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Upstairs Neighbors

Shibuya Roll Call with Destin Conrad

04 Feb 2026

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Chapter 1: What mutual aid efforts are highlighted in the episode?

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Hey everyone, before the episode starts, we want to take a second to shout out a mutual aid effort that's in Minneapolis that benefits immigrants, protesters, and activists.

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Today we're spotlighting the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund, which is organized by Women's Foundation of Minnesota.

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The Women's Foundation of Minnesota invests in innovative, community-based, community-led solutions to ensure safety, opportunity, and pathways to economic security for women, girls, gender-expansive people, and families across Minnesota.

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Right now, they're urgently looking for donations for their immigrant rapid response fund to provide fast, flexible resources to trusted organizations supporting immigrant communities facing crisis.

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Please join us in donating by visiting their website that will be linked below in the description of this episode. We also want to spotlight Immigrant Connection Mosaic. They are part of the Immigrant Connection National Network to offer high quality, low cost immigration services. And they provide legal assistance to individuals who are seeking assistance with issues relating to immigration.

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Please join us in donating funds and the link to donate to this specific cause will be found in our description. Thank you guys so much.

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Hey guys. Hey guys. Oh my god, hey. Can I just say in advance that I've only had a coffee this morning?

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Oh, I've only been sipping on this sparkling Cola Celsius. Well. And, um, a churro toffee square. A what?

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Yeah, exactly. Just like a churro, like, just like a square of toffee?

Chapter 2: How does Destin Conrad describe his experience in NYC?

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I just got here like two days ago. Oh. I was fine for my life. But we made it. Thank you. I'm just not used to it. Yeah. As I said, I'm from Florida. I never grew up around snow. It's very new for me. And then I moved here when I was like

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11 so so you've been living in the sunny places yeah like real bad it's new for me but i'm i'm just i'm adjusting i guess well because that snowstorm is something serious though like that's not even just like cute like i don't think y'all grew up like this like this is what it's giving growing up in the blizzard yeah because the girls in new york i'm like y'all got that y'all got that y'all got that real nasty no that's what i'm saying well no it's like y'all tough because i'm like living there i'm like oh no i mean maybe like

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A month or two?

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I could do, like, a three key. A little stint. Yeah, like, I could do a bust down, but as soon as, like, shit, like, you know what it is for me? There's a couple things that it is for me. Well, I went there when it was nice weather. It was 35. Y'all had it when it was 35 degrees, okay? 35, mind you. I got long johns on them.

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Mind you.

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They said they turned the heater on. I was like, oh, well.

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No, summer in New York, though, like...

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Is T or no?

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T. T? Ah, it's so nice.

Chapter 3: What unique challenges does Destin face as a musician?

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Because they're kind of cute. Cute. Like I'm like, I don't know. The mice are cute.

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The mice are cute. The mice are hella cute. Them New York, Nucha Subway. They are, they're turned up. And they'll run right, like they don't give a fuck.

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well because that's their city that's their city so it's like what are y'all doing i'm in their shit no real bad especially when you're in the freaking sub well and this was my run-in with the rats of new york city right was i was walking out in like little italy is that what it's or like we're i'm new there okay no worries it's kind of like you know we're chinatown turns okay that area and

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And there was like hella trash on the streets. I don't know if it was like what he was.

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The trash do be outside. That's the thing.

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So I was like, well, it was nighttime. I'm walking by and I hear all this rustling and shit. And I was like, wait, like, wait, wait. So I'm like walking by and all of a sudden, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom. Like, literally, Shibuya Crossing, like, literally, like, girl, like, they do it, they big one.

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Big one.

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Shibuya Crossing is crazy.

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And, yes, that's exactly what it is.

Chapter 4: How has Destin's background influenced his music career?

