WEBVTT - CHEF SOULO - Peanut Butter with a Twist 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:03.480 Welcome to another episode of Eating Wall Broke. Today in 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:05.760 the building we have the co owner of the billionaire 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:08.840 Burger Boys, Chef Solo, who is also a food truck 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:12.920 heightened who owns multiple food trucks and restaurants. In addition 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:15.560 to all that, he's also a two time champion of 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:18.040 Guys Grocery Game and it's the star of his very 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:22.160 own TV show, The Burger Truck Brawl. I'm very excited 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:25.639 to have you today. What do you have us eating? Um? Well, 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:29.720 today we have some white bread, some margarine because I 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:32.760 couldn't afford butter back in the day, a little brown sugar, 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:35.240 some peanut butter, some honey, and a little bit of salt. 0:00:47.640 --> 0:01:02.680 Back in the day, we we didn't have jelly. I 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:05.640 come from a place where we actually like got government 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:09.080 issue food, like the whole government cheese joke, Like that's 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:11.479 the real thing. And you actually had the block, Yes, 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:13.760 we have on the show. Always asked about the block 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:15.880 and cheese and mine. I don't know where it getting, man, Listen, 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:18.679 ain't nowhere to get it. You can get it from 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:21.040 the store, restaurant depot. You know, they do sell this 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:23.800 cheese unsliced. But yeah, we used to get this big 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:29.160 blocks of block of uh process pasteurized cheese like the 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:33.319 you know American cheese pretty much, um, peanut butter, honey, 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:35.319 and the honey didn't look like this. It actually was 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:38.679 crystallized because they got cold and you know, so you 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:40.240 would have to warm it up in order for it 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:43.680 to turn back to honey, you know. Um, but um, yeah, 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:46.040 it's just you know, these are ingredients that we actually 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:48.840 just had around the house. Um. Of course with the margine. 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:53.200 Margine is cheap, you know, Um, so you know, that's 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:56.280 all we pretty much could afford. And there was in buckets, um, 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:59.400 the Country Crock, the Golden Sauce, I believe that's the 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:01.160 name of the brand, and um it's a couple of 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:03.160 different brands of margin that you would get in the bucket. 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:06.880 But that's what we had because beculting four butter exactly. 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:09.760 So why don't you start cooking this dish? And then 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:11.360 I want to know when was the last time you 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:15.960 ate this dish? The last time I ate this I 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:22.720 probably was about fourteen, Um, I was living with my dad. Um. Unfortunately, 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:24.760 I also come from a time where crack was big. 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:27.960 So crack got him and um, he was just you know, 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:29.880 we stayed with him, and you know, it was one 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:32.840 of the situations to where like you remember that as kids, 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:35.000 remember when he went to the house and he looked 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:38.280 in refrigerator was just flies and some baking solda in there, 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:42.320 like that was refrigerator. Like legit, we just had taking 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:44.760 care of you guys while he was Yes, you know, 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:46.760 he was like he was a functioning drug addict, but 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:50.840 of course, you know, the focus was his his habit, 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:54.000 you know. And of course we had things like government 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:58.079 issue cheese, the peanut butter, just that rice beans, different 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:01.360 things like that. Like my mom she passed away when 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:05.040 I was ten, So yeah, you know, and he was 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:07.359 able to take care of you guys. And um, well, 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:09.600 that's the thing. We kind of moved around. I've lived 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.240 with my aunt, I've lived with my brother, um I've 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:15.639 lived with cousin, family members, church members, my couple of 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:19.360 my aunts. But you know, it's just stuff like that. Um, 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:21.560 I pretty much was like all over the place. And 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:23.680 then of course there were times when he would come 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:25.240 and get us and take and we would go live 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:27.680 with him, you know, because he would get an apartment 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:29.320 or something like that. But of course he still had 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:31.760 his habits. So of course that was just something that 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:33.519 we just had to deal with, you know what I mean. 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:35.840 But of course it's it's those are the kind of 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:39.560 things that you say, like it builds character. I was cooking, shoot, 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:43.640 when I was like seven or eight. Like, um, I 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:46.560 have seven older brothers. So um, one of my older 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:48.640 brothers he used to like he went to the navy 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:52.840 or whatnot. But um, he was like the hood barber. 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:55.160 So he cut everybody in the hood. But I mean 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:58.720 and like he cut everybody here, um, including arts of course. 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:02.720 But so he would like you know, he drank forties 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:04.840 and cut hair all day, you know. And he was 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:06.960 into electronics and different stuff. He was the guy that 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:10.520 had the program card or was the RC cars, um, 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:13.480 big model cars and spray paying them and all. He 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:15.960 was into all kind of stuff. Um. But what he 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.640 would do is he would pay me to go to 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:21.920 the store get him a forty ounce some noodles and 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:25.240 two sausages, and I would cook it for him, you know. 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:27.560 So um, that was just something that I would just 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:30.040 do because I needed to like pay me like two 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:32.799 dollars and and so you were cheffing it and making 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:35.159 your first buck. So that was like your intro to entrepreneurship, 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:37.000 I guess in a sense. And I didn't know what 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.680 it was of course. I'm you know, I'm just you know, 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.000 a kid like I just wanted to have my little 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:44.159 train so I can be on the block of the 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:46.800 other kids, you know, with my cheetos and hanging out 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:49.600 and have fun or whatever. So yeah, it was just something, 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:52.120 you know, I didn't think of it as that. I 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:55.400 just thought of it as, oh, you know, my brother 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:57.120 is paying me to make these noodles. Let me make 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.520 these noodles, you know, because my mom always taught us 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:01.919 to be self fishing, you know, even from a young age, 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:04.920 like we just you know, I was doing laundry when 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:07.520 I was tending like you know, things like that. Like 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:12.680 so that that was pretty much my life. Okay, wow, 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:18.200 you definitely have an interesting story. So the last time 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:20.799 you eat this, you're making this, you're fourteen years old, 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:26.120 can you pay me like a picture of your environment? Um? 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:29.919 At the time, UM, I was, I was in dreaming 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:34.279 high school. Um. Every day pretty much was like all right, 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:38.480 wake up, get ready for school. What am I anna eat? 