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Between Random And Real Podcast Episode 49 I Maybe Money Is Everything

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What's up family! Join us as we sit down with the CEOs of Make You Better Financial Group Monivia & Hadarii Jones as we discuss investing, sperm racing World Cup, people identifying themselves as animals, and much more crazy topics! 


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Song: "When You're Alone" By JustKhi Ft. Michael Knight (ON ALL MAJOR PLATFORMS)


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What it do, what it is, how you feel, y'all are now tuning into between random and real. I'm your host, just guy.

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And it's your girl, TJ.

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And we back with another special episode, y'all.

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Back with another one. Mm-mm-mm. Back with another one. Mm-mm-mm-mm. Yes. Special episode.

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Special episode. Special guests. Alright. So I'm about to introduce these guests, right? So we have the CEOs, a Make You Better Financial Group. Alright.

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Applause.

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Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Hold on. I ain't done introducing yet.

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Okay, okay, okay.

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So you know, some some may know them as CEO. Some may know them as owner. Some may know them as getting paper, but they also known as mom and dad. Can we can we give can we give a round of applause for Hadari and Monivia Jones?

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Woo!

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Thank y'all for finally joining the podcast.

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Thank you for that intro, bro. I've been waiting to come crack. For real. Been waiting to crack. Thank y'all for having us.

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It's been a it's been a been a long time coming. Yes.

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We've been meaning to have y'all here. We're so happy to have y'all. We have so much to talk about with you guys.

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Yeah, I ain't gonna lie, we got a lot to talk about.

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I'm here for it.

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But well, I'll let you go ahead.

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Well, I already already had like okay, so he brought up that y'all are the founders, CEOs of Make You Better. I want y'all to talk about Make You Better because it's so great for the community, not only here in Charlotte, but just black people throughout the nation. And so I'll let y'all talk more about it.

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But and start from the very beginning. Like, why why make you better? Why why make you better?

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I have to start.

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I got to.

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Because make you better is not a business, it's a movement. It's a movement. Because um, actually, first of all, I say, first of all, we've been married for 25 years. And so just go ahead and ring some applause up with that.

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Yes, congratulations, because that's hard.

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We've been 25 years. We've worked together. Yeah, we've been together so long, man. That actually, when it came to make you better, yeah, that was the name we came up with when she um decided to open her salon. Yeah, you know, and so and it was based off, of course, y'all know the make you better song, Neo, the whole junk. Yeah, and so for real, I mean that's real.

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Neo and fast.

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That's right. Keep it, keep it above.

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I did not think about that.

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Yeah, and so that's that's where it comes from. And so, like, that was that was my thing. When we were talking about it, I was like, yeah, let's just do it like that. And just to be honest with you, um, that part of it was established. And so when we started moving forward, I said, let's just keep that there, let's keep that theme there. Thank you, because um regardless of what's in my head, yeah. Regardless of what we're doing, though, it keep it there, right? Yeah, yeah, that's what we're trying to do. Kind of singing the song. I know singing the song.

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Yeah, but that's that's dope that you that that's something that she that that she's you know already named her salon, and then you was like, you know what, let's build on that. Let's build on it. And you said 25 years. 25 years. People, y'all can't even stay together for 25 minutes.

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Listen, I said every morning I look at I turn around and look at you in the body do another day. 25 years. 25.

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25 years is how long we've been married, but we've actually been together almost 28 years, and so that's that's y'all been together my entire life.

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Together before I was born. When were you growing up? Okay, I was born in 97.

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We did well, we got together in 98. So yeah, October 98.

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Y'all grew up together for real. We did.

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We did. October 98 is how long we've been together, so yeah.

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That's an accomplishment.

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And I and I know y'all, okay, so yeah, that's that's what that's what made the name for it. But then what made y'all be like, okay, let's feed the community now? I feel like other others deserve to get this information.

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Because we don't have it. A lot of us just were never taught um anything about financial literacy, about investing, that kind of thing. And so um once you learn more about it and see how valuable it is, you gotta share it. You know, when you have something good and something that is valuable, you don't hold it to yourself, you share it with other people so that they can also reap the benefits. And so that's where it was really birthed from. You know, after us teaching y'all and making sure that y'all were established as our children, you know, the next step was to go into your sphere of influence. And so that's how the community was created, and we just been going ever since.

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I think I think we we also always came from like a spirit of service, too. Like even when it comes from um her salon, you know, she she's doing something that actually changes a way a person perceives themselves. Yeah. Because you know, they coming up out of that salon, they got their hair busted, they happy, doing good. Listen, and that changed people, you know, you feel like a brand new person, that gives you confidence, yeah. That makes you better, and so you know, and um, I've worked in like nonprofit and education my whole life too, like just like a spirit of service. And so I think that what we are doing is built out of a spirit of service, and so I feel like it just goes along to what we were meant to do, yeah.

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And what's tell the people like what's some of the things that y'all have done, whether it's you know, classes or like even um you know lectures. I know y'all been doing like a lot of things like that, but let the people know what y'all have done.

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Well, it started first with our very first class. A small group, we started it in the park, yeah. Um outside, you know, and that kind of thing. Um but just breaking it down for people, making it plain and simple for people to be able to understand it, navigate, that kind of thing, and then ultimately to be able to do it for yourself. Um, so that's kind of where it started. But since then, you know, it's evolved and it's grown into multiple classes. We've had, I think, like five graduating classes so far. Um, it's about one every year. Um, but after they go through our course and learn everything, you know, that we have to offer as far as investing goes, we do offer, you know, a graduation for everybody to really celebrate their accomplishments and you know be able to go forward. So we've done graduations, we've done different master classes about different areas of investing. Um, what else have we done? Oh no, man, you keep it so she's gonna be. I was about to say something about it.

