![]() Once you start making a thread joke tweet it don’t hit the same. ![]() I started the letter “U” a lot just to get the whole joke in there in one tweet. That’s what really kind of made me be like, “You know what? Instead of sitting around playing Candy Crush at midnight, why don’t you just get some of these tweets off? Why don’t you live tweet the Oscars, dawg? John Travolta got new hair, let’s talk about that.” It kind of gave me the ability to get a joke off very succinctly, because used to be 140, now it’s 280. Then I realized if you’re also funny on Twitter and then you point to other stuff that you’ve written, you get higher engagement. When I was doing music reviews and blogging I used a lot to point there. So, F1 being mad popular globally, put me on to the Euro League Cup. He put me on to a lot of this international stuff that I probably would not have checked for just being an American media consumer. I’ve always been into the “Big Three” in America – baseball, basketball and football – but I gotta shoutout my guy Victor Lopez who I’ve been working with since forever. I watched a lot of sports because sports were on over-the-air TV, so a lot of Knicks games, a lot of Yankees games - I played basketball and baseball as a kid. Sports was everything growing up in the Bronx because I didn’t have cable. The whole time we’re just chopping it up, talking shit, having fun.Ĭan you share how sports was impactful for you while growing up in the Bronx? So it’s like, “Is it ‘Oochie Wally’ or is it ‘One Mic?'” With Michelle I feel like it’s very much “Oochie Wally” with a little bit of “One Mic” sprinkled in, because we’re having fun. When you think of a typical sportscaster, they’re kind of real buttoned-up, especially in the F1 world, which is kind of highbrow and like, “Oh, that’s not acceptable for us to say.” Then you go to Miami and you got Megan Thee Stallion walking on the paddock. I’m just hyped to be a part of it because I’m a new fan and it gives me the ability to connect with fans that are on my level. I also feel like a lot of people got put on by Drive to Survive on Netflix, because that kind of dramatizes everything. No shots at NASCAR but I would catch it after a basketball game or randomly on a weekend on Channel 4, and I would be like, “Yo, what is this? They’re just going in a circle? What is exciting about this?” For the longest time I thought F1 was the same thing. I’m from the Bronx, I feel like motorsports to me – in America – was just NASCAR. But in F1 it’s like, “Fuck it! I’m quitting the team, y’all!” Things like that kind of drew me in and immediately I was like, “Oh, this is different.” Mid-season! Usually, you wait until the end of the season to make that type of announcement. Like, just now, Daniel Ricciardo announced mid-season that he’s not coming back to McLaren. There’s always gonna be drama, there’s always gonna be drivers beefing. Ten teams, 20 drivers, you know what I mean? It’s kind of like Love & Hip-Hop with fast cars. Guys that are not necessarily super-duper nuts and bolts about the sport, but are interested in the drama. It seemed like the perfect place to connect with fans that are on my level. ![]() The Kid Mero: It felt like such a dope opportunity because I’m kind of like a newish F1 fan. With a decade into their run before parting ways during the fourth season of Desus & Mero in June, Mero explained on podcast Basic! that the split was decided upon “over a year prior to the show coming to an end.” While some Desus & Mero fans are still accepting that the hit Showtime late-night comedy series has ended, Mero assures fans that Beadle is his perfect match for the Formula 1-focused show, ad-free for Wondery+ subscribers. ![]() In 2012, Mero started off solo as a writer for VICE music website Noisey, one year before becoming a comedy duo with Desus Nice. Like, ‘Oh, I’m gonna leave you hanging on that joke because you took it too far’ or whatever. I can’t really rock with people who are uptight. “We hit it off immediately because she wasn’t uptight. Of course, I’m doing my thing on that tip as well, like, ‘Yo listen – yellow flag, you know what that means,’” Mero said. “She’s in her sportscaster bag giving updates here and there. He’s returning to the audio circuit on the live radio app Amp with Fast & Loose, a live simulcast show with sports reporter Michelle Beadle that won’t be in the traditional Bodega Boys podcast format. Just one month after calling it quits as one-half of Desus & Mero, The Kid Mero is moving on. Photo Credit: Greg Endries/SHOWTIME The Kid Mero spoke with Okayplayer about sports fandom, what’s next in his career post- Desus & Mero, and more.
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