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Speaker 1: Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Coleen Wit and today we have very

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Speaker 1: special guests, Cafe Bourbon Street owners Mark Kel and Janessa Amos.

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Speaker 2: I got it.

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited to have you guys here today.

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Speaker 3: We're exciting here.

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Speaker 4: Thanks for having me, and I'm excited that you are

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Speaker 4: restaurant owners and you are going to be feeding me.

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Speaker 4: The unfortunate side of this conversation is not going to

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Speaker 4: be what I could get at the restaurant, right, but

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Speaker 4: let's find out what you're going to be feeding me today.

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Speaker 5: Come on, you know it's so we got that balloon

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Speaker 5: and fried balloona sandwich, right, We're gonna do it. You

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Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, seven wall style, that's my I'm

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Speaker 5: from New Orleans. It ain't seven wall stop, but that's

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Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. Uh Now, normally, let's see

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Speaker 5: what kind of man is we got. Normally use blue plate,

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Speaker 5: they make blue plate in the seventh wall.

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Speaker 1: But this is okay. So we got the male, the mustard,

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Speaker 1: the butter, what else?

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Speaker 5: Oh, we got ballooney of course with the red strip.

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Speaker 5: You gotta get the red strip bologna because then because

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Speaker 5: like the red strip like your avatar, right, you're gonna

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Speaker 5: you're gonna fry with the red strip on it. Then

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Speaker 5: you chew the red strip before you eat the sands, right, okay,

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Speaker 5: And you got the mustard, real light on the mustard.

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Speaker 5: And they got some bread. And now this bread fancy,

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Speaker 5: that's artists and breade. I used regular bread and cheese, American.

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Speaker 6: Cheese, you know.

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Speaker 4: Okay, so you're gonna feed us younger younger. So while

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Speaker 4: you get to started, I'm gonna throw do what's right.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna judge it.

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Speaker 6: How you make it Bologna. You want to skill it

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Speaker 6: high because you got.

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Speaker 1: To hear that are you're going to use both skillets

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Speaker 1: or what you see it too? You seed it three people.

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Speaker 6: We got enough bread for three sandwiches. So yeah we're

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Speaker 6: gonna use two challenging you.

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Speaker 7: You toasting the bread, I'm gonna the bread. Yeah, okay, okay,

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Speaker 7: fancy come on.

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Speaker 1: So take take us back to the fancy blooney fried

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Speaker 1: balooney and cheese. Appetize the red ring sandwich. It really

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you're serious about eating the ring

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Speaker 1: on the You fried with the.

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Speaker 6: Ring on it. You don't take it off. Some people

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Speaker 6: take it off. I don't take it off.

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Speaker 1: I've never in the history of doing the show, I've

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Speaker 1: had fried Blooney sandwiches, but I've never had it with the.

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Speaker 6: Red It's what you snack on while you're getting the sandwich.

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Speaker 1: Your let's see this butter.

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Speaker 6: I won't do no, but it's enough grease in this.

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Speaker 1: Okay, teach me, teach me.

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Speaker 6: We're gonna let the heat it.

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Speaker 1: You don't even need the butter.

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Speaker 6: I need the butter the toaster.

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Speaker 1: Ok.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, once.

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Speaker 4: School me, school me on the broke side. So what

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Speaker 4: was going on on the fried bloney sandwich's side of life?

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Speaker 7: Uh?

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Speaker 5: I ain't gonna lie like it's a struggle meal. But

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Speaker 5: at the time, you you don't know you're struggling. It's

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Speaker 5: like this shit good, you know.

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Speaker 2: What I mean?

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Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying. So like it was just

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Speaker 6: me and my quote unquote siblings.

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Speaker 5: There was all my cousins, but we grew up in

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Speaker 5: one big house with our grandparents.

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Speaker 1: So I mean your grandparents, not your parents.

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Speaker 5: No, no, no, because they was young too, so we

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Speaker 5: was all growing together.

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Speaker 1: You know, So you were teen parents?

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Speaker 6: No, No, they weren't teens, but they was in the

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Speaker 6: streets still. Okay.

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Speaker 5: So my mom had me when she was twenty eight,

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Speaker 5: and she was I think the drugs.

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Speaker 6: So when she had me, the.

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Speaker 5: Hospital was like either he grew up for adoption or

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Speaker 5: you find some family that.

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Speaker 6: I take them.

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Speaker 5: So luckily she lived with her mom and dad still

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Speaker 5: and she was like, all right, go to grandparents, and

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Speaker 5: I was she was still with me.

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Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, So after that it was.

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Speaker 5: I mean, but all of the grandkids stayed there.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, we was all all of your grandparents. Her

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Speaker 4: kids escaped their kids back to her. It was like,

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Speaker 4: you're never retiring. You're never retiring.

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Speaker 6: New Orleans is a very like community driven city.

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Speaker 5: Like so like you know, the house is like two

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Speaker 6: So there's just this culture of everybody being in one

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Speaker 5: So like even if the parents wanted to keep us

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Speaker 5: at their house when they got their own, we would

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Speaker 5: still find our way back to the seventh Wall.

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Speaker 6: We wasn't.

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Speaker 5: We ain't were like like for like my mama moved

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Speaker 5: to the eight Wall, I ain't gonna stay there. I'm

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Speaker 5: in the seventh Wall. Then my cousin's mom and then

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Speaker 5: moved to the Ninth Wall. Every time they got over there,

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Speaker 5: they right back in the Seventh Walk.

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Speaker 1: When you say walls, what is this like?

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Speaker 6: So it's really war.

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Speaker 5: But you know, we don't finish our words in the

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Speaker 5: south Okay, like the last two it was not, so

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Speaker 5: you know, in those separated wards.

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Speaker 6: So that's how we call it, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 6: They tell you the east side, west side.

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Speaker 1: Okay, but the seventh was where it was.

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Speaker 6: Seven, Yeah, which is the biggest war.

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Speaker 5: So you know, most likely it's a lot of people

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Speaker 5: from the Seventh Walk because that's the biggest section in

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Speaker 5: New Orleans.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So was it more about the Seventh Ward or was

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Speaker 1: it about living with grams?

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Speaker 5: It was just about living with our grandparents, because when

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Speaker 5: you live with older people, you tend to be more

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Speaker 5: independent because they're not going to take care of you.

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Speaker 5: They sickly taking care of the young. So we just

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Speaker 5: became independent. To what ship At four years old, you

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Speaker 5: was cooking your own food on the store. Yeah, I

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Speaker 5: was trying belonging that folk.

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Speaker 1: So this is where this story started. Yeah, and you

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Speaker 1: were excited about this because it was the last time you.

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Speaker 6: Had the last time I had it probably pandemic. Right

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Speaker 6: about the pandemic.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, having success was.

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Speaker 5: Well, now the pandemic was a choice, and that was

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Speaker 5: a fancy version. I went to publics and I went

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Speaker 5: to the Delhi because what happens is it's funny. Right

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Speaker 5: during the pandemic, all the daily meat was sold out

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Speaker 5: because you know, everybody like even walked by the daily

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Speaker 5: it was full, and I'm like, damn, this the good

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Speaker 5: fresh meat. So we just got the blowing out the

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Speaker 5: del They got a gallic blonging in public spire. So yeah,

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Speaker 5: I'm like, man could belong because you couldn't really get

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Speaker 5: food like that. So that was a struggle mal by.

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Speaker 6: You know, choice, Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.

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Speaker 1: So okay, so take me through this journey of the non.

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Speaker 3: Choice first non choice.

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Speaker 6: So I mean that was just you know, me being

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Speaker 6: a little hood booker taking off. Damn I take it off.

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Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, for sure, I got you. I got you

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Speaker 7: Okay, you might feel another one in there, Okay, okay,

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Speaker 7: so four year old you is slapping bologney on hands.

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Speaker 1: Take me through it.

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Speaker 5: So basically, I mean, you know, me and my siblings

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Speaker 5: are going in the kitchen. We're eating today, you know,

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Speaker 5: what I mean.

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Speaker 1: So you did have siblings, not just cousins.

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Speaker 6: Nah, I called it because we all grew up in

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Speaker 6: the same house.

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Speaker 5: So it's gonna come out like that all the time

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Speaker 5: because it's just how you know, I said, But his cousin,

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Speaker 5: it's like all my first.

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Speaker 1: Cousins, So you have actual siblings.

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Speaker 6: Nah, So you know he is gonna be sugar bread

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Speaker 6: or blown the sandwich.

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Speaker 2: You know, he had sugar bread, you know, and it

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Speaker 2: was normal for you, right like.

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Speaker 6: In today's world they call it rough.

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Speaker 5: But when you're growing up with no social media, like

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Speaker 5: everything was gravy because we were playing outside, so we

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Speaker 5: was rich and out here, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 5: So you know, but see looking stun the bubble love.

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Speaker 5: I gotta flip it. I had to get it even cook.

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Speaker 5: But what was the question again?

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Speaker 1: I was just trying to get the whole scope of

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Speaker 1: your upbringing from the bro face.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: So I mean, you know, just living with grandparents, it

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Speaker 5: was home alone a lot, so you learned a lot

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Speaker 5: of kids home alone, a lot, a lot of kids

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's like a kid party.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it was li I'm.

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Speaker 5: Telling you, like I tell people all the time. My

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Speaker 5: childhood fire Like we was independent. We was home alone,

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Speaker 5: we was cooking, we was leaving out when we want to,

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Speaker 5: coming in, we want to, no bedtime.

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Speaker 6: None of that. So you really learned to just be independent.

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Speaker 1: So what kind of trouble did you get into?

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Speaker 6: Oh too much.

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Speaker 1: Let's let's see through the high school. How was you

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Speaker 6: High school? I got kicked out of every high school

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Speaker 6: I went to.

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Speaker 5: I went to alternative school, and then I went to

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Speaker 5: I got put in the boarding school where you got

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Speaker 5: to live there, and so that was like jail for

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Speaker 5: high school.

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Speaker 1: That was I decision was boarding school, my mam was But.

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Speaker 5: At the same time, I couldn't go nowhere else, no

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Speaker 5: public school exceptment.

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Speaker 1: What were you doing in school?

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Speaker 6: That's fighting?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm like, I'm yellow, yeah, me, So all the

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Speaker 5: girls wanted me by default, and dudes just don't like

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Speaker 5: you because of that. You know, when they're around and

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Speaker 5: the girls talking and you ain't doing nothing, They're like,

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Speaker 5: all right, I'm telling you.

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Speaker 6: I got in so many fights just because just because yeah,

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Speaker 6: because I was yellow.

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Speaker 5: But I also was a salesman, so like I was

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Speaker 5: super diplomatic because I like getting my money from school.

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Speaker 6: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: So getting your money from school? What do you mean?

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Speaker 6: I just sold stuff all the time.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you were you started entrepreneuring very young.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, so yeah, so that part I got

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Speaker 5: a Yeah, I got a So back to what you say.

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Speaker 5: In the Seventh War, my family own the clothing store

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Speaker 5: and like right there in front of the bridge in

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Speaker 5: the Seventh War. So but it was owned by like four, five,

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Speaker 5: six family members, so it wasn't no money, but we

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Speaker 5: had influence in the community in a sense because you

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Speaker 5: know there's like a hub we sold football rocker well

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Speaker 5: like all the big brands at the time.

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Speaker 2: Uh who was.

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Speaker 6: Look, I'm burning my belong it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah he was Muslim, so I thank god for him.

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Speaker 6: So I just became a natural salesmance. So by the

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Speaker 7: You have.

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Speaker 6: And I can't blow it.

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Speaker 5: And they liked us because they were dules every weekend

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Speaker 5: Ten thousand hours. Yeah yeah, yeah, you lost every day.

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Speaker 5: Like so the insurance is the person who owned that

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Speaker 6: But I will say, like we need no insurance money.

