WEBVTT - POUR MINDS - Cheese The Day! 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.320 Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke. 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:05.680 I'm your host, Coleen Wit, and today we have very 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:09.520 special guests. Lex Andrea from Poor Minds is in the building. 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:15.560 Hey y, I'm really excited to have you both, and 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:18.840 I'm more excited about what I'm about to eat. 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:21.240 So what are you about to cook up? 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:25.840 Okay, so today we're gonna be making some rowtail dip, 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:29.320 which I feel like is like a staple in black family. 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:29.720 It is. 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:32.280 It really is like we make it for the baby. 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:37.840 Showers, football games, birthday parties, everything growing up. My mom 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:40.479 used to always make these, my aunts, my uncles. It 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:42.120 was at every family gathering. 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:46.159 Okay, I've actually never had the rotail dip. Really really excited. 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:49.640 I saw a bunch of cheese and gooey stuff, uh huh, 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:51.560 and I was happy. I was happy. 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:54.080 I'm with it. So what are all the ingredients in 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:54.880 the rotail dip? 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:59.760 So rotel is it's a cheese dip essentially, So you 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:02.960 got to have your velveta cheese, You got your cream cheese. 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:05.600 We have Italian sausage. You can use any kind of 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:07.840 meat that you want to use, brown beef, but we 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:11.160 use Italian and it's a Turkey Italian Turkey Italian sausage. 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:14.480 So we have onions, you know, whatever kind of dresses 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:16.399 you like, so kind of look at it as like 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:19.600 a fancy kind of taco dip. So you really can 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:22.160 throw whatever you want person in there. This is just 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:23.759 what we like in ours. Yeah. 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:26.319 I like to use a few different cheeses. 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:29.520 Some people just like to use just Belvita bite, but 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:33.360 I have cream cheese, Velveta and pepper jack cheese. 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:35.520 Okay, okay, so we got a lot of flavor and 0:01:35.560 --> 0:02:01.640 a lot of gooey that's going on. Yes, So I'm 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:04.320 curious because you have the you have the onions, and 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:06.160 then the was like a baby. 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:10.560 I don't know what that green pepper is called. And 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.320 then you have these what are these. 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:17.040 Green ones, green chili, green chilies, and the tomato and 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:20.680 then that's tomatoes. Okay, are you cooking all of those ingredients? 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.000 Yes? Okay, Well I'm gonna cook. 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:25.760 I'm gonna actually like kind of well, I don't know, 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:29.240 I'm probably not gonna saltate actually, but I'm just gonna 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:31.040 put it all in once the cheese is melty. 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:34.680 Okay, I'm excited, So get to get to cook in. 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:38.359 I'm starving. 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:40.000 I ain't even breakfast or nothing. 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:43.760 Okay, it's gonna be a good little line, it is. 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:45.919 Okay, so I'm gonna cook the meat first, so let 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:51.280 me go ahead and turn this on. Okay, man, I played, 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:54.720 y'all because usually I try to preheat the heaters before 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:56.000 you guys start, So it's. 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:59.799 Oh authentic the whole process. 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:02.760 People be in the comments asking every little thing, well, 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:03.720 what did you put this on? 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:04.440 What did you write? 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.280 So now y'all can see they see it stup by stuff. 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:08.800 It's on medium heat, y'all. 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:14.080 So do we have any like butter or oil or 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:16.200 cooking spray? You know what the most I have is 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:19.280 that butter back. Okay, this works. It's so funny because 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:20.840 I saw it and I said, they don't need butter. 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:21.760 A little bit. 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:23.880 It's just a little were from the South we put 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:26.960 we want the fattiest and everything. 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:29.160 I live and die by butter. I go through like 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:32.400 a stick every two days. Really, it's terrible. Did you 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:34.760 ever go through a phase where you ate butter? My 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:39.080 two year old is actively using butter like it's a snickers. Really, 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:40.760 she was like, coming to kids, you should be like 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:42.920 butter she dips your little fingers in it, she'll bite 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:45.120 it like that's crazy. And then I'll see her and 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:47.520 I have this face of like and then she'll look 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:51.760 at me. Like when I was younger. 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:54.240 I got really really sick one day and my mom 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:56.080 and my sister they were so confused. And while I 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:58.360 was sick, and then my mom went to the sink 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:00.760 and she saw because I used to eat butter and 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:01.800 rice together. 