Speaker 1: Talk. We're just too unapologetically black women with an opinion.
Speaker 1: Who talks back? What's up, y'all? Is your co host
Speaker 1: aj Holiday, Thank you for tuning in for a new episode,
Speaker 1: and we talked back and show dedicated to you niggas
Speaker 1: and these holes and everybody in between. What up, Tam? Hey, y'all,
Speaker 1: it's tam bam. I'm hungover. I still love y'all. I
Speaker 1: sound like your Hello. Get your life together, y'all. She
Speaker 1: needs something like, uh, what's the ship call? Encouragement to
Speaker 1: not drink on Sunday nights, obviously because it was the
Speaker 1: Panthers one. I went to the game the Panthers one.
Speaker 1: My friend's mom. She buys drinks unlimited. It's something about
Speaker 1: those unlimited drinks that just have a bit sick on Monday, girl,
Speaker 1: I was sick and tale Saturday, so I feel you.
Speaker 1: I pulled to you this weekend. For sure. He was
Speaker 1: taking shots. No, you know, I don't chase it, bitch,
Speaker 1: these niggas. These liquor just straight tequila. But somebody else
Speaker 1: is buying my drinks, so I drink don Wholio usually.
Speaker 1: And I stopped working with costing me Goes because I
Speaker 1: feel like once black people started drinking, costing me goes
Speaker 1: like they change the recipe, it does not taste the same,
Speaker 1: and I'd be yeah, it gives me like patron vibes,
Speaker 1: Like I really be like down bad. I can drink
Speaker 1: like a small bottle of Don Julie and be good
Speaker 1: by myself a bottle and I don't drink that often. Man,
Speaker 1: I was really sick. I ruined my Sunday for real.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's how I feel today. We alcoholics for real
Speaker 1: just once a week, and for me on Sunday, it'd
Speaker 1: be like once every blue moon for me because I
Speaker 1: just can't, Like my body does not process LIQ at
Speaker 1: the same no more. M hmm, Like I ain't gonna
Speaker 1: be right till Tues Wednesday. I was making myself throw
Speaker 1: up like six thirty last night so I can go
Speaker 1: out the dinner. Damn. No, I don't make myself. I
Speaker 1: just take I drink PDA like and I take like
Speaker 1: the goody hangovers and I'd be like not dead anymore.
Speaker 1: I can get on here and record with y'all, but
Speaker 1: I'll still be hurting. No girl, I had to make
Speaker 1: myself throw up because I was like busting out and
Speaker 1: sweats while I was trying to get dressed right so
Speaker 1: much so to where my lace went and stick, bitch,
Speaker 1: I can't wiping my fucking forehir with alcohol and it
Speaker 1: just wasn't working. So I'm like, Okay, I gotta feel
Speaker 1: bad because like I'm I got, I'm busting out in
Speaker 1: sweats while I'm trying to get dressed like it's like
Speaker 1: a fat bitch, Like what's happening? But I got it together?
Speaker 1: So you eat these three meals? Okay, where'd you go eat?
Speaker 1: My little favorite spot and um, Charleston is called Pearls.
Speaker 1: You know pearls. They got pearls in Colombia. The one
Speaker 1: here is better. The the one here is better because
Speaker 1: like the seafood is much like Fresher's my favorite. What
Speaker 1: we got going on in stupid internet news this week, y'all?
Speaker 1: Have y'all been following the blogs? I an't followed the
Speaker 1: blogs during the goddamn monkey poks pandemics. I really be
Speaker 1: having to like look for my news now outside of
Speaker 1: social media nowadays. But I know everybody's been seeing this
Speaker 1: Balenciaga campaign and they asked in hot water, and I
Speaker 1: don't know if it got anything to do with how
Speaker 1: they play with Kanye. I just don't know, but it
Speaker 1: just seems like London Bridge is fucking falling at this point.
Speaker 1: One of their ads, they're saying that they're not responsible
Speaker 1: for the ad, and there they have like a twenty
Speaker 1: five million dollar lawsuit against the company who did the ad.
Speaker 1: The photographer said he had nothing to do with that ship.
Speaker 1: He just took the pictures. This is essentially essentially like
Speaker 1: product placement. So they had like a kid on, a
Speaker 1: kid stand on the couch, a kid stand on the
Speaker 1: bed like holding a Teddy Bear with like bondage little
Speaker 1: outfits on, and there's like wine glasses and wine in
Speaker 1: the picture. And this is for kids clothing. It's weird.
Speaker 1: It's given, really child abuse, it's definitely given, and the
Speaker 1: kid did not happen. It's just crazy. It's just crazy
Speaker 1: how they'd be putting this ship right in your face
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, they've been doing this stuff all the
Speaker 1: time and they just they just expect people not to
Speaker 1: notice it. But they've since taken down their entire Instagram page.
Speaker 1: They've deleted everything because people really started zooming in on
Speaker 1: everything because there was another everything. Yeah, it was another
Speaker 1: ad and they had like a court case, um where
Speaker 1: it was like a court case for child pedophilia, just
Speaker 1: just tucked away in a book. So you really the document.
Speaker 1: Oh wait a minute, actually that was from the photo
Speaker 1: with the kid. The other thing that somebody pointed out
Speaker 1: was actually like a woman at a desk like an
Speaker 1: office setting, and there's a book on the desk, and
Speaker 1: if you go look up the author of that book,
Speaker 1: this book is just a bunch of naked babies. Why.
Speaker 1: I don't understand whether the point of this. People don't
Speaker 1: believe in little little societies and little things these people
Speaker 1: be doing. But they do it, and they they're sending
Speaker 1: signals to their people like they know why they do it,
Speaker 1: and then they're gonna act stupid. Once the regular naked
Speaker 1: eye see the ship, you just gotta know what you're
Speaker 1: looking at. I don't know, but um, Canada's ones was
Speaker 1: digging in. Kim Kardashian asked, because she put a statement
Speaker 1: people was looking for her like to denounce, like they'd
Speaker 1: be trying to get uh, the presidents and stuff like
Speaker 1: to their ounce white supremacy. Denounced this announced that denounced them.
Speaker 1: It's just a goddamn clothing line. Isn't it. It's just
Speaker 1: a designer. How much money you are really tied up
Speaker 1: with these people because they definitely denounced Kanye ass after
Speaker 1: one tweet. But this is the type of ship they
Speaker 1: can get away with. It's disgusting. The host the whole
Speaker 1: ship is discussing it's weird. Damn. I bought some Valenciaga sneakers.
Speaker 1: I can't wear them, no, moha, you better put them
Speaker 1: on the real real the big clunky as sneakers. Those
Speaker 1: ships is the workout, yeah, they have. You never have
Speaker 1: to want to run in those that stump a bit though.
Speaker 1: So Yeah. During the last Monday's Night's episode of Loving
Speaker 1: Hip Hop New York, Chrissy shared over the first dinner
Speaker 1: Jim Jones had prepared for her in their sixteen years together,
Speaker 1: that she no longer felt it necessary for them to marry,
Speaker 1: despite the huge engagement ring one on her finger for years. Damn,
Speaker 1: that's crazy. I think they did. I think they actually married,
Speaker 1: and they do the ship for show, because there's no
Speaker 1: way you want to be like the dumbest bit of
Speaker 1: the century for this man. Remember she proposed to him
Speaker 1: one year, Yes she did. Well, maybe she just fed
Speaker 1: up she's fifty one. She's fifty one. That's just fine.
Speaker 1: She's nice, Yes, she's very because you don't have no
Speaker 1: kids and she never got married, never been married. Mrs
Speaker 1: would never have kids and don't get married. I always
Speaker 1: look good for some reason, less stressed. But he's definitely
Speaker 1: been stressing her, and that's just unfortunate. Like that's what
Speaker 1: I feel like. I feel like it's just like for show,
Speaker 1: like y'all, damn their family members at this point, Damn
Speaker 1: near they are. They've been common law husband and wife
Speaker 1: for a long time, regardless of the paper Jim Jones.
Speaker 1: So she I'm little older, and you know, the mom
Speaker 1: kept urging her to have a baby and all this stuff.
Speaker 1: Like back then on the show. Maybe that played a
Speaker 1: party because I believe he has a kid, at least
Speaker 1: one or two kids. But I mean, if you if
Speaker 1: you don't want to be with this one, you should
Speaker 1: have let her go a long time ago, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like what he was doing to her
Speaker 1: at that table, Like he got so upset because he
Speaker 1: was like, well you want to get married at and
Speaker 1: she was like, you haven't even asked me if I
Speaker 1: still want to get married, Like you're skipping ahead some steps,
Speaker 1: that's what she said, some steps, and that's what men do.
