May 31, 2024 • 68 mins
Ever wondered how the simplest pleasures can elevate your happiness? We kick off from Brandon's cozy home in Riverside, California, sharing heartwarming responses from our Instagram followers. Family and kids topped the list, sparking a deep dive into the evolving dynamics of relationships, young love's purity, and the complexities that come with age. Let's also take a trip down memory lane with Danielle's insightful episode and our viral YouTube hit featuring Brian Foster.
Ever felt weighed down by patterns you can't seem to shake? We explore the concept of generational curses, discussing the impact these patterns have on our lives and the legacies we leave behind. From breaking cycles of poor financial decisions to striving for a lasting legacy, we share personal anecdotes and practical steps we're taking. The importance of documenting our lives in the digital age is emphasized, ensuring our stories inspire long into the future.
What's the secret to finding joy in everyday moments? We reflect on positive feedback from past guests and the therapeutic effects of activities like skateboarding and cannabis. Simple pleasures, from fresh socks to nostalgic movies, are celebrated, along with the science behind fleeting moments of joy. As we embrace life's duality, balancing positivity with vigilance, our children, Lennox and Luna, join us with their charming insights, adding a personal touch to our exploration of happiness.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Hello, hello, hello.
This is Zach Bautista with B2CPodcast, and I'm here with my
co-host as always, brandon May.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hey, what's going on?
Everybody, Ah, how's everybodydoing?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
We're in a new setup.
Today we're filming from thecasa.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah, live from my house, riverside, california.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
We did a full test run with the kiddos helping me,
so that was good and we got theshow running.
We're going to talk about somehappiness, some things that make
us happy today.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah, things that make us happy.
I felt like a lot of theepisodes were based off of
traumatizing or negative swingsof events.
I just don't want that to beour main focus all the time, you
know.
So we were just interested inwhat everybody else's definition
(01:16):
of happy is, given ourdefinition of happiness and then
just understanding it, you knowdefinition of happiness and
then just understanding it, youknow.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So I posed a question on our Instagram today yeah,
what makes you happy?
A lot of the ones, a lot of thekey ones that kept popping up
were were family, family, kids,not a lot of significant others.
I noticed that we're feelingothers.
I noticed that we're feeling.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Your significant other is.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I noticed.
Actually, I didn't mean to goin that direction, yeah, but, I
did notice that.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Damn, that's a crazy direction.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Sorry, but it is a direction I do this.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Does your significant other, the adequate enough
happiness, you know, is thatsomething that's going away?
I remember I felt like younglove was more pure than this
older love, so we could startthere.
You know, I talk to people allthe time that are still single
(02:27):
and stuff like that, and theysay it's hard out there and it's
pretty cruel and I don't knowthere's no like chivalry anymore
or courting, you know, somesort of court Like I think
that's why cowboys get so muchplay it's because they're
gentlemen, which they're notreally doing nothing, like you
(02:51):
know.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
They're just gentlemen still.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
But you're right, I think that goes Southern charm.
Yeah, and I think we kind of wehit on that with Danielle on
our last episode.
She kind of wanted that.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Southern charm.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Or just that chivalrous, I don't think
Danielle knows what she wants.
Oh, okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I think, it's.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
She's got to come to some acceptance of flaws in
individuals first.
You know, all respect to givepeople a little leeway.
Yep, you know you can want whatyou want, but sometimes what
you want ain't on the menu.
That shit don't exist, right.
(03:42):
Leprechachauns, unicorns, Iagree, I agree, um, have you
ever had a significant otherthat checked all the boxes?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
no, yeah, get the fuck out of here not all of them
.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I had a one's impossible.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I did.
I had a one that got away.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Nah, I did.
She still did some fucking foulshit.
There was something.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Well, yeah, she's the one that broke up with me, so
that was yeah.
So there you go, I heard.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Commitment issues.
She was perfect, except hadcommitment issues with you or
whatever the fuck.
I will say there was nothingthat she did that.
There was nothing that she didthat got on your nerves oh, and
the time we didn't.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
We didn't date for a very prolonged period of time.
It was probably off and on fora year and it was long, long
distance too, but you're veryparticular.
Yeah, I brought her home.
We had family dinner.
My folks loved her.
It was one of those.
She checked that block.
(04:59):
That was a big block at thetime.
I mean yeah, she probably Idon't know it was a little bit
of that young love, I think.
I think that's what we'retalking about.
How old were you?
I was in my 20s.
In your 20s, yeah, early 20s, 24.
(05:20):
I was old.
Yeah, I don't know if that shitcounts.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I don't know if that shit counts, yet?
Yeah, you know 20.
I was old.
I was all ready to fall in love.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I don't know if that shit counts, yet you know 20
legitimate relationships lookingback, I made a lot of stupid
ass decisions 25 yeah welllegitimate ones but I think I
learned a lot from my early, myearly, early ones yeah, it's
(05:49):
important.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
There's a lot of dudes that like don't date you
know what I mean and then theyget into relationships later in
their life and they get fuckedover because they're not
seasoned.
They get the game round on them.
You know, I done seen some shit.
I can't even say it.
It's so cold and it's sopersonal to me.
(06:12):
But I done seen some way worsethan anything that I've ever
received.
What are you talking about?
Like dudes getting played?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
What yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
dudes getting played, come on, yeah.
Dude's getting played, come on,yeah.
Like people's truck driversleaving and they just do wild
stuff when they're gone.
And I believe that that happensbecause he wasn't out there
dating at a younger age andunderstanding that there's like
(06:46):
there's a con side to you knowwhat I mean, just like in any
other situation, you know.
But anyways, yeah, yeah, Idon't even I don't tap dancing.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yeah, um, so kind of a consistent thing.
If you haven't tapped into theBrian Foster episode yet, you
should.
It's getting a lot of hits.
Our video on YouTube has 100views when I checked this
morning, so it's getting a lotof action, is it?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, oh, that's good , yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
So if you, haven't checked it out.
Check it out, that was PremiumMotions, josh out.
Check it out.
Um, that was, uh, that waspremium, uh, premium motions.
Uh, josh, he hooked us up withthat video.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Um, yeah, he did a good job yeah, he did do good, a
good job.
It does add another elementwhen you're having the video and
stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
So so I definitely tapped into that and um, but
happiness, we were talking abouthappiness, that episode, and I
felt like we did it again indanielle's episode so this is
like the, the trifecta.
This is we're trying to, we'retrying to round it all off,
(08:01):
because you, when you brought itup to me earlier, I was was
like, yeah, happiness, butwhat's?
What's something?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
we can say about that .
It shouldn't be such a mystery.
Why is?
Why is happiness such aquestion now?
Why is it so hard to define?
That's, that's the messed uppart.
I think that's why we haveconversations, even about it now
, because there's not a lot ofit out there.
(08:29):
And even when people have thethings that should make an
ordinary human being happy, theystill find themselves in
Negative mindset.
You know, if you have kids, youcould be super successful.
(08:50):
You could be a professionalathlete.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
And it doesn't mean that they're happy.
Yeah, that's that old, that oldmoniker, that old saying.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Right.
So you know, is happiness amemory.
All right, so you know, ishappiness a memory?
You know, is happiness justpurely a dopamine dump, where
happiness is like a mushroomtrip?
You know right.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Like true, pure happiness.
Yeah, yeah, it's somethingthat's elevated Right.
I could see that it's like acerebral, cerebral, yeah,
altered way of.
That's elevated Right.
I could see that A cerebral,cerebral, yeah, altered way of
thinking, exactly yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
So I don't know.
Defining happiness is the start, but that is like art too, you
know, and everybody is different, so everybody's happiness is
different.
But I struggle with this.
Sometimes, you know, I have tofind, or have to keep habits for
(09:51):
happiness.
You know what I mean, which Ifind odd.
I feel like it should just bepart of your day to day.
But now we, as humans, havedeveloped into these detail
oriented, useless jobs and stuffthat really don't need to be
that don't exist.
You know what I mean.
Like, but it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Like, but is that?
Is that contentment?
Is that happiness?
Like just because someone'scontent is that, is that a form
of happiness, or do you thinkthe contentment is not?
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I don't think that that's happiness.
Content and happy is twodifferent things, you know,
because what does it take foryou to be fucking content, you
know?
Would you rather work less?
You know what I mean.
Would you rather have adifferent job?
Yeah, you may be content, butis that where your happiness
lies?
Happiness, like?
For me it's a little bit easierbecause kids bring you
(10:46):
happiness, you know what I mean.
Like just the original natureof a child, like not tainted by
society or the internet or anyof those things not programmed
yet and having that, uh,original comedy.
You know, when a kid tells ajoke or he does something that
he thinks is funny, like that,like that's happy, or somebody
(11:11):
trips and it looks funny,whether they're hurt or not, you
know what I mean.
Like that, you know they gottheir little piece of happiness.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I've experienced that with your own kids.
Right, that shit cracks me upso hard.
Right, that shit cracks me upso hard.
The same thing you just saidtell me a joke, or just crack it
up over something crazy.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Yeah, yeah, you know, brian does the breathing and
all of the meditation, johnnydoes the meditation, dave, you
know.
But they still struggle withhappiness.
You know, they're still inpursuit, like that was a man in
pursuit.
To me, I don't think that was aman who felt like he had
achieved the things that hewanted to achieve within his
(11:54):
life.
I felt like he was still inpursuit of his, uh, true,
eternal happiness.
Do you?
What the fuck is that?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Oh, the dogs, insane, yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Roscoe hey, knock it off.
My dog's playing around.
I might even cut that out.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I think that adds to the ambiance a little bit.
Yeah, yeah, it shows peoplewhat's going on, so he's got
beautiful dogs.
Yeah, I got a tricolor ambiancea little bit.
Yeah, yeah, it shows peoplewhat's going on.
He's got, so he's got beautifuldogs.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yeah, I got a tricolor bully, a lilac bully
and a husky like an invertedhusky.
She's got like a little mask,like raccoon frost, blue eyes.
She's beautiful, she's shorterand her mane is not necessarily
fluffy.
It lays like a German Shepherdor a Malinois.
(12:46):
She's a good dog.
She's smart too.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
She's a gangster-looking dog.
Yeah yeah, it's super cool shelooks mean.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
She's kind of mean too.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
And I like that tangent, I like that and I'm
going to keep it.
I'm really going to keep it in.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I just want to show people this is our other side.
If you haven't gathered by now,we're huge animal people.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Yeah, they used to think I hated dogs and stuff.
Who did Everybody?
That was always a thing.
It used to bother me what.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
That's part of one of the reasons.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
I got dogs again too, because everybody thought I
hated dogs and and I'll be likebro.
But you've had dogs, I've haddogs.
You've had dogs.
Yeah, it doesn't make any sense.
No, it doesn't make any sense.
Yeah, just I don't know.
I've never been a fan of otherpeople, dogs or an untrained dog
like an untrained dog, like adrunk person oh yeah, I still
remember mean dogs in my fuckingmemory.
Dogs bring happiness, animalsbring happiness.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Again.
That's why I went off on thistangent.
I like animals, you know.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Okay, let's go deeper , okay, fucking puppies.
Oh, just a thing at a point intime.
Babies Like just an infant baby, well, nah, that's not even the
same as a puppy.
A puppy is way like funner thana little baby infant.
Oh yeah, A baby infant's like,oh what the fuck.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
No, puppies are crazy already yeah but puppies are
like.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
They look cute.
You know what I mean?
They're wild already.
Yeah, they're a littleminiature.
Everybody likes a miniatureversion of shit, you know.
That's why they keep breedingthese dogs to go smaller and
smaller and smaller.
Right, I saw a bully with fullhair, right.
If you see me talking aboutdogs, man, I'm getting happy.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
You're just cracking me up A French bulldog with full
hair.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
He's like I got the only two in the United States.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yeah, because you're drunk as a fucking yeah.
That dog looks messed up.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Yeah you were doing something in your backyard, bro,
right, but it makes him happy,he got a special ass mutt.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
He'll mutt a special, you know, yeah, but he'll make
his money.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
You know, I like which I can't, which I can't,
which I can't say because, yeah,my dog is super mud and I love
how he looks.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
He looks, he looks.
He don't look like a mutt,though yeah, he looks.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Looks like a like a like a fancy boy.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
But yeah, sorry that's loud in your speakers,
but the so back to yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah, uh, baby chickens I remember, oh yeah, in
elementary school, chickens allthe time right growing up you
put a little.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Give a little kid, a baby chicken, and get a little
duck.
Yeah, you feel me?
I'm telling you miniature stuffmakes people happy.
It's weird, except for diamonds.
That's the only thing theydon't want Miniature eyes,
diamonds and gold.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Jesus, that's a hard right.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
That's another thing.
Diamonds and gold, Diamonds andgold.
Oh, we got a.
We got Incon coming up.
I'm pretty excited about that.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yes, we'll be in Ontario.
Yeah, the weekend of the 28thand 29th Friday, saturday,
sunday We'll be over there.
So you guys should pull up onme.
I'll have a booth out there,I'll have prints out there, I'll
have some T-shirts, zach willbe out there signing autographs
and taking pictures with hisfans.
So definitely pull up.
(16:29):
You know, if you guys have anyquestions and or anything like
that, if you guys want to workwith us, shoot us an email.
We're not hard to find One ofthe.
We been interviewing a shit tonof people and stuff like that
and that's cool.
But you know we wanted to comeback and you know, mix it up
(16:50):
with some of our dryness andshit as well.
You feel me?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Yes, Right, get you to know our layers, right yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Right, we're like sandpaper.
You feel me Rubbed together?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Two different grades, grades, I will say.
Speaking of that reaching out,we did get some feedback oh yeah
, lamar O'Neal and he asked akind of cool question.
