April 30, 2024 • 48 mins
Become a Relative & send some love
Stepping into the multifaceted world of Rebecca, a Motor T Marine who's been steering through the challenges of military life and single motherhood, this episode unfurls a tapestry of endurance and ambition. As she navigates her eight-year journey with the Marines, alongside raising two kids and chasing a master's degree, her story is one of relentless drive and the quest for balance. Our conversation peels back the layers of co-parenting and personal growth, revealing the intricacies of Rebecca's life as we chart her voyage through reenlistment choices and the pursuit of her own identity beyond the uniform.
Ever wondered how deep the bonds of camaraderie run within the military community? This episode celebrates the enduring relationships that outlast service time and rank, thanks to guests like Nina, a Marine from New York with an array of ventures and a refreshing take on the evolving role of female Marines. We discuss the art of networking, not just for career gains but for the rich, vibrant connections it fosters. From themed networking events to the tales of shared hardships and triumphs, we uncover the true wealth that lies in human connections, as they weave the fabric of our professional and personal lives.
As we bid adieu to the uniform, we plunge into the complexities of life after the Marines, illuminated by stories of transition and the significance of leadership within the Corps. We share leadership insights and reflect on the importance of maintaining a solid identity, with or without the military backdrop. The episode underscores the pivotal role of preparation and support systems in smoothing the path to civilian life and stresses the value of personal values and integrity that guide us through life's unpredictable turns. Join us for a journey through the heart of the Marine experience, where we shed our uniforms to reveal the strength of character that defines us.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, here you go, here you go, let's get that Okay
Ready for you, welcome.
Welcome to Relationships WorthMore Than Money.
I'm Tweezy, and who I have here?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
My name's Rebecca.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Rebecca, where you from?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
First, st Lucie Florida, south Florida, south
Florida.
You drove all the way up here.
No, I'm actually stationed inMaryland when Indian Head In the
morning I am Motor T.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Motor T yeah, motor time yes, let's get it.
Let's get it.
That's what's up.
So I know Kadeem was doingthings for every model.
What was your thing?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
So I picked between the 1930s to 1950s.
Okay, yeah, it was last minute.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah, it was last minute, last minute, that was
last minute, so how many outfitsyou got?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I just brought one today, okay.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Okay, order T.
How long you been in?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Going on seven.
I'm going on eight years.
Okay, how you meet Kadeem.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
When I moved to Maryland he reached out to me
for a photo.
Help build his portfolio.
Yeah, okay, nice, nice, crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Relationships, you how relationships work.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
It's crazy, right it is.
I have some stories, yeah, yeah.
So, um, how long you been inthe Marines, going on eight
years, eight years and you, uh,staying there long, yeah, I'm
about to reenlist again.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I haven't decided if I'm going to go off the route or
stay where I'm at.
Okay, I mean, do it, do it, whynot?
I'm about to work on mymaster's degree in October.
Yeah, have associates inscience finishing my bachelor's
in psychology.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Oh yeah, you're running it.
You ain't got to worry aboutnothing.
Yeah, I'm a single mom.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Honestly, honestly, this place has been great, and I
say that because I came from awing unit.
That just was really toxic.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I'm a single mom of two girls.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yes, sir, yeah, swinging with the wind.
Yeah, that's what's up.
So you're a single mom.
What?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
are some things that you like to do outside of the
Marine Corps.
Honestly, school.
I try to pour more into my kidsjust because I take away from
them so much by being active.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
And I always like to better myself.
So, whether that's school, I'veenjoyed this.
It's been really hard for me toget out of my comfort zone.
I haven't really foundsomething that I'm connected to
Right, but I really do enjoytraveling Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Traveling, your first duty station was where Okinawa,
japan.
Man, I wish I went to Oki.
I wish I went to Oki.
So I was supposed to go to Oki.
When I came back from Iraq in08, when I was, I was literally
about to get married, butbecause I I wasn't married, I
didn't have point orders to goover, so I just got stationed in
Quantico in 09 when I came back.
(02:42):
So yeah, that was then.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
So did you ever get married?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, we got married.
Oh, okay, then we got divorced.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Oh, that's how it was .
No first round error.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
But that's still my homie, though you know what I
mean.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
So we still, we great co-parents, great co parents.
So you know what I, but yeah,what else?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
What do you want to talk about?
Speaker 1 (03:05):
We can talk about whatever your sport.
You like sport.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I do.
I was a competition cheerleader.
I played softball for 14 years.
I was going to get on theAll-Marine Corps softball team,
but I haven't been able to findhelp with my girls, so Really,
that's funny.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I coached my daughter's softball teams All
three, four of them you got fourdaughters, I got two daughters,
but they play on four teams.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
You're busy.
You're busy, no, I ain't busylike that.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
But no, they busy.
I literally.
We had a game at nine thismorning, then my youngest had
one at 11.
It's full, oh, it just stopped.
We still good, though I stillgot the what's the name, but
yeah, at nine.
Then we had a game at 11, but Ihad.
Then they had a game at 345.
So I was like yo, I can't makethe 345, but I'll make sure I do
(03:55):
these these first.
First.
But yeah, it's been dopesoftball.
I play baseball too, so so youhave a good co-parenting
relationship.
Yeah, yeah, yeah we both wethere, we at the game, we
coaching, we both kind ofcoaching.
You know what I mean.
So it's dope.
It's great to have aco-parenting relationship.
(04:16):
I don't do the drama, you knowwhat I mean.
I ain't with all that, but it's.
It's great to have less ofheadache dealing with.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
You know what I mean I don't know what you mean.
I have headaches, see andthat's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
So it's, it's a different, different type of
game.
When you get out, um, becauseshe was in too, she was a marine
too.
Um, she got out before me, shedid eight years, I did 11, so
it's, it's.
The understanding is there.
So the good thing is we werefriends first.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
So if y'all weren't friends first, a lot of times
you're gonna run into that wewere friends first, um, and then
, when I was pregnant with myfirst daughter, he got another
woman pregnant two weeks apart.
Yeah, and that's not the onlyone, um, and I was pregnant with
my second daughter.
From what he told me, he gotfour other women pregnant.
Yeah, I guess they didn't keeptheir babies, but yeah, he was.
(05:08):
He was a friend and now he's.
I'm not gonna say he's an enemy, but we just have different
grounds.
Um, when I gave birth to myfirst daughter, I came back to
the state, um, he had when I wasin labor.
So so I came, he flew fromJapan to Chicago Right, had a
hookup with a girl, then came towhere I was giving birth.
(05:29):
I gave birth, he went backduring his labor flight, had
another hookup, wow, and thenflew back out to Japan.
And that was just my firstdaughter.
The second one's even worse,jesus.
But that's when I knew and Ijust left.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, my dad had topick me up from the hospital.
Once my dad picked me up fromthe hospital, that was it.
That was it.
I walked away and then 2022,december 17, 2022, he just came
(05:52):
back into their lives.
Yeah, so we're working on it,we are.
I mean, I don't have nothingagainst him.
I'm really into my spiritualjourney right now.
Just connecting back with God.
That's something that I doenjoy.
I go to all these like concertsTasha Cobb, sarah Jigrob, sarah
Robert Drake that's how I hangout with Nina, too.
At the end of the day, like Ican't change what happened.
(06:13):
I can only move forward.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah, you only can move forward and just take the
positive things with you.
Because a lot of times likepeople just want negative going
and keep it going.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Agreed and the energy .
Speaker 1 (06:22):
When your energy's like off, I don't even want to
be around it, Right?
And that's why I was like whenKadeem do these events, it's
always great energy.
So I'm always open to likemeeting new people because the
energy is always high.
It's at a high level at alltimes.
It's like boot camp all overagain.
You know what I'm saying?
Boot camp, right, but boot campall over again.
(06:43):
You know what I'm saying?
But the energy level was high.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Not with a bunch of females.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Well, I don't know about y'all, but on the men's
side, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
But you know, I heard they, they integrated.
Now they integrated.
I want to say they integratedtwo years ago.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Which is.
I wonder how that is.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I don't think it.
Social media, TikTokeverything's taking over a lot.
The one thing that I've noticedis a lot more people are
speaking out about sexualassault, sexual harassment,
things that just should not behappening, so I think that's a
positive.
I mean it's not a positive thatthey're happening, but it's a
positive that people are willingto come forward people coming
forward.
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Because that definitely was a thing back in
2004, all the way until I gotout and it still is.
Yeah, it's really a good thingbecause people have a voice.
Now it's not like you'reshunned or you put away.
You know what I mean.
They sweep it under the rug andI never was a, never was a fan
of that, so it's dope peoplestill try it.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
But you know I'm a firm believer in everything
comes to light at one point forsure, yeah, everything.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
And that's the thing I always tell people like it's
gonna, it's gonna come out rightyou know what I mean.
It could be 10 years from nowjust when yeah, it's only a
matter of time.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
that something's going to come out, but yeah,
this is the relationship worthmore than money and I appreciate
you for coming on for thisquick short you know what I mean
Short, but it's going to beshort but sweet but it's going
to be different clips.
Like you know what I mean, likeyou know what I mean Everybody
and I want to make sure Ieverybody, make sure you give me
(08:21):
your social media.
Yeah, I got you.
Make sure you give me yoursocial media and we can stay
connected, because I mean MotorT.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Gotta stay connected.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah, gotta stay connected, but for sure, for
sure, I appreciate it though.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Absolutely.
Thank you no problem.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Hold on you ready.
I'm whispering so nobody hearwhat I say.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I just did so.
We back Relationships worthmore than money when bosses meet
Three.
Who we got here today?
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Nina, okay, you can put it right here, okay, nina.
Where you from, nina.
I'm from New York, new York,yes, mount Vernon.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Money earning, Okay, money earning burning Okay, how
long have you known, kadeem?
Speaker 5 (09:13):
I want to say I've had him on Instagram for a while
, but he did a lot of photoshoots for my friends and then I
saw him through Instagram andthen I reached out to him
actually to do like a shoot formy one of the events that I had,
Right, so I would say, abouttwo years.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
What event was that?
Was that the all girl event?
Speaker 5 (09:34):
The Galentine.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Yeah, yeah, I remember that one.
I remember that one.
Okay, so two years.
And Was your friends in themilitary or no?
Yes, it's crazy because it'sjust.
We always say that the militaryis a small community, right,
and you never know who you'regoing to bump into, and we
always end up running intofellow military, doesn't matter
(09:58):
what branch.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
But mainly Marines.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
The best.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
The best.
You know what I mean, so wealways got something.
You know what I mean, so wealways got something.
You know what I mean and Ithink it's dope that you know
what I mean.
Like it's more women Marines,so we can kill that stigma about
oh, it ain't no Marines, itain't no female Marines, that's
in the Marine Corps.
That's like cool and this, thisand that Because that and this,
this and that, because thatused to be the statement back in
(10:23):
the day.
I don't know if you know, butyou know we owe.
We've been in back in 04, youknow what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
We are a great asset to the Marine Corps.
The Marine Corps would not runlike a well-oiled machine
without female Marines.
Yes, yes, and I agree.
What's your MOS?
I'm dispersing so finance.
Oh, you was the girl we used togo get the money from Money and
yes, we combat ATM machines,that's exactly what y'all are.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
No, yes.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
We got the cash.
How long you been in?
I've been in 12 years.
You tuning it out or we gonnasee Whatever the Lord put in
front of me, we gonna, one dayat a time.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Okay, so today, what was your era or theme that you
had to come in?
Speaker 5 (11:09):
So I had 2020.
2020?
Yes.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Okay, all right, that's dope.
