WEBVTT - The Best of Eating While Broke Part 1 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.040 Piece of the planet, Charlamagne to God here and as 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:04.400 we come close to closing out this year, I just 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:06.120 want to say thank you for tuning it into the 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:08.600 Black Effect podcast Network. There have been so many great 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:10.720 moments over the past year. Take a listen to some 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:16.400 of those captivating moments in this special best of episode. 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:20.560 Hey, guys, Eating while Broke. I'm your host Coley Witt, 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:23.800 So I'm really excited to have you. I feel like 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:26.680 I did the grocery shopping guys. So I know what 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:31.120 he's making us is extremely healthy and budget friendly. Yes, 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:32.880 so go ahead. What are you going to have me 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:33.600 eating today? 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:39.479 So today we have overnight oats, very very basic. But 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:42.480 the good part about it is you can get as 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:45.879 specific and as curated as you want, depending on your 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:47.920 budget and how many you're trying to make. 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:51.320 Oh I thought this was like a yogurt parfe or something. 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:52.519 It is it is. 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:56.040 So the way it is is it has a liquid base, 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:57.640 which is going to be like the oat milk and 0:00:57.680 --> 0:00:59.520 everything that's in it, and then it has the oatmeals 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:02.160 that absorb, and then you top it with whatever types 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:03.840 of like fruit and everything that you want on top 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:06.520 of it. So you could get as intricate as you want. 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:08.199 You could get as basic as you want. 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:11.160 I'm nervous about this dish, but is this now? Is 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:14.600 this considered vegan? No, huh, because the creek yogurt. 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:17.240 It could be depending on your ingredients. But I was 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:18.479 using what I had in my kitchen. 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:20.640 I was actually shopping with my dad, and I was like, 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:21.759 I called bullshit. 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:23.400 I called bullshit. 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:26.440 He was eating this out of Mason jars, Like come on. 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:30.160 But then I was driving and I was like, you know, 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:34.200 technically it could be considered broke because your oats, your honey, 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:38.760 your chi seeds, they're the staple, right, And I'm guessing 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:41.480 oat milk doesn't go bad because it wasn't in refrigerated section, 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.880 So the only moving parts of this dish that you 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.880 would have to rotate out would be the fruit and 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:53.400 the yogurt. So technically, i'm guessing based on this this 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:57.320 this dish costs me about forty five dollars, guys, and 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:01.840 that included the Mason jars. So typically I'm guessing this 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:04.880 could be your breakfast for at least a week, and 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:08.320 it would probably run you about twelve dollars if you 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:10.160 already have the staple ingredients. 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.079 Yeah, and for a lot of it. You have a 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:15.160 lot of stuff at home. A majority of people have 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:19.240 well my assagnsion, they have honey, they have oats, they've 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:23.679 got some type of like milk or anything like that. Yeah, 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:25.600 any milk can work. I just like oat milk because 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:28.120 it's a little easier on my stomach. But I've used 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:31.520 almond milk, I've used two percent anything that's good. And then, 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:33.760 just like I was saying before, as you want to 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:35.720 curate and make it more special, you can make it 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:37.560 high protein by putting protein. 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:37.760 Powder in it. 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:40.000 You can add a lot of stuff. And then Mason jars. 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:41.519 You could just get them from like the dollar store. 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:42.760 The fruits are nice. 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:48.240 Yeah, you can get everything pretty much affordable. All right, 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:51.840 But when you make these at home, do you make 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:54.080 them like on the spot, like when you're making cereal, 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:56.079 or do you like have these in your fridge? Why 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:56.799 the mason jar? 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:58.760 So, the mason jar is good because it kind of 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:02.040 ferments it, right. I usually make them the night before, 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:04.640 so planning a lot of them, I'll do my meal 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:07.399 prep for the week. So I'll make probably about five 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:10.040 or six of these and one in one go so 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:11.960 it's really really easy to make, but that's not the 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.440 night before. If it's like, you can still make it 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:17.760 like really quickly. It's just the flavor absorbs into the 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.680 oat meal the longer you wait, so it could be 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:24.280 really dense and kind of just not as hard to 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:27.160 eat if you're just like really in a quick like punch. 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.079 But you can also make it and plant it out, 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:32.359 so the meal that you make that night before three 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:34.800 days later would be even better and even sweeter from 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:36.480 like the fruits and like the honeys and stuff that 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:38.360 absorb into it the longer you wait. 