Latest / Eating While Broke / REPLAY: WEEZY WTF - Gourmet Mac N Cheese
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.
- 0:03Speaker 1: I'm your host, Colleen Witt, and today we have a
- 0:06Speaker 1: very special TV host, entrepreneur podcaster that Beach exactly very
- 0:13Speaker 1: special guests I do.
- 0:15Speaker 2: We just have to end up bleeping them out for sol.
- 0:17Speaker 2: Do you believe about your social No?
- 0:19Speaker 3: Sorry, well I heard it.
- 0:20Speaker 2: It messes with the algorithms.
- 0:22Speaker 3: Oh that's probably true.
- 0:23Speaker 4: Maybe that's why we haven't.
- 0:49Speaker 1: Weezy is from Horrible Decisions. She also has a TV
- 0:53Speaker 1: show called Sex Cells, and she.
- 0:56Speaker 2: Is an entrepreneur.
- 0:57Speaker 1: She owns podcast recording studios in New York. And am
- 1:00Speaker 1: I missing a market?
- 1:01Speaker 3: Not yet? If you recorded me in two months, you would.
- 1:04Speaker 1: Be okay hopefully, Alana and I real know, okay, okay,
- 1:10Speaker 1: but I'm really excited to have Weezy. I met you
- 1:13Speaker 1: probably over a year ago and literally like, I just
- 1:16Speaker 1: I love everything you're about and I plan to take notes.
- 1:20Speaker 2: Oh okay, but what do you have us eating as
- 1:23Speaker 2: your broke dish today?
- 1:25Speaker 3: Well, my broke dish today is gourmet maca cheese because
- 1:28Speaker 3: I feel like, well, gourmet meat and macajeese because I
- 1:32Speaker 3: don't like to say hot dogs. It sounds cheap and
- 1:34Speaker 3: the meal is cheap. But like when broke, I was like,
- 1:37Speaker 3: I need to feel full fast, and I always thought
- 1:40Speaker 3: that was like a protein and carbs, and so hot
- 1:43Speaker 3: dogs and macaroni and cheese like the easiest thing, even
- 1:46Speaker 3: though by itself, I feel like it tastes like shit.
- 1:49Speaker 3: So I just tried to dress it up what I had. Yeah,
- 1:51Speaker 3: I saw that.
- 1:52Speaker 1: I saw these extra ingredients, and I didn't know which
- 1:55Speaker 1: direction your meal was going. So for our listeners, can
- 1:58Speaker 1: you say what.
- 1:58Speaker 2: Is in the gourmet meg cheese?
- 2:01Speaker 3: So I'm gonna be real with you. Allive oil is
- 2:03Speaker 3: very expensive when your rope like this is what eight
- 2:06Speaker 3: dollars for this? Maybe ten? Probably? Yeah, So I would
- 2:10Speaker 3: use criscal but virgin olive oil. Lorry I don't know
- 2:15Speaker 3: how to say his name, but Tony.
- 2:16Speaker 1: Shiericus, I just call it Tony seasoning, Tony creole.
- 2:21Speaker 3: So we have the mixing bowls. I don't know why.
- 2:24Speaker 2: Oh I thought you were gonna drain the mac and
- 2:26Speaker 2: cheese water.
- 2:28Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I didn't even have a bad I didn't
- 2:30Speaker 3: have a what's it called. I would take the top
- 2:34Speaker 3: pour it out.
- 2:35Speaker 1: Okay, we usually do that on the show. By the way,
- 2:37Speaker 1: this is just a fruit strainer.
- 2:39Speaker 2: But go on, what's the ingredients.
- 2:40Speaker 3: I like Nathan's. I'm not sure why. Hebrew National wasn't
- 2:44Speaker 3: my thing, but Nathan's was like the skinny ones. Like Nathan's,
- 2:47Speaker 3: We've got the cutting board of the knife so that
- 2:49Speaker 3: you could slice up the hot dogs, onions, butter, and milk. Awesome.
- 2:55Speaker 1: Now it's funny because I've done mac and cheese before.
- 2:59Speaker 1: In my greatest accomplishment was adding tuna to the mac
- 3:03Speaker 1: and cheese. Okay, but I am excited because there's so much.
- 3:08Speaker 3: Don't go together. So I think it's loster mac and
- 3:10Speaker 3: cheese and that's it.
- 3:12Speaker 2: Hey, I was broke. I didn't. I don't even know.
- 3:15Speaker 5: You.
- 3:17Speaker 1: But but no, I'm excited because this is my first
- 3:20Speaker 1: time ever in the history of living on this earth,
- 3:23Speaker 1: having gourmet mac and cheese.
- 3:25Speaker 2: And it's really cool.
- 3:26Speaker 3: You know what I actually put in my grame?
- 3:29Speaker 2: Look you getting all hyped into it?
- 3:30Speaker 3: What what? Okay? Now that I'm getting money when I
- 3:34Speaker 3: make gromet mac and cheese for overall, I put like
- 3:36Speaker 3: five different type of cheeses in it, and I put
- 3:37Speaker 3: a little bit of beer whenever I Yes, I can't
- 3:41Speaker 3: remember where I learned about the beer from but it's
- 3:44Speaker 3: something about the yeast and the beer. Oh my god,
- 3:45Speaker 3: you can taste it. It's so good. Beer costs extra money,
- 3:48Speaker 3: so I felt like I shouldn't added that.
- 3:50Speaker 1: No, no, but that's your But you now that you
- 3:53Speaker 1: make money, you actually do to.
- 3:59Speaker 2: A still a twist the gourmet maga cheer.
- 4:01Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you're hilarious. My mom hates it. She's like,
- 4:04Speaker 3: this is so ridiculous because every Thanksgiving we have hers,
- 4:07Speaker 3: which is classic bag mac burn at the top, and
- 4:09Speaker 3: then mine is the bougie back.
- 4:12Speaker 2: And you're mixed, right, So is your mom black?
- 4:14Speaker 3: My mom is black and my dad's is really okay,
- 4:16Speaker 3: maybe it should be Hebrew national.
- 4:18Speaker 2: You're hilarious.
- 4:19Speaker 1: My dad is Jewish and my mom is Jamaican. So
- 4:22Speaker 1: I have the same black and white mix because I
- 4:25Speaker 1: never ever meet it where the mom is black and
- 4:27Speaker 1: the dad is white. Whenever I see someone like that,
- 4:31Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, that's crazy, all right.
- 4:33Speaker 2: You always see the other PEO was like.
- 4:34Speaker 3: You're like black and Jewish. You're like Drake.
- 4:39Speaker 2: Well, it used to be Lenny was the big thing
- 4:41Speaker 2: back in the day.
- 4:42Speaker 3: People don't know nothing, you not these young kids.
- 4:45Speaker 2: But all right, weezy.
- 4:46Speaker 1: So I am dying to try this gourmet mac so
- 4:50Speaker 1: come away.
- 4:50Speaker 3: It's not gonna be good.
- 4:51Speaker 2: Why you say that?
- 4:52Speaker 3: Because think about the stuff we eat today. I mean,
- 4:56Speaker 3: you eat shitty meals all the time.
- 4:58Speaker 1: With Oh let me tell you. I'm getting to the
- 5:00Speaker 1: point where I'm gonna start rating it. And I've been
- 5:02Speaker 1: because I've been pretty nice. Someone made tuna castrole.
- 5:07Speaker 2: It's gonna get me caught up.
- 5:09Speaker 1: But this it was literally it's tuna castrole and the
- 5:14Speaker 1: pickled egg is the worst dish for me on the
- 5:17Speaker 1: on the shell. If people said the worst pickled eg
- 5:20Speaker 1: Have you had a pickled egg?
- 5:21Speaker 3: I thought casseroles are for Caucasians. And this is the
- 5:23Speaker 3: Black Black Network. It was.
- 5:25Speaker 1: It was two black sisters that owned a all black
- 5:30Speaker 1: owned store that carries all black owned and they made
- 5:34Speaker 1: a tuna castrole and it was absolutely that's terrible.
- 5:38Speaker 3: Putting the olive oil in the pan for the onions
- 5:41Speaker 3: because I like it to caramelize, okay, okay, But also
- 5:45Speaker 3: I'm gonna boil the hot dogs, start boiling the macacheese.
- 5:49Speaker 3: And while that's boiling, that's where I'd just be trying
- 5:51Speaker 3: to get the flavor with the onions, and Shita tastes
- 5:54Speaker 3: like extra. Yeah.
- 5:56Speaker 1: I just learned the other day that some people seasoned
- 5:59Speaker 1: the onions.
- 6:00Speaker 2: Are you one of those people?
- 6:01Speaker 5: No?
- 6:02Speaker 3: Am? I Karen? Now it was? It was a black girl. Damn,
- 6:09Speaker 3: I don't know. That's what I'm saying. I expect her
- 6:11Speaker 3: to be black. You you said you're a carot. You
- 6:16Speaker 3: want to know something that's just too black? My mom,
- 6:19Speaker 3: every time she watches my dog, won't feed the dog
- 6:22Speaker 3: dog food. It's only like chicken, right, And I was like, Mom,
- 6:25Speaker 3: why is that chicken color different? Oh well, it has
- 6:28Speaker 3: a little garlic powder and just a little season on it.
- 6:30Speaker 2: She seas in the dog's foods there's too bland, no way.
- 6:35Speaker 3: And every time I got the dog be peen out
- 6:39Speaker 3: of its ask. Actually, there's a very special day and
- 6:42Speaker 3: week for me. By the way, my parents, I moved
- 6:45Speaker 3: them to LA, so they're flying to night.
- 6:47Speaker 2: You moved them.
- 6:49Speaker 3: They live in Orlando, so literally I'm New York Orlando, LA.
- 6:54Speaker 3: And I was like, I can't do this triangle. It's
- 6:56Speaker 3: got to be one back and forth, okay. So I
- 6:58Speaker 3: just wanted them closer to me, so that that to
- 7:00Speaker 3: me was like a big life goal. That's summer Orlando.
- 7:03Speaker 1: First of all, that's a yeah, cause it would have
- 7:05Speaker 1: been cheaper to move from LA to Orlando.
- 7:09Speaker 3: You moved them to a more expensive market. I want
- 7:11Speaker 3: them to be closer to me. This is where all
- 7:13Speaker 3: my work is happening. And like, yeah, I mean, Orlando's
- 7:16Speaker 3: where I'm from. So it was any day go on
- 7:21Speaker 3: my birthday this year, I went to suspend it with
- 7:23Speaker 3: my father. My dad, he's in a wheelchair, so it's
- 7:26Speaker 3: a lot more difficult for him to visit me like
- 7:28Speaker 3: my mom does. People probably see my mom all over
- 7:30Speaker 3: my content. But my dad was like, damn, I wish
- 7:32Speaker 3: I could watch TV with you all the time. I
- 7:34Speaker 3: wish we could have these moments together, Like I wish
- 7:37Speaker 3: I could be in LA with you and your mom.
- 7:39Speaker 3: And I was like, well, shit, you guys could be there,
- 7:42Speaker 3: and so yeah, I mean to me, it's crazy to
- 7:45Speaker 3: make this meal today. I actually walked by a T
- 7:47Speaker 3: Mobile store, which was my last job, to walk by
- 7:50Speaker 3: a T Mobile store making the meal. I made it
- 7:51Speaker 3: when I was broken. I'm literally able to afford to
- 7:53Speaker 3: move my parents here, but who knows, maybe they gonna
- 7:55Speaker 3: spend so much money. I'm gonna have to eat this
- 7:57Speaker 3: shit again.
- 7:57Speaker 1: No, no, but you're making like really big moves.
- 8:01Speaker 2: I was.
- 8:02Speaker 1: I'm so excited about having this conversation with you because
- 8:07Speaker 1: knowing that you came from Brokeness and seeing like you're
- 8:11Speaker 1: making like chess moves like effortlessly. So when I say like,
- 8:16Speaker 1: I'm pulling out the pen like, I've been working for
- 8:18Speaker 1: myself for a long time, but I definitely don't make
- 8:21Speaker 1: the type of money that I need to make. I'm
- 8:24Speaker 1: still in the Jamaican like two thousand here, five thousand here,
- 8:28Speaker 1: three thousand here equals twelve thousand. You know what I'm saying.
- 8:32Speaker 1: But I'm not at the point where I'm playing chess.
- 8:34Speaker 1: So I'm literally excited about this episode because we're all
- 8:39Speaker 1: about to get took to.
- 8:40Speaker 3: School, you, I hope.
- 8:41Speaker 2: So yeah, So I hope I do the due deal
- 8:43Speaker 2: with Just tell us what was.
- 8:44Speaker 1: Going on when you were making Gourmet mac and Cheese,
- 8:47Speaker 1: the original.
- 8:49Speaker 3: So I'll tell you this coming from Brokeness was.
- 8:53Speaker 1: Something that I thought you were gonna put the Sorry.
- 8:55Speaker 1: I thought you were going to do the smaller pan
- 8:57Speaker 1: for the hot dogs, and I had your pan for
- 8:58Speaker 1: that them first. I don't know if they you're gonna
- 9:01Speaker 1: boil him in the mac and cheese.
- 9:03Speaker 3: This is the maca cheese potting.
- 9:05Speaker 2: No, it was the other because that pot small. I
- 9:08Speaker 2: love you.
- 9:09Speaker 1: I'm making my own Okay, I'm staying out of the kitchen.
- 9:12Speaker 3: Said you're gonna take.
- 9:14Speaker 1: Just so you know, every time I get involved in
- 9:17Speaker 1: the kitchen, I burned someone's dish. So I need to
- 9:19Speaker 1: stay in my life. Okay, okay, made feet, Yeah, because
- 9:22Speaker 1: I've been burning stuff on people's own meals, all right,
- 9:26Speaker 1: So so tell me what was going on.
- 9:29Speaker 2: Sorry.
- 9:29Speaker 3: So I actually grew up with money and there was
- 9:32Speaker 3: a stock market crash that happened that lost my parents
- 9:35Speaker 3: some money, and then my dad ended up having a
- 9:38Speaker 3: stroke that kept him out of work. And so after that,
- 9:43Speaker 3: I ended up dating a guy. It was just like
- 9:47Speaker 3: rich boyfriend that was paying for my school and then
- 9:51Speaker 3: he was very abusive. Broke up with him and then
- 9:53Speaker 3: that stopped. My parents couldn't really afford to college. I
- 9:56Speaker 3: had to help them out because my dad had this stroke.
- 9:59Speaker 3: So started work at the mall, White House black market
- 10:02Speaker 3: clothing stores like a hand tailor.
- 10:04Speaker 1: Bike Yeah, yeah, a little bit high play, yeah, high class,
- 10:07Speaker 1: that's my first I did.
- 10:08Speaker 2: Did you steal anything from them, like a few things.
- 10:10Speaker 3: Ok. Good, good, But then I realized once I had
- 10:13Speaker 3: to stop, I wasn't like stealing for real, for real, Okay,
- 10:16Speaker 3: it was just a little shit. And then one day
- 10:18Speaker 3: I wore something to work and she was like, I
- 10:19Speaker 3: didn't know you got that dress, and I was like, ah.
- 10:22Speaker 3: The craziest thing was I went to jail and ended
- 10:25Speaker 3: up having it was for my license. Everybody thinks it
- 10:27Speaker 3: was something worse. It was for my license, and I
- 10:30Speaker 3: had a GPS monitor on my foot, and so I
- 10:35Speaker 3: had to always wear Maxi dresses to work, or like
- 10:38Speaker 3: super big boots.
- 10:39Speaker 2: To cover you got one of those ankle monitors.
- 10:42Speaker 3: Yes, no way, all working at my house like Marky.
- 10:44Speaker 3: It was terrible. So then I think I was helping
- 10:46Speaker 3: a woman that worked at a T mobile store and
- 10:48Speaker 3: I was selling her mad shit. She's like, you're really
- 10:50Speaker 3: good at sales. How much she's making here. I don't
- 10:53Speaker 3: remember what it was, fucking ten dollars an hour, but
- 10:54Speaker 3: my commission would be good, so it'd be up to
- 10:56Speaker 3: twenty or thirty. And she was like, I can make
- 10:58Speaker 3: you double a tea mobile with the way you saw. Oh,
- 11:00Speaker 3: now I knew nothing about cel phone. She's like, you
- 11:03Speaker 3: don't have to just have to be cute. It's funny
- 11:05Speaker 3: because I went on a date the other day, this
- 11:07Speaker 3: nigga said, you look like a bitch. She used to
- 11:08Speaker 3: work its emobile. I used to tie my little shirt
- 11:11Speaker 3: up like this and be like, what kind of fun
- 11:13Speaker 3: y'all want? I was gonna sell it to all the
- 11:17Speaker 3: top niggas, the prepaid lines in the box, because you
- 11:21Speaker 3: weren't supposed to legally sell them a new number every month. Oh,
- 11:25Speaker 3: so niggas would come in. I just fucking keeps wiping
- 11:27Speaker 3: the shit whatever. So ended up being so good at
- 11:30Speaker 3: T mobile selling shit. I think my first year working there,
- 11:34Speaker 3: I was like twenty two twenty three. I made like
- 11:36Speaker 3: ninety thousand dollars. Get the heck out crazy. They don't
- 11:40Speaker 3: pay it over that way, no more. Yeah, but like
- 11:41Speaker 3: I was selling selling something. The iPhone was hot back then,
- 11:44Speaker 3: and it just came out and literally was fucking flying
- 11:48Speaker 3: to Europe, just like experiencing life. Living life still had
- 11:51Speaker 3: a shitty car with windows, didn't go down, But I
- 11:53Speaker 3: just spent all my money and experiences, and what I
- 11:56Speaker 3: realized from those experiences, like, oh I got to get
- 11:58Speaker 3: more and more and more. Every time you taste a
- 12:00Speaker 3: little bit of luxury, now you need more and more
- 12:03Speaker 3: and more, you know. So from there, ended up training
- 12:06Speaker 3: T Mobile staff in Florida. Then I ended up managing
- 12:09Speaker 3: a store, and then they moved me to New York
- 12:11Speaker 3: to work in corporate. And now not saying I couldn't
- 12:15Speaker 3: have made it to New York alone, but I did
- 12:16Speaker 3: have a sugar daddy then.