So how far did he go back?
Speaker 5 (11:17):
I don't know.
We got people from every year.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I see the 1920s.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
And the 30s All right , cool In the 1920s.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Yeah, in the 30s?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
All right, cool, cool , cool.
All right.
What's next for you as far asAfter, like are you stationed
here or anything?
Marine Corps are you doingoutside businesses?
Speaker 5 (11:36):
entrepreneurship so I do a little bit of everything,
just to see what works and whatdoesn't work.
You're not going to besuccessful in everything, so I
do try to.
I do try to bring my dreams tolife, and if it doesn't work out
, then at least I know I tried.
So I currently have an airbnbokay, um.
(11:58):
And I have a investmentproperty in new jersey um, no
one is in fort lauderdale, oneis in.
No one is in Fort Lauderdale,one is in New Jersey, they're in
B&B in Fort Lauderdale.
B&B is in Fort Lauderdale,investment property is in Jersey
.
Okay, so I do that in themilitary and then I just started
a hair business.
So I do a little bit of that.
(12:19):
So your hair business, yeah,yeah real estate yeah, yeah got
a property in Fort Lauderdale.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Yeah, got a property in Jersey.
Uh huh, why not fitness?
Speaker 5 (12:30):
why not fitness?
Yeah, you always working out soI do always work out, but for
me it's like, um, it's mypassion and it's my like escape.
So I feel like if it's aroundme 24 7, I'm gonna lose that
passion.
Yeah, because it's gonna.
It's gonna feel like a job, youknow, and I do it now just for,
(12:51):
like, it's like a form oftherapy, you know.
So I want to keep it as that,something that makes me happy
all right, I got that.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
so have you networked with people here Like so far?
Have you like, met some newfriends, met new people At the
event?
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Yeah, yes, we haven't all exchanged any handles, but
met, talked to pretty mucheverybody here.
All right, all right.
This is a great networkingenvironment.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
So what's as of right now, what's the best thing that
you've witnessed being at thisevent?
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Oh, people that don't know each other talking.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Crazy right.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Love it.
I love coming to events likethis.
Yeah, yeah, I love not knowinganyone Granted because it's, you
know, small world.
You know a few people here andthere, but I literally love
coming to events like this.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
And that's one thing that I will say about Kadeem
Like he's the southernhospitality, he the unk, yeah,
he gonna make sure everybodygood, but he gonna make sure
everybody communicating.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Yeah, he definitely the unk he been like that since
day one.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
So it's like it's like every time he have an event
or we have an event, like it'salways a vibe, absolutely
Because we make sure everybodyis welcome, no matter what color
you are, what facet of theearth you come from.
None of that.
So, okay, I like that Dope.
I appreciate you, appreciateyou for coming on.
(14:14):
Okay, you tried to fight it,tried to fight it.
We 15 minutes in and you little.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Wow, just make sure y'all follow me at bomb
underscore Nina.
That's bomb underscore Nina.
Oh yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
At bomb.
Bomb underscore Nina.
Yes, huh, I know it's recordingit stopped.
It probably did, but I got thewatch Right here.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Yeah, okay, I'm about to say I thought he was going
to have to do it again.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I was like hold up, even if it did stop.
I got the pod.
Oh right, right right.
So that's the most importantpart.
Right, right, right I'm goingto chop up everything, so make
sure everybody get their loveand they shine Okay.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
You are very welcome, thank you, that's my heart.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
We back, we back, we back.
There's so many dope peoplehere, first time meeting you,
yes, and so far, you can goahead and state your name.
There's so many dope peoplehere, first time meeting you,
yes, and so far.
Go ahead, you can go ahead andstate your name.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Hi, so you can call me Diana, Diana Diana.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
What's your social media?
Speaker 4 (15:34):
It's Diana Blaze.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Diana Blaze.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Like a fire.
Flame, yeah, like a flame.
One word together.
All right, so Kadeem was doingthemes.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
What was your theme?
Speaker 4 (15:44):
So my theme was the 1960s and I totally failed that.
Really, I failed the mission.
Yeah, okay, my hair is toocurly.
The beehive did not stay.
1960s was what it's?
Patricia, elvis Presley Whiteyeah, or it's Priscilla.
There you go so her hair.
This is who I was looking up.
Yeah, I was like trying totease it.
(16:05):
I was like Trying to like getthat thing up Like this.
It's so curly, the hair was toocurly.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Too much, so so far how you liking the event.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
The event is perfect For meeting new people.
Yeah, all these beautifulpeople here With so many
different visions, so manydifferent colors.
Everybody's outfits are likeall different kind of levels and
it's just fun.
It's like vibrant and themacaronicheeseisbombcom.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yo shout out to Kwee Cuisines.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Yeah, that joint was crazy.
So you said you failed the 60s.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
I failed it, I did how many outfits did you bring?
This is I brought about five.
This is number three.
Okay, so you still got two more.
Still got two more.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Okay, all right.
When did you meet Kadeem?
Speaker 4 (16:54):
So I met Kadeem at a promotion and I am, I figured it
out at the end, but he was likecoming all the way around.
I was kind of like in a sceneand afterwards I was like, oh
damn, like who was that?
Who was taking all thesepictures?
Like they came out dope and Ihad to find him.
So I'm like seeking him out,I'm like who is this guy?
(17:15):
Who is this guy?
Who was the one taking thepictures?
And then I found the network.
I was able to pinpoint whoknows this person, who knows
this person.
I think that's what brings thisevent.
It makes it so special.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
How long ago was this event?
It was on 5 April.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Not that long ago, so literally recently this month,
I was like three weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
This is your first event, mm-hmm, and how do you
like the event so far?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
It's nice.
So at first it was a little bitweird, right.
It was like, coming in,everybody's already dressed up.
I'm like, all right, I need toget my right outfit.
Everybody's like outfits arelike top line.
I was like I need to catch up.
I need to like be on theirlevel.
But yeah, it's nice the wholething.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
everybody is just very welcoming, everybody is
just very open um we're gettinga lot of different ideas and
this whole space is just bizarre.
Yo, shout out to this space isbizarre, yeah, space.
I know you probably found it onpeer space.
So shout out to the to thepeople um, that the owners of
this home is super dope they'resuper welcoming and it's crazy
because I mean there's so muchgoing on.
We got people taking picturesbehind us.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
We got people to the right we got videographers, we
got everything, everything, andthe main thing is just
networking.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
You know what I?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
mean relationships, work for them, and this is the
prime example right here, likeyou're beating people.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
you know what I mean, not only just photographers and
videographers, but you'reactually beating people.
You know what I mean, not onlyjust photographers and
videographers, but you meetactually good people everywhere
around, right?
You know what I mean.
I think this joint is about totake off.
It's only the third one.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
He do them every quarter, so it's definitely
about to take off Right, rightand I feel like everybody that
came and that's going to stillcome, is going to take off with
us, because that take off withus because that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
It's just building, building with each other.
I think it's super dope.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
The best part is everybody brings a different
perspective to the party.
One of the photographers wewere able to intertwine with one
another.
I already met someone that I'mlike.
Wait, I really like workingwith you.
I know that future collabs aregoing to be outstanding.
They're going to be somethingto look forward to and they're
going to work.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
It's going to be crazy.
I appreciate you for coming.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Thank you.
Thank you for your time.
It's so nice to meet you.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
It's nice to meet you too.
We're definitely going to worksome more.
Everybody's here.
Like I said, we everybody'shere.
Like I said, we're building afamily.
You know what I mean it's justadding on, adding on all
positive energy all positiveenergy.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
I love it and you know, keep it going.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Tweezy, tweezy, that's you Tweezy that's me,
tweezy, that's you I love itthank you, shit.
Speaker 7 (19:55):
That's where my my phone went on sleep mode.
That's where it was.
Yeah, for the music.
Well, it's been doing that thewhole afternoon.
Yeah, it's been going in andout.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
So we here with my brother JJ, the sponsor of this
whole, when Bosses Meet.
So how long did you know,kadeem?
Speaker 7 (20:18):
Me and Kadeem met back in 2012, 13, on the drill
field.
We were both drill instructorstogether and then the first time
I met him that was his hand, bythe way, that went across the
camera.
That was Kadeem Walker, justheads up.
That was Kadeem.
Anyways, it's impromptu, we'llgo with it, but the first time I
met him was in DI school and hewas on a drill instructor panel
(20:40):
and he's up on the stage withhis voice and he's like Morning.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
My name's Drill Instructor, sean Walker, and all
I can tell you is the man, theman, the man.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
So that was you and Riley in them.
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
That was the first time I met him, me Serger Young
Guns.
Like all of them, that was thefirst time I met him, and then
we've been close for I think,about eight years.
But the past three years thatI've lived here in Stafford
Quantico area, me, him and Alexare really close.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
That's dope man, but yeah, it's going about 10 years
strong.
Just crazy man like how we allconnect some way through the
thing.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
Yeah, everybody, the six degrees of separation.
So everybody in this roombetween six people, especially a
lot of us are Marines.
Like I didn't know that youknew her and her brother.
I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
They're my police, and then she was her hat during
a time frame Because she waslike what's her name?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
And I was like that's .
Speaker 7 (21:31):
Biddle.
So it's just that six degreesof separation, they say seven,
they say six.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
But I mean that we all are linked in some way
somehow.
So you, you, you in atransition right now.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
bro, you ready for?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
it.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Yeah.
I say that now uh, I've beenmentally preparing for it, um,
but I guess it'll.
It'll hit me once I'm likelegit out out, you know, um.
So I'm ready for it.
I'm ready for the newchallenges, trials for trials,
tribulations, failures,successes.
I'm ready for it all.
I'm ready for it.
Why?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
you.
I got a question for you.
Why do you think relationshipsare important?
Speaker 7 (22:08):
So my doctorate, so I'm working on my doctorate in
business, and the focus isstrategic leadership with
emotional intelligence, right.
So I think relationships, so anindividual person can achieve a
lot, right, but we as a humanbeing, human beings as a species
, we achieve everything together, you don't I'm a big believer
(22:29):
of.
It takes a village, so it takesa village to raise somebody, it
takes a village to supportsomebody, it takes a village to
just be.
There's a difference betweenbeing alone and being lonely,
and you have to, you have tounderstand that.
And hey, kadeem, in thebackground, again.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
He's in the background again.
Hey, just heads up, that's himright there.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
That's him, right there, man.
He can do whatever he want.
Man, I'm a legend, butrelationships are the foundation
to everything.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
It is, it is man.
I try to push that and I alwaystell tell people it's kind of
just about the money, becausewhatever relationship that
you're having is positive, buildit, it's going to bring you
emphasis on the positive though,because you can be in a
relationship that's very taxingand negative and toxic, but you
stay in it.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
So I always say step forward for progress, back for
comfort.
So if you say four, four, stepforward for progress, yeah,
backwards for comfort.
So if you were raised in a hardcommunity, if you were raised
in a toxic family, if you wereraised in an abusive family,
you're going to be attracted tothat naturally because you're
comfortable in it.
So that's why you see a lot ofpeople in these relationships
that are very taxing on them,because that's all they know.
(23:35):
So they don't know how to stepout of that comfort zone.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
And that's a lot of the things that I've learned
just through therapy and mystudies on how to step out of
that comfort zone.
And that's a lot of the thingsthat I've learned just through
therapy and in my studies on howto do things.
What's up, just stop, it's fine.
I mean, because it's a video.
Little you out, you out out,right safe.
Oh, oh, we back withrelationships worth more than
money.
Who I have to my love?
