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Speaker 2: Little My good friend, Shirley.
Speaker 1: Strawberry, Thank you, my good friend. Junior subject Boogie wonder Land.
Speaker 1: Dear Stephen, Shirley, my husband and I have owned a
Speaker 1: lounge for almost ten years, and over the years it's
Speaker 1: transitioned into a few different things. We used to sell
Speaker 1: fish and wings. Then we stopped doing food and went
Speaker 1: to a live jazz and wine tasting. No one came
Speaker 1: to that, so we started catering to the younger crowd,
Speaker 1: and that was a big problem because they don't know
Speaker 1: how to act. So four years ago my husband decided
Speaker 1: to make it an old school lounge and we put
Speaker 1: in shag carpet and hanging plants to make it like
Speaker 1: the seventies. The neighborhood where the lounge is has gotten
Speaker 1: pretty bad over the years, but we wanted to keep
Speaker 1: it in the area because it's where my husband grew up.
Speaker 1: All of his old friends and his family come to
Speaker 1: the lounge and hang out, and he doesn't charge them
Speaker 1: for drinks at all. All of the men have nicknames,
Speaker 1: and they want to come to the lounge to cheat
Speaker 1: on their wives and play spades with women that don't
Speaker 1: mind messing with married men. My husband is cool with
Speaker 1: it all as long as the lounge has people in it.
Speaker 1: I'm not in the business of running boogie Wonderland with
Speaker 1: old people that don't spend money. We have no smoking signs,
Speaker 1: but my husband will not enforce it because his uncle
Speaker 1: comes in there and smokes. I found out last week
Speaker 1: that my husband allowed a group of folks to bring
Speaker 1: in a crock pot and put and cats rolls for
Speaker 1: a birthday party. I'm sure he lets them bring in
Speaker 1: their own alcohol too. It's time for us to close
Speaker 1: the Boogie Wonderland. How do I convince my husband to
Speaker 1: let it go for good? Well, it sounds like you're
Speaker 1: in to the Boogie Wonderland for business, but your husband
Speaker 1: uses it to kick it with his friends and family.
Speaker 1: And not for profit. Making money doesn't seem like a
Speaker 1: priority to him now, does it. It's his social hangout,
Speaker 1: so it will be hard to convince him to let
Speaker 1: the business go. Clearly, you're ready to go, and you're right,
Speaker 1: there's no way you can make money. But the way
Speaker 1: your husband is running things, it's time for you guys
Speaker 1: to get out before you start losing all your money
Speaker 1: because giving away free drinks and letting people bring in
Speaker 1: their own own drinks and food will be a disaster
Speaker 1: for your business. You and your husband need to have
Speaker 1: a serious conversation about where this business is going, and
Speaker 1: you got to let him know how you feel.
Speaker 3: Steve, just let her flat out. Just don't make no sense.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, what your husband's in it for is not
Speaker 2: for the business of making money. I don't know what
Speaker 2: you'all bottom line look like, your p and L all
Speaker 2: this here. I don't know what your return investment is.
Speaker 2: I don't know how much it costs to run the place.
Speaker 2: I don't know how much in free alcohol he's given
Speaker 2: away versus how much he's making. You didn't say if
Speaker 2: it was profitable at all, but it don't sound like
Speaker 2: it is. Y'all have no rules of regulation for this place.
Speaker 2: Y'all just open up. Let people do what they They
Speaker 2: are not cooking food. Y'all used to sell wings and
Speaker 2: fish and y'all stopping. Then y'all went to live jazz
Speaker 2: and wine tasters. Where they work at? Where do live
Speaker 2: jazz and wine tastings work at in the hood.
Speaker 3: That's not a you know, and y'all calling it a lounge.
