March 20, 2025 • 51 mins
On the show today we talked about making that shift in life, Its also National Ravioli Day..!!
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What up? What up? What up? It's your boy Ricky D.
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Back again with that that can reflect podcast show, you know,
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Ricky D, your host.
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You know.
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Of course I usually got the show packed with all
type of little things, you know, but I'm changing up
the concept a little bit because I'm mom branching off,
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C two one six podcasts got something coming for you,
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now we living on them life topics, and today's topic
is man to make that shift in life? You know,
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Nine nine nine nine five eight five.
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Of course again we're gonna be breaking down when to
make that shift in life? On today's show, We're gonna
start the show off again with I got a new
said little on outline, but I'm gonna make so I
get this quote of the day. I can't start my
show without the quote of the day. Excuse yeah, but
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quote of the day man, come from a very important
person in the Asiatic culture I like to call you know,
so called blacks and all of that. But the boy,
Marcus Garvey, you know, with confidence, you have one before
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you start. So you gotta believe in yourself first, Okay,
make sure you believe in yourself before you get started,
because you might doubt yourself along the way you get it.
So just believe in yourself. Just coming from your boy.
I done been through hell and back and back again
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and then another time. But I'm still here believing in myself.
That's why I'm here. You see me right now?
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If you see me, you see me, Hey, y'all already
know man, If you know me, you know me. Get
my little bored over here, y'all you already know.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
But yeah, man, Marcus Garvey, man, with confidence, you have
one before you get started. That's deep, that's real deep.
You've won before you've even started. Oh me and my hat, man,
that the hat of the mic. They is like, I
think they like each other. That's why the last show
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I did and I ain't even wear a hat I
wanted to see you know how my movements might be.
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But as soon as I look down in something, my
hat in a.
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Way or the mc be anyway. Yeah, I'm like way,
I likeweight. Didn't get prepared as I should have for today,
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but I wonder world my others.
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Not today. Abby.
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whatever going cause I'm trying to do other things. But
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you your credit, just a small sump. I don't need
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my new concept. I might not do that today. It's
a few things going on, but you know I got
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talking about when to shift in life, when to make
that shift in life rather, But before we move on,
I like the start off.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Did you know that? Today? I picked it.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
It's a few holidays today, but I picked this one
holiday based off of because I was raised by some
battalions you know younger, my uh my mother, dad of
the Italian Oh my god recipes. Johnny. I used to
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have fun with Johnny. They're from the hoods if you
I'm from Cleveland to Collingwood area. So yeah, Johnny, the espositos.
But it's National Ravioli Day. They they one't day, ain't
really Jean recipes. Jean.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
I was the mother. I used to be in the
kitchen with her all the time.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
But who we all liked the chef Boyard that the
ravioli and the king when we was a little you know,
we all if you if you was born before two thousand,
I think even the two thousand kids probably and had
some raviolis because their parents are that the nineties, eighties
and you know the eighties and seventies and sixties on parents.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
So the Ravioli, the ravioli.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Thing was like the quick snack. But this is this
is what they got for ravioli pasta. You know, ravioli
is pasta pillows. They call them pillows filled with watering surprises,
like you could get the beef, you get the chicken
and turkey cheese ravioli. You know, it's it's it's a
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Pacific style, like how they got spaghetti. Then they got ratoni.
Like it's all noodles, but it's made differently, so it
gives you a different texture which makes it taste kind
of different. But Italian foods is really like one of
my favorite foods because it's one of my first foods
that I actually remember eating. Because I was raised by
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you know pasitos. Well, I was raised by my family,
but I spent some time with the Espositos for a
few years.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I used to ride on the harleys, you know what
I'm saying. It used to be fun. We used to
go to the race car track.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Like if you if you're from my neighborhood, you know,
like if you if you grew up around Sarahnac, Sarah
Nac and Asper Wall, it used to be a lot
going on, Like it was always something to do like
they they they made it.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
They had it to where the kids like, oh, it
was always something for us to do. Put it like that.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Nadays it don't be as much like even not to
get to far off track, I'm gonna get back to that.
I'm gonna just include, try to include. Let me write
that down. I'm gonna try to incorporate that into the topic.
But yeah, Ravioli everybody of the time they considered as
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the classic too. It must be one of the first
dish as they made. But courtesy of days of the year,
that's the sight of them on that get the Ravioli,
you say, oh, get your eggs and flour ready and
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put your and put that favorite Italian music on the
record player because it's National Ravioli Day. They got a
whole pitch, y'all. I know, I keep scratching. Drive Wow,
it's better to be driving wet.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
But any y'all. While many people probably.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Have a certain idea of what ravioli is like, it
can actually be any type of feel pasta that is
filled and being sealed up. So rather a person has
a tension for tort toad Leani, the humble Ravioli or
the not so common angolatti. They are all types of
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ravioli and deserve to be celebrated. National Ravioli Day is
the perfect day to enjoy and appreciate not only the
classic dish that ravioli is, but also other tasty kinds
of pasta sauces in even the country of Italy, Ravioli's
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native land. I'll just celebrate National Ravioli Day rather people
are new to this delectable dish or have been delighted
to enjoy it for a lifetime. Ravioli is the food
worth celebrating each and every year. Consider these ways to
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give a nod to this delicious meal. Stopping to an
Italian restaurant such as such, grab a few you know, coworkers,
and y'all go grab some rafioli on if you can afford.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
It, you know, take a trip to Italy. They going
all out, like they say.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Of course, the trip to Italy wouldn't necessarily need to
coordinate with this day exactly, but any day spent eating
pasta in Italy, it's certainly a day to celebrate it.
I'm gonna make it over there, like I don't know
if I'm gonna take the boat or the plane, but
I gotta get to it, man, to see what it's like.
Cause if you really know the history of Spain anyway,
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like if you know, you know, m oh okay.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
But if you want to make it at home, it's
not that hard.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
And they got different beef and spinning sausage and riding
romano cheese. The spare gift was mushrooms, beat root and cash.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
You. I never tried brown butter with blop.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I don't eat seafood, and my doctors just speaking of
because my doctor, I gotta change my diet anyway, So man,
if I eat the ravioli, I got a kind of
mess with the experienus with the mushrooms, or maybe the
beat root and cashes, like it gotta be something.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Something. Or you can make the little dessert ravioli too.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Chocolate with cream cheese, ricado chip, chocolate chip, that might
be carrot cake, filling.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
With spicy that might be good right there, nutelia.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
With cream cheese, cherry cheery, cherry with almond extract. These
are just a few of the many ideas that make
ravioli a favorite dish, especially because it can so easily
be customized to personal taste and preferences. Use the ideas
above for inspiration, or feel free to get even more
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create by mixing ingredients and flavors. Oh, somebody got a
world record in seven twenty thirteen in Saint Petersburg, Russia,
the longest the longest ravioli in the world was recredited
to be ninety six feet and one in is long,
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although only six centimeters wide.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
It was made with a chicken and onion filling. That
might be all right?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
This delicious stuff pasta can be traced back to his
first recorded mentioned in at thirteen hundreds, by merging from
Vince Francisco de Marco. By the sixteenth century, Ravioli has
made his way to Rome, where it is mentioned.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
As being made by.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Tomorlowar tell Molo Skippy, who served them to a gathering
of cardinals from the Catholic church.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Bart oh my, it's spelled b A R T O
l O M E R scappies C s c A
P p I.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Okay, that's that. In sixteenth century is when they started
to make it with tomato sauce. It then continues on
this journey through other mentions in cookbooks, when the dish
was first prepared for the upper class. Eventually it trickled
down to those humbler means and became a national favorite.
