FREAKY 9?

[00:00:07] Speaker A: Tap into Baltimore's very own wiretap tv. [00:00:13] Speaker B: Hey, make sure everybody phones is on vibrate. [00:00:16] Speaker A: Awesome. I like it when it's on vibration. [00:00:19] Speaker C: I wish they would make a zero fruit splat. Is it a fruit punch? [00:00:22] Speaker D: How many calories is in here, though? [00:00:24] Speaker C: No, this ain't fruit punch. This is cherry. They have a zero fruit splash. Yeah, they have this flavor. Cherry, zero fruit splash. But my favorite fruit splash is the cranberry. Ooh, have you had the cranberry splash? [00:00:39] Speaker A: Let's get that out the camera. Turn it. [00:00:43] Speaker D: At least the cranberry was the first one I was introduced to. [00:00:45] Speaker A: Like, we know that's a Canada drive. [00:00:47] Speaker B: We know Canada drive. [00:00:48] Speaker C: That ain't no Seagrams. [00:00:50] Speaker B: Yo, my philosopher. I'm like, bro, like, he. When we come over here for football songs, I'm like, yeah. Anybody want to drink? Yeah. So I'm like, bro, you want to. You want a ginger ale? Like, I ain't sick. [00:01:00] Speaker D: He. [00:01:01] Speaker B: He associates ginger ale with being sick. [00:01:03] Speaker A: Most black people do. [00:01:04] Speaker C: Most black people do. [00:01:05] Speaker A: I don't know too many blacks that don't. I hate. [00:01:08] Speaker C: I don't got on my bar all the time. My stomach hurt. Give me a ginger ale. [00:01:11] Speaker A: Hell, yeah. [00:01:12] Speaker C: Like, what? [00:01:13] Speaker D: It's not even real ginger. [00:01:15] Speaker C: They come my shit. Oh, I need a orange juice. [00:01:18] Speaker A: Said, I got. I got a gunshot wound. Give me a ginger. [00:01:21] Speaker B: Right then I heard. [00:01:22] Speaker C: Somebody was like, yeah, just going right on the gun. [00:01:26] Speaker B: My stomach upset. It was Carter. Carter was like, yeah, yeah. Peppermints make my stomach feel better. [00:01:31] Speaker C: No, that's. That's some real. So. So. No, no, no. Ginger ale actually is. Used to be some real now when they used to actually put ginger in ginger ale like that. That's right. That's where it came from. Yeah, but they got away from real ginger. This got like 0.00007 ginger. [00:01:51] Speaker B: Like my mother. Like the. What's that? The. The ginger be different. [00:01:56] Speaker C: Them shits hit different. I can't stand it. [00:01:58] Speaker B: That will, will, will. Burn everything as it goes down. Pause. [00:02:03] Speaker A: Yo, that's crazy to me. [00:02:04] Speaker D: I think it's real ginger in those. Because ginger is spicy. [00:02:06] Speaker C: It is. [00:02:09] Speaker B: Spicy and bold. [00:02:10] Speaker A: Hold up for y'. All wondering who that is. [00:02:12] Speaker C: Oh, are we. [00:02:13] Speaker D: Are we live? [00:02:16] Speaker C: You know, you said you wanted to see some. [00:02:18] Speaker A: I did it. [00:02:19] Speaker C: We didn't know. You never said nothing. [00:02:20] Speaker B: But I like when it start out like this, though. [00:02:22] Speaker A: Yeah, I did it. [00:02:23] Speaker C: No, that's fine. I just. You know what I don't like is that we never get to the intro. We'll be 17 minutes in. [00:02:31] Speaker B: But that's good, though. [00:02:32] Speaker C: No, it'd be great for a little while and then we. [00:02:35] Speaker A: Listen, hold on, hold on, ladies and gentlemen. It's been long overdue. [00:02:41] Speaker B: You gotta play the Chicago. [00:02:43] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Get that running. Get that running. [00:02:46] Speaker C: The what? Oh, oh. Can we do that? Hold up, hold up. [00:02:53] Speaker A: Will we not be flagged with that? [00:02:54] Speaker C: Hold up, hold up. I don't give a. I want. [00:02:58] Speaker D: The champ is here. [00:03:01] Speaker A: Hold on. We're gonna introduce you. [00:03:02] Speaker C: We're gonna introduce you. [00:03:05] Speaker A: Shh. [00:03:06] Speaker C: Don't say nothing. [00:03:07] Speaker A: And now. [00:03:08] Speaker C: Yes. [00:03:10] Speaker A: It's been long overdue, ladies and gentlemen. We started off as three. [00:03:16] Speaker C: The guy already did it. [00:03:17] Speaker A: We started off as three. She's back. It's been long overdue. That's right. The one that kept shit rolling and kept us on. We've been off pace for so long. But now she's back. [00:03:36] Speaker C: Keon, who we got? Everybody give it up for Leah baby. [00:03:45] Speaker A: That's right. She's back. [00:03:47] Speaker B: And it's her birthday. [00:03:48] Speaker A: And it's her birthday. Shout out to her. [00:03:50] Speaker C: Happy birthday, Leah. Happy birthday, lee. Happy birthday. [00:03:53] Speaker A: One shot, one year shy of 40. [00:03:56] Speaker C: Damn, nigga, you wasn't supposed to say that. [00:03:58] Speaker D: I don't mean a girl, but I guess a hipaa viol. [00:04:03] Speaker A: Good thing I'm not a nurse. [00:04:04] Speaker C: Definitely hi violation. This was definitely a hippa violation. [00:04:08] Speaker D: Thanks, guys. [00:04:10] Speaker C: Hey, glad, glad, glad to hear your voice back, Lee. [00:04:13] Speaker A: Glad your mic sound extra crispy. Did you do that on purpose? [00:04:16] Speaker C: Yeah, I made sure her was right now shit's up. [00:04:19] Speaker B: Cool with that? [00:04:20] Speaker C: Yeah. Us. It's all about my baby. Us. [00:04:24] Speaker A: Look at him. [00:04:28] Speaker D: Old baby, old. [00:04:29] Speaker B: Got his baby back. [00:04:30] Speaker D: Ass, face, ass. [00:04:34] Speaker C: We not even got ass. [00:04:37] Speaker A: You the one we not going to get into that. [00:04:40] Speaker B: Oh, three ball having you like God damn. Get her off. [00:04:43] Speaker A: Cut her my k. Hey, we can really do that. We can do that. We have capabilities. Now that part we have grown. [00:04:51] Speaker B: Yeah, we have ev. [00:04:52] Speaker A: But welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. Episode freaked out. [00:04:55] Speaker C: Oh, freak balls 69. [00:04:58] Speaker A: I bought the synthetic baby oil. [00:05:00] Speaker B: Yes, sir. [00:05:01] Speaker A: Did make synthetic baby oil. [00:05:05] Speaker C: If they did, I know who know. [00:05:09] Speaker B: We know who knows. [00:05:10] Speaker A: Gonna walk past the aisle like hold. [00:05:11] Speaker C: Up that puffer joke. Telling baby. Baby oil stories. [00:05:16] Speaker A: You think he know the ingredients? [00:05:18] Speaker C: He should that that remember all his life events based on the baby oil. [00:05:22] Speaker B: He used case just on baby oil. [00:05:25] Speaker A: No. What is it? [00:05:29] Speaker C: I don't. And the ingredients baby oil as well. I remember the first time I heard about baby oil and I like had a small understanding of what that was. So like any Other oil comes from the shit that they like. Olive oil comes from olives. Vegetable oil. [00:05:48] Speaker A: Oh. [00:05:48] Speaker C: Comes from vegetables. So I was like, oh, baby oil. You repping me with dead baby. [00:05:53] Speaker B: Yeah, that shit come from me. [00:05:57] Speaker C: I was like, oh, my God. They covering me in dead babies. [00:06:02] Speaker B: Dead babies, yo. [00:06:03] Speaker D: Yes. [00:06:05] Speaker A: No, real fact. Where did that come from? [00:06:07] Speaker C: Who knows? [00:06:08] Speaker A: We got a valid point. [00:06:09] Speaker C: No, you don't gotta look it up now. [00:06:11] Speaker B: I wanna know. [00:06:13] Speaker D: Like, what is in it. [00:06:15] Speaker A: Babies specifically. Now, I ain't gonna do specifically. [00:06:22] Speaker C: All right. [00:06:22] Speaker D: What are y' all talking about? [00:06:23] Speaker C: It's a mineral oil, highly purified by rotten byproduct of refining crude petroleum. So it's the same that's in Vaseline. They just refine it really, really well. [00:06:33] Speaker A: Oh, okay. [00:06:34] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:06:36] Speaker B: And it's cr. Because Vaseline, if you heat it up, it'll. It'll. It'll break up. But with. With baby oil, it just stay in the old form. [00:06:44] Speaker A: You know, a trick I learned. [00:06:45] Speaker C: I mean, you ever fried something? Baby oil. [00:06:48] Speaker A: What the what? [00:06:51] Speaker C: I don't know. Baby oil, fish. Can you do that? Like, can you deep fry baby oil? Because you can fry everything else. [00:06:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:06:56] Speaker D: Because you can use coconut oil on your body and for food. [00:06:59] Speaker C: That's what I'm saying. That's exactly what made me think about it. Because you can use coconut oil. Like, my daughter, until the age of 10, we use coconut oil only in her hair like nothing else. [00:07:10] Speaker A: Same with my son. [00:07:10] Speaker C: Coconut oil. Yeah, we do the same. But you can cook in that. [00:07:14] Speaker A: Yeah, that's true. [00:07:14] Speaker C: I know. [00:07:15] Speaker D: Let you know that baby oil is. [00:07:16] Speaker C: Baby was. Yeah. [00:07:18] Speaker A: Synthetic. [00:07:19] Speaker C: Yeah, I know. I know that. Brush their teeth with coconut oil. Yeah. What? [00:07:24] Speaker A: Yeah, Yeah. I ain't never heard of that one. [00:07:26] Speaker C: I know that. Brush their teeth. Because some from the islands and. What the. [00:07:29] Speaker A: That sounds about right. [00:07:30] Speaker C: They probably do this out of necessity. [00:07:31] Speaker A: Yeah, that's. [00:07:33] Speaker B: It's not. Because it's not a want. [00:07:34] Speaker C: It's not. [00:07:35] Speaker A: We don't. [00:07:38] Speaker C: Get one of the Cokes. Right. [00:07:39] Speaker A: You better climb that. True. [00:07:41] Speaker C: Brush your teeth. Climb that tree, Right? Yeah. Can you imagine living somewhere where coconuts and bananas grow? Like, if some just, like, grow outside. [00:07:51] Speaker D: It'S a good place to be homeless, ain't it? [00:07:54] Speaker C: That's all I was thinking. [00:07:57] Speaker A: It is. [00:07:57] Speaker C: Leave me be right where I be at. That's all I was thinking about. Like, if I was homeless, I would never be hungry. [00:08:03] Speaker B: What you got? Potassium. [00:08:05] Speaker C: Going to look good. [00:08:08] Speaker A: Extra healthy. [00:08:09] Speaker B: And that shiny skin be glowing. [00:08:12] Speaker A: You see your man a year later. [00:08:14] Speaker C: Like, yo, what you. Coconuts. [00:08:15] Speaker A: What you Been doing, bro. Like, you all fit. I'm homeless. [00:08:17] Speaker C: I'm homeless. I'm living off the bananas and coconuts. [00:08:23] Speaker B: What? [00:08:23] Speaker C: That's all I. [00:08:24] Speaker D: The freest I ever been. [00:08:27] Speaker A: Them bills. [00:08:29] Speaker C: No, it'd be wild to me because I know, like, I. So I used to work downtown, right? And I worked in a place like in the area I was in was populated. I still work downtown. No, you're right, I still do. I still do. But I used to work in a different part of downtown where it's a large homeless population. And so like, they used to be outside of clubs and like, washing cars and just doing for money. But so it was one dude I got like, cool with. Like, me and yo would talk all the time, and he stood on the fact that he was happy homeless because he didn't have to answer to nothing, to nobody. I'm like, that sound good until November. [00:09:12] Speaker D: Yeah, it's gonna get cold outside. Like, this is Baltimore, not Miami. [00:09:18] Speaker C: Yeah, no, real. That sound great. Until the winter time. [00:09:21] Speaker A: When I went out to Arizona, I asked my home where that. I was like, yo, one thing I noticed, I haven't seen any homeless people, right? It was like most of the time they stayed closer to like the desert. They don't really stay here in Phoenix. [00:09:32] Speaker B: Yo, me and Leah was out Louisiana. [00:09:35] Speaker A: Why? [00:09:36] Speaker C: My fault. They may cut you off. They was gang banging. But why the would they be at the desert? [00:09:40] Speaker A: I mean, I don't know. That's what he just said. [00:09:42] Speaker D: Where are they finding food? [00:09:44] Speaker A: Hey, listen, that's what he told me. That's the only thing I could go with. I don't know. [00:09:50] Speaker D: I think it was making up. [00:09:52] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:09:53] Speaker C: He just said some because he's like, we like, Tony, believe this. [00:09:56] Speaker D: Live in the desert, bro. [00:09:59] Speaker B: We out la, right? So when you. When most people think of la, you wear that hat, you think about glitz and glamour and like, we go. We on the Strip where. Where all the. [00:10:11] Speaker A: You went to the jungles with that hat. [00:10:13] Speaker B: Well, all the stars is at. [00:10:14] Speaker C: No, I. Yeah, on Hollywood Bully. On Hollywood Boulevard. [00:10:17] Speaker B: Hollywood. Hollywood Boulevard. As soon as you get off the exit, it's a Toyota dealership with hella tents in the front of that. Remember that? [00:10:28] Speaker C: Yo, the. The pop. Remember the homeless people that was going out there? [00:10:31] Speaker D: I do remember the homeless people. I just can't remember the Toyota. [00:10:35] Speaker C: Y' all can't see Leah because I. [00:10:37] Speaker B: I just remember the dealership. [00:10:38] Speaker C: Hold on. [00:10:39] Speaker B: Yo, it was on my left. [00:10:40] Speaker C: Y' all can't see Liz. Kia was like. Keith said, yo, you remember that? Liz said? [00:10:44] Speaker B: She said, no. [00:10:46] Speaker C: No. She looked right at him and shook her head. She. No, but I've been to LA in. In 100. That. That. Yo, the homeless population is crazy insane, bro. I mean, so LA has the highest homeless population in this country, right? [00:11:02] Speaker B: Why you think that is one? [00:11:04] Speaker A: The weather to the affordability. It's the highest, I think. So is Los Angeles the most expensive city in the country? [00:11:12] Speaker D: It might be the city of lost dreams. Actors, actresses. [00:11:18] Speaker C: So it's a lot to do with homeless on drugs. It's a lot of stock. [00:11:22] Speaker A: I can get you in the next movie. [00:11:25] Speaker D: Yo, that really happened a lot of Keanu Reeves. The story, y' all in the backstory. Keanu Reeves and what was that? River Phoenix. They used to be turning tricks on the boulevard. And that's how they got this. [00:11:33] Speaker C: That's how they got on. No, that's how I can. I know. [00:11:38] Speaker B: He was selling ass. [00:11:40] Speaker C: Keanu Reeves got on. [00:11:41] Speaker D: That's why he the most unhappiest looking. You know what I had to do to get here? [00:11:49] Speaker B: I thought it was a dog. I thought it was his dog. That's why he looks so sad. [00:11:52] Speaker C: That's John Wick. [00:11:55] Speaker D: Too. [00:11:56] Speaker C: Hey, hold, man. Episode 69, man. Episode 69. Clap it up for the Diddy part. [00:12:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:12:02] Speaker D: Freaking night tonight. You can't fuck the night. Hey, get some birthday sexual. [00:12:10] Speaker C: Good. [00:12:11] Speaker B: Yes. [00:12:14] Speaker A: He's always mad because he knew he sucked. That cop, that one cop, that last. [00:12:21] Speaker C: Cop before he got on the last one. It ain't the last one. [00:12:25] Speaker D: It's the first one that do it. [00:12:28] Speaker C: Cause he found out later that he didn't really have to do that. [00:12:32] Speaker A: What you mean? [00:12:34] Speaker C: The nigga already had the job? What Lil Kim say, so the nigga already had the job? [00:12:38] Speaker B: Yeah. What Lil Kim say? Suck cock just to get to the top. [00:12:42] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:12:43] Speaker C: She's talking about Joaquin Phoenix. Keanu Reeves. What do you mean? You didn't have to talk Complicated. I just asked it, Keith. I just asked. I asked it. And you said, yeah, bro. [00:12:58] Speaker B: Was down in Silicon Valley, man. That's a wild. That's a wild way to the top, bro. Listen, I don't never want to sub. [00:13:07] Speaker C: Cop just to get that. What he said. He said when he found out he didn't have. [00:13:13] Speaker B: Everybody did this. [00:13:14] Speaker C: Already had the job. Didn't even know he was already hired. Name was on the script. And this part is for Keanu. He was like, I gotta suck that. It's like, no, you already had the part. Look, we wrote it for you. He tricked you. [00:13:33] Speaker A: He Tricked you. [00:13:33] Speaker C: He's like, I didn't think he was really gonna do it. [00:13:35] Speaker A: No offense to anybody that sucks cock out there, you know. [00:13:38] Speaker C: Yo, can you stop saying sucking cock, please? [00:13:41] Speaker D: Thank you, Tony. No offense. Ticket. [00:13:44] Speaker C: Whoa. I didn't need that image either. [00:13:50] Speaker D: That hurt. [00:13:51] Speaker C: That one hurt. [00:13:51] Speaker D: Episode 69 guys is gonna get cr. [00:13:55] Speaker C: Leah said, I'm coming back the right way. [00:13:59] Speaker D: What? [00:13:59] Speaker C: He said on fire right now on me. [00:14:04] Speaker B: She is on fire right now. [00:14:06] Speaker A: So what I wanted to open her to be was. [00:14:09] Speaker B: No, no, no, no, no. [00:14:11] Speaker C: But how Mental health check ins. [00:14:15] Speaker A: So how I do it is the opener than the mental. Well, go ahead. [00:14:18] Speaker B: Do you do do it. [00:14:19] Speaker A: But he already mentioned so we might as well Perry. Well, as always, because we're gentlemen, we let the women of the show go first. And that would be you. Leah, how has your week been? [00:14:32] Speaker D: Oh, my week was lit, y'. All. It's my birthday. Had a nice weekend. [00:14:42] Speaker C: I hit the wrong button. [00:14:43] Speaker D: Little house party. Vibes on Saturday was lit. Great turn up. [00:14:46] Speaker C: Why wasn't we invited? [00:14:48] Speaker D: Great gifts, good vibes, good energy. So I. [00:14:51] Speaker A: Maybe I wouldn't know. [00:14:52] Speaker C: We were. [00:14:53] Speaker A: Wasn't there. [00:14:53] Speaker D: Hey, y' all was invited. [00:14:57] Speaker C: I couldn't get off of work. We had Eddie Griffin. [00:15:00] Speaker A: I was off since Friday. [00:15:02] Speaker D: Nick, where were you? [00:15:04] Speaker A: I didn't. No one told me I would have been here. [00:15:06] Speaker D: Keon. [00:15:06] Speaker B: I did. [00:15:07] Speaker D: Keon looking around. [00:15:09] Speaker B: No, I didn't. I. I didn't say. Because you. You said a thing and I. [00:15:14] Speaker D: You ain't invite Tony. [00:15:15] Speaker B: No, because you. You made it. [00:15:18] Speaker A: I'm going go home and grab. [00:15:19] Speaker D: All right. We going to bleep this part out the p. All right. Tony, how's your mental health? [00:15:23] Speaker B: Ch. [00:15:25] Speaker A: We go to Reese or Keon Key. [00:15:30] Speaker B: My week has been great. Like Leah said, we had to party on Saturday. My work week was good. Today is Leah's birthday, so. That's amazing. Had my grandbaby here yesterday. She ran me ragged. [00:15:47] Speaker C: Grandfather, I be forgetting that. [00:15:48] Speaker B: Yeah, she ran me ragged. [00:15:50] Speaker C: Shout out to my little ass, nigga. [00:15:51] Speaker B: Shout out to my little baby. How about baby, nigga? I had a good weekend like yo my grand. If she ran me ragged, it's all worth it, though. I listen. I love that little girl to the goddamn moon. She my twin. She just a little bit lighter. But yeah, I had a. Had a great week, man. I don't have zero complaints, man. I had a great week, man. [00:16:16] Speaker C: That's what's up. [00:16:17] Speaker A: How about you, Reese? [00:16:20] Speaker C: This past week was. Yeah, it was cool. I had a lot of work. Work. Eddie Griffin was In town. [00:16:26] Speaker A: Shout out to Eddie Griffin. [00:16:27] Speaker C: Shout out to Eddie Griffin. [00:16:28] Speaker D: I'm sure you saw Eddie Griffin. [00:16:29] Speaker C: No, I was at work and he was at my job. We saw the Flyer Friday night and Saturday night. They all sold out. The best part is it was he performed on that. [00:16:48] Speaker B: On that. [00:16:48] Speaker C: That. [00:16:48] Speaker B: That main stage thing. [00:16:51] Speaker C: Which. What mainstay thing are you speaking of? Because we now have multiple venues. I'm talking about the one where you. [00:17:00] Speaker B: Where you work at like that. [00:17:02] Speaker C: No, no, no, no, no. That's why I was asking. [00:17:04] Speaker B: Okay. [00:17:04] Speaker C: He wasn't at my bar. He wasn't at the stage above my bar, and he wasn't at the concert venue outside. He was in the. In the banquet room, but they opened up the whole banquet room and they sold that out. Out. He could have did the outside venue, but it probably would have been too cold. But, yeah, he had two opening acts. Everybody was. I saw. I saw one of the opening acts and what's his name? Hulk or some. That was funny as. Okay, they said that Eddie wasn't that funny. I don't know. I. I didn't see him really. That's. [00:17:35] Speaker B: But that was, you know, that he may not. [00:17:37] Speaker C: That was A general consensus is that he was not that funny. I did, however, I took off Thursday night and I took my wife to see. I took my wife and my cousin slash sister to see the Plastic Cupboys. [00:17:53] Speaker D: Okay. [00:17:54] Speaker C: At the comedy club. [00:17:56] Speaker B: I got a backstory for that. [00:17:58] Speaker C: And they were trash. [00:18:00] Speaker D: Oh, yeah, we heard the same. You the second person to say that, so I'm glad we didn't go. [00:18:04] Speaker C: They were trash. The Plastic Cup Boys, Kevin Hart, the Kevin Hart's writing team. All right, that little. That little