WEBVTT - Episode 2 - Twin, Call Me 0:00:01.280 --> 0:00:06.680 If money comes power, and sometimes people could get lucky, 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:09.840 you know, not the smartest people that get lucky and 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:13.280 they have that money that shouldn't have power, and they 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:16.799 say power corrupts. What you see us today, asked, is 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:21.279 what you're seeing us before? It didn't change us. A 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:24.919 lot of the structures, specifically in Chicago during the time 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:30.680 period where minorities would be suppressed. So it's they just 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:33.360 didn't have the money the way those cool leather jackets 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:36.919 the Panthers had. What they was trying to run their 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:41.040 neighborhoods at that point, the threat is just a white 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:45.159 person saying you're coming home. You get attacked and sucked over. 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:49.800 Just forbid this. In those early points, the guy that 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:51.640 is willing to stand in front because he got a 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:54.760 good debt all you can really throw a punt. It 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:58.920 doesn't necessarily have any leadership skills or abilities. It's funny 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:03.360 because people call those nerves and stuff gil. That's a 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:07.080 compliment to me. It's pretty tough to me. I feel 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:11.080 like that ain't cool now, And the beginning THERD wasn't cool. 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:16.120 That was like rcle. Yeah, but you're doing things like 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:18.119 because you watched a lot of movies and a lot 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:21.800 of videos. You know what, sail, If I did everything 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:24.560 that they did, I'd be dead, like I tell them, 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:29.039 I'd be dead and broke. So I'm hoping that, like 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:32.080 when we're telling our story, and you know, I talked 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:34.880 to my wife about this all the time that people 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:37.880 I think that we're trying to glamb my life. What 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:41.119 we want you to know is that there's a lot 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:56.640 of stuff right now. I've got to st Jackson and 0:01:56.680 --> 0:02:00.120 I'm Charlie Webster and this is surviving old Chappo. The 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:15.400 twins who brought down the drug wall. Can you imagine 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:18.000 being taken on drug runs by the age of seven 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:21.519 years old, taught the family business, and by the time 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:24.600 you're seventeen, you've got one million dollars in cash under 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:27.720 your bed. And that was just from three months work 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.960 for the Flores twins. That was just the starting point. 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:36.840 They were out on their own. The dad futuritive in Mexico, 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:44.440 the brother in prison. I remember having a note left 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.639 in our door and my brother's house forward staying at 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:53.200 there was a notice call me come twin coming in. 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:57.720 When I did car it was it was Tommy. He 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:02.120 was my brother's I'm connect the stores of for getting drugs. 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:07.520 He tells me, Look, I just pulled into the McDonald's 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:13.080 right here. I'm getting twenty six and I remember just 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:18.239 put it into to meet him. No, and he's stands, 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:22.920 increase me. How you've been? How's your brother? He tells 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:25.720 me right away, like litten, I'm gonna post it. I 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:28.480 wanted to offer you work to see if you wanted 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:33.160 to up work with me. I got kettos of cocaine 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:39.040 and I wanted to know you needed something. I was 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:43.080 like I needed something, like but look, I want to 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:45.839 give you something. I'm pretty sure that you your brother 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:50.960 could move it. I just wanted to discuss if you're interested. 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:56.080 And I was like, well, I'm interested, but I'm not sure. 0:03:56.400 --> 0:04:01.160 You know I could help you really know, Like I 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:03.120 was like, well, let me calls someone I know that 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:05.880 it might be interested. I call him, you know, like 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:09.400 you know, this trustice friend in our family ends up 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:13.560 becoming our very first customer and we need to go 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:17.159 to eat something. You know. He doesn't take me too serious. 