TikTok Challenge Accepted: The New Trend of Giving Back Feat. Jay Shep

Welcome to the 6th episode of Season 7 of P.S.A the Mental Health Podcast. This week, we're rolling out the red carpet to welcome a true media mogul, Justin Shepard, also known as Jay Shep, from TalentedOnes Media. Brace yourselves as we dive deep into an intriguing exploration of mental health, motivation, and the monumental importance of giving back to the community, all served with a generous side of our trademark sarcasm. Jay Shep, a man who turned media into his personal canvas, joins us to discuss TalentedOnes Media's unique journey and impact on society. He enlightens us on the importance of giving back, with plenty of inspiration from iconic quotes. Remember the profound words of Anne Frank, "No one has ever become poor by giving." Or the possibly less profound but still catchy, "Giving back is the new black." Strap in, dear listeners, as we explore what happens when media companies embrace philanthropy and community engagement with as much passion as their core business. Oh, and did we mention that Izzy, our fearless host, regales us with a tale of a less-than-grateful homeless person? Izzy, ever the giver, found his generous donation met with an unsatisfied scowl. A hilarious recounting of giving without expectation, even when the recipient's gratitude is, shall we say, somewhat lacking. But it's not all fun and games. We also tackle the challenging question: What happens when God asks you to give away something you're not ready to part with? Izzy shares a heartfelt conversation about faith, surrender, and the struggle of parting with something dear to you. Don't think we're forgetting about self-care. How can Jay Shep balance the pressures of running a media empire and maintaining his mental health? Tune in to learn his strategies for dealing with stress and anxiety. There's even an unexpected cameo from a two-legged cat. Will Izzy take it in? We won't spoil it for you, but let's just say, it's a conversation that will leave you purring for more. In the spirit of giving, we're also throwing down a challenge to you, our beloved listeners. We want to know, how do you plan to give back to your community this week? We dare you to pay it forward and share your stories with us. And finally, in our "Give or Keep" segment, we throw Jay Shep some real curveballs, from finding a $100 bill on the ground to hypothetical billion-dollar deals. Can he handle the heat? Tune in to find out! This episode is a cornucopia of laughter, enlightenment, heartfelt sharing, and a sprinkle of divine intervention. So, grab your headphones and dive into this rollercoaster ride of an episode with us. Remember, in the world of mental health and giving back, P.S.A is your trusted compass. And always remember, giving back doesn't make you poor; it makes you rich in ways money can't measure. Enjoy the episode!

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Episode Transcript

(00:04):
All right, y'all, a weekback at it again, going through this
season pretty at a good, prettygood rate, I should say, Mike
tripping. I don't know what's upthat about. All right, y'all.
So this episode is about giving givingback and you know, so many synonyms
from that, as far as donating, tithing, you know, it's the

(00:25):
list goes on, but this weekhighlights the importance of that and why you
as a person should be giving back. Now, this isn't just you going
to the soup kitchen and going tofeeding the homeless, although those things are
great, tune you need to dothat. This is just getting rid of
those old clothes that you're not gonnawear. You know what I'm saying.
Somebody could benefit from them, themold hats. You know. The list

(00:46):
goes on, and we highlight aninterview. All right, somebody who's notable
in the Houston area, Houston legend, my boy Jay Shep all right,
Me and him had it. It'sa long time coming with this episode because
we had poop supposed to a lastseason when you get a chance to do
it, but this one, hegives his insight on his foundation, him
taking a leap of faith. Youknow, from working in education to now

(01:07):
work at full time for self andtalking about just how he don't plan on
really leaving Houston at all unless helegit has to. And also he talks
about his giving back and how heblesses blesses the community because it's not always
financial. Sometimes you bless the communitywith game two. So this episode,
I'm blessing y'all with game. Allright, sit back. It's a good
one, like giving back and likeworking out. If you don't have the

(01:55):
motivation, you need to find it. I keep telling y'all to said this
one seven twice. Y'all can big, and I'm tired of y'all reposting justin
the boy post where it'd be likewe gotta unbig out backs roles to us
in the thirties. You know it'sSamuel Jackson took longer than that. He
wasn't using the theater all over untilhis mid thirties and early forties. All

(02:19):
right, y'all, what's going on? Is your boyd easy bank over?
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(03:01):
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take care of all of that foryou too. Peace, I'm back and
except PSAFF I'll read y'all what ishappening? Keeping the ball rolling? Stop

(03:30):
trolling me about the studio. Wedon't go back. A promise we got
at least I ain't gonna tell youhow many, because then you're gonna be
trying to hold me accountable. Butwe got enough at the studio coming up,
all right, um as always y'allbeen't tapping in. Y'all been keeping
up with me, and I appreciatethat. So as always been keeping the

(03:51):
ball rolling. You know, I'mloving the fact that every week is like
an increase, a major increase,not even like a little bit like major.
You know, I came out thegate, you know, the first
episode fire episodes, going crazy,y'all was making the strings weird. How
when I started really being consistent withvideos and visuals, I noticed the audio

(04:15):
skyrockets. I don't know why,but keep on going because Speaker got me
with ads going running through there.So keep that going so that I can
get some more money and then Ican, you know, do this full
time. I can really go crazy. I'm more crazy now. It's not
even a finer phone. That's thecry whatelse. Yeah, So keep that
going. And sometimes I gotta tellyou, I think I'm gonna get into

(04:36):
that. But this week is agood one. It's one that's a little
like how you say how I wantto say this. It's like it's one
where you think it's simpler than itreally is, but it's really much more
in depth. It's much more indepth than you really believe. But let's
get into it. So let's firststart off with the meme. All right,

(04:57):
the mean miss week reads, don'tany a charity is like exercise.
I know it's good for me,I just can't seem to find the motivation,
all right, inspirations for this week? All right? So then inspiration
honestly giving back and given to yourcommunity, you know, finding ways to
give to soul to tie. They'llget into all that as we get along,

(05:18):
but keep that in mind. Aquote by Anne Frank It says no
one has ever become poor by giving. And then another quote it says giving
back is the new black and itsays unknown. Now whoever made it,
they need to stay unknown. Thatis a terrible quote. I've seen that

(05:38):
and I was just like, Ijust felt it was a little racist because
did a black person. I don'tbelieve a black person said that. Because
if a black person said that,they say they say that, Like if
Morgan Freeman said that, he'd say, yeah, I said that. Kerry
Washington says she said that, shesays, she say that. I don't
believe, you know, black personsay that, but maybe it's me.

