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Speaker 1: Stop putting timetable limits on yourself. You know a lot

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Speaker 1: of times we like to say, you know.

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Speaker 2: Oh, man, by time I'm thirty, I need to be

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Speaker 2: doing this and doing that.

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Speaker 1: And by the time I'm twenty five, you know, they

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Speaker 1: got They call it the quarter life crisis, right, And

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Speaker 1: I don't think it works like that. God will place

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Speaker 1: things in their proper perspective based on how you are

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Speaker 1: aligning yourself with what you're supposed to do in your life.

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Speaker 3: Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Butter. I'm your host,

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Speaker 3: Brandon Butler, founder CEO of Butter atl And today we

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Speaker 3: got a legend up in here. We got a very

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Speaker 3: very special guess you just go. You'll know who he

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Speaker 3: is just by the voice. This is the voice of Atlanta.

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Speaker 3: Mister Ryan Cameron. How you doing, bro?

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Speaker 1: Welcome boy the plane track. This plane is departing. Please

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Speaker 1: hold on and wait for the next train. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: start off like that because I still get a kick

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Speaker 1: out of that. Man, I still get the.

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Speaker 2: Kick out of the plane train being my voice.

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Speaker 1: And whenever people, you know, they go through the airport,

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Speaker 1: like after all the things I've done, it is the

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Speaker 1: one thing that everybody talks about and then I was

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Speaker 1: like why, But then somebody said, it's two hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty thousand people that ride the train every day.

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Speaker 2: That's ninety two million people a year. So I'm good.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad to be on. I'm glad to be on with.

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Speaker 3: You by really finally, man, I appreciate you. And look now,

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Speaker 3: how many how many times you have to record that?

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Speaker 3: Like when you went in there, like you like one

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Speaker 1: With it, you know, because they wanted it to sound friendly, right,

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Speaker 2: You come to an airport you kind of feel.

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Speaker 1: Like you're lost, Like, man, how long do I need

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Speaker 2: So I was doing it in a certain way and

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Speaker 2: then like I need you said smile.

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Speaker 1: More so you know concourse a a as in or

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Speaker 1: b as in burgers. So you know, I wanted to

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Speaker 1: be like y'all folk, ay bro see Steve, but they

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Speaker 4: Gonna Workden just on four four audio.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 3: It's funny like as a as an airport venture myself,

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Speaker 3: Like I don't think people fully understand how crazy that

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Speaker 3: thing you sell it. Please move to the center of

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Speaker 3: the vehicles in the way, like the Roebody voice.

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Speaker 2: And you know what's funny is there that's an actual

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Speaker 1: So if you google airport plane train voice, there's a

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Speaker 1: story where the lady who got the job. They were

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Speaker 1: she she made her voice sound different, which I didn't understand,

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Speaker 1: like why would you not have it sound like you?

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Speaker 1: So she made herself sound like a computer. And then

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Speaker 1: and that's her. That was like I was like, so

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Speaker 2: That's that's what we're doing.

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Speaker 3: How do those opportunities even come around? Like how does

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Speaker 3: somebody decide, you know what, we need a new voice

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Speaker 3: for the plane train, we need voice for these things.

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Speaker 1: I was riding the train one day about nine years ago,

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Speaker 1: I was like, man, whan to be dope? But they

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Speaker 1: it was a government agency and it couldn't be sold.

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Speaker 1: But I presented the idea to America Sam Read and

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Speaker 3: So one thing I've always wanted to ask you is

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Speaker 3: I always see hashtag yacht dreams. Yeah, after everything he

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Speaker 4: Like where did that come from? But also what's it

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Speaker 2: And so when I left the radio, I told that story.

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Speaker 1: I said this for all the people to have yacht dreams, right,

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Speaker 1: It's like, we all aspired to do bigger and better

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Speaker 2: And so that's where the whole yacht dreams thing came about.

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Speaker 1: The follow up, which I've never talked about, is I

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Speaker 1: I was like, well, how she said, Well, one thing

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Speaker 2: And I was like, yeah, that's what you do.

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Speaker 1: So that's the yacht yacht Dreams twenty five, Like, do

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Speaker 3: He's like, man, this is like the best and worst

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Speaker 3: thing in the world. Like I got to get here

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Speaker 3: crash it. Y'all trash it. Then y'all get y'all drunk asses.

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Speaker 3: All right, and y'all go home. I'm still here for

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Speaker 2: True facts.

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Speaker 4: Hey man, Look, so.

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Speaker 3: I got to ask to Ryan like because because Mike

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Speaker 1: He's like, who gonna cancel me, right, And so what

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Speaker 3: It seems like because I see like the stuff you'll

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Speaker 3: it just seems like y'all just yeah, it's just two

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Speaker 1: And Chris is probably one of my closest friends who

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Speaker 4: Like eight movies later, Fast and Furious fit them all.

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Speaker 3: Man, Let mean even think about like, folks like that,

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Speaker 1: way back to Doctor King and to Jose Williams and

438
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Speaker 1: to you know, Ralph Abernathy, to Andy Young, to Maynard Jackson,

439
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Speaker 1: to Hank Air and to Evandae Holy Feel, to all

440
00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:04,800
Speaker 1: those people that never tried to fit in. I mean,

441
00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:07,920
Speaker 1: even look at what you've done with this. Right when

442
00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:10,159
Speaker 1: you came up with this idea, you weren't trying to

443
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Speaker 1: mold yourself to be anybody else.

444
00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:14,320
Speaker 2: You would try to be unique to the culture. And

445
00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:16,360
Speaker 2: then you know, they always say, if you're good enough,

446
00:19:16,359 --> 00:19:16,920
Speaker 2: the people.

447
00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:19,080
Speaker 1: Will find you, right, And that's kind of been how

448
00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:21,320
Speaker 1: I think Atlanta is, even with all the stuff with

449
00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:23,440
Speaker 1: outcasts and the South's got something to say and all

450
00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:26,280
Speaker 1: those different things. I mean, I think that what we've

451
00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:28,320
Speaker 1: been able to land on is that we've never tried

452
00:19:28,359 --> 00:19:30,840
Speaker 1: to fit in with everybody else. We don't come down

453
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Speaker 1: and try to do another accent and try to be

454
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Speaker 1: somebody else, so try to wear somebody else's clothes. It's

455
00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:38,760
Speaker 1: always been Atlanta to the fullest, no matter what that is.

456
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Speaker 2: Now.

457
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Speaker 1: The thing that's different between and now I'm not going

458
00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:47,200
Speaker 1: to say old Atlanta, but traditional Atlanta is Atlanta back

459
00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:52,040
Speaker 1: in the day. We want it to be them. Yeah, Atlanta,

460
00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:54,720
Speaker 1: now look what I'm doing. Look, you know, so you

461
00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:58,120
Speaker 1: got eighty nine different toy drivers right, you got eighty

462
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Speaker 1: nine different turkey.

463
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Speaker 2: Giveaways as opposed to.

464
00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:02,920
Speaker 1: You calling this guy and that guy got that guy,

465
00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:04,920
Speaker 1: and we said, yeah, it's going to costco and let's

466
00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:09,119
Speaker 1: buy ten thousand turkeys. Let's do one mass giveaway. But

467
00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:11,800
Speaker 1: it's very separate now. And that's the only thing that

468
00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:15,040
Speaker 1: I get disheartened by. It's like I wish that somebody

469
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Speaker 1: I was talking to. This is a quick aside. I

470
00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:20,800
Speaker 1: was talking to Shirley Franklin yesterday, right, and her number

471
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Speaker 1: is still the same. She's the fifty seventh mayor of

472
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Speaker 1: the city. And I called her and I said, congratulations

473
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Speaker 1: on having the a street named after the reservoir and

474
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Speaker 1: the street in front of the city Hall named after her.