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:41.520 I'm just genuinely curious if you make it, say I'm 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:44.320 I'm like, I love this dish. It's fantastic. I'm going 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:46.520 to make these at home. And I like to meal 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:49.280 prep on Sundays. I'm a huge meal prepper. Okay, yeah, 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:54.360 but my whole thing is consistency. Like if I make 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:56.240 this on a Sunday and I go and eat it 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:59.640 on a Wednesday, is everything going to be like mushy 0:03:59.680 --> 0:03:59.960 and slow? 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:03.440 I mean, it depends if you go and put fruit 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:05.920 in it and stuff, like the fruit eventually can start 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:08.000 to get like mushy and things. I'm the type of 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:09.760 person that I can make something on Sunday and eat 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:12.600 the same dish over and over and over and over. Yeah, 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:15.960 if you want to make sure it's not like a 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:19.279 crazy consistency, you can always put like the fruit in 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:21.080 at the end. So when you're about to eat it, 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:22.839 maybe just like Gardner shit and put it on. 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:25.440 You're gonna say the milk was gonna make it nest. 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:28.800 All right, let's make it all excited. 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:31.200 What are you gonna have us eating today? 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:34.920 Well, what we're gonna eat is a breakdown. Some call 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:37.960 it a breakdown, some call it a spread. So you 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:41.920 got your ramen noodles with a little chicken breast, a 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:46.040 little pinch of jalapenos, Sprinkle it with a little bit 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:50.320 of doritos to add a little crunch to it. You know, 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:55.560 I'm a grill. I'm a grill those I'm gonna put 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:58.279 some cheese on top, add a little flavor to it, 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:01.360 and we're gonna have us an old school breakdown with 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:03.359 not all they agreed. It's just like one of the 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:04.440 brokenst days. 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:07.839 Now, this is is this well before Boone thugs and 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:12.760 harmony or is this during after fiel me In this. 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:20.680 Junior high, but elementary junior high, high school, twenties, thirties, forties, 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:22.920 eating this all ot. 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.920 And especially jail especially jail house too, because that's all 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:26.920 you got, that's all Youah. 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:28.760 Yeah, yeah, that's hilarious. Yeah. 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:34.440 Now, when you're cooking this dish, I'm really curious to 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.479 when you're cooking this dish on this show, if you 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:42.640 are thinking about your milestones that you have reached from 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.480 cooking this dish, because you guys have a lot of 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:51.840 stuff you've done. You have a Biggie Easy Tupac collaborations 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:55.080 Mariah Carey. Right, you know, we got to touch on 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:56.880 all these topics, but I want to know all the 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:58.839 behind the scenes. I don't want to hear anything you 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.680 guys said during any other interviews. I want to I 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:03.719 want to be in the kitchen with you guys. And 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.080 I'm hoping you guys can spell the tea lazy. You 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:11.880 get on the cook you start cooking and take me 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:16.080 take me back to the probably the og original time 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:17.880 you started making this dish. 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:23.440 Well, I started making this dishes earlier as I can cook. 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:27.680 You know, we started cooking noodles very very early, you know, so, uh, 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:30.800 it's from the beginning. Man, we want to elaborate. 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:34.200 I mean, you know we was, uh we had that's all. 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:36.719 That's all you had when you was coming up even 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:39.640 you know, five six years old, coming up out that 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.800 ruder man coming out that ruder and everything. You know, 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:47.560 we was, uh, from the router to the tutor, from 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:51.120 the very very very beginning times. You know, you know, 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:54.240 because sometimes even as little as a little g all 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:58.360 you had was something that sometimes you didn't have hot water. 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:02.320 Sometimes you gotta eat that muff fucker excuse my french y'all, 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:04.520 sometimes you gotta eat it. Just put the water in 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:08.200 there or whatnot and let it soften up and then 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:08.600 go with. 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:08.960 It like that. 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:11.720 Sometimes you didn't have a chip. Sometimes you definitely had 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:14.880 a breast and uh and the ingredients to go with it. 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:16.880 And uh so you. 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:19.280 Will have to put the top of the lid over 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:21.440 there and just let it just simmer down and warm 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:23.880 water because the noodles, you know, the longer they sit 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:26.840 in news the water noodles sit in water, they swell, 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:29.720 they get soft, so you know what I mean. So 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:32.000 sometimes we didn't have the heat because we ain't had 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:33.280 gas on at the crib. 