August 17, 2025 • 44 mins
The Progress Report crew—Lala Shepard, DJ Exel, and Boss Britt—pull up for a powerful and hilarious convo on queer representation in Atlanta media, gatekeeping in the entertainment industry, and why podcasts need to collaborate more. From unpacking LGBTQ+ terminology to getting real about mental health and artist loyalty, this episode gets deep and unfiltered.
Episode 398 - “The Progress Report” Feat: Ferrari Simmons & You Know BT Produced by: Baller Alert
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Get list. They called me.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Broadcast a lot from Atlanta, Georgia. Welcome to the Baller Show.
I go by the name for I go by the name,
you know, b T progam supporting the building.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I don't think y'all was going out drip me home.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
You walk in with the beater. I knew you want to.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
They're having it on.
Speaker 5 (00:25):
I ain't like I have it.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Please introduce yourself.
Speaker 6 (00:27):
Hey, it's your girl, like Love Shepherd, d J exlir
the mostly no no, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Introduce yourselves properly, Shepherd. You know, okay, all right?
Speaker 7 (00:38):
Are we looking at the camera?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
You do whatever.
Speaker 8 (00:41):
It's your girl, Lilave Shepherd. I am the CEO owner
of the progrem Support. Also do brand management for the
coalition DJs and when they say people are the plug,
that's what I do.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
On the Plug.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
D J Excel of course the DJ event court, UH
curator and host on the Progress Support. Also we have
another podcast called the Homo a Whole.
Speaker 9 (01:07):
Of y'all mostly one of three the Progress Support.
Speaker 6 (01:16):
I curate big events all throughout the United States and internationally,
mostly queer events, predominantlyquer events and UH media personality.
Speaker 9 (01:26):
You know what I'm saying, my big one that much.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Well, we wanted to have you guys on here because
of course we came on Europe and what.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
The hell was you?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
What was your say?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
You were busy.
Speaker 9 (01:38):
Sliding down the door.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
But we just want to hang out on here just
to cross promote each other. Absolutely, I feel like, you know,
we see a lot of people do it in music, yeah,
and we start seeing it on different sides of the country,
people doing in podcasts. I said it.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
It doesn't happen in media media in Atlanta. Don't funk
with each other. Everybody is always like, yeah, I like
what you're doing, but don't but don't support you. Then
you look at the other sides of the country and
everybody's cross promoting on different platform You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
We just want to show everybody it's enough to go on.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
But you guys have a dope podcast and podcast because
correct me for wrong, I say it right, queer? Why
did you say queer?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
So well? Educate be careful now using all these terminologies.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
But the proverb support and based off of gay stuff is.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
We just happen to be gay, but we really are
in this industry, you know, what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
So the program support.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
It's just like media and we're really in that life,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
And then the Homo Show is everything.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
That's when you guys unpacked the game. So the Progress
supporters today job hours after dark. I also want to
give you all your flowers. I know b T is
gonna chime in because when you come to Atlanta, you
(03:18):
have to come to the Progress Report period. That's one
of the stops that new popping whoever they have to
come to your platform, which I feel like was earned,
has been putting a lot of work. So I just
wanted to give you guys your flowers on that because
that ship, like what we do, is difficult.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Man.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I love y'all. By the way, really dope set up,
and y'all brought gifts. I brought your water.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
When we get upset, we'll have you got a man.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
For granted.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Clean great, God bless you.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Now let's talk about the after our podcast though, that's
the one. How did that come about? It's called the
No Homo Show? Yeaheah, okay, who's here? Was that?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
So?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
The No Homo Show was originally my idea, but I
bought to brick because we throw queer events and it's like, yo.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
That's so it's okay.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
It's okay to say that queer queer.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Events where is.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Queer person said yeah, yeah, it's respectful.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
So it's respectful to absolutely can say queer, Leave off
the dyke, don't say.
Speaker 9 (04:35):
Don't say.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
People still use that word. That's an old ass terminology.
You know, my uncle will say, yeah, if.
Speaker 8 (04:44):
You was a gay girl that looked like for us
two times, or like, if you look like that's the truth.
Speaker 9 (04:52):
If you look like many fresh you know, that's you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
That's a you can say that for people that are allies,
meaning like y'all support us, y'all part of it. It's
not okay to say those words.
Speaker 9 (05:07):
Especially not.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I've never heard that.
Speaker 9 (05:17):
Yeah, but yet queer is fine and l g b
T is fine as well.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
The only terminology that I've heard I have I've never
heard it. Yeah, scared, I mean that I respect that
for But the offensive terms that you guys talked about,
I've never heard people say that.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
That's like people people still you tries to like attack us,
they will be like and they'll be.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Like people with low chromosomes.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
But I would say one thing about one thing about
our show is that we we're not like the woke,
you know, like make you afraid to talk about some
real ship.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Even had a siary the kid on and we.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Oh my god got us canceled.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
It was so mad at that episode, and we just
like we want to talk for real, like we want
we don't want to be like like, oh my god,
you said that. Now we got questions for even people
within our community, you know what I mean, people.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Think beause you're gay, that you know everything gay. And
we learned so much, you know what I mean. Like
we had a person on.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
It was a trans man and he was pregnant by
his boyfriend.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
You know what, man as a woman that turned into
a man and they got pregnant.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
His boyfriend, his boyfriend. Trust me, we were like, what's
the dynamic.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Biologically he was a woman, so he can get pregnant.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Yeah damn, yeah, yeah I didn't possible.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, I mean biologically you still got the he's a
trans man, that means he was a she, so he
has female parts, gotcha, organs, gotcha?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
And yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
So then we also like interview the stud that likes
to have sex with men on porn like porn sites
and stuff, and it's just we get into it and
we're we're just as curious as y'all are. So like,
I think our show just we talked some real ship
and it's not like don't be afraid of like you
can't be afraid to say this or ask this or
(07:30):
feel offended about this, you know. So I think that's
what makes our show dope.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
That's good. That sounds very entertaining.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
And straight people love it too. I think straight people.
Speaker 9 (07:42):
They definitely.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Made this calte up right here on the hat. I
prefer coccieie. Even straight people wear this hat. They but
some person did make your point, like, you know, why
does a straight man have to wear it?
Speaker 9 (07:57):
That says I prefer couchie.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
I mean, I think that's no. I don't think it's weird.
I think people don't.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Have a sense of humor, Like people gotta start having
a sense of human ain't that serious?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
And the Internet made everything seem serious because they made.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Regular people haven't feel like they got a platform and
they can say whatever they want to say and be
like this is my opinion, be able to do this,
like man have fun.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Like podcast and radio hosts like are y'all like, nah,
I want to stay true to my opinion and even
if this caused like some chaos.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
And like what the difference is, I'm not afraid to
be fired. I think that's I think a lot of
people are afraid to be fired. Rory says stuff on
the radio and I'd be like, hey, bro, we might
get fired.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Like they hired us because of our opinions.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Sometimes we do get on the line and then that's
when our boss comes in and be like hey bro, yeah, yeah,
he'll come in and be.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Like hold on.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Like ro said something on the radio last week. He
said something crazy and I was like, said it.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
It was a subject, I mean, you know, it was.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
It was a certain individual that we saw little girl
already to get no no no no no no no
no no, I'm ready to get sued.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
It's a different one.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
So it was it was a certain individual that was
at the media house that we were in, and we
didn't like his views on his lifestyle. You know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
He's a thirty eight year old man and he's dating
like he's married to like a she's like twenty one
or something like.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
That, so it's giving groom. But you know when she
was seventeen.
Speaker 9 (09:34):
Oh wow, yeah Marcus, Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
I can either confirm nor deny. I don't know what
y'all talk about, but it was it was, it was
it was some of the lit to talk about that
on the radio, and I was like, hey, man, we
might get fired, man. Yea, we might get fired man,
But you.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Know what, right, those things that have him breathing like
that are the things that like.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Take a radio state or a podcast to the next level.
And then when you.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
See comments, like one thing we learned is like, you know,
it's a good post when people are like a like
a clip when you see people writing paragraphs or arguing
or arguing, Hey, I'm not even are you back there?
Y'all are emotionally involved in this post.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
And I get emotionally involved in the comments.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
He always in the comments. I try I try to
avoid from the comments. Like we did an interview with
Sexy Red in Detroit, and we the interview, we had
a whole setup, right. Sex Red was like, look, I
want you to cut to my dress room and do
an interview.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Cool.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
We go to the dress room. She's like, yo, y'all,
sit on the couch, y'all get a little closer. Why
y'all so far apart? Like, okay, so we do everybody comments?
Why y'all so close? I'm like to get closer to
her because we were far away on the couch, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
But you know, people.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Explaining that back story. Should I go into this?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Yeah you can.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
You can never win in the comments, you know you cantimes.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I'm literally rubbing my feet together and.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
He'd be really responding back to everybody. I always say, listen.
The comments section is like a love and hip hop episode.