475
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Speaker 1: And she said, well, you know, my mom always said

476
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Speaker 1: if you ain't got nothing nice to say, I don't

477
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Speaker 1: say nothing, she said, But I want to say, you know,

478
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Speaker 1: it wasn't just me. I was just in the right

479
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Speaker 1: place at the right time, and Maynard and Andy, you know,

480
00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:47,400
Speaker 1: they just put me in the right place. And shit,

481
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Speaker 1: I want to say, you know, thank you to people

482
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Speaker 1: like you. And I forgot that when she ran power,

483
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Speaker 1: I was me, Dallas and Jermaine, like all of us

484
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Speaker 1: got together and just say we was going to support her,

485
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Speaker 1: and she was like, y'all really kind of help. And

486
00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:04,280
Speaker 1: I forgot it again, Like I forgot about it, you know,

487
00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:06,720
Speaker 1: but you reminded me. But it's like when you see

488
00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:08,879
Speaker 1: stuff like that and you see people who are again,

489
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Speaker 1: she's the first black mayor in the city's history. That's

490
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Speaker 1: a woman. It's mavericks man. It's like not trying to

491
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Speaker 1: fit in, but just kind of you know, doing what

492
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Speaker 1: we do.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's I mean, I experienced the same

494
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Speaker 3: thing even with the stuff we do with four four day, right,

495
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Speaker 3: Like there's a million different people trying to do different things,

496
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Speaker 3: and so one thing that we've tried to do, to

497
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Speaker 3: your point is like bring people together around it. And

498
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Speaker 3: it's tough, you know, because everybody kind of wants to

499
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Speaker 3: do their own thing for different reasons. But like I

500
00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:33,680
Speaker 3: actually just had like walked through with some folks the

501
00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:35,760
Speaker 3: other day and it was like, yo, like let's just collaborate, Like, yeah,

502
00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:37,960
Speaker 3: we could do so much more together. And I don't

503
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Speaker 3: see a lot of people having those kinds of conversations.

504
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Speaker 3: I don't know when it became like so so like singular,

505
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Speaker 3: so personal.

506
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's the question Brandon that's not

507
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Speaker 1: asked is the worst question ever.

508
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Speaker 2: You know, if you don't ever asked a question.

509
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Speaker 1: And you know, I remember being in a room and

510
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Speaker 1: I think I have told you this, but for the

511
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Speaker 1: sake of this. It was like I was in a

512
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Speaker 1: room and actually Luda had invited me. He's like, I

513
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Speaker 1: want to take you somewhere, and I was in face.

514
00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:01,560
Speaker 1: I said where we're going, and he's like, I can't

515
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Speaker 1: tell you. I can't tell you. So we get in

516
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Speaker 1: this car and we go behind these hotel suites and

517
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Speaker 1: there's all these SUVs parked, and we get on this elevator,

518
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Speaker 1: but there's a car on the elevator, like a like

519
00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:18,520
Speaker 1: a convertible, and I'm like, it's a convertible on the elevator.

520
00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:21,000
Speaker 2: So we get off and we're like in a little vegetable.

521
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Speaker 1: It's about maybe a third of this room, and all

522
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, just Prince disappears like out of thin air,

523
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Speaker 1: like poof.

524
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Speaker 2: And he's like, I hope you guys are hungry, and

525
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Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, and I want to go.

526
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Speaker 4: I want some pancakes.

527
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Speaker 1: But I was like, kick me out, and so we're

528
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Speaker 1: sitting at this table and it's me, it's Luda, it's

529
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Speaker 1: Gabrielle Union, it's Tony Braxton, it's Sean Robinson from Access

530
00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:52,040
Speaker 1: Hollywood and Hill Harper, and then on this end of

531
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Speaker 1: the table it's Dave Chappelle and on this end it's Prince.

532
00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:58,320
Speaker 1: And so Tony Braxton is talking to Prince and she's

533
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Speaker 1: saying how expensive it is to have a show in Vegas.

534
00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:04,080
Speaker 1: She's like, they can charge me for this. They charged

535
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Speaker 1: me for that, and they charged me for this. And

536
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:06,960
Speaker 1: then she says, I don't know if I'm be able

537
00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:10,840
Speaker 1: to do this in print, like this is Vegas, they

538
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:14,520
Speaker 1: print money. I am not paying anyone for anything. And

539
00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:17,480
Speaker 1: she was like, what, why do you tell me? And

540
00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:20,879
Speaker 1: he was like, you're in't asked, And I kind of

541
00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:23,679
Speaker 1: think that's what it is in business and with relationships

542
00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:26,240
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. It's like, if I go out and I

543
00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:30,920
Speaker 1: know that something's gonna fail, this ain't gonna work. I've

544
00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:33,920
Speaker 1: done it, I've seen it flop, but you don't ask me.

545
00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,920
Speaker 1: That's on you. But if I go out and if

546
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Speaker 1: it fails and I say no man, you say, hey, man,

547
00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:42,320
Speaker 1: what's you think of this idea? And I don't tell you,

548
00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:44,760
Speaker 1: then that's on me. And I just think that we

549
00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:48,680
Speaker 1: have a problem in trying to share information because we're

550
00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:51,760
Speaker 1: in a very much I win, so you must lose

551
00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:54,280
Speaker 1: mentality as opposed to I win.

552
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Speaker 2: We all can win together, and I think if.

553
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Speaker 1: We could change that, it's only gonna take a couple

554
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Speaker 1: of us to have some really big you know, and everything.

555
00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:03,040
Speaker 1: I always tell people, everything doesn't have to be a

556
00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 1: home run.

557
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:05,480
Speaker 2: Man. You know, there are people in the Hall of

558
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:07,719
Speaker 2: Fame who hit a whole bunch of singles.

559
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:09,879
Speaker 4: You know, if you can back three hundred, you know that.

560
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:11,600
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Everything got to be a

561
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Speaker 2: home run, you know.

562
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Speaker 1: So I wish that we would share more information, information

563
00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:18,480
Speaker 1: about what we can do to succeed as opposed to

564
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Speaker 1: just failing.

565
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Speaker 4: No, I agree.

566
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Speaker 3: I think a lot of people kind of have that

567
00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:25,040
Speaker 3: win and lose mentality. It seems very binary. Sometimes it's

568
00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:26,880
Speaker 3: always like, all right, it's gotta be fifty one forty nine,

569
00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:29,000
Speaker 3: Like somebody's got to get a little bit more, a

570
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,040
Speaker 3: little bit more credit, a little bit more notoriety, a

571
00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:32,800
Speaker 3: little bit more money off of it. And it's like

572
00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:34,639
Speaker 3: you get more value by leaving some of that stuff

573
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:36,720
Speaker 3: on the table exactly and bringing more people into it.

574
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Speaker 2: Everybody should eat.

575
00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:38,920
Speaker 4: Everybody gotta eat. You know.

576
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Speaker 3: Now, you've been doing the radio stuff obviously for a

577
00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:44,680
Speaker 3: long time, but you've had like multiple moments. I remember

578
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Speaker 3: one moment I always remember is I think when you

579
00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:49,719
Speaker 3: went back to v and you I think you had

580
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Speaker 3: like a signing day or something like that, like a

581
00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:54,440
Speaker 3: first no press conference, and I had never seen something

582
00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 3: like that before. I'm like, man, this is amazing. But

583
00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:58,280
Speaker 3: you know, all this comes from you kind of betting

584
00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:00,480
Speaker 3: on yourself. Like what advice would you give to somebody

585
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:03,120
Speaker 3: when it comes to just betting on themselves. Because again,

586
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:04,879
Speaker 3: we're in this space right now. Everybody wants to be

587
00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:07,159
Speaker 3: a maker or creator. Everybody wants to have a platform

588
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:09,159
Speaker 3: of voice, and look, it ain't built for everybody. Some

589
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,080
Speaker 3: people are really good number twos and number threes and

590
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:13,560
Speaker 3: number fifteens in companies.

591
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Speaker 2: There's three hundred thousand podcasts right pretty much.

592
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Speaker 1: I mean I was just talking about somebody earlier today.