Speaker 1: Like he was gas lighting the hell out of her
Speaker 1: ass at that damn table, like all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it's just all the problems he has, just just some
Speaker 1: real I hate to just be calling all men narcissists,
Speaker 1: but it was some real narcissistic behavior. Mm hmm. I
Speaker 1: have nothing to offer, but you brought it up. You
Speaker 1: brought it up, and still nothing. Can Christie move on?
Speaker 1: I need I need her to go get her like
Speaker 1: a little sixty four year old daddie. Okay, no, she
Speaker 1: needs to get her a thirty two year old daddie. No,
Speaker 1: so he can fund the ship out of her m.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Jim Jones being the gym girl, he
Speaker 1: probably got some stamina. That's probably why her asks can't
Speaker 1: leave him alone. Maybe that's what it is. I'd like
Speaker 1: to think that's what it is. I don't want to
Speaker 1: think about that. What else happened? Child? So, just like
Speaker 1: a little while ago, Meg the Stallion put out um
Speaker 1: opposed to her social media child. She's the first black
Speaker 1: woman I hate those terms, but she's the first black
Speaker 1: woman to grace the cover of Forbes thirty third. How
Speaker 1: about that. That's congratulations to her and real hot girl
Speaker 1: ship she had. I think, Megan say it had a
Speaker 1: decent year in spite of all the bullshit. So little
Speaker 1: Man is in court today also in court and her
Speaker 1: homegirl umxl right had the parent court today, UM for
Speaker 1: the assault of Magna Stallion. I really want to see
Speaker 1: what comes out of that, and I hope, you know,
Speaker 1: when all the truth or whatever comes out, um, people
Speaker 1: apologize to her because I really feel like she was violated.
Speaker 1: So I'm happy, like she still pushing forward. She got
Speaker 1: hern old label so funking with her all the time.
Speaker 1: She had to put a restraining one on those niggas
Speaker 1: and with all the ship that's going on in Houston,
Speaker 1: people was like, are you a snitch? What? Like they
Speaker 1: literally like people literally dying and she has like all
Speaker 1: these different men attacking her from every every is a
Speaker 1: lot of you know what, It is weird that there's
Speaker 1: so many men. I didn't know the stand that is
Speaker 1: nothing but men? Why are not so angry with her?
Speaker 1: Because she's too powerful? Right now? Um? And I guess
Speaker 1: we may get into this and our main topic tonight, UM,
Speaker 1: But right now is like in our main topic today,
Speaker 1: we might get into this and I guess right now
Speaker 1: and we might get into this and our main topic today.
Speaker 1: But men may not like this. But the world was
Speaker 1: better when you can check history when it was like
Speaker 1: matriarchal lead leadership, Like there was no wars, none of
Speaker 1: that ship you checked the fucking history books along with
Speaker 1: all these the three major religions came patriarchy and it's
Speaker 1: been held ever since. And I feel like men think
Speaker 1: they're losing some power somewhere, Like they don't even see
Speaker 1: the benefit of, you know, not having to carry the
Speaker 1: load themselves, the invisible load for a lot of these guys,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, because a lot of them
Speaker 1: not not really showing up. But you can, you can
Speaker 1: lean on your your woman, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like women are very very powerful. I want to lean
Speaker 1: on you. How are you gonna lean on me? If
Speaker 1: I'm leaning lean on each other? You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like either one of us are the type of women
Speaker 1: I just want to be out here is just straight
Speaker 1: for ness and niggas, I don't think anyway, not once
Speaker 1: we define dress, rest foriness and let these niggas do
Speaker 1: the rest Hey like that that really was my mantra
Speaker 1: like in my twenties. That's terrible. Yes, but anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 1: she better stay prayed up. And yes, the goddamn um
Speaker 1: frustrating order. There's nothing wrong with that, Like she needs
Speaker 1: to do whatever she needs to do to protect herself
Speaker 1: because the nick is stopping the check threatn her via
Speaker 1: social media even l whatever, Like, no, you can't do that.
Speaker 1: It's restraining orders are hard to get if you're not
Speaker 1: a celebrity. But that's a conversation for another time. That's
Speaker 1: gonna put you out there to restraining order. I try.
Speaker 1: Oh bitch, I remember, I remember. Let's not even talk
Speaker 1: about her, just in case. Here as still stocking and
Speaker 1: be listening and then she starts listening up, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pull up on her. I don't want to parts of
Speaker 1: that lady. All right, y'all, So we got some very
Speaker 1: amazing gentlemen on today. They're gonna drop some jewels for y'all.
Speaker 1: If you haven't heard of slimming Huskies pizza, you will
Speaker 1: learn about them today. They're super dope, y'all, stay too,
Speaker 1: all right, guys, we're back and we're with the Gentleman
Speaker 1: from Slimming Husky co founded by National Natives Clint Gray
Speaker 1: and Derek Moore. Emanuel Reid, he's not with us today,
Speaker 1: but thank you guys for on your thank you. Thank you. So, okay,
Speaker 1: tell our listeners about Slimming Husky and how y'all got started. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So Slimming Huskies. Um, it's not just a piece of company,
Speaker 1: it's a story, a story of one skinny dude and
Speaker 1: two big guys and Slimming Huskies. Right, And so we've
Speaker 1: been entrepreneurs since we started off with a moving company,
Speaker 1: built that up from the ground up. Uh, just three
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, sold that for seven figures seventeen, turned around
Speaker 1: and reinvested in ourselves and opened up a piece of shot.
Speaker 1: And we didn't want to just open up any type
Speaker 1: of pizza shop. We wanted to represent who we were.
Speaker 1: We had a love for pizza, art and music and
Speaker 1: also our community. So we put our first, very first
Speaker 1: concept in the middle of northern Nashville zip code three
Speaker 1: seven two zero eight, which is historical African American side
Speaker 1: of our city. Nashville isn't really known as a black city,
Speaker 1: but we have a lot of a black heritage home
Speaker 1: in Tense State University, Fish University, Harry Medical College. Uh.
Speaker 1: And so we wanted to basically put a super dope
Speaker 1: concept that we had worked hard for and reinvested our
Speaker 1: heard hard earned money into into our neighborhood and in
Speaker 1: return with rather to provide jobs, um and just become
Speaker 1: a beacon of light to a neighborhood that didn't have
Speaker 1: an open business for sixteen blockers consider the food desert
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, just really just wanted to pour
Speaker 1: in our neighborhood. So that's our stories. Three guys on
Speaker 1: a mission to provide economic development, education and opportunities, uh
Speaker 1: to people to look like us. Okay, how did you meet? Uh?
Speaker 1: So e J and I man in second grade? So
Speaker 1: e J really originally from acron Ohio. So he came
Speaker 1: down his mom had a job down here, and so
Speaker 1: we made a second grade. So we've been friends since
Speaker 1: elementary school. And then uh we made Clint each actually
Speaker 1: made a first high school. They within this program was
Speaker 1: in Row in Rows. Yeah, they were in Rods together. Um.
Speaker 1: And then uh and then Clinton I. Actually we ain't
Speaker 1: battle it out, but but you know we got a
Speaker 1: little story where where growing up. He was in his
Speaker 1: high school fraternity, and I just so happened to just
Speaker 1: be in the place with some armies that was that
Speaker 1: I went to school with. I was cool with. It
Speaker 1: was beefing with his high school fraternity and just just
Speaker 1: some big brawl just happened. Now, I mean, clan ain't
Speaker 1: fight now. It was like it was like, man, like
Speaker 1: fifty people in the middle of downtown Nashville outside of
Speaker 1: the crazy going crazy. So but now I me and
Speaker 1: Clinton fight though I found a couple of hommies when
Speaker 1: I don't to fight him, and uh, but I was
Speaker 1: hot because I'm like, man, I ain't got no problem
Speaker 1: with none of these people like y'all bringing me to this,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, You know I mean. Anyways,
Speaker 1: but it was like probably like our junior year then
Speaker 1: senior year, we both end up signing uh football scholarship
Speaker 1: to go to the shoot, and so we just got tight.
Speaker 1: We just he hit me up. We were sprunning the
Speaker 1: same circles anyways, but he hit me up, and uh,
Speaker 1: when I sat can't pulled up on my He from
Speaker 1: my South Nashville, I'm from Eastern Nashville, pulled up my
Speaker 1: apartment and smoked the j and drank some some some
Speaker 1: creature cooler vodka type ship. We've been since. So, y'all,
Speaker 1: the two Huskies are was one of y'all wanted to
Speaker 1: slim in two thousand seventeen and became the US. No,
Speaker 1: we slim. You know when you see slim, you're okay. O.