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:04.000 You did, yes, And I put like a whole stick 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:05.560 of butter. And I was so sick. 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:07.680 And she went to the sink and saw this bowl 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:10.720 and it just had butter, this stick caked. 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:10.880 On the bottom. 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:12.520 She's like, that's why your ass. 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:13.520 You can get from it. 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:16.000 I mean, I guess because I ate so much on 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:16.880 one city. 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:18.920 Like I just I was not feeling good. 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:20.040 I'm not gonna lie. 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.239 I'm one of those parents like I give into everything 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:24.840 my daughter does. So when she's like screaming for butter, 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:25.240 I'm like. 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:27.240 You know what, hand it to her. I'm like, you 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:28.359 ain't nothing else. 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:31.000 So but I never let my friends hear that, because 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:33.240 my friends be always checking my parents and like, yo, 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:35.200 she running you, and I'll be like, so I. 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:39.120 Be handling your baby a stick of butter. It is crazy. 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:43.040 Sometimes sometimes I gotta do what I got to want 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:44.840 whatever you want, but. 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.680 I do it in silence. I've never confessed that to anyone. 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:51.080 I'm sure, like, stick a butter in your purse just 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:57.599 cause you want one. I should, I really should, you know. 0:04:58.640 --> 0:04:59.840 Nah, But I love her. 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:01.680 I letter I let her take off a little piece 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:04.000 of butter, a little whatever is left, you know. 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:06.880 But in my mind, you know, one of my other 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.520 homegirls said that, I'm like, look, man, he don't eat nothing. 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:10.600 At this point. 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:13.120 If she wants donuts for breakfast, I'm with it, Like 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:18.120 calorie is a calorie, right. 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:18.960 That's true. 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:19.520 That's true. 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:22.680 I understand that I was a very picky eater as 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:24.479 a child, so I totally understand. 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:27.840 But this is one of the things that I love. Yeah, 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:28.360 I was. 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:31.240 I was a skinny, mini person, and I feel like 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:33.760 this is God's way of punishing. 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:36.520 Me all the taxes my mom chold. 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:38.640 To try to get us to gain weight, and now 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:40.440 I get to experience, like what it's like to watch 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.400 your kid never eat. Yeah, but take me back to 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:46.080 what was going on in the era of rotel depth. 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:49.560 Okay, So, like I don't know I was a child 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.280 and we just used to always My family was really 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.760 big on family gathering and so, like I said, we 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:57.520 just used to always have this that every family get together. 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:00.200 So it's kind of like one of those nostalgic thing 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:03.080 for me. But then also when I got to college 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:04.839 and I was kind of struggling, it didn't really have 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:06.960 any money. It was just a quick, simple meal that 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:10.040 you can make for like under twenty dollars and it's. 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:12.960 A great it's a great and it lasts day. 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:18.240 It lasts for days, yeah, like days, Yeah, for sure, really, 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:20.920 And I think for me, like growing up in the South, 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:23.360 like we love cooking, and I think this is like 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:25.320 one of the first meals you kind of learned. 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:26.800 How to cook as a kid because it's easy to 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.080 put together, Like you learn how to brown meat when 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:29.719 you like five. 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:33.480 Yeah, so I think this is one of the like 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:35.360 the first things I really learned how to cook because 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:36.960 it's just like all you gotta do is brown the meat, 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.680 yea cheese, and at everything you want in it. So 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:41.800 that's what I remember. I remember this is like one 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:43.320 of the first things I learned how to cook. 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:46.800 Yeah, it's really simple. I feel like you can't miss 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:47.080 it up. 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:48.680 It's full. 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:51.040 Yeah, yeah, definitely. 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:54.000 So you guys were in college to start at college, 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:57.479 I guess then, so you're in college not you guys 0:06:57.600 --> 0:06:59.080 knew each other, didn't know each other then? 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:00.400 No, we had a yeah. 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:04.120 Yeah, So I was actually in college in this small 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:07.200 town in Texas. I'm from Houston, but I went to 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:10.280 school in Nakadochhi's It's like two hours away from Houston. 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:12.760 And like, I was working at Lows and I was 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:14.560 getting paid like a little money. I thought I was 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:17.120 really doing something. But me and my friend we actually 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:19.080 between the two of us because she had a job. 