August 13, 2025 • 37 mins
Derrick Hayes: From Hustling on the Grill to Billionaire Advice
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Turn your lights on, y'all spreading love to those who
are doing greatness.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Light on them, shine a light on. It's time to
shine a light on them.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
It's way up. But Angela, yee, I'm here with akem Woods.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
What's up, Bude?
Speaker 5 (00:14):
Ready to shine the lights all right? Well on Black Enterprise.
You know always look on here their entrepreneurship articles. I
want to shine a light today on Gabe Wilson. He
is the founder of Edgy Design Group and he's an
automation expert and a Microsoft certified AI engineered And what
he does is he actually helps people use AI for
(00:35):
their businesses. He said, AI shouldn't replace people, it should
empower them. We build systems that thinks, speak, and act
like your best employee on their best day every day.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
He also has a.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Venture with millionaire entrepreneur Mario Kelly, and they highlight the
power of combining AI with real world applications. So as
people are scared of AI, what he can do with
his company is actually help you figure out how you
can use it to help deliver better customer service, book appointments,
follow up on leads, things like that, Yeah, I wonder
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how this.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Can help you.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
I will hopefully let's find out.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
I think if I have to think about it, I
would think it could help you with finding where your
best markets are, help you with following up on bookings,
reaching out to people. Also help with the algorithm and
figuring out algorithm.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
You can do.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
But this was kind of back in twenty fourteen, and
it's for any business to actually work smarter. So shout
out to him for that. And now, who do you
guys want to spread some leve to? Who do you
want to shine a light on? Eight hundred and two
ninety two fifty one fifty?
Speaker 4 (01:36):
What's up?
Speaker 6 (01:36):
Robert?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Who do you want to shine a light on?
Speaker 7 (01:38):
I'll like to shine a light on yourself?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Actually, oh dang, okay, you.
Speaker 7 (01:42):
Actually got me to it.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
In every day he's very successful.
Speaker 8 (01:46):
It's amazing you inspire everybody to actually own their own
business and be successful.
Speaker 7 (01:51):
In all it.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Thank you. I appreciate that. That's really nice of you.
What do you do?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I'm a trucker and I'm an armor reservist.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Oh well, we thank you for what you do.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
And I want to say when I first started my
career in radio, it was the Chuckers that were the
most supportive when I was on serious. Oh yeah, that's
what That's what made me who I am today.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
So thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I congratulation successful lady, and I hope you have a
great time on the twenty third.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
All right, I appreciate you, Thank you. I have a
good one you too, And that's right. The twenty third
is Angela you day. Well that was shining Light eight
hundred and two nine two fifty one fifty in case
you couldn't get through. And when we come back, we
got ya e T And since I came, Woods is
guest hosting with me today.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Uh, let's talk about.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Some stand up and Kevin Heart this new competition series.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Oh yeah, I heard about on Netflix. All right, what
we're gonna be, I'm available.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
We're gonna give you some more. All right, it's way up.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
This says in the rooms.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
From industry shade.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
To all of gos that out send Angela's feeling that
yet way up?
Speaker 5 (02:49):
But Angela, you with my guest host, comedian I KEM Woods.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
What's up?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
I bought some of your T shirts too, by the way, Yeah,
did they come in the maw Yes they did.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
So thank you.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Now, speaking of comedy, Kevin Hart is teaming up on
Netflix for a new competition series, and that is to
find the next big stand up. So it's gonna be
contestants from all across the nation. They're gonna have tests
that mirror the real life journey of a comedian, like
open mics, bomb sets rewrites big stage performances, so they'll
get a chance to look behind the curtain of comedy's
(03:20):
darkest corners.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
What do you think about that?
Speaker 9 (03:25):
I think it sounds like on paper, it sounds good,
But someone who's in the business, I can almost guarantee
you they're just picking popular comics like people. They're not
gonna They're gonna pick a lot of Internet people who
aren't really who hasn't like They're not like og comics.
We've been doing it ten plus years, have actually worked
to be good at stand up. They're just gonna pick people.
(03:45):
I could be wrong, but in my head I feel
like they're just gonna pick. Oh, you got one hundred
thousand followers, Okay, cool, and you fit one of these boxes,
all right.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
But I don't think they're actually gonna do this.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
You used to watch the last comic standing I did, Yeah,
comparing it to kind of like that type of competition series.
Speaker 9 (03:58):
I think Last Comics, I feel like because that was
the first of its kind, so I feel like they
did more vetting and they still probably picked people they
wanted to pick, but I feel like they actually picked
comics because that's before social media was even a thing,
so the people have to actually be good at comics.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
I'm interested to see it. I had did this Facebook
series I did called Mastery.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Of Comedy with.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Ida Rodriguez was on there, Carlos Miller was on there.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I think, yeah, Roy Wood Jr.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Was Donelle Rawlings was on there, and we pair them
up with up and coming comics who had been doing
it for like over a year, and they kind of
like And it was during the pandemic, so well, I
remember that as in depth as it could have been.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
But I like this idea.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
I think it's a great idea.
Speaker 9 (04:38):
And I think Kevin is is tapped in with comedy.
I think he really is tapped in, so I'm hoping
he does right and finds the right people for the show.
I maybe me, but off of but generally people who
I think who've been doing it. I've been doing it
for almost fifteen years, but people who've actually put in
the work.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
If I want to see on their crying because you
know they're gonna make it crack, you got to get emotional.
Speaker 9 (05:00):
I have a sob story. My mom is dad. I
can talk with my dad mama, but.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Shesh pain in the comedy. All right, let's move on
from this.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Let's go talk about Tracy t And that's Cash Doll's X.
That's her children's father, and he's also an artist in
his own right. Well, he was on Live and he
was basically saying that he would like his son to
move in with him.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Here's what he said, what can.
Speaker 10 (05:26):
I don't know what you probably well friend my son
for to be with me.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
He moving with me?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
That I ain't dady I had daddy?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Did he moving with Tracy.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Gets your bm BA, I'm about worrying about.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
That's him on Live, responding to people because they always
get at him every time he goes on Live. And
Cash Dog even though she said she broke up with Zadarius,
it looks like she's back with him because she posted
I love my man. He has a they have a
younger child, uh and then they have an older a baby.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
In the video when he was telling me what he
were saying. No, oh, okay, because.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
His son is older, I think, and the.
Speaker 9 (05:59):
Daughters okay, cause I'm to say that's wild to be
cursing and yelling.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
He's also going to be on Gigi's Pink Conversations. Now
here's a little spicy piece of the trailer. That's a cliffhanger. Well,
what happened though?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Did you cheat?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
We was cheating?
Speaker 4 (06:13):
We was cheating.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
What that means you.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Were cheating too?
Speaker 10 (06:16):
Y'all got tired of each other.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
This might sound crazy, and that's all we know until
the full conversation comes out. All right, Well that is
your yet when we come back, we have about last
night where we discussed what we did last night. There's
a new show I'm watching and I'm gonna tell you
about it. It's actually pretty pretty good, and you'll tell
us what you're up to. Here's some Frank ocean a
tornado foo inside.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Is that just.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
So about last night?
Speaker 8 (06:46):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (06:48):
I went down I sway up at Angela yee a.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Keen Woods is here. We were just talking about Polish sausages.
Speaker 9 (06:54):
Yeah, in Chicago. I was there with godfriend. We went
to this place, this ween or place. Okay, Godfrey I
don't have to say, Paul, I'm gay.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
But we we went to this hot talk place and
it was amazing.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I know people say Wiener for hot dogs.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Well the place is called it.
Speaker 9 (07:10):
It was like one of those it's called wien or something.
It's where they yell at you or whatever.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
They yell at you.
Speaker 9 (07:15):
Yeah, because they'd be mean to you. It's google it
it's just Chicago. It's really good.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
They yell at you and our mean to you. Yeah
type of thing.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Well, let's talk about last night. I don't know if
I want angry Wieners.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Move on.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Tell me what you did last night, please.
Speaker 9 (07:32):
I was I was Godfrey tapes this podcast on Tuesday night,
so it was me. Yeah, it was me Godfrey and
Eva Evans.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Okay, nice, I gotta go back up there. It's like
an all night or though we.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Didn't get I didn't get home two one o'clock.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Yeah, there's God for you, boy, and come hang out.
Then next time you're talking for four hours.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
We talked about everything flat and all that stuff.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Yeah, all right, Well last night I actually went by
the time I got home. Well, first thing I did was,
I'm on a committee to choose who gets these grants
from yes, from this foundation at the Joe and Clara
Woolson collaboration. So it's for Brooklyn based philanthropies and so
nonprofits in Brooklyn.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
So I did that.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
It was a two hour meeting with the other people
in the committee to choose who's gonna get these grants.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
They get twenty thousand dollars each. Oh, I have different businesses.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
I got a business.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Do you have a nonprofit based in Brooklyn?
Speaker 4 (08:24):
It's not non par No?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Okay, so then no, but yeah, so that's always great
to do that.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
And then I went home and I was watching this
show because I'm always like, what am I going to watch?
Speaker 11 (08:35):
Now?
Speaker 5 (08:35):
I watch Hunting Wives. Now I started watching this show.
It's in a second season already. It's called Platonic.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Oh, what's that? I haven't seen that.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
It's on Apple TV. Has anybody in here seen it? Well,
it's with Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Okay, let me get your Apple logue in.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
And they are they were best friends.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
They had like a falling out, but then they came
back together.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Like, and I do actually have app TV. Maybe I'll
watch Yeah, you.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Should watch it. So I just said it's funny. It's good.
I'm enjoying it so far.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
So I'm only on the first season and then I'm
on I'm like five episodes in their quick episodes, so
you can watch that. But anyway, platonic. But the point is,
can men and women be platonic friends? And that's kind
of you think, so, well, yeah we are.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Well I'm very gay, but yeah, uh, do.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
You have gay platon like another gay guy that you
could just be platonicty? Okay, yeah, that's what I'm saying.