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But look, no, she keeps it so humble, man. Go ahead, you're gonna be able to do it. Go ahead and take it.

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Well, I wanted to ask, what exactly do you do you guys teach?

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What's the class about it? So that's what I was about to say. She keeps it so humble. So, and I will, you know, um, it was born out of a desire to teach our children the importance of money and how it can be used as a tool and not just as something where you just get receipts. And so this one over here actually developed an entire curriculum based around investment literacy. And that's that's an area where we're so lacking in. And when I say us, we're talking about our community. Yeah, um, if you think about it, man, there's probably about 60, 70% of black people that invest in equity markets, but the majority of that is through like job supported um 401k and stuff like that. And so uh manipulating her her idea was look, look, look, let's teach our kids about this, right? And let's um teach them how to do it. Um the mindset, the most important part of it, that was where it was first, and then just developing that. And through that, you know, we put it to y'all first, and she developed a curriculum based on just showing y'all how to invest in the equity markets, and from there, it's grown to a whole bunch of different things. Um, from our investment club to the um investment club funds that we manage, to our um master classes that she mentioned, our specials, um, our um long-term investing class, our um trading and options class. And so we out here, we out here in the streets, man, and we are doing it like every week. And so we've been able to branch out too to other places, man. So now we're on colleges and university campuses too. Oh, shout the university out too. Shout out to you! Aggie pro yeah, we out there too, man. Um, and it's it's it's been it's been a great journey, man. They say that if you are doing what you love, you never work a day in your life. And this part of it is something I really love, man. So big ups to her, big ups to her.

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And then I'll also answer a question like this to put it and sum it up, put a bow on it, and you know, one sentence. We teach stock market investing, yeah. What we teach, how to teach people how to grow your money through the stock market, how to build a portfolio that you can have for your lifetime, you know, um, into retirement, into death, you know, whatever the case may be. Um, but to build your money so that it can follow you.

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And you created a whole curriculum. Like, do you have teaching experience? Like, are you a teacher on the side? You just creating curriculums, and like that just came to you.

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I don't have any experience, but I think I'm a teacher in my head. Like that, like that's impressive. That's impressive.

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It's that it's that spirit of service, man. Like, I say that it comes naturally to her. It's the spirit of service. Like, I felt like that both of us, for whoever you believe, whatever you believe in, I feel like that both of us were put here to serve. Yeah, um, I've always said that to you, that I draw meaning from my life by how I touch others. Yeah, and so I feel like that that's the same thing with her, you know. And so I feel like that that was the perfect intersection.

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But I mean, you can you can hear that y'all are passionate about it, and and and then like and they being they being real humble because they ain't when they do these graduations, they go all out. I'm talking about sometimes they rent spaces, they they they print for they they got certificate, like you get an actual diploma. You feel me? So they really go all out. And so again, just want to applaud y'all for that. And then um, and I'm gonna I'm gonna put the stuff on the screen too, like as far as like your socials, the website. But if you did want to just go ahead and shout it out um for them where they can find you.

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It's make you better financial group on all platforms. All platforms Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Patreon.

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And that's your web your website to make you better.

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And I and I'll just say, like with that, what I'm proudest about is that we were able to bring our family into it and and create that part of it, you know, to where everybody in our family understands the importance of it and the importance of building to something different because that's how you create like generational wealth and that's how you create legacy. Yeah, you know, um is by building that way because now we've given y'all a chance to um see what it's about, and hopefully um, we'll continue to build on that through um our generations.

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And I want to shout out to two of y'all because y'all have been through the course. Y'all got y'all.

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I know how to use my money. But I ain't throwing it out to the white folks, so I'm keeping in my community for a couple more minutes on the best difficulty.

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Y'all are y'all are learning it so much earlier, yeah. So that's the the most amazing part about it. You have much more time to really put into action. Yeah.

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I want to ask y'all, so like what because y'all are leading a course, y'all are teaching our community, y'all have a business. Like, I know y'all have been through challenges with the business. So, like, what what type of challenges have you been through and what keeps you going?

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That's a good question.

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That is a very good question. Let's see. Um, what keeps us going? Um, it's just probably everything Hadari said, is the drive of it all. Um discipline, you know. Um we're very consistent, you know, that's super important. So yeah, y'all are.

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Y'all don't miss a round table neither. Don't miss a round table. We talked about that too. We don't miss a round table. And that's the hardest part. Yeah, it is. It's being consistent.

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Staying dedicated to it. Um, but let's see, some of the hardest things probably is just being able to turn it off, you know, being in a relationship, living in the same house, living in the same bed. Like we gotta turn it off as like we gotta get there, and especially in the beginning, in the in the real building stages, because it's always ideas, it's always just something, so it's constantly coming up. But I think since then, since the very beginning, we've been able to find more of a balance.

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See, y'all already got to my next topic.

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But no, you said like a challenge, man. Sometimes I think for us a challenge is apathy because we want everybody to feel and believe what we're talking about, you know, because we want you. I mean, if we keeping it a buck, like a lot of this stuff that we throwing out here, man, we throwing it out, you know. Of course, we a business, and so we in the business to make money, but we just want people to have this information because we've been deprived of it for so long. And so to me, that's like one of the biggest challenges is for people to just understand, bro, we're trying to show you something different from what you've been doing and how you've been moving. And so for me, that's definitely one of the challenges. And yes, as she mentioned, with us the whole turn it off because we talk about it all the time. Like, she comes in from NYBHS and she jumped right into NYBFG. And so, like, sometimes for me that'd be like hard, but I try to rock with her. I just it's her nature, and so yeah, yeah.

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The grind don't stop.

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I'll be the I'll be and I'll be I'll be the same way sometimes too. The grind don't stop.

