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Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of Eating Wall Broke. Today in

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Speaker 1: the building we have the co owner of the billionaire

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Speaker 1: Burger Boys, Chef Solo, who is also a food truck

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Speaker 1: heightened who owns multiple food trucks and restaurants. In addition

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Speaker 1: to all that, he's also a two time champion of

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Speaker 1: Guys Grocery Game and it's the star of his very

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Speaker 1: own TV show, The Burger Truck Brawl. I'm very excited

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Speaker 1: to have you today. What do you have us eating? Um? Well,

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Speaker 1: today we have some white bread, some margarine because I

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Speaker 1: couldn't afford butter back in the day, a little brown sugar,

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Speaker 1: some peanut butter, some honey, and a little bit of salt.

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Speaker 1: Back in the day, we we didn't have jelly. I

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Speaker 1: come from a place where we actually like got government

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Speaker 1: issue food, like the whole government cheese joke, Like that's

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Speaker 1: the real thing. And you actually had the block, Yes,

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Speaker 1: we have on the show. Always asked about the block

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Speaker 1: and cheese and mine. I don't know where it getting, man, Listen,

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Speaker 1: ain't nowhere to get it. You can get it from

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Speaker 1: the store, restaurant depot. You know, they do sell this

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Speaker 1: cheese unsliced. But yeah, we used to get this big

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Speaker 1: blocks of block of uh process pasteurized cheese like the

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Speaker 1: you know American cheese pretty much, um, peanut butter, honey,

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Speaker 1: and the honey didn't look like this. It actually was

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Speaker 1: crystallized because they got cold and you know, so you

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Speaker 1: would have to warm it up in order for it

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Speaker 1: to turn back to honey, you know. Um, but um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's just you know, these are ingredients that we actually

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Speaker 1: just had around the house. Um. Of course with the margine.

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Speaker 1: Margine is cheap, you know, Um, so you know, that's

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Speaker 1: all we pretty much could afford. And there was in buckets, um,

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Speaker 1: the Country Crock, the Golden Sauce, I believe that's the

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Speaker 1: name of the brand, and um it's a couple of

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Speaker 1: different brands of margin that you would get in the bucket.

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Speaker 1: But that's what we had because beculting four butter exactly.

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Speaker 1: So why don't you start cooking this dish? And then

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Speaker 1: I want to know when was the last time you

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Speaker 1: ate this dish? The last time I ate this I

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Speaker 1: probably was about fourteen, Um, I was living with my dad. Um. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: I also come from a time where crack was big.

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Speaker 1: So crack got him and um, he was just you know,

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Speaker 1: we stayed with him, and you know, it was one

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Speaker 1: of the situations to where like you remember that as kids,

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Speaker 1: remember when he went to the house and he looked

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Speaker 1: in refrigerator was just flies and some baking solda in there,

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Speaker 1: like that was refrigerator. Like legit, we just had taking

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Speaker 1: care of you guys while he was Yes, you know,

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Speaker 1: you know. And of course we had things like government

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Speaker 1: issue cheese, the peanut butter, just that rice beans, different

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Speaker 1: things like that. Like my mom she passed away when

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Speaker 1: I was ten, So yeah, you know, and he was

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Speaker 1: able to take care of you guys. And um, well,

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Speaker 1: that's the thing. We kind of moved around. I've lived

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Speaker 1: lived with cousin, family members, church members, my couple of

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Speaker 1: But of course it's it's those are the kind of

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Speaker 1: So he cut everybody in the hood. But I mean

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Speaker 1: and like he cut everybody here, um, including arts of course.

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Speaker 1: But so he would like you know, he drank forties

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Speaker 1: just thought of it as, oh, you know, my brother

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Speaker 1: is paying me to make these noodles. Let me make

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Speaker 1: these noodles, you know, because my mom always taught us

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Speaker 1: so that that was pretty much my life. Okay, wow,

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Speaker 1: you definitely have an interesting story. So the last time

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Speaker 1: you eat this, you're making this, you're fourteen years old,

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Speaker 1: can you pay me like a picture of your environment? Um?

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Speaker 1: At the time, UM, I was, I was in dreaming

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Speaker 1: high school. Um. Every day pretty much was like all right,

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Speaker 1: You know how I'm gonna eat at school? You know,

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Speaker 1: of course we have free lunch, but you know, free

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Speaker 1: lunch was asked, you know. You know. Sometimes I don't

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Speaker 1: thing was it's like, shoot, you know, it was kids

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Speaker 1: Sometimes I don't get it. Why would they do that

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Speaker 1: because it's like you have to meet a certain nadom

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Speaker 1: This ain't something that I did when I was younger,

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Speaker 1: I'm just make a little caramel glaze just so that's

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Speaker 1: brown sugar and margin brown sugar margarine. I usually add

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Speaker 1: when I make the caramel sauce. I had a few

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Speaker 1: it's not meant for like. That's why they say don't

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Speaker 1: think about all of your different ingredients. You use your

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Speaker 1: so what's lors excuse me, Lorries is trash? Oh, Larie's

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Speaker 1: is garbage. I totally agree. I want to have that

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Speaker 1: this is the salt that we had grown up, you know,

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Speaker 1: how do you go from you know, being independent young man,

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Speaker 1: young boy. I'm not trying to knock your nine year

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Speaker 1: what what steps in my missing Like what what happened.

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Speaker 1: What what transitions were you kind of decide you're going

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Speaker 1: to build this empire. Um, well, it's a whole lot

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Speaker 1: for all these huge chefs. So, um well, it was

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Speaker 1: uh a variation of all the people that I've met

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Speaker 1: You know. So, um yeah, I had an uncle. He

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Speaker 1: passed away actually seven days after my mom passed. He passed.

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Speaker 1: a nice crystal. I'm gonna trying to take another, but

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00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:32,000
Speaker 1: oh the good very sticky on the teeth. That's the sugar.

425
00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:36,000
Speaker 1: This is like a delicious trip and I don't see

426
00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:39,040
Speaker 1: you can fill fill up your stomach and I totally

427
00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:42,479
Speaker 1: get it. It's like upgraded version of a peanut butter sandwich.

