probably like, that's not true. You get a runners

20:56

high every time. I definitely feel like it

20:59

just depends. Like sometimes I'm

21:01

running and I feel super good and I'm like blasting my

21:03

music, I'm picking up the pace. I'm like picturing myself

21:05

running a marathon, like at

21:07

an extremely fast pace, which is like

21:10

not really possible right for

21:12

me. But I don't know a runner's

21:14

high as a hit or miss. Either you feel it or

21:16

you don't. But now I want

21:18

you to experience a runner's high.

21:20

I mean, I feel like you have to be

21:22

a seasoned runner just to know what about

21:24

runner's high.

21:25

You know, what about when you're playing basketball?

21:27

Do you get a runner's high or like at least like a

21:29

high.

21:30

Yeah, you get a little high sometimes you's making a

21:32

good play, you know, I don't play as much as I

21:34

used to, well, maybe even like to. I

21:37

don't know. It just doesn't happen

21:39

as much. My joints don't

21:41

work like they used to work.

21:43

Grandpa. I'm aki, you are

21:45

a twenty seven year old, nine year old

21:47

man.

21:48

The blood work is probably crazy.

21:50

Yeah, you know, you kind of remind me of a

21:52

little bit Larry.

21:54

David, guy guy.

21:56

Just the way you're sitting right now, I feel like he would

21:58

be sitting.

21:58

Like this, Like, you know, I think this is

22:00

just like an old school I always

22:03

have the legs schools.

22:03

I think it's comfortable in

22:05

this therapy session. What else do you want to ask me before we

22:08

switch back to you.

22:08

I don't know. I can't subscribe you solo after

22:10

or anything.

22:11

So you know what I had the other day?

22:13

Can I tell you about an experience? Okay,

22:16

So I was on a panel and

22:18

I do not do well on panels.

22:20

MEI that I run

22:22

from public talking. I've

22:25

only done it like once, and I was mortified.

22:28

My body gets like really hot. I don't know what it

22:31

is.

22:31

Yeah, I stuck getting the highs. I'm like, it's

22:33

not good. You know, I have like a Martinia

22:36

too. You calm down, you do what you.

22:37

Gotta do, right, well, something

22:39

better than a martini. I don't know if I'm allowed to talk about

22:41

drugs on this podcast, but

22:44

basically, my friend was staying with me and

22:46

she gave me this thing called a Delta

22:48

blocker, which apparently a lot of people that

22:51

do panels take and essentially

22:53

it just kind of calms you down.

22:55

I think it's you out. I don't

22:57

know.

22:57

It didn't like black you out and like make you like followus.

23:00

But I was the calmest I've ever been. I was

23:02

I'm not funny. I was cracking

23:04

jokes on stage. My manager is sitting in

23:06

the corner, He's like, what is going on?

23:08

My mic for some reason kept going out, probably

23:10

because I was saying too much too confidently,

23:14

and I was like joking into the mic, like singing

23:17

into it like it was wild. And

23:19

anyways, next time.

23:20

You do a pan you need one of these. Yeah, drugs

23:22

are a wonderful thing.

23:24

Yeah,

23:31

you have cooked with some iconic,

23:34

iconic people Post Malone, French

23:36

Montana, the Rizzler.

23:39

Let's talk about that. How wild is it

23:41

to be cooking food with some of

23:43

these people?

23:44

Uh? Yeah, it's it's cool. I mean I really

23:47

do have felt like my like

23:49

regular friends, they they find it so cool.

23:52

Me I just look at it as work. I'm just

23:54

like, all right, I'm feeling with you today.

23:56

Like I don't really look at them as

23:59

celeberties. I'm just like, this is the

24:01

job today. Let's do it just like today, Like right,

24:03

this is a job we gotta run. That's kate,

24:05

whatever, and we'll do what we gotta do.

24:07

Like I just look at it as work. So you

24:09

know, a lot of people will be like that's sick, that's cool,

24:11

and I'm like, fuck, I don't even want to do it at the

24:13

time because it's work. Like people don't

24:15

understand like what I do, what we do,

24:18

it's still work. It might be cool, and

24:21

you know, there are some fun opportunities, but at

24:23

the end of the day, you are they had to film and produce,

24:26

and the people that hire you hire

24:28

you to bring your game and

24:31

do what you have to do, right, you know what I mean?

