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So Elijah want 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:27.400 a John a cool correctly John and Earl Cooper. So 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:30.520 this is a very interesting story. Entrepreneurs and they have 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.080 a company called east Side Golf where they make golf apparel. 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:36.200 They both have roots in golf. Elijah was actually a 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:39.000 professional golfer, and I just found out that Earl is 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:41.920 one of the best golf coaches in the nation. So 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:45.200 this is an interesting story. How it came about was 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:50.280 face to face hand in hand combo. We was in 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:53.480 Atlanta a few months ago and I was in a 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:57.840 hotel lobby and Earl ran up on me and they 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:00.160 started a conversation and he was telling me about his business. 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:02.080 And you know, people come up to me all the 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:04.400 time and it's like, all right, cool, but this was 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:06.440 something that really caught my attention because he showed me 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:09.520 that they were actually having a collaboration with Jordan Brand, 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.640 so they were taking like retro Jordan's and turning them 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:18.080 into golf shoes. So and I'm like, that's your your company, 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:19.840 and he's like yeah, he showed me like the news 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:21.400 articles and all of that, like right on the spot. 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:23.440 He's very prepared. So I'm like, all right, I gave 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:24.760 my number. I'm like, let's connect. 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:27.599 So this is how it related to me. Yo, there's 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:29.880 a golf company they signed with Jordan. I said, Jordan, Oh, 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:30.839 let's let's speak to him. 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:35.760 So we connected the dots and they were in New York, 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:38.280 so we made it happen fews later. 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:40.640 A lot of pressure too, like when we were in Atlanta, 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:42.520 they ran up on you. But then like there was 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:44.200 a bunch of people who I think y'all were doing 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:45.320 something in my family. 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:48.479 So we we were doing actually like an unveiling to 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:51.600 shoot family. So it was like a family and friends 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:53.640 thing where we kind of just just filming a bunch 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:54.120 of content. 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:55.640 We walked in the lobby one night and it's like 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:58.080 it's like these guys you gotta need they're doing something 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:02.720 great and golf. I'm like, it's three in morning, what's 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:03.480 the Instagram? 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:05.039 Yeah? 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:06.559 But so yeah, that's a dope story. 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:06.680 Man. 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:08.800 You never know, Like I said, that was something that 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.039 he had enough courage to just run up on me 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:12.919 and he was prepared. So there's a couple of different 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:15.919 lessons in that. And I like the product. I looked 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:17.840 at it, and here we are now. So first and fun, 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:20.040 thank you Gods for joining us. Appreciate it, thanks you 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:21.240 for having me welcome. 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:23.640 And I do want to add because like it was 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:25.839 that moment where I was like, I seen him and 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.919 I was like, do I say something? I am actually 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:30.880 and I was like, you know what, Noah, I forget that. 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:34.680 I'm turning around and like I said, yeah, thanks for 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:36.839 having us for sure, for sure for sure. So let's 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:38.800 get into it all right, So East Side Golf, we're 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:40.640 going to talk about where you guys are now working 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:42.280 with Jordan Brand and blowing up and all that. 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:46.200 But how did it starts? Interesting? I believe you're from Delaware, yeah, 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:52.479 and you're from Atlanta side Atlanta. So golf is not 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:56.279 a sport that black people traditionally play, you know, obviously 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:58.280 this Tiger Woods, but that's kind of like an anomaly. 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:02.920 That's not like the norm, right, basketball, football, especially coming 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:07.560 from urban environments Atlanta, you know, Wilmington, Delaware and stuff 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:09.800 like that, I'm pretty sure that that golf wasn't extremely 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:14.320 popular sport. So how did you guys start playing golf 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:16.799 as you know, young men, young adults. 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:20.120 Yeah, honestly, I so I grew up in East Atlanta 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.880 and I started playing golf when I was six years old. 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:25.880 Friend of the family introducing me to the game. I 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:29.000 grew up with his sons playing playing golf, and we 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.760 all ended up getting golf scholarships to go to school. 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:32.560 So one went to. 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:36.520 Southern University golf scholarship, Telladigga College golf scholarship, but I 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:38.280 went to Morehouse with a golf scholarship. 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:40.680 So we were all on the same high school team. 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.159 But we just grew up in Atlanta, you know, playing 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:46.520 junior events and then playing against each other in college 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:48.360 and then yeah, I. 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:51.200 Mean, yeah, what was that like though, because I mean, 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:54.400 golf is not the It's one of those expensive sports 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:56.680 to play. Yes, it's solo sport, but its expensive to play. 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:59.599 So what was that like growing up and having to 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:02.560 pay for equipment and then walking around with the Stickma, Like, 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:05.200 you're the guy in the hood that's playing golf while 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:09.000 everybody's playing football, basketball, maybe some baseball players. What was 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:09.960 that like growing up? 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:13.000 For sure? Now it was different. 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.480 I mean I would say, because I played basketball just 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:19.360 as much as I played golf. And I mean I 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:22.320 played basketball league in high school. But growing up it 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:25.559 was expensive, Yeah it was. But I ended up joining 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:28.880 a program called Camp Best Friends, and then later it 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:32.440 became called the First Team of Atlanta. The First Team program. 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:35.720 They supplied me with like free golf clubs you know 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:39.480 here and there also donations were given as far as 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.800 golf balls, golf clothes, things that we could use just 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:47.400 to help us out, you know, with with being prepared 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:49.360 when we go to golf tournaments and just coming to 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:52.400 the golf course period. You know, like there were plenty 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:54.880 of times I went to Goodwill, you know what I'm saying, 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:57.400 just to find golf clothes. And on top of that, 0:07:57.520 --> 0:07:59.640 I mean I used to take the Marta with my 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:01.400 golf clubs, you know what I'm saying. 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:04.160 And used to ride thee through the hood I. 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:06.360 Mean with my golf club straight up to the golf course. 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:09.440 And you know, definitely got looked at crazy, you know, 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:12.320 And but I already knew what the goal was, you know, 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:16.000 and I wanted golf to be something that I used 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:18.120 for the rest of my life. You know. It got 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:20.120 to a point even in high school, had to make 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.480 a decision in between golf and basketball. 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:24.240 You know what I'm saying. That's just how much it 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:24.720 meant to me. 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:27.640 But growing up in it, I would say the best 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:30.760 part of it was learning from the people at the 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:31.360 golf course. 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:32.280 You know what I'm saying. 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:37.079 The type of crowd that's out there, it's usually like entrepreneurs, doctors, lawyers. 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:39.520 People that just have things going on. 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:42.360 And I mean, you start a conversation with a guy 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:45.160 instead of asking them for you know, to go out 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:48.080 with them for coffee or for a drink or just 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.080 to chill or set to talk. 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:52.040 I mean, you got five hours with the guy out 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:52.839 on the golf course. 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:55.480 Now you can, you know, talk about what you want 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:57.120 to do with your life, what you want to do 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:59.400 in your career. I mean, and on top of that, 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:03.719 you outside like it's just a way to build that camaraderie, 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:08.280 that relationship and learn how to build that relationship. Well, 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:11.839 you get relationship building skills from just being in golf, 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:13.880 and it definitely did help me growing up. 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.400 Yeah, I think that that's something that people don't fully appreciate, 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:20.920 especially like you know, poor working class, middle class people, 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:25.400 where you are trained to go to a school and 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:27.680 then work and it's like you work at a job 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:30.520 all day. And when I started to become around wealthy 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:33.160 people and I realized that they were spending like eight 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:35.920 hours a day, three days a week on the golf 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:39.120 course because it wasn't so much about working, it was 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:43.040 about networking and building relationships. And they say, like the 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.600 barbershop is like the black Man's golf course is really 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:49.160 not country club. It's really not. It's a barbershop. Look 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:54.800 disrespect it's a barbershop. But I get it the conversations 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:58.360 that's happening, because I don't think people understand, especially like 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:00.000 you know, you go to a high end golf course, 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:01.959 you could be paying one hundred twenty thousand dollars a 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:06.400 year for your annual membership, like fifty thousand dollars a year, 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:08.520 sixty thousand dollars a year for your annual So if 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:10.760 you're paying one hundred thousand dollars a year to use 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:12.959 the golf course in New York four months out the year, 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:16.160 five months out of the year. You're obviously extremely wealthy, right, 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:20.080 So now it's like, if you have six hours to 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:25.080 just spend time with people, you're naturally gonna build a relationship, right, 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.440 So can you really break that down it really? Because, 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:29.160 like I said, I don't think if you haven't been 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:31.560 in that world, it's hard for you to fully understand 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:34.280 why people say that golfing is like the perfect networking too, 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:36.160 and why a lot of deals are done on the 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:39.240 golf course. So can you kind of like just break 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:40.000 that down a little bit? 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:45.319 Yeah, I would say so just to go off of 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:49.439 what you just said about one hundred thousand dollars membership fee, 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:52.400 imagine the type of people that have that membership. 