- 12:17Speaker 1: Okay, And so he was like a legit sugar daddy,
- 12:20Speaker 1: like what you envisioned in the movies, Like he wasn't
- 12:23Speaker 1: that hot, and he had paper.
- 12:25Speaker 3: Oh he paper, Oh yeah, like some bitches have a
- 12:27Speaker 3: sugar daddy.
- 12:27Speaker 2: I I he had a plane, he had he had
- 12:29Speaker 2: a plane.
- 12:30Speaker 3: Yes, oh he was like legit okay, Oh my god.
- 12:32Speaker 3: He was so rich. And I met him working in
- 12:34Speaker 3: with the fucking T mobile. He came in. He had
- 12:36Speaker 3: like three hundred lines for his company and he was like,
- 12:39Speaker 3: I'm with Rise and Da Da Da, but his daughter
- 12:41Speaker 3: wanted something that was only a T Mobile. I was like,
- 12:43Speaker 3: why don't you move your lines over? And he's like, honey,
- 12:45Speaker 3: I don't do T Mobile Like this is that's very
- 12:48Speaker 3: So I think I saved him like twenty five grand
- 12:50Speaker 3: a month, and he said he was gonna give me
- 12:51Speaker 3: a gift and I told him. He's like, what are
- 12:54Speaker 3: you doing this week? I was like, I'm gonna go
- 12:56Speaker 3: see Beyonce Miami. He was the Formation tour. Okay. He's like,
- 12:58Speaker 3: how are you gonna get there? I'm like gona drive
- 13:00Speaker 3: with my friends. He's like, take my jet, and I
- 13:03Speaker 3: remember my friend's like, oh my god, you gotta suck
- 13:04Speaker 3: that owd man. We got on that jet and it
- 13:06Speaker 3: was like, bitch'll.
- 13:07Speaker 2: Suck a thick jot.
- 13:09Speaker 3: And so that was like my first entry into whole
- 13:11Speaker 3: ho ho sheit okay, okay, got me this insane apartment
- 13:15Speaker 3: in New York. It was like, wait he was doing
- 13:17Speaker 3: that too, oh yeah, saying when he knew I was
- 13:20Speaker 3: gonna leave Orlando, He's like, sweetie, I can't have you
- 13:22Speaker 3: leave me. I was thinking about getting a place in
- 13:24Speaker 3: New York anyway. He's like, where were you gonna move?
- 13:26Speaker 3: I was like Manhattan. He goes that means Harlem, which
- 13:30Speaker 3: was true. So I was Midtown fifty fourth and eighth.
- 13:34Speaker 3: And it's so funny because my mom came to visit
- 13:36Speaker 3: me and the address was two sixty West fifty fourth
- 13:39Speaker 3: or two sixty spy. My mom got to my apartment,
- 13:42Speaker 3: she goes, oh my god, it's Tudio fifty four is
- 13:44Speaker 3: right there. She's like, that's where I was going, That's
- 13:47Speaker 3: where I was meeting these rich guys. You're turning into me.
- 13:50Speaker 3: She was so proud of me. And I think, what's
- 13:53Speaker 3: funny is my mom always wanted me to.
- 13:54Speaker 2: Be such a good personality. Couldn't wear your personality?
- 13:58Speaker 3: Okay, my mom always wanted me to be with a
- 14:00Speaker 3: always wanted me to be taken care of. And like,
- 14:02Speaker 3: it's so crazy because now I'm the rich guy, you know.
- 14:06Speaker 3: And I don't think she expected it, but it's just amazing.
- 14:10Speaker 3: Like I never thought i'd get here. I always kind
- 14:12Speaker 3: of thought and she would say to me, you're gonna
- 14:14Speaker 3: get married, You're gonna have a big house, and you're
- 14:16Speaker 3: gonna move me and your dad in the guest house.
- 14:18Speaker 3: It's gonna be so great. And like literally I'm moving
- 14:21Speaker 3: them into a place down the street from me. Yeah,
- 14:23Speaker 3: without an e.
- 14:24Speaker 1: But how does it not that I also say that
- 14:25Speaker 1: now you're the rich guy, Like when you do you
- 14:29Speaker 1: this obviously is in the first time you said it?
- 14:31Speaker 1: Is it when did you have the epiphany that you
- 14:33Speaker 1: were the rich guy.
- 14:35Speaker 2: I damn, that's a good feeling.
- 14:37Speaker 3: I can't wait to have that feeling. It was It
- 14:39Speaker 3: wasn't the first time I felt that was. I was
- 14:42Speaker 3: in Paris with my mom and I took her for
- 14:44Speaker 3: a birthday and I wanted to fly her first class,
- 14:47Speaker 3: but I use like an upgrade to getting points then,
- 14:50Speaker 3: you know, because like first class, I'd be like ten
- 14:52Speaker 3: fifteen thousand for them. Lay down. And when we got there,
- 14:56Speaker 3: we get to the hotel and it was really nice,
- 14:57Speaker 3: and she's like, oh, what's our room?
- 14:59Speaker 5: Like?
- 14:59Speaker 3: Oh, room, Like we have two separate rooms and every
- 15:02Speaker 3: little thing my mom was starting to count in her head,
- 15:04Speaker 3: like how much was my daughter making?
- 15:05Speaker 2: Yeah, she said, we.
- 15:06Speaker 3: Got our own rooms. Okay. Then we go to the store.
- 15:09Speaker 3: I'm like, you want something, I'll just get a lipstick.
- 15:11Speaker 3: I'm like, no, Mom, you can get more. You can
- 15:12Speaker 3: get a bag o.
- 15:14Speaker 2: Your mom was like, what the break is happening?
- 15:16Speaker 3: She was bugging out. And then we walk outside of
- 15:18Speaker 3: the protest store and there's a hotel very famous called
- 15:21Speaker 3: the Plaza at My mom was telling me how princes
- 15:24Speaker 3: would take her to dinner there. When she was young
- 15:26Speaker 3: and she would meet all these guys when she was
- 15:28Speaker 3: traveling in Europe and this was like the place to go.
- 15:30Speaker 3: I was like, oh, do you want to have dinner there?
- 15:32Speaker 3: And that was when it hit my mom. She got
- 15:33Speaker 3: really emotional and she's like, I cannot fucking believe I'm
- 15:37Speaker 3: doing this with you. My mom is seventy seventieth birthday
- 15:39Speaker 3: at the time.
- 15:41Speaker 2: Oh, you said stay out the lane, so I'm staying.
- 15:43Speaker 2: I'm watching it.
- 15:46Speaker 3: I get cooked for her now, Yo.
- 15:50Speaker 2: You ain't been in the kitchen in a while.
- 15:52Speaker 3: I cooked this morning.
- 15:53Speaker 2: Yo, I'm sorry you told me that.
- 15:55Speaker 1: You told me to stay out the kitchen, and we
- 15:57Speaker 1: almost about to burn down the whole.
- 16:00Speaker 2: Don't even know if you don't read on there to
- 16:02Speaker 2: be on the wood part.
- 16:03Speaker 3: No, I can't. I was looking for another contract. Okay,
- 16:05Speaker 3: I'll move it to this one. The ale I tried to.
- 16:10Speaker 3: I love it, No, but it was. It was beautiful
- 16:12Speaker 3: because my mom really was just so excited for me,
- 16:15Speaker 3: so proud of me. I do remember, you know, we
- 16:18Speaker 3: still niggas at the end of the day, Like we
- 16:20Speaker 3: sitting here with these fucking Louis bags and all these
- 16:22Speaker 3: expensive shopping bags and literally, my mom orders a drink.
- 16:26Speaker 3: She looks at the men. She said, oh shit, that
- 16:27Speaker 3: was forty three dollars. She was let me sip slow.
- 16:31Speaker 3: But it's really great because for me, like I don't
- 16:33Speaker 3: have kids yet, so like spoiling my parents just it's
- 16:37Speaker 3: like dream come true. Shit for me.
- 16:38Speaker 2: I can only imagine I really really.
- 16:40Speaker 3: Have wanted this for myself my life, and like I
- 16:43Speaker 3: love doing it for my mom. My mom thinks I'm Beyonce.
- 16:46Speaker 3: Like if we walk into a place and can't get in,
- 16:48Speaker 3: like you don't know how my daughter is called Charlemagne.
- 16:53Speaker 3: It's just my mom is like my daughter's on TV
- 16:56Speaker 3: and they're like, really, what out confuse? But yeah, I
- 17:01Speaker 3: mean I feel really proud to do that.
- 17:03Speaker 2: Hell yeah, and they come tonight. This is a big
- 17:06Speaker 2: freaking deal.
- 17:07Speaker 3: She's gonna get her nerves well.
- 17:09Speaker 2: And luckily you moved it right down the street.
- 17:11Speaker 5: I did. So.
- 17:12Speaker 3: My mom wanted to get rid of her car. She
- 17:14Speaker 3: was like, I think I'm getting old. She had a
- 17:16Speaker 3: little moment. We were looking for her apartment and she
- 17:19Speaker 3: saw me parallel park. She started crying. I'm like, what's
- 17:21Speaker 3: wrong with you? She's like, I'm older than I thought.
- 17:24Speaker 3: I don't know if I can do this shit. I
- 17:25Speaker 3: got to get rid of my car, like I'm an
- 17:27Speaker 3: old lady. What if I hit somebody? Thought? And so
- 17:30Speaker 3: we sold her car. And I'm a little nervous because
- 17:32Speaker 3: you know, parents don't want to give up too much
- 17:34Speaker 3: of their autonomy. They need to be able to do
- 17:36Speaker 3: shit for themselves. So you know, I hope she can't
- 17:39Speaker 3: moved her in a walkable neighborhood. She'll figure it out.
- 17:41Speaker 1: Yeah, And then now are they still together? So he's
- 17:44Speaker 1: when does your dad come?
- 17:46Speaker 5: It is?
- 17:47Speaker 3: So my dad comes in tonight. He's just like as
- 17:49Speaker 3: a hospital visit, and it's a little more extensive when
- 17:53Speaker 3: someone's like fully in a wheelchair. So I wanted my
- 17:56Speaker 3: mom to have a few days to herself. I'll take
- 17:58Speaker 3: care of my dad and then you know, okay, in
- 18:00Speaker 3: a lot of shit they've lived there forever. Okay, Okay,
- 18:02Speaker 3: so yeah it's a big deal.
- 18:04Speaker 1: So let's talk about go back to your broke story, okay,
- 18:07Speaker 1: because I want to know how this elevation because it
- 18:09Speaker 1: seems like somewhere around your elevation that was like a
- 18:13Speaker 1: speed track.
- 18:14Speaker 3: So the broke missus, the brokest I think i'd been
- 18:18Speaker 3: was when I left the abusive X. Right, he only
- 18:21Speaker 3: let me keep barely the clothes that I had that
- 18:25Speaker 3: I had when I like got with him.
- 18:27Speaker 2: Are we talking like emotional or physical abuse?
- 18:30Speaker 3: Physical and emotional? He was crazy. I mean, I don't
- 18:32Speaker 3: know how dark you can get on the show. But like,
- 18:35Speaker 3: I didn't even know it was bad because I just
- 18:38Speaker 3: kind of thought when a man is paying for things
- 18:41Speaker 3: for you, like you deal with a little bit of something, right, Yeah,
- 18:45Speaker 3: And so to me, if you never close your fist,
- 18:47Speaker 3: I thought that was fine. I never realized how the
- 18:51Speaker 3: steps of you know, physical violence can be. Yeah. So
- 18:55Speaker 3: when I left him, he didn't give me anything. It
- 18:57Speaker 3: was really tough. I mean, mind you, I went from
- 19:00Speaker 3: when I was a kid having a driver drive me
- 19:03Speaker 3: to school that's how my parents were, to like literally
- 19:07Speaker 3: figuring out what I was gonna do with the last bottles, right,
- 19:10Speaker 3: So it was really tough. And I couldn't ask my
- 19:12Speaker 3: parents for anything, didn't want to tell them how bad
- 19:14Speaker 3: it was.
- 19:15Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, so when I moved, he didn't want
- 19:17Speaker 1: to tell them because they were already struggling.
- 19:19Speaker 3: Yeah. And then I can't imagine how my mom would feel.
- 19:22Speaker 3: She's like, oh my god, was like excited about you
- 19:23Speaker 3: having this rich boyfriend? Yeah, oh yeah, you know. So
- 19:27Speaker 3: ended up finding a place I think it was seven
- 19:29Speaker 3: hundred a month, split the rent with a homegirls, a
- 19:31Speaker 3: two bedroom in Orlando. He was right by Walmart, thank god,
- 19:35Speaker 3: because that's where I was buying all the fucking hot dogs,
- 19:37Speaker 3: the mac and cheese. Wrong, but my number one broke
- 19:40Speaker 3: thing I would do. So I used to hang with
- 19:42Speaker 3: all the trap news because hello, that was my jam okay,
- 19:47Speaker 3: and I'm from Florida, right, so like southern culture, big
- 19:50Speaker 3: car shows, HBC's like it was just fun and basically
- 19:54Speaker 3: what I would do if they were going to like
- 19:56Speaker 3: buy a bottle or a table in the club, I
- 19:58Speaker 3: would see if I had like maybe thirty dollars up
- 20:00Speaker 3: to my account so that it would overdraft, and have
- 20:02Speaker 3: them give me the cash. And that was like my
- 20:04Speaker 3: payday loan to myself.
- 20:05Speaker 1: Oh wow, hold that you are like really in deep
- 20:10Speaker 1: when you think of that strategy.
- 20:12Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah yeah.
- 20:14Speaker 3: My roommate and I at the time. I remember we
- 20:16Speaker 3: both got paid on different weeks. So there was a
- 20:18Speaker 3: Thursday and we both got paid that or I got
- 20:21Speaker 3: paid that Friday. I was like, damn, we don't have
- 20:23Speaker 3: detergent left, but we want to go to the club.
- 20:25Speaker 3: We had like twenty bucks. She was like, okay, we
- 20:26Speaker 3: get vodka or detergent, and we got vodka. Okay, we
- 20:31Speaker 3: use some body washing like clean shit. In the same
- 20:33Speaker 3: we were like, we got to go out and meet
- 20:34Speaker 3: niggas to make more money. And it's crazy that, like
- 20:37Speaker 3: that was what I thought being able to have success.
- 20:39Speaker 3: Look like I got to meet a rich guy. I
- 20:41Speaker 3: got to be a basketball player this fi or that guy. Yeah,
- 20:43Speaker 3: which a lot of women still think they need to
- 20:45Speaker 3: do today.
- 20:46Speaker 1: I want to subscribe. I'm gonna say it openly. I
- 20:51Speaker 1: want to subscribe to the rich nigga club because I
- 20:53Speaker 1: do the opposite. I'm like, are you broken, homeless?
- 20:56Speaker 2: Let me help you. I can graduate you to the
- 20:58Speaker 2: next lines.
- 21:01Speaker 1: Oh no, trust me. You don't want to get in
- 21:03Speaker 1: that game. You know what the problem is because they'll
- 21:04Speaker 1: turn around to look at.
- 21:05Speaker 2: You and be like, I know I'm homeless, but uh oh.
- 21:08Speaker 3: No, my life, I think I'm better than you. The
- 21:11Speaker 3: problem is, like I think now, a lot of the
- 21:14Speaker 3: dudes are in my industry right, so, like the people
- 21:17Speaker 3: that I'm working amongst, I can't be out here like
- 21:20Speaker 3: trying to fuck with these niggas for bread like I
- 21:21Speaker 3: used to. Don't get me wrong, I would still want Toby,
- 21:26Speaker 3: but like for real, like you know, it's like they'll
- 21:28Speaker 3: know me from somewhere. I've seen me on something, so
- 21:30Speaker 3: I don't want to be a bird. Then I just
- 21:32Speaker 3: end up, you know, a bird with these niggas.
- 21:36Speaker 1: But whatever, I'll tell you right now, I am learning
- 21:40Speaker 1: and I am done. So you know, if you ever
- 21:42Speaker 1: find a rich one, you can always slide on.
- 21:44Speaker 3: Heyko, I'm like.
- 21:47Speaker 2: Yeah, because I've actually I've never actually dated a rich dude.
- 21:50Speaker 3: My damnsel in distress thing all the time was just
- 21:53Speaker 3: like I just really want to be able to like
- 21:55Speaker 3: ount my you know, parents, And it was true. I
- 21:59Speaker 3: was like, so, I'm just like working really hard and
- 22:01Speaker 3: I can't ut work college. We're just like, I'm really smart.
- 22:03Speaker 3: I read a lot. I was always like doing a
- 22:05Speaker 3: fucking sob story, which I'll tell you what, my sugar daddy.
- 22:11Speaker 3: A lot of the things that I think helped me
- 22:13Speaker 3: now are the stock tips and investment tips I got
- 22:16Speaker 3: for my sugar daddy.
- 22:18Speaker 1: But didn't didn't you say, were your parents in stock
- 22:21Speaker 1: market too though it crash okay, So you didn't want
- 22:24Speaker 1: to take tips from them, were you?
- 22:25Speaker 2: Like No?
- 22:27Speaker 3: But you know, with him, particularly my sugar daddy, I
- 22:32Speaker 3: remember he would get up at four o'clock in the morning,
- 22:34Speaker 3: five o'clock in the morning and watch the market, to
- 22:35Speaker 3: watch the markets in China wherever, just international stocks four
- 22:40Speaker 3: x right, things like that, and it never made me
- 22:43Speaker 3: want his money. I always wanted to be him. I
- 22:45Speaker 3: always wanted to be that person that just had this, this, this,
- 22:48Speaker 3: this and that to me that was so attractive about him.