I don't know how tied intohappiness it is, but I think we
can cover it.
I think that's a cool littletangent to go off do you believe
in the concept of generationalcurses?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
If so, what have you both done to combat detrimental
patterns that you've seen inyour families?
Let me see that one more time.
Yeah, do you believe in theconcept?
Yeah, generational curses,generational curses, um, yeah,
(17:52):
yeah, it's called the hood.
you feel me like once poor,always poor yeah, I do um,
that's very, because if youdon't have generational wealth,
okay, you know, when you putcurse on there, it makes me
think of something whensomebody's waving some sage or
some shit like that.
But Generational Curses I feellike could be you know, bad
(18:17):
financial movement.
Your mama was a hoe, your daddywas a player and your son's a
player and everybody's a player.
What's that?
What you looking at?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I'm just trying to think yeah, yeah, no, the daddy
was a player.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Yeah, no, I'm just saying, I was like that was good
.
Well, these are things that Ifeel like would be detrimental
in generational ways.
Or, if you're an illegalimmigrant, yeah, um status upon
that like could affect that's agenerational curse, like because
if somebody don't fucking havea baby, or balance that curse
(18:57):
out like, that's a rough one too, like yeah if you're talking
about yeah, you're walking aline right, right Generational
curses.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
I will say this I'm trying I mean not to, not to,
not to bash him.
I'm trying to do thingsdifferently If I, if I do.
I never thought about running abusiness until I started
talking to you.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I think he wants us to equate it to ours too,
because he's asking us what wewould do.
Yeah, to so take that questionquestion and apply it to your
family, yeah, and I will do thesame.
That's what I was thinking.
Yeah, and then go ahead.
Go.
So if there's a generationalcurse within your family, what
is it?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I guess I guess the stigma of of uh, failed
businesses, uh, cause, causethere is there's kind of like a
it's been the past couplegenerations it's been good
businesses but not greatbusinesses, mm, mm, and I
(20:00):
understand like so, and this,this kind of this, is a crazy
question, cause I think thatgoes into what we've talked
about before.
Legacy type stuff, your name,your namesake, once we start I
guess, once men start getting toa certain age, they start
thinking about that.
What is my legacy going to be?
My children, this, that, whatdo I leave to my children?
(20:23):
So, so, keep, keep in mind, uh,any uh uh partners that are
listening to this.
If you're, if your guy startsacting a little crazy, uh for uh
, turn forties, fifties, this,this is.
I think this is when they saythe midlife crisis, I think this
is part of it, right, is your,is your kind of building that?
This is part of it, right?
Is you're kind of building thatmaking sure you have that
(20:46):
legacy?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah, and so I don't want I guess I don't want that
legacy to be one of just good,not great.
How do you so?
What patterns are you applyingto make sure that that pattern,
or generational curse, is broken?
I've just started that rightnow.
(21:10):
So you're, that's the best ofthis.
That's brand new to me.
Uh, because, like we've talkedbefore, I wasn't even thinking
about that.
I was thinking, hey, I'm goingballs of the wall every time I
go out like I'm ready, like, I'mready to I, I I wrote a will at
at 19, so like, and I'veupdated it four times since then
(21:30):
, so I'm very fully prepared of.
But just now, recently, in pastyear, uh, my outlook has been
changing little by little.
Yeah, so that legacy isstarting to click.
Maybe it's just because Iturned 36 too, maybe that's what
it was.
It took me over that, that 35year.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Well, you say you're doing it now.
What is it that you're doingnow?
That was different before.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
That shows that you're taking the shot, focusing
on a serious career focusing onserious business opportunities,
just being open to anything.
Uh, this, just this, thisventure alone has opened up a
lot of opportunity for both ofus.
(22:19):
I feel, um, yeah, so that Ithink that's, that's building a
legacy to leave behind in myopinion.
I think it's super cool thatwe're leaving something on on
the web or the airwaves or theRSS feed, so this is kind of
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like our little imprint a bookin the library for real.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
That's how I kind of view it too.
It's something that can bepulled up upon years from now
and it might be somewhatbeneficial to somebody.
That's kind of cool.
My kids can see it.
When I was 40.
You know.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
I've been sick the past few days and uh, so I had a
lot of time just to think andyeah, that was something I was
thinking about was this is acool little.
so if I don't, know, if, nowthat we're in this age of
technology, like, recordyourself as much as possible,
show yourself doing cool shitlike fucking, videotape it.
(23:32):
You know what I mean.
Tape it on the get, getpictures of it, right?
I miss not doing that atcertain times in my life, like
being like, oh, I don't need totake my fucking phone out, but
you're also kind of immersed init that way.
Yeah, certain opportunity likeI wish they're imprinted in my
mind, as I'm sure you have toothat I I see vividly.
(23:55):
That was super cool, but Idon't have a picture of that.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I mean one day all you will have is a picture yeah
and Not to jump from sound tovideo, but yeah, yeah.
Generational curses.
So yeah, that's a good answer.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Do you know how about you?
Sorry, that was a long windedanswer for me.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Generational Generational curses.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
I wouldn't say I mean from what I know of your.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
I mean that's kind of my pop's pretty solid yeah yeah
, so he was.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
He was a good role model.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
He spends a lot, right, he spends a lot.
You know, that was one thing.
You know.
He spends a lot, right, hespends a lot.
You know, that was one thing,you know growing up having a
little bit.
You know, we never really hadto go without.
So that was one thing that I hadto kind of learn was to
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struggle a little bit or to notenable myself which I guess
that's a hard one too Tostruggle a little bit or to not
enable myself whichno-transcript it, it's different
(25:23):
.
So, yeah, I had to cut that off.
I had to cut that offGenerational curses and then
just making sure that I don'tspoil my kids.
You know what I mean, I see, Isee.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
I see you do that a lot and I really I like that.
I like how you humble them fromtime to time.
Yeah, you give them those deeptalks.
Right, and I I like how youhumble them from time to time.
Yeah, you give them those deeptalks.
Right and the first time I sawit I was like shit.
I'm like, this is deep as shit.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Like you, take them aside and you have a good talk.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Yeah, we talk, and I really admire you for that, how
real you talk to them, no matterwhat age they are, and yeah.
So the first time I saw it Iwas I was like, oh shit, okay,
is this something?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
and then now it's just a normal thing and I really
like, I really like it when youdo that.
Yeah, as far as kids peoplelimit their communication level
to their kids, I don't thinkthat's that's right, because
you're limiting yourself, butanyway, anyway that's not it.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
What's that?
I don't know if you wanted totouch on that at all too, or we
got to talk to him first.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
My experience is tattooing is hella interesting
as someone who respects African-.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
And I guess, maybe this is the downplay of not
scripting our stuff sometimes,and I might cut some of this out
, but this is kind of cool thedownplay of of not scripting our
stuff sometimes.
Um, and I might cut some ofthis out, but this is this is
this is kind of cool, but we'regetting feedback and some of
it's coming in as we're doingthis episode, um, so I'm trying
to address it as as it comes in.
Um, did you, did you want to goover that at all?
(27:02):
This is, this is feedback fromour last episode with Danielle
McKnight.
If you haven't tapped into that, tap into that one.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
That one's a really cool one.
So he's saying that blackAmericans have culture and
heritage and I don't disagreethat.
But what the fuck do you paintthat makes it?
You invoke this beautiful thingand like and again, this may be
(27:38):
off topic because, this is.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
This is directly related to the Danielle McKnight
episode, but this is like myshameless plug.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Listen to that one and then this little piece will
make sense yeah, um, I thinkhe's just saying that it needs
to be spotlighted.
You know, he said within hisart, that's something that he
kind of steered away fromAfrican or American, african
Okay.
He has respect for his Africanroots.
(28:07):
I've actively attempted not tomake that my go to in my art
Right and same with me toobecause, like when I started
doing tattooing and stuff, likethey were like, oh, you should
do black art, and now there'sthis big gaping hole, uh, uh, in
a timeline, I feel like, of artthat kind of needs to be
(28:30):
developed for the culture andcreated, and that's why I ask
those questions and stir that up.
So I I'm interested in Lamarand hearing what it is
specifically that you feel isblack American heritage and a
painting and a piece of art.
(28:51):
You know what I mean Not inwords, cause I know you can
describe some shit, but I'minterested in a visual aspect of
what you feel black Americanheritage looks like in a point
where, to the point where youwould get a tattoo, to the point
where it can be worn bymulticultural people you know
(29:12):
what I mean Like Asian.
You know people will get a cholo.
Fucking white people will get afucking Japanese Japanese.
You know people will get acholo.
Fucking white people will get afucking Japanese Japanese, you
know.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
So, so something that's I guess timeless enough
to go throughout.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
So but, lamar, we're going to have you on and we'll
you know I'm going to tag this.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
We had talked about it.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
You know what I mean.
And he said he would.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
And you know, just I, just I just wanted to bring it
up, cause I feel I feel like weowe it to you guys and he's he's
a fan since since day one, likelike a lot of you guys.
So I mean this this is whathappens.
If you send us a DM or anything, we're going to answer it, yeah
, so, so go ahead and and feelfree to do that, and I'll always
(29:56):
ask if you guys want to becalled out by name or if you
want to stay anonymous or not.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Daniel, it was a cool episode.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
We're going to start a, so I'm going to drop it here
and then I'm going to startteasing it on social media.
I think we should do before theseason ends.
I think we should do atelephone call.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
yeah, man we definitely trying to yes, okay,
yeah, so I'm gonna tease itright now yeah, you guys gotta
fuck with us man.
So we want to do like astraight hotline style show.
So, um, we're gonna pick atheme, you know, and we're gonna
need you guys to chime in withthe question straight up, like
old school love line style, youknow, like Dr, dr Drew, adam
(30:43):
Corolla type.
You know we're not trying to bethem or anything like that but
um, we like that, uh, platform.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Yeah, even I mean a big boy in the morning, or um.
So this is for, for, uh uh,Southern California IE people.
Um, yeah, big boy, um, thatthat one cat, uh, kiss Ryan.
(31:11):
Ryan Seacrest flowers.
He'd always be sending flowersto the, to the other girl, like
he'd call up the dude.
If so, if you think, oh yes,maybe we shouldn't do something
crazy like that, if you thoughtyour significant other was
cheating, you'd call up Ryan.
Ryan would say, hey, you want afree bouquet of flowers?
Who you want to send them to?
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Oh, I heard that in the morning Like and.
I listened to that sometimeswith my kids and I'll be turning
it off, bro, like I don't wantto hear that stuff.
What am I?
I think that's grimy how theydoing that man Like and yeah,
you know you're like it's notright to cheat and stuff like
that, but I just feel likethat's messy.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
I thought that was nuts.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
It reminds me of that show Cheaters and shit, that
was nuts.
Like what do you?
Speaker 1 (31:52):
expect is going to happen.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
on that Right, and then they send it to like their
little mistress.
And then the girl pops up onthe phone like, oh, who is
so-and-so yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Trapping people.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
That's not okay.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
I know we went off on several tangents, but we're
having fun.
I hope you're having funtalking with us too, yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
A lot of people, a lot of our interviewers, have
said some deep stuff abouthappiness and it's cool that you
know, when we came up with thetitle Health, wellness, art,
culture, it was kind of cool towatch it develop in that fashion
, because we have beencontrolling the narrative but
(32:34):
everything has been unscripted,so everything that you guys have
heard is just one shot.
No, you know.
No, take two, none of that.
No, um, just straight throughevery single time and it's
actually been really, really, uh, fun and organic.
You know, one of the things meand zach have really appreciate,
appreciate about the show, nowthat we've had a few episodes in
(32:55):
, is that we haven't made it yetand everybody wants to be blue
collar like all the shows.
Oh, yeah, we're blue collar,but we're really that right now
because we ain't really donenothing we feel cool in our own
minds.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
We're like man, we got this fucking podcast going
we haven't been deflated so it'sbeen really, really fun.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
man like man, we got this fucking podcast going Right
, right, right.
We haven't been to play yet oranything like that.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
So it's been really really fun man.
This has been fun.
We appreciate the people outthere listening.
We're trying to find differentways to spice things up and
we're hoping you're enjoying theinterviews and you guys are
learning things from them.
We're getting a lot of feedback.
Theviewees, the guests werehaving, the guests we've had
(33:43):
yeah, the guests we've had.
Um have been getting a lot ofpositive feedback too.
You know, on zach's episode, Iremember somebody was saying
they wanted to continue to dancebecause he said he would never
stop skateboarding.
She was like, oh, I'm gonna goget a tattoo because he's cute
and shit.
So you know, all kind of stuffhas been going on, which is good
.
You know, um brian has beengetting positive feedback uh, in
(34:09):
his direction, which that'sreally really good.
Mike is really his episode hasreally been um doing well as
that's.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
It's one of our top episodes and we yeah, we're
going to end season one here,probably with 25 episodes.
I'm thinking Close 25 episodesand then we'll roll into season
two.
Weed makes me happy, oh yeah,or the therapy is good, weed, no
(34:43):
, just weed makes you happy.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Oh, I know, I thought you were plugging.
No, I thought you were playingover episodes if you haven't
touched into.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Uh, uh, weed is good therapy.
That's one of our episodes.
You should go tap into thatright now.
No, so weed makes you happy.
That's one of our episodes.
You should go tap into thatright now.
No, so weed makes you happy.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Weed makes me happy and I think that's I smoke weed.
Yeah, that shit takes a littlebit of stress away.
I'll be like I've beenstressing y'all.
It's been raining over here alittle bit, yeah and uh.
Sometimes when I blow sometrees, man, I'll be like
chilling.
Yeah, I ain't worried aboutnone of that shit, you know, but
you gotta watch that.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
You gotta watch that too, you know uh, what I enjoy
the most about it what's thatabout weed in general is the um,
the pain, uh, the pain killeraspect of it.
