The Brunch Hour Podcast
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The Brunch Hour Podcast
Milk and Honey Bowie, MD | From Savory Bites to Savvy Insights
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Have you ever found yourself chuckling over a brunch faux pas or nodding in agreement at the mention of "chicken and waffles" being a brunch staple? Well, you're in good company here on Brunch Hour. Join us as we whisk you through a smorgasbord of conversations that venture beyond our plates and into the very fabric of our lives, sprinkled with laughter, candid anecdotes, and the occasional runny nose mishap. From debating the controversial chicken and pancakes to rating our recent, and thoroughly enjoyable, outing at Milk and Honey, this season is shaping up to be our most relatable yet!
Dining out isn't just about the food—it's about the experience, and we're dishing it all out. Erica from Milk and Honey stole our hearts (and our hunger) with her five-star service that left us musing on the impact of exceptional customer care. But it's not all biscuits and praise; we also get real about the meatier issues in life like financial literacy and relationships. Ever wonder how your partner's spending habits might affect your future? Or how my own podcasting adventure soared to new heights with a little support from my other half? We're peeling back the layers, revealing how these conversations are as essential as a perfect side of home fries to your brunch.
Wrapping up our feast for the ears, we put on our dance shoes and step into the delicate world of first date etiquette and gender dynamics, tackling the ever-controversial 'who pays' debate while attempting to translate Gen Z slang without losing our cool. And for those of you who've made Applebee's your go-to dating destination, we're discussing the social intricacies that come with being a regular. So pour yourself a mimosa, pull up a chair, and let's brunch together—earbuds required, appetite for laughter and reflection recommended.
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Speaker 1Alright, guys, check it out. Listen, we're back for another season of the Brunch Hour. Alright, I know it's been long Pause. I know that you've been waiting. Now listen, normally I have like a monologue at the front end of this.
Speaker 1I didn't do it, I couldn't find anything, but I want to tell you a quick story. So this season we're on tour, basically. So it's going to be a long season. It's going to be a long season, but it's not going to be a lot of episodes, but a long season Nonetheless. We actually happen to be in Bowie, maryland, right now.
Speaker 1Alright, so the next one, shadr, says hi, she'll actually be talking in two seconds, anyway. So again back to the monologue thing. I don't have a monologue today because I basically was I don't want to say lazy, even though it might be perceived as such. Anyway, so let me tell you about me going to get a fit Around my way. There's a store right Like a sneaker store blah, blah, blah clothing store. It's the Urban clothing store. Those are hard to come by now that TikTok and Instagram and all this other stuff in Amazon. You order your stuff and then it gets shipped to you. You don't like it, you chip it back. You know that whole thing.
Speaker 1I went in there. First of all, shout outs to Ethan. Right, this kid has the same namesake as my brother. That's one of the people that actually helped me in Q. So I walk into the store. I'm the only person in the store because I went real early. Good morning. This is my greeting to the person. Now, normally I don't say shit, I just walk in and blow it past you, but I had a bag in my hand and I had to return some shit. So you know, you have to be cordial, I need help. Good morning, and the person she ain't say nothing. She just literally turned around and went behind the counter, blah, blah, to stand the third.
Speaker 1And then I was at that point. I'm in my feelings. So I'm like how you feeling? She was like I'm good, I'm like, oh, okay, cause when I said good morning, you ain't say nothing. So she was like, oh no, it's cold in here. I was like, oh, so immediately we became besties, cause I'm like I'm like that at work too. If it's too cold, don't talk to me. I you know management should fix this. What the fuck are we doing? Like I don't pay to come here, I don't have enough sick days and on top of that, I feel like you're robbing me of my sick days. So you're making me sick, making me take my sick days when I want to be taking my sick days and laying on somebody's beach. But anyway, need to handle that. So we go through the whole thing.
Speaker 1Um, if you check the gram, she's responsible for the fit. Her and Ethan shout outs to y'all. Um, I didn't realize that asking somebody if they have Instagram could be perceived as me trying to talk to you Like, and it dawned on me because of the response that I got. So I was like yo, you got, you got. Um, you want a grand? And then she looked at me kind of funny, like nigga, why are you asking me if I'm on a gram Like, first of all, you owe this fuck. And I was like oh, whoa, whoa, hold on, check it out. I have a podcast and I'm shit at promoting Like, I don't like to promote, I'm just saying you help me out. I'm going to be rocking the outfit, I'm going to do X1C and I just want to tag you in it. She was like oh, still didn't give me the Instagram. But I was like fuck it.
Speaker 1At this point I'm fine with it, cause you know, my ego was bruised because it's kind of like, first of all, I wasn't trying to get at you, you know. And then she's 24, I believe, 24. So she was like what's the podcast about? Does they have any thought provoking content? And that I melted. I melted, I didn't expect that. I didn't expect that. Not coming from 24 year old, not coming from 24 year old, 24 year old that actually mean mug me when I walked into the store. I didn't expect that. So I was like, yeah, we talk about shit, we talk about things. There's some things going on.
Speaker 1So I get in the car, it's three degrees outside, so I look in the mirror Apparently my nose has been running Right. So I look in the mirror and I'm like, nigga, you really was walking around looking like Roscoe from Martin, and I was like, oh, so that explains the Graham. You can't have my Graham. Go, wash your face the fuck out of here. The Graham Do I have a Graham? Grandpa with the boogers wants to know if you got the grab. I have a Graham. Yeah, basically that's probably what she was thinking. I would have said the same shit. Everybody's laughing in the background. But anyway, we have an exciting season plan for you. I hope you can. I hope I'm going to start using my words. I promise, I hope that you enjoyed this monologue not monologue and you will definitely enjoy the season coming up. So, fucking, let's just get to the shit. I used to be in love with this bitch they mean J the fuck with her, no more.
Speaker 1Now I fuck with Tango Ray, tango Ray.
Speaker 4Hey, yo watch them. Do we need two shots? It's a combo, yeah.
Speaker 1Now I have the whole crew with me, right and we going from right to left. You know my foundation, my pillow my a like my egg thing. You know what I mean Big spoon, little spoon. Let me stop Introduce yourself.
Speaker 2I'm always the big spoon. Hey y'all, what's up? All right?
Speaker 3See, you already know in that wave of you're not supposed to be putting my business out there.
Speaker 2We trying to change that this year Little bit.
Speaker 1You want to talk in the mic? Let's change that too. I am, no you look at that Okay. Let me quit looking at you.
Speaker 2Go ahead. Hey y'all.
Speaker 4Hey y'all, what's your name?
Speaker 6Shadrash.
Speaker 2Okay, they know me, they know me. Brother Lamp, take me on my misery.
Speaker 3please let's go. Good afternoon.
Speaker 2Good evening, whatever time you listening?
Speaker 3I'm James Lamp here.
Speaker 1Host of the podcast conversation.
Speaker 4My podcast is on SoundCloud and I put podcast. Let me take this time to thank brother styles for inviting me to his platform. It's an honor and a pleasure. Appreciate that. Oh yeah, and I'm Ryan.
Speaker 6Free Lance. Photographer by day, movie critic by night, I guess you could say and yeah, I'm just excited to be here, I appreciate this whole collaboration we have going on and yeah, I think this will be an outstanding season. Not saying that the previous ones weren't ex-downing, but this is something special. You see how you try to clean that up, though.
Speaker 1It was like your previous seasons was shit. Yeah, I'm on.
Speaker 2Captain Savor podcast out here. I'm actually happy to have all of you on board.
Speaker 1I'm actually happy to have all of you on board. You know, I'm sure that you know, all right, every season I'm like I'm not going to say shit, I'm not I'm not going to say shit.
Speaker 1I promise you I'm not going to say shit. However, change is always good. You know change is always good and change is always necessary in order to grow. You know so. Either you burn the shit down, you start all over and you get it right, or you continue to change shit. I'm heavily criticized for changing and I don't give a fuck.
Speaker 1So, this is the thing you know change and create, you know, and that about that, it's going to be exciting season, right? So let's tell the people what we're doing. So, basically, what we're doing is we have a tour right Six city tour. I'm trying to figure out whether we should tell them what cities or just pop up.
Speaker 2Because I don't even know.
Speaker 6I think just pull up like exercise.
Speaker 1You don't know, because you don't know your. Apple notes.
Speaker 2Oh my bad. They're in the notes. Remnants of past covoles. I know a couple of cities, but not all. I know a couple of cities, but not all of them.
Speaker 1Yeah, so what we're doing is we're doing is a six city tour. We're starting in Maryland. We're in Maryland right now, buoy to be exact. The next city is the next tour date. It's going to be New York, right, and I think that everybody could have pretty much figured that out themselves. And then the final tour date it's going to be an international tour date, so we're going to be out of the country for that. Yeah, so that's how it's shaking out this season.
Speaker 2I'm excited.
Speaker 3Yeah, I'm going to stop with the uncomfortable silences.
Speaker 6No, I'm down, I'm down.
Speaker 1I can't wait because.
Speaker 4I'm not editing shit. I'm used to recording by myself.
Speaker 1So, yeah, there we go.
Speaker 3And I'm not a podcast.
Speaker 1So all right, so I might edit that part out. Now I'm talking about all the chuckles that followed it. All right, so let's get to the shifts. Main course, it's time to eat. What's on your mind? All right, so for this one, we're going to let Brother Ryan lead us into this, because, sorry, this was his brainchild, so to speak.
Speaker 6You talk about in terms of that? You're talking about the good old milk and honey, correct?
Speaker 1Yeah, I knew we were going to fuck up, and when I say we, I mean me. Yeah, no, you absolutely right, because I jumped into the finance.
Speaker 6I don't even know what I'm doing right now?
Speaker 1I don't even know what I'm doing right now.
Speaker 6Oh yeah, I mean you know, but like I said, you know first I thought you said the brainchild is if I created milk and honey or something like that.
Speaker 1I was just like you know, ceo, you was correct because he actually the one did come up with the honey.
Speaker 4Yeah, we all sit.
Speaker 1Yeah, you write. You write there too. You know we sitting in this home, but, unbeknownst to us, he owns the block, everybody on his block, or renters, ladies and gentlemen, all right, I'm gonna own my shit. I fucked up. We wasn't even supposed to be in the main topic. So just close your eyes and imagine that that shit didn't happen. But if you're driving, keep your eyes open, just imagine that shit didn't happen. So we're gonna talk about our first time. We actually went to milk and honey and I apologize for that. We went to milk and honey, all right, but before we get to the milk and honey is a quick, I'm fucking this whole shit up.
Speaker 4You got nine good quickfire questions.
Speaker 2I do have some quick five questions.
Speaker 1I'm wondering how many people was like turn this shit off, shit the fuck off. You know, especially somebody's like yo. They all in the car and they're like can we listen to a podcast?
Speaker 3And they turn this shit on to be like you got me listening to this bullshit.
Speaker 4No, we good, we got to bring it right back, yeah All right.
Speaker 1So let's do a quick round table discussion. Not even discussion, but a quick fire.
Speaker 6All right.
Speaker 1What was your favorite brunch spot and why anybody?
Speaker 6well, I'll tell you like this, I'm kind of biased because it was my favorite anyway, but I'm gonna say milk and honey straight up. And as far as why I love the food, I'm a very simple, to the point, part type of person and if you got chicken waffles and you do chicken waffles right, you got me. So there are a couple of chicken waffle spots that they're also pleasant. So milk and honey is definitely, you know, kind of above and beyond with that.
Preferences and Opinions on Brunch
Speaker 4Okay, you cheated. Okay, Actually, it's my favorite spot to now. You both from the DMV, so you know that just so happened to be our favorite. My favorite spot too, and it's crazy because we both chicken and waffles like that was. That's my reason.
Speaker 1No, that's the fact. We did sit down and y'all both ordered the same shit, it wasn't it?
Speaker 6wasn't planned. It wasn't like a you get the chicken waffles and I'm gonna get the chicken waffles and we're gonna look cool, and I wasn't like that, yeah we just, that's just we both on, yeah.
Speaker 1How long is that? My court like 25 feet, because I think I'm gonna have to separate y'all.
Speaker 4Yeah, exactly, I'm not just that one, it's about to go left.
Speaker 1Yeah, what about you as that?
Speaker 2And Dallas, it's gonna be snooze. It's definitely my favorite, yeah.
Speaker 6I've been there and I forget. Yeah, I went to snooze for my 40th and I went to the snooze in San Antonio. Oh and you know I would. I would like to retract or redact my answer. I can't. They have the pancake flakes and that's what I go to.
Speaker 2And I had like the sweet potato. Yeah sweet potato pancakes as well, always good, but yeah, I mean it's like a retro vibe. Cost is good, so yeah, really affordable, yeah that's like a hippie type of yeah for sure. Okay, yeah, what about yours? Huh, huh.
Speaker 1Huh, I don't have one actually.
Speaker 2That's crazy.
Speaker 6Styles brunches when he just coast with Tim's on Instead of facts in the kitchen. Oh, we doing we don't all right, so we leaning on New.
Speaker 1York now Corn beef has. Okay, corn beef has and and you can attest to this as doc, because wherever we go, always ask if it's on the menu, mm-hmm, and I've only actually had it. Well, there was a spot in Dallas that we went to and it was like real beef in it, and I was surprised as fuck because it was like big beef chunks.
Speaker 4This is scary question for me to add don't do it. It was using real beef. What taxes books they use in.
Speaker 1New York. You all right, so let me explain to you how my roadcaster works. There are mute buttons on here, so if you fuck around and you talking but you can't, well, you don't have your headphones on, so you don't know. I'm gonna just give you the gentle smile. No, no, no, they listen to one know that to now they they use it, but it's not Um, it's real, real beef.
Speaker 4Okay, or how do you know?
Speaker 1flavored texture Us I use a MSG I say, yeah, it's beef. I put it to you like this I went out to. I went out to Dallas. I had the corn beef hash at a couple of different spots and I no longer really eat it in New York. I promise you that wow okay because I haven't now, I'm just scared, mm-hmm, right yeah yes.
Speaker 6To Lambs point.
Speaker 1Yeah to Lambs point. What the fuck have I?
Speaker 3What is it?
Speaker 4Mush.
Speaker 1Mush. All right, hold on, let me see. All right, we got it. It's supposed to be a quick fire, all right, how important is food quality, you guys?
Speaker 6I'm not. It's very important if the food is food, cause not there, I can't do it. I'm scared with food as it is, so now I Want some corn beef hash from from New York no. So that's very important, man, I yeah, if I think that's kind of thing. That's almost like saying I don't know, you know basketball, but but the basketball itself is trash. It's like you can't play ball without a good basketball. You can't really eat if the food quality is trash.
Speaker 1Yeah, well, I've spoken about somebody actually plays bad. I fucking hate basketball so I wouldn't even know. I just learned something. You know me. I'll play with balls, that part.
Speaker 3I'm just gonna skip ahead to the end.
Speaker 1All right, fuck that, all right. Do you prefer a large variety of portions or small? You know, curated menu for brunch.
Speaker 6So basically, oh, small man, I'm not a big eater like that. My wife tells me all the time Ryan just eats, just for fuel. He don't eat because he enjoys food. So, nah, it's a small push like I would waste money at a buffet so I can't do it Okay.
Speaker 2I like options, give me options. I mean I have to be too, too large of a menu option, but I need some options.
Speaker 4I know for sure, okay, I don't need a lot of options.
Speaker 1I mean, you know what? I think that they need to. Some brunch bots need to pair the menu down, because it's kind of like you know me, yeah, and I'll be sitting there looking at that man. I got to show up at 12 brunches over it too, and I'm ordering brunch at 145. Where give me. Give me, is you know, as few choices as possible. I can't do it. How significant is the quality of service in your overall brunch experience?