- 22:51Speaker 3: People used to always ask me how I could fuck
- 22:53Speaker 3: him and shit like that, and I was like, bro,
- 22:55Speaker 3: you don't know how rich the person is. You don't
- 22:57Speaker 3: know how how much that drives me. The ambition that
- 23:00Speaker 3: made him sexier and sexier. So one day I eventually
- 23:03Speaker 3: just asked him like, hey, I really want to learn
- 23:04Speaker 3: the stock market, but like, you know, what, can I
- 23:06Speaker 3: put like five hundred dollars in? And he's like, that's
- 23:09Speaker 3: not a start. I'll give you ten thousand dollars if
- 23:12Speaker 3: you can make it grow. I forgot the timeframe. He said,
- 23:15Speaker 3: I'll reward you with another ten and he did wow,
- 23:18Speaker 3: And I kept growing it and growing it. I think
- 23:20Speaker 3: at the time I even put the money in T
- 23:21Speaker 3: Mobile think it opened became a publicly traded company when
- 23:25Speaker 3: I worked there, became publicly traded and then it was
- 23:30Speaker 3: six dollars and then they went up to like thirty
- 23:32Speaker 3: and I thought, I get.
- 23:33Speaker 5: A lot of money.
- 23:47Speaker 1: So when you were doing the podcast, and this is before,
- 23:51Speaker 1: I want to say, before everybody was on podcasting correct,
- 23:54Speaker 1: seven years ago? Yeah, I mean it was like before
- 23:57Speaker 1: the new wave or were you guys early in Like
- 24:00Speaker 1: we were.
- 24:00Speaker 3: Very early, and like people were verrely really doing video,
- 24:02Speaker 3: I think for popular podcasts, just for scale.
- 24:07Speaker 2: I don't understand how you're mixing water and oil and
- 24:10Speaker 2: you're not getting burns.
- 24:12Speaker 3: I'm standing away. I'm trying to like I didn't have
- 24:14Speaker 3: a grill, okay, but I'm trying to get that real plate.
- 24:17Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, you know what I mean. Okay, gourmet Continue.
- 24:22Speaker 2: I don't want to derail you.
- 24:24Speaker 3: This is fucking me up. This is hard. I can't
- 24:27Speaker 3: even listen to music when I cook one.
- 24:29Speaker 1: You would be surprised how many people will at the
- 24:31Speaker 1: after each interview, they'll be like yo, cooking and talking
- 24:34Speaker 1: at the same time.
- 24:35Speaker 2: Really really difficult because.
- 24:36Speaker 3: You're like knowing that you have to engage, like that's
- 24:40Speaker 3: what's making it.
- 24:41Speaker 2: And you have to like tell your story the entire time.
- 24:44Speaker 3: I don't know, I'm about to start telling you some lies.
- 24:46Speaker 1: No no, So so your sugar baby is sugar babe,
- 24:52Speaker 1: sugar daddy, so that would make you the.
- 24:54Speaker 2: Sugar baby, right, sugar baby.
- 24:56Speaker 3: Okay, okay, I'm going to be a sugar baby.
- 24:57Speaker 2: I'm going to get a shirt.
- 24:58Speaker 3: Baby, bros. Every time when I was out with him,
- 25:01Speaker 3: I would take him to like fucking any and this
- 25:04Speaker 3: when I just moved to New York. Catch just just
- 25:06Speaker 3: came out at the time, and SGK was super popular.
- 25:08Speaker 3: I remember all them niggas if you be looking at
- 25:10Speaker 3: me with him, and I'd be like, come on, babe.
- 25:12Speaker 3: Also just turned on knowing that he had to fuck
- 25:14Speaker 3: me for money, uh huh, which is terrible, but I
- 25:17Speaker 3: was okay, it was sexy to me, Like especially when
- 25:21Speaker 3: I remember he would be like, you want to get
- 25:22Speaker 3: some clothes, and I would always want to get a
- 25:23Speaker 3: little Nike askic to shit. You know many all the
- 25:26Speaker 3: niggas of you in yeah, he's my daddy, but so anyway,
- 25:31Speaker 3: start horrible decisions.
- 25:33Speaker 1: But I like how you were actually inspired by his
- 25:37Speaker 1: moves versus well, I don't want to say I like,
- 25:40Speaker 1: but it's interesting that you were inspired by him being
- 25:44Speaker 1: successful to be even more successful, and you you took
- 25:47Speaker 1: the initiative to even say, hey, I want to learn
- 25:50Speaker 1: what you're doing and do it on my own, which
- 25:52Speaker 1: was great.
- 25:52Speaker 3: It's like I always wanted this sex in the city
- 25:55Speaker 3: life mm hmm, but I never felt like any of
- 25:58Speaker 3: them needed men to live that life. Yeah, and so
- 26:01Speaker 3: I wanted to have the girlfriends that I was wearing
- 26:03Speaker 3: an amazing designer with and fucking enjoying fashion show and
- 26:06Speaker 3: doing this shit. But I knew if I was tied
- 26:09Speaker 3: to a man, I wouldn't have that freedom. And I
- 26:11Speaker 3: had also experienced my first relationship a man with money
- 26:14Speaker 3: and abuse, so I was like, I have to have
- 26:16Speaker 3: it on my own. I can't be down again. And
- 26:18Speaker 3: you know, I hate to say it like this, but
- 26:21Speaker 3: my mom was a housewife her whole life. And what
- 26:23Speaker 3: happened to my parents with losing their I mean, their
- 26:25Speaker 3: house got poor clothes on right, the home that I
- 26:28Speaker 3: SETI grew up in. It's like it was tough to
- 26:30Speaker 3: watch them go through that, and I think about two
- 26:32Speaker 3: incomes or just diversifying shit what that would have meant.
- 26:35Speaker 3: So that really fueled me a lot. And it's tough
- 26:38Speaker 3: for my mom to hear that.
- 26:40Speaker 2: Yeah, but why have you had those sidebar conversations?
- 26:44Speaker 3: Oh yeah, definitely, But it's not easy. Like my mom
- 26:47Speaker 3: is so amazing, but there's moments where she's like, oh
- 26:49Speaker 3: my god, I never taught you to go out there
- 26:52Speaker 3: and do it alone.
- 26:54Speaker 2: Well look at you in a way.
- 26:56Speaker 3: You're you know, well I made money off of person.
- 27:01Speaker 2: Well you make money because you're a gangster entrepreneur. That's
- 27:05Speaker 2: really it. I mean the personality, I mean, in my opinion,
- 27:09Speaker 2: the personality is just like the cherry on the cake.
- 27:12Speaker 3: But you know what, I'm a feller at heart. And
- 27:15Speaker 3: my father that's what he did growing up. He owned
- 27:18Speaker 3: like camera stores and like you know the little row
- 27:21Speaker 3: like stores back in the day they'd have where they
- 27:23Speaker 3: were selling electronic those shops. That was my dad's like
- 27:27Speaker 3: line of work. Okay, And when I was growing up,
- 27:32Speaker 3: I mean this shit, that's what I started selling clothes,
- 27:33Speaker 3: t mobile my BLIZZI Then then like literally everything about
- 27:41Speaker 3: it felt like selling to me, you know, Like it's
- 27:43Speaker 3: interesting the way Mandy and I have kind of done
- 27:45Speaker 3: our business. I always felt like she has really helped
- 27:50Speaker 3: us so much when it comes in terms of our finances.
- 27:52Speaker 2: Right.
- 27:52Speaker 3: She had a financial background, and even though I came
- 27:54Speaker 3: from the tech world, was selling like I mean, I'm
- 27:56Speaker 3: the first person when we're on a call that's like
- 27:58Speaker 3: I want to do it for this much, this or that,
- 28:00Speaker 3: And like I loved that. We've been able to play
- 28:03Speaker 3: up both of our corporate roles in that. Yeah, and
- 28:06Speaker 3: I've got a lot of seller blood in me. My
- 28:08Speaker 3: partner Alex now with WTF Media Studios, anytime we have
- 28:11Speaker 3: a big deal or he sees someone's budget, he's like, oh,
- 28:14Speaker 3: you have to sell them on the phone. You have
- 28:17Speaker 3: to tell them why. And I really enjoy it. It makes
- 28:20Speaker 3: me feel like I still got it a little bit.
- 28:22Speaker 3: I Uh.
- 28:23Speaker 2: I always say this that I think I used to
- 28:26Speaker 2: always say.
- 28:26Speaker 1: When I have a child, I want to teach her
- 28:28Speaker 1: how to read, I want to teach her financial literacy,
- 28:30Speaker 1: I want to teach her about God.
- 28:31Speaker 2: But the number one skill that she.
- 28:33Speaker 1: Has to have before she graduates high school is the
- 28:36Speaker 1: ability to sell. Because I think it is the most
- 28:40Speaker 1: underrated skill. And if you're going to go work for yourself.
- 28:43Speaker 1: The number one thing you're gonna have to do is
- 28:45Speaker 1: sell a product, sell yourself. And so I don't buy anything, yep.
- 28:49Speaker 1: And I remember when I had my first company. I
- 28:52Speaker 1: remember going to home deep or office depot and buying
- 28:55Speaker 1: those little sale books and you know how will out
- 28:58Speaker 1: my hair pulled back and all this and whatever. But
- 29:01Speaker 1: I knew right away that sales is the one skill.
- 29:05Speaker 1: And I would listen to all these audio tapes too
- 29:07Speaker 1: about like how people you know you're almost nervous getting
- 29:10Speaker 1: into it.
- 29:11Speaker 3: Well, what's interesting about selling too? I know Mandy and
- 29:13Speaker 3: I had a conversation about this, Like, so I never
- 29:15Speaker 3: finished college because I couldn't afford to finish it because
- 29:18Speaker 3: I got out of that relationship, right, m I don't
- 29:21Speaker 3: want it to splatter in all this equipment. I don't
- 29:23Speaker 3: normally do it like this. But Mandy at the time
- 29:28Speaker 3: coming off of two degrees working for this huge firm,
- 29:31Speaker 3: and she was working more hours and not making as
- 29:34Speaker 3: much as me in accounting at that time. I understand
- 29:37Speaker 3: it was junior level. Yeah, but I think about that
- 29:39Speaker 3: a lot, and I think about the money you can
- 29:41Speaker 3: make from selling all the time, and I think about
- 29:44Speaker 3: that instance of like, shit, maybe she's smarter than me,
- 29:48Speaker 3: but why isn't she making it up? And it's because
- 29:51Speaker 3: that particular skill really can't be taught real you can't.
- 29:55Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta practice it and practice it and practice
- 29:58Speaker 1: it and practice it.
- 29:59Speaker 3: I mean, I believe Mandy is greater than what was
- 30:02Speaker 3: I gonna say, you know, the job that she had,
- 30:05Speaker 3: and that's why she's making way more and doing way
- 30:07Speaker 3: more things now. But yeah, I mean it's definitely a thing. Yeah.
- 30:11Speaker 3: So yeah, with selling doing shit like that, had horrible
- 30:14Speaker 3: decisions on the side, and it was really difficult to
- 30:16Speaker 3: juggle both. And so about two years into doing horrible decisions,
- 30:20Speaker 3: I quit. But it was mainly because I was like,
- 30:22Speaker 3: you know what, if I ever wanted to come back
- 30:25Speaker 3: to this shit, I will, Like I've been making jokes recently,
- 30:28Speaker 3: I'm like, oh my god, me and fifteen years I'm
- 30:30Speaker 3: probably gonna be a real estate agent.
- 30:32Speaker 2: So why did you quit?
- 30:34Speaker 3: Two years in the trajectory of horrible was faster than
- 30:38Speaker 3: the trajectory of corporate America. For example, how long do
- 30:41Speaker 3: we work a corporate job? Right? So you want to
- 30:43Speaker 3: get promoted? I worked for Tea Mobile six years I
- 30:47Speaker 3: got to be a manager after year three and a
- 30:50Speaker 3: half four, if there's a spot for you, so to me,
- 30:54Speaker 3: I kind of just felt like this is moving faster
- 30:58Speaker 3: than my rate in the corporate world.
- 31:00Speaker 2: Yeah, but you said you quit horrible.
- 31:02Speaker 3: Oh sorry, quit my corporate Oh.
- 31:04Speaker 1: Okay, okay, Oh because you were like two years in
- 31:06Speaker 1: I quit horrible. So no, you quit your corporate okay, okay.
- 31:10Speaker 3: Got quit my corporate job after two years, and I
- 31:13Speaker 3: legitimately felt like it was not gonna make me.
- 31:18Speaker 1: But I have to ask before, how much were you
- 31:21Speaker 1: making it horrible.
- 31:23Speaker 2: To say, okay, not as you make it. Oh, you
- 31:25Speaker 2: weren't making as much as T Mobile.
- 31:27Speaker 3: So here's the thing, because a lot of people ask
- 31:29Speaker 3: me when is the right time to quit a job,
- 31:31Speaker 3: and I can only explain it like this, starting Team Mobile,
- 31:34Speaker 3: I made ninety thousand, ending I was around one seventy five, okay.
- 31:37Speaker 2: Which is damn T Mobile, Go ahead, go on.
- 31:40Speaker 3: It was like I was selling to companies that needed
- 31:43Speaker 3: like Ethernet I gradual disaster recovery, like I graduated from phones.
- 31:48Speaker 3: But basically this is what happens, so horrible decisions at
- 31:52Speaker 3: that time that I quit may have been making me
- 31:55Speaker 3: one hundred thousand, maybe one twenty five from touring mainly
- 31:59Speaker 3: not Patreon ad money.
- 32:01Speaker 2: And that's two years in Yeah, geez, all right, go on,
- 32:05Speaker 2: And I.
- 32:05Speaker 3: Think the tour money because Mandy and I were buying
- 32:07Speaker 3: out theaters, We brought out carolines on Broadway.
- 32:10Speaker 2: And you guys were physically doing it yourself.
- 32:12Speaker 3: Splitting that money, paying ourselves back event bright type shit.
- 32:16Speaker 3: But what I realized was like, oh, took me six
- 32:21Speaker 3: years to make ninety to one to seventy. Ye, took
- 32:23Speaker 3: me two years from zero to one hundred. So next
- 32:27Speaker 3: year I'm gonna make more. Yeah, let's just say I
- 32:30Speaker 3: make another fifty. It's worth it. Not to mention I
- 32:32Speaker 3: have more time on my hands. I could probably do
- 32:34Speaker 3: more appearances and more tour dates, so it's time to quit.
- 32:37Speaker 3: I also remember one moment it was brilliant idiots. If
- 32:42Speaker 3: anyone watches that episode, I was literally wearing a suit
- 32:45Speaker 3: like a blazer and a skirt. But Mandy and I
- 32:47Speaker 3: had to like make an excuse to leave our jobs
- 32:49Speaker 3: that day to go shoot with charl Mane and Andrew.
- 32:52Speaker 3: So I think that it really will show you, like
- 32:55Speaker 3: when you have to start saying no, to things. Oh
- 32:57Speaker 3: oh yeah, when you have to start saying no to
- 32:59Speaker 3: things of your day job, Yes, maybe that's when it's time,
- 33:03Speaker 3: like when you're really getting booked like that, like TV
- 33:06Speaker 3: appearances even Like I remember we did Vice Live and
- 33:09Speaker 3: I couldn't be there early for the rehearsal because of
- 33:11Speaker 3: my job, and I was like, damn man, and anyone
- 33:15Speaker 3: who's watching this who might be semi getting entertainment, whether
- 33:18Speaker 3: you've got a TikTok or popular Instagram channel, you want
- 33:21Speaker 3: to do a Horrible Decisions podcast and maybe get or
- 33:23Speaker 3: even eating while robe. Who the fuck is gonna do
- 33:26Speaker 3: this shit at six thirty seven o'clock at night, right,
- 33:29Speaker 3: who's gonna do what? Like to have a guest?
- 33:31Speaker 5: Yeah?
- 33:31Speaker 3: Entrepreneurs, Like all this shit gets filmed during the day. Yeah,
- 33:34Speaker 3: so it's really tough to have a nine to five
- 33:37Speaker 3: and pursue those entertainment dreams. And like that was why
- 33:41Speaker 3: I was like, I got to figure the shit out.
- 33:43Speaker 3: I think my biggest success in this industry came during
- 33:48Speaker 3: the pandemic while Pivoting. So made the TV show Sex Sells.
- 33:53Speaker 3: It's about the business of sex, having money, making money
- 33:56Speaker 3: from sex without having it, And I came up with
- 34:00Speaker 3: that because that's how I make money, right, I just
- 34:02Speaker 3: basically talk about sex covered all these adult industries and
- 34:06Speaker 3: I'm not a TV star, and it ended up popping
- 34:08Speaker 3: on tuess And that's why I'm on.
- 34:09Speaker 1: To how did you Did you package that yourself and
- 34:12Speaker 1: then start selling it or did you package it and
- 34:14Speaker 1: then started calling Charlemagne or different people you have relationships
- 34:17Speaker 1: with and like, so have something that I need.
- 34:20Speaker 3: That's what made me the most proud. I didn't need
- 34:22Speaker 3: a co sign for that. Okay, I believe Horrible Decisions
- 34:24Speaker 3: had the Charlemagne co sign, and that's what made a
- 34:28Speaker 3: lot of people watching in the beginning. I do believe
- 34:30Speaker 3: Charlemagne made our success faster. Don't believe we're successful because
- 34:34Speaker 3: it happened faster. But what happened with Sex Sells was
- 34:39Speaker 3: like I just had so much time during the pandemic
- 34:41Speaker 3: to think, and I knew my two loves were fucking
- 34:44Speaker 3: in money m hm, and so I was like, oh
- 34:46Speaker 3: my god, I should make the show. I want to
- 34:48Speaker 3: humanize sex workers, and literally people don't talk about their
- 34:51Speaker 3: sex lives on it, and a lot of people have said, like, oh,
- 34:53Speaker 3: it's like horrible decisions on TV.