Um gosh, it makes some of myinjuries feel fucking amazing,
or not amazing, but at leasttolerable.
Ah yeah, tolerable, right,cause I'm always doing
(35:41):
maintenance.
Um, I got, I have uh tens units.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
I have, I have all kinds, all kinds of stuff, yard
work, yard work and gardengardening and weed and like that
stuff all goes really reallywell, yeah, yeah.
Early early morning, all ofthat stuff yeah good stuff.
Yeah, yeah, trees is good, man.
Hopefully you guys are outthere smoking too, man, if you
can.
Hopefully you got like a jobthat allows that.
(36:06):
You know, smoke one for me.
You feel me in the name of B toZ, this blunt's for B to Z you
feel me?
Nah, I enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
I do that's, that's the best.
That was the best line I should.
I should take that that pieceout and that could be a teaser.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Yeah, yeah, but man oh whoa, oh yeah, okay, so I was
thinking of another thing thatmakes me happy.
Hmm, swimming while high.
Oh, absolutely, oh man, yeah,absolutely.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
If.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I've got like Absolutely, I've had some trees.
Yeah, I smoke, and then maybelike a little brownie or a piece
of chocolate, kind of hold meover, you know, and then jumping
in the pool.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Yeah, and I'm just under there like.
Just having a good old time.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
Yeah, looking around, bro, side to side like man man,
I'm scanning nothing, nothingI'm just I'm out there feeling
super aquatic, you know, superaquatic, mm-hmm, like what's
that show?
Waterworld.
Yeah, remember that.
Oh, I love that.
Yeah, what's that dude's name?
What is his name?
Kevin Costner, kevin Costner,yeah, kevin Costner.
(37:21):
Damn, that was the same time.
Nice, kevin Costner.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
The bodyguard?
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Yeah, that's crazy.
They had him in Whitney Houston.
He's like a Yellowstone and acowboy and all that shit.
Now yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
He's like a Yellowstone and a cowboy and all
that shit.
Now, yeah, you just, I don'tknow just one of those dudes
that could do anything, huhMusic.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Music makes me happy.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Yeah, music makes me very happy.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Music makes me happy.
Yeah, what else New shit?
New pair of shoes oh fresh.
A new pair of socks what yeah?
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Yeah, I don't think there's anything like a fresh
pair.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
White tee.
Yeah man, some fresh Vans.
They're like perfect, you know.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
Yeah, damn, that shit makes me happy.
What else makes me happy?
What else makes me happy?
A scent, something that smellsreally good.
You feel me like a, a womanthat's just like wow, like okay,
like she.
She looks fine and then shewalk by and then she smells like
(38:33):
, ooh, shit knocks you out,that's food.
Yeah, yep, you ever seen thatmovie, love Potion Number 9?
Yeah, she's like, ooh, shitKnocks you out, that's food.
Yeah, yep, you ever seen thatmovie, love Potion no 9?
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Yeah, that was a good one.
You know what else like is thatother.
What else is a good movie is?
I think it's got Death BecomesHer.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Death Becomes Her.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Where they take the serum.
And she don't, she, she doesn'tdie.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Oh, that's older one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
She keeps getting put back together.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Those are really good movies yeah, those I, yeah I
used to watch those back in theday.
What else makes me a good?
Good movies used to make mehappy back in the day.
I remember watchingIndependence Day the first time
or Titanic or Forrest Gump thefirst time, but they don't hit
like that anymore.
(39:26):
I don't know if it's becauseI'm older.
What else makes me happy?
People get happy from workingout and shit.
I don't necessarily get happy.
I feel accomplished.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
I'm like, man, happy is not what I'm feeling.
Yeah, it's more of a disciplinething, huh, well, maybe, and
maybe it's the way.
Yeah, no, I don't know.
Are you supposed to be happyafter you work out?
Speaker 2 (39:52):
you know, because I've always you get what I'm
saying, I'm glad you broughtthis up because that that's.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
That's something I've toyed with a lot in my mind.
Um, and so I was a personaltrainer at one time, long, long
time ago.
Um, I've had been studying.
I just got the book um to dothe uh, the NAFTA, uh, whatever,
uh, north North American,whatever certification it is a
(40:18):
popular one.
I just bought the book to dosome, some updated research.
Maybe I can help myself with myown personal personal training,
my own maintenance.
And, yeah, you got to find your, your happiness in working out
(40:39):
and I think I think that's whatBrian found in in what he does,
his daily, his routine.
He's always fighting, still,he's still, he's still grappling
but, that's a form of workingout.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
I mean that's were you happier in the military?
Yes, why?
I mean that's where you happierin the military.
Yes, why?
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Um, and I kind of know why the camaraderie, the
brotherhood they, they take,brother, they take the thinking
out of it, just enough.
So it's, it's all muscle memory.
So they, so it is.
It is a muscle memory thingLike you train, train, train,
(41:20):
train, train until everything is.
You do everything perfect, andthen even even that alone is is
a sense of happiness, is a senseof accomplishment.
Uh, you know how to do a taskreally really well.
Um, you know how to do a taskreally really well, yeah, yeah.
(41:41):
And sometimes just getting theorders, you know just being told
what to do, just go and do thisand then you bitch and complain
about it, but you still go getit done and there's that feeling
of accomplishment.
You're always getting thatfeeling, that dopamine, that
fucking adrenaline rush.
Even in training you get thatadrenaline rush.
So what's there not to love?
So I will say I don't.
(42:02):
If anyone is thinking aboutjoining the military, I'm not
like all for it.
I'm like, oh yeah, go join thefuck.
Really, pick and choose whatyou want to do.
There's a bunch of branches outthere, bunch of fucking
branches, and pick the onethat's right for you.
There's a bunch of differentdecisions.
Speaker 2 (42:22):
I loved it yeah, I remember, you know, being part
of teams and going to the tracksand racing and, uh, there's a
lot of camaraderie, sometimes intattoo shops.
You know what I mean if they'reat jail and that there are
highs in those moments.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
And that can make all the difference.
Huh, it doesn't even feel likework anymore, right.
Speaker 2 (42:47):
Yeah, happiness is an elusive thing, yeah.
You could start off the dayhappy, and then you know
something happens and then itkind of pulls away from it.
You know it starts off pure andthen it kind of fades away from
it.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
You know it starts off pure and then it kind of
fades, you know, and then youtry to control it right, try to
control that happiness maybelike a scent, maybe if I do
something, maybe that's themaybe if I go treat myself like.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
That's crazy.
I wonder if that like isequated to the dopamine fading
away.
Like you, losing your happinessis not necessarily the moment
getting any worse, it's just thedopamine going away or whatever
.
You know, or wonder what that.
Who could answer that question?
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Well, I like how he went scientific with it, we do
we need a doctor on the show.
Yeah, if you know, if anybodyknows, if any doctors I know a
doctor, doctors or therapists.
Um, I have some therapists inmind too, and we'd like to get
on the show and interview Idon't, I don't know how that's
(43:49):
like conflict of interest oftheir jobs or or not, if they're
not.
So what I've understood is aslong as they're not yours, yeah,
so I would never ask mytherapist to be on the show,
right, because that is conflictof interest.
But, yes, a totally differenttherapist, yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
Happiness.
If you were like fucking sadright now, what the fuck are you
going to do to go get happy?
Your fucking chick left youyour fucking yeah who and what
do you?
Speaker 1 (44:29):
do and I will say how do you?
Speaker 3 (44:30):
get over a chick.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
How do you get over a breakup and find?
Speaker 1 (44:34):
happiness.
Are you talking about in thepast or are you talking about
right now?
Like right now, what would I do?
I do, or right now, what have Idone?
Speaker 2 (44:41):
you want to know, you want to know.
Speaker 1 (44:43):
I did after the last one what just buried myself in
whatever work I was doing.
So it wasn't a happiness thing,it was must push forward type
of thing.
Um, I'm gonna.
I'm gonna keep punishing myself.
But the little, the glimpse ofhappiness came from my dog.
That was like the glimpse oftraining him.
Do you create your ownhappiness?
Speaker 2 (45:05):
In that situation.
I almost had to In everysituation.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
Well, you got to think.
I believe there is a sense ofthe type of happiness the
universe sends your way, of thetype of happiness the universe
sends your way, uh, or whateverspiritual, uh your god buddha
sends your way.
Um, as grad, you know the yinyang, whatever spins back your
way.
So, dude is, are those coolthings?
(45:31):
Those are out of your control?
Like, let's say, you findfucking $20 on the floor.
Speaker 3 (45:38):
Does that make you happy?
Speaker 1 (45:39):
You're like oh man cool, I'm gonna go buy a burger
or something.
Yeah, Like, and that'ssomething the universe sent your
way.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
I'm like that's cool, right.
I don't know if that's like oris it Sorry?
Speaker 1 (45:52):
I just wanted to send .
That's cool, I want, I, I want,I wanted to send that.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
you know, that's not thought your way, my, my
happiness doesn't, it wouldn'tbe influenced by 20, not by luck
either.
I mean shit, 20 is only goingto give me a few guys, a few
gallons, that shit gone.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
Well, maybe, okay, Maybe I didn't use a proper
analogy in today's because I wasthinking kind of happiness a
hundred dollars, you know, yeah,like that's cool.
Or like or you, you scratch ascratch.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
I'm talking about bliss Cause, like when's the
last time you cried, happy,happy, cried as a man, like damn
, I'm so happy right now I gottacry.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
Oh, when I I I know right off the bat when my record
expunged not too long ago, Icried it was a pop up court.
I cried right in front of thejudge.
Speaker 2 (46:42):
Damn, I'm not afraid to admit that last time I cried
shit, I don't fucking cry, Iknow and that was a few months
ago.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
I don't know fucking cry.
I know, and that was a fewmonths ago.
No, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
I don't know the next time I will, but yeah, I'm on a
good run.
Oh yeah, I'm on a good runright now as far as like
happiness and mentality.
I stopped worrying about a lotof shit too, and that makes me
happy, happier.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
I hope he's OK with us talking about this, but I
will say this I I think wetouched on something I I have
teared up in some of ourinterviews.
Oh yeah, Um everybody has when.
Brian was talking about Tobias.
Speaker 2 (47:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
Yeah, I got, I got a black book, by the way.
Speaker 2 (47:36):
Yeah, I got.
I got a black book, by the way.
Yeah, I think it came in todayactually, that's cool.
Yeah, oh, you met, you orderedit.
Yeah, in a mail to you?
Speaker 1 (47:43):
Yeah, I think it just got delivered today.
Speaker 2 (47:45):
That's dope.
Speaker 1 (47:46):
Yeah, and I so I just from looking at it on the
website and, if you like, it'ssuper easy to find.
Um, you can get there from it'son Elizabeth Street or Brian's
Old Blue Ink, but you can justGoogle Tobias Black Book and
that's what I was like.
Oh, I wanted to buy it realfast.
(48:08):
So, yeah, it pops right up.
It's got super cool stuff and Ican't wait to get my hands on
it.
It's fucking dope.
Yeah, it looks super cool.
Speaker 2 (48:16):
And not a lot of people know about it.
I hope it's okay, if you guyslike hot shit that is hot before
anybody else knows it.
That's one of those things.
Speaker 1 (48:25):
Yeah, because it's just good.
I mean that story behind it toowas super cool.
Speaker 2 (48:29):
It's not a book, I mean it has the ability to be
all over the world.
Speaker 1 (48:37):
no-transcript maybe it will yeah I mean it's such a
good book like.
Speaker 2 (48:44):
There's so many individual great stories and
just interactions.
You know, uh many writes in avery questioned, stoic,
mysterious way as well, ofteninterpreting his feelings within
the uh, the interaction and howhe views the individual,
(49:05):
equating to animals and hisenvironment, equating to forest
sometimes in urban environments.
It's cool.
Yeah, the Black Book is cool.
There's a lot of good reads.
It's like man.
I'm getting this book from acompany called herd studios and
(49:25):
it's from a company that mybrother works with in jail and
it's a diary for from prisoners.
Oh yeah, yeah, like.
That book is fucking tight too,like some of the stuff in there
and the poetry and there's ohyeah, the copy gave me.
Speaker 1 (49:39):
Yeah, yes, oh yeah, I know, yeah, yeah, definitely.
Where can you find that?
Speaker 2 (49:42):
at uh herd studios did you have any more?
Speaker 1 (49:45):
I mean, does do they?
Speaker 2 (49:46):
they just came out with the second edition.
Okay, that one you can actuallypurchase.
The first one you can'tpurchase, repurchase, but this
so keep that and that'sheardstudioscom or I don't know
um.
I'll post something.
You guys can go on my instagramand then search herd studios
yeah because, I do yeah theyhave a podcast and they do you
know um rights and fight forrights and all that shit.
(50:11):
You know what I mean and, likeyou know not to diss their stuff
, but I'm not even, you know,qualified to speak on that stuff
.
I don't have the verbiage rightnow.
But yeah, so herd studios that.
That book is fucking sick too.
It's.
My brother just did some poetryin there.
I wanted to read one.
It's so dope.
Do you want me to go grab itreal quick?
Could we pause it so I could gograb?
Speaker 1 (50:31):
it yeah, yeah go for it.
Speaker 3 (50:32):
It's so dope.
Speaker 2 (50:33):
All right, I'm back with the book.
Thank you for that brief pause.
Um, this is, uh, one of mybrother's pieces of poetry and
Zach's going to read it for us,thank you.
Speaker 1 (50:45):
Bless the child.
Bless the child who gained theworld but ate his first from a
plastic spoon.
Bless his heart he knows aroach and rat.
With them he shared his room.
