Revisiting the Past, Preparing the Next Generation, Building Businesses

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I went to church with my mom on Sunday.
You said what.
You said what now, man?
You said what, bro?
I went to church with my mom onSunday.
How was that, man?
How was it?
It was cool.
It was a.
It was like we went to thechurch.
I grew up.
My mother she actually justlike rejoined the church a few

(00:25):
weeks ago Hmm, probably beenlike two months, probably been
like two months ago.
She said, you know, the spiritmoved her, talked to her and she
went up there at the end of theservice and rejoined the church
.
This is the church we grew up in, you know, me and my mom.
It's like, so it's the from bigmama to mama needs.

(00:47):
Yeah, pretty much the way thestory goes.
My grandmother started goingthere because my uncle, lawrence
girlfriend at the time, la U IT, that's where her family went,
so that's where my unclestarted going, and because my
family went to Mount Nibo butthen started going to Mount

(01:12):
Hermon and 40th Union.
But it felt good being in there, man, just you know it ain't
too much change, ain't too muchchange.
I, legit, have not been tochurch like, besides a wedding
or a homegoing, I have not beento church.
Oh, over five years.

(01:37):
Yes, less than 10 years.
So don't get to the line though.
Somewhere between five and 10years, you know, since, since
slow was a baby because he'staken down to the nursery yeah,
I hadn't, I hadn't been tochurch in that long, but it felt
good to be there and beingaround the folks who knew me
since I was a young you knowsaying I used to be in that
baby's and ties nursery too.
And my brother, josh, camethrough because my mom got her

(02:01):
her right hand of fellowship.
You don't have to join in thechurch and stuff like that.
So, but it was cool, man, andmy uncle was happy to see me
there.
I didn't go down for altercalls,you know, because, I'll be
honest, at the same time I felta little weird.
It's like, nah, I ain't goingdown, stay right here.
And then I'm up in the balconyand right after all the
altercalls, my uncle turnedaround and he looked up at me.

(02:23):
I came to salute and then myauntie turned around and she
waving everything because he had.
Every time I seen, when youcome to church I'd be like, oh
man, tomorrow and tomorrow belike Thursday is some stupid ass
shit.
Oh, they close all day.
Guess I can't go.
I was available but but itdefinitely felt good being there
.
Man, I got it, so I might goback this Sunday, just so I

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don't get a.
I want to be labeled a CME.
You know the CME?
No, that's somebody who only goto church on Christmas,
mother's Day and Easter.
Cme, cme member, that's whatthey call them.
You only come on Christmas,mother's Day and Easter when
they give it out Chocolate.
Hey, that's a good littleacronym.

(03:08):
I wouldn't even hit the CME.
They call it the CME.
That's the only time they cometo church.
But no, it was.
It was cool, don't man think Imight think I might go back.
What did you miss about it, man?
Like I know you said, it's beena many since I've been there,
but what the thing is, when itcomes down to, it's such a, it's
such a connection with myselfand that place.
Again, me and my family, wegrew up in here, man, we sung in

(03:29):
the choir and we, you know, wason the usher boards and you
know we'd be at church, or goodyou know, two, three days out of
the week, you know, includingSunday service, and we'd be
there nine, nine, thirty in themorning for Sunday school and
really the whole thing, thewhole thing.
So, just being back in thatplace, it was.

(03:55):
It was something, man, it wassomething that Laura speak to
you while you was there.
I don't think we speak rightnow, no, but for me it was just.
It was just like man.
I spent a lot of, a huge chunkof my life in this place, so it
was.

(04:15):
It was that more than anything.
I don't know if that's like thewrong thing to say, but for me
it didn't have much to do withreligion.
It was pretty much all aboutseeing the people who watch me
grow up, who hadn't seen me in along time, who was happy to see
me, surprised to see me yougrowing up.

(04:36):
Now though, yeah, I get a lotof that and I tell my wife, I
say, yeah, if I come home and Igot lipstick on my cheek, you
know why, it's from a sister,mary Clarence.
Yeah, yeah, she got it.
Yeah, sister Daniels, yeah,you're all in, so silver, that
was with my grandma girl back inthe year.
There you go, the church, but,but it was cool though, man, and

(04:59):
not not much change.
Man, you know the church, theBaptist church, at least you
know.
Should I say that's the onlyone I can speak on.
It's different now than it'sbeen.
You know the last 100 years.
You know it's a lot different.
I'll tell you what.
I didn't bring any cash to putin like the offering play, you

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know, like that.
So to my mom, like, oh, I amokay, you sound good.
They take cash out Venmo.
It'd be up on the screen whenthey pull out.
You know not gonna not let youpay that 10%.
Yeah, god, god, do that.
And um, and even I had done,because I didn't.
I have a Bible.
I forgot to bring it.
So I just downloaded the quickBible app.

(05:40):
You know saying ads and shitpopping up.
When I'm trying to look updescription, like how you gonna
add some of the Bible app, youinterrupted the word, trying to
get me to get State Farm shit.
It wasn't State Farm.
I want to blame them for that,but I'm trying to hurry up and
get to chapter two, titus.
I get it, man.
I got this ad popping up and Igot to wait 10 seconds to skip

(06:03):
it.
Now I'm behind.
What chapter?
You said what verse?
But it was nice.
It was definitely nice, good tobe in the house of Lord One
more time.
Let the church say, yeah,that's what they do, but nah, it
was good though.
Man, how was your weekend thispast weekend?

(06:24):
We ain't been in here in awhile, yeah, man.
So before I even get into myweekend, I just want to.
I want to say man to you, to thelisteners, freedom speakers,
everybody who tuned in to theshow was appreciative of what we
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we're looking to put ourselvesin moving to 2024.

(06:45):
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Man, we're not familiar to thestudio where microphones pause,
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(07:07):
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Man.
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2024, we're going to do somemore.

(07:53):
Hey, cheers to that.
Black out Brown, roy Black, yeah, so so we're going to recap my
weekend, man, and I'm going togo in reverse, because that's
the easiest way I can remember.
Man, my, my memory be fucked upsometimes.
Other memories help youremember other shit.

(08:20):
Yeah, yeah, they trickle likethat.
Oh, yeah, before that, yeah, Idid that.
Yeah, I got to take you backback back with all started.
But yesterday we went to MondayNight Raw, man KJ and I.
So I saw that you posted on thelive.
Yeah, I thought you was talkingabout some other shit.
No, no, man, I went to MondayNight Raw live down at the

(08:40):
Rocket Morgan Stadium.
Man At the arena.
I enjoyed it.
This is my first time actuallygoing down there for wrestling
event.
Yeah, and we got there on time,which is surprising for me.
That's amazing.
So, all on the going intonormally these events and we
talking business, we talkingshop, and we kind of see half
time and we gone you know whatI'm saying, we on the third
match, but they had the WWE mainevent, which is like your

(09:05):
preliminaries, your warm upcrowds, you know that type of
thing.
But I got a chance to see themand the whole production behind
the scenes of like thecommercial break.
They don't fix in the ring,people come out and stretching,
kind of just talking with eachother.
I was like I'm going to getenergy and I was not aware of
this energy and so me goingthere with my son experiencing

(09:27):
these things, man, I want to sayone I love the fucking energy,
I love it and it's smack talkingkind of almost at its best.
You is, it's arena, rememberthis is I'll make a sign.
No, but I found out my formula.
You know me, I'll make a sign.
I'll make all my formulas.
Like as for how we were set upin the seats, it's not that hard

(09:50):
too much to get on TV, but youhave a really nice shirt that
says something.
You get you a nice sign likethat, how more, the more
creative or out there it can be,you run risk of catching just
no, no on the screen to jump ortry something, man.
So I'm going to be on TNT.
I was sitting next to a guy onmy right.

(10:10):
This cage was on my left.
I'll sit next to a guy on it onmy right who was very adamant.
I'll say that he was veryenergetic and that's coming from
an energetic person, that adestiny was up there.
But he jumping around in theseats, he's talking smack to
other people.
That's in front of us.

(10:30):
They got the crowd favors thatpeople like and they got like
the villains.
But it's really like the operaof it of you know, people
chanting and cheering for thisguy.
They don't care about this guy.
And I'm getting, he's gettingan attitude.
He's like come on, ram, look athim.
You see, you see me slow, countfor this guy.
He's really quick on him.
I see things like that.
I'm like yeah for sure, my, whoare you rooting for?

(10:52):
I'm like the one guy that'sfighting the other guy, same
doldrum.
Who you?
Who you get me.
Yeah, yeah, my dude.
Yeah, yeah, it's one of them.
I'm like man, but he's beenwatching this shit since he was
six.
Yeah, one of those.
It's fucking real to me, man.
You ever see it.
It's one of those like hey, man, it's sports entertainment.

(11:12):
Yeah, man, don't forget theentertainment part.
Let's go, man.
But I loved it, man, I loved it.
I loved it and I love them.
My son loved it.
So we did that Friday.
I mean Monday, monday night,monday night, raw.
But we got the chance to seethat.
Enjoy it.
He, feeling pumped, he'ssending his francus I can see

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him looking over at his phone.
He's sending stuff to hisfriends to snap.
Oh, you guys get really goodseats.
You're so jealous, yeah.
But he's like, yeah, he's acool kid right now.
He got to experience this.
You know what I'm saying.
Now you got a cool excuse whenhe coming to school looking
tired the next day, oh yeah, itwas out.
What's wrong?
Oh shit, me and my Monday nightraw.

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You know the usual, yeah,something you might not never
know about, but it was.
It was straight love there, man, it was straight love.
So Sunday Sunday is alwaysMarvel movie day for me, like
that's like a religion for me.
So Sunday we watched a littlebit of Marvel movies and what

(12:16):
you learned this time on theMarvel tip is something that you
pulled.
Which one did you watch?
I always watch the Iron man one.
So I watched Iron man threebecause it's Christmas.
It's Christmas, yeah, it'sChristmas.
Everybody can have a hobby,merry Christmas and take them to
church.
But it's little little thingslike that.

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I watched Captain Marvel.
I watched Captain Marvel.
Just got one to see, kind oflike, how strong she was and
where, like where she actuallycame from, see that she had that
shit.
Yeah, if I heard it take aheadbutt from Thanos and he like
knocked her ass out of themovie.
The two women gave someone geekout, but it was the two women
who gave him hell.
It was Scarlet Witch.

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And it was Scarlet Witch, isthat?
Don't say that that witch, seethat?
So it was Scarlet Witch.
And then it was a old girl, aCaptain Marvel.
Captain Marvel, yeah, came in,destroyed the ship, whooped on
there.
I remember she had the rain,fire.
I'm going to go down the line,but I digress.
We going to try to stay calmtoday.

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Sure, but I watched that oneand I watched Captain Marvel.
So when I pulled from Iron man,three was you got to emotionally
see the shift change of TonyStark and remember he was a play
, he was a genius playboy,billionaire.
The answer you know what I'msaying.
So, and two, he got bit in theass from knocking over the,

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screwing over people because hewas an asshole.
That's a part of his character.
And three, you get to see himbecome, like, more docile.
He gets to become more familyoriented.
Yeah, woman, now you get to seethe human side of him, he
having panic attacks.

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But I can identify with thischaracter of how Marvel did a
great job like developing thesepeople and casting.
Every development is phenomenal.
So seeing the development of himand then even further in little
things that he says of rememberhis in three, his house got
blew up.

