WEBVTT - RAY CUNNINGHAM - Secret Ingredient 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:16.480 Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke. 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:20.000 I'm your host Coy and today we have very special 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:24.439 guest reality star mister Rays in the Building. 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:30.440 Star og Media Moguls is in the building. 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:33.000 Man of many titles and many jobs. Yes. 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:36.400 Yes, And that's kind of how the industry is, right. 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:38.360 That's how LA is. You can't just be a one 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:41.800 trick The rent is always do. You got to be 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:44.240 able to make it move when when jobs ain't moving. 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:46.840 And if you're a millennial, you've been through so many 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:51.919 shockwaves from like you know, COVID, the writers strike. I mean, 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:54.960 there's just there's always something. You know, before that there 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:59.440 was the Alway crash of real estate. So now you 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:02.160 just you know, you have to have multiple jobs. 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:05.000 We have to be able to adapt and improvise and overcome. 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:08.039 Like when I was doing reality television, then COVID came 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:11.000 and nobody was swimming anything. So I went to grad school, 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:13.160 got my master's and I wrote a book that ended 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:16.280 up being a bestseller on Amazon. Uh. Then when the 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:18.720 writer strike happened, there was no more TV happening again. 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:21.240 So I went and learned how to be a producer, 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:23.679 so cause there were still projects being produced, but there 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:26.479 was no actors acting. So I was able to learn 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:28.760 how to be a talent producer and learn the you know, 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:31.160 the inner workings of how to warn a production thanks 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:35.520 to Hellionaire Productions. Shout out to Jamie. And then even 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:38.440 when things got back to normal, I decided I wanted 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:40.240 to work in the community and do stuff, you know, 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:43.120 help give back and help some Los Angeles students go 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:44.880 to school so they can have the same kind of 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:47.840 HBCU experience that I had. So I've been working with 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:51.280 United Negro College Fund and the Black College Expo and 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:54.160 just I just God has blessed me to be multi 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:57.160 talented and be able to exist in a lot of spaces. 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.280 Since we talking about a lot of spaces. Yes, don't 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:02.680 you tell me what you're gonna feed me. I am starving, guys. 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:05.720 It is lunchtime over here, so I will be eating 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:08.480 the full dish and the little crumbs. 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:10.280 So what are you gonna have me eating today? 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:13.160 So we're gonna make mister Ray's tacos. Since we're in 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:15.120 LA and everybody eats healthy out here, We're gonna use 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:18.359 checking oh excuse, We're gonna use turkey meat. We're trying 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:20.359 to eat healthy, eat right for our blood type out here. 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:23.200 So we used turkey. I got some secret ingredients. We 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:27.760 got our tomatoes, our onions, our cheese, our lettuce, our sauca. 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:33.680 This is a special hot sausa. If you have sinuses, 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:38.760 this will clear you out. Okay, in both ways, I am. 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.400 I'm scared that what are your secret ingredients? 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:41.760 Come on? 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:45.640 So anywhile broke in college, I ate on a budget, 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:49.320 but I came from very humble beginnings. But I still 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:52.080 ate well. And then of course when you get to college, 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:53.760 my dad was like, okay, you on your own. You 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:56.160 need to get you a job or you know, work 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:58.160 on campus, get some extra money because we're paying for 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:01.679 you to be in school. So I wanted to eat 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:04.040 how I ate it home, So I had to improvise 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:06.200 with a couple of things. So there was a top 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.280 China carry out right near us. There was the grocery 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:10.959 store right near of food. It was called food Line 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:14.320 in Virginia shout out to Virginia State University. So I 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:17.359 would go get the meat, the tacos. We would watch 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:18.800 one O six in park. When I used to come 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.959 on in six o'clock, we watched one on six in 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.280 Park and I would make tacos for us to eat 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:26.160 and then we would go back to schools. Back then, 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:28.880 in college, I was the mascot, so we had band practice, 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:30.680 so I had to go learn the dances and stuff 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:33.400 like that. So we would eat tacos, watch one O 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:35.640 six in park, and then go back to campus. So 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:39.640 this was my version of a gourmet taco. Well, go ahead, 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:44.040 so I use soy sauce. I know it sounds crazy, 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:47.880 but I had so many soy sauce packets from eating 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:50.640 Chinese food to go in college. I used to use 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:53.920 it as a seasoning because I was like, it's amazing. 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:56.920 It's amazing, So my hands are clean. 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:57.720 Go for it. 