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So it's some more to it though, but yeah it's national.
Ray I've ravioli. Da Hey, I got that was a
tongue twisting right there. But since we on the topic
of ravioli in Italy, make sure you go grab some
of these. Bavaria's call the collection. The pieces you might
see on me, they're they're a limited edition. The only
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way that I might make is if you know a
person want to pacific order, which costs a little more
if it's just individually, but if it's a demand for
certain pieces, I'll try to put them in. But otherwise
you can visit the website at Bavaria's Clothing Collection dot
com where you can find different pieces. In the saturies,
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we all so have a selection of shoes with a
partner where I design the shoes. They give me a
bunch of ten places and I'm designed to make them
look luxurious. But yeah, they I call them Bavarias Italy
because the shoes are handmade in Italy.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
So yeah, if you.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Looking to get flyve, you're trying to be brave, you know,
because to rule the Kingdom. You must taint in jungle
bavarias a consistent show of dash and spirit, bravery and
news we got. I just read some information about Europe.
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Europe the land tarfs on US goods, including whiskey.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
They just had to make sure you knew it was
on whiskey.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
But the European Union is the land the retallerary terrors
if it announced after the United States imposed a twenty
five arrs on steal and aluminum imports earlier this month,
the counter measures. The countermeasures, which include higher tars on
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American whiskey, were set to take effects starting April first,
and follow up phased approach. Instead, they will take effect
all at once in near April, pending the negotiations announced
on Thursday. In addition to whiskey, the first phase call
for fifty tears on motor boats and Michael motorcycles from
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the US. The second phase, which was set to take
effect on April thirteenth, includes tears on beer, poultry, beer, beef,
and various produces such as soybeans.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Tomatoes, and raspberries.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Now both phases which cover and estimated twenty six billion
twenty eight billion in American dollars worth of American goods
exports will take effect on April thirteen. This story is.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Developeding ceeing then news also.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Seeing some stuff where Donald Trump he also about to
do a Jacu order like to just manle the the
border education. I think, yeah, the border education. But it
don't take some Democrats to.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Vote on it, because you need like sixty sixty votes
or something to make it go through.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
But yeah, Trump, that's And of course I don't really
get into the sports because be trying, like I say,
don't follow sports see two one six podcast on Instagram.
That's what we're gonna be. We're gonna get into these sports.
I got some on my sleeve for y'all. But right here,
we really just gonna be sticking to the topic of
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the week, you know, a little like I said, a
little quote of the day, holiday to day, maybe some
breaking news, but mainly we're gonna just stick to the topic.
When to make that shift in life, which is the
topic for the week. And speaking on that, you know,
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we might as well get ready because go on and
jump into this topic because I'm gonna make this quick
like short show because that shift, man, we should know
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that shift, like the shift shouldn't be hard to find.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
It should be like about that time in life you
get like we're making the shift right now, just to
make that decision. But yeah, that.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Particularly blet saying, boy, start happing this, this is gonna
be this gonna be my set, It's gonna be where
I start having I guess you know they saying that,
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like about the lineup again. So if I disappeared for
a couple of weeks, that's what's going on.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I'm just here today.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
I just felt like y'all missed me last week, so
I had to step up and let y'all know what's
really going on. So you don't think I just left
y'all that it does or somewhere. I just, you know,
I want y'all to know what's going on. Keep you up, David.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
But again, today's topic is wanting to make that shift.
I know, I know that I I made.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
I made a few shifts in my life because growing
up no I, like I said, I grew up in
the Collingwood area, which is a urban community in the Cleveland,
Ohio area.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
It used to be a lot of Italians around there.
That's how, like I said, I was raised by the espositos.
We even had neighborhoods that had the flag colors painted
on the streets, which is that our people wen we
we be, we be what's the word I'm looking for, man,
but we be migrate like we be before you know
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it to be a bunch of.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Hey.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
But yeah, Man wanted to make that shift and that
and it's important in life because sometimes a lot of
us get comfortable with our situations and we we're not
aware mentally because we're so distracted by like things that's
going on in life, the things that go on around
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and like I was, like I learned like over time
is like you could get addicted. Like I think just
as humans, I think we all just have like addictive
behaviors and and them addictive behaviors could get us caught
up and and like calves that we really but I
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feel that isn't really destined, you know what I'm saying,
Like maybe we like sometimes I feel like I was
I was born, my mentor was not made for where
I was born, or maybe you know, I could have
been put there to help, like because you know how
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they're just saying, go you changed one if you say
one person you did your job. But I had to
go through so much like I've been getting in trouble
since juvenile, like just trying to find myself because it
wasn't really.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Like positive males around me.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
You know, I love my I love every male member
of my family, friends and things, but it was very
seldom it was somebody saying, you know, you could go
left over here, but you might be better off going right.
That's what I kind of did to my love brothers.
I told them, I said, you know, you could go
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this route, but it might be better over there. And
I guess they took the better over there route, you know,
they because they they they got their lives. They ain't
been going they ain't went through what I went through.
I'm the oldest too, so I was what you would
call what the sacrificial lamb, you know what I'm saying,
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Like it was messed up that they had to learn
from my failures instead of my achievements. But my achievements,
I think sometimes keep them motivated, you know what I'm saying,
Like because looking bruh, he hadn't been through hell and
back and he just keep on putting in some type
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of work to make a difference in life, but just
growing up in the neighborhood, you know, you were influenced
by things that cause you see more of the street
life in the urban community than you actually see the
people putting that work in behind the scenes that's going,
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you know what I'm saying, getting them good grades.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
And because I was, I.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Don't want to like boast myself, but I think I
was very intelligent, like book smart wise, I was athletic.
So when I was having them them teen years when
I was experimenting with life, trying to find myself. Like
I said, it wasn't nobody really telling me that was
personally personally close to me anyhow, because I had.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Males know for at the school, you know, you shouldn't
be doing that.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
You should be doing that like and one of one
of one of the people that stayed on me was
getting from Glenville, his son Teddy gin junior playing in
the NFL. But again, would you know he would talk
to me in the hallways like I guess.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
He's seen.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
That I had more in me, and I just didn't
see it in myself. You know, even my coach Slap,
but slap, I guess his way of doing it was
like if you really wanted you to get away from this.
