WEBVTT - ATREYU (Wangs n Thangs) - Rolling Sardines, Flipping Futures 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:03.239 Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke. 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:05.880 I'm your host, Colleen Witt, and today we have very 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:10.720 special guests, entrepreneur of Wang's in Things, a tray you 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:13.840 Rothman is in the building. Here we go, There we go. 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:16.560 I got it right right. We had to cut that 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:17.040 last one. 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:19.800 We had to cut. We had to get a tray. 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:22.560 You Rothman is in the building. And just for just 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:24.960 a little backstory before we get into the interview, guys, 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:27.880 he's the owner of Wangs and Things in Venice Beach. 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:30.680 This is one of my favorite go to spots. If 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:33.080 you know me, you know that the weekends are solely 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:35.600 dedicated to living like a four year old. But we 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:39.240 got to add some adulting fun into it, so WANs 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:41.160 and Things is a part of that. I come there 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:43.960 very often. I have a punch guard, you know, and 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:46.959 I bring a lot of people. I usually introduce somebody 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:49.160 to the spot. Even though the guy that hands out 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:52.879 the samples he does an amazing job at thank you. 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:54.360 Yeah, he's awesome. 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:56.560 He does a great job. And we don't even use 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:58.960 the punch card anymore. We have we're all digital now, 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:00.840 so you put you putting a number and it's like 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.640 using the punch cards, so it keeps track of your orders. 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:21.279 And yeah, and just so you guys know, my favorite 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:24.360 thing to order is the well it's it's pretty much everything. 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:27.520 The secret I think to what makes wings and things 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:29.679 so special for all y'all wondering what kind of food 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:34.160 it is, Like wings, it's potato, It's shrimp. 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:36.039 Shrimp sha it pole Boys. 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:38.400 I'm from the South, so a lot of the food 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:41.640 is originated from the South, so the Pole Boys. There's 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.880 a lot of vegans and vegetarians in this area, so 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.560 we had to create some foods that cater to them, 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:50.160 like the mushroom sandwich, califlower sandwich. 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:51.080 You haven't seen that yet. 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:54.320 I feel like I need to do a review of 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:56.440 all the different I stick to what I know, like 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:59.400 the potato. You know what it is. It's whatever he 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:02.240 hands out in the samples. Yes, that's what I get. 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:04.040 Okay, So maybe. 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:06.120 I need to explore outside there it is there. 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:08.560 It is people when they typically see this, get the 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:11.280 samples outside. That's what they want. Oh, let me get 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:13.720 what I had out there. But when you get to 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:16.440 then when you get to the front of our establishment, 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:18.080 you know, our whole menu is out in the front. 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:20.720 So there's so many other options for people to choose. 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.600 Yeah, no, I see them too. I don't know why 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:25.960 that so. So just so you guys know, what makes 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:28.800 I think makes it special is the sauce is finger 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:33.440 looking good? And then I have never met someone that 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:35.560 has mastered frying as well as you. 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:38.720 Oh wow, because that's big. I think that I haven't. 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:40.720 Been doing this for two years now. Really keep in 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:44.840 mind that they never really cooked ever, so not at all. 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:49.400 I think the way he fries is simply fantastic. I 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:51.960 think about it sometimes I'm like, damn, how does he 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:54.520 master it so well? I don't know if you've timed 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:58.359 it how you got it to weigh three? Interesting? 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:01.600 My friars stay at three for all of my foods, 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:05.960 and when I see it has that right Chris, That 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:07.760 just it's side of there. 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:11.160 Oh you know, yeah, all right, So just and I 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:13.240 wanted you guys just to hear from me, you know 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:15.200 what it is I like about the restaurant. But I 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:17.720 was very excited when Atrey you hit me up in 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:20.160 the DMS because we had talked. I said, man, you know, 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:23.480 should come on the show. And the follow up game 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.919 was real and yes, I'm very excited to have you 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.320 and know your backstory. Did not know two years. But 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:32.799 we're about to get into it. But before we get 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:35.680 into your story, I need to know what you are 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.120 going to have me eating today as your broke dish. 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:40.800 M okay, my broke dish. 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:42.520 When she was like, what did you eat while you 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:44.480 were broke, had to think of the time when I 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:49.160 was broke and on the struggle and I was in jail, 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:52.920 you know, and when you're in jail, you don't have 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:55.160 too many options when it comes to food, you know. 