Mr.Hey Now EJ & Bear Chat with Madison Chase:

Mr. Hey Now, EJ & Bear Viral Sensation chat with Madison Chase

I recently had the pleasure to chat with super star, multi talented, viral sensation, and dynamic genius, Mr. Hey Now / AKA Damon Smith. This author, poet, rapper, podcaster, son, advocate for fur babies, fur daddy to EJ & Bear owner, Mr. Damon ( pronounced like Dahmune not Damon like Damon Wayans) is busy building his empire. Below is the written version from our video interview and podcast. For more information and all things Mr. Hey Now / Damon, EJ & Bear Check them out here: https://mrheynowandej.carrd.co/

Madison Chase/ MOTchase: Hey everybody, it is Cut to the Chase at eight with me, Madison Chase, and we’re Madison on the chase, and we’re talking POZZTV as well, because we’re talking real inspiring and always positive content. And I am super excited to talk to my new friend, by way of LaShirl Smith of LGroup PR. We’re both represented by an amazing publicist, LaShirl.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: Thank You

Madison Chase/ MOT Chase: Thank you so much for your time, for jumping on with me. I so, so appreciate everything that you’re doing, using your voice through literature and music. You’re like the quintessential artist. It’s so powerful and it’s deeply necessary. And today, I really want to explore your personal transformation. So let’s start from the beginning. You ready, DaMon?

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: It’s long one, if we start from the beginning, it’s a long story.

Madison /Motchase Pozztv : It’s a long journey. Let’s talk about, this opportunity where you have used your creativity, your books, you’re an author, poetry. Let’s talk about that. How did you get into poetry, I feel like, a Renaissance man, not many people write poetry. So let’s talk about your book.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: So my books, I think I have today 11, I got 11 projects. So I started writing poetry because my mother is a fan of poetry and spoken word. First, let’s start off. I wanted to be a rapper as a youth in my city. I wanted to be a rapper and I had the opportunity to sign a deal,

Madison Chase/ MOT Chase: Okay.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now : And I didn’t get the chance to be like a famous rapper. But my mother was into poetry and spoken word. She liked to hear me talk my talk. So I did poetry and all of that. All of my books of poetry are for, they were for my mother. So play it out for you. My mother told me to start writing books because I lived an extremely interesting

Madison Chase/ MOT Chase: Yeah. What? Okay.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: I started writing books, like literally, by hand. So I wrote my first book and I sent it to my mom and she liked it. And then she wanted poetry and all of that. So I wrote books of poetry and spoken word just for her. I never had the intentions of publishing them because they were for my mother.

Madison Chase / Motchase: Wow, it was initially for your mom. ( Check out Damon’s first book here: bit.ly/4i1lMyu )

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: And got right back after everything in my life fell apart. I got right back into what I know best. I played in the streets my whole life, that’s all I really know. So I got right back to doing what I normally do. All of the things that I had going on in life, they didn’t believe that everything I had going on was really going on because people only see the side of you that you showed them. So.

Madison Chase/ Motchase : Yes.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: When I play in the streets, if you not playing in the streets, you never see that side of me. Because it’s not for you to see, if you get what I’m saying.

Madison Chase Cut2theChaseat8 Motchase Pozztv: Yep, I get it.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: While I was there, my mother told me, you need to tell this story because I am tired of people asking me what happened. And I got a couple ideas for you that’s gonna make sense. So just sit down and write the book.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: When my first book came out, It was not the first one I wrote. But, it was the first bookI published. So, I sat down and I told the story for my first book: Loud, A strong story: I told the story. and I old school typed it up, made a couple of copies. I sent one to my mama. I kept one for me, then I came home. When I got home, my mother taught me the beauty in tangible things. So do you know the beauty in tangible things?

DO YOU KNOW THE BEAUTY IN TANGIBLE THINGS?

DAMON SMITH AKA MR. HEY NOW

Madison Chase / Motchase Pozztv: Ooh, that’s a whole book right. Like the beauty in tangible things, right?

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: So a tangible thing is something that you could touch. If it’s something you can touch, taste, feel, and all of that, it is also something that you can sell.

