The Small Business Safari
Have you ever sat there and wondered "What am I doing here stuck in the concrete zoo of the corporate world?" Are you itching to get out? Chris Lalomia and his co-host Alan Wyatt traverse the jungle of entrepreneurship. Together they share their stories and help you explore the wild world of SCALING your business. With many years of owning their own small businesses, they love to give insight to the aspiring entrepreneur. So, are you ready to make the jump?
The Small Business Safari
Unleashing Radio Rebel: Southside Steve's Journey | Southside Steve Rickman
Southside Steve Rickman shares his journey from radio personality to entrepreneur, revealing how corporate radio's restrictions pushed him to bet on himself and build multiple businesses on his own terms.
• Began in radio accidentally by filling in for a voice talent at 96 Rock while working at an ad agency
• Became known on "The Regular Guys" morning show for outrageous stunts including being shot with BB guns
• Developed a loyal following but faced increasing corporate restrictions on content
• Was fired with no severance despite being a top revenue generator for the station
• Opened a Smokey and the Bandit themed bar while still working morning radio
• Faced challenges from skeptical family members during the transition to entrepreneurship
• Currently developing "Yeah C'mon" bourbon brand aimed at blue-collar consumers
• Runs his own radio platform on My Fox FM where he follows FCC rules but not "corporate woke rules"
• Maintains an optimistic outlook despite setbacks: "Even if it's half full, it's full"
Check out the Yeah C'mon Show podcast on YouTube, and follow Southside Steve on social media to keep up with his latest ventures.
When you came out of high school you said I'm going to go be the monkey at a radio station and work my way up. Is that what your plan was? No, I never even thought of radio. I was the guy because you know, you're the clown in class and it was me and another guy that were probably considered to be the funny guys in school, and it was always acting or stand up. So, coming out, I got a job. I was doing some acting and trying to get trying out for roles. Movies in beijing, usa, with chuck norris was here. I had a speaking role in that and then, uh, because they weren't on his cell phones, they changed the date and they tried to get a hold of me and couldn't. And then they got a hold of my girlfriend's mom because I gave them every number I could think of and when I showed up she goes you need to, they want you on the set and I got there. The scene had been shot. I missed out on my talking role with Charles. That one hurt.
Speaker 1:I was just an eight, I was a 19 year old kid, so comedy. I always thought about doing standup. So when I decided to go into college at Georgia state, that's kind of what I did. I got on the radio there just to get used to being on the microphone. That was it. And also I was playing soccer at a high level. So I had scholarship offers and I stayed behind to the girlfriend who was the hottest girl in high school and it took me until the summer of my senior year to land it. And I had to go up against the big jock that had the four-year scholarship to Tennessee in the ninth grade. And we had a showdown where it was going to be me fighting him because he said he was going to beat me up at school. And I'm like, no, you're going to beat me up in your front yard, I'm not getting expelled, nor am I getting embarrassed. So I knocked on his front yard, little Jack Daniels, and he came to the door and I said I heard you wanted to beat me up. Here I stand and the guy backed down. All right levels of owning your own business that can get you bogged down and distract you from hitting your own personal and professional goals. So strap in Adventure Team and let's take a ride through the safari and get you to the mountain top.
Speaker 1:Alan, after four years of complaining, I got to pay for everything. No, alan, I was celebrating the fact that I haven't had to pay for a couple of years. That's right, a couple of years I haven't had to pay, got a couple and we've had people come in and bring some charcuterie. We've had people bring in bourbon. We've had people making our own old fashions or his own old fashions. That was nice place. Man, I'd be a lot more grateful. You should be. That's exactly what my scheduler said at the office before I left. It's just such a little bit. She said it was our employees. She goes. You know what I think. Next words, the word of the year should be grateful, because these guys are ingrates, damn. All right, man, we've got to have some fun. I've been looking forward to this one. You have been looking forward to this one.
Speaker 1:We have an Atlanta legend. He doesn't want to hear it, but he is. He doesn't even think he is. He's been around for a little while. I didn't notice that company. That's his tag right there. We got Southside Steve. So this guy I moved to Atlanta in 2001.
Speaker 1:I started listening to this show called the regular guy. So we'll get into all that in a minute. And they had this guy. Come on and you always said, yeah, come on, guy. And they would always make him go out and do stupid stuff. Oh my god, did he come in and then he tell him what he was doing? They're doing things. I'm like they can't do that. I mean, howard stern doesn't do that. Did they just do that on radio? They didn't just do that on their heels.
Speaker 1:So, um, it was like they got together like what can we make steve do? And then he would just do it. Yeah, yeah, pretty much it, which is scary, uh, when you're, when you're that guy, uh, yeah, it's like, hey, let's just have you smell things. We'll call it smell it, steve, and and then you don't have to smell anything gross, unless you can't. It's a smelling bee, that's, we're going to give you a word to spell and if you can't spell it, you have to smell something. And these are your choices.
Speaker 1:I remember that one too. It's horrible. Here's a dead rodent, tim Andrews. Somebody's belly button that doesn't shower regularly. I mean, it was this and that was easy. Shoot, steve was the worst. I don't think you shoot me with a bb gun if you got something wrong. Yeah, and they pump it based on every time you missed one. You got another pump, and if you get a chin pump supposedly it was like a 22 and I had to dig one out one time go get a technician shops. That was fun.
Speaker 1:So all that time too, I thought just bits, I just thought you're on the radio. There's no way they're really shooting the guy we we met and find out, oh no, no, it's all true. All that true, all that. And then some I'm like, oh my Lord, now there are morning shows and I'll tell you in radio and I don't know about podcasts, anything on camera, you have to really do it. But when you're not on camera, you don't.
Speaker 1:None of us were on camera in the nineties and early two thousands, but for us we're like no, we're not doing anything fake, it has to be real. So there were nights where, you know, I would. Just I couldn't get audio, I couldn't get what we were looking for. Nobody went to the bathroom, for In my Stall and I went to three locations. It's like nobody was going to that night. So you give up, you know, because God forbid me fake it, you know. And so it was all real. Everything talking with the homeless, messing with the homeless, doing anything we did in the studio had to be real. Everything you heard was true 100%, and I don't know a morning show like that, other than maybe Opie and Anthony and Stern, especially when they started filming. But that's the deal. And now there's shows out there that everything's fake or there's only one person in the studio. They're doing it from their home.
Speaker 1:Now podcasts have become a pretty big deal. Yeah, so this is a not fake podcast. We do it all. This is real. We're just at the real deal. We've got Southside Steve, steve Rickman but what we're going to talk about is we're going to talk a little bit about his background and we is going to be a lot of fun because this is a lot different journey than a lot of us, but it's also got a lot of the same similar stuff.