(05:59):
Okay, Now let's go into ournewest segment. And one of your favorites
thus far, happy hour. Allright, so today's happy hour. I
want to kind of piggyback off ofthe mean where it says, you know
you can't find a motivation. It'slike exercise, but I can't find a
motivation light giving back and light workingout. If you don't have the motivation

(06:23):
you need to find it. Ikeep telling y'all to say this one setting
twice y'all getting big, and I'mtired of y'all reposting justin the boy post
where it'd be like we gotta unbigout backs. The clock is ticking,
y'all don't have that much longer forsummer before you just bemocking the post where
y'all be like, I'm giving this, I'm giving some of it is the
only body I can get us something. What y'all be saying, Where y'all

(06:45):
be like I'm giving some of whatever. Body is just gonna take whatever body
I'm gonna give it. You shouldget tired of making that post. Okay,
let's do something difference. Now.Do everybody need to be skinny?
No? Does everybody need to havesix pack alps? No? But in
the same breath, if you stayconsistent, cool. But it's just like
it's like every time you see certainpeople, it's just like, what are

(07:10):
we not doing right? Or whator what am I not doing? What
should I be doing more of?Even if, like I said, everybody's
not meant to be skinny, butit's just like, come on, man,
this this, this ain't this,ain't it? And I say this
out of love because I love usfor real. I'm not saying this on
though, like oh you you know, you fat, fat lord, like

(07:33):
I said, because I ain't skinnyeither. But in the same breath,
I'm motivated and I give and let'skeep up with the whole given thing,
because I think we think as apeople that the more we hold on the
stuff, the more we go,it's gonna stay. But sometimes given it's
good, not just because you're givento somebody else, but you also decluttering

(07:55):
your space. And a lot oftimes we hold on the clothes and ambulance
of things that we just don't needno more, and we become low key
hoarders. I challenge you, andI ain't got to the question of challenge
a week, but I challenge youto go through your closet, go through
just your house one day when yougot a good just thirty minutes to our

(08:16):
just go through and look and seewhat you don't need. Look, let
me tell you a few weeks agoI was cleaning that. This year,
especially twenty twenty three, I foundmyself giving more as a whole lot more.
I found a remote from my oldapartment. I've been in this same
apartments as twenty seventeen. It's twentytwenty three. Why do I have an
old remote from an old apartment?That's that's why. Now I'm not saying

(08:41):
I'm a hoarder, but what I'msaying is you you don't even realize what
you still got. I had,Oh, Judge, I had a red
Bull cup, not cup, ared Bull can and it wasn't open,
but it was empty, the liquidand the red Bull can bating. Why
did I still have? And itwasn't like it was toughed up than nothing.

(09:05):
It wasn't like this little crack thatI keep. So yeah, we're
gonna get into that a little laterbecause I don't want to get too far
ahead. Now, what I willsay is Angel Reese, all right,
shout out to her. I hatedhow you know they made her seem like
she was, you know, hadunsportsmanlike conduct and all that and all that

(09:31):
jazz. But what I can sayis, are we really surprised that they
treated her that way? Argue becauseI'm not. I mean, it's it's
pretty. It's pretty, you knowat this point, it's it's it's expected.
It's expected for them too, youknow. And when I say them,
I talked about like, you know, no, I'm black people to

(09:56):
try to condemn her or try tomake her feel bad or you know,
doing what was done to her.I've seen him meme and it was wild.
It was basically talking about the otherplayer, the white girl who did
what she did like this, andit talked about like, oh, she's
excited. It was like it wasa comparing contrast, and it was basically

(10:18):
saying like one was ghetto, sayingAngel was ghetto, saying that she was
a sportsman like conduct, and thenthe other side it was saying like it
was saying a bunch of good stuff. But the phrase that stood out to
me is when they said hermothy,that blew me. I was like,

(10:39):
y'all, wow, Hermothy, y'all, y'all didn't took it too far.
With the him, and we've talkedabout that, and I'm not going to
keep, you know, nailing itin the coffin, but I'm sick of
that one. To him, Hermothyhim, duncan all of that, but
y'all didn't made it to where it'sher Now. Y'all not gonna stop,

(11:03):
and that's what's unfortunately, y'all,y'all not gonna stop. And I can't
wait for this trend to end.It's kind of annoying. I mean,
it's funny to laugh at, butit's just kind of like at the same
time, like y'all wow, andthen it's kind of like just saying that
y'all all do anything. Y'all alldo literally and say y'all will do anything,

(11:24):
and y'all will say anything. Ohbut I guess whatever. But that's
it for happy y'all day. It'snot too intense. So y'all, I
have a guest today, and I'mreally interested in this guy because he's been
being him been cool for a while. I think he has a great story
and he has a lot to say. So let me go ahead and introduce

(11:45):
him. My boy, what's goingon? It's going on? Man?
How you living? I'm cool man. I'm cool man, having a good
day, you know, good energy, positive energy. Are you all right?
Good? We little here So nowobviously the visual tha can see it,
butth for my audio only people.What's your name? Where are you
from? And where do you live? Now? All right? So my

(12:07):
name is Jay J A. Y. S h Ep from the seven one
three from Houston, Texas, goingto ray. Still out here, still
doing my thing, all right,So now tell the people what you do
so full time that I am theowner of town to once A Media LC,

(12:28):
which is a media company based outof Houston, Texas. We have
three main components to our business.Um, you have a sit down interview
shows. One of is what westarted Drop doing at first, so sitting
down interview shows the first part.The second part is a podcast show that
we derived from internet radio experience myselfand my co host Uncle Lex. You

(12:50):
can find those are all streaming platformsright there, and you find the visuals
on YouTube of course. And thelast thing we have is an artist showcase
where we have artist either freestyle youknow, rapping of course they've don't you
know it's freestyle, but if you'resinging, we call it to sessions when
you come up and feeling creatively andput it out there. It's polic but

(13:11):
we talk to everybody man, youknow, talented Ones. It's not just
about musicians. We've had comedians,actors, actresses, We've had models,
we've had directors, we've had athletes, you name it. So it's been
a blessing to be able to dothis full time, definitely. So now,
how important is it for your media, for media companies in general to

(13:33):
give back to the community and whatare some of the ways that Talented Ones
Media has done So. I thinkit depends for like media companies. I
know specifically it's not in your mantrato really give back, but for us
specifically just being out Houston. Theway I always kind of explain it is
that the city has done so muchfor me. I feel like we have
to be the same to give backto the city, and so we just

(13:56):
haven't given spirit. We do thestaying every year that's called Teo Drive where
we were blanking the stock drive andthis last year in January was our third
annual one, and you know we'reable to rack in the ton of blankings
and the tons of sticks to givethem back to um companies like Star of
Hope or this past year we gavegave them to way to like a woman

(14:18):
shelter back in Humble. So youknow, this is just another way for
us to get back to the cityin different ways, and if we can,
we're figuring out more creative ways toget back to the city as well,
not just Teo Drive. But youknow, we got to help out
win everything we gotta. We feellike we have aluity to help out over
Talent. So okay, another question, So what sets Talent One's media.

(14:39):
What's that y'all apart from other mediacompanies and what makes y'all content unique.
I think we're about creating moments andcreating a certain feeling with our mantro on
our mantro is motto is the journeygraded and the destination. You know,
we asked that in every interview Ido and every interview segment. That's what

(15:01):
one. That's the main question Iasked my guests. It's going to come
to a certain pointant interview where Iasked my guest that question. And I
think for us, we're all,we're young, we're black, we're the
whole teams in their twenties. Everybody'sdoing what the level of this, from
photography videography, from the COEO tothe president to myself being the CEO,
to the publicists to the social mediaperson like, everybody has their role.

(15:24):
Everybody's growing and trying to do whatthey do and we're and what really just
sets us apart. It's just themoments that we are to create, feeling
wise and the concepts and just tryingto create a feeling within you I dank.
Whether it's motivation of whether it's comedy, whether it's um inspiration, whether
whether it's just conversation, but itover the topic that it can you can

(15:46):
just take home to your people belike, yo, I never thought about
this. You know, let's havethis conversation. What do you think about
the superior? And so we've justbeen able to cultivate and create over the
past a couple of years. Um, just a lot of um moments,
some feelings into people. All right, good stuff, So let's not lose
that training of thought. Starting outpretty good, Let's move it to one

(16:07):
of my newest say new, what'sa little bit too? What does this
have to do with mental health?All right? So before we get into
my statistics and other things. Firstof all, how do you balance because
you work a lot, you know, so how do you balance self care
and work? Or what are somethings you do to like recharge and like
take care of yourself. I'm notthe best of it, but I can.