593
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:21,879
Speaker 1: They was like, everybody wants to be Joe Rogan. Everybody

594
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:24,520
Speaker 1: wants to be not worth the game or you know,

595
00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 1: the pivot. It's just they were telling me somebody who

596
00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:30,119
Speaker 1: I thought was very successful. I mean, I was like,

597
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:33,119
Speaker 1: what they was like, Yo, it's cost them six grand

598
00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:35,240
Speaker 1: a podcast and they ain't ain't no money yet.

599
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:39,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they do forty eight Uh they do eight whatever.

600
00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:40,720
Speaker 2: It was like fifty grand, And I was like what

601
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:44,159
Speaker 2: they was like. I was like, man, that's tough. You

602
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:44,760
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying.

603
00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,359
Speaker 1: But I think my advice to people is if you

604
00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:50,720
Speaker 1: keep doing good work, they will find you. You know,

605
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:54,399
Speaker 1: My situation has always been the guy who was in

606
00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:56,639
Speaker 1: front of me nutted up.

607
00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:01,159
Speaker 2: It's just plain and simple person who had the spot

608
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:01,720
Speaker 2: before me.

609
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:06,720
Speaker 1: They did something that either made them lose a spot

610
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:10,800
Speaker 1: or they just want ready for the lights. And I

611
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 1: think you always say, man, if I can just get

612
00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:14,720
Speaker 1: a shot, if I can just get a chance, you know,

613
00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:17,199
Speaker 1: and then you get a chance. I remember one time, man,

614
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:19,919
Speaker 1: there was this guy. You go to barbershop, right and

615
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:25,080
Speaker 1: people talk trash about sports man something Eagles ain't gonna

616
00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 1: have nothing on cheesing blah blah blah, and they just

617
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:29,720
Speaker 1: they run in the barbershop. They are the king of

618
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 1: the barbershop in trash talk. So one of the sports

619
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:36,399
Speaker 1: talk stations had an opening so a guy shot at

620
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 1: Jerry Clark. I got Jerry Clark and this guy to

621
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:40,600
Speaker 1: go in there and they did their audition. Of course,

622
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:43,080
Speaker 1: Jerry Clark went on to do his podcast and doing

623
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 1: great things. But the guy who was with him was

624
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:49,080
Speaker 1: the barbershop guy. So they get in there and Jerry

625
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:53,160
Speaker 1: tees him up and this guy this thing right here.

626
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:57,560
Speaker 2: He wasn't ready for that man. I mean, he froze

627
00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:01,040
Speaker 2: to the man. He could have been geezy.

628
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 1: He was so frozen in that joint and it was

629
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:04,880
Speaker 1: one of those things where.

630
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:05,359
Speaker 2: You're like wow.

631
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:08,119
Speaker 1: He always say if I ever had a chance, and

632
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:11,159
Speaker 1: he had a chance, and he basically wasn't ready. So

633
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:13,160
Speaker 1: it's like, you got to be ready when your time

634
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,440
Speaker 1: comes to shine, because it ain't for everybody.

635
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:17,639
Speaker 3: Yeah, a friend of mine gave me some advice that

636
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 3: always stuck with me. He said, you know, when it

637
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 3: comes to opportunities, looks get you in the door, right.

638
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 3: Talent gets you hired, he said, But once you own,

639
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:28,280
Speaker 3: it's all about stage presence, right, Like what do you

640
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,000
Speaker 3: do with the microphone the lights are on? What do

641
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:31,359
Speaker 3: you do when it's your time to step up? And

642
00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 3: so that's something I've always kind of thought about right.

643
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:35,400
Speaker 3: It's like again, people that you've got to be doing

644
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 3: something from me to look your direction?

645
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:38,760
Speaker 2: Where's my camera right there?

646
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:42,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, whenever I go watch Mike, whenever I go into

647
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,920
Speaker 1: an event like this, whenever I go into a podcast

648
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:49,480
Speaker 1: or a thing on a big stage, I wear these socks.

649
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:54,440
Speaker 4: Not the fuck this shit sucks.

650
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 2: Because that to me, when I look down, I'm nervous,

651
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 2: I'm like, man, fuck this shit like it ain't It

652
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,880
Speaker 2: ain't that big of a deal. Just going in and

653
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:06,120
Speaker 2: be you. You know what I'm saying.

654
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Speaker 1: Don't get too Sometimes you get so worked up about

655
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 1: stuff that you will blow the opportunity. Worried about the

656
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 1: people sitting out there in the audience who are just

657
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 1: as nervous as you are. You know, I saw, like

658
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:19,560
Speaker 1: Nicki Glazer last night for the NFL Honors. She was

659
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:21,120
Speaker 1: doing the same joke. She was doing that to Tom

660
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 1: Brady roast and they was falling flat.

661
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 2: I mean, who, you gotta read the room right right,

662
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 2: And she didn't read that room.

663
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:32,640
Speaker 1: Because athletes are all used to being talked about and

664
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 1: being made fun of. She made a joke about somebody

665
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 1: and it just with crickets, and I was like she

666
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 1: should have all some fuck this shit socks. She just

667
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 1: went there and went for it, because you can see,

668
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 1: once a joke falls flat, then it changed your whole trajectory.

669
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 2: Now the whole I just ain't. So.

670
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 1: I always wear these socks no matter what I'm doing.

671
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 1: If it's a bigger, the bigger the event, I'm gonna

672
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: have one of these socks. I never you know, it

673
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:58,600
Speaker 1: might be a podcast, it might be going to you

674
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 1: know them saying the hundred black men black tied dinner.

675
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:03,720
Speaker 2: It might be you know, whatever it is.

676
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have all these socks because I don't ever

677
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:06,560
Speaker 1: want to get.

678
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 2: Too worked up about the event.

679
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 4: No, I mean, you know what.

680
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 2: And they're available on Amazon.

681
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:13,080
Speaker 4: I was so to say it, We're gonna get it, except.

682
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 2: Amazon just type of shit socks.

683
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 4: Give me some up in my superpower.

684
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:32,720
Speaker 3: Let me ask you a man, like if somebody that

685
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:36,280
Speaker 3: does a show every day, like what makes a good

686
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 3: radio show in your opinion, Like, how do you kind

687
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 3: of prepare to make sure you're giving your audience the

688
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 3: best show possible.

689
00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 1: I get up at five and I start looking for

690
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 1: stories because my dogs are up at six, and if

691
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 1: I'm not up before them.

692
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 2: They're gonna be howling and scratching.

693
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 1: I got four dogs, right, and my wife is sitting

694
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: there and she's like, they're gonna start in a minute.

695
00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, let me try to get these stories done.

696
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 1: But the team is the most important element, right It's

697
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 1: a reason that you have her, it's a reason that

698
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 1: you have him, and you're an engineer.

699
00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:09,640
Speaker 2: The people, and we've talked.

700
00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:13,000
Speaker 1: About this, yeh off, Mike, the people behind you are

701
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 1: the most important.

702
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 2: My producer, my producer right now, body banks.

703
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 4: Shout out to Bonnie.

704
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 2: She's a beast man.

705
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 1: She's a beast and she's a sagittarist too, so she

706
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:25,440
Speaker 1: takes no prisoners and has no filters, just like me.

707
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 1: So when you find somebody like that that you know

708
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 1: is a like mind and it's just as hungry to

709
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 1: help you shine, Yeah, you know, sometimes people just want

710
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 1: to be in the background. Like Gelman on the Kelly

711
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 1: and her Husband's show. He's been there forever. He'll say

712
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 1: something every down and then. But then he's also a

713
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:46,800
Speaker 1: feature of the show, like Bonnie is a feature of

714
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 1: the show, you know, because she has that millennial attitude

715
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 1: of a thirty something year old and she'll say some

716
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 1: stuff like, you know, coming on the radio and saying

717
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 1: that if Michael Jackson was allowed today, he'd be opened

718
00:30:58,520 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 1: up for Beyonce.

719
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 4: Girl, you're tripping some millennial stuff.

720
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:06,840
Speaker 1: But that's a millennial that she actually believes that, you

721
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying that to have that kind of perspective.