Speaker 1:Well, you're both very successful business people. I had you on my podcast. You know I love a good small business and somebody that's doing that. So is that really the niche? You're trying to see what people are doing out there. So it's very centered around business or people that are just trying to do what they want to do. So more about trying to be successful at small business, because, as we all know, nine out of 10 of them fail within the first year, and what we're trying to do is help anybody who's thinking about starting one, or I'm in one. Let's not fail. Let's not F it up like Chris did and get to after 17 years actually still letting people go and having a bad time. You're almost there, chris. Keep going. I'm going to keep going. Don't give up, chris, because I've got to tell you you're doing something right, because I had to basically be checked.
Speaker 1:They did an anal check too. It was crazy. At the front gate they're like bend over. I'm like, and cough. I'm like what? Do you see? Your ID? Do you have a passport? Where are you going? I know which guard it is. Yes, he is. He is way serious. She goes again where are you going? And wanted me to repeat it. I said I don't have it memorized, but here it is, and I showed her the information, I gave her my license and then, finally, I was cleared in.
Speaker 1:And then Chris tells me do not park in the driveway, it's for homeownership. Only Buy a spot on the street and don't talk to any of my neighbors. That's what I did in here. So you're doing something right. So there you go. So now we know exactly. Don't you feel lucky to be here, steve? Oh my God, I've never been invited in the subdivision.
Speaker 1:It was a podcast that got me in. Hey, in four years maybe you might get an invite on the Chris. You know we're going to play golf and we're going to let Alan come caddy for us. You don't play. He does play, but I never reminded him about the course with me. I have played his course at least 10 times, but never with Chris. Never with Chris. And you guys, alan and Chris, here you're celebrating your four-year anniversary of a podcast. I'm so happy to be here for your birthday of your podcast. I guess it's your birthday, its anniversary, whatever, it is Way to go. Four years doing it and you got a sponsor. We got a sponsor. Everybody Applicants very excited about pushing them and talking about them.
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Speaker 1:Qualified applicants Megan and Tina are running a great recruiting shop over there. They attack recruiting like marketing, not like recruiting. So they're looking for people to help you but they're marketing your business and your culture and then helping to screen profile and then present good candidates for whatever. Everything from hand-to handyman all the way up to my general managers have been hired through them and they've done a great job. Where a lot of people in the past I've tried, didn't work, I've done it on my own, didn't work. Uh, these guys have done a great job. So that's qualified applicants dot com. Big shout out. How about that? All right, let's keep going. All right, you're on it, you're natural. Yeah, you really know what I was built for the radio, god knows. No, here we go, all right.
Speaker 1:So, steve, when you came out of high school you said I'm gonna go be the funky at a radio station, work my way up. Is that what your plan was? No, I never even thought radio. Uh, I was a guy, because you know, you're the clown in class and it was me and another guy that probably considered to be the funny guys in school and it was always acting or stand up, so, coming out, I got a job.
Speaker 1:I was doing some acting and trying to get trying out for roles. Movies in Beijing, usa, with Chuck Norris was here. I had a speaking role in that and then, because of one of his cell phones, they changed the date and they tried to get a hold of me and couldn't. And then they got a hold of my girlfriend's mom because I gave them every number I could think of and when I showed up she goes you need to leave, they want you on the set. When I got there the scene had been shot. I missed out on my talking role, which I haven't heard. I was just an eight. I was a 19 year old kidold kid, so comedy I always thought about doing stand-up.
Speaker 1:So when I decided to go into college at Georgia State that's kind of what I did I got on the radio there just to get used to being on the microphone. That was it. And also I was playing soccer at a high level. So I had scholarship offers and I stayed behind for the girlfriend who was the hottest girl in high school and it took me until the summer of my senior year to land it and I had to go up against the big jock that had the four-year scholarship to Tennessee in the ninth grade and we had a showdown where it was going to be me fighting him because he said he was going to beat me up at school. And I'm like no, you're going to beat me up in your front yard, I'm not getting expelled, nor am I getting embarrassed I getting expelled, nor am I getting embarrassed. So I knocked on this front yard uh, little Jack Daniels, and and he came to the door and I said I heard you wanted to beat me up. Here I stand and the guy backed down. All right, that's the only reason I'm here today. But I had a Leatherman in the back. I was going to hit him with that, not, not not the knife thing, but just that little hunk of metal on a piece I had. Some bad friends are like you might want to hit him with this if it gets ugly. I'm like what is this? And they show me how to use it and I'm like fine, but you're right. So I do all that.
Speaker 1:I play sports and I took on jobs, whatever it took to pay the bills, bartending. I bartended at the Top Night Club, so I was making good cash there like everybody else paying the bills going to Georgia State. And then I started working for an ad agency. That's how I got into radio. One of my voice talents didn't show up at 96 Rock. So I had a script for a bungee jump client where everybody was bungee jumping and we had somebody to scream, somebody to talk. I hired him. The dude doesn't show. And they're like I said I'll do it. So I said what voice do you think? And I said I'll do it. So I said what voice do you think? And I did like six voices. And he goes no, that's great, do that. And I thought wow, so he goes. Have you ever thought about being in radio? I go. Well, I'm on the air at 88.5 Georgia State. He goes give me your tapes. Next thing, I know I'm doing weekends on 96 Rock. I have a business background, so I was the right person to be a producer for Christopher Root and the Wake Up Crew in 95 and I never looked back. So that was your path. In. That's it absolutely.
Speaker 1:Did you ever do stand up? I do it now on any kind of promotion. I've done it before. I've done it at the punchline, just playing around. What I do is there's like when we got blown out at 96 Rock when they flipped it to Project 961. I'm good friends with ron white, so ron goes all right. So I said I'm gonna go down there and practice some material. Why don't you bring me on stage on? Whatever money we make, we'll give it to your fund. You and I said okay. So I opened up for ron. I've opened up for um a few people at fox so I go out and do five, ten minutes. I can make observation. Usually it's picking on somebody in the audience or a situation, so I kind of improv it. I've taken a lot of improv classes and that's my ability. You know the president of Leading for Ron White Right, george Carlin was the other one.
