August 9, 2024 • 46 mins
Become a Relative & send some love
Ever wondered how coaching a Little League softball team can transform your approach to life and relationships? Join me, Tweezy Kennedy, as I recount the heartwarming journey of guiding my daughters' teams to the Little League World Series. Listen to the triumphs, the setbacks, and the lessons that reaffirm the values of respect and loyalty, deeply rooted in my Detroit upbringing. This episode is a tribute to the spirit of community sports and the unyielding support from our listeners.
Facing life’s adversities head-on, I explore the metaphor of "popping smoke" and how strategic exits can be the key to overcoming toxic situations. From my childhood challenges to my service in the Marine Corps, I share candid reflections on resilience and adaptability. Music has been my constant companion through these times, offering solace and fostering connections. Discover how these experiences have shaped my communication skills and personal growth, offering insights that might resonate with your own life journey.
Health is wealth, and my journey to fitness is a testament to this belief. With the support of my friend Kadeem, I've embraced the challenge of maintaining an active lifestyle post-Marine Corps and through the pandemic. From hiking to cycling, these small steps have made a big difference in my life, setting a positive example for my daughters and the kids I coach. Tune in for a heartfelt discussion on the importance of health, the impact of personal loss, and the inspiring stories that fuel the RWMTM podcast's mission.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
we good, we live, we live, we live.
Episode 20.
Um, if you don't know, this isrelationships worth more than
money podcast.
I am tweezy kennedy.
Um, man, it's been a minute andthe reason why it's been a
minute is because you know I'vebeen doing.
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How can you say, let me see, inLamar's turn, I've just been a
dad, been coach dad, and youknow I'm a girl dad.
So my daughters had LittleLeague World Series things going
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on and before we even get tothat they had tournaments in DC
and both my daughters, elena wonand Elyse won Tutti.
They won a respective divisionor state championship for 10U
and 12U.
So as a coach for Elena's teamand you know I come in and fill
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in when I can or when I need itto for 2D's team, but full-time
coaching and um, I will say it'sbeen man, it's been fun, uh,
but the main thing about it isum, I didn't know if I was gonna
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really love softball like I Ido.
I really didn't think I wasgoing to do that.
I really focused more on hownot to treat it as baseball, but
all the fundamentals is prettymuch the same.
It's like here and there thepitching is different, but I
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wasn't trying to go into it aslike, hey, this is me teaching
me, it was me teaching Elena, meteaching Elise, and with that,
you know, my kids and their teamman, their respective teams.
Man, they went undefeated the12 you did.
And we won the state tournamentand was elected to go to the
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Little League World Series, theregional World Series, and we
got there.
We showed up pretty nice.
And, first and foremost, shoutout to Keith and Kevin man, the
Mamie Johnson Little League team, the president and the coach
Without them I wouldn't be ableto be coaching for the girls and
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also shout out to the rest ofthe team, man, because that was
great.
It was just everything aboutthe girls was great and it was
like I had multiple daughters.
I didn't just have two, I had11, you know what I mean.
And all the girls from Noel,kellen Carson, sean Dirty, aaron
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Sash, london, who else did Imiss?
Did I miss anybody?
Oh, em Going off of all thebases, em at first, london at
second, dirty at third, or short.
Or Kellen Elena at catcher,kellen Carson.
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And oh, devin pitching.
And yeah, man, all the girls,man, they, they, uh, they showed
out, they showed out and um,unfortunately we didn't win.
We lost both games, but the bestthing about it it was just
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about you know, um, just theexperience like being able to
like be in a whole nother state,playing sports, playing
something that you love, andnetworking and building
friendships.
All the girls built friendshipswith girls from.
You know all different teamsMassachusetts, connecticut, new
Hampshire I think that was theirdorm mates, new Hampshire.
But yeah, man, it wasdefinitely an eye-opener for
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myself as a coach.
It taught me how to be preparedmore coach.
It taught me how to be preparedmore.
It taught me how to enter eachgame and each practice different
but, at the end of the day,something I love.
I love sports.
I love baseball.
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Baseball is my favorite sportand now softball is my favorite
sport because my daughter'splaying and even if they don't
play, I know I will be coachingmore.
Um, hopefully, I'll be coachingfor the middle school team that
my daughter go to and um, we'llstart from there.
But other than that, shout outto y'all man, because y'all,
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y'all like for real, like therelatives, y'all, like y'all
really been asking yo when thenext episode, when the next
episode, when this, when that,when this, and y'all really are
tuned in and when I took thisbreak I didn't know, like, how I
was going to be able to bounceback into the potting because my
focus was all on on sports.
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But I always check my, my, um,my stats and see, like, who
watching my uh podcast, whowatching the reels, who watching
the YouTube shorts, and y'allare watching them and I
appreciate that.
Um, we already have 600followers.
Um, let's try to get to a K1000.
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And uh, now we just need to getthe watch hours for real and
then I can start collecting umsome monetary, um residuals from
this.
But uh, again, shout out toy'all Uh, let's, let's, let's,
get into it.
Um.
So one of the first topics, mybest friend Kui Cuisines.
She gave me some dope topicsand also shout out to Dara.
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Dara also gave me some insighton some things I should talk
about, because they've both beensaying I need to just do a
podcast by myself.
So here I am doing this podcastby myself in the cut.
So we're going to talk aboutstanding on business and the
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pain and the gain of standing 10toes down.
You can just really like I'mreally I'm really a man of of
many words, but when it comes tostanding on business.
Just know, um, some things youreally gotta you gotta take in
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consideration and some thingsyou just have to have.
A, a, a, no, uh, what you callit.
Um, non-negotiable things arenon-negotiable.
Things are non-negotiable whenit comes to me.
Ie disrespect, you know what Imean, loyalty, those are main
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two.
I go with those, disrespect andloyalty, just off the simple
fact, like we all grow, growfrom different backgrounds, and
you know me, coming from Detroit, um, I was always taught to
stand on 10 toes because, likeyou know, I mean, if your word
ain't it, you ain't reallyvaluable out there in the
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streets and you're not valuableout there in the real world.
Um, so we, uh, well, we, me,I've been, you know, I mean,
doing a little bit oftransitioning since I've been
here in maryland and, um, rightnow, I know a lot of people been
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, you know, asking uh for musicand stuff like that.
But if you pay attention, I'vebeen dropping something, a
single or instrumental somethingevery month, but, uh, for sure,
my birthday I just talked toNewland Um, we're going to drop
something for my birthday,hopefully, uh, but if we don't
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drop for my birthday, wedefinitely going to drop for
September, because I'm alwaysworking, always working, and
TenZero is still in effect.
So I hope y'all didn't thinkthat that was gone.
I've been dropping everythingI've done on TenZero's music
group.
That's me.
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I'm the CEO, producer, engineer, and that's what it is like.
So, no matter what I do in life, I'm going to create
relationships, I'm going tobuild relationships, but I'm
also going to deleterelationships just because, if
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they're not for me or you startnoticing the way people move and
when people start moving, funny, you gotta, you gotta.
Pop smoke is what we say in themilitary.
You know what I mean.
Because pop smoke and get upout of there, and there ain't no
disrespect to pop smoke, restin peace.
To pop smoke, it's just aterminology we used to say when
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we literally would be extractingourselves or snipers or
somebody else from a house.
We will pop smoke, extract thepeople, get them on our trucks
and we get up out of there anddrop them off to the next
location.
So that's what I'm doing.
I'm pretty much maneuvering.
It's just me maneuvering, doingmy music thing and at the end
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of the day, that's what it is.
You know what I mean.
There's nothing, no, there'snothing wrong with it.
You know what I mean.
Sometimes you have to transitionin life when you see that
people aren't good for you.
You know what I mean, and it'snot just anybody.
The people know good for you.
You know what I mean, and it'snot just anybody.
The people know who they are.
You know what I mean and at theend of the day, I have a
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non-negotiable with fuck shit.
At the end of the day, I justdon't have time for it.
You know what I mean.
Anything else, anything else,no, nothing else, no, nothing
else.
Okay, so we're going to go tothe next thing.
Um, overcoming adversity, uh,navigating life when the odds
are stacked against you, uh, Ithink I've been adversity's
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probably been my middle name asa kid, as an adult, all of that.
As a kid, as an adult, all ofthat.
