Cuban Tarzan EXPOSES Clav's Gator Scandal, Getting Banned for 1,000 Years & More

Creators Inc. Podcast

Cuban Tarzan, a Miami-based content creator and son of Cuban immigrants, shares his journey from disciplined upbringing to becoming a viral wildlif

Key takeaways

• Cuban Tarzan's disciplined upbringing shaped his relentless drive for success despite lacking parental academic support.
• He views content creation not just as entertainment but as a mission to document authentic cultural experiences, especially in places like Cuba.

Main topics

• Cuban Tarzan's upbringing as son of Cuban immigrants
• Wildlife content creation journey from YouTube to viral fame

Notable quotes

I told him, I let him look at me, punched him right in the face, nastiest black guy he's ever had in his life.

You've been to Vemma in your lifetime? no, I want to go to Cuba. I want to be the first person to actually live stream Cuba.

Conclusion

Cuban Tarzan embodies resilience, authenticity, and ambition—driven by cultural roots and a desire to expose

Transcript preview

Speaker 1 (0:00) I told him, I let him look at me, punched him right in the face, nastiest black guy he's ever had in his life. And he said to himself, your parents beat your ass, like what would happen? Para con mi pinga, like stop eating sh**, but really I mean stop eating. Do you think that Clav might have shot that gator because you were low-key mogging him? Maybe the gator was mogging us and that's why we both did it. Let me wipe my ass with it, just paint it on them so I can save my career. Bro, I'm sorry you're 40 years old, living at your parents' house, not f***ing bottle girls. Gotta be a superstar, bro. Work harder. Speaker 2 (0:29) Andrew Morales, the Cuban Tarzan from Miami out here in LA. Welcome to the West Side. Thank Speaker 1 (0:34) you very much. I appreciate it. It's a Speaker 2 (0:36) different world. This is the Creators Inc podcast. I try to interview the most viral content creators on the planet, hoping the people at home might hear something from you that they can apply to their own content. So we make it about them because eventually you want it to be about you, right? Speaker 1 (0:48) All Speaker 2 (0:48) right. I want to hear your story. Son of Cuban immigrants, grew up in Miami. What was... life like for you growing up? What's kind of family mentality? Give me a little bit of a big picture of what you hope to accomplish financially and why from being a content creator, where you're at financially, and then we'll get into it. I got some questions I want to ask you. Speaker 1 (1:11) Absolutely. Absolutely. First of all, I really appreciate you having me here. It's a pleasure. Being a son of two Cuban immigrants, I have a lot of pressure on my back. I'm also the youngest of four siblings. So I'm the last shot here, right? If the first three couldn't get it done right. then it's definitely me. And that's all the pressure comes down to. So I grew up very firm, very firm household. There was no sneaking out. There was curfew. There was no drugs, no alcohol, nothing inside the house. Even now, present day, I never dabble into any substances. I'm also very firm on my schedule. I start my day at six o'clock in the morning every single day. Nothing changes with that. And I just have a drive for success that not a lot of people have. In high school, I was in National Honor Society. I was a student athlete. I never received anything below a B in any class. I was in Honors College at FGCU as well. And this is something that I all had to juggle while having parents that couldn't really help me with homework because one, their English wasn't too well or they had no experience. None of them went to college. And high school back then was just, you show up, you pass. What sports Speaker 2 (2:19) did you play in high school? Speaker 1 (2:21) I played baseball. Got it. Yes, sir. I was a catcher. Nice. Yeah. Loved it. Loved it. And then I just had a coach that just absolutely used me for every game. Burnt out my knees. My elbows started going. Knees, shoulders. I already had a shoulder reconstruction. And you're only 22. And I'm only 22. You like Cuban food? I love Cuban food. You like a Cuban Speaker 2 (2:41) sandwich, Speaker 1 (2:41) a Speaker 2 (2:41) Cuban Speaker 1 (2:42) coffee? Speaker 2 (2:42) What is Cuban food? Speaker 1 (2:43) Cuban food. When I think Cuban food, I think of pulled pork. on a nice Cuban tostada bread and just taking a bite and just literally just listening to the music, the smells, smells of the cigar in the background, you know, the sounds of the dominoes hitting