Madison Chase /Motchase Pozztv: Yep, can touch, you can taste, you can feel, yeah.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: So, the beauty in tangible things is being able to do something one time and sell it to the masses. So if I write a book, I only have to write the book one time, but I could sell it to a billion people without ever having to do it over again.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: So my mother kind of taught me the beauty in that. So I wrote the book and then… I started living life. But after I finished writing the first book, she gave me back the books of poetry that I sent her. They were on notebook paper. And she like, I want you to publish this book because I want to hold it before I leave her. So that was the tangible thing. She told me if she can hold it, I can sell it.

Madison Chase /Motchase: Your mom had a lot of wisdom.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: Yeah, she was, she was that, right? But I was just bad. Like it’s, it’s a difference between, like I didn’t have to live. I come from a, well not really a, well I come from a good, except for one other couple of the members of my family. Everybody else is college graduates and all of that. I didn’t follow that path because I didn’t like it. It’s not, wasn’t a thing for me. So, I went in that direction. But my mother, all of this boils down to all my lifestyle that I live right now. Everything that I got going on is because of a promise I made.

Madison Chase/ Motchase: Hmm, and what was the promise?

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: So my mother was dying from multiple sclerosis.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: And one day, just out of pure curiosity, I asked my mother what she wanted from me to end with. She told me that she wanted me to stop selling drugs, which is all I’ve ever known my whole life. Just for her, because I love her and on the back end, I owe her favor that I couldn’t say no to. I said, OK, but I am an extremist. So no matter what I’m doing, I’m going, I’m going to take it as far as it can go.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: So on the negative side, I’m going as far negative as I can get. When I transferred over to the positive side, I’m going as far positive as I can get, because I don’t know anything else. All I know is just to, just keep adding to it because that was the upbringing that I was brought up with. I had an extremely different upbringing than most people, and I don’t knock nobody’s sad story. I don’t really have one.

Madison Chase/ Motchase: Got You, Right!

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: Most of my sad stories is stuff, things that I brought on myself. I was spoiled as a child. My mother was somebody, she was an Eastern star, well connected. I had an extremely good upbringing as far as meeting people, and putting myself in position to do the right thing. I just didn’t wanna do it, cause that wasn’t exciting for me.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: So I went in my direction. But as I continued to live life, like… I gave her my word, that I’m big on the value of keeping your word. Right, so I gave my mother my word that I would leave the streets alone, and that’s just kinda why, I am here right now, doing what I’m doing because I don’t know what else to do. My whole mission is to stay out of the street life.

Madison Chase / Motchase: Yeah.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: Anything that I have to do, that keeps me out of the street life is what I’m doing. So I wrote my first book. My mama said she read it, my mother read it in less than a day. She said, she couldn’t put it down. I said, okay.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: Then she passed me the books, then she went in her stash, and gave me back my books of poetry, and told me she wanted me to publish one of them before she left. So I published a book of poetry, and then a few months later she passed. Then in her honor to make my mother live, okay, this is gonna sound crazy, but if I don’t tell you then the story not gonna make sense. So I had my mother’s funeral while she was still alive.

Madison Chase/ Motchase : Okay.

Damon/Mr. Hey Now: It’s 4K, you could go watch. It’s a 4K video on one of my, it’s a 4K video on my YouTube channel. I gave her her flowers while she was still alive. Yeah.

Madison Chase /Motchase : So it was giving her, her flowers while she was alive. I like that. And what a beautiful way for you to celebrate her in the way that you wanted to remember her. You know what I’m saying? In terms of like her living, right? Okay, explain it. Go ahead.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: Nah, that wasn’t it. Nah, see now, see it’s a different. So I had my mother’s funeral while she was still alive. The only reason why I had my mother’s funeral while she was still alive is because she didn’t want one after she passed. She had a thing about people standing over her, and talking to her when they could’ve, when they could have said whatever it was that they was gonna say to her, they could have said it to her while she was still here. Right, so she didn’t want one.

Madison Chase / Motchase: While she was alive, ooh!

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now : She didn’t want it, and she made me promise that nobody would ever be able to stand over her body and tell her that they loved her after she left. So, I gave everybody that knew and loved her, a chance to come tell her that they loved her while she was still alive. She died 11 days later. So while I was giving her her funeral, I told her just jokingly, I just said it.

