December 27, 2023 • 57 mins
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Hosted by: The Global Zoe, Eric Biddines & Drego Mill
Growing up as a Jehovah's Witness, Christmas was just another day on the calendar, but now as a parent, the holiday season twinkles with a new magic through my children's eyes. Drego adds a layer of complexity, having celebrated Christmas only once and now observing Hanukkah alongside his partner's Israelite faith. Together, we unravel the tapestry of holiday traditions, from the scents and tastes that define the season to the personal evolution of festive celebrations. We delve into nostalgia, sharing stories of our most meaningful gifts—like my treasured PlayStation 2—and discuss the significance of forging new traditions with our families, where the essence of giving takes center stage.
The conversation then journeys through the shifting sands of holiday perceptions, from how we teach our kids about the spirit of the season to dealing with the bittersweet moments when they start to question magical beings like Santa Claus. We reflect on our own transformations as parents, sometimes realizing that the efforts we make are as much for us as they are for our children. We also highlight the importance of self-care during the holidays and how we manage the pressures of fulfilling holiday expectations without losing our sense of peace.
This episode is not just about the warm fuzzies of the holiday season; it also casts light on the resolute spirit of communities during trying times, such as hurricanes in Florida, where neighbors band together, strengthening bonds through shared resources and comfort. We close the year with gratitude for the growth and touching interactions with our audience and tease the exciting prospect of new branded gear. So, whether you need a dose of festive cheer, a moment of reflection, or just an opportunity to feel connected during the holidays, join us for a personal exploration into the rich diversity of seasonal experiences.
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0:00 - Christmas Traditions and Personal Experiences
8:56 - Christmas Traditions and Gift Giving
15:04 - Holiday Traditions and Changing Perceptions
21:17 - Holiday Traditions and Treating Oneself Reflections
36:13 - Snow Experiences and Movie Classics
50:12 - Unity and Resilience During Storms
54:00 - Reflecting on Progress and Expressing Gratitude
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:54):
Man, you know Christmas is right around the
corner, so we're gonna gonon-tradition.
I ain't gonna get no music,nothing too crazy, but we do
want to keep this focused on theholidays.
So this gonna be a littledifferent for us.
Man, I'm up for that challengethere.
I kind of got that from you.
Don't?
Air time gonna be a lot in.
I Was like you know what?
We want to do something totallyoutside of the norm and we want
(01:17):
to talk about the holidays, man.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yes, it felt real on home goods Etsy, martha Stewart,
andrago we're going this one.
So I was like alright, okay,the prompts make sense.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Okay for sure.
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They got your board right.
You know what I'm saying.
And I had a farm, just the neck.
This is my.
You know I'm saying, and myCuban late man.
But uh, you know what,christmas coming up, man, we
just want to really kick it offwith um I want to talk about.
(01:55):
You know just, uh, it'sChristmas is approaching, man,
how do you, how do you treatChristmas?
You know I'm saying, whenChristmas is coming, slab, I
start with you.
But you know, do you reallylook forward to Christmas?
Is it is exciting asThanksgiving?
And you know, I mean, how doyou treat Christmas before the
approaches?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
um, I've grown to Really love Christmas.
Once I had kids and that becamepart of our tradition but
raising my two boys but Beforethat we didn't celebrate
Christmas.
I grew up to Hope Whitman'sOkay, so we didn't celebrate
Christmas.
So that Didn't feel nicebecause I wanted toys.
(02:37):
So we kind of waited activelyto get certain things.
But as I got older I got intothe tradition.
I will say it was always nicein elementary school doing the
crafts, the, the activities thatthe teachers had going on um
after-school programs where youwould have the Gift drives and
(02:57):
stuff like that.
The energy definitely was up inon very festive and In giving
around that time.
So that always felt good, nomatter what your Religious um
upbringing was.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
So today I still love .
I like the eggnog, I like theum, you know, the cookies.
I like the smell of Christmastrees, like the real ones, okay,
even artificial, artificialspray on the other ones.
I just, I just love the scent,the uh, the coffee to.
We get into the, the peppermintseasons and the pumpkins and
(03:34):
all that around Christmas andthe Thanksgiving area, so I get
really nice around the end ofthe year cool briskin breezy.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
All right, all right, all right, drago, what's going
on with?
Well, I might be the all-barthe group man because, uh, I'm a
turkey baby.
So you know I was born onThanksgiving.
So Either you celebrate mybirthday or not, it's still
being celebrated because of theThanksgiving.
You know, birthday was a coupleof weeks ago your boy, big 37,
99, tom.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Yeah, so, um, thanksgiving for me is always.
It's always a birthday for me,either I celebrate my birthday
or not.
But the Christmas man I think Icelebrated one time in my life
and, uh, when I saw him the artball.
I never really celebratedChristmas, man, and and, and now
it's, it's Hanukkah instead of,uh, christmas for me, because
(04:28):
I'm practicing Israel life.
I don't know if you guys knowmy, yeah, my girl's uh, she's uh
, israel's, israel, like, uh andum, I'm actually practicing it.
You know, I'm saying it's thewhat does that exactly into?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
so um, uh.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
It's, it's the same thing as, almost like the I
don't want to say that because Idon't too much to.
It's almost like being Jewish,okay, but uh, it's, it's a lot
more to it.
So if I say that you, it's thesame.
Uh, israel, like uh behaviorsand everything that they study
and Uh what their beliefs.
So, okay, I want to get tooheavy into that, but um yeah, so
(05:04):
this year I guess I would sayit's my first time celebrating
Hanukkah with me, my grandma and, uh, that's that our family.
So, um yeah, christmas wasnever really a thing for me, man
.
I don't think I've ever gottena gift or nothing like that for
Christmas.
That, oh man.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Oh, wow, yeah, yeah, man, what um?
What was the reason Um?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
um, I think, since I was a kid and my family been
broken up for a long time, man,and, and because of it, man, um,
I'm gonna just put it out there.
It's not, you know, not, I wantno pity part of nothing, but I
grew up with no parents, no mom,no dad, right, so I grew up, uh
, with my uncle, and it was justmy uncle, and then it became,
became my grandma and my uncle,and then my grandma, my uncle
(05:46):
and grandfather, uh so, but youknow, the zoes, they don't, they
don't really, you know, doChristmas like that you?
know these old dudes now.
Yeah yeah so, but um, outsideof that, you know, growing up
still, you know, even beingmarried at one point, it's just
it was, it was still flip floppy.
So I never really celebratedthe holiday.
I did once with the family thatI had at the time.
(06:08):
But now you know, even throughyears, growing up never
celebrated me, man, I think Igot one Christmas gift my entire
life.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Dang.
So how did you feel like?
But when you saw, I'm sure youhad friends who were getting
like how did you feel about that?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I think I got used to it out of younger age, man, it
used to bother me as a kid youknow what I'm saying.
And I say that because it wasme and my uncle when I had a
godmother at the time.
I used to, you know, want tolook out for it when the money
would came.
He was supposed to be the oneto buy me a Christmas gift and
never got it.
It went towards something else.
You know what I'm saying.
I kind of got that feelingalready left me since I was a
(06:45):
toddler so I expected it not tohappen.
Every year it happened, so Inever really care, you know what
I'm saying Because I didn'tgrow up participating either.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
But it didn't feel nice when you see everybody on
the streets with the new bikesand shoes and Right, bikes,
shoes, all of it.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Like if I got a bike, I found the bike, fixed it up,
put it together and that's how Ihad a bike.
No one ever bought me.
Yeah, yeah, that's how I did it.
And then when the homies bikeswere up, they come to me and I
fixed it and we all right,that's how I got.
I was always.
I think I don't know I wasalways.
I think I became a giverbecause of it.
(07:29):
Probably.
I'm happy when everybody elseis happy.
So to get to love languagesright, that's one of my love
languages, given you know whatI'm saying.
I don't know man, I kind of gotover it.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Do you have a son, though?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
So, yeah, so um, he got everything.
You know what I'm saying.
Ever since he was young, he getChristmas.
Yeah, because you know hismother there, I'm there, he
always got it.
And not he's to the point whereI don't know what to get my kid
for Christmas, because you knowwhat I'm saying.
Like he, he don't really expectit.
Now I just got to the point.
What you want for Christmas,like do, your kid got everything
(08:03):
.
It's almost hard now to thinkwhat, what to get them now,
because they got everythingtablet phone, um, I'm like you
want Roblox or something youwant.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Apex Core or something they do reach an age
where they know specificallywhat they want.
Right, they're really young andyou buy them a bunch of just to
have a bunch of presents toopen up.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I'm to the point like .
I'm like, damn, you don't wantto upgrade the.
Xbox and he's like no, I'm good, I don't really want nothing,
but I'll let you know if I doLike years like the early this
year.
He said he wanted the ones, butthat's even from the year
before the ones is what?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
The Jordans, the ones you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
But but he rarely asked me for anything.
But I have to like find I'mlike I have to got like go look
to see stuff that he needs forme to just get it from, maybe
just your clothes, socks,whatever.
But I'll go hammer like maybeI'm just going to upgrade his
Xbox.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
What about you?
Global Watch out.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I had some.
You know my parents work prettyhard.
I was just thinking back of thefirst Christmas that I could
remember where we you know whatit was what gifts was being
exchanged, so it wasn't as bigin the household.
I feel like my dad was ahustler so he tried to make sure
we have everything we needed.
I think it started off with a.
I got a computer one year thatwas phenomenal to just
(09:16):
everything I learned, and Iremember the PlayStation two
coming out and I remember wewanted that, but that that was
like $500 back in the day thatwas.
That was a lot of bread.
You know what I'm saying.
And growing up in the householdwhere both parents were working
, you know, trying to make endsmeet, I didn't think it was
possible.
But I remember the year my dadactually got us that for
(09:37):
Christmas.
Man Probably want to say likearound 14s, somewhere around
that 13, 14.
I feel like when we got it inman, it was a I thought my dad
was like man, like you know, youlike yo, so maybe it happened,
but we did do that.
In my later part of my life Iremember my parents trying to
(09:59):
get us gifts for Christmas.
I do remember that.
Well, it's kind of goes theopposite.
Going to school, though, man,you had like $200 budget to shop
.
It was kind of tough for megoing to school.
Hence, when I got the computeron, part of the motivation with
selling mixed CDs was able to goto buy school clothes.
I was able to buy schoolclothes and pay for studio time
(10:22):
back in the day selling mixedCDs, so that was kind of my
motivation.
When I was showing up to schoolwith that spindle, everybody
thought it was just like, oh man, no, but I really needed to buy
my Tauti's and some fresh reeseto survive the school year.
But now, as an adult, I lookforward to it, just because I
want to feel like I mean youknow giving and seeing someone
(10:45):
smile, I know, and like maybethey didn't ask for it, but you
was able to get something thatthey was going to utilize and
that they would appreciate.
Like, for example, one of thecoolest gifts I got was for my
sister-in-law.
She's into these marathons andshe does these, these five K's
and different kind of challenges, and I got her this.
It's something you can hang up,it's a frame, but it keeps all
(11:10):
those out of what they call it,that number that's assigned to
them when they run.
After you run she's able tosave all those and she's been
collecting them.
But I got her official framethat you can hang each one you
inserted inside the plastic andyou can just look back and flip
through it and have the memoriesof each five K, each marathon
or not my marathon, but each runshe does she's able to kind of
(11:34):
look back and see it.
You can go with that.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Yeah, because I know she was in the running.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I know you were so gift thoughtful, and that's how
I kind of do it for Christmas.
I kind of enjoy that part, justseeing something, what they've
been doing all year, if theygive, if they talked about
something they wanted to do orsomething they wanted to buy.
I kind of make notes and payattention and around November,
october, I start my Christmasshopping and then, um, yeah, I
was able to do something likethat, but I love the fact when
(11:58):
she saw it she was like man, Ihad this in my mind, like this
is so dope, like she couldutilize it.
I think the best gifts you canget it don't got to be expensive
, but something that you knowsomeone's going to utilize.
Like I know Jago in the gamingworld, so I already I feel like
something will be surrounded bythe games he played in the
gaming world or producing.
I know like that will besomething to get Drago.
(12:20):
But that's just how I kind of Ipay attention to the person,
but I do enjoy Christmas now,like I'm done with all my
shopping.
I got my son his gift.
He's going I know he's going togo crazy for it, but he wanted
to VR.
He's into the VR headset.
It's something that he he'sbeen asking for.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Did you all go all out with the direct decorations
and stuff?