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:53.360 You know what I'm saying. 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:55.679 Now, you're going out there and these are the people 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:57.760 that you're networking with. These are the people that are 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:01.880 in your circle that move, that have things, move in 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:04.720 the city, or just move around the country period. You 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:07.880 never know what business they own, you know what I'm saying, 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:10.960 what they're invested in, or maybe you could actually work 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.680 with them at some point in time, but breaking it 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:16.920 down all the way. I mean, let's say you, like 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:18.679 I said, you want to go out for coffee. This 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:22.320 is a time where you take you want to go 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:26.200 with your let's say a person that you look up 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:29.000 to or friends, and you just want a network, you know, 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:32.440 for an hour and just talk round table discussion. Instead 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:35.600 of doing that, if you pick up golf, now it's 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:39.960 those people in those higher positions, they will take that 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:43.120 four hours and go play golf, which instead of taking 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.240 an hour out of their day and just going to 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:47.839 get coffee. I mean, you're actually doing something that they 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:51.880 want to do. And on top of that, golf relates 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:54.760 to business a lot. I mean, when you really look 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:57.840 at it, you have to be patient, hard working, I 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:01.720 would say, perseverance, honesty. All of these things are in golf. 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.360 But if you don't do these things in golf, and 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:06.480 you're playing golf with somebody that you want to do 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:09.920 business with, and let's say you're not resembling those those morals, 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:12.640 those those adjectives or whatever you want to call them 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:15.640 about yourself, they're gonna notice and not even want to 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:16.800 do business with you. 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:17.040 You know. 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:19.160 I mean, let's say you cheat or something while you're 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:21.320 on a golf course or take head to that, they 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:23.240 gonna think you're gonna do the same thing in business, 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:25.959 you know, So it's like just the same way a 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:29.000 person plays golf, you might get really really upset. You 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.400 might not want that in your business, same way they 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:34.440 might look at you in business. Golf and business just 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:37.079 go hand in hand. So I mean that's just the 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:42.440 way that I kind of look at it, if you yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:43.679 All right. So before we get into the company, Earl, 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:44.880 how did you get your start in golf? 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:47.200 Inner City? You've golf programmed? 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:50.199 My dad just seen a fly, just sign me up, 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:53.480 just signed me and my sister up, and kind of, 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:55.920 you know, similar to what y'all were hitting on early on, 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:58.080 like just being out on the golf course being the 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:01.000 only one you know. There's definitely like I tell people 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:03.120 all the time, like I was good at it, but 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:05.000 it was still kind of one of those things like 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:07.439 where all my friends, like where everybody you know, when 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:11.319 you're young, especially playing like sports, you're just really out 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:13.839 there for the social aspect, like you don't think about, oh, 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.560 making millions of dollars or whatever what it can do 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:16.880 for you. 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:17.960 Unlock the potential. 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:21.240 But I ended up winning this tournament called the Golf 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:23.760 and Drive Chip and Putt, which is like the equivalent 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:26.840 of kick putting pass essentially exactly. 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:27.520 Yep. 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:29.520 So I end up winning that and a free trip 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.240 to Disney World. I was on TV and I never forget. 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:34.160 I was like thirteen, and I'm like, man, if every 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:36.000 golf to him is like this, I'm ready to practice. 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:38.080 Because like before then it was just like, you know, 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:39.600 it was kind of just golf. Who wants to do 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:41.480 that kind of thing? And then that's when I kind 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:45.200 of just embraced it. And then from there God was 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:48.880 fortunate enough to get a scholarship the Moroles College. But 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:52.559 it was definitely interesting path. As you guys were mentioned earlier, 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:55.040 just like walking with golf clubs, you know what I mean, 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:57.240 Like that's just not normal still even today. Like if 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:59.600 you saw a kid or a girl, a young man 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.160 and boy walking with golf cluse, You're like, yo, they're lost, 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.240 Like is there a golf course around here? And so 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:06.040 it was just kind of one of those things where 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:08.560 so my pops end up actually like we end up 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:10.560 moving to a house that was like on the golf 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:13.880 course and end up like cutting a hole in the fence, 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.560 so I didn't have to like climbing anymore, and that 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:19.720 definitely was a benefit, you know, my journey as far 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:21.560 as like just getting into the game and then just 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:23.760 kind of normalize. And I think that's kind of where 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:26.200 we are right now, like a lot of every decisions 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:27.920 that we make when we think about the company and 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:30.040 just kind of think about like what did we wish 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:31.800 that we had, you know what I mean when we 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:34.600 were growing up, Like giving them that example, like being 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:36.720 that like stuff that you can wear on and off 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:38.200 the golf course, you know what I mean. That's so 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:40.680 important because a lot of times it's just like it's 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:42.720 golf and it's just kind of put in a box. 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:44.720 And then you got to kind of fight those stereotypes 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:48.040 moving forward. And then, like you said earlier, when it 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:50.360 just comes to business, it's just one of those things 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:55.320 where it's a sport where like it's just you, and 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:57.800 so it's kind of like that you got to go 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:00.280 get it like you and you can't blame anybody else, 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:02.480 Like there's no reason like to push off on anybody else. 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:04.280 It's all of you. You put the work in, you 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:06.720 get all the results. But it's similar to like entrepreneurship, 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:09.240 I would say, kind of in that way. And I 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:11.640 feel like that's why a lot of great people and 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:14.200 other sports are attracted to golf, because it's like if 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:16.000 you play football, you can blame it on your lineman, 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:18.720 you know, MJ. You know, Damn Scotty ain't giving me 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:21.200 the ball back or whatever, you know, whatever the situation 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:23.400 may be, it's just kind of like all on you 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:26.280 and most people that you know, if you've been playing 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:28.800 team sports your whole life, you like the individual list. 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:30.440 I guess when it comes to golf. 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:33.880 Now, you said something good about normalizing it, and Elijah, 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:36.320 I'm coming to you because I read this story. Man, 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.280 I'd love for you to elaborate on it where you 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:42.720 talked about how instead of having basketball and gambling on dice, 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:46.560 the guys are gambling on your putts. Yeah, let's let's 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:49.080 talk about that, man, he said, Landa. First of all, 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.480 we'll be playing and how are we gambling on putts? Well, 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:52.560 let's talk about that. 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:53.680 Yeah. Yeah. 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:56.800 So I played in a couple of courses what was 0:15:56.840 --> 0:16:00.160 called Sugar Creek Golf Courses, A Boulder Chris Road of 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:03.160 your Gucci man, yell out Boulder Crest, you know, but 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:06.400 it's right off Boulder Crest. Another place that I played 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:10.080 Doctor J You sown it. It was called Heritage Links 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:12.240 and that was in Georgia as well. 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:16.640 But there's a there's a golf course in Kirkwood that 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:19.240 we stayed in the airbnbing Kirkwood. It was honestly that 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:21.120 the neighborhoods getting real gentified and it was a really 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:24.800 nice I forgot, but it was. It was like like 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:27.720 one block down on the same street. It was a 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:28.320 golf course. 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:30.880 Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:35.720 But so usually how it went, I mean, you ended 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:37.840 up playing eighteen holes. You know what I'm saying. It's 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:41.160 gambling involved, but the real gambling. I would say in 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:43.600 my younger days, King, you got to the clubhouse. So 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:46.840 you're getting the clubhouse, everybody drinking. They got like a 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.080 little cognyak glass, you know what I'm saying. You put 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:51.280 it down and when they put it down, it's open 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:54.040 on this side. So now you're putting into the glass 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:56.880 and let's say somebody comes out and throw a thousand 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.560 on the ground, Like all right, it's twenty feet, what's up? 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:03.080 You got a two tries? You know, you've missed. That's 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.480 a thousand, you know what I'm saying. But it got 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:09.040 to a point I used to literally make my lunch money, 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:10.800 you know what I'm saying from these putts. 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:11.960 They would, you know. 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:15.240 We betting two grand, betting five hundred, They give me half, 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:17.160 you know what I'm saying. And these were the guys 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:19.919 that I grew up around. I mean, you know, some 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.800 of them weren't entrepreneurs. They were entrepreneurs in their own way, 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:24.520 you know what I'm saying. And they was, you know, 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:27.159 always took care of them themselves and their family in 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:29.679 their own way. But when it came to golf, I mean, 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:32.800 they enjoyed the sport. They saw where you can build 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:36.520 camaraderie and you and you can build those relationships and 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:40.120 it not be strenuous or feel some type of way 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:42.480 while you're doing it. But while we was in there, 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:45.679 you know, everybody just betting. It's a full crowd, thirty 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:49.399 people butting. It's twenty feet putting in side of the glass. 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:49.919 You make it. 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:52.640 I mean sometimes a lot of times you hit the glass. 