Oh, they call me.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
Rod Rod, yeah, okay, you got a social media handle.
I mean, I do got social media,but it's not crazy.
Okay, no IG Rod.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
We don't go with no IG Rod.
I used to go by that back inthe day.
So look man, how did you meetKadeem?
Speaker 6 (24:23):
I met Kadeem through my wife and then just some.
I guess you could tell he's areal one, because I knew leaders
in my military career that knewhim as well.
So I guess it's just You're inthe Marines too.
Yeah, I'm still active rightnow.
Oh man, we just keep running toeach other, man.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
So me and Kadeem, we've been knowing each other
since boot camp, oh really,since boot camp.
Mct Motor T Cali.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Man.
What you know about Motor T.
What you know about Motor.
T you Motor T too, yeah, I amMotor.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
T yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
But hey, that's what I'm saying, man.
It's crazy because we operateon a positive level.
Oh, yeah 100%, and every eventthat he does, it's always dope
man, and I always tell peopleyou gotta come to these events
because it's more than justphotography, it's more than
(25:10):
videography.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
I can agree with that , kadeem.
He was speaking to my wifeabout it and everything.
It was like oh yeah, you got2,000.
Then they threw me in here,they had me down back.
I was with the 5XL t-shirt, youhad the Tims.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I seen you.
I seen you with the Tims on.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
They had me out in my comfort zone.
But once we started shootingeverything, you could see the
vibes was natural.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yeah man, that's all it's about.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
It was genuine, so we was able to move forward is
like we move together, but it'salways some static somewhere.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Like it might not be with us, but it's wherever we go
.
And this, to me, it's like thisevent is just always positivity
building relationships,friendships, like just meeting
new people, like I'm at home,I'm just meeting you.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
I'm meeting so many people and it's like crazy, like
we all were in the Marines orwe're affiliated somehow from
military or whatever, but whatyou think about the event so far
, I mean so far, I think it's agood experience, it's beneficial
.
One and two, just like you saidbefore, just the networking.
Once you see, like you know,everybody can let their guard
down, you know speak and you cansee, like, the relevancy that
everybody has, whether it'sthrough military pictures and
all that other stuff, modeling,like.
You see all these kind ofthings that you can relate to
(26:29):
and you can benefit off whereit's networking, and then one
thing turns to another and itgoes from opportunity to job
offerings and stuff like that soit's good that you know it
creates that environment foreverywhere where it's like it's
a growing thing.
You know you can see certaindifferent postures, positions,
stuff like that Different angles.
You know you can pick eachother's brains and stuff like
(26:50):
that.
So it's a great.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Like you said, it's a beneficial environment and
that's why, like when I startedthis podcast which it was
because of that, because I wasthinking about all the things
that me and Kadeed we've beenthrough and how many
relationships that we reallycreated from either- the Marine
Corps or living out in Cali orbeing stationed, wherever we
(27:11):
were stationed at and how westill kind of bring it all in
and keep it going.
So you had 2000s.
You rock it with the wholeconcept of how everybody yeah,
you know what I mean when yourbirthday cause you said.
You said you was really kindalike tryna figure it out, like
when you had 2000s.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
Nah, I just turned 27 in March, so I'm a March 30s
baby.
So, okay, I was a 90s baby.
Yeah, yeah, I was a 90s baby,so around 11, 12 years old.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
You know, I had the G-Unit baggy t-shirts on, so I
ain't about to look it up.
Remember the G-Unit the tank.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
Yeah, I had the G-Unit tank.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
you know the three colored one, the colored drink
yeah With the G-Unit sneakers orthe Sean Carter's.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
Oh no, I kept the white ones that was in those
uptowns.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
The uptowns you had the little blue jean dots, yeah
yeah, we called them the onesback in Detroit, so like, yeah,
that's dope man.
What do you plan on doing whenyou get out?
Speaker 6 (28:10):
Right now.
I got two boys right now, so Ijust plan on just seeing it.
I think Roy Jones said it bestone time where he just said you
just got to ride that horse.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
You got to make up your mind and just ride that
horse.
Whenever you feel you're whereyou need to be in life, you get
off.
I feel like that's why it iswith everybody in the Marine
Corps especially.
People will do four years,people will do eight.
There's people who make acareer out of it.
There's people who go way pastthe 20.
You got what I'm saying.
Like you just got to ride thathorse and that's where I'm at
right now.
You know, with my kids andeverything I want to build a
(28:42):
nice strong foundation and thenfrom there, whenever I'm ready
to go, it's still recording,that's cool.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
We still recording here, that's fine.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's good.
As long as I get the audio wegood, go ahead.
I don't know how to keep sayingfull, like 256 gigs.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
It's going to be crazy, but it's still good, yeah
, no, my question for you,though, to ask you a question Do
you feel like you feel likeyou're like you said the Name Me
A Podcast, right yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Relationships worth more than money.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Relationships worth more than money.
Do you feel like you got?
You learned that through BMO.
Learn that through BMO to TLike in the Marine Corps.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
I think so, man, like just from being in the Marines
man, because me being fromDetroit and playing, you know
when you're in the sports you'rebuilding relationships through
teamwork.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
Oh yeah, 100%.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Building families through that and I think when I
joined the Marines I startedunderstanding it ain't about
what you know.
Oh yeah, you know what.
I'm saying I mean what you knowcan help you, but who you know
is going to get you to the nextlevel, and that's always been
the thing, man.
It's just like you know what Imean building good relationships
, positive relationships withpeople and learning from them.
(29:50):
Negative relationships that youwas in, because you know, hold
it man.
I think, yeah, it's definitelyfrom the Marine Corps.
You know what I mean and plusmy family.
Speaker 6 (29:56):
You know what I mean.
My family was always together.
So that's what made me love theMarine Corps more, because once
(30:22):
you get in, bro, like you knowwhat I mean it's unique.
I say the Marine Corps isdefinitely unique because you
got so many different sides ofit.
Yeah, Every side of the earth, Ihate to say, because you know
there's a lot of people thatcome to Quantico specifically.
Quantico is a place that youcome to first and it's very I
feel like it should be like asecond duty station for a lot of
people.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
It should be a first.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Because a lot of people judge it like I went
overseas as my first order andgranted, you know, there were
some hard times there, butthrough hard times is where the
best brotherhood has come about,you hear what I'm saying Like
over here in Quantico.
You know you get in your car,drive off, see your family and
everything like that when youoverseas you ain't got no cars.
You ain't got no family.
(31:00):
All you got is people who loveto ride you.
That's all you got.
So you got to make what's bestfor you, and I feel like that's
where all the memories reallycome from?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Yeah, and it's crazy because I went to my sister's
retirement.
She just retired my boy, hardy.
That was Motor T.
You know what I'm saying, mybro.
So it's like thoserelationships never go away.
You know what I mean?
A hundred percent, they nevergo away.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
And we there, like we , always there, we stay locked
in.
I was just in.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Cali in April for her retirement, you know what I
mean.
Came back home.
So it's like I don't like, bro,I'm coming to the DMV, like you
still there.
I'm like, yeah, oh, yeah, thathappens, all the time that
happens all the time with people.
Speaker 6 (31:43):
It's like literally I think it's just one dude and we
all play football.
Because I played overseas, Iplayed professionally over there
with them and literally it'slike he was a drill instructor.
He came back, another one who'sa corpsman from Greenside
coming back and it's like ohyeah, I, yeah, I'm in North
Carolina.
You know, whenever you comethrough, link up and it's just
like you said, it's just nonstoprelations that you just build,
(32:04):
that you never get rid of.
So I feel like that's justsomething I'll always take and
cherish from them.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yeah, because it's definitely worth more than money
, man, and I tell people thisall the time.
Just because I'm saying thatit's not saying you can't get no
money.
The relationships can build youhigher.
Whatever you thought you wasgoing to make, they can put you
in a bigger position or a betterposition.
Oh yeah, you know what I'msaying and that's yeah, I know I
know it's not.
It keeps saying fool, but I'mrecording here though.
(32:30):
Yeah, thank you.
But yeah, man.
So yeah, I always say that man,relationships, relationships,
are going to always be greaterBecause money it come and go,
money do come and go.
Relationships.
When you're building them right, they're there forever.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
I value.
I don't know.
It's probably just the way Iwas raised, being from New York
in Brooklyn with my mom.
What part of Brooklyn?
I was in Williamsburg, bushwick, and then I originally was
raised in the Bronx over byFordham and then I moved down to
Brooklyn.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Yeah, I had some homies from Canarsie.
Oh no, you got trouble beingwith you.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
The Marines, the Flossies.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yeah yeah, yeah, those were the Flossies days.
Speaker 6 (33:18):
You know how it is.
We used to be with the bros.
That's why we used to play.
We used to play in the gyms.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
I was a recruiter in Jersey.
Damn, yeah, right across thestreet in Hackett, like in
Berkman County damn so.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was great, that was a
flossy.
Yeah, canarsie man, I used topull up on them all.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
We go to South Jamaica Queens, we go to the
Bronx, we go everywhere.
So my thing, baseball is myfavorite sport.
Yeah, so I made sure I went tothe Yankees stadium before I
left.
Really Fire, bro, when theyfirst built that new one.
Yeah, no with us.
I mean it's right, there, wewas always like low.
Speaker 6 (33:54):
Our family was always low working class, so the way
we used to see the Yankees play,we used to watch the Mets play,
because you know the Mets suckyou used to always get free
tickets.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Yeah, you used to always get free tickets, so we
used to go and see them overthere and I used to see the
Yankees play.
Speaker 6 (34:06):
Because the fun thing though my freshman year, my
freshman year I never got to seethe Yankees play.
But I was on a varsity baseballteam.
I played for Grand City Campusover in Bushwick and then from
there we ended up going to thechampionship and we ended up
playing in Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
But that was just like something that was crazy,
that was like a different level.
Speaker 6 (34:26):
Yeah, that's dope, that's dope, that's something
I'll always cherish.
And then, like once I got, onceI had my son, I was able to you
know, obviously I'm YankeeStadium for the first time with
him and it brought back memories.
It was like damn, we didn'teven come here as kids.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Yeah, yeah, he loved it.
I know he loved it yo.
So, yeah, man, because I playedin a Tiger Stadium for Comerica
Park my senior year.
I made it to the All-Star Gameand I never played outfield, bro
.
They put me in an outfield.
Somebody hit that joint outthere, bro.
They put me in the outfield.
Somebody hit that joint outthere, bro.
(35:02):
I'm like, In what position wereyou really?
I played short, short, third.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
I played the whole infield, but short and third was
my main too, and I was jealousof y'all and I picked it.
I was jealous you were sittingthere first.
No, I was left-handed.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Oh yeah, I yeah, I played them all.
Man Catcher, pitcher.
I played everything infield, Idid it, but never played
outfield Even my youth years broI never played outfield, I
always played infield.
Speaker 6 (35:27):
Outfield is a very unique position, specifically
because it's kind of like withthe Marine Corps You're the last
line of defense.
That ball get by you, it's awrap.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Yeah, your whole team is on you, your whole team is
on you.
Speaker 6 (35:38):
Your whole team is on you.
Because you got high knees andhigh step boy, you got to go
after it.
So I mean the pressure wasalways there being in the
outfield, especially those linedrives that came right over.
Second, you had to charge it,but you couldn't charge it too
much.
You charge too much, you getburnt.
There it is.
That's extra base.
So it was always especiallylike when them dudes I used to
purposely slow down, wait forthem to round second and then
(36:01):
just let it go fire.
I was arrogant when we used tonever hit, cut off.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Yeah just let that joint loose.