428
00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:49,480
Speaker 1: So I'm trying to still walk through this story with you. Okay,

429
00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:51,560
Speaker 1: So you go to culinary school, You're cooking in all

430
00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:56,760
Speaker 1: these kitchens. What happens next? Um? Yeah, I got to

431
00:24:56,800 --> 00:25:00,639
Speaker 1: color Meary School. I graduate, UM. And and of course

432
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:04,000
Speaker 1: it's for me, it's always a void because I always

433
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:07,040
Speaker 1: feel like I should be here, but I'm always here,

434
00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:09,920
Speaker 1: So it's just always a matter of trying to figure

435
00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:12,480
Speaker 1: out how to work myself up to getting here. So

436
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:15,520
Speaker 1: you know, I had worked for you know, UM, worked

437
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:20,360
Speaker 1: in Wolfgang Puck's kitchens. I had worked for Rabbit Alone. Um.

438
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:22,800
Speaker 1: I worked in all of us Gang Plucks kitchens with

439
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:25,879
Speaker 1: just different chefs, and I learned a lot actually just

440
00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:28,600
Speaker 1: working around in those chefs. Um. I actually was able

441
00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:33,159
Speaker 1: to cook a a steak for Wolfgang one time. Um,

442
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:36,360
Speaker 1: just because I was at the bed think all right. Well,

443
00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:39,760
Speaker 1: they told me he loved it. Um, because I don't

444
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:44,800
Speaker 1: see my stakes traditionally. Um because people just a lot

445
00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:48,560
Speaker 1: of times I have salt and pepper boom. But you know,

446
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:50,919
Speaker 1: I'll take a different approach when it comes to that.

447
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,440
Speaker 1: But yeah, no, just I just happened to be working

448
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,280
Speaker 1: at one of his hotels and he happened to be there.

449
00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:00,520
Speaker 1: He he's always at the Beverly Hills Hotel, so um,

450
00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:02,120
Speaker 1: he happened to be there and he wanted to steak

451
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 1: and the chef was like, you want to make it?

452
00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 1: I was like, hell, yeah, you know you're looking out

453
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 1: through the door, like, hey, no he was. It was actually,

454
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:14,440
Speaker 1: see the way the Beverly Hills Hotel set up. They

455
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:19,520
Speaker 1: have this dungeon and it's this big kitchen, and there's

456
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:21,879
Speaker 1: so many stations, so many chefs, you know, and just

457
00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:26,760
Speaker 1: different things going on. Like literally they're cooking for restaurants,

458
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:30,280
Speaker 1: they're cooking for room service, like they have a cafeteria

459
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:34,600
Speaker 1: for the employees. Hot you're not gonna put the caramel

460
00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:38,399
Speaker 1: stuff on it? Oh yeah, honestly, I love this sandwich.

461
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:43,880
Speaker 1: Put this caramel on top. That's where it's at. Like that,

462
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:48,480
Speaker 1: that is amazing and this is without the Do you

463
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 1: even need the honey on the inside with the caramel

464
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 1: on the out? Do you even need the No, you don't.

465
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,920
Speaker 1: But the caramel is what I added today. That's just

466
00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:01,159
Speaker 1: that's some new stuff. But the real gist of the

467
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 1: sandwich is the honey in the pan toasted. Well, this

468
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,960
Speaker 1: is so delicious. Thank you the Caramela, Thank you. I'm

469
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:13,000
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna want to do this all my sandwich.

470
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 1: And I learned how to make it too. You stir

471
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 1: it in the honey, and you stir, stir, stirt. I

472
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:25,040
Speaker 1: usually have a whisk. I didn't even use the whisk

473
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 1: that I requested. I didn't even think to look over there.

474
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 1: You know. I requested a whisk, y'all and I didn't

475
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:36,679
Speaker 1: use it. Yeah, I totally requested it. Didn't even use it,

476
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:39,600
Speaker 1: but I didn't have a whisk. This is delicious. And

477
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 1: when we do the cookbook, we're going to include the

478
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:45,879
Speaker 1: caramel time, because that's that's where to me, it just

479
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,919
Speaker 1: tips it over. It goes from a broke dish to

480
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 1: a fancy I don't know. The thing is, I could

481
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 1: literally make this and serve it at a fine dining restaurant. Yeah,

482
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,240
Speaker 1: and I would pay for this. I would tell really

483
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 1: switch it up. I mean, I don't even know. I

484
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 1: would probably do some crazy stuff like calling the peanut

485
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 1: butter brulet or something peanut butter broulet sounds, because what

486
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:14,200
Speaker 1: I would do is I would first of all, I

487
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:16,919
Speaker 1: would use like a sweep and wine loaf or a

488
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,160
Speaker 1: brioche loaf, and I would cut at the big slices

489
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 1: with the peanut butter. I would of course add the honey,

490
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:27,200
Speaker 1: but no, I would add the caramel, right. I would

491
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 1: drizzle it with the caramel, and then I would sprinkle

492
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 1: brown sugar and then burn the brown sugar just to

493
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:36,400
Speaker 1: give the brulet fields because you'll get that crispy uh

494
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 1: texture on the outside, and then you'll bite in and

495
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 1: it's got the drizzle. Like it's just there's so many

496
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:43,360
Speaker 1: compounds of this that I can make it, you know.

497
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:46,480
Speaker 1: And I would do something like a vanilla bean whip cream,

498
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 1: just as a garnish with a little pix of mat

499
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 1: and it's like it's elevated, you know what I mean.

500
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 1: So yeah, man, it's no, it's no real science to it, Like,

501
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 1: it's just really about just how you make it look

502
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:02,360
Speaker 1: You can make something that you know cost you three

503
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 1: dollars to make. You can make it look like a

504
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 1: fifty plan. But you make it look but you also

505
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 1: make it taste good. I would have never go out

506
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 1: of this combo. But but now you're at the culinary school.

507
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 1: I mean, you graduated the you're finished with the culinary school.

508
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 1: You're cooking for all these famous chefs, greatest billionaire burger

509
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 1: boys happened. And now that was even the process. So

510
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:28,600
Speaker 1: I ended up. I ended up. I was living in

511
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 1: Palmdy at the time because that's where me and my

512
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 1: my my wife, we moved with our kids and different

513
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 1: things like a bigger house and all that. There you go. Um,

514
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 1: so I'm single. Now you know I'm single. I gotta

515
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 1: from South Palm Down. Okay, let's okay, let's how I

516
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 1: like that. Okay, South and later phone and then I

517
00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 1: come back after after I get a divorce and'll come back. Um.

518
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,560
Speaker 1: And that's when I meet Jane, Um Jennifer, who is

519
00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:00,000
Speaker 1: my girl and the co owner of begging A Bregable.

520
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 1: Uh we started. Uh. She basically encouraged me to do

521
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 1: the pop ups that I wanted to do. I wanted

522
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 1: to start doing cooking because I started doing in the pondo,

523
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 1: but then it kind of died out and I went

524
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,120
Speaker 1: back to work because like I stopped working to do that,

525
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:14,200
Speaker 1: Like I used to sell tacos out of my carboard

526
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 1: and it's so funny, Um, you have Chef Ulto on here.