Speaker 1:I ran out for 10 minutes for George Carlin at Fox and I was back with George and the best one of all, charlie Sheen, on his blood tour. I interviewed him and he was going to the Fox and they call me that we want you to open it up and bring, bring on Charlie Sheen and do about 20 minutes. I said hell, yeah. Next thing, you know, and I'm living in Castleberry, downtown in the loft district, I got two, five, 11 and 46 outside the house interviewing me and, uh, you know, I go down to the Fox and hang out with Charlie for about two hours backstage and his big burly protection guy I don't know who he was. People told me he's been in movies, he doesn't look big as hell. And we just hung out and I realized then Charlie is totally crazy, he can be normal, but I've interviewed him a couple times and been around him, so we're kind of even on a first name basis. I don't know if he'd remember me now, but I did his blood tour. So him, george Carlin and Ron White are the people I brought on stage and done.
Speaker 1:If I had to rank him, though at the time I'd say probably Carlin would be the biggest of the three. Oh God, right, 100%, yeah, he's my rush for it, yeah, rushed for it, yeah. Yeah, I love ron white. I've been to a number of his stand-ups, uh, which he's amazing, but he's, he's just filthy, he's easy. That's the easiest comedy I think is just talking about one of your many ex-wives. That's entertainment, it's easy. But george carlin got deep. He was political. Some of the things that guy has said are now coming true. He was pretty spiteful, intelligent man with his own style, all right, so. So you're hitting the highlight. You are on your way. You're thinking, man, I'm going to be national here pretty soon.
Speaker 1:There were a couple opportunities. You're right. If I had gone out to California, I knew Jimmy Kimmel early and I knew Adam Carolla before they started the man show and Jimmy was doing Lynn Benstein's money and we were all out in Miami together for about 10 days and around Ben Stein and he was the one paying for all our bills and there was a chance to go out there. They'd just gotten done with K-Rock. Who knew that Jimmy would get the Tonight Show and Adam Proll would go on to be one of the biggest podcasters, next to Joe Roach and us, of course, and the Yet Come On podcast. Thank you very much. The Yet Come On Show podcast. Please have like it on YouTube.
Speaker 1:I don't know about y'all, but I don't mind begging. I'm like I just need the lots. Alan doesn't like when I beg. No, whenever he begs, I'm like come on, just like that. These are cheers. What else do these people have to do? Just like it and help me. The small business park we're going after adam carolla. You know I used to say smart list, but uh-huh, let's go.
Speaker 1:Yeah, adam and jimmy are polarized now and it's like you know, I've been in the green room there and what it was there was a moment in time. It's because the regular guys introduced me to them because they had been in la and they knew them, and then they were out and then the guys kept coming on our show. We got to know them and we would do the invites and then we all agreed to meet different places. So I hung out with Jimmy God for probably the first five or six years of the regular guys from 98, 2003, 4, and went and saw his show a few times. Right now they changed. Yeah, jimmy's changed a little bit from the man in the show. He would have canceled himself. Yeah, he would have hated himself. Yeah, yeah, he would have. He would have hated himself. And Adam's still the same dude, exactly.
Speaker 1:But basically the stories I can tell you. It's like having a smokey in the bandit bar that I had. Because I had this vision, because I saw a movie being filmed in off terror Boulevard and in that area and also right at our church where the jump was, I saw the scene with jackie, police and talking to two officers. Jackie talked to us along about nine or ten people there, and I was one of them and it just imprinted on me. So then you open a bar and you do things. But then I got a chance to meet burt reynolds, where you watch these movies, and you're like, oh my god, I've interviewed kevin costner twice now, you know, and you're just in. So it's weird. That's the weird thing about radio being in a major market the big names come through and they have to push their, their projects, all right.
Speaker 1:So let's fast forward to the end of the regular guys and I think again talked about how romantic it was for a lot of us who never were in that stuff. And then you know me, charlie sheen and george carlin, and right, two days a week somebody was famous coming in or comedian every friday for the fun salon. It was just, yeah, unbelievable. You'd say, well, why would I go start my own business when I've got this thing right at my fingertips? Well, you know, one of the things I think you've mentioned and I never thought about this is that it started to starting to get really corporate and then, 2000, corporate america reared its ugly head and ruined it and ruined it, bought you guys and then started putting all kinds of rules on you and you became. You became the guy in the cubicle, yeah, the guy actually punching the computer.
Speaker 1:So everybody can relate to this one, right, if you've ever been in the corporate world, the guy sitting in a cube. All of a sudden you're like like, but no, I'm a big talent man. I mean, I met Rick Reynolds. You can't put me in, you can't put baby in the corner, no, but yeah, we can Watch this. Yeah, they've got. If you're on a morning show, it's your only chance. If you're doing middays, even afternoons, long as you have ratings in the morning show, you still have a little fu power. But uh, it got to the point that they were like don't talk about politics, don't talk about this, don't talk about that. And it's like damn, it got. It got tough.
Speaker 1:And then I got in trouble for a joke. I told on the regular guys on a different morning show on the same radio station, now a different company owning it, and I'm fired, and then locally to get my job back out of New York, and they're like well, make an example of it. Ten days suspension. They wanted me to do community service. I told them to pound sand because I did a Michael Jackson. All I did was say I can say I'm fired. We've already done it. It was a joke, you got me in trouble.
Speaker 1:So basically I said look, I don't think Michael Jackson was all touchy-feely with kids. I think he was a kid at heart, very wealthy, he liked to talk like a kid, play with kids, he liked to wear pajamas and have kids sleep with him. He just had that inside because life probably for him stopped at five or six when his father all of a sudden just made him a rock star. You know, that's, that's always defending michael. Then I said but if it's true, you know I've got, I've got a kid. I, you know I could drop him off there, spend a couple weekends and if something happens, well, we never have to work again, you know. And uh, and I'm sure the lawsuit will provide some really good counseling and you know we'll get through it as a fan. Oh, come on, that's nothing, that's an easy one man. Come on, that's 10-day community service.
Speaker 1:One dude called in who had gone to Touchy Feely Camp and I guess he had been through something. And he's like this is what happened to me. I was five, six years old and I had an adult and Like this is what happened to me. I was five, six years old and I had an adult and I'm going to call this group, this group, this group, this group, and we're going to show up and they freaked and all it was. I find out later from our producer. He goes that guy hates you, he writes stuff about you all the time. He just finally landed in his backyard. So that's when I knew corporate stunk and I was loyal.
Speaker 1:And those of your listeners right now that work in the corporate sector, I'm the guy that if you came to me and said, hey, you know what, we can't, this is what you deserve, but we need to do this because you know what. This is what we need for the company. You know we're going to get a vehicle. Can you just? Can you do this one for free? Can you endorse the? I was always yes, yes, yes. Team player, thought we were building something. Yeah, you get taken care of eventually, right? No, no, they yanked the rug out from under me.
