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Married to the Business w/ Slim & Husky's · We Talk Back

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  Speaker 1: We're just two unapologetically black women with an opinion who
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  Speaker 1: talk back.
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  Speaker 2: What's up, y'all? It's your co-host, AJ Holiday.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for tuning in for a new episode of
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  Speaker 3: We Talk Back, a show dedicated to you niggas and
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  Speaker 3: these hoes and everybody in between.
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  Speaker 2: What up, Tam?
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  Speaker 4: Hey, y'all. It's Tam Bam. I'm hungover. I still love y'all.
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  Speaker 4: I sound like Eeyore. Hello.
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  Speaker 3: Get your life together, y'all. She needs some, like, what's
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  Speaker 3: the shit called? Encouragement to not drink on Sunday nights, obviously.
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  Speaker 4: The Panthers won.
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  Speaker 1: I went to the game. The Panthers won. My friend's mom,
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  Speaker 1: she buys drinks unlimited. There's something about those unlimited drinks
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  Speaker 1: that just have a bitch sick on Monday. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Girl, I was sick as hell Saturday. So I feel you.
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  Speaker 2: I pulled a you this weekend for sure.
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  Speaker 4: You was taking shots?
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  Speaker 3: No, you know I don't chase shit, bitch. These niggas,
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  Speaker 3: the liquor, just straight tequila. But somebody else was buying
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  Speaker 3: my drinks. So I drank Don Julio usually. And I
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  Speaker 3: stopped fucking with Casamigos because I feel like once black
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  Speaker 3: people started drinking Casamigos, they changed the recipe.
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  Speaker 2: It does not taste the same. And I be getting
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  Speaker 2: fucked up. It was never good.
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  Speaker 3: It gives me, like, Patron vibes. Like, I really be, like,
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  Speaker 3: down bad. I can drink, like, a small bottle of
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  Speaker 3: Don Julio and be good. By myself.
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  Speaker 5: A bottle?
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  Speaker 1: You can drink a bottle of tequila and be good?
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  Speaker 6: Nah, bro.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't drink that often, man. I was really sick.
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  Speaker 2: I ruined my Sunday. For real.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's how I feel today, my nigga.
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  Speaker 2: I'm hurting. We ain't alcoholics, for real. Just once a week.
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  Speaker 2: And for me, shit.
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  Speaker 1: Just on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: It'd be like once every blue moon for me. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Cause I just can't like my body does not process
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  Speaker 3: liquor the same no more.
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  Speaker 1: Like I ain't going to be right till Tuesday, Wednesday.
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  Speaker 3: I was making myself throw up like six 30 last
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  Speaker 3: night so I can go out to dinner.
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  Speaker 2: Damn.
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  Speaker 4: No, I don't make myself throw up.
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  Speaker 1: I just take, I drink Pedialyte and I take like
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  Speaker 1: the goodie hangovers and I'd be like, not dead anymore
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  Speaker 1: i can like get on here and record with y'all
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  Speaker 1: but i still be hurting.
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  Speaker 3: No girl i had to make myself throw up because
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  Speaker 3: i was like busting out in sweats while i was
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  Speaker 3: trying to get dressed right so much so to where
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  Speaker 3: my lace went and stick bitch.
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  Speaker 2: I just i kept.
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  Speaker 3: Wiping my fucking forehead with alcohol and it just wasn't
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  Speaker 3: working So I'm like, okay, I got to feel better
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  Speaker 3: because I'm busting out in sweat while I'm trying to
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  Speaker 3: get dressed like a fat bitch.
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  Speaker 2: What's happening? But I got it together so I can
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  Speaker 2: go eat these free meals, okay?
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  Speaker 4: Where'd you go eat?
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  Speaker 2: My little favorite spot in Charleston is called Pearl's. You
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  Speaker 2: know Pearl's.
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  Speaker 3: They got a Pearl's in Columbia. The one here is better.
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  Speaker 3: The one here is better because the seafood is much fresher.
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  Speaker 4: That's my favorite.
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  Speaker 3: What we got going on in stupid internet news this week, y'all?
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  Speaker 2: Have y'all been following the blogs?
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  Speaker 3: I unfollowed the blogs during the goddamn monkeypox pandemic, so
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  Speaker 3: I really be having to look for my news now
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  Speaker 3: outside of social media nowadays. But I know everybody's been
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  Speaker 3: seeing this Balenciaga campaign and they asking hot water. And
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if it got anything to do with
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  Speaker 3: how they played with Kanye. I just don't know. But
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  Speaker 3: it just seems like London Bridge is fucking falling at
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  Speaker 3: this point. One of their ads, they're saying that they're
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  Speaker 3: not responsible for the ad. They have like a $ 25
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  Speaker 3: million lawsuit against the company who did the ad. The
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  Speaker 3: photographer said he had nothing to do with that shit.
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  Speaker 3: He just took the pictures.
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  Speaker 2: This is essentially like product placement.
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  Speaker 3: So they had a kid standing on the couch, a
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  Speaker 3: kid standing on the bed, holding a teddy bear with
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  Speaker 3: bondage little outfits on. And there's wine glasses and wine
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  Speaker 3: in the picture. And this is for kids' clothing?
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  Speaker 1: It's weird.
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  Speaker 2: It's giving really.
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  Speaker 4: Child abuse.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: It's definitely giving that.
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  Speaker 2: And the kid did not appear happy.
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  Speaker 1: It's just crazy. It's just crazy how... They be putting
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  Speaker 1: this shit right in your face like that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they've been doing this stuff all the time and
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  Speaker 3: they just expect people not to notice it. But they've
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  Speaker 3: since taken down their entire Instagram page.
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  Speaker 2: They've deleted everything.
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  Speaker 3: Because people really started zooming in on everything because there
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  Speaker 3: was another.
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  Speaker 1: Everything.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was another ad and they had like a
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  Speaker 3: court case where it was like a court case for
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  Speaker 3: child pedophilia. Just tucked away.
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  Speaker 2: In a book. So you really had to zoom in.
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  Speaker 1: Right, display in a document.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, that was from the photo with the kid. The
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  Speaker 3: other thing that somebody pointed out was actually like a
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  Speaker 3: woman at a desk, like an office setting.
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  Speaker 2: And there's a book on the desk.
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  Speaker 3: And if you go look up the author of that book,
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  Speaker 3: this book is just a bunch of naked babies.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand what the point of this is. People
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  Speaker 1: don't believe in these little secret little.
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  Speaker 3: societies and little things these people be doing but they
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  Speaker 3: do it and they're sending signals to they people like
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  Speaker 3: they know why they do it and then they gonna
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  Speaker 3: act stupid once the regular naked eyes see the shit
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  Speaker 3: you just gotta know what you looking at I don't
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  Speaker 3: know but Candace Owens was digging in Kim Kardashian ass
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  Speaker 3: because she put a statement out people was looking for
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  Speaker 3: her like to denounce like they be trying to get
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  Speaker 3: the presidents and stuff like to do to denounce white
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  Speaker 3: supremacy denounce this denounce that Denounce them.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a goddamn clothing line, isn't it? It's just
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  Speaker 2: a designer.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 3: How much money y'all really tied up with these people?
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  Speaker 3: Because they definitely denounced Kanye ass after one tweet. But
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  Speaker 3: this is the type of shit they can get away with.
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  Speaker 4: It's disgusting. The whole shit is disgusting.
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  Speaker 1: It's weird.
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  Speaker 6: Damn.
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  Speaker 4: I bought some Balenciaga sneakers. I can't wear them no more, huh?
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  Speaker 2: You better put them on the real real.
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  Speaker 3: Them big clunky ass niggas those shits.
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  Speaker 1: Is a workout yeah they heavy they like 10 pounds
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  Speaker 1: you never have to want to run in those that's
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  Speaker 1: for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Stomp a bitch though.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah during last Monday night's episode of Love and
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  Speaker 1: Hip Hop New York Chrissy shared over the first dinner
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  Speaker 1: Jim Jones had prepared for her in their 16 years
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  Speaker 1: together that she no longer felt it necessary for them
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  Speaker 1: to marry, despite the huge engagement ring worn on her
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  Speaker 1: finger for years.
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  Speaker 2: Damn.
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  Speaker 4: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: I think they actually married. And they do this shit
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  Speaker 3: for show. Because there's no way you want to be
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  Speaker 3: like the dumbest bitch of the century for this man.
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  Speaker 3: Remember she proposed to him one year.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, she did. But maybe she just fed up.
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  Speaker 2: She's 51. She's 51?
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  Speaker 4: That bitch is fine.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she look good. Because she don't have no kids
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  Speaker 2: and she never got married.
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  Speaker 1: Never been married. Bitches who never have kids and don't
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  Speaker 1: get married always look good for some reason. Less stress.
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  Speaker 3: But he's definitely been stressing her. That's just unfortunate. That's
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  Speaker 3: what I feel like. I feel like it's just for show.
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  Speaker 3: Y'all damn near family members at this point.
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  Speaker 2: Damn near. They are.
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  Speaker 1: They've been common law husband and wife for a long
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  Speaker 1: time regardless of the paperwork.
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  Speaker 2: Jim Jones is 46th. So she's a little bit older.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And you know, the mom kept like urging her
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  Speaker 3: to have a baby and all this stuff like back
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  Speaker 3: then on the show.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe that played a part.
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  Speaker 3: I believe he has a kid, at least one or
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  Speaker 3: two kids. But I mean, if you if you don't
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  Speaker 3: want to be with this woman, you should have let
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  Speaker 3: her go a long time ago.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? Like what he was doing
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  Speaker 2: to her at that table, he got so upset because
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  Speaker 2: he was.
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  Speaker 3: Like, well, you want to get married at? And she
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  Speaker 3: was like, you haven't even asked me if I still
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  Speaker 3: want to get married.
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  Speaker 2: Like, you skipping ahead.
