I'm Frankie I'm Grant we live on billionaires Row in New York City and we each pay what 750
and just for perspective take a look at this building behind us
guess how much it goes for telegram 250 million so right there that apartment costs
250 million and these guys are living right around the block for 7.50 per month [Music]
this is original right yeah I think it's either original or they put this one into the 50s and
it's old as hell that's for sure so I think this place was built in 1928 I think it used
to be a hotel itself especially when you like look in the apartment how we really only have
that like wet bar that's like the only thing we have and then the one room it feels like no one
was ever supposed to live here for as long as As I think we have but you know what is the square
footage do you know let's measure okay so it says ten seven by eleven foot 11 feet yeah 110
for this space 13 feet by five inches and what's this one 13 feet by eight inches yeah we'll say
275 including the bathroom closet found it over LinkedIn it's not on Craigslist not on Street Easy
really really bizarre story I don't know anybody else that has found an apartment on LinkedIn but
we have our kitchen set up here super tiny fridge this cabinet no matter what we do we've tried to
duct tape it we've tried to nail it it just won't it looks terrible in Zoom calls that's why I have
this thing here we set up a little a blue screen for self tapes acting but also I use it for Zoom
calls because why not the sync is very interesting we do have to cover up the top to make sure our
pest friends don't get in but also the water is extremely slow so it takes about an hour for us
to get our water water bottle I've got a lot of Trader Joe's vegetables chicken fried rice
dumplings fries very very little I don't really know what's in the damn uh in the damn fridge
at the moment so don't really cook much here four days out of the week I'm eating mainly just where
I work if it comes to like actually eating here I probably almost never eat in the apartment
that's kind of the beauty of the location and having the pizza place next door places that are
open until you know 12 o'clock two o'clock at night I call Amore every day for lunch
hey can I get a Frankie special and it's right next door
special I get it almost every day for lunch because my mom is concerned that
I don't eat enough vegetables this has broccoli mushrooms onions three pieces
of grilled chicken and they charge me 11 bucks for this it's not on the menu so
look at this piece of chicken though great chicken [Music]
this is the rest of the living room we have my desk space here that I do most
of my day job work it's a tech sale so it's outdoor sales and marketing it's
work from home it's fully remote it's 40 hours a week the big thing is it pays me
enough to make it in New York I do a lot of reading in the morning I try to wake up
6 a.m 7 A.M do my push-ups right here lay out the mat we have all of our self tape equipment set up
so that we could just do a self tape whenever we need and then this space is really used just to
hold all of our clutter all of our books all of our camera equipment mic stands voice over
equipment it's as much of a living space as you as you can have in in the tight quarters it's kind
of the all-purpose room especially when one of the two of us is still asleep the other one has to get
up and do something this becomes kind of the de facto space uh of where things get done it's also
where we're most creative my storyboarding of this was up down remember we talked about this I love
points of intersection like I love like trains I want to write something about like a Subway
like I love confined spaces because I think your setting motivates action we have our
guitar here we play music in here if I don't see the guitar I don't play it I like to keep
this stuff open in the space I know it doesn't look pretty all of my stuff is kind of set up
in this room so that I could be most creative I think it kind of all ties to just this habit
of being on the go when you're trying to like build the life that you want to have
for yourself it's a matter of just like everything being ready that you can just
do it as quick as you can right you know there's like that five second rule of like if you don't
do it in five seconds you're not gonna get it done it's in that moment of hesitation that the whole
system can kind of crumble down on yourself because if you don't have the Clear Vision of
where what you want to do where you want to go with the day let alone your life I mean we talk
to agents and managers about people who will spend 40 years trying to be actors and it's
just because if you don't do it every day you're not putting in the work outside of even what you
know your management or your team or people are telling you to do that's where kind of you you
drop the ball and then suddenly your life's pass you by it's no longer enough to do just one thing
in this industry you have to make your own work the people who succeed are not just the people
who are Sitting Waiting for a green light from an audition it's people who are saying you know
what do I want to say what is my truth what's my story and then how can I create something out of
nothing to Showcase my own talent but more than my own Talent my own perspective and experience
uh I think that that is what makes a successful artist is having the ambition to truly be a
World Builder I mean that's what we are as artists uh that's what you have to be
but let's go into the bedroom looks like one thing I gotta I gotta hop down I'm actually
up on the kitchen right now getting a better perspective for you knocking over [ __ ] come on
so we actually reworked this whole Space we reworked the bed to be that way uh this is Grant's
bed glamorous it is it used to be comfy uh now it's a little deflated yeah yeah a little deflated
after six months of being here but you know you make it work but it's only like a college dorm
it's really how it's felt it's been interesting air conditioner doesn't really work that well on
the fritz most of the time the outlet is out right now yeah actually that is true reality
is out in about half of the apartment right now what do you mean it's hour it doesn't work we
check the breaker we were trying to figure it out this was recent development next door it used to
be a hotel they were having a massive liquidation sale so we got these desks all of these desks were
in every single room it's literally next door it's one it's literally no that little wall they are
doing construction it's great the Glamorous view of New York City billionaire row man so this is
Ernest Hemingway and John F Kennedy's favorite cologne and they sell it at the plaza I dated
at to celebrate moving to the city for myself it was like a 700 cologne one of the most expensive
things I've ever bought in my life but it was a confidence thing because I said I want to feel
like those people so for perspective can I hold this
cool perspective this is your rent pretty much in a bottle uh we have the bathroom here
is up you get a little bit of sunlight here the shower it's either cold freezing cold or like
super strong hot that we can't even get in so it's always like a little nudge here A little
nudge there to really get the perfect Goldilocks temperature it's very tight I mean I can't even
like really stretch here this is your voiceover Studio slash closet and you set up your mic in
here set up my mic and then I also have just my computer right over here I'll put a little
desk do my voiceover recording here standing up it goes right through my computer and I
send in my MP3 what advice would you have for someone watching this who wants to move to New
York City and doesn't know how to there's never a right time to move to New York there's a million
reasons to not move to New York if you're waiting for like the stars to align there they're never
going to you just have to do it you just have to go because that's what this city is that's
what this city is built up it's just people who see something for themselves see something for
their future and then make it happen it is one of the best things I ever did and I say
that in our tiny little apartment here you know living like we live in a college dorm right now
but there's no other way for it to happen like you have to be willing to do that you just gotta
lean into the grunge into the challenge into the the living sparsely into the just wanting it it
is enough to want it because if you want it it's already real in your mind you just have to do it
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