So like the basketball team and track team, he would
kick me off the team based off of the people
he knew I was hanging with. I never knew how
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he knew exactly who I was hanging with, because you know,
it's always a little snitch somewhere. But but yeah, anyhow,
you know, as I got older, they held me back
slap still gave me another chance, like because we used
to have like gym leaders, and he made sure he
made me a gym leader. Like he was giving me
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opportunities to correct you know what I'm saying. But I
guess he just didn't know how to present it based
off of my way of understanding. So it took me
to go through a little bit. And then finally they
I got in some more trouble. They kicked me out
of patrick Ry and then they found out I was
staying on him, so that was kind.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Of a blessing.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
But I went to another junior high, you know, and
it was really the kids from the neighborhood that I
used to always hear the playground, but like, man, they
don't go to school where they go, you know, But
they was going to Spellacy or whatever, and then I
wound up going to Spellacy for a little while. So Spellacy,
I guess they was like, man, we're gonna go on
to push you on through because I was. I was
bull crapping that Spellacy too for real. So then finally
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that summer, I go out for the high school football
team cause I'm thinking like, man, you know you kind
of you can you know how to do this? You
know how you could go get straight as because when
I did used to play the sports, like before it
really got into the season. You know, you gotta have
your grades for the week, and I would get the grades,
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you know what I'm saying when it was time for
the grades, and the teachers used to always be like, man,
why you don't always do this?
Speaker 2 (32:18):
So I'm like, man, because you know, school is really
boring to me. I just like sports, but you know,
with the.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Concept in school, you gotta have decent your grades got
to be a certain grade point average to be able
to play. But after understanding that, like taking the time
to step back, you know, me and my homies we
were starting to you know, hang out in the streets
a little more, and I'm like, you know what, man,
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I'm intelligent.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
You know, I'm athletic.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
I'm about to just grab me a little job because
my little sister father the rest of pes, mister Davis Laurence.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
He kind of stepped in, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
That was like the first one, but his approach was
kind of like, you know, a little I guess he
was he was being tough because I was fifteen, fourteen,
fifteen years old, so he probably felt like, you know,
he at that age where he probably felt like he
could try me, and I could. I know, they'll try you.
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But that's kind of I think he helped me more
than I really realized because he gave me an example
of a hard working person, like you know, he he
showed me that you gotta put the work in like that,
that's anything you do, but hopefully it's something positive and constructive.
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And he and I kind of picked it up a
little bit. And I think he helped my little brothers
no more than they think too. But at the same time,
I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna get this job. I'm gonna
go play some sports. So I done told you all
the story before it. But the same day, this was
one of my shifts. I was making a shift in
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life at fourteen fifteen, Like I was realizing this is
not the world that I want to go live in,
so understand like by learning. So the only way to
make a shift, though is to learn yourself, like starting
on yourself. But as I got to learning myself, I'm like, Okay, damn,
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you know, you know this cool, but you might get away,
you might get further than this. Because I'm looking at it,
I'm still thinking school like college, you know, life after college.
My goal was to make it to the NFL. But
you know, if I would have just got that education,
I would have been happy with that because that would
have set me to be more stable. You know, have
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AE and college degrees don't always guaran every guarantee that
you're gonna have a stable life. But I kind of
knew what I feel like, I think this is when
I really started thinking media, marketing and communication.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Business, you know.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
But I knew I had to take them steps because
most athletes when they go to school, they get into communications.
Communications is nothing but marketing and media for real. So no,
that was one of the shifts, you know what I'm
saying that was that was one of the times that
I realized it was time for me to make a
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shift in life. But what changed that is I go
to the neighborhood, you know, to tell the buddies, my homies,
ad I'm the quarterback. I just got named the starring
quarterback today, say y'all, you know, y'all should start coming
to the game, start checking the games out or whatever. So, man,
we get into a little situation and I'm telling them,
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I'm like, man, no, man, don't fall for this. Man,
don't fall for this. So and some one of the
homies said they wanted to prove a point. They did
what they did. But instead of me taking my ass
straight home because I'm really just starting to make that shift,
I'm still like loving and hanging out part. So on
(36:11):
my way to the house, which I should have been
left and took my ass home. On the way there,
I get jumped, like, hey, it was I don't know
if they was grown. I just was trying to get
away and rest in peace to one of my cousins kids, grandfather.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
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Shout out de blow if y'all know, you know that's
who saved because them, them dudes was them dudes was
trying to take me out. They beat me bad, like
I lost like forty ounces of blood, had to get
like two hundred something stitches. I still got a chip
in my eye over my eye like on my skull.
(36:51):
And what's crazy is I dodn't been hit a couple
of times. I don't been cracked across with a bottle
like a trunk. But I just did an a yesterday
and they said, my brain cool, you know what I'm saying.
So I got an hard ass. That's what's wrong with
some of us. Be hard headed in a motherfucker. But yeah,
that was one shift in life that I made. But
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when it's done, y'all, like what it looked like, but yeah,
moving on, man, that was one point in life where
(38:03):
I got you know, I made a shift. But then
as I got older, I got you know, I started
getting in trouble because I thought my you know, football
career was over. So I'm like, hey, forget school because I,
like I told you all, I never really liked school
in the first place.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
So then so then this this, I got in trouble.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
And you know, I'm getting in trouble now because I'm
all in the streets and also as an adult, I
get in trouble like so they they do they you know,
when you first get in trouble, I had. I got
in trouble a few times. They sent me to a
halfway house. And you know, I used to cut hair.
(38:50):
I still had cut my own hair sometimes, but I
to cut my little brother. I think I was getting good.
I was young doing it too, So I'm like, you
know what, that'll be a good feel to get into.
So I go talk to the counselor, you know, which
is a brother that was looked like me. So he
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tells me.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
I'll never be able to.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
Go to school, Like it's so all I'm when he
tell me that, you know, This is when I really
learned to start going to do my own research. So
that's another good thing. You know, you should always do
research because research to help you learn yourself more too,
because you got to study yourself. Like like probably say,
you say, if I will tell you something, I will
(39:36):
tell you to know myself and then I will tell
you to study yourself some more. So anyhow, but that
this was one of my learning lessons because you never
you never lose, they say, you just learned. But the
God told me, he said, man, you will never be
able to go to school. So so I took it
(39:56):
in for what it was, you know, like man, but
I wanted to go to Harbord College, and I never
put the research in and see.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Where I would you know, how I would go the process?