Bless the child without afather and he doesn't understand
.
Bless the streets that he nowlooks upon to learn to be a man.
(51:11):
Bless the child born an addictso to ease his world of pain.
Bless the needle that bringscomfort every time it finds his
vein.
Bless the child who'll nevermeet us within the womb he met
(51:31):
his death.
Bless the fetus that must dielong before he takes a breath.
Bless the child.
He's our future.
May he find his way alone.
I'm not home to bless my child,so bless the child that got his
(51:52):
own.
Speaker 2 (51:57):
Yeah, what you think.
Speaker 1 (52:00):
What do you mean?
What I?
Speaker 2 (52:01):
think yeah.
Speaker 1 (52:05):
It's good, it's good, that's uh, that's it, yeah,
yeah this book is freakinginsane.
Speaker 2 (52:08):
The last one too is you know there's stories in
there and um man, humility andyeah post where to get this um,
this is a good coffee table typebook.
Speaker 1 (52:26):
This is awesome.
Speaker 2 (52:27):
If you got a problem, go to this book.
Speaker 1 (52:30):
Yeah, post where to get that.
So we good on happiness.
Any last thoughts on happiness?
Speaker 2 (52:38):
Nah man, food makes me happy too.
Good food, good food makes mehappy too.
Speaker 3 (52:41):
But you know, oh, good food.
Speaker 2 (52:42):
Good food, yeah, makes me happy.
Yeah yeah, gumbo Oof Paella,yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (52:50):
Oh man, You're throwing some fancy ones at me.
Oh my gosh, yeah good paella,it's bomb.
Speaker 2 (52:54):
Are you kidding?
Yeah girl, on some seafood.
Seafood's making me happy.
Some like fruit of the marri,like Italian dishes with the
seafood.
Speaker 1 (53:05):
I just had some good marlin tacos last week.
Speaker 2 (53:08):
See yeah, my son just turned 15.
That's crazy.
Grown ass, man.
Crazy.
That's happiness.
It's different.
It's different now.
Speaker 1 (53:22):
We were talking about some come of life.
And I feel like that itself isfucking cool.
I was talking about it and thenI was bringing it up to get you
guys thinking about Because I'msure a lot of you have kids out
there and yeah, the coming ofage thing, or remember when you
were coming of age.
Yeah, he's wanting the, buthe's 15.
(53:46):
He's rebelling.
Like what age did you rebelReally?
If, if, if, if.
I'm asking you cause we didn'ttalk about this.
I never really rebelled Um.
Speaker 2 (53:55):
you didn't rebel.
Speaker 1 (53:55):
Nah, I thought I rebelled hard, you know, like
two or three times.
Speaker 2 (54:03):
I hard.
You know like two or threetimes.
I didn't have enough attentionon me to rebel.
Okay, you have to haveattention to to get considered
rebellious.
My brother was doing shit wayworse than I, so whatever I was
doing that was negative was likea positive you could, you could
almost see a shadow?
Yeah it overshadowed everything, like I wasn't the one and I
wasn't the one that should havebeen watched, you know.
Speaker 1 (54:26):
So I was I, I, I was that for my family.
Speaker 2 (54:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (54:29):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 2 (54:32):
I've always been like , yeah, I've always been a
little bit of a knucklehead,like, but I've always been chill
man, I ain't.
I'm very wise to not going tojail or like as soon as I have a
problem, like like I look atlaws and legals and get right
(54:53):
and like I don't always makesure that I got me.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (54:58):
You move right, I have noticed it, I mean since
I've known you for seven, eightyears like you've always had too
many chances yeah, you knowlike yeah, you calculated.
Speaker 2 (55:09):
Yes, I was just about to say that calculated.
Yeah, you know, I take a lot ofshots, I try.
You know, like people say, oh,I'm an entrepreneur, like then
they don't ever start, no shit,you just somebody without a job
who enjoys their hobby or someshit, but like, like, put some
skin in it.
You know what I mean.
(55:30):
Like, yeah, I've tried, I'vetried, and you know that shit is
humbling, you know, um, and I'm, I will.
That's something about me is Iwill always continue to create
on avenues and forefronts that Ifeel like will be positive you
know, this is positive.
You know, as soon as it becomesnegative or you know, to my
(55:55):
world or psyche, then I'll stop,you know.
But it's all positive.
You know it's going to be hardfor it to become negative
because we control the narrativeCorrect?
Yeah, you know.
Happiness guys.
I hope you guys are out therehappy.
You know the economy is at afucked up time.
Everybody's struggling to payrent and to get by, to find
(56:21):
places to live.
There's a lot of people livingat home, but none of that stuff
really matters, man, you know,if you guys are healthy and
you're happy with yourselves,then you're good.
You know there's always goingto be another bill.
So don't trip about that bill.
There's always going to beanother one.
There's always going to beanother tax.
That's one thing that I'mfocusing on is happiness and a
(56:43):
little bit of independentfreedom outside of this state
government sanctity.
You know, I know everybodytalks about getting a little
plot of land and putting theircompound on there and all that
stuff, and it sounds crazy, butreally it's nice.
(57:04):
The idea of it is really reallynice and it's a modern way of
thinking with the old fashionvalue.
You know, we're just going backto the old days, and I feel
like that will create happiness.
You know, the sense ofcommunity is at all--time low
too.
People don't go out, they don'tdate.
(57:24):
You know you don't get to goembarrass yourself in front of a
chick no more.
Speaker 3 (57:31):
You can swipe right, swipe left, and you know you're
guaranteed a date.
Speaker 2 (57:37):
But you never.
You don't really get to shootfrom the hip anymore.
So like people are a little bitsofter and you know, it's just
everything.
You know you can even get foodto your house Now, you don't
even got to move.
As well as women, you know youcould date from your home.
It's, it's all a little bit tooeasy.
It's all a little bit too easy.
That's why I feel like thesense of community is gone.
Speaker 1 (57:57):
You know, and that and that happiness is escaping
us in that way.
Yeah, I could see that.
Speaker 2 (58:08):
Because that community does provide that
sense of happiness, that senseof you.
Could ask probably 100 men nowfrom the age of 18 to 25, if
they were going to go pick up awoman or start dating, I bet you
80% of them would say theywould just download an app.
That's crazy, you know.
But then talk about they gotRiz or Charisma or some shit
(58:33):
like that.
Like, how Are you talkingthrough a phone?
You know Everybody's good on akeyboard.
You should be at least Right.
I ain't even got to type shit,you just talk to the
motherfucker.
It's so easy, it's so easy.
I remember back in the dayhaving to write letters and
misspelling words and shit andthe chick being like I can't
(58:56):
read it, like fuck.
Speaker 1 (59:00):
That was the best pickup line yeah.
Speaker 2 (59:02):
Well, there's a lot of good shit in there.
You know what I mean, but thosedays are over Humility and
we're dealing with a differenttype of human being.
Trump got convicted today.
That's a big thing that weshould probably mention.
Yeah, he got convicted on 34counts of fucking business fraud
(59:23):
.
He messed up.
He didn't mess up, but you know, he just got caught and he's
been doing that type of shit,obviously.
What did he really do, though?
What's the big fuss?
He didn't pay her.
Speaker 1 (59:41):
Well, essentially you lied in that last trial it's
fraud yeah, but that's it'sbeing proven in court that you
lied, yeah, so that's that'swhat it is.
Speaker 2 (59:55):
I mean, yeah, what he does with the prostitute is
nobody's business.
His money transactions with theprostitute is nobody's business
.
His money transactions with thefucking woman of the night.
You fucking kidding me.
That's my political, fuckingstance on that.
Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
It's so fucking stupid.
Speaker 1 (01:00:20):
Yeah, you ready for a roundup?
Yeah, let's round it up.
I got I got a cool one frommark twain.
He said there are people whocan do all fine and heroic
things but one keep tellingtheir happiness to the unhappy.
I think that means I don'tgloat, that's that's, that's a
(01:00:46):
form of hap.
That's what it means to me.
I don't don't rub yourhappiness into the unhappy space
.
Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
I've grown to expect negative shit after extreme
highs.
Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
Okay, and what do you ?
I mean, that's an excellenttopic.
What do you believe that is?
Do you believe that's theuniverse, do you?
Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
believe that's Fucking A man.
Duality, the balance of Of goodand evil, yeah, like Of
positive and negative yeah, it'sall this shit we've created Is
it karma?
Speaker 1 (01:01:20):
Is it no, it's the Sins.
It's the fake shit we'vecreated.
Is it karma?
Is it no, it's the sins.
Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
It's the fake world, of these things that we assume
matter, that don't necessarilymatter.
Speaker 1 (01:01:29):
And in doing so, are you setting yourself up for
failure at all, or are you justpreparing yourself for the
inevitable as far as, as far asyou think, after a high there's
going to be a low, so are youpreparing yourself for that?
Kind of or or are you, are youpeople think, and then people
(01:01:49):
say oh well, that's, you know,bringing in a negative fucking
light and yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:01:54):
But I also try and be like positive all the time, but
then I feel like man, like be,you're positive, but,
motherfucker, you better bepaying attention still too, you
know, yeah, that's just thatthat balance is crazy, man yeah,
that balance is crazy come onin.
Speaker 1 (01:02:14):
But yeah, we're good.
Yeah, so I um definitely followthe page.
If you're not following um,it's at b to z Podcast.
Any other shout outs?
We already said InCon.
We're going to be at InCon.
Yep, yeah, any last minuteshout outs to the subscribers.
Speaker 2 (01:02:30):
You guys see, we got a little subscription button on
there on the bottom to pleasedonate.
Yeah, we got one subscriber sofar.
Yeah, we got one subscriber.
We're trying to get to about itin the next week.
Speaker 1 (01:02:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah we got one subscriber.
Speaker 2 (01:02:42):
We're trying to get to by the end of next week.
You know, definitely subscribeto that donate a little bit of
cash.
It's going to go to the futureequipment and marketing for the
business and we'll I mean it'sdefinitely- we got some cool
events planned.
Speaker 1 (01:02:57):
Oh, and if you haven't shared the contest by
the time this comes out, it'llprobably be like five days left
of that contest, a tattoocontest.
Oh, it's still going Until June7th.
That's what I put it.
I just said June 7th.
I don't know what you're doingJune 7th, but I figured we can
pull some names out of the hat.
Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:03:14):
Yeah Cool.
Speaker 2 (01:03:16):
Yeah, am I drawing.
Is it a pre-designed?
Speaker 1 (01:03:26):
Or draw.
Is it a pre-designed or arethey bringing their idea?
Oh shit, I didn't put that inthe what are the rules for that
now that I got you.
Is it pre-designed or is it?
Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
well, usually if it's pre-designed, then they'll put
in and know that they want.
Speaker 1 (01:03:36):
So I never did.
I never did that in thebeginning.
Well, this one will justprobably ideas.
Speaker 2 (01:03:40):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (01:03:41):
Whoever wins, this is really getting the coup de
temps man For sure Like nice.
For sure, all right.
Well, thanks for joining in.
That was a cool episode.
Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
Yeah, it was a cool episode.
Keep it cool, y'all.
Speaker 1 (01:03:55):
Yeah, tap in, let us know what you think.
Speaker 3 (01:04:04):
Summertime.
Hi, I have someone that wantsto say something.
Hi, my name is Lennox.
I'm five years old.
Brandon is my dad, the one thatmakes all the interviews with
his friend Zach.
Speaker 1 (01:04:12):
You're one of the coolest guys I know.
Did you know that?
Did you know that?
Yes, are you about to go tosleep?
Go to sleep, okay, good.
Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
Oh, I need to talk closer to the microphone.
Speaker 1 (01:04:27):
Okay, do you want your sister to talk next?
Speaker 3 (01:04:32):
Yeah, I'll just talk.
Speaker 1 (01:04:33):
Do you have any last words to say to everybody?
Speaker 3 (01:04:38):
Welcome to.
Okay, you rock, brother, youfist bump.
Speaker 1 (01:04:45):
Yeah, yes, yes good yes.
You shouldn't be afraid offirst grade.
I think you're going to doreally good.
Speaker 3 (01:05:05):
I don't know why, but I think that they're going to
give me a lot of homework.
Speaker 1 (01:05:11):
Is that why you're afraid?
I think even if you havehomework, your dad will help you
or your brother, and you caneven ask me I might help you too
.
Speaker 3 (01:05:21):
You won't even be here when I'm doing my homework.
Speaker 1 (01:05:26):
Well, it was good talking to you buddy, Talking to
you buddy, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:05:30):
All right, I'm a friend with mom because I like
everything, all she wants.
Speaker 1 (01:05:39):
And what's your name, luna?
Speaker 3 (01:05:42):
Oh, it's so good to have your name, luna.
Speaker 1 (01:05:44):
Oh, it's so good to have you here, Luna.
Speaker 3 (01:05:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:05:49):
Was that your brother that just talked?
Speaker 3 (01:05:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:05:51):
What's his name?
Speaker 3 (01:05:53):
Lenny.
Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
Yeah, lenny, he's my buddy.
Yeah, what sports do you play?
Speaker 3 (01:05:59):
Soccerball.
Speaker 1 (01:06:02):
Is that your favorite ?
Yeah.
Do you like to draw?
Yeah, and color are beautifulyeah.
Do you have a favorite showyou're watching right now?
Speaker 3 (01:06:29):
Yeah, like Ben and Holly.
Oh, okay, so I like Peppabecause it's the most thing in
the world.
Yeah, the most thing in theworld, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:06:48):
So I think my yeah, talk right into that, Talk right
into the middle.
Speaker 3 (01:06:52):
So, with Mommy, we were on the airplane with her
friend oh okay, her friend, ohokay, her friend was having
pizza because mommy is so pretty.
