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CAFE BOURBON - Fried Bologna and New Orleans Tales · Eating While Broke

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  Speaker 1: Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Coleen Wit and today we have very
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  Speaker 1: special guests, Cafe Bourbon Street owners Mark Kel and Janessa Amos.
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  Speaker 2: I got it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so excited to have you guys here today.
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  Speaker 3: We're exciting here.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for having me, and I'm excited that you are
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  Speaker 4: restaurant owners and you are going to be feeding me.
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  Speaker 4: The unfortunate side of this conversation is not going to
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  Speaker 4: be what I could get at the restaurant, right, but
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  Speaker 4: let's find out what you're going to be feeding me today.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, you know it's so we got that balloon
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  Speaker 5: and fried balloona sandwich, right, We're gonna do it. You
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  Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, seven wall style, that's my I'm
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  Speaker 5: from New Orleans. It ain't seven wall stop, but that's
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  Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. Uh Now, normally, let's see
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  Speaker 5: what kind of man is we got. Normally use blue plate,
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  Speaker 5: they make blue plate in the seventh wall.
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  Speaker 1: But this is okay. So we got the male, the mustard,
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  Speaker 1: the butter, what else?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, we got ballooney of course with the red strip.
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  Speaker 5: You gotta get the red strip bologna because then because
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  Speaker 5: like the red strip like your avatar, right, you're gonna
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  Speaker 5: you're gonna fry with the red strip on it. Then
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  Speaker 5: you chew the red strip before you eat the sands, right, okay,
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  Speaker 5: And you got the mustard, real light on the mustard.
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  Speaker 5: And they got some bread. And now this bread fancy,
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  Speaker 5: that's artists and breade. I used regular bread and cheese, American.
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  Speaker 6: Cheese, you know.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, so you're gonna feed us younger younger. So while
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  Speaker 4: you get to started, I'm gonna throw do what's right.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna judge it.
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  Speaker 6: How you make it Bologna. You want to skill it
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  Speaker 6: high because you got.
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  Speaker 1: To hear that are you're going to use both skillets
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  Speaker 1: or what you see it too? You seed it three people.
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  Speaker 6: We got enough bread for three sandwiches. So yeah we're
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  Speaker 6: gonna use two challenging you.
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  Speaker 7: You toasting the bread, I'm gonna the bread. Yeah, okay, okay,
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  Speaker 7: fancy come on.
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  Speaker 1: So take take us back to the fancy blooney fried
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  Speaker 1: balooney and cheese. Appetize the red ring sandwich. It really
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you're serious about eating the ring
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  Speaker 1: on the You fried with the.
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  Speaker 6: Ring on it. You don't take it off. Some people
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  Speaker 6: take it off. I don't take it off.
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  Speaker 1: I've never in the history of doing the show, I've
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  Speaker 1: had fried Blooney sandwiches, but I've never had it with the.
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  Speaker 6: Red It's what you snack on while you're getting the sandwich.
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  Speaker 1: Your let's see this butter.
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  Speaker 6: I won't do no, but it's enough grease in this.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, teach me, teach me.
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  Speaker 6: We're gonna let the heat it.
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  Speaker 1: You don't even need the butter.
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  Speaker 6: I need the butter the toaster.
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  Speaker 1: Ok.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, once.
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  Speaker 4: School me, school me on the broke side. So what
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  Speaker 4: was going on on the fried bloney sandwich's side of life?
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  Speaker 7: Uh?
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  Speaker 5: I ain't gonna lie like it's a struggle meal. But
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  Speaker 5: at the time, you you don't know you're struggling. It's
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  Speaker 5: like this shit good, you know.
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  Speaker 2: What I mean?
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  Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying. So like it was just
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  Speaker 6: me and my quote unquote siblings.
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  Speaker 5: There was all my cousins, but we grew up in
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  Speaker 5: one big house with our grandparents.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean your grandparents, not your parents.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, no, because they was young too, so we
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  Speaker 5: was all growing together.
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  Speaker 1: You know, So you were teen parents?
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  Speaker 6: No, No, they weren't teens, but they was in the
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  Speaker 6: streets still. Okay.
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  Speaker 5: So my mom had me when she was twenty eight,
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  Speaker 5: and she was I think the drugs.
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  Speaker 6: So when she had me, the.
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  Speaker 5: Hospital was like either he grew up for adoption or
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  Speaker 5: you find some family that.
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  Speaker 6: I take them.
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  Speaker 5: So luckily she lived with her mom and dad still
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  Speaker 5: and she was like, all right, go to grandparents, and
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  Speaker 5: I was she was still with me.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, So after that it was.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, but all of the grandkids stayed there.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, we was all all of your grandparents. Her
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  Speaker 4: kids escaped their kids back to her. It was like,
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  Speaker 4: you're never retiring. You're never retiring.
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  Speaker 6: New Orleans is a very like community driven city.
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  Speaker 5: Like so like you know, the house is like two
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  Speaker 5: feet apart, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 6: So there's just this culture of everybody being in one
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  Speaker 6: house in a sense.
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  Speaker 5: So like even if the parents wanted to keep us
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  Speaker 5: at their house when they got their own, we would
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  Speaker 5: still find our way back to the seventh Wall.
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  Speaker 6: We wasn't.
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  Speaker 5: We ain't were like like for like my mama moved
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  Speaker 5: to the eight Wall, I ain't gonna stay there. I'm
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  Speaker 5: in the seventh Wall. Then my cousin's mom and then
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  Speaker 5: moved to the Ninth Wall. Every time they got over there,
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  Speaker 5: they right back in the Seventh Walk.
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  Speaker 1: When you say walls, what is this like?
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  Speaker 6: So it's really war.
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  Speaker 5: But you know, we don't finish our words in the
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  Speaker 5: south Okay, like the last two it was not, so
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  Speaker 5: you know, in those separated wards.
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  Speaker 6: So that's how we call it, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 6: They tell you the east side, west side.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, but the seventh was where it was.
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  Speaker 6: Seven, Yeah, which is the biggest war.
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  Speaker 5: So you know, most likely it's a lot of people
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  Speaker 5: from the Seventh Walk because that's the biggest section in
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  Speaker 5: New Orleans.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So was it more about the Seventh Ward or was
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  Speaker 1: it about living with grams?
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  Speaker 5: It was just about living with our grandparents, because when
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  Speaker 5: you live with older people, you tend to be more
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  Speaker 5: independent because they're not going to take care of you.
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  Speaker 5: They sickly taking care of the young. So we just
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  Speaker 5: became independent. To what ship At four years old, you
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  Speaker 5: was cooking your own food on the store. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 5: was trying belonging that folk.
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  Speaker 1: So this is where this story started. Yeah, and you
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  Speaker 1: were excited about this because it was the last time you.
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  Speaker 6: Had the last time I had it probably pandemic. Right
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  Speaker 6: about the pandemic.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, having success was.
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  Speaker 5: Well, now the pandemic was a choice, and that was
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  Speaker 5: a fancy version. I went to publics and I went
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  Speaker 5: to the Delhi because what happens is it's funny. Right
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  Speaker 5: during the pandemic, all the daily meat was sold out
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  Speaker 5: because you know, everybody like even walked by the daily
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  Speaker 5: it was full, and I'm like, damn, this the good
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  Speaker 5: fresh meat. So we just got the blowing out the
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  Speaker 5: del They got a gallic blonging in public spire. So yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, man could belong because you couldn't really get
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  Speaker 5: food like that. So that was a struggle mal by.
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  Speaker 6: You know, choice, Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So okay, so take me through this journey of the non.
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  Speaker 3: Choice first non choice.
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  Speaker 6: So I mean that was just you know, me being
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  Speaker 6: a little hood booker taking off. Damn I take it off.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, for sure, I got you. I got you
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  Speaker 6: like that.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, you might feel another one in there, Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 7: so four year old you is slapping bologney on hands.
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  Speaker 1: Take me through it.
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  Speaker 5: So basically, I mean, you know, me and my siblings
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  Speaker 5: are going in the kitchen. We're eating today, you know,
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  Speaker 5: what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: So you did have siblings, not just cousins.
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  Speaker 6: Nah, I called it because we all grew up in
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  Speaker 6: the same house.
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  Speaker 5: So it's gonna come out like that all the time
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  Speaker 5: because it's just how you know, I said, But his cousin,
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  Speaker 5: it's like all my first.
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  Speaker 1: Cousins, So you have actual siblings.
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  Speaker 6: Nah, So you know he is gonna be sugar bread
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  Speaker 6: or blown the sandwich.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he had sugar bread, you know, and it
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  Speaker 2: was normal for you, right like.
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  Speaker 6: In today's world they call it rough.
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  Speaker 5: But when you're growing up with no social media, like
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  Speaker 5: everything was gravy because we were playing outside, so we
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  Speaker 5: was rich and out here, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 5: So you know, but see looking stun the bubble love.
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  Speaker 5: I gotta flip it. I had to get it even cook.
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  Speaker 5: But what was the question again?
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  Speaker 1: I was just trying to get the whole scope of
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  Speaker 1: your upbringing from the bro face.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So I mean, you know, just living with grandparents, it
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  Speaker 5: was home alone a lot, so you learned a lot
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  Speaker 5: of kids home alone, a lot, a lot of kids
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  Speaker 5: home alone.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's like a kid party.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it was li I'm.
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  Speaker 5: Telling you, like I tell people all the time. My
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  Speaker 5: childhood fire Like we was independent. We was home alone,
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  Speaker 5: we was cooking, we was leaving out when we want to,
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  Speaker 5: coming in, we want to, no bedtime.