(14:24):
So he said in two, his housegot.
You never won.
Malibu got blew up, malibu gotblew up.
He got the house got blew up.
Remember when his, when happygot hurt and he was with the the
what the hell is then I justthe name of the villain in there
and it was in three.

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That's when he did the remotesuit for a pepper.
Yeah, yeah, but he did theremote.
He did the remote suit flyingon.
That was a new tech.
Yeah, it was a new tech.
Yeah, I got the house got blew.
They was in there.
Yeah, and when he frickingbecause he used to have to call
the suit like this.
Now he got the nano, he pulledhim up, josh drinks and there it

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goes.
But he started calling the suitand, as you're watching, oh
yeah, he's gonna put the suit on, save himself.
He called the suit to get onpepper to protect her and I was
just fucking dope.
That was dope.
He had a remote into her butthe villain that he had was a oh
, fucking, I was in the Mandarin.

(15:26):
Yeah, yeah, you gotta take adrink.
Yeah, there we go.
New rule.
So we had the Mandarin, butthey showed you just the cinema
of how they had the Besson, thescenes of whoever playing this
character.
But if you pay attention toMandarin, signal has been all
throughout the Marvel.
You know the little symbol.

(15:46):
So when I got to see that andget to see this identify with
him in his man cave, whichthat's a goal of mine, I want
that type of man cave.
I got nice cars on one side andgot tools.
I got my other side on loungeand kicking in his lounge Last
door up I'm actually VanessaGonna, give me a tension ride

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with some real dope curtains.
So I got hammering and that hasbeads.
Hey, what's up?
Y'all Buster rhymes in theshaft, moves.
It's show me like this is inthis mother fucker burning man.

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Look waterfalls.
But I seen that man.
I saw just the character of me.
Man Grow as a human being, growas a father we had kids but
grow to care for something morethan themself.
He cared about pepper, he caredabout happy Business got blew
up.
But the line I wanted to takewas after his house got blew up

(16:48):
I forgot it.
I think in a ventures Ultron hesaid I don't think I'm gonna
take a page out of Barton's bookand go give me a farm or
something.
And actually did.
Yeah, yeah, even more fuckingfar.
And I didn't even peep that.
They did go see this nigga outof fucking far Billionaire,
contrusionaire House in the WoodTook a page out of Barton's
book.
But that was one of my hey man,that's nigga raw, but it was

(17:14):
one of them.
Like I didn't see thatdevelopment character until I
sat back and just shout out toClint Barton man, hawkeye, yeah,
who don't get enough credit,man, he don't man, because he
the only event, he the only onethat got kids, yeah, the only
one that he got like, of coursehe got real world
responsibilities.
Then he got real worldresponsibility.

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He got a family.
They're like three kids.
You don't understand.
And he's the only one, the onlyone who got children A family.
Cap ain't got no kids.
Tony ain't got no kids, none ofthem.
Niggas, hawkeye end up killingthe bitch.
He can't get it.
I don't think he can control it.
No, he can't get it.
No, he takes smash in thelitter room.
Yeah, y'all don't want that.

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No, no, no, but uh, but yeah,man, shout out to Clint Barton
man, strongest Avenger, Goddamn.
I say, but that's the one thingthat I pulled from there
watching it.
Like hey, how they developedeverybody, even it's hard
Captain America.
At the end he was like I thinkI, he got married, yep Got

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married.
It just showed the little ringof him getting married.
And then Lowe didn't noticethat that was Peggy, that he was
dancing with that thing.
He didn't notice.
You know, I'm like that's,that's Captain, that's her.
He went back and got.
They danced and they danced afew times.
Apparently they had a littlehouse.
You know what I'm saying?
Nothing, nothing crazy.
And the door was still open.
It was open like a motherfucker.

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He just walked back through andshe just I felt like they just
got that house because thefucking landscape was horrible.
It's like God damn, trim thesebushes out, this bitch, captain
man, you could just rip thesebitches out the ground.
You was ripping logs and shit,shit, this thing, don't take my
stuff.
You could just rip some brushout of the ground.
Well, yeah, go back and look atthe enlightening, these fucking
houses, motive cuts for grass.

(19:00):
Trim this shit, take that out.
That can go, take that, butit's like they must just move
there.
Yeah, as you said, like this isMarvel.
Shit is our Bible.
It is Religiously watched.
This shit.
We learn lessons from this shit.
We take quotes.
The same way you would take ascripture from the Bible, you
could take something fromin-game and say you know,

(19:21):
everything is special from youCame out of a bottle, but on the
suit, let's go up here.
Yeah, let's go up here.
If it comes what?
What?
Um, you're not the guy who'sgoing to make what, would
somebody told Tony say you'renot the guy who's going to lay
his life on the line for thefinal play or some shit like
that.
I think Cap told him that.
Yeah, remember so.

(19:42):
Like you ain't him with.
When it comes to this hero shit,this real hero shit, you know
what I'm saying Like and I loveTony and I'm going to just talk
my shit real quick.
You, you cute, you flashy, you,thank you All right, but when
it comes down to being on Tysonhero, he's saving motherfuckers
and putting down your life.
But in the end, in the end, andeven when you look at the look
on Captain or Doctor Strange'sface when he even knew when he,

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but before that, even when hehad to look at Tony, he said
Tony said how many we win.
And he looked at Tony and saidone one they just met.
They just met each otherearlier in the movie and Doctor
Strange told him if it comesdown to saving you, the kid or
the stone, I won't hesitate tolet either of you die.

(20:30):
He said that shit 20 minutesago our time and now he looked.
I got to get this picture wetbecause he going to be the one.
That's some cold shit, yeah,yeah, yeah.
So he's bringing me in, I know,I know we, we said we wouldn't
get it, but it brought me in.
So in me watching Doctor Strangeand I feel like Doctor Strange

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and Tony are stellar.
They're the same in differentuniverses, and I say that
because they both gotegotistical, asshole mentality,
so extremely great at whatthey're doing.
I identify with that.
Like what you watch.
The first Doctor Strange, they,they both.
But then they had to be humble,yeah, or because he had to.
He has a doctor, the best, best,steadiest 30th hands in the

(21:19):
field, or whatever.
He had niggas when it comes tothe service.
He would brandish hisintelligence, yep, he would
brandish how smart he was, evenin the operating table talking
shit about the music and when itwas released and just little,
little, fucking snapper factsthat everybody ain't cute to
know.
I got to watch it, yet he livedin his dark towers.
I didn't, I didn't know that,like until I watched it again.

(21:40):
Like I watched it.
I'm like it's, it's little.
Is it called an Easter egg?
Little stuff like that, it'slittle.
I'm like damn, when he wasarguing with his lady and no, he
was green, ready to go outbefore he got to that car
accident that fucked his hands,messed his hands up.
You get to see Start towers,start industries in the building
.
He lives in one of these topfloors of.

(22:01):
Hey, you got to be him to be inhere in this penthouse.
But remember here, highmillionaire, top flat doctor,
you know what I'm saying Makinghe riding, taking cases based on
how difficult it is, more thanlike saving lives.
So still the same thing withTony.
So that takes me to the pointof where all of this top notch

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shit from them both, where it'staking away these penthouses and
great.
And they both went to like cave,like places.
Tony was in the cave with theone guy who helped him with the
reactor in his chest and thenStrange was in kamutash, but

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they had to both be broken downthe ground level.
But because they both areingenious motherfuckers, tony's
ingenious human, but ingeniousStrange is human and he just
studied, like I got aphotographic memory, just they.
But they, they can bring, theyare as great as they are because

(23:08):
the motherfuckers not afraid ofwork, yeah, they not they, they
not afraid to be like I got outof this shit because I figured
a fucking way out.
You can't tell me there's not away out, you can't.
So I, I dissect into thesecharacters of life and they both
got handshits, that little,that throwing up gang.

(23:30):
So I see the characterdevelopment and I like it, man,
but in in the end games, orforgot which one to well, yeah,
I think it was Phineadivore andget one of the two where they
send each other back and Strangeis nowhere to be found but they
send a halt to go and get thetime stone from.
Oh yeah, the ancient one, yeah,and I rock with the ancient one

(23:53):
, especially now.
I'm just sitting there, I'll belistening to it.
It's just dope ass philosophy,like man, look, you're about to
happen, man, you guys stay aboveit.
Yeah, it's tripping Like justsome.
But they said in such a poiseway as, like that shit really is
the shit.
But when I saw my name have toput the hands to the, to the

(24:14):
halt, just on some simple likethat's a master type of mood of
me, like you can't scrap withthe halt, you can't scrap with
the heart.
So be seeing her hit that, hithim with that astro and bring
him to like, hey, knock thebanner out.
This man, let's have aconversation, shall we?
But I, I it's little thingslike that I'm like, damn,

(24:35):
everybody had a reality check,for sure, every everybody had a
reality check, man.
So I spent a lot of my weekendssmoking weed watching that.
Yeah, that made me.
That made me want to go, andI'm gonna probably watch Dr
Strange again tonight and getmore of that care, because you
know that's one of the ones thatyou will find yourself watching

(24:58):
once, like I saw it moved on.
You know what I'm saying On toother Avengers.
But you've got to respectstrength.
Everybody plays an importantrole, I think, without, without
taking one of them out and thisshit don't go the way it need to
go.
You know what I mean.
So even when it, you know theycredit Thor, it, and I'm fucked
with Thor.
That's my dog.

(25:19):
But when you, when you had aconversation, strongest Avengers
, like everybody, everybody playa part, you know.
And just just when you talkingon the on the, on the big, the
big 80, if you will, you knowwhat I'm saying Tony, kat, wanda
, clint, hawk and after Thor,and then throw in, you know,

(25:42):
falcon, and like actual niggaswho like Avengers on the team,
not just who popped up in endgame, but like on the team y'all
.
I've worked with them on a fewjobs.
You know it's a friend fromwork.
Yeah, yeah, cause we all knowWanda, fuck everybody up.
I don't think Wanda causeherself in the venue, she more.
She like a fucking villain nowthis one crazy, she's like an
auntie villain.
Yeah, she's like we love you,but we're stuck.

(26:05):
She'd have let them take youout, do right, it was gonna come
and get your head Protected you, exactly, exactly, 1000%, man.
So check this out.
Man, I want to uh real quick.
I got a couple of things I wantto share with you real quick.
Moving into sports, man, justfor a second.
Um, did you watch the chiefs inthe in the bills game?

(26:27):
Did I watch it?
Yeah, what day did that come on?
Uh, sunday.
Nope, I was watching theAvengers Sunday.
Yeah, okay, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, I know me, ketchup.
I watched the Browns and Iwatched Old State.
Everybody else is kind of like,yeah, man, browns did that
thing.
By the way, shout out to JoeFlack Name started for the rest
of the season.
My nigga like 48 years old I'mgonna say he's really old in

(26:52):
sports.
But I like, yeah, old life Insports.
Yeah, well, he used to give ushell.
Now he on the squad.
So like, joe, you, you allright with me.
Joe DiGio, come on to the landand do your thing, man.
But uh, last player of the gamescore is a.
You know, uh, kc needs totouchdown and win the game.
And what do they do?
Go out there, get amotherfucker touchdown.

(27:13):
What you mean?
Kansas City Chiefs nigga, wescored.
That's what we do.
We win games, championships,nigga contenders.
You know what I mean, notpretenders, actual contender.
Shout out to the Dallas Cowboy.
Um, Kaderia Smith, calledoffside and into the ball.
Travis Kelsie threw a touchdown.

