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The Best of Eating While Broke 2024 Part 1 · Eating While Broke

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  Speaker 1: Piece of the planet, Charlamagne to God here and as
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  Speaker 1: we come close to closing out this year, I just
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  Speaker 1: want to say thank you for tuning it into the
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  Speaker 1: Black Effect podcast Network. There have been so many great
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  Speaker 1: moments over the past year. Take a listen to some
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  Speaker 1: of those captivating moments in this special best of episode.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, guys, Eating while Broke. I'm your host Coley Witt,
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  Speaker 2: So I'm really excited to have you. I feel like
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  Speaker 2: I did the grocery shopping guys. So I know what
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  Speaker 2: he's making us is extremely healthy and budget friendly. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: so go ahead. What are you going to have me
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  Speaker 2: eating today?
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  Speaker 3: So today we have overnight oats, very very basic. But
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  Speaker 3: the good part about it is you can get as
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  Speaker 3: specific and as curated as you want, depending on your
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  Speaker 3: budget and how many you're trying to make.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I thought this was like a yogurt parfe or something.
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  Speaker 4: It is it is.
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  Speaker 3: So the way it is is it has a liquid base,
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  Speaker 3: which is going to be like the oat milk and
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  Speaker 3: everything that's in it, and then it has the oatmeals
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  Speaker 3: that absorb, and then you top it with whatever types
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  Speaker 3: of like fruit and everything that you want on top
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  Speaker 3: of it. So you could get as intricate as you want.
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  Speaker 3: You could get as basic as you want.
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  Speaker 2: I'm nervous about this dish, but is this now? Is
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  Speaker 2: this considered vegan? No, huh, because the creek yogurt.
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  Speaker 3: It could be depending on your ingredients. But I was
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  Speaker 3: using what I had in my kitchen.
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  Speaker 2: I was actually shopping with my dad, and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I called bullshit.
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  Speaker 5: I called bullshit.
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  Speaker 2: He was eating this out of Mason jars, Like come on.
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  Speaker 2: But then I was driving and I was like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: technically it could be considered broke because your oats, your honey,
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  Speaker 2: your chi seeds, they're the staple, right, And I'm guessing
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  Speaker 2: oat milk doesn't go bad because it wasn't in refrigerated section,
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  Speaker 2: So the only moving parts of this dish that you
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  Speaker 2: would have to rotate out would be the fruit and
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  Speaker 2: the yogurt. So technically, i'm guessing based on this this
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  Speaker 2: this dish costs me about forty five dollars, guys, and
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  Speaker 2: that included the Mason jars. So typically I'm guessing this
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  Speaker 2: could be your breakfast for at least a week, and
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  Speaker 2: it would probably run you about twelve dollars if you
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  Speaker 2: already have the staple ingredients.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and for a lot of it. You have a
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  Speaker 3: lot of stuff at home. A majority of people have
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  Speaker 3: well my assagnsion, they have honey, they have oats, they've
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  Speaker 3: got some type of like milk or anything like that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: any milk can work. I just like oat milk because
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  Speaker 3: it's a little easier on my stomach. But I've used
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  Speaker 3: almond milk, I've used two percent anything that's good. And then,
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  Speaker 3: just like I was saying before, as you want to
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  Speaker 3: curate and make it more special, you can make it
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  Speaker 3: high protein by putting protein.
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  Speaker 4: Powder in it.
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  Speaker 3: You can add a lot of stuff. And then Mason jars.
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  Speaker 3: You could just get them from like the dollar store.
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  Speaker 3: The fruits are nice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can get everything pretty much affordable. All right,
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  Speaker 2: But when you make these at home, do you make
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  Speaker 2: them like on the spot, like when you're making cereal,
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  Speaker 2: or do you like have these in your fridge? Why
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  Speaker 2: the mason jar?
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  Speaker 3: So, the mason jar is good because it kind of
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  Speaker 3: ferments it, right. I usually make them the night before,
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  Speaker 3: so planning a lot of them, I'll do my meal
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  Speaker 3: prep for the week. So I'll make probably about five
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  Speaker 3: or six of these and one in one go so
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  Speaker 3: it's really really easy to make, but that's not the
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  Speaker 3: night before. If it's like, you can still make it
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  Speaker 3: like really quickly. It's just the flavor absorbs into the
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  Speaker 3: oat meal the longer you wait, so it could be
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  Speaker 3: really dense and kind of just not as hard to
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  Speaker 3: eat if you're just like really in a quick like punch.