As gonna happen, somebody gonna throw on each other in
security gonna come.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I like giving them a good you know, back and
forth banter and then leaving them on their ass, like
got you together because you don't know what you talk about.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
This is a clip.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
This is a sensationalized clip that sometimes can be put
together to watch the full episode exactly. The clip is
the hit record, the post, the whole podcast is the
actual album. So that's how I treat it. So I'm
over here like, bro, you know, this is a manipulated
clip for you to talk to me. Thank you for
engaging commenting last days don't like, hey, I'm telling you
(12:06):
try pity. They asked for peace and blessing and that
little smiley the blush like that ship.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Definitely manipulating the conversation.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Some people don't even be knowing we be friends with,
like certain celebrities and stuff. We'd be like, you know,
really cracking jokes on that. Ain't talking to that, like
like this is actually my friend.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Like one time we had cash, so I came off.
I politely guided the conversation somewhere because we were kind
of talking on something too long. It was, oh my god,
just keeps cutting off. I'm over here, like yo, you
guys don't understand exactly. We have some talking points that.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
We need to hit.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I need to take it over here.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Help because some.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Guests are just some guests will just narrate the whole interview,
and you like, Sten Man, we want people to actually
watch this, so let me ask questions.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
So we need some clips out of this.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
He was like, let me tell you one thing and
actually after that and then yeah, we like like damn,
we didn't have we have we.
Speaker 10 (13:14):
Don't have so many guests where we were like Roddy
literally like all right, I'm about to cut this. No,
sometimes you got to because they just going because we're like,
we gotta get some clips out of nobody's gonna watch
it like this.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
That's the thing. That's the thing.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Some of them clips clip rod be like.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
So that right there.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
I think I said you did.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
But you know you have to have a key word
with our producer. Right, I'm not gonna say it. You
have to change it up, t bro. No, we had
so many people rushing us, bro.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Or like it was a blessing. Though it's it's a blessing.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
But we have some keywords that will throw out there.
That's what that's letting everybody, everybody that's on staff though,
Hey bro, we have some key words. We'll say something
real slick and you'll you will never catch it.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
I could have just did it just now right, we
have we have a delegated time for you. For you guys,
the BT Awards is like the Wild Wild West. It's
like this p R in this label. It's like, hey,
I got my artists.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
You ever seen an animal planet or whatever and you
see a dead animal hyenas and they're just going, yeah,
the dead animal was us. And then it was crazy, like, hey,
can you get Hey, we even got one of our
big dogs. He was like, for you right now?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah, their preparation because I always think about it for
like the Red carpet, for people to you might not know.
You know, obviously there's so many people that we do,
you know what I mean? But is it ever like
somebody that you don't know that's coming up.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I got burnt a few times, so I do try to.
I do try to somewhat prep. I'm usually so tapped
into where I don't have to prep. I'll be doing
it for so long. But yeah, it's been some a
man the Seals, she walked off on my ass. Man,
you ain't know she was, No, I did, but she
walked I was doing the red carbet for the BT
(15:30):
Social Awards, and I was just doing it where I
didn't say the name. I wanted them to introduce myself
because the camera, I'm in the camera. So I was like, hey,
it's for a ball alert, please introduce yourself. She was like,
you don't know my name. I wanted you to introduce.
(15:52):
The clip is gonna say hey man, starting I'm not
in the clip.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
So she walked up.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
You know what I would have prepped. I would have
I would have had I would have prepped a little
bit more. I would have known two for her not
do that point.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
Well, First, first of all, it's a lot of people
don't know who she is. And second of all, we live,
we live, It's been real. We live, and we live
in a world where the internet is so magnified that
somebody could be so lit on the Internet and go
outside and nobody know who they are.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Is that happens every Wednesday at my R and B party.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
It was somebody that was really popping on the internet
and my homegirls like yo, such and such as outside
he can't get in?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I said, who? I said?
Speaker 5 (16:42):
I said, Okay, I know who that is. He'd have
got into it with security outside. He's real big on TikTok.
And I'm like, bro, why you didn't call somebody like
you can't expect everybody to know who you are.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I know who you are. Security is a fifty some
year old man with a wife and kids.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
He damn sure and that TikTok to know who So
you have to have that same courteous with everybody unless
you Snoop Dogg Beyonce Drake, I ain't expecting everybody.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Know who you are got to be.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
I think you just can't assume mar And I'm not
gonna lie.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Like, we get so many artists that reach out that
she even sends to the chat like y'all know this person,
and so many.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Times I'm like, no, but they got five hundred thousand
followers somebody.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
It's so many artists and some cat you know what
I mean. You know what I mean, but like it's like, yo,
this is overwhelming. So that's why I'm asking because like obviously,
especially be T, there's so many people that we know,
but it's like, bro, there can be somebody with five
hundred thousand followers that's want to come up and we
just didn't get to followers.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
It might be somewhere else then America on the come up.
Speaker 9 (17:53):
When we interviewed her, she.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Was at the Hollywood when we was at BT Awards.
Yeah this year, this was acting Hollywood, man. I don't
like that, but but that's why I told Fra that's
why I'm supporting new artists.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I don't care. I don't care. You don't care about
new artists anymore.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
You couldn't He couldn't. No, it wasn't it wasn't that right.
It's it's the simple fact of, like somebody like Coco Jones.
I love Coco Jones. We interviewed her three times before
she blew up, and I'll never forget, I told Ferrari.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
I said, man, whoever is moving her around, she's gonna
blow up.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
She one song away, and I said, only because I
see her work ethic, like I'm talking about every time
she would come in town, she would be like, yo,
I gotta do y'all show.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
And she ended up blowing up.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
And we seen her at the BT Awards, and you
know she's you know, she spoke and sell what's up.
It's just a simple fact of It's like if people
are a part of your success, like you know, you
meet an artist for the first time, they hungry.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
They'll do anything to.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Get on your show, anything, whatever you need to pull
up wherever you at, come support you, whatever.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
As soon as they get that record number.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Change following on Instagram streaming, I don't even want to
do y'all show. I'm only about to go do passing
that show.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
It's just I just I've just seen it happen so
many times that it's really like, I don't even care
no more to support new artists.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
It was a new artist, cool, whatever, because you're gonna
blow up, and then next year we ain't gonna even
be able to talk to you.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
When we was supporting you before you blew up and
you were hungry and you were eager to be on
our show. But then people blow up and they get
all these new people around, and I love we love
supporting new artists. It ain't even the support part.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I just love new music because there's a there's an
authenticity about it that you can't deny, Like when you
start making a whole bunch of money, the hunger is
not there no more.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
You' you're the only one that still got the sound.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Sorry, correct me if I'm wrong. A lot of the
artists that's like major now, their first two albums always
is their best work because they're the hungriest. I listened
to a lot of artists who are popping now. I
listen to still. I still listen to some of their
first projects and albums and mistakes because that's the part
(20:20):
of the music that I like the most, because I
can tell that they're starving and they're hungry and they
want it so bad, so like to to kind of
say what you are to kind of piggyback of what
you're saying. I love that process, but now I'm learning
I need to be a part of the process. For example,
Billy gain Cushington, I got a record with him. Hell,
(20:41):
I would have known all this. I would have records
with the Baby, Little Baby because I was tapped in
so early to them. That's part of who my resume is.
I just didn't know that, Oh I can get a
studio with them, and I can create a record too.
Had I would have known this, oh man, I would
have had so many records. You know what I'm saying
because I would like to. I like to be a
part of the process, but it's in a background type
(21:02):
of role. Yeah, And I didn't know I could. I
could have inserted myself to where it was a monetary
value in it for me and it's not on some
like oh I'm charging you for this, No, I'm organically, Hey,
let me get a song. I won't put out a record.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Yeah, because it's everything that I look at, Like with
the entertainment business, especially dealing with artists, it is just transactional, like.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
We help them.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
They don't help us when you knew us, interviewing you
is not helping us whatsoever. But what happens is when
they you know, when they get that record or you know,
they get that notoriety. Now when it's time to return
the favorite, they don't want to help you. They're not
coming back doing your show. When they get lit, they don't.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Well yes, yes or no. For example, me and Fly
Out of DC literally got suspended for a week and
a half for playing little Baby. I took all the
music out his song for thirty five minutes. That didn't
help us because he was so new at the My
bosses like, y'all, I ain't gonna allow it was my
(22:08):
dog record and the radio it's programming, so it's literally
songs that's already programmed. I took all that ship out,
and I was like, yo, I'm standing on this. Yeah,
you had my back, but I heard Great Street did
do it to Gez. Yeah you know what I'm saying.
And I just kept saying, I want to create some
type of history there, you know what I'm saying. That's
(22:29):
why I was kind of I was a little salty
when I didn't make his documentary because I was like
I was a part of that.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
That's real.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
But I talked to P. I did talk to P
and they are doing another documentary and.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Gonna be they recognize y'all or give y'all Like.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Well, baby, the little baby always give me my flowers
whenever I seen him.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Now now you've seen it. You've seen a difference when
when we ran into a little baby in l A
and then we ran into Shorty, it's all different. Yeah,
level of respect. Now you know what I'm saying when
you this business because.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
It's my job on the line for a little baby.