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:00.440 Okay, you're not gonna end up touch the meat a 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:02.720 lot though, right, No, I'm not touching that I've seen. 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.760 It's actually put their hands on the meat and then 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:07.520 they touch their hair by accident. 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:09.400 Those are the same people who probably don't know the 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.440 difference between a wash face cloth and a body cloth. 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:18.000 So you know, chicken cooks, turkey and chicken, all those 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:19.320 cook pretty fast. 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:23.440 So you don't need the oil, right because it's I 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:24.880 guess it has its own fat. 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:27.839 I'm gonna use a little bit of oil, not a lot, 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.160 just a drop, because it's yeah, it's a little bit 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:35.080 on that side, that's a lot, right, Well, you gotta 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:38.120 get it cooking. Now, we don't see I'm judging. 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:42.000 I'm a I'm a I'm a side side host. 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:44.000 I want to see when the soy sauce. 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:47.280 When when the soy sauce enters the pan? So he 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:51.279 got the Okay, I'll narrate. So, Okay, he's he's brown 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:54.080 in the meat taco seasoning. 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.320 See, when you're not using beef and you're using like 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:59.760 turkey stuff like that, you really have to season your meat. 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.800 And we like good meat, right, a whole packet. We 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:05.800 learned on one episode that we're not supposed to use 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:07.520 the whole packete us. 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:10.760 Some chef I'm from I'm from Virginia. We cook, Okay, 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:14.080 we seasoned, we cooked, We brown our meat. Make sure 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.479 it tastes great. It's supposed to be a party in 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:20.600 your mouth. Yeah, exactly like that. Good all right. 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:22.720 So take me back to what was going on in 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:24.159 the tackle making days. 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:28.000 So in Virginia State University, I was in school. I 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:30.680 was a mass calm major. I'm just using a little 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:32.200 bit of a little onion powdered. 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:36.080 Little onion powder after he added the entire taco seasoning. 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:40.560 Packet Italian power. Are you gonna add garlic powder? 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:42.120 No, we ain't doing all that now. 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:44.960 Okay, okay, I feel like those two are married for life. 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:48.440 But yeah, college was a great time. It was the 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:51.200 best four years of my life. Figured out who I was, 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:54.880 came and started living in my truth. I think that's 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:57.760 where mister Ray was developed. Know. I grew up in 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.160 a pretty conservative family. You know, I'm the young this 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:03.839 boy of the four siblings. My dad and I are 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:07.240 best friends. My grandmother and I are best friends. I 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:08.920 grew up in Virginia with my father and my mother 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:13.159 was actually here in California. So every summer, every summer, 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:16.080 fall break, Christmas break, spring break, I was out here. 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:18.840 So wait a minute, So your dad raised you by himself. 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:20.800 I have a stepmother as well. Yeah, yeah, I have 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:22.800 a step mother and a stepfather. So I got an 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.280 East Coast family and a West Coast friend. So I 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:27.520 ain't new to La. I been here. I'm a co native, 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:31.080 uh since nineteen You're the youngest, I'm the baby, I'm 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:33.520 my mom's only Oh, my dad has other children. I 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:34.000 have half. 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:36.000 Siblings, but you're the youngest. 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:37.080 I'm the baby of all. 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:38.960 And then I'm. 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:39.800 Guessing they separated. 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:40.960 And then they. 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:43.680 Separated, and then my father remarried, and my mother moved 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.359 back here and she remarried. Okay, so I was. I 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:48.719 grew up. I was. I was living a good life. 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.080 I got to, you know, live in Virginia, come to 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.760 La every break. So like Hollywood, it wasn't new to 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:55.880 me when I got into it. I knew where everything 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.400 was pretty much. And I had friends out here. 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:00.520 Oh he's at in the soil, a little bit of 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:01.000 so and soft. 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:03.680 Now, this is the college hookup we had used to 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:06.839 I used to use packets of this. I'm telling you, 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:10.520 you're it's gonna be so good. I am definitely curious, cause, 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.480 you know, a black colleges, we have to make do 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:15.240 with what we have. A lot of soy sauce. It's 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:16.920 gonna cook down. You're not gonna taste it. 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:17.640 They gonna see this. 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:22.400 Man. I hope it's delicious. It's amazing. It is amazing. 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:24.000 That much. 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:25.600 No, it's not. I hate dry meat. 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:32.000 I yeah, yeah, I. 