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:39.120 So before all the lifetime achievements and all the accolades. 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:40.840 Can you guys take me back to a time when 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:44.400 you were making this dish and time wasn't it wasn't 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:47.480 looking good and maybe you guys were just at the 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:48.520 crosshoads of. 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:50.560 Despair. 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:52.960 Maybe can can any of you guys elaborate on. 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:57.000 About the Vasilia when the Visilia went like like we 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:59.880 had on one of our stops up we had a 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.880 stop on here coming out here. We had been out 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.000 here for like two maybe two and a half maybe 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:08.440 three months. We uh, we moved up to Voselia and 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:12.400 this is before the easy e. This is before him 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:15.760 taking a song and uh and uh, you know we 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:18.720 was we was rough necking it real tough, real real 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:20.560 tough up there. You know, we had came up on 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:24.920 the little apartment you know that we ended up ended 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:30.240 up actually spreading graffiti on the walls and ship o. 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:32.360 The apartment was really bad. 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:35.360 They was bad, you know what I'm saying. They sprayed 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:38.360 a b boy on the wall and you know, yeah, 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:41.760 not giving a damn about you know, getting kicked out 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.840 and nothing like that. But yeah, it was you know, 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:46.640 we was doing a couple of things to come up 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:50.439 come up on a meal and everything and not again. 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:52.920 You know, we go like rob a piece of man. 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:54.880 Yeah, yeah, we'll hit up, but we'll hit up, you know, 0:08:57.840 --> 0:08:58.920 eighteen nineteen. 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:03.680 So yeah, so it was it was easy. 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:06.160 So it was before easy. 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:07.480 Yeah, it was before easy. 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:09.120 You know, we had to do the thing, you know, 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:13.000 the north Ridge earthquake had just remember that we got 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:17.160 we got caught up in that and then so but 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:19.640 we was we was we was on some real struggle 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:20.400 ship for real. 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:25.360 No, you guys could so were you guys all just 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:28.400 living in a one bedroom apartment trying to pursue music 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:29.120 or one. 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:32.240 Bedroom, two bedroom apartment that we shared. You know, it 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:36.120 was all of us, all of us together, and you know, 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:38.760 we had a couple of homies that knew somebody had 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:40.640 to have two friends that was out here going to 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:41.560 school playing ball. 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:42.559 They had was. 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:45.920 Holding down a little. I forgot what type of job 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:48.160 there was, but they knew. They knew folks that can 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:50.480 help us out and put us, put us in places 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:52.840 as we was trying to get get it, get to 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:54.000 get to our goals. 0:09:54.080 --> 0:10:06.360 You know. So we're done, baby special. 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:09.120 That's a really good looking grilled cheese. 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:10.040 Look at that. 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:13.800 The cheese is bubbling, guys, it's bubbling over and it's 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:14.440 a little buttered in. 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.040 I just learned a trick and making grilled cheese. What 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:20.480 is it to stack a lot of cheese in the middle. 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:27.320 I mean, cheese is actually a pretty staple ingredient. 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:29.240 To the grilled cheese, I know, but I usually just 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:31.520 put like one or two. Yours is like, first of all, 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:32.320 you did it really. 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:33.800 Impress I tell you, I tell you, I tell you 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:35.920 why though that's why you're healthy, though you said you 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:36.679 were healthy before. 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:40.120 Look at the like the even colored color. I don't 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.640 know if it's you did a really impressive grilled cheese. 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:45.559 Okay, yah, just low and slow. Okay. 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.719 So look, so I'm there and they're like, okay, so 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.040 it's Saturday. So the five hundred bucks that you were 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:54.280 promised you get that it's Saturday, so you get double 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:58.520 the session fee on that plus like whatever you get 0:10:58.600 --> 0:10:59.839 like a holding fee and all of that stuff. So 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:01.840 them making like three thousand dollars for this commercial, let 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:03.240 me tell you what kind of American I am. 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:05.679 I come home. 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:09.560 And I'm doing my unemployment and it asked if you 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:14.400 made any money? Yep, why I put the money on there. 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:15.560 Why, I don't know. 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:18.880 I've seen niggas get the death penalty for less. So 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:20.760 so I put so, I put the money on there. 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:24.040 I put the money on there, and this is what happens. 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:28.920 They then readjust my unemployment quarterly. 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.280 Like me, yeah, I would have told you not to 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:33.920 do that so quarterly. 