Speaker 1:Everybody thought that I had gotten money and I'm like nope. They fired me at the end of a three-year deal, a month early. It said zero severance. I was the biggest moneymaker at Cumulus. Nobody would tell you, different from anybody who talked to the country stations, or even the Burt Show. And I got nothing, nothing. It was a roadblock for me. And then they want to hold a non-compete. I'm like, wait, you blew me out, gave me no money and you turned Rock 100.5 back into 99X and I can't go to work. Yeah, and they had. You know, it was brutal. So I said never again. I'm in business for myself from here on out. So here we go, and that's the thing you know. I think a lot of people go.
Speaker 1:I choose to go into business, but, as we've had so many people on the podcast talking about is, don't always choose it. You gotta choose as you decide. You know what. You know what. I'm gonna bet on me, man, I'm gonna start betting on me, I'm gonna do it. So now you gotta go all right. Well, now what? So? What was now? What? Now what is tough? And now what is really tough?
Speaker 1:When you have a uh, a corporate father-in-law that's the vice president for Georgia Pacific and you have a wife that thinks like him to that degree. So they're like wait, you don't have a job, there's no benefits, there's nothing. Wait, what about insurance? Well, guess what? We have catastrophic insurance and we've got like $12,000 deductibles that we're never going to hit and as a family we're like 90 grand. We need to be in a accident where all of our bones are broken and, jim, maybe we'll spend the 90, but someone is going to have to have a nasty disease Then maybe.
Speaker 1:So it's just messed up and she freaks out. But then you're like, okay, I put some money in the bank but I owned a bar that cost me almost. You know that cost me 400 grand. And then you look at what you made and you're like, okay, I've got this amount of money from this and this and my HSA, all right. Next thing you know, wow, whittled through that 18 grand on HSA and you're like I haven't put money in it because I can't. And you know you realize your income's at a third and that's when you have to look and you have to be very strong. But what I'm telling my wife, as I said, the, the pressure from you or my father-in-law or anybody else, is only trying to help it. Just it just messes you up.
Speaker 1:But when you do at least what I do and maybe others, if you're thinking about a podcast, you're thinking of an angle and you're trying to figure out what an algorithm is. From youtube to whatever you're doing, you are, are in creative mode, and creative mode looks sometimes like you're goofing off. It's like the person goes now I'm going to do a documentary on Westerns, so I need to watch about 100 Westerns. Baby, just leave me alone. I'm watching movies and it looks like you're goofing off, but you're not. So I'm two years into that. Every year has gotten better on income and now some of the things are coming together. So I think next year will be a great year, but there's no doubt I'm tight. I've never been tight before, not in 25 years, 30 years, right? So let's talk about this one.
Speaker 1:Were you always an optimist? Would you say I'm optimistic or pessimistic? Optimistic Always have been True trait of an optimist that glass is full. Even if it's half full, it's full. I will BS it with myself. Yeah, and I get called a dreamer by some people. You know, I've been called that, you know, but I'm always that guy.
Speaker 1:All right, would you say? Put up against knots to go like somebody's going to shoot you with a B Are you a problem solver? Yes, I am. I'm going to stay still for the last second. I'm going to move real quick so he doesn't hit me. Where he's trying to hit me, or because he's an idiot, I'm going to draw a face on the back of my calf because I'd rather get shot there than somewhere else. We just said no headshots.
Speaker 1:But you're right, it was crazy doing those kind of things and then you realize that through that, the two hosts just really one's trying to keep you down. What the hosts don't realize in radio and this is in a lot of things, whoever's in charge they think that they're the focus, they think they're everything, and I don't think it's narcissism as much as it's just they're broken and this is their chance. But by dogging somebody or going after somebody or putting somebody else through it and I'm not gonna go interview, uh, this actor, you know what, steve, go down, talk to, uh, talk to kevin costner, you do the interview. Our jack nicholas is in town. You go talk to him. Well, I go do it and you have fun beating me up on the interview and where I've maybe made a mistake or something stupid, I said but I'm the one at Sickle Picture, I'm the one that met him, I'm the one that got the, the interview and what they did is they really made me the number one guy? You know, um and and. In my second morning show, same kind of guy. He did the same thing again and it's just like that's what built my career. So I never had to be in charge for the first time.
Speaker 1:Now, on a morning show, I'm in charge and I'm trying to still host like a fun guy. You know, and not try to. You know, unless I'm talking, we lose. That's not my attitude. It's basically on who. What reaction can I get from the audience?
Speaker 1:So what I took from that, alan, is keep on doing what I'm doing. You know what I'm saying. What do you mean that? Absolutely not bad. No, what you mean by that Is Chris feeling this as Steve's talking? Alan, does that bother you? Do you think Chris talks too much? Alan, let's look at your podcast. I mean you're both. I don't know. Let's see. Hang on a minute. Hey Alan, what'd you say? Oh, wait a minute. Don't you hate the mute button? I've had them pressed on me a couple times. That sucks, they'll cough button. Don't do that. You know it. But that's a great play you just talked about. You know this guy's putting you down, knocking you down, but you're out there.
Speaker 1:I'm optimistic, I'm gonna go make this thing happen. Oh, I love job. I loved it. Well, see, yeah, and I can tell you and it's weird because now I guess I will say something nice about myself Nine out of 10 listeners told me the same thing, and now there were people out there that identified more with them, whether it's the type of person or they thought that they were very smart and brilliant and they had their fan base, which was enough for them.
Speaker 1:But nine out of 10 definitely liked me. They were listening like what's he going to do or say next? So I think it meant liked me. They were listening like what's he going to do or say next? So I think, man, unpredictable, that was the howard, stern thing right in the movie. You know why do people listen? Because they want to hear what he's going to say next, and that's why I used to listen to 96 rock when I got here, because I wanted to hear what was going to happen next. And steve, and when he told us, oh yeah, they used to shoot me with a bb gun.
Speaker 1:If I got the wrong answer, I had a budget. I'll go ahead and call them out because that company is no longer in business. $180 a week. Massage parlor review budget Nice, anything over that is on you. Okay, I can stop at a third base if I need to. I'll save up two weeks to our own run. Hey, yeah, promo, that's a straight line, all right.
Speaker 1:So you're out there, you're trying a couple things and you and I talked about this and so let's talk about you're going to see which one of these things hits. And as a businessman I was like, okay, so he's got his voice talent. He knows how to do radio, obviously, knows how to interview people, has access to people. So there's a radio app, sure, to people. So there's a radio app Sure, right, there's. I can go do local shows and do that and make some money on that one. But then, or don't, become a positive motivator. You know, go out and do the corporate thing and say here's what you need to do to get fired up, and so again, you gotta wake up and you gotta look in the mirror and say I'm the one. You know.