Since I've been in this world,I've been hit with adversity, no
matter what as a child, growingup, as a teenager and then
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joining the Marine Corpsadversity, you know, when you
join something of thatstatureature, you understand
like it ain't just about you,but at the end of the day, this
is your career.
So things that I've dealt within the Marine Corps, ie PTSD,
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blatant, blatant racism, uh, andI'm not trying to bash the
military, because I recommendeverybody to go to the military,
but it's this thing that I uhdealt with and, um, the best
thing to do and I learnedadversity in the Marine Corps,
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uh is just, you know, adapt andovercome.
That's one of the things thatwas always taught as a Marine is
to always adapt and overcome.
So I was able to maneuverthrough my career in the Marine
Corps, even though it got cutshort because of the war.
Marine Corps, even though itgot cut short because of the war
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, they pretty much forced outlike 40,000 Marines out of the
military.
When Obama wanted to bring allthe troops back because that's
what you know, that was histhing he wanted to do and I'm
not knocking him for, but at theend of the day it had me
transition to civilian world wayquicker than I wanted to do.
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My goal was to plan to do 20.
It would have been 20 yearsthis year, actually January 04,
I joined January 04, I wouldhave been 20 and I would have
been retired or I'd probablystill been in, because the
military is easy.
20 and I'd have been retired,or I'd probably still been in,
because the military is easy.
It's just some people in themilitary that can really test
your patience, or play, try toplay with you.
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But you got to stand onbusiness.
You got to stand ten toes andlearn how to adapt and overcome,
because it's never.
It's never the military, it'sthe people in the military that
might hinder you.
But I had way more pros thancons being a Marine and I always
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will represent being a Marinein any branch.
So, being able to apply what Ilearned in the Marines and
transition out into the civilianworld, it helped me communicate
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in a different term, in adifferent way as far as with
civilians, because the way wecommunicate in the military is
not the same way we communicatein the real world.
And, um, I had to take out alot of uh, curse words when I'm
dealing with certain people.
Uh, because I'm telling youyeah, your vocabulary definitely
have some explicitives.
Um, might be your first 10words, but I learned how to.
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You know transition and youknow talk, my talk, but do it
the way I do it and respectfully, tactfully, and that's it.
So that's it for the overcomingadversity.
What else we got?
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What else we got?
Oh, music saved my life, Ithink.
What was it?
Second grade, I was attendingFaith Christian Academy back
home in Detroit on Nevada, in.
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What was that?
Van Dyke, if y'all know, youknow, you know.
Now it's called PerfectionChurch.
So I'm giving y'all some gamefor the people that's from back
home.
My brother was a saxophoneplayer and he had his instructor
.
Band instructor was Mr Mack.
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I ended up having Mr Mack as myband instructor, but it was his
brother Best person I ever metwhen it came to music.
When I joined the Marine Corps,I had backed out of being a.
I didn't want to be a band geekin high school and I continued
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to play sports, but I ditchedthe music and I played all
elementary and middle school.
When I joined the Marine CorpsI noticed something was missing
in my life and I startedcatching on because my best
friend Kadeem we was in bootcamp, everything together, boot
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camp, mct, mos school.
I think when we got to MOSschool is where everything
started hitting as far as music.
He loved the same music I like,I like the same music he liked,
and he was putting me onartists too, cause you know, I'm
from Detroit and I listened toa lot of South music, down South
music, but he was reallyputting me on like Camouflage.
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Rest in Peace, boosie.
And you know what I'm saying.
Like all of that of that, likeI didn't, I never heard of it.
So when we got to the Fleet InCali, um, we just, you know,
stayed with sharing music.
And you know, back then,linewire, you had Linewire, you
had Uh, napster, you had allthese Different programs.
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You know how to get music, andI was like Hands down the these
different programs, you know howto get music, and I was like
hands down, king of mixtapes.
I used to get all the mixtapesthe Duke, the God mixtapes, the
DJ Clues, the DJ Envys, the DJ KSlay rest in peace.
Like it was everybody's mixtapethat was popping.
I would go on these sites andget them.
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So we ended up deploying to Iraqin 05, our first time, to
Ramadi Truck Company and like wewere in the thick of it, man,
and I was like man, like we getthere, we land, and I felt a
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ground shaking and I'm like whatthe hell is that?
And then I just heard this loudexplosion and, um, I just seen
this big mushroom cloud and Iwas like yo, what the hell?
And I look over to the left,look over to the right, to the
rest of the marines and somebodyI forgot who it was, I think it
was my staff sergeant orsomebody he was like welcome to
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Iraq.
And I was just like, oh, we inthis shit.
So after that we had this thingcalled the PX.
If you don't know, the PX is astore.
It's like your conveniencestore.
You can go and get whateversnacks, music, so it's like a
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mini Best Buy or a miniWalmart-type store.
Because the PX for the militarythey got it different.
Everybody calls theirssomething.
The NEX, navy BX is, I think,the Air Force and the Army.
You know what I mean.
So ours was the PX.
We would go there and I was afan and I'm still a fan of XXL
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magazine, even though they'vebeen falling off.
But XXL magazine is what keptme in tune with music and kept
me, you know, current with theculture and the hip-hop culture
and all of that.
So me and Kadeem, you know,check out the, the uh, the
double excel magazines orwhatever.
And um, we, we found out thatit was like some, some artists
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was coming out.
One was named Young Jeezy, theother one named was Gucci man
and you know, we just stayed intune with them and, sure enough,
couple months later their tapescame out and they was able to,
we was able to purchase them inIraq.
So, mind you know this, thiswas back in the day.
So we had bought some DVDplayers, portable DVD players,
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cause we drove trucks orwhatever.
So we needed music to.
You know, ride out to and, um,we jamming.
And I'm like man, like thisJeezy hard Thug, motivation 101,
gucci man, trap House, justjamming.
And I feel like the music savedmy life because I was in and out
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of combat almost every otherday, um, when I was there, the
first deployment, and I promiseyou, every, every time I went
home to the, you know, went tothe hut, got a, got a couple
hours in to go to sleep like Iwas listening to music.
Listen to music, listen tomusic.
I'm on a plane listen to music.
We on the helicopters listen tomusic, I'm listening to music
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everywhere, we at um, so ofcourse you know I get out, I'm
still listening to music.
Um, I'm still doing musicproducing and I feel like to me,
uh, music saved my life becausewhen I had them low places
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either, from having nightmaressweating in my sleep, spazzing,
letting everything get to me,trying to fight everybody, music
always kept me going.
So, yeah, music saved my lifefor real, because even with my
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daughters, before they was born,I literally used to put
headphones and turn the music upbeneath the stomach so they can
listen to the music, and theyused to move around every time
they heard it.
So I think that's one of ourgems that we share with each
other.
We love music.
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I call them my little A&Rsbecause they listen to music
that I probably would neverlisten to, but they got taste.
Both of them got taste.
They put me on a lot of newartists.
So I definitely say music savedmy life to this day, and it's
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always a song that hits homewhen I'm going through certain
things.
So, yeah, music, musicdefinitely is my sanctuary
outside of being in the in thecrib peace, you see the speakers
and stuff.
So, yeah, music, music saved mylife.
Um, next, what we got?
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What we got embracing changeand life and the music industry
and your health journey let'stalk about it.
Oh, I got a love and haterelationship with the gym,
simply because when I first,before I, joined the Marine
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Corps, I, like I was just sonaturally talented, like gifted,
and I, I was like a humangarbage disposal.
I eat everything, but I was soactive.
Sports I'm either down thestreet at my boy, john's crib,
or down the street at otherAntoine's crib.
We balling, we playing sports,we playing street football, we
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on the bikes, we doing something, joining the Marine Corps
Running, running, running,running, running, running Sports
Still active, I'm like workingout every day, running every day
.
Man Hiking, oh my God, hiking 20miles, 15 miles, depending on
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the unit, you know what I meanhiking up mountains, all of that
.
So when I got out at the MarineCorps, I was just like man, I
can't stop.
So I was still going and Ithink I had hit a wall, probably
in about 2019, yeah, like 2019,2020.
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And I was was like I'm tired ofworking out and then, boom,
covid hits.
So now I'm definitely notworking out.
Um, and I was okay.
You know I'm saying I was fine,you know.
I mean I'm a foodie.
If you know me, you know I'm afoodie.