527
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 1: He was the reason why I ended up going and

528
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 1: getting my flat top and started cooking tacos and stuff

529
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 1: like that out of my car poard because I was

530
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 1: watching the video. My sister Michelle shout out some shells

531
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 1: for that video, but she sent me a video of

532
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 1: uh chef oto like it was like you know how

533
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:39,680
Speaker 1: they do the little end of the video social media video.

534
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 1: So they asked him at the end, they said, if

535
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 1: you could give anybody any advice to anybody that wants

536
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,600
Speaker 1: to get into this or wants to do this, Um,

537
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:48,560
Speaker 1: what would you say to them? And He's like, just

538
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:50,600
Speaker 1: do it, Just get out there and do it very much.

539
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 1: UM and video videos, Well that's the thing. I would

540
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 1: believe her in the university and how work spirituality different

541
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 1: things like that. So you have to be open minded,

542
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 1: you have to be a you know your vision, like

543
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,080
Speaker 1: you know they say the third eye, Like you have

544
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:11,000
Speaker 1: to have that open because, like you know, the universe

545
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:12,800
Speaker 1: will show you things and it will give you the

546
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 1: answers and it has messages for you. So that was

547
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 1: the thing, is like I saw that video and I

548
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 1: had literally just done a gig with the cheft that

549
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 1: I was working with at the school. He would call

550
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 1: me to just come and help out. So I had

551
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 1: worked that week and I got paid and I took

552
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 1: that money and went involved my flattop. And the flat

553
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 1: top is what you cook your meal in Spanish is

554
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 1: the plancha. You know what I'm saying, Like, so you

555
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 1: buy this list flattop, then what happens I'll started cooking

556
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 1: out my car park. What does carporn mean? Um, it's

557
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,400
Speaker 1: just basically a parking space with a top over it,

558
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 1: cover over it, you know. So so you're going in

559
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 1: the streets and selling or where I was at my

560
00:31:54,800 --> 00:32:01,240
Speaker 1: house literally okay, okay, So why didn't get people to

561
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 1: know about your business Instagram and Facebook? So you're like

562
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,680
Speaker 1: posting videos they started showing up at your house. Well

563
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: that's the thing. Prior to that I had done, Like

564
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 1: so everybody on social media went through the color airy

565
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 1: process with me. So from day one when I started school,

566
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 1: I took a picture literally to the selfie and posted

567
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 1: me and my chef had in my coat, and then

568
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 1: I started posting the food that I was making. So

569
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 1: everybody had been on this journey and my following had

570
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 1: grown substantially from the time I started to the time

571
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 1: I finished Colorary School. So it's like everybody's pretty much

572
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 1: there there tune, they're waiting. Yeah, you know what I mean.

573
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 1: When I posted that I was selling tacos and Pound Dell.

574
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 1: You know, of course everybody in l A because that's

575
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 1: where I'm originally from, and everybody knows me pretty much

576
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 1: in l A is like when you come to l A.

577
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 1: But I also got people in Palmdale that rock with me,

578
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 1: and you know, they pulled up like I literally sold

579
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 1: out that first night that I did it. So it

580
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 1: was just that doing that. The repetition of that Pound.

581
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 1: Lancaster had a lot of construction sites because they were

582
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, everything was going solar out there, so

583
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 1: literally it's fields upon fields of solar panels, um, So

584
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 1: you're pulling up on the construction work. Exactly five o'clock

585
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 1: in the morning, I got breakfast buried over. Okay, and

586
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 1: but now this is Palmdale, so this is pre Jennifer.

587
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 1: So when does when does the Jennifer? That's when I

588
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 1: moved from Palmdale. Okay, so you moved from Palmdale, you

589
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 1: meet Jennifer and you guys, at the time, I was

590
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 1: working at a hotel. I was just working for an agency.

591
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 1: So I was just doing our jobs and then you're

592
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,640
Speaker 1: probably what cooking on the weekends or something, Um, I

593
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:37,600
Speaker 1: really I wasn't even doing that. I started back working

594
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 1: regular jobs. Okay, okay, So it was moving around with

595
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 1: the agency. Then I started working in this kitchen that

596
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,479
Speaker 1: was like a production kitchen for they produced food for

597
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 1: like different movies, so all of the major movie studios

598
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 1: and the like. They delivered like like pans of food too.

599
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 1: So I used to do that. They call that backs

600
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 1: cooking when you just cook big pans of food and

601
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 1: like loads of it. So that's I did at UM

602
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 1: And I was working for the chef. He was just horrible.

603
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:10,480
Speaker 1: He was a horrible freaking chef, like um, a horrible attitude.

604
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 1: Was this food trash, food was trash. Everything that he had,

605
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 1: every every recipe, mene you that we had that we

606
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 1: had to make. Um. I was like, I could do

607
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:23,439
Speaker 1: this better. So of course everything I cooked, I put

608
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 1: my my little genn said quas it. I would put

609
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 1: my bazas on it because it's like, no, this, this

610
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 1: is as I can't do this. Um So yeah, I

611
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:35,359
Speaker 1: was working for him and it was just like, yo,

612
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 1: I can't do this no more. So I I told you,

613
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:39,479
Speaker 1: and like, yo, I want to start doing pop ups.

614
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 1: And so she ended up setting up setting up to

615
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 1: pop up at chew Ton Coffee Shop and uh and

616
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:49,239
Speaker 1: uh in Guardina shout out the kid. He gave me

617
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,799
Speaker 1: my start pretty much. So like she calls and she's like, hey,

618
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:54,480
Speaker 1: I got this amazing chef. Also my man, well he

619
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:58,440
Speaker 1: was featuring. He was featuring like three stacks kitchen. He

620
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 1: had not your mama kitchen, you know. Shout out to them.

621
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:02,759
Speaker 1: Those were those are the people that I was rocking with.

622
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 1: He was also featuring chef Oho came through. There's some

623
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 1: stuff talking and come we'll cook right in front of

624
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 1: the shop, you know, or if they had you know,

625
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 1: and you know whatever, we were always set up in

626
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 1: front of the shop. So um, I started doing that

627
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:19,759
Speaker 1: and then I started moving around different places like we

628
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 1: got shut down there because the code enforce would be like, yeah,

629
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 1: you know, you guys are too loud, neighbors complaining, there's

630
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 1: different things because it would always be an event, like

631
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 1: any time we posted that there was something going on,

632
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 1: like you know, people pull up. Um, So that we

633
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:36,799
Speaker 1: started getting shut down doing that, and it just got

634
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 1: to a point where it was like it was sucky

635
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 1: because I couldn't do anything anywhere. And at that time,

636
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,279
Speaker 1: like the street vendor laws were like they were non

637
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:48,880
Speaker 1: existent and now they're like all supports exactly. But I

638
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:51,680
Speaker 1: went through that process people I was. I was in that.