Speaker 1: Modem bumped up a little bit and I didn't slim
Speaker 1: down a little bit. But we're still on the two. Yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: sor right, Uh y'all. Why pizza? You know, like you know,
Speaker 1: like that any money y'all worked at a pizzeria or something. No,
Speaker 1: I never nah no, um. I mean so when we
Speaker 1: used to uh be on the trucks and stuff with
Speaker 1: the moving company, we had, um you know, we'd be
Speaker 1: going to all these different cities in New York, Chicago, Houston,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, we'd be all over the
Speaker 1: country and um on the road. One of the quickest
Speaker 1: things we can give us peace to go to the
Speaker 1: gas station get pizza. And so anyways, we started doing
Speaker 1: some research. When we have made the decision we wanted
Speaker 1: to get in the hospitality industry, we start doing some
Speaker 1: research and uh, you know, figuring out what do Americans eat.
Speaker 1: So you know, it's hamburgers, hot dogs, pizza, and tacos.
Speaker 1: So it's like, right, you know what I'm saying, We're
Speaker 1: gonna beat the tacos to who's supposed to have the
Speaker 1: tacco you know what I'm saying. And then hot dogs,
Speaker 1: we didn't really want to do that. We didn't really
Speaker 1: feel like you know, we I mean, we grew up
Speaker 1: on eating hot dogs, but like there wasn't a fun
Speaker 1: food for us, you know what I mean. And then
Speaker 1: Hamburger's it was it was at a time in Nashville
Speaker 1: when we had Hamburger spots, craft Hamburger spots popping up
Speaker 1: every corner. So it's like, man, we do pizza, and
Speaker 1: that's something we grew up on, you know, we eighties
Speaker 1: nineties babies, you know what I mean. So you know,
Speaker 1: w WF WrestleMania parties, it was pizza, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Nicks, it was pizza, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: So yeah, t J M, you know what I mean. So,
Speaker 1: so that's what we grew up on. We feel like
Speaker 1: we could we could make a splash with that, have
Speaker 1: some fun with it. Uh, slim Huskies not just about us,
Speaker 1: but also the size of the pieces and slim muskie. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then that's something that we felt like we at
Speaker 1: least understood. It wasn't a steakhouse, it wasn't a seafood spot,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So we understood a piece
Speaker 1: and it just worked for us. And then we understood
Speaker 1: the margins too. Uh So we gotten like deep down
Speaker 1: and scientifically financially like, you know, the margins and pizza
Speaker 1: are are are much better than you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of other restaurants and foods out there. So that's why
Speaker 1: we jumped into pieces. So how much does it cost
Speaker 1: to make a pizza? Like, what's the average cost for pizzas?
Speaker 1: Around three fifty uh four dollars with the box included.
Speaker 1: So we have all different kinds of pieces though. We
Speaker 1: got everything from uh just a basic cheese pizza to
Speaker 1: a meat lovers to a uh smoke we kind of
Speaker 1: smoking nerve but has smoked salmon on it. So you know,
Speaker 1: we have high end products, chicken, sausage, things most people
Speaker 1: don't put on pizza like and we do it completely
Speaker 1: vegan pizza with vegan pepper oni, vegan sausage, um and
Speaker 1: everything you know that you know, our plant based family
Speaker 1: can enjoy. Yeah, they can get expensive. Man, when you
Speaker 1: start adding salmon and shrimp, you know, premium meat products
Speaker 1: and stuff like, what it's a vegan sausage, What the
Speaker 1: fun is that? Right? So so so I was and
Speaker 1: I was pestkeytarian and slash vegetarian for like six years
Speaker 1: before we started the piece of company, right, and so,
Speaker 1: one thing I've learned is that, you know, it's hard
Speaker 1: to transition from just eating you know, from going to
Speaker 1: eating meat um and chicken and poultry and things like
Speaker 1: that to just you know, right. So I think a
Speaker 1: lot of times it's a mental thing, right, like making
Speaker 1: people feel like they can still enjoy um. You know,
Speaker 1: they're old diets and the old habits, but without all
Speaker 1: of the you know, the fatty um you know, things
Speaker 1: that make things unhealthy so um. You know, when people
Speaker 1: replicate different foods to make them vegan, I think it's
Speaker 1: more so to help people transition and then people continue
Speaker 1: with lifestyle that makes them feel normal. Um so ire beg.
Speaker 1: In sausage, we use a p plant, a pea plant
Speaker 1: protein so um. You know, we don't use a ton
Speaker 1: on a soy because a lot of people of view
Speaker 1: soy is unhealthy. But we have a company here locally
Speaker 1: that we work with called the Beehive, and they sell
Speaker 1: some really good, like being alternative products. Something about sausage
Speaker 1: made out of peas just don't sit right with my because,
Speaker 1: like if you think about pizza, pizza flavors can be
Speaker 1: hid in pizza because the core thing to make you
Speaker 1: a piece of good as your dough, your sauce, and
Speaker 1: your cheese, anything else on that it's gonna get blended
Speaker 1: into that flavor. So when you take that bite, you're
Speaker 1: really tasting the dough and the sauce and the cheese,
Speaker 1: not necessarily those ingredients. So as long as we can
Speaker 1: mask you know what the piece, it may taste like, Uh,
Speaker 1: you can still visually see it. Man, it tastes really good.
Speaker 1: It tastes like our regular pizza. Right, So you're kind
Speaker 1: of psyching your mind out, like this is sausage but
Speaker 1: it's really peas. Yeah, I might have to try that,
Speaker 1: you know, you don't try some vegan stuff, some vegetarian stuff.
Speaker 1: I never tried. No vegan sausage. You probably the ingredients.
Speaker 1: Usually it's like peas that soy. I'd be weirded out
Speaker 1: by that because it's like vegetable, but it's a burger
Speaker 1: and I just can't wrap my head around that. You know, y'all,
Speaker 1: y'all ever tried our home Girl Slutty Vegan, I have not.
Speaker 1: They're about to open the location here in Charlotte. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so I see y'all have locations in Nashville, Atlanta, Sacramento,
Speaker 1: in Memphis. Are y'all gonna franchise perhaps? Or how y'all
Speaker 1: moving with that? We uh left out of Chattanooga, Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: get me together. We got to two concessions and uhs
Speaker 1: Formers Place six and State and whether type play one
Speaker 1: in vanderbil State. You know, we got one going up.
Speaker 1: Uh it's the latest one in the same Timea's Hospital
Speaker 1: here in Nashville. Um, but franchise And to answer the question,
Speaker 1: Uh no, not right now. We really want to keep
Speaker 1: corporately on m M. You know, perfected. Um. You know
Speaker 1: you would think with nineteen stories, you know, and then
Speaker 1: all these concessions, you you gotta perfected, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? But yeah, you know it's a changing world.
Speaker 1: That change is fast, so we want to make sure
Speaker 1: before we franchise to do anything like that we want
Speaker 1: to make sure it's right uh and ready for the
Speaker 1: for the franchise, Z for the consumer and uh so yeah,
Speaker 1: we want to keep it keeping court before a while
Speaker 1: and we made never a franchise, I don't think. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're going to uh, we're gonna a tour next year,
Speaker 1: so we gotta pop up. It's gonna be based out
Speaker 1: of Austin, Texas, and we're gonna do pop up, like
Speaker 1: a pop up two across the country with pizza, art
Speaker 1: and music. And so we'll start off and like in Houston, Dallas,
Speaker 1: we'll go for everywhere from New Orleans, Miami, uh and
Speaker 1: also all the major festivals, so we'll be in Chicago,
Speaker 1: will be you know, you'll probably find us at you know,
Speaker 1: One Music Fest in Atlanta and Essence Fest in New
Speaker 1: Orleans and Rolling Loud in Miami, Dreamville, you know fest,
Speaker 1: dream Fest and uh and uh, I think it's a
Speaker 1: rally North Carolina. And yeah, we're looking to like go
Speaker 1: all over the country next year as a major marketing
Speaker 1: component too, like introduced everybody who may not be in
Speaker 1: the markets that we're in, introducing to who we are
Speaker 1: pizza and also just our vibe, so you know, we
Speaker 1: have our own live music series we host here in Nashville.