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  Speaker 4: Some steps.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: That's what she said. You skipping some steps.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what men do. Like, he was gaslighting the
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  Speaker 3: hell out of her ass at that damn table. Like,
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  Speaker 3: all of a sudden, it's just.
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  Speaker 2: All the problems he has. Just some real... I hate to.
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  Speaker 3: Just be calling all men narcissists, but it was some
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  Speaker 3: real narcissistic behavior.
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  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 4: I have nothing to offer this.
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  Speaker 2: Bitch, you brought it up, bitch. You brought it up.
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  Speaker 1: And still nothing can.
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  Speaker 2: Chrissy, move on. I need her to go get her
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  Speaker 2: like a little 64-year-old zaddy, okay?
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  Speaker 1: No, she need to get her a 32-year-old zaddy.
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 4: So he can fuck the shit out of her.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Jim Jones being a gym girl. He probably got some stamina.
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  Speaker 2: That's probably why her ass.
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  Speaker 3: Can't leave him alone. Maybe that's what it is. I'd
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  Speaker 3: like to think that's what it is.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to think about that.
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  Speaker 1: What else happened?
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  Speaker 2: Child.
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  Speaker 3: So just like a little while ago, Meg Thee Stallion
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  Speaker 3: put out a post on her social media.
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  Speaker 1: Child.
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  Speaker 2: She's the first black woman.
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  Speaker 3: I hate those terms, but she's the first black woman
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  Speaker 3: to grace the cover of Forbes.
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  Speaker 1: 30 under 30.
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  Speaker 2: How about that?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's dope.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations to her.
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  Speaker 1: Real hot girl period.
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  Speaker 3: I think Meg Thee Stallion had a decent year In
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  Speaker 3: spite of all the bullshit So little man is in
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  Speaker 3: court today also.
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  Speaker 2: Tori Lanez is in court And her homegirl.
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  Speaker 3: Her ex homegirl Right Had to appear in court today
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  Speaker 3: for the assault of Magda Stallion.
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  Speaker 2: I really want to see what comes out of that.
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  Speaker 3: And I hope, you know, when all the truth or
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  Speaker 3: whatever comes out, people apologize to her. Because I really
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  Speaker 3: feel like she was violated. So I'm happy, like, she's
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  Speaker 3: still pushing forward. She got her old label still fucking
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  Speaker 3: with her all the time. She had to put a
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  Speaker 3: restraining order on those niggas. And with all the shit
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  Speaker 3: that's going on in Houston, people was like, oh, you
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  Speaker 3: a snitch.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 3: Like, they literally, like, people literally dying. And she has, like,
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  Speaker 3: all these different men attacking her from every.
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  Speaker 1: It is a lot.
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  Speaker 5: You know what?
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  Speaker 1: It is weird that it's so many men that's attacking
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  Speaker 1: this woman. I did notice that. That is nothing but men.
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  Speaker 1: Why they so angry with her?
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  Speaker 4: Because she too powerful?
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  Speaker 2: That's what it is.
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  Speaker 1: What is it?
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  Speaker 3: Right now, and I guess we may get into this
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  Speaker 3: in our main topic tonight. Um, but right now is like,
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  Speaker 3: and our main topic today, we might get into this
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  Speaker 3: and I guess right now, and we might get into
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  Speaker 3: this and our main topic today, but men may.
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  Speaker 2: Not like this, but the world was better.
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  Speaker 3: You could check history when it was like matriarchal lead leadership.
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  Speaker 2: Like there was no wars, none of that shit.
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  Speaker 3: If you check the fucking history books, along with all these,
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  Speaker 3: the three major religions came patriarchy. And it's been hell
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  Speaker 3: ever since. And I feel like men think they losing
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  Speaker 3: some power somewhere. Like they don't even see the benefit of,
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  Speaker 3: you know, not having to carry the load themselves.
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  Speaker 2: The invisible load for a lot of these guys. You
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 3: Because a lot of them not really showing up. But
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  Speaker 3: you can lean on your woman.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? Like women are very, very powerful. Uh-uh.
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  Speaker 1: Don't lean on me.
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  Speaker 2: Don't lean on me.
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  Speaker 4: I want to lean on you.
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  Speaker 1: How you going to lean on me if I'm leaning
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  Speaker 1: on you?
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  Speaker 2: We can lean on each other. You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 3: Like, neither one of us are the type of women
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  Speaker 3: I just want to be out here as just straight
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  Speaker 3: finessing niggas.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think. Not ones we like.
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean finessing?
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  Speaker 2: Not ones we like.
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  Speaker 5: Define.
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  Speaker 1: Define finesse.
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  Speaker 3: Dress, rest, finesse, and let these niggas do the rest.
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  Speaker 3: That really was my mantra in my 20s.
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  Speaker 2: That's terrible.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 3: But anyway, yeah, she better stay prayed up.
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  Speaker 2: And yes, the goddamn restraining order.
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  Speaker 3: There's nothing wrong with that. She needs to do whatever
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  Speaker 3: she needs to do to protect herself because them niggas
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  Speaker 3: stopping to check, threatening her.
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  Speaker 2: Via social media, email, whatever. Like, nah, you can't do that.
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  Speaker 1: Restraining orders are hard to get if you're not a celebrity.
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  Speaker 1: But that's a conversation for another time. Just gonna put
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  Speaker 1: that out there.
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  Speaker 2: You had to get a restraining order?
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  Speaker 4: I tried.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, bitch.
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  Speaker 1: I remember.
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  Speaker 2: I remember.
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  Speaker 3: Let's not even talk about her just in case her
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  Speaker 3: ass still stalking and be listening and then she start
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  Speaker 3: stealing some shit up.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna pull up on her.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want no parts of that lady. All right, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: So we got some very amazing gentlemen on today. They're
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  Speaker 1: going to drop some jewels for y'all. If you haven't
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  Speaker 1: heard of Slim and Husky's Pizza, you will learn about
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  Speaker 1: them today. They're super dope. Y'all stay tuned. All right, guys,
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  Speaker 1: we're back and we're with the gentleman from Slim and
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  Speaker 1: Husky Pizza. co-founded by national natives Clint Gray and Derek Moore.
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  Speaker 1: Emmanuel Reed, he's not with us today, but thank you
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  Speaker 1: guys for joining us.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: So, okay, tell our listeners about Slim & Husky and
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  Speaker 1: how y'all got started.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, so Slim & Husky's is not just a pizza company.
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  Speaker 7: It's a story, a story of one skinny dude and
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  Speaker 7: two big guys, Slim & Husky's, right? And so we've
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  Speaker 7: been entrepreneurs since 2010. We started off with a moving company,
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  Speaker 7: built that up from the ground up, just $ 3, 000. Sold
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  Speaker 7: that for seven figures in 2017. Turned around and reinvested
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  Speaker 7: in ourselves and opened up a pizza shop. We didn't
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  Speaker 7: want to just open up any type of pizza shop.
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  Speaker 7: We wanted to represent who we were. We had a
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  Speaker 7: love for pizza, art, and music, and also our community.
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  Speaker 7: So we put our very first concept in the middle
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  Speaker 7: of North Nashville, zip code 37208.
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  Speaker 5: Which is the historical African-American side of our city.
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  Speaker 7: Nashville isn't really known as a black city, but we
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  Speaker 7: have a lot of black heritage, home to Tennessee State University,
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  Speaker 7: Fish University, Meharry Medical College. And so we wanted to
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  Speaker 7: basically put a super dope concept that we had worked
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  Speaker 7: hard for and reinvested our hard-earned money into our neighborhood.
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  Speaker 7: And in return, we were able to provide jobs and
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  Speaker 7: just become a beacon of light to a neighborhood that
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  Speaker 7: didn't have an open business For 16 blocks, it was
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  Speaker 7: considered a food desert. And, you know, just really just
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  Speaker 7: wanted to pour in our neighborhood. So that's our story.
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  Speaker 7: It's three guys on a mission to provide economic development, education,
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  Speaker 7: and opportunities to people who.
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  Speaker 5: Look like us.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. How did y'all meet?
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  Speaker 6: So EJ and I met in second grade. So EJ's
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  Speaker 6: originally from Akron, Ohio.
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  Speaker 5: So he came down. His mom had a job down here.
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  Speaker 6: And so we made the second grade, so we've been
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  Speaker 6: friends since elementary school. And then we met Clint. EJ
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  Speaker 6: actually met Clint first in high school. They were in
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  Speaker 6: this program.
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  Speaker 5: What was it? Enrolls? Enrolls. Yeah, they were in Enrolls together.
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  Speaker 6: And then Clint and I actually, we didn't battle it out,
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  Speaker 6: but we got a little story where growing up, he
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  Speaker 6: was in this high school fraternity And I just so
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  Speaker 6: happened to just be in the place with some homies
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  Speaker 6: that I went to school with, that I was cool with,
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  Speaker 6: that was beefing with his high school fraternity.
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  Speaker 5: And just some big brawl just happened.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: So y'all fought?
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: Nah, me and Clint ain't fighting. It was like, man,
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: like 50 people in the middle of downtown Nashville. Yeah.
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: Outside of a Hooters. Going crazy. Going crazy.
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: But nah, me and Clinton didn't fight, though.
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: I fought a couple of his homies, but I didn't
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: fight him, though. But I was high because I'm like, man,
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: I ain't got no problem with none of these people. Like,
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: y'all bring me to this.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying?
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: But anyways, that was probably like our junior year. Then
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: senior year, we both ended up signing a football scholarship
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: to go to TSU.
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: And so we just got tight. He hit me up.
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: We was running the same circles anyways, but he hit
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: me up and went outside. He's from South Nashville. I'm
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: from East Nashville. Pulled up in my apartment and smoked
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: a J and drank some Creature Cooler vodka type shit.
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: We've been popping shit. We've been brothers ever since.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: So are y'all the two Huskies or was one of
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: y'all one of the Slim in 2017 and became the Huskies?