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:21.000 I'm still nervous, like you know, I don't have no 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:23.680 money to buy him, Like, no, don't worry, I'm gonna 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:30.440 lend them to you. Just be careful, you know. He's like, look, 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:33.520 just go home, man, I'm gonna be sending my brother, 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:50.160 you know, to go see you. So I remember going 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:55.160 home him showing up. I remember, you know, tell him 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:59.359 go around the back. I've opened the card board. He 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:02.120 pulls in. I still remember he has a gold camera. 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:05.320 It's sunny out, you know. I'm like, okay, I'm waiting 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:06.680 for him, tuning to give me a bag. He says, 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:08.800 hold on. He gets off the front seat, jumps in 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:11.560 the back seat. I know what he's doing, like from 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:15.280 my express with my brothers, like there's a station department. No, 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:18.240 they call it a trap. So I can see him 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:21.240 in the back seat pulling it out. When I go 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:24.640 get the bag, I'm gonna pull it with my shoulder. 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:29.160 I'm like, what you know, it's heavy. I don't know 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:35.400 what's in it, but I'm thinking, okay, going to the house. 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:37.880 He pulls out and I opened the bag and I 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:41.760 see that there's like bricks and bricks, and I'm like, 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:45.760 what are you saying? And now start calling him and 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:51.120 there's dirty kilos right wait a minute, So I call him. 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:52.880 I'm like, man, I think you brother made a mistake. 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.840 He sent me thirty kilos. He laughed. He said, and 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:58.760 don't worry, man, You're gonna do good. Don't worry about it. 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:01.080 Just do what you gotta do. Com Me when you 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:06.800 when you have some money. That was like a big moment. 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:09.960 I remember me and my brother talked to me. He 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:14.479 have the keys, like wherever we're gonna do, We're gonna 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:19.760 tell him. Now, we're gonna tell him. I was excited 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:23.080 and I'm like, oh, we got this, Like I'm spending 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:30.839 the money in my head. First thing you do is 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:34.320 we could a window open on the keilos, which is 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:38.080 common for some reason. I always see the keylos like this, 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:42.400 and you could a little triangle. Now you pull back 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:46.960 to those people who don't know a kilo. Actually, depending 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:49.280 on where it comes from. At that time, it was 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:52.560 more common to actually have ky locokine looks like a 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:57.320 flat brick, like more of a a brick shape. If 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:03.159 it comes to different shapes, it's not they come with 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:07.280 inner tubes, because if they're throwing in the ocean, in 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:10.600 the water, you know, yeah, that's the kind of condom. 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:14.800 It feels like. It's not that from you know, the 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:17.040 source where it was made. Because they're going to take 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:20.720 the precaution to make sure that it's protected, it doesn't 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:28.480 get wet, and it has later it comes laters, plastic, 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:31.480 clear layers. It might be a tape, it might be 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:35.760 a duct tape, aluminum foil, you know where in Chicago. 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:37.600 A lot of times by the time it gets there, 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:44.560 someone already has opened it, put a cutting agent into it, 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:49.440 reshaped it, and send it so it doesn't need the rubber, 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.400 you know, kind of the balloon. So it's a fast 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:57.400 way to tell. And it also has a stamp inside, 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:00.640 which will come from like the fact three it was made, 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:05.680 or the or what they call the laboratory when we 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:08.280 buy kilos, the what stamp do you want? And you 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:13.640 could say rolex a frog, a bear. I'm looking at 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:15.960 the brick. It has a stick on it. It has 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:18.480 a dollar bill, a hundred dollar bill with a picture 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:24.600 of a woman. And I'm painting back the layers and 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:28.680 we look and we see that it looks good, like 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:32.440 it looks smell. It smells good. Did you know what 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:36.000 it should smell? Just think smell. You're going back to 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:39.520 my brother's days. Just you know, he always made sure 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:41.760 he got the best quality and the reason why it 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:45.760 has to come package like that's because you can't buy coke, 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:48.080 like no one will buy code from me at that time, 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:50.600 coming from my bag, because that means that you could 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.960 easily put cut into it. And these are made for 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:56.600 us to actually they're sold in the street for them 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:58.760 to be able to either cut it or you can 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:03.800 make it the crack. They need the purity. And my 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:11.080 older brother they used to call him the re rock key. 