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Well, I do want to put my little testimony out there. Let's hear it. Listen, everything I know about the stock market, about investing my money, is from these two people right here. So I really appreciate that I met Kai so that I could meet you guys because I've learned so much from you. If I didn't meet y'all, I probably wouldn't have a fidelity account. I wouldn't be like, shout out to that. I wouldn't be investing. I probably wouldn't have been like, what's the style? What's the ETF? I probably wouldn't have known none of that. So I like y'all are so knowledgeable, and what y'all doing in the community, what y'all doing for me in general has been definitely groundbreaking. So I love y'all and I appreciate y'all. Yeah, and y'all gotta look them up.

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Yeah, gotta mean it's a mindset thing too. Like, you know, people always say um money not everything, but I mean it is everything when you ain't got nothing.

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So I have something to say about that. The only people that say money ain't everything is broke, yeah. That's the only people that say that because and money not everything spiritually, emotionally, but money is gonna open doors for you that you can't open when you're broke, right? And so we have to be honest.

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Broke people can say it all day, but money still is everything. But I don't care who you are, you know, what your walking life money is everything. Yeah, money determines what you eat, money determines where you sleep, money determines what you wear, money determines everything. Money determines you just sitting in here, you gotta pay for this. Yeah, yeah.

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I'm a hood nigga, I come from broke, so I understand the difference between broke and we ain't we ain't rich, but I understand the difference between broke and actually having something like it's there's definitely a difference there for sure.

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You can be rich in morals and values, but I don't want to hear that.

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Like you said, like you said, only poor people say that.

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That's right, only broke people say that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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But I mean, y'all already kind of got into the next topic because I really want to talk about, and I'm pretty sure y'all heard this. People say don't mix business with pleasure, and like, you know, it's hard to have like a business with like friends or family. So, like, you kind of mentioned like turning it off. Like, how is that for you guys to be, you know, partners, y'all married, but also have a business together? Like, do you believe in like don't don't that same?

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I don't. I don't um because if you with somebody, you know, y'all building together, y'all growing together, then why not? You know, when you talk about having multiple streams of income, which is super important, and one is just not enough. If we in this together, then why not build something together? Now, I feel like if y'all come into the relationship and maybe you already had something going on in the business and you can't force him into your business, but if y'all are together, y'all gonna build something together and grow together, I don't see nothing wrong with it. Now, with friends and stuff like that, that can get tricky, you know, because it's not the same vested interest. Yeah, you know, so when you when you're in a relationship though with somebody or in a marriage with somebody, you know, it's the same common goal, you know, doing the same everything.

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I'm glad you said that though, because like nowadays, and social media make it seem this way, but nowadays, women they like, hey, hey, if if he's not making a hundred thousand, if he ain't coming a relationship with a hundred thousand dollars, two hundred thousand dollars, if he ain't if he ain't making a meal or averaging a meal, then I don't want to be with him. So I'm like, hey, hold on. What you coming in the relationship with though?

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Some of these females be tripping with that because where you seen that? Your daddy make that? Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, where is that coming from?

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Where did that come from?

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Where you seen that?

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Symmetry is important.

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Listen, it's social media and television and movies, but it's social media. People look at other people's lives and think, oh, that's how it's supposed to go. And like you said, like where have you seen that? Exactly. It's not realistic, and how is a relationship?

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Like the majority of people. How's a relationship gonna survive if like you come and that's your that's the first thing you're thinking about? Yeah, if you diametrically opposed, how is it that ain't gonna work? Like get to know each other a little bit first, yeah, because sometimes you know you might miss a blessing because um you missing what you're seeing on the surface, but you um, or you see what you see on the surface, but you're missing the potential, yeah. Like what's underneath there, you know. Um, just with us again, our relationship, like when we when we started out, it was like way different. Like I was a way different person, she was a way different person, and if she might not have took a chance on who I was to what I could become, you know, we might not be where we are.

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But this, you know, sometimes you have to be like, listen, I just wanted to feel like when you meet somebody, you should just go into it. Like, do I like can I have fun with you?

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Friends, thinking like friends for friends.

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Do I even like your personality? Because listen, when I met God, I ain't had nothing here too. Eventually he got a car. I was like, we about to get back to the city. Well, our first date. It's crazy because our first date happened like months.

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Months after we was already together.

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Yeah. Okay, we know that.

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We haven't fun together. You like the walking dead? I like walking dead. That's enough for me, though.

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I was gonna watch her walking dead in the room, but um, when we actually went on the actual date, it was a movie date, but we had the we took the um the heat bus that AT got. Yeah, we gotta take the public transit together.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, so we took the bus on our first date.

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Yeah, I took the bus and then I had to call my boy Obi. Shout out to Obi. He he uh he drove us back to campus. Yeah, yeah. Shout out to Obi.

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So romantic. So our first day, I'm gonna tell you, and I'm gonna just keep it a bug. You know, I talk about this to you and your brothers all the time. Like, when we met, like I was living a different life. Yeah, so like first dates and stuff, that was easy. You know, like we was at the restaurants and we was shopping and stuff like that.

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Yeah, wine and dining.

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But yeah, but after a certain certain point, we came to a point where it was like, if we do want to forge ahead and do something different, part of this is gonna have to stop. And so we're gonna have to start anew and figure it out without this. Yeah, and so that was probably the hardest thing with us. Like, we we had to have real conversations. She cried a little bit, like, I don't know if I can do it.

SPEAKER_06

In my own defense, yeah. I was the one that encouraged it, and I was willing to ride it out. You was willing to ride it out, even though parts of that style, yeah, you know, because it just had to.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah, and I and I I'm willing to I will credit you for that for for recognizing um recognizing what else I could be besides where I was, and so yeah. I don't know what giving credit for that, you know. Um but it was that was probably that biggest struggle, you know, because we did we had to go through some times, bro, before we got uh to where we are now.