639
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,719
Speaker 1: I was the calls of these laws coming in their

640
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 1: place because I was one of those street vendors, you

641
00:35:56,960 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So that's the thing is like, um,

642
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 1: that was just the time where it just it sucked

643
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 1: to be a streaming, you know. But it was like

644
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:05,840
Speaker 1: just figuring that out. I used to be in downtown

645
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 1: l A in front of this parking lot in between

646
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:11,839
Speaker 1: these clubs, selling right across the street, and you were

647
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 1: selling hot dogs? What were you selling? Or tackles? What

648
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:17,960
Speaker 1: were you selling? I had a whole menu standing outside,

649
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:19,879
Speaker 1: I had a kitchen. Where were you the other night?

650
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:21,719
Speaker 1: When I was at the Stable center, all I had

651
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 1: was hot dog option. Oh man, you gotta stop buy

652
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 1: on the menu. Man, that's my boy. He'd be out

653
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:28,080
Speaker 1: there pretty late. I think he'd get out there about nine.

654
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 1: And you do all kind of desserts. But he also

655
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:33,439
Speaker 1: has a lot, he does a lot of food. So yeah,

656
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:37,440
Speaker 1: we started, I got shut down, and it's like, okay,

657
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:39,759
Speaker 1: you know I did my research on food trucks and

658
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 1: prior to that, like to get a food truck, you

659
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:44,680
Speaker 1: had to buy one, right, and of course that could

660
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 1: be anyway. This is before you could lease them. Yes, um,

661
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:52,480
Speaker 1: so you know you had it hard alright. No, that's

662
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 1: the thing is, like all of the progressions are the

663
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:56,359
Speaker 1: changes I was a part of. I was I was

664
00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 1: writing at that at the head was like you were

665
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:02,440
Speaker 1: in the sucky time to be vendor, and now you're

666
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 1: in a sucky time to like get a food truck exactly.

667
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:08,720
Speaker 1: And and all the capital you're working with, um, assuming

668
00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:10,799
Speaker 1: it's capital that you're hustling from your day job or

669
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 1: your whatever it comes from being a drug you know,

670
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 1: just the whole mentality. Yeah, that's why they say drug

671
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:19,279
Speaker 1: dealers are are the best entrepreneurs. You know, those are

672
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 1: your CEOs. Those are the ones that can run a

673
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: fortunate clifund your company because they just understand how to

674
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 1: you know, how to make the money. Yeah. And then

675
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 1: of course most drug dealers we we save, we stack,

676
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 1: you know, and what's the first thing they tell you

677
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 1: to do? Save? You know? So, Um, I didn't even

678
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 1: think about that. Yeah, No, Um, I would. I would

679
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 1: totally just I would buy the product, I would sell it,

680
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 1: take the money, re up, don't do it again, you

681
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So it was just one of

682
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 1: those things where I was like, all right, what am

683
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:52,440
Speaker 1: I gonna do? Um? And then just like I said,

684
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 1: food trucks was an option because I didn't have the

685
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:57,000
Speaker 1: credit or the finances to get So then how did

686
00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:58,919
Speaker 1: you get one? How did you end up getting there?

687
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 1: I ended up getting it because you know, of course,

688
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 1: after time, like probably like a month or two, I

689
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:05,879
Speaker 1: started setting out the house, it just became easier. So

690
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:10,800
Speaker 1: I would have people just pull up and get food. Thing. So, um,

691
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 1: one day I'm riding down the street. In another story,

692
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 1: I'm right down the street right um, and I had

693
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:18,840
Speaker 1: looked up food trucks, like I said, and it was

694
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 1: just all you got to buy him, and so, um,

695
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:25,919
Speaker 1: I had just I think I google like food truck

696
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,600
Speaker 1: leases or something like. But I put it in Google

697
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:32,839
Speaker 1: Maps and it was a food truck manufacturer that came

698
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 1: up literally right around the corner. And I called him

699
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:37,840
Speaker 1: and I was like, yo, you got food trucks right now?

700
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:39,600
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, I got one right now, you know.

701
00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 1: And I go to him and I talked to him like,

702
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:44,319
Speaker 1: you know, I was always talking like you know, just

703
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:46,759
Speaker 1: go like you got the money, you know, act like

704
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 1: like and at this time, are you familiar with good

705
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:52,759
Speaker 1: credit and all that stuff? So you had all that?

706
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 1: So I didn't have a good credit. No, I didn't.

707
00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:59,080
Speaker 1: Financial literacy was definitely something that was like it in

708
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 1: my life, you know, mean um uh. So yeah, I

709
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 1: called him. I went there and I'm like, so, how

710
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 1: much he wants for it? And he was like just

711
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 1: twenty months. I was like what at least you know

712
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 1: he's like, well doing literal at least twenty d of months,

713
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 1: so how much down? Like he's like, you know, twenty

714
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:22,759
Speaker 1: four you know, twenty four times too, and how to

715
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 1: put you on the truck. It comes with all the

716
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 1: health everything, and then of course this monthly lease includes maintenance,

717
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 1: anything that happens to the truck. Now it doesn't include

718
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 1: the whole commissary and all. That commissary is a different thing.

719
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 1: You have to go and get a commissary to park

720
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:41,239
Speaker 1: the truck. Did you know about that? Yes? Oh so

721
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:43,839
Speaker 1: going in you you did your research. Yes, you just

722
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:46,759
Speaker 1: happened to you know, God allowed you. So you end

723
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 1: up getting that truck. I end up getting that truck.

724
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:51,279
Speaker 1: Coulate a whole lot of my cousin Dion, shout out

725
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:53,759
Speaker 1: to din Man and my brothers. My brothers all came

726
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 1: together and put money together and helped me out. So

727
00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 1: there was a whole process. Like literally I was slanging

728
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 1: plates left and like trying to raise money to get

729
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:05,480
Speaker 1: this truck. So um, yeah, my cousin Dion, my brother's Jesse,

730
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:09,280
Speaker 1: Jam Darren, they all came. We all came together and patient.