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:14.800 What they'll do is take a good kilo, put some 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:18.400 cutting it, make it back look like a regular kilo 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:20.880 because they want, I guess people who snort, why not 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:25.079 like break it or whatever the cases. So we would 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:27.640 help in the process. So you need what the smells like, 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:30.959 and just to qualify when you mean it means it 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:33.640 makes it with something and you need some kind of 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:37.960 vitamin or yeah, you know something like you know that's ingestible. 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.240 We looked at the cocaine and it has like a 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:45.760 nice little glass. He kind of like a probly kind 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:48.280 of looked to it. Gossie. You know, we're like, okay, 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:51.480 it's good, so uncil we you know, like we're excited. 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:58.360 My older brother that had these stash compartments made in 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:00.840 the in our home, and one of one was in 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:05.360 my bedroom and there was there was a mirror, a 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:08.920 mirror on the wall and it would have two remote controls, 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:13.160 one for the power and one for the to pop 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:16.040 it like a trunk. The reason for the power is 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:18.880 just in case they come. And the FED had like 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:22.679 equipment that were the surgeries and power surchers, power schurgers 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:26.679 that would make things open. So we've cut the power off. 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:29.800 I remember couldn't power on. I could hear the more 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:31.800 to run and then popping it and it was still 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:39.760 working good and throw all the ketles in that then 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:48.560 calling that customer. Come on. Our customer comes and he's 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:52.520 like I showed him. It was like he feels back 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:55.959 the layers and the Southern and he's like, man, you 0:10:56.080 --> 0:11:02.240 got some kilos and you really got one. Yeah, he's like, 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:06.040 holy shingle. Look, man, don't tell nobody you have them. 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:14.360 You know, let me make some cause we've seen his 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:17.560 eyes lit up. We knew when he did that. He 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:20.720 was like, I'm going to take advantage of this situation. 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:24.640 And I think instantly we started kind of like saying 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:28.520 we're not gonna depend on one person. You don't have 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.040 us literally by the balls if he was our only customer, 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:37.319 so he takes them by the end of the night, 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:40.920 like he came back with the money. I think it 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.160 took its longer account the money that they didn't actually 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:46.120 sell the kilos, because remember you're coming and you have 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:49.720 a pile of you know, ones and fives and tens 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.040 and twenties, and you're like, we don't have no money. 0:11:52.040 --> 0:12:02.240 Would sound that say it's account The probly took of 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:04.640 like four hours. I think the excitement was it was like, 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:06.880 I can't believe we just made you know whatever, how 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:11.360 much is it? It was like maybe twentieth thousands, but 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:13.640 it was still a lot of money for us. We're 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:20.120 seventeen years old. Just to recap, we went from not 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:23.520 having much one day to having a minuteous worth of 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:27.880 drugs in her hands seventeen years old, to being able 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:32.880 to sell them make money. And now you know what 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:36.200 the money we made were seventeen that day. You know, 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:38.240 I said before we were hugged, we were addicted to 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:44.200 that life. Junry Cars closed going down. You know, we 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:46.720 hadn't paid to every going into every club. We're seventeen. 