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: Nah. Slim be slim. You know, when you see slim,
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: you're okay. Okay. Mo done bulked up a little bit.
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: I done slimmed down a little bit. But we still
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: on the 250 plus. Yeah, for sure.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: So, all right.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Y'all some niggas, why pizza?
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: You know, like, why not a soul food spot?
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Did any one of y'all work in a pizzeria or something?
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: Nah, never.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Nah.
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: I mean, so when we used to be on the
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: trucks and stuff with the moving company that we had,
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: you know, we'd be going to all these different cities,
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: New York, Chicago, Houston.
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: We'd be all over the country. And on the road,
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: one of the quickest things we could get was pizza.
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: Go to the gas station and get pizza. And so anyways,
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: we started doing some research when we made the decision
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: that we wanted to get in the hospitality industry. We
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: started doing some research and figuring out what do Americans eat?
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: So it was hamburgers, hot dogs, pizza, and tacos. Right.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying?
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: We're going to leave the tacos to who's supposed to
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: have the tacos. You know what I'm saying? And then
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: hot dogs, we didn't really want to do that. We
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: didn't really feel like... I mean, we grew up on
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: eating hot dogs, but there wasn't a fun food for us.
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean? And then hamburgers, it was
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: at a time in Nashville.
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: when we had hamburger spots, Kraft hamburger spots popping up
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: every corner.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: So it's like, man, we do pizza.
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: And it's something we grew up on, you know, we's 80s,
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: 90s babies, you know what I mean?
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: So, you know, WWF, WrestleMania parties, it was pizza.
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: You know what I mean?
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: Ninja Turtles, it was pizza. You know what I mean? TGIF. Yeah, TGIF.
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: So that's what we grew up on. We feel like
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: we could make a splash with that, have some fun
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: with it. Slim and Husky is not just about us,
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: but also the size of the pieces in Slim and Husky.
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: And then that's something that we felt like we at
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: least understood. It wasn't a steakhouse. It wasn't a seafood spot.
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: So we understood pizza and it just worked for us.
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: And then we understood the margins, too. So we got
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: deep down and scientifically, financially, the margins on pizza are
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: much better than a lot of other restaurants and foods
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: out there.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: So that's why we jumped into pizza.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: So how much does it cost to make a pizza?
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: I average cost for a pizza is around $ 3. 50, $ 4
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: with the box included. So we have all different kinds
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: of pizzas, though. We got everything from just a basic
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: cheese pizza to a meat lovers to a smoke.
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: We call it a smoking herb. It has smoked salmon
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: on it. So, you know, we have high end products, chicken, sausage,
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: things most people don't put on pizza. And we do
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: a completely different. vegan pizza with.
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: Vegan pepperoni, vegan sausage, and everything that our plant-based family
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: can enjoy.
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: Yeah, they can get expensive now when you start adding
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: salmon and shrimp and premium meat products and stuff like that.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: What is a vegan sausage?
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: What the fuck is that?
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: Right. So, I was pescatarian.
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: And slash vegetarian for like six years before we started
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: the pizza company, right? And so one thing I've learned
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: is that it's hard to transition from just eating, from
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: going to eating meat and chicken and poultry and things
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: like that to just.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: Vegetables and fruit.
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: So I think a lot of times it's a mental thing, right?
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: Like making people feel like they can still enjoy their
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: old diets and their old habits but without all of
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: the fatty things that make things unhealthy. So when people
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: replicate different foods to make them vegan, I think it's
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: more so to help people transition and help people continue
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: a lifestyle that makes them feel normal. So our vegan sausage,
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: we use a pea plant protein. So we don't use
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: a ton of soy because a lot of people view
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: soy as unhealthy. But we have a company here locally
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: that we work with called The Beehive, and they sell
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: some really good vegan alternative products.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Something about sausage made out of peas just don't sit
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: right with my spirit.
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: You got to try it.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: I think it's a good texture.
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Here's the thing with pizza.
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: If you think about pizza, flavors can be hidden in
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: pizza because the core thing to make your pizza good
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: is your dough. your sauce and your cheese. Anything else
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: on that is going to get blended into that flavor.
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: So when you take that bite, you're really tasting the
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: dough and the sauce and the cheese, not necessarily those ingredients.
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: So as long as we can mask, you know, what
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: it may taste like, you can still visually see it.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: I mean, it tastes really good. It tastes like our
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: regular pizza.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: So you kind of psyching your mind out like, this
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: is sausage, but it's really peas.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: I might have to try that.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: Now, you know you done tried some vegan stuff, some
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: vegetarian stuff.
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: I never tried no vegan sausage.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: You probably never looked at the ingredients. Usually it's like
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: peas or soy.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: I be weirded out by that because it's like a vegetable,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: but it's a burger.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: And I just can't wrap my head around that, you know?
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: Y'all ever tried our homegirl slutty vegan? I had one.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: I have not.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: They're about to open a location here in Charlotte.
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah. Fire.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, fire. Yeah.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: So, I see y'all have locations in Nashville, Atlanta, Sacramento,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: and Memphis. Are y'all going to franchise, perhaps? Or how
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: are y'all moving with that?
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: We left out Chattanooga.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: Get us out of Murphy.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Get me together. Okay.
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: We got two concessions in Fed's form.
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: We played six in the Nissan Stadium where the Titans played.
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: One in Vanderbilt Stadium. We got one going up. It's
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: the latest one in St. Thomas Hospital here in Nashville.
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: But franchising, to answer the question, no, not right now.
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: We really want to keep it corporately owned. You know,
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: perfect it. You know, you would think with nine or
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: ten stores, you know, and then all these concessions, you
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: got to perfect it.
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean? But, you know, it's a
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: changing world. It changes fast.
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: So we want to make sure before we franchise or
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: do anything like that, we want to make sure it's
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: right and ready for the franchisee, for the consumer. And so, yeah,
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: we want to keep it corporate for a while. And
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: we may never franchise.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: I don't think we should. Keep it black. Keep it black.
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we're going to do a tour next year.
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: So we've got a pop-up that's going to be based
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: out of Austin, Texas. And we're going to do pop-ups,
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: like a pop-up tour across the country with pizza art
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: and music. And so we'll start off in Houston, Dallas.
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: We'll go everywhere from New Orleans, Miami, and also all
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: the major festivals. So we'll be in Chicago.
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: You'll probably find us at One Music Fest in Atlanta
• 25:10
  Speaker 7: and Essence Fest in New Orleans and Rolling Loud in.
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: Miami, Dreamville. you know, Fest, Dream Fest, and I think
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: it's in Raleigh.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: Raleigh, North Carolina.
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: Yeah, so we're looking to, like, go all over the
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: country next year as a major marketing component to, like,
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: introduce everybody who may not be in the markets that
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: we're in, introduce them to who we are, our pizza,
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: and also just our vibes. So, you know, we have
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: our own live music series we host here in Nashville.
• 25:38
  Speaker 7: We want, you know, to introduce them to that, you know,
• 25:41
  Speaker 7: when we come to town, as well as our art
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: shows that we do. Like, we're in our our gallery
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: right now is called Inca Gallery. So we've got one
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: here in Nashville, another in Memphis, Tennessee. And yeah, we're
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: just trying to, you know, spread the love and introduce
• 25:55
  Speaker 7: people to, we call it.
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: Premium world, everything Slim and Husky's. Progress rules everything around. Hey.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: So y'all also are in some locations, grocery stores, frozen pizza.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: How did that come about? And how long have y'all
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: been doing that?
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: Man, we started working, there's pretty much a pandemic type of,
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: business venture that we started.
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: We always wanted to dive into products. You hear Master.
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: P talk about all the time, products don't talk back.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: So we always wanted to dive into products.
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: We always wanted to build on the shelves.
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: And we built a relationship with a friend of ours
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: at the turnip truck. And he was like, man, hey,
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: I want to see y'all pieces of work on the shelves.
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: And so we built got a food scientist and whipped
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: it up and star freeze them, put them on the shelves,
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: doing great.
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: And then we also work with Gold Belly.
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: So, you know, we can ship pieces all across the
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: country and also slimhuskies.com.
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: You can get pieces from there as well. And the
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: sauces and the cinnamon rolls too.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Damn.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: So you said y'all do these festivals. Are y'all mobile?
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Do you have like a food truck as well?
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: Yeah, we've got a food truck that's based in Tennessee.
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: We've got another one that's going to be based in Austin, Texas,
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: and that's going to be the one that moves.
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: Around the country. Okay.
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: That's dope.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: So when y'all going to put one in Charlotte? Because
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: I like pizza and shit.
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: We on the way.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: You guys sound hungry as fuck. My stomach's fucked up, too.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: My stomach is messed up. I was drinking last night.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: A slice of pizza would be good right now to
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: help me with what I'm going through.
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: Give us about a year and a half. We'll be
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: in Charlotte. We're going to start.
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: doing some site selections real soon, the next couple of months.
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: So we hit up Charlotte and D.C. and go back
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: down to Atlanta.
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: We're going to keep moving.
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: Around in the Southeast, Southwest, so Houston, Dallas, Birmingham.
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: In the meantime, it's a dope black and old pizzeria
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: down in Charlotte I checked out, called Bird Pizzeria.
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: Y'all tried them out yet?
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: No, I haven't heard of that.
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: Bird? Bird, yep.
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: Bird Pizzeria. It's a husband and wife. They slinging pies
• 28:19
  Speaker 7: out this window out there.
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: So, yeah, look them up.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: I'm definitely going to look them up because I need
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: something on my stomach right now. All right, y'all. We're
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: going to take a commercial real quick, and we're going
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: to come back and talk about relationships in business and relationships, period. So,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: y'all stay tuned. We'll be right back.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: So, like, with owning and operating a business, it is
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: essentially like a marriage.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: So, how did you pick your partners?