Speaker 1 (01:07:08):
Oh, that's very nice of you to say your mom is so
pretty.
That's very nice.
I think you're pretty too.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, it wasnice.
It was nice talking to you.
It was nice talking to you.
Are you going to go to sleep?
Yeah Well, it was nice, dada,it was nice talking to you.
I love you, dad.
I love you too.
It was nice talking to you.
Are you going to go to sleep?
Speaker 3 (01:07:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:07:26):
Okay, I hope you have good dreams okay.
Speaker 3 (01:07:28):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (01:07:29):
Bye-bye.
Speaker 3 (01:07:55):
Bye-bye, thank you.
Hello, hello, hello.
This is Zach Bautista with B2CPodcast, and I'm here with my
co-host as always, brandon May.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hey, what's going on?
Everybody, Ah, how's everybodydoing?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
We're in a new setup.
Today we're filming from thecasa.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah, live from my house, riverside, california.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
We did a full test run with the kiddos helping me,
so that was good and we got theshow running.
We're going to talk about somehappiness, some things that make
us happy today.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah, things that make us happy.
I felt like a lot of theepisodes were based off of
traumatizing or negative swingsof events.
I just don't want that to beour main focus all the time, you
know.
So we were just interested inwhat everybody else's definition
(01:16):
of happy is, given ourdefinition of happiness and then
just understanding it, you knowdefinition of happiness and
then just understanding it, youknow.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So I posed a question on our Instagram today yeah,
what makes you happy?
A lot of the ones, a lot of thekey ones that kept popping up
were were family, family, kids,not a lot of significant others.
I noticed that we're feelingothers.
I noticed that we're feeling.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Your significant other is.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I noticed.
Actually, I didn't mean to goin that direction, yeah, but, I
did notice that.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Damn, that's a crazy direction.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Sorry, but it is a direction I do this.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Does your significant other, the adequate enough
happiness, you know, is thatsomething that's going away?
I remember I felt like younglove was more pure than this
older love, so we could startthere.
You know, I talk to people allthe time that are still single
(02:27):
and stuff like that, and theysay it's hard out there and it's
pretty cruel and I don't knowthere's no like chivalry anymore
or courting, you know, somesort of court Like I think
that's why cowboys get so muchplay it's because they're
gentlemen, which they're notreally doing nothing, like you
(02:51):
know.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
They're just gentlemen still.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
But you're right, I think that goes Southern charm.
Yeah, and I think we kind of wehit on that with Danielle on
our last episode.
She kind of wanted that.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Southern charm.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Or just that chivalrous, I don't think
Danielle knows what she wants.
Oh, okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I think, it's.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
She's got to come to some acceptance of flaws in
individuals first.
You know, all respect to givepeople a little leeway.
Yep, you know you can want whatyou want, but sometimes what
you want ain't on the menu.
That shit don't exist, right.
(03:42):
Leprechachauns, unicorns, Iagree, I agree, um, have you
ever had a significant otherthat checked all the boxes?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
no, yeah, get the fuck out of here not all of them
.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I had a one's impossible.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I did.
I had a one that got away.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Nah, I did.
She still did some fucking foulshit.
There was something.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Well, yeah, she's the one that broke up with me, so
that was yeah.
So there you go, I heard.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Commitment issues.
She was perfect, except hadcommitment issues with you or
whatever the fuck.
I will say there was nothingthat she did that.
There was nothing that she didthat got on your nerves oh, and
the time we didn't.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
We didn't date for a very prolonged period of time.
It was probably off and on fora year and it was long, long
distance too, but you're veryparticular.
Yeah, I brought her home.
We had family dinner.
My folks loved her.
It was one of those.
She checked that block.
(04:59):
That was a big block at thetime.
I mean yeah, she probably Idon't know it was a little bit
of that young love, I think.
I think that's what we'retalking about.
How old were you?
I was in my 20s.
In your 20s, yeah, early 20s, 24.
(05:20):
I was old.
Yeah, I don't know if that shitcounts.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I don't know if that shit counts, yet?
Yeah, you know 20.
I was old.
I was all ready to fall in love.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I don't know if that shit counts, yet you know 20
legitimate relationships lookingback, I made a lot of stupid
ass decisions 25 yeah welllegitimate ones but I think I
learned a lot from my early, myearly, early ones yeah, it's
(05:49):
important.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
There's a lot of dudes that like don't date you
know what I mean and then theyget into relationships later in
their life and they get fuckedover because they're not
seasoned.
They get the game round on them.
You know, I done seen some shit.
I can't even say it.
It's so cold and it's sopersonal to me.
(06:12):
But I done seen some way worsethan anything that I've ever
received.
What are you talking about?
Like dudes getting played?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
What yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
dudes getting played, come on, yeah.
Dude's getting played, come on,yeah.
Like people's truck driversleaving and they just do wild
stuff when they're gone.
And I believe that that happensbecause he wasn't out there
dating at a younger age andunderstanding that there's like
(06:46):
there's a con side to you knowwhat I mean, just like in any
other situation, you know.
But anyways, yeah, yeah, Idon't even I don't tap dancing.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yeah, um, so kind of a consistent thing.
If you haven't tapped into theBrian Foster episode yet, you
should.
It's getting a lot of hits.
Our video on YouTube has 100views when I checked this
morning, so it's getting a lotof action, is it?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, oh, that's good , yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
So if you, haven't checked it out.
Check it out, that was PremiumMotions, josh out.
Check it out.
Um, that was, uh, that waspremium, uh, premium motions.
Uh, josh, he hooked us up withthat video.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Um, yeah, he did a good job yeah, he did do good, a
good job.
It does add another elementwhen you're having the video and
stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
So so I definitely tapped into that and um, but
happiness, we were talking abouthappiness, that episode, and I
felt like we did it again indanielle's episode so this is
like the, the trifecta.
This is we're trying to, we'retrying to round it all off,
(08:01):
because you, when you brought itup to me earlier, I was was
like, yeah, happiness, butwhat's?
What's something?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
we can say about that .
It shouldn't be such a mystery.
Why is?
Why is happiness such aquestion now?
Why is it so hard to define?
That's, that's the messed uppart.
I think that's why we haveconversations, even about it now
, because there's not a lot ofit out there.
(08:29):
And even when people have thethings that should make an
ordinary human being happy, theystill find themselves in
Negative mindset.
You know, if you have kids, youcould be super successful.
(08:50):
You could be a professionalathlete.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
And it doesn't mean that they're happy.
Yeah, that's that old, that oldmoniker, that old saying.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Right.
So you know, is happiness amemory.
All right, so you know, ishappiness a memory?
You know, is happiness justpurely a dopamine dump, where
happiness is like a mushroomtrip?
You know right.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Like true, pure happiness.
Yeah, yeah, it's somethingthat's elevated Right.
I could see that it's like acerebral, cerebral, yeah,
altered way of.
That's elevated Right.
I could see that A cerebral,cerebral, yeah, altered way of
thinking, exactly yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
So I don't know.
Defining happiness is the start, but that is like art too, you
know, and everybody is different, so everybody's happiness is
different.
But I struggle with this.
Sometimes, you know, I have tofind, or have to keep habits for
(09:51):
happiness.
You know what I mean, which Ifind odd.
I feel like it should just bepart of your day to day.
But now we, as humans, havedeveloped into these detail
oriented, useless jobs and stuffthat really don't need to be
that don't exist.
You know what I mean.
Like, but it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Like, but is that?
Is that contentment?
Is that happiness?
Like just because someone'scontent is that, is that a form
of happiness, or do you thinkthe contentment is not?
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I don't think that that's happiness.
Content and happy is twodifferent things, you know,
because what does it take foryou to be fucking content, you
know?
Would you rather work less?
You know what I mean.
Would you rather have adifferent job?
Yeah, you may be content, butis that where your happiness
lies?
Happiness, like?
For me it's a little bit easierbecause kids bring you
(10:46):
happiness, you know what I mean.
Like just the original natureof a child, like not tainted by
society or the internet or anyof those things not programmed
yet and having that, uh,original comedy.
You know, when a kid tells ajoke or he does something that
he thinks is funny, like that,like that's happy, or somebody
(11:11):
trips and it looks funny,whether they're hurt or not, you
know what I mean.
Like that, you know they gottheir little piece of happiness.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I've experienced that with your own kids.
Right, that shit cracks me upso hard.
Right, that shit cracks me upso hard.
The same thing you just saidtell me a joke, or just crack it
up over something crazy.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Yeah, yeah, you know, brian does the breathing and
all of the meditation, johnnydoes the meditation, dave, you
know.
But they still struggle withhappiness.
You know, they're still inpursuit, like that was a man in
pursuit.
To me, I don't think that was aman who felt like he had
achieved the things that hewanted to achieve within his
(11:54):
life.
I felt like he was still inpursuit of his, uh, true,
eternal happiness.
Do you?
What the fuck is that?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Oh, the dogs, insane, yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Roscoe hey, knock it off.
My dog's playing around.
I might even cut that out.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I think that adds to the ambiance a little bit.
Yeah, yeah, it shows peoplewhat's going on, so he's got
beautiful dogs.
Yeah, I got a tricolor ambiancea little bit.
Yeah, yeah, it shows peoplewhat's going on.
He's got, so he's got beautifuldogs.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yeah, I got a tricolor bully, a lilac bully
and a husky like an invertedhusky.
She's got like a little mask,like raccoon frost, blue eyes.
She's beautiful, she's shorterand her mane is not necessarily
fluffy.
It lays like a German Shepherdor a Malinois.
(12:46):
She's a good dog.
She's smart too.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
She's a gangster-looking dog.
Yeah yeah, it's super cool shelooks mean.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
She's kind of mean too.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
And I like that tangent, I like that and I'm
going to keep it.
I'm really going to keep it in.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I just want to show people this is our other side.
If you haven't gathered by now,we're huge animal people.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Yeah, they used to think I hated dogs and stuff.
Who did Everybody?
That was always a thing.
It used to bother me what.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
That's part of one of the reasons.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
I got dogs again too, because everybody thought I
hated dogs and and I'll be likebro.
But you've had dogs, I've haddogs.
You've had dogs.
Yeah, it doesn't make any sense.
No, it doesn't make any sense.
Yeah, just I don't know.
I've never been a fan of otherpeople, dogs or an untrained dog
like an untrained dog, like adrunk person oh yeah, I still
remember mean dogs in my fuckingmemory.
Dogs bring happiness, animalsbring happiness.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Again.
That's why I went off on thistangent.
I like animals, you know.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Okay, let's go deeper , okay, fucking puppies.
Oh, just a thing at a point intime.
Babies Like just an infant baby, well, nah, that's not even the
same as a puppy.
A puppy is way like funner thana little baby infant.
Oh yeah, A baby infant's like,oh what the fuck.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
No, puppies are crazy already yeah but puppies are
like.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
They look cute.
You know what I mean?
They're wild already.
Yeah, they're a littleminiature.
Everybody likes a miniatureversion of shit, you know.
That's why they keep breedingthese dogs to go smaller and
smaller and smaller.
Right, I saw a bully with fullhair, right.
If you see me talking aboutdogs, man, I'm getting happy.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
You're just cracking me up A French bulldog with full
hair.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
He's like I got the only two in the United States.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yeah, because you're drunk as a fucking yeah.
That dog looks messed up.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Yeah you were doing something in your backyard, bro,
right, but it makes him happy,he got a special ass mutt.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
He'll mutt a special, you know, yeah, but he'll make
his money.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
You know, I like which I can't, which I can't,
which I can't say because, yeah,my dog is super mud and I love
how he looks.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
He looks, he looks.
He don't look like a mutt,though yeah, he looks.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Looks like a like a like a fancy boy.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
But yeah, sorry that's loud in your speakers,
but the so back to yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah, uh, baby chickens I remember, oh yeah, in
elementary school, chickens allthe time right growing up you
put a little.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Give a little kid, a baby chicken, and get a little
duck.
Yeah, you feel me?
I'm telling you miniature stuffmakes people happy.
It's weird, except for diamonds.
That's the only thing theydon't want Miniature eyes,
diamonds and gold.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Jesus, that's a hard right.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
That's another thing.
Diamonds and gold, Diamonds andgold.
Oh, we got a.
We got Incon coming up.
I'm pretty excited about that.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yes, we'll be in Ontario.
Yeah, the weekend of the 28thand 29th Friday, saturday,
sunday We'll be over there.
So you guys should pull up onme.
I'll have a booth out there,I'll have prints out there, I'll
have some T-shirts, zach willbe out there signing autographs
and taking pictures with hisfans.
So definitely pull up.
(16:29):
You know, if you guys have anyquestions and or anything like
that, if you guys want to workwith us, shoot us an email.
We're not hard to find One ofthe.
We been interviewing a shit tonof people and stuff like that
and that's cool.
But you know we wanted to comeback and you know, mix it up
(16:50):
with some of our dryness andshit as well.
You feel me?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Yes, Right, get you to know our layers, right yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Right, we're like sandpaper.
You feel me Rubbed together?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Two different grades, grades, I will say.
Speaking of that reaching out,we did get some feedback oh yeah
, lamar O'Neal and he asked akind of cool question.
I don't know how tied intohappiness it is, but I think we
can cover it.
I think that's a cool littletangent to go off do you believe
in the concept of generationalcurses?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
If so, what have you both done to combat detrimental
patterns that you've seen inyour families?
Let me see that one more time.
Yeah, do you believe in theconcept?
Yeah, generational curses,generational curses, um, yeah,
(17:52):
yeah, it's called the hood.
you feel me like once poor,always poor yeah, I do um,
that's very, because if youdon't have generational wealth,
okay, you know, when you putcurse on there, it makes me
think of something whensomebody's waving some sage or
some shit like that.