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Speaker 5: Because everything that was important we got out of just

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Speaker 5: And so his philosophy was R. P. J. Mel Uh

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Speaker 6: It was.

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Speaker 5: Basically, got I blessed us with this body that he

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Speaker 5: And so it's like, you know, knowing that, it's like

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Speaker 6: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: I can see where that's a deeper message than the

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Speaker 6: Yeah I'm about yeah, yeah, work is freight. That's how

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Speaker 5: Like you know, if you go to the gym and

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Speaker 5: You're still gonna gain muscle. And that's how you look

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Speaker 2: You know what I mean.

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Speaker 6: So you know he taught me that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I like that. That's a good one for sure.

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Speaker 1: Next next month zone at the.

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Speaker 5: Katrina it was just you know, navigating through the schools

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Speaker 1: Because oh you're still how old were you at I

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Speaker 6: That was fun. I ain't gonna lie.

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Speaker 5: And then at the alternative school, I went to Piney

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Speaker 6: So that was the hell of experience because I had

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Speaker 5: Away from my family. I had never been in an

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Speaker 5: So that really broke me and built me up at

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Speaker 4: Is that where you found you were building building up

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Like, it just showed me how to be with myself,

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Speaker 5: You got four walls. That's the down parents act like

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Speaker 5: they got bloods, crips, gds. So you know, you really

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Speaker 6: Now. Luckily I know Celles. So I'm in that thing. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 6: I'm in that thing. I'm real cool with everybody here.

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Speaker 6: I'm selling them.

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Speaker 6: I don't know if I can say that. Yeah, I mean, well, no,

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Speaker 6: I mean this ain't really nothing.

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Speaker 5: It was these things called yrs right, And I got

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Speaker 5: Moore and you sit there. If you said Arne pills

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Speaker 6: Good. So if you said Arione peels in the sun

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Speaker 1: Orange peels on the South.

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Speaker 5: And then you guys, you want them to get high

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Speaker 5: So it was called yorks And man, I made a

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Nah?

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Speaker 5: So you could go home on some weekends. So you

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Speaker 1: And you weren't scared about going back and get a rock.

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Speaker 6: No, no, no, because I'm diplomatic. I'm really you know

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Speaker 5: So this the school, I ain't had to fight nobody

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Speaker 5: a different level of respect in this place versus like

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Speaker 5: get me.

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean.

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Speaker 6: I gotta go to bed.

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Speaker 5: And so while each sell what I said, why each room,

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Speaker 5: I'm coming through.

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna text you, you know what I mean. So

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Speaker 1: Good blog.

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Speaker 3: Okay, when do we get the advertiser?

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Speaker 6: I got you.

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Speaker 1: Earlier.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, I'm going to miss out on the guy.

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Speaker 5: So take your ballooning, take the ridge joint off, and

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Speaker 5: then I'm gonna take your blonga back.

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Speaker 3: You're gonna to bread.

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna toast the whole thing. This this, this is

450
00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:46,720
Speaker 6: the chef of the family.

451
00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:49,119
Speaker 1: You don't mess this up.

452
00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:51,359
Speaker 6: She like she likes se her in the kitchen.

453
00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:54,600
Speaker 1: We pulled the red broom off like this.

454
00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:57,280
Speaker 6: There you go, and we ain't got one some of

455
00:20:57,359 --> 00:20:59,040
Speaker 6: the jit we were do it.

456
00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:04,960
Speaker 7: Then here's my little blooney back get her belonging.

457
00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:07,240
Speaker 6: This one on the pan.

458
00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:12,439
Speaker 7: You don't put it in the pan, Blooney, set it.

459
00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:12,960
Speaker 6: On top of that.

460
00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:14,560
Speaker 1: Okay, I got.

461
00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:17,920
Speaker 2: I can't wait to try this, y'all.

462
00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:20,280
Speaker 6: Got I don't know. I don't know what I'm doing

463
00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:23,359
Speaker 6: a lot of pressure right now with the knife in

464
00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:23,640
Speaker 6: the fall.

465
00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:28,919
Speaker 3: Okay, so real much all he put me on bologna.

466
00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:29,240
Speaker 3: I didn't.

467
00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:33,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we don't appetize the.

468
00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:37,960
Speaker 6: Chair, so we just but we ain't too you know,

469
00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:44,520
Speaker 6: know who, we like it, So you just you're gonna

470
00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:46,240
Speaker 6: eat it just to get the loan.

471
00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:47,520
Speaker 3: You get the little meat off.

472
00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:51,520
Speaker 6: Here and then you just throw it away.

473
00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:54,000
Speaker 1: But by the time that I almost tried to eat it.

474
00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:56,639
Speaker 6: No, no, no, no, do that. I'm not responsible for that.

475
00:21:57,160 --> 00:21:58,359
Speaker 3: Oh my god, it's so salty.

476
00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:03,879
Speaker 5: Yeah, I like the crush on formalized m hm. So

477
00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:05,240
Speaker 5: I'm about to eat the balloon the back up of

478
00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:06,560
Speaker 5: y'all so I can get these sandwiches.

479
00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:09,639
Speaker 6: What was saying?

480
00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:10,440
Speaker 1: I like it.

481
00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:18,359
Speaker 7: It's different appetising this grill balloon sell for sure.

482
00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:21,240
Speaker 1: I'm glad you. I'm glad. I asked if it was

483
00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:21,840
Speaker 1: plastic or.

484
00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:23,240
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't eat that.

485
00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:26,240
Speaker 3: I was like, I mean, what is it though? It

486
00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:30,440
Speaker 3: gotta be you gotta be edible, right, No, I don't know.

487
00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:31,800
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're supposed to take it off

488
00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:33,800
Speaker 1: before you cook it or out there, but be glad

489
00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:34,600
Speaker 1: to eat the red part.

490
00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:40,000
Speaker 6: No, that's just yeah, yeah, yeah, that's not normal.

491
00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:42,239
Speaker 4: Okay, So take us back because I want to get

492
00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:44,920
Speaker 4: to the part where you and the love meat man,

493
00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:46,680
Speaker 4: and then the success and nothing.

494
00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:49,680
Speaker 1: The money comes next. I want to I want to know,

495
00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:51,119
Speaker 1: but but I want to inch up to it.

496
00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:54,359
Speaker 4: So what's the next chapter after you successfully get out

497
00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:55,800
Speaker 4: of the fake jail?

498
00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:56,840
Speaker 6: The fake jail? Right?

499
00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:02,280
Speaker 5: So I went into my tenth grade year at this

500
00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:07,120
Speaker 5: high school called Florence in the middle of Ringing County

501
00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:11,960
Speaker 5: in Mississippi, and I hated this place. I hated just

502
00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:14,320
Speaker 5: being in the middle of Mississippi. Like, so every day

503
00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:15,960
Speaker 5: after school I was just going to computer and just

504
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:19,560
Speaker 5: work on music. I was a rapper, so I would

505
00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:22,440
Speaker 5: just come home, write music, go on Facebook promoted, and

506
00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:24,639
Speaker 5: I just post on people. You know, Facebook got the walls.

507
00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:27,200
Speaker 5: I just post on their walls all day, just post

508
00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:30,080
Speaker 5: my links. And I fucked around and found her page,

509
00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:34,720
Speaker 5: and you know, people had two Facebook pages at the time.

510
00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:38,240
Speaker 5: So I DM her first page. I'm like, yo, it's

511
00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:43,520
Speaker 5: am like me you yeah, And I got no response.

512
00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:45,960
Speaker 5: Sorted left me on red Oh you.

513
00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:49,000
Speaker 7: Saw it and didn't I thought I was that guy,

514
00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:53,040
Speaker 7: you know what I mean, And so I probably just

515
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:53,960
Speaker 7: wasn't paying attention.

516
00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:56,119
Speaker 5: I don't know what happened. I don't think she like

517
00:23:56,200 --> 00:24:01,480
Speaker 5: read niggas for real anyway, Uh what I was about

518
00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:08,480
Speaker 5: to say. So she wound up responding to a DM

519
00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:12,320
Speaker 5: on her second page, and you know, one thing led

520
00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:14,160
Speaker 5: to another and we just ended up at the mall.

521
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:15,200
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying.

522
00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:19,040
Speaker 5: We were sixteen, and uh we've been rocking every since.

523
00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:20,680
Speaker 5: She put up my grandma house in a little mini

524
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:24,720
Speaker 5: coop the foreign and I took her to McDonald's. Okay,

525
00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:28,480
Speaker 5: she took me to McDonald's, but I'm saying my idea,

526
00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,320
Speaker 5: I'm not going to McDonald I kept it real player.

527
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:35,200
Speaker 5: I got some chicken nuggets. She ain't get nothing because

528
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:37,720
Speaker 5: she don't eat this stuff. I'm the only one from

529
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:38,080
Speaker 5: the hood.

530
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:43,000
Speaker 1: Oh so you're not from the contry girl.

531
00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:43,680
Speaker 6: Yeah.

532
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:49,480
Speaker 1: He was like, yo, let's go to a stop McDonalds. Yeah,

533
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:50,680
Speaker 1: what did you pick up the door?

534
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:51,080
Speaker 7: No?

535
00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:54,520
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't want to, So you just sat

536
00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:54,920
Speaker 1: there and watching.

537
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:55,440
Speaker 7: Yeah.

538
00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:58,639
Speaker 1: We just kind of kicked it on first day. Okay,

539
00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:00,920
Speaker 1: the one from dump.

540
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:05,679
Speaker 6: Yeah, let me get on my arm.

541
00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:07,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm like, it's sewing gum.

542
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:12,600
Speaker 6: I got carried away. I got excited. Uh what I

543
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:14,960
Speaker 6: was about to say, So, she actually, if you knew

544
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 6: I was the one trying to get this off. The

545
00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:18,479
Speaker 6: heat on my ballooning.

546
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:19,919
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm on my cheese, melty.

547
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:23,119
Speaker 2: Okay, he's what you want, he.

548
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,879
Speaker 6: Talked, I'm gonna use this nephing.

549
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:27,760
Speaker 2: You want to hear it?

550
00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:32,040
Speaker 1: Take my plate you got you're well, you're watching you struggle.

551
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:35,440
Speaker 6: I don't be cooking, Okay, I'll just be easy. It's

552
00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:36,200
Speaker 6: backwards today.

553
00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:40,280
Speaker 1: So well, that's because because you was the real struggle.

554
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:44,879
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I was doing the one struggle. That's crazy. Uh,

555
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:46,879
Speaker 6: what were we all?

556
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:48,600
Speaker 1: Right? We just wanted to know if you knew from

557
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:49,840
Speaker 1: sixteen if she was the one.

558
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:50,560
Speaker 6: Yes, I did.

559
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:52,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like a feeling you get. You know what

560
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:54,520
Speaker 5: I'm saying, It's like a feeling you get. I don't

561
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:56,359
Speaker 5: know how to explain it. She always asks me to explain.

562
00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:57,560
Speaker 5: I'm like, I can't explain it.

563
00:25:58,040 --> 00:25:59,760
Speaker 6: But it's just a feeling you get, man, you know.

564
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:02,920
Speaker 5: And then I'm a sucker for country women, so like,

565
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,480
Speaker 5: you know, I know that to me, I think the

566
00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 5: real exactic woman of this world is a country woman,

567
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 5: you know. But you know, everybody want to go to

568
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:14,840
Speaker 5: these other countries and ship, so you know. Yeah, but

569
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,080
Speaker 5: when I saw I knew she was the one, you know,

570
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:19,760
Speaker 5: because she country.

571
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:21,480
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh.

572
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:26,680
Speaker 4: Okay, so y'all meet and then y'all cross paths. You're

573
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:29,600
Speaker 4: in Mississippi at this point, you guys be in Mississippi

574
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:31,960
Speaker 4: and you guys go, don't go to the same high

575
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:32,480
Speaker 4: schools or no.