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:55.320 I mean that's it. It's almost been fistfights, you know 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:56.679 what I'm saying, Because it hit the back of the 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:58.520 glass and come out, you know what I'm saying. But 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:01.080 it's I mean, damn, it's like dice, you know what 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.280 I'm saying. You just got to be prepared for anything. 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:05.359 And on top of that too, I mean, you better 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:08.320 better be practicing, you know what I'm saying. You're not, 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:09.439 You're gonna get. 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:14.440 Got So how did you guys start this company? How 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:17.240 did your love for golf and the sport turned to 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:18.320 becoming entrepreneurs? 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:18.800 Yeah? 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:23.840 So I was, Uh so I was living so first off, 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:25.520 I graduating from college, you know me, and. 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:31.640 Won the national championship to don't. 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:31.960 Let that go over? 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:37.080 Yeah yeah, what division D two? D two? 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:37.360 Yeah? 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:37.640 Yeah. 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:42.040 So graduate from college. My major was accounting, minoring finance. 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:45.760 I did professional golf for two years and won a 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:48.960 couple of mini tour events events, So I got professional wins, 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:51.800 and but I was hustling, you know what I'm saying. 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:53.040 I was washing carts. 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:56.400 I was doing a little mini jobs in a bookstore, 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:58.880 you know, caddy and anything I could do. It got 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:01.600 to the point I just could not afford it anymore. 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:03.800 I mean, it costs maybe one hundred tow one hundred 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:06.439 and fifty grand a year just to support yourself to 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:07.000 play golf. 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:08.000 What are some of the costs. 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:12.760 Let's see entry fees in the tournaments, my caddy fee. 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:17.199 Let's say I want to pay my coach, travel, airfare 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:20.760 for you and your caddy, food, if something breaks your car, 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:23.960 I mean, everything, your apartment least you mean. 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:27.159 So that's interest because I never always wondered, but like, 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:29.399 what does it cost to get into a tournament like 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:32.560 a PGA tournament. Is there a minimum that you have 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:34.119 to put up or is it does it just depend 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:35.200 on the course itself. 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:38.720 So yeah, I was gonna say so, Like for the 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:41.119 PGA Tour, it's a little bit different, so there is 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:43.840 an entry fee, but it's kind of small. But what 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:46.639 he's talking about is like many tours, so basically like 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:48.640 a lower level like a g league, like if you're 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:52.600 trying to like overseas, kind of like overseas, and basically 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:57.840 you're paying anywhere from I would say, eight hundred dollars 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:00.280 to like fifteen hundred dollars for one week. But then 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:02.000 you got it's a four day tournament or a three 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:04.200 day tournament, So you got hotel, as he mentioned, you 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:05.080 got caddies, you. 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:06.200 Got everybody gotta get there. 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:09.560 You gotta feed yourself, so like it's gonna be on 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:12.160 an average of like I think, like seventeen hundred every 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:15.439 week to kind of keep moving around for just expenses. 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:18.119 And then sometimes like these tournaments, if you win, you 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:20.760 only getting two thousand dollars, right, or you make a 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:22.560 win and it only be like a thousand dollars, you 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:24.760 know what I mean. Sometimes it's a bigger pot, you know, 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:26.720 where you can get up to like thirty forty thousand, 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:29.879 but it's definitely every week, you know, you got to 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:31.920 spend that money, and it's at least you know, I 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:34.560 would say fifteen hundred to two thousand for every mini 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:35.080 tour event. 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:39.520 Yeah, So got to a point just couldn't afford it anymore. 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:41.800 So I had to, you know, start my career. So 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:44.880 I was basically I was in sales for a little bit, 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:47.800 but found my calling in a commercial finance. So I 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:52.080 was in commercial finance, vehicle finance for eight years. Was 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:54.680 about to become VP at a finance firm out of 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:56.240 San Diego, California. 0:20:56.840 --> 0:20:58.280 And I got home. 0:20:58.119 --> 0:20:59.800 One day and I was just like bro the same, 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:02.840 like I fully sued it, you know, just got off 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:04.880 the plane, I'm like, prauh the saint it. I want 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:06.800 to play golf, like I feel like I still got 0:21:06.800 --> 0:21:11.040 a shot. And so it was already hard to find sponsors. 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:13.119 I already knew that. So I was just like, you 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:15.080 know what, first things first, let's make a logo. Let 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:17.119 me just make a logo. So the logo that you 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:20.840 guys saw, you know, jeans, sweatshirt, Cubu link chain, it 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:22.600 was just supposed to be me. And I was just 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:24.520 going to put it on my poloup and put it 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:27.040 on my bag. And then one thing led to another. 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:28.760 I showed it to him. He was like, yo, bro, 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:30.320 just put down a T shirt real quick. 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:31.280 So I did. 0:21:31.359 --> 0:21:33.600 And I've always been in a fashion but never really 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:36.359 took it serious and sneakers. Just never really took it 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:38.880 serious on my own, but ended up making the logo. 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:43.840 Took a guilded T shirt. It maybe cost me twenty bucks, 0:21:43.920 --> 0:21:47.560 ironed it on. I went downtown Detroit and I maybe 0:21:47.560 --> 0:21:49.919 got stopped fifty times. You know what I'm saying, like, 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:52.200 who are you? What's that logo? Where can I get 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:53.960 it from? And do you play golf? You know what 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:56.639 I'm saying? And they were I mean it was just 0:21:56.720 --> 0:22:00.400 it was crazy. It was crazy. Got back home, told him, bro, 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:03.960 I definitely got something like I don't know what, but 0:22:03.960 --> 0:22:05.879 I'm gonna do something with He was just like, all right, well, 0:22:06.000 --> 0:22:07.960 keep doing your thing. He was doing his own thing 0:22:08.320 --> 0:22:12.000 in Delaware, working for the mayor. But it got to 0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:13.679 a point I was just like, okay, well let me 0:22:13.680 --> 0:22:19.520 make T shirts, sweatshirts, hats, socks, and like little other accessories. 0:22:19.600 --> 0:22:22.320 You know what I'm saying, not knowing, not really not 0:22:22.600 --> 0:22:24.800 what I'm doing, you know what I'm saying, but selling 0:22:24.840 --> 0:22:28.920 everything out of my apartment. I made custom boxes thank 0:22:28.960 --> 0:22:32.160 you cards, and I wrote the first fifteen hundred myself, 0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:34.240 you know what I'm saying, and put that in every box. 0:22:34.320 --> 0:22:37.760 But yeah, it got to a point I was just like, 0:22:37.800 --> 0:22:40.080 all right, well let's just see how far we can go. 0:22:40.280 --> 0:22:43.840 And started the company east Side Golf, LLC. June twenty 0:22:43.960 --> 0:22:46.680 nineteen and then started selling clothes. 0:22:46.960 --> 0:22:48.440 And how I did that was I. 0:22:48.359 --> 0:22:51.520 Just honestly found the most expensive pieces that I could 0:22:51.560 --> 0:22:55.480 find and put our logo on that embroidery Chanelle patches, 0:22:55.560 --> 0:22:57.639 but the most expensive. I know a lot of people 0:22:57.680 --> 0:22:59.680 try to go the cheapest, but I wanted it high 0:22:59.720 --> 0:23:01.920 quality because I wanted people to wear it, you know, 0:23:02.000 --> 0:23:04.359 and I know how I feel about, you know, cheap stuff. 0:23:04.359 --> 0:23:05.320 I wouldn't want to wear it. 0:23:05.400 --> 0:23:09.160 So end up finding the highest quality end up from 0:23:09.520 --> 0:23:13.320 November twenty nineteen to February twenty twenty, selling you out 0:23:13.359 --> 0:23:17.359 about five times, you know. And it's just me, you know. 0:23:17.600 --> 0:23:19.919 And I mean it was tough, but I knew I 0:23:19.960 --> 0:23:22.720 had something, so kept pushing it, kept pushing it, and 0:23:22.720 --> 0:23:25.160 then I told him, yo, bro, let's like go down 0:23:25.160 --> 0:23:27.119 in the PGA, PGA show. 0:23:27.400 --> 0:23:29.560 PGA show is it's. 0:23:29.359 --> 0:23:30.880 Like the Magic Show for fashion, right yeah? 0:23:30.920 --> 0:23:34.159 Yeah yeah, but for golf in the golf world, golf world. 0:23:34.200 --> 0:23:38.399 But I mean, all in all, I was what I 0:23:38.440 --> 0:23:40.399 was trying to do was pay for my way, my 0:23:40.520 --> 0:23:45.040 own way to play golf. Instead of asking for a 0:23:45.119 --> 0:23:48.520 sponsor in golf or as an athlete, why not asks 0:23:48.520 --> 0:23:50.800 a sponsor to invest in a company, So take the 0:23:50.960 --> 0:23:53.119 entrepreneurial route. That's all I was saying. I know how 0:23:53.119 --> 0:23:54.960 to run a company. I mean, that's what I did 0:23:55.040 --> 0:23:58.959 in commercial finance. I help truck drivers start their own businesses, 0:23:59.040 --> 0:24:01.960 owner operators, bother trucks, see what type of trucks they 0:24:02.000 --> 0:24:05.520 want what commodity at hauling and what's best for their company. 0:24:05.560 --> 0:24:05.760 You know. 0:24:06.160 --> 0:24:08.239 So it's like if I'm starting, if I'm helping all 0:24:08.280 --> 0:24:11.480 these businesses or helping all these people start the wrong, well, 0:24:11.640 --> 0:24:12.360 I start my own. 0:24:12.359 --> 0:24:14.360 I know how to do it and closes a little. 0:24:14.160 --> 0:24:17.000 Bit more simple, you know than you know, going out 0:24:17.040 --> 0:24:19.880 on the road and handling that whole non so, but yeah, 0:24:19.920 --> 0:24:21.399 that's yeah. 0:24:21.440 --> 0:24:23.520 So when y'all get to the PGA show, this isn't 0:24:23.640 --> 0:24:26.920 is it it Orlando? Yeah, it's in Orlando. So I'm 0:24:26.920 --> 0:24:30.120 gonna imagine there's probably a bunch of people that don't 0:24:30.160 --> 0:24:32.800 look like you. You got the gold chain on the shirt. 0:24:33.000 --> 0:24:35.399 What's the feeling as you're walking through to see if people, 0:24:35.680 --> 0:24:37.720 what's the reaction to you and what are your thoughts 0:24:37.720 --> 0:24:38.720 as you're walking through this crowd? 0:24:38.840 --> 0:24:41.800 Yeah, So, I mean, you know, my career, I was 0:24:41.840 --> 0:24:43.359 deep in golf. So you know, I was one of 0:24:43.359 --> 0:24:46.119 the first African American golf pros at Detroit Golf Club 0:24:46.200 --> 0:24:49.359 and at Wilmington Country Club, so like back home in Delaware. 0:24:49.600 --> 0:24:52.120 And in twenty sixteen, I was named one of the best 0:24:52.160 --> 0:24:54.000 young teachers in America, and I actually left and took 0:24:54.000 --> 0:24:56.119 a job in the Mayor's office. So like around this 0:24:56.200 --> 0:24:57.800 time when he's telling me about this, in my head, 0:24:57.840 --> 0:24:59.720 I'm just like, I'm kind of over golf, like you know, 0:25:00.119 --> 0:25:02.480 far as like being boxed in. I'm like, man, they 0:25:02.480 --> 0:25:04.919 don't allow you to be creative. So I was kind of, 0:25:04.960 --> 0:25:07.679 just like you said, doing my own thing. But he 0:25:07.760 --> 0:25:09.440 was like, nah, we gotta go to the PGA show, 0:25:09.440 --> 0:25:11.080 and I'm like, man, I don't feel like going, Like 0:25:11.160 --> 0:25:13.600 I'm it's gonna be a waste of time. And like 0:25:13.640 --> 0:25:16.600 when we got down there, I really got to experience 0:25:16.680 --> 0:25:19.200 the same thing that he got to experience in Detroit. 0:25:19.440 --> 0:25:21.840 Like you said, I mean, we're the minority there. It's 0:25:21.960 --> 0:25:24.520 you know, people from all over the world, but it's 0:25:24.560 --> 0:25:28.919 obviously majority white, and you're walking around at the PGA 0:25:29.040 --> 0:25:31.600 demo day and people are just stopping us. Honestly, it 0:25:31.640 --> 0:25:33.240 was almost like we were rock stars in the sense 0:25:33.280 --> 0:25:35.960 because it was like what, Like he said, who are you? 0:25:36.000 --> 0:25:38.000 What's that logo? How do I get it? Like that's 0:25:38.080 --> 0:25:40.639 gonna that's the constant reaction that white white people. 0:25:40.760 --> 0:25:44.080 Yes, did you feel it was sincere or yeah? 0:25:44.119 --> 0:25:45.680 Like I felt like it was one of those things 0:25:45.720 --> 0:25:49.480 where it was like, yo, finally, like having worked inside 0:25:49.480 --> 0:25:53.240 of the business, like it's typically golf is white shoes, 0:25:53.359 --> 0:25:56.959 khaki pants and a polo. Everybody looks the same, everybody's 0:25:56.960 --> 0:25:59.600 carbon copy. Like that's all the options that you have, 0:25:59.760 --> 0:26:01.680 Like you going too a golf shop now, it's all 0:26:01.720 --> 0:26:02.920 pretty much going to be the same. 0:26:03.000 --> 0:26:03.600 Like it's not. 0:26:03.640 --> 0:26:06.680 Even an option for you to like if you even 0:26:06.680 --> 0:26:08.680 if you enjoy golf, they don't give you an option 0:26:08.760 --> 0:26:11.679 to even be creative, if that makes sense, right, And so. 0:26:12.040 --> 0:26:13.679 I think the changing the color of your shirt is 0:26:13.680 --> 0:26:14.600 like the biggest you can do. 0:26:14.760 --> 0:26:17.200 Right exactly everything is still exactly the same. 0:26:17.680 --> 0:26:20.840 And so like walking around and having been in the business, 0:26:20.920 --> 0:26:22.520 it was just like for me because I've been to 0:26:22.520 --> 0:26:26.760 the PGA show countless times, Like like I said, I 0:26:26.800 --> 0:26:28.920 was kind of just over and had experience at all, 0:26:28.960 --> 0:26:31.560 but this was like, damn, this is different. And so 0:26:31.800 --> 0:26:34.119 we end up like networking, getting a bunch of business 0:26:34.160 --> 0:26:36.280 cards and you know, like you said, the Game of Golf, 0:26:36.280 --> 0:26:39.439 you learn how to network and got a bunch of 0:26:39.480 --> 0:26:41.720 cards and literally just followed up with everybody, sent them 0:26:41.720 --> 0:26:44.719 all emails. We get an email back from a brand 0:26:44.720 --> 0:26:48.639 in Japan or a boutique in Japan called Clubhouse Supply 0:26:49.000 --> 0:26:52.160 and they're in Osaki, Japan, and they like, yo, we'll 0:26:52.160 --> 0:26:54.760 take a chance on you. We'll take thirty five sweatshirts. 