Speaker 6I ain't gonna fry. I mean it don't have to be top-tier quality service, but I would prefer somebody to be nice. But you know, like if the food makes up for shitty service, I'll take it.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah that's where my toes are gonna go laugh. Yeah, you definitely will laugh.
Speaker 4Give me some good service too, like I'll just be throwing my food down on the table tomorrow. Yeah, it's good, fuck you no.
Speaker 2Service is important. We should be able to have both.
Speaker 1So this next comment is for you know we're a 40 and up group, so you know you don't want it to be like Mel's fucking diner. No, those who know know. Let me see Do you prefer a casual or formal brunch?
Speaker 6setting Casual man like if you mean formal like, not not just casual. I don't want to feel like I'm going to Sunday church service to eat. I don't want the, the setup to be the same way. Let me just pull up a evening saying Okay.
Speaker 1Come on, boozy.
Speaker 2I might say the former here and there, but you know, I mean, you know I'm a girl, so I want to dress up and go to brunch.
Speaker 1That's the thing. Rocking with her is kind of like I'm on a fence with it, because you know, sometimes you want to there be an establishment that has a really crazy Decor and you like kids show up in here with just sweatpants and I'd rather show up in my sweatpants.
Speaker 2But you just can't me your whole pants. Watch your mouth. Don't worry, I've been.
Speaker 1I've had a pair that was kidnapped and burn and I burn you know, Next question.
Speaker 4You know, but you know just aiming to cut. But one thing you know A lot of these places don't even let you wear athletic way.
Speaker 2So right, you gotta do you like.
Speaker 6I think, like turkey leg is something like they did something like that last year right, they changed the dress code, or something like that. Like you got to be spiffy to eat a turkey leg. Now something crazy.
Speaker 3Where, oh, and a turkey leg in Houston right.
Speaker 6They upgraded your dress code as if you go into a club or something like that. You got, I think I have like a button-up shirt. I might be, I don't know if they went that far. Yeah, I might be gasping it up.
Speaker 3But it was definitely did make some change yeah.
Speaker 4There was mad about it.
Speaker 1Yeah, I guess. So I mean listen a Teaches on yeah right, because in certain places you can't win. You know when we were coming up. You can't go into a store without shoes, you know you had to have a shirt on.
Speaker 3Yeah no, exactly.
Speaker 1Okay, so what type of ambience? And we're just, you know, right off of that, but what type of ambience or atmosphere do?
Speaker 6you prefer. You gotta be something laid back, you gotta be fun and I feel like you can't go wrong if you just have like the right type of music there. So you know you don't have to be a DJ DJ, but it's like somebody on staff gotta have the fire playlist Like like there's been some times while I go to restaurant I'm like, oh, let me get the, let me get the shazam or whatever it is, and let me put those on my own playlist because it's nice. So I think music is like 90% of the ambience for me.
Speaker 4So yeah, yeah, the music is important.
Speaker 1Well, if I'm a branch, so your men is in the streets, ladies, that does not mean he's for the streets. I don't disrespect my man but, he's definitely outside, not a little bit that you off the porch, you at least got to the corner he's starting.
Speaker 6He ain't come up to bench man.
Speaker 4Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1Oh, all right, all right, all right, that's died. What you, what's your thing?
Speaker 2No, definitely music, for sure, but not to a point where, no, we had a place, kitchens and cocktails and Dallas where people were getting like stand up in the Seats you know twerking and the chairs, stuff like that. So I mean with the music because it was like that's not a playlist, but we Wasn't like that yeah and so it was just a whole situation. But yeah, I mean, like said, music for sure, but I think you know yeah, yeah, come through with that like burner boy or something.
Speaker 6Something chill, I guess.
Speaker 2Yeah, I mean, you should know, like, why you getting up in folks season sofas with your heels on Like a little bit too much.
Speaker 3I don't really care what kind of music on. You shouldn't be doing that Sometimes.
Speaker 6Like that's like I have to like. Well, for my most, as in, I guess that the bottomless get you there.
Speaker 4I guess you know so. Might get punched in the face. You kind of got to pay attention to the genre.
Speaker 6That's why like was good, yeah, I'm saying, but like you can't be in there and somebody play, I gave you power by now. So some yet that turn your whole brunch experience off, probably it depends on where you are. If you win Queens bridge, then you know, that's a.
Speaker 1Thing.
Speaker 4That's a thing, but you know what? See you something that's actually. You say that Because what are we listening for?
Speaker 5we listen to the lyrics, Beats but the beats not gonna have you gone crazy.
Speaker 3No, not that cuz that's a drapey.
Speaker 1So for me, I need it all. I need the ambience, I need, you know, I need the good music, cuz a good music I literally need. It has to be. I Don't want to eat brunch at the corner store. I mean, it may look like when I walk through the door. I want to eat lunch. I'm a bunch of the corner store, but I don't want to eat brunch at the corner store.
Speaker 6Okay, right so.
Speaker 1I need, I need all of that. I need the ambience to match the music and the music to match the ambience. You know, and I don't like super duper packs Brunches, I like seeing them on a gram because that shit it gives me goosebumps. I'm not gonna lie, mm-hmm. I just don't like a lot of motherfuckers like that, though Don't be up all up on me and nah.
Speaker 1This is a day party, for sure you know, but I'm a man of a certain age. Now I'm just playing. Oh, let me see. Um, we did the casual or the formal right. Yes, we did what? What are some must-haves that you have to have on the menu?
Speaker 6Well, a Chicken and waffles, like I said, I don't get a lot of. I don't. I don't get to a ventures with food in the first place. I'm scarier with food if you got, if you got chicken, the waffles you know, ten times out of ten I'm getting chicken waffles. Eleven times out of ten I'm getting chicken waffles. Yes, I was bad.
Speaker 6No, this dude making me feel good about my small I'm a look it's chicken waffles at brunch, if I, if you, if you know, I know the cheesecake factory was like a topic of discussion at one point. If I go to cheesecake I'm getting the miso salmon, nothing else. So there's certain spots I go to already know what I want, so I don't need to give you the main.
Speaker 4No, they don't not for real.
Brunch Preferences and Value for Money
Speaker 6They really don't Give me the menu. If you don't have chicken waffles, then I I'll take the meat. Yeah, I feel like that's it chicken and pancakes. I maybe I get a menu, just in case, but yeah.
Speaker 3Yeah so that the other day kind of turn me off yeah chicken pancakes sounds gross.
Speaker 1Stop playing with my. Most is two different textures. It is, it is, it is.
Speaker 6You know, I have tried it once and I didn't like it.
Speaker 1I couldn't imagine the shit and I was like now I did.
Speaker 4I've had chicken and fresh toes.
Speaker 6I don't know that's not the same I don't know chicken or something about the waifu. Yeah, something about chicken waffles.
Speaker 1Yeah, you took a hard left with that chicken. Because the French toast that I had today, yeah, no, no, that shit was like. I know I loved it, but I'm just trying to imagine a piece of chicken. Now, yeah, now, that fucked me up textually.
Speaker 4It was. So I went to this place, called so baby, it was like a, like a graham cracker French toast. Hmm, yeah, it was, it was good.
Speaker 3Oh, you got sophisticated with it, all right, okay.
Speaker 1He said they had the gold flakes.
Speaker 6All you listen is the milk.
Speaker 1Okay. Do you enjoy bottomless brunches, as opposed to brunches where they have like signature drinks?
Speaker 6only well we say about me. Some are like in terms of the drinks, just never in them bottomless or everything well, you already know they're not giving you everything bottomless they give and if you find that please let me know you.
Speaker 1You get this orange juice and is this liquor that we got from across the street? Yeah, folks, is right.
Speaker 6Yeah, I'm cool. I'm cool on the bottomless any, any beverage, because, especially what I call, I'm a. I'm a lightweight. I give out three drinks and I'm good, so I can't do bottoms anyway. So now I'm fine without it. Okay.
Speaker 4Yeah, I don't drink. So there you go, but you know, I'm not by myself.
Speaker 1You want that bottomless water.
Speaker 4For the value and I'm assuming the woman. I would probably want the bottomless.
Speaker 1Yeah, you can be out here like heavy. It's a new Bill Cosby. This thing is just like. But they put judge. She willingly drink all of that shit. I don't drink that. She signed a consent form before she started drinking that stuff not gonna make her do nothing. There we go yeah exactly, even if she isn't.
Speaker 4Just kind of as a loss. She wasn't in the right mind, I wonder, waking up some other bad decisions you made.
Speaker 1And if you do, is in your bed. I wasn't here.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 1What's a us that?
Speaker 2Again, options for me. So give me a couple of different cocktails to try work. No, no, no no, no, no, no, not bombless but just different.
Speaker 6Just a bombless bar.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's crazy but no, anybody out there. You find a bottomless like cocktail, please Let me know I'm there. Yeah, I'm there. I need the. I'm with you, I need, I don't. I Forsake the fucking the most like I don't, I don't even. I know it's tied to brunch, mm-hmm, but I rather have a cocktail.
Speaker 1Yeah, you know, I'd rather pay extra to get a cocktail or two as opposed to have, you know, in or the orange juice and champagne, or the bulini. I mean, I'd rather do it that way, you know. All right, and the last one, would you say that the value for the money is? It is an important factor when Choosing a brunch place.
Speaker 6Hell yeah, cuz I. There's been some spots where, like, you pay 60 bucks and they give you the smallest of portions, like even even something that I would be turned off by, and that's saying a lot. So, nah, I definitely want to get my money's worth. So if I paid I don't know $40 a plate, I want $40 Worth of something good. What does that look like? Shoot, you know. Maybe throw in a cocktail in there. Of course, chicken and waffle, maybe a side of eggs, oh, the damn lemon pepper wings for.
Speaker 1Apatowl.
Speaker 6Yeah, I want variety for my, for my little $40. I know it may not be much for, so you know, but yeah, give me variety for my little 40.
Speaker 4I don't know about you. Multiply that by two. Hey, that's true. Yeah, you're right. So we have about a hundred.
Speaker 6No, I mean, compared to an unestablished restaurant, low 40. But yeah, you're good, point big 40 for me.
Speaker 4So we we both established chicken and waffles.
Speaker 1I wouldn't mind some good home fries 100% and not everybody could do them, since, right, that's a problem, that's a problem for me. So I'm big scared every time I order this shit. You know, I mean I'll. It's like I don't know about y'all, but sometimes I need to see one of those plates floating by my table to see what it a little like.
Speaker 5Yeah, you know you know and then pull my way to back over here, Exactly.
Speaker 2Let me see what that it come in.
Speaker 1What was that? What are they eating? You know without pointing, so you got give them the head. Now what are they eating?
Speaker 3I.
Speaker 1What about you? We was that brunt hold on I need, I need, I need lamps, help. So, lamb, I'm the waitress right, I'm about to hand you this thing so you can put your credit card in. Okay, here, that's exactly what it is. If you're not watching the video, he's stiff on the shit out of it. And she was like him. And.
Speaker 6I was like yeah. That's your look like a matumbo commercial.
Speaker 1So okay. So, as it relates to me, yeah, of course money matters. As you can clearly see, I jump into my lamp voice like big 40 for me Now. But to be honest with you, I Don't want to say that money's no object, because it absolutely is, but I got to see what comes with that. Yeah, you know, because I'm willing to spend the money If something comes with that. You know something back with the you know line, with the plates and stuff like that. What is? What does that portion look like?
Speaker 3you want to sit.
Speaker 1I'm saying um, and I'm over here with lamp, cuz lamp mentioned something today. He was like I, I just need two people to say that shit was bad. I ain't going, you won't get a third. Yeah, you know. And then you know, my wife is bougie and I'm you are and I'm bougie. You are and I'm bougie to an extent. All right, so maybe I'm a little bit more. She is, you know.
Speaker 4Because you we saw you cut that biscuit With the fork in my.
Speaker 2I don't know if you like that. I don't know if you like that.
Dining Experience at Milken Honey
Speaker 6You probably use a fork and knife with a pizza slice problem. That was a good segue, so what we did was For our first brunch.
Speaker 1What we did was we ended up at milken honey in Bowie, maryland, and our server was Erica. Erica shoutouts to you and I'm gonna let y'all take it away, and then I'll jump in, cuz I feel a thrashing coming on.
Speaker 6Well, yeah, in terms of Erica, erica was was was phenomenal Customer service on warm welcome. You know, she actually is one of those people like she actually Knows what you should get before you should before you ordered, and she actually did a perfect example that with with styles. But but back to this cake cutting a biscuit. So so everybody else was like, you know, they, they go on with a biscuit and nobody else uses for everybody, just a. That biscuit is fire.
Speaker 1She put the biscuits on the table, and Then it was followed by release the home. So I turn around everybody grabbing a biscuit with their hands. It didn't bother me nothing, cuz I'm a savage too, but it didn't bother me any. So then what I did was Every like the dust unsettled you know, I mean. Biscuits were gone, you know, I mean some were half-eaten, you know, whatever. So I gently pulled the last biscuit into my Saucer, got my little knife and fork and started to cut. Now hold on. But I'm getting cool points and savages turn around.
Speaker 4I would expect it Like.
Speaker 1Before it's a cut a biscuit at my bucket at the table questioning them.
Speaker 3It was looking around the other tables like yo. Who else is cutting the?
Speaker 1biscuit.
Speaker 4Good job with the man.
Speaker 2I'm a big.
Speaker 4And I just say, you know, god bless, mama's stops yeah.
Speaker 6Yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 1Who brought it up? Though, somebody brought it up.
Speaker 4I was too scared to bring it up.
Speaker 6I was really concerned, like yeah, I wouldn't even try to be rude, I was just like curious. I was like you got why you gotta fuck to your business.
Speaker 1And I'm looking back at the three at home, looking at fingers.
Speaker 2I was clicking the honey off.
Speaker 1The biscuit was amazing, yeah, you know I was slicing that motherfucker up. You know, what was crazy is that I would have the same thought if someone well, not if someone I've witnessed it Eating a slice, a piece of what a knife and fork I've seen it, I ain't I go for.
Speaker 6I did that once before, I was all right it is. And he over here talking about me cutting the biscuit here's a reason why?
Speaker 1here's a real. I was on a. I was on a date Just finished a change in attire.
Speaker 6Right, you couldn't wash your hands now. I was on the first date in college or something and I, you know I really liked this girl and I was like I'm about to be above him in beyond impressive. We went to like some pizza spot, like a California pizza kitchen. Oh, that's my yeah and so I was like, yeah, I'm a wire with this. And she looked at me and gave me the same. It's like why you got a knife or folks to your pizza and she probably thought it was like extra, extra soft.
Speaker 4That's all weirdo, yeah. What have we learned from there?
Speaker 6be yourself.
Speaker 2There, you go Don't use a knife and forks and cut a biscuit I was. Had. I hadn't tapped into the prime of me at that point in time.
Speaker 1I was like I was trying to impress y'all.
Speaker 2I'm definitely looking at you a little bit different now for sure.
Speaker 1So we've come up with a rating system In which to rate, so in which to rate our experiences at these spots, all right, and with that, through this, we may or may not have conversation about it. So it's a five-tier Rating system. Yeah, one is poor. Two is fair the food was decent, but nothing special. Three is good the food was tasty and satisfying. Right, how you call it. What else? What else? Very good, the food was delicious and exceeding Exceeded expectations, and excellent. The food was exceptional and Mm-hmm and memorable. All right, so that's that's what we're going with this. So, on a scale of one to ten, I'm gonna start with these waffle and chicken eatin' up, I guess. There you go.