But, um, I had to, I had to, Ihad to adjust, because I started
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seeing myself like I alwayslook at myself when I, when I'm
in america, sometimes I talk tomyself and I and I say positive
things to myself, but then I'mlike trying to say positive
things to myself but then I'mlike trying to say positive
things and I'm like dog, youain't even looking right.
What's up with you.
You know what I mean.
So I jumped back in the gym andof course shout out Kadeem.
Kadeem was like bro, you got toget back in the gym, you got to
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do something.
You know what I mean, becauseyou're sitting in the house like
you can't just be just chilling.
Man like you got you gotta.
I know it's tough he's like,but you gotta get back.
And I think after like secondand third time he said that I
got back in the gym and Iactually go to the same
corporation one life that he goto, because I seen his gym and
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I'm like yo, that's really dopewhere you're joining it, but you
know he all the way down invirginia, so luckily they have
some up here.
I started hitting the gym, beenhitting the gym crazy.
I took a break when I went toConnecticut for the Little
League World Series and I'vebeen back in the gym, definitely
going tomorrow.
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But you don't necessarily haveto go to the gym to get a
workout in.
I just want you all to know Ifyou just go take a walk, if you,
you know what I mean.
Walk up your stairs multipletimes.
Just get outside, is the thing.
Get outside, walk around, run.
I got a bike, got it fixed, thena joint I don't know how it got
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flat again.
The tires got flat.
Shout out to what is it HoffieCycling?
Shout out to Matt Matt, one ofmy homies.
He got his company and he gotto fix my tires.
Bro, matt put on my new.
He put on oh, my seat was bad.
That's what happened.
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My seat went bad and I didn'tknow it, but he was riding a
bike.
After he fixed it, he did his,you know his, his pmcs
preventive maintenance on it,his preventive maintenance
checks.
And, um, he put new pedals onthere because it had them, them
little, uh, road bike pedals,and I ain't got none of them.
Shoes, I can't stand them shoes.
But yeah, he fixed it.
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So now I got to go back and getit fixed again because the seat
is broke and so I can go ridewith the girls.
The girls, man, they be doingeverything.
I'm trying to keep up with mydaughter, so they super active.
So that was another thing thingtoo.
I wanted to be able to beactive for them, because I know,
um, as a coach, you have toshow the kids.
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So I felt like if I'm notshowing them, they're not gonna
never understand it.
I can say it all day, but if Iget out there and show them and
run laps with them and all ofthat, they see.
See that, okay, like, oh, coachAntoine is what they call me.
Coach Antoine, he know what hedoing.
I know what he mean when he saythis.
I know what this mean when hemean this.
Yeah, so it's been a journey.
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I've been eating semi-better.
I ain't going to lie to you,I'm a foodie.
I ain't eating super, superhealthy, but I'm definitely
incorporating more fruit, moregreens.
I kind of stay away from thefried food, but if I'm back at
home though it's off limits orif I'm in a nice state, I'm
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definitely going to partake.
Ie California Shout out toMailman Evan Ruri and my bro
Paul, my family that's out there.
I normally try to get out thereat least once a year.
But, yeah, if I'm out therewith them, definitely going to
indulge into some good eating.
But, yeah, wealth is health.
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But, yeah, wealth is health.
After every time I pray, Ialways say Whatever my prayer is
you know, guide me, help me see, help me understand,
da-da-da-da-da, in Jesus' namewealth and health, amen.
So I always do that.
So every time I pray, I alwayssay wealth and health, because
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you know wealth is somethingthat I would love to have, not
just money-wise, monetarily,just wealth.
You know what I mean haveinvestments, have things that
you know what I mean I can passdown to my kids and their kids
and their kids' kids and healthyou and their kids and their
kids' kids and health.
You know what I mean Because Ilost my cousin Quez a couple
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years ago and to this day theysaid it was a heart attack or
cardiovascular whatever.
But I ain't going for it, butI'm just going off what they're
saying.
So Quez is only 40.
I'll be 39 this year.
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So of course I've been tryingto schedule things, get my EKG,
everything checked for me.
But, yeah, health is everything.
So take care of yourself.
If y'all not like, take a small,small step.
A small step can become a bigstep, just like how you always
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say the small things turn intothe big things and that's when
things go overboard or theavalanche build up.
In order for avalanche to build, you got to start with the
small steps.
So you got to start positivelywith the small steps to get
yourself better health-wise andmentally.
So, yeah, my life journey, myhealth journey, has been a
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roller coaster, but I do feelbetter and I'm hitting my VA
appointments a little bit morenow, even though the VA sucks.
I'm just going to put that outthere.
Va in DC sucks I ain't going tosay everywhere else, because
Fort Belvoir actually took careof me when I was there, but the
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VA in DC sucks and like I had toschedule an appointment for my
knee and I don't got anappointment to October and this
was like two, two months ago,like the first available
appointment was October.
So, yeah, take that and runwith it.
But, um, what's next?
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My future, my future, hopefully, I'm doing this.
You know potting, I love to pot,I love to, I love to talk to
people, I love to understandwhat they life like.
I think me being a recruiteralso pays heavy to why I like
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talking to people, because Itell people all the time I'm not
a people person but I cancommunicate with anybody.
I'm a social butterfly but I'mnot a people person.
So I think that's why a lot oftimes people are like yo, you
don't look approachable and I'mlike I don't be doing nothing, I
just be chilling.
But yeah, potting.
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This is the 20th episode.
I try to do things.
If I do start the next season,it'll definitely be off of 10.
Everything's in 10s, I likemine's in 10s.
10s, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s,everything in 10s.
Sos, 30s, 40s, 50s, everythingin 10s.
So potting, hopefully I ain'teven going to cap.
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I'm a gamer.
If you see the PS5, I'm a gamer.
If I can get my streaming thinggoing too, that'll be another
great residual income.
And of course, you know themusic, my machine, my dang on
theory, board music, music willalways be with me.
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So it's like I, whatever I feellike being creative or if I'm
being inspired by otherproducers, other artists or
music that I hear I start.
You know I go back and createmore, but lately it ain't been a
lot.
It ain't been a lot Ever sinceDrake and Kendrick stopped the
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feuding.
Like it ain't been a lot ofmusic.
But I will say that DJ Mustardalbum definitely fire top to
bottom.
Who else's album?
Oh, boss man D-Lo.
Shout out to Boss man, d-lo, meand Mel man.
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Definitely Mel man be jammingto that.
I'm trying to think it ain'treally much.
I mean, it's a few singles.
The Big Shine new single, tough.
Shout out to let's start, let'sstart.
Shout out to the family man.
Shout out to my bro GT backhome.
Shout out to Vez.
Shout out to the family man.
Shout out to my bro GT Backhome.
Shout out to Vez.
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Shout out to the whole TeamEastside Doughboys, Cashout All
the artists in Detroit For realCause, like Y'all really pushing
the needle 4-2.
All of them, man, sada, man, somany.
John Boy, all of them, man,sada.
Uh, man, so many.
Uh, john boy.
(33:15):
Um, man, g, mac, g, mac, drinks, be, be, be tough.
Uh, baby, face right.
Yeah, everybody, man Um.
Shout out to y'all man, becausey'all are really putting on for
the city and I can really rockout to it because this is what
we've been listening to sincethe 90s to early 2000s.
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Because I remember me and Vez.
Me and Vez went to Osborne andeverybody know, oh, shout out to
Get Money.
Boys Dre, d Bailey.
Rest in peace to Ant.
Rest in peace to D-Glove.
Rest in peace to B-Strikt.
All the homies, man from ourarea.
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Man, we definitely was rockingwith Vez since day one and Vezel
is crazy now, like he done,blew up and I remember the first
Rags to Riches tape.
So, yeah, music is definitelychanging, but I'm okay with it.
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Music is always like that.
So future, yeah, potting music.
Oh, traveling with my pod,actually going out and getting
to different um cities, statesand interviewing bigger people,
(34:40):
or even, like my whole thing ofrelationships worth more than
money is.
You don't have to be a knownperson, but I want to know your
lifestyle, I want to know yourstory.
Maybe your story can helpinspire somebody else to go do
something or do something thatyou're doing.
But yeah, oh, I want to.
I'm going to speak it now.
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I'm going to interview Wallow,gilly and Wallow, because they
were the first ones to inspireme to do it.
And, of course, you know Gillyand I've been rocking with Gilly
for the longest, with majorfigures and Wallo's story coming
out of prison and turning hislife around and hustling and
(35:23):
going to PodCon.
That's what really got me going.