576
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:36,280
Speaker 5: She lived now, she lived like fifty minutes away from me. Yeah,

577
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:41,879
Speaker 5: fifty So like this all the eyes against us, right.

578
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:43,640
Speaker 6: You know what I mean? But nah, we made it work.

579
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:47,080
Speaker 5: Our first conversation, I called off the house phone because

580
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:50,760
Speaker 5: my phone, you know, Bill wasn't paid someone right, right,

581
00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:52,640
Speaker 5: I don't know, caught off the house phone. We talked,

582
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:56,640
Speaker 5: and we talked five six hours. Yeah yeah, I told

583
00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:58,120
Speaker 5: her like I told her alive. I was like, yeah,

584
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:05,000
Speaker 5: my phone broke or something like that. Yeah yeah yeah yeah.

585
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 6: My key to bologna sandwich is like mustard, not too much.

586
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 1: Yeah. I noticed that you feel like you just want.

587
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:12,440
Speaker 6: To live Twain. You don't want to you know what

588
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 6: I'm saying, Musty strong must of the hit you ass you?

589
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:17,680
Speaker 7: Yeah?

590
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:20,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, so we got the mail the mustard.

591
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:23,560
Speaker 6: Now we're gonna cheese on the bologna.

592
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:24,639
Speaker 1: Okay, all right?

593
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:29,960
Speaker 6: Boloona SAMs usually don't take this long. Okay, I'm talking.

594
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 1: That's okay. We're gonna don't worry. She's gonna take over soon.

595
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 1: Don't take over, because I know you don't build a

596
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 1: you don't build a restaurant, multiple restaurants without facing some

597
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 1: kind of Oh.

598
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, trauma, trauma, he worked, trauma make you a gangster.

599
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you guys, they.

600
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 4: Fast forward to the next big milestone between the both

601
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:58,199
Speaker 4: because now there has to be.

602
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 6: A big We both graduated, well ship, we broke up.

603
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:03,919
Speaker 6: We broke up.

604
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,440
Speaker 5: My partner house got raided by SWAT one night and

605
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:09,080
Speaker 5: I pulled up and she blowed my phone up at

606
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:11,399
Speaker 5: the same time, and I'm trying to see the hell

607
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:11,720
Speaker 5: going on.

608
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:14,200
Speaker 6: I picked the phone snap she was out.

609
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:14,680
Speaker 2: Yeah.

610
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:20,480
Speaker 5: No, this nigga got too much. This nigga abuse the

611
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 5: whole time. Like I'm dealing with SWAT while she's blowing

612
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 5: my phone up.

613
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:26,119
Speaker 1: So you heard the conversation going on.

614
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:29,399
Speaker 7: Well no, So, like you said, I guess whatever they

615
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 7: had going on, I'm calling him like ba ba back.

616
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:33,359
Speaker 3: He's not picking up the fine.

617
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 7: You know.

618
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:45,280
Speaker 5: Nigga's like why, I'm like okay, like that time.

619
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 1: Exactly.

620
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that that that was a wild. So we

621
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 5: broke up six month later got back together. Our theme

622
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 5: song was Lil Wayne how to Love when we got

623
00:28:56,320 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 5: backed together. So after that we was like, you know,

624
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 5: I always knew she was gonna be my wife. Let's

625
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:10,640
Speaker 5: start there. So we getting ready to graduate high school.

626
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 5: It's like, what's what's what's the move? She was going

627
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:17,480
Speaker 5: to Florida to go to school for culinary arts and

628
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 5: I was going and I was already doing music. And

629
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 5: I was in school one day and this white boy

630
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:26,240
Speaker 5: had said, he said, hey, man, you ever heard of

631
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 5: full Sell.

632
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 6: He said, your music's dope. You should go there.

633
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 5: So I just googled it and it was a school

634
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 5: for people who want to study like the arts, right,

635
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 5: So I went. I wound up going to school for

636
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 5: entertainment business and while she went to school in Tampa

637
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 5: to be a chef.

638
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:40,480
Speaker 1: Yeah.

639
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was in Orlando, she was in Tampa. So

640
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 5: we both went to college in Florida and we lived

641
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:51,080
Speaker 5: like an hour apart. Oh damn, but you asked me,

642
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 5: that was like the dream scenario, right, We both got

643
00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 5: chanced to focus being our own city. And then like

644
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 5: when I'm missing out, just hopped on the interstate cut

645
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 5: on that he was young. The TM one O three,

646
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 5: y'all never forget because that whole album would take you

647
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 5: to Tampa.

648
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 6: The whole album talked about you know what I mean?

649
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 1: So yeah, the GZ album.

650
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 6: Young Jeezy TAM one O three. Yeah, I bought as

651
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:12,239
Speaker 6: soon as I moved out there.

652
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 1: Okay, I got what year was that?

653
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:18,240
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying? We went the target. Oh

654
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:23,440
Speaker 6: you moved out there? Yeah, it's twenty twelve. Twenty twelve.

655
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 1: I love me some Jesus.

656
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:29,720
Speaker 6: My favorite song on the album is the one with

657
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 6: Trick Daddy.

658
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 5: I can't remember the name, but Trick Daddy snaw oh yeah, yeah, Okay.

659
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 1: So you guys are doing your thing. You finished college,

660
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 1: you finished culinary.

661
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 5: Yeah, or we got to drop out during that process,

662
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:47,640
Speaker 5: we had moved in with each other about a year

663
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:50,120
Speaker 5: and some change a year and a half being out there.

664
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:53,320
Speaker 6: The day after we moved in, she found out she

665
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:56,480
Speaker 6: was pregnant. So we just started the family.

666
00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 4: Yeah with our first girl. She's are putting butter Okay, okay.

667
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 4: I was getting nervous what you're doing now, I'm becoming

668
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 4: more like you on the back.

669
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 6: I need that though, because I will I would have

670
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 6: started spreading that butt on your break.

671
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,120
Speaker 4: Okay, So now you're moving in with a culinary wife,

672
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 4: so you're getting said really good.

673
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 6: But I was getting fair good. So matter. That's one

674
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:24,760
Speaker 6: of the reasons I knew too.

675
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 5: Like when I met at sixteen, she was cooking the

676
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 5: whole Thanksgiving meal for a family of thirty people.

677
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 6: Wow, all on her.

678
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 5: So I'm like, all right, they trusting her with this.

679
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 5: This is crazy on the people we trusted my grandma.

680
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 5: So to see the youngest person in the family cooking

681
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:41,239
Speaker 5: for everybody, everybody, I knew she was different, Like, oh

682
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:44,000
Speaker 5: she built different. So and then she was self taught.

683
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 5: She was a self taught shift at this parent because

684
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 5: they lived in the middle of nowhere. And so I guess,

685
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 5: I guess she could speak for this. But her struggle

686
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 5: meal was not It wasn't a struggle meal. But she

687
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 5: was learning how to cook.

688
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 4: Because kind of like for me, it was more so

689
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 4: like hamburger him. So you learn how to cook for real,

690
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 4: for real. But yeah, but your passion was cooking, Yes,

691
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 4: I always did.

692
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 1: Okay, so you.

693
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 4: Guys are living together, have first baby, baby family, don

694
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 4: it what happens next?

695
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 5: We were sitting in the back of my charger one

696
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 5: night and we just left the gym LA Fitness, and

697
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 5: she was just saying on the way home, and I'm like,

698
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 5: what's wrong. So I got in the back seat with her,

699
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 5: and man, she cried to me because she just was like,

700
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:31,800
Speaker 5: you know what's next?

701
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 6: Like what we finna do? You know what I mean?

702
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 6: Like I'm trying to lose weight.

703
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 5: We gotta make money, but we don't want to put

704
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 5: our child in daycare because we don't trust nobody, you

705
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 5: know what I mean. So I said, you come from

706
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 5: a family of bosses. Her daddy owned a construction company.

707
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 5: I come from a family of boss They don't clothing

708
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 5: the stores. My grandpa in the parking garage and limousine company.

709
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 5: So it was just like, well, let's just start a business.

710
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 5: It wasn't like a let's go find out a job

711
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 5: or something like that. We just went with our first instinct.

712
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 5: And so we started to doing meal deliveries from home.

713
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 5: So she would cook the food and I would run

714
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 5: the Instagram and get customers and get people to order

715
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 5: from us.

716
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 1: So and then I was like, Florida.

717
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 5: It's in Florida, Yeah, yeah, and Orlando. So we were

718
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:16,959
Speaker 5: hopping to duringo and we would ride around to clothing

719
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 5: stores like DT L R, hair salons and stuff like that.

720
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 5: We had a we had a thing that keep the

721
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 5: food hot and plug up into the couple of we blew.

722
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 5: So many fuse about it. Way we take a lot

723
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 5: of parting. But and we would sell out of plates

724
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 5: every day. So I would go with like three hundred

725
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:36,720
Speaker 5: dollars a day. We had fifteen plates, and we would

726
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 5: do fifteen dollars each. Yeah I believe, Yeah, thanks so,

727
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:41,719
Speaker 5: and so it should be three hundred if I'm if

728
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:43,960
Speaker 5: I'm doing the correct but go with three hundred a day,

729
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 5: and we would sell out. We go to carmacks, you

730
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 5: know what I mean, We'll pull up to them. You know,

731
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 5: salesman can't leave. I learned that early. They don't like

732
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 5: to leave lunch.

733
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 6: So I pull up the dodge car, you know, all

734
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 6: all the things on one streing.

735
00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just pulling the block.

736
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, this before you could just post all day,

737
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:07,160
Speaker 5: you know what I mean? You like so because I

738
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 5: come from my bad Oh, I come from perfect. I

739
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 5: come from like hand to hand sales, being in the

740
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:18,279
Speaker 5: streets with the people, that's perfect, thank you. And so

741
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 5: we just went with that our first instinct, but at

742
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 5: the same time we still I was big on collecting data.

743
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 5: So I'm getting emails from everybody. I'm making them follow

744
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 5: the Instagram and every morning I'm sending out an email

745
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 5: with the menu, so they constantly getting here with you,

746
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,360
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. And I'm constantly posting on

747
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:38,359
Speaker 5: Instagram and we just do it that from there, then

748
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:40,800
Speaker 5: we got a catering gig. She didn't want to do it.

749
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 5: You know, she's an artist. So artists never believe in themselves, right,

750
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:47,480
Speaker 5: So I'm the I'm the bugging like we're gonna do it.

751
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:49,800
Speaker 5: You're tripping like this ship we need to sell it.

752
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,359
Speaker 5: And so now we didn't have a niche. We wasn't

753
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 5: doing new all this food we're doing, We're doing everything,

754
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 5: and we started doing catering. Catering I hate because it's

755
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 5: not constant. It's a high profit, but it's not constant,

756
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 5: you know.

757
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 7: What I mean.

758
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,239
Speaker 5: I like day to day business, and so because you

759
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 5: can staff against that and it's just from catering at

760
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:16,840
Speaker 5: the Forster. In the catering, I was like, I was like,

761
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:19,239
Speaker 5: this is all we're gonna do is high profit. Yeah,

762
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 5: sporadic but I ain't.

763
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 1: Trying to run no, and you guys are also raising

764
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:26,279
Speaker 1: the baby at the same yeah, against I like.

765
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 5: But don't get it wrong though, Like we come from

766
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 5: a village, so we was always able to thank God

767
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 5: for my parents, who was always able to.

768
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 6: Be like, look y'all, watch it for two months, because

769
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:36,720
Speaker 6: we're about to do two months.

770
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:42,239
Speaker 5: See her family, they own their own businesses, so they

771
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:45,319
Speaker 5: don't have the pressure of a job and they can't

772
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:45,880
Speaker 5: wait to keep it.