Speaker 6That's fine. Yup, yup, yeah. And to the food quality I'm goin' with a five. Like you know, it's the chicken and waffles at that particular establishment, milk and Honey, that keeps me goin' back. I'm gonna give it a five In terms of memorable. When I think of a honey biscuit, milk and Honey is first in the cut of my mind. So, hell yeah, I give a food quality a five for sure.
Speaker 4Same Five for me.
Speaker 1I wouldn't expect anything different. You had the same fuckin' meal Right and that's the crazy part.
Speaker 4I've had it three times. And they keep giving a five.
Speaker 3So congratulations to.
Speaker 4Milk and Honey for doin' shit right.
Speaker 6Yeah, in the middle of the front.
Speaker 2I definitely have to say five What'd?
Speaker 1you have.
Speaker 2I had the catfish and grits and it was like cooked to perfection. Like the fish was crunchy, it was, and then the grits was real cheesy, but I don't know. It just had a good flavor to them. So but yeah, I definitely give it a five.
Speaker 1Okay, I definitely enjoyed it. I would absolutely, because I did have an opportunity to taste off of your plate. I had to fight.
Speaker 2And they had Louisiana Hot Sauce. Good, I'm such.
Speaker 1Nah, that's cool. Yeah, the grits and I'm not a grits person the grits were cooked. It's easy to fuck up some grits. You could fuck up some grits, the grits you could fuck up. I fucked them shits up on purpose and by mistake. But yeah, five for you, but for me. I had the rum shot of French Toast, and when I tell you that these fucking two slices of bread now.
Speaker 1I don't think that they put it on like that regular holla bread. The thick joint didn't matter, though. Didn't matter because it was amazing, it was a five, five for sure, five. Now the Jell-O eggs, though. Jell-o eggs, jell-o eggs. I don't want to be the guy, but I'm going to be the guy Only because this is basically from the essence of Erika. She would want me to tell the truth, so I also ordered a side of eggs because she asked me am I going to just get the French Toast and not get anything with it? Mind you, I did scrape the fucking fruit off of the French Toast because I'm a savage. Just give me a fucking French Toast, don't dress it up with this. It's not going to get in. Scrape that shit off. She brings me the eggs. The eggs are in a bowl, right, immediately turned off, because I'm like why are my eggs in a bowl? I'm thinking cereal, I'm thinking salad, I'm not thinking eggs. She puts it down and it starts to jiggle. I'm like not with the Jell-O eggs, I don't like the Jell-O eggs.
Speaker 6It's like a Megastown video. Just jiggle when you put it down. Watch it now. I almost got punched in the face last night, but for Megastown niggas be starting shit, don't even know they starting shit.
Speaker 2I didn't know.
Speaker 1But yeah, no, that whole thing we did how you call it. Oh, also the drink, because I'm the only one, I think, that got alcoholic beverage. The drink, the brunch punch is what she called it. It's fucking amazing.
Speaker 3Yeah, I mean, it was like she said she did.
Rating the Brunch Options
Speaker 1She did and shout out to Erica. Let me talk about Erica for two seconds. No, I'm not going to do it, because we do have a services and experiences that we raise as well. So five for me, so let's move on to two. What about the variety of options? How would you rate and range the options available for brunch?
Speaker 6Oh, man, I would have to say I would give it a four. I had an extensive range of options and, like I said, this category, man, I'd be necessarily up my alley because, like you said, I'm tunnel vision on the brunch menu especially. But if they didn't have chicken and waffles though I saw some other stuff I would have got.
Speaker 1But let me ask you a question. Did you just bang them in the head for something that they absolutely had and said that if they didn't have that, you would rate them lower than a four.
Speaker 6No, I wouldn't rate them lower than a four. That's just me being, I guess, weird, like you know. Yeah, I guess, yeah, I would just stick with a four. You said.
Speaker 1I'm gonna stick with four. I'm staying on business.
Speaker 6Yeah, I'm staying on business he was like it was a four. Yeah, I'm gonna stick with four, I mean because it was very extensive and you had options and yeah, I mean, if you, yeah, there's plenty of stuff you could get on the menu, Okay, yeah, I just maybe it's just the whole weird just thing. I don't want to give everything a five, but yeah.
Speaker 1Okay, I mean, you know it's crazy because I used to work in a job that actually what people would give out surveys? Right, you would do the best possible thing for them and they would give you a three, because nobody's perfect. Like bitch, I was perfect in that moment.
Speaker 6Fuck, is you talking about Improvements?
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah so don't go off on the move.
Speaker 1No, you take that up with God. That's between you and him. That shit ain't got nothing to do with what. I just did for you.
Speaker 4All right, just fucking anyway. So before I get his rate, you can get all fives from that on mind. Giving fives, that's what.
Speaker 1I got. It's the odd couple over there, but they both like chicken.
Speaker 4The funny thing is, but for this one I'm going to just say in a I didn't need reading me.
Speaker 3I've been there a couple of times I've randomly made you before.
Speaker 1All right, so let's go for that, because it hasn't changed since you last sold. I don't remember it.
Speaker 4Okay. So that's why I got to go in a. Okay, because when we picked the spot weeks ago, I was getting chicken and waffles.
Speaker 1He was in the spot ordering Right.
Speaker 4So when they gave me the menu, I took it. Yeah, but I don't even know why I took it, because I didn't even look at it. I knew I was getting chicken and waffles.
Speaker 6So no discussion, yeah.
Speaker 4It wasn't even enough. From there, they may have the best menu in this whole state. I didn't read it.
Speaker 6So, but not that, yeah, so, like if I wanted to be adventurous, not adventurous, I was tempted to get the steak and eggs they had on there. They had like a ribeye with some eggs. That looked very good.
Speaker 1Yeah, I might get that Drink 40, because that shit definitely was close to 40 bucks.
Speaker 6Yeah, it was like, yeah it was, it was like a big 35 plus tax.
Speaker 1Yeah, you and I both ordered. I said this shit too. I was like hmm. Chicken and waffles wasn't cheap, man no it wasn't, but it wasn't 40 dollars no it wasn't 40 dollars.
Speaker 4It wasn't 40 dollars?
Speaker 1Yeah, what about you, esda?
Speaker 2I would say a five.
Speaker 3All right they had a pretty.
Speaker 2I was looking at the menu. They had a pretty good options for pretty much everybody. They even had like a plant based chicken sandwich. So yeah, so from lobster to fish, to chicken, to plant based, to steak, so yeah, I would say about a five, that's pretty good, all right, I'm definitely going with a five.
Speaker 1My reason is because I love one pages, one pages.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 1I mean like there's a diner in New York that reads like in the cyclopedia so what do you give the Cheesecake Factory menu? They got like a library book of like options. Yeah, but see, this is the thing. No, I'm kind of like you too, Like I'm going there for I'm going for the pastikas and you know, and I already know what I want. Yeah, I'm not flipping. The only thing I'm flipping through that for is to see if you have any new cheesecake. You understand what I'm saying.
Speaker 1Stop taking a pineapple upside down cheesecake off the menu. Please Stop doing that. That's some dumb shit. It's probably your bestseller. You got some other bullshit on it. You're going to take that off for the damn me Fuck Triggered.
Speaker 3All right.
Speaker 1Ambience. All right, let's talk about the ambience.
Speaker 6I'm going to give the ambience a five. There's something about milk and honey. It always just looks so welcoming. The customer service I know that's a different topic, but the customer service also kind of helps. Also the ambience as well, in my opinion. Okay, because it just they match the ambience, it's welcoming atmosphere, and so are the people who greet you. And also, as Lampe said, they had the bomb ass playlist. I don't know who, I don't know what. Teenage young 20 year old playlists.
Speaker 4No, no, no, that's a grown girl. Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 6It was some date night playlist stuff. You could steal off the music in the Indian place today. So yeah, I give it a five straight up.
Speaker 1I will say that I did see Brother Ryan Shazam some shit.
Speaker 6I did, and it was.
Speaker 1it was Dwell-A, dwell-a song, yeah.
Speaker 6I forget the name of it, but it was a Dwell-A song for sure, and I will be putting it on my R&B playlist.
Speaker 1Okay, yeah, all right.
Speaker 4I thought you'd probably live Five, five. But I'm going to tell you the reason I give it a five, why I went to the bathroom.
Speaker 1Oh shit, no, that's a big thing.
Speaker 3That's a thing that makes the difference. That's a bathroom with super clean yeah.
Speaker 4Like almost like damn, somebody Don't do it Trying to Don't do it, they trying to get a raise. Okay, like it was like air freshening in there, it was clean.
Speaker 1But was there a guy in there with the lotion and all of that?
Speaker 6No, no, no, no. Were like a man.
Speaker 1I'm in the club, I'm in the club, but that's what gets you a five for the bathroom.
Speaker 4That was probably getting in cuckoos Like when it comes to a restaurant now I expect the bathroom to be clean. You hope it's clean, you know what I'm saying, but this one was beyond clean. Okay, like it was like this was one of those better homes and garden clean Wow.
Speaker 3So five Better home to garden. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2I guess about four or five.
Speaker 1You can't have a four or five. There's a point five in here Just kidding to get a five.
Speaker 2I mean it was a nice venue. I mean the music was good, the ambience was good. Of course, like I said, the service was awesome.
Speaker 3So, um, yeah, just don't be that person scared to give a five Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 2I'm gonna give them a five. They deserve it.
Speaker 1I'm gonna fuck all your heads up. I'm scared, I'm gonna give y'all a three, three, yeah, wow, fix your face, all of y'all.
Speaker 6Wow, all of y'all.
Speaker 2Y'all act like y'all watching me cut fucking biscuits right now. Yeah, it's like a biscuit thing. Never seen it before.
Speaker 1And this is no slight to them. The reason why I say that is this we're evaluating a brunch, right? Yeah, so there are certain establishments that just have brunch on the menu and I felt like that that's what that was Like. This is brunch on the menu, so I have a different menu option for you. It doesn't speak to the tone of it. Angels in Harlem, in Harlem, different vibe. You understand what I'm saying. Like, because it's it's. It's when they start with their brunch. It's a brunch, you understand? Like, literally, from top down, it's a bunch. You're not showing up there because you had dinner there last night or you ordered, you can't order breakfast there, but so forth and so on. Right, so there's no slight to them that it's a three, but what I'm seeing it as is again like it's, it's a. It's a restaurant that has brunch items.
Speaker 1Okay, so, that's where I'm going with this. All right, right Look at that, just dug myself out of that hole real quick, but we let it walk.
Speaker 4All right, let's get to the service.
Speaker 1And this was, I guess, the most enjoyable part for most of us right, the service. How would you rate the quality of service provided?
Speaker 6to you. Oh, hands down Five. Erica was tremendous. She, she. It was almost like she was a fortune teller. She, she automatically just knew what, what styles, would and would like. You know all types of stuff. It was amazing. It was almost like she had some type of doctor strange ability.
Speaker 1We don't have to switch the order in which we asking these questions, ryan, like I'm gonna pull out all the stops, yeah.
Speaker 4More for Goli all up.
Speaker 4What do you think? Easy five, and it was something that happened before. Everybody got there and I'm giving her five. So she comes to the table. She asked me you know that I want something to drink and I said, yeah, I just want a waterfront and she's okay. Well, if you want something else, let me know. I'm not going to put it in because during these hours we only be on a 90 minute time limit, but I know you still waiting on gas, so I'm not going to start putting stuff in until all your guests arrive. So, off the rip, she got a five. Just she got the five before she did anything. So that's awesome, that's dope.
Speaker 6Yeah.
Speaker 2I would say definitely a five, and even coming in like the people at the front, were very you know they were smiles on their face. Very, you know, helpful, you know. And then, of course, for Erica, you know she just took it like above and beyond. So definitely a five for me, great service.
Speaker 1It was Erica for me. Yeah. Erica for the win all day like all day, like just basically the engagement alone. You know a lot of people showing up for a check. She's engaged, she's invested you know and then come to find out she was a manager and I didn't even know she was a manager. You know, and that was for me, that was big for me.
Speaker 6Yeah.
Speaker 1Because a lot of managers, they want you to know that they're a manager. Because, on top of that, it's like listen, you're getting the best possible service. And let me explain why I am a manager. Nah, she was acting like she was low man on the totem pole the whole time.
Speaker 6Yeah.
Speaker 1You know, the conversation was great Menu items. I love when you go to a restaurant and they recommend things. And they're not recommending things because of the price, Right, but they're literally recommending things based off of the people that you know come to the restaurant. Right, you know it's the drink.
Speaker 3I don't know what it was, but she was nasty.
Speaker 1But she was like no, it's nasty, I'm like all right, cool, so let's move on. She was like nah, but I'm going to make it for you because I want you to understand this nasty.
Speaker 3Don't take my word for it.
Speaker 1You know I'm telling you that it is. But that solidified the trust and you know her picking options and stuff like that. She brought that out. It was nasty, of course, and then she went and got what she thought was the favorite and, between the two, of course, hands down the other one, one which was the brunch punch yeah.
Speaker 1But Erica, um, yeah, she's, she's. They are lucky to have Somebody like her, and I'm not just saying that it sounds real good, though, but I'm not just saying that they are extremely lucky. And then she brought a manager over.
Speaker 6Yeah, I bought a spola. Yeah, and that's what we found out. She was a manager. We didn't even find out that record from her.
Speaker 4Well, no, she didn't bring her over, she just had to come over. Oh yeah, that was a random. Oh okay, cause she went to other tables too, I got there.
Speaker 1So, um, yeah, All right. So boom, let's move on to Value and money, as it relates to where we went, A value.
Speaker 4I'll give it a. Uh, you know what? I'm not going to be that person. I'm going to give him a five.
Speaker 3I'm going to give him a five.
Speaker 4I was about to be the the hater and be like I'm going to give him a full cause. I felt like I could have spent a little less on those chicken
Speaker 3and waffles, but it was good, so I got to give him a five.
Speaker 1Exactly, I mean, that's your third time.
Speaker 4What Third time? What?
Speaker 1Getting chicken and waffles.
Speaker 4There's going to be a fourth when I go.
Speaker 1He said I'm not going to be that guy. I'm like thinking you just going to keep going in and getting this.
Speaker 4You know what I think. Next time I'm going to do that steak and eggs.
Speaker 1Hmm, I think yeah, you're going to have to save up for that Especially I'm going to.
Speaker 2It's going to be chicken and waffles.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 1Big 40.
Speaker 4That might be one of Dutch ones.
Speaker 6I give it a five as well in terms of value because, like we said, the steak and eggs with 35 by itself, my overall bill was like 40, and I got the chicken and waffles and I got my appetizer, I got the lemon peppers and all that still came up to, you know, 40. So I guess, and the biscuits, I think a little a little what I had to do with everything. I'm just saying maybe Because that was a lot for 40.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'm sitting there listening to the shopping list and I'm like hold on bro Costco Right.
Speaker 1Discount brunch? Yeah, not well, all right. So for me, though, it was pretty much the same. It shook out to about 67. For us, you know, I tipped a 20 bucks, so it's like low 87. And for what we had, and again the quality of the food my server. I'm taking all of that into account with what I'm paying, because my service nasty and I got to pay mad bread. You know we've gone to the movies and been pissed off like as for nachos they give you a bag of. Doritos.
Speaker 4Oh, yeah, oh fucking crazy. Hey, can we take a minute to applaud that $20 tip? All right, all right.
Speaker 1What the fuck did y'all tip on? I tipped 20%.
Speaker 6I tipped the like $10.
Speaker 1Okay, so it's 30. Yeah, yours shook out to about 12.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 1About 12.
Speaker 6Something like that, yeah.
Speaker 1I'm looking at her, no no, no, it worked.
Speaker 4You know how we get stereotype. That not tipping.
Speaker 1Listen, you know what tip means right. Yeah, I think so To ensure professionalism.