But Generational Curses I feellike could be you know, bad
(18:17):
financial movement.
Your mama was a hoe, your daddywas a player and your son's a
player and everybody's a player.
What's that?
What you looking at?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I'm just trying to think yeah, yeah, no, the daddy
was a player.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Yeah, no, I'm just saying, I was like that was good
.
Well, these are things that Ifeel like would be detrimental
in generational ways.
Or, if you're an illegalimmigrant, yeah, um status upon
that like could affect that's agenerational curse, like because
if somebody don't fucking havea baby, or balance that curse
(18:57):
out like, that's a rough one too, like yeah if you're talking
about yeah, you're walking aline right, right Generational
curses.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
I will say this I'm trying I mean not to, not to,
not to bash him.
I'm trying to do thingsdifferently If I, if I do.
I never thought about running abusiness until I started
talking to you.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I think he wants us to equate it to ours too,
because he's asking us what wewould do.
Yeah, to so take that questionquestion and apply it to your
family, yeah, and I will do thesame.
That's what I was thinking.
Yeah, and then go ahead.
Go.
So if there's a generationalcurse within your family, what
is it?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I guess I guess the stigma of of uh, failed
businesses, uh, cause, causethere is there's kind of like a
it's been the past couplegenerations it's been good
businesses but not greatbusinesses, mm, mm, and I
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understand like so, and this,this kind of this, is a crazy
question, cause I think thatgoes into what we've talked
about before.
Legacy type stuff, your name,your namesake, once we start I
guess, once men start getting toa certain age, they start
thinking about that.
What is my legacy going to be?
My children, this, that, whatdo I leave to my children?
(20:23):
So, so, keep, keep in mind, uh,any uh uh partners that are
listening to this.
If you're, if your guy startsacting a little crazy, uh for uh
, turn forties, fifties, this,this is.
I think this is when they saythe midlife crisis, I think this
is part of it, right, is your,is your kind of building that?
This is part of it, right?
Is you're kind of building thatmaking sure you have that
(20:46):
legacy?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah, and so I don't want I guess I don't want that
legacy to be one of just good,not great.
How do you so?
What patterns are you applyingto make sure that that pattern,
or generational curse, is broken?
I've just started that rightnow.
(21:10):
So you're, that's the best ofthis.
That's brand new to me.
Uh, because, like we've talkedbefore, I wasn't even thinking
about that.
I was thinking, hey, I'm goingballs of the wall every time I
go out like I'm ready, like, I'mready to I, I I wrote a will at
at 19, so like, and I'veupdated it four times since then
(21:30):
, so I'm very fully prepared of.
But just now, recently, in pastyear, uh, my outlook has been
changing little by little.
Yeah, so that legacy isstarting to click.
Maybe it's just because Iturned 36 too, maybe that's what
it was.
It took me over that, that 35year.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Well, you say you're doing it now.
What is it that you're doingnow?
That was different before.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
That shows that you're taking the shot, focusing
on a serious career focusing onserious business opportunities,
just being open to anything.
Uh, this, just this, thisventure alone has opened up a
lot of opportunity for both ofus.
(22:19):
I feel, um, yeah, so that Ithink that's, that's building a
legacy to leave behind in myopinion.
I think it's super cool thatwe're leaving something on on
the web or the airwaves or theRSS feed, so this is kind of
(22:39):
like our little imprint a bookin the library for real.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
That's how I kind of view it too.
It's something that can bepulled up upon years from now
and it might be somewhatbeneficial to somebody.
That's kind of cool.
My kids can see it.
When I was 40.
You know.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
I've been sick the past few days and uh, so I had a
lot of time just to think andyeah, that was something I was
thinking about was this is acool little.
so if I don't, know, if, nowthat we're in this age of
technology, like, recordyourself as much as possible,
show yourself doing cool shitlike fucking, videotape it.
(23:32):
You know what I mean.
Tape it on the get, getpictures of it, right?
I miss not doing that atcertain times in my life, like
being like, oh, I don't need totake my fucking phone out, but
you're also kind of immersed init that way.
Yeah, certain opportunity likeI wish they're imprinted in my
mind, as I'm sure you have toothat I I see vividly.
(23:55):
That was super cool, but Idon't have a picture of that.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I mean one day all you will have is a picture yeah
and Not to jump from sound tovideo, but yeah, yeah.
Generational curses.
So yeah, that's a good answer.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Do you know how about you?
Sorry, that was a long windedanswer for me.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Generational Generational curses.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
I wouldn't say I mean from what I know of your.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
I mean that's kind of my pop's pretty solid yeah yeah
, so he was.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
He was a good role model.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
He spends a lot, right, he spends a lot.
You know, that was one thing.
You know.
He spends a lot, right, hespends a lot.
You know, that was one thing,you know growing up having a
little bit.
You know, we never really hadto go without.
So that was one thing that I hadto kind of learn was to
(25:01):
struggle a little bit or to notenable myself which I guess
that's a hard one too Tostruggle a little bit or to not
enable myself whichno-transcript it, it's different
(25:23):
.
So, yeah, I had to cut that off.
I had to cut that offGenerational curses and then
just making sure that I don'tspoil my kids.
You know what I mean, I see, Isee.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
I see you do that a lot and I really I like that.
I like how you humble them fromtime to time.
Yeah, you give them those deeptalks.
Right, and I I like how youhumble them from time to time.
Yeah, you give them those deeptalks.
Right and the first time I sawit I was like shit.
I'm like, this is deep as shit.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Like you, take them aside and you have a good talk.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Yeah, we talk, and I really admire you for that, how
real you talk to them, no matterwhat age they are, and yeah.
So the first time I saw it Iwas I was like, oh shit, okay,
is this something?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
and then now it's just a normal thing and I really
like, I really like it when youdo that.
Yeah, as far as kids peoplelimit their communication level
to their kids, I don't thinkthat's that's right, because
you're limiting yourself, butanyway, anyway that's not it.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
What's that?
I don't know if you wanted totouch on that at all too, or we
got to talk to him first.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
My experience is tattooing is hella interesting
as someone who respects African-.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
And I guess, maybe this is the downplay of not
scripting our stuff sometimes,and I might cut some of this out
, but this is kind of cool thedownplay of of not scripting our
stuff sometimes.
Um, and I might cut some ofthis out, but this is this is
this is kind of cool, but we'regetting feedback and some of
it's coming in as we're doingthis episode, um, so I'm trying
to address it as as it comes in.
Um, did you, did you want to goover that at all?
(27:02):
This is, this is feedback fromour last episode with Danielle
McKnight.
If you haven't tapped into that, tap into that one.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
That one's a really cool one.
So he's saying that blackAmericans have culture and
heritage and I don't disagreethat.
But what the fuck do you paintthat makes it?
You invoke this beautiful thingand like and again, this may be
(27:38):
off topic because, this is.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
This is directly related to the Danielle McKnight
episode, but this is like myshameless plug.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Listen to that one and then this little piece will
make sense yeah, um, I thinkhe's just saying that it needs
to be spotlighted.
You know, he said within hisart, that's something that he
kind of steered away fromAfrican or American, african
Okay.
He has respect for his Africanroots.
(28:07):
I've actively attempted not tomake that my go to in my art
Right and same with me toobecause, like when I started
doing tattooing and stuff, likethey were like, oh, you should
do black art, and now there'sthis big gaping hole, uh, uh, in
a timeline, I feel like, of artthat kind of needs to be
(28:30):
developed for the culture andcreated, and that's why I ask
those questions and stir that up.
So I I'm interested in Lamarand hearing what it is
specifically that you feel isblack American heritage and a
painting and a piece of art.
(28:51):
You know what I mean Not inwords, cause I know you can
describe some shit, but I'minterested in a visual aspect of
what you feel black Americanheritage looks like in a point
where, to the point where youwould get a tattoo, to the point
where it can be worn bymulticultural people you know
(29:12):
what I mean Like Asian.
You know people will get a cholo.
Fucking white people will get afucking Japanese Japanese.
You know people will get acholo.
Fucking white people will get afucking Japanese Japanese, you
know.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
So, so something that's I guess timeless enough
to go throughout.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
So but, lamar, we're going to have you on and we'll
you know I'm going to tag this.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
We had talked about it.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
You know what I mean.
And he said he would.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
And you know, just I, just I just wanted to bring it
up, cause I feel I feel like weowe it to you guys and he's he's
a fan since since day one, likelike a lot of you guys.
So I mean this this is whathappens.
If you send us a DM or anything, we're going to answer it, yeah
, so, so go ahead and and feelfree to do that, and I'll always
(29:56):
ask if you guys want to becalled out by name or if you
want to stay anonymous or not.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Daniel, it was a cool episode.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
We're going to start a, so I'm going to drop it here
and then I'm going to startteasing it on social media.
I think we should do before theseason ends.
I think we should do atelephone call.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
yeah, man we definitely trying to yes, okay,
yeah, so I'm gonna tease itright now yeah, you guys gotta
fuck with us man.
So we want to do like astraight hotline style show.
So, um, we're gonna pick atheme, you know, and we're gonna
need you guys to chime in withthe question straight up, like
old school love line style, youknow, like Dr, dr Drew, adam
(30:43):
Corolla type.
You know we're not trying to bethem or anything like that but
um, we like that, uh, platform.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Yeah, even I mean a big boy in the morning, or um.
So this is for, for, uh uh,Southern California IE people.
Um, yeah, big boy, um, thatthat one cat, uh, kiss Ryan.
(31:11):
Ryan Seacrest flowers.
He'd always be sending flowersto the, to the other girl, like
he'd call up the dude.
If so, if you think, oh yes,maybe we shouldn't do something
crazy like that, if you thoughtyour significant other was
cheating, you'd call up Ryan.
Ryan would say, hey, you want afree bouquet of flowers?
Who you want to send them to?
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Oh, I heard that in the morning Like and.
I listened to that sometimeswith my kids and I'll be turning
it off, bro, like I don't wantto hear that stuff.
What am I?
I think that's grimy how theydoing that man Like and yeah,
you know you're like it's notright to cheat and stuff like
that, but I just feel likethat's messy.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
I thought that was nuts.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
It reminds me of that show Cheaters and shit, that
was nuts.
Like what do you?
Speaker 1 (31:52):
expect is going to happen.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
on that Right, and then they send it to like their
little mistress.
And then the girl pops up onthe phone like, oh, who is
so-and-so yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Trapping people.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
That's not okay.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
I know we went off on several tangents, but we're
having fun.
I hope you're having funtalking with us too, yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
A lot of people, a lot of our interviewers, have
said some deep stuff abouthappiness and it's cool that you
know, when we came up with thetitle Health, wellness, art,
culture, it was kind of cool towatch it develop in that fashion
, because we have beencontrolling the narrative but
(32:34):
everything has been unscripted,so everything that you guys have
heard is just one shot.
No, you know.
No, take two, none of that.
No, um, just straight throughevery single time and it's
actually been really, really, uh, fun and organic.
You know, one of the things meand zach have really appreciate,
appreciate about the show, nowthat we've had a few episodes in
(32:55):
, is that we haven't made it yetand everybody wants to be blue
collar like all the shows.
Oh, yeah, we're blue collar,but we're really that right now
because we ain't really donenothing we feel cool in our own
minds.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
We're like man, we got this fucking podcast going
we haven't been deflated so it'sbeen really, really fun.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
man like man, we got this fucking podcast going Right
, right, right.
We haven't been to play yet oranything like that.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
So it's been really really fun man.
This has been fun.
We appreciate the people outthere listening.
We're trying to find differentways to spice things up and
we're hoping you're enjoying theinterviews and you guys are
learning things from them.
We're getting a lot of feedback.
Theviewees, the guests werehaving, the guests we've had
(33:43):
yeah, the guests we've had.
Um have been getting a lot ofpositive feedback too.
You know, on zach's episode, Iremember somebody was saying
they wanted to continue to dancebecause he said he would never
stop skateboarding.
She was like, oh, I'm gonna goget a tattoo because he's cute
and shit.
So you know, all kind of stuffhas been going on, which is good
.
You know, um brian has beengetting positive feedback uh, in
(34:09):
his direction, which that'sreally really good.
Mike is really his episode hasreally been um doing well as
that's.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
It's one of our top episodes and we yeah, we're
going to end season one here,probably with 25 episodes.
I'm thinking Close 25 episodesand then we'll roll into season
two.
Weed makes me happy, oh yeah,or the therapy is good, weed, no
(34:43):
, just weed makes you happy.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Oh, I know, I thought you were plugging.
No, I thought you were playingover episodes if you haven't
touched into.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Uh, uh, weed is good therapy.
That's one of our episodes.
You should go tap into thatright now.
No, so weed makes you happy.
That's one of our episodes.
You should go tap into thatright now.
No, so weed makes you happy.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Weed makes me happy and I think that's I smoke weed.
Yeah, that shit takes a littlebit of stress away.
I'll be like I've beenstressing y'all.
It's been raining over here alittle bit, yeah and uh.
Sometimes when I blow sometrees, man, I'll be like
chilling.
Yeah, I ain't worried aboutnone of that shit, you know, but
you gotta watch that.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
You gotta watch that too, you know uh, what I enjoy
the most about it what's thatabout weed in general is the um,
the pain, uh, the pain killeraspect of it.
Um gosh, it makes some of myinjuries feel fucking amazing,
or not amazing, but at leasttolerable.
Ah yeah, tolerable, right,cause I'm always doing
(35:41):
maintenance.
Um, I got, I have uh tens units.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
I have, I have all kinds, all kinds of stuff, yard
work, yard work and gardengardening and weed and like that
stuff all goes really reallywell, yeah, yeah.
Early early morning, all ofthat stuff yeah good stuff.
Yeah, yeah, trees is good, man.