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:31.920 I just caught that. But No, in college, we were 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:33.360 just cooking on the budget. We were trying to make 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:37.640 things taste good with what we have. We used condiments everything. So, 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:40.720 you know, I just I came to California in the 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:43.000 summers and I would watch my grandmother and my mother cook. 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:46.560 And because my grandmother retired from Compton High School, she 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:49.600 had a lot of Hispanic homegirls had a lot of 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:52.480 friends out here. My grandmother got the hookup everywhere she went, 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:56.240 still does, and they made the best tacos. And I 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:58.760 would sit and watch those women make tacos, and then 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:00.920 I would go back to Virginia. You know, we eating 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:04.560 pig feet, port neck, all kinds of stuff, and they're 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:08.760 not gonna taco but like Chipotle was the boom of 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.280 Mexican food in Virginia, I promise you. Yeah. 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:15.200 So you said that in college you discover your true self. 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:16.000 What does that mean? 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.160 Well, you know, I grew up in the era of 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:21.280 being very conservative, don't ask, and you don't tell your 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:24.680 business to nobody. So when I was casting for college 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:26.760 here on my first show that I did, we trited 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:28.840 filming in the fall of my senior year and it 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:34.120 aired that spring. I admitted what I admitted, my sensuality 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:37.280 on national television. At the time, I thought the world 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:39.079 was over. I was trying my best. I was blowing 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:41.520 on beans, like you cannot air that my I have 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:44.360 not said. I have not told my parents. I have 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:47.520 not told my family. Like saying you're gay and being 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:50.320 gay are two different conversations, And at that time, I 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:54.440 just actually knowing it. Knowing your gay is okay, you 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.040 know you're gay, you know what you like. But saying 0:08:57.080 --> 0:09:00.000 it verbally to someone else other than yourself in the mirror, 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.760 it's a crazy experience, okay. And I wasn't really ready 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:08.240 for it, and it made me the first black gay 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:12.280 reality personality ever on BET. So. I know I made history, 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:14.840 but I thought I was about to be history because 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:17.040 I didn't know how my dad was gonna react. But 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.600 it actually allowed us to get so much closer and 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:21.840 talk with each other and to share everything. There's nothing 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:24.080 you can tell my dad right now today that he 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:27.720 doesn't already know about good, bad, embarrassing, whatever. We talk 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:30.280 like that. That's that situation taught us. But I know 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:33.719 that's not like that for everybody. I did have some relatives. 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:35.560 It was a little feisty about it, and I'm like, 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:37.680 what do you matter. What do you care? This is 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:38.800 my body, this is my life. 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:41.559 Were they mad because you said it on national television? 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:44.000 Yeah, because they had to deal with You know again, 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:47.640 I came from I was from Virginia, so everybody knew everybody. 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:50.680 Everybody knew everybody's family, everybody worked together, went the church together, 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:54.720 was at the grocery store together. Like everybody knew everybody. 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:56.960 So it was It's not that it was a secret either, 0:09:57.000 --> 0:10:00.520 Like if you knew me, you knew you. I'm saying Dad, 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:02.840 was he shocked or was he like, boy, it wasn't 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:04.720 shocked at all. I don't ever, You're not gonna make 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:06.560 me believe that my dad was shocked. I think he 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:09.679 was just more so disappointed that I did not have 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:12.439 that conversation with him first, because he thought that we 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:14.720 were closer than that. We're close, But how do you 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:18.520 tell your black dad hed dad as the only as 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:21.600 the youngest boy, I like men, how many other boys 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:23.440 does he have? Oh I have a step brother, Oh 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:27.640 step I'm the namesake. I'm the third. There's two other 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:30.480 rays in front of me, him and my grandfather. And 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:31.760 it's just, you know, I just think it was that 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:32.640 you have a step brother. 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:36.480 So you're technically the youngest boy, the youngest boy of 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:38.760 his Yes, yes, okay. 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:41.719 My brother was having kids when I came to live 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:44.440 with my dad and my stepmother, and then my oldest 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:46.839 sister was having kids when I came. So I grew 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:48.600 up with four of my nieces like we were brothers 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:51.600 and sister. Yeah, so they're like, they're like, they're like 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:54.840 between the ages of twenty eight and thirty five. Three 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:57.600 of my nieces actually have sons. So I'm great uncle Ray. 0:10:57.600 --> 0:10:59.600 We aren't gonna say great uncle Ray, but I'm a 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:02.560 great on go to three boys, uncle to five girls, 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:05.800 and I have one nephew through my sister. Wow, I 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:09.040 know it's a lot. Okay, So I don't need kids. 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:10.640 Oh you don't want kids. 