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.599 We want to be where all the dolts are he 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:52.199 took money for that. You're easily spending thousand lots of 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:55.440 day and anything food and food restaurants. We were used 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:59.320 to eating good. We're wasting a lot of money and 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:08.320 we're like walking work. So my brother and I started 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:12.319 saving money. We say we hustled hard and we just 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:14.520 saved saying we took the money we just needed to 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.960 live on. And I remember things like once we had 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:23.439 that millond, with this, we could buy Vintikilo's cash right, 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:27.599 make a hundred grand four times a month, like we 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:29.319 can't live even We did it once a where we 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.240 can't live off, that's something wrong with us. It wasn't 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:35.679 allowuntil we started having pronounce with the Fens that we're 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:44.600 doing a lot of dumb things. Their older brother, Armando 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.040 was the only person they could rely on, and he 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.880 was now in prison, so with no one else to 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:52.559 turn to, they decided to take a quick trip down 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:56.199 to Mexico to cool off with the Feds and get 0:13:56.280 --> 0:14:02.240 so much needed fatherly advice. I still remember going to 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:04.800 being in Mexico and my father sending us down and 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:09.360 he pointed out our our mistakes. You're ready on the run, 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:12.760 he said, listen, you guys gotta figure out what you 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:19.480 guys want. You're here, like where you're gonna live, where's 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:21.760 your cart? If you didn't think about none of that, 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:24.280 you just here you spend your money on and what 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:30.360 he would call them things and and bullshit. We talked 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:33.680 about the future, like our business, you know, our our 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:38.520 plans about the wood is you know how we can 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:43.200 make it better? Like what we could actually do, And 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:45.520 he would tell I wanted to know something. Prisons hard, 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:49.960 Prison is hard, and you guys don't want to go 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:53.080 to prison. But he's right, I don't want to go 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:56.440 to prison and don't. And I think it was a 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:59.080 wake up call like Okay, we're only going to start 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:01.560 focusing and what we're going to do and what we're 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:05.680 doing wrong. And me and my brother just started like saying, okay, 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:09.280 let's focus on it, concent trade on being successful. And 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:12.640 they helped that. When we got back, the feeder are 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:17.360 still on us. Let's be And it wasn't about let's 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:20.400 be successful, let's not get caught. The main goal was like, 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:24.760 don't get a cut. The twins returned from their three 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:30.800 months Mexican sabbatical armed with their father's expert advice and 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:34.720 set about building their business in Chicago. It was funny. 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.360 We never said let's just start by that, and degree 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.200 was sold. Set in that You're like, there's too much 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:45.520 money to be made. Our customers d drugs and began 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:48.400 to inverse, like out of the profits that we're making 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:53.040 and back into the business. It's like me, You're wondering 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:56.640 where to seventeen year old learned the entrepreneurial skills to 0:15:56.760 --> 0:16:00.360 start their own business. Well, it turns out I learned 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:07.800 it from the same place many kids do. Yeah, right, 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:12.520 welcome to mcdwals. Might I take you order? Yeah, that's right, 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:16.360 amongst the happy meals and the chicken nuggets. That's where 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:20.480 Pete and Jay refined their trade. I go to mcdonals, 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:23.520 apply for the job. They give me the job. I 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:26.640 love the job and the sense of responsibility. A little bit. 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:31.200 I've seen that there's nothing but fifteen and sixteen year 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:34.720 old kids working at McDonald's and I'm thinking, like, and 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:38.720 they're making McDonalds millions and millions of dollars. The learned 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:42.320 managers come again, so someone the workers at that time, 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:46.120 I didn't know English, probably did read it. How write 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.760 with guests like they made that restaurant, one of those 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:53.560 successful restaurants in the city. Why could it be created 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:56.520 the system where you can't mess it up, Like you 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:58.520 can't mess it up, man, you can learn how to 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.560 run McDonald's on a day, like you know. And I 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:04.200 took advantage of opportunity. And that's what I was seeing, 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:07.440 Like I was learning the business part at McDonald's. Like 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:10.480 it wasn't just like I'm learning to do fries. I'm 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:13.600 learning the girl. I watched the dishes, I did the 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:19.800 drive through, I did the front. We were working there. 