Cause I know that's one thingmy folks did.
They'll decorate, but that'llbe it, like they'll put little
lights around the house, yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
A little tree bare minimum.
Tree lights around the tree andsomething outside bare minimum.
But I'm funny, Get into it nextyear.
I want to say I'm going to getthe house all decked out for
show, Now that I did the work,that most of the work is done
around the house.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
But that's important man.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
That's important and I just like that feeling.
Man, when you wake up onChristmas morning, you know that
tree there.
Do your little gift exchangeman, you spending time, but I
think it ultimately spendingtime with family and friends,
like just being able to be ineach other presence and having a
good time.
I think that's the mostimportant part of it.
When I get from Christmas butI'm not, you know, I'm thankful
for whatever I get on that, nomatter how big or how small, I'm
(13:25):
always thankful for whatever Iget.
I'll utilize it, that's forsure.
That's for sure, oh, yes.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Yeah, so Christmas, the exposure to you all.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Boom Boom.
So as we talking about that,let's talk about something else,
man.
So when you gathering with yourfamily, of course there's
there's food, there's the,there's the games you know what
I'm saying and there's themovies.
So any tradition you got now,as we're in our adult, we got
significant others and we gotkids.
(13:55):
Is there anything you'reimplementing now that's
important, that you've beendoing as far as tradition is
concerned?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Now what I've started to do, because my boys are good
at eating gifts but theyhaven't really learned the side
of wanting to give that exchangeback to somebody else.
So we've kind of tried to letgo a little bit and see what
(14:28):
they gonna do or what they gonnathink about as far as the side
of it being thoughtful andtrying to come up with something
.
Putting the time aside out,putting the time aside in
advance to be thoughtful, likethe beautiful parts of
give-and-gift inverses, you know, just receiving.
(14:49):
So I think it's like thattransition from when you start
getting to an age where it'slike all right, it will make
sense for you to know thatthere's another side, instead of
just being catered to.
Now other people wanna feelwhat you can give.
So that's been a part of thetradition, that's been a partner
, that's been something that'sbeen implemented new.
(15:10):
So allow me any more relax alittle bit, kind of see what
they gonna do and also wait forthem to say what they want,
cause they are simple.
They are simple, they don'twanna ask for a lot but, getting
them to try to do the otherstuff on their own, not before.
You'll kind of make them like,hey, we gotta get this for your
(15:31):
grandmother, hey, we gotta getthis right.
And then they know you're gonnado it but you're not really
learning to get inside, and thatwas something I didn't know
because I wasn't participating.
So when it came down the timesof me trying to come up with
something as thoughtful as youdid with the marathon tag plates
(15:52):
, I didn't know how to do noneof that.
I'm thoughtful in the processthroughout the year, but I was
always a little uncomfortablewith the pressure of holidays
about.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Valentine's Day.
Right, you're right, thoughthat's definitely.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
And on my holidays and birthdays.
I was in my mind and this isjust me being, I guess, stubborn
I'm like I would like to wannago all out in those ways outside
of a season, as kind of makeyou wanna do.
And that was just me beingstubborn.
(16:31):
Today I'm like, hey, we allhaving fun and everybody doing
it, but I'm not really thinkingabout participating nothing more
, would participate fully.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Yes sir, yes sir.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Fred, go with you guys Again.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
it's new this year, so just like that, but just some
traditions that you've beenthat you've been outside.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
It's always been me and Lil man.
I've always.
I always took him to the littleevent out in Derrey the
Christmas lighting and stufflike that and that we've always
done, even with family.
Now it's always been me and Lilman.
We didn't go this year because,of course, of course, because
of work, but the Christmasparade and the Christmas
(17:20):
lighting was always a traditionthat we always did every single
year.
He still asks about it becausewe've been doing this since he
was five or six.
Okay, okay, so yeah, that's onething we always did.
Always they got in Derrey, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Oh, the tree lights.
Yeah, the tree lighting inDerrey is a hundred foot tree.
Yeah, a hundred foot tree, yeah, yeah, okay, okay, that's
what's up.
That's what's up.
One thing I do is the.
I love going to Coconut Creek.
There's a light show down therethat they do where you can get
in your car.
They got 3D glasses if youchoose to or not, and it's just
a nice ride, man, maybe45-minute drive if you're going,
(18:00):
five miles per hour of thisbeautiful light show, just
enjoying that.
Adjani usually gets his iPad andstarts filming and we just
always fascinated by that.
That's one thing that we'vebeen doing.
I'm actually just bought thetickets to do it this week, so
I'm looking forward to that tosee if he stills enjoy it as he
gets older.
I hope he or maybe I need tofind a different spot, but
(18:22):
that's one thing we've alwaysdone.
We enjoy that there andunfortunately he's in the fifth
grade.
Somebody spoiled it to him likehe came home and said man, you
know if they told me, santaClaus is not real?
So, yeah, you know these kidsnow with social media and how
they talk.
So we used to do the cookiesand the milk in the morning
Christmas morning drop a littlebit of bacon, bacon soda powder
(18:45):
on the floor.
Let him know Santa was here.
This is what he left, man, andit's just one year.
He really was like I feel likethey sold it to him, man.
He just wasn't buying itnormally, man.
So he's like I know y'allbuying my gifts and it ain't no
Santa and it was like it kind ofmessed up, that little vibe.
But I did look forward to youknow, setting that up for him to
make sure when he woke up hehad that experience.
(19:07):
Man, that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Yeah, I mean yeah, yeah, jk.
And the man's like yeah, youknow, Santa, not real.
I said damn, who told?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
you that I don't remember that Mine no real.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I always see what he realized.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Before first grade yeah, I always Johnny was, I
think.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
He found out, I think .
So I'm gonna say four.
I'm gonna say it was probablylast year he really was sold
like he had.
J was six yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Yeah, j was six, I hadn't.
They grew up with nice kidsbecause they snipped and said,
oh my kid.
I heard A young one didn'tbelieve it all.
Wow, the older one, he liked tobelieve it was worth believing.
One of me felt like that toolike wrestling.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I didn't want to hear , like, tell me his fate.
Like I was good, like let meenjoy what I'm enjoying, right.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Now, because once you get well, this was I'm a, I'm a
phrase, it in what I'mexpressing.
Okay, when the kids startgetting older in the tradition
no longer feel the same, likeit's changing a little bit, as a
participant, then it makes mekind of I can.
(20:17):
I can see how people can be sad, be sad once that tradition is
kind of expiring due to the age,because now my older, we ain't
going to sleep olders in the hotcocoa breakfast, like they
getting in their pajamas, buyingpajamas, they sitting out, you
(20:40):
seeing all this stuff.
And now they start gettingolder.
You looking into kids likey'all just open, y'all one big
present that y'all wanted andwith nothing else Y'all need to,
and if you did get some otherthings you don't even they ain't
even looking at that stuff.
So then you get to a pointwhere, like I can't be
spontaneous because they gonnalet you know you bought
(21:02):
something that they ain't reallycareful.
Oh, a hoodie.
No, I vote for them and leave$1,500.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Versed to $35.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Then they go and we experience our feelings getting
hurt and as a parent, you kindof got to check yourself and say
was I doing this for me?
Because they kind of hurt in myfeelings that they're not like
the little three and four yearolds that was impressed with the
(21:40):
rapping and everything.
Because I got to the point,like me, you got to expect it
though.
Yeah.
Yeah, it hurt your feelings.
It hurt your feelings though,but then you want to, but I
don't know if that's now.
I see, once we got old enoughto kind of dismiss certain
traditions.
Now I look back and I thinkabout the like our parents and
(22:05):
relatives and things like that,and we dismissed what they loved
and kind of took that away fromthem.
And then it's you can be leftempty because you're like oh,
the traditions we had that Iappreciated.
It's no longer in the hell.
We're not doing those thingsanymore.
So I don't know if I voice that.
(22:29):
I apologize for venting.
It wasn't really a question.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
No, you're good, You're good.
Yeah, it's a different outlookon that.
You know what I'm saying and Iguess I'm kind of excited to see
as Johnny gets older.
I feel like my journey I don'tknow.
I'm just listening and takingit in.
I feel like I'm going to beright there with you telling you
the same thing years from now.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
I want to get minds to understand how, like you said
, to start giving andremembering birthdays and stuff
like that, cause I won't point.
He was like what about yourbirthday?
What are we going to celebrateyours?
So when he said that one timeto me, I'm like I'll let you
know when it comes, I'll let youknow when it comes.
But I got him used to tellinghis mom you know what I'm saying
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, like happy birthday or makinga card or something like that.
So I tried to get him toremember hey, it's not just
about receiving, you got to givealso.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yes, sir.
So am I the only one thattreats myself to get?
I treat myself every year orsomething too, though?
Yep, oh, I don't, I've alwaysokay.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
That's one thing.
It might be.
It might be every other year.
For me, though, it's not likeall the, I don't really need not
every year, no, every year I dospur, I get myself a gift like
every year I've been doing that,Not saying that I like I don't
want to take away from peoplewho actually do get me.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I always, you know, sometimes I just got my eye on
something and it might cost alittle bit more than the norm
for somebody and instead ofsaying I don't want to put that
pressure on nobody.
So I always usually will getmyself something that I can
enjoy, and you know what I mean.
Like, for example, I got a newpaint job on my truck, Like
that's something that's a couplebands, but that's something I
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wanted to do to give my truckanother.
I got knows five, 10 yearswithout worrying about it.
I'm like you know what, let meget some new rugs to replace a
few of the buttons inside and Ijust got a fresh coat, paint
that thing sexy black.
So now I'm like I can ride outfor another couple.
You know five, 10 years, easy,with no problem.
But that's something I treatedmyself to this year.
(24:31):
I didn't want no gadgetsbecause I got everything I feel
with cameras and I usually getsomething techy, but I'm good.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
So you wait a certain time in a year for you to do
that.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
It's always around Christmas time and I usually
going to be our at leastNovember or December, but this
year I've been thinking about it, thinking about it and now you
know, in Florida I learnedsomething that we should be
waxing our cars every threemonths, religiously because of
the weather.
Yeah, so the UV rays startedmessing with the hood and the
top of the car, the ceiling, andwhen I started looking at it
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I'm like it's too late.
The damage was there.
So now you know, I got away 30days and I'll be able to make
sure I wax it every three months, and that's the best thing you
can do in that Florida weatheris wax it every three months,
but the UV rays will eat yourpain.
Yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
If I see somebody call like that, I wouldn't even,
I wouldn't even judge, yeah.
So I was like you know, andthen you got that just like ashy
walking on the knee, yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
So I was like my grill.
Right now, my grill got thatproblem.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
So, yeah, I learned about that and I said you know
what they told me after 30 days?
Just make sure I do that everythree months.
So I'm gonna stay on top ofthat.
But yeah, that's just one thingI also do.
I know this, that about myself.
My treat to myself is doingnothing for way, coming up to
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Christmas Day, like what.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Doing nothing at all.
So I'm gonna be able to donothing without myself being
able to genuinely, genuinely beable to do nothing without any
expectations, because thepressure of having to deliver
around holidays it's just.
(26:26):
It's just some.
It's a pressure, the same as itdo.
You got to fulfill quotas, yougot to make people happy, you
want to do nice things?
I like not having to haveanybody have to do nothing for
me and vice versa.
Everybody can just do what theyneed to do.
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You get to do what you want todo.
You get to save your money.
You get the, the thoughts to benice, because obviously I did
it the other way.
But I've had some holidays whereI really didn't have to worry
about nobody and it felt sobeautiful.
It was almost like I had avacation away from tradition Not
(27:14):
that I will always want that,because I appreciate tradition
Right, but going a couple ofyears where everybody moving
around and especially for thosethat are that have been there in
unfortunate circumstances, theholidays can be stressful for a
lot of people.
So you being on having a coupleyears where you're on the
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outside, where you don't have toworry about nothing and it's
very simple and empty andthere's no requests, there's no
demands, there's no pressure.
You're like this is nice,because I you feel the frenzy,
even in the frenzy.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
So is there encounters you still interacting
with people?
It's just a gift exchange part.
You're saying I don't got toshow up to no parties we're
talking about everything.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
I've had a couple of years where it was almost as if
the holidays didn't exist inthat sense.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
So it's like the family's taking a family trip
for the holiday and you stayhome and everybody's gone.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Yeah, it might be.
No, it might be where theperson there might be a family
member that usually is the onethat led everything.
Then that year they wentsomewhere else.