(16:27):
I can tell you what I tryto do. I'm really big my
naps, getting like, you know, sleep, getting a couple of moments,
trying to finish some sleep there um, because sleep is crazy important.
You know, it's in general health. You'll literally lose and you'll take years
off your life not getting enough sleep. I know everybody wants to have this
model that you know, you'll youknow, you're sleeping for the sleepers,

(16:49):
for the poor, sleeping for theweak. All that. Now, let's
I need sleep, bro, Ineed sleep. You know what I'm saying.
I might not need to oversleep,but I do need good. I'm
about of sleep because my body can'tfunction the way you can function. My
mind's not gonna function the way Ineeded to function, and I'm not gonna
be able to just do what Ineed to do, you know, especially
you know, trying to drive aship um that I have over here in

(17:14):
this business. You know, Ican't. I can't, and you know,
I be doing my team with theservice if I'm not one hundred percent.
So that's one way I say sleepthe other time, just you know,
it's okay to not work. Iok to network. I work a
lot of bad sense. I maketime to do creative stuff that I just
want to be fun. I maketime to go out and have fun,
um, hang out with friends,go do stuff to work like, I

(17:37):
don't even want to talk about business. Don't break up business. I'm not
trying to network. I'm just tryingto go have a good time because it's
times of places for everything, youknow, but you know, you just
got to make that space. Andso for me, I try to like
separate the two sometimes, you know, Okay, if I'm out and about,
I'm out and about. You know, I'm having a good time.
I'm not talking business. I mightkeep something that I might take a note

(17:59):
of and keep it back my headfor later, but I'm not about to
make that a serious thing at themoment because I'm trying to have fun to
have your time. I'm just likeyou be in places, events and people
who come up, and I appreciatethe love and you of course, I'm
sure used the same, but it'sit's a time and a place. And

(18:19):
I think sometimes people that you know, and I like, got some people,
whether they completely sober, you couldtell some people be live for whatever
reason it is, they'd be like, you know, they gap you up,
and I love what you're doing.Keep doing what you're doing. You
know, I'm a conversation, sowe appreciate that. But sometimes it's a
time and a place. And youknow, I'm not Hollywood. You know,

(18:41):
I'm not Hollywood at all. I'vebeen told I was. I'm not,
but I feel as though, ohmy god, the people that are
they do at Hollywood. There's areason for it. I think sometimes it's
more of a protection thing versus like, I don't know, you like stopped
talking to me, as more ofa like, hey, relax. I

(19:03):
think sometimes people get overwhelmed too.You know, I'm not a person that
asks Hollywood. I'm not a personthat I feel like even I'm on that
level type of year to even getto a point, and I don't think
I would ever do they discover asocial person, But like imagine someone not
being a social person, but theyhave a gift that they're getting to the
world, and so now they're thronein these settings to where they're not really

(19:26):
comfortable then, but they've got tobe there for X, Y and Z
reasons, or they're just out tryingto have fun and everybody runs up on
it. They don't know how tohandle it. So you know, now
there's a thing where you don't haveto get asked. I don't know if
I can I curse on her.Oh my god, Okay, I'm gonna
make sure somebody think about it.But at the same time, like like

(19:48):
some people just don't know how toreally handle their things. I remember my
mom wanted to play. She tellthem me whenever I started doing this business
and I started getting some views onsome videos, and she was like,
how famous do you want to be? Then that was a really question she
asked. She's like, because youlike your propacy, but if you're over
but if you get to a certainpoint, your propacy kind of is gonna
slip a little bit because people alwaysgoing want to buy you, come up

(20:10):
to you to talk to you,stuff like that. So as long as
you understand the situation that you're gettingin, you know, it's it's like
a twofold on one end, yougot to understand the situation that you put
yourself in and God has allowed yougeeing. On the other on other standpoint,
I do get it because like sometimesI've seen it. I've literally seen
it, not with myself but justwith other people. Wants like a celebrities

(20:32):
in the room and people just runover to them. But they just want
to be treated like a regular human. You know. They don't want to
be treated like, oh I'm justset yourself right now. Well something dude,
but you know something, they justwant to be treated regular and they
respected a lot. Yeah with that, um, you know fifty cent.
I'd be seeing him at the gymin Houston and he'd just be walking around

(20:53):
like a regular person. It'd bejust so funny because he's to be because
you know he older, so hehad like an old man. So he'd
be on the phone like out theweight machine going like this all close to
his face is to be like niggah, it's a funny because this is like
you know, the first time Isaw him, and you know, they
was all they didn't do it likethere wasn't extreme with it, but they

(21:14):
definitely was like, oh you cancan exact and picture you like I'm working
out now, No, right now, I'm just I was just looking at
all this said that's crazy, butall right, So giving back to others
and so on into their lives canhave positive impact on one's mental health,
it says. Studies have shown itvolunteering and engaging the acts of kindness can
reduce stress, anxiety, and depression, and increase feelings of happiness and well

(21:37):
being, it says. According toa survey conducted by United Health Group,
seventy six percent of people who volunteeredin the last twelve months reported feeling healthier,
and ninety four percent reported and improvedmoved. Additionally, the same study
found that individuals who volunteered were morelikely to feel a sense of purpose and
I'm belonging and even self work then, it says. Another any conducted by

(22:00):
the National Institutes of Health founder peoplewho give social support to others have lower
levels of stress hormones and a reducedrisk of cardiovascular disease. This study suggests
that supporting others can benefit both thegiver and the receiver. So something you
kind of highlight it who kind ofmade a point about when you said,
like when you're giving back to theworld. Now, although we're talking about

(22:23):
volunteering and we're talking about you know, donating and you know, giving back
to the community in whatever way.My God, it would be real selfish
of you to have a gift andto keep it to yourself. Your gift
is to give back to the community. That was why you were made by
design. That's how God made youby design for that gift. And then

(22:45):
of course give him, you know, the honor when you get to that
whatever it is. Because I youknow, used to Sunday coming up,
but appreach them to look, Ialmost hit this. Look you gotta have
your Easter suit ready. But thepoint, the point that I'm making is

(23:07):
you have to just you have to. You can't let people silence or muzzle
you from doing what you're supposed todo or give what you're supposed to give,
or in the case of and thisis a this is a real thing.
So like say, for instance,you want to give away something,
right, whether it's some shoes,clothes, or whatever, and somebody to
be like you paying all money,even be that you better sell that.