773
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:57,560
Speaker 2: So they was like hell, yes, yeah, yeah, when we.

774
00:35:57,640 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 6: Need to lock in, like right now at this very moment.

775
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, we fired a GM from the food truck three

776
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:06,360
Speaker 5: weeks ago and we sent Nola back to the city

777
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 5: to be with them until we get a person back

778
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:09,839
Speaker 5: in there.

779
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 1: Or just like, I like this.

780
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 6: It's a village, man. People don't like doing that, but

781
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 6: we was.

782
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 5: Raised by village and we know the benefits, you know

783
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 5: what I mean, So you know, yeah, that's the only

784
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:22,399
Speaker 5: way I would do it if I had the kids.

785
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:24,799
Speaker 5: Got to use the village, all right, So I got

786
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:26,480
Speaker 5: the first perfect Blonga sandwich.

787
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 6: Such a good who want to do.

788
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 1: We can split it?

789
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 6: Yeah?

790
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was She's like myself though, Diagne or straight

791
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 5: though diagne or straight?

792
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:42,760
Speaker 6: How are you supposed to cut it diagonal?

793
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:52,799
Speaker 1: So is there a reason why I diagnosed better?

794
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 6: I feel like it is more satisfying. Is it's more satisfying?

795
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 3: Look here, you just take this plate and keep that

796
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 3: on there since the meet here.

797
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:07,279
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, but we're gonna almost judge, I've had a

798
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 4: couple of bolognas. Go ahead, you take that, take my

799
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 4: little making them. Are you comfortable with us trying and

800
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 4: eating before you because we camera.

801
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 3: Show that one. Look at that.

802
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:32,880
Speaker 6: Chet, that sound that on the at the new spot?

803
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 1: Yes, cheers, and I like that the bread is toasted.

804
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 1: Come on you acting like a chef man?

805
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:44,839
Speaker 6: No, mm hmm, come on, come on. But then we're

806
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 6: having it's almost like.

807
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:50,839
Speaker 1: An upgraded up grill cheese. Yeah, really great job.

808
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:52,399
Speaker 3: Oh you did a good job.

809
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 1: Man, did a really good job.

810
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:56,680
Speaker 6: I'm like the Gordon Ramsey bologna.

811
00:37:57,719 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 1: It's funny because you were getting into it, like you

812
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:00,800
Speaker 1: were excited about this.

813
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,279
Speaker 6: This is my specialty. She'd be like cook, like, but

814
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 6: I'm gonna do belongings.

815
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:08,399
Speaker 1: Then, so right now you're sending one of your kids back.

816
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 7: They're but well, right now they're both there because they're

817
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:15,800
Speaker 7: on a school break. The big girl is, but Nola

818
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:19,759
Speaker 7: has been there since like the beginning of January, and

819
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 7: like you said, only because I've been we've been working

820
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:23,279
Speaker 7: at the food trug.

821
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:29,279
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna say, as a woman becoming a

822
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:31,360
Speaker 4: new mom, I would say, like, man, that's gotta be

823
00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 4: very me and a mom, because you can't really the

824
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:36,680
Speaker 4: kids are like I know my house.

825
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 1: My friends make jokes, but like when my daughter and

826
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 1: I around, oh, she's strapped to my back because she

827
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:45,360
Speaker 1: is literally like told me, touch me, kissed me, touched me,

828
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:48,239
Speaker 1: told me sit down. Like I'm like, she'll be like

829
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:52,880
Speaker 1: sitting here next to me. She's too she runs that

830
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 1: house like that. I want to I want to brush

831
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 1: my teeth. The other day and my daughter wanted to

832
00:38:58,600 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 1: be on my back.

833
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:01,840
Speaker 4: We're here visiting it, and I promise you strapped her

834
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:03,520
Speaker 4: to my back just so I could brush my teeth.

835
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 4: I'm like, how how would you not want to murder

836
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:11,359
Speaker 4: everybody if you're trying to work fact And so I'm

837
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:14,320
Speaker 4: relieved to hear that that's clearly how you guys.

838
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 1: Have been able to mata.

839
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:18,360
Speaker 6: That I don't know how to do it. We're just

840
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 6: lucky bless.

841
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 7: Yeah, so there has been times where like they are here, Yeah,

842
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:24,240
Speaker 7: we're working.

843
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's very hard.

844
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:28,839
Speaker 7: Because matter of fact, even when we first had a look,

845
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 7: I think I had to work at the food truck

846
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 7: for some reason, and I'm breastfeeding her at this time.

847
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:38,760
Speaker 3: So like I'm on the truck working cooking stuff.

848
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 7: And I'm like, all right, tuting the truck and feed.

849
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:45,439
Speaker 1: I feel like the breast kids still like they feel

850
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:49,560
Speaker 1: like they own you over whose titty it is?

851
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:52,160
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I'm like, let her laugh.

852
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:54,800
Speaker 1: I'm like, you don't grab my i'mna grab you exactly

853
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:56,759
Speaker 1: how she is, like she puts a hand in my

854
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:58,399
Speaker 1: shirt and girl, get out of here.

855
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:02,920
Speaker 4: Like my daughter had to go to sleep, like rubbing it.

856
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 4: I'm I'm at the new phase of mommy, don't like.

857
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 2: What we're done.

858
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:10,320
Speaker 7: That is.

859
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:14,640
Speaker 1: I had a whole new respect for breastman and bro

860
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:15,279
Speaker 1: after that.

861
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:20,719
Speaker 3: It's different. While I held on for ten months, I

862
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:21,239
Speaker 3: was like the.

863
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:24,440
Speaker 1: Second doctor said you could, you could give up. They

864
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:28,400
Speaker 1: said twelve months, that's it, let's go.

865
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 4: But no, it's it takes a while aween them, and

866
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:32,840
Speaker 4: it takes a while just to like she's still in

867
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 4: the she's and a half, she's still rubbing nipples. Okay,

868
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:53,160
Speaker 4: So I'm glad you figured out the hack and you

869
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:56,160
Speaker 4: have to support there. So you're building this business, you're

870
00:40:56,160 --> 00:41:00,839
Speaker 4: picking up catering orders. Where does Cafe Bird Street into

871
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:01,360
Speaker 4: the line.

872
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:05,719
Speaker 5: We would always go to like trust together dates, so

873
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 5: we like events, so like you know, we'll find out

874
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 5: what's going on around the city.

875
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:13,239
Speaker 6: And we we like going to food truck events because

876
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 6: we like trying different food.

877
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:18,360
Speaker 5: It was like love language, right, And so after we

878
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 5: went to one event, it was a guy with a

879
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:20,840
Speaker 5: doughnut truck.

880
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:21,080
Speaker 1: He had.

881
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:23,880
Speaker 5: It was a trailer that was just so doughnuts. And

882
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 5: I looked at my wife, I'm like, damn, it'd be

883
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:27,560
Speaker 5: cool if we had one of these, and it just

884
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 5: did Nye's right, so simple. And so we went back

885
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:33,640
Speaker 5: home branch to asked the guy some advice. He was gracious,

886
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 5: gave me all the game and give me right truck

887
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:39,400
Speaker 5: called little Blue Doughnuts out there shout out to you

888
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 5: because yeah, so he gave me some game and because

889
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:45,399
Speaker 5: he embraced me, gave me some of a game.

890
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:46,880
Speaker 6: Shit. We went home and started planning.

891
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:49,040
Speaker 5: We was like, all, let's start a Vigne karts, not

892
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:51,080
Speaker 5: a truck, right, I know we can take that on

893
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:53,880
Speaker 5: and see how we gonna afford it, you know what

894
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:56,880
Speaker 5: I mean. So it was it was like, all right,

895
00:41:56,920 --> 00:41:58,640
Speaker 5: let's start the Vigne cart. And then we sat there.

896
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 6: He was like, what's we got this piece of equipment

897
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 6: already we can.

898
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:07,279
Speaker 5: Do shrip baskets and and we was like, well, ship,

899
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 5: if we already got a fire and we can do

900
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,319
Speaker 5: you know them you be making, let's do let's throw

901
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 5: them in there, you know what I mean.

902
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 6: And then it was just yeah, yeah, she invented that.

903
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:26,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, really Okay.

904
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 5: So I was always a big advocate for her selling

905
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 5: when she was making. She because she cook get home

906
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:35,360
Speaker 5: and I'm like, yo, people need to eat this. Like

907
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 5: I'm a great judge of stuff.

908
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 1: Let me. I'm just curious. How did you feel hearing

909
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:43,400
Speaker 1: your man say like, oh my god, as a woman

910
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:43,960
Speaker 1: so good?

911
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:45,000
Speaker 2: Right of course?

912
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:48,320
Speaker 7: And he was always like we gotta sell this, I'm like,

913
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:51,520
Speaker 7: and I'm making it. So it was like for real,

914
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:53,320
Speaker 7: like you really think I can sell this?

915
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 4: Was like yeah, and this is a passion of yours.

916
00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 4: It's like it's got to be a double double dosage

917
00:42:59,480 --> 00:42:59,799
Speaker 4: of good.

918
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 3: Yes, of course it is definitely mm hmm.

919
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 4: Okay, so he biting into your love love, I'm trying

920
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:11,439
Speaker 4: to just love on you, and he like capitalized money.

921
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:19,760
Speaker 1: Okay. So you got into these jumba lay and you're like, okay,

922
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:20,160
Speaker 1: let's go.

923
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:21,879
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm like, let's do it. So we sat down

924
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:23,799
Speaker 5: playing wind up saying you know what this is gonna

925
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:26,000
Speaker 5: be a food truck. And so I was an Uber

926
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:29,239
Speaker 5: driver at the time, and so I'm like, all right, bet,

927
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 5: I'm about to just focus on doing Uber only. Fuck catering,

928
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:36,279
Speaker 5: fuck meal deliveries. I'm gonna just get this money to

929
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:40,719
Speaker 5: buy food truck. Because yeah, I was like, because that's

930
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:44,400
Speaker 5: the only predictable money I had with Uber. Catering wasn't predictable,

931
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 5: so I couldn't say why I'm gonna save this much

932
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:48,320
Speaker 5: and you couldn't bet against that.

933
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:50,320
Speaker 6: That was just plus to us. We got a catering

934
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:51,280
Speaker 6: gig perfect.

935
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 5: No more mail deliveries though, just ubering, because the truck

936
00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:57,200
Speaker 5: made more money doing that than riding around trying to

937
00:43:57,239 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 5: sell food. And so I did for two and a

938
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:02,919
Speaker 5: half years, saved up money to buy the food truck,

939
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 5: bought the food truck. Put like twenty bands on it

940
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 5: for him to start. Got to do the Mexico the building.

941
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:12,239
Speaker 5: I was definitely risking. I said, this dude, twenty k

942
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:16,480
Speaker 5: on paper. App Yeah, I was tricking and I was looking.

943
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:20,799
Speaker 5: I'm in the uber driving somebody in between riders.

944
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:21,440
Speaker 6: I pulled over.

945
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:24,240
Speaker 5: Send him now, I send him ten ks as a deposit,

946
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:28,120
Speaker 5: send him ten k heart drop. I got right back dripping.

947
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:29,839
Speaker 5: I said, fuck it, if you scamming, I'm gonna make

948
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:34,360
Speaker 5: it back. But luckily six weeks later he was done early.

949
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:37,879
Speaker 5: He was like, he said, your food truck is ready,

950
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:42,120
Speaker 5: No bad.

951
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:48,840
Speaker 6: Is ready. I'm like, oh, ship, I ain't even got

952
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 6: the other half, you know what I mean. I'm like,

953
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 6: what I'm gonna do?