comedy. [00:18:11] Speaker A: They got. [00:18:12] Speaker C: They got their own thing, their own little comedy group. Kevin Hart started like they was. Kevin Hart was part of the Plastic Cupboard. Thank you. [00:18:18] Speaker B: All of them. Yeah. Yeah. [00:18:19] Speaker C: Thank you, Naim. All of them. They was trash, bro. Like, I mean, I don't know, because we went to the. Thursday. It was their first show and they was here all weekend, but I couldn't take off the weekend because of the Eddie Griffin at my job, so I had to be there for that. That. So we went to the. Thursday night. It was my. The anniversary of my cousin's passing, so we took his sister. Yeah. I mean, you know, it's life. But we took his sister. Y' all know Michelle. Y' all met her. Yeah, but they was trash, bro. Like, they was. We almost left. Like, it was that. [00:18:55] Speaker D: It was that bad. [00:18:56] Speaker C: It was that we almost left. We didn't know, we didn't leave. We didn't almost leave because they were bad. That. But, like, shy. Wasn't feeling too good, and they were not good enough. That we was like, all right, we've seen enough. [00:19:09] Speaker A: Yo, meet me up real quick. [00:19:11] Speaker C: She. Yeah, she was. [00:19:12] Speaker A: Meet me up. [00:19:13] Speaker C: She is you. Well, wait, I put you solo. Go. You good? You sure? Yeah. Okay. [00:19:20] Speaker A: Make a bunch of noise while I was. [00:19:22] Speaker C: You're over there following mic stands, and I was about to say something crazy. [00:19:26] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. [00:19:27] Speaker C: But. Yeah, no, other than that, my week was good. No, I can't complain about nothing if I wanted to. I took my family on the day date today. That was fun. Shout out to the family, did a hibachi. We went bowling. I. [00:19:38] Speaker A: You got the Thrown in your mouth. [00:19:39] Speaker B: No. [00:19:41] Speaker C: So I have a. I have a very. I have. I have a hard rule against that. Like, I'm too old. I'm too grown for a. To be sitting there throwing shrimp particles in my mouth. [00:19:55] Speaker D: No, you gotta play along, y'. [00:19:57] Speaker A: All. [00:19:57] Speaker C: No, you don't. [00:19:57] Speaker A: Whoa. [00:20:00] Speaker B: Not around my. [00:20:00] Speaker C: That should be for the kids. All right. That should be for the kids. [00:20:03] Speaker D: The family is mine. [00:20:04] Speaker C: I'm tell you why. I'm going. Tell you why. Y' all know how, like, the tables be big and they sit, like, multiple people. It was four of us, and there was another family of three at our table. Yo, the father, this was, ah, this. [00:20:16] Speaker D: Crazy, wide mouth bass ass. [00:20:21] Speaker A: You think they'd be going in the back talking about that? [00:20:23] Speaker C: Oh, absolutely. It didn't catch a thing. This was all over. None of that happened for him. I felt bad. His daughter was like, no, I don't want to catch. [00:20:36] Speaker B: My dad's a loser. [00:20:37] Speaker C: Listen. Well, no. Because she said no first. And then he was like, yeah, I'll do it. [00:20:42] Speaker A: He was ecstatic. [00:20:43] Speaker C: Was. He was super excited. Like, he was. They almost. The guy almost didn't ask him. He was drinking his coke. He had his coke in his hand. And then the little girl was like, I don't want to catch. And then he went to go. Go go past him to go to Chloe, because Chloe was sitting next to. Chloe was next. And the guy said, I'll do it. [00:21:05] Speaker A: Do you think they make eye contact? [00:21:08] Speaker C: Yes, they. Because. Because the guy do the whole. Okay, yo, you know what's crazy? I went to a Japanese steakhouse. All of the waiters was white and the cooks were Hispanic. That me up. [00:21:24] Speaker A: Y' all lied. I was like, hey, give me my money back. [00:21:30] Speaker C: Hector. That was his name. I asked him, what's your Name. It was like, Hector. [00:21:34] Speaker A: Hector. [00:21:35] Speaker C: Like, because I think they had on the mask and it had on the hats. All I saw was this. I was like, he don't got Asian eyes. [00:21:40] Speaker D: Need to learn Spanish. [00:21:43] Speaker C: Real, Real. But, yeah. Nah, I said a lot to say that. I had a good day. I had a good week. Week. I can't complain. Made a lot of money this past weekend. Hey, that's always a good thing. You feel me? That's just always, man. He. And he watched the part, but I had to lean on my bar back. Yo, this little. Be playing with me some days. And he played with me this weekend. [00:22:03] Speaker B: Bad. [00:22:05] Speaker C: The. With the dreads. [00:22:06] Speaker A: He watched it and. [00:22:07] Speaker C: Yeah, he watched the part. [00:22:08] Speaker A: Okay. [00:22:09] Speaker B: And never mind. [00:22:10] Speaker A: Shout out. [00:22:11] Speaker C: Shout out to him. [00:22:12] Speaker B: Never mind. [00:22:12] Speaker C: But he watched the part, but he played with me, me. So I had to lean on him at work. [00:22:16] Speaker A: What do you do? [00:22:19] Speaker C: I mean, it ain't no short version. Like, I can give you the. I can. I'll try to keep it short. I had to take a break. I had a tab open from a customer, and I had to take a break before the customer. It was a DJ, actually, the guy that was DJing. And he. He hadn't closed his tab because he was still DJing. [00:22:36] Speaker A: It was him, y'. All. [00:22:37] Speaker C: It wasn't me. This named Security. DJ Stancy. [00:22:44] Speaker D: DJ Stanson. [00:22:47] Speaker C: He's a good dj. [00:22:47] Speaker B: Okay, the names. [00:22:49] Speaker C: So you got to understand, inside of the casino uses a booking agency. So it's not like, where'd you find this? [00:22:58] Speaker D: There's nothing sexy about that. [00:23:00] Speaker C: They found them from. From Atlantic City, actually. So they use a book agency out of Atlantic City. So all of the. Of the. All of the. The DJs and the bands and all of these be from, like, Jersey, Delaware. [00:23:13] Speaker B: Like, the Jersey, though? [00:23:15] Speaker C: Yeah, for me. [00:23:15] Speaker D: All right, we better get sidetracked like a. What did the bar back. [00:23:20] Speaker C: So I. I went to go on my break at like, 1:30. All right. Like 1:30 in the morning, 1:30am The DJ stops at 3. I decided I was just going because the breaker, the person who's supposed to give me my lunch break, never showed up. So my bar back. Who I've trained to bartend, he's allowed. Because I've trained him. He's allowed to break me, right? So I told him, go get a bank so he could break me. He can make a couple dollars, and I can take a break as long as I want because he wants the bartend, right? So the dj. I know how many drinks I had served him already. I Know what was on this tab. So when I leave, I tell him I was like, yo, Rick, the only tab I got left Open is the DJs tab. So when he closed out, I said he might close out before I get back. And I'm not proud of me not coming back until the bar, until the time to close the bar, because I'm tired. I worked, I worked extra and I didn't sleep that day. I've been, I had been up and at him since 6 o' clock that morning. So I was like, yo, this I'm tired, I made a lot of money. [00:24:16] Speaker B: I hate when you do that. [00:24:17] Speaker C: Yeah, me too. But so when I come back, he was like, oh yeah, Stancing closes tab. And you know, I, I, he, he said I closed him out under my name, but I'm gonna give you the tip that he left. He said, I owe you $5. I was like, $5? He was like, yeah, yeah, that's, that's from the tip he left. And I'm like, I know the DJ, he never only tips $5. His tips be like 20, $30, right? So I was like, $5. Okay, let me see the check. And he was like, oh, no, I already closed it out. Okay, but let me see the check back. Oh, I already put it in with the rest of the paperwork. Let me see the check. All right. So he literally turns around and starts cleaning. Like, he turns around, starts pulling the floor mats up to take a minute back to clean them, right? So I was like, so this thing's really not gonna give me the check, huh? So, okay, cool. So I goes in his envelope where he put all his paperwork, and I took the checkout, the left for 25 test. So I'm like, yo, where the you getting $5 from? He's like, oh, well, I closed it out. So I figured, you know, I would just give you some of it. No, that's not something I said. Wait a second. So pause. I said, let me, let me. Did you serve any drinks? Like, did you add drinks to the check? Because I, I didn't actually look at the whole tab to see what the amount was that he closed out at. I know what I left it at. So I was like, like, did you serve any drinks on this tab? He was like, oh, oh, nah, nah. I said, so all you did was literally hit authorize and gave it to him and you. He was like, I mean, yeah, no, you know, I figured, like, since I, I'm the one who closed it out, you know, I would just tip you out off of it. [00:26:00] Speaker D: No, at best, you thought you best. [00:26:04] Speaker B: He keep the 10. No, that. No nothing. No, that's. [00:26:08] Speaker C: He did no work. [00:26:09] Speaker B: No, but that's being generous. [00:26:11] Speaker C: Press the button. [00:26:12] Speaker B: That's being. [00:26:13] Speaker C: He didn't serve a drink, Reese. [00:26:15] Speaker B: And that's being generous. [00:26:16] Speaker C: That ain't being. That's. [00:26:17] Speaker B: No, I'm. No, no, I'm saying like. I'm saying for you, that will be you being generous. Like, I'll give you 10. [00:26:26] Speaker C: So the proper etiquette, right, Prop, Let me give y' all a proper etiquette, right? [00:26:29] Speaker B: All right, let's hear it. [00:26:30] Speaker C: Proper etiquette. Like, let's say the breaker who was supposed to break me actually came in and gave me a break. Right? Right. And let's say I had four drinks on the chat and she served two. All right, cool. I would bust the tip down the middle with her. Even though. I'm sorry I said, I'm talking about a woman here. [00:26:52] Speaker B: It don't matter. [00:26:53] Speaker C: It don't matter. It should matter. [00:26:54] Speaker D: It should. [00:26:55] Speaker C: It should matter. [00:26:56] Speaker A: All right, you two can't be the voice of reason. [00:26:58] Speaker C: It should. Y' all gotta stop this pause. Nah, nigga's too old. [00:27:03] Speaker D: No, no, we never push and play, guys. It's 69. It's episode 69. Press and play on everything. [00:27:09] Speaker C: Everything. I'm with Lee. [00:27:11] Speaker A: It's my six. [00:27:13] Speaker C: Proper etiquette be. [00:27:14] Speaker D: Turn off the lights. [00:27:17] Speaker C: Proper etiquette would be to split the tip in the case. That always. [00:27:21] Speaker D: Proper etiquette. [00:27:22] Speaker C: If they serve. If they serve some of the drinks and I serve some of the drinks, the proper etiquette would be to slip the tip. All right. But the didn't serve a drink at all, right? [00:27:32] Speaker A: He literally didn't do no work. [00:27:33] Speaker C: He handed them the check. [00:27:35] Speaker D: What's his name? Rick. Rick, Snake, Dirk, Derek. [00:27:40] Speaker C: His name Derek. Where did you get Rick for? I called him Rick because I don't like saying Derek. It'd be too long. [00:27:47] Speaker B: I thought it was. It's not Buddy, but the Buddy that I know, right? [00:27:51] Speaker A: The one that look like your son? [00:27:53] Speaker B: No, he a new. [00:27:54] Speaker D: It's like a little light skinning, ain't it? [00:27:57] Speaker B: It's not regular Buddy that used to be down there with you, right? [00:28:00] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:28:00] Speaker B: The brown skin. He's Jamaican. [00:28:02] Speaker D: I thought he left. I thought he left. [00:28:05] Speaker C: No, he's. [00:28:07] Speaker B: Said he left. [00:28:08] Speaker D: Yeah, you said he left. He back. Oh, Derek, the brown skinned with the dreads. [00:28:14] Speaker B: You said he got another job doing said thing and he was gone. [00:28:20] Speaker C: No, he got another job, but he didn't leave. [00:28:22] Speaker D: Oh, he's oh, okay. [00:28:23] Speaker C: He just had another job. [00:28:24] Speaker B: I thought it was buddy with that heels on. [00:28:26] Speaker A: Listen here. [00:28:27] Speaker C: No, no, that's my supervisor. Yeah, that's my actual supervisor. [00:28:31] Speaker A: Listen here, Derek. [00:28:32] Speaker D: All right, y', all, let's get to Tony. Tony, how's your Mitchell? [00:28:36] Speaker C: What's up, Tone? [00:28:38] Speaker A: Next time don't play Reese. So we all coming down here. [00:28:41] Speaker C: Oh, we got. We. We. We. We took care of that. We solved that problem. Because at the end of the day, I pay him. No, no, not at all. Because I fighting you only hurt you. For right now, I pay you. [00:28:52] Speaker A: Oh, big bang take little bang. [00:28:55] Speaker C: Big bang always takes. Always. [00:28:57] Speaker D: Hey. [00:28:57] Speaker C: Always takes little bank. [00:28:59] Speaker A: Okay, make sure you subscribe, Derek. [00:29:04] Speaker B: Pockets. That's where it hurt at. [00:29:06] Speaker C: I mean, he watches the part, so. [00:29:07] Speaker A: Yeah. You want me to keep this? [00:29:09] Speaker B: Hey, Derek, about you, buddy. [00:29:14] Speaker D: Love you. Now subscribe. [00:29:15] Speaker C: I love you like a brother, but I got. [00:29:18] Speaker D: But I got to play step brother. [00:29:21] Speaker B: Gotcha. [00:29:21] Speaker C: Don't play with my money, bro. [00:29:22] Speaker A: But my week was cool. I ain't nothing dramatic. Still dealing with the. The results of having my car broken into. [00:29:32] Speaker D: Oh, man. [00:29:33] Speaker C: So did you hear about that? [00:29:34] Speaker D: That sounds traumatic. No. What happened? [00:29:36] Speaker C: These what they take only the best criminals alive. [00:29:41] Speaker A: They took like, pretty much my work equipment. [00:29:45] Speaker D: Yeah, your gun. [00:29:49] Speaker A: No, you saw that. [00:29:51] Speaker C: Not his gun. No, no, not his gun. The. He wears. Yeah. Protection. [00:29:57] Speaker A: So, yeah, impersonation. I don't know what you going to do with it because it only fit me. So he might be big. No, don't. Like, no. It's literally catered to, like, even. Like, if I was to lose weight, I would have to get a new one if I was to gain weight. [00:30:10] Speaker B: What if the. That took the. Is actually your size? [00:30:13] Speaker C: I mean, wait a second. [00:30:15] Speaker A: Hold on. [00:30:15] Speaker C: Let's be real. [00:30:17] Speaker D: At the flea market. [00:30:19] Speaker C: Let's be real here. Let's be real here. Even if the. Even if the don't fit him, the still gonna wear that. Of course. [00:30:26] Speaker D: He is on IG Live right there wearing this. Look what I got. [00:30:32] Speaker B: With many men playing in the background. [00:30:33] Speaker D: Yo, you know, I know somebody that died like that. He was. He was trying out vests and got shot in the chest and died. And his best friend is the one who shot him. Went to jail. [00:30:42] Speaker C: Oh, damn. [00:30:43] Speaker D: You probably knew them. He used to go to Woodlawn. [00:30:45] Speaker C: What's their names? [00:30:47] Speaker D: I'm not gonna say lanes on because one of them died. [00:30:49] Speaker A: We got a bleep. We have a bleepy bleep. [00:30:52] Speaker C: Well off air. Tell me. [00:30:56] Speaker A: Rick and Morty. [00:30:57] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:30:58] Speaker B: Car got broken Into. [00:30:59] Speaker C: Yeah. No. [00:31:00] Speaker A: So. [00:31:00] Speaker C: Hey, Lee. Lee, the way they. I said they was the best criminals in the world because of the way they broke into this car. [00:31:06] Speaker D: Oh, something else. [00:31:07] Speaker A: They pretty much peeled my window. [00:31:08] Speaker C: They took the window out. [00:31:10] Speaker B: Wow. [00:31:10] Speaker C: They didn't break it. [00:31:11] Speaker A: They didn't break it. [00:31:12] Speaker C: They took the window out of the car. The whole window pane. They took it out. [00:31:18] Speaker D: How does that happen? [00:31:19] Speaker C: How. How do you do that? [00:31:21] Speaker D: Like, do your window go up like this? [00:31:24] Speaker B: That's the wind up joint. [00:31:25] Speaker A: No, no, no, no. It's an automatic window. Nobody. [00:31:28] Speaker B: But, but yo, you know what's crazy though, like I said, is when Tony was saying it last time I had locked my. I had locked my keys in my car and I went on YouTube university and if you take a battery, a magnet, and a. A car phone charger and run it along where the. [00:31:49] Speaker D: Door is at, you was able to. To get the window down? [00:31:52] Speaker B: Yeah, I was able to get it. It unlocked the door. Door. [00:31:54] Speaker A: Yeah. YouTube show you like I remember back in the day and after. [00:31:58] Speaker B: It didn't work for me though. [00:31:59] Speaker A: We can get into the mix. Back in the day when YouTube. Yeah, yeah. What? [00:32:05] Speaker C: Answer how you answered the question. [00:32:09] Speaker A: I just took an educated guess. [00:32:10] Speaker B: Yeah, this is. Yeah, you fine. [00:32:12] Speaker D: I'm six months clean, by the way. [00:32:14] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:32:15] Speaker B: No more crack. [00:32:17] Speaker A: No more crack. [00:32:21] Speaker D: I got that monkey on my back, y'. [00:32:23] Speaker B: All. No, no, wait. Time out. What did I tell you about saying. [00:32:27] Speaker D: That I got that monkey on my back. [00:32:29] Speaker B: You had a heroin addiction, yo, do. [00:32:31] Speaker D: You know how hard it is to quit vaping? [00:32:35] Speaker A: Oh, I haven't vaped in over a year now. [00:32:37] Speaker B: And what did you do? [00:32:39] Speaker A: No, I haven't. [00:32:40] Speaker D: If you hitting the black, that still count? I'm talking smoke free. [00:32:43] Speaker A: No, I haven't smoked the black in over a month and a half. [00:32:47] Speaker C: Cap. [00:32:48] Speaker A: I'm not giving. [00:32:49] Speaker D: All right, well, I'm completely smoke free. [00:32:51] Speaker B: You just at the shop with two times. [00:32:53] Speaker A: I didn't have a blood Capone counts. [00:32:56] Speaker B: You went outside? [00:32:57] Speaker A: Yes, that was last year. [00:32:59] Speaker D: Was it at least Newport? [00:33:00] Speaker B: No, not as one Say last year. What the. [00:33:03] Speaker C: That's not true. [00:33:04] Speaker A: It is true. I'm gonna show you. [00:33:06] Speaker C: Hold on, hold on. No, I know it's not true. [00:33:09] Speaker A: It is true and I can prove that it's true. [00:33:12] Speaker D: Do we have topics? [00:33:13] Speaker C: Topics? [00:33:13] Speaker A: Because we just all over the place we have topics. It is true because one, I can show you my last transaction and two, I stopped right before my birthday. [00:33:23] Speaker C: When's your birthday? [00:33:24] Speaker A: December 30th. [00:33:25] Speaker C: So that's fair. [00:33:26] Speaker A: I stopped right before my Birthday? [00:33:27] Speaker C: No, no, Cloud said. Because I saw you at the shop. It was towards the end of December though, because you had. You went outside and that's what he's talking about. I thought it was a cigarette, but no, you went outside by yourself. Yeah, that's what he's talking. [00:33:39] Speaker D: That's less than a month ago. [00:33:41] Speaker A: I said that. I said almost a month and a half. [00:33:44] Speaker D: That's less than a month ago, bro. [00:33:48] Speaker C: January. What? [00:33:49] Speaker D: 16Th, 19th, bro. [00:33:52] Speaker C: You would know. It's your birthday. [00:33:54] Speaker B: Leah Day. [00:33:57] Speaker D: I forgot you a Capricorn. Happy birthday. [00:34:00] Speaker A: Good job. [00:34:00] Speaker C: Yes, good job. [00:34:01] Speaker D: Every milestone we're going to count. [00:34:03] Speaker C: Good job. [00:34:04] Speaker D: Because I know how hard it is. [00:34:05] Speaker A: Because it hasn't been hard. I think with. [00:34:08] Speaker D: All right. God damn. Try give you your flowers. [00:34:10] Speaker A: Actually, no, no, it's not. It's cuz I'm. I'm figuring out right now and where I'm at right now. [00:34:18] Speaker B: It's like you're in a good space. [00:34:20] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:34:20] Speaker A: So it hasn't even crossed my mind. [00:34:24] Speaker C: Good. [00:34:24] Speaker B: That's good. [00:34:24] Speaker C: That's how I was like when I. Cuz I stopped smoking Black September of 2024, I stopped smoking weed and blacks. I stopped smoking weed first and then I quit smoking blacks and I. I didn't think about it for. [00:34:39] Speaker B: What's in that pen? [00:34:41] Speaker D: Oh, thc. [00:34:42] Speaker C: This. [00:34:51] Speaker A: Come on, we went through all the. Sorry, guys. [00:34:56] Speaker C: I had to go through all of them. No, because that's not even on that screen. [00:35:02] Speaker B: Oh, it's that pin. [00:35:04] Speaker C: That's irrelevant. That's irrelevant. [00:35:06] Speaker A: He saw. He's about to start acting like Marlin smoking. [00:35:10] Speaker C: I. I stopped the actual smoking of marijuana. This isn't smoking. This is vaping. It's slightly different. Oh, it's like. [00:35:18] Speaker B: All right, cool. Let's go with that. Let's go with that. [00:35:23] Speaker C: Oh no. Where are we going? [00:35:25] Speaker B: Yeah, no, we gonna go with what you said. [00:35:27] Speaker C: Where we going? [00:35:27] Speaker B: Going. You said that. [00:35:29] Speaker C: Where we going? [00:35:30] Speaker D: All right, to the next topic, guys. And where are we on the list? [00:35:36] Speaker B: I can't argue with you because smarter than me. [00:35:41] Speaker D: No