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.520 She was working at this department store called Bilks. I 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:24.960 was working at Lows, and we had food stamps, so like. 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.160 The actual food sense before it became a card. No, 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:27.880 it was a card. 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:29.720 They had the card back then because this is like 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:33.080 twenty a living. So yeah, so we both had food steps. 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:34.480 I think we was getting like two hundred dollars a 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:35.840 piece a month, and we used to go to the 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:38.360 grocery store and wrack up on everything. 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:40.120 And this was one of my favorite things to cook. 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:41.720 And I used to and buite my friends over and 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:44.640 I would always make them this and like this pasta 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:46.400 dish that was like really cheap to make that iced 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:47.920 to use booba into it. 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:51.400 Was my thing. A lot of you really can't use 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:52.360 it for a lot of things. 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.680 I don't think it's real cheese, right because it's I 0:07:55.680 --> 0:08:00.640 don't see. Yeah, I learned that the hard way after 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:04.120 being on this show looking for velveda cheese in refrigerated department. 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:07.560 That's one thing. It's like cheese and velvet. It really 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.840 don't get cold, which is concerned. You know what I'm saying. 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:13.480 You put in the freezer, it'll come out. It's still 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:17.360 not a yeah, it really won't know. 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:19.840 It's like certain things like that you have to question, 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.040 just like how Hawaiian punch never gets cold. 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:24.800 That's how velvet is just one of them things like that. 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.960 Doesn't that the freak out. 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.000 I'm telling you it don't get cold. 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:31.440 It's just you don't. 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:34.480 But you don't because it gets the job done. 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:36.120 Yeah, yeah, see, I. 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:37.440 Grew up a little season. 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:38.120 It's a little bit. 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:40.959 So you put in the garlic, I'm gonna use garlic powder. 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:45.080 I'm gonna use some ground peprika, some onion powder, a 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:49.280 little Larry's and some black pepper. And the good thing 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:52.680 about using Italian sash is too, is it's already seasoned well. 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:53.920 So you don't have to a you don't have much. 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:55.080 That's why I'm not. 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.480 Really gonna use that much. Pretty much everything doesn't really 0:08:57.559 --> 0:08:58.760 have salt a need except for this. 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:02.360 The Italian I'll do like a kel soup which is 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:05.360 really really good, and the Italian sausage all the work. 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:08.040 It really does like oh my god. 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:13.439 And I'll be like, yeah, you know, I love you. 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:16.440 Like you said, it's already really flavor yeah, used it 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:18.000 in the spaghetti all that stuff. 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:21.119 So for me, like I grew up kind of spoiled. 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:24.360 So whenever I got to college, I just remember this 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:25.880 being one of my goals because that was like the 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:28.200 first time me really experienced and being broke was like 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:30.720 in college because I was like, for the first time 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:31.640 on my own, I. 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:33.040 Had to have a job and all this stuff. 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:35.160 You couldn't just call your parents be like hey, can 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:39.439 I just get and They're like no, right, So it 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:41.960 was like being an adult, you wanted it so bad, right. 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:44.719 I think for me it was more so of I 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:46.679 had the option to call my mom, but I wanted 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:48.800 to be independent so bad because I was like, I 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:50.720 have to prove this to myself that I can do it, 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:53.280 you know, So I would go get my rotel and 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:54.800 I would really like, you could eat on this for 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:58.600 a good two three days for sure, breakfast, lunch, and dinner. 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:01.480 I won't get of it either. And I'm one of 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:02.400 those people I don't care. 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:04.560 I eat what I want when I want, even if 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:05.839 it's not breakfast food. 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:08.440 Yeah, I'm the same. First of all, I don't even 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:11.400 like breakfast food unless I cook it. I'm really weird 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:14.360 about it. I feel like nobody can make a lot 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:18.280 of breakfast food the way I yeah, except for I'm 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:20.439 out here in Atlanta, shout out to eighty five South. 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:26.040 But I did try the Atlanta some breakfast spot over here, 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:30.600 and they had like the peach breakfast. Yeah, oh said, 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:33.840 oh man, it's different. So I was like, Okay, some 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:35.000 people can't make breakfast. 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:37.560 Yeah, have a lot of good break they actually have. 