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:58.040 You know, I was eating typically what they what they 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:00.640 served at lunch, you know. But then when you get 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:02.800 that commentsary list and you get to pick out what 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:06.040 you want. I never dabbled with rice paper. 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:08.480 I'm like, what is up with this? You know, so 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:10.839 you know you're in jail, you have a lot of time, 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:12.360 so let's figure this out. 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:17.680 So I came up with this rice paper startine veggie roll. 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:18.560 Okay. 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:21.880 I made it for myself. First, people walk by, what 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:22.440 are you making? 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:23.400 Hey? 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.479 Sit down, see if you like it. And then it 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:29.360 turned into a every Thursday a tray. You's making the 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:30.760 rice paper meal. 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:33.680 Oh so did you start to like cooking when you 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:35.960 were in jail, well, being creative. 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:39.520 Well, I've always been into, you know, just putting a 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:43.080 meal together, typically for myself or my guest. You know, 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:47.000 being in you know, being locked away, you know, it 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:51.240 only heightens, you know, your creativeness, especially when you're so 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:54.400 limited to Hey, what can I put together? I would 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:59.200 make my meals for myself and when you know, friends 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:02.320 walked by, what are you making? I don't even know. 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:04.440 I'm just putting it together, you know. That was really 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:07.960 my answer. But it tasted very good, you know. So 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:11.000 it turned out with me to a whole group of 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:14.120 ten people every Thursday. You know, they would all bring 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:15.320 their own ingredients. 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:17.080 Oh oh, and it was. 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:19.800 Like a like a little potluck, you know for the 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:21.280 sardines and veggie roll. 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:26.080 Now, when people think of jail, I e me, guys, 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.120 I'm sorry, I'm not. I've only been to jail for 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:30.640 like twenty four hours, so my experience is very limited. 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:33.279 But you don't think of jail as a place where 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:35.440 you can like pick rice paper as well. 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:37.520 I was at a camp. I was at a camp. 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:41.760 A camp is where they typically send like if the. 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:42.760 Mayor goes to jail. 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:46.080 Oh, is it like like a yeah, the FED, that's 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:47.240 like the nice jail, right. 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:49.800 Yeah, they had pool tables there. I learned how to 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:53.800 shoot pul Oh. I'm a pull shark now, you know, 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.560 because where you have nothing but time, you know, hey, 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.359 let me perfect this, you know. So it was a 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:02.480 place where, you know, it was kind of like bunk style, 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:06.640 you know, open area. If you cause any type of 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:09.479 ruckus in there, they'll send you to a different level 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:13.000 to where you won't have as much leniency. You know, 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:15.760 there was there was it like you could walk off 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:20.560 and leave the whole facility. It wasn't it wasn't gated. 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:23.000 So at a camp like literally you have they call 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.760 them walk offs, you know, and they they broadcast them 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:28.320 on the news at night. Hey, this inmate has walked off, 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:30.839 you know, like yeah, you know it's but you don't 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:33.080 want to mess up here because if you go there, 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:36.440 then you're typically you only have at least like three 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:39.840 five to five years and under left on your sentence. 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:43.280 So some people were there for twenty years and then 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:45.520 they're praying that they could get to a camp, because 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:47.880 you get to a camp, it's just you know, an easy, 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.000 easy glide through for the rest of your sentence. 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:53.400 So and I'd imagine it's a good semi transition back 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:54.040 to life. 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:58.240 Right, Yeah, absolutely, because you have opportunities to have a 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:01.359 job outside of jail, you know, so like you. 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:03.560 Can go and then come back and you just sleep 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:03.800 there and. 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:07.479 If you go come back, get a furlough and you know, 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:10.360 go see your family, that type of thing. I was 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.280 sentenced to a year and a half. Excuse me, a 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:13.960 year and a day. 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:15.480 A year and a day. 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:16.840 Did it feel like a year and a day? 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:19.000 It felt like a year and a day because when 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:20.640 when they sentenced you to a year and a day, 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:24.320 You're you're supposed to go home in like six months. 