Speaker 4Oh, you know, okay, because I did not know that yeah.
Speaker 1That's what the fuck it means. So when I'm being stereotype because I'm not tipping, let's go look in the mirror real quick. You understand what I'm saying. Like you over here, you know bringing me cold biscuits.
Speaker 6Oh, cold hard biscuits. You understand what I'm saying.
Speaker 1The scruffies. I don't want them since.
Speaker 3You know what I mean.
Speaker 1I walk in there 30 minutes later, you putting bread on my table. No, that's a problem, you get me.
Speaker 6Yeah.
Speaker 1So it's those things that actually go into it. I think that we all tip, but at the end of the day, though, I'm not going to say we all tip. No well, this is the thing, though I want. I'm not, but we're also not going to bear the weight of the rest of our industry not taking care to people that they hire Right right, right right. Yeah, because that's what it is. There's a lot of people in the service industry that aren't even allowed to take tips.
Speaker 1That's crazy, you understand, like you going to some Dunkin' Donuts and and I keep saying New York, but that's where I'm from, so it's only that's all I can speak to but you go in there. Some of them are half tip jaws and others they're not allowed to have tip jaws, so they'll do something like, do something crazy for you when you, you know, want to tip them there, yeah Right. So even in the restaurant industry, I don't I feel bad. Don't feel bad about people not getting tips because the owners shouldn't follow on me. First of all, the price point. You know I don't factor in your tip when I'm looking at the menu. No, you understand, I'm saying I'm not doing that. It only hits me later when I'm like why do you have to be so good? Yeah, what does that
Speaker 4stand for Again. I need to keep that in mind.
Speaker 1To ensure professionalism.
Speaker 4That was good. Thank you, no worries.
Financial Communication in Relationships
Speaker 1No worries. So overall I think they're a strong four and a half.
Speaker 6Yeah, I'll say it probably on average sound like one and a half.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'm sorry about that three. It was the three that brought you to a four and a half. That three fucked you up. Oh and well, we got one NA as well, and we got a four because this dude is nobodies, perfect.
Speaker 6Yeah, I just made the four of you hit this cut.
Speaker 1Yeah, I did, I gave it just because Paul, yeah, so we're going to do the four and the half, but at this point, though, I think now it's time for us to get to the segment that I tried to get to earlier, but I fucked up the whole. You would have missed all of this good shit. I hope y'all turn this shit back on after y'all was like fuck them. Disorganized motherfuckers. But hold on, let's get to the shit though.
Speaker 5The next shit rather Main course, it's time to eat what's on your mind.
Speaker 1All right, so here is where Ryan brings us in, because this was his topic and you know we're going to flesh this out. It's financial literacy or emotional.
Speaker 6Yeah, well, you just say financial literacy is fine. Just how comfortable are you just talking about finances and just in general? You know, when I say in general, maybe you come across under like a small group of people at a party or something and I don't know. Maybe somebody was like, oh, did anybody, do you know, check the stock market? Or how's your you know anybody thought about investing in real estate, things like that. Or just just in general, like how comfortable are you talking about money if it's brought up in general conversations? And also, which I think is a little bit more important, how comfortable are you talking about finance with your partner? You know, I feel like that's one of those things where you know it's just like. You know everything else is fun to talk about, whether it's intimacy, date nights, this and the third but you never really, even on podcasts or television shows, really you never really see anybody be like all right, if we're going to, I don't know, shack up together, if we're going to get married, what are your finances looking like? What's your debt to? You know debt to income ratio look like? Do you have a decent credit score? You really don't really don't hear anything about that and I really feel like, especially maybe not everybody, but I do feel like you know, I feel like some people of color are just afraid of talking about it.
Speaker 6And just a very, very quick personal example. We can go around the room. I got some, some stats, we can look up stuff like that. But just a very quick, personal example. When me and my wife first got married, you know we weren't on the same financial goals and every time I would try to bring it up, you know, just to be like, hey, you know, I feel like we need to cut back on such a credit card. You know we need to start saving this.
Speaker 6Like she would kind of like you know, kind of change topics, like I kind of. Just like you know, shrink, shrink when it comes to the top, because she wasn't, she wasn't used to that type of conversation. You know, and you know, perhaps maybe didn't have that conversation growing up or whatever the case may be. It's just, and I feel like that's a conversation. We're on the same page now, but it took a while for us to get there and I felt like that's a very important thing. I don't think a lot of couples really talk about it, or if they do talk about it. It's too late. And my point exactly according to the Forbes. According to Forbes, financial problems are like one of the top five reasons for for the, for divorce.
Speaker 4I've already talked. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6Some sources may say top, but at least what I checked, at least top five you know, depending where you, you know, get your sources from. So so, yeah, that's what I would like to just talk about. Like you know, you know lamp. I know like you were married, for example, how comfortable is that? What was that topic? Or even in your current day, like if you take someone seriously, how important or comfortable is that talking to your partner about it?
Speaker 4Well, when I was married it was. It was very important and I can be transparent my wife had to type me up and spend it. So now, dating it's important. Let me say that it's important, but we not. It's only important when I needed to be important, like we only. We're only going on a couple of dates. I don't care what your credit score is. It could be great, it could be terrible. We're not going to stick around to find out anyway.
Speaker 4So, it just depends. If we start getting serious, then you know we can start talking about credit and you know how we can improve and all this stuff. So yeah that's going to get important to me. When it's serious, like I'm just we just on to a movie getting something to eat, I would be honest.
Speaker 4I don't care, but if there's somebody that you're taking seriously, once again, that's when it's yeah, that's when it's Matter of fact you'll probably know, because I'm going to start asking some different questions, just to get the date, I don't want to say the number, because I done been on that number Some of the potentials are going to be listened like.
Speaker 6Oh, we went on dating number four.
Speaker 2He ain't asked me that shit, I must not be the one.
Speaker 4I've been on it. It's a person. It was not a person. It's a woman I've been on about seven dates with, still didn't get to that conversation, so that's why he put us number one.
Speaker 1I don't know, he's a podcast, I don't know.
Speaker 3But yeah, it's important.
Speaker 4It's important when it needs to be. Got you.
Speaker 6Got you? How about you? Well, and that's another thing, it's almost I don't want. Has anybody seen the movie Heartbreak Kid with Ben Stiller?
Speaker 6Not a year ago, oh I haven't, yeah, but there was one hilarious part of the movie that I feel like is kind of relevant. Long story short. He meets the woman of his dreams, gets married off a whim and before they get married he finds out that she works for the Marine Biologist stuff, like that. At some point in the movie he's like, hey, when we get back from this honeymoon, we got to combine our finances. We got to do this in the third. And she's like you know, combine what finances? And she was like you said you were a Marine Biologist, right. And she's like no, I said I volunteered for the Marine Biologist. I don't make no money, and so if anybody's seen it, they know exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 6So don't be no Heartbreak Kid out here.
Speaker 1Yo, that's crazy, that's crazy.
Speaker 4Yeah, you're making me go watch that movie.
Speaker 6So what about you?
Speaker 1Sal. Okay, so for me it was, of course, just like anybody else. I identified with the whole financial issue Okay, you know we have conversations about it you know as far as building and stuff like that and also identified with the fact that a lot of people, as far as the way that I was raised in a financial space is like, you know, that's like very close to the vest type of information you know, and like I'm breaking out of that because we've been married three years. This is our third.
Speaker 1It's our third year. Okay, our anniversary is coming up on the 25th of March.
Financial Conversations and Transparency
Speaker 4All right, all right, I'll let you know that, bro.
Speaker 1Yeah, now listen, I pay attention to everything I love. I like that how you call it. So like, for instance, we just literally just had a conversation about my W-2s. You know, not a deep conversation. I'm sure, like after this podcast, we'll have a further conversation, but for me, walking into it, I'm transparent now at this point. If she asked me a question, this is what it is.
Speaker 1This is what we're doing, this is what I have, this is what I've done. You know, when I speak to Lambs Point, as far as like tightening up, this is my anchor, like this is my anchor, you know, I don't make chump change, but I also don't see it either.
Speaker 1You know what I'm saying, right, thanks, like Uncle Sam, right, yeah I don't, I don't see it, you know, and I think what's important for me is that we have a plan. You know, what's important for me is that we actually have discipline, you know, because discipline is going to basically help us execute that plan. So that's that, to me, is important, on top of the finances, because, again, it's just like any other business that you run. You know, one of the biggest financial steps that we took forward was when I started the podcast. I thought I was taking it serious. I'm like yo, I'm in this thing. You know, three years in, I'm good.
Speaker 1And she was like I'm proud of you one day, out of the blue, I'm proud of you, I'm like why? And she was like, because you stuck with it, like you know, and a lot of times she wasn't engaged with it, you know, it was just like ah, you got the podcast, you know doing whatever, whatever. And if I wanted her to listen to something, I would have to tell her I need you to listen to X, y and Z and send it to her, which didn't bother me, because everybody has the only thing yeah, um, but that Christmas what she did was she got an LLC for the company.
Speaker 1She was like go be serious Like you. You serious, this is good, this is what you're doing. You know step one and then step two. You know um her coming on as the co-host. Yeah.
Speaker 3You know, it wasn't like yo. I think I need you now.
Speaker 1And she was like listen, we're going to solve all the problems, that's what we're going to do. I'm going to be the co-host, that's that. That's awesome, that's good. You know. So again, for me, we we definitely need to have more financial conversations, because then there's growth.
Speaker 5You get what I'm saying we get to grow from it.
Speaker 1Because if I'm making a mistake and constantly hitting that wall and not saying anything. That's crazy, Right, you know that's crazy. She sees where the she sees where the break goes, though. Okay, it's not one of those things I'm not a frivolous spinner but at the same time, though it you know it's not always going to the places it needs to go, gotcha.
Speaker 4In a timely manner. Gotcha, gotcha, I'm telling the same.
Speaker 3It's good to have that second eye.
Speaker 4Yeah, it is, I'm going to tell the story. I don't drink, I don't smoke, but I do gamble. Okay.
Speaker 1All right Fando.
Speaker 4Fando kicked me off. That's the story.
Speaker 3Did you?
Speaker 6Oh yeah, that's another episode right there, so at one point like I was doing some.
Speaker 4I was betting on some stuff on, on doing some batting, and I kept making cash withdrawals. And my wife was like, why you keep taking all this cash out? And I was like, oh, I made some bets. If she looked like are you, are you monitoring this? Like, do you see what you spent? And I'm like I spent like $700.
Speaker 3Yeah, holy yeah and.
Speaker 4I was like, damn, all right. Well, I guess the budget, the gambling budget, been blown. So it may be that. But from that day on, look, you know, everybody got the advice. But you can't, you can't lose control of it. And at that point I would say I lost control of it, but I wasn't that $700 on gambling is too much. So at that moment I had that. What was the time spent for that? It was like 700 over what Like two months.
Speaker 6That's still too much. Yeah, you talking about 350 for the total of two months. Yeah, that's still a lot. That's still a lot Because you're not you're not going to see that back.
Speaker 4Yeah, look, she only saw it because I was losing, right? So if I was winning with the big deal, but if you lose 700 odds in two months?
Speaker 1Yeah, but you had a gambling problem. So that means that she wouldn't even seen it if you won, because you're not putting that back into the bank. A lot of people with problems, what they do is like that bankroll I'm not speaking from experience that bankroll is it stays there and then that whittles down, and then you go back to the bank and you bring money over.
Speaker 4So here's a problem with this. Here's the thing when you win money gambling right yeah, when you win money gambling, you usually spend it on something that's frivolous, like I don't know people who's win money gambling and they go open the Savings account right they go buy some new shoes, yeah, or some new clothes, yeah you. You got this money doing dumb shit because gambling is dumb, yeah, so you got it doing dumb shit so that's what you about to do. Go do some dumb shit with the money you want.
Speaker 1I got a I have a story to piggyback off of that. What we did was like during the whole covid situation and stuff like that, right, I got in the day training just like everybody else you know, so we just invest in the stuff, and I jumped on the whole.
Speaker 1Um, I was in Dallas when game stop did what it did. Oh Wow. But I was in Dallas and that was when everything qualified and I was like hold on, let me look a little closer into this right. And then they started talking about amc. Was you know do for a short squeeze as well, which it did squeeze a couple of times. But so I jumped into that right. I have five grand, and this is this is one of the things that I deeply regret. I don't think that I've ever told you I jumped in, I had five grand right and I was like your bed, listen, x1z is happening like we would have Conversations about this stock and to the point where it was like I know in our heads she was like this thing, it's a fucking stock analyst, you know, because I was, I was doing that much research on it because you asked me a question.
Speaker 1I'm like I got an answer you know, youtube university.
Speaker 1But we went from five grand. We were at uh 12, right from 12. So now we seven up Right from seven. We jumped to around 19, right, yeah, um, we got as high as 29. Amc did a reverse on stock split Uh, right, so it was like 10 to one or something like that reverse stock split and we lost everything, so to speak, to um, that whole thing, the, the gambling thing and stuff like that. This is where, once again, it pays to have, because I didn't, we didn't have like those conversations. We had conversations when we were winning. I'm like well, we is now sending screenshots and everything. Look, this is where it's at. Well, boom, we good. And then, in hindsight, that was my house down payment. That was, that was us being under one roof, not her in Dallas and me in new york.
Speaker 1You get what I'm saying in hindsight, yeah in hindsight, I'm a lot wiser now, a lot more Transparent now you know, especially if, if I have an idea to do something, first thing I'll do is like listen what you think about this.
Speaker 1Yeah, like this is what I'm doing, like I was pretty good with the whole day trading thing, right, so now I'm studying how to trade futures and stuff like that, because everybody else is on, not crypto. Um, they're doing Help me out, um, bitcoin or something, not Bitcoin. So it's not crypto, it's not bitcoin. They're doing the trading currency Blockchain, not blockchain. It's gonna come to me.
Speaker 6All right, I'm just going around the table. It was like your turn we're gonna be here.
Speaker 1I don't know and to the financial literacy point. We're all fucking stupid. No, um, and it's, it's, it's actually um you're not talking about nft or anything, right? No, Nft is another skin.
Speaker 4Yeah like it's exciting. We sell too much more to throw that out there.
Speaker 1Yeah, true. No, they're doing um God damn it. Anyway, it'll come to me and it's probably somebody listening screaming at the fucking speaker right now Like stupid it's.
Speaker 2As you know, right right, right.
Speaker 1But you know, doing that whole thing, but that's what I'm moving into now, you know. And then, of course, open up trying to get multiple streams of revenue popping um, but in Criminally. And I think what happens with a lot of motherfuckers is that they jump out the window and they're like they want, they want the money overnight and you can't get the money overnight. You can, you can, but of course it's a gamble. Right, it is yeah, because if you don't make that first, flip you down bad.
Speaker 1Yeah you know, um. So again, she's. She's my anchor in a lot of ways and to speak to your points, you know, speaking to your spouse about finances and stuff like that is is super important, you know, and she knows how hard I work. I want my speaking for you. Oh, yeah, please.
Importance of Financial Conversations in Relationships
Speaker 2Oh no, um no, I was just gonna say, I mean, it's never for me, it's never been a conversation like, especially when dating or you know, like years ago, things like that, like it's never just really been a conversation as far as you know finances and you know creative scores and that whole thing. But now, um, of course, at this old age of mine and and being married to this guy over here, um, you know, I think I mean of course it's, it's important you know before marriage, you know Definitely before marriage, to kind of get an idea of you know, of how you know the person that you're gonna spend the rest of your life with. You know, like, how well they spend money.
Speaker 2How you know they're crazy like you want to know these things because, again, like you said, I mean finances is one of the top reasons for divorce. So, um, but yeah, like I said, but I just never had those conversations before prior. Okay like.
