Speaker 1: We'd like to welcome everyone to another episode Against the
Speaker 1: Chronicles podcast This Morning, I don't have my homeboys eight
Speaker 1: is presidently on tour, James Handless Mother Business. But you
Speaker 1: know what those guys doing, what they're doing, what I'm doing,
Speaker 1: What I'm doing This Morning Days gets the former co
Speaker 1: host legendary comeback Jack So he's also major brand so
Speaker 1: sneak ahead and foody on top of all this. Yeh's
Speaker 1: a pretty dope ass podcast. Premium Pete Show Chromes is
Speaker 1: welcome to Homeboy Premium Pete. He was cracking up. Thanks,
Speaker 1: thanks for having me. First off, I know I don't
Speaker 1: know your other co hosts, but I'm sure they're like
Speaker 1: nine o'clock man, Premium Pete. You know, man, you know
Speaker 1: what Actually m c A he left the Goo on
Speaker 1: tour Mother Man, You're right. He was like, Man, I
Speaker 1: can't do that. I gotta take my son and do this.
Speaker 1: Am You know what I mean? Oh no, you know
Speaker 1: what doom dudes, don't get looking around. Man's love. Man, Listen,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I beat to my own drum.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. I make a good rhythm
Speaker 1: of it. You know so well? You know before we
Speaker 1: get started man. Obviously I'm a major fan man, been
Speaker 1: uh rocking with your movement for a long time. I
Speaker 1: like how you keep it real and keep it funky.
Speaker 1: Something today that seems to have disappear. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I think, like, you know, keeping it real or rocking
Speaker 1: the boat, so to speak, is a tough thing in
Speaker 1: this business, especially for people who are now creatives. Right
Speaker 1: think about it, right, you know, like people who um
Speaker 1: have their own brands now and building their own like
Speaker 1: you know, even like you guys building your your network,
Speaker 1: your podcast, you know, building building your you know kind
Speaker 1: of cash flow and and and and building your you know, it's, um,
Speaker 1: it's a tough world, right, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: it's um it's it's not built you know, to help
Speaker 1: each other. So I think that that has been changing,
Speaker 1: where creatives look out for creatives and more people believe
Speaker 1: in their brands. So I think, like, you know, I
Speaker 1: say this sort of time. But you know, Hines catch
Speaker 1: up and uh Hellman's Mayonnaise, regardless if you funk with
Speaker 1: them or not, those are two peoples in the ketchup
Speaker 1: in the Mayo. But there's so many chances for gangster chronicles.
Speaker 1: Mayo premium pizza sauce, you know, Joe Button Spices. I'm
Speaker 1: making this up, you know what I'm saying of where
Speaker 1: it's now more than just you know, just being a
Speaker 1: podcast or more than just being one thing. You know,
Speaker 1: And I think that as creatives, you know, you gotta
Speaker 1: keep it real because you know, some people, I get it,
Speaker 1: they don't want to rock the boat. But unfortunately you
Speaker 1: just waste a lot of time, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: It's real. Well, you know what today everything should be
Speaker 1: based on someone's reality, right And I know some podcasts
Speaker 1: and what we what I see, I see a lot
Speaker 1: of Um, I've see a lot of crazy ship. Man.
Speaker 1: I see a bunch of already five fifty year old cats,
Speaker 1: some cats even older, doing a bunch of just crazy
Speaker 1: ship right now, man. Pretty much a lot of cat fighting, yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of dudes threatening each other online, a lot
Speaker 1: of cats talking about ship that don't have no business
Speaker 1: being talked about online. Um, and and somebody go wind
Speaker 1: up getting hurt. Man. What I want to do is
Speaker 1: kind of go back, man, to your origins for our
Speaker 1: people to be out here on the West coast. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure you have a healthy audience out here man. Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: You know, And first off, like I said, I know,
Speaker 1: you know it's early over there, so you know getting
Speaker 1: up and getting your day started early. Uh, especially when
Speaker 1: it's like later in the day over here. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's the work you put in, right, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I want to say this before
Speaker 1: we go into your question. Even like your co hosts,
Speaker 1: even like people, people focus on podcast too much. What
Speaker 1: I mean by that is like who's the guest? Right,
Speaker 1: tend to guests help you. But it's not about only
Speaker 1: who the guest is on your podcast. It's a guest
Speaker 1: who's in your fucking circle. So your co host come
Speaker 1: on here and they may connect with me. Next thing,
Speaker 1: you know, I may do something for them that they
Speaker 1: can't do for themselves. You know what I'm saying. It's
Speaker 1: not about having premium on your podcast. I mean, for
Speaker 1: whatever it's worth, there's so many names you can have.
Speaker 1: Will it help or will it look good? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: think that's a good thing, just like how I would
Speaker 1: decipher who will look good on my list of people. Right.
Speaker 1: The point I'm trying to make is for me, it's
Speaker 1: always been building and I don't mean that in a
Speaker 1: corny way, like Yo, it was build, like you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, because people would just say, like, Yo,
Speaker 1: let's get it's like a rapid She like, Yo, it's built.
Speaker 1: They don't build. But I'm talking about really just like connectingly.
Speaker 1: You know what. I like that dude's energy, or I
Speaker 1: like that dude stata and you stay in touch. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: even with Combat Jack show, you're thinking about it. Some
Speaker 1: people we had on one time. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like I still talk to it to this day, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like it's like to have that relationship.
Speaker 1: You know, That's why I think people sometimes they're too
Speaker 1: worried about numbers. They want to tell stories that shouldn't
Speaker 1: be told. Even in an Italian community, guys like, Yo,
Speaker 1: you want to talk about the murder we did? What
Speaker 1: the fund? You do? You know what I'm saying. It's
Speaker 1: like it's like, you know, I don't know. I'll never
Speaker 1: understand that. And I'll tell you one thing. People always
Speaker 1: say that you can smack someone on the internet gets
Speaker 1: sive million views, You're gonna help somebody get one million views.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, how do you sleep
Speaker 1: at night? That's how I look at it. How do
Speaker 1: you sleep at night and straight up without even you know,
Speaker 1: let you you know you take the show more than
Speaker 1: you know and we conversate. But it's big en than podcasting.
Speaker 1: People want to build a store. You don't even understand
Speaker 1: podcast Open up doors? Right, having a platform, open up doors.
Speaker 1: Having a platform travels you around the world. Having a
Speaker 1: platform gets you in contact with me. Right, having a
Speaker 1: platform gets me in contact with you. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like it's like and I think that's the
Speaker 1: ultimate thing. You know, I'm not. I was never and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this, you know from my heart, I
Speaker 1: was never in a number chasing game. Well you came
Speaker 1: forward to be you know before I my question I
Speaker 1: had because you don't took me to a whole different place.
Speaker 1: It should never be about numbers. It should never be
Speaker 1: about money. And I'm gonna I'm kicks you up on
Speaker 1: that because we all have to make a living, right,
Speaker 1: But you shouldn't be willing to run down the street
Speaker 1: naked for a few dollars. That's what I'm saying. Now,
Speaker 1: you know what I want to just correctly it. Let's
Speaker 1: say let's not say it shouldn't be about about money
Speaker 1: because creators should always get money for what they do.
Speaker 1: And I'm a big supporter of creatives. Fuck a fucking
Speaker 1: podcast type of style. You know, I'll be around moving
Speaker 1: with fucking movie stars, different people. I see podcasts people
Speaker 1: like they're kind of like, you know, I'm not in
Speaker 1: any podcast. Be for understand, I'm living my life, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like, I'm not trying to get numbers.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to get this guest first. I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to get this guest to say some ship that
Speaker 1: he don't want to say so I get more numbers.
Speaker 1: Like you know, you know how many times like people
Speaker 1: would would reach out over the years and say, like yo,
Speaker 1: could we get yeah because we don't wanna. Sometimes people
Speaker 1: say things and it's not you don't want to try
Speaker 1: to like got you? You know what I mean? Like
Speaker 1: what are we doing? You know what I'm saying. And
Speaker 1: I think that building relationships is more powerful than building
Speaker 1: a one time viour video or a tribe is for you?
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, longevity is always to play.
Speaker 1: You know, we always talk about everybody. Look at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, you know, uh, I would always
Speaker 1: suggest creators to continue to create, but at what expense?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? What defense like meaning like
Speaker 1: you know you want to do what you love. I
Speaker 1: think you know you continue to find that and I
Speaker 1: tell people just like at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: and well, you know we you know, I don't know
Speaker 1: how old you are, but but I'm glad that you
Speaker 1: live that. Oh mantle man, I'm fifty. I'm fifty and
Speaker 1: proud though there we go. I don't want I want
Speaker 1: to say because I want to make seven. Now I
Speaker 1: want to say this. I tell my daughter. I tell
Speaker 1: my daughter all the time. I might yo, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do something for you, and that is give you a
Speaker 1: chance to figure out what you want to do in
Speaker 1: life or else you're gonna do what you have to
Speaker 1: do in life. You know what I'm saying. Like we didn't.
Speaker 1: I wasn't afforded that opportunity, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: And neither I'm sure neither will you. So the point
Speaker 1: I'm making is now you have So I want to
Speaker 1: go back to what you're saying about like you should
Speaker 1: never be about everyone should have a chance to make money,
Speaker 1: help each other out. Look, what I'm saying is a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't do that, and I get it,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, But the podcast games should
Speaker 1: really just be about bringing people together, bringing brotherhood. I mean, listen,
Speaker 1: not many podcasts I got upther guests for you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. People ask me like, yo, what could you? Yeah, Like,
Speaker 1: I'm not. If I funk with a person, I want
Speaker 1: to try to help them elevate. Why because they were
Speaker 1: on the premium Peach Show and then they go, But
Speaker 1: here is that gonna hurt me? Now I'm helping out
Speaker 1: my man who's an artist who I think should have
Speaker 1: more exposure or should be on this thing, or I
Speaker 1: like a show that I see is pushing and don't
Speaker 1: want to help out. I never, you know, I never.