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:27.800 But when the six month hit, I was supposed to 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:30.520 go and go to my father's for the rest of 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:31.880 my term in Mississippi. 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:32.720 Uh. 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:34.480 And then when they called me in for that six 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:36.920 that six month hit, they called me into the office 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:41.240 and said that my dad denied me from going out there. 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:44.840 Then it felt like a year and a day because 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:46.600 I had to stay the whole year and a day. 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:49.800 Yeah. So yeah, that year in a day was an 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:50.840 actual year in a day. 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:52.880 Okay, now, and now I'm just curious. 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:56.240 Yes, well, I got denied no, what what did you do? 0:07:56.560 --> 0:08:02.240 What I do? You know? 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:06.400 So I used to model back in the day, like 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:08.280 in my twenties, you know. And this was all in 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:11.920 my twenties, you know. And I had this gig in 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:15.480 New York and it was the next day gig. And 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:19.200 I had a friend that was always flying this guy everywhere. 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:21.600 I'm on playing them all bro like I need to 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:25.040 fly to New York tomorrow for this gig. And he 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:26.160 connects me with this. 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:29.360 Guy and he books me on a flight first class 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:32.120 all the way to New York next day. 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:36.240 Like literally, I was clutch. It was super clutch. It was. 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:37.040 It was so clutch. 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:40.280 When I got back, I was like, hey, like give me, 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:42.400 like is it okay? If I use him? Like can 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:44.960 I call him for you know, my next flight? And 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.280 my friends like to fly to you know. So I 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:52.560 turned into like a travel agent, you know, because I 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:54.760 would let my friends know, hey, if you want to fly, 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:57.520 And his price was amazing. It was like to me, 0:08:57.600 --> 0:08:59.680 it was like one hundred dollars round trip. 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:05.280 For it was right. So so I was charging people. 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:07.760 I would look up their flight information and be like, oh, 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:09.880 your flight is five hundred Okay, it's gonna be two 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:12.080 fifty for you whatever, it's gonna be half, you know. 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:15.320 And where was I was? 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:18.200 I was you could call me green, right, because I'm 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:20.400 just thinking this guy is just booking, because he would 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:21.600 just send me the flight information. 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:23.320 I send it to my people and they go on 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:23.880 their way. 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:26.240 Only only a little bit. 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:30.480 I was at my top until until right one of 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:34.760 my friends called me booked them a flight and he's like, hey, 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.199 they said the credit card didn't go through with this flight. 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:40.400 And I'm like, hold on, let me call this guy 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:42.040 and tell them, Hey, what's happening. 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:42.800 I called him. 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:44.320 I'm like, hey, my friend is stuck at the airport. 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:45.920 They said the credit card didn't go through. He's I 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:48.840 don't worry, I'll rebook him. Rebooked them, and he was 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.240 on the next flight out right. But at that point, 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:54.360 I'm like, Okay, this guy is using credit cards to 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:58.839 book people on flights, you know. And I knew at 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:02.760 that point this this is like three months into I'm so. 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:05.240 Dumb because it took me a minute to catch up. Yeah, 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:07.120 so basically he was paying for. 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:09.360 He was paying for the flight, but with other people's 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:14.320 credit cards. Yes, So I figured this out, and I 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:17.320 remember It's funny how God works really in your life 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:18.920 and he gives you your decisions and you got to 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:23.200 make him. Right then, i was sitting on the curb 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:27.440 outside and I'm like, wow, okay, so he's using people's 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:31.120 credit cards to book people's flights. I'm like something like this. 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:33.960 I feel like I could get like five years for 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:36.800 doing something like this. Like this was a thought in 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:39.800 my head right and I'm like, I have my decision 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:42.679 to stop right then, or you know, keep going and 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:44.920 taking mind like I'm modeling at this time, like I'm 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:46.080 in front of people's. 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:46.960 Faces, I'm behind it can. 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:51.280 Yeah, And I was booking modeling gigs, but those gigs 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:53.200 were just paying my cell phone bill, you know what 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:56.000 I'm saying. But I'm a flight I'm a flight agent 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:59.600 right now. Like I'm like I'm getting I mean hints. 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:01.920 Like as soon as I was like five years for 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:05.240 something like this, I got a text message from one 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:06.480 of my people that wanted to fly. 