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:41.000 You know how I'm gonna eat at school? You know, 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:43.040 of course we have free lunch, but you know, free 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:47.560 lunch was asked, you know. You know. Sometimes I don't 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:49.880 know about you, but I was always embarrassed to get 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:54.599 my free lunch. I don't always, you know, because my 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:57.000 thing was it's like, shoot, you know, it was kids 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:58.640 that was paying for lunch. They wish they could get 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:02.120 the free lunch in so they would buy our tickets. 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:04.479 Sometimes I don't get it. Why would they do that 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:08.120 because they had to pay for lunch, you know what 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:10.640 I mean, And if their parents couldn't afford it. Oh, 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:12.200 I see what you're saying. You know what I'm saying, 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:14.440 because it's like you have to meet a certain nadom 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.080 to get the free lunch, and if you go over 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:19.640 that threshold, then you can't get free lunch. You have 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:22.120 to pay for it. But of course, on paper, a 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:24.360 lot of these parents they have the you know, they 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.440 have the income, but it's not what they're actually you know, 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:30.960 so of course they're budgeting is different too. So sometimes 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:34.159 kids couldn't afford lunch for to day, you know. And 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:37.400 I have friends that were like that. Um, so you 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:38.800 just took the butter and you put it in a 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:40.599 little Yeah, I put the butter in the little part. 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:42.320 What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna make a little saucy, 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:46.400 little caramel like glaze just to decorate the plate. Um. 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:48.480 This ain't something that I did when I was younger, 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:57.599 but special, you know, I just you know, but um yeah, 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:00.880 I'm just make a little caramel glaze just so that's 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:05.039 brown sugar and margin brown sugar margarine. I usually add 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:07.600 when I make the caramel sauce. I had a few 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:11.680 more flavors, a little bit of salt. One thing people 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:15.560 don't realize is that salt is not like, uh, I 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:19.520 don't know, it's not like a spice. Really, what are 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:21.240 we gonna We can't say this. All the black people 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:23.320 in the world are gonna have a heart attack. Salt 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:29.400 is not a spice. Salt is a flavor en hansl oh, Oh, 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:33.520 it's not meant for like. That's why they say don't 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:36.040 use a lot, because what it does is, like you 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:38.840 think about all of your different ingredients. You use your 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:42.120 paprikas your garlic, your your onion, different things like that, 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.600 they have no salt content. So when you add the 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:49.160 salt to them, it makes the flavor prop the pop 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:52.920 it brings out the flavor. So that's why it's like, 0:07:53.480 --> 0:08:02.560 so what's lors excuse me, Lorries is trash? Oh, Larie's 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:06.480 is garbage. I totally agree. I want to have that 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:13.600 clip just cut in sense in my husband garbage. Okay. 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.320 The thing about compound seasons that I hate the most 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:21.080 um is that you can't control how much of each 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:23.840 ingredient or each spice that you use. It's a compound 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:25.760 seasoning for a reason because it just gives you all 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:28.160 inclusive flavor. But I want to put a little more 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:29.760 garlic in it. I want to put a little more 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:32.400 paprika in it, you know what I'm saying. So a 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:35.320 lot of times what we do is like these compound seasons, 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:37.600 we have them on in their cabinet, we just don't 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.880 use them. So we're gonna grab Laria's because Larry's just 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.160 pretty much got all of that in it. But the 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.719 thing is Larry's also has sugar, you know what I mean. 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:49.280 So we're putting sugar and pretty much everything that we 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:51.760 eat when we're using Laries. That's why I hate it, 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:55.679 and that's why black people got diabetes and hypertension hypera 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:59.480 sugar exactly because we'll be pouring it on. They got 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:03.800 msg different things like that, you know, So it's just 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:07.640 a matter of a little milk or a little cream. 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:10.600 But yeah, it's just a matter of controlling those type 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:12.920 of things. And then of course, like I don't I 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:15.760 I saw you know, for me, it's not good used culture. 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:18.440 It's just a healthier s a lower sodium salt. But 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:20.760 this is the salt that we had grown up, you know, 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:23.640 we had I dis it was what was it? I 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:25.199 forgot the name of it. With the girl with the 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:28.360 yellow dress with walking down the street with the umbrella. 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:32.920 I have that in my cabinet right now, something like that. 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:35.439 But yeah, that's the salt that I grew up with 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:38.400 in my kitchen. But when I became a chef, that's 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:41.200 when I was introduced to like colsture saw and salt, 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:44.000 just different sauce like those, because they're lowering sodium and 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:48.600 they're healthier. So so to go back to your environment, 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:53.640 how do you go from you know, being independent young man, 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:57.760 young boy. I'm not trying to knock your nine year 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:02.560 old youth, but young boy to jillionaire burger boys, Like 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.280 what what steps in my missing Like what what happened. 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:09.720 What what transitions were you kind of decide you're going 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:13.840 to build this empire. Um, well, it's a whole lot 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:17.160 of living that happened in between that I want to 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:19.800 hear because I also want to culinary school you also 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:24.600 for all these huge chefs. So, um well, it was 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:26.840 just a matter of um, you know, like I said, 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:29.440 it was living going on. But uh, like I said, 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:31.040 my mom died when I was ten, and it just 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:33.520 kind of uh put me in a place where it 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:35.680 was just like all right, you know, figure it out. 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:38.040 You know, your dad's here and then he's not here 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:42.839 prison you know, here they're like, um so I had 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:46.600 to really learn how to be a human being, you know, 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.200 just from meeting people and just dealing with people in 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:53.360 my life. So you know, I'm really I'm really like, 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:57.000 uh a variation of all the people that I've met 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:59.120 or all the people that have influenced me in my life. 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:03.080 You know. So, um yeah, I had an uncle. He 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:05.959 passed away actually seven days after my mom passed. He passed. 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:09.920 Um he was her he was her brother, or no, 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:13.040 he was her brother, but the thing was she was 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.320 really all he had, you know, and it's like, you know, 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:16.839 have you ever heard of like people dying of a 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:20.839 broken heart? You know, so it was it was kind 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:23.720 of like that when I when I of course, when 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:26.000 I in hindsight, when I think about it, you know, 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:30.000 he really was hurt, you know because everything he had 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:36.120 I just left him, you know. So um a caretaker 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:38.560 for you guys or yeah, he was very active in 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:40.520 our lives. He lived with this, you know, and then 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:41.920 he had his own place and I used to go 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:47.760 over his house. And are you like so young that 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:51.200 you're just processing it or was that like it was difficult? 