722
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 2: But I think to answer your question, man.

723
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 1: The team is what makes you get excited about going

724
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 1: to work every day. Because I've been to work sometimes

725
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 1: in other radio stations and the person didn't do any

726
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 1: prep at all and they just came in and just

727
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 1: kind of laughed at their their.

728
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 2: Jokes, and I was like, man, this is tough.

729
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tough when when people don't come in it's

730
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 1: almost like having a group project and they get an a

731
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 1: you know, they didn't do nothing.

732
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:34,960
Speaker 2: She's kind of what it feels.

733
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 3: Like like when everything has been changing again, because like

734
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 3: radio is obviously different now than it was you got started,

735
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 3: and you have all these other things like social media

736
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 3: and all that stuff like r how do you kind

737
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:45,560
Speaker 3: of reinvent in what you do to kind of just

738
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 3: make it stay fresh and make it stay relevant.

739
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, here's the thing about difference between radio

740
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 1: and podcasting or all these other things. If there was

741
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 1: a plane that were to crash right here, right now,

742
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 1: and I was to go outside and see that plane,

743
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 1: I can go on the radio right now and do

744
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,800
Speaker 1: that story live by the time the.

745
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 2: News gets it, gets in the truck, gets a camera. Man.

746
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 2: It's not.

747
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 1: The thing about radio is always now, we can do

748
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 1: it now. You got to upload this podcast. You gotta go,

749
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 1: and you gotta edit it. It's not instant. That's why

750
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 1: radio is always going to have a foothold in society

751
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 1: because it's instant.

752
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:26,680
Speaker 2: It's right now now.

753
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 1: Streaming of course has its own merits, but as far

754
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 1: as like being able to go on and do it instantly, that's.

755
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,000
Speaker 2: What I think is radio a strong suit.

756
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 1: I mean, you're saying, what's happening right now with TV

757
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 1: TV is where radio was a couple of years ago.

758
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 1: TV revenues are down, show everybody's holding on the budgets.

759
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 2: Stuff is getting canceled left and right.

760
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 1: You're not getting the second year, you're not getting like

761
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 1: the syndication deals.

762
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 2: All those things are going by the wayside.

763
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: Now because people are like, we just we don't have

764
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:56,840
Speaker 1: the ad revenue to support the salaries, and so you

765
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 1: see that happening in a lot of times where the

766
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 1: atmosphere just changes because the money's changed because revenue is down.

767
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 1: So I'm sure they're not going to be as expensive

768
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 1: as they've been in past years because things have changed.

769
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 4: It's a very kind of like cyclical thing. I think.

770
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:14,960
Speaker 3: You know, you see these opportunities and you see just

771
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 3: the way everything kind of moves into your point. Like

772
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 3: you know, I kind of got my chops working with

773
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 3: the Two Lives studs back in the day when I

774
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 3: was at seven ninety, and that's what I kind of learned.

775
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:24,240
Speaker 3: I always said, you know what, like the ability for

776
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 3: radio is is now to your appoint but it's also

777
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:28,400
Speaker 3: the ability to kind of mobilize people, right, And that's

778
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 3: what I think is really interesting about it.

779
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 4: Another.

780
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 3: I think that's also what people kind of miss even

781
00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 3: when it comes to social media and all this stuff.

782
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 3: Right like this, you have, sure you have influence because

783
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 3: somebody like liked the post or left the comment, right,

784
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 3: But the real influence is can you get people to

785
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 3: get off that phone and come meet you somewhere, come

786
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 3: do something.

787
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 1: It's even happening in religious stuff, right. I have friends

788
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 1: that are mega pastors, I mean big time, And I've

789
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 1: said to them, I said, why is church shorter? They

790
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 1: were like, yo, we have conferences too, and they say,

791
00:33:57,840 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 1: you know, you get into a church and as a

792
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 1: down clock. Yep, And they say the average attention span

793
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 1: of somebody in the church service these days is twenty minutes.

794
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:15,360
Speaker 2: Really, so no more of that. Come on quiet now?

795
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:18,440
Speaker 2: And then you're like, man church was hey? Man church

796
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:21,360
Speaker 2: at one o'clock? They say, when it gets to two minutes,

797
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:22,280
Speaker 2: it starts flashing.

798
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:25,799
Speaker 1: And they're telling all the ministers, if you don't get

799
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,840
Speaker 1: this message out there, you're gonna lose these people. And

800
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:30,800
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, if I told you some of these names,

801
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:34,800
Speaker 1: you be like really, because now in this society, people's

802
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 1: attention span is totally different. You're not gonna you're gonna

803
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:39,840
Speaker 1: miss the message.

804
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 4: Yeah.

805
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 1: So if you're missing the message, then what you go

806
00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:44,920
Speaker 1: to church for? You know, So you're gonna got twenty

807
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 1: minutes to get that message across the people. The closing,

808
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 1: you know, when the minister comes up for the closes,

809
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:51,920
Speaker 1: it ain't gonna be longer than twenty minutes.

810
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 3: Oh no, I remember all the you know, all the

811
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:56,200
Speaker 3: theatrics and stuff like that. Even my parents' church is

812
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:58,920
Speaker 3: a very long standing traditional churchman around I think over

813
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 3: one hundred plus years. Yeah, I go there now and

814
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 3: I remember growing up. Yeah, you get the church at

815
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 3: seven am. You know you're not leaving until one o'clock

816
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 3: in the afternoon. And that's if there's not a program.

817
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 5: Yea.

818
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,840
Speaker 3: Now they got a forty five to fifty minute surface

819
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:13,919
Speaker 3: one time a day. They're like, yeah, we get him out.

820
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 2: You lose people, you lose them.

821
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 4: What do you think of some of the most defining

822
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 4: moments in just like Atlanta culture, if you had to

823
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 4: pick like two or three, what are just some moments

824
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:24,840
Speaker 4: that just really jump out at you.

825
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 1: I always tell people it is now. They don't want

826
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:29,000
Speaker 1: to act like I know what I'm talking about. You know,

827
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:32,200
Speaker 1: Atlanta nightlife has been defined by crime.

828
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 4: Shallowy leuse.

829
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 2: He was second. So if you look at it, Fred Tokars, Yeah,

830
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 2: kills his wife on my birthday. I never forget it.

831
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:48,560
Speaker 1: When you hired that crackhead to kill his wife in

832
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 1: front of her two boys.

833
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 2: That eliminated diamonds and.

834
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 1: Pearls and all that because of his ability to launder

835
00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:59,279
Speaker 1: those money for that drug dealer. So that changed all

836
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:02,799
Speaker 1: that culture. And then the Buckhead Bar district was ray

837
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 1: Lewis that you alluded to earlier, where that happens. Then

838
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 1: you have all those things are closing. It was like

839
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 1: it gave people a chance to say, this is what

840
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 1: we needed finally to get.

841
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 2: These negroes up out of here.

842
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:20,880
Speaker 1: And then you had the BMF era, which of course

843
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 1: once that stuff happened, that was just like the finale,

844
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So I think anything that's

845
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 1: been like really shifting the culture in Atlanta, which starts

846
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:33,400
Speaker 1: with the nightlife. When they brought the culture of Vegas

847
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:36,240
Speaker 1: to Atlanta, when it went from being a dance floor

848
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:41,760
Speaker 1: to just sections, it changed everything. When I've dealt with clubs,

849
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 1: I never dealt with a promoter. Always dealt with the owner,

850
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 1: the person who put the butts in the club. So

851
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 1: I'm sorry that the promoter people got mad, but you know,

852
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:53,799
Speaker 1: you have one night.

853
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:54,799
Speaker 2: No.

854
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:55,440
Speaker 4: But it's true though.

855
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:57,200
Speaker 3: I mean as a person that goes out, yeah, you

856
00:36:57,239 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 3: go to all these spots, it's just sections, everybody kind

857
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 3: of sitting around. It's not you know, people are in

858
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 3: there like I'm like this, this y'all version of a

859
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:04,799
Speaker 3: good time, Like y'all came here. You spend all this

860
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 3: money right to come to this room to sit on

861
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 3: your phone on a sofa and not talk to anybody exactly.