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:25.200 We were like, man, lunchtime on was packed. There's a 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:30.639 black like they're making money, Like we're learning that valley. 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:38.639 And I think that helps as well because later in 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:40.360 my career, like I had to do the same thing. 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:43.520 You know, I'm I'm I'm pushing hundreds of kilos at 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:47.399 the time, you knowing, addicting what we're gonna need the 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:49.359 first of the month come around, I'm gonna need a 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:52.720 lot in the middle of moment. I'm gonna have another way. 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:58.960 So I'm making these these arrangements for my trucks to 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:03.159 beat ready to go. Within a couple of days of 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:05.960 the personal month, I'm picking up millions and minutes of why. 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:08.480 Let me explain why, because for some months it was 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:13.960 government checks coming or people get paid, just like first 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:16.360 of it, like we're those are are money making times. 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:17.680 Those are the times that you want to have the 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:22.760 drugs available on the streets, need them. I'm thinking to 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:26.960 myself like, wow, one of McDonald's one day, not just 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:28.960 thinking that they're making a lot of money for you know, 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:32.560 people own it, but just for the structure of it, 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:35.800 like business concept. The way they did things was so 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:39.040 like even that before I read any books on business, 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:41.840 it was real simple to me, like this is perfect. 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:44.840 I think it was also the team environment that working 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:46.960 something collectively. I think that people always say that they 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:49.080 want to be a part of something and like that's 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:54.359 where they joined gangs and stuff. I think that commitment 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:58.000 when you bring people together and you're doing something something good. 0:18:58.240 --> 0:18:59.800 It doesn't have to be positive, but like working with 0:18:59.880 --> 0:19:02.680 the out a group of people, like I could see 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:05.879 myself being a team leader and working like that's what 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:11.280 I look for, like just to be involved. I think 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:14.040 remember it took that concept and how to treat our workers, 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:16.760 you know, and what we could do for them to 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:19.240 make them feel more comfortable, more safe. You know, we're 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:21.440 gonna take that and continue to grow it and and 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:27.440 and learn from that. For me, though, those tedious little 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:31.920 details like that, McDonald's win the extra mile to make 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:35.320 you know, the catchup pump and the mustard pump to 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:38.639 release exact amount of mustard, the exact amount of catchup 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:43.440 needed for everybody to taste the same every time, Like 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:45.720 you know what you're gonna get. That's why people go 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:48.040 to accounts that because it's great burgers, because you know 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:55.720 what you're gonna get. I remember they said, well, wash 0:19:55.800 --> 0:20:01.600 your hands, you know, every fifteen minutes. Yeah, And I 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:03.840 went to wash my hands and they had a system 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:08.000 for that, and they actually have to tell people how 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:13.200 to wash their hands. Here's the remainders are signs everywhere, 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:22.320 just in case, and look, this is what I wanted 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:25.879 to do. Later on, I remember to look, this is 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:29.520 gonna be our system because the last thing you want 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:34.720 to just have key little missing work at McDonald's thinking 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:39.159 like he didn't at the beginning stage, like and you 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:41.240 dropped something, throw that ship out. I didn't cost you 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:43.879 another thing. Man, get the customer what they want. They 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:49.000 ain't cost me you nothing. At one time they were 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:55.399 both working and Um one of the older Mexican and 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:58.240 guys I was working there. He was from Mexico, didn't 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:04.159 know English. We won't got a black of cheese and 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:06.680 he was walking back with it and the cheese fell 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:14.240 on the floor. The floors are greasy, they're dirty. Now 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:16.880 he picked on the block of cheese. Now it looks 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:21.040 like a pepper jack cheese and he was about to 0:21:21.080 --> 0:21:24.240 put it back on. The cheese continued with me and 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:29.560 my brother like what are you doing? And then we 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:33.879 look at each other, We're like, it's not your fucking cheese. 