Madison Chase /Motchase: After she left. Wow.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: I was doing her eulogy, and I didn’t write it down. It was just kind of off the top of my head. I told my mother that I would do everything in my power to make her name live forever. Though I said it in jest, I meant it. And if you look my mother’s name up, it shall live forever. So I continued after her funeral and all of that, she passed.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: I kept my word to everything that she told me that she wanted me to do. And then life just kind of moved on. In the process of all of this happening, I never got the chance to take back the promise that I made her, that I would stay out of trouble. Because the street life is my addiction. Everybody has the thing, that they are addicted to. My drug of choice is the street life. So I fight my addiction every day, because every day, there’s something that can be done in a street manner, if you get what I’m saying.

Madison Chase / Motchase: Yeah, no, like that is your thorn in your side in terms of what you think.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: Yeah, that is my thumb screw. Like the street life, is what calls to me when nothing else will. My first book done, mama loves it. Second book, mama seen it, she already had it, she already knew what it was.

Madison Chase / Motchase: Because now you’ve got the poems. And so she gave it back to you?

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: She already had it. and told me to publish it because it is a tangible thing. So I did that, that made two books. After she passed, I put out another one just to ensure that her name and likeness would live forever because in my third book, there is a picture of me and her, where the book is dedicated to her. So, I can make sure that she, that a picture of her will be around, way after all of us are gone, and her name would still be what it is.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: So then life moved on, and then I just had to do it. I didn’t want to write books about somebody else, or fabrications or whatever you make, you know what I’m saying? Things to be interested in, because I live an extremely interesting lifestyle. So I told myself that I would just continue writing books about my life. So I just started writing short stories and books about my life. And now I’m on 11, I’m working on 12.

Madison Chase / Motchase : Yeah. You’re working on 12? Man!

Damon / Mr. Hey Now: Yeah, I can’t have a library if I don’t put in the work, there’ll never be a catalog.and nobody can tell my story better than me.

Madison Chase / Motchase: Yep. I like that. I like that, Damon, because I feel like so many people…have a story. I think we live in this age of social media where we want to curate this perfectly, picturesque kind of story, so that we’re afraid to tell the narrative of the story that doesn’t make us look so good, right? So you’re an inspiration in that way, that you took accountability for the things that you were doing.

Madison Chase/ Motchase: And like you said, the daily struggle that you have to endure, in terms of staying out of that life. So, how has advocating for and sharing your mom’s story really giving you a sense of purpose, beyond what happened in your past, and the thing that you struggle with on a daily basis?

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: I am, just in my mind. In my mind, I put no thought into it, right? Because yesterday is gone and tomorrow will never come. All you have is today, and you gotta make the most of it. So that’s just kinda how I live my life. The majority of the things that I do, my published works, my music, I got a t-shirt shop I don’t even use no more.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: Like the published books. My published works and music and all of that stuff, I rarely take time out my day to promote it. Only because if I spend time out my day promoting it, that it’s taking time away from me doing something else. So, I just kind of push forward. And if you like most people when they run into me.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: Then, they run into me for one thing, and then they fall down the rabbit hole that is my life, and be like, I didn’t know he did this, that, this, that, and that…. I just saw him, for doing that. I didn’t know that it was so much more behind it. And I’m not taking no time out of my day to tell you because it takes away from me doing a little bit more. So that’s just kinda how I be with it.

Madison Chase / Motchase: Right.

Damon / Mr. Hey Now: I need to start, that’s why me and you, are having this conversation, because I need to start promoting the things that I do, so I can put them on a bigger platform. It’s just hard for me because of my upbringing. My mother was never really one of those people that was big on
appreciation, after the fact. So I grew up in a household where getting good grades was not a good thing.

Madison Chase / Motchase: It was an expectation ?

Damon Mr. Hey Now: All the answers, my mother told me as a young child, all the answers are in the book. I do not, you cannot come in here and not give me perfection, when they gave you all the answers, You just got to know where to look.

Madison Chase / Motchase: Yeah. So reading and writing was something that she instilled in you?

Damon / Mr. Hey Now: Now I have to, not really a mandate, not really an expectation. This is mandatory that you have good communication skills and that you’re not. Let me say this, and I know you probably gonna clip this and post it, and I don’t mind, just tag me. Majority of people, right, have never been, when they see a little shine, a little light cast down on them, it changes who they are.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: In my upbringing, nothing I ever did in life was praiseworthy from my mother, and not on the bad side. It was always something more I could do. If I got straight A’s, that’s mandatory. If I did good, doing something, I could always do better. Her preaching was perfection ain’t good enough, right? Because you can always do better. If you did it perfect,

Madison Chase / Motchase: Right!