(27:38):
Motherfucker, fake, hand upboolee Touchdown.
Did he throw it to Taylor Swift?
Maybe after the game?
Maybe after the game?
But uh, yeah, man, kaderia'sTony was called offside.
I'll show you real quick.
He was lined up.
You see him circle there on thephoto and they say now, usually

(27:59):
if this happened mid game, yougetting a warning from the rep.
Hey, you be warned, move back alittle bit To me.
You see where he lined up.
You know and we know that blueline is an unofficial line.
You see ref right here, and I'mactually just noticing this.
You see ref right here.
He got the whistle in his hand.
He about to blow this bitch.
He bought the blood.
Yep, soon as they.

(28:19):
I'm like uh, he's offside man,his foot is ahead of the ball,
his foot is ahead of the balland ball is just behind the blue
line.
His foot is on the blue line.
You know when you're beingtrained at the receiver position
, yo, yo, front foot is supposedto be lined up with the tackles

(28:43):
feet.
All of the tackles feet isfucking back here, rannick.
They're running like maxprotection because they're
trying to get this playoff, buthe's clearly offside.
I want to go back and look atthe play again, you know,
because it was a great, greatfucking play and it's a shame
that that shit was called backoffside into the ball game.
But it's like, fuck ref, I'd bethe first one to say, man,

(29:06):
these red, they are whistlehappy in the league right now
and I don't like that shit.
I feel like when it comes downto into the game shit like that,
they could throw them whistlesin trash, not on some like
anything goes type shit.
You know, if it's some shitwhere it's like it is, just
punch the fuck out and they gotthe line.
Of course you know, sam notbeing ridiculous, but hey, throw

(29:28):
them whistles and you're tuckedin bitches.
Let them ball.
Let's let them ball, man.
You know, we know what I mean.
So, hey, that's what's going onthere, man.
And the other news.
Moving on to the Browns, ourguy, a franchise record, dustin
Hopkins, our kicker, set afranchise record 31 field goals

(29:50):
made in a single season, 31.
And he been smacking some longones too.
That was a 55 yarder.
I believe this dude is legit.
Now I was surprised to hearthat that was the franchise
record because you may rememberabout 14, 15 years ago we had

(30:10):
this guy named Phil Dawson,number four.
He was that dude.
He was kicking 40 yarders inblizzards and buffalo and shit.
He was that dude.
And franchise record.
And plus, you know that wasback when we couldn't get an end
zone, we had to kick.
That's all we get is threepoints.
So we can get.

(30:32):
All we can get is three goddamnpoints.
Man, 63 yards, close enough foryou.
That's good, you got it, bro.
Put your all into it.
You got it.
Put your legs You're going towear my regular leg, not for
real.
Go ahead, but no man.
So shout out to Dustin Hopkinsman man, happy you were brown.

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Moving on to basketball realquick.
Shout out to Los Angeles Lakers, first team ever to win the NBA
N-Season tournament.
Did you check out any of thetournament games.
I watched some of thetournament games and got very
confused, man.
I was locked down during COVIDand a lot of stuff changed.
So I was like hold on, theseason ended with this
tournament, shit.
Man.
I think I hit you up the nextday Like, hey, the Lakers won,

(31:17):
it's over, it's Frank's you likeRon?
They just Ron, got another ring.
They changing up shit, justbecause they get a toe ring for
this For this guy, baby toe.
But shout out to them, man.
But I saw a meme.
It said man, brian out hereballing for that $500, it's like
a billionaire balling for that$500,000.
Like, say, I ain't gonna eattonight.

(31:38):
It's like, hey, man.
But I respect what he was doing, man, because he acknowledged
even what he said after the gamewas you know, some of our
younger guys on the Timnatecontracts aren't as hefty as
some of his veteran guys.
That $500,000 is a lot to them.
Yeah, it's everything.
Yeah, they're more from thecontact you get.
That you know.
And I feel like I could bewrong.

(31:59):
I heard my nigga kind of cheap,but he said it himself.
But I feel like he may take his$500,000 and buy that up
between some of the less-to-payniggas on the Timnate.
Hey, man, that's for y'all.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, split that up$100,000 for each y'all.
Now y'all got six.
You know what I'm saying?
Go break some eggs.
Oh, happy day, go break someeggs.
But they got my, they got mybag.

(32:23):
They say this is embarrassing.
And I'm with it.
The Bronn is a winner, theultimate competitor.
My man, I ain't here poppingchampagne.
Now, look, I'm gonna have to goback and see what they got the
guy.
You know how they do with thegoggles.
Now they got the hats poppingchampagne.
I need to do some research.
Oh man, that's yeah, he got onthe tournament.

(32:44):
Yeah, the end season tournament, yeah, popping champagne.
Like this, the finals, and theylike I don't care if you look
at the product, it'sembarrassing, just because the
end season tournament is new.
It's new to us.
And we don't take it.
I'm like I was ready to get inseason, they trying to make the
early season games morecompetitive, because, I'll be

(33:04):
honest, I really don't startwatching basketball like heavy,
heavy until after the All Starbreak, or I'll say during,
because I watched the All Starshit, and then after that
because that's what it is.
Jockeying for playoff spotsyeah, you can get me to tune in
to almost any sport.
When it's really competitive,yeah, like playoffs, it's on in

(33:28):
the play.
That's when I watch basketball.
That's why I watch almost anysport, because it's like I've
heard players and I play sports.
Just Munich League I was alittle Munich League backyard
chant for a little bit, but Iknow players will throw games,
blow games, get close enoughjust to get into to the playoffs
and it's like why do I need toplay 82 games?
That's all Like season.

(33:50):
Why do I need to play 82 gameswhen I'm finished?
Fuck, now I'm ready now.
Yeah, got to get another 16wins in the playoff, yeah.
So I understand some of thewhere the competitiveness comes
in and I can understand thebusiness structure of them

(34:10):
probably saying like we're notgetting enough turnout, we're
not getting enough people comingin to watch us or even get on
TV.
Yeah, they're not turning onthe TV.
I know that's me, that's me.
But with this tournament and Icould just speak for myself it
fucking worked.
Because when I turn on the TVand I see that weird ass court,
that made my eyes hurt the firsttime I saw it it was about

(34:32):
mommy boys, he stayed.
Yeah, it was.
It was the Pacers God damncourt.
Not being biased, I thought theCavaliers had the best in
season tournament court becausethat shit looked halfway regular
.
Look normal.
The Pacers court and theNuggets, it must just be the
blue.
That's like God damn.
These niggas playing in Brazil,some shit.

(34:52):
It might be the dimensions onyour TV.
You got a pretty nice ass TV.
I keep my shit turned when it'sdark.
I turn my shit on standard andit makes it dark and nice, you
know, but that's like God damn.
Hey, you, the only fancy niggaI know that watch your TV
through the actual sentence.
Yeah, I just turned it down tothat.
If I'm playing the game withthe boys, we got the shit on
dynamic.
If I'm playing the Eva Speed, Ineed to see traffic.

(35:13):
I put that shit on dynamic.
I put you, but KJ, the one whotold me about it, man, first.
I ain't like it because I'mused to playing on the tube TV.
You just squinting on it and Ichanged my standard settings
anyway.
So here, although I put it onstandard, it's just the name of
it.
I changed that shit.
I just like contrast down.
Sharpen it down a little bit.
All right, boom, and it givesit a darker.
You can just watch itcomfortably, all right, spike

(35:34):
Lee, hey man, you know I do mything.
You don't want to got me intothe big TV's?
Niggas, fuck it.
10, 11, 12 years ago I remembermy first came to your apartment,
man over on where it was,that's all you yeah, I'm sitting
, had on a Perseus in the niggasClash of the tight Clash of the

(35:57):
tight Clash of the God Nanntight, what's up y'all?
Um, it's getting to the scenein the movie where Perseus is
going to find the Pegasus.
It's a gift to him from Zeus.
Oh, before you see Pegasus, youhear him.
You hear a horse do.
The night night I heard thatthe TV is here and I hear from

(36:26):
my left ear.
I look over, like you had thespeakers and shit.
You know what I'm saying andalthough it sounded good, that
was only coming from this way togive you kind of what, what

(36:46):
Perseus heard, all that shit.
But uh, but that shit was hard.
Man, you got me into the big TV.
We started off because I mayshow, my first big TV was LG,
because your shit was LG.
I'm like the LG.
Nigga broke out the LG.
He said they got the bestscreen.
They get that glass or Sony getthat glass for their TVs from

(37:10):
LG.
We got on the shit the salesmangot sold he's selling Going to
motherfucking BNB appliancesyeah, to the HB, that's.
That's how old I am, nigga.
I bought flat screen plasma TVsthe heaviest of bitch BNB
appliances Heavy as fuck.
They only got that bitch.
Nah, we're telling you got BNBappliances, no more.

(37:31):
Nah, the guy sold me on it, man, and it was like when I got to
see it and I'll say this is acliff note you never really get
to tell the difference.
I know the difference betweenthe TVs, like at home.
You only get to tell thedifference in the story.
In the story it's like you kindof picking, like you get to
look at 37.
These bitches at once.
Like I see it.
Yeah, you see the water drop onthe leaf.

(37:52):
You see the caterpillarcrawling.
You can hear the feet.
You can't hear caterpillar feet, but you can hear it.
With this you can just hit theapple.
You can hear an eagle's eyeblink.
Nigga, do eagles blink?
He's an A for the adult time.
She got hair on her nipples.
You can't see that.

(38:14):
No other wear.
Can't see that.
No, wear, can't see that.
Nope, nope, nope, nope.
Remember when Bad Boy Sue, whenhe turned the TV up hey, look,
I know what I did to your ass heturned that shit off.
This is at 5.1 surrounds, don'tbe digital surround, sam.
So I say this, man, when I gotinto the TVs, just on visuals,

(38:39):
man, plasma TVs was, or T-flatscreen TVs was hot, yeah for
sure, and almost everybody, theymama, was just buying the flat
screen TV.
But hang on, because before,like the standard TV, now and of
course after, I call themdinosaur TV, before the floor
model with the knobs and whatthey say, nobody's stealing this

(39:01):
motherfucker, you had sure youhad a flat screen, but you had a
fat ass on the back of thatmotherfucker too.
That's a era of TVs, early2000s.
So if we was gonna say early2000s, it was a buffy to body

(39:25):
ass type TV.
Yes, delicious, with two E's.
Delicious type of ass TV andbooty talk 35, cherokee type of
fat ass type of TV.
One of them just like why, joe,why the God bless you, like I

(39:46):
ain't even I ain't got all thatass but I'm play with, but one
of those type of things, man.
So, and that's 2000s type ofass TV, new millennium TVs, flat
screen, but fat ass Ass.
You thought you was doing thatlong ass.
Goddamn.
Remote remote.
Goddamn 14 inches long and shitLike what the fuck is remote so

(40:08):
big?
All these buttons I ain't nevergonna press.
Only person push these bitchesis the baby.
When they got the baby.
And then you got the wholeseparate bottom part for battery
sneak.
Yeah, like the whole bottompart is battery to pop a clip in
this motherfucker.
Hey, we turn challenge.
We used to do ignorant shit.
This one like cell phones thatjust came out with the cameras

(40:30):
yeah, so this is early 2000s fatback TV technology.
Cause, I tell KJ this shit too.
Like man, wi-fi is new, nigga,bluetooth is new.
Like flat screen TVs is new.
Iphones is new Okay, bro, thatshit is new.
I'm like it's new to you, it'snew to us.
Like bro, I remember havingthat one.