Speaker 1: I've never been that way, you know, especially after all
Speaker 1: these years being behind the scenes to you know, networks
Speaker 1: and you know, putting things together and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: It's it's just, you know, you have to think of
Speaker 1: it as like a whole you know what I'm saying
Speaker 1: that as a community, and I think, like, you know,
Speaker 1: that's the thing. You know that that that really, I
Speaker 1: would say, is like uplifting each other. You know what
Speaker 1: I mean. It's the same thing like the street in
Speaker 1: the sense of you know, look, I grew up in
Speaker 1: a neighborhood. Kids usually have sneakers. They wear them three
Speaker 1: time to throw them into garbage. I'm like, what the
Speaker 1: fund you draw him in the garbage for. They're like, yo,
Speaker 1: I don't want to give me anybody. Nobody gave me
Speaker 1: any I'm like, yo, my man, listen to me. So
Speaker 1: changing that is what I would love to see more
Speaker 1: and more. Now, who could get the well, who could
Speaker 1: get the biggest guess is always fun. I remember one
Speaker 1: combat and all of us and the whole team, like
Speaker 1: I feel like we had our finger on the post,
Speaker 1: like we never told you who we were getting, and
Speaker 1: it was like, oh man, that's right on time, or
Speaker 1: oh man, I haven't heard from him, oh man? And
Speaker 1: and and seeing that also you know, for drink Champs
Speaker 1: and rap Radar and and Joe. But I got NBA loved,
Speaker 1: like you know what I mean, Like I love seeing
Speaker 1: them get these big guests and getting notified and get
Speaker 1: and get um, you know, and and make a living
Speaker 1: for themselves right and change their life and change their
Speaker 1: kids life. Like that's powerful, you know, So sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know, let me leaning back on this. Man,
Speaker 1: you came in the podcast game early. Yeah, I'm talking
Speaker 1: about me and I remember it was the time because
Speaker 1: we were like inspired by Loud Speaker Yep, yep. You know,
Speaker 1: me and my manage a rapper last moment. You know,
Speaker 1: I just don't manage him. He's like one of my
Speaker 1: best friends. He's like family, you know. So he has
Speaker 1: a very big person now, sort of like yourself, right,
Speaker 1: And I said, dude, you need to be doing a podcast. Man,
Speaker 1: you got an opinion on everything from the universe to politics,
Speaker 1: you know, so you need to do this. And um,
Speaker 1: he said, Man, nobody goes sit around and listen to
Speaker 1: nobody talked for an hour. I said, dude, it's these
Speaker 1: cats out of New York. I was rocking. I've been
Speaker 1: rocking with you since you room Combat Jack Show resupes.
Speaker 1: That was early. At that time, there weren't too many
Speaker 1: podcasts you could actually go and kind of everything you
Speaker 1: landed on was pretty good because listening to Compact Jack
Speaker 1: show laid me gonna go listen to this show that
Speaker 1: was on loud Speakers, this show and there was a
Speaker 1: common theme and I finally heard somebody that connected to me.
Speaker 1: It wasn't just a bunch of people and they're talking
Speaker 1: about stuff that didn't interest me. Stuff didn't interest me.
Speaker 1: But culturally, I said, man, you know what, they got
Speaker 1: the culture right here. Man, they represent Hi pop culture,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And I thought it was
Speaker 1: cool that they had people from diverse backgrounds over there.
Speaker 1: Just wasn't a bunch of brothers talking withoutan And uh,
Speaker 1: I heard all these other things, and I said, if
Speaker 1: making y'all New York kids are already off the hook,
Speaker 1: you'all already telling like it is because we've lived in
Speaker 1: society right now, man, where people tell people what they
Speaker 1: want to hear instead of telling the truth. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: you know, actually, you know, going back to rocking the boat,
Speaker 1: and uh, I will say this, going back to rocking
Speaker 1: the boat. It's a scary thing because I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, I have a lot of friends who are
Speaker 1: very talented, but they don't rock the boat. And what
Speaker 1: I mean by that is like, you know, you get
Speaker 1: somebody that you do work with, I'm saying, and y'all
Speaker 1: don't talk about money, and they're like, well, I'm sure
Speaker 1: we'll figure it out. And then you got a person
Speaker 1: like me, well, what's the figure out? Like why don't
Speaker 1: you talk about like some of the plans you have,
Speaker 1: or some of the rates you have, or some of
Speaker 1: the things you know, I don't want to like, you know,
Speaker 1: we'll go easy and sometimes people don't say nothing and
Speaker 1: stay cool. And then you get a guy like me like, yo,
Speaker 1: are we gonna talk about money? Oh? You're hungry for money?
Speaker 1: And then it's like and then it don't work. And
Speaker 1: then the person who doesn't rock the boat is still
Speaker 1: moving along with this person. But what really no substance?
Speaker 1: And I sometimes for a while, we'll look at myself like,
Speaker 1: damn man, maybe I'm too aggressive, or maybe I'm too
Speaker 1: passionate or maybe But then I said to myself, yo,
Speaker 1: you know and and and that's the thing, like asked, like,
Speaker 1: I feel like if you're around the good circle of people,
Speaker 1: trusting other people's opinion, like of what they see, like,
Speaker 1: oh you think I'm out of pocket? You know? Um?
Speaker 1: Because I'll be honest with you. In business, I feel
Speaker 1: like people will run over you. You know what I'm saying. Like,
Speaker 1: and if you're like a person who don't want to
Speaker 1: rock the boat, and you know, you're too scared to
Speaker 1: blow them out of the water, or too scared too
Speaker 1: uh you know, a short change yourself. As far as
Speaker 1: dealing with contracts and stuff like that, I feel like
Speaker 1: you'll never you'll you'll you'll never make progress. You for
Speaker 1: sure wanting this business man, because I've been the music
Speaker 1: businessman for the last twenty five years and publishing music
Speaker 1: publishing and management. And if you don't open your mouth, man,
Speaker 1: I'm scared to rock the proverbial boat. You can be
Speaker 1: out your ass out man, I'll tell you a story
Speaker 1: because the ship is kind of crept in the podcast
Speaker 1: And I remember podcasting used to be a tight look community.
Speaker 1: You never heard about dudes getting ads and running off
Speaker 1: with the money. You just never heard about all the
Speaker 1: fun ship. Right. So when we first got in the game, man,
Speaker 1: we had a pretty um we started making a little
Speaker 1: bit of noise, right, So we started getting different people
Speaker 1: outing at us, and um, we didn't have a bunch
Speaker 1: of podcast networks out here. Podcasting is very much an
Speaker 1: East Coast thing, you know what I mean. There were
Speaker 1: people producing podcasts out here, but not really in the
Speaker 1: urban genre. You had guys had YouTube channels up for
Speaker 1: the hundred times you having the show on YouTube channel.
Speaker 1: If you don't have no audio, you ain't got a
Speaker 1: damn podcast. Yeah, I mean, let me just say this
Speaker 1: real quick. Don't lose your chain and thought. I remember years,
Speaker 1: for years we were on PNC Radio, so we were
Speaker 1: like an online show to combat Jack Show. And uh,
Speaker 1: I mean people saying, well, when you become a podcast,
Speaker 1: and that's why it's kind of late. Like sometimes I
Speaker 1: have us that we're a podcast, like two thousand, twelve
Speaker 1: or thirteen. The reason why is because how do you
Speaker 1: make a podcast? Right? This is something that we were
Speaker 1: saying thirteen years ago. Just put it on iTunes. We
Speaker 1: were online show for all those years, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, So we didn't even know, like so now
Speaker 1: you know it elevating. You know, I was talking about
Speaker 1: this with someone the other day. You know, podcast plus
Speaker 1: all these like little set up shows that have chairs
Speaker 1: and bricks and Mike's and it looks like a nice thing.
Speaker 1: That's that's like the new podcast plus. But YouTube, you
Speaker 1: know everybody talks about YouTube. But man, I'll tell you man,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not giving all the secrets around anymore,
Speaker 1: but all the money in on YouTube and the brand
Speaker 1: we may like to be actually premium. We've done extremely
Speaker 1: well with audio. Yeah, most people love the way they look.
Speaker 1: I deal with people. I deal with people, you know,
Speaker 1: in different networks. Off of them, shows do shows, produced,
Speaker 1: shows created shows. A lot of people, some of them.
Speaker 1: The audio be a nice bag, and people are like,
Speaker 1: I need fifty and fixed my teeth, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's not video, so audio you can make a nice bag.
Speaker 1: We can go to video in the future. But now
Speaker 1: it's just audio, you know, And people like, okay, so
Speaker 1: go make less money and and worry about you looking
Speaker 1: good instead of you being good. You know. At the
Speaker 1: end of the day, funk A podcast suck anything. How
Speaker 1: do you make a living doing what you want? Right now?
Speaker 1: It's so easy to become popular, but broke right because
Speaker 1: people don't People don't know how to set up a
Speaker 1: system to make money right. And here's the biggest problem
Speaker 1: I think, and like I said, you know, is that
Speaker 1: it's not only within the podcast. It's people don't open
Speaker 1: their mind and make money because of their podcasts. And
Speaker 1: that's like another thing, you know what I'm saying. I mean,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong. You can make good money doing
Speaker 1: your podcast obviously is people know networks, etcetera, etcetera. But
Speaker 1: what I'm saying is it's not gonna happen to everybody,
Speaker 1: and there's other ways and avenues around it to get there,
Speaker 1: and people need that patience. I have people listen during
Speaker 1: the pandemic, even I had so many even now I
Speaker 1: have so many people call me, I want to start
Speaker 1: a podcast, soever anybody. Two weeks later they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: we're not doing the numbers that this one's who the
Speaker 1: fuck you just started? And you know what, they gage
Speaker 1: those members from YouTube. Yeah, I think what it happened
Speaker 1: is Man and I had this before I got to Homeboys.