(23:29):
It will feel ten times better.Now I don't get it twisted. I
sell some stuff too, But itwould be. It would be so much
better to give literally, like Harry, give it to somebody who you know
needed. You know what I'm saying. It's so many times I didn't have
clothes I couldn't fit, and whetherthey was too big because I know somebody
gonna try to play with her.No, I went too little, it's
too big, and I either didn'tworry them no more. I bought something

(23:52):
and it got too big, ororder something it was just too big,
and I gave it to the youknow, donated it. And I'm like,
whoever get that gonna feel like theman, because I mean, it's
a nice little blazer, got thetags on it. That will be one
didn't even try it on, soI know that, well I did,
Okay, so let me break thisdown. So I had ordered us like
a blazer and they have to reallysend me too. So that's why somebody

(24:15):
could be like, well, howare you in trying on? But you
said it's too big? Yeah,so yeah, so anyway, there we
go. But that's what I'm saying, So keep that in mind. And
again my other notes says they're givingback and so on. Its others can
take many forms, such as volunteeringat a local food bank, of hospital,
mentoring to a child, tating inyour church, of simply reaching out
to a friend in need. Theseacts of kinds can help individuals to feel

(24:37):
more connect to that community and givethem a sense of purpose. So now,
how has t O Media, Ican say t O right impacted the
community? And what kind of feedbackhave you received from your audience. I
think the first thing that comes upto me would be, of course our
bucket and side drive. Then westarted Real League and the first one we

(25:02):
were playing it into twenty twenty.It began and it was Jane Word twenty
twenty one. So you know,it's still it's still COVID. You know,
it's still kind of COVID. Everybodywalking around the mask it's comfortable with
it ain't really that comfortable. AndI think, um, the reception that
we got back was amazing. Ithink, um, like a lot of
churches donated, m peers donated.Um. You know, I don't want

(25:26):
to say old folk, but youknow older generation old folk. I man,
I'm trying to be nice. Idon't know who listening, you know,
you know, anybody a little attLWe love everybody well you know,
the older generation. I gave backa line too from younger generation as well,
So it's kind of an interesting thingto see that and to hear that,
like you like, you know,this is kind of different. You

(25:47):
don't have to see young people gettingback like that. That's like that,
ain't know, my friends, kindof this is not a not normal thing.
I get it because you might notsee it. It might not be
projected in the media like that.But you know, we see some young
people I get to trying to helpthe community, giving back into our special
ways and everything like that. SoI guess that would be one of the
main ways I've heard the reaction tous giving them back to the community,

(26:11):
and to be doing it consistently,like in twenty twenty four or be our
fourth age, so literally, youknow, just kind of being on a
consistent way of things. We've alsocollaborated with people on like, UM,
I don't want to say food drivesnecessarily, but I got a home going

(26:32):
a calm turner, um, anduh, he would have like food we
called call them care packages, youknow, nonperishable foods, and he would
have like the package it up andI wouldn't. We would go up with
him and just go give him outhome to people like people up to under
bridges and stuff like that. Wedon't need, we don't need any cameras
that are filming it, you knowanything, Like they're just real trying to

(26:52):
just be genuine, not putting thecamera and we out here, we're doing
this. We give them back tothe community. Somebody said, what's up,
Like that's a little corny to me, you know, especially when people
are on their downtime. So butjust seeing the reaction of the people that
you're impacting, like kind of faceto face and they're little you know,
like yo, thank you, becauseyou know they some people might not know

(27:14):
where the next meals will come from, and we're just bussing enough to know
where our next meals will come from. We gotta roof over our heads so
that the ears definitely definitely, likeI said, we love to see that.
You know, it's it's underrated ornot underrated, but it's it's definitely
an overlooked thing to do to getback to the to the community and to
just you know, put others beforeself. All right, So now let's

(27:37):
move to my other segment, whichis I challenge that a new challenger.
Now you made a comment and yousaid fucking his mother comments like other comments
and questions. You made a commentand you said, it's lame when people
like put their arm over the shoulderand we out here with the home is
woo woo. This happened to merecently and I was in it bloomy but

(28:02):
I ain't show it, but itbloomy. Have you ever given to the
pool literally, like whether it wasgoing on a fool or whatever, and
it was like this is it?Yeah? How did it make you feel?
Because I was blue? You knowit's crazy. I mean, that's
that's their beings. They're trying tofight you. It's not necessarily something that

(28:25):
deals with me. You know.All I can do is give you know,
what you choose to how you chooseto receive that is on you.
Like I don't like giving um,like when people are like I don't like
meeting long people money because I don'tknow what type of situation you got going
on. So if if you tellme, like when you're hungry, I'm
like, I'll get you some boo. You tell you if you tell me
your part, I'll get you somewater. Like you get it read to

(28:47):
go on a gas station. ButI can't tell you how to receive something,
you know, So you said that'sit. I'm like, you know,
just kind of that's on you.But I got no ill wheel towards
you. I ain't. I'm like, man, that shit was like,
look, I got positive vinity overhere. I can't be wasting it on

(29:08):
getting mad at you because you manthat I had to give you more.
Well, I'm gonna try to bemore positive like you in that area.
But now because one day I reallyI would have gave him more. I
didn't really have all I had withsome change, like literal change, and
it was like some change, andit was it's not trying to now.
Look, I was not trying tobe funny, yase, somebody gonna try
to somebody gonna laugh. I gavehim some change in a cough drop.

(29:30):
That's all I had. So Iwas just like, look and I was
just like here. He just kindof looked at it, like I said,
he like that's I. Like Isaid, if I had more,
I give it to you. ButI didn't. Now what are some common
mental health challenges that creatives and entrepreneursface and how do you address them?

(29:52):
Mental health challenges. You know,do you have any you to you self
doubt? How do you deal withyou know, we're gonna make enough money
this month to cover my stuff oryeah, I think those are I would
say before the money part, youme would be I don't say self doubt

(30:15):
is the way I would describe this. I always used to joke said,
you know, I feel like Ihave a fear of fear of success,
and like it used to throw mypeople off from that set that and it
was like, no, it's likeit's not really. It's like I know
if we do it'll go like it'sit's proven. But it's like, you
know, you kind of getting yourown head and you're like, you know,
maybe this could have been tweeted moreand this could have been done better,

(30:37):
or I could have said this more, or we could have ended this
better, or this could have bethis thing. And sometimes it's creative.
You got to realize the issues yousee people don't really see like I put
something out. If I put something, I've literally done this. I've put
an interview out and I'm like andI've pushed it and I pushed it well,
and then like you don't really knowwho watching it not, and then

(31:00):
someone comes in, I might thinkthey might kind of messed up with certain
areas and somebody's over there, mana little bit enery. I loved that
conversation you had with such a selfsomething Sally, Okay, all right,
cool, But see me being ahard ass on myself. What kind of
creates a little bit of self like, like you said, self doubt what

(31:22):
you just kind of in your ownheads. So it's almos like, there
has to be a little bit oflack of a better terms, fuck it
in your system not to just getthrough that. But that takes time to
develop because everybody who's creative is youknow, it's like what you know,
the old saying, like artists,you sensitive about your ship. You know,
that's literally the thing. You know, everybody's got a little insecurity about

(31:42):
themselves and trying to figure in thatshit out, especially on the creep side.
But like I said, you justgotta have a little bit of fuck
it push you to go. Butthat money can be a thing too,
depending on everybody's situations a little different, especially running the business. You gotta
over, you gotta under, yougot you trying to make sure you get
your team pay, make sure youpay yourself, make sure your roof can

(32:05):
stay over your head, make surethat your bills to pay, and everybody
else. Just figuring that situation.I as well, you can grow.
So that's a little bit of ittoo, But I think the main thing
would be the self doubt, thehesitancy of this crew posting what you created.
Now, what did you do priorto doing what you're doing full time?