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:40.800 I'll say that about Atlanta. We have some really good 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.439 breakfast foods out here. Like the breakfast out here is good. 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:45.400 I know people complaining about Atlanta food a lot, but 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:46.719 the breakfast spots out here are. 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:47.439 The breakfast spots. 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:49.040 About the food out here. 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:51.360 Yeah, I mean I do too a little bit. 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:54.520 I think if you Southern, like if you're from like us, 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:58.199 being from Texas and being Houston specifically, like Houston really 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:00.960 has some of the bits food in a mamrea, I'm 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:04.079 not lying and so moving here. I just think a 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:06.480 lot of the food is just very underwhelming. Like we 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.840 have like a lot of cute places like that. You know, 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:11.480 it's like a nice little vibe and a nice aesthetic, 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:15.160 but the food is just always very underwhelming in my opinion, 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:16.760 in comparison to like what I'm used to. 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:19.079 When you say underwhelming, like the flavors, Yeah. 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:22.400 The flavor, A lot of the menu options, Like a 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:24.560 lot of places that I go to, the menus are 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:25.160 very limited. 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:26.800 They don't really have that many options. 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:30.319 I think guys do the hot sauce in the person. 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:35.200 Yes, she always she don't have it. 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:36.480 That's the first thing she asked. 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:40.880 You're just fast, period, Like I'm a sauce girl. I 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:42.320 don't like no dry food sauce. 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:48.640 Okay, So you guys are struggling separately in college getting 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:52.840 the independent things you by choice and you not by choice. 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.359 Well, I mean I really I was kind of struggling 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:57.760 a little bit, but yeah, I mean I could have 0:11:57.800 --> 0:11:59.440 called my parents, but I think I was kind of 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:00.959 on the same thing because I grew up in the 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:03.080 two parent household and me and my parents were really close. 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:04.880 But I just think I was trying to like prove 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:08.000 my independence to the Yeah, I like that free both. 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:12.319 So how do you guys end up connecting? 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:17.280 This is like years later, years later? Yeah, because we 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:20.960 met Lex and I met. I was like, well it 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:22.840 was like four years later, because you said twenty eleven, 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.480 we met twenty fifteen. Yeah, me and you met like 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:27.640 maybe like a year or two after I graduated from 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:29.840 college and I had just moved back to Houston and 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:30.960 you both finished college. 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:34.360 Yeah, we both graduated, no college. 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:38.439 Graduate, but you have the same degree. 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:40.199 I was about to ask that, what's the same what's 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:43.839 the degree mass communication? Okay, okay, yeah, so okay, you 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.280 guys are headed in the same direction. Yeah, yeah, all right, 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:50.400 So tell me about the meeting of y'all kindred spirits. 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:53.599 Yeah, so we were working at a club bartender. She 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:56.120 had never bartended before, and I really knew my way 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:59.079 around the bar, so we kind of just started hustling together, 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:01.000 like we figured out something that works for her. Like 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:03.480 she's a very she's more believe it or not, She's 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:04.800 way more social than I him. 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:07.120 She's good at talking to people. So she would pretty 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:08.120 much talk to the people. 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:09.839 At the bar and I was making the drinks and 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:11.400 she would be like, oh hey this man, I need 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:14.000 too long islands incredible hulk in this. So I was 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:16.160 making the drinks, she was kind of talking to the 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:18.720 guys getting tips, and that's how we was making money. 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.720 So yeah, we had a system and we was definitely 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:22.440 cleaning up. 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:27.720 This right that work. 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:30.480 It's so funny because like us making money now together. 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:33.199 It's funny because that's really how our friendship started. We've 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:36.520 always just made money together. Yeah, like right off top. 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:37.880 So that's how we met. 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:40.080 We started talking and we realized we had the same 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:43.439 degree and that we were interested in kind of like 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:45.360 maybe doing radio type of stuff. 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:46.400 We didn't know exactly what we. 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:49.920 Were to do. Yeah, yeah, ye Houston. 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:53.079 Well I'm from Orange, so I moved to Houston in 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:56.880 what two thousand and seven, So I'm from a small 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.840 small town, like it's like two hours from Houston. But yes, 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:01.679 once we started talking and we realized we had a 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.280 lot in common, the friendship just started from there. 