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Like is the true what he's saying, because I'm thinking, okay,
we we the same breathe whatever, you know, he a counselor,
he ain't gonna believe me wrong, you know what I'm saying.
But hey, the next time I seen that, man, I
was on a college campus, you know. So but I
(40:31):
wasted like the five six years.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Of my life.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
But I met somebody and they told me, like man,
what And they was like, man, you could go to school,
and they helped me, you know, with the process. So
and I went to school, but I was so engaged
in that street life that I continued to still be.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
You go back and forth.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
So got in trouble boom like, and then that was
another time where I felt like shift, Okay, damn, let
me change who I hang with. But that's where they
that's where the insanity concept come in at because you
be thinking you're doing something different because you think you're
doing it a different way, but you're still doing something that.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
Was taking you away. And that's insane. Like I thought, Okay,
I could go do it.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
I'm gonna sell it this way instead of that way,
but it's still what I was doing was still something
that would get me taken away. So the shift I
thought I was making this shift, and I really didn't.
My next shift really didn't come until I had my daughter.
(41:44):
So then I'm like, damn, man, I can't be out
here going back and forth, you know what I'm saying.
Like it was cool, and then even when I was
getting in trouble going back and forth, I should have
been more considerate of I was hurting my mother, but.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
I shift.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
The shift came though I had a daughter, you know,
but sometimes you you know, you it wasn't a love relationship.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
It was more like dang.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
But I tried to make it work because I wanted
to break the cycle, you know what I'm saying. And
in the process of I was kind of like it
was like small threats, not physical threats, but more like
if you don't do this, you know what I'm saying.
So I felt the urgency to go back when I
(42:32):
was trying to make a shift. You know, I was
going to trade school and everything, but that was still
a shift in my life because I accomplished something positive.
I was trying to get away, you know what I'm saying.
In the process, I had another child with the one
where her and I was like and then I was
(42:56):
you know, in the process of doing that, I was
still for enaggling. And that's when the big boom came
that and the whole neighborhood got swallowed up, and that
was like, that was the final shift. I ain't gonna
call it the final shift, but that was the most
recent shift because I think I'm in a shift stage
right now.
Speaker 2 (43:17):
That's why I'm changing the concept of the podcast.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
You know, like my presentation where I want to be
in life, what I think is what is important, what's
not important? So it's a lot of it's a lot
of aspects, it's a lot of things you gotta take
a look at to really realize you need to make
that shift. Like some people, they just they just sayf
(43:40):
the world and don't want to be better. They just
living and die. Like we already know that's gonna happen.
So why not, you know, try to achieve your best,
like strive. Like I said, if you do your best,
you usually get better, So why not, you know, try
to bring your frequency to you know, you might have
(44:04):
to change. You might have to stop hanging with people.
You might have to be by yourself. You know what
I'm saying. You start meeting new people, you learn to
talk differently, even though you want to be relaxed, but
you you got to learn how to communicate with different
people because at a certain age, you be so used
to communicate in a certain way that you think everybody
(44:26):
understand that. But everybody don't understand your communication style. That's
why I tell my children, like so I just deal
them with the poker face. But I had to break
it down, like poker Face is not trying to fool nobody,
but it's just chameleon. It's almost you know, you got
to learn how to change, you know, like be be dirt,
(44:50):
like the diversity thing. But my way of saying that
is knowing how to communicate with different ethnic groups, cultural groups.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
You know.
Speaker 3 (45:01):
But you gotta study yourself to know when it's times.
Like if you're a person that's always trying to improve,
you gonna know when it's time to make a shift
because you're gonna be trying to do something and it ain't.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
Gonna be going right.
Speaker 3 (45:17):
But you know, it's a great idea, it's even people
telling you it's a great idea. But in the process
of making it great, you gotta take a look at
the things going on around you so you will know.
Like and sometimes it's hard, you know what I'm saying.
You might not you might be cool with your environment.
(45:39):
You might be you don't want to like disrupt it,
but sometimes the chaos can bring out a lot of information.
You get what I'm saying. That's all I call the government.
The government is just controlled chaos. That's why they're able
to always say this is.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
What needs to be done and what need not, then
we shouldn't do.
Speaker 3 (46:02):
This, and we're gonna do that because it's controled, as monitored,
as dated is you know, submitted, like it's it's files kept.
That's why they say when you started being that you
should keep your meeting minutes and.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
All of that.
Speaker 3 (46:16):
It's just controlled chaot because everything is chaotic. It's kaoti
soon as you walk soon as you walk out your door,
Like even inside your home sometime could be chaoti, but
when you walk out that door, it's chaotic for sure.
And that's almost that'll wake you up to understand and
(46:37):
when is the time to make that shift? Like, man,
you know what, I'm tired of this routine. Even though
you create a routine because your routine usually get you
to your goal. It's like your routine is basically a
plan trying to get you to that goal. But the goal,
the plan don't always work. As long as you keep
(46:57):
the same goal, you can change your routine, which is shift.
You're making that shift in life like Okay, you know what,
I've been trying this, this don't work, So I'm gonna
do it like that. So hey, and with that, you know,
with that if you if you can't, if I ain't
simplified with that, maybe next time we chit chat.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
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I would do the you better know that, but you
know it's like I say, I'm short on time. I
really didn't prep the way I needed to, but I
got some things together. But again I'm changing the concept.
Don't forget to go over like follow sports see two
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We're gonna be going we talking all.
Speaker 2 (48:23):
Sports, mainly Cleveland sports.
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We're gonna spread the word, you know, give our opinions
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entitled to an opinion. You get what I'm saying, but
in the end it's still facts. So you know, with that,
(48:46):
we're gonna you know, recap and wrap up the show.
You know, you know, learn when to make that shift.
Make sure you go each just a ravioli today because
it's the Ravioli day. And like the boy Marcus Garvey said,
with confidence, you have one before you started. So make
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What up? What up? What up? It's your boy Ricky D.
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Back again with that that can reflect podcast show, you know,
where we like to keep you informed, entertained, thinking critically
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Ricky D, your host.
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You know.
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Of course I usually got the show packed with all
type of little things, you know, but I'm changing up
the concept a little bit because I'm mom branching off,
you know, trying to do something, you know, like I
usually had like a little segment where I incorporate the
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sports world.
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C two one six podcasts got something coming for you,
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Nine nine nine nine five eight five.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Of course again we're gonna be breaking down when to
make that shift in life? On today's show, We're gonna
start the show off again with I got a new
said little on outline, but I'm gonna make so I
get this quote of the day. I can't start my
show without the quote of the day. Excuse yeah, but
(04:09):
quote of the day man, come from a very important
person in the Asiatic culture I like to call you know,
so called blacks and all of that. But the boy,
Marcus Garvey, you know, with confidence, you have one before
(04:30):
you start. So you gotta believe in yourself first, Okay,
make sure you believe in yourself before you get started,
because you might doubt yourself along the way you get it.