Then it might be another one towhere everybody just kind of
dropped a ball on making it anevent, gotcha, and then it was
(28:43):
like, oh, this is, this is aneasy one, I don't want this and
that.
And we got, oh, it's out of theway, wait, anybody?
No, no, you didn't.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Oh, and then you realize what, like you hit a
lick, that's it.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
It's done and then like your siblings cool, because
your siblings won't you to haveyour money to do you.
And then vice versa, everybodygot the kids, everybody kind of
like.
If we just eat each other aloneand none of us have to worry
about everybody, especially whenyou have a big family, then
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it's like this is not nice.
It ain't what I'm used to Do.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
You feel like that's okay, because maybe throughout
the year there's different timeswhere y'all don't get together
and maybe they got for oneanother.
So Christmas ain't like it'slike it doesn't have to happen
on Christmas because we alreadygot each other, we already do
things.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
You know I'm talking about it.
It was a dry New Year's.
It was a dry Thanksgiving.
It was a dry Christmas oh, itwasn't no Valentine's Like it
was, a, it was.
It was empty.
It was at its aspects ofdiscomfort because you used to
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something going on.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
But while you're, while you're nestled in that
discomfort, you realize, yourealize the silence that you
didn't get to hear before.
And then you say, you know, letme appreciate the silence and
just accept what there's nothingto do, and then it's relaxed.
(30:23):
Then that's when you feel thefrenzy around you of what
everybody else got going on butyou realize, oh, I get a, I get
a break.
Sometimes it is, it is a lot.
The holiday season is when yougot birthdays, you got.
There's been some times where Ifelt like the whole year was
(30:45):
booked up to where special asmusicians.
When you got stuff you want to,you want to do it, you like man
.
You got to put this out forfull September Because if not
the rest of the year is gone.
You can't do the campaigns,nothing unless you got a holiday
song or something for theladies around Valentine's Day.
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The, the, it can, it can reallystifle, stifle the words.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Stifle a couple of your plans.
That would require a lot ofyour attention, your resources,
your finances.
Then, if there's a few thingsbefore that that you do do, the
splurge before where there'sgoing out of town, a random
event, like maybe biggerfunctions and stuff like that,
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he like, oh, this whole yeargone, this whole year got
something going on.
You could do two decent thingsa month.
It's like that month, thatmonth gone, when you really want
to have time around.
That's just me.
I like to.
I like to have space betweenthings that I'm doing, I guess.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
I'm, I'm that guy, I'm kind of lucky.
Everybody.
Everybody's birthday is kind ofseparate.
Oh, the the, the anniversary isdifferent, the holidays in.
You know what I'm saying?
So I'm probably the only onethat lands on a holiday or, or
like two days off or before orafter.
That's close to a holiday, orsomething like that.
But nobody really gives nothingon Thanksgiving but thanks.
(32:16):
I think you're saying some food, but but but um, yeah,
everybody's birthday lands andthe holidays lands, yeah that's
right yeah, so I guess I'm goodwhen it comes to that.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
So I kind of question for you would it be a deal
breaker if a chick birthdays inDecember, like maybe like no,
december 15th and then Christmasthere, and she'd be like, well,
you know what you're dealingwith me, you got to get me to.
You know, I need to get youbecause I need that birthday
present and I need Christmas atthe same time, no, no well, we
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ain't going to give you just amonth of December.
She just got this expectation.
Because she's been doing it herwhole life, she's got to be
celebrated twice, or do you feellike?
No, I mean, I can just get youa decent Christmas president
calling the day.
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Oh, I take care of your birthday.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
No we don't worry about Christmas.
I'm just curious that that youbrought it up, Like if you
already talked about thepressures, I'm kind of like hmm.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
If I decide to get involved with someone, and
that's their standards, becausethey didn't condition to enjoy
those things.
And now I step in the pictureof why should she have to change
what she's comfortable with forme If I'm also benefiting on
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the other, the other?
Speaker 3 (33:37):
of.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
The return of it.
If I'm benefiting on everything, I'm super accumulated, okay,
okay, I can't be mad because youused to doing this, this, this
and I'm like in that, and thenall of a sudden you say, hey,
but I my birthday round thistime.
I do expect to get some life.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
All right, I'm still expecting you to do the mother
Cool Doing to your ex Good, no.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
No, that's good, I'll be thinking the exes.
I'll be thinking exes I knowthat's good.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
It's healthy for us to think.
Exes To thank them.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Yeah, because if you ever even entertain someone who
learned something from arelationship prior to you, you
can appreciate it.
Man, I could be a good or badthing.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
I'm like, yeah, I'm with you, Draco.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
I kind of feel it can be a bad thing if you I can see
it being a bad thing if you'renot able to accept what growth
need to come from the bad thatthere is.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
You could be seasoned , but not seasoned.
Well, how about that Seasoned?
Speaker 2 (34:50):
but not seasoned.
Well, well, yeah, so that'swhat I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
You put too much salt in that chicken, but you don't
really let it marinate with thereal seasoning.
You know what?
Speaker 2 (34:57):
I'm saying so now you get the ass.
Well, you said too much salt,yeah, yeah, I don't know if you
can.
What do we do to fix when it'stoo much?
Speaker 1 (35:07):
You gotta water that thing down.
That's it.
That's what you gotta do.
You either throw it away or yougotta water that thing down.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
You gotta get it wet, then you know how to get wet,
I'm just salty.
If you know how to get it wet,then you can't get it wet, then
let it go, oh man.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Somebody else might like the salt, you know what.
And to his point you know I'dbe fit listening.
Yeah, somebody out there wouldbe just fine with it.
You right about that, oh.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
You gotta be thankful , be happy for him.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
That's crazy.
That's crazy, All right allright.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
So the holiday tips for those who are in new
relationships or passing throughrelationships, and it's
different.
We send our love to y'all fromexposure.
There it is it's the season ofthe jolly hey man, jolly ranch.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Speaking of season.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
You know what I'm saying?
Oh man, cool, cool, cool.
So let's talk about the movieside.
I know, when we gather around,you know what I'm saying the
movies.
There's some movies that'sclassics out there.
You probably rewatch them onthe holidays or around the
holiday time.
So yeah, I was gonna say, as Iwas thinking about that topic
and which movie I feel like Ican watch over and over and over
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.
I never get tired of it.
I'm a bus out laughing andenjoy it.
Definitely home alone wouldhave to be one of my classics
around Christmas time.
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 3 (36:44):
That was one, but it became Friday after next for me,
man, when Ricky Smiley in it,when it was yeah, we were dead
in it.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Yo, what's it next?
What's it?
Yeah, friday after next.
I know what you mean.
Talk to me.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Yeah, when he started the movie still in the
Christmas tree.
Yeah, that became mine, man,that became yours, oh man.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
I wish we could have got one more man.
I wish we could have got thatmoney right.
You know what I'm saying?
It's Friday, so you were homealone too.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
The first home alone.
The first home alone.
I liked the first home alone.
That was really nice and that'sprobably the biggest Christmas
movie.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
I can think of Nobody really topped it, since you
know what I'm saying.
Like home alone.
We grew up on that.
Definitely that's what Ithought Christmas was supposed
to look like yeah, yeah Movie.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
That's a good description.
I like how you just said thatthat would be my.
I would say the exact samething.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
I felt I was getting ripped off.
After home alone came man.
I was like man, it's hot, santaain't gonna come here.
We ain't got no chimneys, norain there, there's nothing
around here.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
I was one of the chimneys.
For that reason, yeah.
I just wanted the snow and snowtoo.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
I didn't see the snow .
Speaker 2 (37:57):
I wanted the snow.
I wanted to see it falling.
That day, home alone made youfeel like that was how it was
supposed to look.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Hey, to this day, I've never seen snow yet.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Man, I got a story.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
You never see snow.
I got a story for snow.
That was my goal.
I probably did when I was a kidbecause I was born in Jersey,
but I wanted to take a trip thisyear.
I was trying to go to Coloradoto actually see it and that
didn't work out.
But hopefully next year I canfigure something out and I want
to see snow.
When I was in Gainesville now Igot one morning when I went up
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to my van at the time I mean italmost looked like it was so
cold that it looked like snowwas on the car, like I couldn't
even see the car, barelyrecognized it.
But dang, I really want to seesnow.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
I got a story for one man.
I was in Afghanistan.
Oh shoot.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
All right, we don't hear that every day.
Yeah, it's like, yeah, comedown the block.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
It got real cold During the day.
It warmed up.
When it get hot, it get hotthere.
When it rains, it rains there,and when it snowed, it snows
there.
So yeah, I was in the valley.
They get all of that.
Yeah, they get all of the above, all of it, and it's bad.
Every time it happens it's badThunderstorics, all of that.
So me not knowing, I know it'scold, whatever like that.
(39:16):
But we're in our tents, ourtents, they got these units, man
, they got these nice AC unitsthat can go hot and cold,
whatever like that.
So we're uncomfortable in mytent.
Just wake up one morning and Ihad my boy go out the door.
Oh shit, it's not outside.
I want me up my snick.
I ride out my sleep.
So I'm in my boxes, man, I jumpright in the snow because it's
my first time.
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I didn't know, but I wascreeping up but all I could hear
is stuff sliding out off thetent.
I didn't know what it was, justI'm thinking, you know, it's
probably wet down here.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
What's you cold?
Speaker 3 (39:47):
You said you know, I jumped into the snow in my boxes
, man.
Remember that?
Were you cold?
I was freezing, I was, but Iwas so excited that I ignored it
for the first 60 seconds andwent inside and got sick, got
sick.
Everything was wet, just myboxes, bruh.
Everybody looking at me like Iwas crazy, but it's my first
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time.
I'm from Florida, bruh, yeah, Ican get that yeah, I'm from
Florida for the first time Idon't think it's going.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
It don't look that cold.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
That's why I'm cursing it.
So it's just, it's just sittingthere, so, but it's negative 10
and it stayed negative 10.
Even when the ice melted, itwas still negative 10.
But after I jumped in the snow,grabbed it of course, threw it
but ran aside.
I want to put clothes on, butnow I was freaking, freezing
Everything, frozen bro Pipes, nowater, we can't shower.
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This is for like two weeks.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
They ain't telling you it was risking your life
doing that.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
No, man, everybody looking at me, laughing at me,
bro.
Even other people from theother side they're laughing at
me, man.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
The negative 10 ain't no joke, bruh, I'm not serious.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
I learned it already.
The next five minutes, the nextfive minutes.
I learned, definitely learnedthat my knuckles got all dark.
It started pilling.
You could have gotten frostbite, dude.
I was messed up.
I was messed up for the nexttwo weeks.
I was messed up.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
Jumping in the snow.
You jump in the snow.
You get a headache in your face.
It's instant.
You didn't even know you couldget headaches.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
That's what I'm saying.
I would, yeah, I'm about to sayyou brave bro, it's instant, it
was it but it was fun.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
It was fun, it was instant man and yeah, yeah, so I
experienced it for a shortamount of time.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
You experienced it in Afghanistan, in Afghanistan.
Wow, how about you your snowexperience?
Speaker 2 (41:23):
I've seen in New York a couple of times.
Okay, I've seen some Salt LakeCity, utah, oregon, some,
especially when I went on thattour at Rick's.
It was probably a handful ofplaces.
I don't even remember all theother places, but I seen snow
probably about six times.
(41:45):
Oh yeah, it's always likethere's regions where there will
be snow, but it's not like it'stolerable too.
It's like a.
It's a.
It's a different type of snow.
I can't.
I can't explain it.
So it ain't always.
It ain't always bad, it is cold, but seeing it, especially the
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climates where the sun is stillout you kind of get both you got
the snow in, you got the sun.
That's nice.
Yeah, I appreciate it.
I know I couldn't, I wouldn'tbe able to, I wouldn't like to
live in conditions like thatunless I had everything I needed
.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
Yeah, Every, every single thing, when I was in Park
City, Utah it was.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
some people had heated driveways.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
What.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
Yeah, because it can be diff it's snow and it's a lot
of hills too.
Yeah, it can be difficult withyour vehicles driving through
certain places.
So those people had heateddriveways.
Where you looking theydriveways just clear, no
shoveling and nothing necessary.
Got everything in the I guessthey cut the work out for them.
That's dope, yeah, that is dope.
(42:54):
I'm like that's how I wanna doit.
I know it's probably a flex,probably really expensive, but
I'm like if I was living inclimates like that, I would
wanna have it all.
Yeah, you would have to have itall.
I wanna do the luxury.
So I don't have to think.
You gotta get used to shovelingthe snow.