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: Aside from just going to school with them, like, how
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: did you know that this would be a good union?
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: And it's like, what are some of the biggest challenges
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: you guys find in business together?
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: Man, I don't know if we picked each other like that.
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: I think it just came together. You know, I mean,
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: you know, I always... you know, we got a good
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: thing going, man. And sometimes you really can't take the
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: credit for it. I'd be like, man, that was God.
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: You know what I mean?
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: So I feel like just from growing up, going through.
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: Trials and tribulations separately together, you know, on the football field,
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: we was roommates in college.
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: You know, we all went off to do our own thing.
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: I was an air traffic controller and, uh, you know,
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: left that guy in law school, had a bunch of jobs.
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: I got fired from, uh, Clinton was in sales. Clinton
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: was in sales. EJ was in finance and, uh, he
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: was a financial analyst. And, um, and the pieces just
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: kind of got, kind of got put together, uh, for
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: us to like come together and do, and do our
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: first business. And, uh, I think that a lot of
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: the kinks got ironed out in the first business. Um,
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: you know, how we work. Like I can't, I honestly,
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: like I know my partner. So if it's something like
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: six in the morning, five in the morning, I'm probably
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: not going to call Clint.
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean? Because that's just.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Not his hours of operation.
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: And same thing with EJ. If it's like some heavy
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: lifting or even if it's an event, like EJ don't
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: always want to be the most social. Now you put
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: some numbers in front of him. or he want to
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: panel about numbers, he going to talk all day. But,
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: you know, that's just not his thing. And so I
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: won't call him. And, you know, I'm sure there's things
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: about me that they won't call me for. You know
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: what I mean? So, man, it just really just came together,
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: just the trials and tribulations. Like I said, the first business,
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: we learned each other, learned a lot about each other,
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: going through some very, very hard, tough times. And then
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: that's when you really start seeing, like, Who going to
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: really ride for you? Who going to stick around? You know,
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: who in there for the long haul when it gets tough?
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: And we've been through that time and time.
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: Again, and we just keep rolling.
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: So, you know, then on the business side of it,
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: you know, separate from friends, we always want to make
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: sure the paperwork is right. So we got with our lawyer,
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: you know, we got buy-sell, buyout agreements between us, you
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: know what I mean?
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: All that type of stuff. he ain't holding up if
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: i'm not holding up ej.
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: Not holding up you know i mean we can buy
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: each other out you know what i mean operating agreements
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: are right um and the paperwork is on point you
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: know what i mean so we hold each other accountable
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: not just as friends and not just looking out or
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: brothers not just looking out for each other's family and
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: well-being but also on the business side as well um
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: and uh and we made a pact you know i'm
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: saying like you know, we won't let business get in
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: front of friendship and friendship get in front of business.
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean? Now it's challenges, of course,
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: you know, some, some.
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: Some things with a friendship, some hard, some conversations that
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: are hard, uh, you know, it's a little bit harder
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: because we are friends, you know what I mean? And
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: we do understand each other's plight, you know what I mean?
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: And what we're going through personally. Um, and so, yeah,
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: and plus you don't want to be an asshole to.
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: Your friend, you know what I mean? So, um, you know,
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: those conversations.
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: That we have, but we have to have them because
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: we have a business we have to run.
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: We got to be around each other all the time
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: and talk to each other no matter what.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: I think our friendship makes us stronger as business partners, honestly.
• 32:32
  Speaker 7: Like, we go through some things that people that haven't
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: been through our struggles or are new to working together
• 32:39
  Speaker 7: in business, they don't quite understand yet. Like, I got
• 32:41
  Speaker 7: this story I tell people all the time. It's like,
• 32:44
  Speaker 7: First thing, trust and accountability to me are the two
• 32:46
  Speaker 7: things that we can't lose, right?
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: Like I trust them dudes, you know what I'm saying?
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: My life, my kids, you know, anything.
• 32:53
  Speaker 7: And so, and the accountability side is very important too, because,
• 32:58
  Speaker 7: you know, just like in any relationship, you got to
• 33:00
  Speaker 7: be able to hold somebody accountable when they do shit wrong, right?
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: So we can, I never forget, we opened up our
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: first store, our first of my Huskies.
• 33:09
  Speaker 7: Man, I was, I had been in there all day,
• 33:11
  Speaker 7: like testing products, Cause I work on the product side
• 33:14
  Speaker 7: of things and marketing and stuff. And I was testing, testing, testing.
• 33:17
  Speaker 7: We had an artist in on some, on a ladder,
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: like painting the ceiling. And one of the other homeboys
• 33:21
  Speaker 7: was just in there. We were talking and Mo walks in.
• 33:23
  Speaker 7: I ain't seen Mo all day. He walks in and
• 33:28
  Speaker 7: he's like, Hey bro, like, man, how long has cheese
• 33:30
  Speaker 7: been sitting out? And I'm like, I've been working, man.
• 33:36
  Speaker 7: The cheese sitting out. He's like, man, you can't leave
• 33:38
  Speaker 7: the cheese out like this.
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: I'm like, bruh. I've been working on this all day, man. Chill.
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying? He's like, nah, you need
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: to put the cheese up.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, D-Hack walk up in there, you'd be in trouble.
• 33:50
  Speaker 7: So look, so we going back and forth like brothers, right?
• 33:54
  Speaker 7: Like we arguing, cussing each other out. And, you know,
• 33:57
  Speaker 7: you see the artist starting to get down off the
• 33:59
  Speaker 7: ladder because he's like, man, this is going to break out.
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: You're right.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: These niggas about to fight.
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: Kevin ready.
• 34:06
  Speaker 7: My homie was in there was trying to figure out like, bro, like,
• 34:09
  Speaker 7: do I need to break it? You know what I'm saying?
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: What's going on? But like this shit we've been doing
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: for a long time. So we knew we weren't finna
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: throw no blow, but there was some things that needed
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: to be said.
• 34:19
  Speaker 7: At the end of the day, I was wrong because, yeah,
• 34:22
  Speaker 7: the health department walked in on day one, day two,
• 34:25
  Speaker 7: and the chief just said, man, that's wrong.
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: But that's me saying, all right, you know what? You
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: was right.
• 34:29
  Speaker 7: I'm going to be, you know, I'm going to be
• 34:32
  Speaker 7: wrong on this. You was holding me accountable. Let's move
• 34:34
  Speaker 7: on to the next thing.
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we've had several moments where each of us said that.
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: You know, bending the wrong. And it's not always like
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: a right or wrong thing. It's just like, you know,
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: you got to hold each other accountable. You know what
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: I'm saying? And you got to be able to take it.
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: If you can, you got to dish it out, you
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: got to be able to take it. So, yeah, that
• 34:49
  Speaker 6: was funny though.
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: But you tie that back into the culture, right? Like,
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: that's one of the things about our culture that we
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: got to improve on.
• 34:57
  Speaker 7: Like, every argument ain't got to end in a fight
• 34:59
  Speaker 7: or a breakup or a shootout or, you know, so
• 35:02
  Speaker 7: if somebody having a, you know, an issue with, That
• 35:05
  Speaker 7: the entire world here is about.
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying? Like, we got to learn
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: how to hold each other accountable as a community. So
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: for us, it just starts with them.
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and to communicate effectively.
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's all I'm saying. Like, I
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: didn't jump right off the porch knowing how to talk
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: to Clint. You feel me? Or EJ. And they all
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: had a thing.
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: We used to have these meetings, and they all had
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: a thing about me. Like, I would come off, like,
• 35:29
  Speaker 6: too hard or too harsh or not even... you know,
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: not even feeling like I wouldn't listen to the other side.
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying?
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: So like, these are things that, these are conversations that
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: we've had with each other that we had to like
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: grow and get to. We talking about, you know, we 38. Well,
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: I'm the youngest, so I'll be 38 in a couple
• 35:47
  Speaker 6: of days.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: I feel like he just sexed on y'all a little bit.
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Old ass niggas.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Old ass niggas.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: That's what he just said.
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: 38 in a couple of days. And I got about
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: a week, about a week.
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: Ago and then Clint just turned 38 and what you're
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: talking about you know we started with our first business
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: in 2010 you know what I'm saying so that's a
• 36:11
  Speaker 6: long time for us to learn how to communicate and
• 36:14
  Speaker 6: it evolves you know what I mean because as men
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: as people like we ain't the same.
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: You know five years ago two years ago you know
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: what I'm saying so it needs to.
• 36:25
  Speaker 6: Change and evolve and you know it's just like that so.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the most important thing is learning how
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: somebody wants to be talked to.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying?
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: Or how somebody wants to be treated. You know, because
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: they say, treat people how you want to be treated. No,
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: you have to treat people how they want to be treated.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: So it is a learning curve sometimes for some people
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: when it comes to communication.
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure.
• 36:49
  Speaker 6: But sometimes you got to give to them, though. Even
• 36:51
  Speaker 6: though they might want that shit soft, you might.
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: Have to give it to them hard, though.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying?
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: You know, that's real with men, but I think women
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: will end up in a real fist fight. You start
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: giving it too hard to each other. You have to
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: be a little bit more delicate with one another.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: You don't think men fight? I feel like men will
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: get into a fight quicker. No?
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: No, I don't know.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Y'all stop being friends quicker than men. You know what
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: I'm saying?
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: For sure. We're going to have a drink.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Clint, they might have fist fought. Clint put the cheese
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: up and they went and had a beer. You know,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: we wouldn't speak for weeks. And probably won't even eat
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: cheese no more.
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: I don't like that.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: Fuck cheese.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: I don't even like cheese no more because of that
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: motherfucking bitch.
• 37:34
  Speaker 7: Y'all found out over dinners, vacations, everything.
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: Dinners for sure though. Not the dinner. Hell no. We
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: ain't doing that.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: There was a time though. There was a time I
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: would fall out about bitch you had this. And you
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: didn't pay for this.