862
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:12,400
Speaker 4: You know, why do it? Why do it?

863
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:14,360
Speaker 3: But to your point, like that's that los that's that

864
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:17,440
Speaker 3: like West Coast Las Vegas, Los Angeles culture.

865
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:18,280
Speaker 2: It's definitely Vegas.

866
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 1: I mean, if you go to Vegas right now, you're

867
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 1: gonna have the lights and the music and you're just

868
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:25,280
Speaker 1: gonna have a good time regardless because you're in Vegas.

869
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 5: You know.

870
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:27,000
Speaker 1: I always tell people when they come in to Atlanta,

871
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 1: like I just rating it at night. I was like,

872
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:29,840
Speaker 1: what if it was random Vegas where we stay in.

873
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:32,360
Speaker 1: I'm like, nah, here let's go.

874
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,320
Speaker 3: When you have people come in, if you have to describe,

875
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 3: like what's a perfect day in Atlanta like to you,

876
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:38,239
Speaker 3: if you have to describe it for somebody coming from

877
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 3: out of town.

878
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 1: I mean everything that I do right now always revolve

879
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:47,279
Speaker 1: around good food, okay. You know, because if you go

880
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:51,080
Speaker 1: to a great restaurant in Atlanta and it's good from

881
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 1: the bread steaks to the dessert, it's a good time,

882
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 1: right And to me, it's like the traditional like I

883
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:00,759
Speaker 1: love all the Buckhead Life restaurants, right, and because I

884
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:04,240
Speaker 1: one of the owners and my son went to school together,

885
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:07,840
Speaker 1: so Pano and when it was Pano and Paul's and

886
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 1: when they had all these different restaurants and when they

887
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 1: sprung out, and that's Chops and lobster bar and Chema

888
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 1: and preachy.

889
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:18,279
Speaker 2: It's all based on the food for me. Right. But

890
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:19,080
Speaker 2: as far as.

891
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:21,520
Speaker 1: Like like, there's the one thing that is avoided after

892
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:24,240
Speaker 1: you eat is that there's nowhere to go and land

893
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:26,239
Speaker 1: for any live entertainment.

894
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 2: Right.

895
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 1: I have not seen any place in Atlanta be able

896
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 1: to sustain that we used to have. Remember they had

897
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 1: the juke joint that was downtown or whatever right there

898
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:37,320
Speaker 1: on the Pea Streets right there the next to two hundred.

899
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 1: I mean I thought that was going to happen.

900
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 2: You know.

901
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 1: We had Kenny's Alley, which was like, you know, they've

902
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:45,759
Speaker 1: had all these different It's just that's the one thing

903
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 1: that I was like, So people say, okay, we.

904
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:50,240
Speaker 2: Ate, now what that's the problem.

905
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:51,879
Speaker 3: I mean even right over here, they had a spot

906
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:53,560
Speaker 3: over here called Damsel. I don't know if you ever

907
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:55,800
Speaker 3: saw that, but it was kind of like a you

908
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:57,799
Speaker 3: would go in they had dinner and everything set up,

909
00:38:57,800 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 3: and then they kind of had like a burlesque style

910
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:01,800
Speaker 3: show and it was really nice. It was put together,

911
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 3: and that thing was open for like three four months,

912
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:05,839
Speaker 3: and then it's hard.

913
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:09,359
Speaker 1: It's hard when you got like the workspace over here.

914
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:11,799
Speaker 1: We kind of christened that thing. Like when I was

915
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:14,319
Speaker 1: living in the law right here on Marrietta Street, we

916
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:16,279
Speaker 1: would come down here before they even had, like they

917
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 1: don't have like two stores in that joint, and to

918
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:22,360
Speaker 1: see what has become, it's like amazing. But still you

919
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 1: wish there was something they could do in there that

920
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:26,880
Speaker 1: would be something that would be live entertainment. I know

921
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:29,239
Speaker 1: they have stuff, you know, spotted here and there, but

922
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 1: I think that's the one thing that Atlanta is missing,

923
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 1: is like it's too many creatives in here for us

924
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:36,400
Speaker 1: not to have a spot where it's not just R

925
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 1: and B night, Like if it was a place every

926
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 1: Friday night we did this almost like they have the

927
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:42,720
Speaker 1: Wednesday wind down and all these different things.

928
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:44,959
Speaker 2: But somebody needs to be able to pull that off.

929
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 1: But I don't know if people can want to risk

930
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 1: that kind of money because if it doesn't go well,

931
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: you're stuck in at least that you can't get out of.

932
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:57,399
Speaker 1: I mean even with like I say this and one

933
00:39:57,440 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 1: thing about being able to hold the l I think

934
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 1: Atlanta is a place where you got to sometimes say, Okay,

935
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 1: maybe that was a good idea on paper.

936
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:08,560
Speaker 2: So when I open up dough Boy in South da

937
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,360
Speaker 2: camp mall, people like, man, what you doing in there?

938
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:12,279
Speaker 2: Why are you doing it?

939
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:12,520
Speaker 5: And there?

940
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:14,360
Speaker 1: And I was like, man, black people need to have

941
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:17,360
Speaker 1: a place where they can eat and do whatever. The

942
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:20,360
Speaker 1: mall traffic is not what it is, and it's gotten

943
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:25,839
Speaker 1: even worse. Super Bowl Sunday will be my two year anniversary, right,

944
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 1: which is in restaurant as a lifetime, right, So shout

945
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:31,799
Speaker 1: out to all the people who have come out and

946
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 1: supported and who've bought pizza and whatever. If you're coming

947
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:36,839
Speaker 1: in there, you're doing it because you want to support us,

948
00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 1: and we got damn good pizza.

949
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:38,480
Speaker 2: Right.

950
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:41,440
Speaker 1: But I think one of the challenges with that is

951
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:44,759
Speaker 1: that if you see some of these businesses that try

952
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:48,759
Speaker 1: to pop up and do something that's different, if they're

953
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:54,320
Speaker 1: not really catering to the fans of the brand, they're.

954
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 2: Going to struggle. Yeah, it's going to be a struggle, man.

955
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 1: And I see so many people, you know, and shout

956
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:01,520
Speaker 1: out to Big Dave and the Chiefe States and that

957
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:03,880
Speaker 1: he's got the Crab Boys and something else. And with

958
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:07,480
Speaker 1: Pinky what they've been able to do. They just lashed

959
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 1: on and local greens, you know, and Zach, those people

960
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:14,920
Speaker 1: you can find a niche and those people hold onto

961
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: that craft.

962
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:16,080
Speaker 2: You know.

963
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 1: For me, the only thing they said that did not

964
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:22,520
Speaker 1: have a problem during the pandemic was Chinese food and

965
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 1: wings and pizza. So I you know, I'm like, well,

966
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:29,359
Speaker 1: I don't think black people are gonna come and think,

967
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 1: you know, Ryan's Chinese food.

968
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:31,919
Speaker 2: That ain't gonna work.

969
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:35,200
Speaker 1: So we did the pizza thing, and you know, it's

970
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 1: been some it's been some challenges because to what we

971
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,840
Speaker 1: talked about earlier, people, these young.

972
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 2: Folks, they just don't want to work. They don't want

973
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:44,799
Speaker 2: to work at all.

974
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:47,200
Speaker 1: They have no drive because I blame some of the

975
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:49,880
Speaker 1: times the parents is that we've given them so much

976
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:53,160
Speaker 1: they expect I had this. I know, I've had a

977
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:56,200
Speaker 1: million assistants. Right, This young lady came in and she

978
00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:58,840
Speaker 1: was a former school teacher. She had never done it before.

979
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:02,399
Speaker 1: She came in and she worked for one week and

980
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 1: then she googled.

981
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:05,319
Speaker 2: I said, well, let's see how it goes.