Speaker 1:I love how these guys say they all come up with their own. I don't think that was pretty good. Actually, it could be better than half the ones we did. I know that's probably what I shouldn't be doing. But you got the third thing. And then you said man, I really love bourbon. I did. We all know on this show we're drinking that right now. We love to say that I don't know she is. She knows. Skip over the heart attack, let the heart attack go. And Chris, who am I hearing upstairs from our lovely home here as I look out at your swimming pool with waterfalls and those are leather. I know that's not pleasant. I'm complimenting you and your bar, but just move around upstairs. Yeah, that's my wife. Who's not going to listen to one. Actually, one second of this has not listened to one, not even two seconds. It's a four-year anniversary of not listening for her. That's right. Guess what? My wife is the same.
Speaker 1:When I was on the radio, they all listened because they were afraid, especially when I was dating her, when we were getting married, and even to the kids, everybody listened. The second I got on a station where there's smaller signals and you can out-drive it, but all you got to do is put it in. This is the future of the world. I'm on my Fox FM. All you got to do is lock that in on Apple. They're getting it on Google and Android and all you do is just hit it in your car or wherever you are, and you can hear me anywhere in the country 6 to 10 am, but people still they can't hit it on the radio. They don't want to mess with it, at least with my family. None of them listen to me anymore.
Speaker 1:You know more about what I say, both of you, than they do now, but there was a time where they did so. You're right. It's gotten weird, so now let's talk about it more. That's right. I'm like you're not going to listen, I'm going to vent. Feel better between her and my daughter.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can only imagine what his future father-in-law was thinking, because you said he was the ceo like, yeah, he's a georgia, pacific, and the dude is, uh, four and a half years older than me and uh, he's like, oh my god, my daughter's bringing a dude in with a ponytail. It looks like he works in strip clubs as a dj. And I sent her to auburn not like my other two daughters that were very smart and got into Georgia easily and cheered for Georgia and I spent $40,000 on her education. I dropped $1.60 on my oldest daughter who was dating the perfect frat guy who had family in London and family here, and now she walks from him and gets suckered into this dude's personality and he's 22 years older than her and the only thing that guy ever said and I respect him for it he said are you okay living the last 20 years of your life alone? That's all he ever said. That's it. Wow, yeah, and that was it.
Speaker 1:But you know what you talk about his age. It's the last ditch. There's another line I'm going to use when my daughter brings some dude home, wipe it over, guy, yeah, anybody. I would just say, hey, look, that's what he told your daughter. I mean, it was a good answer. That's what he told her.
Speaker 1:If he had that conversation, I thought he had that with you. No, he had it in front of me. No, no, he had it in front of me too. And I was like, well, yeah, you're right. So then what do I say to that? As a guy that's quick on his feet, I just went yeah, you know what? We could have two kids and she could get terminally ill or be in a car accident and pass. And I lived in 99 and I'm dealing with everything. I would have gone the other way. I was at the end of it. I hope sugar dad number two is good. Well, I told him. I told him I'm like, as long as you take me out with no pain, I'm okay with it. That's right. You know what? Let's have a fact, right, we'll think and swear yeah, she knew us from this.
Speaker 1:And the Georgia Pacific guy who never started his own business, never took the leap no, no idea what he's doing right now out of college into this, this, this and this, and he just crushed it on what's that stock that everybody invested in and I didn't. Nvidia, is that? It Damn it. Sorry, I didn't have any of that. We got the same guy that looks at our who I sent him to. Nobody said anything to me about NVIDIA, but he owns some. He crushed.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, now he's doing what you're doing. He's moving across the street into the old gated community. That's right. Well, you know what? You won't be able to find him either because you won't be able to find him. No, I can't get views. You've got a watchdog out there. That's right, baby. He even told me don't park in his driveway. And what he already told me not to, I know. See, he actually told, told me to go to the back gate. That is so funny. Now, that is not. That's after three and a half years. That's not nice. And see, I'm like nobody gives Alan the back gate. What the hell does it do, back gate? Maybe I need to wash my truck, me too. I don't know if it's in the truck, I don't think the shit likes trucks.
Speaker 1:I know you get the age difference, and that's one thing. I know you get the age difference, and that's one thing. There's a bigger one, though. Now you're on your own. He's like hey, let me see your W-2. You don't want to see my W-2. Guess what? I don't got one.
Speaker 1:So I have a W-2. How do you have it? Because, with my company, I draw a salary, because, as an escort, at this point I've started to draw a self. That's how you do it, al. That's right, damn it. But you look, my wife looks at me. It took me years to figure it out and she goes wow, you don't make any money. I'm like oh, thank you, because I looked at your W-2. I'm like honey, this isn't like the W-2s that we had in the corporate world. I said this is a little bit different. Guys, wink, wink, munch, yow, yow. I remember the best, richer, poor, better, worse. I mean, come on, at one point I thought I want her to prove the love. We're doubling down on all the bad stuff. I'm like, guess what I'm really I am, it's just a test, yeah, and guess what I'm thinking about for like two years of doing nothing. And then I'll be cheering all of a sudden and then you talk about why you own your own business and then we'll look at who's been using all the travel rewards this year. Not Chris, tell me about it. My wife is guys.
Speaker 1:La, where Phoenix, new York, now Chicago, hold on a second. That's a lot of travel Four years. It's like where's Big Daddy been this weekend? I don't know. I gotta tell you I was in Vegas. Steve and I just shared a place and he just came back from Keelah, which is another Big Daddy Big World. You tell everybody in Atlanta I went to Keelah and when they say I don't know me, like I don't know.
Speaker 1:I had several people pose up a picture and go where are you, I go if you don't need to talk to you anymore. I'm moving on. No, I had several people pose up a picture and go where are you, I go if you don't recognize that flag from the fact they have a tournament there every two years. Then we're not talking. Who was that? Somebody come down? No, absolutely Right there. Absolutely me. I want to meet people. No, I love guests, I love being right in front of here. We'll go off, but uh, no, I I know I love it, but I I get what you're saying and, like you know, the one thing that I cannot let go now it's probably attitude status.
Speaker 1:She took my harley, she took my shelby. She made me sell all my toys, my dirt bike, everything that either I could get hurt on or was worth money to live up in milton. So we're here, I'm on the golf course. I gave her the lot. You know we're on the right lot and as my mother-in-law put up and she looks at the house, she goes. You know what? This house has coupons. There's not much you can do with it. I'm living in an S-Box and you're praying to God. I can redo every room in this house. That's what I want to hear. That's trustedtoolboxcom. Trustedtoolboxcom, for all your overbear and remodeling needs. Thank you, steve. I know your crew can help me. You got my guys. Like you. Make your mother-in-law's dreams come true, chris. Trustedtoolboxcom.