0:26:55.240 --> 0:26:59.120 We sent them thirty five sweatshirts. They once they get them, 0:26:59.119 --> 0:27:01.600 they sell out twenty four hours in Japan and Japan. 0:27:01.760 --> 0:27:02.080 Ok. 0:27:02.200 --> 0:27:05.320 They were the first company to take a chance on us. 0:27:05.840 --> 0:27:08.159 Then they're like, yo, they call us, like, man, we 0:27:08.160 --> 0:27:11.000 ain't never seen nothing sell this fast. Yo, here's a 0:27:11.000 --> 0:27:13.040 ten thousand dollars po how quickly can you get them 0:27:13.080 --> 0:27:14.879 to us? But then you got to understand, now, this 0:27:14.960 --> 0:27:17.679 is like Maya twenty twenty, so it's like pandemic, like 0:27:17.760 --> 0:27:18.480 it's here. 0:27:18.880 --> 0:27:20.160 So we're like, all right, so. 0:27:20.119 --> 0:27:22.520 We I think we had enough inventory to I think 0:27:22.560 --> 0:27:25.200 we fulfilled that order. We had enough inventory to fill 0:27:25.240 --> 0:27:27.480 that order. Things are starting to pa where you're getting 0:27:27.480 --> 0:27:31.000 emerged from Oakland, California, like just making it like you 0:27:31.040 --> 0:27:32.000 gotta no, no, no. 0:27:32.040 --> 0:27:32.600 We had a house. 0:27:33.000 --> 0:27:35.720 Well he was already he had alreadyd the relationship, so 0:27:35.760 --> 0:27:38.040 he had been we've been dealing with the same folks 0:27:38.040 --> 0:27:38.800 that he was dealing with. 0:27:39.160 --> 0:27:40.840 They were based in Oakland. 0:27:40.600 --> 0:27:42.840 California, American Warehouse. 0:27:43.080 --> 0:27:45.280 Yeah, so they were getting the patches I think overseas 0:27:45.359 --> 0:27:47.719 and then putting it on like you know, a sweater, 0:27:47.800 --> 0:27:48.280 and and. 0:27:48.760 --> 0:27:50.280 You just funded us out of your own pocket and 0:27:50.320 --> 0:27:50.879 took a loan on. 0:27:51.200 --> 0:27:53.120 Yeah, so this was out of my own pocket. 0:27:53.520 --> 0:27:57.239 Depleted the four one k, sold the bitcoin, you know 0:27:57.240 --> 0:28:00.159 what I'm saying, and depleted the same. 0:28:00.640 --> 0:28:02.119 How much did you sell bigcoin when you when you 0:28:02.119 --> 0:28:03.560 had a bitcoin? How much did you sell it for? 0:28:05.119 --> 0:28:07.240 I didn't have that much, but I maybe got about 0:28:07.280 --> 0:28:09.679 six grand from it, Okay, you know what I'm saying. 0:28:09.800 --> 0:28:12.680 So it was just below I would it was. 0:28:12.800 --> 0:28:15.399 It was definitely half I would say, half of a 0:28:15.640 --> 0:28:16.120 big coin. 0:28:16.560 --> 0:28:18.120 So it wasn't part of it, yeah, because I'm thinking 0:28:18.160 --> 0:28:20.199 at the time, and it wasn't. You weren't part of 0:28:20.200 --> 0:28:21.800 that run up to sixty thousand. 0:28:21.600 --> 0:28:23.879 No, not at all. I got out way before that. 0:28:25.160 --> 0:28:25.800 Sorry to hear that. 0:28:28.720 --> 0:28:32.439 Another investment, right right, it's all right. So, so so 0:28:32.600 --> 0:28:35.080 you had ten thousand work for inventory? Yeah, so we 0:28:35.119 --> 0:28:37.400 had ten thousand worth of inventory to fulfill that order. 0:28:37.400 --> 0:28:39.040 We filled that order, and at this. 0:28:39.120 --> 0:28:42.160 Time, like I said, it was kind of like it 0:28:42.240 --> 0:28:44.760 was still moving like so people getting a product, but 0:28:44.800 --> 0:28:48.160 the infrastructure necessarily wasn't in place, and then we end 0:28:48.280 --> 0:28:51.000 up getting an article in ESPN. He knew someone, so 0:28:51.040 --> 0:28:53.880 he did an article on us, because oh so at 0:28:53.880 --> 0:28:57.440 this time, this is like may so George Floyd. 0:28:57.880 --> 0:29:00.480 That just happened like in that that window. And we 0:29:00.560 --> 0:29:01.360 end up doing. 0:29:02.760 --> 0:29:05.880 A video challenging the PGA of America, which is separate 0:29:05.880 --> 0:29:08.080 from the PGA Tour, because the PGA Tour kind of 0:29:08.080 --> 0:29:10.560 came out and had a statement about black lives matter, 0:29:10.600 --> 0:29:14.160 but the PGA of America didn't, and so we kind 0:29:14.200 --> 0:29:15.960 of like we put a video out just kind of 0:29:16.040 --> 0:29:18.000 challenging them the same way that Patrick Mahone did with 0:29:18.040 --> 0:29:20.400 the NFL. So we got a bunch of diverse groups 0:29:20.400 --> 0:29:23.480 of industry leaders within the PGA basically saying who you 0:29:23.520 --> 0:29:25.880 are and black lives matter, and we just tagged the PGA. 0:29:26.200 --> 0:29:28.760 So basically the joint went viral. We posted it and 0:29:28.760 --> 0:29:30.680 then we got their attention and then that kind of 0:29:30.680 --> 0:29:33.040 spread it as well. And that really wasn't about like 0:29:33.120 --> 0:29:36.320 necessarily promoting our brand. It was just more about, you know, 0:29:36.360 --> 0:29:37.920 y'all need to make a stance, like y'all gotta come 0:29:37.920 --> 0:29:42.120 out and say something. And so ESPN hits and then 0:29:42.160 --> 0:29:44.239 this is when things started really start to pick up 0:29:44.280 --> 0:29:48.960 for us. So ESPN hits CJ Paul and Chris Paul 0:29:49.000 --> 0:29:53.240 reach out and that's his brother CJ. And he like 0:29:53.360 --> 0:29:55.360 reached out and was like, yo, I love what y'all doing, 0:29:55.480 --> 0:29:58.040 just through DMS because you also got to remember, like 0:29:58.160 --> 0:30:01.280 right now Instagram is popping, so like there's no content 0:30:01.320 --> 0:30:04.000 out on TV. We started doing Instagram lives like because 0:30:04.040 --> 0:30:07.400 everybody's in the crib. Everybody's is when everyone was on live, 0:30:07.800 --> 0:30:10.680 and so we did that. CJ reaches out and he's like, yo, 0:30:10.760 --> 0:30:12.920 I love what y'all doing. Me and my brother actually 0:30:12.920 --> 0:30:16.080 play golf. We want two of everything, and if y'all 0:30:16.120 --> 0:30:18.080 got more, we're gonna give the people in the bubble 0:30:18.160 --> 0:30:19.600 and we will and we're gonna pay for everything. 0:30:19.640 --> 0:30:20.200 We're like what. 0:30:20.800 --> 0:30:24.840 So we did that and then what really changed our 0:30:24.880 --> 0:30:29.960 business forever was we were actually together in Wisconsin and 0:30:30.160 --> 0:30:32.480 it was the night of the NBA boycott. So I 0:30:32.520 --> 0:30:34.560 don't know if y'all a Memphis August. 0:30:34.440 --> 0:30:36.080 Twenty four, it was the Bucks. 0:30:36.080 --> 0:30:39.400 The Bucks were playing and decide and not yeaided to 0:30:39.400 --> 0:30:40.200 play exactly. 0:30:40.360 --> 0:30:43.520 So that day, you know, Chris Paul let me paint 0:30:43.560 --> 0:30:45.520 the picture. Chris Paul is the president of the NBA 0:30:45.520 --> 0:30:48.480 Players Association. He ended up doing the whole documentary. It's 0:30:48.520 --> 0:30:51.800 called The Day When Sports Stood Steal. So he says, 0:30:51.840 --> 0:30:54.120 like he's on his way to the to the to 0:30:54.200 --> 0:30:57.240 the bubble, He's getting calls from bron and everybody like yo, 0:30:57.400 --> 0:30:59.720 they not playing. So he's got to, you know, figure 0:30:59.720 --> 0:31:02.280 out what gonna do. Well, when he gets off the bus, 0:31:02.280 --> 0:31:04.160 he's got the gear on from head to toe. 0:31:04.680 --> 0:31:07.320 He's got the door lows on, door low ones. 0:31:07.400 --> 0:31:11.160 He's got our socks, our sweater and our hat and 0:31:11.200 --> 0:31:13.600 he's wearing it and all cameras is on them. And 0:31:13.880 --> 0:31:16.880 it just went bananas because you got to understand too. 0:31:17.280 --> 0:31:19.920 Like I tell people, it wasn't just a sports story. 0:31:19.960 --> 0:31:23.920 It became a national news story. So ABC, CBS, NBC, 0:31:24.160 --> 0:31:27.960 everybody's not necessary a CNN promoting east Side golf. But 0:31:28.040 --> 0:31:30.720 what they're saying is the NBA is not playing, and 0:31:30.800 --> 0:31:32.880 Chris Paul is the president of the NBA Player Association. 0:31:32.960 --> 0:31:35.600 What are they gonna do? What's going on? So they 0:31:35.680 --> 0:31:40.000 keep showing this clip and sales are going through the roof, 0:31:40.880 --> 0:31:41.560 through the roof. 0:31:41.600 --> 0:31:43.160 We had to cut it off, but we end up 0:31:43.160 --> 0:31:47.520 cutting it off stop because you got to talk about 0:31:47.560 --> 0:31:48.240 that people. 0:31:48.600 --> 0:31:50.080 It could be that could be a problem. It can 0:31:50.160 --> 0:31:52.320 actually destroy your business act if you have the inventory 0:31:52.560 --> 0:31:55.160 too much demand, not enough inventory, then people can plain 0:31:55.240 --> 0:31:57.480 that they're not getting this stuff on time, and it's 0:31:57.520 --> 0:31:58.280 a real hassle. 0:31:58.400 --> 0:31:59.920 You see delays like six to nine. 0:32:00.600 --> 0:32:04.800 Yeah, yeah, I was just gonna I mean what helped us, 0:32:05.080 --> 0:32:08.080 honestly was the pandemic. You know, people were more patient. 0:32:08.640 --> 0:32:11.280 You know what I'm saying. People would, yeah, I wait 0:32:11.320 --> 0:32:13.360 three weeks for a sweater. I mean I ain't doing that, 0:32:13.600 --> 0:32:16.880 you know. So yeah, I mean that's how we stood 0:32:17.120 --> 0:32:19.560 up against that time. We definitely you know, two day 0:32:19.600 --> 0:32:22.360 turnaround now as far as shipping, but I mean back 0:32:22.400 --> 0:32:23.040 then it was. 0:32:23.120 --> 0:32:24.960 Yeah, I mean it was. It got ugly though, I 0:32:24.960 --> 0:32:26.080 mean it got ugly. 0:32:25.880 --> 0:32:29.680 Like I mean people, well, I'm beyond Like we went 0:32:29.800 --> 0:32:32.240 from I think you could get it, We could get 0:32:32.240 --> 0:32:35.000 sweaters in like six weeks to like three months. 0:32:35.120 --> 0:32:36.600 I mean we can say it now. 0:32:36.600 --> 0:32:39.360 There were people that ordered in August and literally didn't 0:32:39.360 --> 0:32:41.920 get it to like November December. Like he said, people 0:32:41.920 --> 0:32:44.640 were patient. So like it was one of those things where, too, 0:32:45.520 --> 0:32:48.800 what do we do so everything is on fire after 0:32:48.840 --> 0:32:54.280 that moment, we actually people wanted to invest in that moment. 0:32:54.240 --> 0:32:55.880 They're like, Yo, we see what you got going on, 0:32:56.080 --> 0:32:58.400 and we weren't ready. So like one of the things 0:32:58.400 --> 0:33:00.000 that we learned was we was like, all right, I'm 0:33:00.000 --> 0:33:02.480 never forget in September, We're like, yo, we're literally gonna 0:33:02.480 --> 0:33:05.000 put sold out on everything. Try to figure out how 0:33:05.000 --> 0:33:06.800 to feel these orders. But we got to put the 0:33:06.840 --> 0:33:09.280 infrastructure in. And then you're building a business. What I 0:33:09.280 --> 0:33:12.160 mean by infrastructure is you got to get lawyers, you 0:33:12.160 --> 0:33:13.680 got to get accountants, you got to make sure you 0:33:13.720 --> 0:33:16.640 on all your IP like all of that stuff, because 0:33:16.800 --> 0:33:19.200 you got to have an infrastructure. 0:33:18.520 --> 0:33:20.880 To be able to even take investment, you know. 0:33:21.000 --> 0:33:22.880 And so there were certain deals that we kind of 0:33:22.880 --> 0:33:25.480 missed out on because we didn't have the infrastructure. People 0:33:25.480 --> 0:33:27.120 were ready, they're like, hey, we want to do this 0:33:27.160 --> 0:33:29.080 on a convertible note. We didn't know what a convertible 0:33:29.120 --> 0:33:31.520 note was. And then we had like bad deals that 0:33:31.520 --> 0:33:33.000 we were able to kind of get out of where 0:33:33.000 --> 0:33:35.080 people said they were going to do certain things and 0:33:35.120 --> 0:33:37.200 they didn't do it. So like investment decks because we 0:33:37.200 --> 0:33:39.640 didn't know what we were doing in a sense, but 0:33:39.680 --> 0:33:42.240 we just took that time to literally I would say 0:33:42.240 --> 0:33:45.240 from September to January, all we did was just put 0:33:45.280 --> 0:33:48.560 in an infrastructure, figure out fulfillment, figure out customer service, 0:33:48.680 --> 0:33:50.840 figure out who we want to invest, who want to hire, 0:33:50.960 --> 0:33:53.880 who we want to hire, and then we kind of 0:33:53.920 --> 0:33:56.120 cut it back on. I would say, like in February, 0:33:56.120 --> 0:33:58.440 we had an article in GQ and then we did 0:33:58.600 --> 0:34:01.480 like you know, say, we did like fifty thousand in 0:34:01.560 --> 0:34:04.160 one day, so we was like, damn, okay, it's a 0:34:04.240 --> 0:34:06.400 business now. We were able to get all the orders 0:34:06.440 --> 0:34:08.200 out and we were able to kind of flip it 0:34:08.239 --> 0:34:10.880 back on. But it's I would say, like just anybody 0:34:10.920 --> 0:34:13.760 that wants to build a business, Like to his point, 0:34:13.840 --> 0:34:15.880 we were lucky enough because we built it during the 0:34:15.920 --> 0:34:19.680 pandemic and people were patient. But you gotta gotta have 0:34:19.800 --> 0:34:22.040 an infrastructure and you're not gonna be able to build it. 0:34:22.080 --> 0:34:24.919 You need lawyers and you need accountants like those. That's 0:34:24.920 --> 0:34:26.719 where it starts if you want to build a real 0:34:26.760 --> 0:34:29.120 business and take investment in because people looking at you 0:34:29.200 --> 0:34:31.400 niggam like, well we want to see these documents. 0:34:31.440 --> 0:34:33.839 We want to see this documents, and you're like what, so. 0:34:33.760 --> 0:34:35.200 You got to you know, learn all those things. I 0:34:35.239 --> 0:34:37.719 call it YouTube University because it's all out there. 0:34:37.640 --> 0:34:40.399 If you want it, we call it uyl University. Yeah, yeah, 0:34:40.480 --> 0:34:42.960 for sure, but bigger than that. So you when you 0:34:43.000 --> 0:34:46.160 put the business on freeze, how are we gaining income 0:34:46.360 --> 0:34:48.319 or did we say, you know what, we're going to 0:34:48.400 --> 0:34:50.520 use our finance background, say we're going to stack some 0:34:50.560 --> 0:34:52.799 paper so that we can sustain this. Are we doing 0:34:53.000 --> 0:34:54.439 other things? Because I know you were at a bank 0:34:54.480 --> 0:34:56.560 for a certain point during this time. What are we 0:34:56.600 --> 0:34:58.560 doing while we putting the company on freeze? 0:34:58.680 --> 0:35:01.320 Honestly, I mean I was. He wasn't getting paid. 0:35:01.560 --> 0:35:03.719 Yeah, I didn't get paid for a whole year. I 0:35:03.760 --> 0:35:05.480 was working for a whole year. Sweat equity. 0:35:05.760 --> 0:35:06.560 Sweat equity I love. 0:35:06.760 --> 0:35:08.600 Yeah, and he owns part of the business, now you 0:35:08.600 --> 0:35:09.240 know what I'm saying. 0:35:09.320 --> 0:35:10.759 So it was. 0:35:12.200 --> 0:35:14.200 I mean I was the one, you know, using the 0:35:14.280 --> 0:35:16.920 bread to pay for my rent, pay for my food, 0:35:16.960 --> 0:35:20.080 anything that I needed, but then also anything that he needed. 0:35:20.120 --> 0:35:22.040 If he needed me, he just hit me. And we 0:35:22.080 --> 0:35:24.960 get it, we get it. But I mean it was tough. 0:35:25.080 --> 0:35:26.960 You know, I was borrowing money from here, trying to 0:35:27.000 --> 0:35:28.000 get money from here. 0:35:27.960 --> 0:35:30.760 And it was a bunch of nose, A bunch of nose, 0:35:30.920 --> 0:35:34.560 but you know, just keep going using it. 0:35:34.000 --> 0:35:34.399 Back to p. 0:35:35.960 --> 0:35:36.919 Yeah, you know what I'm saying. 0:35:37.200 --> 0:35:40.640 It was really inspired too by like Nipsey during that time, 0:35:40.719 --> 0:35:43.359 like just all money in like we literally went all 0:35:43.440 --> 0:35:45.640 money and like we knew it was something special. We 0:35:45.800 --> 0:35:47.680 just kind of like, and I feel like a lot 0:35:47.719 --> 0:35:50.680 of people have been there before. It's like you know 0:35:50.719 --> 0:35:53.719 you got something, you know it's coming. It's almost like 0:35:53.719 --> 0:35:56.040 you're waiting on a big check and it's just like, 0:35:56.719 --> 0:35:59.279 how do you just limit that debt before you get 0:35:59.320 --> 0:36:01.359 the big check because a lot of times you get 0:36:01.400 --> 0:36:03.000 that so high. By the time you get the big check, 0:36:03.040 --> 0:36:04.840 you back at zero. So it was just one of 0:36:04.880 --> 0:36:07.000 those things where what we did was we knew that 0:36:07.000 --> 0:36:08.880 we didn't want to give up a bunch of equity, 0:36:09.040 --> 0:36:11.080 so it was just like we just kept figuring out 0:36:11.080 --> 0:36:13.200 ways of reaching our own pocket. Like that's like you said, 0:36:13.400 --> 0:36:15.920 didn't take anything from the business, because it was more 0:36:15.920 --> 0:36:18.279 important about the business standing up once you got the 0:36:18.320 --> 0:36:21.120 infrastructure in place. And that's why when we actually cut 0:36:21.160 --> 0:36:24.080 it on, it was like, Okay, it was worth the sacrifice. Now, 0:36:24.360 --> 0:36:26.440 like okay, boom, can we can run. 0:36:26.560 --> 0:36:27.080 Now, let's go. 0:36:27.400 --> 0:36:30.360 And we weren't and sorry, we weren't paying any money 0:36:30.360 --> 0:36:33.640 on marketing. I mean, we still haven't paid any money 0:36:33.640 --> 0:36:36.160 on marketing. And it's all been me, me being on 0:36:36.200 --> 0:36:39.520 the phone, just finding things that match between what we 0:36:39.560 --> 0:36:41.600 talk about, things to talk about on the golf course, 0:36:41.600 --> 0:36:44.000 things that y'all talk about. Me and y'all put y'all 0:36:44.000 --> 0:36:46.440 on there a couple of times, just from a standpoint 0:36:46.520 --> 0:36:48.080 of these are the things that we talk about on 0:36:48.120 --> 0:36:50.120 the golf course, you know what I'm saying. These are 0:36:50.160 --> 0:36:52.120 the things that we have in common with. I mean, 0:36:52.160 --> 0:36:54.479 we're regular folks just like everybody else that don't play. 0:36:54.520 --> 0:36:56.279 That's why you should come out here and just try it, 0:36:56.560 --> 0:36:58.880 you know, spreading network, you know what I'm saying. And 0:36:59.640 --> 0:37:03.960 I mean it grew from there just us being in 0:37:04.040 --> 0:37:08.359 tune with our customers. You just through through Instagram and 0:37:08.400 --> 0:37:10.240 that's how we grew it and kept their attention. 