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  Speaker 3: But you can also make it and plant it out,
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  Speaker 3: so the meal that you make that night before three
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  Speaker 3: days later would be even better and even sweeter from
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  Speaker 3: like the fruits and like the honeys and stuff that
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  Speaker 3: absorb into it the longer you wait.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just genuinely curious if you make it, say I'm
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, I love this dish. It's fantastic. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to make these at home. And I like to meal
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  Speaker 2: prep on Sundays. I'm a huge meal prepper. Okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but my whole thing is consistency. Like if I make
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  Speaker 2: this on a Sunday and I go and eat it
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  Speaker 2: on a Wednesday, is everything going to be like mushy
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  Speaker 2: and slow?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it depends if you go and put fruit
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  Speaker 3: in it and stuff, like the fruit eventually can start
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  Speaker 3: to get like mushy and things. I'm the type of
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  Speaker 3: person that I can make something on Sunday and eat
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  Speaker 3: the same dish over and over and over and over. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: if you want to make sure it's not like a
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  Speaker 3: crazy consistency, you can always put like the fruit in
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  Speaker 3: at the end. So when you're about to eat it,
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  Speaker 3: maybe just like Gardner shit and put it on.
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna say the milk was gonna make it nest.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's make it all excited.
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  Speaker 6: What are you gonna have us eating today?
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  Speaker 5: Well, what we're gonna eat is a breakdown. Some call
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  Speaker 5: it a breakdown, some call it a spread. So you
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  Speaker 5: got your ramen noodles with a little chicken breast, a
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  Speaker 5: little pinch of jalapenos, Sprinkle it with a little bit
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  Speaker 5: of doritos to add a little crunch to it. You know,
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  Speaker 5: I'm a grill. I'm a grill those I'm gonna put
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  Speaker 5: some cheese on top, add a little flavor to it,
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  Speaker 5: and we're gonna have us an old school breakdown with
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  Speaker 5: not all they agreed. It's just like one of the
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  Speaker 5: brokenst days.
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  Speaker 2: Now, this is is this well before Boone thugs and
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  Speaker 2: harmony or is this during after fiel me In this.
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  Speaker 5: Junior high, but elementary junior high, high school, twenties, thirties, forties,
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  Speaker 5: eating this all ot.
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  Speaker 7: And especially jail especially jail house too, because that's all
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  Speaker 7: you got, that's all Youah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's hilarious. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now, when you're cooking this dish, I'm really curious to
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  Speaker 2: when you're cooking this dish on this show, if you
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  Speaker 2: are thinking about your milestones that you have reached from
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  Speaker 2: cooking this dish, because you guys have a lot of
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  Speaker 2: stuff you've done. You have a Biggie Easy Tupac collaborations
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  Speaker 2: Mariah Carey. Right, you know, we got to touch on
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  Speaker 2: all these topics, but I want to know all the
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  Speaker 2: behind the scenes. I don't want to hear anything you
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  Speaker 2: guys said during any other interviews. I want to I
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  Speaker 2: want to be in the kitchen with you guys. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm hoping you guys can spell the tea lazy. You
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  Speaker 2: get on the cook you start cooking and take me
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  Speaker 2: take me back to the probably the og original time
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  Speaker 2: you started making this dish.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I started making this dishes earlier as I can cook.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we started cooking noodles very very early, you know, so, uh,
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  Speaker 5: it's from the beginning. Man, we want to elaborate.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you know we was, uh we had that's all.
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  Speaker 7: That's all you had when you was coming up even
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  Speaker 7: you know, five six years old, coming up out that
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  Speaker 7: ruder man coming out that ruder and everything. You know,
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  Speaker 7: we was, uh, from the router to the tutor, from
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  Speaker 7: the very very very beginning times. You know, you know,
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  Speaker 7: because sometimes even as little as a little g all
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  Speaker 7: you had was something that sometimes you didn't have hot water.
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  Speaker 7: Sometimes you gotta eat that muff fucker excuse my french y'all,
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  Speaker 7: sometimes you gotta eat it. Just put the water in
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  Speaker 7: there or whatnot and let it soften up and then
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  Speaker 7: go with.
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  Speaker 4: It like that.
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  Speaker 7: Sometimes you didn't have a chip. Sometimes you definitely had
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  Speaker 7: a breast and uh and the ingredients to go with it.
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  Speaker 4: And uh so you.
