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So if you listen, if you're a 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:16.920 loyal listening to us, if you're association, if you're a 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:20.200 loyal listener to to the ARNI a leisure platform. You 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:22.880 know that we hip hop heads. We really grew up 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:27.400 listening to rap and it really influenced us a lot, 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:31.280 a lot, a lot, probably more than anything for sure. 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:35.400 So you know, coming from Westchester now one four of course, 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:38.720 of course one of our major influences is none other 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:41.160 than the Locks. That's like, we grew up on the Lox. 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:44.160 That's the fact, Yo, mid nineties kids, that's all we had, 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:46.840 That's all we had. I forget the first time I 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:49.400 heard You'll see, I was like, Yo, they're from where 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:49.880 we're from. 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:54.160 Yo. Yeah, it wasn't too many. I mean you always 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:58.280 had Pete Roxy, oh smooth, you had heavy D brand 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:03.640 older than us, so like growing up like you guys DMX. 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:06.760 Of course I can't forget about the dog, but it was, 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:08.840 it was a big deal. So this is this is 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:10.880 big for us. This is this is something that we're 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:14.520 definitely looking forward to. The interview styles p the Ghosts, 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:21.160 none other and Odua styles. I get very nervous when 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:21.880 I pronounced names. 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:23.680 You always say pronounce it for me. 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:27.360 My name is Bla Alway. People always call me Rashid. 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:31.240 They and you are I know how I feel. 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:33.680 So first and foremost song, we want to thank you 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:35.280 guys for joining us, appreciate. 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:37.400 It, thank you for havings, for having Yeah. 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:39.800 So we're gonna talk about a variety of different things 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.840 because you guys are entrepreneurs and this is an entrepreneur 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:46.400 business platform. But first I want to start where it 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:49.200 all started for you, styles in the music business. And 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:51.200 I feel like you're interested when it comes to music, 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:55.960 because it's not too many artists that like twenty five 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:58.440 years you've been in the game or something like that, probably. 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:01.280 Yeah, Like so it's almost very very long time. 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:03.760 It's almost three decades, so it's not too many artists 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:06.720 that have actually transitioned for that long period of time. 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:09.799 So you came in Bad Boy Records. 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:10.680 In ninety six. 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:15.919 I was nineteen ninety six, is yeah my professional debut? 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:20.560 Yeah yeah, So how has things changed? Because it's like, 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:23.560 I feel like you came in young and obviously you probably, 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.520 like all artists, you don't really know the business, but 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:29.440 you learned the business as you go. So, like, how 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:33.000 has the music industry changed in your opinion from the 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:35.920 nineties when we was having a million dollar videos and 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:39.360 now you know it's all about it's changed. 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:41.760 It's changed tremendously because times have changed. 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:45.160 I mean it was it's bound and changing it because 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:49.800 everything about it has changed. How you lay music, how 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:51.800 you could send it, how fast you could send it. 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:55.880 You know, it wasn't Protus twelve or whatever we're on 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:59.840 right now those you know, it started with rails and 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:01.280 things of that nature. 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.320 Then at times just kept advancing. 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:06.280 So I think things have changed because as you said, 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:08.560 like when we were coming in a game, you guys 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:10.200 loved us because you knew we were from. 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:12.640 Nine one four. It meant something. So I think. 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:17.080 Where you you know, people were more touched by where 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:19.119 people were from when they got the hit their music, 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:21.679 and it was more like you're invested in the story 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:25.880 now as to where Now with the Internet, you know, 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:28.360 people know where they're from and love where they're from. 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:31.560 But you know, New Yorkers may sound like a South dude. 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:33.479 You may have a bunch of New York dudes who 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:35.680 don't sound like they're from New York just because they 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:38.599 have the reach and access to everywhere else in the 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:40.560 world now, like you know what I mean. So I 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:44.880 think that alone and just technology and how much money 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:48.320 has been made and how big the industry changes it all. 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:50.520 I think one of the things that's commendable. 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:52.839 And yeah, you've been in it for twenty five years, 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:55.560 but y'all been a group for that long. We don't 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:58.279 see that in hip hop. We don't see guys sticking together. 