Speaker 1:I've listened to Steve. We've talked to Steve on his podcast. You and I met him at Beach and Party, which, again, beach is the ultimate connector. I had him on the other radio show I do here locally and he is an amazing wealth of information. By the way, on mortgages, steve Beach, hometown Realty I love him. Hometown Mortgages we tried to talk about mortgages when he was on the pod but he's like rates suck. Let's talk about something else I know, talk about burning. You drive a hometown mortgage vehicle everywhere you go. You got that old red truck. But you're right, he's solid, he's a connector, he loves doing for the community and I dig that. Yeah, he's doing some great stuff in Elfrid, out of the town of Elfrid, bringing in shows, bringing in the stuff. So you know what? No, but he's the one that brought us together because I got to chat with y'all both that night and I walked away going. That was worth going. Yeah, yeah, man, no, it was great. Hey, dude, you too. And then the other guy that writes books, rick Coleman. Coleman, we had him on too. Yeah, y'all were my highlight, you three.
Speaker 1:And I loved the story on how you put your ass out there, the same way I'm doing, and you know and you guys are doing it. But there's something to be said. If you can deliver and I think as long as you do a good job and you instill into your employees to do a good job, then you're good. And for me, you know like the bourbon thing, you know the, yet Come On bourbon. They came to me at Legends, which is out of coming Georgia, and they're like hey, we'll do it, do you want to do it? I'm like, yeah, then I find out you're here. You know here, three years into it Now I'm going into the fourth year that Atlanta beverage was like, yeah, it gets you, get Steve and air personality, somebody that can help push, to help you with your brands. Now we're talking Turned out, mine tasted better than maybe anything else, especially on Trice Point, and there was a jealousy behind my back.
Speaker 1:I wasn't being pushed, I was giving a deal that was basically the good old boy, like 500 bucks a pallet when we sell it and we have this extra amount of money that we'll put in marketing or advertising and if we need to draw from it personally, we want to pay ourselves more we can. I never saw that money and I was like, okay, and I had an out clause. So I'm like I want to thank Legends for doing such a great job at making my bourbon doing a fantastic job. That, for me. Is that me or you? Because that is tacky, I thought I cut my phone off. Is that you at all? No, it's me. It's a liar. You know what I know. There's still georgia. Who the hell do I know there? Nobody, nobody. Here's a guy who's been in this media for yeah, I know it years, and that's what I do. That's a south side steve. Is I'm the one that's gonna leave their phone while I get yelled at and you and your car are laughing, though, and that dude still hadn't learned. I still haven't, you know.
Speaker 1:Tell me what's going on with the bourbon. Yeah well, the bourbon thing is I yanked it from. I didn't yank it, I sold Legends. I want to have more of a role in it and I think in rather just messing around with it, I really want to go after it. So I'm talking to several distilleries now and it's just getting the taste profile right. I've got another bottle on the way in from a great group called Second City. Another bottle on the way in from a great group called Second City, they're in Augusta and they're in South Carolina and they went to UGA and listened to me and they're helping in their short barrels out there and a few other people that I'm like, all right, let's just see what somebody can do and then go back into it.
Speaker 1:And then it's like you know, you get your deck together, which in advertising means basically everything, your whole plans for the business, everything from how you're going to advertise it to how you're going to manufacture it, and you've got to figure in their money and what you think is going to come in and do an investor pitch. And I've got a few people that are interested and I just want to get the investor pitch down. This is so interesting. I mean there's so many things. I mean it's an entrepreneurial story, but there's a couple of things that are really different. One is he's got a lot of avenues, he's got a lot of verticals that he can play with.
Speaker 1:Which one do you go for? And here, instead of I've got this recipe, how do I get it out there, he's got a brand and then how do I backfill the recipe so that then we can take it to market? What an interesting. Yeah, it really is, and for me it's the smoothest, most affordable 80 proof in the market. And that's what I want Something smooth that you don't have to mix, that you can drink it on the rocks or you can drink it straight up.
Speaker 1:And I'm doing it for the white collar, blue collar guy. Uh, you know, um, that that digs, it works hard and buys a bottle too. But the no collar guy really has appreciation for it too, because he may only get a bottle every two weeks and I'm his guy and he's going to be drinking what would be a $60 to $70 bottle and I'm selling it at mid-30s. So I love his story there. But what I really love is that he's got a passion to do this. But let's go back to the branding and advertising part of this, because, you're right, he's got a number of verticals. He's got to figure out which one's going to work for him, because at the end of the day, as I just had somebody tell me, hey, man, are you making any money at that, I'm like, no, not really, why keep going? I'm like, well, I know it, dude. So I love this because I think you know.
Speaker 1:Personally, I think the yeah, come on bourbon. While it's good, it is very good, but the story and the guy pitching it here locally. Because when we're drinking bourbon we want to talk about the story. We want to talk about Uncle Nearest, right, we want to talk about the bourbon trail, going up there that he'd done, or the one that's got the 9-11. Yeah, we had the oh gosh. I don't know, not worship, it's a soldier or soldier, that's right. Wow, got a great story. So the story. So when we're drinking a bourbon, you can tell a story over the bourbon. Then you have community, you have connection and the people go, hey, maybe this bourbon is the best. You know what? I don't even know what bourbon is supposed to taste like, but I don't know the connection. I love the story. This steve Steve Rickman's got this thing called the yeah, come On Bourbon and he's got a story about how he put it together and why he wants to have a no-collar guy be able to drink it. I mean, that's the story, right.
Speaker 1:When I was on the Bourbon Trail, one of the tour guides said, uh, bourbon is the extension of a good conversation. I don't think I've ever heard that, but I like that. Yeah, just shut off your phone, which I did. I apologize now. Thanks for the phone call. Thank you, I know what you mean. Chris. Get on his phone. That's the phone call. Yes, yeah, but I expected him. I'm like, hey, shut up, that's it, and that's something. That was hard, man, but you're right, and Something like that man, but you're right, and it is the story, it's the whole reason.
Speaker 1:I even did the bar. It's the Smokey and the Bandit bar. People don't realize that it was all there. If you went there in those first two years 08 to 10, you saw it. You saw there was only, of course, light allowed on one or, of course, a banquet on one side of the bar Couldn't get on the Georgiaorgia side. You saw the awning and it looked a little, you know, kind of okie panokie georgia with the old tag and the texas side had old texas pictures and anybody famous came in the jack daniel statue. I had both nascar drivers sign it. There was a lot going on and you just and I had the movie play and I had the most attractive girls ever and I had them coming out of buckhead and they were dancing on the bar and wife started getting pissed.