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  Speaker 5: Will have to put the top of the lid over
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  Speaker 5: there and just let it just simmer down and warm
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  Speaker 5: water because the noodles, you know, the longer they sit
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  Speaker 5: in news the water noodles sit in water, they swell,
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  Speaker 5: they get soft, so you know what I mean. So
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  Speaker 5: sometimes we didn't have the heat because we ain't had
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  Speaker 5: gas on at the crib.
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  Speaker 2: So before all the lifetime achievements and all the accolades.
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  Speaker 2: Can you guys take me back to a time when
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  Speaker 2: you were making this dish and time wasn't it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: looking good and maybe you guys were just at the
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  Speaker 2: crosshoads of.
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  Speaker 3: Despair.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe can can any of you guys elaborate on.
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  Speaker 7: About the Vasilia when the Visilia went like like we
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  Speaker 7: had on one of our stops up we had a
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  Speaker 7: stop on here coming out here. We had been out
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  Speaker 7: here for like two maybe two and a half maybe
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  Speaker 7: three months. We uh, we moved up to Voselia and
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  Speaker 7: this is before the easy e. This is before him
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  Speaker 7: taking a song and uh and uh, you know we
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  Speaker 7: was we was rough necking it real tough, real real
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  Speaker 7: tough up there. You know, we had came up on
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  Speaker 7: the little apartment you know that we ended up ended
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  Speaker 7: up actually spreading graffiti on the walls and ship o.
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  Speaker 4: The apartment was really bad.
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  Speaker 7: They was bad, you know what I'm saying. They sprayed
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  Speaker 7: a b boy on the wall and you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 7: not giving a damn about you know, getting kicked out
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  Speaker 7: and nothing like that. But yeah, it was you know,
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  Speaker 7: we was doing a couple of things to come up
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  Speaker 7: come up on a meal and everything and not again.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we go like rob a piece of man.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, we'll hit up, but we'll hit up, you know,
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  Speaker 7: eighteen nineteen.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, so it was it was easy.
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  Speaker 2: So it was before easy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was before easy.
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  Speaker 7: You know, we had to do the thing, you know,
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  Speaker 7: the north Ridge earthquake had just remember that we got
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  Speaker 7: we got caught up in that and then so but
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  Speaker 7: we was we was we was on some real struggle
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  Speaker 7: ship for real.
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  Speaker 2: No, you guys could so were you guys all just
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  Speaker 2: living in a one bedroom apartment trying to pursue music
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  Speaker 2: or one.
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  Speaker 7: Bedroom, two bedroom apartment that we shared. You know, it
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  Speaker 7: was all of us, all of us together, and you know,
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  Speaker 7: we had a couple of homies that knew somebody had
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  Speaker 7: to have two friends that was out here going to
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  Speaker 7: school playing ball.
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  Speaker 4: They had was.
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  Speaker 7: Holding down a little. I forgot what type of job
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  Speaker 7: there was, but they knew. They knew folks that can
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  Speaker 7: help us out and put us, put us in places
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  Speaker 7: as we was trying to get get it, get to
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  Speaker 7: get to our goals.
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  Speaker 4: You know. So we're done, baby special.
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  Speaker 2: That's a really good looking grilled cheese.
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  Speaker 8: Look at that.
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  Speaker 4: The cheese is bubbling, guys, it's bubbling over and it's
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  Speaker 4: a little buttered in.
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  Speaker 2: I just learned a trick and making grilled cheese. What
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  Speaker 2: is it to stack a lot of cheese in the middle.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, cheese is actually a pretty staple ingredient.
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  Speaker 2: To the grilled cheese, I know, but I usually just
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  Speaker 2: put like one or two. Yours is like, first of all,
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  Speaker 2: you did it really.
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  Speaker 8: Impress I tell you, I tell you, I tell you
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  Speaker 8: why though that's why you're healthy, though you said you
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  Speaker 8: were healthy before.
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  Speaker 2: Look at the like the even colored color. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if it's you did a really impressive grilled cheese.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, yah, just low and slow. Okay.
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  Speaker 8: So look, so I'm there and they're like, okay, so
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  Speaker 8: it's Saturday. So the five hundred bucks that you were
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  Speaker 8: promised you get that it's Saturday, so you get double
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  Speaker 8: the session fee on that plus like whatever you get
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  Speaker 8: like a holding fee and all of that stuff. So
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  Speaker 8: them making like three thousand dollars for this commercial, let
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  Speaker 8: me tell you what kind of American I am.