- 34:55Speaker 2: But it's even it doesn't sound like it.
- 34:57Speaker 1: It sounds completely different because you're talking about this set
- 35:00Speaker 1: workers right right.
- 35:00Speaker 3: I'm an interview a lot of the guests we had
- 35:03Speaker 3: so that I can, you know, show them some love
- 35:05Speaker 3: and they've got real businesses promote them. But no, it's
- 35:07Speaker 3: totally different and I love doing it. It makes me.
- 35:11Speaker 3: It really brought me into the world of seeing how
- 35:13Speaker 3: production works, the larger skill budgets and money.
- 35:17Speaker 1: So but you pitched it yourself, That's what I'm saying,
- 35:19Speaker 1: Like you went out there or did you have a
- 35:21Speaker 1: manager that helped you so.
- 35:23Speaker 3: It started slow. I didn't have a manager, never had
- 35:25Speaker 3: an agent ever.
- 35:29Speaker 2: Basically, oh still to this date.
- 35:32Speaker 3: No, not personally, I'm damn, you're a gangster. I have
- 35:34Speaker 3: a person that gives I give them a cut of
- 35:36Speaker 3: my money if they do pr stuff for me, but
- 35:39Speaker 3: if they get me a deal. But yeah, So basically,
- 35:43Speaker 3: there was a guy that reached out to me months
- 35:45Speaker 3: back before the pandemic was like, oh, do you want
- 35:48Speaker 3: to do this type of show? I was like, no,
- 35:50Speaker 3: Pandemic hits and I was like, you know what, I
- 35:53Speaker 3: wonder what the fuck he's doing. It's like he making
- 35:55Speaker 3: TV is TV being made? And we started talking about
- 36:00Speaker 3: what it would look like if we worked together and
- 36:02Speaker 3: came up with sex cells together. He worked at FEWS
- 36:04Speaker 3: at the time. Help me package it, Oh, help me
- 36:07Speaker 3: make a bible. And we did it that way. But
- 36:10Speaker 3: what I will tell anyone that has a good TV
- 36:12Speaker 3: idea is people that work in development needs shows all
- 36:16Speaker 3: the time. I currently run development for Kenya Barris at Audible. Right, Okay,
- 36:20Speaker 3: don't send me shit right now, I'm done with that.
- 36:24Speaker 3: But like literally, I was wondering what shows we're gonna
- 36:27Speaker 3: make for him, Like developers want to fucking know, and
- 36:30Speaker 3: if you have good ideas, shooting pilots, making decks, having
- 36:35Speaker 3: a bible, having the demographics of why it would be good,
- 36:38Speaker 3: not just coming in their blank like hey, I'm not
- 36:40Speaker 3: doing anything like I've been doing XYZ. Like if you
- 36:43Speaker 3: hit up the Food Network, you'd have how much to
- 36:45Speaker 3: show them?
- 36:46Speaker 2: So real?
- 36:47Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
- 36:48Speaker 2: I'm gonna take notes. Remember how I said I'll take
- 36:50Speaker 2: it notes, goge you.
- 36:51Speaker 3: Did, But like here it is, here's my spread, and
- 36:54Speaker 3: this is what I do with this type of budget.
- 36:56Speaker 3: Imagine if you gave me fifty thousand an episode, I
- 36:59Speaker 3: could be doing it on THEE. I could be coming
- 37:01Speaker 3: to their homes. I could be x y Z.
- 37:02Speaker 5: Like.
- 37:03Speaker 3: There's so many different ways for the things that we're
- 37:06Speaker 3: making right now to make them next level. Yeah, and
- 37:09Speaker 3: so I think that we just kind of have to
- 37:12Speaker 3: use our network. Like my biggest thing with playing chess
- 37:16Speaker 3: is making sure that I'm rubbing elbows with those that
- 37:19Speaker 3: can one day need to use me for something.
- 37:23Speaker 2: I need to use you. That's awesome, Yeah.
- 37:27Speaker 3: Because the thing is, I remember Charlotte, he said this
- 37:29Speaker 3: about someone They were like. He was like, that person
- 37:32Speaker 3: is such an opportunist, and I was like, I wonder
- 37:35Speaker 3: if that's who I am. But really, I don't ask
- 37:39Speaker 3: I let every single person know what the fuck I do.
- 37:41Speaker 3: I just had a dinner where I sat down next
- 37:44Speaker 3: to one of the most famous comedians in the world.
- 37:45Speaker 3: I don't even know if this person can travel on
- 37:48Speaker 3: a commercial plane, that's how famous they are, right. Wow.
- 37:51Speaker 3: When they asked me what I do, didn't even say
- 37:53Speaker 3: a podcasting. I was like, I own a production studio
- 37:55Speaker 3: in New York and LA. It's black owned. We shoot
- 37:57Speaker 3: podcasts mainly, but we also have a mobile team Boom.
- 38:01Speaker 3: Now it's in your brain. Now you know what you
- 38:03Speaker 3: can use me for. Like, that's the job I felt
- 38:05Speaker 3: like I needed to sell to that person at the time.
- 38:07Speaker 3: When I talk to TV show, TV networks or people
- 38:10Speaker 3: that work in Netflix or different things like that I host,
- 38:11Speaker 3: I do this, I do that right, Like I want
- 38:13Speaker 3: to make sure that I'm useful to people that I've
- 38:16Speaker 3: rebbed elbows with.
- 38:17Speaker 1: Yeah, I think your sales skills like shines through. I
- 38:20Speaker 1: always say, like sales is more about paying attention to
- 38:23Speaker 1: what the customer wants, listening to them.
- 38:26Speaker 2: And then catering to their needs.
- 38:28Speaker 1: That's just trying to sell someone something that they don't
- 38:30Speaker 1: want to buy. So even the way you're talking is
- 38:33Speaker 1: like your sales skills are just really amazing. Yeah, because
- 38:37Speaker 1: that's how it is. You're supposed to sell. You're supposed
- 38:39Speaker 1: to you know, if someone walks up to me right now,
- 38:41Speaker 1: I'm gonna think about, you know what it is they're
- 38:44Speaker 1: gonna need or want from me.
- 38:46Speaker 3: Correct. You know, that's a really good point because I
- 38:48Speaker 3: didn't even think about me selling myself in that way,
- 38:50Speaker 3: but like, damn it is.
- 38:51Speaker 2: It is.
- 38:52Speaker 1: But now opportunists is different because opportunists are I always
- 38:55Speaker 1: say I want to be a business person, not a hustler,
- 38:58Speaker 1: because I feel like a hustler is like, I'm gonna
- 39:00Speaker 1: take advantage, someone's gonna get a short end of a stick.
- 39:03Speaker 1: But a business person is like, we're all gonna win.
- 39:05Speaker 1: You're gonna walk away with your piece of the pie.
- 39:07Speaker 1: She's gonna walk away with her piece of pie, and
- 39:09Speaker 1: I'm gonna walk away with my piece.
- 39:10Speaker 3: And no one feels to agreed. You can never make
- 39:13Speaker 3: someone feel like they're doing you a favor.
- 39:15Speaker 2: Yeah, like at all.
- 39:17Speaker 3: I mean, Charlotte Mane was lucky and lucky enough to
- 39:20Speaker 3: make horrible decisions with his rollout on Black Effect. I
- 39:23Speaker 3: know there's eighty five South all the smoke, and I
- 39:25Speaker 3: literally was thinking to myself the other day, Charla Mainne
- 39:29Speaker 3: is Charlot Mane, But horrible decisions was still good enough
- 39:31Speaker 3: to where Black Effects was like, oh, we do need
- 39:33Speaker 3: those numbers. But when we sell to add people like
- 39:35Speaker 3: I don't want to fucking suck anybody's dick to feel
- 39:39Speaker 3: like and I'm not talking about that instance, but just
- 39:41Speaker 3: anyone like, thank you so much for giving this to you. Yeah, yeah,
- 39:43Speaker 3: when you know your value, yeah yeah, we have to
- 39:46Speaker 3: make sure that we're definitely pouring into ourselves in that way.
- 39:49Speaker 3: But I mean, shit, you know I love fuse to death,
- 39:52Speaker 3: but I also know my show brings number then and
- 39:54Speaker 3: I know that's why they treat me well. They love
- 39:56Speaker 3: me too, Like we're definitely doing what we need to
- 39:59Speaker 3: do for each other. Like I'm so happy to be
- 40:03Speaker 3: on a network that you know I can be their
- 40:05Speaker 3: most watch show. Like maybe if I was on an
- 40:07Speaker 3: HBO or some Netflix, maybe I would just kind of
- 40:10Speaker 3: go under the radar.
- 40:12Speaker 2: I don't think so. Maybe I honestly don't think so.
- 40:15Speaker 2: Thank you, I don't think so. I'm not even trying
- 40:17Speaker 2: to be not well, what was your hardest hurdle?
- 40:34Speaker 1: I think it just to come to day because I
- 40:36Speaker 1: feel like you have a lot of great pivots. But like,
- 40:38Speaker 1: where was there a point where you were like I
- 40:40Speaker 1: don't know, hmm that you seriously like had that conversation
- 40:47Speaker 1: of I don't know.
- 40:47Speaker 3: And it could have been my studio. Okay, my studio,
- 40:50Speaker 3: which is the best thing I've ever done. Actually, my
- 40:53Speaker 3: studio gave me the seal of approval to be bigger
- 40:57Speaker 3: than just a podcaster, Like that was when I became
- 41:00Speaker 3: a businesswoman. No matter how hard Mandy and I have worked.
- 41:03Speaker 3: I never felt like that, and it's no shade to her.
- 41:06Speaker 3: I don't know if it's because with women. I don't
- 41:07Speaker 3: know if it's because we talk about sex, but like
- 41:09Speaker 3: I had to do something else for myself to feel
- 41:12Speaker 3: like I could be respected. And it really shows something
- 41:15Speaker 3: about brick and mortar spaces to make people feel very like, oh,
- 41:19Speaker 3: they're really doing something, which is weird. But it's also
- 41:22Speaker 3: because I started getting other people money, Like.
- 41:25Speaker 2: Thought, what was the hesitancy, Like, where was that hesitancy at? Like,
- 41:28Speaker 2: where was that pain that investment?
- 41:30Speaker 3: Right? My partner Alex shout out to him, we spent
- 41:33Speaker 3: an insane amount of money on fucking equipment, which is
- 41:37Speaker 3: why we have one of the best studios right, Like literally,
- 41:40Speaker 3: I was like, how can we be charging people this
- 41:42Speaker 3: little but like our equipment is so fucking expensive, like
- 41:46Speaker 3: it doesn't add up or whatever. Yeah, and he was like, Yo,
- 41:49Speaker 3: that's why everybody's gonna come with us, to know that
- 41:51Speaker 3: the podcasters like us can be there and then the
- 41:55Speaker 3: Charlottamanees of the world or whoever they may be. David
- 41:57Speaker 3: Letterman wasn't our shit, Oh shit, right?
- 42:00Speaker 2: Okay, he's like to know these people and okay.
- 42:02Speaker 3: You can sit amongst them like we're gonna be for
- 42:05Speaker 3: all of them. And that's really been our brand. I
- 42:08Speaker 3: believe that's why we're growing. I mean, we get resumes
- 42:10Speaker 3: like fucking crazy every day.
- 42:12Speaker 1: So how long did it take when you so you
- 42:15Speaker 1: made that initial investment. The by the way, you're cooking
- 42:19Speaker 1: like we are in a rich restaurant.
- 42:21Speaker 2: Because the point look at all the food she.
- 42:23Speaker 1: Made, and it's like, I feel like I'm about to
- 42:26Speaker 1: eat an appetizer, Gormet.
- 42:27Speaker 3: You try to make it look clean and minimally.
- 42:31Speaker 1: When the cameras are off, I'm gonna just go in
- 42:33Speaker 1: with a fork and just eat everything direct.
- 42:36Speaker 2: I know it. Yeah, because I'm starving and you gave
- 42:39Speaker 2: me like an appetizer.
- 42:41Speaker 3: It's fucking hot dogs. Girl.
- 42:44Speaker 1: I want to see you sit down next to this
- 42:46Speaker 1: mic and spend quality time with me.
- 42:47Speaker 3: Okay, okay, let's try this. It looks good but.
- 42:55Speaker 5: Not bad.
- 42:57Speaker 3: You look's the onions.
- 43:00Speaker 2: I'm surprised you didn't mix these in together.
- 43:03Speaker 3: Funny enough, my co host talks about Haitian spaghetti and
- 43:07Speaker 3: it's hot dogs in it. I never mixed the hot
- 43:10Speaker 3: dogs of pasta. But this is kind of good. This
- 43:13Speaker 3: ship is amazing. Did you mix it all on one?
- 43:14Speaker 5: For it?
- 43:15Speaker 3: I put it together on I don't want to touch
- 43:18Speaker 3: on the plate.
- 43:18Speaker 2: For all y'all listeners. The hot dog and the onions smack.
- 43:22Speaker 1: I definitely will mess with Nathan's just because I feel
- 43:25Speaker 1: like maybe it tastes different or I just haven't had
- 43:26Speaker 1: a hot dog in a while. But the freaking grilled
- 43:30Speaker 1: onions and mac and cheese cheese is genius. Bro I
- 43:34Speaker 1: don't know why I've never thought of seasoning up my
- 43:37Speaker 1: mac and cheese.
- 43:39Speaker 2: But the grilled onions, it's crunchy, it's amazing.
- 43:42Speaker 3: I am so happy.
- 43:45Speaker 2: I am very impressible. The only thing is.
- 43:49Speaker 1: I would maybe add and I don't even know, but
- 43:52Speaker 1: do you agree? Would you add more salt to the
- 43:55Speaker 1: mac and cheese?
- 43:56Speaker 3: Oh? I put salt on my stuff, but I don't
- 43:57Speaker 3: want to do that to people. Oh okay, that's what
- 44:00Speaker 3: the lorries for you. You know, sodium is a bitch nowadays.
- 44:03Speaker 3: M Plus, there's a lot of salt in that Tony
- 44:05Speaker 3: Sharia whatever name is.
- 44:07Speaker 2: Okay.
- 44:08Speaker 1: So for a girl that came from money, went broke,
- 44:13Speaker 1: had sugar daddies and it's self made to the point
- 44:16Speaker 1: of flying your family in from Orlando to LA still
- 44:23Speaker 1: in the early early I don't even want to say
- 44:25Speaker 1: how early thirties she is because all of us are listening.
- 44:30Speaker 2: Can you believe that much you've accomplished. It's amazing.
- 44:35Speaker 3: You know. Sometimes I get scared, like I'll lose it,
- 44:38Speaker 3: But then I realize the hunger that I have to
- 44:41Speaker 3: help everybody around me is too deep. It's too intense
- 44:45Speaker 3: that I don't think it could happen.
- 44:46Speaker 2: Now do you deal with well?
- 44:48Speaker 1: You said you have multiple companies. You're definitely spread. It
- 44:51Speaker 1: sounds to me like you're spread pretty thin. I'm so
- 44:54Speaker 1: happy you shared that because I always.
- 44:55Speaker 2: Think that maybe I'm doing something wrong if I have
- 44:57Speaker 2: so many hustles going at the same time.
- 45:00Speaker 3: You know, there is something to be said about a
- 45:02Speaker 3: master of none. But I will say this much what's
- 45:06Speaker 3: worked for me. I don't steal anybody's idea. I really
- 45:11Speaker 3: ride my own wave. I made a studio not because
- 45:14Speaker 3: there's other podcast studios, because there were no black owned
- 45:16Speaker 3: ones that were gonna have podcasters run it. I'd never
- 45:20Speaker 3: been to a podcast studio run by a podcaster. I
- 45:23Speaker 3: made horrible decisions because I really wanted to do a
- 45:26Speaker 3: fun sex show with someone that I knew was authentic,
- 45:30Speaker 3: and there were no black shows about sex that were
- 45:32Speaker 3: hosted by normal girls. Yeah right, it was always like
- 45:35Speaker 3: porn stars or whatever. Everything that I've done so far
- 45:38Speaker 3: hadn't seen before except for stock, I would say, But like,
- 45:42Speaker 3: I've really rode my own wave, and that's why I
- 45:46Speaker 3: think it's worked. So when you do too many different
- 45:50Speaker 3: trades and you're taking an idea, like your concept is different.
- 45:54Speaker 3: We've all seen a cooking show which your concept is different, right, Yeah. Yeah,
- 45:57Speaker 3: So it's like you have to have something different at
- 45:59Speaker 3: it to it, and I think that if you don't,
- 46:02Speaker 3: you then become a master of none because you're just
- 46:03Speaker 3: trying to do things that other people do. Yeah, that's tough.
- 46:07Speaker 1: I have a fear of I don't even know where
- 46:11Speaker 1: this fear came from, but when it comes to partnering
- 46:13Speaker 1: with other people, I feel like my greatest asset is
- 46:17Speaker 1: my relationships, and it's probably because I have so much integrity.
- 46:20Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, I won't hurt a full I really
- 46:22Speaker 1: won't even hurt a fly because I want to treat
- 46:25Speaker 1: people the way I would want to be treated, So
- 46:26Speaker 1: my loyalty is there. But when I see like you
- 46:29Speaker 1: and Mandy working together and you and Alex working together,
- 46:32Speaker 1: I'm like, either the integrity on you has got to
- 46:35Speaker 1: be super lit or how are you managing that partnership?
- 46:38Speaker 1: Because I always I always get nervous, like what if
- 46:41Speaker 1: the other partner doesn't hold up or there's a disagreement?
- 46:44Speaker 2: So how do you how do you navigate that?
- 46:46Speaker 3: My first partnership I've ever had was with Mandy right,
- 46:49Speaker 3: and Mandy and I had stopped we're friends, stopp being friends,
- 46:53Speaker 3: became friends again during the show, fell out of friendship again.