But he knew that as well. He also knew that
I didn't need a check.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
I don't do it.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
I do want my song, though, I want to ask
for Like when you say you're putting a song, when
you do a song, is it you like orchestrating it,
like getting the producer?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Okay, so sometimes it's my producer, and sometimes I'll do
the beat with a producer, Okay, the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Okay, So you're you're in there like giving kind of
guidance or you're just record.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Yeah, it's my song. So I'm basically saying I'm on
my DJ cally An R. And so, for example, the
record that I Have a Better Gang Cush, I'm the
one that's literally got the DJ's playing and the one
that's got all the radio. You know, it's a weird
thing that I'm on the radio station and other radio
stations are playing it. Yeah, that that lets it that
(23:58):
lets it be known there is sometimes unity going on
as well. You can't pay for that that type of support.
That's okay, we rock with you. I like what you're doing.
I'm gonna support you.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
And also I wanted to ask y'all, like when you
were talking about like new artists, I'm just asking that
because we all do podcasts and stuff and like talking
about support and stuff like do you guys take offense
when something like you're helping somebody and they don't accept
your clips or anything like when you're posting.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
I could be going.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
No.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
What I don't like though, is more so like you know,
someone with bad energy in the interview, because then we'll
just wrap it up. We had remember we had that one.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
We had one.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
It was a couple of years back. The fan base.
She's from Chicago.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
It was.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
That interview.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
She wasn't yeah, but she wasn't in a good mood
that day.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
But look, I didn't even know. I didn't know. He
didn't know nothing about that. She came in.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
I watch it.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
You know something we had somebody was hungry, so at
least she had some real ship going on. They just
wanted Chick fil A and they had an attitude. They
didn't want to talk nothing.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
That's crazy. That the time for this. Look, one thing
that I would do and religion. If I'm hungry, bro,
I will walk in here with with some food eating.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
He'll be late because because.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
This is this is important, like like protecting our energy.
I would be late for an interview just so I
can eat if I have to. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
One time he was so hungry. I did the interview
without the name.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Because you remember on the radio to.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
No, I would listen, listen what did I tell you
on y'all show. I want people to understand my energy.
It's positive energy. I don't never want people to meet
me and like, man, I met that dude b too,
like he was an asshole, like he was blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
One.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
I think one of the reasons why y'all show is
so fared and our show is so far because I
could tell y'all real friends. I talked to him whether
he was doing this or being on the radio or not.
He's my real friend, you know what I'm saying. He's
like my real little bro. He's in my wedding. I
literally talked to him all the time they were fly
out DC though. He's that's why him and I that
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was my real friend. Yeah, and we all we got
a group chat and everything. So like I like being
and then with solo when me and show, that's my
that's the only woman that I'm super cool with. I'm
so cool with her, like her and my wife type.
That's that's type ship.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
You know.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Once I got married, I ain't really talk to know
girls on a friendship level like that, only super I
like that.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
When I first moved to Atlanta ten years ago. No,
that's crazy somebody. Yeah, they were like, are you interested
in doing like a radio fair hood affairs? I met
them at listen I met them at No I listened.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, I met them at a listening advance and they yeah,
introduced me a lot lot and I DJ for her
for the progress support and then ever since we've been
locked in so it what was dope with all of us.
I think that our friendship grew with our business mindset.
It wasn't just like us being friends and then we
try to do business together, like it all grew together.
(27:46):
So it was a little different, but definitely dope. Fact
and like ten years plus, yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Yeah, niggas getting old. Damn what I a kid and
my mom to be like, yeah, this is my friend
ten years When we say stuff like that, God.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
You know, it's interesting.
Speaker 7 (28:09):
For one, I do feel like it's a blessing to age.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
So it's definitely comfortable with age.
Speaker 8 (28:14):
Like when people always, you know, felt weird about it,
I never felt weird about it. So that's number one, Like,
I'm hello, comfortable age, and I think it's a.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Blessing only get better. I love it.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
But yeah, just in terms of the other part.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Though, well, the only thing the only thing sucks about
aging is the bills. Shrink me told me. I want
to grow up and get out of the house.
Speaker 8 (28:39):
And how I know people get old though, It's like
when I see their kids, it's like, you know, especially
with these artists that we've been knowing for years, it's
like certain people will be on my line like yeah,
my son rapping. Now I'm like, your so does your
son and you know they'll say the age I know.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
We ag this, how I know I'm getting old? Yeah,
rock O and Monica, kids.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
You, the kids in the club, the kids.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
When we was we was doing something for Nick Cannon
and they was all backstage and I'm saying, bro, you
was and that makes you.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
I watched you grow up when I saw the old head.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
How many people when you always kids were saying the
same thing.
Speaker 9 (29:22):
I thought that was weird, like change the pampers, allry, relax, not.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Even my blood.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Let me ask you all the question funny and almost
close some time. But look, that's not strawberry, strawberry. What's
like the what's the end goal for the problem report? Like,
if you guys can see yourselves in the next five years,
what does that look like?
Speaker 7 (29:51):
Man, you know it's crazy.
Speaker 8 (29:52):
That question always is tricky, the five ten year question,
because it's like, man, you know, it's just tricky because
I remember somebody asked me that before and COVID happened,
and it's like, bro, just why I don't like answer
that question. But what I will say, I just pray
that we all continue to progress and grow and do
what we love to do. You know what I'm saying,
It's a blessing to wake up every day and you
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don't make stuff happen for yourself. Like it's truly a
blessing that I personally, I know, I don't take for granted.
And it's dope just seeing them progress as well, you know,
doing what they do. So I just pray the guy
that we able to still do what we do, make
great connections, partnerships and you know, just remain just do
what we love.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Man. I like that, Yeah, I say like how they say,
like you don't know, God's plan is way bigger. But
I would love for us to be like on the
FM radio because I think you can tell our relationship.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
We really are into music and know that.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
And I don't think for as gay as Atlanta is,
that there's a lot of queer representation on the radio,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
It probably you know what I'm saying. I just walked outside.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Like the brass come on.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
It's not like, yeah, but there should be some more
queer representation and I think, yeah, I think the radio
is missing that, especially in Atlanta. And don't got to
be like strictly gay shop, but just like we could
be the ones to make that.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Joke because we do have a whole prime festival. Because
as a radio station, they'll be like, hey, for do
you want to do it? I'll be like, I don't mind.
It's like how you have representation crazy? You know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
That's that's that's I like what you said, like real,
like how you that all the time.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
But that's one thing that I don't understand is like
how they try to put like straight men in situations
that it's like this ain't for you.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
You know what I'm saying, Like we hadn't this would
be my second year I did.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
I had to go. It's okay to say you did,
but I had to.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
We had to broad yeah one one saving before we go,
did you have something?
Speaker 6 (32:18):
Just to continue to make it a career for us,
because I feel like when we first started it was
more like a passion project. But just to really it
be our nine to five in the sense to where
it's not like we got to decide whether we want
to do this or something else, like we already not.
This is bringing us in revenue as well, especially with
the amount of time that we put into it, and
then the Red carpets as well.
Speaker 9 (32:39):
I feel like when people.
Speaker 6 (32:40):
Come to Atlanta like and have Atlanta events, I feel
like we don't get invited out a lot to anything,
and it's like we've been here, hold it down for
over ten years. So it's just like we have to
do we have to do more on our part too.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
And can y'all agree with me too that y'all gotta
start calling people out this as I tell somebody like
it'd be certain opportunities and I'll be like, bro, how
you and tell me about this? If you rock with
me and you say you love what I do, and
then opportunities present itself and my name don't come up
and it's okay, it's okay, Like we gotta stop being
(33:18):
fake in this industry because I feel like we're in
the industry just full of actors, yes, and we ain't
got that one movie w.
Speaker 9 (33:27):
I think because everybody's afraid to like people be gatekeeping.
Speaker 6 (33:30):
So it's like if you do speak up and keep
it real, then you might be afraid to do that
because now you're gonna get cut off and they're not
gonna call you, or you're gonna look you're going guess what.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Guess what? Now we have what's called the internet. Jesus,
Jesus again.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
I feel like this this helps us collectively create leverage.
Speaker 9 (33:47):
Yes, we gotta do it ourselves.
Speaker 6 (33:49):
That's one thing we big on is like if they're
not gonna call us, we're gonna create our own stuff.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
You got to it. Also, it also helps for more people.
That's why, because they you know, now I'm an a
p d at come on, yes, sir. It also helps
for more people to get in those roles that can
now open up the eyes of the old the old
way way no more. We have a mental health check
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in brought to you by the Faith Project.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Keisha.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
What up? What Keisha? I would love for you guys
to tell us what do you do to strengthen your
mental health?
Speaker 8 (34:26):
Great question, I'll start.
Speaker 9 (34:28):
I guess.
Speaker 8 (34:30):
I feel like I'm just proud of myself just for
the growth and progress that I made just in the
area alone. I definitely know for me personally, I prioritize
just mental health and just making sure I'm good and
and that's as simple as just just simplicity, Like living
a simple life is just my biggest thing that has
worked for me, not trying to force nothing and just
(34:55):
being as simple as possible and just being grateful for
the minute things like just just grateful.
Speaker 7 (35:03):
That I got all my fingers grateful.
Speaker 9 (35:06):
That's a real.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Vision.