So just believe in yourself. Just coming from your boy.
I done been through hell and back and back again
(04:51):
and then another time. But I'm still here believing in myself.
That's why I'm here. You see me right now?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
If you see me, you see me, Hey, y'all already
know man, If you know me, you know me. Get
my little bored over here, y'all you already know.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
But yeah, man, Marcus Garvey, man, with confidence, you have
one before you get started. That's deep, that's real deep.
You've won before you've even started. Oh me and my hat, man,
that the hat of the mic. They is like, I
think they like each other. That's why the last show
(05:47):
I did and I ain't even wear a hat I
wanted to see you know how my movements might be.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
But as soon as I look down in something, my
hat in a.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Way or the mc be anyway. Yeah, I'm like way,
I likeweight. Didn't get prepared as I should have for today,
(06:19):
but I wonder world my others.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Not today. Abby.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Abby be blowing me up. She got this phone service.
I ain't gonna say what is. It sounded like a
great package, so I'm gonna let Abby know, Like if
she really want to make a jump, she can maybe
get a sponsorship of partnership or something with the show.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
And I've made sure my audience is able to know
what you offer.
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something else I got to learn and practice because I'm
so engaged in the video, I'll be forgetting I'm doing audio,
even though it's audio from the beginning, but I talk
(07:37):
as if I'm only on video, so when I listen
to the audio, I might have some little pauses or
whatever going cause I'm trying to do other things. But
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I need somebody breaking news. I could, I could do it,
but I would appreciate it. You know, I would give
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you your credit, just a small sump. I don't need
nothing major. Uh, you know, weekly highlights, that's part of
my new concept. I might not do that today. It's
a few things going on, but you know I got
the of course, we got the topic. You know, they
can reflect segment, including the news.
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I ain't gonna say jack, but I kind of. But
I call it the Idiot of the week, not the donkey,
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Where we find out fun facts about things going on
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talking about when to shift in life, when to make
that shift in life rather, But before we move on,
I like the start off.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Did you know that? Today? I picked it.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
It's a few holidays today, but I picked this one
holiday based off of because I was raised by some
battalions you know younger, my uh my mother, dad of
the Italian Oh my god recipes. Johnny. I used to
(11:26):
have fun with Johnny. They're from the hoods if you
I'm from Cleveland to Collingwood area. So yeah, Johnny, the espositos.
But it's National Ravioli Day. They they one't day, ain't
really Jean recipes. Jean.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
I was the mother. I used to be in the
kitchen with her all the time.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
But who we all liked the chef Boyard that the
ravioli and the king when we was a little you know,
we all if you if you was born before two thousand,
I think even the two thousand kids probably and had
some raviolis because their parents are that the nineties, eighties
and you know the eighties and seventies and sixties on parents.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
So the Ravioli, the ravioli.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Thing was like the quick snack. But this is this
is what they got for ravioli pasta. You know, ravioli
is pasta pillows. They call them pillows filled with watering surprises,
like you could get the beef, you get the chicken
and turkey cheese ravioli. You know, it's it's it's a
(12:36):
Pacific style, like how they got spaghetti. Then they got ratoni.
Like it's all noodles, but it's made differently, so it
gives you a different texture which makes it taste kind
of different. But Italian foods is really like one of
my favorite foods because it's one of my first foods
that I actually remember eating. Because I was raised by
(12:59):
you know pasitos. Well, I was raised by my family,
but I spent some time with the Espositos for a
few years.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I used to ride on the harleys, you know what
I'm saying. It used to be fun. We used to
go to the race car track.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Like if you if you're from my neighborhood, you know,
like if you if you grew up around Sarahnac, Sarah
Nac and Asper Wall, it used to be a lot
going on, Like it was always something to do like
they they they made it.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
They had it to where the kids like, oh, it
was always something for us to do. Put it like that.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Nadays it don't be as much like even not to
get to far off track, I'm gonna get back to that.
I'm gonna just include, try to include. Let me write
that down. I'm gonna try to incorporate that into the topic.
But yeah, Ravioli everybody of the time they considered as
(14:01):
the classic too. It must be one of the first
dish as they made. But courtesy of days of the year,
that's the sight of them on that get the Ravioli,
you say, oh, get your eggs and flour ready and
(14:24):
put your and put that favorite Italian music on the
record player because it's National Ravioli Day. They got a
whole pitch, y'all. I know, I keep scratching. Drive Wow,
it's better to be driving wet.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
But any y'all. While many people probably.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Have a certain idea of what ravioli is like, it
can actually be any type of feel pasta that is
filled and being sealed up. So rather a person has
a tension for tort toad Leani, the humble Ravioli or
the not so common angolatti. They are all types of
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ravioli and deserve to be celebrated. National Ravioli Day is
the perfect day to enjoy and appreciate not only the
classic dish that ravioli is, but also other tasty kinds
of pasta sauces in even the country of Italy, Ravioli's
(15:28):
native land. I'll just celebrate National Ravioli Day rather people
are new to this delectable dish or have been delighted
to enjoy it for a lifetime. Ravioli is the food
worth celebrating each and every year. Consider these ways to
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give a nod to this delicious meal. Stopping to an
Italian restaurant such as such, grab a few you know, coworkers,
and y'all go grab some rafioli on if you can afford.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
It, you know, take a trip to Italy. They going
all out, like they say.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Of course, the trip to Italy wouldn't necessarily need to
coordinate with this day exactly, but any day spent eating
pasta in Italy, it's certainly a day to celebrate it.
I'm gonna make it over there, like I don't know
if I'm gonna take the boat or the plane, but
I gotta get to it, man, to see what it's like.
Cause if you really know the history of Spain anyway,
(16:35):
like if you know, you know, m oh okay.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
But if you want to make it at home, it's
not that hard.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
And they got different beef and spinning sausage and riding
romano cheese. The spare gift was mushrooms, beat root and cash.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
You. I never tried brown butter with blop.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I don't eat seafood, and my doctors just speaking of
because my doctor, I gotta change my diet anyway, So man,
if I eat the ravioli, I got a kind of
mess with the experienus with the mushrooms, or maybe the
beat root and cashes, like it gotta be something.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Something. Or you can make the little dessert ravioli too.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Chocolate with cream cheese, ricado chip, chocolate chip, that might
be carrot cake, filling.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
With spicy that might be good right there, nutelia.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
With cream cheese, cherry cheery, cherry with almond extract. These
are just a few of the many ideas that make
ravioli a favorite dish, especially because it can so easily
be customized to personal taste and preferences. Use the ideas
above for inspiration, or feel free to get even more
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create by mixing ingredients and flavors. Oh, somebody got a
world record in seven twenty thirteen in Saint Petersburg, Russia,
the longest the longest ravioli in the world was recredited
to be ninety six feet and one in is long,
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although only six centimeters wide.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
It was made with a chicken and onion filling. That
might be all right?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
This delicious stuff pasta can be traced back to his
first recorded mentioned in at thirteen hundreds, by merging from
Vince Francisco de Marco. By the sixteenth century, Ravioli has
made his way to Rome, where it is mentioned.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
As being made by.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Tomorlowar tell Molo Skippy, who served them to a gathering
of cardinals from the Catholic church.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Bart oh my, it's spelled b A R T O
l O M E R scappies C s c A
P p I.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Okay, that's that. In sixteenth century is when they started
to make it with tomato sauce. It then continues on
this journey through other mentions in cookbooks, when the dish
was first prepared for the upper class. Eventually it trickled
down to those humbler means and became a national favorite.