982
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:09,880
Speaker 1: For the first week, she googled personal assistant and she said, well,

983
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:11,759
Speaker 1: I'm gonna present something to you and I said, okay,

984
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 1: well present it and he said, well, I want you

985
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 1: to read over it, and I said okay.

986
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:16,799
Speaker 2: She had all these duties. She said, I want to.

987
00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 1: Work from nine to three Monday through Wednesday, and then

988
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 1: I need to have Thursday through Sunday off. I said, okay,

989
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:31,440
Speaker 1: so what else. Well, you'll see here that I want

990
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 1: to be. You know, I think it's fair. I got,

991
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:38,799
Speaker 1: you know, five thousand dollars a month, I said, and

992
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 1: you get four days off, right. I said, well, it

993
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:46,400
Speaker 1: was nice knowing you. I wish you the best. And

994
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 1: she said, we can't talk about it.

995
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:47,879
Speaker 4: No.

996
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:51,720
Speaker 2: You what you ain't ever even done this before.

997
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:54,920
Speaker 1: This is your first time doing this, and this is

998
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,360
Speaker 1: what you want. This is how you come in like

999
00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:58,880
Speaker 1: you gotta you know, at it's.

1000
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 4: Level, we gotta step up. You go earn it, Come on, man.

1001
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 1: But I mean, it's just the way that they think

1002
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 1: these days. It's a sense of entitlement. It's a microwave society,

1003
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:09,600
Speaker 1: and everybody wants it now.

1004
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:11,400
Speaker 2: And I never came from that.

1005
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 3: I was sticking out, you know, lying on the business

1006
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 3: permit applications when I was, you know, thirteen, saying that

1007
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:33,080
Speaker 3: I was fifteen sixteen, Yeah, riding the bus to the

1008
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:35,239
Speaker 3: mall to get a job. You know. I mean, you see,

1009
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:35,799
Speaker 3: that's what you do.

1010
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:37,960
Speaker 1: That's what you get that work ethic from your parents.

1011
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:40,880
Speaker 1: Like my mom had one job her entire life. She

1012
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 1: started off as a phone operator and that was when

1013
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:48,080
Speaker 1: it was Southern Bell, who then was acquired to become

1014
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 1: Bell South, which then they got to be AT and T.

1015
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:53,799
Speaker 1: But she stayed with the company her whole entire life,

1016
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:57,439
Speaker 1: even to retire. So from being a teenager, she has

1017
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:00,319
Speaker 1: that kind of loyalty. And I started working at the

1018
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:03,319
Speaker 1: age of twelve. I lied and was working at the

1019
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:06,360
Speaker 1: Chinese food restaurant near my neighborhood called the House of Whole,

1020
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 1: and was washing dishes for twenty six dollars over the

1021
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:12,160
Speaker 1: weekend because I just wanted to go out there and

1022
00:44:12,239 --> 00:44:13,240
Speaker 1: just earn my own money.

1023
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:15,320
Speaker 2: I've always been like that. But I watched her work,

1024
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 2: so I'm like, Okay, let me go out there and work.

1025
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:19,400
Speaker 1: You know, I think if you see people grow up

1026
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 1: to be what they see and if you see a

1027
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 1: good role model that's out there working.

1028
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 2: My grandfather, may he rest in peace.

1029
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 1: He worked at Ideal Roller Company for thirty years and

1030
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:32,440
Speaker 1: he worked from two pm to eleven PM. And I

1031
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 1: saw him go out there every day. My other grandfather,

1032
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:38,760
Speaker 1: he had a janitorial service and he worked and worked

1033
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:41,640
Speaker 1: and clean buildings and houses and stuff. I mean, if

1034
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:43,840
Speaker 1: you see work, you're gonna work. But if you see nothing,

1035
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 1: you ain't gonna do nothing.

1036
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:45,279
Speaker 5: No.

1037
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:48,680
Speaker 3: I remember I was I used to intern at this

1038
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:50,239
Speaker 3: kid that was interning for me back when I was

1039
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:52,560
Speaker 3: working in PR. It was over the summer. You know,

1040
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 3: I was kind of missing some things here and there.

1041
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:56,319
Speaker 3: But you know, we tried to work with him. At

1042
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:58,040
Speaker 3: the end of the internship. I'd always kind of sit

1043
00:44:58,040 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 3: down with everybody' be like all right, you know, obviously

1044
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 3: the go here.

1045
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:01,320
Speaker 2: In an exit interview.

1046
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:03,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, but your goal is for you to hopefully like

1047
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 3: transition into like an entry level role in some way.

1048
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:06,799
Speaker 3: And so you know, I was kind of having my

1049
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:08,319
Speaker 3: interview with him just kind of seeing, you know, where

1050
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 3: his head was at. And I'll never forget. We were

1051
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:12,520
Speaker 3: talking and I was like, well, you know, it's been

1052
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:13,960
Speaker 3: a little tough, but you did all right. So have

1053
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:16,359
Speaker 3: you started like looking at roles and stuff like that,

1054
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:18,440
Speaker 3: like entry level? And he was like, yeah, found a role.

1055
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:20,120
Speaker 3: He slid a piece of paper across the desk and

1056
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:24,120
Speaker 3: it was like an SVP level. And at this point,

1057
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 3: I was the vice president at the company. I said,

1058
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:26,680
Speaker 3: so let me get this straight. You want to go

1059
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 3: from intern to SVP. You want to go even higher

1060
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:32,400
Speaker 3: than I currently am here and I've been here for

1061
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 3: like four or five years. And I said, I asked him,

1062
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:36,560
Speaker 3: I said, what makes you think now? You read the

1063
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:40,160
Speaker 3: qualifications on the paper, Like one qualification says you need

1064
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:43,239
Speaker 3: fifteen years of experience, Like, sir, you've been out of

1065
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:45,920
Speaker 3: college for three months. Why do you even think that

1066
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:47,719
Speaker 3: you could apply for this? And he looked me dead

1067
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:49,960
Speaker 3: in my face and he said, my mama said I

1068
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 3: can do whatever I want to do.

1069
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1070
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:54,920
Speaker 4: I said, well, does your mama have fifteen years of experience, because.

1071
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:58,160
Speaker 2: Hey, it'll work if you were.

1072
00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:00,839
Speaker 1: I saw a post today and they were talking about

1073
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:03,839
Speaker 1: and it gives you your credit as well for your

1074
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:06,759
Speaker 1: letters that you wrote that Roger Goodell, who they said

1075
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 1: has made seven hundred million dollars as the NFL commissioner,

1076
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:13,840
Speaker 1: and they were talking about how he got started. He

1077
00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:19,279
Speaker 1: wrote fifty three letters trying to become an intern. True, like,

1078
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 1: this is the commission of the NFL, he said, I

1079
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:24,960
Speaker 1: wrote fifty three letters and finally they called me and

1080
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:29,640
Speaker 1: they said, listen, if you ever in New York stop

1081
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 1: about eight o'clock in the morning, he said, he was

1082
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh. I know that game, and he drove all

1083
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 1: night to make that interview. It's like, and now you

1084
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 1: see he's one of the most powerful people in the world.

1085
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:42,479
Speaker 1: But I'm like, you got to have that gumption that

1086
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:45,120
Speaker 1: that won't to and I just don't see it a

1087
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:46,120
Speaker 1: lot with people now.

1088
00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:47,719
Speaker 2: They don't have that want to.

1089
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:51,600
Speaker 1: If you find somebody and they have that be more

1090
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:54,480
Speaker 1: creative in saying, hey man, what else is it that

1091
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:57,400
Speaker 1: you want to do, and try to encourage those things,

1092
00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 1: because after a while people gonna get board and next thing,

1093
00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:04,680
Speaker 1: you know, hey man, sorry Brandon Man, you know, but

1094
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:05,759
Speaker 1: now it's been good.

1095
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:11,319
Speaker 2: But I'm out like wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, She's like,

1096
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 2: you've never.

1097
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:16,279
Speaker 1: Kevin Rathman, right, who owns Rathman State and owns all

1098
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:19,719
Speaker 1: those places. He used to be the head chef at

1099
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:22,840
Speaker 1: the Buckhead Life Restaurants. A lot of people don't know

1100
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:24,920
Speaker 1: this right, and he'll tell you the story for himself.