(40:50):
I didn't have a cell phoneuntil I was 18 and I bought it
myself.
But I remember some of myfriends having revel yeah,
having revel phones.
Having, yeah, we had revel.
They had the Nokia joints whichyou just only could play snake
on there.
I remember when you could onlyget the internet.
I remember when you had to payfor minutes.
Yeah, and you could use youstill can something.

(41:12):
Hey, call me after nine.
Yeah, my shit was after seven.
I had people playing ringtoneson the boost mobile phone and
next tail, nigga, I bought youever bought a ringtone?
Purchase a ringtone.
I bought a ringtone from littleDave.
I'm David Jefferson.
He sold ringtones off hiscomputer on Sandy First, fuck.

(41:34):
So, yeah, well, he selling themcheaper than yeah, because he
was selling them 50 cents.
Yeah, man, he was like you getlike four, fuck dollars,
something like that.
And he said you little nickelbag Back then You're getting
with the price of the potatochips.
But I bought one ringtone.
Now I didn't get.
You know, I'm saying you getT-Pain, a young jog by you would

(41:56):
drink.
I didn't get motherfuckinglaughing Tabby.
I didn't get you know sayingnone of that super popular shit.
I wanted something that wasgoing to last more than three
weeks because another song iscoming.
Okay, t-pain coming with somemost shit.
All right, him and Wayne atthat time, yeah, I mean you, you

(42:18):
, you pay this dollar for thisringtone.
Next month You're going to needanother ringtone and that's
another 99 cents.
So I got.
I was very selective with theringtone I got my mama.
She let me get you.
You need one more for ringtone.
I got.
I had to use that bitch phonecall to have messages, so I got

(42:38):
a.
I got the young bloodpresidential.
Why are we feeling president?
Yes, sir, I got the young.
What's that?
I don't know.
It's your song, bro.
You got to tell me what we ride, what we ride Big wheels, big
wheels, and talking hard likethis.
You got to fact check that.
What we train.
I think that I think that might, that might be man, might be

(43:00):
what you?
That's the one I got Playingabout that dollar.
I didn't want it, I didn't wantmy ringtone to lose fuel and I
wanted my shit to be able to golike oh, you got that, yeah,
that that wouldn't go last.
Like, now you get a ringtone IfI, if my phone ring and I got
some hour ring on it, I thinkshe's gonna last forever.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But if I'm getting some newshit the song that just came out

(43:21):
a day ago and it's number one,number two on 106 and Park
climbing the charts or whateverI'm gonna need enough from
another ringtone that remind me.
That's the ringtone I selectedand I used to record them,
bitches.
On my phone.
My shit is sound good as fuck.
I was recording the bitchesthrough some denim jeans so you
wouldn't get all that airblowing, yeah, through the denim
.
I turned the volume up on theradio just loud enough, rather

(43:44):
be from a radio CD.
Whichever one I recorded, Istopped it just until I got
Georgia by a ludicrous and feelmy that shit.
My ringtones was hard.
I should have been selling them, bitches.
I was keeping them for me.
I had some million thatringtones.
I be coming down my textmessage ring.
I recorded that job was still anigga, if they knew, don't get

(44:07):
me started online.
You had your bo jeans too.
You know, I had some bo jeans.
Man Bitch was too big, mybrother couldn't fit them.
Let me get it.
I got some rocker.
Wear the 2000s Sean John longass t-shirt.
That far you couldn't just haveregular ass t-shirt.
You know you couldn't just comewith some fruit alone.
You can't have Hanes on.

(44:28):
As much as we fuck with Jordan.
You can't just rock a Hanest-shirt.
Nigga had to be some shit.
Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
See, I remember that's justgoing back 2000s.
Man Iverson was the nigga too,yeah, so if you had hair.
You tried to go ahead and getsome Irish braids.
Yeah, you get them joints putin.
If you had that, if you alreadyhad it hair, you was in the game

(44:51):
.
All you got to throw on isfunny enough, because if you had
hair, you need to do rag tocover the hair.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,you'll get the y'all smarter of
it.
And nigga, you don't hoot, butnigga, throw on some wristbands.
Be, nelly, like a motherfucker.
Some wristbands Throw a bandaidon your face, a jersey on
backwards, that's it.

(45:11):
That's it.
You didn't have a ball.
We in the game, just standthere.
You know, oh, and always thefresh ones, always Big ass
shabos.
Throw you on like a throwback,yeah, and like a do rag to match
, nigga.
And maybe like a little Nikewristband, that's it.
Get you with like a G-Shockwatch, put it on the wristband.
Yeah, put the watch on thewristband.
Nigga, two watches.

(45:31):
I seen Gucci do them like whyyou need to know what the fuck?
You ain't got a phone, it's a.
Listen, motherfucker, watch iton there.
He said this is my time.
This is where my big mama at,this is where she at With 2000s
best.
So I get that info to KJ likehey, nigga, a lot of this shit

(45:52):
is new.
My nigga, this is new.
So when he says shit like dadback in the 1900s, nigga, you
not wrong, but nigga, that ain'tthat old.
Nigga, don't say that Back whenwe were sharecroppers, right,
he remember when he asked mewhen I was our slave, he's like

(46:13):
you work like hard.
Nigga, I wasn't there.
Hey man, you know low.
Uh, so I shared with youearlier my shared a playlist
with him, right, and I don'tthink I ever he see my CDs and
shit sitting up on the thing,but I don't think he knew, like,
what I had.
So when he see me pulling outyou know some shit, he had

(46:36):
recognized some Drake shit, someJ Cole shit.
I got plenty of bone shit, butI'm pulling out my CD.
I'm missing two J Cole CD.
I was hot like a motherfucker.
I was missing his first album,cold World, scyline Story, and I

(46:58):
was missing for your eyes onlyI was hot in the motherfucker
and I'm like hey, man, with myshit ax law, I swear I was so
hot.
I'm like man because I alreadyover time, I got two DVDs
missing immortal, that movie,theseus, and Transformers, dark

(47:25):
of the Moon.
That's one of my favorite.
I'm still them, still missing.
But at that point I'm missingtwo J Cole CDs and I'm like, hey
, what the fuck man?
I turned into a goddamn dancehollering up to me Fuck man,
fuck my shit out, man.
What's your?
That man?
What the hell?
I'm about to start callingnigga, like, hey, man, you got
my CD.
You, what the fuck?
Going on, I end up finding them.
I must have just overlooked.

(47:46):
I end up finding them.
Straight dad shit.
I about to say he had a dadmoment, like he about to shut
down all that shit about to go.
We say I'm canceling Christmas.
So till I get my shit?
No, I don't know, don't go bywhen I want the same one fucking
one, my shit.
Better say motherfucking 2011on the back, mashin Serios.
I don't want no re-release,reprinted shit.

(48:07):
No, I want the original.
We say no digitally remasteredshit.
None of that.
I want my shit to sound nasty,wrong.
But I find them and good job,brother, I give it to him.
So he's like dad, can I openthis?
I'm like, yeah, man, go ahead,I'm gonna check out the bug
inside my man.
He's a new ass nigga.

(48:27):
He ain't know how to open this.
He ain't know how to open theCD.
My nigga trying to pull thebitch from the top, from the
sides.
He's like dad.
He's so serious, like dad, howyou open this.
He opened it like a book Like,but you know it's a little you

(48:47):
gotta kind of hop it a littlebit.
You know your hands need to bein like this, like you holding a
small watermelon that's how youneed to be and just pop the biz
over.
He's like how you open this.
He was saying this kind of cameto like and he's so new to
Earth.
Yeah, my nigga G, he's so newto Earth man, but understanding

(49:08):
me, so he's probably neveropened a CD.
Don't know what the CD is Acompact disc.
So this reminds me wild as shitever.
And when I slid the book out,the mother fucker man I was
boogin' here was he like thelyrics.
Sometimes you got lyrics andI'm just on some piss-and-art
work and he lookin' at this oldJ Cole albums and shit.

(49:32):
You know what I'm sayin', man.
That's when it's 2010, 11.
Somewhere out there that firstalbum, and not as old as you may
think, man, what you got for me.
So you know, I always got my KJstory Smell.
Got to have him.
Need to make that actually asegment.
Man, Shout out to my son Readthem speakers, if you have

(49:54):
children, god bless you.
Yeah, man, they make you haveto parent extra hard some days,
man, and my son does that for mesometimes, but it's a challenge
that I love on some goofy shit.
So my man, I had told him oneday I was carrying in I'm on my
dad's shit and I'm carrying insome boxes and groceries and

(50:16):
stuff, and I'm like, hey, man,get the ass keys out and unlock
the door.
And he didn't know.
Like first in his defense, hedidn't know which key, but I'm
walking him through.
I got hey man, this is the key,use that and unlock the door.
He grabbed the key and didn'tknow how to put the key in the
hole.
And once I'm like no man, justslow man, it'll go right on him.

(50:42):
Man, it's made to go right onhim.
He was able to do it.
And then he was like the doordidn't open.
I'm like, oh, yeah, my nigga.
Never he's so new.
Yeah, I'm like man, first I'mabout to get angry, like as the
bag's getting heavy and shit.
I'm hey, nigga.
Hey man, turn it to the left,turn it all the way to the left.

(51:07):
You're going to feel what itwas.
You're going to turn it to theleft and bring it back to the
right all the way and then bringit back to where you started
and then it should open.
But I'm like I can't evenremember what the formula is,
because I've been opening keys.
You just do.
It's just second nature, it'sjust one of them.
You can do that bitch with thephone, yeah, but I'm like I

(51:27):
don't want to assault my babybecause he don't know, but I'm,
he knew, he just got here.
I'm like amen here, hold thismilk, god damn it.
Hold this, don't drop it, don'tdrop this shit.
But was able to unlock the doorand then let us in the house and
I'm furious because I'mstruggling now.
Hold the bags, they have methrough the bitch.

(51:48):
And you know, dad, we just onetake, that's it.
It's one take.
If I got to say something twice, you're getting the holiday,
hey man.
So I carried in the bags andthen I just had to sit them down
and look at them Like amen,amen, you ain't never opened no
door before.
You never unlocked no doorbefore.
He was like no, you guys arealways here.
He likes it, but I'm like whatyou give for having a good daddy

(52:11):
.
Yeah, you're fucking right, man, you're coming in the right.
Let me show you You're right.
Let me show you how You'regoing to need this man, because
You're going to need this.
It just shows the gap.
Man, yeah, man, I'm like man.
My baby don't know how tounlock the door.
He just don't need to unlock itfrom the inside.
Man, my baby couldn't get itfrom the outside.
Amen Got to teach him thesimple thing it's our fault.

(52:34):
It's our fault, yeah, becausewe make it too easy for him.
We make it too easy and notjust us, but society as well.
We didn't invent motherfuckingiPods and shit.
It wasn't us.
They got shit.
You could buzz yourself intoyour own house.
Yeah, like I'll tell you what.
Man, I was driving my mom's carand I took her to the airport.

(52:59):
She already had her bags andshit in her car.
So, boom, drop her off her car.
Park her car in my house forthe weekend.
What's up?
My, oh, I got frustrated as Iwas driving her vehicle because
me and Lola wanted to go with me.
We dropped off Grandma.
I called her Grandma when I wasspeaking to Ms Bony with you,

(53:21):
stop.
He was hungry so we stopped andgot him some chicken.
That shit was discussed andnever going back there.
I'm not mentioning your namefor two reasons for y'all and
for us.
I get back in the car.
The keys are in my pocket.
So I got to open the door andI'm like, oh shit.
Usually, you know, you put yourhand on the handle with the
open on up, you do your thing.