It's not like you want to sleep with everybody. I
always thought that if a guy didn't have women friends,
that means he looks at.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Them like like objects. Yeah no, creepy.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Well that is about last night when we come back.
Tell us a secret. Eight hundred two nine two fifty
one fifty is a number. Any secret you have, Maybe
you did have a platonic friend, something went down and
you never told your significant other.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Give us all this spicy tea girl, I'm here for it.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Eight hundred two nine two fifty one fifty. Any secret
that you have, We're here to listen. You know, we
don't judge, because who are.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
We the comvereection might but we won't.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, we have.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Nothing to do with what they say. But eight hundred
two ninety two fifty one fifty. This this is your
safe space. You're anonymous. Tell us a secret.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
This is a judgment freeze all tell us the secret.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yes, that's right, tell us a secret.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Time I came my favorite part.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
I do want to say, you're not very judgment So
I appreciate that about you, and that's why our callers
should also appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Our way up.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Fam eight hundred two nine fifty one fifty. Again, you
know the rules, no judgment, none, and you're anonymous when
you call in, all right, anonymous, call it.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Tell us your secret.
Speaker 8 (10:29):
So when I was fifteen years old, a friend of
mine had diabetes and the sugar levels were low at our.
Speaker 12 (10:35):
Bottom of candy and his friend came over to his.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
House and took his candy from him.
Speaker 10 (10:40):
So when he told me about that, I shot the
friend in the head.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
What to be good?
Speaker 10 (10:45):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (10:46):
Oh yo, you gotta start with b begud?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
What happened?
Speaker 10 (10:54):
I mean he didn't know because the friend just told me.
Speaker 12 (10:56):
But he the guy shot in the head, I don't know.
Speaker 13 (10:58):
I'm the one about the.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Candy that was with my friend a play with.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Wow, but he's okay because it was a guy.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Okay, nothing, okay cool.
Speaker 9 (11:07):
I just gotta say that on air because you can't
be committed that it was about you murdered someone, because.
Speaker 10 (11:14):
Then nobouty no no no, I just thought guns.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Oh that was I feel like that's also a little
strange that I'm not gonna lie like.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
I've done dumb stuff when I was fifty year old.
Boys are stupid.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I gotta google what happens when you shoot someone with.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
A BB gun. It's a little that story.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
It was amazing though. Thank you for calling?
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Yeah, thank you you are.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Hey, Namu is calling? You want to tell me? And
I came a secret?
Speaker 4 (11:38):
What's up? I do?
Speaker 12 (11:40):
Actually? So I'm Jasmine?
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Okay, I guess it's not anonymous?
Speaker 12 (11:48):
Yeah no, because I wanted to be known, so I
made a page on that page. My sister's boyfriend has
been messaging me on naiter, not knowing that it's me,
like letting me know he wants and all this stuff,
not knowing that it's me. So I'm gonna tell my sister's.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Today, what picture are you using on there? Then it's
someone else, like a random person's picture.
Speaker 12 (12:09):
It's actually my bust and he doesn't know her.
Speaker 9 (12:14):
So so you basically found out your sister boyfriend is
out here in the streets DM and random girls.
Speaker 12 (12:19):
And I've tried to tell her but she don't want
to listen. So I got to hear.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Well, you got like thirty through the DMS, like, what
do you guys talk like? Was it like sexual? Did
you respond?
Speaker 12 (12:28):
I responded, but I mean he doesn't know it's me responding.
He was like, how are you and stuff like that,
and I want to link up and get to know you.
You're beautiful and all this and that. And I was like,
where would you like toiline? And he's like, I want
to take you to a park and be romantic stuff
like that. And I'm like, oh.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Oh, he's romantic. Crazy.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Okay, this balon's on the tea.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Take you to the park.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
All right, Well listen, good luck.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Please tell me what happens when you tell it, because
sometimes you tell somebody and they make every excuse in
the world for their cheating.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
Men.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
I'm glad you got receipt girl.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Got the receipts, all right, thank you, You're welcome. All right,
Well that was tell us a secret eight hundred two
nine two fifty. Just in case you couldn't get through,
you can always leave a message and you can tell
us your secret that way. When we come back. It's
yea tea time. And Cameron does not have any secrets.
And he told us what he did with Omar Gooding.
(13:22):
This was diabolical.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
I know, I saw we saw this as mind.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Actually felt kind of bad. All right, we'll talk about it.
It's way up, yo, she's about.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
To blow the lid abof this pot.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Let's get it.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Oh yeah, angelus feeling that ye te come and get
the tea.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
It's way up at angela. Yee. I'm here with Keen Woods,
comedian extraordinaire.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Hey, what's what's happening?
Speaker 5 (13:41):
And let's get into this yet Cameron versus Omar Gooding.
I cannot believe that they are beefing like this. All right, well, thanks?
This taken to another level? Now what did you hear?
Speaker 4 (13:53):
I mean, listen, we talked about this on Coffee Podcast
last night.
Speaker 9 (13:55):
The pettiness of Cameron is is, to be honest, close to.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
So Cameron actually revealed in an Instagram video he hired
Omar Gooding to act in a movie that wasn't even real,
had him fly out, you know, to Miami, and he
had all the footage.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
So now he signed off seventy.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Dollars, you know, he said, Well, he said it only
cost him thirty five hundred dollars. But anyway, here is
what Cameron had to say about the prank that he
played on Omar Gooding.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
A lot of this is broke.
Speaker 11 (14:27):
I booked back for seventy five hundred to do a
movie for three weeks.
Speaker 7 (14:31):
Yeah, on one that movie you flew to Miami.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Fore it ain't no movie coming out, And I was
laughing at you behind the scenes.
Speaker 10 (14:37):
I was there, and.
Speaker 11 (14:38):
You know what, now you're coming on a revolt tonight
because you're sign the paperwork saying I could do whatever
with the footage.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
You thought that was real movie producers.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
They are real movie producers.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
But then was my h I just said, I felt
so bad though, because you know, asn't I.
Speaker 9 (14:54):
Feel bad in a sense, but I'm also I feel bad,
but I'm also like A, well, he got the money,
so it's not like for next amount of money, he said.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
I guess Aamar Goody did do a dis song about him.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
He did six He did like a bunch of discards.
He did it. He did this album.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Yeah, he did it, and well, Cameron posted, at least
I gave you some money if that's what you want
to call three K, but you're starting tonight on Revolt
and a movie that's never coming out, So now go
back to doing your restaurant comedy tour. And I got
five k for you to perform the disc records at
my goddaughter baby shower in October if you want it, well,
Amar Goodding responded, and he said, you think that is
(15:29):
a checkmate, be careful. My inbox is full of grinding
issue done past and present. People really got it out
for you, fam. Seriously, please be careful. And here's what
else he had to say about this prank.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
First of all, thank you brother, you are next level.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
A free trip to Miami, twenty five hundred dollars in
my pocket to do some push ups with my shirt off,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
And knowing that that garbage ain't.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Coming out, it's even better show it on your little
show all you want.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
If you need ratings that.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Bad, I listen, people could come at me. I'm not
beefing with nobody me.
Speaker 9 (16:02):
Neither, But if you want to find me out to
do some pussuf I am available a keyenwoods dot com
for booking.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
A Woods dot com.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Yeah, flewed out.
Speaker 9 (16:11):
You gotta start me and gattle beef and I don't.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Know all right now, this was an interesting story. Jason
Momoa Aquaman. Who would think that Aquaman would almost drown
as crazy great of a swimmer as he is, but
he revealed that he almost died during a surfing incident.
He was in Maui, Hawaii, and this is what he
had to say about the incident on the SmartLess podcast.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
My arms and my legs gave up.
Speaker 13 (16:38):
Was out there for a while and I bubbled down
and then my toe hit the outer reef and I
just reached down grab it.
Speaker 7 (16:45):
I jump up.
Speaker 13 (16:46):
I get hit by another wave and I'm literally in
the middle.
Speaker 7 (16:49):
Of the ocean.
Speaker 13 (16:50):
I could barely put my lips above. It's just to
breathe and get a break. But I'd already given up.
So it's like you've already given up and died. And
then I hear layer come from behind. He's on my board,
towing his board.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Can you imagine?
Speaker 9 (17:05):
Yeah, that's why I don't. I don't mess with the water.
I do not mess with the with the water's ocean
is a next level thing.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Y'all don't realize the old But he said he literally
hit his toe. He was couldn't breathe, people couldn't see him.
He was trying to get help. Then his friend came.
They both lost their boards, but they had to paddle
out further.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
It don't matter how good of assuming you are. The
ocean is always gonna be the ocean.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I choked just talking about it.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
All right, Well that is your yea tea, No, when
we come back, we.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Have under the radar. These are the stories that are
not necessarily in the headlines. They're flying under the radar,
but you definitely need to know about him. It's way up.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
I got news this in the news that relates to you.
These stories are flying under the radar.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
All right as way yep. But Angela, yeah, I'm here,
my guy, I keen woods his head with me to day.
Speaker 10 (17:49):
We hear.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Let's get into some of these under the radar stories now.
First and foremost, Spirit Airlines is saying that they may
not be able to stay in business. They have substantial
out about their ability to continue as a going concern
within the next year. So they are saying they don't
have the resources needed to sustain operations. You know, they
(18:10):
also have emerged from Chapter eleven bankruptcy. They said there's
a weak demand for domestic leisure travel.
Speaker 9 (18:18):
Yeah, I was just gonna say, when you when you could,
when you want to fight from here to Miami called
seventeen dollars, You're not gonna be making that much money.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
But then they charge for everything.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
You charge everything you want to put a you want
to bring your purse on the plane, hundred dollars.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Ya Monique us to have this joke, was like, oh,
they charge you to land. You want to land, Yes,
the land and bee.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
You gotta pay it now or you're not going to land.