Speaker 1: I won't make their name. They're two pretty prominent, you know, rapidly,
Speaker 1: got a lot of history, especially on the West Coast.
Speaker 1: So they started podcast. Man, the episodes are doing better online.
Speaker 1: They're performing better on YouTube than they are in the audio.
Speaker 1: And my suggestion to them was this for the first
Speaker 1: ten episodes, let's not do video. Let's just go in
Speaker 1: and perfect getting your podcast chops down. But no, they
Speaker 1: want to go out and spend all this money on
Speaker 1: this big studio man and and this and that, and
Speaker 1: they did, and they weren't getting the results that they wanted.
Speaker 1: They weren't happy because when I tell you the second episode, man,
Speaker 1: that we have we book any reads? You have any
Speaker 1: reads for us? That we have any sponsorships? I said, dude,
Speaker 1: what am I going to go in and talk to
Speaker 1: a potential sponsor about? Or I have this great new
Speaker 1: show that's hosted by two rappers. And it's like, dude, yeah,
Speaker 1: so do with thout another? Motherfuckers? Move on there. No,
Speaker 1: it's like one thing I'm confused about and this is
Speaker 1: no shots, and I think people need to open their
Speaker 1: mind more. One thing I'm confused. I get people that
Speaker 1: have called me okay, I've been like, yo, Pete, I
Speaker 1: want to start a podcast. Okay, I want to start
Speaker 1: a podcast like, you know, like really covering hip hop,
Speaker 1: like and like you know, covering like you know, like
Speaker 1: going behind the scenes of hip hop. Like I don't
Speaker 1: really see people doing that in my mind of my
Speaker 1: where have you been looking? Like? Here's the thing, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're trying to get into a genre
Speaker 1: that has already saturated, do something different, but also put
Speaker 1: your spin on it. You know what I'm saying. You
Speaker 1: can always stay in hip hop or whatever you love honey,
Speaker 1: cultural stuff, but put your spin on it. You know,
Speaker 1: we look we look too much to people's public highlight reel.
Speaker 1: And when try to emulate that ship like like, come
Speaker 1: on man, you know, and duplicate, replicate all things. I
Speaker 1: tell you, it's some funny ship. We when we first
Speaker 1: jumped off with the Gangster Chronicles, it was different because
Speaker 1: we have a lot of street cats, So I'm talking
Speaker 1: about real brownie street cats. We may be talking to
Speaker 1: a had they just got a prison a week ago,
Speaker 1: you know. But it's not to glorify the life or
Speaker 1: anything like that. Is to give these keys out here
Speaker 1: a message to let them know the repercussions are real
Speaker 1: to anything that you do do. But I had a
Speaker 1: guy tell me one time, good friend of mine, he
Speaker 1: was on the show, and I was like, well man,
Speaker 1: what made you decide to go on in the podcasting?
Speaker 1: Well man, I just saw what y'all was doing and
Speaker 1: just did the same thing. And like you said, damn.
Speaker 1: I remember at the time, man, especially me coming from
Speaker 1: the hip hop culture. Man and Biding wouldn't tolerate it.
Speaker 1: Now you would have a guy see guys with a
Speaker 1: bunch of beer bottles and ship in the table they
Speaker 1: call it. You might as well be drinking champion. I'm
Speaker 1: sure they influenced. They influenced the whole, a whole. You
Speaker 1: know a bunch of people as well, and you know
Speaker 1: a lot of people. You know. That's the thing. Like
Speaker 1: you'd be surprised at how far your voice could travel, man,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It's like even when you
Speaker 1: talk about dudes coming home, Man, there's so much opportunity
Speaker 1: out there. Man, you know, listen, I'm home. I don't
Speaker 1: even know. Maybe eighteen years, nineteen years, I went to
Speaker 1: wait for a couple of years. I never went back,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I've been I've been to
Speaker 1: many jails to speak to to really you know, first
Speaker 1: of all, anyone listened to this has been away or
Speaker 1: is in the street or whatever. Let me explain something
Speaker 1: to you. In this day and age, there's no reason
Speaker 1: to be doing anything illegal, no reason. And I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you why. There's so many opportunities to make money.
Speaker 1: The only opportunities that we weren't afforded when I was young.
Speaker 1: When I was young, I had a paper route and
Speaker 1: I bed groceries and wall bombs. It was a grocery
Speaker 1: store straight up and down. You could have got a
Speaker 1: regular job. I was young at the time. If I
Speaker 1: wanted to get things nice, I have to sell drugs
Speaker 1: or do something illegal. Straight the funk up. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: what it what it was. Now, I'm not saying you
Speaker 1: had to I'm saying in order to achieve that at
Speaker 1: a young age, because the neighborhood showed me glittering gold
Speaker 1: at twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, so I was like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, I want these things. Now that's a bad
Speaker 1: la I made. But the point I'm trying to make
Speaker 1: is in this day and age, these kids do not
Speaker 1: have to do that. You go to Target and sell
Speaker 1: the stuff on Amazon, you will get sneakers selling for
Speaker 1: two times the amount, even if you're with them. Okay,
Speaker 1: you can start a podcast, you could, you know, you could,
Speaker 1: you could do a YouTube show. You could. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean? You could. You can start a business,
Speaker 1: you could, you know, you can start a product. There's
Speaker 1: so many yeah, yeah, yeah, there's so many things that
Speaker 1: could be done. And I and and and and here's
Speaker 1: the thing. I'm not just saying that ship it's real
Speaker 1: and you don't have to give you a life away
Speaker 1: you know, we come from a time where people but
Speaker 1: how won't you been away? Asks a skid bid? You
Speaker 1: know you did three years, I did twenty. Listen to
Speaker 1: me one hour of giving the system your time is
Speaker 1: not worth it. What's there food? And food is not
Speaker 1: better than is outside. Woman ain't better. I don't see
Speaker 1: any you know what I'm saying. Now, you know, and
Speaker 1: this is one thing we always talked about. Now, when
Speaker 1: you came up in jail, you come, you come out,
Speaker 1: You come back out in the free world. Right, you
Speaker 1: don't feel out? A job application heads down there? Have
Speaker 1: you ever been arrested for a feeling? Yes, you mark
Speaker 1: that down. In some cases I had homeboys that wouldn't
Speaker 1: mark it down only because they knew later I get
Speaker 1: me a check from here. You know, by the time
Speaker 1: they find out, I get it check. And sometimes they
Speaker 1: may not find though they may not check it. But
Speaker 1: more often than not, they come pull them off the
Speaker 1: line and say, hey, man, be sorry, I gotta let
Speaker 1: you go. You lack the application. You gotta felony. So
Speaker 1: you get a guy like that man. Then some cases
Speaker 1: they may have family of people that they're trying to
Speaker 1: contribute to a household they're trying to integrate themselves in society,
Speaker 1: but they keep cats getting doors slammed in their face. Right,
Speaker 1: So this cat that can't come out and get a job,
Speaker 1: he's getting smacked around by the world. He's gonna go
Speaker 1: back to what he knows best. Absolutely absolutely gotta be
Speaker 1: able to pay. He has to eat. Listen. I came home.
Speaker 1: I came on with about thirty one dudes into the city, um,
Speaker 1: which we parole too. So I've seen these dudes every
Speaker 1: week I went to parole, and every week we lost somebody.
Speaker 1: I was in the elevator with cats. I was away
Speaker 1: with it, like, Yo, I can't find a job. I'm
Speaker 1: going I'm I'm I'm going back to the street. We
Speaker 1: go sit in the pro office next to you know,
Speaker 1: they lock him up. I'm like, what the funk have
Speaker 1: we got? Dirty yard? Right? Well, he got arrested and
Speaker 1: didn't say nothing, right you know, or just gave up. Yo.
Speaker 1: Everyone that I went away with went back except for me.
Speaker 1: Right now. Yeah, that's a very big busting. But I
Speaker 1: also I'm not gonna sit here and act like I
Speaker 1: didn't put in the work. What I mean by that
Speaker 1: is I bought like a hundred DVDs at that time,
Speaker 1: and I stayed home. Okay, curfew came nine o'clock, they
Speaker 1: came to my door. A lot of kids would they
Speaker 1: would leave, They get dressed to go outside. The pro
Speaker 1: office is waiting outside bomb. I didn't do that, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I had my patience and I
Speaker 1: stood my time. But I sit here and I say, like,
Speaker 1: I remember how tough it was, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Like I remember like filling out job application, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. I remember, like, you know, being turned down.