Speaker 1: We want, you know, to introduce them to that, you know,
Speaker 1: when we come to town. Um as well as our
Speaker 1: art shows that we do. Like we're in our um
Speaker 1: our gallery right now. It's called Inca Gallery. So we've
Speaker 1: got one here in Nashville, another Membis, Tennessee. And uh yeah,
Speaker 1: we're just trying to you know, spread the love and
Speaker 1: introduce people to we called the pream world everything someone huskies,
Speaker 1: progress rules everything around he So y'all also are in
Speaker 1: some locations grocery stores frozen pizza. How did that come about?
Speaker 1: And how long have you all been doing that? Man?
Speaker 1: We started working this pretty much pretty much a pandemic
Speaker 1: type business venture that we started. Um, we always want
Speaker 1: to dive into products. You get Master Peak talk about
Speaker 1: all the time products gonna top back, so you know,
Speaker 1: so we always want to dive in the products. You
Speaker 1: always want to be on the shelves. Um and uh.
Speaker 1: We built the relationship with a friend of rus at
Speaker 1: the term truck uh and he was like many I
Speaker 1: wanted to see y'all pieces of work on the shelves
Speaker 1: and so we got a food scientist and whipped it
Speaker 1: up and star freeze and putting on the shelves, doing great.
Speaker 1: And then we also uh work with gold Belly. Uh
Speaker 1: so you know people can shield pieces all across the
Speaker 1: country and also slim Huskies dot com. Uh you can
Speaker 1: get pizzas from there as well, and the sauces in
Speaker 1: the Sentinel roads too. Damn. So you said, y'all, y'all
Speaker 1: duties festivals are y'all mobile? Do you have like a
Speaker 1: food truck as well? Yeah, we got a food truck
Speaker 1: is based in Tennessee. We got another one that's gonna
Speaker 1: be based in Austin, Texas, and that's gonna be the
Speaker 1: one that moves around the country. Okay, go, so when
Speaker 1: y'all when you're gonna put one in Charlotte, because I
Speaker 1: like pizza ship hungry as fuck, chucked up to my
Speaker 1: stomach is messed up. I was drinking last night. A
Speaker 1: slice of pizza would be good right now to help
Speaker 1: me with what I mean. It was about it was
Speaker 1: about a year and a half, we'll we would be
Speaker 1: in Charlotte. We we're gonna start doing some some site
Speaker 1: selections real soon. Yeah, the next couple of months. So
Speaker 1: we hit up Charlotte and d C and you know,
Speaker 1: go back down to Atlanta and you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: We're gonna keep moving around, um, you know in the
Speaker 1: Southeast South Way, so Houston, Dallas. Bum. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: it's adult Black owned pizzeria down and Charlotte. I checked
Speaker 1: out called Bird Pizzeria. Y'all tried, Tom you No, I
Speaker 1: haven't heard of that Bird Bird. Yep, Bird Pizza. Rea
Speaker 1: Black as a husband and wife. Uh, the slanging pines.
Speaker 1: I just I just window out there, so it looked
Speaker 1: them up. I'm definitely gonna look them up because I
Speaker 1: need something on my stomach right now. I'm like, all right, y'all,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take a commercial real quick, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: come back and talk about relationships in business and relationships period.
Speaker 1: So y'all stay tuned. We'll be right back. So, So,
Speaker 1: like with owning and operating a business, it is essentially
Speaker 1: like a marriage. So how did you pick your partners
Speaker 1: aside from just going to school with them? Like, how
Speaker 1: did you know that this would be a good a
Speaker 1: good union? And it's like, like, what are some of
Speaker 1: the biggest challenges you guys find in business together? Um?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if I don't know,
Speaker 1: if we picked we picked each other like that. I
Speaker 1: think it just came together. Um you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I always you know, we got a good
Speaker 1: thing going, man, And sometimes you really can't take you
Speaker 1: credit for it. I'd be like, man, that was God,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So I feel like just
Speaker 1: just from growing up going through trials and tribulations separately together,
Speaker 1: you know, on the football field was roommates and in college, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we we all went off to do our
Speaker 1: own thing. I was at traffic controller and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: left they got a law school, had a bunch of
Speaker 1: jobs I got fired from. Uh. Clinton Clint was in sales.
Speaker 1: It was in finance and he was a financial analysts
Speaker 1: and uh and the pieces just kind of got kind
Speaker 1: of got put together for us to like come together
Speaker 1: and do and do our first business. And uh, I
Speaker 1: think that a lot of the kings got earned out
Speaker 1: in the first business. Um, you know how we word like,
Speaker 1: I can't honestly like I know my partner. So if
Speaker 1: it's something like six in the morning, five in the morning,
Speaker 1: I'm probably not gonna call Clinton, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Because you know that's I mean. And uh, and the
Speaker 1: same thing with e J. If it's like some hippie
Speaker 1: lifting or even if it's an event like EJ don't
Speaker 1: always want to be the most social. Now you put
Speaker 1: some numbers in front of it, or he want to
Speaker 1: panel about numbers, He's gonna talk all day. But you
Speaker 1: know that's just not this thing. And so I won't
Speaker 1: call him. And you know, I'm sure there's things about
Speaker 1: me that they won't call me for, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. So man, it just really just came together
Speaker 1: just to trial and trip relations. Like I said, the
Speaker 1: first business we learned each other, learned a lot about
Speaker 1: each other going through some very very hard tough times. Um.
Speaker 1: And then that's when we really start seeing like who're
Speaker 1: gonna really ride for? Whos gonna stick around? Uh? You know,
Speaker 1: who were for a long haul when it gets tough,
Speaker 1: and we we've been through that time and time again,
Speaker 1: and we just keep rolling so um, you know. And
Speaker 1: then on the business side of it, you know, separate
Speaker 1: from friends, we always want to make sure the paperworkers right.
Speaker 1: So we got with our lawyer, you know, we got
Speaker 1: by sale buy out agreements between us. You know what
Speaker 1: I mean all that type of stuff. If he ain't
Speaker 1: holding up, if I'm not holding up, EJ not holding up,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, we can buy each other out,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Operating agreements are right, um,
Speaker 1: and the paperworkers on point, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So we hold each other accountable, not just as friends
Speaker 1: and not just looking out or brothers, not just looking
Speaker 1: out for each other's family and well being, but also
Speaker 1: on the business side as with um and uh, and
Speaker 1: we made a pack, you know what I'm saying. Like,
Speaker 1: you know, we won't let business get in front of friendship,
Speaker 1: and friendship get in front of the business, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Now it's challenges, of course, you know,
Speaker 1: some some some things with a friendship, some hard, some
Speaker 1: conversations that are hard. Uh. You know it's a little
Speaker 1: bit harder because we are friends, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And we do understand each other's plight, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, that what we're going through personally, um and
Speaker 1: so yeah, in plus, you don't want to be an
Speaker 1: asked out to your friends, you know what I mean. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know those conversations that we have, what we have
Speaker 1: to have them because we have a business. We have
Speaker 1: to run them. We gotta be around each other all
Speaker 1: the time and talk to each other no matter what. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think our friendship makes us stronger as
Speaker 1: business partners. Honestly, Like we go through some things that
Speaker 1: people that haven't been through our struggles are new to
Speaker 1: working together in business, they don't quite understand yet. Like
Speaker 1: I got the story our typical a lot of time.
Speaker 1: Like first thing, trust an accountability to me, like the
Speaker 1: two things that we can't lose, right, I got try
Speaker 1: some dudes, you know what I'm saying, My life, my kids,
Speaker 1: you know anything. And so an accountability side is very
Speaker 1: important too, because you know, just like in any relationship,
Speaker 1: you got to be able to hold somebody accountable when
Speaker 1: they do ship wrong. Right, so we get never again,
Speaker 1: were over to my first story. First of my huskies, man,
Speaker 1: I was. I have been in there all day, like
Speaker 1: testing products because I work on the product side of
Speaker 1: things and marketing and stuff, and I was testing, testing, testing.
Speaker 1: We had an artist and on some on the ladder
Speaker 1: like painting the ceiling, and when other home was just
Speaker 1: in that we were talking and more walks in. I
Speaker 1: ain't seen all day. He walks in and he's like
Speaker 1: a bro liken. Hell long his cheese been sitting now
Speaker 1: And I'm like, man, I've been working man, the chiefe
Speaker 1: sitting now here like man, you can't leave the cheese
Speaker 1: out like this. I'm like, bro, I've been working on
Speaker 1: this all day. May ain't chill, you know what I'm saying, Like, na,
Speaker 1: you need to put the cheese up. In trouble. So
Speaker 1: so looks so we're going back and forth like brothers, right,
Speaker 1: like we areguent customed each other out. And you know,
Speaker 1: you see the artist starting to get down off the
Speaker 1: ladder because he's like man to break out, is about
Speaker 1: to fight already. Humble was in there, was trying to
Speaker 1: figure out like real, like do I need to break
Speaker 1: it out? Need this up? You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: what's going on? But like this ship, we've been doing
Speaker 1: for a long time, so you wouldn't we knew we
Speaker 1: want to throw no blow. But there's some things that
Speaker 1: need to be said at the end the day. I
Speaker 1: was wrong because yeah, the Hill Department walked in on
Speaker 1: day one day too, and the chiefs having Man, that's wrong.