Speaker 7 (35:09):
By the way, I like niggas too, Yes, gay damn,
but I'm saying.
Speaker 9 (35:23):
If I don't want my niggas to be hitting me up, Like,
wait a minute.
Speaker 8 (35:26):
I still like y'all too, but yeah, just really just
living a simple life and being grateful for the new
things is just how I can take care of my
mental health and and not trying to force nothing.
Speaker 9 (35:38):
And that's what I try to do every day.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Me, I would say this year and this.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Yeah, so I've been sober twenty five, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Yeah, starting to work out.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
And stuff, and I think taking like the first two
hours in the day to focus on things for me,
and then it helps me do stuff for everybody else.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
But once I do stuff for everybody else before me,
then I always feel incomplete, you know what I'm saying.
So I would say that has helped.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
And just to throw it out there, I just kicked
off a sober spin challenge for DJs for the month
of July to go one month without drinking just because themas.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Ain't gonna do it.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
Yeah, we got some people.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Yeah, you get free everything.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
It is hard, No, it is hard, and we do
get free everything. But you know what we don't get
is free health care. And a lot of DJs have
been falling out left and right, forty fifty years old,
and you see it, go fund me up, you know
what I'm saying. So where's those people that was giving
you those shots? They ain't even putting it nothing in
(36:50):
You're go fund me. So I think that's support because
I literally seen and DJ's be looking bad, be out
of shape, like a motherfucker, looking fat and everything. I'm
sorry to say it, but for real, like I'll be
looking at DJ, like you skinny, but your stomach is fat.
Speaker 4 (37:03):
That look crazy, you know what I'm saying, a lot
of that has to do with.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Us direct, and that's the way too.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Really, it's deeper than the free shit, because a lot
of us don't got healthcare, you know what I mean,
And like, at least we can prevent some shit.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
You know that's only as I got my job.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
My health is hilarious, I tell all that.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Mental health.
Speaker 6 (37:30):
So I have daily routines so I really get big
on mental health. Maybe like twenty sixteen, I was a
part of this network marketing group. I don't know if
y'all ever been in anything like that, but I have, okay.
So they really are big on building your subconscious and
just learning how to present yourself so that you can
attract the right energy and all that kind of stuff.
So I have daily routines where I wake up at
six am every day, I read my goal book, I
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read my.
Speaker 9 (37:52):
Informations, I pray, I go to the gym. All this
is without being.
Speaker 6 (37:56):
On my phone completely disconnected from like six to like
ten thirds. So I just make sure I do that
every single day, and that really helps me just build
my subconscious and it gets my mood right to where
I can deal with almost every deal with everything that's
going on because a lot of the times, most of
the stuff we can't control it, but we can control
how we react to it.
Speaker 9 (38:15):
But if you're not.
Speaker 6 (38:16):
Mentally stable to know how to deal with things, then
you'll start crashing out. So you got to make sure
that you're taking the time to build your mental health
and really set healthy boundaries for yourself to where you're
not putting yourself in a position where you're crashing out
because life is crazy, life is hard.
Speaker 9 (38:29):
You don't know what's going to happen.
Speaker 6 (38:30):
You might have a death in the family, you might
have a friend that pass away, you might lose your job,
you might whatever, you can't call it. But if you're
mentally built for all the things that are going to
come your way, which are inevitable, then you'll be able
to deal with it. So I just think it's really
big to create a daily routine that you set yourself
for and do it every single day. Repetition is key,
and it don't feel like it's getting old or you're
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getting bored with it. Like the more I read my goalbook.
It makes me feel good when I knock things off
my goalbook. And I also did stop drinking this year
as well too, So I'm going one year so over
from a which is a big thing for me because I.
Speaker 9 (39:03):
Love my repisode. Oh you feel me. I'm a promoter,
Like you said, we get everything for free.
Speaker 6 (39:07):
So but it's been easier. I'm not gonna say easy.
It's been easier the longer it's been going through. So
I think people should just challenge themselves and step aside
their conference zone and let go of to the things
that you know are not really contributing to you on
a health aspect, and see how you do with it.
Speaker 9 (39:22):
I bet you'll see a progress in that key word.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
How do you?
Speaker 3 (39:25):
What do you do when you have bad days?
Speaker 5 (39:28):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (39:29):
What time for money?
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Loan?
Speaker 2 (39:30):
When she hit us with that, she take a nap.
I tried that the other day.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
It worked on it worked.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
When I walk up from the nap, my levels were down.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
It felt like a fresh start.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
I hate that.
Speaker 4 (39:47):
You tried it. What's that? How long was your not?
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Thirty minutes?
Speaker 7 (39:51):
I don't know how to do that. Thirty minutes to
get to sleep?
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Usually before that, how I started my day. I attacked
the most important difficult thing that I got to do
that day. First, I knocked that that's done before nine am.
It's already done or I'm gonna handle it. I know
how to deal with it or handle it by nine am.
So once I get that done. And then the second
(40:17):
thing is if him and I were on the radio
that day, all right, cool, let's come in, let's I
got the show. Let's figure out what we're talking about.
Once that's done, we kind I'm really kind of cruising
through the rest of the day because I've had already
attacked everything I had to do early. Now I'm just
playing my role through the day that I already planned out,
and sometimes it doesn't go how it's supposed to be
(40:37):
playing I planned it out, Yeah, and you just make adjustments.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
That's what I do. That's good, that's real. Well. Preparation,
that's what do you do.
Speaker 5 (40:46):
Preparation. That's what a lot of people don't talk about.
Be prepared for anything. Hell, and I feel like we
don't talk about that enough now, you know, prepare for
anything to happen, Prepared to lose your job, prepared to
lose a relationship, prepared to lose a family member, like
I feel like for me that helps a lot with
like my fear of loss, with anything. Like I'm just
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always mentally prepared for anything that could go wrong in
my life, you know what I'm saying. And and you know,
obviously shit don't always go how it's supposed to go.
But that that's that's the beauty of life, you know
what I'm saying, Because sometimes that know that you get
was a blessing.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
I talk about that all the time.
Speaker 5 (41:25):
I had an opportunity to get a radio job back
home in Arkansas, and I wanted this job so bad.
I was like, man, if I get this radio job,
I can quit my day job. My life is gonna be.
It didn't happen that way, they said no. I said,
all right, cool, I packed my bags up and moved
to Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
And the rest is history.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
I move.
Speaker 5 (41:43):
I moved so fast back home when I got that
note that my mama thought I was on the run.
That doesn't said, I said, fuck this, I'm getting out
of here. They mother, but just told me no, I'm
gonna go get a yes somewhere else.
Speaker 6 (41:57):
So you know that's what's up, y'all because men don't
be speaking and they never do because man, y'all keep
a lot of not y'all, but men keep that trauma inside.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
To as well that they club as well.
Speaker 6 (42:12):
But women speak out more on mental and I love
when men do it too, because that's fel like it
needs to be a part of more. Our black men,
especially need to quit sliding down the dough.
Speaker 11 (42:22):
Yeah, niggas, we appreciate you, uh you guys on us
ladies appreciate y'all.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
Any shout outs.
Speaker 8 (42:35):
Almost right, man shout out to y'all for you know
again man with the progress, you know, and just salute
to everybody that supports us.
Speaker 9 (42:43):
Genuinely, we really really appreciate that.
Speaker 7 (42:46):
So that's really the biggest shout out.
Speaker 6 (42:48):
Everybody that's supporting the supporters, Yeah, because it's hard what
we do. So when people show us love is just
reassures us that we're doing the right thing and that
we are being seen because you know, social media sometimes
makes you like you're not being seen with this algorithm
and stuff and the likes and the comments.
Speaker 9 (43:05):
But when people come in person and you know.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
What I'm saying, everybody else and you never know who's
seen you, and sometimes it can be discouraging, but then
you'll get that one call or something that make you regroup,
you know what I'm saying, and we get that, you know,
every so after where it was like damn, but then
we get some of there like yeah, y'all see us.
Speaker 4 (43:24):
So just shout out to everybody that's.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
Been supporting us, and really shout to y'all in any
other like podcast out here, we definitely need to continue
to cross market and it don't hurt at all.
Speaker 4 (43:35):
Like a podcast is like an hour long people.
Speaker 3 (43:37):
Got man, people. People are.
Speaker 5 (43:40):
People are stuck on numbers and likes and clickbait and
all that stuff, and I'll be like, let's just have
a conversation, just make dope ass contents.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
Before we go.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
What time for Wallow? For Wallow and Gilly? He taught
the BT and nine and he literally changed my view
on all this.
Speaker 4 (43:57):
What he said.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
He said, don't look at the numbers, don't look at you.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
We talked for hours.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
Don't look at none of that. Just do your thing
and enjoy, Sit back and enjoy.
Speaker 4 (44:06):
Easy to say when they get a check, but it works.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
That check too.
Speaker 4 (44:13):
That's real. Gon heard so much about while I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (44:19):
Is exactly who say.
Speaker 4 (44:21):
Yeah, well, I'm ready to talk about that.
Speaker 3 (44:25):
Now.