Hopefully you guys are outthere smoking too, man, if you
can.
Hopefully you got like a jobthat allows that.
(36:06):
You know, smoke one for me.
You feel me in the name of B toZ, this blunt's for B to Z you
feel me?
Nah, I enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
I do that's, that's the best.
That was the best line I should.
I should take that that pieceout and that could be a teaser.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Yeah, yeah, but man oh whoa, oh yeah, okay, so I was
thinking of another thing thatmakes me happy.
Hmm, swimming while high.
Oh, absolutely, oh man, yeah,absolutely.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
If.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I've got like Absolutely, I've had some trees.
Yeah, I smoke, and then maybelike a little brownie or a piece
of chocolate, kind of hold meover, you know, and then jumping
in the pool.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Yeah, and I'm just under there like.
Just having a good old time.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
Yeah, looking around, bro, side to side like man man,
I'm scanning nothing, nothingI'm just I'm out there feeling
super aquatic, you know, superaquatic, mm-hmm, like what's
that show?
Waterworld.
Yeah, remember that.
Oh, I love that.
Yeah, what's that dude's name?
What is his name?
Kevin Costner, kevin Costner,yeah, kevin Costner.
(37:21):
Damn, that was the same time.
Nice, kevin Costner.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
The bodyguard?
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Yeah, that's crazy.
They had him in Whitney Houston.
He's like a Yellowstone and acowboy and all that shit.
Now yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
He's like a Yellowstone and a cowboy and all
that shit.
Now, yeah, you just, I don'tknow just one of those dudes
that could do anything, huhMusic.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Music makes me happy.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Yeah, music makes me very happy.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Music makes me happy.
Yeah, what else New shit?
New pair of shoes oh fresh.
A new pair of socks what yeah?
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Yeah, I don't think there's anything like a fresh
pair.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
White tee.
Yeah man, some fresh Vans.
They're like perfect, you know.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
Yeah, damn, that shit makes me happy.
What else makes me happy?
What else makes me happy?
A scent, something that smellsreally good.
You feel me like a, a womanthat's just like wow, like okay,
like she.
She looks fine and then shewalk by and then she smells like
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, ooh, shit knocks you out,that's food.
Yeah, yep, you ever seen thatmovie, love Potion Number 9?
Yeah, she's like, ooh, shitKnocks you out, that's food.
Yeah, yep, you ever seen thatmovie, love Potion no 9?
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Yeah, that was a good one.
You know what else like is thatother.
What else is a good movie is?
I think it's got Death BecomesHer.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Death Becomes Her.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Where they take the serum.
And she don't, she, she doesn'tdie.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Oh, that's older one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
She keeps getting put back together.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Those are really good movies yeah, those I, yeah I
used to watch those back in theday.
What else makes me a good?
Good movies used to make mehappy back in the day.
I remember watchingIndependence Day the first time
or Titanic or Forrest Gump thefirst time, but they don't hit
like that anymore.
(39:26):
I don't know if it's becauseI'm older.
What else makes me happy?
People get happy from workingout and shit.
I don't necessarily get happy.
I feel accomplished.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
I'm like, man, happy is not what I'm feeling.
Yeah, it's more of a disciplinething, huh, well, maybe, and
maybe it's the way.
Yeah, no, I don't know.
Are you supposed to be happyafter you work out?
Speaker 2 (39:52):
you know, because I've always you get what I'm
saying, I'm glad you broughtthis up because that that's.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
That's something I've toyed with a lot in my mind.
Um, and so I was a personaltrainer at one time, long, long
time ago.
Um, I've had been studying.
I just got the book um to dothe uh, the NAFTA, uh, whatever,
uh, north North American,whatever certification it is a
(40:18):
popular one.
I just bought the book to dosome, some updated research.
Maybe I can help myself with myown personal personal training,
my own maintenance.
And, yeah, you got to find your, your happiness in working out
(40:39):
and I think I think that's whatBrian found in in what he does,
his daily, his routine.
He's always fighting, still,he's still, he's still grappling
but, that's a form of workingout.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
I mean that's were you happier in the military?
Yes, why?
I mean that's where you happierin the military.
Yes, why?
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Um, and I kind of know why the camaraderie, the
brotherhood they, they take,brother, they take the thinking
out of it, just enough.
So it's, it's all muscle memory.
So they, so it is.
It is a muscle memory thingLike you train, train, train,
(41:20):
train, train until everything is.
You do everything perfect, andthen even even that alone is is
a sense of happiness, is a senseof accomplishment.
Uh, you know how to do a taskreally really well.
Um, you know how to do a taskreally really well, yeah, yeah.
(41:41):
And sometimes just getting theorders, you know just being told
what to do, just go and do thisand then you bitch and complain
about it, but you still go getit done and there's that feeling
of accomplishment.
You're always getting thatfeeling, that dopamine, that
fucking adrenaline rush.
Even in training you get thatadrenaline rush.
So what's there not to love?
So I will say I don't.
(42:02):
If anyone is thinking aboutjoining the military, I'm not
like all for it.
I'm like, oh yeah, go join thefuck.
Really, pick and choose whatyou want to do.
There's a bunch of branches outthere, bunch of fucking
branches, and pick the onethat's right for you.
There's a bunch of differentdecisions.
Speaker 2 (42:22):
I loved it yeah, I remember, you know, being part
of teams and going to the tracksand racing and, uh, there's a
lot of camaraderie, sometimes intattoo shops.
You know what I mean if they'reat jail and that there are
highs in those moments.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
And that can make all the difference.
Huh, it doesn't even feel likework anymore, right.
Speaker 2 (42:47):
Yeah, happiness is an elusive thing, yeah.
You could start off the dayhappy, and then you know
something happens and then itkind of pulls away from it.
You know it starts off pure andthen it kind of fades away from
it.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
You know it starts off pure and then it kind of
fades, you know, and then youtry to control it right, try to
control that happiness maybelike a scent, maybe if I do
something, maybe that's themaybe if I go treat myself like.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
That's crazy.
I wonder if that like isequated to the dopamine fading
away.
Like you, losing your happinessis not necessarily the moment
getting any worse, it's just thedopamine going away or whatever
.
You know, or wonder what that.
Who could answer that question?
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Well, I like how he went scientific with it, we do
we need a doctor on the show.
Yeah, if you know, if anybodyknows, if any doctors I know a
doctor, doctors or therapists.
Um, I have some therapists inmind too, and we'd like to get
on the show and interview Idon't, I don't know how that's
(43:49):
like conflict of interest oftheir jobs or or not, if they're
not.
So what I've understood is aslong as they're not yours, yeah,
so I would never ask mytherapist to be on the show,
right, because that is conflictof interest.
But, yes, a totally differenttherapist, yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
Happiness.
If you were like fucking sadright now, what the fuck are you
going to do to go get happy?
Your fucking chick left youyour fucking yeah who and what
do you?
Speaker 1 (44:29):
do and I will say how do you?
Speaker 3 (44:30):
get over a chick.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
How do you get over a breakup and find?
Speaker 1 (44:34):
happiness.
Are you talking about in thepast or are you talking about
right now?
Like right now, what would I do?
I do, or right now, what have Idone?
Speaker 2 (44:41):
you want to know, you want to know.
Speaker 1 (44:43):
I did after the last one what just buried myself in
whatever work I was doing.
So it wasn't a happiness thing,it was must push forward type
of thing.
Um, I'm gonna.
I'm gonna keep punishing myself.
But the little, the glimpse ofhappiness came from my dog.
That was like the glimpse oftraining him.
Do you create your ownhappiness?
Speaker 2 (45:05):
In that situation.
I almost had to In everysituation.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
Well, you got to think.
I believe there is a sense ofthe type of happiness the
universe sends your way, of thetype of happiness the universe
sends your way, uh, or whateverspiritual, uh your god buddha
sends your way.
Um, as grad, you know the yinyang, whatever spins back your
way.
So, dude is, are those coolthings?
(45:31):
Those are out of your control?
Like, let's say, you findfucking $20 on the floor.
Speaker 3 (45:38):
Does that make you happy?
Speaker 1 (45:39):
You're like oh man cool, I'm gonna go buy a burger
or something.
Yeah, Like, and that'ssomething the universe sent your
way.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
I'm like that's cool, right.
I don't know if that's like oris it Sorry?
Speaker 1 (45:52):
I just wanted to send .
That's cool, I want, I, I want,I wanted to send that.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
you know, that's not thought your way, my, my
happiness doesn't, it wouldn'tbe influenced by 20, not by luck
either.
I mean shit, 20 is only goingto give me a few guys, a few
gallons, that shit gone.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
Well, maybe, okay, Maybe I didn't use a proper
analogy in today's because I wasthinking kind of happiness a
hundred dollars, you know, yeah,like that's cool.
Or like or you, you scratch ascratch.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
I'm talking about bliss Cause, like when's the
last time you cried, happy,happy, cried as a man, like damn
, I'm so happy right now I gottacry.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
Oh, when I I I know right off the bat when my record
expunged not too long ago, Icried it was a pop up court.
I cried right in front of thejudge.
Speaker 2 (46:42):
Damn, I'm not afraid to admit that last time I cried
shit, I don't fucking cry, Iknow and that was a few months
ago.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
I don't know fucking cry.
I know, and that was a fewmonths ago.
No, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
I don't know the next time I will, but yeah, I'm on a
good run.
Oh yeah, I'm on a good runright now as far as like
happiness and mentality.
I stopped worrying about a lotof shit too, and that makes me
happy, happier.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
I hope he's OK with us talking about this, but I
will say this I I think wetouched on something I I have
teared up in some of ourinterviews.
Oh yeah, Um everybody has when.
Brian was talking about Tobias.
Speaker 2 (47:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
Yeah, I got, I got a black book, by the way.
Speaker 2 (47:36):
Yeah, I got.
I got a black book, by the way.
Yeah, I think it came in todayactually, that's cool.
Yeah, oh, you met, you orderedit.
Yeah, in a mail to you?
Speaker 1 (47:43):
Yeah, I think it just got delivered today.
Speaker 2 (47:45):
That's dope.
Speaker 1 (47:46):
Yeah, and I so I just from looking at it on the
website and, if you like, it'ssuper easy to find.
Um, you can get there from it'son Elizabeth Street or Brian's
Old Blue Ink, but you can justGoogle Tobias Black Book and
that's what I was like.
Oh, I wanted to buy it realfast.
(48:08):
So, yeah, it pops right up.
It's got super cool stuff and Ican't wait to get my hands on
it.
It's fucking dope.
Yeah, it looks super cool.
Speaker 2 (48:16):
And not a lot of people know about it.
I hope it's okay, if you guyslike hot shit that is hot before
anybody else knows it.
That's one of those things.
Speaker 1 (48:25):
Yeah, because it's just good.
I mean that story behind it toowas super cool.
Speaker 2 (48:29):
It's not a book, I mean it has the ability to be
all over the world.
Speaker 1 (48:37):
no-transcript maybe it will yeah I mean it's such a
good book like.
Speaker 2 (48:44):
There's so many individual great stories and
just interactions.
You know, uh many writes in avery questioned, stoic,
mysterious way as well, ofteninterpreting his feelings within
the uh, the interaction and howhe views the individual,
(49:05):
equating to animals and hisenvironment, equating to forest
sometimes in urban environments.
It's cool.
Yeah, the Black Book is cool.
There's a lot of good reads.
It's like man.
I'm getting this book from acompany called herd studios and
(49:25):
it's from a company that mybrother works with in jail and
it's a diary for from prisoners.
Oh yeah, yeah, like.
That book is fucking tight too,like some of the stuff in there
and the poetry and there's ohyeah, the copy gave me.
Speaker 1 (49:39):
Yeah, yes, oh yeah, I know, yeah, yeah, definitely.
Where can you find that?
Speaker 2 (49:42):
at uh herd studios did you have any more?
Speaker 1 (49:45):
I mean, does do they?
Speaker 2 (49:46):
they just came out with the second edition.
Okay, that one you can actuallypurchase.
The first one you can'tpurchase, repurchase, but this
so keep that and that'sheardstudioscom or I don't know
um.
I'll post something.
You guys can go on my instagramand then search herd studios
yeah because, I do yeah theyhave a podcast and they do you
know um rights and fight forrights and all that shit.
(50:11):
You know what I mean and, likeyou know not to diss their stuff
, but I'm not even, you know,qualified to speak on that stuff
.
I don't have the verbiage rightnow.
But yeah, so herd studios that.
That book is fucking sick too.
It's.
My brother just did some poetryin there.
I wanted to read one.
It's so dope.
Do you want me to go grab itreal quick?
Could we pause it so I could gograb?
Speaker 1 (50:31):
it yeah, yeah go for it.
Speaker 3 (50:32):
It's so dope.
Speaker 2 (50:33):
All right, I'm back with the book.
Thank you for that brief pause.
Um, this is, uh, one of mybrother's pieces of poetry and
Zach's going to read it for us,thank you.
Speaker 1 (50:45):
Bless the child.
Bless the child who gained theworld but ate his first from a
plastic spoon.
Bless his heart he knows aroach and rat.
With them he shared his room.
Bless the child without afather and he doesn't understand
.
Bless the streets that he nowlooks upon to learn to be a man.
(51:11):
Bless the child born an addictso to ease his world of pain.
Bless the needle that bringscomfort every time it finds his
vein.
Bless the child who'll nevermeet us within the womb he met
(51:31):
his death.
Bless the fetus that must dielong before he takes a breath.
Bless the child.
He's our future.
May he find his way alone.
I'm not home to bless my child,so bless the child that got his
(51:52):
own.
Speaker 2 (51:57):
Yeah, what you think.
Speaker 1 (52:00):
What do you mean?
What I?