Speaker 1: But that's me saying, all right, you know what you
Speaker 1: was right I'm gonna be you know, I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: wrong on this when he was holding me accountable. Let's
Speaker 1: move on to the next time. Yeah, we had several
Speaker 1: moments when each of us said, you know, in the wrong.
Speaker 1: It just always like a right a wrong thing. You're
Speaker 1: just like, you don't got to hold each other count
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying that you gotta be able
Speaker 1: to take it. If you can, you gotta dish it out.
Speaker 1: You gotta be to take it. So uh yeah, that
Speaker 1: was funny though. But that back into the culture, right,
Speaker 1: Like that's one of the things about our culture that
Speaker 1: we got to improve on. Like every argument ain't got
Speaker 1: the n N a fight or break up on shooting out,
Speaker 1: you know, so somebody having a you know, an issue
Speaker 1: with the entire world here is about you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like, we gotta learn how to hold each
Speaker 1: other accountable as a community. So for us, it just
Speaker 1: starts with the yeah and to communicate effectively. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but like I didn't, I didn't jump right out to
Speaker 1: the porch or how to talk to Clint, you feel
Speaker 1: me or e J and and they all had a thing.
Speaker 1: We've had these meetings and they all had a thing
Speaker 1: about me like I would come off like too hard
Speaker 1: or too harsh or or not even you know, not
Speaker 1: even feeling like I wouldn't listen to the other side,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So like these are things
Speaker 1: that these are conversations that we've had with each other
Speaker 1: that we had to like grow and get to. You're
Speaker 1: talking about, you know what we thirty eight. Well I'm
Speaker 1: the youngest, so I'll be thirty eight and a couple
Speaker 1: of a couple of days. But I feel like, right,
Speaker 1: that's what you just said. Couple of days and I
Speaker 1: got about about a week about a week ago, and
Speaker 1: then Clint just turned thirty eight, and uh, what you're
Speaker 1: talking about? You know, we started with our first business,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So that's a long time
Speaker 1: how to communicate, you know what I mean? Because as
Speaker 1: as as men as people like, we need the same
Speaker 1: you know, five years ago, two years ago, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm used to change and evolving. You know, it's just
Speaker 1: you know, it's just like that. So yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think the most important thing is learning how somebody wants
Speaker 1: to be talked to, you know what I'm saying, how
Speaker 1: somebody wants to be treated, you know, because they say,
Speaker 1: treat people how you want to be treated. Now you
Speaker 1: have to treat people how they want to be treated.
Speaker 1: So it is a learning curve sometimes for some people
Speaker 1: when it comes to communication. Yeah, sometimes you gotta get
Speaker 1: it to them now, even though they might want their
Speaker 1: ship soft. We might have to get it to them
Speaker 1: hard though. You know, you know that's real with men.
Speaker 1: But I think when men will end up in a
Speaker 1: real fist fight, you start giving it too hard to
Speaker 1: each other. You have to be a little bit more
Speaker 1: delicate with one of you. Don't think men fight. I
Speaker 1: feel like men all get into a fight quicker. No, No,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Y'all stop being friends quicker than men. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like sure, gon, we're gonna have a draink to like Clint.
Speaker 1: They might have Clint put the cheese up and they
Speaker 1: went and had a beer. You know, we wouldn't speak
Speaker 1: for weeks and probably won't even eat cheese no more.
Speaker 1: Like cheese. I don't even like cheese no more because
Speaker 1: of that motherfucking bitch vacations everything that. There was a
Speaker 1: time though, there was a time I would fall out
Speaker 1: about bit you had this and you didn't pay for this,
Speaker 1: just put the cards out the question being successful black men,
Speaker 1: how do you feel about dating or being with women
Speaker 1: who make more than you? Man, that's what I'm looking for.
Speaker 1: That sounds like a whole lot of success in the
Speaker 1: household of me. And also, man, it depends on it
Speaker 1: really depends on the type of the type of man
Speaker 1: you are. Honestly, I mean every man ain't the same mentally,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like you have to you know,
Speaker 1: there's some man that might see that as intimidating, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, But for me, I'm personally just
Speaker 1: just not one of them dudes like to me, I
Speaker 1: have to take that as a blessing and a challenge
Speaker 1: at the same time. You know what I'm saying, like
Speaker 1: do I do I want? Do I want to make
Speaker 1: the most money in the household? Preferably I would? You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, But I ain't tripping if I'm not.
Speaker 1: And what I gotta do to either work with you
Speaker 1: is my partner and or you know I'm saying work
Speaker 1: on my own, but your support to you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, to change things? And um, yeah, man, I
Speaker 1: got a home girl. Um, they got a big platform.
Speaker 1: We were just talking and I'm like, yo, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm single man. I'm looking for you know, I'm looking
Speaker 1: for somebody that ain't gonna be so attached to me
Speaker 1: because I'm out working every day from you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying early morning to sometimes late at night, Like
Speaker 1: I need somebody to got some business about. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: so you know she's sending me people. I'm like, send me,
Speaker 1: send me something else whatever. But but like you know,
Speaker 1: don't be like that about everybody. What I'm gonna scorpion
Speaker 1: up ship. I'm a little self, but I'm loyal up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you loyal to the bob on on the tip. I
Speaker 1: mean it's been times where where it's my wife. She
Speaker 1: she as an awesome job and makes some great salary.
Speaker 1: And um, it's many times where you know, pandemic or
Speaker 1: whateverywhere where you know, we we didn't know whether next
Speaker 1: dollar might come from you know what I'm saying, or
Speaker 1: as a business right or or you know, we get
Speaker 1: paid lass. You know people don't understand about entrepreneurship is
Speaker 1: like we as the owners get paid lass, then just
Speaker 1: get paid. Worst employ easy to get paid first, keep
Speaker 1: the lights on. Everybody get paid before we do, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And so it's many times where
Speaker 1: it's like she had to hold it down and I
Speaker 1: was grateful, and I was thankful for that, like because
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's it's like Clint said, this is
Speaker 1: a whole lot of success in one household under one roof.
Speaker 1: And you know, as far as men, they can't handle that.
Speaker 1: I really think the way the trend is going away
Speaker 1: women coming up, just black women, like everybody, get used
Speaker 1: to it because you know, it's i mean, y'all popping
Speaker 1: right now. And so you know what I'm saying, from
Speaker 1: education to being is and and just all platforms like
Speaker 1: black women especially are all rising through the ranks right now.
Speaker 1: I think that if you were a man, especially a
Speaker 1: black man, and you can't fathom your woman making more
Speaker 1: money than you, and you need to reevaluate what's your
Speaker 1: purpose is because if you purpose, if you think that
Speaker 1: it's just finances that makes you a man, then you
Speaker 1: already lost, you know what I'm saying. So I was
Speaker 1: out last night with a couple of friends, um with
Speaker 1: a girlfriend of mine and some guys she knew, and
Speaker 1: the relationship conversation is just gonna always come up. If
Speaker 1: you got a couple of women a couple of men, like,
Speaker 1: it's just gonna happen. And I was trying to explain
Speaker 1: to them, like how you know, like black women gonna
Speaker 1: die alone, We're gonna die by ourselves. Always bullshit, right,
Speaker 1: But you were explaining that what they were saying, that's
Speaker 1: always the rhetoric, right. So, um, I was basically trying
Speaker 1: to explain to them, like the men that y'all say
Speaker 1: that women Black women like our our expectations, our standards, boundaries,
Speaker 1: everything just too high. Right. But the men y'all want
Speaker 1: us to marry are the same men you wouldn't go
Speaker 1: into business with, you know what I'm saying. I don't
Speaker 1: understand that what you're saying. If you would you have
Speaker 1: went into business with either one of these guys, if
Speaker 1: they didn't have a track record of anything successful, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, If they didn't have any means
Speaker 1: you had to help build them and all that stuff. No, No,
Speaker 1: I mean, well, I mean we don't have nothing success
Speaker 1: other than graduating from college, you know what I'm saying. So,
Speaker 1: but I understand what you're saying, But for us, it
Speaker 1: was just a little bit different because we we had
Speaker 1: to What I think is, you know what we have
Speaker 1: to think about even we're talking about relationships, like sometimes
Speaker 1: you gotta grow with each other. Feel me, Like that's
Speaker 1: what we did, Like we grew as businessmen with each other.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, We grew in you know,
Speaker 1: successfully with each other. We can start off like have
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. It wasn't the book to this.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. We didn't have all the
Speaker 1: answers and we weren't always right when we grew into
Speaker 1: who we are together. So I think that's part of
Speaker 1: a black household or any household. We we all got daughters.