Speaker 1: And I remember, like literally my cousin. When I came home,
Speaker 1: I couldn't find a job. My cousin got me a
Speaker 1: job working carpet cleaning. I had the machine and like
Speaker 1: fucking moving, it's moving around. I don't even know what
Speaker 1: the funk I'm doing. I was ready to give up
Speaker 1: many times. But that was almost twenty years ago. I'll
Speaker 1: be in London next week, right in the show. Yeah
Speaker 1: it was right there, things a real man. The problem
Speaker 1: with today, though, Pete, is people don't have patience. Everybody
Speaker 1: wants it now, and they feel like they're entitled to
Speaker 1: get it now. Because I'll see a lot of cats
Speaker 1: jump in the game. Man. And they may come from
Speaker 1: the music industry, right, Man, ain't enough When we gonna
Speaker 1: start getting paid? Man? When is this one? Is that
Speaker 1: nobody wants to put it in the work first. Everybody
Speaker 1: wants to get paid first for work that they haven't
Speaker 1: done yet. Sure, sure, sure it's tough. Man. Now let
Speaker 1: me actually something Gangster chronicles, now, where is it? Using
Speaker 1: the shot just like remote all three? Like you know
Speaker 1: from the during in the pandemic. Man, we started doing
Speaker 1: some remote stuff. We actually have um, we actually have
Speaker 1: our own studio. I have a network myself on digital
Speaker 1: soapbox medium. Yeah, I see, I remember, I remember me
Speaker 1: telling me about it a long time ago. Yeah, a
Speaker 1: long time ago. Man. And here we are now we
Speaker 1: got our own building and stuff. Mant people that actually,
Speaker 1: you know, work for us, which is a blessing. You're
Speaker 1: able to help out some friends instead of giving them
Speaker 1: something that you say, Hey, man, that's your job. You
Speaker 1: need to art you this, you know. So it's a
Speaker 1: beautiful thing. Man. It took us a while, though, Man,
Speaker 1: took us a while. I tell people it takes time, right,
Speaker 1: it takes time. Man, It still takes time. I could say. Man,
Speaker 1: we've been doing this show. I think we've coming up
Speaker 1: on our fourth year UM in a few weeks. Right, congratulations,
Speaker 1: thanks man. But when I tell you, the first six
Speaker 1: months of doing the show, we saw a YouTube money,
Speaker 1: but we didn't have no ad revenue because we've had
Speaker 1: people that kept telling us. You gotta remember at that time, Pete,
Speaker 1: they were telling people that black people won't listen to podcasts,
Speaker 1: the standing people won't listen to pod cast the exactly
Speaker 1: like we just all a monolift, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: We just all do the same stuff and just walk
Speaker 1: straight aga. But as our numbers estivated, because they kept
Speaker 1: moving the goal post back on us. You know, they
Speaker 1: would say, well, man, you know at that time, you
Speaker 1: can get ten to fifteen thousand. It was a week
Speaker 1: and then it was pretty good. You know. I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: this is good. That was back then, and they would say, well, no,
Speaker 1: you need to be at twenty. You know, we get
Speaker 1: then we started getting the thirties. Then it count. You know,
Speaker 1: like you said, I started calling they're bullshit because we
Speaker 1: were using the um CBS building at the time. We
Speaker 1: just played out in I think it's intercom now, right.
Speaker 1: We were using those that thing. They gave us a
Speaker 1: situation where you could record and we're gonna sell ads
Speaker 1: for you. But I noticed that every time we got
Speaker 1: the sheet that kind of show how everybody was performing
Speaker 1: on intercom, I would always see us ahead of certain people,
Speaker 1: but these people below us were getting reads and they
Speaker 1: were always like, oh, you're an established show where they're
Speaker 1: a radio holes and this and that, And I started
Speaker 1: calling bullshit because the girl eventually told me, well, I
Speaker 1: don't think people are going to buy into a show
Speaker 1: called Against the Chronicles. I said, oh, they won't, but
Speaker 1: they were buying to a show girls would love to
Speaker 1: ecock you know what. You know they're buying that, but
Speaker 1: they won't. I was gonna tell you, man, because me
Speaker 1: and you got a mutual um. I won't say enemy man.
Speaker 1: We both got a cat oh with some bread man um.
Speaker 1: And that's what I was going into before the game
Speaker 1: got sucked up. So I had these cats hit me up.
Speaker 1: Man from a company called him a layer, when that
Speaker 1: was the most professional fucking setup of heels like I
Speaker 1: was working on. Now. I know how you know, Chris,
Speaker 1: I remember I was, I was, I was hot, you
Speaker 1: know Christman before that. But but I remember I remember
Speaker 1: he brought me the deal and I was hot. Oh man,
Speaker 1: he had me hot because just imagine I have a
Speaker 1: network of shows, right, so when they hit me up, man,
Speaker 1: they hit me up about the games, the chronicles. But
Speaker 1: I always believe in presenting the old, like, hey, these
Speaker 1: people may be willing to do this. I got five
Speaker 1: other podcasts too, you know. So I walk into this
Speaker 1: setup and I'm gonna tell you, initially it was the beautiful,
Speaker 1: most beautiful ship ever. Bro. So I'm driving up an
Speaker 1: on Beverly Hills, right, and I put up to the
Speaker 1: crib and I said, but it's not a studio, you know,
Speaker 1: this is the house. So I walk in. Man, they
Speaker 1: got people in there working and stuff, man. And it's like,
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, we made it, man. And so they
Speaker 1: had me come in and sit on. You want something
Speaker 1: to drink? And I'm like, they got a maid and
Speaker 1: their man. They bring you a plate of food. I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, man, we've made me and my boys
Speaker 1: slapped hands man like this. It was like, it's only craging.
Speaker 1: So it did started off good for the first two
Speaker 1: months because him Alaya was a professional organization. But the
Speaker 1: other motherfucker I won't mention his name because I don't
Speaker 1: do the online cat fight. He was a piece of ship,
Speaker 1: but he was running everything. So he was the nicest
Speaker 1: guy in the world at first, right, but he was
Speaker 1: working for somebody else. So we had an event there
Speaker 1: one night. Man, the things started went around the kind
Speaker 1: of party. Hey, they're changing the name of the company
Speaker 1: to Notorious, and it's like Notorious. Um. Then my phone
Speaker 1: goes off. I get an email is from the guy
Speaker 1: from Japan. He's telling us we fired Peter Vincer. So
Speaker 1: anybody that's you know, signed, you know, had the deal,
Speaker 1: contact us and we get you set up with alternative
Speaker 1: recording solutions until we figure out the situation. Because you
Speaker 1: have to remember he was the president of the company, right,
Speaker 1: He was the president of the company. Um, he's got
Speaker 1: he hired to facilitate everything and opened up everything in America.
Speaker 1: So the house was in his name, all the hundreds
Speaker 1: of thousands and they spent on equipment was in his name. Right,
Speaker 1: So he pretty much just hijacked the whole motherfucking company.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, man, you know what. He talks to
Speaker 1: me about it that next Monday, and I'm like, dude,
Speaker 1: this is not what I signed up before. What's going
Speaker 1: to change? And then I started knowing, noticing the people
Speaker 1: that they had to the quality of people. The quality
Speaker 1: people started walking out the door. Now there were a
Speaker 1: lot of good quality people left. But the reason why
Speaker 1: I came. They had this guy. There was none booking
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff. They had this person there was
Speaker 1: a hell of a publicist. And I knew these people, right,
Speaker 1: I knew their reputations. So I was like, dog, it
Speaker 1: seemed like your team walking out the door. Now, to
Speaker 1: keep in mind, there were some very great people, people
Speaker 1: I still deal with to this day. They were still there.
Speaker 1: So we're booking reads, right, We stayed booking reads. And
Speaker 1: so when you have people that trust you and that
Speaker 1: that means me. They didn't sign a deal with them,
Speaker 1: They signed a deal with me. So I'm responsible for
Speaker 1: everything ultimately. So people are booking stuff and they come
Speaker 1: and ask me, and they're nice about it. To cool,
Speaker 1: They're like, still, you know, man, I know this. It's
Speaker 1: been like forty five days on this one. I did
Speaker 1: thirty days, you know, forty five days, going supposed to
Speaker 1: get paid them thirty you know. And so I went
Speaker 1: to Peter and I was like, dude, what's happening with
Speaker 1: the prayer? Oh, man, we don't have an E I
Speaker 1: N number in the bankers that you know they want.
Speaker 1: I said, dude, while been waiting on the E I
Speaker 1: A N number I called, the people didn't custom out, man,
Speaker 1: I said, man, come on and cut the bullshit. Man,
Speaker 1: you're not talking to boot with the food. I said,
Speaker 1: it take two minutes to get the E I in. Bro,
Speaker 1: I can do it for you right now. If it's not,
Speaker 1: if it's not five o'clock, it I can get it
Speaker 1: for you right now. So he kind of looked at
Speaker 1: me and said, man, listen, I have that money here.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna meet you tomorrow. I'm gonna give you time
Speaker 1: to get up and go to the bank and get
Speaker 1: your stuff together. I'll be here at one o'clock. I
Speaker 1: need the money for this show, that show on this show,
Speaker 1: because I've got people calling me and and I can't
Speaker 1: get mad about that because people they've done the work,
Speaker 1: and they had families work. They don't know that. So
Speaker 1: keep in mind with a lot of those deals, I
Speaker 1: paid for them myself because I was just like, you
Speaker 1: know what, I know you need the money for whatever boom,
Speaker 1: here you go. That's my job to go collect. So
Speaker 1: I go up there the next day. Man, when I
Speaker 1: tell you he's in there with his shirt off, you know,
Speaker 1: smoking weed. And I'm like, so it's turned from a
Speaker 1: professional space and now you look like a frat house.
Speaker 1: You got dudes jumping off the roof into the pool
Speaker 1: and ship man, and I'll bring it through. That's a promise.
Speaker 1: The past three and one day to record, I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: what the hell that is going on? And freaking the marijuana?
Speaker 1: It's all listen, I don't got a problem, but nobody's
Speaker 1: get down kneels. But that should be. We're in a
Speaker 1: professional environment. You can't walk through the heart building just
Speaker 1: you know, blowing the joint, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: blowing a blunt. So I go in there man, and um,
Speaker 1: I say, you know, registrate me out. Oh man, you
Speaker 1: know what I was thinking? This motherfucker pull like two
Speaker 1: pounds of weed from U under the table, like man,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, shoot this to the homies dead
Speaker 1: Like I'm like, man, what the funk? First of all,
Speaker 1: that's the most disrespectful thing ever. You think is we
Speaker 1: some brothers? You just give us some weed and we
Speaker 1: go going about about our business, just go to back
Speaker 1: and starts stuff like, Man, come on, man, I can't
Speaker 1: take no bills with that. Man. So it started getting
Speaker 1: a little real. I won't go into what happened next, man,
Speaker 1: But he didn't give a fuck man because he was
Speaker 1: too far gone. And we've seen the um evolution of
Speaker 1: the game for the better in certain ways. Man, Brothers
Speaker 1: like you or all, they're one of amazing things. Man,
Speaker 1: you went from being a feeling up road feeling jumping
Speaker 1: on the podcast. No, how did you make that transition?