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So it's some more to it though, but yeah it's national.
Ray I've ravioli. Da Hey, I got that was a
tongue twisting right there. But since we on the topic
of ravioli in Italy, make sure you go grab some
of these. Bavaria's call the collection. The pieces you might
see on me, they're they're a limited edition. The only
(20:01):
way that I might make is if you know a
person want to pacific order, which costs a little more
if it's just individually, but if it's a demand for
certain pieces, I'll try to put them in. But otherwise
you can visit the website at Bavaria's Clothing Collection dot
com where you can find different pieces. In the saturies,
(20:24):
we all so have a selection of shoes with a
partner where I design the shoes. They give me a
bunch of ten places and I'm designed to make them
look luxurious. But yeah, they I call them Bavarias Italy
because the shoes are handmade in Italy.
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So yeah, if you.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Looking to get flyve, you're trying to be brave, you know,
because to rule the Kingdom. You must taint in jungle
bavarias a consistent show of dash and spirit, bravery and
news we got. I just read some information about Europe.
(21:14):
Europe the land tarfs on US goods, including whiskey.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
They just had to make sure you knew it was
on whiskey.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
But the European Union is the land the retallerary terrors
if it announced after the United States imposed a twenty
five arrs on steal and aluminum imports earlier this month,
the counter measures. The countermeasures, which include higher tars on
(21:53):
American whiskey, were set to take effects starting April first,
and follow up phased approach. Instead, they will take effect
all at once in near April, pending the negotiations announced
on Thursday. In addition to whiskey, the first phase call
for fifty tears on motor boats and Michael motorcycles from
(22:17):
the US. The second phase, which was set to take
effect on April thirteenth, includes tears on beer, poultry, beer, beef,
and various produces such as soybeans.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Tomatoes, and raspberries.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Now both phases which cover and estimated twenty six billion
twenty eight billion in American dollars worth of American goods
exports will take effect on April thirteen. This story is.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Developeding ceeing then news also.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Seeing some stuff where Donald Trump he also about to
do a Jacu order like to just manle the the
border education. I think, yeah, the border education. But it
don't take some Democrats to.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Vote on it, because you need like sixty sixty votes
or something to make it go through.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
But yeah, Trump, that's And of course I don't really
get into the sports because be trying, like I say,
don't follow sports see two one six podcast on Instagram.
That's what we're gonna be. We're gonna get into these sports.
I got some on my sleeve for y'all. But right here,
we really just gonna be sticking to the topic of
(23:46):
the week, you know, a little like I said, a
little quote of the day, holiday to day, maybe some
breaking news, but mainly we're gonna just stick to the topic.
When to make that shift in life, which is the
topic for the week. And speaking on that, you know,
(24:07):
we might as well get ready because go on and
jump into this topic because I'm gonna make this quick
like short show because that shift, man, we should know
(24:29):
that shift, like the shift shouldn't be hard to find.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
It should be like about that time in life you
get like we're making the shift right now, just to
make that decision. But yeah, that.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Particularly blet saying, boy, start happing this, this is gonna
be this gonna be my set, It's gonna be where
I start having I guess you know they saying that,
(25:11):
like about the lineup again. So if I disappeared for
a couple of weeks, that's what's going on.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I'm just here today.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
I just felt like y'all missed me last week, so
I had to step up and let y'all know what's
really going on. So you don't think I just left
y'all that it does or somewhere. I just, you know,
I want y'all to know what's going on. Keep you up, David.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
But again, today's topic is wanting to make that shift.
I know, I know that I I made.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
I made a few shifts in my life because growing
up no I, like I said, I grew up in
the Collingwood area, which is a urban community in the Cleveland,
Ohio area.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
It used to be a lot of Italians around there.
That's how, like I said, I was raised by the espositos.
We even had neighborhoods that had the flag colors painted
on the streets, which is that our people wen we
we be, we be what's the word I'm looking for, man,
but we be migrate like we be before you know
(26:34):
it to be a bunch of.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Hey.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
But yeah, Man wanted to make that shift and that
and it's important in life because sometimes a lot of
us get comfortable with our situations and we we're not
aware mentally because we're so distracted by like things that's
going on in life, the things that go on around
(27:00):
and like I was, like I learned like over time
is like you could get addicted. Like I think just
as humans, I think we all just have like addictive
behaviors and and them addictive behaviors could get us caught
up and and like calves that we really but I
(27:24):
feel that isn't really destined, you know what I'm saying,
Like maybe we like sometimes I feel like I was
I was born, my mentor was not made for where
I was born, or maybe you know, I could have
been put there to help, like because you know how
(27:47):
they're just saying, go you changed one if you say
one person you did your job. But I had to
go through so much like I've been getting in trouble
since juvenile, like just trying to find myself because it
wasn't really.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Like positive males around me.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
You know, I love my I love every male member
of my family, friends and things, but it was very
seldom it was somebody saying, you know, you could go
left over here, but you might be better off going right.
That's what I kind of did to my love brothers.
I told them, I said, you know, you could go
(28:30):
this route, but it might be better over there. And
I guess they took the better over there route, you know,
they because they they they got their lives. They ain't
been going they ain't went through what I went through.
I'm the oldest too, so I was what you would
call what the sacrificial lamb, you know what I'm saying,
(28:50):
Like it was messed up that they had to learn
from my failures instead of my achievements. But my achievements,
I think sometimes keep them motivated, you know what I'm saying,
Like because looking bruh, he hadn't been through hell and
back and he just keep on putting in some type
(29:11):
of work to make a difference in life, but just
growing up in the neighborhood, you know, you were influenced
by things that cause you see more of the street
life in the urban community than you actually see the
people putting that work in behind the scenes that's going,
(29:31):
you know what I'm saying, getting them good grades.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
And because I was, I.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Don't want to like boast myself, but I think I
was very intelligent, like book smart wise, I was athletic.