Speaker 2: You have a tavern. This is a tabbn. This is
Speaker 2: a place where old people go tabbing. This place, let
Speaker 2: me tell you some this's places in the hood where
Speaker 2: old people go taverns uh vfw hall. That's another place,
Speaker 2: whelled bingo. Now they not that they make it Bengal,
Speaker 2: but your husband ain't. That's transition to a few things
Speaker 2: over you your live jazz and wine tation. Nobody came
Speaker 2: to that. Then y'all started catering to the younger crowd.
Speaker 2: I don't know why you surprised it, but this that
Speaker 2: was a big problem because they don't know how to act. Duh, duh.
Speaker 2: Come on, now you know what this happened. You know
Speaker 2: what happens at these places. So four years ago, your
Speaker 2: husband decided to make it an old school lounge, so
Speaker 2: you put in shag carpet and hanging plants, and you
Speaker 2: know that it's gotten pretty bad over the years. The neighborhood,
Speaker 2: y'all got it, put put the place up in. But
Speaker 2: your husband want to stay there because that's where you're from.
Speaker 2: All his old friends and family, they come to the
Speaker 2: lounge and hang out. He don't charge them for drinks
Speaker 2: at all. So they just in that living it up,
Speaker 2: kicking it. They just theyre in the backyard. And then
Speaker 2: all the men got nicknames.
Speaker 3: Oh I know this.
Speaker 2: Place right here, O t old ot that show for oldest. See,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what we do. What give me the
Speaker 2: old names, and I'll tell you what their nickname is.
Speaker 1: Ralph, Ralph, Ray, Ray, Earl e.
Speaker 2: Herman, he Dog, I know all the nickname I got.
Speaker 2: We got Jerome, Jerome Roamy. Yeah, yeah, y'all know what
Speaker 2: this is. When we come back, I'll show you the
Speaker 2: nicknames of the rest of these people, and we're gonna
Speaker 2: talk about because they want to come to the lounge
Speaker 2: with these nicknames to cheat on their wives and play
Speaker 2: spades with women that don't mind messing around with married
Speaker 2: nick We're gonna find out who these women are, what
Speaker 2: their name is, what the nickname is, and how they're
Speaker 2: working out these arrangements while they playing spades, and they
Speaker 2: don't put up the no smoking signs. But his uncle
Speaker 2: coming now in.
Speaker 1: Smoke, uh huh. And he said nothing, yeah, he.
Speaker 3: Don't say it.
Speaker 2: And everybody scared of his uncle, say anybody.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, listen, his uncle is actually he
Speaker 1: don't well. Have Fortune's response coming up in twenty three
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Speaker 1: The subject is Boogie Wonderland one of your favorite songs
Speaker 1: by Earth Running Fire.
Speaker 2: It is a great song of mine and the emotion
Speaker 2: oh yeah, as wonderful group. H This wife got a
Speaker 2: problem with her husband. They've owned a lounge in their
Speaker 2: neighborhood for quite some time where he grew up and
Speaker 2: as obviously not making money because it used it as
Speaker 2: a hangout for his free as in family that he
Speaker 2: doesn't charge for drinks. He ain't got no rules established
Speaker 2: in now, he got no smoking signs up. But his uncle, Herman,
Speaker 2: who they call affectionately heat Dog, he dog coming there
Speaker 2: and smoke anyway. So don't nobody say that because everybody
Speaker 2: kind of scared of him. You know, he been locked
Speaker 2: up four times. Everybody kind of lead heat Dog alone.
Speaker 2: So he coming in there smoking because he dog talking
Speaker 2: about how to heal. We can't smoking lines. We smoke
Speaker 2: in jail. You know when that stayed logic, you kind
Speaker 2: of have to I don't even understand it here jail.
Speaker 2: I don't even understand it here. If you finish die,
Speaker 2: you had last request you had for a cigarette?
Speaker 3: I can't have for a cigarette in here? How do
Speaker 3: they work?