Speaker 6 (36:06):
I used to let it loose 100% rounds down range I
used to always just send them,so that was a good time.
Yeah, man, that's dope man.
If I had one last questionbefore we get out, can you name
a time where you feel likewhether it was in the military
or outside the military that youfelt relationships what was
(36:26):
that?
You said, worth more than money?
Yeah, relationships worth morethan money, you felt like saved
you and it kind of like was yourproven point, if that makes
sense.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
I'll give you one.
It's a lot actually, but I'llgive you one.
When I got out, man, I wasn'ttrying to get out, no, I was a.
If you remember, in 2015, theyhad that that service limitation
going on.
Yeah, what left?
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
(36:56):
So I had um before I got out,man, like I had a hard time
Because they forced me out.
I didn't do nothing wrong.
I was a fucking top of the lineMarine.
You know what I'm saying, tookcare of the Marines, made sure
everybody was taken care of, andit was just my service
(37:16):
limitations and I did recruitingso I can bypass that and get
promoted and all that stuff.
But for unforeseen reasons, inJersey, I didn't get promoted.
When I was doing my thing outthere, I got to penalty and
literally I put in myreenlistment package and they
were like no bro, you can'treenlist.
(37:38):
And I'm like what you mean?
They're like you gotta pee.
I'm like I never was in zone.
They're like you was in thebelow zone.
I'm like, yeah, but they neversaid they moved the zone up or
anything.
And that, right, there is whatcrushed me.
I'm trying to do.
This would have been 20 yearsthis year.
Speaker 6 (37:57):
January 2004 to January 2024 would have been my
20 years, and it was just like areenlistment issue or like you
wasn't able to transfer out todifferent branches.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
No, so I could have transferred out to different
branches, man, but at that timeit was like ring corps was all I
knew.
I joined at 18.
100%.
I felt that that's how it iswith me.
I.
Speaker 6 (38:16):
Someone would tell me that and I'm like yeah, I could
have done that.
Like I was setting myself up, Icould have put another uniform
on.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Yeah, I, was setting myself up and I was going to
college, while I was ineverything and then it was just
like boom, and I just had a.
I just had my second daughter.
Yeah, Like a couple monthsbefore that.
Like four or five what I'mgoing to do now.
You know what I mean.
Can't go back to moms, if itwasn't for Coco, my homegirl,
(38:42):
coco Lampson, and Tina Tinaturned up, my homegirls and my
brother, my brother Shannon,like, and Rivera, like they kept
me.
They kept me straight.
Like you know what I mean, Iwas going through it.
Speaker 6 (38:58):
Like you know what I mean I was going through it Like
cause, bro, I like I, literallyhad.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
I had a month to get out, to figure, figure
everything out.
Speaker 6 (39:03):
A month, bro, I tell that to all my dudes when they
be saying like, oh, yeah, youknow I'm going to get out.
I'm like what's your plan?
Yeah, oh, language, but wedon't give a fuck.
He was a marine at all.
They really don't like my boywas doing.
(39:24):
One of my mans was straight up,like straight up, told him like
yo, he told all of us.
He over there, like hey, youknow, give him some motivating
words.
You know, guys, dd214.
And he was like hey, why areyou getting out?
And he's expecting thecaptain's expecting him to say
something like motivate.
He was like I want to get outso I can smoke some weed
straight up, like that.
And he was like I want to getout so I can smoke some weed
Straight up, like that.
And he was like all right, cutit.
He got out, he was doing good,he was working as a, he got
(39:47):
engaged, he was working as acoach for like a volleyball team
and then life hit him twomonths later and he was maxing
out credit cards.
He got laid off because ofCOVID, because of the whole
COVID situation.
Was he at NY2?
Speaker 1 (39:59):
Yeah, laid off because of COVID?
Speaker 6 (39:59):
Yeah, because of the whole COVID situation.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Yeah, wasn't he at NY2?
Yeah, yeah, it was super heavyover there.
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 6 (40:02):
He completely got laid off.
Now he's living off creditcards.
The financial stress caused himto split and now he was
stressed out, maxed out, tryingto figure it out.
All the homies that we all gotmatching tattoos Right, we all
re-up, we all.
We all re-up another four.
Some of us are staffed, some ofthem even went to warrant
officers.
You know, I'm still doing mything.
(40:22):
And then it's like damn, if Iknew everybody was going to do
what y'all did.
I would've just so imagine fromhis point of view where it was
like, where him?
He even had the choice tore-enlist and he turned it down,
especially with us being MotorSeat Motor Seat's probably one.
Emma West is out there to thisday.
Yeah, bro, we're second largest.
We're second largest bro.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
So it's like you gotta have, you gotta have a
plan man, like you gotta have aplan A, b, c and D, and I always
tell people like plan.
A like you know how you do allthe motivating oh I'm staying,
da-da-da-da, that's my only plan.
(41:02):
Them I mean backing me.
They always like kept in touchwith me, man, because you know
what I mean.
That's when that mental healthreally kicked in, like all the
PTSD from being deployed.
You know what I'm saying.
All that shit really kicked in,but it's like.
Now it's like I'm in defensemode and I shouldn't be that,
but I had to go through that,but it made me better man, it
made me better and when I getout man, I always tell even
Marines I run into at 8th and9th or wherever I'm at.
(41:22):
I always talk to them and askthem like, what's your plan,
what you going to do If youain't been to the?
Speaker 6 (41:26):
you know what I mean to the BAS, or you know what I'm
saying.
You need to go MSU.
You can go out of junior rank.
You get your TS clearance.
It's three years.
You get to go travel.
You got your chef, you gotwhatever it is you want to do
and if you don't want to re-up,you got a TS clearance and you
(41:47):
got your degree and you can stayover there or you can come over
here.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
A hundred percent In the National Capital Region and
work anywhere Easily.
It's active.
Oh, let's get him.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (41:59):
So one last thing I know we're going through on time
.
We just ended up diving deep inand just kept it 100.
But that's what it is when youget genuine vibes.
If you was to stay in, whatwould have been your actual
reason as far as like what kindof leader you thought you were
while you was in?
I think I was Because you knowwe all had those like oh hell,
(42:22):
no, I can't wait to pick up,because I ain't going to be like
that dude.
I was a sergeant for eight yearsbro, damn Eight years, so I'm
on two.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Yeah, I was a sergeant for eight years.
So eight out of my 11 years Iwas doing my thing.
So I would say I'd have beenthat same leading, motivating
but understanding sergeant thatI was.
Yeah, I kept it real with them.
You know what I'm saying oh,100%.
(42:50):
With the junior Marines, but Ialso like, I also like gave them
leeway until they messed up.
In other words, you gave themtheir grown man.
Speaker 6 (43:00):
You gave them their grown man respect.
You gave them their grown manrespect.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
It was submarine.
That was like like I had onemarine shout out to my bro,
devoe.
He was the same age as me buthe was a PFC because he joined
late.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
Yeah, so I wasn't going to talk to him any crazy
yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
We was at record school together.
Speaker 6 (43:18):
You know what I'm saying?
I'm a sergeant.
Yeah, back in Missouri.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
Yeah so it's like we still tight to this day.
You know what I'm saying.
It's because it's like Iunderstand, like, yeah, that
Marine Corps weight is one thing.
Speaker 6 (43:30):
Man, that's a grown man.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
This is a grown exactly what's crazy.
Speaker 6 (43:34):
You got a 19-year-old mandatory corpor his room.
He's like hey, open the door.
I'm talking about hey, fixyourself.
Speaker 1 (43:40):
That's a grown man.
Speaker 6 (43:41):
Especially when these boys be putting up weight.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
Now I'm going to put it like this when I was a PFC, I
had to put my corporal on hisneck.
Yeah, you know what I mean.
And ever since then, everybodyhad the respect, like hey, and
it has to be like that, but I'mglad that it still brings like
you.
Speaker 6 (44:03):
you know what I'm saying oh yeah, Shout out.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
That's holding it down, man, because it's always a
good thing to hear, yeah, thatI mean it's still going in a way
, and the questions that you askare good questions.
Nobody never really asks mequestions.
Yeah, which I'm cool with.
Really ask me questions.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
Yeah, which I'm cool with because it's a dialect you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
It's a dialogue, so we having conversations.
So you know what I'm saying.
At the end of the day, yeah,man, it's just I still would
have been.
I honestly think I still wouldhave been in after my 20s.
Yeah, believe it, or?
Speaker 6 (44:31):
not the new one, the new Sergeant, major Brinkhall.
He's one of those ones.
Like he's one of those ones.
I first said I first seen him inQuantico.
Yeah, and I'll never forgetthis story.
Everybody was there, everybodywas lost.
But it hit me in my soul Likehe was like hey, you know, great
(44:51):
job, you know regular.
He was like y'all can say whaty'all want, correct me if y'all
want.
Took his cover off through it.
We outdoors, we outdoors.
He's talking to the stadium.
Now they got OCS, they got OCSrecruits like cadets and stuff.
So they sitting in thebleachers and stuff and just the
(45:15):
kind of leader that we all were.
He's like, hey, good morning,how's everybody?
And then obviously them beingrecruits, like come on, sergeant
Major.
He's like, oh, so we gotrecruits here.
And they're like, yeah,sergeant Major.
He's like good, everybody getup.
Now sit back down.
So he starts messing with them.
And then he really got down toit.
He was like, hey, shout out tothe leadersverick.
(45:38):
And everybody's all confusedand stuff.
And I'm like yo, what is thisdude talking?
He's like good, if you'rereally a maverick, you're
probably not even going to haveyour hand raised.
And he's like I'm talking,those mavericks are those ones
that they lead with a morecompass.
They lead with who they are,who they were raised, and
genuinely what's right andwhat's wrong, not just black and
(46:01):
white.
Black and white is there, in myopinion, I feel like black and
white is there to give usguidance, right, that's what
it's for.
And then, with your, your moralcompass, how you was brought up
, you, you coincide with that,right, and that's what makes you
the leader that you are.
You get what I'm saying becauseat the end of the day, you know
, uh, shout out to he ever seesthis, he always.
He sparked a big controversythroughout social media where he
(46:24):
, straight up, was like hey, Idon't know who to hear this and
I quote you're not a Marine 24-7.
And what he mean by that.
He's not saying like come 1630,my phone's on, do not disturb,
I'm throwing it off, no, but atthe end of the day, you know,
especially for you example, likeyou say, you did recruiting,
right, right, and you got kidsright, right.
So you recruiting andeverything.
You go to these schools andeverything like that, and you
(46:46):
recruiting.
You know, oh yeah, I'm Sergeantso-and-so this, that and the
third, that's cool, but now youat your son's baseball game, he
don't want to see Sergeant,so-and-so Right.
He don't want to see his dad andhe want to see him Supporting
he don't want to see that.
Sorry, you're not about to sitthere when he takes that strike
out.
Or you know, those hard timescome up and you're going to sit
(47:07):
there and it's like, hey, listen, double dog, fix yourself first
.
No man, like You're not aMarine 24-7.
That don't mean If you don'tcall I'm not going to answer it,
just specifically mean thatknow who you are.
This isn't all you know, right,because eventually, like you
said, whether you ready or not,they could take that from you
(47:28):
easy and who you are without youeven like, knowing, like,
because that's what happened tome.
Speaker 1 (47:32):
It went like that and then it was like alright, now
what you gonna do.
Speaker 6 (47:34):
You know what I'm saying that's what it really
come down to is like who are youreally right when, when, that?
Speaker 2 (47:41):
adversity hit who you .
Are you really?
Speaker 1 (47:41):
When that adversity hits.