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:38.640 So it goes from being I go from getting five 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:41.480 hundred dollars a week in unemployment to seventy five dollars 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:43.599 a week in unemployment. So I go, Okay, this is 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:45.679 the deal. It's not obviously, they don't think a nigga 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:47.920 can live off this. So I'm just gonna go up 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:50.040 to the unemployment office. I'm gonna talk to these people. 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:51.719 That's why I'm my deal. I'm gonna gout to the 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:53.520 uneployment office. I'm gonnak to these people. I'm gona straighten 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:55.200 this whole thing out. So I go up there to 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.440 the unemployment office in Pasadena. I'll never forget. The lady 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.440 was like, baby, ain't nothing we can do. It's in 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:06.000 the computer. I was like, uh, I can't live on 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:09.199 this blah blah blah in the computer. So I needed 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:10.400 a job. I had to have a job. 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:12.880 But you know what. 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:16.560 The funny the ge let that commercial ended up like 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:18.840 making me that commercial ran. 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:20.440 Oh shit, I. 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:21.040 Didn't know anything. 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:23.480 I didn't know anything about being a commercial actors. So 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:25.960 I would get a holding check every now and again, 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:27.600 and then I started making money off the commercial. 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:28.640 But that's later. I didn't notice. 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.880 I came home, and when I came home, I was like, 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:34.600 I have to find a job. I pulled up entertainment 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:39.320 careers dot net. The first job was TMS tour guide. 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:42.600 You were a tour guide, yep, it was being a 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:43.040 tour guid. 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:46.080 TMZ was starting a tour, and the tour was like 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:50.440 you go around to different places and you show people 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:55.600 different things that happened like on TMZ, like we would 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:58.640 show you where Josh Hartnett got diarrhea. We would show 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:01.720 you where my Richards fucked up at the laugh Factory. 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:04.559 It's actually a pretty good tour. Actually, I was one 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:06.960 of the first GUIDs on the tour. I was the 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:10.560 first guid on the tour. So actually a little bit 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:12.000 of pride in the fact that we were able to 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:13.360 jump that off and make it a thing, because it's 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:17.520 still going right now, right, So I get in there 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:19.360 and I do that. I apply. 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:22.600 That's a brilliant concept now that I think about it. 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:28.160 They revolutionize the whole tour game. So I apply, and 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:31.280 they're doing the tours like American Idol. They have all 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:33.080 of these tour guys in there, and then every week 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:35.880 they cut a guy. So I'm in there and like 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:38.240 they have me coming in there and whatever. I get 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:44.200 the whole thing. I start with the TMS tour. This 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:49.240 goes through to about everything I'm talking about. I start 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:53.400 with the TMS tour. I think April of twenty ten, 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:55.520 maybe it might be twenty eleven, whatever it is. I 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:56.520 start with the TMZ tour. 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:58.400 Then by. 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:02.400 You lie, I started in March. 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:04.440 By July, I'm on TV every day. 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:07.200 Within a couple of months, Harvey came. 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:07.680 In took the tour. 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:11.000 I was up there doing my thing, and I told 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:16.080 a joke and he liked the joke so much that he. 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:17.400 Brought me in and put me into the. 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:19.320 Newsroom. 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:20.040 Into the newsroom. 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:23.200 Yep, okay, So then you get this newsroom opportunity, Your 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:24.720 pay goes up. Benefits. 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:25.640 What are we looking at? 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:28.520 So this is the way it was working. I was 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:31.280 making money because I was getting tips on the tour. 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:34.400 So I was probably making fifteen hundred dollars a week 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:37.520 straight cash off the tips on the tour. I was 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:41.560 killing these motherfucking white people. I was killing them. 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:41.880 I was. 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.280 I was fucking killing them. And then you would you 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:49.880 would come in and you would have like people from 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:52.720 there was tourists, like they were from Australia, they were 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:53.400 from Canada. 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:55.480 There was the thing that we do on the tour 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:56.800 to where. 0:14:58.040 --> 0:14:59.640 If you see a celebrity on the tour, you stop 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:01.920 the bus, get off, you shoot the celebrity. 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:03.080 And when you're driving. 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:04.760 Around in LA at certain times, if you know where 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:07.560 to go, it's impossible not to see famous people. Like 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:10.600 if you were coming to LA and you and you 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:12.040 were hanging out with me, and I was like, hey, 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:15.080 you want to sit around and watch celebrities all day? 