bigger words. [00:35:42] Speaker C: And I'm gonna get into the dichotomy. [00:35:45] Speaker A: What does translated mean? [00:35:46] Speaker C: See? [00:35:46] Speaker B: Dichotomy. [00:35:48] Speaker C: Degree in chemistry in real life. [00:35:51] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:35:51] Speaker B: And this knows 17 letter words. I know like five letter words. You know I'm a little slow. [00:35:56] Speaker A: Hey, hey. But listen, this is where I was going to start at, right? [00:36:01] Speaker C: Huh? [00:36:01] Speaker A: I was going to start because I seen his ad and it was very interesting. [00:36:06] Speaker B: You're scratching. You jonesing? [00:36:08] Speaker C: Yeah, a little bit. [00:36:11] Speaker A: So they bought a Patek, broke the Protect. [00:36:14] Speaker C: Down. [00:36:14] Speaker A: That's. This is a part of the ad. They were saying, like, what was so interesting about buying this watch? Okay, so after buying a watch, after breaking down the watch. I'm sorry, it was only worth a couple hundred dollars from, like, the parts they used. And he was like, we were trying to figure out where the other 14, 000 came from, right? And then I thought, why do we buy into exclusive? What's the word? Exclusive. [00:36:39] Speaker C: Exquisite. [00:36:40] Speaker A: No, exclusive. [00:36:42] Speaker B: Exclusivity. [00:36:43] Speaker A: There we go. Exclusivity. Thank you. [00:36:45] Speaker C: Is that a word? [00:36:46] Speaker D: I don't think so. [00:36:46] Speaker A: I think he said it in the commercial. [00:36:50] Speaker B: Is that. Is it not a word? [00:36:55] Speaker A: Yeah. Cuz I like when I type it in smart. [00:36:56] Speaker B: You not. You shouldn't have to do that. [00:36:58] Speaker C: I've never heard of that word. Okay. [00:36:59] Speaker D: I don't think it's activity. I think city. [00:37:02] Speaker C: Is it. [00:37:03] Speaker A: Is it? I don't know. [00:37:05] Speaker B: I told you I'm dumb. [00:37:06] Speaker A: No, it comes right up when I type in, meaning. [00:37:11] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Y'. All. Y' all know I'm. I'm smart, but I'm. I ain't going. [00:37:16] Speaker A: It's a word. [00:37:18] Speaker C: Exclusive. [00:37:20] Speaker D: Yeah. Sensivity, Right? Not activity. [00:37:21] Speaker C: Not activity. [00:37:23] Speaker A: Okay. [00:37:24] Speaker C: Not activity. [00:37:25] Speaker A: So that's what it was pretty much saying. And I was wondering, why do we buy into that, right? Do we buy into it to really separate ourselves from others, or do we buy into it to just be a part of other? Like, why does society. Because. [00:37:40] Speaker B: Like, society to be a part of other. [00:37:43] Speaker A: But that's really not being exclusive because you buying it to one. What, like, other is just exclusive. [00:37:47] Speaker B: You're trying to set yourself apart from the who can't afford it, so you want to look exclusive to those who can't. So it. It. It's. [00:37:57] Speaker C: That's true for some people, but some people are collectors of things, or some. [00:38:01] Speaker A: People just value comfort in some ways. [00:38:03] Speaker C: Like, I mean. Well, that's a different conversation. [00:38:05] Speaker A: I'm just saying, like, like, the reason why y' all live out here is not because of the. Be being exclusive. Yes. Of you in the cut. Absolutely. But it's more so for comfort, safety. You know, it's a nice home you have. [00:38:17] Speaker B: What if it was affordable? What you mean, like, what if, like. [00:38:22] Speaker A: All right, most of the time, when things are affordable, people that got money, you don't want the affordable thing. They want the thing that's not affordable. Yeah. [00:38:29] Speaker D: So. [00:38:29] Speaker B: So I. I think that when. When people, you know, let's say I make $70,000 a year. Let's just say hypothetically, right? [00:38:39] Speaker D: Mm. [00:38:40] Speaker B: And then I start making $140,000 a year. [00:38:44] Speaker A: Let me hold something. [00:38:45] Speaker B: Play your lifestyle change, Right? So you want to live in that $140,000? [00:38:51] Speaker A: I was about to say, it doesn't have to. [00:38:52] Speaker B: You shouldn't. But not at that. But am I lying over these people? [00:38:59] Speaker C: Right. That's what I'm saying. [00:39:00] Speaker B: Yeah, we know that. But most people be like, I need to live a different type of way because my finances have changed, when in actuality, you know, you would say, let me stay where I'm at. [00:39:11] Speaker A: But see, that's. That's. Most people. I was gonna say right to. To Reese's point and Leah's point. That's. That's the problem with most people, because I think we come from an era. Like, I remember I had to explain it to my uncle because he was getting on my cousin about why he wasn't saving money. Right. He was like, boy, like, you. You making 13 an hour. This is back in, like, 2016. I'm like, oh, that ain't no money. But to him coming from the era. [00:39:36] Speaker C: He came from, yeah, making 725. [00:39:40] Speaker A: Right, right. That's a lot of money. [00:39:42] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:39:43] Speaker A: So it's like, even now, like, when you go from making that 70 to that 140, you think that's a lot of money. [00:39:49] Speaker C: Because it's a lot of money when you comparing the two. But, like, people got to stop comparing to what they had to versus what they want. Like, what it would. Like. Like, you should. The goal should always be to get to a better place. Absolutely. That should always be the goal. So I'm never mad at somebody who gets to a better place and then decide, okay, now that I'm in a better place, I want to live a better way. [00:40:11] Speaker A: Right. [00:40:12] Speaker C: All right. Because, like, who wants to stay in the hood? [00:40:15] Speaker A: Nobody. Nobody. [00:40:16] Speaker B: That's a. That's a mind state of. Of a. Of a. A person that is, you know, quote unquote, you know, up to par with what makes sense. A logical thinker. [00:40:29] Speaker A: Right, Right. [00:40:30] Speaker B: Versus a person that. That doesn't think logically. They say, okay, I got this money. I' ma go do X, Y, and Z. So I. I think it. It all depends on it. It boils down to who raised you and how do you value, though, that those type of situations. [00:40:50] Speaker A: Well, I also think, too. [00:40:51] Speaker C: I mean, I think there's a lot to it. [00:40:52] Speaker A: Yeah. Like, to me, I think it's like a piece. It's like, for instance, to get back to what I was saying, it's like, like. I think we buy into certain things not only to show that we have money, but to, like you said earlier, separate ourselves from other people. It's a reason why people wear designer. Most of the time is. Most of the times it show that they got a couple dollars. But also too, they know. Yeah, yeah. Or, or most of the times is a. I don't want to say it's like subconsciously on other. But that's kind of what it is. Is like. [00:41:23] Speaker C: See, I don't think it's none of. [00:41:24] Speaker A: That what you think it is. [00:41:25] Speaker C: I just think people like. Like you. Yo, when you a kid. We all played that's my car, right? We all sat outside. No, that's my car. No, that's my soul first. I said this first. Like, you got that you want. You understand what I'm saying? Like, everybody got something they want. I used to have a picture of a Lamborghini Marciel Lago on my wall when I Now. No, he got five. I named the car, all right? Her name was old Susanna. That was her name. [00:41:49] Speaker A: And they got sisters. [00:41:51] Speaker C: And my whole, whole life. [00:41:53] Speaker A: What's your address? [00:41:54] Speaker C: My whole life. I want to owe Susanna, all right? And I called it that because the lady that was in the picture, her name was Susanna. So that named the car. I don't even want to know more. I know, but I don't want it anymore. I used to. I wanted it for a very long time. I wanted it for a very, very long time. And then at the point where I was able to, like, go buy some real. I was like, I could go broke and go buy the. [00:42:17] Speaker B: I changed your mind. [00:42:18] Speaker A: Why? [00:42:18] Speaker C: Ah, the fact I didn't want to be broke. Like, reality. Yeah, Reality is like, okay, yeah, but. [00:42:26] Speaker B: But people. But people don't think about that though. [00:42:28] Speaker A: No, I think more people do than they don't. [00:42:30] Speaker D: I had the same, like, dream board. Like, mine wasn't an old Susanna Lamb. We said Lamborghini. Mine was like this 700, 000 dream house, two car garage, five bedroom, like, walk in closets, all that crazy. I had it on my wall for years. Years. And then I got my house and I was like, this is my old Susanna. This is enough. It's more than enough. [00:42:53] Speaker C: And that's what happened. I bought a BMW 545XI and I said, hey, this car cool. Like, I don't need the Lamborghini. So listen, I'm good with the bmx. And then I bought a Durango, and I love that car even more. [00:43:07] Speaker A: I found that and I Learned this early on when I saved my first, like, 8,000. Right. It was like, the more money I saved, the less thing. Like, things I thought I wanted became less attractive to me. [00:43:20] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:43:20] Speaker A: Yeah. It was on it. [00:43:22] Speaker B: Because you wouldn't have had the money. [00:43:23] Speaker A: Yeah. Because it was. [00:43:24] Speaker B: I think the things. [00:43:26] Speaker A: I think I was more infatuated with the idea of, oh, I could get that if I wanted. [00:43:29] Speaker C: So that's. That's what it comes down to. Like. [00:43:32] Speaker B: But I think. Sorry. No, go ahead. [00:43:34] Speaker C: No, go ahead. [00:43:35] Speaker B: So I. And this is just my thoughts, right. I think that when you're working for it, working, like a real job, you're working for it, and you're stacking the paper, and the paper add up, you got 8,000, you got 10,000, 12. It hit a little bit different from a nigga that's in the street that's getting thousands by the dollar. I ain't talking about the nigga that's on the corner. I'm talking about the nigga that if he make $1,000 today, that's not. Re up money. I'm sorry about the nigga that got the show enough paper. His thought a little bit different. And that's just my thinking. I think when you're earning the money versus getting it by the boatload daily, your thought process changes. [00:44:22] Speaker C: I don't believe that. [00:44:22] Speaker A: I'm trying to understand what you're saying. [00:44:24] Speaker C: I understand. [00:44:24] Speaker B: So what. What I'm saying is like, go ahead, Reese. [00:44:27] Speaker C: No, I don't mean to cut you off. Go ahead. [00:44:29] Speaker A: No, like, when I'm trying to comprehend essentially what you're saying. [00:44:32] Speaker B: You're saying when you work hard for money, you. You value it a little bit more. [00:44:37] Speaker C: He's saying that when you put. When you do the work to get the money, you value it more than the who don't do so. I don't agree with your analogy, though, because the. And I'm speaking. [00:44:49] Speaker A: And I. [00:44:49] Speaker C: And I'm speaking from. I'm speaking from having a knowledge base on both sides of this coin, right? All right? The. The dude. And I'm working. Y' all gotta. I need y' all to help me to not say every three words. All right? Like, I'm working on it. [00:45:02] Speaker D: The man, the gentleman. [00:45:06] Speaker C: That's something else I've been working on since the new year. [00:45:08] Speaker A: Say Afro American. [00:45:08] Speaker C: I've been trying to not say the word. We was playing a game at home, and we was playing a game, and it was called the hot seat. One of the questions is, what's my favorite word? And everybody including my daughter. My child was like, that's daddy's favorite word. It's mine. Change that. And then I'll be telling a lot of people to watch the part. And so I got to change. I got to stop saying so much. I need your help. [00:45:30] Speaker D: We all work on it together. [00:45:31] Speaker C: That part. [00:45:32] Speaker B: But. Okay, cool. [00:45:33] Speaker C: But I work on dude who. You gotta say motherfree dude who is getting the dude at the top of the ladder. That's, that's, that's getting 10, 15, 20,000 a week, couple thousand a day. Nobody starts there, all right? Nobody starts at the top of the ladder. Nobody. You had to put the work in to get to a certain place at a certain point, all right? And what you value, what you start valuing over time, at first it's, oh, I can buy what I want. Oh, I can take care of the people I love. Oh, I can do whatever I want. I have the comfort to move however I want to move, whenever I want to move, but I don't have to move all around as much. All right? When you work for money, and I'm saying this because I watched the dude lose. I watched the dude gamble and lose $10 million in 45 minutes. [00:46:29] Speaker D: That's crazy. [00:46:31] Speaker C: Oh, that's my phone. My phone. What is he calling me for? [00:46:35] Speaker D: Millions of dollars. [00:46:36] Speaker C: I watched a dude in real life lose $10 million in 45 minutes. I would have died playing blackjack. No, he didn't. He was, he was like 27, 28 years old, Indian guy. [00:46:46] Speaker D: He was a bit queen nigga. [00:46:47] Speaker C: So that's like his, his people, his people had money, all right? Those are the people who don't value the money, right? All right? The ones who come from it. When you come from money and you don't work for the money you come from, from, you don't have the value for the money. [00:47:01] Speaker B: It's also that, that individual that I'll use myself, right? And this is a true fact about me, right? I, I, I, at one point in time knew that whatever money I spent. [00:47:16] Speaker C: I can get it back, get it right back, get it right back. [00:47:18] Speaker B: When I get up in the morning, I get it right back mentality, right? [00:47:22] Speaker A: But listen, because you had a, you got a point with what you said earlier about like, the money and the rise to the whatever you get to. I'm not going to say who, but essentially somebody in my family. I think why I, I tend to have bad habits is because of that analogy, because I get it right back, but that's not what they was doing. So they May have made, but you're. [00:47:49] Speaker B: Not gaining any interest. [00:47:50] Speaker A: No, look, listen. They have. Let's say this person may have made 10,000, but I'm seeing them blow two, right? You get what I'm saying? And then the next day, they may have made another 10,000, but I'm saying. [00:48:03] Speaker C: Them blow three, right? [00:48:05] Speaker A: So it's like they're not telling me to get. [00:48:07] Speaker C: And exactly. You get where I'm going. I know exactly where you at. And that. So that's where I was getting to. [00:48:11] Speaker B: I'm not telling you that. Hey, I'm not. I'm not. [00:48:14] Speaker C: They're not showing you the other seven. What's wrong? [00:48:17] Speaker D: Oh, I'm sorry. I was asked. Can we circle back to the original question? [00:48:20] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, I got you. [00:48:21] Speaker A: Oh. Oh, yeah, yeah. [00:48:23] Speaker C: But let me, Let me. Let's finish his point, then we'll do that. They're not showing you what they doing with the other seven. 8,000. [00:48:29] Speaker A: And they were saving. [00:48:30] Speaker C: All right? They're not showing you the investments they making. They not showing you what type of accounts to put the money in. Yeah, all right. Like, I've done things in my past. I don't pull no punches about it. I ain't saying it on camera because my wife. Wife might run for office one day, but gay big shot, we call it Ghost. Her name Ghost, we call a ghost. [00:48:51] Speaker A: Okay? We don't even know who she is. [00:48:53] Speaker C: We don't even know what we talking about. We talking about Tommy. All right? But. But. [00:48:59] Speaker B: I. [00:48:59] Speaker C: Some I didn't know because I used to be. Man, what y' all trying to do? I. I literally first. First time I was able to. To have enough to get back, right? And then still blow. I bought TVs for all my homeboys. In real life, I bought TVs for everybody because we all played video Games and We TV. You wasn't my homeboy say you on the TV. No, no. This was 20 years ago. [00:49:28] Speaker A: All right? [00:49:29] Speaker C: This is 25 years ago. [00:49:30] Speaker B: Okay, cool. [00:49:30] Speaker C: This is. This was like 25 years ago. [00:49:32] Speaker D: I literally went dope ass Flex, though, the pull up with TVs for all your. [00:49:37] Speaker C: Do you know how much of the man. [00:49:39] Speaker D: I was like, come on. [00:49:43] Speaker C: Man, listen. [00:49:44] Speaker A: Kept saying thank you that day, yo. [00:49:46] Speaker C: When everybody got flat screens and flat screens was brand new. [00:49:50] Speaker D: Brand new. [00:49:51] Speaker C: This back when plasmas was like fifteen hundred dollars at least. [00:49:54] Speaker D: That's the minimum. I was going to say like 3,000. [00:49:58] Speaker C: I was gonna say 3,000, but it's. [00:50:01] Speaker A: Crazy that we call them plasmas. [00:50:04] Speaker C: No, because they weren't that's what I'm saying. Like. Like, now they LCD, before they was actually plasma TVs, man. I bought plasmas for all my homeboys because I could, all right? But I was broke, like, at the end of the night, yo, we had a bad run. We just had a bad batch, and that's it. [00:50:26] Speaker B: But, yo, and now I'm back. [00:50:28] Speaker C: I'm back at yo, like, yo, I need you to. You know what I'm saying? Look, I'm. I'm gonna get this, but I need you to give me that, too. You understand what I'm saying? Like, I'm gonna need what I'm buying, and I'm gonna need you to throw me something because he know I'm coming right back, and he know I'm good for it, but nobody told me. Yo put ups and downs of the game. Some of this I had to learn that. You know what I'm saying? I had to learn that. I had to learn that. [00:50:53] Speaker D: So to your Jay Z gave you the blueprint. Keep. What do you say? Keep Coke and coffee. Keep money smelling mouthy. Keep lawyer fees. [00:51:01] Speaker C: Yeah. So listen. Didn't know what that meant. [00:51:03] Speaker D: Come on. [00:51:05] Speaker C: I was mad. [00:51:06] Speaker A: I knew what it meant. [00:51:07] Speaker C: Didn't know it. [00:51:08] Speaker D: My little piggy bank, like, all right, Leah. [00:51:10] Speaker C: Leah, do it. Are you potting right now? [00:51:14] Speaker B: Cuz, you're. I feel as though you're. [00:51:15] Speaker C: I know her. [00:51:18] Speaker B: She used to sell pit bull puppies. [00:51:20] Speaker A: Not her. [00:51:21] Speaker C: Talking about her. [00:51:22] Speaker B: No, she did. [00:51:22] Speaker C: No, I know she did. I ain't talking about her, though. All right. [00:51:25] Speaker B: Down in practice. [00:51:25] Speaker C: I know. I know the. I know the people she was around. All right. Leah knew that early. Yes. [00:51:31] Speaker B: Ah, you're right. Enough said. [00:51:35] Speaker C: Leah knew that earlier early. But sorry, everybody. Everybody have that. Everybody. You know what I'm saying? I'm saying, like, everybody didn't have that. I heard the songs. I knew the songs. I didn't know what they meant. I knew that I needed lawyer money, all right? But I didn't know that meant, like, I need money to not. I need to not blow the TV. I went to Best Buy. I spent $2,000 on CDs. [00:51:54] Speaker D: Oh, I love that. That probably you probably felt like a boss. [00:51:56] Speaker C: You don't. [00:51:56] Speaker D: I went through the whole rack was. [00:51:58] Speaker B: Like, give me all these. [00:51:59] Speaker C: Literally. [00:52:00] Speaker D: Yo, remember on Tuesdays, they used to come out when they were gonna say, on Tuesdays, I did this. [00:52:05] Speaker A: I did this. [00:52:06] Speaker C: I did this. I saw somebody do on tv. I walked in the shoe store in Potomac Mills and said, give me everything in my size, size 11. [00:52:14] Speaker D: I love it. [00:52:15] Speaker C: I literally did that. And you know what happened? I went to the very next store and my car declined at the next store, all right? And it wasn't because I. Because I had the money. I didn't know that banks be worrying about fraud because I never. I had never dealt with nothing like that before. You know what I'm saying? I had never been in that position before for. And what's crazy is I'd left Potomac Mills. I left in my brand new car with a car full of shoes and clothes and went back to my apartment. All right? I didn't own nothing. I didn't. Somebody could have came and. And, and evicted me if they wanted to. [00:52:48] Speaker B: But you. But you learned though, right? [00:52:50] Speaker D: I had to learn. [00:52:50] Speaker A: Yeah. Knowledge. [00:52:52] Speaker B: Tony learned. I learned. Yo, I learned that the hardest way possible when it comes down to the. Like that. You know what I mean? [00:52:59] Speaker C: You and me three, boy. I learned real lessons. I learned hard life lessons. [00:53:06] Speaker A: I was just wondering, that's all. Like, why do we buy into that? [00:53:09] Speaker C: I don't. So. So back to the original point. Circling back. I don't think it's the thing that. That. That we value. [00:53:19] Speaker D: I think it's a little bit of both, I think. [00:53:21] Speaker C: Yeah. So that's what I. Thank you. I think. I think it comes down to where. Where does your value lie? Yeah. All right. Do you care about being comfortable for the long term? Like, do you live on. I need to put something up for a rainy day or do you live on? I can't take this with me when I'm gone, so I'm gonna enjoy it today. Like, I know some people who value that. All right? And that's like, to me, it's nothing wrong with that. As long as you are okay with that and living on them terms, then who the am I to stop you? [00:53:50] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. [00:53:51] Speaker C: You see what I'm saying? Like, who the fuck. [00:53:53] Speaker B: But I think that's a. That's a lifestyle too, though, right? Right? [00:53:56] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, it's. I mean, at the end of the day, it's just a moral compass. Like, where is your moral compass? [00:54:01] Speaker C: Right? Where's your moral compass? [00:54:02] Speaker B: Like, in the sense of, like when you got a family and you got, you know, things that you're responsible for, I think that I can't take that with me. [00:54:13] Speaker A: I mean, but at the end, I don't. I'm not a believer in that. But to me. [00:54:17] Speaker C: And what. [00:54:18] Speaker A: What he's saying in a sense is like. Like, you choose your responsibility, but you choose what you want to be responsible. [00:54:24] Speaker B: We're saying the same thing. [00:54:26] Speaker A: I'm the type of person you can. [00:54:27] Speaker C: Have a family, not give a. [00:54:29] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:54:29] Speaker B: You can. [00:54:30] Speaker A: But I'm saying. I'm saying that. But you choose that. [00:54:33] Speaker C: Right? [00:54:34] Speaker A: We just. [00:54:35] Speaker B: Moral compass. [00:54:35] Speaker A: Yeah. Some solid that stand in that space. Right. Or we. [00:54:39] Speaker C: That. [00:54:39] Speaker A: That's how we look at. [00:54:40] Speaker C: But they are solid dudes. [00:54:42] Speaker A: Right, Sorry. We are solid Afro Americans. [00:54:45] Speaker C: Here we go. It's Martin Luther King. [00:54:47] Speaker A: You know what? [00:54:48] Speaker C: I said I was gonna come in here. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I was gonna come in here and play a part of. Of that speech today. We can do that. I actually said that. Yeah, we can do that. Do that. [00:54:57] Speaker A: No, we can do that. Yeah. Yeah. But I was saying that I'm a big believer in like choice. You just got to be okay with the consequences. [00:55:07] Speaker C: So that's where. That's what. That was my point right there. If you okay with whatever comes behind the decisions you make, all right, then make them and just stand on them. [00:55:17] Speaker A: Yeah, just stand on. [00:55:18] Speaker C: Be able to stand on the choices you make. [00:55:20] Speaker B: How many people actually really do that? [00:55:22] Speaker A: I mean, not a lot of people. [00:55:24] Speaker C: That's so. That's my problem. My problem with people. And like I. So this is the space I'm getting to with this age in. In my life. Right? At my age, I'm really finding that at 56. 44, 77. All right, okay. 44, 67. [00:55:39] Speaker A: 6 don't stick. [00:55:42] Speaker C: S me don't stick. [00:55:43] Speaker D: 7. 6. 7. [00:55:44] Speaker C: Don't stick. 7 me. [00:55:45] Speaker A: 7. [00:55:46] Speaker C: I'd be like 8, 9. But, but, but baby. [00:55:52] Speaker A: Oil. [00:55:55] Speaker C: Refined Vaseline. At my age, I find myself getting away from the people who can't stand on the choices they make. All right? And I'm talking about I be losing some people that's close to me, people I love. [00:56:10] Speaker B: Because that's why you stopped hanging out with me. I got it. [00:56:16] Speaker C: Just thinking I'm just. People be outside doing things, they be throwing rocks and then they hide their hand. All right. [00:56:27] Speaker A: Preach, preacher. [00:56:28] Speaker C: I can't do it no more because it angers me. Right, and enrages you. I can't get respond to my anger the way I used to respond to my anger. So then I have to be able to people. What's the other side of it? Right? Because the, the. [00:56:46] Speaker A: You gotta filter it. [00:56:47] Speaker C: That thing in me. Pause, pause. No, that was. That needed to pause with me. It was the fist. But that part, that part of me, that part of me that I'm trying to put put away. That part of me, I'm trying to put Away can't afford it because it costs too much. [00:57:14] Speaker A: They pull you back in. [00:57:15] Speaker C: You know what I'm saying? Like, it costs too much. I stand to lose way too much if I out. If I'm outside responding the way that my heart want to. So I gotta. The only way to fix it because I can't change the shit that you do. Right? And I can't really. I'm having a hard time controlling how I respond to it. [00:57:35] Speaker A: It. [00:57:36] Speaker C: So then I just have to limit my interactions with it. All right? That's the easiest solution for me right now until I figure out how to respond to it better. [00:57:42] Speaker D: That's grown man. [00:57:44] Speaker B: And Reese, that's one of the things that. And it's not because she's sitting here, but it's also because she's sitting here. You know, Leah, she always said, you know, how does my reaction. How does my action affect my family? Something that I never really. [00:58:05] Speaker C: I always think about that first. [00:58:07] Speaker B: And. And I told them that. [00:58:09] Speaker D: I said, this is your thought. You need to think every day, every single time. [00:58:13] Speaker B: Everything embedded in my brain. [00:58:15] Speaker C: No, but that's the truth, though. Ever. When I tell you, and I. And I you. Not everything I do, the first thing I think about is how is my wife gonna feel about it? That's my literal first off thought. [00:58:28] Speaker D: It's not putting everybody resource. I had to tell them to say, keon, I said, think this thought. I said, how will this affect your family? [00:58:35] Speaker C: Well, no. [00:58:36] Speaker D: And that changed them. That's changed them. [00:58:38] Speaker A: Hold on. [00:58:39] Speaker C: But I also think my second thought. [00:58:40] Speaker A: The important part of that is my wife. He has to care. [00:58:43] Speaker D: Well, I feel like I'm part of. Like I'm family when I say family. [00:58:46] Speaker C: My family. My wife is part of my family. But I can do some. That don't affect my family. That pisses my wife off. [00:58:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:58:51] Speaker C: All right. And I have to lay down with her every single night. [00:58:54] Speaker A: But also, too, I think the important part of this ingredient is you have to care. [00:58:58] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. [00:58:59] Speaker A: You have. [00:58:59] Speaker C: Yeah. No, you have to care. [00:59:00] Speaker A: You have to get. [00:59:01] Speaker C: Because if you don't, I tell my children. [00:59:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:59:03] Speaker C: Everything that everybody does. I told y' all this like a bunch of pods ago. My number one, my number two rule in my house, I would not rule. My number two mantra that I teach my children is everything that everybody does is for one of two reasons. They don't know or they don't care, one or the other. And you can't control what they care about. You can control what they know, man. All right, so. So soon as somebody does something that makes you feel a certain way, that that impacts you a certain kind of way, you give them the grace because they didn't know, but you let them know. So the next time it happens, they can't say, oh, I didn't know you felt like that. Yeah, I didn't know that was a problem. Oh, I didn't know that that was going to be an issue. No, you did, because I told you this. [00:59:38] Speaker A: Right. [00:59:38] Speaker C: Six months ago. [00:59:39] Speaker A: Yo, you know what's crazy? [00:59:41] Speaker D: That's a big one. [00:59:42] Speaker A: And I. And now this kind of ties into where I'm at. Right. I've been having certain conversations with a lot of people about how I show up for them. And. [00:59:55] Speaker C: It'S. [00:59:55] Speaker A: It's. It bothers me sometimes, but it's like, okay, there's a common denominator here, and it's me. And I'm trying to figure out why. You get what I'm saying? Like, I think I get so wrapped up in my own life and to also don't think I'm as important to people. [01:00:16] Speaker C: People I think they are. [01:00:18] Speaker A: Yeah, I think that's the. That's the thing I'm finding, like, oh, you really with me. But in my mind, I just. I guess because of my childhood, I never wanted to. Like, I stopped attaching myself to people, so it's like, oh, you don't really care about me. [01:00:33] Speaker C: Had that problem for a while. [01:00:34] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:00:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:00:34] Speaker D: You know. [01:00:35] Speaker B: You know what that ties into. And we. We're gonna have them on the pod soon. Dr. Will Hart. Harvey. [01:00:42] Speaker C: Who does the. That wrote the book. Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry. The guy that wrote the book. [01:00:46] Speaker A: Yeah, the Afro American who wrote that. [01:00:48] Speaker C: Look, we'll talk about him when he show up. [01:00:50] Speaker B: Yeah, not talk about him. [01:00:53] Speaker C: No. [01:00:53] Speaker A: Yeah, you know what he means. [01:00:54] Speaker D: My jaw is dry. Reese. Is it tea? Look. Is it tea? [01:01:00] Speaker B: Negative. [01:01:00] Speaker C: No, he just supposed to been here. [01:01:01] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [01:01:03] Speaker C: I'm a little salty. I'm a little salty. [01:01:04] Speaker B: No, no, no, no, no, no. That was me. [01:01:07] Speaker C: Let me tell you why I'm saying song. [01:01:08] Speaker B: That was me. [01:01:09] Speaker D: Tell me. [01:01:10] Speaker B: That was a meeting. [01:01:10] Speaker C: Put the book. [01:01:12] Speaker D: Me too. I pulled four of them. I passed them out to my family. [01:01:16] Speaker C: Well, I. No, no, I bought the ebook. [01:01:20] Speaker B: Can I be clear and hold myself accountable? That was my fault. [01:01:24] Speaker C: What was your fault? [01:01:24] Speaker B: That he. That he didn't appear on. On the pod. [01:01:27] Speaker C: Well, that ain't what you told us. [01:01:28] Speaker A: Yeah, I was about to say. [01:01:28] Speaker B: Yeah, I lied. [01:01:31] Speaker C: See. Now take back Dr. What's his name? Harvey. Harvey. [01:01:34] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:01:35] Speaker C: My fault, brother. [01:01:37] Speaker B: That was me. [01:01:39] Speaker D: See what lying dude. [01:01:42] Speaker C: See what line do. I have a whole disdain for this dude. I've never met him over some shooting. I never met him. Yeah, I was told he was coming the first time, and I was like, all right. He didn't come the second time. He was like, no, he's definitely coming. He's definitely showing up. He, he, he. He dropped the book. I was like, where the book at that I ran, I bought the book. [01:02:02] Speaker B: And you know what it was? [01:02:03] Speaker C: And I read it. [01:02:04] Speaker B: So, you know we gonna be honest, right? I'mma be honest, right? That was a conflict of potting space. And that was my fault. [01:02:18] Speaker C: Huh? [01:02:18] Speaker B: Potting space. [01:02:20] Speaker C: What does he have to do? Okay? [01:02:22] Speaker B: Potting. Look at me. Potting space. That was my fault. [01:02:28] Speaker C: Okay? No, I. I heard you. [01:02:31] Speaker D: So I guess instead of you being truthful, you just didn't want him there if you was. Couldn't be there. Is that what you're saying? [01:02:37] Speaker A: No, I think he was there though. [01:02:39] Speaker C: No. Cause he was there. He was there. [01:02:40] Speaker D: Oh, Come knocking off your face. [01:02:48] Speaker B: It was our timing. It was our timing and everything like that. [01:02:52] Speaker A: That. [01:02:53] Speaker B: No, but, but this cut. [01:02:57] Speaker C: I'm listening. I'm listening. [01:02:58] Speaker B: But this is the same. Same time where the party space was, you know, up for me. [01:03:06] Speaker C: Yeah, okay. What's it okay for me? [01:03:12] Speaker D: It's my birthday. Can we change the topic? [01:03:16] Speaker B: I'm not gonna get no ass tonight. [01:03:18] Speaker C: Yeah, no, no. [01:03:19] Speaker B: So I was talking not getting enough. [01:03:22] Speaker A: I was just saying for me who finding. [01:03:27] Speaker C: I love you. [01:03:28] Speaker A: Re. [01:03:28] Speaker C: I love you, Tony. [01:03:30] Speaker D: He love you, Reese. [01:03:31] Speaker C: I know. I'm sorry. [01:03:33] Speaker D: Answer the phone tonight. [01:03:35] Speaker A: I'm fine. [01:03:36] Speaker B: Call you up. [01:03:39] Speaker C: My fault to no, you good toy to. [01:03:41] Speaker A: I'm just finding that because I'm. I don't think I'm as important to people that I'm not showing up in certain ways. [01:03:50] Speaker C: Right? [01:03:51] Speaker A: And that's what I've been learning. [01:03:52] Speaker C: Yeah, No, I mean that's what we were trying to get you to understand a while ago with some shit. I don't even remember what the situation was, but it was just that, like, we care about. We like, we care about you in a way. You present. You feel me like. We care about the way that people look at you. Because if somebody say something crazy to me about you, I'm gonna have to punch him in the mouth like. Cause you my man, I have to punch him in the mouth, right? So let's just not have people saying crazy shit, you feel me? Like, like, let's not do nothing for people to be out here saying Nothing crazy about you. Because I'm gonna punch him in the mouth. [01:04:21] Speaker A: Right, right, right, right. [01:04:22] Speaker C: And I don't feel like punching nobody in the mouth. [01:04:24] Speaker B: I don't want to, but I will. [01:04:26] Speaker C: Yeah, but I just. [01:04:27] Speaker A: Like I said, I think that's just some. [01:04:28] Speaker C: And you just didn't realize how much with you. Yeah, yeah. [01:04:31] Speaker A: Like, in my mind, I just. I don't think. I mean, like, I remember. And then we'll move on. I remember I told my best friend. [01:04:36] Speaker C: I was like, yeah, if I had. [01:04:37] Speaker A: A funeral, I only think, like, five people would show up. [01:04:38] Speaker C: That's crazy. [01:04:39] Speaker A: And we had to. She really had to break some sad. [01:04:41] Speaker D: Ass in your head. Capricorn. That's how we be. We so morbid in just ridiculous. [01:04:49] Speaker A: She's not lying. [01:04:49] Speaker D: Get off your head, y'. All. [01:04:51] Speaker A: She was like, no, I don't believe. [01:04:53] Speaker D: That gonna show up. [01:04:54] Speaker A: I'm like, who gonna show up? She was like, well, would be yours. [01:04:57] Speaker D: He's not lying, though. We literally think about our freedoms. Like, who is gonna be there? Who is going to say what? [01:05:03] Speaker C: See, like. Like that. But not. Not. That's not. Not. [01:05:07] Speaker A: But when we did the math, it was like a good 50, 60 people. [01:05:10] Speaker B: But the thing is, though, Reese, like, I met Tony through, right? [01:05:15] Speaker A: Ronald Green. [01:05:16] Speaker B: And look how close me and Tony are. He get on my nerve. We have our back and forth, but. [01:05:21] Speaker C: Right. [01:05:21] Speaker B: I look at him like a brother, right? So I can. I can call him when I want to. I can tell him how I feel. I know what word not to use no more. [01:05:31] Speaker C: What's word? What's the word? [01:05:33] Speaker D: That's my favorite word. [01:05:35] Speaker B: Yeah, he don't like that word. Even though. Even if I'm playing. He don't like that word. [01:05:40] Speaker C: Word. [01:05:41] Speaker D: Yeah, but with the reset, you gotta know, you got. [01:05:44] Speaker B: But the more. But the more you know, okay, cool. I can say. [01:05:48] Speaker A: But just know if it's ever coming from me, I mean it. But I would never do that to y'. All. But. [01:05:53] Speaker B: Yeah, but you. Well, you had the hiccups, and he was already in the way. [01:05:58] Speaker C: And then I. I wish you was here. [01:06:00] Speaker D: I heard it. [01:06:02] Speaker B: I antagonized that. I'm like, I'm not like, he tried to talk to me with authority, and I'm like, I'm not scared of you. [01:06:09] Speaker C: I don't do that. [01:06:10] Speaker A: I don't expect people to be scared of me. [01:06:12] Speaker B: No, but you had this tone in your voice area. You had the tone of your voice, though. Tone. Well, I'm like. [01:06:19] Speaker D: I'm a tapping every now and then, like, what these doing? [01:06:24] Speaker B: I don't care about none of that. [01:06:25] Speaker D: Or. [01:06:26] Speaker B: Or that, that, that, that thing on your. On your waist. [01:06:29] Speaker A: I mean, I wouldn't pull that on you. [01:06:31] Speaker B: I don't think that you would. [01:06:32] Speaker D: But. [01:06:32] Speaker B: But I wasn't going to back down. I. I'm not a back down type of. [01:06:36] Speaker C: Right. [01:06:36] Speaker A: I forgot about that. [01:06:38] Speaker B: But it was like, I don't play about that word. I'm like, we talking casually. We playing n. But it's a word that he don't like. So if at that very moment, I was like, I'm. It's a word of endearment right now for me. But you don't like it. Okay, cool. So from that initial incident, if somebody. [01:06:59] Speaker C: Don'T think, some of them don't receive it as in there. [01:07:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:07:02] Speaker D: Cause you be somebody. Like, yo, we all people. We are humans. That's what. And men, especially y' all take things like, like. [01:07:08] Speaker A: And then it was just lean at. [01:07:10] Speaker D: Somebody the wrong way if they ain't in for that. You were threatening me for the first time. [01:07:14] Speaker C: Somebody wanted to fight me because I called him a. We was playing basketball. Like, we was hooping, and I was like, man, your ass don't call me. No, I was like, like, lo and. [01:07:25] Speaker D: Behold, you didn't even know his grandmother died that day. You didn't even know. Like, be real life. [01:07:30] Speaker C: No, I'm just saying. But to Leah point, though, you never know. You really. You never know where people be at, though. Like, you never know. [01:07:40] Speaker D: That's all it be. It be backstory. It don't even be what you doing in the moment. It'd be backstory. [01:07:44] Speaker C: What is going through? [01:07:45] Speaker A: Yo, shout out to Mike. I know he watched the show. I remember he did that. I looked up, I was like, yo, I don't play with that word. He was like, oh, my bad. Because for me, it's like, when I say it, I mean it. [01:07:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:07:57] Speaker C: For me, it's like, been the. That I've never been somebody who called me. Like, that's just calling somebody a has never been part of my. Like, I. I literally, Literally, if you heard me say the word, then you do. You saw me about to fight. Because that's literally the word I say before I throw a punch. [01:08:13] Speaker A: And see, that's me. So that's me. [01:08:16] Speaker D: So it's like a precursor for the punch. [01:08:19] Speaker A: I only don't feel that way about you, but I also want to fight you, and I'm hoping that provokes you to fight me. So. [01:08:24] Speaker C: Oh, no, no, that's my. That's like my. Like my fighting word. [01:08:30] Speaker B: And you know what mean I. I did. You know why I went wrong is because I applied something that pertain to another individual. [01:08:38] Speaker D: Yes. Cuz. Keon says casually with his other friends. [01:08:41] Speaker B: I do. [01:08:41] Speaker C: I get that. [01:08:42] Speaker B: I do. [01:08:42] Speaker A: That's fine. Y' all have that camaraderie to do that. It's just like. It's just a respect. [01:08:46] Speaker B: I thought it was a safe space. [01:08:48] Speaker A: No, it is. It's just. [01:08:49] Speaker D: It's just like. Like he said, everybody. [01:08:52] Speaker B: Everybody does not. So now guess what I haven't done since. [01:08:56] Speaker A: I think for me, it's just because when I say it, I really mean it. [01:09:00] Speaker C: Right? [01:09:00] Speaker A: So it's like that's when people say it to me. Even if you playing, I'd be like, you playing with me. Like, that's how I. Yeah. I look at it. [01:09:06] Speaker C: Some ain't. Some ain't games to people. Like, I got that. I don't play about. You feel me? We can crack 87, 000 jokes, but I got the one. [01:09:14] Speaker A: We don't joke there, family. [01:09:18] Speaker C: We just don't joke. I don't joke about my wife. Don't play with me about my wife. Don't play with me by my mother. Don't play with me by my kids. Like. Like, don't play with me. [01:09:25] Speaker B: Well, sh. Ghost is a thug on her own. [01:09:28] Speaker C: Absolutely. [01:09:29] Speaker A: But still, I get it. [01:09:30] Speaker C: But yeah, I don't. [01:09:31] Speaker B: We don't this tall. [01:09:32] Speaker C: We don't play. We don't play that. [01:09:34] Speaker A: We don't joke one. [01:09:37] Speaker D: His height. [01:09:40] Speaker C: What the. [01:09:42] Speaker D: What's that next topic, y'. All. [01:09:43] Speaker C: What the. [01:09:44] Speaker D: What is we doing? This is a free for all. [01:09:47] Speaker A: Sorry for picking you up the other day. [01:09:50] Speaker B: You don't pick me me up. [01:09:51] Speaker C: Hey, yo, if a pick me up, we fighting like this. I'm too big. [01:09:56] Speaker B: Kevin did that for real? Yes. Oh, she was at a pajama party. And then he was like, I know you want. [01:10:02] Speaker D: You had satin