24:33

It is true, Like I feel like a lot of people

24:35

will ask me, like, do you get nervous when you're

24:38

running with certain someone in particular? You

24:40

know, like I recently did a video with Tim Walls

24:42

running through Central Stork and I

24:44

was definitely nervous, but at the same time, I totally

24:46

get what you're saying. It's like we're showing up,

24:49

We're doing our job right, and that's kind of

24:51

it. It's almost like I black out during I

24:53

black I.

24:53

Black out why I do like those

24:56

when they're like bigger Celebrita. I kind of

24:58

just black out and I just do it and that's

25:00

it.

25:01

But what was it like hanging out with Post because I'm obsessed

25:04

with him.

25:05

He's the nicest, sweetest guy. Yeah,

25:07

he's like the biggest hot He's

25:10

very very nice guy, very wholesome,

25:13

you know exactly. You know, what you see is

25:15

what you got, you know, just drinking bud Light,

25:18

smoking cigarettes. Bay afoot. Great

25:20

guy.

25:21

I saw him for the first time perform a few months

25:23

ago. I was at the Netflix as a Joke Festival, which

25:25

is where I interviewed Bert Kreischer

25:27

and uh Tom

25:30

and Jelly Roll together. It

25:33

was that was a blackout situation for me. I

25:35

was originally told we were going to like go for a run

25:38

Bert Tom and I and then it very quickly turned

25:40

into like a three minute walk and I had

25:42

I was literally flown out to La for this. So I'm

25:44

like, oh my god, I need to get a video out of this. I

25:46

need to get as much of an interview as I possibly kept in

25:48

three minutes, you know, because

25:50

they had people chasing them, like talk about fandom.

25:53

Jelly Roll is like I love him,

25:55

Yeah, and he's just so loved by it, especially everybody

25:57

that was.

25:58

There drinking band in lay over

26:00

the summer. You were, Yeah, we were just having to

26:02

be in the same hotel. He wasn't

26:05

there, but it was the rest of his band

26:07

members they were. They're they're cool guys,

26:09

They're a fun time.

26:10

Yeah, that's a pretty iconic situation. What

26:12

do you feel like has been like the craziest situation

26:14

that you found yourself just naturally in.

26:17

The White House. Okay, it's just the situation

26:19

is ridiculous, Like why

26:21

am I in the White House? Just like some

26:24

jerk off on the internet. But you

26:26

know, you get invited, you got to go right

26:28

into the light house.

26:29

Did you meet the President?

26:30

No, we did see the President and

26:33

the first Lady. They did speak, but they didn't mingle

26:35

with anybody. But there

26:37

you know, it's good. You know, I was just like chilling

26:39

in the white out because there was a dinner, so you're just

26:42

like sitting on their furniture, you know, putting your

26:44

drink down on like the

26:46

you know, cabin and shit. It's cool. All

26:49

the pictures and paint

26:51

things you know, of ex presidents and

26:55

it was a fun experience. Shandily Is was

26:57

sick. The service was crazy. It was

26:59

like call bone time you put a drink

27:01

down, it's getting picked up within three seconds.

27:04

And the level of class, like the Secret

27:06

Service and all the staff have there.

27:09

It's exactly what you would want

27:11

your government to act like. I guess

27:14

you know what I mean. It was exactly what I

27:16

thought it should be and.

27:17

Was all right, you're doing a lot. People

27:20

love you. I'm curious what's next

27:22

for you? What are you like excited about potentially

27:25

working.

27:25

On with the one with the long

27:28

form next year. I'm

27:31

I have a Christmas party that I'm planning. It's

27:33

gonna be bananas.

27:34

What's the Christmas party?

27:35

Which is ugly sweater is? We got midgets

27:37

coming, We got a blackjack table, we

27:40

got where do you find midgets

27:42

online? Well, there's a there's a me

27:44

Donald Trump and a middle Joe Biden. So

27:46

we're gonna make them the bull tenders. That's gonna

27:49

be like my first long form video. It's

27:51

just Cujine's Christmas Body, and

27:53

it's gonna be really just like an industry event, like

27:55

only like people like us only

27:57

inside is you know, it's gonna

28:00

it's going to be a fun time.

28:00

You know this is so cool? Are you planning

28:03

it all on your own? No?

28:04

I got like some My buddy is really

28:06

gonna help. But you know I got

28:08

the vision.

28:10

Who's is Christmas party come

28:13

in to New York City? Is this? Do you want this to be a tradition

28:15

for you?