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  Speaker 6: I come home.
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  Speaker 8: And I'm doing my unemployment and it asked if you
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  Speaker 8: made any money? Yep, why I put the money on there.
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  Speaker 6: Why, I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: I've seen niggas get the death penalty for less. So
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  Speaker 8: so I put so, I put the money on there.
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  Speaker 8: I put the money on there, and this is what happens.
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  Speaker 8: They then readjust my unemployment quarterly.
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  Speaker 2: Like me, yeah, I would have told you not to
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  Speaker 2: do that so quarterly.
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  Speaker 8: So it goes from being I go from getting five
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  Speaker 8: hundred dollars a week in unemployment to seventy five dollars
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  Speaker 8: a week in unemployment. So I go, Okay, this is
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  Speaker 8: the deal. It's not obviously, they don't think a nigga
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  Speaker 8: can live off this. So I'm just gonna go up
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  Speaker 8: to the unemployment office. I'm gonna talk to these people.
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  Speaker 8: That's why I'm my deal. I'm gonna gout to the
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  Speaker 8: uneployment office. I'm gonnak to these people. I'm gona straighten
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  Speaker 8: this whole thing out. So I go up there to
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  Speaker 8: the unemployment office in Pasadena. I'll never forget. The lady
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  Speaker 8: was like, baby, ain't nothing we can do. It's in
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  Speaker 8: the computer. I was like, uh, I can't live on
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  Speaker 8: this blah blah blah in the computer. So I needed
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  Speaker 8: a job. I had to have a job.
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  Speaker 4: But you know what.
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  Speaker 8: The funny the ge let that commercial ended up like
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  Speaker 8: making me that commercial ran.
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  Speaker 4: Oh shit, I.
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  Speaker 6: Didn't know anything.
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  Speaker 8: I didn't know anything about being a commercial actors. So
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  Speaker 8: I would get a holding check every now and again,
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  Speaker 8: and then I started making money off the commercial.
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  Speaker 6: But that's later. I didn't notice.
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  Speaker 8: I came home, and when I came home, I was like,
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  Speaker 8: I have to find a job. I pulled up entertainment
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  Speaker 8: careers dot net. The first job was TMS tour guide.
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  Speaker 6: You were a tour guide, yep, it was being a
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  Speaker 6: tour guid.
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  Speaker 8: TMZ was starting a tour, and the tour was like
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  Speaker 8: you go around to different places and you show people
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  Speaker 8: different things that happened like on TMZ, like we would
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  Speaker 8: show you where Josh Hartnett got diarrhea. We would show
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  Speaker 8: you where my Richards fucked up at the laugh Factory.
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  Speaker 8: It's actually a pretty good tour. Actually, I was one
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  Speaker 8: of the first GUIDs on the tour. I was the
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  Speaker 8: first guid on the tour. So actually a little bit
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  Speaker 8: of pride in the fact that we were able to
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  Speaker 8: jump that off and make it a thing, because it's
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  Speaker 8: still going right now, right, So I get in there
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  Speaker 8: and I do that. I apply.
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  Speaker 2: That's a brilliant concept now that I think about it.
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  Speaker 8: They revolutionize the whole tour game. So I apply, and
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  Speaker 8: they're doing the tours like American Idol. They have all
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  Speaker 8: of these tour guys in there, and then every week
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  Speaker 8: they cut a guy. So I'm in there and like
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  Speaker 8: they have me coming in there and whatever. I get
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  Speaker 8: the whole thing. I start with the TMS tour. This
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  Speaker 8: goes through to about everything I'm talking about. I start
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  Speaker 8: with the TMS tour. I think April of twenty ten,
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  Speaker 8: maybe it might be twenty eleven, whatever it is. I
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  Speaker 8: start with the TMZ tour.
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  Speaker 4: Then by.
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  Speaker 8: You lie, I started in March.
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  Speaker 4: By July, I'm on TV every day.
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  Speaker 8: Within a couple of months, Harvey came.
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  Speaker 4: In took the tour.
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  Speaker 8: I was up there doing my thing, and I told
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  Speaker 8: a joke and he liked the joke so much that he.
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  Speaker 4: Brought me in and put me into the.
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  Speaker 2: Newsroom.
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  Speaker 4: Into the newsroom.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, okay, So then you get this newsroom opportunity, Your
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  Speaker 2: pay goes up. Benefits.
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  Speaker 3: What are we looking at?