That's where I started this forreal.
Podcon last year was super dope.
He's like he spent all thatmoney and we didn't have to pay
nothing just to come get freegame.
Charlamagne was there.
Believe the girl, the lady fromshade room, was there.
He had a bunch of insight,people to teach you how to build
(35:44):
your credit up, how to run yourbusiness.
Um, so I'm going to interviewGilly and Lo soon.
So that's going to be that'sfuture, that's future, that's
future, future goals.
Let me see what else we got.
What else we got RWMTM the manbehind the brand I mean, this is
(36:11):
me, this is me, this is who Iam.
Big Virgo Tweezy, this is me.
Oh, shout out to the Flock,flock Nation.
Big Ravens.
People always ask me yo, tweezy, how the hell, hell, you a damn
(36:32):
Ravens fan, you from Detroit.
So, alright, I'm going to givey'all the story.
So I ain't got to tell y'all,no more, y'all going to see this
on the pod, on the YouTubes andon the shorts and on the reels
and all of that, and y'all goingto understand.
So, alright, boom, born andraised.
Detroit, right East side, westside.
My dad lived on the west side.
I was back and forth, back andforth, right.
So Detroit, I was a diehardDetroit, everything I have all
(36:58):
the teams on my arm, except thePistons and I'm a huge Pistons
fan.
But when I got out the Marinesand I was doing my sleeve
session, my boy, he made it.
He made the little, I guess,the little layout, the little
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thing, the cutout for it, andall I had to do is take it to
somebody and they'll put it onmy arm and a little ink, a drain
.
Come on, it was the old schoolpiston, like the Grant Hill
pistons with the horse, thatjoint.
It was that one.
I didn't get it.
I'm going to get it, though Ididn't get it, but I was diehard
.
Everything Detroit because ofBarry Sanders.
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Barry Sanders, to this day, ismy favorite running back and
there's some dope running backs,but right now, right up under
Barry Sanders, right now isDerrick under Barry Sanders,
right now is Derrick Henrybecause he's on the Ravens, but
anywho, nah, I was a diehardLions fan, I ain't gonna lie.
Me and Quez went to the.
(38:00):
We went to the game.
I wasn't a Lions fan, but I wasstill supporting.
You know what I mean, calvinJohnson.
Because you know what I mean,calvin Johnson, because you know
what I mean, that was the lasttime we had like something big
like that until now.
They got a dope squad now, butCalvin Johnson broke that record
.
I think it was Herman Moorerecord, Herman Moore or Johnny
Morton, don't get me wrong.
Correct me, whatever.
(38:20):
I'll figure it out when I edit.
I'll find it out.
But Calvin Johnson broke therecord.
Me and Quez was there having atime Turning up, but I left.
When Barry left, that man wasfighting for his life.
Every time they said hike.
He never had a line, never hada stable coach.
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And they made it to theplayoffs a few times and I
remember the last time they madeit I think they played was it
the Jets or somebody?
No, it was.
They didn't play the Jets, itwas right.
Before they made it to theplayoffs they was like nine and
seven or something and Iremember a Jets player getting
injured.
I think he ended up having acareer-ending injury.
And when they didn't sign, theydidn't give them a new contract
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and they wouldn't trade them.
Hell, they could have tradedthem to the Dolphins.
I still would have been a BarrySanders fan, because that's how
I am now with sports.
I'm a players fan.
The team's cool.
I'm still Detroit.
Everything except the Lions,that's it.
I'm Detroit everything.
But when it comes to theplayers, I like players and what
they stand for and I like theirjourney.
(39:34):
Again, detroit Red Wing.
Steve Eisenman, chris Osgoodthe Tiger, cecil Fielder man,
tony Clark, prince Fielder man,I'm, uh man, tony clark.
(39:58):
Uh, prince fielder.
Um man, I'm I'm still a fan ofdetroit, like you know, saying
like I'm a fan.
But uh, yeah, even when detroitshock was there, I remember I
used to go.
Well, my substitute teacherused to take us down and try to
be like the little shock, littledancers or the people that be
like, passing out the towels andshirts, and I was even a
Detroit Shock fan and we hadSwing Cash and I remember, man,
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them was the days.
But I'm just not a Lions fan.
I root for y'all.
You know what I mean.
Like, that's one thing about me.
I'm not going to hate you.
You got a good team, you got agood team.
But I'm also a realist.
You know what I mean too.
So, like, shout out to theLions, shout out to everybody
over there Hutch, jared, goff,st Brown, amara yeah, man, y'all
(40:50):
got a squad now, y'all got asquad.
Y'all got a squad now.
Y'all got a squad, y'all gotsome young talent.
But I'm a Ravens fan.
So when Barry left Keep it athought while when Barry left I
didn't have a team, but me andmy brother and my cousins we
always played Madden.
Since Madden been out.
Then 2K came out and I wastrying to figure out my team.
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So my team was the Buccaneers.
I would play with theBuccaneers for like two years.
You know what I mean.
But I was still a Ravens fanbecause of Ray Lewis, jamal
Lewis.
They had pretty much picked upfrom Cleveland and drove over to
Baltimore and I remember all ofthat Cause I'm like a sports
fanatic when it comes to stufflike that, like the history of
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sports and things of that nature.
So, uh, I've been a Ravens fansince Ray Lewis.
Uh, I remember, uh, who was it?
Ray Lewis, jamal Lewis?
Dion came.
I think he had like number 37or something, some wild number
Deion Kane, ed Reed what's abuddy that they did dirty.
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Oh, ray Rice, I had the RayRice jersey.
I had the Ray Rice jersey.
I had the Ed Reed jersey backin like 2000, early 2000s, yeah,
around that time I had itbecause I had moved here in 2009
.
I got stationed in Quantico.
So, yeah, definitely been a bigflock fan.
Baltimore is right up thestreet now.
(42:25):
So, yeah, yeah, we winning itthis year.
Just want to let y'all knowspeaking.
Yeah, we winning it this year.
Just want to let y'all know,speaking into existence, and
we're going to beat the Cowboys.
We're going to beat the Cowboys, y'all.
I just want y'all to know yeah,might be down there too With
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all my purple and black.
Might be purple, not too muchblack, because it's still hot in
Dallas, but, yeah, big flockfan, big flock nation, what else
, what else?
What else we got?
Hmm, trying to think it's anice, it's a nice 44, what 40
(43:22):
something minutes?
Yeah, oh, if y'all got anybodyy'all think should be on the
show.
Um, reach out to me.
I'm on RWMTM pod On IG.
Um, rwmtm pod On TikTok.
Uh, rwmtm pod On, um, uh, oh,youtube, youtube.
(43:48):
And look the merch.
You can get your merch In thelink In the bio.
Oh, youtube, youtube.
And look the merch.
You can get your merch in thelink in the bio.
You can get your merch on whatis it?
What's the name of the site?
Streamlabs, yeah, streamlabs.
Shout out to Streamlabs.
Shout out to Streamlabs.
Shout out to my bro, big johnwith rare love.
(44:12):
Um, if y'all want to get somerare love clothing, make sure
y'all use my, my coupon code,rwmtmlove.
Um, definitely get, I think, 10, 10 or 15 percent off off the
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We definitely still got like acollab one coming up.
Um, who else?
Oh, opus clip.
(44:33):
Shout out to opus clip.
Oh, yeah, that's, that's whatit is.
I need sponsors.
I need more sponsors.
I would like to have moresponsors.
Um, if you rocking with me andyou, you, you, uh, like what I
do, you like, um, how Iinterview, and things of that
nature, please reach out to meif I haven't reached out to you
(44:53):
first.
Hey, two way street, two waystreet, trying to think I think
I covered everything.
Yeah, I covered everything,covered everything.
Yeah, I covered everything,covered everything.
But like always, man, Iappreciate each and every one of
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you for really just tuning in,listening.
Some people say that my voiceis soothing.
Some people say they love theway I communicate and talk.
I ain't perfect, you know whatI mean.
Got to put a little swing inthere, a little twang in there.
Everybody always think that I'mfrom the South, but I am.
(45:39):
My whole family then migratedfrom Meridian, Mississippi, and,
on my mom's side, pensacola,florida.
So everybody that moved fromthe South up to Detroit.
So, yeah, Appreciate y'all,thank y'all for tuning in and
staying tuned in.