731
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:12,839
Speaker 1: We actually have a picture together that we took and

732
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:16,719
Speaker 1: they back then it was called chef solos. Uh what

733
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 1: was our what was the wing band? Because I used

734
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:22,919
Speaker 1: to do these seared wings like I didn't I didn't

735
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 1: beat from my wings like Serrial. So you're still not

736
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:31,640
Speaker 1: selling burgers yet. Burgers was an accident that's so yeah,

737
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 1: you know I was doing that. Um, we ended up

738
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:38,920
Speaker 1: getting the truck, and so I literally took everything my

739
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:42,320
Speaker 1: refrigerator put it on the truck. And that's the inventory

740
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:44,799
Speaker 1: that I started with, and that's what I ran off of,

741
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 1: Like that's literally what kept us afloat that initial inventory.

742
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 1: And then I just started rolling doing that. UM, and

743
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 1: it was it was going good and you're a no.

744
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:57,640
Speaker 1: And that was the thing too, Like you know, people

745
00:40:57,640 --> 00:41:01,240
Speaker 1: don't realize, like we wasn't. None of us have food trucks.

746
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,719
Speaker 1: No Instagram chefs have food strucks. Really, it was just

747
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 1: not your mom the kitchen. I love funnel cakes. Those

748
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 1: are two of the food trucks that I knew for

749
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:14,280
Speaker 1: sure existed. UM Chef he had just got his before

750
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:16,480
Speaker 1: you were around, before me. It was right before I

751
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:19,359
Speaker 1: got Mom. He went on Steve Harvey whatnot, and then

752
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 1: he ended up getting food truck that story. Yeah, he

753
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:24,799
Speaker 1: didn't tell me that he got food truck after that,

754
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:26,719
Speaker 1: but yeah, yeah, yeah, I believe it was after that,

755
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:30,320
Speaker 1: but it was around the same time pretty much. So, UM,

756
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:32,960
Speaker 1: he's the only one really that had a truck. But

757
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 1: he stayed on the UM. I was on Rodeo and Crunshaw.

758
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:40,080
Speaker 1: I was on Manchester and Western. I used to be

759
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 1: on eight eight and avalon Florence and Central. Um. So

760
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:46,839
Speaker 1: I just start hitting these spots. Um. Oh he double

761
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 1: Chef e Double had a truck at the time. Girl

762
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 1: Fresh shout out to him. Man he was He's always

763
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:53,799
Speaker 1: been an inspiration to to us and to me as

764
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 1: a chef. Um but um, yeah, you know, so I

765
00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:00,040
Speaker 1: started parking in these different spots. I started parking in

766
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 1: front of my house. I lived right on Crenshaw and

767
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 1: it was like right behind the the Senator or the

768
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 1: divider or whatever it is. It was the island. So

769
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 1: I used to park my truck over there. People would

770
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 1: pull up. Um. But I ended up meeting uh my partner,

771
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:16,879
Speaker 1: Chef Smokehouse in year two. I met him earlier when

772
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:18,239
Speaker 1: I was just going to pop ups. He was doing

773
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 1: the same thing. He used to hang out with Chef

774
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:24,320
Speaker 1: Oo and Blue Kitchen or whatnot, Blue fool Manity or whatnot.

775
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:28,200
Speaker 1: So um, you know, me and him Madden, we just vibe.

776
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 1: We click. It wasn't even about you know, working together.

777
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 1: It was just I liked what he was about, he

778
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 1: liked what I was about. We both pretty much sold

779
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:37,080
Speaker 1: the same thing, you know, and I just put it.

780
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 1: It's all up. That's what I love about, you know.

781
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 1: So one day um, I also did it. Was doing

782
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:47,640
Speaker 1: collapse with Three Stacks too. When I got the truck,

783
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 1: Me and him with do stuff because we was like

784
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 1: the Sea fool Boys. That's what's so crazy. Before billion

785
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 1: a Burger Boys, I was seafool Boys and three Stacks.

786
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:57,840
Speaker 1: He's always did the boils and I would just and

787
00:42:57,880 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 1: you need to get him on here too, that's my guy.

788
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 1: Need to connect us. Yeah, definitely I will. But yeah,

789
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:05,279
Speaker 1: he would do the sea food boils. So I was

790
00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:08,799
Speaker 1: the deep Fride guy, deep fride everything. So I just

791
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:10,919
Speaker 1: would deep Friday boils. And so we would work together

792
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:13,759
Speaker 1: and do stuff together and whatnot. But um, sef Smoke

793
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:17,919
Speaker 1: House end up calling me um and he was just like, man,

794
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 1: I'm down on my luck. My card just got repolled.

795
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 1: I got like twenty seven dollars to my name. He's like,

796
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 1: but I got these jumper life fries. Everybody is checking

797
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:27,759
Speaker 1: for it, so it's a possible I can get on

798
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:31,200
Speaker 1: the truck just for a day. Um. He's like, just

799
00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 1: for a day. Um, And uh, you know, of course

800
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:37,400
Speaker 1: I will split the profits. I'll pay you a certain

801
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:41,120
Speaker 1: amount of my process or whatever. So I'm like that

802
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 1: did that? Yes? Do That's okay? Okay? Well that was

803
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:49,480
Speaker 1: his vibe and his energy, and I've been on energy like,

804
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 1: I don't do the negative. I'm all about working together. Um,

805
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 1: we we can, we can accomplish more together kind of park,

806
00:43:57,520 --> 00:43:59,560
Speaker 1: you know. So that was my belief system, and so

807
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:02,320
Speaker 1: when he a me up, it was an easy call. Um.

808
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:04,760
Speaker 1: So he came on the truck that one day and

809
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 1: never left. You know. So we was rolling with the

810
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:11,799
Speaker 1: Solo and Smoke Show. So we were righting around l A.

811
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:16,480
Speaker 1: We had a fucking microphone. Clemmy curse. Yeah, we had

812
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:18,959
Speaker 1: a microphone, and he would just sit in the passenger seat.