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:54.560 Well for me as far as the you know, the death, 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:56.760 it was just kind of like, Okay, I don't really 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.080 understand it, you know what I mean. I'm a kid, 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:04.679 you know, So um I had I used to have 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:08.760 dreams like that. My mom would come back, you know, 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.360 like she used to shop a lot. She loved shopping. 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:13.760 That was one thing about us. We always stayed fresh, 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:17.520 always had the newest. She was a saceress as well, 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:20.120 so she would make us out. How did how did 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:23.920 she support that? What did she do? This is the eighties, 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:30.200 so you got of course, we you got you know, 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:35.440 my mom was you know, um, but you know, so 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:37.560 that's the thing. It was just like she did what 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:39.800 she had to do. She had two kids, you know 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:43.040 what I mean, So she did what she had to do. Um, 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.440 but yeah, no, it was like credit card, fro all, 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:47.840 check for aud all that kind of stuff like that 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:49.760 was big in that time because you could walk into 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:52.559 a store and pretty much walk out of there with 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:55.120 thousand dollars worth of product with just a piece of paper, 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:58.439 you know what I mean, no credit card, no hard plastic, 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:02.040 no nothing. Name. She was really word analog, so the 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:05.400 information didn't get back to them until ship months later, 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:09.320 you know what I mean. So, um, I'm gonna butter 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:12.719 this bread the bread. Where she messed up is she 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.240 wanted to get to ask you all the personal questions. Yeah, 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:17.960 you know what I'm saying. So the focus it becomes 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:22.319 that and not the food. So excuse her, Go ahead, 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:25.439 go ahead. I'm a butter this bread. I mean, I'm 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:29.400 gonna put some peanut butter on here. Get this on 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:33.480 here and sharing a little bit. Uh. Now, you don't 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:36.880 put like every inch of the bread has butter, I see, 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:40.160 because when I do mine, I like because you like 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:41.880 a lot of butter, you know what I mean. So 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:44.960 that's nothing wrong with that, you know what I mean. 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:49.079 But for me, it's just really I'm gonna do this 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:50.720 because I do want to get peanut butter on my hand. 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.319 Once the butter is on their mills, right, yeah, So 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:57.920 moving around the pin, it's gonna touch other parts of 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:01.080 the bread. And the thing gets about these this cheap 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:05.160 bread is that it soaks up every bit of that 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:08.920 butter you put on it. So you got this greasy 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:10.520 you know what I'm saying. You never really get the 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:13.400 bread content unless you you know what I mean. Of course, 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:15.280 with the edges, you'll get it, but you never really 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:19.640 get that just stuff the bread. So what happens is 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.240 you kind of miss out in a sense. Okay, so 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:25.520 now you're adding a little honey on top of the 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:28.000 peanut butter. Yeah, so this is what we're used in 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:32.680 place of actual jelly because we got the honey for free. 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:41.680 I've this, you know what I mean? Um so yeah, man, uh, 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:45.880 I'm never in my life seeing this really never. Yeah, 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:50.280 well wow, look at that. Look at that. These were 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:53.880 this was essential, you know what I'm saying, Like sugar sandwiches, 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:58.360 serrup sandwiches. It was real. But for me, I like 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:01.200 I wanted it to be hot, you know, like when 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:04.440 we didn't have jelly, I would I would, you know, 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:08.080 just you know, sometimes what you'll do is you don't 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:11.880 have a special home, what you sometimes what you would 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:14.880 do is and then of course just not having the 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:21.720 utensils living to its food potential right now, you know 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:24.320 a little bit, I'm trying not to What do you 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:29.160 do when you don't have utensils and and you use 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:33.040 your hands, you use your hands, you use something that's 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:37.040 closest thing to it, you know. But yeah, man, this 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:40.920 was essential to my life, this rice with margarine and 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:44.920 some sugar. You're like, really bro really broke. And it's 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.160 crazy because if you go to billion of burger boys, 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:51.240 like you have thirty dollar burgers and um, and that's 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:54.320 only because of the market price seafood and different things 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:56.520 like that, Like you know, we pay a lot for 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:59.520 those lobster tells, you know. So that's the thing is 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:02.080 like I got a burger with lobster and shrimp on it. 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:08.480 You know, I'm using, you know, I'm using. You know, 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:12.280 we use anger ground ship, you know what I mean. 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:14.720 So it's just it's the quality behind it. Where did 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:17.160 your love of food come into play because at some 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:21.280 point you decide this is a career path you want. Um, 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:25.960 I've always loved food. I've always loved cooking. Um, it's 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:30.200 just music was really my life. So I come from 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:31.920 a background, like you know, I have singers in my 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:34.440 family as well. It's chefs. My uncle was a chef. 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:37.560 Two of my brothers were chefs. But like four of 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:40.160 my brothers can sing. One of my brothers play drums. 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:43.000 My other sister, she plays the drums and could play 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:45.080 any pretty much any instrument you put in front of her. 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:49.040 So I come from a most musical background. Um, but 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:51.360 I was a singer. I really didn't play instruments. I 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:53.600 could play by ear a little bit, but you know, 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:57.880 I was the singer. So music was my life. Chef solo, 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:02.920 it's actually a derivative Dave Soul, which was my stage 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.040 name when I was doing music, you know what I mean? 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:09.600 So uh, for me, it was always about the music. 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:12.640 Like my goal was I was gonna become the next 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:15.960 lut event Ross, you know what I mean. So um, 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:18.520 for me, I wanted to take that and elevat it. 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:23.679 So you remember my Space, Yeah, I was my Space famous. 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:25.679 Like that's how I was like they used to have, 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:31.520 uh a club and CityWalk It's called Baby Kings and 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:33.600 I had three floors. Yeah. I used to sell that 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:36.840 place out like regularly, Like that was my thing, Like 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:39.960 my space. That's why I love social media because my 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:42.960 space was a tool for me to my music career. 