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:07.760 So yeah, that's how we met, and she ended up 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:08.600 moving to Atlanta. 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:11.040 We stayed in contact for the whole year she was 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:14.160 out there, and then at the time, the girl that 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:15.959 she had moved out here with they ended up going 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:17.959 separate way, so she was like, you might as well 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:18.520 just move out here. 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:19.240 You're not doing nothing. 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:21.840 I was like, that's when I was real broke. I 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:23.120 was real broke. 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:26.440 It's so funny because literally be her was just having 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:28.840 this conversation in the kitchen before we started recording, and 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:31.880 I literally told her exactly the same way the city like. 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:32.880 I was like, I was like, bro you. 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:34.080 Ain't doing nothing about here. 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:36.520 I wasn't doing nothing. I was literally I was down to. 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:39.400 My last three dollars, So you was like, come on there, 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:43.400 come on, I'll be trying with my best friends, Like 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:45.360 come on man. 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:48.040 I literally packed my She told me to move down there, 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:49.440 and three weeks later I had packed. 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:51.960 She was here and I drove to Atlanta and I 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:52.800 was like, we're gonna. 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:53.160 Figure it out. 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.400 So I was eating a lot of rotael my first year. 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:56.680 That's hilarious. 0:14:57.160 --> 0:14:58.720 Some rotel was being made. 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:00.640 Yeah, because we were living to together for like the 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:02.520 first six months that she lived here, Like, she was 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:04.480 staying with me in my apartment and we used to 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:06.960 be busting down some brot. Yes, I was living on 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:08.800 her couch because I had a girl that was supposed 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:10.240 to move out here with me, but she ended up 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:13.280 flaking on me. Okay, So the money I had saved up, 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:16.000 I was saving up to be in a two bedroom 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:17.680 and splitting rent with somebody. So then I had to 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:21.680 change everything and really find a one bedroom. So the 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:23.520 month two months I was supposed to stay there ended 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:24.800 up turning into six months. 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.080 Okay, Okay, So I was really struggling. 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:29.440 So when we would come home and make the hotel 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:32.720 be like, yes, I know, I know for a fact, 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:33.560 I'm finna eat. 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:35.880 For three days. I don't know what's gonna happen on 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:36.640 that fourth. 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.880 Day, but I know I'm good, but I know for 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:40.840 the next three days. 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:44.280 So you're out there out here, and what are you 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:46.480 doing for work to make money? Oh? 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:47.440 I was bar sending. 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:50.440 Yeah, she was still a bartender, but you're not a 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:53.240 real bar She's just like okay, yes. 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:55.400 And cold girls. 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:58.680 Yeah, if you asked me anything more than a Hennessy 0:15:58.720 --> 0:15:59.880 and coke that's too complicated. 0:15:59.920 --> 0:16:02.560 I'm not getting these bartending jobs because you knew that's 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:04.000 where the money was at for you. 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:06.880 Well, yeah, for sure. And then also, you know, moving 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:07.640 to Atlanta. 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:09.920 Even though I had my degree, I worked in oil 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.240 and gas for like two years when I first graduated 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:14.760 from college, and it was a cool experience, but it 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.240 just wasn't for me. And obviously out here in Atlanta, 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:19.560 oil and gas isn't as big as it is in Texas. 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:22.400 So and I knew I didn't want to work corporate 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:25.720 and bartending money was quick, it was fast, it was easy, 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:29.080 and yeah, I really I actually really liked. 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:29.840 It for a little while. 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:31.560 And so I just knew if I moved out here 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:32.960 and I didn't have anything else that I could do, 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:34.600 I could get a bartender job quick. Because when I 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:36.760 moved here, I didn't have a job, Like I just 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:39.280 was like I'm moving. I packed all my stuff, put 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:41.200 it in the car, and I moved out here, and 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:43.560 then I got a job maybe like two weeks. 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:45.960 After, okay, and during this time ended up going back 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:46.440 to barton. 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.760 So yeah, so bartending for me was a little different 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:53.720 because when I graduated from high school and I started bartending, 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:55.920 I was like working at restaurants because during this time, 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:58.080 it wasn't a thing to be like a fine bartender. 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:00.440