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:14.319 Don't I'm forty. I don't want kids. I don't want 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:16.240 to look like I don't gole pick it up my child. 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:17.880 I'm forty. 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:19.079 I have a three year old. 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:22.040 So see you already have one at forty though, yeah, thirty, 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:24.640 it started late. I started thirty seven. Well, see, this 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:28.000 is my traveling era. This is my hilarious random. 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:31.840 Era, forty years of Okay, I'm not gonna say. 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:34.600 My nieces and nephews are my kids. Yeah, I'll trust me. 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:37.960 I'm not gonna sell you on that responsibility. So what 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:38.760 are we gonna do next? 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:40.520 Are we? So we're gonna get a taco? 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:44.640 Yes, I gonna I'm gonna get two. 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:47.320 We'll get yeah, I am too. Yeah, come on, let's 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:50.000 let's not act like I was trying to be classy 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:52.480 while we while we do our you don't have to 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:58.920 be classy. So you gotta let me know if you taste, 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:06.079 I'm gonna fall it. Go for it. Okay. Ooh, you 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:06.760 can't get. 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:08.480 To it's not at all. 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:13.439 I told you it's good right, It's the meat. It 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:15.920 is what makes the taco my goodness. 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:18.240 Okay, may hook me up a little more. 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:20.320 You want some more? Okay? And we also have cheese 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:24.240 and onion. I told you were gonna like this. Which 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:28.640 one you wanted? There? There you go? Thanks, put some 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:29.080 more of your. 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:33.480 Other one, thank you? Okay, So we just freak stout 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:34.800 lettuce and tomato. 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:38.800 So yeah, you put lettuce tomato right with the cheese. 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:40.080 Let it melk. Let me taste the meat. 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:46.080 Meat girl, boy, listen, listen, let me tell you something. 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:48.319 That meat, that meat I don't know. I don't know 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:49.640 if I want to give you that credit or that 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:51.000 seasoning credits. 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:53.640 No, that was the that was my secret ingredient. But 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:55.480 I think it's the soy sauce cause it wasn't even 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:57.920 boom it's And that's the thing when you even though 0:12:57.960 --> 0:12:59.920 you wanna eat healthy, you still want to have some season, 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.360 get some you know, some juiciness. 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:04.320 Let me just tell you something, guys, the soy sauce 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:07.960 in the taco meat probably made like a world of 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:11.040 a difference. And I promise you I will never make 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:12.040 tacos without it. 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:13.560 I told you the. 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:16.160 Secret ingredient isn't a secret ingredient anymore. 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:19.199 Right, the world now knows that mister Ray's the hot. 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:22.040 Sauce with me taco the soy sauce. 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:24.000 I say, a hot sauce. Oh no, we haven't got 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:31.439 to the hot sauce yet. Hot sauce is amazing. Oop. 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:33.120 Sorry, we're getting excited. 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:33.880 I know. 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:35.880 Do you feel like, yeah, someone's house right now. 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:39.280 I feel like we're sitting like you comfortable here. I'm 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:43.600 very comfortable to add sour cream to this. You know what, 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:47.080 As I've turned forty, uh, dairy products sometimes are not 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:50.000 my friend in the middle of the day, so I 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:51.920 pick and choose my sour cream battles. 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:56.120 Now you don't consider sauce so like instead of hot sauce, like, baby, 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:58.080 we just salsa it. 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:00.920 I don't mind salt so like. I do have friends 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.360 that prefer saucer. And then I prefer the green. 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:06.280 I know he wants me to try this green. 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:10.080 It comes it's so hot tall so oh my god. 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:12.199 You put a lot in Chicago and this place called 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:15.360 Burrito Beach and they had it and it was so good. 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:18.920 And then, oh my god, it's amazing. Dad. It don't 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:26.160 put too much. Friend, it's coming out so slow. 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:30.560 That's so Jesus. 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:32.120 All right, here we go. 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:34.760 Okay, I'm hungry, guys. I know you want to hear. 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:36.880 The story, but hung I want to see how you 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:37.360 like to taco. 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:39.880 I know I'm gonna like it. I'm gonna I'm enjoy 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:41.560 my first couple of bites before I get to hell. 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:54.360 M mm hmmm the meat alone, me have the golk cup. 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:58.560 It's the green. Oh no, it wasn't the green like 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:00.200 the show. Oh hmm. 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:04.000 Let me tell you something. You killed it on the meat. 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:10.640 Okay, that the best taco meat I've ever had. Oh 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:14.800 my goodness, thank you. See I'm in my cooking era. 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.880 I'm in my traveling era. I'm trying to get engaged. Era. 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.000 Got the best way of somebody's harder to this stomach. 