Speaker 1:So I ran and I was in the wrong place, mcdonough. No offense, it was not the best place for me to start so that let's go back to that bar because he didn't take an entrepreneurial fit. But you have, you were still. It's kind of your silence. Right, it was, it was fun.
Speaker 1:But to run a bar and dig mornings on a show, and that's what people don't realize. And anybody out there that's radio personalities. Trust me, if you're not getting it done, if you're not entertained, if you're not affecting ratings or bringing in revenue, you are gone. You know. So when I'm working with two guys that are as intelligent as Larry and Eric and fast, they're fast thinkers made no mistake about it. Regardless of how they treat people, they're quick and you know. And to find your edge and survive and build a brand like Yet Come On, or any of the other palm tree thing where I would have to draw palm trees, there's certain little things that I started that just kept reinventing itself.
Speaker 1:And then you earn it and you realize I'm in a quick room. I've earned this, you know, and it's tough. Anybody, I mean it's not for the faint of heart. There's no doubt there is no job security other than that contract. But they can get out of the contract they want. So let's go to DeVar. Yeah, devar is the thing.
Speaker 1:And my point to that and I didn't finish is because that pissed them off, because they're like what are you doing, man? You're here, we're at the top, and I just threw it in their face. You see, your salary, your salary, this is mine and you're well aware of it, and I'm busting my ass to get close to your salary, doing four gigs a week, guess what. I have every right to capitalize on what I do and do what I do, to do what you do and get what you get. You're not fighting for me, you're not going in there saying, hey, we all three need to make the same. So that was my angle.
Speaker 1:But running a bar is so hard when you're getting phone calls when they're closing up at 2 am, your alarm's going off at 4.30, and then somebody lets you know that something horrible happened, or there's a fight, or there in a suit, because she weighs 300 pounds and she jumped off our stage, which you're not supposed to jump off of in six inch heels, and she broke her ankle. And now I gotta pay for it, what I gotta pay for you being a dumbass who jumps off a foot, then you gotta make sure your stage was the right height. When you can't get sued, you know, and it's just like the suit thing is what got me. But running a bar and just the actual stress of five years and doing a morning show is tough. I do think a bar can be successful and you've got to be there and a morning show can be successful because even when I was tired I had stories to tell about my bar. You know whatever had happened that night when I was down there and all they were looking at was fun and content. But it's stressful, it is. We're in the business, even if it's a side hustle. But it's stressful, it is. We're in the business, even if it's a side hustle, because you had a salary, even if the thing didn't work, you're all right. So people talk about that with side hustles, but you just hit on the big thing. It is hard, it is taxing and it's not for the faint of heart. You've got to be able to problem solve. And guess what, if you thought you were working hard at your business, you're not just doubling up and I don't think there's enough hours in the day sometimes. But some people side hustle and the idea that they're trying to do they don't watch it.
Speaker 1:The name of the bar was smoking the minute no south side steves. So are you kidding me? I'm gonna say how did you get that name? No south side steves. No, but it was a smoking abandoned theme bar and burt reynolds knew about it. When I met him, he knew about it. We had conversation. He had friends in the area Burke was so thick in Atlanta, especially in the 70s and 80s A lot of people knew him. The word got out what I was doing and he loved it. I even had what was the other guy that sings this song about Jerry Reed? Jerry Reed's daughter came and visited at the bar. He sounded like a sick little girl.
Speaker 1:The bar ended up failing. It did, it did, and you know what. It failed because of community, and sometimes you don't understand the dynamics. City councilmen were telling me I couldn't use a 3,000, no, excuse me a 7,000 square foot wooden deck with a bar. They were saying the license wasn't there for it and I couldn't get it. It turns out the ex-owner of it was trying to get the building back. His friends were on the council and then I get that overturned.
Speaker 1:But I got a guy that knows everybody down there, but he's a little crooked and his wife does the books, and I don't know what I'm being stolen from, but the bar's open and it's just one of those things. And then we do. What every bad person does is you see what your crowd's like and you see the other people aren't coming. The wives won't let the good old boys come because they're afraid they're going to have sex with one of my waitresses. I'm like, if your marriage is that weak, really, is that my problem? And then you turn it into the last year, year and a half hip hop bar. Now that's a win and that's when everything went to hell and I'm just like we're done, you people.
Speaker 1:I find out there's videos, the two chains and all these other people being filmed in my bar and I didn't even know it. And then I find out all my managers are having after parties drinking my liquor and the food is going to all the single guys. And then I see bands from my cash and I wonder my sister mary was a brand new flat string in his house and I know what I'm paying him. And you're like I mean, I got endless everybody's ripping me off and then, if you say anything, it's like they want to schedule a walkout or they want, or somebody wants to kick your ass. You're the asshole. Yeah, I'm instantly the jerk and they say horrible things about me down there. Still, people that work, people that work for me. I'm like you'll never know how good I was and how bad you were to me. You bring friends in thinking they can help Local friends that ends weren't meeting. They were living a hard life. I had a lot of friends blue-collar friends. I'm bringing them in trying to make them some extra cash, and then they're on the tape. You're like, oh my God, and it hurt to close it, but I closed it because I didn't want to be anyone's military kid and I didn't want to be a source of people that were looking for a quick way out.
Speaker 1:Lawsuits, lawsuits kill bars, especially if you have kind of. It just depends on where it is, but everybody was looking to sue for something. It's like like I think people spilled their own water, slip and fell just to say it was my fault. You know that, honest to god, happened and it's hard to say that now. It's easier to say now than 2013, when I was on a huge stick and and it was fresh. Then people get upset. But I think it's 2025 and I can say it.
Speaker 1:So your podcast is now the place I'm choosing to say a little bit. I, I love this. You know stats limitations are gone. Take that shameless. It's your four-year anniversary and I am sticking with. We're dropping some bombs. Yeah, man, yeah, it's a bomb. We're going to have a protection program.
Speaker 1:People on here Now. We got people calling out people. I think you just put water on there and slip by yourself. That's. Yeah, he did Morgan and Morgan this, that the other. I'm tired of hearing from Morgan and Morgan. I had a relationship with them. I'm like can I send you a case? You tried to sue me every other week, but you know what? I think it's got to feel safe here because it's an engaging community and once you're in it, then you know nobody else can get it Because of how hard it was for you to get it. Yeah, I, I was supposed to be here and it was hard to get in this podcast, right, you can say anything you want. Nobody's going to come get you. That's why we got Mafia.