954
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:57,080
Speaker 5: So I stalled them off for like two three more weeks,

955
00:44:57,120 --> 00:44:58,560
Speaker 5: but he was like, yo, you gotta get the food

956
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:00,879
Speaker 5: truck because they charging me to keep it over here.

957
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 5: So I wound up being able to make a few

958
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:04,480
Speaker 5: calls to family, you know what I mean, to get

959
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 5: the little extra top that we needed. But ultimately that

960
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:10,520
Speaker 5: was the best decision we ever made nine tie lines

961
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:13,040
Speaker 5: was buying a food truck. We bought our freedom that day.

962
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:16,280
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, so you get the food truck. First thoughts.

963
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:21,759
Speaker 5: First thoughts is what the right Yeah, we made no

964
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 5: money with the food truck for the first week, eight

965
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 5: nine months.

966
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:27,520
Speaker 1: You didn't make no money.

967
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 5: So are you trying to I mean we made eleven

968
00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:31,920
Speaker 5: thousand one time and it had no.

969
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 3: Profleit no profit freeing.

970
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 1: So but what are you doing while you're losing money?

971
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:38,240
Speaker 1: Are you still ubering?

972
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:39,600
Speaker 6: Yes, I'm still ubering.

973
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 5: And also to like, the cool thing about a food

974
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:46,759
Speaker 5: truck is like if you open a restaurant and you

975
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:49,799
Speaker 5: have a bad month, then they gonna kick your ass out, right.

976
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 5: The food truck is you got a bad month, when

977
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:54,840
Speaker 5: you get to try again next month, you never get evicted.

978
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:58,040
Speaker 1: You have the commissaries, right yeah, yeah, but in Florida

979
00:45:58,080 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 1: you don't need it.

980
00:45:59,880 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 5: Just it's a Georgia thing. So I could own a

981
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 5: food truck in Florida. All I need is a water

982
00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:06,960
Speaker 5: hook up and that's just thirty dollars a month.

983
00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:11,880
Speaker 1: So there's no no regulation though it's regulations, okay.

984
00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:14,319
Speaker 6: But you can prep on your truck, you can cook

985
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:16,399
Speaker 6: on your trunk, you can do everything on your truck.

986
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:18,280
Speaker 1: In Georgia, carry this truck.

987
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:20,759
Speaker 5: You're talking the truck in my aputment complex every night,

988
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 5: so you ain't got a punk at No, No, we

989
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:26,760
Speaker 5: got no over here.

990
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 4: We got okay, okay, so you're just breaking even.

991
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:32,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not losing.

992
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 6: Yeah, well we wasn't. It was no revenue. We're just

993
00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 6: doing We're just doing it.

994
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:39,279
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. You're breaking even, like as in

995
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 1: there's no profit, but you're not losing.

996
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah.

997
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:42,000
Speaker 1: Yeah.

998
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:45,920
Speaker 5: We literally would go no, I mean, we just sent

999
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:48,759
Speaker 5: thirty five bands on the truck, so we lost that,

1000
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:51,560
Speaker 5: but we still got this asset, so you know what

1001
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:53,880
Speaker 5: I mean. So I mean, you know, we would literally

1002
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:56,440
Speaker 5: the food truck is parked in the back of our building.

1003
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:58,400
Speaker 5: We would leave out the house every day and go

1004
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:00,319
Speaker 5: in the truck and just do R and D yep,

1005
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:03,399
Speaker 5: every day, research and de yeah yeah yeah yeah.

1006
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:03,800
Speaker 6: Research.

1007
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:04,880
Speaker 2: My bad, you get on the.

1008
00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:06,520
Speaker 1: Food truck to do research and developm Yeah.

1009
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:09,160
Speaker 3: Now we would go cook different things, different stuff, and we.

1010
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:11,360
Speaker 6: Would have our daughter literally go out there act like

1011
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 6: we had that food.

1012
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:15,880
Speaker 4: Oh my god, okay, and then oh so that's R

1013
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:17,360
Speaker 4: and D because I was like, wait, you go on

1014
00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:17,879
Speaker 4: the food truck.

1015
00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 1: Just look at each other.

1016
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:22,480
Speaker 5: So we're going R and D all like different items

1017
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:24,799
Speaker 5: to cook, you know what I mean, stuff like that. Yeah,

1018
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:30,719
Speaker 5: probably like almost a year money now we are still

1019
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:32,640
Speaker 5: trying to open, but we don't know what the hell

1020
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:35,320
Speaker 5: we're doing. So we're just getting you know, we just

1021
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:39,160
Speaker 5: it's just that systems and we still got to make money.

1022
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:42,720
Speaker 5: So I'm still uber driving. She's still going to PF change,

1023
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:43,319
Speaker 5: you know what I mean.

1024
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:46,320
Speaker 4: Like she still was working people, okay, and then the

1025
00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:49,239
Speaker 4: babies in and out, in and out. The babies are

1026
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:50,640
Speaker 4: in and out, so the baby.

1027
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:54,680
Speaker 5: Sometimes in Mississippi, sometimes me and her just got flip

1028
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:58,759
Speaker 5: flops schedules. So if she worked in the morning from

1029
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:00,880
Speaker 5: ten to like five, and I'm a home with our

1030
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:03,040
Speaker 5: daughter and then when she come home, I'm fight out

1031
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:03,279
Speaker 5: the door.

1032
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 6: Then we did that for like two years.

1033
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 5: So and then we got our like we did our

1034
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:15,879
Speaker 5: first event ever, which was in Cocoa Beach, a hit amazing. Yeah,

1035
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:18,160
Speaker 5: but you gonna make like one thousand dollars, you know

1036
00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:20,600
Speaker 5: what I mean. That ain't profit, that's your revenue. And

1037
00:48:20,719 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 5: so then our second event ever, we got a bad

1038
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:26,600
Speaker 5: habit of going big. We got a bad habit of

1039
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 5: jumping the water that's too deep and so but It's

1040
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:31,719
Speaker 5: good though, because it conditioned the hell out of it.

1041
00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 5: So we did a Jacksonville jazz fist. Got on the

1042
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:37,120
Speaker 5: phone just dude, I'm like, bro, we've been doing this

1043
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:37,759
Speaker 5: a long time.

1044
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:41,719
Speaker 6: Bro lie with us. I'm not saying like that, but

1045
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:43,920
Speaker 6: I'm like, I'm lying selling the dream. He was like,

1046
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:46,240
Speaker 6: all right, bet, I got you. I'm like, oh, it worked.

1047
00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:48,800
Speaker 6: We got to show up. It's a jazz flis with

1048
00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:50,080
Speaker 6: one hundred thousand people.

1049
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:54,239
Speaker 5: Three days in a row, and he put us by

1050
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:56,440
Speaker 5: the main stage because we're new artist food and it's

1051
00:48:56,440 --> 00:48:59,319
Speaker 5: a jazz fest. I got like eight family members all

1052
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:04,239
Speaker 5: I'm working for no charge. They even Jordia Jackson And

1053
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:05,880
Speaker 5: so three days in the road.

1054
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:08,359
Speaker 6: Got I asked, what what do you mean?

1055
00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:14,520
Speaker 5: No processes, no recipes, no systems, wing, not knowing how

1056
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:17,120
Speaker 5: to do a damn remote event with food.

1057
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:18,319
Speaker 6: You're talking about great, You're.

1058
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:20,400
Speaker 3: Talking about sending people to the store together.

1059
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:23,080
Speaker 6: I got another you know what I'm saying, Bologna.

1060
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:32,799
Speaker 1: Enjoy your reunion with the Blogey take take your bike

1061
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:34,319
Speaker 1: because I got I got questions coming.

1062
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:36,120
Speaker 3: Enjoy Jason.

1063
00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:38,520
Speaker 1: It was crazy, Okay, so you you end up getting

1064
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:40,279
Speaker 1: a beat, and how's your family looking at you like

1065
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:41,640
Speaker 1: you lost your mind.

1066
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:48,319
Speaker 6: My family crazy, bro. Like if I go tell them

1067
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:50,760
Speaker 6: tomorrow like I'm about I'm about.

1068
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:53,320
Speaker 5: To go build another World Trade center, They're gonna be like,

1069
00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:56,759
Speaker 5: all right, let's break, let's preak, let's go.

1070
00:49:57,760 --> 00:49:57,960
Speaker 7: Yeah.

1071
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:03,600
Speaker 6: Yeah, but our family is real faith.

1072
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:07,040
Speaker 1: Based, you know, so like and it's workers praying to

1073
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 1: them right.

1074
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know what I'm saying.

1075
00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:11,960
Speaker 5: Well, half of my family Christian, half muslim sothing. You know,

1076
00:50:12,080 --> 00:50:15,759
Speaker 5: it's like my family always worked, even the christicide, you

1077
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:19,160
Speaker 5: know what I mean. But they just super supportive. We

1078
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:21,040
Speaker 5: we done lost so much and been through so much

1079
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:23,359
Speaker 5: her daddy and built the hell of a business. They

1080
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:26,440
Speaker 5: know what it looks like to start to go. So

1081
00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:28,799
Speaker 5: they like anytime were trying to come up with out there,

1082
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:30,880
Speaker 5: they with it. They're gonna fly out, they're gonna drive out.

1083
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:33,000
Speaker 5: They're gonna spend their own money to come do it

1084
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:35,800
Speaker 5: for free with us. So like we really got a cheeko.

1085
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:38,160
Speaker 5: Ain't gonna lie like our family is gangster.

1086
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:38,920
Speaker 1: That's awesome.

1087
00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:40,960
Speaker 6: I give it to them for real, that's awesome.

1088
00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:48,840
Speaker 1: Okay, So after the jazz festival and getting that beating, going.

1089
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:50,920
Speaker 5: Back home, count your money and realize you ain't got

1090
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:54,520
Speaker 5: nothing nothing. So that event, I remember, we made seven

1091
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:57,440
Speaker 5: thousand and one hundred and fifty something dollars.

1092
00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:00,440
Speaker 6: We had nothing to show for it because we.

1093
00:51:02,239 --> 00:51:04,440
Speaker 5: By the time you get hotels, by the time you

1094
00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:07,680
Speaker 5: pulling this ten thousand pound food truck on the interstate,

1095
00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:11,080
Speaker 5: you're running the freezer truck for fourteen hundred you you

1096
00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:13,680
Speaker 5: know what I mean. All of that, we really bought

1097
00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:17,840
Speaker 5: an education for the first year of operating, not the

1098
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 5: year that we was actually educating ourselves. When we started operating,

1099
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:24,400
Speaker 5: was a whole year of education. I remember we did

1100
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:27,759
Speaker 5: the event in Panama with maybe eleven thousand dollars, and

1101
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:28,759
Speaker 5: we got back home.

1102
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:32,680
Speaker 6: We did the numbers all my bread. We ain't make

1103
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:34,880
Speaker 6: no money, and my wife was crying.

1104
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:37,200
Speaker 4: She was like, I was gonna s and I was

1105
00:51:37,239 --> 00:51:40,040
Speaker 4: gonna ask, because you guys are so close, see the

1106
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:42,320
Speaker 4: people that are closer to you become more expendable.

1107
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:45,799
Speaker 1: How did this not like turn you guys against each other.

1108
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 6: That's what to do. It's gonna tell you, you know

1109
00:51:48,080 --> 00:51:50,440
Speaker 6: what I'm saying. And so I say.

1110
00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:52,480
Speaker 5: The good thing about me and herd is we childhood.

1111
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:56,560
Speaker 5: So we're sixteen years old, so it's like I prioritize

1112
00:51:56,760 --> 00:52:00,279
Speaker 5: our relationship over everything, right because us together that we're

1113
00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:03,360
Speaker 5: gonna make more money than anybody. So it's like.

1114
00:52:05,040 --> 00:52:06,719
Speaker 6: I got a different view, right, you know.