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: Then next time you could do it perfect, but in a shorter amount of time. Like that that was never a top floor. That was the bar, that was set up for me as a child. So moving into my teenage years, it was like that. Then when I came home, by the time I came home, I had an understanding of why she did it. Because,

Madison Chase / Motchase: Wow, she kept raising the bar for you?

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: Now in the place that I am now, I’m a celebrity. But I don’t act like a celebrity. don’t, because to me, it ain’t, I’m not, I’m not one of the higher upper echelon celebrities. So I still have way more work to do. So there’s no reason in bragging about it. If you get what I’m saying. That was my upbringing. It was like, I don’t care what you did, do it better.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: And that got preached to me my entire life. Not saying that she was down on me or nothing like that, but I don’t care what you do, you can do it better. When I was robbing, you can rob better. You going to jail, but you can do a little bit better. Why you did that for this right here, you should have got way more than that, right? And I’m gonna keep it, cause you don’t need it.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: Right, so as I started on the positive side, it started to make sense why she was so hard on me as a youth. Because now fame, celebrity, money, none of those things move me to the point where I wanna degrade somebody else because I already know no matter how big up I get, I ain’t never gonna be at the top.

Madison Chase / Motchase: Hmm? The idea of celebrity has definitely changed, right? And so in terms of celebrities, they used to not do social media at all, right? Like there was like this, this wall that nobody ever crossed? I remember with a comedian friend and I was sharing with him, because I do a lot of research about the analytics. It’s the kind of nerdy side of me.

Madison Chase/ Motchase: Like I want to know like the analytics. And so I designed my website when I first started doing fitness like in 97. And so I knew, and I had a really bad website designer who didn’t do the coding right. So I had to figure all of that stuff on it on my own. And so I was sharing with him,I can’t remember what year it was, but it was right before YouTube, before Will Smith went on YouTube.

Madison Chase/ Motchase: And I shared with my comedian friend I was like, listen you got to get on YouTube because Will Smith, when you go to search for his name, when you Google his name the only thing that comes up for him is a YouTube play button I said, that’s it. That’s where you need to be right? He didn’t listen to me, but

Madison Chase/ Motchase: Now we start to see people like Will Smith that are letting you into their everyday life. They’re letting you into their house. And so essentially you’re saying you won’t be, but I could say that you are, because we have so many people who are going viral where they’re absolutely using their platform and now they’re in movies and now they’re getting big press deals. So I’m going to help you reframe that, Damon. Because you could be. Yeah.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: I’m working on it, and I’m just taking the time to make it happen. Forgive me, I got famous, and it doesn’t even bother me! It’s because of what I got popular for. See, I didn’t get popular for writing books. I didn’t get popular for doing music. Nor did I get popular for merchandise. I got popular for how I treat my fur babies.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: But this is the one thing that makes it beautiful. Right? I don’t do it for attention. What I got famous for doing something, that I would normally do when nobody is watching. I got popular for that. And then I figured out that I could use the footage of it. Not that…

Madison Chase/ Motchase: Yeah

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: Not that I do it for attention. I just found something that people find entertaining that I don’t have to try to do. This is going to happen whether you watching or you’re not. They’re going to get the same type of treatment. So I just figured out that there is attention in what I do, and then I use it for that. Now I’m figuring out how to integrate everything else that I do into the thing that garners me the most attention.

Madison Chase/ Motchase: Yeah. And let’s talk about EJ and Bear. Cause I have two dogs. My first dog is a little Malty poo that I had when I lived in California. And then my second dog, is a big dog because I moved back to Texas, with my mom and one of the things I always wanted a big dog.

Madison Chase/ Motchase: Right, but I was like I’m gonna start start running, because I want to do marathons that never happened, so I got what I thought was a German Shepherd, but she is a Belgian Malinois right and so I rescued her, right? Or so I thought. But really, I think sometimes the rescue is the other way around? Because she rescued me, right? And so when people see EJ and Bear, if they could talk, what would they say about your relationship, you know, when you first met versus now?

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: Okay,I play too much.

Madison Chase / Motchase: You play too much!

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: That’s it. Well, Bear wouldn’t say that because he’s not the playful animal. He’s not playful. He don’t do too much playing and all of that. And the jeans play all day, but that is how I raised her, because I play all day. So she’s extremely playful all day. I play too much. That’s what they would say about me.