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Um I think that touch on your point. Um I don't want to think that the name have uh this and that. Um if you don't help each other grow the bill, then are you really even gonna appreciate it? Exactly.

SPEAKER_05

Exactly.

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You just start throwing away money and just doing different things frivolously or that kind of thing because you're not a part of the bill.

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I feel like it can probably cause like unintentional resentment too. Like, you know, like even though, like, of course, of course, okay, the guy, he probably like, okay, I'm supporting her and doing everything for her, but eventually you're gonna be like, all right now, dang, you come, you getting off from a long day, you coming home, she chilling on the couch, like he like, dang. And you gotta go in there and cook real quick, too.

SPEAKER_03

You gotta take the trash, you gotta do that. It's like, all right now, hey, you you go, what you gonna do? All those conversations over time too.

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I mean, life happens. Yeah, that's really times where maybe business has been slow for me. He gotta hold it down. You know, maybe he's been in between jobs. I gotta hold it down. So that's just a part of what our life expect this one person to do everything. Exactly.

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I agree.

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I agree. Exactly.

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But I appreciate that. So, like we said, we're gonna put the we're gonna put the information on the screen. All right, come and check us out.

SPEAKER_05

Got to, got to, man. What's what's been going on, call it a news guy?

SPEAKER_02

All right, we can get just called a news guy, boy. I ain't gonna lie, we got some interesting stuff. Man, I wanna hear it, bro. You know, I'll be on y'all. I'll be on y'all.

SPEAKER_05

Hold on, hold on, hold on. Let me let me are you ready? Are you ready? Oh my goodness. Are you ready for your segment, sir? Yeah, my man. Okay, hold on, I got you. Just call it a news guy.

SPEAKER_00

I was not prepared for that. Yes, yes, bruh. Let's do it.

SPEAKER_05

Like that. Yeah, I'm gonna hide. I'm gonna start singing more often.

SPEAKER_01

I think you should. You should do the opening too.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, you like I I think I should write something.

SPEAKER_03

Please don't gas out.

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No, no, he's he's actually right. I should, I should like to offer it. Oh, I have to. Listen, call your producer and see if I can get in the studio so we can record something. Gotta record it.

SPEAKER_02

So we so we know we know 2026 is a big, big year for the Olympics. You know, you had the winter Olympics going on, and they had some fire, you know, some fire events. Yeah, but I don't know if y'all heard of this Olympics. So they actually have what they call the Sperm Racing World Cup. Yes, the Sperm Racing World Cup. So I got this article from UNALAD.com.

SPEAKER_01

I'm not, I want to hear this shit.

SPEAKER_02

So it says the idea came from a team of four. Um, I'm not gonna name their names, but but they raised one million dollars to bring this vision to life. And basically, what they do is they have their competitors cement biological samples, um, and there's microscopic imaging that tracks the movement of the sperm through through a tiny engineer racetrack designed to mimic parts of the reproductive environment. So essentially, it's a race. So people are using their sperm to race to see who gets to the gets to the egg for so they put a million dollars up for this.

SPEAKER_03

A million dollars? Apparently, yeah, people are actually doing it. I got some questions, man.

SPEAKER_02

So I'll I'll say the reason that they're still open. So the reason that the reason that they're the reason that they're doing it is to raise awareness for um sperm health or just help when it comes to reproduction in general. So I think that's their main reason for doing it, but it's still kind of weird.

SPEAKER_01

But so the sperm that wins, what happens?

SPEAKER_02

They get a hundred thousand dollar grand prize. Do they get to become a baby? Oh no.

SPEAKER_03

So it's so it's a fake egg. So it's supposed to mimic the reproduction.

SPEAKER_01

So I feel bad for that sperm because you don't win and you don't have no real the sperm don't have a problem.

SPEAKER_03

No, I don't think I don't think the uh the I don't think the baby should win no problem.

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That's bad.

SPEAKER_01

But they you hit you hit a fake egg and then the sperm just go away. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, yeah, that's crazy.

SPEAKER_02

And and it's 128 countries being represented. So it's a lot of competitors. Wow.

SPEAKER_05

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_02

Wow. What is it?

SPEAKER_05

I say I got so many people see what it is.

SPEAKER_02

What if it already happened?

SPEAKER_05

Oh my goodness. So how did you watch this on TV?

SPEAKER_02

How they get in the sound. So it says you have, so I don't think it happened yet. It says you have until March 23rd to register. Oh man, and it also says it's now if if you if anyone is interested in in well, I guess it's too late, but if you were interested, you must be at least 18 years old and free of sexually transmitted diseases.

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But you gotta go get tested.

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You gotta go get tested.

SPEAKER_06

Well, it needs to be a real egg at this point.

SPEAKER_03

I ain't gonna lie, I don't think it's gonna be that many competitors if it's a real head.

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I'd be like, nah.

SPEAKER_06

Listen, I don't know about the whole Olympic thing or the race apart, but that industry, like, it's a lot of money in that. And like sperm and eggs and that kind of thing, vitro and all of these.

SPEAKER_05

But the sperm get like a couple of, they get like a couple of dollars. You know how much you get for an egg?

SPEAKER_06

How much you get? I know you get a lot. An egg you can get like a ten thousand.

SPEAKER_05

I looked it up. Yeah, you can breathe eggs.$10,000 for the eggs.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, so you can just drip eggs out here like that. They do get paid though.

SPEAKER_05

They get paid, but not that much, like$50,000.$50. But we get more.

SPEAKER_01

That's entrepreneurs, man. That's like not a bad thing. Yeah, we can find a few women out here that's willing to just drop some of them eggs.

SPEAKER_04

It's more than that, it's bringing more. It's easy for y'all, man. It's more for us. So it's it's what it's the reason why we can get$10,000.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, because y'all, yeah, that's a little different.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

So if y'all are interested, man, well, I guess too late now. Well, maybe next year next year.