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  Speaker 6: None of that. So you really learned to just be independent.
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  Speaker 1: So what kind of trouble did you get into?
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  Speaker 6: Oh too much.
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  Speaker 1: Let's let's see through the high school. How was you
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  Speaker 1: in high school?
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  Speaker 6: High school? I got kicked out of every high school
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  Speaker 6: I went to.
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  Speaker 5: I went to alternative school, and then I went to
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  Speaker 5: I got put in the boarding school where you got
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  Speaker 5: to live there, and so that was like jail for
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  Speaker 5: high school.
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  Speaker 1: That was I decision was boarding school, my mam was But.
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  Speaker 5: At the same time, I couldn't go nowhere else, no
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  Speaker 5: public school exceptment.
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  Speaker 1: What were you doing in school?
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  Speaker 6: That's fighting?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm like, I'm yellow, yeah, me, So all the
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  Speaker 5: girls wanted me by default, and dudes just don't like
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  Speaker 5: you because of that. You know, when they're around and
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  Speaker 5: the girls talking and you ain't doing nothing, They're like,
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  Speaker 5: all right, I'm telling you.
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  Speaker 6: I got in so many fights just because just because yeah,
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  Speaker 6: because I was yellow.
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  Speaker 5: But I also was a salesman, so like I was
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  Speaker 5: super diplomatic because I like getting my money from school.
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  Speaker 6: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: So getting your money from school? What do you mean?
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  Speaker 6: I just sold stuff all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so you were you started entrepreneuring very young.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, so yeah, so that part I got
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  Speaker 5: a Yeah, I got a So back to what you say.
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  Speaker 5: In the Seventh War, my family own the clothing store
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  Speaker 5: and like right there in front of the bridge in
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  Speaker 5: the Seventh War. So but it was owned by like four, five,
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  Speaker 5: six family members, so it wasn't no money, but we
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  Speaker 5: had influence in the community in a sense because you
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  Speaker 5: know there's like a hub we sold football rocker well
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  Speaker 5: like all the big brands at the time.
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  Speaker 2: Uh who was.
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  Speaker 6: Look, I'm burning my belong it.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So you know who was leading the charge on the
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  Speaker 1: family owned business, My uncle Jimil.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah he was Muslim, so I thank god for him.
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  Speaker 5: He taught me a lot. So he had me in
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  Speaker 5: the streets selling like our store was on the corner.
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  Speaker 5: He would put me on the street every day doing
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  Speaker 5: like the busy times, the lunch and like dinner, and
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  Speaker 5: had me selling like fruit bags and peanuts and T
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  Speaker 5: shirts and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 6: So I just became a natural salesmance. So by the
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  Speaker 6: time I got to school, around a whole bunch of kids.
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  Speaker 6: It was just easy for me to like, you know,
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  Speaker 6: talk to strangers and be able to sell stuff.
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  Speaker 1: To him, you know, as an entrepreneur, I always say
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  Speaker 1: that sales is the.
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  Speaker 4: Number one must have still and a lot of people
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  Speaker 4: if you hate it, just you gotta learn how to
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  Speaker 4: get over that hate and love it.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Okay, I'm seeing, I'm seeing where the gems are
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  Speaker 1: starting to line up.
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  Speaker 7: You have.
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  Speaker 1: I love I love how your wife is.
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  Speaker 6: I'm like a one trick pony that could be one
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  Speaker 6: trick out of time.
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  Speaker 1: I love that she's encouraging.
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  Speaker 6: She's like you got it, like like, hey, look now
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  Speaker 6: you're reflection to me.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be honest, I can't multitest for anything.
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  Speaker 4: Like if people are talking and I get a text,
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, ship, I'm gonna have to ask to repeat again.
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  Speaker 6: And I can't blow it.
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  Speaker 2: Though I'm blow it, I don't know. You got a
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  Speaker 2: nice little burn rim going.
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  Speaker 6: That's flavor.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's part of the rest.
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  Speaker 6: Want Okay, you want flavor.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, So you start with the sales and entrepreneurship. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: So we know that you have a little bit of
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  Speaker 4: education and entrepreneurship, one on one through the family. Right,
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  Speaker 4: what's the next milestone?
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  Speaker 5: Uh shit, I mean Katrina hit and took everything. So
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  Speaker 5: it wasn't the next milestone. It was just like the
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  Speaker 5: next set Yeah, the next setback, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 5: So we lost everything, all our businesses. And we had
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  Speaker 5: two clothing stores, one in Streetport and one in New Orleans.
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  Speaker 5: So we right before the storm, my uncle got killed
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  Speaker 5: in the one in Streetport, so his son took over.
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  Speaker 5: Basically got robbed, and so his son took over, and
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  Speaker 5: right when he took over, Katrina hit and we lost
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  Speaker 5: it all, and it was just like, all right, what
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  Speaker 5: the hell we're gonna do? So FEMA came through with
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  Speaker 5: the checks. People started moving and trying to get you know,
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  Speaker 5: shelter and all that stuff. And I went to Mississippi,
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  Speaker 5: and you know, out there in Mississippi everybody country, so
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  Speaker 5: you city, you kind of exotic.
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  Speaker 6: So I was able to like just make money just
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  Speaker 6: because I'm from New Orleans.
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  Speaker 5: And they liked us because they were dules every weekend
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  Speaker 5: for our food and just.
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  Speaker 6: To hear us talking, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 5: So I mean, you know that was next going to
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  Speaker 5: Mississippi and just getting money in a whole new place.
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  Speaker 5: That's the part that I'm most grateful for because it
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  Speaker 5: forced me out of like you know, and then now
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  Speaker 5: I feel like I can get money anywhere because it's like, well,
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  Speaker 5: you know, what's worse than losing everything?
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  Speaker 6: You might as well you know, but you.
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  Speaker 1: You did have the help of the FEMA checks, so
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  Speaker 1: it was like you were still semi comfortable, but it was.
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  Speaker 5: Ten thousand hours. Yeah yeah, yeah, you lost every day.
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  Speaker 1: Did the businesses did the businesses not have like insurance?
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  Speaker 1: I'm just nah, So like we.
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  Speaker 6: Live and check the check and you talk about insurance
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  Speaker 6: when everybody lost everything. Yeah, so I mean good luck,
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  Speaker 6: you know what I mean. And so we just leasing
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  Speaker 6: our unit.
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  Speaker 5: Like so the insurance is the person who owned that
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  Speaker 5: business own that building.
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  Speaker 6: But I will say, like we need no insurance money.
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  Speaker 5: Because everything that was important we got out of just
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  Speaker 5: the experience, you know what I'm saying that. So we
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  Speaker 5: was able to get everything out of the experience, and
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  Speaker 5: so like you know, here we are today. Everything that
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  Speaker 5: I practiced now is just stuff that was like I
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  Speaker 5: was groomed. Yeah, Like I wouldn't say the struggle with
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  Speaker 5: this do. My uncle just teaching me stuff. It's just
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  Speaker 5: being a straight up, you know businessman and him being Muslim,
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  Speaker 5: really teaching me, you know, principles that my Christian family
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  Speaker 5: wasn't teaching me. Like, like one of his big things
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  Speaker 5: was work is prayer. That was his big thing he
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  Speaker 5: always preached me. And so work is prayer meaning if
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  Speaker 5: you was to pray and never work, it'll never happened.
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  Speaker 5: But if you was to work and never pray, it'll happen.
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  Speaker 5: And so his philosophy was R. P. J. Mel Uh
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  Speaker 5: that I'm trying to put it in words.
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  Speaker 6: It was.
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  Speaker 5: Basically, got I blessed us with this body that he
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  Speaker 5: took his time to craft. And so nothing says I
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  Speaker 5: have faith more than using it because he made it right.
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  Speaker 5: And so it's like, you know, knowing that, it's like
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  Speaker 5: every time you actually put in the work and you
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  Speaker 5: send a message to him, like I believe I went
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  Speaker 5: out there for twelve hours a day. I ain't make
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  Speaker 5: a dollar, but I know something gonna shake. And so
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  Speaker 5: you know what's more, Yeah, how do you show more
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  Speaker 5: faith than that?
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  Speaker 6: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: I can see where that's a deeper message than the
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  Speaker 1: Christian message. For sure, Yeah, for sure, I really like that.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah I'm about yeah, yeah, work is freight. That's how
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  Speaker 6: I look at work.
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  Speaker 5: Like you know, if you go to the gym and
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  Speaker 5: you lift the weight, matter, if you lift it sad, happy,
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  Speaker 5: You're still gonna gain muscle. And that's how you look
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  Speaker 5: at being in the business. You if you said you
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  Speaker 5: still go to work, You're gonna get somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 6: So you know he taught me that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I like that. That's a good one for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Next next month zone at the.
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  Speaker 5: Katrina it was just you know, navigating through the schools
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  Speaker 5: in Mississippi, being in New Orleans, cas Like I said,
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: everybody wanted to fight me.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: Because oh you're still how old were you at I
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: was like.
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: Thirteen, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. So because everybody
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: wanted to fight me, got kicked out of every school.
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: I was the aggressive because I'm a city kid even
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: though they're coming at me. And I went to alternative school.
• 16:20
  Speaker 6: That was fun. I ain't gonna lie.
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: And then at the alternative school, I went to Piney
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: Woods Middle of nowhere in Mississippi for like a year,
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: and everybody who was there was court order.
• 16:33
  Speaker 6: So that was the hell of experience because I had
• 16:38
  Speaker 6: never been.
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: Away from my family. I had never been in an
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: institution before, nothing like that, you know what I mean.