Speaker 9 (18:43):
That is Yaika's jokes so funny.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
All right, make America healthy again, Maha. That is the
movement that RFK Junior has started. And right now they're
taking aim at school lunches and what they want to
do is make sure that there's like no more processed
foods in school lunches. RFK Junior has said that school
lunch programs have deteriorated. He talked about ultra process foods
(19:08):
and school meals and the problem is, as he's saying
that we need to stop poisoning our kids and make
sure that Americans are once again the healthiest kids on
the planet. They're not also providing resources to make that happen.
As a matter of fact, the US Agricultural Department has
and did two programs totally one billion dollars that helped
schools buy food from local pharmas and producers, and the
(19:32):
USDA is in charge of the nutrition standards for the
National School Lunch Program. They want them to create these
healthy and appealing meals, but on very slim budgets as
they're cutting things, so they're not sure how this is
potentially going to happen.
Speaker 9 (19:44):
I mean, I'm all about having healthier food in schools,
but my question is are you going to feed the
kids for free? Because I don't think kids have to
pay for school, They have to legally be in school.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
And it's not even just the cost of the food,
but schools would also have to pay for more employees
to make the food because it's not going to be
frozen food that gets heated up. They want you to
make fresh food that's not processed, and then they also
would need to acquire equipment to handle making fresh food
for one hundreds store and every day. So it's a
(20:13):
great initiative, but not as you're cutting plans with agriculture
providing fresh food to the schools and also not wanting
to hire more people to work in the schools to
make that happen. So just putting that out there, and
that is you're under the radar. We do have the
way up mixed. At the top of the hour, and
speaking of food, Derek Hage is going to be joining us.
He is the CEO and founder of Big Dave's Cheese Steaks.
(20:36):
He's actually looking to expand to one hundred franchises by
the end of the year and he is well on
his way, and so he'll be joining us for our
Wealth Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
It's way up here and she's sing it all this
is yeaty way up.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
It's way up at Angela Yee, I'm here, my guy,
I kem.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Witch is here with me today.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
What's happening and let's get into this yeaty so kit cutting.
He was a key witness in Diddy's sex trafficking trial
and people were shocked that he took the stand. I
don't know if that testimony really did much in this case, Well,
clearly it didn't mean. Yeah, he was on the Call
Her Daddy podcast and here's what he had to say
about testifying and why.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
He did it.
Speaker 11 (21:16):
I was there because I had to be. At first
they asked, I said no. Then I guess if he
But I hated every minute of it. But then I
thought about, you know, when I was up there, I'm
here to support Cassie and I love her and I
want to see her thrive and do well and be happy,
you know, because I know she was living a nightmare.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
And I just was there to support her.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
All right.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Well, I mean because they dated it, right, Yeah, they.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Used to dance.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
What the whole thing was about? And when did he
found out? He was not happy about it?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, because he like did something to
his car yea.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Yeah, allegedly allegedly.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
He had to do a book out, Cuddy the Memoir,
and he also has an album coming out Free that's.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Going to be released on August twenty second. He also
recently got married.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
In addition to that, he talked about his days, his
darkest days of his cocaine addiction, and here's what he
had to say.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Oh, I wanted to die.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
What was your rock bottom moment.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
Twenty sixteen was bad too.
Speaker 11 (22:12):
That's when I finally went to rehab because I relapsed
and started using a game. From twenty fifteen to twenty sixteen,
it was like the decline and just darker and darker
and darker, and suicide was.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
On my mind like all the time, and I wouldn't
got help.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
He said he was.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Glad that he actually got help and that his mental
state has been a thousand times better since twenty sixteen.
He said he had to unpack his anger and therapy
while in treatment.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
He was a hot head for a long time and
that was his main issue.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Who good for him? Did just always get to seek help?
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Yes, when you know that you are needing it, please
do seek help, all right?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
And for Esse two times, you know we've been talking
about his issues.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
He has his mother went live with her go fund
me trying to get people to do money because he
hasn't been giving her money lately. And he did a
song of freestyle where he addressed all of that.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
Well.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
In addition to that, now fifty cent has waited in.
He said, hey, Finesse, you look just like your mom
and man, just call her. I said, what the f
do you do when that happens? Nothing, look at her
and say you want some of this money or not?
Stay your ass off the phone? Who showed you how
to make a video? Anyway? And then finesse two times
to find it fifty cent when you call Marquise, I'll
call her, Oh, talking about fifty sons. Yeah, and he
(23:30):
also finessed two times. Also posted payments that he made
to his mother so that people could see, you know,
all the money that he's given her throughout the years. Now,
I didn't know this whole story, but I saw people
weighing in on the post. And he hasn't given her
money in a couple of months. So people were saying
that right because she was having issues being able to
pay her rent. But people were also saying that she
(23:50):
left her job and moved to come and help take
care of him and work for him.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
And so I don't know the whole Nay.
Speaker 9 (23:57):
Now, you bring family into into work bus this drama,
it's never a good mix.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Not only it never, but it's really a good mix. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
And he also has a song that he prefused previewed
that said that he paid all his mama's bills and
turned around and called She turned around and called him broke.
All right, well that is your yet when we come back,
ask yee. Eight hundred two nine two fifty one fifty.
Any question you have, Me and Aqim are here to help.
I'm just looking at the pizza crumbs on your shirt?
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Why do you tell me that? Now?
Speaker 9 (24:26):
Don't try to listen and saw she's lying. There's no
pizza comes to my shirt anymore.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Eight hundred nine two fifty one fifty. Any question you
have for ask ye? We are here to help. Here's
some love for you with Luther girl.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
I go everybody since with its relationship or career advice.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Angela's dropping facts. You should know this is ask ye.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
What's up his way?
Speaker 7 (24:47):
Yep?
Speaker 5 (24:47):
But Angela yee. It's me and Aqim Woods. I can
put the pizza down for one second, all right and.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Stop telling them? Can't me?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
And it is time for ask ye.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Now we do have somebody anonymous on the line that
has a question. And what's that anonymous color?
Speaker 14 (25:01):
So I come from a cultural background. I'm Indian, so
I do have two sides of me that I have
a cultural side of me that I do want to
do the right thing, like marry the brown girl, make
my mom a proud But I also love white girls.
Speaker 15 (25:16):
I'm crazy for white girls.
Speaker 8 (25:18):
I love the blue eyes, the blonde, the brunettes, you know,
and I love.
Speaker 15 (25:21):
The sexy part that comes with it. So I want
to live both sides.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
So sad question.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Do they want you to do and arranged marriage because
I know that's traditional in India.
Speaker 15 (25:31):
Yeah, and have a child and a family with them,
But I'm attracted to white, fair skin.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
I'm more with the Indian girl. In my opinion is
you people should marry for love.
Speaker 9 (25:41):
I think you just want to be with someone who
you generally feel connection with, no matter what their race
or ethnicity is.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
So have you fallen in love with anybody.
Speaker 15 (25:49):
That's what I'm factually attracted to. Yes, I have fall
in love with a girl before, but I just never
had the guts to tell my parents about it.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
I just feel like things are evolving in changing and
you got to live your life for who you are.
If you fall in love with somebody, it shouldn't matter
the color of their skin, where they're from. And I
know that's easy to say because family tradition just be
ready for you know, this happened in my family for
your family to shun you, that happened with my parents,
and so just get ready that that can potentially happen.
(26:20):
But I do also see Look I looked on Ready
and said, why do Anian men have this obsession with
white women and everything white? I don't think it's everybody,
but for some reason in society in general, that is
what is like put on a pedestal.
Speaker 15 (26:31):
So I strongly feel Indian women are way better than
most women I've met. They're smart, to educate, the intelligence,
they manage finances better. They also can cook, clean and
take care of the household like they would.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
I mean, but that's any woman can do that.
Speaker 9 (26:48):
I don't think that's based on skin color or complexion,
but tradition maybe for him.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Every woman can do that.
Speaker 15 (26:54):
But traditionally, I would believe in my race better, right,
you know, it's trustworthy because you're born in that race,
like you would feel the same.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
For your race.
Speaker 14 (27:03):
But actually I don't know, you know, I just feel
like there should be some sort of school.
Speaker 15 (27:08):
Where women could just go and do their own thing,
you know, where they're like, how to do that tool?
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Do you watch a lot of porn?
Speaker 6 (27:16):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Yep?
Speaker 15 (27:19):
Well, I don't want to say much, but thank you
for taking uch.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Hey, enjoy your white women.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
I don't want them to explode later in life.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
I mean, I can't tell nobody like if that's what
you're attracted to. Well, that was ask ye again. And
when we come back, it is a Wealth Wednesday. So
we do have Derek Hayes joining us. He is the
founder and CEO of Big Day's Cheesteaks, all right, and
we're gonna be talking to him.
Speaker 9 (27:42):
It's way up the dream of wealthy and I don't
mind sharing my wealth dogs.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Getting you straight financially, mentally and physically. This is wealth
Wednesday on way up with Angela Yee?
Speaker 4 (27:52):
What's up?
Speaker 5 (27:52):
His way up with Angela Yee. I'm here on a
Wealth Wednesday with my girls, Stacey Tuesday.
Speaker 16 (27:56):
Have you wealth Wednesdays everybody, And we have mister Derek
for you. Derek is the founder and CEO of Big
Daves and we're gonna talk about a lot of get
the cheese steaks.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Y'all know, y'all know I'm cheese steaks.
Speaker 16 (28:11):
This sandwich was ranked top ten sandwiches in the world
by World Food Champions. I know you have ten franchise
locations of Central Florida now five in South Carolina. Really
one of the fastest restaurant chains in the country. And
you always talk about you got there because it's about purpose.
Speaker 8 (28:31):
Well, first of all, I just want to tell y'all,
thank y'all for having me. My purpose was my father.
I mean, that was legitimately the reason why I started
the business. I mean I watched my dad take his
last breath in front of me. But before he died,
you know, I promised him I was going to do
the right thing. I was going to break my generational curses. Now,
needless to say, ten years of blastsweat and terrors building
his business a little over ten years now, it's been
(28:52):
a relicuose to ride. It hasn't been easy, but I
know that my purpose was always stronger than anything of defeat.