Speaker 2But but for me, I've always felt like I've managed my money well, um, always, you know, to carry the bills and things like that before I've, you know Like, bought myself anything or did anything, for you know like I always made sure you know things were taken care of. So for me, uh, money management is definitely important. Um, credit scores, all that good stuff, especially now you know, right, but, um, but yeah.
Speaker 2So I mean, I definitely think it's, you know, when dating, definitely talk about it, especially when you know that it's going to be something more, or you are lending, you know, going into that whole marriage conversation absolutely, absolutely so when, uh, you know, because I think that's another thing, that's kind of scary too, like it can.
Speaker 6It can be an awkward, scary conversation, especially if you don't feel that confident In your credit score to to share with your work can be embarrassing.
Speaker 6Yeah, more so embarrassing yeah and I, you know, like I said, I think that's what a lot of people you know it's fearful, fearful, fearful of, um, but I think that's the whole point of you might as well have that conversation if you're serious about somebody, as opposed to having it after the fact of marriage. I mean, granted, yeah, like I said, I didn't have that conversation before we got married. You know that that financial conversation came after I started. You know, you know, notice, like you know, we just started looking at credit card bills together and stuff like that, and even still, you know, like I said, it was an awkward. It had it had to be a few number of awkward conversations before we actually Came up with some type of a plan to really get things back in order. You know what I'm saying and so, um, you know. So, with getting things back in order, has anybody, anybody this panel ever considered, like you know, find out to advisor for help or anything else like that?
Speaker 1or yeah, um, I think on two occasions. Okay, that I've, you know, I've done it, and then again like that whole, that whole thing. Another thing that takes discipline yeah, you know with regards to like you know, you go in there, you dump all your shit on the table and you try to sort through it you know, and then the plan that they come up with it's like oh so you just want me to be a slave forever, like All right.
Speaker 1So you know, we milk in in cookies the rest of my fucking life, you know, um, but again, in my old age, there are things that are necessary, you know which. You know I had an epiphany, you know, and I um probably have this discussion with you guys off cam and just to speak to my camera I mean my character but had an epiphany and it was like yo, life is about Sacrifices.
Speaker 1Yeah, you understand, and what are you going to sacrifice for what you want, you know, and then after that, like there are a lot of different intricacies, things that actually go with this, you know, sacrifices, um, putting together a good plan, a sound plan, you know, and that sound plan only has to be agreeable to yourself and probably one or two other people.
Speaker 1Yeah just to make sure that they're fact checking your work. You understand, um, and then the whole execution part of you know. You got to be Ready to hit the streets and go make it happen, you know, and damn.
Speaker 1And then you just need you, you need that, you need that, um, that security blanket in the form of a cheerleader, okay. And when I say that is this, there's gonna be a lot of hard nights, a lot of terrible fucking days when you're just gonna be like I don't want to put another fucking penny in the bank yeah, you know what I mean Like it's not, it's not serving me and it's just that person, you know, that's gonna come through and just be like, oh, you're doing the right thing.
Speaker 1Because, this is what's gonna happen. You can't see. You know you can't see tomorrow, but I've already took a trip there. Yeah, right, right, and this is what it's looking like. Yeah you get what I'm saying and just have that so that you know. Because once you get over that hump, it's just that one home. Yeah, because once you get over the hump, you've already developed a discipline to actually be able to save and and do the things that are necessary to maintain that Right, because if you do anything else you're an asshole.
Financial Advisor Benefits and Investment Concerns
Speaker 6Yeah. Yeah, that's true. Like you said, I think Once you get over that one hump, it's just a matter of just continuing those good habits like like, for example, if you it might sound simple to some people, but like you know, if you eat out, you know for four days out of, for four out of the five work, work, you know workdays.
Speaker 1Maybe you cut that back a little bit you know, or all the ways to do it right, yeah, you don't have to eat out. We just the matter. Convenience consumes us, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6Yeah, yeah. How about you just take an extra 30 minutes, cook yourself up a meal instead of going out in the weekends? Maybe stay behind home. Just just make it a date night at a crib, netflix and chill. But, uh, we brought up a financial advisor. Um, I know I came across this article on Edward Jones and it was talking about like the top eight reasons why you should at least consider getting a Financial advisor. I'm not gonna go through all eight. We can post the link in the description at some point, but, like I don't, one of the main, the top three reasons that stood out for me.
Speaker 6Um, one, I think the more more obvious reason is, um, just long-term planning. You know whether that be helping you out with retirement. Maybe you want to go on a. You know Even something that could be for yourself. I know you guys have been made for three years. Maybe you want to do some long-term planning so you can have. You could do a big for your 10-year anniversary, right, and you don't have to rely on dropping 10 bands on a credit card because you've been saving up for the next seven years in your marriage.
Speaker 6Um, the second reason I know they said like you can just try to, just to help you hone other things, like maybe it can help you with, you know, like your stock store you told, or your day trading. You know it could actually even give you advice on that, which I wasn't aware of. I thought it was just a place where you can just they just help you save money and maybe cut costs somewhere else. But there are some financial advisors who can help you with the day trading things, so you may not have to carry that burden on your own. But the biggest thing, you know once again, I'm only give three, will post the rest on the description it's just a plan for the uh, the unpredictable.
Speaker 6You know you plan for the unplanned thing. I know We'll get into the topic later about adulting and stuff like that, but it always seems like whenever I got my bills in order, whenever I got a good groove, card trouble, daughter got go to the emergency room, your daughter needs braces now. Just something always comes up once you get in a good groove. But if you at least have a financial advisor or at least have some type of good habits or, as you say, styles, get over the hump and just develop good habits of saving and being more, more Conscious with your money, maybe you could prepare for that unpredictable. So that's you know. I just want to share those two bits with the financial advisor.
Speaker 6You know I mean you're absolutely right, especially.
Speaker 1For the unpredictable? Yeah, right, because, like I said, we live in two different states. Right and we've. We've had to make it work. Um, you know, it can be a strain of times financially, but my daughter got sick, right, and I didn't know and when I you know, I mean when she had told me that she had gotten sick I had to hop on a flight the next day, right, and that's costly. Yeah, you get what I'm saying to go out there and make sure everything is good.
Speaker 1But again, if I didn't have the extra bread to you know to do that because that flight was Again right, right next day type of um action that had been crazy, yeah, and then I got my money back, and I got my money back and and those are the some of the things that I guess instills the discipline in me Um, along with warranted, you know, the motivation and everything because of the fact that those are the things you want to make sure that you're there for.
Speaker 1You understand I'm saying so. I mean it's rough. But Getting back to what you were saying yeah, absolutely, like you know, sometimes you do need professional help.
Speaker 6Yeah, sometimes you know it's no shame and ask for professional help. I think I didn't see that in the uh in the list when I read the article. But Kind of brings me to the next thing in terms of seeking help. One of the things that I am afraid of, and perhaps ironically enough, I'm talking about financial advisors, and Sometimes it can't be costly to at least get a financial advisor. But, um, ironically enough, one of the things I'm kind of scared of is actually, you know, truly, trying to find out what to invest in. Like there's so many scams going on. You got DJ ambient and Caesar with the real estate scam. You got, um, Like I know, uh, I think it's jake paul, one of the paul brothers. They was getting a lot of a lot of flak for the nft scam. There's this guy named bitcoin riding. He had, like some some some crypto currency scam. He just got arrested the other day.
Speaker 6Yeah, that's what I'm saying, so yeah, so uh, you know, and of course everybody remembers the the all-time famous Um, you know, burning made-off. You know, can I?
Speaker 1jump in real quick. Please do so the burning made-off thing is is Funny and ironic at the same time. No how so because the government is a Ponzi scheme. So it's not he's just the one that they singled out, and they were like you know what? You can't do what we're doing.
Speaker 3It's you know and these are.
Speaker 1These are things that you know. Of course it's a deeper discussion and of course you want to have it with somebody that has you know, that knows a lot more history as far as that's concerned. But the government is a Ponzi scheme. They're washing money every fucking day and I'm gonna say this and I'm gonna leave it alone. I promise you, but you don't wake up and then send Five billion dollars to a foreign country, but you can't do anything here. Right right.
Speaker 1It gets stuck in legislation and all his other stuff, but we can wake up and send five billion dollars somewhere. Yeah so it's not again Bernie. Bernie was only doing what everybody else is doing and that's not even to say that maybe riding is doing the same shit. You know crypto riding.
Speaker 6Yeah right.
Speaker 1Oh, maybe he was. He was doing the same shit, we could have been, you know and oh, and the thing that I was trying to remember earlier, it's forex.
Speaker 6Okay for it.
Speaker 1For it when you trade currencies and stuff like that, and forex isn't a scam. Okay, it's not, excuse me. What happens is the people that actually get involved.
Speaker 3Auto scammers.
Speaker 1Auto scammers and then what they do is they like I'm gonna take, they turn into a pyramid scheme. So you go, get all of these people Right and you sign them up under me, and then somebody else, ultimately, is doing a trade, but you're funding this trade, but you're not actually getting the money from it.
Speaker 6Yeah.
Speaker 1So and I've had that issue with forex because when you look at it fundamentally, it's not. It's not a scam, it's just that where do you get the information to learn to actually do it? Okay? I got you and all of these people, and I don't want anybody to get swept up into that, because there's a lot of these young kids jumping online and like yo, look at this. I'm just made like Excuse me $10,000 in like seven minutes Hold on though.
Speaker 1This is the thing, not impossible, but you got to understand that these kids are starting with capital. You don't have it.
Speaker 3You understand.
Speaker 1I'm saying so if you think that you gonna put $10 into a trading account and you gonna hit a home run and make seven grand in eight minutes.
Speaker 1Yeah, you got your mind, it's not gonna happen because you don't even know what you're doing. Right, you don't know how to read candles. You don't know how to. You don't know how to momentum trade. You don't know how to do any of that stuff. You don't know whether you know what they're posting was based off of news Right or based off of um, an earnings report. You don't know any of that stuff, but yet, and still, this is what you know and yeah, but that's a whole other, different part of marketing.
Speaker 1That's instagram page mark.
Speaker 6Yeah.
Speaker 4Yeah right, right.
Speaker 1We feel we're like yo, we're gonna do this and it. You know I'm with the motivational speakers Because you can't sell me or you're gonna sell me. On me, I can do it.
Speaker 3You are the best you know.
Speaker 1God broke the bone when he made you.
Speaker 3I'm for that.
Speaker 1I'm not with. Uh, you know, for me I get gassed up off of the same ones. Y'all see where people are like, yeah, so you make x, y and z off of. Then I go look at the fundamentals of it and I'm like, yeah, it's absolutely possible. But I don't fool myself and I realize that you need capital in order to do x, y and z.
Speaker 1And if you jump in and you don't know what you're doing, even with that cap, you're gonna lose it on you back to square one. Okay, you get me. So that's where I'm at with that as far, because I know that on here you did have something about scams and schemes and stuff like that.
Speaker 6Yeah, so but that. But I guess you kind of answered the question. That's how you kind of Maneuvia way around Said scams like you actually do your own, of course, do your own homework.
Speaker 1It's hard because where you getting the information from? Yeah, where you're gonna go and who do you trust enough to tell you about? For a rex?
Speaker 4I don't know anybody's scamming you giving you the information? Yeah, exactly, and they be in my DMs all the time.
Speaker 6Yeah, yeah. All the time I'm like wait a minute, what Don't you want to be like this? I got some new friends.
Speaker 2They just are following me. I'm like, oh, okay poor experience.
Speaker 1Yeah, between them and come see my page. I get naked, oh yeah.
Speaker 6Yeah, that's what every time I post it.
Speaker 1Nah, I don't mess with Dobby Pistole. They be fucking up my algorithm.
Speaker 6Every time I post a story, I got at least one of those spam things that that just at least looked at the story. I'm like I didn't even ask for you. But yeah, I get those all the time, bro, and I'll be like yo you be fucking my, my ego and my numbers up.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'll be like yo, I got like 50 bills and like 30 of them is fucking.
Speaker 1Come to my page, I get naked.
Speaker 6So, so, like Lambo or Shade Rouge or anything like, how do you kind of protect yourself from a scam? If you thought about what else can I do with money to, to, to invest or anything like that, has there been anything that y'all've done to try to Protect yourself? Or you just be like, look, I'm not familiar with it, so I ain't rocking with it.
Speaker 4And that's just an instance. If I don't, if I don't know it, true.
Speaker 2Yeah, for me I think everything is a scam, so I don't really engage. But um, but one thing I did I definitely look at more into investments, um, and and stocks. I think that's the safest way, and so I'll do research and kind of see like who the fag is To follow regarding you know that, but everything else is a scam, what I feel like. So, yeah, I don't really.
Speaker 4Participate, going to look for information in this in the form of a blog.
Speaker 1It's funny is because I started getting into stocks, I started taking a lot of master classes because you know, of course that's. That's how we all stumbled into it. You know we're all like I cool Stocks, think it's like you start getting the gas up videos Like word. I could do that over that.
Speaker 1You know, and I could do you know, then when you jump into it, they're like, yeah, just send me 499, I'm gonna send you this newsletter, and then you have to get the newsletter. It's like yeah, so you want to be part of this, this, this, this, uh, what you call it groups. So once you get in my telegram and you know, start doing. I've never done any of that, thank you. No that's not. That's not where my money is going, you know and um, yeah, no, it's.
Speaker 1It's difficult out here to to make sure you know. It's difficult out here to vet the people that you're actually getting the information from because, remember, you're walking into the situation ignorant. So how do I know that what you're saying is not true?
Speaker 2Yeah, you're right, you've got a research for yourself. Yeah, you never got research.
Speaker 6And I think that's the safest way, just like what you see, uh, sadra and and styles, all three racks, I think the safest thing that I do. I've just been paying more attention to stocks, you know. Like you know, I have some stuff in in apple, amazon here. I tried to diversify and that's about as far as I got like artists, I think. That's another thing that I think people are afraid to admit. They're afraid to really say I don't really know. Like, like, when the whole nft thing went, went, you know, went, boom, I remember my cousin he's. He was very knowledgeable about the whole cryptocurrency thing and I wanted him to sit down and explain it to me and I still didn't do it because it was. You might as well explain Chinese calculus. I didn't know anything about the blockchain and this and the third and making your own crowds like I Thank you, but I'm cool with just at the most, investing in stocks. So and that's another thing.
Speaker 1I mean I'm looking at the uh, the technical revolution. You know, I think this is all like like our second round of this, because, remember, the first one was the internet boom, right when they started investing in all these internet companies and it was like a you know a bubble and it burst eventually and they stopped doing all these ipos for these companies. Um, and if he's in crypto, it's the other thing. They're still not using crypto as regular currency.
Speaker 1Yeah so like for me, and the problem that I have with it is like, if it's not used as regular currency, where's the value? And so that's what makes it hard to invest, because you never know. Are you buying a dip?
Speaker 6Yeah, right. Or are you buying a peak?
Speaker 1Yeah, and it's so volatile that way, yeah, yeah, just don't know, you know, and it's, it's crazy, so, um, but I plan on getting into it. So again, like I said, if you slow, walk into it, you good, you know. So if you don't just jump out there, you'll be like yo, Dogecoin is going to do x, y and z now really take my money yeah but if dogecoin is six cents, you can have my money you know what I mean.
Speaker 1Like it's six cents, let's do it, because I jumped into those when those was six cents and shot up to nearly a damn dollar, you know. But then it tank Okay. So like, are you buying the dip?