Speaker 2 (52:01):
think yeah.
Speaker 1 (52:05):
It's good, it's good, that's uh, that's it, yeah,
yeah this book is freakinginsane.
Speaker 2 (52:08):
The last one too is you know there's stories in
there and um man, humility andyeah post where to get this um,
this is a good coffee table typebook.
Speaker 1 (52:26):
This is awesome.
Speaker 2 (52:27):
If you got a problem, go to this book.
Speaker 1 (52:30):
Yeah, post where to get that.
So we good on happiness.
Any last thoughts on happiness?
Speaker 2 (52:38):
Nah man, food makes me happy too.
Good food, good food makes mehappy too.
Speaker 3 (52:41):
But you know, oh, good food.
Speaker 2 (52:42):
Good food, yeah, makes me happy.
Yeah yeah, gumbo Oof Paella,yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (52:50):
Oh man, You're throwing some fancy ones at me.
Oh my gosh, yeah good paella,it's bomb.
Speaker 2 (52:54):
Are you kidding?
Yeah girl, on some seafood.
Seafood's making me happy.
Some like fruit of the marri,like Italian dishes with the
seafood.
Speaker 1 (53:05):
I just had some good marlin tacos last week.
Speaker 2 (53:08):
See yeah, my son just turned 15.
That's crazy.
Grown ass, man.
Crazy.
That's happiness.
It's different.
It's different now.
Speaker 1 (53:22):
We were talking about some come of life.
And I feel like that itself isfucking cool.
I was talking about it and thenI was bringing it up to get you
guys thinking about Because I'msure a lot of you have kids out
there and yeah, the coming ofage thing, or remember when you
were coming of age.
Yeah, he's wanting the, buthe's 15.
(53:46):
He's rebelling.
Like what age did you rebelReally?
If, if, if, if.
I'm asking you cause we didn'ttalk about this.
I never really rebelled Um.
Speaker 2 (53:55):
you didn't rebel.
Speaker 1 (53:55):
Nah, I thought I rebelled hard, you know, like
two or three times.
Speaker 2 (54:03):
I hard.
You know like two or threetimes.
I didn't have enough attentionon me to rebel.
Okay, you have to haveattention to to get considered
rebellious.
My brother was doing shit wayworse than I, so whatever I was
doing that was negative was likea positive you could, you could
almost see a shadow?
Yeah it overshadowed everything, like I wasn't the one and I
wasn't the one that should havebeen watched, you know.
Speaker 1 (54:26):
So I was I, I, I was that for my family.
Speaker 2 (54:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (54:29):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 2 (54:32):
I've always been like , yeah, I've always been a
little bit of a knucklehead,like, but I've always been chill
man, I ain't.
I'm very wise to not going tojail or like as soon as I have a
problem, like like I look atlaws and legals and get right
(54:53):
and like I don't always makesure that I got me.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (54:58):
You move right, I have noticed it, I mean since
I've known you for seven, eightyears like you've always had too
many chances yeah, you knowlike yeah, you calculated.
Speaker 2 (55:09):
Yes, I was just about to say that calculated.
Yeah, you know, I take a lot ofshots, I try.
You know, like people say, oh,I'm an entrepreneur, like then
they don't ever start, no shit,you just somebody without a job
who enjoys their hobby or someshit, but like, like, put some
skin in it.
You know what I mean.
(55:30):
Like, yeah, I've tried, I'vetried, and you know that shit is
humbling, you know, um, and I'm, I will.
That's something about me is Iwill always continue to create
on avenues and forefronts that Ifeel like will be positive you
know, this is positive.
You know, as soon as it becomesnegative or you know, to my
(55:55):
world or psyche, then I'll stop,you know.
But it's all positive.
You know it's going to be hardfor it to become negative
because we control the narrativeCorrect?
Yeah, you know.
Happiness guys.
I hope you guys are out therehappy.
You know the economy is at afucked up time.
Everybody's struggling to payrent and to get by, to find
(56:21):
places to live.
There's a lot of people livingat home, but none of that stuff
really matters, man, you know,if you guys are healthy and
you're happy with yourselves,then you're good.
You know there's always goingto be another bill.
So don't trip about that bill.
There's always going to beanother one.
There's always going to beanother tax.
That's one thing that I'mfocusing on is happiness and a
(56:43):
little bit of independentfreedom outside of this state
government sanctity.
You know, I know everybodytalks about getting a little
plot of land and putting theircompound on there and all that
stuff, and it sounds crazy, butreally it's nice.
(57:04):
The idea of it is really reallynice and it's a modern way of
thinking with the old fashionvalue.
You know, we're just going backto the old days, and I feel
like that will create happiness.
You know, the sense ofcommunity is at all--time low
too.
People don't go out, they don'tdate.
(57:24):
You know you don't get to goembarrass yourself in front of a
chick no more.
Speaker 3 (57:31):
You can swipe right, swipe left, and you know you're
guaranteed a date.
Speaker 2 (57:37):
But you never.
You don't really get to shootfrom the hip anymore.
So like people are a little bitsofter and you know, it's just
everything.
You know you can even get foodto your house Now, you don't
even got to move.
As well as women, you know youcould date from your home.
It's, it's all a little bit tooeasy.
It's all a little bit too easy.
That's why I feel like thesense of community is gone.
Speaker 1 (57:57):
You know, and that and that happiness is escaping
us in that way.
Yeah, I could see that.
Speaker 2 (58:08):
Because that community does provide that
sense of happiness, that senseof you.
Could ask probably 100 men nowfrom the age of 18 to 25, if
they were going to go pick up awoman or start dating, I bet you
80% of them would say theywould just download an app.
That's crazy, you know.
But then talk about they gotRiz or Charisma or some shit
(58:33):
like that.
Like, how Are you talkingthrough a phone?
You know Everybody's good on akeyboard.
You should be at least Right.
I ain't even got to type shit,you just talk to the
motherfucker.
It's so easy, it's so easy.
I remember back in the dayhaving to write letters and
misspelling words and shit andthe chick being like I can't
(58:56):
read it, like fuck.
Speaker 1 (59:00):
That was the best pickup line yeah.
Speaker 2 (59:02):
Well, there's a lot of good shit in there.
You know what I mean, but thosedays are over Humility and
we're dealing with a differenttype of human being.
Trump got convicted today.
That's a big thing that weshould probably mention.
Yeah, he got convicted on 34counts of fucking business fraud
(59:23):
.
He messed up.
He didn't mess up, but you know, he just got caught and he's
been doing that type of shit,obviously.
What did he really do, though?
What's the big fuss?
He didn't pay her.
Speaker 1 (59:41):
Well, essentially you lied in that last trial it's
fraud yeah, but that's it'sbeing proven in court that you
lied, yeah, so that's that'swhat it is.
Speaker 2 (59:55):
I mean, yeah, what he does with the prostitute is
nobody's business.
His money transactions with theprostitute is nobody's business
.
His money transactions with thefucking woman of the night.
You fucking kidding me.
That's my political, fuckingstance on that.
Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
It's so fucking stupid.
Speaker 1 (01:00:20):
Yeah, you ready for a roundup?
Yeah, let's round it up.
I got I got a cool one frommark twain.
He said there are people whocan do all fine and heroic
things but one keep tellingtheir happiness to the unhappy.
I think that means I don'tgloat, that's that's, that's a
(01:00:46):
form of hap.
That's what it means to me.
I don't don't rub yourhappiness into the unhappy space
.
Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
I've grown to expect negative shit after extreme
highs.
Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
Okay, and what do you ?
I mean, that's an excellenttopic.
What do you believe that is?
Do you believe that's theuniverse, do you?
Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
believe that's Fucking A man.
Duality, the balance of Of goodand evil, yeah, like Of
positive and negative yeah, it'sall this shit we've created Is
it karma?
Speaker 1 (01:01:20):
Is it no, it's the Sins.
It's the fake shit we'vecreated.
Is it karma?
Is it no, it's the sins.
Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
It's the fake world, of these things that we assume
matter, that don't necessarilymatter.
Speaker 1 (01:01:29):
And in doing so, are you setting yourself up for
failure at all, or are you justpreparing yourself for the
inevitable as far as, as far asyou think, after a high there's
going to be a low, so are youpreparing yourself for that?
Kind of or or are you, are youpeople think, and then people
(01:01:49):
say oh well, that's, you know,bringing in a negative fucking
light and yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:01:54):
But I also try and be like positive all the time, but
then I feel like man, like be,you're positive, but,
motherfucker, you better bepaying attention still too, you
know, yeah, that's just thatthat balance is crazy, man yeah,
that balance is crazy come onin.
Speaker 1 (01:02:14):
But yeah, we're good.
Yeah, so I um definitely followthe page.
If you're not following um,it's at b to z Podcast.
Any other shout outs?
We already said InCon.
We're going to be at InCon.
Yep, yeah, any last minuteshout outs to the subscribers.
Speaker 2 (01:02:30):
You guys see, we got a little subscription button on
there on the bottom to pleasedonate.
Yeah, we got one subscriber sofar.
Yeah, we got one subscriber.
We're trying to get to about itin the next week.
Speaker 1 (01:02:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah we got one subscriber.
Speaker 2 (01:02:42):
We're trying to get to by the end of next week.
You know, definitely subscribeto that donate a little bit of
cash.
It's going to go to the futureequipment and marketing for the
business and we'll I mean it'sdefinitely- we got some cool
events planned.
Speaker 1 (01:02:57):
Oh, and if you haven't shared the contest by
the time this comes out, it'llprobably be like five days left
of that contest, a tattoocontest.
Oh, it's still going Until June7th.
That's what I put it.
I just said June 7th.
I don't know what you're doingJune 7th, but I figured we can
pull some names out of the hat.
Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:03:14):
Yeah Cool.
Speaker 2 (01:03:16):
Yeah, am I drawing.
Is it a pre-designed?
Speaker 1 (01:03:26):
Or draw.
Is it a pre-designed or arethey bringing their idea?
Oh shit, I didn't put that inthe what are the rules for that
now that I got you.
Is it pre-designed or is it?
Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
well, usually if it's pre-designed, then they'll put
in and know that they want.
Speaker 1 (01:03:36):
So I never did.
I never did that in thebeginning.
Well, this one will justprobably ideas.
Speaker 2 (01:03:40):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (01:03:41):
Whoever wins, this is really getting the coup de
temps man For sure Like nice.
For sure, all right.
Well, thanks for joining in.
That was a cool episode.
Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
Yeah, it was a cool episode.
Keep it cool, y'all.
Speaker 1 (01:03:55):
Yeah, tap in, let us know what you think.
Speaker 3 (01:04:04):
Summertime.
Hi, I have someone that wantsto say something.
Hi, my name is Lennox.
I'm five years old.
Brandon is my dad, the one thatmakes all the interviews with
his friend Zach.
Speaker 1 (01:04:12):
You're one of the coolest guys I know.
Did you know that?
Did you know that?
Yes, are you about to go tosleep?
Go to sleep, okay, good.
Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
Oh, I need to talk closer to the microphone.
Speaker 1 (01:04:27):
Okay, do you want your sister to talk next?
Speaker 3 (01:04:32):
Yeah, I'll just talk.
Speaker 1 (01:04:33):
Do you have any last words to say to everybody?
Speaker 3 (01:04:38):
Welcome to.
Okay, you rock, brother, youfist bump.
Speaker 1 (01:04:45):
Yeah, yes, yes good yes.
You shouldn't be afraid offirst grade.
I think you're going to doreally good.
Speaker 3 (01:05:05):
I don't know why, but I think that they're going to
give me a lot of homework.
Speaker 1 (01:05:11):
Is that why you're afraid?
I think even if you havehomework, your dad will help you
or your brother, and you caneven ask me I might help you too
.
Speaker 3 (01:05:21):
You won't even be here when I'm doing my homework.
Speaker 1 (01:05:26):
Well, it was good talking to you buddy, Talking to
you buddy, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:05:30):
All right, I'm a friend with mom because I like
everything, all she wants.
Speaker 1 (01:05:39):
And what's your name, luna?
Speaker 3 (01:05:42):
Oh, it's so good to have your name, luna.
Speaker 1 (01:05:44):
Oh, it's so good to have you here, Luna.
Speaker 3 (01:05:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:05:49):
Was that your brother that just talked?
Speaker 3 (01:05:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:05:51):
What's his name?
Speaker 3 (01:05:53):
Lenny.
Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
Yeah, lenny, he's my buddy.
Yeah, what sports do you play?
Speaker 3 (01:05:59):
Soccerball.
Speaker 1 (01:06:02):
Is that your favorite ?
Yeah.
Do you like to draw?
Yeah, and color are beautifulyeah.
Do you have a favorite showyou're watching right now?
Speaker 3 (01:06:29):
Yeah, like Ben and Holly.
Oh, okay, so I like Peppabecause it's the most thing in
the world.
Yeah, the most thing in theworld, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:06:48):
So I think my yeah, talk right into that, Talk right
into the middle.
Speaker 3 (01:06:52):
So, with Mommy, we were on the airplane with her
friend oh okay, her friend, ohokay, her friend was having
pizza because mommy is so pretty.
Speaker 1 (01:07:08):
Oh, that's very nice of you to say your mom is so
pretty.
That's very nice.
I think you're pretty too.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, it wasnice.
It was nice talking to you.
It was nice talking to you.
Are you going to go to sleep?
Yeah Well, it was nice, dada,it was nice talking to you.
I love you, dad.
I love you too.
It was nice talking to you.
Are you going to go to sleep?
Speaker 3 (01:07:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:07:26):
Okay, I hope you have good dreams okay.
Speaker 3 (01:07:28):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (01:07:29):
Bye-bye.
Speaker 3 (01:07:55):
Bye-bye, thank you.
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