Speaker 5 (44:25):
We're gonna give y'all some information. And that's the one
thing that we all lack. That people don't want to
want to give people information.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
It costs you nothing, all right, man, probably supportall alert episode.
Speaker 4 (44:38):
Yeah, bitch, okay, we appreciate, appreciate
Get list. They called me.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Broadcast a lot from Atlanta, Georgia. Welcome to the Baller Show.
I go by the name for I go by the name,
you know, b T progam supporting the building.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I don't think y'all was going out drip me home.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
You walk in with the beater. I knew you want to.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
They're having it on.
Speaker 5 (00:25):
I ain't like I have it.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Please introduce yourself.
Speaker 6 (00:27):
Hey, it's your girl, like Love Shepherd, d J exlir
the mostly no no, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Introduce yourselves properly, Shepherd. You know, okay, all right?
Speaker 7 (00:38):
Are we looking at the camera?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
You do whatever.
Speaker 8 (00:41):
It's your girl, Lilave Shepherd. I am the CEO owner
of the progrem Support. Also do brand management for the
coalition DJs and when they say people are the plug,
that's what I do.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
On the Plug.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
D J Excel of course the DJ event court, UH
curator and host on the Progress Support. Also we have
another podcast called the Homo a Whole.
Speaker 9 (01:07):
Of y'all mostly one of three the Progress Support.
Speaker 6 (01:16):
I curate big events all throughout the United States and internationally,
mostly queer events, predominantlyquer events and UH media personality.
Speaker 9 (01:26):
You know what I'm saying, my big one that much.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Well, we wanted to have you guys on here because
of course we came on Europe and what.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
The hell was you?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
What was your say?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
You were busy.
Speaker 9 (01:38):
Sliding down the door.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
But we just want to hang out on here just
to cross promote each other. Absolutely, I feel like, you know,
we see a lot of people do it in music, yeah,
and we start seeing it on different sides of the country,
people doing in podcasts. I said it.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
It doesn't happen in media media in Atlanta. Don't funk
with each other. Everybody is always like, yeah, I like
what you're doing, but don't but don't support you. Then
you look at the other sides of the country and
everybody's cross promoting on different platform You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
We just want to show everybody it's enough to go on.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
But you guys have a dope podcast and podcast because
correct me for wrong, I say it right, queer? Why
did you say queer?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
So well? Educate be careful now using all these terminologies.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
But the proverb support and based off of gay stuff is.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
We just happen to be gay, but we really are
in this industry, you know, what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
So the program support.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
It's just like media and we're really in that life,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
And then the Homo Show is everything.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
That's when you guys unpacked the game. So the Progress
supporters today job hours after dark. I also want to
give you all your flowers. I know b T is
gonna chime in because when you come to Atlanta, you
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have to come to the Progress Report period. That's one
of the stops that new popping whoever they have to
come to your platform, which I feel like was earned,
has been putting a lot of work. So I just
wanted to give you guys your flowers on that because
that ship, like what we do, is difficult.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Man.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I love y'all. By the way, really dope set up,
and y'all brought gifts. I brought your water.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
When we get upset, we'll have you got a man.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
For granted.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Clean great, God bless you.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Now let's talk about the after our podcast though, that's
the one. How did that come about? It's called the
No Homo Show? Yeaheah, okay, who's here? Was that?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
So?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
The No Homo Show was originally my idea, but I
bought to brick because we throw queer events and it's like, yo.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
That's so it's okay.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
It's okay to say that queer queer.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Events where is.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Queer person said yeah, yeah, it's respectful.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
So it's respectful to absolutely can say queer, Leave off
the dyke, don't say.
Speaker 9 (04:35):
Don't say.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
People still use that word. That's an old ass terminology.
You know, my uncle will say, yeah, if.
Speaker 8 (04:44):
You was a gay girl that looked like for us
two times, or like, if you look like that's the truth.
Speaker 9 (04:52):
If you look like many fresh you know, that's you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
That's a you can say that for people that are allies,
meaning like y'all support us, y'all part of it. It's
not okay to say those words.
Speaker 9 (05:07):
Especially not.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I've never heard that.
Speaker 9 (05:17):
Yeah, but yet queer is fine and l g b
T is fine as well.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
The only terminology that I've heard I have I've never
heard it. Yeah, scared, I mean that I respect that
for But the offensive terms that you guys talked about,
I've never heard people say that.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
That's like people people still you tries to like attack us,
they will be like and they'll be.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Like people with low chromosomes.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
But I would say one thing about one thing about
our show is that we we're not like the woke,
you know, like make you afraid to talk about some
real ship.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Even had a siary the kid on and we.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Oh my god got us canceled.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
It was so mad at that episode, and we just
like we want to talk for real, like we want
we don't want to be like like, oh my god,
you said that. Now we got questions for even people
within our community, you know what I mean, people.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Think beause you're gay, that you know everything gay. And
we learned so much, you know what I mean. Like
we had a person on.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
It was a trans man and he was pregnant by
his boyfriend.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
You know what, man as a woman that turned into
a man and they got pregnant.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
His boyfriend, his boyfriend. Trust me, we were like, what's
the dynamic.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Biologically he was a woman, so he can get pregnant.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Yeah damn, yeah, yeah I didn't possible.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, I mean biologically you still got the he's a
trans man, that means he was a she, so he
has female parts, gotcha, organs, gotcha?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
And yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
So then we also like interview the stud that likes
to have sex with men on porn like porn sites
and stuff, and it's just we get into it and
we're we're just as curious as y'all are. So like,
I think our show just we talked some real ship
and it's not like don't be afraid of like you
can't be afraid to say this or ask this or
(07:30):
feel offended about this, you know. So I think that's
what makes our show dope.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
That's good. That sounds very entertaining.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
And straight people love it too. I think straight people.
Speaker 9 (07:42):
They definitely.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Made this calte up right here on the hat. I
prefer coccieie. Even straight people wear this hat. They but
some person did make your point, like, you know, why
does a straight man have to wear it?
Speaker 9 (07:57):
That says I prefer couchie.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
I mean, I think that's no. I don't think it's weird.
I think people don't.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Have a sense of humor, Like people gotta start having
a sense of human ain't that serious?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
And the Internet made everything seem serious because they made.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Regular people haven't feel like they got a platform and
they can say whatever they want to say and be
like this is my opinion, be able to do this,
like man have fun.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Like podcast and radio hosts like are y'all like, nah,
I want to stay true to my opinion and even
if this caused like some chaos.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
And like what the difference is, I'm not afraid to
be fired. I think that's I think a lot of
people are afraid to be fired. Rory says stuff on
the radio and I'd be like, hey, bro, we might
get fired.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Like they hired us because of our opinions.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Sometimes we do get on the line and then that's
when our boss comes in and be like hey bro, yeah, yeah,
he'll come in and be.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Like hold on.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Like ro said something on the radio last week. He
said something crazy and I was like, said it.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
It was a subject, I mean, you know, it was.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
It was a certain individual that we saw little girl
already to get no no no no no no no
no no, I'm ready to get sued.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
It's a different one.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
So it was it was a certain individual that was
at the media house that we were in, and we
didn't like his views on his lifestyle. You know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
He's a thirty eight year old man and he's dating
like he's married to like a she's like twenty one
or something like.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
That, so it's giving groom. But you know when she
was seventeen.
Speaker 9 (09:34):
Oh wow, yeah Marcus, Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
I can either confirm nor deny. I don't know what
y'all talk about, but it was it was, it was
it was some of the lit to talk about that
on the radio, and I was like, hey, man, we
might get fired, man. Yea, we might get fired man,
But you.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Know what, right, those things that have him breathing like
that are the things that like.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Take a radio state or a podcast to the next level.
And then when you.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
See comments, like one thing we learned is like, you know,
it's a good post when people are like a like
a clip when you see people writing paragraphs or arguing
or arguing, Hey, I'm not even are you back there?
Y'all are emotionally involved in this post.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
And I get emotionally involved in the comments.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
He always in the comments. I try I try to
avoid from the comments. Like we did an interview with
Sexy Red in Detroit, and we the interview, we had
a whole setup, right. Sex Red was like, look, I
want you to cut to my dress room and do
an interview.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Cool.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
We go to the dress room. She's like, yo, y'all,
sit on the couch, y'all get a little closer. Why
y'all so far apart? Like, okay, so we do everybody comments?
Why y'all so close? I'm like to get closer to
her because we were far away on the couch, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
But you know, people.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Explaining that back story. Should I go into this?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Yeah you can.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
You can never win in the comments, you know you cantimes.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I'm literally rubbing my feet together and.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
He'd be really responding back to everybody. I always say, listen.
The comments section is like a love and hip hop episode.
As gonna happen, somebody gonna throw on each other in
security gonna come.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I like giving them a good you know, back and
forth banter and then leaving them on their ass, like
got you together because you don't know what you talk about.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
This is a clip.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
This is a sensationalized clip that sometimes can be put
together to watch the full episode exactly. The clip is
the hit record, the post, the whole podcast is the
actual album. So that's how I treat it. So I'm
over here like, bro, you know, this is a manipulated
clip for you to talk to me. Thank you for
engaging commenting last days don't like, hey, I'm telling you
(12:06):
try pity. They asked for peace and blessing and that
little smiley the blush like that ship.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Definitely manipulating the conversation.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Some people don't even be knowing we be friends with,
like certain celebrities and stuff. We'd be like, you know,
really cracking jokes on that. Ain't talking to that, like
like this is actually my friend.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Like one time we had cash, so I came off.