So when I was having them them teen years when
I was experimenting with life, trying to find myself. Like
I said, it wasn't nobody really telling me that was
personally personally close to me anyhow, because I had.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Males know for at the school, you know, you shouldn't
be doing that.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
You should be doing that like and one of one
of one of the people that stayed on me was
getting from Glenville, his son Teddy gin junior playing in
the NFL. But again, would you know he would talk
to me in the hallways like I guess.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
He's seen.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
That I had more in me, and I just didn't
see it in myself. You know, even my coach Slap,
but slap, I guess his way of doing it was
like if you really wanted you to get away from this.
So like the basketball team and track team, he would
kick me off the team based off of the people
he knew I was hanging with. I never knew how
(30:40):
he knew exactly who I was hanging with, because you know,
it's always a little snitch somewhere. But but yeah, anyhow,
you know, as I got older, they held me back
slap still gave me another chance, like because we used
to have like gym leaders, and he made sure he
made me a gym leader. Like he was giving me
(31:02):
opportunities to correct you know what I'm saying. But I
guess he just didn't know how to present it based
off of my way of understanding. So it took me
to go through a little bit. And then finally they
I got in some more trouble. They kicked me out
of patrick Ry and then they found out I was
staying on him, so that was kind.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Of a blessing.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
But I went to another junior high, you know, and
it was really the kids from the neighborhood that I
used to always hear the playground, but like, man, they
don't go to school where they go, you know, But
they was going to Spellacy or whatever, and then I
wound up going to Spellacy for a little while. So Spellacy,
I guess they was like, man, we're gonna go on
to push you on through because I was. I was
bull crapping that Spellacy too for real. So then finally
(31:47):
that summer, I go out for the high school football
team cause I'm thinking like, man, you know you kind
of you can you know how to do this? You
know how you could go get straight as because when
I did used to play the sports, like before it
really got into the season. You know, you gotta have
your grades for the week, and I would get the grades,
(32:12):
you know what I'm saying when it was time for
the grades, and the teachers used to always be like, man,
why you don't always do this?
Speaker 2 (32:18):
So I'm like, man, because you know, school is really
boring to me. I just like sports, but you know,
with the.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Concept in school, you gotta have decent your grades got
to be a certain grade point average to be able
to play. But after understanding that, like taking the time
to step back, you know, me and my homies we
were starting to you know, hang out in the streets
a little more, and I'm like, you know what, man,
(32:46):
I'm intelligent.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
You know, I'm athletic.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
I'm about to just grab me a little job because
my little sister father the rest of pes, mister Davis Laurence.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
He kind of stepped in, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
That was like the first one, but his approach was
kind of like, you know, a little I guess he
was he was being tough because I was fifteen, fourteen,
fifteen years old, so he probably felt like, you know,
he at that age where he probably felt like he
could try me, and I could. I know, they'll try you.
(33:22):
But that's kind of I think he helped me more
than I really realized because he gave me an example
of a hard working person, like you know, he he
showed me that you gotta put the work in like that,
that's anything you do, but hopefully it's something positive and constructive.
(33:45):
And he and I kind of picked it up a
little bit. And I think he helped my little brothers
no more than they think too. But at the same time,
I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna get this job. I'm gonna
go play some sports. So I done told you all
the story before it. But the same day, this was
one of my shifts. I was making a shift in
(34:07):
life at fourteen fifteen, Like I was realizing this is
not the world that I want to go live in,
so understand like by learning. So the only way to
make a shift, though is to learn yourself, like starting
on yourself. But as I got to learning myself, I'm like, Okay, damn,
(34:27):
you know, you know this cool, but you might get away,
you might get further than this. Because I'm looking at it,
I'm still thinking school like college, you know, life after college.
My goal was to make it to the NFL. But
you know, if I would have just got that education,
I would have been happy with that because that would
have set me to be more stable. You know, have
(34:52):
AE and college degrees don't always guaran every guarantee that
you're gonna have a stable life. But I kind of
knew what I feel like, I think this is when
I really started thinking media, marketing and communication.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Business, you know.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
But I knew I had to take them steps because
most athletes when they go to school, they get into communications.
Communications is nothing but marketing and media for real. So no,
that was one of the shifts, you know what I'm
saying that was that was one of the times that
I realized it was time for me to make a
(35:28):
shift in life. But what changed that is I go
to the neighborhood, you know, to tell the buddies, my homies,
ad I'm the quarterback. I just got named the starring
quarterback today, say y'all, you know, y'all should start coming
to the game, start checking the games out or whatever. So, man,
we get into a little situation and I'm telling them,
(35:50):
I'm like, man, no, man, don't fall for this. Man,
don't fall for this. So and some one of the
homies said they wanted to prove a point. They did
what they did. But instead of me taking my ass
straight home because I'm really just starting to make that shift,
I'm still like loving and hanging out part. So on
(36:11):
my way to the house, which I should have been
left and took my ass home. On the way there,
I get jumped, like, hey, it was I don't know
if they was grown. I just was trying to get
away and rest in peace to one of my cousins kids, grandfather.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
That's who. That's who. That's who saved me.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Shout out de blow if y'all know, you know that's
who saved because them, them dudes was them dudes was
trying to take me out. They beat me bad, like
I lost like forty ounces of blood, had to get
like two hundred something stitches. I still got a chip
in my eye over my eye like on my skull.
(36:51):
And what's crazy is I dodn't been hit a couple
of times. I don't been cracked across with a bottle
like a trunk. But I just did an a yesterday
and they said, my brain cool, you know what I'm saying.
So I got an hard ass. That's what's wrong with
some of us. Be hard headed in a motherfucker. But yeah,
that was one shift in life that I made. But
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when it's done, y'all, like what it looked like, but yeah,
moving on, man, that was one point in life where
(38:03):
I got you know, I made a shift. But then
as I got older, I got you know, I started
getting in trouble because I thought my you know, football
career was over. So I'm like, hey, forget school because I,
like I told you all, I never really liked school
in the first place.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
So then so then this this, I got in trouble.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
And you know, I'm getting in trouble now because I'm
all in the streets and also as an adult, I
get in trouble like so they they do they you know,
when you first get in trouble, I had. I got
in trouble a few times. They sent me to a
halfway house. And you know, I used to cut hair.
(38:50):
I still had cut my own hair sometimes, but I
to cut my little brother. I think I was getting good.
I was young doing it too, So I'm like, you
know what, that'll be a good feel to get into.
So I go talk to the counselor, you know, which
is a brother that was looked like me. So he
(39:10):
tells me.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
I'll never be able to.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
Go to school, Like it's so all I'm when he
tell me that, you know, This is when I really
learned to start going to do my own research. So
that's another good thing. You know, you should always do
research because research to help you learn yourself more too,
because you got to study yourself. Like like probably say,
you say, if I will tell you something, I will
(39:36):
tell you to know myself and then I will tell
you to study yourself some more. So anyhow, but that
this was one of my learning lessons because you never
you never lose, they say, you just learned. But the
God told me, he said, man, you will never be
able to go to school. So so I took it
(39:56):
in for what it was, you know, like man, but
I wanted to go to Harbord College, and I never
put the research in and see.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Where I would you know, how I would go the process?