So even though my heart is moments, I always seen
the end of the road. I always knew that eventually
people will start paying attention. Eventually people will see what
I'm doing, not only just that, you know, I represent
everything when they say a kid can do. I come
out of a very dangerous place in West Philly, and
(29:14):
I'm challenging myself to keep on going to pushing kids forward,
because I know it's not the lack of like you know,
household is really just the resources, you know. You know,
we said that they're bad kids. We said that a
lot of things, but y'all looking at that. I got
forty tattoos on my body. I come from the same
environment they doing now. Six in the Nation and Fast Casual,
the first African American to ever do it.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Right now, it's a wealth Wednesday. I'm with Stacy Tisdale
and we're talking to Derek Hayes, the founder and.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
CEO of Big Day's Cheese Steaks.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
But you opened your first location in Atlanta, Yes, and
I don't know how popular cheese steaks were in Atlanta,
But what is that process like of bringing something that's
unfamiliar to a place where you're not from there?
Speaker 3 (29:55):
But now you have to get people used to wanting
to get something.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
And it was in a gas station, right it's the
first place that you opened up an actual physical location.
So tell me how you managed to even market yourself
and overcome that.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
I actually started in a gas station outside of the city,
which was like thirty five minutes from Atlanta. Nobody wanted
to lease me in space, so I had to take
what God gave me.
Speaker 10 (30:15):
I'm like, look, I got the product. I know, I
got the hustle.
Speaker 8 (30:18):
Eventually they going to come, but it took me a
year and a half to start getting traffic. And that
was a hard thing for me.
Speaker 10 (30:24):
You know.
Speaker 8 (30:24):
I had spent many days in my car crying and
praying to God because I took my last money and
put into this business.
Speaker 10 (30:29):
But I always liked to shot Eve out.
Speaker 8 (30:31):
She was shooting barbershop and she came in a bit
of cheese steak, and that was like literally the breaking
point of my career because when she ate that cheese steak,
she put it on her social media platforms and I
had five hundred people in the parking lot the next day.
Speaker 10 (30:44):
I mean more traffic now I can handle.
Speaker 8 (30:45):
I tell people all the time, you can work your
butt off as much as you want. If you're not
ready for it, you will fold. So I always be
ready when that call come. And I was ready for
that phone call. And from year to year twenty eighteen
rank number seven in the world in sandwiches, not just
cheese steaks and sandwiches, and that gave me like a
big opportunity to start being able to scale the brand.
Speaker 10 (31:07):
But most of all, I ain't taking no fun answer.
Speaker 8 (31:10):
Like I'm really knocking on these doors saying, listen, I
deserve this, and if you don't want to give it
to me.
Speaker 10 (31:14):
You're gonna feel it. That's the way I look at it.
I say, you know they're not gonna keep locking me
out these rooms in right now. They don't have no choice.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
All Right, we got Derek Hayes here with us for
Wealth Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
What an honor.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
We got more with him when we come back. He
is the CEO and the founder of Big Dave's Cheesesteaks.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
It's way up.
Speaker 9 (31:30):
I had a dream of wealthy, and I don't mind
sharing my.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Wealth dog getting you straight financially, mentally and physically. This
is Wealth Wednesday on way up with Angela Ye?
Speaker 4 (31:40):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (31:40):
His way up with Angela Yee? Happy Wealth Wednesday.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
And this man is the epitome of somebody who started
from the bottom. All right, we got Derek Hayes here
and he is the CEO and founder of Big Dave's
Cheese Steaks. And of course Stacy Tisdale is here with
me for Wealth Wednesday. You know, Derek, there's a lot
of people who are starting their own businesses and it
might not be any customers for a while, you're still
trying to like get it going. You said it took
(32:03):
a year and a half until that happened. So were
you the person there that was physically having to work,
Because that's also something that for entrepreneurs to understand that
a lot of times when you're launching a business, you
have to physically yeah, you got a present and do
the work. So I just want you to talk about
those early days.
Speaker 8 (32:18):
That's actually good because that's what I really care about.
I care about people seeing the sea before the flowers grown.
So I actually started in a gas station seven hundred
and forty nine square feet with a broken fire and
a broken grill. And at that time I didn't realize
that I was, even in my own life, in danger
the way things.
Speaker 10 (32:35):
Was hooked up in there. I just was hustling. I'm
like plugged toward and you know, I'm just whatever, he's
just winging shit. I'm like, I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 8 (32:41):
At nighttime, I'm reading tutorials, I'm just teaching myself. So
those were the best years of my career because those
were the years where I was challenging myself the most.
Speaker 10 (32:50):
I worked my butt off seven years, seven days a.
Speaker 8 (32:53):
Week to build this business. I just got off the grill.
Three or four years ago. A billionaire said this to me,
do you want to build a fame his mom and popper?
You want to scale this brand? And I said, I
want to scale this brand. That was always my goal.
He said, well, in order to scale this brand, you gotta.
Speaker 10 (33:07):
Learn the brand.
Speaker 8 (33:08):
Right now, you're teaching inside the facility, you're working with
the social but now you gotta run the machine.
Speaker 10 (33:13):
And I'm running the machines.
Speaker 8 (33:14):
Take you to learn profit and lost cocks, even to
all of these things, to know what you're doing, petting
the right c suitees together the right people that's going
to help you scale. Because let me tell you something,
loyalty is one thing, but if you don't want to
know what the hell you're doing, loyalty don't mean nothing
in scaling the brand.
Speaker 10 (33:29):
I gotta be loyal to myself too.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Right now, it's a wealth Wednesday.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
I'm with Stacy Tisdale and we're talking to Derek Hayes,
the founder and CEO of Big Dave's Cheese Steaks your
plan is.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
To have one hundred franchises by the end of the year.
Speaker 10 (33:41):
Yeah, I'm on my way. I'm about to make some
big announcements soon.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Oh wow, you look so happy, man.
Speaker 8 (33:48):
Listen, I got so much stuff that I'm about to
drop twenty twenty six. Man, it's like I feel like
I'm still dreaming and I'm gonna go ahead and give
it to y'all on this. I'm about that announce Greenville,
South Carolina, where I'm about to do the wild break
next week. Wow. Yeah, I'm about to announce another one.
That's the Georgia World Congress Center where investments is hell
this year, so I'm gonna be doing some amazing things
for investing.
Speaker 16 (34:08):
Oh wow, perfect time, Screenville, South Carolina.
Speaker 12 (34:12):
You heard it here.
Speaker 10 (34:14):
I had to break the news. Yes, I had to
give it to y'allah. Maybe hold that, but it's all good.
Speaker 5 (34:21):
I give it to listen well Wednesday breaking news exclusives exactly.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
But we appreciate this. This has been amazing.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
I'm glad you came.
Speaker 10 (34:29):
No, I'm glad that I got a chance, and I
can't wait to finally get up here. On the way up.
Speaker 16 (34:34):
Other announcements which you're gonna come back to Wealth Wednesdays
to break of course.
Speaker 5 (34:37):
Oh yeah yes, and then when you'll do Real Housewives
of Atlanta, you know you can come up here and
talk about it too.
Speaker 10 (34:41):
About that.
Speaker 16 (34:46):
Okay, nice truck, Thank you so much, Jared for me.
We'll be coming by for some cheese steaks since you
hopefully you know.
Speaker 10 (34:54):
Me and be in New York soon. You know I'm franchising, so.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
Let us know.
Speaker 16 (34:58):
Happy Wealth Wednesdays, everybody.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Definitely make sure you check out that for interview on
my YouTube channel Way Up with ye And when we
come back, you guys have the last word.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Up the phone tapping to get your voice heard. What
the word bitch is the last word on Way Up
with Angela?
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Ye oh yes, it's Way Up with Angela.
Speaker 16 (35:16):
Yee.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
What's up?
Speaker 11 (35:17):
Well?
Speaker 15 (35:17):
Ya?
Speaker 5 (35:18):
Kiemwoods is here. We over here, plottin on things, trying
to get stuff.
Speaker 9 (35:21):
Done, trying to get stuff done in Brooklyn on the
twenty first of all.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
August Well, listen, speaking of Brooklyn. August twenty third is
Angela Yee Day twenty. I'm over here because you know
we're very reggae and dancehall heavy event.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Because it's also right before the West.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
Indian American Day PARADEUS the week before, and so I'm
in here making y'all listen to all kinds of dance hall.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
I'm enjoying this though. This is fun.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
We got to do like a special I know, pro
so I'm going to do a special mix on the
air for that. But anyway, thank you again to Derek
Hase for joining us. You know, just his story from
starting off in West Philadelphia born and raised yep to
where he is now with a national franchise planning to
have one hundred by the end of the year.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
That is amazing.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Love to see it.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
Yes, Big Dave's Cheesteaks, and rumor has it they're joining
Real Housewives of Atlanta him and Pinky Cole from Slotte Vegan.
So I don't know, it's a rumor right now, but
we go and see y'all would watch for that, me too.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
But again, you guys, is anything you you got to promote?
Speaker 9 (36:26):
Oh yeah, make sure you check me out at a
Keenwoods a k e e m Woods dot com for
all my tour dates. I have a show in Brooklyn
on the twenty first. The venuees pending, but we're most
likely gonna happen on the twenty first summer in Brooklyn
Kimo dot com. And then I'm in Tacoma this weekend
with Godfrey at the Tacoma Comedy Club.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Love it all right? Well you guys, this is your show,
so you have the last word.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Bye.
Speaker 6 (36:46):
What's going on is Mark from bo read over to
create if Snatty. I want to give a shout out
to my mom that path away there Potter, my sister,
that path away to real Potter. I want to be
a shout out tomorrow care that passed away and I
appreciate for it.
Speaker 7 (37:02):
I love you.
Speaker 12 (37:03):
How you doing.
Speaker 8 (37:04):
My name is Randy and I'm calling from Orth Memphis,
going to shine a light on my.