SPEAKER_00

Never too late. Never too late. Never too late. Well, I'll say that.

SPEAKER_02

But you know, I feel like more stuff like this is gonna um gonna start happening. Cause I think the people that's organizing this are they're affiliated with Mr. Beast, the uh that streamer, that big time streamer. And you know them streamers, they be doing wild.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, so well, but what Tabia said, she said it's like$10,000 an egg. If that's a real number, it ain't gotta be your egg. It can be some eggs out here from some other people that you're gonna do.

SPEAKER_03

What you gotta go take some egg? How you gonna try to rob people for eggs? I'm not gonna rob them.

SPEAKER_01

I'm not gonna rob them. I'm just gonna ask them. I mean, if they if we get 10 for egg, you two, I'm gonna give you two for that egg, and then we can come on, man. Listen, oh my god.

SPEAKER_05

It's wicked, it's it's they got a lot of qualifications for for the women.

SPEAKER_01

Well, the only thing I heard, the only thing I heard is the STDs.

SPEAKER_05

Well, for that, yeah, and I don't know why. Yeah, I think that's the only thing, and then they just gotta submit like a biological sample. Comedy sperm wouldn't be too bad. Just I feel like it would get through it too.

SPEAKER_03

How is that crazy? It might be stronger.

SPEAKER_05

It might actually be stronger. It might be like double. It might be a minute, it might be like a haircut.

SPEAKER_00

Wow. Wow.

SPEAKER_03

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_06

But now you're about to have all of them gone trying to get committed all working out now, so I'm gonna be a way for your sperm to be fast. Listen.

SPEAKER_03

Oh my god. Alright, we're gonna go chasing that fake egg.

SPEAKER_00

We got some for you.

SPEAKER_02

Alright, so I got I got this next story from uh from AP News. This was just weird, but it's a viral phenomenon going around in Argentina where young people are identifying themselves as animals. I know we're in this new age where people are identifying themselves as everything nowadays. But but anyway, um they they they call themselves Ethereans. So T-H-E-R-I-A-N-S. I've never heard that term. But it says individuals who say they identify mentally, spiritually, or psychologically with non-human animals. The trend has taken over Argent Argentina's social media for the past few months, gaining traction on platforms like TikTok, where the hashtag Therion has has surpassed two million posts. So you actually have people dressing up like animals, or they'll put on like an animal mask and just walk around like like it's normal. Not for no event, they're not dressed up as mascots, it's just they're just dressed up like dogs. And they actually they take on the animal persona. I just want to show y'all this real quick.

SPEAKER_06

But it's not just the Argentina, you know that messes happen here.

SPEAKER_05

That I've seen that before.

SPEAKER_01

What in the world?

SPEAKER_06

We were dressed somewhere and it was a chick, she was a cat.

SPEAKER_01

Dressed up like a cat, bro. And so, like here, and it was at I think it was at no, we was at someplace and we were out in public, yeah, and she legit, she legit had the face. Was it cosplay? She had no one. She was with her husband and her kids, and she had a tail, and she had ears, and she had glue whiskers on. For real, bro. I'm not sure. Because here they they talk about furries. Furries. So furries, you never heard furries? Furries is a thing where people dress up as furry animals, and that's how they move. That's weird, bro.

SPEAKER_04

Sound like a certain site that you shouldn't go to. Sound like a scary movie.

SPEAKER_01

But this is something we saw while we were out in public, and this was a married lady with her husband and her children. She had children with her, and she was dressed up like a cat, bro.

SPEAKER_05

You know what? CPS be picking up the wrong people. Because they be knocking on black people's doors, wondering if we got we got food, we got raw noodles in there. This is the people y'all should be going pick up their kids.

SPEAKER_01

That's part of what I love about being a GNX person. It's because we can float through the different ones, and like we've seen, like we see a lot of stuff, like the beginning of technology to where we are now, and we saw this. This is like, I'm not making this story up. Yeah, we saw a chick that was out. She had the ears, she had the whiskers, and then she painted like the little dots on her face, and she legit had a tail that she had put out there. And she was with her children, and her husband, and everybody, they weren't dressed up like animals. Yeah, and they acted like everything was just like normal. But I mean the kids know they never did the moments crazy.

SPEAKER_02

What they were they white, yeah. Guess what? Come on, brother. Come on.

SPEAKER_01

Because if it was if it was somebody black, I would have asked.

SPEAKER_02

But I feel like the kids would have been fine, though. That's my thing. We can get on animal when you be wearing them hot socks sometimes.

SPEAKER_03

So I know if you start dressing up like an animal, we would have been.

SPEAKER_04

Where are you going?

SPEAKER_01

So the kids ain't say nothing. If they was black people, I would have asked them, bro. I would have been like, yo, man, what is this?

SPEAKER_06

Y'all know that's the world we live in. People want to identify everything except for what they are.

SPEAKER_01

So as crazy as that story sounds, I am not surprised, bro, because I have seen it in real life.

SPEAKER_02

I mean, everybody identifying themselves as everything nowadays.

SPEAKER_01

So, and the thing, yeah, and the thing about it is, is that I feel like that people who just identify as who you are shouldn't be persecuted for it. Because sometimes that does happen. I mean, but it's it's hard. Like, I say this I feel like anybody should be able to be whoever and whatever they want to be. And that's fine. No, but it's it's true, like when it comes to that, because it's here and we're not gonna be able to step it, stop it. We're gonna always have our opinions, but people have always had our opinions about us too. And so, like, if you want to be out there and be a cat, like I wanna see it. I want to see more cat ladies out there.

SPEAKER_05

Well, I was I don't know, my mind went to like serial killers and like no.