1115
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:08,840
Speaker 5: You see on Instagram all these men talk about like,

1116
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:11,880
Speaker 5: you know, stay away from women, stay away from marriage,

1117
00:52:11,880 --> 00:52:12,759
Speaker 5: they're gonna make you broke.

1118
00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:15,000
Speaker 6: To me, it's the opposite, because I'm from the South,

1119
00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:16,960
Speaker 6: like I like country women. They make you rich.

1120
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:19,440
Speaker 5: So it's like, you know what I mean, Like with me,

1121
00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:23,439
Speaker 5: it's like I look at it as relationships are hard

1122
00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:27,839
Speaker 5: either way it go. We just suck at relationships. It's

1123
00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:29,680
Speaker 5: not that relationships ain't supposed to be in you know

1124
00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:33,360
Speaker 5: what I mean, So you just gotta really like we

1125
00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:35,480
Speaker 5: had and then I spend a lot of time with

1126
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:36,640
Speaker 5: her parents, her dad.

1127
00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:38,600
Speaker 6: She spent a lot of time with my parents.

1128
00:52:38,719 --> 00:52:41,400
Speaker 5: Our families come together, you know what I mean, So

1129
00:52:41,560 --> 00:52:43,879
Speaker 5: like they have parties together, they do shit when we're

1130
00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:47,800
Speaker 5: not there. So our family so blended that we locked in.

1131
00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:49,759
Speaker 5: And so it's like nothing could come in between her,

1132
00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:52,279
Speaker 5: not even money, and that's like our priority, Like we'll

1133
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:54,400
Speaker 5: never let the money come in between them, you know

1134
00:52:54,480 --> 00:52:57,040
Speaker 5: what I mean. And so most every time we really

1135
00:52:57,080 --> 00:52:59,800
Speaker 5: get into it. It might not be about money, but

1136
00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:01,839
Speaker 5: you could always trace it back to money.

1137
00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:03,200
Speaker 6: Yeah, you see what I'm saying.

1138
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:07,560
Speaker 5: Everything of money problem. I learned that from just being

1139
00:53:07,560 --> 00:53:09,919
Speaker 5: in business too. Like most of everything and money problem,

1140
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:10,960
Speaker 5: it just don't seem like it.

1141
00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:13,640
Speaker 6: Yeah you know what I mean. So, yeah, like we

1142
00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:16,480
Speaker 6: we liked them since childhood. So all this shit just

1143
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:17,560
Speaker 6: I like that.

1144
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:18,120
Speaker 7: I like that.

1145
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:20,799
Speaker 1: So and you guys have faced all different types of storm.

1146
00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:23,359
Speaker 6: Yeah, we lost hell of money.

1147
00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:26,920
Speaker 5: We have made money, We didn't lost friends, a lot

1148
00:53:26,960 --> 00:53:31,120
Speaker 5: of close people that we thought was close. Just because

1149
00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:35,840
Speaker 5: you know, as you become quote unquote successful, you got

1150
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:38,080
Speaker 5: to elevate your consciousness too, because if now.

1151
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:38,680
Speaker 6: You're gonna lose it.

1152
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:40,440
Speaker 1: And so what do you mean by that?

1153
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:44,160
Speaker 5: What I mean is like, because we're the owners of

1154
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:47,879
Speaker 5: the business, right, the business is only gonna grow high

1155
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:50,360
Speaker 5: as we go because we're controlling the ship. We're driving

1156
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:55,040
Speaker 5: the ship. And so if if my education is here,

1157
00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:58,520
Speaker 5: the business is here. If my education is here.

1158
00:53:58,480 --> 00:53:59,239
Speaker 6: The business is here.

1159
00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:03,200
Speaker 5: So you gotta elevate yourself as your business grow, or

1160
00:54:03,239 --> 00:54:05,080
Speaker 5: it's gonna outgrow you and then it's gonna crash and

1161
00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:08,000
Speaker 5: burn because you can't even sustain the success that you

1162
00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:10,359
Speaker 5: just got because you don't have the habit. You ain't

1163
00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:12,759
Speaker 5: got the knowledge or the wisdom, you know what I mean.

1164
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:14,719
Speaker 5: And you're gonna make mistakes, you're gonna drop the ball.

1165
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:16,400
Speaker 5: But like at the end of the day, you need

1166
00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:18,520
Speaker 5: to be like I drown in education.

1167
00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:20,319
Speaker 6: That's all I do. Like I read for a living.

1168
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:23,359
Speaker 6: That's my job. I literally read and then I just leave.

1169
00:54:24,040 --> 00:54:27,600
Speaker 6: That's it. It's all read and leave.

1170
00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:32,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, did you notice across the journey this

1171
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:36,520
Speaker 1: was like a weird thing that I kind of discovered,

1172
00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:39,320
Speaker 1: is like, yeah, your people that are rooting for you

1173
00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:43,640
Speaker 1: while you're down, and then sometimes those same people aren't

1174
00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:46,960
Speaker 1: rooting for you. But yeah, was that a weird encounter

1175
00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:47,239
Speaker 1: for you?

1176
00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:49,719
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was hard in the beginning, yure.

1177
00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:50,400
Speaker 1: But like.

1178
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:54,440
Speaker 6: I'm still a nigga too, you know what I mean.

1179
00:54:54,640 --> 00:54:57,000
Speaker 5: So when I say that, I mean, like, I know

1180
00:54:57,080 --> 00:54:59,800
Speaker 5: what it feels like to be envious and just not understand,

1181
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:03,719
Speaker 5: be ignorant or something right. And so when people see you,

1182
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:06,600
Speaker 5: you know, go do these things or start you know,

1183
00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:11,200
Speaker 5: acting different, start being different than becoming better, they literally

1184
00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:13,480
Speaker 5: it makes them feel like they're less than every time

1185
00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:15,680
Speaker 5: they look at you. It reminds them of way they

1186
00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:18,200
Speaker 5: fuck up or way they fucked up in life. So

1187
00:55:19,160 --> 00:55:21,239
Speaker 5: I just try to have compassion for people. But at

1188
00:55:21,239 --> 00:55:23,120
Speaker 5: the end of the day, you can't keep them. But yeah,

1189
00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 5: that's ships weird, Like we didn't been hurt, like damn,

1190
00:55:26,760 --> 00:55:29,600
Speaker 5: like we like we literally ain't got no friends.

1191
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 6: Yeah, we got just family.

1192
00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:34,239
Speaker 1: Is it a lot of fans you guys?

1193
00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:39,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, yea, yeah, yeah we love.

1194
00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:45,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got fans out here.

1195
00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:48,839
Speaker 5: I like you to be fans of the product though,

1196
00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:51,520
Speaker 5: you know, like that's like my I like to be

1197
00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:55,000
Speaker 5: known for the things we create, not us, and you know,

1198
00:55:55,160 --> 00:55:58,759
Speaker 5: but sometimes our personality is getting away and people, you know,

1199
00:55:59,239 --> 00:55:59,759
Speaker 5: they like it.

1200
00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:01,560
Speaker 1: But I just yeah, I love you guys.

1201
00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:04,560
Speaker 6: Yeah, Like I really like.

1202
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:11,360
Speaker 4: You ever heard the saying like people, especially in sales,

1203
00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:13,200
Speaker 4: they always say that people by you before they.

1204
00:56:13,719 --> 00:56:16,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah that's true. That's that's that's exactly

1205
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:20,719
Speaker 5: my philosophy. Like my competitive advantage is me right if

1206
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:24,359
Speaker 5: you because everything's spiritual right, and so I don't even

1207
00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:27,080
Speaker 5: mean to go to this deep we cookn't belonging, but

1208
00:56:27,239 --> 00:56:28,960
Speaker 5: it's just real, Like I don't know what else to say,

1209
00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:32,480
Speaker 5: but like it's really spiritually of it. So if you

1210
00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:35,799
Speaker 5: bought something from me, you you you when you bite

1211
00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:39,840
Speaker 5: into you, imagineing my energy. You know, my love that

1212
00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:42,200
Speaker 5: went into it. All the people that's around me, they

1213
00:56:42,239 --> 00:56:44,960
Speaker 5: love went into it. So it tastes different, and I'm

1214
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:47,640
Speaker 5: I'm a witness to that. I've eaten things from a

1215
00:56:47,719 --> 00:56:51,000
Speaker 5: rual motherfucker and it was good. But that ship was

1216
00:56:51,120 --> 00:56:53,960
Speaker 5: nasty as hell because it came from bad energy, you

1217
00:56:54,040 --> 00:56:54,520
Speaker 5: know what I mean?

1218
00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:55,279
Speaker 6: So that's real.

1219
00:56:55,840 --> 00:56:57,279
Speaker 1: Do you eat Jamaican food?

1220
00:56:57,560 --> 00:56:59,200
Speaker 6: I love Jamaican food. We stayed in Florida.

1221
00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:08,640
Speaker 1: Have you ever been to a Jamaican restaurant where loving No, it's.

1222
00:57:08,520 --> 00:57:14,920
Speaker 5: A Jamaican stuff. It's a Jamaican spot on st look

1223
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:16,080
Speaker 5: at your exactly.

1224
00:57:16,160 --> 00:57:17,200
Speaker 3: That's good.

1225
00:57:17,280 --> 00:57:18,000
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I mean.

1226
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:23,160
Speaker 1: What I used to have a joke, Man, if they brutally,

1227
00:57:23,240 --> 00:57:28,560
Speaker 1: you probably what you want? What you want.

1228
00:57:29,160 --> 00:57:29,760
Speaker 2: If I went to.

1229
00:57:31,560 --> 00:57:33,160
Speaker 5: If I went to a Bodegan, dude, it was a

1230
00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:37,360
Speaker 5: little too nice, I probably walk out. You know, I

1231
00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:40,160
Speaker 5: need a nigga rushing me like what you So it's

1232
00:57:40,160 --> 00:57:41,800
Speaker 5: a cultural thing. When you come to New Orleans, you

1233
00:57:41,920 --> 00:57:45,320
Speaker 5: expect you come to Spot.

1234
00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:46,400
Speaker 6: It's really the same thing.

1235
00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:51,720
Speaker 1: So I really really really really really like you. Oh

1236
00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:55,120
Speaker 1: thank you, sound like you said it's just like an

1237
00:57:55,240 --> 00:57:59,800
Speaker 1: up grading. Okay, So I don't know where we are.

1238
00:58:01,080 --> 00:58:06,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're probably stressing out past, but I would like

1239
00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:10,000
Speaker 4: to ask what two bits of advice would you like

1240
00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:12,360
Speaker 4: to get someone that's trying to get into your position?

1241
00:58:13,640 --> 00:58:14,640
Speaker 6: So what is my position?

1242
00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:20,000
Speaker 1: What do you think successful owner to restaurants?

1243
00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:20,160
Speaker 7: Right?

1244
00:58:20,920 --> 00:58:23,720
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, we're talking tactical or were.

1245
00:58:23,560 --> 00:58:26,080
Speaker 1: Talking, and I would like to say, in a successful marriage,

1246
00:58:26,080 --> 00:58:27,800
Speaker 1: so you could do like two three.

1247
00:58:28,280 --> 00:58:32,800
Speaker 5: What successful marriage is. Definitely, it's not defined by how

1248
00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:35,960
Speaker 5: well it goes. It's about how long it lasts. So

1249
00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:40,320
Speaker 5: you know, people giving relationship advice and they're single, that

1250
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:43,640
Speaker 5: don't make no sense. So for me, the only thing

1251
00:58:43,720 --> 00:58:46,320
Speaker 5: that makes our relationship successful is because we've been we're

1252
00:58:46,320 --> 00:58:50,120
Speaker 5: still together right, no matter what's going on, we're sticking

1253
00:58:50,200 --> 00:58:50,400
Speaker 5: it out.