28:15

Yeah? I do want this

28:17

to be like a I think like an annual

28:20

thing where you know, I get the group

28:22

of my friends together and people I've

28:24

worked with throughout the year.

28:25

Where's the party's in Brooklyn?

28:28

Like a not a

28:30

restaurant?

28:31

Do you I have your sweater picked out? Yeah?

28:33

Sick?

28:33

Can you tell us what it is?

28:35

Of course? Hey, the reason I'm

28:37

doing this.

28:37

Part because of where

28:40

did you find it?

28:41

At a vintage shop? Throwbacks?

28:44

Throwback? He's got a couple

28:46

of shops in the Lower east.

28:47

Side, but it is I love the Lower

28:49

east Side.

28:51

Fantastic bugs,

28:53

Bunny on a ski that's

28:55

wild.

28:56

Why was I expecting, like you to find

28:58

some obscure like staff and stat in

29:00

Italy sweater.

29:02

Yeah, some guinea.

29:03

I was not expecting bugs, bunny. But I'm so

29:05

happy with the bugs, bunny. That's a really cute swetter.

29:07

It's fine.

29:08

Yeah, that's a good se sweater do ski? No,

29:10

okay, all right, Well what else do you have going

29:13

on?

29:13

No, I just I'm gonna really be focusing

29:15

on long form content. And yeah,

29:17

I kind of pushing like that subscriber service

29:20

and quota quota one of twenty twenty

29:22

five, because twenty twenty

29:24

four, this year was kind of like a dead year. I didn't really

29:26

do much. I kind of just coasted.

29:28

What does a day in the life look like for you when

29:30

you're coasting?

29:32

You know a lot of people are like, you're doing this,

29:34

doing that? And normally I wake up, you

29:37

know, and then I'll go for a walk. If

29:39

that, then I'll take myself out to lunch. I'd

29:41

like to eat lunch alone, you know, just like one of the

29:43

local restaurants. I'll come

29:45

back, just hang out, watch a little TV, you

29:48

know, and then maybe at night I'll go

29:50

out for a dinner or a couple of drinks.

29:52

And hang out with friends and that's

29:54

it. Like I don't really do to Everyone

29:57

thinks I lived this crazy extriving in life because

29:59

they just see like one of two stories here there

30:01

and I and you know, some some stuff

30:04

I do is a lot of fun. But for the most

30:06

part, I just live a normal, simple lifestyle,

30:08

you know what I mean. I still have to take the trash out.

30:10

I still have to go drop my laundry

30:12

off and run.

30:13

Really, I believe that you do all those things. I

30:15

feel like you are living a very just sustainable

30:17

life.

30:18

You know, I could, You know, I could. I'm

30:21

very I could, you know, live on twenty grands

30:23

a year in the mountains and I still be happy. You know, I

30:25

don't need much, you know, I don't think

30:28

materialistic things really

30:30

get me crazy.

30:32

That's good. That's a good way to be. That's

30:35

a little different than me. I love buying things.

30:37

I mean I do. I do. You know, once in a while,

30:39

I do. Treat yourself as you

30:41

celebrate your in So sometimes you celebrate

30:43

your wins with you know, ordering McDonald's,

30:45

eating an edible and just drooling in front of it.

30:47

I wish you were high for this.

30:49

This would have been I would have been way too introverted.

30:51

I get weird. I only get really,

30:53

I really just smoke alone. I did smoke

30:55

a little this morning, and

30:58

I regretted that, obviously, because I was huffing

31:00

and puffing like a basted on that treadmill. But

31:05

we made it.

31:05

We made it, all right. Well, I like

31:08

to end my podcast with one final

31:10

question, and that is what

31:12

are we manifesting for twenty twenty five?

31:14

To continue to make people happy? You know, whatever

31:16

you get, end of the business. As long as they're happy,

31:19

I'm happy. Don't worry about me. Be happy. You know,

31:21

the people be happy. As long as I can

31:23

make them happy.

31:24

You know, you are making people happy.

31:26

Cush is the Internet's Grandpa. I'm

31:28

calling it right now. All right, that's what we're gonna

31:30

start becoming, nonice because you're

31:32

so calming, You're.

31:34

Like great, right, I mean I know

31:37

I am, you know, just people don't think I am

31:39

because of my videos. I'm very you

31:41

know, you know, out there and extroverted.

31:44

I guess my videos look like I am.

31:46

But all right, well, thank you so much,

31:48

coush. That's a wrap. You're the freaking best.

31:51

Thanks for having me take it.

31:54

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