Who are you really?
Speaker 6 (47:42):
That shit hit the fan .
That rank can be taken by anymeans.
That's it.
In the blink of an eye you canrisk it all, and then what?
That's what I'm saying, yeahman, for sure.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
No, IG Rod man.
I appreciate you man.
I appreciate you man.
I'm going to be looking out forthis.
Yeah, man, I'm going to put itout shortly.
Some of the videos are going tobe like little chops and stuff
like that.
Speaker 6 (48:04):
Yeah, nah, nah, so chill.
Speaker 1 (48:06):
But I got the audio, so the audio is definitely going
to be on there, nah.
Speaker 6 (48:09):
I got to follow this.
I got to follow it when you aton Instagram RWMTM.
Yeah, here you go, here you go, let's get that Okay
Ready for you, welcome.
Welcome to Relationships WorthMore Than Money.
I'm Tweezy, and who I have here?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
My name's Rebecca.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Rebecca, where you from?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
First, st Lucie Florida, south Florida, south
Florida.
You drove all the way up here.
No, I'm actually stationed inMaryland when Indian Head In the
morning I am Motor T.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Motor T yeah, motor time yes, let's get it.
Let's get it.
That's what's up.
So I know Kadeem was doingthings for every model.
What was your thing?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
So I picked between the 1930s to 1950s.
Okay, yeah, it was last minute.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah, it was last minute, last minute, that was
last minute, so how many outfitsyou got?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I just brought one today, okay.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Okay, order T.
How long you been in?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Going on seven.
I'm going on eight years.
Okay, how you meet Kadeem.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
When I moved to Maryland he reached out to me
for a photo.
Help build his portfolio.
Yeah, okay, nice, nice, crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Relationships, you how relationships work.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
It's crazy, right it is.
I have some stories, yeah, yeah.
So, um, how long you been inthe Marines, going on eight
years, eight years and you, uh,staying there long, yeah, I'm
about to reenlist again.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I haven't decided if I'm going to go off the route or
stay where I'm at.
Okay, I mean, do it, do it, whynot?
I'm about to work on mymaster's degree in October.
Yeah, have associates inscience finishing my bachelor's
in psychology.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Oh yeah, you're running it.
You ain't got to worry aboutnothing.
Yeah, I'm a single mom.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Honestly, honestly, this place has been great, and I
say that because I came from awing unit.
That just was really toxic.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I'm a single mom of two girls.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yes, sir, yeah, swinging with the wind.
Yeah, that's what's up.
So you're a single mom.
What?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
are some things that you like to do outside of the
Marine Corps.
Honestly, school.
I try to pour more into my kidsjust because I take away from
them so much by being active.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
And I always like to better myself.
So, whether that's school, I'veenjoyed this.
It's been really hard for me toget out of my comfort zone.
I haven't really foundsomething that I'm connected to
Right, but I really do enjoytraveling Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Traveling, your first duty station was where Okinawa,
japan.
Man, I wish I went to Oki.
I wish I went to Oki.
So I was supposed to go to Oki.
When I came back from Iraq in08, when I was, I was literally
about to get married, butbecause I I wasn't married, I
didn't have point orders to goover, so I just got stationed in
Quantico in 09 when I came back.
(02:42):
So yeah, that was then.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
So did you ever get married?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, we got married.
Oh, okay, then we got divorced.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Oh, that's how it was .
No first round error.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
But that's still my homie, though you know what I
mean.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
So we still, we great co-parents, great co parents.
So you know what I, but yeah,what else?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
What do you want to talk about?
Speaker 1 (03:05):
We can talk about whatever your sport.
You like sport.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I do.
I was a competition cheerleader.
I played softball for 14 years.
I was going to get on theAll-Marine Corps softball team,
but I haven't been able to findhelp with my girls, so Really,
that's funny.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I coached my daughter's softball teams All
three, four of them you got fourdaughters, I got two daughters,
but they play on four teams.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
You're busy.
You're busy, no, I ain't busylike that.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
But no, they busy.
I literally.
We had a game at nine thismorning, then my youngest had
one at 11.
It's full, oh, it just stopped.
We still good, though I stillgot the what's the name, but
yeah, at nine.
Then we had a game at 11, but Ihad.
Then they had a game at 345.
So I was like yo, I can't makethe 345, but I'll make sure I do
(03:55):
these these first.
First.
But yeah, it's been dopesoftball.
I play baseball too, so so youhave a good co-parenting
relationship.
Yeah, yeah, yeah we both wethere, we at the game, we
coaching, we both kind ofcoaching.
You know what I mean.
So it's dope.
It's great to have aco-parenting relationship.
(04:16):
I don't do the drama, you knowwhat I mean.
I ain't with all that, but it's.
It's great to have less ofheadache dealing with.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
You know what I mean I don't know what you mean.
I have headaches, see andthat's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
So it's, it's a different, different type of
game.
When you get out, um, becauseshe was in too, she was a marine
too.
Um, she got out before me, shedid eight years, I did 11, so
it's, it's.
The understanding is there.
So the good thing is we werefriends first.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
So if y'all weren't friends first, a lot of times
you're gonna run into that wewere friends first, um, and then
, when I was pregnant with myfirst daughter, he got another
woman pregnant two weeks apart.
Yeah, and that's not the onlyone, um, and I was pregnant with
my second daughter.
From what he told me, he gotfour other women pregnant.
Yeah, I guess they didn't keeptheir babies, but yeah, he was.
(05:08):
He was a friend and now he's.
I'm not gonna say he's an enemy, but we just have different
grounds.
Um, when I gave birth to myfirst daughter, I came back to
the state, um, he had when I wasin labor.
So so I came, he flew fromJapan to Chicago Right, had a
hookup with a girl, then came towhere I was giving birth.
(05:29):
I gave birth, he went backduring his labor flight, had
another hookup, wow, and thenflew back out to Japan.
And that was just my firstdaughter.
The second one's even worse,jesus.
But that's when I knew and Ijust left.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, my dad had topick me up from the hospital.
Once my dad picked me up fromthe hospital, that was it.
That was it.
I walked away and then 2022,december 17, 2022, he just came
(05:52):
back into their lives.
Yeah, so we're working on it,we are.
I mean, I don't have nothingagainst him.
I'm really into my spiritualjourney right now.
Just connecting back with God.
That's something that I doenjoy.
I go to all these like concertsTasha Cobb, sarah Jigrob, sarah
Robert Drake that's how I hangout with Nina, too.
At the end of the day, like Ican't change what happened.
(06:13):
I can only move forward.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah, you only can move forward and just take the
positive things with you.
Because a lot of times likepeople just want negative going
and keep it going.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Agreed and the energy .
Speaker 1 (06:22):
When your energy's like off, I don't even want to
be around it, Right?
And that's why I was like whenKadeem do these events, it's
always great energy.
So I'm always open to likemeeting new people because the
energy is always high.
It's at a high level at alltimes.
It's like boot camp all overagain.
You know what I'm saying?
Boot camp, right, but boot campall over again.
(06:43):
You know what I'm saying?
But the energy level was high.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Not with a bunch of females.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Well, I don't know about y'all, but on the men's
side, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
But you know, I heard they, they integrated.
Now they integrated.
I want to say they integratedtwo years ago.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Which is.
I wonder how that is.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I don't think it.
Social media, TikTokeverything's taking over a lot.
The one thing that I've noticedis a lot more people are
speaking out about sexualassault, sexual harassment,
things that just should not behappening, so I think that's a
positive.
I mean it's not a positive thatthey're happening, but it's a
positive that people are willingto come forward people coming
forward.
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Because that definitely was a thing back in
2004, all the way until I gotout and it still is.
Yeah, it's really a good thingbecause people have a voice.
Now it's not like you'reshunned or you put away.
You know what I mean.
They sweep it under the rug andI never was a, never was a fan
of that, so it's dope peoplestill try it.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
But you know I'm a firm believer in everything
comes to light at one point forsure, yeah, everything.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
And that's the thing I always tell people like it's
gonna, it's gonna come out rightyou know what I mean.
It could be 10 years from nowjust when yeah, it's only a
matter of time.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
that something's going to come out, but yeah,
this is the relationship worthmore than money and I appreciate
you for coming on for thisquick short you know what I mean
Short, but it's going to beshort but sweet but it's going
to be different clips.
Like you know what I mean, likeyou know what I mean Everybody
and I want to make sure Ieverybody, make sure you give me
(08:21):
your social media.
Yeah, I got you.
Make sure you give me yoursocial media and we can stay
connected, because I mean MotorT.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Gotta stay connected.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah, gotta stay connected, but for sure, for
sure, I appreciate it though.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Absolutely.
Thank you no problem.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Hold on you ready.
I'm whispering so nobody hearwhat I say.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I just did so.
We back Relationships worthmore than money when bosses meet
Three.
Who we got here today?
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Nina, okay, you can put it right here, okay, nina.
Where you from, nina.
I'm from New York, new York,yes, mount Vernon.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Money earning, Okay, money earning burning Okay, how
long have you known, kadeem?
Speaker 5 (09:13):
I want to say I've had him on Instagram for a while
, but he did a lot of photoshoots for my friends and then I
saw him through Instagram andthen I reached out to him
actually to do like a shoot formy one of the events that I had,
Right, so I would say, abouttwo years.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
What event was that?
Was that the all girl event?
Speaker 5 (09:34):
The Galentine.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Yeah, yeah, I remember that one.
I remember that one.
Okay, so two years.
And Was your friends in themilitary or no?
Yes, it's crazy because it'sjust.
We always say that the militaryis a small community, right,
and you never know who you'regoing to bump into, and we
always end up running intofellow military, doesn't matter
(09:58):
what branch.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
But mainly Marines.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
The best.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
The best.
You know what I mean, so wealways got something.
You know what I mean, so wealways got something.
You know what I mean and Ithink it's dope that you know
what I mean.
Like it's more women Marines,so we can kill that stigma about
oh, it ain't no Marines, itain't no female Marines, that's
in the Marine Corps.
That's like cool and this, thisand that Because that and this,
this and that, because thatused to be the statement back in
(10:23):
the day.
I don't know if you know, butyou know we owe.
We've been in back in 04, youknow what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
We are a great asset to the Marine Corps.
The Marine Corps would not runlike a well-oiled machine
without female Marines.
Yes, yes, and I agree.
What's your MOS?
I'm dispersing so finance.
Oh, you was the girl we used togo get the money from Money and
yes, we combat ATM machines,that's exactly what y'all are.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
No, yes.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
We got the cash.
How long you been in?
I've been in 12 years.
You tuning it out or we gonnasee Whatever the Lord put in
front of me, we gonna, one dayat a time.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Okay, so today, what was your era or theme that you
had to come in?
Speaker 5 (11:09):
So I had 2020.
2020?
Yes.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Okay, all right, that's dope.
So how far did he go back?
Speaker 5 (11:17):
I don't know.
We got people from every year.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I see the 1920s.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
And the 30s All right , cool In the 1920s.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Yeah, in the 30s?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
All right, cool, cool , cool.
All right.
What's next for you as far asAfter, like are you stationed
here or anything?
Marine Corps are you doingoutside businesses?
Speaker 5 (11:36):
entrepreneurship so I do a little bit of everything,
just to see what works and whatdoesn't work.
You're not going to besuccessful in everything, so I
do try to.
I do try to bring my dreams tolife, and if it doesn't work out
, then at least I know I tried.
So I currently have an airbnbokay, um.
(11:58):
And I have a investmentproperty in new jersey um, no
one is in fort lauderdale, oneis in.