0:37:11.040 --> 0:37:13.799 You spoke about convertible note. You didn't know what that was. 0:37:13.880 --> 0:37:14.640 What do you know what? 0:37:14.960 --> 0:37:15.120 Yeah? 0:37:15.160 --> 0:37:17.640 I know what it is now, yeah, yeah, part of 0:37:17.640 --> 0:37:18.440 the learning process. 0:37:19.080 --> 0:37:21.160 Now we're raising money right now. So we went out 0:37:21.160 --> 0:37:23.280 and raised some capital. We raised it on a safe note. 0:37:23.360 --> 0:37:25.239 You know why combinator, essentially you. 0:37:25.239 --> 0:37:26.640 Can you explain what it convertible note is. 0:37:26.960 --> 0:37:31.080 Yeah, So for convertible note is essentially you will receive 0:37:31.239 --> 0:37:35.680 cash right now based on what you think. Well, basically, 0:37:35.680 --> 0:37:38.440 you receive cash, and it will the note will mature 0:37:38.600 --> 0:37:41.560 into equity essentially, that's the simple term of it. So 0:37:41.640 --> 0:37:44.600 you give me one hundred thousand right now and you 0:37:44.800 --> 0:37:47.920 essentially it's just a note, so you don't own any equity, 0:37:47.960 --> 0:37:49.960 and then you could say in twelve months that one 0:37:50.040 --> 0:37:53.239 hundred thousand will then convert into equity. So at that 0:37:53.280 --> 0:37:56.000 twelve month period, if it's if our business is valued 0:37:56.040 --> 0:37:58.399 that a million dollars, that one hundred thousand is worth 0:37:58.400 --> 0:38:01.600 ten percent of our company, so it converts. Now the 0:38:01.640 --> 0:38:04.439 good good thing about a convertible note, you could also say, hey, 0:38:04.880 --> 0:38:07.560 you know what, let's say the company's value that two million. 0:38:07.600 --> 0:38:09.120 I could just pay you back on your note and 0:38:09.120 --> 0:38:11.960 give you interest so you don't have to receive equity. 0:38:12.719 --> 0:38:15.680 But yeah, and then you said the investment deck, So 0:38:15.719 --> 0:38:19.359 that's like the deck that you put together for investors. Yes, yeah, 0:38:19.480 --> 0:38:21.440 and it has like all of the projective revenue in 0:38:21.480 --> 0:38:22.160 and stuff like that. 0:38:22.280 --> 0:38:22.520 Yeah. 0:38:22.560 --> 0:38:25.120 So we had projective revenue, and we didn't even necessarily 0:38:25.160 --> 0:38:27.719 do that. What we did was we did it basically, 0:38:27.960 --> 0:38:30.799 we simplified it because we did it on a safe note. 0:38:30.800 --> 0:38:32.239 And then if anybody, I would definitely tell them go 0:38:32.320 --> 0:38:34.920 look into what a safe note, y combinator. It really 0:38:34.960 --> 0:38:37.279 makes it simple for any like founders that are out 0:38:37.280 --> 0:38:39.600 there to kind of control your equity and your business. 0:38:40.880 --> 0:38:42.080 And we made it really simple. 0:38:42.120 --> 0:38:43.920 And then what we did was we put our strategy 0:38:43.920 --> 0:38:45.880 in there essentially on what we were going to do 0:38:46.000 --> 0:38:48.040 with the money in the third and fourth quarter. So 0:38:48.080 --> 0:38:50.560 we raised money basically in the first and second quarter 0:38:50.600 --> 0:38:52.960 of the year. Really second quarter is when we really 0:38:52.960 --> 0:38:55.840 focused on raising money in capital, family and friends around 0:38:56.120 --> 0:38:58.600 not a Series A. And then we essentially said when 0:38:58.640 --> 0:39:00.399 that note matures, you know, how. 0:39:00.320 --> 0:39:01.880 Did you figure out how much equity and you were 0:39:01.880 --> 0:39:03.480 willing to give up? Is that something you too sat 0:39:03.560 --> 0:39:05.760 down and said, right, we're comfortable at this number. 0:39:06.719 --> 0:39:07.319 Yeah. Yeah. 0:39:07.560 --> 0:39:09.560 It was more of a where do you think we 0:39:09.600 --> 0:39:12.719 could thrive that, you know if we give I mean, 0:39:12.800 --> 0:39:16.439 let's say, is for example one hundred percent. Let's say 0:39:16.440 --> 0:39:19.720 we're trying to give away twenty percent of our business. 0:39:19.920 --> 0:39:21.399 I mean we got to a point where we were 0:39:21.440 --> 0:39:24.800 just like, I mean, it's twenty percent too much because 0:39:25.120 --> 0:39:27.600 how much control do we want them to have? You know, 0:39:27.680 --> 0:39:33.040 how much visibility or what is it that they want 0:39:33.160 --> 0:39:33.600 from this? 0:39:33.800 --> 0:39:36.759 You know what I'm saying, like and how much of 0:39:36.800 --> 0:39:38.160 a stronghold and. 0:39:38.120 --> 0:39:41.319 In the contract if it's if that percentage is high enough, 0:39:41.360 --> 0:39:44.040 I mean, what they can actually do to our company, 0:39:44.160 --> 0:39:46.600 you know, what they can control and what they can 0:39:46.640 --> 0:39:47.719 say on what we do. 0:39:47.800 --> 0:39:50.040 So but and I'll also say too, like just going 0:39:50.080 --> 0:39:53.480 through the process, you you got to keep your business attractive, 0:39:53.840 --> 0:39:55.680 so like most like and we had like a lot 0:39:55.680 --> 0:39:58.920 of basically BC's and sharks come at us early, right, 0:39:58.960 --> 0:40:01.560 and so they everyone's going to say, I only want 0:40:01.560 --> 0:40:04.360 to invest in your business unless I can have basically 0:40:04.400 --> 0:40:07.160 a strong percentage because I want to be invested in it. 0:40:07.400 --> 0:40:09.960 But then it's like no, because if you do it 0:40:10.000 --> 0:40:13.440 too early, you don't necessarily even give room for vcs 0:40:13.520 --> 0:40:15.680 later with the big money so early. 0:40:17.040 --> 0:40:19.280 This episode is brought to you by P and C Bank. 0:40:19.680 --> 0:40:22.440 A lot of people think podcasts about work are boring, 0:40:22.640 --> 0:40:26.480 and sure they definitely can be, but understanding a professionals 0:40:26.560 --> 0:40:29.840 routine shows us how they achieve their success little by little, 0:40:30.200 --> 0:40:33.839 day after day. 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So 0:43:30.760 --> 0:43:32.239 that was one of the things that I think we did. 0:43:32.239 --> 0:43:34.799 And then being strategic, so like if we had one 0:43:34.840 --> 0:43:37.840 person in this area, if we had a lawyer to invest, 0:43:37.880 --> 0:43:38.200 I e. 0:43:38.719 --> 0:43:39.920 An example, like we. 0:43:39.840 --> 0:43:41.799 Didn't need to go get another lawyer to invest. Let's 0:43:41.840 --> 0:43:44.800 go get an accountant to invest, Let's go get another 0:43:44.920 --> 0:43:48.480 you know, just different fields because now you can leverage 0:43:48.480 --> 0:43:50.880 them as well because they're invested in your business. So 0:43:50.920 --> 0:43:54.480 we kind of diversified I would say, our investor. And 0:43:54.520 --> 0:43:57.480 then we also were just really conscious of like, and 0:43:57.560 --> 0:43:59.120 I'll say this, like one of the deals that we did, 0:43:59.160 --> 0:44:01.640 we were able to get out like two deals basically 0:44:01.680 --> 0:44:04.399 to get us where we are to that and one 0:44:04.480 --> 0:44:09.400 of them was I would feel like they didn't understand 0:44:09.520 --> 0:44:10.520 what we were trying to do. 0:44:10.800 --> 0:44:12.320 It was kind of like a lack of knowledge. 0:44:12.320 --> 0:44:15.280 So we basically was like, yo, come down on equity 0:44:15.440 --> 0:44:17.480 so we can make somebody else fit so that the 0:44:17.480 --> 0:44:19.200 business is still attractive in the future. 0:44:19.560 --> 0:44:21.279 And they're like, huh, what you want to come down? 0:44:21.320 --> 0:44:23.759 I was like, no, we got to do this because 0:44:23.760 --> 0:44:25.319 if we give up kind of what he was saying, 0:44:25.320 --> 0:44:27.959 the line's share of our business too early, it leaves 0:44:28.000 --> 0:44:31.200 no room later on. And so we were able to 0:44:31.239 --> 0:44:32.640 honestly get out of that deal. 0:44:32.920 --> 0:44:33.440 But we were able. 0:44:33.480 --> 0:44:34.839 I would say one of the best deals we did 0:44:34.920 --> 0:44:37.200 was we partner up with our manufacturing partner right now 0:44:37.480 --> 0:44:41.000 and get terms. Because everyone says cash flow, cash flow, 0:44:41.120 --> 0:44:44.080 cash flow, but I truly understand what cash flow means 0:44:44.440 --> 0:44:47.880 because you'll lock up your cash if you got bad terms. 0:44:48.280 --> 0:44:51.480 And an example would be when we first started a business, 0:44:51.719 --> 0:44:54.040 we were paying fifty percent on an order up front, 0:44:54.719 --> 0:44:56.719 and then it takes what ninety days for it to 0:44:56.760 --> 0:44:59.560 get produced, and then you gotta sell it, so you 0:44:59.600 --> 0:45:00.000 really want to. 0:45:00.280 --> 0:45:01.560 You got one hundred and twenty days. 0:45:01.680 --> 0:45:03.680 Let's say you put up one hundred grand on inventory, 0:45:03.880 --> 0:45:05.640 you got one hundred and twenty days without and it's 0:45:05.640 --> 0:45:08.040 still locked up and you still got bills every month. 0:45:08.960 --> 0:45:10.959 But now we were able to get to the point 0:45:10.960 --> 0:45:14.439 where we got better terms. So now we could place 0:45:14.440 --> 0:45:17.480 an order ninety days to produce it. Once you receive it, 0:45:17.520 --> 0:45:20.760 we got a net thirty, So now you got that 0:45:20.760 --> 0:45:21.280 that cash. 0:45:23.280 --> 0:45:25.480 We just had about net thirty. 0:45:28.239 --> 0:45:30.719 People hear net thirty, forty fifty, net sixty. They don't 0:45:30.719 --> 0:45:31.239 know what that is. 0:45:31.320 --> 0:45:33.320 That's something we learned very very early. 0:45:34.120 --> 0:45:38.440 No, net thirty isn't basically, it's it's when you have Okay, 0:45:39.320 --> 0:45:43.240 the person is saying, from this day, you have thirty 0:45:43.320 --> 0:45:46.000 days to pay me or forty five days to pay me, 0:45:46.080 --> 0:45:48.480 but you get to receive the services on the front end. 0:45:48.880 --> 0:45:50.719 So that's the thing, Like you get the goods on 0:45:50.760 --> 0:45:52.520 the front end, where before we was paying for the 0:45:52.760 --> 0:45:54.520 we had to put fifty percent up front. And this 0:45:54.560 --> 0:45:56.960 is why people say credit is so important because you 0:45:57.000 --> 0:45:59.440 can't get these type of deals unless you have good credit. 0:46:00.160 --> 0:46:03.120 So we were playing fifty percent up front, fifty percent 0:46:03.200 --> 0:46:05.399 on the arrival, and then it was just all on us, 0:46:05.520 --> 0:46:08.000 where now we can place an order no money up, 0:46:08.440 --> 0:46:12.080 receive it no money up, and then once we start 0:46:12.080 --> 0:46:15.120 in a sense getting money with that NET thirty, then 0:46:15.160 --> 0:46:16.000 you can pay them back. 0:46:16.080 --> 0:46:17.360 You know, that's something that you know, all of this 0:46:17.360 --> 0:46:20.520 stuff and stuff that we learn on the fly, So 0:46:20.520 --> 0:46:22.640 at least we did learn on the fly, and it's 0:46:22.680 --> 0:46:25.560 like learning the language is extremely important. So for us, 0:46:25.560 --> 0:46:27.040 we've been on the opposite side of that as far 0:46:27.080 --> 0:46:29.640 as like, you know, if we have an ad. Let's 0:46:29.640 --> 0:46:34.360 say Joe blows you know, grass company, grass cutting company 0:46:34.600 --> 0:46:36.520 wants to do an ad and then they have like 0:46:36.800 --> 0:46:39.759 NET forty five or NET thirty, So we do the ad, 0:46:39.800 --> 0:46:42.280 but then they don't pay till thirty days or forty 0:46:42.320 --> 0:46:45.680 five days later. So it's important to understand that because 0:46:45.719 --> 0:46:47.000 it's like if you do an AD or somebody, you 0:46:47.040 --> 0:46:49.360 think you're gonna get paid tomorrow and then you're waiting 0:46:49.360 --> 0:46:51.320 on the money and then it's like where's the money. 0:46:51.360 --> 0:46:53.360 It doesn't come until too. 0:46:53.239 --> 0:46:55.960 Much from there, it goes back to your point of 0:46:56.000 --> 0:46:59.600 why having an accountant is super important, We'll have like 0:46:59.760 --> 0:47:01.759 six sads in that time, and you're like, wait, did 0:47:01.800 --> 0:47:02.839 we get paid for the last one? 0:47:02.880 --> 0:47:03.000 Wait? 0:47:03.080 --> 0:47:05.200 We used to start going. I remember when we first 0:47:05.280 --> 0:47:08.480 started our YouTube and we had some views and I'm like, wait, 0:47:08.520 --> 0:47:11.080 we made eighty three dollars and I'm calling Google. I'm like, look, man, 0:47:11.080 --> 0:47:14.480 when we getting this eighty three dollars? It's that thirty guys. 0:47:14.560 --> 0:47:17.400 I'm like, oh, okay, I knew that. I wait on 0:47:17.440 --> 0:47:18.560 it right. 0:47:18.600 --> 0:47:21.080 And I also say, like too, to your point, it's 0:47:21.120 --> 0:47:22.960 just a stigma, like you said earlier, like we don't 0:47:23.000 --> 0:47:25.799 know knowledge, and that's why credit is so important in debt, 0:47:25.840 --> 0:47:29.160 Like it's okay to use good business credit and so 0:47:29.239 --> 0:47:31.640 you don't tie up your cash, you know what I mean. 0:47:31.680 --> 0:47:33.359 You just got to be smart about it to know. 0:47:33.760 --> 0:47:35.719 But like that's what I was saying earlier, where like 0:47:36.000 --> 0:47:38.560 you give up so much. When you finally do get 0:47:38.560 --> 0:47:41.040 the income, you don't have nothing left because you had 0:47:41.080 --> 0:47:44.080 all these bad terms where like literally, okay, yeah you 0:47:44.120 --> 0:47:46.719 did fifty thousand, but you're still old eighty because and 0:47:46.800 --> 0:47:49.000 you behind and now they charge you interests and all 0:47:49.080 --> 0:47:51.920 of that. So all of that stuff is very very important. 0:47:51.920 --> 0:47:53.799 Like you said, man, we learned it on the fly, 0:47:54.040 --> 0:47:57.680 like you just gotta what was that book we man, 0:47:57.719 --> 0:48:01.120 my man from light Ship Capital. It was called Venture Something. 0:48:01.200 --> 0:48:02.399 I wish I knew the title of. 0:48:02.320 --> 0:48:03.680 It, but it was what you're talking about. 0:48:03.800 --> 0:48:05.840 It was a really good book and it really really 0:48:05.880 --> 0:48:08.600 broke down like how venture capitalists think and what are 0:48:08.719 --> 0:48:11.080 some of the most important things that you need to 0:48:11.120 --> 0:48:13.560 do to kind of get to where we are today. 0:48:13.600 --> 0:48:15.239 Because it was definitely learning, Like. 0:48:15.200 --> 0:48:18.000 We definitely learned got a lot of good people, getting 0:48:18.000 --> 0:48:18.840 the right help around you. 0:48:18.920 --> 0:48:21.279 That's just like anything else. And now you know we're 0:48:21.360 --> 0:48:22.080 rocking and rolling. 0:48:22.120 --> 0:48:25.480 We got our COO definitely needs somebody that like knows 0:48:25.520 --> 0:48:27.759 the business. That was one of the important things, and 0:48:27.800 --> 0:48:30.480 then start putting people in position so he has a 0:48:30.560 --> 0:48:32.480 role in the company. I have a role in the company. 0:48:32.480 --> 0:48:34.960 Our CEO has a role in the company. Like everybody 0:48:35.040 --> 0:48:38.200 kind of like playing that role. Everybody still does everything, 0:48:38.560 --> 0:48:40.200 but it's still kind of like you want to work 0:48:40.239 --> 0:48:43.200 towards truly like putting you know, people in the right 0:48:43.239 --> 0:48:44.360 position to be successful. 0:48:45.640 --> 0:48:48.320 Very important. Okay, so how did this deal. 0:48:48.120 --> 0:48:48.920 With Jordan come up? 0:48:49.040 --> 0:48:51.560 About I was. Yeah. 0:48:51.600 --> 0:48:54.160 So, I mean from all the marketing that we did, 0:48:54.880 --> 0:48:56.800 there came a point where actually CJ. 0:48:56.920 --> 0:48:57.960 Paul reached out. 0:48:58.480 --> 0:49:00.680 In my mind, I'm thinking like se J pull I 0:49:00.680 --> 0:49:05.759 know it was a c C. Bath Yeah, Jordan all 0:49:05.840 --> 0:49:06.279 around this. 0:49:07.080 --> 0:49:08.760 Yeah, yeah, so CJ. 0:49:09.719 --> 0:49:13.040 He definitely asked about two of everything, like Earl said, 0:49:13.480 --> 0:49:16.800 you know, uh, and then more to give to people 0:49:16.800 --> 0:49:17.360 in the bubble. 