(32:28):
And how long have you been doingwhat you're doing full time? So
before I was doing towents on wasfull time. I was still doing to
but I was a teacher. Iwas the educator, the journalism teacher in
the North Shore in Houston. Youknow what north Shore is, you know,
it's a huge it always wins.Stayed in football besides this year,
but m huge high school. SoI was a journalism teacher there for about

(32:53):
two years and then I decided totake the leap of faith. And so
since I was since August, releaseis August. I've been full time until
now, but I've been doing atalent on was probably the past five years.
Yeah, yeah, about five years, five five. The idea started
six years ago five and while Iwas in college. So now just you

(33:15):
know, you know, better yourselfseason and trying to figure it out,
you know, put it in God'shands, keep praying and keep being consistent.
So then let me ask you this, is there a such thing because
you know, and I challenged thissegment. We like to challenge what we're
trying to, you know, keepthe debate going because you know. So,
do you think there's a such thingas giving too much giving to and

(33:39):
this doesn't have to be stuff likeevery time about giving to an energy,
given too much of yourself, giventoo much of your time. Yeah,
you can give something too much.I think. Um, I think everything
is about bounced. I think,but in life, you don't really know.
You gotta go, you gotta do. You just kind of put us

(34:00):
up the experience to really learn.Because everybody can have a comment about yo,
you should have did this list,you should did this more, you
should have been in your ear more, you should did this list. But
you got to figure out your ownship. So yeah, I would say
pretty much, you can't give toomuch. I think one thing people give
too much of this energy to stuffthat doesn't really give energy back to them.

(34:22):
I think when people say that,they think of relationships first, like,
oh, this person was according tome, like I was poring into
them, but it could be literallya thing of like easy, we cool.
Right, Let's say we go outto a function, right, and
and we go. I'm buying I'mbuying rounds for everybody, and you're my
homie. I'm expecting you to dothe same. But if you don't do

(34:44):
the same, I can't really getmad at you because your own person.
But at the same time, ifI expected that in statem energy back and
that doesn't come back, then justdon't just match the energy and it's okay,
here's keep on money in my pocket. And if everything's still rolling,
we can still be cool. Whenpeople get mad when people don't do things

(35:06):
that they stop the other person's gonnado. Hill can't do the controller.
So now let me move to thisnext part that I want to talk about.
So it says what happens when Godtells you to give something the way
that you don't want to give away. It says, this can be challenging
and it can be hard for youto do, but it requires a lot
of faith and trust in God's planeven when it doesn't make sense at the

(35:28):
time. It isn't important to rememberthat God's plans always best for our interests,
and giving away something that we maynot want to give away could be
a part of His plans to blessothers. It is of course important to
see guidance and wisdom and reflect towhat God has asking us to do.
So in the same breath, itis an important to acknowledge our own emotions,
and you know, it's okay tofeel a sense of restraint or like

(35:52):
I don't know, you know,seeing not asking you to do that.
But in situations I think about likehow you know you get and they kind
of picking back what you were saying, you were still tie that in with
that because like you saying, ifI'm giving it, I can't get mad
at you for not giving what Igave because in the same breath, you're

(36:12):
not giving so that they can matchyou. You're doing it because you're doing
it out of the out of youryour heart, you know what I mean.
And there are times when you don'twant to give, and then we're
going to the next where all timeswhere you don't want to give stuff away.
It's been times when I'm like,I don't know if I should do
that, Should I get this,Should I get this and then I've seen
something come back ten times better fromgiving sometimes, you know, it is

(36:34):
that leap of faith. And thenit kind of goes out what you said
earlier with your job, where youstop yourself at your job and said,
I'm giving myself all the way,all the way to me and you know,
you what almost a year in fulltime, right and you know it's
you ain't you ain't like, yeah, we gotta you know, quit,

(36:54):
you know, we ain't got topack up and hang it up. You
know, as an educator currently,we always know you can always go back
to education if you ever wanted to. You can go back to that classroom.
You don't want to because I wantto get out. I'm out,
but you know, but that's justsomething to keep in mind for people too,
Like we break that, I challengeyou part down. Remember, don't

(37:17):
give yourself too much of yourself awayto anything that those surveys not benefiting you
or not benefiting you like you know, but in the same breath, don't
get caught up in especially with peoplefrom this angle from people with people.
Don't get too caught up in thewhole logic of you know, and and
and and it varies it's not toget this is not that episode for that.

(37:37):
I don't have to go to anotherone on that with the people because
I'll be here all day with that. But you know, there are times
where you gotta let people go whoain't giving back. But in the same
breath, if it's something like that, like you just have to remember everybody
is not like you, and that'ssomething that hopefully you can hold on too,
because again, I'm not gonna getmad no homeless man for not giving
me no money, like what Ilook like, you know, I mean,

(37:59):
I was let irritated by his comment, but you know now I laugh
at it, so you know it'sflowing up. I kind of chiming on
something that you said. You knowwhat's funny. I feel like people we
want people always say this stement likeeverybody, you know, everybody don't give
the energy then I give, orthey want someone to give them the same
energy that they give out from It'skind of like you might not necessary if

(38:22):
you want that. You might wantto I guess the same amount of I
don't want to say attention, butlike the same, but you might want
that same feeling that you're giving someoneelse. Feel like y'all might you might
not need somebody like if you're onten person, you might not need to
be a person that's own ted.You might want to you might be someone
that lived with him out, youknow. And technically, y'all feel like

(38:43):
this is the thing too. Godpush people in front of you, and
now this is could be whatever youwant to take it. There, I
feel like God puts people in frontof you that's a little bit different.
But they might be waiting for you, but you might it's for you to
have to see that person and thatenergy by whether that's relationship or that's friends.
But my friends is different from me, Like I'm kind of a chill
guy. So my friends up liketheir energies up, and you different,

(39:06):
you chill. But yeah, butif you won't, if we all gonna
team, who won't be the voiceof reason. And if I'm too chill
and I need to be up,who gonna pull me up? You know
what I'm saying? So like Ihad I thought about that when you said
it there, I said, Idon't know. Go ahead, like I
said, we ain't know. Notime limit, all right, So now
let's move to my other segment,though weakly sabbatical and as we know,

(39:31):
this is the time we reflect andjust kind of you know, ponder on
things and just kind of let thingsjust kind of marry that just a little
bit and kind of reminisce. Somy first question, how did you come
up with the idea for Talented Onesmedia? And what inspired you to pursue
so for Talented Ones? Okay,kind of a long story about trying to

(39:55):
shorten it, but pretty much Umy freshman year of college, Um,
I was a football player, andthat kind of I made a decision to
stop playing football, was trying tolaunch sport and as a saying visa state
and so I've always been I was. I was always the interesting kid.

(40:15):
And when I say that because likein high school I was a quarterback,
but then like I used to dolike go around to Houston like the slam
poetry team or like perform everywhere andstuff like that, and so it was
kind of like I was, Iwas an athlete, but I wasn't the
job, but I was. Iwas in the theater a lot, so
I always had like a thing fortheater. I was a I've always been

(40:35):
the writers as a kid. Musicis on with my thing so once I
got done playing football, SI,I always know I wanted to be a
journalist. I know, I knowwhat I like my interest are. You
know, I'm gonna make it likea blog, like a website blog,
and like you know, interview upbecoming like people. At first, I
thought it was just poets, andI think that ship too, that ship
too. Just that's like it's toonarrow. We need to interview everybody.