the table. That is just something that is just an incredible experience and is just home to me. Those sounds, those smells, the taste, all of it. You've been to Vemma in your lifetime? no, I want to go to Cuba. I want to be the first person to actually live stream Cuba. Wow. You know, I saw Speaker 2 (3:15) Nick Shirley recently went to Cuba. You saw that? Speaker 1 (3:17) I did. I did. He put a lot of fear into it. So yeah, honestly, it just makes me want to do it even more. I feel like it definitely takes a different breed. I think he didn't have, you know, enough of the backbone to really stick it through because he didn't have the willpower, the history behind it himself. Right. I'm going there to really document the truth. A lot of people show that, you know, Cuba is great. You know, there's this side, there's this side. That's just the tourist part. So I really want to get in there with the families, showcase the culture, showcase what's going behind the scenes. And there's actually a zoo in Cuba. They just had a bunch of tiger cubs or lion cubs just give birth on the premises. And it's all volunteers. No money being made, no access to the public, nothing at all. And I do have a connect to go inside of there. Speaker 2 (4:03) I also think just because like Nick Shirley is clearly like a white, like journalist looking who's known for exposing corruption and things like that. Yeah. That, you know, that regime is probably very not, does not want him around. You have Cuban descent and probably going more to showcase the country. And Speaker 1 (4:19) I have been on their news a few times. So Speaker 2 (4:21) now to go to Cuba, can, can you go to Cuba on your passport or do you have to have permission? How do you get? So I have an American Speaker 1 (4:28) passport, right? So there is a few hurdles that you have to run through, especially if you want to document it. It does count as journalism. So I actually partnered with somebody in the motocross scene called the Cuban Missile, Ivan. And we're actually able to do a non-profit event inside of Cuba based off of motocross. And that's how we could get inside of Cuba. And then from there, that's where people are either going to back out. Or they're going to document it like me. Do they run flights daily from Miami to Havana or you have to charter? I don't know if they run flights daily, but I definitely will charter just to ease my way into it just a little bit easier. Yeah. For sure. Because Speaker 2 (5:09) it's going to be- Speaker 1 (5:10) I mean, it's a close Speaker 2 (5:10) flight though from Miami. It is a very close flight. What is it? Like 20 minutes? Half an hour? Probably half an hour. It's like Speaker 1 (5:15) the Speaker 2 (5:15) Bahamas. Yeah. People take half an hour. Speaker 1 (5:16) Yeah. Speaker 2 (5:17) Cool. All right. Cool. Let's get into the meat of this. Let's do it. I guess I knew you without knowing it was you. because Clav got in trouble for shooting a dead alligator. And I guess you were sitting next to him and you caught a lot of heat for that. I mean, A, I just want to hear about like that and like what went down and what you learned from Clav. I mean, I feel like right now in this world, it's the streamers and the OnlyFans people who are moving the needle. So I want to talk about streaming a lot, but like kind of break that down for me, like just what that was like for you. I mean, was that, did you get through that kind of? Was that water off your back? Was it stressful? Were your parents putting like the fear of God into you during that time? Like tell me the whole story and maybe back up just a little bit before we get there and kind of talk about how you got into wildlife content. I mean, I like, I assume like you didn't start. chasing iguanas from day one on Instagram. You were probably a good looking fitness type influencer. And then you figured out you got views from certain things, but take us through that journey. So Speaker 1 (6:19) as a young kid, I used to really just hound in the YouTube videos and watch all these fishermen, all these sportsmen doing what I love and getting paid from it. And I thought there just has to be a way I could do this. So my neighbor was actually a gentleman named Franklin Sieber, 8 million on YouTube, raw fishing. crazy fishing creator and just seeing all these people around me in my hometown. And I was born in Hialeah, Florida, my family. When you Speaker 2 (6:44) say doing what you love though, like as a kid, you wanted to be out in the swamps, like Speaker 1 (6:48) picking up frogs and gators and all that shit. Yeah. I never