Speaker 1: What makes you just you know? How did you want
Speaker 1: up on a podcast? Combat Jack? Sure? You mean the
Speaker 1: good brother? Dallas penn Um. About two thousand and ten,
Speaker 1: I had a site I launched called Sneaker two, and
Speaker 1: I had it up for like four or five years.
Speaker 1: It was a community of like sneaker lovers, and you
Speaker 1: know it was it was well like if you know
Speaker 1: you you knew about it back then, you talked to it.
Speaker 1: It was just like a site where you could view
Speaker 1: videos about different people and different sneakers and different things.
Speaker 1: I wanted to make something because YouTube you put a
Speaker 1: black cat Jordan three, you're gonna get a black cat,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So I wanted to like
Speaker 1: kind of you know, do that anyway Dallas is being
Speaker 1: a sneaker lover and someone who was a fan of
Speaker 1: of creating it. You know, it kind of was like, YO,
Speaker 1: come up here and talk about you know, talk about
Speaker 1: what you just launched. And I went on there. You
Speaker 1: know I've said this before publicly, but I went on there,
Speaker 1: you know, and I never left, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: And um, you know, we became you know me and
Speaker 1: that was already cool and um, you know me and
Speaker 1: combat we started till like you know, he was like, yo,
Speaker 1: come back next week. I was, I had snacks. I
Speaker 1: was like, you know, this ship was like uh an
Speaker 1: after school program to me, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like it was Joe, you know, I was at middle
Speaker 1: aged man, you know who feel like I found like
Speaker 1: a brotherhood. Um, like a community of people who love
Speaker 1: hip hop, who who are parents, who who had trials
Speaker 1: and tribulations. Uh. Some people were better than others. Uh,
Speaker 1: some people were in better shape than others. But it
Speaker 1: was a bond and I felt that from day one.
Speaker 1: And I would come you know, comment was they come
Speaker 1: back next week, you know, And I would just come
Speaker 1: and bring a six pack of beer or chips and
Speaker 1: you know whatever, like like you know, I kind of
Speaker 1: just mingle and then hang out like yo, this is
Speaker 1: and then and then eventually, you know, I made my
Speaker 1: way onto the mic and you know it was history
Speaker 1: since then and and you know, just to be part
Speaker 1: of that spaceship. Um for me to have a hand
Speaker 1: or to have a voice and something that listen to me.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you, man, wherever I go, people will
Speaker 1: stop me or say something to me or want to
Speaker 1: meet up with me if they see something that I'm
Speaker 1: out there on a social if I'm writing like yo,
Speaker 1: I'm in Chicago with him wherever I go. I mean this,
Speaker 1: over the years, it's crazy of how much kind of
Speaker 1: love that is for combat out there, you know, um,
Speaker 1: and what and and and and what transpired and what
Speaker 1: influenced different people. Um, so it's special to see and
Speaker 1: especial you know. Well you know, I cry, man because
Speaker 1: the thing about podcasts, and I tell people all of
Speaker 1: you with special because two podcasts and I felt like
Speaker 1: I knew you guys. Yeah you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I feel like when Jack Dad, even though I didn't
Speaker 1: know him from Adam, you know what, and that, and
Speaker 1: I'm amazing sometimes that me and Chris Morrow are actually friends.
Speaker 1: He's a mentor to men. He's been a mentor and
Speaker 1: a good friend for the past three years. You know. Um,
Speaker 1: I cried because it was kind of like, damn, man,
Speaker 1: come back Jack. You know. I used to get these
Speaker 1: are birds and he used to look forward to it,
Speaker 1: you know. And then you started seeing change, like loud
Speaker 1: speakers was the first for everything, especially in urban space.
Speaker 1: I'll tell people, if you say otherwise, you're friend, use
Speaker 1: day flowers. Give them their roses right now. And then
Speaker 1: they came with tax season. Now, when tax season came,
Speaker 1: I knew. I said, Man, if this dude can stay
Speaker 1: out of trouble man, because you just tell you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, you can just kind of tell listen
Speaker 1: to him iself. Oh man, this brother is a real one.
Speaker 1: You know. He's really seemed like he with the ship. Right.
Speaker 1: So I saw people like this and I said, man,
Speaker 1: it's not the traditional They didn't have traditional podcast, so
Speaker 1: so all the shows were new and unique, and I
Speaker 1: thought it was dope as helle. So you transition from there,
Speaker 1: man started to freeing them peace show man, Um and
Speaker 1: when you did. Of course, I started rocking with you too,
Speaker 1: said okay, this is this is dope. So you started
Speaker 1: your own thing, man, how long did it take you,
Speaker 1: man to really start putting the in the game of
Speaker 1: what you started eating? Well, you know, that's a great question.
Speaker 1: I've been I've been blessed. You know, I've been blessed,
Speaker 1: you know, through the years of Combat Jack. Sure, I
Speaker 1: have a built in audience. Um, So I hit the
Speaker 1: ground running, you know what I mean, And and and
Speaker 1: I just took a lot of what me and Combat
Speaker 1: wanted to do and and put it today. I was
Speaker 1: telling this to Funny Funny talk about Chris. I was
Speaker 1: telling this to Chris yesterday. You know. Um, when I
Speaker 1: moved on and started my own show, I just wanted
Speaker 1: to continue doing what I love, you know. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: and I'm glad because when you look back at it,
Speaker 1: it's like Combat gave me a chance, even unbeknownst to him,
Speaker 1: to kind of set my shop up, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, to kind of spread my wings right, and
Speaker 1: you know, I want to diversify and be honest, it
Speaker 1: was a lot of a lot of pressure, a lot
Speaker 1: of pressure on me because you know, a lot of
Speaker 1: people would say, yo, premium Pete. You know, keep in mind,
Speaker 1: back down on Combat J actually was a little bit
Speaker 1: more wilder. I'm not like that anymore, just because I
Speaker 1: just don't, you know, I just don't like to. I
Speaker 1: like to be careful of what I say, and I
Speaker 1: like to be mindful of what I say. And also,
Speaker 1: you know, look, I have a lot of great sponsors,
Speaker 1: and and and and you have to be represented well, right,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I'm not saying they I'm
Speaker 1: not saying they control me. But what I'm saying is
Speaker 1: I'm not out here trying to make them look bad
Speaker 1: for no reason, right reviews or for anything. Um because again,
Speaker 1: it is a business, right, and you build it to
Speaker 1: be a business. But but you know, I wanted to.
Speaker 1: I wanted to, you know, I hit the groundward. I
Speaker 1: just wanted to diversify. And you know, sometimes, you know,
Speaker 1: not saying overall, but I've heard people say, oh, premium Pete.
Speaker 1: You know, he said a couple of words on Combat Jack.
Speaker 1: Some days he would say a lot something. I said
Speaker 1: that because I didn't have to just like, yo, what's up,
Speaker 1: it's premium Pete. I'm here. No, I was for the
Speaker 1: betterment of the Combat Jack Show. That's why that show
Speaker 1: did good, because people took a bullet for the Combat
Speaker 1: Jack Show. It wasn't like, Yo, I'm premium pete. Yo
Speaker 1: I'm It's like, yo, we're here for the Combat Jack
Speaker 1: Show three four in the morning with Chuck d You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Driving everybody home, I lived ninety
Speaker 1: two miles from the studio. I drove everybody home and
Speaker 1: then drove home. I didn't get money. I didn't get
Speaker 1: gas money. You know what I'm saying. Man. You know,
Speaker 1: if people don't know how much you sacrifice. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sitting on the Combat Jack Show like a couple
Speaker 1: of hundred hours in my bank account, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Just just he's always been a friend, he's
Speaker 1: my co host. He's coming in with a helicopter, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. It's like like I'm ready to
Speaker 1: get a fucking overdraft feet. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm working a regular job at the time
Speaker 1: to at night, trying to maintain trying to figure it out.
Speaker 1: I tell people all the time, I was working a
Speaker 1: bread route. I'm a big daddy came. Big Daddy came
Speaker 1: like Yo, take my number, you know, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: We would cook it up. You know, I like the chef.
Speaker 1: And now later dudes like yo, get your bread and
Speaker 1: you gotta get back. You gotta get out of it.
Speaker 1: Like where the funk? I was just with Big Daddy Kane.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? People like so you understand,
Speaker 1: meaning the thought process of having to have that belief.
Speaker 1: And let me tell you something. You have a day job.
Speaker 1: Don't never be a change because the day job feels
Speaker 1: the dream job, you know what I mean. And and
Speaker 1: and and and and until you could let loose you.
Speaker 1: Let that funds you. You know what I'm saying. Let
Speaker 1: that funds you, so you could. But the thing is,
Speaker 1: people gotta put the work in on the side. You
Speaker 1: know a lot of people work at eight to four.