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: So that really broke me and built me up at
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: an early age. You know, most people go to jail
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: as adults. Yeah, I was in quote unquote. It ain't jail,
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: but it felt like yeah yeah, and so I was
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: able to just.
• 16:57
  Speaker 6: Be by myself.
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: Is that where you found you were building building up
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: versus because you said it broke and then built you up.
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Like, it just showed me how to be with myself,
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: how to think, and to just be in the room.
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: You got four walls. That's the down parents act like
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: uh uh CEOs correctional officers. There's gangs in there. They
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: jumping everybody, stabbing them, they poking eyes out. Yeah, it's
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: they got bloods, crips, gds. So you know, you really
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: had to be diplomatic.
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: Now. Luckily I know Celles. So I'm in that thing. Yeah, yeah,
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: I'm in that thing. I'm real cool with everybody here.
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: I'm selling them.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: I don't know if I can say that. Yeah, I mean, well, no,
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: I mean this ain't really nothing.
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: It was these things called yrs right, And I got
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: it from these dudes up in the Baltimore because it
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: was a lot of quot or the dude from b
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: Moore and you sit there. If you said Arne pills
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: in the sun for a while, sorry, yeah, so if
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: you set Arione pills in the sun, orange peel yeah.
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: Good. So if you said Arione peels in the sun
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: for a while, they're from ment right so much I
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: don't know.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Orange peels on the South.
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: And then you guys, you want them to get high
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: and get a buzz. So once I figured out that's recipe,
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, I'm like, oh ship. So
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: my main job was stashing yorps. They call them your
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: range pills around campus. Oh wow, then you know, but
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: in secret spots. But they got to be where the
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: sun can hit them, you know what I mean. So
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: I started selling yours to everybody and they know if
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: they I just.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Want to know what you're saying. Can you say europs
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: just in case.
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: I are you saying it your Yeah?
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: They call it y E r p s Yeah, okay, yeah,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: make sure.
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: So it was called yorks And man, I made a
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: killing off and I bought my first gold grill off
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: of them. My first pet Jordan's. Yeah, I was fourteen.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: But how are you getting the Jordan's and the stuff?
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Nah?
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: So you could go home on some weekends. So you
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: go home for two days, then bam, I'm spending all
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: my bridge. I went to the mall, got my gold
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: grill fitted.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: And you weren't scared about going back and get a rock.
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: No, no, no, because I'm diplomatic. I'm really you know
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: what I mean.
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: So this the school, I ain't had to fight nobody
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: because at the end of the day, just like jail,
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: you got to go to sleep at night. So it's
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: a different level of respect in this place versus like
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: at school. You know, you get to beat the nigga
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: up and go home. The nigga he can't get you
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: in your sleep. So if you got your ass whipped
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: in this place, you deserved it because they wouldn't fuck
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: with nobody because they know he might come back and
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: get me.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: I gotta go to bed.
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: And so while each sell what I said, why each room,
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: telling you why why each room was separate? You got
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: two three other roommates in there, so I could be
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: like yo, I need to open the door at twelve,
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: I'm coming through.
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna text you, you know what I mean. So
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: it was kind of like that. So you always showed respect.
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: So yeah, I ain't really get into it up and now.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Good blog.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: Okay, when do we get the advertiser?
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: I got you.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Earlier.
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, I'm going to miss out on the guy.
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: So take your ballooning, take the ridge joint off, and
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: then I'm gonna take your blonga back.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: You're gonna to bread.
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna toast the whole thing. This this, this is
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: the chef of the family.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: You don't mess this up.
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: She like she likes se her in the kitchen.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: We pulled the red broom off like this.
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: There you go, and we ain't got one some of
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: the jit we were do it.
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: Then here's my little blooney back get her belonging.
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: This one on the pan.
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: You don't put it in the pan, Blooney, set it.
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: On top of that.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Okay, I got.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: I can't wait to try this, y'all.
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: Got I don't know. I don't know what I'm doing
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: a lot of pressure right now with the knife in
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: the fall.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: Okay, so real much all he put me on bologna.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: I didn't.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we don't appetize the.
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: Chair, so we just but we ain't too you know,
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: know who, we like it, So you just you're gonna
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: eat it just to get the loan.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: You get the little meat off.
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: Here and then you just throw it away.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: But by the time that I almost tried to eat it.
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: No, no, no, no, do that. I'm not responsible for that.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, it's so salty.
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I like the crush on formalized m hm. So
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: I'm about to eat the balloon the back up of
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: y'all so I can get these sandwiches.
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: What was saying?
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: I like it.
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: It's different appetising this grill balloon sell for sure.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you. I'm glad. I asked if it was
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: plastic or.
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't eat that.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: I was like, I mean, what is it though? It
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: gotta be you gotta be edible, right, No, I don't know.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you're supposed to take it off
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: before you cook it or out there, but be glad
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: to eat the red part.
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: No, that's just yeah, yeah, yeah, that's not normal.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: Okay, So take us back because I want to get
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: to the part where you and the love meat man,
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: and then the success and nothing.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: The money comes next. I want to I want to know,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: but but I want to inch up to it.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: So what's the next chapter after you successfully get out
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: of the fake jail?
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: The fake jail? Right?
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: So I went into my tenth grade year at this
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: high school called Florence in the middle of Ringing County
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: in Mississippi, and I hated this place. I hated just
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: being in the middle of Mississippi. Like, so every day
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: after school I was just going to computer and just
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: work on music. I was a rapper, so I would
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: just come home, write music, go on Facebook promoted, and
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: I just post on people. You know, Facebook got the walls.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: I just post on their walls all day, just post
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: my links. And I fucked around and found her page,
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: and you know, people had two Facebook pages at the time.
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: So I DM her first page. I'm like, yo, it's
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: am like me you yeah, And I got no response.
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: Sorted left me on red Oh you.
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: Saw it and didn't I thought I was that guy,
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: you know what I mean, And so I probably just
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: wasn't paying attention.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: I don't know what happened. I don't think she like
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: read niggas for real anyway, Uh what I was about
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: to say. So she wound up responding to a DM
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: on her second page, and you know, one thing led
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: to another and we just ended up at the mall.
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying.
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: We were sixteen, and uh we've been rocking every since.
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: She put up my grandma house in a little mini
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: coop the foreign and I took her to McDonald's. Okay,
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: she took me to McDonald's, but I'm saying my idea,
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: I'm not going to McDonald I kept it real player.
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: I got some chicken nuggets. She ain't get nothing because
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: she don't eat this stuff. I'm the only one from
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: the hood.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Oh so you're not from the contry girl.
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: He was like, yo, let's go to a stop McDonalds. Yeah,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: what did you pick up the door?
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: No?
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't want to, So you just sat
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: there and watching.
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: We just kind of kicked it on first day. Okay,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: the one from dump.
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah, let me get on my arm.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm like, it's sewing gum.
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: I got carried away. I got excited. Uh what I
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: was about to say, So, she actually, if you knew
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: I was the one trying to get this off. The
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: heat on my ballooning.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm on my cheese, melty.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Okay, he's what you want, he.
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: Talked, I'm gonna use this nephing.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: You want to hear it?
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Take my plate you got you're well, you're watching you struggle.
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: I don't be cooking, Okay, I'll just be easy. It's
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: backwards today.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: So well, that's because because you was the real struggle.
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I was doing the one struggle. That's crazy. Uh,
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: what were we all?
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Right? We just wanted to know if you knew from
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: sixteen if she was the one.
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: Yes, I did.
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like a feeling you get. You know what
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: I'm saying, It's like a feeling you get. I don't
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: know how to explain it. She always asks me to explain.
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: I'm like, I can't explain it.
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: But it's just a feeling you get, man, you know.
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: And then I'm a sucker for country women, so like,
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: you know, I know that to me, I think the
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: real exactic woman of this world is a country woman,
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: you know. But you know, everybody want to go to
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: these other countries and ship, so you know. Yeah, but
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: when I saw I knew she was the one, you know,
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: because she country.
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: Oh my gosh.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: Okay, so y'all meet and then y'all cross paths. You're
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: in Mississippi at this point, you guys be in Mississippi
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: and you guys go, don't go to the same high
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: schools or no.
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: She lived now, she lived like fifty minutes away from me. Yeah,
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: fifty So like this all the eyes against us, right.
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: You know what I mean? But nah, we made it work.
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: Our first conversation, I called off the house phone because
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: my phone, you know, Bill wasn't paid someone right, right,
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: I don't know, caught off the house phone. We talked,
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: and we talked five six hours. Yeah yeah, I told
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: her like I told her alive. I was like, yeah,
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: my phone broke or something like that. Yeah yeah yeah yeah.
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: My key to bologna sandwich is like mustard, not too much.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I noticed that you feel like you just want.
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: To live Twain. You don't want to you know what
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: I'm saying, Musty strong must of the hit you ass you?
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, so we got the mail the mustard.
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: Now we're gonna cheese on the bologna.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right?
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: Boloona SAMs usually don't take this long. Okay, I'm talking.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: That's okay. We're gonna don't worry. She's gonna take over soon.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Don't take over, because I know you don't build a
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: you don't build a restaurant, multiple restaurants without facing some
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: kind of Oh.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, trauma, trauma, he worked, trauma make you a gangster.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you guys, they.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: Fast forward to the next big milestone between the both
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: because now there has to be.
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: A big We both graduated, well ship, we broke up.
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: We broke up.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: My partner house got raided by SWAT one night and
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: I pulled up and she blowed my phone up at
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: the same time, and I'm trying to see the hell
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: going on.