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:46.280 Like you could literally become famous, like you could become 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:51.040 instant famous. But it was like locally, I was the man, 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:53.840 you know what I mean. So like music was always 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:56.640 like my passion, that was my love. That's where I 0:17:56.640 --> 0:18:00.280 always wanted to do. Um. But um, for trying to 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:03.600 lead to to certain circumstances, I don't want to disclose 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:06.080 because you know, nobody has to blame but me for 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:10.880 my ship. But um, I ended up quitting just saying 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:14.480 forget music, moving on to a space where I was, 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:20.400 you know, just working regular jobs. Um. I was married 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:22.720 at the time, started growing, having a family growing, So 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:26.480 it was really like, okay, well you can still keep 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:31.040 chasing his dream of being this this star, or you 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:32.879 can start to provide to your family, making sure the 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:38.679 straight right. So um, that's really what it was. It Uh, 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:42.120 it was a segue really. So I was working at Walmart, 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:46.960 worked there for three years, exemplary service, all that good stuff. 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:50.280 But of course, you know black people, when we break, 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:54.320 we break, so you know, the extra breaks started adding 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:58.439 up and I ended up getting fired. Right, I'm just 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:02.040 using my plate to cut it, okay, But I ended 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:06.679 up getting fired. And once I got fired, I was 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:09.600 sitting on my couch in my living room and I'm 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:13.240 trying to figure out, like, yo, what am I gonna do? Um? 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:15.560 And that's how you're supporting your family is working at 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:19.399 Walmart exactly, and Walmart is probably paying like not that 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:21.840 well either. Right at the time, I was making like 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:24.960 twelve out of an hour, and you're supporting a family 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:29.640 and until you lose your job, my job. One thing 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:32.800 about me is I'm never ever gonna be uh without 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:35.680 job or without work. You know. Of course I naturally 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:40.439 have that hustling mentality. So um, for me, it was 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:43.480 just about trying to figure out what's like my next move. 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:47.399 But the thought process behind it was, Okay, what can 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:50.359 I do that doesn't feel like work that I love? 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:52.480 You know what I mean? Something that I would do 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:55.720 for free? And in that moment, and I always tell 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:58.880 the story and it's it's so weird. A Cordon blue 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:04.800 commercial came on TV. Yeah, and I'm sitting there and 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:08.040 you know, the lightbulb went off over my head, like, yo, 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:10.880 I should I can be a chefs Like I'm good 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:13.520 at this. So I checked in school the next day. 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:16.439 But now, how are you supporting your family while going 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:19.159 to school, are you? Um? Well, you know I was 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:21.920 married at the time, and my my my ex wife, 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:23.760 she you know, she had a job and she was 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:26.320 making adequate money, different things like that. You know. Of 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:29.120 course I was a hustler too, So y'all made it work. 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:32.639 And you went to school, Okay, So you enjoyed school, 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:38.440 You enjoyed it, yes, yes, um, but you know that's 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:40.520 the thing. We both were pursuing things. Like she was 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:44.199 in school getting her degree in psychology, and so I 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:47.960 went ahead and start purchuing culinary So I went to 0:20:47.960 --> 0:20:55.920 school and I pretty much excelled with school, um so much. 0:20:56.000 --> 0:20:59.720 And like two months in I had a job. You know, 0:20:59.840 --> 0:21:02.280 I was already working in kitchens. I had worked as 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:05.440 a bus boy, um, a server assistant and different things 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:09.199 like that. Um, even as a server sometimes. But I 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:11.959 can never get in the kitchen. Just just so all 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:16.360 y'all listeners, and you know, that you hear this little sound. 0:21:16.400 --> 0:21:19.879 It's because he keeps mixing the honey and the sugar. 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:24.080 I'm guessing he's trying to keep it from getting hard. Right. Well, 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:26.359 what happens is that's why I said I wish I 0:21:26.359 --> 0:21:29.200 had a little cream or some type of milk substance. 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:32.000 That way I can How do you say when I asked, 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:35.320 when you add the cream or the milk, than out 0:21:35.359 --> 0:21:39.800 the the brown sugar and then to take the crystallization out. 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:43.520 So right now to the kitchen to get that. But 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:46.280 I don't think we have no, don't worry about it. Um, 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:49.520 you know, it's just hard on the audio. Okay, my 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:57.280 bad on you know I'm over here mixing records. But no, 0:21:57.560 --> 0:22:00.000 this this just helps to break down the actual sugar 0:22:00.800 --> 0:22:03.040 or whatnot, so you're not eating a grainy sugar, you 0:22:03.080 --> 0:22:04.639 know what I'm saying. So that's why I use the 0:22:04.680 --> 0:22:07.920 milk or the cream. You know, also just cooking it down. 0:22:08.000 --> 0:22:10.639 What help with that to the butter um or the 0:22:10.680 --> 0:22:13.040 margarine with the sugar. Just but you just have to 0:22:13.040 --> 0:22:22.119 cook it a little bit before. Man, Okay, perfect, I 0:22:22.200 --> 0:22:31.919 want to see this. So that's just to create you 0:22:31.920 --> 0:22:37.000 know what I'm saying oh, and then bump, I want 0:22:37.040 --> 0:22:40.919 I want my camera and we don't have overhead camp today. 0:22:41.800 --> 0:22:44.240 Is it for the side camps? He played it in 0:22:44.320 --> 0:22:50.160 like a chef had the Is this gonna taste that caramel? Yes? Yes, 0:22:50.200 --> 0:22:52.800 it's gonna give you. It won't get you the full 0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:54.960 caramel flavor because I like to add things like to 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:58.280 my caramel, Like I'll add like a maple maple extract 0:22:58.320 --> 0:23:00.680 or something just to just to give it a nice 0:23:00.720 --> 0:23:05.920 little vibe. But yeah, it's it's pretty much giving you caramel. 0:23:06.960 --> 0:23:09.480 So I'm going to be that rude person and take 0:23:09.520 --> 0:23:13.159 a bite before No, you're good, go ahead. Okay, So 0:23:13.200 --> 0:23:16.120 we're gonna sample the goods because it's nice and warm. 0:23:16.160 --> 0:23:43.000 That's but that's market siggling by the way. Problem, Well, 0:23:43.320 --> 0:23:47.000 you're gonna make this at home. I love Michelle. Don't 0:23:47.000 --> 0:23:53.680 see if I did that? What I mean that is good. 0:23:53.800 --> 0:23:56.720 I'm getting a little drizzle of it. Oh yeah, please, Joe, 0:23:56.840 --> 0:24:01.080 can you put it on the set it? Oh sorry, 0:24:03.080 --> 0:24:06.960 I'm trying. Good. I love how the honey is and 0:24:07.080 --> 0:24:14.280 oh my gosh, camera again it looks fancy smancy. All right, 0:24:14.320 --> 0:24:17.480 this tastes really good. It's very sweet. It has like 0:24:17.520 --> 0:24:20.480 a nice crystal. I'm gonna trying to take another, but 0:24:22.440 --> 0:24:32.000 oh the good very sticky on the teeth. That's the sugar. 0:24:33.680 --> 0:24:36.000 This is like a delicious trip and I don't see 0:24:36.040 --> 0:24:39.040 you can fill fill up your stomach and I totally 0:24:39.080 --> 0:24:42.479 get it. It's like upgraded version of a peanut butter sandwich. 0:24:43.720 --> 0:24:49.480 So I'm trying to still walk through this story with you. Okay, 0:24:49.520 --> 0:24:51.560 So you go to culinary school, You're cooking in all 0:24:51.600 --> 0:24:56.760 these kitchens. What happens next? Um? Yeah, I got to 0:24:56.800 --> 0:25:00.639 color Meary School. I graduate, UM. And and of course 0:25:00.640 --> 0:25:04.000 it's for me, it's always a void because I always 0:25:04.040 --> 0:25:07.040 feel like I should be here, but I'm always here, 0:25:07.880 --> 0:25:09.920 So it's just always a matter of trying to figure 0:25:09.920 --> 0:25:12.480 out how to work myself up to getting here. So 0:25:13.040 --> 0:25:15.520 you know, I had worked for you know, UM, worked 0:25:15.520 --> 0:25:20.360 in Wolfgang Puck's kitchens. I had worked for Rabbit Alone. Um. 0:25:20.400 --> 0:25:22.800 I worked in all of us Gang Plucks kitchens with 0:25:22.920 --> 0:25:25.879 just different chefs, and I learned a lot actually just 0:25:25.960 --> 0:25:28.600 working around in those chefs. Um. I actually was able 0:25:28.600 --> 0:25:33.159 to cook a a steak for Wolfgang one time. Um, 0:25:33.200 --> 0:25:36.360 just because I was at the bed think all right. Well, 0:25:36.359 --> 0:25:39.760 they told me he loved it. Um, because I don't 0:25:39.800 --> 0:25:44.800 see my stakes traditionally. Um because people just a lot 0:25:44.840 --> 0:25:48.560 of times I have salt and pepper boom. But you know, 0:25:49.320 --> 0:25:50.919 I'll take a different approach when it comes to that. 0:25:51.000 --> 0:25:53.440 But yeah, no, just I just happened to be working 0:25:53.440 --> 0:25:56.280 at one of his hotels and he happened to be there. 