(43:14):
It is hard, but the natives isprobably nothing.
That's just part of it.
But for Floridian, where wedon't really have anything to
worry about far as our climateother than the sun doing damage
to your roof, we probably haveto change our oil more than
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other people.
This is a few things we mightnot really take into
consideration with whether Ikeep you to the stick.
Speaker 3 (43:45):
Oh, yeah, it can damage your home.
If you're at home, don't keep acertain temperature, it can
damage your roof of your homealso.
You can get leaks here andthere, stuff that ran out, some
roofs and floor.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
Oh my God, Went through hell.
That roof is no show.
I feel like just buying a wholenew house Like that would work.
You talk about that stress.
Yeah, I'm about to say that'sstress right there for real, my
gosh.
Like insurance and Florida iscrazy.
I feel like you pay for it, butwhen it's time for them to
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break that bread, man, you'regonna go through hell.
I felt like I was at a recordlabel trying to get my mask.
I've been paying y'all twoevery month and I'm fighting for
that, but no, that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (44:30):
Now that snow life is definitely different.
Man, because I visit somefamily of North one time and the
struggle that they had to go toto wake up three in the morning
, get up, shovel snow, start thecar up and go back inside get
ready for work, to leave forwork early and then get the
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fight and the road to get towork and then to leave work.
Speaker 1 (44:57):
Yeah, that's do it all over again pretty much.
Speaker 3 (44:59):
Oh my God and then you get home at nine, maybe 10
o'clock at night to probablymaybe try to prepare food to eat
to feed the like.
We're visitors, so we're there,so they're trying to.
You know we're cool, we wannago buy food to go out and eat
and wanna enjoy the snow, butfor you to come home at nine, 10
o'clock may need almost to tryto prepare food for you to eat,
(45:20):
to get to sleep, to wake up at34 in the morning.
Dude, I can't.
I was like no, no, I can't staythere.
I love my Florida life.
I'll do a hurricane for three,four weeks over the snow.
Man, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, man,listen, I'm not saying you'll
take a hurricane.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
What we did, we did three, four weeks before.
We just said you take ahurricane.
Exactly what part of thehurricane are we talking?
We're talking about what outpower hurricane, three, four
weeks Is that the one youtalking about?
Just some winds and some rain.
You see that three, four weeksnow Hell, no, I never been.
Three, four weeks.
Yeah, we have no Hell.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
No, I've done like four days, there was three four
days, yeah, but I personallynever had to do that.
Oh, I had three weeks.
I know people that had threeweeks.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
You went to school with no power too.
Yeah, I've never done that long.
I done three, four days.
Yeah, I did like maybe three,four days.
Yeah, yeah, that's what Iremember, oh y'all, I had two
weeks, three weeks, where youwere living, boys, that animal
went to school, you were alwaysgonna say high school.
Speaker 3 (46:14):
We had no power in high school either.
I wasn't singing it.
I didn't see you there.
I definitely was dead.
Speaker 2 (46:19):
I ain't never go to school without no power.
Speaker 1 (46:21):
Yeah, me neither.
Oh y'all, the school ain't hadno power.
What school you went to?
Speaker 3 (46:24):
Atlantic.
Yes, we went at least almost afull week with no power in
school.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
Well, some of y'all went.
Everybody ain't go.
Speaker 1 (46:33):
Yeah, I don't understand.
What are you doing in theschool with no power?
We was definitely there workingsweating bullets.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
Tell you that I remember them days, boy.
Speaker 1 (46:41):
We got hit by a few kids, I don't even understand
what the point of that?
Speaker 2 (46:43):
Now, that don't even make sense.
They got to hang back to school.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
I ain't go.
Yeah, I don't remember that.
Yeah, I don't remember.
Speaker 3 (46:49):
It's not even that day.
It was a week.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
Yeah, I don't remember that A week Mm-mm.
Oh, it's right back there.
I do remember that.
Speaker 2 (46:54):
I sure do remember that it's possible that it could
have been some parts.
This is the old land, right?
Oh four, oh three.
Yes, it was the old land.
Yeah, so it's probably.
It probably wasn't the wholeschool.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
Yeah, it was that old , because they had some.
It was the old five.
Okay, okay, that was the boys'high school.
Speaker 3 (47:14):
Yeah, they had nags all night.
Yeah, they had parts.
Do you remember what hurricaneit was?
We got hit by three that year.
Back to back, back to back toback, frances.
I don't remember that.
I don't remember that.
Speaker 1 (47:29):
I'm trying to remember the name of the school
when no power fell that.
Speaker 2 (47:32):
I know I don't.
I know I had a crucialhurricane experience.
Speaker 1 (47:39):
I mean it was those what's what you call a cruise
Right, yeah, like.
Speaker 2 (47:44):
People being scared they're gonna lose their life
and things.
Speaker 3 (47:46):
I don't think he ever was like that.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
Yeah, I never experienced anything.
Speaker 1 (47:51):
So for me you know you watch it on TV, but I had
the privilege to go be the thefirst responders in Key West
when Matthew came.
That was the first time that Ialmost questioned what the hell
we doing like, why we going outthere like?
You know what I'm saying?
Because, uh, you know, when youdrive to the keys, you got
those bridges and you got theway they do it.
(48:11):
They're so trained, but theydrive their cars like if there's
the main road going north andsouth, everybody would drive
their car to the main road atthe highest point, because
that's the highest point of themain road, you can't leave it in
your driveway.
Uh, so when I got, we got tothis one after homestead, you
got to this one Particular spotbefore you into the keys, I feel
(48:32):
like we drove for 45 minutesand there was nothing but cars
At this highest point.
And then you'll see every nowand then you'll see a trailer,
upside down boat in the middleof the road.
Uh, just, it just lookedabandoned.
It looked like some residentsevil without the monsters, like,
just looked abandoned.
And I'm like, oh, my god, likethis is real.
(48:54):
So when we end up being um there, when I got to the location to
open up to the public.
We had swat, we had, uh, theNate, like we had so much
secured, we had tanks.
Because, if I thought about,like, if people wanted to rush
us Like, let's just say, forfood, because they haven't had,
they had no power, there was nohotel available and they
(49:14):
starving and they know they gotsome chicken over here you can
get some sandwich, like you canget a comfort food.
What would stop a hundredpeople from rushing 20 people,
for example, to try to get anice home cooked meal?
It was pretty interesting, butthat's the first time I said man
and we, we were blessed, like,we dodged the bullet.
You know, miami had floods, theyhad a lot of water, but we
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dodged the bullet.
That's the first time I seen itwith my eyes what the, what a
hurricane could do.
And I see with my eyes and Isaid man, yeah, I don't take
that for granted.
And, yeah, the keys have somevery nice people, though, the
ones who stayed, who couldn'tevacuate, there were some of the
nicest people I met.
Under them circumstances, Iwould have been way more
stretched out and pissed.
There was some of the nicestpeople, though, and said thank
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you and and appreciate you foropening and just thank you for
giving us a home to live.
Speaker 2 (50:03):
That's what you were doing.
That because not many peoplehave taken a big step.
Speaker 1 (50:08):
Yeah, man, it was uh, it was uh interesting.
But no, I appreciate that.
Thank you, man.
I, ever since then, I said yeah, we, you know, we got to be
grateful for these storms whenthey come.
And we, we still have ourhouses.
And, like you said, you haven'tbeen through a Tragical, but
try not to my dad, the one whenwe lost power.
Then he took a wires, he set itto the car he had.
We- had light.
(50:29):
He had light coming through thehouse.
He done some things with abattery like my dad was like
ready though man, I don't knowif them, the tactics and Haiti,
but my dad made like I felt likewe still ate.
Good, we had music.
He made it fun, although we hadno power.
Speaker 3 (50:45):
It was always a party .
Y'all we know it was always aparty.
Speaker 2 (50:48):
We, uh, that's the side I'm I'm used to.
Speaker 3 (50:52):
I didn't want to say it like that but people.
Well, for the ones that don'tknow it, was like a vacation.
Yeah, for the ones that don'tknow, that's.
That's what it is when we getHercules.
Speaker 2 (51:00):
It was even fun going in the.
It's unfortunate for those whoI guess it's.
It's unfortunate for everybody.
I have to do this, but for somereason Florida, in its lighter
sense, have like a, a nice uh, agood humor, positive humor when
(51:22):
it comes to preparing for thesethings.
So we're a joke, we'll go out.
We be mad because we got to getthe shiny water, or you,
looking at what's left in youroptions, that is a nasty water.
Speaker 3 (51:34):
We all get together, I feel like it getting the whole
.
Speaker 1 (51:40):
I mean the minerals they added now.
Speaker 3 (51:43):
I gotta test that theory man, I gotta try it, but
um yeah, everybody's saying youain't missing nothing.
But, uh, it is the time of theyear wherever we all do get
together Like it's a holiday.
You know we, uh, we all helpeach other out, putting shutters
up and wards, and all of thatyou know.
And then, when all that gone,you know you can get your baby,
and all that you know.
I'm saying so you got to dothat's what it is.
Speaker 2 (52:06):
It do feel nice it's uh, you can feel.
It's a time where everybodywant everybody to be taken care
of.
Yeah, everybody want everybodygood neighbors is checking on
you.
Speaker 3 (52:15):
Cookin everybody's in in the neighborhood cutting
down trees Together, you knowain't gotta go nowhere, you
ain't gotta work.
Speaker 2 (52:22):
It sucks for those who actually end up losing jobs,
right, but then you appreciatethe people that actually going
out there, they are working foryou, they putting in a they time
.
If they fpnl and they got towork crazy, I always just it's
horrible, but you can't.
You do feel the unity incommunity coming together.
Buckle down.
(52:42):
Yeah yeah, it bring somethingback together.
So that's the part where I'mlike man.
I kind of had some Some nicespecial times when there's
barbecue going on, because ifthe electricity go out, gotta
eat certain ways to rain.
And the curfew oh yeah, thecurfew.
(53:02):
But if you had somebody tohunch, y'all like y'all just
stuck in the house.
Speaker 3 (53:09):
Hey, okay, it was quarantine before quarantine.
Speaker 2 (53:13):
Yeah, Florida, Well, not just Florida but any other
hurricanes yeah I already knewabout the quarantine you had.
You had people surfing In theweather.
It was in the road of going tothe beach.
They had to bearfoot it like,and after it is, it felt so
liberating, like it was acleanse that went on.
Everything slowly got back towhere it needed to be and then
(53:37):
people take, they drive around,see what is looking like.
Speaker 1 (53:40):
I done, hey, I do that.
I'm like I'm infamous for that.
Y'all seeing the walk.
Yeah, yeah, that's me, oh,that's me.
Speaker 2 (53:51):
Oh yeah, right over, you start seeing this like it's
like you.
You driving through umSomething that's on display.
You just going around.
Yeah, you want to see whatmother nature did.
I'm that she was at us.
You look around like man.
They split a whole tree what?
Speaker 3 (54:13):
What you call it house guy hit by a tree.
Bro, it's gone.
Yeah, yeah, that's before weused to use our cell phones.
Speaker 1 (54:20):
It's so so yeah, before you could.
Yeah, that that was beforesocial media Really took over,
but now we supposed to begrowing now.
Speaker 2 (54:25):
So I don't think it'd be as funny to us, because you
just got a roof.
Yeah you would laugh and Iyou'll be like how long it took
me trying to get that?
Speaker 1 (54:36):
Yeah, I'll be thinking about that yeah, boy.
Well, that was interesting, man.
I can't believe what we're atand how much we accomplished,
from the episodes to the shorts,to the platforms.
Man and um I bumped intosomebody in the streets the
other day, knows like man, look,I like what y'all doing, keep
doing it.
Um, you know, I really enjoyedthe Haitian fresh interview and
(54:58):
he was Hispanic too.
That was pretty dope from thestate and he's just like, yeah,
I like what y'all doing.
Man, just keep keep doing it,keep bringing the guests and
just, uh, you know y'all makinga difference out there.
That was the conversation.
So I was like yo, that's what'sup.
I say, appreciate you evencoming up and saying you have to
do that, but it kind of justinspired me and, uh, trying to
give me some ideas for, you know, things we can implement and
(55:19):
try out for next year.
But, uh, that's what's up, man,I'm happy for us, man, and I
think this is gonna definitelyend off the year for us on
exposure.
Man, and you know just what.
That being said, all ourviewers, all our supporters, all
our fans.