pajamas on. [01:10:05] Speaker B: No, I didn't satin. I had on satin pants. I had on polo pajamas. Said, I know you want to see the rest of the crowd. And I didn't hear him. He was behind me. Pause. Pick me up some underneath my arms. [01:10:17] Speaker C: Stories is going down. Y' all was in pajamas. [01:10:20] Speaker B: Kevin same. He was in pajama. [01:10:22] Speaker D: He was behind him. [01:10:25] Speaker C: Pajamas. And then he picked you up with. [01:10:27] Speaker A: The synthetic baby on. Yeah, yeah. [01:10:29] Speaker C: He was there, too. [01:10:31] Speaker B: What we got? [01:10:31] Speaker D: But what's the next. [01:10:33] Speaker C: Where we at? What's the next topic? [01:10:35] Speaker A: Oily when wet. [01:10:38] Speaker D: Oily when wet. [01:10:42] Speaker C: Y' all broke My nail bowl. That hurt like a. Hey, yo. So. So. [01:10:46] Speaker A: All right, we finally about to get into these topics. Reese, I think I sent the clip in. [01:10:50] Speaker C: Oh, you did? [01:10:52] Speaker A: So essentially it was Bryson Tiller talking about how music has become. Sorry, music has become more of a competition versus just everybody enjoying the artistry, and we've put artists against each other. Like, you know, he pretty much was saying, I'm gonna let. Resplay the clip. Like, it's like, y' all be trying to make it like Kobe versus LeBron type. And that's not really what music is. It's supposed to be something enjoyable. [01:11:20] Speaker C: Hold on. [01:11:20] Speaker A: If it's not for you. [01:11:22] Speaker D: Oh, that's all types of art. Like, everything. I feel like they always like comparing people. [01:11:27] Speaker A: Absolutely. [01:11:28] Speaker C: I mean, that's what you're supposed to do because you got the. You talking about. [01:11:31] Speaker A: It says number one. Has. Have we as a society changed music. [01:11:34] Speaker C: Into a competition versus art? [01:11:35] Speaker A: Okay, It's a link in there. Go ahead. [01:11:37] Speaker C: I got you about to. I didn't realize that's the link you was talking about. [01:11:40] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:11:41] Speaker A: Really treat the music industry like it's sports or something. [01:11:43] Speaker C: And it's really not like it's art. [01:11:46] Speaker A: You know, it's not LeBron vs. Kobe. [01:11:48] Speaker C: Or LeBron vs. Jordan type. [01:11:50] Speaker A: He'll be so legit. It's literally art. [01:11:51] Speaker C: Like, this ain't something where we go. [01:11:53] Speaker A: Out there and we, you know, got. [01:11:54] Speaker C: To put points, like averages that you can compare and rings and all that. You know, I know that they look at our numbers and whatnot, but none. [01:12:01] Speaker A: Of that really even matters when it comes to art. [01:12:03] Speaker C: Shut up. [01:12:04] Speaker B: And. [01:12:04] Speaker C: And, you know, performance. [01:12:05] Speaker D: Yo, I was thinking. But it's like, I love. [01:12:07] Speaker A: Bryson. Treat the music industry like it's sports or something. [01:12:11] Speaker D: You're so Kentucky, baby. But I love you. [01:12:14] Speaker C: I love you. But first, shut the up. [01:12:16] Speaker D: Shut the up and keep making beautiful music. [01:12:20] Speaker C: Make music, yo. [01:12:21] Speaker D: Keep making beautiful music. Bryson, we love you, yo. [01:12:24] Speaker B: So it is. [01:12:24] Speaker D: But also. Shut the up. [01:12:26] Speaker B: It is a sport, right? At the end of the day, I don't think. [01:12:29] Speaker A: But. [01:12:29] Speaker B: But you. You put that out there for the world ahead because. Because it's art. Right? So I. I can agree with both. I can agree. Nah, yeah, I'm sure. I can agree with. I can agree with both. [01:12:43] Speaker C: No, she's giving it to you for you. [01:12:45] Speaker B: Like, it's. It is both. Like, this is like, you. You wanna. You wanna be number one, right? Right in your. In your sport. Rapping and. Or R and B is your sport. Right? I love the whole. I I don't like beefs, but I like the. The. [01:13:08] Speaker A: You don't like beef? [01:13:10] Speaker B: No, I don't, but I like that. [01:13:13] Speaker C: I like. [01:13:13] Speaker B: I like when battle for the. For the top spot and. And you let the people decide it, right? Like if I. If I got a favorite rapper, it's because he's out wrapped or out sung said rapper. [01:13:29] Speaker A: I don't think that's true. [01:13:31] Speaker B: But I do, though. [01:13:32] Speaker A: I think Nas is a better rapper than Jay, but Jay is just. You are. [01:13:36] Speaker B: Okay. [01:13:37] Speaker C: Nas is not a better rapper. [01:13:38] Speaker A: I think he is vice versa. [01:13:41] Speaker D: He puts out more music than Jay. [01:13:43] Speaker C: He puts out more music and nobody hears it. [01:13:46] Speaker B: King albums, yo. All right, so. [01:13:51] Speaker C: We'Re not getting into that debate. [01:13:52] Speaker D: Yeah, look, so I need to be a whole segment. [01:13:55] Speaker C: It does, and I agree with you. But Bryson Till is full of. All right, And I say this because he makes music for gainful employment. Okay? [01:14:07] Speaker D: He's a whole recluse. You're not on social media. You don't do no interviews. That's the first time I heard your voice. And you're a platinum artist, right? What are you talking about? What are you talking about? [01:14:19] Speaker C: Do you think. [01:14:19] Speaker A: Let me ask you. [01:14:20] Speaker C: You, this, because if your wasn't. If your art wasn't capable of selling, we wouldn't even know you, but not even. [01:14:26] Speaker D: Exactly. [01:14:28] Speaker A: So it's almost like the. The millionaire saying, like, oh, poor people. Yeah, like the man is saying like, oh, poor people. Don't like, why are you broke? Like, you can. You can do what I do. So I'm wondering if it's the same, like, you know. [01:14:42] Speaker C: Yeah, no, we call it crying from the yacht. Yeah, that's what it is. [01:14:46] Speaker D: That's exactly what it is. [01:14:46] Speaker C: Crying from the yacht. Because you on a yacht, it's easy to say, oh, this is. This water is nothing. [01:14:56] Speaker B: So this is what I just had. [01:14:58] Speaker D: A single with Chris Brown that went platinum. [01:15:00] Speaker C: That's what I'm saying. Cut it out. Cut it out. [01:15:03] Speaker B: This is what I agree. [01:15:04] Speaker A: He was saying, too. [01:15:05] Speaker B: Yeah. Like, it's like one of those things where it's like, yo, I'm putting out art. I'm an artist in whatever form that. That, that, that is. And I just want you to hear, period. [01:15:18] Speaker D: It's going to be critiqued. [01:15:19] Speaker C: It's going to be critiqued. [01:15:20] Speaker B: I'd rather be critiqued by. By the people that are not. That are not artists. [01:15:25] Speaker A: So listen, I think his argument, anybody. [01:15:27] Speaker C: Who listens to it can critique this. [01:15:29] Speaker D: Once it's out there. [01:15:30] Speaker A: Yes. [01:15:31] Speaker C: Me being mad at the bars and they're coming to my bar, not liking. [01:15:33] Speaker A: My drinks, but I think I sold. [01:15:35] Speaker D: You a drink and you drink it. [01:15:38] Speaker A: This is how I understand his argument and my. And this is how I comprehend it. It's almost like, like a. No, I'm not going to use that. So to me it seems like stop. [01:15:51] Speaker B: Saying the N word. [01:15:53] Speaker A: Oh, it's almost like an Afro American. [01:15:55] Speaker C: Oh. [01:15:59] Speaker D: You know what I'mma do Black History month. We going to have a pot. You got to put a dollar in every time. [01:16:04] Speaker A: Fair. That's fair. [01:16:05] Speaker C: February 1st, literally, when I, when I was at home talking about the fact I say the nword so much on, on, I said, yo, I'mma get a jar. And every time one of us say the nword, we going to put d a put a dollar in it. And at the end of the month, whoever said it the least gets the money. [01:16:20] Speaker A: So what I, what I put towards the pod, what I understand him to say is like, yo, at the end of the day, this is art. And we just put it out. And whoever enjoys it, enjoys it. We don't have to be put against each other or these fake beefs with each other in order for, for us to have fan attention. I think that's true in some sense, but I think it depends on what genre of music you coming from. [01:16:46] Speaker B: I wouldn't. [01:16:49] Speaker C: Beef. [01:16:50] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:16:52] Speaker C: Got issues with Mozart. Didn't like everybody. [01:16:56] Speaker A: But listen, it goes back to what you said earlier, though. Just because I got a Lambo, you're not gonna enjoy your BMW. [01:17:03] Speaker C: Yeah, no, but. But I want. Still want the Lambo competition. [01:17:08] Speaker D: Like all of this, it's a friendly fade. [01:17:10] Speaker C: At the point. At the point when you. Okay, Kendrick, no, at the point when you decide to do something professionally, you're competing. I don't care what industry you in. You think Coke and Pepsi compete. Yes. That's their number one competitor. [01:17:24] Speaker D: That's what they keep. That's what keeps the rivalry going. That's what keeps going. [01:17:27] Speaker C: That's their measure. [01:17:28] Speaker A: So you saying rivalry, Anybody in corporate. [01:17:32] Speaker D: America, you're beefing with your comrades every day for the next promotion. [01:17:35] Speaker B: That's. [01:17:36] Speaker C: So we were talking, we was talking about this earlier today, right? We're talking about this. I was in the car talking about countries that have. Because, you know, right now, America beefing. [01:17:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:17:44] Speaker C: Greenland and, and, you know, one of the things they tell me, oh, well, no, the Dutch, they have free health care, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. Just because it's free don't mean it's good. Okay. [01:17:54] Speaker B: Because Canada got free health. [01:17:56] Speaker C: Canada has a free Health care system. A lot of countries have free. Free health care systems. All right, But a lot of countries don't have. Have are competitive healthcare markets. Okay. And what happens when you have a competitive healthcare market? You know what happens? We compete. So that means that my. Got to be better than your. [01:18:11] Speaker A: So. [01:18:11] Speaker C: All right, and, and so what comp with what having competitive markets does? It keeps pushing you to have a better product. All right. When you, when you want your product to be best, you have to make it better than something else. [01:18:25] Speaker A: Are you familiar with. I think his name is Banksy? [01:18:29] Speaker C: Yeah, the artist. [01:18:30] Speaker A: The artist? [01:18:30] Speaker D: Yeah, the black guy from New York. [01:18:32] Speaker A: No, that's. That's. [01:18:33] Speaker D: Oh, sorry. [01:18:34] Speaker C: Banks. Banks. [01:18:36] Speaker A: I honestly don't even know what he look like. He always put. [01:18:38] Speaker C: He do graffiti. He started graffiti and. [01:18:40] Speaker A: Yeah, but it's like political. Mute his mic. Yeah, it's political graffiti that. [01:18:47] Speaker C: Yeah, political graffiti. [01:18:48] Speaker A: He doesn't do it a lot. So when it comes out. [01:18:50] Speaker D: Is he still alive? [01:18:51] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, he's. [01:18:52] Speaker A: He just put a portrait out maybe like a year ago or maybe two years ago. [01:18:55] Speaker C: So. Yeah, no, but he. Right. He don't have a lot of. He don't have. He don't do a lot of it. So when it comes out like his installments they be like. [01:19:02] Speaker D: So it's rare. Okay. [01:19:03] Speaker A: I knew he was going to do that. [01:19:04] Speaker C: Yeah, I saw it coming. Cuz he didn't look before he did it. [01:19:07] Speaker A: So if those is broke. [01:19:09] Speaker C: Nah, that's all right. He got 28.99 plus tax. [01:19:14] Speaker A: Sorry, y'. All. [01:19:14] Speaker D: So it's the rarity. It's. [01:19:17] Speaker C: Yeah, but I don't. With him, it's the rarity. [01:19:19] Speaker A: I don't think he collects money from it. So for him it's more so about paid. You think so? [01:19:25] Speaker C: I know. So he gets paid. [01:19:27] Speaker A: Cuz I was wondering how does he get paid? Cuz they don't. They take that down right away. [01:19:30] Speaker C: Yeah, but so. He has. I mean, I don't want to get. I don't want to. [01:19:41] Speaker D: So yeah, it can be whole. But with the whole art thing, the competition, it's the. It's like how often you put things out, the quality of it. [01:19:49] Speaker A: Right. [01:19:50] Speaker C: But. [01:19:50] Speaker D: But it's the competition that boosts things up and keeps things competitive. [01:19:54] Speaker A: But what if you're an artist that. [01:19:55] Speaker D: Don'T care about competition? [01:19:57] Speaker A: Do you think certain artists care about competition? [01:19:59] Speaker C: I think anybody who wants to be the best. Right. I think that anybody who puts their art out, but I don't think Frank. [01:20:06] Speaker A: Ocean gives a fuck. [01:20:08] Speaker C: I don't Believe that you don't. I believe he gives a fuck because if he didn't give a fuck, then he wouldn't have a record deal. If he didn't give a fuck, he would not be signed to a league label, okay? [01:20:19] Speaker D: If he didn't, he gives a. And that's why he not paying music out. Like he's so self conscious, he's waiting. [01:20:24] Speaker B: So long to put music out, right? [01:20:26] Speaker C: And you know what's going to happen. The record label will drop him if he don't reduce an album within a certain amount of time. [01:20:31] Speaker D: And whole time he could be behind the scenes ghost writing for people we don't know what the hell he doing. [01:20:35] Speaker C: You all over the place. Your other foot, your other foot, other. [01:20:39] Speaker A: Foot, the other, other foot. There you go. I don't know. I get what he was trying to say. Say. Well, I think. I think ultimately what I was understanding him to say is like, society just doesn't care about artistry as much as they try to pretend they do. [01:20:54] Speaker C: I don't believe that. I don't believe that. I think we care a lot. I think people care a lot about artistry. I just think that people to care about different aspects of artistry than maybe what the artist cares about. Like, I think. I think that people. [01:21:05] Speaker A: I see what you're saying. [01:21:06] Speaker C: I think that people care about certain parts of his music that he don't care enough about. [01:21:11] Speaker A: Yeah. So in my mind, I'm comprehending you. And in context, how I'm putting it, it's like a who do an Afro American who does graffiti. We had this conversation before. Might not see the Mona Lisa the same, right? And the person that sees the Mona Lisa might be like, yo, that's just mess. [01:21:27] Speaker C: Well, not even that, though. Not even that, though. Let me give you a better analogy, right? The who made the Lamborghini, all right, he might care about the drive shaft. He might think that he put the most exquisite piece of work into the camshaft, into the V12 block, to the actual composition of the pistons inside of the engine block, right? And he think that, like back to your Audemars shit, right? Like the pieces of this watch, the way that I put this watch together is that's where the artistry in the watch is. It's not so much the quality of each individual piece. All right? All of this is titanium, which at this today's market rate, titanium ain't that expensive no more, Right. It used to be one of the most expensive metals available. All right? It's not anymore, but it's Vibranium. Yeah. Go to Wakanda for this. [01:22:30] Speaker D: What kind of fact? [01:22:32] Speaker C: Oh, we found out I can go underwater for this. No more. They gotta sit underwater. But my point being like, like Larry was saying with the Lamborghini, with the watch, you, the maker might value the part of the engine and think that that's where the value in this automobile or this watch is. The consumer might just appreciate the way it look. [01:22:57] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:22:57] Speaker C: All right. I just might think that this a fly ass watch on my wrist and this shit look good against my skin tone. All right. This is a dope ass car. [01:23:07] Speaker A: I feel like most consumers is, they do it just because it gives them the social status. [01:23:13] Speaker C: I mean, I don't, I don't think. [01:23:14] Speaker A: Too many people do certain things because. [01:23:15] Speaker C: It'S just, I don't believe that. [01:23:17] Speaker A: I feel like I only know a certain group of people who do certain shit for the sake of just like this is what I enjoy doing. So where others do it because they want a certain respect, I don't, I don't. [01:23:27] Speaker C: So I think that comes, I get what you said, that comes from a certain demographic. Yeah, two, two things. No two things definitely can exist, but when you change the, the caliber, the people you around. Because like I collect watches, right? And I used to think like, oh, you had to have a Rolex, you had to have a Patek, you had to have a. Like, right? You had to, you had to have a bottle a. Not even, not even, not like, not even going that far. [01:23:55] Speaker A: I'm just naming watch this A30 watch. And I always get compliments on it. [01:23:59] Speaker C: Absolutely, absolutely. And this, and this is $600 watch I wear to work. You see what I'm saying? [01:24:04] Speaker B: Like, and this is from the Tik Tok Ch. [01:24:09] Speaker C: But my point is, my point is, my point is I don't care about how much the watch cost. I like how the watch look. I like how to watch feel. It's not real heavy, it's not real. [01:24:18] Speaker D: Like how you, you feel in it. [01:24:19] Speaker C: I like how I feel in the watch. Like, honestly. [01:24:22] Speaker D: There you go. Sexy. [01:24:23] Speaker A: 69 episode. Episode 69. [01:24:29] Speaker C: But my, but my point is, but my point is when Versace made this watch, all right, When Versace made this. [01:24:36] Speaker D: Watch, okay, Name, drop it. [01:24:38] Speaker C: Versace might have felt like, oh my God, the craftsmanship that I put into the face of this watch watch is going to be groundbreaking and, and game changing, right? When I can't even tell you what's in the face of this watch, right? I just like how it feel on my Own. You see what I'm saying? But it's not for Versace to say, oh no, that person, they're, they're a terrible consumer because they don't care about the craftsmanship that I put. [01:25:02] Speaker A: So do you think that's what, that's. [01:25:04] Speaker C: What Bryson Tiller is doing? Do you think that's what he's really. [01:25:07] Speaker A: Trying to say, though? Yes, I think that's what he really. [01:25:09] Speaker C: I think he's trying to say, say that people don't respect the artistry, people don't respect the level of art that artists are putting into their music and they're just consuming music because it's available. [01:25:20] Speaker A: No, no, no, no, no. What I'm saying is. So what I'm saying is you. Do you not think that. Because I like what you're saying. You're saying that you picked that watch not specifically for the name of the watch, but you picked it because you fuck with the watch Watch, right? You with the watch. [01:25:38] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:25:39] Speaker A: Like Reese with this. [01:25:40] Speaker C: Right. I don't care what he has, what he feel about it. Would she feel about it. What you feel about it with nobody. My wife loved it. [01:25:46] Speaker D: So do you feel like, do you. [01:25:47] Speaker A: Think, what do you think? Is that what he was really trying to say? Like people aren't choosing music based on them with the music? [01:25:55] Speaker D: Yes, I want to say something on it. I feel like Bryson Teller is an old soul. When I, when I made the statement, him in a recluse, he really is like a non social media type of guy. He really is from like middle America, family oriented. I want to make music I love for people I love and put it out there and I want people to appreciate it. I feel like when he made that statement, he's kind of talking to like the influencers and the social media people and the tick tock stands and just making one thing blow up and that's that. And I feel like that's what he's going off of and he's not realizing it's a whole population of people out here that are just like him. Bryson, I love you and I'm now on Instagram, baby. [01:26:32] Speaker B: And keep doing what you do now you are included. [01:26:35] Speaker C: It's my birthday. [01:26:37] Speaker A: It's my birthday. She's on episode 69. [01:26:40] Speaker C: Gotta let her have that one. But to that point though, to that point. To that point. [01:26:45] Speaker A: Smart. So I think in my mind that's what I think he's really trying to say. I think he's really trying to say people don't individualize themselves anymore. When it comes to artistry. [01:26:54] Speaker C: Well, yeah, but also, what I was saying to Leah. Point, point. We don't even know the question that was really asked of him before he made that statement. [01:27:01] Speaker A: That's true. [01:27:02] Speaker C: All right, so, like. Like, not knowing. You good over there. Oh, wow. Not knowing the context matters. You understand what I'm saying? Context matters. And so not knowing what was even the foundation behind the statement. Like, the question that was asked behind the statement and what they were even talking about. About. I don't think it's fair to judge him on that. Yeah, but I still think he needs to shut the up. [01:27:29] Speaker A: I think it just posed the. [01:27:31] Speaker B: You said all that to say that he still need to shut the up? [01:27:35] Speaker A: No, I just think that the. It just posed a good question. [01:27:37] Speaker B: He's speaking from a. From artist. [01:27:42] Speaker A: No, I respect that. I was just thinking, like, damn. Because I think that's where we are now as a society. I think we. We try to demonize the people who. We don't think value art or just certain things anymore. I think, because we've lost individuality. You know, there was a point in time where, like, if you was a fly, nigga, you was a fly. You couldn't go to the Internet and pick your clothes. You know what I'm saying? You couldn't. The Internet couldn't tell you what to wear, or the Internet couldn't tell you what music you, you know, you should listen to. You was either into music or you wasn't. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's just like. [01:28:16] Speaker B: Yeah, you right. [01:28:17] Speaker C: And. [01:28:18] Speaker B: And I'm not heavily influenced by what the Internet say. When it comes down to my dressing. When it comes down to. [01:28:26] Speaker A: No, because you've been around before the Internet, so. [01:28:28] Speaker B: Yeah, so that don't apply to me. [01:28:30] Speaker A: I think nowadays that's kind of where we are with shit. [01:28:34] Speaker B: That's where some are. I'm not like, if you like it, you like it. Me, like, when it comes down to my music selection. Right. I like what I like. [01:28:45] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:28:46] Speaker B: And that's just it. And that's. [01:28:47] Speaker A: That's no problem. [01:28:48] Speaker B: I don't care if Texas is the wave right now. [01:28:50] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:28:51] Speaker B: Like, you know, I mean, like, I like big X to plug right now. My reasons, like, right now, I mean. [01:28:56] Speaker C: I like X, but I don't like them that much. [01:28:58] Speaker B: I don't love them. [01:28:59] Speaker A: Y' all gonna laugh. But right now I'm into, like, jungle beats. [01:29:03] Speaker C: What you mean, jungle beats? [01:29:04] Speaker A: So it's a genre of music called jungle beats that started out in the UK Is. Is a mixture between Jamaican music and like, you know that drum line. If you. If you ever seen a Powerpuff Girls, it's a specific drum line that they use in jungle beats. You know what I'm saying? It's the same kind of like Reese, you don't got Apple music, do you? [01:29:25] Speaker C: No, I got Spotify though. [01:29:28] Speaker A: No, not. [01:29:30] Speaker C: This is you listening to. [01:29:31] Speaker A: No, but that's fire though. But no, I'm. [01:29:33] Speaker B: That beat is fire. It sound like. [01:29:37] Speaker C: This just sound like some old ass house music. [01:29:39] Speaker A: They do it do. But I think jungle beats kind of came. That's like a newer. A newer version of it. But here we go. I'm about to play here. [01:29:55] Speaker D: Come on. [01:29:57] Speaker A: It's jamaican. Go ahead. And you'll hit a baseline. Firing. [01:30:18] Speaker C: That made me yawn. [01:30:21] Speaker B: Let's go to sweet music. [01:30:24] Speaker A: So you hear that drum line? [01:30:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:30:26] Speaker A: All use that same. [01:30:31] Speaker C: That, that house. That sound like a spin off of house music. [01:30:35] Speaker A: It is, essentially. It is. It's a spin off of house music. So like right now, I with that. Right now. But that's like I with that. You know what I'm saying? I don't expect anybody else to with it. [01:30:44] Speaker C: Good. [01:30:46] Speaker D: Send me that link. [01:30:47] Speaker A: It's fine. You got Apple music. [01:30:49] Speaker D: I do. [01:30:50] Speaker A: It's certain. Certain. It's. It's to me. [01:30:53] Speaker C: I just send me that. Don't just send me, just send it to me. I don't have Apple music, but I'll find it on Spotify. [01:30:58] Speaker A: All right. It's a whole. [01:31:00] Speaker C: Because I want to get into it. I want to. I want to. I. I don't never just write something off. No, I just want to hear it before I give an opinion on it. Like, I want to hear. [01:31:10] Speaker A: And that's. That's fine. To me. I. I just with it, it's just something different. Like, I think I get so caught up in the loop of hearing the same that it's like, yo, I want to. To go ahead, do your thing. I just want to listen to something different. You get what I'm saying? Like, I think that's just what it is. What we got next, we got. Damn. I think I meant to send that to Leah and I sent it to the group. Hold on. Well, I got to wait for Reese to come back so he could play the. The next joint. [01:31:39] Speaker C: Now you got to wait. [01:31:41] Speaker D: Hit pause. Now you say that. No more stop. [01:31:45] Speaker C: Nop. [01:31:46] Speaker A: No, we don't stop. We keep going. [01:31:49] Speaker C: Take breaks. [01:31:50] Speaker A: So while Reese is taking a pee break, Leah, how does it feel to be your age? [01:31:57] Speaker D: We not about to circle back to this. Cut out of. Do my bones hurt? [01:32:06] Speaker A: Is your patience thin? [01:32:09] Speaker D: My patience bent? Thin as thin as your headlines. [01:32:13] Speaker A: I even got one of those. So you got no patience, no bald Afro American. [01:32:21] Speaker B: Hey, bald, black, bald, bald man. [01:32:27] Speaker A: That sounds even worse. Yeah, bald blackie. [01:32:30] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [01:32:31] Speaker A: Please don't call me a bald blackie. [01:32:33] Speaker B: Yeah, I shoot and I got. And underneath this hat, I got a c. Sac thing going on. It's cool, though. [01:32:40] Speaker A: Oh, I shaved before I came. [01:32:42] Speaker B: I didn't. [01:32:43] Speaker A: Why not? [01:32:43] Speaker B: I got a. [01:32:44] Speaker A: You are a barber. I expect you to have, like, clippers everywhere. [01:32:47] Speaker B: See, you know, what's the m. The mis. Let's start over again. [01:32:54] Speaker A: 69, baby. [01:32:57] Speaker B: People just automatically think that. Oh, as a barber, like, I always got a haircut. If a barber got a haircut 24. Seven. That ain't busy. Busy enough. [01:33:06] Speaker A: True, true. [01:33:06] Speaker B: Not busy enough, no. [01:33:08] Speaker C: Cut your hair every day. [01:33:09] Speaker B: If you want to, I can, but if I. That, that's when I don't have nobody else hair to cut, right or wrong. [01:33:19] Speaker D: He got hella time. He don't feel like it, right? He just don't. Just say you don't feel like it, boo. [01:33:23] Speaker C: Say you don't feel like it. Because at the end of the day, you could very well cut your hair. You could right now, right? [01:33:29] Speaker D: Yeah, but, like, you just don't feel like it, right? [01:33:32] Speaker C: That's fair to say. [01:33:33] Speaker B: Yeah, I'll be all right. [01:33:34] Speaker C: It's the same. I. I serve drinks all day. I make drinks all day. When I'm home, I don't be feeling like making drinks for myself. You understand what I'm saying? I'mma go get me a drink, cuz I don't feel like making them at home. [01:33:46] Speaker A: Do you critique when they making your drink? [01:33:48] Speaker C: Yes, absolutely. [01:33:49] Speaker B: Yes, he does. [01:33:50] Speaker C: I can't help it. [01:33:51] Speaker A: Have you ever had a break? Like, you watch them make the drink, bring you the drink, you're like, nah, take that back. [01:33:56] Speaker C: No, no. [01:33:57] Speaker A: Okay. [01:33:57] Speaker C: No, no, no, no, no, no. [01:33:59] Speaker B: I'll be out. [01:33:59] Speaker C: I'll make it. I mean, I'll drink it or I won't drink it and just still pay for it and then get something else. [01:34:06] Speaker D: What do you say to them mixologist niggas? [01:34:08] Speaker C: Mixologist? I hate them niggas. First and foremost. [01:34:10] Speaker A: You do. [01:34:11] Speaker D: Tell me why. Tell me more. [01:34:13] Speaker C: Because that's some shit somebody made up one day. [01:34:17] Speaker D: Hold the fuck up, Nick. Cause you can say everything is made up then. [01:34:20] Speaker C: Yeah, essentially. [01:34:21] Speaker A: Yeah, it is. [01:34:22] Speaker C: I mean, you can. [01:34:23] Speaker B: Like. All right, Reese, I'll agree with you. [01:34:25] Speaker A: Right. [01:34:25] Speaker B: I hate the. That be like, oh, celebrity barber. [01:34:30] Speaker A: You cut. [01:34:30] Speaker C: You cut a. With some head. You cut hair. [01:34:32] Speaker D: Hold up. Is smoke coming out my drink. That's fancy. [01:34:35] Speaker B: I'm sorry. [01:34:36] Speaker C: Fancy. You could go to HomeGoods and buy smokers. [01:34:38] Speaker D: All right. But they did it. They did it. Why you mad at them? [01:34:42] Speaker C: I'm not mad at them. [01:34:43] Speaker A: I literally saw. I literally saw someone get a gift like that. Like it was like the. The. The glass with the little wooden thing and it came with the smoker. [01:34:51] Speaker C: Yeah. No, you can like. You can buy them shits. [01:34:53] Speaker D: I love to order me a old Fashioned. [01:34:55] Speaker A: I love old Fashioned. [01:34:56] Speaker D: And they come with a top off. Smoke coming out. [01:34:58] Speaker C: We call those orange chicken. [01:34:59] Speaker D: It was sexy. [01:35:00] Speaker B: Yeah, that's orange. [01:35:00] Speaker A: That's orange chicken. [01:35:02] Speaker D: Oh, that's orange. [01:35:03] Speaker C: Orange chicken. I don't know where these came up with these names. They started calling drinks different names. Yeah, but that's orange Chicken because that's what. That's what Tony drank dirty. [01:35:12] Speaker B: Yuck. [01:35:13] Speaker C: But. But things like. [01:35:15] Speaker A: What's the orange chicken? Let me get that. [01:35:17] Speaker C: It's the same like you always like especially there is. I don't give a what you do. Once you see somebody else who does that, you start comparing like you. It's. It's. If Leah walk into a hospital, let a nurse grab some like. [01:35:33] Speaker D: Like hold up, hold up. Alcohol. [01:35:37] Speaker C: Exactly. [01:35:38] Speaker D: Dirty hand. Did you wash your hands? [01:35:40] Speaker C: Exactly like that. Then that's. That's natural. Yeah. That's why I said Bryson Tilly need to shut the up. Because that. Yo. It is natural to be competitive. You understand what I'm saying? Like it's natural. Natural. Like that's what everything was built on. Everything we do, everything we're a part of. There is nothing that you are a part of that's not competitive. [01:36:02] Speaker D: And not only that, like the whole form of hip hop, R B, everything was built on composition. [01:36:08] Speaker A: Who you think he sweat beef with the. [01:36:11] Speaker C: He ended up joining the forces with Johnny Lavert. I mean Gerald Lavert and Johnny Gill. [01:36:17] Speaker A: Oh. [01:36:17] Speaker D: What is called ksg. What's on going lsg. [01:36:21] Speaker A: The vert sweat sound like a synthetic drug. [01:36:24] Speaker D: Yo, put on some. Yo, please pull us some LSG tonight, baby. Look how he move his body up. [01:36:34] Speaker A: And literacy for the camera. Let's go into the next topic. [01:36:38] Speaker C: The next topic which was. [01:36:40] Speaker A: Do you think that. So the average American is reading at an 8th grade level level. [01:36:45] Speaker B: No, the. I don't. [01:36:46] Speaker C: What study. What study did you see this at? [01:36:48] Speaker A: It was on. [01:36:50] Speaker D: I'm not surprised. Do you know how many average Americans Live in middle. Middle America. [01:36:54] Speaker A: Yeah, like the. [01:36:56] Speaker C: What. What. [01:36:57] Speaker A: What website was that? It was three of them. I got. It was Wikipedia and the Dark Web. This other website, I. I would have to pull it up again. [01:37:04] Speaker D: And I ain't good with geography, but I feel like a lot of them little states be like. [01:37:09] Speaker A: But essentially it was saying, your average American can understand saying at an eighth grade level, which is like a basic newspaper article, or. You get what I'm saying, Like instructions. [01:37:20] Speaker D: That makes sense. [01:37:21] Speaker A: But when it comes to, like, law terms and college level reading, most people don't understand Trump is our president. [01:37:27] Speaker D: That makes sense. [01:37:29] Speaker C: Exactly. Crazy. I'm sitting here reading the actual numbers. This is scary. Where they say, he's right. The average American. [01:37:37] Speaker D: Look at what these states. [01:37:38] Speaker C: Bro, average American reads between the seventh to ninth grade level. [01:37:42] Speaker D: And look at this stage. Look at what they had to do for a living. They gotta go milk cows at 8am you think they got time to go. [01:37:49] Speaker C: To school and read, right? No, it says. It says that. That that number is so low because 54 of people read below a sixth grade level. All right. Which is why average is at eighth grade level. [01:38:06] Speaker D: But they love to blame it on inner city black kids the whole time. It's the middle American. Yeah, kids living in Wyoming milking cows and fighting wolves. [01:38:16] Speaker B: Stay alive. Not stay alive. [01:38:20] Speaker C: Wol. [01:38:21] Speaker A: Is that a goddamn book in my house, boy? [01:38:25] Speaker C: That's crazy. [01:38:26] Speaker B: Mind the field. [01:38:27] Speaker A: What the is. What is that? [01:38:31] Speaker D: They out there picking cotton. [01:38:34] Speaker C: Zodiac signs that make the best father link. This nigga Tony, bro. [01:38:41] Speaker B: Yeah, one thing about me. [01:38:44] Speaker C: Click the button for the link, and this say top five zodiac signs, bruh. [01:38:49] Speaker A: Nah. [01:38:50] Speaker D: What's next? [01:38:51] Speaker A: Not the top five zodiac. Like Best fathers was the best fathers. Yeah, I was number one. [01:38:57] Speaker D: Jesus Christ. Cut it out. [01:38:58] Speaker A: Wait. No, he was about to play that. [01:39:04] Speaker C: Five zodiac signs that make the best father. And Tony be. Tony, you got to stop hearting underneath the wiretap, please. [01:39:12] Speaker D: Please, bro. [01:39:13] Speaker B: Stop, please. [01:39:16] Speaker C: Underneath the wire. [01:39:17] Speaker D: Get an alien space, bro. [01:39:19] Speaker C: We don't all love this. Yo, just like the other. What was the he harded that I said something about in the chat? [01:39:24] Speaker A: Oh, it was a girl shaking her ass or something. I forgot. [01:39:28] Speaker D: We don't all like girls shaking their ass, Tony. We want to see some shaking dick. Okay. [01:39:33] Speaker B: Whoa. [01:39:34] Speaker D: That's why the other two ladies not here. [01:39:36] Speaker C: Cut her mind now. [01:39:37] Speaker D: Sorry, y'. [01:39:38] Speaker C: All. [01:39:38] Speaker D: It's episode 69, y'. [01:39:39] Speaker B: All. [01:39:39] Speaker D: Sorry, y'. [01:39:40] Speaker C: All. [01:39:40] Speaker B: Yeah, mute up. [01:39:42] Speaker A: Cut that off. [01:39:43] Speaker B: Yeah, mute up. [01:39:44] Speaker A: But anyway, the link was. I. I'm sorry. I sent the Wrong link. But essentially the person in the. In the link was saying that. Is that why they. Why music isn't hitting the same because we are reading at what Reese would just say between the seventh and ninth grade reading level. [01:40:03] Speaker D: Why we don't like music because we can't read. [01:40:05] Speaker A: Is that why music is lacking? [01:40:07] Speaker D: How about cuz we. We this failing as a country cuz we can't read? [01:40:10] Speaker A: No, no, no, no. [01:40:11] Speaker D: That correlate. [01:40:12] Speaker A: It was saying does like lately the music hasn't been hitting the same because the artists that are coming out don't have the. The lyrical capability. Here's the right to essentially create something. [01:40:26] Speaker D: And what I'm saying is, if that's a topic, how about we just failing as a country entirely because we are reading at 8th grade read level? [01:40:33] Speaker A: I mean, yes, we are if that's the bar. [01:40:37] Speaker D: Oh, y' all not making good music because y' all can't read. [01:40:41] Speaker A: He didn't believe me. He's like, ain't no way. [01:40:44] Speaker D: Reese is ashamed. [01:40:46] Speaker C: Crazy. [01:40:47] Speaker D: Y' all like Reese going state by state like Alaska. [01:40:52] Speaker C: When you look at this, it's like, yo, that is sad. Like, that is scary. Yeah, because like I believe the children are the future. And if. Yes, they are. We all getting old. We gonna. We gonna. Yo, we gonna be too old at one day it's gonna happen where everybody in this room is going to be too old to do anything. [01:41:15] Speaker B: Well, well, guess what? Right? And, and. And that comes. [01:41:18] Speaker C: And it's going to have to be somebody that's going to do that's doing. [01:41:20] Speaker B: Some that comes with raising your children. [01:41:22] Speaker C: Right. Like. Right. [01:41:24] Speaker B: My oldest two. [01:41:25] Speaker A: But if you don't have the literacy to do so that's what it. [01:41:28] Speaker D: That's what it's showing. The facts are showing not. [01:41:31] Speaker B: Well, my oldest two are solid. My youngest two, man, they solid. Cuz we going to the world. [01:41:39] Speaker C: Right? Listen, and I. But they got to deal very. [01:41:44] Speaker B: My children are like that. [01:41:45] Speaker C: I feel very confident in my children's ability to function in this world. All right. But my children are a very small subset of the entire group. Yeah, okay. [01:41:54] Speaker B: Well, we got eight kids and. [01:41:56] Speaker C: And they're right, but so we gonna. We gonna have to get a president and seven congressmen out of them. Eight. [01:42:03] Speaker D: Right. [01:42:04] Speaker A: So essentially, is that why we believe the music is not hitting us in. [01:42:08] Speaker C: No, I don't think it has anything to. To do with the music, but I don't think the music is. I don't think. I don't think our literacy level. So I think that the music we're getting might be a product of the literacy level, but the music ain't hitting different. Like, I think that we, we are, we are getting older than what the music that's coming out is. Like, these kids, they different. They do different. Like, we was different different our was different than what our parents was. You see what I'm saying? Like, and that's the part, like, that's the part about getting old that I hate with. With around me. Because, like, get old and forget what it's like to be young. All right? Like, certain, certain is. Is new when it come out. [01:42:53] Speaker A: I also think the problem is there's a misconception too, because, like. You ever seen the movie American Fiction? [01:42:59] Speaker C: I think so. [01:43:00] Speaker A: That's what Issa Ray. It's about the guy that writes the book. And Issa Rae writes this. Her character writes this particular book that's essentially. It's funny as the movie is funny. Y' all should watch it if y' all never seen it. But it's Issa Ray character. [01:43:16] Speaker C: I didn't watch the whole thing, but. [01:43:17] Speaker A: I, I. Issa Ray's character writes a book that's a stereotype book, right? And the main character, which I can't think of his name, he writes real literature. And his mind, his perspective, he writes real literature. So at one point in the movie, he asks her, asks, sorry. [01:43:35] Speaker C: Asks this that he axes. [01:43:37] Speaker A: Sorry, I'm a little. [01:43:38] Speaker B: He a little slow. [01:43:39] Speaker C: No, he a little. [01:43:42] Speaker A: He asked her, why do you write this? You have, you have all the capability of writing something way better than this. And she replies with, this is what the market wants, right? So it's not essentially, like, I think that's a misconception. Like, the older generation, like, just because the kids are putting out what they put out doesn't mean they have certain things that they, they, you know, that they don't. I mean, that they appreciate. You know what I'm saying? Like, if you really talk to them, you'll find that, oh, this particular kid likes this or this particular kid likes that in the sense of, like, the artist, the artist himself. Like, certain things they're really into when it comes to quote, unquote, artistry. But because the type of music they put out, people think that, oh, you don't value the art. And it's like, nah, nigga, I just feed the market with a it once. I mean, Afro American. [01:44:27] Speaker C: No, I, I hear you. I just, you know, I don't, I don't think it's that. I think that people put out was true. To them. And, you know, right now, these kids, they, they not reading dictionaries and encyclopedias. You feel me? Like, they not like. And so, like, the music. I mean, see, I, I, I don't know if it's sad. I don't know if I feel like it's sad. Like, I, I hear you, I hear you, but, like, when I was, when we was growing up, nigga, we had a set of encyclopedias in the house. [01:44:57] Speaker A: I did. [01:44:57] Speaker C: You see what I'm saying? [01:44:58] Speaker A: Like, we do. [01:44:59] Speaker C: I know. I know you do, but we had, like, we had a set of. We actually had two. All right? We had, like, the old set and a new set. You feel me? Like, we had, like, my grandfather's set, and then my mother bought a new set. So, like, we had encyclopedias in the house. And when I had projects and reports and shit to do, I was, I went to the encyclopedia. And you know what's crazy? I would look up the. I was looking up, and I would always end up reading something else. All right? And, and