Speaker 1: If I had to consult money question, I got ways
Speaker 1: to go. She's about to turn four. But if I
Speaker 1: had a consult or, you know, you know, like he said,
Speaker 1: like we started from the ground up, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Like I've you know, I've been to the
Speaker 1: dude that had a lot of ambition walking out of school.
Speaker 1: But you know what I'm saying, I was working hard
Speaker 1: towards those goals. But you know saying, somebody with you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, fast money might have picked my
Speaker 1: crush about the school and they're gone, and I'm just like,
Speaker 1: iust what's saying. But but but you know, like I
Speaker 1: think that if I had to consult, I would say, hey, look,
Speaker 1: look for somebody who has ambition first, right, but then
Speaker 1: and and support them in their ambition, because everybody's not
Speaker 1: gonna start off with everything you know I'm saying given
Speaker 1: to him. But then also as that relationship progresses, you
Speaker 1: gotta identify whether or not to have execution or match
Speaker 1: that that bit what I'm saying. And if that execution
Speaker 1: isn't there, then you can support them and try to
Speaker 1: get them to that point. But if it's not comfortable,
Speaker 1: you don't like the way it's moving, you got to
Speaker 1: keep it. You got to keep it going because there's
Speaker 1: something big and better out there for you, right, So,
Speaker 1: like you know, definitely, uh, you know, pay attention to
Speaker 1: the characteristics and not just to talk, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, and uh, you know, make sure somebody is
Speaker 1: gonna be able to grow with you and not just
Speaker 1: you know, make a bunch of promises. Right. So I
Speaker 1: have a question with um women making more and um,
Speaker 1: would y'all feel do y'all feel like men should be
Speaker 1: the head of the household for the relationship to be successful,
Speaker 1: or should should there be a hierarchy of things, like
Speaker 1: the man should be the head and have the final state,
Speaker 1: or it should be like an equal partnership. I can't
Speaker 1: I can't really speak for I mean, we're from the South,
Speaker 1: you feel me, so you know, we it's a little
Speaker 1: bit different Bible belt, Bible belt, so you're getting taught
Speaker 1: all your life in me and out ahead of the household.
Speaker 1: But that doesn't just mean like it's like you running
Speaker 1: that thing with you know what I'm saying, Like that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean like submission doesn't mean like you know, she
Speaker 1: walking in there joint and you know soon she come in,
Speaker 1: she bound out that you're like, you know that's that's
Speaker 1: taking all out of context. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I think that I think that you for anybody, you
Speaker 1: gotta work with what work for y'all. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like I don't even know how to put
Speaker 1: it other than that, I mean, as far as me
Speaker 1: and running the household, it's something about a man being
Speaker 1: protecting your house, protecting this woman and this fact. You
Speaker 1: feel what I'm saying something about a man, provided you
Speaker 1: feel me not being the number one provider, but provided
Speaker 1: you feel what I'm saying, like, we I know Clinton,
Speaker 1: I mean, we believe in that co hardly his dad
Speaker 1: is an o G. You feel me like this one
Speaker 1: of the man that I've always looked up to. Daddy married. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But but I don't know if it's every time. I'm
Speaker 1: sure it's the time Mrs Brady, maybe more than Pops.
Speaker 1: You feel what I'm saying. But he still hold his
Speaker 1: household down, you know what I mean. I think that
Speaker 1: and she honors him, and his children honor him, and
Speaker 1: I think that's that's that is more important than having
Speaker 1: to put a title on hierarchy, you feel me or granted,
Speaker 1: it's some things that that a man will do that
Speaker 1: a woman won't do in the household or not won't do.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, just may not be a favorite of I mean,
Speaker 1: if if I got to go out there and paint
Speaker 1: the house, I'm not expecting my wife to go do that,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Like, but if she want
Speaker 1: to join, come on, you know what I'm saying. So,
Speaker 1: but you know it's some things in my household that
Speaker 1: they may think she I mean, I take care of
Speaker 1: the plants in the house. You feel me, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, And you know I got a green thumb.
Speaker 1: But that's somebody enjoyed doing, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So you know, I don't know. I just think that
Speaker 1: that we we lose as a community when we're started
Speaker 1: trying to put these titles on who's supposed to do
Speaker 1: what in the household, and man, y'all come together, y'all,
Speaker 1: put you'all resource together, y'all grooving, and y'all making things.
Speaker 1: Worn't how y'all want to make their joint work. You've
Speaker 1: got a successful household, you know what I'm saying. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I completely agree with that. I think in business, whoever
Speaker 1: controls the finances controls the business. Right Like, if you
Speaker 1: in the charge of the books, you can you can
Speaker 1: make pretty much every decision that you want to make, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, for that company at home. I don't think
Speaker 1: it should be that way. I think it's you know,
Speaker 1: we always talk about what you bring to the table.
Speaker 1: It's like, all right, let's lay out when we bring
Speaker 1: to the table. Let's make it a good ass fucking table.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, but it doesn't mean, well,
Speaker 1: I'm bringing the finances to the table, so I'm the
Speaker 1: one that's calling off the shots around. To me, that's
Speaker 1: a little unhealthy because you know there's times where you
Speaker 1: might be bringing all the money, but something may happen,
Speaker 1: like like most saying like I've seen my family, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, grow together, and you know, Pops
Speaker 1: bringing in the big check. But my mom also had
Speaker 1: a really good job. So when things might have stole
Speaker 1: down for Pops, my mom, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: stepped up. So it was never about who about the money,
Speaker 1: and it's all about how can we build the most
Speaker 1: love often in this place. And so yeah, I think, man,
Speaker 1: just like you said, man, share the resources and figure
Speaker 1: out how you know what I'm saying, you can make
Speaker 1: the housework for you. How do you all think we
Speaker 1: ended up in this situation though, because I feel like
Speaker 1: it's only in Black America, Black in America, black amongst
Speaker 1: black Americans where this discussion about who pays for what,
Speaker 1: who whose plate get fixed first? Like how did we
Speaker 1: end up here? I disagree with you, j J. I
Speaker 1: think I would have to disagree with what you talking about.
Speaker 1: People's fight. We live in a capital capitalist society. Like
Speaker 1: it's just American. It ain't a Black problem, it ain't
Speaker 1: a white problem. It's just American. It's an American problem.
Speaker 1: But you don't really see the public discussions amongst white
Speaker 1: women and white men about what's going on in their community.
Speaker 1: And I feel like all of our ship is on display.
Speaker 1: So if anybody wants to come in and really dismantle
Speaker 1: our ship, we've given them all the ample. So that's
Speaker 1: on us though. That's now that's a media question, you
Speaker 1: feel me, that's what What are we pushing out? What
Speaker 1: are the things that we're pushing down about our community?
Speaker 1: I made a post on my on my story the
Speaker 1: thing about like highlighting the the positives and the good
Speaker 1: things about our culture. Feel what I'm saying, man, The
Speaker 1: black family is strong, and this is something that the
Speaker 1: media doesn't like to talk about because it's threatening. You
Speaker 1: feel what I'm saying, A strong back. A black family
Speaker 1: is a threat, and it's strong and it's getting stronger.