(40:59):
And I kind I came up witha different name of talent to ones.
It was a terrible name that I'mnot gonna say. It's just not creative.
But on there it's okay, bro, let's just left that left that
whole back in twenty twenty sixteen,but um, I tried it out.
I tried it so I you know, did the right thing, and a

(41:21):
couple of interviews just never it neverstuck. Just I tried it twice and
never stuck. And then summer oftwenty seventeen, I got a friend named
Cassidy who was really on the cameragame way back way back when, and
grew up with her and I droveher down to sam Houston with me so
I could go interview three people.Out of those interviews only one of them

(41:42):
really stuck like that was like good, good enough to like put out,
and so I just put it out. Um came up with the name Talented
Ones. I already had the talentedpart in the name from like the previous
name. It's just I just putyou know, put ones with it made
a real creative, got a flyer, and then I just put it on
YouTube. And that interview ended upbeing like four hundred something to be used.

(42:04):
So it's okay, well like peoplepeople like this, I guess,
And so to the next semester,didn't do no interviews because I was I
was. I ended up becoming anoffice so that took up all the time.
And then after that I just gotrolling and kind of consistent. I
got a camera and I just startedshooting the end and shooting the edit and
shooting the editing. So every weekor every two weeks, I was dropping

(42:27):
the interview and it just kind ofspread it out just because the world I'd
spread around, and it just keptgrowing and the ideas kept growing, like
and then after college, I endedup getting a radio spot. I'm sitting
at radio station in Houston, andthen that's when the podcast start kind of
birth and birth as a radio show, who was the number one and number

(42:50):
one show on that internet station forabout a year and a half. Kept
growing and that still doing the interviews. Now I learned how to work aboard.
Now we're doing freestyle, bringing rappersin, doing it like that.
Now we were traveling to do interviews. It just kind of grew. The
just kind of grew. And nowwe're just blessed to be here in twenty
twenty three going what we love todo, definitely and still going and still

(43:14):
thriving. So now he talked abouthow you told your stories, So now
can you tell us some of yourmost memorable interviews and then tell us what
made them special? I got it. I got two. I got two
that comes to mind off river Um. The first one is a dude named
Young DEJ who's the guy that createdthe wall and he's from Houston, m

(43:37):
everybody knows the big you know,dancing on the wall, all that cool
every dance, Yeah, everybody youknow, that's that's the that's the way
it felm in it and still technicallythe way now. But he created that
and I used to jam his musicin College of Life and he ended up
being in one of my profiles andyou don't know what the profile is.

(43:57):
It's just an alpha that kind ofbridge you in not out for, but
it's a personal fraternity that you knowit's older than you in the stands or
in that way. And so umhe was he was cousins to the old
dude and I hit you know,I hit my profile up, like YO,
putt me in contact with dishe I'mjust like, you know, I
got the interviews in contact with ifyou can, because I haven't put out

(44:21):
quality at the time. It waslike I was putting out some mid pack,
like I was putting out in mymind, I was putting out heat.
So he was like a cool contactand nothing ended up happening. I
remember were supposed to an interview,but I had to test that day and
I could leave campus. But fastforward maybe a year or two later.
Um you hear with that too.But fast forward like a year or two

(44:45):
later, we were able to uhinterview him and it worked out perfectly.
Like literally it was one of thesmoothest interviews we've ever did. Got to
contact with him and he was thereearly, did everything we need even for
the interview. Dance move talked toUS sound bites everything. It was just
a lovely interview and it was likea full circle moment, like thank God

(45:08):
really listening to and really like talkingto him. And another moment would probably
be recently a couple of weeks ago. I know my not air right now,
but a couple of weeks ago tothe day. We was in Atlanta
who were doing interviews at this woman'sconference, and the main person for that

(45:29):
conference was lady named Beverly Johnson,who I didn't know who she was beforehand
until I had to research him becauseI knew I was going to interview her,
and she is the first black womanwho ever graced to cover a Bold
magazine and she's almost going to bethe first black supermodel like ever in the
uside. So I got a chanceto do a sit down interview with her

(45:52):
that are becoming out really soon.That was just an amazing experience because she
was so nice, so graceful,a true star, especially when she was
telling me what she has going on, she telling me that she's done her
life. That sit down really Iopened it because it kind of was the
full circle moment of hard work anddedication just to get to that point to

(46:15):
be in that same room and totalk to her and bel king that we
really doing to sit down now,So I can't. I can't stop because
you know, we've gotten to you, We've gotten here. So I'm enjoying
and celebrating the moment. It's like, man, okay, if we're if
she's and she gave me a compliment, she gave us obviously us because we're
a team. Um, it's me, my guy bout there, and she

(46:36):
gave us a compliment, um duringan interview about how like she liked how
we were filming and how um thequestions that we were asking her that we're
very insightful. So I gave asa true journalist, that gave me like
a happy moment because you know whenpeople respect the craft on what you do,
you know, especially somebody's sup poor, you've been literally SE's in the

(46:58):
fact that she said when she Vanishand she was like twenty something, so
she's been around. She knows thegame in out, So I think that
was those too long for their stickouts. Definitely, definitely, And even
in that situation, you wish leadto the next you know, spark.
But it's funny because you said itbecause she gave back to y'all. You

(47:22):
know what I mean. She's beendoing this for fifty plus years, you
know, and look at where shehad now. Still you said, so
humble and still so like gracious,and a lot of people could easily be
spanked and nasty and vicious, andshe was and she was very nice.
And it's good to see people thatstill like that. It makes you safe.

(47:43):
They can do that at that age. Even when I do start to
get a little cloud, I still, you know, not act like I'm
too busy to give time to somebodywho's coming up, whether it's just a
word of advice or interview or youknow, whatever it's. It's so many
ways that you can give to somebodyand you know, lift them up because

(48:05):
you just never know what that whatyou'll say to somebody or even dude could
do for them that would transforming thatcareer. Here's so many people who up
there now, who artists and youknow, actors who say this. The
one comment recently Monique, she talkedabout it was at the King's a comedy.
It was at the Kings of Comedypremiere or something, and she said

(48:28):
Richard Pryor had pulled her to thiswhere he pulled her to the side.
She went up to him and hehad grabbed her hand and pulled her down
and was like, don't ever changeand how all these years like he'd been
dead for you know how long.And he's saying and she's an age,
not saying that she looked bad,you know, but I'm just saying she's

(48:49):
older. And she still remembers thatone comment that he said. This legend
said, so you just never knowhow much, you know, what you
could say, I could really impactsomebody and your your comment could keep keep
them going and just it just it'sjust gonna go all and out. Yeah,
for sure, I remember this realquick even like like I can relate

(49:14):
to that moment money care, Um, you know, you know remember stupid
Scott right, yespien bro I gota chance to shake that man hand and
like kind of talk introduce myself towhere I was like fourteen first the man
broke my hand. Dude has sucha strong but um, it's cool.