SPEAKER_02

I'm sorry that my mind went a dark thing. Well, I'm glad you brought that up then because I was like, Because they wanna be.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, but I don't think you shouldn't.

SPEAKER_02

I was gonna kinda ask I was gonna ask something about like do y'all do y'all think that's kind of like a a a form of mental illness though? Like if you identify yourself psychologically as something that you're physically not, yeah, and you like you stick with it. This ain't no cosplay, you're not acting. It's like the white lady.

SPEAKER_05

What was the white lady who dressed like she was black and she acted like she was a black woman?

SPEAKER_03

Oh, I do remember that.

SPEAKER_05

It's like what's the difference between her and the animal people?

SPEAKER_00

Oh, it's a big difference because she didn't put no tail on. So it's never. But she didn't have no tail. She didn't walk around and go like this and smack her. Basically, make herself look better.

SPEAKER_01

It's not the same. I would have rather the tail. If a lady would have smacked you with her tail, what would you have done?

SPEAKER_07

I don't know.

SPEAKER_06

We're not gonna go.

SPEAKER_01

Right, but then Rachel Dazelle could have walked by and you just look. But if somebody smack you with a tail, they look at you and go, meah, and smack you with a tail.

SPEAKER_06

You trying to be something that you're not, like completely just going out the way every day to try to be something totally different.

SPEAKER_01

That's part of the black experience is being something you're not.

SPEAKER_04

The black experience.

SPEAKER_02

The black experience. I don't know.

SPEAKER_04

I feel like that's you said the the the cat.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I think maybe that's the human experience.

SPEAKER_01

No, no, but but but the black experience too. And like we're not gonna delve down too deep into it, but I feel like because of slavery, that we have always had to perform and be and do things that's a little bit outside of our box. We've always had to run faster, jump higher, strive more. We've had to always do stuff like that. And so that's what I mean when I say that. I don't mean putting on a tail. It don't have nothing to do with the cat lady, but we've always had to live outside of our box in order just to progress.

SPEAKER_02

Do you think that's why a lot of this is gonna weigh off topic, but do you think that's why a lot of young young black kids wanna be basketball players, or they wanna be rappers, or they like they don't really make attainable goals. Like they just think of things like well, I can perform it. Cause I'm watching these people on TV performing, they they get all the good, they get all the attention.

SPEAKER_06

They see it as a way out, I think, for a lot of them. They want what they want to be.

SPEAKER_01

And they have to be shown a different way. I and I always go back to y'all because like y'all never had any constraints. And like that was one of the things that I always felt about her, like, where she always encouraged all of y'all to just be whoever the hell you want to be, yeah, regardless of what it is, and we go support it as long as it's not a serial killer like that. But we go support.

SPEAKER_04

And then he wanted to be single too.

SPEAKER_03

I might show up to the houses like that on purpose.

SPEAKER_00

I was talking about money. But the fact is, if Kai wanted to be a dog, we could make some dough off of that.

SPEAKER_01

We could. If he just wanted to show out as a dog, do you can you imagine him running up and down Harris Boulevard?

SPEAKER_07

No, you like a little shaggy dog.

SPEAKER_01

No, no. He's not gonna be a dog. But but I'm just saying, like with that, because um, I think too many times, like she says, you know, we get put in boxes where our athlete is our only way out, or rappers our only way out. But I think that we made conscious efforts to um encourage you to be anything you wanted to be. Yeah. Um and we go support it.

SPEAKER_06

I think with anybody, though, children, and even adults for real, um, just need more exposure to different things. That's what I know. What's out there, what the real possibilities are. So many people just it's within their box. Maybe what their mom was, or they may have an aunt that's this or that, but they don't really branch out to the world of all the exposure.

SPEAKER_05

I say that all the time because there's so many careers and jobs and like that we don't talk about or nor do we think about. Like I was telling Kai, like how much my sister she loves video games and stuff like that. Just being like a a video game developer, like the the things that we and so many kids love video games, but they're not thinking about like, oh, I can create this. We just think about the the lawyer or we're just trying to dance. That's all we're trying to do. We're trying to dance, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

That's all we're trying to do.

SPEAKER_05

Right, so the rapper, and even like watching movies. I always like grew up watching movies in the end credits, all those hundreds of jobs in the film industry. You you might just not want to be an actress, like there's so many routes you can go in.

SPEAKER_02

No, there is to do something different.

SPEAKER_01

Your sister that liked video games, she can make money just playing video games. Yes, which is crazy. And I feel like I missed out with that, yeah. Like, you know, I'd have had to struggle the whole time, and like y'all cats can really just make money just yeah doing this.

SPEAKER_06

If I'm not mistaken, I think AT is the first university to offer video game like as a major. Oh, really?

SPEAKER_01

That is that new first. I was about to say, I would've had a lot of things. AT is on the cutting edge, and again, for sure. They on the cutting edge of a lot of stuff.

SPEAKER_06

Because I'm saying so much you can do, you could create coding, all the stuff that goes on.

SPEAKER_05

We just need that exposure. Like we we like these things, but we think, oh, there's only these 10 10 career paths I can go in, the doctor, the lawyer, the rapper.

SPEAKER_01

When we took a tour of their 3D um printing studio, that was the next level, bro. That was next level. What they were creating in there, and just to see the level, and not only that, just when we walked in the building, how the cats ran outside and grabbed us. Come on and see, look at what we're doing, and you know, and I that that's inspiring, that's inspirational, and it's real great to see like black cats doing that instead of dressing up like cats. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06

The nerds were able to nerd out.

SPEAKER_02

The nerds is cool now.

SPEAKER_06

Ain't the nerds is cool.

SPEAKER_05

Well, kind of news guy, you got another one for us?

SPEAKER_02

Nah, that's all I that's all I had. That's all I had. I mean, I had one more time, but just in the in the in the time, I feel like we had some good conversation right there. I ain't wanna I ain't even wanna throw in another one.