0:25:56.400 --> 0:26:00.520 He he's always at the Beverly Hills Hotel, so um, 0:26:00.560 --> 0:26:02.120 he happened to be there and he wanted to steak 0:26:02.200 --> 0:26:04.840 and the chef was like, you want to make it? 0:26:05.200 --> 0:26:08.520 I was like, hell, yeah, you know you're looking out 0:26:08.520 --> 0:26:11.280 through the door, like, hey, no he was. It was actually, 0:26:11.520 --> 0:26:14.440 see the way the Beverly Hills Hotel set up. They 0:26:14.480 --> 0:26:19.520 have this dungeon and it's this big kitchen, and there's 0:26:19.600 --> 0:26:21.879 so many stations, so many chefs, you know, and just 0:26:22.040 --> 0:26:26.760 different things going on. Like literally they're cooking for restaurants, 0:26:27.160 --> 0:26:30.280 they're cooking for room service, like they have a cafeteria 0:26:30.320 --> 0:26:34.600 for the employees. Hot you're not gonna put the caramel 0:26:34.640 --> 0:26:38.399 stuff on it? Oh yeah, honestly, I love this sandwich. 0:26:38.480 --> 0:26:43.880 Put this caramel on top. That's where it's at. Like that, 0:26:43.880 --> 0:26:48.480 that is amazing and this is without the Do you 0:26:48.480 --> 0:26:50.600 even need the honey on the inside with the caramel 0:26:50.600 --> 0:26:53.840 on the out? Do you even need the No, you don't. 0:26:54.000 --> 0:26:56.920 But the caramel is what I added today. That's just 0:26:57.440 --> 0:27:01.159 that's some new stuff. But the real gist of the 0:27:01.200 --> 0:27:06.320 sandwich is the honey in the pan toasted. Well, this 0:27:06.400 --> 0:27:09.960 is so delicious. Thank you the Caramela, Thank you. I'm 0:27:10.200 --> 0:27:13.000 gonna I'm gonna want to do this all my sandwich. 0:27:14.080 --> 0:27:16.560 And I learned how to make it too. You stir 0:27:16.640 --> 0:27:23.000 it in the honey, and you stir, stir, stirt. I 0:27:23.080 --> 0:27:25.040 usually have a whisk. I didn't even use the whisk 0:27:25.080 --> 0:27:28.080 that I requested. I didn't even think to look over there. 0:27:28.640 --> 0:27:31.240 You know. I requested a whisk, y'all and I didn't 0:27:31.320 --> 0:27:36.679 use it. Yeah, I totally requested it. Didn't even use it, 0:27:36.680 --> 0:27:39.600 but I didn't have a whisk. This is delicious. And 0:27:39.640 --> 0:27:41.600 when we do the cookbook, we're going to include the 0:27:41.640 --> 0:27:45.879 caramel time, because that's that's where to me, it just 0:27:45.920 --> 0:27:48.919 tips it over. It goes from a broke dish to 0:27:49.000 --> 0:27:53.320 a fancy I don't know. The thing is, I could 0:27:53.600 --> 0:27:57.560 literally make this and serve it at a fine dining restaurant. Yeah, 0:27:57.760 --> 0:28:00.240 and I would pay for this. I would tell really 0:28:00.240 --> 0:28:04.520 switch it up. I mean, I don't even know. I 0:28:04.560 --> 0:28:09.040 would probably do some crazy stuff like calling the peanut 0:28:09.040 --> 0:28:12.800 butter brulet or something peanut butter broulet sounds, because what 0:28:12.840 --> 0:28:14.200 I would do is I would first of all, I 0:28:14.240 --> 0:28:16.919 would use like a sweep and wine loaf or a 0:28:16.960 --> 0:28:19.160 brioche loaf, and I would cut at the big slices 0:28:19.200 --> 0:28:22.480 with the peanut butter. I would of course add the honey, 0:28:22.560 --> 0:28:27.200 but no, I would add the caramel, right. I would 0:28:27.240 --> 0:28:29.760 drizzle it with the caramel, and then I would sprinkle 0:28:29.800 --> 0:28:33.240 brown sugar and then burn the brown sugar just to 0:28:33.280 --> 0:28:36.400 give the brulet fields because you'll get that crispy uh 0:28:36.560 --> 0:28:38.760 texture on the outside, and then you'll bite in and 0:28:38.800 --> 0:28:41.240 it's got the drizzle. Like it's just there's so many 0:28:41.240 --> 0:28:43.360 compounds of this that I can make it, you know. 0:28:43.400 --> 0:28:46.480 And I would do something like a vanilla bean whip cream, 0:28:46.840 --> 0:28:48.880 just as a garnish with a little pix of mat 0:28:49.480 --> 0:28:52.200 and it's like it's elevated, you know what I mean. 0:28:52.280 --> 0:28:56.040 So yeah, man, it's no, it's no real science to it, Like, 0:28:56.080 --> 0:28:58.960 it's just really about just how you make it look 0:28:59.440 --> 0:29:02.360 You can make something that you know cost you three 0:29:02.400 --> 0:29:04.560 dollars to make. You can make it look like a 0:29:04.560 --> 0:29:07.040 fifty plan. But you make it look but you also 0:29:07.080 --> 0:29:09.120 make it taste good. I would have never go out 0:29:09.160 --> 0:29:12.840 of this combo. But but now you're at the culinary school. 0:29:13.720 --> 0:29:16.520 I mean, you graduated the you're finished with the culinary school. 0:29:16.520 --> 0:29:20.520 You're cooking for all these famous chefs, greatest billionaire burger 0:29:20.560 --> 0:29:24.320 boys happened. And now that was even the process. So 0:29:24.400 --> 0:29:28.600 I ended up. I ended up. I was living in 0:29:28.640 --> 0:29:33.800 Palmdy at the time because that's where me and my 0:29:33.800 --> 0:29:36.120 my my wife, we moved with our kids and different 0:29:36.120 --> 0:29:39.120 things like a bigger house and all that. There you go. Um, 0:29:39.160 --> 0:29:42.600 so I'm single. Now you know I'm single. I gotta 0:29:43.120 --> 0:29:46.280 from South Palm Down. Okay, let's okay, let's how I 0:29:46.280 --> 0:29:49.360 like that. Okay, South and later phone and then I 0:29:49.440 --> 0:29:53.560 come back after after I get a divorce and'll come back. Um. 0:29:53.600 --> 0:29:56.560 And that's when I meet Jane, Um Jennifer, who is 0:29:56.680 --> 0:30:00.000 my girl and the co owner of begging A Bregable. 0:30:00.600 --> 0:30:04.200 Uh we started. Uh. She basically encouraged me to do 0:30:04.240 --> 0:30:05.600 the pop ups that I wanted to do. I wanted 0:30:05.600 --> 0:30:08.560 to start doing cooking because I started doing in the pondo, 0:30:08.640 --> 0:30:10.080 but then it kind of died out and I went 0:30:10.120 --> 0:30:12.120 back to work because like I stopped working to do that, 0:30:12.280 --> 0:30:14.200 Like I used to sell tacos out of my carboard 0:30:14.600 --> 0:30:17.400 and it's so funny, Um, you have Chef Ulto on here. 0:30:18.080 --> 0:30:19.920 He was the reason why I ended up going and 0:30:19.960 --> 0:30:23.520 getting my flat top and started cooking tacos and stuff 0:30:23.560 --> 0:30:25.680 like that out of my car poard because I was 0:30:25.720 --> 0:30:29.360 watching the video. My sister Michelle shout out some shells 0:30:29.400 --> 0:30:32.560 for that video, but she sent me a video of 0:30:33.560 --> 0:30:37.360 uh chef oto like it was like you know how 0:30:37.360 --> 0:30:39.680 they do the little end of the video social media video. 0:30:39.800 --> 0:30:41.880 So they asked him at the end, they said, if 0:30:41.880 --> 0:30:44.120 you could give anybody any advice to anybody that wants 0:30:44.160 --> 0:30:46.600 to get into this or wants to do this, Um, 0:30:46.640 --> 0:30:48.560 what would you say to them? And He's like, just 0:30:48.600 --> 0:30:50.600 do it, Just get out there and do it very much. 0:30:51.200 --> 0:30:58.480 UM and video videos, Well that's the thing. I would 0:30:58.480 --> 0:31:01.480 believe her in the university and how work spirituality different 0:31:01.520 --> 0:31:03.640 things like that. So you have to be open minded, 0:31:03.680 --> 0:31:05.880 you have to be a you know your vision, like 0:31:06.080 --> 0:31:08.080 you know they say the third eye, Like you have 0:31:08.160 --> 0:31:11.000 to have that open because, like you know, the universe 0:31:11.040 --> 0:31:12.800 will show you things and it will give you the 0:31:12.840 --> 0:31:16.000 answers and it has messages for you. So that was 0:31:16.000 --> 0:31:18.560 the thing, is like I saw that video and I 0:31:18.600 --> 0:31:21.280 had literally just done a gig with the cheft that 0:31:21.320 --> 0:31:23.320 I was working with at the school. He would call 0:31:23.400 --> 0:31:26.080 me to just come and help out. So I had 0:31:26.080 --> 0:31:29.280 worked that week and I got paid and I took 0:31:29.360 --> 0:31:33.320 that money and went involved my flattop. And the flat 0:31:33.360 --> 0:31:36.000 top is what you cook your meal in Spanish is 0:31:36.040 --> 0:31:38.520 the plancha. You know what I'm saying, Like, so you 0:31:38.640 --> 0:31:42.400 buy this list flattop, then what happens I'll started cooking 0:31:42.400 --> 0:31:46.320 out my car park. What does carporn mean? Um, it's 0:31:46.400 --> 0:31:49.400 just basically a parking space with a top over it, 0:31:49.640 --> 0:31:52.600 cover over it, you know. So so you're going in 0:31:52.680 --> 0:31:54.800 the streets and selling or where I was at my 0:31:54.800 --> 0:32:01.240 house literally okay, okay, So why didn't get people to 0:32:01.240 --> 0:32:04.080 know about your business Instagram and Facebook? So you're like 0:32:04.200 --> 0:32:06.680 posting videos they started showing up at your house. Well 0:32:06.680 --> 0:32:09.120 that's the thing. Prior to that I had done, Like 0:32:09.680 --> 0:32:12.040 so everybody on social media went through the color airy 0:32:12.080 --> 0:32:15.440 process with me. So from day one when I started school, 0:32:15.480 --> 0:32:18.160 I took a picture literally to the selfie and posted 0:32:18.200 --> 0:32:20.520 me and my chef had in my coat, and then 0:32:20.600 --> 0:32:22.600 I started posting the food that I was making. So 0:32:22.800 --> 0:32:25.320 everybody had been on this journey and my following had 0:32:25.360 --> 0:32:29.480 grown substantially from the time I started to the time 0:32:29.520 --> 0:32:32.760 I finished Colorary School. So it's like everybody's pretty much 0:32:32.880 --> 0:32:35.360 there there tune, they're waiting. Yeah, you know what I mean. 0:32:36.880 --> 0:32:39.200 When I posted that I was selling tacos and Pound Dell. 0:32:39.680 --> 0:32:41.360 You know, of course everybody in l A because that's 0:32:41.360 --> 0:32:44.360 where I'm originally from, and everybody knows me pretty much 0:32:44.360 --> 0:32:46.360 in l A is like when you come to l A. 0:32:46.680 --> 0:32:48.800 But I also got people in Palmdale that rock with me, 0:32:49.280 --> 0:32:52.040 and you know, they pulled up like I literally sold 0:32:52.040 --> 0:32:55.000 out that first night that I did it. So it 0:32:55.080 --> 0:32:57.840 was just that doing that. The repetition of that Pound. 0:32:58.560 --> 0:33:01.160 Lancaster had a lot of construction sites because they were 0:33:01.280 --> 0:33:04.640 you know, yeah, everything was going solar out there, so 0:33:04.800 --> 0:33:08.240 literally it's fields upon fields of solar panels, um, So 0:33:08.320 --> 0:33:11.360 you're pulling up on the construction work. Exactly five o'clock 0:33:11.400 --> 0:33:13.920 in the morning, I got breakfast buried over. Okay, and 0:33:14.240 --> 0:33:17.280 but now this is Palmdale, so this is pre Jennifer. 0:33:17.400 --> 0:33:19.440 So when does when does the Jennifer? That's when I 0:33:19.480 --> 0:33:22.640 moved from Palmdale. Okay, so you moved from Palmdale, you 0:33:22.680 --> 0:33:26.040 meet Jennifer and you guys, at the time, I was 0:33:26.040 --> 0:33:28.480 working at a hotel. I was just working for an agency. 0:33:28.520 --> 0:33:30.640 So I was just doing our jobs and then you're 0:33:30.800 --> 0:33:33.640 probably what cooking on the weekends or something, Um, I 0:33:33.680 --> 0:33:37.600 really I wasn't even doing that. I started back working 0:33:37.640 --> 0:33:40.520 regular jobs. Okay, okay, So it was moving around with 0:33:40.520 --> 0:33:42.760 the agency. Then I started working in this kitchen that 0:33:42.840 --> 0:33:45.479 was like a production kitchen for they produced food for 0:33:46.240 --> 0:33:48.600 like different movies, so all of the major movie studios 0:33:48.600 --> 0:33:51.800 and the like. They delivered like like pans of food too. 0:33:52.920 --> 0:33:54.440 So I used to do that. They call that backs 0:33:54.440 --> 0:33:57.360 cooking when you just cook big pans of food and 0:33:57.600 --> 0:34:01.520 like loads of it. So that's I did at UM 0:34:01.640 --> 0:34:04.040 And I was working for the chef. He was just horrible. 