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:26.040 Chased the green. It's a kick to it. 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:33.000 Who you know what? I like it. 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:37.800 That's flavor. It's hot, but it has a flavor to it. 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:39.240 But just put a little dabs on it. 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:43.080 We're gonna take a quick pause because I'm really right. 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:45.120 We don't want any Ecco cameratersbody to eat. 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:47.680 We're gonna eat for a second, and I'm gonna get 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:48.600 into the shopping. 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:53.840 But this is why everybody came over to my apartment. 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:56.800 I made these tacos, and I used to tell all 0:15:56.840 --> 0:16:01.640 my friends save your save your soy sauce packets. That 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:09.160 was so cord. We're gonna come back. We throw the commercials. Okay, ol, 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:10.040 guys were back. 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:13.840 All right, guys were back. Sorry. The food was so 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:16.640 good that I had to call time out. 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:17.360 Guy. 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:21.480 We was really hungry, and I ate. 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:24.640 I do want to do a special shout out to 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:28.760 the soy sauce. I will say I've never thought to 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:32.040 put soy sauce in taco meat. But if you've cooked 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:35.640 with ground turkey, you know that it's typically dry. And 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:39.760 I was clowning mister Ray because he was putting so much. 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:40.400 I was scared. 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:43.160 But it actually makes it a lot more softer and 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:45.160 me that or you didn't overcook it. I don't know, 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:47.520 but the meat came out really good. The flavoring was 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:51.200 really good. So if you're at home, try the soy sauce, 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:55.280 add the onion powder. As far as the hot sauce, 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:57.920 I did try it. I got a little bit excited 0:16:57.920 --> 0:16:59.800 at the end. I thought I could handle it. My 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.480 mouth is on absolute fire. 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:14.120 Your notes will be so clear. If not afternoon delicious tacos. 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:16.360 So now that we have the tacos out the way, 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:20.320 you can come closer. Try not to eat into everyone's ears. 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:21.600 Sorry guys. 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:26.960 All right, so you do your first reality show, BT 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:30.119 comes out. Begged all these guys not to air it. 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:34.040 They're like, you signed these releases, golm down. 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:37.520 Yeah, They're like, we have the footage. It's airing next week. 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:39.640 Like it's not changing. 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:41.800 What was the check looking. 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:45.520 Like back then? Because we were the first black reality 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:49.359 TV series, we are the the beginning the beginning of 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:53.320 all reality TV in terms of black reality television. I 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:55.800 think I don't remember the exact amount, but b ET 0:17:56.280 --> 0:18:01.560 paid us a weekly. We got paid weekly. They're gonna 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:03.400 laugh at this because again we were the first black 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:05.760 reality show and we were in college. We got paid 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:07.840 one hundred dollars a week in cash. I remember that, 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:13.320 and I believe when we signed on we got paid. 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:16.200 I don't remember exactly how much, but I know while 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:19.280 we were in production and while we traveled to promote 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:20.560 the show, like when we were in New York from 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:24.639 montal Suston Park, Miami for Spring Bring New York for 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:27.680 the Runway in LA for the awards, we got a 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:30.000 per diem while we were there. So it wasn't like 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:31.399 they just had us out there too, and we were 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:34.640 feeding for ourselves. So way different from they didn't get paid. 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:36.919 Now, they didn't have you starve. 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:39.640 Well, no, no, no, no, no, we didn't have any 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:42.280 of that. I will say that we came up at 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:45.400 the very humble beginnings when BT first went over to Viacom, 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:48.000 so we got a lot of exposure. We got to 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:51.000 go to so many things, but because our cast, we 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:52.919 were so hungry to be out there and wanted to 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:55.199 just see the world and everybody to see us and 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:58.080 represent Virginia State. We did a lot on our own. 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:01.120 We would go to the local radio stations and ask 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:03.480 for donations and fundraise so we can get to certain 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:05.159 places because B and T will be like, well, if 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:07.880 y'all get here, we'll take care of you. Oh that's it. 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:10.800 And we would just do whatever we needed to do 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:11.280 to get there. 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:13.240 And then when they say it will take care of you, 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:14.240 they'll put you up a hotel. 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:17.840 The hotel, car transportation will take care of everything. The 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:19.919 issue was just sometimes it was traveling. Like I know, 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:22.040 we had to make our own way to Miami for 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:24.600 spring Bling, but we got to spring Bling. I got 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.280 to We stayed at the best hotel right on the 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:30.440 beach in Fort Lauderdale, and we met like Ello Cool 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:32.439