I politely guided the conversation somewhere because we were kind
of talking on something too long. It was, oh my god,
just keeps cutting off. I'm over here, like yo, you
guys don't understand exactly. We have some talking points that.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
We need to hit.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I need to take it over here.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Help because some.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Guests are just some guests will just narrate the whole interview,
and you like, Sten Man, we want people to actually
watch this, so let me ask questions.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
So we need some clips out of this.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
He was like, let me tell you one thing and
actually after that and then yeah, we like like damn,
we didn't have we have we.
Speaker 10 (13:14):
Don't have so many guests where we were like Roddy
literally like all right, I'm about to cut this. No,
sometimes you got to because they just going because we're like,
we gotta get some clips out of nobody's gonna watch
it like this.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
That's the thing. That's the thing.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Some of them clips clip rod be like.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
So that right there.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
I think I said you did.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
But you know you have to have a key word
with our producer. Right, I'm not gonna say it. You
have to change it up, t bro. No, we had
so many people rushing us, bro.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Or like it was a blessing. Though it's it's a blessing.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
But we have some keywords that will throw out there.
That's what that's letting everybody, everybody that's on staff though,
Hey bro, we have some key words. We'll say something
real slick and you'll you will never catch it.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
I could have just did it just now right, we
have we have a delegated time for you. For you guys,
the BT Awards is like the Wild Wild West. It's
like this p R in this label. It's like, hey,
I got my artists.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
You ever seen an animal planet or whatever and you
see a dead animal hyenas and they're just going, yeah,
the dead animal was us. And then it was crazy, like, hey,
can you get Hey, we even got one of our
big dogs. He was like, for you right now?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah, their preparation because I always think about it for
like the Red carpet, for people to you might not know.
You know, obviously there's so many people that we do,
you know what I mean? But is it ever like
somebody that you don't know that's coming up.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I got burnt a few times, so I do try to.
I do try to somewhat prep. I'm usually so tapped
into where I don't have to prep. I'll be doing
it for so long. But yeah, it's been some a
man the Seals, she walked off on my ass. Man,
you ain't know she was, No, I did, but she
walked I was doing the red carbet for the BT
(15:30):
Social Awards, and I was just doing it where I
didn't say the name. I wanted them to introduce myself
because the camera, I'm in the camera. So I was like, hey,
it's for a ball alert, please introduce yourself. She was like,
you don't know my name. I wanted you to introduce.
(15:52):
The clip is gonna say hey man, starting I'm not
in the clip.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
So she walked up.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
You know what I would have prepped. I would have
I would have had I would have prepped a little
bit more. I would have known two for her not
do that point.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
Well, First, first of all, it's a lot of people
don't know who she is. And second of all, we live,
we live, It's been real. We live, and we live
in a world where the internet is so magnified that
somebody could be so lit on the Internet and go
outside and nobody know who they are.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Is that happens every Wednesday at my R and B party.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
It was somebody that was really popping on the internet
and my homegirls like yo, such and such as outside
he can't get in?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I said, who? I said?
Speaker 5 (16:42):
I said, Okay, I know who that is. He'd have
got into it with security outside. He's real big on TikTok.
And I'm like, bro, why you didn't call somebody like
you can't expect everybody to know who you are.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I know who you are. Security is a fifty some
year old man with a wife and kids.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
He damn sure and that TikTok to know who So
you have to have that same courteous with everybody unless
you Snoop Dogg Beyonce Drake, I ain't expecting everybody.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Know who you are got to be.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
I think you just can't assume mar And I'm not
gonna lie.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Like, we get so many artists that reach out that
she even sends to the chat like y'all know this person,
and so many.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Times I'm like, no, but they got five hundred thousand
followers somebody.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
It's so many artists and some cat you know what
I mean. You know what I mean, but like it's like, yo,
this is overwhelming. So that's why I'm asking because like obviously,
especially be T, there's so many people that we know,
but it's like, bro, there can be somebody with five
hundred thousand followers that's want to come up and we
just didn't get to followers.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
It might be somewhere else then America on the come up.
Speaker 9 (17:53):
When we interviewed her, she.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Was at the Hollywood when we was at BT Awards.
Yeah this year, this was acting Hollywood, man. I don't
like that, but but that's why I told Fra that's
why I'm supporting new artists.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I don't care. I don't care. You don't care about
new artists anymore.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
You couldn't He couldn't. No, it wasn't it wasn't that right.
It's it's the simple fact of, like somebody like Coco Jones.
I love Coco Jones. We interviewed her three times before
she blew up, and I'll never forget, I told Ferrari.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
I said, man, whoever is moving her around, she's gonna
blow up.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
She one song away, and I said, only because I
see her work ethic, like I'm talking about every time
she would come in town, she would be like, yo,
I gotta do y'all show.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
And she ended up blowing up.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
And we seen her at the BT Awards, and you
know she's you know, she spoke and sell what's up.
It's just a simple fact of It's like if people
are a part of your success, like you know, you
meet an artist for the first time, they hungry.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
They'll do anything to.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Get on your show, anything, whatever you need to pull
up wherever you at, come support you, whatever.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
As soon as they get that record number.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Change following on Instagram streaming, I don't even want to
do y'all show. I'm only about to go do passing
that show.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
It's just I just I've just seen it happen so
many times that it's really like, I don't even care
no more to support new artists.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
It was a new artist, cool, whatever, because you're gonna
blow up, and then next year we ain't gonna even
be able to talk to you.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
When we was supporting you before you blew up and
you were hungry and you were eager to be on
our show. But then people blow up and they get
all these new people around, and I love we love
supporting new artists. It ain't even the support part.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I just love new music because there's a there's an
authenticity about it that you can't deny, Like when you
start making a whole bunch of money, the hunger is
not there no more.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
You' you're the only one that still got the sound.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Sorry, correct me if I'm wrong. A lot of the
artists that's like major now, their first two albums always
is their best work because they're the hungriest. I listened
to a lot of artists who are popping now. I
listen to still. I still listen to some of their
first projects and albums and mistakes because that's the part
(20:20):
of the music that I like the most, because I
can tell that they're starving and they're hungry and they
want it so bad, so like to to kind of
say what you are to kind of piggyback of what
you're saying. I love that process, but now I'm learning
I need to be a part of the process. For example,
Billy gain Cushington, I got a record with him. Hell,
(20:41):
I would have known all this. I would have records
with the Baby, Little Baby because I was tapped in
so early to them. That's part of who my resume is.
I just didn't know that, Oh I can get a
studio with them, and I can create a record too.
Had I would have known this, oh man, I would
have had so many records. You know what I'm saying
because I would like to. I like to be a
part of the process, but it's in a background type
(21:02):
of role. Yeah, And I didn't know I could. I
could have inserted myself to where it was a monetary
value in it for me and it's not on some
like oh I'm charging you for this, No, I'm organically, Hey,
let me get a song. I won't put out a record.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Yeah, because it's everything that I look at, Like with
the entertainment business, especially dealing with artists, it is just transactional, like.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
We help them.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
They don't help us when you knew us, interviewing you
is not helping us whatsoever. But what happens is when
they you know, when they get that record or you know,
they get that notoriety. Now when it's time to return
the favorite, they don't want to help you. They're not
coming back doing your show. When they get lit, they don't.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Well yes, yes or no. For example, me and Fly
Out of DC literally got suspended for a week and
a half for playing little Baby. I took all the
music out his song for thirty five minutes. That didn't
help us because he was so new at the My
bosses like, y'all, I ain't gonna allow it was my
(22:08):
dog record and the radio it's programming, so it's literally
songs that's already programmed. I took all that ship out,
and I was like, yo, I'm standing on this. Yeah,
you had my back, but I heard Great Street did
do it to Gez. Yeah you know what I'm saying.
And I just kept saying, I want to create some
type of history there, you know what I'm saying. That's
(22:29):
why I was kind of I was a little salty
when I didn't make his documentary because I was like
I was a part of that.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
That's real.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
But I talked to P. I did talk to P
and they are doing another documentary and.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Gonna be they recognize y'all or give y'all Like.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Well, baby, the little baby always give me my flowers
whenever I seen him.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Now now you've seen it. You've seen a difference when
when we ran into a little baby in l A
and then we ran into Shorty, it's all different. Yeah,
level of respect. Now you know what I'm saying when
you this business because.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
It's my job on the line for a little baby.
But he knew that as well. He also knew that
I didn't need a check.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
I don't do it.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
I do want my song, though, I want to ask
for Like when you say you're putting a song, when
you do a song, is it you like orchestrating it,
like getting the producer?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Okay, so sometimes it's my producer, and sometimes I'll do
the beat with a producer, Okay, the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Okay, So you're you're in there like giving kind of
guidance or you're just record.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Yeah, it's my song. So I'm basically saying I'm on
my DJ cally An R. And so, for example, the
record that I Have a Better Gang Cush, I'm the
one that's literally got the DJ's playing and the one
that's got all the radio. You know, it's a weird
thing that I'm on the radio station and other radio
stations are playing it. Yeah, that that lets it that
(23:58):
lets it be known there is sometimes unity going on
as well. You can't pay for that that type of support.
