Welcome to Spotlight where we will be giving you, the fans, a look inside the private lives of various members of the Orlando’s Joint crew. Now that Bernie Madoff, the King of Ponzi Schemes, has been locked up for the next century-and-a-half, we thought it best to kick off our Spotlight series focusing on none other than gangsta extraordinaire Ponzi Diller. Read how Madjoint Nooz’s correspondent Sasha Moore found out more than she ever wanted to know about Ponzi…

Madjoint Nooz: Did we have to meet in the parking lot behind King’s Liquor & Donuts? And why does the inside of your car smell like this?
Ponzi: What? This ain’t a… when you said “interview”… you meant you were just gonna ask me questions?

Uh, yeah.
Aw shit!

What does the word “interview” mean to you?
Could mean anything! Come on shorty, you need to quit playing me like that. Mixed messages ain’t cool!

(Sighs) Let’s just get this over with… do these windows roll down?
Yeah, just use this wrench. You gotta put your back into it…

Never mind. So tell us about your name.
Well, my Ma says we come from the Ohio Dillers, and we ain’t got no ties to the freaky Alabama Dillers so don’t even mention those punks in this article…

Your FIRST name! How’d you get the name “Ponzi”?
From my Ma! You stupid?

Oh Jesus….
Are we done here? Cuz if this is it, I’m gonna go get on the internets and check out some videos I downloaded from brownpie.com…

We are NOT done! Tell me why your mother named you Ponzi! Why did she do that?!
Damn, you got some attitude. Nice. You sure you don’t want a little of this… Oww!! Ow, okay! Stop hitting my head!! Okay. What was I saying? Oh, my name. My Ma says I’m named after some Italian dude that taught her everything she knows about business… she’s so successful she opens a brand new company every six months!

Wow, how many companies does she own?
No idea. Seems like she closes the old ones before she opens a new one with a new name and all. But anyway, she made a stack of cheddar in the 70s when she opened a 8-track tape mail-order business. Got a lot of peeps to invest in it. And she wanted me to carry her entrepreneurial skills so she named me Ponzi.

Well, that really worked. Does it bother you to have your name tied to the word “scheme” these days?
Naw! I dig that word. Rhymes with “dream”. And “ice cream”. I’m writing a rap called “Ponzi Scheme” — it’s gonna be my “Big Poppa”…

One last question, before I pass out from the smell in here… since you grew up in a big house on Northridge Drive, why do you front like you’re some street thug?
This ain’t no front! Northridge Drive got a street!! Got corners too! And… and one of the streetlights is broke! Ain’t you heard of the Northridge Drive 40-Duece Mafia? Huh? The ND40DM don’t play!! We set up a Twitter page and all!!

Yeah. I’m done.
Cool. Uh, you sure don’t you want a lil’…. OWW!!