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:00.160 I know one of my favorite lines you have that 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:02.440 was like every man's ahead of the group, and like 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:05.320 y'all stuck by that. But at a certain point, I 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:07.760 think you probably, maybe the forefront of it, you had 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:10.719 an independent situation. And what's preaching that is that because 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:12.640 of business deals that you've had obviously the bad. 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:15.560 Boy era, and just because you're in a group, don't 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:18.400 mean you all have to visualize. 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:19.479 And see everything the same way. 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.400 Like we're a group, and you know, we keep out 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:25.720 what goes on in between the group between a group 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:29.480 as far as business goes, I like independence and I 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:32.039 like major I just don't like working for people. I 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.560 like working with people. I don't really have anything against 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:37.320 the majors. It's just when you're on a major as 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:42.000 an artist, you know, it's it gets difficult, you know 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:44.520 what I mean? So I'd rather do business with you 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:46.839 and work with you than work for you. I'm not 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:50.200 a I'm not good with working for people, you know 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:53.160 what I mean. So we're independent, your life is more 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.760 on your in your own hands, and you're you're more 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:59.760 control and you know. But with that, I've learned how 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:02.360 to do business in the majors and learn if I'm 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:04.400 going to go work with the majors, I'm gonna do 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:08.400 a partnership and not just be an artist, like you 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:10.200 know what I mean. So I think it's a fine 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:12.360 line between what makes you comfortable as a person. 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:15.919 Well when did that? Because I obviously, like Steve Stole, 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:18.920 everybody told about owning your masters. Now that's like real popular. 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:22.240 Yeah you guys as early on that obviously the issue 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:24.800 with bad Boy whatever as far as but at one point, 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:27.880 I guess you had to realize, like getting on your masters, 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:30.599 it's important to own your masters a for like up 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:32.719 and coming artists and creators. How important can we hear 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:35.880 about masters a lot? Right? But like as an artist, 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:38.320 how important is it actually to own your masters? And 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:40.920 when did that actually trigger in your brain? 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:44.839 Like yo, I think I think with anything you do, 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:47.320 that's like you want to own it if you put 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:49.360 your time in your and your effort and your working, 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.279 like you know what I mean, Like if you started 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:55.520 to start somewhere or you start anything, that the object 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.359 to end. The object is for ownership, to have ownership 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:01.760 of something, to have some kind of equity, and how 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:04.479 we're in the equity of whatever business you're involved in. 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:06.920 So I think once you start getting to the numbers 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:10.200 of how it's crunched down in music, you start understanding 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:11.360 it's a small part. 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:11.800 Of the scale. 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:13.760 But then it's also a flip side to it because 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:15.760 it really depends on what type of artists you are, 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:17.680 you know what I mean, and what you want to do, 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:18.840 Like what are you in it for? 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:20.960 What are you trying to do with it? 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:24.560 So it's like, you know, I think it's a broad 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:26.760 conversation when it comes to saying, all right, I want 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:28.880 to own my masters. We've been around for a lot 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:30.520 of years, so it makes sense for us to want 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:31.440 to own our masters. 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.000 It makes sense for everybody to want to own their masters. 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:38.040 But a lot of people, you know, it takes a 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:39.800 lot to learn the music game, like you know what 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:43.760 I mean, And as it goes, I think people still. 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:44.560 Don't know what's going on. 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:48.480 I don't I'm still learning everything everything in life with 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:51.560 me is a constant learning process every day, Like I don't, 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:55.600 I will never Yeah, by default, I never know most 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:58.160 of us just knowing I don't know enoughing I need 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.200 to learn something new, and having a wife that always 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:04.080 reminds me. You know, you want to be around smarter people, 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:06.720 people who know more, or people who are more. 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:09.280 Experienced, people you could gather something from. 