Speaker 1: They tied. Okay, I'm tired. I'm still tired. But what
Speaker 1: I'm saying is it it takes time and you have
Speaker 1: to be willing to do that. And I think throughout
Speaker 1: the show, you know, I was able to, like I said,
Speaker 1: you know, you say a couple of words. I was
Speaker 1: able to have to me some formidable, beautiful interviews with
Speaker 1: some people and really show that like, all right, this
Speaker 1: kid it's talented, right, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 1: this kid can form some I'm look, you don't have
Speaker 1: to like everything I do, or that people don't have
Speaker 1: to like everything you do. Right, You're not denied that
Speaker 1: you're building a network, that you're putting people on, right,
Speaker 1: that you're trying to uh employ you, yourself, your family,
Speaker 1: your friends, people that you know. You know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: you can't deny those things. It's a process and people
Speaker 1: should be a sponge and support that and get involved
Speaker 1: in that instead of hate, you know what I mean? Man,
Speaker 1: And I tell people all the time. Man, We've had
Speaker 1: a lot of people, some of our guys man have
Speaker 1: made the journey with us from the beginning. Man, shout
Speaker 1: out to my homeboys and twins Man that connected experience
Speaker 1: in instern Michigan. Oh yeah, I know I know them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they brought me out many years ago. Uh yeah they're good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm spoke to me a while. But God bless him
Speaker 1: man and all the good brothers. Man. They've been done
Speaker 1: with Digital soapbox Man for the lab. They've been done
Speaker 1: with us for the whole ride. Man, love those guys, Man,
Speaker 1: but people don't understand, man. Things don't happen overnight. Man,
Speaker 1: So you take the opportunity man that you were to
Speaker 1: see there was initially planned man with the combat jack
Speaker 1: show man, and you've been able to quantify that man
Speaker 1: and doing several different things, and that's what people understand.
Speaker 1: I even tell some of my guys because sometimes you
Speaker 1: do have those times the word there are no ad
Speaker 1: reads jumping off, and you know, you just may just
Speaker 1: beginning YouTube money and you got people like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: this and that, and I'm like, what do you really
Speaker 1: only do the show for an hour a week. You
Speaker 1: don't really help with the planning of the research. You
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about, you know, putting it together
Speaker 1: where we're gonna do the show at So you should
Speaker 1: have you some other hustles going on. And that's what
Speaker 1: I tell people. If you're you're a blessed. I had
Speaker 1: to tell a couple of guys that because people get
Speaker 1: kind of complacent. Sometimes I told you got last week
Speaker 1: because it listen, man, you made eighty five thousand dollars
Speaker 1: last year. You know you didn't get rich, but you
Speaker 1: made eighty five thousand dollars for talking ship all every week,
Speaker 1: and you're sitting up here complaining about more money. I said, man,
Speaker 1: the average American now to the day, man is making
Speaker 1: thirty thousand dollars a year. They gotta worry about their rent.
Speaker 1: They gotta take care of their kids. Man. They may
Speaker 1: have a leaky false with their cars off, neither might
Speaker 1: have went out, and they gotta figure it out. But
Speaker 1: these people get up every morning and go make it happen,
Speaker 1: sometimes twice a day. I know, I got a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of home to go to one job, man, and
Speaker 1: as soon as they get off, they go home, eat,
Speaker 1: taking nap for a couple of hours, and they're off
Speaker 1: to the other one. And it's become a routine for
Speaker 1: them because they have to. They have responsibilities. Because see,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you, the bills don't stop coming just
Speaker 1: because this person didn't pay you. That person, it's gonna
Speaker 1: keep coming. That little kid he can, he still needs
Speaker 1: to eat, he or she still needs to eat. And
Speaker 1: I get a lot of brothers. Man. One thing that
Speaker 1: you say, I think it's real dope. Man. That really
Speaker 1: just caught my attention. Man, I kind of stow your mantra.
Speaker 1: I think everybody else ship is good. Presidents over presents,
Speaker 1: prisons over presents. Man um, I got a lot of
Speaker 1: homies man that are scared. You know, they take care
Speaker 1: of their kids, man, they maans, you know, they they
Speaker 1: paid the child support. Always in the key of clothes
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. I'm like, dude, why don't you
Speaker 1: go see your son? Man? Well, man, I don't got
Speaker 1: this and that. Man, I want to be able to
Speaker 1: do this. I say, do that kid. Don't give a
Speaker 1: funk about you taking, you know, coming over their being
Speaker 1: and gifts all the time. They want to go sit
Speaker 1: with it. They want to go throw the ball around
Speaker 1: with their dad. Sure, no, no, my bad. But I
Speaker 1: want to say, you know when you when you when
Speaker 1: people when you think about having children and and and
Speaker 1: being there for the kids. Man, you know, look, at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, you sat down with a
Speaker 1: lot of people. I sat down with a lot of people.
Speaker 1: You here, people who didn't have fathers. We're in guid
Speaker 1: as well. Women who didn't have a father in their life.
Speaker 1: You know how it affected them. You know, Look, I
Speaker 1: sat down, I've done I don't even know how many
Speaker 1: interviews out right, you know what I mean. And I'm
Speaker 1: saying I hear men talk all the time but how
Speaker 1: not having a father figure in their life and how
Speaker 1: much it affected them. So I'm like, yo, you know,
Speaker 1: we have to you know. And when I was away,
Speaker 1: that's when I came up with presidents of the presidence.
Speaker 1: You know, you get away if you get locked if
Speaker 1: you get if you know, if you get locked up,
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, possession or intent. You got to
Speaker 1: kind of go to asack class when you're away, or
Speaker 1: or or a council. And the council was a real
Speaker 1: cool lady. And you know, everybody's in the class talking about, well,
Speaker 1: I got knocked with two Mercedes three range rove is
Speaker 1: you know forty grand? Yo? You got a cigarette. I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know, my man, you got locked up with all
Speaker 1: this stuff. You're talking all the stuff. You don't got
Speaker 1: no commissary money, you don't got nothing like we don't
Speaker 1: we don't know. You know. It's like we don't need
Speaker 1: to be doing all this. So people always brag and
Speaker 1: jail you know what I mean, Oh I got this.
Speaker 1: I got that. I'm not saying people don't, but a
Speaker 1: lot of people it just becomes like, you know, my
Speaker 1: kids got this, My kids got that my kids got this,
Speaker 1: and I was like, yeah, but they don't got you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and people don't realize even like I always say
Speaker 1: this when when when in another version where it pushed
Speaker 1: it even further for me is when we had a
Speaker 1: little boozy on and he was talking about my kids
Speaker 1: had iPads and and they had this, they had I found,
Speaker 1: they had everything. And I was like, yeah, I said
Speaker 1: the same thing. I was like, yeah, but view and
Speaker 1: he looked at it like if you haven't. I don't
Speaker 1: even know if the episode is still out there, but
Speaker 1: I'm sure it is, you know. Um. But he was
Speaker 1: like you right, and and and and look, you know,
Speaker 1: you could have presents with presents, meaning if you body
Speaker 1: could a football, you've got to throw it around with
Speaker 1: each other. But you're the greatest gift you ever give
Speaker 1: you a kid is your time. You know. Look, I
Speaker 1: bought my daughter a thousand, a thousand Bobby dolls. You
Speaker 1: don't even remember them. I don't remember a thousand. Oh
Speaker 1: I remember you got the time that we spent together
Speaker 1: and did this, this and this and this together and
Speaker 1: ritual as we created you know. Look, I'm you know,
Speaker 1: I always look at the word fatherhood as a whole.
Speaker 1: Even though I know I'm good, it's we still got
Speaker 1: a lot of work to do, right meaning as a whole,
Speaker 1: to help uplift brothers to be there and also to
Speaker 1: help woman and men realize if y'all don't get along,
Speaker 1: like just put that to the side so you could
Speaker 1: be there for the kid. You know, if you're a
Speaker 1: man and y'all separating, things are over. Stop worrying about
Speaker 1: who she fucking you know what I'm saying, Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I want to give a
Speaker 1: quick example and then you can take it wherever you
Speaker 1: want to wind this down, whatever it is. My ex wife,
Speaker 1: well my wife at the time, you know, because I
Speaker 1: got my daughter is gonna be twenty three, is crazy.
Speaker 1: I've been separated and divorce since she was two. So
Speaker 1: we like three weeks into our divorce and she hits
Speaker 1: me up. She was honest, I'll give it a credit.
Speaker 1: And she was like, it's like a Tuesday night at
Speaker 1: like six o'clock. She's like, hey, Pete, am I Yeah.
Speaker 1: She's like, I'm going out on a date tonight. Could
Speaker 1: you watch her? Could you watch our kids? And I'm like,
Speaker 1: you're going out on a date. And you want to
Speaker 1: have sex and ship like that? You want me to
Speaker 1: watch our kids bang on? Not thirty seconds later? I
Speaker 1: called her back because they hit me. I'm like, my
Speaker 1: daughter suffers, who she's messing with. She's not doing it there,
Speaker 1: She's not a bad woman. We don't We ain't together
Speaker 1: no more. Yeah, And so I called the right back.
Speaker 1: Was like, yo, my bad. I came got it for
Speaker 1: a couple of hours. We went out for pizza when
Speaker 1: the ice season and and that's where I started to
Speaker 1: even learn more and more presents over president. I'll give
Speaker 1: it to my brothers right now. What I mean by
Speaker 1: that is you get your kids on the weekend? Cool?
Speaker 1: How about Tuesday for a quick slice of pizza? Just
Speaker 1: a quick slice, yo, you know what you're doing. Ye'll
Speaker 1: be right there, precise bring him back home. How about
Speaker 1: Thursday for a little ice cream? You know what I'm
Speaker 1: saying a little thirty minute thing. But I will say
Speaker 1: to my brothers too, and I say this to a
Speaker 1: woman too, when you get separated, when you have kids,
Speaker 1: you focus on them. You focus on the job, you
Speaker 1: focus on your marriage, you focus on your bills, and
Speaker 1: something you always forget about. And as you Okay, a
Speaker 1: lot of brothers do that too, A lot of dudes do,
Speaker 1: and a lot of women, unfortunately, are suffered by men
Speaker 1: who are not really there for them to be everything
Speaker 1: they could be. M hm so. So the point I'm
Speaker 1: trying to make is, you know, I'm not knocking dudes.