0:34:04.160 --> 0:34:10.480 He was a horrible freaking chef, like um, a horrible attitude. 0:34:10.920 --> 0:34:14.480 Was this food trash, food was trash. Everything that he had, 0:34:14.480 --> 0:34:17.120 every every recipe, mene you that we had that we 0:34:17.160 --> 0:34:19.719 had to make. Um. I was like, I could do 0:34:19.760 --> 0:34:23.439 this better. So of course everything I cooked, I put 0:34:23.520 --> 0:34:27.520 my my little genn said quas it. I would put 0:34:27.520 --> 0:34:29.960 my bazas on it because it's like, no, this, this 0:34:30.040 --> 0:34:33.719 is as I can't do this. Um So yeah, I 0:34:33.760 --> 0:34:35.359 was working for him and it was just like, yo, 0:34:35.400 --> 0:34:37.600 I can't do this no more. So I I told you, 0:34:37.719 --> 0:34:39.479 and like, yo, I want to start doing pop ups. 0:34:39.920 --> 0:34:43.080 And so she ended up setting up setting up to 0:34:43.080 --> 0:34:46.560 pop up at chew Ton Coffee Shop and uh and 0:34:46.719 --> 0:34:49.239 uh in Guardina shout out the kid. He gave me 0:34:49.320 --> 0:34:51.799 my start pretty much. So like she calls and she's like, hey, 0:34:51.840 --> 0:34:54.480 I got this amazing chef. Also my man, well he 0:34:54.560 --> 0:34:58.440 was featuring. He was featuring like three stacks kitchen. He 0:34:58.480 --> 0:35:01.040 had not your mama kitchen, you know. Shout out to them. 0:35:01.040 --> 0:35:02.759 Those were those are the people that I was rocking with. 0:35:02.920 --> 0:35:06.000 He was also featuring chef Oho came through. There's some 0:35:06.000 --> 0:35:10.120 stuff talking and come we'll cook right in front of 0:35:10.120 --> 0:35:11.960 the shop, you know, or if they had you know, 0:35:12.239 --> 0:35:14.200 and you know whatever, we were always set up in 0:35:14.239 --> 0:35:17.080 front of the shop. So um, I started doing that 0:35:17.640 --> 0:35:19.759 and then I started moving around different places like we 0:35:19.800 --> 0:35:23.200 got shut down there because the code enforce would be like, yeah, 0:35:23.239 --> 0:35:25.480 you know, you guys are too loud, neighbors complaining, there's 0:35:25.480 --> 0:35:27.960 different things because it would always be an event, like 0:35:28.000 --> 0:35:30.080 any time we posted that there was something going on, 0:35:30.239 --> 0:35:34.120 like you know, people pull up. Um, So that we 0:35:34.200 --> 0:35:36.799 started getting shut down doing that, and it just got 0:35:36.840 --> 0:35:39.160 to a point where it was like it was sucky 0:35:39.200 --> 0:35:42.560 because I couldn't do anything anywhere. And at that time, 0:35:42.640 --> 0:35:45.279 like the street vendor laws were like they were non 0:35:45.280 --> 0:35:48.880 existent and now they're like all supports exactly. But I 0:35:49.040 --> 0:35:51.680 went through that process people I was. I was in that. 0:35:51.840 --> 0:35:54.719 I was the calls of these laws coming in their 0:35:54.719 --> 0:35:56.960 place because I was one of those street vendors, you 0:35:56.960 --> 0:36:00.000 know what I mean. So that's the thing is like, um, 0:36:00.040 --> 0:36:02.000 that was just the time where it just it sucked 0:36:02.000 --> 0:36:04.200 to be a streaming, you know. But it was like 0:36:04.280 --> 0:36:05.840 just figuring that out. I used to be in downtown 0:36:06.000 --> 0:36:08.680 l A in front of this parking lot in between 0:36:08.719 --> 0:36:11.839 these clubs, selling right across the street, and you were 0:36:11.880 --> 0:36:14.560 selling hot dogs? What were you selling? Or tackles? What 0:36:14.640 --> 0:36:17.960 were you selling? I had a whole menu standing outside, 0:36:17.960 --> 0:36:19.879 I had a kitchen. Where were you the other night? 0:36:19.920 --> 0:36:21.719 When I was at the Stable center, all I had 0:36:21.800 --> 0:36:23.960 was hot dog option. Oh man, you gotta stop buy 0:36:24.000 --> 0:36:25.960 on the menu. Man, that's my boy. He'd be out 0:36:25.960 --> 0:36:28.080 there pretty late. I think he'd get out there about nine. 0:36:28.520 --> 0:36:30.160 And you do all kind of desserts. But he also 0:36:30.239 --> 0:36:33.439 has a lot, he does a lot of food. So yeah, 0:36:33.480 --> 0:36:37.440 we started, I got shut down, and it's like, okay, 0:36:37.640 --> 0:36:39.759 you know I did my research on food trucks and 0:36:39.840 --> 0:36:42.000 prior to that, like to get a food truck, you 0:36:42.040 --> 0:36:44.680 had to buy one, right, and of course that could 0:36:44.680 --> 0:36:48.520 be anyway. This is before you could lease them. Yes, um, 0:36:48.680 --> 0:36:52.480 so you know you had it hard alright. No, that's 0:36:52.480 --> 0:36:54.279 the thing is, like all of the progressions are the 0:36:54.360 --> 0:36:56.359 changes I was a part of. I was I was 0:36:56.400 --> 0:36:58.520 writing at that at the head was like you were 0:36:58.520 --> 0:37:02.440 in the sucky time to be vendor, and now you're 0:37:02.440 --> 0:37:05.600 in a sucky time to like get a food truck exactly. 0:37:05.840 --> 0:37:08.720 And and all the capital you're working with, um, assuming 0:37:08.719 --> 0:37:10.799 it's capital that you're hustling from your day job or 0:37:10.800 --> 0:37:13.520 your whatever it comes from being a drug you know, 0:37:13.640 --> 0:37:16.160 just the whole mentality. Yeah, that's why they say drug 0:37:16.160 --> 0:37:19.279 dealers are are the best entrepreneurs. You know, those are 0:37:19.320 --> 0:37:21.120 your CEOs. Those are the ones that can run a 0:37:21.120 --> 0:37:24.120 fortunate clifund your company because they just understand how to 0:37:24.520 --> 0:37:27.120 you know, how to make the money. Yeah. And then 0:37:27.160 --> 0:37:30.200 of course most drug dealers we we save, we stack, 0:37:30.480 --> 0:37:32.080 you know, and what's the first thing they tell you 0:37:32.120 --> 0:37:36.160 to do? Save? You know? So, Um, I didn't even 0:37:36.160 --> 0:37:39.560 think about that. Yeah, No, Um, I would. I would 0:37:39.600 --> 0:37:42.960 totally just I would buy the product, I would sell it, 0:37:43.480 --> 0:37:46.200 take the money, re up, don't do it again, you 0:37:46.280 --> 0:37:48.160 know what I mean. So it was just one of 0:37:48.160 --> 0:37:49.560 those things where I was like, all right, what am 0:37:49.600 --> 0:37:52.440 I gonna do? Um? And then just like I said, 0:37:52.480 --> 0:37:54.160 food trucks was an option because I didn't have the 0:37:54.200 --> 0:37:57.000 credit or the finances to get So then how did 0:37:57.040 --> 0:37:58.919 you get one? How did you end up getting there? 0:37:59.120 --> 0:38:01.080 I ended up getting it because you know, of course, 0:38:01.120 --> 0:38:03.200 after time, like probably like a month or two, I 0:38:03.280 --> 0:38:05.879 started setting out the house, it just became easier. So 0:38:05.920 --> 0:38:10.800 I would have people just pull up and get food. Thing. So, um, 0:38:10.880 --> 0:38:14.440 one day I'm riding down the street. In another story, 0:38:14.600 --> 0:38:17.200 I'm right down the street right um, and I had 0:38:17.239 --> 0:38:18.840 looked up food trucks, like I said, and it was 0:38:18.920 --> 0:38:22.480 just all you got to buy him, and so, um, 0:38:22.520 --> 0:38:25.919 I had just I think I google like food truck 0:38:26.000 --> 0:38:28.600 leases or something like. But I put it in Google 0:38:28.640 --> 0:38:32.839 Maps and it was a food truck manufacturer that came 0:38:32.920 --> 0:38:35.680 up literally right around the corner. And I called him 0:38:35.920 --> 0:38:37.840 and I was like, yo, you got food trucks right now? 0:38:37.920 --> 0:38:39.600 He's like, yeah, I got one right now, you know. 0:38:40.239 --> 0:38:41.920 And I go to him and I talked to him like, 0:38:42.040 --> 0:38:44.319 you know, I was always talking like you know, just 0:38:44.360 --> 0:38:46.759 go like you got the money, you know, act like 0:38:46.760 --> 0:38:50.440 like and at this time, are you familiar with good 0:38:50.480 --> 0:38:52.759 credit and all that stuff? So you had all that? 0:38:52.880 --> 0:38:55.600 So I didn't have a good credit. No, I didn't. 0:38:56.239 --> 0:38:59.080 Financial literacy was definitely something that was like it in 0:38:59.120 --> 0:39:03.560 my life, you know, mean um uh. So yeah, I 0:39:03.640 --> 0:39:05.960 called him. I went there and I'm like, so, how 0:39:06.040 --> 0:39:08.680 much he wants for it? And he was like just 0:39:08.719 --> 0:39:13.120 twenty months. I was like what at least you know 0:39:13.160 --> 0:39:16.040 he's like, well doing literal at least twenty d of months, 0:39:16.920 --> 0:39:20.080 so how much down? Like he's like, you know, twenty 0:39:20.160 --> 0:39:22.759 four you know, twenty four times too, and how to 0:39:22.840 --> 0:39:24.440 put you on the truck. It comes with all the 0:39:24.480 --> 0:39:31.080 health everything, and then of course this monthly lease includes maintenance, 0:39:31.320 --> 0:39:33.640 anything that happens to the truck. Now it doesn't include 0:39:33.680 --> 0:39:36.520 the whole commissary and all. That commissary is a different thing. 0:39:36.560 --> 0:39:38.680 You have to go and get a commissary to park 0:39:38.760 --> 0:39:41.239 the truck. Did you know about that? Yes? Oh so 0:39:41.400 --> 0:39:43.839 going in you you did your research. Yes, you just 0:39:43.880 --> 0:39:46.759 happened to you know, God allowed you. So you end 0:39:46.800 --> 0:39:48.560 up getting that truck. I end up getting that truck. 0:39:48.680 --> 0:39:51.279 Coulate a whole lot of my cousin Dion, shout out 0:39:51.320 --> 0:39:53.759 to din Man and my brothers. My brothers all came 0:39:53.840 --> 0:39:56.600 together and put money together and helped me out. So 0:39:56.600 --> 0:39:59.080 there was a whole process. Like literally I was slanging 0:39:59.120 --> 0:40:02.520 plates left and like trying to raise money to get 0:40:02.520 --> 0:40:05.480 this truck. So um, yeah, my cousin Dion, my brother's Jesse, 0:40:05.719 --> 0:40:09.280 Jam Darren, they all came. We all came together and patient. 0:40:09.400 --> 0:40:12.839 We actually have a picture together that we took and 0:40:12.880 --> 0:40:16.719 they back then it was called chef solos. Uh what 0:40:16.880 --> 0:40:20.200 was our what was the wing band? Because I used 0:40:20.239 --> 0:40:22.919 to do these seared wings like I didn't I didn't 0:40:22.920 --> 0:40:25.120 beat from my wings like Serrial. So you're still not 0:40:25.160 --> 0:40:31.640 selling burgers yet. Burgers was an accident that's so yeah, 0:40:31.880 --> 0:40:34.680 you know I was doing that. Um, we ended up 0:40:34.719 --> 0:40:38.920 getting the truck, and so I literally took everything my 0:40:38.960 --> 0:40:42.320 refrigerator put it on the truck. And that's the inventory 0:40:42.320 --> 0:40:44.799 that I started with, and that's what I ran off of, 0:40:44.960 --> 0:40:48.480 Like that's literally what kept us afloat that initial inventory. 0:40:48.480 --> 0:40:51.960 And then I just started rolling doing that. UM, and 0:40:52.000 --> 0:40:55.600 it was it was going good and you're a no. 0:40:55.760 --> 0:40:57.640 And that was the thing too, Like you know, people 0:40:57.640 --> 0:41:01.240 don't realize, like we wasn't. None of us have food trucks. 0:41:01.280 --> 0:41:03.719 No Instagram chefs have food strucks. Really, it was just 0:41:03.800 --> 0:41:06.640 not your mom the kitchen. I love funnel cakes. Those 0:41:06.680 --> 0:41:08.520 are two of the food trucks that I knew for 0:41:08.520 --> 0:41:14.280 sure existed. UM Chef he had just got his before 0:41:14.320 --> 0:41:16.480 you were around, before me. It was right before I 0:41:16.520 --> 0:41:19.359 got Mom. He went on Steve Harvey whatnot, and then 0:41:19.360 --> 0:41:23.000 he ended up getting food truck that story. Yeah, he 0:41:23.000 --> 0:41:24.799 didn't tell me that he got food truck after that, 0:41:24.840 --> 0:41:26.719 but yeah, yeah, yeah, I believe it was after that, 0:41:26.840 --> 0:41:30.320 but it was around the same time pretty much. So, UM, 0:41:30.400 --> 0:41:32.960 he's the only one really that had a truck. But 0:41:33.000 --> 0:41:37.520 he stayed on the UM. I was on Rodeo and Crunshaw. 