On behalf of myself, I justdefinitely want to say we
appreciate you, thank you forcelebrating the year with us,
and I do wish you and yourfamily, all your loved ones, a
(55:42):
merry Christmas, a happy holidayand a happy new year slap.
Speaker 2 (55:48):
Merry Christmas, Happy holidays all all the other
Um at least ceremonies around.
Speaker 1 (56:01):
You know what I'm saying.
Yes, yes, yes, drake.
Oh, hey man, happy holidays andnew years.
Y'all's take it easy out there.
All right, you came on, solikes this one baby with you, oh
swabby with it, you got a wayto go live in the coconut oil.
Yes, uh, and we all got ourexposure gear that's gonna be
(56:23):
available to you next year thehoodies, the polo shirts, you
know, I mean the sweatshirts,the hats.
We coming man, we appreciatey'all, y'all tuned into exposure
and this, another episode, andwe are, oh, it's like I gotta
(56:48):
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Speaker 1 (00:54):
Man, you know Christmas is right around the
corner, so we're gonna gonon-tradition.
I ain't gonna get no music,nothing too crazy, but we do
want to keep this focused on theholidays.
So this gonna be a littledifferent for us.
Man, I'm up for that challengethere.
I kind of got that from you.
Don't?
Air time gonna be a lot in.
I Was like you know what?
We want to do something totallyoutside of the norm and we want
(01:17):
to talk about the holidays, man.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yes, it felt real on home goods Etsy, martha Stewart,
andrago we're going this one.
So I was like alright, okay,the prompts make sense.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Okay for sure.
Well, for sure, man, I'm glady'all like it.
Yeah, not when a little did alittle shopping man.
So shout out to home goods andTJ Maxx.
They got your board right.
You know what I'm saying.
And I had a farm, just the neck.
This is my.
You know I'm saying, and myCuban late man.
But uh, you know what,christmas coming up, man, we
just want to really kick it offwith um I want to talk about.
(01:55):
You know just, uh, it'sChristmas is approaching, man,
how do you, how do you treatChristmas?
You know I'm saying, whenChristmas is coming, slab, I
start with you.
But you know, do you reallylook forward to Christmas?
Is it is exciting asThanksgiving?
And you know, I mean, how doyou treat Christmas before the
approaches?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
um, I've grown to Really love Christmas.
Once I had kids and that becamepart of our tradition but
raising my two boys but Beforethat we didn't celebrate
Christmas.
I grew up to Hope Whitman'sOkay, so we didn't celebrate
Christmas.
So that Didn't feel nicebecause I wanted toys.
(02:37):
So we kind of waited activelyto get certain things.
But as I got older I got intothe tradition.
I will say it was always nicein elementary school doing the
crafts, the, the activities thatthe teachers had going on um
after-school programs where youwould have the Gift drives and
(02:57):
stuff like that.
The energy definitely was up inon very festive and In giving
around that time.
So that always felt good, nomatter what your Religious um
upbringing was.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
So today I still love .
I like the eggnog, I like theum, you know, the cookies.
I like the smell of Christmastrees, like the real ones, okay,
even artificial, artificialspray on the other ones.
I just, I just love the scent,the uh, the coffee to.
We get into the, the peppermintseasons and the pumpkins and
(03:34):
all that around Christmas andthe Thanksgiving area, so I get
really nice around the end ofthe year cool briskin breezy.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
All right, all right, all right, drago, what's going
on with?
Well, I might be the all-barthe group man because, uh, I'm a
turkey baby.
So you know I was born onThanksgiving.
So Either you celebrate mybirthday or not, it's still
being celebrated because of theThanksgiving.
You know, birthday was a coupleof weeks ago your boy, big 37,
99, tom.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Yeah, so, um, thanksgiving for me is always.
It's always a birthday for me,either I celebrate my birthday
or not.
But the Christmas man I think Icelebrated one time in my life
and, uh, when I saw him the artball.
I never really celebratedChristmas, man, and and, and now
it's, it's Hanukkah instead of,uh, christmas for me, because
(04:28):
I'm practicing Israel life.
I don't know if you guys knowmy, yeah, my girl's uh, she's uh
, israel's, israel, like, uh andum, I'm actually practicing it.
You know, I'm saying it's thewhat does that exactly into?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
so um, uh.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
It's, it's the same thing as, almost like the I
don't want to say that because Idon't too much to.
It's almost like being Jewish,okay, but uh, it's, it's a lot
more to it.
So if I say that you, it's thesame.
Uh, israel, like uh behaviorsand everything that they study
and Uh what their beliefs.
So, okay, I want to get tooheavy into that, but um yeah, so
(05:04):
this year I guess I would sayit's my first time celebrating
Hanukkah with me, my grandma and, uh, that's that our family.
So, um yeah, christmas wasnever really a thing for me, man
.
I don't think I've ever gottena gift or nothing like that for
Christmas.
That, oh man.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Oh, wow, yeah, yeah, man, what um?
What was the reason Um?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
um, I think, since I was a kid and my family been
broken up for a long time, man,and, and because of it, man, um,
I'm gonna just put it out there.
It's not, you know, not, I wantno pity part of nothing, but I
grew up with no parents, no mom,no dad, right, so I grew up, uh
, with my uncle, and it was justmy uncle, and then it became,
became my grandma and my uncle,and then my grandma, my uncle
(05:46):
and grandfather, uh so, but youknow, the zoes, they don't, they
don't really, you know, doChristmas like that you?
know these old dudes now.
Yeah yeah so, but um, outsideof that, you know, growing up
still, you know, even beingmarried at one point, it's just
it was, it was still flip floppy.
So I never really celebratedthe holiday.
I did once with the family thatI had at the time.
(06:08):
But now you know, even throughyears, growing up never
celebrated me, man, I think Igot one Christmas gift my entire
life.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Dang.
So how did you feel like?
But when you saw, I'm sure youhad friends who were getting
like how did you feel about that?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I think I got used to it out of younger age, man, it
used to bother me as a kid youknow what I'm saying.
And I say that because it wasme and my uncle when I had a
godmother at the time.
I used to, you know, want tolook out for it when the money
would came.
He was supposed to be the oneto buy me a Christmas gift and
never got it.
It went towards something else.
You know what I'm saying.
I kind of got that feelingalready left me since I was a
(06:45):
toddler so I expected it not tohappen.
Every year it happened, so Inever really care, you know what
I'm saying Because I didn'tgrow up participating either.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
But it didn't feel nice when you see everybody on
the streets with the new bikesand shoes and Right, bikes,
shoes, all of it.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Like if I got a bike, I found the bike, fixed it up,
put it together and that's how Ihad a bike.
No one ever bought me.
Yeah, yeah, that's how I did it.
And then when the homies bikeswere up, they come to me and I
fixed it and we all right,that's how I got.
I was always.
I think I don't know I wasalways.
I think I became a giverbecause of it.
(07:29):
Probably.
I'm happy when everybody elseis happy.
So to get to love languagesright, that's one of my love
languages, given you know whatI'm saying.
I don't know man, I kind of gotover it.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Do you have a son, though?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
So, yeah, so um, he got everything.
You know what I'm saying.
Ever since he was young, he getChristmas.
Yeah, because you know hismother there, I'm there, he
always got it.
And not he's to the point whereI don't know what to get my kid
for Christmas, because you knowwhat I'm saying.
Like he, he don't really expectit.
Now I just got to the point.
What you want for Christmas,like do, your kid got everything
(08:03):
.
It's almost hard now to thinkwhat, what to get them now,
because they got everythingtablet phone, um, I'm like you
want Roblox or something youwant.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Apex Core or something they do reach an age
where they know specificallywhat they want.
Right, they're really young andyou buy them a bunch of just to
have a bunch of presents toopen up.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I'm to the point like .
I'm like, damn, you don't wantto upgrade the.
Xbox and he's like no, I'm good, I don't really want nothing,
but I'll let you know if I doLike years like the early this
year.
He said he wanted the ones, butthat's even from the year
before the ones is what?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
The Jordans, the ones you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
But but he rarely asked me for anything.
But I have to like find I'mlike I have to got like go look
to see stuff that he needs forme to just get it from, maybe
just your clothes, socks,whatever.
But I'll go hammer like maybeI'm just going to upgrade his
Xbox.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
What about you?
Global Watch out.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I had some.
You know my parents work prettyhard.
I was just thinking back of thefirst Christmas that I could
remember where we you know whatit was what gifts was being
exchanged, so it wasn't as bigin the household.
I feel like my dad was ahustler so he tried to make sure
we have everything we needed.
I think it started off with a.
I got a computer one year thatwas phenomenal to just
(09:16):
everything I learned, and Iremember the PlayStation two
coming out and I remember wewanted that, but that that was
like $500 back in the day thatwas.
That was a lot of bread.
You know what I'm saying.
And growing up in the householdwhere both parents were working
, you know, trying to make endsmeet, I didn't think it was
possible.
But I remember the year my dadactually got us that for
(09:37):
Christmas.
Man Probably want to say likearound 14s, somewhere around
that 13, 14.
I feel like when we got it inman, it was a I thought my dad
was like man, like you know, youlike yo, so maybe it happened,
but we did do that.
In my later part of my life Iremember my parents trying to
(09:59):
get us gifts for Christmas.
I do remember that.
Well, it's kind of goes theopposite.
Going to school, though, man,you had like $200 budget to shop
.
It was kind of tough for megoing to school.
Hence, when I got the computeron, part of the motivation with
selling mixed CDs was able to goto buy school clothes.
I was able to buy schoolclothes and pay for studio time
(10:22):
back in the day selling mixedCDs, so that was kind of my
motivation.
When I was showing up to schoolwith that spindle, everybody
thought it was just like, oh man, no, but I really needed to buy
my Tauti's and some fresh reeseto survive the school year.
But now, as an adult, I lookforward to it, just because I
want to feel like I mean youknow giving and seeing someone
(10:45):
smile, I know, and like maybethey didn't ask for it, but you
was able to get something thatthey was going to utilize and
that they would appreciate.
Like, for example, one of thecoolest gifts I got was for my
sister-in-law.
She's into these marathons andshe does these, these five K's
and different kind of challenges, and I got her this.
It's something you can hang up,it's a frame, but it keeps all
(11:10):
those out of what they call it,that number that's assigned to
them when they run.
After you run she's able tosave all those and she's been
collecting them.
But I got her official framethat you can hang each one you
inserted inside the plastic andyou can just look back and flip
through it and have the memoriesof each five K, each marathon
or not my marathon, but each runshe does she's able to kind of
(11:34):
look back and see it.
You can go with that.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Yeah, because I know she was in the running.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I know you were so gift thoughtful, and that's how
I kind of do it for Christmas.
I kind of enjoy that part, justseeing something, what they've
been doing all year, if theygive, if they talked about
something they wanted to do orsomething they wanted to buy.
I kind of make notes and payattention and around November,
october, I start my Christmasshopping and then, um, yeah, I
was able to do something likethat, but I love the fact when
(11:58):
she saw it she was like man, Ihad this in my mind, like this
is so dope, like she couldutilize it.
I think the best gifts you canget it don't got to be expensive
, but something that you knowsomeone's going to utilize.
Like I know Jago in the gamingworld, so I already I feel like
something will be surrounded bythe games he played in the
gaming world or producing.
I know like that will besomething to get Drago.
(12:20):
But that's just how I kind of Ipay attention to the person,
but I do enjoy Christmas now,like I'm done with all my
shopping.
I got my son his gift.
He's going I know he's going togo crazy for it, but he wanted
to VR.
He's into the VR headset.
It's something that he he'sbeen asking for.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Did you all go all out with the direct decorations
and stuff?
Cause I know that's one thingmy folks did.
They'll decorate, but that'llbe it, like they'll put little
lights around the house, yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
A little tree bare minimum.
Tree lights around the tree andsomething outside bare minimum.
But I'm funny, Get into it nextyear.
I want to say I'm going to getthe house all decked out for
show, Now that I did the work,that most of the work is done
around the house.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
But that's important man.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
That's important and I just like that feeling.
Man, when you wake up onChristmas morning, you know that
tree there.
Do your little gift exchangeman, you spending time, but I
think it ultimately spendingtime with family and friends,
like just being able to be ineach other presence and having a
good time.
I think that's the mostimportant part of it.
When I get from Christmas butI'm not, you know, I'm thankful
for whatever I get on that, nomatter how big or how small, I'm
(13:25):
always thankful for whatever Iget.
I'll utilize it, that's forsure.
That's for sure, oh, yes.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Yeah, so Christmas, the exposure to you all.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Boom Boom.