813
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:21,760
Speaker 1: This is the Soul and Smoke Show and just you know,

814
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 1: I'm talking about through the hood phone. We wasn't in there,

815
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:28,440
Speaker 1: like we was riding down Vermont, like going down Imperial,

816
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:31,319
Speaker 1: you know, Western and things like that, and he'd be

817
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:33,279
Speaker 1: just talking. We got jumped a live fries, we got

818
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 1: the wings and not not just like giving a show,

819
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:38,799
Speaker 1: you know. And then of course when people would come

820
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:40,239
Speaker 1: to the truck, and it was always a Viobe. We

821
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 1: had the music and singing, dancing. You know, energy is

822
00:44:43,440 --> 00:45:06,040
Speaker 1: always up problem. Um. And then I think he ended

823
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 1: up going and doing something with Chefso and Vegas. I

824
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:11,960
Speaker 1: don't how you guys are all working together, like like,

825
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 1: oh he's on my corner. No, no, like of course,

826
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 1: it's like we created a lot of spots, so you

827
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:21,319
Speaker 1: know people parking through spots now, So what they would

828
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 1: do is they'd reach out to us like yo, I

829
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:24,560
Speaker 1: know you don't go to the spot no more. But

830
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:26,520
Speaker 1: it's a cool if I pull up, you know what

831
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:30,440
Speaker 1: I mean. I just love it if it's a spot

832
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 1: that we currently at, like we'll just be like, all right,

833
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:35,239
Speaker 1: well we're here on these days, you know, so if

834
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:36,640
Speaker 1: you want to pull up on these days, or we

835
00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:38,719
Speaker 1: can pull up together, you know, we would do that

836
00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:42,520
Speaker 1: sometimes just pull up with other trucks. Um. But yeah,

837
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 1: so he went through. Um, I was hungry and we

838
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:50,799
Speaker 1: were supposed to. This is another streak. Yeah. I used

839
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 1: to sell frozen fries. His jumper Live of Fries had

840
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:56,319
Speaker 1: fresh cut fries, so he would cut fresh potatoes for

841
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 1: the jump a live fries. I just used the frozen froes. Um.

842
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:02,640
Speaker 1: So it was a debate, like yo, moving forward, which

843
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:05,160
Speaker 1: fries are we gonna use? And he was just like yo.

844
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:07,640
Speaker 1: He was like, dude, like fresh cutter frozen and I

845
00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:09,840
Speaker 1: was like fresh cut of course, and he was like,

846
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 1: well then it's an easy call. Were using, you know.

847
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:14,080
Speaker 1: But I had just bought a case of frozen frogs,

848
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 1: so we had to sell these. So I was gonna

849
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:19,879
Speaker 1: do a special with chili cheese frogs. So I bought

850
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:22,120
Speaker 1: the ingredients to make chili and different things like that.

851
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:25,319
Speaker 1: Of course, I bought a roll of beef, and we

852
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:27,680
Speaker 1: already had bons on the truck because I made like soundwiches,

853
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:29,640
Speaker 1: chicken sounds and different stuff. So one day I was

854
00:46:29,719 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 1: hungry and I made a burger which is now the

855
00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:36,399
Speaker 1: Brutus Arm and the Big Brutus Burger. Um. I made

856
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:38,920
Speaker 1: that burger and I posted on Instagram, and I think

857
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 1: he got like two or three hundred likes. And burger

858
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:46,560
Speaker 1: it's barbecue, sauce, cheese, bacon, and deep fried onion straws.

859
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:49,440
Speaker 1: And you came up with this on the truck. You're

860
00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:52,439
Speaker 1: just like American cheese. Okay. So you're on the truck,

861
00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 1: You're like, I'm gonna make this. I just wanted to

862
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 1: make me some eat and then your burger and he's like, damn,

863
00:46:57,040 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 1: that's good. So he actually named the burger like when

864
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:02,440
Speaker 1: I made the burger, and I'm like, nig, look like

865
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:06,239
Speaker 1: he like that looked like it's a big brutus, you know.

866
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:09,520
Speaker 1: So of course, like I said, I posted it, and

867
00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:11,160
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't think non of it because I

868
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:15,719
Speaker 1: was used to getting a lot of likes, you know. So, um,

869
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:17,880
Speaker 1: a couple of days later, we was on the truck

870
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:21,840
Speaker 1: and he made what is now called the Smokehouse and

871
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:25,520
Speaker 1: I made what is now called from Surfing Turf. Um.

872
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:27,839
Speaker 1: They're both still on the menu. Um. And we took

873
00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:31,840
Speaker 1: a picture of him side by side and posted it

874
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:33,879
Speaker 1: on the internet. They got like a thousand likes within

875
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:37,800
Speaker 1: a couple of hours. And so you know that scene

876
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 1: with uh from Trading Places, I mean not Trading Places

877
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:44,960
Speaker 1: coming to America, when you dropped the money and rund

878
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:47,279
Speaker 1: Off Mortar Murers right there and he's like, rund Off,

879
00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:50,239
Speaker 1: we're back, you know. So me and him had that moment.

880
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:52,760
Speaker 1: We looked at each other like nigger, we're doing burgers.

881
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:56,720
Speaker 1: And so we just started selling those three burgers like literally,

882
00:47:56,760 --> 00:48:01,279
Speaker 1: and yes, they coming looking for him here and like

883
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:04,960
Speaker 1: that's when he went went to Vegas with that weekend

884
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:07,440
Speaker 1: and that was the weekend like everybody was putting some

885
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:09,800
Speaker 1: more your day weekend. As a matter of fact, everybody's

886
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:12,520
Speaker 1: pulling up for them burgers. And so we was actually

887
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 1: trying to come up with a name. We ended up

888
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:18,240
Speaker 1: getting called to coming feed some people have Fox Studios

889
00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:22,759
Speaker 1: because they're like the buzzes. It went crazy, like um

890
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:25,960
Speaker 1: so somebody one of the executives and Fox Studios happened

891
00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:28,839
Speaker 1: to get a wind of us and they were like, well,

892
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 1: come down here. We wanted we want you guys to

893
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:35,280
Speaker 1: feed our executives and possibly talk about a potential TV show.

894
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:39,719
Speaker 1: Why we like was trying to figure out a name,

895
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:43,759
Speaker 1: and me and Jim was driving and she was was

896
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:45,600
Speaker 1: coming up with different names, like we had one like

897
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 1: ninety nine burgers because we had so many different ideas

898
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 1: from burgers, and Jim was on her phone, I think,

899
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:53,359
Speaker 1: looking at the burgers and she was like these look

900
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:56,440
Speaker 1: like billion dollar burgers. It was like, y'all should be

901
00:48:56,480 --> 00:49:00,200
Speaker 1: the begging that burger boys. The name. The name like

902
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 1: my favorite name of like just favorite, like if I

903
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:08,160
Speaker 1: could say company names from billionaire Burger Boys. Yea manifestation, man.