1101
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:26,560
Speaker 1: And he was like he talked to him and he's like, yo,

1102
00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 1: I really want to do my own restaurant.

1103
00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:32,600
Speaker 2: I really want to branch out. Now. All they had

1104
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 2: to do is like, you know what, cav Yeah, let's

1105
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:35,840
Speaker 2: do this. Let's partner.

1106
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:39,600
Speaker 1: They was like, nah, nine, we want you to stay here,

1107
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 1: and he was like, okay, I'm out. And now he

1108
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:45,960
Speaker 1: owns them near all the Croc Street because he, like

1109
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:48,680
Speaker 1: you said, he bet on himself. And I think a

1110
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:50,879
Speaker 1: lot of times, if people want to partner with you,

1111
00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:53,520
Speaker 1: just go ahead and try to help somebody with their dream,

1112
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:56,360
Speaker 1: because it may end up being, you know, something bigger

1113
00:47:56,400 --> 00:48:00,880
Speaker 1: than anybody could ever imagine. I saw DMX's wife and

1114
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:04,960
Speaker 1: she was talking about how jay Z came to DMX

1115
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:07,720
Speaker 1: and was like, Hey, I'm investing in the Barcolay Center

1116
00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:11,279
Speaker 1: and you know, do you want to do it? Put

1117
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:13,719
Speaker 1: in a million dollars and his wife was like, yeah,

1118
00:48:13,719 --> 00:48:15,360
Speaker 1: we should do that. He was like, I don't know,

1119
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:17,360
Speaker 1: and you saw what it ended up being. And she

1120
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:19,600
Speaker 1: was like, I don't know anything about it, but I

1121
00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:21,400
Speaker 1: knew it seemed like a good idea. But you know

1122
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:23,680
Speaker 1: they always say the person who is the most dangerous

1123
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:27,000
Speaker 1: individual is a person with no counsel and no conscience

1124
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:29,560
Speaker 1: and you don't care what nobody feels or thinks.

1125
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:31,480
Speaker 2: That's a very dangerous individual.

1126
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:33,279
Speaker 1: And not saying that's what happened with DMX, but a

1127
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:34,759
Speaker 1: lot of people saying that's what we're saying right now,

1128
00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:37,359
Speaker 1: what's going on in the White House. It's like, you

1129
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:40,040
Speaker 1: can't tell that man none right, and he ain't listen

1130
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 1: to nobody.

1131
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 4: He's got all the access, all the power.

1132
00:48:42,560 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 1: I did it you all the way the first time,

1133
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:45,960
Speaker 1: and I fired all those people.

1134
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 2: And this is what I'm doing. And it ain't even

1135
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:49,120
Speaker 2: three weeks.

1136
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 5: Man, get ready what I'm saying right it's going to

1137
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:55,239
Speaker 5: be a buppy frid Like I said, we a month

1138
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:58,440
Speaker 5: in at this point in your life and career, man, Like,

1139
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:00,479
Speaker 5: how would you define like this point in your life

1140
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:00,880
Speaker 5: and career?

1141
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:04,960
Speaker 1: I think I'm trying to pivot into there's a book

1142
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:06,960
Speaker 1: call from Strength to Strength.

1143
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:08,520
Speaker 4: You told me about that and I did read it.

1144
00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:12,399
Speaker 1: I appreciate so you know where and you're younger, way

1145
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:15,879
Speaker 1: younger than me, but it talks about how eventually all

1146
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:18,640
Speaker 1: of your skills are going to start to diminish and

1147
00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:20,359
Speaker 1: you're no longer going to be the go to guy.

1148
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:22,759
Speaker 2: I had to do this this con. I did a

1149
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:24,600
Speaker 2: thing the other day for they had.

1150
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:28,080
Speaker 1: The HBCU job fair and all these kids are at

1151
00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:30,319
Speaker 1: Banker High School and then there was a step show

1152
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:32,360
Speaker 1: at the end and I was an MC and I

1153
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:35,920
Speaker 1: told the guy in charge, I said, hey, man, I

1154
00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:39,720
Speaker 1: got a team people that do this, And I said,

1155
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:41,839
Speaker 1: I want you to still book me, but I'm going

1156
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 1: to book it and send it.

1157
00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:45,040
Speaker 2: Off to them because these young people are.

1158
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:49,120
Speaker 1: Going to identify with them more than me because they

1159
00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:52,160
Speaker 1: look like them. The thing that motivates me is like

1160
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:57,640
Speaker 1: I'm trying to downsize, right because I've had all the things,

1161
00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:02,400
Speaker 1: the mansions, the ours, all that stuff. I mean, but

1162
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:06,480
Speaker 1: to me now, life, a good life is great food,

1163
00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:12,160
Speaker 1: great company, and somebody that you can trust day by

1164
00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:16,560
Speaker 1: day when you get home. Like my garage at my

1165
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:19,520
Speaker 1: house I live out in Stockbridge. My garage don't work,

1166
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:22,600
Speaker 1: but every day when I get home, the censer goes

1167
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:25,920
Speaker 1: off and my wife knows that I'm there, so she

1168
00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:28,080
Speaker 1: opens the garage and she comes out and I put

1169
00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:31,440
Speaker 1: up on a post and she's greeting me, and the

1170
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:36,600
Speaker 1: look on her face it makes me realize that that's

1171
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:39,840
Speaker 1: what it's all about, right, And I'm never getting that

1172
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:44,840
Speaker 1: garage fixed because to see her every day and to

1173
00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:48,440
Speaker 1: see that look, it makes me understand what is important

1174
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:51,040
Speaker 1: to me. It's like I always tell people, don't try

1175
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:53,920
Speaker 1: to book me on a Friday. There's why, because we

1176
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:55,279
Speaker 1: had booked this on a Friday. Like if this had

1177
00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:58,160
Speaker 1: been a Friday night podcast, I wouldn't be here because

1178
00:50:58,320 --> 00:50:59,040
Speaker 1: when I get my.

1179
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:03,560
Speaker 4: Shoes off, that's it. Bruh, we take them, fuck this

1180
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:07,640
Speaker 4: shit socks on, it's over it.

1181
00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:10,799
Speaker 1: Because to me, if you've done a whole career, I

1182
00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:11,759
Speaker 1: think I probably.

1183
00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:14,000
Speaker 2: Have done I know, ten thousand interviews.

1184
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:17,799
Speaker 1: So nothing gets me like there will be tours that

1185
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 1: I would buy tickets to just to sell because I'm

1186
00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 1: not going because I've seen it. Like Atlanta. The one

1187
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:27,160
Speaker 1: thing that Atlanta people don't talk about. It's the same

1188
00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:33,000
Speaker 1: four streets right right north side Drive, you know, going

1189
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:36,680
Speaker 1: down to Marrietta or whatever, and every event that goes there,

1190
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:39,160
Speaker 1: what happens. You're going, you have a great time, and

1191
00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:41,520
Speaker 1: then you're stuck in traffic for two hours to get out.

1192
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:43,440
Speaker 2: It's like, okay, I'm not doing that.

1193
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 1: I would rarely go see Usher in Tampa or in Vegas,

1194
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:52,080
Speaker 1: or go see you know, the weekend in New Orleans,

1195
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:55,760
Speaker 1: where at least I got something to do afterwards.

1196
00:51:55,800 --> 00:51:59,040
Speaker 2: Like we cannot change that, but we keep building stuff.

1197
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:01,960
Speaker 2: You got to and now you've got State Farm Marina,

1198
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:04,080
Speaker 2: and now you got a hotel. And now when they.

1199
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:08,480
Speaker 1: Get the Golts developed, it's gonna be and the world

1200
00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:09,440
Speaker 1: covers come here.

1201
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:14,480
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a come on man, Like, No, I

1202
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:18,160
Speaker 2: just can't. I don't. I can't entertain that space.