So as we talking about that,let's talk about something else,
man.
So when you gathering with yourfamily, of course there's
there's food, there's the,there's the games you know what
I'm saying and there's themovies.
So any tradition you got now,as we're in our adult, we got
significant others and we gotkids.
(13:55):
Is there anything you'reimplementing now that's
important, that you've beendoing as far as tradition is
concerned?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Now what I've started to do, because my boys are good
at eating gifts but theyhaven't really learned the side
of wanting to give that exchangeback to somebody else.
So we've kind of tried to letgo a little bit and see what
(14:28):
they gonna do or what they gonnathink about as far as the side
of it being thoughtful andtrying to come up with something
.
Putting the time aside out,putting the time aside in
advance to be thoughtful, likethe beautiful parts of
give-and-gift inverses, you know, just receiving.
(14:49):
So I think it's like thattransition from when you start
getting to an age where it'slike all right, it will make
sense for you to know thatthere's another side, instead of
just being catered to.
Now other people wanna feelwhat you can give.
So that's been a part of thetradition, that's been a partner
, that's been something that'sbeen implemented new.
(15:10):
So allow me any more relax alittle bit, kind of see what
they gonna do and also wait forthem to say what they want,
cause they are simple.
They are simple, they don'twanna ask for a lot but, getting
them to try to do the otherstuff on their own, not before.
You'll kind of make them like,hey, we gotta get this for your
(15:31):
grandmother, hey, we gotta getthis right.
And then they know you're gonnado it but you're not really
learning to get inside, and thatwas something I didn't know
because I wasn't participating.
So when it came down the timesof me trying to come up with
something as thoughtful as youdid with the marathon tag plates
(15:52):
, I didn't know how to do noneof that.
I'm thoughtful in the processthroughout the year, but I was
always a little uncomfortablewith the pressure of holidays
about.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Valentine's Day.
Right, you're right, thoughthat's definitely.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
And on my holidays and birthdays.
I was in my mind and this isjust me being, I guess, stubborn
I'm like I would like to wannago all out in those ways outside
of a season, as kind of makeyou wanna do.
And that was just me beingstubborn.
(16:31):
Today I'm like, hey, we allhaving fun and everybody doing
it, but I'm not really thinkingabout participating nothing more
, would participate fully.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Yes sir, yes sir.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Fred, go with you guys Again.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
it's new this year, so just like that, but just some
traditions that you've beenthat you've been outside.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
It's always been me and Lil man.
I've always.
I always took him to the littleevent out in Derrey the
Christmas lighting and stufflike that and that we've always
done, even with family.
Now it's always been me and Lilman.
We didn't go this year because,of course, of course, because
of work, but the Christmasparade and the Christmas
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lighting was always a traditionthat we always did every single
year.
He still asks about it becausewe've been doing this since he
was five or six.
Okay, okay, so yeah, that's onething we always did.
Always they got in Derrey, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Oh, the tree lights.
Yeah, the tree lighting inDerrey is a hundred foot tree.
Yeah, a hundred foot tree, yeah, yeah, okay, okay, that's
what's up.
That's what's up.
One thing I do is the.
I love going to Coconut Creek.
There's a light show down therethat they do where you can get
in your car.
They got 3D glasses if youchoose to or not, and it's just
a nice ride, man, maybe45-minute drive if you're going,
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five miles per hour of thisbeautiful light show, just
enjoying that.
Adjani usually gets his iPad andstarts filming and we just
always fascinated by that.
That's one thing that we'vebeen doing.
I'm actually just bought thetickets to do it this week, so
I'm looking forward to that tosee if he stills enjoy it as he
gets older.
I hope he or maybe I need tofind a different spot, but
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that's one thing we've alwaysdone.
We enjoy that there andunfortunately he's in the fifth
grade.
Somebody spoiled it to him likehe came home and said man, you
know if they told me, santaClaus is not real?
So, yeah, you know these kidsnow with social media and how
they talk.
So we used to do the cookiesand the milk in the morning
Christmas morning drop a littlebit of bacon, bacon soda powder
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on the floor.
Let him know Santa was here.
This is what he left, man, andit's just one year.
He really was like I feel likethey sold it to him, man.
He just wasn't buying itnormally, man.
So he's like I know y'allbuying my gifts and it ain't no
Santa and it was like it kind ofmessed up, that little vibe.
But I did look forward to youknow, setting that up for him to
make sure when he woke up hehad that experience.
(19:07):
Man, that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Yeah, I mean yeah, yeah, jk.
And the man's like yeah, youknow, Santa, not real.
I said damn, who told?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
you that I don't remember that Mine no real.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I always see what he realized.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Before first grade yeah, I always Johnny was, I
think.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
He found out, I think .
So I'm gonna say four.
I'm gonna say it was probablylast year he really was sold
like he had.
J was six yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Yeah, j was six, I hadn't.
They grew up with nice kidsbecause they snipped and said,
oh my kid.
I heard A young one didn'tbelieve it all.
Wow, the older one, he liked tobelieve it was worth believing.
One of me felt like that toolike wrestling.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I didn't want to hear , like, tell me his fate.
Like I was good, like let meenjoy what I'm enjoying, right.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Now, because once you get well, this was I'm a, I'm a
phrase, it in what I'mexpressing.
Okay, when the kids startgetting older in the tradition
no longer feel the same, likeit's changing a little bit, as a
participant, then it makes mekind of I can.
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I can see how people can be sad, be sad once that tradition is
kind of expiring due to the age,because now my older, we ain't
going to sleep olders in the hotcocoa breakfast, like they
getting in their pajamas, buyingpajamas, they sitting out, you
(20:40):
seeing all this stuff.
And now they start gettingolder.
You looking into kids likey'all just open, y'all one big
present that y'all wanted andwith nothing else Y'all need to,
and if you did get some otherthings you don't even they ain't
even looking at that stuff.
So then you get to a pointwhere, like I can't be
spontaneous because they gonnalet you know you bought
(21:02):
something that they ain't reallycareful.
Oh, a hoodie.
No, I vote for them and leave$1,500.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Versed to $35.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Then they go and we experience our feelings getting
hurt and as a parent, you kindof got to check yourself and say
was I doing this for me?
Because they kind of hurt in myfeelings that they're not like
the little three and four yearolds that was impressed with the
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rapping and everything.
Because I got to the point,like me, you got to expect it
though.
Yeah.
Yeah, it hurt your feelings.
It hurt your feelings though,but then you want to, but I
don't know if that's now.
I see, once we got old enoughto kind of dismiss certain
traditions.
Now I look back and I thinkabout the like our parents and
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relatives and things like that,and we dismissed what they loved
and kind of took that away fromthem.
And then it's you can be leftempty because you're like oh,
the traditions we had that Iappreciated.
It's no longer in the hell.
We're not doing those thingsanymore.
So I don't know if I voice that.
(22:29):
I apologize for venting.
It wasn't really a question.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
No, you're good, You're good.
Yeah, it's a different outlookon that.
You know what I'm saying and Iguess I'm kind of excited to see
as Johnny gets older.
I feel like my journey I don'tknow.
I'm just listening and takingit in.
I feel like I'm going to beright there with you telling you
the same thing years from now.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
I want to get minds to understand how, like you said
, to start giving andremembering birthdays and stuff
like that, cause I won't point.
He was like what about yourbirthday?
What are we going to celebrateyours?
So when he said that one timeto me, I'm like I'll let you
know when it comes, I'll let youknow when it comes.
But I got him used to tellinghis mom you know what I'm saying
(23:12):
, like happy birthday or makinga card or something like that.
So I tried to get him toremember hey, it's not just
about receiving, you got to givealso.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yes, sir.
So am I the only one thattreats myself to get?
I treat myself every year orsomething too, though?
Yep, oh, I don't, I've alwaysokay.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
That's one thing.
It might be.
It might be every other year.
For me, though, it's not likeall the, I don't really need not
every year, no, every year I dospur, I get myself a gift like
every year I've been doing that,Not saying that I like I don't
want to take away from peoplewho actually do get me.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I always, you know, sometimes I just got my eye on
something and it might cost alittle bit more than the norm
for somebody and instead ofsaying I don't want to put that
pressure on nobody.
So I always usually will getmyself something that I can
enjoy, and you know what I mean.
Like, for example, I got a newpaint job on my truck, Like
that's something that's a couplebands, but that's something I
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wanted to do to give my truckanother.
I got knows five, 10 yearswithout worrying about it.
I'm like you know what, let meget some new rugs to replace a
few of the buttons inside and Ijust got a fresh coat, paint
that thing sexy black.
So now I'm like I can ride outfor another couple.
You know five, 10 years, easy,with no problem.
But that's something I treatedmyself to this year.
(24:31):
I didn't want no gadgetsbecause I got everything I feel
with cameras and I usually getsomething techy, but I'm good.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
So you wait a certain time in a year for you to do
that.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
It's always around Christmas time and I usually
going to be our at leastNovember or December, but this
year I've been thinking about it, thinking about it and now you
know, in Florida I learnedsomething that we should be
waxing our cars every threemonths, religiously because of
the weather.
Yeah, so the UV rays startedmessing with the hood and the
top of the car, the ceiling, andwhen I started looking at it
(25:03):
I'm like it's too late.
The damage was there.
So now you know, I got away 30days and I'll be able to make
sure I wax it every three months, and that's the best thing you
can do in that Florida weatheris wax it every three months,
but the UV rays will eat yourpain.
Yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
If I see somebody call like that, I wouldn't even,
I wouldn't even judge, yeah.
So I was like you know, andthen you got that just like ashy
walking on the knee, yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
So I was like my grill.
Right now, my grill got thatproblem.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
So, yeah, I learned about that and I said you know
what they told me after 30 days?
Just make sure I do that everythree months.
So I'm gonna stay on top ofthat.
But yeah, that's just one thingI also do.
I know this, that about myself.
My treat to myself is doingnothing for way, coming up to
(26:01):
Christmas Day, like what.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Doing nothing at all.
So I'm gonna be able to donothing without myself being
able to genuinely, genuinely beable to do nothing without any
expectations, because thepressure of having to deliver
around holidays it's just.
(26:26):
It's just some.
It's a pressure, the same as itdo.
You got to fulfill quotas, yougot to make people happy, you
want to do nice things?
I like not having to haveanybody have to do nothing for
me and vice versa.
Everybody can just do what theyneed to do.
(26:47):
You get to do what you want todo.
You get to save your money.
You get the, the thoughts to benice, because obviously I did
it the other way.
But I've had some holidays whereI really didn't have to worry
about nobody and it felt sobeautiful.
It was almost like I had avacation away from tradition Not
(27:14):
that I will always want that,because I appreciate tradition
Right, but going a couple ofyears where everybody moving
around and especially for thosethat are that have been there in
unfortunate circumstances, theholidays can be stressful for a
lot of people.
So you being on having a coupleyears where you're on the
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outside, where you don't have toworry about nothing and it's
very simple and empty andthere's no requests, there's no
demands, there's no pressure.
You're like this is nice,because I you feel the frenzy,
even in the frenzy.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
So is there encounters you still interacting
with people?
It's just a gift exchange part.
You're saying I don't got toshow up to no parties we're
talking about everything.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
I've had a couple of years where it was almost as if
the holidays didn't exist inthat sense.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
So it's like the family's taking a family trip
for the holiday and you stayhome and everybody's gone.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Yeah, it might be.
No, it might be where theperson there might be a family
member that usually is the onethat led everything.
Then that year they wentsomewhere else.
Then it might be another one towhere everybody just kind of
dropped a ball on making it anevent, gotcha, and then it was
(28:43):
like, oh, this is, this is aneasy one, I don't want this and
that.
And we got, oh, it's out of theway, wait, anybody?
No, no, you didn't.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Oh, and then you realize what, like you hit a
lick, that's it.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
It's done and then like your siblings cool, because
your siblings won't you to haveyour money to do you.
And then vice versa, everybodygot the kids, everybody kind of
like.
If we just eat each other aloneand none of us have to worry
about everybody, especially whenyou have a big family, then
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it's like this is not nice.
It ain't what I'm used to Do.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
You feel like that's okay, because maybe throughout
the year there's different timeswhere y'all don't get together
and maybe they got for oneanother.
So Christmas ain't like it'slike it doesn't have to happen
on Christmas because we alreadygot each other, we already do
things.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
You know I'm talking about it.
It was a dry New Year's.
It was a dry Thanksgiving.
It was a dry Christmas oh, itwasn't no Valentine's Like it
was, a, it was.