Speaker 1: We just like to push out all these negative topics,
Speaker 1: and that's what we lose as a community, and then
Speaker 1: we entertain it. That's what we lose as a community,
Speaker 1: and we entertained hal for that it's coming out about us, man,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't even be a story, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So that's that's something that we have to fix in
Speaker 1: the community. But as far as like this hierarch and
Speaker 1: all that type of stuff, like that's an American problem,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And I think it's the
Speaker 1: countries that you know, you look at what's going on soccer,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. You talk about Iran and
Speaker 1: and uh and what's going on over there with women's
Speaker 1: rice and all that type of stuff, Like it's a
Speaker 1: world problem. You know how I get get pushed back,
Speaker 1: you feeling me into the front. But I think all
Speaker 1: of that is on a positive trend. Change. Yeah, go ahead,
Speaker 1: go ahead, I's gonna saying. And we're just getting to
Speaker 1: we we're We've been working hard as a coach for
Speaker 1: years to like to fight the odds and the challenges
Speaker 1: in front of us. We have more educated you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, millennials now than every before and even
Speaker 1: more the next generation coming to the pipeline. We've got
Speaker 1: more African American women make money now, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. That ever before and have an opportunity to
Speaker 1: you know, run their household as a what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: a married person. Right, So it's like we're getting new
Speaker 1: issues now that we've never had to deal with because
Speaker 1: we've been growing as a culture, you know what I'm
Speaker 1: saying up until this point. So it's gonna be more
Speaker 1: and more challenges to come, new issues to come about,
Speaker 1: just because black people are becoming more and more successful,
Speaker 1: and you know what I'm saying to you know recent uh,
Speaker 1: you know topics. I mean, if we don't control the
Speaker 1: media is being pushed out on us, they're going to
Speaker 1: try to you know what I'm saying, crushes because they
Speaker 1: see that grow and they see what can happen when
Speaker 1: we work together. So I mean, we just gotta be
Speaker 1: prepared for what that change means in our society through
Speaker 1: the successful being able to guard. Can I just admit something.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be an equal partner. I don't
Speaker 1: want to Hell no, I'm tired of running this ship.
Speaker 1: I want somebody to come in here and take the
Speaker 1: will first. Will Yeah, right, like people gotta have their
Speaker 1: own preferences to Yeah, you know what you're saying, wrong,
Speaker 1: You ain't that ain't nothing to admit too. Yeah, but people,
Speaker 1: some people would say that's weak, you know, like she
Speaker 1: wants she don't want to be equal. That's the dumbest ship.
Speaker 1: We signed up for the same way. That the same
Speaker 1: way I said, I'm looking for the same way I said,
Speaker 1: I'm looking for somebody who ain't gonna you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, be on my coach at all the time,
Speaker 1: and like needs so much time because busy I am.
Speaker 1: I'm also saying to ship, I worked long hours, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And when I get home sometimes
Speaker 1: you know, MO go home, it might be dinner on
Speaker 1: the table or he might you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: be making dinner for the family. Who knows when I
Speaker 1: got pizza one of the frozen pizzas and the oven
Speaker 1: off here, ain't nothing doing. I got to clean the
Speaker 1: house up, cook the meal or go out to eat
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So yeah, like there's value in that too,
Speaker 1: or you just get or you just get your paper.
Speaker 1: You just got somebody outsourcing. Yeah, but Tama, it's it's
Speaker 1: no switch now. So you say you want somebody to
Speaker 1: come in and and and control things, But do you
Speaker 1: think that there's an internal switch that you can turn
Speaker 1: off to be able to deal with that. And that's
Speaker 1: the problem. I don't know. I don't know. Can I
Speaker 1: just let somebody take control when I've been controlling ship
Speaker 1: my whole life, you know, my whole adult life. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but I showed would like to find out.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't want somebody to come in and
Speaker 1: be like, this is your bad time. No, I don't
Speaker 1: want it to be like that type of control. But
Speaker 1: I just want someone else to like lead. You remember
Speaker 1: when I used to have to get off the phone.
Speaker 1: She used to have to like she was in a
Speaker 1: relationship and she's like, I gotta go, it's bad time this.
Speaker 1: I was like, what, turn the light off, turn the
Speaker 1: TV off. It's like stop talking now. Yeah, that worked
Speaker 1: for you. They ain't together no more. I'm not somebody
Speaker 1: that's easily controlled. I think that was a surprise for him. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's one thing to set boundaries in your relationship, but
Speaker 1: to tell somebody when they need to go to bed,
Speaker 1: it's like a whole different kind of level of control.
Speaker 1: Like I don't want to be controlled. Enjoy that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they probably like it. I didn't because, like then you
Speaker 1: also don't want me to go lay on the couch
Speaker 1: so I can still do what I want to do
Speaker 1: and tell him, actually, sleepy, you want me to still
Speaker 1: stay right here in the dark, just laying in the dark. Nah,
Speaker 1: that's why, just laying there. That's weird me some melotonin
Speaker 1: or something like they do these babies, you know, to
Speaker 1: like your relationship or past relationship with them. Did he feeds?
Speaker 1: You don't say? Like life y'all? Oh goodness that partner
Speaker 1: selection boy in business and life? That ship is hella important? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Do you do you guys take therapy? Have y'all ever
Speaker 1: had to take therapy as business partners? And do you
Speaker 1: take individual therapy as a group? Nam? But I think
Speaker 1: it's I think we should though, I think we need
Speaker 1: to start um and I've been thinking about that a lot.
Speaker 1: But individually I have I'm sure, j No, not individually,
Speaker 1: not to score. I'd like to do things. It's therapeutic though,
Speaker 1: h Yeah. I think Black people need a different type
Speaker 1: of therapy anyway. We need like spiritual therapy, not like
Speaker 1: yeah for sure all this so I mean, but you
Speaker 1: know I'm set on some couches for sure. That lady
Speaker 1: when you're talking to the lady, the ladies. The lady said,
Speaker 1: you don't have you through some things, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And uh, but you know what I mean. Also,
Speaker 1: like Clint said, other things is therapeutic, like this art gallery,
Speaker 1: just being here around art, the visual arts therapeutic. Um
Speaker 1: think therapy. Yeah, cleaning a lot of tattoos, that's his therapy,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I might smoke with Jake
Speaker 1: probably just about any night just to just to vibe
Speaker 1: out and just chilling. I listen to podcasts and using
Speaker 1: that therapeuty. Cleaning up is therapeutic for me. Cooking, Believe
Speaker 1: it or not. It's the weed that makes you want
Speaker 1: to clean up. I've seen that and started cleaning the
Speaker 1: baseboards and ship like goddamn cleaning. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Working out of therapeutic, running this very therapeutic, just to
Speaker 1: get about it all. But does any of that stuff
Speaker 1: really help you yield? Though? I think a lot of
Speaker 1: that stuff just helps you get through to keep going.
Speaker 1: I mean, doesn't really help you heal from ship. I
Speaker 1: mean stress management healing. You know, it's you know, you
Speaker 1: either manage it, deal with it, or you heal from
Speaker 1: the worst thing you can do is just deal with it.
Speaker 1: So if you're managing it, then that's that's that's that's
Speaker 1: a good step, you know what I'm saying. Now, whether
Speaker 1: you heal from it or not, I think a lot
Speaker 1: of times it's all up to us. It's people to heal,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, and let things go, uh
Speaker 1: and don't let things hold on to us. But I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're managing your stress stresses you you can't run
Speaker 1: from it is here, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 1: if you're managing it by running or smoking a j
Speaker 1: or cleaning or whatever your stress management is, I think
Speaker 1: that's that's the focus that that we should have even
Speaker 1: as a community, like learning how to manage the things
Speaker 1: that that's gonna come that's inevitable, you know stress. One
Speaker 1: thing I know we don't that well is take advantage
Speaker 1: of like vacations, so like must you know, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: like I can probably speak the all three of us,
Speaker 1: like you have you been on a vacation and now
Speaker 1: we now we got work trips, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Or you know, like you know, fellas trips and things
Speaker 1: like that. But man, that ain't vacation like we we
Speaker 1: haven't done a good job, but like just shutting ship down.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, turn the phone off and
Speaker 1: like you know, just connecting and so like that's for me,
Speaker 1: you know that's something in twent twenty three, Like I
Speaker 1: really want to like practice a little more little vacation.
Speaker 1: It's hard to disconnect because I feel like on my vacation,
Speaker 1: if I can't share it on my Instagram, is it
Speaker 1: really a vacation. I can't help my phone off. You
Speaker 1: don't need everybody keeping up with moves some That's that's
Speaker 1: I don't like that. We gotta we gotta like this,
Speaker 1: and that's I think we got too much access right now.
Speaker 1: Every people got access to you all the time. People
Speaker 1: access to mean to us all the time. If if
Speaker 1: I post something and I ain't reply back to a tick,
Speaker 1: somebody hit me up. Hey you see you see my ticks?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like the access man, we
Speaker 1: got to cut that off sometime and just disconnect. I
Speaker 1: think we we as a people, it's just as a race,
Speaker 1: we gotta learn how to do that, because that's a
Speaker 1: formal stress all all in itself. We ain't meant to
Speaker 1: be contacted and connected and access to all the time.