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:40.320 There's a thousand blocks of cheese and the freezer. Trust me, Mike, 0:21:40.359 --> 0:21:43.879 that was not gonna care. They don't care more that 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:48.720 you're give somebody some cheese with hair on that. But 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:51.280 it's Joe's the mentality that you would think it's common sense. 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:55.760 We had that problem. Were some of our people who 0:21:55.840 --> 0:21:57.399 they were like, no, no, I'm not going to leave that. 0:21:57.520 --> 0:22:01.800 There would be like it's not your don't worry about 0:22:01.800 --> 0:22:06.920 what's gonna be loss. Worry about yourself. And we learned. 0:22:06.960 --> 0:22:08.760 You know, industry even here, a lot of people say 0:22:09.000 --> 0:22:11.680 they got shopped because they would get up there their 0:22:11.760 --> 0:22:14.640 chain and leave it. But we looked at the give 0:22:14.640 --> 0:22:19.240 you get me that position. You're one, it's yours tomorrow 0:22:19.320 --> 0:22:27.600 go by another one learned to take a loss when 0:22:27.680 --> 0:22:29.680 we worked it like I think in probably jay and 0:22:29.720 --> 0:22:33.960 not a lot of insight. And I got a good 0:22:34.000 --> 0:22:36.240 feeling to like being moved around and do all. My 0:22:36.359 --> 0:22:38.000 brother got a little signs of power to that he 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:42.159 wanted to abuse right away. I'm in charge of sending 0:22:42.160 --> 0:22:44.960 people to do things, and he's not happy that he 0:22:45.080 --> 0:22:50.679 has to go clean up department. And it's Friday night 0:22:50.840 --> 0:22:52.600 and this bumper a bumper traffic and told me say, 0:22:52.600 --> 0:23:00.639 if one's closing it around, and he's like yes. My 0:23:00.800 --> 0:23:03.639 brother could have chose any one or the other twelve 0:23:03.720 --> 0:23:06.600 workers there, and he would decide to choose to me 0:23:08.320 --> 0:23:11.960 every Friday or Saturday night I worked, or Sunday, which 0:23:12.080 --> 0:23:15.119 was happened to be the biggest busiest time for a 0:23:15.200 --> 0:23:20.119 little village, and he would choose me no matter what. 0:23:22.400 --> 0:23:24.120 For some reason he thought he was teaching me a lesson. 0:23:26.760 --> 0:23:29.240 To me, I was just like, you just wanted to 0:23:29.320 --> 0:23:33.000 rub it in. Why would you send back that I'm saying, 0:23:33.160 --> 0:23:36.560 like he doesn't understand, like like every boy, every other man, 0:23:37.720 --> 0:23:41.640 every other person would be like, you know, today's your turn, 0:23:41.760 --> 0:23:44.720 Charlie tomorrow. I did have other piloy. I didn't want 0:23:44.720 --> 0:23:46.000 to be like, I know, if you're just sending me 0:23:46.040 --> 0:23:48.720 because your brother, you're just sending me because your brother. 0:23:48.760 --> 0:23:50.800 At the same time, I wanted my brothers to feel 0:23:50.800 --> 0:23:53.000 okay that he worked in my dolls were you're good brother? 0:23:53.119 --> 0:23:58.040 Like so what he wanted to make sure that I 0:23:58.160 --> 0:24:02.560 felt comfortable working with that do me a favorite? I 0:24:02.680 --> 0:24:04.560 didend let's go back right now we're saying like that 0:24:04.760 --> 0:24:06.800 as a square protrucer. So everyone out there who's working 0:24:06.800 --> 0:24:09.520 at McDonald's just that's great for sure. But you know 0:24:09.600 --> 0:24:12.399 what you could want more? You can on where you 0:24:12.440 --> 0:24:14.000 will have to be like, oh my god, I love 0:24:14.160 --> 0:24:16.520 cleaning up the whole parking lot with a broom. You 0:24:16.560 --> 0:24:22.920 could to yourself, this isn't gonna be like the template. 0:24:23.280 --> 0:24:29.760 What are what's the big deal? What? What was the 0:24:29.840 --> 0:24:32.160 big when they sent me every day and went every day. 0:24:33.440 --> 0:24:36.760 So it's funny how we would go through these motions. Anyways, 0:24:36.800 --> 0:24:38.639 it was a great experience for both of us. I 0:24:38.680 --> 0:24:43.000 think the neighborhood McDonald's and little village, Chicago was an 0:24:43.080 --> 0:24:46.520 old haunt for the Forest family. It was the very 0:24:46.600 --> 0:24:49.320 spot where their father made the deal that got him 0:24:49.440 --> 0:24:52.960 arrested and where the twins made their first ever deal 0:24:53.520 --> 0:25:09.160 that got their business started. We started implementing little things 0:25:09.200 --> 0:25:11.120 that we could do it. First of all, we can't 0:25:11.119 --> 0:25:14.120 have drugs where we're living, so we need somewhere though 0:25:14.720 --> 0:25:18.679 put them away. We would call stats somewhere, so we needed, like, uh, 0:25:19.119 --> 0:25:21.040 a stash, a place to stats from. So we started 0:25:21.040 --> 0:25:27.639 off with garages, empty garages in regular neighborhoods. And we 0:25:27.760 --> 0:25:30.119 started like just we would get a bunch of them, 0:25:30.160 --> 0:25:33.440 those three or four of them. We started like saying, okay, 0:25:33.440 --> 0:25:36.840 we're gonna invest in in vehicles with static compartments. Instead 0:25:36.880 --> 0:25:38.760 of buying one or two, we said, okay, let's buy 0:25:38.800 --> 0:25:42.480 three or four. After you started making the money, it 0:25:42.920 --> 0:25:44.840 wasn't about the money anymore. It was about this is 0:25:44.960 --> 0:25:47.399 what we do for me and my brother. I mean, 0:25:47.440 --> 0:25:49.040 there's times where we didn't know how much money we had. 0:25:49.080 --> 0:25:53.480 We just know we had a lot of money. Our 0:25:53.600 --> 0:25:57.240 friend Gus, he takes us to the to the shop 0:25:57.320 --> 0:26:03.119 and says, look, buy these money machines. And I'm like, 0:26:03.800 --> 0:26:06.440 do I really need it. He's like, do you want 0:26:06.440 --> 0:26:08.280 to do with things right? And do you want to 0:26:08.359 --> 0:26:11.959 keep doing things the way you're doing. I remember when 0:26:12.000 --> 0:26:14.840 I was like okay, and he pulled two money machines 0:26:14.880 --> 0:26:17.080 out and it was like like six thousand dollars. I 0:26:17.160 --> 0:26:20.720 was like, six thousand dollars for these two money machines, 0:26:20.760 --> 0:26:26.520 like I can cull him by hand. Later on, I 0:26:26.600 --> 0:26:29.320