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boo i'm like oh yeah no yeah no because i live in like a vintage apartment and they were redoing the back unit and were like messing around with the plumbing don't if you think you need to just don't but i had to literally seal off every crack and crevice at my place because they come up the drain yeah and i didn't know that so i was literally all my drains were like just smiling and i was like what

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No, I actually, I crashed out nasty with the Pucci outfit. Like, it was so bad.

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That's the thing about them vintage cute apartments is they be older.

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Oh, they be old. They be old. Well, and that's why everything's sealed. Now when you go in there, it's air. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, it's not even a window. Like, it's just... No, because they... It's just giving, like, sealed air.

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Because it'd be sealed. No way. Oh, you know me. Well, it has to be sealed. You know I don't play. It has to be sealed. Wait, where did you live in California?

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Girl, all over. When I first moved from Florida, I moved to Koreatown. Speaking of roaches, that apartment had roaches. Roaches. Me and my mom was like. Be careful. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I lived, where did I go? I lived in Downey. Y'all know where Downey is?

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Oh, yeah, of course.

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I was there randomly.

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So you were serving SoCal realness.

Chapter 5: What insights does Destin provide about the creative process?

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Well, what about the Vine realness? Well, because we got to talk about Vine.

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I love that segue.

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Well, no, because I'm literally like, Vine's in the crew. Right. Who killed him?

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Like, you know about that? Yeah, no.

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Because what about the bitches who were like, let's really wake it up. Like, we could sit here and talk about Vine, Vine, Vine, Vine, Vine, Vine, Vine as consumers.

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you know we do a little one two but like but there's like a fabric of vine and it's like what about the bitches who are making the fabric of vine yeah honestly what about that honestly yeah i feel like i contributed well yeah that's why i'm like what's the tea like yeah honestly yeah i'm i was a vine girl boots yeah like 13 though like i was 13 well yeah yeah because we were all

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We were? We were.

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We had the same experience? Yeah.

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I'm like, well, 14, but yeah.

Chapter 6: How does Destin navigate the music industry as a rising artist?

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Wait, can you... The first edition. Wait, the chimpanzee.

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Wait, the chimpanzee is cute.

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But do they still die, though?

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Yeah, no. Because they need to stop that.

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Because that was low-key fucked up.

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Because you got to take care of your kids. They say maybe...

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Well, because they also died at old age, so I was like, well, fuck. Yes, I think so, because mine just, like, die.

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Neglect them.

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No. Be like, no. They don't die. They don't die? Mm-mm. Wake that up. Wake it up. Because just for, like, a kid, that was, like, doing too much. No, yeah. That was doing too much because my shit was dead, and then I hella just, like, had the corpse, like.

Chapter 7: What are Destin's thoughts on the impact of social media on artists?

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Right.

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Exactly. Well, on Disney, I never went outside. That was never what they wanted it to be.

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But loved, like, the idea. Like, I low-key be seeing them, like, the grass. Yeah, the grass.

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The grass. They said touch grass.

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They said touch grass. Because the girls don't be touching grass no more. That was Michelle Obama. I feel like the... Well, because Michelle Obama touched my school, too. We had a salad bar.

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Mm-hmm. Girl, and the baked hot Cheetos, girl.

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And the baked...

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Girl, we used to- He was dead wrong for the baked tachitos.

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She had a jumping rope, eating baked tachitos.

Chapter 8: What upcoming projects does Destin have planned?

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ah bama bama what was she doing it was like her and actually let me not like even doxica simpson because like i don't know the like well i guess my question is like did she have like a booth like what dude no she was just there with a bodyguard and um well because she watches you i i don't know do they yeah anyway she was there and it was like this recent No, this was a couple years ago.

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Is VidCon still a thing?

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Yeah, they still have VidCon.

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I want to go. I used to run that shit up. No shade.

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I used to be in their underage drinking boots.

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Thank you. Can we look at the last VidCon lineup? Because I'm just curious, who at VidCon? Because when I went, I met SZA. She performed.

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SZA? She performed? I want to perform VidCon. Book me, please. Because now VidCon's doing it.

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Short form.

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Who are these people?

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