Madison Chase / Motchase: I love it. You said they would say you play too much. So when people are first introduced to you, you know, I think it’s always interesting when I hear people, so I’m vegan, right? And sometimes I think that, And I get it, because the thing that I love about dogs is they’re innocent.

Madison Chase/ Motchase: If there was ever an opportunity to see unconditional love manifested, we see it in dogs all the time. And then the interesting thing is if you spell dog backwards, it spells God. And so in terms unconditional love, what have you learned about yourself in terms of caring for EJ and Bear? What have you learned about yourself?

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: Truthfully, not too much or nothing. I only say that because EJ and Bear are not the first dogs that I was responsible for. My mother had a miniature Dobermann Pinscher. Her name was Precious. So when I came home, my mother gave her house to Precious.

Madison Chase / Motchase: Sound’s like my mama when I went to college.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: So I took over the house. When I put her into a nursing home because she needed 24 hour care. But, the house belonged to the animal. The animal is here, this is the dog house, you can stay with the dog.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: Before you put the dog out, you have to go. If you put the dog out, you going with it. So I had Precious for maybe a year. So I had my mother’s puppy and I took her everywhere. I treated her just like I treat EJ and Bear. I took her everywhere I went, because if I’m going, come on, you going with me. So in terms of taking care of them, I look at Bear and EJ like my mother looked at me.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: I don’t love them, I’m responsible for them. And I am responsible for my things. That’s just how I look at it. Like, I’m responsible for them. So I gotta make sure that they have everything that they need, the same way that my mother was responsible for me. Because, Edna Jean, used to tell me all the time, I don’t even like you, I’m responsible for you. So I show that I am responsible for you.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: Love don’t got nothing to do with it because, I wish I could get rid of you, but I can’t. So I’m stuck with you, you stuck with me. We’re going to make it make sense. And that’s just how I look at it. So when it come to them, that’s just how I look at it. Like I’m responsible for them. So if I’m responsible for you, you’re to be, you’re going to live the standard of life that I live. If I eat Chick-fil-A, you eat Chick-fil-A. If I do this, you doing this.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: Since you don’t pay no bills or nothing like that, you don’t get to stay nowhere and hang out while I’m going to do something. You’re going with me. Come on. Grab your coat, you’re going. So that’s just kind of how I played myself out.

Madison Chase / Motchase: Mm-hmm. love that. I love that you care for them. Like you said, that you don’t love them, you’re responsible for them in the same way that your mom was responsible for you.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: And she made sure I had everything. She made sure I had everything that I needed and most of the stuff I wanted, which is the same way I treat them. They got everything they need and most of the stuff they want.

Madison Chase / Motchase: So you’re working on your 12th book. Because you know what I see for you, Damon? I see a movie about your life.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: It’s, what I’m working on it, now.

Madison Chase / Motchase: Yeah,I so see that, just because I feel like in the times that we’re living in, I think people are often kind of suppressed to not necessarily share a part of ourselves. Or share our truth because we want it to look a certain way. We wanted to land a certain way, but I definitely see a movie. So you’re working on your 12th book and a movie and a script?

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: I’m just putting the pieces together for, because each one, the majority of my books are for the poetry and spoken words. The majority of them are just like mini scripts, and pieces of my life. So I just take…

Madison Chase/ Motchase: Okay!

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: One story and just tell you that story. I don’t tell everything else that got something to do with. It has nothing to do with it, just that. And everything that has something to do with that. And then I just break them down. So my new book is actually gonna be a series, which is gonna be crazy. I just got into a relationship, which is even crazier, right? So thank you, thank you, pray for me.

Madison Chase / Motchase: Go ahead. Congratulations!

Damon / Mr. Hey Now: And instead of telling the story of the relationship later on down the line, I’m gonna start telling it while I’m living it. Yeah, so I am gonna tell the story while it is taking place so all the people that wanna be nosy, can be nosy, almost in real time.

Madison Chase / Motchase: Wow. Yeah, because you know what? Instead, when you said a series, that’s what I felt like. I thought about Everybody Hates Chris. Chris Rocks story, right? In terms of like the name of it, because it was so like pivotal for him. It was an introspective look, like he felt like everybody liked his little brother, Tony Rock. So it was like, when you watch that show, you really got a sense of who his parents were and who his sister was.