Speaker 6You don't know buying the peak, right, right, you know, yeah, so, and I think, like just the last thing on top of the whole thing of Scan, I know they are seeing it. I think it was seeing in um, I forget the source, but I know there was like a top eight Um scammers in the in America. Um, of course, you have Ponzi um Himself. I think his name is Charles Ponzi. Um, I think that was back in uh 1920, and so it's not a lot. Well, it's a lot to me now to this day, but even back in 1920 he was um, the most he scanned people was like like 15 million. So think about how, back then, you know, you know that's like billions.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 6Right. So I won't get into the details of need for the sake of time and so forth, but we'll put it in the description as well. You have Lou Perlman. I think that was back in the 90s, if I'm not mistaken oh sorry, 2005. He, uh, I think the biggest his positive scheme got before he got caught was 300 mil. Um, we have Gerald Payne at 448 mil. That was in the 1990s. That's what I got confused about, but there's like eight of them. So I once again, I don't. I don't know if it's necessary to read through the whole list, but you know there's a whole, a long history of people who just got, got got. Well, let me interrupt you.
Speaker 4How much jail time did it?
Speaker 6Well, um, maybe most people, mostly people, did get like considerable amount of jail time, like, for example, bernie I think he got life, yeah and like and Bernie, he wasn't even like the highest on this list in terms of the money that he scanned. I don't think you know.
Speaker 1I'm saying and it's the thing with the Bernie thing if you really want to Take a deep dive into it. You know, or even just you know, Hit the surface. There's a couple of documentaries out and a couple of series out with um Bernie.
Speaker 4Oh yeah, I was gonna say for a couple years and a couple hundred millions, I might sit.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 6I did have that wrong, bernie. Actually he, uh, his uh balloon was up to 20 billion before he got caught.
Speaker 3Yeah, your Bernie was turning niggas 20 Out so he might be the highest on this list.
Speaker 4Yeah, he got some famous people.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, he got people for real he was killing them. Um, but yeah, now he. I think I bugged out when I heard you know, because everybody's like Ponzi scheme, they're like, oh, fraud. I didn't know until recently, just like you, that the Ponzi was the name of the dude that actually first did it. Yeah, back in 19.
Speaker 4I didn't know that until you just read.
Speaker 6That's crazy, yeah, charles Ponzi. So yeah, I appreciate you. Let me uh share that segment there.
Speaker 1No, it was. It was dope, um again, I'm just a recap. You know, um, um, financial literacy is important Absolutely. You know, if you have to spend money, think about it like this think about spending money, that's an investment. You know, that's definitely an investment. Um, having to open and honest conversations about you know finances with your spouse Um, not your girlfriend with your spouse is important. You know, because with your girlfriend, what's happening is she's just picking up on the context, clues anyway, how you spending your money and stuff like that, just from the outset and then after you know you guys are going to be serious, not before, you know, not after you jump the broom, whatever, have that conversation. Um, you guys have anything else to add to that?
Speaker 6Well, I will add this Um, I don't think it's. I think it's very important to teach financial literacy if you have kids see your kids, because I don't really you know, I've been out of school since for a long time I highly doubt that they're actually having like a specific financial literacy class, right? So I think if you have children, no matter how old, try to instill in them some type of financial literacy, yeah.
Speaker 1Okay, so, um, let's see if I can locate the right fucking body. Bay night, sexy nights and good food. All right. So Normally we would talk about live because limbs outside, lims outside getting a suntan Right or standing in in his, in his window, you know, with a cup of.
Speaker 6Cup of joe.
Speaker 3Yeah, I was gonna say joe, you don't drink coffee, no, I chocolate.
Speaker 1What warm beverage, nigga? You can't be consuming water solely. I've refused to fucking believe that I drink.
Speaker 4I drink a lot of sugary drinks tea.
Speaker 1Oh, okay, so you drink tea full of shit.
Speaker 4Yeah, I got you now.
Speaker 1He's tea is you know? I guess a little man on the toe told him poll. As far as bullshit, I'm sorry, but all right. Um, so, in honor Of land being outside right, what we have is we have. I've comprised, not me, I've been comprised, shit. I actually got this off the internet, um, but there's, uh, what is it? Here are 10 common rules to keep in mind for a first date for men. Man, you want to read that? Yeah, let's go through the. We're gonna start with 10 rules, the 10 rules.
Speaker 6Yeah, shoot, I'm curious to see what, uh what, he thinks about some of these 10 rules.
Speaker 3Like as far as you know, first date.
Speaker 6Uh, etiquette. I you know I've been way out, that guy.
Speaker 4So we starting with the man, right Starting with the man.
Speaker 1We're gonna, we're gonna let shadow, shadow read off the women.
Speaker 4Dress appropriately. Make sure to dress neatly and according to the occasion. It shows respect and consideration for your date. Hmm, agree, okay, just gonna do an agree, disagree. I like it Be punctual. Arrive on time or a few minutes early Demonstrates reliability and respect for your date's time. Agree.
Speaker 1Disagree. Don't be showing up early, looking thirsty.
Speaker 4No, no, no, no, sit on time, Sit on time, so you show up.
Speaker 1You show up with a bottle of water and make it 15 minutes after the time you're supposed to be here.
Speaker 3Don't listen to style.
Speaker 4Be a good listener. Show genuine interest in what your date has to say. Ask questions and actively actively engage in the conversation. Agree Avoid controversial topics. Stay clear of sensitive subjects such as politics or religion. Keep the conversation lightened enjoy.
Speaker 2Agree hold on, let me jump in here, real quick, go ahead.
Speaker 1So how do you know who you really date? And if you don't ask the sensitive shit?
Speaker 3I don't know so far I'm listening we.
Speaker 4Why would you waste?
Speaker 1my time on this.
Speaker 4I don't want to talk about politics, extending my religion. Talk is God is good, okay, so we keeping it at that. We ain't about to start talking about. All right, what do you think about?
Speaker 1the Jesus really rise on the third day and you know he's gonna find that out when he get married. Be like who the fuck did I marry?
Speaker 4But that's a conversation you would have before you get that far like. So these are because remind you, didn't ask me none of those, because you gotta remember this is first date. Yeah, so first date. We don't need to be talking about that like If you were a magnet supporter. We'll find out. It'll come out so practice good hygiene. Make sure you're clean, fresh and well grown. Pay attention to your personal hygiene, including fresh breath, definitely agree. Be respectful. Treat your date with kindness and respect. Be mindful of their boundaries and personal space.
Speaker 3Okay.
Speaker 4Offer the pay. It's a common courtesy to offer to pay for the first date. I actually agree. Oh, wait a minute, hold on. However, be prepared to respectfully accept if your date insists on splitting the bill Damn Interesting. We're gonna keep going.
Speaker 1No, no, no, no, no. Okay, go ahead. Why is it interesting? Because I was a little confused about it, so I don't.
Speaker 4So If the bill hits the table, right, I asked you out.
Speaker 1Okay, so you gonna fight her. She says that I'm not gonna fight her, but it's like I'm up.
Speaker 4Okay, it's gonna. I'm kinda looking like well, what kind of man you used to dealing with. Were you sitting there when I just said? I'm paying it. Right, like just say thank you, like we don't need all this other shit, okay.
Speaker 1Thank you was good enough, all right, which is fine, and I'm with that, but I think that you have to, you have to be comfortable with the fact that she was like you know, definitely give her some pushback. Well, we know that you're not. Yeah, no, we're not, relax, relax.
Speaker 4I don't even know why you.
Speaker 2I think you should let her experience To me.
Speaker 4it's because to me it's like look, all you're exhibiting is your trauma dating. I don't wanna deal with that.
Speaker 1Look, I got it okay, I already picked the place. Somebody done left the restaurant on you before huh Nah.
Speaker 4Oh you showed up without money before huh. Yeah, I'm like, look like, I asked you to go. Yeah, yeah, I work. I work 40 hours a week.
Speaker 1Yeah, like stop disrespecting me.
Speaker 4I'm a man, it's okay, like, if I take you, I don't, I'm not gonna take you somewhere, right when I'm gonna be sweating when the bill comes.
Speaker 1It's okay, that's a fact. That's a fact. You wanna take these 50 cent francs.
Speaker 4Yeah, like I'm, not we not going to the best steakhouse in the city? Is this the first date? You might not like me, I might not like you. It's the first date.
Speaker 1Let me ask you a question Now. I'm gonna let you continue, but has there ever been a time where you seen somebody that you would break that first date rule and take them to the steakhouse? No, okay, I'm just asking.
Speaker 4Absolutely not.
Speaker 1I'm just asking, we just trying to build your tender profile and make sure it's right, my message is right If you can tell me a reason that she deserves a steak date. I'm interested, but you can't. It's a steak date.
Speaker 4So keep your phone away. Give your full attention to your date and avoid distractions. Keep your phone on silent or in your pocket. Okay, I agree, be yourself, don't cut biscuits. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding. Thank you, bougie.
Speaker 6Wow, I love it Wow.
Speaker 1I wasn't ready.
Speaker 4Be authentic and genuine. Don't try to impress your date by I pretend to be so. Just got your date all over style.
Speaker 3Yes, yes, yes, 8, 9 and 10.
Speaker 4Don't try to impress your date, but I pretended to be someone you're not. And number 10, follow up. If you had a good time, consider sending a text or calling to expression enjoyment and interest in seeing them again. I love it. Remember these rules are more like guidelines and it's essential to be a. And it's essential. Let me start over. Remember these rules are more like guidelines and it's essential to be adaptable and considerate of your date's preferences and comfort level.
Speaker 1All right, I feel like somebody Fanella wrote that. Who wrote it?
Speaker 4Fanella Do you disagree with, but it's a good list. No, I'm not saying it is. It's a good list. Yeah, it's a great list. It's a good list.
Speaker 6Yeah, it's a good common sense list, Like yeah, well, what's common sense to something may not be common sense to everybody. I was just about to say the whole common sense thing, but I'm glad that you grabbed it.
Speaker 1Yeah, for sure. Pause.
Speaker 3Interesting.
Speaker 1Go ahead Now rock out with the women. All right, let's go with the women All right.
Speaker 2So, number one dress comfortably and confidently. Wear something that makes you feel good about yourself. So definitely agree with that, always going to dress comfortable. Be punctual, show respect for your date's time, arriving on time or a few minutes early. Engage in conversation. Take on an I mean take an active role in the conversation, share your thoughts and ask questions to get to know your date better. But we're not talking about politics and religion, though, so don't worry about that.
Speaker 3I was just.
Speaker 2We're not what I was just Not on the first date the first date is going to be fun.
Speaker 3Let's just have a good time, let's just you know.
Speaker 2All right, Be yourself. Don't feel pressured to pretend to be someone you're not. Be authentic and genuine. Number five practice good hygiene. Make sure you're clean, fresh and well-groomed. Pay attention to your personal hygiene, including fresh breath.
Speaker 1Number six offer to contribute, While it's commonly expected, I see how these days For the man to pay Right.
Speaker 2Exactly. Offering to split the bill or take turns can be a thoughtful gesture.
Speaker 1But don't get mad if he's like listen.
Speaker 2I got this. I don't wear. I won't Swim chump, don't be like, I ain't gonna be mad.
Speaker 6Another six sounds like the. I'm gonna just slow, mostly to my pocketbook, but you gotta take it.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, she's gonna be like this yeah Right, but again I'm being five.
Speaker 3I don't need to feel like playing that game.
Speaker 2What the? I just don't. I don't need to feel like playing that chess game.
Speaker 4Should we split the bill?
Speaker 1No, you know what it is. We're not splitting it, no, but see, we just had a whole conversation over talking about finances.
Speaker 4But I'm just saying, it's like, bro, it's a date Like you probably gonna spend what $60, $70?.
Speaker 6Yeah, on a dinner date, I'll say it's $70.
Speaker 2But again, but just like what Lamp was saying earlier on, well, with the minions question. But I mean, if I'm asking you out, then of course I will pay. Oh, OK, all right, but that's only if I ask you out.
Speaker 3Yeah, I don't think that's a good word about All right.
Speaker 2But now once that bill comes out.
Speaker 1Hey, give it to him over there.
Speaker 2Sitting across the table.
Speaker 1How did you hand me that bill? Right Well that was my top one it looks like all of them the same.
Speaker 6Yeah, they're talking like back though, yeah, and then of course, like I said, what else?
Speaker 2Oh, number seven, no. Number eight keep your phone away Again, give your full attention or distractions. Number nine be yourself, you know, be authentic. And then number 10, of course, again, follow up. You know if you had a good time, consider sending a text or calling to express your enjoyment.
Speaker 6I think that's a solid, solid list as well.
Speaker 2Good little baseless.
Speaker 6Sound like a marriage of the same. Yeah, it sound like a.
Speaker 2Oh wait a minute.
Speaker 6Sound like a couple wrote that list together.
Speaker 2Hold on. No, I'm sorry. Number seven was to be respectful. Number eight keep your phone away. And number nine trust your instincts for the women. Oh trust your instincts. If something feels uncomfortable or unsafe, trust your gut and prioritize your own well-being. Oh yeah 100% agree with that. And then number 10 was to follow up.
Speaker 3Yeah, number nine is a really good one. That's a really good.
Speaker 2Always trust your gut women.
Speaker 1All right, so this is what we're going to do. There is well, actually, I found some Gen Zers and there are a lot of, well, basically, terms that they use. So this is basically 2024 Gen Z slang in the guide for relationships, now, a lot of this shit, though I don't know, I'm offended by it because this slang basically was created before them, but then there's a lot of texting slang in here. That's whatever. Anyway, we're going to go around the table. I'm going to say a word and somebody's going to put it in a sentence.
Speaker 6OK.
Speaker 1I'm ready. All right, I'm not a Gen Zer, but OK, all right, hold on, let me give you something. All right, I'm going to give you the honest, because you know you out here, in these streets. You need to be slanging that. Slang. You feel what I'm saying? Oh yeah, I need you to sound like you know what you're talking about when you start talking to these chicks. All right, cuffing slash, cuffing season.
Speaker 4Put it in a sentence. Either you don't have to use both myself at this currently moment. At this current moment, it's not experiencing cuffing season.
Speaker 1OK, all right, Stop. Just went down a little bit. Ok, hold on, we're going to stay on you, lam, because you need it the most. I don't need it, I'm good. I'm good. Can we switch seats? Nope, gaslighting, you know what gasoline? Is you familiar? I have the definition. I got the definition oh, you got it, I just never understood it.
Speaker 4Ok, I don't. I don't know how to use that in a sentence, all right.
Speaker 6I'll give my man a lifeline. Yeah, so she called me cheating, but I just was gaslighting her and we're back together.
Speaker 1You didn't help.
Speaker 6He didn't at all. Oh, I thought I used it right like gaslighting.
Speaker 4No, here's the thing. I'm looking at the definition. Listen, this is one of the words I struggle with People be like oh, he's gaslighting the situation. I'm always sitting there like what the fuck does that mean?
Speaker 6What I got is almost like I make the person feel crazy when they're 100% right.
Speaker 1Oh that's a fact.
Speaker 3Oh, you call me cheating.
Speaker 6I'm a gaslight you All of a sudden we're back together because you lie yeah.
Speaker 1OK, All right cool.
Speaker 4All right Back to you. When I got back to me, ghosted, ghosted, I really didn't like her, so I didn't bother calling her back. That's a sentence.
Speaker 3But the word ghosting is not in the sentence. Oh, ghosting oh oh. I can't get it out of my head, my man. That wasn't even the definition. It wasn't even the definition. It was like, uh, something. I was like wait for the word.
Speaker 1He ghosted so good he didn't even use the fucking word Right, man. I said what.
Speaker 4Some of you used the sentence Right man, I didn't have a good time. I'm ghosting her. I'm not calling her there you go hey.