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: I picked the phone snap she was out.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: No, this nigga got too much. This nigga abuse the
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: whole time. Like I'm dealing with SWAT while she's blowing
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: my phone up.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: So you heard the conversation going on.
• 28:26
  Speaker 7: Well no, So, like you said, I guess whatever they
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: had going on, I'm calling him like ba ba back.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: He's not picking up the fine.
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: You know.
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: Nigga's like why, I'm like okay, like that time.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that that that was a wild. So we
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: broke up six month later got back together. Our theme
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: song was Lil Wayne how to Love when we got
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: backed together. So after that we was like, you know,
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: I always knew she was gonna be my wife. Let's
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: start there. So we getting ready to graduate high school.
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: It's like, what's what's what's the move? She was going
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: to Florida to go to school for culinary arts and
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: I was going and I was already doing music. And
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: I was in school one day and this white boy
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: had said, he said, hey, man, you ever heard of
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: full Sell.
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: He said, your music's dope. You should go there.
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: So I just googled it and it was a school
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: for people who want to study like the arts, right,
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: So I went. I wound up going to school for
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: entertainment business and while she went to school in Tampa
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: to be a chef.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I was in Orlando, she was in Tampa. So
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: we both went to college in Florida and we lived
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: like an hour apart. Oh damn, but you asked me,
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: that was like the dream scenario, right, We both got
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: chanced to focus being our own city. And then like
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: when I'm missing out, just hopped on the interstate cut
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: on that he was young. The TM one O three,
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: y'all never forget because that whole album would take you
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: to Tampa.
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: The whole album talked about you know what I mean?
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: So yeah, the GZ album.
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: Young Jeezy TAM one O three. Yeah, I bought as
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: soon as I moved out there.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Okay, I got what year was that?
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying? We went the target. Oh
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: you moved out there? Yeah, it's twenty twelve. Twenty twelve.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: I love me some Jesus.
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: My favorite song on the album is the one with
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: Trick Daddy.
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: I can't remember the name, but Trick Daddy snaw oh yeah, yeah, Okay.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: So you guys are doing your thing. You finished college,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: you finished culinary.
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, or we got to drop out during that process,
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: we had moved in with each other about a year
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: and some change a year and a half being out there.
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: The day after we moved in, she found out she
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: was pregnant. So we just started the family.
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah with our first girl. She's are putting butter Okay, okay.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: I was getting nervous what you're doing now, I'm becoming
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: more like you on the back.
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: I need that though, because I will I would have
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: started spreading that butt on your break.
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: Okay, So now you're moving in with a culinary wife,
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: so you're getting said really good.
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: But I was getting fair good. So matter. That's one
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: of the reasons I knew too.
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: Like when I met at sixteen, she was cooking the
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: whole Thanksgiving meal for a family of thirty people.
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: Wow, all on her.
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: So I'm like, all right, they trusting her with this.
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: This is crazy on the people we trusted my grandma.
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: So to see the youngest person in the family cooking
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: for everybody, everybody, I knew she was different, Like, oh
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: she built different. So and then she was self taught.
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: She was a self taught shift at this parent because
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: they lived in the middle of nowhere. And so I guess,
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: I guess she could speak for this. But her struggle
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: meal was not It wasn't a struggle meal. But she
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: was learning how to cook.
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: Because kind of like for me, it was more so
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: like hamburger him. So you learn how to cook for real,
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: for real. But yeah, but your passion was cooking, Yes,
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: I always did.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Okay, so you.
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: Guys are living together, have first baby, baby family, don
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: it what happens next?
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: We were sitting in the back of my charger one
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: night and we just left the gym LA Fitness, and
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: she was just saying on the way home, and I'm like,
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: what's wrong. So I got in the back seat with her,
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: and man, she cried to me because she just was like,
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: you know what's next?
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: Like what we finna do? You know what I mean?
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: Like I'm trying to lose weight.
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: We gotta make money, but we don't want to put
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: our child in daycare because we don't trust nobody, you
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: know what I mean. So I said, you come from
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: a family of bosses. Her daddy owned a construction company.
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: I come from a family of boss They don't clothing
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: the stores. My grandpa in the parking garage and limousine company.
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: So it was just like, well, let's just start a business.
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: It wasn't like a let's go find out a job
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: or something like that. We just went with our first instinct.
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: And so we started to doing meal deliveries from home.
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: So she would cook the food and I would run
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: the Instagram and get customers and get people to order
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: from us.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: So and then I was like, Florida.
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: It's in Florida, Yeah, yeah, and Orlando. So we were
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: hopping to duringo and we would ride around to clothing
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: stores like DT L R, hair salons and stuff like that.
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: We had a we had a thing that keep the
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: food hot and plug up into the couple of we blew.
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: So many fuse about it. Way we take a lot
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: of parting. But and we would sell out of plates
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: every day. So I would go with like three hundred
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: dollars a day. We had fifteen plates, and we would
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: do fifteen dollars each. Yeah I believe, Yeah, thanks so,
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: and so it should be three hundred if I'm if
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: I'm doing the correct but go with three hundred a day,
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: and we would sell out. We go to carmacks, you
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: know what I mean, We'll pull up to them. You know,
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: salesman can't leave. I learned that early. They don't like
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: to leave lunch.
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: So I pull up the dodge car, you know, all
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: all the things on one streing.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just pulling the block.
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, this before you could just post all day,
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: you know what I mean? You like so because I
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: come from my bad Oh, I come from perfect. I
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: come from like hand to hand sales, being in the
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: streets with the people, that's perfect, thank you. And so
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: we just went with that our first instinct, but at
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: the same time we still I was big on collecting data.
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: So I'm getting emails from everybody. I'm making them follow
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: the Instagram and every morning I'm sending out an email
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: with the menu, so they constantly getting here with you,
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: you know what I mean. And I'm constantly posting on
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: Instagram and we just do it that from there, then
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: we got a catering gig. She didn't want to do it.
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: You know, she's an artist. So artists never believe in themselves, right,
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: So I'm the I'm the bugging like we're gonna do it.
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: You're tripping like this ship we need to sell it.
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: And so now we didn't have a niche. We wasn't
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: doing new all this food we're doing, We're doing everything,
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: and we started doing catering. Catering I hate because it's
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: not constant. It's a high profit, but it's not constant,
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: you know.
• 35:03
  Speaker 7: What I mean.
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: I like day to day business, and so because you
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: can staff against that and it's just from catering at
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: the Forster. In the catering, I was like, I was like,
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: this is all we're gonna do is high profit. Yeah,
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: sporadic but I ain't.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Trying to run no, and you guys are also raising
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: the baby at the same yeah, against I like.
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: But don't get it wrong though, Like we come from
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: a village, so we was always able to thank God
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: for my parents, who was always able to.
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: Be like, look y'all, watch it for two months, because
• 35:35
  Speaker 6: we're about to do two months.
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: See her family, they own their own businesses, so they
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: don't have the pressure of a job and they can't
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: wait to keep it.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: So they was like hell, yes, yeah, yeah, when we.
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: Need to lock in, like right now at this very moment.
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we fired a GM from the food truck three
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: weeks ago and we sent Nola back to the city
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: to be with them until we get a person back
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: in there.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Or just like, I like this.
• 36:13
  Speaker 6: It's a village, man. People don't like doing that, but
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: we was.
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: Raised by village and we know the benefits, you know
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: what I mean, So you know, yeah, that's the only
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: way I would do it if I had the kids.
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: Got to use the village, all right, So I got
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: the first perfect Blonga sandwich.
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: Such a good who want to do.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: We can split it?
• 36:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that was She's like myself though, Diagne or straight
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: though diagne or straight?
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: How are you supposed to cut it diagonal?
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: So is there a reason why I diagnosed better?
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: I feel like it is more satisfying. Is it's more satisfying?
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: Look here, you just take this plate and keep that
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: on there since the meet here.
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: Okay, okay, but we're gonna almost judge, I've had a
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: couple of bolognas. Go ahead, you take that, take my
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: little making them. Are you comfortable with us trying and
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: eating before you because we camera.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: Show that one. Look at that.
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: Chet, that sound that on the at the new spot?
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Yes, cheers, and I like that the bread is toasted.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Come on you acting like a chef man?
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: No, mm hmm, come on, come on. But then we're
• 37:44
  Speaker 6: having it's almost like.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: An upgraded up grill cheese. Yeah, really great job.
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: Oh you did a good job.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Man, did a really good job.
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: I'm like the Gordon Ramsey bologna.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: It's funny because you were getting into it, like you
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: were excited about this.
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: This is my specialty. She'd be like cook, like, but
• 38:04
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna do belongings.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Then, so right now you're sending one of your kids back.
• 38:09
  Speaker 7: They're but well, right now they're both there because they're
• 38:12
  Speaker 7: on a school break. The big girl is, but Nola
• 38:15
  Speaker 7: has been there since like the beginning of January, and
• 38:19
  Speaker 7: like you said, only because I've been we've been working
• 38:22
  Speaker 7: at the food trug.
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna say, as a woman becoming a
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: new mom, I would say, like, man, that's gotta be
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: very me and a mom, because you can't really the
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: kids are like I know my house.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: My friends make jokes, but like when my daughter and
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: I around, oh, she's strapped to my back because she
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: is literally like told me, touch me, kissed me, touched me,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: told me sit down. Like I'm like, she'll be like
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: sitting here next to me. She's too she runs that
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: house like that. I want to I want to brush
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: my teeth. The other day and my daughter wanted to
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: be on my back.
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: We're here visiting it, and I promise you strapped her
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: to my back just so I could brush my teeth.