Speaker 1: What was we doing before cell phones? You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like exactly down now niggers want to be
Speaker 1: in your bedroom. They want to be on vacation with you.
Speaker 1: They want to see what you eat, and like, I
Speaker 1: cannot get with that ship at all. And it's if
Speaker 1: somebody has had to wait till you got home to
Speaker 1: talk to you. Yeah, you feel me or talk to Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. Now you got talking people on the iPhone,
Speaker 1: you can get into your thoughts. You're thinking all through
Speaker 1: the day. It's about you. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You get home, but you you're taking on somebody problems
Speaker 1: like this way. You know what I mean from a
Speaker 1: relationship standpoint. Man, Think about how many people's grandmothers and
Speaker 1: grandfathers didn't have to deal with some of the stuff
Speaker 1: that we was dealing with. It Like you could tell
Speaker 1: somebody like, hey, I'm gonna be gone, I gotta go
Speaker 1: to I'm saying Memphis for the weekend. I'll be back
Speaker 1: in seven days now, Like it's easier to cheat waiting.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, now, take this, take this picture with you.
Speaker 1: Nigga could not face time person I'm just saying you
Speaker 1: have to worry about somebody like looking at your story
Speaker 1: or you know what I'm saying, like looking at looking
Speaker 1: at your sunglasses when you take a picture to see
Speaker 1: back there? Who took that picture? Right there? I know
Speaker 1: once I'm really called it, Nicku, I was dealing with
Speaker 1: doing something he wasn't supposed to because I saw in
Speaker 1: his sunglasses a bit in the background. I was like, hello,
Speaker 1: that's a bit in a bathing suit. With the follow
Speaker 1: through and with the iPhone, don't mess and running do
Speaker 1: those live photos. You can hit like hit play a
Speaker 1: little bit, hands but shi in the background right quick?
Speaker 1: You can hear the background. Be careful. Now you can
Speaker 1: see somebody's location if you got the wrong settings on
Speaker 1: your phone, right wherever they be. Yeah, you can go
Speaker 1: through and see all the places that they've been. How
Speaker 1: don't try to know, ben, I need to make sure
Speaker 1: on my phone or had that type of stuff on it.
Speaker 1: Oh no, with these air tags. Have y'all seen that.
Speaker 1: That's a new thing too. That's like, Yeah, people follow
Speaker 1: you home and stuff like that. They can put it,
Speaker 1: slip it in your pocket and you don't even know
Speaker 1: it was came on my phone at tag, I stopped
Speaker 1: the car, got up on the car making shot and
Speaker 1: the man, that's crazy, it's getting crazy. He's did crazy
Speaker 1: out here. Even the headphones. I was with somebody who
Speaker 1: I don't have, like the pods, the and they connected
Speaker 1: to my phone connected and so they was here in
Speaker 1: your conversation, not like connected in that way. Like the
Speaker 1: map popped up on my phone showing where the headphones
Speaker 1: was at, Like I didn't set that up. So how
Speaker 1: did all this access? I just you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It could be used for for good and bad. So
Speaker 1: you know, I don't even want to go to Machgo
Speaker 1: no more. Man, everybody makes go posting it. I just
Speaker 1: want to and I just want people to go somewhere
Speaker 1: that good time and go to the Caribbean islands, go
Speaker 1: where black people at well, go with good black people
Speaker 1: know your people. So so we have a segment on
Speaker 1: our show called SIMP Series and are a dumb bit
Speaker 1: story And it's basically where you share a time that
Speaker 1: you got played by the opposite sex. Can y'all share
Speaker 1: a story? And please don't do it? Every time we
Speaker 1: have a guy, they always be like, yeah, when I
Speaker 1: was in the ninth grade. This girl did this like
Speaker 1: no tell us a story adult story at a time
Speaker 1: where like, damn, I can't believe she did me like that.
Speaker 1: Oh I ain't, y'all, don't just play that. Ain't no
Speaker 1: ego ship or nothing like that. It's just, you know,
Speaker 1: I've just eve been playing It's too I'm too cool, man.
Speaker 1: I don't get played that ninth grade was the last
Speaker 1: time you got the ninth grade? That's it. I played myself.
Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying. Tell us by the time
Speaker 1: you played yourself, right, But now I didn't know. I ain't.
Speaker 1: I can't even be thinking no time like that that
Speaker 1: I got played neither. You played for a girl to
Speaker 1: fly out somewhere and then she kind of ran off
Speaker 1: with somebody else nothing, you know what. I might have
Speaker 1: had one time where uh, it kind of goes two
Speaker 1: ways that at one time it was like last minute
Speaker 1: we was taking the trip, I end up flying somebody
Speaker 1: out of randomly. Um, we get out there and I
Speaker 1: wasn't hearing from where she. I think she might have,
Speaker 1: you know what, connected with somebody else. Really cool. I
Speaker 1: think we got into like a little back and forth
Speaker 1: before she flew out, and so I really wasn't tripping
Speaker 1: about it. But it worked for me because I met
Speaker 1: somebody while I was out there, and you know, right
Speaker 1: off the rip and things you know, fell in place,
Speaker 1: So I don't really apply. Yeah, so you make up
Speaker 1: some ship. Nah, I ain't really interesting. I mean, I
Speaker 1: could have been getting played and just didn't know it.
Speaker 1: But I ain't looking for nothing. I ain't. I ain't.
Speaker 1: I'm not. I ain't looking for that. I'm sure I've
Speaker 1: gotten played, you feel me, But I just don't know
Speaker 1: everybody everybody that got played. If you ain't know it, yeah,
Speaker 1: I ain't. I ain't trying to be that invested to
Speaker 1: the wall. What's your sign sagittariums? Okay, yeah, terrorists sagittarist
Speaker 1: that's I was thinking. You know, there's good people, Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, as long as y'all are saying a query,
Speaker 1: that's be good. They all never got played. Okay, we're
Speaker 1: gonna leave that one alone. It's hard to get me
Speaker 1: to tell a story when they're on the show. Honestly, women,
Speaker 1: what kind of what those games you got for that ship?
Speaker 1: That's the only game we got. I guess you gotta
Speaker 1: come up with some games like well, yeah, I gotta
Speaker 1: come up with turn well, tell everybody where to find you,
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Speaker 1: right now, North Nashville. Y'all hiring. Let the people know
Speaker 1: if you're hiring or not. We always hired. Yeah, as
Speaker 1: long as we keep going, were hiring for sure people. Okay,
Speaker 1: I got one more question. What's the last book you read?
Speaker 1: Like that? Um? Last book I read? I'm currently listening
Speaker 1: to uh shooting the last book I read with Danny
Speaker 1: Meyers see it at the table. That was it? Well,
Speaker 1: I didn't read it. I started reading. That's like, man,
Speaker 1: I can't keep stopping and going back. So I listened
Speaker 1: to it. So I've been on audiobooks real heavy. Um,
Speaker 1: So that's that was the last book that I completed. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: saving me more actually got me this book The Time
Speaker 1: of America by Steve Stout. Reading that just talks about
Speaker 1: you know, the power of of you know, African American
Speaker 1: culture and the marketing of you know, things within our country.
Speaker 1: And it was a great book. But I'm also I
Speaker 1: like to just kind of continue to educate myself on
Speaker 1: different things. We're jumping into a lot of different sectors
Speaker 1: of business, want being the music industry, and so I'm
Speaker 1: kind of reading books right now. Music publishing. So I
Speaker 1: was trying to continue to educate, don't get more knowledge.
Speaker 1: That's my thing about a lot of people. I care
Speaker 1: about it or take a liking too. Books. So y'all
Speaker 1: do audibles. I got a log in for that. Got
Speaker 1: a lot of books in there. If y'all want it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know. I Um I saw audible start. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: start jumping in that. Yeah, that's that's how That's how
Speaker 1: I think. Man. We we like to to be on
Speaker 1: the same page, you know, and always being curious. That's
Speaker 1: the reason why we asked that question. And e g.
Speaker 1: What's the last book you read? Because you know, a
Speaker 1: curious mind, you want somebody that's curious you want And
Speaker 1: that's and that comes from Howard shows uh from Starbucks. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know he hiring somebody. What's the last book? So
Speaker 1: hiring people, relationships, all that type of stuff. Make somebody
Speaker 1: to read and read the same books too. If you're
Speaker 1: working on something together, like read the same book and
Speaker 1: on the same page. Mentally, you know, I'm saying, learn together. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's something that we did at beginning for sure and
Speaker 1: still do so m hmm. Thank you all for coming on. Man,
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