It was empty.
It was at its aspects ofdiscomfort because you used to
(30:00):
something going on.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
But while you're, while you're nestled in that
discomfort, you realize, yourealize the silence that you
didn't get to hear before.
And then you say, you know, letme appreciate the silence and
just accept what there's nothingto do, and then it's relaxed.
(30:23):
Then that's when you feel thefrenzy around you of what
everybody else got going on butyou realize, oh, I get a, I get
a break.
Sometimes it is, it is a lot.
The holiday season is when yougot birthdays, you got.
There's been some times where Ifelt like the whole year was
(30:45):
booked up to where special asmusicians.
When you got stuff you want to,you want to do it, you like man
.
You got to put this out forfull September Because if not
the rest of the year is gone.
You can't do the campaigns,nothing unless you got a holiday
song or something for theladies around Valentine's Day.
(31:07):
The, the, it can, it can reallystifle, stifle the words.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Stifle a couple of your plans.
That would require a lot ofyour attention, your resources,
your finances.
Then, if there's a few thingsbefore that that you do do, the
splurge before where there'sgoing out of town, a random
event, like maybe biggerfunctions and stuff like that,
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he like, oh, this whole yeargone, this whole year got
something going on.
You could do two decent thingsa month.
It's like that month, thatmonth gone, when you really want
to have time around.
That's just me.
I like to.
I like to have space betweenthings that I'm doing, I guess.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
I'm, I'm that guy, I'm kind of lucky.
Everybody.
Everybody's birthday is kind ofseparate.
Oh, the the, the anniversary isdifferent, the holidays in.
You know what I'm saying?
So I'm probably the only onethat lands on a holiday or, or
like two days off or before orafter.
That's close to a holiday, orsomething like that.
But nobody really gives nothingon Thanksgiving but thanks.
(32:16):
I think you're saying some food, but but but um, yeah,
everybody's birthday lands andthe holidays lands, yeah that's
right yeah, so I guess I'm goodwhen it comes to that.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
So I kind of question for you would it be a deal
breaker if a chick birthdays inDecember, like maybe like no,
december 15th and then Christmasthere, and she'd be like, well,
you know what you're dealingwith me, you got to get me to.
You know, I need to get youbecause I need that birthday
present and I need Christmas atthe same time, no, no well, we
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ain't going to give you just amonth of December.
She just got this expectation.
Because she's been doing it herwhole life, she's got to be
celebrated twice, or do you feellike?
No, I mean, I can just get youa decent Christmas president
calling the day.
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Oh, I take care of your birthday.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
No we don't worry about Christmas.
I'm just curious that that youbrought it up, Like if you
already talked about thepressures, I'm kind of like hmm.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
If I decide to get involved with someone, and
that's their standards, becausethey didn't condition to enjoy
those things.
And now I step in the pictureof why should she have to change
what she's comfortable with forme If I'm also benefiting on
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the other, the other?
Speaker 3 (33:37):
of.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
The return of it.
If I'm benefiting on everything, I'm super accumulated, okay,
okay, I can't be mad because youused to doing this, this, this
and I'm like in that, and thenall of a sudden you say, hey,
but I my birthday round thistime.
I do expect to get some life.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
All right, I'm still expecting you to do the mother
Cool Doing to your ex Good, no.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
No, that's good, I'll be thinking the exes.
I'll be thinking exes I knowthat's good.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
It's healthy for us to think.
Exes To thank them.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Yeah, because if you ever even entertain someone who
learned something from arelationship prior to you, you
can appreciate it.
Man, I could be a good or badthing.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
I'm like, yeah, I'm with you, Draco.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
I kind of feel it can be a bad thing if you I can see
it being a bad thing if you'renot able to accept what growth
need to come from the bad thatthere is.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
You could be seasoned , but not seasoned.
Well, how about that Seasoned?
Speaker 2 (34:50):
but not seasoned.
Well, well, yeah, so that'swhat I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
You put too much salt in that chicken, but you don't
really let it marinate with thereal seasoning.
You know what?
Speaker 2 (34:57):
I'm saying so now you get the ass.
Well, you said too much salt,yeah, yeah, I don't know if you
can.
What do we do to fix when it'stoo much?
Speaker 1 (35:07):
You gotta water that thing down.
That's it.
That's what you gotta do.
You either throw it away or yougotta water that thing down.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
You gotta get it wet, then you know how to get wet,
I'm just salty.
If you know how to get it wet,then you can't get it wet, then
let it go, oh man.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Somebody else might like the salt, you know what.
And to his point you know I'dbe fit listening.
Yeah, somebody out there wouldbe just fine with it.
You right about that, oh.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
You gotta be thankful , be happy for him.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
That's crazy.
That's crazy, All right allright.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
So the holiday tips for those who are in new
relationships or passing throughrelationships, and it's
different.
We send our love to y'all fromexposure.
There it is it's the season ofthe jolly hey man, jolly ranch.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Speaking of season.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
You know what I'm saying?
Oh man, cool, cool, cool.
So let's talk about the movieside.
I know, when we gather around,you know what I'm saying the
movies.
There's some movies that'sclassics out there.
You probably rewatch them onthe holidays or around the
holiday time.
So yeah, I was gonna say, as Iwas thinking about that topic
and which movie I feel like Ican watch over and over and over
(36:33):
.
I never get tired of it.
I'm a bus out laughing andenjoy it.
Definitely home alone wouldhave to be one of my classics
around Christmas time.
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 3 (36:44):
That was one, but it became Friday after next for me,
man, when Ricky Smiley in it,when it was yeah, we were dead
in it.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Yo, what's it next?
What's it?
Yeah, friday after next.
I know what you mean.
Talk to me.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Yeah, when he started the movie still in the
Christmas tree.
Yeah, that became mine, man,that became yours, oh man.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
I wish we could have got one more man.
I wish we could have got thatmoney right.
You know what I'm saying?
It's Friday, so you were homealone too.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
The first home alone.
The first home alone.
I liked the first home alone.
That was really nice and that'sprobably the biggest Christmas
movie.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
I can think of Nobody really topped it, since you
know what I'm saying.
Like home alone.
We grew up on that.
Definitely that's what Ithought Christmas was supposed
to look like yeah, yeah Movie.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
That's a good description.
I like how you just said thatthat would be my.
I would say the exact samething.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
I felt I was getting ripped off.
After home alone came man.
I was like man, it's hot, santaain't gonna come here.
We ain't got no chimneys, norain there, there's nothing
around here.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
I was one of the chimneys.
For that reason, yeah.
I just wanted the snow and snowtoo.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
I didn't see the snow .
Speaker 2 (37:57):
I wanted the snow.
I wanted to see it falling.
That day, home alone made youfeel like that was how it was
supposed to look.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Hey, to this day, I've never seen snow yet.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Man, I got a story.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
You never see snow.
I got a story for snow.
That was my goal.
I probably did when I was a kidbecause I was born in Jersey,
but I wanted to take a trip thisyear.
I was trying to go to Coloradoto actually see it and that
didn't work out.
But hopefully next year I canfigure something out and I want
to see snow.
When I was in Gainesville now Igot one morning when I went up
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to my van at the time I mean italmost looked like it was so
cold that it looked like snowwas on the car, like I couldn't
even see the car, barelyrecognized it.
But dang, I really want to seesnow.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
I got a story for one man.
I was in Afghanistan.
Oh shoot.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
All right, we don't hear that every day.
Yeah, it's like, yeah, comedown the block.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
It got real cold During the day.
It warmed up.
When it get hot, it get hotthere.
When it rains, it rains there,and when it snowed, it snows
there.
So yeah, I was in the valley.
They get all of that.
Yeah, they get all of the above, all of it, and it's bad.
Every time it happens it's badThunderstorics, all of that.
So me not knowing, I know it'scold, whatever like that.
(39:16):
But we're in our tents, ourtents, they got these units, man
, they got these nice AC unitsthat can go hot and cold,
whatever like that.
So we're uncomfortable in mytent.
Just wake up one morning and Ihad my boy go out the door.
Oh shit, it's not outside.
I want me up my snick.
I ride out my sleep.
So I'm in my boxes, man, I jumpright in the snow because it's
my first time.
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I didn't know, but I wascreeping up but all I could hear
is stuff sliding out off thetent.
I didn't know what it was, justI'm thinking, you know, it's
probably wet down here.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
What's you cold?
Speaker 3 (39:47):
You said you know, I jumped into the snow in my boxes
, man.
Remember that?
Were you cold?
I was freezing, I was, but Iwas so excited that I ignored it
for the first 60 seconds andwent inside and got sick, got
sick.
Everything was wet, just myboxes, bruh.
Everybody looking at me like Iwas crazy, but it's my first
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time.
I'm from Florida, bruh, yeah, Ican get that yeah, I'm from
Florida for the first time Idon't think it's going.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
It don't look that cold.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
That's why I'm cursing it.
So it's just, it's just sittingthere, so, but it's negative 10
and it stayed negative 10.
Even when the ice melted, itwas still negative 10.
But after I jumped in the snow,grabbed it of course, threw it
but ran aside.
I want to put clothes on, butnow I was freaking, freezing
Everything, frozen bro Pipes, nowater, we can't shower.
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This is for like two weeks.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
They ain't telling you it was risking your life
doing that.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
No, man, everybody looking at me, laughing at me,
bro.
Even other people from theother side they're laughing at
me, man.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
The negative 10 ain't no joke, bruh, I'm not serious.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
I learned it already.
The next five minutes, the nextfive minutes.
I learned, definitely learnedthat my knuckles got all dark.
It started pilling.
You could have gotten frostbite, dude.
I was messed up.
I was messed up for the nexttwo weeks.
I was messed up.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
Jumping in the snow.
You jump in the snow.
You get a headache in your face.
It's instant.
You didn't even know you couldget headaches.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
That's what I'm saying.
I would, yeah, I'm about to sayyou brave bro, it's instant, it
was it but it was fun.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
It was fun, it was instant man and yeah, yeah, so I
experienced it for a shortamount of time.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
You experienced it in Afghanistan, in Afghanistan.
Wow, how about you your snowexperience?
Speaker 2 (41:23):
I've seen in New York a couple of times.
Okay, I've seen some Salt LakeCity, utah, oregon, some,
especially when I went on thattour at Rick's.
It was probably a handful ofplaces.
I don't even remember all theother places, but I seen snow
probably about six times.
(41:45):
Oh yeah, it's always likethere's regions where there will
be snow, but it's not like it'stolerable too.
It's like a.
It's a.
It's a different type of snow.
I can't.
I can't explain it.
So it ain't always.
It ain't always bad, it is cold, but seeing it, especially the
(42:07):
climates where the sun is stillout you kind of get both you got
the snow in, you got the sun.
That's nice.
Yeah, I appreciate it.
I know I couldn't, I wouldn'tbe able to, I wouldn't like to
live in conditions like thatunless I had everything I needed
.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
Yeah, Every, every single thing, when I was in Park
City, Utah it was.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
some people had heated driveways.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
What.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
Yeah, because it can be diff it's snow and it's a lot
of hills too.
Yeah, it can be difficult withyour vehicles driving through
certain places.
So those people had heateddriveways.
Where you looking theydriveways just clear, no
shoveling and nothing necessary.
Got everything in the I guessthey cut the work out for them.
That's dope, yeah, that is dope.
(42:54):
I'm like that's how I wanna doit.
I know it's probably a flex,probably really expensive, but
I'm like if I was living inclimates like that, I would
wanna have it all.
Yeah, you would have to have itall.
I wanna do the luxury.
So I don't have to think.
You gotta get used to shovelingthe snow.
(43:14):
It is hard, but the natives isprobably nothing.
That's just part of it.
But for Floridian, where wedon't really have anything to
worry about far as our climateother than the sun doing damage
to your roof, we probably haveto change our oil more than
(43:37):
other people.
This is a few things we mightnot really take into
consideration with whether Ikeep you to the stick.
Speaker 3 (43:45):
Oh, yeah, it can damage your home.
If you're at home, don't keep acertain temperature, it can
damage your roof of your homealso.
You can get leaks here andthere, stuff that ran out, some
roofs and floor.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
Oh my God, Went through hell.
That roof is no show.
I feel like just buying a wholenew house Like that would work.
You talk about that stress.
Yeah, I'm about to say that'sstress right there for real, my
gosh.
Like insurance and Florida iscrazy.
I feel like you pay for it, butwhen it's time for them to
(44:16):
break that bread, man, you'regonna go through hell.