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:13.240 So don't I can't break down to you in real 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:16.200 terms how streams work right now, and I don't think 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:18.240 most artists can. I don't think most of the people 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.120 who own the streaming business can, Like you know what 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:21.400 I mean. 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:23.640 So it's something we get adapted to and acting like 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:24.040 we know. 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:25.920 A lot of things, like if you see how thick 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:29.520 a record contract is, unless you're a lawyer, how would 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:32.280 you ever know that record contract? So the best thing 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:37.080 is now learning the power of renegotiating and being able 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:39.800 to deal with different people and then being able to say, Okay, 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:41.959 I don't know, Like I like to tell someone straight 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:44.480 up when I don't know something, but I know someone 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:46.520 who does know, And I'm not the person you should 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:49.720 jerk because I will double on triple check just to 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:52.520 make sure because I don't know. But I think when 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:55.000 any business you're in, you have to know you never 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:57.680 know enohing. It's more you could learn and I know 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:02.600 that from being married and just like you was with that, 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:07.080 but you know, but you got to move on. And 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.679 that's that's not just for work, that's kind of what 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:13.400 with life in general. Like not to be funny, but 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:15.400 like that was this morning, Like it was like, all right, 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:18.560 you go over certain things and you have to put 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:21.280 it in playing your life and that's pretty much work 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:21.560 for me. 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.719 I want to ask you a question. So here all 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:30.360 the time, you shouldn't mix business and family. You shouldn't 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:32.920 work with your especially your spouse. It's kind of difficult 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:35.760 to like meet with somebody. 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:45.679 You're always gonna get us in trouble. I'm like, no, 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:46.839 it's great, it's great. 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.040 But yeah, so I mean I think that's important. Like 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:53.160 how does that work as far as the dynamic of 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:55.920 you guys a business partners, but you're also life partners 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.640 as well, Like, well, how's that work out? 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:03.079 Well, it's taken to time to get an adjustment. No really, 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:06.640 because initially you just go into it and then you realize, okay, 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:09.040 we are actually spending a lot of time with each 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:12.840 other and then you do to certain things that happen, 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.439 you realize we actually have the same outlook at the 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:18.440 end of the day. So it's like we'll go through 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:20.240 certain things, but we know at the end of the 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.760 day what our end goal is and what we want 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:24.120 for each other and as a family. 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:26.960 So but it definitely gets challenging, and. 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:32.080 We for the most part, I would say organized and 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:33.199 I ration in the time. 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:35.640 Yeah, and I plan it, you know what I mean. 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:38.360 Like some days I'll say, like you should handle this, 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:43.080 Like we can't be around each other the energy. Sometimes 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:47.000 it's just not copaesthetic every day. So it just becomes, 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.199 you know, understanding that we'll still have to see each 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:50.240 other at the end of the day. 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:51.800 So how we. 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:55.760 Can you know, delegate during the day have a better 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:56.760 peaceful evening. 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:59.199 I feel like watching it from the sideline from outside 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.840 looking in, it's like some people hire managers and some 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:03.319 people have wives. 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:07.520 Because throughout, you know, even with his managers, I have 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:10.240 a good strong relationship with them because we have to 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:13.400 all work and you know, with each other, just. 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:22.040 To suit him, I mean, must have been a conversation. 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:25.120 It's a great harmonious marriage because we need to have 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.560 everybody needs to be cohesive, and in order to do that, 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:31.319 we have to be on the same page. So the 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:34.880 relationships are very important and I have to be involved 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:36.760 with them, and not so much just to be controlling, 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:40.320 but just so that everything's organized and I get the 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:42.080 full scope on how to plan things. 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:43.000 You know, s P. 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:45.679 I'm thinking, doesn't this make life easier though, right when 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:48.360 when you've got when you got your life partner help 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:49.240 manage in the life. 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:53.040 Yeah, No, if it's the right partner, yes and no. No, 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:56.480 even with the right partners. Yeah, even with the right partners, 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:57.040 yes and no. 