904
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 1: You know at that point our chiefest burgers, ten bucks,

905
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:13,480
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So, and that was our

906
00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:16,200
Speaker 1: regular burger. We called it the Generic And it was

907
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:19,000
Speaker 1: actually a play on Jame's name because it was her

908
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 1: name is Jennifer, So it was the j E n

909
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:24,840
Speaker 1: Eric you know what I mean. So it was the

910
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 1: Generic because she just liked regular asked burger, you know

911
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:34,279
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like she just wanted regular burger, you know,

912
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:37,680
Speaker 1: so yeah, like she um so yeah, she came up

913
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:39,320
Speaker 1: with that name and we just took it around with

914
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:42,000
Speaker 1: it when it got t shirts made and created a

915
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 1: leveling to swap me with the demand and everything like

916
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 1: and just started running with it. Now, what do you

917
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:50,560
Speaker 1: think looking at your story? Now you go from billionaire

918
00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:53,880
Speaker 1: Burger Boys and now you have a couple of stores,

919
00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:59,520
Speaker 1: you have a couple of trucks, You've been on national television, Like,

920
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:01,840
Speaker 1: do you think looking back at your story, do you

921
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:04,239
Speaker 1: think it went by fast? Slow? Like because a lot

922
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:06,400
Speaker 1: of people think they see billion of Burger Boys, but

923
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:09,040
Speaker 1: they don't know this like long stretch of history. Like

924
00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:11,719
Speaker 1: what do you think, Like what is the feeling you

925
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:13,760
Speaker 1: get when you think about the empire you guys built.

926
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:18,359
Speaker 1: We were only five years in. We're started only five

927
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:22,120
Speaker 1: years in. It doesn't feel like it went by faster slow.

928
00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:25,919
Speaker 1: It was a blur. It feels like yesterday we were

929
00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:28,920
Speaker 1: we just started, like because that's just how fast everything

930
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:31,360
Speaker 1: is just progressed, Like within a month or two of

931
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:33,799
Speaker 1: us even becoming the bigging a burger boys, our name

932
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:36,840
Speaker 1: was barbershop talk, Like people were talking about us in

933
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:39,760
Speaker 1: the barbershop, and that's like a goal. If you getting

934
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:43,080
Speaker 1: talked about in the barbershop, then you're good, especially you

935
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:46,279
Speaker 1: know locally. So um yeah, by the end, it was

936
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:48,880
Speaker 1: barbershop talk. Everybody wanted to be aligned with us. Everybody

937
00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:52,160
Speaker 1: wants to talk, you know, be friends. Um So yeah,

938
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:55,680
Speaker 1: just thinking back, it's like whoa, we've been on the journey.

939
00:50:55,960 --> 00:51:00,560
Speaker 1: We created Like people don't realize we created like a

940
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:03,359
Speaker 1: food truck coach and Nola in South Alica. Because the

941
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:06,319
Speaker 1: thing is before they was due his roach coaches and

942
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:08,200
Speaker 1: they were only topic trucks and none of them were

943
00:51:08,239 --> 00:51:10,200
Speaker 1: in South l A. They were all on the outskirts

944
00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:13,520
Speaker 1: um downtown l A, so on and so forth, West

945
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:16,319
Speaker 1: l A. Um So, nobody was really parking in South

946
00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:20,560
Speaker 1: l A. Because they were scared stigma. We didn't care.

947
00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:22,839
Speaker 1: What's crazy is that you guys are all like from

948
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:26,480
Speaker 1: relatively like around South l A. And you have the stigma,

949
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:28,759
Speaker 1: but you guys all work together, you support each other.

950
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:31,080
Speaker 1: I know I've heard through the grape Bune that you've

951
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:33,719
Speaker 1: mentored a lot of the big names that are out

952
00:51:33,719 --> 00:51:36,520
Speaker 1: there and you helped them like Happy Ice and all that. Yeah, well, no,

953
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:40,560
Speaker 1: Happy Ice. It's so funny because Happy Ice, they we

954
00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:42,560
Speaker 1: met them because we were doing that. We were going

955
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:46,000
Speaker 1: to the downtown of Lake are walking. We like muscled

956
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:47,560
Speaker 1: our way into one of their events, to one of

957
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:50,359
Speaker 1: their food truck events. Um, we just pulled up and

958
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:52,600
Speaker 1: talked to coordinating like yo, we'll pay you two hunting

959
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:55,839
Speaker 1: right now to get in right okay. And Happy Ice

960
00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:58,480
Speaker 1: was doing the same thing. They were like trying to

961
00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:00,520
Speaker 1: muscle the w into just different things because they just

962
00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:02,799
Speaker 1: came from Philly, you know what I mean. So it

963
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:05,920
Speaker 1: was like they were new fresh faces and um, but

964
00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:08,640
Speaker 1: showed them a lot of love. Yeah, we just happened

965
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:10,120
Speaker 1: to meet that night. The same night we both were

966
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:12,000
Speaker 1: trying to do the same thing. We ended up getting

967
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:14,719
Speaker 1: in an event not making no money, didn't even make

968
00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:17,319
Speaker 1: the money back that we we spent, Like people were

969
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:19,160
Speaker 1: just walking by our truck looking like and we had

970
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:22,120
Speaker 1: a whole ass truck and all that, and we didn't

971
00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:25,120
Speaker 1: get no love. And so we ended up chopping it up.

972
00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:29,320
Speaker 1: We meet men Happy Ice, Lamer the owner and Um.

973
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:31,480
Speaker 1: We decided it was like, Yo, we're going all these

974
00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:34,200
Speaker 1: events outside of l A trying to make money. We're

975
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:36,000
Speaker 1: spending a lot of money to be in these events,

976
00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:39,200
Speaker 1: and we're not making anything, we're not using anything. So

977
00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:41,840
Speaker 1: let's create our own event. And so that's where the

978
00:52:41,920 --> 00:52:44,920
Speaker 1: Lamert Park Black Party came from. We collab with Happy

979
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:47,000
Speaker 1: Ice and then of course I had connections shout out

980
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:50,360
Speaker 1: to Kamanity Black Um and Herd Weston, you know they

981
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:52,600
Speaker 1: you know, they looked out for us that that's the district.

982
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:54,879
Speaker 1: So that's why we started doing in the Lamern Park

983
00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:57,400
Speaker 1: and we ran that for a year straight. And basically

984
00:52:57,440 --> 00:53:00,160
Speaker 1: what we did was we introduced all of the new

985
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:03,040
Speaker 1: black on food trucks to l A. Like if you

986
00:53:03,040 --> 00:53:04,640
Speaker 1: were a food truck at the time or you were

987
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:06,880
Speaker 1: brand new with a food truck. Our event was the

988
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:09,839
Speaker 1: eventually wanted to be at because we would get three

989
00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:12,440
Speaker 1: thousand plus people every single month and we were doing

990
00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:15,479
Speaker 1: once a months and it was the biggest food truck

991
00:53:15,480 --> 00:53:18,160
Speaker 1: event in l A, the only food truck event in

992
00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:21,560
Speaker 1: South l A at the time, and that pretty much

993
00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:24,040
Speaker 1: spawned a lot of the different events that you're seeing

994
00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:27,400
Speaker 1: after that that involved food trucks. Now, speaking of events

995
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:30,440
Speaker 1: and food trucks, for all the entrepreneurs that are listening

996
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:35,239
Speaker 1: and would love to somehow magically cross paths with you,

997
00:53:35,239 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 1: because I know you have a lot of operations going on.