1254
00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:51,360
Speaker 6: Were successful.

1255
00:58:51,680 --> 00:58:54,680
Speaker 5: But we come from a family of my grandpa and grandfather,

1256
00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:56,280
Speaker 5: I mean my grandpa and grandma.

1257
00:58:56,000 --> 00:58:58,640
Speaker 6: Wants to get us sixty five years before he passed

1258
00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:00,280
Speaker 6: her parents to get a thirty plus.

1259
00:59:00,360 --> 00:59:03,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, so we don't even know the D word, you know,

1260
00:59:03,280 --> 00:59:05,160
Speaker 5: we don't even know the divorce word. It's just like,

1261
00:59:05,400 --> 00:59:07,520
Speaker 5: whatever we're going to do, let's talk about it. It's simple,

1262
00:59:07,920 --> 00:59:10,760
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. As far as the business go,

1263
00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:17,000
Speaker 5: it's so much man, you know, but I would say,

1264
00:59:20,040 --> 00:59:23,000
Speaker 5: us as blacks, I'm gonna go there because white folks

1265
00:59:23,040 --> 00:59:27,240
Speaker 5: gotta feed out us as blacks. We gotta focus on

1266
00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:31,240
Speaker 5: just being free and not wealthy, because through freedom you

1267
00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:34,280
Speaker 5: gain wealth. And what I mean is like if we

1268
00:59:34,440 --> 00:59:38,080
Speaker 5: approach business like an artist does, Like artists don't want

1269
00:59:38,120 --> 00:59:39,880
Speaker 5: to don't try to get rich, They try to get free,

1270
00:59:39,920 --> 00:59:41,080
Speaker 5: so they could just create all day.

1271
00:59:41,760 --> 00:59:41,880
Speaker 7: Right.

1272
00:59:42,520 --> 00:59:44,440
Speaker 5: So if we just was like, all right, let's just

1273
00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:48,320
Speaker 5: get our bills covered, right, and then we could focus

1274
00:59:48,400 --> 00:59:51,600
Speaker 5: on actually creating wealth. But most people are trying to

1275
00:59:51,680 --> 00:59:56,080
Speaker 5: build a wealth while they're still struggling. So let's just

1276
00:59:56,160 --> 00:59:59,680
Speaker 5: get free, meaning bills covered. We got four five bands

1277
00:59:59,720 --> 01:00:02,200
Speaker 5: coming then every month from this side hustle or this

1278
01:00:02,400 --> 01:00:06,520
Speaker 5: main hustle whatever. And now because we relaxed, we you

1279
01:00:06,560 --> 01:00:08,920
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, Now we could sit and get

1280
01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:12,320
Speaker 5: to the drawing board and really take shots and create wealth.

1281
01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:14,240
Speaker 5: Let's go with this idea, all right? That don't really

1282
01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:16,360
Speaker 5: go with this idea. It's like a record label master

1283
01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:17,600
Speaker 5: p signed how many people?

1284
01:00:17,760 --> 01:00:18,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I mean.

1285
01:00:18,840 --> 01:00:21,960
Speaker 5: So you need to have the capacity to take them

1286
01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:23,760
Speaker 5: many shots, which is why I did a food truck

1287
01:00:23,760 --> 01:00:26,080
Speaker 5: because it's like, we got unlimited shots. Who gonna kick

1288
01:00:26,080 --> 01:00:28,360
Speaker 5: me out right if they do all this shit don't work.

1289
01:00:28,400 --> 01:00:31,720
Speaker 5: But we're gonna do Mexican, We're gonna do Italian, We're

1290
01:00:31,720 --> 01:00:33,439
Speaker 5: gonna try something else because people eat.

1291
01:00:34,200 --> 01:00:38,440
Speaker 4: And I'm curious. In business, I know that there's a

1292
01:00:38,480 --> 01:00:40,720
Speaker 4: lot of pivoting. When is when do you know when

1293
01:00:40,880 --> 01:00:41,320
Speaker 4: to pivot?

1294
01:00:43,160 --> 01:00:45,520
Speaker 6: I'm still young in business. I can't even answer that.

1295
01:00:46,240 --> 01:00:47,880
Speaker 3: Man, I think we have pivoted.

1296
01:00:49,200 --> 01:00:49,840
Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely.

1297
01:00:49,920 --> 01:00:51,880
Speaker 5: Okay, So I had a pivot the moment I knew

1298
01:00:51,920 --> 01:00:55,600
Speaker 5: it was all right, So you really you gotta spend

1299
01:00:55,680 --> 01:00:58,040
Speaker 5: time looking at your business and not working in it,

1300
01:00:58,160 --> 01:00:59,600
Speaker 5: and it's easy, said, they've done.

1301
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:01,480
Speaker 6: And so I knew it was time to pivot.

1302
01:01:01,480 --> 01:01:03,520
Speaker 5: When we kept doing those events and not making money,

1303
01:01:04,040 --> 01:01:06,160
Speaker 5: I'm like, all right, damn, we making eleven bands, but

1304
01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:08,560
Speaker 5: I lost all this because I had to travel, right,

1305
01:01:09,360 --> 01:01:12,320
Speaker 5: and we did this event, made seven bands.

1306
01:01:12,560 --> 01:01:13,320
Speaker 6: Don't got no money?

1307
01:01:13,360 --> 01:01:15,800
Speaker 5: I said, all right, and then we can't staff against

1308
01:01:15,840 --> 01:01:18,400
Speaker 5: this revenue because it's unpredictable, so I don't even know

1309
01:01:18,480 --> 01:01:21,360
Speaker 5: how to staff against it. I can't retain employees because

1310
01:01:22,120 --> 01:01:24,120
Speaker 5: who had want to come to the unpredictable hours and

1311
01:01:24,160 --> 01:01:27,040
Speaker 5: unpredictable checks. So I said, all right, we're gonna go

1312
01:01:27,120 --> 01:01:30,280
Speaker 5: to Atlanta. We're gonna kill two birds in one stone.

1313
01:01:30,560 --> 01:01:33,320
Speaker 5: We're gonna become hot in the most popular black city

1314
01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:37,680
Speaker 5: in the country. And by doing that, you get hot

1315
01:01:37,760 --> 01:01:39,640
Speaker 5: in all the other black cities. So you get to

1316
01:01:39,680 --> 01:01:41,800
Speaker 5: do the same work, but you get ten times the results.

1317
01:01:42,040 --> 01:01:43,960
Speaker 5: And I was like, we're gonna post up and treat

1318
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:46,520
Speaker 5: our food truck like a restaurant. We're gonna post up

1319
01:01:46,520 --> 01:01:49,360
Speaker 5: in the hood specifically. And the reason why is because

1320
01:01:49,400 --> 01:01:52,680
Speaker 5: that gave us predictable revenue. I don't care if it

1321
01:01:52,760 --> 01:01:55,200
Speaker 5: was less than the events, as long as it's predictable,

1322
01:01:55,200 --> 01:01:57,600
Speaker 5: because now I can hire and get out of it permanently.

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Speaker 1: And then and then you could build a study cap

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Speaker 1: to right the.

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Speaker 6: Cash flow, and which looks good to any bank or

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Speaker 6: and we car it only so I was.

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Speaker 4: Gonna say, because I was wondering, you guys weren't pulling

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01:02:08,840 --> 01:02:11,400
Speaker 4: out any bank loans as of yet, no none. So

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Speaker 4: this day I always find that very impressive because I

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Speaker 4: I I'm obsessed with entrepreneurship and I work with so

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Speaker 4: many alternative lenders that help entrepreneurs, and I on this

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Speaker 4: show in particular, I meet so many self funded businesses,

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01:02:29,920 --> 01:02:32,120
Speaker 4: which is fortunate, but I'm also like, damn, do you

1334
01:02:32,200 --> 01:02:34,320
Speaker 4: know the levels you can do if you think you know,

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Speaker 4: like take advantage of it.

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Speaker 5: I think the first way to go is to be

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Speaker 5: self funded because the education I have. Now I take

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Speaker 5: money from anybody, yeah, because I know the level of

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Speaker 5: education I have and how I can multiply. But the

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01:02:49,160 --> 01:02:51,440
Speaker 5: education I had then I wouldn't take no money because

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01:02:52,360 --> 01:02:54,320
Speaker 5: you got to lose so much money just to figure

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Speaker 5: out how to make money that you don't even want

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01:02:56,520 --> 01:02:57,520
Speaker 5: to play with nobody money.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, your losses. I think as an entrepreneur, failure is

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Speaker 1: the cornerstone to success.

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Speaker 4: Like straight up is even killed. But it hurts of course,

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01:03:12,640 --> 01:03:14,480
Speaker 4: you know. Like I was telling someone earlier, like the

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Speaker 4: suicide rate amongst entrepreneurs is actually pretty high.

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Speaker 1: It's a stressful thing.

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Speaker 4: You know, you're like battling yourself. Your have to hallucinate

1351
01:03:23,760 --> 01:03:28,280
Speaker 4: to another level. You got to be crazy, mane if.

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Speaker 5: You if you're saying you ain't gonna make it. You

1353
01:03:30,280 --> 01:03:33,000
Speaker 5: gotta be a little throwed off, bro. Some days you

1354
01:03:33,240 --> 01:03:35,120
Speaker 5: it's like you've seen you like you in a tunnel.

1355
01:03:35,840 --> 01:03:38,400
Speaker 5: It ain't a dult tunnel. It's a brick wall. You

1356
01:03:38,520 --> 01:03:40,880
Speaker 5: ain't no way out this month, and you still got.

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Speaker 6: To be like, keep going.

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01:03:43,360 --> 01:03:45,120
Speaker 1: Have you guys ever had a moment where one wanted

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01:03:45,120 --> 01:03:46,040
Speaker 1: to quit and one didn't.

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Speaker 6: It's always I like, I like the hustle, I like

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01:03:57,200 --> 01:04:01,640
Speaker 6: the ground emotional, but it's never long. It lasts a day.

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01:04:02,800 --> 01:04:05,160
Speaker 6: Then this motherfucker telling me I'm ready for another restaurant.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, goddamn.

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Speaker 5: But it makes it makes you stronger, like you know,

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01:04:09,800 --> 01:04:14,400
Speaker 5: and it's her strengths and my strengths are opposite.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I can see that. I can see that. I

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Speaker 1: love the way you guys. I'm just curious for you, though,

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Speaker 1: What is the thing that will make you want to quit?

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01:04:24,240 --> 01:04:34,840
Speaker 5: Like entrepreneurship or quick cafe Bourbon street ship? I mean,

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Speaker 5: I'm asking you.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I didn't know qu cafe wasn't was Was

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Speaker 1: there a moment with you?

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Speaker 7: Oh?

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01:04:46,520 --> 01:04:49,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hard.

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Speaker 7: This ship is really hard, and I think what it was, Uh,

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01:04:55,120 --> 01:04:57,480
Speaker 7: A lot of the moments that took me to like, oh,

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Speaker 7: fuck this ship.

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Speaker 2: It was just like it was really the people.

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01:05:02,040 --> 01:05:06,400
Speaker 3: Honestly, it was like our employees, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 7: It was really dealing with them because before we got

1381
01:05:09,560 --> 01:05:13,880
Speaker 7: employees for real, for we had managers and operational managers

1382
01:05:13,880 --> 01:05:14,480
Speaker 7: and stuff like that.

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Speaker 3: It was us, you know what I'm saying. So it

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Speaker 3: was a little.

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Speaker 7: So now we got different personalities, different work work ethics and.

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Speaker 3: All this stuff going on, and they fucking ship up

1387
01:05:28,280 --> 01:05:28,880
Speaker 3: and I'm.

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01:05:28,760 --> 01:05:31,000
Speaker 6: Just like, what the fuck.