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: Just put the card down.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: So, question. Being successful black men, how do you feel
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: about dating or being with women who make more than you?
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: Man, that's what I'm looking for. Look, look. That sounds
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: like a whole lot of success in the household to me.
• 38:24
  Speaker 7: And also, man, it depends on, it really depends on
• 38:26
  Speaker 7: the type of man you are, honestly.
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: I mean, every man ain't the same mentally. You know
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: what I'm saying? Like, you have to, you know, there's
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: some men that might see that as intimidating. You know
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: what I'm saying?
• 38:38
  Speaker 7: But for me, I'm personally just not one of them dudes. Like,
• 38:41
  Speaker 7: to me, I take that as a blessing and a
• 38:43
  Speaker 7: challenge at the same time. You know what I'm saying? Like,
• 38:47
  Speaker 7: do I want to... make the most money in the household,
• 38:51
  Speaker 7: preferably I would, you know what I'm saying? But I
• 38:54
  Speaker 7: ain't tripping if I'm not. And what I got to
• 38:55
  Speaker 7: do to either work with you as my partner and or,
• 38:59
  Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying, work on my own with
• 39:01
  Speaker 7: your support to, you know what I'm saying, to change things.
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: And yeah, man, I got.
• 39:06
  Speaker 7: A homegirl that got a big platform. We was just
• 39:10
  Speaker 7: talking and I'm like, yo, you know, I'm single, man.
• 39:12
  Speaker 7: I'm looking for, you know, I'm looking for somebody that
• 39:15
  Speaker 7: ain't going to be so attached to me because I'm
• 39:19
  Speaker 7: out working every day from, you know what I'm saying,
• 39:21
  Speaker 7: early morning to sometimes late at night.
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: Like I need somebody that got some business about this.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Got their own shit going on.
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 39:27
  Speaker 7: And so, you know, she's sending me people. I'm like,
• 39:31
  Speaker 7: I don't know. Send me something else, whatever. But, like,
• 39:33
  Speaker 7: you know, for me.
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: Clint don't be like that about everybody, though.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: What's your sign, Clint?
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: I'm a Scorpio. Oh, shit. I'm a little selfish, but,
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: you know. But I'm loyal, though.
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you loyal to the bomb, for sure. On a tip,
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's been times where... So my wife, she
• 40:00
  Speaker 6: has an awesome job and makes a great salary.
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: And it's been times where, you know, pandemic or whatever, where,
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: you know, we didn't know where the next dollar might
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: come from, you know what I'm saying? Or as a business, right?
• 40:15
  Speaker 7: Or.
• 40:16
  Speaker 6: Or, you know, we get paid last. You know, people
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: don't understand about entrepreneurship. It's like we, as the owners,
• 40:21
  Speaker 6: get paid last. Vendors get paid first. Employees get paid first.
• 40:27
  Speaker 6: Keep the lights on. Everybody get paid before we do.
• 40:29
  Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying? And so it's been times
• 40:32
  Speaker 6: where it's like she had to hold it down. And
• 40:34
  Speaker 6: I was grateful and I was thankful for that. Like, because,
• 40:37
  Speaker 6: you know, it's like Clint said, there's a whole lot
• 40:39
  Speaker 6: of success in one household under one roof. And, you know,
• 40:43
  Speaker 6: as far as men go, that can't handle that, I
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: really think the way the trend is going, the way
• 40:48
  Speaker 6: women are coming up, especially black women, you better get
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: used to it because y'all popping right now. From education
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: to businesses and just all platforms, black women especially are
• 41:04
  Speaker 6: rising through.
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: The ranks right now.
• 41:06
  Speaker 6: I think that if you're a man, especially a black man,
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: and you can't fathom your woman making more money than you,
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: then you need to reevaluate what your purpose is. Because
• 41:18
  Speaker 6: if your sole purpose, if you think that it's just
• 41:20
  Speaker 6: finances that makes you a man, then you already lost.
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying? So that's my take on it.
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: I was out last night with a couple of friends,
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: with a girlfriend of mine and some guys she knew.
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: And the relationship conversation is just going to always come up.
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: If you got a couple of women, a couple of men,
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: like it's just going to happen. And I was trying
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: to explain to them how black women are going to
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: die alone. We're going to die by ourselves, all this bullshit, right?
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: Oh, you were explaining that?
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: No, this is what they were saying. That's always the rhetoric, right?
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: So I was basically trying to explain to them, y'all
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: say that black women, our expectations, our standards, boundaries, everything
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: just too high, right? But the men y'all want us
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: to marry are the same men you wouldn't go into
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: business with.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying?
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: What you mean? I ain't understanding that, AJ. What you saying?
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: Would you have went into business with either one of
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: these guys if they didn't have a track record of
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: anything successful?
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? If they didn't have any means.
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: Nah.
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: And you had to help build them and all this stuff. Nah, nah.
• 42:30
  Speaker 6: I mean, well, I mean, shit, we ain't have nothing
• 42:32
  Speaker 6: successful other than graduating from college.
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying? So, but I understand what
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: you're saying.
• 42:37
  Speaker 6: But for us, it was just a little bit different
• 42:39
  Speaker 6: because we had to, which I think is true. You know,
• 42:42
  Speaker 6: what we have to think about even when we're talking
• 42:43
  Speaker 6: about relationships, like, sometimes you got to grow with each other.
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: You feel me? Like, that's what we did. Like, we
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: grew as businessmen with each other. You know what I'm saying?
• 42:52
  Speaker 6: We grew, you know, successfully with each other. We didn't
• 42:55
  Speaker 6: start off like, you know what I'm saying? It wasn't
• 42:58
  Speaker 6: a book to this.
• 42:59
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: We didn't have all the answers. And we wasn't always right,
• 43:02
  Speaker 6: but we grew into who we are together. So I
• 43:06
  Speaker 6: think that's part of a black household or any household.
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: We all got daughters. If I had to consult my daughter.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: That was my next question.
• 43:14
  Speaker 7: I got a fairly long ways to go. She's about
• 43:16
  Speaker 7: to turn four. But if I had to consult her,
• 43:19
  Speaker 7: you know, like he said, we started from the ground up.
• 43:22
  Speaker 7: You know what I mean? I've been the dude that
• 43:27
  Speaker 7: had a lot of ambition walking out of school. But,
• 43:30
  Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying, I was working hard towards
• 43:31
  Speaker 7: those goals. But, you know what I'm saying, somebody with,
• 43:34
  Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying, fast money might have picked
• 43:36
  Speaker 7: my crush up after.
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: School and now he gone. I'm just like... I'm busting
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: my ass, you know what I'm saying?
• 43:42
  Speaker 7: But, you know, like, I think that if I had
• 43:45
  Speaker 7: to consult, I would say, hey, look for somebody who
• 43:49
  Speaker 7: has ambition first, right? But then, and support them in
• 43:53
  Speaker 7: their ambition because everybody's not going to start off with everything,
• 43:57
  Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying, given to them. But then also,
• 44:00
  Speaker 7: as that relationship progresses, you got to identify whether or
• 44:04
  Speaker 7: not they have execution to match that ambition.
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 44:06
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying?
• 44:07
  Speaker 7: And if that execution isn't there, then you can support
• 44:10
  Speaker 7: them and try to get them to that point.
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: But if it's not comfortable, you don't like the way it's.
• 44:14
  Speaker 7: Moving, you got to keep it, you got to keep
• 44:16
  Speaker 7: it going because it's something bigger and better out there
• 44:18
  Speaker 7: for you.
• 44:18
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 44:19
  Speaker 7: So like, you know, definitely, uh, you know, pay attention
• 44:22
  Speaker 7: to the characteristics and not just to talk, you know
• 44:25
  Speaker 7: what I'm saying? And, uh, you know, make sure that
• 44:28
  Speaker 7: somebody is going to be able to grow with you
• 44:29
  Speaker 7: and not just, you know, make a bunch of promises. Right.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: So I have a question with, um, women making more and, um,
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: Do y'all feel like men should be the head of
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: the household for the relationship to be successful? Or should
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: there be a hierarchy of things? Like the man should
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: be the head and have the final say, or it
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: should be like an equal partnership?
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: I can't really speak for... I mean, we're from the South.
• 44:56
  Speaker 5: You feel me?
• 44:57
  Speaker 6: So, you know, we're just a little bit different.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: That Bible belt.
• 45:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you're the Bible belt, so you're getting taught all
• 45:05
  Speaker 6: your life that men are the head of the household.
• 45:08
  Speaker 5: But that doesn't just mean, like, it's like you running
• 45:11
  Speaker 5: that thing with a iron fist.
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: It's a misconception.
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying?
• 45:14
  Speaker 6: Like, it doesn't mean, like, submission doesn't mean, like, you know,
• 45:18
  Speaker 6: she walking in there joining. You know, as soon as
• 45:21
  Speaker 6: she come in, she bowing down at you. Like, you know,
• 45:24
  Speaker 6: that's taking all out of context. You know what I'm saying?
• 45:28
  Speaker 6: I think that for anybody, you got to work with
• 45:31
  Speaker 6: what works for y'all. You know what I'm saying? Like,
• 45:34
  Speaker 6: I don't really know how to put it other than that.
• 45:36
  Speaker 6: I mean, as far as me running a household, it's
• 45:39
  Speaker 6: something about a man being protecting your house, protecting his
• 45:42
  Speaker 6: woman and his family.
• 45:43
  Speaker 5: You feel what I'm saying? Something about a man providing.
• 45:46
  Speaker 5: You feel me?
• 45:47
  Speaker 6: Not being the number one provider, but providing.
• 45:50
  Speaker 5: You feel what I'm saying?
• 45:51
  Speaker 6: Like, we, I know Clint, I mean, we believe in
• 45:55
  Speaker 6: that cold hearted. His daddy is an OG.