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: I'm like, how how would you not want to murder
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: everybody if you're trying to work fact And so I'm
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: relieved to hear that that's clearly how you guys.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Have been able to mata.
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: That I don't know how to do it. We're just
• 39:18
  Speaker 6: lucky bless.
• 39:20
  Speaker 7: Yeah, so there has been times where like they are here, Yeah,
• 39:23
  Speaker 7: we're working.
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's very hard.
• 39:26
  Speaker 7: Because matter of fact, even when we first had a look,
• 39:29
  Speaker 7: I think I had to work at the food truck
• 39:32
  Speaker 7: for some reason, and I'm breastfeeding her at this time.
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: So like I'm on the truck working cooking stuff.
• 39:38
  Speaker 7: And I'm like, all right, tuting the truck and feed.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: I feel like the breast kids still like they feel
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: like they own you over whose titty it is?
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, I'm like, let her laugh.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: I'm like, you don't grab my i'mna grab you exactly
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: how she is, like she puts a hand in my
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: shirt and girl, get out of here.
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: Like my daughter had to go to sleep, like rubbing it.
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: I'm I'm at the new phase of mommy, don't like.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: What we're done.
• 40:10
  Speaker 7: That is.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: I had a whole new respect for breastman and bro
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: after that.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: It's different. While I held on for ten months, I
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: was like the.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Second doctor said you could, you could give up. They
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: said twelve months, that's it, let's go.
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: But no, it's it takes a while aween them, and
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: it takes a while just to like she's still in
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: the she's and a half, she's still rubbing nipples. Okay,
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: So I'm glad you figured out the hack and you
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: have to support there. So you're building this business, you're
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: picking up catering orders. Where does Cafe Bird Street into
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: the line.
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: We would always go to like trust together dates, so
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: we like events, so like you know, we'll find out
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: what's going on around the city.
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: And we we like going to food truck events because
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: we like trying different food.
• 41:14
  Speaker 5: It was like love language, right, And so after we
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: went to one event, it was a guy with a
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: doughnut truck.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: He had.
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: It was a trailer that was just so doughnuts. And
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: I looked at my wife, I'm like, damn, it'd be
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: cool if we had one of these, and it just
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: did Nye's right, so simple. And so we went back
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: home branch to asked the guy some advice. He was gracious,
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: gave me all the game and give me right truck
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: called little Blue Doughnuts out there shout out to you
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: because yeah, so he gave me some game and because
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: he embraced me, gave me some of a game.
• 41:45
  Speaker 6: Shit. We went home and started planning.
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: We was like, all, let's start a Vigne karts, not
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: a truck, right, I know we can take that on
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: and see how we gonna afford it, you know what
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: I mean. So it was it was like, all right,
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: let's start the Vigne cart. And then we sat there.
• 41:59
  Speaker 6: He was like, what's we got this piece of equipment
• 42:01
  Speaker 6: already we can.
• 42:03
  Speaker 5: Do shrip baskets and and we was like, well, ship,
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: if we already got a fire and we can do
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: you know them you be making, let's do let's throw
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: them in there, you know what I mean.
• 42:15
  Speaker 6: And then it was just yeah, yeah, she invented that.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, really Okay.
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: So I was always a big advocate for her selling
• 42:30
  Speaker 5: when she was making. She because she cook get home
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: and I'm like, yo, people need to eat this. Like
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: I'm a great judge of stuff.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: Let me. I'm just curious. How did you feel hearing
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: your man say like, oh my god, as a woman
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: so good?
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: Right of course?
• 42:45
  Speaker 7: And he was always like we gotta sell this, I'm like,
• 42:49
  Speaker 7: and I'm making it. So it was like for real,
• 42:52
  Speaker 7: like you really think I can sell this?
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: Was like yeah, and this is a passion of yours.
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: It's like it's got to be a double double dosage
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: of good.
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: Yes, of course it is definitely mm hmm.
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: Okay, so he biting into your love love, I'm trying
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: to just love on you, and he like capitalized money.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: Okay. So you got into these jumba lay and you're like, okay,
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: let's go.
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm like, let's do it. So we sat down
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: playing wind up saying you know what this is gonna
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: be a food truck. And so I was an Uber
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: driver at the time, and so I'm like, all right, bet,
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: I'm about to just focus on doing Uber only. Fuck catering,
• 43:33
  Speaker 5: fuck meal deliveries. I'm gonna just get this money to
• 43:36
  Speaker 5: buy food truck. Because yeah, I was like, because that's
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: the only predictable money I had with Uber. Catering wasn't predictable,
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: so I couldn't say why I'm gonna save this much
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: and you couldn't bet against that.
• 43:48
  Speaker 6: That was just plus to us. We got a catering
• 43:50
  Speaker 6: gig perfect.
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: No more mail deliveries though, just ubering, because the truck
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: made more money doing that than riding around trying to
• 43:57
  Speaker 5: sell food. And so I did for two and a
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: half years, saved up money to buy the food truck,
• 44:03
  Speaker 5: bought the food truck. Put like twenty bands on it
• 44:06
  Speaker 5: for him to start. Got to do the Mexico the building.
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: I was definitely risking. I said, this dude, twenty k
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: on paper. App Yeah, I was tricking and I was looking.
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: I'm in the uber driving somebody in between riders.
• 44:20
  Speaker 6: I pulled over.
• 44:21
  Speaker 5: Send him now, I send him ten ks as a deposit,
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: send him ten k heart drop. I got right back dripping.
• 44:28
  Speaker 5: I said, fuck it, if you scamming, I'm gonna make
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: it back. But luckily six weeks later he was done early.
• 44:34
  Speaker 5: He was like, he said, your food truck is ready,
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: No bad.
• 44:46
  Speaker 6: Is ready. I'm like, oh, ship, I ain't even got
• 44:48
  Speaker 6: the other half, you know what I mean. I'm like,
• 44:52
  Speaker 6: what I'm gonna do?
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: So I stalled them off for like two three more weeks,
• 44:57
  Speaker 5: but he was like, yo, you gotta get the food
• 44:58
  Speaker 5: truck because they charging me to keep it over here.
• 45:01
  Speaker 5: So I wound up being able to make a few
• 45:03
  Speaker 5: calls to family, you know what I mean, to get
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: the little extra top that we needed. But ultimately that
• 45:07
  Speaker 5: was the best decision we ever made nine tie lines
• 45:11
  Speaker 5: was buying a food truck. We bought our freedom that day.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, so you get the food truck. First thoughts.
• 45:17
  Speaker 5: First thoughts is what the right Yeah, we made no
• 45:21
  Speaker 5: money with the food truck for the first week, eight
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: nine months.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: You didn't make no money.
• 45:27
  Speaker 5: So are you trying to I mean we made eleven
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: thousand one time and it had no.
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: Profleit no profit freeing.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: So but what are you doing while you're losing money?
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: Are you still ubering?
• 45:38
  Speaker 6: Yes, I'm still ubering.
• 45:40
  Speaker 5: And also to like, the cool thing about a food
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: truck is like if you open a restaurant and you
• 45:46
  Speaker 5: have a bad month, then they gonna kick your ass out, right.
• 45:50
  Speaker 5: The food truck is you got a bad month, when
• 45:52
  Speaker 5: you get to try again next month, you never get evicted.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: You have the commissaries, right yeah, yeah, but in Florida
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: you don't need it.
• 45:59
  Speaker 5: Just it's a Georgia thing. So I could own a
• 46:02
  Speaker 5: food truck in Florida. All I need is a water
• 46:04
  Speaker 5: hook up and that's just thirty dollars a month.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: So there's no no regulation though it's regulations, okay.
• 46:11
  Speaker 6: But you can prep on your truck, you can cook
• 46:14
  Speaker 6: on your trunk, you can do everything on your truck.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: In Georgia, carry this truck.
• 46:18
  Speaker 5: You're talking the truck in my aputment complex every night,
• 46:21
  Speaker 5: so you ain't got a punk at No, No, we
• 46:25
  Speaker 5: got no over here.
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: We got okay, okay, so you're just breaking even.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not losing.
• 46:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah, well we wasn't. It was no revenue. We're just
• 46:36
  Speaker 6: doing We're just doing it.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. You're breaking even, like as in
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: there's no profit, but you're not losing.
• 46:41
  Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 46:42
  Speaker 5: We literally would go no, I mean, we just sent
• 46:46
  Speaker 5: thirty five bands on the truck, so we lost that,
• 46:49
  Speaker 5: but we still got this asset, so you know what
• 46:51
  Speaker 5: I mean. So I mean, you know, we would literally
• 46:54
  Speaker 5: the food truck is parked in the back of our building.
• 46:56
  Speaker 5: We would leave out the house every day and go
• 46:58
  Speaker 5: in the truck and just do R and D yep,
• 47:01
  Speaker 5: every day, research and de yeah yeah yeah yeah.
• 47:03
  Speaker 6: Research.
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: My bad, you get on the.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: Food truck to do research and developm Yeah.
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: Now we would go cook different things, different stuff, and we.
• 47:09
  Speaker 6: Would have our daughter literally go out there act like
• 47:11
  Speaker 6: we had that food.
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: Oh my god, okay, and then oh so that's R
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: and D because I was like, wait, you go on
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: the food truck.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: Just look at each other.
• 47:20
  Speaker 5: So we're going R and D all like different items
• 47:22
  Speaker 5: to cook, you know what I mean, stuff like that. Yeah,
• 47:26
  Speaker 5: probably like almost a year money now we are still
• 47:30
  Speaker 5: trying to open, but we don't know what the hell
• 47:32
  Speaker 5: we're doing. So we're just getting you know, we just
• 47:35
  Speaker 5: it's just that systems and we still got to make money.