(53:41):
So now I'm like, oh shit, I hadto stick my hand in my pocket
to push the button.
I didn't take the keys out.
I stick my hand, in feel, forthe button, clink, clink, unlock
, right.
I open the door.
I get in.
Now I find myself once again ohshit, god damn kid.
I take the key out my pocket,stick it in ignition and turn

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them.
Now this, I sound like a newnigga.
I sound like I just got hereLike you don't know what you
doing, because now I'm used to.
I'm going to drive my wife'scar for a little bit now, so
it's been her car, do that fancyshit?
And I'm calling it fancy Likelook, this shit is regular.

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Now you know what I'm saying.
But I find myself gettingfrustrated Like, oh shit, I got
to take the key out my pocketand put it in shit and turn it
and fucking ah, it's R for it'sR fucking fault, man.
But hey, I think you got mebeat man to turn the key thing

(54:44):
and not knowing how to open theCD, that shit wild.
Yeah, that's wild man, becauseI legit I probably looked at him
the same way you looked at KJman, like you know, you're a new
mother, you don't know how toopen the CD, just pop it over.
Yeah, yeah, man, it was onethumb up, one thumb down.

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They have.
They're growing up in adifferent time than we are and I
love that.
I get to teach little smallthings like that after I get to
realize like, hey, you, youdidn't live in the 1900s.
You know what, bro?
You know what else we did here.
You know what else we got toteach?

(55:27):
What was that?
Just something that I justthought of.
We got to teach them how tolight a grill.
Oh for sure.
Teach them how to stack themcoals, because we, we, we
propane that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Idon't, I don't have the, but
you can't.
You can't go to propane if youdon't know how to work.
You got graduate status, yeah,so yeah, you got to stack them
up.

(55:48):
Let let, let let that smoke alittle bit with the flow on the
house.
Season your meat up or whateveryou go.
Hey, watch a little bit of gang.
You don't like these coals up,let them burn.
Rake them up, even them out.
Now they burning.
Oh, yeah, you cooking withgrease.
Now we hot now, yeah, youcooking with the.
Get you a little stick.
Yeah, if you ever, hey, movethese coals over here, turn it.
She gets one black on theinside, turn it so it's red.

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I mean, move it over here tothese red ones, get that fire
going.
Get that fire going.
Get that fire going.
But you know what we got to do.
Somebody else on it say youknow how to move from the red
sticks together real fast.
Yeah, and KKJ and boys got us.
So they teaching them that theydo that type of shit.
That's hard.
They teach them that.
I mean, they teach them how tosolder pipe, tie knots and
solder pipe.
Yeah, I was over there watchingbut they had a.
They don't even solder, no more.

(56:28):
It fucking Mr Plummer in themix.
No, but it is.
They use that motherfuckingmachine, that jaws of life.
Yeah, tramp, joint, squeeze thefuck out of them.
But soldering pipe is a, it's a.
It's a lost art, but it is they.
He showed like I mean, grind itdown, you clean out the burrs,
polish it up.
He's like you feed it on thereand then you take the little

(56:49):
torch and melt it and you justbreak it, make, break it across
and just let it drip, but that'sit, man, and then it let it
cool down.
But then that's how you solderthe pipe.
That was it I'm like.
But that ain't that hard.
I ain't never even started apipe.
I ain't even.
I ain't even, I ain't even, Iain't started.
Even when it came to cuttingthe pipe, they got by a little

(57:11):
device and pop that bitch on.
You just twisted, is it?
I don't think it's working.
Oh shit, that make it too easyfor us.
So we victims of this shit tooyeah, because a lot of shit is
is much easier For us.
Now.
It's a lot of shit we ain't gotto.

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Which brings me into this.
Man, I know we, I know we geton the kids a lot about stuff
they didn't know, stuff that'snew to them, that we kind of
always get on them about like.
You ain't got to do this, youain't shit.
When we stepped into beinghomeowners, it was shit that we
just didn't know, man.
So wake up, call Freedom ofspeakers, man.
So we want to ask both of us ashomeowners.

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We like to promotehomeownership is.
A lot of great benefits thatcome along with it.
A lot of go by our house.
Yeah, yeah, it's what he'ssaying.
You, you be you, if you do itright or understand to get you a
good, you know a good, a goodhome inspector.
You can check out Mikey Vating,cleveland home inspector, very
much.

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So he got a lot about to say,solid inspection solutions.
There's a lot of them.
But Cleveland Ohio man, mostdefinitely go check out Mikey
Vating at home inspections.
He's been able to give you goodrates, good things.
I am a client of his actually,so to be able to give you a good
rate.
If you say I sent you, youmight not get no deal, but it'll

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help.
Let it help out.
Oh, I don't know him, yeah,anyway.
Anyway, you got a crack in thefoundation here Now.
Look ain't no problem, come onwith this level.
But when he got the also he hasthe contract and company.
So for different things thathe's able to find and see that
is going on with your property,is able to give you a really
good competitive rate to be ableto fix them.
So reach out to Mikey Vating atCleveland home inspections.

(58:53):
I'm going to call you from adriveway, bro, yeah, so, so for
sure, man.
So I'm having a home inspectionfor me and I got two home
inspections.
The first home inspection I gotwas with the realtor and I
learned just in real estate nowa little bit that the realtor
and the home inspector normallywork together.
They kind of kind of push thatfast.
So, freedom speakers, if you arelooking to purchase a home, I

(59:16):
wouldn't state is negative to gowith the home inspector that
the realtor suggests.
But I would suggest from my ownexperience, find your own so
that there is no bias there,potentially any bias there.
So you can't even get to know.
You can get as many thingsspectacular you want.
You just got to pay for the payfor more.
Yes, but if you want them to bethere like tomorrow, go with

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your realtor's guy.
But if you a little weary andyou want to get somebody you can
trust, go ahead and pay for anoutside inspection, because you
know sometimes a go, like thatinspector is working with his
realtor to hurry up and get themup.
I can tell you.
However, if you a little wearyand I actually trusted the guy
who expected our home I walkedthrough with him Because one
thing I didn't know is I thoughthe was just jotting down like

(01:00:00):
big shit, oh, the rooffoundation, he's got them,
windows and shit.
And he was like, yeah, see theway this door for the bathroom
doesn't latch all the way.
Yeah, that's a problem, got tofix this.
Like, give a fuck about that,give a shit, I want leaks.
Walking here at your own risk,right, right, yeah, man, so
learning that just not just theownership of the home, of the

(01:00:25):
finances, you being able to geta home equity line of credit to
be able to fix up the home andput down more than 20%, things
of that nature, but, just as meand you talked about before like
amen, you gon, you are going tohave to upgrade your
motherfucking tools.
Yeah, all right, you know it'sgoing to be the luxury that you

(01:00:45):
have as a tenant, as renting, ofbeing able to pass the
responsibility or a book off tosomebody else of, hey, my stuff
broke.
Yeah, what you gonna do aboutit.
What's up?
This need to be fixed.
I need my car to clean.
He's like I got somebody to manbefore we got the house.
Man, I have something to do.
I had some tools.

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I had a tool bag.
I had a tool bag that wasgifted to me.
I appreciated I was actuallygiving also some, some, some
craftsmen tools that while inthe apartment was fucking used
to.
I have these.
I had no use for thesemotherfuckers.
I don't even know Me and shehave tools, right, yeah.

(01:01:26):
But now, being a homeownergoing on four years 2024, I have
.
I still have that tool bag,which is a lot more for now.
I have a fat ass toolbox.
I had to upgrade motherfuckinglike a double decker toolbox and
then you can take that part out.
It's more shit under there,then it's more shit and then

(01:01:47):
it's little compartments on thetop, while my screws and you
know you always just got someextra drywall anchors and shit,
yeah, extrinship you puttogether.
You don't.
You ain't use all the toolsPower tools, extension cores,
fucking brushless drills,compact drills, motherfucking
levelers and shit Impact drivers, air compressors, air compress

(01:02:10):
I had.
I remember you told me it waslike man.
Hey man, you sound like meBecause I had what I had to do.
What did I need air compressorfor?
For the goddamn nail guns.
Yeah, I was like, bro you man.
Hey man, work smart.
Yeah, but it got there.
So I'm looking in my goofy ass,man, and not doing much research
.
I'm trying to cheap out mystupid ass.
I went and got a goddamn airtank, like I'm about to blow a

(01:02:34):
fucking blow.
Yeah, even if you got to dothat, you're done.
So I'll go to the gas.
I fill it up, I fill it up, Ihook it up to my micro.
I had the micro pin nailer.
I hook it into my micro pinnailer.
Ok, now my tank need to be atabout what was it?
My tool need to operate between100 and 110.

(01:02:57):
Psi, psi.
Ok, I fill up my tank.
As soon as I let off, a coupleof that bitch is down, just
fucking.
I'm like shit, shit, my shit,my shit ain't Busting like it
did a couple of times.
Fuck man, I got to go back andfill this bitch up.

(01:03:18):
Hell, no, I wrapped that bitchback up, left the air out,
wrapped that bitch, I taped it,made it look bad.
Yeah, I'm returning this.
And when it got me.
It went to the harbor freightShout out to them when it got me
a compressor.
It wasn't too expensive.
I think I got the.
What I got the, the.
The fire got in the joint, butit's a nice compressor, man, I'm

(01:03:39):
able to break it out, did someresearch on how to take care of
it, you know, and I had to getyou know separately.
You got to get.
I got the kit that had prettymuch everything you ever
motherfucking need.
Yeah, in there it was like $11for the kit, now the compressor.
But it got the kit.
It had holes which you want toreplace your holes depends on
how much you're using it to.
You want to pray?

(01:03:59):
You, you can't develop a, acracking your holes, letting
your air out, you know.
But um, especially if you don'tkeep your holes in line, got to
keep your holes in line.
Keep them holes in line, causeyour holes can't be nailing.
But um, but now man had to, hadto develop, develop a bag,
develop a bag of tools and a bag.

(01:04:22):
As far as knowledge and what Icould do, I got.
I graduated from YouTubeuniversity.
Mm-hmm, you actually referredme to them.
I ain't man, you do, you do,and I ended up finding the guy.
I wish I knew his name off topof my head man.
But everything I looked up Eve.
I can have a video for her.

(01:04:43):
So anytime I see him, yep, didmy dog right here I'm looking at
her.
That's how you do it.
All right, he know what hetalking about.
They got that when I, when I dothe deck this spring, he got a
video, for that's how I look.
Make sure I got the right shit.
Once you got the right tools,you halfway there, yeah.
And now, remember that was oneof the things we talked about,
man, in our journey offatherhood and craftsmanship,

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like taking on the home.
So, like I said, the tenant,the renter, they got the luxury
of passing that book for thatresponsibility with us, we got
to pull out the tool bag and trysome things ourselves.
Might have to fuck up, might,yeah, might have to fuck up,
yeah.
So you got to either try somethings yourself or you might
want to be calling themprofessional.

(01:05:27):
You got a car.
I remember we had a leak comingfrom.
It was coming from the shower.
For a while.
We had to take real quickshower.
You got four and a half minutes.
We'll be done.
Don't be letting that walk runshit.
Get the major spots, let's fuckup.
Had to be real quick with it,man.
So the shower upstairs to beleaking down into down there you
can see it because it's anopening for the cabinet where

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all the access to the pipes andshit and it wasn't like pouring
leaking, but it was, but thatshould have added up.
It was like I got a damn waterand shit.
I go to try to fix the shitmyself in which I could, but it
was such an awkward I can't fixthe shit.
I cut this off and I get Me andmy brother.