But if you haven't told anybody, go tell somebody to go follow
(46:03):
RWMTM pod and like that I'mTweezy, I'm gone.
we good, we live, we live, we live.
Episode 20.
Um, if you don't know, this isrelationships worth more than
money podcast.
I am tweezy kennedy.
Um, man, it's been a minute andthe reason why it's been a
minute is because you know I'vebeen doing.
(00:28):
How can you say, let me see, inLamar's turn, I've just been a
dad, been coach dad, and youknow I'm a girl dad.
So my daughters had LittleLeague World Series things going
(00:51):
on and before we even get tothat they had tournaments in DC
and both my daughters, elena wonand Elyse won Tutti.
They won a respective divisionor state championship for 10U
and 12U.
So as a coach for Elena's teamand you know I come in and fill
(01:16):
in when I can or when I need itto for 2D's team, but full-time
coaching and um, I will say it'sbeen man, it's been fun, uh,
but the main thing about it isum, I didn't know if I was gonna
(01:36):
really love softball like I Ido.
I really didn't think I wasgoing to do that.
I really focused more on hownot to treat it as baseball, but
all the fundamentals is prettymuch the same.
It's like here and there thepitching is different, but I
(02:01):
wasn't trying to go into it aslike, hey, this is me teaching
me, it was me teaching Elena, meteaching Elise, and with that,
you know, my kids and their teamman, their respective teams.
Man, they went undefeated the12 you did.
And we won the state tournamentand was elected to go to the
(02:25):
Little League World Series, theregional World Series, and we
got there.
We showed up pretty nice.
And, first and foremost, shoutout to Keith and Kevin man, the
Mamie Johnson Little League team, the president and the coach
Without them I wouldn't be ableto be coaching for the girls and
(02:46):
also shout out to the rest ofthe team, man, because that was
great.
It was just everything aboutthe girls was great and it was
like I had multiple daughters.
I didn't just have two, I had11, you know what I mean.
And all the girls from Noel,kellen Carson, sean Dirty, aaron
(03:13):
Sash, london, who else did Imiss?
Did I miss anybody?
Oh, em Going off of all thebases, em at first, london at
second, dirty at third, or short.
Or Kellen Elena at catcher,kellen Carson.
(03:34):
And oh, devin pitching.
And yeah, man, all the girls,man, they, they, uh, they showed
out, they showed out and um,unfortunately we didn't win.
We lost both games, but the bestthing about it it was just
(03:55):
about you know, um, just theexperience like being able to
like be in a whole nother state,playing sports, playing
something that you love, andnetworking and building
friendships.
All the girls built friendshipswith girls from.
You know all different teamsMassachusetts, connecticut, new
Hampshire I think that was theirdorm mates, new Hampshire.
But yeah, man, it wasdefinitely an eye-opener for
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myself as a coach.
It taught me how to be preparedmore coach.
It taught me how to be preparedmore.
It taught me how to enter eachgame and each practice different
but, at the end of the day,something I love.
I love sports.
I love baseball.
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Baseball is my favorite sportand now softball is my favorite
sport because my daughter'splaying and even if they don't
play, I know I will be coachingmore.
Um, hopefully, I'll be coachingfor the middle school team that
my daughter go to and um, we'llstart from there.
But other than that, shout outto y'all man, because y'all,
(05:03):
y'all like for real, like therelatives, y'all, like y'all
really been asking yo when thenext episode, when the next
episode, when this, when that,when this, and y'all really are
tuned in and when I took thisbreak I didn't know, like, how I
was going to be able to bounceback into the potting because my
focus was all on on sports.
(05:24):
But I always check my, my, um,my stats and see, like, who
watching my uh podcast, whowatching the reels, who watching
the YouTube shorts, and y'allare watching them and I
appreciate that.
Um, we already have 600followers.
Um, let's try to get to a K1000.
(05:45):
And uh, now we just need to getthe watch hours for real and
then I can start collecting umsome monetary, um residuals from
this.
But uh, again, shout out toy'all Uh, let's, let's, let's,
get into it.
Um.
So one of the first topics, mybest friend Kui Cuisines.
She gave me some dope topicsand also shout out to Dara.
(06:10):
Dara also gave me some insighton some things I should talk
about, because they've both beensaying I need to just do a
podcast by myself.
So here I am doing this podcastby myself in the cut.
So we're going to talk aboutstanding on business and the
(06:34):
pain and the gain of standing 10toes down.
You can just really like I'mreally I'm really a man of of
many words, but when it comes tostanding on business.
Just know, um, some things youreally gotta you gotta take in
(06:55):
consideration and some thingsyou just have to have.
A, a, a, no, uh, what you callit.
Um, non-negotiable things arenon-negotiable.
Things are non-negotiable whenit comes to me.
Ie disrespect, you know what Imean, loyalty, those are main
(07:18):
two.
I go with those, disrespect andloyalty, just off the simple
fact, like we all grow, growfrom different backgrounds, and
you know me, coming from Detroit, um, I was always taught to
stand on 10 toes because, likeyou know, I mean, if your word
ain't it, you ain't reallyvaluable out there in the
(07:38):
streets and you're not valuableout there in the real world.
Um, so we, uh, well, we, me,I've been, you know, I mean,
doing a little bit oftransitioning since I've been
here in maryland and, um, rightnow, I know a lot of people been
(07:58):
, you know, asking uh for musicand stuff like that.
But if you pay attention, I'vebeen dropping something, a
single or instrumental somethingevery month, but, uh, for sure,
my birthday I just talked toNewland Um, we're going to drop
something for my birthday,hopefully, uh, but if we don't
(08:19):
drop for my birthday, wedefinitely going to drop for
September, because I'm alwaysworking, always working, and
TenZero is still in effect.
So I hope y'all didn't thinkthat that was gone.
I've been dropping everythingI've done on TenZero's music
group.
That's me.
(08:40):
I'm the CEO, producer, engineer, and that's what it is like.
So, no matter what I do in life, I'm going to create
relationships, I'm going tobuild relationships, but I'm
also going to deleterelationships just because, if
(09:02):
they're not for me or you startnoticing the way people move and
when people start moving, funny, you gotta, you gotta.
Pop smoke is what we say in themilitary.
You know what I mean.
Because pop smoke and get upout of there, and there ain't no
disrespect to pop smoke, restin peace.
To pop smoke, it's just aterminology we used to say when
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we literally would be extractingourselves or snipers or
somebody else from a house.
We will pop smoke, extract thepeople, get them on our trucks
and we get up out of there anddrop them off to the next
location.
So that's what I'm doing.
I'm pretty much maneuvering.
It's just me maneuvering, doingmy music thing and at the end
(09:48):
of the day, that's what it is.
You know what I mean.
There's nothing, no, there'snothing wrong with it.
You know what I mean.
Sometimes you have to transitionin life when you see that
people aren't good for you.
You know what I mean, and it'snot just anybody.
The people know good for you.
You know what I mean, and it'snot just anybody.
The people know who they are.
You know what I mean and at theend of the day, I have a
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non-negotiable with fuck shit.
At the end of the day, I justdon't have time for it.
You know what I mean.
Anything else, anything else,no, nothing else, no, nothing
else.
Okay, so we're going to go tothe next thing.
Um, overcoming adversity, uh,navigating life when the odds
are stacked against you, uh, Ithink I've been adversity's
(10:37):
probably been my middle name asa kid, as an adult, all of that.
As a kid, as an adult, all ofthat.
Since I've been in this world,I've been hit with adversity, no
matter what as a child, growingup, as a teenager and then
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joining the Marine Corpsadversity, you know, when you
join something of thatstatureature, you understand
like it ain't just about you,but at the end of the day, this
is your career.
So things that I've dealt within the Marine Corps, ie PTSD,
(11:21):
blatant, blatant racism, uh, andI'm not trying to bash the
military, because I recommendeverybody to go to the military,
but it's this thing that I uhdealt with and, um, the best
thing to do and I learnedadversity in the Marine Corps,
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uh is just, you know, adapt andovercome.
That's one of the things thatwas always taught as a Marine is
to always adapt and overcome.
So I was able to maneuverthrough my career in the Marine
Corps, even though it got cutshort because of the war.
Marine Corps, even though itgot cut short because of the war
(12:09):
, they pretty much forced outlike 40,000 Marines out of the
military.
When Obama wanted to bring allthe troops back because that's
what you know, that was histhing he wanted to do and I'm
not knocking him for, but at theend of the day it had me
transition to civilian world wayquicker than I wanted to do.