0:41:37.880 --> 0:41:40.080 I was on Manchester and Western. I used to be 0:41:40.200 --> 0:41:43.520 on eight eight and avalon Florence and Central. Um. So 0:41:43.560 --> 0:41:46.839 I just start hitting these spots. Um. Oh he double 0:41:46.920 --> 0:41:48.560 Chef e Double had a truck at the time. Girl 0:41:48.560 --> 0:41:51.480 Fresh shout out to him. Man he was He's always 0:41:51.480 --> 0:41:53.799 been an inspiration to to us and to me as 0:41:53.840 --> 0:41:58.200 a chef. Um but um, yeah, you know, so I 0:41:58.200 --> 0:42:00.040 started parking in these different spots. I started parking in 0:42:00.080 --> 0:42:02.520 front of my house. I lived right on Crenshaw and 0:42:02.719 --> 0:42:05.600 it was like right behind the the Senator or the 0:42:05.600 --> 0:42:07.480 divider or whatever it is. It was the island. So 0:42:07.840 --> 0:42:09.680 I used to park my truck over there. People would 0:42:09.680 --> 0:42:13.600 pull up. Um. But I ended up meeting uh my partner, 0:42:13.719 --> 0:42:16.879 Chef Smokehouse in year two. I met him earlier when 0:42:16.880 --> 0:42:18.239 I was just going to pop ups. He was doing 0:42:18.280 --> 0:42:21.080 the same thing. He used to hang out with Chef 0:42:21.120 --> 0:42:24.320 Oo and Blue Kitchen or whatnot, Blue fool Manity or whatnot. 0:42:24.360 --> 0:42:28.200 So um, you know, me and him Madden, we just vibe. 0:42:28.400 --> 0:42:30.960 We click. It wasn't even about you know, working together. 0:42:31.080 --> 0:42:33.200 It was just I liked what he was about, he 0:42:33.239 --> 0:42:35.040 liked what I was about. We both pretty much sold 0:42:35.080 --> 0:42:37.080 the same thing, you know, and I just put it. 0:42:37.719 --> 0:42:41.600 It's all up. That's what I love about, you know. 0:42:41.719 --> 0:42:45.200 So one day um, I also did it. Was doing 0:42:45.239 --> 0:42:47.640 collapse with Three Stacks too. When I got the truck, 0:42:47.680 --> 0:42:49.200 Me and him with do stuff because we was like 0:42:49.239 --> 0:42:52.120 the Sea fool Boys. That's what's so crazy. Before billion 0:42:52.160 --> 0:42:55.680 a Burger Boys, I was seafool Boys and three Stacks. 0:42:55.080 --> 0:42:57.840 He's always did the boils and I would just and 0:42:57.880 --> 0:42:59.920 you need to get him on here too, that's my guy. 0:43:00.000 --> 0:43:03.400 Need to connect us. Yeah, definitely I will. But yeah, 0:43:03.440 --> 0:43:05.279 he would do the sea food boils. So I was 0:43:05.320 --> 0:43:08.799 the deep Fride guy, deep fride everything. So I just 0:43:08.800 --> 0:43:10.919 would deep Friday boils. And so we would work together 0:43:10.960 --> 0:43:13.759 and do stuff together and whatnot. But um, sef Smoke 0:43:13.880 --> 0:43:17.919 House end up calling me um and he was just like, man, 0:43:17.960 --> 0:43:20.120 I'm down on my luck. My card just got repolled. 0:43:20.120 --> 0:43:22.520 I got like twenty seven dollars to my name. He's like, 0:43:22.520 --> 0:43:25.680 but I got these jumper life fries. Everybody is checking 0:43:25.719 --> 0:43:27.759 for it, so it's a possible I can get on 0:43:27.800 --> 0:43:31.200 the truck just for a day. Um. He's like, just 0:43:31.239 --> 0:43:35.160 for a day. Um, And uh, you know, of course 0:43:35.200 --> 0:43:37.400 I will split the profits. I'll pay you a certain 0:43:37.400 --> 0:43:41.120 amount of my process or whatever. So I'm like that 0:43:41.960 --> 0:43:46.680 did that? Yes? Do That's okay? Okay? Well that was 0:43:47.000 --> 0:43:49.480 his vibe and his energy, and I've been on energy like, 0:43:50.040 --> 0:43:53.600 I don't do the negative. I'm all about working together. Um, 0:43:53.920 --> 0:43:57.040 we we can, we can accomplish more together kind of park, 0:43:57.520 --> 0:43:59.560 you know. So that was my belief system, and so 0:43:59.640 --> 0:44:02.320 when he a me up, it was an easy call. Um. 0:44:02.360 --> 0:44:04.760 So he came on the truck that one day and 0:44:05.320 --> 0:44:09.160 never left. You know. So we was rolling with the 0:44:09.160 --> 0:44:11.799 Solo and Smoke Show. So we were righting around l A. 0:44:11.920 --> 0:44:16.480 We had a fucking microphone. Clemmy curse. Yeah, we had 0:44:16.520 --> 0:44:18.959 a microphone, and he would just sit in the passenger seat. 0:44:18.960 --> 0:44:21.760 This is the Soul and Smoke Show and just you know, 0:44:22.080 --> 0:44:24.600 I'm talking about through the hood phone. We wasn't in there, 0:44:24.719 --> 0:44:28.440 like we was riding down Vermont, like going down Imperial, 0:44:29.280 --> 0:44:31.319 you know, Western and things like that, and he'd be 0:44:31.320 --> 0:44:33.279 just talking. We got jumped a live fries, we got 0:44:33.280 --> 0:44:36.120 the wings and not not just like giving a show, 0:44:36.560 --> 0:44:38.799 you know. And then of course when people would come 0:44:38.840 --> 0:44:40.239 to the truck, and it was always a Viobe. We 0:44:40.239 --> 0:44:43.400 had the music and singing, dancing. You know, energy is 0:44:43.440 --> 0:45:06.040 always up problem. Um. And then I think he ended 0:45:06.120 --> 0:45:09.200 up going and doing something with Chefso and Vegas. I 0:45:09.280 --> 0:45:11.960 don't how you guys are all working together, like like, 0:45:12.000 --> 0:45:16.640 oh he's on my corner. No, no, like of course, 0:45:16.640 --> 0:45:19.000 it's like we created a lot of spots, so you 0:45:19.040 --> 0:45:21.319 know people parking through spots now, So what they would 0:45:21.320 --> 0:45:23.080 do is they'd reach out to us like yo, I 0:45:23.080 --> 0:45:24.560 know you don't go to the spot no more. But 0:45:24.600 --> 0:45:26.520 it's a cool if I pull up, you know what 0:45:26.520 --> 0:45:30.440 I mean. I just love it if it's a spot 0:45:30.440 --> 0:45:33.040 that we currently at, like we'll just be like, all right, 0:45:33.040 --> 0:45:35.239 well we're here on these days, you know, so if 0:45:35.239 --> 0:45:36.640 you want to pull up on these days, or we 0:45:36.680 --> 0:45:38.719 can pull up together, you know, we would do that 0:45:38.760 --> 0:45:42.520 sometimes just pull up with other trucks. Um. But yeah, 0:45:42.600 --> 0:45:47.600 so he went through. Um, I was hungry and we 0:45:47.600 --> 0:45:50.799 were supposed to. This is another streak. Yeah. I used 0:45:50.800 --> 0:45:53.040 to sell frozen fries. His jumper Live of Fries had 0:45:53.080 --> 0:45:56.319 fresh cut fries, so he would cut fresh potatoes for 0:45:56.440 --> 0:45:59.600 the jump a live fries. I just used the frozen froes. Um. 0:45:59.719 --> 0:46:02.640 So it was a debate, like yo, moving forward, which 0:46:02.640 --> 0:46:05.160 fries are we gonna use? And he was just like yo. 0:46:05.560 --> 0:46:07.640 He was like, dude, like fresh cutter frozen and I 0:46:07.680 --> 0:46:09.840 was like fresh cut of course, and he was like, 0:46:09.840 --> 0:46:12.000 well then it's an easy call. Were using, you know. 0:46:12.120 --> 0:46:14.080 But I had just bought a case of frozen frogs, 0:46:15.560 --> 0:46:17.680 so we had to sell these. So I was gonna 0:46:17.680 --> 0:46:19.879 do a special with chili cheese frogs. So I bought 0:46:19.920 --> 0:46:22.120 the ingredients to make chili and different things like that. 0:46:22.480 --> 0:46:25.319 Of course, I bought a roll of beef, and we 0:46:25.320 --> 0:46:27.680 already had bons on the truck because I made like soundwiches, 0:46:27.760 --> 0:46:29.640 chicken sounds and different stuff. So one day I was 0:46:29.719 --> 0:46:33.120 hungry and I made a burger which is now the 0:46:33.120 --> 0:46:36.399 Brutus Arm and the Big Brutus Burger. Um. I made 0:46:36.440 --> 0:46:38.920 that burger and I posted on Instagram, and I think 0:46:38.920 --> 0:46:42.120 he got like two or three hundred likes. And burger 0:46:42.400 --> 0:46:46.560 it's barbecue, sauce, cheese, bacon, and deep fried onion straws. 0:46:47.800 --> 0:46:49.440 And you came up with this on the truck. You're 0:46:49.480 --> 0:46:52.439 just like American cheese. Okay. So you're on the truck, 0:46:52.520 --> 0:46:54.080 You're like, I'm gonna make this. I just wanted to 0:46:54.080 --> 0:46:57.000 make me some eat and then your burger and he's like, damn, 0:46:57.040 --> 0:47:00.440 that's good. So he actually named the burger like when 0:47:00.440 --> 0:47:02.440 I made the burger, and I'm like, nig, look like 0:47:02.960 --> 0:47:06.239 he like that looked like it's a big brutus, you know. 0:47:06.360 --> 0:47:09.520 So of course, like I said, I posted it, and 0:47:09.680 --> 0:47:11.160 you know, I didn't think non of it because I 0:47:11.160 --> 0:47:15.719 was used to getting a lot of likes, you know. So, um, 0:47:15.760 --> 0:47:17.880 a couple of days later, we was on the truck 0:47:17.920 --> 0:47:21.840 and he made what is now called the Smokehouse and 0:47:21.920 --> 0:47:25.520 I made what is now called from Surfing Turf. Um. 0:47:25.560 --> 0:47:27.839 They're both still on the menu. Um. And we took 0:47:27.840 --> 0:47:31.840 a picture of him side by side and posted it 0:47:31.840 --> 0:47:33.879 on the internet. They got like a thousand likes within 0:47:33.920 --> 0:47:37.800 a couple of hours. And so you know that scene 0:47:37.840 --> 0:47:41.600 with uh from Trading Places, I mean not Trading Places 0:47:42.360 --> 0:47:44.960 coming to America, when you dropped the money and rund 0:47:45.000 --> 0:47:47.279 Off Mortar Murers right there and he's like, rund Off, 0:47:47.400 --> 0:47:50.239 we're back, you know. So me and him had that moment. 0:47:50.320 --> 0:47:52.760 We looked at each other like nigger, we're doing burgers. 0:47:53.640 --> 0:47:56.720 And so we just started selling those three burgers like literally, 0:47:56.760 --> 0:48:01.279 and yes, they coming looking for him here and like 0:48:01.320 --> 0:48:04.960 that's when he went went to Vegas with that weekend 0:48:05.080 --> 0:48:07.440 and that was the weekend like everybody was putting some 0:48:07.480 --> 0:48:09.800 more your day weekend. As a matter of fact, everybody's 0:48:09.800 --> 0:48:12.520 pulling up for them burgers. And so we was actually 0:48:12.520 --> 0:48:15.080 trying to come up with a name. We ended up 0:48:15.120 --> 0:48:18.240 getting called to coming feed some people have Fox Studios 0:48:18.239 --> 0:48:22.759 because they're like the buzzes. It went crazy, like um 0:48:22.840 --> 0:48:25.960 so somebody one of the executives and Fox Studios happened 0:48:25.960 --> 0:48:28.839 to get a wind of us and they were like, well, 0:48:28.880 --> 0:48:30.960 come down here. We wanted we want you guys to 0:48:30.960 --> 0:48:35.280 feed our executives and possibly talk about a potential TV show. 0:48:37.360 --> 0:48:39.719 Why we like was trying to figure out a name, 0:48:40.040 --> 0:48:43.759 and me and Jim was driving and she was was 0:48:43.800 --> 0:48:45.600 coming up with different names, like we had one like 0:48:45.680 --> 0:48:48.120 ninety nine burgers because we had so many different ideas 0:48:48.160 --> 0:48:51.080 from burgers, and Jim was on her phone, I think, 0:48:51.400 --> 0:48:53.359 looking at the burgers and she was like these look 0:48:53.440 --> 0:48:56.440 like billion dollar burgers. It was like, y'all should be 0:48:56.480 --> 0:49:00.200 the begging that burger boys. The name. The name like 0:49:00.239 --> 0:49:03.000 my favorite name of like just favorite, like if I 0:49:03.000 --> 0:49:08.160 could say company names from billionaire Burger Boys. Yea manifestation, man. 0:49:09.960 --> 0:49:12.000 You know at that point our chiefest burgers, ten bucks, 0:49:12.160 --> 0:49:13.480 you know what I mean. So, and that was our 0:49:13.520 --> 0:49:16.200 regular burger. We called it the Generic And it was 0:49:16.239 --> 0:49:19.000 actually a play on Jame's name because it was her 0:49:19.040 --> 0:49:22.040 name is Jennifer, So it was the j E n 0:49:22.560 --> 0:49:24.840 Eric you know what I mean. So it was the 0:49:24.880 --> 0:49:29.080 Generic because she just liked regular asked burger, you know 0:49:29.120 --> 0:49:34.279 what I mean, Like she just wanted regular burger, you know, 0:49:34.520 --> 0:49:37.680 so yeah, like she um so yeah, she came up 0:49:37.680 --> 0:49:39.320 with that name and we just took it around with 0:49:39.360 --> 0:49:42.000 it when it got t shirts made and created a 0:49:42.080 --> 0:49:45.120 leveling to swap me with the demand and everything like 0:49:45.200 --> 0:49:46.960 and just started running with it. Now, what do you 0:49:47.000 --> 0:49:50.560 think looking at your story? Now you go from billionaire 0:49:50.560 --> 0:49:53.880 Burger Boys and now you have a couple of stores, 0:49:54.360 --> 0:49:59.520 you have a couple of trucks, You've been on national television, Like, 0:50:00.040 --> 0:50:01.840 do you think looking back at your story, do you 0:50:01.880 --> 0:50:04.239 think it went by fast? Slow? Like because a lot 0:50:04.239 --> 0:50:06.400 of people think they see billion of Burger Boys, but 0:50:06.440 --> 0:50:09.040 they don't know this like long stretch of history. Like 0:50:10.040 --> 0:50:11.719 what do you think, Like what is the feeling you 0:50:11.760 --> 0:50:13.760 get when you think about the empire you guys built. 