Speaker 14 (37:09):
Beautiful wife, Miss.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Daliska, me and the boys. We'll appreciate her, We love her,
and we all thank you for everything she's doing every
single day.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
God allow us to be in her presence because she's
a magnificent, true definition of her mother.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Anjela going way out with Angela Yee
Turn your lights on, y'all spreading love to those who
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Light on them, shine a light on. It's time to
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Speaker 3 (00:11):
It's way up. But Angela, yee, I'm here with akem Woods.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
What's up, Bude?
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Venture with millionaire entrepreneur Mario Kelly, and they highlight the
power of combining AI with real world applications. So as
people are scared of AI, what he can do with
his company is actually help you figure out how you
can use it to help deliver better customer service, book appointments,
follow up on leads, things like that, Yeah, I wonder
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how this.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Can help you.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
I will hopefully let's find out.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
I think if I have to think about it, I
would think it could help you with finding where your
best markets are, help you with following up on bookings,
reaching out to people. Also help with the algorithm and
figuring out algorithm.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
You can do.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
But this was kind of back in twenty fourteen, and
it's for any business to actually work smarter. So shout
out to him for that. And now, who do you
guys want to spread some leve to? Who do you
want to shine a light on? Eight hundred and two
ninety two fifty one fifty?
Speaker 4 (01:36):
What's up?
Speaker 6 (01:36):
Robert?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Who do you want to shine a light on?
Speaker 7 (01:38):
I'll like to shine a light on yourself?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Actually, oh dang, okay, you.
Speaker 7 (01:42):
Actually got me to it.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
In every day he's very successful.
Speaker 8 (01:46):
It's amazing you inspire everybody to actually own their own
business and be successful.
Speaker 7 (01:51):
In all it.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Thank you. I appreciate that. That's really nice of you.
What do you do?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I'm a trucker and I'm an armor reservist.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Oh well, we thank you for what you do.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
And I want to say when I first started my
career in radio, it was the Chuckers that were the
most supportive when I was on serious. Oh yeah, that's
what That's what made me who I am today.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
So thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I congratulation successful lady, and I hope you have a
great time on the twenty third.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
All right, I appreciate you, Thank you. I have a
good one you too, And that's right. The twenty third
is Angela you day. Well that was shining Light eight
hundred and two nine two fifty one fifty in case
you couldn't get through. And when we come back, we
got ya e T And since I came, Woods is
guest hosting with me today.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Uh, let's talk about.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Some stand up and Kevin Heart this new competition series.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Oh yeah, I heard about on Netflix. All right, what
we're gonna be, I'm available.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
We're gonna give you some more. All right, it's way up.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
This says in the rooms.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
From industry shade.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
To all of gos that out send Angela's feeling that
yet way up?
Speaker 5 (02:49):
But Angela, you with my guest host, comedian I KEM Woods.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
What's up?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
I bought some of your T shirts too, by the way, Yeah,
did they come in the maw Yes they did.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
So thank you.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Now, speaking of comedy, Kevin Hart is teaming up on
Netflix for a new competition series, and that is to
find the next big stand up. So it's gonna be
contestants from all across the nation. They're gonna have tests
that mirror the real life journey of a comedian, like
open mics, bomb sets rewrites big stage performances, so they'll
get a chance to look behind the curtain of comedy's
(03:20):
darkest corners.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
What do you think about that?
Speaker 9 (03:25):
I think it sounds like on paper, it sounds good,
But someone who's in the business, I can almost guarantee
you they're just picking popular comics like people. They're not
gonna They're gonna pick a lot of Internet people who
aren't really who hasn't like They're not like og comics.
We've been doing it ten plus years, have actually worked
to be good at stand up. They're just gonna pick people.
(03:45):
I could be wrong, but in my head I feel
like they're just gonna pick. Oh, you got one hundred
thousand followers, Okay, cool, and you fit one of these boxes,
all right.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
But I don't think they're actually gonna do this.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
You used to watch the last comic standing I did, Yeah,
comparing it to kind of like that type of competition series.
Speaker 9 (03:58):
I think Last Comics, I feel like because that was
the first of its kind, so I feel like they
did more vetting and they still probably picked people they
wanted to pick, but I feel like they actually picked
comics because that's before social media was even a thing,
so the people have to actually be good at comics.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
I'm interested to see it. I had did this Facebook
series I did called Mastery.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Of Comedy with.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Ida Rodriguez was on there, Carlos Miller was on there.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I think, yeah, Roy Wood Jr.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Was Donelle Rawlings was on there, and we pair them
up with up and coming comics who had been doing
it for like over a year, and they kind of
like And it was during the pandemic, so well, I
remember that as in depth as it could have been.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
But I like this idea.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
I think it's a great idea.
Speaker 9 (04:38):
And I think Kevin is is tapped in with comedy.
I think he really is tapped in, so I'm hoping
he does right and finds the right people for the show.
I maybe me, but off of but generally people who
I think who've been doing it. I've been doing it
for almost fifteen years, but people who've actually put in
the work.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
If I want to see on their crying because you
know they're gonna make it crack, you got to get emotional.
Speaker 9 (05:00):
I have a sob story. My mom is dad. I
can talk with my dad mama, but.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Shesh pain in the comedy. All right, let's move on
from this.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Let's go talk about Tracy t And that's Cash Doll's X.
That's her children's father, and he's also an artist in
his own right. Well, he was on Live and he
was basically saying that he would like his son to
move in with him.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Here's what he said, what can.
Speaker 10 (05:26):
I don't know what you probably well friend my son
for to be with me.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
He moving with me?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
That I ain't dady I had daddy?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Did he moving with Tracy.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Gets your bm BA, I'm about worrying about.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
That's him on Live, responding to people because they always
get at him every time he goes on Live. And
Cash Dog even though she said she broke up with Zadarius,
it looks like she's back with him because she posted
I love my man. He has a they have a
younger child, uh and then they have an older a baby.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
In the video when he was telling me what he
were saying. No, oh, okay, because.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
His son is older, I think, and the.
Speaker 9 (05:59):
Daughters okay, cause I'm to say that's wild to be
cursing and yelling.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
He's also going to be on Gigi's Pink Conversations. Now
here's a little spicy piece of the trailer. That's a cliffhanger. Well,
what happened though?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Did you cheat?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
We was cheating?
Speaker 4 (06:13):
We was cheating.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
What that means you.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Were cheating too?
Speaker 10 (06:16):
Y'all got tired of each other.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
This might sound crazy, and that's all we know until
the full conversation comes out. All right, Well that is
your yet when we come back, we have about last
night where we discussed what we did last night. There's
a new show I'm watching and I'm gonna tell you
about it. It's actually pretty pretty good, and you'll tell
us what you're up to. Here's some Frank ocean a
tornado foo inside.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Is that just.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
So about last night?
Speaker 8 (06:46):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (06:48):
I went down I sway up at Angela yee a.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Keen Woods is here. We were just talking about Polish sausages.
Speaker 9 (06:54):
Yeah, in Chicago. I was there with godfriend. We went
to this place, this ween or place. Okay, Godfrey I
don't have to say, Paul, I'm gay.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
But we we went to this hot talk place and
it was amazing.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I know people say Wiener for hot dogs.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Well the place is called it.
Speaker 9 (07:10):
It was like one of those it's called wien or something.
It's where they yell at you or whatever.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
They yell at you.
Speaker 9 (07:15):
Yeah, because they'd be mean to you. It's google it
it's just Chicago. It's really good.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
They yell at you and our mean to you. Yeah
type of thing.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Well, let's talk about last night. I don't know if
I want angry Wieners.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Move on.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Tell me what you did last night, please.
Speaker 9 (07:32):
I was I was Godfrey tapes this podcast on Tuesday night,
so it was me. Yeah, it was me Godfrey and
Eva Evans.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Okay, nice, I gotta go back up there. It's like
an all night or though we.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Didn't get I didn't get home two one o'clock.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Yeah, there's God for you, boy, and come hang out.
Then next time you're talking for four hours.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
We talked about everything flat and all that stuff.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Yeah, all right, Well last night I actually went by
the time I got home. Well, first thing I did was,
I'm on a committee to choose who gets these grants
from yes, from this foundation at the Joe and Clara
Woolson collaboration. So it's for Brooklyn based philanthropies and so
nonprofits in Brooklyn.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
So I did that.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
It was a two hour meeting with the other people
in the committee to choose who's gonna get these grants.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
They get twenty thousand dollars each. Oh, I have different businesses.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
I got a business.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Do you have a nonprofit based in Brooklyn?
Speaker 4 (08:24):
It's not non par No?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Okay, so then no, but yeah, so that's always great
to do that.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
And then I went home and I was watching this
show because I'm always like, what am I going to watch?
Speaker 11 (08:35):
Now?
Speaker 5 (08:35):
I watch Hunting Wives. Now I started watching this show.
It's in a second season already. It's called Platonic.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Oh, what's that? I haven't seen that.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
It's on Apple TV. Has anybody in here seen it? Well,
it's with Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Okay, let me get your Apple logue in.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
And they are they were best friends.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
They had like a falling out, but then they came
back together.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Like, and I do actually have app TV. Maybe I'll
watch Yeah, you.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Should watch it. So I just said it's funny. It's good.
I'm enjoying it so far.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
So I'm only on the first season and then I'm
on I'm like five episodes in their quick episodes, so
you can watch that. But anyway, platonic. But the point is,
can men and women be platonic friends? And that's kind
of you think, so, well, yeah we are.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Well I'm very gay, but yeah, uh, do.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
You have gay platon like another gay guy that you
could just be platonicty? Okay, yeah, that's what I'm saying.
It's not like you want to sleep with everybody. I
always thought that if a guy didn't have women friends,
that means he looks at.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Them like like objects. Yeah no, creepy.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Well that is about last night when we come back.