(12:30):
My goal was to plan to do 20.
It would have been 20 yearsthis year, actually January 04,
I joined January 04, I wouldhave been 20 and I would have
been retired or I'd probablystill been in, because the
military is easy.
20 and I'd have been retired,or I'd probably still been in,
because the military is easy.
It's just some people in themilitary that can really test
your patience, or play, try toplay with you.
(12:53):
But you got to stand onbusiness.
You got to stand ten toes andlearn how to adapt and overcome,
because it's never.
It's never the military, it'sthe people in the military that
might hinder you.
But I had way more pros thancons being a Marine and I always
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will represent being a Marinein any branch.
So, being able to apply what Ilearned in the Marines and
transition out into the civilianworld, it helped me communicate
(13:41):
in a different term, in adifferent way as far as with
civilians, because the way wecommunicate in the military is
not the same way we communicatein the real world.
And, um, I had to take out alot of uh, curse words when I'm
dealing with certain people.
Uh, because I'm telling youyeah, your vocabulary definitely
have some explicitives.
Um, might be your first 10words, but I learned how to.
(14:06):
You know transition and youknow talk, my talk, but do it
the way I do it and respectfully, tactfully, and that's it.
So that's it for the overcomingadversity.
What else we got?
(14:28):
What else we got?
Oh, music saved my life, Ithink.
What was it?
Second grade, I was attendingFaith Christian Academy back
home in Detroit on Nevada, in.
(14:48):
What was that?
Van Dyke, if y'all know, youknow, you know.
Now it's called PerfectionChurch.
So I'm giving y'all some gamefor the people that's from back
home.
My brother was a saxophoneplayer and he had his instructor
.
Band instructor was Mr Mack.
(15:09):
I ended up having Mr Mack as myband instructor, but it was his
brother Best person I ever metwhen it came to music.
When I joined the Marine Corps,I had backed out of being a.
I didn't want to be a band geekin high school and I continued
(15:31):
to play sports, but I ditchedthe music and I played all
elementary and middle school.
When I joined the Marine CorpsI noticed something was missing
in my life and I startedcatching on because my best
friend Kadeem we was in bootcamp, everything together, boot
(15:51):
camp, mct, mos school.
I think when we got to MOSschool is where everything
started hitting as far as music.
He loved the same music I like,I like the same music he liked,
and he was putting me onartists too, cause you know, I'm
from Detroit and I listened toa lot of South music, down South
music, but he was reallyputting me on like Camouflage.
(16:14):
Rest in Peace, boosie.
And you know what I'm saying.
Like all of that of that, likeI didn't, I never heard of it.
So when we got to the Fleet InCali, um, we just, you know,
stayed with sharing music.
And you know, back then,linewire, you had Linewire, you
had Uh, napster, you had allthese Different programs.
(16:37):
You know how to get music, andI was like Hands down the these
different programs, you know howto get music, and I was like
hands down, king of mixtapes.
I used to get all the mixtapesthe Duke, the God mixtapes, the
DJ Clues, the DJ Envys, the DJ KSlay rest in peace.
Like it was everybody's mixtapethat was popping.
I would go on these sites andget them.
(16:59):
So we ended up deploying to Iraqin 05, our first time, to
Ramadi Truck Company and like wewere in the thick of it, man,
and I was like man, like we getthere, we land, and I felt a
(17:21):
ground shaking and I'm like whatthe hell is that?
And then I just heard this loudexplosion and, um, I just seen
this big mushroom cloud and Iwas like yo, what the hell?
And I look over to the left,look over to the right, to the
rest of the marines and somebodyI forgot who it was, I think it
was my staff sergeant orsomebody he was like welcome to
(17:44):
Iraq.
And I was just like, oh, we inthis shit.
So after that we had this thingcalled the PX.
If you don't know, the PX is astore.
It's like your conveniencestore.
You can go and get whateversnacks, music, so it's like a
(18:04):
mini Best Buy or a miniWalmart-type store.
Because the PX for the militarythey got it different.
Everybody calls theirssomething.
The NEX, navy BX is, I think,the Air Force and the Army.
You know what I mean.
So ours was the PX.
We would go there and I was afan and I'm still a fan of XXL
(18:27):
magazine, even though they'vebeen falling off.
But XXL magazine is what keptme in tune with music and kept
me, you know, current with theculture and the hip-hop culture
and all of that.
So me and Kadeem, you know,check out the, the uh, the
double excel magazines orwhatever.
And um, we, we found out thatit was like some, some artists
(18:53):
was coming out.
One was named Young Jeezy, theother one named was Gucci man
and you know, we just stayed intune with them and, sure enough,
couple months later their tapescame out and they was able to,
we was able to purchase them inIraq.
So, mind you know this, thiswas back in the day.
So we had bought some DVDplayers, portable DVD players,
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cause we drove trucks orwhatever.
So we needed music to.
You know, ride out to and, um,we jamming.
And I'm like man, like thisJeezy hard Thug, motivation 101,
gucci man, trap House, justjamming.
And I feel like the music savedmy life because I was in and out
(19:41):
of combat almost every otherday, um, when I was there, the
first deployment, and I promiseyou, every, every time I went
home to the, you know, went tothe hut, got a, got a couple
hours in to go to sleep like Iwas listening to music.
Listen to music, listen tomusic.
I'm on a plane listen to music.
We on the helicopters listen tomusic, I'm listening to music
(20:04):
everywhere, we at um, so ofcourse you know I get out, I'm
still listening to music.
Um, I'm still doing musicproducing and I feel like to me,
uh, music saved my life becausewhen I had them low places
(20:24):
either, from having nightmaressweating in my sleep, spazzing,
letting everything get to me,trying to fight everybody, music
always kept me going.
So, yeah, music saved my lifefor real, because even with my
(20:49):
daughters, before they was born,I literally used to put
headphones and turn the music upbeneath the stomach so they can
listen to the music, and theyused to move around every time
they heard it.
So I think that's one of ourgems that we share with each
other.
We love music.
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I call them my little A&Rsbecause they listen to music
that I probably would neverlisten to, but they got taste.
Both of them got taste.
They put me on a lot of newartists.
So I definitely say music savedmy life to this day, and it's
(21:31):
always a song that hits homewhen I'm going through certain
things.
So, yeah, music, musicdefinitely is my sanctuary
outside of being in the in thecrib peace, you see the speakers
and stuff.
So, yeah, music, music saved mylife.
Um, next, what we got?
(21:52):
What we got embracing changeand life and the music industry
and your health journey let'stalk about it.
Oh, I got a love and haterelationship with the gym,
simply because when I first,before I, joined the Marine
(22:16):
Corps, I, like I was just sonaturally talented, like gifted,
and I, I was like a humangarbage disposal.
I eat everything, but I was soactive.
Sports I'm either down thestreet at my boy, john's crib,
or down the street at otherAntoine's crib.
We balling, we playing sports,we playing street football, we
(22:38):
on the bikes, we doing something, joining the Marine Corps
Running, running, running,running, running, running Sports
Still active, I'm like workingout every day, running every day
.
Man Hiking, oh my God, hiking 20miles, 15 miles, depending on
(23:00):
the unit, you know what I meanhiking up mountains, all of that
.
So when I got out at the MarineCorps, I was just like man, I
can't stop.
So I was still going and Ithink I had hit a wall, probably
in about 2019, yeah, like 2019,2020.
(23:22):
And I was was like I'm tired ofworking out and then, boom,
covid hits.
So now I'm definitely notworking out.
Um, and I was okay.
You know I'm saying I was fine,you know.
I mean I'm a foodie.
If you know me, you know I'm afoodie.
But, um, I had to, I had to, Ihad to adjust, because I started
(23:48):
seeing myself like I alwayslook at myself when I, when I'm
in america, sometimes I talk tomyself and I and I say positive
things to myself, but then I'mlike trying to say positive
things to myself but then I'mlike trying to say positive
things and I'm like dog, youain't even looking right.
What's up with you.
You know what I mean.
So I jumped back in the gym andof course shout out Kadeem.
Kadeem was like bro, you got toget back in the gym, you got to
(24:12):
do something.
You know what I mean, becauseyou're sitting in the house like
you can't just be just chilling.
Man like you got you gotta.
I know it's tough he's like,but you gotta get back.