Madison Chase/ Motchase: So I feel like it’s a series and not a movie. Cause a movie is final, right? Like it has a beginning, a middle and end, but a series, I like that you’re really documenting your relationship, which is not something we see a lot of people doing.

Madison Chase/ Motchase: You know, I think Oprah Winfrey shared, never talk about your relationship. And then there’s a young lady I follow, and her friend, they’re married and she introduces her friend on her Instagram page. And then people are in the comments trying to get to the friend’s husband. I was just like, what? So. That’s interesting. So what gave you the idea to talk about this relationship while it’s happening.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now : I never seen nobody do it before. It’s actually in there! It’s literally in the opening to the book. I say it, like I’ve been trying to figure out something that nobody had ever done before, because that’s how you stand out. If you want to stand out in anything that you’re doing, it got to be something that nobody never did before.

Madison Chase / Motchase: Ok

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: People can have an opinion of something they’ve never done before. And that’s where the opinion plays itself out. I learned one thing about social media since I’ve been dealing with social media. Nobody wants to see the success story. They want to see the nonsense that led to the success story. if you get them why everything is haywire, they’ll stay all the way, they’ll stay forever. Because they watch you come from nothing. Nobody wants to see the winner.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: They want to see how you won. And that’s just how I figured it out. Nobody is interested in a dude that got all the money and all the jewelry and all the girls. If they are, it’s only so they can talk about them. They don’t know the story behind it, or how he got all the money and all the cars and all that. That’s what they looking for. That is what they’re interested in.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: Nobody really cares about the success story. They care about the loser’s story. And they will buy into a loser’s story, all the way until they success. Right, so while I was doing it, I actually said, I write like I talk, because not only do I write books, but I also do my own audio.

Madison Chase / Motchase : I was gonna say you should do an audio book.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: I have several. I’ll send the link and a message on Instagram. I’ll send you a link. I got a few, most of them, well, one, two, three. I got all three, all four versions. And then I got the diary of a broken heart, the representative of the last book I wrote. I have the complete audio versions for all of them.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: And each one is getting better because I am perfecting the craft of it. So my first audio book didn’t have no sound effects. Next couple of my books, didn’t really have no sound. The last one, now has sound. I’m starting to incorporate sound effects and all of that. And then in the next one, I’m going to incorporate sound effects and bring my music into it and use it as the, yeah, and use it as just. So just background pieces so I can monetize all of it.

Madison Chase/ Motchase:
You know what, in addition to the series I see while you’re working on your book, I see like a podcast for you in terms of like people following your journey and then eventually, you know, the things that you document in the podcast could eventually become the series for your show, right?

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: I wanted to do that, and it’s crazy that you say that. Because, I wanted to do a podcast, but I wanted to do it years and years ago. Before it got popular to the masses, I already saw that it was gonna become popular, because people are nosy.

Madison Chase / Motchase: You don’t have to say wanted, because you could still do it.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: And I don’t knock them for being nosy. They wanna know, they wanna listen, they wanna be a part, they wanna feel like they are a part of the story. The same way with Facebook and Instagram and all of that. People get invested in your life, whether you know it, or you don’t.

Madison Chase / Motchase: Yeah.That’s so true. that’s good, Damon, whether you know it or not.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now:Right? Yeah, there are people invested in your life. Your ups, your downs, in the middle and all of that. There are people that are invested in that. And if you can figure out how to monetize it, you can capitalize off it.

Madison Chase / Motchase: Okay, Damon, Last question.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: Yes, ma’am.

Madison Chase / Motchase: So in terms of like EJ and Bear in your new relationship, how have they given the approval?

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: They like her. If bear don’t like you, nine times out of ten, I’m not neither!

Madison Chase / Motchase : Okay, So bear is the barometer?

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: If he wanna bite you, I stay away from you.

Madison Chase / Motchase: Yeah, that’s good.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: Cause nine times out of ten he is gonna bite you, and I’m on his side.

Madison Chase/ Motchase: I love it. So if you have any final thoughts, anything that you want to share, it has been such a pleasure to chat with you.

Damon/ Mr. Hey Now: Look, if you ever need me, just let me know. I’m available whenever you need me.You have a good day and you be safe. I you need me, just let me know.

Madison Chase / Motchase: You too!