Tell us a secret. Eight hundred two nine two fifty
one fifty is a number. Any secret you have, Maybe
you did have a platonic friend, something went down and
you never told your significant other.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Give us all this spicy tea girl, I'm here for it.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Eight hundred two nine two fifty one fifty. Any secret
that you have, We're here to listen. You know, we
don't judge, because who are.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
We the comvereection might but we won't.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, we have.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Nothing to do with what they say. But eight hundred
two ninety two fifty one fifty. This this is your
safe space. You're anonymous. Tell us a secret.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
This is a judgment freeze all tell us the secret.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yes, that's right, tell us a secret.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Time I came my favorite part.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
I do want to say, you're not very judgment So
I appreciate that about you, and that's why our callers
should also appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Our way up.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Fam eight hundred two nine fifty one fifty. Again, you
know the rules, no judgment, none, and you're anonymous when
you call in, all right, anonymous, call it.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Tell us your secret.
Speaker 8 (10:29):
So when I was fifteen years old, a friend of
mine had diabetes and the sugar levels were low at our.
Speaker 12 (10:35):
Bottom of candy and his friend came over to his.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
House and took his candy from him.
Speaker 10 (10:40):
So when he told me about that, I shot the
friend in the head.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
What to be good?
Speaker 10 (10:45):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (10:46):
Oh yo, you gotta start with b begud?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
What happened?
Speaker 10 (10:54):
I mean he didn't know because the friend just told me.
Speaker 12 (10:56):
But he the guy shot in the head, I don't know.
Speaker 13 (10:58):
I'm the one about the.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Candy that was with my friend a play with.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Wow, but he's okay because it was a guy.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Okay, nothing, okay cool.
Speaker 9 (11:07):
I just gotta say that on air because you can't
be committed that it was about you murdered someone, because.
Speaker 10 (11:14):
Then nobouty no no no, I just thought guns.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Oh that was I feel like that's also a little
strange that I'm not gonna lie like.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
I've done dumb stuff when I was fifty year old.
Boys are stupid.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I gotta google what happens when you shoot someone with.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
A BB gun. It's a little that story.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
It was amazing though. Thank you for calling?
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Yeah, thank you you are.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Hey, Namu is calling? You want to tell me? And
I came a secret?
Speaker 4 (11:38):
What's up? I do?
Speaker 12 (11:40):
Actually? So I'm Jasmine?
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Okay, I guess it's not anonymous?
Speaker 12 (11:48):
Yeah no, because I wanted to be known, so I
made a page on that page. My sister's boyfriend has
been messaging me on naiter, not knowing that it's me,
like letting me know he wants and all this stuff,
not knowing that it's me. So I'm gonna tell my sister's.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Today, what picture are you using on there? Then it's
someone else, like a random person's picture.
Speaker 12 (12:09):
It's actually my bust and he doesn't know her.
Speaker 9 (12:14):
So so you basically found out your sister boyfriend is
out here in the streets DM and random girls.
Speaker 12 (12:19):
And I've tried to tell her but she don't want
to listen. So I got to hear.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Well, you got like thirty through the DMS, like, what
do you guys talk like? Was it like sexual? Did
you respond?
Speaker 12 (12:28):
I responded, but I mean he doesn't know it's me responding.
He was like, how are you and stuff like that,
and I want to link up and get to know you.
You're beautiful and all this and that. And I was like,
where would you like toiline? And he's like, I want
to take you to a park and be romantic stuff
like that. And I'm like, oh.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Oh, he's romantic. Crazy.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Okay, this balon's on the tea.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Take you to the park.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
All right, Well listen, good luck.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Please tell me what happens when you tell it, because
sometimes you tell somebody and they make every excuse in
the world for their cheating.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
Men.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
I'm glad you got receipt girl.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Got the receipts, all right, thank you, You're welcome. All right,
Well that was tell us a secret eight hundred two
nine two fifty. Just in case you couldn't get through,
you can always leave a message and you can tell
us your secret that way. When we come back. It's
yea tea time. And Cameron does not have any secrets.
And he told us what he did with Omar Gooding.
(13:22):
This was diabolical.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
I know, I saw we saw this as mind.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Actually felt kind of bad. All right, we'll talk about it.
It's way up, yo, she's about.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
To blow the lid abof this pot.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Let's get it.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Oh yeah, angelus feeling that ye te come and get
the tea.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
It's way up at angela. Yee. I'm here with Keen Woods,
comedian extraordinaire.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Hey, what's what's happening?
Speaker 5 (13:41):
And let's get into this yet Cameron versus Omar Gooding.
I cannot believe that they are beefing like this. All right, well, thanks?
This taken to another level? Now what did you hear?
Speaker 4 (13:53):
I mean, listen, we talked about this on Coffee Podcast
last night.
Speaker 9 (13:55):
The pettiness of Cameron is is, to be honest, close to.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
So Cameron actually revealed in an Instagram video he hired
Omar Gooding to act in a movie that wasn't even real,
had him fly out, you know, to Miami, and he
had all the footage.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
So now he signed off seventy.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Dollars, you know, he said, Well, he said it only
cost him thirty five hundred dollars. But anyway, here is
what Cameron had to say about the prank that he
played on Omar Gooding.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
A lot of this is broke.
Speaker 11 (14:27):
I booked back for seventy five hundred to do a
movie for three weeks.
Speaker 7 (14:31):
Yeah, on one that movie you flew to Miami.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Fore it ain't no movie coming out, And I was
laughing at you behind the scenes.
Speaker 10 (14:37):
I was there, and.
Speaker 11 (14:38):
You know what, now you're coming on a revolt tonight
because you're sign the paperwork saying I could do whatever
with the footage.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
You thought that was real movie producers.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
They are real movie producers.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
But then was my h I just said, I felt
so bad though, because you know, asn't I.
Speaker 9 (14:54):
Feel bad in a sense, but I'm also I feel bad,
but I'm also like A, well, he got the money,
so it's not like for next amount of money, he said.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
I guess Aamar Goody did do a dis song about him.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
He did six He did like a bunch of discards.
He did it. He did this album.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Yeah, he did it, and well, Cameron posted, at least
I gave you some money if that's what you want
to call three K, but you're starting tonight on Revolt
and a movie that's never coming out, So now go
back to doing your restaurant comedy tour. And I got
five k for you to perform the disc records at
my goddaughter baby shower in October if you want it, well,
Amar Goodding responded, and he said, you think that is
(15:29):
a checkmate, be careful. My inbox is full of grinding
issue done past and present. People really got it out
for you, fam. Seriously, please be careful. And here's what
else he had to say about this prank.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
First of all, thank you brother, you are next level.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
A free trip to Miami, twenty five hundred dollars in
my pocket to do some push ups with my shirt off,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
And knowing that that garbage ain't.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Coming out, it's even better show it on your little
show all you want.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
If you need ratings that.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Bad, I listen, people could come at me. I'm not
beefing with nobody me.
Speaker 9 (16:02):
Neither, But if you want to find me out to
do some pussuf I am available a keyenwoods dot com
for booking.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
A Woods dot com.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Yeah, flewed out.
Speaker 9 (16:11):
You gotta start me and gattle beef and I don't.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Know all right now, this was an interesting story. Jason
Momoa Aquaman. Who would think that Aquaman would almost drown
as crazy great of a swimmer as he is, but
he revealed that he almost died during a surfing incident.
He was in Maui, Hawaii, and this is what he
had to say about the incident on the SmartLess podcast.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
My arms and my legs gave up.
Speaker 13 (16:38):
Was out there for a while and I bubbled down
and then my toe hit the outer reef and I
just reached down grab it.
Speaker 7 (16:45):
I jump up.
Speaker 13 (16:46):
I get hit by another wave and I'm literally in
the middle.
Speaker 7 (16:49):
Of the ocean.
Speaker 13 (16:50):
I could barely put my lips above. It's just to
breathe and get a break. But I'd already given up.
So it's like you've already given up and died. And
then I hear layer come from behind. He's on my board,
towing his board.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Can you imagine?
Speaker 9 (17:05):
Yeah, that's why I don't. I don't mess with the water.
I do not mess with the with the water's ocean
is a next level thing.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Y'all don't realize the old But he said he literally
hit his toe. He was couldn't breathe, people couldn't see him.
He was trying to get help. Then his friend came.
They both lost their boards, but they had to paddle
out further.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
It don't matter how good of assuming you are. The
ocean is always gonna be the ocean.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I choked just talking about it.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
All right, Well that is your yea tea, No, when
we come back, we.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Have under the radar. These are the stories that are
not necessarily in the headlines. They're flying under the radar,
but you definitely need to know about him. It's way up.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
I got news this in the news that relates to you.
These stories are flying under the radar.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
All right as way yep. But Angela, yeah, I'm here,
my guy, I keen woods his head with me to day.
Speaker 10 (17:49):
We hear.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Let's get into some of these under the radar stories now.
First and foremost, Spirit Airlines is saying that they may
not be able to stay in business. They have substantial
out about their ability to continue as a going concern
within the next year. So they are saying they don't
have the resources needed to sustain operations. You know, they
(18:10):
also have emerged from Chapter eleven bankruptcy. They said there's
a weak demand for domestic leisure travel.
Speaker 9 (18:18):
Yeah, I was just gonna say, when you when you could,
when you want to fight from here to Miami called
seventeen dollars, You're not gonna be making that much money.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
But then they charge for everything.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
You charge everything you want to put a you want
to bring your purse on the plane, hundred dollars.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Ya Monique us to have this joke, was like, oh,
they charge you to land. You want to land, Yes,
the land and bee.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
You gotta pay it now or you're not going to land.
Speaker 9 (18:43):
That is Yaika's jokes so funny.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
All right, make America healthy again, Maha. That is the
movement that RFK Junior has started. And right now they're
taking aim at school lunches and what they want to
do is make sure that there's like no more processed
foods in school lunches. RFK Junior has said that school
lunch programs have deteriorated. He talked about ultra process foods
(19:08):
and school meals and the problem is, as he's saying
that we need to stop poisoning our kids and make
sure that Americans are once again the healthiest kids on
the planet. They're not also providing resources to make that happen.