(01:06:11):
We ended up cutting the pipewall because we knew where it
was leaking from.
And I'm cutting the pipe offwhen got some shark bite.
You know if it was fixed theshit up, in which they don't
suggest putting shark biteinside your wall because they're
expected to fail at some pointand you're not going to know it
failed until you got some waterseeping.
The fuck is water coming fromthat damn 10 year old shark bite

(01:06:34):
.
You asked, yeah, yeah, yeah,yeah, but we was going to use
the shark bite.
At least I could see it.
So if I did something wrong, oh, that's a shark bite.
But, man, I guess we had to cutoff that much pipe because
otherwise we wouldn't be able toget the fucking bite on there.
You know what I'm saying, bro.
I ended up calling Rode Ruderand the lady is such a nice

(01:06:58):
place, she answered the phone.
Thank you for calling RodeRuder, I may help you.
All I could say was I need somehelp.
That's literally what I said.
She kind of chuckled a littlebit.
What seems to be the problem,sir?
She just piped me in thekitchen.
I tried to fix it, but that'sall I knew what to say.

(01:07:18):
I wasn't prepared on.
Yes, I was seeing if we can geta 10 inch an hour here.
None of that shit.
I may help you, I need help.
Just had to be humble in thatmoment.
I fucked up.
Right now, man, help me, helpme, please.
They gave me and Mika a freegoddamn camera inspection
because we were calling them.
I had to call them out so much.

(01:07:39):
They was like yeah, y'all hasbeen like $100 with us the last
two weeks.
We're going to do this, y'allfree.
Yeah, you earned this, but justfor them to do the shit with
the camera, that's $400.
You know what I'm saying, but itended up finding Damage in the.

(01:07:59):
I think I told you about thisshit Finding damage in the drain
pipe underneath the house.
It's completely damaged.
So everything from a certainpoint is actually right
underneath the family room.
So when I did the gutters, Ijust don't send water down there
.
That's that shit, niggas.

(01:08:20):
I just rerouted water, so nowall the water, all the water
that falls on the back of thehouse goes all the way across
down the garage, down thefucking driveway, into the
street.
I don't send water down there.
So you know, and that washappening in the water and I was

(01:08:40):
into the bullshit.
That's the shit, man.
I love it.
I'll take that back.
I like it a lot.
I like it when I'm doing good,like you're waiting home on, or,
yeah, like no, having to fixthe shit.
Oh, yeah, because it's nice,you know, like being here.
Yeah, my dad fixed it.
Can I help that?
Yeah, man, come on, hand me theYep, hand me the right, give me

(01:09:02):
the big one.
I need the big one.
Yep, let me get that.
Hand it to me, all right, and Iused to watch you do shit.
You know my daughter's in therelooking.
You know what I'm saying youknow what they say.
You're the.
You're the example.
Yeah, for sure, you're theexample for your sons.
You're the role model for yourdaughters.
You're the example they'relooking at what a man should be,
and part of that, a piece ofthat, is Fix the shit.

(01:09:26):
Yeah, you got to be a fixer anda problem solver.
Yeah, we're bearing shit.
I remember these ladies betripping man.
They said it's something abouta man having triple A.
That's real feminine to me.
Like, get the fuck out.
Who said that?
They just bet.
I feel like a man eating crablegs and suspect all kind of
goofy shit.
They be said, but they be wildin a certain shit.

(01:09:49):
But like, in a way, you know,if you like, what's going to
happen.
Ok, you get a flat tire on theroad, what you going to do?
I'm calling insurance, gotinsurance that you know how
dangerous it is for me to riskmy life without the proper to
particularly to fix a fuckingflat tire on the truck.
I got white pants on the outfit, the outfit bra.

(01:10:13):
I ain't tripping on that.
It's like new shit clothes.
I changed his tire, but naked.
However, on the side of the roadtrucks and a man this triple A
part.
This is why I pay for this.
That's an insurance man.
How was you know what's fuckedup?
Women who stuck on the side ofthe fucking road and they got
nobody to call but a familymotherfucker.
But they got four, five niggas,niggas in a phone.

(01:10:34):
Delete all the niggas numbers.
So it was one of them.
Like amen, you, you calling who, you, who you know responsible,
you, these other catches justfun to play with.
Like no, they got to.
They got to find you somehybrids, got no, some shit, yeah
, man.
So as we talked about man as the, when we moved into our home
and fixing on stuff, man, likethat became a skill, not just

(01:10:56):
with the twos, but like mentally, like how do I fix that?
How do I problem solve?
How do I get myself out ofbullshit?
But getting to see that with,with, with family and friends,
of, like your relationships, of,and things that we want to
teach to our kids of.
I want to teach KJ how toproblem solve, teach him how to

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work with tools, teach him howto work his hands, use his hands
, get his motor skills together,but also want to teach him how
to problem solve of like it's OKTo say no to certain things.
Man, problem solve.
Oh, this has happened.
Ok, how do you resolve it?
How do you fix it?
Or you didn't say something.
You know to apologize.
That's that's a good way to getproblems off.
For sure, you know what I'msaying.
You know how to shut the fuckup.

(01:11:36):
That's a good way to not startproblems.
That's awesome.
I'm like.
At the same time, do you knowhow to speak up?
Because you can, you can, youcan problem come start, because
you never said nothing but justkind of teaching him just the
art of it, more than just.
I got my tools from HarborFreight, which for the DIYer at
home, I swear mom, go get you,get the shit you need.

(01:11:59):
But if, if crafting is yourlivelihood, you might want to
get you some top upper gradeequipment just because I'm not a
craftsman in that.
But I get to hear just when Icarry in my two bag, you got to
hurt me.
They had them a walkie shit.
Yeah, I'm walking like shit,right, I'm like my shit ain't

(01:12:21):
falling, my project ain'tfalling apart Straight up.
Fuck you, but it's one of themlike hey man, so I get it a
problem.
So when I get it of, just, justdon't, don't.
It's too beautiful to be onething man, to teach him multiple
things, man, and even teachinghim not.
What's crazy is teaching himhow to defend himself a little

(01:12:41):
bit from roasting.
So, freedom speakers, if youdid not know, man, I have locks,
my wife has locked and my sonwants to step into the lock room
and my baby boy has, uh, free,his free form in locks.
So KJ wants to step into locksand he has, like the they call

(01:13:03):
him worms, as in his kid, hisphase, like when they knew they
call them worms and he was likedad, how long is it going to
take for my hair to lock up?
This son will teach youpatience.
Okay, you can't.
You're going to be handsometomorrow.
I can't add this conversationbecause what I do?
I've seen pictures of myselfrecently.

(01:13:25):
I be sawed as fuck.
I cut my hair like that andwhatever, I don't care.
And you threw him away, man.
You could have, like, yeah,sold him back in.
That's the beautiful thingabout hair.
It's like a plant for real.
You can just put it back inyour shit and it just fruits and
berries and nutrients and shit.
But that's a while.

(01:13:45):
That being said, man, I spoketo him, just, you know, just
little shit man, little problemsolving things, how to deal with
family, how to deal withsiblings, how to it's okay to
say no, it's okay to putyourself first, and just little
gems I give them.
I mean, so, uh, bringing itfull circle.
Another part of my weekend waswhen I had to really recalibrate

(01:14:06):
, like Saturday, friday, kind oflike almost a whole week,
because the previous weekend,man, I was, uh, you know,
becoming to my family, runningout, helping them, just because
I can, but I also, at the sametime, me putting other people
first gives them a subconsciousthat I'm okay with being last
and I'm not.
I'm rightfully and modestly tostart, but I believe in shared

(01:14:30):
responsibility, I believe inshared spotlight, I believe in
it ain't just me, that's toomuch pressure, it's too much
pressure man.
So, me kind of being there forthem, I needed that recharge of
helping them out and, um, I gotto discount myself from helping
my mother move.
I paid for some movers to uh tocome through and help her move

(01:14:52):
and, due to all of the itemsthat my mother have, uh, they
gave me a hoarding discount.
Yeah, yeah, it was, it wasn't a, it was.
I thought that shit would bemore.
No, it was kind of like afterso many hours, bruh, I was like,
nah, we got you, we got you, wegot you, we got you.
So the young cat who wasleading the charge on a helping

(01:15:14):
move he young dude, earlytwenties man you could tell he's
social media, social mediaperson, grew up in the social
media was already popping whenhe got here, so I could see him
recording the apartment of allthe stuff that he had to.
You know, seeing that's the waytechnology work, you got to
send that to like his managementLike oh, look at this.

(01:15:35):
So that exact statement is likehey, I know he sent that to his
manager because that's just apart of the job description, but
that looked like a fuckingsocial media post, like another
fucked up day at work.
Manifest lot, nigga, manifestlot.
This ain't no one bedroom.
Yeah, it's bloody, this stuff.

(01:15:56):
Don't have bedrooms in this one.
Don't be a whiskey 90.
I've been tapping into tequilatoo, the respicado and the nail
stronger.
It's like a blend between it tome, man, and I like it, though,
but I'm most definitely goingto tap into the arts of tasting.
I got you something, man?
A gift for me?

(01:16:16):
I ain't got it today.
It's a Christmas gift, and do Igot to wrap it, man?
All you're going to do isunwrap it.
I feel like it's the waste oftime.
Do you like your pussy fresh,unwrapped or just bad?
You like to pull it out?
Take a little bit off.
I like mine.

(01:16:37):
Just wait, niggy, you don'tknow rap.
No gift for me.
I don't like my shit's rap.
I like my pussy's out.
I'm like, yeah, getting somecirculation.
Sometimes it's nice to have alittle bit of unwrapped gift.
You ain't got a sharing name,niggy, just give me the gift.
But you're going to like it,man, you're going to like it.
I saw it.
I actually want one.
They had two.
I'm going to get two.
I'm like, yeah, but I'm goingto keep that.

(01:17:00):
Go get another one.
It's another one.
I'm like get him that gift.
I'm going to get it to him.
But that's how it was with themoon man.
Oh yeah, space buddy.
Yeah, but that was easy to get.
That was ordering online.
This was like it only had 200videos up there.
You should have got both, Iknow.
Thank you, sister, you shouldhave got both.

(01:17:21):
You should have got both.
Niggy, go back and give it.
Okay, I'm going to put it likethis Technically when I put it
in the cart for my new niggas onearth, I mean a real cart that
you push in the store, notdigital, not the Amazon cart.
But when I put it in the cart,it was for me by the time I
checked out, because you knowI'm the type of nigga I start

(01:17:43):
putting shit back.
I fuck these up Next time myfeet.
Yeah, I'm all right.
By the time I'm like I'm goingto get this chair.
He a fuck with this.
Then I start thinking like Ishould go get that other one
though, because I really likethis one.
But but I think you're going tofuck with it though.
You go fuck with it.

(01:18:04):
Sure, I'm really sharing giftsand sharing things, man.
I got you again.
What Yep, yep?
Remember, we sprinkle giftsthroughout each other throughout
the year.
Listen, just a little.
Hey, man, I think you wouldlike that.
Yeah, because I know at home weboth man, we like to.
We handle fixing shit andmaking shit hang together.

(01:18:26):
Our wives are really good atlike the decor and drapes, and
yeah, even that I remember.
Just like I'm not gonna do that.
Yes, I know you'd be listeningto.
I ain't over this story righthere.
I remember she kept doubting meone time when I was fixing shit
and how she like, did youreally think you know what
you're doing?
Man, I hate this shit.