SPEAKER_01

I don't know. I kind of like the way you was going with it.

SPEAKER_02

Well, uh, yeah, the last one, the last one, it's not too like it ain't even too long, but I don't know if you heard about that congressman, uh, I want to say representative from Tennessee, um, what's his name? Tim Burchett. Uh, but he he a member of the House Task Force on the declassification of federal secrets, and he was um debriefed about some alien information, and he he didn't he didn't say what it was, but he said if the public knew this, it would be hard for them to sleep at night. Um, so I don't know what he was talking about, and he's basically been urging um I don't know who's supposed to be releasing it, but he's been urging officials to release this information to the public because we had a right to know. Um, so I'm interested to see what he's talking about. So I don't know.

SPEAKER_00

I mean, are you really you trying to delve down into that real quick?

SPEAKER_01

Like because I've always said this when it comes to like aliens, bruh. We can't expect if we believe that the universe is infinite, there's no way that we can really believe that we just are in a law. Oh yeah, and I and we know that, yeah, we know that. I mean, and and also I feel like there's practical lessons that you can see. Um, and I'm not gonna dive too deep into it so we can keep it moving. But if you look at the history of the United States, we've always had um informational and technological jumps. Yeah, where we've gone from here to here, from here to here. Just think about from flip phones to smartphones, think about from uh desktops or just computers to laptops. The technology has always jumped ahead in multiple years. Yeah, where um it can't just be explained like all of a sudden, oh, this dude knew how to do this, and now all of a sudden we can do this.

SPEAKER_06

Like, look at AI right now. So, hold on, hold on.

SPEAKER_02

You telling me they got aliens, alien consultants.

SPEAKER_00

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01

Or not just alien consultants. I think that we just hitting periods of time where we're beginning to understand alien technology. And and and to mass produce it. That's what I heard. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Y'all wanna hear something even crazier though? Uh I want to say earlier in the week, before that representative said something about the aliens, there was another representative named Matt Gates. He said he had knowledge of alien human breeding programs.

SPEAKER_01

And I'm sure he probably did because if you don't know who Matt Gates is, he's the former congressman from Florida who was gonna be the attorney uh attorney general, but uh he got kind of pushed down because he liked the Sleep with young women. And so, like with Matt Gates, I would say that if it's anything about aliens and creating young women to sleep with, he would know about it. He would know about it. Damn Matt Gates. God no.

SPEAKER_06

This may go off topic a little bit, but sort of counterfits in with that a little bit. Last night we just watched Gemini Man. Y'all seen that? No, with Will Smith?

SPEAKER_02

No, no, no. I haven't seen it yet. Where he's de-aged digitally. I know, I know what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_06

So it's kind of the same thing because like the man that created the younger Will to be faster, stronger, everything, but he basically just created another version of Will. So I don't think it's that far-fetched, and we say it all the time. They put it in a movie first. Yeah. So that you'll be able to digest it better when it really happens in life. But pay attention, going back to the stock market again. A lot of these biotech companies, they're doing that gene stuff and uh cloning stuff.

SPEAKER_02

Remember Tom Brady cloned his dog.

SPEAKER_01

Well, but the thing about it is like animal cloning has been there for a while. Always always. So of course that that stuff exists, bro. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05

So it could be some alien behind that. It's definitely here.

SPEAKER_02

We did we actually did an episode about that for real. Oh, alien, um, alien and humans uh breeding.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Which is which is crazy. And you remember Battle of LA, the movie? Remember they was doing it on the back.

SPEAKER_05

Listen, if it's in the movie, it might be it might be real. They getting that they're getting that inspiration from somewhere. Somewhere. Well, it's time for your favorite part of the show. It's time for your favorite part of the show. It's yay, or night, with heath, yep. Yay, or nay, with teeth, yay. I know y'all like my song. Y'all literally feeling my song.

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SPEAKER_05

Y'all, for this year and a segment with TJ, I wanted to talk about since we have a couple who's been together married 25 years. And that's how long y'all been married. So y'all been together long.

SPEAKER_02

28 years together.

SPEAKER_05

Almost 30 years. I wanted to talk about something that I had to learn, you know, just being with Kai and living together. You know, at night, when it's time to go to bed, some couples, you know, you see in the movies, they get in bed. The woman has her book out, the man beside her is marking off his checklist for the next day, or he's on his phone sending text messages. And, you know, some couples go to bed at the same time.

SPEAKER_02

She must have been talking about Ron's house or something.

SPEAKER_05

And then, you know, we all know some couples don't. Like, I grew up, my grandparents, like my papa was always, he he stayed up real, real late. So we pretty much took the bed from him. Um, and he would sleep on the couch. And my grandparents, they slept at different times, and so he had me wondering. I'm I Googling and I see videos about like Google says going to bed at the same time strengthens romantic relationships by fostering emotional intimacy, physical connection, and improved sleep quality. Is it realistic for couples to expect to go to bed together? Does it really matter? Like some nights I'm like, okay, Kai's playing the game. And then other nights I'm like, we haven't gone to the bed together for a week. I don't know when you get in bed. I wake up in the morning, I'm like, when did you get here? So, like, should couples go to sleep at the same time? Does it matter? What do y'all think? Y'all been together for so long.

SPEAKER_01

Very good question. Yeah. And we actually we actually deal with that quite often. So I'll let you start with that. Because we do, that's something that we we actually we go through that.