As a matter of fact, the US Agricultural Department has
and did two programs totally one billion dollars that helped
schools buy food from local pharmas and producers, and the
(19:32):
USDA is in charge of the nutrition standards for the
National School Lunch Program. They want them to create these
healthy and appealing meals, but on very slim budgets as
they're cutting things, so they're not sure how this is
potentially going to happen.
Speaker 9 (19:44):
I mean, I'm all about having healthier food in schools,
but my question is are you going to feed the
kids for free? Because I don't think kids have to
pay for school, They have to legally be in school.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
And it's not even just the cost of the food,
but schools would also have to pay for more employees
to make the food because it's not going to be
frozen food that gets heated up. They want you to
make fresh food that's not processed, and then they also
would need to acquire equipment to handle making fresh food
for one hundreds store and every day. So it's a
(20:13):
great initiative, but not as you're cutting plans with agriculture
providing fresh food to the schools and also not wanting
to hire more people to work in the schools to
make that happen. So just putting that out there, and
that is you're under the radar. We do have the
way up mixed. At the top of the hour, and
speaking of food, Derek Hage is going to be joining us.
He is the CEO and founder of Big Dave's Cheese Steaks.
(20:36):
He's actually looking to expand to one hundred franchises by
the end of the year and he is well on
his way, and so he'll be joining us for our
Wealth Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
It's way up here and she's sing it all this
is yeaty way up.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
It's way up at Angela Yee, I'm here, my guy,
I kem.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Witch is here with me today.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
What's happening and let's get into this yeaty so kit cutting.
He was a key witness in Diddy's sex trafficking trial
and people were shocked that he took the stand. I
don't know if that testimony really did much in this case, Well,
clearly it didn't mean. Yeah, he was on the Call
Her Daddy podcast and here's what he had to say
about testifying and why.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
He did it.
Speaker 11 (21:16):
I was there because I had to be. At first
they asked, I said no. Then I guess if he
But I hated every minute of it. But then I
thought about, you know, when I was up there, I'm
here to support Cassie and I love her and I
want to see her thrive and do well and be happy,
you know, because I know she was living a nightmare.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
And I just was there to support her.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
All right.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Well, I mean because they dated it, right, Yeah, they.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Used to dance.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
What the whole thing was about? And when did he
found out? He was not happy about it?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, because he like did something to
his car yea.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Yeah, allegedly allegedly.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
He had to do a book out, Cuddy the Memoir,
and he also has an album coming out Free that's.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Going to be released on August twenty second. He also
recently got married.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
In addition to that, he talked about his days, his
darkest days of his cocaine addiction, and here's what he
had to say.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Oh, I wanted to die.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
What was your rock bottom moment.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
Twenty sixteen was bad too.
Speaker 11 (22:12):
That's when I finally went to rehab because I relapsed
and started using a game. From twenty fifteen to twenty sixteen,
it was like the decline and just darker and darker
and darker, and suicide was.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
On my mind like all the time, and I wouldn't
got help.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
He said he was.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Glad that he actually got help and that his mental
state has been a thousand times better since twenty sixteen.
He said he had to unpack his anger and therapy
while in treatment.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
He was a hot head for a long time and
that was his main issue.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Who good for him? Did just always get to seek help?
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Yes, when you know that you are needing it, please
do seek help, all right?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
And for Esse two times, you know we've been talking
about his issues.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
He has his mother went live with her go fund
me trying to get people to do money because he
hasn't been giving her money lately. And he did a
song of freestyle where he addressed all of that.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
Well.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
In addition to that, now fifty cent has waited in.
He said, hey, Finesse, you look just like your mom
and man, just call her. I said, what the f
do you do when that happens? Nothing, look at her
and say you want some of this money or not?
Stay your ass off the phone? Who showed you how
to make a video? Anyway? And then finesse two times
to find it fifty cent when you call Marquise, I'll
call her, Oh, talking about fifty sons. Yeah, and he
(23:30):
also finessed two times. Also posted payments that he made
to his mother so that people could see, you know,
all the money that he's given her throughout the years. Now,
I didn't know this whole story, but I saw people
weighing in on the post. And he hasn't given her
money in a couple of months. So people were saying
that right because she was having issues being able to
pay her rent. But people were also saying that she
(23:50):
left her job and moved to come and help take
care of him and work for him.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
And so I don't know the whole Nay.
Speaker 9 (23:57):
Now, you bring family into into work bus this drama,
it's never a good mix.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Not only it never, but it's really a good mix. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
And he also has a song that he prefused previewed
that said that he paid all his mama's bills and
turned around and called She turned around and called him broke.
All right, well that is your yet when we come back,
ask yee. Eight hundred two nine two fifty one fifty.
Any question you have, Me and Aqim are here to help.
I'm just looking at the pizza crumbs on your shirt?
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Why do you tell me that? Now?
Speaker 9 (24:26):
Don't try to listen and saw she's lying. There's no
pizza comes to my shirt anymore.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Eight hundred nine two fifty one fifty. Any question you
have for ask ye? We are here to help. Here's
some love for you with Luther girl.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
I go everybody since with its relationship or career advice.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Angela's dropping facts. You should know this is ask ye.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
What's up his way?
Speaker 7 (24:47):
Yep?
Speaker 5 (24:47):
But Angela yee. It's me and Aqim Woods. I can
put the pizza down for one second, all right and.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Stop telling them? Can't me?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
And it is time for ask ye.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Now we do have somebody anonymous on the line that
has a question. And what's that anonymous color?
Speaker 14 (25:01):
So I come from a cultural background. I'm Indian, so
I do have two sides of me that I have
a cultural side of me that I do want to
do the right thing, like marry the brown girl, make
my mom a proud But I also love white girls.
Speaker 15 (25:16):
I'm crazy for white girls.
Speaker 8 (25:18):
I love the blue eyes, the blonde, the brunettes, you know,
and I love.
Speaker 15 (25:21):
The sexy part that comes with it. So I want
to live both sides.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
So sad question.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Do they want you to do and arranged marriage because
I know that's traditional in India.
Speaker 15 (25:31):
Yeah, and have a child and a family with them,
But I'm attracted to white, fair skin.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
I'm more with the Indian girl. In my opinion is
you people should marry for love.
Speaker 9 (25:41):
I think you just want to be with someone who
you generally feel connection with, no matter what their race
or ethnicity is.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
So have you fallen in love with anybody.
Speaker 15 (25:49):
That's what I'm factually attracted to. Yes, I have fall
in love with a girl before, but I just never
had the guts to tell my parents about it.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
I just feel like things are evolving in changing and
you got to live your life for who you are.
If you fall in love with somebody, it shouldn't matter
the color of their skin, where they're from. And I
know that's easy to say because family tradition just be
ready for you know, this happened in my family for
your family to shun you, that happened with my parents,
and so just get ready that that can potentially happen.
(26:20):
But I do also see Look I looked on Ready
and said, why do Anian men have this obsession with
white women and everything white? I don't think it's everybody,
but for some reason in society in general, that is
what is like put on a pedestal.
Speaker 15 (26:31):
So I strongly feel Indian women are way better than
most women I've met. They're smart, to educate, the intelligence,
they manage finances better. They also can cook, clean and
take care of the household like they would.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
I mean, but that's any woman can do that.
Speaker 9 (26:48):
I don't think that's based on skin color or complexion,
but tradition maybe for him.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Every woman can do that.
Speaker 15 (26:54):
But traditionally, I would believe in my race better, right,
you know, it's trustworthy because you're born in that race,
like you would feel the same.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
For your race.
Speaker 14 (27:03):
But actually I don't know, you know, I just feel
like there should be some sort of school.
Speaker 15 (27:08):
Where women could just go and do their own thing,
you know, where they're like, how to do that tool?
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Do you watch a lot of porn?
Speaker 6 (27:16):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Yep?
Speaker 15 (27:19):
Well, I don't want to say much, but thank you
for taking uch.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Hey, enjoy your white women.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
I don't want them to explode later in life.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
I mean, I can't tell nobody like if that's what
you're attracted to. Well, that was ask ye again. And
when we come back, it is a Wealth Wednesday. So
we do have Derek Hayes joining us. He is the
founder and CEO of Big Day's Cheesteaks, all right, and
we're gonna be talking to him.
Speaker 9 (27:42):
It's way up the dream of wealthy and I don't
mind sharing my wealth dogs.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Getting you straight financially, mentally and physically. This is wealth
Wednesday on way up with Angela Yee?
Speaker 4 (27:52):
What's up?
Speaker 5 (27:52):
His way up with Angela Yee. I'm here on a
Wealth Wednesday with my girls, Stacey Tuesday.
Speaker 16 (27:56):
Have you wealth Wednesdays everybody, And we have mister Derek
for you. Derek is the founder and CEO of Big
Daves and we're gonna talk about a lot of get
the cheese steaks.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Y'all know, y'all know I'm cheese steaks.
Speaker 16 (28:11):
This sandwich was ranked top ten sandwiches in the world
by World Food Champions. I know you have ten franchise
locations of Central Florida now five in South Carolina. Really
one of the fastest restaurant chains in the country. And
you always talk about you got there because it's about purpose.
Speaker 8 (28:31):
Well, first of all, I just want to tell y'all,
thank y'all for having me. My purpose was my father.
I mean, that was legitimately the reason why I started
the business. I mean I watched my dad take his
last breath in front of me. But before he died,
you know, I promised him I was going to do
the right thing. I was going to break my generational curses. Now,
needless to say, ten years of blastsweat and terrors building
his business a little over ten years now, it's been
(28:52):
a relicuose to ride. It hasn't been easy, but I
know that my purpose was always stronger than anything of defeat.