1203
00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 1: I'm one of those people like I go to a

1204
00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:23,200
Speaker 1: place and they'll be like, yo, Ryan, come over to

1205
00:52:23,239 --> 00:52:25,440
Speaker 1: such and such and I'll drive around the parking lot

1206
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 1: and if I can't find a space, I'm like, this

1207
00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:30,719
Speaker 1: is God, this is God telling me that I need

1208
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:33,279
Speaker 1: And they're like, where you're at, man, Man, I'm back

1209
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:33,800
Speaker 1: at the crib.

1210
00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:38,160
Speaker 4: Just I can't do it. But I like my house, yeah, man,

1211
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 4: like my mind being there.

1212
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:40,520
Speaker 2: Man, I pay for it.

1213
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:44,600
Speaker 1: My neighbors are like a movie set. Bro, I haven't

1214
00:52:44,640 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 1: seen I've been there over a year, and I think

1215
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:49,920
Speaker 1: I might have seen one person and she was walking

1216
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:52,520
Speaker 1: a cat on a leash. So I'm feeling like I'm

1217
00:52:52,520 --> 00:52:55,920
Speaker 1: in some kind of like nether World upside down space man,

1218
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,279
Speaker 1: cause I don't see anybody that's fire with me.

1219
00:52:58,480 --> 00:52:59,440
Speaker 4: I'm good peace.

1220
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:02,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, look, man, before we get out of here, my

1221
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:06,040
Speaker 3: last question for you is just what is a piece

1222
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:08,160
Speaker 3: of advice that you kind of go by that you

1223
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:10,160
Speaker 3: know they kind of help drive and helps you, you know,

1224
00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:10,920
Speaker 3: stay motivated.

1225
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:13,640
Speaker 1: It ain't mine. I mean I and I gave this

1226
00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:16,040
Speaker 1: to him and he didn't remember. He's funny.

1227
00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:18,600
Speaker 2: Lokoj was on the show and he's got a.

1228
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:21,560
Speaker 1: Book and in one of the passages at the very end,

1229
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:25,600
Speaker 1: he talks about dreams not having deadlines. And I say

1230
00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:30,160
Speaker 1: to people, you know, stop putting timetable limits on yourself.

1231
00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:32,400
Speaker 1: You know a lot of times we like to say,

1232
00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:34,799
Speaker 1: you know, said, oh man, by time I'm thirty, I

1233
00:53:34,840 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 1: need to be doing this and doing that. And by

1234
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:38,960
Speaker 1: the time I'm twenty five. You know, they got they

1235
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:41,960
Speaker 1: call it the quarter life crisis. Right where you were

1236
00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:45,400
Speaker 1: putting these these limits or these timelines or these deadlines

1237
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:48,279
Speaker 1: on things that you want to have accomplished or where

1238
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:50,239
Speaker 1: you should be in your life, and I don't think

1239
00:53:50,239 --> 00:53:53,480
Speaker 1: it works like that. God will place things in their

1240
00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:56,920
Speaker 1: proper perspective based on how you are aligning.

1241
00:53:56,440 --> 00:53:59,040
Speaker 2: Yourself with what you're supposed to do in your life.

1242
00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:03,400
Speaker 1: Right me, going through therapy is like it's a major

1243
00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:06,160
Speaker 1: thing where you got to realize, what is it that

1244
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:09,000
Speaker 1: made my intent of crooked? Why can't I see this

1245
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:12,280
Speaker 1: foolishness coming? Or why was I more not as discerning?

1246
00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:14,600
Speaker 1: Or why did I not have boundaries? And you have

1247
00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:16,680
Speaker 1: to go through all those things and once you're starting

1248
00:54:16,719 --> 00:54:19,200
Speaker 1: to straighten those things out, you'll see things straighten out

1249
00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:19,840
Speaker 1: in your life.

1250
00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:23,560
Speaker 2: Until you work on yourself. This is a great analogy. Right.

1251
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:27,600
Speaker 2: One of my friends said this, he said, what are you?

1252
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:32,919
Speaker 1: Are you Tarzan? Are you Spider Man? And I was like, man,

1253
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:36,040
Speaker 1: what the hell are you talking about? He said a

1254
00:54:36,080 --> 00:54:39,120
Speaker 1: lot of times with us, when you're successful, right, you

1255
00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:40,920
Speaker 1: will be Tarzan.

1256
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:44,200
Speaker 2: And what Tarzan does he goes from one rope and

1257
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:45,399
Speaker 2: he grabs the next rope.

1258
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:47,359
Speaker 1: So you go for one thing, and you grab the

1259
00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:49,200
Speaker 1: next thing, and you go for one thing, and if

1260
00:54:49,239 --> 00:54:51,000
Speaker 1: you hold on too long, it's gonna pull you back,

1261
00:54:51,200 --> 00:54:55,240
Speaker 1: right you know. But Spider Man, he'll shoot a web

1262
00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:56,440
Speaker 1: and he'll go to that building.

1263
00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:57,719
Speaker 2: Then he'll just float.

1264
00:54:57,560 --> 00:55:01,040
Speaker 1: Down sometimes and just hang there and then he'll hit

1265
00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:04,160
Speaker 1: something else. Like you gotta be more Spider Man than

1266
00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:06,640
Speaker 1: Tarzan sitting on from one thing to the next thing

1267
00:55:06,760 --> 00:55:09,800
Speaker 1: to the next thing. Just kind of hang for a minute, man,

1268
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:13,680
Speaker 1: and let it unfold and then latch onto something else.

1269
00:55:14,239 --> 00:55:15,919
Speaker 2: And I was like, man, that's pretty damn dope.

1270
00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:18,279
Speaker 1: He was like, you can have that because it makes

1271
00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:20,400
Speaker 1: sense when you think about it, because as we go

1272
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:23,279
Speaker 1: through life, we're always trying to grab on to the

1273
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:26,040
Speaker 1: next thing, and we never celebrate the wins or just

1274
00:55:26,120 --> 00:55:28,600
Speaker 1: kind of be still and just float like a Spider

1275
00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:29,040
Speaker 1: Man would do.

1276
00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:30,520
Speaker 2: We so busy trying to be Tarzan.

1277
00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:33,359
Speaker 1: So my advice would like dreams, don't have deadlines, man,

1278
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:34,879
Speaker 1: but try to be Spider Man.

1279
00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:36,160
Speaker 2: I like that.

1280
00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:39,600
Speaker 4: Hey, Spider Man versus Tarzan, Spider Man versus Targe to

1281
00:55:39,719 --> 00:55:40,359
Speaker 4: use that one man.

1282
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:44,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, Ryn Man, I appreciate it. Again, always have

1283
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:46,319
Speaker 3: admired the work you've done. And I'm just happy that

1284
00:55:46,480 --> 00:55:49,440
Speaker 3: to consider you a friend. Somebody connect with our friends,

1285
00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:52,080
Speaker 3: and I consider we are friends.

1286
00:55:52,400 --> 00:55:53,479
Speaker 4: We actually do talk.

1287
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:56,200
Speaker 3: We actually our friends, you know. But no, man, I

1288
00:55:56,200 --> 00:55:58,040
Speaker 3: really appreciate you pulling up to the podcast, man.

1289
00:55:58,200 --> 00:55:59,840
Speaker 1: I appreciate it, man, and now and continue to do

1290
00:56:00,040 --> 00:56:01,560
Speaker 1: all the things you're doing. Man, I appreciate you.

1291
00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:03,160
Speaker 4: Bro absolutely man. And that's the pod.

1292
00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:03,399
Speaker 2: Y'all.

1293
00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:06,359
Speaker 3: We out you've been listening to button Nomics and I'm

1294
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:09,520
Speaker 3: your host, Brandon Butler. Got comments, feedback? Want to be

1295
00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:11,640
Speaker 3: on the show. Send us an email today at hello

1296
00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:13,320
Speaker 3: at butternomics dot com.

1297
00:56:13,520 --> 00:56:14,879
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00:56:14,560 --> 00:56:18,240
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1299
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1300
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