- 46:55Speaker 3: But I think we are so hungry to make money
- 47:01Speaker 3: that we look past that and we're able to think
- 47:03Speaker 3: of the greater purpose. Like if I had a co
- 47:05Speaker 3: host that wasn't about our fans, maybe I couldn't do
- 47:09Speaker 3: the job, you know what I'm saying. But Mandy's a
- 47:11Speaker 3: self starter like I am too. Yeah, so it's not tough.
- 47:14Speaker 3: Like Mandy and I were on tour putting together the
- 47:19Speaker 3: merch table or doing something with the merchan o, the
- 47:21Speaker 3: VIP things, and you know, if I see her doing something,
- 47:24Speaker 3: I don't want her to do it alone.
- 47:25Speaker 2: Like, yeah, because oh nice, okay.
- 47:28Speaker 3: You know, and I think she feels the same for me,
- 47:29Speaker 3: so we definitely try and trust me, I have a
- 47:32Speaker 3: time where I didn't even realize how much work she
- 47:34Speaker 3: was putting in with the finance stuff. She's making spreadsheets
- 47:37Speaker 3: and shit back then and doing stuff I didn't even
- 47:39Speaker 3: understand that works. I would try to do it on
- 47:41Speaker 3: the creative side. But like I think for me, with partnerships,
- 47:48Speaker 3: there's a skill set that someone has that I don't.
- 47:50Speaker 3: You know, wtf is so about the tech which is
- 47:53Speaker 3: all Alex and not me. But I do have to
- 47:56Speaker 3: give myself credit on how we were able to get
- 48:00Speaker 3: this shit going. I just don't know how much I
- 48:02Speaker 3: rent is where the light deal come from. He don't
- 48:04Speaker 3: know what the fuck going on, which is great, yeah,
- 48:06Speaker 3: figure out the other shit. Like I really learned how
- 48:08Speaker 3: to use our skills and work together in that way,
- 48:10Speaker 3: and it's definitely been touched. She's one of my tough
- 48:12Speaker 3: he's one of my best friends, and it's like damn, now,
- 48:14Speaker 3: sometimes it's all work. So we really have to feed
- 48:17Speaker 3: that friendship. You know. We have to have a night
- 48:18Speaker 3: where we get drunk together and have fun and not
- 48:20Speaker 3: talk about work. We have to really do that to
- 48:22Speaker 3: enjoy each other and separate it because it's tough.
- 48:25Speaker 1: Yeah, I know with Dolly. Dolly and I came from
- 48:29Speaker 1: the Nick Cannon area.
- 48:30Speaker 2: A lot of people don't know this.
- 48:31Speaker 3: So my whole hookup with Black Effects, the president of
- 48:34Speaker 3: Black Man, yeah.
- 48:35Speaker 2: My stuff was an accident. It was legit.
- 48:37Speaker 1: I was telling Dolly I was literally like flying weed
- 48:40Speaker 1: money during the pandemic because I was I was hustling
- 48:44Speaker 1: all different directions. But anyways, I was trying to build
- 48:47Speaker 1: this show and I was like, Dolly, I think you
- 48:49Speaker 1: should be a part of it. But you know, she
- 48:52Speaker 1: had this other job offer and she's like should I
- 48:55Speaker 1: take him? Like, as long as they don't tell you
- 48:57Speaker 1: to go to work, girl, I'm all about taking all checks.
- 48:59Speaker 1: I didn't know it was the President of the Black
- 49:00Speaker 1: Effect or whatever. They happened to need a cooking show,
- 49:04Speaker 1: and she pitched Eating While Broke and called me like,
- 49:07Speaker 1: you're gonna kill me?
- 49:08Speaker 2: And I was like, why would I kill you? We're
- 49:11Speaker 2: actual friends, you know.
- 49:12Speaker 3: I told you.
- 49:12Speaker 2: She's like, I told you know.
- 49:14Speaker 1: iHeart and ICM and Charlemagne about Eating while Broke and
- 49:19Speaker 1: they loved it, and I was like, okay, So where
- 49:23Speaker 1: do I kill you. She's like, well, they you know,
- 49:25Speaker 1: we run a podcast network and your show is you
- 49:28Speaker 1: want to do a TV show. I'm like, Dolly, the
- 49:31Speaker 1: table was just built in my garage. My neighbors are
- 49:34Speaker 1: driving past it. I actually don't even know where this
- 49:37Speaker 1: table is gonna go, okay, and I think I had
- 49:40Speaker 1: just found out I was pregnant or I was like
- 49:43Speaker 1: borderline in that conversation, and I was like, shit, you
- 49:47Speaker 1: know I was doing illegal weed activity. I was hustling
- 49:50Speaker 1: in all these different plings. But I had this idea
- 49:52Speaker 1: that was literally sitting in my garage, Like they just
- 49:55Speaker 1: finished putting the forks on the table, and I'm like, Dolly,
- 49:58Speaker 1: I'm about to go broke. And I done pitched all
- 49:59Speaker 1: my celebrity friends. But I don't even know if we're
- 50:01Speaker 1: just taking this table to their house or how we're
- 50:03Speaker 1: even doing it, So why would I kill you?
- 50:06Speaker 2: Like?
- 50:07Speaker 1: And she was like, yeah, well they want to send
- 50:08Speaker 1: you an offer like and I was like, She's like,
- 50:10Speaker 1: can you send me all your decks and stuff? And
- 50:11Speaker 1: I was like yeah, I had already had everything made.
- 50:14Speaker 1: But it was really no reason to kill her. But
- 50:16Speaker 1: even to this day. Like sometimes as friends, I'll have
- 50:19Speaker 1: to get on the phone with her and she'll be like,
- 50:21Speaker 1: I don't want to talk business, or we could talk friends.
- 50:23Speaker 2: So that's how we managed a friendship. It'd be like,
- 50:25Speaker 2: Dolly ain't joining here nothing about work.
- 50:27Speaker 3: That's tough. When someone's like cutting that's tough.
- 50:30Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah.
- 50:31Speaker 3: I remember the first time I heard attitude from DOLLI
- 50:33Speaker 3: when I was asking for more money.
- 50:34Speaker 1: I was like, oh, oh yeah, Dolly will tell me
- 50:36Speaker 1: no so fast.
- 50:38Speaker 2: I don't know, but you know, I separate.
- 50:40Speaker 3: It is a safe place. It's a safer place than not,
- 50:44Speaker 3: you know, in my heart is times with Mandy, I
- 50:47Speaker 3: remember being so angry at her. We've definitely thought like
- 50:51Speaker 3: I can't do this anymore. Literally, I was like, why
- 50:54Speaker 3: I go? Fuck it? Where am I going to go?
- 50:55Speaker 3: Like all this goddamn money, where am I gonna Where?
- 50:58Speaker 3: Am I gonna go work for someone else? Fucking white dude? Like, No,
- 51:01Speaker 3: I'm gonna make this money with her and figure it
- 51:03Speaker 3: the fuck out. Actually, it's interesting with our partnership. I
- 51:06Speaker 3: recently was at dinner with someone who asked me about
- 51:11Speaker 3: books and money spending and things like that, and I
- 51:14Speaker 3: was like, when you talked about integrity. I just thought
- 51:16Speaker 3: about it. Whether I'm angry with Maandy or not, I've
- 51:20Speaker 3: never thought she would like take money from the company
- 51:22Speaker 3: or something. Right with Alex and I were bestie, so
- 51:24Speaker 3: we're not going to fuck each other over. And they
- 51:26Speaker 3: were telling me about how someone been sneaking money out
- 51:29Speaker 3: of their partnership, and I never thought of the bad
- 51:33Speaker 3: side of what could happen for partnerships, only the good. Yeah,
- 51:36Speaker 3: But it's really because I do find strength in numbers,
- 51:40Speaker 3: and I think partnership just builds and builds and builds
- 51:42Speaker 3: your portfolio. I mean, I would rather have half of
- 51:46Speaker 3: ten things, you know what I mean, especially knowing that,
- 51:50Speaker 3: like there's so many times Alex has called me and
- 51:52Speaker 3: is like, yo, Neil Brennan is coming in and David
- 51:54Speaker 3: Lehiman coming in our studios US right, or maybe I'll
- 51:57Speaker 3: hit him up and I'll be like we're locked down
- 51:59Speaker 3: for a week. We got to do from Amazon. Like
- 52:01Speaker 3: it's always one or the other, and it really really helps,
- 52:04Speaker 3: because when you're trying to get all that different money,
- 52:06Speaker 3: you can't do all things. I don't believe in people
- 52:09Speaker 3: that are trying to have too much control over everything.
- 52:12Speaker 3: You know. That's that's when it gets really tough. That's
- 52:14Speaker 3: when you get burnt out. You've got to be able
- 52:16Speaker 3: to alleviate some of that. I'm real cheap and I
- 52:18Speaker 3: don't even be wanting to give money up to an assistant,
- 52:20Speaker 3: but I realize it helps make your life easier.
- 52:22Speaker 1: Have you have you considered bringing one on yet I
- 52:24Speaker 1: have one, as it has been helpful.
- 52:27Speaker 3: Well, our studio is so busy. She's now just the
- 52:30Speaker 3: studio manager of the two New York locations. But oh,
- 52:33Speaker 3: she was amazing, Like she literally helped me with my
- 52:35Speaker 3: grandmother's funeral, you know, like when you've got a good one.
- 52:40Speaker 3: But my sister is like a real nigga, Like she's
- 52:42Speaker 3: not like she's not, Oh she's so great. She'll call
- 52:47Speaker 3: me like these mother, Like she helped me with the
- 52:48Speaker 3: thing for the wheelchair for my dad today. Right, she
- 52:50Speaker 3: sent me a screenshot of an email she was like
- 52:52Speaker 3: these motherfucker's trying to play me bruh, and like it's
- 52:55Speaker 3: so funny because like you kind of do have to
- 52:57Speaker 3: work with someone that makes you feel comfortable. You know,
- 53:00Speaker 3: if she was too tidied up, I don't think I
- 53:01Speaker 3: can do it. Yeah, but like I love partnering and
- 53:04Speaker 3: working with people that make me feel like I'm at home. Yeah, yeah,
- 53:08Speaker 3: because when we face the world, there's a different person
- 53:11Speaker 3: across that, you know what I'm saying. So knowing that
- 53:13Speaker 3: we hire black and hire people that are a vibe
- 53:15Speaker 3: like yeah, it's just it's so great, yeah, I think.
- 53:19Speaker 1: But also finding someone that really is invested in your
- 53:22Speaker 1: vision and your long term goals. I know with my crew,
- 53:25Speaker 1: I love them, Like if I feel something's de routing,
- 53:29Speaker 1: I'm like, dinner, lunch, we're getting together. Let's get to
- 53:33Speaker 1: the table and find out what's going on. But we
- 53:34Speaker 1: I genuinely like love my crew.
- 53:37Speaker 3: Like everybody that works for me, I would want to
- 53:39Speaker 3: have a drink with them. Yeah. That to me, I
- 53:42Speaker 3: don't want to hire anybody that makes me like getting
- 53:44Speaker 3: my nerves and they're weird or like, I want to
- 53:46Speaker 3: know they're cool, whether they be nerdy as fuck, and
- 53:48Speaker 3: maybe we don't share those hobbies, like there has to
- 53:51Speaker 3: be some connection there or I won't maybe care as much.
- 53:54Speaker 3: And I think my thing to being a good boss
- 53:56Speaker 3: is giving a fuck yeah, you know, writing down everyone's birthdays,
- 53:59Speaker 3: making sure I get them a gift, sending them text
- 54:01Speaker 3: telling them I appreciate them. I also don't say people
- 54:04Speaker 3: work for me. Like if I'm in front of someone,
- 54:08Speaker 3: I feel like that's.
- 54:09Speaker 2: Do you do? You call them like your team? How
- 54:11Speaker 2: do you reference them?
- 54:11Speaker 3: I'd be like, I say we work together.
- 54:13Speaker 2: If someone wants to know, oh, I like that.
- 54:15Speaker 3: Even if they walk in the studio and they know
- 54:17Speaker 3: on the owner, I'd be like, this is Danny, he
- 54:18Speaker 3: works with us, or like that just makes me more comfortable. Yeah,
- 54:22Speaker 3: I find a lot of condescendingness and when people kind
- 54:26Speaker 3: of just be like they work for me. Yeah.
- 54:28Speaker 1: I was at an event the other day and someone said,
- 54:30Speaker 1: just so you know, I'm her boss, and I was like, yeah,
- 54:34Speaker 1: I don't know if you had to say that. I
- 54:36Speaker 1: don't even know the point of saying it. But I
- 54:38Speaker 1: think mainly in corporate and maybe not very small smaller well,
- 54:42Speaker 1: I don't want to say an entrepreneurs. I don't know,
- 54:44Speaker 1: but I do see. I guess if you're not at
- 54:47Speaker 1: the higher level, you see that more because I don't
- 54:49Speaker 1: even think the executives be like I'm the boss.
- 54:52Speaker 3: No, but like look at Connell from Our Heart, Yeah,
- 54:55Speaker 3: he was hugging everybody and chilling I'm like, what the
- 54:58Speaker 3: I don't know, Yeah, yeah, yeah, But you know that's
- 55:00Speaker 3: the thing too. I feel like there's this middle of
- 55:02Speaker 3: success when you try to prove yourself. I can only
- 55:04Speaker 3: relate to this. When I was kind of getting some
- 55:07Speaker 3: decent money, I wanted to wear Lee batons. I wanted
- 55:09Speaker 3: to wear my fucking one Louis buiton bag everywhere. I
- 55:12Speaker 3: needed to throw it in your face.
- 55:14Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 55:14Speaker 3: Now I'm kind of like, you know what I mean, Like,
- 55:16Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 55:17Speaker 1: Yeah, Well that's how I feel about Montessori School right now.
- 55:19Speaker 1: Every time I see someone, I'm like, I pay.
- 55:21Speaker 2: Two thousand dollars a month for my one year old
- 55:23Speaker 2: to go to school. I should just have it as
- 55:26Speaker 2: a billboard at this point.
- 55:27Speaker 1: Oh bro, I feel like I'm luxury and that's really
- 55:31Speaker 1: probably a regular person thing.
- 55:32Speaker 2: But I'm like, now that's a lot.
- 55:36Speaker 3: That's better than they care, you.
- 55:37Speaker 1: Know, I literally, but I brag about it, like and
- 55:41Speaker 1: I'm pretty I saw some comedian talk about like how
- 55:43Speaker 1: when black people brag when they're rich, Asian people brag
- 55:46Speaker 1: wh they're rich, and how white people brag when they're rich,
- 55:48Speaker 1: and I was like, yeah, I'm definitely the black person
- 55:51Speaker 1: that was like, I pay two games.
- 55:53Speaker 3: I try to find ways in a point where I'm
- 55:56Speaker 3: feeling a little inferior. Yeah, sometimes people you never know
- 56:00Speaker 3: they making my like it's I can't explain it, but
- 56:02Speaker 3: there's moments where people will make you feel like you
- 56:04Speaker 3: don't belong in the room there. Yeah. Yeah, that's when
- 56:06Speaker 3: I might do a little bit of really. Oh yeah,
- 56:09Speaker 3: I'm trying to think. The last time I haven't I
- 56:13Speaker 3: had this story. I told him horrible. It's on our
- 56:15Speaker 3: Patreon where I came back from Paris and I was
- 56:18Speaker 3: hanging in this Beyonce and jay Z party. It was
- 56:21Speaker 3: very small, like thirty people, and after that you couldn't
- 56:23Speaker 3: tell me shit. It was me and alex I was like,
- 56:25Speaker 3: fuck you bitch, and Mionce with like, you know, in
- 56:28Speaker 3: the air together. So I just kept finding ways to
- 56:32Speaker 3: bring it up. So we went to like some Spotify
- 56:34Speaker 3: dinner that week, and everybody's just like, oh, horrible decisions.
- 56:36Speaker 3: Never heard of it. Yes, actually I've been to France,
- 56:40Speaker 3: not that you asked, was there whatever, but like I'd
- 56:44Speaker 3: be trying to figure out a way, but I don't know.
- 56:46Speaker 3: And I think that's kind of when you do have
- 56:50Speaker 3: and I know that I came from something, so I
- 56:51Speaker 3: just can't say it came from nothing. But like when
- 56:53Speaker 3: you had that struggle, you want to know. You want
- 56:55Speaker 3: people to know I belong here too, Yeah, because I
- 56:57Speaker 3: have a lot of hell of privileged people that I
- 56:59Speaker 3: know that don't really have that that driver or the
- 57:02Speaker 3: that that.
- 57:05Speaker 2: They're the backstory, they don't need to.
- 57:09Speaker 3: Like I hang with this really rich girl sometimes when
- 57:12Speaker 3: I'm in La, like grew up rich. I think our
- 57:15Speaker 3: family's got a fucking castle somewhere. And I never really
- 57:20Speaker 3: see her tell you anything about her life because she
- 57:23Speaker 3: realizes it's so it's not part of her story. Yeah,
- 57:26Speaker 3: like everything she's experienced isn't exciting. Like when I told
- 57:29Speaker 3: her about the Beyonce and jay Z thing, She's like,
- 57:32Speaker 3: oh yeah. I'm like, well you met them before. She's like, yeah,
- 57:35Speaker 3: well I used to hang with the Arnall's when I
- 57:37Speaker 3: was a kid who own LVMA. That's hilarious And I'm like, okay,
- 57:42Speaker 3: it's to know a bitch, But like you know, so,
- 57:46Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, I wonder if it kind of shows
- 57:48Speaker 3: that you don't really have much. But what I appreciate
- 57:51Speaker 3: is like people that can enjoy with you like. The
- 57:52Speaker 3: first person I called after the Beyonce and jay Z
- 57:55Speaker 3: night was Charlottmgne cover the bed with his wife, who
- 57:57Speaker 3: was eleven thirty at night. Me and Alex are drunk
- 57:59Speaker 3: in the street. I'm like, oh, I tell somebody, And
- 58:02Speaker 3: he was so excited and laughing and he's like, y'all
- 58:04Speaker 3: in now. I'm like, brouh. The next time I see them,
- 58:07Speaker 3: think they put it over the bitch for Paris and
- 58:11Speaker 3: it's just this cool, exciting milestone. But maybe I will
- 58:13Speaker 3: get to the place where it doesn't matter anymore.