No one is in Fort Lauderdale,one is in New Jersey, they're in
B&B in Fort Lauderdale.
B&B is in Fort Lauderdale,investment property is in Jersey
.
Okay, so I do that in themilitary and then I just started
a hair business.
So I do a little bit of that.
(12:19):
So your hair business, yeah,yeah real estate yeah, yeah got
a property in Fort Lauderdale.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Yeah, got a property in Jersey.
Uh huh, why not fitness?
Speaker 5 (12:30):
why not fitness?
Yeah, you always working out soI do always work out, but for
me it's like, um, it's mypassion and it's my like escape.
So I feel like if it's aroundme 24 7, I'm gonna lose that
passion.
Yeah, because it's gonna.
It's gonna feel like a job, youknow, and I do it now just for,
(12:51):
like, it's like a form oftherapy, you know.
So I want to keep it as that,something that makes me happy
all right, I got that.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
so have you networked with people here Like so far?
Have you like, met some newfriends, met new people At the
event?
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Yeah, yes, we haven't all exchanged any handles, but
met, talked to pretty mucheverybody here.
All right, all right.
This is a great networkingenvironment.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
So what's as of right now, what's the best thing that
you've witnessed being at thisevent?
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Oh, people that don't know each other talking.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Crazy right.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Love it.
I love coming to events likethis.
Yeah, yeah, I love not knowinganyone Granted because it's, you
know, small world.
You know a few people here andthere, but I literally love
coming to events like this.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
And that's one thing that I will say about Kadeem
Like he's the southernhospitality, he the unk, yeah,
he gonna make sure everybodygood, but he gonna make sure
everybody communicating.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Yeah, he definitely the unk he been like that since
day one.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
So it's like it's like every time he have an event
or we have an event, like it'salways a vibe, absolutely
Because we make sure everybodyis welcome, no matter what color
you are, what facet of theearth you come from.
None of that.
So, okay, I like that Dope.
I appreciate you, appreciateyou for coming on.
(14:14):
Okay, you tried to fight it,tried to fight it.
We 15 minutes in and you little.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Wow, just make sure y'all follow me at bomb
underscore Nina.
That's bomb underscore Nina.
Oh yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
At bomb.
Bomb underscore Nina.
Yes, huh, I know it's recordingit stopped.
It probably did, but I got thewatch Right here.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Yeah, okay, I'm about to say I thought he was going
to have to do it again.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I was like hold up, even if it did stop.
I got the pod.
Oh right, right right.
So that's the most importantpart.
Right, right, right I'm goingto chop up everything, so make
sure everybody get their loveand they shine Okay.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
You are very welcome, thank you, that's my heart.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
We back, we back, we back.
There's so many dope peoplehere, first time meeting you,
yes, and so far, you can goahead and state your name.
There's so many dope peoplehere, first time meeting you,
yes, and so far.
Go ahead, you can go ahead andstate your name.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Hi, so you can call me Diana, Diana Diana.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
What's your social media?
Speaker 4 (15:34):
It's Diana Blaze.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Diana Blaze.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Like a fire.
Flame, yeah, like a flame.
One word together.
All right, so Kadeem was doingthemes.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
What was your theme?
Speaker 4 (15:44):
So my theme was the 1960s and I totally failed that.
Really, I failed the mission.
Yeah, okay, my hair is toocurly.
The beehive did not stay.
1960s was what it's?
Patricia, elvis Presley Whiteyeah, or it's Priscilla.
There you go so her hair.
This is who I was looking up.
Yeah, I was like trying totease it.
(16:05):
I was like Trying to like getthat thing up Like this.
It's so curly, the hair was toocurly.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Too much, so so far how you liking the event.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
The event is perfect For meeting new people.
Yeah, all these beautifulpeople here With so many
different visions, so manydifferent colors.
Everybody's outfits are likeall different kind of levels and
it's just fun.
It's like vibrant and themacaronicheeseisbombcom.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yo shout out to Kwee Cuisines.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Yeah, that joint was crazy.
So you said you failed the 60s.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
I failed it, I did how many outfits did you bring?
This is I brought about five.
This is number three.
Okay, so you still got two more.
Still got two more.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Okay, all right.
When did you meet Kadeem?
Speaker 4 (16:54):
So I met Kadeem at a promotion and I am, I figured it
out at the end, but he was likecoming all the way around.
I was kind of like in a sceneand afterwards I was like, oh
damn, like who was that?
Who was taking all thesepictures?
Like they came out dope and Ihad to find him.
So I'm like seeking him out,I'm like who is this guy?
(17:15):
Who is this guy?
Who was the one taking thepictures?
And then I found the network.
I was able to pinpoint whoknows this person, who knows
this person.
I think that's what brings thisevent.
It makes it so special.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
How long ago was this event?
It was on 5 April.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Not that long ago, so literally recently this month,
I was like three weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
This is your first event, mm-hmm, and how do you
like the event so far?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
It's nice.
So at first it was a little bitweird, right.
It was like, coming in,everybody's already dressed up.
I'm like, all right, I need toget my right outfit.
Everybody's like outfits arelike top line.
I was like I need to catch up.
I need to like be on theirlevel.
But yeah, it's nice the wholething.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
everybody is just very welcoming, everybody is
just very open um we're gettinga lot of different ideas and
this whole space is just bizarre.
Yo, shout out to this space isbizarre, yeah, space.
I know you probably found it onpeer space.
So shout out to the to thepeople um, that the owners of
this home is super dope they'resuper welcoming and it's crazy
because I mean there's so muchgoing on.
We got people taking picturesbehind us.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
We got people to the right we got videographers, we
got everything, everything, andthe main thing is just
networking.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
You know what I?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
mean relationships, work for them, and this is the
prime example right here, likeyou're beating people.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
you know what I mean, not only just photographers and
videographers, but you'reactually beating people.
You know what I mean, not onlyjust photographers and
videographers, but you meetactually good people everywhere
around, right?
You know what I mean.
I think this joint is about totake off.
It's only the third one.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
He do them every quarter, so it's definitely
about to take off Right, rightand I feel like everybody that
came and that's going to stillcome, is going to take off with
us, because that take off withus because that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
It's just building, building with each other.
I think it's super dope.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
The best part is everybody brings a different
perspective to the party.
One of the photographers wewere able to intertwine with one
another.
I already met someone that I'mlike.
Wait, I really like workingwith you.
I know that future collabs aregoing to be outstanding.
They're going to be somethingto look forward to and they're
going to work.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
It's going to be crazy.
I appreciate you for coming.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Thank you.
Thank you for your time.
It's so nice to meet you.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
It's nice to meet you too.
We're definitely going to worksome more.
Everybody's here.
Like I said, we everybody'shere.
Like I said, we're building afamily.
You know what I mean it's justadding on, adding on all
positive energy all positiveenergy.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
I love it and you know, keep it going.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Tweezy, tweezy, that's you Tweezy that's me,
tweezy, that's you I love itthank you, shit.
Speaker 7 (19:55):
That's where my my phone went on sleep mode.
That's where it was.
Yeah, for the music.
Well, it's been doing that thewhole afternoon.
Yeah, it's been going in andout.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
So we here with my brother JJ, the sponsor of this
whole, when Bosses Meet.
So how long did you know,kadeem?
Speaker 7 (20:18):
Me and Kadeem met back in 2012, 13, on the drill
field.
We were both drill instructorstogether and then the first time
I met him that was his hand, bythe way, that went across the
camera.
That was Kadeem Walker, justheads up.
That was Kadeem.
Anyways, it's impromptu, we'llgo with it, but the first time I
met him was in DI school and hewas on a drill instructor panel
(20:40):
and he's up on the stage withhis voice and he's like Morning.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
My name's Drill Instructor, sean Walker, and all
I can tell you is the man, theman, the man.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
So that was you and Riley in them.
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
That was the first time I met him, me Serger Young
Guns.
Like all of them, that was thefirst time I met him, and then
we've been close for I think,about eight years.
But the past three years thatI've lived here in Stafford
Quantico area, me, him and Alexare really close.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
That's dope man, but yeah, it's going about 10 years
strong.
Just crazy man like how we allconnect some way through the
thing.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
Yeah, everybody, the six degrees of separation.
So everybody in this roombetween six people, especially a
lot of us are Marines.
Like I didn't know that youknew her and her brother.
I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
They're my police, and then she was her hat during
a time frame Because she waslike what's her name?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
And I was like that's .
Speaker 7 (21:31):
Biddle.
So it's just that six degreesof separation, they say seven,
they say six.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
But I mean that we all are linked in some way
somehow.
So you, you, you in atransition right now.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
bro, you ready for?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
it.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Yeah.
I say that now uh, I've beenmentally preparing for it, um,
but I guess it'll.
It'll hit me once I'm likelegit out out, you know, um.
So I'm ready for it.
I'm ready for the newchallenges, trials for trials,
tribulations, failures,successes.
I'm ready for it all.
I'm ready for it.
Why?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
you.
I got a question for you.
Why do you think relationshipsare important?
Speaker 7 (22:08):
So my doctorate, so I'm working on my doctorate in
business, and the focus isstrategic leadership with
emotional intelligence, right.
So I think relationships, so anindividual person can achieve a
lot, right, but we as a humanbeing, human beings as a species
, we achieve everything together, you don't I'm a big believer
(22:29):
of.
It takes a village, so it takesa village to raise somebody, it
takes a village to supportsomebody, it takes a village to
just be.
There's a difference betweenbeing alone and being lonely,
and you have to, you have tounderstand that.
And hey, kadeem, in thebackground, again.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
He's in the background again.
Hey, just heads up, that's himright there.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
That's him, right there, man.
He can do whatever he want.
Man, I'm a legend, butrelationships are the foundation
to everything.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
It is, it is man.
I try to push that and I alwaystell tell people it's kind of
just about the money, becausewhatever relationship that
you're having is positive, buildit, it's going to bring you
emphasis on the positive though,because you can be in a
relationship that's very taxingand negative and toxic, but you
stay in it.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
So I always say step forward for progress, back for
comfort.
So if you say four, four, stepforward for progress, yeah,
backwards for comfort.
So if you were raised in a hardcommunity, if you were raised
in a toxic family, if you wereraised in an abusive family,
you're going to be attracted tothat naturally because you're
comfortable in it.
So that's why you see a lot ofpeople in these relationships
that are very taxing on them,because that's all they know.
(23:35):
So they don't know how to stepout of that comfort zone.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
And that's a lot of the things that I've learned
just through therapy and mystudies on how to step out of
that comfort zone.
And that's a lot of the thingsthat I've learned just through
therapy and in my studies on howto do things.
What's up, just stop, it's fine.
I mean, because it's a video.
Little you out, you out out,right safe.
Oh, oh, we back withrelationships worth more than
money.
Who I have to my love?
Oh, they call me.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
Rod Rod, yeah, okay, you got a social media handle.
I mean, I do got social media,but it's not crazy.
Okay, no IG Rod.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
We don't go with no IG Rod.
I used to go by that back inthe day.
So look man, how did you meetKadeem?
Speaker 6 (24:23):
I met Kadeem through my wife and then just some.
I guess you could tell he's areal one, because I knew leaders
in my military career that knewhim as well.
So I guess it's just You're inthe Marines too.
Yeah, I'm still active rightnow.
Oh man, we just keep running toeach other, man.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
So me and Kadeem, we've been knowing each other
since boot camp, oh really,since boot camp.
Mct Motor T Cali.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Man.
What you know about Motor T.
What you know about Motor.