like, my, Anybody like my. Ask my wife, my kids, whoever tell you we watch Jeopardy, I know the answers because, like, I, I know a lot of. I read a lot. I've read a lot of things growing up, and I pay attention to the world around me. These kids, they got this right here. They got this right here. [01:45:43] Speaker B: And. [01:45:43] Speaker C: And it's the situation that is so much information available that they don't get. They don't always get the good shit, right, Like. Cause there's so much to sift through that. The things that's given, like, the things we got core lessons from, they don't get. [01:46:04] Speaker A: Nigga. I got called a Trump supporter the other day. That shit blew my mind. [01:46:08] Speaker C: Was it on the wiretap page? [01:46:09] Speaker A: No, I was on Facebook. [01:46:12] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:46:13] Speaker A: And I got it. No, it's to his point about, like, like, all got is this. And somebody had posted that Lamar had donated to that situation that happened in Minneapolis with Renee. Good. And I was like, yo, every. Anybody believe anything on the Internet? And the person replies with me, like, that's because it's true. Pedophile supporter. And I was like, what? It's like, no. Like, it's just not a true story. Like, it's not that. Hey, it's not that that I'm supporting him. I was just like, yo, facts is facts. This is not a true story. Why are you believing that Lamar Jackson donated to Renee Goods funeral service? [01:46:59] Speaker C: I'm like, it's not a true story. [01:47:00] Speaker A: You know, I read something online because. [01:47:02] Speaker C: I looked it up. [01:47:03] Speaker A: Like, I searched it and it's. And like, as soon as I typed in, it was. Was like, Facebook stories have been coming out. It's false. And I'm like, why don't people read? [01:47:11] Speaker C: Like, why don't. I mean, but if he did, so what? I mean, if he did, like, I. [01:47:15] Speaker A: Get that, but I just knew the story was fake. [01:47:17] Speaker C: No, I get that. I get that. [01:47:18] Speaker A: And I'm just saying, like, why do y' all see something on the Internet and just instantly believe it? That shit is crazy to me. [01:47:25] Speaker C: Yeah. No, so at this point, I. I always check. [01:47:28] Speaker A: Me too. [01:47:29] Speaker C: It's. I don't see anything. And. And they just take it at face value. [01:47:32] Speaker A: You know what's crazy? You know where I learned that from from? Don't laugh, please. The fairly. Our parents. [01:47:39] Speaker C: Hey, listen, Timmy Turner, listen, when his. [01:47:42] Speaker A: Parents would be like, yo, where you get this from? He be like, the Internet. And they would just instantly believe. And I'm like, why they never double check? So it's like from that, like, what. [01:47:50] Speaker C: Was his godparents name? Wanda. [01:47:51] Speaker A: Wanda and Cosmo. [01:47:54] Speaker C: Cosmo. [01:47:54] Speaker A: Cosmo. [01:47:55] Speaker C: Cosmo. But it's like, can I remember that dude name? [01:47:58] Speaker A: I don't know why that. That just stuck out in my mind. Like, why don't they ever just check themselves? [01:48:03] Speaker B: And I love that show. That. But I'm smiling because I'm like, yeah, I love that show, but I didn't pay attention to that aspect of it. [01:48:11] Speaker A: Yeah, anytime they would ask him where he got something wrong, he was like. [01:48:13] Speaker C: No, he did that. He definitely did that. [01:48:16] Speaker A: And that anytime I would read something on the Internet, it would always make me go double check. [01:48:20] Speaker C: They need to bring back cartoons. [01:48:21] Speaker A: They really did. [01:48:22] Speaker C: They like, like, like good cartoons. Because cartoons and some of them. You know what's crazy? Like, I love my parents to death. I love my mother. Shout out, my mother's the best mother on the planet. [01:48:32] Speaker A: Shout out to Reese, mama. She's the best mama. [01:48:34] Speaker C: You know, I love my dad. He been gone for a long time. But like, a lot of. A lot of my moral compass I got from television. I got from tv. Tony going to Goofy time, Tony going into Goofy mode. And now you out here with your feet up. That's what we doing. Like a bad one. But like, yeah. Nah, cartoons used to, like, at the end of every episode of GI Joe used to end with a little, like, life lesson. Like every episode. [01:49:04] Speaker B: That and Captain Planet. [01:49:05] Speaker C: Captain Planet did the same thing. [01:49:07] Speaker A: Did that shit ever make you, like, not want to litter? [01:49:10] Speaker C: Yo, you know What? You know what made me not want to litter? And it came from some shit I saw as a kid. All right? It was. It was Earth Day in school, okay? It was Earth Day. Earth. Earth, Earth. [01:49:23] Speaker A: Earth. [01:49:24] Speaker C: It was Earth. [01:49:24] Speaker A: It's Earth. [01:49:25] Speaker C: It's Earth. It was Erf Day. [01:49:27] Speaker A: Yeah, Earth. [01:49:28] Speaker C: It was. It was Earth for American. They made us watch. They made us watch a video. Some video. It was like a little short movie that they made us watching school. And Whoopi Goldberg, out of all people. Out of all people. Whoopi Goldberg was the voice of Mother Earth. Earth. All right. [01:49:44] Speaker A: What the. Right. What's the other lady? [01:49:49] Speaker C: Out of all people. All right, what is her name? Who you talking about? [01:49:53] Speaker A: They always making fun of her. [01:49:56] Speaker C: I don't know what you're talking about. [01:49:57] Speaker A: Oh, my God, your wife. Can I think of her name? [01:50:00] Speaker B: Whoopi. [01:50:00] Speaker A: No, not Whoopi. She mean, like. And today was Maya Angelou. [01:50:09] Speaker C: Oh, no. [01:50:09] Speaker D: Oh, that's how. That's what about black GRs. [01:50:12] Speaker A: I know, but why wasn't. [01:50:13] Speaker D: Who the Was making fun of her? [01:50:15] Speaker A: They always making fun of her. But why wasn't she Mother Earth? That would have made much more sense to me, but go ahead, Reese. I'm sorry. [01:50:23] Speaker B: No, he done. He. He. He's done. [01:50:24] Speaker C: No, no, no, no. I was trying to say. [01:50:26] Speaker A: Trying to find a video. [01:50:27] Speaker C: Yeah, I didn't. So I just learned something new. I just learned something new. Whoopy Goldberg was the voice of Mother Earth on Captain Planet. [01:50:34] Speaker A: Really? [01:50:35] Speaker C: In the cartoon, Whoopy Goldberg was always the mother. Me neither. I just found this out. [01:50:39] Speaker A: Just. [01:50:40] Speaker C: But it was a movie I watched in school. It was like a short movie I watched in school with Whoopi Goldberg was the voice of Mother Earth. And the kid was walking, he had a soda can, and he threw the can on the ground, and Earth said, ow. Right? So the kid was like, huh? What was that? And then he threw something else on the ground. Earth was like, oh. [01:51:07] Speaker A: Ah. [01:51:08] Speaker C: Like that. Like, every time you throw something on the ground, it hurts me. Blah, blah, blah. [01:51:12] Speaker B: But. [01:51:12] Speaker C: But that made me not. Yo, I can't. I can't do this episode with your feet up in this chair like this with your socks. I'm small. [01:51:19] Speaker A: He's in that position. I'm small. Are we missing. Is the baby oil Small and key. [01:51:25] Speaker C: This is episode 69. It's okay, Mount Chick. It's episode 69. [01:51:30] Speaker A: Yeah. This is your house, dog. Relax. [01:51:32] Speaker B: I thought it was a safe space. [01:51:33] Speaker C: It is. [01:51:34] Speaker B: I was comfortable. [01:51:35] Speaker C: I see you. [01:51:36] Speaker A: Hey, yo, side note, stop scratching your feet. [01:51:38] Speaker B: I didn't scratch my feet. [01:51:40] Speaker A: Do you expect. Like, if things could talk, they would talk black. [01:51:46] Speaker C: That's so funny. [01:51:49] Speaker A: Like, if your dog came and said, hey, I'm hungry. [01:51:53] Speaker B: You know who voice come to mind when you say that? [01:51:55] Speaker A: What? [01:51:56] Speaker B: James Earl Jones. [01:51:57] Speaker A: Really? [01:51:58] Speaker C: Oh, Lord. No. [01:51:58] Speaker A: I didn't think that. [01:52:00] Speaker C: Yo, what's the. What's the show? [01:52:02] Speaker B: It's authority. [01:52:03] Speaker C: I feel that. No, but it's a show. It's a show where the guy. It's a black dude and he like a writer, a comedy writer or something. And like everything around him starts, like talking to him. What is the name of the show, man? [01:52:16] Speaker A: I watched this. [01:52:18] Speaker C: It's like, it's a new show. [01:52:19] Speaker A: It's newer. It's newer. [01:52:21] Speaker D: Yeah. [01:52:22] Speaker A: I just think everything. Like, if shit could talk, it would be black. Like, if everything could talk, they would just be black. Like, everything. If the birds could. What would be white? Please tell me. [01:52:38] Speaker C: Now we get racial. The cups from Starbucks. [01:52:42] Speaker A: Like, like, I mean, animal wise, like. [01:52:45] Speaker C: What would be what animals will be black? [01:52:47] Speaker A: I'm just saying, like in my mind. [01:52:48] Speaker C: All of the bird. I mean, all of the birds would be white. You think so all of the birds can fly. They would think that they would. They would be the most to doody mothers. Like, all of the birds. Like, even the worst bird, if. If there were black birds, they would be like pigeons and vultures and crows. [01:53:04] Speaker A: The crows would be uppity. [01:53:05] Speaker B: So. So we downgrading our. [01:53:07] Speaker A: Our. [01:53:09] Speaker C: But listen, the crows, I'm just telling you. [01:53:12] Speaker A: No vultures. Vultures would definitely be black. [01:53:15] Speaker B: What about eagles? [01:53:17] Speaker C: Definitely white. [01:53:18] Speaker A: White. [01:53:19] Speaker C: Yeah, definitely. Like, man, it is America's bird. [01:53:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:53:22] Speaker B: Bald man. [01:53:23] Speaker C: This is America's bird would fly and. [01:53:25] Speaker A: Be like, it's America. [01:53:28] Speaker C: America. A eagle would be like the worst. Eagle would be like the very racist bird. [01:53:34] Speaker A: It would. [01:53:34] Speaker C: Like, the eagle would be like the white guy who thinks it's okay that he's racist. Like, like, he's like, absolutely. [01:53:40] Speaker A: He would have like this super white cut. Like, it would have. [01:53:43] Speaker D: You're not. [01:53:45] Speaker C: That's like. [01:53:46] Speaker B: That's like on DuckTales. [01:53:47] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:53:48] Speaker B: All them people was white. [01:53:49] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:53:50] Speaker A: Ducks would definitely be white too. Ducks would be white for sure. [01:53:54] Speaker B: Be black people. [01:53:55] Speaker A: Crows, pigeons or low level. [01:53:58] Speaker C: No, not low. I think crows, I think pigeons. I think vultures. I think. [01:54:03] Speaker B: Like, do we have anything prestigious? [01:54:05] Speaker A: Yeah, crows are prestigious. We had a whole movement movie. The crow. You never watched the crow. We brought a back to life. [01:54:15] Speaker C: Yeah, we had. It was a. It was two of them. [01:54:17] Speaker A: He dropped his phone downgrading Us, that's not a downgrade. I just know we wouldn't be no American eagle, baby. Definitely a falcon. [01:54:27] Speaker C: All right. [01:54:27] Speaker A: We definitely a falcon. [01:54:28] Speaker B: We a falcon. [01:54:29] Speaker A: Yeah, definitely a falcon. We be talking hella to the eagle. [01:54:35] Speaker C: You bald. [01:54:37] Speaker A: For sure. The race. You found what you was looking for? [01:54:42] Speaker C: I can't find it. [01:54:42] Speaker A: Yo, he can't find it. Yo. [01:54:45] Speaker C: I really can't find it. [01:54:47] Speaker B: Where we at? [01:54:48] Speaker C: I was about to call her and ask her, like, yo, what was the name of that show? [01:54:51] Speaker A: So did y' all see the Drew Ski skit? [01:54:53] Speaker B: Oh, God. [01:54:54] Speaker A: All right, so it's his name. Todd. Pastor Todd. [01:54:58] Speaker B: Yes. [01:54:59] Speaker A: So he came across. Go ahead, Reese. Play the clip, baby. Play the clip. [01:55:03] Speaker C: Just said play that clip, baby. [01:55:06] Speaker A: Play that clip. [01:55:06] Speaker C: Only got. Don't pass him that bottle no more. [01:55:09] Speaker A: Give me a. Give me a shot. [01:55:11] Speaker B: Leah views. [01:55:14] Speaker C: And some people were trying to link it. [01:55:15] Speaker A: Is it not playing on the. [01:55:17] Speaker C: And so I watched the video, trying to see what h. Oh, I think my Bluetooth discon. No, it say it's connected. [01:55:23] Speaker A: Do it again. [01:55:24] Speaker C: Here we go. [01:55:25] Speaker A: We having technical G. Hold on. We not. We not perfect, y'. [01:55:28] Speaker C: All. [01:55:29] Speaker A: We getting there, though. [01:55:31] Speaker C: Trust me. [01:55:31] Speaker A: We came a long motherfucker. [01:55:34] Speaker C: Now, you guys, I got too far away from the board. [01:55:35] Speaker A: We. We. We came a long way, didn't we? Can't remember. You just had to apply the mics. They didn't even have a mic. You didn't even have a mic. [01:55:44] Speaker D: We a. We a have recording devices. [01:55:48] Speaker A: We was raw as. [01:55:49] Speaker D: It was like the Flintstones out this. [01:55:51] Speaker A: We had a famous. Come on. He didn't post out. That's. [01:55:56] Speaker C: That's wild work. [01:55:57] Speaker A: Shout out to him, though. I hope he's getting better. [01:56:01] Speaker D: Oh, my God. That was Shade. You a catch it. [01:56:05] Speaker C: What's up with your man, yo? What's up? What's up with him? I don't know. [01:56:09] Speaker A: I just hope he doing better. [01:56:10] Speaker B: I I. 100 million views. [01:56:11] Speaker D: Why? You said hey. [01:56:13] Speaker C: People were trying to link it to me, and so I watched the video. It was hilarious. [01:56:18] Speaker D: It. [01:56:19] Speaker C: It was funny. It was all this stuff. [01:56:21] Speaker B: And then people started trying to say different things. [01:56:24] Speaker C: And the thing that I was most taken aback by was how much frustration. [01:56:29] Speaker B: It created in people. [01:56:32] Speaker C: Like, I was literally watching people go back and forth with people and denounce people and call people names and do stuff. And I stepped back for a second. I said, oh, my gosh. All this was was an attack on. [01:56:48] Speaker B: People'S lives of distraction. [01:56:51] Speaker C: Do you how many people didn't spend time with their kids this week? Fighting with Somebody they don't know in the comments. Do you know how many people watch video after video after video making decisions about what they wouldn't do and what they will? There was a video that came out. [01:57:09] Speaker A: This past week, so you get the context of the situation. I'm sure everyone has seen this juicy skit where he makes fun of the mega churches. [01:57:16] Speaker C: I would say that was funny. [01:57:17] Speaker A: It was hilarious. Serious. [01:57:18] Speaker C: That was funny. [01:57:19] Speaker B: I think, I mean, he said it was funny. [01:57:22] Speaker A: He did, but I think he was. What's that? [01:57:24] Speaker C: It's funny. He was being facetious. Yeah. [01:57:26] Speaker A: Backhanded compliment type of thing. [01:57:28] Speaker C: It's funny. But he don't really think it was funny. Like, like. [01:57:31] Speaker A: Yeah, but it's like he don't want to go against the grain. So I gotta say, it's funny. [01:57:35] Speaker C: So, so it was funny. [01:57:37] Speaker B: But yeah, I'll say this, right. I think that more or less, you know, with, with mega churches and, and, and, and things of. [01:57:46] Speaker A: I think megachurches are a problem. [01:57:48] Speaker C: Personally, I don't, I do. [01:57:51] Speaker B: I don't think things of that sort. Right. It's, it's like. And I don't wanna, I don't like to deep dive into religion or anything. [01:58:01] Speaker A: No, we're not talking about religion in a sense. We talking about like how people take advantage. That's in my, in my opinion. [01:58:07] Speaker B: So I took, I, that's what I took it as like he was displaying what mega churches do. Right. And not saying that all mega churches are like that. [01:58:21] Speaker C: Right. [01:58:21] Speaker A: Most in my opinion. [01:58:23] Speaker B: In your opinion. Right. I come from a Christian background, Pentecostal, so on and so forth. And I, I can only speak for what I know and I know it wasn't like that. So when you get the. [01:58:40] Speaker C: Yeah, but did you go to a mega church? [01:58:42] Speaker B: No, I, I've never been to a mega church. [01:58:43] Speaker C: I've been to a couple of them. [01:58:44] Speaker A: I've been to one now. [01:58:46] Speaker C: I've been on a couple of them. [01:58:47] Speaker B: So. So what is your take on that? So I think, I think that. [01:58:51] Speaker A: So for me, it threw me off. [01:58:53] Speaker C: Because also, like the mega church threw you off. [01:58:55] Speaker A: Yeah, because I came from a smaller church. So the smaller church, I felt like we had much more community. It was one of them type things where it's like, you know, how you. [01:59:02] Speaker B: So mega church was. Was overwhelming. [01:59:05] Speaker A: Not necessarily overwhelming. It just didn't look genuine to me because I come from a space where we know everybody. Everybody know everybody. When church let out, it's still another whole hour conversation, right. Between, you know, people because everybody's Catching up with everybody. We had, you know, the whole get togethers, dinners, all of that stuff. [01:59:26] Speaker C: Right. You know, I mean, you can't do that in a megachurch. No, that's not the point of a megachurch. [01:59:30] Speaker A: Okay, get that. But when I think the thing that threw that, that me up was I'm not going to speak on the pastor, but he's down south now. [01:59:41] Speaker C: Okay, but you talking about. [01:59:43] Speaker A: Yeah, I went to that church cuz I was trying to get back in the church. [01:59:46] Speaker C: That's not a mega church though. He didn't have a mega church. [01:59:48] Speaker A: That's. Well, I don't know. [01:59:50] Speaker C: It was a big church. Yeah, that was a mega church. [01:59:52] Speaker A: It felt like that pause. I had never seen a church that off, that asked for offerings four times and a church that had ATMs in it. [02:00:02] Speaker C: I mean, I've been to a small church that had an ATM in it and asked for multiple church, multiple offerings. [02:00:06] Speaker A: I've never seen that. [02:00:07] Speaker C: I've been to a small church in the south that did that. But. [02:00:12] Speaker A: And then pers. Perspective is everything. [02:00:13] Speaker C: Of course. So for, for first off, for you to be a mega church, you have to have a certain amount of members. All right. Like, I think it's something th. Like 2000, 3000, something like, like that. You have to, you have to be up there in your membership. All right. But just like we started this part talking about competition. Who. You don't think these mega churches are competing? [02:00:34] Speaker A: Absolutely. [02:00:36] Speaker C: So if the goal is. [02:00:38] Speaker A: But isn't that getting lost in the sauce in a sense, so. [02:00:40] Speaker C: No, that's just like sitting here saying that, you know, you, you, you get lost in the sauce with this podcast. The goal is to get viewers. Right? The goal is to get success. [02:00:49] Speaker A: And I battle with that. [02:00:51] Speaker C: Hold you why? Because that's what you're here for. [02:00:53] Speaker A: Because I battle with. [02:00:55] Speaker C: The point is to get your message heard. Right. All right. [02:00:57] Speaker A: I think it's in the sense of great point. [02:01:00] Speaker C: That's the point. To get your message heard. [02:01:02] Speaker A: No, but that's what, that's what their point is, is the battle comes in with doing what's getting everybody else popping and kind of staying true to what we do. That's the battle. [02:01:16] Speaker C: No, I mean, but that. So the thing is, is I don't think that's the battle. I think like that can be your mission. I think that those mega church pastors are staying true to what they do. All right. Like these. So first and foremost, everything is a business. All right. That's number one. Number two, every business has A mission statement has a. A value statement. Like, you have to actually have. Have certain things to be considered, like to file. They call Articles of Declaration. [02:01:50] Speaker A: All right? [02:01:50] Speaker C: In order for you to be considered a business, you have to say, we are here to do this, all right? We believe in this. Our values are here, and our mission is this. You have to have that in order for you to be a business. That is part of your Articles of Declaration along with some other things. All right? So these pastors, if you want to look at it from a religious standpoint, whatever I got to do to bring the most amount of people to the word of God, all right? If I gotta fly across the stage, if I got to bring smoke detect smoke machines out and neon lights, if that's what's going to get the people in the door, then that's what I'm gonna do, all right? But they're human. Yeah. And these buildings, these lights, these smoke machines, these hydraulic lifts to fly me across the stage. This shit costs money. [02:02:53] Speaker A: Absolutely. [02:02:53] Speaker C: All right? So I'm either