Speaker 2: Now? Now, she's also upset because they've made the loud
Speaker 2: several things. They used to sell fishing wings and they
Speaker 2: stopped doing that, so they turn it into a live
Speaker 2: or jazz and wine tasted. Now, if they wasn't paying
Speaker 2: for that E and j and they wasn't paying for
Speaker 2: that that crown and that Jack Daniels, What the hell
Speaker 2: make you think they've fin to come in here and
Speaker 2: listen to jazz and buy wine? What what neighborhood is?
Speaker 2: They just down there buying wine. They got some shot
Speaker 2: blee and so that's what shot than they?
Speaker 3: You know, they whine, ain't really you know, they drinking.
Speaker 2: You're trying to charge for man of shivets and dog
Speaker 2: and any green springs, don't really wild irish rose?
Speaker 3: That don't you got the thunderbird?
Speaker 2: You got hood drink? You Mickey's a on you trying
Speaker 2: to charge. Ain't nobody buying that?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 2: Now they're down there doing, yeah, the hanging plants and
Speaker 2: shag carpet and turn onto an old school. And now
Speaker 2: y'all got wicked chairs and them bushes.
Speaker 3: That people they put you next to wicked chairs.
Speaker 2: And got that airbrush painting of that nineteen forty Cadillac
Speaker 2: in the back room. You know, everybody posing that said
Speaker 2: that one kneeling down and they got their leaning up
Speaker 2: against that chair on the back of the big wicker
Speaker 2: chair with the circle back. Yeah, they actually plumes. You
Speaker 2: got them plumes back there, and then everybody take a picture.
Speaker 2: You know, women ain't what they was, The men ain't
Speaker 2: what they were. The me ain't got nicknames. And so
Speaker 2: give me some old names, and I'll tell you what
Speaker 2: their nicknames are. Johnny, Johnny, Jojo Jojo or so but Jojo.
Speaker 2: That's Johnny, Willy Willy, Well, see Willy could go a
Speaker 2: lot of different ways. I had several.
Speaker 3: Different and it could be just Willy. It could be
Speaker 3: big Will. Yeah, it could be w La. You know
Speaker 3: what w La that were lay all see all, see all.
Speaker 2: My favorite hood name is Craig. Yeah, Craig, Craig. That's
Speaker 2: sea dog. Craig is sea dog. So you know, now
Speaker 2: the Dayton needs who Stanley, Oh, that's Sway Stanley, Stanley Sway,
Speaker 2: Melvin Eminem mhm. And now they're in here, they dating
Speaker 2: these women that they play spades with down there that
Speaker 2: don't care about Dayton married men. So all the husbands
Speaker 2: down there cheating on their wives with these cheating women. Now,
Speaker 2: you know we got to go over that. This this
Speaker 2: is all Bernard deck Burn. The debt is down there.
Speaker 2: That's a hard name. Odetta. Yeah, Oldetta cheat and and
Speaker 2: everybody scared of Oldetta. Bernice. Bernice down there do like
Speaker 2: she wanta do.
Speaker 1: Oh, Brenda is good, but Brenda cool.
Speaker 2: She ain't really made up her mind yet. But she
Speaker 2: just down there for farm. But everybody won't. Brenda, Colissa, Clarissa,
Speaker 2: it's down there just going through her husbands.
Speaker 3: What about Betty?
Speaker 2: Betty, Betty worked behind the bar. Thelma ain't really doing
Speaker 2: much or nothing. She want somebody to date her, but
Speaker 2: she herself too early. Pretty much cool. Yeah, she got
Speaker 2: in there, thirsty. She hanging on hoping somebody holler at her.
Speaker 2: And then you gotta feel feel down there. Everybody want
Speaker 2: She got new weed. She went down there to the
Speaker 2: beauty supply and came in on and she got that
Speaker 2: hot one, that blonde one. So that's what's happening down
Speaker 2: at the lounge. Show's got one more names, Got one
Speaker 2: more name, Go ahead, Audrey, Audrey jets playing with nobody.
Speaker 2: She down there talking about everybody.
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