Speaker 1: I have, like some duders do. I see my kids
Speaker 1: every other month. Everyone, I'm like every other month. Like
Speaker 1: I can't imagine that, you know what I mean? Like, like,
Speaker 1: you know, I want to go get bird food. The
Speaker 1: other day, it's like five minutes from my sons. I said.
Speaker 1: I called him. I said, I'm gonna drop buy you
Speaker 1: one thing from Dunk of Donuts. Yeah, one, because he
Speaker 1: likes him. I got him some donuts. I dropped a
Speaker 1: game and kissing, hugging and kept him moving. I just
Speaker 1: can't but push it, man, But those are the times. Man.
Speaker 1: If these kids remember, you know, before we before we
Speaker 1: get on Big Dog, that we got ten minutes left. Man,
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you a question, man, have you
Speaker 1: ever thought about going in the comedy? You know, it's funny.
Speaker 1: It's funny you say that, because um it's funny you
Speaker 1: say that. I always wanted to do stand up comedy.
Speaker 1: I know how to tell stories, I know punch lines.
Speaker 1: I love I love I love comedy, and I don't
Speaker 1: even I try to put it in some of my life,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Um, what I did do was, uh,
Speaker 1: I did it one time. I did it and I
Speaker 1: left it meaning uh Cipher Sounds had that uh UCB
Speaker 1: theater where he did the comedy. I forgot what it
Speaker 1: was called. Uh God, why am I having a blank?
Speaker 1: But he did this comedy thing where they would do
Speaker 1: with reenacting. I don't know if you ever seen it
Speaker 1: what he did. For years he was doing it, and
Speaker 1: he invited me on there one day. So I went
Speaker 1: up there and told stories like a comedian and and
Speaker 1: uh it was beautiful. Man. I had the whole crowd
Speaker 1: going crazy. And I'll be honest with you, at that time,
Speaker 1: I was doing like nine things because only three work.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I wasn't want to do
Speaker 1: another fucking tent thing that you know. And don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong, Once you build up your name like you
Speaker 1: know still you know, he's been in the music, he's
Speaker 1: been here, he's been here. Now you're building up the
Speaker 1: podcast network. He build this sort of point. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to make it. You have you know, some sort of
Speaker 1: like you know, like we have some sort of following
Speaker 1: that could like yo, still we're doing comedy that come
Speaker 1: check out your boy. But what I'm saying it's another process.
Speaker 1: It's another I go. I've been involved in so many
Speaker 1: beginning things it gets tiring, Like beginning to sneak is
Speaker 1: people like collecting, why you buy two pads for you know?
Speaker 1: Now look at it right? You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Podcasting I swear to god, I've been a lunch with Combat.
Speaker 1: I tell the story all the time. It went around
Speaker 1: the room. I'm a CEO of this, I'm a CFO.
Speaker 1: What do you guys do? He's like, oh, what podcast
Speaker 1: is the way? That's cute? You know what I mean. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: I told Combat like, go, no, you're a lawyer. Fuck me.
Speaker 1: You should have been like, oh, I'm a lawyer because
Speaker 1: people judge, people try to But what do you do?
Speaker 1: What do you do? What do you do? Oh? Pocket watching? Man?
Speaker 1: Pocket watching all time? But what I'm saying is when
Speaker 1: you're in the early stages of things and then not
Speaker 1: meaning only helping pioneer or push it, but then at
Speaker 1: early stages of you and something that's been around. It's
Speaker 1: also a big job. So what I'm saying to answer
Speaker 1: your question is I love comedy. Um. I I don't
Speaker 1: know if I have the time to do full stand
Speaker 1: up at my time in life right now, but I
Speaker 1: will do things that, uh, you know, I will tackle
Speaker 1: things that. I know. It sounds weird to say this,
Speaker 1: but as you get older, I guess I'm trying to
Speaker 1: say I'm crossing things off. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: I will try to do it because I love making
Speaker 1: people laugh, like I love. As much as people sometimes
Speaker 1: will drain you and people will let you down, I
Speaker 1: love helping people and I love being there for people. Um,
Speaker 1: because I didn't have a lot of people were there
Speaker 1: for me, and then when I was in my job
Speaker 1: times I did so so I want to be there
Speaker 1: for other people. And I feel like, uh, if you
Speaker 1: can make people laugh, if you can make people money, um,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a beautiful thing. Because one thing about podcast,
Speaker 1: and again I'm gonna apologize to you because I was
Speaker 1: late this morning. I'm using I'm usually the one waiting
Speaker 1: around on people, man, but you know that's prime man.
Speaker 1: I was editing the fort. This morning, I said, man,
Speaker 1: you know, like semp up man abro seventh thirty minute.
Speaker 1: So I woke up, you know, wake up. I woke
Speaker 1: up this morning. Man. I went into the shower and stuff.
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, I said, not got time, and I
Speaker 1: laid the marvel clown. I was up and take a
Speaker 1: look net next thing, you know, you call it man,
Speaker 1: And now I just want to know and I tell you.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing too. You know what I learned
Speaker 1: to most people and you can't say this not meaning,
Speaker 1: you can't say this meaning like it's not a way
Speaker 1: to live, like most people won't don't go to extra mile.
Speaker 1: And and even in this day and age like that,
Speaker 1: people don't know how to tuck their ego. You know,
Speaker 1: people feel like they accomplished. I'm here to tell you
Speaker 1: if you I don't give a funk. If you made
Speaker 1: a million dollars, still tucking make five million, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Yea yeah. And also but also tuck
Speaker 1: to ego not meaning you know, I'm speaking in general.
Speaker 1: So what I mean by that is I could have
Speaker 1: been like I could have sent you an email and
Speaker 1: like yo, I was there for ten minutes let's try it.
Speaker 1: You know, let's try another time. But that's why I
Speaker 1: called you, you know what I mean, because like I
Speaker 1: committed to it and I want to you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, like that that's my style and I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. But what I was gonna say, Man,
Speaker 1: you know, we deal with a multitude of different personalities, right,
Speaker 1: some of the people, some of these guys and some
Speaker 1: of the coolest individuals I've ever met, become you know,
Speaker 1: I can say, man, through podcasting, I've met Short numerous
Speaker 1: times through the years, but now you know, interview with him,
Speaker 1: we actually wanted to become a friends. So you know,
Speaker 1: I'm like, Man, I remember I said be in high
Speaker 1: school bumping too Short, you know, So now he's a
Speaker 1: friend of mine. Man, So you run into a multitude
Speaker 1: of the different personalities. You're a guy who has a
Speaker 1: big personality, right, Have you ever classed with men of
Speaker 1: your guests before? Nah? You know it's a great question.
Speaker 1: But but but no, you know you know why because
Speaker 1: I understand the job, you know what I mean, And
Speaker 1: and I'm not afraid. You know, look, somebody like Bumbat Okay,
Speaker 1: one of the nicest Um, chameleon, UM, heartfelt, genuine um.
Speaker 1: People I've ever known in my life. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: like I know my position in certain places. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like like no matter who what I
Speaker 1: think I've done in life, like you know, like I'm
Speaker 1: not afraid to you know, there's times where I'll be
Speaker 1: around and somebody by premium pete, I'll be a bunder
Speaker 1: like yo, let me take a picture with you. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I'll step back they're taking a picture with Like, I
Speaker 1: know your position, right, you know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 1: I don't ever you know, I have a big personality,
Speaker 1: but but I want you know I'm I'm a team
Speaker 1: I'm a team player. You know what I'm saying, like
Speaker 1: you And that's what it's all about the team. That's
Speaker 1: why I often say, like when I talk about digital soapbox, Man,
Speaker 1: we were doing a lot of great things. Man. We
Speaker 1: launched the TV network. Man that launches this marks Man.
Speaker 1: So it's a lot of our communities that have just
Speaker 1: through the different people that I meant that and partnerships
Speaker 1: I've made. You know, a guy hs me a baby man.
Speaker 1: I want to expand on our partnership. You know, I
Speaker 1: want to buy Temperaton the company. You know, I want
Speaker 1: to help you out. And this is a guy that's
Speaker 1: you know, he's doing pretty well for himself. But those
Speaker 1: opportunities came through hard work and came to sacrifice, that
Speaker 1: came through tooking your ego in the back pocket. Sometimes
Speaker 1: because one of the guys that has helped me the
Speaker 1: most of my career. When I first met him, I
Speaker 1: thought he was the biggest asshole, but I didn't say
Speaker 1: anything because because he's just a very direct person. So
Speaker 1: now I don't want to mess with nobody. I don't
Speaker 1: want nobody in my circle Pete that's scared to check
Speaker 1: me almost some bullshit. I see you guys are gonna say,
Speaker 1: still know you funked up? Man, you shouldn't have did
Speaker 1: that ship. Yeah, I mean you need someone to tell
Speaker 1: you if you have a bugget hanging from your noes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, you know before you step out. And I
Speaker 1: think that's the type of friends that I surrounded myself with,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And I'll tell you when
Speaker 1: you say, like you know short and everything, that's a
Speaker 1: beautiful thing. You know, I look at it like that's
Speaker 1: why you know. One thing I will say to not
Speaker 1: only you on this interview, to people who are listening
Speaker 1: to whenever they listen. You know, keep the water running.
Speaker 1: What I mean by when I say keep the water running.
Speaker 1: These things happen because you're keeping these things happening. You
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Things happen because one thing opens
Speaker 1: up another thing. You know, like even when you think
Speaker 1: about you know, I'll share this with you real quick.