I felt like I was at a recordlabel trying to get my mask.
I've been paying y'all twoevery month and I'm fighting for
that, but no, that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (44:30):
Now that snow life is definitely different.
Man, because I visit somefamily of North one time and the
struggle that they had to go toto wake up three in the morning
, get up, shovel snow, start thecar up and go back inside get
ready for work, to leave forwork early and then get the
(44:52):
fight and the road to get towork and then to leave work.
Speaker 1 (44:57):
Yeah, that's do it all over again pretty much.
Speaker 3 (44:59):
Oh my God and then you get home at nine, maybe 10
o'clock at night to probablymaybe try to prepare food to eat
to feed the like.
We're visitors, so we're there,so they're trying to.
You know we're cool, we wannago buy food to go out and eat
and wanna enjoy the snow, butfor you to come home at nine, 10
o'clock may need almost to tryto prepare food for you to eat,
(45:20):
to get to sleep, to wake up at34 in the morning.
Dude, I can't.
I was like no, no, I can't staythere.
I love my Florida life.
I'll do a hurricane for three,four weeks over the snow.
Man, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, man,listen, I'm not saying you'll
take a hurricane.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
What we did, we did three, four weeks before.
We just said you take ahurricane.
Exactly what part of thehurricane are we talking?
We're talking about what outpower hurricane, three, four
weeks Is that the one youtalking about?
Just some winds and some rain.
You see that three, four weeksnow Hell, no, I never been.
Three, four weeks.
Yeah, we have no Hell.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
No, I've done like four days, there was three four
days, yeah, but I personallynever had to do that.
Oh, I had three weeks.
I know people that had threeweeks.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
You went to school with no power too.
Yeah, I've never done that long.
I done three, four days.
Yeah, I did like maybe three,four days.
Yeah, yeah, that's what Iremember, oh y'all, I had two
weeks, three weeks, where youwere living, boys, that animal
went to school, you were alwaysgonna say high school.
Speaker 3 (46:14):
We had no power in high school either.
I wasn't singing it.
I didn't see you there.
I definitely was dead.
Speaker 2 (46:19):
I ain't never go to school without no power.
Speaker 1 (46:21):
Yeah, me neither.
Oh y'all, the school ain't hadno power.
What school you went to?
Speaker 3 (46:24):
Atlantic.
Yes, we went at least almost afull week with no power in
school.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
Well, some of y'all went.
Everybody ain't go.
Speaker 1 (46:33):
Yeah, I don't understand.
What are you doing in theschool with no power?
We was definitely there workingsweating bullets.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
Tell you that I remember them days, boy.
Speaker 1 (46:41):
We got hit by a few kids, I don't even understand
what the point of that?
Speaker 2 (46:43):
Now, that don't even make sense.
They got to hang back to school.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
I ain't go.
Yeah, I don't remember that.
Yeah, I don't remember.
Speaker 3 (46:49):
It's not even that day.
It was a week.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
Yeah, I don't remember that A week Mm-mm.
Oh, it's right back there.
I do remember that.
Speaker 2 (46:54):
I sure do remember that it's possible that it could
have been some parts.
This is the old land, right?
Oh four, oh three.
Yes, it was the old land.
Yeah, so it's probably.
It probably wasn't the wholeschool.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
Yeah, it was that old , because they had some.
It was the old five.
Okay, okay, that was the boys'high school.
Speaker 3 (47:14):
Yeah, they had nags all night.
Yeah, they had parts.
Do you remember what hurricaneit was?
We got hit by three that year.
Back to back, back to back toback, frances.
I don't remember that.
I don't remember that.
Speaker 1 (47:29):
I'm trying to remember the name of the school
when no power fell that.
Speaker 2 (47:32):
I know I don't.
I know I had a crucialhurricane experience.
Speaker 1 (47:39):
I mean it was those what's what you call a cruise
Right, yeah, like.
Speaker 2 (47:44):
People being scared they're gonna lose their life
and things.
Speaker 3 (47:46):
I don't think he ever was like that.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
Yeah, I never experienced anything.
Speaker 1 (47:51):
So for me you know you watch it on TV, but I had
the privilege to go be the thefirst responders in Key West
when Matthew came.
That was the first time that Ialmost questioned what the hell
we doing like, why we going outthere like?
You know what I'm saying?
Because, uh, you know, when youdrive to the keys, you got
those bridges and you got theway they do it.
(48:11):
They're so trained, but theydrive their cars like if there's
the main road going north andsouth, everybody would drive
their car to the main road atthe highest point, because
that's the highest point of themain road, you can't leave it in
your driveway.
Uh, so when I got, we got tothis one after homestead, you
got to this one Particular spotbefore you into the keys, I feel
(48:32):
like we drove for 45 minutesand there was nothing but cars
At this highest point.
And then you'll see every nowand then you'll see a trailer,
upside down boat in the middleof the road.
Uh, just, it just lookedabandoned.
It looked like some residentsevil without the monsters, like,
just looked abandoned.
And I'm like, oh, my god, likethis is real.
(48:54):
So when we end up being um there, when I got to the location to
open up to the public.
We had swat, we had, uh, theNate, like we had so much
secured, we had tanks.
Because, if I thought about,like, if people wanted to rush
us Like, let's just say, forfood, because they haven't had,
they had no power, there was nohotel available and they
(49:14):
starving and they know they gotsome chicken over here you can
get some sandwich, like you canget a comfort food.
What would stop a hundredpeople from rushing 20 people,
for example, to try to get anice home cooked meal?
It was pretty interesting, butthat's the first time I said man
and we, we were blessed, like,we dodged the bullet.
You know, miami had floods, theyhad a lot of water, but we
(49:36):
dodged the bullet.
That's the first time I seen itwith my eyes what the, what a
hurricane could do.
And I see with my eyes and Isaid man, yeah, I don't take
that for granted.
And, yeah, the keys have somevery nice people, though, the
ones who stayed, who couldn'tevacuate, there were some of the
nicest people I met.
Under them circumstances, Iwould have been way more
stretched out and pissed.
There was some of the nicestpeople, though, and said thank
(49:58):
you and and appreciate you foropening and just thank you for
giving us a home to live.
Speaker 2 (50:03):
That's what you were doing.
That because not many peoplehave taken a big step.
Speaker 1 (50:08):
Yeah, man, it was uh, it was uh interesting.
But no, I appreciate that.
Thank you, man.
I, ever since then, I said yeah, we, you know, we got to be
grateful for these storms whenthey come.
And we, we still have ourhouses.
And, like you said, you haven'tbeen through a Tragical, but
try not to my dad, the one whenwe lost power.
Then he took a wires, he set itto the car he had.
We- had light.
(50:29):
He had light coming through thehouse.
He done some things with abattery like my dad was like
ready though man, I don't knowif them, the tactics and Haiti,
but my dad made like I felt likewe still ate.
Good, we had music.
He made it fun, although we hadno power.
Speaker 3 (50:45):
It was always a party .
Y'all we know it was always aparty.
Speaker 2 (50:48):
We, uh, that's the side I'm I'm used to.
Speaker 3 (50:52):
I didn't want to say it like that but people.
Well, for the ones that don'tknow it, was like a vacation.
Yeah, for the ones that don'tknow, that's.
That's what it is when we getHercules.
Speaker 2 (51:00):
It was even fun going in the.
It's unfortunate for those whoI guess it's.
It's unfortunate for everybody.
I have to do this, but for somereason Florida, in its lighter
sense, have like a, a nice uh, agood humor, positive humor when
(51:22):
it comes to preparing for thesethings.
So we're a joke, we'll go out.
We be mad because we got to getthe shiny water, or you,
looking at what's left in youroptions, that is a nasty water.
Speaker 3 (51:34):
We all get together, I feel like it getting the whole
.
Speaker 1 (51:40):
I mean the minerals they added now.
Speaker 3 (51:43):
I gotta test that theory man, I gotta try it, but
um yeah, everybody's saying youain't missing nothing.
But, uh, it is the time of theyear wherever we all do get
together Like it's a holiday.
You know we, uh, we all helpeach other out, putting shutters
up and wards, and all of thatyou know.
And then, when all that gone,you know you can get your baby,
and all that you know.
I'm saying so you got to dothat's what it is.
Speaker 2 (52:06):
It do feel nice it's uh, you can feel.
It's a time where everybodywant everybody to be taken care
of.
Yeah, everybody want everybodygood neighbors is checking on
you.
Speaker 3 (52:15):
Cookin everybody's in in the neighborhood cutting
down trees Together, you knowain't gotta go nowhere, you
ain't gotta work.
Speaker 2 (52:22):
It sucks for those who actually end up losing jobs,
right, but then you appreciatethe people that actually going
out there, they are working foryou, they putting in a they time
.
If they fpnl and they got towork crazy, I always just it's
horrible, but you can't.
You do feel the unity incommunity coming together.
Buckle down.
(52:42):
Yeah yeah, it bring somethingback together.
So that's the part where I'mlike man.
I kind of had some Some nicespecial times when there's
barbecue going on, because ifthe electricity go out, gotta
eat certain ways to rain.
And the curfew oh yeah, thecurfew.
(53:02):
But if you had somebody tohunch, y'all like y'all just
stuck in the house.
Speaker 3 (53:09):
Hey, okay, it was quarantine before quarantine.
Speaker 2 (53:13):
Yeah, Florida, Well, not just Florida but any other
hurricanes yeah I already knewabout the quarantine you had.
You had people surfing In theweather.
It was in the road of going tothe beach.
They had to bearfoot it like,and after it is, it felt so
liberating, like it was acleanse that went on.
Everything slowly got back towhere it needed to be and then
(53:37):
people take, they drive around,see what is looking like.
Speaker 1 (53:40):
I done, hey, I do that.
I'm like I'm infamous for that.
Y'all seeing the walk.
Yeah, yeah, that's me, oh,that's me.
Speaker 2 (53:51):
Oh yeah, right over, you start seeing this like it's
like you.
You driving through umSomething that's on display.
You just going around.
Yeah, you want to see whatmother nature did.
I'm that she was at us.
You look around like man.
They split a whole tree what?
Speaker 3 (54:13):
What you call it house guy hit by a tree.
Bro, it's gone.
Yeah, yeah, that's before weused to use our cell phones.
Speaker 1 (54:20):
It's so so yeah, before you could.
Yeah, that that was beforesocial media Really took over,
but now we supposed to begrowing now.
Speaker 2 (54:25):
So I don't think it'd be as funny to us, because you
just got a roof.
Yeah you would laugh and Iyou'll be like how long it took
me trying to get that?
Speaker 1 (54:36):
Yeah, I'll be thinking about that yeah, boy.
Well, that was interesting, man.
I can't believe what we're atand how much we accomplished,
from the episodes to the shorts,to the platforms.
Man and um I bumped intosomebody in the streets the
other day, knows like man, look,I like what y'all doing, keep
doing it.
Um, you know, I really enjoyedthe Haitian fresh interview and
(54:58):
he was Hispanic too.
That was pretty dope from thestate and he's just like, yeah,
I like what y'all doing.
Man, just keep keep doing it,keep bringing the guests and
just, uh, you know y'all makinga difference out there.
That was the conversation.
So I was like yo, that's what'sup.
I say, appreciate you evencoming up and saying you have to
do that, but it kind of justinspired me and, uh, trying to
give me some ideas for, you know, things we can implement and
(55:19):
try out for next year.
But, uh, that's what's up, man,I'm happy for us, man, and I
think this is gonna definitelyend off the year for us on
exposure.
Man, and you know just what.
That being said, all ourviewers, all our supporters, all
our fans.
On behalf of myself, I justdefinitely want to say we
appreciate you, thank you forcelebrating the year with us,
and I do wish you and yourfamily, all your loved ones, a
(55:42):
merry Christmas, a happy holidayand a happy new year slap.
Speaker 2 (55:48):
Merry Christmas, Happy holidays all all the other
Um at least ceremonies around.
Speaker 1 (56:01):
You know what I'm saying.
Yes, yes, yes, drake.
Oh, hey man, happy holidays andnew years.
Y'all's take it easy out there.
All right, you came on, solikes this one baby with you, oh
swabby with it, you got a wayto go live in the coconut oil.
Yes, uh, and we all got ourexposure gear that's gonna be
(56:23):
available to you next year thehoodies, the polo shirts, you
know, I mean the sweatshirts,the hats.
We coming man, we appreciatey'all, y'all tuned into exposure
and this, another episode, andwe are, oh, it's like I gotta
(56:48):
keep that.
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