0:49:17.560 --> 0:49:20.520 But so we tour two of everything exactly to you 0:49:20.560 --> 0:49:23.439 had the polo shirts. Obviously, what exactly are they asked 0:49:23.480 --> 0:49:25.000 him for to of every like what time? 0:49:25.080 --> 0:49:29.719 It was just yeah, at that time it was T shirts, sweatshirts, hats, socks, 0:49:29.760 --> 0:49:32.440 and like some magnet lapels. 0:49:33.080 --> 0:49:36.160 Just like four items. It wasn't nothing too crazy. We 0:49:36.160 --> 0:49:38.000 didn't even have polos. And that's the other thing I 0:49:38.040 --> 0:49:39.840 want to say to just real just to chime in. 0:49:39.920 --> 0:49:40.359 It's like. 0:49:42.040 --> 0:49:45.920 We started a golf brand and we didn't even have polos, right, 0:49:45.960 --> 0:49:48.040 it was just the logo. And then like I got 0:49:48.040 --> 0:49:50.759 to give oh a lot of credit because he don't rush, 0:49:50.840 --> 0:49:53.560 like he said, he want quality on everything, so it's 0:49:53.640 --> 0:49:56.040 like doing it the right way. He could have easily 0:49:56.120 --> 0:49:57.719 rushed and like, oh we had god brand, let's just 0:49:57.719 --> 0:50:00.439 slap some polos together. It was like, nah, I want 0:50:00.480 --> 0:50:01.799 them polos to be right. 0:50:01.960 --> 0:50:04.040 Yeah, and you're the actual logo right. 0:50:04.760 --> 0:50:08.720 Yeah, so yeah on a shoe, man, that's crazy. 0:50:08.800 --> 0:50:13.640 But yeah, man, so going from there, well. 0:50:13.440 --> 0:50:16.480 Where else not just the hold like CJ like Gentry 0:50:16.520 --> 0:50:17.720 and yeah yeah yeah. 0:50:17.760 --> 0:50:20.120 So CJ came on and he was just like, yeah, 0:50:20.160 --> 0:50:22.280 I definitely want to introduce you guys a Gentry Humphrey. 0:50:22.520 --> 0:50:25.799 He's a VP over in Nike, I guess not I 0:50:25.840 --> 0:50:30.520 guess the god of footwear or bringing sneakers back in Nike. 0:50:30.640 --> 0:50:33.160 That's what they know him for. But we went out 0:50:33.200 --> 0:50:34.279 to go play golf with him. 0:50:34.760 --> 0:50:38.520 Well first well first we got on the phone with 0:50:38.600 --> 0:50:41.239 him and he liked this enough to where he got 0:50:41.320 --> 0:50:43.239 on some on the phone with him J and so. 0:50:43.160 --> 0:50:46.680 We had Michael Michael Jordan's what excuse me? 0:50:47.480 --> 0:50:49.520 Can we not just plays over that you got on 0:50:49.560 --> 0:50:56.120 the phone with Michael Jeffery Earl? Please please don't don't 0:50:56.120 --> 0:50:57.120 bring over to Michael Jordan. 0:50:59.480 --> 0:51:02.360 Yeah, so we end up So what happened. So this 0:51:02.440 --> 0:51:04.160 is like August the twenty twenty. We talked to g 0:51:04.680 --> 0:51:07.360 g'z like, yo, I love what y'all doing and this time, 0:51:07.960 --> 0:51:10.440 he knew MJ was real big in the golf. Everybody knows, 0:51:10.520 --> 0:51:12.880 well not everybody, but after the documentary everybody saw it. 0:51:13.200 --> 0:51:15.359 So he flips it over the MJ like, yo, just take. 0:51:15.239 --> 0:51:18.880 It, like Michael Jordan, Michael Michael Jeffrey, Michael Jeffrey Jordan, Sir, 0:51:19.160 --> 0:51:19.680 just our deck. 0:51:19.760 --> 0:51:23.880 I'm about to do that the J cole Michael Jeffrey Jordan. 0:51:24.560 --> 0:51:28.360 Yes, he flips the deck over to him. He sees 0:51:28.440 --> 0:51:30.799 it and he's like, yo, I love it. Like just 0:51:30.840 --> 0:51:34.000 an email. We haven't spoken to him or nothing like that. 0:51:34.040 --> 0:51:36.279 It's just kind of just like you know, somebody's like 0:51:36.520 --> 0:51:38.680 we come to some of you, like I know, Envy. 0:51:38.719 --> 0:51:40.880 I'll just I'm gonna see what he thinks, Like I 0:51:40.880 --> 0:51:43.080 can't just walk you in the room just yet, like 0:51:43.320 --> 0:51:46.879 let me test the waters. If he bites, then we'll 0:51:46.920 --> 0:51:50.520 take it from there. So that's what happened. And then, 0:51:51.320 --> 0:51:54.120 like he said, the moment came because these things kind 0:51:54.120 --> 0:51:56.319 of started rolling and we still, like he said, we 0:51:56.440 --> 0:51:59.040 market and we're still doing our thing and then we 0:51:59.200 --> 0:52:01.759 end up. So it was funny because he's like all right, yo, 0:52:01.960 --> 0:52:03.680 y'all ready, and we're like, what you mean He's like 0:52:04.360 --> 0:52:06.439 Mike wanted, you know, y'all ready to talk to Mike, 0:52:06.520 --> 0:52:08.880 like y'all gonna talk directly to him and kind of 0:52:08.920 --> 0:52:11.200 pitch it like because you need to hear it from y'all, 0:52:11.239 --> 0:52:13.799 like y'all passion the real story to be like. 0:52:14.040 --> 0:52:16.200 Yeah, we ready, we ready. And it was funny. 0:52:16.200 --> 0:52:18.000 I always joke with people because I'm like, this is 0:52:18.040 --> 0:52:20.879 the this is the first zoom call where like literally they. 0:52:20.880 --> 0:52:23.080 Was like, yo, y'all need to be on there early. 0:52:23.600 --> 0:52:26.640 Y'all got thirty minutes, like and it said, don't get 0:52:26.640 --> 0:52:29.960 stars struck, don't be up up like he gonna come on, 0:52:30.160 --> 0:52:31.920 y'all gotta be ready because there was other stuff he 0:52:31.960 --> 0:52:33.960 had to do too, So it wasn't just like our meeting. 0:52:34.000 --> 0:52:36.360 It was just like we found some time. He gonna 0:52:36.480 --> 0:52:38.759 take out time out of his schedule and pitch it 0:52:38.800 --> 0:52:41.000 to him, and we got on there. We pitched it 0:52:41.040 --> 0:52:43.920 to him and I'll never forget like we did our 0:52:43.960 --> 0:52:44.560 whole spill. 0:52:45.480 --> 0:52:46.680 He was like, all. 0:52:46.680 --> 0:52:50.480 Right, those are two great stories. We tell the best stories. 0:52:50.520 --> 0:52:52.360 Did we sign them yet? 0:52:52.560 --> 0:52:55.600 And they were like on the phone like uh yeah, yeah, 0:52:55.640 --> 0:52:58.080 we were on it. Yeah. 0:52:58.280 --> 0:53:00.719 So it was like it was like mj believe like 0:53:00.800 --> 0:53:03.359 he he he immediately got in one of the things too, 0:53:03.600 --> 0:53:05.799 like he loved golf. I don't know people know, like 0:53:05.880 --> 0:53:08.239 at one point Michael Jordan literally got kicked off a 0:53:08.280 --> 0:53:11.760 golf course for wearing cargo shorts, like in modern time, 0:53:11.880 --> 0:53:15.320 like not low before he won championships. No, like this happened, 0:53:15.320 --> 0:53:17.719 and I think in Miami and like oh six, don't 0:53:17.800 --> 0:53:19.560 quote me on the date, but literally it was definitely 0:53:19.560 --> 0:53:22.759 in the two thousand Michael Jordan got kicked off a 0:53:22.800 --> 0:53:24.960 golf course and got basically said you can't come back 0:53:24.960 --> 0:53:27.040 here because he had on cargo shorts. 0:53:27.160 --> 0:53:28.520 So like I feel like that was a no. 0:53:28.719 --> 0:53:30.920 Reason too why he created his own golf course and 0:53:30.960 --> 0:53:33.520 he understood like y'all trying what y'all trying to break 0:53:33.560 --> 0:53:35.520 and do, and like you know, it was just like 0:53:35.560 --> 0:53:37.080 he's like yo, like I get it. 0:53:37.280 --> 0:53:37.719 I get it. 0:53:37.719 --> 0:53:39.560 And from them he has a golf course. Yeah, he 0:53:39.600 --> 0:53:42.680 has his own golf course, Rove twenty three down in 0:53:42.760 --> 0:53:44.240 Hope Sound, Florida. 0:53:43.920 --> 0:53:44.400 In Florida. 0:53:44.480 --> 0:53:48.760 Yeah, yeah, yeah, we've been at this time right. 0:53:48.600 --> 0:53:50.960 Next to JUPI to Florida. I mean he's not too 0:53:51.000 --> 0:53:53.839 far from like Tiger Woods, live and you already. 0:53:53.560 --> 0:53:58.520 Know have you had, Like how y'all communicated with him? 0:53:58.719 --> 0:54:01.240 I mean I was, I've I've talked, We've talked about 0:54:01.280 --> 0:54:03.359 we talked to him by it like three times. Oh 0:54:03.440 --> 0:54:05.160 talk to him a couple of times without me just 0:54:05.160 --> 0:54:05.680 being around. 0:54:05.719 --> 0:54:07.000 So how is that? How is How is he? 0:54:07.760 --> 0:54:07.920 Is he? 0:54:08.000 --> 0:54:10.480 Because I always everybody always know he's the most competitive 0:54:10.480 --> 0:54:13.640 person in the world. And he's real hard to you know, 0:54:13.760 --> 0:54:18.239 on his teammates in that documentary thing like that, So 0:54:18.280 --> 0:54:20.279 you know, not a lot of people will have access somebody. 0:54:20.320 --> 0:54:20.680 He's real. 0:54:20.880 --> 0:54:22.960 He seems like an introvert. Also, he's not really like 0:54:22.960 --> 0:54:23.440 it's jay Z. 0:54:23.560 --> 0:54:23.800 It's not. 0:54:24.160 --> 0:54:26.239 You can't just not a lot of people speaking to 0:54:26.239 --> 0:54:28.600 Michael Jordan's So I was, how is it? How is he? 0:54:28.680 --> 0:54:28.879 Yeah? 0:54:28.880 --> 0:54:31.000 I would say the first time we met him, it 0:54:31.120 --> 0:54:33.120 was with G. We were out of the golf course. 0:54:33.120 --> 0:54:36.520 We finished up on the eighteenth hole and G says, yeah, man, 0:54:36.560 --> 0:54:39.000 these are my guys, and you know it's a large one. 0:54:39.000 --> 0:54:41.319 He could really play me. First thing he asked me, 0:54:41.320 --> 0:54:43.880 but would you shoot? I'm like, man, I shot like 0:54:43.960 --> 0:54:46.400 seventies Man, Like, man, get out of here, man. 0:54:46.320 --> 0:54:50.880 You know, really seventies a professional number for those not 0:54:50.960 --> 0:54:51.200 in the know. 0:54:51.960 --> 0:54:55.920 Yeah, yeah, but no really competitive, nice guy. Let me 0:54:56.040 --> 0:54:58.439 talk about basketball. But that was just the first time 0:54:58.440 --> 0:54:58.919 that we met. 0:54:59.000 --> 0:55:00.680 Yeah, so the first time and then like it was 0:55:00.760 --> 0:55:03.000 kind of just real cashual breeze by kind of like 0:55:03.000 --> 0:55:05.600 a thing like you know, like he acknowledged that he 0:55:05.920 --> 0:55:07.640 like he definitely spoke, but. 0:55:07.600 --> 0:55:09.359 It was kind of like all right, moving on. 0:55:10.120 --> 0:55:12.680 But then I would say, like, so the one of 0:55:12.680 --> 0:55:14.600 the times we get up there, probably the third time 0:55:15.040 --> 0:55:15.880 we out there with c C. 0:55:16.000 --> 0:55:17.440 Sabathian, who loves golf. 0:55:17.520 --> 0:55:21.839 Like CC he retired, he playing golf every day, and 0:55:21.880 --> 0:55:23.839 so Cec we go down there to the golf course 0:55:23.840 --> 0:55:27.000 to grow twenty three. We go play nine holes. I'm like, 0:55:27.040 --> 0:55:29.200 all I'm about to run back in or whatever. So 0:55:29.239 --> 0:55:32.359 I go back into the golf shop and I'll never 0:55:32.360 --> 0:55:34.160 forget this moment for the rest of my life. 0:55:34.680 --> 0:55:36.560 So I walk in the joint and. 0:55:36.480 --> 0:55:39.040 He's sitting down and he looks at me and he's like, 0:55:39.280 --> 0:55:43.080 my boy, Like I'm thinking somebody behind me. I'm like, 0:55:43.160 --> 0:55:47.280 there's no way Michael Jordan knows who I am. 0:55:47.360 --> 0:55:49.120 And then he God gave me that Now like now 0:55:49.160 --> 0:55:50.920 I'm talking to you like, you know, I'm talking to you, 0:55:51.040 --> 0:55:53.680 like what's up. So I'm like, oh shit, Mike, you know. 0:55:53.800 --> 0:55:57.920 So I walk over there and you know, I'm talking 0:55:57.920 --> 0:56:00.920 to him. He just like really remember the depth. But 0:56:00.960 --> 0:56:04.080 he said what's going on? Like, uh, where's Elijah one? 0:56:04.120 --> 0:56:06.200 And I'm like, oh, he outside like with CC like 0:56:06.239 --> 0:56:08.399 they on the tee or whatever. And then somebody next 0:56:08.440 --> 0:56:11.080 to him he knew, uh oh knew him or whatever 0:56:11.120 --> 0:56:12.239 he liked, so dude named Jesse. 0:56:12.520 --> 0:56:14.879 So Jesse like a large one outside, so he get 0:56:14.960 --> 0:56:16.640 up go talk to oh. 0:56:16.760 --> 0:56:18.760 So then somebody else's table like, oh. 0:56:18.680 --> 0:56:20.120 Man, look what you got on the feet. So I 0:56:20.120 --> 0:56:23.600 had on like the US Open Jordan Fords. They was 0:56:23.600 --> 0:56:28.120 like real exclusive, like the Federal d He was like, nah, 0:56:28.160 --> 0:56:30.759 these were these a golf us the golf Yeah, yeah, 0:56:30.800 --> 0:56:33.000 golf and he like he like, damn, I don't even 0:56:33.000 --> 0:56:33.520 got those. 0:56:33.640 --> 0:56:36.319 I'm like, you know what I mean, I don't want 0:56:36.320 --> 0:56:38.239 to give up my plug, Yeah, you know what I mean. 0:56:38.360 --> 0:56:40.520 Like so it was kind of like that awkwad moment 0:56:40.680 --> 0:56:42.680 and then like we just started rapping. But I did 0:56:42.760 --> 0:56:44.480 kind of I do tell people, I did kind of 0:56:44.480 --> 0:56:46.640 have that moment where it was like all right, like 0:56:46.719 --> 0:56:48.520 it was like frozen in time. I don't even remember 0:56:48.520 --> 0:56:50.440 what the conversation was about. Like he just kind of like, 0:56:50.440 --> 0:56:51.720 all right, you can move now. 0:56:51.600 --> 0:56:53.920 Like like I was like stuck there. Like it was 0:56:53.960 --> 0:56:55.600 like I was like all right, cool. 0:56:55.880 --> 0:56:58.719 So then we end up going back out on the 0:56:58.760 --> 0:57:00.759 tee and then we actually got a picture and we 0:57:00.800 --> 0:57:03.080 got it definitely. It's on our Instagram and we gotta 0:57:03.080 --> 0:57:05.279 put that up on the website too. But we ended 0:57:05.360 --> 0:57:07.680 up taking a picture shortly after that with him, so 0:57:07.920 --> 0:57:10.200 cc him and I kind of came back in and 0:57:10.200 --> 0:57:11.840 then we just like busted up for a minute and 0:57:11.880 --> 0:57:12.640 got to pick with him. 0:57:12.840 --> 0:57:15.440 So all right, so you meet him your devaluation. He 0:57:15.520 --> 0:57:18.200 likes it, so he signs you guys to Jordan Brand. 0:57:18.520 --> 0:57:19.480 Is that how that happens. 0:57:20.120 --> 0:57:23.320 So we're definitely still working on a partnership as far 0:57:23.480 --> 0:57:27.040 when it comes to that. I would say actually the 0:57:27.160 --> 0:57:31.040 day after that happened, actually he left and had to 0:57:31.080 --> 0:57:33.280 go do some work, had to go do something, and 0:57:33.360 --> 0:57:36.880 I stayed to practice. So got there maybe like eight 0:57:36.880 --> 0:57:39.080 am and I'm hitting balls, you know, out on the 0:57:39.160 --> 0:57:42.280 driver range, just practicing. He gets there like none you know, 0:57:42.520 --> 0:57:45.680 yellow Ferrari pull up parking on the curve all outside. 0:57:45.840 --> 0:57:47.200 Yes, course, this his course. 0:57:47.560 --> 0:57:49.920 So he parking, get out, he wave, I'm like yo, 0:57:50.360 --> 0:57:54.400 So goes inside, pray, probably tease off. In another fifteen minutes, 0:57:54.880 --> 0:57:58.520 so waves again. So ends up playing non holes, makes 0:57:58.520 --> 0:58:01.360 the turn. I'm still practicing, you know any way, like 0:58:01.680 --> 0:58:04.160 I see you, you know. Then he ends up playing 0:58:04.160 --> 0:58:07.280 another nine holes and they finished. I'm still practicing. Hour 0:58:07.400 --> 0:58:10.480 goes by after he finishes. I finally finished. I come 0:58:10.520 --> 0:58:13.120 inside my prolo drenched, you know what I'm saying, just 0:58:13.160 --> 0:58:14.480 from being out there all day. 0:58:14.560 --> 0:58:15.360 He got it. 0:58:15.760 --> 0:58:17.240 I got in and he was like, okay, I see 0:58:17.280 --> 0:58:19.520 you out there working. I see you out there working. 0:58:19.560 --> 0:58:19.720 You know. 0:58:19.840 --> 0:58:21.240 Get this man somes the Caro. 0:58:21.520 --> 0:58:24.200 You know, because he owns your part of Sanchro. 0:58:24.440 --> 0:58:27.240 So Drakes and Carol stood there for a couple of minutes, 0:58:27.400 --> 0:58:31.640 ended up changing, had a flight to catch change, came back, 0:58:31.760 --> 0:58:33.960 sat down. He was probably sent at the table with 0:58:34.040 --> 0:58:37.280 a good four or five of the guys, and one 0:58:37.320 --> 0:58:40.040 of the guys at the table just asked, yo, so 0:58:40.360 --> 0:58:42.200 tell me a little bit about east side golfing. What 0:58:42.240 --> 0:58:45.040 you guys are doing. I maybe talked for a good 0:58:45.120 --> 0:58:47.560 minute and a half and MJ just cuts me off, 0:58:47.680 --> 0:58:50.040 and he says, and that's why we're collabing with them, 0:58:50.400 --> 0:58:52.800 you know. And I just explained, you know, who I was, 0:58:52.920 --> 0:58:55.200 who Eorl was, and what we're trying to do and 0:58:55.240 --> 0:58:57.440 trying to change and what we're actually bringing to the 0:58:57.440 --> 0:58:57.840 game and. 0:58:57.760 --> 0:58:59.640 How it was going to look different, and he was 0:58:59.680 --> 0:59:00.840 just all with it, you know. 0:59:00.960 --> 0:59:03.720 And then we end up drinking some corral together, smoked 0:59:03.800 --> 0:59:05.600 a little cigar, you know, and. 0:59:05.400 --> 0:59:08.000 So it was so the collaboration is still kind of 0:59:08.240 --> 0:59:10.919 it's still it works, yeah, Like. 0:59:11.120 --> 0:59:14.000 Well collaboration partnership. 0:59:13.480 --> 0:59:16.640 Yeah, I mean it's there, Like we definitely are partners 0:59:16.680 --> 0:59:20.040 with the Jordan brand. Like it's definitely a partnership there. 0:59:20.480 --> 0:59:21.000 We are. 0:59:22.760 --> 0:59:25.000 What we're working on right now is just trying to 0:59:25.040 --> 0:59:27.760 figure out, you know, for next year, like that's the 0:59:27.760 --> 0:59:30.200 big thing. And like we got shoes and like record time. 0:59:30.680 --> 0:59:33.040 So that's why like these first ones are super limited, 0:59:33.120 --> 0:59:33.800 just because. 0:59:33.560 --> 0:59:35.840 So what is that all right? What is actually to collaborate? 0:59:35.920 --> 0:59:38.200 You guys took Jordan sneakers and made them golf shoes. 