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Like is the true what he's saying, because I'm thinking, okay,
we we the same breathe whatever, you know, he a counselor,
he ain't gonna believe me wrong, you know what I'm saying.
But hey, the next time I seen that, man, I
was on a college campus, you know. So but I
(40:31):
wasted like the five six years.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Of my life.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
But I met somebody and they told me, like man,
what And they was like, man, you could go to school,
and they helped me, you know, with the process. So
and I went to school, but I was so engaged
in that street life that I continued to still be.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
You go back and forth.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
So got in trouble boom like, and then that was
another time where I felt like shift, Okay, damn, let
me change who I hang with. But that's where they
that's where the insanity concept come in at because you
be thinking you're doing something different because you think you're
doing it a different way, but you're still doing something that.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
Was taking you away. And that's insane. Like I thought, Okay,
I could go do it.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
I'm gonna sell it this way instead of that way,
but it's still what I was doing was still something
that would get me taken away. So the shift I
thought I was making this shift, and I really didn't.
My next shift really didn't come until I had my daughter.
(41:44):
So then I'm like, damn, man, I can't be out
here going back and forth, you know what I'm saying.
Like it was cool, and then even when I was
getting in trouble going back and forth, I should have
been more considerate of I was hurting my mother, but.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
I shift.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
The shift came though I had a daughter, you know,
but sometimes you you know, you it wasn't a love relationship.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
It was more like dang.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
But I tried to make it work because I wanted
to break the cycle, you know what I'm saying. And
in the process of I was kind of like it
was like small threats, not physical threats, but more like
if you don't do this, you know what I'm saying.
So I felt the urgency to go back when I
(42:32):
was trying to make a shift. You know, I was
going to trade school and everything, but that was still
a shift in my life because I accomplished something positive.
I was trying to get away, you know what I'm saying.
In the process, I had another child with the one
where her and I was like and then I was
(42:56):
you know, in the process of doing that, I was
still for enaggling. And that's when the big boom came
that and the whole neighborhood got swallowed up, and that
was like, that was the final shift. I ain't gonna
call it the final shift, but that was the most
recent shift because I think I'm in a shift stage
right now.
Speaker 2 (43:17):
That's why I'm changing the concept of the podcast.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
You know, like my presentation where I want to be
in life, what I think is what is important, what's
not important? So it's a lot of it's a lot
of aspects, it's a lot of things you gotta take
a look at to really realize you need to make
that shift. Like some people, they just they just sayf
(43:40):
the world and don't want to be better. They just
living and die. Like we already know that's gonna happen.
So why not, you know, try to achieve your best,
like strive. Like I said, if you do your best,
you usually get better, So why not, you know, try
to bring your frequency to you know, you might have
(44:04):
to change. You might have to stop hanging with people.
You might have to be by yourself. You know what
I'm saying. You start meeting new people, you learn to
talk differently, even though you want to be relaxed, but
you you got to learn how to communicate with different
people because at a certain age, you be so used
to communicate in a certain way that you think everybody
(44:26):
understand that. But everybody don't understand your communication style. That's
why I tell my children, like so I just deal
them with the poker face. But I had to break
it down, like poker Face is not trying to fool nobody,
but it's just chameleon. It's almost you know, you got
to learn how to change, you know, like be be dirt,
(44:50):
like the diversity thing. But my way of saying that
is knowing how to communicate with different ethnic groups, cultural groups.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
You know.
Speaker 3 (45:01):
But you gotta study yourself to know when it's times.
Like if you're a person that's always trying to improve,
you gonna know when it's time to make a shift
because you're gonna be trying to do something and it ain't.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
Gonna be going right.
Speaker 3 (45:17):
But you know, it's a great idea, it's even people
telling you it's a great idea. But in the process
of making it great, you gotta take a look at
the things going on around you so you will know.
Like and sometimes it's hard, you know what I'm saying.
You might not you might be cool with your environment.
(45:39):
You might be you don't want to like disrupt it,
but sometimes the chaos can bring out a lot of information.
You get what I'm saying. That's all I call the government.
The government is just controlled chaos. That's why they're able
to always say this is.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
What needs to be done and what need not, then
we shouldn't do.
Speaker 3 (46:02):
This, and we're gonna do that because it's controled, as monitored,
as dated is you know, submitted, like it's it's files kept.
That's why they say when you started being that you
should keep your meeting minutes and.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
All of that.
Speaker 3 (46:16):
It's just controlled chaot because everything is chaotic. It's kaoti
soon as you walk soon as you walk out your door,
Like even inside your home sometime could be chaoti, but
when you walk out that door, it's chaotic for sure.
And that's almost that'll wake you up to understand and
(46:37):
when is the time to make that shift? Like, man,
you know what, I'm tired of this routine. Even though
you create a routine because your routine usually get you
to your goal. It's like your routine is basically a
plan trying to get you to that goal. But the goal,
the plan don't always work. As long as you keep
(46:57):
the same goal, you can change your routine, which is shift.
You're making that shift in life like Okay, you know what,
I've been trying this, this don't work, So I'm gonna
do it like that. So hey, and with that, you know,
with that if you if you can't, if I ain't
simplified with that, maybe next time we chit chat.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
You can tune in text four for all.
Speaker 3 (47:23):
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(47:49):
I would do the you better know that, but you
know it's like I say, I'm short on time. I
really didn't prep the way I needed to, but I
got some things together. But again I'm changing the concept.
Don't forget to go over like follow sports see two
(48:12):
one six podcast. It's gonna it's the new podcast. I'm
looking for a partner. I think I got one, but
it's you know, sports Corner from the two one six.
We're gonna be going we talking all.
Speaker 2 (48:23):
Sports, mainly Cleveland sports.
Speaker 3 (48:25):
But we're gonna, we were gonna, We're gonna, we're gonna network,
We're gonna spread the word, you know, give our opinions
because it's all about your opinion. You can't, Yeah, everybody
entitled to an opinion. You get what I'm saying, but
in the end it's still facts. So you know, with that,
(48:46):
we're gonna you know, recap and wrap up the show.
You know, you know, learn when to make that shift.
Make sure you go each just a ravioli today because
it's the Ravioli day. And like the boy Marcus Garvey said,
with confidence, you have one before you started. So make
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sure that you know, follow t n RP show on
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twenty one. You know, so until then, just keep thinking,
keep reflecting, and keep growing. And it's your boy, Ricky
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d about to sign out.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
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and r TV. Let's show them at fun about a
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little bit about the working professional up that's party ships.
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