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:16.640 There are three or four places I could tell you 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:21.080 where it's going to happen, and so we would see him, 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:22.640 and I'm a good spotter. 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:24.520 I would spot celebrities and we would see him and 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:26.280 the people would go credit. We all kinds of people. 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:29.520 Fucking Lady God got Leonardo DiCaprio, David Beckham and just 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:30.880 the other niggas that be around. 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.200 Just niggas that be around larious. 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:34.880 You would just say, you know the people I'm talking 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:36.960 about in La, they just they'd be around. You see 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.440 them all the time, Like, hey, weren't you in Yeah, 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:42.000 like you see them. The funniest thing was b T 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:44.920 Wars weekend right because there would be all kinds of 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.080 celebrities that I would recognize that the bus wouldn't know 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:49.320 who they were, and so the bus wouldn't believe me 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:51.480 that these people were famous. I'm like, yo, I don't 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:53.360 know if you know this motherfucker two number ones. 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:55.280 We ain't never heard of him before. 0:15:55.520 --> 0:16:00.000 I don't know he signed to Luducris and Them's that's like, actually, 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:02.160 I don't want to say the guy's name, but like 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:05.040 that's actually that guy is a huge singer, Like you 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:06.240 guys should probably care about him. 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:07.400 Wait, don't know, fuck them? 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:12.720 Keep going, Oh no, what's going on? How do you feel? 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:16.120 Charlemagne the God also known as hip hop's Howard Stern 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:19.680 really best selling author of books Black Privilege, Shook One, 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:22.880 and most recently, Get Honest or Die Lion, Why Small 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:26.600 Talk Sucks. In addition to all these accolades, you have 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:30.000 invested close to thirty years in the radio broadcasting industry. 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:32.560 You're the founder of the Black Effect podcast network. 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:34.040 Where you can listen to eating while broke, where you. 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:37.680 Can which you yourself is literally the only reason why we're 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.200 able to do this interview. In addition to all that, 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:43.760 you are the creator of Black Privilege Publishing. I read 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:45.640 this quote. I was hanging out in my dad's apartment. 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:47.720 He had this quote on the wall and I took it. 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:50.240 And the whole irony in this quote is that he 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:52.400 actually took it from me. But I read this quote 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:55.560 and I thought of you. Excellence is never an accident. 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:59.240 It is always a result of high intention, sincere effort 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:03.400 and tell direction, skillful execution, and the vision to see 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:08.359 obstacles as opportunities. Now I thought of you because just 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:11.320 reading all your books, I was like, personally and professionally, 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:14.959 it seems like that has been your journey. Absolutely absolutely, 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:18.720 So I gotta ask, what is the broke dish that 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:21.160 you would have had us eating in my studio? 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:25.679 I really don't know. 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.119 I was racking my brain when they kept telling me, 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:30.600 and I watched the show and I'm like, they kept 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:32.320 you know, you got to have a broke dish and 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:35.159 I'm like, I didn't really have a broke dish coming up. 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:36.840 And the reason I say that is because even though 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:41.240 we were poor, I didn't realize we were poor until 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:43.280 I got older, because you know, I grew up in 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:45.480 Monks Corner, South Carolina, and you know, when you grow 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:48.720 up in a ruined area like that, everybody is pretty 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:50.880 much doing the same. Like, you know, you might have 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:53.920 a couple of individuals who got a house that's better 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:56.320 than yours, but for the most part, people were growing 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:58.240 up in double ye trailers and we're growing up in 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:01.399 you know, like small subberns like my grandma used to have. 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:02.320 But the one thing. 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:08.679 That we always had was food in funny food, funny 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:11.960 and family literally, you know. So it's like the things 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:13.840 that people would call broke meals or the things that 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:16.760 I still love now, Like I love grits and eggs. 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:19.920 You give me some scrambled eggs with some grits and butter, 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:20.960 I'm good. 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:22.400 Like my grandma used to make this. 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:25.720 She used to make cheese toast. So she would just 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:28.119 take the toast. My mouth started water and thinking about it. 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:30.080 She would just take the toast and like you know, 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:31.840 put the butter on the center and then put a 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:34.600 slice of cheese and literally warm that up. 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:36.600 And I would drink that with a cup of tea. 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:39.000