SPEAKER_06

Well, I'll say this. For the longest we did. For the longest, we did. Um just here recently, I'd say probably within the past year, maybe year and a half, I've become more of a night owl. So he'll go to bed and leave me up. But I'll say this, I think it's because, and the parents of adult children will understand that. Um, when you have adult kids and they hanging out and stuff like that, a mom can't really close her eyes till she knows you safe. So that I think has been a part of it for me because D is out and stuff like that, and I just want to know that you say that when you get home or whatever the case may be. So it's it's harder for me to do that. So I do kind of stay up a little later just to make sure that he's okay. But for the longest, we did the same time. Come on, let's go to bed. Yeah, you know.

SPEAKER_01

And she still trying to do that now, too, even when like D is out. And I feel like D man, stop being out so long, man. And I was wondering, man. I feel like sometimes I get the best sleep when I know she's in the bed with me. Like, it's restless sometimes. And I and again, that's that 30 years, you know. That this is how we've always rolled. And so, like, I I if I roll over and I can feel her there, then I can be comfortable and go back to sleep. But sometimes when I don't, it's crazy. And that's it's not just when it's out, too, because like when we have all of the tips sometimes, yeah, we marry a couple. And so, like, sometimes we ain't always on a level, we might fall out a little bit, and she might be like, I'm gonna sleep downstairs tonight. I feel that'd be a restless night for me when when she's not there, and so um, but yeah, I mean, I feel like definitely emotionally, um, physically, all of that to be there, for her to be able to throw her little legs on top of mine to know I'm there, you know. I think that that's something that strengthens and and continuously builds our bond. Yeah, I agree with that.

SPEAKER_06

Little pillow talk for you know. Yeah, some pillow top.

SPEAKER_01

She be on YouTube, bro, and I'll be like, no, leave me alone.

SPEAKER_02

Taya pillow talk, literally pillow talk. She be talking and she be sleep. It's like she'll talk herself to sleep.

SPEAKER_05

I will do that. I will do that. That is that is bad.

SPEAKER_01

So how y'all feel about that? Since since you asked us, like how y'all feel about it?

SPEAKER_05

I think I actually I feel like I used to, I think I got used to it, but also Kai, I can tell probably in the past, probably since we've been married, he he purposely makes sure at least a few times a week he goes to bed. Or he'll yeah, he'll get in bed and let me fall asleep and then he'll he'll get out, which I'm cool with. I'm like, hey, let me fall asleep while you're there in the room and then you can leave.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

So I can tell that you intentionally do it, at least give me a few a few times a night.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And there'd be times, and it's it's not like um like I'm like I'm not trying to go to bed or nothing. Like it'll like I some I just like staying up. I like to enjoy the night. Um, but I I I'll get excited when I walk in and she's still up though. So I'm like, hey, okay, you still up.

SPEAKER_05

It'd be three, three o'clock in the morning, four o'clock in the morning.

SPEAKER_02

You still up? Hey, it's still like, yeah, I'm still up. But but I but I get excited about that though. So like I I do enjoy um like going to sleep together, but it's like at the same time, I be thinking, like, dang, I want to enjoy my night. I ain't gonna go back to work tomorrow. It's gonna night over.

SPEAKER_01

Like, ask me about mornings because that's where I just be mad at. I'm mad when I get up in the morning and she's snoring and shit, and I gotta be a little bit more than a little bit. I'm not a morning person. I have to be a morning person, and she be like, and that's my biggest struggle.

SPEAKER_02

Like, I like staying up late and I like getting up in the morning. I think that's my biggest struggle.

SPEAKER_01

I'm gonna always be up before she do, but like on certain days, like I just get mad. I just look over there and she just rests and so and I gotta keep moving.

SPEAKER_05

So I am not a morning person, but thank y'all for answering that because I I really wanted to hear from you know a couple who's been together for a long time. Um, and like you say, it's a balance.

SPEAKER_06

So but this at the same time you do see some older couples, this last name, um, they even have separate rooms. Yes, I see that. Yeah, we're and they love we have separate rooms, we need to have a separate house.

SPEAKER_01

No, I'm a Justin family vacation. Yes, 90 days, if we ever get if we ever get to a point to where we have to have a separate room, then we need to have a separate house because that means that something ain't but that's why that's why, like you said, like it's it's based off of what we work but for y'all with us, I feel like with us that's what it would be.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, well, yeah, it's based on the couple, so it's up to y'all. But for this year and a segment, is it okay or should you go to bed with your significant other? Yeah, go to bed with your significant other. Pillow talk, pillow talk. That's some of the best. Find the balance.

SPEAKER_02

You're gonna hit the gavel numbers.

SPEAKER_05

Yes, I'm about to hit the gavel. Doot doot doot doot. This case is closed.

SPEAKER_02

But that was a good that was a good episode.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, this is a good episode. We appreciate you guys finally coming through, man.

SPEAKER_02

Thank you. Appreciate y'all for having us.

SPEAKER_05

Yes, this was fun.

SPEAKER_02

So, like we said, follow them, make you better financial group, Instagram, Patreon, Facebook, makeyou better financial group.com is their website. We're gonna put it on the screen, but that's all we got for you, man.

SPEAKER_01

Well, absolutely, I gotta throw this out there too. We got to have y'all out there, man, in the garden, man. We want y'all to be down with the grower circle too. And so, yeah, on YouTube, man, at Growing Circle One, um, that's gonna be our joint where we're talking about not just putting stuff in the ground, but pulling it up and talking about how we're doing it. And so I want y'all to be part of that too.

SPEAKER_02

You see, they feed in the streets with the money, they feed in the streets with the garden, they feel in the blocks. Y'all understand that I need to listen in a minute so they can plant the seed in the blocks.

SPEAKER_03

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SPEAKER_05

That's a compensation for another day.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, yeah. We ain't got time today, but I would've loved to get to that, but it's all good.

SPEAKER_02

But if y'all like subscribe, yes, yes, y'all definitely come back. Definitely. All right, but y'all like, comment, subscribe, man. Y'all already know the deal. But this was between random and real. Peace.