- 58:15Speaker 1: I don't know, hope not no, no, no no. So
- 58:20Speaker 1: now that you've traveled the world, you owned companies, you're
- 58:24Speaker 1: flying your family out, what advice would you give to someone.
- 58:31Speaker 2: That would even just in my shoes? You know?
- 58:34Speaker 1: What advice would you give to someone that's playing hasn't
- 58:37Speaker 1: fully taken off the ground yet and they've been hovering
- 58:40Speaker 1: for a long time.
- 58:41Speaker 3: I would say, thinking bigger than the biggest thing you're
- 58:44Speaker 3: thinking of. I think that we sell ourselves short a lot.
- 58:49Speaker 3: Whether it be I don't know. This is just made
- 58:52Speaker 3: me thinking right. Eating While Broke is currently a podcast,
- 58:56Speaker 3: it seems like next up is TV show that seems
- 58:58Speaker 3: like what that is? Right?
- 58:59Speaker 1: But I also want to do touring, which eighty five
- 59:02Speaker 1: South has been like just do it, but Dolly's like
- 59:05Speaker 1: hell no, and eighty five for South is like do
- 59:08Speaker 1: that shit?
- 59:09Speaker 3: Why does Dolly say now.
- 59:12Speaker 2: She thinks I need to spend more time growing my
- 59:14Speaker 2: audience like baby steps and then but I low key
- 59:19Speaker 2: secretly want to do ice cube in LA, I would.
- 59:22Speaker 3: Tell you for this piece of advice, then I would say,
- 59:25Speaker 3: you do it in the middle. You do one show.
- 59:28Speaker 3: You do one show in your hometown or where your
- 59:30Speaker 3: largest base of audience is, and that's LA, right, I'm assuming. Yeah,
- 59:33Speaker 3: So it's like you do your LA show. You don't tour,
- 59:36Speaker 3: You do your LA show. You practice, you get your
- 59:38Speaker 3: biggest fan based there, you already have all your friends come.
- 59:40Speaker 3: It's probably where all the talent you know is. So
- 59:42Speaker 3: you do it right there in LA. After you do that,
- 59:46Speaker 3: then you kind of get your feet wet or the
- 59:49Speaker 3: space is semi big. Make a Patreon or invite your
- 59:54Speaker 3: top fans. Mit fifteen fans really and write fifteen fans,
- 59:59Speaker 3: have them sit and wid laugh with you. Uh, maybe
- 1:00:02Speaker 3: put the ingredients out there and be like this is
- 1:00:04Speaker 3: what I got, y'all gonna help me make this meal?
- 1:00:06Speaker 3: Maybe they just shout at you and they share stories
- 1:00:08Speaker 3: with you.
- 1:00:09Speaker 1: When you guys did your Patreon, what were you what
- 1:00:12Speaker 1: was your first Like, did you even think you would
- 1:00:15Speaker 1: make money when you first did the patreon?
- 1:00:16Speaker 3: No, we make way too much on Patreon now. I
- 1:00:20Speaker 3: mean I'm sure like there, you know, there's patreons bigger
- 1:00:23Speaker 3: than me. But like we did it before. I think
- 1:00:25Speaker 3: we were one of the first black popular podcasts that
- 1:00:27Speaker 3: we know on there. Like we had our first year
- 1:00:29Speaker 3: of year seven, I mean the first year of your seven,
- 1:00:33Speaker 3: and we only did it to make more money for
- 1:00:35Speaker 3: the studio. Mandy and I were like, this shit costing
- 1:00:37Speaker 3: too much. We ain't making no money. A friend of
- 1:00:39Speaker 3: mine was like, have you heard of l trapo trap
- 1:00:41Speaker 3: House something like that, It's like a white podcast. I
- 1:00:43Speaker 3: was like no, He's like, they make like ninety round Patreon.
- 1:00:46Speaker 2: You should do You guys were like, dude, du what's
- 1:00:48Speaker 2: that right?
- 1:00:49Speaker 3: I mean, shit, we don't make ninety, but we do
- 1:00:51Speaker 3: make twenty.
- 1:00:52Speaker 2: Get the hang out on Patreon mm hm.
- 1:00:54Speaker 3: Get the honest though our Patreon, Like we started a
- 1:00:59Speaker 3: high very early of people that really resonated with Mandy
- 1:01:02Speaker 3: and I because we were corporate girls talking about sex
- 1:01:04Speaker 3: and it was kind of the life that if you
- 1:01:06Speaker 3: didn't live it, you'd want to live it, or you
- 1:01:08Speaker 3: could see yourself living it like host stories while like
- 1:01:11Speaker 3: being overdraft and are you know, being at your desk whatever.
- 1:01:14Speaker 3: So we made Patreon. It was to get extra money
- 1:01:16Speaker 3: for filming. I remember a thousand dollars a month feeling perfect.
- 1:01:20Speaker 2: Hell, yeah that's not I know that sounds small.
- 1:01:23Speaker 3: Yeah, So when it got higher, Mandy and I just
- 1:01:28Speaker 3: started spelling more of our personal lives on Patreon, and
- 1:01:31Speaker 3: it became like we were just talking to fans instead
- 1:01:34Speaker 3: of like doing a show. You know, like we have
- 1:01:37Speaker 3: so so many guests now that people that really fucked
- 1:01:40Speaker 3: with Mandy and Wheezy they want Patreon. Like a lot
- 1:01:44Speaker 3: of people enjoy those episodes more. I love like a
- 1:01:47Speaker 3: better looking set, but I get it, Mandy and I'd
- 1:01:50Speaker 3: be on zoom, I'd be hungover shit. I think I
- 1:01:52Speaker 3: was still mollied out on one episode. I was like,
- 1:01:54Speaker 3: oh my god, you guys didn't save anyway, Like people
- 1:01:58Speaker 3: like that shit when you're very raw, and so we
- 1:02:00Speaker 3: offer that. So it's something different. But yeah, I wouldn't
- 1:02:03Speaker 3: write your closest fans if it's not Patreon right now,
- 1:02:06Speaker 3: figure out where you talk to them the most, have
- 1:02:08Speaker 3: them come and watch. Well.
- 1:02:10Speaker 1: I think this season is the most I've seen fans
- 1:02:13Speaker 1: reach out, which, by the way, I'm absolutely shocked. I'll
- 1:02:15Speaker 1: get a DM like please don't stop, please don't quit.
- 1:02:19Speaker 2: We love this sir.
- 1:02:20Speaker 1: Yeah, or like I promise you're asking the questions that
- 1:02:23Speaker 1: we want you to hear, and I'll be like, thank
- 1:02:25Speaker 1: you because I for sure had a shitty day today
- 1:02:28Speaker 1: and I really want to jump off a bridge. But
- 1:02:30Speaker 1: that message just like literally, I know it's random, but
- 1:02:34Speaker 1: you help them. Yeah, I'm like, you taketed the right time,
- 1:02:38Speaker 1: and I will respond that like, Yo, the timing couldn't
- 1:02:41Speaker 1: have been better, thank you for saving my life.
- 1:02:45Speaker 3: Fans too, like we look at other people's numbers and
- 1:02:51Speaker 3: comparison is a thief and joy.
- 1:02:53Speaker 2: Oh, I definitely do.
- 1:02:53Speaker 1: I'll be like, look at them, but you know now,
- 1:02:56Speaker 1: I look at y'all, and I'll be like, take notes.
- 1:03:00Speaker 2: Change when we're.
- 1:03:03Speaker 3: In line to them, right, Like I remember when call
- 1:03:06Speaker 3: her Daddy made the sixty thousand dollars DE sixty million,
- 1:03:10Speaker 3: right and I was like, oh my god, I'll never
- 1:03:13Speaker 3: get me. I was saying ship like that. I don't
- 1:03:15Speaker 3: have that. I'm like this podcast makes how much?
- 1:03:18Speaker 2: Like why am I talking like this?
- 1:03:20Speaker 3: You know? And we really have to pour into ourselves
- 1:03:23Speaker 3: better because we always are looking at something else. I
- 1:03:26Speaker 3: do it with my body doing my hair. Shit, I
- 1:03:29Speaker 3: was almost like, oh my god, my hair is not
- 1:03:31Speaker 3: rain different. The got my hair, like thinking about all
- 1:03:34Speaker 3: this little ship that doesn't fucking matter, and it's like
- 1:03:37Speaker 3: we need to really learn how to be happy with
- 1:03:39Speaker 3: ourselves because like I think social media has bucked me up.
- 1:03:56Speaker 3: I'm getting way better at it, but like body, hair,
- 1:04:00Speaker 3: clothes and success, they're all the things I see on
- 1:04:04Speaker 3: Instagram and think I'm not doing well enough with h
- 1:04:06Speaker 3: and this is fucked up. But it did happen to me.
- 1:04:10Speaker 3: I went to solid Core, which is this like plate's
- 1:04:13Speaker 3: ish cool thing to do. It's in La Chicago, New York,
- 1:04:16Speaker 3: Big Cities, Atlanta, and there's a girl on Instagram I
- 1:04:19Speaker 3: follow that. I always thought she was like so fucking
- 1:04:22Speaker 3: insanely hot. When I was in the workout, she was
- 1:04:24Speaker 3: right next to me and I recognized her halfway through.
- 1:04:27Speaker 3: She was really struggling, and it's not like it's something
- 1:04:30Speaker 3: to make fun of. You're already working out. But I
- 1:04:32Speaker 3: got in the car and I thought, oh my god,
- 1:04:34Speaker 3: I have I'm stronger than I thought. I was right.
- 1:04:36Speaker 3: I'm looking at this girl all the time on my timeline,
- 1:04:38Speaker 3: thinking she's the baddest bitch in the world. And I
- 1:04:40Speaker 3: had something like she even said to me. I was like,
- 1:04:42Speaker 3: damn bitch, she was getting it right. We don't know
- 1:04:44Speaker 3: each other, and I was like, wow, there's something we
- 1:04:47Speaker 3: all have that someone else doesn't. So when you're looking
- 1:04:49Speaker 3: and you're thinking that, it's not shit me. I want
- 1:04:53Speaker 3: kids so bad. Really, yes, I would love to have kids,
- 1:04:57Speaker 3: like I would love to have over to you. Oh
- 1:05:00Speaker 3: my mom would love to watch over. My mom love
- 1:05:02Speaker 3: taking somebody's baby.
- 1:05:03Speaker 2: Oh really, Oh she's in LA.
- 1:05:04Speaker 1: That's perfect because I ain't got no family in I
- 1:05:06Speaker 1: pay every minute a well.
- 1:05:08Speaker 3: Well, my mom will act like it's an inconvenience, but
- 1:05:10Speaker 3: she can't wait to do it. Let me watch your baby,
- 1:05:13Speaker 3: Colleen called me, and now I've got to watch this
- 1:05:14Speaker 3: damn baby. Now'll get in the house, baby proud anyway,
- 1:05:16Speaker 3: I'll talk to you later. Like she loves taking somebody's
- 1:05:20Speaker 3: problems on her kids or anything, and like, yeah, but
- 1:05:23Speaker 3: I think about that. I think.
- 1:05:24Speaker 5: Uh.
- 1:05:24Speaker 3: I was at a friend's kids graduation, her daughter graduately
- 1:05:28Speaker 3: needs her, and I was like, like three people had
- 1:05:31Speaker 3: asked me for a picture when I was in the auditorium,
- 1:05:34Speaker 3: and I remember thinking like, I wonder if they think
- 1:05:37Speaker 3: I'm like living this cool ass like but somebody was like, damn,
- 1:05:39Speaker 3: you came from LA to be here. Someone said that
- 1:05:41Speaker 3: to me, and I was like, when I could like
- 1:05:44Speaker 3: die to be one of the parents in the front.
- 1:05:45Speaker 3: Oh wow, But you never know, right, Like there's always
- 1:05:49Speaker 3: something we all want. I think we all need that
- 1:05:51Speaker 3: little drama in our lives to keep going.
- 1:05:53Speaker 1: You think so oh like the when you say drama,
- 1:05:56Speaker 1: like the need to want something more?
- 1:05:58Speaker 3: Yeah, how are we going to be an autopilot if
- 1:06:00Speaker 3: we have all we want? Like what do you want?
- 1:06:02Speaker 5: Oh?
- 1:06:03Speaker 2: I want this guy's limit.
- 1:06:04Speaker 1: It's funny though, because I used to always want like
- 1:06:06Speaker 1: the marriage and the baby, because I always felt like
- 1:06:08Speaker 1: I was good at business and then I just sucked
- 1:06:10Speaker 1: at personal. But now that I experienced marriage and the baby,
- 1:06:13Speaker 1: I'm like, I think I'm gonna stay in my business
- 1:06:16Speaker 1: life because I suck at it. It's just like, yo,
- 1:06:18Speaker 1: you know what, I have to chop it up to Like,
- 1:06:20Speaker 1: it's just not my forte. I don't know why I
- 1:06:23Speaker 1: can't master my personal but I could.
- 1:06:25Speaker 3: It's tough. We all can't because it's not something you
- 1:06:28Speaker 3: can control.
- 1:06:29Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, maybe that's it because I feel like in business,
- 1:06:32Speaker 1: like I will pivot the fuck if it's not working,
- 1:06:34Speaker 1: pivot again, pivot again. But then in my personal I'd
- 1:06:39Speaker 1: be like, oh, you went left. I don't even know
- 1:06:41Speaker 1: what to say.
- 1:06:42Speaker 3: It's tough. Yeah, money we can control, Like I feel
- 1:06:45Speaker 3: like I can make a million dollars easier than I
- 1:06:47Speaker 3: can find a good person to date. I mean, it's
- 1:06:49Speaker 3: fucked up to say that, but I really do believe that.
- 1:06:51Speaker 3: I feel like when it's things you can control, like
- 1:06:55Speaker 3: you can't control money. Let's say, like right, like there's
- 1:06:57Speaker 3: people out there that are working hard as fucking or
- 1:06:59Speaker 3: not getting there, but like you could possibly take up
- 1:07:02Speaker 3: another hustle to find somewhere money. Yeah, but I was
- 1:07:05Speaker 3: taking pictures out of Oo pizzeria on the side because
- 1:07:08Speaker 3: they would give me one hundred dollars a night, okay
- 1:07:10Speaker 3: for five hours, and I would just take pictures pictures,
- 1:07:13Speaker 3: and I would flip them a little bit. You know
- 1:07:15Speaker 3: what I'm saying, The pictures of fifteen, but i'd tell
- 1:07:16Speaker 3: people with twenty Yeah, yeah, that's like finding that hustle.
- 1:07:21Speaker 3: I was on Craigslist looking for gig jobs. That was
- 1:07:23Speaker 3: a caddy girl one day.
- 1:07:24Speaker 2: Like I told you that, But that's what I'm saying. Like,
- 1:07:28Speaker 2: do you think now do you think entrepreneurs are like
- 1:07:30Speaker 2: born out the womb or do you think they could
- 1:07:33Speaker 2: go to college and then become an entrepreneur.
- 1:07:35Speaker 3: I don't think entrepreneurs are for everyone, Yeah, because I
- 1:07:39Speaker 3: think it's too exhausting. Yeah, Like I think working a
- 1:07:45Speaker 3: nine to five, I think the goal for me, before
- 1:07:48Speaker 3: realizing I wanted to be an entrepreneur, I wanted to
- 1:07:51Speaker 3: make two fifty at a.
- 1:07:53Speaker 2: Corporate t I'm still praying to hit that too fuch
- 1:07:55Speaker 2: at a corporate job. Oh, at a corporate That to me.
- 1:07:57Speaker 3: Would have made me not do anything else. Because the
- 1:08:00Speaker 3: one seventy five was great. I was living a great
- 1:08:02Speaker 3: apartment and traveling, but my parents needed help, and I
- 1:08:05Speaker 3: was like, oh, I need more money for my parents.
- 1:08:07Speaker 3: If I had two fifty, that's money I could have
- 1:08:09Speaker 3: to help them and if I want to have a kid,
- 1:08:11Speaker 3: I can live in this money. But mind you in
- 1:08:14Speaker 3: New York. Yeah yeah, like two fifty in another city
- 1:08:17Speaker 3: might be a million dollars.
- 1:08:18Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:08:18Speaker 3: My rent even then was twenty five d It's crazy. Yeah,
- 1:08:22Speaker 3: But I say all that to say nine to fivers
- 1:08:25Speaker 3: are making a lot more money than entrepreneurs. Yeah, you
- 1:08:27Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. Entrepreneurs are out here really struggling.
- 1:08:30Speaker 3: It's tough. But I think it's because some people are
- 1:08:32Speaker 3: chasing a dream that they think they should do when
- 1:08:34Speaker 3: really that's not it.
- 1:08:36Speaker 1: How would they identify the dream that is it though,
- 1:08:39Speaker 1: and from the dream that isn't.
- 1:08:41Speaker 3: I think one if it feels like a passion, are
- 1:08:45Speaker 3: you happy doing it? Like? Are you doing it because
- 1:08:48Speaker 3: you actually love this? Like? Why do you love making
- 1:08:50Speaker 3: eating while broke?