998
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:39,359
Speaker 1: So I'm pretty sure they can't just pop up at

999
00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:42,680
Speaker 1: a store and pump into you. But how can they

1000
00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:45,360
Speaker 1: catch you? I know you guys have a summit coming up.

1001
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:48,520
Speaker 1: Tell me more about it. W f E Consulting. Shout

1002
00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:53,040
Speaker 1: out to Atlie Smith. He's an owner. Um I was

1003
00:53:53,120 --> 00:53:55,960
Speaker 1: hunting him down for a while and an actually he's

1004
00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:58,480
Speaker 1: that's my family. He's been down with us for a

1005
00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:01,960
Speaker 1: while now, right. He just started booking us for stuff.

1006
00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:03,719
Speaker 1: Like he would call us and be like, yeah, I

1007
00:54:03,719 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 1: got this thing with Facebook. They want you to do this,

1008
00:54:06,120 --> 00:54:10,040
Speaker 1: or I got this with Amazon or with Enterprise or

1009
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:13,200
Speaker 1: with uh, you know Amazon Prime is doing the theater

1010
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:15,239
Speaker 1: thing and you know, so we would he would, but

1011
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:16,840
Speaker 1: he would only book us for stuff where he was

1012
00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:19,160
Speaker 1: getting paid, you know what I mean. And he's going

1013
00:54:19,280 --> 00:54:25,759
Speaker 1: on trying me for this interview, right, you know. But yeah,

1014
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:28,640
Speaker 1: he would totally you know, just hook up stuff and

1015
00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:30,080
Speaker 1: he was just doing it off the love and then

1016
00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:32,560
Speaker 1: he created w F E and we just built the

1017
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:35,440
Speaker 1: relationship from there, you know. Um. And so when he

1018
00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:37,239
Speaker 1: said he wanted to do this, it was like I

1019
00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:39,080
Speaker 1: was like, I'm all in And this is a different

1020
00:54:39,120 --> 00:54:41,440
Speaker 1: type of tour because I thought initially like food trucks

1021
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:43,319
Speaker 1: were going to be there, but this is an opportunity

1022
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:46,480
Speaker 1: to get like one on one with these entrepreneurs, asked

1023
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:48,879
Speaker 1: the difficult questions. And the cool thing about this tour

1024
00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:51,840
Speaker 1: is like I've met with the different chefs on the

1025
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:54,319
Speaker 1: tour and what I've learned is that you guys all

1026
00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:58,160
Speaker 1: came from these almost like survival instinct type backgrounds. So

1027
00:54:58,200 --> 00:55:00,360
Speaker 1: it's like, no matter what you are, what as you

1028
00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:04,480
Speaker 1: are as an entrepreneur, this is an opportunity where it's

1029
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:07,320
Speaker 1: a comfortable, i'd say safe space because you're approaching people

1030
00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:12,319
Speaker 1: that look and feel and literally understand everything you're going through.

1031
00:55:12,680 --> 00:55:16,239
Speaker 1: And there's no such thing as a dumb question. Dumb question. Yeah,

1032
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:19,040
Speaker 1: and you don't have to feel like up tighter or

1033
00:55:19,040 --> 00:55:21,400
Speaker 1: what have you. And I heard there's access to alternative

1034
00:55:21,440 --> 00:55:24,400
Speaker 1: financing and all that stuff. But I love what you

1035
00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:27,600
Speaker 1: guys are doing and what you're about. And I can't

1036
00:55:27,640 --> 00:55:30,239
Speaker 1: wait to have a thirty dollar burger. That's all. That

1037
00:55:30,520 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 1: was the thirty dollar burger. Um, that's the that's the

1038
00:55:34,239 --> 00:55:37,080
Speaker 1: hands of the billionaire. That's the billionaire burger. But it's

1039
00:55:37,080 --> 00:55:39,080
Speaker 1: all about the quality that we put in into the

1040
00:55:39,080 --> 00:55:42,120
Speaker 1: food is clearly you learn an amazing chef. You literally

1041
00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:45,120
Speaker 1: took a peanut butter sandwich which I had very low

1042
00:55:45,160 --> 00:55:48,560
Speaker 1: expectations for it, and you turned it into I would

1043
00:55:48,640 --> 00:55:52,640
Speaker 1: call this like a gourmet dish because it looks the

1044
00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:55,719
Speaker 1: case really good. I'm going to finish this dish. I

1045
00:55:55,800 --> 00:56:01,560
Speaker 1: just couldn't. Yeah, it gets sticky, but that caramel is everything. Um,

1046
00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:04,920
Speaker 1: this is candy. This is candy. How can people find

1047
00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:07,719
Speaker 1: out about the tour and sign up for tickets and

1048
00:56:08,120 --> 00:56:10,840
Speaker 1: where the tour is? Uh, well, go to Food the

1049
00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:13,279
Speaker 1: Business Summit dot com. UM. That's where you can get

1050
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:15,760
Speaker 1: all the information. We have tickets available on an event

1051
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:18,960
Speaker 1: right um and yes, I will be at every tour date,

1052
00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:21,600
Speaker 1: so we look forward to it. We got Vegas coming up.

1053
00:56:22,160 --> 00:56:27,239
Speaker 1: We got Vegas, Indianapolis, Norfolk, Virginia, Houston, Texas, Atlanta, and

1054
00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:30,400
Speaker 1: then l A. So um, please please please pull up.

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Speaker 1: We got all information you need, and I mean the

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Speaker 1: real stories you know, not the you know what you're

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Speaker 1: finding the book. It's the real stories, that stuff we

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Speaker 1: actually went through. So definitely pull up on us. Pull up.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm going to try and pull up

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Speaker 1: to at least one of the dates. Please do, just

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Speaker 1: so I can be a groupie. Hey for more eating

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Speaker 1: while broke from I Heart Radio and The Black Effect,

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Speaker 1: visit the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever

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Speaker 1: you listen to your favorite shows,