So even though my heart is moments, I always seen
the end of the road. I always knew that eventually
people will start paying attention. Eventually people will see what
I'm doing, not only just that, you know, I represent
everything when they say a kid can do. I come
out of a very dangerous place in West Philly, and
(29:14):
I'm challenging myself to keep on going to pushing kids forward,
because I know it's not the lack of like you know,
household is really just the resources, you know. You know,
we said that they're bad kids. We said that a
lot of things, but y'all looking at that. I got
forty tattoos on my body. I come from the same
environment they doing now. Six in the Nation and Fast Casual,
the first African American to ever do it.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Right now, it's a wealth Wednesday. I'm with Stacy Tisdale
and we're talking to Derek Hayes, the founder and.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
CEO of Big Day's Cheese Steaks.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
But you opened your first location in Atlanta, Yes, and
I don't know how popular cheese steaks were in Atlanta,
But what is that process like of bringing something that's
unfamiliar to a place where you're not from there?
Speaker 3 (29:55):
But now you have to get people used to wanting
to get something.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
And it was in a gas station, right it's the
first place that you opened up an actual physical location.
So tell me how you managed to even market yourself
and overcome that.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
I actually started in a gas station outside of the city,
which was like thirty five minutes from Atlanta. Nobody wanted
to lease me in space, so I had to take
what God gave me.
Speaker 10 (30:15):
I'm like, look, I got the product. I know, I
got the hustle.
Speaker 8 (30:18):
Eventually they going to come, but it took me a
year and a half to start getting traffic. And that
was a hard thing for me.
Speaker 10 (30:24):
You know.
Speaker 8 (30:24):
I had spent many days in my car crying and
praying to God because I took my last money and
put into this business.
Speaker 10 (30:29):
But I always liked to shot Eve out.
Speaker 8 (30:31):
She was shooting barbershop and she came in a bit
of cheese steak, and that was like literally the breaking
point of my career because when she ate that cheese steak,
she put it on her social media platforms and I
had five hundred people in the parking lot the next day.
Speaker 10 (30:44):
I mean more traffic now I can handle.
Speaker 8 (30:45):
I tell people all the time, you can work your
butt off as much as you want. If you're not
ready for it, you will fold. So I always be
ready when that call come. And I was ready for
that phone call. And from year to year twenty eighteen
rank number seven in the world in sandwiches, not just
cheese steaks and sandwiches, and that gave me like a
big opportunity to start being able to scale the brand.
Speaker 10 (31:07):
But most of all, I ain't taking no fun answer.
Speaker 8 (31:10):
Like I'm really knocking on these doors saying, listen, I
deserve this, and if you don't want to give it
to me.
Speaker 10 (31:14):
You're gonna feel it. That's the way I look at it.
I say, you know they're not gonna keep locking me
out these rooms in right now. They don't have no choice.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
All Right, we got Derek Hayes here with us for
Wealth Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
What an honor.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
We got more with him when we come back. He
is the CEO and the founder of Big Dave's Cheesesteaks.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
It's way up.
Speaker 9 (31:30):
I had a dream of wealthy, and I don't mind
sharing my.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Wealth dog getting you straight financially, mentally and physically. This
is Wealth Wednesday on way up with Angela Ye?
Speaker 4 (31:40):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (31:40):
His way up with Angela Yee? Happy Wealth Wednesday.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
And this man is the epitome of somebody who started
from the bottom. All right, we got Derek Hayes here
and he is the CEO and founder of Big Dave's
Cheese Steaks. And of course Stacy Tisdale is here with
me for Wealth Wednesday. You know, Derek, there's a lot
of people who are starting their own businesses and it
might not be any customers for a while, you're still
trying to like get it going. You said it took
(32:03):
a year and a half until that happened. So were
you the person there that was physically having to work,
Because that's also something that for entrepreneurs to understand that
a lot of times when you're launching a business, you
have to physically yeah, you got a present and do
the work. So I just want you to talk about
those early days.
Speaker 8 (32:18):
That's actually good because that's what I really care about.
I care about people seeing the sea before the flowers grown.
So I actually started in a gas station seven hundred
and forty nine square feet with a broken fire and
a broken grill. And at that time I didn't realize
that I was, even in my own life, in danger
the way things.
Speaker 10 (32:35):
Was hooked up in there. I just was hustling. I'm
like plugged toward and you know, I'm just whatever, he's
just winging shit. I'm like, I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 8 (32:41):
At nighttime, I'm reading tutorials, I'm just teaching myself. So
those were the best years of my career because those
were the years where I was challenging myself the most.
Speaker 10 (32:50):
I worked my butt off seven years, seven days a.
Speaker 8 (32:53):
Week to build this business. I just got off the grill.
Three or four years ago. A billionaire said this to me,
do you want to build a fame his mom and popper?
You want to scale this brand? And I said, I
want to scale this brand. That was always my goal.
He said, well, in order to scale this brand, you gotta.
Speaker 10 (33:07):
Learn the brand.
Speaker 8 (33:08):
Right now, you're teaching inside the facility, you're working with
the social but now you gotta run the machine.
Speaker 10 (33:13):
And I'm running the machines.
Speaker 8 (33:14):
Take you to learn profit and lost cocks, even to
all of these things, to know what you're doing, petting
the right c suitees together the right people that's going
to help you scale. Because let me tell you something,
loyalty is one thing, but if you don't want to
know what the hell you're doing, loyalty don't mean nothing
in scaling the brand.
Speaker 10 (33:29):
I gotta be loyal to myself too.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Right now, it's a wealth Wednesday.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
I'm with Stacy Tisdale and we're talking to Derek Hayes,
the founder and CEO of Big Dave's Cheese Steaks your
plan is.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
To have one hundred franchises by the end of the year.
Speaker 10 (33:41):
Yeah, I'm on my way. I'm about to make some
big announcements soon.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Oh wow, you look so happy, man.
Speaker 8 (33:48):
Listen, I got so much stuff that I'm about to
drop twenty twenty six. Man, it's like I feel like
I'm still dreaming and I'm gonna go ahead and give
it to y'all on this. I'm about that announce Greenville,
South Carolina, where I'm about to do the wild break
next week. Wow. Yeah, I'm about to announce another one.
That's the Georgia World Congress Center where investments is hell
this year, so I'm gonna be doing some amazing things
for investing.
Speaker 16 (34:08):
Oh wow, perfect time, Screenville, South Carolina.
Speaker 12 (34:12):
You heard it here.
Speaker 10 (34:14):
I had to break the news. Yes, I had to
give it to y'allah. Maybe hold that, but it's all good.
Speaker 5 (34:21):
I give it to listen well Wednesday breaking news exclusives exactly.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
But we appreciate this. This has been amazing.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
I'm glad you came.
Speaker 10 (34:29):
No, I'm glad that I got a chance, and I
can't wait to finally get up here. On the way up.
Speaker 16 (34:34):
Other announcements which you're gonna come back to Wealth Wednesdays
to break of course.
Speaker 5 (34:37):
Oh yeah yes, and then when you'll do Real Housewives
of Atlanta, you know you can come up here and
talk about it too.
Speaker 10 (34:41):
About that.
Speaker 16 (34:46):
Okay, nice truck, Thank you so much, Jared for me.
We'll be coming by for some cheese steaks since you
hopefully you know.
Speaker 10 (34:54):
Me and be in New York soon. You know I'm franchising, so.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
Let us know.
Speaker 16 (34:58):
Happy Wealth Wednesdays, everybody.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Definitely make sure you check out that for interview on
my YouTube channel Way Up with ye And when we
come back, you guys have the last word.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Up the phone tapping to get your voice heard. What
the word bitch is the last word on Way Up
with Angela?
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Ye oh yes, it's Way Up with Angela.
Speaker 16 (35:16):
Yee.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
What's up?
Speaker 11 (35:17):
Well?
Speaker 15 (35:17):
Ya?
Speaker 5 (35:18):
Kiemwoods is here. We over here, plottin on things, trying
to get stuff.
Speaker 9 (35:21):
Done, trying to get stuff done in Brooklyn on the
twenty first of all.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
August Well, listen, speaking of Brooklyn. August twenty third is
Angela Yee Day twenty. I'm over here because you know
we're very reggae and dancehall heavy event.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Because it's also right before the West.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
Indian American Day PARADEUS the week before, and so I'm
in here making y'all listen to all kinds of dance hall.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
I'm enjoying this though. This is fun.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
We got to do like a special I know, pro
so I'm going to do a special mix on the
air for that. But anyway, thank you again to Derek
Hase for joining us. You know, just his story from
starting off in West Philadelphia born and raised yep to
where he is now with a national franchise planning to
have one hundred by the end of the year.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
That is amazing.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Love to see it.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
Yes, Big Dave's Cheesteaks, and rumor has it they're joining
Real Housewives of Atlanta him and Pinky Cole from Slotte Vegan.
So I don't know, it's a rumor right now, but
we go and see y'all would watch for that, me too.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
But again, you guys, is anything you you got to promote?
Speaker 9 (36:26):
Oh yeah, make sure you check me out at a
Keenwoods a k e e m Woods dot com for
all my tour dates. I have a show in Brooklyn
on the twenty first. The venuees pending, but we're most
likely gonna happen on the twenty first summer in Brooklyn
Kimo dot com. And then I'm in Tacoma this weekend
with Godfrey at the Tacoma Comedy Club.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Love it all right? Well you guys, this is your show,
so you have the last word.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Bye.
Speaker 6 (36:46):
What's going on is Mark from bo read over to
create if Snatty. I want to give a shout out
to my mom that path away there Potter, my sister,
that path away to real Potter. I want to be
a shout out tomorrow care that passed away and I
appreciate for it.
Speaker 7 (37:02):
I love you.
Speaker 12 (37:03):
How you doing.
Speaker 8 (37:04):
My name is Randy and I'm calling from Orth Memphis,
going to shine a light on my.
Speaker 14 (37:09):
Beautiful wife, Miss.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Daliska, me and the boys. We'll appreciate her, We love her,
and we all thank you for everything she's doing every
single day.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
God allow us to be in her presence because she's
a magnificent, true definition of her mother.
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Thank you.
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