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:01.200 It's because it depends what lady, in what space you 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:04.720 are in life, to be honest, because if it forces 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.280 you to grow, like because some days she says things 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:10.000 to me that I really don't want to hear. And 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:14.920 it's like I would say, constructive criticism, but that you 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:16.600 learned later to be thankful for. 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.240 But some days I'm not the how I work and 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:20.360 she works, we work. 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:23.120 We have a lot of likenesses and then we have 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.720 a lot of differences. So sometimes were like this, it's 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:29.320 like dealing with a mirror. It's like so sometimes, like 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.480 like she said, it's like you know what you do 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:34.319 this today. I'll do this today, or you do this, 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:37.440 I'll do this, and then we'll we'll we'll figure it 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:40.920 out later because most of the time she's more right 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:42.160 than me, and I. 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:42.679 Just don't like it. 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:43.480 No, he doesn't. 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:45.520 But again it's I don't keep it a buck like 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:47.960 sometimes I like being right, like you know what I mean, 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:51.360 like like wrong? 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:54.320 But hey, so, how did how did this come about? 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:57.440 This is interesting in because so. 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:02.800 And shout Daniel, but yeah, Greenberg connection. 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:06.920 Is that your name? I don't know if you just 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:10.320 found that out fact depending on where you met up. 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:12.560 But he made a good point because he was, like, 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:16.160 you know, he's personally witnessed the community changed once the 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:18.319 juice bar opened, Like people come in here and it's 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:20.720 part of their daily routine. Like he said, he actually 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:23.760 saw the transformation happen. And he brung up a point 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:25.960 that you know, well south youka is where we are 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:28.199 right now is a food desert. I used to live 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:30.080 in Baltimore and I did a research study and that's 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:32.400 the first time I actually learned about food deserts. I 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:35.079 never really realized that it was. You just get used 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:38.720 to it. But where it's strategically placed, where it's they're 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:41.720 not like real healthy sources for people to get food, 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:43.840 and then they have to spend more money on junk 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:46.760 food than they like buy like groceries and like gas stations, 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:48.760 and it's like all kinds of processed foods and all that. 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:52.040 So how did this come about? As far as Okay, 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:55.760 you're a rap artist and now you are opening juice bar? 0:13:56.440 --> 0:14:01.040 Was this is a multiple answering. 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:04.400 One one my wife here, I was on the road 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:09.119 a lot, so she was telling me to eat better. 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:12.439 And just live better. When I get home, I always ate, well, 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:13.360 you know what I mean. 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.400 So but like I never knew what kill was until 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:19.920 I was like, I know, spinach and collar green. 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:22.040 I was like, what the hell's kille? So just some 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:23.760 introducing foods to my life. 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:28.200 And then also my partner and nine Nige, he had 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:30.239 a juice on one hundred and twenty fifth. 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:32.680 Fruits of Life. 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:37.680 So just listening to her being on a roll like 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:41.080 trying to carry it outside. And then also looking for 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.480 peace too. I was I was getting in a lot 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:45.440 of trouble at the time on the street, so I 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.600 was trying to look for a new hangout and looked 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:51.160 for some peace at the same time, and then from 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:55.080 going there just you know, it was probably me, my partner, 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:58.400 nine like my other partner Leo, and maybe five to 0:14:58.480 --> 0:14:59.960 six other customers at first. 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:02.120 So I just started making it part of life, like. 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:04.760 Whoever wanted to meet me or see me wherever, Like 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:06.640 just meet me on two fifth of the juice ball, 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:08.080 I have a juice eat. 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:14.960 And then I lost weight. Yeah, you know, start changing, 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:16.440 and I just started pushing it more. 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.160 And then really it was at the we were living 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:22.360 pretty well, and so as we started living better and 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:25.920 moving to better places, and then just like also, like 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:28.080 I said, I didn't even know what organic was until 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.560 she told me, Like, so you know, I lived a 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:33.560 certain way for a long time, and still I was 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:36.880 like organic that sounded so farming, and organic is just 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:39.360 the right thing in me is naturally and it's right 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:42.480 form on tampered with, but that sounded so feign to me. 