Speaker 1:We can't leave them though, chris. We can't, chris. No, I can't. Everything I've said now will come back to haunt me when I get on the open road. I'll flip the detail on. I'm going to send a couple, the black man. You got the allen bedroom here in the back. No, I don't need a bedroom, I'll take the couch because I want to be near tv. We're fine, I'll call my wife. I'll see you in a year. I'm under protection, protection and if you have to leave, don't worry about that black suburban behind you with everything blacked out and it doesn't have a license plate. You're fine, it's all good.
Speaker 1:So, steve, you got a lot in front of you though, man. I mean you've got a lot of dust, I do. You know what's going on. It takes energy, and I've got a five-year and an eight-year-old. That's the grind. I mean I love them and I want to be around them, and I'm trying to be around them because doing what you want to do, you and I, and a vacation, you don't have to ask anybody You're like, is it the right thing to do? But I can do what I want.
Speaker 1:That's another one that I think I felt for the first time ever when I started my business, that my time became mine. Now I worked more than I ever worked in my life, and I worked very hard, and I know Alan did as well, but I started to become not Mr Third Inning at the baseball games, I became the coach. I didn't become the guy you never saw at school because, unless again, once the kids had to get called in, but at school once a quarter I'd go in and see me at school, dropping the kids off and going in and making sure that the and you're like honey. Does that count? You know, I was actually honey. I'm taking part. I dropped him, I dropped him, I took him. It was a day off, so I need to go.
Speaker 1:How long do you think the president is going to be there? That's a good one. President stayed. Who knew? I forgot all about that. I came out of the bank and I was like, well, man, I dropped him, I, I dropped them, I went at them. She goes. No, they're not working. I'm like, oh yeah, right, I'll be right back. No, but I also got to see the. I got to see the teachers face to face, eye to eye, and I got to stand up and put them in those little chairs. And let me know how bad of a dad I was. I get to stand and see my eye, baby, I love it. I love it. All right.
Speaker 1:So we got the yeah, come on, bert. You've got the MyFox FM. How can people find you? Let's get into this stuff because we're almost done. Yeah, man, for me it is tough because I try to make it easy.
Speaker 1:So on Facebook it's just Southside Steve Rickman or Steve Rickman, but I'm maxed out because I give you like 5,000 people. So, but Southside Steve is what they call a fan page, but Southside Steve is what they call a fan page, and I got into that. And Instagram it's Steve Rickman. And then on Twitter, which is now X, I have everything. I have the, the yet come on bourbon. I've got the Southside ride, which is your name on my morning show, and then I also have a Steve Rickman on that, or Southside Steve. You can find them all, but it's all right there and that's a good way to fall, because I post on all.
Speaker 1:So it's a tedious job. You do something, you know I post here instagram, or I can share instagram, but no, I can't do this, can't do that. And then there's the yet come on show podcast, which you could find on youtube. That's where I'd like for you to watch it. You can get it wherever you get yours, but that's the number I can see. And youtube's cool.
Speaker 1:And if, if I just get to 10,000, which I'm there with listeners, but I'm not there with YouTube by any means I know, did you mute yourself? I muted myself, you muted yourself, that was a mismute. No, it was a mismute, but I will tell you and it's funny, I just put a replay. I just put a replay up on TikTok Y'all are a mess. A replay. I just put a replay up on tick tock yellow mess.
Speaker 1:You hating on yourself. I dig that, alan. That's really nice. I can't do that. I love myself too much. I really do. I can't hate on it. I respect your ability to do that now. But if you go to tick tock uh, I just got one right now. It's got about 32 000 uh views just in in 24 hours, but it's a replay.
Speaker 1:People think it happened to me. I pumped diesel gas in my diesel tank at DP because the color green screwed me up and it was true as hell and everybody thinks didn't you do that a couple of years ago? I'm like no, same story. I just reposted it and it's just to get views. Sometimes I hate playing that game and I don't really want to play the game, but it just helps as far as monetizing. So I feel like all the crazy stuff I did that you guys know. Now people are doing that and it's daniel tosh or these other people that are crunching. But imagine me doing in my stall now if it was new on the radio, like it was 20 years ago. So all I'm trying to do is use history. I'm trying to repeat things and do things and just not be creepy.
Speaker 1:I colored my hair today. It was very gray until I saw you guys, and I took pictures of me doing it, because I'm not faking it. I'm letting you know I'm doing it, but it's just. If you perceive me in my mid-40s due to my energy and how I look, then I'm not as creepy as if I was doing it with a full head of gray. You as creepy as if I was doing it, you know, with a full head of gray. You know what I mean. So that's part of the game too.
Speaker 1:Appearance in what you want to do, it's the appearance of looking younger, having that energy. Yeah, this is me. It's me. Don't. Don't freak out, guys. I'm trying to show y'all, all right, what I did today, but I want people to follow me. Yeah, I might be saving our heads for the little prior top luck. No, no, we have a lot of hair. You look creepy and that's what I. No, you look creepy if you have the gray hair and you're doing stuff.
Speaker 1:People that shave their heads, you're great. That's Jason Statham. Stuff, man, you look great. That's you, alan. My brother shaved his head and he's like smartest thing I ever did. I don't have to worry about it, it's cool and you're timeless. Yeah, you're.
Speaker 1:Hair tells a story, that's true. It does. It says I'm old or I'm fighting it and I'm shallow. I'm all the way above. And that's enough. Guys, this has been a great episode. You can learn something, man. That's on you.
Speaker 1:I hope you guys have a good time. Drive around in your truck doing your walk, doing whatever you got to do. Actually, I've heard that people are actually listening to us trying to work out. I'm like that's not right. Don't do that. No, dude, go ahead and bang into music. Those are us. I'm talking 96. I know, by the way, I do have to make money. So my Fox FM. Please follow us on an app. Just go to your Apple phone Buy-Box-FM.
Speaker 1:The show's the South Side Ride at SouthSideRidecom dot com. All of us posted. We got three national bits on there. I'm pretty proud. Right now I'm kicking corporate radio in the nuts and everybody knows it because they're all my friends and you know it's good times. I obey the FCC, not corporate woke rules. That's a reason to listen to me. There you go. Do you want to come over to the nuts? Yeah, come on. I love Fox desk FM. We'll put that in the show notes. Go kick some corporate nuts. Go out there and make it happen. Go make some money. Go make it happen for you and your family. Yeah, that's a gig. Qualified app gidscom. They sponsored us. But hit me up, chris, because I've got another person coming into the studio next week. There we go, baby, we've got to go. Cheers everybody. Thank you for listening to this episode of the Small Business Safari. Remember, your positive attitude will help you achieve that higher altitude you're looking for in a wild world of small business ownership. And until next time, make it a great day. Bye.
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