going to A, do something, something, sell something, merchandise, this some way shape, fashion or form. I'm a B, raise the funds through the people involved. It's called crowdsourcing, all right? There's a whole business term for what pastors do. You call them offerings. That's called crowdsourcing, all right? And that's a legitimate business practice, okay? I'm a part of a crowd source that builds homes in desolate areas, all right? I pay into it and I get dividends back from it, all right? And it's working because you know who these people are and you don't attend their church. You know who the pastor that Drew Ski is making fun of, of. And you've never seen his service, all right? So it's working. Since when have we knocked the hustler? Since when have you hated the player and not the game? All right? So how can you have these, like, values in other places? And then when it comes to religion. Religion. Oh, now, now, you shouldn't be. You shouldn't be doing this, and you shouldn't be like this, and you shouldn't be like that. I don't see nowhere in the Bible it said that man is not supposed to thrive on the riches of the earth. [02:04:37] Speaker A: I get that. [02:04:40] Speaker C: I think, like, I. I think. I don't. I don't know. [02:04:43] Speaker A: No, no, no. [02:04:44] Speaker C: I don't claim to be the Bible expert. So correct me if I'm wrong. [02:04:47] Speaker A: I get that. [02:04:47] Speaker C: Where does it say in the Bible that I'm not Supposed to make monetary gains off of my trade. [02:04:57] Speaker A: Right. No, I respect that, and I get that. I think the confusion comes in with the messaging. Because for those who do indulge in. [02:05:10] Speaker C: I'm gonna call that bullshit, too, but go ahead. [02:05:11] Speaker A: No, no, I'm just giving you a perspective. For me, from the outside looking in is like, I hold you to a certain standard, right. You are delivering the word of God, and I understand that you are a man, but I would think you have more discipline. Discipline when it comes to the word of the Bible. You get what I'm saying? Like what it. What it means, how it's perceived, and how you take that perception and make it into action or turn it into action. I'm sorry. Versus the person that's watching, you know, the person that's participating. Like, I'm here for that guidance. But you being the person that's delivering the message, I would expect to you to have a certain disdain. Not disdain, but discipline. Like. Well, a better discipline than what. Than what I had. [02:06:14] Speaker C: So how many mega churches have you been to? [02:06:17] Speaker A: Well, the one I thought was a mega church. You said wasn't, so only one, right? [02:06:20] Speaker C: You talking about Empowerment Temple? I don't got a problem saying it. [02:06:22] Speaker A: No, it's fine. [02:06:23] Speaker C: You talking about that place? Yeah, yeah, yeah, right. That's not a mega church. I don't think. I don't think that. Congregation size is over 2,000. I'm not sure. Could be wrong. [02:06:31] Speaker A: Did y' all go to. [02:06:32] Speaker D: I think it was. I think that. I think that was a mega church. [02:06:36] Speaker A: I remember he pulled up in the white. [02:06:37] Speaker D: I used to go to Morning Star. I thought that was the. I thought that was a mega church. [02:06:41] Speaker A: Came into Bentley and. [02:06:42] Speaker C: Yeah, megachurch. But no, no, no, I know. I. I know him personally. He did drop a Bentley. Yeah, right. But you saying that his messaging wasn't legit. [02:06:55] Speaker A: I'm not saying that. I'm saying because. [02:06:57] Speaker C: So, so. So hold on. Before you go down that. Before you go down that. That. That street. Let me land. Let me. Let me. Let me land. Where. Where I'm going first before you respond, down that street, because. Well, I asked you how many mega churches have you been to? Because if you only been to the one, how can you critique the messaging? [02:07:19] Speaker A: I guess, at that time. So let me give context, because you. Right, that's a valid question. So this is around the time where. [02:07:26] Speaker C: I. [02:07:28] Speaker A: Step into listening to, like, my. [02:07:30] Speaker B: My, My. [02:07:31] Speaker A: My. My expansion of music is happening and shout out to Big Crit. I'm a Big Crit fan. And this is around the time where. [02:07:40] Speaker C: I'm listening to her, bro. [02:07:41] Speaker A: So, you know, the first. What was it Crit was here? Is that the first one? It's not really the first one, but. [02:07:48] Speaker C: That'S like the one that got first mainstream, right? [02:07:51] Speaker A: So he has a song. And I'm listening to the song because I ran that album through and through. I can't remember the name of the song right now, but it's one particular line, talks about the preacher and everything and how, like, the preacher is kind of taking your money and sending over here with your money. So now that's like a seed in my mind. So then when I go to the church and I see the atm, it just kind of reconfirmed sending or winning because. [02:08:25] Speaker D: All right, I take it differently. So I recently like listening. I listened to the autobiography of Malcolm X and he was talking about like, his days. Like this was like the. The 60s or whatever. And he was talking about his times in New York, listening to the storefront pastors or whatever. He was like. He was like watching them. I grew up. And he was like. They were kind of like bathed in like the mothers of the church sewing into them. And so they had the shiny suits. They had all the things I didn't have have. They had the money. He was like. Because that was important to them, the shine, right? So I look at that as like our culture. We wanted our pat pastors to. To shine. [02:09:02] Speaker C: We did. [02:09:02] Speaker D: We wanted them to look like away. We wanted. So we built that culture, right? We made the mega church, in a sense. We wanted them to represent us in a way. [02:09:12] Speaker C: We did. [02:09:13] Speaker A: I agree with you. [02:09:14] Speaker C: Like, that's so. And like, no, but to her point, they're our leaders. They are. They. They are our leaders. You understand what I'm saying? Like, they are our leaders. I've never seen anybody who want their leader to look exactly like. [02:09:32] Speaker D: I've never want to give you a last. I want you to shine. [02:09:35] Speaker C: Like, I'm not mad at him pulling up in the Bentley. All right? And if you don't like it, then don't. Don't give into it. You have that prerogative. [02:09:45] Speaker B: You have that option, yo, that. That applies to. Even to. To rappers, any type of. [02:09:51] Speaker A: Anything like things in general. When you're taking it, like when you're taking info, not information, but when you take in, I guess you would say counsel from someone, you of course want your. The person to, like, look better. [02:10:04] Speaker B: If I want to be a rapper, I want to shine like Meek Mills. If I want to Be a rapper. I want to shine like Jay Z. [02:10:10] Speaker C: Z. I want to be meek. Had to do. No, I'm. I'm just some funny. [02:10:15] Speaker B: I'm just saying in general, like if I want to be a football player, I want to be like said person. [02:10:23] Speaker D: You want the exclusivity. It's how it goes full circ. [02:10:27] Speaker C: Back to the beginning. No, it goes right back to the beginning. Like, like l said, it's full circle. All this shit's competition, bro. [02:10:34] Speaker D: Yes. [02:10:35] Speaker B: So you pay your tithe and offerings. [02:10:38] Speaker C: You should. [02:10:38] Speaker B: So in turn you want to be. [02:10:41] Speaker C: You shouldn't give a about where that money being spent on because it is not about the money. It's about your intention behind the money. If you paying your ties and your offerings because you want to give deference to whatever the religious aspect of this, of this is. [02:10:54] Speaker B: It's about belief, right? [02:10:56] Speaker C: Exactly. [02:10:57] Speaker B: If I pay my tithes and offering, I'm going to have a fruitful life. Life and whatever aspect that you deem. [02:11:04] Speaker A: I guess. [02:11:05] Speaker B: And that. And that's. And that's it. Like so mega churches. Go ahead. [02:11:10] Speaker A: What Reese says, essentially, if you doing it out of the mindset of this is genuinely who you are and the genuineness of it, then that. [02:11:17] Speaker C: That's all that matters. Yeah. And like. [02:11:20] Speaker B: And I think that it was. It was. [02:11:22] Speaker A: And that's crazy because I just had this conversation with somebody. [02:11:24] Speaker B: It. It was heightened because he shined a light on it. And the only people that. That found it offended offensive is the ones that weren't doing right. [02:11:33] Speaker C: Right. The only people that found it offensive are the ones who are exploiting systems. All right? No, like don't take nothing. I'm saying, I'm not saying that these pastors of these mega churches do everything that they're supposed to be doing. All right? [02:11:48] Speaker B: Because all of them are not. But some of them are right because. [02:11:51] Speaker D: A lot of them are right. [02:11:53] Speaker A: I mean. [02:11:55] Speaker C: That was my point. [02:11:56] Speaker D: So that giving back to the community, they're seing into that community. [02:11:59] Speaker C: You look, if you, if you look into the churches, meet me up. Most of them. Most of them muted myself. If you look into the churches, most of them are giving right back into the community. All right? Most of them, they got all types of programs. They got all types of. Man, listen, my church. [02:12:16] Speaker D: Different services. [02:12:17] Speaker C: My church wasn't a mega church, all right? My church that I grew up in wasn't a mega church. And I know my church paid people's rent. You see what I'm saying? Like, I know that for a fact. So you like, like that's why I said what I said to him a second ago. Like, how many you actually been to. To hear the messaging before you sit and talk about the message and not, you know what I'm saying, being the messages being false. Now I do know. I have real life example. I work inside of a casino. There was a pastor and his wife who was bringing the church's money to the casino. All right, and, and, and it up like that happened. They lost their congregation when the congregation found out. [02:12:54] Speaker D: And that's an unfortunate. But they are the exception and not the rule. [02:12:57] Speaker C: They're the outlier. Right? You see what I'm saying? Like they're, they are. Like you said, they're the exception. They're not the common. [02:13:02] Speaker D: Exactly. [02:13:03] Speaker B: Like I said, I grew up in church, right? [02:13:05] Speaker C: Right. [02:13:06] Speaker B: My, my big mommy and my papa, they own a church in the Bronx. Bethlehem Baptist Church. Right? [02:13:12] Speaker C: Okay. [02:13:13] Speaker B: I watch them. [02:13:14] Speaker C: That's the name of church in South Carolina. Bethlehem Baptist. [02:13:17] Speaker B: I watched them. I watched my, my great grandparents. [02:13:20] Speaker C: You say you. [02:13:23] Speaker B: Pentecostal Baptist. I watched them live a modest life. They didn't have. My grand, My great grandfather didn't drive a Bentley. My, my grandfather didn't have a Corvette. But it was the values that they instilled that same set people's lives right to live. Right. Did we all live right? No, all of us did not. But I say that, say this, right. They, they possibly could have had a mega church potentially. [02:13:55] Speaker A: Right? [02:13:55] Speaker B: And God rest they soul, both of them, right. But it was the values that was instilled. It was the, the, the, the, the, the, the the foundation of, of fantasy family church, love, putting God first, so on and so forth. No, they didn't have a mega church. But as, as up as I can be at times, my core value is I know my big mommy wouldn't like this, my papa wouldn't like this, so on and so, so it's the core values that, that, that these churches that in turn turn into megachurch because these people, people didn't start out at a mega church. [02:14:36] Speaker A: Not at all. [02:14:37] Speaker B: And, and all he did, like I said with Drewski, all he did, the people that was in the uproar or the people that were using this, these mega churches for game. [02:14:48] Speaker C: Nah. Some people just can't take a joke. Some people just don't. Like. [02:14:53] Speaker D: I was want to say, it all boils down to a joke. [02:14:56] Speaker C: Some people can't take a joke. And it was funny. [02:14:59] Speaker A: I think it's what I'm saying because. [02:15:02] Speaker D: You knew the people he Was calling out. [02:15:04] Speaker C: Exactly. [02:15:04] Speaker D: Just a few, not the many. It's a few, not the many. [02:15:07] Speaker B: Year he did that at the top of the year. [02:15:09] Speaker D: It was hilarious. [02:15:12] Speaker B: He said, I wear Christian Dior because I'm a Christian and I walk in. [02:15:18] Speaker D: The blood of Jesus. [02:15:19] Speaker C: I thought that was hilarious. [02:15:22] Speaker A: But Reese kind of said earlier is. [02:15:24] Speaker B: Like, start a church in Zimbabwe. [02:15:26] Speaker C: You. [02:15:26] Speaker A: You said something. I'm trying to remember exactly what you said, but you said, like. Like, pretty much like, only people that complained was the people who was doing the things that they were doing. What was that. [02:15:44] Speaker C: Going to leave at the same time as hilarious? Number one. Number two. [02:15:47] Speaker A: Hey, yo, y' all nasty. [02:15:50] Speaker B: No, we wasn't. We wasn't being. [02:15:52] Speaker C: We almost done. [02:15:53] Speaker A: We done. [02:15:53] Speaker C: All right. We almost done. [02:15:54] Speaker A: We done. [02:15:56] Speaker C: Listen, we gonna wrap this thing on up before we go out this. I don't. When I went. The disconnect happened. We just gonna play this, though. It is Dr. Martin Luther King Day. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Jr. And so I rock with J.R. we are gonna give y' all just a snippet of his most famous piece of work. Work. [02:16:21] Speaker B: Let's do that. [02:16:24] Speaker A: Dr. Martin Luther King. [02:16:28] Speaker C: Said. Junior. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This man wrote this joint in the jail cell. [02:16:43] Speaker A: It's crazy times, like John, with you. [02:16:48] Speaker C: Today. [02:16:51] Speaker E: In what will go down in. [02:16:53] Speaker C: History. [02:16:56] Speaker E: As the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. [02:17:03] Speaker C: You know, they take classes on how to talk like that. [02:17:10] Speaker E: Five score years ago. [02:17:14] Speaker C: You know what that means? Five scores? [02:17:17] Speaker A: Symbolic. [02:17:18] Speaker C: A score is 20 years. So that's 100 years. [02:17:22] Speaker E: Signed the Emancipation Proclamation. [02:17:26] Speaker A: Nothing. [02:17:28] Speaker E: This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. [02:17:42] Speaker C: Sit down. You keep standing up for it. [02:17:44] Speaker E: It came as a joyous daybreak. [02:17:49] Speaker C: To. [02:17:49] Speaker E: End the long night of their captivity. But 100 years later, the Negro still is not free. [02:18:05] Speaker D: Huh? [02:18:05] Speaker C: Yo, listen, it is one. Hold on. I gotta pause this. There's one white dude on stage with him, and this white is. It is a hundred people on this stage with this man. And there's only one white guy. And this one white guy keeps standing up. [02:18:18] Speaker A: All right? [02:18:19] Speaker C: Like the one white guy. No, he keeps standing up like he's doing something else. Like he's, like, looking for somebody or something. And he's literally right next to Dr. King and he keeps standing up. Yo, it looks so awkward. [02:18:31] Speaker E: The life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. 100 years later, the Negro lives On a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity, this nation will rise up. [02:18:59] Speaker A: Out. [02:18:59] Speaker E: The true meaning of its creed. We hold these truths to be self. [02:19:04] Speaker C: Evident, that all member created equal. [02:19:17] Speaker E: I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners, will they be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood? I have a dream. [02:19:37] Speaker C: One day. [02:19:39] Speaker E: Even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of a oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom. And just as I have a dream. [02:19:57] Speaker C: We'Re gonna stop right there. Dr. King. I'm so sorry, sir. You dream of Mississippi ain't been realized yet because they still hanging people in Mississippi, unfortunately. But that was very powerful speech. I. I do implore y' all to go check out the rest of it. We got halfway through it. It's a whole another three and a half minutes left after that speech. And I do think that it's something that everybody should hear and experience, like, and listen to and digest it and break it down and actually, like, understand what's being said. Not just hearing big words being spoken by a pastor and think that, you know, he's saying something. He is saying a lot. And it would. I would implore you to actually find out what he's saying. You know, just that one part. That all slaves and slave owners. Owners, the sons of slaves and slave owners can sit down at the table of brotherhood. That. That. Man. Do you know what that means, bro? That means that one day, his dream is that one day that the people who were oppressed and the people who oppressed them will be able to come to the same meeting place as brothers and not as individuals with grudges, not as people with. With problems. Like, not me mad at you, you for what you did to me, and not you mad at me because you can't keep doing it to me. You see what I'm saying, right? I think that we are far from that. I think that we as far away from slave slavery as people think we are. I think that we are so far from realizing Dr. King's dream. I don't know if we'll see it in my lifetime. [02:21:32] Speaker A: I don't believe so. I think. [02:21:34] Speaker C: I don't know if we'll see it in my lifetime. [02:21:35] Speaker A: I think, think. I think the. The issue is like, what you said, I think is. I think a certain demographic has taken into. I think they have fallen to this space where they just Want to be victimized. [02:21:55] Speaker C: Who, who's that? Who's the day? [02:22:00] Speaker A: You know, can't. I, I, I really, I want to say it, but it's, you know, because of work. [02:22:07] Speaker C: Okay. Yeah. [02:22:10] Speaker A: But a certain demographic, they want to be acknowledged as having just as much victim, you know, being victims to the world as we have been. That's one activity aspect of it. I think the other aspect of it is like what you said earlier. They don't want to give up the, the power in the sense, because they believe that we may come back and do the same thing to them. I don't know what it is. I, I don't, I don't know if this is just a pocket. [02:22:39] Speaker C: I mean, they are being victimized. They are. You think so? Yeah, I do think so. Because their entire way of life has been shaken up. Their entire way of, of what they consider to be normal life. No, I don't mean has been dismantled. [02:22:52] Speaker A: I mean, in the aspect of, of like, for instance, I remember being in a Tik Tok live, and a person tried to use Oprah as an example of how we weren't, quote, unquote, oppressed. And I said, have y' all ever read Oprah's book? She talks about the discrimination and the racism that she dealt. [02:23:11] Speaker C: She dealt with. Right. [02:23:12] Speaker A: So, yes, she has become a billionaire, but she still dealt with. [02:23:16] Speaker C: Yeah, she had to go through it. [02:23:18] Speaker A: Yeah. So it's like you're trying to, to say, like, oh, look at this person over here. They made something of themselves, but it didn't stop them from dealing with the discrimination that they had to deal with. [02:23:29] Speaker C: Right. [02:23:30] Speaker A: So that's, that's what I mean, in the sense. [02:23:32] Speaker C: Yeah, but. [02:23:33] Speaker A: All right, we gonna end it here. Thank y' all for tapping in. We'll be back next week. [02:23:40] Speaker B: Nope. [02:23:43] Speaker A: I don't know where Leah went. [02:23:45] Speaker C: She checked out. They checked out out. [02:23:48] Speaker A: She did. Nah, it's all good. But we be back next week. Thank y' all for tapping in as always. Like, follow and subscribe. And if you're feeling what? [02:23:56] Speaker B: Frisky. Go ahead and common, baby. [02:24:02] Speaker A: Yeah, you just took it all, baby. [02:24:04] Speaker C: No, you, you supposed to, like, comment. Subscribe, I say. And if you feeling frisky, he say, go ahead and comment. [02:24:12] Speaker A: My fault, My fault. My fault. [02:24:14] Speaker C: Fault. [02:24:14] Speaker A: We, we, we'll do that right. [02:24:16] Speaker B: Then we going to tighten up. [02:24:18] Speaker A: Yeah, we getting back into the funk. It's okay. We got some baby oil on the. [02:24:23] Speaker C: Back for you, baby. [02:24:24] Speaker A: Ah, it's synthetic too. [02:24:25] Speaker C: No, you got to say diddy. Call everybody daddy. [02:24:29] Speaker A: Whoa, I'm not saying that. [02:24:29] Speaker B: We got some more for you, Daddy. [02:24:31] Speaker C: Call me baby. [02:24:32] Speaker B: Yeah, Daddy. Baby. [02:24:38] Speaker D: What you think I was just going to sit back and let him play. [02:24:41] Speaker C: My bag, tap into Baltimore's very own wiretap tv?