(49:34):
It's kind of journalist level. You'venever seen somebody be on camera so sway
down, so cool, calm,collected, but very professional at the same
time, you know, kind oflike even shaking that man hand, you
know, he kind of he passeda couple of years later. After that,
I was a dang bro, like, I got to meet someone I
wanted. That's kind of in thelane I'm wanted to be like when I
get older, you know, Igotta keep this moment in my head because

(49:55):
that's he He was like, he'sthe blueprint, you know. Yeah,
definitely, all right. So now, as always, you know, I'll
leave up with some ways to goabout whatever topic we're doing. For those
again, my young mental conc millenniums. You feel lost in life and you
want to give or you want there'sdifferent ways to do it. So I
got six ways to get back toyour community. And this is from an

(50:17):
article on caring bridge dot com.So the first thing it says is paid
forward by someone's coffee that's aligned behindyou, bringing lunch for a coworker you
know it's having a hard week,or simply wholy elevated for someone who's running
behind. Little gestures canna go alongway? What the stuff we really just
talked about the conversation we just hadwas examples of people paying it forward,

(50:37):
and in that case those were commentspaying it forward, but it still counts,
so keep that in mind. Secondone we talked about this is the
easy one of the most. It'sthe first thing to think about when giving
back. Volunteer from feeding the homeless, spending time at local animal shelters,
there does the ways you can volunteersin your community. And you know some

(50:58):
national great organizations include the Project RonaldMcDonald House, the Animal Humane Society.
Again I say that, I saidthis I think a few seasons ago,
and I say this respectfully. Ilike going. I don't like I don't
like going, but the animal shoutsand you see the dogs and you know
all that good stuff. I'm sorry, I can't look at no dog in
person with three legs. It's gonnabother me. It's it's just I just

(51:21):
can't look at that, like yousee the commercials. I don't want no
dog with three legs. I don'twant to know cat with two legs.
And it's I don't want that.And there's somebody I see it on histogram.
There's somebody who has the heart forthat, but it ain't me.
The third one is cared for seniors. So he will say he didn't want
to say old folks or the propername is seniors, and it says,

(51:43):
now I could see the talented onesat a nurse at home. Y'all could
go in there, you know,and do some interviews or something, you
know, maybe or some like whatDoD is grandparents Day? It's a day.
I can't remember what it is,but you know how as we got
older they started making up days forstuff. But grandparents they've been around for
centuries. So that's um. Accordingto a few research study, it's as

(52:07):
twenty seven cents of adults in theUS age is sixty and older live alone.
It says, one meaningful way youcan help this community by offering them
assistance and keeping them company. Andas tying your t suggests, it is
important to check on things who haveno family or who aren't checked on on
a daily Fourth one says donat clothes, money, blood. I'm not donating

(52:28):
blood, but you know again,somebody has a heart for that. The
fifth one, I think is agood one is to overlooked one. Another
way to give back is to bea mentor. So what is your take
on being a Mentor's? Just areyou talking about being it? And there's
there's when I think about that,it's a feat the end of thing about
like you know, everybody wants tobe a mentor, but like you got

(52:52):
a un effective one. I feellike it's just um looking out for somebody
that's consicate up to you. Andin just general sense, you know,
you might not have to do theworld for them, but you might can
plant the seed of an idea oran ideology that can help them in life
and move forward. I think that'sprobably the best form of mentorship. I

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think sometimes people think your mentorship itmeans you got to do something a whole
lot for somebody. That's like No, if you spark the mind of someone
that's younger to do something maybe tothe same level, if not greater than
you, I think you're un mental. But it's not all the monetaries,
not always money, and sometimes it'snot even always time. Sometimes it's just

(53:34):
you know, effective time, youknow, because you've just been eight hours
with nobody and learn nothing, oryou just do one hour with somebody and
learn the whole world. So that'show I was the sex one. It
says, it's the last one.It says, keep the community clean.
I gotta hold myself accountable. You'dbe throwing trash out your window don't you
when you drive? Yeo, doyou do that? Okay? No,

(54:06):
you think I was playing Mario carlike you know how they'd be trying to
throw off derail. They are peoplethere exactly drive it doing stuff out Like
I got my carma once because Ilearned that banana peels really are slippery.
And I was and I had drovethrough past one in my car stops start

(54:29):
like I was like trying to holdon, like I heard the Mario music
in my head and everything. Itwas crazy. That's that really thing for
those that don't know. But nanapeels really are slippery. The cartoons is
not lying up. You really heardyourself? Yeah, now for us while,
but it says an easier the impactway to support your community's constantly keeping

(54:51):
your environment clean. Take an extraminutes to separate your recycling from your trash.
Pick up litterly when you see it, a plague to make the switch
to reusable water bottle sponsor and ahighway, get a group together, clean
up a highway, county, rowyour community, shopping local, and create
a cleanup day with clean Up Giveback. Clean Up Giveback is a nonprofit that
collaborates with the local government to provideresources for trash cleaning campaigns across the country.

(55:16):
So there's some of y'all who wantto take it to the next level.
You know, there, y'all go. So now before we move into
our final segment, final questions foryou, what are some long term goals
that the Talented Ones Media has hasfor creating substantibal change and addressing social issues
in the community. He said,substantial change and social issues in the community.

(55:37):
Yeah, all right, So Iguess the one way we can kind
of we're trying to change or sparkthe minds to make that change and just
be one of course in our tO drive you know, our community service
giving barn that's a huge thing thatwe're trying to make sure to just keep

(55:58):
doing every year. Impact. We'vegiven away hoodie, We've given away our
merchandise before to the homeless. Wecan give away of course, the blankets
of sides, food bank food youknow food banks essentially you know, giving
out them care factors as well.Any way, shape or form. We're
trying to work on going back toschool drives next year. Any way we

(56:19):
can give back to somebody to likehelp a person that might need might need
it. At the moment. That'sreally just some way we're trying to do
it. Another way that I say, we're trying to impact the community substantially
giving back. Is this idea ofjourney greater than the destination. That's the
motto of our company. And Iknow what I've said that before, but
I really think people are so drivenby fast destinations or instant gratification that they

(56:47):
kind of lose themselves on their journeyand they make life a little more mentally
tiring for them, you know,trying to you know, spark the minds
and be like, you know,it's okay, you know, it's it's
a lot of people that form whatthey want to do, but it took
them a long time to get there. Then Zille didn't really get his big
roles till he was in the thirties, you know. It's Samuel Jackson took

(57:09):
longer than that. You know,he wasn't he was in the theater all
the way to until his mid thirtiesand early forties. You know, it
took a lot of time for somepeople to people where they're going they're going,
and even in that part, evenon a regular nighting Saint regular in
the bad world. Just saying like, if you want to be the best
nurse, you want to be youwant to be a lord, if you
want to be a doctor, youwant to be the best teacher, you

(57:30):
want to be the best janitor,whatever you want to be. You know,
it takes time sometimes and we wantto spark the mind to be like,
yo, life is a journey,but enjoy your journey because you only
one life. You know, ifeverybody started thinking about, you know,
enjoying your life and enjoying the journeythat you all love your family, love

(57:50):
your people, love your loved ones, love those who loved you. If
you can start thinking like that,you know the world that to impact the
world easier and make life a moresimpler. You know, it might not
be as many killings, it mightnot be as many to robbing because it
might not be as many as muchfoolery going on our your you know,
crime still gonna happen. That's life, yeah, you know once you know,

(58:13):
it goes back to the biglo terms. You know, once at an
eve at their episode, it's justgonna be sick at this point. But
we're trying to minimize if we canimpact the minds of a few that can
impact the minds of more few thatcan spread the wildfire. You know,
we did our job, you know, this is what we put on this