• 45:57
  Speaker 5: You feel me? Like, that's, One of the men that
• 45:59
  Speaker 5: I've always looked up to.
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: Look, your daddy married?
• 46:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah. But I don't know if it's ever a time.
• 46:11
  Speaker 6: I'm sure it's a time where Miss Gray made more
• 46:14
  Speaker 6: than pops. You feel what I'm saying? But he still
• 46:16
  Speaker 6: hold his household down. You know what I mean? And
• 46:18
  Speaker 6: I think that... And she honors him. And his children
• 46:22
  Speaker 6: honor him. And I think that's... That is more important
• 46:26
  Speaker 6: than having to put.
• 46:27
  Speaker 5: A title on hierarchy. You feel me?
• 46:31
  Speaker 6: Granted, it's some things that a man will do that
• 46:34
  Speaker 6: a woman won't do in the household. Or not won't do,
• 46:36
  Speaker 6: excuse me. Just may not be in favor of. I mean,
• 46:39
  Speaker 6: if I got to go out there and paint the house,
• 46:41
  Speaker 6: I'm not expecting my wife to go do that. You
• 46:43
  Speaker 6: know what I'm saying? But if she want to join,
• 46:45
  Speaker 6: come on. You know what I'm saying? But, you know,
• 46:48
  Speaker 6: it's some things in my household that they may think.
• 46:51
  Speaker 6: I mean, I take care of the plants in the house.
• 46:52
  Speaker 5: You feel me? You know what I'm saying? And, you know,
• 46:55
  Speaker 5: I got a green thumb, but that's something I enjoy doing.
• 46:57
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean? So, you know, I don't know.
• 47:00
  Speaker 6: I just think that we lose as a community when
• 47:03
  Speaker 6: we start trying to put these titles on who's supposed
• 47:06
  Speaker 6: to do what in a household. And, man, y'all coming together,
• 47:09
  Speaker 6: y'all putting y'all resources together, y'all grooving, y'all making things
• 47:13
  Speaker 6: work how y'all want to make their joint work. You
• 47:16
  Speaker 6: got a successful household. You know what I'm saying? Yeah,
• 47:19
  Speaker 6: I completely agree with that. I think in business.
• 47:21
  Speaker 7: whoever controls the finances controls the business, right? Like if
• 47:25
  Speaker 7: you are in charge of the books, you can make
• 47:28
  Speaker 7: pretty much every decision that you want to make, you know,
• 47:32
  Speaker 7: for that company. At home, I don't think it should
• 47:34
  Speaker 7: be that way. I think it's, you know, we always
• 47:36
  Speaker 7: talk about what do you bring to the table? It's like,
• 47:39
  Speaker 7: all right, let's lay out what we bring to the
• 47:41
  Speaker 7: table and let's make it a good-ass fucking table.
• 47:44
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying?
• 47:44
  Speaker 7: But it doesn't mean that, well, I'm bringing the finance
• 47:46
  Speaker 7: to the table, so I'm the one that's calling all
• 47:48
  Speaker 7: the shots around here. To me, that's a little unhealthy because,
• 47:51
  Speaker 7: You know, there's times when you might be bringing all
• 47:54
  Speaker 7: the money, but something may happen. Like Mo said, like
• 47:57
  Speaker 7: I've seen my family, you know what I'm saying, grow
• 48:00
  Speaker 7: together and, you know, pops bringing in the big checks.
• 48:02
  Speaker 7: But my mom also had a really good job. So
• 48:04
  Speaker 7: when things might have slowed down for pops, my mom,
• 48:07
  Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying, stepped up. So it was
• 48:08
  Speaker 7: never about who brought the money in. It's all about
• 48:11
  Speaker 7: how can we build the most love.
• 48:13
  Speaker 5: Off in this place.
• 48:14
  Speaker 7: And so, yeah, I think, man, just like you said, man,
• 48:17
  Speaker 7: share the resources and figure out how, you know what
• 48:19
  Speaker 7: I'm saying, you can make the house work for you.
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: How do y'all think we ended up in this situation, though?
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: Because I feel like it's only in Black America, in America,
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: amongst Black Americans, where there's discussion.
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: About who pays for what, whose plate gets fixed first.
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: How did we end up here?
• 48:38
  Speaker 5: I disagree with you, AJ. I think.
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: I have nothing to disagree with. What you talking about?
• 48:45
  Speaker 5: They're just black people. I feel like you're in a fight.
• 48:49
  Speaker 5: It's America.
• 48:50
  Speaker 6: We live in a capitalist society. This is just America.
• 48:54
  Speaker 6: It ain't a black problem. It ain't a white problem.
• 48:57
  Speaker 6: It's just America. It's an American problem.
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: But you don't really see the public discussions amongst white
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: women and white men about what's going on in their community.
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: And I feel like all of our shit is on display,
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: so if anybody wants to come in and really dismantle
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: our shit, we've given them all the ammo.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: For sure.
• 49:15
  Speaker 5: That's on us, though. Now, that's a media question.
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 49:19
  Speaker 5: That's a media thing. You feel me? What are we
• 49:21
  Speaker 5: pushing out?
• 49:22
  Speaker 6: What are we pushing out? What are the things that
• 49:23
  Speaker 6: we're pushing out about our community? I made a post
• 49:27
  Speaker 6: on my story today about, like, highlighting the positives and
• 49:31
  Speaker 6: the good things about our culture. You feel what I'm saying?
• 49:34
  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm. man, the black family is strong.
• 49:37
  Speaker 6: And that's something that the media doesn't like to talk
• 49:40
  Speaker 6: about because it's threatening.
• 49:43
  Speaker 5: You feel what I'm saying? A strong black family is
• 49:46
  Speaker 5: a threat. And it's strong. And it's getting stronger.
• 49:49
  Speaker 6: We just like to push out all these negative topics
• 49:53
  Speaker 6: and that's what we lose as a community.
• 49:55
  Speaker 5: And then we entertain it. That's what we lose as
• 49:57
  Speaker 5: a community.
• 49:58
  Speaker 6: If we entertain half of that that's coming out about us, man,
• 50:02
  Speaker 6: it wouldn't even be a story.
• 50:03
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
• 50:04
  Speaker 6: So that's That's something that we have to fix in
• 50:07
  Speaker 6: the community. But as far as this hierarchy and all
• 50:09
  Speaker 6: that type of stuff, that's.
• 50:11
  Speaker 5: An American problem. You know what I mean?
• 50:13
  Speaker 6: And I think it's the countries that you look at
• 50:16
  Speaker 6: what's going.
• 50:17
  Speaker 5: On with soccer. You know what I'm saying?
• 50:18
  Speaker 6: You talk about Iran and what's going on over there
• 50:23
  Speaker 6: with women's rights and all that type of stuff.
• 50:27
  Speaker 5: It's a world problem. When I get pushed back, you
• 50:31
  Speaker 5: feel me?
• 50:31
  Speaker 6: Men to the front, but I think all of that
• 50:34
  Speaker 6: is on a positive.
• 50:36
  Speaker 5: Trend of change.
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know why?
• 50:38
  Speaker 7: Oh, sorry.
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: Go ahead. Go ahead.
• 50:39
  Speaker 5: Go ahead.
• 50:40
  Speaker 7: I was going to say, and we're just getting to,
• 50:43
  Speaker 7: we've been working hard as a culture for years to
• 50:46
  Speaker 7: like defy the odds and the challenges in front of us.
• 50:50
  Speaker 7: We have more educated, you know what I'm saying, millennials
• 50:53
  Speaker 7: now than ever before. And even more, the next generation
• 50:56
  Speaker 7: coming in the pipeline. We've got more African-American women making
• 51:00
  Speaker 7: money now, you know what I'm saying, than ever before.
• 51:02
  Speaker 7: and have an opportunity to, you know, run their household
• 51:06
  Speaker 7: as a, you.
• 51:07
  Speaker 5: Know what I'm saying, a married person, right?
• 51:09
  Speaker 7: So it's like, we're getting new issues now that we've
• 51:11
  Speaker 7: never had to deal with because we've been growing as
• 51:14
  Speaker 7: a culture, you know what I'm saying, up until this point.
• 51:16
  Speaker 7: So it's going to be more and more challenges to come,
• 51:18
  Speaker 7: new issues to come about just because black people are
• 51:21
  Speaker 7: becoming more and more successful.
• 51:23
  Speaker 5: And, you know what I'm saying, to, you know, recent,
• 51:26
  Speaker 5: you know, topics.
• 51:27
  Speaker 7: I mean, if we don't control the media that's being
• 51:29
  Speaker 7: pushed out on us, they're going to try to, you
• 51:32
  Speaker 7: know what I'm saying, crush us because they see that
• 51:33
  Speaker 7: growth and they see what can happen when we work together. So,
• 51:36
  Speaker 7: I mean, we just got to be prepared for what
• 51:38
  Speaker 7: that change means in our society through the success we've
• 51:42
  Speaker 7: been able to garner.
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: Can I just admit something? I don't want to be
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: an equal partner. I don't want to.
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: Hell no.
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: I'm tired of running this ship. I want somebody to
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: come in here and take the wheel, sir.
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: Come take the wheel. Yeah. You got to be able
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: to have preference.
• 52:03
  Speaker 6: People got to have their own preference. You ain't saying
• 52:07
  Speaker 6: nothing wrong. That ain't nothing to admit to.
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but some people would say that's weak. You know, like, oh,
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: she don't want to be equal. Hell no. That's the
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: dumbest shit we signed up for.
• 52:20
  Speaker 7: Nah.
• 52:22
  Speaker 5: The same way I said I'm looking for.
• 52:26
  Speaker 7: The same way I said I'm looking for somebody who
• 52:29
  Speaker 7: ain't going, you know what I'm saying, be on my
• 52:30
  Speaker 7: coattail all the time and, like, needs so much time
• 52:33
  Speaker 7: because of how busy I am.