0:59:38.400 --> 0:59:40.680 So no, they had golf shoes out. They have Star 0:59:40.640 --> 0:59:46.040 already started coming out with Jordan sneakers. Yes, with the 0:59:46.360 --> 0:59:49.360 cleats on and then they started like engineering them better 0:59:49.400 --> 0:59:52.600 because initially it was just literally just like a sneakers. 0:59:54.520 --> 0:59:57.360 They end up developing to where they're like, okay, they 0:59:57.440 --> 1:00:00.320 started signing like athletes on the tours. So there's a 1:00:00.360 --> 1:00:01.920 couple of guys on the PGA tour that wears on, 1:00:02.000 --> 1:00:04.920 like Bubba Watson is one, Pat Perez, a black guy 1:00:04.960 --> 1:00:07.160 by the name of Harold Varner who's out there. And 1:00:07.240 --> 1:00:10.080 so like the engineering started to get behind it. So 1:00:10.120 --> 1:00:12.160 the shoes started to become more and more popular, they 1:00:12.200 --> 1:00:14.640 started making more and more of them, and then what 1:00:14.720 --> 1:00:18.160 we came involved was we're the first ever Jordan golf 1:00:18.160 --> 1:00:21.160 shoe collabor with a golf brand. So like they've kind 1:00:21.160 --> 1:00:23.959 of created like custom shoes golf shoes before, but they've 1:00:23.960 --> 1:00:27.040 never did a collaboration with any other golf brand. And 1:00:27.120 --> 1:00:29.800 so like that's where our partnership lies, where it's like 1:00:30.000 --> 1:00:32.880 this is the first ever, but we're excited because there's 1:00:32.920 --> 1:00:33.560 more in the future. 1:00:33.600 --> 1:00:36.000 So so so what exactly are you, Like what kind 1:00:36.000 --> 1:00:37.560 of merchant did you collab on? 1:00:37.880 --> 1:00:40.000 So right now, we just did the shoe. 1:00:40.120 --> 1:00:41.960 The shit this one the shoe, and we did it 1:00:42.000 --> 1:00:44.160 in record time, Like people gotta understand, like we did 1:00:44.160 --> 1:00:46.560 it a shoe and literally, in like eight months, you 1:00:46.640 --> 1:00:49.440 made your own shoe. So yeah, we had it's the 1:00:49.520 --> 1:00:51.880 Jordan for it's the Jordan Ford. Yeah, but we designed 1:00:52.160 --> 1:00:55.880 like the colors the Okay, so it's Jordan Ford, but 1:00:55.960 --> 1:00:58.240 you put the spice on it. No, the spikes are 1:00:58.240 --> 1:01:00.680 already on there. But what we did with spikes spice 1:01:03.080 --> 1:01:03.800 your own drip to it. 1:01:03.920 --> 1:01:06.080 Yes, yeah, So I mean I came up with the 1:01:06.080 --> 1:01:10.560 design myself, and it was honestly, I came to ge 1:01:10.720 --> 1:01:12.880 we went to go to breakfast, and I came up 1:01:12.920 --> 1:01:15.240 with a deck. It was probably like six different shoes. 1:01:15.640 --> 1:01:17.520 He came with a deck. It was maybe like four 1:01:17.600 --> 1:01:20.440 or five different shoes. We sat them next week. Well 1:01:20.480 --> 1:01:23.120 actually we just exchanged decks. I looked on it and 1:01:23.160 --> 1:01:25.240 I was like, bro, it's the same shoe. 1:01:26.040 --> 1:01:28.320 So yeah, that's and I'm thinking to myself, like, y'all 1:01:28.360 --> 1:01:31.040 both said we're doing the four because I would imagine 1:01:31.040 --> 1:01:33.320 they wanted you to collaborate on a bunch of shoes. 1:01:33.360 --> 1:01:34.760 They gave you a bunch of the numbers, and you're like, 1:01:34.920 --> 1:01:36.120 the four is the one you. 1:01:36.520 --> 1:01:38.360 Usually when you collabed with Jordan, you don't have a. 1:01:38.360 --> 1:01:42.480 True telling you they already inline shoes and you get it. 1:01:42.520 --> 1:01:45.960 Like yeah, so there's a certain time that let's say, 1:01:46.160 --> 1:01:49.880 Nikes doing the coming out with the Jordan's eight at 1:01:49.880 --> 1:01:52.600 this time, so you know, during June through October, and 1:01:52.640 --> 1:01:53.320 were coming out. 1:01:53.240 --> 1:01:55.040 With a Collapse through June through October. 1:01:55.080 --> 1:01:56.840 So we're gonna we're gonna be getting the eight. 1:01:57.440 --> 1:02:01.160 So it just yeah, yeah, you don't get this makes 1:02:01.160 --> 1:02:01.480 sense now? 1:02:01.600 --> 1:02:04.240 So now the Union four, Yeah, it's the year four. 1:02:04.360 --> 1:02:06.120 It's the year of the four. So the Union four 1:02:06.280 --> 1:02:08.880 goes up there. If Dancee wanted to collaborate, he would 1:02:08.920 --> 1:02:10.800 have a you have a four. 1:02:10.800 --> 1:02:13.040 Yea, And like even don c said it, like you 1:02:13.080 --> 1:02:15.680 take what they give you, like quote unquote, he didn't 1:02:15.720 --> 1:02:19.360 necessarily want it to he killed the two kil still 1:02:19.360 --> 1:02:21.080 one of the best tunes out there. But at the 1:02:21.160 --> 1:02:23.200 end of the day, like you don't you don't get 1:02:23.200 --> 1:02:25.680 to pick before it is or it is, and you 1:02:25.800 --> 1:02:27.480 just kind of put your you put your style on 1:02:27.520 --> 1:02:29.280 like he said, you put the spice on it. And 1:02:29.320 --> 1:02:31.840 that's what we were able to do. But there's more coming. 1:02:31.880 --> 1:02:35.480 Like so basically we was in line. We collab It 1:02:35.600 --> 1:02:38.000 was dope and then just the reaction has been just 1:02:38.120 --> 1:02:40.520 unbelievable to wait people, the buzz, it's. 1:02:40.480 --> 1:02:42.160 Just what's the first thing I said when y'all came 1:02:42.160 --> 1:02:42.960 out the car, Yeah, that. 1:02:43.040 --> 1:02:46.760 We bring them? Yeah. 1:02:46.800 --> 1:02:49.600 How acceptive were they to you not having the Jordan 1:02:49.680 --> 1:02:53.120 logo but the actual east Side golf logo on the 1:02:53.240 --> 1:02:55.600 it's on the tongue, correct, it's on the top. They 1:02:55.720 --> 1:02:56.840 was like, all right, we can do that. 1:02:57.160 --> 1:02:58.200 They were very accepted. 1:02:59.400 --> 1:03:02.880 The cleat that logo on the tongue, the Jordan logo 1:03:02.960 --> 1:03:04.160 on what the Jordan logo. 1:03:04.040 --> 1:03:06.240 Is, Yes, yeah it is. It's right on the tongue. 1:03:06.320 --> 1:03:10.200 Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's right there in the tongue. Well, 1:03:10.520 --> 1:03:13.520 actually the regular four has the patch on it. This 1:03:13.600 --> 1:03:15.960 is the first four where they it's no patch on 1:03:16.000 --> 1:03:16.880 the actress. 1:03:16.880 --> 1:03:18.000 It's just a log. 1:03:19.120 --> 1:03:21.240 Yeah you got you gotys send us a professional pictures, 1:03:21.240 --> 1:03:22.080 will put it on YouTube. 1:03:22.200 --> 1:03:23.080 Yeah for sure. 1:03:23.400 --> 1:03:25.479 And then on the bottom of it, I actually came 1:03:25.480 --> 1:03:27.640 out with a candide, how I ain't. 1:03:27.440 --> 1:03:29.080 Bring the how I ain't bring the first thing? 1:03:29.120 --> 1:03:30.800 I said, brother, we got. 1:03:30.800 --> 1:03:32.120 Gotta be prepared at all times. 1:03:32.440 --> 1:03:35.080 Yes, this is not like you guys, but look it's 1:03:35.120 --> 1:03:37.200 not like this mantle up here is waiting for you. 1:03:38.800 --> 1:03:42.560 Waiting for wen't need? So all right, when did they drop? 1:03:43.240 --> 1:03:43.760 Tomorrow? 1:03:44.040 --> 1:03:45.720 Yeah, they have to come out yet now. 1:03:45.800 --> 1:03:47.840 Yeah, we released from tomorrow, so we had a we 1:03:47.880 --> 1:03:50.400 had a raffle, so we did it raffle style. 1:03:50.240 --> 1:03:52.320 And tomorrow because this episode is going to come out 1:03:52.320 --> 1:03:55.960 after that, so June seventh, August seventh, and seventh, Yeah, 1:03:57.000 --> 1:03:58.600 it's going to come out and how is it going 1:03:58.640 --> 1:03:59.160 to be released? 1:03:59.240 --> 1:04:01.480 So we did it just because we're trying to fight 1:04:01.520 --> 1:04:05.000 the bots. So like we still got bots, like I mean, 1:04:05.040 --> 1:04:06.920 and even Nike gets botsed like and we're not as 1:04:06.920 --> 1:04:09.760 big as Nike. So what you basically do is to 1:04:10.040 --> 1:04:14.000 ensure that it is as random as possible. We did 1:04:14.840 --> 1:04:17.960 a raffle where people can sign up, which the sign 1:04:18.040 --> 1:04:19.080 up has been insane. 1:04:19.120 --> 1:04:20.800 We got like one hundred and I think it's. 1:04:20.680 --> 1:04:23.200 One hundred and seventeen thousand entries, but we had to 1:04:23.240 --> 1:04:25.080 scrape through I think at one point it was like 1:04:25.080 --> 1:04:27.640 eight hundred thousand because of the bots, so. 1:04:27.640 --> 1:04:28.960 It's just over a million now. 1:04:29.200 --> 1:04:32.000 So you basically got to like constantly be scrubbing to 1:04:32.240 --> 1:04:34.920 ensure and there's ways that you can check like essentially 1:04:35.000 --> 1:04:39.120 like user behavior so like there's a way that if 1:04:39.160 --> 1:04:41.320 you were to sign up on a raffle non times 1:04:41.320 --> 1:04:43.200 out of ten for us, like you're going to hit 1:04:43.240 --> 1:04:45.600 the site multiple times. So if you just come on 1:04:45.600 --> 1:04:48.439 one time, then we know generally speaking, that's probably a bot. 1:04:48.600 --> 1:04:51.600 So you get to control out a Nike Nike Well, 1:04:51.800 --> 1:04:54.040 it's kind of like a combination of both, right, Like 1:04:54.120 --> 1:04:57.400 they obviously kind of help you through that process. Is 1:04:57.400 --> 1:04:58.040 it sold that now? 1:04:58.080 --> 1:05:00.640 It's so exclusively on Eastside Golf dot it's hold on 1:05:00.640 --> 1:05:03.200 your websit and he's like sleepingly sold on east side 1:05:03.200 --> 1:05:04.000 golf dot com. 1:05:03.800 --> 1:05:05.240 For the first be crazy. 1:05:05.520 --> 1:05:07.800 Yeah, yeah, how much the inventory do you have? 1:05:08.160 --> 1:05:11.200 It's super limited. I can't release the number. It's super limited. 1:05:11.640 --> 1:05:13.320 And Nike and that's Nike ships hit. 1:05:13.680 --> 1:05:13.840 Yeah. 1:05:13.920 --> 1:05:16.160 Yeah, it's all gonna be shipped. Yeah, it's all gonna 1:05:16.160 --> 1:05:18.440 be shipped and delivered. But if you gotta go to 1:05:18.480 --> 1:05:19.720 Eastside golf dot com. 1:05:19.800 --> 1:05:23.080 Yeah, I mean every sneaker page on Instagram had them. 1:05:23.280 --> 1:05:25.960 Yeah yeah, Now we dominated the sneaker culture for like 1:05:26.000 --> 1:05:26.760 forty eight hours. 1:05:26.760 --> 1:05:27.360 It was crazy. 1:05:27.400 --> 1:05:30.000 It was how long do you anticipate before it cells out? 1:05:30.240 --> 1:05:31.240 Oh, it's gonna be seconds. 1:05:31.280 --> 1:05:32.880 I mean because you got to under it like it's 1:05:32.960 --> 1:05:35.520 already in a sense sold out. Like the way you 1:05:35.560 --> 1:05:37.880 get it is through the raffle, And like I said, 1:05:38.160 --> 1:05:40.480 we've scrubbed and we still got about one hundred and 1:05:40.520 --> 1:05:43.320 seventeen thousand entries for super limited pairs. 1:05:43.360 --> 1:05:44.080 Two seconds. 1:05:44.280 --> 1:05:46.400 They said, like the buzz for these is like the 1:05:46.480 --> 1:05:48.919 d or Ones. Yeah, no, bs like. 1:05:49.200 --> 1:05:51.919 And their golf shoes and their golf So everybody's gonna 1:05:51.920 --> 1:05:53.680 wear them in the golfers. People's just gonna wear them 1:05:53.720 --> 1:05:55.000 just I think I. 1:05:54.960 --> 1:05:57.040 Think I think a few people are gonna take the 1:05:57.080 --> 1:05:58.400 spikes off the bottom of. 1:05:58.400 --> 1:06:00.520 It because you're gonna take them out, and just because 1:06:00.520 --> 1:06:01.520 you can replace the spikes. 1:06:02.160 --> 1:06:06.880 Yeah, you go to you know the address, right, I'm 1:06:06.880 --> 1:06:08.960 gonna show you the closet after we okay. 1:06:09.040 --> 1:06:11.080 Yeah, you go to a golf store and you get 1:06:11.200 --> 1:06:14.000 a spike removal. I mean it's a little too pronged. 1:06:14.240 --> 1:06:16.240 Take you a second, clip. 1:06:15.960 --> 1:06:18.439 It out because they were built so like you wear 1:06:18.480 --> 1:06:19.880 them down, you can kind of replace. 1:06:21.120 --> 1:06:22.840 You can definitely take it out. And that's the thing. 1:06:22.880 --> 1:06:25.680 Like people honestly are treating like a collector's item too, 1:06:26.280 --> 1:06:28.480 So like people just going like just like the yours. 1:06:28.560 --> 1:06:30.400 I'm telling you, it's so similar to the door, Like 1:06:31.040 --> 1:06:32.480 people a gonna try to get them and just put 1:06:32.560 --> 1:06:34.800 them up. Now it's gonna be people that will also 1:06:34.960 --> 1:06:38.360 wear them on the golf course as well, but generally speaking, 1:06:38.520 --> 1:06:40.200 most people are just gonna kind of put them up 1:06:40.200 --> 1:06:43.000 and sit on them too late to get the camp. 1:06:44.440 --> 1:06:47.880 We're gonna talk about that. I know that their power 1:06:47.920 --> 1:06:49.600 is one thing, right, and you're trying to change the game, 1:06:49.680 --> 1:06:52.360 so obviously with the cleats, but what is your vision 1:06:53.000 --> 1:06:56.240 for some of these tours? Are we customized? Like what 1:06:56.280 --> 1:06:57.880 are you gonna do? Is it going to stick to 1:06:57.960 --> 1:07:00.640 khakis and polos up? We gotta bigger vision, like and 1:07:00.640 --> 1:07:02.200 we gonna see dudes wearing and had bands on the 1:07:02.360 --> 1:07:03.280 like what we're doing. 1:07:04.000 --> 1:07:07.160 I mean right now when it comes to the tournaments, 1:07:08.000 --> 1:07:12.520 we're so we're taking the approach of collabing with every 1:07:12.560 --> 1:07:15.440 single tournament. So we're coming out with pieces that were 1:07:15.480 --> 1:07:19.040 selling the in their tour tent So like even we 1:07:19.120 --> 1:07:21.320 just did a Rocking Mortgage Classic, did a collab with 1:07:21.440 --> 1:07:24.160 Rocking Mortgage, so all the pieces were custom They're not 1:07:24.360 --> 1:07:27.240 sold on the website, you can only get them at 1:07:27.240 --> 1:07:30.320 that tournament. So we're releasing pieces like that. But then 1:07:30.360 --> 1:07:33.400 also how we truly grow in golf is the pieces 1:07:33.440 --> 1:07:36.200 that we're releasing that are for golf. I mean we're 1:07:36.240 --> 1:07:41.600 talking about, you know, pieces as far as like a vest, hoodie, 1:07:41.880 --> 1:07:44.200 you know what I'm saying. Also go over a polo, 1:07:44.560 --> 1:07:46.400 over a T shirt. This is something that's coming a 1:07:46.440 --> 1:07:49.280 little later this year. We're coming out with a jacket, 1:07:49.480 --> 1:07:52.200 you know, later this year, maybe like Bomber next year. 1:07:52.280 --> 1:07:52.520 You know. 1:07:52.760 --> 1:07:56.720 So these are different things that you can honestly wear, 1:07:57.040 --> 1:07:59.560 you know, out with the boys, go get a drink in. 1:07:59.720 --> 1:08:02.120 But also we're to the golf course and be comfortable, 1:08:02.200 --> 1:08:03.920 be warm, and be fashionable. 1:08:04.040 --> 1:08:04.160 Oh. 1:08:04.200 --> 1:08:06.640 At the same time, y'all trying to find a signature 1:08:06.720 --> 1:08:09.240 athlete because I know you mentioned Varna and I know 1:08:09.800 --> 1:08:13.479 Cameron cha Champ because it's very limited. It's like four 1:08:13.680 --> 1:08:16.559 players African American players that are on the tour, so 1:08:17.000 --> 1:08:19.120 I can imagine maybe starting there and then. 1:08:19.560 --> 1:08:22.040 No, no, that's not the plan. I mean, we got 1:08:22.080 --> 1:08:23.920 an athlete right here, like we're. 1:08:23.760 --> 1:08:25.599 Gonna break that. We're gonna break that news aflete. 1:08:28.200 --> 1:08:30.280 Nah oh, I mean, like he said, that's why the 1:08:30.280 --> 1:08:32.600 reason he started the company, Like he's super talented, Like 1:08:32.640 --> 1:08:34.840 he's not wasting his time like he know, like if 1:08:34.880 --> 1:08:36.200 I thought like it was a waste of time. 1:08:36.240 --> 1:08:39.200 So like I even got to tell this story you mentioned, uh, 1:08:39.400 --> 1:08:40.160 Cameron Champ. 1:08:40.280 --> 1:08:42.519 Yeah, so we played in the pro am, which is 1:08:42.600 --> 1:08:45.960 essentially it's almost like an open run. So imagine like 1:08:46.000 --> 1:08:48.080 before an NBA game, if you got to like warm 1:08:48.160 --> 1:08:50.559 up with the guys right and just kind of warm up. 1:08:50.600 --> 1:08:52.599 So that's basically what it was, like a warm up 1:08:52.720 --> 1:08:55.479 that we did at a PGA tournament. So it's called 1:08:55.479 --> 1:08:57.400 a pro am, so you play with pros and amateurs 1:08:57.920 --> 1:09:01.760 and oh, we get to the first and like the 1:09:01.840 --> 1:09:03.920 two pros get up in here. It was Tony Phenam 1:09:04.000 --> 1:09:06.280 and Cameron Champ in New Orleans. So they get up, 1:09:06.320 --> 1:09:08.960 they bomb it down the middle, and then were about 1:09:08.960 --> 1:09:11.639 to walk off because typically we playing up amateurs play 1:09:11.680 --> 1:09:14.519 from up here, pros play from back here. O was like, nah, 1:09:14.560 --> 1:09:16.559 I want to play from back here, and the PGA 1:09:16.680 --> 1:09:19.840 Tour rules officials like, you know, sir, like this ain't 1:09:19.840 --> 1:09:21.559 the time, like just t up there. 1:09:22.000 --> 1:09:23.639 He like, nah, I want to play from right here. 1:09:23.720 --> 1:09:25.360 They was like oh okay. 1:09:25.920 --> 1:09:27.639 So then he ended up putting it in the ground, 1:09:28.320 --> 1:09:31.160 got up there and bomb that joint down the middle. 