(58:34):
earth to do. Absolutely so.Um. Last question before we move into
the final segment. How can individualsget involved in support y'all in any way?
Oh, this is a great one. This is what we call social
media ladies and gentlemen. What youcan do for us as follow us on
Instagrams at Underscore, Talented Ones TalentedWe're talented o n es Underscore on ig

(59:00):
SO Underscore Talented Ones, Underscore onig on Twitter, It's at It's at
Talented Underscore Ones on Twitter. Wehave our website too, ww got Talented
the number one, not not theother, the number one anys dot com
um as well, and just followus on all our social media's the TikTok

(59:22):
um. We got a Facebook page, we have a LinkedIn page. Just
follow us on everything that you wantto follow us on. We're there.
We post everything on our YouTube,Talent ones um YouTube. You'll literally if
you're type in talent one, ifyou're bribing the first and second one that
pops up, and just subscribe andjust listen. You know, you know,

(59:43):
I would love for everybody just tolisten to what we got going on.
Even if you don't like my interviewstyle, you might like a freestyle,
you know, like a freestyle.You might like the podcast topics.
You know, we have something foreverybody. You got to drip, you
got styles, we got stows,We've got a little flavor for everybody.
You know, you might not wantyour limit paper. You might want to
Garland Parker, John. You know, so we got something everybody. You

(01:00:05):
know. It's funny because I rememberyou said it was worrying of view you
did. It was one. Ithink it was a podcast tough of you
talking about something, um and itwasn't the most serious, but it was
funny. You said, I'm notgonna be saying it's given. What was
that about? Bringing that up?I want to hear it. What was
that about? Because it was funny? Grown man, bro, there's no
reason why should be outside saying it'sgiven. But that's just me. Obviously,

(01:00:29):
don't feel comfortable saying that. Iknow it was one of my friends.
I know exactly what you're talking about. One of my friends, Crystal,
she's actually a backup bench, butus moved to college together. And
we were talking. We were talking. We were out in LA but we
were just talking before like her inher interview, and she kept saying it
give me. It's like, yeah, I can't say that. She's like,

(01:00:51):
why because it just give me whatit's supposed to give. And I
was like, I guess for me, I said for me, Yeah,
I just it just sounds funny tome, but it's not. I don't
knock you do, not no onefor saying it. It's just for me,
it does. You know, itdoesn't fit myb contra. It just
didn't fit me. But you know, I think it was a funny topic
though, because like literally after that, um, it's something for our laughs

(01:01:15):
too, you know, something butlighthearted conversations sometimes too. But I stand
on that. I'm not saying they'llgive me all right. So it's funny
you said that because it goes intoour last final segment, which is game
time. And today's game is titledgive or Keep, so you don't have

(01:01:37):
to say it's given a day,all right. So I got a few
scenarios and I want you to tellme whether or not, like we're talked
about, we talked about giving aday, so and we talked about obviously,
but we talked a lot of stuffwith that, but also like the
bad size giving and do you needto keep it? Do you need that?
So you got gonna name a fewscenario. You're gonna tell me whether

(01:01:57):
you're gonna give it away or you'regonna keep it? All right? You
ready? All right? You findone hundred dollars bill on the ground,
do you give it to the firstperson you see it? Do you keep
it to yourself? Keep it?Thank you guys for this blessing today.
You are given a gift that youreally don't like. Do you regift it
to someone else? So you keepit hitting away in your closet? Keep

(01:02:19):
it? But the reason why Iprobably wouldn't regift it, I feel like
regifted it like well ugly like.But and then again, if someone else
really wants it and the other persondoesn't know, I might regifted who don't
give it? Don't give it.You will receive a promotion at work,
but it requires you to move toa different city. Do you take the

(01:02:40):
promotional to keep your current position?So, I fact, if my situation,
if the work move some more,it depends on how the city I'm
living is doing right now. SoI might like that. That depends because

(01:03:00):
if Euston gets goes downhill, thenyou know, I might have to jump
ship. But right now I'm staring, so keep You went a free trip
to a death a boy hitting frozeup on it? Do I need to

(01:03:35):
say it again? Yeah? Itfroze up. I was just about the
text. Hello, Yeah, it'sit's freezing up about sir? Um?
Can you hear me? Well?Okay, all right, can you hear

(01:03:57):
me? Yeah? Yeah, youcan see me? All right? Yeah,
ain't from just reset the court,y'all? Saw? All right?
Yeah? So you want to repeatit? You want a free trip to
a destination you always wanted to visit, but it's during a time when you
got prior commitments at home. Doyou give it a trip to someone else
or do you keep it for yourself? It depends on what the commitments are
at home. But it's real serious, especially dealing with family. I'll probably

(01:04:21):
give a trip to somebody else.All right. Um, you are invited
to a fancy gale event, butthe dress code requires you to wear something
that you don't own. Do yougive up and skip the event? A
buying new outfit to keep up withthe dress code, like you knows all

(01:04:46):
right? Last all right, lastone talented ones is given a billion dollars
to give up rights and all creativecontrol. You're giving it up or you
keeping it. I'm getting a billa billions and give up all rights and

(01:05:12):
creative control. So I'm assuming that'sa part of that's ownership as well.
Right, what's my ownership stake?Yeah, so I gotta give a little
behind. You've got to give theownership. But you can be a nice
worker. I could be a niceworker with a bill. Is my staff
still imployed? It's a lot ofvariables to this. Yeah, you give

(01:05:44):
a right, So it's it's it'sjust they could do what they won't,
So you really don't know. Theymay keep feel people that make custom people
that may say we're firing everybody.M that depends at a strong depends though
strong mind, Yeah, because likeI'm not that reading. So like a

(01:06:08):
billion is cool, right, everybodywants to be a billionaire for somebody reason
and shit, all right, butyou know it's also a theme with integrity
and you know, I actually wantedto do this, you know what I'm
saying. So part of me islike nah. But in the other hand,
is like I could take the moneyand just do the same shit I
was doing right then under a differenthand. Yeah, we said it.

(01:06:31):
See you're thinking yeah, because Ican do this shit, all right?
All right, okay, all right, let moves to the final thing.
All right, this is for y'allto do. Remember, you win money,
what are some ways and when youplan and get back to your community,

(01:06:53):
and I challenge you to pay itfor in some way this week,
all right, So you gonna letme know what you did. Remember winter
after the end of the month winnerfirst winner gets ten dollars, second win
against fifteen, third gets twenty fiveall on cash chef. All right,
but you have to play the answerand you have to enter to play.
And the more times you participate inthe question of challenges, the more time

(01:07:14):
your name goes on a little thing, you more tank me to get picked.
All right. So anything you gotto say this is a good episode
of New Its gonna be. Anythingyou got to say before we head out,
I'll just say, appreciate you havingme on the show man, like
you said earlier, and the inta long time over do Like Brad,
I came on here you eat,you gotta go, you gotta dope thing
going on. Keep it going,bro, And if I could say something

(01:07:36):
to the people, man, justfollow me and my journey, a journey
um At King, Underscore, DayChef, k I n G Underscore,
j Y s EP. Follow meon all social media platforms Twitter, I
g Um, Facebook, JAT Chefand just everybody. Have a great day.

(01:07:57):
Appreciate you all right, y'all.PSA signing out. I always remember,
keep your head up like you NickKurt, remember who you are and
make your mind up. They'll letit make you. Next week is going down.