• 47:39
  Speaker 5: So I'm still uber driving. She's still going to PF change,
• 47:42
  Speaker 5: you know what I mean.
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: Like she still was working people, okay, and then the
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: babies in and out, in and out. The babies are
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: in and out, so the baby.
• 47:51
  Speaker 5: Sometimes in Mississippi, sometimes me and her just got flip
• 47:54
  Speaker 5: flops schedules. So if she worked in the morning from
• 47:58
  Speaker 5: ten to like five, and I'm a home with our
• 48:01
  Speaker 5: daughter and then when she come home, I'm fight out
• 48:03
  Speaker 5: the door.
• 48:03
  Speaker 6: Then we did that for like two years.
• 48:06
  Speaker 5: So and then we got our like we did our
• 48:09
  Speaker 5: first event ever, which was in Cocoa Beach, a hit amazing. Yeah,
• 48:15
  Speaker 5: but you gonna make like one thousand dollars, you know
• 48:18
  Speaker 5: what I mean. That ain't profit, that's your revenue. And
• 48:20
  Speaker 5: so then our second event ever, we got a bad
• 48:23
  Speaker 5: habit of going big. We got a bad habit of
• 48:26
  Speaker 5: jumping the water that's too deep and so but It's
• 48:29
  Speaker 5: good though, because it conditioned the hell out of it.
• 48:32
  Speaker 5: So we did a Jacksonville jazz fist. Got on the
• 48:34
  Speaker 5: phone just dude, I'm like, bro, we've been doing this
• 48:37
  Speaker 5: a long time.
• 48:37
  Speaker 6: Bro lie with us. I'm not saying like that, but
• 48:41
  Speaker 6: I'm like, I'm lying selling the dream. He was like,
• 48:43
  Speaker 6: all right, bet, I got you. I'm like, oh, it worked.
• 48:47
  Speaker 6: We got to show up. It's a jazz flis with
• 48:48
  Speaker 6: one hundred thousand people.
• 48:52
  Speaker 5: Three days in a row, and he put us by
• 48:54
  Speaker 5: the main stage because we're new artist food and it's
• 48:56
  Speaker 5: a jazz fest. I got like eight family members all
• 48:59
  Speaker 5: I'm working for no charge. They even Jordia Jackson And
• 49:04
  Speaker 5: so three days in the road.
• 49:05
  Speaker 6: Got I asked, what what do you mean?
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: No processes, no recipes, no systems, wing, not knowing how
• 49:14
  Speaker 5: to do a damn remote event with food.
• 49:17
  Speaker 6: You're talking about great, You're.
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: Talking about sending people to the store together.
• 49:21
  Speaker 6: I got another you know what I'm saying, Bologna.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: Enjoy your reunion with the Blogey take take your bike
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: because I got I got questions coming.
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: Enjoy Jason.
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: It was crazy, Okay, so you you end up getting
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: a beat, and how's your family looking at you like
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: you lost your mind.
• 49:44
  Speaker 6: My family crazy, bro. Like if I go tell them
• 49:48
  Speaker 6: tomorrow like I'm about I'm about.
• 49:50
  Speaker 5: To go build another World Trade center, They're gonna be like,
• 49:53
  Speaker 5: all right, let's break, let's preak, let's go.
• 49:57
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 49:59
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but our family is real faith.
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: Based, you know, so like and it's workers praying to
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: them right.
• 50:07
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
• 50:08
  Speaker 5: Well, half of my family Christian, half muslim sothing. You know,
• 50:12
  Speaker 5: it's like my family always worked, even the christicide, you
• 50:15
  Speaker 5: know what I mean. But they just super supportive. We
• 50:19
  Speaker 5: we done lost so much and been through so much
• 50:21
  Speaker 5: her daddy and built the hell of a business. They
• 50:23
  Speaker 5: know what it looks like to start to go. So
• 50:26
  Speaker 5: they like anytime were trying to come up with out there,
• 50:28
  Speaker 5: they with it. They're gonna fly out, they're gonna drive out.
• 50:30
  Speaker 5: They're gonna spend their own money to come do it
• 50:33
  Speaker 5: for free with us. So like we really got a cheeko.
• 50:35
  Speaker 5: Ain't gonna lie like our family is gangster.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: That's awesome.
• 50:39
  Speaker 6: I give it to them for real, that's awesome.
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: Okay, So after the jazz festival and getting that beating, going.
• 50:48
  Speaker 5: Back home, count your money and realize you ain't got
• 50:51
  Speaker 5: nothing nothing. So that event, I remember, we made seven
• 50:54
  Speaker 5: thousand and one hundred and fifty something dollars.
• 50:58
  Speaker 6: We had nothing to show for it because we.
• 51:02
  Speaker 5: By the time you get hotels, by the time you
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: pulling this ten thousand pound food truck on the interstate,
• 51:08
  Speaker 5: you're running the freezer truck for fourteen hundred you you
• 51:11
  Speaker 5: know what I mean. All of that, we really bought
• 51:13
  Speaker 5: an education for the first year of operating, not the
• 51:17
  Speaker 5: year that we was actually educating ourselves. When we started operating,
• 51:21
  Speaker 5: was a whole year of education. I remember we did
• 51:24
  Speaker 5: the event in Panama with maybe eleven thousand dollars, and
• 51:27
  Speaker 5: we got back home.
• 51:29
  Speaker 6: We did the numbers all my bread. We ain't make
• 51:32
  Speaker 6: no money, and my wife was crying.
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: She was like, I was gonna s and I was
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: gonna ask, because you guys are so close, see the
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: people that are closer to you become more expendable.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: How did this not like turn you guys against each other.
• 51:46
  Speaker 6: That's what to do. It's gonna tell you, you know
• 51:48
  Speaker 6: what I'm saying. And so I say.
• 51:50
  Speaker 5: The good thing about me and herd is we childhood.
• 51:52
  Speaker 5: So we're sixteen years old, so it's like I prioritize
• 51:56
  Speaker 5: our relationship over everything, right because us together that we're
• 52:00
  Speaker 5: gonna make more money than anybody. So it's like.
• 52:05
  Speaker 6: I got a different view, right, you know.
• 52:06
  Speaker 5: You see on Instagram all these men talk about like,
• 52:09
  Speaker 5: you know, stay away from women, stay away from marriage,
• 52:11
  Speaker 5: they're gonna make you broke.
• 52:13
  Speaker 6: To me, it's the opposite, because I'm from the South,
• 52:15
  Speaker 6: like I like country women. They make you rich.
• 52:17
  Speaker 5: So it's like, you know what I mean, Like with me,
• 52:19
  Speaker 5: it's like I look at it as relationships are hard
• 52:23
  Speaker 5: either way it go. We just suck at relationships. It's
• 52:27
  Speaker 5: not that relationships ain't supposed to be in you know
• 52:29
  Speaker 5: what I mean, So you just gotta really like we
• 52:33
  Speaker 5: had and then I spend a lot of time with
• 52:35
  Speaker 5: her parents, her dad.
• 52:37
  Speaker 6: She spent a lot of time with my parents.
• 52:38
  Speaker 5: Our families come together, you know what I mean, So
• 52:41
  Speaker 5: like they have parties together, they do shit when we're
• 52:43
  Speaker 5: not there. So our family so blended that we locked in.
• 52:48
  Speaker 5: And so it's like nothing could come in between her,
• 52:49
  Speaker 5: not even money, and that's like our priority, Like we'll
• 52:52
  Speaker 5: never let the money come in between them, you know
• 52:54
  Speaker 5: what I mean. And so most every time we really
• 52:57
  Speaker 5: get into it. It might not be about money, but
• 52:59
  Speaker 5: you could always trace it back to money.
• 53:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you see what I'm saying.
• 53:04
  Speaker 5: Everything of money problem. I learned that from just being
• 53:07
  Speaker 5: in business too. Like most of everything and money problem,
• 53:10
  Speaker 5: it just don't seem like it.
• 53:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah you know what I mean. So, yeah, like we
• 53:14
  Speaker 6: we liked them since childhood. So all this shit just
• 53:17
  Speaker 6: I like that.
• 53:17
  Speaker 7: I like that.
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: So and you guys have faced all different types of storm.
• 53:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we lost hell of money.
• 53:24
  Speaker 5: We have made money, We didn't lost friends, a lot
• 53:26
  Speaker 5: of close people that we thought was close. Just because
• 53:31
  Speaker 5: you know, as you become quote unquote successful, you got
• 53:35
  Speaker 5: to elevate your consciousness too, because if now.
• 53:38
  Speaker 6: You're gonna lose it.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: And so what do you mean by that?
• 53:40
  Speaker 5: What I mean is like, because we're the owners of
• 53:44
  Speaker 5: the business, right, the business is only gonna grow high
• 53:47
  Speaker 5: as we go because we're controlling the ship. We're driving
• 53:50
  Speaker 5: the ship. And so if if my education is here,
• 53:55
  Speaker 5: the business is here. If my education is here.
• 53:58
  Speaker 6: The business is here.
• 53:59
  Speaker 5: So you gotta elevate yourself as your business grow, or
• 54:03
  Speaker 5: it's gonna outgrow you and then it's gonna crash and
• 54:05
  Speaker 5: burn because you can't even sustain the success that you
• 54:08
  Speaker 5: just got because you don't have the habit. You ain't
• 54:10
  Speaker 5: got the knowledge or the wisdom, you know what I mean.