T you Motor T too, yeah, I amMotor.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
T yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
But hey, that's what I'm saying, man.
It's crazy because we operateon a positive level.
Oh, yeah 100%, and every eventthat he does, it's always dope
man, and I always tell peopleyou gotta come to these events
because it's more than justphotography, it's more than
(25:10):
videography.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
I can agree with that , kadeem.
He was speaking to my wifeabout it and everything.
It was like oh yeah, you got2,000.
Then they threw me in here,they had me down back.
I was with the 5XL t-shirt, youhad the Tims.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I seen you.
I seen you with the Tims on.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
They had me out in my comfort zone.
But once we started shootingeverything, you could see the
vibes was natural.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yeah man, that's all it's about.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
It was genuine, so we was able to move forward is
like we move together, but it'salways some static somewhere.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Like it might not be with us, but it's wherever we go
.
And this, to me, it's like thisevent is just always positivity
building relationships,friendships, like just meeting
new people, like I'm at home,I'm just meeting you.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (26:09):
I'm meeting so many people and it's like crazy, like
we all were in the Marines orwe're affiliated somehow from
military or whatever, but whatyou think about the event so far
, I mean so far, I think it's agood experience, it's beneficial
.
One and two, just like you saidbefore, just the networking.
Once you see, like you know,everybody can let their guard
down, you know speak and you cansee, like, the relevancy that
everybody has, whether it'sthrough military pictures and
all that other stuff, modeling,like.
You see all these kind ofthings that you can relate to
(26:29):
and you can benefit off whereit's networking, and then one
thing turns to another and itgoes from opportunity to job
offerings and stuff like that soit's good that you know it
creates that environment foreverywhere where it's like it's
a growing thing.
You know you can see certaindifferent postures, positions,
stuff like that Different angles.
You know you can pick eachother's brains and stuff like
(26:50):
that.
So it's a great.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Like you said, it's a beneficial environment and
that's why, like when I startedthis podcast which it was
because of that, because I wasthinking about all the things
that me and Kadeed we've beenthrough and how many
relationships that we reallycreated from either- the Marine
Corps or living out in Cali orbeing stationed, wherever we
(27:11):
were stationed at and how westill kind of bring it all in
and keep it going.
So you had 2000s.
You rock it with the wholeconcept of how everybody yeah,
you know what I mean when yourbirthday cause you said.
You said you was really kindalike tryna figure it out, like
when you had 2000s.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
Nah, I just turned 27 in March, so I'm a March 30s
baby.
So, okay, I was a 90s baby.
Yeah, yeah, I was a 90s baby,so around 11, 12 years old.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
You know, I had the G-Unit baggy t-shirts on, so I
ain't about to look it up.
Remember the G-Unit the tank.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
Yeah, I had the G-Unit tank.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
you know the three colored one, the colored drink
yeah With the G-Unit sneakers orthe Sean Carter's.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
Oh no, I kept the white ones that was in those
uptowns.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
The uptowns you had the little blue jean dots, yeah
yeah, we called them the onesback in Detroit, so like, yeah,
that's dope man.
What do you plan on doing whenyou get out?
Speaker 6 (28:10):
Right now.
I got two boys right now, so Ijust plan on just seeing it.
I think Roy Jones said it bestone time where he just said you
just got to ride that horse.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
You got to make up your mind and just ride that
horse.
Whenever you feel you're whereyou need to be in life, you get
off.
I feel like that's why it iswith everybody in the Marine
Corps especially.
People will do four years,people will do eight.
There's people who make acareer out of it.
There's people who go way pastthe 20.
You got what I'm saying.
Like you just got to ride thathorse and that's where I'm at
right now.
You know, with my kids andeverything I want to build a
(28:42):
nice strong foundation and thenfrom there, whenever I'm ready
to go, it's still recording,that's cool.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
We still recording here, that's fine.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's good.
As long as I get the audio wegood, go ahead.
I don't know how to keep sayingfull, like 256 gigs.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
It's going to be crazy, but it's still good, yeah
, no, my question for you,though, to ask you a question Do
you feel like you feel likeyou're like you said the Name Me
A Podcast, right yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Relationships worth more than money.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Relationships worth more than money.
Do you feel like you got?
You learned that through BMO.
Learn that through BMO to TLike in the Marine Corps.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
I think so, man, like just from being in the Marines
man, because me being fromDetroit and playing, you know
when you're in the sports you'rebuilding relationships through
teamwork.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
Oh yeah, 100%.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Building families through that and I think when I
joined the Marines I startedunderstanding it ain't about
what you know.
Oh yeah, you know what.
I'm saying I mean what you knowcan help you, but who you know
is going to get you to the nextlevel, and that's always been
the thing, man.
It's just like you know what Imean building good relationships
, positive relationships withpeople and learning from them.
(29:50):
Negative relationships that youwas in, because you know, hold
it man.
I think, yeah, it's definitelyfrom the Marine Corps.
You know what I mean and plusmy family.
Speaker 6 (29:56):
You know what I mean.
My family was always together.
So that's what made me love theMarine Corps more, because once
(30:22):
you get in, bro, like you knowwhat I mean it's unique.
I say the Marine Corps isdefinitely unique because you
got so many different sides ofit.
Yeah, Every side of the earth, Ihate to say, because you know
there's a lot of people thatcome to Quantico specifically.
Quantico is a place that youcome to first and it's very I
feel like it should be like asecond duty station for a lot of
people.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
It should be a first.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Because a lot of people judge it like I went
overseas as my first order andgranted, you know, there were
some hard times there, butthrough hard times is where the
best brotherhood has come about,you hear what I'm saying Like
over here in Quantico.
You know you get in your car,drive off, see your family and
everything like that when youoverseas you ain't got no cars.
You ain't got no family.
(31:00):
All you got is people who loveto ride you.
That's all you got.
So you got to make what's bestfor you, and I feel like that's
where all the memories reallycome from?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Yeah, and it's crazy because I went to my sister's
retirement.
She just retired my boy, hardy.
That was Motor T.
You know what I'm saying, mybro.
So it's like thoserelationships never go away.
You know what I mean?
A hundred percent, they nevergo away.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
And we there, like we , always there, we stay locked
in.
I was just in.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Cali in April for her retirement, you know what I
mean.
Came back home.
So it's like I don't like, bro,I'm coming to the DMV, like you
still there.
I'm like, yeah, oh, yeah, thathappens, all the time that
happens all the time with people.
Speaker 6 (31:43):
It's like literally I think it's just one dude and we
all play football.
Because I played overseas, Iplayed professionally over there
with them and literally it'slike he was a drill instructor.
He came back, another one who'sa corpsman from Greenside
coming back and it's like ohyeah, I, yeah, I'm in North
Carolina.
You know, whenever you comethrough, link up and it's just
like you said, it's just nonstoprelations that you just build,
(32:04):
that you never get rid of.
So I feel like that's justsomething I'll always take and
cherish from them.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yeah, because it's definitely worth more than money
, man, and I tell people thisall the time.
Just because I'm saying thatit's not saying you can't get no
money.
The relationships can build youhigher.
Whatever you thought you wasgoing to make, they can put you
in a bigger position or a betterposition.
Oh yeah, you know what I'msaying and that's yeah, I know I
know it's not.
It keeps saying fool, but I'mrecording here though.
(32:30):
Yeah, thank you.
But yeah, man.
So yeah, I always say that man,relationships, relationships,
are going to always be greaterBecause money it come and go,
money do come and go.
Relationships.
When you're building them right, they're there forever.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
I value.
I don't know.
It's probably just the way Iwas raised, being from New York
in Brooklyn with my mom.
What part of Brooklyn?
I was in Williamsburg, bushwick, and then I originally was
raised in the Bronx over byFordham and then I moved down to
Brooklyn.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Yeah, I had some homies from Canarsie.
Oh no, you got trouble beingwith you.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
The Marines, the Flossies.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yeah yeah, yeah, those were the Flossies days.
Speaker 6 (33:18):
You know how it is.
We used to be with the bros.
That's why we used to play.
We used to play in the gyms.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
I was a recruiter in Jersey.
Damn, yeah, right across thestreet in Hackett, like in
Berkman County damn so.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was great, that was a
flossy.
Yeah, canarsie man, I used topull up on them all.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
We go to South Jamaica Queens, we go to the
Bronx, we go everywhere.
So my thing, baseball is myfavorite sport.
Yeah, so I made sure I went tothe Yankees stadium before I
left.
Really Fire, bro, when theyfirst built that new one.
Yeah, no with us.
I mean it's right, there, wewas always like low.
Speaker 6 (33:54):
Our family was always low working class, so the way
we used to see the Yankees play,we used to watch the Mets play,
because you know the Mets suckyou used to always get free
tickets.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Yeah, you used to always get free tickets, so we
used to go and see them overthere and I used to see the
Yankees play.
Speaker 6 (34:06):
Because the fun thing though my freshman year, my
freshman year I never got to seethe Yankees play.
But I was on a varsity baseballteam.
I played for Grand City Campusover in Bushwick and then from
there we ended up going to thechampionship and we ended up
playing in Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
But that was just like something that was crazy,
that was like a different level.
Speaker 6 (34:26):
Yeah, that's dope, that's dope, that's something
I'll always cherish.
And then, like once I got, onceI had my son, I was able to you
know, obviously I'm YankeeStadium for the first time with
him and it brought back memories.
It was like damn, we didn'teven come here as kids.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Yeah, yeah, he loved it.
I know he loved it yo.
So, yeah, man, because I playedin a Tiger Stadium for Comerica
Park my senior year.
I made it to the All-Star Gameand I never played outfield, bro
.
They put me in an outfield.
Somebody hit that joint outthere, bro.
They put me in the outfield.
Somebody hit that joint outthere, bro.
(35:02):
I'm like, In what position wereyou really?
I played short, short, third.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
I played the whole infield, but short and third was
my main too, and I was jealousof y'all and I picked it.
I was jealous you were sittingthere first.
No, I was left-handed.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Oh yeah, I yeah, I played them all.
Man Catcher, pitcher.
I played everything infield, Idid it, but never played
outfield Even my youth years broI never played outfield, I
always played infield.
Speaker 6 (35:27):
Outfield is a very unique position, specifically
because it's kind of like withthe Marine Corps You're the last
line of defense.
That ball get by you, it's awrap.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Yeah, your whole team is on you, your whole team is
on you.
Speaker 6 (35:38):
Your whole team is on you.
Because you got high knees andhigh step boy, you got to go
after it.
So I mean the pressure wasalways there being in the
outfield, especially those linedrives that came right over.
Second, you had to charge it,but you couldn't charge it too
much.
You charge too much, you getburnt.
There it is.
That's extra base.
So it was always especiallylike when them dudes I used to
purposely slow down, wait forthem to round second and then
(36:01):
just let it go fire.
I was arrogant when we used tonever hit, cut off.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Yeah just let that joint loose.
Speaker 6 (36:06):
I used to let it loose 100% rounds down range I
used to always just send them,so that was a good time.
Yeah, man, that's dope man.
If I had one last questionbefore we get out, can you name
a time where you feel likewhether it was in the military
or outside the military that youfelt relationships what was
(36:26):
that?
You said, worth more than money?
Yeah, relationships worth morethan money, you felt like saved
you and it kind of like was yourproven point, if that makes
sense.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
I'll give you one.
It's a lot actually, but I'llgive you one.
When I got out, man, I wasn'ttrying to get out, no, I was a.
If you remember, in 2015, theyhad that that service limitation
going on.
Yeah, what left?
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
(36:56):
So I had um before I got out,man, like I had a hard time
Because they forced me out.