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:46.480 So from just you know, having my wife going to 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:49.160 the jewe Far and then noticing, as you know, making money, 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:51.600 I was like, wow, we how they live in other 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:54.080 neighborhoods and you know, you think it's just the parks 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:56.200 and the schools, but when you start getting to the 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:59.600 supermarkets and walking down the aisles and start really paying attention. 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:03.280 I started really just paying attention, and we started paying attention. 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:08.120 But the ultimate benefit for him was the benefits from it. Yeah, 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.600 you know, so aside from all of that, like when 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.480 you really start to see certain things heal and you know, 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:16.800 ailments heal and get better and your body start to 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:19.760 change and turn around and respond to your new diet, 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:21.760 then it's more of an incentive to keep going. 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:25.720 So spread the word. Yeah, you spread the word. 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:28.200 In my mind, I was thinking like, because, like I said, 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:30.800 we've watched you grow up like this. We've watched it happened. 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:32.960 So in my mind, I'm thinking, like, what was the event? 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:34.960 And now you're saying that your wife introduced it to you. 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:38.080 So I'm wondering, have you always been on the healthy kid? Yes, 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:41.000 so like you introduced it because this was already your life. 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:41.520 Yeah. 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:41.800 Yes. 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.480 Now the thing about me is I was raised in 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:47.920 a rosta household. So that's I told that's you know, no, 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:48.920 what is it? 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:50.800 Come on? 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:57.880 I was vital, but the no flying SARTs so and 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.240 I didn't want to say that that the. 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:02.520 Household I grew up in, you know, And I just 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:06.639 kind of you know, continued it when I got older. 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:08.760 So when I got married and I had kids, and 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:12.080 I wanted them to eat healthy. That's how I you know, 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:14.760 cooked and so forth. And I think as we got 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:17.199 older and developed as a couple and we were growing, 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:20.280 we just tried to always do things better. You know, 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:23.800 we're always trying to improve on something, especially if you know, 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:26.840 we you know, get sick or the kids get sick, 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:29.840 when somebody responds to something negatively, we're always like, okay, 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:31.760 well we're not going to do that anymore, and let's 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:38.080 just go do something else. So because he had some issues, 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:41.800 like he was hyper, he was he had what. 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:47.800 You had. When those things healed and. 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:52.919 The juice, it sounds like. 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:58.919 When you lost a lot of weight. I remember seeing 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:01.320 that you lost the out of weight. I think Kiss 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:03.520 lost a lot of weight too. You didn kiss Crew here. 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:11.560 I didn't even know that was him. I'm like, yo, 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:17.520 he was just purposely balled. Jesus is like magical. But 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:20.439 so whose idea was it? For the strategic partners? That's 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:22.240 another thing thing told about that was actually pretty dope. 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:23.480 When he told me about that, Like, I guess in 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:25.560 each location you got like different partners. 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:29.680 Well, I but in the juice Wow. I really wasn't 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:31.439 meant to being a juice bo. I was forced by 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:34.280 my partner's noth leal like in doing it. They was 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:36.360 like I told you I used to visit the juice bar. 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:39.119 Then you know, it was his family's business. He was 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:42.880 doing something else and then he closed down and then 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:45.400 he just called me and he kept kept in contact call. 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:48.040 He was like, nah, I'm opening another juice barn. You're 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:48.480 my partner. 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:50.320 I was like, nah, I'm good because I was supposed 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:51.760 to be a partner down there. 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:53.640 I used to ask me. I was like, nah, I'm cool. 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:54.800 Let me just I. 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:56.680 Didn't really I didn't want to be invested in it 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:59.399 because I wasn't. I didn't know enough, you know what 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:01.840 I mean. And I just really wanted it people to 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:04.240 feel good how I was feeling. So he was like, 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:06.160 not for what you do. You got to be part 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:06.359 of it. 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:06.959 You're in it. 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:13.439 So because of him, so it was like a no brainer. 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:17.199 So it just worked and then some I promoted. I 0:19:17.240 --> 0:19:18.600 was like the cheerleader for you. 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:20.240 Got four juic locations. 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:23.480