- 1:08:52Speaker 1: I just love great rags to riches stories, Like I
- 1:08:56Speaker 1: have some rich friends and they always tell me they
- 1:08:58Speaker 1: were like in jail somewhere or they were on a
- 1:09:00Speaker 1: ass somewhere, and I'm like, wait, you and you live
- 1:09:03Speaker 1: in the seven thousand square Foo mansion in La Oh,
- 1:09:06Speaker 1: tell me more. And I just love it, like I
- 1:09:08Speaker 1: would hang out and I just love the stories. I'd
- 1:09:12Speaker 1: be like, okay, but you know.
- 1:09:13Speaker 3: And I would say then with your audience and feeling inspired.
- 1:09:17Speaker 1: But I was definitely lucky because I felt like the
- 1:09:19Speaker 1: friends that I have, like if I'm like, damn, this
- 1:09:22Speaker 1: bill was high, I'd be like, you wouldn't understand it,
- 1:09:24Speaker 1: be like try me.
- 1:09:25Speaker 2: I'd be like a thousand bucks to be like, Nope,
- 1:09:26Speaker 2: that bill's high.
- 1:09:27Speaker 3: You know.
- 1:09:28Speaker 2: I'd really and they'd be like, no, it's high, you know.
- 1:09:32Speaker 1: And so luckily I was fortunate to be with some
- 1:09:35Speaker 1: friends that really like that.
- 1:09:37Speaker 2: I felt like, damn, you're hanging out with me.
- 1:09:39Speaker 1: Like if you and I hung out, I would be
- 1:09:40Speaker 1: lowkey geeked just because you have a great personality, but
- 1:09:43Speaker 1: I would also be lowkey geeked because I'm like, I
- 1:09:46Speaker 1: look up to you, like I definitely admire you, you know.
- 1:09:48Speaker 3: I feel like that with people sometimes where I'm like,
- 1:09:51Speaker 3: are we like we're peers? Right? No matter if maybe
- 1:09:55Speaker 3: like maybe my podcast has been going on longer than yours,
- 1:09:58Speaker 3: you're like, oh, that's what I'm gonna get, Like it's
- 1:10:00Speaker 3: you appears.
- 1:10:00Speaker 1: Well you're more than just a pot Like in my eyes,
- 1:10:04Speaker 1: well you and Mandy accomplished was great, but you gotta
- 1:10:07Speaker 1: think you're a beautiful, attractive woman in the entertainment industry.
- 1:10:10Speaker 1: I have sidebar conversations all the time. I'll leave a meeting,
- 1:10:13Speaker 1: I'll be like, this person wants to fuck, and my
- 1:10:14Speaker 1: friends will be like, how do you know, and be like, Bro,
- 1:10:16Speaker 1: I've been in this game way too long. I can
- 1:10:18Speaker 1: tell by the questions the hints they want to fuck,
- 1:10:21Speaker 1: and then I gotta navigate that. So to be attractive woman. Okay,
- 1:10:25Speaker 1: then you're an entertainment then you're an entrepreneurs. Then you're
- 1:10:28Speaker 1: handling all this business. Then you're sale. When I hear sales,
- 1:10:30Speaker 1: nothing excites me, you know how you get when I
- 1:10:33Speaker 1: hear a girl could sell, I'll be like, oh, this
- 1:10:35Speaker 1: is a it says, this is a real, real time,
- 1:10:37Speaker 1: you know. But so I look at someone like you
- 1:10:41Speaker 1: and I'm like, yeah, I would definitely be in awe,
- 1:10:43Speaker 1: like you know, like you know geeks, and same with
- 1:10:47Speaker 1: my friends. Like I have my homie day storm, I'll
- 1:10:49Speaker 1: hang out in his house or whatever. He literally will
- 1:10:51Speaker 1: only hang out when we work out, which sucks because
- 1:10:53Speaker 1: his workouts are absolutely, terrifyingly terriblely hard workouts.
- 1:10:59Speaker 2: Were Like, if I want to have a talk a
- 1:11:01Speaker 2: day storm.
- 1:11:01Speaker 1: I'm like, I'll be at your house at four to
- 1:11:03Speaker 1: work out and it'll be the worst workout of the century,
- 1:11:05Speaker 1: you know, But I still look up to him, and
- 1:11:09Speaker 1: I'll still be like geeked, Like yo, I could walk
- 1:11:11Speaker 1: into your house or borrow your house for the weekend,
- 1:11:14Speaker 1: and but I even though we're friends, I still look
- 1:11:16Speaker 1: up to you, and you're vulnerable. But they're the real
- 1:11:19Speaker 1: inspiration behind my show. They're realize stories and realize advice.
- 1:11:23Speaker 3: And honestly sharing that to the world and then you
- 1:11:26Speaker 3: receiving that fan feedback and things like that, like having
- 1:11:30Speaker 3: the passion that making you feel good learning in the
- 1:11:32Speaker 3: middle of your job. That's how you know you keep going,
- 1:11:36Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. But also, I think the
- 1:11:38Speaker 3: largest mistake entrepreneurs make is if they have a regular
- 1:11:42Speaker 3: job or a steady gig, they leave it for the
- 1:11:45Speaker 3: passion before the passion flourishes. Yeah, and I didn't do that,
- 1:11:49Speaker 3: Like I was working eighty hours a week, doing horrible
- 1:11:51Speaker 3: and you know, literally coming in with my suitcase to
- 1:11:54Speaker 3: the office, like, oh, I went to go see my parents,
- 1:11:56Speaker 3: But really, I had a fucking four hundred seat show
- 1:11:58Speaker 3: that we fill down and like that today is different.
- 1:12:01Speaker 3: Now it's double right and it feels great, but like, nah,
- 1:12:05Speaker 3: I had to do both. I think living in the
- 1:12:09Speaker 3: entertainment industry today is interesting because it could be anybody, right, Like,
- 1:12:14Speaker 3: influencers have really ruined fame?
- 1:12:17Speaker 2: You think so?
- 1:12:18Speaker 1: Yes, I guess I could see that. It's weird because
- 1:12:21Speaker 1: I see, like I feel like they're self made and
- 1:12:24Speaker 1: they work very hard, like when you look at the
- 1:12:25Speaker 1: behind the scenes, they work hard. But I definitely will
- 1:12:28Speaker 1: say I don't know. I would like to hear your
- 1:12:30Speaker 1: perspective on it.
- 1:12:31Speaker 3: I think influencers ruined fame because not saying that they're talentless,
- 1:12:40Speaker 3: but content creation as a form of a talent. Like
- 1:12:45Speaker 3: if the Internet is gone, then where do you take
- 1:12:47Speaker 3: it and what do you do with it? You know,
- 1:12:49Speaker 3: I have a big influencer that reached out to me.
- 1:12:52Speaker 3: They're not going broke or anything like they're making like
- 1:12:54Speaker 3: maybe thirty fortieth posts, but they reached out to me
- 1:12:58Speaker 3: and we're like, I need you to have dinner with
- 1:13:00Speaker 3: me or some shit and influence me to do some
- 1:13:02Speaker 3: other shit. Because I realized this is like just what
- 1:13:05Speaker 3: if Instagram doesn't want me to do ads anymore? What
- 1:13:06Speaker 3: if Instagram stops advertisments for influencers, what if the hashtag
- 1:13:10Speaker 3: goes away? Like she was terrified and it was when
- 1:13:12Speaker 3: TikTok was about to get banned or something, and I
- 1:13:15Speaker 3: was like, damn. I'm like, I don't know half of
- 1:13:17Speaker 3: my nas year off of heigi ads. But she was right,
- 1:13:20Speaker 3: like I didn't do anything else. I've just been learning
- 1:13:23Speaker 3: this one skill, and that shit is tough because, like,
- 1:13:26Speaker 3: I don't know, I wouldn't want my kids to be
- 1:13:28Speaker 3: an influencer. I think it also inflates when I say
- 1:13:31Speaker 3: the ruined fame, like you have movie stars, actors, actresses,
- 1:13:35Speaker 3: and even podcasters make fame to me, like it's not real.
- 1:13:38Speaker 1: Well, I've seen people too that will get like ten
- 1:13:41Speaker 1: thousand followers and they all already switch up. I'm like, yo,
- 1:13:44Speaker 1: if your bank account still read zero, who gives a
- 1:13:47Speaker 1: fuck about some likes?
- 1:13:48Speaker 3: But the same shit is weird because the likes and
- 1:13:51Speaker 3: all this stuff makes you think you're better than you
- 1:13:53Speaker 3: are when there's so many more of you, So you
- 1:13:57Speaker 3: really have to find a thing that makes you different.
- 1:13:59Speaker 3: Like honest, I follow so many girls that are just
- 1:14:02Speaker 3: hot and kind of look the same because of their
- 1:14:04Speaker 3: clothes or their workouts or whatever. I don't think I
- 1:14:06Speaker 3: know their names. Really. No. I remember sitting at Lucy
- 1:14:10Speaker 3: and it's my favorite restaurant New York. I always go
- 1:14:12Speaker 3: there in the East Village and I was looking at
- 1:14:14Speaker 3: this girl and I tapped her and I was like,
- 1:14:17Speaker 3: do I know you? Do we have a school together?
- 1:14:19Speaker 3: Genuinely didn't know. I feel like I know you, And
- 1:14:22Speaker 3: she was like, oh, I'm an influencer. I was like,
- 1:14:25Speaker 3: maybe I follow you. What's your name? Didn't ring a bell?
- 1:14:28Speaker 3: Looked at it and I was like, damn, I've been
- 1:14:30Speaker 3: following this bitter a minute, but that's it. You're not
- 1:14:32Speaker 3: even connecting to the content. Yeah, because it's just grid
- 1:14:35Speaker 3: post after grid post up or something something. That's why
- 1:14:38Speaker 3: people like just hilarious Drew Ski a Pretty V they
- 1:14:42Speaker 3: fucking stick out because we know what they're doing.
- 1:14:46Speaker 2: Yeah and they yeah, but those are also like I know.
- 1:14:49Speaker 1: Well, I'll say for Pretty V because we had her aunt,
- 1:14:51Speaker 1: she's she's also hard.
- 1:14:53Speaker 2: She's like a hustler too.
- 1:14:56Speaker 1: I would say she's she's more of an entrepreneur than
- 1:14:58Speaker 1: an influencer, even though she started that way.
- 1:15:01Speaker 2: You know you could. I feel the same with like
- 1:15:03Speaker 2: be simone, but something.
- 1:15:04Speaker 3: That I have, something that they do.
- 1:15:06Speaker 1: But I will say I honestly say like and it
- 1:15:09Speaker 1: could be just me vibed, but I would say almost
- 1:15:12Speaker 1: ninety percent of my guests have true integrity. There's somewhere
- 1:15:17Speaker 1: I'll be like after interview reps, I'll be like, wow,
- 1:15:20Speaker 1: I called bullshit and I won't say who, but there
- 1:15:24Speaker 1: was a couple episodes where my team I'll be like, damn,
- 1:15:26Speaker 1: that was a bullshit, meaning like they looked bigger than
- 1:15:29Speaker 1: what they were. And then when I got in, I
- 1:15:31Speaker 1: was like, you don't know your shit, you're a fake.
- 1:15:33Speaker 3: Maybe some people just get lucky.
- 1:15:35Speaker 1: They got lucky, or they didn't name drop like hey,
- 1:15:38Speaker 1: your baby mama helped you, or your mom helped you.
- 1:15:40Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you give them the credit that they deserved.
- 1:15:43Speaker 3: Strange when people don't credit those that helped along the way.
- 1:15:46Speaker 2: I think it's completely strange.
- 1:15:47Speaker 3: Do you know one of them?
- 1:15:48Speaker 1: By the way, if you're on my show and I
- 1:15:50Speaker 1: catch it, I won't say it in front of the guests,
- 1:15:53Speaker 1: but I will go me even the show raps, I'll
- 1:15:55Speaker 1: be like, I called bullshit. They left out somebody because
- 1:15:58Speaker 1: their story isn't adding up and I will literally you
- 1:16:01Speaker 1: could ask my crew, I will.
- 1:16:03Speaker 3: Be wait, it was mine, the sugar daddy.
- 1:16:07Speaker 2: Your story was as real as they get.
- 1:16:09Speaker 1: But you know, you know you could tell because they'll
- 1:16:12Speaker 1: be a missing gap. You know, they'll be like some
- 1:16:14Speaker 1: part of the story where you'd be like that that
- 1:16:16Speaker 1: doesn't line up, there's something missing there.
- 1:16:18Speaker 2: I can always tell because I like, well, you.
- 1:16:21Speaker 3: Know, sometimes the struggle isn't what people like to show,
- 1:16:23Speaker 3: right the highlight reels that they need.
- 1:16:25Speaker 2: To show the struggle on this show. On this show,
- 1:16:27Speaker 2: you gotta tell me to credit your wife.
- 1:16:31Speaker 3: If you're not giving other people their flower, it never
- 1:16:33Speaker 3: takes from you. I was gonna say to you, Charlott
- 1:16:37Speaker 3: MANE makes me do that more than anyone like. It
- 1:16:39Speaker 3: makes me thank my team so much. Like I've never
- 1:16:41Speaker 3: seen anyone be so gracious towards those around him, even
- 1:16:45Speaker 3: when I pay him a compliment, just no one else
- 1:16:47Speaker 3: around Damn you kill this shit man.
- 1:16:51Speaker 1: That was some So I'm like, oh, okay, I've never
- 1:16:55Speaker 1: really I've seen Charlomagye one time.
- 1:16:57Speaker 2: So I literally saw him, was like, thank you so
- 1:16:59Speaker 2: much for everything you do for me.
- 1:17:00Speaker 3: Have a good day. Wait, you just met him in Atlanta.
- 1:17:03Speaker 2: Yeah, that was it, and that's all I said was
- 1:17:05Speaker 2: thank you.
- 1:17:06Speaker 3: What every Christian famous person like normal and authentic. And
- 1:17:13Speaker 3: I think I made a joke on a podcast and
- 1:17:15Speaker 3: I tested it once. I was like, man like, they
- 1:17:17Speaker 3: were like, who do you think is someone that you've
- 1:17:21Speaker 3: met that's a celebrity that you expected to be different?
- 1:17:24Speaker 3: I was like, Charlotte answers the phone every time. I
- 1:17:26Speaker 3: think it's very strange. Yeah, because you're so like he's
- 1:17:28Speaker 3: literally answered. I could hear him at the breakfast what's up?
- 1:17:31Speaker 3: He's monnies me, Like, just really wants to make sure
- 1:17:35Speaker 3: he's accessible to people that he cares about. And I
- 1:17:38Speaker 3: think that's what's inspired me to be a really good
- 1:17:42Speaker 3: leader and just all around good person when it comes
- 1:17:45Speaker 3: to people that have paved the way, because like, we
- 1:17:48Speaker 3: don't see that, we see a lot of I I I, yeah,
- 1:17:51Speaker 3: you know. Well.
- 1:17:52Speaker 1: Also, I think the cool thing about him is that
- 1:17:55Speaker 1: he has like all black woman team pretty much, and
- 1:17:58Speaker 1: he treats all those women great.
- 1:17:59Speaker 2: Because I worked for other people and with other people.
- 1:18:02Speaker 1: In the industry and it ain't like that it's more
- 1:18:04Speaker 1: of the boy's club. I see the boys getting blessed
- 1:18:07Speaker 1: and the woman getting dirty.
- 1:18:08Speaker 3: And Charlemagne is very much again an authentic person. Yeah,
- 1:18:12Speaker 3: Like I heard him on a I had a call
- 1:18:14Speaker 3: with him for something else, and the other person on
- 1:18:19Speaker 3: the other end of the call was very like, what's
- 1:18:22Speaker 3: the word I'm looking for, almost like a shell of
- 1:18:25Speaker 3: themselves trying to show you how great they are. Charlamagne
- 1:18:27Speaker 3: was in a T shirt in South Carolina, I think
- 1:18:31Speaker 3: visiting family, or maybe he was outside of his crib,
- 1:18:34Speaker 3: but he was like on a chair on a porch,
- 1:18:36Speaker 3: just looking like he was chilling, and everybody else is
- 1:18:38Speaker 3: suited up, and he's like, y'all are so lucky for
- 1:18:40Speaker 3: me to be on this call. Just I could tell
- 1:18:41Speaker 3: you that's what he's thinking. And he's so much of
- 1:18:44Speaker 3: himself and still giving you gems. And I was like, Wow,
- 1:18:48Speaker 3: he didn't even feel the need to like do it
- 1:18:49Speaker 3: up for some Hollywood people. Yeah, because he knows like this,
- 1:18:52Speaker 3: his brand is so raw, and I think we have
- 1:18:56Speaker 3: to be that way. We can't try to be this
- 1:19:00Speaker 3: person that we think other people would like, because they'll
- 1:19:02Speaker 3: smell it just like you do. You know what I'm saying.
- 1:19:05Speaker 3: People smell that all day every day. You could be
- 1:19:06Speaker 3: a casual listener that's in that YouTube that's like this
- 1:19:09Speaker 3: person's a liar.
- 1:19:10Speaker 2: Yeah, people clock it.
- 1:19:11Speaker 3: And for you to know that as someone that's bringing
- 1:19:13Speaker 3: these people in, like, I think that says a lot.
- 1:19:17Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:19:19Speaker 1: Yeah, Eventually we'll get to the space where there's like
- 1:19:22Speaker 1: I can actually call bullshit on the mic. I'm not
- 1:19:25Speaker 1: there yet, I know, but there have been a couple
- 1:19:28Speaker 1: where I'm like.
- 1:19:29Speaker 3: Bull shit, what about you?
- 1:19:31Speaker 1: Being like, there's got to be a oh I go
- 1:19:35Speaker 1: in and you can tell because they won't answer the question,
- 1:19:38Speaker 1: And that's how I know it's bullshit. I'll be like, Okay,
- 1:19:40Speaker 1: you're just boying. I'll ask seven different ways. I'm like, Okay,
- 1:19:43Speaker 1: I call bullshit, but I won't say it on the
- 1:19:45Speaker 1: mic yet. I'm not there yet.