• 54:12
  Speaker 5: And you're gonna make mistakes, you're gonna drop the ball.
• 54:14
  Speaker 5: But like at the end of the day, you need
• 54:16
  Speaker 5: to be like I drown in education.
• 54:18
  Speaker 6: That's all I do. Like I read for a living.
• 54:20
  Speaker 6: That's my job. I literally read and then I just leave.
• 54:24
  Speaker 6: That's it. It's all read and leave.
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, did you notice across the journey this
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: was like a weird thing that I kind of discovered,
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: is like, yeah, your people that are rooting for you
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: while you're down, and then sometimes those same people aren't
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: rooting for you. But yeah, was that a weird encounter
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: for you?
• 54:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it was hard in the beginning, yure.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: But like.
• 54:52
  Speaker 6: I'm still a nigga too, you know what I mean.
• 54:54
  Speaker 5: So when I say that, I mean, like, I know
• 54:57
  Speaker 5: what it feels like to be envious and just not understand,
• 55:00
  Speaker 5: be ignorant or something right. And so when people see you,
• 55:04
  Speaker 5: you know, go do these things or start you know,
• 55:07
  Speaker 5: acting different, start being different than becoming better, they literally
• 55:11
  Speaker 5: it makes them feel like they're less than every time
• 55:13
  Speaker 5: they look at you. It reminds them of way they
• 55:15
  Speaker 5: fuck up or way they fucked up in life. So
• 55:19
  Speaker 5: I just try to have compassion for people. But at
• 55:21
  Speaker 5: the end of the day, you can't keep them. But yeah,
• 55:23
  Speaker 5: that's ships weird, Like we didn't been hurt, like damn,
• 55:26
  Speaker 5: like we like we literally ain't got no friends.
• 55:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we got just family.
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: Is it a lot of fans you guys?
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yea, yeah, yeah we love.
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you got fans out here.
• 55:47
  Speaker 5: I like you to be fans of the product though,
• 55:48
  Speaker 5: you know, like that's like my I like to be
• 55:51
  Speaker 5: known for the things we create, not us, and you know,
• 55:55
  Speaker 5: but sometimes our personality is getting away and people, you know,
• 55:59
  Speaker 5: they like it.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: But I just yeah, I love you guys.
• 56:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Like I really like.
• 56:07
  Speaker 4: You ever heard the saying like people, especially in sales,
• 56:11
  Speaker 4: they always say that people by you before they.
• 56:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah that's true. That's that's that's exactly
• 56:16
  Speaker 5: my philosophy. Like my competitive advantage is me right if
• 56:20
  Speaker 5: you because everything's spiritual right, and so I don't even
• 56:24
  Speaker 5: mean to go to this deep we cookn't belonging, but
• 56:27
  Speaker 5: it's just real, Like I don't know what else to say,
• 56:29
  Speaker 5: but like it's really spiritually of it. So if you
• 56:32
  Speaker 5: bought something from me, you you you when you bite
• 56:35
  Speaker 5: into you, imagineing my energy. You know, my love that
• 56:39
  Speaker 5: went into it. All the people that's around me, they
• 56:42
  Speaker 5: love went into it. So it tastes different, and I'm
• 56:45
  Speaker 5: I'm a witness to that. I've eaten things from a
• 56:47
  Speaker 5: rual motherfucker and it was good. But that ship was
• 56:51
  Speaker 5: nasty as hell because it came from bad energy, you
• 56:54
  Speaker 5: know what I mean?
• 56:54
  Speaker 6: So that's real.
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: Do you eat Jamaican food?
• 56:57
  Speaker 6: I love Jamaican food. We stayed in Florida.
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: Have you ever been to a Jamaican restaurant where loving No, it's.
• 57:08
  Speaker 5: A Jamaican stuff. It's a Jamaican spot on st look
• 57:14
  Speaker 5: at your exactly.
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: That's good.
• 57:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I mean.
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: What I used to have a joke, Man, if they brutally,
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: you probably what you want? What you want.
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: If I went to.
• 57:31
  Speaker 5: If I went to a Bodegan, dude, it was a
• 57:33
  Speaker 5: little too nice, I probably walk out. You know, I
• 57:37
  Speaker 5: need a nigga rushing me like what you So it's
• 57:40
  Speaker 5: a cultural thing. When you come to New Orleans, you
• 57:41
  Speaker 5: expect you come to Spot.
• 57:45
  Speaker 6: It's really the same thing.
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: So I really really really really really like you. Oh
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: thank you, sound like you said it's just like an
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: up grading. Okay, So I don't know where we are.
• 58:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're probably stressing out past, but I would like
• 58:06
  Speaker 4: to ask what two bits of advice would you like
• 58:10
  Speaker 4: to get someone that's trying to get into your position?
• 58:13
  Speaker 6: So what is my position?
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: What do you think successful owner to restaurants?
• 58:20
  Speaker 7: Right?
• 58:20
  Speaker 6: Okay, okay, we're talking tactical or were.
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: Talking, and I would like to say, in a successful marriage,
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: so you could do like two three.
• 58:28
  Speaker 5: What successful marriage is. Definitely, it's not defined by how
• 58:32
  Speaker 5: well it goes. It's about how long it lasts. So
• 58:36
  Speaker 5: you know, people giving relationship advice and they're single, that
• 58:40
  Speaker 5: don't make no sense. So for me, the only thing
• 58:43
  Speaker 5: that makes our relationship successful is because we've been we're
• 58:46
  Speaker 5: still together right, no matter what's going on, we're sticking
• 58:50
  Speaker 5: it out.
• 58:50
  Speaker 6: Were successful.
• 58:51
  Speaker 5: But we come from a family of my grandpa and grandfather,
• 58:54
  Speaker 5: I mean my grandpa and grandma.
• 58:56
  Speaker 6: Wants to get us sixty five years before he passed
• 58:58
  Speaker 6: her parents to get a thirty plus.
• 59:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so we don't even know the D word, you know,
• 59:03
  Speaker 5: we don't even know the divorce word. It's just like,
• 59:05
  Speaker 5: whatever we're going to do, let's talk about it. It's simple,
• 59:07
  Speaker 5: you know what I mean. As far as the business go,
• 59:13
  Speaker 5: it's so much man, you know, but I would say,
• 59:20
  Speaker 5: us as blacks, I'm gonna go there because white folks
• 59:23
  Speaker 5: gotta feed out us as blacks. We gotta focus on
• 59:27
  Speaker 5: just being free and not wealthy, because through freedom you
• 59:31
  Speaker 5: gain wealth. And what I mean is like if we
• 59:34
  Speaker 5: approach business like an artist does, Like artists don't want
• 59:38
  Speaker 5: to don't try to get rich, They try to get free,
• 59:39
  Speaker 5: so they could just create all day.
• 59:41
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 59:42
  Speaker 5: So if we just was like, all right, let's just
• 59:44
  Speaker 5: get our bills covered, right, and then we could focus
• 59:48
  Speaker 5: on actually creating wealth. But most people are trying to
• 59:51
  Speaker 5: build a wealth while they're still struggling. So let's just
• 59:56
  Speaker 5: get free, meaning bills covered. We got four five bands
• 59:59
  Speaker 5: coming then every month from this side hustle or this
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 5: main hustle whatever. And now because we relaxed, we you
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, Now we could sit and get
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 5: to the drawing board and really take shots and create wealth.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 5: Let's go with this idea, all right? That don't really
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 5: go with this idea. It's like a record label master
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 5: p signed how many people?
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I mean.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 5: So you need to have the capacity to take them
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 5: many shots, which is why I did a food truck
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 5: because it's like, we got unlimited shots. Who gonna kick
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 5: me out right if they do all this shit don't work.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 5: But we're gonna do Mexican, We're gonna do Italian, We're
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 5: gonna try something else because people eat.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 4: And I'm curious. In business, I know that there's a
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 4: lot of pivoting. When is when do you know when
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 4: to pivot?
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 6: I'm still young in business. I can't even answer that.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 3: Man, I think we have pivoted.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 5: Okay, So I had a pivot the moment I knew
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 5: it was all right, So you really you gotta spend
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 5: time looking at your business and not working in it,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 5: and it's easy, said, they've done.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 6: And so I knew it was time to pivot.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 5: When we kept doing those events and not making money,
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 5: I'm like, all right, damn, we making eleven bands, but
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 5: I lost all this because I had to travel, right,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 5: and we did this event, made seven bands.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 6: Don't got no money?