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01:05:32,920 --> 01:05:36,280
Speaker 1: The employees that are invested, You can't believe.

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Speaker 6: That you do that, you really did that.

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01:05:39,920 --> 01:05:42,520
Speaker 7: It's like they do something and they messing something up

1392
01:05:42,560 --> 01:05:45,520
Speaker 7: real bad, and then it just kind of snow snows

1393
01:05:45,960 --> 01:05:48,760
Speaker 7: and it's like yo, fu, you.

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Speaker 2: Know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 5: But and then, like you know, I think the biggest

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01:05:53,160 --> 01:05:56,440
Speaker 5: part is your staff never know how hard you're actually working.

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Speaker 2: For yeah, because it don't look like it don't look

1398
01:05:58,680 --> 01:06:00,400
Speaker 2: like it we make it, we don't.

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01:06:01,120 --> 01:06:02,160
Speaker 3: They never see a sweat.

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Speaker 4: They never see a sweat, which is actually an important

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01:06:04,560 --> 01:06:09,840
Speaker 4: part of leadership, right of course, and also like not

1402
01:06:10,480 --> 01:06:12,600
Speaker 4: being too friendly with them, right because you learned that

1403
01:06:12,760 --> 01:06:13,760
Speaker 4: lesson where you become.

1404
01:06:15,720 --> 01:06:15,919
Speaker 2: Learn.

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01:06:18,320 --> 01:06:22,720
Speaker 5: And I say this with the utmost genuine I'm just honest.

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01:06:22,880 --> 01:06:26,919
Speaker 5: Correct me if I'm wrong. But and man, I hope

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01:06:26,960 --> 01:06:28,560
Speaker 5: they don't hang me on the internet for this, But

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01:06:28,640 --> 01:06:31,880
Speaker 5: I'm just saying, bro, niggas expect more from you know,

1409
01:06:32,120 --> 01:06:35,480
Speaker 5: you as a boss than they do from your white counterpart.

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Speaker 5: So for example, when you know, people go to work

1411
01:06:40,360 --> 01:06:44,200
Speaker 5: for you know, quote unquote the white man, they only

1412
01:06:44,320 --> 01:06:47,800
Speaker 5: expect a check, that's it. But when they come work

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01:06:47,880 --> 01:06:50,400
Speaker 5: for a person that looks like them, they expect for

1414
01:06:50,520 --> 01:06:53,320
Speaker 5: you to like give them a check and take you,

1415
01:06:53,920 --> 01:06:57,360
Speaker 5: take you under their wing, take you in your house,

1416
01:06:57,520 --> 01:07:00,320
Speaker 5: take you in all the meetings, use a spposed to

1417
01:07:00,360 --> 01:07:03,120
Speaker 5: expose them. And so for me, I got a wife,

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Speaker 5: three kids now, so I don't even have the time

1419
01:07:07,120 --> 01:07:10,320
Speaker 5: to you know, sit there and make you a part

1420
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Speaker 5: of my whole entrepreneur life. And so but they put

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Speaker 5: the expectation on you, and like it's just like, man,

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01:07:17,040 --> 01:07:19,600
Speaker 5: I can't just pay you a fair you know waves

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01:07:19,680 --> 01:07:20,760
Speaker 5: it was like, nah, they want more.

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01:07:20,840 --> 01:07:22,640
Speaker 6: It's because we understand.

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Speaker 1: I agree with that.

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Speaker 4: I had an interview with a guest and he worked

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Speaker 4: for Tyler Perry come on, and he had messed up,

1428
01:07:30,400 --> 01:07:33,840
Speaker 4: lost Tyler Perry millions of dollars and Tyler Perry ended

1429
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Speaker 4: up firing him, and I promised you in the comments

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Speaker 4: it's been It's till this date fans are arguing amongst

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Speaker 4: themselves on whether Tyler Perry you should have taken the

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Speaker 4: time to mentor him, and they were like, yo, the

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Speaker 4: lesson was right there, But it was also like, why

1434
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Speaker 4: is the expectation that, yo, you lost this dude millions

1435
01:07:51,080 --> 01:07:53,360
Speaker 4: of dollars and he should turn around because you were

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Speaker 4: young and mentoring, you know, And it was that was

1437
01:07:56,440 --> 01:07:58,960
Speaker 4: the guy's thing was like, why aren't you mentoring me?

1438
01:07:59,120 --> 01:08:01,760
Speaker 4: Like this is while I was young? But the truth

1439
01:08:01,800 --> 01:08:04,000
Speaker 4: of the matter is, why is that expectation there? You

1440
01:08:04,200 --> 01:08:07,360
Speaker 4: lost the white man or whatever millions of dollars? Be like,

1441
01:08:08,000 --> 01:08:09,040
Speaker 4: why can't you mentor me?

1442
01:08:09,120 --> 01:08:10,520
Speaker 1: And like the rest like.

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Speaker 6: The fact that you thought like that is the reason

1444
01:08:13,920 --> 01:08:15,760
Speaker 6: is exactly.

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01:08:15,400 --> 01:08:16,439
Speaker 1: And then you know what's so funny?

1446
01:08:16,560 --> 01:08:20,720
Speaker 4: After everything ended, there was some other conversation I had

1447
01:08:20,800 --> 01:08:26,720
Speaker 4: and I say, yeah, man, you know what I'm saying,

1448
01:08:26,840 --> 01:08:29,640
Speaker 4: But yeah, no, I can see that and I've seen that.

1449
01:08:29,840 --> 01:08:32,639
Speaker 4: But I appreciate your guys transparency the time to guys,

1450
01:08:33,000 --> 01:08:41,280
Speaker 4: your day, Your sandwich was great conversation. What's the future

1451
01:08:41,320 --> 01:08:43,759
Speaker 4: hole for you guys, guys, that's a good.

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01:08:43,680 --> 01:08:47,920
Speaker 5: Question, honestly, like the future in the future. Yeah, so

1453
01:08:48,200 --> 01:08:50,360
Speaker 5: we you know, we come from big families, they had

1454
01:08:50,400 --> 01:08:52,560
Speaker 5: big gatherings. So now we want to just show that

1455
01:08:52,680 --> 01:08:58,160
Speaker 5: talent more. We want to get a bigger location, bar,

1456
01:08:58,560 --> 01:09:03,000
Speaker 5: you know, dak rease, you know, cafe vibes, to events,

1457
01:09:03,040 --> 01:09:05,680
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. We want to showcase our

1458
01:09:05,800 --> 01:09:08,600
Speaker 5: skill of bringing people together, you know, and building the

1459
01:09:08,640 --> 01:09:12,920
Speaker 5: actual community through our business. That's really like my most

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01:09:13,000 --> 01:09:15,320
Speaker 5: favorite part about owning the restaurant is the level of

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01:09:15,360 --> 01:09:18,320
Speaker 5: community you build. The money is just like a byproduct,

1462
01:09:18,479 --> 01:09:20,920
Speaker 5: but it's like, man, you meet so many powerful people.

1463
01:09:21,439 --> 01:09:23,240
Speaker 5: You get a chance to serve these people, you know,

1464
01:09:23,760 --> 01:09:25,000
Speaker 5: and it's like it's a cheatkode.

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Speaker 7: Man.

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01:09:25,160 --> 01:09:27,719
Speaker 5: I tell anybody, if you really love the generally serve people,

1467
01:09:27,760 --> 01:09:29,880
Speaker 5: open the restaurant. It ain't for the money though, It's

1468
01:09:29,920 --> 01:09:33,760
Speaker 5: for the people you meet and the way you can

1469
01:09:33,800 --> 01:09:35,920
Speaker 5: impact the community. And so now we at a parent

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01:09:36,000 --> 01:09:38,760
Speaker 5: where running the restaurant this another day for us. You know,

1471
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Speaker 5: we got systems, we got good people, We know how

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01:09:41,200 --> 01:09:43,360
Speaker 5: to find good people. And so it's like, all right,

1473
01:09:43,400 --> 01:09:45,640
Speaker 5: the next step is open a bigger restaurant and you know,

1474
01:09:45,800 --> 01:09:49,400
Speaker 5: eventually have a thousand, you know, and it might be

1475
01:09:49,479 --> 01:09:51,479
Speaker 5: different brands, but I want a thousand restaurants.

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01:09:52,080 --> 01:09:53,439
Speaker 6: Wow yeah yeah Wow.

1477
01:09:53,640 --> 01:09:56,160
Speaker 1: Are you going to thinking franchise a.

1478
01:09:56,479 --> 01:10:01,040
Speaker 6: Corporate franchise meaning we still own them all raising Oh.

1479
01:10:01,200 --> 01:10:03,479
Speaker 1: I was going to say, like, yeah, chick fil a

1480
01:10:03,600 --> 01:10:04,240
Speaker 1: and in and out.

1481
01:10:04,240 --> 01:10:05,400
Speaker 6: It's like that, right, yeah and out?

1482
01:10:05,479 --> 01:10:07,519
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah yeah, so you grew a little slower, but

1483
01:10:08,280 --> 01:10:10,280
Speaker 5: you get more money per unit because you know, it's

1484
01:10:10,320 --> 01:10:11,200
Speaker 5: just more quality.

1485
01:10:11,560 --> 01:10:13,640
Speaker 4: I heard Chick fil A's model though, is like the

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01:10:13,880 --> 01:10:16,360
Speaker 4: let employees enter a lottery and I think it's like

1487
01:10:16,439 --> 01:10:17,880
Speaker 4: ten grand to buy in.

1488
01:10:18,200 --> 01:10:21,679
Speaker 6: Yeah, ten grand and you get all the profits.

1489
01:10:21,720 --> 01:10:22,639
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah yeah.

1490
01:10:22,800 --> 01:10:25,559
Speaker 4: I knew some young people like twenty five like get

1491
01:10:25,640 --> 01:10:29,200
Speaker 4: a like Hollywood in La Hollywood Highland was like twenty

1492
01:10:29,280 --> 01:10:32,640
Speaker 4: five year old and won the lotto and got the

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Speaker 4: Chick fil A Yeah yeah, snooth come.

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01:10:35,040 --> 01:10:36,000
Speaker 2: Up yeah yeah.

1495
01:10:36,280 --> 01:10:38,599
Speaker 5: So you know that's how it goes man, And it's

1496
01:10:38,640 --> 01:10:41,040
Speaker 5: really all about just being in the one big community through.

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01:10:40,960 --> 01:10:44,000
Speaker 6: Food and just good energy. I like that.

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01:10:44,400 --> 01:10:47,880
Speaker 1: So where can people keep up with cafe Bourbon Street.

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01:10:48,040 --> 01:10:48,679
Speaker 6: On the Gram.

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01:10:48,760 --> 01:10:51,160
Speaker 5: You already know Cafe Bourbon Street c A F E

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01:10:51,400 --> 01:10:54,479
Speaker 5: B O U R B O n ST. Not the

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01:10:54,560 --> 01:10:57,200
Speaker 5: worst street, the abbreviation. You're a real New Orleans food

1503
01:10:57,240 --> 01:10:58,160
Speaker 5: by real Normans.

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01:10:57,840 --> 01:11:01,640
Speaker 1: Family, and you won't be catching these loney sandwich is nowhere, No.

1505
01:11:02,120 --> 01:11:03,120
Speaker 6: Ad at the news spot.

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01:11:03,200 --> 01:11:06,439
Speaker 2: What good?

1507
01:11:06,640 --> 01:11:08,000
Speaker 3: But it'll come from me.

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01:11:08,240 --> 01:11:10,880
Speaker 6: You might look. You come get a bourbon and bologna.

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01:11:11,280 --> 01:11:19,080
Speaker 1: You yourself? Yeah, yeah, all right, y'all. He's out.

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Speaker 6: Pep from