owned a console in my life. I never had a PS3, PS4, whatever. I had a Wii maybe to watch a movie and that's it. I've never played video games. I've never had a PC. I just bought my first PC and that's to stream and make more money off the casino deals, you know? And before that never was online. I literally don't even know how to use discord. It's very hard. I'm just an outside guy. I love it. I love it outside. I would prefer to be outside in the swamp, you know, getting a sunburn, getting eaten by mosquitoes, then sitting in a chair, having neck pain and just looking at a screen all day. There's just no way I could do that. Well, Speaker 2 (7:27) what Speaker 1 (7:27) do you love about like, like, like, like when did you? Start fucking with reptiles as a kid. So I actually filmed YouTube videos on my own. My parents bought me my first camera. My mom would actually drive me around to fishing spots, hold the camera for me, literally learn how to edit with me on iMovie. Shout out mom. Yeah, shout out mom. I would definitely would not be here if it wasn't for my mom and my dad. My dad is the person that got me outdoors in the first place. At a very young age, I just surpassed them in the knowledge. I was just consuming so much knowledge and educational videos on wildlife that I was able to educate myself and go out there and do it on my own. And my mom would drive me around, take me to these spots, and we would go ahead and go looking for these animals. So I actually got bullied in high school for making the videos. They thought it was cringy. They thought it was corny. I was also kind of nerdy because I was in National Honor Society. Yeah, I played sports. That was the only thing saving me. I was also a late bloomer. I was always the youngest in my class. I graduated high school at 17, you know, and I was always the youngest, the late bloomer, the smallest guy in the class. And everyone was just picking on me for it. So I stopped doing the YouTube videos. I stopped doing content creation. And I just had in the back of my mind the whole entire time. So I would continue fishing. I continue catching animals. Once after my first year of college, I left college and I was like, okay, there's some, I have to do something. My family does real estate development and that's what I went into. I hated it. They had me working, pouring the concrete, sweeping houses, learning how to patch drywall, all this. It sucked. There was no way I was going to do this for $20 an hour. And then one day I just posted a video of taking some people out to go hunt iguanas and it went viral. And I was like, okay, you know, maybe let me just post another one tomorrow. Post another one that went viral. Speaker 2 (9:17) On Instagram? On Speaker 1 (9:18) Instagram. So I said, you know what? I got to do this every single day if I want this to work. How old are Speaker 2 (9:23) you when you're posting this iguana video? So I started a year, Speaker 1 (9:27) I started 13 months ago. Speaker 2 (9:29) Okay. Speaker 1 (9:30) Yeah. Speaker 2 (9:30) Holy shit. Speaker 1 (9:31) Yeah. Just started 13 months ago and I've been able to take it over because I've been consistent and I carry that conviction. Is this the video where the branch falls Speaker 2 (9:38) off Speaker 1 (9:38) the tree? No. So this is the video where two iguanas jumped out of my hands at a public pool and I was jumping in the pool, grabbing them. There was a snake in the background. Speaker 2 (9:49) I Speaker 1 (9:49) don't know how people were screaming. It was absolute chaos. I actually titled that video Pool Mayhem. And that was just crazy. That video did over 70 million views. Worldstar paid me to put it on their platform. And that really was just the catapult to success. So one thing I didn't have was a lot of videos for those people, those new followers to look at on my page. Only had two, you know, and they didn't know what I was about. They just thought I was a regular person. It was Morales underscore Andrew one. That was my. That was my username. They didn't know who I was or what I was about. So I saw that is my niche. It's a very saturated niche to do girl content, do things like that. And I wanted to be unique. I wanted to stand out. And one thing I always told myself was I was not going to be a sellout and I was going to stick to my morals and principles, which get tested every day now as I've advanced. As you can see, I got in trouble with Clive and things like that. So once I posted that video, I had to post two times a day now. I need those people to go to my page and see that I'm consistent. Those followers