- 1:19:47Speaker 3: Plus I gotcha host, They're like, oh, like be there
- 1:19:51Speaker 3: for the moment.
- 1:19:52Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:19:53Speaker 1: And then also like there's the uncomfortable space, you know
- 1:19:57Speaker 1: with our shows, like we dig into the vulnerability a
- 1:19:59Speaker 1: little bit deep, and I like to say to everybody
- 1:20:04Speaker 1: it's a safe space. Like if I think there's something
- 1:20:06Speaker 1: that you're going to say on our show that I
- 1:20:07Speaker 1: think is going to ruin your career or cancel you do.
- 1:20:10Speaker 1: You don't even have to send your publicists or whoever
- 1:20:12Speaker 1: over to like, oh my god, Colleen or beg me,
- 1:20:15Speaker 1: I'm gonna remove it just on game. I'm just you
- 1:20:17Speaker 1: shared your story.
- 1:20:18Speaker 3: I completely agree with you. I think that keeping those
- 1:20:22Speaker 3: moments like I've seen Megan James, I mean, I don't
- 1:20:26Speaker 3: want to talk too much shit. She's spent some money
- 1:20:28Speaker 3: about WTS Studio, but there's some clips where I'm like, WHOA, yeah,
- 1:20:33Speaker 3: you know, like I'm kind of surprised you invite someone
- 1:20:36Speaker 3: in your space to like do that.
- 1:20:38Speaker 5: M h.
- 1:20:39Speaker 3: And she's just sticking out of my mind right now.
- 1:20:42Speaker 3: I'm not saying she's like a terrible person, but it's
- 1:20:45Speaker 3: a it's a style interviewing that works for her. Maybe
- 1:20:50Speaker 3: she's on more streams than almost who knows, But like,
- 1:20:52Speaker 3: I don't know if I could do it.
- 1:20:54Speaker 1: That's how I feel about honestly, like Jason Lee, to
- 1:20:56Speaker 1: be honest, I feel like some of the stuff he'd
- 1:20:57Speaker 1: be doing, I'll be like, well maybe, And I have
- 1:20:59Speaker 1: this conversation my little brother all the time, and I'm
- 1:21:01Speaker 1: always like, ego, maybe maybe I should sell out, Like
- 1:21:04Speaker 1: because I look at such and such kind of like
- 1:21:06Speaker 1: how you look at social media, be like, look at
- 1:21:08Speaker 1: this person. It's like they're really honestly, like they don't
- 1:21:11Speaker 1: give a fuck about anybody's career, you know, and then
- 1:21:14Speaker 1: they Jason Lee.
- 1:21:15Speaker 3: At Charlemagne back in the day, I'm Magan James. I
- 1:21:18Speaker 3: think you know what you're getting when you go on
- 1:21:19Speaker 3: the door. Yeah, And I think people almost it's like
- 1:21:24Speaker 3: ze Way. People would say, how the fuck does anyone
- 1:21:27Speaker 3: keep going on there?
- 1:21:27Speaker 2: Like, you know, I don't know what ze Way is, but.
- 1:21:29Speaker 3: You don't know what she's the black girl that had
- 1:21:31Speaker 3: the show on Showtime where she would ask people questions
- 1:21:33Speaker 3: and like should Julia Fox. Charlemagne was a guest on there.
- 1:21:37Speaker 3: What was her famous one?
- 1:21:39Speaker 2: But what was she ask them?
- 1:21:41Speaker 3: She would just ask them questions that would make them
- 1:21:43Speaker 3: look bad. Oh really, Like she showed Charlemgne a diagram
- 1:21:47Speaker 3: and had them point out someone She was like, oh
- 1:21:49Speaker 3: so you think that white people are superior type shit?
- 1:21:51Speaker 3: Oh okay, But like it's like she was one of
- 1:21:52Speaker 3: those and I think like people prepare themselves for those
- 1:21:56Speaker 3: funny Marco. I don't know how people.
- 1:21:57Speaker 1: Say what that nerves is that the one is where
- 1:21:59Speaker 1: the guy just says like insulting things or something kind
- 1:22:02Speaker 1: of yeah, because I saw that show and I was like, look,
- 1:22:05Speaker 1: I just love that show period.
- 1:22:07Speaker 3: Like it's content.
- 1:22:08Speaker 2: Yeah, it's content is very good.
- 1:22:10Speaker 3: I think maybe it's just content that I can't make.
- 1:22:13Speaker 3: But yeah, you know, it's hard for me to push
- 1:22:15Speaker 3: unless I think something's wrong, like I do Man on
- 1:22:18Speaker 3: the Street for my TV show a lot. Yesterday, this
- 1:22:21Speaker 3: guy talked about how he had a nether girl to
- 1:22:23Speaker 3: work or do something, and I was like, he's black.
- 1:22:26Speaker 3: Oh what kind of girls you day? And he's like,
- 1:22:27Speaker 3: I prefer white. And then I can see the camera
- 1:22:30Speaker 3: crewisers in the back, like oh, like really he was like, yeah,
- 1:22:34Speaker 3: I just updated a black girl and they're really crazy.
- 1:22:36Speaker 3: I was like, okay, so have you ever met a Karen?
- 1:22:39Speaker 3: Were like, well, I don't think that type of way.
- 1:22:42Speaker 2: Oh, but there are crazy white women, but i'tely right now.
- 1:22:44Speaker 1: My future ex husband he loves white women. But his
- 1:22:49Speaker 1: thing is that black women's standards are are higher or like,
- 1:22:54Speaker 1: they're not as easy as a white girl, and so
- 1:22:57Speaker 1: he lives for the white girls.
- 1:22:58Speaker 2: He lives that girl.
- 1:23:00Speaker 3: Literally only cheated I mean a white women, to the
- 1:23:02Speaker 3: point that I was like, yeah, you must you're dating me,
- 1:23:06Speaker 3: so your mom is happy. Yeah, And then I realized, oh,
- 1:23:09Speaker 3: maybe I was just light.
- 1:23:10Speaker 1: Skinning up, Like, do you This is completely random, but
- 1:23:14Speaker 1: I have a pet peeve about dating a guy that
- 1:23:16Speaker 1: only dates mixed girls.
- 1:23:17Speaker 2: I can't do it.
- 1:23:18Speaker 3: I haven't pissed.
- 1:23:19Speaker 2: I feel like you haven't.
- 1:23:20Speaker 3: Only I didn't know, Like you don't know until.
- 1:23:23Speaker 2: You don't know, but when you find I know.
- 1:23:25Speaker 1: For me, I just feel like there's a little bit
- 1:23:27Speaker 1: of colorism issues there, Like dudes that are like.
- 1:23:29Speaker 2: I only like light skin I'm like, all right, I
- 1:23:32Speaker 2: don't know, that's weird.
- 1:23:34Speaker 1: But I started to think when my ex husband my
- 1:23:36Speaker 1: future that maybe he maybe he genuinely just likes white
- 1:23:41Speaker 1: girls and he's just saying that as like a cover up.
- 1:23:44Speaker 2: No, I think you're right.
- 1:23:47Speaker 3: He's like, hey, she light white in a different light, Yeah,
- 1:23:52Speaker 3: exactly on some real shit. I think it's kind of
- 1:23:56Speaker 3: scary because you really have to clock them as light
- 1:23:58Speaker 3: skinn people. You gotta clock them as mixed girls like
- 1:24:00Speaker 3: this shit is not cute for like a man that
- 1:24:02Speaker 3: you're dating to only date. I had a guy tell
- 1:24:05Speaker 3: me once that I was acting dark skin He told
- 1:24:08Speaker 3: me it was crazy that my hair wasn't super curly
- 1:24:11Speaker 3: like most mixed girls. Wow. And he was like, you
- 1:24:13Speaker 3: talk different. Wow. Yeah I don't.
- 1:24:16Speaker 2: Like Yeah, I don't. I won't. I won't.
- 1:24:21Speaker 1: Well right now, thank god, I'm like one hundred percent
- 1:24:24Speaker 1: focused on not dating, which is this is the longest
- 1:24:26Speaker 1: I've ever been seeing.
- 1:24:26Speaker 3: That's when they be coming too. I'll be trying to
- 1:24:28Speaker 3: act like I'm not focused on dating. I'll walk in
- 1:24:30Speaker 3: the club and be like, I'm not looking for anyone.
- 1:24:35Speaker 2: I like how you be positioned in it too.
- 1:24:37Speaker 3: I want to date so bad man, but it's it's tough,
- 1:24:41Speaker 3: and honestly.
- 1:24:42Speaker 2: How do you juggle a breakup with a with a business. Honestly,
- 1:24:46Speaker 2: I'm terrible.
- 1:24:46Speaker 1: If it wasn't for my high school friends scooping me
- 1:24:48Speaker 1: off the floor behind closed doors. Girl, he's gonna be okay,
- 1:24:53Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like, I don't responsibilities, like
- 1:24:55Speaker 1: hate to get more of it.
- 1:24:56Speaker 3: But the only things that have kept me from killing
- 1:24:58Speaker 3: myself is my dog and my team. And it's not
- 1:25:00Speaker 3: because they're encouraging me to stay, you know. And it's like, hey,
- 1:25:04Speaker 3: we need you to be alive so we can make money.
- 1:25:06Speaker 3: But like, literally, I think about them and I'm like,
- 1:25:09Speaker 3: one of the people that worked for me I recently
- 1:25:10Speaker 3: found out used to be homeless and thanks me all
- 1:25:13Speaker 3: the time for being able to do things for their
- 1:25:15Speaker 3: mother now and like it's fucking wild. I get random
- 1:25:19Speaker 3: texts from a lot of our staff at two in
- 1:25:21Speaker 3: the morning, love working with you, and I'm like, all
- 1:25:23Speaker 3: these niggas is wrong and it's such a good feeling.
- 1:25:27Speaker 3: But I think about that. I think about that when
- 1:25:28Speaker 3: I'm getting down on myself, like how dare you? Yeah,
- 1:25:31Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like you are helping all
- 1:25:33Speaker 3: of these people. I'm gonna leave my parents alone in
- 1:25:35Speaker 3: the world. And when I tell you, my dog no bullshit.
- 1:25:38Speaker 3: I was just being trauma queen one day. I was
- 1:25:40Speaker 3: like I don't be here anymore, and I looked at her.
- 1:25:42Speaker 3: I was like, who's gonna feed me up with those
- 1:25:45Speaker 3: little things? Like really got to bring you back. But
- 1:25:48Speaker 3: when running those businesses, I'm sure for people that are
- 1:25:50Speaker 3: listening that only have themselves, you probably feel like, well,
- 1:25:53Speaker 3: who do I fight for? You? Fight for your future self? Yeah? Right,
- 1:25:59Speaker 3: Everything is moment, Harry. When you're broke, it's momentary. Sometimes
- 1:26:03Speaker 3: when you get in a big check, it might be momentary,
- 1:26:05Speaker 3: Like everything is kind of momentary. It's just that feeling
- 1:26:07Speaker 3: that will last for a little bit, as strong emotions
- 1:26:09Speaker 3: only for a little bit, even when you're crazy in love.
- 1:26:11Speaker 3: It just kind of lasts for a period of time.
- 1:26:14Speaker 3: And I think that when we are down, we feel
- 1:26:17Speaker 3: like it's the end. But you've gotta have faith in
- 1:26:19Speaker 3: your future self.
- 1:26:20Speaker 1: Yeah, I like that. I'm a personally remember that. No,
- 1:26:24Speaker 1: now that I have Zariyah, my daughter, I'm like, yo,
- 1:26:28Speaker 1: if you leave and you the number one gangst the
- 1:26:31Speaker 1: soldier for her, ain't nobody gonna go harder for ze
- 1:26:34Speaker 1: than you?
- 1:26:35Speaker 2: Then then what's she gonna have? And I'm like, shit,
- 1:26:39Speaker 2: I guess, I guess that's it, you know what I'm saying.
- 1:26:42Speaker 2: But I do think too though.
- 1:26:44Speaker 1: Sometimes when you are having a bad day and you
- 1:26:46Speaker 1: have all these responsibilities, I'll.
- 1:26:48Speaker 2: Be like, well, how can I go? I got like
- 1:26:49Speaker 2: sixteen things planned next week that I have to get done.
- 1:26:52Speaker 2: I can't even take the one day off.
- 1:26:54Speaker 3: This is why they said they all done. There say
- 1:26:58Speaker 3: this thing about how you have to have something over
- 1:27:00Speaker 3: two week month. No, I think next days, week or month.
- 1:27:05Speaker 3: I can't remember what it is, but it's basically so
- 1:27:08Speaker 3: that you don't get to where you feel like you
- 1:27:10Speaker 3: have nothing. There has to be something on the calendar,
- 1:27:12Speaker 3: whether it be a workout, whether it be a nail,
- 1:27:15Speaker 3: something you scheduled for yourself. Even if it's not a trip,
- 1:27:18Speaker 3: it's dinner at a cool place. You gotta have something
- 1:27:20Speaker 3: because if you don't have that, then you feel hopeless,
- 1:27:23Speaker 3: like we need to have those things. My mother actually
- 1:27:25Speaker 3: gets like that. My mom's in her seventies. She gets
- 1:27:28Speaker 3: so bored.
- 1:27:29Speaker 2: I can't wait to bring the riots to your mom.
- 1:27:31Speaker 3: Oh my god, baby to bad. She does it with
- 1:27:36Speaker 3: random people in like restaurants, especially if they're like black
- 1:27:39Speaker 3: and cool. She just be looking at the baby. She
- 1:27:42Speaker 3: won't talk either. She'll just start to do this while
- 1:27:45Speaker 3: the mom's eating it's fine, and then keep talking to me.
- 1:27:47Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh, weezy, it was such a good
- 1:27:54Speaker 1: time having you that I hope that now that you're
- 1:27:56Speaker 1: in LA, or when you pop in LA, you.
- 1:27:58Speaker 3: Hit me up.
- 1:28:00Speaker 1: Please do and hopefully you know if you pass a
- 1:28:02Speaker 1: rich dude and you want to pull me to my
- 1:28:04Speaker 1: first school, I want to. I want to experience I've
- 1:28:08Speaker 1: never done it girl arrangement.
- 1:28:11Speaker 2: I will. I'm serious.
- 1:28:13Speaker 3: I want to chugger at the website.
- 1:28:14Speaker 2: I want to.
- 1:28:15Speaker 1: I'm gonna check it out and I'm gonna be texting
- 1:28:17Speaker 1: you girl. You would not believe it.
- 1:28:19Speaker 3: Financial domination, Financial domination. You got to make people feel
- 1:28:23Speaker 3: like shiit online and they just send you money for
- 1:28:26Speaker 3: doing it.
- 1:28:26Speaker 1: Really, I'm gonna I'm gonna look up all these pay picks,
- 1:28:32Speaker 1: pay picks, but thank you for taking time out of
- 1:28:35Speaker 1: be a crazy schedule to come visit and cook for
- 1:28:38Speaker 1: me before we close out? Can you tell everybody all
- 1:28:42Speaker 1: the different assets that you have and how to keep
- 1:28:45Speaker 1: up with you.
- 1:28:45Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm on tour right now, Horrible Decisions. This is
- 1:28:48Speaker 3: our final tours, the climax. We're not breaking up. We
- 1:28:51Speaker 3: just really are like, touring is a lot of work.
- 1:28:54Speaker 3: Can't do it. So check us out on her hive
- 1:28:56Speaker 3: dot com and Horrible Decisions. Visit if you're an up
- 1:28:58Speaker 3: and coming podcaster of a studio in New York and LA.
- 1:29:01Speaker 3: It's super affordable. You can literally record for sixty bucks
- 1:29:04Speaker 3: if you wanted to, or a thousand if you're rich.
- 1:29:07Speaker 3: And my TV show Sex, I was confused stream that
- 1:29:10Speaker 3: motherfucker because that's the place that got the most mouthed
- 1:29:14Speaker 3: to be so really just literally sit in streaming, not
- 1:29:17Speaker 3: really help.
- 1:29:19Speaker 2: No, I want to watch it.
- 1:29:20Speaker 3: It's really fun.
- 1:29:21Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm definitely gonna watch it.
- 1:29:23Speaker 3: It's a cute show. I go to a brothel this season.
- 1:29:25Speaker 3: It's not out yet, but I've become a processing really.
- 1:29:28Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I sat down with a client.
- 1:29:29Speaker 2: Oh, I'm definitely watching it was crazy.
- 1:29:31Speaker 3: My favorite episode of all time on there was when
- 1:29:34Speaker 3: my mom did phone sex. That was crazy.
- 1:29:37Speaker 2: I feel like I would be greatest phone sex by
- 1:29:39Speaker 2: the way, maybe you would, I would. I would be phenomenal.
- 1:29:43Speaker 3: Just so I covered the business that does it. She
- 1:29:45Speaker 3: teaches women how to keep them on the phone.
- 1:29:46Speaker 2: And like, I was in a celibate relationship, so I
- 1:29:49Speaker 2: will say.
- 1:29:51Speaker 3: I just got out of a simular relationship.
- 1:29:53Speaker 2: Really, I hated it, and I absolutely hated it.
- 1:29:56Speaker 1: I undred and then I got with my husband, who
- 1:29:58Speaker 1: was like the opposite, just a SuperH and I was like.
- 1:30:01Speaker 2: This is the best.
- 1:30:02Speaker 1: But it came out of a celibate relationship and ran
- 1:30:05Speaker 1: right to the opposite.
- 1:30:06Speaker 2: Oh no, yeah, you.
- 1:30:07Speaker 3: Need to do three times a week.
- 1:30:09Speaker 2: Yeah, But thank y'all for tuning in to another episode
- 1:30:13Speaker 2: of Eating while Broke. I'm your girl. Colleen, and this
- 1:30:17Speaker 2: is Wheezy, Bye y'all.
- 1:30:19Speaker 3: Bye.
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