Speaker 1Cast with a ghost. All right, let me fuck your head up. I don't know if they actually pronounce this. No, it's an acronym, so I don't think that they do. But I-O-Y, I'm sorry what I-O-Y? I love you. Ok, but you got to use the I-O-Y, i-o-y.
Speaker 2Oh.
Speaker 6That's fine, I'll take you to the text.
Speaker 2Yeah, I was just about to say that. Act like you sent in the text.
Speaker 4Oh, I took you.
Speaker 1Damn I-O-Y. Now hold on. There's a couple of rules to this. Make sure it's not 10 in the morning, all right, make sure it doesn't have the other acronym, you know, w-y-d.
Speaker 3OK.
Speaker 1OK, so go ahead and I got you just in the same. Yeah, and you can't say beautiful or queen, oh shit.
Speaker 4This man, I love you yeah.
Speaker 1Yo, you are fucking Listen.
Speaker 4OK, damn, I got for my-.
Speaker 2Don't be gaslighting. I got for my-.
Speaker 4Basically Great. I got to put myself in the scenario. While I'm not a swum, Come on, be on the scene. It's been four months.
Speaker 3No.
Speaker 4And nobody has made me feel the way you make me feel. This has been really good. Four months Kind of takes a sense of this, my man got a monologue.
Speaker 6Yes, i-o-y.
Speaker 4You been practicing.
Speaker 2He can't wait to send that one man.
Speaker 6that's what I'm like. That's what I'm like a bonus in the notebook, or something.
Speaker 1Hey, listen.
Speaker 3The alternate ending Right.
Speaker 4Look, that was a little more difficult. I had to you had to build up to it.
Speaker 1Yeah, let me get you back over here. Pimping Riz Yo, we don't know shit. Oh my God Yo.
Speaker 4Oh shit yeah. Riz Riz Riz Riz Riz Riz. Man, I know for a fact you attracted to my Riz and good looks.
Speaker 6I attracted to my Riz and sounds wild OK.
Speaker 3We can't answer right after this, that's how crazy Hold on.
Speaker 1Here we go, all right. So I got two for you.
Speaker 6Is that yous right?
Speaker 1Oh yeah, I mean it's charisma. I mean he used it grammatically correct, like it's not how somebody of the age of 25 would use it.
Speaker 3I've heard it a lot and I'm just like what?
Speaker 1the fuck is-.
Speaker 3I've never I tried to Riz up. And I'm like what does that mean?
Speaker 1And I'm sitting here like you can't pick it out or figure it out through the context you try to Riz what. Like what happened exactly? Let me get some more back stories so I understand what the fuck is going on Back story. Yeah, I need the back story? Well, I don't need the back story. But you understand? Well, you already know. So, with that point up, just like fuck you. I don't even want to know. Let's go to Smash, oh okay.
Speaker 4Smash yes.
Speaker 2You've been using that for a while, man.
Speaker 1My business is all out of the streets.
Speaker 4It took a minute, but she finally came through and let me smash.
Speaker 1That was, ladies and gentlemen. That was his pimp hand.
Speaker 6I think, I think, I think most men have used that term. Well, I use that approach of a sentence.
Speaker 1Yeah, all right, sneaky link Shit. Come on man, you can't be I can't have you out here in these streets, filthy.
Speaker 4I would never use these terms. Come on, man.
Speaker 6He's like I'm a grown ass man, what you mean?
Speaker 1Sneaky she might be talking to you about something oh, a sneaky link I was or you could be defending yourself.
Speaker 3I'm not a sneaky link oh, oh, oh, oh, oh oh.
Speaker 4I do not have time to be your sneaky link. Okay, okay, go home to your man.
Speaker 6Damn.
Speaker 1That was his left pimp hand. All right, snack.
Speaker 4And then I'm going to let you off this, oh okay, oh no, that's not going to be the last one.
Speaker 1I just found a treasure trove.
Speaker 6I'm scared to find out what it is tonight.
Speaker 4I saw her profile picture looking like a whole fucking snack. There you go, oh my man that one.
Speaker 1Okay, all right, all right, all right, talking or talking face.
Speaker 4Oh man.
Speaker 1That's the space she went right now.
Speaker 4I know, just put it in park and give me a sentence Right now. Currently I'm enjoying dating and having a talking face with what I like it.
Speaker 1I like it a lot. All right, thirsty, I told you I don't fell into a whole treasure trove.
Speaker 4You will never catch me on these streets being thirsty.
Speaker 1Okay, that's good, that's good and last but not least, Zaddy, oh man.
Speaker 4I posted the pic and she put the heart eyes and called me Zaddy. Oh, it's a wrap. I guess y'all talking about finance tonight. Word.
Speaker 1Oh, my God.
Speaker 3Oh, man Hold on.
Speaker 1Because I got, we got one last thing for this, because now you know this whole dating thing. So Applebee's introduces a $200 date night pass for year long dining experience. Now for the cereal data, that could work out, think about it. Yes, because you know you're not taking the same person as Applebee's, unless, how, fuck it, let's tie it back into finances. Right, tie it back into finances. You're trying to. You know y'all like fuck it, we can't eat out every night. Now you got a $200 year long pass and y'all good. Or for the cereal data, you know, I mean with Instagram. Now, with this, you're going to be fucked up out here because they're going to be like this is the fucking Applebee's guy.
Speaker 6Or the body like are you going to laugh again with this fourth date? What?
Speaker 1can I get for your victim? I mean?
Speaker 2your date, everybody knows that.
Speaker 3Get a glass of water.
Speaker 6Lamb doesn't drink, and if I don't, drink, you don't drink the same thing or they go laughs at Patrons' norm, the lab and the building. It's like an episode of Cheers. Everybody know your name, I know right.
Speaker 1Oh my God, all right. So our league is clear about. What. Does everybody think about this shit?
Speaker 6I think it's awesome if you can use it at multiple Applebee's locations, Right Like if it's the same location it's trash.
Speaker 1But think about it like this though it might be like Planet Fitness, where you get a black card and you got Applebee's.
Speaker 6I would think you could use it at different locations. Honestly, if I could only use it like the Applebee's here in Bowie, if I could only use it in Bowie, it's trash, because then, like you said, everybody know your name and it's just crazy. They're like damn. So the last day they work out for you, huh, bring the date number four Back again. Nah, man, I think that's about it. It's only good if you can use it at well, at least multiple locations in your local area. Like okay, if I go to the Applebee's in Bowie and then go to Applebee's in Laurel and then maybe I go to the one in Waldorf, but then, you know, applebee's people might be talking about each other. I know he coming down to y'all next.
Speaker 6So you never know.
Speaker 1It's an interesting story. I don't know where we were coming back from. Where we were coming back from.
Speaker 2Was it the wedding? I don't even know what you're talking about All right.
Speaker 1So I think it was the wedding. I'm going with the wedding. I'm maybe lying, but that's cool. Whatever, y'all don't fucking know. We're coming back from the wedding. Of course she's hungry, right? You like the? Of Course.
Speaker 6Oh yeah, I heard I peeped it. You got to underline that shit too you know, get the little fucking yellow highlighter.
Speaker 1Highlight it.
Speaker 2Oh, it's not the only one. Put some fucking hearts in it, I promise I wouldn't, only yeah, yeah, circle.
Speaker 1Yeah, so a lot of things around my way close early. Okay. When I say early, I'm like between 10 and 11, 11 o'clock everything is shut, so Applebee's is open and we ended up at fucking Applebee's and shit. Was it the wedding? Yeah, it was yeah, we was coming back from the wedding, I was just got married, so it was like all right cool, whatever went there.
Speaker 6It wasn't that bad.
Speaker 1Applebee's not bad it wasn't horrible. It wasn't horrible, it wasn't. It was one of those things, like you know, of course, I got ice grilled because it's like you know I'm like oh, so this is open at that age, like nigga why the fuck? Do you need to know how late this is? Like, do you want food or not? I'm like, yeah, all right, no, but yeah, no.
Speaker 6Anyway, that was my useless, disgusting story that had nothing to do with it, but no, I mean they chicken tendered the fire.
Speaker 1The chicken, I don't think I got the chicken fingers, though. Well, I had wings that night.
Speaker 2But I don't know For me. I think it maybe if it was like other restaurants under that brand, probably.
Speaker 3That's smart.
Speaker 2Like can we get? Like I don't know, chili's is part of it. But, whatever other you know restaurants under that brand, instead of just all Applebee's like.
Speaker 6Yeah, Applebee's, Ruby Tuesday's.
Speaker 3Yeah whatever, yeah, something like that.
Speaker 2So instead of just the one restaurant maybe that would be okay.
Speaker 4So for me, I think it's a great idea, okay.
Speaker 6All right. Even if it's one location, is it good right there?
Speaker 3Yeah, one location, that's fine.
Speaker 4Would I, would me being a dator, use it. No, okay, while I'm not like, while I'm not trying to make nobody my wife, the first date, you still want to get a good impression. You know I would like to take a woman. It would be ideal to take her somewhere either. She's never been.
Speaker 1She's just not getting a steak, but she ain't getting Taco Bell either.
Speaker 4No, she's not getting a no. So here's the thing about the steak thing. Right, you can. You know your budget. Right, you was you, you, you, you, you playing in this deck. You know your budget. Um, it may not be state, but I'm not going to take a woman somewhere in in penny pinch Like, damn, I hope she don't order no shit with shrimp. Like, if we go on, we go on. You know what I'm saying. Like you got to be, if you taking a woman out, you got to be prepared to spend money.
Speaker 6That's how it is.
Speaker 4It's just, I'm not. You know what I'm saying. It's, it's, it's. I look at it like it's love. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, but that don't mean I'm going to take you to a dump. It just mean I might, I might spend some money, I might spend a little more money because I'm not going to be there, like, okay, you, here's the rules, right. Right, you get that, then we going to share, right, and you get an entree. You know, try to keep the entree $20 or less. I would really appreciate that.
Speaker 1No, like I think you could do that. You can.
Speaker 4I mean, I'm reading right here I just don't want to be there I don't like to meet. It gives off that cheap person Right, and I don't want to be the chief. You don't want her to know that you're cheap, you're cheap.
Speaker 1No, I'm not cheap.
Speaker 4No, you're cheap. No, I'm not cheap. This is the thing.
Speaker 1What I'm saying is this right, when I say that you're cheap, that first date you was like remember, because I was like well how could she get a steak dinner? You was like show me a woman that deserves a steak dinner on her first date and I was like you know what. This is smart.
Speaker 4No, you see no, no, no, I think it just kicked me in the fucking hole. No, it's a difference, because you said steak restaurant. That's why I said well, wait man, you think about like a capital grill. Yeah we not going nowhere like that?
Speaker 1Oh, you're going to allow this man to do that shit right now. I'm just trying to clarify the case.
Speaker 6I'm just asking Listen, listen, listen.
Speaker 4OK, listen, listen you can't, you can't put up right you can't put, it's not even about I could go to. You could go to Fridays and spend more money than you would have spent and forgo the child. Yeah forgo the child. Well, I don't want to use forgo the child, because that's all you can eat. But let's say, you pick it.
Speaker 4Let's say, you pick a steak restaurant. Right, you pick a steak restaurant. It's just the ambience, it's everything about this place. It's not even just the food. It's the ambience, it's the service, it's everything that comes with this place. There's just some places like, hey, this is cash.
Speaker 1You like, you know what it is, you won't get this skirt steak and hope they cut it right. I mean, that's what you order, yeah.
Speaker 4I look, if I was you, if I were you. I would go to Fridays and order a steak. That's just me. I will order chicken fingers and fries or something else.
Speaker 3The jackdaw is a burger.
Speaker 4Yeah, just something else.
Speaker 3You know what I'm saying but here's the thing.
Speaker 4But here's the crazy part I don't know how much we're going to spend because I'm not. I'm not now. See, I be careful of my words because people watching. I don't want you, thinking you about, to have bottomless drinks, right, I just expect, unless it's $20.
Speaker 1They 20 hours. You drink as much as you want. They said so 20.
Speaker 4No, because you got to get home.
Speaker 1Right, no, put in the Uber, oh, but y'all drive out. Yeah, you can, but it's like no, so just expect this. Let me sum it up with this Damn. He just said I ain't even picking up, we're going to meet there. Just in case I really don't like it.
Speaker 4No, no, no, no, no, no. A lot of women don't want you to pick them up.
Speaker 6They want to meet you at the place?
Speaker 1Oh yeah, so you can tell I haven't dated anyone, yeah.
Speaker 4So I'll sum it up with this I'm expecting a woman to know how to God damn. I'm expecting her to know how to conduct herself as a woman. You know what I'm saying, like. I'm expecting you to be a woman. That's not. Oh, this my time to go out. Let me get three, four drinks, because I don't get to go out much.
Speaker 6Like about about 30 oysters, like that one lady did.
Speaker 1Bro. I've been saying I got a story about that In my mid 30s. Oh no, oh, no. Yeah, I was in Philadelphia and I had went out on a date in Philadelphia. Philadelphia is only two hours from New York.
Speaker 3Yeah, right.
Speaker 1And she was like you want to go to a restaurant. So we went there and don't ask me why, like this is my first experience dating somebody that you know like seafood to the extent of lobster and all that other shit. Now she ordered a lot. Now I didn't think about it because I'm allergic to seafood, so why would you be so inconsiderate as to do? But whatever, you know, I'm like. Whatever they want to take out the shit on the menu, let me get that salad. So she ordered, like the oysters, some black oysters, bro. And my butt clenched because I was like hold on, because you do understand, because you know we've been talking about the budget earlier, right, I mean you do understand what side of the menu. That is right. But it's different if you've already started smashing, like I've already hit. Like this is not a home run for me and I don't even like you like that for a while.
Speaker 1You doing all this. Yeah, we not talking about finances.
Speaker 6We have nothing to gain from here.
Speaker 1Oh my God, yeah, no, but that's see, that's why.
Speaker 4That's why you picked the rest of one is a man.
Speaker 3I don't live in Philly.
Speaker 4No, it was, but see okay, yeah, no research.
Speaker 1No, bro, there was no internet back then. See, look she styles. You got her how to take an alley. I knew that oh but I was trying to be considerate. She ended up at one of the fucking Philly cheese steaks Fucking restaurant Shit.
Speaker 4Listen now, nowadays, okay, with city, you went If I happen to, if I make a city, you know what I'm saying and it's like hey, I found this spot. You want to go? Simple, yeah, simple, no, but see, that's that's the first of all.
Speaker 1I don't know. I can't even act on that advice. The thing is with, with actually I can't get up and setting stuff up and whatnot. Nice I'll be doing. Do I do a good job, though?
Speaker 2Yeah, you do Damn.
Speaker 3They always tempted to say the increase voice. Did you hear?
Speaker 1little voice inflects.
Speaker 6Just to let you know that you really ain't doing shit Right, you know what I mean, but enough to let you know, like I'm not going to embarrass you, Voice turner to Minnie Mouse.
Speaker 1Gentlemen, effort is is worth zero in these streets. No, I'm playing with you, I'm really playing, so anyway, I just don't want to get chopped in the throat. Oh, what the fuck was I going with this? Oh no, that was a good segue. I was lost, we were talking about playing.
Speaker 4I was saying something about being in the city, yeah.
Speaker 1But see, the thing is right now you, armed up, like you are, you got everything. You got you got the dating apps, which I hope you're not using because you're a podcaster. You have, that is your dating app. You have because putting you in contact with all of these people, yeah, you have, basically, just like you said. Like I have on my Instagram page is a folder called the day night and literally I've gone through like all of that. Also have one with brunch with my brothers and all of that too. But every time I see something I'm like then we need to go, to need to do this, we need to do that. So I put everything in there and then when it comes time to, actually, I'll shoot it to her because she's funny, like I'm funny, like a scale of one to 10. What you think I mean, right? So it's like a eight to 10. We good, right?