That's okay, we rock with you. I like what you're doing.
I'm gonna support you.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
And also I wanted to ask y'all, like when you
were talking about like new artists, I'm just asking that
because we all do podcasts and stuff and like talking
about support and stuff like do you guys take offense
when something like you're helping somebody and they don't accept
your clips or anything like when you're posting.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
I could be going.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
No.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
What I don't like though, is more so like you know,
someone with bad energy in the interview, because then we'll
just wrap it up. We had remember we had that one.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
We had one.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
It was a couple of years back. The fan base.
She's from Chicago.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
It was.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
That interview.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
She wasn't yeah, but she wasn't in a good mood
that day.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
But look, I didn't even know. I didn't know. He
didn't know nothing about that. She came in.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
I watch it.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
You know something we had somebody was hungry, so at
least she had some real ship going on. They just
wanted Chick fil A and they had an attitude. They
didn't want to talk nothing.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
That's crazy. That the time for this. Look, one thing
that I would do and religion. If I'm hungry, bro,
I will walk in here with with some food eating.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
He'll be late because because.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
This is this is important, like like protecting our energy.
I would be late for an interview just so I
can eat if I have to. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
One time he was so hungry. I did the interview
without the name.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Because you remember on the radio to.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
No, I would listen, listen what did I tell you
on y'all show. I want people to understand my energy.
It's positive energy. I don't never want people to meet
me and like, man, I met that dude b too,
like he was an asshole, like he was blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
One.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
I think one of the reasons why y'all show is
so fared and our show is so far because I
could tell y'all real friends. I talked to him whether
he was doing this or being on the radio or not.
He's my real friend, you know what I'm saying. He's
like my real little bro. He's in my wedding. I
literally talked to him all the time they were fly
out DC though. He's that's why him and I that
(26:38):
was my real friend. Yeah, and we all we got
a group chat and everything. So like I like being
and then with solo when me and show, that's my
that's the only woman that I'm super cool with. I'm
so cool with her, like her and my wife type.
That's that's type ship.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
You know.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Once I got married, I ain't really talk to know
girls on a friendship level like that, only super I
like that.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
When I first moved to Atlanta ten years ago. No,
that's crazy somebody. Yeah, they were like, are you interested
in doing like a radio fair hood affairs? I met
them at listen I met them at No I listened.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, I met them at a listening advance and they yeah,
introduced me a lot lot and I DJ for her
for the progress support and then ever since we've been
locked in so it what was dope with all of us.
I think that our friendship grew with our business mindset.
It wasn't just like us being friends and then we
try to do business together, like it all grew together.
(27:46):
So it was a little different, but definitely dope. Fact
and like ten years plus, yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Yeah, niggas getting old. Damn what I a kid and
my mom to be like, yeah, this is my friend
ten years When we say stuff like that, God.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
You know, it's interesting.
Speaker 7 (28:09):
For one, I do feel like it's a blessing to age.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
So it's definitely comfortable with age.
Speaker 8 (28:14):
Like when people always, you know, felt weird about it,
I never felt weird about it. So that's number one, Like,
I'm hello, comfortable age, and I think it's a.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Blessing only get better. I love it.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
But yeah, just in terms of the other part.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Though, well, the only thing the only thing sucks about
aging is the bills. Shrink me told me. I want
to grow up and get out of the house.
Speaker 8 (28:39):
And how I know people get old though, It's like
when I see their kids, it's like, you know, especially
with these artists that we've been knowing for years, it's
like certain people will be on my line like yeah,
my son rapping. Now I'm like, your so does your
son and you know they'll say the age I know.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
We ag this, how I know I'm getting old? Yeah,
rock O and Monica, kids.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
You, the kids in the club, the kids.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
When we was we was doing something for Nick Cannon
and they was all backstage and I'm saying, bro, you
was and that makes you.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
I watched you grow up when I saw the old head.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
How many people when you always kids were saying the
same thing.
Speaker 9 (29:22):
I thought that was weird, like change the pampers, allry, relax, not.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Even my blood.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Let me ask you all the question funny and almost
close some time. But look, that's not strawberry, strawberry. What's
like the what's the end goal for the problem report? Like,
if you guys can see yourselves in the next five years,
what does that look like?
Speaker 7 (29:51):
Man, you know it's crazy.
Speaker 8 (29:52):
That question always is tricky, the five ten year question,
because it's like, man, you know, it's just tricky because
I remember somebody asked me that before and COVID happened,
and it's like, bro, just why I don't like answer
that question. But what I will say, I just pray
that we all continue to progress and grow and do
what we love to do. You know what I'm saying,
It's a blessing to wake up every day and you
(30:15):
don't make stuff happen for yourself. Like it's truly a
blessing that I personally, I know, I don't take for granted.
And it's dope just seeing them progress as well, you know,
doing what they do. So I just pray the guy
that we able to still do what we do, make
great connections, partnerships and you know, just remain just do
what we love.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Man. I like that, Yeah, I say like how they say,
like you don't know, God's plan is way bigger. But
I would love for us to be like on the
FM radio because I think you can tell our relationship.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
We really are into music and know that.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
And I don't think for as gay as Atlanta is,
that there's a lot of queer representation on the radio,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
It probably you know what I'm saying. I just walked outside.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Like the brass come on.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
It's not like, yeah, but there should be some more
queer representation and I think, yeah, I think the radio
is missing that, especially in Atlanta. And don't got to
be like strictly gay shop, but just like we could
be the ones to make that.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Joke because we do have a whole prime festival. Because
as a radio station, they'll be like, hey, for do
you want to do it? I'll be like, I don't mind.
It's like how you have representation crazy? You know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
That's that's that's I like what you said, like real,
like how you that all the time.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
But that's one thing that I don't understand is like
how they try to put like straight men in situations
that it's like this ain't for you.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
You know what I'm saying, Like we hadn't this would
be my second year I did.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
I had to go. It's okay to say you did,
but I had to.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
We had to broad yeah one one saving before we go,
did you have something?
Speaker 6 (32:18):
Just to continue to make it a career for us,
because I feel like when we first started it was
more like a passion project. But just to really it
be our nine to five in the sense to where
it's not like we got to decide whether we want
to do this or something else, like we already not.
This is bringing us in revenue as well, especially with
the amount of time that we put into it, and
then the Red carpets as well.
Speaker 9 (32:39):
I feel like when people.
Speaker 6 (32:40):
Come to Atlanta like and have Atlanta events, I feel
like we don't get invited out a lot to anything,
and it's like we've been here, hold it down for
over ten years. So it's just like we have to
do we have to do more on our part too.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
And can y'all agree with me too that y'all gotta
start calling people out this as I tell somebody like
it'd be certain opportunities and I'll be like, bro, how
you and tell me about this? If you rock with
me and you say you love what I do, and
then opportunities present itself and my name don't come up
and it's okay, it's okay, Like we gotta stop being
(33:18):
fake in this industry because I feel like we're in
the industry just full of actors, yes, and we ain't
got that one movie w.
Speaker 9 (33:27):
I think because everybody's afraid to like people be gatekeeping.
Speaker 6 (33:30):
So it's like if you do speak up and keep
it real, then you might be afraid to do that
because now you're gonna get cut off and they're not
gonna call you, or you're gonna look you're going guess what.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Guess what? Now we have what's called the internet. Jesus,
Jesus again.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
I feel like this this helps us collectively create leverage.
Speaker 9 (33:47):
Yes, we gotta do it ourselves.
Speaker 6 (33:49):
That's one thing we big on is like if they're
not gonna call us, we're gonna create our own stuff.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
You got to it. Also, it also helps for more people.
That's why, because they you know, now I'm an a
p d at come on, yes, sir. It also helps
for more people to get in those roles that can
now open up the eyes of the old the old
way way no more. We have a mental health check
(34:15):
in brought to you by the Faith Project.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Keisha.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
What up? What Keisha? I would love for you guys
to tell us what do you do to strengthen your
mental health?
Speaker 8 (34:26):
Great question, I'll start.
Speaker 9 (34:28):
I guess.
Speaker 8 (34:30):
I feel like I'm just proud of myself just for
the growth and progress that I made just in the
area alone. I definitely know for me personally, I prioritize
just mental health and just making sure I'm good and
and that's as simple as just just simplicity, Like living
a simple life is just my biggest thing that has
worked for me, not trying to force nothing and just
(34:55):
being as simple as possible and just being grateful for
the minute things like just just grateful.
Speaker 7 (35:03):
That I got all my fingers grateful.
Speaker 9 (35:06):
That's a real.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Vision.
Speaker 7 (35:09):
By the way, I like niggas too, Yes, gay damn,
but I'm saying.
Speaker 9 (35:23):
If I don't want my niggas to be hitting me up, Like,
wait a minute.