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 52:35
  Speaker 5: I'm also saying, too, shit, I work long hours. You
• 52:39
  Speaker 5: know what I'm saying?
• 52:39
  Speaker 7: And when I get home sometimes, you know, Mo go home,
• 52:43
  Speaker 7: it might be dinner on the table or he might,
• 52:45
  Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying, be making dinner for the family.
• 52:47
  Speaker 5: Who knows? When I go home.
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: You got leftover pizza.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: You got to go get some of them frozen pizzas
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: in the oven.
• 52:52
  Speaker 5: I ain't nothing really off in here. I ain't nothing doing.
• 52:55
  Speaker 5: I got to clean the house up.
• 52:56
  Speaker 7: Cook a meal or go out to eat you know
• 52:58
  Speaker 7: what i'm saying so so yeah like there's value.
• 53:02
  Speaker 5: In that too or you just get or you just
• 53:04
  Speaker 5: get your paper you just.
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: Got somebody outsourcing it yeah but tam there's no switch
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: now so you say you want somebody to come in
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: and and control things but do you think that there's
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: an internal switch that you can turn off to be
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: able to deal with that.
• 53:20
  Speaker 4: And that's the problem.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 53:22
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: Can I just let somebody take control when I've been
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: controlling shit my whole life?
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: You know, my whole adult life.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know. But I sure would like to find out.
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: I don't want somebody to come in and be like,
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: this is your bedtime. No, I don't want it to
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: be like that type of control. But I just want
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: someone else to like lead.
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: You remember when I used to have to get off
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: the phone? Yeah.
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: She used to have to, like, she was in a
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: relationship and she was like, I gotta go.
• 53:49
  Speaker 4: It's bedtime, bitch.
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: I was like, what? Turn the light off. Turn the
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: TV off. It's like, stop talking now. Yeah.
• 53:58
  Speaker 5: How'd that work? How'd that work for you?
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: They ain't together no more.
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: I'm not somebody that's easily controlled. I think that was
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: a surprise for him. Boy, fuck you.
• 54:09
  Speaker 5: Curfew.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's one thing to set boundaries in your relationship,
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: but to tell somebody when they need to go to
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: bed is like a whole different kind of level of control. Like,
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: I don't want to be controlled.
• 54:25
  Speaker 5: There's some women out there that might enjoy that.
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they probably would like it. I didn't.
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: Because like, then you also don't want me to go
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: lay on the couch so I can still do what
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: I want to do until I'm actually sleepy.
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: You want me to still stay right here in the dark.
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: Just laying in the dark with a nigga.
• 54:41
  Speaker 6: Nah.
• 54:42
  Speaker 5: That's wild. That ain't no relationship. That ain't that. That
• 54:48
  Speaker 5: ain't that though.
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: Just laying there.
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: Bruh, that's weird.
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: You gotta sneak me some melatonin or something like they
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: do these babies.
• 55:00
  Speaker 5: Hey, dang, you know.
• 55:02
  Speaker 6: I ain't trying to make life your relationship or past relationship,
• 55:05
  Speaker 6: but damn.
• 55:06
  Speaker 5: Did he feed you? You know what I'm saying?
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: Middle finger to my whole life, y'all. Oh, goodness.
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: That partner selection, boy. In business, in life, that shit
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: is hella important.
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying?
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying?
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: Do you guys take therapy? Have y'all ever had to
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: take therapy as business partners? And do you take individual therapy?
• 55:32
  Speaker 5: As a group? Nah.
• 55:34
  Speaker 6: But I think we should, though. I think we need
• 55:36
  Speaker 6: to start. And I've been thinking about that a lot.
• 55:40
  Speaker 6: But individually, I have. I'm sure EJ has.
• 55:45
  Speaker 5: Clint, have you? No, not individually.
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: Not the Scorpio.
• 55:48
  Speaker 5: I like to do things that's therapeutic, though. Mm-hmm. Yeah.
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: I think black people need a different type of therapy anyway.
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: We need like spiritual therapy, not like traditional.
• 55:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure. All this. So, I mean, but I,
• 56:02
  Speaker 5: you know, I've sat on some couches for sure. Like
• 56:05
  Speaker 5: the lady? Yeah.
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: I went and talked to the lady.
• 56:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah. The lady, you feel?
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: The lady said.
• 56:14
  Speaker 5: She gonna have me through some things, you know what
• 56:16
  Speaker 5: I'm saying? And, uh, But you know what I mean?
• 56:18
  Speaker 6: Also, like Clint said, other things that's therapeutic, like this
• 56:21
  Speaker 6: art gallery is therapeutic.
• 56:22
  Speaker 5: Just being here around art, the visual arts is therapeutic.
• 56:27
  Speaker 5: Ink therapy. Yeah. Clint get a lot of tattoos. That's
• 56:30
  Speaker 5: his therapy. You know what I mean?
• 56:31
  Speaker 6: I might smoke a J probably just about every night
• 56:34
  Speaker 6: just to vibe out and just chill and not listen
• 56:36
  Speaker 6: to podcasts.
• 56:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 56:39
  Speaker 6: That's therapeutic. Cleaning up is therapeutic for me. Cooking, believe
• 56:42
  Speaker 6: it or not.
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: It's the weed that make you want to clean up.
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: I've seen that before. Make a smoke and start cleaning
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: the baseboards and shit.
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: God damn.
• 56:51
  Speaker 6: Snacking and cleaning. Working out is therapeutic. Running is very therapeutic.
• 56:56
  Speaker 6: You just forget about it all.
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: Does any of that stuff really help you heal though?
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: I think a lot of that stuff just helps you
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: get through to keep going. Does it really help you
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: heal from shit?
• 57:08
  Speaker 6: I mean, stress management, healing, you know, you either manage it,
• 57:13
  Speaker 6: deal with it, or you heal from it. The worst
• 57:17
  Speaker 6: thing you can do is just deal with it. So
• 57:19
  Speaker 6: if you're managing it, then that's a good step. You
• 57:22
  Speaker 6: know what I'm saying? Now, whether you heal from it
• 57:24
  Speaker 6: or not, I think a lot of times it's all
• 57:26
  Speaker 6: up to us as people to heal.
• 57:29
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean? And let things go. And
• 57:31
  Speaker 5: don't let things....
• 57:33
  Speaker 6: Hold on to us, but I mean, if you're managing
• 57:36
  Speaker 6: your stress, because stress is, you can't run from it.
• 57:39
  Speaker 5: It's here. You know what I mean? So if you're
• 57:41
  Speaker 5: managing it by.
• 57:41
  Speaker 6: Running or smoking a J or cleaning or whatever your
• 57:45
  Speaker 6: stress management is, I think that's a focus that we
• 57:51
  Speaker 6: should have, even as a community, like learning how to
• 57:53
  Speaker 6: manage the things that's going to come that's inevitable, you know.
• 57:57
  Speaker 5: What I mean? Which is stress.
• 57:59
  Speaker 7: One thing I know we don't do that well is
• 58:02
  Speaker 7: take advantage of like vacations.
• 58:04
  Speaker 5: So, like, from us, you know what I'm saying, building
• 58:06
  Speaker 5: our business. Oh, man, like, I can probably speak to
• 58:08
  Speaker 5: all three of us. Like, have you been on a vacation?
• 58:12
  Speaker 7: Now, we got work trips, you know what I'm saying? Or,
• 58:15
  Speaker 7: you know, like, you know, fellas trips and things like that. But, man,
• 58:19
  Speaker 7: that ain't vacation. Like, we haven't done a good job of, like,
• 58:22
  Speaker 7: just shutting shit down. You know what I'm saying? Turning
• 58:25
  Speaker 7: the phone off and, like, you know, going to this
• 58:28
  Speaker 7: beach and just disconnecting.
• 58:30
  Speaker 5: So, like, that's. For me, that's something in 2023. I
• 58:34
  Speaker 5: really want to practice a little more.
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: A little nine-day vacation.
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: It's hard to disconnect because I feel like on my vacation,
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: if I can't share it on my Instagram, is it
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: really a vacation?
• 58:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah. I'd be out.
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: I can't cut my phone off.
• 58:50
  Speaker 5: You don't need everybody keeping up with you.
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: That's my struggle. I don't like that.
• 58:56
  Speaker 6: We got to disconnect. And I think we got too
• 59:00
  Speaker 6: much access right now. People got access to you all
• 59:03
  Speaker 6: the time. People got access to me, to us all
• 59:05
  Speaker 6: the time. If I post something and I ain't reply
• 59:08
  Speaker 6: back to a text, somebody hit me up.
• 59:11
  Speaker 5: Hey, you see my text? You know what I'm saying?
• 59:14
  Speaker 5: It's the access, man.
• 59:14
  Speaker 6: We got to cut that off sometime and just disconnect.
• 59:18
  Speaker 6: I think we as a people, as a race, we
• 59:22
  Speaker 6: got to learn how to do that. Because That's a
• 59:25
  Speaker 6: form of stress all in itself. We ain't meant to
• 59:28
  Speaker 6: be contacted and connected and accessed all the time, 24-7.
• 59:33
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: What was we doing before cell phones? You know what
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: I'm saying?
• 59:37
  Speaker 5: Chilling?
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: Like, now niggas want to be in your bedroom. They
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: want to be on vacation with you. They want to
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: see what you eat. And, like, I cannot get with
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: that shit at all.
• 59:48
  Speaker 6: And I like to just enjoy my time. Somebody's had
• 59:51
  Speaker 6: to wait until you got home.
• 59:52
  Speaker 4: To talk to you.
• 59:54
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 59:54
  Speaker 5: You feel me? Or talk to them. That's some true.
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: Now you got stalking people on iPhone.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 6: You can get into your thoughts, your thinking, all through
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 6: the day it's about you. You know what I'm saying?
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 6: You get home, but you taking on somebody's problems 24-7. Like,
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 6: that's whack. You know what I mean?