And I think after like secondand third time he said that I
got back in the gym and Iactually go to the same
corporation one life that he goto, because I seen his gym and
(24:32):
I'm like yo, that's really dopewhere you're joining it, but you
know he all the way down invirginia, so luckily they have
some up here.
I started hitting the gym, beenhitting the gym crazy.
I took a break when I went toConnecticut for the Little
League World Series and I'vebeen back in the gym, definitely
going tomorrow.
(24:55):
But you don't necessarily haveto go to the gym to get a
workout in.
I just want you all to know Ifyou just go take a walk, if you,
you know what I mean.
Walk up your stairs multipletimes.
Just get outside, is the thing.
Get outside, walk around, run.
I got a bike, got it fixed, thena joint I don't know how it got
(25:20):
flat again.
The tires got flat.
Shout out to what is it HoffieCycling?
Shout out to Matt Matt, one ofmy homies.
He got his company and he gotto fix my tires.
Bro, matt put on my new.
He put on oh, my seat was bad.
That's what happened.
(25:40):
My seat went bad and I didn'tknow it, but he was riding a
bike.
After he fixed it, he did his,you know his, his pmcs
preventive maintenance on it,his preventive maintenance
checks.
And, um, he put new pedals onthere because it had them, them
little, uh, road bike pedals,and I ain't got none of them.
Shoes, I can't stand them shoes.
But yeah, he fixed it.
(26:05):
So now I got to go back and getit fixed again because the seat
is broke and so I can go ridewith the girls.
The girls, man, they be doingeverything.
I'm trying to keep up with mydaughter, so they super active.
So that was another thing thingtoo.
I wanted to be able to beactive for them, because I know,
um, as a coach, you have toshow the kids.
(26:28):
So I felt like if I'm notshowing them, they're not gonna
never understand it.
I can say it all day, but if Iget out there and show them and
run laps with them and all ofthat, they see.
See that, okay, like, oh, coachAntoine is what they call me.
Coach Antoine, he know what hedoing.
I know what he mean when he saythis.
I know what this mean when hemean this.
Yeah, so it's been a journey.
(26:52):
I've been eating semi-better.
I ain't going to lie to you,I'm a foodie.
I ain't eating super, superhealthy, but I'm definitely
incorporating more fruit, moregreens.
I kind of stay away from thefried food, but if I'm back at
home though it's off limits orif I'm in a nice state, I'm
(27:17):
definitely going to partake.
Ie California Shout out toMailman Evan Ruri and my bro
Paul, my family that's out there.
I normally try to get out thereat least once a year.
But, yeah, if I'm out therewith them, definitely going to
indulge into some good eating.
But, yeah, wealth is health.
(27:40):
But, yeah, wealth is health.
After every time I pray, Ialways say Whatever my prayer is
you know, guide me, help me see, help me understand,
da-da-da-da-da, in Jesus' namewealth and health, amen.
So I always do that.
So every time I pray, I alwayssay wealth and health, because
(28:02):
you know wealth is somethingthat I would love to have, not
just money-wise, monetarily,just wealth.
You know what I mean haveinvestments, have things that
you know what I mean I can passdown to my kids and their kids
and their kids' kids and healthyou and their kids and their
kids' kids and health.
You know what I mean Because Ilost my cousin Quez a couple
(28:25):
years ago and to this day theysaid it was a heart attack or
cardiovascular whatever.
But I ain't going for it, butI'm just going off what they're
saying.
So Quez is only 40.
I'll be 39 this year.
(28:45):
So of course I've been tryingto schedule things, get my EKG,
everything checked for me.
But, yeah, health is everything.
So take care of yourself.
If y'all not like, take a small,small step.
A small step can become a bigstep, just like how you always
(29:07):
say the small things turn intothe big things and that's when
things go overboard or theavalanche build up.
In order for avalanche to build, you got to start with the
small steps.
So you got to start positivelywith the small steps to get
yourself better health-wise andmentally.
So, yeah, my life journey, myhealth journey, has been a
(29:29):
roller coaster, but I do feelbetter and I'm hitting my VA
appointments a little bit morenow, even though the VA sucks.
I'm just going to put that outthere.
Va in DC sucks I ain't going tosay everywhere else, because
Fort Belvoir actually took careof me when I was there, but the
(29:52):
VA in DC sucks and like I had toschedule an appointment for my
knee and I don't got anappointment to October and this
was like two, two months ago,like the first available
appointment was October.
So, yeah, take that and runwith it.
But, um, what's next?
(30:15):
My future, my future, hopefully, I'm doing this.
You know potting, I love to pot,I love to, I love to talk to
people, I love to understandwhat they life like.
I think me being a recruiteralso pays heavy to why I like
(30:41):
talking to people, because Itell people all the time I'm not
a people person but I cancommunicate with anybody.
I'm a social butterfly but I'mnot a people person.
So I think that's why a lot oftimes people are like yo, you
don't look approachable and I'mlike I don't be doing nothing, I
just be chilling.
But yeah, potting.
(31:05):
This is the 20th episode.
I try to do things.
If I do start the next season,it'll definitely be off of 10.
Everything's in 10s, I likemine's in 10s.
10s, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s,everything in 10s.
Sos, 30s, 40s, 50s, everythingin 10s.
So potting, hopefully I ain'teven going to cap.
(31:27):
I'm a gamer.
If you see the PS5, I'm a gamer.
If I can get my streaming thinggoing too, that'll be another
great residual income.
And of course, you know themusic, my machine, my dang on
theory, board music, music willalways be with me.
(31:49):
So it's like I, whatever I feellike being creative or if I'm
being inspired by otherproducers, other artists or
music that I hear I start.
You know I go back and createmore, but lately it ain't been a
lot.
It ain't been a lot Ever sinceDrake and Kendrick stopped the
(32:10):
feuding.
Like it ain't been a lot ofmusic.
But I will say that DJ Mustardalbum definitely fire top to
bottom.
Who else's album?
Oh, boss man D-Lo.
Shout out to Boss man, d-lo, meand Mel man.
(32:33):
Definitely Mel man be jammingto that.
I'm trying to think it ain'treally much.
I mean, it's a few singles.
The Big Shine new single, tough.
Shout out to let's start, let'sstart.
Shout out to the family man.
Shout out to my bro GT backhome.
Shout out to Vez.
Shout out to the family man.
Shout out to my bro GT Backhome.
Shout out to Vez.
(32:53):
Shout out to the whole TeamEastside Doughboys, Cashout All
the artists in Detroit For realCause, like Y'all really pushing
the needle 4-2.
All of them, man, sada, man, somany.
John Boy, all of them, man,sada.
Uh, man, so many.
Uh, john boy.
(33:15):
Um, man, g, mac, g, mac, drinks, be, be, be tough.
Uh, baby, face right.
Yeah, everybody, man Um.
Shout out to y'all man, becausey'all are really putting on for
the city and I can really rockout to it because this is what
we've been listening to sincethe 90s to early 2000s.
(33:36):
Because I remember me and Vez.
Me and Vez went to Osborne andeverybody know, oh, shout out to
Get Money.
Boys Dre, d Bailey.
Rest in peace to Ant.
Rest in peace to D-Glove.
Rest in peace to B-Strikt.
All the homies, man from ourarea.
(33:58):
Man, we definitely was rockingwith Vez since day one and Vezel
is crazy now, like he done,blew up and I remember the first
Rags to Riches tape.
So, yeah, music is definitelychanging, but I'm okay with it.
(34:19):
Music is always like that.
So future, yeah, potting music.
Oh, traveling with my pod,actually going out and getting
to different um cities, statesand interviewing bigger people,
(34:40):
or even, like my whole thing ofrelationships worth more than
money is.
You don't have to be a knownperson, but I want to know your
lifestyle, I want to know yourstory.
Maybe your story can helpinspire somebody else to go do
something or do something thatyou're doing.
But yeah, oh, I want to.
I'm going to speak it now.
(35:01):
I'm going to interview Wallow,gilly and Wallow, because they
were the first ones to inspireme to do it.
And, of course, you know Gillyand I've been rocking with Gilly
for the longest, with majorfigures and Wallo's story coming
out of prison and turning hislife around and hustling and
(35:23):
going to PodCon.
That's what really got me going.
That's where I started this forreal.
Podcon last year was super dope.
He's like he spent all thatmoney and we didn't have to pay
nothing just to come get freegame.
Charlamagne was there.