Speaker 8 (35:26):
I still like y'all too, but yeah, just really just
living a simple life and being grateful for the new
things is just how I can take care of my
mental health and and not trying to force nothing.
Speaker 9 (35:38):
And that's what I try to do every day.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Me, I would say this year and this.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Yeah, so I've been sober twenty five, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Yeah, starting to work out.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
And stuff, and I think taking like the first two
hours in the day to focus on things for me,
and then it helps me do stuff for everybody else.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
But once I do stuff for everybody else before me,
then I always feel incomplete, you know what I'm saying.
So I would say that has helped.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
And just to throw it out there, I just kicked
off a sober spin challenge for DJs for the month
of July to go one month without drinking just because themas.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Ain't gonna do it.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
Yeah, we got some people.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Yeah, you get free everything.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
It is hard, No, it is hard, and we do
get free everything. But you know what we don't get
is free health care. And a lot of DJs have
been falling out left and right, forty fifty years old,
and you see it, go fund me up, you know
what I'm saying. So where's those people that was giving
you those shots? They ain't even putting it nothing in
(36:50):
You're go fund me. So I think that's support because
I literally seen and DJ's be looking bad, be out
of shape, like a motherfucker, looking fat and everything. I'm
sorry to say it, but for real, like I'll be
looking at DJ, like you skinny, but your stomach is fat.
Speaker 4 (37:03):
That look crazy, you know what I'm saying, a lot
of that has to do with.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Us direct, and that's the way too.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Really, it's deeper than the free shit, because a lot
of us don't got healthcare, you know what I mean,
And like, at least we can prevent some shit.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
You know that's only as I got my job.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
My health is hilarious, I tell all that.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Mental health.
Speaker 6 (37:30):
So I have daily routines so I really get big
on mental health. Maybe like twenty sixteen, I was a
part of this network marketing group. I don't know if
y'all ever been in anything like that, but I have, okay.
So they really are big on building your subconscious and
just learning how to present yourself so that you can
attract the right energy and all that kind of stuff.
So I have daily routines where I wake up at
six am every day, I read my goal book, I
(37:52):
read my.
Speaker 9 (37:52):
Informations, I pray, I go to the gym. All this
is without being.
Speaker 6 (37:56):
On my phone completely disconnected from like six to like
ten thirds. So I just make sure I do that
every single day, and that really helps me just build
my subconscious and it gets my mood right to where
I can deal with almost every deal with everything that's
going on because a lot of the times, most of
the stuff we can't control it, but we can control
how we react to it.
Speaker 9 (38:15):
But if you're not.
Speaker 6 (38:16):
Mentally stable to know how to deal with things, then
you'll start crashing out. So you got to make sure
that you're taking the time to build your mental health
and really set healthy boundaries for yourself to where you're
not putting yourself in a position where you're crashing out
because life is crazy, life is hard.
Speaker 9 (38:29):
You don't know what's going to happen.
Speaker 6 (38:30):
You might have a death in the family, you might
have a friend that pass away, you might lose your job,
you might whatever, you can't call it. But if you're
mentally built for all the things that are going to
come your way, which are inevitable, then you'll be able
to deal with it. So I just think it's really
big to create a daily routine that you set yourself
for and do it every single day. Repetition is key,
and it don't feel like it's getting old or you're
(38:51):
getting bored with it. Like the more I read my goalbook.
It makes me feel good when I knock things off
my goalbook. And I also did stop drinking this year
as well too, So I'm going one year so over
from a which is a big thing for me because I.
Speaker 9 (39:03):
Love my repisode. Oh you feel me. I'm a promoter,
Like you said, we get everything for free.
Speaker 6 (39:07):
So but it's been easier. I'm not gonna say easy.
It's been easier the longer it's been going through. So
I think people should just challenge themselves and step aside
their conference zone and let go of to the things
that you know are not really contributing to you on
a health aspect, and see how you do with it.
Speaker 9 (39:22):
I bet you'll see a progress in that key word.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
How do you?
Speaker 3 (39:25):
What do you do when you have bad days?
Speaker 5 (39:28):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (39:29):
What time for money?
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Loan?
Speaker 2 (39:30):
When she hit us with that, she take a nap.
I tried that the other day.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
It worked on it worked.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
When I walk up from the nap, my levels were down.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
It felt like a fresh start.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
I hate that.
Speaker 4 (39:47):
You tried it. What's that? How long was your not?
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Thirty minutes?
Speaker 7 (39:51):
I don't know how to do that. Thirty minutes to
get to sleep?
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Usually before that, how I started my day. I attacked
the most important difficult thing that I got to do
that day. First, I knocked that that's done before nine am.
It's already done or I'm gonna handle it. I know
how to deal with it or handle it by nine am.
So once I get that done. And then the second
(40:17):
thing is if him and I were on the radio
that day, all right, cool, let's come in, let's I
got the show. Let's figure out what we're talking about.
Once that's done, we kind I'm really kind of cruising
through the rest of the day because I've had already
attacked everything I had to do early. Now I'm just
playing my role through the day that I already planned out,
and sometimes it doesn't go how it's supposed to be
(40:37):
playing I planned it out, Yeah, and you just make adjustments.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
That's what I do. That's good, that's real. Well. Preparation,
that's what do you do.
Speaker 5 (40:46):
Preparation. That's what a lot of people don't talk about.
Be prepared for anything. Hell, and I feel like we
don't talk about that enough now, you know, prepare for
anything to happen, Prepared to lose your job, prepared to
lose a relationship, prepared to lose a family member, like
I feel like for me that helps a lot with
like my fear of loss, with anything. Like I'm just
(41:07):
always mentally prepared for anything that could go wrong in
my life, you know what I'm saying. And and you know,
obviously shit don't always go how it's supposed to go.
But that that's that's the beauty of life, you know
what I'm saying, Because sometimes that know that you get
was a blessing.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
I talk about that all the time.
Speaker 5 (41:25):
I had an opportunity to get a radio job back
home in Arkansas, and I wanted this job so bad.
I was like, man, if I get this radio job,
I can quit my day job. My life is gonna be.
It didn't happen that way, they said no. I said,
all right, cool, I packed my bags up and moved
to Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
And the rest is history.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
I move.
Speaker 5 (41:43):
I moved so fast back home when I got that
note that my mama thought I was on the run.
That doesn't said, I said, fuck this, I'm getting out
of here. They mother, but just told me no, I'm
gonna go get a yes somewhere else.
Speaker 6 (41:57):
So you know that's what's up, y'all because men don't
be speaking and they never do because man, y'all keep
a lot of not y'all, but men keep that trauma inside.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
To as well that they club as well.
Speaker 6 (42:12):
But women speak out more on mental and I love
when men do it too, because that's fel like it
needs to be a part of more. Our black men,
especially need to quit sliding down the dough.
Speaker 11 (42:22):
Yeah, niggas, we appreciate you, uh you guys on us
ladies appreciate y'all.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
Any shout outs.
Speaker 8 (42:35):
Almost right, man shout out to y'all for you know
again man with the progress, you know, and just salute
to everybody that supports us.
Speaker 9 (42:43):
Genuinely, we really really appreciate that.
Speaker 7 (42:46):
So that's really the biggest shout out.
Speaker 6 (42:48):
Everybody that's supporting the supporters, Yeah, because it's hard what
we do. So when people show us love is just
reassures us that we're doing the right thing and that
we are being seen because you know, social media sometimes
makes you like you're not being seen with this algorithm
and stuff and the likes and the comments.
Speaker 9 (43:05):
But when people come in person and you know.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
What I'm saying, everybody else and you never know who's
seen you, and sometimes it can be discouraging, but then
you'll get that one call or something that make you regroup,
you know what I'm saying, and we get that, you know,
every so after where it was like damn, but then
we get some of there like yeah, y'all see us.
Speaker 4 (43:24):
So just shout out to everybody that's.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
Been supporting us, and really shout to y'all in any
other like podcast out here, we definitely need to continue
to cross market and it don't hurt at all.
Speaker 4 (43:35):
Like a podcast is like an hour long people.
Speaker 3 (43:37):
Got man, people. People are.
Speaker 5 (43:40):
People are stuck on numbers and likes and clickbait and
all that stuff, and I'll be like, let's just have
a conversation, just make dope ass contents.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
Before we go.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
What time for Wallow? For Wallow and Gilly? He taught
the BT and nine and he literally changed my view
on all this.
Speaker 4 (43:57):
What he said.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
He said, don't look at the numbers, don't look at you.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
We talked for hours.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
Don't look at none of that. Just do your thing
and enjoy, Sit back and enjoy.
Speaker 4 (44:06):
Easy to say when they get a check, but it works.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
That check too.
Speaker 4 (44:13):
That's real. Gon heard so much about while I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (44:19):
Is exactly who say.
Speaker 4 (44:21):
Yeah, well, I'm ready to talk about that.
Speaker 3 (44:25):
Now.
Speaker 5 (44:25):
We're gonna give y'all some information. And that's the one
thing that we all lack. That people don't want to
want to give people information.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
It costs you nothing, all right, man, probably supportall alert episode.
Speaker 4 (44:38):
Yeah, bitch, okay, we appreciate, appreciate
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