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  Speaker 8: So this is the way it was working. I was
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  Speaker 8: making money because I was getting tips on the tour.
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  Speaker 8: So I was probably making fifteen hundred dollars a week
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  Speaker 8: straight cash off the tips on the tour. I was
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  Speaker 8: killing these motherfucking white people. I was killing them.
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  Speaker 3: I was.
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  Speaker 8: I was fucking killing them. And then you would you
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  Speaker 8: would come in and you would have like people from
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  Speaker 8: there was tourists, like they were from Australia, they were
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  Speaker 8: from Canada.
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  Speaker 4: There was the thing that we do on the tour
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  Speaker 4: to where.
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  Speaker 8: If you see a celebrity on the tour, you stop
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  Speaker 8: the bus, get off, you shoot the celebrity.
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  Speaker 4: And when you're driving.
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  Speaker 8: Around in LA at certain times, if you know where
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  Speaker 8: to go, it's impossible not to see famous people. Like
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  Speaker 8: if you were coming to LA and you and you
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  Speaker 8: were hanging out with me, and I was like, hey,
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  Speaker 8: you want to sit around and watch celebrities all day?
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  Speaker 8: There are three or four places I could tell you
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  Speaker 8: where it's going to happen, and so we would see him,
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  Speaker 8: and I'm a good spotter.
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  Speaker 4: I would spot celebrities and we would see him and
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  Speaker 4: the people would go credit. We all kinds of people.
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  Speaker 8: Fucking Lady God got Leonardo DiCaprio, David Beckham and just
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  Speaker 8: the other niggas that be around.
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  Speaker 4: Just niggas that be around larious.
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  Speaker 8: You would just say, you know the people I'm talking
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  Speaker 8: about in La, they just they'd be around. You see
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  Speaker 8: them all the time, Like, hey, weren't you in Yeah,
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  Speaker 8: like you see them. The funniest thing was b T
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  Speaker 8: Wars weekend right because there would be all kinds of
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  Speaker 8: celebrities that I would recognize that the bus wouldn't know
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  Speaker 8: who they were, and so the bus wouldn't believe me
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  Speaker 8: that these people were famous. I'm like, yo, I don't
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  Speaker 8: know if you know this motherfucker two number ones.
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  Speaker 4: We ain't never heard of him before.
• 15:55
  Speaker 8: I don't know he signed to Luducris and Them's that's like, actually,
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  Speaker 8: I don't want to say the guy's name, but like
• 16:02
  Speaker 8: that's actually that guy is a huge singer, Like you
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  Speaker 8: guys should probably care about him.
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  Speaker 4: Wait, don't know, fuck them?
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  Speaker 6: Keep going, Oh no, what's going on? How do you feel?
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: Charlemagne the God also known as hip hop's Howard Stern
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  Speaker 2: really best selling author of books Black Privilege, Shook One,
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  Speaker 2: and most recently, Get Honest or Die Lion, Why Small
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  Speaker 2: Talk Sucks. In addition to all these accolades, you have
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: invested close to thirty years in the radio broadcasting industry.
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  Speaker 2: You're the founder of the Black Effect podcast network.
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  Speaker 6: Where you can listen to eating while broke, where you.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: Can which you yourself is literally the only reason why we're
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: able to do this interview. In addition to all that,
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: you are the creator of Black Privilege Publishing. I read
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: this quote. I was hanging out in my dad's apartment.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: He had this quote on the wall and I took it.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: And the whole irony in this quote is that he
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: actually took it from me. But I read this quote
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  Speaker 2: and I thought of you. Excellence is never an accident.
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  Speaker 2: It is always a result of high intention, sincere effort
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  Speaker 2: and tell direction, skillful execution, and the vision to see
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  Speaker 2: obstacles as opportunities. Now I thought of you because just
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: reading all your books, I was like, personally and professionally,
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  Speaker 2: it seems like that has been your journey. Absolutely absolutely,
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  Speaker 2: So I gotta ask, what is the broke dish that
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: you would have had us eating in my studio?
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  Speaker 6: I really don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I was racking my brain when they kept telling me,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: and I watched the show and I'm like, they kept
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: you know, you got to have a broke dish and
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I didn't really have a broke dish coming up.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: And the reason I say that is because even though
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: we were poor, I didn't realize we were poor until
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: I got older, because you know, I grew up in
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Monks Corner, South Carolina, and you know, when you grow
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: up in a ruined area like that, everybody is pretty
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: much doing the same. Like, you know, you might have
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: a couple of individuals who got a house that's better
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: than yours, but for the most part, people were growing
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: up in double ye trailers and we're growing up in
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: you know, like small subberns like my grandma used to have.