Speaker 6Anything less than eight. I ain't messing with it.
Speaker 1I mean it's between eight and 10, because it costs money to play. We don't want to go out there and spend money on some shit, you know whatever.
Speaker 6But you ready to go out here, out here A little bit shooting in the gym A little bit.
Speaker 1A little bit Ladies and gentlemen, I mean pardon, I didn't mean to do that to you.
Speaker 4Ladies, it's all good, the gentlemen knew better Some of them.
Speaker 3They knew better. Trust me, they knew better.
Speaker 1Ladies, there's a good catch out here. He's not talking about finances, it's not an algebra pop quiz. When you show it, show up there on your first date. So don't worry about the hard questions. There won't be any as long as you can Nunciate your words and no ads are going to fucking state plays on the first day. They ain't gonna happen. I'm telling you that right now.
Speaker 4All right, you can tell me off, off, off. I don't know off it, but I just it depends on the woman. Okay, we had conversations like. I'm the type. This is why I'll never really understand how men be feeling like women used the fourth meal. That's your fault, bro, that's your fault, all your fault.
Speaker 6That's a sound blade right there.
Paying for Occasions With Friends
Speaker 4Because if you had a good conversation with this woman, you know if she's feeling you or not. You should know what type of place she would like to go to. Those are the bottom. One thing is the first thing. So if you just out here being saved as food guy on her phone, that's on you, bro.
Speaker 6Food guys, because that's what you in.
Speaker 4You're the food guy.
Speaker 6People say never.
Speaker 4I say never will I be the food guy.
Speaker 6Never Good.
Speaker 4So the food guy I know in three conversations if we in a good space where I could be spending my money on you.
Speaker 6So what about? Like the nail guy? You're gonna be like the nail guy. Neither, I'm not gonna be. None of those guys. Okay, they be saying, hey, hair, hair, nail, nail, all that You're not getting no extra curriculars off of me.
Speaker 1So I will say this brother, I'm gonna pray for you. You be safe out in these streets.
Speaker 4I'm good man, All right.
Speaker 1Because there's some savages out here lurking, you know, lurking and hurting, you know, and they, like they, want to talk about finances too Yours.
Speaker 4You know how that conversation gonna be short. You know, listen, let me tell you something. My whole golden rule is, when we go on this date, if my car get declined, you have all rights to ask about my finance. As long as that car go through, you don't need to talk about my finance.
Speaker 1Relax. I don't care if it is my cash app called relax. Don't matter what car, live right, you eat currency is currency.
Speaker 4Did you get the walk out? Did you? Did you open your purse? Yeah, that's a fact.
Speaker 1Did you act like you was going to open your purse, because that's a problem too? Yeah, exactly, I just need you to.
Speaker 4I just need you to say thank you. I appreciate the good time being engaged. Don't have your phone and we good, it's not. I'm not a complicated guy.
Speaker 1There you go. Can I ask a real quick question? Sure, so this is for everybody. So we're all let's say all individually right, I'm doing something for my wife, my wife's doing something for me, when you're doing something for the mystery woman that you hopefully did not meet on tender, so you send out an invite, like y'all trying to do X, y and Z for my woman on what you call it. Come through, if you want to come through, they come through, then they pay. I mean, excuse me, it comes time to pay for whatever Pay for everybody Send in invites.
Speaker 1It's grown man.
Speaker 6No, no, I'm not.
Speaker 1I don't even think that my friends would. Even I seen it flowing around. Yeah, by the time this hits the streets it's gonna be super old news. But I did have, you know, an opinion on it and my thing is this if I got it, I'll do it Because, again, it's anything for my woman, right? So if I want to make it a grandiose thing, right. If I want to fly people in or you know better, yet that'd be, that's real stupid. If I want to be in Dallas and send out invites you know what I mean it's gonna be a small, intimate crew or whatever. I would do it, I would take care of them if I had it. But for you to show up and expect, you don't expect it.
Speaker 1I think that's the problem. That.
Speaker 3I'm gonna pay for you.
Speaker 1Now I brought you out to make a movie, but I ain't paying you. Yeah, you know what I mean. We not doing that. What's your thoughts?
Speaker 6Well, I guess it depends on the situation. Like true story for my 40th birthday that just passed this past October, my wife threw like a surprise birthday brunch at me in Lamp Shraver spot at the good old milk and honey. But it was the one in Camp Springs and it completely threw me off guard.
Speaker 1Can I stop you? Yeah, what'd you eat?
Speaker 6Yeah, you already know Chicken and waffles, chicken and waffles and some mimosas, you know what.
Speaker 6I'm saying Chicken and waffles. But she surprised me and like it was a emotional moment, like I cried, I had all my family and stuff like that and I didn't you know. So me thinking I was like in my back of my head. One thing I never liked to do was like when there's a huge, huge party, I'm like damn okay, how we splitting the bill, this in the third and then I overheard the waiter talk to my wife was in. He was just like okay, so you got X amount, that's already covered. Blah, blah, blah, because she in advance put that money aside to pay for the people in attendance. So I feel like it depends on the occasion. Like that milestone birthday, sure, she did it. But if it's just, you know, but not all occasions, like if you're just doing something nice to your wife, like you said, just don't don't come through expecting that style is just going to pay just because he invited you.
Speaker 1I mean, I want her to be around. You know her family and friends. Of course I'm going to take care of my mother-in-law, my sister-in-law, but you know what I mean. Like you won't find, you can see. Yeah. She means, you got peanuts in here real quick. But again, if I had it I would do it Right. But I think that no grown person you know walking around paying bills, should expect that somebody's going, especially if we know the financial climate that we're in, because we probably ended up splitting something at some point.
Speaker 6You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1Going somewhere, splitting something. We split that. Why the fuck would I pay for you to you? Know what I mean. Like that doesn't even make any sense In fact, you should ask me, you know, if you're really that concerned like yo, how are we going to assist this? You know, am I paying for this, you paying? For this. Like do that. You know, what are y'all thoughts?
Speaker 4Yeah, I'm with you Like. I'm looking at it like man. I appreciate the fact that they want me to share this moment with them. So this is I'm sharing a moment. Don't mean they paying the bill. I expect like an end. I look at it like I know my friends not they, they, they well, but I don't want to put the burden in them paying for me. No, in my life.
Speaker 3But whoever from with somebody Right, right, I'm saying, if I'm with somebody.
Speaker 1You little side thing Right? Yeah, I don't really want to.
Speaker 4The only time she get a steak dinner somebody get a steak, so it's like yeah, like I don't expect that, like I wouldn't even want you know what I'm saying, I wouldn't even want them to do that. No, now, if he, now, if he, if he come up like a lamp, already paid for this, then I'm like oh, that's different.
Speaker 1I just get a whole. Thing. You hit the ladder Right.
Speaker 4So it's like who you took care of that and let me let you know I appreciate that. So, yeah, because, again, you know another thing to consider too. A lot of times you didn't bring a gift. So if you bring in a, I think, if you think like, if it's a see, once it's in a restaurant, it's kind of understood. You're going to be paying like this If it's at the house. You know what I'm saying, you probably not going to pay nothing.
Speaker 6Hey, nothing, yeah, so it's like but then you're going
Speaker 4to bring, but then I feel like you should bring a gift.
Speaker 1Yeah, or liquor. You better bring some.
Speaker 6No, come in here and be handy.
Speaker 1Like oh.
Speaker 6I'm going to eat this food and roll out. You know what I'm saying. And then you got your top away.
Speaker 4That food was delicious.
Speaker 1Like we were taking plates to go.
Speaker 4Using your little. You know my, my, my, my, my brothers. You know what I'm saying Different.
Speaker 1Yeah, I know, I know what they find. They think it cursed out different too. That's the problem.
Speaker 4Yeah, but I'm not saying like they when I say brothers like close friends and stuff, so it's like we know our financial situation.
Speaker 1But see, that's the thing, though. This is where I was going with that. Like you, we've probably split something recently, you know what I mean. Or I came to you and I needed something, or vice versa.
Speaker 3Why would you?
Speaker 4think that I'm paying for this.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4It's just, it's just a principal thing. Like why is it, as a grown man, like, why would you?
Speaker 1do that. You want to grant talking about a stand on business. What's your? What's your thoughts?
Speaker 2I pretty much agree. I mean, I think you know, take away the expectation of it. You know, like I said, for you to even have the expectation that, okay, well, they're going to pay for this, since they invited me, okay.
Speaker 3No, actually no.
Speaker 2But but I kind of like agree, like with what your wife did for you as far as, like, you know, saving up the money, you know, like things like that, and then you know taking care of it. You know, especially, you know, if it's something for my husband, then yeah, let me. You know, as far as like paying for everything, like I mean, I, you know, my thought was when they're first, because I'm like that would be something that I would do as well and not, you know, have everybody to pay, but but yeah.
Speaker 2But, like I said, for you to expect or to come in here and think, okay, well, they're going to take care of it, yeah, yeah, that's just taking away the expectation.
Speaker 6Yeah, as an adult.
Speaker 4Yeah, yeah, just going in knowing I may have to pay Right. If I'm paying for everybody, I have it. You might have a menu.
Speaker 6I mean like yeah.
Speaker 1I already said.
Speaker 4Yeah, like, oh no you the filet mignon, that's not on that menu at all, Not a little bit.
Speaker 1You might get some chicken and waffle though.
Speaker 2You know what's on the menu. Everybody else got chicken and waffle.
Speaker 1Everybody else got chicken and waffle. You got the chicken and waffle. I'm great with that. Yeah, chicken and eggs in a bowl yeah she said these are in carton eggs and I'm like hold up, you got a rooster. Like where these eggs? What kind of eggs are?
Speaker 1these Cause. They kind of threw me when she said that, right, and that's just me going back to the early conversation. But yeah, no, no, I'm not doing eggs in a bowl, ever Not at all. I hear you, you know it better. It was different if it had like sausage and pause. All right, let's, let's, let's move on. I'm talking about talking about dessert.
Speaker 5I hope you guys enjoyed your meal. Can I get you something off of our dessert menu?
Speaker 1Yeah, so this is the part of the show I love hate.
Speaker 3Hmm.
Book Recommendation and Upcoming Netflix Releases
Speaker 1Right, so you got to go. You know, um, to wrap it up. Thank you guys, you know. Thank you to my beautiful wife. You know what I'm saying. You was going to say something.
Speaker 6No, did you put me oh, I thought you had muted me. No, no, no, she came with a defensive. She was like you didn't mute me.
Speaker 1I got to look at the board. No, I'll be able to happy fingers. Um, yeah, so you know? Uh, let me see. Oh, I'm wowing again Cause I just did it again. The only thing is that, yeah, Ryan, in jumping front of that bully, he was like fuck you Did it earlier, you know, you got COVID brain. What the fuck is going on, ryan? Actually, this is, this is Ryan's um segment again. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6Yeah, no problem. Well, uh, just for this, a quick segment. Uh, I'm a huge, huge movie buff Love shows this. And the third, just really, really quick. Um, it's already out, but if you're interested in something good to watch it, you got the time to do so. Highly recommend you check out boy swallows universe. Pause, as some people might like to say, but uh, it was. It's a very uh great series is on Netflix. Uh, seven episodes, uh, a fairly quick watch. You can knock it out in one weekend.
Speaker 6What it's about? Um, I heard someone say it's like sons of anarchy mixed with the goonies, and I'll have to agree. It's about a little boy by the name of Eli and his older brother, gus long, so he's short. It's a. It's a movie about them struggling to raise themselves after alcohol and drugs Damn, they tear the family apart, um, so, for example, you have an alcoholic biological father. You got um, their mother, biological mom who was struggling on, you know, struggling with drug addictions. Stepdad is cool with the kids but, spoiler alert he's a drug dealer as well, and so you got all these things in the mix and you're looking at this entire series from the point of view of Eli, who was like 12 years old trying to navigate through this whole space. So, um, a really great watch. Um, if you, if you like, a tear jerker, there might be a few moments where it's a little bit of a tear jerker and as a 40 year old man, I'm not a not afraid to admit that I've I've cried on a few of those moments. So highly recommend it. Um, pause the slay and reassure. Yet again, it is called boy swallows universe and very, very quickly, um, as a uh, something that I'm looking forward to. By the time this comes out, it'll already be out, but we do have uh not we, cause I don't own it Um, uh, we have uh, griselda.
Speaker 6Griselda Blanco is going to be on Netflix January 25th. Um, I'm looking forward to it. I think it's already going to do a lot better than the original uh adaptation of Griselda's life, which was played by Catherine Zeta-Jones, and it was horrible. Um, this one is played by Sophia, sophia uh Vergara. For those who aren't familiar, she was the wife of Ed Bundy on Modern Family. I've always seen her in comedy stuff. So for her to actually take on a serious role as Griselda Blanco herself, I'm highly, highly excited for it and I feel like Netflix has a great um streak going with just great shows. And just as a quick, quick, honorable mention, we got the Vince Deppler show coming out as well. It looks like Atlanta that Childers of Gambino did, but just with Vince Deppler's LA twist to it.
Speaker 1So yeah, Alright, I'm here for it. I am here for it, thank you, thank you, thank you, um, and now I should just cut out that first part and then put it here, but.
Speaker 3I ain't going to do that though.
Speaker 1I'm keeping it organic. You know, we want to see, we want y'all to see us fall in our faces on this episode, next episode, we good, right, um, alright, so I'm just going to go around the table, you know. Let everybody know where they can find you. Um, thank you again. You know, uh, and this I'm, I'm excited. You know, I don't even know how I can keep looking in the eyes of two grown as men telling me I'm excited. But, you know we're going to stop that. I'm excited there you go.
Speaker 3That's a much better look. I'm excited. Hey, how you doing. Hey, should I leave my own house?
Speaker 6Shout out to Ryan for being such a gracious host. I hate this brother.
Speaker 1This brother was like, listen, do you mind if I open up my home to you and I'm like yo, the south is different, the south is different. You know what I mean? It is like it's kind of like when you invite people or whatever and you don't expect them, I mean you expect them to know that they have to pay. It's the same thing. Well, fucking don't expect this. You're going to be thinking it was like yo, it's good, I know you're coming down here. You mind if I open up my singles, Like, basically, do you mind being my company this weekend? And I was like yo, man, this dude, I was like they different.
Speaker 1I like them. They different yeah.
Speaker 3Like the fuck, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1Um, yeah, we look forward to seeing you Guys on you know future tour dates and stuff like that. And when I say you guys, I ain't talking about you guys.
Speaker 3I don't look forward to y'all. Better be there.
Instagram Handles and Online Presence
Speaker 1I'm talking about you guys Seeing y'all on future tour dates. Go around the table. You know everybody give your Instagram handle that people know where they can find you. And then we're going to wrap this up. All right, that's just Ryan Once again.
Speaker 6you can find me on Instagram Taylor underscore photos, dnv, freelance photographer in the DMV area. And also, if you're a movie buff or you enjoy shows like I do, you can find me on Ryan reviews. Everything on YouTube James Lampkin again.
Speaker 4Appreciate your support styles. Thank you for inviting me. You can find me on Instagram at conversations underscore with underscore lamp. Facebook is also conversational. Lamp In my podcast is on sound cloud. That Apple podcast, all right, and you got Shadra styles here.
Speaker 2You can find me at hiding hills on Instagram and also flights, fashion and food.
Speaker 1If y'all think that I'm going to say something, you don't lost your fucking mind, because if you showed up, you already know where to find me. So I'm here or over there with them. Anywho, let me see if I can find this button now. Where the fuck is the button? And I'm looking at the wrong place. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