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 5: I said, all right, and then we can't staff against
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 5: this revenue because it's unpredictable, so I don't even know
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 5: how to staff against it. I can't retain employees because
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 5: who had want to come to the unpredictable hours and
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 5: unpredictable checks. So I said, all right, we're gonna go
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 5: to Atlanta. We're gonna kill two birds in one stone.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 5: We're gonna become hot in the most popular black city
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 5: in the country. And by doing that, you get hot
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 5: in all the other black cities. So you get to
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 5: do the same work, but you get ten times the results.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 5: And I was like, we're gonna post up and treat
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 5: our food truck like a restaurant. We're gonna post up
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 5: in the hood specifically. And the reason why is because
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 5: that gave us predictable revenue. I don't care if it
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 5: was less than the events, as long as it's predictable,
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 5: because now I can hire and get out of it permanently.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: And then and then you could build a study cap
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: to right the.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 6: Cash flow, and which looks good to any bank or
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 6: and we car it only so I was.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 4: Gonna say, because I was wondering, you guys weren't pulling
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 4: out any bank loans as of yet, no none. So
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 4: this day I always find that very impressive because I
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 4: I I'm obsessed with entrepreneurship and I work with so
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 4: many alternative lenders that help entrepreneurs, and I on this
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 4: show in particular, I meet so many self funded businesses,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 4: which is fortunate, but I'm also like, damn, do you
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 4: know the levels you can do if you think you know,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 4: like take advantage of it.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 5: I think the first way to go is to be
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 5: self funded because the education I have. Now I take
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 5: money from anybody, yeah, because I know the level of
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 5: education I have and how I can multiply. But the
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 5: education I had then I wouldn't take no money because
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 5: you got to lose so much money just to figure
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 5: out how to make money that you don't even want
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 5: to play with nobody money.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, your losses. I think as an entrepreneur, failure is
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: the cornerstone to success.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 4: Like straight up is even killed. But it hurts of course,
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 4: you know. Like I was telling someone earlier, like the
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 4: suicide rate amongst entrepreneurs is actually pretty high.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: It's a stressful thing.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 4: You know, you're like battling yourself. Your have to hallucinate
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 4: to another level. You got to be crazy, mane if.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 5: You if you're saying you ain't gonna make it. You
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 5: gotta be a little throwed off, bro. Some days you
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 5: it's like you've seen you like you in a tunnel.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 5: It ain't a dult tunnel. It's a brick wall. You
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 5: ain't no way out this month, and you still got.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 6: To be like, keep going.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: Have you guys ever had a moment where one wanted
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: to quit and one didn't.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 6: It's always I like, I like the hustle, I like
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 6: the ground emotional, but it's never long. It lasts a day.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 6: Then this motherfucker telling me I'm ready for another restaurant.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: I'm like, goddamn.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 5: But it makes it makes you stronger, like you know,
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 5: and it's her strengths and my strengths are opposite.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can see that. I can see that. I
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: love the way you guys. I'm just curious for you, though,
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: What is the thing that will make you want to quit?
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  Speaker 5: Like entrepreneurship or quick cafe Bourbon street ship? I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I'm asking you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I didn't know qu cafe wasn't was Was
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  Speaker 1: there a moment with you?
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  Speaker 7: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hard.
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  Speaker 7: This ship is really hard, and I think what it was, Uh,
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  Speaker 7: A lot of the moments that took me to like, oh,
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  Speaker 7: fuck this ship.
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  Speaker 2: It was just like it was really the people.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, it was like our employees, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 7: It was really dealing with them because before we got
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  Speaker 7: employees for real, for we had managers and operational managers
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  Speaker 7: and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: It was us, you know what I'm saying. So it
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  Speaker 3: was a little.
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  Speaker 7: So now we got different personalities, different work work ethics and.
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  Speaker 3: All this stuff going on, and they fucking ship up
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  Speaker 3: and I'm.
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  Speaker 6: Just like, what the fuck.
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  Speaker 1: The employees that are invested, You can't believe.
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  Speaker 6: That you do that, you really did that.
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  Speaker 7: It's like they do something and they messing something up
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  Speaker 7: real bad, and then it just kind of snow snows
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  Speaker 7: and it's like yo, fu, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 5: But and then, like you know, I think the biggest
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  Speaker 5: part is your staff never know how hard you're actually working.
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  Speaker 2: For yeah, because it don't look like it don't look
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  Speaker 2: like it we make it, we don't.
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  Speaker 3: They never see a sweat.
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  Speaker 4: They never see a sweat, which is actually an important
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  Speaker 4: part of leadership, right of course, and also like not
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  Speaker 4: being too friendly with them, right because you learned that
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  Speaker 4: lesson where you become.
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  Speaker 2: Learn.
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  Speaker 5: And I say this with the utmost genuine I'm just honest.
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  Speaker 5: Correct me if I'm wrong. But and man, I hope
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  Speaker 5: they don't hang me on the internet for this, But
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  Speaker 5: I'm just saying, bro, niggas expect more from you know,
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  Speaker 5: you as a boss than they do from your white counterpart.
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  Speaker 5: So for example, when you know, people go to work
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  Speaker 5: for you know, quote unquote the white man, they only
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  Speaker 5: expect a check, that's it. But when they come work
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  Speaker 5: for a person that looks like them, they expect for
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  Speaker 5: you to like give them a check and take you,
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  Speaker 5: take you under their wing, take you in your house,
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  Speaker 5: take you in all the meetings, use a spposed to
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  Speaker 5: expose them. And so for me, I got a wife,
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  Speaker 5: three kids now, so I don't even have the time
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  Speaker 5: to you know, sit there and make you a part
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  Speaker 5: of my whole entrepreneur life. And so but they put
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  Speaker 5: the expectation on you, and like it's just like, man,
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  Speaker 5: I can't just pay you a fair you know waves
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  Speaker 5: it was like, nah, they want more.
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  Speaker 6: It's because we understand.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with that.
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  Speaker 4: I had an interview with a guest and he worked
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  Speaker 4: for Tyler Perry come on, and he had messed up,
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  Speaker 4: lost Tyler Perry millions of dollars and Tyler Perry ended
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  Speaker 4: up firing him, and I promised you in the comments
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  Speaker 4: it's been It's till this date fans are arguing amongst
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  Speaker 4: themselves on whether Tyler Perry you should have taken the
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  Speaker 4: time to mentor him, and they were like, yo, the
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  Speaker 4: lesson was right there, But it was also like, why
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  Speaker 4: is the expectation that, yo, you lost this dude millions
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  Speaker 4: of dollars and he should turn around because you were
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  Speaker 4: young and mentoring, you know, And it was that was
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  Speaker 4: the guy's thing was like, why aren't you mentoring me?
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  Speaker 4: Like this is while I was young? But the truth
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  Speaker 4: of the matter is, why is that expectation there? You
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  Speaker 4: lost the white man or whatever millions of dollars? Be like,
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  Speaker 4: why can't you mentor me?
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  Speaker 1: And like the rest like.
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  Speaker 6: The fact that you thought like that is the reason
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  Speaker 6: is exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And then you know what's so funny?
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  Speaker 4: After everything ended, there was some other conversation I had
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  Speaker 4: and I say, yeah, man, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, no, I can see that and I've seen that.
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  Speaker 4: But I appreciate your guys transparency the time to guys,
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  Speaker 4: your day, Your sandwich was great conversation. What's the future
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  Speaker 4: hole for you guys, guys, that's a good.
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  Speaker 5: Question, honestly, like the future in the future. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 5: we you know, we come from big families, they had
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  Speaker 5: big gatherings. So now we want to just show that
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  Speaker 5: talent more. We want to get a bigger location, bar,
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  Speaker 5: you know, dak rease, you know, cafe vibes, to events,
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  Speaker 5: you know what I mean. We want to showcase our
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  Speaker 5: skill of bringing people together, you know, and building the
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  Speaker 5: actual community through our business. That's really like my most
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  Speaker 5: favorite part about owning the restaurant is the level of
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  Speaker 5: community you build. The money is just like a byproduct,
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  Speaker 5: but it's like, man, you meet so many powerful people.
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  Speaker 5: You get a chance to serve these people, you know,
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  Speaker 5: and it's like it's a cheatkode.
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  Speaker 7: Man.
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  Speaker 5: I tell anybody, if you really love the generally serve people,
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  Speaker 5: open the restaurant. It ain't for the money though, It's
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  Speaker 5: for the people you meet and the way you can
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  Speaker 5: impact the community. And so now we at a parent
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  Speaker 5: where running the restaurant this another day for us. You know,
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  Speaker 5: we got systems, we got good people, We know how
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  Speaker 5: to find good people. And so it's like, all right,
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  Speaker 5: the next step is open a bigger restaurant and you know,
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  Speaker 5: eventually have a thousand, you know, and it might be
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  Speaker 5: different brands, but I want a thousand restaurants.
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  Speaker 6: Wow yeah yeah Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Are you going to thinking franchise a.
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  Speaker 6: Corporate franchise meaning we still own them all raising Oh.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to say, like, yeah, chick fil a
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  Speaker 1: and in and out.
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  Speaker 6: It's like that, right, yeah and out?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah yeah, so you grew a little slower, but
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  Speaker 5: you get more money per unit because you know, it's
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  Speaker 5: just more quality.
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  Speaker 4: I heard Chick fil A's model though, is like the
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  Speaker 4: let employees enter a lottery and I think it's like
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  Speaker 4: ten grand to buy in.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, ten grand and you get all the profits.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I knew some young people like twenty five like get
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  Speaker 4: a like Hollywood in La Hollywood Highland was like twenty
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  Speaker 4: five year old and won the lotto and got the
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  Speaker 4: Chick fil A Yeah yeah, snooth come.
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  Speaker 2: Up yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So you know that's how it goes man, And it's
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  Speaker 5: really all about just being in the one big community through.
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  Speaker 6: Food and just good energy. I like that.
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  Speaker 1: So where can people keep up with cafe Bourbon Street.
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  Speaker 6: On the Gram.
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  Speaker 5: You already know Cafe Bourbon Street c A F E
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  Speaker 5: B O U R B O n ST. Not the
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  Speaker 5: worst street, the abbreviation. You're a real New Orleans food
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  Speaker 5: by real Normans.
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  Speaker 1: Family, and you won't be catching these loney sandwich is nowhere, No.
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  Speaker 6: Ad at the news spot.
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  Speaker 2: What good?
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  Speaker 3: But it'll come from me.
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  Speaker 6: You might look. You come get a bourbon and bologna.
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  Speaker 1: You yourself? Yeah, yeah, all right, y'all. He's out.
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  Speaker 6: Pep from