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  Speaker 6: But the one thing.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: That we always had was food in funny food, funny
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: and family literally, you know. So it's like the things
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: that people would call broke meals or the things that
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: I still love now, Like I love grits and eggs.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: You give me some scrambled eggs with some grits and butter,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: I'm good.
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  Speaker 6: Like my grandma used to make this.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: She used to make cheese toast. So she would just
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: take the toast. My mouth started water and thinking about it.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: She would just take the toast and like you know,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: put the butter on the center and then put a
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: slice of cheese and literally warm that up.
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  Speaker 6: And I would drink that with a cup of tea.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: And now that I think about it, I'm like, oh,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: that was like the meals that they were giving us
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: because that's what they could afford to give us, like
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: even you know, but it was amazing that it still
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: tasted good.
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: Like it don't make me feel like something.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: It's something that I still enjoy now, you know, so
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: to me, that's not It might be a broke dish,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: but I still love it.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: I love hearing guests say that they were broke but
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: they didn't realized they were broke. But in those types
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: of cities, what I did notice is that, yeah, everyone
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: looked the same. But what differentiated kids from knowing whether
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: they were broke was at least I don't know, we're
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: close in age, but it was the like kicks, Like
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: were you going to school with the cool kicks or something?
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: So or nah, I ain't had none of those.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: My dad, I remember, I wanted they used to be
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: these boots called high tech boots, and my dad they
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: they saw the boot leg version that pay less, and
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: I wanted them so bad that I'm like y'all get
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: the bootleg version that.
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: Pay less, and they didn't.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: The kids didn't noticing me.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Well, no, I woke up one morning and my dad
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: had the high tech sitting by my bed.
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  Speaker 6: So I was like, oh, shoot, you know what I mean.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: So I actually had the real you know, all black
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: high texts, you know, So I didn't have like the
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Jordans and all of that stuff like that. I don't
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: I don't even what kind of sneakers did I have.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Back then, But I'm saying in that environment, that wasn't
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: the thing that differentiated a poor kid from it because
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: in those environments everyone's technically in the same economic structure.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: But I remember growing up in upstate New York where
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: even though we were all kind of in the same category,
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: there were some kids that would go to school wearing
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Jordan's or Nikes, and then they would look at the
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: kids and say, we're payless and be like, okay, you're poor.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: And that's how as a child you knew you were poor.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: But the people who had the Jordans and stuff when
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: I was growing up with the drug dealers for the
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: most part, you know, I mean, either the drug dealers
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: are like the football players because you know, people in
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: their minds like all these people are going places, so
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: you know, let me throw them some shoes or something
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: like that. But for the most part, the drug dealers
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: had to fly kicks that I remember, you know, growing up.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: I don't even remember what I didn't. I'm trying to
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: sit there and try, like, what did that wear back then?
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Sneak awise, I had some converse because you know, Snoop
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Dogg came out in like ninety two ninety three, so
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: we had the converse all stars.
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: You know, That's all I could really think of.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: So take me back to the cheese toast, which by
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: the way, I did have. On the show. Someone had
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: did it with sugar and that was impressed.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Mine was stray cheese toast, the butter with a slice
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: of cheese, cup of tea. That's what my grandmother would
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: give us. And I can even still right now think
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: about that, that feeling of having that, like it was
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: just an amazing meal. I can't remember that. That wasn't
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: even breakfast. That might have just been like, yo, you
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: just got home from school. You might get some cheese
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: TOAs with with with a cup of tea, you know,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: definitely like I said, gritch and eggs for breakfast.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: And you keep referencing your grandma's house. Is there a
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: reason because did you stay with her?
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: No?
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Well, when I was young, my mother, my mother was
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: a school teacher, you know, and my grandmother was a
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: lunch lady. Right, So you know, I grew up in
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: the era when you was in fifth grade.
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: You know, you.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Get I could get dropped off at my grandma house
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: and wait there till the adults come. And you know,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: I would never dare do that with my kids now,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: but you know, just back then, life was different. So
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: I would literally wait till my mom came home from school.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: So I spent so much time, you know, at my
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: grandmother's house. Like so, yeah, I spent a lot of
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  Speaker 1: time over there. Again, thank you for tuning into The
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