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:08.760 I'm like, this is the test. This is the test. 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:10.719 I'm looking at like three hundred dollars right here or 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:13.440 just completely stop. And I was like I'm taking this 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:15.280 three hundred, you know, And I kept going and I 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:20.400 did it for like two more years. I'm telling you, 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:20.760 like that. 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:25.160 Where was where was the look that they were hitting me? 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:27.280 And I'm like, look, I got you. 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:29.920 I'm hitting up this other guy because I'm not really 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:32.080 I'm not booking, I'm never I'm never touching anything. 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:36.640 You're like a degree away from separation. Yes, I'm just 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:39.600 curious how your brain just magically thought like, hey, I 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:41.600 could get five years. Well did you google? 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:43.640 Well? No, it was just a feeling. It was just 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:44.080 a feeling. 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:48.200 And then let's let's just fast forward to the Feds 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:52.920 coming to my place of residence and I wasn't there, 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.760 and one of my friends was like, Hey, some people 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:59.320 from the post Office are here to see you. And 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:00.920 I'm like, put them on the phone, because I know 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.840 I have no business with the post office. And that 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:05.520 guy gets on the phone. He's like, yeah, we're here 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:07.240 with the post Office. Want to talk about a package 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:10.320 that you I'm like, look, let's just let's just cut it, Like, 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:12.400 tell me exactly what you're here for. I'm on the 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:14.280 phone with them, you know, they're like, well, we're here 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:17.120 for some flights that you've been you know, booking people 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:18.000 and things like that. 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:21.840 Oh my god, I'm like, my heart, my heart sunk. 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:25.560 I'm with my girlfriend at the time, and I do 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:27.040 one of those sit ups in the bed. 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:30.880 Like she's like, what's wrong. I'm like, oh my god, it's. 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:33.920 Happening, right. But what was happening was something that I 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:35.680 knew two years ago. When I told you I was 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.480 sitting at the I'm like, Okay, this is supposed to 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:39.079 be happening. 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:40.960 You know. I was on the run for like two days, 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:43.760 and then yeah, I was. 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:46.160 I was getting as much information as I could about 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:47.320 the situation from. 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:51.720 Office. Look, no, I was not calling that nigga. 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:53.240 He was the last person I wanted to talk to 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:55.320 because I'm like they listening to his phone calls. 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:57.320 I was listen this guy. 0:12:57.840 --> 0:12:59.440 I'm so bad because I would have been. 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:02.360 Calling him like you you would you you would think that, 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:04.840 but at the time, you're like, he's the person that's 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.400 doing the bookies and stuff, like they're already like super 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:10.839 on him, so don't even want to contact him, right, 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:14.400 But however, there were he was, as I guess, I 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:16.880 was like a pawn in a sense because he had 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:20.120 like thirty other people that were sending him flights and stuff. 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:23.200 So I got word that those other you know ten 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:26.040 people that were in LA you know, they got out 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:28.160 as soon as they turned their self in, that type 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:28.480 of thing. 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:30.080 So I turned myself in. 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:33.240 I was on pre trial for a year, for about 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:38.480 a year, you know, basically just going through the whole process. Yeah, 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:41.520 I turned myself in, like hey, I'm who you're looking for, 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:42.080 you know. 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:44.160 And it was a little process. 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:46.400 I think I did like one day in jail and 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:49.040 then they just released me because I was on pre 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:51.640 trial release. Pre trial is where you go through the 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.160 whole process until you're sentenced. 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:54.760 You know. 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:57.240 I didn't have anything else on my record. It's my 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:59.920 very first thing. So they let me out on pre trial. 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:03.600 And at that time, I got busy on my modeling situation, 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:06.480 you know, because I'm like, okay, no more flight man, like. 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:11.560 Me, let me get out there and let me. Let 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:12.360 me go back to it. 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:14.400 And you know what, when I when I did go 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:17.080 back to it, I booked like one of the biggest 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:19.240 gigs that I've ever done in my life. I did 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:22.880 a video called super Base with Nicki Minaj and I 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:24.760 was the main guy. Yeah, I was the main guy 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:27.320 on that video that they was throwing like the stuff 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:29.600 in the pool. It was, Yeah, it was, it was. 