I didn't do nothing wrong.
I was a fucking top of the lineMarine.
You know what I'm saying, tookcare of the Marines, made sure
everybody was taken care of, andit was just my service
(37:16):
limitations and I did recruitingso I can bypass that and get
promoted and all that stuff.
But for unforeseen reasons, inJersey, I didn't get promoted.
When I was doing my thing outthere, I got to penalty and
literally I put in myreenlistment package and they
were like no bro, you can'treenlist.
(37:38):
And I'm like what you mean?
They're like you gotta pee.
I'm like I never was in zone.
They're like you was in thebelow zone.
I'm like, yeah, but they neversaid they moved the zone up or
anything.
And that, right, there is whatcrushed me.
I'm trying to do.
This would have been 20 yearsthis year.
Speaker 6 (37:57):
January 2004 to January 2024 would have been my
20 years, and it was just like areenlistment issue or like you
wasn't able to transfer out todifferent branches.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
No, so I could have transferred out to different
branches, man, but at that timeit was like ring corps was all I
knew.
I joined at 18.
100%.
I felt that that's how it iswith me.
I.
Speaker 6 (38:16):
Someone would tell me that and I'm like yeah, I could
have done that.
Like I was setting myself up, Icould have put another uniform
on.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Yeah, I, was setting myself up and I was going to
college, while I was ineverything and then it was just
like boom, and I just had a.
I just had my second daughter.
Yeah, Like a couple monthsbefore that.
Like four or five what I'mgoing to do now.
You know what I mean.
Can't go back to moms, if itwasn't for Coco, my homegirl,
(38:42):
coco Lampson, and Tina Tinaturned up, my homegirls and my
brother, my brother Shannon,like, and Rivera, like they kept
me.
They kept me straight.
Like you know what I mean, Iwas going through it.
Speaker 6 (38:58):
Like you know what I mean I was going through it Like
cause, bro, I like I, literallyhad.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
I had a month to get out, to figure, figure
everything out.
Speaker 6 (39:03):
A month, bro, I tell that to all my dudes when they
be saying like, oh, yeah, youknow I'm going to get out.
I'm like what's your plan?
Yeah, oh, language, but wedon't give a fuck.
He was a marine at all.
They really don't like my boywas doing.
(39:24):
One of my mans was straight up,like straight up, told him like
yo, he told all of us.
He over there, like hey, youknow, give him some motivating
words.
You know, guys, dd214.
And he was like hey, why areyou getting out?
And he's expecting thecaptain's expecting him to say
something like motivate.
He was like I want to get outso I can smoke some weed
straight up, like that.
And he was like I want to getout so I can smoke some weed
Straight up, like that.
And he was like all right, cutit.
He got out, he was doing good,he was working as a, he got
(39:47):
engaged, he was working as acoach for like a volleyball team
and then life hit him twomonths later and he was maxing
out credit cards.
He got laid off because ofCOVID, because of the whole
COVID situation.
Was he at NY2?
Speaker 1 (39:59):
Yeah, laid off because of COVID?
Speaker 6 (39:59):
Yeah, because of the whole COVID situation.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Yeah, wasn't he at NY2?
Yeah, yeah, it was super heavyover there.
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 6 (40:02):
He completely got laid off.
Now he's living off creditcards.
The financial stress caused himto split and now he was
stressed out, maxed out, tryingto figure it out.
All the homies that we all gotmatching tattoos Right, we all
re-up, we all.
We all re-up another four.
Some of us are staffed, some ofthem even went to warrant
officers.
You know, I'm still doing mything.
(40:22):
And then it's like damn, if Iknew everybody was going to do
what y'all did.
I would've just so imagine fromhis point of view where it was
like, where him?
He even had the choice tore-enlist and he turned it down,
especially with us being MotorSeat Motor Seat's probably one.
Emma West is out there to thisday.
Yeah, bro, we're second largest.
We're second largest bro.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
So it's like you gotta have, you gotta have a
plan man, like you gotta have aplan A, b, c and D, and I always
tell people like plan.
A like you know how you do allthe motivating oh I'm staying,
da-da-da-da, that's my only plan.
(41:02):
Them I mean backing me.
They always like kept in touchwith me, man, because you know
what I mean.
That's when that mental healthreally kicked in, like all the
PTSD from being deployed.
You know what I'm saying.
All that shit really kicked in,but it's like.
Now it's like I'm in defensemode and I shouldn't be that,
but I had to go through that,but it made me better man, it
made me better and when I getout man, I always tell even
Marines I run into at 8th and9th or wherever I'm at.
(41:22):
I always talk to them and askthem like, what's your plan,
what you going to do If youain't been to the?
Speaker 6 (41:26):
you know what I mean to the BAS, or you know what I'm
saying.
You need to go MSU.
You can go out of junior rank.
You get your TS clearance.
It's three years.
You get to go travel.
You got your chef, you gotwhatever it is you want to do
and if you don't want to re-up,you got a TS clearance and you
(41:47):
got your degree and you can stayover there or you can come over
here.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
A hundred percent In the National Capital Region and
work anywhere Easily.
It's active.
Oh, let's get him.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (41:59):
So one last thing I know we're going through on time
.
We just ended up diving deep inand just kept it 100.
But that's what it is when youget genuine vibes.
If you was to stay in, whatwould have been your actual
reason as far as like what kindof leader you thought you were
while you was in?
I think I was Because you knowwe all had those like oh hell,
(42:22):
no, I can't wait to pick up,because I ain't going to be like
that dude.
I was a sergeant for eight yearsbro, damn Eight years, so I'm
on two.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Yeah, I was a sergeant for eight years.
So eight out of my 11 years Iwas doing my thing.
So I would say I'd have beenthat same leading, motivating
but understanding sergeant thatI was.
Yeah, I kept it real with them.
You know what I'm saying oh,100%.
(42:50):
With the junior Marines, but Ialso like, I also like gave them
leeway until they messed up.
In other words, you gave themtheir grown man.
Speaker 6 (43:00):
You gave them their grown man respect.
You gave them their grown manrespect.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
It was submarine.
That was like like I had onemarine shout out to my bro,
devoe.
He was the same age as me buthe was a PFC because he joined
late.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
Yeah, so I wasn't going to talk to him any crazy
yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
We was at record school together.
Speaker 6 (43:18):
You know what I'm saying?
I'm a sergeant.
Yeah, back in Missouri.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
Yeah so it's like we still tight to this day.
You know what I'm saying.
It's because it's like Iunderstand, like, yeah, that
Marine Corps weight is one thing.
Speaker 6 (43:30):
Man, that's a grown man.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
This is a grown exactly what's crazy.
Speaker 6 (43:34):
You got a 19-year-old mandatory corpor his room.
He's like hey, open the door.
I'm talking about hey, fixyourself.
Speaker 1 (43:40):
That's a grown man.
Speaker 6 (43:41):
Especially when these boys be putting up weight.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
Now I'm going to put it like this when I was a PFC, I
had to put my corporal on hisneck.
Yeah, you know what I mean.
And ever since then, everybodyhad the respect, like hey, and
it has to be like that, but I'mglad that it still brings like
you.
Speaker 6 (44:03):
you know what I'm saying oh yeah, Shout out.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
That's holding it down, man, because it's always a
good thing to hear, yeah, thatI mean it's still going in a way
, and the questions that you askare good questions.
Nobody never really asks mequestions.
Yeah, which I'm cool with.
Really ask me questions.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
Yeah, which I'm cool with because it's a dialect you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
It's a dialogue, so we having conversations.
So you know what I'm saying.
At the end of the day, yeah,man, it's just I still would
have been.
I honestly think I still wouldhave been in after my 20s.
Yeah, believe it, or?
Speaker 6 (44:31):
not the new one, the new Sergeant, major Brinkhall.
He's one of those ones.
Like he's one of those ones.
I first said I first seen him inQuantico.
Yeah, and I'll never forgetthis story.
Everybody was there, everybodywas lost.
But it hit me in my soul Likehe was like hey, you know, great
(44:51):
job, you know regular.
He was like y'all can say whaty'all want, correct me if y'all
want.
Took his cover off through it.
We outdoors, we outdoors.
He's talking to the stadium.
Now they got OCS, they got OCSrecruits like cadets and stuff.
So they sitting in thebleachers and stuff and just the
(45:15):
kind of leader that we all were.
He's like, hey, good morning,how's everybody?
And then obviously them beingrecruits, like come on, sergeant
Major.
He's like, oh, so we gotrecruits here.
And they're like, yeah,sergeant Major.
He's like good, everybody getup.
Now sit back down.
So he starts messing with them.
And then he really got down toit.
He was like, hey, shout out tothe leadersverick.
(45:38):
And everybody's all confusedand stuff.
And I'm like yo, what is thisdude talking?
He's like good, if you'rereally a maverick, you're
probably not even going to haveyour hand raised.
And he's like I'm talking,those mavericks are those ones
that they lead with a morecompass.
They lead with who they are,who they were raised, and
genuinely what's right andwhat's wrong, not just black and
(46:01):
white.
Black and white is there, in myopinion, I feel like black and
white is there to give usguidance, right, that's what
it's for.
And then, with your, your moralcompass, how you was brought up
, you, you coincide with that,right, and that's what makes you
the leader that you are.
You get what I'm saying becauseat the end of the day, you know
, uh, shout out to he ever seesthis, he always.
He sparked a big controversythroughout social media where he
(46:24):
, straight up, was like hey, Idon't know who to hear this and
I quote you're not a Marine 24-7.
And what he mean by that.
He's not saying like come 1630,my phone's on, do not disturb,
I'm throwing it off, no, but atthe end of the day, you know,
especially for you example, likeyou say, you did recruiting,
right, right, and you got kidsright, right.
So you recruiting andeverything.
You go to these schools andeverything like that, and you
(46:46):
recruiting.
You know, oh yeah, I'm Sergeantso-and-so this, that and the
third, that's cool, but now youat your son's baseball game, he
don't want to see Sergeant,so-and-so Right.
He don't want to see his dad andhe want to see him Supporting
he don't want to see that.
Sorry, you're not about to sitthere when he takes that strike
out.
Or you know, those hard timescome up and you're going to sit
(47:07):
there and it's like, hey, listen, double dog, fix yourself first
.
No man, like You're not aMarine 24-7.
That don't mean If you don'tcall I'm not going to answer it,
just specifically mean thatknow who you are.
This isn't all you know, right,because eventually, like you
said, whether you ready or not,they could take that from you
(47:28):
easy and who you are without youeven like, knowing, like,
because that's what happened tome.
Speaker 1 (47:32):
It went like that and then it was like alright, now
what you gonna do.
Speaker 6 (47:34):
You know what I'm saying that's what it really
come down to is like who are youreally right when, when, that?
Speaker 2 (47:41):
adversity hit who you .
Are you really?
Speaker 1 (47:41):
When that adversity hits.
Who are you really?
Speaker 6 (47:42):
That shit hit the fan .
That rank can be taken by anymeans.
That's it.
In the blink of an eye you canrisk it all, and then what?
That's what I'm saying, yeahman, for sure.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
No, IG Rod man.
I appreciate you man.
I appreciate you man.
I'm going to be looking out forthis.
Yeah, man, I'm going to put itout shortly.
Some of the videos are going tobe like little chops and stuff
like that.
Speaker 6 (48:04):
Yeah, nah, nah, so chill.
Speaker 1 (48:06):
But I got the audio, so the audio is definitely going
to be on there, nah.
Speaker 6 (48:09):
I got to follow this.
I got to follow it when you aton Instagram RWMTM.
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