0:50:14.200 --> 0:50:18.359 We were only five years in. We're started only five 0:50:18.440 --> 0:50:22.120 years in. It doesn't feel like it went by faster slow. 0:50:22.239 --> 0:50:25.919 It was a blur. It feels like yesterday we were 0:50:26.200 --> 0:50:28.920 we just started, like because that's just how fast everything 0:50:28.920 --> 0:50:31.360 is just progressed, Like within a month or two of 0:50:31.440 --> 0:50:33.799 us even becoming the bigging a burger boys, our name 0:50:33.960 --> 0:50:36.840 was barbershop talk, Like people were talking about us in 0:50:36.880 --> 0:50:39.760 the barbershop, and that's like a goal. If you getting 0:50:39.760 --> 0:50:43.080 talked about in the barbershop, then you're good, especially you 0:50:43.120 --> 0:50:46.279 know locally. So um yeah, by the end, it was 0:50:46.320 --> 0:50:48.880 barbershop talk. Everybody wanted to be aligned with us. Everybody 0:50:48.920 --> 0:50:52.160 wants to talk, you know, be friends. Um So yeah, 0:50:52.360 --> 0:50:55.680 just thinking back, it's like whoa, we've been on the journey. 0:50:55.960 --> 0:51:00.560 We created Like people don't realize we created like a 0:51:00.600 --> 0:51:03.359 food truck coach and Nola in South Alica. Because the 0:51:03.400 --> 0:51:06.319 thing is before they was due his roach coaches and 0:51:06.320 --> 0:51:08.200 they were only topic trucks and none of them were 0:51:08.239 --> 0:51:10.200 in South l A. They were all on the outskirts 0:51:10.680 --> 0:51:13.520 um downtown l A, so on and so forth, West 0:51:13.680 --> 0:51:16.319 l A. Um So, nobody was really parking in South 0:51:16.440 --> 0:51:20.560 l A. Because they were scared stigma. We didn't care. 0:51:20.760 --> 0:51:22.839 What's crazy is that you guys are all like from 0:51:22.880 --> 0:51:26.480 relatively like around South l A. And you have the stigma, 0:51:26.560 --> 0:51:28.759 but you guys all work together, you support each other. 0:51:28.920 --> 0:51:31.080 I know I've heard through the grape Bune that you've 0:51:31.120 --> 0:51:33.719 mentored a lot of the big names that are out 0:51:33.719 --> 0:51:36.520 there and you helped them like Happy Ice and all that. Yeah, well, no, 0:51:36.680 --> 0:51:40.560 Happy Ice. It's so funny because Happy Ice, they we 0:51:40.680 --> 0:51:42.560 met them because we were doing that. We were going 0:51:42.600 --> 0:51:46.000 to the downtown of Lake are walking. We like muscled 0:51:46.000 --> 0:51:47.560 our way into one of their events, to one of 0:51:47.600 --> 0:51:50.359 their food truck events. Um, we just pulled up and 0:51:50.360 --> 0:51:52.600 talked to coordinating like yo, we'll pay you two hunting 0:51:52.719 --> 0:51:55.839 right now to get in right okay. And Happy Ice 0:51:55.920 --> 0:51:58.480 was doing the same thing. They were like trying to 0:51:58.520 --> 0:52:00.520 muscle the w into just different things because they just 0:52:00.560 --> 0:52:02.799 came from Philly, you know what I mean. So it 0:52:02.880 --> 0:52:05.920 was like they were new fresh faces and um, but 0:52:06.160 --> 0:52:08.640 showed them a lot of love. Yeah, we just happened 0:52:08.640 --> 0:52:10.120 to meet that night. The same night we both were 0:52:10.120 --> 0:52:12.000 trying to do the same thing. We ended up getting 0:52:12.000 --> 0:52:14.719 in an event not making no money, didn't even make 0:52:14.760 --> 0:52:17.319 the money back that we we spent, Like people were 0:52:17.320 --> 0:52:19.160 just walking by our truck looking like and we had 0:52:19.200 --> 0:52:22.120 a whole ass truck and all that, and we didn't 0:52:22.120 --> 0:52:25.120 get no love. And so we ended up chopping it up. 0:52:25.120 --> 0:52:29.320 We meet men Happy Ice, Lamer the owner and Um. 0:52:29.360 --> 0:52:31.480 We decided it was like, Yo, we're going all these 0:52:31.480 --> 0:52:34.200 events outside of l A trying to make money. We're 0:52:34.200 --> 0:52:36.000 spending a lot of money to be in these events, 0:52:36.760 --> 0:52:39.200 and we're not making anything, we're not using anything. So 0:52:39.320 --> 0:52:41.840 let's create our own event. And so that's where the 0:52:41.920 --> 0:52:44.920 Lamert Park Black Party came from. We collab with Happy 0:52:44.920 --> 0:52:47.000 Ice and then of course I had connections shout out 0:52:47.000 --> 0:52:50.360 to Kamanity Black Um and Herd Weston, you know they 0:52:50.400 --> 0:52:52.600 you know, they looked out for us that that's the district. 0:52:52.680 --> 0:52:54.879 So that's why we started doing in the Lamern Park 0:52:55.320 --> 0:52:57.400 and we ran that for a year straight. And basically 0:52:57.440 --> 0:53:00.160 what we did was we introduced all of the new 0:53:00.160 --> 0:53:03.040 black on food trucks to l A. Like if you 0:53:03.040 --> 0:53:04.640 were a food truck at the time or you were 0:53:04.719 --> 0:53:06.880 brand new with a food truck. Our event was the 0:53:06.920 --> 0:53:09.839 eventually wanted to be at because we would get three 0:53:09.840 --> 0:53:12.440 thousand plus people every single month and we were doing 0:53:12.520 --> 0:53:15.479 once a months and it was the biggest food truck 0:53:15.480 --> 0:53:18.160 event in l A, the only food truck event in 0:53:18.200 --> 0:53:21.560 South l A at the time, and that pretty much 0:53:21.560 --> 0:53:24.040 spawned a lot of the different events that you're seeing 0:53:24.080 --> 0:53:27.400 after that that involved food trucks. Now, speaking of events 0:53:27.400 --> 0:53:30.440 and food trucks, for all the entrepreneurs that are listening 0:53:30.880 --> 0:53:35.239 and would love to somehow magically cross paths with you, 0:53:35.239 --> 0:53:37.120 because I know you have a lot of operations going on. 0:53:37.120 --> 0:53:39.359 So I'm pretty sure they can't just pop up at 0:53:39.360 --> 0:53:42.680 a store and pump into you. But how can they 0:53:42.680 --> 0:53:45.360 catch you? I know you guys have a summit coming up. 0:53:45.560 --> 0:53:48.520 Tell me more about it. W f E Consulting. Shout 0:53:48.560 --> 0:53:53.040 out to Atlie Smith. He's an owner. Um I was 0:53:53.120 --> 0:53:55.960 hunting him down for a while and an actually he's 0:53:56.040 --> 0:53:58.480 that's my family. He's been down with us for a 0:53:58.480 --> 0:54:01.960 while now, right. He just started booking us for stuff. 0:54:02.160 --> 0:54:03.719 Like he would call us and be like, yeah, I 0:54:03.719 --> 0:54:06.000 got this thing with Facebook. They want you to do this, 0:54:06.120 --> 0:54:10.040 or I got this with Amazon or with Enterprise or 0:54:10.120 --> 0:54:13.200 with uh, you know Amazon Prime is doing the theater 0:54:13.320 --> 0:54:15.239 thing and you know, so we would he would, but 0:54:15.280 --> 0:54:16.840 he would only book us for stuff where he was 0:54:16.840 --> 0:54:19.160 getting paid, you know what I mean. And he's going 0:54:19.280 --> 0:54:25.759 on trying me for this interview, right, you know. But yeah, 0:54:25.800 --> 0:54:28.640 he would totally you know, just hook up stuff and 0:54:28.640 --> 0:54:30.080 he was just doing it off the love and then 0:54:30.080 --> 0:54:32.560 he created w F E and we just built the 0:54:32.600 --> 0:54:35.440 relationship from there, you know. Um. And so when he 0:54:35.480 --> 0:54:37.239 said he wanted to do this, it was like I 0:54:37.280 --> 0:54:39.080 was like, I'm all in And this is a different 0:54:39.120 --> 0:54:41.440 type of tour because I thought initially like food trucks 0:54:41.480 --> 0:54:43.319 were going to be there, but this is an opportunity 0:54:43.360 --> 0:54:46.480 to get like one on one with these entrepreneurs, asked 0:54:46.480 --> 0:54:48.879 the difficult questions. And the cool thing about this tour 0:54:49.000 --> 0:54:51.840 is like I've met with the different chefs on the 0:54:51.840 --> 0:54:54.319 tour and what I've learned is that you guys all 0:54:54.400 --> 0:54:58.160 came from these almost like survival instinct type backgrounds. So 0:54:58.200 --> 0:55:00.360 it's like, no matter what you are, what as you 0:55:00.360 --> 0:55:04.480 are as an entrepreneur, this is an opportunity where it's 0:55:04.480 --> 0:55:07.320 a comfortable, i'd say safe space because you're approaching people 0:55:07.360 --> 0:55:12.319 that look and feel and literally understand everything you're going through. 0:55:12.680 --> 0:55:16.239 And there's no such thing as a dumb question. Dumb question. Yeah, 0:55:16.280 --> 0:55:19.040 and you don't have to feel like up tighter or 0:55:19.040 --> 0:55:21.400 what have you. And I heard there's access to alternative 0:55:21.440 --> 0:55:24.400 financing and all that stuff. But I love what you 0:55:24.440 --> 0:55:27.600 guys are doing and what you're about. And I can't 0:55:27.640 --> 0:55:30.239 wait to have a thirty dollar burger. That's all. That 0:55:30.520 --> 0:55:34.200 was the thirty dollar burger. Um, that's the that's the 0:55:34.239 --> 0:55:37.080 hands of the billionaire. That's the billionaire burger. But it's 0:55:37.080 --> 0:55:39.080 all about the quality that we put in into the 0:55:39.080 --> 0:55:42.120 food is clearly you learn an amazing chef. You literally 0:55:42.120 --> 0:55:45.120 took a peanut butter sandwich which I had very low 0:55:45.160 --> 0:55:48.560 expectations for it, and you turned it into I would 0:55:48.640 --> 0:55:52.640 call this like a gourmet dish because it looks the 0:55:52.840 --> 0:55:55.719 case really good. I'm going to finish this dish. I 0:55:55.800 --> 0:56:01.560 just couldn't. Yeah, it gets sticky, but that caramel is everything. Um, 0:56:01.600 --> 0:56:04.920 this is candy. This is candy. How can people find 0:56:04.960 --> 0:56:07.719 out about the tour and sign up for tickets and 0:56:08.120 --> 0:56:10.840 where the tour is? Uh, well, go to Food the 0:56:10.880 --> 0:56:13.279 Business Summit dot com. UM. That's where you can get 0:56:13.320 --> 0:56:15.760 all the information. We have tickets available on an event 0:56:15.920 --> 0:56:18.960 right um and yes, I will be at every tour date, 0:56:19.120 --> 0:56:21.600 so we look forward to it. We got Vegas coming up. 0:56:22.160 --> 0:56:27.239 We got Vegas, Indianapolis, Norfolk, Virginia, Houston, Texas, Atlanta, and 0:56:27.280 --> 0:56:30.400 then l A. So um, please please please pull up. 0:56:30.760 --> 0:56:32.880 We got all information you need, and I mean the 0:56:32.920 --> 0:56:35.919 real stories you know, not the you know what you're 0:56:35.920 --> 0:56:37.719 finding the book. It's the real stories, that stuff we 0:56:37.760 --> 0:56:41.920 actually went through. So definitely pull up on us. Pull up. 0:56:42.080 --> 0:56:43.880 I don't know. I'm going to try and pull up 0:56:43.880 --> 0:56:46.080 to at least one of the dates. Please do, just 0:56:46.160 --> 0:57:02.920 so I can be a groupie. 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