Speaker 1: You know, armand the same thing. Legendary actor. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean. I had him on show. Now, me
Speaker 1: and him, we day to day. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like you know I would. I was at his house
Speaker 1: for like three months, you know what I'm saying, working
Speaker 1: on a project with him. I just had him as
Speaker 1: a guest on my show. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: so so so to the point I'm trying to make
Speaker 1: is build those bricks, have patience, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: do right business by people, you know, and unfortunately not
Speaker 1: everybody is gonna come along. Man. Something that really hurts
Speaker 1: me in my old age, where it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: you picture of life is a bus and people get
Speaker 1: off on certain stops and sometimes like damn, man, I
Speaker 1: wish they were still on the bus. But it don't
Speaker 1: work like that sometimes. Then I'm gonna tell you, Pete,
Speaker 1: that's been my biggest kind of achilles because you know,
Speaker 1: when you run a network, you're always looking at numbers.
Speaker 1: Everything is numbers. The thing about numbers, they're not based
Speaker 1: on the motion. They're based on purely fact and that's
Speaker 1: based on some subjective ship. But they're based on factors
Speaker 1: right there. Hey man, you did thirty thousand downloads in
Speaker 1: the last episode. That's a good job. You know, we
Speaker 1: go kick that up something. But one of the hardest
Speaker 1: decisions to make, man, is letting people go. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: have to not only release people from a business situation
Speaker 1: if they're not performing to expectations. Sometimes you have to
Speaker 1: release certain elements of your life, certain people that just
Speaker 1: aren't good for you. I have people that I love, Pete,
Speaker 1: but they just don't. We can't co excite the same
Speaker 1: space now because the they're running around, they got dope
Speaker 1: in the trunk, they got hammers up under the seat.
Speaker 1: I can't get in the car with you, bro, I
Speaker 1: can't have you come. You can't come up with my house, bro,
Speaker 1: because I don't know who's sitting on you right now
Speaker 1: that might be looking at you and then not connecting
Speaker 1: me with your bullshit. I don't know if you've got
Speaker 1: the boys watching you right now now that you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, you just don't know. So you have
Speaker 1: to really, man, releasing someone both in business and in
Speaker 1: your personal life is the hardest ship ever. Because I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna lie. I love everybody on our network, dude,
Speaker 1: there they we become like a family. So sometimes when
Speaker 1: someone in the family is not performing to expectation, you
Speaker 1: have to look and say, man, do I keep making
Speaker 1: the investment and this guy whether it's you know, five
Speaker 1: thousand dollars a year, whether it's you know, a couple
Speaker 1: hundred dollars a year. So you have to make decisions. Man,
Speaker 1: Now you've got a lot of ship going on. Man,
Speaker 1: where can people catch up with you at well? I
Speaker 1: mean you know, on social media always at premium Pete
Speaker 1: or premium Peache show. I also do this new uh
Speaker 1: like a year already, I've been doing it. So now
Speaker 1: I have like to two things with under the Umbrella
Speaker 1: or premium Pea shows Life gems and those are like
Speaker 1: small bite size mentorship episodes Like I have titles like
Speaker 1: overcoming doubt, lessons into blessings, lean into fear, uh, never
Speaker 1: stopped believing in you, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 1: it's literally like, you know, twenty I go. I put
Speaker 1: this out during the pandemic because I don't like doing
Speaker 1: uh interviews remote because I can't connect with the person fully,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Like it's tough for me.
Speaker 1: So I was like, yeah, I'm gonna do these audio
Speaker 1: episodes and I'll tell you, man, people all over the world,
Speaker 1: and it makes me so proud because again, sometimes we
Speaker 1: do this ship we make money, it gets views or whatever.
Speaker 1: Some of the should we really love and some of
Speaker 1: the really helps people, you know what I mean, become popular.
Speaker 1: But what are you really resonating? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Because you never know who you were in bed? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you literally never know. Man. I'm gonna tell you before
Speaker 1: we jump off. Man, I had um you know, if
Speaker 1: you were a listener, send me eatmail one day and
Speaker 1: he was telling us a man like, you know, I
Speaker 1: was really thinking about committing suicide. You know, it's snat.
Speaker 1: So I called the guy. I said, hey, man, what's
Speaker 1: your phone number? So we got the building and talking. Man,
Speaker 1: you know, parole fella. Um been on his job, new
Speaker 1: job for two years. Man, you know, I gotta situation,
Speaker 1: you know, improve this situation. Man, crib no. Man, his
Speaker 1: girl was living with him and he's taking care of
Speaker 1: his kids. He had lost his job. Man then um,
Speaker 1: you know, just through a series of miss unfortunate events. Man,
Speaker 1: his life is now in shambles. Oh he's you know
Speaker 1: built episode. He's thinking about going back to the streets.
Speaker 1: And he's like, man, before I go back to prison,
Speaker 1: I'd rather be dead. I had this insurance problty. I said,
Speaker 1: first of all, brother, you know you jump off of
Speaker 1: the bridge. Your family not gonna get that money, so
Speaker 1: you're not gonna helping that way, and then you're gonna
Speaker 1: be gone. So they you know, they have not now
Speaker 1: not only are they financially burdened, missing presence and um.
Speaker 1: So I talked this dude and build with him. Man
Speaker 1: and um. I remember I had a free promo code
Speaker 1: man from Better Help, you know, from the you know,
Speaker 1: we got a sponsorp with them. So I was really able, like, man, here,
Speaker 1: you know what, Man, you need to talk to someone.
Speaker 1: I'm not really qualified, but I'm here to tell you, bro,
Speaker 1: we need you here and he's checked in with me
Speaker 1: Man a couple of times Man over the last few years,
Speaker 1: and it's just like I think it's dope, and it's
Speaker 1: made me understand what our ultimate purpose. He is. Man.
Speaker 1: We're here to be an inspiration of us. Man. And
Speaker 1: I tell people all the time, Man, and this planet, Man,
Speaker 1: all of the best people are people of service to
Speaker 1: have you ever noticed some of the greatest people you've met,
Speaker 1: they give a lot of themselves Man, whether financially or
Speaker 1: that personal time with their resources. So I've decided, Man,
Speaker 1: this planet, Man on my path, I want to help
Speaker 1: other people. Absolutely, I love it. How about this, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say, you have my number, you have my email,
Speaker 1: you have my info. Let's get together and figure away
Speaker 1: how to help more people. I want to leave your
Speaker 1: show on this note. Though. Let me tell you, Man,
Speaker 1: no matter what you're saying is special. I've had a
Speaker 1: lot of people who have done that with um in
Speaker 1: this day and age, the way we grew up, the
Speaker 1: way where you are where we are today. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: leave y'all with this. No matter what you've been through,
Speaker 1: anything is possible, you know what I mean? Like straight
Speaker 1: the funk up I'm not sitting here. I'm out of preacher,
Speaker 1: I'm not nothing. Okay, if you never stopped believing, and
Speaker 1: what the funk you wanna do? If you never stop
Speaker 1: believing in you, even through those dark days, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna come. Those dark days are gonna come, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna feel worthless or maybe you feel depressed. But what
Speaker 1: I'm saying is this tough days, but you get through them.
Speaker 1: You surround yourself with the energy you want. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, You surround and if you have a
Speaker 1: circle that is not, you start to you know, you
Speaker 1: don't have to announce all this. You just start, you know,
Speaker 1: getting putting the places that you want, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So you know life, life will come and
Speaker 1: i'd say I'm out here to tell you they'll be bumps.
Speaker 1: And you know you noticed we all went through this ship.
Speaker 1: But what I'm saying is net like like today, and
Speaker 1: you know, I feel like the way I grew up.
Speaker 1: I was told if you want to cry, I'll give
Speaker 1: you something a cry about. I'm here to tell you
Speaker 1: let that weight off of your shoulders. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Talk to somebody, Find somebody and then also
Speaker 1: let other people like yourself and all this be an
Speaker 1: inspiration to people. You know. One thing I will say
Speaker 1: I told my father one time. I remember somebody in
Speaker 1: my family had thrown a wedding and somebody in the family,
Speaker 1: like friends of the family, wind up picking that same
Speaker 1: place because they felt it was so beautiful to have
Speaker 1: a fucking wedding, and that person who had the went
Speaker 1: in there before. I felt like, man, fuck them people,
Speaker 1: they copied us. No, why would you be mad at
Speaker 1: somebody who was inspired by you? Right at the point
Speaker 1: making it, don't shoot on people because they they inspired
Speaker 1: by you. Like, if you're not here to inspire people,
Speaker 1: then just moving your bubble. But what I'm saying is
Speaker 1: like like, like, that's not who That's not who I
Speaker 1: want to be. I'm not somebody who wants to be
Speaker 1: I hated selfish. I want to I want to help
Speaker 1: uplift and inspire people. But unfortunately still I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you this, what we said is not everybody could go.
Speaker 1: Now everybody can go. Man, you gotta lit some people
Speaker 1: up the bus. Man, Man, I truly appreciate you coming on. Man,
Speaker 1: I know what you're moving around. You probably on the
Speaker 1: coast a lot. Yeah, I'm on the East coast. I'm
Speaker 1: out on the West coast a lot. But but but
Speaker 1: you know, ship man, I'm just trying to spend more
Speaker 1: days international. As a Brooklyn kid, I'm still so humble
Speaker 1: to understand, like you know, like I was telling you,
Speaker 1: like you know, to be able to walk around the
Speaker 1: streets in London like when I was growing up in Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: I'm listing the kids on my block like they did. God,
Speaker 1: they never been off the block, by the way, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, I get it. But what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: it's like to be able to experience that. So anyway, listen,
Speaker 1: I will say peace and blessings, thanks for having me on,
Speaker 1: you know, and and and like I said, this is
Speaker 1: a good pow wow of life man, and and and
Speaker 1: just advice you know for sure, Man, I appreciate you. Man.
Speaker 1: Then we have it, guys, Premium Pete. We're tuning in
Speaker 1: with you next week piece piece. Man, I appreciate you,
Speaker 1: big dog. Likewise,