(01:18:47):
I said I did not know, but Iwatched YouTube University
enough and I am trying.
I like that shit.
I am trying Liga, bring her assaround.
It's supposed to look like that.
Do I look finished?
Do I make every action thatwhen you doing your fucking hair
, when you doing your makeupmakeup, when you trying on
clothes, as opposed to look likethat, you finished.
I suppose we loose like that.
I'm just saying, all right, themagazine only like that.

(01:19:09):
They'll come with body in that.
You in here trying to HGT,critique my shit like that.
But so, that being said, man isyou know it's.
It's like, hey, man, come withproblems, offer.
I'm trying to figure this out,let me try.
I did the numbers.
It's cheaper to buy the toolsand try myself and be calling
somebody out here and then Igotta pay them to come, they

(01:19:31):
gotta pay them to fix it andthat's two different fees.
So no, but I got grass, got toknow, so I know, when it comes
to that man, we we share.
We show each other with giftsand we give each other our
flowers as many times as wepossibly can.
Just true, just because, man, weknow it's a, it's a, it's a
healthy, it's a space needed forthat.

(01:19:52):
There's a space needed for usto be able to have the male
camaraderie, laugh, joke, talk,be able to have a safe space
where we get to verbally letloose and speak freely and kind
of let down our hair of thepositions that we hold, man, and
the key points of them are.
The key ones are the family man.

(01:20:13):
That's every, every position upunder there, son, that you cook
, but everything to be familyman.
The business man of like, hey,man, how I make the money,
that's my job, that's my career.
You understand everything Iplay in there of a.
Today I'm gonna be the boss, butlater on tonight I'm gonna
sweep the floor.
I'm gonna sweep the floor to bethe janitor to me.

(01:20:34):
I gotta go help somebody at thesite.
Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and bea caregiver on him.
Gonna be tapping my ST and thata little bit.
I gotta draw.
That will be a trans boy gottadrive and do that I gotta figure
out.
I gotta fix some shit.
Yeah, I'm gonna be mechanic for20 minutes like be a craftsman.
Come through, man, soappreciate hanging up those TVs.

(01:20:56):
The other day at the site Icame in like everybody this is a
good, everybody moving here,everybody getting shithanded man
.
But thank you for that.
I just hope them bitches stillup there in 90 days.
What you do.
No, they're good.
I know how to monitor people.
I just never done it before.
No, what anchors you do?
The ones that came with thewhat's not?

(01:21:18):
You got a draw.
And then the one, yeah, well,the one.
I only did one.
Technically that was in thestud, but I was sure the first
time.
But I'm, by the essence, outthere right here.
Somebody.
Look like I already put someshit here.
I'm gonna go a little higher.
And when she started, you feelthe stud, you feel the stud.

(01:21:40):
But for them little tiny assand a little shit, you probably
good, just dry water, yeah.
But I say, but I'm a little bitas well, I go get the 75 pound
anchor, draw all anchors, thechain, heavy as teeth, heavy as
pictures and shit, yeah, but uh,but yeah, man.
So freedom speakers.
I like to give my bro host aportion of his flowers today,

(01:22:03):
when I would like for people toreally kind of hear some origin
of me and his man.
Before we became businessmentogether, we were just just
brothers hanging out, kicking itto in for show man, hanging out

(01:22:24):
, kicking in, enjoying thisnewfound freedom of being, you
know, 1819, 20, getting your ownspot, getting your own car,
just a little level ofresponsibility, man.
So as we both started to growas men and step into more to
these rooms, these roles, I'llsay as family men, businessmen

(01:22:48):
and entrepreneurship, we had toreally learn that we needed to
lean on each other.
And it's a cold world out herefor men if nobody ever really
told y'all it's a, they can bevery cold.
And for most men, for black menespecially cuz I'm black and
that's only way I could reallyspeak from is the world doesn't

(01:23:13):
care about us and doesn't loveus, and that's really probably
not set enough.
And if that man, that black man, but that man doesn't have a
good relationship with hismother or a good relationship
with his woman, the world reallydoes become a very, very lonely
place for him.
Okay, so you know, with thatbeing said, when we stepped into

(01:23:36):
these places, of having to dealwith the challenges of the
world.
The challenges were growingwithin your relationship.
The challenges are growingwithin just your role in your
family.
We kind of got to see whereyour alliance starts to lie and
where you really needed to kindof focus some energy at.

(01:23:57):
So me and Lois, we reallyactually started to lean on each
other and find our ownsimilarities with each other.
We both big and little brothers, both grew up with a sense of
urgency to be good men, kind of.
Both grew up without thatfather figure of our own DNA.

(01:24:20):
In house we grow my babies.
My grandma love me.
We talk all the time, all thetime, but my grandma she bragged
by me to people.
That's why they don't like mecouldn't tell her shit about me.
My grandma baby we both have.
Our sons are the same age.
Our first boys are the same age.
They both are juniors.

(01:24:41):
But a lot of similarities thatI can go down the line with.
And we even crossed hairs withbusinesses where it even brings
us to where we are now.
So a conversation that both ofus had to have with each other
and the gist of it is two kingshad to put ego and pride aside

(01:25:03):
and be it not for ourselves, butfor our families, for
everything that we're looking topush and move.
We needed to be able to speakfreely with one another of like
this is really what I need, thisis what has to be had and said.
This is, you know, just a inthe simplest way I can put it,

(01:25:29):
man, we had to take ego andpride and put that shit to the
side.
We had to make sure that whatwe were asking for was fair and
we had to make sure we wasputting just as much work in on
the back end of what we wasasking for and with us being
able to have that conversation.
Man, it was a tight bond thatwas created of leadership

(01:25:51):
amongst us.
You know a hierarchy amongst usof men of like, hey, man, I'm
not in here trying to stump overyou, I'm not in here trying to
disrespect you, I'm not evenhere, even trying to place a
hierarchy Is.
I'm in here and learning aswell as you.
This is my first time in thisposition of being a leader and
everybody is really following mydynamic, following my rule and

(01:26:13):
is.
Am I telling them correctly?
And is everybody carrying out?
Like remember, we're gambling.
We gain this as business.
So we gamble a little like,well, how's money?
And we can't afford to lose.
If I got everybody throwing allthey chips in on certain shit
and we don't pan out, can I sithere in stomach like my fault?
Or do I got enough in reserveto say, man, I can replenish

(01:26:34):
this thing?
But those type of leadershipthings, man, and we as we define
work as war, some days I wouldrather go to war with you, bro,
and then almost anybody elsethat I can think of, most
definitely doing this shit thatwe're doing every day, I'd
rather have you, I'd rather dieon my shield with you, bro,
you're a weird man.

(01:26:55):
One thing I love you, dude,love you too, bro, I love you
too.
For sure, man, I gotta say, Igotta say, ooh, that one, is
that the one?
Yeah, that was the one rightthere.
But we a very important thingyou did mention that our boys

(01:27:19):
were the same age but weliterally became fathers
together.
You know, experiencing that forthe first time and everything
and everything that that bringsman.
You know, your boys startcalling, he start calling too.
He growing TV, he growing bitchshit.
Out of me.
You get some ass shit, not shit, almost Almost Got to end that,

(01:27:41):
let's go.
But now, man, we was like rightthere, right there with each
other.
Man From the jump man you knowyou like took me under your wing
and you know I get thebackstory from you.
Now you literally making adecision to like take me under
your wing and be like no man, heget cold, cold like Nicky, I

(01:28:03):
like him, I like him, I'm like Ilike him.
He cool, what'd you used to say, mommy's big, I'm gonna get
this little nigga out of myhouse.
Yeah.
So Mom Dukes used to say I likethat thing, I don't want to
fight him.
Yeah, mom Dukes used to saythat the big brother, father
role to protect her all.
And Mom Dukes would be like Iwant you to keep these boys out
of my house and away from yoursisters.

(01:28:23):
And I'm like I got you, mamaand I've always been on the job.
But you came along and it waslike I helped even keep some
other niggas off your sink.
He was like, hey, don't fuckwith him, I like him.
He had the mind protection too.
Man, don't fuck with him.
So Mom Dukes would be like whenall the shit, the fan, it was
like how about.
I told you to keep these niggasaway.

(01:28:44):
I'm like I did.
I like him, though.
I like him Told you I didn'twant to, I filtered out, I went
above and beyond.
Look at that.
I'm like look what happened,man.
He's a great asset to everybody.
Look, because shit, don't fuckup, it's straight, take a break.
But no man from the get, youknow what I'm saying, you know

(01:29:04):
you was definitely that thatanother big brother.
And I remember when, two daysbefore a low was found to be
conceived, two motherfuckingdays, I quit my goddamn job.
I was a little dumb workingthat big download.
I was trying to just, you know,had a lot of fun, had a ball,

(01:29:27):
had a good time, but just young,you know what I'm saying.
They is racking it up.
They had too much going on.
Man Could go to the mall, do mything, go to FYE, get some CDs
that my son don't know how toopen now, you know.
But that was it, man, you know.
But I quit my motherfucking job, man, two days later, can I get

(01:29:57):
my job back, you know?
So I remember vividly.
I remember vividly when you gotthe news standing in your mom's
living room, like right by thestep.
You know, I remember your mom.
I mean like, yeah, you gotsomething to tell your brother
and she was eating shit.
You want to tell your brothersomething?
What?
Why didn't I pay you?
And your face was, oh, snap,real, because I believe, if I am

(01:30:28):
mistaken, we got the new lifetogether.
It was kind of like, yeah,that's great.
Yeah, I think I had broke thenews too, because they only like
two months, two months, yeah,legit, two months.
So when it happened, it was kindof like you want to tell your
brother something.
She said you're like for real,congratulations.
Now, you knew I just quit Likefuck me.

(01:30:49):
My shit ain't fucking nothing,I'm the fuck.
That's saying six miles an hour, get that.
You know.
Hey, man, come fuck with me.
Man, I'm saying 10 liter aboutthis body.
You know, get into it.
You got to link for theapplication, do the thing.
And then legit like put me in,because you will correct me if I
say got me the job.
I'm saying no, honey, I just Icracked it though.

(01:31:11):
You knocked that motherfuckerdown.
You kicked that bitch off thehead straight up.
That's what you had to doStraight up man.
So got into this thing.
You know, and you know we'vebeen rolling ever since, man.
You know we had our time when wetalked about earlier today
where we did have.
We had a time where I had to go.

(01:31:32):
I was hurt about 13 months.
We talked, talked, talked tobro.
I tell them all the time I'mlike you left for 13 months,
nigga, that's two Januarys.
I'm like I'm a numbers person,that's two Januarys.
But I also say, in thattimeframe of I didn't know how
to be the type of leader that Iam now.

(01:31:53):
I didn't know how.
I didn't even know how torecognize where I was, or that,
even as the entrepreneur, nowthat I am in the business man,
now, when any staff has certainissues, I always look on the
business side of things of howcan I come to their aid.
Excuse me, as I stated to youopenly, man, privately, I stayed

(01:32:14):
to you openly like should havenever had to feel in that
position where you needed tolead, where you needed to go
elsewhere and brand, to showskills.
I should have been able tounderstand and know, like what's
a fair deal for work, forcompensation, for all of these
things, though I wasn't fullyaware Me, learning that in your

(01:32:36):
absence made me just sharpen upand say like amen, I never
wanted that, never wantedanybody to feel like the company
doesn't have the benefits tomaintain their lifestyle outside
of here, knowing the companydoes take care 65 to 75% of your
lifestyle, love where you live,because with your job, how much
money you make, you know whatI'm saying your health benefits,

(01:32:57):
your things of that nature.
So I sit in that seat to sayamen, I never want you or any of
the team members to feel likewe got it and y'all don't.
Y'all ain't got access to it.
So when you had to leave, I wassad, bro, I was hurt, but it
ain't no bitch ass, can't be.
So, me knowing, I remembertelling you.