Believe the girl, the lady fromshade room, was there.
He had a bunch of insight,people to teach you how to build
(35:44):
your credit up, how to run yourbusiness.
Um, so I'm going to interviewGilly and Lo soon.
So that's going to be that'sfuture, that's future, that's
future, future goals.
Let me see what else we got.
What else we got RWMTM the manbehind the brand I mean, this is
(36:11):
me, this is me, this is who Iam.
Big Virgo Tweezy, this is me.
Oh, shout out to the Flock,flock Nation.
Big Ravens.
People always ask me yo, tweezy, how the hell, hell, you a damn
(36:32):
Ravens fan, you from Detroit.
So, alright, I'm going to givey'all the story.
So I ain't got to tell y'all,no more, y'all going to see this
on the pod, on the YouTubes andon the shorts and on the reels
and all of that, and y'all goingto understand.
So, alright, boom, born andraised.
Detroit, right East side, westside.
My dad lived on the west side.
I was back and forth, back andforth, right.
So Detroit, I was a diehardDetroit, everything I have all
(36:58):
the teams on my arm, except thePistons and I'm a huge Pistons
fan.
But when I got out the Marinesand I was doing my sleeve
session, my boy, he made it.
He made the little, I guess,the little layout, the little
(37:18):
thing, the cutout for it, andall I had to do is take it to
somebody and they'll put it onmy arm and a little ink, a drain
.
Come on, it was the old schoolpiston, like the Grant Hill
pistons with the horse, thatjoint.
It was that one.
I didn't get it.
I'm going to get it, though Ididn't get it, but I was diehard
.
Everything Detroit because ofBarry Sanders.
(37:40):
Barry Sanders, to this day, ismy favorite running back and
there's some dope running backs,but right now, right up under
Barry Sanders, right now isDerrick under Barry Sanders,
right now is Derrick Henrybecause he's on the Ravens, but
anywho, nah, I was a diehardLions fan, I ain't gonna lie.
Me and Quez went to the.
(38:00):
We went to the game.
I wasn't a Lions fan, but I wasstill supporting.
You know what I mean, calvinJohnson.
Because you know what I mean,calvin Johnson, because you know
what I mean, that was the lasttime we had like something big
like that until now.
They got a dope squad now, butCalvin Johnson broke that record
.
I think it was Herman Moorerecord, Herman Moore or Johnny
Morton, don't get me wrong.
Correct me, whatever.
(38:20):
I'll figure it out when I edit.
I'll find it out.
But Calvin Johnson broke therecord.
Me and Quez was there having atime Turning up, but I left.
When Barry left, that man wasfighting for his life.
Every time they said hike.
He never had a line, never hada stable coach.
(38:44):
And they made it to theplayoffs a few times and I
remember the last time they madeit I think they played was it
the Jets or somebody?
No, it was.
They didn't play the Jets, itwas right.
Before they made it to theplayoffs they was like nine and
seven or something and Iremember a Jets player getting
injured.
I think he ended up having acareer-ending injury.
And when they didn't sign, theydidn't give them a new contract
(39:11):
and they wouldn't trade them.
Hell, they could have tradedthem to the Dolphins.
I still would have been a BarrySanders fan, because that's how
I am now with sports.
I'm a players fan.
The team's cool.
I'm still Detroit.
Everything except the Lions,that's it.
I'm Detroit everything.
But when it comes to theplayers, I like players and what
they stand for and I like theirjourney.
(39:34):
Again, detroit Red Wing.
Steve Eisenman, chris Osgoodthe Tiger, cecil Fielder man,
tony Clark, prince Fielder man,I'm, uh man, tony clark.
(39:58):
Uh, prince fielder.
Um man, I'm I'm still a fan ofdetroit, like you know, saying
like I'm a fan.
But uh, yeah, even when detroitshock was there, I remember I
used to go.
Well, my substitute teacherused to take us down and try to
be like the little shock, littledancers or the people that be
like, passing out the towels andshirts, and I was even a
Detroit Shock fan and we hadSwing Cash and I remember, man,
(40:19):
them was the days.
But I'm just not a Lions fan.
I root for y'all.
You know what I mean.
Like, that's one thing about me.
I'm not going to hate you.
You got a good team, you got agood team.
But I'm also a realist.
You know what I mean too.
So, like, shout out to theLions, shout out to everybody
over there Hutch, jared, goff,st Brown, amara yeah, man, y'all
(40:50):
got a squad now, y'all got asquad.
Y'all got a squad now.
Y'all got a squad, y'all gotsome young talent.
But I'm a Ravens fan.
So when Barry left Keep it athought while when Barry left I
didn't have a team, but me andmy brother and my cousins we
always played Madden.
Since Madden been out.
Then 2K came out and I wastrying to figure out my team.
(41:14):
So my team was the Buccaneers.
I would play with theBuccaneers for like two years.
You know what I mean.
But I was still a Ravens fanbecause of Ray Lewis, jamal
Lewis.
They had pretty much picked upfrom Cleveland and drove over to
Baltimore and I remember all ofthat Cause I'm like a sports
fanatic when it comes to stufflike that, like the history of
(41:36):
sports and things of that nature.
So, uh, I've been a Ravens fansince Ray Lewis.
Uh, I remember, uh, who was it?
Ray Lewis, jamal Lewis?
Dion came.
I think he had like number 37or something, some wild number
Deion Kane, ed Reed what's abuddy that they did dirty.
(42:02):
Oh, ray Rice, I had the RayRice jersey.
I had the Ray Rice jersey.
I had the Ed Reed jersey backin like 2000, early 2000s, yeah,
around that time I had itbecause I had moved here in 2009
.
I got stationed in Quantico.
So, yeah, definitely been a bigflock fan.
Baltimore is right up thestreet now.
(42:25):
So, yeah, yeah, we winning itthis year.
Just want to let y'all knowspeaking.
Yeah, we winning it this year.
Just want to let y'all know,speaking into existence, and
we're going to beat the Cowboys.
We're going to beat the Cowboys, y'all.
I just want y'all to know yeah,might be down there too With
(42:48):
all my purple and black.
Might be purple, not too muchblack, because it's still hot in
Dallas, but, yeah, big flockfan, big flock nation, what else
, what else?
What else we got?
Hmm, trying to think it's anice, it's a nice 44, what 40
(43:22):
something minutes?
Yeah, oh, if y'all got anybodyy'all think should be on the
show.
Um, reach out to me.
I'm on RWMTM pod On IG.
Um, rwmtm pod On TikTok.
Uh, rwmtm pod On, um, uh, oh,youtube, youtube.
(43:48):
And look the merch.
You can get your merch In thelink In the bio.
Oh, youtube, youtube.
And look the merch.
You can get your merch in thelink in the bio.
You can get your merch on whatis it?
What's the name of the site?
Streamlabs, yeah, streamlabs.
Shout out to Streamlabs.
Shout out to Streamlabs.
Shout out to my bro, big johnwith rare love.
(44:12):
Um, if y'all want to get somerare love clothing, make sure
y'all use my, my coupon code,rwmtmlove.
Um, definitely get, I think, 10, 10 or 15 percent off off the
site.
We definitely still got like acollab one coming up.
Um, who else?
Oh, opus clip.
(44:33):
Shout out to opus clip.
Oh, yeah, that's, that's whatit is.
I need sponsors.
I need more sponsors.
I would like to have moresponsors.
Um, if you rocking with me andyou, you, you, uh, like what I
do, you like, um, how Iinterview, and things of that
nature, please reach out to meif I haven't reached out to you
(44:53):
first.
Hey, two way street, two waystreet, trying to think I think
I covered everything.
Yeah, I covered everything,covered everything.
Yeah, I covered everything,covered everything.
But like always, man, Iappreciate each and every one of
(45:17):
you for really just tuning in,listening.
Some people say that my voiceis soothing.
Some people say they love theway I communicate and talk.
I ain't perfect, you know whatI mean.
Got to put a little swing inthere, a little twang in there.
Everybody always think that I'mfrom the South, but I am.
(45:39):
My whole family then migratedfrom Meridian, Mississippi, and,
on my mom's side, pensacola,florida.
So everybody that moved fromthe South up to Detroit.
So, yeah, Appreciate y'all,thank y'all for tuning in and
staying tuned in.
But if you haven't told anybody, go tell somebody to go follow
(46:03):
RWMTM pod and like that I'mTweezy, I'm gone.
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