1:09:31.400 --> 1:09:33.200 And these two are one of the longest guys on 1:09:33.280 --> 1:09:35.160 tour here had pass both of them right down the 1:09:35.160 --> 1:09:38.280 middle and they were just like, oh wow. And then 1:09:38.320 --> 1:09:39.880 you know, I got up there hit my little shot. 1:09:39.920 --> 1:09:42.760 I was in the fairway. I wouldn't I wasn't like 1:09:42.840 --> 1:09:44.840 these guys. But I say all that to say like 1:09:45.040 --> 1:09:47.800 he one can definitely can't compete against them. It was like, 1:09:48.000 --> 1:09:49.880 you know, when we were out there, he definitely showed that. 1:09:50.040 --> 1:09:52.360 But I think, like to your other point, like he 1:09:52.600 --> 1:09:55.000 is the logo, so it's like, first you're gonna kind 1:09:55.000 --> 1:09:57.240 of start with him, and then I think, you know, 1:09:57.280 --> 1:09:59.160 as the brand grows, there will be other people that 1:09:59.200 --> 1:10:01.280 we kind of bring on. But it's all about kind 1:10:01.280 --> 1:10:03.600 of like embodying the ethos of the brand. And I 1:10:03.600 --> 1:10:06.320 feel like that's what Jordan Brand did. And you know, 1:10:06.320 --> 1:10:08.080 when we collab with partners, we just try to make 1:10:08.120 --> 1:10:10.040 sure that it's alignment because we don't want to come 1:10:10.120 --> 1:10:12.679 anything kind of traditional, so we just want to continue 1:10:12.680 --> 1:10:14.040 to kind of create that new wave. 1:10:14.280 --> 1:10:17.800 Yeah east Side, So you so you're you're a professional 1:10:17.800 --> 1:10:21.919 golfer now, yeah, so work still, I mean head designer 1:10:21.960 --> 1:10:26.080 of east Side, but still working on, you know, replacing 1:10:26.080 --> 1:10:29.320 myself in the business and then going to be doing 1:10:29.360 --> 1:10:32.519 many tour events, you know, hopefully Q school, qualifying school 1:10:32.800 --> 1:10:35.960 for the PGA Tour and UH and just getting runs in, 1:10:36.160 --> 1:10:38.799 like he said, just many tour events, many tour events 1:10:38.800 --> 1:10:42.080 and starting just to get that comfortable and find time 1:10:42.120 --> 1:10:45.280 to practice, you know, while running this business. 1:10:45.320 --> 1:10:45.519 You know. 1:10:45.720 --> 1:10:48.080 So I think you guys are very similar. I think 1:10:48.520 --> 1:10:51.000 what we've done in the world of finance, just breaking. 1:10:50.760 --> 1:10:52.680 O rules and wearing shoes. 1:10:52.360 --> 1:10:53.880 And talking how we talk, is kind of what you 1:10:53.920 --> 1:10:56.400 guys are doing for golf. Yeah, and so it's a 1:10:56.439 --> 1:10:59.519 sport that we started by saying, not many African Americans 1:10:59.560 --> 1:11:02.400 are involved. What are your plans to get the youth 1:11:02.960 --> 1:11:06.280 to be in love with the game, in touch with 1:11:06.320 --> 1:11:09.240 the game, understand the game, exposure to it. What do 1:11:09.280 --> 1:11:11.479 you've got You have that in the plans? 1:11:11.720 --> 1:11:13.720 Yeah, for sure. So I mean I'll go and I'll 1:11:13.800 --> 1:11:14.120 let you go. 1:11:14.240 --> 1:11:16.800 But first off, it was always about having them getting 1:11:16.840 --> 1:11:19.920 them interested, you know. That was always like, how are 1:11:19.960 --> 1:11:22.680 we gonna get them to want to even want to 1:11:22.720 --> 1:11:25.519 play golf? You know, And I felt like it was 1:11:25.560 --> 1:11:30.320 always representation, just never seeing anybody that acted normal or 1:11:30.360 --> 1:11:33.879 acted like them and then played golf. You know, definitely 1:11:33.880 --> 1:11:36.479 Tiger Woods was the catalyst, was the first person who 1:11:36.800 --> 1:11:41.040 pushed the needle forward. But then to find similarities in 1:11:41.080 --> 1:11:43.720 between a person you see playing golf. I felt like 1:11:43.960 --> 1:11:48.559 making the logo would speak to everybody without even start, 1:11:48.640 --> 1:11:51.280 without even playing golf. But you see the logo and 1:11:51.360 --> 1:11:53.800 it says, damn like I could be myself. You know, 1:11:53.800 --> 1:11:55.720 no matter if I got a Cuban League chain on 1:11:56.160 --> 1:11:59.000 and swinging as hard as I can, the chain't going 1:11:59.080 --> 1:12:01.639 this way, club going this way, I could still play 1:12:01.680 --> 1:12:04.920 golf and have a good time and be fashionable, just 1:12:05.000 --> 1:12:05.599 like the logo. 1:12:05.800 --> 1:12:08.120 So first you get their attention, which we. 1:12:08.080 --> 1:12:12.000 Did, but then we started to get the attention of 1:12:12.160 --> 1:12:13.160 young professionals. 1:12:13.200 --> 1:12:15.400 So that was first because. 1:12:15.160 --> 1:12:18.640 Honestly, in golf, the younger generation, how they're going to 1:12:18.680 --> 1:12:21.160 be successful is their parents. You know, they're going to 1:12:21.200 --> 1:12:23.160 be the people that take them to the golf course, 1:12:23.240 --> 1:12:24.839 pay for the clubs, pay. 1:12:24.680 --> 1:12:26.759 For the lessons and all those things. 1:12:26.800 --> 1:12:30.280 So we got the young professionals' attention and then we 1:12:30.360 --> 1:12:33.559 show the positives and things that they can get from it. 1:12:33.800 --> 1:12:37.360 So now they're teaching their kids, you know, the positives 1:12:37.400 --> 1:12:40.160 and how to network and how to even play golf 1:12:40.240 --> 1:12:43.720 because you can get a golf scholarship or just you 1:12:43.760 --> 1:12:46.840 can learn the networking tools that you need in life 1:12:47.200 --> 1:12:48.200 just from playing golf. 1:12:48.280 --> 1:12:51.600 So but yeah, no, he's on hundre percent right. Like 1:12:51.640 --> 1:12:55.720 the dividends, it pays dividends much earlier and sooner if 1:12:55.720 --> 1:12:57.640 you go at the young professionals like you guys are 1:12:57.720 --> 1:12:59.559 prime example, and I'm sure a lot of your listeners 1:12:59.560 --> 1:13:02.200 are priming examples. If they picked up a golf club 1:13:02.280 --> 1:13:04.920 today and really took the time and invest in it, 1:13:05.200 --> 1:13:07.280 they will see a return on that, I would say 1:13:07.320 --> 1:13:10.000 probably in twelve to eighteen months. The network and the 1:13:10.040 --> 1:13:13.680 opportunity to travel, whether we could just be something relaxing, 1:13:13.960 --> 1:13:16.479 or it could be opportunities for their business rather than 1:13:16.520 --> 1:13:19.040 if you have a child at twelve or thirteen. There's 1:13:19.080 --> 1:13:21.439 nothing wrong with it, but the return is going to 1:13:21.479 --> 1:13:23.040 be a little bit longer. It's going to be you know, 1:13:23.080 --> 1:13:24.680 they got to wait till they get to college and 1:13:24.720 --> 1:13:27.080 things of that nature. So our whole thing kind of 1:13:27.160 --> 1:13:30.200 just reiterated his point. It's just like if you grow 1:13:30.320 --> 1:13:32.320 up seeing it, it's like, oh, like your kids. I 1:13:32.320 --> 1:13:33.800 don't know if you guys have kids or not, but 1:13:33.800 --> 1:13:36.000 it's like if you started and you coming home with 1:13:36.040 --> 1:13:38.080 the golf clubs and they seeing they're like, damn dad, 1:13:38.479 --> 1:13:40.840 He's like, yeah, I got this deal on a golf course. 1:13:40.880 --> 1:13:42.000 They just start seeing it. 1:13:42.040 --> 1:13:44.240 Now you can kind of talk to them about, okay, 1:13:44.280 --> 1:13:46.400 how this thing really works, and then they start seeing 1:13:46.400 --> 1:13:48.360 the value in it because that's the biggest thing. 1:13:48.360 --> 1:13:49.400 And you kind of touched on. 1:13:49.360 --> 1:13:51.720 It very early on. It was like we don't we 1:13:51.840 --> 1:13:54.639 hear about it, but we don't see it. So now 1:13:54.760 --> 1:13:57.560 you get someone that can actually like in your household. 1:13:57.720 --> 1:14:00.760 You seeing them actually on the golf course and what 1:14:00.880 --> 1:14:04.040 opportunities are coming about, You're like, Okay, it is real. 1:14:04.200 --> 1:14:06.280 It is doable, because that's the thing. You just got 1:14:06.320 --> 1:14:09.400 to make it real and tangible. So to his point, 1:14:09.439 --> 1:14:11.639 I just think like we are focused on a younger 1:14:11.680 --> 1:14:14.320 generation for sure, but like I feel like we naturally 1:14:14.400 --> 1:14:16.479 do that and they want to kind of play golf. 1:14:16.800 --> 1:14:18.800 But like I would say, our immediate focus is young 1:14:18.880 --> 1:14:22.040 professionals investing in them because if we do that, then 1:14:22.040 --> 1:14:24.200 they'll start having kids and training up their kids will 1:14:24.200 --> 1:14:26.360 it'll just be normal, because it's just like, I don't 1:14:26.360 --> 1:14:28.200 know my dad was always playing golf. 1:14:28.240 --> 1:14:29.639 I didn't know that was not anything. 1:14:29.680 --> 1:14:30.960 It's just like when you grow up in a house, 1:14:31.000 --> 1:14:33.320 you don't know, like you grow up wherever in the project. 1:14:33.400 --> 1:14:35.759 You're just like, I didn't know it was something different. 1:14:35.760 --> 1:14:38.000 Id't know this world was bad. This was just my world. 1:14:38.120 --> 1:14:40.120 It's just my universe. So it's like, how do we 1:14:40.200 --> 1:14:43.439 normalize golf, how do we normalize stocks, assets, all of 1:14:43.479 --> 1:14:45.880 those things for the next generation and they can actually 1:14:45.920 --> 1:14:46.800 see the results of it. 1:14:47.080 --> 1:14:51.439 And honestly, we're breaking the company into three branches. One 1:14:51.520 --> 1:14:53.680 being a pail, the main branch where we make all 1:14:53.720 --> 1:14:58.920 our bread. The second branch being the professional route. Well 1:14:59.479 --> 1:15:03.479 i'm sorry, nonprofit route, So nonprofit money that we receive, 1:15:03.640 --> 1:15:08.280 we would put it towards sponsoring black professional golfers, making 1:15:08.280 --> 1:15:12.280 more professional golfers, but then also making more professional black 1:15:12.320 --> 1:15:16.880 teachers as well, expanding that PG of America reach and 1:15:17.000 --> 1:15:19.639 to where they'll still be rocking east side. So that's 1:15:19.640 --> 1:15:21.920 the second branch, and then the third one is teaching, 1:15:22.160 --> 1:15:24.080 so he would be a part of that one and 1:15:25.080 --> 1:15:29.400 actually making like I said, more PJ professionals, but teaching 1:15:29.439 --> 1:15:31.120 them and having the opportunity to. 1:15:31.040 --> 1:15:33.960 Get them accredited through east Side. That's a goal of ours. 1:15:34.280 --> 1:15:39.040 So now we're giving people accreditations, you know what I'm saying, 1:15:39.160 --> 1:15:42.559 and they can run an entire golf course. Also we're 1:15:42.600 --> 1:15:44.559 trying to put well, we're going to be putting money 1:15:44.560 --> 1:15:47.040 towards the younger individuals that want to play golf and 1:15:47.600 --> 1:15:50.559 getting them donations, the balls, the clubs, the clothes, and 1:15:50.840 --> 1:15:53.200 to where they can be out there and they can 1:15:53.240 --> 1:15:55.679 be accepted by the golf course or by the people 1:15:55.760 --> 1:15:58.519 around it. But all of those things, I mean, I 1:15:58.520 --> 1:16:02.040 would say that's the that's the plan to actually influence an. 1:16:02.760 --> 1:16:07.200 So speaking of teaching, you had a very prestigious student 1:16:08.560 --> 1:16:11.080 from your state. Yeah, can you elaborate on it? 1:16:12.560 --> 1:16:15.040 Yeah, Now I was, well, I guess now the President 1:16:15.680 --> 1:16:21.200 of the United States currently, mister Joe Biden. I had 1:16:21.200 --> 1:16:23.759 an opportunity to teach him, which was kind of crazy. 1:16:23.760 --> 1:16:26.400 Like the story was wild because I'm at Womanton Country 1:16:26.400 --> 1:16:27.719 Club and like I said, I was the first African 1:16:27.760 --> 1:16:30.040 American god pro there and I used to caddy there, 1:16:30.040 --> 1:16:31.760 So it was like a full circle thing where like 1:16:31.960 --> 1:16:34.559 if you know caddies like just there just carrying the clubs. 1:16:34.560 --> 1:16:37.760 It's not nothing sexy about caddying. And then to come 1:16:37.800 --> 1:16:41.000 back and get an opportunity to teach there. But one 1:16:41.120 --> 1:16:43.400 day I'm just doing my thing, you know, and at 1:16:43.400 --> 1:16:45.040 this point I was getting a lot of recognition from 1:16:45.040 --> 1:16:49.840 my teaching at this time, and somebody, my man Ron Oliver, 1:16:50.040 --> 1:16:51.680 comes in, who is close to Jail, that's like his 1:16:51.760 --> 1:16:54.280 best friend, and he says, Yo, like you ready, he's 1:16:54.280 --> 1:16:56.400 out there on a lesson tea. I'm like, huh what 1:16:56.560 --> 1:16:58.599 So all right, I go out there and showing up 1:16:58.880 --> 1:17:02.120 it's Joe Biden. But it's crazy because, like I tell people, 1:17:02.200 --> 1:17:04.800 like you're training them, but it's like an audience now, 1:17:04.880 --> 1:17:07.720 like you got secret service there. They's super tight on you. 1:17:07.800 --> 1:17:10.920 Everybody's looking like, oh that's Joe, that's Joe. And I 1:17:11.040 --> 1:17:12.400 was a cool it was, you know, I just kind 1:17:12.400 --> 1:17:14.360 of got in my teaching mode, you know, because I 1:17:14.360 --> 1:17:16.320 love to teach. So we were just out there just 1:17:16.400 --> 1:17:18.160 chopping it up, helping him out, you know, making better 1:17:18.160 --> 1:17:20.280 contact with the golf ball and then you know, just 1:17:20.320 --> 1:17:22.320 small conversation and one of the things I just remember, 1:17:22.360 --> 1:17:23.960 I'm like, so, you know, what do you like about 1:17:23.960 --> 1:17:24.400 coming out here? 1:17:24.439 --> 1:17:25.639 The most, like what's your highlight? 1:17:25.840 --> 1:17:27.439 And he was like, I get to drive the golf 1:17:27.479 --> 1:17:30.000 cart because everywhere I've been for like the last. 1:17:29.720 --> 1:17:32.479 You know, eight years, I get driven. I don't get 1:17:32.479 --> 1:17:33.240 to drive no more. 1:17:33.280 --> 1:17:34.639 So it's kind of out there. He gets a little 1:17:34.680 --> 1:17:36.960 bit more controlled. But it was it was a dope experience, 1:17:37.240 --> 1:17:37.680 you know what I mean. 1:17:37.720 --> 1:17:39.000 It was just something that he was like. 1:17:39.040 --> 1:17:41.280 Yo, keep going, keep doing your thing, and just you know, 1:17:41.280 --> 1:17:43.280 I was able to kind of capture that moment, you know, 1:17:43.800 --> 1:17:45.719 with a photograph. So it was definitely one of those 1:17:45.720 --> 1:17:47.880 dope experience to be able to, you know, teach the 1:17:47.960 --> 1:17:50.439 vice president then, but now the president of the United States. 1:17:51.280 --> 1:17:51.800 You have it. 1:17:51.840 --> 1:17:53.000 Michael Jordan's. 1:17:55.720 --> 1:17:58.880 Yeah, it's been it's been crazy to support for the brand. 1:17:59.120 --> 1:18:00.720 You know, there's so many people need to shout out 1:18:00.800 --> 1:18:02.439 like you know, like I said, Chris Paul has been 1:18:02.600 --> 1:18:03.800 unbelievable supportive. 1:18:04.120 --> 1:18:04.320 You know. 1:18:04.520 --> 1:18:06.479 Uh you know that we signed the c A A. 1:18:07.200 --> 1:18:10.439 You got Sean Pecos over there signed them. 1:18:10.520 --> 1:18:12.320 Yeah, yeah agents. 1:18:12.479 --> 1:18:15.559 Yeah, they do brand representation for us over there. 1:18:16.360 --> 1:18:19.600 Because we did the uh posted we met Dayne. 1:18:20.640 --> 1:18:23.599 Off course, yeah, so we worked with his his division 1:18:23.640 --> 1:18:26.400 over there too. So Peckos works over there, Desmond is 1:18:26.400 --> 1:18:28.000 over there, Lisa is managers. 1:18:28.040 --> 1:18:28.639 So it's a whole. 1:18:28.800 --> 1:18:33.040 It's a team called Amplifi or yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. 1:18:33.080 --> 1:18:35.040 So they so that's the division. So we sit in 1:18:35.080 --> 1:18:35.879 the golf division. 1:18:36.640 --> 1:18:38.400 So we got two folks over there, one by the 1:18:38.439 --> 1:18:40.400 name of a net Park and she's been excellent in 1:18:40.520 --> 1:18:43.200 Sam Sternberg, So Sam and and that is kind of 1:18:43.200 --> 1:18:43.719 like manager. 1:18:43.800 --> 1:18:44.879 What do they do for you? 1:18:44.920 --> 1:18:48.360 So they bring in brand partnerships, so basically like you know, 1:18:48.400 --> 1:18:51.120 we get opportunities. So we signed, well, yeah we can 1:18:51.120 --> 1:18:53.200 tell the BMW h we got a two year deal 1:18:53.240 --> 1:18:55.160 with BMW Championship that we did. 1:18:55.960 --> 1:18:58.439 You also have a deal with you guys are like 1:18:58.520 --> 1:18:59.440 this one coinbase. 1:19:00.040 --> 1:19:02.439 Well so yeah, just imagine you know what I'm saying 1:19:02.479 --> 1:19:06.360 that that was the whole thing, taking financial literacy and 1:19:06.400 --> 1:19:07.120 making it cool. 1:19:07.400 --> 1:19:07.599 You know. 1:19:07.680 --> 1:19:10.040 So now you got a cool logo and every time 1:19:10.080 --> 1:19:12.400 you see it you think it damn like finance is 1:19:12.439 --> 1:19:15.080 cool too, Like maybe I want to start reading up 1:19:15.120 --> 1:19:21.599 on that or take the you know, Eyo University. 1:19:23.040 --> 1:19:25.240 Yeah, so they like they helped manage a lot of 1:19:25.280 --> 1:19:28.800 our deals for us and also like kind of you know, 1:19:29.040 --> 1:19:32.519 within their portfolio that gives us opportunity and exposure because 1:19:32.560 --> 1:19:34.640 they you know, they're connected to so many different athletes, 1:19:34.680 --> 1:19:36.400 like for the whole seeding opportunity. 1:19:36.680 --> 1:19:37.439 So it's been great. 1:19:37.479 --> 1:19:39.639 Like CIA has been really really to be a part 1:19:39.680 --> 1:19:41.840 of like that powerhouse and like the heads of it 1:19:41.880 --> 1:19:44.120 as well, because they all plays golf right like, so 1:19:44.200 --> 1:19:46.240 the head of sports, the head of music, the head 1:19:46.280 --> 1:19:48.080 of it is the head of that and CIA has 1:19:48.120 --> 1:19:51.360 that reach. 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