(01:33:18):
I remember telling you I'm aman of my word.
I remember telling you like,hey, I'm gonna call you one day
and I'm gonna ask you when areyou ready to put your two weeks
in?
Because I knew you was valuable, bro, but I didn't know how to
handle with wild beasts aspowerful as me.
I didn't know how.
I didn't know how to be likeamen, you like amen.

(01:33:39):
Whatever you want me to do, bro, I got you.
I did not know I had that typeof loyalty with you.
Now that it was a negative, itwas work, but it was like, hey,
you really care about that shitlike me, like I thought it was
just only me, even with my ownwife at the time of like shit
like this, yours, I'm like, no,the fuck is not, it's ours.
You like it's like hey, it'syours, I'm like you really mind

(01:34:02):
you can tell him you have.
But it's like I meant to shareresponsibility.
But me telling you like, bro,I'm a, I owe you that, I owe you
that.
I'm like man, I'm gonna callyou one day and I'm gonna ask
you when are you ready to putyour two weeks in?
And in that timeframe of us notworking together, we still were
family men.
We still were communicating asbrothers, as husbands, we still

(01:34:24):
doing house stuff.
Do remember a time I do.
I remember I spoke to yoursister because I think I might
be making this up in my head, Idon't really know, but I
remember calling you one daylike damn, I ain't talking to
this thing in, like two monthsyou know what I'm saying Like
two legit months.
So I hit you one day.
I was on my way up York road Ithink I was heading to get a
E-check or something like thatand I'm like I'm gonna hit this

(01:34:45):
nigga now get an E-check.
It's like free time, right,right, right.
So I hit you and like what's up, man?
Like nothing, man, this shit,let me see what's going on with
you.
Oh, now I'm cool man.
Hey, let me, I'm gonna hit youback.
And the guy ain't hit me back.
So I ended up talking to yoursister, maybe like a day or two
later, and I'm like, yeah, man,what's up?
Okay, man, I'm cool.

(01:35:06):
And shit, I feel like nigga,nigga ain't fucking with me, no
more.
Hey, what's happening?
And she legit told me like nah,but it ain't that like they
just been real busy, like busyas fuck.
I ain't even talking to thisnigga.
It like busy as a mother, fuck.
So don't take it for granted.
All right, go, nigga, justcheck it.
Nigga usually hit me back.

(01:35:26):
He says to hit me back, but I'mglad I was able to speak to her
and I like I got it.
You know what I'm saying andyou know we ended up talking.
I ended up coming out to thehouse it was 13 months total,
ended up coming out to the houseafter like like 10 months nine,
10 months, you know what I'msaying and us being able to sit.
I guess you had some time whenthey would sit, pour a little,

(01:35:47):
drink, a little something.
You know Really, yeah,everything and talking shit.
This back before.
I got so many names for Kyro.
I call anything that gotrolling in the macaroni, but
this before he was born.
So your man cave was in hisroom.
No, if that's still his room,this is his room.
Yeah, he got a lot of rooms inthe switcher shit, but I go get

(01:36:09):
his ass in there.
Maybe I'm making some parentsshit, but we ended up actually
having time to sit and chat andcatching me up on everything
that's been going on.
And at this point, these lastnine, 10 months, and kinda
looking at me like you gonna goback, right man, if everything.

(01:36:30):
Right man, what's up?
Right man, one day, like yousaid man, one day, just like you
said initially, when I left,fast forward nine, 10 months
later, then fast forward anotherthree, four months, kinda like,
hey, what's up?
When can you, when you can,come back?
And I ain't gonna get into itnow, but something nearly

(01:36:52):
traumatizing happened.
It matter of fact, it wastraumatizing.
Something happened that fuckingmorning.
Now I'm on my way out toYoungstown and you called me, to
sum it, just starting to comeup, and I'm standing on the dock
out in Youngstown and youcalled me like, hey, man, when
can you, when can you put yourtwo weeks notice in?

(01:37:12):
Man, you know, I wanna do that.
I'm a professional, for sure,for sure, for sure, for sure.
When can you put your two weeksnotice in?
And I took a breath, I lookedup at the sky.
Today, I remember that.
And you, like, like today, likeI'll be done around three
o'clock, I'm done, yeah, so Iremember the back end of that

(01:37:36):
man.
I got word from Wifey, likethat it was okay.
I was already on the fenceabout it, but in your absence,
man, we were building, we bothwere sharpening our skills, but
we were building.
The flip was to the day center.
I needed to bring.
I needed to have the day center, which was a whole new business
and it was.
I went through so many emotionson building and I lost, like

(01:37:59):
one of my stronger pieces.
I lost another person who, juston some foul shit of myself you
know what I'm saying, but itwas how do I rebuild from here,
from my own actions?
Like I had to stand there likea huge self reflection that I
still keep with me to this day.
But in my line of work I had tobuild these protections.

(01:38:20):
I had to build like, okay, Igot enough to be able to secure
this and handle that and do thisand do that.
It's like I need this personback who is more willing, who is
more prepared man, who is moreworthy.
So me having to know, like manin this place, that I'm at now
and I'm practicing.
I'm practicing like, okay, howdo I say this shit the right way

(01:38:43):
and sail this off right, but onthe back end, that every time
that check clear, every timethat something happens, the
company can come to thisperson's aid.
That is one of them like, hey,on the most respectful way to
put it, shut your mouth, nigga.
We helped, we helped, we didwhat we could.
We can't, I can't, go be inyour house.
We've been cleaning your floorand scratching your back and I

(01:39:06):
can't do that.
That's another service that yougotta charge and get permission
for.
I can ask my wife.
But it was like, how do I cometo this man's aid, how do I not
just as a like?
It's a handout, like one man toanother.
It's entity to entity, power,cord, johnson, cord.
This is what we arecollaborating to do and it needs

(01:39:29):
to end in this.
Reciprocation should end insome profit.
Yeah, for real, it should endin profit.
So us being able to put thispride and ego aside and me being
able to say, hey, I can meetyour demands, bro, I can meet
what's being asked for you, bro.
You valuable enough to me onevery platform to be able to say
, hey, man, if this is what youneed to be able to take care of

(01:39:51):
your family and to take care ofyourself, let's get it moving,
man.
The end of the deal is this isthe marks where they gotta be
made.
It wasn't nothing outside ofyour scope that you wasn't doing
prior, but it's a leadershiprole of now.
You gotta.
You got all these departmentsof all of these businesses up
under your belt, all thesedifferent people and leaders and

(01:40:11):
attitudes.
They not gonna just listen toyour directorial because of what
your bad sayings like no, am Iout working these motherfuckers?
Am I showing them like, hey,don't make me do your job, and
then have to question why youhere?
What I need you for, one of themost disrespectful things you
can tell to that entrepreneur,to that business person, is like

(01:40:32):
ain't this, yo shit.
You know what?
You know what?
It's short fucky.
Let me walk you to the door.
Punch out for me please.
Oh no, I was just saying no,I'm just doing Like ain't them.
But it's one of them insultingtype of things of like they
saying my job.
Knowing you got everybody inhere working, everybody moving

(01:40:54):
man, everybody handling pieces.
But, that being said, I neededto learn as a leader, how to
handle things, how to apologize,how to say amen.
I wasn't as great as a leaderas I should have been.
I wasn't great as a boss as Ishould have been.
My bad that you had to goelsewhere to get what you needed
when it was always right here.

(01:41:16):
I needed to know how to handlethat shit better.
So, being able to be in thatposition now, a lot of that, a
lot of it.
You broke.
You cracked the mold with it ofhow I look at everybody, how
with you.
Know how, in negative, we usedto name policies after people
went shit with happy.
We got this policy, got thatpolicy, so on and so forth.

(01:41:38):
I then took that and moved itinto the positive of like amen,
what happened with you?
We got that policy of like.
We need to get the healthinsurance.
We need to get progressingrates going forward.
We need for Jaylene, we neededto get short term disability,
long term disability.
We need to get life insuranceand to get accident.
We need to get these things asa business.
That it's just how we do cometo the aid of our people.

(01:41:59):
We need to get preventativehealthcare insurance, post
healthcare insurance, justmental health days, being able
to come and speak and say, hey,ms Brenda, use us all the time.
Shout out to Ms Brenda that'smy other spirit moment she
utilizes venting to us andhaving that time to come and
just detox whatever she needs togo, be great over there with

(01:42:21):
those guys and step into herrole of hey, man, she holds you
accountable and I respect thatshit out of that more than
anything.
But that being said, man, ourjoint new union ship on business
and making sure that we arekings in battle.
We're like that's the monster,like a warrior king.

(01:42:42):
I ain't sitting behind the desk, I'm out here fighting Titans
For real.
I'm fighting Titans to makesure that, hey, the IRS is a
formidable motherfucker, even ifyou on the right side, it's
just like I got to still pay you, mother, the rose ain't done.
They're like, hey, them citytaxes?
Talk to your city niggas, talkto your local niggas.
What is it, hey, those yourlitigations of the industries

(01:43:06):
that you in being able to makesure that you keep in contracts
and stuff, secure you notdefaulting on those and even
finances that you're dealingwith.
You ain't defaulting on creditor lines of you know,
installment payments and thingslike that.
So it's a lot that goes intotaking care of a community man,
and I can't do it by myself, man.
I'm very, very, very, very,very fucking thankful that you

(01:43:29):
rocking with me doing this shit,bruh.
I would not, me or my wifewould not be where we are if we
didn't have your diligence, man,that I ain't no whole ass nigga
mentality handling thatpressure with us like we, we out
here together, bruh, but it'ssome legitimate widgets on some
man shit.
Hey, it ain't too manymotherfuckers that I feel
they're like, hey, I can walkinto this shit and this

(01:43:52):
motherfucker gonna have my back,sure, even if I switch up.
Nigga got my rhythm enough tobe like I'm a follow the play.
Compared to what we doing, god,it's not, not even got us.
But like, hey, nigga, you, ittakes time to build that
relationship.
That ain't just a we shakinghands and we just it's just

(01:44:14):
going along.
It's like no, I gotta know this, nigga.
We gotta sit down and eatdinner, kids gotta interact, our
girls gotta meet up at Targetand shit Cause, that's what the
fuck they do.
That's definitely the word.
They need a good Target man.
We can talk on and on and onabout our 15 plus year
relationship.
Freedom speakers, you canlisten to us on all streaming

(01:44:39):
platforms or wherever you listento your podcast, specifically
Spotify, apple podcast, googlepodcast and anywhere else that
you choose to listen to us.
You can find me on Instagram atpermission to number two
underscore, speak freely podcast, and you can follow me on IG as

(01:44:59):
well, on my Ben Boston pagethat's BNBOSSN, for all of the
information and formative andmotivational quotes that I come
up with that are my ownliterature.
This is my shit.
Don't write, don't bite my shit, but you can.
You can't hashtag and use it,though.
I don't have a problem withthat, but freedom speakers,

(01:45:20):
thank you for everything.
This is chief signing out.

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