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 7: And from a relationship standpoint, man, think about how many
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 7: people's grandmothers and grandfathers didn't have to deal with some
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 7: of the stuff that we was dealing with. It's like,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 7: You could tell somebody, like, hey, I'm going to be gone.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 7: I got to go to Memphis for the weekend. I'll
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 7: be back in seven days.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: Sound like it's easier to cheat. Wait a minute, nigga.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: Take this pigeon with you, nigga.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: Big Mama could not FaceTime your ass.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 7: I'm just saying, you don't have to worry about somebody, like,
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 7: looking at your story or, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: Looking at it.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: Looking in your sunglasses when you take a picture to.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 5: See who's right there.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: Put the fuck back there.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 5: And ask me, hey, who took that picture right there?
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: One time I really caught a nigga I was dealing
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: with doing some shit he wasn't supposed to because I
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: saw in his sunglasses a bitch in the background. I
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: was like, hold up. That's a bitch in a bathing suit.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: What the fuck?
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 7: Nah, he's going to follow through with that.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 5: He's going to zoom in.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: And with the iPhone, don't mess around and do those
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: live photos.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: You can hit play a little bit and hit some
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 3: shit in the background right quick.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you can hear the background.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: You got to be careful.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 7: Now, you can see somebody's location if you got the
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 7: wrong settings on your phone.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 3: Hold on.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: Wherever they been.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: You can go through and see all the places that
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: they been.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: How?
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: Oh, don't try to figure it out.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: No, bitch, I need to make sure my phone don't
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: have that type of stuff on it.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: Oh, no, with these air tags. Have y'all seen that?
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: That's a new thing, too.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 5: I hear the air tags are dangerous.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: That's very dangerous.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah, there's people following you home and stuff like that.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: They can put it, slip it in your pocket and you.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 4: Don't even know.
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  Speaker 5: It was, it came on my phone. It was air tagged.
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  Speaker 7: I stopped the car, got up underneath the car, making
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  Speaker 7: sure it wasn't underneath there, man.
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  Speaker 5: That's crazy. It's getting crazy out here.
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  Speaker 1: It's getting crazy out here.
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  Speaker 2: Even the headphones.
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  Speaker 3: I was with somebody who, I don't have like the
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: pods and they connected to my phone.
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  Speaker 2: Their AirPods connected.
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  Speaker 5: Somebody else's?
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  Speaker 1: So they was hearing your conversation?
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: Not like connected in that way.
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  Speaker 3: Like the map popped up on my phone showing where
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  Speaker 3: the headphones was at.
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  Speaker 2: Like I didn't set that up.
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  Speaker 5: See, that's the thing. All this access. You know what
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  Speaker 5: I mean? It can be used for good and bad. So,
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  Speaker 5: you know.
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  Speaker 7: I don't even want to go to Mexico no more, man.
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  Speaker 7: Everybody in Mexico posting and stuff. I just want people
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  Speaker 7: to go somewhere and have a good.
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  Speaker 5: Time, man. We don't need to go anywhere yet.
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  Speaker 2: Go to the Caribbean islands, go where black people at. Like,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: well go with good black people. Know your people.
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  Speaker 1: So, so we have a segment on our show called
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: simp series and are a dumb bitch story. And it's
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: basically where you share a time that you got played
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: by the opposite sex. Can y'all share a story?
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  Speaker 4: And please don't do a.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: Every time we have a guy on, they always be like, yeah,
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: when I was in the ninth grade, this girl did this. Like, no,
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: tell us a story, an adult story, a time where, like, damn,
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe she did me like that.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, that's why I got to think back. Dang.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all don't just like.
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  Speaker 5: That ain't no ego shit or nothing like that. It's just,
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  Speaker 5: you know.
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  Speaker 2: I just keep it playin'. I was too cool, baby.
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  Speaker 5: I don't get played.
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  Speaker 1: That ninth grade was.
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  Speaker 2: The last time I played. That's it.
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  Speaker 5: No, you can't play me, baby. I played myself. You
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  Speaker 5: feel what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: Well, tell us about a time you played yourself.
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  Speaker 5: Right. No, I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 6: But no, I didn't know. I can't really think of
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  Speaker 6: no time like that, man, that I got played.
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  Speaker 5: I ain't had no self.
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  Speaker 1: Neither you, Clint.
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  Speaker 5: At 38.
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  Speaker 1: You played for a girl to fly out somewhere and
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  Speaker 1: then she kind of ran off with somebody else.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing? You know what?
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  Speaker 7: I might have had one time where it kind of
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 7: goes two ways. I had one time it was like
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  Speaker 7: last minute. We was taking a trip. I ended up
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 7: flying somebody out randomly. We get out there and I
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 7: wasn't hearing from her and she, I think she might've,
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying, connected with somebody else real quick.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 7: I think we got into like a little back and
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 7: forth before she flew out. And so I really wasn't
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 7: tripping about it, but it worked for me because I
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 7: met somebody while I was out there and, you know,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 7: right off the rip and things, you know, fell in place.
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  Speaker 4: So it don't really apply.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So you flew.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to be trying to make up some shit. Nah,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 5: I ain't really had that happen to me.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I could have been getting played and just
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 6: didn't know it, but I ain't looking for nothing.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 5: I ain't looking for that. I'm sure I've gotten played.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 5: You feel me?
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  Speaker 4: I just don't know.
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  Speaker 7: Everybody done got played, but sometimes it's a good thing
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 7: if you ain't know it.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I ain't trying to be that invested to.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: Where I'm at. What's your sign, Mo?
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 5: Sagittarius.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Terrorist.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: Sagittarius.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I was thinking. Those good people.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: As long as y'all not saying fucking Aquarius, we good.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 5: Nah, I ain't no Aquarius.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all ain't never got played.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Alright, we gonna leave that one alone. It's hard to
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: get men to tell a story when they're on the.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 4: Show, honestly.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 5: What other games you got for us?
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: That shit, that's the only game we got.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: I guess we gotta come up with some games. We're like, well.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 6: Y'all gotta come up with alternatives.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: Well, tell everybody where to find you.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 5: Game over.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 6: On IG, what's IG?
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 5: At Slim and Husky's everything. Yeah, yeah, man. PRM, we
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 5: got some gear coming out, some merch coming out. It's
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 5: already out.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 7: When the PRM released on the first, so if you
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 7: like the caps, it's both PRM caps we got. We're
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 7: practicing like Lux Comfort, so same shit we wear every
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 7: day on a day-to-day, trying to build our empire.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 5: If you dig it, man, we hope you add that
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 5: to your lifestyle some kind of way.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 6: EGNMC, our bar. You can check us out when you
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 6: come to Nashville. It's on Historic Jefferson Street. We bought
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 6: the building, historic building, you know, slaves built the slaves,
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 6: put the bricks up. So that's what the architect for
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 6: the state capitol, he lived in that actual building that
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 6: we purchased.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 5: EGNMC educated, gifted, melanated creatives is what that stands for.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: I'm proud of y'all.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, me too.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: I'm so proud of y'all.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 5: I'm the Inca Gallery, Nashville, Memphis, Tennessee. Stemming Huskies, man.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 5: You can find us. We out. We out here. Somewhere.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: So where you guys are at right now, that's your
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: art gallery.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the art gallery. 915 Buck Canyon Street. We
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 5: in the neighborhood right now. North Nashville.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: Y'all hiring? Let the people know if y'all hiring or not.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 5: We always hiring. Forever. As long as we keep growing,
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 5: we hiring. For sure. Good people.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: Okay, I got one more question. What's the last book
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: you read?
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  Speaker 6: I like that I like that last book I read
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 6: I'm currently listening to shoot last book I read was
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 6: Danny Myers Seat at the Table I didn't even read
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 6: it I started reading.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 5: And I was like man I can't keep stopping and going.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 6: Back so I listened to it so I've been on
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 6: audio books real heavy so that was the last book
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 6: that I completed and Yeah, Sanford Meemoe actually got me
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 6: this book, The Talent of America by Steve Stout.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 5: Reading that just talks.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 7: About the power of African-American culture and the marketing of
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 7: things within our country.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 5: And it was a great book.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 7: But I'm also, I like to just kind of continue
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 7: to educate myself on different things. We're jumping into a
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 7: lot of different sectors of business, one being the music industry.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 7: And so I'm reading books right now, music publishing. So
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 7: just trying to continue to educate get more knowledge.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 5: That's my thing.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 6: I buy the people I care about or take a
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 6: liking to books.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 5: Y'all do audibles?
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 3: I got a login for an audible that got a
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 3: lot of books in there if y'all want it.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know. I saw an audible. I'm going to
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 5: start jumping in that.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 6: But yeah, that's our thing, man. We like to be
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 6: on the same page, you know, and always being curious.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 6: That's the reason why we asked that question at EG.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 6: What's the last book you read? Because, you know, it's
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 6: a curious mind. You want somebody that's curious. And that
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 6: comes from Howard Schultz from Starbucks. You know, he hired somebody.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 6: What's the last book you read? So we're hiring people, relationships,
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 6: all that type of stuff. Maybe somebody to read.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 5: And read the same books, too.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 7: If y'all working on something together, like, read the same book,
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 7: get on the same page mentally.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying? Learn together. Yeah, that's something
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 5: that we did in the beginning, for sure. We still do.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 4: That's dope.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 4: Thank y'all for coming on, man. We really appreciate y'all for.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 5: For fun. This is one of the fun podcasts.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 4: Educating our kids. Yeah, glad you like it.
• 1:10:08
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• 1:10:14
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• 1:10:21
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• 1:10:23
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• 1:10:25
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• 1:10:27
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• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: So, pull up.
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  Speaker 4: All right, y'all. It's Official Tim Bam. Thank y'all for
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 4: tuning in. We love y'all. Remember to speak now.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: And never hold your peace.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 4: Deuces.
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  Speaker 6: Bye.