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:31.560 It was a fun experience, you know. But I was 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:34.240 doing what I should have already been doing all these 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:37.400 years ago, you know. And but everything does happen for 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:39.200 a reason, because you know, when I when I ended 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:42.560 up getting sentenced to the camp, you know, I'm now 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:47.880 in a facility with people that have been locked up 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:51.320 for years, people that have been business owners that have 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:52.520 made millions of dollars. 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:54.120 I was going to say, because the FED prison, I 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:56.560 would feel like it's almost like the how do I 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:59.360 word this without was making it glorified? But like you 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:01.800 have people was some astounding. 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:05.280 Oh amazing, Like I was literally playing cards with a 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:08.600 millionaire billionaires, you know what I'm saying. Like these guys, 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.480 you know, obviously money doesn't matter right now, but they're 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:15.280 just them, you know. And I knew when I when 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:18.520 I was to get out that I didn't want to 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:21.320 model anymore. I wanted to be an entrepreneur, Like I 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:24.080 wanted to do something that was going to bring in 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:27.360 that bread, you know, and to where I could live 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.360 the life that I was faking when I was modeling, 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:33.240 you know what I'm saying. So you know, when I 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:36.440 when I got released. It was just I knew I 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.240 wasn't gonna, you know, get into anything that was going 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:41.320 to put me back in jail, of course. 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:41.880 You know, and. 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:47.480 You know it was it was definitely a journey because 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:49.320 I was in my thirties, you know, and I was 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.600 told by somebody, you know, when you hit your thirties 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:54.160 as a man, you know you're going to be faced 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:59.080 with either looking real forward, going forward, or stepping back 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:01.680 and acting like you're in your twenties and not really 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:02.760 you know. 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:04.160 Grow you know. 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:06.000 Oh, I didn't know that. I never heard that. 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:08.200 I was told that by somebody. You know. 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:10.720 That's interesting because I do think that people either go 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:13.680 with and I'm guessing it's either you break out of 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:16.520 your comfort zone in your thirties you say okay, that's it, 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:18.920 or you backside and say you don't want this is 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:21.080 where I'm comfortable at and that would be when you go. 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:24.800 Back to I guess playing exactly exactly. And I was 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:28.640 a father. I had two kids at the tenn before 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:30.200 or after after. 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:34.240 Well before I had a daughter before I got locked up. 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:36.520 I was twenty one when I had my first child. 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:38.600 But I'm more. 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:40.360 Of a father now because when I got out, I 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:46.240 had another child. So now it's like I'm thirty thirty one, Like, okay, 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:48.560 I have a family now, you know, are you and. 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:51.960 The child's moms together? Is it two different or one? Look, 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:52.680 I'm all of them? 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.320 Oh yeah, you in it. This I'm mad is the part. 0:16:55.480 --> 0:17:00.560 I'm mad because okay, baby mama's no I got I 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:03.680 have five, five baby mothers. 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:04.480 You're hilarious. 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:07.639 Yes, I do six, six kids, you know. 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:09.760 Okay, so you got just still got to. 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:11.800 I didn't want my kids all looking the same, you know. 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:15.960 That's what We're gonna cut all that out out. 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:17.000 I'm joking. 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:19.560 No, I'm a I'm a sucker for love, you know, 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:21.000 like each each each. 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:21.560 One of my kids. 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:23.840 Like I really thought like I was gonna be with 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:25.359 her for the rest of my life, you know what 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:25.760 I'm saying. 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:27.520 So we have a baby. We having a baby like. 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:29.680 The gym class he wrote song where he was like 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:32.239 this is the one or something. But all right, all right, 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:34.720 before we get into all that, let's get you started 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:37.119 on the meal because I am hungry. Okay, So go 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:39.520 ahead and name the ingredients of your dish. 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:40.960 You ready for this jail house meal? 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:41.959 Yes, I'm hungry. 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:44.520 Okay, so we have a rice paper in case you're 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:47.760 not familiar with rice paper. This is a nce paper right. 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:50.560 Here, and we can already just and this has water, yes, 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:52.760 so we could already just toss that in the water 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:55.919 right there. And this is a very simple meal, quick, 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:57.800 very tasteful as well too. 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:00.760